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THIS ISSUE
IN
VOL. 2 NO.
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SPRING 1996
1 Romance
Bloomsbu]
PRESIDENT
Jessica
scoot across the floor.
Kozloff
S.
Room
the Laundry
Bloomsburg alum Donna Grove finds
time to write award-winning romance novels amid
piles of children's laundry and "dust bunnies" that
MAGAZINE
THE UNIVEKSITY
in
hy Trina Walker
COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES
Ramona
Joseph
J.
6 These are the Days of Miracles and
Wonders by Mark Lloyd Miracles and magic.
H. Alley. Chair
Mowad.Vice Chair
Robert W. Buehner.Jr.. Secretary
Jennifer R. Adams
How does the modern
James T.Atherton.Jr
LaRoy G. Davis
David J. Cope
David
Petrosky
J.
university balance these
contradictory approaches to an understanding of
2.
Ted Stuban
Romance Writer
the world around us.
A. William Kelly
Kevin M. O'Connor
James H. McCormick, Ex-Officio.
12 Taking a Leap Into Entrepreneurship
BLOOMSBURG LrNI\TRSm' .\LUMM ASSOCWTION
Clifford
Maurer
'66.
classroom
Secretary
move
'68. Treasurer
John J.Trathen
Doug
BLOOMSBLIRG UNI\'ERSITT FOUNDATION
Hill.
The
Director
laniero, Executive
T.
their markets.
how the
Lentczner
by Michael
Cummings
we
Internet promises to transform the ways
communicate. This
Treasurer
E^ECUTO'E EDITOR
Joan
up on
University students
and help budding business owners
16 Weaving the Web
J.Jan Girton. Chair
Elbern H.Alkire Jn.Vice Chair
David
when Bloomsburg
into the field
get a leg
C. Hippenstiel '68. Ex-Officio,
Director of Alumni Affairs
Anthony
Entrepreneurship goes outside the
by Jason Kirsch
Marvin Meczger '86. President
Sandra Rupp '7 1. Vice President
create
article
looks at the 'Net and shows
and the tovwi
an electronic community.
university
are cooperating to
EDITOR
Markland G. Lloyd
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PHOTOGRAPHERS
Joan Heifer
Brian Donnelly
12.
Uncovering Scholarship
What does
Entrepreneurs
it
mean
and why
is
scholarship important? This article examines these and
DESIGNER
other questions to shed
John Lorish
some
light
on the importance
of research and inquiry at the university.
ART DIRECTOR
Greg
byEricFoster
to be a "scholar"
Ricciardi
25 News
EDITORLAL BOARD
Nancy Edwards
Briefs by James HolUster
'70
Lawrence B. Fuller
James Pomfret
Susan M. Helwig
32
Comrr\ertl2iry
Sometimes,
Address comments and questions
bowl of
to:
it
chili
by Sylvia M. PeroUi
takes a special cause
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- or just
a steaming
to bring out the best in us.
Editor
Bloomsburg
Waller Administration Building
Bloomsburg University
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Internet address:
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educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard
Education; James A. Hughes, Philadelphia;
F.
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Stroudsburg;
Amy
L.
Hill;
Kim
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E. Lyttle,
M.
Thomas J. Ridge, Governor; Philip
Rowe Jr., Wyomissing; Elizabeth L.
Shippensburg; Joseph
Schmid (student). West Chester;
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Jere
Stapleton, Harrisburg; Christine
Indiana; R. Benjamin Wiley,
J.
Vietnam era veteran status or union membership.
committed to affirmative action and will take
provide such educational and employment opportimities.
orientation, disabilities,
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illustration
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Berwick;
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to race, color, reUgion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, lifestyle, sexual
(student).
Martin (student),
by Greg Rieciardi,
The
imiversity
is
positive steps to
additionally
The Lorish Company
J.
Toretti,
Erie.
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SPRING 1996
While at Bloomsburg, she battled for
titles
on the women's tennis team.
After college,
English, she
offices.
Today,
armed with a degree
worked
a novelist and a
law
in Lancaster
Donna Grove
is
in
a mother,
self- described ''organiza-
tionally impaired" housewife.
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IN
WRITTEN BY TRINA WALKER
•
THE
PHOTOS BY BRIAN DONNELLY
Overlook the fact that Grove
(nee Royer, Bloomsburg class of '81)
is
is
a published novelist and her
rather ordinary.
Her home
life
is
a
traditional split-level in a modern,
middle-class neighborhood, where back
yards run into each other and^ bicycles
in the driveways.
She drives her kids
lie
to
school in a beat-up blue station wagon.
Cereal boxes line her counter,
and
baskets of laundry wait to be put away.
eyond the coat rack ladened
muhi-sized jackets, past the
'
with
umbrella stand
ets,
with tennis rack-
filled
her office in the basement.
is
Equipped with two desks, a computer
shelves teeming with books, this is
and
room where Grove's
come to hfe.
characters
the
Grove's writing schedule
around her
is
juggled
of "Mom." With
real job
husband, two sons, two cats and
a
an occasional visiting dog. Grove
has her hands
"Up
full.
now,
to
my
catch-as-catch-can.
puter on
Run an
day.
all
I
writing has been
leave the
I
errand. Write another.
load of laundry. The only time
get
to
myself
is
com-
write a paragraph.
I
Do
a
really
from 10 p.m.
to
midnight or midnight to 2 a.m." Grove
hopes to change that schedule
that her youngest son
is
now
in first grade.
With the nevdbund freedom of six
whole hours to herself each day,
her goal is to commit more time to
writing. She wants to be able to cut
book from
the production time for a
months down
10
to
six
or
eight
months.
Grove loves the benefits of working
at
her
home, such as being there for
kids and not wearing panty
hose. But she admits the distractions
make for a struggle to keep motivated.
"The one thing about writers,"
Grove reveals, "is that we love to have
written:
We
Donna Grove,
'8
1
,
won
the Golden Heart Award from the
product. But
we hate to
actually write!
When you're sitting there
who
be an attractive diversion!"
a week,
Despite her sporadic writing schedule and the interruptions
of boys asking for lunch, Grove has
managed
to publish
three novels in the past two years, with a fourth due to hit
bookstores in October of 1996.
first
romance
novel,
A
Touch of Camelot,
won
the
Golden Heart Award from the Romance Writers of
America (RWA). That award opened doors for Grove that
prestigious
she might otherwise have
pounded upon
for years.
The Golden Heart is a national contest for unpublished
members of the RWA. Completed manuscripts are judged by
feUow romance writers. When Grove's manuscript became a
finalist in
of America
At the recommendation of a friend. Grove found an agent,
staring at a blank screen, even cleaning out the refi-igerator can
Her very
Romance Writers
love to have a finished
the contest, she gained admission to the seemingly
impenetrable world of publishing.
submitted the manuscript to several pubUshers. Within
it
was
sold.
Since then. Grove's writing has quickly ballooned into a
full-time job. "I probably
on research
working on
for
edits
spend
a third
my
of
new book, another
a
and the
on the
rest
'working time'
third writing
'business':
or
copying
manuscripts, ordering ads, designing bookmarks, arranging
book
signings," she says.
Grove's books are
fiiU
captivating characters.
Return
to
of spirited dialogue, vivid scenery,
Her most
recently published novel.
Camelot, takes place in the late 19th centur>', -with
characters traveling
from the gas-ht
streets
of Philadelphia to
the scenic British country-side.
For each novel, she spends months researching historical
data.
She reads books about period costvmaes and 19th century
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part-time schedule, includ-
She pores over old
slang.
town
maps,
work at a funeral home.
"Then I hit 30!"
ing
visualizing
•where her characters will
At that point, desire to try
stand and \vhat they can
see.
For Return
much
to
won
Camelot,
to
calls
(The
her some time to write. She
and her husband had pur-
bury, England, were
more
chased a computer.
affordable than a flight!)
ed, 'If
She contacted the Glas-
tonbury
librarian
GROVE
in 1892?
Were the
streets
town
have
lights
needed.
"I
paved? Tourist brochures provided
write to
know that
the
gas
think
photographs of the places she would recreate for her readers.
to labor alone, in
Manheim, a small town outside of
Lancaster, set amid the cornfields and co^v pastures of central
Pennsylvania. "The next book takes place in Lancaster," Grove
you're crazy or
Grove herself Hves
Ln
comments. "Here, the research was
I'd give
my
at
fingertips.
thought
I
in \vTiting
is
a combination of
timing, luck and persistence.
maybe.
I
I
guess there's a chance to
don't kno'iv when! But
money.
always wanted to be a
I
make money someday,
don't think anyone should
get into this for the
"I've
It's
mo\'ie
star.
So you
say, 'Let's
You think 'What
be sensible.
For ten years after college,
as a legal secretary, then
it's
such a long-shot
just ignore
—
are the chances of
being a
like
making
it?'
now.'"
important for people
who
that's just
what she
did.
She began
as a paralegal. After her
-ss'hatever
type of job would
second
fit
her
are aspiring to
You do not have
your closet, and wonder if
there are groups out there.
satisfied
if
with any book imless
it
has a happy ending. Also,
I'm fascinated with characters and characterization. Since these
According to Forbes magazine, romance
^vriters'
markets, making up 48 percent of
is
it
was
a natural."
one of the
all
more than 25 million readers in North America. "If you Hke
romance and you want to write it, your chances for success may
be greater than in, say, mystery ivriting. You can write for fun,
but most of us want to sell what we write!"
And once the first book is sold, is a writer on the road to success?
hesitates. "I'm
pond. At
that,
I
first
I
wanted
faster. It's
just
to
not sure.
wanted
I
feel like a little fish in a
to publish a book.
pubhsh another. Now,
I
Then, once
want
to write
never ending."
?s^-*^l
Donna Grove:
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SPRING 1996
Bloomsburg
"I
leave the
Uima^ Magazine
computer on
all
day.
I
largest
paperbacks sold,
\\'ith
Grove
Let's get a real iob.'"
worked
son was born, she took
but
writer,
one of those things you
career.
it's
three elements are key to historical romance,
not a very secure business," she explains. "You don't make
much money.
it
your basement or
you have any talent. Your first feedback does
not have to be from a faceless editor in New York."
Grove chose the historical romance genre for several reasons.
"I love doing the historical research," she explains. "And I'm
not
myself a break!"
Grove believes her success
"It's
do
Joining local writing clubs
gave her the support she
Did
books.
research
"I decid-
ever want to do this,
I
I'd better
DONN.\
for
information not available
in
failure.
Glaston-
was long-distance.
phone
out over fear of
Grove's part-time job gave
of Grove's research
v/rite a paragraph.
Run an errand. Write another.
Do
a load of laundry."
I
big
did
them
LETTERS
And, she adds, nothing changes
published. Yes, her sons thinlc
home
at
after
neat that
it's
books and that you can even buy one
husband tells her to enjoy her success.
your book
Mommy
is
her sons are
still
have
home and
door with the words, "Don't come
room. Don't
talk to
me,
work?
Sometimes. But they don't always
Grove admits that she
no respect from her
list,
gets
still
when
read through
Donald
well
it. It is
We
could imitate.
can
done and something
learn
all
from each
I
wish we
other.
R. Gerth
President, California State University
Sacramento,
Calif.
work seriously. And if
— she
she'll still
be
It is
Sunday afternoon, and
I
have just browsed leisurely
through Bloomsburg: the University Magazine. What a
beautiful piece of work!
you are bleeding."
Does the warning
unless
or
I
working, she closes the
is
take her
for sharing the first edition of
— The University Magazine. Over the weekend
Bloomsburg
and you still
have dust bunnies. And you still
get no respect from your family."
in this
Thank you very much
in California. Sure, her
But, she says, "You
When
Dear Editor:
writes
sticky kitchen floors,
Grove
TO THE EDITOR
—
hits the best seller
Mom, just
The contents and the quality of the writing represent
Bloomsburg exceedingly well
but the creative layout and
—
the superb printing job propel the publication into the
realm of
artistry!
fooHn'
Bloomsburg has a very special place in my heart, and I
want only the best for that place and those people.
It is comforting to know that "she" has such a capable and
family.
will always
loving caretaker [in Dr. Kozloff]!
Introducing the
new and
Maryan
G.
efforts.
McCormick
Higher Education
exclusive
applaud your
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is
magical
and magical
is
The Boy
in the
And
baby
the
art
Bubble
with the baboon heart
And I believe
These are the days
of lasers in the jungle
.
.
These are the days
of miracles and wonder.
M-^
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in the
— Paul Simon
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Miracles are
all
around
us, so
some
ccording to Bloomsburg Uni-
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GREG RICCIARDI
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In Mexico, people believe that tears
flo\'
ulous claims deserve to be
tested.
PHOTOS BY
anthropology profes-
Dee Anne Wymer, mirac-
Such skepticism
is
part
and parcel
of being an educated person in today's
from
JOAN HELPER
a
Madonna's painted
eyes.
society,
says
Wymer, whose course on
pseudoscience examines the "miracles" of
In India, die faithful beUeVe that a
ESP, faith healing
and creation
She believes
the responsibility of
it's
science.
the university to provide students the
marble statue of the Elephant
tools to
God
do the
testing.
drinks milk offered by devotees.
In California,
his
an evangelist claims that
mother once
sliced
of bread into two
enough
up a small
full plates
heel
of bread
-
to feed ten people.
In Israel, a psychic's mental
Dee Anne Wymer, anthropology
professor,
who
teaches a course about pseudoscience, believes the
energy bends spoons.
university has an obligation to teach skepticism,
"Students deserve to get three things
On American
television, viewers
watch
out of their education
at the university,"
Wymer. "They should
says paleobotanist
be able to read well, to write well and
a secret
government autopsy performed
to think well."
Thinking well means being able "to
evaluate arguments critically,"
on the body of a space
alien.
Wymer
vvdth
presented
students
surface,
number of questions: WTio's
presenting the idea? What motives might
to
In photographs of a forming universe
expects
an idea to drive beneath the
ask a
the presenter possess? What's the larger
taken recently by the Hubbel space
picture? Are there alternative
tions that
seem
to
make more
Most people understand the
telescope,
some
see the face of
God
in
explana-
sense?
role of
science in "testing" claims about the
natural world. Wymer says that "science
a vehicle for critical thinking"
the billowing clouds of gas.
is
— perhaps
not the only vehicle, she admits, but a
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primary means of evaluating natural
— found
phenomena.
Bloomsburg University professor
Larry Mack, chair of the chemistry
department, explains that scientists are in
said they believed in
up explanations
the business of "setting
about the world." The
and reproducible."
tions are "testable
From
explana-
scientist's
these explanations, says Mack, sci-
models —
entists create
theories
—
to
explain things.
ut an increasing
number of
Americans are turning from
scientific explanations
ural
numbers of
ing
phenomena. And growconcerned
scientists are
about what they perceive
science" trend.
of nat-
an "anti-
as
A recent conference of the
New York Academy
of Sciences explored
"the contemporary flight from reason
and
."
its
associated antiscience.
Speakers
at
"politically
.
the conference pointed to
induced
motives
behind
ESR
a belief in astrolog)^
It's
difficult)'
believe
or refuse to
what science "teaches." Radio
show maven Rush Limbaugh
talk-
rejects
theories about the "greenhouse effect"
because "the earth has always taken care
of
itself."
A
recent Gallup poll suggests
that almost half of
all
Americans believe
.
scientific
legal
are not.
And
rather than the scientific use of
having
words such
are
as
more
law and theory. In the
are elaborate hunches.
The opposite
scientific theories,
Simpson
claims
—
trial
people think
Johnny
heard
extravagant
courtroom, laws are inviolable; theories
are
Cochran's
during
little
the
Many
of science's
critics
point to
of the National
Center for Science Edu-
and
A recent G-alluppole. sw^esh fhaf
attor-
ney Thomas C. Sager,
\vrit-
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CJresirioni&i^
o^er e\/otafiot^.
ing jointly in the journal
laws are
-£rfio<.TS:—
more important
than theories, that
'laws'
believe,
scientific
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ES>p
r
cannot be 'broken,'
and that a
law,
once estab-
Hshed, cannot be altered:
It is scientific 'Truth.'"
Scientific
facts
—
basis for scientific laws
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in creationism over evolution.
study of college students
—
Another
more than
a decade, for
Bermuda Triangle,
miracles and biorhythms
instance, scientists
Homo
beheved
sapiens had 48
belief in ghosts, the
that
psychic healing,
chromosomes. The
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surveying
O.J.
better than
Eugenie C. Scott, executive director
intro-
—
unsupported hunches.
is
true in science.
erroneously, that scientific
distrust
.
They
familiar wixh the
Most of us
and "perfectly closed behef systems."
Whatever the cause of this growing
many Americans
.
most people expect
But
laws to be immutable, unchangeable.
Creation/Evolution, say that
undeniable that
explanation
understand the language of science.
"most laypersons
is
is
."
paranormal because many of us don't
"the rise in religious fundamentalism"
it
The goal
expected.
through theor)'
convincing
people to be skeptical about claims of the
antirational rhetoric." Others pointed to
antiscience bias,
say Scott
science,"
are able to look at old data differently.
Nearly half of the students expressed
have
and technologies
and Sager,
mind
about an
"it's OK to change your
new
data,
or if you
explanation if you get
"In
Almost 80 percent of the same students
cation (NCSE),
.
About 55 percent
tools
have revealed there are only 46.
checked yes to miracles and biorh)'thms.
Scientists
new
duction of
that about 40 percent of the stu-
dents believe in ghosts.
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se
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TO
&o
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instances of scientific fraud
takes
—
science
— or mis-
dom
to underscore their opinion that
is
more
claims
healer's
faith
peoples
or
The difference between the scientist
and those who turn from science's
methods is largely a matter of attitude.
Scientists know enough about the
problems
psychic's
a
beyond
go
Science sometimes offers less-than-sat-
"Ifi
science, ifs
OK to
change your mind
where
why
Being
alone
The
happen.
things
in
if you
get
new
data, or
meaningless universe can
be frightening.
And
"out
exists
life
When
are
expected.
these
are consistent with
rrulk,
the marble, the
air,
the stone absorbs a small
terns
we
set
fails to
and discover
California
make
the
to process pat-
linkages. That's
and
why
recall
— telephone
from
we're
thinking
about
when
— make sense of
tant friends
calls
dis-
that
ran-
is
work with
exper-
imental procedures that help reduce the
own
influence of their
tations
such safeguard
of
beliefs
on the experimental
is
replicabUity
many independent
and expec-
results.
—
investigators to
reproduce the same experimental
If several
One
the abil-
results.
independent verifications
repli-
an individual investiga-
experimental
results,
then the
likeli-
from
porous so that
sufficiently
amount of
impression that
liquid, thus giving the
the
for.
see patterns in the clouds
coincidences
themselves.
scientists
known
reveals that the god's base, carved
god "drinks."
The
points out that
up
of
Scientists are trained to
the atmosphere.
ancestors in their mightiest endeavors.
is
biases
In this case, the scientist's examination
marble,
brain
of the beliefs, expectations
and
miracles than
some readers derive satisfaction knowing
benign extraterrestrials aided our
that
human
that science also
control the influence
physical properties of the
Gods that space travelers helped the
the
alternative
often understood,
is
Are there explanations that
It's
ancient Egyptians build the pyramids,
Wymer
tries to
tor's
for
argues in Chariots of the
Bloomsburg's
isn't
there
supernatural intervention.
there."
connections we're looking
them.
cate or duplicate
oU data differently.
Erich von Daniken
Sometimes, science
test
drink milk asks whether
and simpler explanations
at
how to
she says,
ity
who exam-
if you are able to look
some would
so,
rather believe that other
scientist
claims that statues
ines
vast,
a
confirm their
an absolute.
belief in
about an explanation
a
look upon such
events to
chance or accident seem to
is
not an absolute. The
faithful
be the only explanations
for
explanations
empirical
goal,
People can be uncomfort-
us
hat
to realize that "truth"
the nature of our world.
Most of us know that science is all
about testing hypotheses, says
Bloomsburg's Wymer. Science teaches
Israel.
of
fallibility
about
able in a universe
native
the Ten
Lost Tribes of
linguistic confusion.
isfying explanations
us.
credible than a
consultation.
Science's
North America's
become descendants of
spaceships.
just as fallible as astrologers'
predictions. Scientific theories, the critics
conclude, are no
around
occurring
patterns
Unfamiliar lights in the sky become alien
scientist
concludes
that
the
Elephant God's "consumption" of milk
is
not miraculous
at
all.
The devout
Hindu, on the other hand, finds the
phenomenon
a
decision.
a "miracle" that does not
It is
confirmation of a faith
merit skeptical inquiry or
critical analysis.
Professor Larry Mack, chair of Bloomsburg's
chemistry department, sees no conflict
between science and
faith.
Eloomsburg University Magazine
SPRING 1996
9
MIRACLES
hood of subjective contamination
Why
—
It's
should most of us
non-scientists
concerned
about
—
be
on moral
takes
these
political
—
come into
The battle
— and even
nent,
because they go to
—
Henry Morris
and the
writ-
tainly the
dean
ciate
for
must be
Bloomsand
burg's College of Arts
Christians to
the ancient
there
al
is
a
arts
—
citizens.
Romans have recognized
body of knowledge
— the
appropriate for free
Our democracy
also
liber-
(liberi)
needs a
this issue or,
ignore
it.
.
.
.
sci-
a great mistake for
ence.
nonsense."
on
It is
compromise
perhaps even worse, to
(The evolution theory) has
Poliakoff,
"is
to
prepare people to be participants, not
victims,
in
our
increasingly
and
students,
a
God intervenes directin human affairs. They
nent
ly
evolution
It's
as
anti-
evolution science
is
bending spoons, but also
about
or
the origin of the universe and the role of
the divine in
human
affairs.
earth, say scientific creationists,
has existed only thousands
this difference in
is
As Morris
teaches
an elaborate
of
structure to justify
devastating the
cerns into the legislative arena. At least
says,
"The Bible
work
the
that
creation
was
accom-
and completed
in the six days of creation
week,
the Genesis story."
and immoral
are
Why
not science.
the
"rationale of the host of
that
establishment places
plished
Morris contends that
antisocial
is
world today (abortion, the drug
culture, homosexual activism, animalistic amorality, and so on.)"
The creationists have taken their con-
UFOs
The
scientific
dating so important?
may
students to question their
The
of years, not billions.
practices
lead
ago.
"Creation science
she acknowledges that the critical spirit
notion not about astrology or
beings walked the earth contem-
world view where an immi-
Christian and immoral.
her
human
Genesis find that the theory
But who is to distinguish between sense
and nonsense?
When Bloomsburg anthropologist
Dee Anne Wymer fosters a spirit of
in
they
million years ago.
see
inquiry
—
attempt to "prove" that dinosaurs and
influence.
irreversibly technological society."
critical
spectrometer analysis dating
the "age of dinosaurs" at 65 million to 200
of evolution threatens
says
—
and materialistic philosophy of the world today than any other
lent secularistic
and nonsense.
goal,"
later repealed.
poraneously, as recently as 10,000 years
Those who believe in the creation
account from the Book of
"Our
.
probably contributed more to the preva-
of examining beliefs
and practices to inform ethical and
moral decisions. Educated people must
be able to distinguish between sense
citizenry capable
.
on the foundation of science itself
Using scientific methods
including
chemical and metallographic analysis of
dinosaur bones, as well as mass
between "sense and
Sciences, believes that "educators since
The law was
."
.
undertaken to build an alternative theory
between the Bible and
able to distinguish
freedom of belief and speech
most important
area of apparent conflict
says that educated people
Michael Poliakoff, asso-
in
public schools" so as "to ensure freedom
cer-
is
dean of Arts and Sciences
today's world.
of
and evolution-science
tion science, creation advocates have
evolution question
Michael Poliakoff, associate
treatment
says that "the creation-
—
be an educated person in
creation-science
Arkansas)
(in
"balanced
Instead of simply dismantling evolu-
the heart of education
and
means to
legislature
a
Bible
ing in Science
what we think
it
one state
mandated
of religious exercise [and] to guarantee
overtones.
Creation science propo-
critical inquiry?
It's
faith
deepest conflict.
issues involving objectivity
and
at this level that sci-
ence and
reduced.
is
outlined
as
Genesis
in
whereas evolu-
1,
contend that the
(meaning evolution) has been going on for millions of
years in the past and is still going on
tionists
process of
'creation'
in the present.
"Scripture
definite
on
could
this point
hardly
,"
.
.
.
be
more
says Morris.
WONDER
"In
Scientific creationists try to justify the
fact,"
he continues,
"if
I
could veri-
of God, then
I
would have
Biblical account of earth's origins because
fy the existence
evolution science
power over the
perceived to threaten
is
upon which
the very basis
view of the world
is
constructed.
reation science
says
the Christian
not science,"
is
Bloomsburg chemistry
professor Larry Mack.
"It's
an
elaborate structure to justify
the Genesis story."
little
the
religious
Mack
and
impulse
the
method.
scientific
"Many
found
Nonetheless,
reason for conflict between
finds
by
he
as
says,
with overlapping boundaries.
circles
He
labels the circles: aesthetic, philosophical,
and
religious.
circle
labeled
scientific
The
and
aesthetic
religious overlaps
philosophical.
It
does
circle
way of knowing
the
world. "Science tries to 'prove' things," he
"But the existence of
says.
God
can't
be
particular cause. That's
and
science.
.
.
.
on the
Religion centers
transcendent dimension of
human
indeed of all creation,
which is irrelevant to scien-
much
that
trying
i
r
\
_l^
\
//;.i/\r,^
_
—y
,
V"
"
to
Wymer, who
and
irreversibly
.,
they
y
i
technological society.
is
—
explains.
not concerned
science to
interpretation
logical
of
say.
argues, using carbon
on earth with human beings," says
Wymer, "then they're trodding on my
And
it's
happen
to
prophet
darn
a pretty
fair
to
— whether by
or not — doesn't diminish
bring
critical
science
the miracle," says Mack.
Lots
verified
of
life's
experiences
can't
be
by experiment.
"The reason
"is to
object to dealers in
14 dating methods, that dinosaurs walked
turf.
I
the
lous
faith, for instance."
"When someone
1
life.
that
"Explaining the miracu-
human-
tions of science. "There are
results,
important and mean-
and walk humbly with God.'
recognizes the limita-
guarantee
them
cast
to test what's
good idea when he said,
'Do justice, show mercy
our increasingly
describes
herself as a secular
ist,
to
really
Micah had
proper bounds."
its
val-
— but
ingful in
not victims, in
to
and
Larry Mack, "not
aside
think
j
1
ues," says
be participants,
edge or a method beyond
Wymer and Mack
PHILDS>6mml
KLl-lulOUS
:l
1
\
to
ence comes from "over-
about issues of
/J\^
A
^ ^.Y^
'
is
prepare people
prop up their claims. Mimicking scientific methods and jargon does not
i
"College should be a time for challeng-
life,
necessarily
faith "using" the trappings of
-p-^_i^
Qci
Bloomsburg's chemistry department
ing one's beliefs
sci-
means,
it
chair agrees.
of the "tension"
—
what
today's society."
''Our goal
to say
between religion and
reaching"
science as an ally in a
think, to be an educated person in
investigation.
The bishops go on
"Experimental science
samrific-
li^,,
I
irreconcilable conflict between religion
and shouldn't try to answer," she
^q_
think critically whenever
to
The Catholic bishops of the United
States, writing in Science and the Catholic
Church, believe "there can be no
questions that science can't answer
'proven by experimental means.
Pesthetic-
expect students to exercise skepti-
"extend a body of knowl-
not touch science. For Mack, each
represents a different
"I
cism and
someone claims
tific
experiment,"
he
that,"
chuckles, "is a very sobering thought!"
things in the world can't be
he sketches out on a blackboard four
And
divine.
analysis to those claims.
for education," says
know when-and how-to
Mack,
try."
Entrepreneurship
WRITTEN BY JASON KIRSCH
PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER
Berwick's
The Daily Grind Coffee
A
House.
QaOi
ness: she's too
Or
pathologist,
by Carol Bankus. You
ment
Treasures, a
ago.
yet.
off
handsomely
toys,
begun to pay
and not just
—
Bloomsburg Chamber of Commerce and
local
financial institutions, Bloomsburg's students are gaining valu-
and local people who may be long on
and short on business experience are learning how to leap
able business experience,
into entrepreneurship.
Take Nancy Gelber, for instance.
A
victim of downsizing,
Gelber lost her job as an administrator at a nearby hospital several years ago. Today, she operates
House
in Berwick. There, she serves
to customers she
12
SPRING 996
1
knows by name.
Bloomsburj Univenity Magazine
A
speech
opened
Tiny
rapidly growing consign-
store in Millville, just over a year
She started with 18 consignors.
Now
place
—
Marianne Creasy, an employee at a local hospital, is another
budding entrepreneur. Creasy thought that Pennsylvania's only
town needed a community welcoming service. So she started
one.
A
Not only has she met
by operating
community resource
a lot of real nice people
Basket of Helios, Creasy has
become
a
from her endeavor.
especially in a rural area
It's not easy to start a new business
but Gelber, Bankus and Creasy didn't tackle the task alone.
They had the support of the Local Enterprise Assistance
Program (LEAP), a non-profit initiative providing business services and small loans to microentrepreneurs.
Two Bloomsburg University professors, Pamela Wynn, an
associate professor in the management department, and Frank
Lindenfeld, a professor in the sociology department, modeled
LEAP after an economic development program of the Grameen
Bank of Bangladesh.
In the mid-1970s, the Grameen Bank extended loans to budding business owners who needed economic support and creat-
and
gets a ton of personal gratification
—
Because of a grassroots community effort involving universi-
ideas
Bankus
it.
Bankus' retirement plan.
for their owners.
ty faculty, the
busy running
more than 100. The store isn't just
where people can buy clothes,
it is part of
shoes and baby equipment
a
But these business ven-
tures have already
so busy, she
she has
not find them in
Fortune magazine. At least
not
is
take Carol Bankus.
Helios. Tiny Treasures
may
—
street
can barely find time to talk about busi-
of
Basket
main
The DaUy Grind Coffee
up "home-spun fast food"
Gelber's restaurant
—
just off
ed "borrowing
circles" to
spread the risk
if
a particular enter-
By
bank had lent over $400 million to
The repayment rate was close to
99 percent. The bank's program was a phenomenal success.
Wynn and Lindenfeld believed a similar approach to economic development could also be successful in rural
Pennsylvania. Along with a few enthusiastic community members and a grant from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, they
prise failed.
more than
established
1
LEAP
The program
Matthew Powers,
1992, the
million borrowers.
in the
summer
offers three
of 1992.
major
because he hopes to
own
a small busi-
ness someday. Powers and his partner consulted for a manufac-
gourmet gift-baskets.
"The owner entered the program because she wasn't
turer of
anything," says Powers.
"We
We
then
selling
researched what consumers liked
about the products, what they didn't
habits.
services: technical assistance,
a senior majoring in business administra-
tion, enrolled in the class
and
like
their
— what the
made recommendations
buying
owner
should do, what she should change, what she should keep.
business training and small
As consultants, we go out and
business loans.
do what small business own-
"If individuals
seling
need coun-
their business
—
to
such as
are
paired with
students in business admin-
For
consecutive
eight
Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3
explains
the
Belinsky,
consists of low-cost
business training.
istration or senior-level
Kimberly
gain practical
The second component of
LEAP
graduate
undergraduates,"
And we
experience."
— they
or financial analysis
how
do or don't have time to
do.
marketing, survey research
know
don't
ers
on some aspect of
p.m., microentrepreneurs
LEAP
program manager
from the Bloomsburg Area
Chamber of Commerce.
Bloomsburg
Magee Center
meet
University's
at
to
receive
intensive training in market-
"The students provide tech-
ing,
finance,
nical assistance while serv-
taxes,
insurance and business
ing as business consultants."
law.
These students are
a
three-
credit course offered
by the
tangible
the course
select-
is
outcome of
the develop-
ment of a business
ed from the Small Business
Institute Seminar,
One
accounting,
"When
plan.
the business train-
ing course ends, participants
form
College of Business. Stu-
are encouraged to
dents in the seminar provide
peer enterprise association, a
problem-solving support
to LEAP participants and
get "hands-on" consulting
network of microentrepreing circles of the
Grameen
experience.
Bank program,"
says
Jason
Dimm,
a
information systems,
assist-
ed a small-business operator
who wanted
to
neurs similar to the borrow-
buy and
"I
learned so
many
knowledge about.
laws and regulations
I'd
to anyone interested
- Marianne
recommend
in
I
the program
the
starting a small business."
Creasy, owner,
A
I
Basket of Helios
forums
on
a fixed
County
and Bob's Bank."
The groups serve
for people to share their ideas
also agree
Columbia
Micro-Business Network
sell
showed the owner how to use her
computer data base," Dimm says. "She was so pleased that
she sent each of us a check for $50 and a thank you card.
We couldn't accept the money, so we sent it back."
Dimm could not accept the gesture, but he was happy to take
away some valuable experience.
"The program let me take the skills I've learned throughout
my college career and apply them. I also learned communication and interpersonal skills," Dimm adds.
partner and
far
two groups have formed,
had no
discontinued merchandise.
"My
the
Chamber's Belinsky. "So
senior
majoring in computer and
a
sum
that each
as
and seek support. They
member will
time to generate a pool of savings. This fund
is
contribute over
used to finance
small loans for individual group members. For instance, a
owner may need to purchase a cash
may seek money to buy some new brushes.
restaurant
artist
member
is
an
other's business plans
and then
ready to apply for financing.
Members
Group members review each
decide which
register or
of the group have a stake in
its
members'
success. If
Bloomsburg Universitf Magazine
SPRING 1996
one
|3
member
entire
defaults
group
is
on
a
loan from the group's investment pool, the
The
affected.
dollar
ro^sing circles are typically small
encourages group members to
amounts
— $50
fiaUill
at risk in these
or $100
— but
bor-
the system
their financial responsibilities.
Microentrepreneurs can also apply for credit direcdy through
LEAP
— the
success of her business to a tight business plan. "Students helped
refine
my business plan and played devil's advocate," she explains.
Without a basic business knowledge and
through the program, participants can find out
component of the program. Through the
Rural Enterprise Development Corporation (REDC), the nonprofit governing body of the program, LEAP is able to finance
viable idea for a small business," says
small loans ranging from $500 to $10,000
finds that there
third
— sometimes
businesses —
"Banks often don't lend to small
profitable for them," Belinsky said.
to
is
offer credit to those
"One of
who cannot
higher.
it
the goals of
isn't
LEAP
obtain a loan from
a conventional lender."
a business
"road
map," microentrepreneurs might make a wrong turn. "By going
student in business administration.
A
Marianne Creasy, who owns
is
no market
if
they have a
Donna Creasy,
Donna is not
a graduate
related to
Basket of Helios. "If research
for a product or service, entrepre-
neurs have an opportunity to change their focus or delay the
start
of a business until their business plan
is
refined."
Carol Bankus was not interested in a loan, but wanted techni-
and business
cal assistance
She received both. "Three
saN^w.
"Three students helped research the martet
and
I
learned
-
let
me find
what could
I
a competitive niche,
not"
offer that others did
Carol Bankus owner. Tiny Treasures
According to Paul Reichart, president and
CEO
of Columbia
Count)' Farmers National Bank and president of the program's
board of
directors, nearly $200,000
REDC. He
is
available
through the
expects the figure to double soon. Contributors
include the To\sti of Bloomsburg, the federal Rural Development
Administration and the Presbyterian Foundation USA.
Reichart sees
LEAP
as a
model
for
economic development
"I like to help people," Reichart says. "If
Since
its
it's
we can
is
help people
better for
it."
program has helped more than
50 local microentrepreneurs develop business plans, conduct
and market research, organize finances, learn
computer software and create effective advertising campaigns.
Nana- Gelber, owner of The DaUv Grind, attributes the
feasibility studies
14
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Blooimbuif UimasCf Magazine
Bankus
sa^'s.
"I
learned what
I
me
find a competitive
could offer that others did not"
Marianne Creasy had no idea how
to start a small business
on
her own. Without any prior business training, she completed
leap's business training course and thought
woman.
it
was
"fantastic!"
reaUy appreciated the program," says the Bloomsburg
"I
many laws and regulations I had no
recommend the program to anyone intersmall business. It's a good way to go. It's also
learned so
knowledge about.
a win-vdn and society
inception, the
niche,"
"I really,
throughout rural Pennsylvania.
get off the ground,
students helped research the market and let
ested in starting a
I'd
fun to share ideas with the group.
And
the graduate students
I
was paired with reaUy helped me with my business plan. They
were available at the drop of a telephone."
And at the drop
universit)'
and
business ideas
of a telephone, folks in Bloomsburg
in to\sTi
— stand ready
—
at the
to help people with small-
become people with small
businesses.
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WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CUMMINGS
Pursuing knowledge
and adventure, the
Greek hero Ulysses sailed
the remotest reaches of the
Mediterranean Sea, encountering marvels at
every turn. He ran into a
one-eyed giant, a sorceress,
the king of the winds,
phantoms from hell and
wonder of wonders - a
company of mermaids
-
^N IN
7a
ILLUSTRATION BY JONATHAN JAKUM
whose siren-song offered
endless access to wisdom.
Well
if
only he had waited
a few score centuries,
Ulysses could have expe-
PENNSYIVANIA^^
rienced equally marvelous
wonders on the Internet
by merely clicking a
mouse. He wouldn't have
had to leave the comfort
of his ergonomic
computer chair.
WEAVING
The
a vast, rolling q'ber
Information Systems in the College of
on the
sea that daily transports count-
Business, believes that in five to ten years,
expects to be able to "hold a foot
the Internet will merge with telephone
computer,
and
all-
send the information directly to the
in-one communications center enabling
manufacturer. Within days, customers
Internet
to
knowledge
of
shiploads
less
sailors
is
electronic
human
the far reaches of
— and
absurdity.
In a single evening, cybernauts can
weigh
anchor
the
at
Frog-
Virtual
Dissection Page, read the Irish Times or
Jerusalem
the
view the
Post,
Map, research
television technology to create
will
made
A
fits
student
Phil-
in
adelphia will be able
Toronto Vegetarian Association,
download information from the world's
largest libraries and databases, go shopping at online super malls
and explore
the Bloomsburg cam-
attend classes at
Bloomsburg University,
Michigan State and the
Sorbonne in Paris via the
—
President Clinton or
ted
send an electronic
comeuppance to Rush
Limbaugh. They can
room," Dutt
ever
it
student.
charges!
way
ogy to exchange X-rays
and other medical
records firom satellite
same
up, his
The only
picture
Specialists
in Danville are offering
the scientific
diagnosis and
tation,
method, the invention
"Not
treatment for patients
in Renovo, Jersey Shore,
ofprinting and the
State College
and other
locations.
arrival of the
telecommuting
As
many busimay replace
expands,
Industrial Age did."
nesses
student
a
that
perfectly."
long-distance consul-
one location speaks
in
'net
If
footware
clinic sites.
student's
says.
custom-
receive
DanvUle are already
in
will
world
seismically, the
would be able to view
and interact with the
out incurring long-
Hall
affect the
but the instructor
tor,
— with-
phone
the
then
using Internet technol-
able to view the instruc-
student or professor at
Tapping into the
happen, and
only will the student be
message for any
distance
in
to the
it,
inger Medical Center
home.
"One or more video
cameras would be moun-
Cybernauts can e-mail
up
Physicians at Geis-
historic
leaving
newspaper.
Town
without
Internet
pus or read the student
the university
something
to
the
leave a
"We are watching
other end.
Someday, he
scan
will
interact with users at the
Online
celery
which
the user to see, hear and
with
Stargazer
an
Internet, says Dutt.
some
BILL GATES
would
or
all
of their
with "virtual"
offices
appear on the screen. It
would be a voice-activated system."
Bedridden and physically impaired
by distant workers recruited through
Internet want-ads, says Gil Gordon,
provider such as a university, a govern-
students, as well as students isolated
of
ment agency or
by
would become fully
"mobile," enabling them to attend the
consultant in telecommunications and
is
quite easy.
requirements are a modem-equipped
computer and access through a "gateway"
commercial service
a
such as Prodigy or America Online.
Many
observers maintain that the
colleges of their choice.
"Among
Internet represents an advance
fire.
In his
those choices might be a
Disney University or an
as revolutionary as the discovery
of
geography,
book The Road Ahead,
Dutt
says,
Microsoft's president Bill
sess
will
to
happen, and
affect the
ly,
it
world seismical-
tion
The most popular section of the
technology
electronic
which was developed in the
a communication network
capable of surviving a nuclear war,
the
World Wide Web. The Web
is
is
an
agglomeration of more than 100,000
distance learning.
business products, online
cross references that take
them from one
of the Industrial
shopping, tele-medicine
Web
infinitum.
arrival
In addition, he predicts,
online
Age did."
Bloomsburg University
marketing
and telecommuting
of
will
become commonplace.
multimedia
James
Dutt,
the Internet
chairman of the Depart-
see, hear
ment of Computer and
at the
SPRING 1996
Bloomsburg University Magazine
will
enable users to
and interact with users
other end.
"sites"
with hypertext links
enabling users to "cHck on" highlighted
site to
another
— ad
Users can also type in the address of a
site to
Professor James Dutt believes
professor
18
as
same way the scienmethod, the invenof printing and the
the
tific
the
provide
Some workers
central headquarters.
1960s
his-
toric
known
would remain "in the field" indefinitely,
making only occasional visits to a
mercial enterprises, pos-
watching something
NJ, a nationally
virtual-office technology.
Internet,
are
writes:
NBC,
Monmouth,
along with other com-
"We
Gates
NBC University,"
because both Disney and
online offices staffed
go directly to
it.
For example, to
Tens of thousands of
reach "America's Job Bank," users would
businesses big and small
type "http://www.ajb.dni.us/" To reach
already have a presence
the
White House, they would type
THE WEI
more by national
computer
"http://www.whitehouse.gov" To reach
limited
Bloomsburg
borders than
University's "address," users
simply type in "http://www.bloomu.edu"
networks.
"There's
we want
"Ultimately,
two-way
to have
just
tive
video
interac-
and out
in
no way any government
around the world could
of
summon search tools named Gopher,
Archie and Veronica, which contain
control the content of the
indexes.
Internet."
Depo,
Bloomsburg's
town administrator.
To help implement its
To find
can
information, users
specific
But because of
sometimes
arrangement
of information, the Internet
from
far
is
and communica-
perfect as a research
One
and the
vastness
its
helter-skelter
Internet watchers
Washington
Dutt,
of
editor
the
Atlantic
way of
barriers standing in the
Internet
use.
For example, "most people in the
U.S.
still
daily
do not use computers
life.
in their
Most people who do use
computers do not have Internet connections.
Most people who do have
Internet
connections don't have
connec-
Internet
fast
Even those
tions.
who
have the
fastest possible
Internet
connections
have
don't
still
good
what
maps
road
is
very
there.
It's
for
possi-
ble to just waste a lot of
time flipping pages on
the
finding
increasing
recently
if
ties,
revolution linking Bloomsburg
network
access to
expand,
to
communi-
vice, a
kind of segmentation
"All
ties
of this
while, at the
becoming so
involved with online chat groups and
news groups that they are losing interest
in the people around them.
To counteract this problem while also
taking advantage of the Internet and
ing opportunities.
only a matter of
tie
Internetters are
communications technologies,
communities are establishing
regional networks, or mini-Internets, that
help
will
ser-
communi-
same time, training
important new technology,"
in this
In
people
get
interested in their local
them
Depo
country.
24-hour
community calendar of news and
when Internet users identify more with on-line "virtual
communities" than with the communities in which they live. This phenomenon
is already occurring in some parts of the
occurs
offers,
government
events and connections to local libraries.
more
leaving slums in their wake.
A
Free Net
to the world.
cities to rural
different
consortium
went online with
Bloomsburg Area
(BAFN). The
the
Town Administrator Gerald
Depo sees a telecommunications
numbers of people may move
out of crowded
some
it's
faster.
He
predicts that,
easi-
by the end
of 1996, the Internet will be available over
many cable TV
systems.
Dutt acknowledges that the potential
exists for
misuse and exploitation of the
Internet, as evidenced
by the debate
Congress about what
sent over the 'net.
is
in
But he also points out that the Internet's
potential for misuse
is
no
different
other forms of technology
from
— including
the telephone or videorecorders.
Controlling the Internet, says Dutt,
"is
educated
telecommuting continues
what you want."
Dutt says
time for access to the Internet to get
and
who was
the
says.
other
projects,
the
consortium
expects to offer e-mail services, teleconferencing capabilities and distance-learn-
computers
will
Residents
without
be able to use terminals
at
various public locations.
Just
how
far the
telecommunications
revolution and the Internet will take
Bloomsburg
— and the world —
years immediately ahead
intense debate
Depo,
that's
is
in the
a subject of
and speculation. But,
says
part of the fun of this
Hall
that
er
For example, says
in
the
goals,
seg-
an anthropologist,
other
However,
Carver
as
without
Internet
is
mentation of people and
ideas.
there are certain practical
many
worries
tions tool. Moreover, says James Fallows,
Monthly,
problem
potential
that
home
each
region," says Gerald E.
impossible without having
of police
some kind
would be even harder on
schools,
local libraries,
the
unfolding revolution.
and other institutions.
The town of Bloomsburg and surrounding communities are in the
forefront of this movement.
With the assistance and participation
of Bloomsburg University, the town
joined with Columbia County, seven
hospitals
school
Medical
Geisinger
districts,
and
and
other
institutions to form the Bloomsburg
Telecommunications Consortium for
Columbia County and Region, Inc. The
Bloomsburg
Center,
important
consortium's goal
Hospital
organizations
is
to develop
advanced
telecommunications technology
state."
Policing
computers to
—
often
available only to densely populated areas
Internet than elsewhere, he continues,
— while
because phone networks tend to be
community
creating heightened interest in
affairs.
Columbia County Courthouse
Bloomsburg University Magazine
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19
WELCOME TO
An
ideal opportunity for the
If the Internet is a
way
to navigate
the cybersea of international
Bloomsburg Area
nication, then the
way
commu-
for local people to
Free-Net
is
ride the
wave of community news
a
and information.
Anyone can
using
a
town and the university and the region
Bloomsburg Free-Net are building
an on-ramp for the information superhighway. The grant wiU pay for firstthe
year
start-up
costs
—
including
hardware and software, telephone Unes
for users and one Internet access hne.
access the Free-Net
home computer and
a
password. Accounts are free to residents of the local region.
is
BAFN home
Once
'Z
connected, the
page appears.
The page
lists
different
topical
together.
The Telecommunications Consortium received the grant from
NTPN and is coordinating the
Free-Net project.
Depo's approach to the new communication technologies is decidedly
democratic. He insists that everyone
should have access to the information
superhighway
not just people in
the big cities. "I'm convinced," he says,
that the competition that has followed telecorrununications deregulation is going to bring
advanced systems to business
and schools," he says. "It wriU
also be available to people in
their homes
but most
.
a variety of
areas,
.
.
—
community events,
education, human sere.g.,
likely
government, relimouse,
readers can move the
cursor to the topic of
interest and click. Another
only those in the more
vices,
densely populated areas."
gion. Using the
Depo's concerns go
beyond the conflict between
urban-rural access. "We're
concerned about a technological underclass," he says.
To bring the technology to the
"have-nots," consortium wants
to install pubMc computer termi-
screen will appear - perhaps
a calendar of
on
what
is
going
in the region next week.
BAFN
will
also
have
connection to
Internet, and people wiU be able to
access information on the area anywhere in the world.
According to Bloomsburg University professor James Dutt, one of the
project's organizers, the whole FreeNet is like a "little electronic
dedicated
city,
complete with information
highways and by-ways."
The first such "electronic
inated in Berkeley, Calif,
city" orig-
more than
a
decade ago, Dutt says. Since then,
about 100 communities
usually
large metropolitan areas
have
developed Free-Nets.
But thanks to a $10,000 grant from
the National Public Telecomputing
—
—
Network (NTPN),
20
work
—
modem. The user simply dials 784BAFN, and enters her or his ID and
the user
to
SPRING 1996
B/oom$6urj
l/njvereit)'
local organizers of
Mogozine
nals at several sites
—
the court-
house, public libraries, municipal
buildings and local schools.
The Bloomsburg Area Free-Net
just
is
After the
is
frrst
expected to
program
cost about $5,000
year, the
annually, says Dutt.
Much of the impetus for this kind
of "electronic community" comes
from
Town Administrator Gerry
Depo For
years,
he has urged the
and hospitals, businessand government to pool their
area's schools
es
telecommunication resources. Depo's
efforts crystallized in the creation of
the Bloomsburg Telecommunications
Consortium for Columbia County
and the Region.
the
start,
say. Initially, it is
hook-up
—
"we
organizers
its
not a free Internet
can't
afford that
right now," says Dutt.
"The grant has helped us
get
up the
"We'U still
have to keep it up and running." Such
systems in other communities have
been supported by corporations and
basic system," he explains.
government. And, as Gerry Depo
says, the Free-Net is "an ideal
opportunity for the town, the university
and the region to work
together."
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UNCOVERING
Imagine, Connie
Chung
teaching chemistry class
or Peter Jennings lecturing on
'Why not Connie Chung?''
for graduate studies
Youd
Of course,
well
is
and
statistics.
asks Patrick Schloss, assistant vice president
research at Bloomsburg. "She delivers well.
think that she'd he a great instructor."
Schloss doesn't really believe that delivering
the sole measure of great college teaching.
"In fact she's a
good
actor,"
answers Schloss.
"But good actors do not necessarily scholars make."
What does make
in the
a scholar? And
undergraduate classroom
WRITTEN BY
TO
scholarship
faculty,
remaining
field,
ERIC FOSTER
•
their views challenged
means staying abreast of their
and vibrant, and having
by
just in teaching
Scholarship
— but
detrimental to faculty," says
in other disciplines as well.
how
The
to
discipline students learn
everyday life
activities
also
detector," says Keith.
Undergrads
Program
Matta. "Take Latin, a good 'dead'
language," he says.
"What new could
new
translations
graduate.
of
in
material being made."
Jennings
left
of excellence,"
Amy
Green, biology major from Ashland, PA,
how
to
may
not
in
to dis-
the
is
her an edge
how
says Green,
"Getting
scholar can."
to
separate fact from fiction, the relevant
a skill that
you have
gamut of
Biology major Amy Green
know what
irrelevant.
"Research
which
is
intensely
disciplines ranging
from
accounting to zoology.
Students too, benefit from practice in learning
from the
in grad-
good prepara-
with faculty mentors. Their projects run
applying for entrance to veterinary school.
Connie Chung doesn't have the expertise
criminate between conflicting views. She
discover,
"It's
The two dozen honors students work
the
with
says Schloss. "Every discipline has con-
A
are doing research
research-focused."
believes her research gives her an edge
as arbiters
weight to give them.
"Our students
much the same way they would
tion for graduate school,
best?
know. "In
absence of scholarship, you're
fhcting views.
Bloomsburg's Honors
uate school," says Keith.
And which translation is the
Connie Chung or Peter
necessarily
in
are expected to complete a the-
or a major creative project, before they
sis,
possibly happen in Latin? But there
Connie Chungs
weighing pitches for
learn how to do
you can apply the technique
anything. It gives you a built - in BS
to
there are changes in every field, says
wouldn't
to
"When you
research,
important for faculty to stay
constantly
interpreting a survey reported
newspaper
credit cards.
abreast of changes in their field, and
are
through research can be applied
— from
in the
mental challenge."
It's
to
history. "Research
questions are important."
They need the
stay alive intellectually.
Honors and Scholars Program and
and scholarship is
ask the right questions. Learning which
an associate professor of
important for faculty to
is
and for students?
director of the university's
Jim Matta, director of grants. "It causes burnout, which happens
— not
for faculty
partly learning
peers.
is
—
scholarship important
is
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOAN HELPER
creative
"Constant unrelieved teaching
why
to learn," says Jeanette Keith,
when
into
is
hoping that her research
will give
she applies for veterinary school.
veterinary
who grew up on
school
is
very
competitive,"
a farm in Ashland. For her honors
"The Role of Intestinal Parasites in Bovine
Management," Green examined the manure of more than 300
project,
cattle
from 19 farms
in the region.
She analyzed the samples
Uoomsburf UnJveisSy Alogozine
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1
at
23
SCHOLARSHIP
And \vhile undergraduate students may be urJikely to unlock the
pital in
Leighow Veterinary HosDamdlle where she
secrets of the universe in a chemistr)' lab or discover a "lost"
had an internship. She
Shakespeare play
presence of intestinal parasites
would negatively
affect
the weight of the
cattle.
Instead she found
that only one type
had an
parasite
Utde stuff
a
invoked in the
from Bloomsburg
a degree
in
in
December with
their cattle
mass communications.
study".
know what
they
Katherine Yurchak, Muncy, graduated
Some
have and ho^v to
"We have an honors student doing research to
I
Now,
I
dogs and
cats.
really liked
An
ss'hich
to svork
^^'ith
%\'ould like to focus
on
farm animals.
large
thesis
I
Now
is
helping conduct a
how weightlifting
study to see
mobility of senior citizens.
"I see this as
^\'hat
an extension of
we do in the classroom," say's
Leon Szmedra,
74 years-old,
associate professor of exercise
physiology.
Two
students wiU use
Wigwams
complete graduate
the
history
of
adoptive
her
hometown, Muncy in nearby Lycoming Count)'. Profits from
the book are being used to create a scholarship for nontraditional students.
It
took her a year to complete her research,
a year she says she "stole"
from her
faculty
mentor Walter
Brasch, professor of mass communications.
must
the Honors Advisory Committee.
In order even to begin their studies, honors students
submit
a
proposal to
The process
"We
itself
theses.
Mathematics
professor
Mehdi Razzaghi has involved
two graduate and four under-
James Matta, director of research, and
graduate students in a 572,000
for graduate studies, help guide the
project funded
university's research
by the Risk
Patrick Schloss. assistant vice president
programs.
Science Institute, a private research foundation. Razzaghi and
the students are creating a statistical
model
to evaluate the risk
of birth defects caused by environmental toxins.
provides another kind of education.
require that students prepare proposals for their
"In a lot of cases, students get to present their research at
"and we frequently make them rewrite the
regional or national conferences," says Keith. For example,
research," says Keith,
prospectus. After the
first,
they're asked to write
a
one Keith wishes
it's
graduate. "As an under-
grad,
have
didn't
I
a
chance to do this kind of
research.
Nobody
me how
to
proposal.
I
taught
graduate
wouldn't have
Leon Szmedra. associate professor of
had such
graduate school
a terrifying time in
the practice."
if I'd
had
—
to
be honored by the
paper, "Looking
Attachment
for
annual
Style
for
Psi
— graduate and under-
Chi Honor Society for
his
Mr. Goodbar: The Relationship of
and Number of Times
Chemical Dependency
in
Love to Propensity
Teenage College Students."
in
"Many times, smdents -wiU -svork wth faculty even when they're not
on both sides. The
faculty member has an extra pair of hands to help wth the project, and
taking a course for credit," says Matta. "There's gain
the
construct a
exercise physiology, sees research as
Magqane
at the
Vorhies was one of only eight students
she had had as an under-
BJooimbiirf Umvasitf
Connie Schick presented Vorhies' research
second semester's w^ork."
but
SPRING 1596
sor
meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in Boston.
can be a gruelling process,
an "extension" of classroom work.
William Vorhies, a psychology aliunnus, and psychology profes-
second proposal for their
Creating the proposals
24
are also
A team of nearly 20 Bloomsburg graduate and undergraduate
students
data collected fi-om the study to
explores
may yield
for the world."
Yurchak graduated in December, 1995. Her book, Where
Stood,
non-drug
see
Bloomsburg students outside of the Honors Program
project director
by Katherine Yurchak grew into a book
has sold out of three printings.
knowledge
if
"That
active in research.
small animals like
mfh farmers."
working
honors
wanted
arthritis sufferers," says Keith.
can improve the strength and
treat them," sa\'s Green.
And Green now knows a little more about the career she'd like
to have. "I thought
of the "htde" stuff that has involved Bloomsburg
methods can help
No\v,
parasites
tried 2,000 times before he
students has been significant.
"This was very useful for
the farmers whose herds were
uncover new knowledge.
by Shakespeare without doing the
Thomas Edison
first.
a significant bit of
co^v's health.
stUl
lost plays
created a light bulb that worked," says Keith.
of
on
effect
—they may
"You don't find
expected to find that the
smdent experiences a professional
"\\Tien
faculty
inject
their
apprenticeship."
own
research
classroom, students notice," says Schloss.
to
"We
into
the
don't need
keep faculty out of the labs so they can spend more time
with students.
We
need
they can spend more time
to
get students
is'ith faculty."
into the labs so
NEWS
Five friends
NEWS
BRIEFS
remembered
Commemorating one
Quite a Quilter!
of the worst
Karen Trifonoff, assistant professor
tragedies in university history helped
the university
friends
and
community
to
of geography and earth science, was
honor
reminder of those before them.
issue of National Geographic.
On
The National Geographic uticle,
members of the university
community came together with the
Oct. 20,
David
Cope
William Kelly
dedicate the
fire to
the "Five Friends
Memorial
all
New
Plaza."
October 1994
fire.
killed in
Bloomsburg's Council of Trustees.
of the Year" in 1988.
Petrosky of
Those students
N.J.;
Joseph Selena of Wyoming, Pa.
for the
those duties, Petrosky was the
term ending January 2001.
director of
the Titusville Area Schools since 1973
and
and
with the intermediate unit.
serves as chairperson of the
elor's
bushes and
studies.
trees.
is
He
also
Kelly, a
as did student
who
university President Jessica Kozloff,
the 109th district to the state
and
FM
student trustee Jennifer Adams, a
junior from Catawissa.
is
visible
WVL\-TV and WVL\
89.9, the region's public
casting stations.
He was
their quilts with large squares
of material, a center design
and wide
The Ohio
borders.
quilters pieced
together
smaller
rectangles in
repeated patterns
House
served as the chair of the House's
Graduate programs
continue to grow
Youth and Aging Committee, secre-
Enrollment in graduate programs
House Appropriations
Committee and vice chair of the
Bloomsburg increased by about
percent
Agriculture Committee. Other
year's total.
committee assignments included
ment
He
formerly
tary of the
1971 Bloomsburg alumnus
president of
—
multicolored
assistant executive director
of Representatives.
earned his master's
and highly
herself a quilter
terms as the representative from
a 1973
earned a degree in English,
the well-known
assistant
make
Stuban served eight successive
degree in education at the university.
government President Chris Vogler,
ministers
He was
degree in comprehensive social
with accompanying plantings of
campus
department.
from 1989-91. Cope
cipal
Friends of the five offered
pupU personnel,
director of special education
graduate of Bloomsburg with a bach-
benches arranged in a semicircle,
the three
held since 1990. Prior to assuming
the faculty of
—
Trifonoff
found that the Pennsylvania Amish
executive director
of the Northeastern Educational
the district's junior high school prin-
Humanities, the memorial includes
is
Intermediate Unit, a post he has
Moscow and Ted Stuban
social stuches
Located between Andruss Library
remembrances,
Petrosky
Cope of Titusville,
Cope has been on
James Palmer of MQlviUe; and
five
12-member
"Young Alumnus
of Berwick. Each will serve a six-year
Derek Mooney of Downingtown;
and Bakeless Center
appointees to the
council are David
Deborah Keeler of MUton,
Pennsylvania and Ohio.
the university's
A. William Kelly of Kingston, David
an
were Kyle Barton of Staten Island,
N.Y.;
featured in the "Geographica"
of Amish people living in
trustees begin appointments
Four new faces have joined
New
current or former
Bloomsburg students
Ted Stuban
site for
The memorial, to be constructed
this spring, will honor the five young
people,
David Petrosky
section, contrasted the quilt designs
famihes of those killed in an off-
campus
November
featured in a story in the
give future students a
Transportation, Health and Welfare,
Local Government,
broad-
selected as
Fisheries
and
Game and
Rail Freight Pohcy.
last fall
at
6.5
from the previous
The program's
enroll-
success was included in a
report issued late
by Patrick
last fall
Schloss, assistant vice president
for graduate studies
and
research.
The graduate programs
OUR FIRST GRADUATE COMMENCEMENT
Bloomsburg, which granted
of graduate programs on campus, the
its first
its first
commencement
in art history, art studio
administration degree.
larger,
and
been stronger
and student
childhood education, education of
at
the deaf/hard of hearing
Bloomsburg. Faculty
exercise science
interest in graduate
fitness.
education warranted this ceremony."
education and speech pathology.
The
their mentors, highlighted the
event.
and adult
university also has
technology, nursing, special
relationship between graduate students
commencement
university's
master of education
programs include those
Graduate coordinators,
in biology,
business education, ciuriculum and instruction,
thesis advisers, practica supervisors or other faculty
elementary education and reading. Nearly 700
who had
students are enrolled in graduate programs
a significant role in the student's
participated in the hooding ceremony.
and
master's programs in instructional
The traditional hooding ceremony,
symboUzing the close working
and
The
program
expected to enroll 20 for
fall
of 1996.
to grow, Schloss reported.
accounting, audiology, biology, early
the graduate student culture has never
—
Health care programs continue
confers master of science degrees in
research, "graduate
is
the
In addition, the university
assistant vice president for graduate
enrollment has never been
—
awards a master of business
According to Patrick Schloss,
special education.
The newest graduate program
the master of science in accounting
and communication.
It
candidates in December.
and
education, instructional technology
graduate
degrees in 1963, offers master of arts degrees
exercise for 90 graduate degree
studies
business, reading, elementary
and
Acknowledging the increased presence
university held
with the largest enrollments include
year-old e.xercise science
26 students.
The
three-
program has
New graduate offerings
are being developed in nursing.
Two programs
that are in the
proposal stages are applied mathematics and physical therapy.
"We
are also discussing a professional
doctorate in audiology," said Schloss.
Schloss also indicated that the
graduate school plans to expand
its
off-campus programs, including cus-
tomized offerings
Foods
in
at
American
Home
Milton and Pennsylvania
Power and Light
in Ber%%'ick.
at the university.
BJoomsbufg University Magazine
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NEWS
NEWS
BRIEFS
Fame
members
ON THE PLAYING
Athletic Hall of
inducts five
October's induction of five people to
and
Bloomsburg University Athletic
the
Fame brought the
ber of members to 57.
Hall of
The
num-
total
the Huskies'
team
in the nation.
of Coatesville. Also
is
the
Northumberland and Cathy Sheridan
ranked second
women's tennis team grabbed the
crown
in
commissioner, Bloomsburg
six
is
one
of only four schools in the conference
reactivated
to
ed
its
nearly nvo years, proWdes support
has the best gender equity ratio
and direction
in the conference.
fraternity
It
and
for the tmiversity's
take notice.
for
The 12-member board
— which
includes students, faculty and
commimity
attention on
schools are spending
its
match the general undergraduate
all
students
on campus.
rate for students
—
as well
years
between
their
80 percent and 81
is
percent for athletes. These
more
figures
al
Bloomsburg University
-
freshman and sophomore
scholarship money,
and re-examining the "relationship
GPA
PSAC and national
norms. Our retention
PSAC
"while six other
leadership development
And, over
exceeds
state,
as well as a representative of the
— hai focused
All- Americans.
the general student population
reported recently that
staff,
year
as its overall retention rate for
article in the
western part of the
Academic
rate for its student athletes
Reporter, a daily paper in the
life.
last
athletes.
Association, Bloomsburg's retention
CaUfomia (PA) Observer-
Greek students and researches
ways to improve Greek
An
Bloomsburg
PSAC
by the National CoUegiate Athletic
People are beginning to
sorority system.
develops educational programs
in the
According to data released recently
men and women. Bloomsburg
to
athletes are also
number of scholar
average for
of athletic scholarships awarded
Greek Advisory Board. The
its
virtually
be in compUance with Title LX
body, which had been inactive for
field
our scholar-athletes has inched up to
for
regulations regarding the proportion
reactivat-
on the playing
the past three years, the cumulative
Greek Advisory Board
Bloomsburg University has
went
Since 1990, Bloomsburg has fielded
for the first time since 1985.
At the same time, according to the
PSAC
success
excelling in the classroom.
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
of Mountaintop.
series
only part of the story.
Our student
The women's soccer team
finished no. 8 in the country, while
honored were PhiUip Lockcuif of
('84)
Our
hockey
team finished the season ranked second
and Stephen
The
program" in the conference.
crown
field
PSAC
on to say that "Bloomsburg has
become the model [athletic]
sports vrinning
tied for the di\'isional
last year's
All-Sports Trophy."
last fall. Overall,
with a 10-1-1 record. The
Mich.; Ivlichael Blake ('82) of Upper
('78)
fall
FIELD.
captured
teams enjoyed
percentage was .830. The football
Jon Bardsley ('82) of Brighton,
Eachus
the classroom
athletic
remarkable success
highest athletic honor this year were
J.;
in
Our
recipients of the university's
Saddle River, N.
BRIEFS
.
compare with nation-
standards of 69 and 76
percent respectively.
.
statement" governing the social
organizations.
The board's
advisor)'
is
over-riding goal, says
board chair Mark Lloyd,
Sports hotline
to bring "unrecognized" social
You can now
organizations back into recognized
status.
that
The board has recoirunended
and sororities
upcoming sporting events and
other athletic news through
all fraternities
begin a process toward national
affiliation.
get the latest
sports restdts, the schedule of
new Husky Hothne.
The hotline, with information
the
National Greek
organizations, says Lloyd, offer
updated each day following a
support that "local" fraternities
Bloomsburg
intercollegiate athletic
find difficult to acquire.
Women's
Students
Campus
The
is
Growing
studies.
who want
about women's issues can
90-acre parcel of land adjoining the
The new women's
upper campus. The parcel
at
is
to west
of Nelson Field House.
No
specific
university
is
engaged in a
feasibility
study to determine the need for
SPRING 1996
a
minor
fall,
dozen apphca-
commimication
curriculum and foundations,
economics, Enghsh, history, political
acres.
eioormburg Umvmity M
science
and psychology.
of sports information.
a service offered
To get sports scores and game
simply
call
717-389-BUBU.
.
More than 250 Bloomsburg students
— awarded nearly $200,000
scholarships in the
were recognized
November The
fall
in
semester
—
at a reception in
reception, sponsored
by the Bloomsburg University
from the departments of
health sciences,
office
details,
anthropology, biological and aUied
studies,
additional
26
studies
more than
ble courses
but the
on-campus housing.
The university now ovms 292
now
Bloomsbturg, approved in the
includes
purpose has been
identified for the property,
more
undertake a minor in the area.
university has acquired a
is
.
to learn
by the
event,
Honoring scholarship.
Alumni Association and the
Bloomsburg University Foundation
in cooperation with the financial
aid office,
is
held each year to
award a portion of the
universit)''s
scholarship support.
The
university's total scholarship
package for the 1995-96 academic
vear
is
S703,000.
NEWS
—
Paying for college
now easier to
Last
pay for undergrad-
uate classes at Bloomsburg.
deferred
A
payment program, which
Fund campaign
Parents'
fall's
with a $90,000 target
$115,000 in
been expanded to allow
upperclassmen to pay their tuition
—
on Oct.
institution in
1
the State System of Higher Education
State
kind of support.
divide the
payment of their
the course of three
fees over
the
in January,
sent prior to the fifth of each
university
is
of fees
the budget plan for
at
"With
this
agreement
fund
payment
in place,
we
have the necessary tools to collect
our accounts receivable and offer
new
a
this
alternative without additional cost to
the university," said Michael Robatin,
come
to
Bloomsburg,"
scholarships require
may be
a thing
ment and executive director of the
Bloomsburg University Foundation,
the
transfer
new
— thanks
saw students standing
— not once, but twice —
and
of fees owed the
later to
says John
pick up a
who applied after Oct. 27
EFT program was initiated,
Students
the
grands. This
to rent
uses
Steinways to teach his students,
summer
and her M.Ed, and Ed.D.
from the Pennsylvania
A memorial fund
new
library in
to the
to select the university's
in contributing
fund should contact
Bloomsburg University
the
latest addition.
Foundation
21
room in the
memory of Sponsellen
Those interested
New York City this
DOCTORS FOR THE
State University.
has been
established to dedicate a
two smaller
will travel to
Doctors with a Bloomsburg University bachelor's
degree hanging on their walls
up a
lot
more
in the next
Beginning the end of
at least ten
of the seats
at
717-389-4128.
ST
academic
filled
The two
agreement
up
which
to ten graduates
Bloomsburg up
trained as primary care physicians.
program must
by checking
on the loan
application forms.
initiative also allows
"If
we have
and they
all
guaranteed
to go there
seats," says
be
—
— they have
year, sLx graduates
Louis Mingrone,
were admitted
to the
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
All eight
1994-95 graduates were admitted
to professional schools.
"The relationship ivas almost an automatic one,"
Mingrone. "Our students have been going
said
there for a long period of time.
chairperson of the department of biological
And
and
They're leaders
allied health sciences.
of
according to Mingrone. Following the 1993-94
ten qualified students
want
eight
as part
the university's pre-professional programs,
an
to ten guaranteed seats for students to
indicate their intention
Bloomsburg usually graduates between
PCOM agrees to accept
offers
dean of the College
Liu,
and 12 pre-medicine students a year
from Bloomsburg each
The agreement
Hsien-Tung
of Arts and Sciences.
(PCOM)
EFT program
next semester. Those
says
by Bloomsburg graduates.
institutions have signed
in
year,
The Philadelphia
College of Osteopathic Medicine
may be
"This agreement represents an unequivocal
recognition by a major medical school of the quality
of education provided by Bloomsburg University,"
few years.
this
at
may be showing
semester. Others can take part in the
The new EFT
who
Leadership Awards will add to the
annual scholarship
sylvania
means we won't have
Foundation. The Presidential
year.
the appropriate areas
undergraduate degree in education
from Indiana University of Penn-
one for their performances."
Couch,
qualified for the plan for spring
participating in this
Couch, associate professor
of music and the university's piano
laniero, vice president for university
check for any existing balance.
when
A 1927 graduate of Lewistown
High School, Sponseller received her
tremendous investment,
performers prefer Steinway concert
first
to sign the check over to the univer-
university
a
to all student
both to students and the university.
sity for ftilfillment
and Practices
Commission and the Pennsylvania
Department of Education.
Professional Standards
instructor. "Celebrity Artists Series'
loans to speed the transfer of funds
in line
gift
('75)
of the university," says Anthony
(EFT) program.
Past practice
published by the Pennsylvania
the area or another representative
electronic fund
EFT can be apphed
it's
in
Review of Reading Components
of Teacher Education Programs,
made
"A Steinway appreciates with age,
package of more than $700,000.
She wrote
The Elements for Consideration
so
— by an alumnus from
university's total
of the past
to Bloomsburg's
State Teachers College.
Hudock of Williamsport.
high school graduation
faculty at Bucknell, West-
minster College and Bloomsburg
vice president for university advance-
"We're hoping to have these
?
lines outside the business office
Mitrani Hall in the Haas
from Michael and Barbara
scholarships awarded to students
in
Lewistown school system and served
of the Bloomsburg University
Long
During her 29-year career
education, Sponseller taught in the
on the
at
possible through a generous
advancement and executive director
. . .
Reading Conference in 1965.
mances
academic promise,
evidence of leadership capability.
director until 1981.
center stage during musical perfor-
that students exhibit exceptional
ceremony
A cashless college
finest
Steinway
purchase of the piano was
as well as
its
She established the Bloomsburg
According to Anthony laniero,
says President Jessica Kozloff.
The $1,000
Bloomsburg's graduate
served as
Center for the Performing Arts.
acknowledge and recruit talented
at their
university comptroller.
Presidential Leadership
for high school seniors.
students to
A $55,000
of the Keystone
Reading Association, Sponseller
reading program in 1964 and
concert grand piano will occupy
"These scholarships are designed
to
the start of each semester.
University
Foundation has approved $25,000 to
month.
currently under
contract with an outside agency to
manage
The Bloomsburg
pianists at
gift,
one of the world's
across
for high school students
Award
February and March with notices
The
grand
instruments.
of the spring semester. Equal
start
payments are accepted
to a
Bloomsburg University in the
coming years will run their fingers
months each
The plan began with
semester.
mem-
Sponseller died
30, 1995.
initiated
leadership awards
to
M.
A past president
University inaugurates
for
. .
Long-time Bloomsburg faculty
ber Dr. Margaret
This success cemented Bloomsburg's
in securing this
Memorlam
In
raised
Thanks
The deferred payment plan
gift.
—
in several installments.
upperclassmen allows students
BRIEFS
and pledges.
gifts
position as the no.
already existed for incoming students, has
A grand
Parents' Fund tops target
a timely solution
It's
NEWS
BRIEFS
they've been ve:v significant graduates.
—
they're
doing very
well."
students to begin accruing interest
on deposits sooner.
Stctamsburg Untversity Magazine
SPRING
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NEWS
more than money
Giving
more than
money while
The
and
their time
The Off-Campus Student Housing
they are on campus.
off-campus
was awarded a
university
plaque during the
fall
And
honoring the
a series of hearings
and developing
Association.
number of the
housing
as well
as preliminary designs for additional university
housing on the upper campus.
A combined town.'university
newsletter has been created that
and meetings
discusses inspection
enforcement
pool of
1995.
each pint of blood
The
a total of 19
by the
recommendations, and
May
task force
and code
actiNities
town, general safety
deUvered to town and uni-
donated, four hves can be saved, so
details
had
how
tenants
can obtain legal
recommen-
ad\ice and other
dations directed to
assistance.
a quarter million people
donations drawn
"We
university's
student newspaper
studied every
at the university.
John Trathen and
recommendation and
Shoup,
Julie
blood drive, schedule the
periodically
is
pubUshing off-cam-
responded to each of
co-chairpersons of the on-campus
pus student housing
them," said Jessica
drives,
handle publicity, find volunteers
up
at the drives, setting
tables, chairs
The
the university.
have received blood products from
and work
a
versity leaders in
of blood over the past 45 years.
many as
to review the availabihty of student
last spring.
recommendations that were
have donated more than 64,000 pints
as
work
.
at a
University students and employees
Statistics say for
its
the university has responded to a
initiatives
university has conducted a feasibility study
The task force spent more than
six months holding
meeting of the Community
Government
completed
The
fatal,
group's recommendations.
university's 45-year-old tradition of
donating blood to the Red Cross.
The plaque was presented
fire
education and training
Safety Task
Force formed to deal with issues raised by a
American Red Cross.
Just ask the
BRIEFS
TASK FORCE REVIEW
. .
Bloomsburg students and employees
give a lot
NEWS
BRIEFS
Kozloff, president of
information with
the university.
safety tips
and food.
for the off-campus
housing program
Students
falls
under the
and
identi-
fying where to call
Responsibility
for information
now
and
assistance.
An "Off-Campus
office
form
of student
Housing
tenants
standards. Residence
in late January to reach
association
life staff
Greek
Bloomsburg's students have decided
to take a
more
active role to
improve
result
is
the formation of a
tenants association, the
first
the State System.
"This
is
a student initiative that
has the complete support of the university's administration," said
Vogler, president of the
off-campus and
provide informa-
safety awareness
tion to those
programs
planning to
for off-
campus students.
The student hfe committee of the Forum reviewed
and is recommending necessary changes in the
e.xisting drug and alcohol poUcy and starting a
Drug and Alcohol Intervention Program with the
community and local school districts to coordinate
in
Chris
Community
was held
students li\Tng
will
continue to provide
off-campus housing conditions.
The
— including
—
affairs
Fair"
do so
future. Residence halls are holding
in the
mandatory
spring meetings to help those planning
to
make
the
A "Parents'
move off-campus
Guide
was included
to
in the near future.
Off-Campus Student Housing"
in the latest Parents' Newsletter.
Government Association (CGA),
the students' governing organization.
Vogler worked with a core group
of fellow students to develop
State releases funds for
the group's basic goals.
The student
campus student residences and
work with the town's code
the
officers, as well as
CGA attorney, to
students
leases
who
and
tenants.
A
counsel
'Let's talk
have questions about
Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor
Mark
Schweilcer ('75) brought
news
to his 20th class reunion during
Homecoming
good
1995 in October:
the state had released $7,125 million
in
alumni
new
[Tom
football
game.
those seeking to
SPRING 1996
move
off
campus.
Bhomsburx Univmitf Magazine
of floor space, making
it
the largest
building on campus.
took
Among the
notable features of the
all
of a minute and
new
he said
do
it.'"
ing area. There will be study seating
'Let's
building will be a rooftop read-
$10.5 million with the university
more than 1,000 students, stack
more than 400,000 volumes
and access coimections for 645 per-
The
sonal computers that can be expand-
The
the
construction cost of
total
new hbrary
is
estimated at
library.
project
published and serve as a guide for
four-story build-
the governor
contributing $3,375 million.
housing. The results will be
"It
The new
ing will include 105,000 square feet
Schweiker told
survey to be developed by
concerning the condition of student
Building.
this for
luncheon before the
homecoming
funding for construction of
the
at a
about
their responsibihties as
the association will pose questions
28
,
five minutes,'"
association will
deal with safety concerns in off-
enforcement
the governor
"I said to
Ridge]
university library
was approved
for design in
1992, with design costs
to a Httle over
state
paying
The new
be
ne.\t to
all
amounting
for
space for
ed to accommodate another 125
computers. The
librar\' \\ill also
have
$2 million and the
meeting rooms with
but $140,370.
audio-\isual and tele\ision access.
library building will
Waller Administration
facihties for
NEWS
BRIEFS
Honoring
Red GaJl^her
Shown from
honored
at
Bloomsburg
Sue Jackson, Shareen
Silva, Nancy
Madhav Sharma and Carl Jones.
for
Gill,
nearly 25 years, died
Long
on November
6.
interested in international
Madhav Sharma has worked to
number of international
students who come to Bloomsburg
business, Gallagher initiated foreign
exchange programs in The Netherlands,
He
are individuals
the university's Martin
Luther King Humanitarian Award:
Francis Gallagher, a professor of
management
left
w/ith
increase the
Belgium and France.
in France
and stengthen the
University
taught as a visiting professor
and England. In 1991 he
ty's ties
universi-
with other colleges around
He
participated in a People to People
the world.
exchange in Warsaw, Poland; Prague,
number of community outreach
Czechoslovakia; and Moscow, Russia.
programs, including the Gandhi
in
has helped organize a
A graduate of Stonehill College
Festival, celebrations
North Easton, Mass., Gallagher
Nepalese
earned his
MBA from Temple
University
and
international festivals.
his doctorate
Five
from Lehigh.
The Red Gallagher Memorial
Scholarship has been established in
his honor.
Those wishing
a contribution
made
to
make
should send checks
payable to the Bloomsburg
Five individuals were
awarded
400 East Second Street
Bloomsburg,
PAl 78 15
students as a program assistant in
the department of developmental
Task Force's training the trainers
and
program, she has worked with
instruction
Humanitarian Award
numerous organizations
Sampler Program. She
Martin Luther King
at the
annual
Commem-
orative Banquet.
Honored were
faculty
members
Sue Jackson, associate professor of
The Development Center
Bloomsburg University
Senior Shareen Silva has mentored
Honored with Martin Luther King Award
the university's Martin Luther BCing
University Foundation to
this address:
of Chinese and
new years, and numerous
to increase
in the College
is
president of
sensitivity to racial, gender, sexual-
the Association of Hispanic Students
orientation and other issues. She has
and a copy editor and writer
from 1965
and Madhav Sharma, coor-
for
the student newspaper. The Voice.
peace Corps volunteer
also served as a
Senior Carl Jones has mentored
to 1967.
dinator of international education;
long-term projects to boost the
many black and Latino students at
the university. He has been involved
as well as students Shareen Silva
creativity of students, including
in the Black Cultural Society,
and Carl Jones.
students at Martin Luther King High
Orientate Other College Hopefuls
Among the honorees' achievements:
School in Philadelphia. She has been
and Students Together Alleviating
Sue Jackson has served on the
active in the International Society for
Racial Tension.
Teaching Alternatives and
deversity training
English,
University-Comunity Task Force on
Racial Equity. As a
member
of the
Nancy GUI has undertaken
is
several
a leader
and
in starting the annual Diversity
He
Help
has helped in
workshops on
off campus.
Conference for Area Colleges.
How can you
A
save taxes,
charitable deferred annuity permits you to donate cash or
marketable securities
income
generate retirement
income and "do good"
for Bloomsburg?
for
life
to the university
—
for you,
may
In addition, you
and
receive a guaranteed
and your spouse,
if
you wish.
get
when you make
•
an income
•
a reduction and deferral of capital gains taxes,
tax
deduction
• the satisfaction of
making a generous
gift
the
to
gift,
Bloomsburg.
Here's an example:
If
Answer: Establish
you are 45 and contribute $25,000
that begins
to a charitable
deferred annuit}'
payments when you turn 65, you may earn an income
tax
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Magazine
SPRING (996
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Academic
Art
Calendar
Exhibits
Haas Gallery hours are Monday
through
Mid-Term,
Tuesday, March
5,
10 p.m.
Spring Breai<
Begins, Saturday,
March
10, 10 p.m,
Classes Resume,
Spring Weekend
Begins,
Kenneth
March 20 to April
3,
Haas
Gallery.
S.
Gross Auditorium.
Music Major Recital
S.
Osenbach, tenor, Mary
Smith, piano, Sunday, March
24, 2:30 p.m.,
Carver
Hall,
Kenneth
Gross Auditorium.
2:30 p.m.. Studio Band, 6 p.m.,
Knoebel's Grove, Elysburg.
Directed by Terry Oxiey and
Stephen Wallace.
Orchestra Pops
Concert
Curator Carol Burns; jurors
President's Ball
MondayApril
Robert Koslosky and John Cook.
Dance music by the Studio Band,
Town
March
Reception, Wednesday, March 20,
Saturday,
24 West Ballroom, Bloomsburg.
cert will be
Scholarship benefit event, tickets
the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Directed by
p.m.
LaRocca
Isabella
Photographs, April
to April 30,
1
April
1
1
,
noon to 2 p.m.
the art gallery
Exhibit by
May
30, 6 p.m., Magee's
required. Call the
Center
at
Development
389-4 28.
If
weather
Mark
Reservations limited. Directed
Hall,
Concert Band
May 2 to
14,
Haas Center for
Jelinek.
Kenneth
S.
Gross Auditorium.
Studio Band
2:30 p.m., Haas
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Hall.
Pops Concert
Wednesday, May
1,
0,
Haas Gallery Reception,
May
2 to 4 p.m.
2,
Park, Bloomsburg. Raindate,
Choral Ensembles
Women's Choral Ensemble,
Chamber
Singers and
Senior Recital
Finals Begin,
7:30 p.m., Haas Center for the
Arts, Mitrani Hall. Directed by
and Eric Nelson.
2:30 p.m.. Carver Hall,
S.
Gross Auditorium.
Catawissa
Military
University-
1
Commencement,
May
4,
Kenneth
Miller
bass, Saturday,
18,
Monday, May 6
Wendy
2.
Husky
Singers.Thursday, April
Finals End,
May
Directed by Stephen Wallace.
Matt Hare, string
5
May
6:30 p.m.,Town
Directed by Terry Oxiey.
1
May
Saturday,
inclement, the con-
in
TuesdayApril 30, 7:30 p.m.. Carver
by Stephen Wallace.
Sunday, April
is
Student Recital
1
class.
Reading Day,
Saturday,
29, 6:30 p.m..
Park, Bloomsburg.
noon to 2
May 4
May
Sunday, April 28, Concert Band,
Hall,
Ann
Thursday,
Sunday,
Thursday, March 21,8 p.m., Carver
Association Juried
Exhibition
Master's thesis exhibit.
Classes End,
Groves Pops
Franklin
Sumani
April 8, 6 p.m.
Knoebel's
Menagerie Quintet
Student Art
Charles Haruna
4, 10 p.m.
Classes Resume, Monday,
Saturday,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Haas Gallery. Reception, Thursday,
Monday, March 18,8 a.m.
Thursday, April
Friday,
The Brass
May
Band
8
Haas
Community
Tuesday,
Orchestra
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
14,
p.m.,
Hall.
1
Sunday, April 21 2:30 p.m., Haas
,
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Hall.
Featuring double bass soloist
Edgar Meyer. Directed by Mark
Jelinek.
Concerts
Admission
is
otherwise noted.
Edgar Meyer, MondayApril 22,
Jazz Night
noon. Old Science
Studio Band with guest
Celebrity
Artist Series
Double Bass
Master Class
free unless
trombone
call
the
Celebrity Artist Series box office
at (717) 389-4409.
Goldeneye
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
Third and Market streets,
March 5 to
Suzuki String
Bloomsburg. Featuring a perfor-
Mitrani Hall,
Recital
mance
Hall.
March
7,
8 p.m.,
Directed by Stephen Wallace.
Carver
March
Hall,
Auditorium.
SPRING 1996
B/oomsburg Un/versrty /VIogaz/ne
Films
Saturday, April 27, 7:30 p.m.,
Saturday,
30
room G20.
Wesley United Methodist Church,
soloist,Thursday,
Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani
For ticket information,
Hall,
Concert Choir
16,
2:30 p.m..
Kenneth
S.
Gross
of Handel's Messiah with
7,
7 and 9:30 p.m.,
Haas Center for the Arts.
Heat
guest orchestra and soloists.
Wednesday, Friday and Sunday,
Directed by Eric Nelson.
March
20,
22 and 24, 7
Mitrani Hall,
p.m.,
Haas Center for the Arts.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Toy Story
Lacrosse
Wednesday.April 24, 7 and 9:30
April 5, 3 p.m.,
7
p.m.; Friday.April 26,
April 28,
Mhrani
Hall,
p.m.; Sunday,
a.m. and 7 p.m.,
i
1
Father of the
Bride II
upper campus.
Softball vs. Shippensburg, Saturday
April 6,
Haas Center for the Arts.
Frostburg, Friday
vs.
p.m.,
1
upper campus.
Kutztov/n,Tuesday
Softball vs.
April 9, 3 p.m.,
upper campus.
Baseball vs. Shippensburg,
Thursday,Aprll 25, 7 and 9 p.m.;
Wednesday, April
FridayApril 26, 9 p.m.; SundayApril
upper campus.
28,
2 and 9
p.m., MItrani Hall, Haas
10,
1
p.m,
Men's Tennis, Bloomsburg Duals,
Center for the Arts.
Special Events
Friday and Saturday April 12
Spring Fling
and 13,lov/er campus.
SaturdayApril 20. Special games
Softball vs. Mansfield, Saturday,
April 13,
p.m.,
1
upper campus.
and food stands
be set up on
will
campus, while an area rock band
Lacrosse
vs.
William Smith, Sunday
will
perform
in
the Kehr Union
April 14, noon, upper campus.
Ballroom
Men's Tennis
vs.
Mt
Tuesday April 16,3
St Mary's,
p.m.,
in
the evening.
Renaissance
Jamboree
lower campus.
SaturdayApril 27, Main Street
Baseball vs. Kutztown, Saturday,
Town
April 20,
of Bloomsburg. Food,
upper campus.
p.m.,
1
more than
music, games and
Softball vs.
Lock Haven, Sunday
April 21,1 p.m.,
Lacrosse
upper campus.
EWL
only.
April 22, 3:30 p.m.,
Championships,
Friday and Saturday,
March 8 and
Field
fill
Main
Street for the day
Monday
upper campus.
Baseball vs. Millersville, Wednesday
9,
April 24,
Nelson
will
p.m.,
Baseball vs. Susquehanna,
Wrestling,
booths
upper campus.
home games
Includes
craft
vs. Philadelphia Textile,
Sunday April 21,1
Sports
200
p.m.,
1
upper campus.
House.
Lacrosse
vs.
April 25,
4
St Joseph's,Thursday
vs. Philadelphia Textile,
Lacrosse
p.m.,
upper campus.
Thursday, March 21,4 p.m.,
Men's Tennis,
PSAC
upper campus.
Championships, Friday and
Softball,
Husky
Classic, Saturday
Lectures
Saturday April 26
and Sunday, March 23 and 24,
and 27, lower campus.
upper campus.
Softball vs. West Chester,
Men's Tennis
vs.
Saturday
Swarthmore,
April 27,
Wednesday, March
p.m.,
1
upper campus.
27, 3 p.m.,
Softball vs.
lower campus.
C.W Post Sunday
Patricia Ireland
NOW (National
President of the
Organization ofWomen).Thursday
March 2 .Workshop, 4
p.m., lec-
1
April 28,
1
p.m.,
upper campus.
Baseball vs. East Stroudsburg,
Saturday,
March
1
p.m.,
Softball,
1
upper campus.
p.m.,
Bloomsburg
Sunday March
Ballroom.
May
Softball vs. Millersville, Saturday,
30,
3
Kehr Union
Baseball vs. Mansfield, Saturday
30,
upper campus.
March
ture, 7:30 p.m.,
1
,
Invitational,
upper campus.
4,
1
p.m.,
upper campus.
Henry Foster
Former nominee
for Surgeon
General of the United
Thursday April
p.m.,
1
States.
leaure, 7:30
Kehr Union Ballroom.
Softball vs. East Stroudsburg,
Workshop, Friday
WednesdayApril 3,3
a.m.,
p.m.,
1
,
April 12,8:30
Kehr Union Ballroom.
upper campus.
Bloomsburg Umrersrty
Mogazme
SPRING
WORD
THE LAST
Dear Doctor Kozloff
/recently
Living near a fi-aternity and working
took part in the
American Heart Association's
Walk-a-Thon at Town Park.
who walked
Everyone
Sunday
of
credit,
PRESIDENT JESSICA KOZLOFF
find
BY SYLVIA PEROTTI
certainly deserves a lot
one capacity or anoth-
involved with the university
dents, faculty, staff
—
is
—
stu-
impressive.
it's been my good luck to
most students to be friendly and
considerate. I cook pots of chili for my
frat neighbors, and they help shovel the
snow from my sidewalk.
Of course, there are some students who
near a fraternity,
that
but the fact that over half the
"walkers," were, in
er,
A LETTER TO
on the
That
least
hill.
tells
Now,
me
there are nearly 7,000.
that there
seven times the
likely to
is
be
at
don't keep their parties indoors. There
fuss!
Did we have parties back then? You bet.
Were we loud? At times, sure we were.
Students then were looked on as
some who
are
erty.
When
just
maybe
don't respect others' prop-
The students, along with everyone else,
gave up several hours of their Sunday
afternoon to show their support for this
beanie-wearing, soda fountain-sitting,
the university as the asset
worthy cause.
rah-rah kids.
And
the
BU
It
was gratifying
to
watch
president offer her encourage-
ment before the walk and shake hands
when it was over.
In 1950, during
my
short time at the
People today are
kids. Their
still critical
bad deeds
get
—
but their good deeds
plenty
— seldom
all
of college
the attention,
and there
are
get noticed. Like their
old Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
participation in the Heart Walk-a-Thon,
about 1,000 students attended the college
for instance.
up
community
these few clean
the
community
—
like its
—
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and
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in countless other little
will
be noticed.
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UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
1996
EDITOR'S VIEW
They
have been compared to
F.
Scott Fitzgerald's
"new generation," a group he described
more than
grown up
success;
all
the last to the fear of povert}'
faiths in
Today s
man
all
wars fought,
- sometimes
called Generation
their counterparts in the 70s.
more
and more
and the worship of
shaken."
from
conservative,
gods dead,
all
college students
are different
older
to find
as "dedicated
practical
diverse.
and
less socially
They face
X-
They are more
aware.
They are
a tougher job market.
This issue of Bloomsburg looks at today's students and explores
how the
university has changed to
the "new" student.
We examine how the universits' is preparing
students for tomorrow's jobs
new
meet the needs of
and how technology
opportunities for learners and teachers
Just as students
- and
their
is
opening up
alike.
needs - have changed, so too
has the university changed to meet those needs. This issue of
Bloomsburg's magazine looks at the changes time has wrought
Bloomsburg; The University Magazine
is
published twice a year
and spring semesters. A separate publication, "Maroon and Gold".
including class notes and alumni news, will be sent twice a year to all alumni
in the fall
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the
VOL 2
NO.
WINTER
N
2 Teaching
Bloomsbun
of your
6
2nd Vice Chair
Secretary
Kelly.
Ramona H.AJley
David
J.
j.
Cope
2.
Teaching Technolog}-
exist a
to anticipate
tomorrow's
How can today's graduates
ready for tomorrow's jobs? How can a university
employment opportunities?
O'Connor
I'N'R'ERSm" .ULT-INI
be
balance specialized kno\\iedge \sath general learning?
ASSOOAnON
Sandra Rupp 7 President
Nancy Feher Edwards VO.Vice President
Carolyn Vemoy Reitz '5 Secretary
1
— Tomorrow's Jobs
So what can today's colleges do
Pecrosky
James H. McCormick, Ex-Offido
BLOOMSBURG
Skills
generation ago. The speed of change has not slowed.
Ted Scuban
Kevin M.
Today's
by Jason Kirsch Whole categories of jobs didn't
Robert W. Buehner.jr.
James T.Atherton. Jr.
David
for the ride
life.
Mowad, Chair
Jennifer R,Adams.Vice Chair
Davis.
of Technology
Climb aboard the information superhighway
COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES
A. William
Age
the ways teachers teach and the ways learners learn.
Jessica S. Kozloff
UiRoy G.
the
Technology has transformed the ways we
Hve and work. The transformation has also revolutionized
PRESroEXT
J.
in
by M. G. Lloyd
MAGAZINE
THE UNIVEilSI'
Joseph
THIS ISSUE
2
1996
Discover what Bloomsburg
.
1
is
doing to answer these
questions about tomorrow's job market.
.
John j.Trathen '68,Treasurer
Doug C.
Hippenstiel '68, Ex-Offido,
10 Tales from a Kinder, Gentler Time
Director of Alumni Affeirs
BLOOMSBl.'RG UXP.'ERSm'
FOUXDAnON
Anthony
laniero. Executive
David
to discover
Director
Bloomsburg through the eyes of three generations
Hill. Treasurer
of alumni.
E\ECLTT\X EDFTOR
Joan
T.
To know where you are, you have
where you've been. This article looks at
by M. G. Lloyd
Bbem H.AIkire Jr., Chair
L MihalikVice President
Victoria
Lentczner
14 The Face of Developmental
EDITOR
Marldand G. Uoyd
b\'
Joan Lentczner
Instruction
The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas
PHOTOGR.\PHERS
Joan HeKer
14.
Developmental Instruction
urged his readers to "rage against the dying of the Ught."
Brian Donnelly
For more than 20 years, students whose economic
DESIGXER
or educational backgrounds might otherwise have
John Lorish
obscured their talents
now
have found opportunities to
ART DIRECTOR
succeed in the university's Developmental Instruction
Jane! A. Fry
program. Thomas might be encouraged
EDITORIAL BOARD
the Hght
Nancy Edwards 70
Lawrence B. Fuller
James Pomfret
Susan M. Hehwig
on
to
know that
...
—
Address comments and questions
16 The Contemporary Student
the
Changing Face of Today's Student
to:
By
Editor
Bloom^urg
Eric Foster
They've been called slackers, twenty-
somethings, baby-busters and Generation X. They also
Waller Administration Building
Bloomsburg University
Bloorasburg,
is
PA 17815
make up
the greatest proportion of today's college
students.
Who
from
Internet address:
Ilo}#husky.blo omu.edu
sisters?
16.
Conterrporary Student
Bioomsburg University of Pennsyivania is a
member of the State System of Higher
Education. Board of Governors of the State
System of Higher Education include;
F. Eugene Dixon Jr., chair, Lafeyette Hill; Julia
B. Ansil, vice chair, California;
are these students?
their parents
— or even
How are they different
their older brothers
and
This article takes a close-up look at today's
student
— and
24 News
discovers
some encouraging signs.
Briefs
Muriel
Berman, Allento\%Ti; Jeffrey Coy,
Shippensburg; Glenn Y. Pome)', Shavertown;
Dr. Eugene ^V. Hickock Jr., Secretary of
Education; James A- hughes, Philadelphia;
F.
Joseph Loeper, Drexell Hill;
Pittsburgh; Christopher
Stroudsburg;
Amy L. Martin
Shippensburg; Joseph
BenWck; Thomas
Rowe
Kim E.
Makos
J.
M.
Lyttle,
(student),
(student),
Nespoli,
Ridge, Governor; Philip
Wyomissing; Elizabeth L.
Schmid (student), West Chester;
Jere \\'. Schuler, Hanisburg; Patrick J.
D.
Jr.,
Stapleton, Harrisburg; Christine
J.
Cover
illustration
by
John Lorish
The Lorish Company
Torelti,
Indiana; R. Benjamin Wiley, Erie.
Blixmsbuii UninrsiCf Magtizme
WINTER
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9?6
I
—
Imagine a teacher in a world without textbooks
or books
of any kind, for that matter.
It's
hard for us today.
But printed books are a
Western world. Not
relatively recent
until the
phenomenon
in the
middle of the 15th century did
Johannes Gutenberg's printing press make books affordable
WRITTEN BY MARK LLOYD
and
accessible
—
for individual
—
men and women.
The printing press revolutionized Western thought.
By "popularizing" the Bible, some historians have argued, the
printing press made possible the Protestant Reformation and
transformed the way individuals saw themselves in the universe.
But if Gutenberg's invention of movable type and the printing
press revolutionized mankind's relationship with
transformed education.
No
God,
The printing
in monasteries or the universities.
press
— and teaching — more democratic and
education
it
also
longer was learning cloistered up
made
accessible.
Today, the personal computer promises to revolutionize the
way we
il
get
and use information.
In just over 50 years
PC
— an eyeblink
in evolutionary
—
time
made information instandy accessible, even to
young children. The Internet has eliminated time and distance
the
has
as barriers to knowledge.
Personal computers perform complex computations faster
human
than any
being.
They check grammar and detect spelling errors.
They create music and provide graphic animations.
Modern teachers are using PCs as tools to create informationrich classroom environments.
The change
4^W
is
especially significant at institutions like
Bloomsburg, which prepare students for teaching
For most of its 169-year
teachers.
Even today
history,
— though Bloomsburg
imiversity awarding undergraduate
business, arts
nursing
and
— about
sciences,
and
careers.
Bloomsburg has taught
is
a
comprehensive
and graduate degrees
allied health areas
in
such as
a third of the university's 7,000 students are
enrolled in teacher preparation programs.
For Robert Gates, an assistant professor in Bloomsburg's
curriculum and foundations department, successhil teachers
must
still
exhibit enthusiasm
classroom.
and
display professionalism in the
A recent study conducted by Gates and faculty colleague
Viola Supon, assistant professor, sought to identify the qualities
and competencies most sought by school supervisors in young
enthusiasm and professionalism
teachers. "These qualities
—
—
haven't changed," he explains.
"But today's teacher must also exhibit
new tech-
nological competencies to be effective."
PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER
vVmong those technological competencies,
he includes the use of chalkboards and
overhead projectors, but also such
media
as interactive television,
CD-Roms and
the Internet.
Bloomsburg Unrvenity Magazine
WINTER
1996
TEACHING
"Today's teacher must find creative ways to help learners
become problem
— using
he
says. "
Computer-assisted learning
the computer to enable students with different learning
proceed
styles to
solvers "
at their
own
pace
— encourages
that kind of
Gates, for instance, acknowledges that students with computers
at
home
in
Cahfornia demonstrate a growing disparity between the
have advantages over those that don't. Studies done
technology "haves" and the "have nots."
He also worries about
among urban and
problem-solving, says Gates.
potential inequalities of access to technology
That's one of the changes in education today, says Henry
Dobson, professor of curriculum and foundations.
rural school districts.
Today's teacher teaches problem-solving
A generation
wanted
geography lessons about Africa might have
asked third-grade students to draw and color a
continent. Their
artistic skill
map
of the
work might be evaluated for accuracy and
nearness,
and presentation. Students lacking fine-motor skills
might be penalized
developmental deficiency.
for their
teacher,
Dobson
says,
might ask
a
group of
tion to create a database of such variables as literacy
life
expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa. Students
would then graph the data using appropriate applicaand determine whether a correlation existed
tion software
between these
variables. This
approach emphasizes problem-
solving rather than representational
is
not in improving
productivity, but in solving problems. Using technology
appropriately,
Dobson
says,
encourages students to develop a
The long-term success of this change in pedagogical
focus will be
measured, says Dobson, by an educational s\'stem that produces
who "can help solve our ozone problem, develop
ative solutions to pollution or
generate
power from
Though the
a fusion reaction.'
use of computers in the
classroom promises to revolutionize
education, the solution has also
generated
its
own set of problems.
to stay
five
home from
school to
work on
a report? If there are only
computers in the classroom. Gates
says, the child is likely
accomphsh more on the home computer than going
to
school that particular day.
Tomorrow's technology might make the classroom obsolete.
Distance education
sateUites
— using
— permits
interactive television
and computers
teachers
and
and
learners to be
thousands of miles apart working on the same lesson or project.
The technolog)' is just around the comer, Dobson says. Teaching
and learning are no longer limited by distance, time and age
—
college professors.
The
implications for the educational establishment are immense.
Bloomsburg mathematics professor Reza Noubary has another
concern about the computer's impact on students.
that inappropriate use of the
"layer cake of thinking skiUs."
people
school offers?
8-year-old thfrd-graders can have dialogs with 50-year-old
skills.
Permitting students to explore "if- then questions," the
computer becomes a "mind tool" whose value
home may be superior to what the
What should a parent say to a child who wants
technology they have at
to
Today's
third-graders to use a computer and Internet connecand
Why should kids go off to school each morning when the
Bloomsburg educator, teachers who
ago, says the
to present
There are also new questions for parents and educators.
Gates says.
skills.
cre-
computer
in teaching
He beheves
mathematics
may diminish the role of creativity in math thinking. "Students
who learn mathematics using computers are likely to have a
thinking process different from those who have learned
mathematics based on a traditional teaching
st)de,"
he
says.
He
admits that computers are able to
compute"
far faster
than
human
beings, but they lack the ability
to "think creatively."
TECHNOLOGY
/ /
^"^ hould we
WW m
^k
I
educate students to use computers, or
should we teach them to use
'
mathematics?" he
^
The answer
r^^
Teachers
is
who
to
their
own brains to leam
asks.
do both.
use the computer to "simulate the real
world" are applying the technology appropriately, says Noubary.
"Using
it
as a supercalculator
Most young
teachers
to share information.
is
improper."
embrace the computer and
power
its
Many are using the Internet to make
themselves better teachers.
Dobson
is
part of the Great Lakes Collaborative, a telementoring
program based
in Belleville, Michigan.
Internet, teachers
many as
anywhere
6,000 effective
math and
By logging onto the
world can get access to
in the
science lesson plans.
as
They talk
with teacher experts via e-mail to get answers to questions about
They
instructional content or technology.
get
new
ideas for the
classroom by reading the CoUaborative's electronic newsletter.
Similar initiatives connect students wdth experts.
Star Schools
kids a day
Program, Dobson
— not
day,
m respond.
he
— but
face-to-face
a kid in Minnesota
says,
six
or seven
electronically. "At 10 p.m.,
may ask a science
He'll
Through the
may talk with
this
kind of technology diminishes
the importance of the teacher or the classroom experience.
"Teachers are trained to use behaviors in the classroom that can
contribute to a child's success," he argues.
how to
motivate students. "Their job
water.
.
,"
.
he
says.
is
Good
teachers learn
to help lead the horse to
"A good teacher wdU find a way to get the
Dobson
agrees. "Today's teacher
is
changing too
is
not the knowledge authority
fast for
S.
KOZLOFF
We've been called the "college on the
any one person to be an
authority for very long. Today's teacher
is
the facUitator, probing,
inquiring, eliciting the 'ah...hahr response."
hiU."
However, when our young people come off the
give
new meaning to
the term active learning.
spend thousands of hours during the year
chUd
in
hiU, they
Our
students
in schools, libraries,
and area
centers, correctional institutions
They work, not only
businesses.
Bloomsburg and surrounding
communities, but throughout the
hometowns
horse to drink. That's a teacher's job."
— knowledge
BY JESSICA
question. At 8 a.m. the next
have his answer before he goes off to school!"
Robert Gates doesn't think
Learning on the Streets
like FrackviUe,
state in
many of their
Lewistown, Milton, Scranton,
Shamokin, Sunbury, WiOiamsport
.
.
and the
.
Ust goes on!
This faU 60 students have been tutoring in local elementary
schools. Fifteen football players served as
mentors to students
40 others ran a weekly
in another district, while
recreation/mentoring program for "at-risk" children.
equal
number mounted
this area.
County
a voter registration
An
campaign
in
Students surveyed flood-affected Columbia
residents.
More cooked
chicken at the Mental
Health Association's barbecue.
This kind of community sendee
is
a
two-way
street.
While
they are helping others, our students are learning important
lessons about
what
it
means
often discover important
when
to
be part of a community. They
new skills
that
improve job prospects
they leave the university.
Times have changed.
viewed
as a
be getting
No longer is community ser^dce
punishment. Part of the educational process must
being good
this generation involved in
citizens.
I'm proud to say our students are taking ownership for their
education and bringing
it
to
life.
This
phone rings our students answer the
Jessica Sledge Kozloff
is
is
real stuff.
When
the
call!
in her third year as president
of
Bloomsburg Universit)' of Pennsylvania, a member of
Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education.
Bloomsburg UnivefziTy Magazine
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WRITTEN BY JASON KIRSCH
PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER
headlines abound. "1996
Trendy
Career Guide:
20 Hot Job Tracks."
"Forecast '96: Job Mart Great for
Grads." "Outlook '96: Help Wanted!"
may be frightening
who will soon
Job market forecasts
—
especially for students
adorn caps and gowns. Have they chosen
Did they learn the
a lucrative field?
knowledge and skiUs necessary
perform the job? Has
to
their education
prepared them to work in today's
global environment?
One
of the functions of a university
to prepare
its
is
students for jobs. But
preparing students on the basis of today's
job requirements
is
insufficient.
The
reason? Change.
Author Isaac Asimov once wrote:
"It is
change, continuing change, Lne\dtable
change, that
the
is
society today.
No
dominant
factor in
sensible decision can be
made any longer without taking
account not only the world as
world as
it \vill
be
into
it is,
but the
This, in turn,
means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our ever^Tnan must take on a
science fictional way of thuiking."
Anticipating change
is
a challenge, says
Wilson Bradshaw, Bloomsburg
Universit)''s
academic
provost and vice president for
affairs.
responsibility to
"But
be
it is
the university's
visionan,'
—
to look
A university's methods of prognostication
balls.
at
grounded
So
how does
in tarot cards or crj'stal
a university look
tomorrow's opportunities
that
may not
even
"We
with our peers
ahead," he explains.
are not
"It is a collective process," says
Bradshaw.
—
ahead
for jobs
exist yet?
talk
with one another
— within our
—
institution
and other institutions. We take advantage
of the knowledge and wisdom of our faculty to help us determine
areas
what academic
need to be addressed."
That
is
one way a university
Bloomsburg University's most
valuable resource for understanding
And
it is
work environone way that Bloomsburg
is its
direct links
between academic programs and
outside professionals.
6
WINTER
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996
B/oomsfaurg Unjversrty Magazine
Statistics
which includes projections of the
labor force, economic gro%\'th and
occupational emplo)Tnent covering a
From
publications like the Handbook,
explains Barnett, universities
demands of the job market so
says Barnett.
that
its
Carol Barnett, director of Bloomsburg
Development Center,
much is learned from magazines,
and government publications.
may learn
"Of course,
word of mouth,"
job market patterns and trends.
a lot can be learned by
University's Career
publishes
the Occupational Outlook Handbook
University tries to be responsive to the
students will be prepared for the future.
the job market
Bureau of Labor
10 to 15-year period.
stays
abreast of changes in the
ment.
Every two years, for instance, the U.S.
"And the
ating source for job
Bloomsburg
Internet
is
a prolifer-
market research."
Universits^'s
most valuable
resource for understanding the job market
between academic
notes that
is its
journals
programs and outside
direct links
professionals.
"They are a very important
link
between
academia and the professional world," says
Harold
Bailey, professor
of mathematics
and computer science and
(IIT).
On"How
Comprised of business
and
what
director of
Bloomsburg's Institute for Interactive
Technology
occasion, the council even evaluates
better for students to learn
will
be required of them
tomorrow?" Bailey
Council relays information to the univer-
and member of Pennsylvania's State
Board of Nursing, the university's health
technology. According to Bailey, the council
keeps the program abreast of the job market
— what type of preparation employers
are expecting
and what kinds of job
opportunities are avaOable.
"The moment someone
says, 'Hey, Bailey,
your students are not meeting our expectations,'
we're going to change," says Bailey.
from Bloomsburg University in
According to Christine Alichnie, dean of
Bloomsburg's School of Health Sciences
graduate program in instructional
business majors who graduated
notes.
professionals, the IIT's Corporate Advisory
sity's
More than 90 percent of all
critiques student work.
care
programs look ahead
The Health
in several ways.
Sciences Advisory Council
1995 found erq)loyment.
"We
tion,
ask them to evaluate their preparaand we ask them if their employers
may be
contacted," says Alichnie. "After
we
meets twice a year for university faculty
receive permission,
and health care professionals
that should be addressed
to exchange
we
ask about areas
and how our
information. Each year, the School of
programs should
Health Sciences also conducts follow-up
Based on our follow-up studies, we make
surveys of students
who
have graduated
within the previous two years.
revise their curriculums.
changes."
Just this
fall,
in fact, the university
an adult nurse practitioner
initiated
program
in response to changes in the
health care industry. Nurse practitioners
are
primary care providers that managed
care organizations
want
to hire.
much of a
Alichnie also notes that
program's success in preparing
depends on the professional
faculty.
"Our
its
students
activity of
its
faculty are actively involved
in the practice
and research of health
care
at area institutions," says Alichnie.
"Through
we main-
faculty involvement,
tain contact with the professional world."
With
all
these systems for academic
planning in place, one would
like to
assume that a thoroughly prepared
graduate with a degree soon becomes an
established professional with a job.
Unfortunately
the picture
is
— but not
who
—
not so perfect.
More than 90
majors
surprisingly
percent of all business
graduated from Bloomsburg
University in 1995 found employment.
However,
less
than 60 percent of elementary
education students found employment.
Undoubtedly, these figures
may be
interpreted in a variety of ways.
Last year, Bloomsburg's business graduates
may have been well
prepared and
high in demand. Bloomsburg's elementary education graduates
may also
have
been excellently prepared, but ask any one
of them what they learned from their job
search
and
they'll
probably
tell
Bloomsburg University Magazine
you
that
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7
Pennsylvania's market for teachers
just
is
South and West, where student
in the
lie
Many graduates
far from home
preparing students for "what's hot,"
and
teach students to talk the talk
populations are booming.
prefer not to relocate so
walk the walk prepare graduates
A imiversity can look ahead at tomor-
for the jobs of tomorrow."
will be.
years, despite trends in partic-
ular job areas, says Carol Barnett,
between
And
as evident
by the world's fascination
with the cyber-code
80 and 90 percent of all Bloomsburg
future
designers, analysts
employment or continuing
"Our students
unusual for us to get
"It is
letters,
is
The
going to require developers,
and managers of com-
not
at all
number
of) marketing, advertising
public relations managers
from students who have gone off thanking
is
and
also projected
employers impressed with students'
Many young professionals
may find opportunities to communicate,
promote and sell the new millennium's
preparation."
products, services and images.
us for preparing
them
well,
but also from
So what are the future careers that are
expected to challenge today's students?
Many of the fastest growing occupations
continue to exist in the
fields
of health
getting older
— and
The
population
and Uving longer —
more people
are
and computer science
good reason.
for
nation's
is
soon going
to
need
care.
successfijl,
more times throughout
these
the
young
professionals
must manage
money they expect to earn. More
and more individuals and companies
demand
the services of financial
strategists to help
them make
that
and
In the long run, you'U do better
if
is
skills.
you
are
do."
Today's students must be wiUing to take
ally
risks
and
and be
flexible
—
profession-
geographically, says Bradshaw.
They must
understand and respect
also
cultural diversity.
But most important to students'
professional future, says Bradshaw,
is
their ability to apply their education.
on teaching
theory,"
he explains. "To learn
theory for the sake of learning theory has
no
value.
how to
To learn theory and understand
use
to solve
it
problems
—
that
talk the talk
prosperous futures.
graduates for the jobs of tomorrow."
and walk the walk prepare
"Without the fundamental knowledge a
a
general education
wUl not
program provides, people
understand what
fully
on around them,"
And even one's ideal
is
going
may
And they may
says Liu. "Hence, they
not find happiness in any job.
not find happiness outside the boundaries
job stiU doesn't guarantee happiness.
of their work"
With these characteristics of the
Liu acknowledges that the ability to find
marketplace in mind, some educators
happiness surely cannot be attained through
emphasize the proposition that a
the study of liberal arts alone. That
should be more
Tallying one-half of an undergraduate's
Bloomsburg University seeks to
why
is
cultivate
than vocational. Perhaps the true worth
curriculum, Bloomsburg's liberal arts
an environment that helps students learn
of education, they say,
(or general education) requirements
ways to find happiness.
is its
ability to
prepare people to find happiness and
include courses in the humanities, the
satisfaction inside
arts, the social sciences, the
— and
outside
—
the worlqjlace.
and
Sciences,
believes that one's ability to find happiness
is
behavioral
sciences, the natural sciences
Hsien-Tung Liu, dean of Bloomsburg
University's College of Arts
direcdy related to education
is
the direction education should take. Those
academic programs that teach students to
the
are constantly rendering
college education
be
to
most of their earnings and ensure
Many people even change careers
once or twice. New trends, technologies and
others obsolete.
you are going
If
"Traditionally, universities have focused
And, of course, Barnett continues,
career.
skills
"One should never
on
you must choose a job
happy with what you
Today's average professional changes
jobs six or
list.
consistent with your interests
to increase.
will
a lot
one graduates.
some
According to Barnett, the need for (and
not only
hit
a career decision based solely
'what's hot,'" says Bradshaw. "Engineers
puter hardware, software and burgeoning
interconnected networks.
get jobs," says
Bloomsburg's Bradshaw.
our informa-
http://,
tion appetite has not been sated.
University graduates report finding
their education after graduation.
officer
can be hot today and cold by the time
cannot prescribe
it
what or where those opportunities
care
based on today's
make
row's opportunities, but
professional
Bloomsburg's chief academic
cautions students about choosing careers
and famUies.
Over the
While recognizing the importance of
"Those academic programs that
about saturated. Opportunities for teachers
—
particularly exposure to the liberal arts.
and
"Clubs, student publications, social
and
intellectual organizations, ^orts, residence
hall living
—
all
of these experiences
ulti-
mathematics. According to Liu, general
mately help a student find happiness in
education courses are designed to nurture
Ufe," says Liu.
a student's ability to communicate, analyze,
extracurricular activities, students
calculate
and imderstand the world
which humans
live.
in
social
as
"And by participating in
and interpersonal
important as job
skills
devebp
that are just
skills."
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oday's college students have
more freedom than
ever before.
Residence halls are co-educational. Colleges and universities are
— by
prohibited
federal
law
— from
issuing even grade
reports to parents or
The world
guardians.
es
of today's college
campus
is
different
from
rom.
what our parents knew.
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Or our grandparents.
Or our great
This
grandparents.
incler
article looks at three
generations of college
life
on
eiiitier
the Bloomsburg campus.
WRITTEN BY MARK LLOYD
10
WINTER
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Bloomsburg Univereily Magoz/ne
T:imeS9 9»
"The war to end
Stately
all
and thorough, Miss McBride
commanded the
young
respect of her
charges.
She allowed her students "few
wars raged in Europe.
privileges" without written permission
firom parents or the school's principal.
:jki
People sang "Over There."
Even the "arrangements and location" of
off-campus lodgings had to be approved
GRACE KISHBACH MILLER
by the principal
oodrow Wilson occupied
young people
not
Not
at the
in 1917,
when
18-year old Grace Kishbach
—
come
to
to
J.
Waller,
Jr.
—
left
—
Gordon
Bloomsburg.
celebrated, as
still
"manners and mores of the
not surprising. D.
— was
danced the Black Bottom. But
in cities
Grace came to a place that
It's
were offered by a
Normal.
down in SchuyUdU County
later wrote, the
the White House. Hip
late
WaUer was, she
recalls,
his "strict sense of
judgment."
Normal
the
at
sat
—
in
lecture, fol-
an age before
and radio
—by
Classes began at 8 in the
morning and continued
Dinner was served
at
until 5 at
about 5:30. After dinner
— students would gather
in the social
room, sing around the piano and chat about events of the
day.
on Saturdays. Sundays and Mondays were
to stem the outmigration of
on weekends. Students were expected
with "Ughts out"
at 10.
But
to
girls
be
in their
often studied
with flashlights under the bedcovers.
"Absolutely
no one was permitted
to go off
campus
after 6
Punishments could be
—
Miss McBride, preceptress of Main Dormitory, enforced the
She "walked
There was contagion. In 1916, the opening of school was
delayed for about two weeks as
officials in
Harrisburg debated
all.
Two
pus.
years
the epidemic broke in
later,
full
force across
at
cam-
Many members
Some
of the student body came down wixh the
The school was quarantined and, for four
died.
weeks, those living in dormitories were not allowed to go onto
the streets of town. In the
town
itself,
15 to 20
new cases
Coupled with the
disease
of
and into
fear of
and death, students
America's involvement in a
war
in far-off Europe.
As
each term opened, young
men and women
failed to
return to classes.
Some
went to work
in factories
to support the
war
effort.
Others, including faculty,
left
to join the
armed
forces.
Grace Kishbach graduated from the Normal in 1919
after
two
years at the school
—
earning a degree
one held a high school degree upon entering
if
the customary length of time required for
teaching certificate that permitted her to teach Latin, Spanish
and EngUsh; ancient
history; arithmetic
and
algebra; reading;
botany, chemistry and physics; as well as sociology
smoking.
rules.
misfortunes.
Following her marriage to Charles Miller and armed with a
severe.
who violated hours were "campused," confined to
campus
often for weeks at a time. Students were sent home
for
accompanied
the school.
p.m.," says Grace.
Those
if
faced the growing reaUty of
a recita-
tion of the day's news.
at 7 p.m.,
to join
by a chaperone.
November.
broadcasts
rooms
—
began with a Bible reading
television
— an arrangement devised
—
the happy couple — but only
influenza were reported each day through October
lowed
off-days
trips off-campus.
friends
chapel services. Each day
and a moral
students
at the
disease.
in assigned seats in daily
Classes were held
chaperoned on
whether pubUc schools in the Commonwealth should open
Colleagues noted his "refine-
eaten "family style"
recalls that
But the Normal could not inoculate students from some
arrived at
"a person of the old school."
—
to be
when one of her
became engaged
end of the academic year, the young man invited his
fiancee and three of her friends
Grace among them
to
Grace
women
the school. Born in Bloomsburg
night.
such lodgings
Victorian era."
when Grace Kishbach
Students
if
dinner in Sunbury. Permission was granted for the three young
well into his second tenure as head of the institution
ment" and
Young women had
— even
or friend.
one historian
a native of Bloomsburg
in 1846,
relative
like a
lady of the 19th century," Grace
recalls.
taught for 37 years in pubUc schools in
— Grace
Montgomery and
Chester counties outside Philadelphia.
Bloomsburg University Magazine
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housekeeper and tutor to the
Street as a
Young lovers sang
children.
He had
the whole third floor of
on Market
the house
Street to himself.
Eda Bessie and Stuart dated throughout
'The Dipsy Doodle" and
the winter. Bessie admits she was attracted
to Stuart because,
evenings, he
'Three Little Fishies".
EDA
BESSIE
AND STUART EDWARDS
They studied
War again threatened
could get the best sticky bun in the world for 5 cents more,"
drug
in
Europe.
store
on Main
was 1939 when Eda Bessie BeUhartz met Stuart Edwards.
They were sophomores that year. It was when Harvey Andruss
Stuart recaUs.
became president of the school. He retauied the post until 1969.
Newspaper headlines in the Bloomsburg State College library
that year may have foretold the gathering war clouds, but the
campus itself retained a serenity that "beUed the times," Eda
friend
Women
the college learned
at
how to
in a straight chair
sit
up out of an overstuffed one. They were taught how
and
— danced
— and
in
Freshman Hop.
the
band
at
When
at
Sophomore CotUlion,
f^\
universe" back then,
ofiSce,
Eda
Bessie
the business office
president's office
was
there, so
Usually,
two
women were
the
women on
assigned to each room.
There were no
and one
light.
rising bell
and
sounded
at 6:45 a.m.
They shared
electrical outlets.The
to
go
or to a movie. Students had to seek "permission" to
p.m.
Chapel services were every Tuesday and Thursday in Carver
Auditorium. Attendance was mandatory.
Eda
and Stuart didn't start dating until their senior year.
He hved off campus and, for a time, paid $7 a week for room
and board. The postage to maQ his laundry home each week cost
Bessie
12 cents. Later, he took a job with the
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996
Money was
at the school.
Depression.
eastern
Bloomsburg University Magazine
months
after
they bought
always an issue for Stuart
it.
— and
The country was emerging from
Many of its students were
for
most students
the Great
offspring of middle
European immigrants. "Maybe
and
95 percent of students at
saw
college as the 'entry
By 1941 when Stuart and Eda Bessie graduated, Hitler had
overrun Poland and the Low Countries. His planes were
bombing London, and he had launched his invasion of Russia.
Students at the college knitted khaki-colored socks and
when
Quiet times each evening were
1 1
upward mobility and
campus.
Freshmen were allowed two "permissions" per month
study in the Waller Lobby after
to scrape together
sweaters to be added to "Bundles for Britain."
to 9.
downtown
—
But the
closet
from 7
landlady
was the
dean of instruction's.
all
—
ticket' to a better hfe."
was the "hub of the
Waller Hall was the dormitory for
seat.
They used his book money
and $10 borrowed from their
to get their children to college. Families
Old Waller HaU
The
Model
rumble
gym's hall to say their
^
the university store.
a
dancers drifted to the old
goodbyes.
housed the post
in a '31
Bloomsburg were the first generation in their families to have
graduated even from high school," Stuart says. "Parents scratched
the
says. It
A Ford — with
afford such
started playing
Goodnight Sweetheart
,
Herb Schneider tooled
around campus
sold the car a few
your Eyes
the
H&C
"and you
soon decided they couldn't
faculty
to Stardust or
Smoke Gets
coffee cost a nickel,
$35 to buy the machine. They
to
handle bouillon cups.
Students
Maybe they stopped by the
where
Street,
For a time, Stuart and his
Bessie later wrote.
2
practice."
visited in the
and warm
movies. They took long walks.
Roosevelt
It
I
nice
together in the library or went to the
sat in
one
from basketball
when he
"still
— with the worst of the Great
the White House.
Depression behind him —
Franklin
to get
was
Ranson family on Market
college's "age
of innocence" ended, Eda Bessie
says,
met on campus to register male students
over 21. That morning in 1940, "as the men milled around the
hallway in front of the old gym, someone noted that this date
was Bill Kerchusky's 21st birthday. As the gym doors opened, one
mighty push sent BUI to the head of the Une, making him the
."
first man on campus to register for the draft.
Stuart and Eda Bessie married in December, 1942, and went
the draft board
.
to live in Saverna Park,
Maryland.
Later, they
.
returned to
Pennsylvania, where Bessie continued to teach elementary
school and Stuart became a school administrator.
In 1958, the
two returned to Bloomsburg. Stuart became
director of admissions and,
Eda
later,
Bessie taught in the college's
School. Stuart retired in 1979.
dean of professional
studies.
Benjamin Franklin Laboratory
was the Age of Aquarius.
It
off-campus with one of her
father's
friends.
Part of the school's unwritten mission
Peter,
Paul and
—
Mary sang
from
a legacy
its
Victorian past
and the
to teach etiquette
social graces.
women
At dinner each evening,
"Biowin' in the
Wind"
men, jackets and
FEHER EDWARDS
and four men
Another war in a far-off land was claiming American
their rides at Centennial
Gym, careened
down Second Street and jumped off at the foot of CoOege HUl
protested when the college administration banned the boards.
Students, meeting in Centennial Gym, demanded their rights.
—
They vowed to strike until
They called the media.
Next morning,
demands were met.
their
crews had completed film-
Hai'vey Andruss was stiU president of the coUege.
to preside over the institution's
many ways,
He was about
much
since the turn of the century.
month
students could have a
stay out until
1
"late,"
a.m.
to
11.
One weekend
— permission
dorms —
once
Nancy says
No "open visitation" was allowed in
each semester when men were allowed
— but doors had
to one's
room
allowed one phone
to visit
More
of the
hall.
dorm,
for instance
By
—
at
the end
for having alcohol in a
in residence halls was Spartan. There
rooms and no telephones. Hair dryers
Life
in the
— "but
Nancy confesses,
confine-
resulted in expulsion.
today's standards.
were prohibited
—
per night. The pay phone was
serious violations
were no televisions
a
to
except for classes and meals. Detainees were
—
bottom of my closet,"
"and turned up the radio volume when I used
I
relaxed. For the first time,
slacks to class
They wore Wejuns
— but not
in
women were permitted to wear
Carver Hall, or "even
when walking
of Carver!"
hid mine
at
the
set
up
in Centennial
it
ran from one table to another to snatch
up
didn't
In '68,
Nancy met
Hall.
spend
a
all
her time in the dorms or lecture haUs.
DJ from the
married shortly
when Ed
or to the outdoor ones
off-campus party.
On
Husky football game
shown on campus
outside
Saturdays, they might go to a
East Seventh Street, where the
YMCA now stands.
As Nancy Feher's tenure at
Bloomsburg was drawing to a
close, so too was a part of
Bloomsburg
history. After
having
served 30 years as president of the
college,
Harvey Andruss
October of that
retired. In
year, faculty orga-
nized a "Teach-In" to protest the
growing war in Southeast Asia. In the
spring of 1970, 500 faculty and students protested the kUling of students
State campus in Ohio.
some ways, it was a protest over the death of innocence.
Nancy Feher Edwards taught in Bucks County for five years
after
was the dorm mother who enforced the rules.
She checked sign-out sheets each evening to find out who was
In 1975, she returned to the area
out and why. Ms. Kinney once telephoned Nancy's parents to
On
— down on
frozen pizzas steamed over Ulegal hot pots.
verify their written note granting her permission to have dinner
She and
They'd share a Coke in the Husky Lounge or go to an
on the Kent
Lucretia Kinney
local radio station.
after his graduation.
wasn't working, they'd go to movies
no refrigerators. In winter, students used
natural refrigeration, wedgiag cans of Coke and TV dinners
between the screens and the windows of their rooms. They ate
the thing." There were
closed. Students
cards before the
all filled.
Nancy
('73)
Gym. When no more
was
cards remained for a particular section,
downtown
women's dorms
wide open.
call
that matched.
wasn't until spring of Nancy's senior year, that the dress code
It
was
West
except
Violations of the rules could result in a "rooming"
ment
"Women
or Bass loafers.
Saturday nights,
Friday nights, they enjoyed an extra hour of free-
On Saturdays, they could stay out until
dom.
says.
women wore "VUlager sets," Nancy
and sweaters
skirts
Ed Edwards
forgot.
Students were expected to be in their rooms at 9 p.m. during
On
—
choice classes were
and publication of
underground newspapers, Bloomsburg was a place time
the week.
For the most part,
says
ed from various tables
most explosive period of growth.
despite skateboard sit-ins
Rules hadn't changed
women
Scheduling was done with "punch cards" that students collect-
after the television
was 1968 when Nancy Feher transferred to Bloomsburg.
In
Four
'presented' desserts."
in front
ing for the evening news, students returned to classes.
It
ties.
—
ate together at family-
"Guys served the meats," Nancy
style tables.
lives.
Young people turned on and tuned out.
On the Bloomsburg campus, the turbulence of the times
was reflected in the Great Bloomsburg Skate-Board Sit-in. Skate-
— who began
were
expected to wear dresses and nylons
NANCY
boarders
— was
In
graduating from Bloomsburg State College in 1970.
and has taught reading in the
Bloomsburg schools since then. In 1977, she earned her M.Ed.
from Bloomsburg. She teaches during the summers in the
university's Department of Developmental Instruction.
Bloomsburg Univsnity Magazine
WINTER
1996
|3
DO NOT GO GENTLE
INTO THAT
GOOD NIGHT RAGE, RAGE AGAINSTTHE DYING OFTHE LIGHT— DYLANTHOMAS
THE FACE
O F
DEVELOPMENTAL
INSTRUCTION
—
which spawned this
movie Dangerous Minds
fn a recent
television series — Michelle PfeifFer portrays a teacher
additional academic support
whose students have few educational
courses.
provided
fall's
skills
but
lots
of social
state
Back then, students whose family income was
S5,000
an education, arm yourselves
income has
minds so you'll be that much tougher
They get the message.
By movie's
end, they teach Pfeiffer
to quit the classroom
— by
telling
to
world with strong
knock down."
— chaUenging her
decision
her that she must continue to
Michelle Pfeiffer does not teach at Bloomsburg. Bloomsburg
is
share of drama,
its
families with
legislation.
They are
more than 2,500 people have gone through
Bloomsburg's Act 101/EOP program. Its 52 percent graduation
higher than the national average of 45 to 48 percent.
enter the
Thirty percent of the students are non-traditional
than 18
when
They are
—
older
they begin their academic program.
students
who
are
most "at
risk
spring,
traditional
means.
to direct the institution's fledg-
101/EOP program.
Bryan proved, in the words of Chancellor McCormick
(who, as president of the then-Bloomsburg State College, had
the potential that prior circumstances
and most subject
Bryan's message to students in the
simple
— and tough: study
excellence.
to
butts.
program was invariably
and strive for
hard, stay focused
('73),
one of Bryan's
first
students and
now executive
New Jersey Commission on Higher Education,
admits today that "there were
our
Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education.
unnoticed and
Never make excuses. Don't look for the easy way out.
Glenn Lang
director of the
being discarded," says James McCormick, chanceDor of
left
unnurtured."
Of
program each year, half are white,
a third are African-American. Fifteen percent are "other minorities."
Bloomsburg
hired Bryan), "that patience, caring and dedication can tap
might otherwise go unrecognized.
In the past decade,
who
in
For almost a quarter century until his retirement this past
students whose economic or educational backgrounds obscure
is
household income higher than Act 101 thresholds,
Bryan arrived
ling Act
through Act 101 or Equal Opportunity Act
rate
— or
being educationally disadvantaged in some way. Their talents
Nearly 100 students each year enter the university either
the 100 students
one chOd
more per year than a minimum-wage worker earns.
The companion initiative to Act 101 was the Educational
Opportunity Program (EOP). EOP students may come from
share of personal
struggles against the "dying of the light."
talents that
risen to $18,450 for families with
might go "unrecognized" through
campus has its
than
but their educational background must show evidence of their
not Hollywood.
this
less
nearly $8,000
"rage against the dying of the light."
But
attending college. Lawmakers
quaMed for the program. Today, the threshold family
problems. This teacher urges her students to "stay in school, get
in this unsafe
when
funding for tutoring, counseling and developmental
many of us who needed a kick in
Bryan gave us the kick we needed."
Bryan not only admonished
the state legislature passed Act 101. This legislation acknowl-
his students to do well, he put
program and a counseling staff that helped
students acquire the study skUls and academic tools for success
edged that economically disadvantaged students needed
"regular" college classes.
Jesse
Bryan arrived
at
Bloomsburg
in 1973, the
same year
that
together a tutoring
WRITTEN BY JOAN LENTCZNER
14
WINTER
1996
Bloomsburg University Magazine
PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER
in
THEY, (ACT IOI),ARE
STUDENTS WHO ARE MOST"AT
Herb Douglas and Bryan were classmates
program
the
among
full-time
Rowan
went
beyond words. He
far
To
that were important to him.
his students
produced two
children,
faculty.
Glenn Lang
he was a "solid
Wardigo's challenge
both college graduates and in
Starting this
fall,
is
.
.
and became
at a
instruction
a father to us..."
request
is
part of the
university's effort to
comes
distinctions
reduce
between
Act 101/EOP students
and "regular"
The
higher
New political
education.
who
streamiag" of developmental
and economic
realities face
students
such services. This "main-
time when changing
political
responsible for delivering
all
have a
Byran's retirement
is
peer tutoring services to
took up the weight
.
offer
managing change.
the department
father in the household. Dr.
Bryan
meeting individual
emic, advisory and coimseling services to students.
recalls that for
who "didn't
to
individualized instruction, the faculty offer a wide range of acad-
professional careers.
those
includes seven
tliat
"Our philosophy is based
math, reading and writing courses and conducting labs that
lived the values
family person" with "a stable, nurturing, achieving marriage"
that
and three part-time
student needs," he explains. In addition to teaching developmental
College in Glassboro,
New Jersey, noted at Byran's retirement diimer last spring that
Bryan's influence
BEING DISCARDED.'
on prevention of problems and dedication
groups of African- Americans in the program. Douglas,
first
a criminal justice professor at
AND MOST SUBJECTTO
succeeds Bryan as chair of a department
in the doctoral
of Toledo in Ohio. They were
at the University
RISK
challenge,
students.
Wardigo
be to provide
says, will
same
leaders have questioned
the
whether funding assistance
academic support to
programs
developmental education
for educationally
disadvantaged students
quality of
students and, at the
is
same
appropriate or cost-effective.
time, deliver effective peer
Finding new money to
tutoring service to non-
support the
ACT
program students
101
The
Summer Freshman Program
will
be but one of the
threatens Michelle
challenges facing Biyan's
will
Pfeiffer's
One challenge
successors.
different
- particularly
real-life
students of color.
isn't
from what
students
very
faces
— even
at
institutions that are far ft'om
Demonstrating
legislators
students in
Dangerous Minds
be to find better ways to
retain students
as well.
darkness that
the crime
to
and violence of
urban America. Teachers
and educators
Bryan have made a
like
the value of continuing the
Jesse
program
ence,
been beacons of hope
for a
whole generation of
is
part of Irvin
Wright's job as the
new
director of Act 10 1/EOP.
Shareen
Highlighting the programs
Dr. Jesse
Silva '96,
Michael Welsh
'96,
Courtney Maury with
students.
101 and
Bryan (seated)
be the easy part. "AH you have to do
of students
He
is
is
look
at the
number
who have benefitted," he says.
surveying other schools in Pennsylvania's State System of
Higher Education to see
lohn Wardigo,
how they plan to support their programs.
assistant professor
"THERE WERE
like
Act
EOP have helped thou-
sands of promising students.
success in improving students'
lives will
Programs
differ-
"Education takes investment
US WHO NEEDED A KICK IN
in developing the
young and not-so-young people you work with," says Bryan's
protege. Glen Lang. "For me, it's laid the groundwork to enjoy a
measure of success and hold dear the values that guide me."
of developmental instruction,
MANY OF
— investment
(see JESSE BRYAN -
OUR
MORETHAN ATEACHER - PAGE
23)
BUTTS. BRYAN GAVE US THE KICK WE NEEDED.'
Bhomsburg
University
Magazine
WINTER
1996
|5
O'^ E y
*,-i
THE CHANGING FACE
OF TODAY'S STUDENT
WRITTEN BY
ERIC FOSTER
PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER
(
Wk:
R
T
T
the popular imagination, they're flannel-clad,
untucked and unmotivatedThey also make up the greater
portion of today's college students, and, stereotypes aside, they are different fi-om the
students of decades past. They're less idealistic than students of the 60s.
new-found cynicism
Baby Boomer college
They may make up
for their
in old-fashioned pragmatism.
8loomsburo
ilnivsr^ity
Magazine
WINTER
19*'6
\'/
CONTEMPORARY
about 18.5 percent of undergraduate
drugs and alcohol myself.
students were 22 years old or older. In
Christian,
I
became
a
comprehensive data), the percentage had
and after that I had to do
something. Something had to change."
Students at Bloomsburg are also more
grown
ethnicaUy diverse than their peers of even
1994 (the
latest
year for which there
to 27.4 percent.
Over
is
that period,
while total enrollment at Bloomsburg
a
grew from 5,319
Bloomsburg students were ethnic minorities
the
to almost 6,100 students,
number of undergraduate
Bloomsburg increased
students at
in every age
group
except for those age 19 and younger.
number of students aged
fell
from 2,191
The
19 and younger
to 1,976.
decade ago. In 1985, 3.7 percent of
or students from foreign countries. By
1994, 5.4 percent of students were
minorities or from abroad.
tripled,
Thirty-four-year-old Richard Zaler
is
The number
of Hispanic students, in particular, nearly
jumping from 27 students in
1985 to 80 in 1994.
one of those older students coming to
Bloomsburg
Ln greater
numbers.
A Navy veteran and former welder,
of Turbotville, came to coUege
Zaler,
because he needed to find a new
Tess Infante
He had developed asthma,
aggravated by welding fumes.
o
n the face of it, today's
Bloomsburg students
are
much
like
half are
college students.
still
two-thirds
But students have changed
coUege campuses
—
more
students
"I
on
— and on Bloomsburg's
come
to the
a career where the
The next
semester, he
was
a fuU-time student.
in subtle
are fresh out of high school,
knew I needed
the faU of '93.
are concerned about paying for coUege.
ways. While the majority of students
I
Zaler started taking classes part-time in
first-generation
More than
other.
environment wouldn't be a hazard."
their counterparts of a generation ago.
More than
"I couldn't
walk from one end of the shop
typical
career.
a condition
more and
intend to go to grad school to get a
masters in social welfare," says Zaler,
majoring in social welfare vnth a minor in
psychology. "I see myself as a therapist
working with drug addicts and alcohoUcs.
to coUege after
spending time in the workforce. In 1985
my seventh year of recovery from
I'm in
>,v.
,
-ir/iWi^iiiMifigW
They represent most of the seven
They come from a variety of
backgrounds and interests. They are
yoimg and...weU, ...older. What they share
is their membership in Bloomsburg's
continents.
CREATING
largest
COMMON
SE
freshman class-and a new-foimd
discussions of Socrates.
Bloomsburg's 1,685 freshman were
introduced to Socrates long before their
on campus
first
for their first classes.
homework-to read The
in
smaU-group
"Part of being an academic community,"
explained Bloomsburg's academic vice
president Wilson Bradshaw, "is sharing a
common set of values. This orientation
Apolcgy of Socrates-was assigned during
program-in addition
the middle of summer.
academic tone for our incoming students
So,
when
they arrived on campus for
semester, freshmen discovered
their
RIoomsburg Umverzit/ Magazine
by George Lucas, professor of
philosophy and ethics at the U.S. Naval
Academy, and engaged
orientation at the begiiming of the
I99fc
Down, heard a 40-minute, large-group
lecture
Socrates.
Their
VVINiER
issues of diversity. They met new friends.
And they also watched a dramatic adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Moon is
appreciation for the Greek phUosopher
arrival
OF VALUE
Richard Zaler
how to find
way about campus. They explored
- brought
the
an
together people from
campus
such as
to setting
justice, obligation to self
country,
all
over
to explore important issues,
and wisdom."
and
STUDENT
Tesse Infante
is
of this country," says Lyons. "We're
typical of
Bloomsburg's increasingly diverse
mortgaging our future on the backs of
student body. Born in the United States,
these students. Middle
she spent most of her childhood in the
are being told, 'we'U give
Dominican RepubUc and
later
moved
to
t^
Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
"My mom
died in
my dad," says
major
who
1
989,
and
I
don't see
Infante, a criminal justice
will
graduate in May. Like
knows about hard work.
This past summer, she held three jobs to
support herself and pay school expenses.
She worries about money - or the
Zaler, Infante
lack of
owe $17,000
I
graduate," she says, "I'U
— and
not counting
that's
financial concerns translate into
job consciousness. "I really need to find
a job," she worries. "I
good
benefits,
one
I
need
a job with
Tom
aid,
Lyons, estimates that 70 to 80 percent
of students hold
going to college.
down jobs whQe they're
He notes that a growing
nimiber of educators fear that work
distracting students
Students
who
through college
from
is
their books.
work
don't
their
the
money
increased diversity have been
its
accompanied by shifts
university serves
its
and Infante found help
college
through
in
how the
students.
classes
Both Zaler
in adjusting to
with Jim Mullen,
an English teacher in the department of
developmental instruction.
developed
Infante,
whose
now
barrier
was
my English in
difficult.
I
college," says
native tongue
is
Spanish
speaks EngUsh very weD. She's
also learned to appreciate a greater variety
of cultures than she had
known before.
way
may be borrowing
students were black and Latino. Here,
on the
learn
street."
more money
for
education than ever before in the history
Nearly 90 volunteers-including
students appreciate their
1989 also heralded a big change in
a service the university offers to help older
service to students. For the
college students. "I help people like
come to
school." As
me
an older student, he
housing.
he gets an extra degree of respect from
— such
pose.
The apartments, housing 380
upper-class students, have been
more apartments
as
Tom Contos, assistant director
make this
- participated
in the
program
as discussion leaders.
Discussions focused on the meaning of
Socrates'
lives
and
and philosophy in the ovwi
contemporary society.
Life
in
"When we
their
challenge students to stretch
minds and reach
never had a chance to talk with
exciting.
their potential,"
The whole program
message about the
Bloomsburg University President
Jessica
Kozloff-like secretary Hickok, a former
political science
major-noted Socrates'
rel-
evance to the challenges young people face
"What does
mean
are enormous."
sity
to share in a
common pur-
an
goals for the future."
a community?" she challenged the univer-
campus
issues that confront
created a
today.
the
get tough, to
university's
a political science professor, "the benefits
brought together people from throughout
working together,
educated people, Kozloff said.
said Education Secretary Hickok, formerly
The "Challenge of Socrates" also
as
when times
a better place?"
These are the
students before," he said. "That was
positive
is
nearby.
community, such
normally stand in front of a classroom.
students
filled
investigating the possibility of building
Eugene Hickok, Bloomsburg University
"I've
time, the
since they opened, so the university
In recent years, the university has
established several offices
first
in
university provided apartment-style
sticking together
few of their spouses,
to help
diversity.
dent adviser for the ofSce of adult advising,
of planning and construction, doesn't
and more than 30 upper-division
—
own
The opening of Montgomery Place
Pennsylvania's Secretary of Education
staff and faculty, a
international education
Apartments on the upper campus
professors because of his Ufe experience.
"Kids are borrowing
affairs,
and a Multicultural Center
WMle taking classes, Zaler works as a stu-
feels
the money.
I
learned about other cultures. There's a lot
more than what you
Crystal Kovaschetz
minority
"In high school the majority of
can be happy with."
Bloomsburg's director of financial
families
all
he aging of today's student body and
\
but
credit card charges for books."
you
got to be borrowed.'"
it's
"The speaking
it.
"By the time
Her
you want, but
income
it
to be citizens in
community. "What does
it
challenge ideas, the status quo,
mean
and
to
to
speak our minds? To talk productivity in a
forum? To be committed to the values of
Sloomslwif Univecsily Mofozine
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CONTEMPORARY
"We know there are more single parents
who want housing," says Herring. "There
Crystal Kovaschetz are
more
at
Bloomsburg, she came to college
the educational marketplace. These
ly
out of high school. She
students need different services than
are 95 percent of her classmates.
—
is
traditional 18-24 year-old students."
female
attention to details
Bloomsburg's students. She
is
telling.
as are
white
direct-
—
She
by DanvUle. Almost half Bloomsburg's
would include changing tables for infants
to accommodate students with children.
students
If
Zaler
and Infante represent the
"new" student on
Kovaschetz
is
a typical student, she
confesses,
"it's
intelligent,"
part of their SATs
everyone
is
unusual only in her drive to succeed. She
I'm in
else
Kovaschetz
because I'm a hard worker.
who
"There are people
come from hometowns within
100 miles of campus.
If
'4.0 business' isn't
is
my room
—
get 700s
that's
at parties,
studying.
on each
not me. When
many nights
It's
where
my
priorities are," she says.
Kovaschetz 's dedication to hard work
today's college
campus, students
like
of America. "The
because I'm super
from near
apartments in the proposed complex
10 in a
national economics competition
sponsored by the Future Business Leaders
as
is
almost two-thirds of
is
and
among the top
recently finished
are non-traditional students reentering
The
Some new
carries a 4.0 cumulative average
typical.
Like most of the 7,400 students
20-year-old
an instinct
instilled in
"Education comes in
says.
"Dad works
is
her by her parents.
many forms." she
vrixh
heavy equipment.
He
never went to a coUege, but he knows a
lot
of things rO never know."
"My mom
spoiled me," Kovaschetz
continues. "She went to Mansfield
and taught home economics
had me. But
was born, she quit working and
[University]
for several years before she
when
I
became
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B/oomsburg University Magazine
a stay-at-home mother."
STUDENT
being with themselves or small groups.
That's a luxury Kovaschetz doesn't
Building a sense of community
expect to enjoy. She's prepared to leave her
hometown
to find a job.
She expects to go
students
to graduate school and, ultimately, teach.
know that jobs
Today's students
in 1969,
among
a top priority for university
officials.
"What we're trying to do is build
community among the students and with
are
harder to find than they used to be.
Back
is
the university," says Lynda Michaels, a
almost 97 percent of
Bloomsburg's 750 graduates found a job,
Bloomsburg alumna who rejoined the
entered graduate school or joined the
university as a residence director in 1988.
mihtary shortly
Michaels also heads the university's
year,
after graduation. Last
orientation program.
about 80 percent of the university's
"We want to
1,600 graduates found similar positions
with each other,
Today's college graduates face a far
more competitive world than
a generation ago.
It's
those of
university,
not unusual to
helping
participation
vacancies.
\n the 60s, two-thirds of students
meaningful
life
philosophy" as a top college goal. Today,
getting a better job (82 percent)
and
making more money (74 percent)
are the
top reasons Bloomsburg students go to
college.Student
it's
life
professionals say that
tougher to get students involved in
campus
activities
today than
it
once was.
Bloomsburg's vice president for student
life,
Preston Herring, points to
many
factors that contribute to lower student
them
identif)'
and take
it
associate
with the
a step further
them understand
campus
•
Work obligations
enough time
•
m
several innovative orientation
Ufe.
don't leave students
well.
The new programs
include "The Challenge of Socrates" and
an integrated freshman seminar during
that limit the time they
the
Students are coming from a
programs
designed to increase the emphasis on
academics as
to get involved.
have to spend on campus.
•
Town of
Bloomsburg." This year the university held
Older students have family
commitments
—
that they are
part of a larger community, the
have 200 applications for advertised
listed "finding a
help
first
several
weeks of the
fall
semester.
more
fragmented homelife and culture, and are
less interested in
•
group
activities.
The products of a media-swamped
culture
—
television, radio,
students are simply
computers
—
more comfortable
B/oomsbuff Univeraly Mofozine
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DRAWINGS BY KEN WILSON
IMAGES OF THE
CONTEMPORARY STUDENT
resources they vwll
need to make
Bloomsburg a
students
projects.
success.
Despite a growing insulation of students
from campus experience,
it is
Socrates,"
more committed to environmental
The Chronicle of Higher
Education, introduced
new
ago.
And, when students do
another 465
homes for Habitat for
Humanity to organizing a recreation
program for children in a low-income
renovating
issues
than were their coimterparts of a decade
students
SOLVE helped
one-time projects. Projects range from
a mistake to
about the world aroimd them. They are
unique enough to be
identified in
contributed 2,791 hours
contribute 1,455 hours of time to
think that today's students don't care
"The Challenge of
who
of their time to ongoing community
their experience at
housing development.
While today's students
get involved
feel
more
today, their efforts
may be better orga-
financial pressures than ever before
focusing on the uncompromising pursuit
nized and perhaps
more
while they
of truth and virtue exemplified by the
those of their 60s counterparts.
to values-centered
academic
life
by
The
substantive than
may face a more
and
competitive
job market, they remain idealistic enough
SOLVE office helps
efforts. SOLVE
Experience" program, designed by Jack
(Students Organized to Learn through
make the world a better place.
The reputation of Generation X as a
group of slackers - like most generaliza-
MuUca, dean of academic support
Volunteerism and Employment), coordi-
tions
nated the work of nearly 200 Bloomsburg
contemporary student
Greek philosopher Socrates.
The "Integrated Freshman Year
introduces students to the
skills
to organize those
services,
and
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IS
JESSE BRYAN -
MORE THAN A TEACHER
W
mates and
hen
Jesse
ment
Bryan
retired last April, 50 of his
canal, in
former students returned to
ice
mark
the occasion.
evening's highlights
One of the
house.
He had one
unit where he
of New
He
Commission on
Higher Education, was one of
first
the draft
was a senior in 1973 when
at
Bloomsburg
filled
in
Kehr Union.
We were hungry
someone
He told
like Dr.
water
far
one booth
then
time.
in
we
to stay
.
.
ovm,
many of us who
needed a kick
"I
in the butt;
party,
he gave us the kick we needed.
have the privilege of being one of the
Bryan touched.
first.
—
a
he gave us a friend.
There were
many students
had
to
move
he told us 'you can have
any party you want, but you're going to do one thing: You're
Jesse
A lot of students didn't understand his ways at
In 1973 there was a rule that students
worked with the
"He dipped into his pocket
no one had to live in an
abandoned building.
"He taught the importance of
respect
for ourselves and for
others. Once, when he learned
that we were going to have a
There were
many of us who needed
friend;
us.
so that
took up the weight and became
.
with
and the town to
improve Uving conditions.
a father
a family of his
on a couch. He
faculty
didn't have a father
a father to us.
slept
"Dr. Bryan
our household. Dr. Bryan,
who had
He
comfortable place, but he chose
many of us back
who needed
basement.
could have stayed in a more
from complete.
because
rats in the
Bryan stayed with us there for a
Bryan
us
"There were
was so bad that
They would come out at night
and jump in the trash. Dr.
we were on a
mission and that we could not
faU. He told us our education
was
— linoleum.
to us.
it
matches blew out. There were
60 percent of the black students
for
rented
"There was no heat. At times,
students here after
his arrival in 1973.
"I
be an
units into nice apartments.
and
stored material
Bryan's
to
The landlord had
mentor. Lang, executive director
Jersey's
down by the
what used
converted six of the seven
was Glenn
Lang's tribute to his friend
found an apart-
I
in FernvUle,
off-
campus at the end of the junior year. Young black men in
Bloomsburg in 1973 had a hard time finding a places to rent.
"Sometimes, the places we could find were awfial. My room-
going to dress up. You're going to get out of those jeans, sweats
and sneakers. You're going to put on suits and make those young
ladies proud that you're from Bloomsburg!'
"Education
is
an investment in developing those you work
with. Jesse Bryan helped lay the
measure of success and
"HETAUGHTTHE IMPORTANCE OF RESPECT
to
groundwork
for
me to enjoy a
hold dear the values that guide me."
— FOR OURSELVES AND FOR OTHERS.'
Slaoiraburg University Magazine
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NEWS
NEWS
BRIEFS
academic
facility
campus. Study
ing for
on
The
more than
hours" study
with access to
closed.
computer data
students
much
\\'on't
be that way
new Harvey
A. Andruss Libran.;
is
campus.
The
conduits for 125 future
be placed in the
connections.
exterior of the building
Tiffany
aruiual Reading
Conference held in
from throughout the country.
This year was no exception.
The
Day-long orientation
is
opening
is
$8,394,250, and
access to the library's
reminiscent of the Long Porch
scheduled for
catalog,
on
spring 1998.
The 105,000 square
foot
CD-Rom
a local
national
building wiU be the largest
on-hne
from "Old Waller," which was
once on Second Street where
databases
network
the Scranton
as well as
and international
if
Commons and
pleasant for bikers.
The Dutch
We saw
mothers on bikes carrying children and
for pleasure.
Quest Director Roy Smith's first-person
the family groceries.
one
.
.
Our bike path took us
along the
older.
We came across
group of bikers
large
or 10
skills in
ride
bikes to
narrative about a portion of that trek.
summer
— some young
— who honed
as
athletic stars
1
through Holland. This brief excerpt
".
in their 70s or
their
basketball
and tennis,
swimming, wrestling, field
hockey and softball, soccer
and more.
In addition to the sounds
of boimdng balls and
We encountered others towing
officials'
was vocal har-
top of a dike overlooking the Markermeer
bike carts with tents and food heading
whistles, there
Polder This and other polders are
out for family vacations.
mony. The university hosted
Pennsylvania's Sweet AdeUnes
all
"No wonder everyone looked
part of what used to be the Zuider Zee
—
the Southern Sea. Since the late 17th
centuT)', the industrious
seabed. This was our
fit
Bloomiurg University's Quest program
offering a trip through Costa Rica for
than 600 of them.
."
.
.
Dutch have
first
experience at
is
on one side of the dike
higher than land on the other.
"The Dutch landscape, so much of it
women and
reclaimed from the sea, with
in September, 1997. For a complete
seeing the sea
its
medieval
Canyon
trip
extended
at
makes the country extremely
1996
Bkxmsbui^
Uniw^ Magazine
trips, rail
is
planned
list
of
717-389-4323 or lode
Quest on the Internet
at
http://www.bbomu.edu/questhtml
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Another biking
through the Netherlands
of tree-lined canals and tree-shaded bike
More than 120 young people
a trip to Mexico's Copper
in January, 1997.
towns, windmills and hundreds of miles
paths,
and
- female barbershop singers.
Then there was the group
of Christ Crusaders - more
healthy
been creating rich farmland from the
24
work and
there are
camps. About 2,500 aspiring
gram included a summer bike excursion
is
campus.
And then
as 9
Quest pro-
-
not thousands - and their
families to
stand today.
PEDALING THROUGH HOLLAND
Editor's Note: Bloomsburg's
prospective students
bring hundreds of students
the Lycoming Residence Hall
databases via the Internet.
visits
new students and campus
visits for
is
May typically
draws more than 1,000 teachers
for
buildmg
offers a healthy
but there's also a steady
to the
the original Waller Hall wiU
Personal computers vnR
right?
stream of guests and visitors
computers with additional
Total projected cost of the
closes
summer,
schedule of summer classes,
the old. Three
facility.
for the
Wrong!
the
connections for personal
also
spring classes end in
Bloomsburg
and four Spence
stained glass windows saved
fi-om the current Ubrar)' and
features
longer. Construction
has begun for the
The building
500 pubUc access
patrons' use.
the university's softball field
used to be
new with
the circulation desk for
ground where
down
There wiU be an
The Ubrary wiU blend
available at
holidays?
mid-May, a university
the Susquehanna Valley.
library
in tiie
When
"after-
fourth floor with a view of
Laptop computers
The hole
an
outdoor reading area on the
will
be available.
wUl be
and meeting
room for
when the Hbrary
and 20
group study rooms
Summer
room
includes
space, including
1,000 people
Growing a
facility
for lobby exhibits
seat-
BRIEFS
-k'^^M
from the Harrisburg School
District
came to campus as
PRIDE program
part of the
(Personal Responsibility In
Developing Excellence) to see
life up close. Upward
Bound did more of the same
college
with students fi'om 13 area
high schools.
In the old days,
summer
was a quiet time on college
campuses. But not anymore.
NEWS
NEWS
BRIEFS
Bloomsburg admits largest
freshman class in history
NEW FACES
Howe
Barksdale
1988, the development office has quadru-
Bloomsburg's
new direc-
pled alumni support and doubled the
Sydney
is
tor of social equity.
ber of alumni donors. The Parents'
Formerly the associate
Bloomsburg has led the
director of admissions at
Higher Education
Mawr
Bryn
Mawr,
College in Bryn
aged recruitment
Fund
at
System of
in dollars raised
and par-
Aptitude Test (SAT), was in
the top third of the high
ing coordination of the
school graduating class and
serves as a
is
member
direct mail appeals
He has managed the
and telephone and per-
Righter returned to Bloomsburg after
Barksdale reports
the president's Cabinet. She
of
responsible
Philadelphia's
Hahnemann University and
He also spent a year
promoting a multicultural environment
Chestnut HUl Academy.
on
the campus. She represents the president
as assistant director
with campus and community social equity
and public
groups and coordinates and develops edu-
in Salisbury,
of alumni programs
relations at the Salisbury School
discrimination complaints and serves as
assumed
advisor to and monitors
dean of the CoUege of
all
university
,a>
;:
,
Business at Bloomsburg.
AA/EEO
He comes
Long has consulted with
several
Righter '84 has been
College, Small Business Administration,
appointed an assistant
Firestone Tire
director for the depart-
TRW Systems, Portage National Bank and
ment.
the Goodyear Tire and Rubber
since 1993,
opment
was
assistant director
fi-om 1986-88. She
of devel-
implemented a
and Rubber Company,
academic and administrative leadership
for the departments of accounting,
comprehensive annual fund program and
business education
finance and business law,
also initiated fund-raising efforts
ents
and directed the
faculty/staff
with par-
university's
campaign.
Since Helwig's arrival at Bloomsburg in
Company.
At Bloomsburg, he wiU provide
helped double support in two years. She
and
fires.
to
its
office administration,
management
and marketing.
graduate degrees each year.
department
new building
lot
in a
of thanks
has to go to Bloomsburg
students
and the
university's
Council of Trustees.
Through the Community
Government Association,
students pledged $35,000 to
the
fire
department's capital
campaign. The funds
will
generated fi-om games
activities in the
as well as
be
room
Kehr Union,
vending machine
concessions.
Bloomsburg's College of Business
grants about 400 undergraduate
. .
of
fire
couple of years, a
organizations including Montdair State
served as interim director
selective
Commonwealth,
accepting only six of every ten
moves
development, and Scott
who
by about 10 percent
Bloomsburg remained
Bloomsburg's
ness school for 14 years.
Bloomsburg's director of
increased
last year.
When the Town
he was dean of the busi-
been named
The number of applications
for admission to the university
Stamping out
to Bloomsburg
from Ithaca College, where
Susan Mitchell Helwig
roles
applicants.
responsibilities as
searches to ensure their compliance with
policies.
in extra-currictilar activities
and assumed leadership
schools in the
David K. Long has
Many
of the students were involved
one of the most
Conn.
social equity issues.
She helps resolve sexual harassment and
maintained a B average.
in high school.
professional development stints at
for
Helwig,
students,
fimd-raising efforts includ-
in govern-
an
sonal solicitations of nearly 40,000 graduates.
('82) has
more than 7,400
to
aspects of the university's
served
estate cases.
programs on
helped swell total enrollment
been responsible for several
who had
annual fiand for alumni.
cational
the
They
interim role since 1993, has
Righter,
as assistant director in
ment procurement, products liability, civil
rights, criminal and corporate law, managed
criminal, domestic, immigration and real
and
fall,
and
At three law firms she dealt
to the president
this
class ever.
Mawr she man-
activities in 10 states
new position,
new
largest
ment in four years.
The typical student in the
class of newcomers had a
1,050 score on the Scholastic
Barksdale prac-
Pa.,
supervised a staff of 12 individuals.
In her
Bloomsburg
to
the university's largest enroll-
ticipation rate every year.
ticed law for five years before returning to
higher education. At Bryn
State
Nearly 1,500 freshmen came
num-
and 50
The
university's trustees
voted to match the students'
effort, raising the university's
contribution to $70,000.
Bloomburg
University
Magazine
WINTER
1996
25
THE
1995-96
make
Scholarships
BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC TEAMS:
come
wishes
true
The wishes of a small town
Baseball
22-22
Men's Basketball
21-7
NCAA Division II Tournament
businessman have been
Women's Basketball
Field Hockey
17-11
PSAC
realized in a big
19-3
NCAA Division II runner-up
the past 10 years.
Football
9-1-1
PSAC East co-champions
Bloomsburg students have
Lacrosse
2-9
Men's Soccer
11-5-2
East co-champions
come
Best record since 1986
15-2-1
PSAC runner-up
Softball
36-12
NCAA Division 11 record
Men's Swimming
Women's Swimming
6-7
Men's Tennis
15-8
NCAA Division II Championships
NCAA Division II Championships,
Women's Tennis
18-3
NCAA Division II Championships,
Bloomsburg
& Field
Field
million to the
university for
scholarships,
he wanted to
help residents of
1-1
his
1-1
communities
NCAA Division I Championships
Wrestling
5-9
Total
204-105-4 (.658)
72-14-4 (.822)
five regional
55-38 (.591)
77-53 (.592)
ly
Winter
Spring
fall,
92 students from
high schools have
$200,000 fi-om the fund.
The
Art
Forensics cops honors
In
kiln
fund, administered in
of Mt. Carmel, has provided
mags
$1.53 million in scholarship
national
Anagama kiln firings at
home of university art
Bloomsburg's forensics team
better be able to talk, rea-
instructor Karl
and entertain very
by Union National Bank
featured
Future opponents of
son, debate
dream
received awards totalling near-
trust
had
and surrounding
realize the
of attending college.
This
FaU
Fred
bequeathed $3
PSAC Champions
Men's Track
as
When Smith
14th appearance
PSAC Champions
Women's Track &
Some 800
G. Smith Scholars.
Women's Soccer
6-4
to
way over
Beamer
aid since
the
its
inception.
Smith owned and managed
Nesbitt's Cut-Rate
in
Drug
Store
Shenandoah and Tamaqua
and resided in Shenandoah
Ln
if they expect to match
up with the Huskies. The
team concluded the 1995-96
MainviUe were featured
well
competition season with a
total
five
of 102 awards, including
sweepstakes trophies.
The team
finished last year
by placing 10th
at the
National Forensic
Association's 26th
Annual
National Tournament. The
competition included 850
competitors from 112 coUeges
and
universities nationwide.
issues of
for
National Science
Foundation grants
(April 1996)
(May/June 1996).
Geology and chemistry
In an
more than usual this fall.
The two departments
received a pair of grants
from
the National Science
is
fired
without using any kind
rich earth colors
effect
through the
of the extremely high
as well
water
memory of his
wife
late
is
officially
labeled the "Fred G. Smith
Golden Rule Trust Fund."
Eligible students must attend
Bloomsburg and be residents
of Ashland, Mount Carmel or
Shenandoah boroughs or
Moimt Carmel Township.
Students must also attend one
available because of the
and
other equipment needed
to isolate genes from DNA.
Bloomsburg Univenity Magazine
pottery
of glaze. The pottery takes on
New equipment to be
purification system
1996
kiln,
totalling $64,500.
as centrifuges, a
WINTER
anagama
Established in perpetual
Marion, the fund
heat of the wood-fired kiln.
grants include a $50,000
26
and School Arts
stu-
dents and faculty are smiling
X-ray difractometer
26 years before his death.
zines,Ceramics Monthly
to geology and chemistry
Foundation
in
two national maga-
of
^
a
five
high schools including
Cardinal Brennan,
Mount
Carmel, North SchuyUdU,
Our Lady of Lourdes
Shenandoah Area.
or
k
already knew. Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
boasts the premier athletic
points, beating out second-
closest school
program among the 14
place Edinboro.
with top-four finishes.
members of the Pennsylvania
For the 1995-96 academic
State Athletic Conference.
The Huskies
sat
season, the 18
atop the
1995-96 ranking for the
final
inaugural
E Eugene
Dixon,
in men's
home
Huskies take
PSAC
Dixon Trophy
The standings
the
F.
in the race for
lot
titles
fall,
season ever
fall
at
tennis,
Division
II
Championships.
men's sports, for a
in field
soccer,
total
personnel and educa-
System
universities.
in the
six
women's sports and
development and operation
tional policies for the 14
top four in the conference in
and conference
The board
inception in 1983.
fiscal
NCAA
and
softbaU,
for the
System since the body's
of the System and formulates
the
Bloomsburg finished
after
plans and coordinates the
for a
men's and women's basketball
hockey and women's
of people
combined
represented in the
in football,
runner-up finishes
Eugene Dbcon Trophy
confirms what a
and women's
East
named
Board of Governors
for a record of
school. Seven teams were
titles
is
State
best
Education of Pennsylvania.
The trophy
Dixon, the Chairman of the
combined
record of 66-11-4 (.840), the
System of Higher
had seven teams
University athletic teams
the teams
all-around athletic program
Backed by conference
Bloomsburg
204-105-4 (.658). In the
Jr.,
Trophy, signifying the best
in the State
sponsored programs. The next
totalled 116
Parents lead
five
fund-raising
of 11
efforts
top-four finishes out of 18
Most Bloomsburg students
credit their parents for
making
FUND-RAISING SUCCESS
their college
education possible. But
many may not know how
State support for public higher education
pays
less
than half the cost of educating
students. Tuition
of the
and
fees
make up much
most other
colleges and universities, relies upon
philanthropy more than ever to maintain
its margin of excellence.
like
Last year, university fund-raising efforts
exceeded $1.5 million. These funds are
distributed through the
Bloomsburg
development, about one
tributes the funds to provide
classrooms, chemistry lab
tance to students
who
and
generosity of their
dads
According to figures in the
in
July
1
996 report of the
assis-
present papers at
Council for Aid to Education,
Bloomsburg parents con-
more than
Library on campus.
Fund-raising ventures such as golf outings,
the annual auction/dinner-dance
added $32,000
universities.
University faculty and staff
members
more than $78,000
in 1995,
tributed $81,000 last year.
amount
was directed
for the university,
raised
scholarships, support the honors
and
activities.
The Bloomsburg University
year included a $200,000
bequest from the estate of Mary Taubel
Mary Moore
Taubel, an 1890 graduate of the school.
('75) gave
piano, honoring Ms. Hudock's father,
Francis
J.
campaign
initiated in 1988.
funds to provide computers
in classrooms, chemistry
and
lab kits,
students
assistance to
who present papers
at national conferences.
Parents have contributed
more than $270,000
capital
development, and alumni
which has
more than $488,000
raffles
$50,000 to provide a Steinway grand
and
scholars program, provide for faculty
and
was
The
new standard
to last year's athletic fiinds.
gifts last
Michael and Barbara Hudock
to the annual fund, used to maintain
staff
set a
Foundation distributes the
Rieder, honoring her mother,
in 1990.
in gifts
Major
and
Parents' Fund.
since the parents'
is
moms
in giving to the
$1 10,000 for scholarships for student athletes.
financial
wUl
dis-
computers
kits,
this fall
from the unprecedented
Bloomsburg University
Last year, the annual fund provided about
support for the institution. That figure
More than $800,000
Bloomsburg University Foundation
new Harvey A. Andruss
well above the national average at public
up from just $6,000
raised almost $500,000 for
and program support. The
$270,000 to the capital campaign to build the
in every four
Bloomsburg alums provides
scholarships
Since 1988, the parents'
Parents have also contributed
According to Sue Helwig, director of
contributed
last year.
national conferences.
University Foundation, Inc.
and
$81,000
much. Students
benefit
fund's success, contributing a record
campaign has
rest.
But Bloomsburg,
colleges
Parents played a big part in the annual
Benner.
the
campaign
to the
to build
new Harvey A. Andruss
Library
on campus.
Bloomsburg Univerziiy Magazine
WINTER
1996
27
NEWS
R
I
NEWS
E F S
BRIEFS
FOUNDATION NAMES NEW OFFICERS
Elbern H. Alkire
Jr.
of
Emmaus and
Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit
Victoria L. Mihalik of MillviUe have
from 1972-1981 including diagnostic
been elected president and vice president
teacher, diagnostic teaching consultant
of the Bloomsburg University Foundation
and coordinator, individual education
program for the Education of All
Handicapped Act.
Corson has operated a private practice
for 1996-97.
Joan
Alkire
^ ^ » <9 <» ^
<»
Corson of Bloomsburg was
S.
named to
'^'isii"^'(SfW <» <»
the board.
is
the executive consultant in
of Higher Education working with the
her certification as a registered nurse
system chanceUor and the director of the
the
He
mass communications
much
The Bloomsburg University Foundation
has honored
him not
has the responsibility of securing private
following four years with General Electric.
funds to maintain and enhance quahty
and
Bloomsburg Area YMCA following
more than 30 years in education. She
once,
excellence in
all
areas of the university.
membership includes outstanding
and civic leaders
from throughout the state.
the
so that the organization
at
Lankenaw Hospital School of Nursing
Chemicals, Inc. of AUentown for 33 years
Mihalik works as preschool director for
professor Walter Brasch. So
since 1983. She earned
in 1955.
was employed by Air Products and
The Pennsylvania Press Club
thinks a lot of Bloomsburg
nursing specialist in the
Bloomsburg area
Office of Continuous Improvement.
Prof earns kudos
as a cUnical
residence to the Pennsylvania State System
Its
business, professional
served in several capacities with the
but three times.
Brasch
won
first
place
awards for feature story and
for
column, and second place
He was
named Outstanding
for education writing.
also
Advisor of a student publica-
work with
Spectrum magazine. The
tion for his
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NEWS
Alumni name new
officers
John
and the Kehr Union
first
at
Bloomsburg
as treasurer
Alumni
The
Edwards; John Haney '85 of
of the Alumni
Lancaster; Franklin (Ed) Jones
Association since 1980.
'54 of Philadelphia; Cliff
elected to the board of
'66
Bloomsburg; lames Pegg '67
ing the past year.
Reed
A substitute teacher in the
N.J.;
Bloomsburg Area School
Brett '82 of Maplewood,
and Cameron Smith '84
of Lafayette
Elected to fiU a one-year
unexpired term was Nancy
to
Fort.
Elected to serve their
she
is
Alumni Association, she
served on the Alumni Board
first
from 1989
two-year terms on the Board
married
in the Pennsylvania State
The Huskies, who won the
Dixon Trophy as the conference's top athletic
Anna M.
Marvin
finished second
Metzger
'86
of
at
'95
Bauer
N.J.;
A retired teacher,
married to Robert G.
Reitz, '49.
Moimtaintop,
of Somers Point,
Michele
L.
Corbin
'95
of
past president,
as
immediate
the board ex officio for the
'94 of Philadelphia;
1996-97 year.
and
Women athletes
Bloomsburg
led the confer-
ence with 46 selections.
wUl serve on
Harrisburg; John D. McDaniel
among the
14 schools in the academic
to 1996.
P.
program
performance in sports,
category.
of Directors were
Edward G. Edwards, '73.
Carolyn Vernoy Reitz, '51,
secretary.
also exceUed in
the tide of "Scholar Athlete"
for
Bloomsburg
is
A past president of the
'70,
A reading
Middle School, she
program
the classroom as they earned
Swartz Lychos '52 of Forty
academic year include:
teacher in the
Huskies' highly-successful ath-
Athletic Conference.
RobertW. Rupp, 71. Other
officers elected for the coming
vice president.
the past academic year.
Hill.
married to
Nancy Feher Edwards,
student/athletes were success-
letics
of WiUiamsport; Virginia
is
where Bloomsburg's
Sixty-seven participants in the
Fay Ortiz-Golden '87 of
and has
pools and
of WescosviUe;
sen'ed as vice president dur-
District, she
fields, courts,
mats are not the only venues
ful in
Maurer
in
classroom
terms were Nancy Feher
The 1971 graduate was
directors in 1991
Athletes succeed
'66 of
Re-elected to two-year
the
university, Trathen has ser\'ed
Association for the 1996-97
year.
John S. Mulka
Bloomsburg.
Trafhen, '68, treasurer.
will serve as
president of the
Universit)'
J.
Director of student activities
Sandra Jefferson Rupp of
Bloomsburg
NEWS
BRIEFS
Honored
athletes attained
a ctunulative grade point
average of at least 3.25.
TRUSTEES NAME OFFICERS
Joseph
Mowad, M.D., of Dan\Tlle
elected chairperson of the
has been
University Council of Trustees for 1996-97.
Jennifer
(CGA). She was elected by the student
body in March as vice
Bloomsburg
Adams of Catawissa and LaRoy
named first
for the 1996-97
Davis,
president of the
CGA
academic year.
who has served on the Coundl for
Auction produces
big winners
RCA sateUite sys-
Davis '67 of FeasterviUe were
17 years, boasts one of the longest tenures
An
and second vice
on the council He was appointed
tem, a cultured pearl necklace,
chairs, respectively.
to a six-
A secondary
A. William Kelly '71 of Kingston was
year term in January 1980.
elected secretary.
social studies teacher at
Mowad was named to the university's
coundl in November 1994. He is senior
Senior High School, Davis has previously
He has been affiliated with Geisinger since
when he joined
in the
the staff as an associate
Adams was appointed student trustee to
The junior
management major has been
dent government
member of the
the president of WVIA-TV and
WVLA-FM, Northeast Pennsylvania's public
broadcasting affiliates. He was recognized as
and
is
a
Committee of the
Communit)' Government Association
in 1988
and has served
as
an instructor in
the department of mass communication.
active in stu-
at the university
Executive
is
photo of Cal Ripken
print
He serves on the board of the Pennsylvania
Association of Broadcasters
and
by well-known
Jr.
and a
artist
the items for bid during the
Husky
is
a
recognized consultant and speaker.
Club's annual Auction/
Dinner-Dance
last spring.
Proceeds benefitted the
Bloomsburg's "Young Alumnus of the Year"
urology department.
the council in Januar)' 1995.
Kelly
an authentic autographed
David Armstrong were among
served as council chairperson.
vice president of the Geisinger Foundation.
1968
Bensalem Township
18-inch
General Athletic Scholarship
Fund. While the successful
bidders took those and nearl)'
1
50 other items home, the big
winner was the scholarship
fimd which profited to the
tune of SI 4,300.
Bloomsburg Unntnity Magazine W\KTEII. \99f,
29
Kozloff appointed to
UNIVERSITY EMPHASIZES ALCOHOL EDUCATION
NCAA
Commission
Presidents
Bloomsburg University
"There are more than 400 college-aged
management, weight reduction, and eating
deaths each week from alcohol-related
causes," says
Barry Jackson, a
disorders.
member of
During October,
The
numbers show students
on alcohol in one year
latest available
spent $5.5 billion
much
twice as
as part
of National
Collegiate Alcohol Awareness
the university's counseling department.
Week,
raise
awareness about the dangers of drug
and alcohol
as they did
use. Students
on textbooks. Of the more
wore black ribbons
to
than
memorate the Hves
lost to
1
DAWN
2 million college stu-
dents currently enrolled in
more than
300,000 of them will suffer
this country,
Jackson heads the university's
new Office
killed every
com-
alcohol abuse. Several dozen
students painted their faces
white to symbolize the
number of college
alcohol-related deaths."
student
day because of alcohol.
Drug and Alcohol Education. In addition to focusing on education and counsel-
hours in the Husky Lounge snack
ing about substance abuse problems,
Anthropology professor David
Jackson sees the
office's role as integral in
Minderhout delivered a
lecture
the university's overall wellness program.
tures differing attitudes
toward alcohol,
Educational videos aired during the lunch
for
Presidents
bar.
The 44-member
Commission is
the ongoing forum for
Association.
Presidents
college
university's
Wellness Network
programs
(DAWN)
the commission
representing the interests of
Division
II athletics.
The commission's
primar)'
concerns include institutional
control over athletic programs,
the welfare of the student-
department talked about enforcement and
coordinates
the risks of sexual assault involving alcohol.
related to stress
within the
Kozloff is one of ten
members on
about cul-
and members of the university police
Drug, Alcohol and
CEOs
NCAA structure.
athlete
The
Commission of the
National Collegiate Athletic
Jackson organized a series of programs to
—
President Jessica Kozloff has
been appointed to the
and
and
ethical
fairness.
advises the
conduct
The group
also
NCAA on academic
standards and the appropriate
balance betw^een athletics and
other institutional priorities.
A growing trend
is
ture learning." These
share in
"adven-
programs
common a field expe-
rience in the jungle or desert
or on a mountain peak. Dr.
Frederick
Hill's trip to
the
upper reaches of the Amazon
rain forest
is
typical. HiU, a
Bloomsburg University biology professor, will be
leading a group of students to
Adventure Learning
Peru early
in January, 1997.
The course incorporates
College students today have
elements of classroom
new
instruction with field work.
opportunities to learn
inside
and outside the
classroom.
Thanks
For those wishing more
information about the
to study-abroad
Amazon
excursion,
call
programs and internship
717-389-4134.
experiences, students often
ber of seats are avaOable for
campus and
away from
A limited num-
leave the college
individuals
earn credits
not Bloomsburg University
Bloomsburg.
30
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1996
students.
Bloomsburg Univenity Magazine
who
are
r
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Women's Chorale
Art
Ensemble and
Exhibits
Chamber
Haas Gallery hours are Monday
through Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For
Carver
more
Auditorium.
information, contact the art
department
Singers
SundayApril 20, 1997,2:30 p.m.,
Hall,
Kenneth Gross
at (7 7) 389-4646.
1
Concert Choir and
Husky Singers
Saturday April 26, 1997,8 p.m.. First
Presbyterian Church, Market Street,
Bloomsburg.
Concerts
Admission
specified.
free unless otherwise
is
For more information,
contact the music department at
(717)389-4284.
Faculty Recital
Sunday Feb.
2:30 p.m.. Carver Hall,
2,
Kenneth Gross Auditorium. Featuring
violinist
Ann
Stokes and
cellist
Mark
Jelinek
Lectures
Celebrity
Artist Series
Jazz Night '97
Thursday March
For ticket information,
call
6,
1997,8 p.m.,
the
Provost's
Lecture Series
Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Celebrity Artist Series box office at
Hall.
For more information, contact
Featuring Bloomsburg's
(717) 389-4409. All performances are
academic support services at
Studio Band.
in
Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani
(717)389-4409.
Brass Managerie
Hall.
Tuesday March 25, 1997,8
New York City
Opera's "La
Boheme"
Carver
Hall,
p.m.,
Kenneth Gross
Women's
History
Month
Auditorium.
Paula
Tuesdayjan.28, I997,8p.m.,$25.
Kamen.Thursday March
20,
l997.Topic to be announced.
University-
Bolshoi
Symphony
Orchestra
Saturday Feb.
8,
1997,8 p.m., $30.
Community
SundayApril
6,
Moscow^
in
1997,2:30 p.m., Haas
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Festival
The AIDS Epidemic
Orchestra
Hall.
the United States
Dr. Peter Gould,
April 10-11,1997.
Featuring pianist John Couch.
Ballet
Friday March 21,1997,8 p.m., $25.
Concert Band
SundayApril
1
3,
1997, 2:30 p.m., Haas
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Hall.
Bloomsburg Univenity Magazine
WINTER
1996
3!
WORD
THE UkST
From Nine
Professor
Ed Moses
Bloomsburg.
just
teaches English at
A creative \vriter, Moses has
published his third novel. Nine
Dancing, his
latest
Sisters
work, addresses t\vo
controversial issues
sexual abuse
Dancing
Sisters
—
child
and multiple-
personaht)' disorder.
Nine Sisters Dancing is
published by Fithian Press. Copies
ccr^ oyote comes
can be ordered by calling 1-800-662-8351.
The following is an excerpt from the book
...
I
V-^into her body,
rough-furred, prick-eared, long-striding,
deep twilight in a -svood she has never
in
known. Ho^v
is
she to
She turns fuU
travel?
know which way to
seeing only
circle,
hearing only wind in
trees,
trees,
is
no one way. And so abnipdy, %vithout
thought, she simply goes. Her going starts
something
and
rib
else mo\'ing,
bones chcking
clattering together, leg
and
and hip and
spine, shoulder, neck, skull, the
Shadow Deer up and running behind,
beside,
ahead of her: a whole
abroad
hea\-\'
hears.
There
is
now in the woods, its foot-
bind, stab, crush. Devour. For
now remembered. Has known
life.
"And knows
therefore the
one
trick that
may stay it, remembering I am Coyote,
the smart one
—
her, a tree
if
And
needs in time.
she can find svhat she
the forest gh'es
it
to
with two trunks, spHt at the
growd. She stands between.
"As she goes
stiU,
Deer goes
still.
AH
and then the heavy tread three
and two trees, and one tree a^vay.
still,
And a
flash of white, rising
treetops. It
is.
.
the
.
almost to the
bone of Deer,
in a
the heart of Coyote, there for a
stars,
Coyote's fear of her
little
time
"It is
nothing
"It is
eversthing at once, the beating of
at
"Wild
"It
is
bone shine Kke shooting
mar her, one
catching hot in her
just the
moment she has to
have, hangs
there, the tree creaking, shaking to the tips
Woman, come to guide me on
of its U\igs.
dog,
.
.
while Coyote, the fastest
nms for her life.
There
is
thrashing, a shower of leaves.
nothing.
feet drive the
breath
Coyote, the cleverest dog, hes
tains out of earth's heart.
Uttle hollo^\'.
that rapes
and renders doUs.
"She runs in the dark. WTiatever
can see in the dark, for that
lives.
this
She
is
is
is
it is
^vhere
it
the fastest of all the dogs, but
no dog, and she will never outrun
a great
One lands
on her back, extinguishes the bone-spark
out of earth's body. Drh^e blood in foun-
"The thing
fur,
lurches into the vee of the trunks, and, for
all.
"A nothing \vhose
spHnters of white
she springs away as the looming darkness
fear.
my way. Shall I stop and call her?
Bhoaisburg Ur«Krstf Magazine
It svill
hard too dark to see in the dark. Flimg
the heart of earth.
1996
legs
its
masked first by the lighter cacophony
of Deer, by the trip-hammer pounding of
b)'
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walking behind her on
trunks and growing nearer.
her
it all
trees,
something
fall
32
it is
trip, catch,
goes
rattling
boneyard announcing her name.
"Something
for
like tree
she has just
smelling
only the whiteness of old bones. There
it,
She
formless, silent
is
down in a
mottied gray and
and %sithout
scent,
disguised as the raw material of creation.
It is
quiet no\\^ the stalker's quiet.
Then
the great thudding footfall, receding, and
the quiet of earth at rest"
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Bloomsbu]
PRESIDENT
Jessica
scoot across the floor.
Kozloff
S.
Room
the Laundry
Bloomsburg alum Donna Grove finds
time to write award-winning romance novels amid
piles of children's laundry and "dust bunnies" that
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SPRING 1996
While at Bloomsburg, she battled for
titles
on the women's tennis team.
After college,
English, she
offices.
Today,
armed with a degree
worked
a novelist and a
law
in Lancaster
Donna Grove
is
in
a mother,
self- described ''organiza-
tionally impaired" housewife.
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IN
WRITTEN BY TRINA WALKER
•
THE
PHOTOS BY BRIAN DONNELLY
Overlook the fact that Grove
(nee Royer, Bloomsburg class of '81)
is
is
a published novelist and her
rather ordinary.
Her home
life
is
a
traditional split-level in a modern,
middle-class neighborhood, where back
yards run into each other and^ bicycles
in the driveways.
She drives her kids
lie
to
school in a beat-up blue station wagon.
Cereal boxes line her counter,
and
baskets of laundry wait to be put away.
eyond the coat rack ladened
muhi-sized jackets, past the
'
with
umbrella stand
ets,
with tennis rack-
filled
her office in the basement.
is
Equipped with two desks, a computer
shelves teeming with books, this is
and
room where Grove's
come to hfe.
characters
the
Grove's writing schedule
around her
is
juggled
of "Mom." With
real job
husband, two sons, two cats and
a
an occasional visiting dog. Grove
has her hands
"Up
full.
now,
to
my
catch-as-catch-can.
puter on
Run an
day.
all
I
writing has been
leave the
I
errand. Write another.
load of laundry. The only time
get
to
myself
is
com-
write a paragraph.
I
Do
a
really
from 10 p.m.
to
midnight or midnight to 2 a.m." Grove
hopes to change that schedule
that her youngest son
is
now
in first grade.
With the nevdbund freedom of six
whole hours to herself each day,
her goal is to commit more time to
writing. She wants to be able to cut
book from
the production time for a
months down
10
to
six
or
eight
months.
Grove loves the benefits of working
at
her
home, such as being there for
kids and not wearing panty
hose. But she admits the distractions
make for a struggle to keep motivated.
"The one thing about writers,"
Grove reveals, "is that we love to have
written:
We
Donna Grove,
'8
1
,
won
the Golden Heart Award from the
product. But
we hate to
actually write!
When you're sitting there
who
be an attractive diversion!"
a week,
Despite her sporadic writing schedule and the interruptions
of boys asking for lunch, Grove has
managed
to publish
three novels in the past two years, with a fourth due to hit
bookstores in October of 1996.
first
romance
novel,
A
Touch of Camelot,
won
the
Golden Heart Award from the Romance Writers of
America (RWA). That award opened doors for Grove that
prestigious
she might otherwise have
pounded upon
for years.
The Golden Heart is a national contest for unpublished
members of the RWA. Completed manuscripts are judged by
feUow romance writers. When Grove's manuscript became a
finalist in
of America
At the recommendation of a friend. Grove found an agent,
staring at a blank screen, even cleaning out the refi-igerator can
Her very
Romance Writers
love to have a finished
the contest, she gained admission to the seemingly
impenetrable world of publishing.
submitted the manuscript to several pubUshers. Within
it
was
sold.
Since then. Grove's writing has quickly ballooned into a
full-time job. "I probably
on research
working on
for
edits
spend
a third
my
of
new book, another
a
and the
on the
rest
'working time'
third writing
'business':
or
copying
manuscripts, ordering ads, designing bookmarks, arranging
book
signings," she says.
Grove's books are
fiiU
captivating characters.
Return
to
of spirited dialogue, vivid scenery,
Her most
recently published novel.
Camelot, takes place in the late 19th centur>', -with
characters traveling
from the gas-ht
streets
of Philadelphia to
the scenic British country-side.
For each novel, she spends months researching historical
data.
She reads books about period costvmaes and 19th century
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part-time schedule, includ-
She pores over old
slang.
town
maps,
work at a funeral home.
"Then I hit 30!"
ing
visualizing
•where her characters will
At that point, desire to try
stand and \vhat they can
see.
For Return
much
to
won
Camelot,
to
calls
(The
her some time to write. She
and her husband had pur-
bury, England, were
more
chased a computer.
affordable than a flight!)
ed, 'If
She contacted the Glas-
tonbury
librarian
GROVE
in 1892?
Were the
streets
town
have
lights
needed.
"I
paved? Tourist brochures provided
write to
know that
the
gas
think
photographs of the places she would recreate for her readers.
to labor alone, in
Manheim, a small town outside of
Lancaster, set amid the cornfields and co^v pastures of central
Pennsylvania. "The next book takes place in Lancaster," Grove
you're crazy or
Grove herself Hves
Ln
comments. "Here, the research was
I'd give
my
at
fingertips.
thought
I
in \vTiting
is
a combination of
timing, luck and persistence.
maybe.
I
I
guess there's a chance to
don't kno'iv when! But
money.
always wanted to be a
I
make money someday,
don't think anyone should
get into this for the
"I've
It's
mo\'ie
star.
So you
say, 'Let's
You think 'What
be sensible.
For ten years after college,
as a legal secretary, then
it's
such a long-shot
just ignore
—
are the chances of
being a
like
making
it?'
now.'"
important for people
who
that's just
what she
did.
She began
as a paralegal. After her
-ss'hatever
type of job would
second
fit
her
are aspiring to
You do not have
your closet, and wonder if
there are groups out there.
satisfied
if
with any book imless
it
has a happy ending. Also,
I'm fascinated with characters and characterization. Since these
According to Forbes magazine, romance
^vriters'
markets, making up 48 percent of
is
it
was
a natural."
one of the
all
more than 25 million readers in North America. "If you Hke
romance and you want to write it, your chances for success may
be greater than in, say, mystery ivriting. You can write for fun,
but most of us want to sell what we write!"
And once the first book is sold, is a writer on the road to success?
hesitates. "I'm
pond. At
that,
I
first
I
wanted
faster. It's
just
to
not sure.
wanted
I
feel like a little fish in a
to publish a book.
pubhsh another. Now,
I
Then, once
want
to write
never ending."
?s^-*^l
Donna Grove:
4
SPRING 1996
Bloomsburg
"I
leave the
Uima^ Magazine
computer on
all
day.
I
largest
paperbacks sold,
\\'ith
Grove
Let's get a real iob.'"
worked
son was born, she took
but
writer,
one of those things you
career.
it's
three elements are key to historical romance,
not a very secure business," she explains. "You don't make
much money.
it
your basement or
you have any talent. Your first feedback does
not have to be from a faceless editor in New York."
Grove chose the historical romance genre for several reasons.
"I love doing the historical research," she explains. "And I'm
not
myself a break!"
Grove believes her success
"It's
do
Joining local writing clubs
gave her the support she
Did
books.
research
"I decid-
ever want to do this,
I
I'd better
DONN.\
for
information not available
in
failure.
Glaston-
was long-distance.
phone
out over fear of
Grove's part-time job gave
of Grove's research
v/rite a paragraph.
Run an errand. Write another.
Do
a load of laundry."
I
big
did
them
LETTERS
And, she adds, nothing changes
published. Yes, her sons thinlc
home
at
after
neat that
it's
books and that you can even buy one
husband tells her to enjoy her success.
your book
Mommy
is
her sons are
still
have
home and
door with the words, "Don't come
room. Don't
talk to
me,
work?
Sometimes. But they don't always
Grove admits that she
no respect from her
list,
gets
still
when
read through
Donald
well
it. It is
We
could imitate.
can
done and something
learn
all
from each
I
wish we
other.
R. Gerth
President, California State University
Sacramento,
Calif.
work seriously. And if
— she
she'll still
be
It is
Sunday afternoon, and
I
have just browsed leisurely
through Bloomsburg: the University Magazine. What a
beautiful piece of work!
you are bleeding."
Does the warning
unless
or
I
working, she closes the
is
take her
for sharing the first edition of
— The University Magazine. Over the weekend
Bloomsburg
and you still
have dust bunnies. And you still
get no respect from your family."
in this
Thank you very much
in California. Sure, her
But, she says, "You
When
Dear Editor:
writes
sticky kitchen floors,
Grove
TO THE EDITOR
—
hits the best seller
Mom, just
The contents and the quality of the writing represent
Bloomsburg exceedingly well
but the creative layout and
—
the superb printing job propel the publication into the
realm of
artistry!
fooHn'
Bloomsburg has a very special place in my heart, and I
want only the best for that place and those people.
It is comforting to know that "she" has such a capable and
family.
will always
loving caretaker [in Dr. Kozloff]!
Introducing the
new and
Maryan
G.
efforts.
McCormick
Higher Education
exclusive
applaud your
I
Initiative
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I
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was born and raised in Plymouth,
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magical
and magical
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The Boy
in the
And
baby
the
art
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with the baboon heart
And I believe
These are the days
of lasers in the jungle
.
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These are the days
of miracles and wonder.
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all
around
us, so
some
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In Mexico, people believe that tears
flo\'
ulous claims deserve to be
tested.
PHOTOS BY
anthropology profes-
Dee Anne Wymer, mirac-
Such skepticism
is
part
and parcel
of being an educated person in today's
from
JOAN HELPER
a
Madonna's painted
eyes.
society,
says
Wymer, whose course on
pseudoscience examines the "miracles" of
In India, die faithful beUeVe that a
ESP, faith healing
and creation
She believes
the responsibility of
it's
science.
the university to provide students the
marble statue of the Elephant
tools to
God
do the
testing.
drinks milk offered by devotees.
In California,
his
an evangelist claims that
mother once
sliced
of bread into two
enough
up a small
full plates
heel
of bread
-
to feed ten people.
In Israel, a psychic's mental
Dee Anne Wymer, anthropology
professor,
who
teaches a course about pseudoscience, believes the
energy bends spoons.
university has an obligation to teach skepticism,
"Students deserve to get three things
On American
television, viewers
watch
out of their education
at the university,"
Wymer. "They should
says paleobotanist
be able to read well, to write well and
a secret
government autopsy performed
to think well."
Thinking well means being able "to
evaluate arguments critically,"
on the body of a space
alien.
Wymer
vvdth
presented
students
surface,
number of questions: WTio's
presenting the idea? What motives might
to
In photographs of a forming universe
expects
an idea to drive beneath the
ask a
the presenter possess? What's the larger
taken recently by the Hubbel space
picture? Are there alternative
tions that
seem
to
make more
Most people understand the
telescope,
some
see the face of
God
in
explana-
sense?
role of
science in "testing" claims about the
natural world. Wymer says that "science
a vehicle for critical thinking"
the billowing clouds of gas.
is
— perhaps
not the only vehicle, she admits, but a
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primary means of evaluating natural
— found
phenomena.
Bloomsburg University professor
Larry Mack, chair of the chemistry
department, explains that scientists are in
said they believed in
up explanations
the business of "setting
about the world." The
and reproducible."
tions are "testable
From
explana-
scientist's
these explanations, says Mack, sci-
models —
entists create
theories
—
to
explain things.
ut an increasing
number of
Americans are turning from
scientific explanations
ural
numbers of
ing
phenomena. And growconcerned
scientists are
about what they perceive
science" trend.
of nat-
an "anti-
as
A recent conference of the
New York Academy
of Sciences explored
"the contemporary flight from reason
and
."
its
associated antiscience.
Speakers
at
"politically
.
the conference pointed to
induced
motives
behind
ESR
a belief in astrolog)^
It's
difficult)'
believe
or refuse to
what science "teaches." Radio
show maven Rush Limbaugh
talk-
rejects
theories about the "greenhouse effect"
because "the earth has always taken care
of
itself."
A
recent Gallup poll suggests
that almost half of
all
Americans believe
.
scientific
legal
are not.
And
rather than the scientific use of
having
words such
are
as
more
law and theory. In the
are elaborate hunches.
The opposite
scientific theories,
Simpson
claims
—
trial
people think
Johnny
heard
extravagant
courtroom, laws are inviolable; theories
are
Cochran's
during
little
the
Many
of science's
critics
point to
of the National
Center for Science Edu-
and
A recent G-alluppole. sw^esh fhaf
attor-
ney Thomas C. Sager,
\vrit-
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CJresirioni&i^
o^er e\/otafiot^.
ing jointly in the journal
laws are
-£rfio<.TS:—
more important
than theories, that
'laws'
believe,
scientific
miRflCLE-S
^ B/oRYTH-m^
ES>p
r
cannot be 'broken,'
and that a
law,
once estab-
Hshed, cannot be altered:
It is scientific 'Truth.'"
Scientific
facts
—
basis for scientific laws
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the
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can and do change. For
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in creationism over evolution.
study of college students
—
Another
more than
a decade, for
Bermuda Triangle,
miracles and biorhythms
instance, scientists
Homo
beheved
sapiens had 48
belief in ghosts, the
that
psychic healing,
chromosomes. The
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:
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surveying
O.J.
better than
Eugenie C. Scott, executive director
intro-
—
unsupported hunches.
is
true in science.
erroneously, that scientific
distrust
.
They
familiar wixh the
Most of us
and "perfectly closed behef systems."
Whatever the cause of this growing
many Americans
.
most people expect
But
laws to be immutable, unchangeable.
Creation/Evolution, say that
undeniable that
explanation
understand the language of science.
"most laypersons
is
is
."
paranormal because many of us don't
"the rise in religious fundamentalism"
it
The goal
expected.
through theor)'
convincing
people to be skeptical about claims of the
antirational rhetoric." Others pointed to
antiscience bias,
say Scott
science,"
are able to look at old data differently.
Nearly half of the students expressed
have
and technologies
and Sager,
mind
about an
"it's OK to change your
new
data,
or if you
explanation if you get
"In
Almost 80 percent of the same students
cation (NCSE),
.
About 55 percent
tools
have revealed there are only 46.
checked yes to miracles and biorh)'thms.
Scientists
new
duction of
that about 40 percent of the stu-
dents believe in ghosts.
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se
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TO
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instances of scientific fraud
takes
—
science
— or mis-
dom
to underscore their opinion that
is
more
claims
healer's
faith
peoples
or
The difference between the scientist
and those who turn from science's
methods is largely a matter of attitude.
Scientists know enough about the
problems
psychic's
a
beyond
go
Science sometimes offers less-than-sat-
"Ifi
science, ifs
OK to
change your mind
where
why
Being
alone
The
happen.
things
in
if you
get
new
data, or
meaningless universe can
be frightening.
And
"out
exists
life
When
are
expected.
these
are consistent with
rrulk,
the marble, the
air,
the stone absorbs a small
terns
we
set
fails to
and discover
California
make
the
to process pat-
linkages. That's
and
why
recall
— telephone
from
we're
thinking
about
when
— make sense of
tant friends
calls
dis-
that
ran-
is
work with
exper-
imental procedures that help reduce the
own
influence of their
tations
such safeguard
of
beliefs
on the experimental
is
replicabUity
many independent
and expec-
results.
—
investigators to
reproduce the same experimental
If several
One
the abil-
results.
independent verifications
repli-
an individual investiga-
experimental
results,
then the
likeli-
from
porous so that
sufficiently
amount of
impression that
liquid, thus giving the
the
for.
see patterns in the clouds
coincidences
themselves.
scientists
known
reveals that the god's base, carved
god "drinks."
The
points out that
up
of
Scientists are trained to
the atmosphere.
ancestors in their mightiest endeavors.
is
biases
In this case, the scientist's examination
marble,
brain
of the beliefs, expectations
and
miracles than
some readers derive satisfaction knowing
benign extraterrestrials aided our
that
human
that science also
control the influence
physical properties of the
Gods that space travelers helped the
the
alternative
often understood,
is
Are there explanations that
It's
ancient Egyptians build the pyramids,
Wymer
tries to
tor's
for
argues in Chariots of the
Bloomsburg's
isn't
there
supernatural intervention.
there."
connections we're looking
them.
cate or duplicate
oU data differently.
Erich von Daniken
Sometimes, science
test
drink milk asks whether
and simpler explanations
at
how to
she says,
ity
who exam-
if you are able to look
some would
so,
rather believe that other
scientist
claims that statues
ines
vast,
a
confirm their
an absolute.
belief in
about an explanation
a
look upon such
events to
chance or accident seem to
is
not an absolute. The
faithful
be the only explanations
for
explanations
empirical
goal,
People can be uncomfort-
us
hat
to realize that "truth"
the nature of our world.
Most of us know that science is all
about testing hypotheses, says
Bloomsburg's Wymer. Science teaches
Israel.
of
fallibility
about
able in a universe
native
the Ten
Lost Tribes of
linguistic confusion.
isfying explanations
us.
credible than a
consultation.
Science's
North America's
become descendants of
spaceships.
just as fallible as astrologers'
predictions. Scientific theories, the critics
conclude, are no
around
occurring
patterns
Unfamiliar lights in the sky become alien
scientist
concludes
that
the
Elephant God's "consumption" of milk
is
not miraculous
at
all.
The devout
Hindu, on the other hand, finds the
phenomenon
a
decision.
a "miracle" that does not
It is
confirmation of a faith
merit skeptical inquiry or
critical analysis.
Professor Larry Mack, chair of Bloomsburg's
chemistry department, sees no conflict
between science and
faith.
Eloomsburg University Magazine
SPRING 1996
9
MIRACLES
hood of subjective contamination
Why
—
It's
should most of us
non-scientists
concerned
about
—
be
on moral
takes
these
political
—
come into
The battle
— and even
nent,
because they go to
—
Henry Morris
and the
writ-
tainly the
dean
ciate
for
must be
Bloomsand
burg's College of Arts
Christians to
the ancient
there
al
is
a
arts
—
citizens.
Romans have recognized
body of knowledge
— the
appropriate for free
Our democracy
also
liber-
(liberi)
needs a
this issue or,
ignore
it.
.
.
.
sci-
a great mistake for
ence.
nonsense."
on
It is
compromise
perhaps even worse, to
(The evolution theory) has
Poliakoff,
"is
to
prepare people to be participants, not
victims,
in
our
increasingly
and
students,
a
God intervenes directin human affairs. They
nent
ly
evolution
It's
as
anti-
evolution science
is
bending spoons, but also
about
or
the origin of the universe and the role of
the divine in
human
affairs.
earth, say scientific creationists,
has existed only thousands
this difference in
is
As Morris
teaches
an elaborate
of
structure to justify
devastating the
cerns into the legislative arena. At least
says,
"The Bible
work
the
that
creation
was
accom-
and completed
in the six days of creation
week,
the Genesis story."
and immoral
are
Why
not science.
the
"rationale of the host of
that
establishment places
plished
Morris contends that
antisocial
is
world today (abortion, the drug
culture, homosexual activism, animalistic amorality, and so on.)"
The creationists have taken their con-
UFOs
The
scientific
dating so important?
may
students to question their
The
of years, not billions.
practices
lead
ago.
"Creation science
she acknowledges that the critical spirit
notion not about astrology or
beings walked the earth contem-
world view where an immi-
Christian and immoral.
her
human
Genesis find that the theory
But who is to distinguish between sense
and nonsense?
When Bloomsburg anthropologist
Dee Anne Wymer fosters a spirit of
in
they
million years ago.
see
inquiry
—
attempt to "prove" that dinosaurs and
influence.
irreversibly technological society."
critical
spectrometer analysis dating
the "age of dinosaurs" at 65 million to 200
of evolution threatens
says
—
and materialistic philosophy of the world today than any other
lent secularistic
and nonsense.
goal,"
later repealed.
poraneously, as recently as 10,000 years
Those who believe in the creation
account from the Book of
"Our
.
probably contributed more to the preva-
of examining beliefs
and practices to inform ethical and
moral decisions. Educated people must
be able to distinguish between sense
citizenry capable
.
on the foundation of science itself
Using scientific methods
including
chemical and metallographic analysis of
dinosaur bones, as well as mass
between "sense and
Sciences, believes that "educators since
The law was
."
.
undertaken to build an alternative theory
between the Bible and
able to distinguish
freedom of belief and speech
most important
area of apparent conflict
says that educated people
Michael Poliakoff, asso-
in
public schools" so as "to ensure freedom
cer-
is
dean of Arts and Sciences
today's world.
of
and evolution-science
tion science, creation advocates have
evolution question
Michael Poliakoff, associate
treatment
says that "the creation-
—
be an educated person in
creation-science
Arkansas)
(in
"balanced
Instead of simply dismantling evolu-
the heart of education
and
means to
legislature
a
Bible
ing in Science
what we think
it
one state
mandated
of religious exercise [and] to guarantee
overtones.
Creation science propo-
critical inquiry?
It's
faith
deepest conflict.
issues involving objectivity
and
at this level that sci-
ence and
reduced.
is
outlined
as
Genesis
in
whereas evolu-
1,
contend that the
(meaning evolution) has been going on for millions of
years in the past and is still going on
tionists
process of
'creation'
in the present.
"Scripture
definite
on
could
this point
hardly
,"
.
.
.
be
more
says Morris.
WONDER
"In
Scientific creationists try to justify the
fact,"
he continues,
"if
I
could veri-
of God, then
I
would have
Biblical account of earth's origins because
fy the existence
evolution science
power over the
perceived to threaten
is
upon which
the very basis
view of the world
is
constructed.
reation science
says
the Christian
not science,"
is
Bloomsburg chemistry
professor Larry Mack.
"It's
an
elaborate structure to justify
the Genesis story."
little
the
religious
Mack
and
impulse
the
method.
scientific
"Many
found
Nonetheless,
reason for conflict between
finds
by
he
as
says,
with overlapping boundaries.
circles
He
labels the circles: aesthetic, philosophical,
and
religious.
circle
labeled
scientific
The
and
aesthetic
religious overlaps
philosophical.
It
does
circle
way of knowing
the
world. "Science tries to 'prove' things," he
"But the existence of
says.
God
can't
be
particular cause. That's
and
science.
.
.
.
on the
Religion centers
transcendent dimension of
human
indeed of all creation,
which is irrelevant to scien-
much
that
trying
i
r
\
_l^
\
//;.i/\r,^
_
—y
,
V"
"
to
Wymer, who
and
irreversibly
.,
they
y
i
technological society.
is
—
explains.
not concerned
science to
interpretation
logical
of
say.
argues, using carbon
on earth with human beings," says
Wymer, "then they're trodding on my
And
it's
happen
to
prophet
darn
a pretty
fair
to
— whether by
or not — doesn't diminish
bring
critical
science
the miracle," says Mack.
Lots
verified
of
life's
experiences
can't
be
by experiment.
"The reason
"is to
object to dealers in
14 dating methods, that dinosaurs walked
turf.
I
the
lous
faith, for instance."
"When someone
1
life.
that
"Explaining the miracu-
human-
tions of science. "There are
results,
important and mean-
and walk humbly with God.'
recognizes the limita-
guarantee
them
cast
to test what's
good idea when he said,
'Do justice, show mercy
our increasingly
describes
herself as a secular
ist,
to
really
Micah had
proper bounds."
its
val-
— but
ingful in
not victims, in
to
and
Larry Mack, "not
aside
think
j
1
ues," says
be participants,
edge or a method beyond
Wymer and Mack
PHILDS>6mml
KLl-lulOUS
:l
1
\
to
ence comes from "over-
about issues of
/J\^
A
^ ^.Y^
'
is
prepare people
prop up their claims. Mimicking scientific methods and jargon does not
i
"College should be a time for challeng-
life,
necessarily
faith "using" the trappings of
-p-^_i^
Qci
Bloomsburg's chemistry department
ing one's beliefs
sci-
means,
it
chair agrees.
of the "tension"
—
what
today's society."
''Our goal
to say
between religion and
reaching"
science as an ally in a
think, to be an educated person in
investigation.
The bishops go on
"Experimental science
samrific-
li^,,
I
irreconcilable conflict between religion
and shouldn't try to answer," she
^q_
think critically whenever
to
The Catholic bishops of the United
States, writing in Science and the Catholic
Church, believe "there can be no
questions that science can't answer
'proven by experimental means.
Pesthetic-
expect students to exercise skepti-
"extend a body of knowl-
not touch science. For Mack, each
represents a different
"I
cism and
someone claims
tific
experiment,"
he
that,"
chuckles, "is a very sobering thought!"
things in the world can't be
he sketches out on a blackboard four
And
divine.
analysis to those claims.
for education," says
know when-and how-to
Mack,
try."
Entrepreneurship
WRITTEN BY JASON KIRSCH
PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER
Berwick's
The Daily Grind Coffee
A
House.
QaOi
ness: she's too
Or
pathologist,
by Carol Bankus. You
ment
Treasures, a
ago.
yet.
off
handsomely
toys,
begun to pay
and not just
—
Bloomsburg Chamber of Commerce and
local
financial institutions, Bloomsburg's students are gaining valu-
and local people who may be long on
and short on business experience are learning how to leap
able business experience,
into entrepreneurship.
Take Nancy Gelber, for instance.
A
victim of downsizing,
Gelber lost her job as an administrator at a nearby hospital several years ago. Today, she operates
House
in Berwick. There, she serves
to customers she
12
SPRING 996
1
knows by name.
Bloomsburj Univenity Magazine
A
speech
opened
Tiny
rapidly growing consign-
store in Millville, just over a year
She started with 18 consignors.
Now
place
—
Marianne Creasy, an employee at a local hospital, is another
budding entrepreneur. Creasy thought that Pennsylvania's only
town needed a community welcoming service. So she started
one.
A
Not only has she met
by operating
community resource
a lot of real nice people
Basket of Helios, Creasy has
become
a
from her endeavor.
especially in a rural area
It's not easy to start a new business
but Gelber, Bankus and Creasy didn't tackle the task alone.
They had the support of the Local Enterprise Assistance
Program (LEAP), a non-profit initiative providing business services and small loans to microentrepreneurs.
Two Bloomsburg University professors, Pamela Wynn, an
associate professor in the management department, and Frank
Lindenfeld, a professor in the sociology department, modeled
LEAP after an economic development program of the Grameen
Bank of Bangladesh.
In the mid-1970s, the Grameen Bank extended loans to budding business owners who needed economic support and creat-
and
gets a ton of personal gratification
—
Because of a grassroots community effort involving universi-
ideas
Bankus
it.
Bankus' retirement plan.
for their owners.
ty faculty, the
busy running
more than 100. The store isn't just
where people can buy clothes,
it is part of
shoes and baby equipment
a
But these business ven-
tures have already
so busy, she
she has
not find them in
Fortune magazine. At least
not
is
take Carol Bankus.
Helios. Tiny Treasures
may
—
street
can barely find time to talk about busi-
of
Basket
main
The DaUy Grind Coffee
up "home-spun fast food"
Gelber's restaurant
—
just off
ed "borrowing
circles" to
spread the risk
if
a particular enter-
By
bank had lent over $400 million to
The repayment rate was close to
99 percent. The bank's program was a phenomenal success.
Wynn and Lindenfeld believed a similar approach to economic development could also be successful in rural
Pennsylvania. Along with a few enthusiastic community members and a grant from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, they
prise failed.
more than
established
1
LEAP
The program
Matthew Powers,
1992, the
million borrowers.
in the
summer
offers three
of 1992.
major
because he hopes to
own
a small busi-
ness someday. Powers and his partner consulted for a manufac-
gourmet gift-baskets.
"The owner entered the program because she wasn't
turer of
anything," says Powers.
"We
We
then
selling
researched what consumers liked
about the products, what they didn't
habits.
services: technical assistance,
a senior majoring in business administra-
tion, enrolled in the class
and
like
their
— what the
made recommendations
buying
owner
should do, what she should change, what she should keep.
business training and small
As consultants, we go out and
business loans.
do what small business own-
"If individuals
seling
need coun-
their business
—
to
such as
are
paired with
students in business admin-
For
consecutive
eight
Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3
explains
the
Belinsky,
consists of low-cost
business training.
istration or senior-level
Kimberly
gain practical
The second component of
LEAP
graduate
undergraduates,"
And we
experience."
— they
or financial analysis
how
do or don't have time to
do.
marketing, survey research
know
don't
ers
on some aspect of
p.m., microentrepreneurs
LEAP
program manager
from the Bloomsburg Area
Chamber of Commerce.
Bloomsburg
Magee Center
meet
University's
at
to
receive
intensive training in market-
"The students provide tech-
ing,
finance,
nical assistance while serv-
taxes,
insurance and business
ing as business consultants."
law.
These students are
a
three-
credit course offered
by the
tangible
the course
select-
is
outcome of
the develop-
ment of a business
ed from the Small Business
Institute Seminar,
One
accounting,
"When
plan.
the business train-
ing course ends, participants
form
College of Business. Stu-
are encouraged to
dents in the seminar provide
peer enterprise association, a
problem-solving support
to LEAP participants and
get "hands-on" consulting
network of microentrepreing circles of the
Grameen
experience.
Bank program,"
says
Jason
Dimm,
a
information systems,
assist-
ed a small-business operator
who wanted
to
neurs similar to the borrow-
buy and
"I
learned so
many
knowledge about.
laws and regulations
I'd
to anyone interested
- Marianne
recommend
in
I
the program
the
starting a small business."
Creasy, owner,
A
I
Basket of Helios
forums
on
a fixed
County
and Bob's Bank."
The groups serve
for people to share their ideas
also agree
Columbia
Micro-Business Network
sell
showed the owner how to use her
computer data base," Dimm says. "She was so pleased that
she sent each of us a check for $50 and a thank you card.
We couldn't accept the money, so we sent it back."
Dimm could not accept the gesture, but he was happy to take
away some valuable experience.
"The program let me take the skills I've learned throughout
my college career and apply them. I also learned communication and interpersonal skills," Dimm adds.
partner and
far
two groups have formed,
had no
discontinued merchandise.
"My
the
Chamber's Belinsky. "So
senior
majoring in computer and
a
sum
that each
as
and seek support. They
member will
time to generate a pool of savings. This fund
is
contribute over
used to finance
small loans for individual group members. For instance, a
owner may need to purchase a cash
may seek money to buy some new brushes.
restaurant
artist
member
is
an
other's business plans
and then
ready to apply for financing.
Members
Group members review each
decide which
register or
of the group have a stake in
its
members'
success. If
Bloomsburg Universitf Magazine
SPRING 1996
one
|3
member
entire
defaults
group
is
on
a
loan from the group's investment pool, the
The
affected.
dollar
ro^sing circles are typically small
encourages group members to
amounts
— $50
fiaUill
at risk in these
or $100
— but
bor-
the system
their financial responsibilities.
Microentrepreneurs can also apply for credit direcdy through
LEAP
— the
success of her business to a tight business plan. "Students helped
refine
my business plan and played devil's advocate," she explains.
Without a basic business knowledge and
through the program, participants can find out
component of the program. Through the
Rural Enterprise Development Corporation (REDC), the nonprofit governing body of the program, LEAP is able to finance
viable idea for a small business," says
small loans ranging from $500 to $10,000
finds that there
third
— sometimes
businesses —
"Banks often don't lend to small
profitable for them," Belinsky said.
to
is
offer credit to those
"One of
who cannot
higher.
it
the goals of
isn't
LEAP
obtain a loan from
a conventional lender."
a business
"road
map," microentrepreneurs might make a wrong turn. "By going
student in business administration.
A
Marianne Creasy, who owns
is
no market
if
they have a
Donna Creasy,
Donna is not
a graduate
related to
Basket of Helios. "If research
for a product or service, entrepre-
neurs have an opportunity to change their focus or delay the
start
of a business until their business plan
is
refined."
Carol Bankus was not interested in a loan, but wanted techni-
and business
cal assistance
She received both. "Three
saN^w.
"Three students helped research the martet
and
I
learned
-
let
me find
what could
I
a competitive niche,
not"
offer that others did
Carol Bankus owner. Tiny Treasures
According to Paul Reichart, president and
CEO
of Columbia
Count)' Farmers National Bank and president of the program's
board of
directors, nearly $200,000
REDC. He
is
available
through the
expects the figure to double soon. Contributors
include the To\sti of Bloomsburg, the federal Rural Development
Administration and the Presbyterian Foundation USA.
Reichart sees
LEAP
as a
model
for
economic development
"I like to help people," Reichart says. "If
Since
its
it's
we can
is
help people
better for
it."
program has helped more than
50 local microentrepreneurs develop business plans, conduct
and market research, organize finances, learn
computer software and create effective advertising campaigns.
Nana- Gelber, owner of The DaUv Grind, attributes the
feasibility studies
14
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Blooimbuif UimasCf Magazine
Bankus
sa^'s.
"I
learned what
I
me
find a competitive
could offer that others did not"
Marianne Creasy had no idea how
to start a small business
on
her own. Without any prior business training, she completed
leap's business training course and thought
woman.
it
was
"fantastic!"
reaUy appreciated the program," says the Bloomsburg
"I
many laws and regulations I had no
recommend the program to anyone intersmall business. It's a good way to go. It's also
learned so
knowledge about.
a win-vdn and society
inception, the
niche,"
"I really,
throughout rural Pennsylvania.
get off the ground,
students helped research the market and let
ested in starting a
I'd
fun to share ideas with the group.
And
the graduate students
I
was paired with reaUy helped me with my business plan. They
were available at the drop of a telephone."
And at the drop
universit)'
and
business ideas
of a telephone, folks in Bloomsburg
in to\sTi
— stand ready
—
at the
to help people with small-
become people with small
businesses.
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WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CUMMINGS
Pursuing knowledge
and adventure, the
Greek hero Ulysses sailed
the remotest reaches of the
Mediterranean Sea, encountering marvels at
every turn. He ran into a
one-eyed giant, a sorceress,
the king of the winds,
phantoms from hell and
wonder of wonders - a
company of mermaids
-
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7a
ILLUSTRATION BY JONATHAN JAKUM
whose siren-song offered
endless access to wisdom.
Well
if
only he had waited
a few score centuries,
Ulysses could have expe-
PENNSYIVANIA^^
rienced equally marvelous
wonders on the Internet
by merely clicking a
mouse. He wouldn't have
had to leave the comfort
of his ergonomic
computer chair.
WEAVING
The
a vast, rolling q'ber
Information Systems in the College of
on the
sea that daily transports count-
Business, believes that in five to ten years,
expects to be able to "hold a foot
the Internet will merge with telephone
computer,
and
all-
send the information directly to the
in-one communications center enabling
manufacturer. Within days, customers
Internet
to
knowledge
of
shiploads
less
sailors
is
electronic
human
the far reaches of
— and
absurdity.
In a single evening, cybernauts can
weigh
anchor
the
at
Frog-
Virtual
Dissection Page, read the Irish Times or
Jerusalem
the
view the
Post,
Map, research
television technology to create
will
made
A
fits
student
Phil-
in
adelphia will be able
Toronto Vegetarian Association,
download information from the world's
largest libraries and databases, go shopping at online super malls
and explore
the Bloomsburg cam-
attend classes at
Bloomsburg University,
Michigan State and the
Sorbonne in Paris via the
—
President Clinton or
ted
send an electronic
comeuppance to Rush
Limbaugh. They can
room," Dutt
ever
it
student.
charges!
way
ogy to exchange X-rays
and other medical
records firom satellite
same
up, his
The only
picture
Specialists
in Danville are offering
the scientific
diagnosis and
tation,
method, the invention
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treatment for patients
in Renovo, Jersey Shore,
ofprinting and the
State College
and other
locations.
arrival of the
telecommuting
As
many busimay replace
expands,
Industrial Age did."
nesses
student
a
that
perfectly."
long-distance consul-
one location speaks
in
'net
If
footware
clinic sites.
student's
says.
custom-
receive
DanvUle are already
in
will
world
seismically, the
would be able to view
and interact with the
out incurring long-
Hall
affect the
but the instructor
tor,
— with-
phone
the
then
using Internet technol-
able to view the instruc-
student or professor at
Tapping into the
happen, and
only will the student be
message for any
distance
in
to the
it,
inger Medical Center
home.
"One or more video
cameras would be moun-
Cybernauts can e-mail
up
Physicians at Geis-
historic
leaving
newspaper.
Town
without
Internet
pus or read the student
the university
something
to
the
leave a
"We are watching
other end.
Someday, he
scan
will
interact with users at the
Online
celery
which
the user to see, hear and
with
Stargazer
an
Internet, says Dutt.
some
BILL GATES
would
or
all
of their
with "virtual"
offices
appear on the screen. It
would be a voice-activated system."
Bedridden and physically impaired
by distant workers recruited through
Internet want-ads, says Gil Gordon,
provider such as a university, a govern-
students, as well as students isolated
of
ment agency or
by
would become fully
"mobile," enabling them to attend the
consultant in telecommunications and
is
quite easy.
requirements are a modem-equipped
computer and access through a "gateway"
commercial service
a
such as Prodigy or America Online.
Many
observers maintain that the
colleges of their choice.
"Among
Internet represents an advance
fire.
In his
those choices might be a
Disney University or an
as revolutionary as the discovery
of
geography,
book The Road Ahead,
Dutt
says,
Microsoft's president Bill
sess
will
to
happen, and
affect the
ly,
it
world seismical-
tion
The most popular section of the
technology
electronic
which was developed in the
a communication network
capable of surviving a nuclear war,
the
World Wide Web. The Web
is
is
an
agglomeration of more than 100,000
distance learning.
business products, online
cross references that take
them from one
of the Industrial
shopping, tele-medicine
Web
infinitum.
arrival
In addition, he predicts,
online
Age did."
Bloomsburg University
marketing
and telecommuting
of
will
become commonplace.
multimedia
James
Dutt,
the Internet
chairman of the Depart-
see, hear
ment of Computer and
at the
SPRING 1996
Bloomsburg University Magazine
will
enable users to
and interact with users
other end.
"sites"
with hypertext links
enabling users to "cHck on" highlighted
site to
another
— ad
Users can also type in the address of a
site to
Professor James Dutt believes
professor
18
as
same way the scienmethod, the invenof printing and the
the
tific
the
provide
Some workers
central headquarters.
1960s
his-
toric
known
would remain "in the field" indefinitely,
making only occasional visits to a
mercial enterprises, pos-
watching something
NJ, a nationally
virtual-office technology.
Internet,
are
writes:
NBC,
Monmouth,
along with other com-
"We
Gates
NBC University,"
because both Disney and
online offices staffed
go directly to
it.
For example, to
Tens of thousands of
reach "America's Job Bank," users would
businesses big and small
type "http://www.ajb.dni.us/" To reach
already have a presence
the
White House, they would type
THE WEI
more by national
computer
"http://www.whitehouse.gov" To reach
limited
Bloomsburg
borders than
University's "address," users
simply type in "http://www.bloomu.edu"
networks.
"There's
we want
"Ultimately,
two-way
to have
just
tive
video
interac-
and out
in
no way any government
around the world could
of
summon search tools named Gopher,
Archie and Veronica, which contain
control the content of the
indexes.
Internet."
Depo,
Bloomsburg's
town administrator.
To help implement its
To find
can
information, users
specific
But because of
sometimes
arrangement
of information, the Internet
from
far
is
and communica-
perfect as a research
One
and the
vastness
its
helter-skelter
Internet watchers
Washington
Dutt,
of
editor
the
Atlantic
way of
barriers standing in the
Internet
use.
For example, "most people in the
U.S.
still
daily
do not use computers
life.
in their
Most people who do use
computers do not have Internet connections.
Most people who do have
Internet
connections don't have
connec-
Internet
fast
Even those
tions.
who
have the
fastest possible
Internet
connections
have
don't
still
good
what
maps
road
is
very
there.
It's
for
possi-
ble to just waste a lot of
time flipping pages on
the
finding
increasing
recently
if
ties,
revolution linking Bloomsburg
network
access to
expand,
to
communi-
vice, a
kind of segmentation
"All
ties
of this
while, at the
becoming so
involved with online chat groups and
news groups that they are losing interest
in the people around them.
To counteract this problem while also
taking advantage of the Internet and
ing opportunities.
only a matter of
tie
Internetters are
communications technologies,
communities are establishing
regional networks, or mini-Internets, that
help
will
ser-
communi-
same time, training
important new technology,"
in this
In
people
get
interested in their local
them
Depo
country.
24-hour
community calendar of news and
when Internet users identify more with on-line "virtual
communities" than with the communities in which they live. This phenomenon
is already occurring in some parts of the
occurs
offers,
government
events and connections to local libraries.
more
leaving slums in their wake.
A
Free Net
to the world.
cities to rural
different
consortium
went online with
Bloomsburg Area
(BAFN). The
the
Town Administrator Gerald
Depo sees a telecommunications
numbers of people may move
out of crowded
some
it's
faster.
He
predicts that,
easi-
by the end
of 1996, the Internet will be available over
many cable TV
systems.
Dutt acknowledges that the potential
exists for
misuse and exploitation of the
Internet, as evidenced
by the debate
Congress about what
sent over the 'net.
is
in
But he also points out that the Internet's
potential for misuse
is
no
different
other forms of technology
from
— including
the telephone or videorecorders.
Controlling the Internet, says Dutt,
"is
educated
telecommuting continues
what you want."
Dutt says
time for access to the Internet to get
and
who was
the
says.
other
projects,
the
consortium
expects to offer e-mail services, teleconferencing capabilities and distance-learn-
computers
will
Residents
without
be able to use terminals
at
various public locations.
Just
how
far the
telecommunications
revolution and the Internet will take
Bloomsburg
— and the world —
years immediately ahead
intense debate
Depo,
that's
is
in the
a subject of
and speculation. But,
says
part of the fun of this
Hall
that
er
For example, says
in
the
goals,
seg-
an anthropologist,
other
However,
Carver
as
without
Internet
is
mentation of people and
ideas.
there are certain practical
many
worries
tions tool. Moreover, says James Fallows,
Monthly,
problem
potential
that
home
each
region," says Gerald E.
impossible without having
of police
some kind
would be even harder on
schools,
local libraries,
the
unfolding revolution.
and other institutions.
The town of Bloomsburg and surrounding communities are in the
forefront of this movement.
With the assistance and participation
of Bloomsburg University, the town
joined with Columbia County, seven
hospitals
school
Medical
Geisinger
districts,
and
and
other
institutions to form the Bloomsburg
Telecommunications Consortium for
Columbia County and Region, Inc. The
Bloomsburg
Center,
important
consortium's goal
Hospital
organizations
is
to develop
advanced
telecommunications technology
state."
Policing
computers to
—
often
available only to densely populated areas
Internet than elsewhere, he continues,
— while
because phone networks tend to be
community
creating heightened interest in
affairs.
Columbia County Courthouse
Bloomsburg University Magazine
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19
WELCOME TO
An
ideal opportunity for the
If the Internet is a
way
to navigate
the cybersea of international
Bloomsburg Area
nication, then the
way
commu-
for local people to
Free-Net
is
ride the
wave of community news
a
and information.
Anyone can
using
a
town and the university and the region
Bloomsburg Free-Net are building
an on-ramp for the information superhighway. The grant wiU pay for firstthe
year
start-up
costs
—
including
hardware and software, telephone Unes
for users and one Internet access hne.
access the Free-Net
home computer and
a
password. Accounts are free to residents of the local region.
is
BAFN home
Once
'Z
connected, the
page appears.
The page
lists
different
topical
together.
The Telecommunications Consortium received the grant from
NTPN and is coordinating the
Free-Net project.
Depo's approach to the new communication technologies is decidedly
democratic. He insists that everyone
should have access to the information
superhighway
not just people in
the big cities. "I'm convinced," he says,
that the competition that has followed telecorrununications deregulation is going to bring
advanced systems to business
and schools," he says. "It wriU
also be available to people in
their homes
but most
.
a variety of
areas,
.
.
—
community events,
education, human sere.g.,
likely
government, relimouse,
readers can move the
cursor to the topic of
interest and click. Another
only those in the more
vices,
densely populated areas."
gion. Using the
Depo's concerns go
beyond the conflict between
urban-rural access. "We're
concerned about a technological underclass," he says.
To bring the technology to the
"have-nots," consortium wants
to install pubMc computer termi-
screen will appear - perhaps
a calendar of
on
what
is
going
in the region next week.
BAFN
will
also
have
connection to
Internet, and people wiU be able to
access information on the area anywhere in the world.
According to Bloomsburg University professor James Dutt, one of the
project's organizers, the whole FreeNet is like a "little electronic
dedicated
city,
complete with information
highways and by-ways."
The first such "electronic
inated in Berkeley, Calif,
city" orig-
more than
a
decade ago, Dutt says. Since then,
about 100 communities
usually
large metropolitan areas
have
developed Free-Nets.
But thanks to a $10,000 grant from
the National Public Telecomputing
—
—
Network (NTPN),
20
work
—
modem. The user simply dials 784BAFN, and enters her or his ID and
the user
to
SPRING 1996
B/oom$6urj
l/njvereit)'
local organizers of
Mogozine
nals at several sites
—
the court-
house, public libraries, municipal
buildings and local schools.
The Bloomsburg Area Free-Net
just
is
After the
is
frrst
expected to
program
cost about $5,000
year, the
annually, says Dutt.
Much of the impetus for this kind
of "electronic community" comes
from
Town Administrator Gerry
Depo For
years,
he has urged the
and hospitals, businessand government to pool their
area's schools
es
telecommunication resources. Depo's
efforts crystallized in the creation of
the Bloomsburg Telecommunications
Consortium for Columbia County
and the Region.
the
start,
say. Initially, it is
hook-up
—
"we
organizers
its
not a free Internet
can't
afford that
right now," says Dutt.
"The grant has helped us
get
up the
"We'U still
have to keep it up and running." Such
systems in other communities have
been supported by corporations and
basic system," he explains.
government. And, as Gerry Depo
says, the Free-Net is "an ideal
opportunity for the town, the university
and the region to work
together."
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UNCOVERING
Imagine, Connie
Chung
teaching chemistry class
or Peter Jennings lecturing on
'Why not Connie Chung?''
for graduate studies
Youd
Of course,
well
is
and
statistics.
asks Patrick Schloss, assistant vice president
research at Bloomsburg. "She delivers well.
think that she'd he a great instructor."
Schloss doesn't really believe that delivering
the sole measure of great college teaching.
"In fact she's a
good
actor,"
answers Schloss.
"But good actors do not necessarily scholars make."
What does make
in the
a scholar? And
undergraduate classroom
WRITTEN BY
TO
scholarship
faculty,
remaining
field,
ERIC FOSTER
•
their views challenged
means staying abreast of their
and vibrant, and having
by
just in teaching
Scholarship
— but
detrimental to faculty," says
in other disciplines as well.
how
The
to
discipline students learn
everyday life
activities
also
detector," says Keith.
Undergrads
Program
Matta. "Take Latin, a good 'dead'
language," he says.
"What new could
new
translations
graduate.
of
in
material being made."
Jennings
left
of excellence,"
Amy
Green, biology major from Ashland, PA,
how
to
may
not
in
to dis-
the
is
her an edge
how
says Green,
"Getting
scholar can."
to
separate fact from fiction, the relevant
a skill that
you have
gamut of
Biology major Amy Green
know what
irrelevant.
"Research
which
is
intensely
disciplines ranging
from
accounting to zoology.
Students too, benefit from practice in learning
from the
in grad-
good prepara-
with faculty mentors. Their projects run
applying for entrance to veterinary school.
Connie Chung doesn't have the expertise
criminate between conflicting views. She
discover,
"It's
The two dozen honors students work
the
with
says Schloss. "Every discipline has con-
A
are doing research
research-focused."
believes her research gives her an edge
as arbiters
weight to give them.
"Our students
much the same way they would
tion for graduate school,
best?
know. "In
absence of scholarship, you're
fhcting views.
Bloomsburg's Honors
uate school," says Keith.
And which translation is the
Connie Chung or Peter
necessarily
in
are expected to complete a the-
or a major creative project, before they
sis,
possibly happen in Latin? But there
Connie Chungs
weighing pitches for
learn how to do
you can apply the technique
anything. It gives you a built - in BS
to
there are changes in every field, says
wouldn't
to
"When you
research,
important for faculty to stay
constantly
interpreting a survey reported
newspaper
credit cards.
abreast of changes in their field, and
are
through research can be applied
— from
in the
mental challenge."
It's
to
history. "Research
questions are important."
They need the
stay alive intellectually.
Honors and Scholars Program and
and scholarship is
ask the right questions. Learning which
an associate professor of
important for faculty to
is
and for students?
director of the university's
Jim Matta, director of grants. "It causes burnout, which happens
— not
for faculty
partly learning
peers.
is
—
scholarship important
is
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOAN HELPER
creative
"Constant unrelieved teaching
why
to learn," says Jeanette Keith,
when
into
is
hoping that her research
will give
she applies for veterinary school.
veterinary
who grew up on
school
is
very
competitive,"
a farm in Ashland. For her honors
"The Role of Intestinal Parasites in Bovine
Management," Green examined the manure of more than 300
project,
cattle
from 19 farms
in the region.
She analyzed the samples
Uoomsburf UnJveisSy Alogozine
SPRING 996
1
at
23
SCHOLARSHIP
And \vhile undergraduate students may be urJikely to unlock the
pital in
Leighow Veterinary HosDamdlle where she
secrets of the universe in a chemistr)' lab or discover a "lost"
had an internship. She
Shakespeare play
presence of intestinal parasites
would negatively
affect
the weight of the
cattle.
Instead she found
that only one type
had an
parasite
Utde stuff
a
invoked in the
from Bloomsburg
a degree
in
in
December with
their cattle
mass communications.
study".
know what
they
Katherine Yurchak, Muncy, graduated
Some
have and ho^v to
"We have an honors student doing research to
I
Now,
I
dogs and
cats.
really liked
An
ss'hich
to svork
^^'ith
%\'ould like to focus
on
farm animals.
large
thesis
I
Now
is
helping conduct a
how weightlifting
study to see
mobility of senior citizens.
"I see this as
^\'hat
an extension of
we do in the classroom," say's
Leon Szmedra,
74 years-old,
associate professor of exercise
physiology.
Two
students wiU use
Wigwams
complete graduate
the
history
of
adoptive
her
hometown, Muncy in nearby Lycoming Count)'. Profits from
the book are being used to create a scholarship for nontraditional students.
It
took her a year to complete her research,
a year she says she "stole"
from her
faculty
mentor Walter
Brasch, professor of mass communications.
must
the Honors Advisory Committee.
In order even to begin their studies, honors students
submit
a
proposal to
The process
"We
itself
theses.
Mathematics
professor
Mehdi Razzaghi has involved
two graduate and four under-
James Matta, director of research, and
graduate students in a 572,000
for graduate studies, help guide the
project funded
university's research
by the Risk
Patrick Schloss. assistant vice president
programs.
Science Institute, a private research foundation. Razzaghi and
the students are creating a statistical
model
to evaluate the risk
of birth defects caused by environmental toxins.
provides another kind of education.
require that students prepare proposals for their
"In a lot of cases, students get to present their research at
"and we frequently make them rewrite the
regional or national conferences," says Keith. For example,
research," says Keith,
prospectus. After the
first,
they're asked to write
a
one Keith wishes
it's
graduate. "As an under-
grad,
have
didn't
I
a
chance to do this kind of
research.
Nobody
me how
to
proposal.
I
taught
graduate
wouldn't have
Leon Szmedra. associate professor of
had such
graduate school
a terrifying time in
the practice."
if I'd
had
—
to
be honored by the
paper, "Looking
Attachment
for
annual
Style
for
Psi
— graduate and under-
Chi Honor Society for
his
Mr. Goodbar: The Relationship of
and Number of Times
Chemical Dependency
in
Love to Propensity
Teenage College Students."
in
"Many times, smdents -wiU -svork wth faculty even when they're not
on both sides. The
faculty member has an extra pair of hands to help wth the project, and
taking a course for credit," says Matta. "There's gain
the
construct a
exercise physiology, sees research as
Magqane
at the
Vorhies was one of only eight students
she had had as an under-
BJooimbiirf Umvasitf
Connie Schick presented Vorhies' research
second semester's w^ork."
but
SPRING 1596
sor
meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in Boston.
can be a gruelling process,
an "extension" of classroom work.
William Vorhies, a psychology aliunnus, and psychology profes-
second proposal for their
Creating the proposals
24
are also
A team of nearly 20 Bloomsburg graduate and undergraduate
students
data collected fi-om the study to
explores
may yield
for the world."
Yurchak graduated in December, 1995. Her book, Where
Stood,
non-drug
see
Bloomsburg students outside of the Honors Program
project director
by Katherine Yurchak grew into a book
has sold out of three printings.
knowledge
if
"That
active in research.
small animals like
mfh farmers."
working
honors
wanted
arthritis sufferers," says Keith.
can improve the strength and
treat them," sa\'s Green.
And Green now knows a little more about the career she'd like
to have. "I thought
of the "htde" stuff that has involved Bloomsburg
methods can help
No\v,
parasites
tried 2,000 times before he
students has been significant.
"This was very useful for
the farmers whose herds were
uncover new knowledge.
by Shakespeare without doing the
Thomas Edison
first.
a significant bit of
co^v's health.
stUl
lost plays
created a light bulb that worked," says Keith.
of
on
effect
—they may
"You don't find
expected to find that the
smdent experiences a professional
"\\Tien
faculty
inject
their
apprenticeship."
own
research
classroom, students notice," says Schloss.
to
"We
into
the
don't need
keep faculty out of the labs so they can spend more time
with students.
We
need
they can spend more time
to
get students
is'ith faculty."
into the labs so
NEWS
Five friends
NEWS
BRIEFS
remembered
Commemorating one
Quite a Quilter!
of the worst
Karen Trifonoff, assistant professor
tragedies in university history helped
the university
friends
and
community
to
of geography and earth science, was
honor
reminder of those before them.
issue of National Geographic.
On
The National Geographic uticle,
members of the university
community came together with the
Oct. 20,
David
Cope
William Kelly
dedicate the
fire to
the "Five Friends
Memorial
all
New
Plaza."
October 1994
fire.
killed in
Bloomsburg's Council of Trustees.
of the Year" in 1988.
Petrosky of
Those students
N.J.;
Joseph Selena of Wyoming, Pa.
for the
those duties, Petrosky was the
term ending January 2001.
director of
the Titusville Area Schools since 1973
and
and
with the intermediate unit.
serves as chairperson of the
elor's
bushes and
studies.
trees.
is
He
also
Kelly, a
as did student
who
university President Jessica Kozloff,
the 109th district to the state
and
FM
student trustee Jennifer Adams, a
junior from Catawissa.
is
visible
WVL\-TV and WVL\
89.9, the region's public
casting stations.
He was
their quilts with large squares
of material, a center design
and wide
The Ohio
borders.
quilters pieced
together
smaller
rectangles in
repeated patterns
House
served as the chair of the House's
Graduate programs
continue to grow
Youth and Aging Committee, secre-
Enrollment in graduate programs
House Appropriations
Committee and vice chair of the
Bloomsburg increased by about
percent
Agriculture Committee. Other
year's total.
committee assignments included
ment
He
formerly
tary of the
1971 Bloomsburg alumnus
president of
—
multicolored
assistant executive director
of Representatives.
earned his master's
and highly
herself a quilter
terms as the representative from
a 1973
earned a degree in English,
the well-known
assistant
make
Stuban served eight successive
degree in education at the university.
government President Chris Vogler,
ministers
He was
degree in comprehensive social
with accompanying plantings of
campus
department.
from 1989-91. Cope
cipal
Friends of the five offered
pupU personnel,
director of special education
graduate of Bloomsburg with a bach-
benches arranged in a semicircle,
the three
held since 1990. Prior to assuming
the faculty of
—
Trifonoff
found that the Pennsylvania Amish
executive director
of the Northeastern Educational
the district's junior high school prin-
Humanities, the memorial includes
is
Intermediate Unit, a post he has
Moscow and Ted Stuban
social stuches
Located between Andruss Library
remembrances,
Petrosky
Cope of Titusville,
Cope has been on
James Palmer of MQlviUe; and
five
12-member
"Young Alumnus
of Berwick. Each will serve a six-year
Derek Mooney of Downingtown;
and Bakeless Center
appointees to the
council are David
Deborah Keeler of MUton,
Pennsylvania and Ohio.
the university's
A. William Kelly of Kingston, David
an
were Kyle Barton of Staten Island,
N.Y.;
featured in the "Geographica"
of Amish people living in
trustees begin appointments
Four new faces have joined
New
current or former
Bloomsburg students
Ted Stuban
site for
The memorial, to be constructed
this spring, will honor the five young
people,
David Petrosky
section, contrasted the quilt designs
famihes of those killed in an off-
campus
November
featured in a story in the
give future students a
Transportation, Health and Welfare,
Local Government,
broad-
selected as
Fisheries
and
Game and
Rail Freight Pohcy.
last fall
at
6.5
from the previous
The program's
enroll-
success was included in a
report issued late
by Patrick
last fall
Schloss, assistant vice president
for graduate studies
and
research.
The graduate programs
OUR FIRST GRADUATE COMMENCEMENT
Bloomsburg, which granted
of graduate programs on campus, the
its first
its first
commencement
in art history, art studio
administration degree.
larger,
and
been stronger
and student
childhood education, education of
at
the deaf/hard of hearing
Bloomsburg. Faculty
exercise science
interest in graduate
fitness.
education warranted this ceremony."
education and speech pathology.
The
their mentors, highlighted the
event.
and adult
university also has
technology, nursing, special
relationship between graduate students
commencement
university's
master of education
programs include those
Graduate coordinators,
in biology,
business education, ciuriculum and instruction,
thesis advisers, practica supervisors or other faculty
elementary education and reading. Nearly 700
who had
students are enrolled in graduate programs
a significant role in the student's
participated in the hooding ceremony.
and
master's programs in instructional
The traditional hooding ceremony,
symboUzing the close working
and
The
program
expected to enroll 20 for
fall
of 1996.
to grow, Schloss reported.
accounting, audiology, biology, early
the graduate student culture has never
—
Health care programs continue
confers master of science degrees in
research, "graduate
is
the
In addition, the university
assistant vice president for graduate
enrollment has never been
—
awards a master of business
According to Patrick Schloss,
special education.
The newest graduate program
the master of science in accounting
and communication.
It
candidates in December.
and
education, instructional technology
graduate
degrees in 1963, offers master of arts degrees
exercise for 90 graduate degree
studies
business, reading, elementary
and
Acknowledging the increased presence
university held
with the largest enrollments include
year-old e.xercise science
26 students.
The
three-
program has
New graduate offerings
are being developed in nursing.
Two programs
that are in the
proposal stages are applied mathematics and physical therapy.
"We
are also discussing a professional
doctorate in audiology," said Schloss.
Schloss also indicated that the
graduate school plans to expand
its
off-campus programs, including cus-
tomized offerings
Foods
in
at
American
Home
Milton and Pennsylvania
Power and Light
in Ber%%'ick.
at the university.
BJoomsbufg University Magazine
SPRING
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25
NEWS
NEWS
BRIEFS
Fame
members
ON THE PLAYING
Athletic Hall of
inducts five
October's induction of five people to
and
Bloomsburg University Athletic
the
Fame brought the
ber of members to 57.
Hall of
The
num-
total
the Huskies'
team
in the nation.
of Coatesville. Also
is
the
Northumberland and Cathy Sheridan
ranked second
women's tennis team grabbed the
crown
in
commissioner, Bloomsburg
six
is
one
of only four schools in the conference
reactivated
to
ed
its
nearly nvo years, proWdes support
has the best gender equity ratio
and direction
in the conference.
fraternity
It
and
for the tmiversity's
take notice.
for
The 12-member board
— which
includes students, faculty and
commimity
attention on
schools are spending
its
match the general undergraduate
all
students
on campus.
rate for students
—
as well
years
between
their
80 percent and 81
is
percent for athletes. These
more
figures
al
Bloomsburg University
-
freshman and sophomore
scholarship money,
and re-examining the "relationship
GPA
PSAC and national
norms. Our retention
PSAC
"while six other
leadership development
And, over
exceeds
state,
as well as a representative of the
— hai focused
All- Americans.
the general student population
reported recently that
staff,
year
as its overall retention rate for
article in the
western part of the
Academic
rate for its student athletes
Reporter, a daily paper in the
life.
last
athletes.
Association, Bloomsburg's retention
CaUfomia (PA) Observer-
Greek students and researches
ways to improve Greek
An
Bloomsburg
PSAC
by the National CoUegiate Athletic
People are beginning to
sorority system.
develops educational programs
in the
According to data released recently
men and women. Bloomsburg
to
athletes are also
number of scholar
average for
of athletic scholarships awarded
Greek Advisory Board. The
its
virtually
be in compUance with Title LX
body, which had been inactive for
field
our scholar-athletes has inched up to
for
regulations regarding the proportion
reactivat-
on the playing
the past three years, the cumulative
Greek Advisory Board
Bloomsburg University has
went
Since 1990, Bloomsburg has fielded
for the first time since 1985.
At the same time, according to the
PSAC
success
excelling in the classroom.
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
of Mountaintop.
series
only part of the story.
Our student
The women's soccer team
finished no. 8 in the country, while
honored were PhiUip Lockcuif of
('84)
Our
hockey
team finished the season ranked second
and Stephen
The
program" in the conference.
crown
field
PSAC
on to say that "Bloomsburg has
become the model [athletic]
sports vrinning
tied for the di\'isional
last year's
All-Sports Trophy."
last fall. Overall,
with a 10-1-1 record. The
Mich.; Ivlichael Blake ('82) of Upper
('78)
fall
FIELD.
captured
teams enjoyed
percentage was .830. The football
Jon Bardsley ('82) of Brighton,
Eachus
the classroom
athletic
remarkable success
highest athletic honor this year were
J.;
in
Our
recipients of the university's
Saddle River, N.
BRIEFS
.
compare with nation-
standards of 69 and 76
percent respectively.
.
statement" governing the social
organizations.
The board's
advisor)'
is
over-riding goal, says
board chair Mark Lloyd,
Sports hotline
to bring "unrecognized" social
You can now
organizations back into recognized
status.
that
The board has recoirunended
and sororities
upcoming sporting events and
other athletic news through
all fraternities
begin a process toward national
affiliation.
get the latest
sports restdts, the schedule of
new Husky Hothne.
The hotline, with information
the
National Greek
organizations, says Lloyd, offer
updated each day following a
support that "local" fraternities
Bloomsburg
intercollegiate athletic
find difficult to acquire.
Women's
Students
Campus
The
is
Growing
studies.
who want
about women's issues can
90-acre parcel of land adjoining the
The new women's
upper campus. The parcel
at
is
to west
of Nelson Field House.
No
specific
university
is
engaged in a
feasibility
study to determine the need for
SPRING 1996
a
minor
fall,
dozen apphca-
commimication
curriculum and foundations,
economics, Enghsh, history, political
acres.
eioormburg Umvmity M
science
and psychology.
of sports information.
a service offered
To get sports scores and game
simply
call
717-389-BUBU.
.
More than 250 Bloomsburg students
— awarded nearly $200,000
scholarships in the
were recognized
November The
fall
in
semester
—
at a reception in
reception, sponsored
by the Bloomsburg University
from the departments of
health sciences,
office
details,
anthropology, biological and aUied
studies,
additional
26
studies
more than
ble courses
but the
on-campus housing.
The university now ovms 292
now
Bloomsbturg, approved in the
includes
purpose has been
identified for the property,
more
undertake a minor in the area.
university has acquired a
is
.
to learn
by the
event,
Honoring scholarship.
Alumni Association and the
Bloomsburg University Foundation
in cooperation with the financial
aid office,
is
held each year to
award a portion of the
universit)''s
scholarship support.
The
university's total scholarship
package for the 1995-96 academic
vear
is
S703,000.
NEWS
—
Paying for college
now easier to
Last
pay for undergrad-
uate classes at Bloomsburg.
deferred
A
payment program, which
Fund campaign
Parents'
fall's
with a $90,000 target
$115,000 in
been expanded to allow
upperclassmen to pay their tuition
—
on Oct.
institution in
1
the State System of Higher Education
State
kind of support.
divide the
payment of their
the course of three
fees over
the
in January,
sent prior to the fifth of each
university
is
of fees
the budget plan for
at
"With
this
agreement
fund
payment
in place,
we
have the necessary tools to collect
our accounts receivable and offer
new
a
this
alternative without additional cost to
the university," said Michael Robatin,
come
to
Bloomsburg,"
scholarships require
may be
a thing
ment and executive director of the
Bloomsburg University Foundation,
the
transfer
new
— thanks
saw students standing
— not once, but twice —
and
of fees owed the
later to
says John
pick up a
who applied after Oct. 27
EFT program was initiated,
Students
the
grands. This
to rent
uses
Steinways to teach his students,
summer
and her M.Ed, and Ed.D.
from the Pennsylvania
A memorial fund
new
library in
to the
to select the university's
in contributing
fund should contact
Bloomsburg University
the
latest addition.
Foundation
21
room in the
memory of Sponsellen
Those interested
New York City this
DOCTORS FOR THE
State University.
has been
established to dedicate a
two smaller
will travel to
Doctors with a Bloomsburg University bachelor's
degree hanging on their walls
up a
lot
more
in the next
Beginning the end of
at least ten
of the seats
at
717-389-4128.
ST
academic
filled
The two
agreement
up
which
to ten graduates
Bloomsburg up
trained as primary care physicians.
program must
by checking
on the loan
application forms.
initiative also allows
"If
we have
and they
all
guaranteed
to go there
seats," says
be
—
— they have
year, sLx graduates
Louis Mingrone,
were admitted
to the
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
All eight
1994-95 graduates were admitted
to professional schools.
"The relationship ivas almost an automatic one,"
Mingrone. "Our students have been going
said
there for a long period of time.
chairperson of the department of biological
And
and
They're leaders
allied health sciences.
of
according to Mingrone. Following the 1993-94
ten qualified students
want
eight
as part
the university's pre-professional programs,
an
to ten guaranteed seats for students to
indicate their intention
Bloomsburg usually graduates between
PCOM agrees to accept
offers
dean of the College
Liu,
and 12 pre-medicine students a year
from Bloomsburg each
The agreement
Hsien-Tung
of Arts and Sciences.
(PCOM)
EFT program
next semester. Those
says
by Bloomsburg graduates.
institutions have signed
in
year,
The Philadelphia
College of Osteopathic Medicine
may be
"This agreement represents an unequivocal
recognition by a major medical school of the quality
of education provided by Bloomsburg University,"
few years.
this
at
may be showing
semester. Others can take part in the
The new EFT
who
Leadership Awards will add to the
annual scholarship
sylvania
means we won't have
Foundation. The Presidential
year.
the appropriate areas
undergraduate degree in education
from Indiana University of Penn-
one for their performances."
Couch,
qualified for the plan for spring
participating in this
Couch, associate professor
of music and the university's piano
laniero, vice president for university
check for any existing balance.
when
A 1927 graduate of Lewistown
High School, Sponseller received her
tremendous investment,
performers prefer Steinway concert
first
to sign the check over to the univer-
university
a
to all student
both to students and the university.
sity for ftilfillment
and Practices
Commission and the Pennsylvania
Department of Education.
Professional Standards
instructor. "Celebrity Artists Series'
loans to speed the transfer of funds
in line
gift
('75)
of the university," says Anthony
(EFT) program.
Past practice
published by the Pennsylvania
the area or another representative
electronic fund
EFT can be apphed
it's
in
Review of Reading Components
of Teacher Education Programs,
made
"A Steinway appreciates with age,
package of more than $700,000.
She wrote
The Elements for Consideration
so
— by an alumnus from
university's total
of the past
to Bloomsburg's
State Teachers College.
Hudock of Williamsport.
high school graduation
faculty at Bucknell, West-
minster College and Bloomsburg
vice president for university advance-
"We're hoping to have these
?
lines outside the business office
Mitrani Hall in the Haas
from Michael and Barbara
scholarships awarded to students
in
Lewistown school system and served
of the Bloomsburg University
Long
During her 29-year career
education, Sponseller taught in the
on the
at
possible through a generous
advancement and executive director
. . .
Reading Conference in 1965.
mances
academic promise,
evidence of leadership capability.
director until 1981.
center stage during musical perfor-
that students exhibit exceptional
ceremony
A cashless college
finest
Steinway
purchase of the piano was
as well as
its
She established the Bloomsburg
According to Anthony laniero,
says President Jessica Kozloff.
The $1,000
Bloomsburg's graduate
served as
Center for the Performing Arts.
acknowledge and recruit talented
at their
university comptroller.
Presidential Leadership
for high school seniors.
students to
A $55,000
of the Keystone
Reading Association, Sponseller
reading program in 1964 and
concert grand piano will occupy
"These scholarships are designed
to
the start of each semester.
University
Foundation has approved $25,000 to
month.
currently under
contract with an outside agency to
manage
The Bloomsburg
pianists at
gift,
one of the world's
across
for high school students
Award
February and March with notices
The
grand
instruments.
of the spring semester. Equal
start
payments are accepted
to a
Bloomsburg University in the
coming years will run their fingers
months each
The plan began with
semester.
mem-
Sponseller died
30, 1995.
initiated
leadership awards
to
M.
A past president
University inaugurates
for
. .
Long-time Bloomsburg faculty
ber Dr. Margaret
This success cemented Bloomsburg's
in securing this
Memorlam
In
raised
Thanks
The deferred payment plan
gift.
—
in several installments.
upperclassmen allows students
BRIEFS
and pledges.
gifts
position as the no.
already existed for incoming students, has
A grand
Parents' Fund tops target
a timely solution
It's
NEWS
BRIEFS
they've been ve:v significant graduates.
—
they're
doing very
well."
students to begin accruing interest
on deposits sooner.
Stctamsburg Untversity Magazine
SPRING
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27
NEWS
more than money
Giving
more than
money while
The
and
their time
The Off-Campus Student Housing
they are on campus.
off-campus
was awarded a
university
plaque during the
fall
And
honoring the
a series of hearings
and developing
Association.
number of the
housing
as well
as preliminary designs for additional university
housing on the upper campus.
A combined town.'university
newsletter has been created that
and meetings
discusses inspection
enforcement
pool of
1995.
each pint of blood
The
a total of 19
by the
recommendations, and
May
task force
and code
actiNities
town, general safety
deUvered to town and uni-
donated, four hves can be saved, so
details
had
how
tenants
can obtain legal
recommen-
ad\ice and other
dations directed to
assistance.
a quarter million people
donations drawn
"We
university's
student newspaper
studied every
at the university.
John Trathen and
recommendation and
Shoup,
Julie
blood drive, schedule the
periodically
is
pubUshing off-cam-
responded to each of
co-chairpersons of the on-campus
pus student housing
them," said Jessica
drives,
handle publicity, find volunteers
up
at the drives, setting
tables, chairs
The
the university.
have received blood products from
and work
a
versity leaders in
of blood over the past 45 years.
many as
to review the availabihty of student
last spring.
recommendations that were
have donated more than 64,000 pints
as
work
.
at a
University students and employees
Statistics say for
its
the university has responded to a
initiatives
university has conducted a feasibility study
The task force spent more than
six months holding
meeting of the Community
Government
completed
The
fatal,
group's recommendations.
university's 45-year-old tradition of
donating blood to the Red Cross.
The plaque was presented
fire
education and training
Safety Task
Force formed to deal with issues raised by a
American Red Cross.
Just ask the
BRIEFS
TASK FORCE REVIEW
. .
Bloomsburg students and employees
give a lot
NEWS
BRIEFS
Kozloff, president of
information with
the university.
safety tips
and food.
for the off-campus
housing program
Students
falls
under the
and
identi-
fying where to call
Responsibility
for information
now
and
assistance.
An "Off-Campus
office
form
of student
Housing
tenants
standards. Residence
in late January to reach
association
life staff
Greek
Bloomsburg's students have decided
to take a
more
active role to
improve
result
is
the formation of a
tenants association, the
first
the State System.
"This
is
a student initiative that
has the complete support of the university's administration," said
Vogler, president of the
off-campus and
provide informa-
safety awareness
tion to those
programs
planning to
for off-
campus students.
The student hfe committee of the Forum reviewed
and is recommending necessary changes in the
e.xisting drug and alcohol poUcy and starting a
Drug and Alcohol Intervention Program with the
community and local school districts to coordinate
in
Chris
Community
was held
students li\Tng
will
continue to provide
off-campus housing conditions.
The
— including
—
affairs
Fair"
do so
future. Residence halls are holding
in the
mandatory
spring meetings to help those planning
to
make
the
A "Parents'
move off-campus
Guide
was included
to
in the near future.
Off-Campus Student Housing"
in the latest Parents' Newsletter.
Government Association (CGA),
the students' governing organization.
Vogler worked with a core group
of fellow students to develop
State releases funds for
the group's basic goals.
The student
campus student residences and
work with the town's code
the
officers, as well as
CGA attorney, to
students
leases
who
and
tenants.
A
counsel
'Let's talk
have questions about
Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor
Mark
Schweilcer ('75) brought
news
to his 20th class reunion during
Homecoming
good
1995 in October:
the state had released $7,125 million
in
alumni
new
[Tom
football
game.
those seeking to
SPRING 1996
move
off
campus.
Bhomsburx Univmitf Magazine
of floor space, making
it
the largest
building on campus.
took
Among the
notable features of the
all
of a minute and
new
he said
do
it.'"
ing area. There will be study seating
'Let's
building will be a rooftop read-
$10.5 million with the university
more than 1,000 students, stack
more than 400,000 volumes
and access coimections for 645 per-
The
sonal computers that can be expand-
The
the
construction cost of
total
new hbrary
is
estimated at
library.
project
published and serve as a guide for
four-story build-
the governor
contributing $3,375 million.
housing. The results will be
"It
The new
ing will include 105,000 square feet
Schweiker told
survey to be developed by
concerning the condition of student
Building.
this for
luncheon before the
homecoming
funding for construction of
the
at a
about
their responsibihties as
the association will pose questions
28
,
five minutes,'"
association will
deal with safety concerns in off-
enforcement
the governor
"I said to
Ridge]
university library
was approved
for design in
1992, with design costs
to a Httle over
state
paying
The new
be
ne.\t to
all
amounting
for
space for
ed to accommodate another 125
computers. The
librar\' \\ill also
have
$2 million and the
meeting rooms with
but $140,370.
audio-\isual and tele\ision access.
library building will
Waller Administration
facihties for
NEWS
BRIEFS
Honoring
Red GaJl^her
Shown from
honored
at
Bloomsburg
Sue Jackson, Shareen
Silva, Nancy
Madhav Sharma and Carl Jones.
for
Gill,
nearly 25 years, died
Long
on November
6.
interested in international
Madhav Sharma has worked to
number of international
students who come to Bloomsburg
business, Gallagher initiated foreign
exchange programs in The Netherlands,
He
are individuals
the university's Martin
Luther King Humanitarian Award:
Francis Gallagher, a professor of
management
left
w/ith
increase the
Belgium and France.
in France
and stengthen the
University
taught as a visiting professor
and England. In 1991 he
ty's ties
universi-
with other colleges around
He
participated in a People to People
the world.
exchange in Warsaw, Poland; Prague,
number of community outreach
Czechoslovakia; and Moscow, Russia.
programs, including the Gandhi
in
has helped organize a
A graduate of Stonehill College
Festival, celebrations
North Easton, Mass., Gallagher
Nepalese
earned his
MBA from Temple
University
and
international festivals.
his doctorate
Five
from Lehigh.
The Red Gallagher Memorial
Scholarship has been established in
his honor.
Those wishing
a contribution
made
to
make
should send checks
payable to the Bloomsburg
Five individuals were
awarded
400 East Second Street
Bloomsburg,
PAl 78 15
students as a program assistant in
the department of developmental
Task Force's training the trainers
and
program, she has worked with
instruction
Humanitarian Award
numerous organizations
Sampler Program. She
Martin Luther King
at the
annual
Commem-
orative Banquet.
Honored were
faculty
members
Sue Jackson, associate professor of
The Development Center
Bloomsburg University
Senior Shareen Silva has mentored
Honored with Martin Luther King Award
the university's Martin Luther BCing
University Foundation to
this address:
of Chinese and
new years, and numerous
to increase
in the College
is
president of
sensitivity to racial, gender, sexual-
the Association of Hispanic Students
orientation and other issues. She has
and a copy editor and writer
from 1965
and Madhav Sharma, coor-
for
the student newspaper. The Voice.
peace Corps volunteer
also served as a
Senior Carl Jones has mentored
to 1967.
dinator of international education;
long-term projects to boost the
many black and Latino students at
the university. He has been involved
as well as students Shareen Silva
creativity of students, including
in the Black Cultural Society,
and Carl Jones.
students at Martin Luther King High
Orientate Other College Hopefuls
Among the honorees' achievements:
School in Philadelphia. She has been
and Students Together Alleviating
Sue Jackson has served on the
active in the International Society for
Racial Tension.
Teaching Alternatives and
deversity training
English,
University-Comunity Task Force on
Racial Equity. As a
member
of the
Nancy GUI has undertaken
is
several
a leader
and
in starting the annual Diversity
He
Help
has helped in
workshops on
off campus.
Conference for Area Colleges.
How can you
A
save taxes,
charitable deferred annuity permits you to donate cash or
marketable securities
income
generate retirement
income and "do good"
for Bloomsburg?
for
life
to the university
—
for you,
may
In addition, you
and
receive a guaranteed
and your spouse,
if
you wish.
get
when you make
•
an income
•
a reduction and deferral of capital gains taxes,
tax
deduction
• the satisfaction of
making a generous
gift
the
to
gift,
Bloomsburg.
Here's an example:
If
Answer: Establish
you are 45 and contribute $25,000
that begins
to a charitable
deferred annuit}'
payments when you turn 65, you may earn an income
tax
deduction of more than $18,000 for 1995. You'll also have $4,600
a charitable
paid to you annually
Bloomsburg
deferred annuity.
For
fulfill its
when you
And your
gift will
help
educational mission.
more information about
annuity, call the
retire.
the benefits of a charitable deferred
Development
Office at
717-389-4128
^oomsbarg
University
Magazine
SPRING (996
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Academic
Art
Calendar
Exhibits
Haas Gallery hours are Monday
through
Mid-Term,
Tuesday, March
5,
10 p.m.
Spring Breai<
Begins, Saturday,
March
10, 10 p.m,
Classes Resume,
Spring Weekend
Begins,
Kenneth
March 20 to April
3,
Haas
Gallery.
S.
Gross Auditorium.
Music Major Recital
S.
Osenbach, tenor, Mary
Smith, piano, Sunday, March
24, 2:30 p.m.,
Carver
Hall,
Kenneth
Gross Auditorium.
2:30 p.m.. Studio Band, 6 p.m.,
Knoebel's Grove, Elysburg.
Directed by Terry Oxiey and
Stephen Wallace.
Orchestra Pops
Concert
Curator Carol Burns; jurors
President's Ball
MondayApril
Robert Koslosky and John Cook.
Dance music by the Studio Band,
Town
March
Reception, Wednesday, March 20,
Saturday,
24 West Ballroom, Bloomsburg.
cert will be
Scholarship benefit event, tickets
the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Directed by
p.m.
LaRocca
Isabella
Photographs, April
to April 30,
1
April
1
1
,
noon to 2 p.m.
the art gallery
Exhibit by
May
30, 6 p.m., Magee's
required. Call the
Center
at
Development
389-4 28.
If
weather
Mark
Reservations limited. Directed
Hall,
Concert Band
May 2 to
14,
Haas Center for
Jelinek.
Kenneth
S.
Gross Auditorium.
Studio Band
2:30 p.m., Haas
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Hall.
Pops Concert
Wednesday, May
1,
0,
Haas Gallery Reception,
May
2 to 4 p.m.
2,
Park, Bloomsburg. Raindate,
Choral Ensembles
Women's Choral Ensemble,
Chamber
Singers and
Senior Recital
Finals Begin,
7:30 p.m., Haas Center for the
Arts, Mitrani Hall. Directed by
and Eric Nelson.
2:30 p.m.. Carver Hall,
S.
Gross Auditorium.
Catawissa
Military
University-
1
Commencement,
May
4,
Kenneth
Miller
bass, Saturday,
18,
Monday, May 6
Wendy
2.
Husky
Singers.Thursday, April
Finals End,
May
Directed by Stephen Wallace.
Matt Hare, string
5
May
6:30 p.m.,Town
Directed by Terry Oxiey.
1
May
Saturday,
inclement, the con-
in
TuesdayApril 30, 7:30 p.m.. Carver
by Stephen Wallace.
Sunday, April
is
Student Recital
1
class.
Reading Day,
Saturday,
29, 6:30 p.m..
Park, Bloomsburg.
noon to 2
May 4
May
Sunday, April 28, Concert Band,
Hall,
Ann
Thursday,
Sunday,
Thursday, March 21,8 p.m., Carver
Association Juried
Exhibition
Master's thesis exhibit.
Classes End,
Groves Pops
Franklin
Sumani
April 8, 6 p.m.
Knoebel's
Menagerie Quintet
Student Art
Charles Haruna
4, 10 p.m.
Classes Resume, Monday,
Saturday,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Haas Gallery. Reception, Thursday,
Monday, March 18,8 a.m.
Thursday, April
Friday,
The Brass
May
Band
8
Haas
Community
Tuesday,
Orchestra
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
14,
p.m.,
Hall.
1
Sunday, April 21 2:30 p.m., Haas
,
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Hall.
Featuring double bass soloist
Edgar Meyer. Directed by Mark
Jelinek.
Concerts
Admission
is
otherwise noted.
Edgar Meyer, MondayApril 22,
Jazz Night
noon. Old Science
Studio Band with guest
Celebrity
Artist Series
Double Bass
Master Class
free unless
trombone
call
the
Celebrity Artist Series box office
at (717) 389-4409.
Goldeneye
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
Third and Market streets,
March 5 to
Suzuki String
Bloomsburg. Featuring a perfor-
Mitrani Hall,
Recital
mance
Hall.
March
7,
8 p.m.,
Directed by Stephen Wallace.
Carver
March
Hall,
Auditorium.
SPRING 1996
B/oomsburg Un/versrty /VIogaz/ne
Films
Saturday, April 27, 7:30 p.m.,
Saturday,
30
room G20.
Wesley United Methodist Church,
soloist,Thursday,
Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani
For ticket information,
Hall,
Concert Choir
16,
2:30 p.m..
Kenneth
S.
Gross
of Handel's Messiah with
7,
7 and 9:30 p.m.,
Haas Center for the Arts.
Heat
guest orchestra and soloists.
Wednesday, Friday and Sunday,
Directed by Eric Nelson.
March
20,
22 and 24, 7
Mitrani Hall,
p.m.,
Haas Center for the Arts.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Toy Story
Lacrosse
Wednesday.April 24, 7 and 9:30
April 5, 3 p.m.,
7
p.m.; Friday.April 26,
April 28,
Mhrani
Hall,
p.m.; Sunday,
a.m. and 7 p.m.,
i
1
Father of the
Bride II
upper campus.
Softball vs. Shippensburg, Saturday
April 6,
Haas Center for the Arts.
Frostburg, Friday
vs.
p.m.,
1
upper campus.
Kutztov/n,Tuesday
Softball vs.
April 9, 3 p.m.,
upper campus.
Baseball vs. Shippensburg,
Thursday,Aprll 25, 7 and 9 p.m.;
Wednesday, April
FridayApril 26, 9 p.m.; SundayApril
upper campus.
28,
2 and 9
p.m., MItrani Hall, Haas
10,
1
p.m,
Men's Tennis, Bloomsburg Duals,
Center for the Arts.
Special Events
Friday and Saturday April 12
Spring Fling
and 13,lov/er campus.
SaturdayApril 20. Special games
Softball vs. Mansfield, Saturday,
April 13,
p.m.,
1
upper campus.
and food stands
be set up on
will
campus, while an area rock band
Lacrosse
vs.
William Smith, Sunday
will
perform
in
the Kehr Union
April 14, noon, upper campus.
Ballroom
Men's Tennis
vs.
Mt
Tuesday April 16,3
St Mary's,
p.m.,
in
the evening.
Renaissance
Jamboree
lower campus.
SaturdayApril 27, Main Street
Baseball vs. Kutztown, Saturday,
Town
April 20,
of Bloomsburg. Food,
upper campus.
p.m.,
1
more than
music, games and
Softball vs.
Lock Haven, Sunday
April 21,1 p.m.,
Lacrosse
upper campus.
EWL
only.
April 22, 3:30 p.m.,
Championships,
Friday and Saturday,
March 8 and
Field
fill
Main
Street for the day
Monday
upper campus.
Baseball vs. Millersville, Wednesday
9,
April 24,
Nelson
will
p.m.,
Baseball vs. Susquehanna,
Wrestling,
booths
upper campus.
home games
Includes
craft
vs. Philadelphia Textile,
Sunday April 21,1
Sports
200
p.m.,
1
upper campus.
House.
Lacrosse
vs.
April 25,
4
St Joseph's,Thursday
vs. Philadelphia Textile,
Lacrosse
p.m.,
upper campus.
Thursday, March 21,4 p.m.,
Men's Tennis,
PSAC
upper campus.
Championships, Friday and
Softball,
Husky
Classic, Saturday
Lectures
Saturday April 26
and Sunday, March 23 and 24,
and 27, lower campus.
upper campus.
Softball vs. West Chester,
Men's Tennis
vs.
Saturday
Swarthmore,
April 27,
Wednesday, March
p.m.,
1
upper campus.
27, 3 p.m.,
Softball vs.
lower campus.
C.W Post Sunday
Patricia Ireland
NOW (National
President of the
Organization ofWomen).Thursday
March 2 .Workshop, 4
p.m., lec-
1
April 28,
1
p.m.,
upper campus.
Baseball vs. East Stroudsburg,
Saturday,
March
1
p.m.,
Softball,
1
upper campus.
p.m.,
Bloomsburg
Sunday March
Ballroom.
May
Softball vs. Millersville, Saturday,
30,
3
Kehr Union
Baseball vs. Mansfield, Saturday
30,
upper campus.
March
ture, 7:30 p.m.,
1
,
Invitational,
upper campus.
4,
1
p.m.,
upper campus.
Henry Foster
Former nominee
for Surgeon
General of the United
Thursday April
p.m.,
1
States.
leaure, 7:30
Kehr Union Ballroom.
Softball vs. East Stroudsburg,
Workshop, Friday
WednesdayApril 3,3
a.m.,
p.m.,
1
,
April 12,8:30
Kehr Union Ballroom.
upper campus.
Bloomsburg Umrersrty
Mogazme
SPRING
WORD
THE LAST
Dear Doctor Kozloff
/recently
Living near a fi-aternity and working
took part in the
American Heart Association's
Walk-a-Thon at Town Park.
who walked
Everyone
Sunday
of
credit,
PRESIDENT JESSICA KOZLOFF
find
BY SYLVIA PEROTTI
certainly deserves a lot
one capacity or anoth-
involved with the university
dents, faculty, staff
—
is
—
stu-
impressive.
it's been my good luck to
most students to be friendly and
considerate. I cook pots of chili for my
frat neighbors, and they help shovel the
snow from my sidewalk.
Of course, there are some students who
near a fraternity,
that
but the fact that over half the
"walkers," were, in
er,
A LETTER TO
on the
That
least
hill.
tells
Now,
me
there are nearly 7,000.
that there
seven times the
likely to
is
be
at
don't keep their parties indoors. There
fuss!
Did we have parties back then? You bet.
Were we loud? At times, sure we were.
Students then were looked on as
some who
are
erty.
When
just
maybe
don't respect others' prop-
The students, along with everyone else,
gave up several hours of their Sunday
afternoon to show their support for this
beanie-wearing, soda fountain-sitting,
the university as the asset
worthy cause.
rah-rah kids.
And
the
BU
It
was gratifying
to
watch
president offer her encourage-
ment before the walk and shake hands
when it was over.
In 1950, during
my
short time at the
People today are
kids. Their
still critical
bad deeds
get
—
but their good deeds
plenty
— seldom
all
of college
the attention,
and there
are
get noticed. Like their
old Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
participation in the Heart Walk-a-Thon,
about 1,000 students attended the college
for instance.
up
community
these few clean
the
community
—
like its
—
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and
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in countless other little
will
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UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
1996
EDITOR'S VIEW
They
have been compared to
F.
Scott Fitzgerald's
"new generation," a group he described
more than
grown up
success;
all
the last to the fear of povert}'
faiths in
Today s
man
all
wars fought,
- sometimes
called Generation
their counterparts in the 70s.
more
and more
and the worship of
shaken."
from
conservative,
gods dead,
all
college students
are different
older
to find
as "dedicated
practical
diverse.
and
less socially
They face
X-
They are more
aware.
They are
a tougher job market.
This issue of Bloomsburg looks at today's students and explores
how the
university has changed to
the "new" student.
We examine how the universits' is preparing
students for tomorrow's jobs
new
meet the needs of
and how technology
opportunities for learners and teachers
Just as students
- and
their
is
opening up
alike.
needs - have changed, so too
has the university changed to meet those needs. This issue of
Bloomsburg's magazine looks at the changes time has wrought
Bloomsburg; The University Magazine
is
published twice a year
and spring semesters. A separate publication, "Maroon and Gold".
including class notes and alumni news, will be sent twice a year to all alumni
in the fall
who have made a contribution during the preceding calendar year.
Members of the most recent graduating class will receive t^vo free issues
of "Maroon and Gold." Others may receive the publication by paWng a
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B.U. Alumni Association, 400 East Second Street, Bloomsburg, PA 78 15.
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the
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2 Teaching
Bloomsbun
of your
6
2nd Vice Chair
Secretary
Kelly.
Ramona H.AJley
David
J.
j.
Cope
2.
Teaching Technolog}-
exist a
to anticipate
tomorrow's
How can today's graduates
ready for tomorrow's jobs? How can a university
employment opportunities?
O'Connor
I'N'R'ERSm" .ULT-INI
be
balance specialized kno\\iedge \sath general learning?
ASSOOAnON
Sandra Rupp 7 President
Nancy Feher Edwards VO.Vice President
Carolyn Vemoy Reitz '5 Secretary
1
— Tomorrow's Jobs
So what can today's colleges do
Pecrosky
James H. McCormick, Ex-Offido
BLOOMSBURG
Skills
generation ago. The speed of change has not slowed.
Ted Scuban
Kevin M.
Today's
by Jason Kirsch Whole categories of jobs didn't
Robert W. Buehner.jr.
James T.Atherton. Jr.
David
for the ride
life.
Mowad, Chair
Jennifer R,Adams.Vice Chair
Davis.
of Technology
Climb aboard the information superhighway
COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES
A. William
Age
the ways teachers teach and the ways learners learn.
Jessica S. Kozloff
UiRoy G.
the
Technology has transformed the ways we
Hve and work. The transformation has also revolutionized
PRESroEXT
J.
in
by M. G. Lloyd
MAGAZINE
THE UNIVEilSI'
Joseph
THIS ISSUE
2
1996
Discover what Bloomsburg
.
1
is
doing to answer these
questions about tomorrow's job market.
.
John j.Trathen '68,Treasurer
Doug C.
Hippenstiel '68, Ex-Offido,
10 Tales from a Kinder, Gentler Time
Director of Alumni Affeirs
BLOOMSBl.'RG UXP.'ERSm'
FOUXDAnON
Anthony
laniero. Executive
David
to discover
Director
Bloomsburg through the eyes of three generations
Hill. Treasurer
of alumni.
E\ECLTT\X EDFTOR
Joan
T.
To know where you are, you have
where you've been. This article looks at
by M. G. Lloyd
Bbem H.AIkire Jr., Chair
L MihalikVice President
Victoria
Lentczner
14 The Face of Developmental
EDITOR
Marldand G. Uoyd
b\'
Joan Lentczner
Instruction
The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas
PHOTOGR.\PHERS
Joan HeKer
14.
Developmental Instruction
urged his readers to "rage against the dying of the Ught."
Brian Donnelly
For more than 20 years, students whose economic
DESIGXER
or educational backgrounds might otherwise have
John Lorish
obscured their talents
now
have found opportunities to
ART DIRECTOR
succeed in the university's Developmental Instruction
Jane! A. Fry
program. Thomas might be encouraged
EDITORIAL BOARD
the Hght
Nancy Edwards 70
Lawrence B. Fuller
James Pomfret
Susan M. Hehwig
on
to
know that
...
—
Address comments and questions
16 The Contemporary Student
the
Changing Face of Today's Student
to:
By
Editor
Bloom^urg
Eric Foster
They've been called slackers, twenty-
somethings, baby-busters and Generation X. They also
Waller Administration Building
Bloomsburg University
Bloorasburg,
is
PA 17815
make up
the greatest proportion of today's college
students.
Who
from
Internet address:
Ilo}#husky.blo omu.edu
sisters?
16.
Conterrporary Student
Bioomsburg University of Pennsyivania is a
member of the State System of Higher
Education. Board of Governors of the State
System of Higher Education include;
F. Eugene Dixon Jr., chair, Lafeyette Hill; Julia
B. Ansil, vice chair, California;
are these students?
their parents
— or even
How are they different
their older brothers
and
This article takes a close-up look at today's
student
— and
24 News
discovers
some encouraging signs.
Briefs
Muriel
Berman, Allento\%Ti; Jeffrey Coy,
Shippensburg; Glenn Y. Pome)', Shavertown;
Dr. Eugene ^V. Hickock Jr., Secretary of
Education; James A- hughes, Philadelphia;
F.
Joseph Loeper, Drexell Hill;
Pittsburgh; Christopher
Stroudsburg;
Amy L. Martin
Shippensburg; Joseph
BenWck; Thomas
Rowe
Kim E.
Makos
J.
M.
Lyttle,
(student),
(student),
Nespoli,
Ridge, Governor; Philip
Wyomissing; Elizabeth L.
Schmid (student), West Chester;
Jere \\'. Schuler, Hanisburg; Patrick J.
D.
Jr.,
Stapleton, Harrisburg; Christine
J.
Cover
illustration
by
John Lorish
The Lorish Company
Torelti,
Indiana; R. Benjamin Wiley, Erie.
Blixmsbuii UninrsiCf Magtizme
WINTER
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9?6
I
—
Imagine a teacher in a world without textbooks
or books
of any kind, for that matter.
It's
hard for us today.
But printed books are a
Western world. Not
relatively recent
until the
phenomenon
in the
middle of the 15th century did
Johannes Gutenberg's printing press make books affordable
WRITTEN BY MARK LLOYD
and
accessible
—
for individual
—
men and women.
The printing press revolutionized Western thought.
By "popularizing" the Bible, some historians have argued, the
printing press made possible the Protestant Reformation and
transformed the way individuals saw themselves in the universe.
But if Gutenberg's invention of movable type and the printing
press revolutionized mankind's relationship with
transformed education.
No
God,
The printing
in monasteries or the universities.
press
— and teaching — more democratic and
education
it
also
longer was learning cloistered up
made
accessible.
Today, the personal computer promises to revolutionize the
way we
il
get
and use information.
In just over 50 years
PC
— an eyeblink
in evolutionary
—
time
made information instandy accessible, even to
young children. The Internet has eliminated time and distance
the
has
as barriers to knowledge.
Personal computers perform complex computations faster
human
than any
being.
They check grammar and detect spelling errors.
They create music and provide graphic animations.
Modern teachers are using PCs as tools to create informationrich classroom environments.
The change
4^W
is
especially significant at institutions like
Bloomsburg, which prepare students for teaching
For most of its 169-year
teachers.
Even today
history,
— though Bloomsburg
imiversity awarding undergraduate
business, arts
nursing
and
— about
sciences,
and
careers.
Bloomsburg has taught
is
a
comprehensive
and graduate degrees
allied health areas
in
such as
a third of the university's 7,000 students are
enrolled in teacher preparation programs.
For Robert Gates, an assistant professor in Bloomsburg's
curriculum and foundations department, successhil teachers
must
still
exhibit enthusiasm
classroom.
and
display professionalism in the
A recent study conducted by Gates and faculty colleague
Viola Supon, assistant professor, sought to identify the qualities
and competencies most sought by school supervisors in young
enthusiasm and professionalism
teachers. "These qualities
—
—
haven't changed," he explains.
"But today's teacher must also exhibit
new tech-
nological competencies to be effective."
PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER
vVmong those technological competencies,
he includes the use of chalkboards and
overhead projectors, but also such
media
as interactive television,
CD-Roms and
the Internet.
Bloomsburg Unrvenity Magazine
WINTER
1996
TEACHING
"Today's teacher must find creative ways to help learners
become problem
— using
he
says. "
Computer-assisted learning
the computer to enable students with different learning
proceed
styles to
solvers "
at their
own
pace
— encourages
that kind of
Gates, for instance, acknowledges that students with computers
at
home
in
Cahfornia demonstrate a growing disparity between the
have advantages over those that don't. Studies done
technology "haves" and the "have nots."
He also worries about
among urban and
problem-solving, says Gates.
potential inequalities of access to technology
That's one of the changes in education today, says Henry
Dobson, professor of curriculum and foundations.
rural school districts.
Today's teacher teaches problem-solving
A generation
wanted
geography lessons about Africa might have
asked third-grade students to draw and color a
continent. Their
artistic skill
map
of the
work might be evaluated for accuracy and
nearness,
and presentation. Students lacking fine-motor skills
might be penalized
developmental deficiency.
for their
teacher,
Dobson
says,
might ask
a
group of
tion to create a database of such variables as literacy
life
expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa. Students
would then graph the data using appropriate applicaand determine whether a correlation existed
tion software
between these
variables. This
approach emphasizes problem-
solving rather than representational
is
not in improving
productivity, but in solving problems. Using technology
appropriately,
Dobson
says,
encourages students to develop a
The long-term success of this change in pedagogical
focus will be
measured, says Dobson, by an educational s\'stem that produces
who "can help solve our ozone problem, develop
ative solutions to pollution or
generate
power from
Though the
a fusion reaction.'
use of computers in the
classroom promises to revolutionize
education, the solution has also
generated
its
own set of problems.
to stay
five
home from
school to
work on
a report? If there are only
computers in the classroom. Gates
says, the child is likely
accomphsh more on the home computer than going
to
school that particular day.
Tomorrow's technology might make the classroom obsolete.
Distance education
sateUites
— using
— permits
interactive television
and computers
teachers
and
and
learners to be
thousands of miles apart working on the same lesson or project.
The technolog)' is just around the comer, Dobson says. Teaching
and learning are no longer limited by distance, time and age
—
college professors.
The
implications for the educational establishment are immense.
Bloomsburg mathematics professor Reza Noubary has another
concern about the computer's impact on students.
that inappropriate use of the
"layer cake of thinking skiUs."
people
school offers?
8-year-old thfrd-graders can have dialogs with 50-year-old
skills.
Permitting students to explore "if- then questions," the
computer becomes a "mind tool" whose value
home may be superior to what the
What should a parent say to a child who wants
technology they have at
to
Today's
third-graders to use a computer and Internet connecand
Why should kids go off to school each morning when the
Bloomsburg educator, teachers who
ago, says the
to present
There are also new questions for parents and educators.
Gates says.
skills.
cre-
computer
in teaching
He beheves
mathematics
may diminish the role of creativity in math thinking. "Students
who learn mathematics using computers are likely to have a
thinking process different from those who have learned
mathematics based on a traditional teaching
st)de,"
he
says.
He
admits that computers are able to
compute"
far faster
than
human
beings, but they lack the ability
to "think creatively."
TECHNOLOGY
/ /
^"^ hould we
WW m
^k
I
educate students to use computers, or
should we teach them to use
'
mathematics?" he
^
The answer
r^^
Teachers
is
who
to
their
own brains to leam
asks.
do both.
use the computer to "simulate the real
world" are applying the technology appropriately, says Noubary.
"Using
it
as a supercalculator
Most young
teachers
to share information.
is
improper."
embrace the computer and
power
its
Many are using the Internet to make
themselves better teachers.
Dobson
is
part of the Great Lakes Collaborative, a telementoring
program based
in Belleville, Michigan.
Internet, teachers
many as
anywhere
6,000 effective
math and
By logging onto the
world can get access to
in the
science lesson plans.
as
They talk
with teacher experts via e-mail to get answers to questions about
They
instructional content or technology.
get
new
ideas for the
classroom by reading the CoUaborative's electronic newsletter.
Similar initiatives connect students wdth experts.
Star Schools
kids a day
Program, Dobson
— not
day,
m respond.
he
— but
face-to-face
a kid in Minnesota
says,
six
or seven
electronically. "At 10 p.m.,
may ask a science
He'll
Through the
may talk with
this
kind of technology diminishes
the importance of the teacher or the classroom experience.
"Teachers are trained to use behaviors in the classroom that can
contribute to a child's success," he argues.
how to
motivate students. "Their job
water.
.
,"
.
he
says.
is
Good
teachers learn
to help lead the horse to
"A good teacher wdU find a way to get the
Dobson
agrees. "Today's teacher
is
changing too
is
not the knowledge authority
fast for
S.
KOZLOFF
We've been called the "college on the
any one person to be an
authority for very long. Today's teacher
is
the facUitator, probing,
inquiring, eliciting the 'ah...hahr response."
hiU."
However, when our young people come off the
give
new meaning to
the term active learning.
spend thousands of hours during the year
chUd
in
hiU, they
Our
students
in schools, libraries,
and area
centers, correctional institutions
They work, not only
businesses.
Bloomsburg and surrounding
communities, but throughout the
hometowns
horse to drink. That's a teacher's job."
— knowledge
BY JESSICA
question. At 8 a.m. the next
have his answer before he goes off to school!"
Robert Gates doesn't think
Learning on the Streets
like FrackviUe,
state in
many of their
Lewistown, Milton, Scranton,
Shamokin, Sunbury, WiOiamsport
.
.
and the
.
Ust goes on!
This faU 60 students have been tutoring in local elementary
schools. Fifteen football players served as
mentors to students
40 others ran a weekly
in another district, while
recreation/mentoring program for "at-risk" children.
equal
number mounted
this area.
County
a voter registration
An
campaign
in
Students surveyed flood-affected Columbia
residents.
More cooked
chicken at the Mental
Health Association's barbecue.
This kind of community sendee
is
a
two-way
street.
While
they are helping others, our students are learning important
lessons about
what
it
means
often discover important
when
to
be part of a community. They
new skills
that
improve job prospects
they leave the university.
Times have changed.
viewed
as a
be getting
No longer is community ser^dce
punishment. Part of the educational process must
being good
this generation involved in
citizens.
I'm proud to say our students are taking ownership for their
education and bringing
it
to
life.
This
phone rings our students answer the
Jessica Sledge Kozloff
is
is
real stuff.
When
the
call!
in her third year as president
of
Bloomsburg Universit)' of Pennsylvania, a member of
Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education.
Bloomsburg UnivefziTy Magazine
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WRITTEN BY JASON KIRSCH
PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER
headlines abound. "1996
Trendy
Career Guide:
20 Hot Job Tracks."
"Forecast '96: Job Mart Great for
Grads." "Outlook '96: Help Wanted!"
may be frightening
who will soon
Job market forecasts
—
especially for students
adorn caps and gowns. Have they chosen
Did they learn the
a lucrative field?
knowledge and skiUs necessary
perform the job? Has
to
their education
prepared them to work in today's
global environment?
One
of the functions of a university
to prepare
its
is
students for jobs. But
preparing students on the basis of today's
job requirements
is
insufficient.
The
reason? Change.
Author Isaac Asimov once wrote:
"It is
change, continuing change, Lne\dtable
change, that
the
is
society today.
No
dominant
factor in
sensible decision can be
made any longer without taking
account not only the world as
world as
it \vill
be
into
it is,
but the
This, in turn,
means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our ever^Tnan must take on a
science fictional way of thuiking."
Anticipating change
is
a challenge, says
Wilson Bradshaw, Bloomsburg
Universit)''s
academic
provost and vice president for
affairs.
responsibility to
"But
be
it is
the university's
visionan,'
—
to look
A university's methods of prognostication
balls.
at
grounded
So
how does
in tarot cards or crj'stal
a university look
tomorrow's opportunities
that
may not
even
"We
with our peers
ahead," he explains.
are not
"It is a collective process," says
Bradshaw.
—
ahead
for jobs
exist yet?
talk
with one another
— within our
—
institution
and other institutions. We take advantage
of the knowledge and wisdom of our faculty to help us determine
areas
what academic
need to be addressed."
That
is
one way a university
Bloomsburg University's most
valuable resource for understanding
And
it is
work environone way that Bloomsburg
is its
direct links
between academic programs and
outside professionals.
6
WINTER
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996
B/oomsfaurg Unjversrty Magazine
Statistics
which includes projections of the
labor force, economic gro%\'th and
occupational emplo)Tnent covering a
From
publications like the Handbook,
explains Barnett, universities
demands of the job market so
says Barnett.
that
its
Carol Barnett, director of Bloomsburg
Development Center,
much is learned from magazines,
and government publications.
may learn
"Of course,
word of mouth,"
job market patterns and trends.
a lot can be learned by
University's Career
publishes
the Occupational Outlook Handbook
University tries to be responsive to the
students will be prepared for the future.
the job market
Bureau of Labor
10 to 15-year period.
stays
abreast of changes in the
ment.
Every two years, for instance, the U.S.
"And the
ating source for job
Bloomsburg
Internet
is
a prolifer-
market research."
Universits^'s
most valuable
resource for understanding the job market
between academic
notes that
is its
journals
programs and outside
direct links
professionals.
"They are a very important
link
between
academia and the professional world," says
Harold
Bailey, professor
of mathematics
and computer science and
(IIT).
On"How
Comprised of business
and
what
director of
Bloomsburg's Institute for Interactive
Technology
occasion, the council even evaluates
better for students to learn
will
be required of them
tomorrow?" Bailey
Council relays information to the univer-
and member of Pennsylvania's State
Board of Nursing, the university's health
technology. According to Bailey, the council
keeps the program abreast of the job market
— what type of preparation employers
are expecting
and what kinds of job
opportunities are avaOable.
"The moment someone
says, 'Hey, Bailey,
your students are not meeting our expectations,'
we're going to change," says Bailey.
from Bloomsburg University in
According to Christine Alichnie, dean of
Bloomsburg's School of Health Sciences
graduate program in instructional
business majors who graduated
notes.
professionals, the IIT's Corporate Advisory
sity's
More than 90 percent of all
critiques student work.
care
programs look ahead
The Health
in several ways.
Sciences Advisory Council
1995 found erq)loyment.
"We
tion,
ask them to evaluate their preparaand we ask them if their employers
may be
contacted," says Alichnie. "After
we
meets twice a year for university faculty
receive permission,
and health care professionals
that should be addressed
to exchange
we
ask about areas
and how our
information. Each year, the School of
programs should
Health Sciences also conducts follow-up
Based on our follow-up studies, we make
surveys of students
who
have graduated
within the previous two years.
revise their curriculums.
changes."
Just this
fall,
in fact, the university
an adult nurse practitioner
initiated
program
in response to changes in the
health care industry. Nurse practitioners
are
primary care providers that managed
care organizations
want
to hire.
much of a
Alichnie also notes that
program's success in preparing
depends on the professional
faculty.
"Our
its
students
activity of
its
faculty are actively involved
in the practice
and research of health
care
at area institutions," says Alichnie.
"Through
we main-
faculty involvement,
tain contact with the professional world."
With
all
these systems for academic
planning in place, one would
like to
assume that a thoroughly prepared
graduate with a degree soon becomes an
established professional with a job.
Unfortunately
the picture
is
— but not
who
—
not so perfect.
More than 90
majors
surprisingly
percent of all business
graduated from Bloomsburg
University in 1995 found employment.
However,
less
than 60 percent of elementary
education students found employment.
Undoubtedly, these figures
may be
interpreted in a variety of ways.
Last year, Bloomsburg's business graduates
may have been well
prepared and
high in demand. Bloomsburg's elementary education graduates
may also
have
been excellently prepared, but ask any one
of them what they learned from their job
search
and
they'll
probably
tell
Bloomsburg University Magazine
you
that
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7
Pennsylvania's market for teachers
just
is
South and West, where student
in the
lie
Many graduates
far from home
preparing students for "what's hot,"
and
teach students to talk the talk
populations are booming.
prefer not to relocate so
walk the walk prepare graduates
A imiversity can look ahead at tomor-
for the jobs of tomorrow."
will be.
years, despite trends in partic-
ular job areas, says Carol Barnett,
between
And
as evident
by the world's fascination
with the cyber-code
80 and 90 percent of all Bloomsburg
future
designers, analysts
employment or continuing
"Our students
unusual for us to get
"It is
letters,
is
The
going to require developers,
and managers of com-
not
at all
number
of) marketing, advertising
public relations managers
from students who have gone off thanking
is
and
also projected
employers impressed with students'
Many young professionals
may find opportunities to communicate,
promote and sell the new millennium's
preparation."
products, services and images.
us for preparing
them
well,
but also from
So what are the future careers that are
expected to challenge today's students?
Many of the fastest growing occupations
continue to exist in the
fields
of health
getting older
— and
The
population
and Uving longer —
more people
are
and computer science
good reason.
for
nation's
is
soon going
to
need
care.
successfijl,
more times throughout
these
the
young
professionals
must manage
money they expect to earn. More
and more individuals and companies
demand
the services of financial
strategists to help
them make
that
and
In the long run, you'U do better
if
is
skills.
you
are
do."
Today's students must be wiUing to take
ally
risks
and
and be
flexible
—
profession-
geographically, says Bradshaw.
They must
understand and respect
also
cultural diversity.
But most important to students'
professional future, says Bradshaw,
is
their ability to apply their education.
on teaching
theory,"
he explains. "To learn
theory for the sake of learning theory has
no
value.
how to
To learn theory and understand
use
to solve
it
problems
—
that
talk the talk
prosperous futures.
graduates for the jobs of tomorrow."
and walk the walk prepare
"Without the fundamental knowledge a
a
general education
wUl not
program provides, people
understand what
fully
on around them,"
And even one's ideal
is
going
may
And they may
says Liu. "Hence, they
not find happiness in any job.
not find happiness outside the boundaries
job stiU doesn't guarantee happiness.
of their work"
With these characteristics of the
Liu acknowledges that the ability to find
marketplace in mind, some educators
happiness surely cannot be attained through
emphasize the proposition that a
the study of liberal arts alone. That
should be more
Tallying one-half of an undergraduate's
Bloomsburg University seeks to
why
is
cultivate
than vocational. Perhaps the true worth
curriculum, Bloomsburg's liberal arts
an environment that helps students learn
of education, they say,
(or general education) requirements
ways to find happiness.
is its
ability to
prepare people to find happiness and
include courses in the humanities, the
satisfaction inside
arts, the social sciences, the
— and
outside
—
the worlqjlace.
and
Sciences,
believes that one's ability to find happiness
is
behavioral
sciences, the natural sciences
Hsien-Tung Liu, dean of Bloomsburg
University's College of Arts
direcdy related to education
is
the direction education should take. Those
academic programs that teach students to
the
are constantly rendering
college education
be
to
most of their earnings and ensure
Many people even change careers
once or twice. New trends, technologies and
others obsolete.
you are going
If
"Traditionally, universities have focused
And, of course, Barnett continues,
career.
skills
"One should never
on
you must choose a job
happy with what you
Today's average professional changes
jobs six or
list.
consistent with your interests
to increase.
will
a lot
one graduates.
some
According to Barnett, the need for (and
not only
hit
a career decision based solely
'what's hot,'" says Bradshaw. "Engineers
puter hardware, software and burgeoning
interconnected networks.
get jobs," says
Bloomsburg's Bradshaw.
our informa-
http://,
tion appetite has not been sated.
University graduates report finding
their education after graduation.
officer
can be hot today and cold by the time
cannot prescribe
it
what or where those opportunities
care
based on today's
make
row's opportunities, but
professional
Bloomsburg's chief academic
cautions students about choosing careers
and famUies.
Over the
While recognizing the importance of
"Those academic programs that
about saturated. Opportunities for teachers
—
particularly exposure to the liberal arts.
and
"Clubs, student publications, social
and
intellectual organizations, ^orts, residence
hall living
—
all
of these experiences
ulti-
mathematics. According to Liu, general
mately help a student find happiness in
education courses are designed to nurture
Ufe," says Liu.
a student's ability to communicate, analyze,
extracurricular activities, students
calculate
and imderstand the world
which humans
live.
in
social
as
"And by participating in
and interpersonal
important as job
skills
devebp
that are just
skills."
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oday's college students have
more freedom than
ever before.
Residence halls are co-educational. Colleges and universities are
— by
prohibited
federal
law
— from
issuing even grade
reports to parents or
The world
guardians.
es
of today's college
campus
is
different
from
rom.
what our parents knew.
€€
Or our grandparents.
Or our great
This
grandparents.
incler
article looks at three
generations of college
life
on
eiiitier
the Bloomsburg campus.
WRITTEN BY MARK LLOYD
10
WINTER
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Bloomsburg Univereily Magoz/ne
T:imeS9 9»
"The war to end
Stately
all
and thorough, Miss McBride
commanded the
young
respect of her
charges.
She allowed her students "few
wars raged in Europe.
privileges" without written permission
firom parents or the school's principal.
:jki
People sang "Over There."
Even the "arrangements and location" of
off-campus lodgings had to be approved
GRACE KISHBACH MILLER
by the principal
oodrow Wilson occupied
young people
not
Not
at the
in 1917,
when
18-year old Grace Kishbach
—
come
to
to
J.
Waller,
Jr.
—
left
—
Gordon
Bloomsburg.
celebrated, as
still
"manners and mores of the
not surprising. D.
— was
danced the Black Bottom. But
in cities
Grace came to a place that
It's
were offered by a
Normal.
down in SchuyUdU County
later wrote, the
the White House. Hip
late
WaUer was, she
recalls,
his "strict sense of
judgment."
Normal
the
at
sat
—
in
lecture, fol-
an age before
and radio
—by
Classes began at 8 in the
morning and continued
Dinner was served
at
until 5 at
about 5:30. After dinner
— students would gather
in the social
room, sing around the piano and chat about events of the
day.
on Saturdays. Sundays and Mondays were
to stem the outmigration of
on weekends. Students were expected
with "Ughts out"
at 10.
But
to
girls
be
in their
often studied
with flashlights under the bedcovers.
"Absolutely
no one was permitted
to go off
campus
after 6
Punishments could be
—
Miss McBride, preceptress of Main Dormitory, enforced the
She "walked
There was contagion. In 1916, the opening of school was
delayed for about two weeks as
officials in
Harrisburg debated
all.
Two
pus.
years
the epidemic broke in
later,
full
force across
at
cam-
Many members
Some
of the student body came down wixh the
The school was quarantined and, for four
died.
weeks, those living in dormitories were not allowed to go onto
the streets of town. In the
town
itself,
15 to 20
new cases
Coupled with the
disease
of
and into
fear of
and death, students
America's involvement in a
war
in far-off Europe.
As
each term opened, young
men and women
failed to
return to classes.
Some
went to work
in factories
to support the
war
effort.
Others, including faculty,
left
to join the
armed
forces.
Grace Kishbach graduated from the Normal in 1919
after
two
years at the school
—
earning a degree
one held a high school degree upon entering
if
the customary length of time required for
teaching certificate that permitted her to teach Latin, Spanish
and EngUsh; ancient
history; arithmetic
and
algebra; reading;
botany, chemistry and physics; as well as sociology
smoking.
rules.
misfortunes.
Following her marriage to Charles Miller and armed with a
severe.
who violated hours were "campused," confined to
campus
often for weeks at a time. Students were sent home
for
accompanied
the school.
p.m.," says Grace.
Those
if
faced the growing reaUty of
a recita-
tion of the day's news.
at 7 p.m.,
to join
by a chaperone.
November.
broadcasts
rooms
—
began with a Bible reading
television
— an arrangement devised
—
the happy couple — but only
influenza were reported each day through October
lowed
off-days
trips off-campus.
friends
chapel services. Each day
and a moral
students
at the
disease.
in assigned seats in daily
Classes were held
chaperoned on
whether pubUc schools in the Commonwealth should open
Colleagues noted his "refine-
eaten "family style"
recalls that
But the Normal could not inoculate students from some
arrived at
"a person of the old school."
—
to be
when one of her
became engaged
end of the academic year, the young man invited his
fiancee and three of her friends
Grace among them
to
Grace
women
the school. Born in Bloomsburg
night.
such lodgings
Victorian era."
when Grace Kishbach
Students
if
dinner in Sunbury. Permission was granted for the three young
well into his second tenure as head of the institution
ment" and
Young women had
— even
or friend.
one historian
a native of Bloomsburg
in 1846,
relative
like a
lady of the 19th century," Grace
recalls.
taught for 37 years in pubUc schools in
— Grace
Montgomery and
Chester counties outside Philadelphia.
Bloomsburg University Magazine
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housekeeper and tutor to the
Street as a
Young lovers sang
children.
He had
the whole third floor of
on Market
the house
Street to himself.
Eda Bessie and Stuart dated throughout
'The Dipsy Doodle" and
the winter. Bessie admits she was attracted
to Stuart because,
evenings, he
'Three Little Fishies".
EDA
BESSIE
AND STUART EDWARDS
They studied
War again threatened
could get the best sticky bun in the world for 5 cents more,"
drug
in
Europe.
store
on Main
was 1939 when Eda Bessie BeUhartz met Stuart Edwards.
They were sophomores that year. It was when Harvey Andruss
Stuart recaUs.
became president of the school. He retauied the post until 1969.
Newspaper headlines in the Bloomsburg State College library
that year may have foretold the gathering war clouds, but the
campus itself retained a serenity that "beUed the times," Eda
friend
Women
the college learned
at
how to
in a straight chair
sit
up out of an overstuffed one. They were taught how
and
— danced
— and
in
Freshman Hop.
the
band
at
When
at
Sophomore CotUlion,
f^\
universe" back then,
ofiSce,
Eda
Bessie
the business office
president's office
was
there, so
Usually,
two
women were
the
women on
assigned to each room.
There were no
and one
light.
rising bell
and
sounded
at 6:45 a.m.
They shared
electrical outlets.The
to
go
or to a movie. Students had to seek "permission" to
p.m.
Chapel services were every Tuesday and Thursday in Carver
Auditorium. Attendance was mandatory.
Eda
and Stuart didn't start dating until their senior year.
He hved off campus and, for a time, paid $7 a week for room
and board. The postage to maQ his laundry home each week cost
Bessie
12 cents. Later, he took a job with the
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996
Money was
at the school.
Depression.
eastern
Bloomsburg University Magazine
months
after
they bought
always an issue for Stuart
it.
— and
The country was emerging from
Many of its students were
for
most students
the Great
offspring of middle
European immigrants. "Maybe
and
95 percent of students at
saw
college as the 'entry
By 1941 when Stuart and Eda Bessie graduated, Hitler had
overrun Poland and the Low Countries. His planes were
bombing London, and he had launched his invasion of Russia.
Students at the college knitted khaki-colored socks and
when
Quiet times each evening were
1 1
upward mobility and
campus.
Freshmen were allowed two "permissions" per month
study in the Waller Lobby after
to scrape together
sweaters to be added to "Bundles for Britain."
to 9.
downtown
—
But the
closet
from 7
landlady
was the
dean of instruction's.
all
—
ticket' to a better hfe."
was the "hub of the
Waller Hall was the dormitory for
seat.
They used his book money
and $10 borrowed from their
to get their children to college. Families
Old Waller HaU
The
Model
rumble
gym's hall to say their
^
the university store.
a
dancers drifted to the old
goodbyes.
housed the post
in a '31
Bloomsburg were the first generation in their families to have
graduated even from high school," Stuart says. "Parents scratched
the
says. It
A Ford — with
afford such
started playing
Goodnight Sweetheart
,
Herb Schneider tooled
around campus
sold the car a few
your Eyes
the
H&C
"and you
soon decided they couldn't
faculty
to Stardust or
Smoke Gets
coffee cost a nickel,
$35 to buy the machine. They
to
handle bouillon cups.
Students
Maybe they stopped by the
where
Street,
For a time, Stuart and his
Bessie later wrote.
2
practice."
visited in the
and warm
movies. They took long walks.
Roosevelt
It
I
nice
together in the library or went to the
sat in
one
from basketball
when he
"still
— with the worst of the Great
the White House.
Depression behind him —
Franklin
to get
was
Ranson family on Market
college's "age
of innocence" ended, Eda Bessie
says,
met on campus to register male students
over 21. That morning in 1940, "as the men milled around the
hallway in front of the old gym, someone noted that this date
was Bill Kerchusky's 21st birthday. As the gym doors opened, one
mighty push sent BUI to the head of the Une, making him the
."
first man on campus to register for the draft.
Stuart and Eda Bessie married in December, 1942, and went
the draft board
.
to live in Saverna Park,
Maryland.
Later, they
.
returned to
Pennsylvania, where Bessie continued to teach elementary
school and Stuart became a school administrator.
In 1958, the
two returned to Bloomsburg. Stuart became
director of admissions and,
Eda
later,
Bessie taught in the college's
School. Stuart retired in 1979.
dean of professional
studies.
Benjamin Franklin Laboratory
was the Age of Aquarius.
It
off-campus with one of her
father's
friends.
Part of the school's unwritten mission
Peter,
Paul and
—
Mary sang
from
a legacy
its
Victorian past
and the
to teach etiquette
social graces.
women
At dinner each evening,
"Biowin' in the
Wind"
men, jackets and
FEHER EDWARDS
and four men
Another war in a far-off land was claiming American
their rides at Centennial
Gym, careened
down Second Street and jumped off at the foot of CoOege HUl
protested when the college administration banned the boards.
Students, meeting in Centennial Gym, demanded their rights.
—
They vowed to strike until
They called the media.
Next morning,
demands were met.
their
crews had completed film-
Hai'vey Andruss was stiU president of the coUege.
to preside over the institution's
many ways,
He was about
much
since the turn of the century.
month
students could have a
stay out until
1
"late,"
a.m.
to
11.
One weekend
— permission
dorms —
once
Nancy says
No "open visitation" was allowed in
each semester when men were allowed
— but doors had
to one's
room
allowed one phone
to visit
More
of the
hall.
dorm,
for instance
By
—
at
the end
for having alcohol in a
in residence halls was Spartan. There
rooms and no telephones. Hair dryers
Life
in the
— "but
Nancy confesses,
confine-
resulted in expulsion.
today's standards.
were prohibited
—
per night. The pay phone was
serious violations
were no televisions
a
to
except for classes and meals. Detainees were
—
bottom of my closet,"
"and turned up the radio volume when I used
I
relaxed. For the first time,
slacks to class
They wore Wejuns
— but not
in
women were permitted to wear
Carver Hall, or "even
when walking
of Carver!"
hid mine
at
the
set
up
in Centennial
it
ran from one table to another to snatch
up
didn't
In '68,
Nancy met
Hall.
spend
a
all
her time in the dorms or lecture haUs.
DJ from the
married shortly
when Ed
or to the outdoor ones
off-campus party.
On
Husky football game
shown on campus
outside
Saturdays, they might go to a
East Seventh Street, where the
YMCA now stands.
As Nancy Feher's tenure at
Bloomsburg was drawing to a
close, so too was a part of
Bloomsburg
history. After
having
served 30 years as president of the
college,
Harvey Andruss
October of that
retired. In
year, faculty orga-
nized a "Teach-In" to protest the
growing war in Southeast Asia. In the
spring of 1970, 500 faculty and students protested the kUling of students
State campus in Ohio.
some ways, it was a protest over the death of innocence.
Nancy Feher Edwards taught in Bucks County for five years
after
was the dorm mother who enforced the rules.
She checked sign-out sheets each evening to find out who was
In 1975, she returned to the area
out and why. Ms. Kinney once telephoned Nancy's parents to
On
— down on
frozen pizzas steamed over Ulegal hot pots.
verify their written note granting her permission to have dinner
She and
They'd share a Coke in the Husky Lounge or go to an
on the Kent
Lucretia Kinney
local radio station.
after his graduation.
wasn't working, they'd go to movies
no refrigerators. In winter, students used
natural refrigeration, wedgiag cans of Coke and TV dinners
between the screens and the windows of their rooms. They ate
the thing." There were
closed. Students
cards before the
all filled.
Nancy
('73)
Gym. When no more
was
cards remained for a particular section,
downtown
women's dorms
wide open.
call
that matched.
wasn't until spring of Nancy's senior year, that the dress code
It
was
West
except
Violations of the rules could result in a "rooming"
ment
"Women
or Bass loafers.
Saturday nights,
Friday nights, they enjoyed an extra hour of free-
On Saturdays, they could stay out until
dom.
says.
women wore "VUlager sets," Nancy
and sweaters
skirts
Ed Edwards
forgot.
Students were expected to be in their rooms at 9 p.m. during
On
—
choice classes were
and publication of
underground newspapers, Bloomsburg was a place time
the week.
For the most part,
says
ed from various tables
most explosive period of growth.
despite skateboard sit-ins
Rules hadn't changed
women
Scheduling was done with "punch cards" that students collect-
after the television
was 1968 when Nancy Feher transferred to Bloomsburg.
In
Four
'presented' desserts."
in front
ing for the evening news, students returned to classes.
It
ties.
—
ate together at family-
"Guys served the meats," Nancy
style tables.
lives.
Young people turned on and tuned out.
On the Bloomsburg campus, the turbulence of the times
was reflected in the Great Bloomsburg Skate-Board Sit-in. Skate-
— who began
were
expected to wear dresses and nylons
NANCY
boarders
— was
In
graduating from Bloomsburg State College in 1970.
and has taught reading in the
Bloomsburg schools since then. In 1977, she earned her M.Ed.
from Bloomsburg. She teaches during the summers in the
university's Department of Developmental Instruction.
Bloomsburg Univsnity Magazine
WINTER
1996
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DO NOT GO GENTLE
INTO THAT
GOOD NIGHT RAGE, RAGE AGAINSTTHE DYING OFTHE LIGHT— DYLANTHOMAS
THE FACE
O F
DEVELOPMENTAL
INSTRUCTION
—
which spawned this
movie Dangerous Minds
fn a recent
television series — Michelle PfeifFer portrays a teacher
additional academic support
whose students have few educational
courses.
provided
fall's
skills
but
lots
of social
state
Back then, students whose family income was
S5,000
an education, arm yourselves
income has
minds so you'll be that much tougher
They get the message.
By movie's
end, they teach Pfeiffer
to quit the classroom
— by
telling
to
world with strong
knock down."
— chaUenging her
decision
her that she must continue to
Michelle Pfeiffer does not teach at Bloomsburg. Bloomsburg
is
share of drama,
its
families with
legislation.
They are
more than 2,500 people have gone through
Bloomsburg's Act 101/EOP program. Its 52 percent graduation
higher than the national average of 45 to 48 percent.
enter the
Thirty percent of the students are non-traditional
than 18
when
They are
—
older
they begin their academic program.
students
who
are
most "at
risk
spring,
traditional
means.
to direct the institution's fledg-
101/EOP program.
Bryan proved, in the words of Chancellor McCormick
(who, as president of the then-Bloomsburg State College, had
the potential that prior circumstances
and most subject
Bryan's message to students in the
simple
— and tough: study
excellence.
to
butts.
program was invariably
and strive for
hard, stay focused
('73),
one of Bryan's
first
students and
now executive
New Jersey Commission on Higher Education,
admits today that "there were
our
Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education.
unnoticed and
Never make excuses. Don't look for the easy way out.
Glenn Lang
director of the
being discarded," says James McCormick, chanceDor of
left
unnurtured."
Of
program each year, half are white,
a third are African-American. Fifteen percent are "other minorities."
Bloomsburg
hired Bryan), "that patience, caring and dedication can tap
might otherwise go unrecognized.
In the past decade,
who
in
For almost a quarter century until his retirement this past
students whose economic or educational backgrounds obscure
is
household income higher than Act 101 thresholds,
Bryan arrived
ling Act
through Act 101 or Equal Opportunity Act
rate
— or
being educationally disadvantaged in some way. Their talents
Nearly 100 students each year enter the university either
the 100 students
one chOd
more per year than a minimum-wage worker earns.
The companion initiative to Act 101 was the Educational
Opportunity Program (EOP). EOP students may come from
share of personal
struggles against the "dying of the light."
talents that
risen to $18,450 for families with
might go "unrecognized" through
campus has its
than
but their educational background must show evidence of their
not Hollywood.
this
less
nearly $8,000
"rage against the dying of the light."
But
attending college. Lawmakers
quaMed for the program. Today, the threshold family
problems. This teacher urges her students to "stay in school, get
in this unsafe
when
funding for tutoring, counseling and developmental
many of us who needed a kick in
Bryan gave us the kick we needed."
Bryan not only admonished
the state legislature passed Act 101. This legislation acknowl-
his students to do well, he put
program and a counseling staff that helped
students acquire the study skUls and academic tools for success
edged that economically disadvantaged students needed
"regular" college classes.
Jesse
Bryan arrived
at
Bloomsburg
in 1973, the
same year
that
together a tutoring
WRITTEN BY JOAN LENTCZNER
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WINTER
1996
Bloomsburg University Magazine
PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER
in
THEY, (ACT IOI),ARE
STUDENTS WHO ARE MOST"AT
Herb Douglas and Bryan were classmates
program
the
among
full-time
Rowan
went
beyond words. He
far
To
that were important to him.
his students
produced two
children,
faculty.
Glenn Lang
he was a "solid
Wardigo's challenge
both college graduates and in
Starting this
fall,
is
.
.
and became
at a
instruction
a father to us..."
request
is
part of the
university's effort to
comes
distinctions
reduce
between
Act 101/EOP students
and "regular"
The
higher
New political
education.
who
streamiag" of developmental
and economic
realities face
students
such services. This "main-
time when changing
political
responsible for delivering
all
have a
Byran's retirement
is
peer tutoring services to
took up the weight
.
offer
managing change.
the department
father in the household. Dr.
Bryan
meeting individual
emic, advisory and coimseling services to students.
recalls that for
who "didn't
to
individualized instruction, the faculty offer a wide range of acad-
professional careers.
those
includes seven
tliat
"Our philosophy is based
math, reading and writing courses and conducting labs that
lived the values
family person" with "a stable, nurturing, achieving marriage"
that
and three part-time
student needs," he explains. In addition to teaching developmental
College in Glassboro,
New Jersey, noted at Byran's retirement diimer last spring that
Bryan's influence
BEING DISCARDED.'
on prevention of problems and dedication
groups of African- Americans in the program. Douglas,
first
a criminal justice professor at
AND MOST SUBJECTTO
succeeds Bryan as chair of a department
in the doctoral
of Toledo in Ohio. They were
at the University
RISK
challenge,
students.
Wardigo
be to provide
says, will
same
leaders have questioned
the
whether funding assistance
academic support to
programs
developmental education
for educationally
disadvantaged students
quality of
students and, at the
is
same
appropriate or cost-effective.
time, deliver effective peer
Finding new money to
tutoring service to non-
support the
ACT
program students
101
The
Summer Freshman Program
will
be but one of the
threatens Michelle
challenges facing Biyan's
will
Pfeiffer's
One challenge
successors.
different
- particularly
real-life
students of color.
isn't
from what
students
very
faces
— even
at
institutions that are far ft'om
Demonstrating
legislators
students in
Dangerous Minds
be to find better ways to
retain students
as well.
darkness that
the crime
to
and violence of
urban America. Teachers
and educators
Bryan have made a
like
the value of continuing the
Jesse
program
ence,
been beacons of hope
for a
whole generation of
is
part of Irvin
Wright's job as the
new
director of Act 10 1/EOP.
Shareen
Highlighting the programs
Dr. Jesse
Silva '96,
Michael Welsh
'96,
Courtney Maury with
students.
101 and
Bryan (seated)
be the easy part. "AH you have to do
of students
He
is
is
look
at the
number
who have benefitted," he says.
surveying other schools in Pennsylvania's State System of
Higher Education to see
lohn Wardigo,
how they plan to support their programs.
assistant professor
"THERE WERE
like
Act
EOP have helped thou-
sands of promising students.
success in improving students'
lives will
Programs
differ-
"Education takes investment
US WHO NEEDED A KICK IN
in developing the
young and not-so-young people you work with," says Bryan's
protege. Glen Lang. "For me, it's laid the groundwork to enjoy a
measure of success and hold dear the values that guide me."
of developmental instruction,
MANY OF
— investment
(see JESSE BRYAN -
OUR
MORETHAN ATEACHER - PAGE
23)
BUTTS. BRYAN GAVE US THE KICK WE NEEDED.'
Bhomsburg
University
Magazine
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1996
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O'^ E y
*,-i
THE CHANGING FACE
OF TODAY'S STUDENT
WRITTEN BY
ERIC FOSTER
PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER
(
Wk:
R
T
T
the popular imagination, they're flannel-clad,
untucked and unmotivatedThey also make up the greater
portion of today's college students, and, stereotypes aside, they are different fi-om the
students of decades past. They're less idealistic than students of the 60s.
new-found cynicism
Baby Boomer college
They may make up
for their
in old-fashioned pragmatism.
8loomsburo
ilnivsr^ity
Magazine
WINTER
19*'6
\'/
CONTEMPORARY
about 18.5 percent of undergraduate
drugs and alcohol myself.
students were 22 years old or older. In
Christian,
I
became
a
comprehensive data), the percentage had
and after that I had to do
something. Something had to change."
Students at Bloomsburg are also more
grown
ethnicaUy diverse than their peers of even
1994 (the
latest
year for which there
to 27.4 percent.
Over
is
that period,
while total enrollment at Bloomsburg
a
grew from 5,319
Bloomsburg students were ethnic minorities
the
to almost 6,100 students,
number of undergraduate
Bloomsburg increased
students at
in every age
group
except for those age 19 and younger.
number of students aged
fell
from 2,191
The
19 and younger
to 1,976.
decade ago. In 1985, 3.7 percent of
or students from foreign countries. By
1994, 5.4 percent of students were
minorities or from abroad.
tripled,
Thirty-four-year-old Richard Zaler
is
The number
of Hispanic students, in particular, nearly
jumping from 27 students in
1985 to 80 in 1994.
one of those older students coming to
Bloomsburg
Ln greater
numbers.
A Navy veteran and former welder,
of Turbotville, came to coUege
Zaler,
because he needed to find a new
Tess Infante
He had developed asthma,
aggravated by welding fumes.
o
n the face of it, today's
Bloomsburg students
are
much
like
half are
college students.
still
two-thirds
But students have changed
coUege campuses
—
more
students
"I
on
— and on Bloomsburg's
come
to the
a career where the
The next
semester, he
was
a fuU-time student.
in subtle
are fresh out of high school,
knew I needed
the faU of '93.
are concerned about paying for coUege.
ways. While the majority of students
I
Zaler started taking classes part-time in
first-generation
More than
other.
environment wouldn't be a hazard."
their counterparts of a generation ago.
More than
"I couldn't
walk from one end of the shop
typical
career.
a condition
more and
intend to go to grad school to get a
masters in social welfare," says Zaler,
majoring in social welfare vnth a minor in
psychology. "I see myself as a therapist
working with drug addicts and alcohoUcs.
to coUege after
spending time in the workforce. In 1985
my seventh year of recovery from
I'm in
>,v.
,
-ir/iWi^iiiMifigW
They represent most of the seven
They come from a variety of
backgrounds and interests. They are
yoimg and...weU, ...older. What they share
is their membership in Bloomsburg's
continents.
CREATING
largest
COMMON
SE
freshman class-and a new-foimd
discussions of Socrates.
Bloomsburg's 1,685 freshman were
introduced to Socrates long before their
on campus
first
for their first classes.
homework-to read The
in
smaU-group
"Part of being an academic community,"
explained Bloomsburg's academic vice
president Wilson Bradshaw, "is sharing a
common set of values. This orientation
Apolcgy of Socrates-was assigned during
program-in addition
the middle of summer.
academic tone for our incoming students
So,
when
they arrived on campus for
semester, freshmen discovered
their
RIoomsburg Umverzit/ Magazine
by George Lucas, professor of
philosophy and ethics at the U.S. Naval
Academy, and engaged
orientation at the begiiming of the
I99fc
Down, heard a 40-minute, large-group
lecture
Socrates.
Their
VVINiER
issues of diversity. They met new friends.
And they also watched a dramatic adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Moon is
appreciation for the Greek phUosopher
arrival
OF VALUE
Richard Zaler
how to find
way about campus. They explored
- brought
the
an
together people from
campus
such as
to setting
justice, obligation to self
country,
all
over
to explore important issues,
and wisdom."
and
STUDENT
Tesse Infante
is
of this country," says Lyons. "We're
typical of
Bloomsburg's increasingly diverse
mortgaging our future on the backs of
student body. Born in the United States,
these students. Middle
she spent most of her childhood in the
are being told, 'we'U give
Dominican RepubUc and
later
moved
to
t^
Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
"My mom
died in
my dad," says
major
who
1
989,
and
I
don't see
Infante, a criminal justice
will
graduate in May. Like
knows about hard work.
This past summer, she held three jobs to
support herself and pay school expenses.
She worries about money - or the
Zaler, Infante
lack of
owe $17,000
I
graduate," she says, "I'U
— and
not counting
that's
financial concerns translate into
job consciousness. "I really need to find
a job," she worries. "I
good
benefits,
one
I
need
a job with
Tom
aid,
Lyons, estimates that 70 to 80 percent
of students hold
going to college.
down jobs whQe they're
He notes that a growing
nimiber of educators fear that work
distracting students
Students
who
through college
from
is
their books.
work
don't
their
the
money
increased diversity have been
its
accompanied by shifts
university serves
its
and Infante found help
college
through
in
how the
students.
classes
Both Zaler
in adjusting to
with Jim Mullen,
an English teacher in the department of
developmental instruction.
developed
Infante,
whose
now
barrier
was
my English in
difficult.
I
college," says
native tongue
is
Spanish
speaks EngUsh very weD. She's
also learned to appreciate a greater variety
of cultures than she had
known before.
way
may be borrowing
students were black and Latino. Here,
on the
learn
street."
more money
for
education than ever before in the history
Nearly 90 volunteers-including
students appreciate their
1989 also heralded a big change in
a service the university offers to help older
service to students. For the
college students. "I help people like
come to
school." As
me
an older student, he
housing.
he gets an extra degree of respect from
— such
pose.
The apartments, housing 380
upper-class students, have been
more apartments
as
Tom Contos, assistant director
make this
- participated
in the
program
as discussion leaders.
Discussions focused on the meaning of
Socrates'
lives
and
and philosophy in the ovwi
contemporary society.
Life
in
"When we
their
challenge students to stretch
minds and reach
never had a chance to talk with
exciting.
their potential,"
The whole program
message about the
Bloomsburg University President
Jessica
Kozloff-like secretary Hickok, a former
political science
major-noted Socrates'
rel-
evance to the challenges young people face
"What does
mean
are enormous."
sity
to share in a
common pur-
an
goals for the future."
a community?" she challenged the univer-
campus
issues that confront
created a
today.
the
get tough, to
university's
a political science professor, "the benefits
brought together people from throughout
working together,
educated people, Kozloff said.
said Education Secretary Hickok, formerly
The "Challenge of Socrates" also
as
when times
a better place?"
These are the
students before," he said. "That was
positive
is
nearby.
community, such
normally stand in front of a classroom.
students
filled
investigating the possibility of building
Eugene Hickok, Bloomsburg University
"I've
time, the
since they opened, so the university
In recent years, the university has
established several offices
first
in
university provided apartment-style
sticking together
few of their spouses,
to help
diversity.
dent adviser for the ofSce of adult advising,
of planning and construction, doesn't
and more than 30 upper-division
—
own
The opening of Montgomery Place
Pennsylvania's Secretary of Education
staff and faculty, a
international education
Apartments on the upper campus
professors because of his Ufe experience.
"Kids are borrowing
affairs,
and a Multicultural Center
WMle taking classes, Zaler works as a stu-
feels
the money.
I
learned about other cultures. There's a lot
more than what you
Crystal Kovaschetz
minority
"In high school the majority of
can be happy with."
Bloomsburg's director of financial
families
all
he aging of today's student body and
\
but
credit card charges for books."
you
got to be borrowed.'"
it's
"The speaking
it.
"By the time
Her
you want, but
income
it
to be citizens in
community. "What does
it
challenge ideas, the status quo,
mean
and
to
to
speak our minds? To talk productivity in a
forum? To be committed to the values of
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CONTEMPORARY
"We know there are more single parents
who want housing," says Herring. "There
Crystal Kovaschetz are
more
at
Bloomsburg, she came to college
the educational marketplace. These
ly
out of high school. She
students need different services than
are 95 percent of her classmates.
—
is
traditional 18-24 year-old students."
female
attention to details
Bloomsburg's students. She
is
telling.
as are
white
direct-
—
She
by DanvUle. Almost half Bloomsburg's
would include changing tables for infants
to accommodate students with children.
students
If
Zaler
and Infante represent the
"new" student on
Kovaschetz
is
a typical student, she
confesses,
"it's
intelligent,"
part of their SATs
everyone
is
unusual only in her drive to succeed. She
I'm in
else
Kovaschetz
because I'm a hard worker.
who
"There are people
come from hometowns within
100 miles of campus.
If
'4.0 business' isn't
is
my room
—
get 700s
that's
at parties,
studying.
on each
not me. When
many nights
It's
where
my
priorities are," she says.
Kovaschetz 's dedication to hard work
today's college
campus, students
like
of America. "The
because I'm super
from near
apartments in the proposed complex
10 in a
national economics competition
sponsored by the Future Business Leaders
as
is
almost two-thirds of
is
and
among the top
recently finished
are non-traditional students reentering
The
Some new
carries a 4.0 cumulative average
typical.
Like most of the 7,400 students
20-year-old
an instinct
instilled in
"Education comes in
says.
"Dad works
is
her by her parents.
many forms." she
vrixh
heavy equipment.
He
never went to a coUege, but he knows a
lot
of things rO never know."
"My mom
spoiled me," Kovaschetz
continues. "She went to Mansfield
and taught home economics
had me. But
was born, she quit working and
[University]
for several years before she
when
I
became
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B/oomsburg University Magazine
a stay-at-home mother."
STUDENT
being with themselves or small groups.
That's a luxury Kovaschetz doesn't
Building a sense of community
expect to enjoy. She's prepared to leave her
hometown
to find a job.
She expects to go
students
to graduate school and, ultimately, teach.
know that jobs
Today's students
in 1969,
among
a top priority for university
officials.
"What we're trying to do is build
community among the students and with
are
harder to find than they used to be.
Back
is
the university," says Lynda Michaels, a
almost 97 percent of
Bloomsburg's 750 graduates found a job,
Bloomsburg alumna who rejoined the
entered graduate school or joined the
university as a residence director in 1988.
mihtary shortly
Michaels also heads the university's
year,
after graduation. Last
orientation program.
about 80 percent of the university's
"We want to
1,600 graduates found similar positions
with each other,
Today's college graduates face a far
more competitive world than
a generation ago.
It's
those of
university,
not unusual to
helping
participation
vacancies.
\n the 60s, two-thirds of students
meaningful
life
philosophy" as a top college goal. Today,
getting a better job (82 percent)
and
making more money (74 percent)
are the
top reasons Bloomsburg students go to
college.Student
it's
life
professionals say that
tougher to get students involved in
campus
activities
today than
it
once was.
Bloomsburg's vice president for student
life,
Preston Herring, points to
many
factors that contribute to lower student
them
identif)'
and take
it
associate
with the
a step further
them understand
campus
•
Work obligations
enough time
•
m
several innovative orientation
Ufe.
don't leave students
well.
The new programs
include "The Challenge of Socrates" and
an integrated freshman seminar during
that limit the time they
the
Students are coming from a
programs
designed to increase the emphasis on
academics as
to get involved.
have to spend on campus.
•
Town of
Bloomsburg." This year the university held
Older students have family
commitments
—
that they are
part of a larger community, the
have 200 applications for advertised
listed "finding a
help
first
several
weeks of the
fall
semester.
more
fragmented homelife and culture, and are
less interested in
•
group
activities.
The products of a media-swamped
culture
—
television, radio,
students are simply
computers
—
more comfortable
B/oomsbuff Univeraly Mofozine
WINTER
1996
21
DRAWINGS BY KEN WILSON
IMAGES OF THE
CONTEMPORARY STUDENT
resources they vwll
need to make
Bloomsburg a
students
projects.
success.
Despite a growing insulation of students
from campus experience,
it is
Socrates,"
more committed to environmental
The Chronicle of Higher
Education, introduced
new
ago.
And, when students do
another 465
homes for Habitat for
Humanity to organizing a recreation
program for children in a low-income
renovating
issues
than were their coimterparts of a decade
students
SOLVE helped
one-time projects. Projects range from
a mistake to
about the world aroimd them. They are
unique enough to be
identified in
contributed 2,791 hours
contribute 1,455 hours of time to
think that today's students don't care
"The Challenge of
who
of their time to ongoing community
their experience at
housing development.
While today's students
get involved
feel
more
today, their efforts
may be better orga-
financial pressures than ever before
focusing on the uncompromising pursuit
nized and perhaps
more
while they
of truth and virtue exemplified by the
those of their 60s counterparts.
to values-centered
academic
life
by
The
substantive than
may face a more
and
competitive
job market, they remain idealistic enough
SOLVE office helps
efforts. SOLVE
Experience" program, designed by Jack
(Students Organized to Learn through
make the world a better place.
The reputation of Generation X as a
group of slackers - like most generaliza-
MuUca, dean of academic support
Volunteerism and Employment), coordi-
tions
nated the work of nearly 200 Bloomsburg
contemporary student
Greek philosopher Socrates.
The "Integrated Freshman Year
introduces students to the
skills
to organize those
services,
and
A
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•
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IS
JESSE BRYAN -
MORE THAN A TEACHER
W
mates and
hen
Jesse
ment
Bryan
retired last April, 50 of his
canal, in
former students returned to
ice
mark
the occasion.
evening's highlights
One of the
house.
He had one
unit where he
of New
He
Commission on
Higher Education, was one of
first
the draft
was a senior in 1973 when
at
Bloomsburg
filled
in
Kehr Union.
We were hungry
someone
He told
like Dr.
water
far
one booth
then
time.
in
we
to stay
.
.
ovm,
many of us who
needed a kick
"I
in the butt;
party,
he gave us the kick we needed.
have the privilege of being one of the
Bryan touched.
first.
—
a
he gave us a friend.
There were
many students
had
to
move
he told us 'you can have
any party you want, but you're going to do one thing: You're
Jesse
A lot of students didn't understand his ways at
In 1973 there was a rule that students
worked with the
"He dipped into his pocket
no one had to live in an
abandoned building.
"He taught the importance of
respect
for ourselves and for
others. Once, when he learned
that we were going to have a
There were
many of us who needed
friend;
us.
so that
took up the weight and became
.
with
and the town to
improve Uving conditions.
a father
a family of his
on a couch. He
faculty
didn't have a father
a father to us.
slept
"Dr. Bryan
our household. Dr. Bryan,
who had
He
comfortable place, but he chose
many of us back
who needed
basement.
could have stayed in a more
from complete.
because
rats in the
Bryan stayed with us there for a
Bryan
us
"There were
was so bad that
They would come out at night
and jump in the trash. Dr.
we were on a
mission and that we could not
faU. He told us our education
was
— linoleum.
to us.
it
matches blew out. There were
60 percent of the black students
for
rented
"There was no heat. At times,
students here after
his arrival in 1973.
"I
be an
units into nice apartments.
and
stored material
Bryan's
to
The landlord had
mentor. Lang, executive director
Jersey's
down by the
what used
converted six of the seven
was Glenn
Lang's tribute to his friend
found an apart-
I
in FernvUle,
off-
campus at the end of the junior year. Young black men in
Bloomsburg in 1973 had a hard time finding a places to rent.
"Sometimes, the places we could find were awfial. My room-
going to dress up. You're going to get out of those jeans, sweats
and sneakers. You're going to put on suits and make those young
ladies proud that you're from Bloomsburg!'
"Education
is
an investment in developing those you work
with. Jesse Bryan helped lay the
measure of success and
"HETAUGHTTHE IMPORTANCE OF RESPECT
to
groundwork
for
me to enjoy a
hold dear the values that guide me."
— FOR OURSELVES AND FOR OTHERS.'
Slaoiraburg University Magazine
WINTER
1996
23
NEWS
NEWS
BRIEFS
academic
facility
campus. Study
ing for
on
The
more than
hours" study
with access to
closed.
computer data
students
much
\\'on't
be that way
new Harvey
A. Andruss Libran.;
is
campus.
The
conduits for 125 future
be placed in the
connections.
exterior of the building
Tiffany
aruiual Reading
Conference held in
from throughout the country.
This year was no exception.
The
Day-long orientation
is
opening
is
$8,394,250, and
access to the library's
reminiscent of the Long Porch
scheduled for
catalog,
on
spring 1998.
The 105,000 square
foot
CD-Rom
a local
national
building wiU be the largest
on-hne
from "Old Waller," which was
once on Second Street where
databases
network
the Scranton
as well as
and international
if
Commons and
pleasant for bikers.
The Dutch
We saw
mothers on bikes carrying children and
for pleasure.
Quest Director Roy Smith's first-person
the family groceries.
one
.
.
Our bike path took us
along the
older.
We came across
group of bikers
large
or 10
skills in
ride
bikes to
narrative about a portion of that trek.
summer
— some young
— who honed
as
athletic stars
1
through Holland. This brief excerpt
".
in their 70s or
their
basketball
and tennis,
swimming, wrestling, field
hockey and softball, soccer
and more.
In addition to the sounds
of boimdng balls and
We encountered others towing
officials'
was vocal har-
top of a dike overlooking the Markermeer
bike carts with tents and food heading
whistles, there
Polder This and other polders are
out for family vacations.
mony. The university hosted
Pennsylvania's Sweet AdeUnes
all
"No wonder everyone looked
part of what used to be the Zuider Zee
—
the Southern Sea. Since the late 17th
centuT)', the industrious
seabed. This was our
fit
Bloomiurg University's Quest program
offering a trip through Costa Rica for
than 600 of them.
."
.
.
Dutch have
first
experience at
is
on one side of the dike
higher than land on the other.
"The Dutch landscape, so much of it
women and
reclaimed from the sea, with
in September, 1997. For a complete
seeing the sea
its
medieval
Canyon
trip
extended
at
makes the country extremely
1996
Bkxmsbui^
Uniw^ Magazine
trips, rail
is
planned
list
of
717-389-4323 or lode
Quest on the Internet
at
http://www.bbomu.edu/questhtml
A
A|l 4
M9LLjByB(
WINTER
Another biking
through the Netherlands
of tree-lined canals and tree-shaded bike
More than 120 young people
a trip to Mexico's Copper
in January, 1997.
towns, windmills and hundreds of miles
paths,
and
- female barbershop singers.
Then there was the group
of Christ Crusaders - more
healthy
been creating rich farmland from the
24
work and
there are
camps. About 2,500 aspiring
gram included a summer bike excursion
is
campus.
And then
as 9
Quest pro-
-
not thousands - and their
families to
stand today.
PEDALING THROUGH HOLLAND
Editor's Note: Bloomsburg's
prospective students
bring hundreds of students
the Lycoming Residence Hall
databases via the Internet.
visits
new students and campus
visits for
is
May typically
draws more than 1,000 teachers
for
buildmg
offers a healthy
but there's also a steady
to the
the original Waller Hall wiU
Personal computers vnR
right?
stream of guests and visitors
computers with additional
Total projected cost of the
closes
summer,
schedule of summer classes,
the old. Three
facility.
for the
Wrong!
the
connections for personal
also
spring classes end in
Bloomsburg
and four Spence
stained glass windows saved
fi-om the current Ubrar)' and
features
longer. Construction
has begun for the
The building
500 pubUc access
patrons' use.
the university's softball field
used to be
new with
the circulation desk for
ground where
down
There wiU be an
The Ubrary wiU blend
available at
holidays?
mid-May, a university
the Susquehanna Valley.
library
in tiie
When
"after-
fourth floor with a view of
Laptop computers
The hole
an
outdoor reading area on the
will
be available.
wUl be
and meeting
room for
when the Hbrary
and 20
group study rooms
Summer
room
includes
space, including
1,000 people
Growing a
facility
for lobby exhibits
seat-
BRIEFS
-k'^^M
from the Harrisburg School
District
came to campus as
PRIDE program
part of the
(Personal Responsibility In
Developing Excellence) to see
life up close. Upward
Bound did more of the same
college
with students fi'om 13 area
high schools.
In the old days,
summer
was a quiet time on college
campuses. But not anymore.
NEWS
NEWS
BRIEFS
Bloomsburg admits largest
freshman class in history
NEW FACES
Howe
Barksdale
1988, the development office has quadru-
Bloomsburg's
new direc-
pled alumni support and doubled the
Sydney
is
tor of social equity.
ber of alumni donors. The Parents'
Formerly the associate
Bloomsburg has led the
director of admissions at
Higher Education
Mawr
Bryn
Mawr,
College in Bryn
aged recruitment
Fund
at
System of
in dollars raised
and par-
Aptitude Test (SAT), was in
the top third of the high
ing coordination of the
school graduating class and
serves as a
is
member
direct mail appeals
He has managed the
and telephone and per-
Righter returned to Bloomsburg after
Barksdale reports
the president's Cabinet. She
of
responsible
Philadelphia's
Hahnemann University and
He also spent a year
promoting a multicultural environment
Chestnut HUl Academy.
on
the campus. She represents the president
as assistant director
with campus and community social equity
and public
groups and coordinates and develops edu-
in Salisbury,
of alumni programs
relations at the Salisbury School
discrimination complaints and serves as
assumed
advisor to and monitors
dean of the CoUege of
all
university
,a>
;:
,
Business at Bloomsburg.
AA/EEO
He comes
Long has consulted with
several
Righter '84 has been
College, Small Business Administration,
appointed an assistant
Firestone Tire
director for the depart-
TRW Systems, Portage National Bank and
ment.
the Goodyear Tire and Rubber
since 1993,
opment
was
assistant director
fi-om 1986-88. She
of devel-
implemented a
and Rubber Company,
academic and administrative leadership
for the departments of accounting,
comprehensive annual fund program and
business education
finance and business law,
also initiated fund-raising efforts
ents
and directed the
faculty/staff
with par-
university's
campaign.
Since Helwig's arrival at Bloomsburg in
Company.
At Bloomsburg, he wiU provide
helped double support in two years. She
and
fires.
to
its
office administration,
management
and marketing.
graduate degrees each year.
department
new building
lot
in a
of thanks
has to go to Bloomsburg
students
and the
university's
Council of Trustees.
Through the Community
Government Association,
students pledged $35,000 to
the
fire
department's capital
campaign. The funds
will
generated fi-om games
activities in the
as well as
be
room
Kehr Union,
vending machine
concessions.
Bloomsburg's College of Business
grants about 400 undergraduate
. .
of
fire
couple of years, a
organizations including Montdair State
served as interim director
selective
Commonwealth,
accepting only six of every ten
moves
development, and Scott
who
by about 10 percent
Bloomsburg remained
Bloomsburg's
ness school for 14 years.
Bloomsburg's director of
increased
last year.
When the Town
he was dean of the busi-
been named
The number of applications
for admission to the university
Stamping out
to Bloomsburg
from Ithaca College, where
Susan Mitchell Helwig
roles
applicants.
responsibilities as
searches to ensure their compliance with
policies.
in extra-currictilar activities
and assumed leadership
schools in the
David K. Long has
Many
of the students were involved
one of the most
Conn.
social equity issues.
She helps resolve sexual harassment and
maintained a B average.
in high school.
professional development stints at
for
Helwig,
students,
fimd-raising efforts includ-
in govern-
an
sonal solicitations of nearly 40,000 graduates.
('82) has
more than 7,400
to
aspects of the university's
served
estate cases.
programs on
helped swell total enrollment
been responsible for several
who had
annual fiand for alumni.
cational
the
They
interim role since 1993, has
Righter,
as assistant director in
ment procurement, products liability, civil
rights, criminal and corporate law, managed
criminal, domestic, immigration and real
and
fall,
and
At three law firms she dealt
to the president
this
class ever.
Mawr she man-
activities in 10 states
new position,
new
largest
ment in four years.
The typical student in the
class of newcomers had a
1,050 score on the Scholastic
Barksdale prac-
Pa.,
supervised a staff of 12 individuals.
In her
Bloomsburg
to
the university's largest enroll-
ticipation rate every year.
ticed law for five years before returning to
higher education. At Bryn
State
Nearly 1,500 freshmen came
num-
and 50
The
university's trustees
voted to match the students'
effort, raising the university's
contribution to $70,000.
Bloomburg
University
Magazine
WINTER
1996
25
THE
1995-96
make
Scholarships
BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC TEAMS:
come
wishes
true
The wishes of a small town
Baseball
22-22
Men's Basketball
21-7
NCAA Division II Tournament
businessman have been
Women's Basketball
Field Hockey
17-11
PSAC
realized in a big
19-3
NCAA Division II runner-up
the past 10 years.
Football
9-1-1
PSAC East co-champions
Bloomsburg students have
Lacrosse
2-9
Men's Soccer
11-5-2
East co-champions
come
Best record since 1986
15-2-1
PSAC runner-up
Softball
36-12
NCAA Division 11 record
Men's Swimming
Women's Swimming
6-7
Men's Tennis
15-8
NCAA Division II Championships
NCAA Division II Championships,
Women's Tennis
18-3
NCAA Division II Championships,
Bloomsburg
& Field
Field
million to the
university for
scholarships,
he wanted to
help residents of
1-1
his
1-1
communities
NCAA Division I Championships
Wrestling
5-9
Total
204-105-4 (.658)
72-14-4 (.822)
five regional
55-38 (.591)
77-53 (.592)
ly
Winter
Spring
fall,
92 students from
high schools have
$200,000 fi-om the fund.
The
Art
Forensics cops honors
In
kiln
fund, administered in
of Mt. Carmel, has provided
mags
$1.53 million in scholarship
national
Anagama kiln firings at
home of university art
Bloomsburg's forensics team
better be able to talk, rea-
instructor Karl
and entertain very
by Union National Bank
featured
Future opponents of
son, debate
dream
received awards totalling near-
trust
had
and surrounding
realize the
of attending college.
This
FaU
Fred
bequeathed $3
PSAC Champions
Men's Track
as
When Smith
14th appearance
PSAC Champions
Women's Track &
Some 800
G. Smith Scholars.
Women's Soccer
6-4
to
way over
Beamer
aid since
the
its
inception.
Smith owned and managed
Nesbitt's Cut-Rate
in
Drug
Store
Shenandoah and Tamaqua
and resided in Shenandoah
Ln
if they expect to match
up with the Huskies. The
team concluded the 1995-96
MainviUe were featured
well
competition season with a
total
five
of 102 awards, including
sweepstakes trophies.
The team
finished last year
by placing 10th
at the
National Forensic
Association's 26th
Annual
National Tournament. The
competition included 850
competitors from 112 coUeges
and
universities nationwide.
issues of
for
National Science
Foundation grants
(April 1996)
(May/June 1996).
Geology and chemistry
In an
more than usual this fall.
The two departments
received a pair of grants
from
the National Science
is
fired
without using any kind
rich earth colors
effect
through the
of the extremely high
as well
water
memory of his
wife
late
is
officially
labeled the "Fred G. Smith
Golden Rule Trust Fund."
Eligible students must attend
Bloomsburg and be residents
of Ashland, Mount Carmel or
Shenandoah boroughs or
Moimt Carmel Township.
Students must also attend one
available because of the
and
other equipment needed
to isolate genes from DNA.
Bloomsburg Univenity Magazine
pottery
of glaze. The pottery takes on
New equipment to be
purification system
1996
kiln,
totalling $64,500.
as centrifuges, a
WINTER
anagama
Established in perpetual
Marion, the fund
heat of the wood-fired kiln.
grants include a $50,000
26
and School Arts
stu-
dents and faculty are smiling
X-ray difractometer
26 years before his death.
zines,Ceramics Monthly
to geology and chemistry
Foundation
in
two national maga-
of
^
a
five
high schools including
Cardinal Brennan,
Mount
Carmel, North SchuyUdU,
Our Lady of Lourdes
Shenandoah Area.
or
k
already knew. Bloomsburg
Bloomsburg
boasts the premier athletic
points, beating out second-
closest school
program among the 14
place Edinboro.
with top-four finishes.
members of the Pennsylvania
For the 1995-96 academic
State Athletic Conference.
The Huskies
sat
season, the 18
atop the
1995-96 ranking for the
final
inaugural
E Eugene
Dixon,
in men's
home
Huskies take
PSAC
Dixon Trophy
The standings
the
F.
in the race for
lot
titles
fall,
season ever
fall
at
tennis,
Division
II
Championships.
men's sports, for a
in field
soccer,
total
personnel and educa-
System
universities.
in the
six
women's sports and
development and operation
tional policies for the 14
top four in the conference in
and conference
The board
inception in 1983.
fiscal
NCAA
and
softbaU,
for the
System since the body's
of the System and formulates
the
Bloomsburg finished
after
plans and coordinates the
for a
men's and women's basketball
hockey and women's
of people
combined
represented in the
in football,
runner-up finishes
Eugene Dbcon Trophy
confirms what a
and women's
East
named
Board of Governors
for a record of
school. Seven teams were
titles
is
State
best
Education of Pennsylvania.
The trophy
Dixon, the Chairman of the
combined
record of 66-11-4 (.840), the
System of Higher
had seven teams
University athletic teams
the teams
all-around athletic program
Backed by conference
Bloomsburg
204-105-4 (.658). In the
Jr.,
Trophy, signifying the best
in the State
sponsored programs. The next
totalled 116
Parents lead
five
fund-raising
of 11
efforts
top-four finishes out of 18
Most Bloomsburg students
credit their parents for
making
FUND-RAISING SUCCESS
their college
education possible. But
many may not know how
State support for public higher education
pays
less
than half the cost of educating
students. Tuition
of the
and
fees
make up much
most other
colleges and universities, relies upon
philanthropy more than ever to maintain
its margin of excellence.
like
Last year, university fund-raising efforts
exceeded $1.5 million. These funds are
distributed through the
Bloomsburg
development, about one
tributes the funds to provide
classrooms, chemistry lab
tance to students
who
and
generosity of their
dads
According to figures in the
in
July
1
996 report of the
assis-
present papers at
Council for Aid to Education,
Bloomsburg parents con-
more than
Library on campus.
Fund-raising ventures such as golf outings,
the annual auction/dinner-dance
added $32,000
universities.
University faculty and staff
members
more than $78,000
in 1995,
tributed $81,000 last year.
amount
was directed
for the university,
raised
scholarships, support the honors
and
activities.
The Bloomsburg University
year included a $200,000
bequest from the estate of Mary Taubel
Mary Moore
Taubel, an 1890 graduate of the school.
('75) gave
piano, honoring Ms. Hudock's father,
Francis
J.
campaign
initiated in 1988.
funds to provide computers
in classrooms, chemistry
and
lab kits,
students
assistance to
who present papers
at national conferences.
Parents have contributed
more than $270,000
capital
development, and alumni
which has
more than $488,000
raffles
$50,000 to provide a Steinway grand
and
scholars program, provide for faculty
and
was
The
new standard
to last year's athletic fiinds.
gifts last
Michael and Barbara Hudock
to the annual fund, used to maintain
staff
set a
Foundation distributes the
Rieder, honoring her mother,
in 1990.
in gifts
Major
and
Parents' Fund.
since the parents'
is
moms
in giving to the
$1 10,000 for scholarships for student athletes.
financial
wUl
dis-
computers
kits,
this fall
from the unprecedented
Bloomsburg University
Last year, the annual fund provided about
support for the institution. That figure
More than $800,000
Bloomsburg University Foundation
new Harvey A. Andruss
well above the national average at public
up from just $6,000
raised almost $500,000 for
and program support. The
$270,000 to the capital campaign to build the
in every four
Bloomsburg alums provides
scholarships
Since 1988, the parents'
Parents have also contributed
According to Sue Helwig, director of
contributed
last year.
national conferences.
University Foundation, Inc.
and
$81,000
much. Students
benefit
fund's success, contributing a record
campaign has
rest.
But Bloomsburg,
colleges
Parents played a big part in the annual
Benner.
the
campaign
to the
to build
new Harvey A. Andruss
Library
on campus.
Bloomsburg Univerziiy Magazine
WINTER
1996
27
NEWS
R
I
NEWS
E F S
BRIEFS
FOUNDATION NAMES NEW OFFICERS
Elbern H. Alkire
Jr.
of
Emmaus and
Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit
Victoria L. Mihalik of MillviUe have
from 1972-1981 including diagnostic
been elected president and vice president
teacher, diagnostic teaching consultant
of the Bloomsburg University Foundation
and coordinator, individual education
program for the Education of All
Handicapped Act.
Corson has operated a private practice
for 1996-97.
Joan
Alkire
^ ^ » <9 <» ^
<»
Corson of Bloomsburg was
S.
named to
'^'isii"^'(SfW <» <»
the board.
is
the executive consultant in
of Higher Education working with the
her certification as a registered nurse
system chanceUor and the director of the
the
He
mass communications
much
The Bloomsburg University Foundation
has honored
him not
has the responsibility of securing private
following four years with General Electric.
funds to maintain and enhance quahty
and
Bloomsburg Area YMCA following
more than 30 years in education. She
once,
excellence in
all
areas of the university.
membership includes outstanding
and civic leaders
from throughout the state.
the
so that the organization
at
Lankenaw Hospital School of Nursing
Chemicals, Inc. of AUentown for 33 years
Mihalik works as preschool director for
professor Walter Brasch. So
since 1983. She earned
in 1955.
was employed by Air Products and
The Pennsylvania Press Club
thinks a lot of Bloomsburg
nursing specialist in the
Bloomsburg area
Office of Continuous Improvement.
Prof earns kudos
as a cUnical
residence to the Pennsylvania State System
Its
business, professional
served in several capacities with the
but three times.
Brasch
won
first
place
awards for feature story and
for
column, and second place
He was
named Outstanding
for education writing.
also
Advisor of a student publica-
work with
Spectrum magazine. The
tion for his
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NEWS
Alumni name new
officers
John
and the Kehr Union
first
at
Bloomsburg
as treasurer
Alumni
The
Edwards; John Haney '85 of
of the Alumni
Lancaster; Franklin (Ed) Jones
Association since 1980.
'54 of Philadelphia; Cliff
elected to the board of
'66
Bloomsburg; lames Pegg '67
ing the past year.
Reed
A substitute teacher in the
N.J.;
Bloomsburg Area School
Brett '82 of Maplewood,
and Cameron Smith '84
of Lafayette
Elected to fiU a one-year
unexpired term was Nancy
to
Fort.
Elected to serve their
she
is
Alumni Association, she
served on the Alumni Board
first
from 1989
two-year terms on the Board
married
in the Pennsylvania State
The Huskies, who won the
Dixon Trophy as the conference's top athletic
Anna M.
Marvin
finished second
Metzger
'86
of
at
'95
Bauer
N.J.;
A retired teacher,
married to Robert G.
Reitz, '49.
Moimtaintop,
of Somers Point,
Michele
L.
Corbin
'95
of
past president,
as
immediate
the board ex officio for the
'94 of Philadelphia;
1996-97 year.
and
Women athletes
Bloomsburg
led the confer-
ence with 46 selections.
wUl serve on
Harrisburg; John D. McDaniel
among the
14 schools in the academic
to 1996.
P.
program
performance in sports,
category.
of Directors were
Edward G. Edwards, '73.
Carolyn Vernoy Reitz, '51,
secretary.
also exceUed in
the tide of "Scholar Athlete"
for
Bloomsburg
is
A past president of the
'70,
A reading
Middle School, she
program
the classroom as they earned
Swartz Lychos '52 of Forty
academic year include:
teacher in the
Huskies' highly-successful ath-
Athletic Conference.
RobertW. Rupp, 71. Other
officers elected for the coming
vice president.
the past academic year.
Hill.
married to
Nancy Feher Edwards,
student/athletes were success-
letics
of WiUiamsport; Virginia
is
where Bloomsburg's
Sixty-seven participants in the
Fay Ortiz-Golden '87 of
and has
pools and
of WescosviUe;
sen'ed as vice president dur-
District, she
fields, courts,
mats are not the only venues
ful in
Maurer
in
classroom
terms were Nancy Feher
The 1971 graduate was
directors in 1991
Athletes succeed
'66 of
Re-elected to two-year
the
university, Trathen has ser\'ed
Association for the 1996-97
year.
John S. Mulka
Bloomsburg.
Trafhen, '68, treasurer.
will serve as
president of the
Universit)'
J.
Director of student activities
Sandra Jefferson Rupp of
Bloomsburg
NEWS
BRIEFS
Honored
athletes attained
a ctunulative grade point
average of at least 3.25.
TRUSTEES NAME OFFICERS
Joseph
Mowad, M.D., of Dan\Tlle
elected chairperson of the
has been
University Council of Trustees for 1996-97.
Jennifer
(CGA). She was elected by the student
body in March as vice
Bloomsburg
Adams of Catawissa and LaRoy
named first
for the 1996-97
Davis,
president of the
CGA
academic year.
who has served on the Coundl for
Auction produces
big winners
RCA sateUite sys-
Davis '67 of FeasterviUe were
17 years, boasts one of the longest tenures
An
and second vice
on the council He was appointed
tem, a cultured pearl necklace,
chairs, respectively.
to a six-
A secondary
A. William Kelly '71 of Kingston was
year term in January 1980.
elected secretary.
social studies teacher at
Mowad was named to the university's
coundl in November 1994. He is senior
Senior High School, Davis has previously
He has been affiliated with Geisinger since
when he joined
in the
the staff as an associate
Adams was appointed student trustee to
The junior
management major has been
dent government
member of the
the president of WVIA-TV and
WVLA-FM, Northeast Pennsylvania's public
broadcasting affiliates. He was recognized as
and
is
a
Committee of the
Communit)' Government Association
in 1988
and has served
as
an instructor in
the department of mass communication.
active in stu-
at the university
Executive
is
photo of Cal Ripken
He serves on the board of the Pennsylvania
Association of Broadcasters
and
by well-known
Jr.
and a
artist
the items for bid during the
Husky
is
a
recognized consultant and speaker.
Club's annual Auction/
Dinner-Dance
last spring.
Proceeds benefitted the
Bloomsburg's "Young Alumnus of the Year"
urology department.
the council in Januar)' 1995.
Kelly
an authentic autographed
David Armstrong were among
served as council chairperson.
vice president of the Geisinger Foundation.
1968
Bensalem Township
18-inch
General Athletic Scholarship
Fund. While the successful
bidders took those and nearl)'
1
50 other items home, the big
winner was the scholarship
fimd which profited to the
tune of SI 4,300.
Bloomsburg Unntnity Magazine W\KTEII. \99f,
29
Kozloff appointed to
UNIVERSITY EMPHASIZES ALCOHOL EDUCATION
NCAA
Commission
Presidents
Bloomsburg University
"There are more than 400 college-aged
management, weight reduction, and eating
deaths each week from alcohol-related
causes," says
Barry Jackson, a
disorders.
member of
During October,
The
numbers show students
on alcohol in one year
latest available
spent $5.5 billion
much
twice as
as part
of National
Collegiate Alcohol Awareness
the university's counseling department.
Week,
raise
awareness about the dangers of drug
and alcohol
as they did
use. Students
on textbooks. Of the more
wore black ribbons
to
than
memorate the Hves
lost to
1
DAWN
2 million college stu-
dents currently enrolled in
more than
300,000 of them will suffer
this country,
Jackson heads the university's
new Office
killed every
com-
alcohol abuse. Several dozen
students painted their faces
white to symbolize the
number of college
alcohol-related deaths."
student
day because of alcohol.
Drug and Alcohol Education. In addition to focusing on education and counsel-
hours in the Husky Lounge snack
ing about substance abuse problems,
Anthropology professor David
Jackson sees the
office's role as integral in
Minderhout delivered a
lecture
the university's overall wellness program.
tures differing attitudes
toward alcohol,
Educational videos aired during the lunch
for
Presidents
bar.
The 44-member
Commission is
the ongoing forum for
Association.
Presidents
college
university's
Wellness Network
programs
(DAWN)
the commission
representing the interests of
Division
II athletics.
The commission's
primar)'
concerns include institutional
control over athletic programs,
the welfare of the student-
department talked about enforcement and
coordinates
the risks of sexual assault involving alcohol.
related to stress
within the
Kozloff is one of ten
members on
about cul-
and members of the university police
Drug, Alcohol and
CEOs
NCAA structure.
athlete
The
Commission of the
National Collegiate Athletic
Jackson organized a series of programs to
—
President Jessica Kozloff has
been appointed to the
and
and
ethical
fairness.
advises the
conduct
The group
also
NCAA on academic
standards and the appropriate
balance betw^een athletics and
other institutional priorities.
A growing trend
is
ture learning." These
share in
"adven-
programs
common a field expe-
rience in the jungle or desert
or on a mountain peak. Dr.
Frederick
Hill's trip to
the
upper reaches of the Amazon
rain forest
is
typical. HiU, a
Bloomsburg University biology professor, will be
leading a group of students to
Adventure Learning
Peru early
in January, 1997.
The course incorporates
College students today have
elements of classroom
new
instruction with field work.
opportunities to learn
inside
and outside the
classroom.
Thanks
For those wishing more
information about the
to study-abroad
Amazon
excursion,
call
programs and internship
717-389-4134.
experiences, students often
ber of seats are avaOable for
campus and
away from
A limited num-
leave the college
individuals
earn credits
not Bloomsburg University
Bloomsburg.
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1996
students.
Bloomsburg Univenity Magazine
who
are
r
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Women's Chorale
Art
Ensemble and
Exhibits
Chamber
Haas Gallery hours are Monday
through Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For
Carver
more
Auditorium.
information, contact the art
department
Singers
SundayApril 20, 1997,2:30 p.m.,
Hall,
Kenneth Gross
at (7 7) 389-4646.
1
Concert Choir and
Husky Singers
Saturday April 26, 1997,8 p.m.. First
Presbyterian Church, Market Street,
Bloomsburg.
Concerts
Admission
specified.
free unless otherwise
is
For more information,
contact the music department at
(717)389-4284.
Faculty Recital
Sunday Feb.
2:30 p.m.. Carver Hall,
2,
Kenneth Gross Auditorium. Featuring
violinist
Ann
Stokes and
cellist
Mark
Jelinek
Lectures
Celebrity
Artist Series
Jazz Night '97
Thursday March
For ticket information,
call
6,
1997,8 p.m.,
the
Provost's
Lecture Series
Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Celebrity Artist Series box office at
Hall.
For more information, contact
Featuring Bloomsburg's
(717) 389-4409. All performances are
academic support services at
Studio Band.
in
Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani
(717)389-4409.
Brass Managerie
Hall.
Tuesday March 25, 1997,8
New York City
Opera's "La
Boheme"
Carver
Hall,
p.m.,
Kenneth Gross
Women's
History
Month
Auditorium.
Paula
Tuesdayjan.28, I997,8p.m.,$25.
Kamen.Thursday March
20,
l997.Topic to be announced.
University-
Bolshoi
Symphony
Orchestra
Saturday Feb.
8,
1997,8 p.m., $30.
Community
SundayApril
6,
Moscow^
in
1997,2:30 p.m., Haas
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Festival
The AIDS Epidemic
Orchestra
Hall.
the United States
Dr. Peter Gould,
April 10-11,1997.
Featuring pianist John Couch.
Ballet
Friday March 21,1997,8 p.m., $25.
Concert Band
SundayApril
1
3,
1997, 2:30 p.m., Haas
Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Hall.
Bloomsburg Univenity Magazine
WINTER
1996
3!
WORD
THE UkST
From Nine
Professor
Ed Moses
Bloomsburg.
just
teaches English at
A creative \vriter, Moses has
published his third novel. Nine
Dancing, his
latest
Sisters
work, addresses t\vo
controversial issues
sexual abuse
Dancing
Sisters
—
child
and multiple-
personaht)' disorder.
Nine Sisters Dancing is
published by Fithian Press. Copies
ccr^ oyote comes
can be ordered by calling 1-800-662-8351.
The following is an excerpt from the book
...
I
V-^into her body,
rough-furred, prick-eared, long-striding,
deep twilight in a -svood she has never
in
known. Ho^v
is
she to
She turns fuU
travel?
know which way to
seeing only
circle,
hearing only wind in
trees,
trees,
is
no one way. And so abnipdy, %vithout
thought, she simply goes. Her going starts
something
and
rib
else mo\'ing,
bones chcking
clattering together, leg
and
and hip and
spine, shoulder, neck, skull, the
Shadow Deer up and running behind,
beside,
ahead of her: a whole
abroad
hea\-\'
hears.
There
is
now in the woods, its foot-
bind, stab, crush. Devour. For
now remembered. Has known
life.
"And knows
therefore the
one
trick that
may stay it, remembering I am Coyote,
the smart one
—
her, a tree
if
And
needs in time.
she can find svhat she
the forest gh'es
it
to
with two trunks, spHt at the
growd. She stands between.
"As she goes
stiU,
Deer goes
still.
AH
and then the heavy tread three
and two trees, and one tree a^vay.
still,
And a
flash of white, rising
treetops. It
is.
.
the
.
almost to the
bone of Deer,
in a
the heart of Coyote, there for a
stars,
Coyote's fear of her
little
time
"It is
nothing
"It is
eversthing at once, the beating of
at
"Wild
"It
is
bone shine Kke shooting
mar her, one
catching hot in her
just the
moment she has to
have, hangs
there, the tree creaking, shaking to the tips
Woman, come to guide me on
of its U\igs.
dog,
.
.
while Coyote, the fastest
nms for her life.
There
is
thrashing, a shower of leaves.
nothing.
feet drive the
breath
Coyote, the cleverest dog, hes
tains out of earth's heart.
Uttle hollo^\'.
that rapes
and renders doUs.
"She runs in the dark. WTiatever
can see in the dark, for that
lives.
this
She
is
is
is
it is
^vhere
it
the fastest of all the dogs, but
no dog, and she will never outrun
a great
One lands
on her back, extinguishes the bone-spark
out of earth's body. Drh^e blood in foun-
"The thing
fur,
lurches into the vee of the trunks, and, for
all.
"A nothing \vhose
spHnters of white
she springs away as the looming darkness
fear.
my way. Shall I stop and call her?
Bhoaisburg Ur«Krstf Magazine
It svill
hard too dark to see in the dark. Flimg
the heart of earth.
1996
legs
its
masked first by the lighter cacophony
of Deer, by the trip-hammer pounding of
b)'
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walking behind her on
trunks and growing nearer.
her
it all
trees,
something
fall
32
it is
trip, catch,
goes
rattling
boneyard announcing her name.
"Something
for
like tree
she has just
smelling
only the whiteness of old bones. There
it,
She
formless, silent
is
down in a
mottied gray and
and %sithout
scent,
disguised as the raw material of creation.
It is
quiet no\\^ the stalker's quiet.
Then
the great thudding footfall, receding, and
the quiet of earth at rest"
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