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TheCOMMUNIOUE
January 17, 1991

BU faces cutbacks of $1,4 million
in state
In the

wake of Gov. Robert P. Casey's
last week that he will trim

budgets at state-supported higher educa-

freezes

City School District

budget appropriations

announcement

tional institutions,

BU, Harrisburg

Bloomsburg has imposed

announce urban

"We'll also lose about half ($549,000) of
the Tuition Challenge Grant money appro-

An alliance that will provide urban youths

priated to us."

The

initiatives alliance

university will not approve course

with

visits to

a rural public higher educa-

on hiring personnel for vacant posi-

overloads which would normally accom-

tional institution

and hospitaUty costs for cam-

modate additional student demand, said
Parrish. Overtime for workers will not be

inner-city experiences has been finaUzed

tions, travel,

pus events.

These actions are part of a plan

and college students with

between the Harrisburg City School Dis-

that will

granted unless approved by an appropriate

cut approximately three percent of the

vice president; postage and telephone ex-

trict and Bloomsburg University. The announcement was made during a school board

university's 1990-91 Educational

penditures will be carefully monitored;

meeting

bulk mail will be utilized when possible;

"At Bloomsburg University, we are always exploring new concepts and ideas that
will help increase diversity on our campus,"
said President Harry Ausprich. "Through
the urban initiatives program, we hope to
provide some unique academic opportuni-

eral

and Gen-

(E&G) Appropriation and 50

percent

campus buildings

of the school's Tuition Challenge Grant

and thermostats

funding in an effort to help the state save an

be turned back from 72

in

will

68 degrees

to

to

conserve energy costs, he added.

"The university

will

need to

cut about $830,000 from its
'E and G' appropriation.

President Harry Ausprich called a special

meeting of the university's Planning

and Budget Committee on Tuesday

noon

and discuss a

after-

of meas-

ties for

in Harrisburg,

Dec. 20.

our students."

We'll also lose about half

ures that will be implemented in an effort

Under the program, he noted, Bloomsburg
students studying urban education will make

($549,000) of the Tuition
Challenge Grant money

to reduce the institutional

frequent visits to schools in the district to

June 30.

interact with pupils

John Walker, vice president for university advancement, said Bloomsburg offi-

sity faculty will

appropriated to us."

— Robert Parrish
vice president for

administration

to deliver

list

budget before

and teachers. Univer-

conduct professional devel-

reduce the budget

opment workshops for public school teachers. Math and science professors will em-

without sacrificing the quaUty of educa-

phasize the career possibilities that exist in

cials are

working

tional services.

to

"Our goals are to affect our

their respective fields to

urban elementary

savings without affecting the quality of our

and middle school students. Student- teach-

academic programs," Walker said. "We're

ing opportunities for university students in

also trying to

move ahead

with our short-

the capitol city will be significantly en-

estimated $731 million by the end of the

and long-term planning and focus on pro-

hanced, and middle schoolers will get a

current fiscal year.

tecting

some

chance to take a weekend trip to experience

The cutbacks

will

amount to nearly $1.4

academic

priorities

.

.

.

with

economies."

residential life

million, or about three percent, of the

Walker expressed both surprise and

university's state funding allotment this

concern regarding the Governor's budget

year, according to

Robert Parrish, vice

president for administration.
sity will

"The univer-

need to cut about $830,000 from its

'E and G' appropriation," Parrish said.

cuts.

"We were stunned at the Governor's
last week," he said. "Now

announcement

our chief concern

is

providing instruc-

Continued on page 8

on campus.

Robert Buehner

Jr.,

a local attorney and

Bloomsburg trustee, says the primary goals
of the program are to provide urban experiences for university students and to stress
the value of a higher education to
Continued on page 3

2 The

Communique January

17, 1991

Mass Communications students
publish winter 'Spectrum'

Mass Communications

Students in the

Department have published the winter
issue of Spectrum, a

news and

feature

magazine about people, places, and
events in Columbia and Montour
counties. Copies of

in

Bloomsburg's environmental documentary

A video documentary recently produced
by the university and aired on pubhc broad-

But many others "still believe it's up to
someone else to solve the problems facing

WVIA-TV

our planet," emphasizes Carpenter. "Our

casting station

Spectrum can be pur-

chased for $2.95 and are available

Public Broadcasting stations show interest

at

con-

government

looks at what

and conPennsylvania are doing

officials, experts,

cerned citizens in

recommending

overflowing

landfills, toxic

waste dumps

and polluted waters not only contain some-

venient locations throughout Columbia

or

and Montour counties. For more

problems caused by decades of poor choices

one else's trash, but also the products we
choose to buy and the chemicals we decide

and neglect.

to use in our everyday Uves."

mation, call the

Department

at

infor-

Mass Communications

Tom

389-4565.

to solve

environmental

Joseph, director of television and

radio programs at Bloomsburg, says

Local musicians join

stations in Allentown, Erie,

Music Preparatory Program

will air the

Three

named

have been

local musicians

as instructors in the

Music

thing

Pre-

documentary,

PBS

and Harrisburg
"Every-

titled

"A

of education needs to go with a

lot

new public

appreciation of the
importance of the environment."

great



You Do (Can Make a Difference)," in

State

April but dates and times have not yet been

paratory Program. John Linn,

who

Frank Lakatos will

teach violin, and his wife, Agnes, will

The program

teach piano.

offers instruc-

The documentary will also be aired nine
Howard Community College in

times by

Columbia, Md., on

its

cable television net-

work during April and May.

Suzuki violin

tional training in the

method, woodwinds,

and

strings, brass,

The documentary focuses on

areas and reduce pollution, educators
are finding

Joseph and former university relations

who now

heads a

public relations office at Wichita State

air,

University in Kansas, co-produced the docu-

sen to

Bloomsburg
call

Mark

mentary as a public service to "show people

For more information,

area.

Jelinek at 389-4289.

Meeting arranged to discuss
'Toward the 21st Century'
Faculty and staff are invited to express
their

views

in a discussion

System report

titled

of a State

'Toward

the 21st

Century: Priorities for the Pennsylvania
State

System of Higher Education,"

at

3:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 29, in Carver
Hall Auditorium.

by

The

the State System's

report,

compiled

1989-90 Planning

Commission and approved by the Board
of Govemors at their meeting last

to integrate

who

an environ-

mental awareness in theirclassrooms, power

semester begin Monday, Jan. 21, and are

music educators from the greater

ways

plants that are removing pollutants from the

director Sheryl Bryson,

BU music faculty and other

grassroots

organizations that are working to clean up

music theory. Lessons for the spring
taught by

Secretary

confirmed.

operates a music studio in Catawissa,
will teach guitar.

DER

Arthur A. Davis

,

and concerned

"A

become
lot

citizens

who have cho-

part of the solution.

of education needs to go with a

to

great new public appreciation of the impor-

make a difference" in the environment.
Some changes in hfestyle, such as living
"a little more gently and giving up some

tance of the environment," says Arthur A.

modem

conveniences" are essential, says

important to recognize that neither the state

Cynthia

Adams Dunn, state coordinator of

nor

that there are positive things they

can do

the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay. In the

hour-long video, hosted by former astronaut Scott Carpenter,

many "people

Dunn

are willing to

reports that

make

sacri-

exchange for a safe, healthy environment for themselves and for future
fices in

generations."

Davis, secretary of Pennsylvania's Depart-

ment of Environmental Resources.

"It's

DER can do it alone."

Copies of the video are available

to col-

leges and universities, school systems,
businesses, industries, broadcast cable outlets,

and other interested groups and organi-

zations.

For more information,

call

389-4002.

— Kevin

B. Engler

October, provides a clear set of priorities
for the State

System and addresses such

issues as enrollment, faculty recruitment,
facilities

maintenance, teaching and

research roles, and

new

university sites

or missions. Please plan to attend.

FOR A JOB WELL
DONE — Bloomsburg
trustees Robert Buehner

of Danville, left, and
LaRoy Davis ofFeasterville,

VISA

credit card fee

inadvertently assessed
Faculty and staff holding Delaware

Trust

Company VISA

credit cards

center, present

a

plaque to Sheraton Smith

may

ofHarrisburg, aDecember graduate who served
as student representative

have inadvertently received an annual fee
assessment. If you hold this card and
recently were charged an annual fee, call

Paula

Kusmer

toll

3371, ext. 3121.

free at 1-800-433-

to the university' s board.

The presentation was

made

at the trustees'

quarterly meeting in

November.
PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

The Communique January

State System announces

enhanced benefits to

days). Sick leave payout will be provided at

appropriate rates to survivors of employees

who

managers, coaches, senior policy executives

17, 1991 3

die while in service, but

who would

have met requirements for payout had they

A

revision in eligibility for the

ments, and tuition waiver benefits.

retired.

current sick family policy

Education regarding their benefits program.

Major medical coverage includes an
increase in the maximum amount for general medical claims from $250,000 to

During two informational meetings held

University managers, coaches, and sen-

some good

received

ior policy executives

— which allows


$500,000 and a separate maximum for psy-

up to five days absence in a calendar year to
care for immediate family members
to
provide leave whether or not the member

Thursday, personnel ana-

chiatric claims of $75,000. In addition, the

resides in the household.

James F. Michael Jr. said the State
System Board of Governors recently approved a number of changes to enhance the

psychiatric visit allowance of $25 (payable

Tuition waiver benefits include a 100

has been

percent waiver for a spouse and a 50 per-

increased to $50 (payable at 50 percent or

cent waiver for dependent children (prior to

benefits packages of these employees. "In

$25 per

The changes

age 25) at the university where the em-

news from

on campus

the State

last

System of Higher

lyst

negotiating the

APSCUF

contract. State

at

50 percent or $12.50 per
visit).

to July 1,

visit)

are retroactive

1990 and apply

to

employees

ployee works. The full waiver

is

applicable

spouse obtains her or his

System faculty received some nice incen-

enrolled in the State System Blue Cross/

until the

Michael. "The Board of Gover-

Blue Shield and Major Medical Plan and to

undergraduate degree. In the child's case,

tives," said

saw

nors and the Chancellor also

some of these

extend

fit

to

those

who

retired

on or

after July 1, 1990.

Sick leave entitlements include the re-

benefits to us."

the waiver

is

first

applicable until she or he

finishes the degree

program or reaches age

A continuation

Michael, Bloomsburg

moval of a 200-day cap on earned, unused

25 (whichever comes

managers, coaches, and senior policy ex-

sick leave accumulations (payout will con-

of these tuition waiver benefits is also avail-

ecutives have received enhancements in

tinue to be based on 30 percent of earned,
unused sick leave to a maximum of 60

able to employees

According

to

major medical coverage, sick leave entitle-

a

BU, Harrisburg
Continued from page 1

be very beneficiaV

school
says

and

district,

Buehner

Harrisburg' s inner-city youths.
university, such as

"A

"We are dealing

Bloomsburg, has a need

cated in urban communities," he says.

lo-

in a so-

which we need to be involved

who have

five or

more

Continued on page 8
served as the student representative to the
trustees)

was a

solid advocate for this pro-

believe that

gram," says Buehner. "The university also

Bloomsburg has expertise it can share with
us as we work together to encourage our
youth," he says. "As educational leaders,
we need to do as much as we can to demonstrate that this interaction can work. Both of
us will benefit, if we're successful, by see-

received support from State Secretary of

and

I

Education (Donald) Carroll and Mr. Outen.

Both are fine leaders
forward to

whom

we're looking

working with."

Program activities are scheduled to begin
during the upcoming spring semester, says
slow," he says, "then

ing increases in the enrollment of minority

Buehner. "We'll

students."

gradually increase our programming in the

This partnership evolved from the efforts

rural

develop relationships with schools

to

cause.

in integrating activities,

Partnership 'can

to university

common

ciety today in

first).

of

many

Smith

start

years ahead."

— Kevin B. Engler

interested individuals. "Sheraton

(a graduate

from Harrisburg

who

"By

entering into this partnership, the university

unlocks the door to inner-city learning

opportunities for

According

to

its

students."

Buehner,

who

chairs the

ad hoc Urban Initiatives Commit-

trustees'

program will enable the university
promote a culturally diverse climate on
campus. 'This partnership can be very benetee, the

to

'

ficial to

Bloomsburg University and the

Harrisburg City School District," he says.

"By arranging campus
pils in the

visitations for pu-

Harrisburg school

district, the

more urban
campus as freshmen in years

university can begin to attract

students to

its

come."

to

Randolph G. Outen, superintendent of
the Harrisburg City School District, says
the partnership will prove that "people from
all

races and cultures can

work together"

WELCOME TO CAMPUS — Trustee Robert Buehner Jr.

PHOTO BY KEVIN ENGLER
.

center,

welcomes Randolph G.

Outen, superintendent of the Harrisburg City School District, and his staff members, from

in
left.

Lance Freeman, Norman Mitchell, and H. Major Poteat

to

campus.

4 The Communique January 17, 1991

December Commencement speaker
A sense of "family

,

belonging, and pride"

the student

body when he was an under-

message to
384 bachelor's and 77
461 graduates
master' s degree recipients
at last month'
commencement ceremony in Bloomsburg's

graduate here, including Kimber Kuster,

Mitrani Hall.

Kuster was a

Joined by their parents, spouses, family
members, and friends (some guests watched

biology professor," he stated. "Many of our

inspired John S. Scrimgeour's



ceremony via

the

monitors

in



closed-circuit television

nearby Columbia Residence

new graduates

Hall) the

for inspiration, strength

(especially) at a time

and values

when

Marguerite Kehr, and Howard Fenstemaker.

Scrimgeour noted on the particular im-

.

.

.

the traditional

family is too often scattered or fragmented.

Kimber

pact Kuster had on students. "Dr.

much

loved and respected

graduates have emulated his teaching practices and have taken his standards as
benchmarks of excellence."

listened as

Scrimgeour affirmed, "We need roots and
role models. We need to draw from them

their

note that while

"It is interesting to

we

respected him (Kuster), he was most respectful of his mentor. Dr. Daniel Hart-

Scrimgeour added. "He (Kuster)
I have heard
Dr. Don Rabb, biology professor now reline,"

spoke of (Hariline) often, and

speak of Dr. Kuster the same way. Do
you see what I mean by passing it on?"
Scrimgeour concluded by asking the
tired,

"As we are enriched by
those

who

influenced us,

audience to identify "special people"

we

others.

lives. "I

We pass it on."

— John

S.

am

Scrimgeour

"As we are enriched by those who influus,

we are

better able to enrich oth-

ers," said the senior faculty

member who

graduated in the Class of 53 and has worked
'

at the university for

32 years.

urging

all

of you, not just the

"We pass

it

I'VE GRADUATED AT LAST— Lara
A. Smith of Catawissa

is

congratulated

by President Ausprich upon receiving a
baccalaureate degree.
greetings from State System Chancellor
James McCormick and the Board of Governors. "I know that you read the papers and

you're thinking

it's

pretty tough out there,"

more conscious of your
special people," he said. "They don't have
to be from Bloomsburg University, and

the

Berwick native

lot

of your grandfathers

they don't have to be famous and have

always found that an education

graduates, to be

buildings

enced

who

have made significant contributions in their

are better able to enrich

says:

about

named

after them.

Then, think

how you can rededicate some aspect

of your

life in their

honor."

"I'm older than a
.

.

through depressions and wars

I've been

.

.

.

.

and I've

is

impor-

tant"
"But," he added, "it's what you do with it
(an education) that counts.

"Draw from your role models in order to
become one," he added. 'The idea is to pass
it

said.

and do

So go out

there

it."

Rep. Stuban honored with

on."

University Medallion

on."

A psychological counselor in the Center
Human Development, Scrimgeour, 59,
spoke of key individuals who influenced
for

President,

BOG representative

Pennsylvania State Rep. Ted Stuban (D)

address graduates

of Berwick,

President Harry Ausprich and State Sys-

House
was

tem Board of Governors member Joseph

representative for the 109th District,

M. Nespoli extended

sages to the graduates during the ceremony.

awarded the University Medallion for his
support of the university and leadership in

"We

Harrisburg which helped gain approval for

congratulatory mes-

are proud of your accomplishments

and we're honored

to

be present

commencement convocation,"

at

your

declared

The President reminded
class of the contributions

the graduating

made

by loved

ones that permitted them to achieve a college education. "You have received a great
gift

construction of the James H.

Center for

Human

McCormick

Services.

Stuban, 62, whose 14-year legislative

Ausprich.

of love from your parents, spouses, and

"As you
accepted that precious gift of love, you also
other family members," he said.

career has been

marked by being

sensitive

to the needs of his constituency, has consistently supported education initiatives

has been

and

an advocate for public higher

education. "Ted Stuban has been there for

Bloomsburg University,

just as he's been

there for others," said Ausprich. "Each year

live."

he has supported our budget proposals and
capital requests. We have appreciated his
help and support, as well as his candor and

of the

willingness to offer constructive criticism."

university's Council of Trustees, extended

Stuban has been a longtime advocate for

accepted the responsibility to use the

knowledge you have gained

to

Nespoli, a former

new

improve the

condition of the world in which

John S. Scrimgeour

who was elected in November

to an eighth consecutive term as

we

member

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January 1991

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Many believe our educational system is not
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Provost's Lecture Series:

Christmas Card
Holiday favorites
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BU Vice Presidents
A close-up look

choral groups.

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Soviet

Week of Jan. 1

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A Community Christmas Card
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Wednesday. January 2
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The Communique January

17, 1991

Graduates ^can enrich others' as role models
the university. "His
tions

answers to our ques-

have not always been

'yes,'

said

U

Ausprich, "but his responses have always

been timely, fair, and appropriate. At times
he has been our

and

critic,

for that

we

He has always been our friend."
LaRoy Davis of Feasterville, chairper-

respect him.

son of the Council of Trustees, joined

Ausprich in presenting the

Medallion

University

"Beyond

to Stuban.

bricks,

Bloomsburg
history of a caring faculty and

mortar, and programs of study,

has a rich
staff,

and a cadre of friends who have made

a significant difference in the lives of thou-

1

\

DECEMBER COMMENCEMENT OFFICIALS — Key participants in last month
convocation ceremonies are pictured above.

From

left,

John

S.

'

s

Scrimgeour, com-

mencement speaker; State Rep. Ted Stuban ofBerwick, University Medallion recipient;
President Harry Ausprich; LaRoy Davis of Feasterville, chairperson of the Council of

M. Nespoli of Berwick, member of the State System Board of Goverand Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs Betty D. Allamong.

Trustees; Joseph

nors;

December

^90

Commencement Scrapbook
photos on pages 4 and 5 by



MEDALLION RECIPIENT

Joan Heifer

Stale

Rep. Ted Stuban, D-Berwick, accepts
the University Medallion at

commencement
sands of

December

exercises.

men and women who

are our

graduates," he said.
In accepting the medallion, Stuban noted
that education receives a

huge portion of

"To all the

the state budget in Pennsylvania.

people of Pennsylvania I'd like to say that

we sometimes

don't like

how

the (state)

dollars are spent, and we criticize

where our

budgets go," he said. "But," he added, "a
big portion of the state budget goes toward
the educational system."

In closing, Stuban thanked the graduates

AN EMOTIONAL GOODBYE—

for choosing to pursue their college degree

President Ausprich congratulates
Sheraton Smith of Harrisburg upon his

at Bloomsburg. "I've
lators in
is

always told the

legis-

Harrisburg that this (Bloomsburg)

receiving a baccalaureate degree

and

the finest university in the State System,"

bids himfarewell at the December com-

make the most out

mencement ceremony. Smith, who

I'M READY

majored in business marketing, served

senior Bloomsburg faculty member,

as a student representative to the

completes backstage preparation on

university's Council of Trustees.

his

he said. "So go forth and
of your opportunity."

— Kevin

B. Engler

— John

S.

Scrimgeour, a

commencement address.

5

6 The

Communiqui January

17, 1991

Economics professor
receives award from
native country
TejBhan

S. Saini,

OF
Nit
'
NOVEMBER

irofessor of econom-

Award

received the Hind Rattan

ics,

outstanding sen ice, excellence

ment and contributions
land, in November.

in

for

achieve-

to India, his

199

home-

Saini, a native of Punjab, received the

award from fonner Indian president Giani
Zail Singh at an economic development
conference in New Delhi. "The conference

focused on things former Indian residents

can do to help the mother countr>\" says
Saini,

adding that 12 to 16 milUon native

Indians now live outside India. "This award

FOR OITSTASDISG SERVICE —In.

was presented to non-resident Indians from

presents the coveted Hind Rattan

Award

Giani Zail Singh,

left.

have made outstanding contributions to their

Bloomsburg economics professor TejBhan
S. Sainifor his "outstanding service, excellence in achievement, and contributions to
India." Saini, a native of Punjab, received the award at a recent economic development

homeland."

conference in

over the world

all

Saini,

who

are considered to

to

New Delhi.

who has lived in this countr>' since
and served on the BU fac23 years, founded the

the early 1950s

ulty for the past



From 1974

to '76, Saini ser\'ed

on then-

Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp's eco-

International

— which held

last Januar>' in

its first

meeting

Hong Kong.

committee and received a

COPE International, which publishes the

an organization of economists throughout

merit citation for "outstanding service" to

soon-to-be-released "Journal of Economic

Canada and

the citizens of the

Eastern Economic Association

1973.

the eastern United States

He helped EEA inmate

tion, •'Eastern

the

same

(EEA)

its



in

publica-

Economic Journal," during

nomic ad\

Two

isor\-

Commonwealth.

years ago, Saini founded a world-

Democracy,"

will hold

ence Jan. 9-12

in

its

second confer-

Boston, Mass.

— Kevin

wide association of political economists

Local banker appointed chairperson of

Bloomsburg University Foundation

operations officer ( 1 962-73) at the Berwick

Bank.
Girton

is

a former president of three pro-

fessional bankers organizations
J.

B. Engler

Congress of Political Economists (COPE)

year.

Jan Girton of Mifflinville. executive

Penn Bank

in

Bloomsburg. He also worked

em

.Anthracite

— North-

Bankers Association, Bank

vice president and chief operating officer of

as an assistant vice president (1974-75) at

Administration Institute-Pocono Chapter

Columbia County Farmers National Bank
in Bloomsburg, was recently appointed

United Penn's Wilkes-Barre branch and

and Columbia-Montour Counties Bankers

staned his banking career as a cashier and

Association.

He has ser\ed as president of Bloomsburg

chairperson of the Bloomsburg Universitv-

Foundation for 1991.

Revitalization Inc. and Revitalization De-

"The 90s N^ill be a challenging decade for
development efforts at Bloomsburg Uni-

velopment

versity," says

Anthony

laniero, assistant

BU Foundation.

and we're counting on

In addition, he

his

leadership to guide our mission in '91."

Girton,

who

has

served

on

foundation's board of directors since

Banking

five years after

is

a past president of the

daughter
\

J.

1972, the Pennsylvania School
at

Bucknell Universit)'

in

1969,

and Central Columbia High School in 1959.
He and his wife. Joyce, have a son and

A

working more than 10 years

manager of United

in

of Banking

No-

Orangeville branch for the past

as vice president and

treasurer of

University's Stonier Graduate School of

the

vember 1985, has worked in banking for
nearly 30 years. He was executive vice
president and chief operating officer at

CCFNB's

is

Bloomsburg .Area Chamber of Commerce
and the Columbia County Area United Way.
Girton graduated from Rutgers

"We're

very pleased to have Jan ser\-e as chair of
the foundation

and

sociation.

vice president for development and executive director of the

Inc.,

Bloomsburg's Industrial Development As-

Jan Girton

— Jon

J.

Ginon II (U.S

.

.Air Force,

M>TtJe Beach, S.C.^ and JoeUe. They have

two grandchildren.

— Kevin

B. Engler

The Communique January

Author says:

Statistics indicate that for every birth

seven

BUCC

abortions are performed in the country.

"Severe shortages of basic consumer

Liberation

'empty as shelves'

women

for Soviet

English Department"

each week cooking, cleaning, doing laun-

next

dry, or standing in line for food."

"Teach-In"

women

are

survivors because they maintain "uniquely
Liberation has been a double-edged sword
for Soviet

women. Today

painful reality that the

they face the

"dream of equality"

offered in the 1917 Russian Revolution

is

'Teach-In' to encourage

writing outside English

goods also take their toll," said Gray. "The
average Russian woman spends 40 hours

According to Gray, Soviet
close" matriarchal and kinship

ties.

"They

possess a strong sense of female superiority,

rooted from the contributions

their

17, 1991 7

made by

mothers and grandmothers during

"Encouraging Writing Outside the
is

the topic of the

BU Curriculum Committee (BUCC)

24, in

at

7:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan.

McCormick Forum.

Panelists

Marjorie Clay (philosophy), Jim Dalton
(psychology),

Tom

Klinger (biology)

and Dave Minderhout (anthropology)
will explain

why and how

they use

writing in their courses. Faculty, staff

and students are invited

to attend.

For

"as

World War

Women: Walking the Tightrope, a novel by
Francine du Plessix Gray. The French-bom

Soviet

extraordinary lack of verbal

author shared her research at Bloomsburg

tion, serves

recently as the third speaker in the Provost ' s

between the sexes," said Gray. "Many

Lecture Series.

Russian

The openness of glastnost underscores
and arcane prejudices facing Soviet women, but it has not created

as iron-willed, steel-tongued, overworked

proposals for the following programs:

amazons, and they are often as oppressive

Visiting Scholars; Junior

as they are oppressed," she added.

Equity Scholars;

empty as the shelves" in their stores.
The story is eloquently told in Soviet

the "inequities

much

of a difference yet," said the award-

winning joiuTialist whose book
text in several

Today

is

used as a

Bloomsburg courses.

the average Soviet

woman

earns

11,"

she said.

more information,

But the disparity in self-esteem between
men and women, coupled with an

communica-

only to exacerbate the "tension

women

up

live

Paradoxically,

to their reputation

women in the USSR per-

women

"unaccustomed

two-thirds of the construction jobs and 98

head of state expressing her own power and

percent of the janitorial and street-cleaning

personality."

to seeing the

of the nation's lowest paying professions.

Men

most are

— Gwenn Evans Wells

positions. Two-thirds of the physicians in

USSR are women, but medicine is one

as

wife of their

(Gwenn Evans Wells
from Bloomsburg.)

is

a freelance writer

A

newsleller for Bloomsburg Univer-

sity faculty

publishes

ments

at

and

staff,

The Communique

news of events and developBU each week through the aca-

covered in her numerous interviews with

demic year and bi-weekly during the

Soviet people ranging from factory work-

summer months.
Please submit story ideas at least two

ers to professionals.

The USSR continues to take a utilitarian
approach to women. "Women are needed
as both producers

the author.

As a

and reproducers," stressed
result,

face triple burdens
the

demands of



she added,

women

a necessity to work,

raising a family,

and a

control,

The

weeks

in

advance

to

The Communique,

Office of University Relations and

Com-

munication, Bloomsburg University,
Bloomsburg, PA, 17815.

BU

is

committed

educational and
ties

for

all

to providing equal

employment opportuni-

persons without regard to race,

1

.

BU

is

additionally commit-

ted to affirmative action and will take

care system has forced many Soviet women

positive steps to provide such educational

on hold, rather than

place their children in poorly run day care

programs, said Gray. She rated the Soviet

method of educating youth about sex as the
second worst of any developed nation. Birth

methods are scarce and unreUable.

and employment opportunities.

call

Peggy

LRC

television and radio services has

Provost's Lecturer David Costill's
presentation last

fall.

His address, 'The

is

Human

available for viewing

by faculty and students at the Learning
Resources Center. For information, call
the

LRC

389-4231.

at

New director sought for
Scholars

BU

is

&

Honors program

conducting a search and screen

process for a

new

director of the Scholars

and Honors program. The position

open

The

to all university faculty

application deadline

is

is

members.

Monday,

Jan.

28. For a complete listing of duties and

Cindy
389-4132 or Carol Arnold

additional information, contact

preference, handicap, Vietnam era status

university

Friday,

recently completed a videotape of

provide adequate child care, birth

veterans, or union membership.

is

Costill lecture available

on videotape at

389-4015.

to put their careers

The deadline

Bailey at 389^129.

ancestry, life style, affectional or sexual

The

High School;

Community College

For more information,

that

and gynecological services.

System of Higher Education

Transition; and Minority Faculty

Surmacz

deterioriation of the nation's child

control

State

color, religion, sex, age, national origin,

"shoddy system of human services"
fails to

The

Performance,"

The Communique

and soft-spoken. Gray read several
excerpts from her book to defUy illustrate
examples of attitudes and anecdotes unTall

accepting

Cutting Edge: Fitness and

hold more than half of the hospital

administrative positions, she added.

now

has issued a call for "Social Equity"

She

popular" with Russian

Gill at

'Social Equity' proposals

Feb.

average Soviet man. Women, she said, hold

the

State System

Recruitment.

only two-thirds the income as that of the

Nancy

389-4716.

petuate sterotypical gender roles. Gray said.

noted that President Mikhail
Gorbachev's wife, Raisa, is "highly un-

call

at

'CROPWALK'

at

ofTicial reports

record-breaking donations

A report from Bloomsburg Area
"CROPWALK" board president Robert
BU,
was raised
October. The amoimt

Peiffer, a Protestant minister at

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

Assistant Editor: Jo A.

DeMarco

J. Gaudreau
Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
Contributing Writer: Gwenn E. Wells

Editorial Assistant: Chris

indicates a record 510,127

the activity last

at

surpassed the previous record (set in

1989) in

total contributions

by S3,555.

8 The

Communique January

17, 1991

Campus Notes

Calendar

David E. Washburn, professor

Thursday, Jan. 17
Soundstage

-

"Peasants Under Glass,"

in the

department of curriculum and foundations,
and Faith Kline, an undergraduate elementary education major, co-presented a paper

Kehr Union, 8 p.m.

titled

"Special Education Pohcy in Penn-

sylvania:

Friday, Jan 18

at the

Lake Buena Vista, Fla., from Oct 3 1 through
Nov. 3.

Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

vs.

Social Foundations Analysis"

Educational Studies Association held in

"Total Recall," Mitrani Hall, Haas

Womens swimming/diving

A

annual convention of the American

Army,

3 p.m.

6

to

training,

Simon

Hranitz, profes-

and

Ben Fuller, professor of
English, each became an Urban Fellow of
the Pennsylvania Academy for the Profesfoundations, and

Hall,

10 p.m.

sion of Teaching.

Saturday, Jan. 19

In addition, they

pariicipanis in the National

were

Urban Confer-

ence on Urban Schools held in Philadelphia

QUEST-Caving

Training,

Simon

Hall,

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The conference was spon-

E&G, Tuition

Challenge

appropriations
Continued from page 1
tional services to our students. But these
budget reductions wUl have an immediate

and long-term impact on the educational
offerings of this institution."
In his address.

Gov. Casey indicated that

he will lay off 2,000 workers, close four
state

and reduce spending in all
government departments by June 30.

Walker

But

said

employees

at

Bloomsburg should not worry about furloughs during this fiscal year. "We do not
expect layoffs

"We

will see

at the universit>',"

some vacancies go

he said.
unfilled,

rather than initiate layoffs at this time of the

academic year."
Officials from the Chancellor's Office in

Harrisburg claim that the State System will
its total E&G Approand an estimated S6.75 million
will be reduced from the Tuition Challenge

lose S12.2 million in
,

William Gates, a graduate student in biology, have received a grant from the Dean's

country' skiing at

"Total Recall," Mitrani Hall of Haas
1

summer.

James E. Cole, professor of biology and

CrNStal Lakes, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Center,

last

sored by the academy.

Sunday, Jan. 20
QUEST-Cross

nearly $19 million in

state hospitals,

Washburn and John

sors in the department of curriculum

QUEST-Caving

State System to lose

p.m.

Fund for Excellence of the Bloomsburg
Alumni Association.
The grant will be used to fund a research
project titled "Humidity Preferences in

Selected Plethodontid Salamanders."

Monday, Jan. 21

project

is to

be completed

The

May.

in

priation,

Grant program.

— Kevin

B. Engler

State System announces

enhanced benefits to
managers, coaches,
senior policy executives

Martin Luther King

Jr.

Day

Celebration,

assistant professor

Carver Hall, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 22
QL^EST-kayak

Associate professor

rolling. Centennial

Gym,

Constance Gaynor,

years of credited service in one of the State

Human Development, presented a session
on "A Systematic Approach in Dealing

become permanently

with Clients with Co-Dependency Issues"

retired

Pennsylvania Counselors' Associa-

tion held in Harrisburg last

Wednesday, Jan. 23
"Arachnophobia," Kehr Union, 3 p.m.;
Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

7 and 9:30 p.m.

November.

vs. MillCTSville,

John

S.

Baird

Jr., acting

dean of the

basketball

VS. Clarion, 2

p.m.

All winter sporting events listed are held in the
Nelson Field House.

the

25 years of credited ser\ ice

in

at

one of

approved retirement plans; or are

re-

from the State System and are

or

at

above the superannuation retirement age

College of Arts and Sciences, recently made

with at least 10 years of credited service in

one of the approved retirement plans. These

ence of the Association for Moral Educa-

benefits

Notre Dame.

became effective at the start of the

semester

last fall.

A new benefits handbook with detailed

Assumptions for the New Millenium: Chal-

information concerning these and other

lenges for Higher Education."

changes will be provided

to

managers,

coaches, and senior policy executives

Thursday, Jan. 24
Men's and Women's swimming/diving

least

disabled or die; are

from the State System and have

a presentation at the 15th annual confer-

Baird's discussion was titled "Strategic

6 and 8 p.m.

System's approved retirement plans and

tired

tion held at the University of

Women's and Men's

Continued from page 3

both of the Center for Counseling and

at the

9 to 11 p.m.

Kay Campiese and

within the next two months, said Michael.

Happy New Year
and
Welcome Back!

"In the meantime," he added, "employ-

ees

w ith

questions should contact the Uni-

versity Personnel Office."

— Kevin

B. Engler

TheCOMMUNIQUE
A newsletter for faculty and staff at Bloomsburg University

January 24, 1991

The calm before Desert Storm
Campus responds

to threat

of war in Persian Gulf
at

taking, andother violations of human rights

week, one could not help

and states (the bishops') strong support for

but notice that a different aura had over-

world-wide peaceful pressure and action

As

the spring semester got

Bloomsburg

come

last

underway

campus. Draping the university

the

and

to deter Iraq's aggression

to cure the

shadows of nightfall, the threat
of America going to war in the Persian Gulf
had created somber personas in just about

peaceful liberation of Kuwait," said Snyder.

everyone.

Churches issued a pronouncement on the
gulf crisis last November. "The Council's

like the dark

On the first Tuesday afternoon of classes,

Robert Peiffer, a Protestant campus
minister, said the National Council of

more than 50 individuals



mostly

criticism of the

Bloomsburg

and

staff

Persian Gulf policy was rather blunt," said

students, faculty,



Bush administration's

gathered in Multipurpose Room

A of Kehr

Peiffer. "President

Union

about the

reckless rhetoric and behavior, and the

to voice their feelings

America at war.
Rosemary Brasch, labor specialist and
lecturer at Penn State, said her son is a U.S.

probability of

Marine stationed

Bush was rebuked

immediate withdrawal of
not authorized by the

T

all

United

for

U.S. troops

Nations was
PHOTO Br JOAN HELPER

demanded."

VIGIL FOR PEACE

—A

university stu-

give birth to my son to have
him die on a desert somewhere. I'm just

But Peiffer said he finds the Council's
pronouncement "disappointing" because
it fails to clarify any general Christian
principles or recommendations regarding
war-like situations. "The Council suggests

cans are evenly divided as to whether or not

very upset."

only that 'war

human

President Bush should take mihtary action

in

Saudi Arabia. "Basi-

cally I'm here (at this discussion)

don't

know anything

because I

else to do," Brasch

said. "I didn't

Mary

Harris, an assistant professor

teaches urban education, expressed

who

"much

pain" about the prospect of bloodshed in the

condition of

and

a sign of a sinful

is

human

alienation from

that, unfortunately, is

only a Christian

and of little help," he

platitude

God'

Middle East. "I've heard the Pentagon has

"There

way," said

"One has

long and coherent tradition of Christian

to ask,

'What for?' The fact that a

small country headed by a thug has invaded

another small country? There
all

over the world, and yet

States) don't feel

we

is

terrorism

(the United

compelled to go

in."

Chester (Chet) Snyder, a campus Catholic

minister, said the

American Council of

Catholic Bishops sent a letter to President

moral reflection

how

could be applied to the current

ation.

"The

letter

situ-

begins with a strong con-

demnation of Iraq's aggression, hostage

to

make

.

.

'the

reflects a strong

"That

.

is

to appeal to a

one which teaches us
right decisions' and

presumption against

against Iraq.

"The question asked in a recent

poll was, 'If Iraq doesn't

withdraw (from

w^,

should start military action or wait longer?,'"
read Sylvester. "Forty-seven percent said

and 46 percent said 'wait longer.' I
much different atmosphere than in
1965 when the Viemam war started."
A local television reporter asked fresh-

'start'

sense a

but admits the moral permissibility of the

man Dane Karpinecz

use of force in certain restrictive condi-

would be willing to fight if war broke out.
"If I were drafted, I guess I'd go," Karpinecz

tions.

War,

for example,

may be engaged

for a just cause."

Bush which provided theoretical guidelines
that

however, a happier and better

Peiffer.

Court House before war broke out on
Wednesday, Jan. 16.

Kuwait), do you think the United States

said.

ordered 60,000 body bags," said Harris.

is,

dent attends the peace vigil at Bloomsburg

Anthony
of history

Sylvester, associate professor

who

organized the hour-long

discussion, said a recently published poll
in

The

New

York Times indicates Ameri-

of

Hamburg

if

he

said.

"But because of
like to

my personal beliefs,

improve and sustain human

not destroy

it. I

life

I'd

and

would make sure I was not
Continued on page 2

2 The

Communique January

24, 1991

President Ausprich: "The news of war has

had a profound
President
ing

Hany Ausprich

issued the follow-

memo to all members of the university com-

munity

Thursday:

effect

on

and our thoughts and

out to you

all

to be especially aware of the tremendous stress under which some people are

need

love are

with you.

lions is far

The news of war in the gulf has had a
affect on all of us. For some, the
news has brought back memories of other
times, other dark and difficult days, other
wars. For others, the news has prompted as
yet unanswerable questions about the fu-

clearly felt in our souls.

ture.

last

of us"

living.

profound
We, here at Bloomsburg, have not been
untouched by the crisis in the Persian

left

Gulf.

Though the theater of military operaaway, the essence of war is

Throughout the night and into today we
have listened with rapt attention and mixed
emotions

to the

concerned for

news

reports, anxiously

all involved.

For those who have loved ones stationed
Middle East and those whose homes

in the

are there, please know thatour hearts reach

Our

and

sensitivity, understanding,

support will help to reduce those tensions

and convey our concerns for one
Lastly, as a university,

we

another.

are and must

remain a place where the free exchange of
ideas can occur, where all views can be
heard and can be considered, and where

Mostly,

it

has spawned within us a deep

each individual

desire to reach out to ourfamily andfriends,

is free to

respond as

their

conscience suggests.

that

By according this respect to everyone, we

can be found best in those bonds of the

uphold the freedom of speech we so dearly
cherish and affirm our commitment to the

to

draw on

the strength

and comfort

heart.

As we carry out our individual responsitoday and in the days to come, we

values of this university.

bilities

1 SaiC

'THERE IS A HAPPIER, BETTER WA Y —Robert Peiffer, center, gives aUernalives
'

to

week in Kehr Union. Mary Harris,
thoughts and opinions.

war during a panel discussion

Snyder, also voiced their

last

left,

and Chet

i

EMOTIONALMOMENT— Bloomsburg

resident George Welliver wept after speak-

ing out against

war

at

Photos by Joan Heifer

campus seminar.

Campus

reacts to

threat of

war

Continued from page 1
in a combatant position ... a medic, perhaps."

At 7 p.m. Tuesday, many students, facand staff journeyed down Main Street
to the Bloomsburg Courthouse, and later to
the Friends Meeting House in Millville, to
ulty

join area residents in candlehght vigils for

peace.

But

less than

24 hours

later

— Wednes-

day, Jan. 16, at approximately 7 p.m. east-

em

NOON VIGIL — Robert Peiffer leads participants in outdoor "prayerfor peace" last
Thursday

in front

of Carver Hall. The five-minute noon

vigil

continued this week.

time



the fears

and anxieties of

all

supporters of peace were realized

when the

announcement was made by our

nation's

news agencies that United States and
war planes were bombing Iraq.

ally

Operation Desert Storm had begun.
Kevin B. Engler



INVESTING IN THE FUTURE
AT

BLOOMSBVRG UNtVERSITY
1991 Faculty and Staff for
Excellence Campaign

Underway
The 1991 Faculty and Staff for Excellence
Campaign will get underway in February. Thir-

Proposed description

Faculty and Staff
Association at
Bloomsburg University

teen leaders, listed

Organization and purpose
The Faculty and Staff Association

sheet, will

organization

on the reverse side of this
be working with 40 to 50 campaign

captains throughout the

employee support of

campus

encourage

to

this initiative.

The focus for this year's campaign is
on scholarships: BU Family Scholarship, The
Trust for Generations' Scholarship Fund, and
the

Husky Club. Each of these options

will be

described in materials that will be distributed to
every employee the first week of February.
Opportunity exists within the BU Family
Scholarship for departments or work areas to
create specific scholarships that reflect unique
interests, e.g., chemistry or economics or a specific type of student, e.g., adult students. A
department or area desiring to initiate its own
scholarship should have a representative contact
a campaign leader or call the Development
Office for assistance in establishing such an
award.
Please refer to the Dec. 12, 1990,

Communique

insert for descriptions.


of packets
employees
Feb. 4-22— Employees
Distribution

assume responsibility

will

for a) solicitation of

BU

employees, b) design and implementation of
other fund-raising initiatives in support of
Faculty and Staff for Excellence, and c) disbursement of funds raised.

The

association will establish

its

own

by-

laws and serve as an advisory body to the
Bloomsburg University Foundation, Inc., and the

BU

Development Office.
Proposed standing committees
determine configuration of
number, and amounts of
scholarships offered based on funds avail-

Scholarship

-

to

types, criteria,

able

Campaign

- to plan and execute future
and staff campaigns
Nomination/Election - to prepare a slate of

faculty

composed of association members
for election by members of the association
Others - to be established by the managing

Campaign Timetable
Feb. 4-8

will be an

composed of contributing faculty
and staff members to the Faculty and Staff for
Excellence campaign at Bloomsburg University.
A managing board, composed of faculty and
staff elected from members of the association,

officers

to all

return pledge/gift

form

Development Office
Feb. 25-26— Phonothon
Feb. 28
Campaign concludes
to



board
In addition to scholarships, the association

may

define other projects and giving options and
establish incentives, challenges, or other fund-

Phonothon

raising projects.

During the phonothon, calls will be made to employees who have not yet returned their pledge/gift
form. Anyone who would like to help with the
phonothon should call Susan Hicks at 389-4525.

Meetings
The managing board will meet twice each
during the fall and spring semesters, including an
organizational meeting in March and April, when
officers are elected.
Please turn over

Faculty and Staff for Excellence
Susan

Bodman

General Administration
Accounting Office
-

Business Office

Computer Services

-

College of Business

Business Education/Office Administration
Finance and Business Law
Marketing and Management

Charles Brennan - Natural Sciences
Departments
Biology
Chemistry
Geography and Earth Science
Mathematics and Computer Science
Physics
-

and Services

Upward Bound

Accounting
Computer and Information Systems

Bridgette Callay

Developmental Instruction
Extended Programs
Institute for Interactive Technology

TV Programs

Personnel Office
Procurement Office

Boyne

1991 Campaign Leaders

Registrar
Tutorial Services

Law Enforcement

Patricia

-

Arts and Humanities

Departments
Anthropology

Charles Laudermilch
Departments

Communication Studies
English

Languages and Cultures
Mass Communications
Music

Economics
History
Political Science

Psychology
Sociology and Social Welfare

Rosemary McGrady

-

Clerical Staff

Andruss Library
Bakeless Center for the Humanities
Ben Franklin Hall
Buckingham Maintenance Center
Bookstore Building
Centennial House
Hartline Science Center
Haas Center for the Ans

Luzerne Hall
Magee Center

McCormick Human
Navy Hall

Services Center

Science Hall
SutliffHall

Waller Administration

Philosophy

Jennie Carpenter - Student Life
Career Development and Placement
Child Care Center

Community

Robert

McEwen

Physical Plant

-

Building/Maintenance
Carpentry Shop

QUEST

Shop
Garage
Groundskeepers
Painting Shop
Plumbing Shop

Student Development

Utility Plant

Electrical

Activities

Financial Aid

Health Center
Orientation

-

Social Sciences

Kehr Union

Art

JoAnne Day

-

Academic

Affairs

Nancy Onuschak

-

Department of Nursing

Administration

Academic Advising
Academic Computing
Academic Deans

Ed Poostay - Departments of Curriculum and
Foundations and Communication Disorders

Admissions
Andruss Library
Counseling Center

Patricia

Rudy

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William Sproule
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The Communique January 24, 1991 3

Provost* s Lecture Series:
Meeting scheduled to discuss
State System 'Priorities'

Nikki Giovanni

Faculty and staff are invited to express

speak in
Carver Hall

to

views

their

in a discussion

System report

titled

of a State

"Toward

the 21st

Century: Priorities for the Pennsylvania
State

System of Higher Education,"

at

3:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 29, in Carver

The

Hall Auditorium.

Poet, artist and civil rights advocate Nikki

report,

compiled

by the State System's 1989-90 Planning
Commission and approved by the Board

Giovanni will present "You Have the Power:

Do Something With Your Life!" at 8 p.m.,

of Governors

Thursday, Jan. 31, in Carver Hall Audito-

October, provides a clear set of priorities

rium.

issues as emollment, faculty recruitment,

Black Poetry" for her book Black Feeling

enceat the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-

Black Talk, has shown a diversity of talent

nology.

for more than

20 years. Since 1968, she has

published nearly 20 books,

made

records and had a motion picture

several



to Spirit:

based on her work.

Once

coveted

is

will find that

what you have

not worth coveting

.

.

.

there

is

a

what material things can do."
Giovanni will also conduct a poetry writ-

ing

workshop

Feb.

cast as a "revolutionary poet,"

"You

limit to

Spirit

The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni —

1,

in the

facilities

maintenance, teaching and

research roles, and

new

be set up
Hall to

in the

make

people with

Alumni Room of Carver
meeting accessible

the

disabilities. Please

Services Center.

attend.

Accounting Club will provide
free income tax assistance

tempered with humor and

sensitivity. Her
on individuals' power to

writing workshop, part of the university's

lectures focus

spring Provost's Lecture Series, are free

federal

and open

provided by students

a difference in themselves and in

other peoples lives.

your

life,"

"Do something

to the public.

For more information,

with

to

plan to

that begins at 9 a.m., Friday,

Forum of McCormick Human

Both the evening lecture and daytime

make

university sites

or missions. Closed-circuit television will

now become

Giovanni's poetic voice has

last

System and addresses such

for the State

Nikki Giovanni

Giovanni, nicknamed "The Princess of

meeting

at their

call the

Office of

Giovanni recently told an audi-

Free assistance in filing the 1990

Club

income

this year.

tax return will be

Tax

in the

Accounting

assistance will be

available to the elderly,

low income

families, non-English speaking persons,

No tuition
State

and people with

recommended
System Board of Governors
increase

to

p.m.,
to

State

System of Higher Education, recom-

mended

to the

Board of Governors that a
be considered for the

about raising tuition

at this

time and ex-

pressed the belief that there
existing with State

is

a "pact"

System students regard-

tuition increase not

ing the current tuition level for spring

current spring semester.

semester courses.

situation

due to the Commonwealth's fiscal

think

it

appropriate to automatically place

the burden of fiscal uncertainty

Room

The

service

is

in the

of the Hotel Magee.

available through April 15,

except during "Spring Break"

week

(March 23-30). No appointment is
necessary. For more information, call

Tonight's

BUCC

'Teach-In' will

encourage writing outside English

on the State
"Encouraging Writing Outside the

System's 99,000 students.

problems.

to 8

389-2714.

Board members also said they did not

McCormick also suggested that the board
study the affects of the budget austerity

from 6

6 p.m., Wednesdays and Thursdays,

beginning Monday, Feb. 4,
University

James H. McCormick, chancellor of the

disabilities

Mondays and Tuesdays, and from 4

English Department"

Julia B. Ansill, chair of the board's

"Pennsylvania's financial crisis deserves

fi-

next

BU

is

the topic of the

Curriculum Committee (BUCC)

additional study to

nance committee, was asked

State

committee prepare a report on State System

McCormick Forum.

revenues and expenditures for the remain-

Marjorie Clay (philosophy), Jim Dalton

examine the impact on
System universities," McCormick

said.

to

have her

"Teach-in"

at

7:30 p.m. tonight in

Tom

Panelists include

"Our university presidents have begun

der of the 1990-91 fiscal year to be pre-

(psychology),

contingency planning to address the pro-

sented at the board's quarterly meeting in

Dave Minderhout (anthropology).

posed cuts, however,

April.

it

is

premature

to

State

determine if reductions can be implemented
or precisely

how reductions may

universities,"

effect the

he added. "The System has

System

tuition is

$2,278 for

full-

time undergraduate and graduate students

who

managers who will continue to maintain the

is

$4,3 12 and non-resident graduate tuition

academic quality of

is

$2,884.

their institutions

through these serious times."
Several board

members voiced concern

Normal

lists

hours

of^erating hours for the

University Store are: 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.,

are state residents.

Tuition for out-of-state undergraduates

thoughtful and conservative executive

University Store

Klinger (biology) and

— State System
news release

Mondays-Tuesdays; 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.,
Wednesdays-Thursdays; 8 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., Fridays; and 10:30 a.m.

to

12:30 p.m., Saturdays (hours will be

extended

to

3:30 p.m. on Saturday).

4 The Communique January 24, 1991

Calendar

Campus Notes

presented an in-service proposal
Proficient Children

Virgie D. Bryan, instructor of develop-

Thursday, Jan. 24
Men's, women's swimming/diving
vs. Clarion,

2 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 25

titled

"Meeting the Needs of Limited English

opment"

Through

Staff Devel-

conference sponsored by the

at a

mental instruction, developed and imple-

National Council of Stales on Inservice

mented a workshop for the Central Region
of the Pennsy vlania Association of Developmental Educators (PADE) held at the

Education

Magee Center last October.
The workshop was titled "Academic,

business education and office administra-

Social, and Cultural Factors in the Reten-

tection

Orlando, Fla.,

in

Roger W.
tion,

had an

last November.

Ellis, associate professor

article titled

"Proper File Pro-

Goes Beyond a Shoe Box" pub-

"Arachnophobia," Mitrani Hall,

tion of Black

Haas Center for the
7 and 9:30 p.m.

Faculty, counselors, and administrators

east Pennsylvania Business Journal.

from seven colleges participated

article stressed the

Arts,

Male College Students."
in a panel

Bryan

lished in the

November issue of the NorthThe

importance of identify-

ing and protecting an organization's vital

discussion.

Saturday, Jan. 26

of

serving a two-year term as re-

is

documents.

gional chairperson for the Central Region

Winter

PADE,

shop on the same topic

Robert Peiffer, Protestant campus minhad two articles
"Josef Jungmann:
Laying a Foundation for Vatican 11" and
"Massey Shepherd, Jr.: Liturgical Renewal
pubhshed in
in the Episcopal Church"

College in LaPlume.

How Firm a Foundation

of

skills training at

Pennsylvania's affiliate of the

Keystone Mountain Park,

National Association of Developmental

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Educators.

Women's, men's
vs.

basketball

East Stroudsburg,

Bryan also conducted a follow-up workat Keystone Junior

6 and 8 p.m.

Mehdi Haririan,

Terry Oxiey,

ference of the Southern Economic Associa-

music, had an article

for the Arts,

p.m.

1

Monday, Jan. 28
Kehr Union, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 29
rolling.



tion of

Forum Meeting,
McCormick Forum, 3 p.m.

University

The Communique

The Case of Quota."
Reza Noubary,

associate professor of

A

newsletter for Bloomsburg Univer-

Better Blues,"

Kehr Union, 3 p.m.

mathematics and computer science, deliv-

publishes

ered a lecture on the "Application of Statis-

ments

tics to

Seismology" recently at Lehigh Uni-

Better Blues,"

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for the Arts,
7 and 9:30 p.m.

at

demic year and bi-weekly during the

summer months.
Please submit story ideas at least two

John Trathen, director of student activities and Kehr Union, had an article titled
"Renovation Improves Space Usage"

in

advance to The Communique,

Office of University Relations and

Bloomsburg, PA, 17815.

BU

is

committed

educational and

tion of College Unions-International last

ties for all

persons without regard to race,

ancestry, life style, affectional or sexual

won

third place for a sub-

mission on "Undergraduate Intern Managers" to the National Association of College

award was presented
last

to providing equal

employment opportuni-

color, religion, sex, age, national origin,

November.

meeting of

NACAS

at the

The
22nd annual

in

preference, handicap, Vietnam era status
veterans, or union membership.

The

university

is

additionally commit-

ted to affirmative action and will take

positive steps to provide such educational

and employment opportunities.

Nashville, Tenn.,
Editor: Kevin B. Engler

October.

Assistant Editor: Jo A.

DeMarco

Editorial Assistant: Chris

All winter sporting events listed are held in the

Nelson Field House.

Neil L,

Com-

munication, Bloomsburg University,

published in The Bulletin of the Associa-

Auxiliary Services' Incentive Awards.

"Mo'

and staff. The Communique
news of events and developBU each week through the aca-

sity faculty

Trathen also

"Mo'

in the spring edi-

The Clarinet.

weeks

Wednesday, Jan. 30

"Concertino for

Henry Spencer"

J.

"The Political Economy of
Economic Power of Japan and
the Large U.S. Trade Deficit" and "ExportShare Requirements and Unemployment:

Centennial Gymnasium,

9 to 11 p.m.

titled

Band by

the Rising

versity in Bethlehem.

Kayak

Clarinet and

assistant professor of

accepted for publication

two papers
"Arachnophobia," Mitrani Hall,

Night,

New Orleans, La., last Novem-

Haririan participated in a discussion of

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Comedy

associate professor of

ber.

Keystone Mountain Park,

Leaders of the Li-

:

Movement.

economics, attended the 60th annual contion held in

skills training at

Haas Center



turgical

Sunday, Jan. 27
Winter



ister,

Brown, assistant professor in

the

department of curriculum and foundations.

J.

Gaudreau

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
Contributing Writer:

Gwenn

E.

Wells

TheCOMMUNIQUE
A newsletter for faculty and staff at Bloomsburg University

January 31, 1991

Jones, an assistant professor of

commu-

11 faculty receive grant funding

nication disorders and special education,

for research, creative projects

was allotted $983.26 to conduct research on
the "Characteristics of Written Language of
Students With Mild Mental Retardation."

Eleven faculty members have received

istry,

was

allotted

$1,600 for "Testing

grant funding totaling $27,547 to conduct

Theories of Error Propagation Using Monte

research or other creative scholarly projects

Carlo Techniques."
Hallen, an assistant professor of chemis-

during the 1991 calendar year.

According

to Peter Kasvinsky, assistant

try,

was awarded $4,995

for

"A Compari-

vice president for graduate studies and re-

son of the Precipitation Chemistry Be-

search, the purpose of the grant

tween the Keystone Mountain Park

is

"to pro-

mote and support individual or joint research, or creative projects which will
contribute to scholarly growth" in the faculty member's specific discipline.
"The funding was made available as a
result of indirect costs recovered from state
and federal research and training awards to
the university," Kasvinsky said. "Continued increase

in grants activity will

help

ensure that more funding will be available
for faculty to conduct research

projects

in

Sullivan County and Bloomsburg Univer-



Columbia County
Effect of Elevation on Acid Deposition."
Hwang, an associate professor of acsity in

counting, received $1,500 to conduct "An
Interactive Investigation

and Comparison

of Accounting Principles, Ethics and Special

Topics for the Republic of China,

United States and People's Republic of

Kokoska, an associate professor of mathematics and computer science, was awarded
$3,000 for "The Statistical Analysis of
Cancer Chemoprevention Experiments."

LeMura, an assistant professor of health,
physical education and athletics, received
$5,000 for her study on "The Effect of
Resistive Training on Lipid Profiles in
College Age Males and Females."
Rawool, an assistant professor of communication disorders and special education, was allotted $4,990 to study the "Effect of Environmental Noise on Infants'
Auditory Sensitivity."

Rockwood, an

associate professor of

finance and business law, was awarded $450
for studying "Punitive

Damages: Are There

Continued on page 2

China."

and creative

on our campus."

Recipients of the university's "Research

and Creative Projects" grants are Thomas
Aleto, Dale Bertelson, Mariana Blackburn,

Christopher Hallen, Dennis
Sheila

Dove

Hwang and

Jones.

Other recipients include Stephen
Kokoska, Linda LeMura, Vishakha Rawool,

Bruce Rockwood and John Waggoner.
Aleto, an assistant professor of anthro-

pology, was awarded $1,280 for his project
titled

cated

"Punae-Inca Political Ties as Indi-

By Mortuary

Patterns at Ceibo

Grande."
Bertelson, an assistant professor of comPHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

munication studies, received $1,749 for
"Establishing a

Media Perspective For

Criticism."

Blackburn, an assistant professor of chem-

"A

ONE AND A TWO ..." — Student director Sondra Hubbard leads the recently

reestablished Bloomsburg University Gospel Choir in a

Martin Luther King Jr.

Day observance.

number during

See story on page

3.

last

week's

Communique January

2 The

31, 1991

CGA allots $25,000 to town for fire services;

Keystone Mountain Park

University contributions top $182,000

reservation information
Keystone Mountain Park, the

The Community Government Associa(CGA) at Bloomsburg University will

university's outdoor educational center

located 30 miles northwest of

Route 42 near Eagles Mere,
for class field studies

campus on
available

is

allocate $25, (XX)

and seminars,

and employee or

faculty or staff retreats,

tion

student training programs.

The park

swimming,

wooded

boating;

CGA

features a spring-fed lake

suitable for

fishing,

student reserve

its

President Joel Tolbert says town

officials

and

from

budget to help the Town of Bloomsburg
provide better fire services.
approached the university's

stu-

dent governing body with their request.

areas ideal for hiking,

"We agreed

and zoological

expeditions, and photography; and has

overnight accommodations for 27 people.

No

charge

departments

is

administered to university

who

use the

facilities or stay

overnight.

To
an

contribute

to

$25,000 from student reserve
funds

to help

ensure adequate

town and

fire protection for all

university buildings."
Robert Parrish

— Joel Tolbert

at

389-4115.

CGA
Husky Club

to host

bufTet before vtrestling

match

Benefield,

"The town wants

to

purchase a

new

fire

and they approached us (CGA)

manager of The Hotel Magee, and
Bloomsburg's Husky Club will cosponsor

$2(X),(XX),

a buffet dinner at 5:30 p.m., Friday, Feb.

tribute S25,0(X)

22, at the Nittany Lion Inn in State

to help ensure adequate fire protection for

College.

all

The event

will

be held prior

to the

7:30

pjn. wrestling match between Penn State

and Bloomsburg. Cost
tax

and

is

Si 7, including

by

ties,

the

Penn State

For reservations,

Andy Cannon

at

believes

Bloomsburg

ticket office.

389-4663, before Friday,

a safety factor," he stressed. "Most

town or on campus. The money CGA has
is

a smart decision

may

because improved services

According

Environmental documentary

fcH"

part-time students, he noted.

Robert Parrish, vice president for administration, says the university

tributions

town

its

— more than S

1

82,000



to the

for the purchase of firefighting and

emergencies
campus.

in

high-rise buildings on

"Since 1977, Bloomsburg University has

made an annual con-

tribution

to

the

Town of

Bloomsburg for fire and police
protection."

"Since 1977, Bloomsburg University has

life

some

help to

day."

to Trathen,

monies from

Bloomsburg for fire and police protection,"
he

said.

Act 86 of 1975 provides for the optional
contribution of funds from a state
university' s annual operating budget to local

municipalities for volunteer fire and ambu-

lance services, he added.

— Kevin

CGA's student reserve budget are accumu-

will

and

CGA have made substantial monetary con-

made an annual contribution to the Town of

save a student's

Feb. 15.

S55 per

Activities fees are

— Robert Parrish

CGA's contribution is a wise

agreed to contribute

Joy Bedosky or

call

Community

semester for full-time students and are pro-

activi-

of our students live in Bloomsburg, either
in

over from a previous

as costly as anticipated," he said.

town and university buildings."

"It's
for

agreed to con-

John Trathen, director of student

gratuity.

match have been reserved

"We

from student reserve funds

investment.

In addition, tickets to the wrestling

fans

for support," he said.

left

greater than expected and expenses are not

President

truck that costs in the neighborhood of

Richard Benefield, former general

"The funds are

school year and accumulate when income is

rescue equipment necessary for dealing with

inquire about reserving the park for

activity, call

from student Community Activities

fees.

rated

cross-country skiing, bird watching, field
studies, biological

lated

B. Engler

be televised in Pittsburgh
Bloomsburg's environmental video
documentary, "Everything

be aired

at

station

(Channel 13) in Pittsburgh



5,

WQED-TV

been generated

and

creative projects

sity."

Continued from page

tional costs not readily identifiable with a

1

Federal Constitutional Limitations? Should

particular project or activity, but neverthe-

There Be State Limitations?"
Waggoner, an assistant professor of

less are necessary to the university's gen-

faculty,

and students that classes will resume

p.m. (not 8 a.m.), Monday, April

to support research

creative projects throughout the univer-

Bailey defined indirect costs as "institu-

production center.

staff,

"We are very pleased that these funds have

grants for research,

a major

Mistake spotted in graduate,
undergraduate calendars
Registrar Ken Schnure reminds
at 6

11 faculty receive

will

11:30 p.m., Tuesday, March

on public broadcasting

PBS

You Do,"

eral operaticMi."

psychology, received $2,(XX) for studying

Included in this category are pro-rated

"Factors Influencing the Comprehension

costs of operating and maintaining build-

1,

grounds and equipment, depreciation
and

of Figurative Language."

ings,

costs, general departmental salaries

both the graduate and undergraduate

Peggy Bailey, director of grants, said
faculty and administrators "are to be highly

academic calendars.

commended"

following Spring Break.

Schnure said the mistake was made on

for generating indirect cost

funds for use toward research proposals.

expenses, and hbrary costs, she said.

— Kevin

B. Engler

The Communique January 31, 1991 3

Gospel Choir

Martin Luther King Jr. Day:

Campus celebrates

a 'man of peace'

Calls to emulate and surpass the contri-

butions of Martin Luther King
the

Jr.

greeted

Bloomsburg audience who came

to-

reestablished; gives

nominational clergy and lay readers and
selections

by the Ecumenical Folk Choir.

Bridges outlined several early childhood

gether last week to celebrate a man of peace

and educational experiences

under the ironic umbrella of war.

mind" and forged the character of Martin
Luther King Jr. He urged fellow professors
and students to recognize that they too "are

"Ifyou' re

committed to King,

that "fed the

performance
King Day

at

celebration
That old time gospel music

is

back

at

you need to be committed to
doing something to stop the
bombing ofpeople in the Middle

in the

Bloomsburg. The newly reestablished
Gospel Choir turned heads last week with a

classroom should be about commitment" to

well-received debut at the university's

follow in King's footsteps, stressed Bridges.

Martin Luther King

East."

To

organizers hope

— Bruce Bridges

committed to King, you need
to be committed to doing something to stop
"If you're

forming minds."

"What we do and what we say

understand King, he told the audience,

is to

understand that he

is

"the offspring of

it

Day

And

celebration.

was just

the

first

step to

a regular schedule of performances on and

a root that produced you and me."

off campus.

King "won only half the battle toward
brotherhood We must real ize the other half

action, sees the group's mission as broader

of his dream," said Trent Dennis, president

than singing gospel tunes.

.

George Mitchell,

director of affirmative

The group

is

the

of Black Cultural Society.

Bloomsburg

forging a musical bridge. "I see this as both

alumna Nichole Woodson, a member of the
event's planning committee, applauded
recent steps to reform the Gospel Choir and

a retention and recruitment tool," says

speaker at the university's well-attended

bombing of people in the Middle East,"
urged Bruce Bridges, visiting keynote
King Day Observance

in

Carver Hall

Auditorium.
Listeners need only "change a few words,

and alter a few sentences," to recognize that
King's then controversial 1964 speech

Vietnam War is still relevant
today, said Bridges. Host of cultural awareness seminar on a Durham, N.C., radio talk
show. Bridges also teaches at St.
Augustine's College and North Carolina

protesting the

add minority religious services geared to
needs of black students.
Such moves are evidence "we've created
a better place at Bloomsburg than

we had a

year ago," said Newson.

— Gwenn Evans Wells

Wells

is

a freelance writer

from Bloomsburg.

in the

Middle

I

"building friendships and having a sense of

belonging" at Bloomsburg, says Mitchell.

"We need

do everything we can

to

to help

our students" estabUsh these bonds and
graduate.
will travel to

Lock Haven

University Feb. 9 to participate in a "Gos-

Mitchell hopes the group will also perform
at high schools with

War
Bridges. He

Oppose

East,' " said

Campus activities geared to needs

pelrama" with choirs from other schools.

King were here today, he would

be speaking about 'Why

.

The choir

Gwenn Evans

State University in Raleigh.
"If Dr.

Mitchell

and interests of minority students "enhance
their comfort level" and are crucial to their

predominant Black

and Latino populations around the

the

state to

help attract minority students.

Open

paraphrased King's belief that the choice of

to all students regardless of race

military confrontation over further nego-

and religion, the choir also serves the uni-

"economics over human sub-

versity as an educational tool to help pro-

tiation puts

stance" and risks lives of both blacks and

mote

whites.

dents and employees.

the concept of pluralism

among

stu-

A popular speaker who has appeared at
Bloomsburg during African-American
History Month for the past two years.
Bridges took time out to comment on the
"healthy" university audience. The crowd
was four times the size of last year's turnout, said Roosevelt Newson, associatedean
of the College of Arts and Sciences,

"Black students really need to

have something

like this

so they

can say 'This was here for me'
instead of being alienated."

— Sondra Hubbard

who

called theevent"triumph for Bloomsburg,"

as well as for King.

A

Director
PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

highly applauded performance by the

university's

newly reorganized Gospel

mood

KING DAY SPEAKER

— Bruce Bridges

which also included brief scripture read-

of North Carolina addresses Carver Hall
audience during Martin Luther King Jr.

ings and prayers by a quartet of inter-de-

Day

Choir set the

for the annual event

observance.

Amy

Freeman and Sondra

Hubbard, student director, both share
Mitchell's belief in broader benefits of the
choir.

"Black students really need

something

like this so they

to

have

can say 'This

Continued on page 5

4 The Communique January 31, 1991

Writing deficiencies challenging teaching techniques
Note :
The following column by assistant editor
Jo DeMarco covers a discussion on "En-

home essay

couraging Writing Outside the English

For Dalton, "writing is the best measure
of some things I'm trying to teach." He
assigns one to two page reaction papers.
"Students write better on that kind of as-

reports.

signment," he said.

to identify problems. Getting students in-

Editor' s

Department," led by panelists: philosophy
professor Marjorie Clay; psychology pro-

Tom

fessor Jim Dalton; biology professor

K linger; and anthropology professor David

and urges them

test

When Klinger was in

Minderhout.

to

"make

connections between the content of the
course and their life."

school, he

empha-

collects them." His students keep field logs
which contain narrative accumulations of

data and observations and write formal

"Group reports allow students to
comment on each other's research and
writing, and to take a large body of information and synthesize it. Peer review helps
terested in the project is a problem, said
"/'

m constantly checking with stu-

dents, their

ongoing concerns. Most even-

Klinger.

an

was never a question of whether
you would write in a course, but how much."

improtant part of the learning process, they

Biology deals with great bodies ofinforma-

tually get caught

don't necessarily agree on which writing

tion.

assignments are best

discipline.

While

ments

all

four require writing assign-

in their classes

and

believe

it

is

use in class.

to

Clay posed the questions "Why do we

assume that English belongs to the English
Department?" and "Why should the appreciation of literature entail the special
ability to teach

someone

else to write?"

Clay requires her students
Last Thursday night,

I

to write

a take-

listened to

some

bad and some good news about "writing
across the curriculum."

The occasion was a

"Teach-in," sponsored by the university's

Curriculum Committee,

Forum.

If

in the

working for world peace, then you were

in

wrong place at 7:30.
The audience grew gradually to about 20

the

participants including faculty, administra-

member.

was a
gathering of concerned, dedicated, and
concomitantly frustrated people. They
and a lone

staff

talked about students
write,
skills,

who
who

who

It

don't like to

never acquired basic writing

Writing

eral.

is

is

crucial to (the learning

gives a "mandatory rewrite if a paper

paper rather than 'guerrilla raids on knowledge.' You can break the term paper into

below a certain grade," assigns six papers
a semester, grades them on from and con-

manageable

tent,

bits,

check points." His

dents keep daily journals

stu-

and "returns them

is

quickly."

and he randomly

plagiarism among students, minimal phara-

communications, education, physics, as well

phrasing, and sloppy citation.

as English.

They gener-

ally bemoaned the prevalence of poor gram-

mar and

All in

all, it could

evening. But

limited vocabularies.

it

have been an Excedrine

wasn't, because this was a

gathering of teachers, former and present,

"Why do I go through this tor-

who

care about students; intelligent, crea-

Why do I see the same mis-

tive,

well educated people

ture ?

takes over
the

and over again from

same student? Why does

the

assignment of the
semester not produce a paper
sixth writing

that is

markedly better than the

first? Why don't those long hours

spewing forth red-inked com-

tling daily to

remedy an

who

are wres-

which

affliction

seems of epidemic proportion.
It is an old truism that problems bring out
the best in people.

The writing deficiencies

impede so many of today's students are
challenging teaching techniques and meththat

ods

in

every discipline. Concerned teach-

ers, like those

assembled in the Fwum are
,

bringing their expertise to bear on the problem.

of paper yield a better return?

course content; verbalizing to students the

so stressed during essay examina-

Why don' t they learn to write?"

importance of organizational and commu-

They voiced

content and form; requiring students to

undermine the

true

page reaction papers intended to promote

comprehension of a specific topic and

paper that is markedly better than the

instrument

teachers told

how

increased class

cases, the classical term paper has

been replaced by of a myriad of one-to-two

fos-

how openhave given way to

increased class participation;

ended essay questions

highly structured and finely honed test
questions;
spiraling

how

they resist the pressure of

numbers

to drive

them toward the

multiple-choice format.
Several mentioned the commonality of

They are experimenting, reevaluating

nication skills; grading assignments on

measure

sizes impact their course syllabuses. In

ter

He

process)." Klinger uses the classic term

and even
questioned their effectiveness. "Why do I
go through this torture? Why do I see the
samemistakesover and over again from the
same student? Why does the sixth writing
assignment of the semester not produce a

some

and

to write"

"writing to learn," said Minderhout.

who

this test

The

curriculum are "learning

mentary over mountainous piles

tions that they

of

up in the process."
The two approaches to writing across the

struggle to organize course

material and synthesize research,

become

an integral part of my
Talking to students is ephem-

"Writing

McCormick

you were watching television or

grading papers or doing anything less than

tors,

sized, "It

their frustration

first?

Why don't those long hours spewing forth
red-inked commentary over mountainous
piles of paper yield a better

retmn?

Why

The problems and frustration came from

—from

manuals. They concur that writing
essential part of general education
integral part of

most disciplines

teachers of

philosophy, biology, anthropology, mass

is

an

and an

in the arts

and sciences, business, education, and health
sciences.

Some

teachers abhor the "guerrilla raids

on knowledge" and have even devised
ternative

ways

to salvage that

education, the term paper.

don't they learn to write?"

across the curriculum

rewrite papers, to keep journals and lab

al-

nemesis of

And on

occa-

sion, these stalwart individuals gather to

vent their frustration, share ideas, and
kindle their enthusiasm for the battle.

re-

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February

is

The popular local news program "Bloom
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of Mass Communications, it offers students
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viewers with the only truly local television
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LIVE! Friday nights at 6:30 p.m.
Taped replay at 9:00 p.m.

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9:00 and 10:00 p.m.

The

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Week

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12

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The Communique January 31, 1991 5

who has been teaching at the university for

Mass Communications professor says:

10 years.

News media has 'serious defiency'
when investigating causes, solutions
problems

to society's

Today's steadily weakening economy and

ongoing Middle East

more

journalists to

saw more courage than I expected," he
Upton Sinclair, whose chronicles of scandals in the
meat-packing industry earned him a repu"I

says, referring specifically to

crisis

could prompt

campaign

for social

tation as

A true muckraker not only

investigates

on

to deal with

specific incidents but goes

greater social issues, says Brasch, who adds

perhaps the greatest muckraker of

"You could see his moral indignasays Brasch. "He was not the most

the era.
tion,"

polished writer, but he believed in what he

of their tum-of-the-

thathistorically, journalists haveoftenbeen

was doing

century predecessors, the muckrakers, says

journalists of today."

a Bloomsburg University professor ofjour-

on the "cutting edge" of social movements.
The book is a study and analysis of pub-

nalism.

lications

change

in the tradition

Such moves would be a welcome change

and journalists

who went beyond

merely exposing corruption and greed

to

...

a trait that's lacking

in

many

Newspapers, says Brasch, played a secin the muckraking. The real

ondary role

magazines

were

leaders

such

as

from the news media's current "serious

mold public opinion during a sweeping era

"McClures',"whichpublishedIdaTart>eU's

deficiency" in investigating the causes and

of social, political, and economic reform

classic five-year investigation of

nearly 100 years ago.

Rockefeller and Standard Oil, and Cosmo-

Wal-

solutions to society's problems, says

John D.

new book Fore-

Brasch, a political activist and veteran

politan, source of a headline-grabbing se-

runners ofRevolution: Muckrakers and the

public affairs /investigative reporter, sees

ries attacking corruption in the U.S. Senate.

American Social Conscience. Brasch has
written more than 200 magazine articles
and 10 books, including a recently completed novel and a 600-page study on unionization of American journalists due out
in August. Most his writing focuses upon

the

ter

Brasch, author of the

social issues. In addition, he regularly writes
satire.

Published

last

October, the book over-

views the contributions

— and some ex-

cesses

's

— of muckraking

golden era, the

three decades beginning in 1880s.

A

final

book

as helping people to understand

the role of the

media and the necessity

social reform.

He

for

tation" and "me-first" attitudes of the 1980s

century.

when, says Brasch, students and professors

concern for grades as opposed to knowl-

magazine Mother Jones and the national

Continued from page 3

was here

for

me' instead of being

alien-

Hubbard, a junior psychology
major from Reading. "It's a chance to bring

ated," says

down boundaries I know

I

have felL"

The choir is not an entirely new entity on
campus.

A loosely organized student group

socialist

a job as opposed to doing something with

among

that job."

He

clerks taking notes.

Gwenn Evans Wells
from Bloomsburg.

is

a freelance writer

dent currently fund the choir, which re-

year.

ceives additional support, such as public-

formance, the turnout for the King Day

from the Black Cultural Society.

Today, pleased with the recent per-

activities,

and support from the university,

A minister's daughter who has pursued

she expresses hope the group will become

gospel music as an avocation for more than

"something big" at Bloomsburg. "We have

20 years. Amy Freeman travels from Lock
Haven to accompany, coach and instruct
the group in the rich musical tradition.
Though gospel music is rarely taught
formally, there

is

a lot to learn about this

music rooted

in the

slaves, says

Hubbard. "They sang these

experiences of African

songs to keep their hopes up, or to relay

ber of years, but periodically languished

Though

came

— Gwenn Evans Wells

several surprises for the California native

messages

to lack of leadership as singers

newspaper. In These Times, are

those following the tradition,

says that journalists without

Researching the muckrakers uncovered

had been singing gospel music for a num-

due

Anderson, and publications such as the

edge, and even greater concern for getting

ity,

performance at
King Day celebration

few true muckrakRalph Nader, Jack

there are very

ers left, says Brasch.

more than

reestablished; gives

Today

went for personal gain rather than social
gain." Brasch says, 'There's this huge

modem investigative reporting, including a

Gospel Choir

some of

be a timely antidote for the "business orien-

opinions and who seek to "write safely" no

muckraking rooted in
the activism of the 1960s and early 1970s.

vitriolic writing,

which eventually helped lead to the decline
of muckraking after the first decade of the

says that journalists can

chapter tracks the journalistic tradition to

brief reflowering of

But along with some very good reporting

came some very

to

each other while in the

fields."

similar to songs heard in white

Christian churches, gospel music

and went. Mitchell, Hubbard and others

teristically

saw a need to hire a professional director to
provide continuity and stability.
The Campus-Wide Committee on Human Relations and the Office of the Presi-

feeling, she says.

is

charac-

more upbeat and sung with more

Inspired by her mother,

choir at the family's

who

the Concert Choir, the

and the Husky Singers.

A Cappella Choir
Now we have sup-

port for the Gospel Choir as well."

20 members meet Fridays at 6
room G-20 of Science Hall to sing.

Fifteen to

p.m. in

The group needs all the vocalists it can get,
says Hubbard, pointing out that the only

you want to sing and
you keep an open mind. "We're singing for
the Lord," she explains. "These songs are

prerequisites are that

meant to glorify His name. Everything after
that

comes second."

— Gwenn Evans Wells

directs the

hometown church,

Hubbard took over student directorship last

Gwenn Evans

Wells

from Bloomsburg.

is

a freelance writer

6 The Communique January 31, 1991

Calendar

Campus Notes

D. Stalnaker of Southwest Texas State Uni-

Lawrence B.

published

versity titled "Marital Happiness: Implication for

Friday, Feb. 1

lish,

read a paper titled "Comparative Nar-

rative:

Black History Month begins

Fuller, professor of Eng-

of Teachers of English

"Focus on Writing Poetry" with
Nikki Giovanni, McCormick Forum,
9 a.m.

in Atlanta,

His paper recounts the content and meth-

Bloomsburg during the 1987
semester, in which students examined

Fuller led at

narrative presented in different media.

"Mo'

Better Blues,"

In addition, he participated in the delib-

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for the Arts,

7 and 9:30 p.m.

erations of the Council's

Commission on

Media. This year, he will serve as editor of
the newsletter for the Council's

Wrestling vs. West Virginia, 7:30 p.m.

on Media

Saturday, Feb. 2

that

was

a recent issue of the Journal of

Consumer Studies and Home Economics.
Vishakha

W. Rawool, assistant profes-

sor of communication disorders and special

Ga.

odology of a humanities honors seminar
fall

in

Jesus Across the Centuries," at the

annual convention of the National Council

Provost's Lecture Series workshop:

Dual Career Couples"

Assembly

Arts.

education, presented three research papers

annual convention of the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association
held recently in Seattle, Wash.
The papers are titled "Homo-phasic Versus Anti-phasic Stimuli and Predicted
Versus Observed Binaural ABRs," "Wave

at the

V

Latency Intensity Function of

ABR

in

Simulated Hearing Impairment," and
"Simulation of the Effects of High Frequency Hearing Impairment in Noise."

Mehdi Razzaghi, associate professor of

In addition, she represented the audiol-

mathematics and computer science, had an

ogy and speech pathology graduate programs at an information table set up at the

Rappelling at Mocanaqua,

article titled

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Means When Sample

"A Note on Testing Equality of
Sizes are Random

convention.

with Application" accepted for publication

Cross country ski weekend at

Wayne Anderson, professor and chair-

in the Biometrical Journal.

Keystone Mountain Park

person of chemistry, co-authored an

William Milheim, an associate profesWrestling vs. Pittsburgh, 2 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 3

Transition Metal Species" published re-

"MultiMedia

cently in \htlnternational Journal of Quan-

in the

Classroom:

It

Really

Effectively" at the second an-

Doylestown.

Carol Barnett, assistant director of ca-

was elected

tic

Association for School, College, and

Week begins
John Trathen, director of student activiand Kehr Union, had an article titled
"Frozen Food Generates Additional Income
ties

Men's basketball
Concordia, 7:30 p.m.

and Traffic

for Store!"

pubUshed recently

in the College Services Administration,

Tuesday, Feb. 5

a

journal of the National Association of

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Please submit story ideas at least two

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advance to The Communique,

Office of University Relations and

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munication, Bloomsburg University,

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educational and

College Auxiliary Services.

Mary K.

Wednesday, Feb. 6

ties for all

Ericksen, associate professor

of marketing and management, was a re-

viewer at a conference for the Association

Consumer Research held
New York City.
for

"Ghost," Kehr Union, 3 p.m.

recently in

In addition, she served as a discussant
vs.

newsletter for Bloomsburg Univer-

employment opportuni-

persons without regard to race,

color, religion, sex, age, national origin,

to 11 p.m.

Women's and Men's

A

sity faculty

publishes

University Staffing.
Safety Awareness

The Communique

secretary to

the board of directors of the Middle Atlan-

Monday, Feb. 4

9

tum Chemistry.

nual MultiMedia in Education conference

reer development,

p.m.

vs.

Overlap Model for Second-Row

ential

Better Blues,"

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for the Arts,
1

article

Intermediate Neglect of Differ-

sor in the Institute for Interactive Technolo-

in

"Mo'

"An

gies, recently delivereda presentation titled

Can Work
Caving, Simon Hall, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

titled

basketball

Kutztown, 6 and 8 p.m.

All winter sporting events listed are held in the
Nelson Field House.

and reviewer

at the

Southern Marketing

ancestry, life style, affectional or sexual

preference, handicap,

Viemam

The

university

is

additionally commit-

ted to affirmaQve action and will take

positive steps to provide such educational

and employment opportunities.
Editor: Kevin B. Engler

Association conference held recently in

Assistant Editor: Jo A.

Orlando, Fla.

Editorial Assistant: Chris

S he also co-authored an article with Sylvia

era status

veterans, or union membership.

DeMarco
J.

Gaudreau

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
Contributing Writer: Gwenn E. Wells

n^eCOMMUNlQUE
A newsletter for faculty and staff at Bloomsburg University

V

)

.

February

7,

1991

State System's Priorities document stresses
^students' total education experience'
Report

supplement, not supplant'
already underway on campus

'will

initiatives

"We
fits

believe the document

well into our planning

efforts at

of Higher Education in the 90s, and places major emphasis on
liberal education

President

and faculty professional development, drew mostly

favorable responses from the academic

community

last

Bloomsburg."

— Harry Ausprich

A report that prioritizes goals and objectives for the State System

week.

"We want to ensure that the students' total education experience,
inside

and outside the classroom, makes them more

liberally

educated," said Emily Hannah, vice chancellor of academic affairs
for the State

S yslem. "If I could have one hope for the impact of this

document, every individual faculty and

staff

member would be

busy developing a personal development plan."

Hannah, one of five panelists

who

'If I

could have one hope

for the impact of this

document, every individual

discussed the recently pro-

duced State System Priorities document

in

Carver Hall Audito-

was created to help the System's 14 universities prepare students to live and work in the 21st century.
Hannah said the document emphasizes liberal education as the
primary and appropriate goal of a public university. "The important
rium, said the publication

faculty

and staff member

would be busy developing a
personal development plan."

— Emily Hannah

Vice Chancellor,

SSHE

role of a public institution is to provide a liberal education to the

and this document asserts that role strongly," she said.
"The report also makes clear that our general education curricula
are not synonymous or conducive to liberal education."
In addition, Hannah said she was very interested in creative ideas
relating to personnel development that would "cause our universicitizenry,

ties to

become

different places

by the year 2,000."

But she reminded the audience that Act 188 of 1982 empowers
Chancellor James H.

McCormick with conducting comprehensive

planning for the State System. "The enabling legislation vests the
chancellor with the responsibility for comprehensive planning for
the System,

and specifically with the responsibility

for setting

priorities," she said.

Speaking
istrators

to the large gathering

on a State System Planning Commission," he
Advancement
John Walker served as a member of the commission. "The Planning
Commission was convened to perform an environmental scan to
study national and state-wide issues and trends dealing with higher
education, and to review the role and the status of our System
stituencies to serve

noted, adding that Vice President for University

universities."

Ausprich said the Planning Commission invited outside consultants to share national ideas and trends, and later
priorities for the State

of strengthening the
of faculty, students, and admin-

who attended the discussion, Bloomsburg President Harry
how and why the document was

Ausprich gave a brief overview on

put together. "In 1989,ChancellorMcCormickinvited 14 outstanding individuals representing various university interests and con-

education."

The

that focus

recommended

on "our primary mission

Commonwealth and providing

final

Board of Governors

System

excellence in

document, he added, was approved by the

last

October.

Ausprich echoed McCormick' s intent for the document. "The
Priorities document will supplement, not supplant plans

and initia-

Continued on page 2

2 The

Communique February

7,

1991

Priorities

"We need to do some consensus
building.

Continued from page

1

will

Bloomsburg and other System universities," he said, adding university students and employees must consider how some of the issues in the report apply to planning
endeavors at the institution. 'The purpose of this meeting is to
initiate a university-wide discussion of the ideas and recommendations in the Priorities document We believe the document fits well
lives already

underway

agree that these are the things that
are going to be good for our

System and our campus."

— Professor Brian Johnson
Geology and Earth Science

Bloomsburg."

Brian Johnson, professor of geology and earth science, said he

"We should give

found Priorities to be a "thought provoking" and "very ambitious"

curricula, to exercise origirudity in

of the System, and the university, might be in a few years," he said.

found 28 recommendations, plus numerous sub-sections, and

teaching, to foster a learning
atmosphere for students outside the

I

I was at a smorgasbord. I think we need to do
some picking and choosing to prioritize these recommendations.
"We need to do some consensus building," Johnson added. 'The
recommendations will be much more successful if we can somehow come together and agree that these are the things that are going
to be good for our System and our campus."
Johnson said he "philosophically agrees" with the recommenda-

got the feeling that

tion to

many

research institutions across the nation."

agreed with Hannah that "a liberal education

community

one

that

— Rafey Habib
Assistant Professor of English

"Pay attention

He

give them

Johnson suggested

tertiary objective.

"However," he

that public service should
said,



be a

"we should recognize

we have available and what we can

contribute to the community.

The community

benefits

We

to grow at
Bloomsburg by sharing and
learning from each other."
Barbara Barnes, administrative

Aid,

and a non-traditional student
at

Bloomsburg.

from the

"We need to more

and students do, and our faculty and students
benefit from working in the 'laboratory' of the community."
Rafey Habib, assistant professor of English, voiced concern
about the document by asking two questions: "Should the definition
of scholarship be broadened?" and "How can academic standards
be maintained and improved?"
Habib offered the following remedies as possible answers to
those questions: "The horizons of scholarship should be widened to
things our faculty

include innovative teaching, involvement in the
software,

and applying knowledge

arts,

in the real world.

to

actively strive

interweave cultural, social, and

educational equity into the

curriculum of each departmental
major.

It is

our responsibility

to

incorporate respect for individual

and

cultural differences,

and an

appreciation of diversity."
Betty D. Allamong, Provost and



developing

We

and

have

assistant in the Office of Financial

the

opportunities and benefits that

what they need.

wonderful opportunities

I

benefit."

In addition,

to non-traditional

students, assess their needs,

a very important

is

interest in the

university."

hope we can embrace. I believe in a strong
education, and I can't think of one discipline that won't

objective,
liberal

classroom, and to promote

broaden faculty scholarship, but noted that the issue is being

debated "at

greater

incentives to our faculty to update

report 'The document allows us to fantasize about what the future

"I

if we

can somehow come together and

at

into our planning efforts at

The recommendations

be much more successful

Vice President for Academic Affairs

should

give greater incentives to our faculty to update curricula, to exercise
originality in teaching, to foster a learning

outside the classroom, and to promote

atmosphere for students

community

university.

They

are escalating on American campuses."

Barbara Barnes, administrative assistant

in the

Office of Finan-

Aid and a non-traditional student, applauded the challenges
document "Being a non-traditional student at
Bloomsburg for the past 10 years, 1 applaud the recommendation

cial

"We also need to recall that one role of traditional scholarship is
to

the past

interest in the

keep the professor abreast of new developments," Habib added.

outlined in the

"Curricula which are innovative and adapted to social needs cannot

that we 'pay attention to non-traditional students, assess their needs,

grow on

and give them what they need. I greatly applaud a liberal education.
As a woman, 1 agree with the document's recommendation to incor-

sity

the swale of outdated knowledge. Moreover, our univer-

mission statement calls for an enhancement of our profile in

'

both the academic world and the community."

porate contributions from

Habib supported the recommendation to initiate a system of
student involvement in teaching and research. Pointing to a grow-

lum."

women and minorities across the curricu-

In addition, Barnes stressed,

"We have wonderful opportunities

"Given the projected dechne in Pennsylvania high school graduates

grow at Bloomsburg by sharing and learning from each other. As
Samuel Betances who spoke here last fall, said, 'It starts with you.

we should use this opportunity to diversify

Betty D. Allamong, provost and vice president for academic

ing need to diversify the student

body

in the State

System, he said,

to

'

over the next five years,

our student population. Racism and anti-Semitism are not things of

,

Continued on page 3

The Communique February

3

7, 1991

Poet extolls power of education:

'We expect a little
more from you
(students) because

you've been given a
little more'
Poet Nikki Giovanni gave her
Bloomsburg audience some generous gifts
last week
poetry, good humor and optimism for the 2Ist century. "Optimism is
logical. If we're going to despair, what is
the point of coming together?," the prolific
author and civil rights advocate told students and faculty in the crowded Carver



know that we are a better people than
what we appear to be. We have learned to
transcend those who pull us down," she
"1

said. Extolling the power of an

the age of information,

education in

"We

are our only hope.

expect a

more from you be-

little

cause you've been given a little more," said
Giovanni,

who

teaches at Virginia Poly-

technic Institute

and State University

in

Blacksburg. "If you're choosing to be here,

"Happiness comes from what you give,
I

try to

be as generous

with myself as I can," she said. Speaking at
the first of a series of Provost's Lectures

be different than when I was 25 and carefree. I was never as humorless as I was

son

presented."

civilian in a global war."

But she is

Ironically, she admits

she said, imploring her audience to "accept

other. "But, she asked, "Is

we wait on a tragedy to be beautiful? Can't
we once get that in front?"

human

being.

It is

person in the eye.

that

some

is

it

is

to

painful to look a

less

child

that

It is

be a

home-

painful to

A

know

going to be hungry.

We

go beyond that pain."
Sharply witty and sometimes whimsical,

need

message with the

tions

on the war

the next century.

biting one-

live together

comic. But her reflec-

in the

frequent references to the popular

on earth so we can

System and

its

universities

need to

"inter-

that the

change occupations seven times during

for an individual to

persuasively,

Allamong said she "heartily endorses" the teacher-scholar model
all State System universities.

his

"We are historically teachers colleges

have the same occupation

.

.

.

there always has been

an emphasis on good teaching," she said. "But never before have we

The

universities in the State

efforts

on the betterment of

System face "very special

chal-

lenges," said Allamong. "During the 90s, approximately 27 percent

Quoting James Cook, president of Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Va., Allamong said,

in

"A liberal education, combined with

specific occupational skills, is the best recipe for success in

The

more responsibility"

State

System and

its

universities

must

to fulfill the obligations for providing a

education in every departmental major, she said.

"We need to more actively

strive to interweave cultural, social,

and educational equity into the curriculum of each departmental
It is

be

as being appropriate to

for a lifetime."

major.

in fact

galaxy."

and repeatedly communicated," she added.

teaching and learning."

liberal

in the

— Gwenn Evans Wells

Middle East made a

been more directed to concentrate our

"take

in

We need to be prepared to

prepared to live together

graphic mobility, and marriage and family patterns accentuate why

future job markets."

"We face not

only global, but also galactic challenges

Giovanni, poet-philosopher, frequently
liners of a stand-up

not foolish that

"Star Trek" television series.

to

delivers her

it

self-confessed "Trekkie," Giovanni

made

or her lifetime," said Allamong. "Changes in technology, geo-

some

trag-

and embrace the agony

from the Bureau of Labor recently claimed

no longer realistic

"any basic

edy" will bring people together to help each

education into each academic major.

typical individual will

it's

no such thing as a

is

"The imperative of social justice must be widely,

affairs, said the State

"Statistics

Atlanta, Ga. "There

passionate in her demands

still

Continued from page 2

liberal

,

who is attending Morehouse College in

for socialjustice. "Planet Earth needs help,"

Priorities

weave"

'This is potentially a global war," warned

Giovanni who talked about her 21-year-old

you have an obligation."
not what you take.

and somber introduction to her talk

here.

she confessed, "Sanity requires that at 47

Giovanni repeat-

edly stressed to the students in the audi-

"You

chilling

with experience and sensitivity. Described
early in her career as a revolutionary poet,

Hall auditorium.

ence,

Giovanni has richly mellowed

this spring,

our responsibility to incorporate respect for individual

and cultural differences, and an appreciation of diversity.

of the current State System faculty are likely to

retire,

and another

10 percent or more will choose to relocate. There will be greater
competition as

we try

to recruit those

new young graduates

to

our

campuses.

"We

will

need

to

work together and be more

creative in the

policies that will provide incentives in our hiring,
strategies for retaining

and developing new

and develop

faculty," she added.

"Indeed, these are but a few of our challenges," Allamong noted.

"But

I

believe there are opportunities as well."

— Kevin

B. Engler

4 The Communique February

7,

1991

Calendar

Campus Notes

Vishakha

W. Rawool, assistant profes-

sor of communication disorders and special

education, presented a research paper on a

"Simulation of the Effects of High Fre-

Friday, Feb. 8
Professor

•"Ghost," Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

•"Rocky Horror Picture Show,"
Centennial Gym, midnight

Saturday, Feb. 9

— Caving, Simon

tant professor

assis-

Dale Sultzbaugh of sociol-

ogy and social welfare presented a paper
titled "Aging Problems in Asia" at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Policy, Research, and Development in the Third World recently in
Mexico City. Their abstract appeared in the

7 and 9:30 p.m.

•QUEST

Chang Shub Roh and

Hall,

Book of Abstracts.
Sultzbaugh served as the session discuss-

association's

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

•Men's,Women's swimming/diving
West Chester, 1 p.m.

vs.

•Wrestling vs. Cleveland State, 2 p.m.

Dead Night:
Homel Alaniz Band, Kehr Union,
•Grateful

9 p.m.

ant

on "Informal Forces

in

Economic and

— Cross country

Ann

— Mark

Stokes, Carver Hall Auditorium,

2:30 p.m.
•Student Recital

and

Alternative Futures.

Jelinek and

— Daniel Goetz,

Noise" at a recent convention of the Acoustical

Society of America in San Diego,

Calif.

JoAnne S. Growney, professor of mathematics and computer science, presented a

paper

titled

"Mathematics and Poetry"

Mathematical Society and the Mathemati-

America recently

in

San

Francisco, Calif.

She also participated

in

a mini-course

program on "Learning Abstract Algebra by
Programming in ISETL" and attended a

MAP telecourse in college algebra.

marketing, chaired a session on "Economics in

Management and Marketing"

at the

Linda LeMura,

assistant professor of

and athletics,
"Calcium and Iron

annual international convention of Con-

health, physical education

gress of Political Economists recently in

had an

Boston, Mass.

Deficiencies in Female Athletes" accepted

He also presented a research paper titled
"Marketing Effectiveness and Sectoral
Differential Responsiveness" at the COPE

article titled

for publication in the Journal of Applied

Research.

convention.

•Women's, Men's basketball
vs. Mansfield, 6 and 8 p.m.
•Film Fest
"Sparkle" and
"A Dry White Season," Mitrani
Haas Center, 7 p.m.

Eileen Astor-Stetson, and Connie Schick
Hall,

Tuesday, Feb. 12
•Film Fest

— "A Dry White Season" and

"Sparkle," Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

7 p.m.

•QUEST

— Kayak

Centennial

Gym, 9

The Communique

Psychology professors Brett L. Beck,



rolling.

to 11 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 13

A

presented a paper titled "Crossing the Desk:

Training Undergraduate Psychology

Ma-

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

faculty and staff.

The Communique publishes

jors as Instructors" at the National Institute

news of events and developments at BU each
week through the academic year and bi-weekly

on the Teaching of Psychology conference

during the

Sl Petersburg Beach, Fla.
Beck presented two additional papers
titled "Does the Minor Matter to the Major?: More Tales from Psychology Baccalaureates" and "What Good is a Bachelor's
Degree in Psychology?: Views from
Alumni."

summer months.

Please submit story ideas at least two weeks

recently in

in

advance to The Convnuniqui, Office of

University Relations and Commimication,

Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
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BU is committed to providing equal educational

and employment opportunities for

all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

•"Die Hard 2," Kehr Union, 3 p.m.;
•"Die Hard 2," Mitrani Hall,

Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

February is
Black History Month

Reza Noubary,

associate professor of

Nelson Field House.

Vietnam era

status veterans, or

union

mem-

bership.

mathematics and computer science, had a

The

university is additionally committed

paper titled "A Method for Parameter Esti-

to affirmative action and will

mation of Non-linear Regression with

steps to provide such educational

Autocorrelated Errors" recently published
in

Communications

in Statistics, Theory,

and Methods.
The paper presents a new method
All winter sporting events listed are held in the

at

American

meeting of the advisory board for a CO-

Salim Qureshi, associate professor of

Carver Hall Auditorium, 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 11

Frequency

cal Assocation of

at Crystal

•Faculty Recital

Low

Components in the Presence of Background

Roh's article, "A Reconceptualization of
Development and Its Possible Application
to the Regional Development of Asia and

skiing

Lakes, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
•"Ghost," Kehr Union, 1 p.m.
•Wrestling vs. Army, 2 p.m.

Incorporating Filtering of

the joint annual meetings of the

Southeast Asia," has appeared in Allied

•QUEST

Noise and

in

Estimation of the Effects of Hearing Aids

Political Development in the Third World."

Publishers International Development

Sunday, Feb. 10

quency Hearing Impairment

estimation of time series with non-linear
trends and stationary residuals.

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and em-

ployment opportunities.
Editor: Kevin B. Engler

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r

TheCOMMUNIOUE
A newsletter for faculty and staff at Bloomsburg University

February 14, 1991

Bloomsburg group considers System-wide
proposal on community college transfers
Cooper pointed out

many commuwho apply for

of the universities in the State

concern," he said. Besides Cooper, other

System of Higher Education and seven

members of the study group include Pro-

nity college transfer students

Pennsylvania public community colleges

vost Betty D. Allamong, marketing and

admission to a specific academic discipline

a proposed transfer and articulation

management professor Charles Chapman,

at

would leave

biology and allied health sciences profes-

average (CPA) increase or decrease after

"flexibihty for receiving institutions

sor James Cole, assistant vice president for

transferring to the four- year institution. "If

Tom

graduate studies and research Peter

Cooper, dean of enrollment management at

Kasvinsky, and curriculum and founda-

we assess CPAs of transfer students equally
to those of our own students who seek

Bloomsburg University.
At a hearing in Kehr Union last week.
Cooper told a Denver, Colo., consulting

William

acceptance into the same academic major,

O'Bruba.

we may be treating some students unfairly,"

Cooper noted the proposed "common
core" of no less than 30 and no more than
42 credit hours of general education courses

he

If half

ratify

pohcy document this spring,
little

it

to assess a student's ability," says

some of

firm that developed the proposal,

the "general standards" listed in the docu-

ment were not conducive to the university's
general education requirements. "The proposal is silent on the transfer of grades and
quality points and we believe this matter
deserves a definitive statement," he said.
Last year, commissions representing the

tions department chairperson

"is considerably less than the

we

54 credits

Bloomsburg

that

will find their grade point

said. "In other

words, a 2.5

CPA

in

similar courses at a community college might

not have been a 2.5

CPA

at

Bloomsburg,

and vice versa."

require" in general education for

Robert Yori of the accounting depart-

our four- year degree programs. "The lower

ment, told the consultant team he could use

range of the proposed "core" would pre-

some

vent transfers from completing a four- year

don't understand the problem," he said. "As

that

clarification

on

this issue.

"Perhaps

I

Continued on page 2

degree in two years," he said.

14 State System universities and 13 public

community colleges jointly sought outside
assistance in creating a policy that would
deal with the transfer and articulation issue
in Pennsylvania.
ter and

Augenblick,

Van De Wa-

Associates ( A VA) of Denver, Colo.,

a consulting firm that assists policy and

management

leaders in education,

lected to study reports

on the

was

transfer

se-

and

articulation issue submitted by each institution last fall,
tional study

conduct hearings with

groups



institu-

consisting of faculty

and administrators from both sectors

— and

develop a transfer and articulation policy

by the 27 institutions.
Cooper complimented the consultants for

for ratification

"Our study group
preliminary findings were very
their efforts.

felt

your

accurate,

however, there are some areas that cause us

LISTENING

— Augenblick, VanDe Water and

Denver, Colo.,

an open hearing

last

Associates, educational consultantsfrom

members of Bloomsburg' s
week in Kehr Union.

listen to

transfer

and articulation study during

2 The Communique February 14, 1991

"If

we

assess

CPAs

students equally to

of transfer
those of our own

who seek acceptance into
same academic major, we may

"Fm
this.

not sure

why we're doing

Maybe the State System univerand

community colleges

"I see the

end

result of problems

that occur during the transfer proc-

see

on the faces of both

students

sities

the

ought to sit down at a common place

students and their parents when they

what both

down with me to discuss a transand believe me, it's a very
fer

be treating some students unfairly."

the

once a year

to discuss

sectors are doing."

ess. I

— Robert Yori

Dean, Enrollment Management

Chairperson, Accounting Department

the

sit

.

.

— Tom Cooper

it

.

difficult process."

— William O'Bruba

Chairperson, Curriculum

& Foundations

Yori noted "a better solution" to the trans-

must comply with accreditation standards
enforced by Pennsylvania's Department of

chairperson of the accounting department

"Maybe the
State System universities and the community colleges ought to sit down at a common

have evaluated com-

place once a year to discuss what both

general education courses that are recom-

sectors are doing," he said.

mended or required by PDE," he said.
"Sometimes these courses are simply not
available at the community colleges, and
I'm not sure of the ramifications we'd face

Transfers

fer problem should be pursued.

Continued from page
for the past 10 years,

I

1

munity college transfer students' transcripts
.

probably in the neighborhood of 50 to

.

.

1

00 a year.

seeing that many students
we must be accepting a lot

If I'm

each year, then

Yori challenged the accusations of some

community college personnel that fouryear institutions do not accept transfer
from

of some community colpersonnel
thatfour-year inlege
tions

of transfer students."

credits

Yori challenged the accusa-

their schools.

"We

normally

stitutions

do not accept transfer

he

credits from their schools.

Yori said he does not believe a transfer

and articulation policy
not sure

necessary. "I'm

why we're doing

"I've heard

some of

leges say they
to

is

want

the

this,"

he

community

said.

col-

their students' credits

be accepted at four-year institutions

and they've also said they want

.

,

their stu-

who

has

O

'

regula-

Bruba, like Cooper, is concerned about

CPA

issue. "In

secondary education,

"My concern is ... are we going to assure

foundations since 1983, has conducted nu-

colleges are the

merous transfer evaluations atBloomsburg.
He claims the development of a statewide
transfer and articulation policy involves
"time and money" for students and their
parents. "I see the end result of problems

taught here?"

said. "I see

two opposing views,"
Yori added. "The fact that Bloomsburg
might accept 30 or 40 common credits does

students and their parents

additional years."

comply with those

that courses transferring

degree in just two more years.

complete the baccalaureate program in two

didn't

chaired the department of curriculum and

that occur during the transfer process,"

not guarantee that the transfer student will

we

tions."

we require a 2.5 to enter our program and to

dents to be able to finish the bachelor's

"I think those are

if

stay in our program," he said.

Like Yori, William O'Bruba,

said.

"For example, there are certain types of

the

accept 60 to 64 transfer credits from those
institutions,"

Education and other accrediting agencies.

down

with

it

on the faces of both the

when

me to discuss a transfer

believe me,

it's

he

.

.

from community

as the courses being

In addition to the meeting atBloomsburg,

the consultants held hearings at Allegheny

County Community College in Pittsburgh
and West Chester University near Philadelphia last week. They will evaluate feedback
received from State System and commu-

sit

nity college faculty and administrators, and

and

work to establish a policy they hope will be

they
.

same

a very difficult process."

O'Bruba emphasized that certain baccalaureate degree programs, such as
Bloomsburg 's secondary education major,

agreeable to

all

27

institutions.

document
completion by March 1

The

final

is

scheduled for

— Kevin B.Engler

The Communique February

QUEST to sponsor trip

Spring enrollment

to Catskill

QUEST,

totals 7,227

TV monitors to serve as

Mountains

electronic message centers

the university's outdoor adventure

program, will sponsor a weekend

Enrollment at Bloomsburg for the current spring semester has increased

by

less

than two percent over a year ago.

announced

Official figures

week

trip to

New

York's Catskill Mountains from Friday, Feb. 22,
to

Sunday, Feb. 24.

A pre-trip meeting

will

be

equivalency (FTE) enrollment fi-om 6,281
students last year to 6,391 this spring.

on videotape

dean of enrollment management. "Our goal
students, or a 1.78 percent

increase over spring '90.

We came in three

(FTE) students

our goal."

The

less than

university has a total headcount of

7,227 students, 128 more than last year.

Headcount figures include an increase of
202 undergraduates, 194 degree-seeking
and eight non-degree students.
Graduate enrollment totals 592 students
this spring, down from last year's count of
666.

— Kevin B. Engler

in

tape

is

available

staff in the

upon request from

faculty

and

Development solicits
memorial scholarship donations
Faculty and staff who would like to make
donation to an established faculty memorial
scholarship

may do

so through the Faculty and

Staff for Excellence campaign.

The

specific

scholarship should be written on the pledge and
gift

form. Scholarships include: Ellen Barker,

psychology; Eloise Hippensteel, nursing; Russ

is

United

-

Way Campaign.

football;

Helen Robertson, nursing;

now available to faculty and staff through the

Learning Resources Center, according to

Tom

Joseph, director of TV and Radio Programs and
Services. Future editions of the

Your generosity and caring, the lead-

on

the

message

McCormick Human
ently in operation.
that

center,

he

said.

monitor, located in the lobby of
Services Center,

is

pres-

Aimouncements can be seen

BUTV, viewed

monitor and over

by

Since

this

information

is

fed to cable televi-

sion systems, person-to-person messages would

not be appropriate, he said.
Faculty and staff may post a brief message by

389-4590 or send a written copy of your
message to the TV and Radio Programs and
Services Office, Room 1244 of the McCormick

Human

Services Center.

For more information,

Programs and Services

at

call

TV

and Radio

389-4002.

Emory W. Rang, business education; Robert

conferences titled "Macintosh in the Classroom"

who

One

Houk, wrestling; Elton Hunsigner, residence

Macintosh videotapes available
The first in a series of Apple Computer video

SECA

cultural or

calling

Thompson, English. For more information,
contact the Development Office at 389-4128.

very special thank you to all

for posting

on

Learning Resources Center.

to faculty, staff

A

and schedule changes,

athletic events, or other pertinent information

Walter Rygiel, business education; and Louis

contributed to the 1990-91

community

Faculty, staff, and non-profit

22,000 area homes via local cable television.

Redman,

from the President

Joseph, director of

TV and Radio Programs and Services.

ings, closings

LRC

The campus-wide discussion of the State
System's Priorities document was videotaped
by TV and Radio Programs and Services. The

life;

A message

Tom

ing machine and leave information about meet-

Priorities discussion

"We are right on line with our spring '9
enrollment projections," said Tom Cooper,

message

will serve as electronic

centers, according to

groups will soon be able to call a special answer-

information, call 389-4323 or 389-4466.

indicate an increase in full-time

was 6,394 FTE

Television monitors placed in selected cam-

pus locations

held at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 20. For more

earlier this

14, 1991 3

also be recorded

Apple series will

'Brown Bag'

session scheduled
The Teaching and Learning Enhancement

Committee will sponsor a "brown bag" session
from noon to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 27, in the
Kehr Union Coffeehouse.
The session, titled "What's Bugging You," is
for faculty to tell what is interfering with their
teaching effectiveness and to offer strategies for

coping with these problems.
Peter Venuto, professor of marketing and

management,

will serve as the facilitator.

For more information, contact Julie Weitz

389-4449 or Carol Venuto

and made available.

at

at

389^733.

ership of Mr. Art McDonnell, coordi-

nator ofBloomsburg' s SECA campaign,

and

the assistance

of Ms. Sue

Bodman

made 1990 a very good year.
Once again, Bloomsburg University
has attained a leading position in the
State System of

Higher Education's

SECA campaign

in total giving.

$30,708

is

the second highest

ever pledged in our

and our

level

SECA

The
amount

campaign,

which

of participation,

exceeded 47 percent,

is

also the second

highest ever achieved.

Your continued commitment
ture university

campaigns

is

to fu-

needed

and greatly appreciated.
Congratulations to each of you, and

my

sincere thanks to all

pated.

who

partici-

A POUTICAL DISCUSSION
Cooper,

left,



FHOTOBVJOAS HELFEM

Dwight Evans chats with freshman Tyra
and sophomore Mia Woods during his visit to Bloomsburg last week. Both
State Rep.

students are political science majors from Evans' district near Philadelphia.

4 The Communiqud February

14,

1991

Calendar

He

Campus Notes

has served the association in a num-

ber of administrative and scholarly roles for
the past several years. After completing his

Bruce L. Rockwood, professor of

Thursday, Feb. 14
•Chinese

New Year Celebration,

Kehr Union,

1

1:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

come

"Face to Face: Law and Literature in Undergraduate Education" at the

the 1991-92 academic year.

a paper

titled

He
."Die Hard

HaU,

in Baltimore,

also participated in a meeting

on

Commercial Contracts" while attending a
recent meeting of the Association of Ameri-

Saturday, Feb. 16

can

Simon

— Caving,

Hall, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Law

Jonuay Iff I

Ar chivws

Schools in Washington, D.C.

Kenneth Hunt, professor of communication disorders and special education,

presented a lecture on

Sunday, Feb. 17

Newsletter
i!^!^Amancon

^•e Soc**v ol

"Unidroit Principles on International

Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

•QUEST

president of the association during

30th annual meeting of the Association for

Md.

2," Mitrani

tenure as vice presdient, Bertelsen will be-

nance and business law, recently presented

General and Liberal Studies

Friday, Feb. 15

fi-

Analyses:

From

"Apphed Behavior

Instructional

Theory

to

Practice" as part of a seminar series pre-

•QUEST

— Cross Country Skiing

at Crystal

sented to the department

Lake, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Dorette Welk, associate professor of

•QUEST

— Winter Travel Seminar

to Ricketts Glen, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

nursing, recently completed requirements
for a Ph.D. at Penn State University in State

College.

Monday, Feb. 18
•Environmental Art Exhibit,

maronKMiiaum

Bernadine Markey and Robert
Campbell, assistant professors of nursing,
discussed their experiences teaching nurs-

Kehr Union

ing in other countries at the department's

Tuesday, Feb. 19
•"Glory," Mitrani Hall,

Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

•QUEST

— Kayak RolUng,

Centennial

Gym, 9

to 1 1 p.m.

'THE GIRLS

University Archivist Roger

•"Glory," Kehr Union, 3 p.m.

•Panel Discussion: Participation of

Fromm had

this

photo of Bloomsburg Normal School students
recently published on the cover ofthe Society of

American Archivists Newsletter.

annual faculty enrichment day last month.

Markey taught

a nursing course to
Bloomsburg students at Oxford University
last summer, while Campbell taught nursing to native students in Zambia during the

summer of

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A

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

The Communique publishes
news of events and developments at BU each
week through the academ ic year and bi-weekly
faculty and staff,

1989.

Jeanette Keith, assistant professor of

Annual Professional Agricultural Workers Conference
recently at Tuskegee University. She had
an article titled "Egg Money: Farm Women,
Maricet Agriculture and Extension Agents
in Rural Tennessee, 1890- 1929" published

during the

summer months.

Please submit story ideas at least two weeks

history, attended the 47th

Wednesday, Feb. 20



FROM HARRISBURG'

in

advance to The Communique, Office of

University Relations and Communication,

Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
17815.

BU is committed to providing equal educational

and employment opportunities for

all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,

Blacks in the Civil War, Mitrani Hall,

in Outreach to the Rural Disadvtanged: Is-

sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

Haas Center, 8 p.m.

sues and Strategies for the 21st Century.

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

•Women's and Men's Basketball
vs.

Cheyney, 6 and 8 p.m.

February is
Black History Month

Luc Jing, an instructor in

status veterans, or

the languages

and cultures department, had an article titled
"Evolution of Foreign Language Testing in
the U.S." published in a recent issue of Foreign Language Teaching and Research.

Dale A. Bertelsen, assistant professor of
studies,

mem-

The

imiversity

is

additionally committed

to affirmative action and will take positive

steps to provide such educational

was elected vice
Communication

All winter sporting events listed are held in the

president of the Speech

Nelson Field House.

Association of Pennsylvania.

and em-

ployment opportunities.
Editor: Kevin B. Engler
Assistant Editor: JoA.

communication

union

bership.

DeMarco

Editorial Assistant: Christina

J.

Gaudrcau

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
Contributing Writer: Gwenn E. Wells

TheCOMMUNIQUE
A newsletter for faculty and staff at Bloomsburg University

February 21, 1991

^National

problems' stem

from neglect of

human

needs,
says professor
Assailing the "spiritual bankruptcy" of a

country that subscribes to Christian ideals
but often ignores

human

needs, the great-

grandson of an escaped slave led a soulsearching dialogue here last week.

"A

surplus of the population doesn't

into the structure of this country as

it

fit

exists

today," said Kambon Camara, a Bloomsburg

counselor and assistant professor of psychology, at a Black History
sion in

Month

discus-

Kehr Union.

"As a society, we haven't found good
ways to support families," stressed Cam-

He

ara.

criticized

allocate billions

spending policies that

on the military

industrial

complex, yet lack funds for effective child
care for working people, education, or even

growing homeless population.
Such "national problems," he said, have "a
more severe impact on people of color
shelter for a

because they started out at a disadvantage."

/

During a question and answer session at
end of the program, sponsored by the

the

Counseling Center, Camara contrasted the

African-American experience to that of
other immigrants.
try

"No group

in this

coun-

has the same kind of experience," he

said.

"They came voluntarily. Our trip was

different.

We came not willing passengers,

not for the American dream but the Ameri-

can nightmare. The American dream was

made

off our backs."

Cont. on page 2

mOTO BTJOAN HELFBK

EXAMINING VALUES



These Bloomsburg University students, left to right, Stephanie
and Alison Reader, listen to Kambon Camara s criticism of the
country's failure to provide adequate funding for child care, education, and shelter for a

Selden, Kia Woods,

growing homeless population.

2 The Communique February 21, 1991

'National problems*

examine" themselves in the process. "In
remembering, we see not only how far we

Continued from page

have come, but also how far we have to go."

1

He

Victims of a slave trade system, which
effectively stripped

them of

culture, lan-

cises"

cautioned against "superficial exer-

and "token" discussions of black

guage, family and sense of collectivism,

history.

African-Americans faced barriers other

the

groups didn't have, said Camara. 'They

had

work with and faced the greatest

less to

amount of legal resistance."
Camara, a Rorida native, recalled the
experience of his mother who worked as a

Too

tributions of other African- Americans such

as W.E.B. DuBois,

Booker T. Washington,
and Frederick Douglass. The "quest for
dignity and freedom" did not start with
King, but with a "great legacy of struggle"

domestic in the homes of white people

that dates

while her children took care of themselves.

African

"This

typical of

is

many of
make

the sacrifices

black parents had to

to feed their

Today, he said, "even more par-

families."

ents are getting hurt harder by the econ-

omy."

To

help solve such problems, "Ameri-

cans of all races have responsibilities to be
consciously committed to their

own devel-

opment and progress," he said. "We are
only on this planet for a moment, and then
we're gone. The quality of that time is a
function of

how

conscious

we

are while

in

Camara emphasized the spiritual imperatives that led to

Martin Luther King's trans-

back

to

1619 "when the

first

men and women stepped off a ship

Jamestown, Virginia."
"Captured and inspired" by that collec-

and legacy. King closely studied contemporary scholars such as his
mentor Benjamin Mays, president emeritus
tive history

of Morehouse College, and

man, dean emeritus
Marsh Chapel.

Thurman's

at

Howard Thur-

Boston University's

book Jesus

Disinherited addresses

and

the

some of the contra-

dictions in Christianity

and contains the

"essence of King's ideas," said Camara.

The book

we're here."

often, he said, celebration of

King holiday overlooks the earlier con-

reveals

how

a religion

persecution and suffering has

bom

become

the

"too often been secured by a ruthless use of

power applied

Camara.

He urged

the audience to

newsletter for Blootnsburg University

The Communique puh]ishcs
news of events and developments at BU each
week through the academic year and bi-weekly
faculty and staff.

during the

advance to The Communique, Office of

University Relations and Communication,

Bloom sburg

University, Bloomsburg,

PA

BU is committed to providing equal educaand employment opportunities for

all

sex, age, national origin, ancestry, Ufe style,

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or

union

mem-

bership.

defenseless

and will take positive

steps to provide such educational

and em-

ployment opportunities.

"Even the great
hymn writer, Sir John Newton, writing such
tunes as "How Sweet the Name of Jesus
Sounds" and "Amazing Grace," did so as he

piloted his slave ship across the ocean."

J.

in

Gaudreau

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
Contributing Writer: Gwenn E. Wells

many respects be very disappointed with

the current status of African-Americans in

He would also oppose the war
Gulf for the same reasons he

in Viet Nam."
The irony of a black, CoUn Powell, in the

opposed the war

powerful position of Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff would not escape King's
notice, said
is

Camara. Powell's philosophy

"several million years away" from King's

"He recognized that to simply

"But being an African-American
mean you are a conscious AfricanAmerican," said Camara, who joined the

change laws here and there without chang-

Counseling Center and faculty here early

improving the
said Camara.

lot

of African-Americans,"

would

be counterproductive.

ideal.

doesn't

last

year after living in MinneapoUs for 20

years.

"The messenger has been
still

killed, but

we

need to hear the message," Camara told

his audience. "Nations can't

be Christian.

Barry Jackson, CounseUng Center director,

who joined Camara in the presentation

titled "Life,

Legacy, and Impact of Martin

Individuals can be. Each of us must ask if

Luther King

we

promote human dignity and the rights of all

look more like Christ or the Romans."

For Camara, the answer Ues

in the

words

of his great grandmother who "gave herself

age of 14

Editorial Assistant: Christina

of Jesus

— Kambon Camara

the ocean."

in the Persian

permission to leave the plantation" at the

DeMarco

Name

so as he piloted his slave ship across

this country.

in 1856:

"The

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

Assistant Editor: Jo A.

the

Sounds" and "Amazing Grace," did

"Some of the crudest abuses ever carried
out were by people who call themselves

university is additionally committed

to affirmative action

"How Sweet

as

people," he said.

persons withoutregard to race, color, religion,

The

weak and

ing the spiritual character of a nation

17815.

tional

to

King's purpose was "much greater than

summer months.

Please submit story ideas at least two weeks
in

Sir John Newton, writing such tunes

Christians," said Camara.

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A

who call
themselves Christians," said Camara. "Even the great hymn writer,

cornerstone in a nation whose position has

"indispensable to the process of salvation,"
said

cruelest abuses ever

carried out were by people

of

formation. Justice, truth, and love are

examine these values and "maybe even

"Some of the

of freedom are within.

greatest resources

You must go

for-

ward to meet God."
Asked how King himself would assess
society today, Camara replied, "He would

people.

Jr.,"

praised King's efforts to

"No one can be

free unless every

one of us is free." Jackson chronicled the
Nobel Peace Prize winner's background
and accomplishments before relating his
own experience growing up in the Philadelphia area and seeing other minorities gain
acceptance. Such experiences, he said, did
Continued on page 3

The Communique February 21, 1991 3

Celebrity Artist Series:

Boys Choir of Harlem
to perforin Feb. 23
In observance of

Black History Month,

the Celebrity Artist Series will present the

Boys Choir of Harlem

at 8 p.m., Saturday,

Feb. 23, in Mitrani Hall of Haas Center for
the Arts.

Founded

in 1968, the

35-member choir

frequently tours throughout the United
States

and Europe and

is

often featured on

major network and cable television

sta-

tions.

The choir is under the direction of founder
Walter J. Turnbull and features a repertoire
that includes classical music, popular songs,

gospel, jazz, and spirituals.

Tickets are $5 for faculty and staff.
Admission is free for students with a
Bloomsburg identification card and valid

Community

Activities sticker. Tickets can

be obtained at the Kehr Union Information
Desk.

For more information, call Nancy Vought
at

389-4201.

BOYS CHOIR OF HARLEM



Founder and director Walter J. Turnbull will lead the
Boys Choir of Harlem during a Feb. 23 performance in Mitrani Hall.

'National problems'

English department

Continued from page 2

not prepare him for the segregated reality

he would face running the residence

program

at the University

after

tion in

fill

in

to integrate

teleconference

'RECXLESS'
The English department

"It

was one

and I promoted

that

—a

A

ing-Ac'oss-the-CiuTiculum"
ellite

Btoomsburg

"Even though

the laws

were

sinick

Human

for his action.

by the law

Today the changes promised

still

"aren't complete," said

Jackson. "Those kinds of prejudices

And

to the extent that

we

still

don't do

something actively to change them, we're a
it.

"

— Gwenn Evans Wells

Harch
8

1

to 3 p.m.,

Room

3237 of

Services Center.

many

distinguished college

faculty, such as

William Zinsser, Elaine

1-3, 6-9

Maimon, Toby

Fulwiler, and Richard

pm

Young.

there, the

who recalled a visit from the Ku Klux Klan

— from

T ic conference includes a panel discussion featuring

integration really wasn't," said Jackson,

part of

:

live sat-

leconference aired on the Public

Brctadc isting System

Mc(

production

black.

exist.

ti

We^i' esday, Feb. 27, in

man,"

he recalled. "It never occurred to me that
everyone else would quit because he was

will sponsor a

broadcast of "Issues and Conflicts in Writ-

when

One person had the skills and

the personality,

across-curriculum

a management posi-

maintenance service.

clear choice.

Notice:

King's death, the school

was under mandate
Jackson needed to

to sponsor writing-

life

of Georgia

1972.

Four years

Theater

JXaxvh 10, 2

pm

Cari^er Hfxli
Tick^ets: $5, $3.5 0

with

student, senior discount,
Jree M^ith.

Ca^ IS

In addition, pre-taped segments

on cross-

curricular writing programs at

UCLA,

University of Massachusetts at Amherst,

Spelman College of Atlanta, Ga., Clemson
(S.C.) University,Robert Morris College of

Pittsburgh, and Prince George's (Md.)

Community College will be spotlighted.
For more information, call Terry Riley,
assistant professor of English, at 389-4736.

4 The Communique February 21, 1991

Maintenance requests due March

News Briefs

Calendar

1

Maintenance and service contract

re-

quests for fiscal year 1991-92mustbe submitted

Art exhibit

— Selections from

university's

Haas

permanent

the

Renovation forces Kehr Union
soon
Due to the renovation of Kehr Union which

to the

will start immediately following the spring term,

'Shell Assists' scholarships

collection,

Gallery; through Sunday,

Feb. 24

offices will

be relocated prior

the building

The

Friday, Feb. 22

on

May

the Arts,

at Crystal

vs.

Activities Office and stu-

— CGA, Program Board,
The
Black
Society and VolunServices —
be
Husky
Obiter,

Voice,

Cultural

relocated at

will

at the

comer of East Street and College

bar (annex) and information desk

will

remain the same for the

all

student and adminis-

to

will

some

offices

be relocated during spring break week



directed to

Mike Sowash

release for

at

389-4347.

Robert Yori, chairperson of the

provide

funding to colleges and universities

to

help strengthen those disciplines and

enhance career counseling and placement

ac-

tivities.

to increase the

strength of our academic activities in accounting

and

to

help support undergraduate accounting

students," he said.

Nikki Giovanni's poetry writing
workshop available on videotape

summer

workshop titled "Focus on Writing Poetry" was
videotaped by TV and Radio Programs and

research projects

Based on recommendations of the Faculty
Professional Development Committee, five

QUEST — Kayak RoUing,

faculty

9 to 11 p.m.

members

will receive quarter-time re-

lease to conduct research projects this simimer.

— Pennsylvania

Conference Championship Tourney,

TBA

Linda LeMura of health, physical education

and

athletics will receive release time for the

"Development of a Laboratory Manual
Applied Physiology."

ders and special education will conduct an

July trip meeting,

QUEST Office, 5 p.m., Walter Simon

"Auditory Perception of Infants in the Back-

ground of Noise."

HaU

Glerm Sadler of English will research the
"Development of Critical Editions of Children's

Wednesday, Feb. 27

Services and

Her lecture titled "You Have the Power: Do
Something with Your Life" will ako be available in the LRC foUowing its March airing on

BUTV.

Campus
Notes
Burt Reese,

Association.
Christine Sperline of art will conduct re-

"Postcards from the Edge,"

search on "Renaissance Artists and the Family

Kehr Union, 3 p.m.; Mitrani Hall,
Haas Center for the Arts, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Wedding in 1433."
Anne Wilson of sociology and social welfare
will conduct research on the "Completion of
Family Text."

assistant director of athletics

and

coach of the men's tennis team, was named 1 990
"Coach of the Year" by theMiddle States Tennis

Literature Classics as Texts."

Thursday, Feb. 28

available for viewing in the

is

Learning Resources Center.

in

Vishakha Rawool of communication disor-

Rocky Mountain

to

Provost's lecturer Nikki Giovanni's campus

Tuesday, Feb. 26

Nelson Field House,

According

to April 1

(Questions regarding the relocations can be

Five faculty receive quarter-time

Basketball

Foundation.

"Bloomsburg uses these funds
John Trathen, director of Stu-

Museum, Washington, D.C.

Women's



Andrea Weaver of Danville
received S200
scholarships awarded by the Shell Oil Company

grams

March 23
Cultural Society trip to African Art

Mary Sorenson of Drums and

Harleysville,

building.

dent Activities and Kehr Union,

Human Relations Committee-Black

— Lara Buscaglia of Malvern,

students

with well-established, four-year academic pro-

According

p.m.

The

(lobby) will be relocated in the University Store

trative offices.

1

for high

accounting department, "Shell Assists" awards

Phone numbers

Sunday, Feb. 24

Five junior accoimting majors were recently

Bruce Keller of Nazareth, David L. Scott of

information desk and

Gym,

1

floor of Elwell Hall.

The snack

West Chester, 6 and 8 p.m.

Centennial

March

Accounting students awarded

awarded "Shell Assists" scholarships

Hill.

Basketball

"Glory ,"Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

than

academic performance.

Comers

Lakes, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Women's and Men's

later

Development and
Student Activities will be relocated on the ground

teer

— Cross Country Skiing

down

13.

dent offices

8 p.m.

QUEST

to shutting

offices of Student

The Community

The Boys Choir of Harlem,
Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for

Purchasing Office no

offices to relocate

He

led the

team

to

an overall 21-7

record last season and a fourth consecutive

Pennsylvania Conference championship.

Mehdi Haririan,

associate professor of eco-

nomics, attended the recent annual meetings of
the Allied Social Sciences Association in Washington, D.C.

Combined Jazz Concert
Haas Center

— Mitrani

permanent art
on display in Haas Gallery
University's

Hall,

for the Arts, 8 p.m.

collection

Artworks from the university's permanent
collection are on display in Haas Gallery through

Feb. 24.

To

secure a selection for your university

office, call

Winter sporting events held

in

Nelson Field House

Barbara Strohman at389-41 85 or Fr.

Chet Snyder

at

389-4646.

RezaNoubary, associate professor of mathematics and computer science, had a paper

titled

"On Rehability Calculation When Stresses Are
Generated by a Non-Homogeneous Poison
Process" published in ihe Journal of Reliability
Engineering and System Safety. Copies of the
paper are available from Noubary upon request

TheCOMMUNIQUE
A newsletter for faculty and staff at Bloonisburg University

February 28, 1991

Center lays groundwork for writing-

OFFICIAL
NOTICES

across-the-curriculum opportunities
Terry Riley debunks the myths that good

demic disciplines and the professions, says

endow-

Riley. Interdisciplinary writing can help

Legislative briefing

learned

prepare students to "effectively partici-

on March 8 open

writing

the result of "genetic

is

ment" or a "highly refined
after intense practice

over

skill

many

pate" in an American

years.

"Writing is not something thatprogresses
in lockstep fashion from beginning to

middle

economy

increas-

tion.

About 50 percent of American colleges

director of the University Writing Center.

and universities have formally adopted

much more a sculptural process, spread

writing-across-the-curriculum programs or

to

mentum as individual faculty members are

focus beyond the English De-

seeking ways to strengthen writing oppor-

information about needs for the

students start to learn

go away."
Under Riley 's direction since last fall, the

University Writing Center
its

is

working

partment to serve the university at large and
lay

groundwork

for writing-across-the-

The expanded focus
in

reflects not only

composition theory and instruc-

tional style, but also a recognition of the

increased importance of writing in

variations such as including a writing

component
courses.

in

BU

many

discipline-specific

does not have a structured

program, but the movement is gaining mo-

tunities for their students, says Riley.

"We

have a very strong faculty here

concerned about the writing component of

curriculum opportunities here.

changes

members

are invited to attend a legislative

to

When

the obstacles to effective writing start

broaden

staff

March 8.
James McCormick, chancellor
of the State System of Higher
Education, and President Harry
Ausprich will report on the progress of Bloomsburg University
and the State System, and share

out over time.
that,

and

All faculty and staff

to masterful conclusion," explains Riley,

"It's

to faculty

ingly oriented toward service and informa-

all

aca-

briefing on Friday,

1991-92

Area

fiscal year.

legislators

have been

general education," explains Riley. "Right

ning

now

Union Coffeehouse.

we're in the early stages of network-

ing to

make

sure that they

in-

vited to attend the session beginat

9:45 a.m. in the Kehr

know what

Continued on page 2

University
to

Forum

meet March 13

A meeting of the Bloomsburg
University

Forum

will

Wednesday, March

rum

of

be held on

13, in the

McCormick Human

Fo-

Serv-

ices Center.

Request for agenda items are

to

Ruthann Fisher

in

be submitted
the

to

Dean's Office of the College

of Arts and Sciences,

Room

106,

Waller Administration Building,

A STUDENT SERVICE— In the University Writing Center, director Terry Riley, center,
and sophomore

Carmen Latona of West Wyoming, left, meet with junior Stacy
Walters of Harrisburg to discuss her paper and offer instruction where appropriate.
tutor

no

later than

Monday, March

4.

Communique February

2 The

28, 1991

and

Writing Center

ing, rewriting,

Continued from page

environment" in a former computer class-

offered under a two-year-old pilot program

room at 206 Bakeless Center. Gone are

here.

1

others are doing and that the writing center

final polishing.

BU center is

The

in a

eral four-credit, writing intensive courses

new

"completely

the

astronomy, and anthropology

in history,

The

study carrels and self-paced learning pro-

provide an altemative

Participation in a recent teleconference

gram found

level

in old-fashioned writing labs.

"W" courses

"three plus one" or

here to help."

is

to

English 201, a

two composition requirement and a

on writing-across-the-curriculum and a BU

In theirplace are informally arranged tables,

valuable writing-across-the-curriculum ex-

Curriculum Committee-sponsored teach-

a small library, and one-on-one tutoring.

perience.

at the center

The program has been successful in stimu-

which is open 41 hours a week on a drop-in
basis to meet individual student needs.

lating student interest in intensive writing

Another is the writing center itself, which

Teachers may also refer a student, or groups

other than EngUsh, says Riley.

funded by the Provost's Office, the College of Arts and Sciences, and English

of students, to the center for individual help

pilot project expires this year, the concept

or collaborative learning.

may

in

on "Writing Outside the English Depart-

ment" are two recent examples of such
networking.

is

Department and receives additional support from

"We
Riley.

BU Tutorial Services.

"We are an outreach program eager
student, with

Seven
ity

are not self contained," stresses

work with any

to

Rexibility

any pro-



is

a key priority

tutors with

proven writing

abil-

junior and senior English majors in

internship or work/study programs
the center as "readers."
edit, correct,

or

make

The

direct



staff

tutors never

changes

in a

experience in the context of a discipUne

Though

the

evolve to provide similar opportuni-

ties in different

ways.

A large majority of the 180 students who
used the center during the

fall

semester

were from freshman English Composition
courses. Riley hopes a positive experience

gram, any department Anything thatseems

student's copy, stresses Riley. Instead, they

with writing will encourage the students

be possible."
Before coming to BU, Riley, who earned

suggest structural or thematic options or

retum for help

point out general mechanical problems,

classes.

helpful should

English from Michigan State University in

where appropriate.
"Often the most helpful thing tutors can do
is to recreate for students what it is like to

East Lansing, Mich., directed the Living-

read a draft," says Riley.

ston College Writing Center at Rutgers

The center also assists students in preparexams and focusing on how to
produce their best work in half-hour or hour

his

undergraduate degree in philosophy

from University of Michigan and Ph.D.

in

University in Piscataway, NJ., where a
staff

of 25 to 30 met with 250 students a

week.

offering instruction

ing for essay

"We

in

to

upper and more diverse

are a student service rather than a

mere extension of the classroom," he emphasizes. "Once students understand that
we're not requiring them to do extra work,
but offering support for the work they are
doing, that we're not offering old-fash-

ioned

drills

and exercises, but rather con-

segments. In other services, the center helps

versation, talking a project through, they

is

instructors to design assignments or pro-

respond very positively."

a far cry from the original "writing labs"

vides "check points" to help students de-

The center is in process of installing three

common on many American campuses since
the early 1 950s. The change reflects a move

velop a realistic time line and spread out the

IBM computers to run tutorial "stylecheck"

composition instructional theory from a

Riley has visited classes to talk about the

He describes

in

the contemporary center

work

software programs to provide an extra tech-

for a specific writing project

"We

writing process.

work-in-progress.

them ways of dividing up time so a writing
project seems less intimidating," he says.

The contemporary model is based on a
more "global, contextual theory of composing," says Riley.
cessful writers

It

recognizes that suc-

move from the composition

as a whole to smaller units of prose and not

"By

taking

it

in

want

show

"product model," to focusing on an entire

to help

more manageable

steps, a

student doesn't suddenly face the whole
project and try to gobble

it all

down

at

nical perspective for final stages of a project.

But hardware and software only ad-

dress a small part of overall process, stresses
Riley.
"It's a

will

fill

mistake to expect that technology

the gap we're working on here," he

explains. "Writing is

much more

than that,

once."

much more
social.

It's

now obsolete

This semester, students in Arthur Lysiak's

"product-centered" approach. "Largely

Modem World Leaders course are making

requires context tact, experience.

imphcit decisions regarding subject, pur-

a series of

quires another

pose, auitude and audience form gradually

assignment

vice versa as supported by the

in the earUer stages

Riley.

of a project," explains

These decisions control not only the

intermediate steps of composing, such as
thesis, voice,

paragraph development, and

transition, but also sentence

elements such

as diction, syntax, and punctuation.

a largely remedial approach, correcting
errors toward the

says the

new

and approach

end of a

project, Riley

writing center's atmosphere
is

"designed to support an

entire writing project

from beginning

At the first stage, they pick up guidelines
initial encouragement. At the second stage, they prepare for library research;
and at the third stage, they begin the draft-

They view

ing process.

says Riley.

to

end, from generating ideas through draft-

is

human

skill

by

skill.

It

re-

It

being.

"People don't like writing very much.

and get

"This

While older writing centers or labs took

visits to the center for a writing

kind of thing you teach

public

not the

when

they

sit

down

with a

reader and a pile of notes and several para-

graphs of their

own

text,

and

start

thinking

about flushing out, rounding out, organizing," explains Riley. In the final stage,

one

of the center's readers will provide an objective, third-party look at the draft.

"Modem World Leaders"

is

one of sev-

Any

ues.

it

as full of dangers," he contin-

little bit

we can do

to

make

the

process more comfortable" will help them
to lay

groundwork

for repeated successes,

"We want to provide a basis for academic
and

intellectual continuity so that each

new

assignment does not require the writer

to

reinvent" herself or himself for the occasion.

— Gwenn Evans Wells

The Communique February 28, 1991 3

nam

Today" on Monday, March 1 1 at 7
McCormick Forum.
The CGA Program Board will present

Month-long observance
to highlight

women

in history

A series of eclectic programs designed to

turn

attention to historical perspective

its

and contemporary issues in a month-long
observance culminating with the annual

women's conference on "Enriching Our
Lives."

"We

really

wanted

bration to highlight

make

come

history

variety.

We

to

make

women
to life.

this

a cele-

in history, to

We

looked for

looked for audience appeal.

I've even ordered balloons," says Barbara

Barnes, chairperson of the

Women's

His-

tory Month planning group, a subcommittee of the

Campus-Wide Committee on

Human Relations.

exhibit are also planned.

March 20 presentation of the new
multi-media drama "Beside Herself: Pocais

one high point of

the multi-dimensional celebration.

A

se-

From

film "Postcards

the

McLaine, sets the stage
this week.

for the observance

p.m.

The Campus- Wide Committee on Hu-

man

Relations will sponsor "Nurturing

The Other

Civil

18, at 7 p.m., in

mem-

Earlier in the day, Elbert will present a

of Science Hall.

ironic,

and very surprising" look

"Why We Need

Hearst."

to

Challenge the Tradi-

and Jeanette Keith on "Her

in

American history in a multi-media drama
Patty

the presentation also includes views

"Fostering Change Through Student Lead-

in

ership."

The Women's Conference Art Exhibit
open on Friday, March 22, in the Kehr
Union Presidents' Lounge and Coffeehouse.

for a presentation

on "Becoming

The University Women's Center

will

and discussion on "Date Battering and
Domestic Violence" on Wednesday, March
6, at 7:30 p.m., in

the

Multipurpose Room

A of

Kehr Union Building.

the Watergate wives.

The show

Throughout March, special displays

of Andruss Library, the University Store,

and the display case adjacent

Lounge

in

Women's Conference.
Women's History Month committee
members

are chairperson Barbara Barnes,

administrative assistant in the financial aid

Ann Mariano,

secretary in the af-

firmative action office; history professor
Jeanette Keith; Mollie

versity Counseling Center,

explore another dimension of violence with

a talk on "Feminism and War:

From

to the Presi-

Kehr Union.
Women from throughout Columbia and
Montour counties will gather on the campus Saturday, March 23, for the annual
dents'

13, at 7 p.m., in Carver Hall Auditorium.

Center at East S troudsburg University, will

will

mark women's history in the main entrance

with a mockrape trial on Wednesday, March

Women's

8 p.m.

will

ception forfaculty and staff women

Sheryl Moses, director of the

is at

Carver Hall Auditorium.

office;

One week later, the center will follow up

of

Betsy Ross, astronomer Maria Mitchell,

on Tuesday, March 5,

1:30 p.m.

to

Rosemary McGrady a staff member, will
add her perspective, "Personally Speaking," and junior Jody Heckman will discuss

sponsor a program featuring roleplaying

to

tragic,

women

by

at 12:15 p.m.

Lounge ofKehr Union. The
reception will lastfrom 1 1 :30 a.m.

at

Based on a series of monologue poems
New York poet Pamela White Hadas,

Infinite

The reception, in the Presidents' Lounge
of Kehr Union, lasts from 11:30 a.m. to
1 :30 p.m. with McCants scheduled to speak

dents'

Bing-

workshop titled "Doing Women's History
in America Today" at 4 p.m. in Room 135

"Beside Herself: Pocahontas

Many Women" at a reception for faculty
and staff women on Tuesday, March 5.

in the Presi-

at

War" on Monday, March
McCormick Forum.

bers Mary Badami on "Women's Voices,
Women's Silences;" Marjorie Clay on

campus

at 12 .15 p.m. during a re-

York (SUNY)

of Lancaster will present a "comic,

4, at 7 p.m.

Participants will include faculty

Theatre Ensemble will bring her talents to

Women"

Sarah Elbert, an historian from the State
University of New

beth Fuller of The Independent Eye Theatre

Laurie McCants of the Bloomsburg

"Becoming Many

The film will also be shown on Friday,
March 15, at7p.m.,andSunday, March 17,
at 1 p.m.; and in Mitrani Hall on Wednesday, March 13, at 7 and 9:30 p.m.

On Wednesday, March 20, actress Eliza-

,

on

of Kehr

McCormick Forum on Monday,

cussion in

Variety."

speak

Room A

Tradition, Fostering Change," a panel dis-

tion;"

Laurie McCants, director of the
Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, will

13, at 3

Union.

,

1

Nous,"

on Wednesday, March

hamton, will speak on "Louisa May Alcott:

The film will be shown in Mitrani Hall of
Haas Center for the Arts on Friday, March
1 at 7 and 9:30 p.m.; and Sunday, March 3,
at

first

p.m., in Multipurpose

Edge," starring Meryl Streep and Shirley

March

A

hontas to Patty Hearst,"

of speakers, discussions, and programs
wiU focus on topics ranging from "Feminism and War" to thecontributions ofLouisa
May AlcotL Films, displays, and an art
ries

The recent

,

five screenings of the film "Entre

the

"make history come to life" are planned on
campus during Women's History Month.
Beginning this week, the campus will

to

p.m., in the

sor

Whalen of the Uniand

art profes-

Tom Walters.

For further information,
389-4496.

Viet-

MARCH IS WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

call

Barnes

at

— Gwenn Evans Wells

4 The Communique February 28, 1991

Scholar-athletes

pay tribute to
faculty mentors
Sixty-three outstanding sophomore, jun-

and senior scholar-athletes paid tribute
Bloomsburg faculty members who have
been instrumental in helping them achieve
academically at last week's third annual
Scholar/Athlete Luncheon.
Each student, honored for achieving a
ior,

to

grade point average of 3.20 or higher during the

combined spring and fall semesters

last year,

hosted their "faculty mentor" at

the luncheon.

Students and their mentors recognized at
the luncheon include:

Scott Beamer, baseball, and Eric Zosch,
wrestling,

and Roger

Ellis of business

education and office administration;
Hitz, baseball,

Todd

and John Fletcher of bio-

Bob CopJames Tomlinson
of communication studies; Kevin Reynolds, basketball, and Robert Watts of
marketing and management; Barb Hall,
basketball, and Bob Remaley of curriculum and foundations; Kelly Heierbacher,
basketball, and Pete BohUng of economics;
Scott Hotham, cross country, and John
Hartzel of computer and information
systems; Mark Jobes, cross country and
track, and Rajkumar Guttha of finance and
logical and allied health sciences;

polino, basketball, and

business law;

Matt Plack,

cross country,

and Susan Rusinko of English; Sue Adams,
cross country, and

TOP SCHOLAR-ATHLETES AND THEIR PROFESSORS — Wrestler Tom Kuntzleman, top photo

left,

selected as the top male scholar-athlete, is pictured with his chemistry

professor, Emeric Schultz. In bottom photo, Softball player Diane Tafel, chosen as the top

Tom Klinger of biologi-

female scholar-athlete,

Bridget HedSuzanne Kal-

and Bonnie Weaver,

is

pictured with her education professor, Martha Patton.

cal and allied health sciences;

man,
man,

cross country, and
soccer,

and Mary Harris of curricu-

lum and foundations; Lori Lepczyk, cross
country, and Gerald

Powers of communi-

cation disorders and special education;

Loreen Miller, cross country, and Jessica
Lacarrubba, track, and Bonnie Williams
of curriculum and foundations; Aileen
Para, cross country, and Gary Clark of art;
Dana Rapson, cross country, and Robert
Lowe of communication disorders and
special education; Ronica Yingst, cross
country, and Robert Campbell of nursing;
Alan Eck, football, and John Dennen of
accounting; Scott Gluck, football, and
Lester Dietterick of accounting;

Gonzalez,

Mike

field

hockey, and

Linda LeMura of health, physical education

and

athletics;

Tim Ronan,

football,

and John Andronis, soccer, and Richard
McClellan of accounting; Scott Walton,
football,

and

Megan

Gillen,

swimming,

and Jack Couch of physics; Amy Frey,
field hockey, and Donald Miller of commu-

and special education;
hockey and lacrosse, and

nication disorders

Beth Fritz,

field

Ervene Gulley of English; Trudy Horst,
field

hockey and

Adams,

lacrosse,

and Rennee

and Gary Doby of curriculum and foundations; Melissa Spaulding,
field

track,

hockey, and Leroy Brown of mathe-

matics and computer science; Steph

and Barbara Strohman

Grosch, lacrosse, and M. H. Fereshteh of

of art; Todd Neuhard, football, and Stephen

curriculum and foundations; Carol Sands,

Kokoska of mathematics and computer
Kerry Puhl, football and track,

lacrosse, and Henry Dobson of curriculum
and foundations; Jennifer Ward, lacrosse,

science;

football,

and Samuel Slike of communication disorders and special education;
soccer,

Jim Amon,

and Shawn Remish, wrestling, and

Lalana Siergiej of finance and business
law;

Kevin Kenjarski,

soccer, and

Mark

Raynes, data base administrator in computer services; Jennifer Cooley, soccer,

and Ron Puhl of health, physical education
and athletics; Gail Sees, soccer, and Julia
Weitz of communication disorders and
special education; Janet Buckheit, softball, and Josette Skobieranda, residence
director of Elwell Hall; Patti
Softball,

Camper,

and Ken Hunt of communication

Sandy
Kuntzleman, wrestling, and Tina Watson, swimming, and
Emeric Schultz of chemistry; Lori Shelly,
Softball, and Robert Yori of accounting;
Continued on page 6
disorders and special education;

Herr,

softball,

Tom

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The Communique February 28, 1991 5

Bressi's 'every year

is

our year' philosophy

has women's team eyeing

PSAC

title

Throughout the regular season, many

As in previous years, the Huskies have a

people asked Joe Bressi if this is the year his

tendency to be a bit too talented for some of

team will win a Pennsylvania State Athletic

the schools

Conference championship. "Every year

team

is

is

situation

of Bloomsburg s women s basketball team

"I don't

"But

we

if

'

don't win a championship this

year, then next year will

be our year."

Bressi admits, however, that his 1990-91

their schedule.

When

his

becomes a double-edged sword.
to embarrass any team," he
stresses. "So we'll normally switch to a
half-court game and insert our other play-

our year," replies the fifth-year head coach
'

on

soundly defeating another club, the

ers,

want

but that's not our style."

team has "all the tools," including the "size,

Although he regularly employs an eight-

quickness, experience, and depth," required

player rotation, Bressi fears not getting

PSAC

"We

had a good
team the last two years, but we didn't have
the depth that we possess on this year's
to capture a

title.

club," he says.

The Huskies roared through

the regular

season unscathed, reeling off 25 consecutive victories

nine ranking

Division
ers,

II

while maintaining a number

among

teams.

The coach says his play-

who have proven their ability as a team

to play tenacious

among

defensive basketball,

"runaway"

players into these kinds of games," he says.

"But if we're only playing our regulars 20
or 30 minutes, I get concerned about whether
our best players can endure a full 40-minute ballgame when they have

to.

So I tell all

my players to forget the score and play the
game

the

way

it's

supposed to be played."

Bressi's rotating octet includes senior
starters

Barb Hall of Turbotville and Becky

— BU women's

A STRESSFUL MOMENT

basketball coach Joe Bressi ponders his team'

home game.

next play during a recent

grade point average to attend study hall
sessions each week. 'These players must

the top five defensive teams in the

Kathy Maguire of Dunmore and Michelle
Simons of Girardville.and sophomore Vicki
Bell of Lancaster, who transferred from St.
Bonaventure following her freshman year.

attend mandatory study halls," he says.

the credit.

two or

says. "This year, we're
.

in

some of our other

Pigga (PEEK-ah) of Dunmore, juniors

all

nation for the past

.

"It's nice to get

"We've been ranked

deserve

.

NCAA

the top 10

them as much playing time
games.

three years," he

ranked number one

allowing our opponents an average of

only 48 points per game."

who has been teaching young
women how to win by playing aggressive
Bressi,

defensive basketball for more than

1

5 years,

coached the girl's team at Bishop McDevitt

High School

in

Harrisburg for 10 years

before coming to Bloomsburg. During one
period of time his high school team
out of 92 games.

won 9

"One season we went 36-

0 and allowed an average of less than 30
points a game," he says.

Rounding out the eight-player rotation
Tamika Howard of Harrisburg,
and freshmen Careen Bulka of Lavelle and
Brenda Ryan of Minersville.
Also on this year s team are seniors Chris
Sims and Kelly Heierbacher, both from
New Cumberland; juniors Melisa Minakowski and Lesley Seitzinger, both from
Ashland; and freshmen Amy Kremser of
Catawissa and Carol Wysocki of GlenRock.
are junior

'

Bressi says

Bressi compiled a 237-43 won-loss rec-

it's

tough to play through an

"Credit must be given to the university's

counselors and others

who help to monitor

and counsel our players."

On

recruiting basketball players for his

program, the coach says, "I recruit kids that

want to come here. This is a great place to
go to school. Overall, our academics are
solid, the location is good, and the facilities
are excellent. I tell recruits to put 20 wins a
and Bloomsburg
year on top of that
becomes a great place to pursue an education and play some quality Division II bas.

.

.

ketball."

Bressi,

who

also

works as an

assistant

entire season without experiencing a let-

coach for Bloomsburg's varsity football

ord as a high school coach.

He won his
game as coach of the Huskies on Jan.
4 when his team trounced Southampton

down. "Sure

100th

admits.

(Long Island, N.Y.) University 71-34

taught to focus on each individual

and baseball teams, says he emphasizes
disciphne and good sportsmanship in the
women's basketball program. "Our kids
have to be disciplined on the basketball

Nelson Field House.

same concepts
level

.

.

.

I

in

"We basically use the

taught on the high school

multiple defenses such as zone

that

I

worry about letdowns," he

"We lost a game at Cheney last year

we should've won. But our players are
game

and not to worry about going undefeated
for the whole season."
In addition to basketball, Bressi's team

on academics

Bloomsburg.

traps,pressesand man-to-man," says Bressi,

also focuses

who has recorded an envious 115-21 won-

"All of our current players are very solid

loss

mark

at

Bloomsburg. "But the big

academically," he says.

at

"A couple of years

we lost a player because her academic

difference between high school and college

ago

you play against better
opposing players. We have better players,
loo, but I still spend about 45 minutes
during each practice working on our defensive game."

record wasn't up to par. That one incident

basketball

is

that

really

opened the eyes of our other play-

ers.

Bressi requires freshmen players and

those with no better than a 2.5 cumulative

court and in the classroom," he says.
also try to get

them

to learn

"We

how to win and

lose.

"I

want our kids

to learn that basketball

isn ' t their whole life," he notes. "Winning
great, but

when

the

game

is

over, whether

is

we win or lose, tomorrow is another day. If
we can make our players understand that
basketball

is

just a

game

we're doing just that

.

.

.

.

.

.

then

and
I

I

think

know we

have quality kids in our program."

— Kevin B. Engler

6 The Communique February 28, 1991

Campus Notes

Calendar

Scholar-athletes
Continued from page 4

Thursday, Feb. 28


Charles T. Walters, assistant professor
of art, and Marie M. Walters, treasurer of



Bloomsburg Studio Band,
Lock Haven Jazz Ensemble, Mitrani Hall,
Haas Center, 8 pjn.
Jazz Concert

Bloomsburg Historic Preservation Society, recently

co-authored an essay

titled

"Jerry Patterson's7/ie Vanderbilts," which

Friday,


QUEST
Simon

March

— Rock

1

will appear in the spring issue of

Skills Training.

culture published

Hall, 6 to 10 p.m.

BU Theater, Carver Hall,



"Reckless,"



"Postcards from the Edge," Mitrani Hall,

8 p.m.





March

2

dersen and George MacEtonald:

ous Hight of Fantastic Opposites,"

at the

Center; Deborah Wands, track, and Sharon

ninth International Conference of the Fan-

Kribbs of nursing; Lisa Ziegler, track, and

Arts held recently in Fort Lau-

Margaret Till of biological and allied health

Hall, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Performance

— "The Astonishing Neal,"

QUEST — Rappelling

8 p.m.

"Reckless,"

at

Mocanaqua.

p.m.

BU Theater, Carver Hall, 8 pjn.

Monday, March 4


Panel Discussion

Ra. His publication was accepted

— "Nurturing

Tradition,

Fostermg Change," The Forum, McCormick
Himian Services Center, 7 p.m., sponsored
by Human Relations Committee



Faculty-Staff

Women's

Presidents' Lounge,

11:30 a.m.


Lecture

to

cation studies;

published by the Modern Language
Association; The SelectedLetters ofGeorge
MacDonald, published by William B Eerd-

and Jim Cole of biological and allied health

mans Publishing Company of London; and

tion

an adaptation of MacDonald 's fairy tale,
The Wise Woman or the Lost Princess, also

wrestling,

.

published by Eerdmans with
tions

by the German

artist

new

illustra-

Wednesday, March 6



"Reckless,"



Discussion

Books

BU Theater, Carver Hall,

8 p.m.

— "Date Battering and Domestic
Room A, Kehr

Violence," Multipurpose

Union, 7:30 p.m., sponsored by
Center

Women's

and

athletics;

The Communique
A

Conn., which involved preparing a
children's story for publication.

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

The Communique publishes
news of events and developments at BU each
week through the academicyear and bi-weekly
faculty and staff.

during the

summer months.

Please submit story ideas at least two weeks

Charles G. Jackson, professor emeritus

in

advance to The Communique, Office of

of political science, presented a paper titled

University Relations and Communication,

Knowing Ways" at the fourth
National Symposium on Public Admini-

Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

Theory at George Washington
University in Washington, D.C. He presented another paper tided "Comparing
Policies: Nations, States, Governments"
for the Pennsylvania Political Science As-

17815.

BU is committed to providing equal educational

and employment opportunities for aU

persons without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or

John

BU Theater, Carver Hall,

"Reckless,"



Provost's Lecture Series

Workshop

8 p.m.



featuring Dith Pran, photojoumalist, Mitrani
Hall,


Haas Center, 4 p.m.

Lecture

— Provost's Lecture

The

university

is

activities
titled

Trathen, director of student

and Kehr Union, had an

and wiU take positive

steps to provide such educational and

recently published in the Proceedings at
the 70th annual conference of the Association of College

Portland. Ore.

em-

ployment opportunities.

article

"Renovation: The Political Process"

Series, Dith

Haas

mem-

additionally committed

Editor: Kevin B. Engler
Assistant Editor: Jo A.

DeMarco

Editorial Assistant: Christina

Pran, photojoumalist, Mitrani Hall,

Center, 8 p.m.

J.

union

bership.

to affirmative action



Brian Willoughby,



com-

sociation at Dickinson College in Carlisle.

Thursday, March 7

and

and Mehdi Razzaghi of mathematics and computer science.
Kevin B. Engler

for Chil-

stration

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Lilley, wrestling,

dieck.

"Nistration:

"Goodfellas," Kehr Union, 3 p.m.;

Stephen

sciences;

Bernard Ober-

Children's Literature, Redding Ridge,

— "Becoming Many Women,"

Michael Graves, wrestling,

William Sproule of health, physical educa-

dren and Teens through the Institute of

1:30 p.m.,

Don Evans,

and Janice Youse of communi-

Literature: Issues, Pedagogy, Resources,

Reception,

by Laurie McCants of BTE; Presidents'
Lounge, Kehr Union, 12:15 to 1 p.m.,
sponsored by Human Relations Committee



ders and special education;
wrestling,

pleted a course in Writing

Kehr Union,

wrestling, and

publication including Teaching Children's

In addition, Sadler has recently

Tuesday, March 5

Leonard Copy,

sciences;

Colleen Marks of communication disor-

Ninth Conference Annual.

in the

Sadler also had three books accepted for

"Postcards from the Edge." Mitrani Hall.
1

tastic in the

derdale,

BU Theater. Carver Hall,

"Reckless,"

Haas Center,


Petersen, tennis, and

Simon

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.


AnThe Peril-

Mike

foundations;

Richard Baker of accounting; Chris
Labosky, tennis, and Mary Ericksen of
marketing and management; Leslie Troglione, tennis, and Mike Herbert of biological and allied health sciences; Scott Zimmerman, track, and faculty emeritus Lynn
Watson, formerly of curriculum and
foundations; Natalie Alansky, track, and
Tom Davies of the Career Development

QUEST — Rock Skills Training.

Sunday, March 3


associate professor of

English, presented a paper titled "H.C.

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 p.m.


by the University of

Chicago Press.

Glenn E. Sadler,

Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 pjn.

Saturday,

The Win-

terthur Portfolio, a journal of material

Diane Tafel, softball, and Julie Wolfe,
Softball, and Martha Patton of ciuriculum
and foundations; Stacey Kurtz, swimming,
and Lorraine Shanoski of curriculum and

Unions International

in

J.

Gaudreau

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
Contributing Writer:

Gwenn

E. Wells

TheCOMMUNIQUE
A newsletter for faculty and staff at Bloomsburg University

March?, 1991

BU experts
equate
Iraqi climate
to civil war
in Lebanon
As

the curtain continues to

fall

on the

theater of desert battlefields in Iraq

and

Kuwait, some Middle East experts worry
that a

fragmented Iraqi government could

delay the hopes of order in the war-torn
region.

Three Bloomsburg professors who teach
courses relating to the people, history, culture,

and government of the Middle East are

forecasting a major "struggle for power"

between the many

They beUeve the
"civil

political parties in Iraq.

conflict could erupt into a

war" similar to the fighting that broke

out in Lebanon after the Vietnam War.
Cultural anthropologist David Minder-

hout suspects Iraq will "become another

Lebanon"

in the very near future. "If the

United States does not commit to a longterm policy in that region, Iraq will frag-

ment

internally with different political

groups struggling for power," he says. "In
the meantime, the Iraqi military will have to

guard the country's borders closely. They

wonder whether or not Iran,
some other neighboring Middle

can't help but
Syria, or

East nation will try to intimidate their country."

Professor Minderhout believes hostilities in the



PHOTO BY JOAN HELFER

IN MEMORIAM
Flags at Bloomsburg University were flown at half staff Feb. 27 to
March 6, in memory of Pennsylvania s brave men and women who lost their lives during
the Persian

Gulf War. The order was issued by Governor Robert P. Casey.

,

Persian Gulf will not end anytime

soon. "Although I doubt that a 'hot war' will
continue, the overall solution

is

not going to

be easy," he says. "American policy

in this

Continued on page 2

2 The Communique March

7,

1991

"There remains the problem of

"I think

Saddam Hussein

eventually be forced out of leader-

between the two Middle East
powers, Iraq and Iran. When one of
those countries experiences a diminishment in power, it enhances

ship, however, if he

bility

the

power of the

"Given the extent ofIraq's defeat

will

trying to put together regional sta-

were out of the
way Iraq' s military wouldbeforced
to watch the political situation very
closely. They realize that the Irani-

and

the disorganization of significant numbers of the military, it is
likely that Iraq will have political

some

troubles for quite

time."

ans and Syriansfind Iraqi resources

other."

— George Turner,

desirable."

BU experts

— David Minder

— Richard

hout,

professor of anthropology

professor of history

Micheri,

assistant professor of political science

political science, agrees that "the collapse

could create opportunities for Iran, Syria,

Continued from page 1
war has focused primarily on removing

of the Iraqi state" could trigger a civil war.

and perhaps Turkey,

"This

politics."

How-

together many peoples, some of whom don ' t

Saddam Hussein from
ever,

now

that

leadership.

we've committed ourselves

to problems in the

Middle East, I belie ve the

United States must focus on issues

in that

part of the world for the long haul."

George Turner of the history department

want

is

to

a possibility because Iraq brings

be

particular,

citizens of Iraq,"

he says. "In

I'm thinking of the Kurds

lo-

But there are also the
Iraq) and Sunnis."

Shiites (in southern

crisis

has not yet surfaced. "There

remains the problem of trying to put

meddle

in Iraqi

professors say they are not sure

whether Saddam Hussein can

retain his

political leadership.

"No one

cated in the northern sector of the country.

really

knows

at this point in

time," says Turner. "President

Bush has

sent clear signals to Iraq encouraging

new

leadership to emerge. Ultimately, the Baath

believes the "hardest part" of the Persian

Gulf

The

to

NBC News

reports that

55 per-

Party or Iraq's military will have to

make

this decision."

to-

gether regional stability between the two

cent of Iraq's population by Shiite

Middle East powers, Iraq and Iran," he

Muslims. The Kurds are the second

Saddam Hussein from power

"When one of those countries experi-

largest group, but make up only 25

easy because "he has survived a long time

ences a diminishment in power, it enhances

percent of the population, while 15

as Iraq's political leader despite the atroci-

says.

the

power of

the other.

Now

that Iraq has

been decimated, Iran has become the domi-

percent are Sunni Muslims, and
five percent are Christians.

nant force in the region."
Professor Turner teaches a course titled

it

strife.

ties he's

to

Minderhout, removing
will not be

performed" to Iraqi

citizens. "It's

hard to underestimate the power of terror,"

he says. "I think Saddam Hussein will eventually be forced out of leadership, however,

ongoing Arab-Israeli

by Shiite Muslims. The
Kurds are the second largest group, but

People who live in the western part of

make up only 25 percent of the population,

he were out of the way Iraq's military
would be forced to watch the political situation very closely. They realize that the Iranians and Syrians find Iraqi resources de-

while 15 percent are Sunni Muslims, and

sirable."

"Contemporary Issues in U.S. History"
which examines American foreign policy
as

NBC News

According

relates to the

the world

"must keep

in

mind

that

demo-

cratic institutions are non-existent" in the

Middle East, "he says. "Because democ-

reports that 55 percent of

Iraq's population

Micheri says Iraqi citizens will be asking

five percent are Christians.

Micheri,

who

if

leaches a course in "Poli-

"lots of questions" of returning

POWs.

severe actions are

says reports of people rioting in the streets

"Given the extent of Iraq's defeat and the
disorganization of significant numbers of

brought against that country by other na-

of Basra and other cities are signs of politi-

the military,

tions in the region."

cal unrest in Iraq.

racy does not exist, Iraq could degenerate
into another

Lebanon

if

Richard Micheri, assistant professor of

tics

and Governments

Iraqi state

in the

"There

is

Middle East,"

danger that the

might coll^se," he says. 'This

it is

likely that Iraq will have

political troubles for

some

time," he says.

— Kevin B.Engler

The Communique March

7,

1991 3

Celebrity Artist Series:

Chestnut Brass
to perform March 15
The Chestnut Brass Company, a

Phila-

delphia-based ensemble, will perform at 8
p.m., Friday,

March

15, in Mitrani Hall of

Haas Center for the Arts.
The concert is part of the university's
1990-91 Celebrity Artist Series.

Founded in 1977, the company has earned
international acclaim as the only musical

ensemble

em

and

to

perform regularly with mod-

historical brass instruments.

A collection of cometti,

sackbutts, sax-

horns and keyed bugles enables the group
to

perform authentic Renaissance and 19th

Century brass music.

An

ensemble-in-residence at Temple

University's Boyer College of Music, the

company has appeared with many Ameri-

tional Public

Radio's "Performance To-

Bloomsburg

can orchestras and performed recitals ex-

day" program. Bavarian S tate Radio, "Voice

Community

The

of America," and many radio stations across

tensively throughout the United States.

group performs more than 100 concerts
Chestnut Brass has been featured on Na-

Admission

and

valid

Tickets can be obtained at the Kehr Union

Information Desk. For more information,

the country.

Tickets are $5 for faculty and

each season.

identification card

Activities sticker.

staff.

call

Nancy Vought

at

389-4201.

— Kevin B. Engler

free for students with a

is

BU Theater's
'Reckless'

combines
live

acting

with videotape
The
les,"

final three

performances of "Reck-

a Bloomsburg Players production that

combines

live action with videotaped seg-

ments on a six-foot screen, will be presented at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and

2 p.m. on Sunday

in

Carver Hall Audito-

rium.

Directed by Michael Collins in collabo-

Radio and TV Programs and
Services, the play marks the first time live
action has been combined with videotaped

ration with

action in a

Bloomsburg University

per-

formance.

'RECKLESS'

CREW — Director Michael Collins,

help from a student

says Collins. 'The audience

is

going

to

have to use some imagination." The direc-

scenes for "Reckless."

lows the bizarre escapades of three characters

— Rachel, a wife

hired by her husband; Lloyd, a man evading

that will "tell the story in an interesting

alimony payments; and Pooty, a paraple-

way."

gic.

ers

found out,

is

much

different than acting

The videotaped scenes depict a televigame show similar

sion talk program and a

many

on the live stage. "It's a whole new medium

to "Let's Make a Deal,"

small theatrical troupes, so Collins and the

for an actor, because you're so close to the

costumes.

Bloomsburg Players have turned to television cameras and a small screen for produc-

camera," says Collins. "The camera changes

tion assistance.

on a stage 30 or 40

28 scenes can present problems

"Obviously, with
play

we

can't

this

for

many scenes in the

do them

all realistically,"

fleeing from killers

move as a "fun challenge"

tor describes the

Acting for the small screen, as the play-

Producing a stage show that consists of

center standing, receives technical

TV production crew in developing

everything.

A

lot

of things that work well
feet

away look fake

in

front of the camera."

Written by Craig Lucas, "Reckless" fol-

complete with zany

Tickets are $5, $3.50 with a student or
senior discount, and free with a Bloomsburg
identification card

Activities sticker.

and valid Community

— Gwenn Evans Wells

4 The Communique March

7,

1991

News Briefs

Calendar

Correction on
University

Paintings, Drawings,

and Prints of



Doug and Barbara Roesch
Haas Gallery, through March 21
Friday,

March 8

"Goodfellas," Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,
7 and 9:30 p.m.

Gay rights official to lecture

BU Theater, Carver Hall,

Saturday,

March 9

QUEST — High Ropes, Upper Campus,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
"Reckless,"
8 p.m.

BU Theater, Carver Hall,

Sunday, March 10

David Stewart of the National Gay and



sion geared toward heterosexuals regard-

Wednesday, March 20 (not March

ing the gay-lesbian

community

Tuesday, March 12,

in the

7 p.m.,

at

Forum of

Women's Center at East Stroudsburg
McCormick Forum, 7 p.m.

University,

call

Mary

Harris

Tuesday, March 12

assistant

bag"session from 12:30-1:30 p.m., Thurs-

sional Studies, presented in-service work-

March 14, in the Kehr Union Blue
Room.
The session, titled "Assumptional Analy-

pline, languagearts, special needs students,

day,

be

facilitated

by Carol Matteson,

dean of the College of Business.
For more information, call Julie Weitz at

389-4449 or Carol Venuto

at

Assistant professors Hussein Fereshteh,

Gary Doby, Donald

Ann

Lee,

shops on classroom management and disci-

and problem-solving
for teachers

in

teaching science

and administrators of

Harrisburg's school districts.

Bruce E. Wilcox,

389-4733.

Pratt, and

dean of the College of Profes-

assistant professor of

Electrochemistry 7

— Electrochemical and

A search and screen process is still being

Spectroelectrochemical Studies on Tech-

conducted to locate a new director for the

netium and Complexes Containing Pol-

Scholars and Honors Program.

ypyridyl Ligands" accepted for pubUcation

The position is open to all university fac-

in the February issue of Inorganic

Chemis-

try.

Friday, April 5, to apply.

"Young Person's Concert,"
University-Community Orchestra,
Carver Hall, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.



Gay-Lesbian Discussion
featuring
David Stewart of National Gay-Lesbian
Task Force PoUcy Institute,

McCormick Forum, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 13

For a complete listing of duties and addi-

Cindy Surmacz
389-4132 or Carol Arnold at 389-4015.

tional information, call

A

QUEST, an outdoor adventure program,
will sponsor a special "adults only"

moun-

and hiking trip to the high desert
region of Canyonlands, Utah, during spring
to April 1.

Cost

is

— does

$250

not in-

Thursday, March 14

Grants workshop scheduled
The Pennsylvania Humanities Council
will sponsor a grant counseling workshop
from 9 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, March
20, in the AmaudC. Marts Center at Wilkes

Kehr Union,

— "Assumptional

Analysis," with Carol Matteson, Blue
Room, Kehr Union, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

in

advance to The Communique, Office of

17815.

BU is committed to providing equal educational

and employment opportunities for

all

persons without regard to race, color, rehgion,

$340.

For more information,

summer months.

Please submit story ideas at least two weeks

Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

"Entre Nous," (French with English
subtitles). Multipurpose Room A,
Kehr Union, 3 p.m.; Mitrani Hall,
Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

11 a.m.

during the

University Relations and Communication,

Faculty and staff members are invited to
participate.

Communique publishes

news of events and developments at BU each
week through the academic year and bi-weekly

tain biking

—March 28

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

faculty and staff, The

clude roundtrip airfare of approximately

— Jack White,

The Communique

at

QUEST to sponsor adult trip

break week



Mock Rape Trial
sponsored by BU
Women's Center, Carver Hall, 7 p.m.

"Brown Bag" Session

Campus Notes

'Brown Bag' session scheduled
The Teaching and Learning Enhancement Committee will sponsor a "brown

ulty members. Interested persons have until

billiard trick-shot artist,

Services Center.

Services Center.

For more information,
at 389-4281.

Search, screen process continues

"Feminism and War: From Vietnam to
Today," with Sherri Moses, director of

Special Entertainer

13),

Forum of McCormick Human

in the

chemistry, had a paper titled "Technetium

Monday, March 11

the

The next meeting of the Bloomsburg
University Forum will be held at 3 p.m .,

sis," will

Faculty Recital
featuring
Terry Oxley, clarinet; and John Couch,
piano, Carver Hall, 2:30 p.m.

meeting date

here

Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute in
Washington, D.C., will present a discus-

McCormick Human
"Reckless,"
8 p.m.

Forum

sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

call

Roy Smith at

389-4468.

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or union

mem-

bership.

University in Wilkes-Barre.

To register or receive more information,
call

1-800-462-0442.

The

university

is

to affirmative action

additionally committed

and

will take positive

steps to provide such educational

and em-

ployment opportunities.
Editor: Kevin B. Engler

Assistant Editor: Jo A.

DeMarco

J. Gaudreau
Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
Contributing Writer: Gwenn E. Wells

Editorial Assistant: Christina

f

\

TheCOMMUNIQUE
A newsletter for faculty and staff at Bloomsburg University

March

14,

1991

SSHE

chancellor advocates legislative support
for higher education during campus visit

With a state government budget deficit of
more than $731 million, the chief executive

"We must not forget that our

officer of Pennsylvania's public university

universities exist for students.

system says he will not "give up" or become

It

"discouraged" during these woeful eco-

work

nomic

times.

But, says James H.
lor

McCormick, chancel-

System

is

me

to

we've got

to get the

general

to

citi-

zenry of Pennsylvania to care

enough about our

of the State System of Higher Educa-

tion, "the State

seems

universities

so they will understand that

going to face

some difficult decisions."
McCormick, who discussed the system's

it's in

their best interest to in-

vest in public higher educa-

appropriation needs with area legislators

and more than 100 faculty,

staff,

tion.
stu-

Bloomsburg

dents in separate sessions at
last

and

Friday, said the 14 state-owned univer-

— James H. McCormick,

must "keep our eyes on the dream"

SSHE Chancellor

sities

and not

let

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

the current budgetary status

deter the priority of maintaining "high

91 included an Educational and General

quality" education at an affordable price.

(E&G)

"1 can't

remember any time when we've

faced as difficult an issue as right now," he
said.

"We've got

Appropriation of $348,409,000,

System," he added.

"We

asked for $400 million

tional

keep our eyes on the dream, the hope, and

92," said

and what they can be

.

.

.

because

this

To meet mandatory and inflationary cost
McCormick said the State System
Board of Governors approved a 1991-92
hikes,

appropriation request of

"more than $400
meeting

million" ($400,502,312) at

its

October. "This request

an increase of

is

last

more than $38 million ($38,590,312), or
10.66 percent, over last year's combined
slate appropriation,"

State

McCormick. "This

getting $361
treated

that

he said.

System funding in fiscal year 1990-

year, we're

we were

miUion, but

worse than any other

sector.

state

not

There

government

had serious cuts of 50 or 60 percent."

McCormick admits, however,

increases while controlling large tuition

Educa-

and General Appropriations for 1 99 1 -

were some parts of the

(budgetary shortfall) will pass."

in

that state

$425

needed across the State

that are desperately

Challenge Grant program, he added.

to try to avoid getting

what our universities are

also have requests totalling

plus another $ 1 3,503,000 from the Tuition

caught up in the short term problems and

the belief about

"We

million in additional construction projects

"I believe that

some-

time in the '90s, hopefully earlier than

later,

we'll need a major infusion of cash into the

physical plant infrastructure of our system.

However, most of the money will be used to
refurbish the buildings that are

The chancellor said
vating or building

now

here."

the problem of reno-

new

residence halls,

dining halls, and student unions "has been

funding of deferred maintenance projects

taken care of," but construction projects

remains "a serious problem" for State

needed

System

"We

million last year and

.

.

we got zero," he said.

was given authority to 'float' bonds, and the

approved by the legislature and signed
.

.

.

waiting to be funded.

Your (Bloomsburg 's Andruss)
one of those

improve academic buildings

remains an issue. "The Board of Governors

"We have $225 million worth of projects
by the Governor

to

asked for $17

universities.

projects.

library

is

cash flow to pay for the bonds, which has
resolved our residence hall, student union,

and dining

hall

problems," he said. "The

trouble is with the academic buildings which.

Continued on page 2

Communique March

2 The

14,

1991

Bloomsburg panel discusses importance

SSHE

of feminine perspective in history

visits

"Tradition has privileged only one voice;
it

necessary education, said Badami.

Even when women do

has given us, at best, only partial knowl-

edge, yet it has claimed universaUty, objec-

chancellor

campus

Continued from page

write, their writ-

in

1

my opinion, are the primary reasons we
There

no cash flow

philosophy

ing is often judged "deficient" by a society
accustomed to judging by traditional, male-

professor Maijorie Clay last week during a

oriented standards, she said. Contemporary

The House Appropriations Committee

scholars are challenging those standards,

recently put together a special study team

she added, by exploring possible innate

thatconfirmed the faciUty problems at State

tivity,

and absolute

truth," said

panel discussion celebrating

women's

his-

tory month.

"Until you include the feminine, the
feminist perspective,

you can't have

real

To illustrate her point,

truth," she stressed.

she read aloud from a well-thumbed Indian
fable

"The BUnd

Men

and the Elephant,"

praising the rajah in the story
six blind

who

men, each touching a

differences in the

perceive the world and express those perceptions,
itself,

and deficiencies

in

our language

including a lack of words to

women's

name

experiences.

Jeanette Keith, an assistant professor of

helped

different

way men and women

history, stressed the importance of women'

part of an elephant, piece together their

history as part of social history. Stereotypi-

perceptions to discover the animal as a

cal history focuses

whole.

dates and

"The rajah

is

out the whole,

right," said Clay.

"To

we must

the parts

put

all

find

Clay was one of four panelists

who

ad-

dressed the discussion topic "Nurturing
Tradition, Foster Change," sponsored

by

Campus Wide Committee on Human

Speaking

on

"Women's Voices,

Silences,"

Mary Badami,

chair-

person of the department of communication studies, told the

group

that society

and

work in a variety of ways "to
keep women's voices from being heard,"
individuals

Such

to

pay for the

System
"It's

universities, noted

McCormick.

a major agenda, but we've received

good support from the House Appropriations Committee and the General Assembly," he said. "Now we've got to get the
people of Pennsylvania to understand

problem and

to

buy

this

into the solution."

on war and poUtics,
names of famous men while ignoring "deep socioeconomic changes"
involving work, family Ufe and structure,

in

which they make them," she said.
"The history of women is history of the

human

majority of the
Keith.

"Women

race,"

factors not only deprive

women of

the confidence to acknowledge their voices,

but also the time to reflect and to write, and
the support

and encouragement

to gain the

reminded

have been more and done

more than men have ever been

Relations.

Women's

is

bonds."

and the "choices people make and context

together."

the

exist.

willing to

acknowledge."

The remedy
than "adding

to the

women

said. "It requires a

imbalance
to text

is

more

books," she

new way of looking

at

the subject," including an acknowledge-

ment that the "arts
be accorded

that

made Hfe possible"

at least the

same

attention as

the "arts of war."

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFEK

ATTENTIVE GROUP

— Members of

staff last week
hear Chancellor James H.

Bloomsburg' s faculty and
listen to

McCormick addressfunding needsfor the
State System of Higher Education.

Jody Heckman, a junior business adContinued on page 3

If the desired level

of state funding

is

received for next year, McCormick said the
State

System could

limit the tuition in-

crease for Pennsylvania residents to a

maximum

of $100, or an increase of 4.4

percent.

"We must not forget that our universities
exist for students,"

we've got

he said.

"It

seems to me

to woric to get the general

citi-

zenry of Pennsylvania to care enough about

our universities so they will understand that
it's in their

best interest to invest in public

higher education."

McCormick beheves

the

"most impor-

tant resources" in Pennsylvania are

its

people.

"We've got

to

<3

the state funding

TELLING THE STORY

— Philosophy professor Marjorie Clay

feminist perspective must play in nurturing tradition

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFER
illustrates the role the

and fostering change.

make

we

the point clear that

receive goes toward

investing in the development of the people

of Pennsylvania," he said.

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The Communique March

14,

1991 3

'Killing Fields'

survivor recalls
wrath of

Khmer Rouge
during

War

Vietnam

A survivor of the
Dith Pran

'

'Cambodian holocaust,"

a powerful reminder of Khmer

is

Rouge atrocities and a civil war that continues in a country ruled by a coalition govern-

ment.

The

inspiration for

and co-author of the

award- winning film, "The Killing Fields,"
brought the painful reality of his war-torn

homeland, Cambodia, to Bloomsburg

week as

last

the second Provost's Lecturer this

am

not a hero, nor

am

said Pran. "I

sion

is

people

A

to tell the
still

am

I

a politician,"

a messenger whose mis-

world that Cambodian

and need help."

suffer

photojoumalist for The

New

They had no hearts at all. They became monsters.

Vietnamese and Viet Cong invaded Cambodian

territory to fuel a civil

war with

South Vietnam. Cambodia's neutral gov-

ernment was overthrown
York

rime^, Pran 's extraordinary friendship with

newspaper correspondent Sydney Schanberg helped both men live to tell the story of

Khmer Rouge brutalities in the 1970s. Pran,
who escaped from a Cambodian prison
camp in 1979, is a United Nations ambassador-at-large.

in 1970 and the
war eventually led
to the rise of the Khmer Rouge, backed by
communist Red China.
"They turned Cambodia upside down,"
said Pran, explaining how the regime de-

resulting full-scale civil

The message of 'The Killing Fields"
stressed Pran.

it's

accurate,

He said film

is

it's real,"

back to share power," Pran said.
The civil war and world immigration

economy

poHcies have also resulted

to an agricultural base,

and

three million

Cambodians, nearly half the

"They even emptied

the hospitals

and

"minimized brutality and violence" to avoid

allowed the patients to die," he said. "They

alienating the audience.

had no hearts at all. They became monsters.

sites attracted

He

millions of visitors each year.

to seek a

The

new

conflict

war forced

career.

began

in

1968 when North

Bloomsburg panel

around for extra food," said Pran,

describing a diet that included reptiles and
insects such as grasshoppers, crickets,

and

ministration

own generation.
When women possess

her

they have "every right" to pursue a career or

States, said Pran, provides

support the

Khmer Rouge. He

urged his

audience to use their voices to spread his

message and help stop support of coalition

gry, everything tastes delicious," he said.

"When you

he

eat leaves, leaves taste like

said.

lettuce."

further their education, that they are not

— Gwenn Evans Wells

which gender differences are not
suppressed but observed and celebrated."
world

in

Demographics may help

fuel such

changes, said Heckman, predicting the

said.

"Our dream

is

to strike a healthy balance

reduced labor pool of her "baby bust" gen-

power

between our private and public lives by

eration will provide bargaining

having a successful family and a successful

force employers to offer better pay and

career,"

the attitude that

The United

non-lethal aid such as food and medicine to

"The Khmer Rouge survives because we

one measure of the success of the women's

movement has been "the ease with which it
has been taken for granted" by members of

people, not the leadership."

support the coalition that supports them,"

everyone's attitudes begin to change, she

and management major, said

embargo that only serves to punish "the real

"When you're starving, when you're hun-

simply being granted privileges, then
Continued from page 2

as

and the war.

termites.

claims to have worked in the tourist

industry before the outbreak of

him

"You had to learn how to steal to survive,
to look

many

in as

300,000 Cambodian refugees "trapped
between the East and the West," he noted.
Another effect has been a Western trade

country's population.

editors actually

The violence stands in stark contrast to
pre-civil war Cambodia, saidPran. Recalled
his homeland a largely Buddhist, peace
loving nation where historic and religious

Today, Vietnam and Soviet-aligned
communist control a 12-member Supreme
National Council that includes members
from the Khmer Rouge and two non-communist factions. The coahtion is a constant
affront to survivors of holocaust. "The
Cambodian people who love justice cannot
understand why these criminals are coming

stroyed religious institutions, restricted the

prompted the killing or starvation of two to

strong "because

"They turned Cambodia upside down,"

said Dith Pran during his lecture at Bloomsburg last week. "They even emptied the
hospitals and allowed the patients to die.

spring.
"I

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

REMEMBERING THE KHMER ROUGE —

to

Heckman

noted.

"We

change places with men.

places for

women.

We

don't want

We want better

want

to create a

benefits, including flexible hours
care.

to

and day

— Gwenn Evans Wells

4 The Communique March

14, 1991

News Briefs

Calendar
Paintings, Drawings,

and Prints of



Doug and Barbara Roesch
Haas Gallery, through March 21
Friday,

March

15

Room

show of works

Nationally acclaimed artist Mel Chin will

recently addressed senior officials of the

mon and Uncommon Ground"

United States Agency for International

A reception

low Chin's presentation

at

In addition, a discussion
Celebrity Artist Series:

students

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

QUEST — Pine Barrens Canoe Weekend,
through March 17 in New Jersey

at

March 16

Sunday, March 17
"Entre Nous," Kehr Union,
1

IMAGE program:
Sign-Song Show, Mitiani Hall,

Elbert, historian at



Freshman Year Experience Newsletter.
The article was based on actual experi-

Human

"BaFa BaFa" game during recent summer
orientation programs at Bloomsburg Uni-

Services Center.

in

call Jeanette
at

Wednesday, March 20
"Days of Thunder," Mitrani Hall
Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Harry C. Strine HI, director of forenwas reelected to a two-year term as

sics,

president of the Collegiate Forensic Association.

The announcement was made at a recent

Keith at

The Communique

TV/Radio Services honored

A

TV and Radio Services recently earned a
Area United Way
ing

"How

to

for assistance in

promot-

Mary Tyler Moore which

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

faculty and staff. The

Convnunique ^nhMshts

news of events and developments at BU each
week through the academic year and bi-weekly
during the

Raise a Drug-Free Child," a

drug abuse prevention program hosted by

"Pictures

summer months.

Please submit story ideas at least two weeks
in

advance to The Communique, Office of

University Relations and Communication,

aired last

fall.

Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

B U is committed to providing equal educa-

From Home," a three-minute

video segment produced by
Cooper and Darren Reighard of Radio and

students Jeff

TV

Services, will air on

March

BUTV

19-22, and at 9 p.m.,

at 1 p.m.,

March 19-21,

as a tribute to area servicemen and

who were

women

stationed in the Middle East

"Area residents and local businesses who
have displayed ribbons and flags may find

Carver Hall, 8 p.m.; sponsored by the
their efforts featured in the

director

video.

tional

and employment opportunities for

all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or

union

mem-

bership.

The

university

is

additionally committed

to affirmative action and

wUI take

steps to provide such educational

positive

and em-

ployment opportunities.

during the war with Iraq.
to Patty

Hearst," featuring Elizabeth Fuller,

Committee

participated in the

17815.

"Days of Thunder," Mitrani Hall,
Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Relations

who

versity.

389-4679.

BUTV to air tribute to troops

Human

ences of freshman

CFA meeting.

March.

Tuesday, March 19

— Pocahontas

— Teaches

Bingham ton, will present "Louisa May Alcott: The Other Civil War" at 7 p.m., Monday, March 18, in the Forum of McCormick

volunteer service award from the Berwick

Workshop
featuring Sarah Elbert, historian
at SUNY-Binghamton, Room 135, Science
Hall, 4 p.m.; both activities are sponsored by
the Human Relations Committee

Lecture:

had an artitie tided "BaFa BaFa

The Other

SUNY-Binghamton, McCormick Fonmi,

"Beside Herself

World

Diversity" accepted for publication in the

389-4167 or Barbara Barnes
Alcott:

that assist people in Third

and developing nations.
His presentation, delivered at the State
Department in Washington, D.C., focused
on "Making Abstract Concepts Understandable" and "Relating International Events to

Sandie Walker, director of orientation,

historian to lecture here

For information,

Haas Center, 8 p.m.

7 p.m.;

Bums

and

New York (SUNY) at

Month

War," featuring Sarah

Carol

call

segment for Alcott' s book titled
"Moods." She recentiy authored her own
book tided "A Hunger for Home: Louisa
May Alcott's Place in American Culture."
The lecture, sponsored by the Human
Relations Committee, is part of a series of
programs diat observe Women's History

Monday, March 18

Civil

BU

to 3:30 p.m. in

tion

Sign-Song Show, Mitrani Hall,
Haas Center, 2 p.m.

— "Louisa May

1

Elbert was editor and wrote the introduc-

p.m.

IMAGE program:

Lecture

and critique of

State,

a Local Level."

State University of

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

A,

scheduled from

Development, Department of

administrators of independent non-profit

programs

1:30 a.m.

1

Sarah Elbert, professor of history at the

QUEST — Rock Climbing,

Room

will fol-

389-4853.

SUNY

Multipurpose

is

Haas Gallery.
For more information,

8 p.m.

Mocanaqua,

10 a.m.,

Chin's work, and works produced by

Chestnut Brass,

Saturday,

at

Kehr Union

18, in the

Presidents' Lounge.

A, 7 p.m.

Walter Brasch, professor of journalism
mass communications department,

in the

conduct a slide presentation tided "Com-

Monday, March

"Entre Nous," Kehr Union,

Multipurpose

Artist to present slide

Campus Notes

program," says

Tom Joseph, who edited the short

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

Assistant E^ditor: Jo A.

DeMarco

Editorial Assistant: Christina

J.

Gaudreau

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
Contributing Writer: Gwenn E. Wells

TheCOMMUNIQUE
A newsletter for faculty and staff at Bloomsburg University

March

21, 1991

Former student donates $100,000
to renovate
Kenneth

Gross of Bryn

S.

Carver auditorium

Mawr

his

alma mater, Bloomsburg University, as

tion of a

proposed 80,000-square-foot rec-

reation center last week.

Estimated to cost $6.34 million, the newly

auditorium in Carver Hall.
last

a referendum vote of 378 to 301,

Bloomsburg students approved construc-

to

a "lead gift" for renovating an 800-seat

At

of recreation center
By

has

made a second contribution of $100,000

Students vote in favor

week's quarterly meeting of the

proposed center, including an indoor run-

university's council of trustees, the^audito-

ning track, nautilus equipment, and basket-

rium was officially named

ball

in

honor of the

and racquetball
on the site adjacent
the lower campus.

benefactor.

"The years

spent in Bloomsburg were

I

courts,

would be built
on

to the tennis courts

very special to me," Gross says, recalling
close friendships with classmates, faculty

and townspeople.
friends that

I

met while attending school

the university.

Now,

something back."

laniero, assistant vice president

for development, said

Gross directed

his

contribution toward phase three of the

university's $3.5 million fund-raising

campaign. "Ken Gross's donation

to the

Academic Excellence Fund of

tion center so they

the

cam-

place

GENEROUS DONOR— Former student
Kenneth

S.

Gross recently contributed a

second $100,000
president and

gift to

recrea-

can have a

Tri-State

—a
of
devices — which he and
retailer

Alarm

out in a weight room. Right now,
tivities around the practice

hours

security alarm

his brother started

in their

play intramural basket-

they have to schedule their ac-

owner of

Co., Inc.

to

ball games, racquetball, or work

Bloomsburg.

of the varsity athletic teams."

hometown of Philadelphia in 1977.

paign will provide the lead gift for renovat-

During the next 11 years, the Gross
brothers opened Tri-State businesses

ing the auditorium in Carver Hall," he said.

throughoutFlorida,New Jersey, New York

The auditorium

university's 'Trust for Generations'

new

at

have an opportunity

I

to give the university

Anthony

"Students need a

"1 often think of the close

— Joel Tolbert
CGA

President

used frequently to sup-

and Pennsylvania. They also owned and

port a variety of academically related pro-

operated outlets in the Atlanta, Ga., Balti-

grams.

more, Md., Memphis, Tenn., and Wash-

The recreation center would ease the overcrowded conditions that currently exist at
Centennial Gymnasium and Nelson Field

ington, D.C., metropoHtan areas.

House, says Joel Tolbert, president of the

is

"In recognition of his generous contributions to the university's mission," laniero

Gross, 37, gained sole possession of Tri-

added, "the university's council of trustees

State five years ago, however, he sold the

has unanimously agreed to designate the

business last September to another secu-

naming of

rity

this

800-seat facility in Ken's

honor."

Gross,

who donated $100,000

to the

December 1989 which helped
to create a new student scholarship program, attended Bloomsburg as an underuniversity in

graduate student from 1970-74.

He

is

past

systems operation.

He presently serves

Community Government Association.
"Students need a new recreation center so
they can have a place to play intramural
basketball games, racquetball, or

work out

weight room," he says. "Right now,

as president of the Kenneth S. Gross In-

in a

vestment Group

Ardmore.

they have to schedule their activities around

my

the practice hours of the varsity athletic

"This
noted.

Bryn

gift is

He and

Mawr

in

from

family," Gross

his wife, Kristine, reside in

with their two children.

— Kevin B. Engler

teams."

According

to Tolbert, students presently

Continued on page 3

Communique March

2 The

21, 1991

Hugh O'Brian

Actor

Hugh O Brian who played "Wyatt Earp"
,

'

husband's death

in

BU

honorary degree from

to receive

1964, Mrs. Wilson con-

The

recipients are:

1950s and early 1960s television

tinued to live in the house and rented rooms

•Richard D. Alderfer, a former professor

show, will receive an honorary "Doctor of

to university students through the early

of communication studies who taught more

Humane

1980s.

than 23 years at the university;

The announcement was made at last
week s quarterly meeting of the university s

The house, adjacent to the university's
Centennial Gymnasium, was later owned
by local banker Edward J. Healy Jr. It was

fessor of communication disorders and

council of trustees.

purchased by the university

years at the university;

in the late

Letters" degree this spring from

Bloomsburg.

'

'

The veteran

who

actor,

established the

Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation in 1958,
made it possible for the university to play
host to several high school students from

Union during

the Soviet

the

summers of

1989 and '90.

HOBY's Homestay

Project

— an

interna-

tional student leadership exchange program

— which

is

"Upward
Bound" program.
Wilson was bom May 29, 1889, in Philipsburg. He came to the Bloomsburg area in
presently houses the institution's

1923 as an English instructor at the university

Their visits to Bloomsburg were part of

arranged through private fund-

ing from the foundation.

1988 and

in

— then known

as

Bloomsburg

State

the institution

Bloomsburg

special education

was renamed

State Teachers College in

1927, Wilson was appointed as head of the

•Donald A. Vannan, a former professor
department of curriculum and foun-

dations

ship potential in high school students and

taught

capacity until his retirement in 1951.

On "Alumni Day"

in

May

1963, then

Food

service facility

ficially

The program affords high schoolers, who
to 17 years,

from the

United States and other countries opportu-

home named

in other nations.

in

memory

of late English professor

I

have ever

known."
Wilson received a bachelor of arts degree
at Bucknell University in Lewisburg and a
master of arts degree from Columbia University in New York City.
In addition, he conducted graduate work
at New York University and Harvard Uni-

The former residence of longtime English faculty member Samuel L. Wilson has
officially been named in memory of the late

versity in

professor.

Former

He

Cambridge, Mass.

died April

1,

from the

his wife, Katherine,

and son,

Four recent facul ty retirees at Bloomsburg
institution.

The announcement was made

at last

William, hved in the house located at 720

week's quarterly meeting of the university's

Second

council of trustees.

Bloomsburg. Following her

St. in

DATE BATTERING

— Bloomsburg

Women's Center employees Heather
Dy as-Fried of Bloomsburg and Jim
Palmer of

Millville, pictured at right,

portray "Sarah," avictim of date battering,

and "Ben," her companion.

The issue was examined before an audience of more than 100 university students on Wednesday,

purpose

March

Room A ofKehr

6, in Multi-

Union.

The program was scheduled as part of
the university' s

observance.

Women

s History

Month

council of trustees.

"Monty's was built to accommodate stu-

who live in the Montgomery Apartment Complex," says Jennie Carpenter,

dents

assistant vice president for residence

new

life,

student housing units

campus two years ago.
faculty receive emeritus status

have received "Faculty Emeritus" status

Wilson and

at last

week' s quarterly meeting of the university's

constructed near the university's upper

council of trustees.

'

'Monty's'

been named "Monty's."
The announcement was made

referring to the

1964, at age 74.

The announcement was made at last
week s quarterly meeting of the university s
'

named

on Bloomsburg's upper campus has of-

fall

Historic

at the uni-

A food service facility which opened last

as "one of the greatest teachers

and learn

more than 24 years

The retirements of all four former faculty
members became effective in January.

president Harvey A. Andruss hailed Wilson

nities to visit

than 29 years at

versity.

throughout the world.

age from 14

more

taught

and
•Lynn A. Watson, a former professor in
theciuriculum and foundations department

provide them with learning experiences

in

who

the university;

English department and served in that

HOBY's purpose is to recognize leader-

range

who taught more than 24

in the

who

Normal School.

When

•James T. Reifer, a former associate pro-

"It's an extension

of the university 's food

service operation," she noted.

— Kevin B. Engler

The Communique March 21, 1991 3

AIDS epidemic
America
A

gay

activist

faces, says
some

shared

personal statistics with faculty,

painfully
staff,

and

Bloomsburg last week and
warned his audience that the AIDS epidemic could pose greater danger to the
nation than any foreign power.
students at

"Fifty percent of the people that I knew in

1978 and 1979 are dead now," says David
Stewart, operations

manager

for the

Gay and Lesbian Task Force

tional

Institute in

Na-

Policy

Washington, D.C. "I believe the

greatest threat to this country has
the

'greatest threat'

come

gay rights

activist

"Someone

gay," he said.

room

in this

is

going to have a gay son or a lesbian daugh-

Think about what kind of a world you
want them to grow up in."
ter.

On

several occasions, Stewart stressed

homosexuality

that

not a matter of per-

is

sonal choice. "If I had a choice,

I

would be

stupid not to choose being straight," he
said. "I

my

would have had a

lot less trouble in

life.

This

is

a gender issue because there

is

a
PHOTO BY JOAN HELfEX

in

form of a virus, and we're totally unpre-

Ten years from now, when you look
this, you might agree with me."
More than 200 people crowded into

direct relation

between sexism and heter-

osexism." Stewart said he prefers the term

pared.

heterosexism to homophobia because the

back on

discrimination he faces

McCormick Forum to hear
tided "Hey! Gay? OK!"

Stewart's talk

know how

to prevent

them-

selves from being infected,"said Stewart.

As an

interpreter signed the speech for

the hearing impaired, Stewart indicated that

says Stewart.

He

"cut both ways," often discouraging straight

men who want

to

pursue careers

such as theater and the

in areas

.

to prevent

themselvesfrom being infected"

with the AIDS virus, says gay rights activ-

David Stewart.

I saw Olivia de Havilland float into Errol
Rynn's arms on the set of Captain Blood, I
wanted to be in Errol Rynn's arms."

But growing up gay

in Frostburg,

Md., a

"men

of Bloomsburg," proved an exceptionally

an emotionally sup-

lonely experience, Stewart said. His per-

Prevailing attitudes also prevent

cism also directed at minorities, women,

portive way," says Stewart,

and handicapped individuals. As a society,

negative feedback from others

we have a long way to go in learning how to

hugs his younger brother

in

.

small university town and a "mirror image

arts.

from being friends

em-

is gay,"

said sexual stereotypes

"Everyone

whether straight or gay, should know how

ist

sexual.

homosexuals face forms of social ostra-

deal with differences," said Stewart,

the

expectation" that the world should be hetero-

"Noteveryone that's 'effeminate'

"Everyone in this room, whether straight
or gay, should

"comes from

WORDS OF ADVICE —

who

The former member of a

who

faces

when he

sonal survival

mechanisms and lack of self-

esteem eventually attracted him to "heavy
drug and alcohol" usage.

is straight.

Pittsburgh gay

prompted a

Today, substance abuse
past for Stewart

is

a thing of the

who describes himself as a

phasizing that "being different" can be a

and lesbian

positive thing. Stewart urged his audience

successful ordinance to prohibit discrimi-

"professional" homosexual. "Those words

nation on basis of sexual orientation, he

don't have the stigma they used to have.

recalled his awareness of being attracted to

The

men

lot

to take a stand against violence

and

dis-

crimination directed at homosexuals.

"Recognized sources estimate roughly
10 percent of the general population

is

rights

group

that

since the age of two-and-a-half. "I

didn't have a

word

for

it,

but

I

a

is

me

today

is that I

have a

— Gwenn Evans Wells

knew when

However, he noted, the next step

Student vote favors

difference in

of self-esteem," he noted.

tant,"

he says. "But what some of our

we

stu-

"feasibility study" that will cost approxi-

dents don't understand

recreation center

mately $26,000. "The Community Gov-

permitted to have a student referendum for

Continued from page

ernment Association has approved funding

an educational

1

have difficulty when trying to plan activities at either

gymnasium. "It's hard to use
equipment in Nelson be-

for a study through the student reserve

account," Trathen says.

"When the study is

the facilities or

completed, we'll report the findings

cause they're always reserved for the var-

Council of Trustees

same problems
and the equipment is in

teams," he says. "The

sity

exist in Centennial,

poor condition."

really

If

next quarterly

John Trathen. Students,

from the
nors at

trustees,

start,"

construction

he says.

is

scheduled

to



such as recreation centers,

residence halls, and student unions



System

feels

an obligation

to

provide edu-

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," he says.
To provide adequate auxiliary facilities

be broken.
Trathen noted some students voted against

when

buildings

July meeting before ground can

its

the recreation center because they believe

1992

construction or renovation of "auxiliary"

cational facilities, such as classroom build-

referendum, "will begin paying

the additional fee per semester, in the fall of

facility."

System does not consider

must then seek final approval
State System's Board of Gover-

who voted on a $60 fee increase per semester in the

State

are not

"priority projects," says Trathen. "The Slate

June."

in

approved by the university's

the council

Construction and operation of the center
would be paid by student fees, says student
activities director

meeting

at their

to the

The

is that

other projects, such as building a
brary, are

more important.

these students that a library

new

li-

"I agree with
is

more impor-

ings and libraries, for the students of the

on campus, the Bloomsburg administrator
says the university sometimes must ap-

proach

The

its

student body for financial help.

university "has always conducted a

Continued on page 4

4 The Communiqui March 21, 1991

News Briefs

Calendar
Friday,

March 22

Women's Conference

recreation center

PALS

to be shutdown March 27-28
The PALS online catalog system

Art Exhibit,

Coffeehouse and Presidents's Lounge,

Kehr Union (opening of exhibit)

Saturday,

Student vote favors

in

Andruss Library will not be available on
Wednesday, March 27, and Thursday,
March 28.
During those days, advanced software
be installed to enhance the online cata-

March 23

will

log and circulation systems.

New

Spring Break recess begins

March 31)

(no classes through Sunday,

and the

MARC

editor for

online cataloging.

1



featur-

Spring Semester classes resume
(beginning at 6 p.m.)

County Community College Band
be held



Tuesday, April

at 8 p.m.,

will

2, in

Mitrani Hall of Haas Center for the Arts.

Tuesday, April 2

Admission

BU Concert Band, Catawissa

Military Band, and Luzerne

County

Community College Band,
Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 p.m.

to a

referendum vote by the

stu-

its

vote on univer-

sity issues requesting their approval contin-

ues to be a problem.

"Despite our efforts to get the word out
across campus,

we

had a low vote

.

ment

.

.

typically

even

have always

in student

govern-

elections," he says.

Trathen notes that last week's voter turn-

is free.

Deadline set for Ben Franklin Grants

The deadline
Grant funding

to apply for



to

Ben Franklin

develop and apply

technology for business, and create and
preserve jobs in Pennsylvania



is

Friday,

April 19.
featuring weavings and

Mark

sculptures of Bhakti Ziek and

Goodwin, Haas Gallery, through
Saturday, April 20

To

center constitutes "majority rule" despite
the small

number

— about 10 percent — of

who participated.

students

"If all goes well, the recreation center

be completed during the 1993-94 academic year," he added.
will

— Kevin B. Engler

receive application packets, call the

Grants Office at 389-4129. For technical
advice and assistance, call Larry Seibert at

717-368-3153.

The Communique

Friday, April 5

Summer

QUEST — Rafting and River Rescue
Training, Lehigh River, 6 p.m.

Orientation schedule set

Dates for the university's 1991

by the Orientation Office. They

Saturday, April 6

Summer

Orientation programs have been arranged

•Summer Freshmen



are:

— June 16-18.

Freshmen
June 23-25; July
July 21-23; and July 28-30.

•Fall

Training, Lehigh River, 8 a.m.

returning adult (non-traditional) students

evening orientation will be held for

Orientation for transfer students will be

Willow Run Inn, 6 p.m.

Sunday, April 7

summer months.

Please submit story ideas at least two weeks
in

advance to The Communique, Office of

University Relations and Communication,

Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
17815.

tional

and employment opportunities for

all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,

held on Saturday, Aug. 24.

For additional information,

The Communique pxibhshes
news of events and developments at BU each
week through the academic year and bi-weekly

BU is committed to providing equal educa-

on Thursday, Aug. 22.
President's Ball,

newsleuer for Bloomsburg University

during the

16;

An

A

faculty and staff.

14-

QUEST — Rafting and River Rescue

sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

call

Sandie

Walker at 389-4595.

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or

union

mem-

bership.

Student Recital

— featuring Susan

Versailles, soprano,
pianist.

and

to

out to approve construction of a recreation

"An Evening of Band Music,"



been put

Kehr Union)

expansion of Kehr Union, has

student body to register

2

ing the university's Concert Band,

Art Exhibit

this year's

But, admits Trathen, getting the entire

Band concert scheduled April
"An Evening of Band Music"

Catawissa's Military Band, and the Luzerne

featuring

"Everything we've done, from converting a bowling alley (which was turned into

dents."

Women's Conference

Monday, April

or renovating auxiliary facilities, says
Trathen.

the 'Hideaway' lounge in

installments include acquisitions,

serials control,

Continued from page 3
referendum student vote" before authorizing an additional fee to pay for constructing

Meg

Geisser,

Carver Hall Auditorium,

Next Communique April 4
The Communique' will not be published
on Thursday, March 28, due to the spring

university is additionally committed

wiU take

steps to provide such educational

positive

and em-

ployment opportunities.

break recess.

2:30 p.m.

The next

QUEST — Bird Watching,
Montour Preserve, 6:30 a.m.

The

to affirmative action and

to

noon

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

issue of the faculty and staff

Assistant Editor: Jo A.

DeMarco

newsletter will be published on Thursday,

Editorial Assistant: Christina

April 4.

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
Contributing Writer:

Gwenn

J.

E.

Gaudreau
Wells

TheCOMMUNIQUE
A newsletter for faculty and staff at Bloomsburg University

April 4, 1991

Hugh O'Brian

to receive

address graduates at
Hugh O'Brian, whose
gram

for high school

May commencement
This year, 86 HOBY leadership seminars

leadership pro-

sophomores brought

honorary degree,

will

be held throughout the United

States,

teenagers from the Soviet Union to

as well as Canada, Mexico, and the Baha-

Bloomsburg the past two summers, has ac-

mas. More than 12,000 "outstanding" 10th

cepted an invitation to speak at the

graders from the United States, represent-

university's

Commencement Convocation

ceremony on Saturday, May 11, at the
Bloomsburg Fairgrounds.
The veteran television and screen actor,
who founded the Hugh O'Brian Youth
Foundation

(HOBY)

in

1958 to "seek out,

recognize, and reward" leadership potential in

high school sophomores, will receive

an honorary doctor of humane

letters de-

number of high schools, will
The international event
be held this summer in Chicago, 111.

ing an equal

attend the seminars.
will

HOBY's mission is to
how to think. "I do
NOT believe we are all bom equal ... but
O'Brian believes

teach future leaders

I

DO

believe every

man and woman,

if

given the opportunity and encouragement
to recognize their potential, regardless

of

GRADUATION SPEAKER



Hugh

gree from Bloomsburg at the graduation

background, has the freedom to choose in

O'Brian will receive an honorary doctor of

program.

our world," he says.

humane letters degree and deliver the commencement address at Bloomsburg s May

Hugh

O'Brian, who starred in "Wyatt Earp" on

O'Brian's humanitarian efforts and his

television in the late 1950s and early 1960s,

devotion to public service," says John S.

was bom

"Bloomsburg wishes

to recognize

Mulka, dean of student development,

who

in Rochester,

N.Y.

At

attended the University of Cincinnati for a

helped coordinate local arrangements for

semester before enlisting in the U.S.

both Soviet visits to Bloomsburg.

rine Corps.

O'Brian started HOBY upon returning to

He became

Ma-

the youngest drill

instructor in the Corps' history

graduation ceremony.

he

18,

and earned

"Broken Lance" and "No Business Like
Show Business." His recent movie credits
include 'The Shootist," "Killer Force,"

"Game of Death," and "Twins."
Wyatt Earp,

the United States following a nine-day visit

a coveted Fleet appointment to Annapolis,

with the late Albert Schweitzer in Africa. "I

but declined the honor to study law at Yale

O'Brian appeared on various television

was impressed with Dr. Schweitzer,"

University instead.

programs including "Fantasy Island," "Love

O'Brian says. "He believed the most im-

After receiving an honorable discharge

young

from the Corps, O 'Brian went to Los Ange-

portant thing in education

is to

teach

people to think for themselves."

HOBY's

format permits American high

les, Calif., to

tuition to Yale.

eam money to pay for his
He landed a job with a small

school sophomores with demonstrated lead-

theater group

ership abilities to interact with distinguished

views in the play

business, education, government, and other

he decided to enroll

professional leaders at leadership seminars

acting. In less than a year,

arranged across the country. In addition,

tress and director Ida Lupino signed O'Brian

lOih graders from foreign nations are selected to join their
at

American counterparts

HOBY's annual international leadership

seminar. Sixty foreign students representing 30 nations attended the event last year.

to

perform his

and received such good

"Home and Beauty"
at

re-

that

UCLA and continue

first starring

Hollywood

ac-

role in the film

In addition to playing

Boat," and "Gunsmoke."

His Broadway credits include "Destry

Rides Again," "First Love," and the

re-

vived musical, "Guys and Dolls."

O'Brian also performed

in starring roles

company productions of
"Cactus Flower," "The Odd Couple,"
with national

"Tender Trap," "A Thousand Clowns," and
"Plaza Suite."

As HOB Y

'

s chief spokesperson, O' Brian

so

has been a guest on 'The Today Show,"

impressive that Universal Studios awarded

"The Larry King Show," 'The Pat Sajak
Show," and many other talk programs.

"Young Lovers." His performance was
him a contract
O'Brian has performed

in the films

— Kevin

B. Engler

2 The

Communique' April

4,

1991

Elizabeth Fuller's dramatic monologues

News Briefs

portray
'Violence on

Campus'

Monday

discussed

women in American

to be

evening

The Center for Counseling and
Human Development will sponsor an
open forum to discuss the issue of
"Violence on Campus" at 7:30 p.m.,
Monday, April 8, in Multipurpose
Rooms A and B of Kehr Union. All
faculty, staff, and students are invited

Eclectic characters serve as lyrical and dramatic mirrors for
contemporary women exploring their own place in society
Actress Elizabeth Fuller gave her Carver
Hall audience cause to reflect on

American history

last

women in

month in an interarts

Mitchell blurting out secrets into a

hontas to Patty Hearst."

phone receiver severed from reality.
Fuller made quick costume changes by
slipping her arms into paper doll-inspired
attire, from Martha's pink baUirobe and Pat
Nixon 's proper blue suit to daughter Tricia'
wedding gown.

Fuller delivered touching, funny , and some-

times frightening portrayals of women cast

Philadelphia Orchestra tickets

Tuesday

in

Kehr Union

Tickets for the next Celebrity

Room A

of Kehr

Union.
Tickets are $5 for faculty and staff

members

(free

admission for stu-

dents) with valid

Bloomsburg
and Community

identification cards

Activities stickers.

The Philadelphia Orchestra
perform

at

will

8 p.m., Tuesday, April 23,

in Miu^ani Hall of

own

choices to reject tradi-

Haas Center

for

tele-

A post- intermission montage focused on

and forge new ones.

The Independent Eye

available at noon, Tuesday, April 9,
in Multipurpose

or their

tional roles

Artist Series event featuring the

by history

into extraordinary events, either
itself

Philadelphia Orchestra will be

George Washington's farewell address.
In a "Wives of Watergate" sketch, the
actress portrayed a boozy, woozy Martha

collaboration titled "Beside Herself: Poca-

During a series of dramatic monologues.

to attend.

available

history

ensemble

the twisted reality of Patty Hearst as Fuller

of Lancaster presented the show sponsored

alternately played the heiress' mother, girl-

by the Campus- Wide Committee on Hu-

friend, kidnapper, reporter, juror,

man

godmother.

theater

Relations in observance of

Women's

fairy

Sculptor Linda Cunningham 's set design

History Month.

Based on apoem by Pamela White Hadas,
the presentation featured a dozen eclectic
characters, who served as lyrical and dramatic mirrors for contemporary women
exploring their

and

own place

featured her minimalist sculpture and

monochrome, shiny black props reflecting
subUe colored

lights.

Synthesizer music by composer Michele

Mercure added depth to transitional "breath-

in society.

"Beside Herself opened with Fuller

ing spaces" between monologues.

— Gwenn Evans Wells

portraying Pocahontas, an Indian princess

displaced in London, longing for the shores

the Arts.

of her native Virginia.

"A woric of grief and cambric," in "shoes

African-American novelist to
discuss 'Maroonage'
John 0. Stewart, an English
structor at

Ohio

that pinch"

in-

State University

and

author of many fiction stories and
articles

on writing, ethnography, and

An

present "Maroonage:

Afrocentric Tradition" at 7:30

p.m., Thursday, April 11, in the

Forum

of

McCormick Human

Stewart will trace the development

among Blacks

at the

a saddle as she bequeathed

in the

historical incidents

books



Last Cool Days, Curving Road, For
the Ancestors,

and Drinkers, Drum-

mers, and Decent Folk.

my telescope," Mitch-

confessed as she grappled with loneli-

coming "home alone after the honor"
to a life where "dawn wipes out yoiu^ closest

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

The Communt^u£ publishes
news of events and developments at BU each
week through the academic year and bi-weekly
during the

summer months.

Please submit story ideas, news briefs, and

calendar information

at least

two weeks in ad-

vance to The Communique, Office of Univer-

Relations and Communication,
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
sity

17815.

BU is committed to providing equal educational

and employment opportunities for

all

to the

sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or

union

mem-

bership.

The

university

is

additionally committed

to affirmative action and will take positive
steps to provide such educational and

Highly effective anachronistic quirks

added

A

faculty and staff.

persons without regard to race, color, religion,

friends."

that occurred in Brazil, Haiti,

foiu"

daughter

1848.

ness,

Stewart has written

to her

mer Maria Mitchell, the first woman elected
to the American Academy of Sciences in
"I keep house with

tradition.

Surinam, and the United States.

Belle

how not to serve out your Ufe as
some common, brainless calico."

ell

on

Queen

"lessons on

development of a cultural
will focus

death

age of 22.

In the next scene, as Bandit

Americas as both a revolutionary
response to slavery, and as the

He

own

Later, Fuller assumed die role of astrono-

Services Center.

of maroonage

Pocahontas writes with quill pen

expressing premonitions of her

Starr, Fuller cleaned her pistol and polished

African-American culture and
literature, will

vets,

The Communique

and petticoats and crushed vel-

em-

ployment opportunities.

show's appeal.

As aging Betsy Ross, in fake fur bedroom
slippers. Fuller told a tale of a

"sew-sew

seamstress and a so-so general" as she talks

back to a television

set that is broadcasting

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

Assistant Exlitor: Jo A.

DeMarco

Editorial Assistant: Christina

J.

Gaudreau

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
Contributing Writer: Gwenn E. Wells

The Communique' April

of English, recently edited a revised edition

student development, served on a committee that selected high school

sophomores

HughO'BrianYouthFoundation's(HOBY)

festivities

this

summer. The selection com-

met at HOBY's Eastern Pennsylvania Leadership Seminar in Valley Forge,
March 21-24.

tion, features

an evening of dinner

Proceeds will benefit the school's

Do We Mean by

titled

"What

'Privatizing' Jails

and

Prisons in the United States" at the 17th

annual convention of the Eastern Economic
Association in Pittsburgh, March 15-17.

opment, served as a speaker and panelist on

discussion titled "Spillover and the R and D

S.

Mulka, dean of student

Does It Get a Passing

24 West in Bloomsburg

March 21The event was sponsored by the Hugh
O'Brian Youth Foundation.

ership Seminar in Valley Forge,
24.

raised nearly $5,400.
will

associate professor of

Cooperation in Differentiated Duopoly."

Grade?" at the Eastern Pennsylvania Lead-

general scholarship fund. Last year's

Music

Mehdi Haririan,

economics, presented a paper

He also chaired a session on "Managerial
Economics" and participated in a paper

John

the topic "Education:

and dancing.

folklore classes this semester.

devel-

begin at 6 p.m.

The annual event, sponsored by
the Bloomsburg University Founda-

affair at

111.,

mittee

Ball on Saturday, April 6, at the
Willow Run Inn in Berwick. The

Alvey. He is using the book, published by
Copley Press and released in January, in his

from Eastern Pennsylvania to attend the

cago,

Lorraine, will host the President's

A Novel of the Kansas Plains
and the Rocky Mountain West by WilverL.
of Westport:

Kathy Mulka, assistant director of
admissions, and John S. Mulka, dean of

International Leadership Conference in Chi-

President Ausprich and his wife,

3

Dale M. Anderson, associate professor

Campus Notes
President's Ball
to benefit
university's
scholarship fund

4, 1991

Philip A. Farber, professor of biologi-

Studio Band, the Bloomsburg

cal

University-Community Orchestra,

ticipated in a National Science Foundation

Don Messimer.
An added feature during the

and pianist

and allied health sciences, recently par-

short course titled "Molecular Biology of

Development"

at

Temple

Summer 1992

titled

Bruce L. Rockwood, professor of

tour

"Symphony

at

Association's

rewarded the opportunity
a march played

nance and business law, received a
tuition scholarship

Sea."

The highest contributor

View of

Sys-

tem Philosophy Association's annual conference at Lock

Haven University, April 6.

Roger W. Fromm,

university archivist
librarian, served as

fi-

partial

from the American Bar

(ABA)

professional educa-

American Archivists new manuals series.
Of seven manuals written, two Arranging and Describing Archives and
Manuscripts and Understanding Archives

—were recently published.

be

tion division to attend a program titled "The

and Manuscripts

conduct

Uruguay Round Trade Negotiations: Where
Do We Go From Here?" in Washington,
D.C. The program was sponsored by AB A'
Section on International Law and Practice
and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

sor in the Health, Physical Education, and

will
to

the Soul"

at the State

photographic editor for the Society of

activity to help the orchestra offset

performance

in Plato's

and special collections

University.

evening will be a fund raising

its

Complexity

accepted for presentation

be provided by BU's

expenses for

Oliver J. Larmi, professor of philosotitled "SimpHcity and

phy, had a paper

by the orchestra

that

evening.

Linda M. LeMura, an

assistant profes-

Athletics Department, received an invitation from the Italian

Olympic Committee in

Rome, Italy, to serve as a visiting professor
during the month of May. She will perform
physiological assessments of Olympic athletes using

newly developed instrumenta-

tion designed to test

Reza Noubary,

oxygen consumption.

associate professor of

mathematics and computer science, recently
lectured on the "Theory of Outstanding

Values and

Its

Applications" at Penn State

University in State College.

Kevin B. Engler, director of news and
relations, was recently reelected to

media

serve a second consecutive term as the
State System's representative on the board

ON 'COMMON GROUND'

— Nationally acclaimed

censorship in his recent presentation

of directors of the College and University
artist

Mel Chin discussed

"Common and Uncommon Ground"

art

at Bloomsburg.

Public Relations Association of Pennsyl-

vania

(CUPRAP).

4 The Communique

April 4, 1991

Calendar of Events
Kehr Union,

April

Spring Concert





QUEST — Rafting and River Rescue

Choral Ensemble,

— 15





tional Aspects



McCormick Center,

"Code
Kenneth Mott of

Friday

of Abortion," and a panel

Defective Newborns," sponsored by the



QUEST



"The

Sunday


—7

Wednesday




1

p.m. and 8 p.ni.



Student Recital
sailles,

featuring

soprano, and

Meg

Susan Ver-

Monday


—8

Open Forum

— "Violence on Campus,"

Multipurpose

Rooms A and B, Kehr

Union,

7:30 p.m., sponsored by the Center for

Counseling and

Wednesday


— 10

keynote speaker

president of the Pennsylvania

Forum,

Wonka and



the Chocolate Factory,"



— Husky Singers and Georgian

Concert

Women's

Choir, First

Bloomsburg, 7:30 pjn.

— 11

Thursday


Lecture

— "Maroonage:

An



Afrocentric


Ohio State University, Forum, McCormick

Campus-Wide Committee on Human
Relations.

— 12

Wonka and

Mitrani Hall,

the Chocolate Factory,"



Saturday
13
QUEST — Women's Rafting, Lehigh





— The Philadelphia



"Willy

— 14



Wonka and

Baillie, professor

of English,

Pennsylvania Room, Scranton
the Chocolate Factory,"

Commons,

and Alumni Weekend

— Kayaking, Fishing Creek, 9
Mermaid," Kehr Union, p.m.
*The
Concert
Spring Concert —

ajn.

Little

1

featuring the

Choir and Husky Singers, Mitrani Hall,

Haas Center, 2:30 p.m.



— 24

7:15 to 8:30 a.m.

Bloomsburg

QUEST

Tuesday

River, 8 a.m.

Sunday

5:45 p.m.

featuring the

— 28

Sibling/Children's


"Five
Alumni Breakfast Lecture Series
Hundred Years of Miss America" with

William



Takayori Atsumi, violoncello,

Student Art Show, Haas Gallery, through

Wednesday


Spring Concert

Sunday
Room

April 29

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

12:15 p.m.

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 p.m.

11

— 23

a.m.

Aliunni Awards Dinner-Dance, 24 West,

soloist

— 22

Celebrity Artist Series

11

Annual Alumni Luncheon, Scranton

Downtown Bloomsburg,


Orchestra, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 pjn.


Student Talent Show, Presidents' Lounge,

Commons,


Street,

10 ajn.

University-Community Orchestra with guest

Tuberculin Tine Test, Multipurpose

Tuesday


"Willy

Downtown Bloomsburg,

Flyfishing,

Cumow,

and Alumni Weekend

Renaissance Jamboree, Main

Kehr Union,

A, Kehr Union, 10 a.m. to 2 pjn.

Center, 7:30 p.m., sponsored by the





Student Art Exhibit, Kehr Union, through

May

— 27

Sibling/Children's

Haas Center, 2:30 pjn.

Tradition," featuring John O. Stewart of

Friday

Saturday




Fishing Creek.
Concert — BU Concert Band with guest

Monday

Husky Club Dinner-Dance and Auction,
24 West, Downtown Bloomsburg, 6:30 pjn.



— 21

QUEST

is

5 p.m.

conductor James

Kehr Union, 3 p.m.; Mitrani Hall,
Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Michael Curran, president of the

speaker

Sunday

7:15 to 8:30 a.m.

2 p.m.

Inn, Danville, keynote

National Business Education Association,

10 a.m.

"Willy

Chamber of
to

Education and Office Administration and

Streets,





Banquet Days

Presbyterian Church, Market and Fourth

Commons,

Clifford L. Jones,

BU's Teaching and Learning Enhancement





is

Business and Industry, 12:15

Center, 12:30 to 3 pjn.,

Court College

Alumni Breakfast Lecture Series
"Intercollegiate Athletics Today" with
Mary Gardner, director of athletics,
Pennsylvania Room, Scranton

Sudiff HaU, 8:15 to 11:45 a.m.

Limcheon: Centennial Gymnasium,

author of Improving College Teaching and

Saturday
20
• QUEST — Rafting, Lehigh River, 8 a.m.
• QUEST — Flyfishing, Fishing Creek, noon


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

rium of Hardine Science Building and in

Committee.

Kehr Union,

International Day,
1 1



Human Development.

Fonmi and 60th

Education, sessions held in Kuster Audito-

— 17

sponsored by the Department of Business

Carver Hall Auditorium, 2:30 p.m.

Professional Development

editor of The Teaching Professor,

McCormick

Geisser, pianist.

Mermaid," Nelson Field House,

Anniversary Celebration of BU Business

— "Enhancing Your Teaching

Seminar

Little

9 p.m.

Effectiveness" featuring Maryellen Weimer,

"Dances with Wolves," Mitrani Hall,

Haas Center,


Willow Run Inn, 6 p.m.

President's Ball,

and Alumni Weekend

— West Branch Canoe Weekend,

through April 28, 5 p.m.

Honors and Scholars Program.

Training, Lehigh River, 8 a.m.

featuring

— 26

Sibling/Children' s







Process," Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 pjn.

discussion on "Ethical Issues in Care of

Saturday
6
QUEST — Rafting and River Rescue

Provost's Lecture Series

"Issues in Medical

Gettysburg College discussing "Constitu-

Haas Center, 8 p.m.

— 25

Thursday

activities include the film

Gray," guest lecturer

"Dances with Wolves," Mitrani Hall,

Mermaid," Kehr Union, 3 p.m.;

Maurice Sendak discussing "The Creative

Ethics Today," Forum,

10 a.m.,

Little

featuring the Madrigal

Symposium

Scholars

"The

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Fishing Creek, 9 ajn.

Carver Hall Auditorium, 2:30 pjn.

Training, Lehigh River, 6 p.m.




Women's

Singers and

Monday

Friday — 5





win, weavings and sculpture, Haas Gallery,

through April 20

pjn.

QUEST — Kayaking,

— Bhakti Ziek and Mark Good-

Art Exhibit

1



— 30

Spring Semester Student Recital,
Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 p.m.

Today, our students have a set of
world circumstances
and choices that are in
many respects the
most complex of any
generation.

Preparing

all

of

our students for the future, and thus
fulfilling the

SPECIAL EDITION

rate, and student-faculty ratio.

PRESIDENTS

implementation

REPORT

titled "Strategic

past year, as part of the continuing

is

Robert

of

Shirley's planning model, a report

Direction State-

ments for Bloomsburg University

1990 Through 1999" was devel-

oped and adopted. These

mission of Blooms-

burg University,

This

ments

state-

in conjunction with the

becoming an

mission and Priorities documents

As a

of the State System of Higher Edu-

we not only

cation, the "University Mission

increasingly challenging task.
university community,

need to keep abreast of new devel-

Statement" and "University Goals

opments and research and an ever

and Subgoals"

expanding information base, but

and direct our general

we must also respond

and broadly define what

flexibility

with greater

and creativity as we seek

ommendations

may be well beyond the realm
By way

of preparing our students,

we must

ice

mix

Through careful thought and discussions

to assess the university's

respective strengths and weaknesses.

findings next

strengthening our programs and services.

And

The

to support these

we are engaged in activities to improve the university's

resources.

Bloomsburg University's long history of planning has placed the

get situation in the state,



in spite of

our current bud-

we are fiscally sound; we are able to meet

our enrollment goals; and, in general,

we

enjoy an excellent

reputation as an institution of higher education.

received national recognition

last

task force,

which was

es-

university

planning activity

year

the best values in higher education

when

it

was

by Money

Bloomsburg
cited as

one of

magazine. The

future;

to identify the

The committee will report its

fall.

community undertook another very important
last

year which involved looking at

broad, long-range plans; postulating

an enviable position

for the next step in

programs and services and

we are making progress in enhancing the teaching/learning experi-

institution in

we

tablished last fall, has been charged

ence for all of us. Through careful planning and assessment we are

initiatives,

is

it

the Shirley model, a program/serv-

of our present experience.

better prepare ourselves.

activities

want to accomplish. Using the rec-

to prepare students for situations

that

will serve to guide

— student
— developed

by developing

life,

its

plan

of our

some assumptions about

and then, designing a Five-Year Plan. Academic

this initiative

all

first,

and then

all

affairs led

other areas

general administration and university advancement

their plans in support of the

academic mission. This

Five-Year Plan, along with our already established four-year
firmative action plan, gives us the incremental steps
to

the

meet our long-range

we

will

af-

need

goals.

magazine's 1990 "America's Best College Buys" survey ranked

Bloomsburg 30th out of more than 400 public colleges and universities

nationwide. Among the 17 academic criteria used in the survey

were class rank and

SAT

scores of incoming freshmen, graduation

r

diverse academic programs are central to

Bloomsburg

University's mission, and they continue to remain strong.

How-

ever, departments are working with limited operating and equip-

2 The Communique

09

APR 91

Last year, Bloomsburg
University sent

two students
England,

in

its first

to Sheffield,

ment budgets. Additional resources will be

Union; a panel discussion on the Persian

required to ensure successful implementa-

Gulf

tion of the plans for maintaining and, in

Bloomsburg University Curriculum Com-

some

mittee;

a

with Sheffield University,

and signed a four-year
agreement

initiating

faculty exchange

a

program

College of Economics

Civil

by

the

and a special mini-course on the

War, including a tour of the Get-

tysburg Battlefield. These activities, along

component of our academic pro-

with scores of others, have helped our stu-

vital

gram. Last year, Bloomsburg University
sent

its

first

two students

to Sheffield,

dents synthesize and apply their

know-

ledge.

England, in conjunction with an exchange

Faculty research and scholarly activity, a

program with Sheffield University, and

major aspect of professional development,

signed a four-year agreement initiating a

is vital

program with China's

faculty exchange

Shenyang College of Economics and

to

enhancing and stimulating the

academic climate. The university received

Fi-

nearly $1.4 million in total grant funding

The university signed a statement of

during the 1989-90 academic year. This

Academy

represents an increase of about 23 percent

of Sciences which focuses on the possibil-

over the previous year. The improving fund-

of faculty and student exchange pro-

ing rate of our external grant projects points

understanding with the U.S.S.R.

ity

and Finance.

quality into our

sponsored

Multi-cultural education continues to be

nance.

with China's Shenyang

more

programs.

conjunction

with an exchange program

cases, building

situation,

grams, mutual research projects, and possible cultural

exchange programs. These

programs are part of a growing number of
opportunities available to faculty and stu-

to a
to

growing faculty and

staff conunitment

conducting more research and improv-

ing teaching at the university.

By way

of enhancing, complementing,

and completing the teaching/learning ex-

dents.

perience, faculty continue to involve their

Extending

the academic environ-

students in research and scholarly activity.

ment beyond the classroom is an important

As noted in the university's strategic direc-

part of the university's mission. Last year

tion statements, this experience helps ex-

Francine

Du

Plessix

side Russia Today:

Soviet

Women"

Gray presented
Through

the

"In-

Eyes of

as part of the Provost's

pose students to research excellence in their

chosen disciplines. Opportunities for

re-

search-related activity last year included a

summer

archaeological field-

Lecture Series. Other university- sponsored

six-week,

activities included a study tour of the Soviet

school project directed by Bloomsburg an-

The Communique 09

Anne Wymer.

thropology professor Dee

Wymer

is affiliated

with the

Murphy Ar-

new

1991,

teaching labs and additional

office space will be

made

available.

$3.3 million renovation of Old Science

ered the complete skeleton of a mastodon in

Hall was completed and provides an aes-

December of 1989

thetically

Ohio.

space for several academic departments.

Wymer received a $1,000 Margin of

Safety modifications began in Haas Center

Excellence
project,

Award for the 1990 fieldschool

which involved students in excava-

tions at a ceremonial site in central

and the investigation of the
its

engaging and more functional

in the Licking valley of central

bog

cial

remains of a gla-

glacial

Ohio

bog and

mastodon. Pamela Wynn, associate pro-

fessor of marketing and

laborated with

management,

col-

Wymer on a proposal which

received a $5,000 Minority Faculty Retention Grant

from the State System of Higher

for the Arts

and construction of the dining

service extension

The

was completed.

lion project to

expand and renovate the

Kehr Union. All of these

motion

at

Bloomsburg. In other

activities,

students, under the supervision of math

we

have set for ourselves. They are designed to

enhance our physical plant and our
to deliver

needs for additional space
offices

and classrooms —

facility.

— along with

is

a

new

ties, it

ranks 14th in both the percent of

seating space in

this building,

A

college education does

prepare students for a career.
the Priorities

emphasis on

more than

As

stated in

document, the continuing

liberal

its

library

and the net

library square footage per student.

As

part

of our appeal for the release of funding for

local business.

education as the focus

cials,

I

met with

members of

State

System

the legislature

Budget Secretary. Many faculty,

and the

staff, stu-

dents, alumni, parents of students,
versity friends

offi-

and uni-

have joined in our campaign
governor and other

of undergraduate general education require-

and have written

ments ensures that all students will have the

officials to build legislative support for this

opportunity to attain the best possible

much needed

to the

facility.

"foundation for further learning, for pro-

Creating a supportive climate and pro-

and for enriched quality

viding the resources necessary to do one's

fessional practice

of

job are quite important. This past year,

life."

"Quality," in the words of Ernest L. Boyer,
"is not divisible. It

touches every aspect of

the institution." Last year, a

number of de-

velopments, including the changes

in Hart-

is-

sues relating to class size were a prime con-

cern to both faculty and management.
analysis of data presented to the

Subcommittee revealed

that

An

Budget

on a univer-

Science Center, contributed to the en-

sity-wide level, the average student credit

hancement of the academic environment.

hours per instructional full-time equivalent

A new computer lab and several faculty of-

faculty has been very stable over the past

line

fices

were added

in Hartline this year,

and

as renovations in this building continue in

$5,000 Minority Faculty

Retention Grant from the
State System in 1990.

will

six years.

However, the average load for

some departments and some

fund a $10,000 Minority

library

Although Bloomsburg University

helped two regional manufacturing compa-

new

proposal which received a

Bloomsburg University

enrollment of the 14 State System universi-

for a

Anne Wymer on a

Foremost on our list of continuing

computer science professor Paul Hartung,

CAD/CAM projects, and College of

sor Dee

The matching grant with

programs and services.

has the fourth largest full-time equivalent

Business students prepared an in-depth plan

with anthropology profes-

ability

and

nies in

management, collaborated

projects are vis-

ible indicators of the standard of quality

with Bloomsburg University will fund a

help junior faculty in advancement and pro-

professor of marketing and

Board of Governors approved an $8.7 mil-

Education in 1990. The matching grant

$10,000 Minority Faculty Fellowship to

associate

The

chaeological Research Group that discov-

in the

Pamela Wynn,

APR 91

individual

Faculty Fellowship to help
junior faculty in advance-

ment and promotion
Bloomsburg.

at

3

4 The Communique 09

Last year,

APR 91

we exceeded

our goal for the
recruitment of African-

American

students,

and

the total complement of
faculty

and

increased.

members has

faculty

varied significantly.

the

campus and

The provost, college deans, and department

tween Pennsylvania and the

chairpersons have reviewed the data and

world are blurred

disparity

in the retention rates of

African American and

Hispanic students in
relation to Caucasian



rest

a university in

of the

which

have done much to solve the problem areas.

students and faculty alike are actively in-

A new, on-line Course Scheduling System

volved in learning and where collaboration

and Curriculum Advisement and Progress

among

System, field-tested

a way of life." While funding will be critical

in the

College of Busi-

individuals and groups has

ness last spring, enabled business faculty to

in realizing this goal, as

incorporate students' course requests in the

Priorities

scheduling process for the 1990-91 aca-

ity,

demic year. In the future, faculty in all three

more important.

staff of color

The

community and be-

the

become

emphasized in the

document, "leadership, creativ-

caring and

commitment"

will

be even

colleges, including Professional Studies and

One big step Bloomsburg University has

Arts and Sciences, will use the two-part

taken toward transforming this vision into

The Curriculum Advisement and

system.

a reality

is

to

develop a partnership with the

Progress System helps students match

Harrisburg City School District. Through

courses they have already completed with

an Urban Initiatives Program,

requirements for the selected degree pro-

provide some unique academic opportuni-

grams.

ties for

The university does not plan any signifi-

students decreased.

we hope

to

our students and teachers. Under

Bloomsburg

the agreement,

faculty will

cant enrollment growth until substantial

conduct professional development work-

and operating funds are made avail-

shops for Harrisburg 's urban school teach-

capital

able to serve additional students.
tinue to

We

con-

show progress in the recruitment of

students and faculty of color. Last year,

we

ers;

and admissions and financial aid per-

sonnel will work with guidance counselors

and principals

to help prepare inner-city

exceeded our goal for the recruitment of

youth for college admissions processes.

African-American students, and the

Student teaching opportunities for

complement of
increased.
rates

The

faculty

and

staff

total

of color

disparity in the retention

of African-American and Hispanic

students in relation to Caucasian students

Bloomsburg students

will

be significantly

enhanced and field experiences

in the

Har-

risburg schools will be continued for

Bloomsburg University

students.

decreased.
to develop better teach-

On campus, an increasing number

ing and training methods to prepare Afri-

of faculty and staff are planning programs

As we continue

can-American, Latino and disadvantaged

to strengthen

individuals for the nation's workforce

diversity.

in

our commitment to cultural

The

list

of sponsors alone

in-

am reminded of the words

cludes: the Counseling Center, the colleges

ethnic diversity specialist Samuel Betances

of Professional Studies and Business, the

spoke one evening during a Provost's Lec-

Curriculum and Foundations Department,

the 21st century,

I

ture Series program.
ity

of the

izes

it

The chief responsibil-

modem university is that it "real-

must universalize the human

spirit.

Kappa Delta
mittee on

Pi, the

Human

Campus-wide Com-

Relations, the Orienta-

tion Office, the Celebrity Artist Series, the

Women,

For the first time, we have to educate every-

Commission on

body." Likewise, the State System envi-

Martin Luther King,

sions the university as the place "where

Committee, the Bloomsburg University

boundaries between academic disciplines,

Scholars Symposium, the Affirmative

between

Action Office, University Advancement

in-class

and out-of-class learning,

between teaching and research, between

the Status of
Jr.

the

Observance Day

and the Office of the President. Not only

is

The Communique 09

of sponsors growing, but so

the

the

list

list

of events. Robert Larson, a specialist in

the history of warfare, joined

is

Bloomsburg

University history professor Walter

How-

ard for a question and answer session fol-

who hold unpopular political views be more
As

fully integrated in society.

grams

cept of inclusivity
thinking, part of

is

becoming

the con-

Program
endeavor to

Multi-cultural Education, conducted three

model

presentations on multi-cultural education

essential part of our culture.

by the year 2000; author Brian McNaught

integrity, professionalism

lectured on "Being Gay in a Straight World;"

standards, and social responsibility," as

C. Ariel Stone spoke on the history of the

stated in the "Strategic Direction State-

Jewish people; and the Chief of the Chero-

ments," are values

Mankiller, presented a

public lecture as part of the Provost's Lecture Series.

Other

activities included:

a

teleconference, "Governor's Conference on

and

principles

munity attempt

beliefs that are

an

and high

ethical

we as a university com-

to instill in

respect for others were addressed during

lenge and Opportunities;" a performance

and Student Senate meetings. Fraternity

by the Harlem

and sorority pledges met with the education

observation of

and a

Spiritual

Ensemble; the

Women's

History Month;

theatrical presentation of historical

figures performed

NAACP

by the Willow Grove

Youth Council.

workshop

titled

Women's Center

of Bloomsburg 's

rape and other forms of sexual violence.

Discussions on these topics were conducted

to help indi-

and how

to

make such groups as
individuals

with physical disabilities. Latinos, interna-

gays and lesbians and individuals

tion

facilitated
life staff.

by the student
In addition to

preparing students for

campus leadership

(CGA)

to usher in

Awareness Week.

CGA

Safety and

In October,

Alcohol

Awareness Week was observed as
the university's

ongoing

part of

efforts to curb al-

cohol abuse.

Another new

positions, the

program

has helped to develop
students

who

are better

to discuss acquaintance

by the Community Government Associa-

women, African Americans,

tionals,

Town

In addition, a

viduals better understand the barriers to
inclusivity

director of the

"Creating an Inclusive

Community" was conducted

program which was

student orientation, in residence halls,

Interfratemity and Intersorority councils,

to

completed the 30-hour

our students.

Topics such as social responsibility and

new

Sixty-four students

"Honesty and

Workforce 2000: The Chal-

Responses

for freshmen.

The student life staff plays an inte-

"3-M"

gral part in the university-wide

Wilma

year was the

Leadership Development

what we do, part of us.

Center for Multi-racial, Multi-ethnic, and

kee Nation,

last

part of our

lowing the screening of "Glory;" Robert
Pipkin, principal of the Prospect

initiative

these pro-

more and more

illustrate,

Another new

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initiative last

year was the

equipped to be of service
to the larger

community.

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Because of the success
of the students' volunteer
efforts,

Bloomsburg was

chosen by the Pennsylvania

Campus Compact last fall
to participate in a

news

conference in Harrisburg
highlighting volunteerism

on university campuses.

Leadership Development Program for fresh-

rebuilding

homes

men.

Hurricane

Hugo

Sixty-four students completed the

30-hour program which was

facilitated

by

the student life staff. In addition to preparing

in

were destroyed by

South Carolina. Resi-

dent students volunteered to support the

Area Agency on Aging

in its

food give-

positions,

away program. Hundreds of Bloomsburg

program has helped to develop students

University students, faculty, and staff con-

students for
the

that

campus leadership

who are better equipped
the larger

Our

to

be of service to

community.

efforts to

come involved

drive.

encourage students to bein service

tributed to the

have expanded

A

American Red Cross blood

week-long day camp for children

with asthma, sponsored by the American

Lung Association, received

the proceeds

through a dynamic volunteerism program.

from the "Clean Air Week Walk-A-Thon."

Students, faculty, and staff have touched

Volunteers helped 80 disadvantaged sixth,

the lives of thousands of people in dozens

seventh, and eighth grade

of significant ways. Husky Habitat, the

Middle School students gain a new outlook

university's chapter of Habitat for
ity,

Human-

helped refurbish a home in Bloomsburg

for a

Vietnamese family and assisted

in

on

life

through

Bloomsburg

SHARE — Students Help-

ing Adolescents

Reach Excellence. Other

activities included

a sleep-out to aid the

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homelessness. Fishing Creek Green Alli-

nications professor and author of several

ance Creek Cleanup for Earth Day 1990,

books, had a book "Forerunners of Revolu-

and an Amnesty International Write-Off.

tion:

Because of the success of the students'

Muckrakers and the American Social

Conscience" published by

volunteer efforts, Bloomsburg was chosen

tlefield in

by the Pennsylvania Campus Compact last

Haririan,

fall to participate in

a news conference in

Washington, D.C. Mehdi
econom-

associate professor of

Mixed Economy

— Micro Versus Macro

university campuses.

Economic Objectives" published by
Westview

And, because of the collective talents of our
and

national awards, a bronze for public rela-

the

CoUege of

Professional Studies,

was

faculty, the university

tions publications

improvement, and a

sil-

symposium and teleconference

Educators as one of 70 leaders in teacher

"Global Change and Our Endangered

education across the nation. In November,

Environment: From Pennsylvania to Plzmet

an exhibit of photographic portraits of

Earth," in the 1990 Recognition Program of

"Paramount Chiefs of Sierra Leone" by

the Council for

titled

As

of Education (CASE).

Smithsonian Institution's National Museum

university's

of African Art in Washington, DC, and will

a video documentary, "Everything You

2, 1991.

Linda LeMura,

assistant professor of health, physical edu-

cation and athletics,

worked with a team of

exercise physiologists to help U.S.

Olym-

pic biathlon hopefuls improve their

com-

part of the

commitment to public service,

(Can Make a Difference)," was produced
"to

show people

things they can

ence
tary

in the

do

that there are positive

make

that will

environment." The documen-

"Global Change and Our Endangered

and curriculum and foundations professor

Environment: From Pennsylvania to Planet

fall

Charlotte

M. Hess

received Excellence in

Teaching Awards, presented for the

first

Earth," produced as part of the university's
150th anniversary celebration. Five Penn-

time this year by the State System of Higher

sylvania Public

Education. Sandra Walker, coordinator of

documentary

orientation,

was recognized as an outstand-

TV stations plan to air the

this spring.

These are just a

few of the many accomplishments of facand

ing advocate for freshmen at the national

ulty

First- Year

listed

Experience Conference in Co-

staff during

(Others are

1990.

on page 3 of the April

1 1

lumbia, S.C. Burt Reese, assistant director

Communique under "Campus

of athletics and coach of the men's tennis

To show our appreciation

team, was named 1990 "Coach of the Year"

staff for

by the Middle States Tennis Association.

Bloomsburg, university

The women's

10, 15,

field

hockey team, under

coach Jan Hutchinson,

won

its fifth

Penn-

sylvania Conference championship and

placed second in the final

n

NCAA Division

rankings. Walter Brasch,

mass commu-

objective of our

development

staff's

efforts to seek private

funding.

More than

$10 million has been

their

issue of The

Notes.")

to faculty

and

years of service to
officials presented

20, 25 and 30- year awards to

more

than 300 employees during the institution's
first

of

Employee Recognition Day. Because

its

Day

raised during the past
five years for schol-

arships, alumni

programs, faculty and
staff

development,

library

and learning

resources, equipment
acquisitions, the arts,

evolved from Bloomsburg's environ-

English professor Susan Rusinko

Last

last

mary

a differ-

mental symposium and teleconference,

edge

the pri-

Do

October in Lake Placid.

petitive

is

Advancement and Support

professor Vera Viditz-Ward opened at the

run through Sept.

services

ver for the university's 1989 environmental

recognized by the Association of Teacher

art

and

won two

staff

achievements at the state and national level.

Howard K. Macauley, dean of

our academic programs

Press, Inc., in Boulder, Colo.

ceive recognition for their significant

Last March,

margin of quality for

had a book "State-owned Enterprises in

ics,

a

staff continue to re-

Providing an extra

Roman and Lit-

Harrisburg highlighting volunteerism on

Faculty and

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significance.

will

Employee Recognition

be held annually.

speakers and programs.

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Providing an extra margin of quality for

Alumni have been very

our academic programs and services

supportive of the university,

primary

the 1990 Annual

Fund

campaign. In addition
to the

Annual Fund and

The Trust

for Generations,

the Bloomsburg University

contributions from university faculty

and

staff,

BU

the Act 101 program,

persons to be admitted as part-time degree

and a new scholarship program,

students;

programs, faculty and

students through a $100,000 gift from for-

library

staff

development,

and learning resources, equipment

acquisitions, the arts, speakers

and pro-

mer

student Kenneth Gross.

Though our

we have much work to do in

grams. The Trust for Generations cam-

mained

improving our retention of minority

million by 1994 for the Library Fund, the

dents. Creating

Scholarship Fund, and the Academic Ex-

campus climate and effectively addressing

more than $3.4

the academic and social needs of our mi-

million has been received in cash, pledges,

nority population will require our best think-

planned gifts, and

we fully expect the cam-

paign will be completed well ahead of

tive

Alumni have been very suppor-

of the university,
to the

giving more than

1990 Annual Fund cam-

paign. In addition to

the Annual Fund and

the Bloomsburg

University Foundation received contributions

from university faculty and

parents, friends, businesses

staff,

BU

and corpora-

solid,

ing and continued

commitment

to cultural

diversity issues.

In the area of placement for our gradu-

we

ates,

face an increasingly competitive

job market.

We will continue to encourage

businesses, industries, and graduate schools

Bloomsburg graduates.

to recruit

Perhaps the most serious challenge in our

immediate future

a

is

fiscal

one.

Pennsylvania's recent reduction in alloca-

our creativity

During the past five and a half years,
I

stu-

an even more supportive

tions to state-owned universities means that

tions.

have frequently commented on the strong

managing the

in

institution

will be further tested. Maintaining the integrity of

academic programs will be cen-

our

management

positive indicators of institutional health

tral to

which exist

and funding for academic equipment,

at

Bloomsburg. Specifically,

I

fiscal

decisions,
fac-

have noted our strong enrollment, excellent

ulty recruitment,

and deferred maintenance

student retention, success in placing our

will continue to

be

graduates, and our stable fiscal position.

ning.

Although

oiu"

priorities in

our plan-

progress and achievements

Though

have been significant, 1991 will bring major

Demographics indicate there

will

there

is

fulness, our history of

challenges in each of these areas.

be a

reason for watch-

good planning, and

specifically the planning decisions

made

smaller pool of high school graduates, thus

during the past year, has placed the univer-

requiring increased attention to our enroll-

sity in

ment management area. Besides effectively

dent

competing in a shrinking pool of traditional

current budget deficit,

students,

we

will

need to increase our

ef-

forts to provide opportunities for non-tradi-

tional students.

To
Joan K. Heifer

overall retention has re-

paign was initiated in 1989 to raise $3.5

The Trust for Generations,

All photos by

which allows for 50

which was established for non-traditional

$311,000

and corporations.

sources of financial

aid last year: a $34,000 state grant through

than $10 million has been raised during the

schedule.

parents, friends, businesses,

More

new

acquired two

past five years for scholarships, alumni

cellence Fund. Currently,

Foundation received

the

objective of our development

staff 's efforts to seek private funding.

giving nearly $311,000 to

is

sity

ensure that non-traditional students

have access to higher education, the univer-

a very positive position.

I

am confi-

we will not simply weather the state's

grow

in

we

will continue to

our ability to provide a quality

education to those

we

serve.

student volunteers help build
housing over spring break
38 work at Habitat for Humanity camps
New York, Tijuana, and Mississippi
Thaddea Pu-

good job blending service with learning,"

zio decided to

says Bob Peiffer, director of volunteer serv-

forego the parties,

shopping,

and

sunbathing dur-

Thaddea Puzio

Peiffer

and 20 students helped clean up

vacation

year. Instead, the

wake of Hurricane Hugo last spring. This
year, the university's "Husky Habitat"

Bloomsburg

chapter sought broader opportunities as part

sophomore from

of Habitat's nationwide Collegiate Chal-

this

,

YMCA bed, and getting a huge dose

of culture shock. "But," she says,
I'll

and the university's Protestant campus

storm damage in Charleston, S.C., in the

a rundown section of New York City, sleep-

spring break

ices

minister.

ing spring break

Goshen, N. Y. opted for hanging drywall in
ing in a

in

"it's

a

never forget."

lenge project.

Raising funds so students can participate
in these projects is

a big part of the chal-

lenge. In addition to Habitat's suggested

$100-a- week donation from each volunteer

Puzio was one of 38 students from
Bloomsburg University who spent spring

participants

recess helping the needy at Habitat for

food, transportation, and housing.

Humanity-sponsored work camps in north-

costs totaled

west Mississippi, suburban Tijuana (Mex-

$10,000 for

ico),

and

New York City last month. At all

to cover the cost of building materials,

university's

But many say their week
much about building rela-

families.

$175 per student, or about
three Bloomsburg contin-

all

finished a house in three days, but

PHOTO BY JOAN K. HELFER

sociation helped supplement the funds

generated by the student volunteers.

According to Peiffer, some students were

tionships as building homes.

"We

own
"The

from local churches and the
Community Government As-

tions

helped to build affordable housing for low-

income

their

gents," says Peiffer, adding that contribu-

three locations, the student volunteers

of labor was as

must also provide

already active in Habitat's

campus chapter

For freshman Eric Turbedsky
of Whitehall, the week of labor
in Tijuana was as much about

meeting people and making

or working on local projects. Other stu-

was just as important," says freshman Eric Turbedsky of Whitehall who went

dents found the idea of combining a spring

break trip with volunteer work an appealing

ing homes.

to Tijuana. "Partnership is

alternative. "I believe there are a lot of

his father, Greg, a

the time spent

friends

a big part of

Habitat programs."

students walking around this

Sophomore Phil Price of Lititz worked in
Coahoma, Miss., a tiny Southern town of

want

350 residents where the average annual
income is approximately $1,400. "It feels

buttons and letting them

campus who

to get involved in these projects,"

he

know how

go on

master

the trip.

A special meeting of the Blooms-

who went on

trip last year,

break discussion sessions to help volun-

alternative spring break trips "did a

even recruited

they

can help."

other people are going to benefit," he says.

The

builder, to

He

says. "It's just a matter of pushing the right

good when, at the end of the week, you
can see what you've done and know that

real

building relationships as build-

Price,

the South Carolina

organized a series of pre-

Continued on page 2

burg University Forum will be held

4 p.m., Monday, April 15, in the
Kehr Union Presidents' Lounge.

at

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Continued from page

New York's Lower East Side.
"Now that 1 see how little they have, I want

behind the

problems" of poverty and substandard
housing.

people even more."

to help these

May, another group of student volun-

and comfort levels the students would face.

"Christian Appalachian Project," says Peif-

designed to expose

can-Arab Anti -discrimination Committee

"You

students to literacy work, hospice, and child

chapter in Philadelphia, will discuss the

care volunteering in a rural poverty -stricken

Contributions of Arabs to Civilization: Arab

bit

see a

of poverty

Kentucky as part of a

teers will travel to

fer.

"This project

is

,

region," he says. In addition, his office

County, but noth-

exploring a possible partnership project

Thursday, April

ing like the bla-

with student volunteers from Lafayette

A of Kehr Union.

we

University that would send groups to Haiti

in Missis-

sippi,"

"Some
camps

in

In

Columbia

saw

PhU Price

dif-

little

tant poverty

local deer

News Briefs
'Contributions of Arabs' to be
probed Thursday evening
Musa Ghannam, president of the Ameri-

He also previewed the vastly

ferent culture

helped renovate an apartment

building on

1

leers understand the "issues

who

Lin,

Student volunteers

he says.
of our

are better than the places

on a regular

is

basis.

Americans

at

in the United States" at 8 p.m.,
1 8,

in Multipurpose

Room

Ghannam,

a senior research pharmacist

Merck and

Co., Inc.,

is

a

member of the

New projects translate into more volun-

National Association of Arab- Americans.

Kami

He has made many presentations on Arab-

teer opportunities for students like
Silk.

The

American and Middle East

senior

The program

issues.

presented by the

Com-

mittee on Protected Class Issues and spon-

of Mexicans living in Third World poverty

from Levittown
enhanced her academic interests by

with no running water or electricity. "Noth-

participating in

Human

where people have to live year-round."
In Tijuana, Turbedsky found thousands

ing could prepare

me

for the shocking

sored by the Campus- Wide Committee on

volunteer projects in the greater

never see."

and two Phi
Sigma Sigma sorority

living with

Turbedsky
was one of four
students that trav-

it

sisters participated

go on the trip.
When you take
along someone

enhances the productivity of

whole group," says Peiffer.
Each experience inspired the students
with more than a little soul-searching. "I
realize how lucky I am and all that 1 have,"
explains sophomore Elaine Bosack of Mar
the

Nawal Bo-

call

389-4646.

"Last year

I

went

to

Daytona Beach and

just hard

I

had a

work, but I know

it's

Silk admits that construction
little

intimidating" at

learned

how

to "lay

first.

down

better time

a lot more."

work was "a

But she soon

a roof"

Peiffer says Silk's satisfaction is shared

by other student volunteers.

"It's truly

exciting," he says."After four days of work

you

really

have

cause nobody

away."

left

is

Workshops on 'Being Gay'
scheduled Thursday
Ted KiUmer, a
speaker on

in the efforts in Mississippi.

had a good time, but

master builder,

like Greg,

Kami Silk

doing this," she says. "My friends think it's

Greg,

at

Bloomsburgarea.
This spring, she

He even recruited

to

Elaine Bosack

nomo

eled to Mexico.

his father,

Relations.

For more information,

"We were
Mexicans right in their homes,
and we saw what tourists in Mexico would

conditions in Tijuana," he says.

is

theatrical publicist

gay rights issues and

sexuality, will conducttwo

"Being Gay:

A

and

human

workshops titled

Personal View" on Thurs-

day, April 18.

The workshops will be held from 1 1

a.m.

to 12:15 p.m., and from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.,

Union Presidents' Lounge. The

in the Kehr

program is sponsored by the Campus- Wide

Committee on Human

Relations.

For more information,

call

Jim Dalton at

389-4475.

your calling card be-

going to take that roof

— Gwenn Evans Wells

Second 'Math and Data Analysis'
videoconference available

The second

in a series of

puter videoconferences

Apple Com-

titled

"Math and

CALLAHAN AWARD
RECIPIENT—

Data Analysis" was recently videotaped by

Amy

the Learning Resources Center.

Radio and

Bracken, right, a junior from
is the recipient of the Art

TV

Services and

is

available at

Havertown,

Department' s 1991 Chip Callahan

Awardfor her project, "Moving Portraits."

Amy

The project, which earned

a grant of approximately $100,
during her Senior

will be exhibited

Center for Rural Pennsylvania
issues call for research proposals

The Center

on developing the

Exhibition this summer. Picturedwith

Bracken are Ken Wilson, far

ral schools,

chairperson of the department, and
assistant professor

Gary

Clark.

line is

state's rural tourism po-

distance education programs in ru-

tential,

left,

for Rural Pennsylvania has

issued a second call for research proposals

and tax -base sharing. The dead-

May

15.

For information,

Grants Office at 389-4129.

call the

The Communique

Campus Notes
The following are some of the accomplishments offaculty and staffduring 1990.

Barry Jackson, acting chairperson of the
Department of Counseling and Human
Development, was elected national chairperson of the American College Personnel
Association's Commission on Campus
Judicial Affairs

and Legal

Issues.

He

re-

ceived a research award for his contribution

Christine Sperling, assistant professor of
art,

received a Fellowship Villa I Tatti from

to

Biophysics Research, Chiropractics

Wyo. Jackson won this recog-

in Evanston,

sance Studies to conduct research in

nition for his research design for

On

leave of absence with-

out pay from Bloomsburg, Sperling con-

ducted research on early Renaissance sculpture

and inscriptions for works of

Renaissance
tista

Italy.

Her

art in

"Leon Baton the Holy

tion of treatment of outcomes.

George C. Chamuris,

He received

assistant professor

from the State System for a joint student/

"The Nutri-

associate professor of

marketing and management, received the

1990 Sheldon B. Ackerman Award from

Columbus

Perspective."

State University in

outstanding dissertation

warders Relationship:

titled

for his

"An Exami-

A Strategic Alliance

wrote a paper, "Egg Money: Farm
Market, Agriculture, and Exten-

David J.Minderhout, professor of anthroand

sion Agents in Rural Tennessee, 1890-

pology, wrote an

1929," which was published in the pro-

Anthropology," published in the Anthro-

ceedings of the 47th Annual Professional

pology Newsletter, American Anthropo-

Workers Conference by the
Tuskeegee University Press in Alabama.
The volume is titled Outreach to the Rural
Disadvantaged: Issues and Strategies for

logical Association.

Agricultural

Thomas

article, "Linguistics

F. Aleto, assistant professor of

anthropology, received an award through
the

the 21st Century.

of biological and allied health sciences, received a grant of approximately $2,000

Nurur Rahman,

Jeanette Keith, assistant professor of his-

David and the Medici: New Evidence"
the International Medieval Conference

May.

cenzi).

nation of the Exporters and Freight For-

tory,

in

(Penance and Devotion:

for Clinical Research."

Women,

at

cello Crescenzi

The Episcopacy of Cardinal Marcella Cres-

Ohio

was published in the
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, University of London. She will
present a paper on "Donatello's Bronze
at

Century Journal, and one

in the Sixteenth

on Miriam Turrini's book on Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi in Church History. Written
in Italian, Turrini's book is titled Penitenza
e devozione: Tetiscopato del card Mar-

award at CBI's national meeting in Las
Vegas, Nev., where he spoke on 'The Need
the

Sepulchre in the Cappela Rucellai, San
Pancrazio, Florence,"

Kalamazoo, Mich.,

comple-

article

Alberti's Inscriptions

3

Biophysics Institute (CBI), Non-Profit Inc.,

the Harvard University Center for Renais-

Florence, Italy.

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11

Bloomsburg University Grants

Research and Creative Projects for his

for
re-

Wayne Anderson, professor of chemistry,

search "Punae-Inca Political Ties as Indi-

had an

cated by Mortuary Patterns at Ceibo

article, "Utility

of the Semiempiri-

He received a

State System FacDevelopment Council

Method for the Calculation of
the Geometries of Second-Row Transition-

Grande."

Fungi." Chamuris and biology seniors

Metal Species," published

Grant for his work as project director for

Thomas Demelfi and Jennifer Ott presented

Inorganic Chemistry.

faculty research project titled
tional

Ecology of Four Bark Inhabitants

their research findings at the

cal Indo/1

in the journal.

ulty Professional

"Archaeological Investigation

Common-

at

Ceibo

Grande, La Puna Island, Ecuador."

wealth of Pennsylvania's University Bi-

Lynn

on April 5 at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania. Chamuris co-

logical and allied health sciences, presented

James E. Cole, professor of biological and

a paper, "Effects of Azathioprine in Experi-

allied health sciences, received a research

authored "Fungi on Plants and Plant Prod-

mental Nippostrongylus Infection," at the

grant from the university's

by the

Seventh International Congress of Parasi-

ciation for

American Phytopathological Society Press,

tology in Paris, France. Miller received a

in Selected

Minneapolis, Minn., with D.F. Farr, G.F.

Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Grant-in-Kind,
which may total $28,000, for the experi-

Linda LeMura,

mental investigational concentrate of im-

health, physical education

munosuppressive agent, Cyclosporine,

had two articles

ologists conference

ucts in the United States," published

Bills,

and A.Y. Rossman.

Thomas Walters,
art,

assistant professor of

co-authored a review essay

Patterson's

titled "Jerry

The Vanderbilts" with Marie

Walters, treasurer of the Bloomsburg Historic Preservation Society.

The piece

will

appear in the spring issue of The Winter thur
Portfolio, published

by

tures,

to

instructor of languages

and

cul-

wrote an article "Evolution of For-

Plethodonted Salamanders."
assistant professor of

and
—"Iron and Calcium

was nominated for
Sigma Xi National

Endurance Athlete"

full

membership

Scientific

in

Research

athletics,

Defi-

Female Athletes" and "The

ciencies in

Importance of Dietary Carbohydrate

—published

to the

in \ht Jour-

Society for meritorious contributions to

nal ofAppliedResearch. She wrote another

Research

in Science.

on the enhancement of functional capacity

Thomas

Scott Klinger, associate profes-

Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, and a fourth
in cardiac patients in the

Swimming

sor of biological and allied health sciences,

titled

was nominated to full membership in Sigma

Protocol to Estimate Intensity Using Target

Xi National Scientific Research Society.

eign Language Testing in the U.S.," published in the December, 1990, issue of
ForeignLanguage Teaching and Research.

Alumni Assowork on "Humidity Preferences

supplement a faculty research grant. She

the University of

Chicago Press.

Luc Jing,

Miller, associate professor of bio-

the "Assessment of a

Heart Rates of Fitness Swimmers"

in the

Journal ofResearch in Athletics and Coach-

William Hudon, associate professor of
history, published four book reviews, three

ing.

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and president of the Arab- American Anti-

Calendar of Events

Philadelphia, Multipurpose

— Bhakti Ziek and Mark Good-

win, weavings and sculpture, Haas Gallery,

through April 20.

Art Exhibit

— Women's Conference Art

Show, Presidents' Loumge, Kehr Union,

"Willy



Concert

Streets,

Wonka and the





the Chocolate Factory,"

p.m.

Spring Concert
Singers and



Fishing Creek, 9 ajn.

featuring the Madrigal

Monday




Ethics Today," Forum,

"Issues in Medical

McCormick

Center,



Gettysburg College discussing "Constitu-



Aspects of Abortion," and a panel

— 22

— 17

Kehr Union, 1 1 a.m.
Aimual Alumni Luncheon, Scranton

to

— 23

— The Philadelphia





to 1:45 p.m.,

12:15 p.m., and

sponsored by Campus-

Wide Committee on Human
Lecture

Relations.

— "Contributions of Arabs

Civilization:

to

Arab- Americans in the United

States" featuring

Musa Ghannam,

research pharmacist at

Merck and

senior

Co., Inc.,



5:45 pjn.

featuring the

Bloomsburg

Takayori Atsumi, violoncello,

soloist

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 p.m.

The Communique

— 24



"Five
Alumni Breakfast Lecture Series
Hundred Years of Miss America" with

Commons,

"The

Little

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

The Communiqui publishes
news of events and developments at BU each
week through the academic year and hi- weekly

Mermaid," Kehr Union, 3 pjn.;

summer months.

Please submit story ideas, news briefs, and

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 pjn.

calendar infomiation at least two weeks in advance to The Communique, Office of Univer-

Student Art Exhibit

sity

— Stephanie Johnson
May 5.

Workshop

— "Sendak

Relations and Communication,
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
17815.

BU is committed to providing equal educational

and employment opportunities for

all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,

the Artist" featuring
illustrator

children's books, 10 a.m. (location

of

TB A),

sponsored by the Provost's Lecture Series.


A

faculty and staff.

during the

Maurice Sendak, author and

to

Spring Concert

Student Art Show, Haas Gallery, through

Thursday — 25



Kehr Union, 11 a.m.

12:15 p.m.

8 pjn.

Kehr Union Coffeehouse, through

Workshop
"Being Gay: A Personal
View" featuring Ted Killmer, theater
publicist and speaker on gay rights issues

ajn.

Alumni Awards Diimer-Dance, 24 West,

Downtown Bloomsburg,


Street,

University-Community Orchestra with guest

Education and Office Administration and

— 18

Commons,


Celebrity Artist Series

Renaissance Jamboree, Main

Downtown Bloomsburg, 10

2 pjn.

and Nellie Manarchuck, senior exhibition,

and human sexuality. Presidents' Lounge,



10 a.m.

7:15 to 8:30 a.m.



Committee.

Weekend



Pennsylvania Room, Scranton

The Teaching Professor, Forum,
Center, 12:30 to 3 p.m.,

— 27

Sibling/Children s and Alumni

5.

sponsored by the Department of Business

12:30

Husky Club Dinner-Dance and Auction,
24 West, Downtown Bloomsburg, 6:30 pjn.

Saturday

William BailUe, professor of &igUsh,

— "Enhancing Your Teaching

BU's Teaching and Learning Enhancement



Michael Curran, presideru of the

April 29

Effectiveness" feamring Maryellen Weimer,

Thursday

is

5 pjn.


Mitrani HaU,

Tuberculin Tine Test, Multipurpose



McCormick

speaker

Student Talent Show, Presidents' Lounge,

Honors and Scholars Program.

author of Improving College Teaching and

2 p.m.



Wednesday

editor of

Chamber of
to

John Updegraff, senior exhibition. Presidents' Loimge, Kehr Union, through

Defective Newborns," sponsored by the

Seminar

Clifford L. Jones,



discussion on "Ethical Issues in Care of



is

president of the Pennsylvania

National Business Education Association,

Orchestra, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

Gray," guest Jecturer Kenneth Mott of

Wednesday

Luncheon: Centennial Gymnasium,
keynote speaker

— Andrew Carr and

Tuesday

10 a.m., activities include the film "Code

tional

Cumow,

Room A, Kehr Union,

— 15

Symposium

Scholars



in

Sudiff HaU, 8:15 to 11:45 ajn.

Business and Industry, 12:15

— BU Concert Band with guest

Student Art Exhibit

May

Women's Choral Ensemble,

Carver Hall Auditorium, 2:30 pjn.

Forum and 60th

Education, sessions held in Kuster Audito-



Monday


QUEST — Kayaking,



Professional Development

Haas Center, 2:30 pjn.

— 14

"Wniy Wonka and



Mermaid," Nelson Field House,

Banquet: Days Inn, Danville, keynote

conductor James

Lehigh River, 8 a.m.

1

Concert

Little

rium of Hartline Science Building and

21
QUEST — Ryfishing. Fishing Creek,
10 ajn.



"The

Anniversary Celebration of BU Business

Bloomsburg, 7:30 pjn.

Sunday


13
Saturday
QUEST — Women's Rafting,

Kehr Union,



— Husky Singers and Georgian

Chocolate Factory,"

and Alumni Weekend

— West Branch Canoe Weekend,

9 pjn.





QUEST

through April 28, 5 p.m.


Court College Women's Choir, First
Presbyterian Church, Market and Fourth

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p jn.







— 12

Sunday

A,

20
Saturday
• QUEST — Rafting, Lehigh River, 8 ajn.
QUEST — Flyfishing, Fishing Creek, noon

through April 19.

Friday

Sibling/Children' s

Kehr Union, 8 p.m., presented by the
Committee on Protected Class Issues and
sponsored by the Campus- Wide Committee
on Human Relations.

April
Alt Exhibit

Room

— 26

Friday

discrimination Committee chapter in

Provost's Lecture Series



sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

The

featuring

of

Maurice Sendak, author and

illustrator

children's books, discussing

"The Creative

status veterans, or union

mem-

bership.

university is additionally committed

to affirmative action and will take positive

steps to provide such educational

and em-

ployment opportunities.

Process," Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,
8 p.m.

Editor: Kevin B. Engler
AsslsUnt Editor: JoA. DeMarco
Editorial Assistant: Christina J. Gaudreau

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
Contributing Writer: Gwcnn E. Wells

Yuri Temirkanov to conduct Philadelphia Orchestra
Famous

Soviet conductor featured at Celebrity Artist Series finale

Yuri Temirkanov, one of today 's greatest Soviet conductors, will
lead the Philadelphia Orchestra at 8 p.m., Tuesday, April 23, in

Mitrani Hall of Haas Center for the Arts.
final Celebrity Artist Series

performance

The program marks
this year.

the

Temirkanov,

bom in Nalchick in

1938, completed graduate and

post-graduate studies in conducting at the Leningrad Conservatory

under Ilya Mussin. After gaining international attention in 1966 for

winning

first

prize in the Soviet All-Union Conductors' Competition,

he was appointed musical director

of the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra

and made

Maly Theatre
"La Traviata."
In 1977, Temirkanov became artistic
director and chief conductor of the Kirov
Opera in Leningrad where he was rehis debut at the

in Verdi's

sponsible for dozens of notable productions including Tchaikovsky's

"Queen

of Spades" and "Eugene Onegin."

Both productions, along with Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov," were per-

formed at London's Covent Garden in
1987 during the first Western tour by the
Kirov Opera company.
In 1986,Temirkanovwas the first Soviet
guest conductor to appear in the United
States following the renewal of the So-

viet-American Cultural Exchange Agree-

ment He conducted the New York Philharmonic that year and,

in

subsequent

years, has returned to the United States to

conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic,

SymSymphony,
Cleveland
phony, Chicago
Orchestra, and Pittsburgh Symphony.
In 1988, Temirkanov was appointed to
succeed the legendary Yevgeny MraPhiladelphia Orchestra, Boston

vinsky as chief conductor of the Lenin-

grad Philharmonic.
Tickets are $5 for faculty and staff. Ad-

mission is free for students with a Blooms-

burg identification card and valid

Com-

munity Activities sticker. Tickets can be
obtained at the Kehr Union Information

Desk.

CELEBRITY ARTIST

— Under

the direction of Soviet conductor Yuri Temirkanov. the

Philadelphia Orchestra will perform at

8 p.m., April 23,

in Mitrani Hall.

For more information, call Nancy
Vought in the Student Development
Office at 389-4201.

— Kevin B. Engler

2 The Communique

18

APR 91

Provost's Lecture Series:

News Briefs

Author-illustrator to present workshop, lecture
Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of
children's books, will discuss

'The Crea-

SECA

Process" at 8 p.m. and conduct a pre-

tive

lecture

workshop on "Sendak the Artist" at

United

The lecture and workshop are sponsored
by the university's Provost's Lecture Se-

the local United

Both events will be held in Mitrani
Hall of Haas Center for the Arts.
Sendak, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., has
spent 40 years writing and illustrating books

blossomed

in

1963 with

Where the Wild Things
a 1964 Caldecott Medal winner and



Are
worldwide

Two

best-seller.

additional

books

— In

the Night

(1981)

— completed

his trilogy of

"how

children master various feelings such as

anger, boredom, fear, firustration and jeal-

manage

ousy, and
realities

to

come

to grip with

fall.

Sendak has written and

illustrated

doz-

Polish, Spanish

and Welsh.

in

seven one-person art shows

tion picture productions

of his works. His

books have been translated into at

least 13

Way

and the

Dodson, Masteller to conduct
data networking sessions

American to receive the Hans Christian
Andersen International Medal in 1970.

Numerous

editions of his more than 80
works can be found in thousands of libraries worldwide and 30 are commercially

Doyle Dodson and Lee Masteller of

'

three information sessions for faculty

campus managers on a proposed

The hour-long sessions



named

— Monday,

April

22, at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., and Thursday,

April 25, at 9 a.m.

of

which will enable them
and foster original theatrical

"Night Kitchen"
to inspire

company

and

data net-

working scheme for the university.

s author Arthur

Yorinks established a non-profit national

the

computer services department will conduct

available in the United States.



showcased

your cooperation and

mas.

with numerous kudos, including the dis-

been discussed and reviewed innumerable

and was involved with television and mo-

for

Sendak's prolific career has garnered him

children's theater

During the past 20 years, he has been

'Thanks

Columbia County community," says Tho-

ens of children's books and his work has

times.

chapter from the

continued belief in the United

Maurice Sendak

Last year, he and children

of their lives."

Way

during the SECA fund-raising campaign last

tinction of being the first and, thus far, only

Kitchen (1970) and Outside Over There

$13,949 were received by

$30,700 pledged by university employees

for children. His international reputation as
artist

Way of Columbia County, says con-

tributions totaling

ries.

the publication of

Way

John Thomas, executive director of the

10 a.m., Thursday, April 25.

a writer and

funds total $13,949 for

Columbia County United

Ben Franklin
The



will

be held

in

Room 5

Hall.

presentations will focus

on network

standards and c^abilities, and access to

productions for children throughout the
offices, residence halls,

country.

Admission is

and off-campus

networks. Demonstrations on how to access
free

and open

to the public.

For more information, call the Office of the

the Unisys

2200 and

UNIX 3B

will also be

offered.

languages including Chinese, French, Ger-

man, Hebrew,

Italian,

Provost at 389-4308.

Japanese, Latin,

— Kevin B. Engler

Bloomsburg art professor designs theme
for U.S. Postal Service stamp fair
l**"!

A

Bloomsburg

art professor has pro-

Edgecomb, coordinator of the Benjamin

duced a design for the U.S Postal Service's

Franklin Stamp Clubs' Harrisburg divi-

Tri-Code Benjamin Franklin Stamp Fair.

sion, says

.

was asked to come up with the official
commemorative piece depicting higher
education, this year's theme for the fair,"
says Gary Clark, assistant professor of art,
"I

who used
computer

the art department's graphic

this year's "postal cancellation"

tion

which drew 650

in kindergarten

entries

competi-

from students

through high school. His

design wUl be used as a "cachet cover"
a graphically designed envelope
ited at the fair, says



— exhib-

Postmaster Cheryl

Edgecomb of Knoxville.

stamp collectors will be able to
view and purchase Clark's design at the
fair.

"Stamp collectors use cachet covers in

their collections

because of the bright,

decorative colors," she says.

'The cachets

usually pertain to a special festivity or

event"

to design the piece.

Clark volunteered to serve as a judge for

TRJ-CODE

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
STAMP FAIR

The fair, presented annually by the Benjamin Franklin Stamp Clubs' Harrisburg
division and sponsored

by the U.S. Postal

Service, will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,

Saturday, April 27, at the

Days Inn

in

Danville.

— Kevin B. Engler

HIGHER EDUCATION
CACHET COVER

— This

design, pro-

duced by Gary Clark, assistant professor
of art, will be used on U.S. Postal Service
envelopes during its annual stamp fair on
Saturday, April 27, at the
Danville.

Days Inn

in

The Communiqui

APR 91

18

3

Persons of color treated worse' than other
inmates in prison, says panelist and ex-con
A model of rehabilitation, former heroin
addict and ex-con

Ron

Santiago criticized

Bloomsburg's sociology and social welfare department.

African-Americans comprise 56 percent

the inequities in the criminal justice sys-

tem, from living conditions and job assign-

ments

to counseling

and parole opportuni-

week during a panel discussion in
the McCormick Center Forum.
The articulate,43-year-old black hispanic,
who is the subject of Sl Lawrence University professor Stuart Hills' book "Tragic
Magic: The Life and Times of a Heroin
ties, last

Addict," told his audience that the criminal
justice

system "is

tilted

toward those

have money. Everybody

is

treated

who

bad

in

prison, but persons of color are treated

worse."

wealth's correctional

facilities,

nation's oldest prison reform organization,

founded by Benjamin Franklin

male population

is

locked up on any given

day," she said. 'The figures suggest that
blacks suffer disproportionately in a criminal justice system plagued with over-

TURNING HIS UFE AROUND — Ex-

crowded prisons, discrepancies in sentencing and parole, high recidivism, funding
politics, and the risk of AIDS."
A need for "stricter enforcement" and

tiago criticized the inequities of our crimi-

causes of their actions," added

housing of criminals while ignoring social

Bonomo.

"We cannot afford not to care about

way of life."

the

social causes of crime in the '90s," stressed

Goldby, describing movements

After serving three years in prison on

robbery charges, the New York City native

to build

"too

little

for paying

tough to

fix

ing that a maximum security facility will be

a man $40 and a Amtrak ticket and tell him

new

togooutanddotherightthing. Myproblem

combine rural white staffers and inner-city
minority prisoners, a situation which often

learning

how

to live this different

it

was

way of

prison will be typical of

many

that

sets the stage for racial tension."

Noting discrepancies

life."

Santiago

and

presently "turning his life

ineffective parole policies, Kryjak, chief

counselor for Schuylkill County's penal

and studying criminology at Mater Dei

facility,

College

—where

he's an A-student



in

she said.

to

dance

The Communique

says "Prisoners have learned
to the

sound of the piper,

A

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

faculty and staff, The

how

in other

during the

summer months.

Please submit story ideas, news briefs, and

17815.

BU is committed to providing equal educational and

employment opportunities

board members what they want to hear to

Vietnam era

get released, but the inmates are not pre-

bership.

the Criminal Justice System," sponsored

pared to deal with the economic reality of

Relations, were other panelists:

Ann

sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,
tell

parole

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

The

status veterans, or union

university

is

mem-

additionally committed

to affimiative action and will take positive

on the outside."
Schwartzman noted

life

steps to provide such educational

that the U.S. incar-

Schwartzman and Mike Harkman of the

ceration rate already surpasses that of every

Pennsylvania Prison Society, William

other industrialized nation, including South

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

DeMarco

Africa and the Soviet Union. "State and

Editorial Assistant: Christina

federal penal institutions currenUy house

Photograplier: Joan K. Heifer

1.8

milUon inmates, and approximately 75

and em-

ployment opportunities.

Assistant Editor: Jo A.

Goldby of "Project Reconstruct," Michael
Kryjak of the Schuylkill County Prison,
and associate professor Tom Bonomo of

for all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,

tion.

man

weeks in ad-

Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

words, the S tate Board of Parole and Proba-

by the Campus- Wide Committee on Hu-

at least two

vance to The Communique, Office of UniverRelations and Communication,
sity

you use to hit a man
over the head to get his attention," he said.
Joining in the discussion on "Racism in

Inmates are conditioned to

Communique publishes

news of events and developments at BU each
week through the academic year and bi-weekly

Ogdensburg, N. Y. "I like to think of myself
as the two-by-four that

to

not

— Gwenn Evans Wells

calendar information

in sentencing

around" by working as a prison counselor

is

be released, but they're going

a neighborhood," he said, not-

constructed in rural Green County. 'The

...

"Ninety percent of the inmates will eventually

years. "It's easy to build a prison, but it's

"You don' t just give

wasn't living without drugs

she said.

million to build four prisons in the next two

attention" to the lives of inmates

after they are released.

against property, and parole violations,"

putting our resources in the right place,"

Society, said Pennsylvania will spend $230

He criticized the system

offenses including drug charges, crimes

bility" in a country "thick with racism."

on drug charges. "Prison
really didn't deter
me," said Santiago,
whose second imprisonment lasted two
three years later

years.

percent are serving terms for non-violent

commit another crime because we're

Harkman, volunteerdirector for the Prison

to

McCormick Forum.

more U.S. prisons as "a causal way of
getting away from our personal responsi-

be arrested again

released, only

nal justice system during a recent panel
discussion in

.

— ex-con Ron Santiago
was

is

con and former heroin addict Ron San-

leading to the "ware-

without drugs
it was
learning how to live this
different

in 1787.

"Across the nation, 10 percent of the black

"harsher penalties"

.

reported

Schwartzman, advocacy director for the

"My problem wasn't living
.

Common-

of the 22,500 inmates in the

Contributing Writer:

Gwenn

J.

E.

Gaudreau
Wells

4 The Communique

APR 91

18

Campus Notes

Calendar of Events


April

— Bhakti Ziek and Mark Good-

Art Exhibit

Provost's Lecture Series



Bruce E. Wilcox, assistantprofessorof chem-

featuring

Maurice Sendak, author and

illustrator

children's books, discussing

"The Creative

of

Process," Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

win, weavings and sculpture, Haas Gallery,

istry,

through April 20.

— Women's Conference Art



through April 19.







Concert — Husky Singers and Georgian

Court College

Women's





Choir, First

Presbyterian Church, Market and Fourth

Bloomsburg, 7:30 pjn.

Sunday


— 21


Fishing Creek.
10
Concert — BU Concert Band with guest
QUEST

"The Little Mermaid," Nelson Field House,
9 pjn.
Professional Development Forum and 60th

Flyfishing,

conductor James

Cumow,



Kehr Union, through

dents' Lounge,

Her article on "Ohio's First Farmers" will be

to 11:45 a.m.

Limcheon: Centennial Gymnasium,

published in a future issue of The Prehistory of

keynote speaker

the Licking Valley.

speaker

is

is

Clifford L. Jones,

Chamber of



Room

conference on May 3 in central Ohio. The scien-

140, Waller Administration Building,






Tuesday

— 23

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.


Celebrity Artist Series

Student Talent Show,

Orchestra, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,



— 24

William

Baillie, professor



"The



5:45 p.m.

featuring the

Bloomsburg

— Stephanie Johnson

— 28
and Alumni Weekend

Mermaid," Kehr Union,

Spring Concert



1

and Nelhe Manarchuck, senior exhibition,

Kehr Union Coffeehouse, through

May 5.

for Training in Ofiice

Systems"

at the

Office

What You Need

to

Know,"

in

Wilkes-Barre. The workshop was co-sponsored

by South- Western Publishing Co.

pjn.

featuring the Concert

Jolin J. Olivo Jr., chairperson of the Busi-

Choir and Husky Singers, Mitrani Hall,

ness Education and Office Administration De-

Haas Center, 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday

sented a paper titled "Using Authoring Software

Gehris also presetted a workshop on "Desk-

"The

Little

Dennis O. Gehris, assistantprofessor of busi-

top Publishing:

QUEST — Kayaking, Fishing Creek, 9 ajn.



by Syracuse

recently in Washington, D.C.

Little

Student Art Exhibit

part of a continuing

Systems Research Association's conference held

Takayori Atsumi, violoncello,

of English,

Mermaid," Kehr Union, 3 p.m.;
Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

was

ness education and office administration, pre-



Room, Scranton Commons,

Minderhout, professor of anthro-

pology, recently presented a paper titled "Future

University's Anthropology Department.



7:15 to 8:30 a.m.


a.m.

Sibling/Children' s



Pennsylvania

J.

scientific publications.

Uiuversity. His paper

Mitrani HaU, Haas Center, 8 p.m.



News, and other

12:15 p.m.

Spring Concert

Sunday

Alumni Breakfast Lecture Series
"Five
Himdred Years of Miss America" with

to sci-

ence editors fromthe New YorkTimes, Science

series of lectures presented

Alumni Awards Dinner-Dance, 24 West,

soloist

Student Art Show, Haas Gallery, through

from an archaeologi-

conducted in that region

Directions inMedical Anthropology" at Syracuse

University-Commimity Orchestra with guest

April 29

will disclose findings

Annual Alimini Luncheon, Scranton

8 pjn.

Wednesday

1 1

Street,

10 a.m.

Room G-20,

Downtown Bloomsburg,

— The Philadelphia

tists

David

and Alumni Weekend

Renaissance Jamboree, Main

Commons,





— 27

Science Hall,

Tuberculin Tine Test, Multipurpose

Room A, Kehr Union,



Husky Club Dinner-Dance and Auction,
24 West, Downtown Bloomsburg, 6:30 pjn.

Downtown Bloomsburg,

9 ajn. to noon

Wymer will join othCT scientists

cal expedition

Sibling/Children' s

Geisinger Health Plan Representatives,

In addition,

from across the country at an international press

Michael Curran, president of the

Saturday

May 5.


"Intestinal Contents of a

the July issue of Quarternary Research.

HaU, 8:15

National Business Education Association,

John Updegraff, senior exhibition. Presi-

She co-authored

nental North America" that will be published in

and in

Mitrani Hall,

— Andrew Carr and

Student Art Exhibit

publication.

Education; sessions held in Kuster Audito-

Banquet: Days Inn, Danville, keynote



Dee Anne Wymer, assistantprofessorof anthropology, has had two articles accepted for

riiun of Hartline Science Building

5 pjn.

— 22

Complexes Containing Polypyridyl ligands"

Late Pleistocene Mastodon from Mid-Conti-

Business and Industry, 12:15 to 2 p.m.

Haas Center, 2:30 pjn.

Monday

-

Anniversary Celebration of BU Business

president of the Pennsylvania

a.m.





QUEST

Sutliff
Streets,

and

Chemistry.

and Alumni Weekend
West Branch Canoe Weekend,

through April 28, 5 p.m.



(III)

Sibling/Children' s

Show, Presidents' Lounge, Kehr Union,

20
Saturday
QUEST Rafting, Lehigh River, 8 a.ni.
• QUEST
Flyfishing, Fishing Creek, noon

'Technetium Electro-

published in the Feb. 20 issue of Inorganic

— 26

Friday

titled

Electrochemical and Spectroelec-

7.

trochemical Studies on Technetium

8 pjn.
(II)

Art Exhibit

had a paper

chemistry

partment, has been invited by

— 30

Northem Ken-

tucky University's College of Technology faculty to serve as a visiting scholar.

Spring Semester Student Recital,

OUvo

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 p.m.

will

speak with faculty, studoits, and

area business educators about office systems,

Thursday


Workshop



-

Notice to faculty

25

— "Sendak

and staff: Please check the

Calendar of Events
the Artist" featuring

Maurice Sendak, author and

illustrator

children's books, 10 a.m. (location

each weekly issue of
The Communique for updates on changes to

of

TBA),

sponsored by the Provost's Lecture Series.

the date, time,

in

and location of an

activity

event that you are planning to attend.

or

ergonomics, desktop publishing, and telecommuitications during a two-day visit to the High-

land Park, Ky., campus.

Urban teachers have many jobs from
model

role

Nursing receives
grant for computers,

to friend, says educator
how

to read

please do not go to an urban setting to

and write can be a big challenge for any

teach," says Walters, indicating that

young elementary school teacher.
But according to Donna Walters, who

Mifflin's student

children from Philadelphia's Abbotsford

leaches sixth grade in metropolitan Phila-

Projects.

Gelling a youngster to learn

who work

delphia, educators

at lu^ban

schools "find out quickly" that teaching
just

is

one element of their job. "As a teacher

you are many people
with many jobs," Walters insists. "The two
most important jobs are being a role model
in

an urban school

and friend

to

.

.

.

your students."

body

our students are not.

They come from many minority groups."
The Temple University graduate believes
reading
Mifflin.

is

the biggest academic problem at

"As a reading

specialist,

I

like

being able to pinpoint the reading problems

of

my

students right away," Walters says.

Walters a reading specialist who teaches

"Mifflin students don 'tread enough, so our

Elementary School, spent two

teachers have to use different approaches to

,

at Mifflin

days

at

Bloomsburg

last

week addressing

classes of elementary education majors.

Speaking to 40 prospective elementary

encourage them to read more."

One way that Walters uses to incorporate
language arts into her curriculum is to have

school teachers in Bonnie Williams'

her entire class produce a newscast "I have

"Teaching Reading

Elementary School"

my students clip out newspaper articles and

Tuesday, Walters said teachers at

bring them to class," she says. 'They re-

class last

inner-city schools

in

must develop a positive

relationship with the students in their class.
"If you

have difficulty developing a rap-

equipment

consists largely of

"Although many of our teachers

at Mifflin are white,

interactive video

write the stories and produce their

A grant totaling $101,332 from

the

He-

lene Fuld Health Trust has been awarded to

Bloomsburg's nursing department

to pur-

chase computers for an instructional labo-

on the

ratory

Human

third floor of

McCormick

Services Center.

According to the Grants Office, the funds
will

be used

to purchase state-of-the-art

computer-assisted instructional and interactive video equipment.

"Our Students need to be able to
engage in critical thinking, responsible decision-making, and
they must learn how to prioritize delivering

health care."

— Nancy Onuschak

own

commercials. We have acommentator, news
reporters,

port w i th people who are different than you.

anchor people, an entertainment
Continued on page 2

"Our students need

to

be able

to

engage

in critical thinking, responsible decision-

making, and they must learn

how to priori-

tize delivering health care," says chairper-

son Nancy Onuschak. "The computer-assisted teaching

and learning strategy

will

enhance our students' use of these types of
skiUs."

Nursing faculty members' Sharon Kribbs,
Jean Berry, and Alexis Perry,
tively

who

collec-

wrote the grant proposal, "volun-

teered to take on this task," Onuschak notes.
"They worked independently and put in an

unbelievableamountof time collecting data
and writing the proposal."
Kribbs, who is the department' s assistant
chairperson, says the nursing profession

is

"changing and evolving" into areas of high

URBAN INITIATIVES LESSON — Elementary education majors in Bonnie Williams'
"Teaching Reading

in

Elementary School" class

listen

as sixth grade teacher

Walters comments on the problems and rewards of teaching in an urban school.

Donna

technology where computers are commonplace.

"We're

living in an information society

Continued on page 3

2 The Communique

APR 91

25

BU's Jones wins
gold medal at

Nigeria, Cuba, Canada, and Korea, as the

World Cup event
Bloomsburg's Lany "Zeke" Jones
cently captured a gold

Cup

medal

re-

World

in the

wrestling competition to help the

United States win the team

title

for the

was the first gold medal awarded to the

(1 14.5

medal.

along

The championship match with the Soviets was taped by TBS and will be televised

the victors of

on Saturday, June

will

Jones' victory helped the United States

second straight World Cup and

of represent-

overall. In the 19 years of this

ing the Uni-

Union has won the other

ted States at

win

its

title

event, the Soviet

in the last

He won

onships
years.

at the national freestyle

—an event

he's

won

champi-

the last

two

He will be seeking a spot on the U.S.

team that will be entered in the world championships in

Vema,

Bulgaria, in Septem-

ber.

Urban teachers

problems because they're coming to Mif-

Continued from page 1

flin totally

and others

.

.

.

and

But a lack of strong vocabulary skills can
present a problem, she notes.

.

.

"My students

all

the rules. "I allow

their

vocabulary

tuning in to the lesson.

who

is

them increase
such as having them
that consist of

that it's not

worth

my

She acknowledges

that

many

white, admits to having

when she

home.

"I normally don't allow eating or

drinking in

my

class," says Walters, "but

my

had taught in other schools, MiffUn was a whole lot different," she says.
"The school is located in a beautiful neighborhood. But our students all come from

potato chips and grape soda than any chil-

I

the housing projects,

and the neighborhood

surrounds

come

who live in the community that
Mifflin come from middle in-

and are sent to private or
parochial schools by their parents. Therefore,
flin

families

Walters believes the teachers at Mif-

must help

their students

develop

self-

esteem. "Our kids see the children from the

neighborhood every day," she says.

"We

have to help our children realize their potential

sixth graders

dren

so they can achieve to the best of

I

consume more Pringles

kids can be disciplinary

"not a jobfor wimps

.

.

.

but there are

many

rewards."

money for not talking in

each morning.

for special privileges; "Perfect Attendance

that later

can be "cashed in"

Walters encounters a "problem

Breakfast," a program that rewards perfect

child" in her class, she immediately calls

school attendance with a free breakfast for

and asks them, in a
on how to
deal with the youth. "For instance," she

the student and a parent; and the "I Was
Caught Being Good in School" program,
whereby students receive tickets for good
behavior and their names placed in a spe-

the child's parents

positive way, for suggestions

says, "I'll say something like,

Philip

is

a chatterbox and

I

'I

notice that

need some help

on dealing with him. Would you please tell

me the kinds of things you do at home that
enable you to help Philip, so that
those types of things in

him

to

I

can use

my classroom

enjoy school.'

that

"

developed some creative concepts includ-

little

Walters

the hallways

a big problem at the school.

the

URBAN EDUCATOR — Donna

of Mifflin Elementary School in Philadelphia says teaching in an urban school is

must wake and ready themselves for school

able experience for its students, Mifflin has

"Even

-I

give students play

Because many Mifflin students "lack a
stable environment and structure" at home,
is

PAC-10 Conference titles.

have ever seen." She adds that many

will help

their abiUty."

disciphne

three

Jones

at Ari-

won 134 matches and

State,

get to bed at an unreasonable hour, and

When

does not support the school."
Children

During his undergraduate years

zona

of her stu-

landed her teaching job at Mifflin. "Even

though

named U.S. Olympic Festival

harping about their

dents do not receive a good breakfast at

them."

experienced "culture shock"

1989, he was

In

champion.

my

gum chewing if they're not talking and are

Walters,

two world championships.

But the teacher admits there are times she
does not enforce

creative things to help

to

Arbor, Mich., Jones

.

some

words which are foreign

Ann

unprepared," she says. "Many of

students to chew gum," she says. "I decided

.

native of

them have not been to nursery school or
kindergarten
and they're lacking in

do not speak standard English, they speak
street jive," says Walters. "So I need to do

.

A

in Barcelona, Spain,

basic skills when they enter the first grade."

everyone in the class contributes."

.

Olympic Games

compete

matches against opponents from

work crossword puzzles

Jones

finished seventh and fourth, respectively,

In sudden-death overtime, Jones defeated

critic,

trials,

can from Arizona State University will

a 22-15 triumph over the

movie

the '92

compete
for the honor

8.

the 52-kilogram

Sergei Zambalov with a takedown.

reporter, a

with

next year.

Soviet Union in the championship match.

earlier

trials'

winners,

the

pounds) weight class, andhelped the

U.S. squad to

This year's

world

Ranked number one in the nation for the
past two years, the three-time All-Ameri-

staff.

won first place in

in-

15 championships.

recently completed his first year

Jones

wins

on the

24-year-old assistant wrestling coach

Huskies'

who

five recorded five

cluding the final match to earn the gold

fourth

fourth time.
It

won

U.S. team

In an effort to

ing: "Mifflin

make education an enjoy-

Money," whereby teachers

box for inclusion in a prize drawing.
Walters concluded her discussion with a

cial

subtle warning for

Bloomsburg

pondering teaching positions
eas.

in

students

urban

'These are the types of things

ar-

you'll

need to think about before accepting a teaching job at an inner-city school," she says.
"It's

not a job for wimps," she noted.

"But there are many rewards."
Kevin B. Engler



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APR 91

3

Maroons play important historical role
model in black culture, expert says
What do "break dancing,"

the latest

Gabriel Garcia Marquez book, and the teachings of

X have in common?

Malcolm

Plenty, says black anthropologist

wart views maroonage as an important
historical role model for the origins of black

culture

and

—a

culture

which usually grounded
new world plantations

either the horror of

who recently
lectured on "Maroonage: An Afrocentric
Tradition" in the Forum of McCormick
Human Services Center.

or native societies of West Africa.

According to Stewart, the pop dance,
Marquez' magical realism, and the teach-

maroonage offers yet another picture,
"somewhere between the image of the slave
and the image of the pharoah," says Ste-

novelist John O. Stewart,

ings which inspired the black revolutionary
all

share a cultural link to "maroons"

blacks from the Western hemisphere

and forged

rejected slavery

their

who
own

communities in the 16th and 19th centuries.

"A serious commitment to independence,
a disinterest

in

conquest of others, and

More

recent Afrocentric studies have

uncovered links
18th century

to the royal dynasties

Egypt Today,

of

the study of

PROBING BLACK CULTURE

wart.

"As Americans, we have
the right,

the freedom,

and the responsibility

stand and appreciate

all

to under-

three perspectives

in black heritage," sfressed the

Ohio

State

The Campus-wide Committee on Hu-

maroons apart from slave popula-

man Relations sponsored Stewart's lecture

tice set

that started with

Because the long-ignored
cluded

many "homegrown"

tributions of blacks in the

tradition in-

a brief performance by the

dition" in the

McCormick Forum.

Stewart traced maroonage to a Santo

Domingo slave revolt in

1

after African slaves arrived in the

cas.

The

tradition

developed

522, just 20 years

Haiti,

According to Onuschak, her faculty knew

tive video laboratory

the chances of receiv-

ing a grant award this

nursing students are not computer literate,"

on campus.
"Our students

she says.

feel

Continued from page 1

computers

^Hl^

^

^^P^^^
^
'

^^^ji^

^HHmmH^
Kribbs

.

.

.

and many of our

in areas

with

where maroons successfully fought
Continued on page 4

computer and interac-

that relies on

Ameri-

most notably

sizable slave populations,

benefit from having a

Nursing

lec-

tured on "Maroonage: An Afrocentric Tra-

Central and South America, Jamaica, and

university's Black Gospel Choir.

positive con-

Americas, Ste-

wart of Ohio State University recently

University English professor.

traditional African worship and social prac-

tions," says Stewart.

— Black

anthropologist and novelist John 0. Ste-

year were slim.

will

much more com-

"There were 377
grant proposals re-

learners," adds Kribbs.

go out
Perri
into the workplace
where computers have been integrated into

"For our graduates to

nursing," she says. "Eventually, the state

was fortunate to be one of the 126 to receive

be marketable, they

licensing exam will be given

an award.

"In nursing,

we

are

preparing life-long

will

have

to get into

the mainstream of
technology, and that

fortable as they

.

.

.

and

it's real

on a computer

important that they feel

comfortable when taking the exam."

ceived by the Helene

Fuld Health Trust this year, and B loomsburg

"The

selection board only considers the

highest quality written proposals they re-

The Helene Fuld Health Trust, a program
Bank of

ceive," she adds.

means they'll have to learn how to use com-

operated through Marine Midland

are to be

puters and interactive video equipment."

New

"So our three grant writers

commended for their outstanding

York, awards financial assistance to
promote the health, welfare, and education

work."

Berry, an assistant professor of nursing,
believes the days of "straight lecture" and

of students enrolled at accredited nursing

"communicating basic knowledge" are

schools nationwide.

be installed in a laboratory located adjacent
to the nursing department offices on the

But eligibility requirements and compe-

gone.

"This equipment

tition

make

it

difficult for institutions to

secure grant funding.

will enable our stu-

dents to better prepare

Furthermore, schools that received a He-

for progressive, 21st

lene Fuld grant award within the previous

century learning," she

two years were not considered

says.

"With

this sys-

Three years ago,

Berry

in 1988,

undergraduate students and faculty can put

Helene Fuld grant

themselves in simulated clinical situations."

computers that are presently being used

in

Assessment Lab

in

feels

an assistant professor of nursing,

Bloomsburg nursing students

will

the program's Health

Room

to

running by the
she adds.

McCormick

Center, says

have the new lab up and
start

of the

fall

semester,"

— Kevin B. Engler

Bloomsburg's

nursing department was awarded a $35 ,000

Perri,

third floor of

Onuschak.
"We hope

this year.

tem, our graduate and

to

When purchased, the new equipment will

purchase bedside

3151 of McCormick Center.

University Store:

Open

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, April 27

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Professional Business

Calendar
Sibling/Children' s


A

and Alumni Weekend

Renaissance Jamboree,

Main

Downtown Bloomsburg, 10


Student Talent Show,

Science Hall,

1 1

Room G-20,

a.m.

Armual Alumni Luncheon, Scranton



Commons, 12:15 p.m.
Alumni Awards Diimer-Dance, 24 West,
Downtown Bloomsburg, 5:45 p.m.
Spring Concert



featuring the

Bloomsburg

welfare department will lead an open discussion

the public is invited to attend.

on "Using Learning Journals in College Instruc-

Approximately 2,000 students, faculty,
staff, alumni and business leaders are ex-

tion" at

pected to attend the forum.

ing,

The program is sponsored by

the

Committee

management, human resources, acfor 'You Can't

sions will be held from 9 to 11:45 a.m. in
SutliffHall.

and Alumni Weekend

— Kayaking, Fishing Creek, 9
"The
Mermaid," Kehr Union, pjn.
Concert
Spring Concert —
QUEST

a.m.

Little

1

featuring the

Haas Center, 2:30 p.m.

on such issues
Banks and Thrifts,"
"An Environmental Regulation Update"
and 'Trends in the Health Care Industry."

Monday, April 29

Next

for

of the Federal Reserve Bank of Phila-

delphia; William Brusse of Converse Envi-

— "Using Learning

Anne
Room, Kehr Union, 2 p.m.

Journals in College Instruction" with

Wilson, Blue

six presentations

Featured speakers include: Sherrill Shaffer

Open Discussion

make

as "What's

ronmental East in State College;

W. Kevin

O'Donnell of CAN DO,

Hazleton;

tion, Inc., in

Spring Semester Student Recital,

New MMI

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 p.m.

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The

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are

welcome

all

ages

to audition.

Performances will be held June 27-30.

Maroons
Continued from page 3
the French to earn independence in 1804.
In

North America, maroon communities

States, the

Stewart.

Industry, will discuss current issues that

Brown's

Commonwealth at
Centennial Gymnasium.

movement "left it's mark," says
The tradition inspired John

fateful raid

on Harper's Ferry,

affect businesses in the

Va., as well as the work of scholars W.E.

a luncheon in

DuBois, John Henry Clark, and

Jones, chief executive officer of theState

Chamber

since 1983, has served in three

cabinet positions

—Labor and

Industry,

B

others.

Such scholars eventually helped pave the

way for recognition of the maroonage cultural

complex, described by Stewart as

Commerce and Environmental Resources

"independence, courage, creativity, a pref-

in the administrations of three Pennsylva-

erence for psychological and psychic bal-

nia governors and as Public Utilities chair-

ance over material gain, and a commitment

man. In addition, he served four years as

to a higher spirit"

president of "Pennsylvanians for Effective

Government" and chairman of the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania.
The event is sponsored and funded by:
Accounting Club; American Marketing

Mu Delta; Finance Club;

Even average maroons "who didn't lead
were members of the band,"

the band, but

had a different perspective than slaves, says
Stewart They had the "courage and creativity to act

on

that perspective to enact a

system of values."
"There's a wonderful message

in that

image," Stewart noted, urging his audience

Business Advisory Board; and Blooms-

to recognize the legacy of that courageous

burg's Alumni Association.

tradition as "a resource that could help us

Registration will be held from 8:15 to 9
E.

Director Michael Collins says roles are available for nine men and seven women and

Chamber of Business and

Pennsylvania's

;

Gaudreau

April 30, at the Keimeth S. Gross Auditorium in

Carver Hall.

system "failed to blossom" in the United

L. Jones, president of

Human Resource Management; College of
J.

7:30 p.m., Monday, April 29, and Tuesday,

the southwestern territories. Although the

Phi Beta Lambda; Pi Omega Pi Society for

DeMarco

It

Research Association.

ployment opportunities.

Editorial Assistant: Christina

American comedy "You Can't Take

With You" by Kaufman and Hart will be held at

current president of the Office Systems

Association; Delta

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

With You'

evolved in Virginia, Georgia, Florida, and

steps to pvovide such educational

Assistant Editor: Jo A.

It

Bronner of New York University who is the

At noon, Clifford
faculty and staff,

Home

Health ServicesA^isiting Nurses Associa-

Tuesday, April 30

A

Inc., in

Jane Gittler of Columbia Montour

Take

Auditions for BU Theater's production of the
classic

Concurrently, regional business leaders
will

Kehr

on Teaching and Learning Enhancement.

BU Theater conducting auditions

Choir and Husky Singers, Mitrani Hall,



in the

explored in 18 separate sessions. The ses-

Sibling/Children's



A wide array of

business-related topics including market-

2 p.m., Monday, April 29,

social

Union Blue Room.

Takayori Atsixmi, violoncello,

Sunday, April 28



be discussed on Monday
Aime Wilson of the sociology and

Bloomsburg University on Friday, April 26. Cost is $25 and

counting and information systems will be

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 p.m.



'Using Learning Journals'
to

University-Community Orchestra with guest
soloist



Forum

industry will be held at





Professional Development

focusing on current issues in business and

Street,

ajn.

News Briefs

campus Friday

held on
Saturday, April 27

Forum

Wells

a.m. in

Room

129 of Sutliff Hall.

muster the grit to take control of our Uves."

— Gwenn Evans Wells

Professional Development

Forum:

Business leader advocates
^some cost containment'
for balancing state budget
To avoid driving manufacturing corporations from the Commonmust "stop mandated spending" and

wealth, the state legislature

focus on methods of cost containment, Clifford Jones told a

Bloomsburg audience

"We

last Friday.

(the residents of Pennsylvania)

mandated spending by the

have not

tried to stop

Chamber of Business and Industry,
have some cost containment, the whole state

Pennsylvania's

said. "If

don't

will

budget

of

state legislature," Jones, president

be

we

in

a

crisis like Philadelphia."

Jones delivered the keynote message on "Concerns for Pennsylvania B usiness" at a luncheon in Centennial Gymnasium. Approxi-

mately 150 students, faculty,

staff, alumni, and business leaders in
community attended the luncheon in conjunction with the
College of Business' Professional Development Forum.
Calling 1991 a "critical year," Jones said that 30 states are
suffering budget deficits this year caused mostiy by declining

the

revenues.

"Pennsylvania has a budget deficit that

either $1.7 billion, or

ford Jones, president of Pennsylvania' s Chamber of Business and
Industry, told a Bloomsburg audience last Friday the state legisla-

"We won't know the actual figure

ture "does not understand" that they are forcing manufacturing

end of June, but there's no sense condemning the governor

corporations to locate elsewhere. His discussion was part of the

$2 billion, or $3
until the

is

CONCERNED ABOUT LOSING MANUFACTURERS — Clif-

and legislators

According

billion,"

.

.

.

they

he said.

all

played a role in

it."

College of Business' Professional Development Forum.

no "caps" on state expenditures for
items including prescription drugs, special education, and welfare.

competing with Virginia

"Pennsylvania expenditures today are running eight percent a year

Carolina anymore, we're driving manufacturers to the Dominican

.

.

.

to Jones, there are

four percent

more than the state's projected income," he noted.

"Let's stop casting the blame.

What we need now is a solution to the

problem."

Go V

Robert P. Casey has proposed a $ 1 .7 bilUon tax package that

.

calls for raising corporation taxes to 10.5 percent.

stales
rate,

With only two

—Connecticut and Iowa—taxing corporations

at a higher

Jones believes the legislature will force manufacturers to

relocate

"You

somewhere outside Pennsylvania.

to

South

said. 'The wages down there are $1.50
and we're paying $10 to $15 here."
Jones urged his audience to write and talk to their legislators. "It's

$2 an hour

.

.

.

up to you to tell the permanent, incumbent legislators that you
would like to be permanent, incumbent residents
but you need
their help," he said. "If we don' t come up with a broad-based tax and
business mix somehow," he added, "we aren't going to solve the
.

.

.

Jones advised the business students in the audience to become

computer

you

language," he said.

Pennsylvania because you won't be able to make a profit
"

literate

and,

if

possible, learn a foreign language before

"When you leave this university, I
hope you understand computers and have learned at least one other
graduating from Bloomsburg.

"In the years ahead, computer literacy

Jones said the state legislature "does not understand" that they are
forcing corporations to locate outside the United States.

to

Republic and Mexico," he

He indicated percentages could range up to 400
percent on some corporations. "If we lose the manufacturing
exemption, we are saying to manufacturers, 'there's no place for
in

down

our textiles

problem."

can't balance the state budget with corporate taxes,"

emphasized Jones.

here.'

... or driving

"We're not

tional

commerce

and the world of interna-

are where business is going to be," he added.

— Kevin B. Engler

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MAY 91

health linked to dietetic, nutritional,

and exercise

habits,'

emphasizes expert

Speaking to more than 90 Bloomsburg
secretaries last

Tuesday



Symposium

'91

It"

Graham

—Elaine

at the university's

^"Just for the

health is linked to

Health of

stressed that good
making good choices.

"These choices include

dietetic, nutri-

and exercise habits," said the parttime communications instructor at Penn
tional,

State-Hazleton.

Graham noted

that indi-

must decide what they want for
themselves, and "they should make conscious choices to achieve and maintain good

viduals

health.
it'

Good

health

is

a desirable

s balanced emotionally,

state

psychologically,

spiritually, nutritionally, and sexually,"

noting that stress affects every aspect of the



body altering eating habits, decisionmaking abilities, and a person's physical
well-being. "You are this magical, beautiful, and mystical system, but it's up to you
to

keep the system going."

Graham

discussed the role that "disease

oriented" practitioners or specialists play in

maintaining an individual's good health.

"Changes

and medicine today involve prompting a practitioner to
look at people as a whole person no matter
what the alteration or sickness is," she
in health care

explained. For example,

some physicians

added
Graham joined other speakers during the

whole person.
"Avoid those (practitioners) who only see
the symptom," she warned.

morning-long symposium, including chi-

After a person finds a doctor he or she

ropractor Russell Hoch,

who

she

treat the illness instead of the

'CONSCIOUS CHOICES' —ElaineGraham ofPenn State-Hazleton told her Secretaries' Day audience "conscious choices"
help maintain good health.
practitioner has an obligation to

tell

you."

Ultimately, the patient should be respon-

discussed

feels comfortable with, trust must be devel-

sibly involved in their health care.

ergonomics; Angela Gennaria and Debbie

oped. 'The basis of any therapeutic rela-

control of your health in an informed, open-

Trugh of Gende Dove in Bloomsburg, who

tionship

and

and
makeovers; and Ann Wishard, who spoke
on herbology, in the Forum of McCormick

through communication," said Graham,

Human

clarification

minded fashion," she said. "Keep a journal,
which is health producing by teaching us to
be in touch with our feelings or to recognize
signs and symptoms that may occur."
The program, held in conjunction with
National Secretaries Week, was arranged
by members of the Secretarial Roundtable

demonstrated body massages,

facials,

Services Center.

In her presentation titled

"Communica-

The Key to Informed Choices in Health
Care," Graham said there are many varition:

ables,

such as

stress, that affect

our bodies.

"The body is a smoothly functioning system, and anytime there is a change, the
whole system is disrupted," she explained.

Sophomore appointed

to

is

trust,

this is

developed

who recommends "finding a practitioner
who has good listening skills," and getting
on anything, such as treatment

and outcome,

that is not understood.

Only precise and clear answers should be
expected from a physician, continued Graham. "Productive language should be used,
and therapy should be discussed in detail,"
she emphasized. "Never pretend to understand. You have a right to know, and the

— Joy Bedosky, Colleen

"Take

Cindy

Hollister,

Kelley Emily Ledger, Karen Murtin Jackie
,

,

Reitmeyer, Debbie Schell, and Cathy
Torsell.



Christina J. Gaudreau

Snyder said she

Council of Trustees

will attend the

Julie Snyder plans to voice student concerns to trustees, administrators

quarterly meetings and interact

Sophomore

Julie

Snyder of Halifax has

been appointed by Gov. Robert P. Casey as
the

new

student representative to the

university's council of trustees.

who

communication
disorders and audiology, is "very honored"
to have been selected for the post. "I was
really surprised and very glad that they
Snyder,

considered

majors

me capable

in

of doing this job."

After being notified of the vacant posi-

by English professor William Baillie,
directs the University Honors and
Scholars program, Snyder applied for the
vacant post and went through a series of
interviews on campus with students, faculty and trustee members.
"They asked me what I beheve are the
university's strengths and weaknesses," she
tion

who

said. "I believe the university's strengths

with students.

has some really strong

"I enjoy being

and nursing."
As for weaknesses, Snyder believes most
Bloomsburg students do not take advantage of all the activities and events the

busy," she said. "I

university has to offer.

my best to voice those concerns to trustees

are in academics.

departments

.

.

.

It

like business

"I think there is a great
sity at

amount of diver-

Bloomsburg," she

said.

"But the

some programs,

come to me with their concerns, and I'll do
and university administrators."
Snyder, 19,

is

a 1989 graduate of Halifax

Area High School. The daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James R. Snyder of Halifax succeeds

like the

former student representative Sheraton

have here."
that

Snyder

we

students don't take advantage of all that

She noted

hope the students
they can

know

Celebrity Artist Series, are not available at

Smith of Harrisburg,

other colleges and universities. "I've been

December.
Her appointment

on some other campuses," she

know

grateful for the things

As

said,

that our students should

we have

"and

I

be more

here."

student representative to the trustees.

is

who

graduated

last

effective for four

years or until she graduates.

— Kevin B.Engler

INVESTING IN THE FUTURE
AT

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY
Faculty and Staff for Excellence

campaign generates support from
25 percent of BU employees
Bloomsburg University employees in
and Staff for Excellence campaign set a
new record of 214 or 25 percent. This represents an
increase of 24 percent participation over the fall 1989
campaign. In addition, 27 employees contributed to other
Participation of

the 1991 Faculty

BU Foundation fundraising campaigns.
A total of $16,254.90 has been received in gifts and
pledges.

More



the focus of this year's

campaign. (See related article.)

During the campaign, the university's 850 employees
(533 professional staff and 317 support

staff),

including

were support

staff.

Participation

demic

by administrative division was aca-

59.3%, general administration - 17.7%, inadvancement - 6%, student life - 14.9%, and

affairs

stitutional

-

president's office

-

affairs

-

divisions

26.0%, general administration

-

was

-

50%, student

life -

32.9%, and

1(X)%.

Areas with five or more employees earned special recognition for achieving high levels of participation in this
year's Faculty and Staff for Excellence campaign.

100%

Development Office

80%
80%
70%

Chemistry Department

Extended Programs
Twelve offices with one to four employees achieved a 100
percent rating.
Offices or departments with five or

more employees

more were:

Extended Programs

$987.00

Development Office
Languages & Cultures

$876.90

Student Activities

$447.00

$664.00

Chemistry

$395.00

Nursing

$387.00

Community

1.8%.

The percent of participation within
demic

and 63

staff,

-

giving a total of $350 or

27 Community Activities personnel, were contacted by
colleagues and coworkers. Of the 214 who made a
donation or a pledge, 151 were professional

advancement

Student Activities

than half the gifts were designated to

various scholarship programs

institutional

president's office

$352.00

Activities

and Bookstore

aca-

16.1%,

Focus on scholarships
results in new awards
Approximately nine new student scholarships

awarded

for

1992 as a result of

Staff for Excellence campaign.

this year's

will

be

Faculty and

These new scholarship

opportunities for students are a testimony to our belief
that investing in students is indeed

an investment

in

our

collective futures.

Within The

BU Family Scholarship two new scholarBU

BU employees and to employees not covered by existing
fee waivers,

i.e.,

employee's children, employee's

spouses, and employees

whose

credits are not covered

by

fee waivers.
Gifts to the
totalled

$325

BU Undergraduate Students c omponent

for general scholarships. Within this

category, any department, division, job classification,

was encouraged

ship options were created. Contributions to the

building, or other defined group

Family Relatives component totalled $960.40. Awards in
this category will be made to students who are relatives of

a specific scholarship. Four scholarships were formally

to design

continued

J)

New

scholarships to be awarded

New scholarships created for the BU Family Scholarship, including

BU Family Relatives and BU Under-

that

in

1992

would be available.
For these reasons, gifts made

in

1991 will be awarded

^aduate Students will be awarded in 1992. The delay is
necessary for two reasons.
(1) Because many of the gifts pledged are being paid

in the Spring of 1992.

through payroll deduction, actual dollars to support the

advisory committee for the Faculty and Staff for Excel-

scholarships will be received during the next

lence campaign.

,

11

months.

Cash donations received toward scholarships will be held
in interest-bearing accounts until awards are made.
(2) Because of the overlap in the timing of the
Faculty and Staff campaign and the scholarship application process, it was impossible to notify students about
these

new

scholarship opportunities for 1991. Scholar-

ship applications are filed in February and awarded in

March, too early
and

to

know

the response to the

campaign

Any

exceptions that might be

made are dependent upon cash

available in individual

accounts and upon the recommendation of an ad hoc

Following the guidelines recommended

last fall by an
Development Office,
awards for the BU Family Relatives and BU Undergraduate Students scholarships will be $250 each. The amounts
of future awards may later be changed by the departments
that are sponsoring their own scholarships or by a future
advisory group for the Faculty and Staff for Excellence

ad hoc advisory committee

to the

campaign.

determine the number and types of scholarships

to

New awards

Future plans

continued

A second ad hoc advisory committee to the Develop-

created as a result of this opportunity, and $4,127.50

These awards will be restricted
meet specific department criteria.

raised.

to students

was

who

ment Office

will

meet

later this fall.

results of the 1991 Faculty

It

will review the

and Staff for Excellence cam-

paign, offer recommendations about the next campaign,

New scholarships were established by

the depart-

and provide guidance about the possible implementation

ments of Business Education/Office Administration,

of a faculty and staff association that would be composed

Languages and Cultures, Curriculum and Foundations
(in memory of A. J. McDonnell), and the School of

of all faculty and staff contributors. As plans develop,

had scholarships established, made a special

semester.

Thank you

The Trust for Generations, the university's special
endowment campaign, received $2,578. The Trust
included three components: The Library Fund, The
Scholarship Fund, and The Academic Excellence Fund.
Other existing scholarship opportunities continued to

be popular. The general Husky Club

athletic scholar-

ships category received contributions of $1,404,

and a

$1,593 was given toward scholarships for specific

athletic teams.

Remaining

fall

effort to en-

courage contributions to them.

total

they will be shared during the

Other departments, which already

Extended Programs.

Many

thanks to the approximately 60 employees

who

attended the Faculty and Staff for Excellence orientation
sessions and

who

served as a liaison contact between their

colleagues and coworkers and the Development Office
staff.

These people deserve much of the

credit for the

increase in the rate of campaign participation this year

and for the encouragement of new departmental scholarships.

We deeply appreciate their efforts.

and pledges were designated to a
variety of categories including the University Fund,
gifts

faculty development, staff development,

named

scholar-

and other departmen tally specific programs.
In addition, 27 other employees either are participat-

ships,

ing in

The Trust

for Generations campaign or have

contributed to the 1991 Annual

Fund

($270), or to the

1991 President's Ball ($6(X) toward music scholarships).

For a complete

listing

of existing scholarships,

please contact the Development

Office.

If you have questions about the information presented in
this insert,

389-4128.

please contact the Development Office staff at

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The Communique 02

Arabs

a long-standing tradition of negative stere-

in U.S.

otypes, said

Ghannam,

president of the

stereotyped as
'bad guys,' says
president of
Philadelphia's

Philadelphia chapterof the Arab- American

ADC chapter

the past

Despite

Anti -discrimination Committee (ADC) and

a senior research pharmacist

at

Merck

&

Co. The Jerusalem-bom Palestinian said
prevalent entertainment media portrayals

have defamed and dehumanized Arabs for

accommodate

to

shortfall
Provost Betty Allamong has announced

A result of these stereotypes is the com-

a reorganization in academic affairs to

mon misconception that Arabs are wealthy.

"save" three faculty positions left vacant by

most of the 160 million Arabs
in 22 Middle East countries actually

In truth,

fiscal constraints

Gulf War has ironically focused a flurry of

living

demic

negative attention on Arabs living in the

earn less than $1 ,000 per year, he said.

Musa Ghannam

Union audience

last

told a

Kehr

tiny

The

idea that

all

by the FBI and were forced to display

American flags and yellow ribbons during
the war. They had their stores burned and
children beaten "just because they were
Arabs with names that sounded funny," he
said. The lecture was sponsored by the
Committee on Protected Class Issues and
the Campus-Wide Committee on Human
Relations.

The current wave of "Arab bashing" vents

is

A member

of the Greek Orthodox Church, he

mates 90 percent of the Arabs living
children

education, and learning resources directorships that will remain vacant for the present
time.

first

see Arabs

new

or-

dean of enrollment management, will serve
as assistant vice president for academic

portraying Arabs as womanizers and

affairs

rorists.

"Even

in technicolor,

ter-

everything

is

Cooper, former

and coordinate Student Outcomes

Assessment. The Department of Develop-

black or white, the Arab side is the bad guys

mental Instruction and Act 101/Educational

and the other side the good guys. There
no balance," he noted.

Opportunity Programs (EOP) will report

lion

is

way day after day,
year?" asked Ghannam.

portrayals,

that

Ghannam

Arab- Americans

in the

to

Cooper, whose previous position has been

said, ignore

United States.

He recited a lengthy list of Arab- American
House Chief of Staff
Heisman Trophy winner

eliminated.
In addition,

Bemie Vinovrski's

has

title

changed from director of admissions
director of admissions

to

and records with the

registrar reporting to him.

Vinovrski will report to Charles Carlson,
assistant vice president for

academic

af-

notables from White

fairs,

John Sununu to

Carver Halls, Upward Bound, Student

Doug Flutie.
Ghannam said
the

life acts

Academic Advisement, and the dean of the

hate,

university's School of Extended Programs.

of violence," such as the

Michael Vavrek, dean of the School of
Extended Programs, will head the areas of

1985 bombing murder of poet and Los

Angeles

along with the directors of Haas and

Support Services, Tutorial 504 Services,
negative stereotypes in

media subtly encourage "not only

but real

ADC president Alex Odeh.

Non-degree and Adult Programs and Serv-

Stereotypes inadvertently translate into

misguided pohtical policy when uninformed

ices,

Army ROTC, and

Cooperative Edu-

cation/Academic Internships. Assistant

back on special

interest lobbies

dean John Abell will coordinate Interna-

^r a lifetime of impressions

picked up from

tional Education, Non-credit Programs

leaders fall

he media. Decisions based on a perception
of Arabs as "those guys that tried to
Paul

Newman

kill

Exodus," pose a threat

Services, and the

Magee

and

Center.

A new department titled "Audio

Visual

to

Resources" has become a component of the

both American tax dollars and our "reputa-

TV/Radio Services department, headed by
Tom Joseph, and replaces the Learning
Resources Center. Some media materials

in

tion as an ethical people,"

Ghannam added.

"These stereotypes are so widely

in-

chapter of the Arab-American Anti-dis-

grained that even Western scholarship on

crimination Committee, said stereotypes

the

Middle East is riddled with misconcep-

ignore the significant contributions ofthree

tions

million Arab-Americans living in the United

reinforced by the recent war," he said.

States.

Tom

graduate to films and television programs

the significant contributions of three mil-

the Philadelphia

the academic division's

chasing cartoon heroes," he said. They soon

Such

Ghannam, president of

Under

ganizational chart,

year after

Musa

student outcomes assessment, international

as animated "buffoons with big swords

had been portrayed



responsibili-

her area to cover the workloads of

in the

"How would you feel if your ethnic group

WRONGLY PORTRAYED

ties in

esti-

United States are Christians.

Most American

during the 1990-91 aca-

year.

Allamong has reassigned

Arabs are Moslems

another fallacy, said Ghannam.

week.

Arab-Americans have faced intense scru-

Affairs

reorganization

can alliances in the Middle East, the Persian

United States,

3

70 years, depriving Americans of a
Arab culture.

true understanding of

many positive Arab and Ameri-

Academic

MAY 91

which have been further fueled and

— Gwenn Evans Wells

formerly housed in the LRC that pertain

to

the College of Professional Studies can

now be found
Center in the

in the

Curriculum Materials

McCormick building.

— Kevin

B. Engler

4 The Communique 02

MAY 91



Graduate Thesis Art



Show

May



struc tion" and presented a paper ti tied " Willa

has been invited to participate in the American Anthropological Association meetings

May

11.

May 2-3,

May 4

Saturday,

QUEST — Kayaking on Nescopeck
Creek, 9 a.m.
Spring classes end.

Frank

Peters, associate professor of

week

begins, 8 a.m.

May

11



week ends.
Commencement Convocation,



Bloomsburg Fairgrounds, 2:45 p.m.
Steam shutdown begins through



lished in the April issue of College Services

Administration, a journal of the National

of American English Pronunciation (DAE?)

Association of College Auxiliary Services.

He

project.

His assignment is to update and code the

when he served
member during the

Tuesday,


the 71st annual conference of the Association of College

recently in



Kenneth

of communication disorders and special

database phase of the project

education, presented a paper titled "Chil-

WNEP-TV (Channel

sponsor

May 25,

cil for

Orchestra, recently served as

p.m.

The parade

will

a.m.

start at 1 1

Samuel

There are 200 units in the parade,

VFW and Brownie troops.

nology (IIT); and Harold Bailey, professor
IIT, recently

marketed

Introduction to Sign Language:

An Inter-

active Videodisc

Approach through

the

Agency for Instructional Technology (AIT)
in

in Atlanta,

Ga.

The videodisc program is the first "visbook of its kind. It can

ual" sign language

be purchased and used

in sign language

with crowd control and aid the

and homes of hearing impaired children

Cross.
Interested persons can call the University Relations Office at

389-441 1/

4412.

A

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

The Communique publishes
news of events and developments at BU each
week through the academic year and bi-weekly
faculty and staff,

during the

summer months.

Please submit story ideas, news briefs, and
at least two

Relations and Communication,
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
sity

17815.

BU is committed to providing equal educational

and employment opportunities for

sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

more than 650

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

signs,

270 sentences, and

proper handshapes and finger spelling tech-

Vietnam era

status veterans, or

Andruss Library will be closed on

Monday, May

May

15,

due

electrical

13,

and Wednesday,

to the

campus- wide

shutdown.

Harry Strine IH, associate professor of

union

mem-

bership.

The

university

is

additionally committed

to affirmative action and

to close library

all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,

across the nation. Users are able to learn

niques.

shutdown

weeks in ad-

vance to The Communique, Office of Univer-

programs, clinics, public schools, libraries,

Red

The Communique

calendar information

Bloomington, Ind.

Other volunteers are needed to help

Electrical

Coun-

Exceptional Children held recently

Slike, professor of communica-

and director of the

10 a.m., and television cover-

including

Community

is

volunteers to serve as parade marshalls

age will

Hemangiomas and Epidermolysis Bullosa"
at the 69th annual convention of the

Jackowski, formerly an instructor in communication disorders and special education
Dorothy Hobbis, interactive video spe-

seeking 15 "very responsible"

to 3

Jelinek, assistant professor of

cialist for the Institute for Interactive Tech16),

Bloomsburg on Saturday,

at

assistant professor

tion disorders and special education; Joanne

Welcome Home Parade in

from 8 a.m.

Dove Jones,

Sheila

music and conductor of the University-

Gross Audi-

S.

Seeking Parade Volunteers

begin

International held

featuring Catawissa

torium, Carver Hall, 8 p.m.

of the

-

dren with Rare Chronic Skin Diseases:

14

Military Band,

Unions

Sl Louis, Mo.

The board a group of North American
andEuropean lexicographers, phoneticians,
and dialectologists is responsible for the

guest conductor for The Southwest Symphony during a production of "Oil-patch
Gala" last March in Hobbs, N.M.

Spring Concert

on "Auxilia-

also chaired a session

Providing Responsible Guidance" at

as a planning board

Mark

May 23.

May

ries:

bibliography he produced

Spring finals

Thursday,

"Undergraduate Intern Managers" pub-

tancy and advisory board of the Dictionary



Saturday,

,



Monday, May 6
Spring finals

John Trathen director of student activiand Kehr Union, had an article titled

English, has been appointed to the consul-

1980s.


College.

ties

May 4, 2 p.m.

8 pjn.; Saturday,



November. She will present a research
paper on Mexican- American Gang Girls.
in

"Bamboozled," children's play,
Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium,
Carver Hall, Thursday, Friday,



Harris, assistant professor in the
department of curriculum and foundations,

Student Art Exhibit, Coffeehouse,

Use of Sympathetic Magic in The
Song of the Lark" during the American
Novel portion of the Pennsylvania College
English Conference held recendy at York
Gather's

Mary

10.

Kehr Union, through Saturday,



English, chaired a session on "Decon-

featuring

works by Mary Carter, Haas Gallery,
through Friday,

Dale Anderson, associate professor of

Campus Notes

Calendar

wiU take

positive

steps to provide such educational and

communication studies and director of forensics, and forensic team members Tracey
Rinehart and Aileen Kopervos conducted a
forensic workshop for Bloomsburg alumnus Grace Coleman's speech classes at

ployment opportunities.

Millersville University.

ContribuUng Writer: Gwenn

em-

Editor: Kevin B. Engler
Assistant Editor: Jo A.

DeMarco

Editorial Assistant: Christina

J.

Gaudreau

Photograplier: Joan K. Heifer
E. Wells

AV

Research team finds living
bacteria in mastodon remains
A Bloomsburg anthropology professor
was one of seven scientists who announced
this month they have found living bacteria
they think was present in the intestines of
a four-ton mastodon 11,000 years ago. Preserved with a skeleton dug up in Newark,

According

to

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Daniel C. Fisher,

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a mastodon specialist

on

the

team, the findings
include important

Ohio, the remains yielded important clues

clues to the diet

Age mammal,

of these extinct

to the diet of this extinct Ice

Ice

a distant relative to the elephant.

Dee Anne Wymer,

the only Pennsylva-

Resources
to ensure

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Wymer

of Michigan, reported twigs and needles of

And team member

conifers, particularly spruce,

Dalhousie University in

Nova

Scotia

were believed

to be part ofthe mastodon's diet

However,

by examining plant pollen
removed from the mastodon's

their absence in the intestinal contents "calls

in the tartar

teeth," said

Wymer.

became

"confirmed

"If this
bacteria,

it

this

is

the original 11,000 year-old

will allow biologists to

do

DNA

studies of the bacteria and look at the rate of

evolution," said

Wymer

during a recent

phone interview. "Not all of the bacteria
have been identified," she said.

The discovery in December 1989 was

re-

ported at a May 3 press conference in Newark,

Ohio.

On May 4 "The New York

Times" reported the discovery "could upset

some theories of what drove the mastodons
to extinction."

The mastodon remains were excavated
by a team of scientists led by Bradley Lepper,
an archeologist with the Ohio Historical
Society.

Wymer

credits

what biologists claimed

mastodons

into question the theory that

when the spruce forest rewarmed 1 0,000 years
in "The New York Times"

article.

Scientists found

in the

mastodon's

"last meal" evidence of swamp grass,

leaves, seeds

"There

is

and water

that the

animal

"I didn't believe

it

human animal interaction) until Fisher

convinced me."

Wymer

two years.
"We're doing science the right way," she
said. "We have done careful analyses using
for

different researchers with different

We submitted the official paper

to be the "first recovery of living bacteria to

expertise.

have survived from an extinct species"

outlining the research project to the 'Qua-

the "foresight of Lepper,

contents immediately.

He

who

to

froze the

recognized the

ter for

Technology

to

and the Cen-

(IIT)

Academic Computing with

the

technologically advanced" LRC, says Tom

Joseph, director of TV/Radio Services.
All three areas "will
effort to streamline

them easier

work together

in

an

our services and make

to access

.

.

and

.

they'll

be

by faculty and

better coordinated for use

students," says Joseph, who will direct AVR.

the

LRC

now

will

move into the 21st century

.

.

.

begin to

and allow us

to help our faculty

implement the technolo-

we have

campus

gies

available on

into the

classroom," says Peter Kasvinsky, assis-

and

research.

"When
years ago,

I

came

to

Bloomsburg a few

many faculty and administrators

were questioning whether or not these three
areas needed to interact more," recalls

Kasvinsky,

who

oversees the IIT, directed

by Hank Bailey; the Center for Academic
Computing, headed by Bob Abbott; and
Joseph's TV/Radio Services department.
"In the past, the

ternary Research,' a science journal."

The referees who recommended the paper

TV/

Radio Services department to create a "more

tant vice president for graduate studies

has been working with the

Murphy Archaeological Research Group
(MARG) at the excavation site in Newark

many

name

its

instructional technology unit

"What was

inhabitants of North

America," said Wymer.
(the

moss,

new

Interactive

lilies.

even evidence

was butchered by

officials

will link the services of the Institute for

extinct

treated as the climate

ago," he said

accessible to

Center (LRC) and changed
This

plant remains found in the intestinal mass.

Gordon Ogden of

more

and students, university

have restructured the Learning Resources

mals.
Fisher, a paleontologist at the University

J.

faculty

Audio Visual Resources (AVR).

on the team, identified the

nia scientist

To make interactive video and computer
graphic technologies

-

..-^K^^^

Age mam-

greater access
to educational
technologies

LRC

dealt with audio/

visual equipment, videotaped programs,

importance." The living bacteria"shed light

for publication, which is scheduled for July

transparencies, and other mass media

on the mastodons' environment and what

"were

items," he notes. "Faculty will

they ate," said

Wymer. The

bacteria has

been identified as Enterobacter cloacae.

ecstatic," she said.

— Joan

T.

Lentczner

to

still

be able

come to A/V Resources for most of these
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16

AV Resources

News Briefs

Continued from page 1
materials," he says, except for "certain
Medical, legal oftlce training

programs offered

Two

this

curriculum -associated materials for educa-

summer

tion students

office technology training programs

designed

to teach participants the specialized

knowledge and

skills

required of medical and

legal office personnel will

be offered

this

sum-

mer by Bloomsburg's Business Education and
Office

Management department and School of

Extended Programs.

The courses
tion"

— "Medical Forms

Specializa-

and "Legal Forms Specialization"



are

two weeks in length and begin on Monday, June
3.

"Medical Forms Specialization" will meet

from 9 a.m. to noon, and "Legal Forms SpeciaUzation"

is

scheduled from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.

to the

which have been transferred

Curriculum Materials Center

in the

moving them to another area on campus,
it's more convenient for students if we keep
the videotapes right where they are."
Joseph says that seldom used videotapes
will

be housed

in the University Archives.

"We're trying
amount of motion

to greatly reduce the

picture film that

is

cur-

College of Professional Studies."

rently being shuttled around campus," he

AA^ Retwo functions
providing support to faculty and students in accessing mass media methodologies and materials, and offering opportunities for graduate student involvement
"As this changeover occurs, we expect

notes. "Film

that some of our IIT graduate students will
become involved in supporting some of

serve as a teaching faculty

According

to

Kasvinsky, the

sources concept will



these

new

fulfill

very difficult and expensive
and eventually we will be

is

to maintain,

many films to videotape."
The reorganization also fills a gap

converting

left

vacant from the retirement of Thaddeus
Piotrowski

last year.

eventually

filled,

"When this position is

the individual hired will

member

in the

IIT," says Joseph.

Kasvinsky says

functions," he says, noting the

this individual will

be a

master's degree ciuriculum has not ex-

media

specialist teaching

Training for

posed the students to all of the educational

basis,

and supporting faculty classroom

Information Processing (TIP) Center on the upper

technologies available on campus. "Learn-

needs the other half of the time. "The media

ing these technologies

is

specialist will help faculty with interactive

master's degree program

.

Both programs

will

be held

at the

campus using IBM model 25 and 30 word processing

equipment

Interested persons can enroll in either or both

programs. Class sizes are limited. Early registration is advised.

.

part of their
.

and

will give

these students a broader experience, not
solely focused

on

Extended Programs

3894420.

at

facility to

make "check outs and viewing"

more convenient

for students,

video and computer graphic technologies
that

Kasvinsky

But for now, faculty can arrange mass
media materials by contacfing any of the
three areas.

"Now that we're working together, we'll

notes.

"The

Upward Bound program
from

Fifty students

attend an
to July

1 1

area high schools will

Upward Bound program from Jime

20

at

facility in

McCormick Center

al-

lows groups of students to check out and

Fifty area high school students to

attend

Upward Bound provides young people

with opportunities to explore their potential for

Ruth Aime Bond, director of the Upward
Bloomsburg, says the program

A

identify finalists,

career development internships

one each for faculty and

staff



will

ment of Education

in Harrisburg, will provide

participating students with

meals in Scranton

employees with substantial service

current salary level. All benefits will re-

to the

main

their present duties,

and paid

at their

in effect

After completing the program, the intern
will return to his or her previous position

for at least the same length of time as the internship, unless selected for another uni-

versity posiuon.

Vacancies created by an internship may

university. Interested individuals are re-

quired to complete an application, and

Commons.

and conduct interviews.

selected applicants will be released

from

Labor Relations during the fall semester to
enhance work experience, educational
background, and future career aspirations.
AppUcants must be full-time Bloomsburg

by the Pennsylvania Depart-

The

be

offered by the Office of Personnel and

The Summer Food Service Program for Chil-

will re-



by giving them

adequate preparation."

and administrators

view applications and relevant materials,

faculty, staff
Two

selection committee comprised of

faculty, staff,

internships to

"provides equal access to post-secondary edu-

dren, sponsored

B. Engler

sity.

academic, social and personal growth.

cation for high school students

— Kevin

mutually meeting the needs of the univer-

Personnel Office
to offer

Established by the U.S. Department of Edu-

effort at

says Joseph.

1

Bloomsburg. During the five-week

taught by high school teachers.

Bound

make sure that faculty get to the right place,"

view a video program that was assigned by
an instructor," he says. "So instead of

program, the students will participate in courses

cation,

can be actively incorporated into the

classroom."

interactive video."

Videotapes will remain in the McCormick

For more information, call the School of

on a half-time

be

filled

on a temporary

basis.

with a resume and description of

Interested persons should obtain an ap-

Bound includeBerwick, Bloomsbiu'g, Danville,

the proposed internship indicating the

plication form from the Office of Personnel

Mahanoy Area,

campus department,

and Labor Relations in Room 134 of Waller

Local school districts affiliated with

Milton, Minersville,

Upward

Mount

Carmel, North Schuylkill, Pottsville, Shamokin

and Shikellamy.

submit

it

office, or area the

applicant desires to work.

Administration Building. Deadline for ap-

The proposal should describe the experience to be gained, and indicate how

it

plications

further the appHcant's career plans while

is

Monday, May

For more information,

will
at

389-4414.

20.

call

Bob Wislock

The Communique

Maurice Sendak's
^

vivid

.

.

.

lurid'

Sharing his recipe of "chaotic ingredi-

Maurice Sendak told a
Bloomsburg audience last week that

picture book, artist

"being in touch"

reading fantasy stories

is

with the child living in

all

the trilogy and other Sendak books have
provoked considerable controversy. Early
reviews attached "Where the Wild Things

Are," as ugly and depraved. The book,

won

however,

the Caldecott Medal, the

highest graphic award in the industry, and

of us.
be in

"almost overnight

book," he recalled.

not a big, fancy

tionally

artistic trick to

acclaimed author/illustrator

who

was making a rare public appearance to
speak on "The Creative Process" in Mitrani
Hall. "I seem to be blessed, or cursed, with
very vivid and often lurid memories of

it

became an

all right

Describing his original passion in

as

life

music, Sendak said he switched careers

1

became a stage designer for
it was a "chance to get
his hero, Wolfgang Amadeus

among

PROVOST'S LECTURER

closer" to

rice

Designing the

set for the

Houston pro-

college age individuals and older adults,

duction of Mozart's "The Magic Bute" was

Sendak said his picture books "aren't espe-

a "dream

cially intended for children."

don

'

t fit

But since they

the mold of adult literature, "there'

no place to put them except on the children'
shelves," he added.
"Kids are very, very ferocious as an
audience. They are extremely tough in their

condemnation and their affection," Sendak
said, describing their tastes as

ing,

more

subtle,

"more vary-

and more defined" than

those adults.

Sendak,

who

come

sickly,
ily in

the

youngest son of an immigrant fam-

Brooklyn, N.Y., he developed a keen

children from the Holocaust.

"The muse

will not fall

almost indistin-

from heaven on

You have to seek her
out," stressed Sendak, who said he has done
much of his own seeking in visual art,
literature,

Sendak 's presentation was

the last of

three Provost's Lecture Series events held
this spring at the university.

— Gwenn Evans Wells

composers, writers,

The Communique

His second career was another "night-

mare" recalled Sendak, describing his early
life

as a poor scholar, probably dyslexic,

who

inspiration to write his best-selling book,

is

your drawing paper.

brother and

"mauled you," gave Sendak

Process."

severe depression.

and unvarnished observations.
the kind that

it also became a
dream becomes a

book author/illustrator spoke to a large
gathering in Mitrani Hall on "The Creative

Mozart is there, of course, playing in the
background for a shadowy audience of

eye and ear for childhood fears, fantasies,

Coping with overly affectionate relatives,

the

he noted. The process

music and

As

"When

Artist Mau-

guishable from a nervous breakdown or

and poets.

youth.

Sendak. But, as



Sendak told his Bloomsburg audience
last week he's either "blessed, or cursed"
with childhood memories. The children's

nightmare, you begin the creative process,"

has earned a reputation as

own

true," said

the deadline approached,

nightmare.

"the Picasso of picture books," reflected on
the rich palette of his

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFEX

years ago and

operas because

Mozart.

childhood."
In addressing his large following

3

creativity based

touch with childhood," said the interna-

"It's

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on
childhood memories

ents" that go into manufacturing a children'

large

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wake of a

struggled in the
sister.

He

didn't

go

brilliant

to college

because he "never realized college could be

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news of events and developments at BU each
week through the academic year and bi- weeidy
during the

summer months.

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calendar information

a place of freedom."

Said Sendak, "I

A

faculty and staff.

fell

out of the system.

at least

news briefs, and
two weeks in ad-

vance to The Communique, Office of Univer-

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"Where the Wild Things Are," published in
1963. Seven years later, he would draw on

Maybe

a potpourri of children's recollections

tour of his latest book, an intricately illus-



that helped

in

a brutal way."

The artist showed slides to offer a guided
trated version of a recently discovered

"traumatic experience" of getting lost at the

Grimm Brothers story called "Dear Milli."

Uneeda Biscuit display at the 1939 World's
Fair
to write another book "In the Night

Released

last year, the

nant story of a young

book

tells

the poig-

girl lost in the forest

of a war torn country. "She's trapped

The third book in his trilogy, "Outside,
Over There," appeared in 1981. The book
was inspired by Sendak' s other memories,
including kidnapping of Charles

bad moment in history," explained Sendak,
who once again used the book to express intimate experiences and influences in his

Lindbergh's infant son, the national fascination with the

Using a light pen, Sendak pointed out
page details ranging from his dogs and

dark fairy tale

flowers in his Connecticut garden to tiny

Wildly popular with millions of readers.

own

in

a

life.

tombstones

and employment opportunities for

all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or

union

mem-

bership.

Kitchen."

Dionne quintuplets, and a
by the Brothers Grimm.

BU is committed to providing equal educational

from King Kong and Mickey Mouse to the



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The

university

is

to affirmative action

additionally committed

and

will take positive

steps to provide such educational

and em-

ployment opfwrtunities.
Editor: Kevin B. Engler

in

memory of his on

family.

Assistant Editor: Jo A.

DeMarco

J. Gaudreau
Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
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Editorial Assistant: Christina

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MAY 91
Ronald DiGiondemonico,

Campus Notes

assistant

professor and coordinator of academic

advisement, gave a presentation

Donna J. Cochrane, assistant professor
of business education/office adm in istration
recently presented a refereed paper titled

"Trends

in

Postsecondary Internships at

titled

"Curriculum Advisement and Progress
System (CAPS)" at the annual Mid-Atlantic

Region National Academic Advisement

Association Conference held last month at

NABTE Institutions" at the National Asso-

the University of Maryland, College Park,

Teacher Education
Research Conference in Nashville, Tenn.

Md.

ciation of Business

The conference is held concurrently with
the National Business Education
Association's annual conference.

Jing Luo, instructor of languages and
cultures, received the "Distinguished

Achievement in 1990-91" award
from the Department of French

in April
at

Penn

intersession,

summer hours

Andruss Library will be open from 8
a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,

Monday

through Friday,

during the intersession period which runs

through the Memorial

The Ubrary

will

Day weekend.

be closed on Saturdays,

Sundays, and Monday,

May

27.

University Archives, however, will be

Roy Smith,

director of

QUEST and the

Corporate Institute, gavea lecture this month

on "To the Edge of the Earth" at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
He documented two separate journeys
into the Alaska Brooks Range and reported
on the current political and environmental
controversy concerning the proposed

closed for the entire intersession period.

During the summer term

Aug. 16



— May 28

the library will be

a.m. to 10 p.m.,

Monday

to

open from 8

through Thurs-

day; from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; and

from 2

to

10 p.m., Sunday.

The Ubrary

will

be closed on Saturdays,

and on Thursday, July

4.

drill-

ing for oil in the Arctic National Wildhfe

State University in University Park.

Mollie Whalen, assistant professor

Refuge.

Linda M. LeMura,

Andruss Library announces

in

Denver

Department of Counseling and Human
Development, presented a paper titled

He will report on

"Structuring Salaries in a Feminist Organi-

zation" at the National Association for

meeting of the American Alliance of

Bloomsburg University expedition team 's trip to Mexico. The team cUmbed

Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and

Orizab, an 18,700 foot glaciated volcano

March

assistant professor

Smith

will give

a slide lecture July 9 on

of health, physical education, and athletics,

"Mountains and Monarchs"

presented a paper

Natural History Museum.

titled "International

Per-

spectives in Sports Medicine" at the national

Dance held

last

month

in

San Francisco,

the recent

tains of

Mary K.
titled

Michoacan.

"Career Anchorage Orienta-

in

Reza Noubary,

assistant professor of

music, had an article

titled

"An

Interview

joint meeting of the
cal Society

keting held last

of Management and Marmonth in Detroit, Mich.
The paper was published in the proceed-

The Clarient.
Oxley is arranging a collection of Percy
Grainger works for clarinet and piano for

Calif.

ings.

G. Schirmer,

Academy

FAMILY AFFAIR

— Thefour

Awards Luncheon

in

children of
former Bloomsburg education professor
A.J. McDonnell attended the university'

on Sunday, April 28,
ing of the first "A J.

Commons

Scranton

to witness the

award-

McDonnell Award for

Student Teaching Excellence"

— namedon

behalf of their latefather who taughtfor 23

years (1962-85) at the university. They are,
Ellen M. (McDonnell)
Mary L. McDonnell; Arthur J.
McDonnell, who works as an accounting

from

left to right,

Vought;

specialist in the university's Business Of-

fice;

and Thomas A. McDonnell. Five eduBryan James, Darlene

cation students



Mark

Johnson, Krislin Ofalt,

and Kerri Westover
guished award

Reinhardt,

— received

the distin-

this yecar.

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

associate professor of

Estimation of a Non-Linear Model," at the

with Michel Lethiec" accepted for publica-

tional

last

sented a paper, "A Procedure for Parameter

Terry Oxiey,

Women" at the Interna-

tions of Employed

Psychology conference
Conn.

in Hartford,

mathematics and computer science, pre-

Erickson, associate professor

of management and marketing, presented a

Women

and visited the wintering grounds of the
migratory monarch butterfly in the moun-

Calif.

paper

at the

the

tion in

Inc., for fall publication.

American Mathemati-

and Mathematical Association
of American last January in San Francisco,

Noubary also chaired a session on "Optimization and Applications."

Spring Commencement '91

Hugh O'Brian
shares freedom-to-

choose philosophy
with graduates
Voicing his belief that
are "created equal

.

.

.

all

human beings

but not

bom equal,"

veteran stage and screen actor Hugh O'Brian

shared a philosophy for success with his

audience of Bloomsburg University graduates, their families, faculty,

tors at the

"I

me

Fairgrounds

and administra-

last Saturday.

have a particular creed

through

call this philosophy, the

O'Brian,

who

ment address

that's helped

said O'Brian. "I simply

life,"

freedom to choose."

delivered the

commence-

781 baccalaureate and

to

master's degree recipients at the university's

122nd annual Spring Commencement
Convocation, said every

man and woman

living in the United States has the
to

make

their

own

freedom

choices "if given the

opportunity and encouragement" to recognize their potential.

Upon requesting that the graduates stand
and applaud the parents, families, and
friends seated in the grandstand, O'Brian
said, "Physical

and emotional differences,

parental guidance, learning environments,

and being at the right place at the right time
... all play a role in

enhancing or limiting

an individual's development."
In his discussion titled "Miracles and

Mysteries," O'Brian said each individual

human being

represents a unique blend of

both qualities.

"Take a look at the guy

...

or lady sitting

next to you," he urged. "That individual
represents both a miracle and a mystery.

PROCESSIONAL
the university' s

— Bloomsburg

rt*OTO BtJOAN HLLFE*

s 781 graduates

march

into the

Fairgrounds prior

122nd annual Spring Commencement Convocation,

May 11.

to

There's no one like that person any place
else in the

world

.

.

.

and no one who has the
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30

MAY 91

Hugh O'Brian
Continued from page

same ambitions,
like the

"Voluntarism ...

1

desires, or frustrations

.

.

person next to you."

In summarizing his topic, O'Brian chal-

lenged his audience to believe in the miracles

God

and mysteries of life, because "the
we look for in heaven can truly be

found

in

recalled O'Brian.

"On

Los Angeles, up
there at 40,000 feet, I began asking myself,
'What was I doing to really give something
back ...?," he added.
HOBY, a leadership program for high
school sophomores, brought teenagers from

Union
two summers.
the Soviet

to

Bloomsburg the past

"Some 13,000 high

schools in 88 differ-

ent locations are participating in the pro-

gram
them

this year," said

are run

O'Brian, "and

HOBY locations — Har-

risburg, Lancaster, Philadelphia,



in

of

by volunteers."

There are four
burgh

all

Pennsylvania.

and Pitts-

ance led

to

an acting contract with Univer-

who

as an actor skyrocketed.

received an honorary Doctor of Hu-

mane

Letters from the university for his
exemplary humanitarian achievements.
"HOBY has been the greatest thing in my
life
and I hope that all of you will fmd
a program in which you will give of your.

.

.

O

'

and soon

thereafter, his career

B rian told the graduates to be prepared
impromptu challenges of

for the

"Things happen along the way

life.

that can

change what you think you're going

totally

to do,"

he

said.

Demonstrating his "Wyatt Earp" knack

selves."

who

gained fame for his

star-

for

humor, O'Brian erupted the huge

Fair-

lawman Wyatt

grounds gathering into laughter by adding,

Earp in the late 1950s and early 1960s, said
the circumstances were "very odd" regarding how he broke into show business.
"When my dad retired, I was 22 and just
coming out of the Marine Corps," he re-

"But it was a good horse, and it went to the
bank every Friday."
O'Brian said he knows each graduate has
a particular career goal. But, he added, "1
hope you will remain flexible" to other

called, indicating that his family decided to

opportunities.

ring role on television as

move from

a small town in Ohio to the

California coast where they had close
friends.

"Each of you has a
aiming

particular discipline

at, "

he said. "But that
might change. If something happens to you,
that you're

we went through
town of Tombstone, Ariz., and I
stood at the Long Branch Saloon in the OK

take advantage of it even

Corral," he noted.

In closing, the actor remembered a statement that Schweitzer shared with him many
years ago. "True happiness comes to those
who have sought and found how to serve,"

"In traveling out west ...

the

the plane back to

the greatest and the

sal Studios,

O'Brian,

each of you."

was during a nine-day visit to Africa in
1958 that O'Brian met and assisted the
famous German doctor, Albert Schweitzer.
So impressed was O'Brian with the late
Nobel Peace Prize winner, that it inspired
him to begin a volunteer organization known
as the Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation
(HOBY).
"As I was leaving Africa, Schweitzer
took my hand and asked, 'Hugh, what are
you going to do with this (experience)?,"
It

is

strongest army in the world," said O'Brian,

little

Stating that he "never intended" to get

show business industry, O'Brian
"You could've bet 20 million to one

into the
said,

1 would be doing the
number one television show called 'Wyatt
Earp,' the guy that had the last gunfight at

that 11 years later

the

OK Corral."
UCLA

you in a

way

said O'Brian.
"I

hope you (graduates) will think about
mankind as part of your obliga-

service to
tion

at

leads

life is."

and

responsibility," he added.

— Kevin

After his family settled in Los Angeles,

O'Brian enrolled

if it

different direction, because that's the

B. Engler

and became

active in a small local theater group.

The Communique

He was discovered by Hollywood direcwho gave him a starring role

tor Ida Lupino,
in the film

"Young Lovers." His perform-

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BU is committed to providing equal educational

and employment opportunities for

all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or

union

mem-

bership.

The

university

is

to affirmative action

additionally committed

and

will take positive

steps to provide such educational

and em-

ployment opportunities.
Editor: Kevin B. Engler
Assistant Editor: Jo A.

AWARDING THE

HONORARY DOCTORATE — LaRoy Davis,

chairperson of
Bloomsburg' s Council of Trustees, presents the Doctor ofHumane Letters to veteran stage
and screen actor Hugh O'Brian during commencement exercises at the Fairgrounds.

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Christina

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30

MAY 91

3

BU Reading Conference

The

Folktellers
determined to
live their lives
telling stories
Nationally recognized as pioneers in
resurrecting the art of storytelling, cousins

Connie Regan-Blake and Barbara Freeman
of Asheville, N.C., claim they had no idea
they could develop a career by simply

tell-

ing stories.

"But we knew we wanted to live as storytellers,"

Regan-Blake said recently

at

Bloomsburg's 27th annual Reading Conference.

TELLING A STORY

— The

Folktellers, cousins

Barbara Freeman,

left,

and Connie

The two women, who launched their
career as "The Folktellers" 16 years ago
when both worked as Ubrarians in Chat-

Regan-Blake of Asheville, N.C., tell one of their stories during a recent presentation in
Mitrani Hall. The program was part of Bloomsburg s 27th annual Reading Conference.

tanooga, Tenn., conducted an hour-long

performing approximately 1 50 times a year.

storytelling concert in Mitrani Hall of Haas

Today, they have given shows in more than

own heritage first, and that's what we recommend to others starting out as storytell-

Center for the Arts for more than 1,300

40

ers,"

conference registrants.

three storytelling

Regan-Blake and Freeman say they
started their profession by telUng stories to
groups of children, and at local libraries,
schools, and benefits. After receiving rave
reviews from their small audiences, they
decided to take theiract on the road in 1975.
Both single at the time, Regan-Blake and
Freeman earned only $400 that first year.
But they were determined to continue. "We
knew that in storytelling we had stumbled
onto something really special," says Re-

"Tales to



Grow On" have won

notable

Eventually, the Folktellers began receiving invitations to appear at major folk fes-

and concerts. By 1978, they were

BOOK AUTOGRAPH SESSION

mends.

is

"It's possible to

heritage, but

tale

your heritage," she recom-

you have

to

go outside your
be careful. Some

Most of our stories

come out of that broad tradition of Western

In 1986, the

duo wrote "Mountain Sweet

We specialize in mounBut we also tell contemporary
largely from children's books. The

European

culture.

Talk," a two-act play based on their child-

tain stories.

hood experiences

stories,

in

the Appalachian

Mountains, which includes many of
stories.

Performed near

their

their Asheville

homes, the play has enjoyed

five years of

wide, the Folktellers base their act on stories

about

their heritage.

library is our best resource."

The

"We

look to our



Folktellers encourage friends to

stories about their families, notes

"Tap

Like more than 300 storytellers nation-

says.

tell

Freeman.

your own cultural heritage," she
"When you talk about your culture,

into

you bring a special love to the stories, and
that makes them so special."
Both women are married now, and
"Mountain Sweet Talk" permits them to
stay closer to home. But they have remained active in the National Association
for the Preservation and Perpetuation of

— an organization they helped
— and say performing

Storytelling

Mitrani Hall presentation to autograph

found

copies of his books in the lobby of Haas

far

Center for the Arts. The famed writer
was one offour featured personalities

career

their

is

from over.

"Stories are too powerful to die. They've

always been with

at the university' s 27th

May

unless that

says.

with a Hawaiian folk

stories are sacred myths.

Tomie dePaola, who wrote "Strega
Nona" and "Where the Wild Things
Are," takes a few minutesfollowing his

annual Reading Conference,

start

brary Association.

Children s book author and illustrator

who spoke

Regan-Blake

"Don't

recording awards from the American Li-

ongoing success.

gan-Blake.

tivals

and 12 countries, and produced
albums
"Chillers,"
"Tales to Grow On," and "White Horses
and Whippoorwills." Both "Chillers" and
states

us,

and while we may

have turned toward other forms of

16-

tainment, the stories are

1 7, which at traded approximately 1 ,300

still

enter-

there," says

Regan-Blake.

reading educators and specialists this
year.

"The goal of the play ("Mountain Sweet
is to stay at home, not travel," she
adds. "So we're not really changing, we're
just coming home."
Talk")

rHOTO BY JOAS HELFEX

— Kevin

B. Engler

4 The Communique 30

MAY 91

Barbara Knoebel

Sunbury area, and

News

continues to work

appointed to

BU

Foundation

Board of Directors

the local American Red Cross
Bloodmobile pro-

Non-credit training programs

gram.

will

Barbara E. Knoebel of Elysburg, group

Knoebel

member

manager at Knoebels Groves Amusement Park, was recently appointed to the
board of directors of the Bloomsburg Unisales

Knoebel

is

a

of Elys-

"We are very pleased to have Barbara

dies Committee and Hall of Fame Commit-

the efforts of the

assist

Bloomsburg University

Foundation board of directors."
Knoebel,

who

oversees the amusement

park'spersonnelandaccounting operations,

worked as a licensed practical nurse in
Hairisburg and dental assistant in Elizabethville. She was also employed as a dental

hygienist and nurse working in the greater

ness education and office administration and

School of Extended Programs

this

summer.

be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Mondays and
Wednesdays, starting June 3.

has served as deacon for six years. Her

appointment to

training programs
be offered through the department of busi-

Church where she
other affiHations include membership in

this

Three non-credit business

"Introduction to Computer Spreadsheets" will

"The 90s have become a challenging
decade for development efforts at colleges
and universities throughout the country,"
says Anthony laniero, assistant vice president for develqpment and executive director of the Bloomsburg University FoundaKnoebel accept

summer

offered this

burg Presbyterian

versity Foundation.

tion.

Briefs

as a volunteer for

the Order of the Eastern Star in

Shamokin,

serving as the chapter's representative to
the Grand Chapter of Pennsylvania;
International Association of

and the

Amusement

Parks and Attractions, serving on the La-

"Word

Processing with

Word

Perfect"

is

scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays, beginning June

1 1.

"Keyboarding and Basic Forms Preparation"

meet from 9 a.m.

will

to

noon,

Monday through

Thursday, starting Jime 17.
All three workshops will utilize

IBM

model

25 and 30 word processing equipment.

Workshops will be held at the Training for In-

tee.

She and her husband, Richard, president
of H.H. Knoebel Sons which operates the
amusement park and Knoebel Lumber Co.
in Elysburg, have two sons. Rick, an engineering student at Lehigh University in
Bethlehem, and Brian, a senior at Southern
Columbia High School.
Kevin B. Engler



formation Processing (TIP) Center on the
university's upper campus.

For more information, call the School of
Extended Programs at 389-4420.

Senior Julie Tewksbury receives

Operational Health Physics Fellowship
Julie Tewksbury of Meshoppen, a senior
physics major, has been selected to receive an

Operational Health Physics Fellowship from
ticipated at the Cray Supercomputing Work-

Campus Notes

shop held

in late April

and early

Carnegie Mellon University

Chang Shub Roh,

professor of sociol-

ogy and social welfare, and Thomas H.
Kang, president of the Dao-Confucianism
Center in Washington, D.C., gave a colloquial presentation

on "Confucius' Concept

May

at

in Pittsburgh.

The intent of the workshop is to familiarize participants with the capabilities of the

Cray computer and to inititate the implementation of supercomputing in a computer
science program.

of 'Community'" at the 61st annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society held
in Providence, R.I., in April.

Christopher F. Armstrong, associate

ticum

at a

minimum

three-month prac-

DOE facility.

Tewksbury, who

will

be attending the Unifall,

plans to obtain a master's degree in health phys-

of Euclid' s Algorithm" at the meeting of

She is the daughter of John and Charlene
Tewksbury of Meshoppen and a 1987 graduate
of Elk Lake High School.

ity

the Pennsylvania Academy of Science held

same

also complete a

Dennis Huthnance, associate professor
of mathematics and computer science,
presented a paper titled "On the Complex-

was a discussant on a

pects of the Legal Profession" at the

Department of Energy (DOE).

Tewksbury was one of 20 students nationwide to receive the fellowship which consists of
a $ 1 ,200 monthly stipend. Recipients are judged
on Graduate Record Exam scores, grade point
average and personal biographies. They must

versity of Florida in Gainesville, Fla., next

professor of sociology and social welfare,
panel, "Social As-

the U. S.

in April.

ics.

Following graduate school, she will

fulfill

a

four-year obligation with the U. S. Air Force.

meetings.

Mehdi Haririan,

associate professor of

economics, participated in the Second International Conference

on Privatization

in

Latin America by the Institute of the Americas held in April in

La JoUa,

Calif.

Haririan has also been invited by the

University of Limburg in the Netherlands
to participate in the Public Sector of

nomics Group

that will

Zahira Kahn,

Eco-

be held July 4-11.

assistant professor of

mathematics and computer science, par-

William Milheim, assistant professor of
mathematics and computer science, and
Harold Bailey, professor of mathematics
and computer science who directs the Institute for Interactive Technologies, have had
an article titled "Instructional Technology
Update: Using a Corporate Advisory Council to Link Academia and Industry" accepted for publication in the Canadian
Journal of Educational Communication.

Faculty, staff phone directory

being updated for 1991-92

The

faculty, staff telephone directory

is

cur-

rently being updated for the 1991-92 academic

year by the University Relations and Communication Office.

Please notify or send any changes to Winnie

Ney
ing;

— Room

115, Waller Administration Build-

phone 389-4411

July 8.

—no

later than

Monday,

A heartfelt university salute
These partriotic decorations on Carver Hall and

Alumni House have
been up since the WNEPthe

sponsored, five-hour-long

Welcome Home Parade
went through the Town
of Bloomsburg on May
25. The homemade
displays of bright red,
white,

and blue bunting

are the university's salute
to faculty, staff, students,

and alumni who have
faithfully served in the

U.S.

Armed Forces

throughout the university's

152-year history.

FHOTOS BY JOAN HELFEX

Cooperative Education receives $100,000 grant
IIT

will assist in

The U.S. Department of Education has
awarded Bloomsburg s cooperative educa'

program a grant of $100,000 for the
1991-92 academic year to fund an interac-

tion

volved

developing interactive video project
in the

program before they gradu-

ate," says JoAnne Day, director of coopera-

and

tive education

internships.

Cooperative education, an educational

video demonstration project designed

work experience program offered by ap-

to enhance the marketing of coop's benefits

proximately 1,000 colleges and universi-

to college students.

ties

tive

"We

hope

to create an interactive video

nationwide, provides students an op-

portunity to

work

in

employee-paid posi-

piece that will explain what cooperative

tions related to their

education

career interest.

is all

sity students,

about

to

four-year univer-

and inspire them

to get in-

According

to

academic major or

money will be used to purchase an IBMbased interactive video system for the
university's cooperative education office.

But most of the budget

will

go toward

hiring half-time technical staff personnel.

"We'll need to hire a project manager,
designer, and programmer," she says.
In an effort to get the project
this fall.

Day

underway

has enUsted the assistance of

the university's Institute for Interactive

Day, some of the grant

Continued on page 2

2 The Communique

13JUN91

Town commends

Cooperative Education

university's contributions

Continued from page 1
Bailey, mathe-

A resolution adopted recently by the Town

matics and computer science professor who

Council of Bloomsburg commends
Bloomsburg University for the contribu-

Technologies

(IIT).

Hank

and his staff will help deand produce the interactive
video program. "We have the hardware in
to develop a prototype that would
the IIT
be focused primarily for use at Bloomsburg
directs the IIT,

it has made to the Town during 1990.
tend to overlook and ignore some of
the very fine contributions made by our

tions

sign, develop,

.

.

"We

.

and their impact on our local
such impact greatly affects the
welfare of the community and its citizens,"
institutions

citizens

University," says Bailey.
In addition to giving a general explanation of cooperative education.

states the resolution.

Day says the

The document cited some of the contributions as outlined in President Harry

video project will provide smdents with
specific information regarding local

coop

opportunities that link with their respective

Ausprich

Hank Bailey

at least

Annual Report to the Council of

planning model, "Strategic Direction State-

ment

for Bloomsburg University 1990
through 1999"; and establishing and continuing exchange programs with England,
China, andU.S.S.R.
Others include complementing, continuing and enhancing Faculty Research Schol-

seven area

and Professional Developspecial funding, grants and
gifts, including $100,000 received from
alumnus Kenneth Gross; special research
and scholarly activities by faculty members
and student groups; help to local industries

businesses profiled in the program by next

arly Activity

August. Northumberland (Sunbury) County

ment through

Human

Services,

TRW

of Danville, and

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., of Allen-

town have expressed

interest in getting

involved with this project, she says.

Both Day and Bailey are hoping the
Department of Education will approve two
more years of funding for this project, which
could amount to grants totaling an additional $200,000 during the 1992-93 and
1993-94 academic years.
Day says she must submit another proposal for phase two in December. "In the
second year, we would work to complete an
expanded version of the video program that
would include more academic majors and
regional businesses and industries."
Funding for the third year would permit
Day and Bailey to "nationalize the project"
through marketing, reproducing, and disseminating at least 100 videodiscs throughout the country, she says.
"In the third year.

Hank and

rHCTOS BT JOAS HELfE*

would be

attending conferences and training sessions
across the country to demonstrate how other
institutions can use this resource to enhance

coop programs," she says.
But for now, says Day, the duo will focus
on creating the "limited version" of the
project after they buy a new interactive
video system. "We want to develop something innovative and unique that will enhance cooperative education."
their

— Kevin

B. Engler

developing in-depth plans for their busiand physical changes to some of the
older buildings, such as the Hartline Science Center, planning for anew library, and
expanding the Kehr Union Building.
Also, extending recruitment of and developing better teaching methods for disadvantaged students; national recognition in
in

JoAnne Day

ness;

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weeks

in ad-

various athletic and sports events; increasing and developing programs to strengthen

commitment to cultural diversity which,

in

vance to The Communique, Office of Univer-

turn, will increase cultural opportunities

Relations and Communication,
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

dents and faculty to participate in volun-

sity

17815.

tional

and employment opportunities for

all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or

union

mem-

bership.

The

for local residents;

encouragement of

stu-

teerism programs, such as Habitat, Area

BU is committed to providing equal educa-

sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,
I

Money maga-

zine for being one of "America's Best College Buys"; Adoption of Robert Shirley's

video program, too," she says.

have

s

National Recognition by

on prospective employers," she adds.
The project staff will profile a minimum
of 10 Bloomsburg academic majors by the
end of the funding year, "but we're aiming
to make the project generic enough so students from other colleges and universities
who major in different subjects can use the
tion

to

'

Trustees, including:

major. "Students can also receive informa-

Day hopes

...

university

is

additionally committed

to affirmative action and

wiU take

steps to provide such educational

positive

and em-

ployment opportunities.
Editor: Kevin B. Engler
Assistant Exlitor: Jo A.
Exlitorial Assistant:

DeMarco

Christina

J.

Gaudreau

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
Contributing Writer:

Gwenn

E.

Agency on Aging, Red Cross, Clean-Air,
Share, and Earth Day projects; estabUshing
Employee Recognition Awards for years of
service, which benefitted more than 300
employees; and maintenance of positive
outlook, strong planning policies and fine
educational programs, in spite declining
economy and loss of state funding.
The resolution, signed by Mayor George
H. Hemingway, concludes: "May the university and the Town of Bloomsburg,
through its Town Council, along with all of
its citizens, continue to enjoy and possibly
increase the fine spirit of cooperation and

Wells

unification

it

now

enjoys."

13JUN91

The Communique

Campus

Construction on

five-star dining will "allow students to
purchase gourmet meals for a cheaper price
with their meal ticket," says Jennie Carpen-

Renovation project to relieve
crowdedness in Commons
Construction on the $1.3 million Scranton Commons renovation project is sched-

A

uled to begin this month.

two-story

vice president for student

life.

Carpenter reported acafe, featuring quick-

to

add cafe atmosphere

On the upper-level campus, Monty 's will
undergo renovation this summer. An atrium,
which will be added to the front of the
60

building, will include seating for

sons and feature a "more cafe-style atmosphere," says Carpenter. Cappuccino and

the University

and nachos, will be built in the
Dining Room D and C lobby, facing Kehr
Union. In addition to pizza, which students
can purchase in Pete's Arena, built this past
year in the Dining Room A and B lobby
facing Second Street, the quick-serve foods

be designed for special-event

will provide students with another option,

on the southwest comer of the building along Second
Street, will house the Pennsylvania Room.
The new faculty dining room will seat 65 to
70 people. On the first floor, directly below
the Pennsylvania
will

ter, assistant

Monty's

serve foods such as salads, sandwiches,

addition, featuring an atrium

Room

3

Room,

dining.

pastries,

per-

fresh Danish will be among the items served.

Hartline to have new
teaching labs, more offices

"They are very popular at other
I hope they will be here, also."
The old faculty dining room in Scranton
Commons will be converted into offices for
the Food Services Department, says Carpenter. The renovation project, which will

The $2.4 million renovation of Hartline
Science Center, which began in May, is
scheduled for completion in late November

and offer a five-star dining option,
which is part ofARA Inc.' s program. ARA

"relieve the crowdedness in the Commons,"

won

mid

north wing, parallel to the library, "should
be finished by the start of fall semester,"
says chemistry professor Lawrence L.

she says.

A second addition on the northeast corner of Scranton

Commons

will feature

another atrium, an extension of Dining

Room

C.

When

completed, this student

dining area will have an additional 175
seats

the bid this spring to

manage

university's food service operation.

the

schools, so

she says,

is

scheduled for completion in

fall.

The

or early December.

The

first

stage of con-

struction, involving the renovation of the

science teaching labs and offices in the

Mack.
Classrooms will receive better
tion,

ventila-

who is faculty
By the time the

according to Mack,

liaison for the project.

project

is

finished,

most faculty

will

have

individual offices. "Earth science will have

new

offices. In the past, eight out of 10
chemistry faculty have had to double up."
After renovation, "no one (in chemistry)

be doubled up," says Mack. "Biology
new suite of offices. No one (in
biology) will be doubled up. Physics will
will

will get a

one new office."
Mack, who has been working on

get

the

Hartline renovation project for six years,

This side of the

new Scranton Commons'

addition will face

Kehr Union.

reports the $2.4

miUion project

is

the

first

step in the renovation plan for the science
facility. The second step, which has not
been approved yet, he says, calls for "an
additional wing."

SECOND NOTICE
The Faculty/Staff Telephone
is

being updated for

the 1991-92

academic year by

Directory

the University Relations

and

Communication Office.
Please notify or send any
changes to Winnie Ney
Room
115, Waller Administration
Building, phone 389-4411
no
later than Monday, July 8.





rMcTTos Br joji/j HSUat

The atrium

in front

of Monty's

will seat

60 persons.

4 The Communique

13JUN91

Campus Notes

Manney honored

Carol J. Matteson, dean of the College
of Business, was one of 20

women

in the

country invited to participate in the 44th
National

Forum of the American Council

of Education/Office of Women in Higher

Education

(ACE/OWHE) in Washington,

"I'm proud of the honor of what
you've done for our country, the university,

Gulf duty

for Persian

and your family." President

Baby's Arms" and "God Bless the

USA."
Manney's

unit is a reserve artillery

An operations
(FDQ

Harry Ausprich expressed

this senti-

unitbased

Norman Manney,

a campus

chief for Fire Direction Control

ment

to

painter, after his retiun

from duty

in

in

Reading.

he operates the computerized system

D.C., last Thursday and Friday.

the Persian Gulf during Operation

that plots the firing coordinates to

by ACE/OWHE as emerging
women leaders in higher education, Matteson and the other invited women leaders
met with 10 men and women chief executive officers of colleges, universities, and

Desert Storm.

direct the fire of howitzers.

national education associations diuing the

Identified

Manney, a

staff sergeant

with the

The

India Battery left for Saudi

India Battery, third Marines, was hon-

Arabia on Dec.

ored at a surprise ceremony, following

first artillery

a Supervisory Roundtable workshop.

They succeeded

His wife Debbi and son Shane were

2, 1990,

and was the

unit to enter Kuwait.
in breaking through

Education. Roundtable, small group and

He

received a red, white, and blue

major Iraqi barriers and breeches. As
part of the advanced Marine party, it
was one of the first Marine units to

informal discussions focused on critical

balloon bouquet; a plaque; two red

retake and secure Kuwait International

issues affecting higher education from

rose corsages for him and his wife; and

Airport.

forum

at the

National Center for Higher

and institutional perspecPersonal advancement issues were

also invited as part of the surprise.

global, national

a special edition

tives.

titled

also discussed.

ACE/OWHE

has sponsored National

Time Life, Inc., book

Desert Storm.

Manney
States

rettu^ned to the United
from the Persian Gulf April 14.

At the ceremony, guest soloist Brent
Hock sang "Rollin' in My Sweet

-

Christina

J.

Gaudreau

Forums for over a decade to bring together
emerging women leaders with established

men and women
tion.

During

leaders in higher educa-

that time,

ACE/OWHE

ports "approximately 85

pants have

forum

become college and

re-

partici-

university

presidents and most other participants have

made significant advances in their careers."
John J. Olivo, chairperson of the Business Education and Office Administration

Department, has been appointed adjunct
graduate faculty for New York University.

During June, Olivo will teach two graduate courses

on "Human Factors

in Office

Systems" and "Curriculum Construction
in

Business Educafion" at the

New York

University Puerto Rico Center in San Juan,

mOTO BT JOAti MSLFOt

A SOLDIER 'S RETURN HOME — President Harry Ausprich presents a plaque
to

Puerto Rico.

Norman Manney, campus painter, after his returnfrom Operation Desert Storm
With Manney is his son, Shane, and wife Debbi.

duty.

Professors Chang Shub Rob and James
H. Huber of sociology and social welfare;
James C. Pomfret, mathematics and
computer science; and Woo Bong Lee,
chairperson of the Economics Department,

attended the

first

charter meeting of the

Sheila

Dove Jones,

assistant professor

education, presented a paper on the effects

appointed editor for the first Journal of the
Pennsylvania Association of Undergraduate Social Work Educators (PAUSWE).

of a restrictive environment on the parent,

Global Awareness Society Intemational-

teacher,

tervention Providers Association/Division

and administrator

at the

Early In-

Washington, D.C.

of Early Childhood convention recently

Roh was

Harrisburg.

elected president of the ora-

in

mittee on Higher Education and Early

tors.

vania.

Jones

is

chairp)erson of the

Papers contributing to the knowledge
base of professional social work and innovative teaching methods will be presented

DEC Com-

Huber was named executive
director; Pomfret was elected ireasiu'er,
and Lee was elected to the board of direcganization;

assistant professor of

sociology and social welfare, has been

Journal ofGlobal Awareness-h&ld recently
in

Dale Sultzbaugh,

of communication disorders and special

Childhood Special Education of Pennsyl-

at the annual

meeting of PAUSWE Nov. 8-

10 at the University Center

in Harrisburg.

BloomFest

BloomFest '91

try

'91, the

second annual coun-

and bluegrass summer music

Bloomsburg University,

Second annual country, bluegrass music
festival set for July 15 at Redman Stadium

noon

to 10 p.m.,

festival at

be held from

will

Monday, July

15, at

Red-

man Stadium. The event is free and open to
the public.

Highlighting this year's event will be
Bill

Monroe and

the Bluegrass Boys.

The

band

will

"father of bluegrass" and his

perform their greatest hits from 9 to 10 p.m.

Area country bands including SHUCKS,
which recently released
"Alive

titled

&

will

perform from

and Western
to

album

&

Tim Johnson

7:30 to 8:45 p.m.;

Noon

latest

its

Kickin," will perform from

6:

15 to

Wave will go on

7:

High

15 p.m.,

stage from 5

6 p.m.

The afternoon segment of
will feature local

the

program

and regional bluegrass

bands. After Midnight will perform at noon,

John and Tory Dillon

Redd

I

Ramblers

at

at 1:15 p.m.,

and the

2:15 p.m.

In addition, the family music festival will

feature a local artisan's show.

strong of Unityville,

mous

who

is

David Arm-

nationally fa-

for his watercolor paintings, will be

one of the

exhibitors.

The public

is

invited to pack picnic bas-

kets and bring non-alcoholic beverages into
the stadium Concession stands will be open
.

for purchasing hamburgers, hot dogs,

and

soft drinks.

Sponsors include the Community Gov-

ernment Association and the
tion,

Community

stations

BU Founda-

Arts Council, and radio

WCNR, WBNE, WYGL, WDLS,

WILQ, and WVIA.
In case of rain, the

program

will

be held

inside Nelson Field House, located adja-

SHUCKS
IN CONCERT



Bill

Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys and area country groups

SHUCKS and Western Wave

will

perform at BloomFest

'91.

cent to

Redman Stadium.

For more information, call Nancy Vought
in the student

development

at

389-4409.

— Kevin

B. Engler

2 The

Communique 27 JUN 91

LeMura

new training mask

tests

Cosmed K-2 measures

Rome

in

metabollic cost of exercise

As a research associate and visiting proRome, Italy, last May, Linda
LeMura, exercise physiologist, tested a new
portable face mask, the Cosmed K-2, that
fessor in

measures athletes' oxygen consumption
during an actual athletic performance.

The miniaturized telemetric system, built
mask, was designed by Anto-

into the face

nio Dal Monte, a physician

who is

and engineer,
Olympics

the director of the Italian

committee.

At

his invitation,

LeMura,

assistant pro-

fessor of health, physical education,

and two

athletics,

and

Italian physicians tested

K-2 (Kappa-due in Italian) at the OlymRome.
The "beauty of this instrument is that it's
portable," says LeMura who worked with
the Italian Olympic cycling team.
the

pic Training Center in

The K-2 "allowed us to get precise readings on the effects of
wind and drag on the athlete's
performance. You could never
do this in a laboratory setting.

One

lodrome, a slightly inclined, oval-shaped,

wooden

racing track, during field testing,

in

simulated competition condi-

tions, the large,

immobile metabolic

that tests the athlete's

cart

performance on a

treadmill will give us estimates, says

LeMura.
The test results allow exercise physiologists to recommend training and diet modiFor example, "If they

test

mediocre for

their sport, like foiu" or five milliters

below

where they should be, that implies their
ability to compete successfully is question-

on soccer games goes

to the

The

instrument, so she can introduce this "latest
athletes find the face

ing 800 grams, "awkward
LeMura, "but they get used

mask, weighsays

at first,"

more sophisticated

in

wave

in training" to her colleagues

Within the computerized mask

is

and

students at Bloomsburg.

— Joan

to it."

T.

Lentczner

a tur-

bine and flow meter that samples expired
air and

an FM transmitter that sends signals

by an investigaas 600 meters away,

to a receiver unit operated
tor

who may

be as far

says LeMura.
receiver unit has an interface that

you can
download on your own personal computer,"
calculates and analyzes data that

she says.

The Cosmed K-2 manual is written in
Italian.
LeMura, who speaks conversational Italian, says she had to take some
"quick lessons" in Italian to learn the

HOBY program

Twenty-three high school students

from the Soviet Union will visit
Bloomsburg as part of an exchange
program this summer sponsored by
the Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation

(HOBY).
The students

will

be touring area

businesses and industries and participating in a variety of on-campus activities.

Local families are needed to serve
as hosts for these students during their

using the system.

LeMura met Dal Monte two years ago at
a conference in Texas where she presented
a paper on the effects of training on cardio-

Dal Monte invited LeMura and two

Host families needed for

summer

jar-

10-day

visit

To

7.

volunteer as a host family,

389-4199.
Ital-

from Monday, July 29,

through Wednesday, Aug.

the Student

vascular function and conditioning.

able," she says.
Italians are

privately funded.

gon, so she could read the directions for

fications.

"The

to receive funding for the purchase of this

that the Italian

try."

The

she says.

At best,

Olym-

lottery

as they cycled around a vel-

M.D.s in exercise medi-

pics committee. That's illegal in this coun-

is

is

"Thirty percent of the proceeds from Italy's

the heart and lung's ability to function

ian physicians, with

cine, to test the K-2. "There's no such thing

LeMura.
The cost is prohibitive, but she predicts it
will go down, "like the calculator did."
Meanwhile, she plans to apply for a grant

reason, she says,

Olympics committee

"

exercise physiologist Linda

as a Ph.D. in exercise science in Italy," says

their laboratories are better."

ures the cardiovascular system's efficiency



Olympic athletes than
LeMura. "And

the United States," says

The K-2 "allowed us to get precise readings on the effects of wind and drag on the
athlete's performance. You could never do
this in a laboratory setting," says LeMura.
The athletes wore the mask which meas-

effectively

— Bloomsburg

LeMura tested the
Cosmed K-2 portable face mask worn by the cyclist in photo inset during her trip to Rome.
their evaluations of

— Linda LeMura



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The Communique

Kehr Union expansion
The $7.5 million Kehr Union expansion
project has begun,

and

wells, walls,

underway

project

— Elwell

Student Development Office

and "demolition of stair-

Residence Hall, G-21, G-22, G-44, G-45,

floors is underway," ac-

and G-46.

cording to Donald McCulloch, director of

Community Activities Office
Comers, located

the physical plant.

Completion of the project, which

will

double the size of the existing building,

is

Hill

and East

gram Board, The

Association, Obiter Office, Pro-

Services,

Room, and

Completion of the
project, which will

Blue

double the

existing building,

Room

the

Green

Room

Husky Comers.

Room

Conference

of the

Society,

Fellowship of Christian Athletes, as well

are located in

size

Voice, Volunteer

The Black Cultural

as the Blue

by Moss Hart and George

will

S.

writ-

Kaufman,

be performed by the Bloomsburg

through Saturday, June 27-29,

Room can

in

Mitrani

Hall of Haas Center for the Arts.

Matinee performances will be held

at

2

p.m., Saturday and Sunday, June 29-30.

Under

the direction of Michael Collins,

assistant professor of communication stud-

the cast includes local performers

Rebecca Ermisch,

Tammy

Trotman, Ben-

jamin Young, Stephen Weitz, James Slusser,

through the Student Activities Office, 389-

Craig Heimes, C. G. Keiss, David O'Brian,

4344.

and Brian Lapinsky.

spaces available at

what was Custodial Services

is

Cost is $5 for adults and $3.50 for senior
citizens

and

students.

students with a

Husky Corners.

The Campus Post Office

September 1992.

ten

be made

and Green

tions apply to persons using the 14 parking

tentatively set for

BU Theater to present
'The Man Who Came to Dinner'
"The Man Who Came to Dinner,"

ies,

reservations for the

The BU Parking Policy and other regulais

Briefs

University Theater at 8 p.m., Thursday

The offices of the Community Govern-

ing to John Trathen, director of student

Trathen noted that reservations for use of

comer of College

at the

ment

and Kehr Union.

— Husky

Street.

tentatively set for September 1992, accord-

activities

News

3

located in

at the rear of

Admission

is

free to

BU I.D. and valid Commu-

nity Activities sticker.

For more information,

call

389-4579.

the University Store.
the facilities will not

be accepted

until

Custodial

moved

January 1993.

The renovated building will include a 20foot multi-piupose room suitable for show-

ing movies and other activities that have

Services

been

has

Buckingham Maintenance

to the

Center.

The Information Center, student
pervisors, and the

Games Room

expedition from July 7 to Aug.

are lo-

been scheduled in Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium or Mitrani Hall of Haas Center for

as the United

Other additions include an enlarged snack
bar area, a lounge with a fireplace, a student
lab, six

conference rooms, and

space for the Health Center and Career

"We're hoping it is finished by that date,"
he says. "As progress continues, and

we

make sure everything is complete, reserva-

may be acceptedbefore
maybe October or Novem-

tions for the facility



ber," Trathen says. "We'll just have to see

how

things

come

along."

The relocation of offices was complete at
the end of the spring semester, he says,
all office

the

and

telephone numbers will remain

same during

Temporary

the renovation process.

office locations are as fol-

lows:

Student Activities Office
dence Hall,
G-43.

food service

— Elwell

Rooms G-40, G-41,

G-42, and

Visits will

be

made to the Colorado Rockies and the
Dinosaur National Monument.

in the

Kehr Union Annex,

located in the rear of the University Store,

beginning of the

fall

semester.

In addition, the sign press operation,

usually housed in the Student Development
Office, has been

moved

to the University

climbing

Grand Tetons National Park

in

near Jackson Hole, Wyo., and overnight

backpacking

tion,

through the countryside

trips

will highlight the

trip.

Equipment,

and transportation

will

For more information,
rector

Roy Smith

at

instruc-

be provided.

call

QUEST

di-

389-4466.

Police Department.

Smoking

In consideration of the

Policy,

FINAL NOTICE:
phone directory

non-smoking areas include the Kehr Union

Changes needed

Annex and University

Bloomsburg's Faculty/Staff Telephone
Directory is being updated for the 1991-92

Husky Comers

To

reserve

Store lobby and

— except

CGA

private offices.

vehicles, the process

will remain the same, but requisitions should

be sent

to the

CGA Office

in

Husky Cor-

and Communication Office.
Please notify or send any changes to

Winnie Ney
ners.

— Christina

J.

Gaudreau

for

academic year by the University Relations

— Room

stration Building,
later than

Resi-

and climbing.

Rafting on the Green River, mountain

small snackbar will provide limited

at the

Development Center.

January 1993

off campus.

A

5.

The trip will provide participants with an
opportunity to go camping, rafting, mountain biking,

machine. The

Commonwealth banking facility has moved

the Arts.

computer

MAC

to sponsor

Rocky Mountains expedition
QUEST will sponsor a Rocky Mountains

su-

cated in the University Store lobby, as well

Penn

QUEST

1

15,

Waller Admini-

phone 389-4411

Monday, July

8.

— no

4 The Communique

27JUN91

Campus Notes

cal Science Department, attended the an-

nual conference of the Pennsylvania Political Science Association held in April at

Robert Wislock, education and training
manager in the Personnel and Labor Relations Office, has co-authored an article with

Daniele Flannery, assistant professor at

Penn State University,

titled

"A Working

Philosophy of Adult Education: Implica-

Dickinson College

in Carlisle.

The professors presented papers titled
"Comparing Politics: Nations, States, and
Governments" and "The Politics of Military Intervention in

Sub-Saharan Africa:

Terry A. Oxiey, assistant professor of
music, was recendy invited to p)erform with
the Rockbridge Symphony Orchesu^a in
Lexington, Va. The orchestra was involved

of sold-out performances of the

in a series

Andrew Lloyd Weber musical "Evita" on
the campus of Washington and Lee University.

The Liberian Experience."

Kambon Camara,

tions for the Practitioner."

Hank

assistant professcM"

Bailey, professor of mathematics

of psychology and a psychological coun-

issue of the Adult Learning Journal.

and computer science and director of the
Institute for Interactive Technologies,

selor in the Center for Counseling and

Vera Viditz-Ward, assistant professor
of art, was a visiting artist at the Hartford

served as a panelist during the "Interactive

at the

Multimedia: Teaching in the 21 st Century"

held at the

Art School, part of the University of Hart-

May.
The teleconference was sponsored by the
Interactive Multimedia program at The
George Washington University in Wash-

The

article will

ford (Conn.), in

She attended
tural Diversity

lectures

appear in the June 28

March.
activities related to

"Cul-

Week" and gave two public

on "Becoming a Stranger: Work-

teleconference held in

Human Development,

PADE

served as a panelist

Central Region

Magee Center last

Workshop

fall.

He presented an historical perspective of
black males as part of "collective memory"
that impacts

upon the perceptions of black

males

present

in the

ington, D.C.

ing as an Artist in a Non-Western Culture."

The panel discussed issues such as costs,

Steven L. Cohen, professor of psychol-

She also participated in classroom lectures
and met with individual art students to

effectiveness, capabilities, and development

ogy, presented his research at a symposium

of course materials.

during the annual meeting of the Associa-

discuss their work.

William D. Miiheim of the

George Agbango, assistant professor of
political science, represented the Political

Science Department

when

it

was selected

Institute

of

Interactive Technologies and assistant pro-

fessor of mathematics

ence has had an

article

and computer scititled "Implement-

as the Coordinating Center of the National

ing Distance Education Programs: Sugges-

Conferenceof BlackPolitical Scientists for
the Northeastern Region by its Executive

tions for Potential Developers"

Council at the 22nd annual conference held

Technology.

in the April

pubUshed

1991 issue of Educational

tion for

Behavior Analysis held

Ga., in

May.

His presentation,

titled

in Atlanta,

"Resistance to

Change Under Fixed-Ratio, Variable-Ratio,

Fix-Interval, and Variable-Interval

Some Contra-

Schedules of Reinforcement:

was co-authored with
recent BU graduates, Debrah Riley,
Weigle, and Kelly Shaulis.
dictory Data"

three

Patty

recently in Jackson, Miss.

He
cal

chaird a panel discussion

on

"Politi-

Violence and National Development in

Marilyn L. Muehlhof,
tary

and a

university secre-

certified professional secretary

Africa" and presented a paper titled "Po-

(CPS), has been appointed chairperson of

Violence and Political Development

the CPS Service Committee of the Pennsyl-

litical

in

Ghana and Uganda:

A

Comparative

International at the organization's annual

Analysis."
In addition,

vania Division of Professional Secretaries

Agbango and Charles

Jackson, professor emeritus of the

meeting held

in

York

last

month.

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newsletter for Bloomsburg University

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during the sununer months.

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calendar information

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and employment opportunities for

all

f>ersons without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or

union

mem-

bership.

The

imiversity is additionally committed

to affimiative action and will take positive

steps to provide such educational

and em-

ployment opf»rtunities.
Editor: Kevin B. Engler

Assistant Editor: Jo A.

DeMarco

Editorial Assistant: Christina

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

UP ON THE ROOF

— This photo ofworkers

laying a roof on Centennial

Gym gives the illusion that

a brick wall will soon descend on their heads. Construction projects continue on campus this summer.

J.

Gaudreau

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
Contributing Writer:

Gwenn

E. Wells

She prescribes teaching these

Social inadequacy short circuits
expert
success in school, says

ECE

face interaction which will help to

encourage having a

show and

tell

what certain
child's attitude

and performance

in

and many times they will become behavproblems both

and out of the

lot

of dramatic play,

where children show you
things mean."
.

.

.

In addition, Baldwin-Taylor said pre-

school can hinge on social skills acquired

ioral

before he or she enters a classroom, accord-

room," she

ing to early childhood education expert

Ann Baldwin-Taylor, who spoke at an Early

who

they are making an announcement.

Childhood Education (ECE) Conference at

school, always perform at lower levels,

Bloomsburg

have an increasing avoidance behavior,"

recently.

Speaking on "Effective Beginnings

Developing Competencies

in

in Children,"

the director of the Children's School at

Camcgie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh
told more than 150 conferees in Scranton

make

language understandable to children. "I'd

Speakers focus on developing competencies,
culturally diverse methods for teaching children
A

skills

through socio-dramatic play and face-to-

class-

school teachers should emphasize words

"Those children who are

with rhythm and inflection, stressing the

rejected by their classmates ... are the ones

items or ideas being discussed as though

said.

in

hold less favorable attitudes about

she added. " They're the ones

and

who eventu-

Baldwin-Taylor said children can be

how

love themselves, read the

to

how

to

important that children be

communicate," she

said.

At a luncheon on Wednesday, June

19,

Indiana University of Pennsylvania educa-

ally leave school."

taught

"It's terribly

taught

tion professor

Edwinna Void

said teachers

have "a moral and ethical responsibility

to

behavior of others, communicate with

provide a culturally diverse program for

Commons the social skills of children have

words, and risk failure as part of their

children"

"oftentimes been put into the background"

"growing up" experience.

care centers.

by pre-school educators.
"Sometimes, as educators, we forget that

dren don't get them from the grace of God.

From

learning begins long before a child sets foot

As educators, we need to teach children

the

said a multicultural education "is the best

inside your classroom or (day care) center,"

skills

be socially

way to promote equitable aptitudes regard-

Baldwin-Taylor

noting that

said,

many

teachers forget the importance of the social
skills their pupils

their

"These are taught skills," she said. "Chil-

which

successful

.

.

and the

tion the better."

them

to

earlier the interven-

attend pre-schools or day

In her discussion

less

on "Math and Science

a Multicultural Perspective," Void

of race, sex, ethnicity, and class.

Continued on page 2

should have learned from

upbringing at home.

Baldwin-Taylor said teachers are used to

measuring the performance of

by

.

will enable

who

testing

them

in school, but they've

work in helping their youngsters learn

how

to

fi-iendly

if

done

little

be

^ SSPPP

their pupils

and cooperative with

others.

"Friendless children

.

.

suffer

.

from low

self-esteem and provide ample evidence
that their

unhappiness

is

due

to their social

inadequacy," she noted, "and this tends to
short-circuit all of their success in school."

Before entering the
usually have learned

first

1

grade, children

how to be friendly and

cooperative with other people, said Bald-

win-Taylor, however, this

is

becoming

the

ideal circumstance.

"Unless children learn from us (teachers)

how

to

make

friends,

will continue to

it is

perform

likely that they
at

lower levels.

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

DONA TIONFOR FIRE PROTECTION— Bloomsburg Mayor George Hemingway, left,
accepts a $25 ,000 contribution from CGA President Mike Jemo. For the past 13 years, BU
student government have donated more than $182,000 to the town to help provide
adequate fire protection. Also pictured are President Harry Ausprich and town councilman
Charles Learn Jr., far right, chairperson of the town s fire and water committee.

and its

2 The Communique

1 1

JUL 91

Early Childhood
Education Conference
Continued from page 1
"Children in early childhood years need
to

examine

their behaviors

and

attitudes

with regard to the growing diversity in our
population," noted the chairperson of lUP'
professional studies and education depart-

ment. "I think math and science are two
areas in

which we can bring

that to frui-

tion."

According
Soviet

to

Void, the launching of the

satellite.

Sputnik, prompted an in-

vestigation into the teaching of science and
math in the United States.
"The American public was concerned
that the United States had sHpped behind

PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER
"I

am

horrified to walk into class-

the Russians in the space race," she said,

rooms today andfind that teaching mathe-

"and the findings

matics

after Sputnik revealed

and science

and math were being poorly

that science

is still

(based on) memorization,
being taught out of a

is still

textbook."

taught."

Now, some 40
there has been

little

— Edwinna Void

Void claims

years later.

done to change

the

"Unless children learnfrom us (teachers)

how to make friends,

it

is likely that

they will continue to perform at lower
levels,

and many times they will become

behavioral problems both in and out of
the classroom."

— Ann Baldwin-Taylor

way

science and math are taught in this country.

am

"1

horrified to

walk

into classrooms

today and find that teaching mathematics is
still

(based on) memorization, and science

is still

In addition,

Void stressed

that a multi-

be confused

"for minorities only." Rather,

it's

educa-

"which values cultural pluralism

.

.

.

cul-

Country music festival at
Redman Stadium next Monday
BIoomFest '91, the second annual counand bluegrass summer music festival at
Bloomsburg University, will be held from
noon to 10 p.m., Monday, July 15, at Redman Stadium. The event is free and open to
try

the public.

Highlighting this year's event will be

Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys. Area
country bands including SHUCKS, Tim
Bill

Johnson

&

High Noon, After Midnight,

John and Tory Dillon, Redd
and Western

Wave

I

Ramblers,

will also perform.

In addition, the family

who

is

education)

way

is

to

what

I

move

believe can offer
into the year

2000

with the ability to live interdcpendently and

for his watercolor paintings, will be

one of the exhibitors.
For more information, call the Student
Development Office at 389-4409.

Host families needed for

summer

HOBY program

Twenty-three high school students from

Union will visit Bloomsburg as
part of an exchange program this summer
sponsored by the Hugh O' Brian Youth
the Soviet

Foundation (HOBY).
students will be touring area busi-

nesses and industries and participating in a
variety of

on-campus

activities.

Local families are needed to serve as
hosts for these students during their 10-day

David Arm-

nationally fa-

To volunteer as a host family, call Nancy

festival will

"The

Bloomsburg,

early childhood conference

was a
Bloomsburg this year, and
Department of Education will

huge success
I

hope the

at

consider schedul in g fu ture con ferences here
at the university,"

he

visit

said.

— Kevin

B. Engler

Vought in the Student Development Office
at

389-4199.

Jemo named
Mike Jemo,

The

at

of Curriculum and Foundations.

harmony with other groups."

from Monday, July 29, through Wednesday, Aug. 7.

music

feature a local artisan's show.

strong of Unityville,

needs of sub-popula-

"This intervention strategy (of multicultu-

mous

News Briefs

to the

is

tions within a pluralistic society," she said.

in

time

directed by John Hranitz, professor of

chairperson of the university's Department

children a

children and youth through programs rooted

was

the two-day confer-

first

early childhood education and assistant

ral

all

ence, held for the

a

be sensitive

to

"There

ment of Education,

need to prepare teachers at all levels

toward the cultural enhancement of

and extension of

a valuable resource."

to education is detrimental.
critical

and affirms that schools should be oriented

to the preservation

it's

Ameri-

Void believes a monocultural approach

with "minority studies" or be viewed as

tion

can society, and

being taught out of a textbook."

cultural education should not

Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Depart-

tural alternatives," she said. "It recognizes

cultural diversity as a fact of life in

CGA president
a senior accounting major

from Hazleton, has been named president
of the Community Government Association

(CGA).

Jemo served as freshman and sophomore
class president, and

was

treasurer of

CGA

Named outstanding freshman by
CGA, he is a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon
last year.

and served as treasurer and fund-raising
chairperson for the fraternity, and is a for-

mer

Montour

treasurer of

Hall.

He is president of the Chess Club and a
Students Helping
member of SHARE



Adolescents Reach Excellence
teer organization

which

started

during the past academic year.

— volun-

on campus

The Communique

Liu named dean of
Arts and Sciences

Thirteen Bloomsburg faculty

administrative and faculty positions atPoint
in Pittsburgh.

A poHtical

science professor, he served

as chairperson of the social sciences and

modem

members

have been awarded research grants totaling
$9,000 for the 1991-92 academic year.
Five collaborative and three individual

1

For the past 23 years, Liu held both
Park College

JUL

91 3

1991-92 faculty research grants awarded

Hsien-Tung Liu has been appointed dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences, effective July

1 1

languages department and vice

president and dean of faculty.

"Dr. Liu has considerable background as

a higher education administrator with seven
years as a department chairperson and four

faculty research grants

were recommended

tures,

who will receive $100 for their projon

ect titled "Production of Videotape

Teaching Grammar Actively

at the Inter-

mediate Level in Second Language Instruction."

•Robert Abbott, coordinator in the Cen-

by the university's Faculty Professional
Development Committee, and awarded by
Provost and Vice President for Academic
Affairs Betty D. Allamong and Assistant
Vice President for Graduate Studies and

Lindenfeld, professor of sociology and

Research Peter J. Kasvinsky. A total of nine

Social Science Databases."

social welfare,

Academic
fessional

"Acquiring Access

to

•George Chamuris, assistant professor of

and allied health sciences, and
Emeric Shultz, assistant professor of chembiological

Affairs allocates faculty pro-

development funds for collabora-

tive research grants to support research

who will receive $567 for their proj"An Investigation of the Suberin-

istry,

ect titled

conducted by teams of two or more faculty

Degrading

members

Fungi."

plines.

who will receive $2,250 for

their project titlted

proposals were submitted for review to the

committee.

Academic Computing, and Frank

ter for

working within or across disci-

ual research grants to support

awarded

Bark-Inhabiting

to:

•Jeanette Keith, assistant professor of

search thatcontributes to and enhancesprofessional performance.

of

Three individual research grants were

Funds are also allocated for individfaculty re-

Ability

history,

who

will receive $1,650 for her

project titled "Archival and Quantitative

"It is

broadbackground
in languages,

Hsien-Tung Liu

anticipated that these

small grants for research will

lit-

Research

Rural History."

in

•Dorette E. Welk, associate professor of
nursing,

who

will receive

$345.28 for her

erature

assist faculty in establishing a

project titled "Senior Nursing Student

feel

data base and track record which

and Source of Probability Information

and poHtical science," she noted. "I
he brings disciplinary breadth and ad-

ministrative strength to our College of Arts

will

and Sciences."
Previously, Liu worked three years ( 1 965-

tive in securing

67) as an assistant professor of political

make them more competi-

'

who

will receive $2,357.47 for her

Gullah of the South Carolina
J.

Kasvinsky

try."

"It is

anticipated that these small grants

Liu earned a doctorate of international

for research will assist faculty in establish-

from Claremont Graduate School

ing a data base and track record which will

and University Center in 1967, master of
arts in English from California State University in 1962 and bachelor of arts in
foreign languages and literature from Na-

Taiwan University in 1958. He also
conducted two years (1974-1975) of posttional

doctoral research at the University of Pitts-

make them more

competitive in securing

extramural funding," said Kasvinsky.

The

five collaborative research grants

were awarded to:
•Linda LeMura,
thia

Surmacz, associate professor of bio-

who served

and allied health sciences, who will
receive $532.50 for their project titled "The

as acting dean of the arts and sciences

Effect of Resistive Training on Lipid Pro-

college during the 1986-87 academic year

files in

burgh.

logical

Liu succeeds John S Baird Jr
.

.

,

and permanent dean from July 1987
he resigned from the post in June.
Baird has returned to his

until

former faculty

position as a psychology professor and will

serve as director of the university's Honors

and Scholars program.

— Kevin B. Engler

College

(Winder

Age Females."

who will receive

$1,197.75 for their project

titled

this

Strine plans spring break
trip to

London, England

Harry Strine, associate professor of

communication and director of the
forensics program, has arranged a trip

London, England, during the March
7-14 spring recess next year.
to

Cost

is

$789

for double occupancy,

or $939 for a single supplement (cost
includes roundtrip airfare and ground

•Gunther Lange and Peter Stine, assistant professors of physics,

a news intern working

is

summer in the University Relations Office.)

assistant professor of

physical education and athletics, and Cyn-

The

Low Coun-

— Geri Ann Winder

s Claremont Colleges during the

1964 summer term.
relations

art,

project titled "Portrait of a People:

— Peter

Chico, Calif., and taught language courses
at the state

•Vera Viditz-Ward, assistant professor
of

science at California State University in

"Multi-

wavelength Astrophysics."
•Brigitte L. Callay, associate professor,

and Brenda Keiser, assistant professor, both
of the department of languages and cul-

in

Recognition of Health Patterns."

extramuralfund-

ing."

Use

transportation to and from airport, hotel

room, and continental breakfast).

A non-refundable $100

deposit per

due no later than Friday,
Sept. 20. For more information, call
Strine at 389-4576.

person

is

4 The Communique

1 1

JUL

91

Campus Notes
Robert P. Wislock, education and training specialist in the Personnel and Labor
Relations Office, has had an article titled
"Developing a Vision for Education and
Training Initiatives

in

Higher Education:

Implications for the Practitioner" accepted
for publication in

an upcoming edition of

CUPA Journal.

Ralph Smiley, professor of history, has
submitted under contract an article on

keting for his paper tided "An Independent

Analysis of the Call for a Liberalized Ac-

"Suleiman die Magnificant," a 16di-century conquering Turkish Sultan, for publi-

counting Curriculum."

cation in Leaders of the World by Gale

Dale A, Bertelsen, assistant professor of
communication studies, presented two
papers at the Eastern Communication As-

Alex Poplawsky and

Steven Cohen,

search article titled "Septal Lesions

Lower

Responding Under Fixed-Ratio Schedules
of Reinforcement" accepted for publication in an upcoming edition of Behavioral
and Neural Biology.

The paper explores how

the septum, a

subcortical region of the brain, affects

how

respond for food.

Steve Goodwin, assistant professor of
health, physical education,

and

of media and their effects on criucal study.

As editor of pubUcaiions

Kenneth
Btu-ke Society, Bertelsen presented "The
Character of the Burkeian Critic," which
examined criticism from a Burkeian per-

the annual conference of the Writing

Across

the Curriculum Association held at Clarion

May.

William Milheim, assistant professor of

Systems

in

monograph tided "Expert

What
Know"

resolutions committee that advanced

Need

to

published by the National Society for Per-

formance and Instruction.

Mary K.
titled

"Student Perceptions of Re-

search Projects in Marketing Classes" at
the

Academy of Marketing Science Annual

Conference held in Ft Lauderdale, Fla., in
May. The paper was co-authored with
Valerie Porquet of London, England.

The paper was also published in this
year's issue of Developments in Marketing

has received the Ericksen

Award

in

Mar-

keting for a paper he co-authored with Lisa

O'Dell, a business administration major
with a concentration in marketing.

"Wage

The

Discrimination

Theories, Explanations, and
dations."

Dianne Angelo,
the department of

associate professor in

communicadon

disor-

ders and special educadon, and speech

pathology graduate student Debra

Namey

of Wdkes-Barre gave a presentation uded

Come

a

Long Way,

Billie" at die

fourth annual Augmentative and Alternative

Conference held June 19-21

at

Wdlow

nological treatment program that helps in-

in

Lancaster.

Their discussion focused on a

new

tech-

dividuals speak and v^Tite which was ad-

ministered to local resident Billie Herrity,

Jim

Hoilister, sports informauon direc-

has been elected second vice president

who has cerebral palsey.
As Bloomsburg's co-advisor for die Na-

of die Eastern College Athletic Conference

tional Student

Sports Information Directors Association

Association, Angelo recruited 17 graduate

(ECAC-SIDA)

for the

year. Hoilister

now

and undergraduate speech padiology students to help coordinate the leisure and socialization activities for handicapped children and dieir siblings during die three-day

1991-92 academic

enters the rotation for

ECAC-SIDA

and

will

serve in Uiat capacity in the 1993-94 year.

The professional organizauon
information i>ersonnel

is

for sports

ing 263 schools from
lina.

conference.

member

of the

of Directors for die

past two years and served as a speaker and

He
tional

also

made

Communique publishes
news of events and developments at BU each
week through the academic year and bi-weekly

summer months.

a presentation at the Na-

in

Calif. Hoilister serves as a

stor>' ideas,

news

briefs,

and

calendar information ai least two w eeks in ad-

vance
sity

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member
Special

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Please submit

America (CoSIDA) Workshop

San Francisco,

A

faculty and staff. The

djiring the

College Sports Informauon Direc-

tors of

The Communique

Maine to North Caro-

Hoilister has been a

ECAC-SIDA Board

Speech-Language-Hearing

part of the na-

tion's largest athletic conference compris-

of the

national

organization's

Awards Committee and has been

the president of the Pennsylvania State

Athletic Conference

(PSAC)

sports infor-

mation directors for the past three years.

BU IS commiued to providing equal educational

and emplo\Tment opf»rtunities for aU

persons without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, age, national origin, ancesuy, life style,

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

Sheila

Peter Boehling, professor of economics,

titled

Parish, Bloomsburg.

communication education in the eastern
region and with fair and equitable consideradon of the family in the workplace.

Dove Jones,

assistant professor

of communication disorders and special

is

Columba R.C.

status veterans, or

union

mem-

bership.

Science, vol. 14.

paper

Dan-

for residents of the

Valley Resort

vention in Hyannis, Mass.

of marketing and management, presented a

paper

two

helped coordinate the group's recent con-

Erickson, associate professor

Wind"

the

vdle Correctional Insutution at die behest
of Father Moratelli's mission from St.

resolutions dealing with the state of speech

Education and Training:

Instructional Designers

Widi

"You've

In addition, he ser\'ed as chair of the

the presidency of

mathematics and computer science and of
the Institute for Interactive Technologies,
recently had a

for the

spective.

tor,

workshop titled "\S'riting for Health, Leisure, and Physical Education Programs" at

Research of Waterford, Conn.
Smiley gave a critique on die film "Gone

fied the limitations of current conceptions

athletics,

and Frank Peters, associate professor of
English, presented a paper and conducted a

University in

convendon in Pittsburgh.
Media Studies," he identi-

sociation annual
In "Defining

professors of psychology, have had a re-

rats learn to

Richard Baker, professor of accountAward in Mar-

ing, received the Ericksen



Recommen-

education, had an article tided

"Compo-

nents of Early Childhood Interagency Collaboration: Results of a Statewide

Study"

The

university

is

additionally committed

to affirmative action

and

will take positive

steps to provide such educational and

em-

plo>-ment opportunities.

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

published in die Januar>' 1991 issue of

Assistant Editor: Jo A. DeNiarco

Early Education and Development, co-

Editorial Assistant: Qiristina

audiored widi Dolores A. Stegelin of the
University of Cincinnad.

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
Contributing Writer: Gwenn E. Wells

J.

Gaudreau

University math prof
dies of heart attack

Trustees approve proposals for
rec center, graduate program

J.

Edward

Kerlin, professor of mathe-

matics, died of a heart attack while exercis-

Construction of a $6.6 million student

for aerobics

on the lower campus and
a new master's degree program in exercise
science and adult fitness were approved by

free- weight

recreation center

Bloomsburg's council of trustees

at its

Wednesday, July

17, at

quarterly meeting
the

Magee

Center.

Funding for construction of the 75,000
square-foot recreation faciUty



featuring

a large arena that includes a 200-meter

be provided by an increase

money

will

be used on

this

post-construction operations will also be

provided by the $60 fee, he says.
will include four intramural

into volleyball

will

miss him, both as a

competent professional and valued friend."

now proceed

with the

had been a Bloomsburg proand chaired the mathematics and computer science department

The

university can

design phase of the project.

Kerlin, 46,

fessor for 13 years

Following the student referendum, the

be converted

and tennis courts,

six rac-

queiball courts, a large multipurpose

unanimous approval from
Community Government
Association, Space and Facilities task force

two existing athletic facilities
Centennial Gym and Nelson Field House
on campus. Other students who wish
tices in the

and General) budget. Maintenance and

size basketball courts that can

"We

facility.

fessor at the University of Kentucky in

S60 per
says John

university's state appropriations (Educa-

The center

Ausprich.

nors had no objections with the

and Planning/Budget committee.
Bloomsburg's varsity athletic teams
schedule intercollegiate events and prac-

of 1992.

project," says Trathen, referring to the

tion

meeting in Har-

He co-authored a book titled
"Apple Graphics" and wrote many articles
for publication in various math journals.

Trathen, director of student activities.
state

8,

the university's

to assess themselves an additional

"No

1

System board of gover-

in student

In a referendum last spring, students voted

facility,

At its Thursday, July
risburg, the State

project received

activities fees starting in the fall

semester to pay for the

lounge, locker and shower facilities and
administrative offices.

ing at Bloom Nautilus and Fimess Center
on Saturday, July 13.
"The university community was deeply
shocked and saddenedby the untimely death
of Dr. Kerlin," said President Harry



running track and four basketball courts
will

and dance, a Nautilus room, a
room, an exercise room, a

room

for four years.

He previously served as an assistant proLexington, Ky., for eight years.
Kerlin received a bachelor's degree from
Florida Atlantic University at

to

work out and exercise during the school
year will have more access to recreational
facilities in the new center, says Trathen.
"The center will ease the overcrowded
which currently exist in CentenGym and Nelson Field House," he

He

Boca Raton.

earned master's and doctorate degrees

at the University of California-Irvine.

Survivors include: his parents, John E.
and Leona Cheshire Kerlin; his wife, Kathy;
his daughters, Kristin



and Kimberly; and

situations

three brothers

nial

Lauderdale, Ra., Robert E. Kerlin of Boca

says.

H.

Roy

Kerlin of Fort

Raton, Ra., and Richard L. KerUn of Vir-

Continued on page 2

ginia Beach, Va.

WEST

ELEVATION
P/IOTO BY JOAN HEUEJt

WEST SIDE STORY — An architectural renduring shows how the rec center will look when viewed from the west end of campus.

2 The

Communique 25 JUL 91
and enhance relationships with

Trustees elect

Trustees

officers for

Continued from page 1
Graduate program 'designed to

1991-92

improve quality of

Bloomsburg's council of trustees elected
chairperexecutive committee officers
for
son, vice chairperson and secretary
1991-92 at its quarterly meeting held

health, physical education

life



Magee

and

program "that

will concenu-ate

will be to

who have

.

.

.

Career opportunities

athletics

new graduate

professors, reported on a

"A major focus of this program
address the needs of those people

been victimized with the nation's number
one killer
heart disease," LeMura said.

for elderly'

Linda LeMura and William Sproule,



and

local

regional health care centers.

and adult

on improv-

in exercise science

fitness are anticipated to increase

throughout the current decade and into the
next centur>'. The job market will expand to

ing the quality of life for elderly people."

Center.

National studies reveal greater numbers

medical centers, hospitals and other health

LaRoy G. Davis of Feasterville, a secon-

of elderly people will need programs that

care organizations that offer rehabilitation

Wednesday, July

17, at the

dary social studies teacher at Bensalem

respond specifically to

Township Senior High School, was

medical problems.

reelected chairperson of the council.

"We're experiencing a change in demographics in this country' which shows that

Davis has been a member of the
university's trustees since his appoinunent

by Gov. Richard Thomburgh

in

January

1980.

Da\is received a bachelor of science

their health

and

programs.

LeMura hopes

people are living longer,"

LeMura

program soon.
"If

said.

The master of science degree program

post-graduate

work at Temple University
Penn State University in

in Philadelphia,

State College

System

(of

begin offering one or two classes

low the

M.S. program as early as next spring," she

institution to strengthen its role as

gested in the school's mission statement,

Trenton, NJ., and conducted

at the State

exercise science and adult fimess will al-

a public service resource center, as sug-

in

approved

,

He earned

College

it's

Higher Education) level Bloomsburg could

in

a master of arts degree at Trenton State

degree from Bloomsburg in 1967.

the university can begin

offering courses toward the 36-credit-hour

LeMura.
The program will enable

in the

said.

The curriculum

will

be reviewed

Har-

in

risburg by the State System's board of

said

the university to

further develop health science

governors at

its fall

meeting

in

October.

— Kevin B. Engler

programs

and Bloomsburg.

Anna Mae Lehr of Bloomsburg, a retired
extension home economist who was emat Penn Slate
was elected vice chairperson of

Malinowski has served the residents of

Mount Carmel as

legal counsel for the past

Atherton, 29,

ployed for nearly 40 years

23 years. Earlier in

pointed to

University,

a teacher in the

Elbem H.

his career, he worked as
Downingiown Area School

widow of former Columbia
County Sheriff Ray E. "Skeets" Lehr, was
Lehr, the

Malinowski received a bachelor of science degree

appointed to the university's trustees by

later

Gov. Roben Casey

son

Lehr presently

in

April 1990.

sers'es

on the executive

earned

Law

at

Bloomsburg

In addition,

new

council

.\iherion

Way and on

Snyder of Halifax attended

American Red Cross
chapter's board of directors. She earned

1963.

He

Jr.

members James

of Wilkes-Barre and Juhe
their first

College

meet-

a guidance coimselor at

in

a vacancy after the term of
Jr.

expired

in

Januar)\

a bachelor's degree

at

King

Wilkes-Barre and a master's de-

gree at the University of Scranton.

Snyder, 19, a Bloomsburg junior majoring in

in Carlisle.

committee of Columbia County's United
the local

in

a juris doctor degree at Dickin-

School

fill

Aikire

He earned

District in Chester County.

the council.

is

Bishop Hoban High School. He was ap-

communication disorders,

is

the stu-

dent representative to the council.

She succeeds Sheraton L. Smith of Harrisburg

who

ing as trustees.

graduated

last year.

— Kevin

B. Engler

local notoriet)' for a first prize do-it-yourself public service
test

sponsored by

program

in

a 1977 con-

"Woman's Day" maga-

zine and received

Columbia County's

Outstanding Citizen award

in

1972.

Lehr received a bachelor of science degree
at Indiana University of

auended

Pennsylvania and

the University of

Mar>land

at

College Park, Md., George Washington
University in Washington, D.C., and Penn
State University.

She succeeds council member Kevin

O'Connor of Plains, who was vice
person for two years.

chair-

Gerald E. Malinowski. an attorney from

Mount Carmel, was

reelected secretar\' of

the council.

He has been a member of the university 's

— This watercolor painting by

trustees since his appxjintment

'NARRATIVE IMAGES'

Richard Thomburgh

part of his recent exhibit displayed at the

in

by Gov.
September 1983.

art professor

Ken Wilson was

Demuth Foundation Gallery in

Lancaster.

The Communique

Panuska
The Rev.

J. A.

to speak at

i

Panuska, president of the

Emory University

Bloomsburg University graduates on the
topic "Continue to Learn" during the
university's August Commencement Convocation at 7 p.m., Friday, Aug. 16, in
Mitrani Hall of Haas Center for the Arts.

in Atlanta,

He was

also selected as a

1982, has guided the

Ga.

visiting scientist

and fellow

at

Cambridge

University in England.

His activities

in

the areas of science,

education, teaching and administration have
historically related to his Jesuit beliefs.

author of

many

The

scientific articles in the

low temperature biology, Panuska

school's efforts to strengthen academics,

field of

and community outreach programs. Under his leadership the university

served as editor-in-chief of "Cryobiology"

faciUties

— an

international journal that spotlights

Panuska served as

low temperature biology and medicine.
Panuska received a bachelor of science
degree in biology from Loyola College in

vice president and dean of faculties at B oston

Baltimore, Md., before entering the priest-

has received national recognition for

its

high quahty of education.
Earlier in his career,

College in Massachusetts.

He

also taught

biology for 10 years at Georgetown University in

91 3

instructor and a National Institutes of Health

post-doctorate fellow at

Panuska, president of Scranton's Jesuit

JUL

commencement

igust

University of Scranton, will speak to 245

university since

25

the

hood.

He completed

doctoral studies in

philosophy and biology

at

Father J. A. Panuska
will confer

92 master's degrees and 153

bachelor's degrees during the ceremony.

A reception will be held for the graduates

Saint Louis

Washington, D.C., was rector of

University in Missouri and studied theol-

and

community and

ogy at Woodstock College in Maryland
where he was ordained in 1960.
Bloomsburg President Harry Ausprich

graduation under a tent outside Harvey A.

that institution's Jesuit

headed the Mar)'land Province of Jesuits.
In addition, Panuska was a philosophy

Tenure, promotions awarded to

their guests

immediately following

Andruss Library.

— Kevin

B. Engler

BU faculty at trustees meeting

13 faculty granted tenure
Thirteen faculty members have been

candidates were reviewed by the univer-

Academic

sity-wide tenure committee prior to

university-wide promotion committee and

granted tenure by President Harry Ausprich,

submitting recommendations to Ausprich.

its

Affairs Betty Allamong, the

the dean of the appropriate college.

— Kevin

effective at the beginning of the 1991-92

academic year.

The announcement was made at the
Wednesday, July 17, quarterly meeting of

11 faculty receive promotions
Eleven faculty members have been

clude: Joseph Ardizzi, assistant professsor

awarded promotions in rank effective at the
start of the 1991-92 academic year.
The promotions were announced at the
Wednesday, July 17, quarterly meeting of

of biology and allied health sciences;

the university's council of u-ustces.

Winona Cochran, assistant professor of
psychology; Donna Cochrane, assistant

from associate professor

professor of business education and office

clude

the university's council of trustees.

Faculty

members receiving

administration;

Roger

tenure in-

Ellis, associate pro-

Faculty

M.

to professor in-

M. Ruhul Amin of markcung

the psychology department, Ervene

professor in the department of curriculum

of the English deparmient, Reza Noubary

and foundations; and Christopher Hallen,

of the mathematics and computer science

assistant professor of chemistry.

and John Traihen of student

Huihnance, associate professor of mathematics and computer science;

Mark Jelinek,

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week through the academic year and bi-weekly

summer months.

Please submit story ideas,
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and management, Eileen Astor-Stetson of

are:

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faculty and staff.

I

fessor of business education and office

Others earning tenure

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members earning promotions

department,

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and Geri Ann Winder

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BU is committed to providing equal educational

activities.

Those receiving promotions from

Relations

and employment opportunities for

all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,

assis-

sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

tant professor to associate professor are

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Mary Bemath of

Viemam
the English department

era status veterans, or union

mem-

bership.
j

Gunther
Lange, assistant professor of physics; David
assistant professor of music;

Rider, instructor of health, physical education and athletics;

Emeric SchulLz, assistant

and Lorraine Shanoski of curriculum and
!

The

university

is

to affirmative action

foundations.

Promoted from

additionally committed

and will take positive

steps to provide such educational and

instructor to assistant

em-

ployment opf»rtunities.

professor are Virgie Bryan of developmen1

professor of chemistry; Lorraine Shanoski,
assistant professor in the

department of

curriculum and foundations; and Christine
Sperling, assistant professor of

art.

All departmental nominations of eligible

tal

instruction,

and Mary Ann Cegiclsky

and Gloria Schcchterly of the nursing department.
All promotional recommendations were

reviewed by Provost and Vice President for

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

Assistant Editor: Jo A.

DeMarco

J. Gaudreau
Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
Contributing Writer: Gwenn E. Wells

Editorial Assistant: Christina

4 The Communique 25

JUL 91

Barbara Hudock appointed
BU Foundation board
Barbara B. Hudock of Williamsport,

manager (CFM) and
vice
president
of Merrill Lynch
assistant
Private Client Group, was recently apcertified financial

pointed to the board of directors of the

Bloomsburg University Foundation.
Hudock, who graduated with a bachelor
ofscience degree from Bloomsburg in 1975,
began working at Merrill Lynch's Williamsport branch the same year.
Specializing in the areas of private money

management, estate planning and retirement and pension plans, Hudock provides
financial planning for cUents interested in

conservative

money management and she

oversees more than $70 million in assets.

"B arbara' s experience will be most beneficial to the

board's investment activities,"

says Anthony laniero, assistant vice presi-

dent for development, "and her enthusiasm

Bloomsburg

to

named 'hub campus'
for national

to support her

alma mater

is

outreach effort

very gratifying."

She served for
one year (1982)

The S tudent Volunteer Services program

manager of

at Bloomsburg University has been selected

as

as Pennsylvania's "hub

the firm's Client

Services Depart-

effort geared

since conducted various training workshops
and seminars on financial planning and investment strategies during the past eight

of college students involved in community

years.

She received the
1984 and

toward increasing the number

service activities.

The program,

titled Into the Streets, will

be formally launched on Friday, Nov.

is

CFM

designation in

presently working toward a

(CFP) license.
She and her husband, Michael, reside
in Williamsport. They have a daughter,
Kim, 19, and a son, Michael, 12.
Kevin B. Engler

Certified Financial Planner



at

Bloomsburg have been awarded grants from
the State System of Higher Education's
Minority Faculty Development Fund for
the 1991-92 academic year.

"The primary purpose of this
fund is to assist State System

who

received $2,136 to con-

tinue graduate studies at Penn State University.

•Irvin Wright, assistant director of devel-

opmental instruction, who received
$1,611.54 to continue graduate work towards completion of a doctoral degree

in

education at Penn State University.

professional development of
their resident black and Latino

of marketing and management,

teaching faculty."

ceived $1,400 to attend an academic con-

•Pamela M. Wynn, associate professor

primary purpose of

this

fund

is

to assist

System universities in supporting the
professional development of their resident
black and Latino teaching faculty."
Tlie six grants were awarded to:
State

•Virgie Bryan, developmental reading
instructor,

who

received $3,549.04 to ex-

amine the effects of developmental instruction

•Gloria

J.

Leslie, director of Student

Support Services,

who received $1,609.96

to continue graduate

work leading toward a

re-

Sciences Users at McGill University in

Montreal, Canada.

•George Agbango, assistant professor of
poUtical science,

sota in

ership studies through a joint



Sl Paul,

COOL

estimates that thousands of col-

lege students from across the nation will go
"into the streets" to

become more aware of
live in the commucampus and offer their

who

including homeless shelters, hospitals, day
care and senior citizen centers.

"COOL has estabUshed this unique program

an effort to enhance community
by building a broad-based coalition
of colleges and universities nationwide,"
says Robert Peiffer, coordinator of
Bloomsburg's volunteer services program.
"Bloomsburg University has been acknowledged as a national leader in this
in

who

movement because thousands of our

stu-

dents have had at least one experience in

community service," Peiffer notes.
The university was chosen as one of 50
hub campuses
one in each state
to
assist two- and four-year institutions who



need help



in starting a volunteer

received $1,787.52

program on

their

commu-

campus, he

towards the completion of his doctoral

"The Impact of Political Instability on the Economic Development Policies of Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of
Ghana, 1960-1980" at Clark AUanta Uni-

adds.

dissertation

versity in Georgia.

ity

Peiffer

attend a

and two student volunteers

Aug. 7-11, as part of

Summit

in

Ann

Faculty Development Fellowship

through a special State System grant from
the Office of Social Equity to assist

program be-

him

advance training

— Geri Ann Winder

a news intern working

.

.

tween Bloomsburg and Indiana University

(Winder

summer in the University Relations Office.)

this

.

COOL

and provide an oppor-

tunity for our students to get

some

leader-

ship responsibilities," he says.

in

of Pennsylvania.

is

this year's

Arbor, Mich.

"This will enable us to receive some

also received a $4,500 Minor-

his doctoral studies.

will

"Hub Campus Training" program,

Into the Streets

doctoral degree in administration and lead-

by

headquartered at the University of Minne-

nity service

Agbango

on student success.

who

ference for Statistical Package for the Social

Grants director Peggy Bailey said, "The

,

service

universities in supporting the

— Peggy Bailey

1

the

assistance for a day of service in agencies

•Kambon Camara, assistant professor of
psychology,



Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL)
national sponsor

its

nities nearest their

Minority faculty receive State System grants
members

for a na-

ment and has

needy individuals

Six minority faculty

campus"

tionwide outreach and coalition-building

Barbara Hudock

the

is

funded by a grant from

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Creek, Mich.

of Battle

— Kevin B. Engler

BU's accreditation reaffirmed

NCATE

Middle States Association accepts university progress report

School of Education

The

the

The Commission on Higher Education of
Middle States Association of Colleges
and Schools recently reaffirmed Blooms-

that deal with curriculum, public service,

burg's accreditation after accepting a prog-

ary 1990. "Our follow-up report docu-

from the

ress report

institution in April.

"We were pleased to receive notification

university adopted four objectives

enrolbnent and cultural diversity in Febru-

mented these statements clearly," she said.
Allamong said the university adminimain-

nearly three years of preparation by univer-

sters periodic internal evaluations to

dent Harry Ausprich said at the July 17

tain the integrity

cil

of trustees.

He

said the report detailed

"institutional progress

on the operation of a

The

university's report addressed spe-

concerns identified by the commis-

cific

sion in conjunction with

its

on-site evalu-

ation of the institution in April 1989.

"We

were asked

to give information

the status of our library

objectives

.

.

.

of

.

.

.

on

goals and

and planning," said Provost

its

programs.

sity administrators

"We

conduct routine self-study evaluations every five years, regardless of

and teacher education

faculty.

Middle States conducts full review evaluon accredited institutions every 10
years and periodic reviews every five years.

NCATE, which accredits approximately
520 teacher education programs at colleges
and universities nationwide, reaffirmed
Bloomsburg's undergraduate (basic) and
graduate (advanced) programs through the
1994-95 academic year, said Howard
Macauley, dean of the College of Profes-

The next

sional Studies.

whether or not

we have

accrediting agency

strategic planning process."

accreditation
Bloomsburg's School of Education has
had its accreditation reaffirmed by the
National Council for Accreditation of
Teacher Education (NCATE), culminating

from the commission on our report," Presiquarterly meeting of the university's coun-

reaffirms

a formal outside

coming

in to

look at

them," she said.
ations

full

review

is

scheduled in the

"NCATE reevaluates its accredited insti-

spring of 1999.

The commission, with headquarters

in

and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Philadelphia, lastreaffirmed Bloomsburg's

Betty D. Allamong, "and the commission

accreditation in June 1989.

accepted our follow-up report without res-

"The reviews

Continued on page 2

tutions every five years,"

Macauley

said,

noting that an evaluation team visited the
university last

November.
Continued on page 2

ervation."

Construction of anew university library,
estimated to cost $11. 4 million, has been a
top priority in Bloomsburg's capital budget

request to the State System of Higher

Education since 1986.

Funding to build a new library has been
approved by Gov. Robert P. Casey. But due
to

Pennsylvania's current budgetary prob-

lems the funds from the state have not been
,

released.

"The commission

is

concerned that con-

struction has not started

on a new library at

Bloomsburg," Allamong

know

that

said, "but they

we have worked

diligently to

bring this about."
In response to the

commission's request

for information that demonstrates strategic

planning and goal-setting at the university,

Allamong noted
mented strategic
year.

that

Bloomsburg "imple-

direction statements" last

PHOTO BY JOAN HELfHJt

WELCOME TO BU — Economics professor TejBhan Saini watches as two students from
Chinese Culture University
reception for 31

in Taipei,

new MBA exchange

Taiwan, cut the first slices of cake at a welcoming

students held recently in SutliffHall.

2 The

Communique 08

AUG 91
"Essentially,

Middle States
Continued from page 1
are standard checkups by the commission,"

Allamong, noting the university has

said

Campus Notes

they affirm what

we

say

doing.

If,

we

are

M. Ruhul Amin, director of the Institute

for ex-

ample, you

of Comparative and International Manage-

tell

been accredited since 1950.

NCATE that your

ment

Middle States is a non-profit association
serving elementary, secondary and higher

program has a

educational institutions in Delaware, Mary-

field experiences,

and guests from the United States who
attended the Soviet- American Conference
on Trade and Economic Cooperation in

New

then you better

New

land,

Jersey,

York, Pennsylva-

large emphasis

on

Middle States implements and evaluates
programs of self-study evaluation, accreditation and other developmental services for
institutions in their service area.

has maintained national standards of qual-

Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the

Virgin Islands.

,

— Kevin B. Engler

.

.

"Some

ity.

stitutions,"

Ann

1

Macauley serves on

member board

NCATE' s

400-

of examiners and has par-

ticipated in three

NCATE evaluations dur-

special session with Soviet education min-

Gennadiy A. Yagodin.
During the visit, Amin met with the vice

ister

minister of education,
states

provide reciprocity of

who graduate from NCATE -accredited

Continued from page

Amin led a six-member education group
from the United States that convened in a

.

teaching certificates or licenses to teachers

NCATE

was among 100 delegates

May.

Macauley

have them. The
evaluation team doesn't want to hear about
it
they want to see it."
Receiving accreditation from NCATE
ensures that a teacher education program

nia,

Studies,

Macauley

Gennady F. Kutsev,

to discuss the possibility of arranging a stu-

dent exchange program between the Soviet

Union and Bloomsburg.

in-

said.

J.

David Cunningham,

director of per-

Lee, director of the School of Edu-

sonnel and labor relations, and Robert Wis-

was "very pleased" with the

lock, education and training officer, facili-

cation, said she

outcome of

this particular

NCATE evalu-

ation.

tated a seminar titled "Future Visions for

College and University

NCATE's

Human

Resource

standards are "set by your peers" and are

"We've had
(NCATE) evalu-

Management Professionals: What Critical
Competencies and Roles Will Be in the

extremely rigorous.

ations before

Forecast for the 90s?," during the 1990-91

one of every three teacher
education programs reviewed in the United
States was denied accreditation from
NCATE," said Macauley, adding that
"NCATE's standards were written chiefly
by teachers and professors in the field of
and in the various discieducation

but this year was

ing the last

"Last

two

years.

He

said

fall,

.

.

more

.

to require

a level of quality in professional education
that fosters

and

ates;

to

competent practice of gradu-

.

.

rigorous

because the stan-

Lee

plines."

NCATE's mission is twofold:

.

dards had been

Their presentation, plus others during

completely rede-

the series, are available on cassette tapes

signed," she said.

and include handouts distributed

'The NCATE
team even went

out into the public schools to observe our
supervisors and students.

They truly left no

stone unturned during their visit."

encourage institutions to meet

NCATE,

ment of Education (PDE) gave "program

must respond

to

on

the Pennsylvania Depart-

to all

Bloomsburg.

the graduate or 'advanced' level," said

"With NCATE, the entire teacher education program is either accredited or not
accredited," Lee noted.
"PDE, on the other hand, examines each

"Essentially, they affirm

we say we are

doing.

If,

what

for ex-

ample, you tell NCATE thatyour

program has a large emphasis
on field experiences, then you
better have them. The evaluation
team doesn t want to hear about
it
they want to see it."
.

.

individual program specialty that
.

.

.

and they're only interested

we

offer

in the pro-

grams that result in certification."
Bloomsburg first received NCATE accreditation in 1954 and has had it reaf-

Relevance: Human/Computer Interface as

Conference of the Association of

Teachers of English Grammar.

Nelson, Centennial
to close for repairs
The main arena

House and

the

Aug.

Nelson Field
in

Centen-

6:30 p.m., Tuesday,

workers can recoat the

13, so

hardwood

in

gymnasium

nial will close at

floors.

In addition.

straps

Nelson

will

have safety

and cables installed on

its

bas-

firmed every five years thereafter, noted
Lee.
fall

The next evaluation is scheduled in the

ketball goals

and scoreboard.

Centennial will be open Monday,

of 1995.

.

"We've already begun

— Howard Macauley

Peters, associate professor of

33

teacher education specialties offered at

both the undergraduate or 'basic' level and

Macauley.

Frank

English, presented a paper tilled "Grammar

tional

in professional education.

criteria that institutions

each

a Relevancy Model" at the Second Na-

from

approval" for the next five years

at

seminar.

In addition to receiving reaccreditation

rigorous academic standards of excellence

"There are 18 standards composed of 94

Phone Network Seminar Series sponsored
by the College and University Personnel
Association (CUPA).

to prepare for

19,

and Nelson

Monday, Aug.

their next visit," she added.

— Kevin

Aug.

B. Engler

26.

will reopen

The Communique 08

have been granted sabbatical leave requests
for the 1991-92 academic year.

The announcements were made

Magee
members and the

Faculty

S. Klinger, associate professor

who will conductresearch and publish find-

of the appropriate college and senior ad-

Crown

ministrators of the university's academic

Wed-

of Thorns starfish (Acanthaster Planci);

projects they

will be working on during their sabbaticals

include:

Dianne H. Angelo, assistant professor of

were reviewed by the

university-wide sabbatical committee, dean

at the

Center.

faculty sabbaticals

of biological and alhed health sciences,
ings on the study of digestion in the

council of trustees quarterly meeting

nesday, July 17, at

Thomas

3

BU faculty members

Trustees acknowledge sabbaticals for 17
Seventeen Bloomsburg faculty members

AUG 91

fall

and spring semesters.
Bemadine T. Markey, assistant profes-

affairs office prior to their selection.

Faculty member, manager

retire

sor of nursing,

who

will pursue doctoral

The retirements of a Bloomsburg faculty

work

Penn State
and spring semesters.

member and a State System manager were
announced at the July 17 quarterly meeting

in health education at

University;

fall

John H. Riley

associate professor of

communication disorders and special education, who will conductresearch and write

mathematics and computer science,

who

Leroy Brown, associate professor of

a training grant to prepare graduate stu-

will research algebras of bounded analytic

mathematics and computer science, retired

communi-

functions and discete dynamical systems;

last

spring semester.

Brown joined the faculty in August 1965.
He worked for 35 years in education, in-

dents to perform augmentative
cation evaluations

and implant treatment

programs, and another grant to fund equip-

ment and

establish an augmentation

com-

Jr.,

Chang Shub Roh, professor of sociology
and

social welfare,

who

will serve as a

of the university's council of trustees.

month.

cluding 26 at the university.

Speech, Hearing and Language Clinic;

Yanbuin University in
the Peoples' Republic of China and re-

sonnel and Labor Relations, will retire in

spring semester.

search minorities living in Korea; spring

October.

munication evaluation site at the university 's

John
ogy,

S.

Baird

Jr.,

professor of psychol-

who will pursue postdoctoral work in

visiting professor at

J.

David Cunningham,

Cunningham

semester.

Glenn E. Sadler, associate professor of

is

director of Per-

completing more than

five years of service at the university.

State Univer-

English, who will initiate a critical series of

He intends to develop

children's literature classics as texts, serve

a reading Ust and additional core materials

as a consultant to William B. Eerdman's

Six non-instructional
personnel retire

related to the psychological study of social

PubUshing Company and begin work on a
full-length critical study of George

personnel were announced at the July 17

MacDonald's

quarterly meeting of the university's coun-

social policy studies at
sity in State

issues.

As

College.

component in
work with Habitat

part of a service

the project, he plans to
for

Penn

Humanity one day a week; spring

se-

Gloria J.

mester.

who

Thomas A. Bonomo, associate professor
of sociology and social welfare, who is co-

health

authoring a contemporary social problems

textbook with colleague Frank Lindenfeld,

fall

fairy tales;

work on completing a Ph.D. in
education at Penn State University;

and spring semesters.

John

S.

"Applied Basic

Statistics for the

Behav-

ioral Sciences;" fall semester.

ics,

who will collaborate on a multi-institu-

tional study

of the biomedical applications

of antiprotons at Brookhaven National

Laboratory in

New York;

spring semester.

Mark A. Homberger, associate professor
of geography and earth science,

who

will

study the spatial distribution of ethnic groups
in

Pennsylvania for the years 1800, 1850

and 1880, and Old Order Amish communities;

spring semester.

Saleem M. Khan, professor of economics, who will examine share of trade, loans
and direct investments as potential sources
of capital formation in South Asian countries;

spring semester.

April.

He completed

in

13 years of service at

the university.

Faye Mausteller, clerk

typist in account-

and remedial com-

completed 30 years of service at the univer-

new

students and

sity.

those experiencing academic difficulties to

Robert

McEwen, painter foreman, reHe completed 22 years of

achieve their fullest potential as learners;

tired in June.

spring semester.

service at the university.

Theodore M. Shanoski, professor of history,

Levi J. Gray, associate professor of phys-

of trustees.

Paul Long, carpenter foreman, retired

ing and administration, retired in July. She

will study preventative

chology,

six non-instructional

of counseUng and human development, who
ponents designed to help

W. Gaynor, professor of psywho will write a textbook titled

cil

Scrimgeour, associate professor

The book will include
extensive research on American cultures.
Michael

semester.

will

professor of sociology and social welfare;
the fall semester.

fall

Schechterly, nursing instructor,

The retirements of

who will

conduct research

in the area

of global studies at three higher educational

— University

institutions

of Wisconsin,

Ohio State University and Hampshire College
and write a global issues handbook;



fall

Robert McWilliams, equipment operator
in the physical plant

who

will

which

will

be shared with the Bloomsburg

produce 12 fiber paintings

at local art exhibitions;

Irvin Wright, assistant professor of de-

velopmental instruction,

who

will

pursue

work at Penn State University; fall

semester.

recommendation of President
Harry Ausprich, candidates for 1991-92
the

May. He completed 18

years

Dorothy
in April.

Sitler, custodial

worker, retired

She completed 16 years of service

at the university.

fall

semester.

Upon

18

Clifford Mensinger, utility plant operator, retired in

BarbaraJ. Strohman, associate professor

of art,

doctoral

He completed

years of service at the university.

of service at the university.

semester.

community

and automotive de-

partment, retired in April.

Non-instructional promotion
Charles Harris was promoted to carpenter

foreman

at the university.

His promotion, announced at the July 17
quarterly meeting of the university's council

of trustees, became effective

May

13.

Continued on page 4

4 The Communique 08

AUG 91

Orchestra to sponsor

Decker, Wilski to teach in Music Prep Program
Bloomsburg's music department announces the continuation of its Music Preparatory Program this fall.
The program, which begins Tuesday,
Sept. 3 is open to individuals of all ages and
musical ability, from beginners to advanced

their lives with

musicians.

insure the highest quality of instruction.

,

Two new

music through participation

in quality private instruction,"

According

he added.

The Bloomsburg University-Community

program's

Orchestra will sponsor a seven-day "Sym-

teaching faculty consists of area music

phony at Sea" cruise to the Caribbean ports
of St. Maanen, Sl John, St. Thomas and
Pleasure Island, Bahamas, aboard the Norwegian Caribbean Cruise Line's SS Norway next summer.
The orchestra will present at least one
concert on board the ship and a second
performance on one of the islands during

to Jelinek, the

and university

teachers, local musicians

who

professors

are carefully screened to

year's program. William Decker, a retired

The instructors work on student development in strings, woodwinds, brass, percus-

university music professor, will teach or-

sion, piano, organ, voice,

gan and Christopher Wilski, orchestra directorat Wyoming Valley West High School

Suzuki violin, guitar and bass guitar.

in

instructors will be part of this

Caribbean cruise

music theory,

Students participating this

fall will re-

the June 20-27

trip.

Plymouth, will teach double bass.

ceive 14 weekly lessons. Lessons can be

In addition, the orchestra will sponsor a

Decker graduated from the Eastman

arranged

option for 30

"Cruise Night" at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept.

School of Music and Temple University.
Wilski received his training at Mansfield

Mark Jelinek, assistant professor of music
and coordinator of the five-year-old music
prep program, said the university's music
deparmient developed the concept to teach
private music lessons to aspiring musicians

community.
"The university is responding to a need in
our community for private music lessons,"
said Jelinek, who also conducts the
Bloomsburg University-Community Orin the

chestra.

"The purpose of this program

is to

offer

people of all ages an opportunity to enrich

17, in

Cost totals $ 1 26 for half hour instruction

$189

University of Pennsylvania.

at the student's

minutes, 45 minutes or an hour.

$252

for three-quarter

hour lessons and

for hour-long sessions.

total

$154

for half-hoiu-

$231 for three-quarter hour
$308 for hour-long sessions.
Fees must be paid in full prior to the start
of the term. The registration deadline is
Aug. 26.
instruction,

lessons and

Students are responsible for providing
their

own

instruments

(if

applicable) and

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

faculty and staff, The Communique publishes
news of events and developments at BU each
week through the academicyearand bi-weekly

during the

summer months.
at least

two weeks

in ad-

vance to The Communique, Office of University

Relations

and

Communication,

BU is committed to providing equal educaand employment opportunities for

all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,

ting. All lessons will

be conducted

in

set-

Haas

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,
status veterans, or

is

union

mem-

additionally committed

and wUl take positive

steps to provide such educational

and em-

ployment opportunities.

is

honored

25 per-

trip airfare

to the

from Harrisburg to Miami, Fla.,

A

$250 deposit

is

required at time of

A second $250 deposit will be due

booking.

recognition of his or her outstanding per-

Sept.

formance

For more information, call Merris toll
free at 1-800-727-0015 or Jelinek at 389-

in the

program.

Lauren Hunter of Beach Haven, who
studied Suzuki violin last year,

was

se-

1

and the

final

balance

is

due April

1.

4289.

Kerlin scholarship

prep student.

For more information,
389-4284.

call Jelinek at

— Kevin B. Engler

established for

Trustees

A scholarship program in honor of math

DeMarco
J.

Edward

Kerlin,

who

died of a

fitness center, has

been estab-

lished at the university.

"The J. Edward KerUn Scholarship Fund

Non-instructional appointment
Douglas Loss of Williamsport was
cently hired as a computer

re-

programmer

at

His appointment, announced

May 6.
(Winder

at the July

became

effective

on

— Geri Ann Winder
is

will support

worthy students

in the depart-

ment of mathematics," says Anthony

lani-

ero, assistant vice president for develop-

the university.

Gaudreau

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
Contributing Writer: Gwenn E. Wells

J.

ago at a local

Continued from page 3

council of trustees,

Editorial Assistant: Christina

math majors

heart attack while exercising three weeks

17 quarterly meeting of the university's

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

Assistant Editor: Jo A.

to

cent which includes the cruise, roundtrip

with a certification of excellence award in

bership.

university

director.

Discounted group rates of 20

are available.

sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

to affirmative action

and orchestra

sor of music

professor

Vietnam era

invited to partake in the

cruise," said Mark Jelinek, assistant profes-

Harrisburg International Airport and round-

an educational

to

17815.

The

community are

bus transportation firom Bloomsburg

Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

ticHial

"Students, faculty, staff members, alumni
and residents of the greater Bloomsburg

lected as the 1990-91 outstanding music

Please submit story ideas, news briefs, and

calendar information

show a short film and take bookings. A door
prize drawing will also be held.

manner appropriate

Each year a student musician

A

in

Lancaster and a representative from the

are expected to conduct themselves in a

Center for the Arts.

The Communique

Sandy

for the Arts.

cruise line will be present to discuss the trip,

Rates for university faculty and degreed

music educators

Haas Center

Merris of Ambassador Travel Agency

an intern working

this

summer

in the University Relations Office.)

ment.

According

to laniero, contributions ear-

marked for the fund should be forwarded to
the development office in Carver Hall.
Checks are to be made payable to: BU
Foundation
J. Edward Kerlin Scholar-



ship Fund.

August Commencement

Panuska

life

"don't stop learning
.

.

graduates: 'Don't stop learning'

tells

Knowledge and

.

.

.

"are not static," so

you, you will require adaptation, a

don't stop learning

fitting in,"

really, don't stop learning," the

.

BU awarded grant for

'91

Rev.

adapt

he

in this

said.

"Continuing

new

to learn or

broader sense will help you to

regional development
Bloomsburg has received a technical
American Association of State Colleges and Universities
assistance grant from the

Panuska advised 245 Bloomsburg
graduates at last Friday's summer com-

maintain important personal values and

(AASCU)

continuity without having your individual-

versity as a "focal point" for regional devel-

mencement convocation in Mitrani Hall.

ity

J. A.

Panuska, president of the University of

frightened or swept away."

that will help establish the uni-

opment.

Reflecting on the statement that "no per-

G. Michael Vavrek, dean of the School of

an island," Panuska said education is

Scranton, cautioned 92 master's and 153

son

bachelor's degree recipients about the risk

"an enterprise for communal gain" that en-

Extended Programs, says the grant will
help Bloomsburg "find the university s most

of allowing their educational investment to

compasses a variety of cultural backgrounds

suitable role" in helping to develop our

become

and beUefs.
"You have not been educated only for
your own personal gain, but for the com-

region.

outdated. "Unless

you continue

much of

to

soon lose
you
value of the knowledge for which you have
learn

.

.

will

.

the

is

'

"We have been awarded this grant from
AASCU's Center for Economic and Com-

mon good," he said. "In a very real way you

munity Development basically

consulting services," said Vavrek, noting

est and search out available opportunities,"

have been educated for others ... for your
brothers and sisters in all walks of life

he noted. "If you have the drive, you will

and not just here

find the opportunities."

over the world."

from the Exxon Education Foundation.
Bloomsburg will receive assistance from

sacrificed,"

he

said.

"You have to maintain

Panuska,
versity in

who

its

ics, facihties

has guided the Jesuit uni-

efforts to strengthen

academ-

and outreach programs, told

the graduates that they'll
the

a drive and inter-

need to adapt

many changes which undoubtedly

.

in

Pennsylvania, but

.

all

Panuska asked the graduates
for others

to be there
and to find goodness in all things.

"To keep such an

attitude alive,

you must

to

continue to learn in this sense," he said.

will

"Stay in touch with the poor so that you can

occur throughout their lifetime.

"As the environment of life swirls around

understand your own life more fully

and
Continued on page 2
.

.

.

that

to

AASCU receives some of its

two experts who

pay

for

funding

will help the university

two phases of AASCU's
eight-step plan for implementing and evaluating economic and community developcomplete the

first

ment activities.
The university has already
consultant

selected one

— Gerald Gordon, executive

director of the

Economic Development

Authority in Fairfax County in Virginia

who has been trained by AASCU. "Later on
in the process, we will choose an educator
as our second consultant to help us with

another part of the project," Vavrek noted.

Continued on page 3

The

President's Con-

vocation for faculty and
staff will be held at 3:30
p.m., Wednesday, Aug.

Mitrani Hall of
Haas Center for the

28, in

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFEX

AUGUST '91 COMMENCEMENT— Some 245 excited graduates and theirfamily members and friends anxiously wait for graduation to begin last Friday in Mitrani Hall.

Arts.

2 The Communique 22

AUG 91

Habitat for Humanity volunteers
to renovate Bloomsburg house
A

team of nationwide volunfrom Habitat for Humanity International will be visiting Bloomsburg to help
traveling

teers

local volunteers renovate a two-unit

on East

St. later this

Some 20
visit

house

month.

Habitat volunteers,

Bloomsburg Aug. 25-31,

who

will

will assist

area residents and Bloomsburg University
students concerned with substandard hous-

ing in this area.

week

The

effort is part of a 15-

celebration of Habitat's 15th anni-

versary.

According to Wendy Pristash, who works

BU's Volunteer
1 7 traveling work teams of

Panuska
Continued from page 1
in your own way you can help make the
world better."

Canada, she

The Jesuit priest also spoke highly of
Bloomsburg's many accomplishments

The team coming to Bloomsburg will
meet area volunteers at 9 a.m., Tuesday,
Aug. 27, at Town Hall. The entire group of
national and local volunteers will then walk
to the housing site at 426 East St. to begin

throughout the years. "During my nine years

renovating the house.

who have made such

and Winnipeg, Manitoba,

in

said.

"It's exciting to see the university

town taking

and the

and

ates,

the university

all in

"block party" to celebrate Habitat's

voiced his concerns.

Town

"Our 'educa-

Park and a dedication service will be held at

tion president'

site.

has not yet been

invited to attend both activi-

successful in

4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3 1
is

,

at the

work

volunteers in that area to build or rebuild

volunteers visiting Bloomsburg will meet

awhile to get

affordable housing," Prishtash said, noting

the other 16 teams in

over the nega-

that the team destined for Bloomsburg origi-

Columbus, Ohio, for
three days of celebration, education and

nated in Boston, Mass.

worship.

repeatedly ex-

"Our team will be here during week
movement," she added.

11

of

and per-

nuska said present times "are not easy" and

A

ties.

At

that effort,

the

Long

Jimmy

this

community

institutional

sonal growth possible."

new location in
their designated region each week and help
travel to a

he

one involved."

The public

"The teams

in quaUty,"

Discussing the general outlook regard-

Thursday, Aug. 29, at Bloomsburg

America in mid

and

said. "I congratulate the university, its gradu-

ing higher education in this country, Pa-

Services Office,

vating houses across North

have watched Bloomsburg

1

in service

part in a national effort," said

15th birthday will be held at 7:30 p.m.

June.

grow both

Prishtash. "It's a source of pride for every-

as a graduate assistant in

Habitat volunteers began building or reno-

at Scranton

end of

its

mission, the team of

it

and

will take us

tive overtones

associated with former President

pressed about

Carter and his wife, Rosalynn,

higher educa-

by a former

Habitat for Humanity International was

tion

national Secre-

other United States cities including:

1976 by Georgia businessman
Millard Fuller and his wife, Linda, as a

Ellsworth, Maine; Atlanta, Ga.; Savannah,

Christian ministry dedicated to eliminating

has become easily disillusioned when higher

Ga.; Washington, D.C.; Detroit, Mich.;

poverty housing and homelessness. Habitat

education's failures are grossly exagger-

Or-

volunteers build or renovate houses in part-

ated.

San Antonio, Tex.; Omaha, Neb.;

nership with families too poor to afford

In addition to the Boston team. Habitat

volunteers began

work expeditions

Miami, Ha., Key Largo,
leans, La.;

Fla.;

in 14

New

Lynden, Wash.; Watsonville,

Calif.;

Soldotna, Ala.; and Honolulu, Hawaii.

Two

additional teams of volunteers

started their journeys in Tijuana,

founded

in

conventional financing.

tary of Education," he said, noting the public

"Such perceptions by the public are soon
by our legislators whose support we

For more information, call the Volunteer

— Kevin B. Engler

need whether we are public or private institutions,"

Tuition for full-time non-resident under-

graduate students attending Bloomsburg

and the other 13 Stale System of Higher
Education universities will increase for the
1991-92 academic year.

cial difficulties as is the case today."

In closing, Panuska offered some final
words of inspiration for each of the gradu-

increase,

an amount equal to the instructional cost
per student at all 14 State System universities.

universities are lo-

cated at Bloomsburg, California, Clarion,

East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Indiana,

ernor? dt a special meeting last Thursday,

Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock and

the

new

dents

$350.

is

tuition rate for

Pennsylvania

resi-

$2,628 per year, an increase of

West

ates.

"When you

Chester.

—from Chancellor's

.

.

.

return to walk on this

20 or 50 years from now, I hope
you will be able to say that you have contin-

campus
ued

The 14 state-owned

the system's board of gov-

Approved by

much more crucial when the nation, or
Commonwealth, is experiencing finan-

$580

Tuition for non-resident students reflects

Tuition for full-time undergraduate and

the

graduate students rises to $4,892 per year, a

and full-time non-resident
graduate students will pay $3,354 per year,
an increase of $470.

increase

he said, adding that "positive

perceptions of our value and importance
are

State System
Board of Governors
approve tuition

Panuska

felt

Services Office at 389-4455.

Mexico,

Fr.

10,

to learn in

personal

life

.

.

your profession ...
.

and

in

your

the world," he said.
"I

hope you will have done

finding goodness and dignity in

this

while

all things,

including yourself," he added.

— Kevin

Ojfict

in

your perspective of

B. Engler

The Communique 22

BU profs teaching methods were

'talk of

campus'

at

AUG 9

1

3

Chinese college

Roh, Pomfret spend seven weeks teaching students, faculty at Shenyang Teachers College

in

China
PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER

Classroom discussions, computer-assisted instruction and videotape or slide
presentations are used daily by educators in
the United States to help

make

learning

more enjoyable for their students.
But according to two Bloomsburg professors, these

approaches are not

common

in China.

"We utilize multiple teaching approaches
which are highly unorthodox

to the

Chinese," says sociology professor

Chang

.

.

.

Shub Roh.

Roh and James

Pomfret, professor of

mathematics and computer science, spent
seven weeks this summer teaching at Shenyang Teachers College in China as part of a
faculty exchange program between that
institution

faculty were amused with the support ma-

tions.

he and Roh used in their presenta"The Chinese are used to straight

lecture

.

.

James Pomfret

Bloomsburg professors Chang Shub Roh and James Pomfret used "highly unorthodox" teaching methods at Shenyang Teachers College this summer.

and Bloomsburg.

Pomfret says Shenyang's students and

terials

Chang Shub Roh

.

from professor

"We would

to student,"

he

vided consultation to the college's faculty

institutions in northeastern China.

and administration. In

in

institution has sent instructors to

burg to study

Chinese

return, the

Blooms-

in various master's

degree

Located

Shenyang, the nation's fourth largest

city, the

college has an enrollment of

more

than 2,000 students and employs approxi-

mately 400 faculty members.

programs.
the College

Both Roh and Pomfret admitted experi-

to the chalkboard,

of Professional Studies, says the exchange

encing some difficulty with the language

much like we do here. Our methods became

program was chiefly designed to "facilitate
the exchange of students and faculty
which will enhance knowledge, techno-

barrier, but

says.

them

enter

them go

sions and have

into discus-

the talk of the campus."

Howard Macauley, dean of

.

The two professors are the first
Bloomsburg faculty members to receive

logical sharing

.

.

and cooperative ventures"

year-old teachers college situated in China's

tions.

had

Liaoning Province. In addition to teaching

Founded in 1953, Shenyang Teachers
College is one of the oldest teacher training

in their respective discipUnes, they pro-

BU awarded grant

Kean College, Union,

N.J.;

were bright and well prewas an interpreter, but I still

that the students

pared. "There

from the 38-

taught

I

understood English," says Pomfret, noting

between the two higher educational institu-

visiting scholar invitations

wasn't a major problem.

it

"About 50 percent of the students

to

speak very slowly."

Although both professors taught classes
Continued on page 4

Murray State

University, Murray, Ky.; State University

"After the project

we hope

is finished,

there will be greater

Continued from page 1
The initial phase of the project deals with

of New York

and analyzing data on existing
economic and community development
programs offered at the university and
throughout the Bloomsburg region.
second phase calls for identifying the
project's specific objectives, budgeting and

Ohio; and Western Carolina University,

the people

Cullowhee, N.C.

gion."

and the

Vavrek believes the project will enhance

the focal

the university's public service activities in

made up of univer-

point," said Vavrek. "Since the university

provided us with a process that will help

and help the institution define
what it can do to assist economic and
community development here.
"After the project is finished, we hope

and

there will be greater use of university re-

collecting

The

organizing committees
sity officials

The

and regional leaders.

final six

phases include organizing

the project, defining

economic and com-

Shawnee

(SUNY)

at Brockport,

N.Y.;

State University, Portsmouth,

is

.

School of Extended Programs

.

is

.

has been recognized as taking a more active
role in developing our region,

AASCU has

munity development, analyzing the envi-

apply the university's resources
help this region to develop."

.

.

.

a 40-mile radius around

Bloomsburg

AASCU member institutions to receive the

primarily consists of

counties

s service region comprises

1 1

that

— Co-

Other recipients include: Chadron

lumbia, Luzerne, Lycoming, Montour,

Chadron, Neb.; Northwest-

Northumberland, Schuylkill, Sullivan,
Carbon, Snyder, Union and Wyoming.

State College,

em

State University, Natchitoches, La.;

our

re-

the region

sources by the people

grams and evaluating results.
Vavrek says Bloomsburg is one of eight

'

live in

a recommitment to re-

gional development activities

The university

who

— G. Michael Vavrek

"One of Bloomsburg University's strategic directions

ronment, goalsetting, implementing pro-

grant.

use of university resources by

who

live in

our

re-

gion," Vavrek said.
"It' s a

timely opportunity for Bloomsburg

University

.

.

.

and the university

for the challenge," he added.

is

ready

— Kevin B. Engler

4 The Communique 22

AUG 91

Calendar
Sunday, Aug. 25 — Comedy Night with
MaryEllen Hooper and Todd Rowden,
Kenneth Gross Auditorium, Carver Hall,

Aug. 19 and should be completed and

Research by Wednesday, Sept. 18.
The comm unication audit will be used as

tional

a "benchmark" for future analysis of the
institution,

8:30 p.m.

re-

turned to the Office of Planning of Institu-

TomUnson

BU profs
Continued from page 3
at the college,

Roh says his assignment was

a bit more unique. "I was not there to teach
the Chinese students, but rather to lecture

said.

the professors about our

— Classes begin
Wednesday, Aug. 28 —
Monday, Aug. 26

Activities Fair,

outdoors (rain date Aug. 29)

"What About Bob?," Mitrani

Hall,

hours for fail semester
Andruss Library will be open the follow-

of American

ing hours during the

they wanted to learn the Enghsh language

fall

semester:

Friday, Aug. 30

— QUEST:

Rock

Skills

— 8 a.m.
Saturdays — 9 a.m.
Sundays — 2 p.m.

"What About Bob?," Mitrani HaU,

Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 2

— Labor Day, no

classes

"I took lots of videotaped documentaries
cities

with me because I knew

Housed in a dormitory on campus, the
two professors said they quickly learned to
abide by the college's rules and regulations. "Living on campus, we experienced

p.m.

to 5 p.m.

will

he says.

as well as sociology."

to 10 p.m.

Monday
Film:

to 5

The University Archives

Mocanaque, 5 p.m.

at



8 a.m. to midnight

Fridays

Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

soci-

ety,"

Mondays through Thursdays
Fihn:

American

Andruss Library announces

be open

through Friday from 10 a.m. to

noon and from 1:30 to 3 p.m.
During the Labor Day Weekend
Saturday, Aug. 3 1 through Monday, SepL 2
both the library and the archives will be



closed.

some of their restrictions," Pomfret says.
"Our dormitory was 'chained shut' from
If we were
we wouldn't be able to

10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

out past 10

p.m.,

get back in

until

morning."

But Roh, who journeyed

to barren areas

of East Germany and the Soviet Union

QUEST: Rock Skills at Mocanaqua, 5 p.m.

year, notes that life in

Schuyler Drive closed during

Wednesday, Sept. 4 — Film:

"Thelma

and Louise," Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 7
and 9:30 p.m.

parable to any large city in the United

Kehr Union expansion
Schuyler Drive will be closed at the beginning of the academic year, Aug. 26, due

Kehr Union expansion project.
Because of the amount of student traffic
in that area, the road will be closed until the
fence is removed from the construction
area, according to Deborah Barnes of the
to the

Lecture: "Don't

Become

portunity," with

Deborah Barnes of Uniand

a Victim of Op-

versity Police, Schuylkill Hall, 8 p.m.,

Montour
Month)

Hall,

9 p.m. (Safety Awamess

University Police Department.

The road
dents to

News Briefs
Communication audit being

As part of the university's continuing
commitment to the Middle States accredicommunication audit will

be conducted early in the fall semester, according to Jim Tomlinson, associate professor of communication studies.
A survey of all university employees was

recommended by

be open, however, for stu-

into the dormitories prior to

the first day of school, Barnes said.

conducted on campus

tation process, a

will

move

the Middle States steer-

Bloomsburg recognized in
'91 speech tournament publication
The 1991 Intercollegiate Speech Tournament Result Book has arrived and
Bloomsburg is listed under the heading,
"The World's Largest Tournaments."

States.

"We were able to buy just about any kind
of American goods," he says. "There were
restaurants everywhere

and the prices
were reasonable."
Pomfret speaks highly of the college's
hospitality. 'They treated us very well
almost as if we were celebrities," he says.
"For us," Roh adds, "the opportunity to
.

.

.

— Kevin B. Engler

The Communique
A

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

The Communique publishes
news of activities, events and developments at
faculty and staff.

BU bi-weekly throughout the academic year.
Please submit story ideas,

tions

with selected

University, Bloomsburg,

calendar information

news

at least two

briefs and
weeks in ad-

vance to The Communique, University Relaand Communication Office, Bloomsburg

PA

17815.

BU is committed to providing equal educa-

and

Tomlinson said.
Ron DiGiondomenico of academic advisement and chairperson of Bloomsburg's
Committee on Institutional Effectiveness
has been involved in coordinating the sur-

The publication was edited by Seth C.
Hawkins of Southern Connecticut State

persons without regard to race, color, religion,

University.

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

vey with Tomlinson.

that offered competition in individual speak-

The survey

will be augmented through
ws with university personnel by an
outside consultant, Louis Cusella of the
intervir

University of Dayton in Ohio.

The survey was

distributed the

week of

editorial

commentary.

During the 1990-91 academic year, there
were 247 tournaments held in the nation

tional

in the "large" category,
its

and Bloomsburg

annual

"Mad

Hatter"

all

Vietnam era

status. veterans,

or union

mem-

bership.

university is additionally committed

to affirmative action and will take positive

steps to provide such educational and

Thirty-eight events received recognition

ranked 27th for
tournament.

and employment opportunities for

sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

The
ing events.

.

go to Shenyang was as much a learning experience as a teaching experience."

According to Harry C. Strine III, director
of forensics, the pubUcation is a record of
all speech tournaments held in 1990-91
statistical analysis, features

.

ing committee during their recent accreditation review,

last

Shenyang was com-

em-

ployment opportunities.
Editor: Kevin B. Engler
Editorial Assistant: Christina

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

J.

Gaudreau

^

~

"

icommiifliQii
A NEWSLETTER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY



05 SEP 9

Ausprich offers ideas for building ^community'
Teaching mission, fiscal

integrity, respect for others are

Preserving and enhancing the quality of

noting Bloomsburg's increase is lower than

and

the 2.5 percent appropriation granted Sys-

teaching, maintaining fiscal integrity

nurturing respect for one another are the

tem-wide due

key elements for building a new sense of

Governor's tuition grant program.

'community'
'90s," said

Bloomsburg President Harry

governors approved tuition increases of

Wednesday.

to a late afternoon gathering

of

staff

place for the institution to prosper.

"As I begin my seventh year as president
I feel more

of Bloomsburg University,

challenged than ever before ... to ensure
that this fine institution continues to

grow

and service," Ausprich said.
Bloomsburg's teaching mission is "vi-

in quality

tally

important" to sustaining the

university, noted Ausprich,

life

of the

who applauded

the institution's curriculum

committee for

dents.

"We

skills

— President Harry Ausprich
in the '90s," said

resources ...

tuition

Ausprich. "Redirecting

indeed the only viable

is

re-

rose to $470 per academic year.

sponse to maintaining the quality and integ-

Ausprich said "fiscal management" and
"good planning" by university officials will
allow Bloomsburg to invest more resources

rity

of our academic programs," he added.

Bloomsburg will be able to
add five percent to the operating budgets of
In addition,



into non-personnel areas during the 1991-

four university areas

92 academic

advancement, student life and the office of

year.

"This includes allocating $300,000

respond

to

recommendations

... to

in the Pro-

gram/Services Mix report."

the president

— and

demic

The

affairs.

administration,

six percent to aca-

institution

can also

af-

ford to "unfreeze" vacant positions, he said.

This report, based on an internal univer-

Ausprich also discussed the importance

study which suggests institutional

of values in "helping to nurture, create and

sity

growth through "substitution and change,"
will be

completed

in the fall

and "contain

the university's academic planning efforts

improve the writing

opinion, no

.

time undergraduate tuition increased to $580

of discussions designed to help

faculty

.

and non-resident full-time graduate

findings and recommendations crucial to

series

my

spect for one another."

for in-state stu-

sponsoring Writing Across the Curriculum

—a

in

is,

dents. Ausprich reported non-resident full-

members, the president
shared his concerns about the "breakdown
of community" on the university's campus
and the necessary changes that must take
and

$350 per academic year

"There

more important issue on this
campus
than nurturing re.

In addition, the State System board of

tion in Mitrani Hall last

Speaking

of the

during the

at the university

Ausprich at a special President's Convoca-

faculty

to the discontinuance

key elements

sustain" the university's existence. "There
is, in

on

my opinion, no more important issue

this

campus

.

.

.

than nurturing respect

Continued on page 2

of stu-

are a teaching university," he

emphasized, "and

this will

continue to be

our principle mission."

Ausprich said the school's teaching
mission is also influenced by faculty scholarship

"As

and a changing student

profile.

welcome suggestions
that require a commitment to harmonizing
president,

1

and redirecting our intellectual resources,
especially those that don

'

t

require great ex-

pense," he said.

Last May, the university

was

projecting

serious cutbacks in state appropriations for
the current

academic year and trimmed

deparunental budgets by five percent.
"Fortunately ... a

new

state

from

budget was

passed which provides a 2.03 percent

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

TUNING IN TO THE PRESIDENT — Members of Bloomsburg's faculty

in-

crease in our appropriation," said Ausprich,

and staff—

Carol Chronister, clerk steno, nursing department; Nancy Onuschak,
chairperson, nursing department; G.Michael Vavrek, dean, School ofExtended Pro grams;
left to right,

and Charles Carlson,

assistant vice president for

academic

affairs



listen intently to

President Ausprich during last Wednesday's convocation in Mitrani Hall.

2 The

Communique 05 SEP 91

Continued from page

one another," he

for

Ausprich

"How we

encourage residents to question stereotypes

said.

function as professionals

.

.

.

behave as human beings
and treat each
other and our students is critical, not for our

1

.

.

.

survival, but for the sense of individual

worth," he said.
says, 'If

"An

old Chinese proverb

you want one year of

prosperity,

grow grain ... 10 years of prosperity, grow
trees ... 100 years of prosperity, grow

know we

and learn about cultures different from their
own," he noted.

Bloomsburg University

Following the president's presentation,

APSCUF

.

become

serious

problems.
"I plan to

work more fully on my leader-

ship role and less on management," he said.

"To renew a spirit of 'community,' I plan to
work more closely with faculty, staff, students and other members of the campus
community to focus on the quality of academic

life."

thenBloomsburg University will be a better
place of greater pride to all of
us."

— President Harry Ausprich

work together to pursue common goals and
visions. "As we examine this campus, I
hope we'll find an academic community
prepared for the diverse society in which

we

hope we'll find a community of faculty and students who value and welcome
the differences they find around them
.

where

Month

Latino Heritage
The
tage

national celebration of Latino Heri-

Month, Sept. 15

observed for the

first

to Oct. 15, will

be

time at Bloomsburg

Lectures, entertainment and other festivities will highlight Bloomsburg's

month-

long observance which features

many

samplings of Latin- American culture.
cultural heritage of the students,

faculty

and

source

we

staff

of this university

is

a re-

cannot afford to ignore," says

general,
effort,"

be a Latino living

BU

Ausprich to speak at
Mansfield University

in the

United

John Trathen, director of student

activi-

and coordinator of the university's

observance, says Bloomsburg will incor-

p.m. convocation Tuesday, Sept. 10,at

Mansfield University.

The president wiU speak on "BuildCommunity" to

ing a Better Academic

an audience of faculty,

staff

faculty lectures are

fi"ee

and open

to

Quinones Alejandro, an attorney

(dance) Night" These activities will be

held Thursday, Sept. 19, for Bloomsburg

1.

mentand Status of HispanicA-atina Women"
at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 2, in the Forum
(third floor conference room) of the
McCormick Human Services Center. The
lecture is free and open to the public.
Three faculty members will lecture in the

Monday,

Roy

in

Mexico"

at 7:30 p.m.,

Dinner is from 4:30 to 7 p.m. in Scranton
runs from 9 p.m. to

Commons. The dance

midnightintheKehrUnion ("Near Cheers")

Annex.
Other events scheduled include: Mexican and Latin dance lessons and demonstrations; "Sound Stage" with the Santa Fe
Blues Band, featuring lead guitarist Tino
Gonzalez; and 10
fall's

BUTV

airings of last

Provost's Lecture Series discussion

by Samuel Betances.

Sept. 16.

Smith, director of experiential edu-

cation, will present

students.

"Mexico: The Andes

Ausprich invites everyone at the university

and residents of the community

and the Tropical Rain Forest of Equador" at

toms, dance, food and history.

7 p.m., Wednesday, SepL 18.

more about one

community an awareness of the
Latino culture," he says, adding "we also
want to give some perspective of what it's

stu-

Other festivities include a "Latino- Ameri-

porate segments of Latin-American cus-

"This celebration attempts to give the

and

dents.

participate in the observance.

university

Harry

Department of Veterans Affairs in
Philadelphia, will discuss the "Develop-

Nitza

and Religion

derstanding about one another."

President

can Festival Dinner" and "Latin Baile

States."

any vestiges of ignorance or misun-

"As residents of

Bloomsburg

Ausprich has accepted an invitation to
serve as the keynote speaker at a 12:30

The

will discuss "Children of the Virgin: Art

it is

— Kevin B. Engler

the pubUc.

McCormick Forum during the observance.
Anthropology professor Thomas Aleto

the global village,

ties

celebrated at

like to

we will indeed succeed in this joint
he added.

intellectual interactions

imperative for us to

President Harry Ausprich.

dispell

and

for the

this fall.

"The

social

.

.

"With a renewed commitment, not only
from the president, but from the faculty in

already live," he said.
"I

.

for the future," said Larmi.

Ausprich hopes everyone on campus will

true 'community,'

chapter president Oliver Larmi

quite appropriate and an encouragement

differences before they

one of us does her or

better

Ausprich said he plans to work more
closely with constituency leaders to solve

"If each

be a

will

place of greater pride to all of us," he added.

comphmented Ausprich for his remarks.
"The president
made remarks that were

I

grow."

his part in striving to achieve

his part in

are helping people

people.'

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

one of us does her or

"If each

striving to achieve true 'community,' then

Jorge Topete, an assistant professor in
the department of languages
will

speak on "Hispanics

and

in the

9:30 a.m., Tuesday, SepL 24.

cultures,

USA"

at

another,

we

to

"By learning

learn to better

understand ourselves," he says.

For more information, call the student
at 389-4199.

development office

— Kevin B. Engler

The Communique 05 SEP 91 3

Fame

Five elected to Athletic Hall of
Five former Bloomsburg athletes will be
inducted into the university's Athletic Hall

of Fame at a 6 p.m. banquet Friday, Sept.

24 West ballroom.

13, in the

This year's recipients are

Radocha, who graduated in 1977, was a
performer on the basketball team and

star

still

holds

1 1

school records including most

points (1,778) in a career.

Donna

(Santa

He

earned

many

regular season honors

Maturani of Danville; Rodney Morgans of

and helped the team earn a 22-6 mark in
1973-74 when they won the NCAA Mid-

South Williamsport; Jerry Radocha of

Atlantic Regional

Maria) Koons of Castle Rock, Colo.; John

Whitehall; and the late

Lamar

Blass, for-

merly of Aristes. Their induction brings the

membership

hall's total

title

and reached the na-

tional quarterfinals.

Radocha was an All-Pennsylvania

State

and All-Eastern College Athletic Conference selection on three
Athletic Conference

to 35.

Koons, who graduated in 1979, was one

He

won

of Bloomsburg's last three-sport female

occasions.

performers. She played on the field hockey,

outstanding underclass and senior male

basketball

and

won

several post-season

awards including all-conference and

all-

His offensive versatility was evidenced
by the school records he set, including most
field goals in a game (20), most free throws
converted in a season (132) and highest
scoring average in a season (24.9).

sectional honors.

Koons

the university's

athlete of the year awards.

softball teams.

As a field hockey star, Koons was a fouryear starter. The midfielder served as a
team captain and

also

also starred as a center fielder for

Radocha highlighted his career as a four-

two years on Bloomsburg's softball team
and was a member of the women's basketball team for four seasons.
She was an assistant coach for the 1981
field hockey team which won the school's

year starter by earning Ail-American hon-

first

national

Maturani,

title in

star linebacker

A

a

women's

who graduated in

sport.

1953, was a

on the football team.

Little All- American

on

is

one of only

four players to have his jersey retired.
Blass, who graduated in 1937, was a
member of the track and field team in the
1930s. He helped lead the team to its first

Pennsylvania State Teachers Conference
tide in 1937.

four-year starter on offense and de-

fense, he earned a berth

ors in 1977. In addition, he

Tom Harmon's

team and a tryout with

Blass was captain of the team during his
final

two seasons when he established sev-

eral school records.

He holds records in the

the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National

100- and 120-yard high hurdles, high jump,

Football League.

long jump and shot put

Maturani joined the Danville

Blass also holds the record for most points

School District where he worked as an edu-

in a career with 306. His individual total for

In 1955,

cator

and

athletic director.

who graduated

Morgans,

starting tackle

in 1950,

was a

on the football team

fi-om

also earned letters in basketball

and

Morgans returned to
his high school. South Williamsport, where
he worked as a teacher and assistant foot-

football at

ball coach.

being drafted into the armed forces in 1942

After graduation,

was named head

football

coach and spent the next 14 years leading
his

teams to a combined 92-40-2 record.

His 1961 club was undefeated (10-0) and

won

the

West Branch Conference

Morgans

retired

from coaching

title.

in 1968,

but served the high school as athletic director for several

years before being

principal. Last fall,

named its

he was honored for

Bloomsburg.

Blass taught and coached in the Catawissa

and

New

Holland school

districts

before

Jerry Radocha

where he served with the 68th Armored
Field Artillery Battalion.
action

May

He was

killed in

29, 1944.

Tickets for the banquet are $17. Checks
are payable to

"BU

Athletic Hall of

Fame

Banquet" and can be purchased by contacting Jim Hollister, Sports Information Director, at

The

389-4413.

five inductees will

be recognized

at

game

nearly 40 years of service by the South Wil-

halftime of the opening day football

when they renamed the West Central Avenue football
field Rodney K. Morgans Stadium.

versus Shippensburg University at 2 p.m.,

liamsport School District

Rodney Morgans

one meet was 30 points, recorded at a 1937
dual event versus Susquehanna University
where he registered six first-place finishes.

He

1947 to '50.

In 1955, he

John Maturani

Saturday, Sept. 14, in

Redman

Stadium.

— Jim

Hollister

Lamar Blass

05 SEP 91

4 The Communique

Campus Notes

Calendar

News Briefs

Friday, Sept. 6

"Thelma & Louise," Mitrani Hall,
Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 7

Gilda M. Oran, assistant professor of
curriculum and foundations, was invited to



Tine



tests administered,

McCormick

present "101 Tips to
lobby,

2 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 8
• Faculty recital, Kenneth Gross Auditorium,
10 a.m.

to

Carver Hall, 2:30 p.m.

"Thelma & Louise," Mitrani
Haas Center, 1 p.m.



Monday,
Tine



tests read,

McCormick

"Don't Be a Victim of Opportunity," with
Lt.

Deborah Barnes, University

Luzeme Residence

Police,

Simon

Hall,

1

artist in

residence,

fall

Redman Stadium,

1

p.m.

rock climbing,

Mocanaqua, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 15
• Field hockey vs. lUP, upper campus,

QUEST,

1

p.m.

kayaking. Fishing Creek,

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.


Latino Heritage

of Penn-

Month book

issueof West Branch, the literary maga-

His poems are

hockey vs. Slippery Rock,
upper campus, 1 p.m.



at Indiana University

zine of Bucknell University.

Field

QUEST,

the

three poems accepted for publication in the

Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 14
• Football vs. Shippensburg,



The course was in collaboration with

Bira Angst, an English instructor, had

"Silence of the Lambs," Mitrani Hall,



McCormick Forum.

studied niu-sing trends and

sylvania.

Friday, Sept. 13


three

gram based

p.m.

display,

titled

"Fishing the Alle-

gheny Mountains," "Sounding the Drawn
Dirt Circle," and "Backwater, March."
Angst has written articles on herpetologist Carl Kauffeld and the Colorado River
toad that will be published this year in
Reptile and Amphibian.
The July issue of True Confession also
features one of her stories.
Angst has received a creative writing
fellowship from the National Endowment
for the Arts and a residency at Yaddo.

Andruss Library display cases,
through Oct. 15

Monday,


Sept. 16

"Children of the Virgin," art and religion

Mexico, speaker Thomsis Aleto,
McCormick Forum, 7:30 p.m.
in

Tuesday, Sept. 17


Women's

tennis vs. Millersville,

lower campus tennis courts, 3 p.m.


Joel

Le Bow, gallery talk and open
Haas Gallery, 3 p.m.



"Don't Become a Victim of Opportunity,"
with Lt. Deborah Barnes, University Pohce,

Northumberland Residence Hall, 8 p.m.;
Columbia Residence Hall, 9 p.m.

His talk will deal with the relationship
between religion and Mexican folk art.

The

presentation

is

part of Latino Heri-

tage Month, celebrated on
Sept. 15 through Oct. 15.

campus from

Using the Virgin of Quadalupe, Aleto
will consider the role that religion plays in

Mexican culture and how religious devotion and fervor are expressed in art.
He will show an array of slides including
church decorations, religious statuary,
Nacimientos (Nativity scenes), popular
photography and performance ritual to discuss the fundamentally religious nature of
Mexican folk art and how it reveals key
elements of Mexican culture.

The Communique
A

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

faculty and staff.

The Communique publishes

news of activities, events and developments at

BU bi-weekly throughout the academic year.
Please submit story ideas,

news

briefs

and

calendar information at least two weeks in

advance to The Communique, University Relations and Communication Office,

Sheila Dove Jones, assistant professor
of communication disorders and special
education, presented "Educational and Related Services for Obtaining Appropriate

Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

Educational and Related Services for Children with Epidermolysis Bullosa"at the

persons without regard to race, color, religion,

199 1 Epidermolysis Bullosa Conference in
July.

The conference was sponsored by

17815.

BU is committed to providing equal educational

and employment opportunities for

all

sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or

union

mem-

bership.

the

reception,

Wednesday, Sept. 18
• Roy Smith, discussion on Mexico,
proposed trip to the Andes and Equador,
McCormick Forum, 7 p.m.

Latino Heritage Month
Thomas Aleto, assistant professor of an-

issues at

who

International University Partnerships Pro-

Hall, 8 p.m.;

Lycoming Residence HaU, 9 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 12
Shiho Kanzaki,

attend.

thropology, will speak on "Children of the
Virgin: Art and Religion in Mexico" at
7:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 16, in the

students

United States with nursing in Great Britain.

Hall, 9 a.m.

upper campus, 4 p.m.



sor of nursing, supervised 12 senior nursing

Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

residence,

and 1 p.m.
Women's soccer vs. Kutztown,



Bernadine T. Markey, assistant profes-

"Silence of the Lambs," Mitrani Hall,

artist in

,

Aleto to give speech for

operative learning strategies.

Oxford University in England for
weeks this summer.
The group visited Sl Thomas Hospital in
London and the Florence Nightengale
Museum. They also visited various hospitals in Oxford to compare nursing in the

Simon



in July.

to

Shiho Kanzaki,



Office from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 11, in Room 38 A of Waller
Administration Building.
Keller has worked at the university for
30 years and will retire Friday, Sept. 20.
All faculty and staff are welcome to

Language Classroom" at
the Pennsylvania Department of
Education's annual conference at
for the Foreign

effective teaching techniques through co-

Wednesday, Sept. 11


Circus: Cooperative Learning Strategies

lobby,

2 p.m.
• Second City Touring Company,
Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 10
• Field hockey vs. Lebanon Valley, 4 p.m.
10 a.m.

Dane

Keller, storeroom cleric in the Piu^chasing

Her presentation provided teachers of
French, Spanish, German and Russian with

Sept. 9

held for

the Three-Ring

Shippensburg
Hall,

Run

Dane Keller to retire
An open house will be

The

university is additionally committed

Department of Dermatology of Stanford
University's School of Medicine.
She also conducted a roundtable discussion on early childhood development and

to affirmative action

epidermolysis bullosa.

Editorial Assistant: Christina

and will take positive

steps to provide such educational and

em-

ployment opportunities.
Editor: Kevin B. Engler

Photograplier: Joan K. Heifer

J.

Gaudreau

Trustees inspect

campus

facilities,

Ausprich
appointed to

approve 1992-93 budget requests
After conducting an annual inspection of

During the meeting, chairperson LaRoy

members of Blooms-

Davis expressed the council's approval of

burg's council of trustees approved admin-

the "general condition and care" of the

recommendations regarding the
university's 1992-93 general fund and capi-

university's physical plant, but noted their

campus

facilities,

istrative

tal

budget requests

quarterly meeting in

at last

Wednesday's

exist in

Magee

Center.

dence

Robert Parrish, vice president for administration, reported

ceive

its

concerns about the crowded conditions that

Bloomsburg will re-

share of the State System's 1992-

Andruss Library and campus

resi-

all

14

support construction of additional residence

on our campus."

reported increases in student enrollment
this fall.

"The growth

in

enrollment

tributed to increased retention," he said.

calculated from fifth-day enrollment fig-

were previously submitted

to

1994.

lated to

issues re-

academic programs and per-

AASCU 's Aca-

demic Affairs Resource Center and

makes recommendations on

issues re-

and

legal as-

lated to administrative

pects of personnel policy.
In addition, the

committee provides

ures and won't be official until after the

information and policy recommenda-

14th day of classes. "I think these increases

tions to help institutions address ques-

are a healthy sign for the university."

He

Pennsylvania's General Assembly.

November

The committee considers

is at-

Parrish said Bloomsburg's capital bud-

projects that

Affairs through

sonnel, sets policy for

BemieVinovrski, director of admissions,

Vinovrski noted that percentages were

tion of physical plant facilities will include

on the American Association

(AASCU) Committee on Academic

meet the needs of the university," said

general fund budget request," said Parrish.

get requests for renovation and construc-

Harry

new library facil-

ity to

halls

System universities as a basis upon
which to build an inflationary system-wide

President

"We are urging the board of governors to
support construction of a

rollment driven.

State

Bloomsburg

Ausprich has accepted an appointment

of State Colleges and Universities'

Davis, adding, "we're also urging Uiem to

and present spending patterns of

committee
to serve

halls.

93 overall appropriation on the basis of an
allocation formula, which is basically en-

"The chancellor's office will look at past

AASCU

said full-time undergraduates cur-

These priorities include: Centennial Gym-

tions of educational quality

and

re-

form.

Continued on page 3

nasium, estimated to cost $10.1 million;

Ben Franklin Hall, $4.2 million; Navy Hall,
$5.2 million; and Bakeless Center for the

Humanities, $4.7 million.
"Centennial Gymnasium has been on our
request

list

for 19 years," Parrish noted.

The list also includes a $7.4 million addition to Hartiine Science Center

and $1.3

million for the construction of new parking
I*

facilities.

iriiniBlL

WK^fll^

^y^0m

Parrish revealed a "four-year forecast" of
capital

budget needs that include renova-

tions to six other facilities

— Carver

Hall,

Simon Hall, the heating plant, the carpenter
shop, the old college

and Redman Stadium

Commons

— plus

building

additions to

SuUiff Hall and the maintenance center.

These needs

will

university's priority
years.

be itemized on the
list over the next four

ADDRESSING THE TRUSTEES — Robert Parrish.

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFEJt
vice president for administration,

discusses budgetary issues with university trustees at the

Magee Center

last

week.

2 The

Communique 19 SEP 91

News Briefs
Aleto to discuss Mexican art, religion

Month

at Latino Heritage

Tom Aleto,

Bloomsburg's residence

event

life office

assistant professor of anthropol-

ogy, will discuss "Children of the Virgin: Art

and ReUgion

Mexico"

in

at

7:30 pjn., Monday,

McCormick Forum.

Sept. 16, in the

The lecture is part of Latino Heritage Month,
which will be held from Sept. 1 5 through Oct.
at the university. Admission is free.
For more information,

Andruss Library

call

1

books

Month

Andruss Library will celebrate Latino Heriwith a book display.

The books, which include such titles

— 1536

Officer, "Hispanic

ing Pot"

to

as "His-

1856" by James E.

USA — Breaking

the Melt-

by Thomas Weyr and "City Bound



Urban Life and Political Attitudes Among Chicano Youth" by Martin Sanchez Jankowski, can
be viewed in the display cases on the main floor
of the library near the Circulation Desk.

For more information,

call

QUEST to sponsor trip

389-4126.

to

Ecuador,

Amazonian Rain Forest
QUEST, the university's outdoor
tial

experien-

learning program, will sponsor a trip to the

Andes

in

Ecuador and the Amazonian Rain

Forest from Dec. 16 to Jan. 12.

The

first pre-trip

ticipants will

at

7 p.m., Wednesday,

McCormick Forum.
Roy Smith, QUEST director, wiU show slides
from quest's trip to Mexico last winter.
Sept. 18, in the

For more information,

Graduate students

call

grams on alcohol abuse, AIDS, automobile

month of September as part of Safety Awareness Month
and in October.
safety and rape during the

Oct

13, in Miu-ani

HaU.
Kilboume, an internationally recognized
authority

on the media, addictions and sex

roles, has lectured

throughout the world.

on the successful
both men and

She has been a frequent guest on national
TV programs including "The Today Show"
and 'The Oprah Winfrey Show."
She has also been consulted by ABC
News, CBS News, "20-20" and "Nightline" and has been interviewed by Time,
Business Week and The New York Times.
Other programs planned during the observance include: "Don't Become a Victim
of Opportunity" with Lt. Deborah Barnes,

about date and acquaintance rape,

acting chief of university police, and other

Joseph Weinberg,

who operates an

edu-

the Arts.

Weinberg

will focus

methods used

women

held at 8 p.m., Sunday,

BU

at

to educate

facts

campus police officers; "AIDS Education"
with Debbie Bentz, director of Lycoming

Topics include: "Media Images of

Residence Hall; and "Drinking, Driving

campus gang rape and myths and
regarding rape and racism.

Women and Men;" "The Language of Rape:

and the Law" with campus police

officers.

Language;" "What

In addition, campus resident advisers will

One Man Can Do to Help Stop Rape;"
"Men Taking Responsibility: Condoms,

conduct various safety awareness programs,

Communication and Consent;" and especially for women, "What's Inside the Mind

for students living in their residence halls.

of a Man?"

wash

Weinberg will also address the President's
Extended Cabinet at its meeting Tuesday,

389-^298.

Violence and Sexism

in

social activities

and "ice breaker" sessions

For more information,
at

call

Linda So-

389-4089 or Lynda Michaels

— Kevin

at

B. Engler

Sept. 24.

meeting for interested par-

be held

and student

and has given more than 500 rape prevention workshops nationwide, will discuss
"Men Stopping Rape" at 9 p.m., Monday,
Sept. 23, in Mitrani Hall of Haas Center for

tage Month, observed nationally from Sept. 15

panic Arizona

life

has scheduled an array of pro-

cational consultant firm in Madison, Wis.,

389-4199.

to display

during Latino Heritage

to Oct. 15,

Month observed

Safety Awareness

Toney Lineberry, a professional consultwho has dedicated his life to highway

ant

safety, will discuss

automobile safety dur-

ing a personal discussion of his

Haas

Gallery of Art:

life titled

"The Toney Lineberry Story" at 7 p.m.,
Thursday, SepL 26, in Mitrani Hall.
Lineberry, who was paralyzed from the

389-4466.

offer services

neck down following an automobile acci-

for hearing impaired this fall
Services for individuals with hearing impair-

dent in Richmond, Va., at age 18, travels

ments will be provided by graduate students

across North America speaking to busi-

from Bloomsburg's communication disorders

ness, student, civic

and special education department

On Exhibit at

this fall.

and miUtary organiza-

tions.

Services include: audiologic evaluation (hear-

He

has received numerous honors in-

ing testing), sign language instruction, speech

reading (lip reading) instruction, telephone training,

speech maintenance and development, writ-

cluding the 1982 Virginia Rehabilitant of
the

Year award, a 1984 award

for public

hearing aid fitting and auditory skills for hearing

Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, a 1986 Commis-

aid users.

sioners

ten and oral English for the hearing impaired,

Students will administer services under the
close supervision of a Ucensed and certified

hearing impaired faculty

member

university's Speech, Hearing

Clinic from

Monday,

in the

and Language

Sept. 9, to Friday, Dec. 6.

All services are free, except for the hearing
test

and hearing aid

To register
Kathy Miller

for
at

389-4436.

call

Cup award for public

service and a

1988 Outstanding Young Virginian award

from the Virginia Jaycees.
Jean Kilboume,

who

writes and lectures

on alcohol and cigarette advertising,

will

present "Under the Influence," a discussion

and

fitting.

any of the above services,

service from the National

slide presentation

on advertising that

promotes alcohol consumption. Her presentation, part of National Collegiate Alco-

hol Awareness

Week (OcL

13-19), will be

'PARALLEL WORLDS' —Recent paintLe Bow, who resides in
Jim Thorpe, are being exhibited through
ings by artist Joel

Thursday. Oct. 3, in the Haas Gallery of

The paintings are from his series titled
"Parallel Worlds." Gallery hours are 8

Art.

a.m. to

5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

The Communique

Hutchinson named
'Coach of the Year'
Bloomsburg women's softball coach Jan
Hutchinson has been selected NCAA Division II "Coach of the Year" by the National
Softball Coaches Association.
Hutchinson,

who

has

won

several re-

gional "Coach of the Year" honors in her 14

ningest coach with

game

title

for the third con-

winning percent-

Industrial safety, health seminars

age.

presented by Extended Programs

She also serves
the university's

seminars sponsored by the School of Extended

field

hockey pro-

year.

Four of the Huskies' losses

son, including the national

title

last sea-

game, were

Augustana College of Sioux Falls, S.D.
Her teams have enjoyed several outstanding seasons, winning 20 or more games in
to

1 1

campaigns. Nine seasons produced 30 or

more wins, and her 1982 team won

the

Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for

In

have won

26 Ail-American awards during her reign

Many others have earned all-

methods

Jan Hutchinson

Hutchinson's overall won-loss record

is

titles,

four national championships and fin-

number two

in the national rankings

In

1981-82, Hutchinson coached two

national championship teams in the

same

year. Her field hockey squad won the AI
III

crown

in the fall

and the

softball

AW

duplicated the feat in the spring.

,

^^^^^ piles both gradu-

^I^K<^^^^^^H

yS^^
1^

n

»

ate

graduate credit

is

She lives in Allentown with her husband,
is

Bernie Vinovrski

added.

Vinovrski

Lehigh University

in

Bethlehem.

— Jim

Hollister

minimum freshmen

enrollment of 4.3 percent black and 0.9
percent Hispanic students, he noted.

"The

fifth-day report should be within

one-half of one percent accurate of the 14th

day report," he

said.

389-4308.

announced

training sessions

for faculty

Faculty training sessions for the Faculty In-

Advisement and Progress System (CAPS) will
at 2 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 24, and at 1
p.m., Friday, Sept. 27, in room 307 of Bakeless
be held

will last about

an

feature hands-on training. Enrollment
to

In addition. School of

Extended Pro-

and Universities (AASCU).
"Bloomsburg will not receive money directly from AASCU, but we'll receive con-

and

hoiu'
is

limited

20 persons.

To register or receive additional information,
call

Sandy Taylor in the registrar's office at 389-

4263.

James Buswell

to present

Provost's Lecture Nov. 18
James Buswell, who will speak atBloomsburg

was inadvertendy

listed to lecture

on

fall,

Friday,

Oct. 18, in the university's 1991-92 academic

year

fall

semester calendar, distributed by the

University Relations office.

The correct date for Buswell's presentation is
Monday, Nov. 18. Please make this correction
on your calendars.

State Colleges

sulting services

.

.

.

that will help us estab-

gional development," he said.

of 3.27 percent or 223 students and gradu-

Copies of grievance forms and procedures

as part of the Provost's Lecture Series this

7,649, an increase of 199 students.

7,025, an increase

academic year.

Each session

lish the university as a focal point for re-

total



Bloomsburg's
Academic Grievance Board for the 1991-92

Center for the Humanities.

said total headcount presently stands at

Undergraduates

social welfare

will serve as co-coordinators for

formation System (FCINF) and Curriculum

on a technical assistance grant Bloomsburg
received from the American Association of

credits above last

selects

— Doima Cochrane

Sue Jackson of sociology and

the head wrestling coach at

grams' dean G. Michael Vavrek reported

I^^^Bk year's figure, he

Three faculty members

FCINF, CAPS

University of Pennsylvania.

hours, has inor 158.79

the School of

a 1971 graduate of East Stroudsburg

creased 2.43 per-

X^ cent

O ^^HBI

and under-

call

389^20.

can be obtained by calling the Provost' s office at

tion plan calls for a

data, which com-

at

Academic Grievance Board

team

Vinovrski. The university's affirmative ac-

Full-time
equivalency

implementing safety measures and

John Hranitz of curriculum and foundations and

time undergraduates increased by under

new

for

training plant personnel.

All- American honors.

one percent or 13 students.

undergraduates showed an increase of 3.02
percent or 134 students, while

Center.

present practical

percentage) and 14 players have earned 23

full-

an increase of 2.42 per-

to

of business education and office administration,

Bloomsburg surpassed goals for recruiting black and Hispanic students this fall.
"We enrolled 44 black students (4.78
percent) and 11 Hispanic students (1.23
percent) in the freshman class," said

cent or 142 students. Returning full-time

Magee

designed

1991-92 coordinators

24 students.
rently total 6,007,

begin Monday, Sept.

on four separate occasions. They have compiled a 217-35-16 record (.809 winning

ates total 624, a decrease of 3.70 percent or

Continued from page 1

is

to

at the

For more information,

421-98. She is Bloomsburg's all-time win-

Trustees

9 p.m.,

to

Extended Programs

ished

Tom, who

region and all-conference honors.

scheduled

is

information on governmental safety standards,

13 seasons,

A native of Blairstown, N.J., Hutchinson

In addition, 15 softball players

from 6

The seminar

her teams have

Women national crown.

as head coach.

30,

gram.

have quaUfied for the na-

record and a national runnerup showing last

Programs,

highly successful

vania conference

Hutchinson guided her squad to a 43-7

"Principles of Industrial Safety and Health,"
the first in a series of industrial safety and health

won five Pennsyl-

tional tournament.

91 3

as head coach of

secutive season. In each of the past 11
years, her teams

SEP

News Briefs

an impressive .8 11

seasons at Bloomsburg, led the Huskies to
the national

19

— Kevin B. Engler

Barnes appointed acting police chief
Lt.

Deborah Barnes of university police has

been named acting chief of the department. Her
appointment became effective Friday, Sept.

6.

Bamesreplaces formerchiefKermeth Weaver

who

recently retired after completing 20 years

of service at the university.

4 The Communique

19

SEP 91
Wednesday, Oct 2

Calendar
Sept.

19



to Oct.

3


Through Thursday, Oct 3


Art Exhibit



Commons, 4:30

Joel

Le Bow,

midnight

Friday, Sept. 20


Women's tennis vs. East Stroudsburg,
lower campus tennis courts, 3 p.m.



Film

— "Soapdish," Mitrani

Hall,

Women's

Men's soccer

vs.

upper campus,


1

vs.

John Olivo,

pjn.

to

— "Hispanics

Nancy

committee on
in Business

Head, S.C.,

in the

USA"

McCormick Forum,

in

November.

Twelve individuals representing business,
industry and post-secondary schools from
across the nation serve on the committee.

Woo Bong Lee, professor of economics,
had a piece

upper campus, 4 p.m.



Women's

tennis vs. Bucknell,

lower campus tennis courts, 3:30 p.m.
Film
"West Side Story," Mitrani Hall,



Discussion

— "Don't Become

Opportunity" with

Lt.

"Computer Applications
Workbook to Accompany McConnell/Brue
Economics" recently published by
McGraw-Hill, Inc.
tilled

a Victim of

Debbie Barnes,

Thursday, Sept. 26

Lecture
'The Toney Lineberry Story"



(automobile safety) with Toney Lineberry,
Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 7 p.m

— "West Side Story," Mitrani

Corporate

director of

Institute,

and Monarchs"

seum of Natural

QUEST and

hockey vs. Shippensburg,
upper campus, 1 p.m.
Men's and Women's cross country,

QUEST

Stroudsburg, Lock

Haven and

1 1

— Rock Climbing



Taylor

at the

University Store lobby begiiming

at

Individual cardholders are eligible for one
free ticket.

one

Family plan cardholders can receive

free ticket per family

Umited and

will

member. Tickets

first-served basis.

and

newsleuer for Bloomsburg University

faculty and staff, The

Please submit story ideas,

"Chromosome

normalities in Children with

briefs

and

to

lations

allied health sciences, co-authored a

research article titled

news

The Communique, University Reand Communication Office,
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg. PA

advance

7

Ab-

Downs Syn-

17815.

BU is committed to providing equal educational

and employment oppwrtunities for

all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

Mocanaque,

netics.

bership.

Vietnam era

The

upper campus, 2 p.m.
Film
"West Side Story," Mitrani Hall



Skills,

Communit^uf publishes

calendar information at least two weeks in

last winter.

Carol Venuto, developmental writing
Year off

instructor, discussed "Starting the

with a

BANG

!

6 to 10 pjn.

status veterans, or

union

university is additionally

to affirmative action

mem-

ccmmiued

and will take positive

steps to provide such educatianal and

em-

ployment opportunities.

" during a roundtable session

on teaching techniques at the Pennsylvania
Association of Developmental Educators
annual convention in Harrisburg.

Exlitor:

are

be distributed on a first-come,

a.m.

soccer vs. Southampton,

QUEST — Cave

noon,

at

Sept. 25.

affecuonal or sexual preference, handicap,

Haas Center, 1 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 1


Celebrity Artist

QUEST'S

8 ajn. to 5 p.m.

Women's

first

Ramsey Lewis and Billy
Information Desk located in the

drome and Preleukemia," which recently
appeared in Cancer Genetics and Cytoge-

Sunday, Sept 29


Bloomsburg's

Series event featuring

BU bi-weekly throughout the academic year.

Phillip Farber, professor of biological

Mansfield, upper campus,


Community Activity cardholders can pick up
tickets for

Denver Mu-

History.

Mexico

expedition to

Field

vs. East

Lewis, Taylor tickets available in
University Store lobby, Sept. 25

news of activities, events and developments at

Haas Center, 7 p.m.



and allied health sciences, and Mariana

discussed "Mountains

in July at the

are

professor of biological

Blackburn, assistant professor of chemistry.

A
the

Hall,

Saturday, Sept. 28


Till, assistant

The Communique

His presentation focused on

Friday, Sept, 27

Film

of English,

Second year members

Integrated Statistics Software Package for

Roy Smith,

Elwell Residence Hall, 8 and 9 p.m.



Margaret

publication.

Acting Chief of University PoUce,

that

and the University Fonun.

He also completed a finalized version of

Haas Center, 7 p.m.


BUCC

Gill, associate professor

Wednesday,

Wednesday, Sept 25

Men's soccer vs. Scranton,

problems

from the poUcies and reporting findings

regularly to

9:30 a.m.



with the imiversity's admission and retention
policies, identifying curricular

Teacher Education" at this year's National
Conference on Business Teacher Education in Hilton

M ichael B lue,

Responsibihties include becoming familiar

"The Role of Technology

— "Men Stopping Rape"

and

associate professor of accounting.

professor of business edu-

tion Association to chair a

associate profes-

social welfare; Dennis

tion and off^ce administration;

appointed by the National Business Educa-

Haas Center, 9 pjn.
Tuesday, Sept 24
Lecture

and

Gehris, assistant professor of business educa-

cation and office administration, has been

7 p.m.

Wilkes,

with Jorge Topete,

David Greenwald,

are

sor of sociology

chairs the committee.

with Joseph Weinberg, Mitrani Hall,



They

& Marshall,

tennis vs. Franklin

week.

tee last

Campus Notes

p.m.

1

Sept. 23

Men's soccer
Lecture

Women" with Nitza L



Women's

to

Bloomsburg's admission and retention commit-

Status of

result

upper campus, 4 p.m.


8 ajn. to 7 p.m.

— "Development and

lUP,

Lehigh River, 8 a.m.


Lecture

new members

Three new members were elected

lower campus tennis courts, 3:30 p.m.

QUEST — Whitewater Rafting,

Monday,

QUEST — Cave Skills,

tennis vs. California,

lower campus tennis courts,


elects

Quinones Alejandro, limcheon at
McCormick Forum, 2 p.m.
• Film
"City Shckers," Mitrani Hall,
Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Mexican Dance DemonstrationA^ssons,
Centennial Dance Gymnasium, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Oct 3


Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 21


Admission, retention committee

tennis vs. Shipjjensburg,

Hispanic Latina

"Latin Baile (Dance) Night," Near Cheers,
to




p.m.

to 7

Kehr Union Annex, 9 p jn.

Women's

lower campus tennis courts, 3 p.m.

— Paintings of

Haas Gallery of Art
Thursday, Sept. 19

Latino-American Festival Dinner,
Scranton

News Briefs

Field hockey vs. Millersville,
upper campus, 3 p.m.

Kevin B. Engler

Ekiitorial Assistant: Christina

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

J.

Gaudreau

Food

service implements upgrades in quality

Since arriving at Bloomsburg last May,

ARA,

Inc.

many

of

its

service

goods are the specialty items along with hot
dogs, cookies, soft drinks, and other snack

of Philadelphia has been busy

implementing

and

trademark pro-

foods."

The Husky

grams including Itza Pizza, Gretel's bakery

Trail

is

open from 7:30 a.m.

Monday through Friday.

products and the Classic Fare catering ser-

to 8 p.m.,

vice in an effort to enhance the imiversity 's

Due to the renovation and subsequent
shutdown of the Kehr Union, a snack bar
has been opened in the University Store
Annex. "This is a temporary replacement
location while construction is going on in

food service operation.

"A lot of faculty and staff members may
not be aware of the upgrades we've made in
the quaUty of food that is being served,"

says

ARA's

Bridgett Stapleton, "not to

the union," notes Stapleton.

mention all the new places that have opened

on campus where they can go

to get

Snackbar hours are from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.,

Monday through

some-

ARA

thing to eat."

But Stapleton beheves ARA's

Friday.

operates Monty's delicatessan on

sored the President's Luncheon for faculty

campus next to Nelson Field
House and the Montgomery Apartments.
Kathy Pavloski manages Monty's which
specializes in fresh deh items, gourmet

and staff on the lawn at Buckalew Place last

salads and Gretel's bakery items.

the upper

identity

problem on campus will soon change, especially after the

food service company spon-

"Our bread
and muffins are always baked fresh each

month.

The

President's Limcheon, paid for

by

day," she notes.

ARA, "was a wonderful opportunity for us
to show the campus what we can provide,"

the front of Monty's that will seat approxi-

she says.

mately 50 to 75 people. "We're also plan-

Future plans call for adding a solarium to

Dming Room C
lobby of Scran ton Commons, specializes in

ning to add baby back ribs and chicken to

Itza Pizza, located in the

all varieties

"We

ICE SCULPTURE

of pizza.

even have a solo pizza similar to

Pizza Hut's personal pan," notes Stapleton,
director of campus food service operations

under senior manager George Zeini. "Itza
also features stromboli

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

and calzone."

Stapleton says Itza Pizza

makes

deliver-

anywhere on campus from 5 to 10:30
p.m. daily by calUng 389-2600.
Managed by Mike Gaynord, Itza Pizza is
open from 1 1 a.m. to 1 1 p.m. each day.
According to Stapleton, ARA has transformed Dining Room D into an "upgraded"

— Bloomsburg em-

ployees praised this work of art in addition

food at the President's Luncheon.
"The luncheon was a wonderful opportunity for us to show the campus what we can
to the

provide,

"

said Bridgett Stapleton,

director of

campus food

ARA 's

service opera-

tions.

call the Hard Hat Cafe.
"The Hard Hat Cafe features gourmet
salads plus a grill line and deh hne," she
says. "Customers can order hamburgers,
marinated chicken breast sandwiches, and
fish sandwiches. They can also purchase

our intention was to focus on getting faculty

and

for time.

up here

for limch.

We

So once we get our menus printed,

we'll start operating a lunch-time delivery

The
our Gretel's fresh bakery items."

The cafe

staff

reahzethat the faculty and staff are pressed

service to the entire campus."

ies to

snack bar they

menu soon," she notes.
Campus lunch deliveries are also planned,
Pavloski says. "When we originally opened,
the

open from 7 a.m.

restaurant,

which features a

variety

of grocery items, runs a delivery service

to 8 p.m.,

between the hours of 5 and 9 p.m. Food can

Monday through Friday, and from 8 a.m. to

be ordered for campus deUvery by calling
389-2525.

is

3 p.m., Saturday and Sunday.

The Husky

newly constructed

The restaurant offers a spectacular scenic

convenience store located in the Dining

view of the Susquehanna Valley. "Monty's
is a charming place, and the scenery here on

Trail, a

Room D lobby, is also operated by the food
company.
"The C-store features 'quick mart' types

the upper campus is breathtaking, especially

of foods," says Stapleton. "Gretel's bakery

Continued on page 3

service

during the early morning hours." Monty's

2 The Communique 03

OCT 91

Twelve new faculty appointments announced
at September quarterly trustees meeting

Stuart Schrader, assistant professor

of communication studies, worked die
past year as an instructor at Ithaca College
in

The tenure track appointments of 1 2 new
faculty members were annoimced at the
September quarterly meeting of Blooms-

tions Program, Inc. , in The Plains, Ohio, for

burg's coimcil of trustees.

State University in

Julia Bucher, assistant professor of

the past seven years.

New York.
Schrader served as a graduate assistant at

the State University of

Larson was an assistant professor at Ohio

Columbus from 1984-

and assistant profesTech University in Lubbuck

New York

He

89; research associate

88.

nursing, previously worked as a teaching

sor at Texas

and research assistant at Penn State University in State College from 1986-88.

from 1982-85; and teaching assistant/research associate at Ohio State University

Humboldt State University
lif., from 1984-86.

Bucher served as

home

assistant director of

health services at

Whidbey General

Hospital in Coupeville, Wash., from 198486; coordinator of education

assurance at

and quality

Whidbey from 1981-83;

oncology clinical nurse specialist for Home
Health Services of Puget Sound in Coupeville,

Wash., from 1980-81; and assistant

head nurse
attle,

at University Hospital in Se-

Wash., from 1976-79.

She received a bachelor of science in
nursing degree from the University of Delaware in Newark, a master's degree in nursing from the University of Washington in
Seattle and a MPM in counseling from
Seatde University.

Ann Marie Cook,

assistant professor

of communication disorders

education, worked the

last

and

special

two years as a

research associate and project director at
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Falls Church, Va.

Cook served

as research assistant

and

George Washington
University in Washington, D.C., from 198588; special education teacher for the Louden
County Public School System in Leesburg,
Va., from 1980-85; and special education

project coordinator at

teacher for the Northern

Neck Regional

from 1979-82.
professor at

ogy

in

He also served as a visiting

MARA

Institute

of Technol-

Kuala Lumper, Malaysia,

in 1986.

from the University of
Iowa in Iowa City and master's and doctoral degrees in labor and human relations
from Ohio State.

Ramonita Marcano, instructor of lan-

Buf-

He

served as a teaching assistant
in Areata,

at

Ca-

received a bachelor of arts degree in

psychology from Humboldt State and a
master's degree in commxmications from

Western Kentucky.

He received a bachelor of science degree
in general studies

in

from 1988-90 and Western Kentucky
University in Bowling Green from 1986falo

Kara

Shultz, assistant professor of

communication studies, served as a graduate fellow the last three years at the University

of Denver in Colorado and a graduate

teaching assistant from 1983-86 at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.

guages and cultures, worked the last six
years as a teaching assistant and part-time

gree in recreation and a master's degree

Spanish instructor at Rutgers University in

speech communication from the Univer-

New Brunswick, N.J.

sity

She received an associates degree in humanities from the University of Puerto Rico
in San Juan, a bachelor of arts degree in
liberal arts at Douglass College in Alabama
and a master's degree in French at Rutgers.
Egerton Osunde, assistant professor
of curriculum and foundations, served as
a graduate teaching associate at Ohio State
University during the past year and as

She received a bachelor of science de-

the University of Benin,

Benin City, Nige-

from 1976-90.

of Northern Colorado.

Leon Szmedra,

assistant professor of

health, physical education, and athletics,

was an assistant professor at Niagara County
Corrununity College in Sanborn, N.Y., for
the past eight years.

He served as a teaching

and research associate from 1988-90
Syracuse University in

at

New York and as a

research health scientist from 1982-83 at

New York
He received a bachelor of science degree

Buffalo Veterans Hospital in

assistant professor, lecturer and librarian at

ria,

in

in

economics from SUNY-Brockport, a

master's degree in physical education from

He holds a bachelor of science degree in
economics and liberal sciences at Ahmadu

the University of Northern Colorado and a

Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria; a

Syracuse University.

doctoral degree in physical education from

master's degree in education administra-

Natalie White, an assistant professor

Case Western ReCleveland, Ohio; and

of curriculum and foundations, was a

Special Education Program in Irvington,

tion

Va., from 1978-80.

serve University in

She received a bachelor of science degree in special education from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., and

master's and doctoral degrees in curricu-

master's and doctoral degrees in special

fessor of curriculum

education from George Washington.

served the

and supervision

lum and

at

instruction at

Ohio

State.

Rosemary Radzievich, assistant proand foundations,
last five

years as an elementary

lecturer for the last

two years

at California

State University in Northridge and

worked

as English department chairperson from

1982-89 at the Magnet Center for Public
Services in Dallas, Texas.

She received a bachelor of arts degree

in

Julie Kontos, assistant professor of psy-

school principal for the Upper Dauphin

education, a master's degree in secondary

chology, worked the last two years as a
graduate teaching assistant and student of-

Area School District in Lykens and worked
1 7 years as a teacher in the Pine Grove Area

multicultural teacher and childhood educa-

fice assistant at the University of Georgia in

Elementary and Middle Schools.

tion

Athens.

Albuquerque.

master's degrees in psychology from the

She holds a bachelor of science degree in
early childhood and kindergarten education at Penn State University in State Col-

University of Georgia.

lege, a master's degree in education at

She received both bachelor of

Mark

arts

and

Larson, associate professor of

marketing and management, was executive director for

Cooperative

Work

Rela-

Bloomsburg University and an administraand a doctorate in reading
from Lehigh University in Bethlehem.

tive certification

education and a doctoral degree

in

from the University of New Mexico at

Erik Winters, associate professor of
mathematics and computer science, was
a research and teaching assistant for the last
five years at Cornell University in Ithaca,

N.Y.

He worked

as an instructor at the

Continued on page 4

OCT 91

The Communique 03

University theater to perform 'Twelfth Night'
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" will be

performed by Bloomsburg University Thethe Kenneths.
ater at 8 p.m., Oct 10-19,

m

Gross Auditorium of Carver Hall.
Matinee performances have been schedtiled at

day,

2 p.m., Sunday, Oct.

Oct

13,

and Sun-

direction of Michael Collins,

assistant professor of

cast includes: Fran

communication, the

Bebenek, Jim Ceccatti,

John Cochrane, Robert

Fritz, Carrie

Grub,

service

Continued from page

open from 7 a.m.

is

1

to 9 p.m.

each day, she

notes.

ARA also operates the 50-seat Pennsyl-

Snyder.

Production staff members are Karen

vania

Room

and

offers

weekday luncheons exclusively

Ansehn, Bruce Candish, Gisele

Dan

20.

Under the

Hoppe, Todd Miller, Chris Munley,
David O'Brian, Jason Palmer, Jim Quales,
Michele Rine, Ralph Smiley, and Julie
Jeff

Food

3

Feijo,

ScheiverL

in

Commons which

Scranton

for

faculty and staff.

staff, and
Bloomsburg ID card and
valid community activities sticker.
For more information, call 389-4287.

"We

Tickets are free for faculty,

students with a

always have a

full

salad bar and

on the menu," says

three hot entrees

Stapleton. "Faculty and staff can also order
deli items

"

and desserts."

We always have a full salad

bar and three hot entrees on

and staff
order deli items and

the menu. Faculty

can also
desserts.

Bridgett Stapleton,

ARA's director of campus
food service operations
Stapleton says the Pennsylvania
will

move

Room

to a larger location inside the

Commons when construction and renovation are completed.

REHEARSING SHAKESPEARE
center,

and Robert

Fritz rehearse

runs Oct. 10-20 in the Kenneth

S.

— Theater

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

students

Todd

Miller,

left,

Jeff Hoppe,

a scene from Shakespeare 's "Twelfth Night.
Gross Auditorium of Carver Hall.

"

The play

will increase to

opens."

Susy Robison, marketing and catering
manager, says

Provost's Lecture Series:

Julianne Malveaux
to discuss 'Diversity
in the

Marketplace'

100

all

ARA's

Classic Fare will

catering needs at the imiversity.

"We'll do just about anythmg

Coalition of

.

.

.

from

dinner for one to a function for more than

Black

Women.

1,000 people."

Malveaux

ARA continues to operate conventional

holds a doc-

cafeteria -style meals daily in Dining Rooms

toral

who

writes nation-

in

ally syndicated articles for

King Features

ics

Julianne Malveaux,

handle

the National

"The seating capacity

75 when the new union

A, B, and

degree

C

of Scranton

Commons,

but

economfrom the

upgrades in quality and service have been

Syndicate, will discuss "Diversity in the

Massachu-

Marketplace: The Realities" at 8 p.m.,

setts Institute

and have added a wok bar in hopes of
rejuvenating student interest," says

Wednesday, Oct 16, in Mitrani Hall of
Haas Center for the Arts.
Malveaux, who writes sociopohtical commentary in her syndicated articles and a
weekly colirnm for the Sun Reporter news-

of Technol-

Stapleton.

paper in San Francisco,

Calif., is the first of

ogy in Cambridge and

implemented.
.

"We feature Belgian waffles

.

Julianne Malveaux

The wok bar permits customers to select
raw vegetables, spices and rice, then cook
and the
the meal themselves. "It's fun

member

students love it" she adds.

serves as a
visiting faculty

.

.

in the African

American Studies department

at the Uni-

Weekday hours

.

.

for conventional meals

three lecturers scheduled this fall as part of

versity of California at Berkeley.

include breakfast from7 to9:30 a.m., lunch

the imiversity's Provost's Lecture Series.

In addition to her evening lecture,
Malveaux will conduct an afternoon workshop titled "Political Correctness on Our
Campuses: Overdue or Overdone?" start-

from 10:30 a.m.

Malveaux, who conducts research on the

pubUc pohcy including
on women and minorities, was
president of San Francisco's Black Leadership Forum and served as a consultant for
labor market and
the impact

the National Organization for

Women's

Legal Defense and Educational Fund and

ing at 4 p.m. in Mitrani Hall.

For more information,
office at 389-4308.

call the provost's

to

2 p.m., and dinner from

4:30 to 7 p.m. Brunch is served on Saturday

and Sunday from

1 1

a.m. to 2 p.m., and

dinner from 4 to 6 p.m.

— Kevin B. Engler

4 The Communique 03

OCT 91
Five non-instructional personnel retire

Trustees

The retirements of five non-instructional
personnel were announced at the Septem-

Continued from page 2
in

New

Hampshire at Duriiam
1986 and served from 1976-82 as a radar

University of

technician in the U.S.

Olongdo

Navy

at its

base in

City, Philippines.

ber quarterly meeting of Bloomsburg's
council of trustees.

Walter Beck, custodial worker,
tired in July,

He received a bachelor of science degree
in mathematics from the University of

New

Hampshire and a master's degree m appUed
mathematics from Cornell.

Two administrators appointed
The appointments of two state imiversity

who re-

completed 13 years of service

retired in July after

Ken Weaver,
retired

Sept

32 years of service.

chief of university police,

6, after

20 years of service.

Promotion announced

Norman

C.

Manney was promoted

to

painter foreman in the university s physical
'

plant/painting department. His promotion

at the university.

Wayne Haney, custodial worker, retired

became

effective in June.

Non-instructional appointment

in June after seven years of service.

G. Dane Keller, stock clerk in the pur-

Kevm Murdock of Bloomsburg was hired

chasing department, retired SepL 20 after

as a utility plant operator in the university's

30 years of service.
Robert Ketchem, utility plant supervisor.

heating plant. His appointment became effective in June.

administrators were announced.

James McCormack was appointed to a
nine -month position as director of Montour

Residence Hall.

McCormack has worked at Bloomsburg
as a resident adviser, senior resident ad-

and graduate counselor since 1987.

viser

A

platoon leader for the Peimsylvania

Army

National Guard in Hazleton, he re-

ceived a bachelor of science degree in busi-

ness economics from Bloomsburg in 1990.

Jeanne Payne was selected to a nine-

month

position as coordinator of

Greek

Life and Off-campus Housing.

Payne was residence life director at Mount
Saint

Mary College

in

Newburgh, N.Y.,

in

1986-87 and served as a resident director at

Bloomsburg

in 1987-88.

She was a

sales

representative for Rank-Aimert, Inc., in

Bushkill from 1988-90 and served as interim director of Greek and off-campus Ufe
at Millersville University last year.

She received a bachelor of science degree in admmistration of justice from Penn
State University at §tate College in 1986.

Three faculty members retire
The retirements of tiiree faculty members were announced at the September quarterly

meeting of Bloomsburg's council of

trustees.

Blaise Delnis, associate professor of lan-

guages and cultures, will
ber.

He joined

and

is

retire in

the faculty in

Decem-

August 1965

completing 32 years of service in

education, including 26 at the university.

Craig Newton, professor of history, will
retire in

December. He joined the faculty

in

August 1966 and is completing 33 years in
education, including 26 at the university.

CELEBRITY ARTIST SERIES— Jazz pianists Ramsey Lewis,

Aim Marie Stokes, professor of curriculum and foimdations, retired in August. She
joined the faculty in August 1970 and has

perfiyrm in concert at 8 p.m., Saturday,

completed 34 years in education, including

sticker at the

21 at the university.

Oct

12, in Mitrani Hall.

left,

and Billy Taylor will

Free

tickets are available

and students with a Bloomsburg ID. card and valid community activities
Information Desk located in the University Store lobby.

to faculty, staff,

The Communique 03
Fall

News Briefs
who

day enrollment figures indicate

Bloomsburg's headcount this fall has risen to
7,720, an increase of 256 students over last year,

Jean Kilbourne to discuss
'Under the Influence,' Oct. 13
Jean Kilboume,

Tokyo Symphony

headcount enrollment tops 7,700

Official 14th

according to a report from the office of

writes and lectures

on

tional planning

institu-

and research.

Undergraduate headcount totals 7,042, an in-

Sunday, Oct.

crease of 234 students. Graduate headcount to-

"Under the Influence"
13, in Mitrani Hall of

at 8 p.m.,

Haas Center

for the Arts.

tals

and the public

Visiting professor to lecture at faculty

For more information, call Linda Sowash
389-4089 or Lynda Michaels at 389-4298.

at

professional development luncheon

coming Math Anxiety" and "They're Not Dumb,
a luncheon frcan 11:30 a.m. to

day, Oct. 3, in the

1

p.m.,

An informal discussion will be held after the

389-4463.

Tuberculin Tine testing
administered Oct. 7
Tuberculin Tine tests will be administered

from 10 a.m.

to

2 p.m., Monday, Oct.

7, in the

lobby of McCormick Himian Services Center.
All prospective teachers and other interested
university personnel can be tested. Cost is $2.

Test readings can be picked up during the

same hours Wednesday, Oct

The luncheon and

presentation have been

tem of Higher Education's Faculty Professional
Development Council and Bloomsburg's academic affairs office.
To make reservations or for more information, call Peter Kasvinsky at 389-4015.

Services

SECA-United Way campaign
underway at Bloomsburg
The 1991 SECA-United Way
campaign began Monday.

Hour-long seminars regarding Bloomsburg's
Relational Data Base will be con-

fund-raising

ist is

is

Robert Wislock.
features an incentive

program

designed to help increase the number of university

employees who donate through payroll de-

ductions. Details have

been distributed with

pledge cards.

The campaign concludes

Friday,

Oct

25.

ment & progress system, and fixed asset system.
This new system will be implemented on campus during the week of Oct 14.
To make reservations or for more information, call

Former student presents master's

Bloomsburg Forensics tournament
ranked 27th in nation

This publication is a record of all tournaments

Archives

held in 1990-91 and includes selected statistical
analysis, features and editorial commentary. The

graduated with a bachelor of science degree

book was edited by Seth C. Hawkins of South-

from Bloomsburg in 1 98 1 has given University

em Connecticut State University.

Army

Captain Ernest F. Jackson,

,

Archives a copy of his recent master's degree

Last year, 247 tournaments were held across

The Impact Upon Operation Desert

the nation that offered competition in individual

thesis titled

speaking events.

Haven University of Pennsylvania.

Hatter

Thirty-eight tournaments were placed in the
"large" category, including Bloomsburg's "Mad

Toumament" which ranked 27th.

(approximate)

Diwali

-

calendar










Nov. 20
Guru Manak Birthday
Hannukkah
Dec. 2
Begins at sundown Dec. 1 (holiday
does not require absence from routine
commitments)




Bodhi Day
March 4
Ash Wednesday
March 6 (approximate)
Ramadan
Exact date dependent upon lunar

Dec. 8



calendar

— Holi



March 18



April 5 (approximate)

— Idul-Rtr

Exact date dependent upon lunar
calendar

— Good Friday
— Passover



April 17



April 18-19

Begins

at

sundown

April 17 and most

observances end at sundown April 19

— Festival of Ridvan
— Holy Friday
April 24-25 — Passover



April 21



April 24



Begins at sundown April 23 and ends
sundown April 25

May



June 4



1992

at sundown June 6 and ends
sundown June 8

Begins



at

— Ascension Day
— Ascension Day
June 7-8 — Shavuot



June 12 (approximate)

at

— Idul-Adha

Exact date dependent on lunar calendar


Storm of Lessons Learned from Past Desert
Wars."
Jackson conducted post-graduate workatLock

— All Saints Day

1

Exact date dependent upon lunar

The 1991 Intercollegiate Speech Tournament
Result Book lists Bloomsburg in "The World's

who

U.S.

Nov 5

Karlene Wright at 389-4096.

Largest Tournaments" category.
thesis to University

Nov.



nance work order system, curriculum advise-

Sue Bodman. Campaign special-

The campaign

MAPPER manages

the university's mainte-

— Dusserah

calendar


10:30 a.m.

Forum.

Oct. 17 (approximate)

Exact date dependent upon lunar

and 1 :30p.m., Monday, Oct 7, in the McCormick

Bloomsburg's campaign coordinator for this
year's drive





t

approve

The list below, prepared by the affirma-

MAPPER seminars offered by

ducted by the Computer Services

the imiversity

staff are willing to

such requests.

mem-

Haven universities are also expected to attend.
The program is sponsored by the State Sys-

MAPPER

9.

Most members of
and

faculty

bers from Mansfield, East Stroudsbur, and Lock

Computer

from class attendance and other uni-

which observance may require a student to
depart from his or her normal routine during the remainder of the academic year.

arranged exclusively for faculty. Faculty

call

Holy Days recognized

Wednes-

McCormick Forum.

otherwise.

For more information,

9.

tive action office, specifies holy days for

discussion from 1-2 p.m.

community
Husky Comers.

Wednesday, Oct.

at

free for students, faculty, and staff with a
Bloomsburg identification card and valid commimity activities sticker. Cost is $1 per person

Stickers can be purchased in the

University Store lobby beginning at noon,

holiays.

Sheila Tobias, poUtical science professor at

They're Different: Stalking the Second Tier"

activities office located at

Tokyo SymDesk located in the

at the Information

versity obligations to observe religious

by Kehr Union Program Board

is

can pick

Artist Series event featuring the

tions

Film admission policy announced
The Kehr Union Program Board aimounces
admission policy to films shown on campus

activities cardholders

Bloomsburg's second Celebrity

tickets for

Occasionally, students request exemp-

the University of Arizona, will discuss "Over-

its

Community
up

In addition, undergraduate non-degree stu-

dents total 712, an increase of 68 students.

is invited.

tickets available

678, an increase of 22 students.

Her presentation is part of the National ColleAlcohol Awareness Week (Oct. 13-19)
observance at Bloomsburg. Admission is free,
giate

5

in University Store lobby Oct. 9

phony

alcohol and cigarette advertising, will discuss

OCT 91

July

2

— Ratha-yatra

Additional information regarding all holy

day observances can be obtained by calling
the affirmative action office at 389-4528.

6 The Communique 03

OCT 91

Calendar: Oct 4-17
Film

Kenneth
2 p.m.

Saturday,



Oct 5

BU Invitational,
Men's socccer



Retreat

10 ajn.

vs.

Kutztown, 2 p.m.

— "Building Better Relationships,"

Keystone Mountain Park, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

QUEST —

to

vs.

Field hockey vs.

1

Marywood,





QUEST —
8 a jn. to 5



F ilm

Rappelling at Mocanaqua,



1

p jn.



— "Terminator 2," Mitrani Hall,

Show

— Faculty Art Exhibit,

Sound Stage

Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,

Graduate students elected
on university committees

& Marshall,

QUEST —

— featuring the Santa Fe



Play

Workshop



S.



— "Terminator 2," Mitrani Hall,

Film

Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Latino

Month Event

— Latin dance

demonstration and lessons with Todd
Reichart and

Nancy Wagner, Centennial

Dance Gym, 7 pjn.

Oct 11 — Parents' Weekend
— "Twelfth Night," BU Theater,

Friday,


Play

Kenneth

S.

Gross Auditorium, Carver Hall,

8 pjn.

Oct

Saturday,




12

Football vs. Central Coimecticut,

Redman Stadium, 1:30 pjn.
Women's soccer vs. Trenton,
upper campus,



— Parents' Weekend

1

pjn.

Realities," Mitrani

Men's soccer

upper campus, 3:30 pjn.


Play

— "Twelfth Night," BU Theater,

Kenneth

S.

Gross Auditorium, Carver Hall,

8 p.m.


Celebrity Artist Series
pianists

— featuring jazz

Ramsey Lewis and

Billy Taylor,

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 p.m.

Wednesday.

Graduate Council.

Martin Dombrowski, instructional technology, will serve on the Library Council.

Hyman,

Shenandoah Backpacking,

Oct 20

MBA program, was elected to

James McLane, MBA program, will serve on
the curriculum committee.

Gross Auditorium, Carver Hall,

Marina Samouilova,
ogy,

was elected

instructional technol-

to the International

Education

Advisory Council.

8 pjn.

Delmas Woods, instructional technology, will
serve on the Academic Grievance Committee.

Campus Notes
Bruce Rockwood, professor of finance

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Damages

as a

Remedy"

at the

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BU is committed to providing equal educational and

employmoit opportunities

Roy Smith, director of QUEST and tiie
Corporate

Institute,

discussed "Team-

building: Giving People a Stake in the

Organization" at Rally's Park Place in At-

for all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

vs. St. Joseph's,

last

Karen Novak, reading, and Christopher

Jeff

upper campus, 2 pjn.


to serve

the University Forum.

business law, served as moderator for a

Field hockey vs. Johns Hopkins,

Andruss Library

to the
in

Blues Band, Kehr Union Annex, 8 p jn.

Wednesday, Oct. 9

389-

Gengler, instructional technology, were elected

— featuring

— "Twelfth Night," BU Theater,

Kenneth

Monday
call

various university conmiittees at a meeting in

Thursday, Oct 17


Faculty,

4646.

Haas Center, 8 p.m.

dirough Sunday,

opening reception, Haas Gallery, 3 p.m.

The

Haas Gallery.

invited.

through Friday. For more information,

Malveaux discussing "Diversity

Hall,

Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.



Provost's Lecture Series

the Marketplace:

and students are

Six graduate students were elected to serve on

Provost's Lecture Series

1992 spring semester

Art

p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 8, in
staff,

Field hockey vs. Franklin

Undergraduate scheduling begins for

Film

An opening reception will be held from 3 to 5

— "Backdraft," Mitrani Hall,

Julianne

Tuesday, Oct. 8


Fihn

Tom Walters, and Ken Wilson.

Ward,

— "Backdraft," Mitrani Hall,

Haas Center, 4 p.m.


Monday, Oct 7


Film

featuring Julianne Malveaux, Mitrani Hall,

— "City Slickers," Mitrani Hall,

Haas Center,

its

from Tuesday, Oct. 8,
through Simday, Oct. 27, in Haas Gallery.
Art department faculty members exhibiting
Stewart Nagel, Barbara Strohman, Vera Viditz-

upper campus, 4 pjn.

p Jn.

Bloomsburg's Art Department will hold
faculty art exhibition

works are Karl Beamer, Carol Bums, Gary Clark,

upper campus, 3 p.m.

upper campus, 2 p jn.

Faculty art show runs Oct. 8-27

3:30 and 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 16

Men's soccer vs. Lock Haven,

p Jn.

Briefs

Jean Kilboume, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Women's tennis vs. Kutztown,
lower campus tetmis courts,

course, 8 a.m. to 5 pjn.

— "Under the Influence," with

Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Gaimon,

upper campus, noon



.



Women's soccer

Lecture

Tuesday, Oct. 15

7 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 6



QUEST — Rock Climbing at Mocanaqua,

Monday, Oct 14

White Water Rafting,

Lehigh River, 8 a.m.





News

Gross Auditorium, Carver Hall,

S.

women's

Men's and women's cross coimtry,





Play

Oct 4

Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.





— "City Slickers," Mitrani Hall,

Friday,


— Parents' Weekend
— "Twelfth Night," BU Theater,

Sunday, Oct. 13

status veterans, or

union

mem-

bership.

The

university is additionally committed

to affirmative action

and will take positive

steps to provide such educational and

em-

ployment opportunities.

lantic City, N.J., in June.

Smith was addressing members of the
Foimdation for Accounting Education located in

New York City.

Editor: Kevin B. Engler
Editorial Assistant: Christina

J.

Gaudreau

Contributing Writer: Patricia Kerwin

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer



Speakers, entertainment highlight
International Month celebration

Campus

Campus lectures, food, entertainment and

9 a.m., Monday, Oct. 28, in the McCormick

other festivities will highlight Bloomsburg 's

Forum. The professors spent seven weeks
teaching at Shenyang Teachers College last
summer.

International Festival

Month

celebration

from Oct. 22 through Nov. 22.

Month offers a special opmembers of the Bloomsburg
University community to formally celebrate

Union, will lead a disctission on the "Cul-

our citizenship in the global village and to

ture

become

day, Oct. 29, in the

"International

portunity for

better acquainted with our neigh-

bors," says President Harry Ausprich.

Two
make

university faculty

members

will

presentations Tuesday, Oct. 22, to

Month offers a
special opportunityfor members
of the Bloomsburg University
community toformally celebrate
our citizenship in the global village

and

to

become

better ac-

quainted with our neighbors.

"

Assistant professor Gilda

Oran of

the

department of curriculum and foundations
will

conduct "Contemporary Folk Dances

of Israel" from

At

1 1

a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

James Tomlinson, associate
professor of communication studies, will
discuss "The Japanese Challenge to American Management." Both activities will be
held in the McCormick Fonim.
In addition, ARA, Inc. will sponsor an
"International Food Festival" from 4:30 to
7 p.m. in Scranton Commons, and the Tokyo Symphony will perform as part of the
1

and PoUtics of Russia" at 2 p.m., Tues-

McCormick Forum.
Hsien-Tung Liu, dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, will lecture on developing

"Dynamic U.S. -Asian Relations"

At 7 p.m.,

p.m.,

30,

at

1

the

in

and Sidonie

instructors Jack

Holt will demonstrate authentic Greek,
Turkish, and Hungarian dances and offer
instructional lessons during
tional

an "Interna-

Dance Night" program

tennial

in the

Cen-

Rafey Habib,

assistant professor of

on the "Culture

taining official and up-to-date criminal

Present" at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 6,
in the

From Ghandi

of university police. See story on page

McCormick Forum.

The Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble will
conduct a sUde show-discussion on

ematics and computer science professor,
will present

"BU Profs' Eyes on China" at

2.

their

recent trip to Africa at 7 p.m., Tuesday,

Nov.

12, in the

McCormick Forum.

dances and offer instructional lessons dur-

An "International Food Sampler and Get
Together," hosted by the International Relations Club, will

be held from

p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14, in

At 8 p.m.,

1 1 a.m. to 4
Haas Gallery.

the Celebrity Artist Series will

present "Stars of the Bolshoi" in Mitrani

HaU.
Claude Beauclair and the French Theatre

Monday, Nov. 18, at Bloomsburg High
School. The play is sponsored by the high

social

one

data, "says Deborah Barnes, acting cMef

India:

p.m. in Mitrani Hall of Haas Center for the

Chang Shub Roh, sociology and

like the

shown above, "are helpful to us in main-

to the

and PoUtics of

Company will present "Tartuffe" at 1

welfare professor, and James Pomfret, math-

Reports from students,

En-

university's Celebrity Artist Series at 8

Arts.

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

Gym dance studio.

glish, will lead a discussion

— President Harry Ausprich

Safety

live in the Soviet

p.m.,

"International

OCT 91

Graduate students Felix Rizvanov and

Marina Samouilova, who

Wednesday, Oct.
McCormick Forum.

kickoff the month-long observance.

17

p.m.,

school and the university's languages and
cultures department.
Instructor

Jill

Emery

will demonstrate

authentic English, Scottish and

Welsh

Dance Night" program at 7
Wednesday, Nov. 20, in Centennial

ing a "Celtic
p.m.,

Gym's dance
In addition,

studio.

BUTV will air two programs

— "A Visit to Czechoslovakia" with Maria
DePaul Hronec of SL Cyril Academy in
Danville and Bloomsburg Theatre
Ensemble's production of "Land of the
Rising Sun: Folktales from Japan"
throughout the month. Check BUTV's
"Viewer's Guide" for exactdates and times.
For more information, call the student
development office at 389-4199.



— Kevin B. Engler

2 The Communique 17

News

OCT 91

Briefs

BUTV to air local judicial debate
Voters in Columbia and Montour counties

who

Acting university police chief discusses
campus crime, safety during interview

are unable to attend tonight's debate be-

Reports of crime, particularly violent

tween judicial candidates Tom James and Scott

crime, on some college and university cam-

"hotline"

Naus

puses has "steadily risen" in recent years,

university police department have been in-

according to a report compiled by the U.S.

stalled at six

Congress.

Parking Garage

at

Danville Middle School can watch a

tape-delayed broadcast of the event on

BUTV,

the university's cable television station.

BUTV will air the debate, sponsored by the
League of Women Voters, at 1 :30 p.m. and 9:30

Institutions receiving federal student aid

In addition, seven push-button emergency

phone boxes coimected

campus

orange parking

locations:

lot

Tri-level

and second

(first

Redman

near

to the

level);

Stadium;

programs are akeady required by the federal government to conduct annual campus

east side of lower

_||^_|^^__||_

will also air at 1:30 p.m., Friday,

campus tennis com-

^H^^^^ln^^^l

Oct. 25, andat 1:30p.m. and9:30pjn.,Monday,

violence surveys, document results in a

plex; northwest cor-

format and malce it available to
anyone that requests the information.
But effective last month, the "Crime
Awareness and Campus Security Act of
1990" makes it mandatory that institutions
receiving federal aid develop security poUcies, practice "imiformity and consistency"
in the reporting of campus crimes, specifi-

ner of Centennial

p.m.,

Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct 22-23.

The debate
Oct. 28,

and Thursday, Oct.

BUTV,

31.

statistical

a service of the university's

TV/

Radio Services, can be seen on cable chaimel 1
in Bloomsburg and cable channel 1 0 in Berwick.

PA-SSHE Women's Consortium to
hold conference at Shippensburg
The PA-SSHE Women's Consortium will
hold its 11 th annual conference Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1-2, at Shippensburg University.

Sylvia Ann Hewitt, author of When the Bough

Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting

Our

Children,

will give the keynote address at 7 p.m., Friday,

Nov.

assault, burglary,

Panel discussions on such topics as affirma-

of

women

faculty in the

System of Higher Education, the

of promotion, and implications for

politics

women stu-

dents in the '90s will highlight activities sched-

uled Saturday, Nov. 2.

For registration materials or to receive more
information, call

Kay Camplese

at

389-4524.

and motor vehicle

theft,

and implement procedures to address sexual
assaults

By

1.

tive action, the status

State

cally murder, rape, robbery, aggravated

and

1992,

1,

some 8,000 schools

nationwide, including Bloomsburg, must
"prepare, publish, and distribute

campus

and procedures, the enforcement authority of campus
security or pohce, and descriptions of camsecurity policies

pus crime prevention programs.

The

report

must also include a poUcy

statement on monitoring and recording

plans 'brown bag' lunch meeting

criminal activity at off-campus student or-

hancement Committee will hold its first "brown
bag" lunch meeting of the 1991-92 academic
year at noon, Wednesday, Oct. 30, in Room 140

of Waller Administration Building.

Loanne Snavely, documents coordinator and
reference librarian in Andruss Library, will dis-

cuss "Helping Students Become Critical Thinkers:

Learning Activities Using the Library."

Storeroom clerk appointed
Suphot Dang Labelle has been appointed
storeroom clerk at the university. He succeeds
Dane Keller who retired last month.
Correction
Communique, it was
inadvertently reported that Arm Marie "Stokes"
had recently retired from the university faculty.
Actually, Ann Marie "Noakes" of curriculum
In the Oct. 3 issue of The

and foundations retired in August.

Arm

Stokes, assistant professor of music,

ganizations, the

number of on-campus

rests for alcohol or

ar-

drug violations and

weapons possession and a policy statement
regarding the possession, use and selling of
alcohol or illegal drugs.

"Bloomsburg

is

immune

not

north of Montour

Residence Hall; and

^^^M
'^I^H

^^^^

The Bloomsburg j^^Bl

Deborah Barnes

Hospital parking lot

near the overpass
entrance.

During a recent interview with The

Communique editor Kevin

Engler, Barnes

said imiversity pohce officers compile camstatistics

and work

diligentiy to

educate students and employees on personal safety and crime prevention.

Communique:

In your 14 years on the

university police force,

what are the more

frequent problems that occur on campus?

Barnes:

/ think

our biggest problem

is

The majority of thefts are book bags,
books and personal property items

theft.

Teaching, Learning Committee
Bloomsburg 's Teaching and Learning En-

— J-^^^
j^M

mW

... an

annual security report" that contains current

picnic area

pus crime

racial violence.

Sept.

Gym;

to crime,

text

.

.

and
other student areas such as the library and

stolen mostly out of residence halls

Scranton Commons.

Communique: How

is

your department

making students and employees more aware
of the problems on campus?
Barnes: Already this semester, we have
conducted crime prevention programs in

comply with the new
federal law," says Deborah Barnes, acting
chief of university police. "Our department
must comply with state and federal legislation by keeping and reporting accurate camand we need help
pus crime statistics
from everyone on campus to maintain official and up-to-date criminal data."
In an effort to establish better crisis communications at Bloomsburg, Barnes says

four residence halls

the university police has started a crime

video gives some good advice such as stay-

and naturally

will

.

.

.

.

.

.

and have the rest of

them scheduled over the next few weeks.

Our officers volunteer their time to participate in presenting the program which
stresses the concept of being personally

responsible for protecting

your property.

We show a

"How Not to Become a

and

identifying

videotape

titled

Victim of Opportu-

nity" that focuses on all areas of campus
that are "hot spots "for thefts to occur. The

prevention program for residence hall stu-

ing in well-lit areas, not walking alone after

dents and will issue a monthly crime report

dark,

distributed to

The Voice student newspaper

continues to serve the xmiversity in that capac-

and used as an

ity.

faculty

and
November.

insert in

The Communique

staff newsletter

beginning in

and constantly being aware of your

surroundings. We're also planning to do

some alcohol awareness workshops
residence halls this month.

make

it

in the

We hope

to

a general program for all students

The Communique

and eventually

it to campus employwe hand out brochures

offer

ees. In addition,

containing crime prevention

ways

tips,

to

and it lists
emergency
campus
teleof

report crimes to our department,
the locations

phones.

Communique: Ifa student, faculty, or staff
member is a victim of a crime, a theft, or
physical assault, what do you suggest that
she or he do?
Barnes: The first step is to call or come to
our office and report the incident. If the
incident requires our investigation, we'll

send out an

officer.

we 'II have the

Ifsomething was stolen,

individual fill out a report.

Many students

have homeowner 's insurance and although
the

chances of recovering the stolen prop-

erty

is

slim, they may need an official police

record of the incident when reporting the
loss to their insurance company. In the
event there

is

mary concern

physical violence, our priis

that victims receive medi-

cal attention quickly ifthey need it.
that, it

's

entirely

Beyond

up to the victim ifshe or he

Barnes: That individual should report the
problem immediately to our department.
We will then be alerted to the situation and
we 'IIfile an official reportfor our records.
Ifan act ofviolence was to occur, we would
at least have a record that documents a
continual or progressive problem. The only

way we can do

that

is for

these problems to our department.

Communique:

If an

do so. A

owner, the witness should urge the victim to
to university police. If the witness

town, except that our jurisdiction

is re-

our upper and lower campuses
Center.

a crime occurs on
officers can handle the situation without interventionfrom the town or
if

campus, your

state police?

involved unless we request their assistance.

'RSivntS'.

ing lot or any other type of physical or

sexual assault on another person,
lutely vital that

it 's

abso-

we receive this information

as soon as possible.

We may be able to save

Faculty Art
in

Haas

Show

Gallery

life.

are the official re-

enforcement officers or security personnel?

soon as possible.

Communique: What should a person do if

Barnes: Fourteen of our 15 officers are
commissioned police officers. We receive

harassed or threatened with

our commissions through the Pennsylvania

is

make arrests. So we operate basame as any municipal police

ciminal act, such as a fist-fight in the park-

individual to contact our department as

some type ofphysical violence?

thority to

sically the

an individual witnesses a more severe

If

We could

not wish to take legal

she or he

go

receive our commis-

then follow up and try to locate the victim.

can report the crime to our office.

she or he

action, but it's really important for the

may or may

train-

Absolutely. Anything that happens
on our campus is within our jurisdiction.
The town police and state police will not get

is,

of the campus police department? Are campus police full-fledged law

victim

same

which are signed by the governor,

Communique: So

Communique: What

will

the

we, as commissioned officers, have the au-

and the Magee

someone 's

we

sions,

Once we

Barnes: If a person is a witness to a crime
against personal property and knows the

wishes to press criminal charges against
us to pursue charges ...

through.

do?

doesn 't know who the victim

is

ing that municipal police officers must

stricted to

it

sponsibilities

Department of Education. In order to get

Provost's Lecture Series:

Kurt Benirschke to discuss
'How Science Is Saving Wild Animals'

Pathologist

Kurt Benirschke, director of autopsy services at the University of California at San

"How

Dartmouth MediSchool in
cal

Sav-

Hanover, N.H., and

Wild Animals" at 8 p.m., Monday, Oct.
28, in the Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium of

the University of

Carver Hall.

Diego.

Diego, will discuss

Science

Is

ing

Benirschke

is

He also served as

as part of the

director of research

fall

university's Provost's Lecture Series.

Benirschke,

California at San

the second of three guest

speakers scheduled this

who was bom

in

Germany,

immigrated to the United States in 1949.

at the

Kurt Benirschke

San Diego

(Calif.)

Zoo

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

before assuming his present

positon.

After completing several residencies and

In addition to his public lecture,

serving as a staff pathologist at several

Benirschke will conduct an afternoon work-

hospitals in Boston, Mass., he held several

shop

faculty positions at Harvard Medical School

productive Physiology" at 4 p.m., in Kuster

prior to his appointment as associate pro-

Auditorium of Hartline Science Center.

fessor of pathology.

Benirschke was a pathology professor at

3

commissioned, our officers must attend the

Act 120 training, which

a crime on campus, what should she or he

report

OCT 91

department, just like the policeforce down-

individual witnesses

an alleged perpetrator.

If the victim wants

victims to report

17

titled

"Mammalian Ecology and Re-

For additional information,
fice

of the provost

at

call the of-

389-4308.

WORK OF ART— Karl Beamer, associate professor of art, stands next to
his sculpture titled

"We Cannot Ac-

cuse the Government of One Single Act

His "work " and works
from other art department faculty are
on exhibit through Oct. 27 in Haas
of Justice.

"

Gallery of Art.

4 The Communique 17

OCT 91

Toney Lineberry
accident that

left

Capturing the attention of his audience in

Toney Lineberry

Lineberry walked to the top of the

When his

ries

"I couldn't live with

hill to

his buddy.

dramatically recounted the automobile ac-

why

he wasn't driving, he explained that

cident 14 years ago that left him paralyzed

his parents thought

from the neck down and changed

his hfe

want to take you
back to a time in
**I

my

'^^

I

much had

it

with a south-

was 18 years

had

my own

was captain of

car,

in the

same girl for three
palm of my hand."

Lineberry, a junior in high school at the
time,

was

a talented athlete

who

wrestled,

played football and ran track. Sports were
very important to him and so was his car.

On Jan.

accident because the emotional and eco-

He put the car in neutral, and

nomic demands were a tremendous burden
on all of them.

two

friends silently

shpped the vehicle

away from the house.
They didn't get very

According to Lineberry, who gives more

highway safety, the accident could have
been prevented in three ways.

and had been dating the

had Ufe

regrets the ordeal

out to be a solid sheet of ice, recalls

the wrestling team,

I

He mostly

that his family went through because of the

like a "river" flowing across the road turned

"1

years.

four siblings.

berry,asoftspoken

old,

Toney Lineberry

said.

Through it all, Lineberry had the extraordinary love and support of his parents and

made," said Line-

em accent.

^

I

else's

than 250 lectures a year as a constiltant on

man

—^r

he

someone

agreed to sneak his Mustang out of

the driveway.
the

injuries or death,"

myself knowing

for

What looked

pretty

Ml

when

life

was too dangerous.

His friend teased him until Lineberry
finally

forever.

it

friend inquired

lasting inju-

from the accident

had been responsible

meet

Mitrani Hall last month,

no

the car that night suffered

automobile
him paralyzed

recalls

became the proud
owner of a red '69 Mustang with black
racing stripes. "It was by far the nicest car
12, Lineberry

and one of the
block," he said.

far.

Lineberry. His car, travelling at 65 miles

First

of

all,

Lineberry admits he simply

per hour when it hit the ice, flew into the air,

should not have been on the road in such

spun three or four times, and crashed to the

weather. Second, he

ground on

And

its

hood.

"I remembered the gory films they would
show us in drivers' ed," he continued
softly. "We'd laugh and say that would

never happen

to us,

but it happened to me."

Before the emergency crew arrived,
Lineberry said he noticed that his arm and
leg

were twisted behind him.
belonged to

"I thought they

he said.

"It was

leg flopped free

colimm that the arm and
and I realized they were

was driving

too

fast.

he should have been wearing a

seat belt.

had been wearing a seat belt, it
would have saved me from being slammed
into the steering column at 65 miles per
hour, and I probably wouldn't be like this
today," he said.
"If

I

Lineberry

my friend,"

only when I was pried away

fi-om the steering

third,

is

impatient with people

offer all kinds of excuses not to
belts,

wear

such as "I'm a good driver;

need one

.

.

.

I

who
seat

don't

they wrinkle my clothes ...I'm

only going a short distance

.

.

.

they're

mine.

uncomfortable.

had been snowing and sleeting through-

"The doctors did not expect me to live,"
added Lineberry. "My neck was broken

to be in this

out that January day. But whatever the

between the fifth and sixth vertebrae. I was

life,"

was a Friday night, a time when

permanently paralyzed from the chest down,

Although alcohol was not involved in his

Lineberry ustially got together with friends.

and I didn't have the use of my 10 fingers."

accident, Lineberry cautioned his audience

parking

in the school

nicest cars
It

weather,

it

on

my

lot

.

.

.

So when a classmate phoned, Lineberry
if he could go out. Their
answer was "no," but after an argument, his
parents relented on the condition that he
would not drive.
asked his parents

TOKYO SYMPHONY AT BU



Bloomsburg 's Celebrity Artist Series will
present the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
in concert at

8 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 22,

in

Mitrani Hall of Haas Center for the
Arts. Tickets are $25 for reserved seats

and $20 for general admission. Free
tickets are available to faculty, staff and
students with a Bloomsburg identification card andvalid community activities
sticker at the Information Desk, located
in the University Store lobby,

from 8

a.m. to noon,

Monday through

Friday,

andfrom

m. to noon, Saturday and

11

a.

Sunday. For additional information, call

389-4409.

Lineberry spent a year in a rehabiUtation
hospital and

two more years grappling

mentally and emotionally with the reahty

of his accident.

More

than anything, he

is

grateful that the friend who was with him in

"Imagine how uncomfortable it would be
wheelchair for the

rest

of your

he contends.

about drinking and driving.

"Drinking and driving do not mix and
seat belts save Uves," he said.

— Patricia Kerwin

The Communique

Expert says 'traditional male masculinity'
learned at early age is stereotype for rape
who

Joseph Weinberg,

has given more

not only between

lectures across the country, told a

men and women,

Bloomsburg audience in Mitrani Hall last
month that "traditional male masculinity

men and men."

'Marlboro Man' are

powerful images

all

which evoke the rugged hero

...

a guy

who

never expresses vulnerable feelings," the
educational consultant from Madison, Wis.,

"He

said.

will take charge

plish things

by

.

and accom-

.

.

attracted

"Men Stopping Rape,"
Weinberg said this masculine image is a
model learned by males at an early age.
sentation titled

92 academic year

The following

when

wonder why

was
taught to believe that rape was
only a woman 's issue and that it
used

to

didn 't affect me.

I

— Joseph

Winona Cochran; Classroom and Campus

why

was taught to
believe that rape was only a woman's issue
and that it didn't affect me," he said. "And
when I look at romance and consider what
used to wonder

"I

I

a

tact person,

should communi-

and then finding out her feelings

universally, though, rape

.

.

.

can tell who's a nice guy, a safe guy. There

no psychological

is

test to

'rape prone.' So, in self defense,
distrust all

who is
women

pick out

men."

Weinberg said rape is "fueled" by stereo-

TV commer"Ads involving men are usually

types depicted in print ads and
cials.

women

university's four-year (1989-93) affirmative
action plan which states a commitment to women

consent can be confirmed.

"When it comes

critical for

and then

So

both persons to talk about

it's

it

in

Weinberg contends, however,
'

t stop

until men

that rape

women

for

include: faculty

son,

re-

lose control.

we say 'she
should have known her limit,' we don't say
"In a victim-blammg culture

'he should have

are

known his

coming

limit.'

to a time

start listening to the

.

.

.

"

when we

victim

.

.

.

protest

I

Stones leave me black and blue

like

was

it.'

Only

the 'and

I

after

like

it'

much

public

dropped from

Weinberg said men can take several steps
to stop rape.

"Men need

to share feelings,

such as vulnerability, with other men," he
said.

"There must be more open, honest

Persons with concerns, ideas or recommendations may contact Kay Campleseat389-4524.

Panel discussion to focus on 'Teaching
in a Multicultural

Environment'

A panel discussion on Teaching and LearnThursday, Oct. 24, in

Room

3237 of

Services Center. For

more

infOTmation, call Rafey Habib at 389-4431.

President Hany Ausprich has been elected
to the Pennsylvania Association of Col-

Forensics team finishes fourth

and Universities (PACU) executive
committee. His appointment became effective Sept. 22 and runs through next June.

in

leges

who recently

left the institution

Washington,

'Looking Glass' tournament
Bloomsburg's Forensics team finished fourth

among

the 16 schools that

competed

at its sixth

aimual "Looking Glass" novice speech tourna-

ment Saturday, Oct. 5.
The team's next event

will be

Oct 25-26

at

the Collegiate Forensic Association tournament
at

Geneva College

in

Beaver

Falls.

D.C.
Ausprich will meet regularly with executive conunittee

members

at

PACU

head-

University Police issues notice

on temporary parking permits

quarters in Harrisburg to discuss issues

pertaining to

the billboard ad."

Hoffer. All

invited to join.

Membership on CSW task forces is open to all

McCormick Human

after accepting a position in

and

Heckman and Bonnie

women at the imiversity are

at 5 p.m.,

of a Rolling Stones album portrayed a bat-

.

sons, Jody

ing in a Multicultxaral Environment" will be held

Ausprich elected to
PACU executive board

University

.

person, Sharon Swank; and students, chairper-

and

means we have to change some of our
notions about what rape is," he said.
— Patricia Kerwin
that

the '70s, a billboard armouncing the release

'the Rolling

and professional staff, chairper-

Mary Harris; non- instructional staff, chair-

university students and persormel.

Ausprich fills the seat vacated by former

.

Higher Education.

men, begin taking

making them

assesses

Bloomsburg

at

Membership on CS W's three subcommittees

can speak freely about

sponsibihty for their actions ,and stop blaming

women

CoimcilofEducation'sCommissiononWomen

President Kenneth L. Perrin of West Chester

and bound woman. The caption read,

the current status of

.

about birth control."

to talk

The commission

in higher education.

based on guidelines developed by the American
.

are portrayed

tered

is re-

"In this way , the 'gray areas ' are avoided,"

as wild animals or something to be used. In

straightforward, but

that reports to President Ausprich,

he said, adding it's the only way a woman's

affects the

good name of all men," he said. "No woman

body

Silk.

established in 1989 as an advisory

sponsible for moiutoring Chapter HI of the

have to

"More

for

him.

CSW,

Is-

Heckman, Bonnie

Kami

Hoffer, Loring Nagle and

better by telling her exactly what his desires

how rape has become normal."
But men "can be victims of rape themrape victim," contends Weinberg.

Sharon Swank; and Students'

sues, contact persons, Jody

^^^^P^ Weinberg

cate his feelings

"We

selves, or the 'significant other' of a female

Cli-

Linda

man

believes

men are taught, I certainly can see

(young)

Aim Wilson and

Sowash; Women's History Month, contact per-

the issue with other

Weinberg

have been formed:

son, Jeanette Keith; Child Care Services, con-

won

"

task forces

Studies CurricuJum, contact person,

mate, contact persons.

a

to having sex, consent is verbal.

"/

planning meeting

at its first

this fall.

woman, Weinberg

are

force."

During his Safety Awareness Month pre-

Bloomsburg's Commission on the Status of

Women

to

Briefs

Women (CSW) identified initiatives for the 1991-

but also between
Secondly,

"Rhett Butler, Charles Bronson and the

5

CSW identifies initiatives for 1991-92

communication,

than 500 rape prevention workshops and

could be a set up" for rape.

News

OCT 91

17

all

of higher education in

Pennsylvania.

He was nominated

Faculty and staff
frain from leaving

by

President James E. Gilbert of East
Stroudsburg University.

are asked to re-

an unauthorized campus parking area. UnipoUcy requires a temporary parking permit which can be obtained from the University
Pohce department.
in

for the position

members

dashboard notes when parked

versity

6 The Communique

OCT 91

17

Calendar: Oct 17-31

University's position on racism

Through Saturday, Oct 19
•Alcohol Awareness

Thursday,

Oct

Week

A few

— "Twelfth Night," BU Theater,

•Play

Kenneth

S.

Gross Auditorium, Carver Hall,

8 pjn.

Friday,

Oct

Kenneth
8

18

— "Twelfth Night," BU Theater,

•Play

S.

Gross Auditorium, Carver Hall,

pm.

Saturday,

Oct

19

— "Twelfth Night," BU Theater,

•Play

Kenneth

S.

Gross Auditorium, Carver Hall,

8 pjn.

Sunday, Oct. 20

— "Twelfth Night," BU Theater,

•Play

Kenneth

S.

Bloomsbiarg, 2:30 pjn.

Wednesday, Oct. 22
•Last day to withdraw from classes
•Last day to revoke pass/fail

Month activities:

•"Contemporary Folk Dances of Israel"

was developed to communicate the university 's
It was published in
The Communique and The Voice and was

and the larger community aware of where
we stand and that we intend to respond.

discussed in a meeting of the University Forum. At that meeting, a unanimous vote to

Peimsylvania. The Ethnic Intimidation and

condemn

•Lecture

McCormick Forum,

American Management" with Jim
Tomlinson, McCormick Forum, 1 p Jtn.
•"International Food Festival,"
Scranton

Commons, 4:30

to

was

Wednesday, Oct. 23
•Field Hockey vs. Ithaca,

1982 and

in

re-

ment on racism and ask that you take a few
minutes to read iL Questions relating to the

heinous acts have been committed.

statement or the university's position should

once again review the ethnic intimidation

be directed to the affirmative action officer, the

legislation, to

During the
tional

my

office.

media have reported an increase

in

asked our law enforcement

its

become

nic

we will

staff.

all

we

it

when-

actively pursue public disclosure

and prosecution of racially motivated acts
of violence or intimidation.
I

am

confident that a great majority of

the members of our imiversity community

is

of our students, faculty

To ensure such

intimately familiar

harassment In carrying out our rean educational institution,

Those expressions of intolerance and hate
have appeared both on college campuses
and in society at-large. Among the most

supportive of

have

ever appropriate to address issues of eth-

sponsibility as

providing an educational setting which

I

the

officials to

provisions, and to utilize

incidents of overt racism in otir society.

odious offenses are acts of racial or ethnic

whom

for all of our citizens against

with

last several years, the na-

a climate for

will actively purstie racial

and reject racial and ethnic intimidation whether it be from within our university commimity or from outside. Acts
of racial intimidation and harassment will

justice

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 pjn.

against the law in

I believe every member of our community
should be familiar with the university 's state-

learning,

7 p.m.

is

vised in 1988, provides a means of redress

and

— Tokyo Symphony,

Ethnic intimidation

Vandalism Act, passed

cast.

Bloomsburg University is committed to

— "The Japanese Challenge to

•Celebrity Artist Series

racial intimidation

intimidation which are anonymous.

11 ajn. to 12:30 p.m.

We will use every oppor-

make members of our university

timity to

position regarding racism.

2 pjn.
•Faculty Recital, First Presbyterian Church,

with Gilda Gran,

years ago, the following statement

provost and vice presidents, or to

Gross Auditoriiim, Carver Hall,

International Festival

not be tolerated.

To the University Community:

17

my

and of the larger commimity share

commitment to provide a supportive, nurturing,

and culturally diverse learning en-

virormienL

I

hope you

the

me

in

open

to

will join

providing an atmosphere that

exchange of ideas and

free

is

from

dis-

crimination and the sickness of racism.

— President Harry Ausprich

upper campus, 4 p.m.
•Film

— "Robin Hood:

Auditorium, Carver Hall, 4 p.m.

The Prince of

Thieves," Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

"How

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Friday,
•Film

Oct 25 —Homecoming Weekend

— "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,"

Science

is

Saving Wild Anim als"

with Kurt Benirschke, Kenneth S. Gross
Auditorium, Carver Hall, 8 p.m.

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 7 and

Tuesday, Oct. 29

9:30 p.m.

•International Festival

•Pep

rally,

discussion

outdoor basketball court

—Homecoming Weekend

— "Culture and Politics of

Samoullova, McCormick Forum, 2 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 30
•Women's Soccer vs.

•Homecoming Parade, 10 ajn.
•Football vs. Cheyney,

A

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

Communique pahh^es
news of activities, evoits and devdc^ments at
faculty and staff, The

BU bi-weekly throughout the academic year.
Please submit story ideas,

Month

Russia" with Felix Rizvanov and Marina

behind Luzerne Residence Hall, 6 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 26

The Communique

•Provost's Lecture Series:

advance to The Communique, University Re-

and Communication Office,
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
lations

17815.

Lafayette,

BU is committed to providing equal educational

Redman Stadium, 1:30 pjn.
•Women's Soccer vs. Mercyhurst,

upper campus, 3 pjn.

•Men's Soccer

Sunday, Oct 27

—Homecoming Weekend

•Homecoming Pops Concert,
Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 2:30 pjn.
Monday, Oct 28
International Festival
discussion:

"BU

Profs'

with Chang Shub

of Columbia,

— "Dynamic U.S.-Asian

McCormick Forum,
•"International

Eyes on China"
Pomfret,

p.m.

S.

Gross

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or

union

mem-

bership.

The

university is additionally committed

wiU take

positive

steps to provide such educational and

em-

ploymait opportunities.

Greek, Turkish, and Hungarian dances,
demonstration and lessons,

Gym, 7 pjn.

•Film — "Boyz N the Hood,"

•Provost's Lecture Series Workshop:

Kenneth

1

all

sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

to affirmative action and

Dance Night,"

Centeimial Dance

a.m.

featuring Kurt Benirschke,

Month

Relations" with Hsien-Tung Liu,

Month

Roh and James

McCormick Forum, 9

vs. District

•International Festival
discussion

and employment opportunities for

persons without regard to race, color, religion,

upper campus, 3:30 pjn.

upper campus, 2 pJn.

news briefs and

calendar information at least two wedcs in

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 pjn.

Editor: Kevin B. Engler
Eklltorial Assistant: Christina

J.

Gaudreau

Contributing Writer: Patricia Kerwin

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

students, employees to participate in
national community service program
More
and

400 students and 100 faculty
members from Bloomsburg are

than

staff

coordinated by the

Campus Outreach Op-

portunity League (COOL) at the University

receives

NSF research

grant

Reza Noubary, professor of mathematics
and computer science, has been awarded a

volunteering to help local agencies conduct

of Minnesota in

an afternoon of community service

to introduce

$60,000 research grant from the National
Science Foundation (NSF) to produce an

sonnel to

instrument that can record seismic activity

ties in this

activi-

area Friday in conjunction with

the national "Into the Streets" program.

St.

Paul, has been designed

Noubary

more college students and perthe many community service op-

from earthquakes and underground explo-

portunities available in their area.

Participating agencies include the

"COOL hopes this national program will

Bloomsburg Women's Center, Nursing
Home, Fishing Creek Green Alliance, North

help stimulate the interest among individuals

Central Secure Treatment Center, Danville

their

Area Agency on Aging,
Habitat for Humanity, Downtown Activities Center and local soup kitchens, according to Wendy Pristash and Sylvia Costa of
State Hospital,

who

mathematical model that deals with the

own," says Pristash.
Funded by a grant from the W.K. Kellogg

problems of seismic research," says

was first conceptualized during
summit
conference
held last December at
a
the Streets"

Way

of America's national head-

United

quarters in Alexandria, Va.

Streets'

program

in

groups

...

in

A total of 77 students and representatives
from colleges, universities and other nonprofit institutions and agencies from around

an effort to integrate

the nation collaboratively planned the year-

campus

long outreach and coalition-building pro-

different coalitions of diverse

community service activities,"

says Pristash, Bloomsburg's student volunteer coordinator.
"Into the Streets," a nationwide program

Noubary.

Foundation of Battle Creek, Mich., "Into

the university's student volunteer services

country will be participating in the 'Into the

"This grant will be used to develop a

normally wouldn't volunteer on

office.

"Thousands of students and employees
at many colleges and universities across the

sions.

gram which kicks off Nov.

"If we develop this

model ac-

curately, we'll be able to simulate artificial

earthquakes on a

computer

and demonstrate

...

them on a 'shaking table' ...to
create the atmosphere of a real
earthquake."

1.

— Reza Noubary

"A lot of people understand the need for
volunteers, but

many

don't seem to

know

Continued on page 2

"If

we

develop

this

model

accurately,

we'll be able to simulate artificial earth-

quakes on a computer

... and demonstrate
them on a 'shaking table' ... to create the
atmosphere of a real earthquake," he notes.
"The model, therefore, could help determine the effects of a real earthquake."
Noubary, an authority on probabilistic
risk assessment and author of more than 50
technical papers on hazards assessment and
risk analysis, received the grant award in
August for his "Mathematical Sciences:
Stochastic Modeling and Identification of
Seismic Records" project.

His proposal, submitted

NSF's Research
tions

two

program, received

years.

in

response to

In Undergraduate Institu-

NSF

funding for

The grant expires Jan.

31

,

1993.

Peter Kasvinsky, assistant vice president

and research, says
Continued on page 2

for graduate studies

2 The Communique 31 CX:T91

Community
Continued from page

how

their

service

1

to get started," Pristash, a masters of

campus," says Robert Peiffer, coordi-

university volunteers to area 'clean up'

Sylvia Costa, an undergraduate student

who

from Whitehall, Pa., contends. 'This program provides them with a chance to join

program director

only takes one person

come up with an idea, but it takes a lot of
make that idea
become a reality."

is

serving this

as

fall

campus

in the student volunteer

services office, says university participants
will address nine issues



children and

to

youth, criminal justice, domestic violence,

people working together to

the environment, homelessness, hunger,

"It

only takes one person to

come up with an

idea, but

it

takes a lot of people working

together to

come a

make

that idea be-

reality."

— Wendy

Pristash,

student volunteer services

nity service

movement and was selected as

Pennsylvania's "hub campus" for this pro-

gram 'The university was chosen as one of
50 hub campuses, one in each state, to assist
.

other institutions

who need help in starting

a volunteer community service program on

Continued from page

1

Noubary 's "efforts and interest in securing
outside funding for grant projects continue
to enhance the research, training and public

service missions of the university."
In a confirmation letter to

prepare students and employees for

their

community service experience,

Pristash

and Costa have been conducting

"Into the Streets" presentations on campus

during the

last several

weeks.

"We've conducted presentations for man-

why it's

important for them to get involved," says

the

Costa, "and we've done training programs

"Into the Streets" observance.

"We have scheduled a 1 p.m. rally on the
front steps of Carver Hall

...

and we've

with student groups

...

such as

CGA, Black

Cultural Society, Social Welfare Club and

asked everyone who plans to participate to

the fraternities and sororities

bring a canned food item to address the

to get their assistance in recruiting

hunger issue in this community," says Costa.

student volunteers."
Pristash

opportunity to go to a volunteer work site of

sity students

From 2

to

4 p.m., they will

...

and

then get a chance to do some on-site volun-

and social
welfare major from Shamokin, Pa., the
to Costa, a senior

agencies participating in "Into the Streets"
are

happy

all

individuals

more

univer-

and personnel to participate in

the "Into the Streets" program.

everybody

an effort

"We

want

come out, especially those
who normally wouldn't," says

to

Pristash.

"The volunteers will be doing something

teer work."

According

in

and Costa encourage

"After the rally, participants will have the

their choosing.

...

that university students

and per-

for a

common

they'll receive

cause," adds Costa, "and

hands on experience work-

ing to solve a problem they feel strongly

about."

sonnel are getting involved.

— Kevin

B. Engler

"Fishing Creek Green Alliance, for exIn addition, he served as a faculty

mem-

dents in different types of research," he

ber at the University of Kaiserslauten

says.

Germany where he developed several meth-

Noubary joined the university's faculty
Before coming to Bloomsburg, he
was an instructor and conducted research at
universities in Europe and Asia.

ods for assessing the frequency of rare

in 1989.

in

events such as earthquakes, high winds and
floods.

— Kevin

B. Engler

Noubary, Nell

Sedransk, program director for
tistics

she says.

sites,"

To

agers and administrators to explain

— during

sciences by training our undergraduate stu-

Noubary

work

pickup trucks to transport

mental health, race relations and assistance

the agency they're working with

COOL as a national leader in the commu-

will furnish

programs for senior citizens

receive a half-hour orientation session about

Bloomsburg has been acknowledged by

providing 100 trees for planting

program.
intern

It

is

and

business administration graduate student

other volunteers.

ample,

nator of the university's volunteer services

NSF's

sta-

and probability division of math-

ematical sciences, wrote,

"Your proposal

focuses on a developing interface between
probability

and statistics

...

and geophysics

and seismology.
"Exciting research possibilities are evi-

dent

...

(because) there

is virtually

no

rec-

ognition of the potential roles for stochastic

models. Clearly, there are wonderful prospects for teamwork."

To assist in his research, Noubary will
employ the services of at least three or four
junior undergraduate students, who major
in mathematics, computer science or earth
science, from the university's Honors and
Scholars program.

"An NSF requirement

FHOTO BY JOAN HELFEK

for receiving the

grant is to promote advanced learning in the

NSF GRANT RECIPIENT

— Reza Noubary, professor of mathematics and computer

science, received a National Science Foundation grant for research

on seismic

activity.

State

Employees Combined Appeal
United Way 1991 campaign

SECA —

Giving Straight from the Heart
Please help us meet our goal of $32,000 by

SECA



United Way campaign.
We have extended our deadline to Nov. 8.

giving to the 1991

President Harry Ausprich presents Carol Baucher with a pin in

recognition of her fair share contribution to the 1990

Way

SECA-United

campaign. Fair share means that Baucher and the following

people either met or exceeded 6/10 of one percent of their annual
salary

— the suggested guide for giving.

Other

fair

share contribu-

tors

from

left:

Elizabeth Frederick, AnnRitchey,

last

year were from bottom

Evelyn Kressler, Stephen Beck, and
Irv Wright.

From bottom

tributors include:

right,

con-

Bonnie Burke, Craig

Newton, Bob Abbott, Dolores
Sponseller, and
fair

Karen

Slusser. Other

share donors not pictured were:

Joseph Ardizzi, Mariana Blackburn,
PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

Ellis,

Robert Qarke, Jim Dalton,

Roger

Dennis Gehris, David Greenwald, Randi Katz, Scott Miller,

David Minderhout, Lauretta

Pierce, Nicholas Short,

Wheeler, Bruce Wilcox, and

Tom Wright.

Bodman (4406) or Bob Wislock
You may designate your contribution to

Please return your pledge card to Sue

Waller Administration Building.

Mary Alice

of your choice. The local United

Way supports

(4414),
the

agency

19 local agencies, including:

Columbia County United Way; Advisory Committee — Children and Youth Services; American Cancer Society,
Columbia County Unit; American Diabetes Association, Bloomsburg; Benton Area Recreation; Big Brother^Sisters
of Columbia County; Bloomsburg Area YMCA; Bloomsburg Public Library; Boy Scouts — Columbia-Montour
Council; Catawissa Area Recreation Association; Columbia Day Care Program; Columbia-Montour Family
Planning, Inc.; Easter Seals Society; Family Counseling Services of Susquehanna Valley, Inc.; Girl Scouts —
Columbia-Montour Council; Home Health Services/V.N.A.; Mental Health Association; Millville Park Commission;
Orangeville Public Library; Red Cross — Bloomsburg Chapter; Salvation Army Service Units; The Women 's Center;
U.S.O. (United Services Organization).

The Communique 31

Public has right to straight facts on alcohol
and alcoholism, says addictions expert

ing Uquor,

"Men,

selling fantasies.

example are told that alcohol
make them great lovers, however, the

personal injury, illness and death resulting

truth is the opposite," she says.

know

from alcohol, but these are never presented
to the public," she says. "The truth would

to sexual dysfunction in both sexes

problem

drug

exists in

much

"Alcohol abuse almost inevitably leads
alcohol

is

...

and

linked to sexually transmitted

the United States,

adversely affect sales,

but according to

regarding nicotine has hurt the tobacco

diseases such as

addictions expert

industry."

the

AIDS because it weakens
immune system and affects judgment.

Jean Kilbourne,

But the alcohol industry is selling much
more than a product, contends Kilbourne.

It's

hard to remember to practice safe sex

few people

real-

thinking

is

clouded."

designed not only

advertising causes alcohoUsm, but "it does

"Alcohol advertising
to

who died in alcohol

when your

us drink, but to develop in us

ize that alcohol

make

as the truth

Kilbourne doesn't beheve that alcohol

causes the most

damage.
"Last year, some 6,000 Americans died
from using illegal drugs such as crack,
PCP, heroin and cocaine in comparison to
nearly 100,000 people

it's

for

Most Americans
that a

is

certain attitudes about drinking," she as-

create a climate of denial in which very

portrayed as a magic

risky attitudes about alcohol are presented

potion which can

as perfecdy normal and acceptable," she

true, bring us

make our dreams come
absolute joy and make us

says.

serts.

"Alcohol

is

successful, rich, athletic, sexy

and



desir-

Patricia Kerwin

related incidents in the United States," re-

ported the internationally acclaimed author

on media, addictions and sex
After noting "the

Business, education partnerships
to highlight November conference

roles.

war on drugs does not

include alcohol," Kilbourne said she does

not advocate a ban on alcohol or

its

adver-

However, she emphasized, the public has a right to the straight facts on alcohol
and alcoholism and needs to become more
saavy on the way it is subtly and blatantly

Approximately 150 business leaders and

tising.

manipulated by the alcohol industry.

Kilbourne says alcohol

is

heavily adver-

State

Valley region of Pennsylvania are expected

"How

11:15 a.m.

taking place in state regulations

day, Nov. 22, in the

McCormick Human

Services Center. The registration deadline
is

ever, that the liquor industry denies the first

university's colleges of Business and Pro-

two objectives.

fessional Studies, was designed as a spinoff

The Pushing of Alcohol Via Adveran audience of nearly 300 people

Bloomsburg's Mitrani Hall, Kilbourne

in

said

one out of 10 Americans

is

a victim of

alcoholism and that one in every three drinkers

admits to

some indication of a drinking

problem.

"The first thing to understand about alcoAmerica is that it's BIG business,"

hol in

says Kilbourne, noting that the U.S alcohol
.

shows revenues of more than $90
it spends over $2 billion
each year on advertising. "The annual advertising budget for Budweiser is $165
miUion ... and that's more than the entire
annual federal budget for research on alcohoUsm and alcohol abuse."
industry

billion

a year and

According to Kilbourne, the primary form
of alcohol education in our society consists

of information on alcohol disseminated by

"The industry
the statistics on violence.

the alcohol industry itself.

has access to

He

to attend Bloomsburg' s "Business and Edu-

America and the ads are designed to
new users, increase consumption
and assist in brand choice. She notes, how-

tising," to

Board of Education, will discuss
Education Works" from 10:30 to

cation Partnerships Conference" on Fri-

tised in

Speaking on the topic, "Under the Influ-

Robert Feir, executive director of the

education officials from the Susquehanna

recruit

ence:

3

The alcohol industry isn't merely sell-

able.

will

Jean Kilbourne

OCT 91

Monday, Nov.

ters 3, 5, 6, 14

will

review the changes

and 49

— Chap— and discuss how

those changes will impact the State Board,
Secretary of Education, school boards,

11.

This conference, sponsored by the superintendents, teachers and parents.

from

Elmer Gates, vice chairman of the Fuller

Company

in

Bethlehem, will speak on

"Models of Business and Education PartCentral Pennsylvania" program held at nerships" from 1 1 15 a.m. to noon. He will
Bucknell University and is part of a con- focus on why it is necessary for business to
tinuing effort to prepare citizens in this work closely with the education commuregion for the "Workforce 2000."
nity and explore business/education partIn a recent survey titled "Attitudes About nerships as exemplified by the Lehigh
1
American Colleges 1 99 "
prepared and Valley Business/Education Partnership.
released this month by the Gallup OrganiAfternoon discussion sessions that will
zation of Princeton, N J., for the Council focus on plans to develop business/educafor Advancement and Support of Educa- tion partnerships. School superintendents
tion
business and education were cited and business leaders will lead these sesas the best leaders for "developing new sions from 1 to 2 p.m. and 2:15 to 3 p.m.
technology that will make Americans more
Cost is $12 and includes refreshments,
lunch and copies of two reports: "A State
competitive in the world marketplace."
Andrew Greenberg, secretary of Prepared: Developing Pennsylvania's
Pennsylvania's Departmentof Commerce, Work Force" and "Lehigh Valley Busilast spring's

"Shaping the Future

in

:





will present

"A

State Prepared: Develop-

ing Pennsylvania's Work Force" from 9: 15

ness/Education Partnership Action Plan."

For more information,

call

Carol

0 a.m. He will discuss this report which Matteson, dean of the College of Busiwas produced by the Economic Develop- ness, at 389-4019 or Howard Macauley,
to

1

ment Partnership Board
Gov. Robert

P. Casey.

at the request of

dean of the College of Professional Studies, at

389-4005.

4 The Communique 31

OCT 91

Calendar: Nov. 1-14

ducted through a grant from the Alexander
Von Humbodlt Foundation and have appeared in Tectonophys Journal.

Campus Notes

Friday, Nov. 1

•Film

— "Boyz N the Hood," Mitrani

Pa. Conference Championships,

1 1

titled

a.m.

Sunday, Nov. 3
"Boyz N the Hood," Mitrani
•Film



Hall,

Haas Center,

1

p.m.

Monday, Nov. 4
• Art Exhibit
Works of Roger Shipley



and Robert Watson begins in Haas Art
Gallery; presentation

Gallery,

Tuesday, Nov. 5


Student Recital

Kenneth

by Shipley, Haas

a.m.

1 1

— Todd Mengel,

Gross Auditorium, Carver

S.

Hall, 8 p.m.

,

assistant professor of

"Science Attitude Scale for Middle

School Students" pubUshed in the September issue of Science Education.

Mary K. Erickson associate professor of
marketing and management, presented a
paper titled "Self-Concept and Image Con,

— "Culture and

gruity:

A

European Perspective"

at the

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 p.m.

Stephen Batory, associate professors of

Analysis of the Requirements to Become a
in China, Taiwan, and the United

States" in the spring 1991 issue of the
Journal of Global Business.

Christine Sperling, assistant professor of
recently gave a

art,

dieval, and Renaissance Studiesat Villanova

ence is sponsored by the Academy of Mar-

Association's annual convention in Rich-

mond, Va.

Vera Viditz-Ward, assistant professor of
art, was a guest speaker at a reception for

that dichotomize the

former Peace Corps volunteers from Sierra

pUne. His topic,

Leone and Liberia as part of the 30th

ment

anni-

Bertelsen was invited to address issues

House


"BU Relays,"
pool,

1

p.m.

QUEST — Caving at Pleasant Gap,

lectures at the Smithsonian Institution,

to enable and empower the disenfrancished.

He argued for localized critiques designed

Museum of African Art in August

Museum.

A

She also had an exhibition, titled "Diverse
Images: an exhibition of photographs by
Vera Viditz Ward," on display at the International Photography Museum of the
Kirkpatrick Center in Oklahoma City, Okla.
during September and October.

Reza Noubary professor of mathematics
,

•Men's swimming vs. King's College,
Nelson Field House pool, 7 p.m.
• Slide show
Bloomsburg Theatre

Bolshoi," Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

and computer science, presented a paper
titled "Non-Stationary Models for Seismic
P- Waves and Accelerogram" at the workshop on Non-Stationary Stoachastic Processes and Their Application last August in
Hampton, Va.
The workshop was sponsored jointly by
NASA Langley Research Center and Hamp-

8 p.m.

ton University.



Ensemble's

trip to Africa,

McCormick

Forum, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 14
•Celebrity Artist Series



"Stars of the

Food Sampler and Get
Together," hosted by BU's International
Relations Club, Haas Gallery, 1 1 a.m.

•"International

The Communique

"Paramount Chiefs of Sierra Leone at

8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 12

Equip-

Theory Development"
examines the increasing trend of wedding
for Living or

theory to criticism.

the African

Nelson Field

communication disci-

titled "Criticism:

in

hibit,

diving,

"A Sculp-

Exhibition in Haas Gallery.

in conjunction with her photographic ex-

Redman Stadium, 1 p.m.
•Men's and women's swimming and

titled

Designs for a Renaissance Wedding:
Michelozzo and the Medici, 1433," during
tors

keting Science.

National

Football vs. Millersville,

summary of a paper she

Dale A. Bertelsen, assistant professor of
communication studies, recently attended
the Virginia Speech Communication

Washington, D.C., in August.
Viditz-Ward also presented two pubUc



ar-

the opening reception for the Faculty Art

versary celebration of the Peace Corps held

Saturday, Nov. 9

had an

"A Comparative

She discussed her paper,

Co-authors were Francis Gallagher and

Marketing Conference VI that will be held
in 1993 in Instanbul, Tiu^key. The confer-

— "Annie,"

titled

University in Philadelphia.

Series.

of the Buyer Behavior Track, for the World

Celebrity Artist Series

published

keting Congress, International Conference

Erickson has been appointed chairperson

7:30 p.m.

ticle

presented at a conference on Patristic, Me-

Politics of

Friday, Nov. 8

Blue, asso-

World Marketing Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August
The paper was published in World Mar-

India: From Ghandi to the Present"
withRafey Habib, McCormick Forum,

•Discussion

Hwang and Michael

Dennis

ciate professors of accounting,

CPA

marketing and management.

Wednesday, Nov. 6



Frank L. Misiti Jr.

curriculum and foundations, had an article

Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 2
•Men's and women's cross country.
Hall,

Noubary also had two select papers

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Kerwin

"When ACT 101 started
^ in 1973, we only had 11
7^ students in the program
and today there are
^^

ACT 101/EOP adds value to lives
of disadvantaged BU students
Providing "added value" to the lives of disadvantaged college

...

students, according to Bloomsburg's Jesse Bryan,

"the best aspect"

is

of the university's developmental education program.
Bryan, director of ACT 10 1/Educational Opportunity Program and
chairperson of developmental education at Bloomsburg for the past

18 years, reflected on the impact developmental education has
in the lives

many

of

made

past and present university students during a

recent interview.

"When ACT 101

"I'm proudofwhat we have done," admits Bryan.
started in 1973,

we only had

there are close to

students in the program

... and today
500 students attending Bloomsburg who came in

1 1

through the developmental education department."
In 1971, the state legislature
efforts of public colleges

and

approved funding
universities

to

supplement the

and help them provide

higher education opportunities to economically and educationally

disadvantaged students living in Pennsylvania. In ratifying

concept and making

it

a state law, the

ACT

this

101 program was bom.

"In the early '70s, only a few minorities were attending
Pennsylvania's state-supported higher educational institutions, so the
legislature created

ACT

101," Bryan recalls.

"The focus changed

in

1975, whereby the term 'minorities' was changed to 'disadvantaged
students'

which offered

According

to

eligibility to all students

who

Bryan, a "disadvantaged student"

is

qualified."

an individual

who has the potential and ability to have an outstanding college career
"but

restricted

is

factors.

from attaining educational goals" due

"These students mostly lack some basic

to societal

skills in reading,

writing and mathematics, but they have the ability to do college level

work," he says.

Bloomsburg implemented ACT 101 in 1973. To be eligible,
must be state residents and both educationally and eco-

individuals

nomically disadvantaged, says Bryan.

Bryan's office also administers the Educational Opportunity Pro-

gram (EOP) which started at the university in 1969. "At Bloomsburg,

EOP is a priority item
Bryan, noting that
PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER

LABORATORY ASSISTANCE —Assistant professor John Wardigo, center, teaches math in

than

ACT

States

...

101.

in President

eligibility

"EOP

Ausprich's annual budget," says

requirements are somewhat different

students can reside anywhere in the United

or they can be from a foreign country.

They must

also be

either educationally or economically disadvantaged."

Bloomsburg's developmental education program. He

Although the university's developmental education department

Swank of

endeavors to provide disadvantaged students with assistance, Bryan

advises students like freshman Elrica

Snydertown,

left,

in the

program's lab

in

Bakeless

Center for the Humanities. Student workers,

like

sophomore Michelle Peters of Lancaster,
also on hand to offer assistance.

are

right,

contends that

ACT

101 and

EOP

financial treatment "All students

the developmental education

students

do not receive

special

who enroll at Bloomsburg through

program must apply

for financial aid

every year."

Continued on page 3

2 The Communiqui 14

NOV 91

News Briefs

State System board of governors approve
exercise science, adult fitness program

Society of Professional Journalists
ratifies students

proposal

A

proposal to implement a master of

the program will be able to help improve the

has unanimously passed a "shield laws" pro-

science graduate degree program in exer-

quality of life, assessment, physical perfor-

posal that was written and submitted by journal-

cise science and adult fitness at Bloomsburg

mance and

was approved by the board of governors for

concerted emphasis must be placed on whole

Pennsylvania's State System of Higher

The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)

ism students

in

M.

Walter

Bloomsburg's SPJ chapter.

Brasch, professor of journalism

"A

rehabilitation for all adults.

athletics

and older people."
LeMura, national studies
reveal that greater numbers of elderly people
will need programs that respond specifically to their health and medical problems.
Noting there has been a change in demo-

from being subpoenaed by state governments to reveal their notes regarding an in-

department, at the July meeting of the

graphics in this country, she says a gradual

university's council of trustees, will "con-

increase in the average age of Americans

vestigation or to disclose information about

centrate on improving the quality of life for

has resulted in larger numbers of elderly

their sources.

elderly people."

people.

and SPJ student adviser, said ratification "indicates that the society will ask all states to imple-

which

will

broaden the protection of journalists and

their

ment and enforce

'shield laws'

According

to Brasch, "shield

laws" protect

journalists

The resolution will soon be distributed by the
society to

all state

and federal

legislators, na-

tionwide SPJ chapters, radio and televisionnews

he

and managing editors of newspapers,

said.

Ratification of the students' proposal

made

burg.

The program, initially introduced by WilLeMura of the

liam Sproule and Linda

sources."

directors

Education at its Oct. 17 meeting in Harris-

was

at SPJ's 82nd annual convention held

recently in Cleveland, Ohio.

Andruss Library extends hours
on Fridays
The Harvey A. Andruss Library has extended
its closing time from 5 to 9 p.m. on Fridays for

and

health, physical education

health

...

for adults

According

Career opportunities in exercise science

to

program

In addition, the

will allow

and adult fitness are anticipated to increase

Bloomsburg

throughout the current decade and into the

public service resource center and enable

next century, according to Sproule, profes-

the institution to further develop health

sor and assistant chairperson of the depart-

science programs and enhance relationships

ment

with local and regional health care centers.

"The job market will expand to fitness,
geriatric and medical centers, as well as
hospitals and other health care organiza-

address the needs of those people who have

tions that offer rehabilitation programs," he

one

to strengthen

its

mission as a

"A major focus of this program will be to
been victimized with the nation's number
killer

...

heart disease," says LeMura.

The program

says.

will start in January.

— Kevin B. Engler

Sproule says students who graduate fi-om

the remainder of the current academic year.

In response to recent student requests to have
the library's research collections

and

for a longer time period each Friday,

open

"faculty Ubrarians and staff

have been most

cooperative in arranging this experiment and
are eager to see

how many students, faculty and

community patrons take advantage of

the ex-

tended Friday hours," says J. Daniel Vann, dean
of library services.

A

librarian will

be on duty

at the reference

desk and the circulation and reserves services
will

remain open during the extended Friday

perform tonight
Ekaterina

'Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet'

faciUties

Columbia

Artists will present "Stars of

the Bolshoi Ballet," featuring Ekaterina

Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev,

at 8 to-

Maximova and
Vladimir Vasil-

night in Mitrani Hall of Haas Center for the
Arts.

The performance

is

part of the

university's Celebrity Artist Series.

The Bolshoi Ballet, the leading ballet
company in the Soviet Union is famous for
its

elaborately staged productions of clas-

iev will perform

as part of the
"Stars of the

Bolshoi Ballet"
at 8 tonight in

sics

Mitrani Hall.

each week," Vann says. "Active use during the

and children's ballets.
In 1900, Alexander Gorsky, maitre de
ballet, started a new era which introduced

extended Friday hours will be a major factor in

realism in scenery and costume that has

Artist of the Soviet Union."

whether or not the hours become permanent

since characterized the company's produc-

during the 1992-93 academic year."

tions.

hours.

"Andruss Library will now be open 93 hours

In addition, library hours will be from 8 ajn.
to

Yuri Grigorovitch,

4:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 27. The Univer-

sity

Archives will be open from 8 a.m. to noon

The library and archives wUl be closed Thursto Dec.

1,

during

who

succeeded

di-

and chief choreographer Leonid

Lavrovsky

that day.

day through Sunday, Nov. 28
the Thanksgiving recess.

rector

in 1964, introduced

and Vasiliev

at a

Maximova

performance of Proko-



as Danilo in

in three leading

"The Stone Rower,"

the prince in Zacharov's "Cinderella" and

Ivan the Fool in Radunsky's 'The Little

Humpbacked Horse"

— before he was

20.

ographer, he and his wife, Maximova, have

States.

danced together in numerous stage produc-

New

Prize in Paris.

Jan. 3

roles

part of the Bolshoi 's debut tour in the United

in

day, Jan. 6.

ing Resources Center, will

-

likewise entered the

Known to ballet lovers as a gifted chore-

'The Stone Rower"

Audio Visual Resources, formerly the Learnbe closed from Dec.
23 through Jan. 3. The office wiU reopen Mon-

Resources closed Dec. 23

who

York,

fiev's

Maximova joined the Bolshoi at age 18
and has won numerous honors including a
gold medal at the International Ballet Competition in Varna and the Anna Pavlova

AV

Vasiliev,

Bolshoi at age 18, danced

She was selected "People's

tions

and appeared

Franco

Zeffirelli's

in the film version

"La

of

Traviata."

Last fall, the State Theatre Museum of
Moscow mounted an exhibition devoted to
the artistry of Maximova and Vasiliev.

r
Bloomsburg University Crime Report
October 1991

Offenses

made or

Reported to or by

Arrests

University Police

cleared by other

Vandalism

5

2

Disorderly Conduct

7

7

Law

0

0

Public Drunkenness

0

0

Sexual Offenses

0
0

0
0

Drug Violations

0

0

Simple Assaults

0

0

Aggravated Assaults

0

0

Murder

0

0

Arson

0

0

Weapons Possession

0

0

DUI

0

0

Vagrancy

0

Liquor

Violations

Rape

Robbery/Burglary

Motor Vehicle Theft

0

0

From Buildings
From Vehicle

8

0

8

6

J_

J_
7

Retail Thefts

Total Thefts

17

Monthly Safety Tip: Protect your automobile.






Always lock your car doors.
Never leave keys in your vehicle.
Avoid leaving property where it is

visible,

on the

seats or in a hatchback, etc.

incidents

means

The Communique

ACT 101/EOP

declare a major, a faculty
specific

Continued from page 1
Approximately 112 students begin

member from a

academic department will then

serve as the student's adviser."

NOV 913

14

Brasch writes, edits
'With Just Cause'

their

Students will continue as part of the de-

collegiate careers at Bloomsburg each sum-

velopmental education program through-

Walter M. Brasch, professor of journal-

mer through

out their entire undergraduate career, says

ism, has recently authored and edited a

program. These students are tested for aca-

Bryan. "But that's not negative

critically

demic deficiencies and are required to attend developmental classes during the sum-

to continually provide

mer.

classes."

the developmental education

"When they come to us, we test them

"The test results will indicate whether they
be enrolled in a basic

will

level, first level

or second level course as ft^eshmen.
"I

have yet

person

if she

to find a

way

to educate a

or he doesn't attend class," he

it's

only

acclaimed book that examines the

history, philosophy

and

critical social is-

sues within media unions.
Titled With Just Cause: Unionization of

Bryan says support from other academic

to

find out what their deficits are," says Bryan.

...

them with assistance, such as helping them to register for

the

American Journalist and published by

make the developmental education program work at
Bloomsburg. "We've always had a great

University Press of America in Lanham,

deal of support from academic affairs

torical foundations

offices has helped to

...

and our students' success ratio is now better
than

it

Md., the book consists of 44

articles

which

focus on media unions, their legal and his-

and involvement in con-

temporary social issues.

"Today 's journalists no longer think they

used to be."

Admitting that other institutions gradu-

need to be protected against exploitation,

ate more students from their developmental

believing that the shackles of exploitation

programs, Bryan notes that

many of those
schools often admit "a much safer" kind of

exist only in history books," writes Brasch

studying at the collegiate level will be en-

student.

ists

tered in biology, speech, English composi-

"At Bloomsburg, we admit a number of
'high risk' students ... and many of them
would not be admitted under traditional
requirements," he says.

may need

adds.
the

"We

offer developmental classes in

summer, but

if

they miss three class

sessions, they are

dropped from the pro-

who

are found capable of

gram. Those

and Spanish classes."
Bryan indicates that orientation, counseling and academic advisement are key

tion

components of the program.
"The eight developmental instructors

"In the early years of the program,

we

in the

book's introduction. "These journal-

argue that while the blue collar workers

cation levels,

deal

used to graduate a nominal number of students," Bryan says, noting that the program 's

"As

graduation rate has been rising in recent

sional

years.

nalist

math —

Kinney and Patricia Gianotti,
work with each student to bring out the best
in their abilities," he says. "Advisement is

dents

handled by assistant director Irv Wright

tine

during their

first

year

...

'Today, nearly 50 percent of the

stu-

work-

better

more effectively with management on

Jim Mullen and Virgie Bryan, reading;
Walters, writing; and John Wardigo, Chris-

more affluence,

ing conditions and the belief that they can



Harold Ackerman, Carol Venuto and Janice

unions, the professionals don't

(need unions) since they have higher edu-

a one-to-one situation than as a group.
the rolls of the independent profes-

— whether
— become

physician, lawyer or jour-

folded with corporate

America, and as chains and groups

started college through the de-

begin buying out hospitals, law firms and

velopmental education program have gone

newspapers, the need for unions becomes

on

even stronger."

but after they

who

to graduate,"

he adds.

— Kevin B. Engler

Juan Gonzalez of the

News

New

York Daily

book "a refreshing
debate for journalists who have been
called Brasch's

parroting the death of the labor

movement

for so long they never realized they

chirping for their

Others

own

who have

were

funeral."

praised the

book inGeorge

clude: Lx)uise D.

Walsh of

Meany Center

Labor Studies, former

for

the

Ed Asner,
Lou Mleczko of the Detroit News, David
Dekok of the Harrisburg Patriot and Ann
Screen Actors Guild president

Wilhelmy of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Brasch, a

member of the National

Writ-

Union and the Newspaper Guild, is a
former newspaper reporter, columnist and

ers

editor.

He

has authored nine books including

"Black English and the Mass Media"
PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

'INTO THE STREETS* —Hundreds of Bloomsburg students, faculty and
of Carver Hall
community service on Friday, Nov. 1.

staff gathered in front

to

begin an afternoon of volunteer

in

984 "A ZIM Self-Portrait" and 'The Press
and the State" (co-authored) in 1987 and
1

,

"Forerunners of the Revolution: Muckrak-

and the American Social Conscious" in
Kevin B. Engler
1990.

ers



NOV 91

4 The Communique 14

Economist says unemployment, income
tax inequities lead to crime in U.S.
"Economic

The

vio-

inequity as reflected in the statistics

ferred funds fit)m social service spending

people from the

more poor, and the wealth has never been
more concentrated," she said.

economy, accord-

Certain demographic trends, which will

the maricet, not the public sector, should be

Malveaux

economy, so they participate in crime."
According to the first guest speaker of
Bloomsburg's fall Provost's Lecture Series, the poorest 20 percent of the population pays 13 percent of its income in taxes,
whereas the richest one percent pays inthe

less than

And

31.7 percent.

far reaching

grown

to

yet, the richest five

percent of the population

have a

$12,000 per

1990, that figure had

owns 46 percent

impact on the labor

"The median age of the population is
growingand will continue to grow. In 1900,
only four percent of the population was
over age 65, but by the year 2030, 25
percent of the population will be over 65.
People have taken for granted the aging of
America, but
about

how

it

we

much
way we live.

haven't thought

will affect the

The dependency ratio is growing. How will

tax of only seven percent

unemployment was

at

this

impact the group 18 to 64 years of age,

6.9 percent, however, the rate among blacks

which

was 13 percent and 10 percent among His-

and others 65 and over?"
America's ethnic populations are on the
rise. By the year 2030, 35 to 40 percent of

panics. Clearly, she says, the hard times are

not distributed evenly.

Speaking on "Diversity

in the

Market-

Realities" recently in Mitrani

Malveaux cited facts on the changing
labor market and its trends for the future.
"Ninety percent of us make our living by
Hall,

working," said Malveaux,

who

will

be supporting those under 18

America will be black or brown, she said.
"The fastest growing segment of the labor market is women. As of 1985-86, white

males are no longer the majority of the
labor market, and yet,

we have

an infra-

believes

structure of the past to handle very different

must be equity and equal possibilities
labor markets. "We won't achieve that,

populations of the present and future. This

there

we

believe that

some

people are better than others or produce

James Buswell

to lecture,

perform

at

BU

James Buswell, who performs
the music of Johann Sebastian Bach with
orchestras across the United States, will be
a guest artist at Bloomsburg from Saturday,
Nov. 16, through Monday, Nov. 18.
Violinist

During his three-day

visit,

scheduled as

part of the university's Provost Lecture

Series

program

this fall,

Buswell will con-

duct a "master class" at 10

Nov.

16, in Mitrani Hall

trillion in

terms of debt said Malveaux. "In

1980, Reagan said that he would cut the
national debt

It grew

a. m.,

Saturday,

of Haas Center for

During

The notion was

to defense spending.

that

providing for people.

Consequently, there was sentiment to cut
government social service programs,
Malveaux said. "The economic buzz words
of the Reagan/Bush economy became
privitization, deregulation, risk taking

competition.

own

The market was

left to

and

do

its

thing."

She was quick to point out, however, "If
you think of capitahsm as a wolf and the
government as the dentist, then the dentist
can do one of two things: either sharpen the
wolfs teeth to hurt people, or dull those
teeth to help people. Capitalism in
itself

may

not be bad, but

left

and of

unchecked

it

can be damaging and destructive."

What

are

some of

the consequences of

capitalism left unchecked under Reagan

and Bush?
Deregulation of financial services led to
the savings

and loan

crisis

which

will cost

more than one trillion dollars, or $5 ,200 per
American family. "We turned our heads
and let the wolf run through the money

who predicts

system," said Malveaux,

the next crisis will involve the insurance

There

is

movement upward

in other

the Bloomsburg University -Community Or-

chestra in Mitrani Hall.

And

at 8 p.m.,

industry.



Symphony

his career, Buswell

has been identified

New

En-

gland Conservatory of Music in Boston,
graduated from the Juilliard School in New
York and holds a bachelor's degree in Renaissance art from Harvard University.

He won

1963. Throughout

with the music of

Bach and

his per-

formances of Six

Unaccompanied
Sonatas have

re-

famed Merriwether Post

ceived unanimous

Competition in Washington, D.C., in 1962.

praise from audi-

the

Later that year, he

made

his professional

Sym-

phony, and earned a Martha Baird
Rockefeller grant to tour the United States

Patricia Kerwin

in

All events are free and open to the public.

Buswell, an instructor at the

that

with the Baltimwe

Monday, Nov. 18, he will discuss "The
Magic of Bach's Music" in Mitrani Hall.

he will

17,

trans-

frightening time."

perform as a soloist during a concert with

At 2:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov.

government

that time, the

makes for an exciting time, but a confusing,

orchestral debut with the National

the Arts.

four times in his eight

years in office."

trends, Malveaux said. "National indebted-

others."

Violinist

billion annually

of everything. 'The poor have never been

'Teople feel they cannot participate in

more than

and we now spend more than $350
on this interest, more than
we spend on defense."
Reagan and Bush introduced the word

debt,

tax inequi-

"Disaffectation has set in,"

however, as long as

in the

federal

ties disenfranchise

By

ing upward, said Malveaux.

in

on the

come

year.

Julianne Malveaux.

The

interest

Americans earned

alarming, she said. In 1979, 25 percent of

market well into the next century, are shift-

place:

is

America because
circumsuch
stances as unemployment and in-

ing to economist

In July, overall

The largest single item

is

and syndicated King's Features columnist

come

is rising.

federal budget

lence" exists in

Julianne Malveaux

said.

ness

ences and

James Buswell

critics in the

United States and

abroad.

For additional information,
fice of the provost at

call the of-

389-4308.

The Communique

result

is

in

Nations in the Far
East, such as Japan,

not the

Gay, lesbian rights
speak at BU

was 40 or
Japan is emit

50 years ago. "Everyone

ployed and the workers are loyal to

their

educational sys-

companies," said Liu. "There

little

intact and are

job switching

in

very

is

among Japanese workers

...

strong economies

and the management style is different."
Liu said many Americans believe this

that boast virtually

"jobless system"

no unemployment,
saysaBloomsburg

nese manufacturers are ahead of their U.S.

who lived much of his hfe in

is

the reason

why

Japa-

counterparts in production. "I assure you,
this is

not the reason," he stated emphati-

economic nations, you'll find excellent

"The key to Japan's jobless system
and its booming economy ... is its excellent
educational system. The Japanese use hu-

educational systems in that country," said

man resources better than we do, therefore,

that region

of the world.

"When you
ful

National

who came

Gay and Lesbian Task Force

Policy

Washington, D.C., returns to
Bloomsburg on Tuesday, Nov. 19, to lead a 4
p.m. workshop and conduct a 7:30 p.m. discussion in the McCormick Forum.
Grant, who spoke atBloomsburg last fall, will
Institute in

How can

be addressing the following questions:

we make BU a gay-positive institution? Are we
treating our gay-lesbian students, faculty

and

How

do we combat homophobia
and heterosexism? Are our non-discrimination
policies working? What does growing up gay do
staff fairly?

to

cally.

look at the world's success-

activist

Jaime Grant, director of development for the

situation in

same as

South Korea and

tems

administrator

is

5

to

Taiwan, have solid

rapidly developing

Hsien-Tung Liu

But he said the economic
Japan today

NOV 91

News Briefs

Far East countries
of excellent education, says Liu

Economic strength

14

one's self-image?

is sponsored by the Campus-wide Commission on Human Relations.

Grant' s appearance

For more information,

call

389-4281 or Mary Badami

at

Mary

Harris at

389-4188.

to the univer-

productivity is enhanced. This is what gives

dean of the College of Arts

them an edge."
Other Far East nations have similarities
to Japan and are also developing strong

Supervisory Roundtable to focus on
'cross cultural communications'
Mary Ellen Doran-Quine and Barbara Reiner,

"The key to Japan's jobless system and its booming economy ...is

economies. "South Korea, Taiwan and other

professional trainers and consultants for Speech

countries in that part of the world are com-

excellent educational system.

parable with Japan because they have a

Works Associates of Reston, Va., will present
"He Says ... She Says: Cross Cultural Commu-

The Japanese use human resources

market economy which means they are

Hsien-Tung Liu,
sity in August as

and Sciences.

its

we

better than

gives them

5, in the

do, therefore, pro-

ductivity is enhanced. This

is

nications" from 9 a.m. to noon, Thursday, Dec.

'export oriented,' a stable form of govern-

what

ment, and relatively

an edge."

weak

labor unions,"

McCormick Forum.

This program, which includes a noon lun-

cheon, has been scheduled as part of the

said Liu.

xmiversity's 1991-92 Supervisory Roundtable.

"A strong economy is basically the result

During the Ronald Reagan-Walter
Mondale presidential campaign, Liu re-

at

and those nations

called the latter candidate as saying,

Madeline Foshay

of excellent education

...

have a faltering economy have very
weak educational systems," Liu told a
McCormick Forum audience last month.
Liu, who was bom and reared in mainland China, spoke dming International
Month on "Dynamic U.S .-Asian Relations."
He noted, "One of the problems in America
that

is that

manufacturers in this country rarely

design products for the international market.

The

rest of the

world uses the metric

made

"Reagan

will bring the country

down

For additional information,

call

Bob Wislock

389-4414, Frank Curran

at

389-4541 or

at

389-4574.

to

Hong Kong wages."
Although wages in Hong Kong and other
Far East nations have historically been lower

Ausprich
appointed chair

when compared to similar jobs in theUnited
States, the trend is changing. "In Hong
Kong today, certain job categories pay much
more than similar positions in America," he

of SUNY-Purchase
evaluation team

noted.

appointed chairperson of a Middle

Liu, who lived in Hong Kong and Taiwan

President Harry Ausprich has been

States' evaluation

team

that is con-

in

before coming to America in 1960, said

ducting a 10-year accreditation evalu-

America cannot be used by people in other

U.S. manufacturing industries must exam-

ation of the State University of

countries."

ine present production methods in an effort

York at Purchase, N.Y.

system

so products that are

...

Using Japan as his primary model, Liu
American government for

criticized the

spending

"literally billions

boost the Japanese
of World

War

of dollars" to

economy

since the end

n. 'The United States has

"to produce better products" in this country.

"Because

debt,

it's

we have

the presidents of all 14 State System of

obvious our money has not been

Higher Education universities at the
Nov. 4 Pennsylvania Association of
Colleges and Universities' Region III

spent wisely," he said. "This
tion of clear-cut

is

an indica-

mismanagement."

In closing, Liu emphasized the need to

"The constitution of Japan
that exists today is the same one imposed by
Gen. Douglass MacArthur, which implemented a system of democratic government that consisted of checks and balances

develop a strong educational system as "the

years," he said.

as well as demilitarization."

all

In addition, Ausprich represented

a serious national

these

provided defense to Japan for

New

most important thing

to

do"

in the

United

At the meeting, Ausprich served on
a panel that discussed goals, strategies

and objectives for developing a "mas-

States.

"Education

meeting at the University of Scran ton.

is

a long-term investment

...

and a long-term commitment," he added.
Kevin B. Engler



ter

plan" for

all

Pennsylvania.

of higher education in

6 The

Communique 14

NOV 91

Calendar: Nov. 15-28
Friday, Nov. 15

•Film

— "Truth or Dare," Mitrani

Hall,

Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 16
•Football vs.

Navy,



James

Hall, Haas Center, 2:30 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 18



'Tartuffe," featuring Claude

Beauclair and the French Theatre Co.,

Bloomsburg High School, 1 p.m.
James Buswell discusses
"The Magic of Bach's Music,"

•Lecture

In the "American Literature I" session.
Dale Anderson, associate professor, discussed a paper tided 'The Pathway to Brilliance in The Professor's House by Willa

— "Day of Absence" performed by

Carver Hall, 2 p.m.
•Performance
featuring IMAGE signsong group, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,
2 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 25





Haas Center, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 19
featuring gay/lesbian
•Workshop
rights activist Jaime Grant, McCormick
Forum, 4 p.m.

featuring

IMAGE sign-



featuring gay/lesbian

Jaime Grant, McCormick

Forum, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 20
"Day of Absence" performed by
•Play





Campus Notes



"The Doctor," Mitrani Hall,
Haas Center, 9:30 p.m.
•Men's and women's swimming/diving
vs. Trenton State, Nelson Field House
pool, 4 p.m.
"Celtic
•International Month program
Dance Night" with Jill Emergy who will



Erickson, associate professor

of marketing and management, attended
the 1991 Southern Marketing Association
Conference held recently in Atlanta, Ga.
Erickson served as a discussant for two
papers presented on "Do Warranties Really
Affect PRoduct Attitude?" and "The Im-

Upon



Carver Hall, 8 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 22

— "Day of Absence" performed by

BU Theater, Kenneth Gross Auditorium,
Carver Hall, 8 p.m.
• Madrigal Singers Holiday Dinner and
Concert, Scranton

Commons, 7:30 p.m.

"The Doctor," Mitrani Hall,
Haas Center, 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 23
•Play
"Day of Absence" performed by



issue of Journal of the Experimental Analysis

of Behavior.

The

recent issue of the journal was a

special edition devoted

to research

on

behavioral pharmacology.

The first paper is titled "Effects of
Damphetamine on Responding Under SecPaired and Nonpaired Brief Stimuli."

is titled

Dam-

phetamine."

The reseach was partially supported by a
Cohen from the National
Institute on Drug Abuse and by a release-

research grant to

time award from the university.

Within the Airline Industry."

Erickson, Francis
Gallagher, and Stephen Batory, all associate professors of marketing and management, and Ann Schiller, a graduate student
at BU, presented a paper titled "Cultural
Determinants of Consumer Behavior."
In

"Food-paired Stimuli as Con-

ditioned Reinforcers: Effects of

Ser-

The Communique

addition,

demonstrate authentic English, Scottish,

and Welsh dances, Centennial Gym,
dance studio, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 21
•Play
"Day of Absence" performed by
BU Theater, Kenneth Gross Auditorium,

ogy, pubUshed two articles in the recent

and

Mary K.

vice Performance and Complaint Behavior



EAPSU Conference

1991.

The second paper was coauthored with
Marc Branch of the University of Florida

pact of Monetary Expenditures

•Film

All of these papers will be published in

witii

Carver Hall, 8 p.m.

•Play

Gather."

ond-order Schedules of Reinformcement

BU Theater, Kenneth Gross Auditorium,
•Film

"Rhetoric, Philology,

Steven L. Cohen, professor of psychol-

8 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 26
• Music
Fall Semester Student Recital,
Kenneth Gross Auditorium, Carver Hall,
8 p.m.
•Women's basketball vs. Delaware
Valley, Nelson Field House, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 27
•Thanksgiving recess begins, 2 p.m.



rights activist

titled

the Proceedings of the

Provost's Lecture Series, Mitrani Hall,

•Lecture

sented a paper

and the Origins of Twentieth Century Liter-

song group, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,
featuring violinist

Buswell with the Bloomsburg University-Community Orchestra, Mitrani

•Play

ary Criticism."

•Play

•Performance

8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 17



Sunday, Nov. 24



vs.

Nelson Field House pool, 1 p.m.
• QUEST
Caving at Pleasant Gap,

•Fall Concert

In the "Theory and Praxis" session,
Terrance Riley, assistant professor, pre-

BU Theater, Kenneth Gross Auditorium,

West Chester,

Redman Stadium, 1 p.m.
•Women's swimming/diving

BU Theater, Kenneth Gross Auditorium,
Carver Hall, 8 p.m.
• Madrigal Singers Holiday Dinner and
Concert, Scranton Commons, 7:30 p.m.

A

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

The Communique publishes
news of activities, events and developments at
faculty and staff.

BU bi-weekly throughout the academic year.
Please submit story ideas,

news

briefs

and

calendar information at least two weeks in

advance to The Communique, University Re-

members of the Enghsh department gave papers at the EngUsh AssociaSeveral

tion of Pennsylvania State Universities

(EAPSU) Conference

in

October, spon-

sored by California University of Pennsyl-

17815.

BU is committed to providing equal educational

and employment opportunities for

all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

vania.

In the "Writing 11" session,

McCuIIy,

and Communication Office,
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

lations

assistant professor,

Mike

and Frank

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or

union

mem-

bership.

Peters, associate professor, presented a joint

paper titled "Approaches to Assessing Writing Samples from Students at

Freshman

and Senior Levels."
Margaret Wyda Quintanar, instructor,
discussed a paper titled "Changing Myth,
Language, and Identity: Assignment Sequencing and the Freshman Mind."

The

university

is

to affirmative action

additionally committed

and will take positive

steps to provide such educational

and em-

ployment opportunities.
Editor: Kevin B. Engler
Editorial Assistant: Christina

J.

Gaudreau

Contributing Writer: Palrida Kenvin

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

Management-marketing split, accreditation of communication
disorders graduate programs reported at trustees meeting
The

separation of the College of

Business' marketing and management

Clinic has been accredited

Bloomsburg University
was announced at the university's

"Another wing of

programs

at

council of trustees quarterly meeting

Wednesday, Nov. 20,

at the

Magee

that

said.

...

and I think

it's

very important that

they gain recognition as a separate, distinct department," she noted.

A separate marketing department would better serve students in
program development and placement, she said. Other
benefits would include: recruiting and retaining qualified faculty
advising,

and students; enhancing public image, credibility and

visibility in

corporate recruitment and placement of students; increasing ad-

for

development

activities,

But

to receive

academic curriculum accreditation from

institutions are required to operate
arts

ASHA,

a four-year undergraduate

and general education with

"just a

ogy should really be done at the graduate level
two additional years of study."

The marketing department has grown to 300 majors and employs
six full-time faculty members, while the management program has
409 majors and 11 full-time faculty. "Certainly, the marketing

ministrative effectiveness;

accredited our clinic for the last 13 or 14 years," he noted.

"Education and training in speech language pathology and audiol-

the marketing faculty they should wait

goal

more than a decade.

vice president for academic affairs,

time, former provost Larry Jones told

its

for

reported the separation of the the two

department became larger," she

program has attained

ASHA

smattering of communication disorders' classes," said Miller.

been anticipated since 1981. "At

until the

by

the Professional Services Board, has

Betty D. Allamong, provost and

departments, effective in January, has

Allamong

ASHA,

degree program in liberal

Center.

Betty D.

Miller said the university's Speech, Hearing and Language

Miller said the university tried to get

...

and this requires

ASHA's

approval on

its

few years ago, but that attempt failed.
According to ASHA, "we were placing too much emphasis on
training at the undergraduate level ... and our student-faculty ratio,
about 20-to-one in our five-year program, did not meet their six-toone regulation for a two-year graduate level program," he said.
About four years ago, ASHA mandated a policy that would only
recognize practitioners who graduated from accredited programs.
This prompted the university to comply with ASHA's accreditation
five-year curriculum a

requirements.

"We

spent the last three or four years formulating a

ASHA's standards," said Miller.
By gaining ASHA accreditation, Bloomsburg now ranks as "one

plan that would meet

of eight accredited graduate training programs

in

speech language

pathology, and one of four in audiology, in the state," he added.

— Kevin B. Engler

and creating additional opportunities
she said.

Separating the two departments does not require
additional facilities, said Allamong, noting that faculty

and students

in the

management program

will

also enjoy the benefits of a separate identity.

President Harry Ausprich announced that
Bloomsburg's master's degree programs in speech
language pathology and audiology had recently received accreditation from the Educational Standards

Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association

(ASHA).

According to G. Donald Miller, assistant chairperson and professor of communication disorders and
special education, the five-year accreditation

became

effective in

October and runs through September

1996. "This

is

the

first

time our programs have re-

ceived accreditation from
dards board," said Miller.

ASHA's educational stan-

DINING WITH A VIEW

— A solarium dining area

recently opened in Monty's delicatessen

PHOTO BY JOAS HELPER
that seats

on the upper campus.

about 50 people

2 The

Communique 27

NOV 91

News Briefs

December

Jerrold Griffis plans to retire in

BU music groups to perform

Jerrold A. Griffis,

years of service,

'Joy of Christmas' concert
The Concert Choir, Brass Menagerie and

vice president for

earned a bachelor

student

of science degree

Brass Quintet musical groups will present the

at Bloomsburg.

at 8 pjn., Friday,

Bloomsburg University, announced

and 2:30 pjn., Saturday, Dec. 7, in the
Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium of Carver Hall.

his retirement ef-

the university in

m^m

fective Dec. 27, at

May

y^^M

university's

"Joy of Christmas" concert
Dec.

life

at

began working

He
at

6,

Under the direction of B. Eric Nelson,
tant professor of music, the

classical

-

assis-

groups will perform

I

and popular Christmas music.

Nelson, accompanied by area keyboard spe-

Jerrold Grtffis

ciaUst Harry Martenas, will conclude the pro-

gram with an audience sing-along of some

fa-

Admission is free. For additional information, call 389^284.

ager and accoun-

quarterly meeting

tant

Magee Center.
The retirements of three other long-time

20, at the

—Paul Conard,
Robert Norton and John Scrimgeour—
university administrators

also

were announced

man-

council of trustees

Wednesday, Nov.

vorite Christmas carols.

1964 as assis-

tant business

and was promoted to his current position in 1977.

Norton, assistant vice president and dean

of student

"I plan on visiting

at the meeting.

wrapping up nearly 30

life, is

years of service at the university.

some friends and playing

Second insurance course offered by
School of Extended Programs
The second in a sequence of courses, titled

as Bloomsburg's

"Accredited Adviser in Insurance '82: Mul-

vice president, said he leaves the university

the students

with a few regrets.

the faculty and staff

Insurance Production," will be of-

tiple-lines

on Tuesday evenings during

fered

the spring

semester by the School of Extended Programs.

This course, which begins in January and
ends in

late April, will

focus on insurance cov-

erages for major commercial lines and successful selling techniques.

Cost

is

— $175

$200

tion of Insurance

Griffis,

for National Associa-

Women members — and in-

who has

served the

last

20 years

and only student life

first

years."

work with those individuals who
work with young people. I'll also miss

started

to

being around

to see all the

as the completed

new ideas, such

Kehr Union renovation

and the construction of a recreation

Extended Programs

at

center,

who

has served 34 years in edu-

cation, came to Bloomsburg in August 197

dean of residence hfe

at

Women undergrads sought for

Ohio University

'Glamour' magazine competition

worked as a residence
dean of men's office
at Penn State-University Park from 196365, and was assistant dean of men at
Bucknell University in Lewisburg from
1965-71.

Bloomsburg women undergraduate students
are full-time juniors are invited to partici-

pate in

Glamour magazine's "1992 Top Ten

College

Women" competition.

The competition, which recognizes exceptional

achievements of women

at colleges

who

are juniors

and universities across the nation,

He

For an application and further

details, see

Lucinda Kishbaugh in the financial aid office in
Franklin Hall.

midnight, Sunday, Dec.

also

holds a bachelor of

Robert Norton

education from Slippery

Rock

University

and a master' s degree in education from the

a master's degree in education from

Ohio University and a doctorate
tion from Penn Stale.

in

at registration is

Andruss Library

asked to contact

at

389-4126.

ranks as the university s senior faculty mem'

ber, will

be completing 33 years of service

as a faculty

member,

educa-

financial aid officer

and counselor.
"I'll

miss the

people

who have

said.

Jan,

"My

and

I

wife,

plan to

stay right here in

miss relating with all the people who

Bloomsburg and

make

enjoy all the friends

this university tick," Griffis

department and food service workers."

and associations
we've made throughout the years. I plan

to

Conard, assistant vice president for ad-

stay involved in the alumni organization

ministration and acting director of person-

and attend Huskies' games and matches."
Scrimgeour, who began working at the

8.

Infor-

Scrimgeour, psychological counselor who

partofmyUfe,"he

sity,

nel, said he's preparing himself for a

sought by Andruss librarian
The individual who issued "For Your

University of Pittsburgh.

become such a big

added, "especially the secretaries, athletic

Distributor of 'Information' sheets

Bill Frost in

in

September 1962,

West Chester Univer-

new

university in January 1959, earned a bach-

daily routine.

mation" sheets

Bloomsburg

Griffis holds a bachelor of science de-

gree in education at

really

The Harvey A. Andruss Library will extend
its hours during the weekendof Dec. 7-8 prior to
final exam week. The library will be open from
9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 7, and from noon
to

Athens, Ohio, from

1958-63.

"I'll

Andruss Library to extend hours
during weekend of Dec. 7-8

in

hall coordinator in the

awards 10 recipients with a $1,000 cash prize.

Ben

Norton, who
working at

389-4420.
after serving as

who

*

science degree in

to fruition."

Griffis,

School of

and

the 'razor' sedge' to work with young people

come

call the

...

members I ve been

and

and Florida,"

he said. "B ut F m going to miss being around

closest to over the

Participants can also receive 2.6 continuing

For more information,

tennis in the Carolinas

"I will truly miss the youthfulness of

cludes course instruction and study materials.

education imits.

some

higher education," he said. "It keeps you on

...

Paul Conard

"It's

going to be different, but

I

plan to

keep busy doing local volunteer work with
the Red Cross, United Way and Sl Matthew Lutheran Church," he said.
Conard, who is completing more than 27

elor of science degree at

Bloomsburg and

master's in education degrees in physical
science and counselor education at Penn
State-University Park.

— Kevin B. Engler

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In addition, he

Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania,

cer at

NSA

worked as a training

emy

for the Pro-

fession of Teaching, both located
offi-

in Harrisburg.

He

and the U.S. Air Force head-

also served as

was an inter-

chairperson for

From

viewer for the Virginia State Employment

AASCU's Com-

Here" during Bloomsburg University's fall

Service in Alexandria, Va., and served 12

mittee on Excel-

commencement convocation ceremony

years in the U.S. Naval Reserve.

lence in Teaching
and Learning and
was commission-

will discuss "Stellar

Chrondites and

quarters in Washington, D.C.,

Dust Carbonaceous

Where Do

We Go

at

2:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 15,inMitraniHall

Gilbert earned a bachelor of science in

psychology at the University of New Mexico

of Haas Center for the Arts.
Gilbert

assumed the presidency

He

Stroudsburg in July 1986.

at

East

at

Albuquerque
psychology

in

academic affairs, and professor of psychology over an eight-year period at

ington, D.C.

for

tively,

in

July 1971 until his appointment at

'

s

he

and doctoral degrees

1959 and 1969, respec-

ing as a

activities include serv-

member and

chairperson of the

Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and

as a psychology professor and associate

Universities'

vice chancellor-dean of faculty at Indiana

sities, and the Chancellor ' s Executive

University-Purdue University in Fort

mittee for the State System of Higher Edu-

Wayne,

cation.

Commission

for the Univer-

Com-

Prior to his appointment at Indiana-

He also serves as vice chairperson of the

Purdue, he worked seven years as an asso-

American Association of State Colleges
and Universities' (AASCU) Presidents
Commission for Teacher Education and
holds membership in AASCU, the American Psychological Society, and the American Association of Higher Education.

ciate professor of education

and associate

dean of university administration at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass.

EarUer in his career, Gilbert was em-

ployed as a research psychologist and educational psychologist at the National Security

Agency (NSA)

in Fort

Gilbert

Meade, Md.

sion on the Role

is

Gilbert

and the Future of

State

Colleges and Universities.

His community involvement has encompassed service with the Pocono Mountain

Pittsburg State in January 1978, he served

Ind.

James E.

er for its Commis-

from American University in Wash-

His professional

Pittsburg State University in Kansas.

From

in 1952. Subsequently,

was awarded master

previously

served as interim president, vice president

Chamber of Commerce

in Stroudsburg,

Pennsylvania Special Olympics Committee in

Shawnee, Pocono Center for the Arts

in East S troudsburg and The Rotary Club of

the Stroudsburgs.
In addition, he has served the Ben Franklin

Technology Partnership Program of Northeastern Pennsylvania in Bethlehem, Minsi
Trail Council of the Boy Scouts of America
in

Allentown, and the State System United

Way Campaign in

Harrisburg.

A native of Bridgeport, Conn., he and his
wife, Betty, have been married 38 years and

have a married son, Gregory.

— Kevin B. Engler

a past director of the State

System's University Center and the Penn-

Mayor commends BU

Holiday Open House

'Into the Streets'

for

program

George H.Hemingway,
mayor of Bloomsburg, wrote the fol-

Editor' s Note:

for faculty and staff

lowing

letter

of appreciation to

all

and students
on behalfofTown Government and the
university faculty, staff

Wednesday, Dec, 11

9

to

10:30 a,m,
at

Buckalew Place

citizens

of Bloomsburg:

"Please accept the sincere thanks of

Town Government and the citizens of
Bloomsburg

for your outstanding ef-

fort Friday,

Nov.

1,

1991, for your

"Into the Streets" program.

"We

*** Special recognition of all
retiring faculty and staff ***

understand that Bloomsburg

University was chosen as a hub cam-

pus because of its outstanding student
volunteer program. Many town agencies and organizations can certainly

ongoing volunteer effort.
"These are the kind of things that

attest to this

RSVP: 389-4526

3

sylvania Acad-

East Stroudsburg president to deliver
December commencement address
James E. Gilbert, president of East

NOV 91

LARGEST SMOKELESS
INDUSTRY STAND TALL."
make our

4 The Communique 27

NOV 91

21 university faculty members to
named in this
who declared their retirements to

Editor's Note: The faculty retirees
article are those

Acierno

the university before

Monday, Nov.

18. Other

Bloomsburg faculty who plan to retire in December will be announced in the Dec. 12 issue of The
Communique.

degree at Montclair State College in New Jersey.

She is completing 34 years in education.
William L. Carlough, professor of philosophy,
has served on the faculty since September 1964.

Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Mich.
Additionally, he earned a master of sacred theology
degree from General Theological Seminary and a

the university's council of trustees quarterly meet-

Magee Center.

tant professor of geography

who

May after serving on

August 1973.

holds a bachelor of science degree and a master of

holds a bachelor of arts degree

business administration degree from Penn State-Uni-

the faculty since

Stetson,

from Yale University

in

New

Haven, Conn., a

master of arts degree from the University of Dela-

ware

at

Newark,

Del.,

and a doctorate from the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C.,
recently completed 30 years in education.

Those

New York University in New
York City. He is completing 33 years in education.
Bernard C. Dill, professor of finance and business
law, has served on the faculty since August 1968. Dill

doctoral degree from

and earth science, was

reported. Stetson retired last

December include

versity Paric

and a doctor of business administration

degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

He is completing 30 years in education.

Wendelin R. Frantz, professor of geogr^hy and
earth science, has served on the faculty since June

the follow-

1968. Frantz holds a bachelOT of arts degree from

William A. Acierno, associate professor of mass

Wooster College in Ohio, and a master of science
degree and a doctoral degree from the University of

retiring in

ing:

communications, has served on the faculty since

August 1966. Acierno holds a bachelor of arts
degree from the University of Pittsburgh and a
master of fine arts degree from the Carnegie

Pittsburgh.

He is completing 37 years in education.
M. Hess, professor of curriculum and

Charlotte

foundations, has served on the faculty since January

Insti-

1972. Hess earned a bachelor of science degree and a

tute of Technology at Carnegie-Mellon University

master's in education degree at Bloomsburg and

in Pittsburgh.

He is completing 30 years in educa-

Charles

holds a doctoral degree from Penn State-University

She is completing 39 years in education.
Lee C. Hopple, professor of geography and earth
science, has served on the faculty since September
1961. Hopple earned a bachelor of science degree
from Kutztown University and a master of science
degree and doctorate degree at Penn State-University
Park.

tion.

M.

Bayler, associate professor of ac-

counting, has served on the faculty since August

1965. Bayler earned a bachelor of science degree

from Susquehanna University

in

Selinsgrove and

holds a master of business administration degree

DiU

arts

Bloomsburg University will retire effective Friday, Dec. 27. These retirements were announced at

total

Also, the retirement of George E. Stetson, assis-

Carlough

1977. Bond received a bachelor of arts degree from
Wheaton College in Illinois and earned a master of

Carlough received a bachelor of arts degree from
Hope College and a bachelor of divinity degree from

faculty

ing today at the

Bond

gram, has served on the faculty since September

members who have contributed
of 457 years of service to

Twenty

a combined

Bayler

retire in Dee

from Bucknell University

in

Lewisburg.

He

is

completing 26 years in education.

Ruth Anne Bond, assistant professor and project
Upward Bound pro-

director of the university's

He is completing 35 years in education.
Andrew J. Karpinski, professor and chairperson

Park.

of communication disorders and special education,
has served on the faculty since August 1967. Karpinski

Frantz

Karpinski

Keller

The Communique 27

NOV 91

:ember
holds a bachelor of science degree, a master's degree

elor of science degree from California State College

and a doctoral degree in education from
Penn State-University Park. He is completing 36

San Bernardino, Calif., a master's degree in educafrom the University of Pittsburgh and a master of
arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana,

in education

years in education.

Martin M. Keller, associate professor of curriculum and foundations, has served on the faculty since

in

tion

He is completing 33 years in education.
Thomas L. OhI, assistant professor of mathemat-

111.

and computer science, has served on the faculty

September 196 1 Keller earned a bachelor of science

ics

degree from Indiana State Teachers College

since August 1968.

.

in Terre

Haute, Ind., and a master's degree in education from
the University of Pittsburgh.

He

is

completing 35

Ohl earned a bachelor of science

degree from Bloomsburg and a master's in education
degree from Millersville University.

He

is

complet-

ing 34 years in education.

years in education.

Colleen J. Marks, professor of communication

Lauretta Pierce, professor of nursing and director

on the

of health sciences, has served on the faculty since

disorders and special education, has served
faculty since January 1969.

Marks earned a bachelor

of science degree atEdinboro University, a master of
arts degree

from the University of Illinois at Jackson-

ville, 111., and a doctoral

degree in education at Lehigh

University in Bethlehem. She is completing 29 years
in education.

September 1975. Pierce received her license as a
from the Harrisburg Polychnic Hospital School of Nursing.
She holds a bachelor of
registered nurse

science degree in education from

sity

John M. McLaughlin, professor of communicaand special education, has served on
the faculty since June 1968. MacLaughlin earned a
bachelor of science degree at Lock Haven University
and holds a master's degree and a doctoral degree in
education from Penn State-University Park. He is
tion disorders

Temple University,

a master of science degree in nursing from the Univerof Pennsylvania and a doctoral degree from

Thomas

Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.

She is completing 30 years in education.
Robert L. Rosholt, professor and chairperson of
political science, has served on the faculty since
January 1969.

Rosholt earned a bachelor of

arts

degree atLuther College in Decorah, Iowa, and holds
a master of arts degree in public administration and a

completing 30 years in education.
Scott E. Miller Jr., associate professor and read-

doctoral degree from the University of Minnesota at

has served on the faculty since

Duluth, Minn. He is completing 35 years in education.

ers' services librarian,

January 1967. Miller holds bachelor of arts degree, a
master of arts degree and a master of library science
degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
pleting

27 years

Allen F.

He is com-

professor of languages and

cultures, has served on the faculty since August 1972.

Murphy earned a bachelor of arts degree

Edward Warden,

associate professor of cur-

since August 1967.

Warden holds a bachelor of sci-

ence degree from Millersville University and a master

in education.

Murphy,

R.

riculum and foundations, has served on the faculty

at

Kenyon

of arts degree from Villanova University in Philadelphia.

He

is

completing 33 years

Melvyn L. Woodward,

in education.

professor of marketing

College in Gambier, Ohio, and a master of arts degree
and a doctoral degree from Ohio State University in

and management, has served on the faculty since

Columbus, Ohio. He

degree from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, and a

is

completing 32 years in edu-

master of business administration degree and doctoral

cation.

Ronald

September 1975. Woodward holds a bachelor of arts

W. Novak,

associate professor of math-

ematics and computer science, has served on the
faculty since

degree at Ohio State University

He is completing 29

September 1964, Novak holds a bach-

in

Columbus, Ohio.

years in education.

— Kevin B. Engler

Ohl

Murphy

Novak

5

NOV 91

Communique 27

6 The

procedures had been introduced into Indian

News Briefs

Religion,

BU students invited to participate

gender issues
have divided

nationalism. This influx stimulated the

India, says

growth of a new Westernized middle class
in India and provided the basis of the Indian

courts. "Ironically,

in research conference in April

Graduate and undergraduate students

Bloomsburg

at

are invited to share their research

as part of the fourth annual State

System "Stu-

dent Research Conference" April 3-4 at Slip-

pery Rock University.

The event is open to all college and university
who are majoring in

abstracts must be submitted by Jan. 17. For a
form or additional information, visit the graduate studies andresearch office in Waller Admin-

is

In-

torn

religion,

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

PACT grant request

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has ap-

caste,

Rafey Habib

Academic Consulting and Training (PACT)

grant.

said.

further in the

Mohandas K. Gandhi. Bom in
Gandhi was sent to London
as a boy. As a young man he qualified as a
British barrister. In England, Gandhi was
figure of

India in 1869,

and the woilcs of such

assistant professor

Tolstoy. Gandhi also traveled to South Af-

of English, during

rica

his lecture held in

shaped, incorporating Christian, Hindu and

conjunction with

humanitarian ideas.

Bloomsburg's

proved Bloomsburg's request for a Partnership

Western

and gender,
said Rafey Habib,

class

istration Building.

for

Habib noted the irony goes

by deep
divisions based on

any academic discipline. Registration forms and

was these measures

independence movement," he

Contemporary
dia

it

later fostered the influx of

ideas of liberalism, individual rights and

Rafey Habib

students in Peimsylvania

approves

which

In-

introduced to liberal and Christian ideas

where

influential writers as

his philosophy continued to

be

"Gandhi's beUef in human rights brought

temational Festi-

him

val month.

tions," said Habib.

into conflict with

Hindu caste distinc-

The grant, proposed by mathematics andcom-

Habib traced the development of "The

"At the core of his doctrine was 'ahimsa'

puter science professor Zahira Khan, will be

Culture and Politics of India: Gandhi to the

or non-violence which was one expression

of his discussion, which

of 'satya' or truth." Truth, he defined "as

used to promote supercomputing at Bloomsburg.

Khan

will serve as a consultant to

campus

users and provide assistance and training to

execute programs.

According

BUTV,

BUTV

to a recent

survey conducted by

an estimated 2,900 area homes were

tuned in to the imiversity 's television station for
at least

one of five t^-delayed broadcasts of

between Columbia

the pre-election debate

Coimty judicial candidates Scott Naus and Tom
James.

BUTV

can be viewed on Service Electric

Cable chaimel 13 intheBloomsburg-Catawissa
areas

and on Cable TV Company channel 10 in

the Berwick, Orangeville

title

briefly explored the evolution of these

self-realization, freedom

longstanding differences.

nation, breaking of caste barriers, and liv-

and Millville

areas.

ing close to nature."

ent peoples. "Aryans, Turks, Afghans, Por-

the British in India,

tuguese, Moghuls, French and English all

otal in the

occupied India and

Indian National Congress

'Holiday

And

president's office staff, cordially invite
staff members to a

all

imi-

"Holiday

Open House" from 9 to 10:30 a.m., Wednesday,
Dec. 11,

at

RSVP's

Buckalew

Place.

are requested. Call the office of the

president at 389-4526.

The newly organized AIDS awareness comBloomsburg is looking for additional
campus members. The group meets bi-weekly
in the McCormick Forum.
Faculty and staff personnel who would like to
participate or receive more information should
contact Stuart Schrader, assistant professor of
studies, at

emperor, Babar.

Hindu

subjects.

How-

389-4897.

two groups were

—a predomi—held

nantly Hindu organization

meeting

in 1881,

convened

its first

and the Muslim League

in 1906.

Initially the

Hindus and Muslims were

united in the fight for independence.

subordinates to the Hindus, said Habib.
In 1940,

Mohammed

Ali Jinnah, leader

of the Muslim League, called for the forma-

Mushm homeland

was partitioned.

the period of British rule.

Nehru was

installed as the first

he explained, the British

default. In 1600,

How-

Muslims realized that once independence had been won, they would be
ever, the

moil, India

The British found themselves in India by

by

piv-

independence movement The

Pakistan. After

tion of an independent

much bloodshed and

ister of India, Jinnah

In 1947,

tur-

when

Prime Min-

became the first Prime

Minister of Pakistan.

government chartered the East India Com-

Following India's partition, an exodus of

When

enormous proportions from both countries
ensued. Hindus and Sikhs left Pakistan for
India; Muslims fled in the other direction.
At least 500,000 people died.
Nehru could loosely be called "a Demo-

to trade in the East Indies.

Dutch trade eclipsed

England tiuned

that of the British,

to India for

its

spices, sugar, cotton and textiles.

at

communication

first

MusUm Moghuls succeeded

In reaction to various measures taken

Habib said, under the rule of the
Emperor Aurangzeb, tensions between the
two religions developed, cUmaxing during

pany

BU starts AIDS awareness group
mittee

Moghul empire began

in 1517, the

under the rule of its

ever,

President Harry Ausprich, his family and the

and

mark."

Roman Catholic colony.

and established a

in integrating their

Open House'

versity faculty

left their

Muslim Turks broke the j)ower of Hindu
states by the end of the 12th century, according to Habib. Delhi was sacked by the
Turk, Taimur, in 1 398. The Portuguese, led
by Vasco da Gama, arrived at Goa in 1497

Initially, the

Faculty, stafT invited to

from foreign domi-

He noted that during the course of its long
was invaded by many differ-

history, India

Naus, James debate viewed in

2^00 area homes on

Present," the

the British

share of

By

1818,

had established hegemony on

the subcontinent

Along with
noted,

came

its

cratic Socialist," said
political control,

Habib

the imposition of British cul-

ture in India. In 1835, English
official language.

By

became

the

1861, English legal

mined

Habib. "He under-

privilege, effected

heavy taxation of

the upper class and divided industry

into

public and private spheres.

Continued on page 8

NOV 91

7

what they need

to

The Communiqui 27

Olivo tells visitors from Gansu Province how
U.S. technology has changed in past decade

aren't going to learn

know to survive," he said. 'The computer is
just another tool



like

a pencil or pen



to

help us learn."

Technological advancements, such as
personal computers and compact disk players,

have become the norm

in this country,

John Olivo, business education and

said

office administration professor, during a

recent presentation titled

"What a

Differ-

ence a Decade Makes."

Speaking to six visiting educators from

Gansu Province

in China,

Olivo explained

how technology has changed in the United
"You can sit down at your desk and use a
compact disk cassette into a
player ... and your elementary school-age
child is probably more computer literate
slip a

...

than you are." He noted the new technology

been designed and implemented

that has

in

the classroom.

In the 1960s, technology
as data processing.

The

was referred to

first

computer,

UNIVAC, at the University of Pennsylvania, "filled

vacuum

an entire room and had large

tubes to handle the processing of

information," Olivo said.

"Now we have

technology that

is

small,

about the size of your fingernail, that can do

more than the large computer. Processors
operate very fast ... and multi-tasking allows users to sit at a computer and do a
variety of things at the same time."
In the '70s, word processing was introduced.

"IBM

"approximately 45 million PCs" will be in

doesn't like to read, teachers can

"At one time

Even though
a lot cheaper, they're more power-

the

in the

United States, the

—reading,
and
metic —were emphasized. Now we look
cooperative
Cs—
andcoping with change—
Computer
—how
a comRs

three

writing,

arith-

at

learning

"Years ago,

show

more," said Olivo.

come down
we paid
maybe $10,000 for a PC, and now you can
cost for technology has

be

will

student a picture so they'll understand

the three

The

more emphasis

In the future,

placed on visual education. "If a student

use in this country, he said.
greatly, too, he said.

States over the past 10 years.

PC

machine communication," he said. "It was
found that we don't need the programming
we had at one time because software programs are so sophisticated."
The federal government has predicted
that every office worker will be using a
computer terminal by 1995, which means

critical thinking,

as well."

to turn

literacy

puter on and how to process information

get one for about $1,000.

has also been emphasized.

they're

com-

"We're finding that many students know
how a computer works, but they need to
know how to access all the information,"

puters being used in schools," he said.

said Olivo. "They're inundated with so

"However, there are some schools with a
lot of technology ... and there are other
schools that don' t have any. Overall, there'
only one computer per 30 students based
upon all schools in this country."
Olivo said many states have incorporated
"distance learning," whereby a student may
wish to take a Chinese course offered at
another school. "Through the technology
of satellite and TV, those students can learn
from students at the other school," he said.
Teachers must adapt to this technology,

much

ful than

computers years ago."

"By 1987,

there

were

1.7 million

information, and they need to decide

what information

to use."

Olivo said teachers need

ogy

to use technol-

to facilitate learning. "It's an exciting

time to be a teacher now," he said.

"At one time, it used to be 'I teach, they
But now it's 'we learn,' because we
can learn a lot from our students ... and
learn.'

everyone can learn together," he added.

— Christina Gaudreau

said Olivo. "If they don't, their students

developed a magnetic tape

Selectric typewriter that could store infor-

mation on a magnetic disk," said Olivo.
"This technology was used primarily for
writing text."

The 1980s introduced "information proComputers were implemented in
many business organizations and educational settings. Computers with little
memory, such as Atari, Apple and Commo-

cessing."

dore,

were commonly used.

"Some

software applications, such as

word processing, spread sheets and data
bases, that were introduced in the '80s are
still

in use today," said Olivo.

In the '90s, information sytems

become

quite

have

common. "There's so much

information," said Olivo, "that businesses

today need to get a handle on the information

flow within their areas."

Olivo said the federal government has

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

conducted a study on trends in the office up

TECHNOLOGY LESSON — John

to the year 2000. "Some predictions are that

business education and office administration program, found visiting educators from

the United States will see more machine-to-

Gansu Province

in

Olivo, standing at

left,

chairperson ofBloomsburg's

China were fascinated with technological advancements

in the U.S.

8 The Communique

27

NOV 91

Campus Notes

Calendar

Continued from page 6

Monday, Dec. 2
Classes resume, 8 a.m.

•Men's basketball

vs.

"It's

Kenneth

a Wonderful Life,"

Gross Auditorium, Carver

S.

property rights, divcM-ce and the remarriage

cation, has been elected vice president for

of widows."

professional preparation of the Pennsylva-

In 1948, a Hindu fanatic murdered
Mohandas Gandhi because he "gave too

nia Speech-Language- Hearing Association.

Tuesday, Dec. 3



"He also initiated legislation on women's

communication disorders and special edu-

Lowe,

J.

Susquehanna,

Nelson Field House, 7:30 p.m.
•Film

assistant professor of

Robert

•Hanukkah


Religion

He

will serve a two-year term as chief

administrator for continuing education and
professional preparation.

HaU,7and9:30 p.m.
Blumberg, Haas Gallery through

Dec. 13; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekdays
•Julie

Blumberg reception, Haas Gallery,

3 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 6

Kenneth

S.

Gross Auditorium, Carver



BU Invitational,

Saturday, Dec. 7

Gross Auditorium, Carver

— Caving

She was honored

at the

PCAA

Distin-

guished Educators' Legislative program in

2th Annual

Arizona Cello Symposium for grades four
through 12

at

Arizona State University's
in October.

small classes for

all levels

conducted an all-participant, 7 5 -piece or-

symposium

Gap,

•Final examinations begin, 8 a.m.

Commencement, Mitrani

Hall,

Haas

Lanka

life.

was to send Indian troops

to help quell insurrections

vs. California,

Nelson Field House, 5 p.m.

•Monday, Dec. 16

In India today,

no

political party has a

majority in ParUament and therefore gov-

ernment

is

by

coalition, said Habib. In the

global political arena, India continues to

maintain

its

meaning

it

position of "non-alignment,"

does not side with either the

Eastern bloc or Western nations.

Habib said India's

relations with the

United States have been improving ever
in 1981.

— Patricia Kerwin

Day

in October.

His topic was

A

titled

"Student Develop-

ment Career Coimseling Assessments and
Choices."

Allan

M.

Kluger,

who

serves on the

Bloomsbiu"g University Foimdation board,

University offices closed through

was

Thursday, Jan. 2

Commission by Gov. Robert P. Casey.

basketball vs. Slippery Rock,

Nelson Field House, 2 p.m.

Monday, Jan. 13
Spring semester begins

•Classes resume, 8 a.m.

BU bi-weekly throughout the academic year.
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Wednesday, Jan. 1
•New Year's Day
Friday, Jan. 10 and Saturday, Jan. 11
•Men's basketball, BU Invitational,

The Communique

counselors' workshop at the Holiday Inn-

Semester break begins through Jan. 12

•Wednesday, Dec. 25

by

separatists."

ment, was a guest speaker at the Lackawanna

Hazleton

Center, 2:30 p.m.



s fatal error

Junior College School District's guidance

Sunday, Dec. 15

•Women's

'

she

and des-

since Ronald Reagan met with Indira Gandhi

Jack Mulka, dean of student develop-

Monday, Dec. 9

•Women's basketball

of ability and

...

ecrated their shrine, she paid with her

to Sri

1

When

civil rights.

sent troops against the Sikhs

Tamil

was guest conductor at the

numerous

sion of

Rock University.

chestra while attending the
at Pleasant

8 a.m. to 7 p.m.



of emergency which involved the suspen-

Slippery

Jelinek served as a master teacher for

Hall, 2:30 p.m.

QUEST

Habib. "Her response was to declare a state

"Distinguished Educator" by her alma ma-

School of Music

Classes end

•"The Joy of Christmas" concert,



agrarian and industrial disturbances," said

Mark Jelinek, assistant professor of mu-

Nelson Field House, 6 and 8 p.m.

S.

named Pennsylvania
(PCAA)

Business, has been

sic,

•Women's basketball,

Kenneth

"The reign of Mrs. Gandhi, Nehru's
was marked by severe economic,

Council of Alumni Associations'

a Wonderful Life,"

7 and 9:30 p.m.

1984, and

in

daughter,

October.

"It's

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,



Prime Minister Indira Gandhi

Raj iv

Hall, 8 p.m.

•Film

Carol Matteson, dean of the College of

ter.

•"The Joy of Christmas" concert,

concessions to the Muslims," said

Habib. Assassins also claimed the lives of
her son, Rajiv Gandhi, in 1991.

•Thesis Exhibition, "Emergence," by
Julie

many

recently

named

to the State Ethics

Kluger has served on the board since

1986 and was instrumental

in the negotia-

tions between the foundation and the Agency

for Instructional Technology in the market-

ing of "Attributes for Successful

Employ-

17815.

BU is committed to providing equal educational

and employment opp»rtunities for aU

persons without regard to race, ccdor, religion,
sex, age, national origin, ancestry, Ufe style,

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or

union

mem-

bership.

The

university

is

additionally committed

to affirmative action and will take positive

ability,"

an interactive video program pro-

duced by BU's

Institute for Instructional

Technology.

He

is

a partner in the firm of Hourigan,

Kluger, Spohrer, Quinn, and Myers, P.C.,

steps to provide such educational

Editor: Kevin B. Engler
Editorial Assistant: Christina

Contributing Writer:

Patricia

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

of Wilkes-Barre.

and em-

ployment opportunities.

Gaudreau
Kerwin

J.

University professor dies

Phonathon nets $64,000

following lengthy illness
Charlotte

M. Hess, who served

in donations

Contributions from parents help university to exceed

as an education

$3.5 million goal in The Trust for Generations campaign

professor in the department of curriculum and foun-

A phonathon

dations for 19 years, died Tuesday, Dec. 3, at

Bloomsburg University has raised nearly $64,000

this fall at

in

Geisinger Medical Center in Danville after suffer-

pledges from parents of current undergraduate students, according to Susan Helwig

ing from a two-year illness.

of the university's development office.

"All of the university employees have lost a close

personal friend," said President Harry Ausprich.

"Her many contributions
nity will

to the university

commu-

"Our goal is to raise $75,000 this year," said Helwig, associate director of
development "Prior to the phonathon, we had received $22,000 in gifts from
parents of our undergraduate students."

Despite a struggling economy, coupled with the loftier fund-raising goal this year,

be missed."

Hess, 60, had planned to retire this month after

1

990, she was selected as an outstand-

ing State System of Higher Education faculty

ber by the Pennsylvania

Academy

Fund campaign drive was very successful, said

Helwig.

completing 39 years in education.
In October

the university's fifth annual Parents'

mem-

for the Profes-

sion of Teaching.

coming to Bloomsburg, Hess taught in
the Sunbury Area Joint School District from 195256 and in the Bloomsburg Area Joint School DisPrior to

"The refusals we received from parents were a bit higher this year than in previous
economy was largely responsible. A number of the parents we spoke
with indicated they were having some financial difficulties at home."
Helwig admits that many university officials had their doubts as to whether the
phonathon could raise the large sum of money this year. "Because we raise our goals
years, but the

each year
...

it's

...

from $21,000

in

1987 to a rather ambitious sum of $75,000

going to be tight But with a few more weeks remaining

in the

this

year

campaign,

we

from 1958-71.
She holds a bachelor of science degree and a
master's degree in education from Bloomsburg and

approximately 80 calls between the hours of 6 and 9 p.m., Sunday through

a doctoral degree from Penn State-University Park.

Thursday, during the five- week phonathon which began in October and concluded

trict

In addition to her parents, survivors include: her

husband, William J. Hess Jr.; her son, Eric W. Hess;

and two grandchildren. See

article

on page

3.

be close to reaching our goal," she noted.
Bloomsburg's development office hires undergraduate students who attempt

will

in

November.

"We employed

about 50 students

who made

nearly 10,000 phone calls," said

Helwig. "They were able to contact about 5,000, or 80 percent, of the parents of our

made

undergraduate students. About 35 percent of the parents they reached
pledges."

Helwig had praise

for all the students

who worked phoning

parents during the

phonathon. "Our student callers really represented the university well," she

said.

"They are trained by our staff and do a wonderful job giving information about the
university ... and about the campaign."
Proceeds from the phonathon are earmarked primarily for the university's $3.5
million The Trust for Generations campaign that ended in mid-November. This
campaign was created in 1989 to provide funding for a larger book collection in
Andruss Library, scholarship opportunities for deserving students and purchasing
computers and other specialized academic equipment.
"With pledges received from the phonathon, we have exceeded our goal by
raising more than $3.78 milUon in The Trust for Generations campaign," said
PHOTO BY JOAN HELFEJt

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD— Rich-

Helwig.

According to a report compiled by the development

office.

The Trust

for

ard A. Wesner, who served as a Bloomsburg trustee

Generations campaign will provide more than $1.1 million for the Library Fund,

from 1983-90, received a plaque from current
trustee Anna Mae Lehr for his distinguished service to the university and the Commonwealth of

over $1.4 million for the Scholarship Fund and in excess of $1.2 million for the

Pennsylvania"

last

month.

Academic Excellence Fund

at the university.

Continued on page 3

2 The

DEC 91

Communique 12

Four

retirees granted 'emeritus' status at

November

trustees meeting

two

custodial worker; William Davis Sr. of

administrators and two faculty members,

Berwick, custodial worker; Richard Eye of

have been granted "emeritus"

Girardville, custodial worker; and Lori Fritz

moted

of Benton, custodial worker.

university's Health Service Center.

Four university

Jemold A.
life,

status for

of service to the institution.

their years

dent

retirees, including

Griffis, vice president for stu-

has been granted "vice president

Others include Suphot

Bloomsburg, stock clerk

Dang Labelle

Two non-instructional
have duties reassigned

Bloomsburg, custodial worker; Nathan

life,

has been granted

Two

of Bloomsburg, custodial

of nearly 30 years of service.

custodial worker, and Bruce T.

non-instructional employees from

been reassigned to new duties following

I. Vansock of Benton, cusGraceR. Vietzof Mifflinville,

todial worker,

employees

the university's police department have

worker; Glenda

"dean emeritus" status on his completion

Robert L. Rosholt, professor and current

life, Lucinda Harris was pronurse practitioner in the

McHenry of

years of service at Bloomsburg.

and dean of student

to

in the University

Purchasing office; Veronica

Muwombi

In student

of

emeritus" status on his completion of 20

Robert Norton, assistant vice president

supervisor.

the retirement of former police chief

Weir of

Deborah Barnes,

Bloomsburg, custodial worker.

Ken-

neth Weaver.
assistant director of

university police, has been appointed in-

chairperson of the political science depart-

ment, has been granted "faculty emeritus"

Non-instructional employees promoted

terim poUce chief and Angelo Venditti,

22 years of

university police officer,

geography and earth science, has been

Four non-instructional staff members
have received promotions at the university.
In academic affairs, Janet A. Huntington
was promoted to clerk steno III in the de-

granted "faculty emeritus" status on his

partment of geography and earth science.

Editor's Note:

status

on

his completion of

service.

George E. Stetson, assistant professor of

completion of 18 years of service.

In administration, Richard

been promoted

New faculty member

appointed

to

Joan Pallante of Kennett Square has been
appointed as an assistant professor

until a

and Bruce

in-

permanent chief

is

hired.

The preceding announce-

ments were made at the university' s council

Bankes has

supervisor of the

university's heating plant,

was named

terim assistant director of the department

of trustees quarterly meeting

W.

the

Magee

last

month

Center.

Barton was promoted to custodial work

in the

department of curriculum and foundations.
Prior to her appointment, Pallante served

two years as an assistant professor
Holy Family College in Philadelphia.
She worked as supervisor of student teach-

12 non-instructional staff

members

to retire this

month

the last
at

ers at the University of

Pennsylvania dur-

ing the 1988-89 academic year and

was an

assistant professor at College Misericordia
in Dallas

from 1981-88.

In addition, she worked from 1977-8 1 as

a teacher at Gateway Regional Junior-Senior

High School

in

Woodbury

Heights,

N J., and taught early childhood education
at

Twelve

non-instructional employees

have announced

their retirements

from

the university, effective Dec. 27.

They

Eugene Biacchi,

Others include: Richard Neufer, po-

23 years; Kimber Reese,
groundskeeper, 24 years; George
lice officer,

custodial

Stauffer, custodial worker, 14 years; Ri-

worker, eight years of service; Kenneth

chard Viets, groundskeeper, 10 years;

Edwards,

Joan Walton, coordinator of academic

are:

utility

plant worker, 13 years;

Donald Klinger, carpenter, 16

years;

records, certification and

commence-

Evelyn Kressler, business office, 24 years;

ment, 29 years; and Karlene Wright, com-

Ronald Linn, carpenter, 23

puter

years;

and

management

technician, 21 years.

Jack Millard Sr., security officer, 19 year.

Glassboro State College in Glassboro,

NJ., in 1975-76.

Hill

appointed

David

Hill of

CGA comptroller
Bloomsburg was recently

appointed as comptroller of the university 's

Community Government
Hill has

been employed

Biacchi

Klinger

Kressler

Millard

Neufer

Viets

Walton

Association.
at the university

for the last nine years as comptroller of

community

activities

and Kehr Union.

12 non-instructional personnel hired

Twelve persons from the greater
Bloomsburg area were recently hired

as

permanent, full-time non-instructional

employees

at the university.

They

are Brett Barnes of Elysburg, car-

penter;

Bruce W. Barton of Sunbury, custo-

dial supervisor,

Mary Crane of Catawissa,

n

Wright

at

The Communique

Four professors

Charlotte Hess believed teaching

to retire

'life's

December

in

Four faculty members who have contributed more than 100 years of service to the

announced they

university have recently

will retire effective Friday,

tant professor

of computer

and information systems,
has served on the faculty
since 1970. Hartzel holds a

bachelor of science degree

from

Bethlehem.

He

is

telling or imparting

L
Hartzel

completing 33

Michael Herbert, professor of biology

teach? That's a simple ques-

no simple answer.

tion with

"Certainly, for the opportunities that

teaching affords.

however,

cite a few,

I

may boarder on banality;

sometimes passometimes volatile young adult learn-

very appealing.

ers; to relish the

may in some

thought that I



teaching.



no

holds a bachelor of arts

taught our class

I

arts

my

32 years

tant professor

He

is

com-

of geogra-

^(•fc^
jr

^\

phy and earth science, has

I

its first

From

teach.

had

to

song,

that

I

it

was

the

drama

that

had such an impact on a six-year-old.

So when Louis Rubin defined teaching

education.

drawing analogies between the

I

can no longer do

me

on how

should

all

to care for

my Mends on why

recycle paper, and exhorta-

tions to read the latest article in the National

Geographic on the art of prehistoric man.
they ask for the time,

I'll

If

show them how a

clock works.

"Why do I

teach?

I

must."

Phonathon
Continued from page
I

1

Contribution totals are

the-

represented by pled-

kind gifts, said Helwig.

I

ges, planned and in

applauded.

form of acting, then the
to

it.

1

"However, I have another more altruistic
motive for teaching.
teaching

is

Ufe's

1

believe simply that

most important

activity.

to Cicero's question,

'What greater gift can we offer the republic
than to teach and instruct our youth?,' is
that there is none.

"In return,

when

parents send their chil-

of gifts, the minds of their sons and daugh-

and

Their expectation
fill

"The Parents' Fund

UPPipi

contributions will also

be used toward the
University Fund which

^^^^^S

supports educational

programs, projects and
building plans that

demand immediate

at-

on our campus," she noted.
Helwig said the development office plans
to continue the fall Parents Fund phonathon
tention

'

in future years.

"The phonathon is beneficial because we
40 percent response rate ...
compared to only a 1 0 percent response rate
get about a

dren to college they are making the greatest

ters.

>.,|g|^^^^

am

these; so I suppose this is the ego-satisfying
and rather selfish reason why I teach.

For me, the answer

Happy Holidays
from the staff of
The Communique

I

and the classroom, the teacher and the
actor, and actual instruction with lesson

art,

by language should be drawn

He is completing 34 years in

from

ater

elor of science degree from

degree from West Chester University of

also

envision, then, neighbors treated to

their lawns, lectures to

we

is, it's

also just plain fun.

But as retirement looms,

teach.

as

naturally extroverted and those infatuated

Pennsylvania.

as this role

of that moment, albeit simple,

artistry

"If teaching is a

Setff

It's

knew I had

1969. Serff holds a bach-

Penn State-University Park
and a master of education

I

fulfilhng the

be a teacher.

have long believed

staging,

served on the faculty since

do than

day of school when a teacher

and

an

in education.

John J. Serff Jr., assis-

rather

calling;

"I

Meeker

University of Scranton and a doctoral de-

pleting

would

truth of the

there is nothing else in the world

is

fateful first

degree from the

gree from Lehigh University.

But the ungamished

less.

matter

I

instructions

above plus all the other lofty goals of
and society should expect
I do

Robert G. Meeker, asEnghsh, has served on the faculty since 1962. Meeker

"So

am

I

ponder of a future when
so.

it

"To teach is to proclaim my commitment

He

of

or as

touch the future.

to the

versity in Easton, a master

Hess

my profession with soci-

As demanding

ety.

sive,

doctoral degree from Lehigh University.

degree from Lafayette Uni-

social contract of

lectual interactions with

of Maryland at College Park, Md., and a

sistant professor of

whereby learning becomes possible. The
teacher becomes the

learners. In so doing,

in

my discipline; to delight in social and intel-

Christa McAuliffe so eloquently put

in education.

set-

it is

conditions

ting

ing environment; to savor the freedom and

to

intellectually stimulat-

faculty since 1963. Herbert holds a bach-

from the University

isn't

time to pursue professional excellence

and labor in an

live

positive fashion be helping to shape

completing 36 years

Teaching

intermediary between a body of knowledge
and the student. It's the exciting chance to
light fires under successive generations of

their recitation

and allied health sciences, has served on the

is

can't actually

information;

years in education.

elor of science degree

we

teach anybody anything.

I

is

"B ut you and I know
that

1988, issue of The Communique.

"Why do

3

activity'

foundations, was published in the Nov. 2,

Dec. 27.

Bloomsburg and a master
of education degree from Lehigh University in

on

article

Teach," written by the late Char-

Hess, professor of curriculum and

lotte

assis-

in business education

The following

Editor's Note:

"Why I

John E. Hartzel,

most important

DEC 91

12

is

that

we will teach

those minds with knowledge.

with direct mail."
"It really

added.

has worked out quite well," she

— Kevin B. Engler

4 The Communique 12

DEC 91

Bach's music expresses 'every sentiment
known to man,' says James Bus well
Johann Sebastian Bach made magic with

He

music.




ences
ing

transformed

common

experi-

conversation, storytelling and danc-

into rare

men are not available,
mediocrity named

cern: "Since the best

we had

to setUe for the

Johann Sebastian Bach."

Bach immediately began writing an

works of art.

in-

"This music dances, but at the same time

credible quantity of music, noted Buswell.

has humor and conversa-

"Over the next six to seven years, he created

James Buswell, who
teaches at the New England Conservatory
of Music in Boston, Mass.
Buswell, who performed Bach's music
before lecturing on "The Magic of Bach's
Music" to his audience in Mitrani Hall last
month, was the third guest speaker in this

nearly 300 cantatas, each ranging from 20

it

tells

a story.

It

tion," said violinist

year's Provost's Lecture Series program.

According
full

to

is

the

He

in length.

presided over

music for four different churches and

wrote the equivalent of a different cantata

Sunday

for each

service.

The town had no

idea what a treasure they possessed in Bach."

Bach was such a musical genius that he
wrote new pieces of music almost every

is

day of his life. "Each day he awakened with

simultaneously

the desire and the ability to create another

Buswell, Bach's music

of dichotomies. "It

40 minutes

to

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFEK

PERFORMS BACH— Acclaimed violinJames Buswell teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston,
Mass.
ist

full

of craft and affect," he said. "It is richly

contrapuntal, yet
tive

it

flows.

It is

both narra-

piece of music, and they

sounded differ-

marveled Buswell.

ent,"

But Bach knew

and motoric."

all

that people didn't appre-

Johann Sebastian was cared for by an older

"Bach was
aware of his own genius, but he was humble

brother after their parents died.

about

In tracing Bach's life, Buswell

saidyoung

ciate his talent, said Buswell.

He viewed

a long line of

Godgiven and used them for the glory of God."

musicians, possessed a "spongelike abiUty

After 10 years of intense writing in

absorb information about music," said

Leipzig, Bach debuted his masterpiece. The

Bach,

to

who came from

it.

his talents as

Matthew Passion. The town

Buswell.

St.

"Bach traveled extensively to the various
principalities and duchies of Germany, seeking out great musicians and listening to
their work," said Buswell. "He would borrow as many of the scores as he could and
copy them by hand. In this process, he
committed the music to memory."
In 1708, Bach became the organist at the
duchal chapel in Weimar where he wrote a
tremendous amount of music for the organ.
"Given the limited size of the Weimar
chapel, however, Bach couldn't write the
large scale religious works which he longed
to undertake," Buswell said.
Bach later became court musician for an
enlightened monarch in Cothen. A prodi-

however, didn't even bother to attend the

gious creator of music, he

was given an

orchestra and the creative license to

make

whatever music he pleased for the court

"What he longed to be, however, was not

fathers,

572 students
to receive degrees
at

Commencement

Sunday

performance. 'This was equivalent to building

St. Peter's Basilica

anyone come

and not having

For 100 years, Bach's classic composi-

was relegated as a teaching tool because it was considered too long, complicated and difficult to perform. Mendelssohn
tion

brought

it

back

According

to

Buswell, Bach never un-

derstood the distinction between sacred and

was sacred

stu-

the university during

its

Fall

Com-

mencement Convocation at 2:30 p.m.,
Sunday, Dec.

Haas Center

15, in Mitrani Hall of

for the Arts.

President Harry Ausprich and other

to public consciousness.

secular music. "All of life

Five hundred and seventy-two

dents will receive college degrees from

to see it," said Buswell.

to

him. His music sings and dances and expresses every sentiment known to the heart

university officials will confer baccalaureate degrees to

462 undergraduate

students and master's degrees to 110

graduate students.

James E.

Gilbert, president of East

of man. At the end of each piece of music,

Stroudsburg University, will deliver

Bach wrote 'To God be
The church and the coffeehouse
were the same world to him."
Bach worked intensely and tirelessly,

the commencement address titied "Stel-

secular or sacred.
the Glory. '

lar Dust Carbonaceous

Where Do
Gilbert,

Chrondites and

We Go From Here."
who was

appointed presi-

creating music of remarkable complexity.

dent of East Stroudsburg

merely a court musician, but Kapellmeister

"Yet he didn't want

serves as vice chairperson of AASCU's

(Chapel Master) in charge of music for an

difficult In

entire

community with an emphasis on

teaching," said Buswell.

Such a position soon became available in
town fathers were turned

Leipzig. After the

down by

their first

two choices

for the

position, they offered the job to Bach.

Buswell paraphrased the town fathers' con-

ful.

it

to

look or sound

Bach's time, ease was beauti-

You didn't impress people by

trying to

knock them over, you impressed people by
beguihng them.
"For Bach, this was the joy of his music,"
he added.

— Patricia Kerwin

in July

1986,

(American Association of Colleges and
Universities) Presidents'

Commission

for Teacher Education.

holds membership in AASCU,
American Psychological Society
and the American Association of
Higher Education.

He

the

Prepared by Bloomsburg University Police
Bloomsburg University Crime Report
November 1991

Offenses

made or

Reported to or by

Arrests

University Police

cleared by other

Vandalism

8

3

Disorderly Conduct

2

2

Law

0

0

Public Drunkenness

0

0

Sexual Offenses

0
0

0
0

Dnig Violations

0

0

Simple Assaults

2

1

Aggravated Assaults

0

0

Murder

0

0

Arson

0

0

Weapons Possession

0

0

DUl

0

0

Vagrancy

0

0

Robbery/Burglary

3

0

0
4

0
0
0

2

1

17

2

Liquor

Violations

Rape

Motor Vehicle Theft

From Buildings
From Vehicle

11

Retail Tliefts

Total Thefts

incidents

means

Monthly Safety Tip: Protect your property.


Participate in "Operation l.D."

Engravers


Keep

may be signed

a record of

by engraving your social security/Driver's License number on valuables.

out at the University Police Department by showing your

model numbers and

University Police Department.

serial

BU

l.D. card.

numbers of all valuables. Fonus can be obtained

at the

The Communique

12

DEC 91

5

News Briefs

Campus Notes

University physical plant department

Susan Rusinko, chairperson and professor of English, had two articles
"Upset-



Karen Anselm, Bruce Candlish and

undergoes restructuring

ting the

Balance in the English Comic Tra-

Michael Collins, assistant professors of
communication studies, recendy partici-

dition"

and "Tennessee Williams"

pated in a director/designer roundtable ses-

and maintenance functions of the physical plant

sion at the Alvina Krause Theatre in

department have been restructured into separate

Bloomsburg.

directorships.



re-

cently published.

"Upsetting the Balance" appeared in Alan

A

Casebook, and 'Tennessee

Members of the Bloomsburg Theatre En-

Williams" was published in Magill's Sur-

semble and representatives from other the-

vey of American Literature.

aters

Ayckbourn:

and

universities in the region also

Vice president for administration, Robert
Parrish,

announced Monday the construction

Donald McCuIloch, director of capital projects
and renovations, will be responsible for planning, design, architectural selection, construction and

participated.

occupancy coordination.

Tom Messinger will serve

as acting director

Mehdi Haririan, associate professor of

Among the issues examined by the group

economics, recently attended a conference

were the role of new plays and playwrights

occupying the permanent position of assistant

of The Jerome Levy Economics Institute at

and the pressures of production schedules.

director of maintenance and energy

Bard College

in

New York.

ment.

The conference focused on "Moving to a
Market Economy: Economic Reform in
Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union."

Nancy

Dennis Hwang, associate professor of
accounting, had an article titled "On a Special Accounting Method in China: The Increase-Decrease Method," recently pub-

of En-

annual conference of the

International Society for Exploring Teach-

she conducted a workshop

titled "Galli-

vanting Across the Curriculum" that fo-

Pacific Conference

on International Ac-

counting Issues.

ing problems.

Donna J. Cochrane, assistant professor
of business education and office adminis-

was recently appointed Pennsylmembership director for the Na-

ence held

October in Hawaii where he
two sessions.

last

also chaired

Dennis O. Gehris, assistant professor of
business education and office administration, has published a book titled Advanced
Business Applications Study Guide for the
International Correspondence Schools.

at the

Harold Ackerman,

assistant professor

of developmental instruction, has published

on computers and

conference in Pittsburgh where she also

PADE Informer, a publication of the Penn-

chaired a session.

sylvania Association of Developmental

article

literacy in the

Educators.

JoAnne Growney,

professor of math-

the Developmental

Education Central Region Workshop held

"A Mathematician" published in the
fall issue of Four Quarters, a literary journal produced by La Salle University.

recently at Luzerne

Growney, who has a long-standing intermathematics and poetry, investigated

the similarities

Her paper,

titled

"Mathematics and Po-

etry: Isolated or Integrated,"

was published

in the summer issue of the Humanistic
Mathematics Network Newsletter.

Phillip A. Farber, professor of biologiallied health sciences, recently at-

tended the eighth International Congress of

Human

County Community
College in Nanticoke. He gave a lecture
titled "The Function of Home Plate" which
focused on the use of office and laboratory

Genetics in Washington, D.C.

said.

Forensics team places eighth

New Jersey competition

in

among 20

'

s

Forensics team finished eighth

peted in a tournament held at
lege in

com-

colleges and tiniversities that

West Long Branch,

Monmouth

N.J., last

Col-

month.

Volunteer Services receives
Bloomsburg 's student volunteer
fice recently received

services of-

an outstanding achieve-

ment certificate for the "Into the Streets" program from officials at the North Central Secure
Treatment Unit.

All travel expense vouchers must be submitted to

Sandy Hess

partment no

later

in the accounts

than Friday.

payable de-

The department

will cease printing checks at 4 p.m., Friday, Dec.

20.

Normal operations wiU resume Thursday,

Jan. 2.

time.

Campus

between these two subjects

during her recent sabbatical.

maintenance and construction, he

Travel expense vouchers due Friday

Ackerman attended

ematics and computer science, had a poem
titled

Other universities in the State System of

Higher Education have separate directorships

outstanding achievement honor

an

and

reorganization "recognizes the signifi-

B loomsbur g

Business Education Association.

Her appointment was announced

cal

The

cant duality of roles of our current physical plant

for

Eastern Business Education Association

est in

Klinger will serve as university safety officer.

Hwang presented the paper at the confer-

cused on helping students overcome writ-

tional

and appearance of facilities and groimds. Robert

lished in the Proceedings ofthe Third Asian-

ing Alternatives in Cocoa Beach, Fla., where

vania's

manage-

He will be responsible for the general care

department," said Parrish.
Gill, associate professor

glish, attended the

tration,

of maintenance and energy management while

Dale Anderson, associate professor of
English, chaired a session on Folkloristic

approaches to

literature

and delivered a

"From Grandmother's Knee to
Novel
Making" at a joint meeting of the American
and Canadian Folklore Societies Conference held recently at Memorial University,
St. Johns, Newfoundland.
paper

Persons

building access procedure

who

forget their keys and need to

enter an office or building after hours or on

weekends must sign out a duplicate key

at the

university police department.

titled

the Printed Page: Oral Tradition in

Continued on page 6

Correction
In the Nov. 27 issue of The Communique, it
was reported that Robert Rosholt's master's and
doctoral degrees were earned at the University

of Miimesota-Duluth.

He

earned both degrees

from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

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Calendar

Campus Notes

Sunday, Dec. 15

Continued from page 5
Kenneth Schnure, registrar, and Ronald DiGiondomenico, academic advise-

•Fall

Commencement Convocation,

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 2:30 p.m.


Women's

ment coordinator, recently gave an

Basketball vs. California,

Nelson Field House, 5 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 16


Semester break begins
(through Jan. 12)

outline

Recognition Principles

ment and Progress System using Bloomsburg's mainframe computer at a conference
for the National Academic Advisement As-

Nursing Programs"

sociation recently held in Louisville, Ky.

sponsored by five Sigma Theta Tau (Na-

Schnure and DiGiondomenico demon-

•Christmas

bilities

Day

(through Wednesday, Jan.

scheduUng and requesting capa-

of Bloomsburg's system and were

invited to conduct a preconference work-

•University offices closed

shop

1)

"Educator Perception and Use of Pattern

presentation on the Curriculum Advise-

strated the

Wednesday, Dec. 25

Dorette Welk, associate professor of
nursing, presented a research paper titled

in Baccalaureate

at various conferences

including: Teacher, Practitioner, Researcher

conference

tional

in

Allentown; Research Day,

Honor Society of Nursing) chapters
and the Sigma Theta Tau

in Wilkes-Barre;

biennial convention scientifiic sessions in

Tampa,

Fla.

at next year's conference.

Stephen Batory, associate professor of

David E. Washburn and M. Hussein
Fereshteh, faculty members in the curriculum and foundations department, co-pre-

Friday, Jan. 10

•Men's Basketball,

"BU Invitational Tournament,"

sented a paper

Nelson Field House, 6 and 8 p.m.

titled

tion Policy in the

•Women's Basketball

Rock,

vs. Slippery

Tournament,"

Monday, Jan. 13
Spring semester begins

Leon Szmedra,

•Classes resume at 8 a.m.

assistant professor of

health, physical education

and

athletics,

has been invited to serve on the U.S.

The Communique
A

newslener for Bloomsburg University

The Communique publishes
news of activities, events and developments at
faculty and staff,

BU bi-weekly throughout the academic year.
news briefs and
calendar infomiation at least two weeks in
advance to The CommuniqiU, University Relations and Communication Office,
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
Please submit story ideas,

sented a paper titled "Patient Attribution of
Hospital Choice and

Its

Influence on Inpa-

tient Satisfaction" at the Altantic

Market-

ing Association meeting in Savannah,

Ga

annual con-

vention of the American Educational Stud-

Fereshteh was elected to replace
Washburn on the executive board of the
organization's Committee on Academic
Standards and Accrediation. The latter just
completed a three-year term on the board.

Nelson Field House, 6 and 8 p.m.



at the

A Social

ies Association.

Nelson Field House, 2 p.m.
•Men's Basketball,
Invitational

United States:

Foundations Analysis"

Saturday, Jan. 11

"BU

"Multicultural Educa-

marketing and management, recently pre-

Olym-

William Acierno, associate professOT
and chairperson of mass communications,

was video producer for the eighth annual
American Cancer Telethon. The event
raised a record $38,000.

Ann Lee and Sheila Dove Jones, faculty
members in the communication diswders
and special education department, discussed
the "Collaboration between Basic and Higher Education Special Educators: Writing

picCommitteeBiathlonAssociation'sphys-

Workshop

iological assessment team.

Handicaps"

Szemdra recently returned from the
Olympic Training Center at Lake Placid,

Teacher Education Division Convention.

N.Y., where he helped administer a series

cial

of both laboratory and field tests to the U.S.

Middle School, presented "Writing Workshop for Students with Mild Mental Retar-

Olympic biathlon team which is in final
preparation for the upcoming WinterOlympic Games.

for Students with

Mild Mental

at this year's International

Todd Cummings,

Lee, Jones and

a spe-

education teacher at Central Columbia

dation" at this year's Pennsylvania Federation of the Council for Exceptional Chil-

dren Convention.

17815.

BU is committed to providing equal educational

and employment opportunities for

all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,

Jones, and

recent graduate of Bloomsburg's instruc-

preschool child with special needs, pre-

sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

"A Least

program, teamed with

sented

mem-

the University of Scranton's coordinator of

Model

media broadcast productions to present two
programs atarecentconferenceof the Penn-

ter

university is additionally committed

sylvania Library Association.

vention.

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or

union

bership.

The

Bloomsburg graduate Barbara Wert,
Mary Casper, a parent of a

William Frost, reference coordinator at
Andruss Library, and Afsun Moadeli, a

to affirmative action

tional technology

and will take positive

steps to pnDvide such educational

and em-

Contributing Writer: Patricia

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Gaudreau
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at this year's Interna-

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2.0: Practical Applications,"

Frank Peters, associate professor of En-

Frost demonstrated library apphcations of

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