Harvard prof to discuss 'College Climate'
member

Arthur E. Levine, senior faculty
at the

tion

Harvard Graduate School of Educa-

and chairperson of the

Institute for

Heroes Died:

A Portrait of Today's Col-

lege Students;" "Handbook on Undergraduate Curriculum;"

"Quest for

Common
"Why

Educational Management, will discuss

Learning" (with Ernest Boyer);

"College Climate of the 90s" at 8 p.m.,

novation Fails;" "Opportunity in Adver-

Monday,

Jan. 27, in the

Auditorium
Levine,

in

S.

Gross

sity" (with Janice Green);

and "Reform of

Undergraduate Education," for which he

Carver Hall.

who

university's

Kenneth

In-

appears as part of the

received a Book-of-the-Year award from

1991-92 Provost's Lecture

the American Council of Education in 1974.

workshop
exclusively for faculty and staff titled "The
Changing Character of Today's College
Series program, will present a

Student" at 3 p.m. in Gross Auditorium.
Faculty and staff are also invited to
tend a luncheon meeting from noon to
p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 28, in the

McCormick Human

1

at-

:30

Forum of

Levine,

holds a bachelor's degree
in

Waltham,

Mass., and a doctorate from the State Uni-

New York at Buffalo, won a
Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982. He is
editor of Change magazine and has served
as a consultant to more than 200 colleges
versity of

and

Services Center.

who

from Brandeis University

AUTHOR, EDITOR

universities.

Prior to his appointment at Harvard,

Levine was president of Bradford College
"/

want to invite all members
our
faculty and staff to attend
of
the workshop and luncheon. The
luncheon will offer members of
our university community an op-

in

Massachusetts from 1982 to '89 and a

senior fellow at the Carnegie Foundation

and Carnegie Council for Policy Studies
Higher Education from 1975

For more information,

call

in

— Arthur

E.

Levine will give a public lecture and

conduct an exclusive faculty/staff
workshop during his two-day visit
to

Bloomsburg

later this

month as

to '82.

part of the university' s Provost Lec-

389-4308.

ture Series.

— Kevin B. Engler

portunity to discuss the ideas

Dr. Levine presents during his

workshop and public

lecture."

— President Harry Ausprich
"I

to invite all members of our
and staff to attend the workshop and

want

faculty

luncheon," said President Harry Ausprich.

"The luncheon will offer members of our
university community an opportunity to
discuss the ideas Dr. Levine presents during his

workshop and public

lecture."

Luncheon reservations are required and
can be made by calling 389-4526, he

Levine has authored dozens of

said.

articles

and reviews concerning higher education.
His latest book, "Shaping Higher
Education's Future," was released in 1989.

Other works include: "When Dreams and

AWAITING THEIR DIPLOMAS

— Four female

PHOTO BY JOAN HEWER

students in the

December graduating

"Class of 1991" listen as East Stroudsburg President James Gilbert delivers the graduaaddress prior to receiving their diplomas. See commencement story on page 2.

tion

2 The Communique 16

JAN 92

December Commencement

quence can be turned to your advantage.
"Second, remember to keep it simple,"

*91:

graduates their 'value system' is
most important for meeting life's challenges
Gilbert

tells

he continued. "Don'tbe too analytical. Smell
the flowers. Train yourself to observe the

simple things of the world about you

—a

smile, a kind word, a gracious act, a special

What you know and what you learn is not
who you are and your value
system, according to James E. Gilbert, who
served as Bloomsburg's commencement

as important as

to use her or his

tem

to

own

Speaking to an audience of December
graduates, their parents, and university fac-

and officials in Mitrani Hall, the presi-

remember that nothing is free,"
Gilbert "The wisdom of the ages can

be

no

ain't

cussed Bloomsburg's role

but the thought

in preparing

its

words, 'there

distilled into five small

dent of East Stroudsburg University dis-

free lunch.'

its

had

a very important meeting was held

Edgewater Beach Hotel

I had a son of my
and now he hates those lines,"

"I hated those lines until

"Somewhere
to

within us

we

be the best we

something. All of us need some-

in

we are able to take just pride.

We are okay and, upon occasion, we need
to

have some empirical evidence of

that

fact.

"And

by

in the

in Chicago,"

he

"Among those present were nine of
PHOTO BY JOAN HELFE/t

most successful financiers."
He continued the tale by identifying all

the world's

nine "successful financiers"

who

attended

They included Charles

Schwab, former president of the largest
independent steel company in America,
and Richard Whitney, former president of

New Ycyk Stock Exchange.

"successful financiers," according to Gil-

would eventually commit

"We must have afaith in something that requires the very best
that demands all

from us

have to give of knowledge,
ligence, personality

we

intel-

and com-

mitment. Each person must have

Schwab, Whitney and the other seven

a purpose, a raison d'etre for
existence
and a purpose that

suicide,

in prison, suffer insanity or die

is

more than self-serving which

transcends mere existence and

penniless.

say these

oped a value system

men had

that

devel-

would permit

them to use their cognitive survival skills
and their capability for independent learning in ways conducive to meeting the needs
of others as well as their own," Gilbert
asked the graduates.

it till its

fourth,

remember

to believe in

something beyond yourself," he stated. "We

Gilbert illustrated these objectives

"Would you

as a youngster:

at all.'

thing in which

sharing a story with the graduates. "In 1923,

spend time

me

begun, never leave

Be a job big or small, do it well or not

can be

oping a value system to guide your inde-

bert,

father used to quote four

must have the motivation

pendent learning."

the

done.

is

the audience.

you as students during
the four or five years you have spent at
Bloomsburg," Gilbert said. "Most universities do. Those three include fine-tuning
your cognitive survival skills, helping you
to become independent learners and devel-

that meeting.

"My

admitted Gilbert, bringing laughter from

faculty have

three objectives for

began.

'Once a job

own

students for life's challenges.

"This university and

ignore

'Third, remember to do something well,"

he advised.

The grammar is poor,

profound.

is

— and don't

the profound in the simple.

lines of doggerel to

"First,

said

thought, an open door

exclusive value sys-

"span the chasm" between the uni-

verse and themselves.

speaker last month.

ulty

Gilbert offered four pragmatic suggestions to help each graduate understand how

He then asked

defines

who we are and why we

must have a faith in something that requires
the very best from us
that demands all
we have to give of knowledge, intelligence,
personaUty and commiunent.
"Each person must have a purpose, a
raison d'etre for existence
and a purpose that

is

more than

self-serving which

transcends mere existence and defines

Gilbert then told the graduates they were

now prepared by

their alma mater,
Bloomsburg University, to meet life's challenges.

"Each of you possess cognitive
skills,

survival

are independent learners and have

developed your own value system," he said.

"You also have four pragmatic suggestions
for meeting Ufe's challenges."
In closing,Gilbert offered hisbest wishes
to all the graduates.

are part of the universe."

"Congratulations and

— President James

who

we are and why we are part of the universe."

all the

best of suc-

cess as you face the rising sun of a

E. Gilbert,

East Stroudsburg University

voy

special first day of a brand new year of your
life."

if their

— Kevin

B. Engler

educational experiences at Bloomsburg had

changed them

in

at the

"The bad news

any way.

"Are you a different person?

Do you look

world through a different

glasses? Will

set

of

you be able to adapt and adopt

a universe

crammed

and, at the

same

full

of intelligent

time, relate to the

tragedy of your neighbor?"

life

human

quence

news

is that

to everything

is that all

how we

is

a consethe

good

of us have a choice about

react to

cognizant of

there

we do

what happens

that,

accept

it,

to us.

Be

and don't be

when it comes. Your task is to
determine some way in which that consesurprised

Piano recital scheduled
John Couch, associate professor of
music, will give a piano recital at 8
p.m. in Mitrani Hall of Haas Center for
the Performing Arts.

Admission is free.

The Communique

Ten faculty, staff members
announce retirements
Five faculty members and an administrator

who have

contributed

more than 150

Former Bloomsburg

Former Bloomsburg art student Dorothy

Vincent College and a

Masom, who graduated from the university

degree from

St.

master of arts degree from the University of

dent for academic affairs, has been

Susan Rusinko, chairperson and profeson the faculty
since 1959. Rusinko holds a bachelor of
arts degree from Wheaton College and a
master of arts degree and a doctoral degree
from The Pennsylvania State University.
She is completing 32 years in education at

holds a bachelor of arts degree from San

degree and doctoral degree from Columbia
University.

He

is

completing 38 years in

education.

Donald A. Camplese, professor of psychology, has served on the faculty since
1972. Camplese holds a bachelor of arts

art student

ulty since 1966. Gildea holds a bachelor of
arts

Notre Dame.

Jose State University and a master of arts

3

has article published

nounced their retirements.
Charles H.Carlson.assistantvice presiaffili-

JAN 92

News Briefs

years of service to the university have an-

ated with the university since 1959. Carlson

16

He is completing 29

years in

education.

in 1981, had an article titled "Fine Detail for

Ann
Huffman's recently published book,

Encaustic Easel Painting" included in

Enkaustikos!

Bloomsburg.

Anthony

Sylvester, associate professor

of history, has served on the faculty since

Wax Art.

Masom, who works as an art professor at

sor of English, has served

Susquehanna University in Sunbury, also
had an article titled "Encaustic, The Ancient Art of Painting with Wax" pubhshed
in the April 1985 issue of Artist's Magazine. Her book. Encaustic Paintings, has
been accepted at the J. Paul Getty Museum
in

Malibu, Calif.

Masom's writing is an extension of her
work in encaustics which she started at

degree from West Liberty College and a

1965. Sylvester holds a bachelor of arts

master of arts degree and doctoral degree of

degree from Newark College of Rutgers

Bloomsburg during her graduate degree

University and a master of arts degree from

program.

education from

West Virginia

He is completing 30 years

University.

Rutgers University.

in education.

Blaise C. Delnis, associate professor of

languages and cultures, has served on the
faculty since 1965. Delnis holds a bachelor

of arts degree from

Lukow Lycee and

a

master of arts degree from Fordham University.

He is completing 30 years in educa-

tion.

Martin M. Gildea, associate professor
of political science, has served on the fac-

He

is

completing 33

Adult health, development program

years in education.
In addition, four non-instructional

em-

ployees have announced their retirements

are:

A

new

health

gram aimed

from the university.

They

to begin later this

Stanley Bogert, custodial

at

month

and physical

fitness pro-

enhancing the well being of

area residents age 50 and above will begin

worker, 14 years; Jean Johnson, custodial

Tuesday, Jan. 28,

worker, 22 years; Dale Leighow, police

Bloomsburg 's Adult Health and Development Program (AHDP), one of four adult
fitness programs currently being offered at
college and university campuses nationwide, will meet from 1:30 to 4 :30 p.m.
beginning Tuesday, Jan. 28. The program

officer,

21 years; and Louise Williams,

clerk stenographer,

24 years.

at the university.

runs for nine consecutive weeks.

AHDP offers participants one-to-one interaction with staff members

who

help de-

velop a specific fitness program that

is

tailored to the needs of each individual.

Activities include arts

and

crafts,

swim-

ming, water aerobics, dancing and weight
training. Participants

can also enjoy low

impact aerobics, walking programs, and

many

other fun-filled exercise and fitness

opportunities.

For more information, contact William
Sproule at 389-4376.

Forum sponsors

free concert

The Central Pennsylvania Pops Orchestra will

present a free concert at 8 p.m.,

Saturday, Jan. 25 in

Performing Arts

at

Weis Center

for the

Bucknell University

in

Lewisburg.

The concert is sponsored by the Forum
on the Future, a consortium of regional
organizations, including Bloomsburg UniGildea

Williams

versity,

concerned with shaping the future.

4 The Communique 16 JAN 92

Regional business leaders discuss alliances with educators
U.S. secondary education

must be 'best in the world'
for 'American dream' to
come true, says Gates

The idea behind LEHIGH VALLEY 2000
examine the mission of secondary

is to

education.

"Across Pennsylvania, of

1(X) students

entering the ninth grade, 25 of those stu-

dents will drop out prior to graduation,"

For the "American dream" to come true
Americans, sec-

for future generations of

country must be-

ondary education

in this

come "the best in

the world," according to

Pennsylvania business leader Elmer Gates.

"We
we

said Gates.

"Of the 75 who graduate from

high school, 38 will become full-time college freshmen and 37 will go into the

work

force full or part-time.

Gates questioned the mission of second-

(Americans) need to understand

ary education in America. "Is

are in global competition," Gates

to prepare

it

November's Busi-

young people with the academic, occupational, survival and relationship skills to

ness and Education Partnerships Confer-

operate effectively as responsible, contrib-

ence in Bloomsburg's McCormick Forum.

uting employees?

that

told his audience at last

Or

PHOTO BTJOANHEWa

focus on just

is it to

and students to be the best,
because that's what it's going to take to
make the American dream a reality for

can students progressing through the ranks

"We need a 'fi^e in the belly'
commitmentfrom business, education, parents and students to
be the best, because that's what

of secondary and post-secondary education

it's

could possibly be justified if their academic

American dream a

future generations."

achievements were encouraging.

future generations."

Gates, vice chairman of the Fuller Company of Bethlehem, introduced LEHIGH
the Lehigh Valley's
VALLEY 2000

taking comparable tests with students in

other countries rank 10th

business and education parmership pro-

important areas, such as science and math,"

gram

said Gates.

"Our secondary education must be the
best in the world.

We

need a

commitment from

belly'

'fire in the

business, educa-

tion, parents

—

— created

as a result of the serious

over one-third of the students

who go on to

higher education?"

He

said the small percentage of

"However, students

in the

Ameri-

going to take to make the
reality for

United States

— Elmer

and 12th in the

Gates,

vice chairman, Fuller Co.

between business and education."

concerns Lehigh Valley businesses have

"In addition, our secondary school stu-

regarding the lack of skilled, motivated

dents are deficient in second language skills,

Gates said the seven task forces have

entry level workers.

geography, and international study experi-

developed 205 recommendations, 18 of

ences while in high school. So,

which were adopted

Gates said several companies operating
in the

Lehigh Valley region do business

to not delivering educational

in addition

programs

to

meet the needs of the majority of students,

with foreign countries.

"These businesses have first-hand knowl-

edge of the quality and commitment of
America's global competitors

and share

we

also are not equipping our students to

problem -solving process.

parents, students
cies
tural

who work

and

social service agen-

together to monitor struc-

and systemic reform

educational system.

is

schools," he noted.

"A common definition

of a dropout can be adopted at the state level

which compares the enrollment of students
in ninth

grade with those graduating four

years later."

Task areas to be studied include: learning
and teaching environment, "at risk" youth,

At the school level, a proposal calling for
teacher involvement in the planning of

in-

in the region's

curriculum, education for employment,

service programs will assist teachers in

An 18-month analysis

basic education and higher education coop-

addressing the "real needs" of their

and planning phase has been completed
and implementation is now in progress.
"Leadership

development including pre-school,

elementary, middle, junior and high

,

In recent months, businesses in the Lehigh

for 'at risk' youth during each stage of a

the global environment," he added.

educators, area businesses, school boards,

communities."

at the slate level

suggests adopting a common set of critma

child's

Valley worked on developing a coalition of

ers in their

to pursue initially.

"One recommendation

operate successfully and competitively in
In the LEHIGH VALLEY 2000 program business and educational leaders have
come together as a team to contribute their
unique expertise and perspective to this

concerns about the shortage of skilled work-

tion

essential in an undertak-

ing of this magnitude," said Gates.

"LEHIGH VALLEY 2000 is fortunate to
have Ed Donley (CEO of Air Products and
Chemicals, Inc., of Allentown) as

its

chair-

eration.

Each

task force

is

co-chaired by a

dents and help to

make

stu-

those programs

fying the challenges in each of their areas

more successful.
"The impact of LEHIGH VALLEY 2000
goes far beyond those 200 to 250 individu-

and making recommendations

als

business leader and an educator.

"Each task force

is

charged with identifor action

who are now involved in implementing

programs which would address each of the
problem areas," said Gates. "The task forces

these recommendations," concluded Gates.

which would

and while we are proud of our progress, we
are convinced that our best days he ahead of

man. His dynamic leadership and commitment to his community and the youth of

also identify those changes

Lehigh Valley are key to the success of the

level versus the state level,

project."

provements which would require coopera-

need

to

be made at the local school

district

and those im-

"We've

started a long

us," he added.

joumey

—

together,

Patricia Kerwin

Bloomsburg University
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Day Observance
Monday, January 20, 1992

Scranton

Commons A,B,&C

Cash Price: $4.80
work of Dr. King

4:30-7:00 p.m.

special dinner honoring the Ufe

&

Carver Hall 7 p.m.
Enjoy a special program to include a welcome by Dr. Ausprich, an
Invocation by Fr. Chet Snyder, songs from the B.U. Gospel Choir and
Kingdom Vision, and readings from Dr. King's work by students. The
highlight of the program will be a lecture by Mr. Samuel Yette.
Mr. Yette's topic will be: "My experience with Dr. King and what I think
his blueprint for life would be today."

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l-l

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from 1991 campaign
Gifts to the

1992 campaign
focus

Bloomsburg University

— primary

on scholarships

The 1992 Faculty and Staff for Excel-

Family Scholarship during the 1991

lence Campaign

Faculty and Staff for Excellence cam-

The primary focus on scholarships will

paign will provide 15 new scholarships

include the Bloomsburg Family Scholar-

valued at $250 each. Students will be

ship, the University Scholars

selected this spring

and will receive their

is

plarmed for February.

Four scholarships

will

be given in the

and Husky Qub athletic scholarships.
added this year

— The Commission on
The CSW

the Status of Women (CSW).

category. This fund

was organized in 1988 to meet both

is

designed to

support scholarships for relatives of BU

Bloomsburg University's and the State

employees and

System of Higher Education's commit-

for

employees not

See

staff

New Scholarships on back

ment to women in higher education at
the 14 System universities. Gifts will be
See 1992

Record

$21,000 has been received from 214

Bloomsburg University faculty and

direction for 1992 campaign

and a 24 percent increase in partici-

pation over the previous campaign.

Approximately 44 percent of the gifts

was designated for BU Family Scholarships

and Husky Club

scholarships.

Another 22 percent was given
Trust for Generations.

Ad hoc committee gives

staff.

This represents a 22 percent increase in
gifts

campaign on back

set

As of December 1991, more than

u

being

Bloomsburg University Family Relatives

covered by existing fee waivers:

CD

Program,

A new giving category is also

awards next fall.

1^

Jan. 16, 1992

to The

The remaining 34

During the 1991

LeMura, Tom Kresch, Eileen Kovach, Pat
Rudy, John Scrimgeour, Michael
Vavrek, and Susan Hicks met several
times to provide the Development Office
staff

vdth recommendations on:

• criteria for

the

BU Family Relatives

Scholarship Fund,

other categories including the University

• the

Fund, faculty development,

•

opment, and memorial scholarships.

semester, an ad

hoc committee composed of Linda

percent was designated to a variety of

staff devel-

fall

1992 campaign, and

a faculty and

staff association.
See

Ad hoc committee on back

New scholarships

1992 campaign continued.

continued.

employee children, staff employee spouses, and
staff

employees whose

credits are not

fee waivers. (Faculty family

used

covered by

fund a number of initiatives.

A

detailed description of this category will appear in

members are covered

the next "Invest in the Future" Communique insert.

by the APSCUF contract.)

The campaign format will be similar to that of

In addition, designated gifts to the Blooms-

1991.

burg University Undergraduate Students, v^l

in each department.

awards v^l be to students-at-large.

Near the completion of the

campaign, employees who have not responded

Extended Programs has funded three awards
for adult, part-time students.

Campus leaders will be identified and

asked to enlist the assistance of campaign captains

Two of these

support 11 more scholarships.

will

to help

will

Two scholarships

be contacted during a phonothon.

More information about the campaign will be

be given by the Biology Department.

forthcoming.

Several departments in the College of Business

chose to combine their

gifts to

make two awards

Ad hoc committee continued.

to College of Business majors.

The Department of Languages and Cultures
vdll

Scholarship criteria have been established so

be making one award, and the Mathematics

that

and Computer Science department members
chose to add their

gifts to

the J.

guidelines for

Edward Kerlin

the Financial

In each instance the recipients

the major

scholarships are available from

Aid Office in February.

posed of all employees

be selected

A committee representing

campus constituencies will review

applications for the

all

A faculty and staff association will be com-

Memorial Scholarship Fund.

by the areas identified.

awards can be made this spring. Application

BU Family Relatives scholar-

who participate in the

1992 campaign. The association will be organized
this

the

spring and will become operational during
fall

semester.

ship awards.

Applications and information about specific
criteria for these

scholarships

may be obtained

from the Financial Aid Office.

//

you have questions about the information presented in

this insert, please contact the

Development Office

staff at

389-4128.

The Communique 16 JAN 92 5

Professor prescribes cure for
ailing educational system

News Briefs

educational process

— no matter

how sophisticated
to work. What

Scholarship to honor Charlotte Hess

com-

does the teacher

dations

petitive with other industrialized countries,

then do with the

Memorial Scholarship

Donley, chairman, executive com-

student. Scold
them, tell them

memory of Bloomsburg's

they're lazy, they

tributing

Business leaders must play a greater role
in

making

said

Ed

the U.S. education system

mittee. Air Products

and Chemicals,

Inc.,

of Allentown recently.

During the Business and Education Partnerships Conference on campus in November,

reported the United States

Donley

spends more on education per student but

produces a less-skilled graduate than

in-

dustrialized countries.

To solve the problem, we must "set standards of what is realistic to achieve and test
periodically to

make

sure

it's

happening."

—

The department of curriculum and founis

sponsoring the Charlotte Hess

"Charlotte

was a

in

honor of the

late professor.

loyal, energetic, con-

member of our department to the

don't fiL

end of her days. Although a scholarly and

sult is

erudite person, teaching

The remore low

self-esteem; and the downward spiral, which

usually begins at home, is repeated."

Davis said a fundamental revolution

is

was her passion

and she dedicated herself to the mastery of
her chosen craft," says David Washburn,
professor of curriculum and foundations.

needed in the education system. Studies
have proven that "teachers' preconceived
notions and expectations have a profound

Checks may be made payable to the
Bloomsburg University Foundation
Charlotte Hess Memorial Fund and should

would pro-

be sent to: Charlotte Hess Memorial Fund,
Development Office, Carver Hall.

effect on student performance.

pose that the

first

I

three to five years of

—

school be devoted almost exclusively to

Professor Frank Davis doubts
"the problems of education
could best be solved by treating

education more like business,

development of self-worth and self-esteem
within each and every student."
The students must "never hear a negative

Travel reimbursement rate increased
The reimbursement rate for travel by

word concerning their performance, worth,

tem Travel Expense Regulations has been
increased to 25 cents per mile, effective

beauty, deservedness, or anything else

such as setting expectations, testallowing the 'market forces' to

which may cause them to question their
value," said Davis. "They must be aware of
their value by the fact that they exist, and

dictate procedures."

that

ing for those expectations

and

no

He

added, "Only a school experience

which
computer and information systems professor Frank Davis expressed doubt that "the problems of educaFollowing his

tion could

talk,

be solved by treating education

like business,

such as setting expectations,

testing for those expectations

and allowing

further justification is necessary."

sets self-esteem as the first priority

has any chance of success, because

it

will

personal automobile under the State Sys-

immediately. This increase applies to faculty

(APSCUF),

tors

(SCUPA) and management employ-

ees.

The

rate for all other collective bar-

gaining unit personnel

is

24 cents a mile.

For additional information, call the budget office at 389-4023.

release the creative individual within each

of us, that individual
learn

and

to

"If people

who

truly

wants

to

were comfortable with them-

selves, with others,

and with

Supervisory Roundtable to focus on

'Communicating

be of service to others.
their worth,

how
how
they
can
if people could see

managers

sity

While "specifying desired outcomes in
English or history may very well be a step

different;

fectively"

in the right direction," there is "a funda-

own

mental difference between productivity

matter

make a difference in the world, and in their

Effectively'

Bruce G. Nilson, management consultant, will facilitate a workshop for univer-

and the worth of others no matter

the 'market forces' to dictate procedures."

professional administra-

6, at the

titled

from

Magee

1

"Communicating Ef-

to 4 p.m., Thursday, Feb.

Center.

no

Nilson owns and operates a management

how different, as fundamentally the
same, we would have a country free of

consulting firm, Bruce Nilson Associates,

student learning, in the classroom. The use
of the business model assumes that the

drugs, alcohol and other compulsive and

sory services to manufacturing, service and

addictive behaviors; a country free of crimi-

other industries in the eastern United States.

materials with which the business works

nal behavior that permeates society;

business and productivity, as

in

measured by

lives; if people could see others,

Inc.,

which provides diagnostic and advi-

a

country free of abuse problems; a country

Cleveland Quartet tickets available

But, Davis said, "materials can't think,

with something of value to export, namely

Jan. 22 in University Store lobby

don't get hungry, don't recognize whether

our educational system and our (new) way

are the

same

as students."

they are hot or cold, don't have emotions

and

feelings, don't

come to

the

work place

of

life."

— Joan Lentczner

Community

Activity cardholders

may

pick up tickets for the Cleveland Quartet

performance, part of

this year's Celebrity

(school) with unseen baggage. Materials

Artist Series, at the information desk lo-

generally act according to the rules, laws,

cated in the University Store lobby begin-

and principles of physics and chemistry."
Students do not behave in ways that even

ning at noon, Jan. 22. Cardholders are

remotely resemble material, noted Davis.

cardholders

"They come to school with predispositions,
with prejudices, with feelings of low selfesteem, feelings which will not allow the

family

eli-

gible for a free ticket. Family plan

ited
first

may obtain a free ticket per
member purchase. Tickets are lim-

and

will

be distributed on a first-come,

serve basis.

6 The Communique 16

JAN 92

Samuel Yette to share 'experience with
Dr. King' at King Day program

Schantz joins
University Relations
staff as interim

joined

of acting director

Author and retired photojournalist
Samuel F. Yette will discuss "My Experience with Dr. King and What I Believe His
Blueprint for Life Would Be Today" during
Bloomsburg's annual Martin Luther King
Jr. Day Observance at 7 p.m., Monday, Jan.
20, in the Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium in

of publications in

Carver Hall.

dent from 1968 to

publications director
M.

Susan

Schantz has as-

sumed the position

Yette received high acclaim for using his

the office of Uni-

document some of the most significant news events during the 1970s. He
was one of five American journalists invited to China in 1977 and was the only

camera

versity Relations

and Communications.

A former news-

journalist permitted to

paper editor, she
recently served as director of public relations

and

editorial services for

town Hospital

to

—^Lehigh

The Allen-

Valley Hospital

Center in Allentown, the state's largest
hospital.

The award- winning journalist was also a
regional editor for Vim

& Vigor, the nation'

third largest healthcare

magazine.

its

peace mission to Lebanon in 1979.

ington correspon-

'71.

His contro-

versial book, "The

of Black Survival

as a photojournalist for the

D.C, before

—a

— with

Afro-American newspaper. Ebony maga-

Luther King

zine and the Dayton Journal Herald in Day-

Walton Yette.
For more information, call Jim

a

stint

as execu-

of the Peace Corps.

He also

—

:

at

Jr.

his son, Frederick

Gilliland

389-4344.

served two years at the Office of Economic
ebrated motion picture actress in Poland,

continues to serve as artistic director for the

the native songs

To avoid confusion and to implement an

Marches

pictorial essay of the late Martin

troupe will perform at 8 p.m., Thursday,

include in each issue.

Two

963 & 1 983 The Third American Revolu-

tion"

distribution.

we can

retiring in 1986.

"Washington and

dance company.

however, place limitations on the number

America," was pub-

In 1984, Yette co-authored another book

BUTV Viewer's Guide in this issue, in its

of inserts

in

him his job at
Newsweek.
However, he went on to teach journalism
for 14 years at Howard University in Wash-

"The Magnificent Mazowsze" (pronounced Ma-ZOFF-sha) Polish folk dance

Available insert stuffing capabilities,

Yette

lished in 1971 and cost

1

He worked

Samuel

Choice: The Issue

titled

re-

quests to include an insert, such as the

Newsweek
magazine and
served as a Wash-

duce a series on segregation (or Life maga-

'Mazowsze' to perform

The Communique receives frequent

In 1968, Yette

ington,

zine.

in

Washington, D.C.

As a young reporter in 1956, Yette teamed
with photographer Gordon Paries to pro-

tive secretary

establishes insert policy

the

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

on

ton, Ohio, before serving

The Communique

accompany

Opportunity

Jan. 23, in Mitrani Hall of

Haas Center

for

This colorful, energetic troupe performs

the Arts as part of the university's 1991-92

folk attire. Its

Celebrity Artist Series.

more than

Mazowsze, founded

in

1948 by the

late

and dances of Poland's

varied regions wearing authentic Polish

1

1 1

0 singers and dancers make

,000 costume changes during

their uninterrupted

performance.

equitable system, the following procedure

Polish composer Tadeusz Sygietynski and

have an

former Polish actress Mira
Ziminski, is currently making its eighth

and students with a Bloomsburg identifica-

North American

sticker at the Information

should be followed

if

you wish

to

insert considered for distribution in

The

Communique:
•All requests must be submitted to

Engler, editor.

Room

istration Building,

weeks

in

121, Waller

Kevin

his wife,

Ziminski,

tour.

who was once

the

most

cel-

Free tickets are available to faculty,

tion card

staff

and valid Community

Activities

Desk

located in

the University Store lobby.

Admin-

389-4043, at least three

advance of inclusion

in the de-

(Remember, The Communique
is published on a bi-weekly schedule.) Each
request must include a sample of the prosired issue.

posed insert sheet
•Inserts

which duplicate material included

in the editorial

are discouraged
ity

copy of The Communique
and will not receive prior-

consideration.

•Following this issue of The
Communique, inserts will be limited to a
Tiaximum of two per issue.

POLISH DANCE TROUPE
folk songs

— The Polish dance company. Mazowsze.

and dances next Thursday evening

in Mitrani Hall.

will perform native

The Communique

16

JAN 92

7

Campus Notes
Jing Luo, instructor of languages and
cultures, recently published an article titled

"On H.H. Stem's Multidimensional

For-

eign Language Curriculum" in The Journal

ment of a Dutch Abraham -and-Sarah Play"
will appear in the volume titled Drama in
the Middle Ages: Comparative and Critical

staff

Essays.

Solutions."

of the "Head Start" programs in Columbia and Sullivan counties. His topic

was titled "Poverty Families: Problems and

of Foreign Language Teaching and Re-

Mary K.

search.

John

J.

Olivo

Jr., chairperson

fessor of business education

and pro-

and office ad-

the Pennsylvania Business Education

sociation at

cendy

its

As-

annual meeting held re-

Dee Anne Wymer, assistant professor of
mentioned

anthropology,

board of editors for the Journal of Product

titled

and Brand Management.

the January issue of Discover.

She also serves on the board of editors for
and is

ministration, received the "Postsecondary

Educator of the Year" award presented by

Ericksen, associate professor

of marketing, has been appointed to the

the Journal of Consumer Marketing

is

The

special issue of the

lights the top

50 science

ogy, attended the annual meeting of the

Seismology"

Society of Neuroscience where he presented

cal Challenges in

cil

his research findings

on the "Interaction of

Penn

at the

conference on

Modem

Statisti-

Astronomy

at

State University in State College.

operant history and septal lesions in the rat

Harry C. Strine III, associate professor

on variable-ratio responding."

of Teachers of English.

magazine high-

stories of 1991.

and computer science, delivered a pre-

"The Contemporary Short Story: Quagmire or Vista"
at arecent convention of the National Countitled

in

sentation titled "Statistical Challenges in

Fuller, professor of En-

paper

article

Reza Noubary, professor of mathematics

Alex Poplawsky, professor of psychol-

Lawrence B.

an

a reviewer for the Journal of Business and
Psychology.

in Harrisburg.

glish, presented a

in

"Mastodon Meals" which appears

workshop for reviewers of National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Educa-

Poplawsky also presented a colloquium
titled "Basic Research on Subcortical Brain
Damage and Behavioral Recovery" at

pation in

tion submissions.

Millersville University.

annual meeting of the Popular Culture As-

In addition, he participated in a folio

Deliberations involved the

on Media and
Assembly on Media
ter.

Media Matters,

Arts,

is

whose newslet-

edited by Fuller.

research paper titled "Holly wood's Partici-

World War

11" at the

upcoming

sociation.

Commission

the business meeting of the

of communication studies, will present a

The meeting

Dale L. Sultzbaugh, assistant professor
of sociology and social welfare, conducted

academics and other students of the world's

an educational training program

mass cultures held annually

at the

Co-

lumbia County Day Care Center for the

is

the largest gathering of

in

North

America.

Dale A. Bertelsen, assistant professor of

communication

studies,

was

recently ap-

pointed president of the Speech

Communi-

cation Association of Pennsylvania.

Bertelsen will also serve as the state
representative to the organization ' s national

advisory council.

Mehdi Haririan, associate professor of
titled "Em-

economics, chaired a session
pirical Studies in

Microeconomics"

at the

61st Annual Conference of the Southern

Economic Association.
Haririan also discussed three papers

—

"Does Airline Price Discrimination Lower
the Cost of Business Travel?;" "Railroad

Deregulation, Carrier Behavior, and Ship-

per Response:

A Disaggregated Analysis;"

and "Uncertain Rent and Rent Seeking:

Some

Further Results"

—

at the confer-

ence.

SUCCESSFUL FOOD DRIVE
Mary-Jo Arn,

assistant professor of

English, had an article selected for inclusion in a

volume of the best

articles

of the

'80s from the periodical Comparative

Drama. The article, "A Little-Known Frag-

—

Over 1 .000 food items were distributed to 15 families
and the Aging Agency ofColumbia and Montour Counties as a result ofthe recentfood drive
conducted by the university. Eachfamily also received a ham and a $15food gift certificate.
embers ofthe personnel department, (from left) Bonita Rhone Dolores Sponseller, Diana
Clippinger and Bob Wislock, are shown packing the donated food. Rhone and Wislock

M

served as coordinators of the drive.

,

8 The

Communique 16 JAN 92

Monday, Jan. 27

Calendar
Thursday, Jan. 16
•Faculty Recital

— John Couch,

piano,

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 p.m.

•Film —"Deceived," Carver

•Women's and Men's

Basketball

of the 90s," Carver Hall, 8 p.m.

•Bus Trip

—

Wrestiing

vs. Clarion University,

— Cross Country

1

p.m.

Monday, Jan. 20
•Men's and Women's Swimming and

—

vs.

featuring speaker

"My

vs.

Jr.

Samuel

Yette. Topic:

Experience with Dr. King and

Centennial

Gym, 9

to

1 1

p.m.

— "Always," Carver

Hall,

•Valentine's

Day

•Last day to submit application for

May

graduation

Skiing,

•Film

— "Always," Carver

Hall,

Saturday, Feb. 15

— "The Fisher King," Carver

•

—

featuring

The

Wresding

— "BU Duals,"

Nelson Field House, noon

Hall,

p.m.

QUEST — Caving at Pleasant Gap,
8 a.m. to

6 p.m.

Cleveland Quartet, Mitrani Hall, Haas

— "Paradise," Carver

•Film

•Celebrity Artist Series

— "Mazowsze,"

•

to

1 1

BU bi-weekly throughout the academic year.

p.m.

—

American

featuring Portia Alexandria

"Black Press and the

Political

—

Agenda

in the

Nelson Field House, 6 and 8 p.m.

Center Forum, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 6
•"Sojourner Truth"

— "Paradise," Carver

Hall,

Lecture

Hall,

Human
2 p.m.

and Communication Office,
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
17815.

BU is committed to providing equal educational

and employment opportunities for

all

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

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,
status veterans, or union

mem-

The

university

is

to affirmative action

additionally committed

and

will take positive

steps to provide such educational

and em-

ployment opportunities.

—

featuring

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

David Gilmore,

Topic: "Domestic Power,"

Sunday, Jan. 26

— "Paradise," Carver

— A one-woman

Friday, Feb. 7
•

7 and 9:30 p.m.

and

lations

Vietnam era

7 p.m.

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

briefs

bership.

play by Cecily Paterson, Carver Hall,

Skiing,

news

advance to The Communique, University Re-

1990s,"McCormick Human Services

•Women's and Men's Basketball
vs. West Chester University,

— Cross Country

Lecture

Please submit story ideas,

calendar information at least two weeks in

"Billy Bathgate," Carver Hall,

Scott. Topic:

submit pass/fail options

Saturday, Jan. 25

at Eagles

Gym, 9

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 p.m.

•Last day to

—

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

The Communique publishes
news of activities, events and developments at

QUEST — Kayak Rolling,
Centennial

A

faculty and staff.

Wednesday, Feb. 5

Hall,

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 23

Hall, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 4
•

The Communique

— a one-man play

by James Roberts, Carver

Cheyney University,
Nelson Field House, 6 and 8 p.m.

p.m.

1 1

Friday, Feb. 14

•

•Celebrity Artist Series

p.m.

vs.

1

to

7 and 9:30 p.m.

•"Frederick Douglass"

•Women's and Men's Basketball —

•Film

p.m.

Eagles Mere, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 3

QUEST — Kayak Rolling,

•Film

Gym, 9

Wednesday, Feb. 12

Center, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 21

•QUEST

1

—

QUEST — Caving at Pleasant Gap,

1

QUEST — Kayak Rolling,

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Navy, Nelson Field House,

•Film

7 p.m.

•Film

Hall,

8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Day Observance,

"Billy Bathgate," Carver Hall,

p.m.

•Film

•QUEST — Cross Country
at

—

Centennial

— "The Fisher King," Carver

Skiing,

Tuesday, Feb. 11
•

Black History Month begins
•Women's Swimming and Diving

•

What I Believe His Blueprint for Life
Would be Today," Carver Hall,

•

Hall,

— Cross Country

Eagles Mere, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

•Film

Sunday, Feb. 2

Nelson Field House, 3 p.m.
Martin Luther King

at

1

— "The Fisher King," Carver

•

Indiana (Pa.) University,

•Late registration ends
•

•QUEST

Saturday, Feb. 1

Hall,

— ESP and

hypnosis show. Carver Hall, 8 p.m.

p.m.

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Skiing,

— "Deceived," Carver

Diving

1 1

Friday, Jan. 31

•Film

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

at Eagles

•Film

to

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Nelson Field House, 3 p.m.

•QUEST

Gym, 9

Forum, 3 p.m.
•Film

Sunday, Jan. 19
•

•The Astonishing Neal

Rolling,

Wednesday, Jan. 29
meeting in
•University Forum
McCormick Human Services Center

East Stroudsburg University,

Nelson Field House, 6 and 8 p.m.

— bus

Washington, D.C.

to

leaves Elwell Residence Hall at 6 a.m.

— Kayak

Centennial

—

"Billy Bathgate," Carver Hall,

Saturday, Feb. 8

—

Saturday, Jan. 18

—

7 and 9:30 p.m.

featuring

Tuesday, Jan. 28

Hall,

7 and 9:30 p.m.

—

Arthur Levine. Topic: "College Climate

•QUEST

Friday, Jan. 17

vs.

•Film

•Provost's Lecture Series

McCormick

Services Center Forum,

Assistant Editor: Susan

M. Schantz

Editorial Assistant: Christina

J.

Gaudreau

Contributing Writer: Patricia Kerwin

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

.

30

JAN 92

February events highlight Blacks' impact on U.S. history
For the past few months,

many campus organizations have been

91 "Southern Belle's Calendar of Atlanta

busy planning a variety of activities that include campus lectures

BlackHistory"awardthatsalutes "women

and entertainment programs during the month of February in

of achievement" She has been a strong

observance of Black History Month.

advocate for the two-party system in the

Bloomsburg's aimual celebration, which spotlights the contributions of blacks in American history, will kick off at 7 p.m., Monday,

Feb. 3, with the

Germantown Theatre Guild's one-man production

of "Frederick Douglass," featuring James Roberts as the slave
struggled for freedom and overcame illiteracy to

who

become one of

America's greatest orators and writers.

The play, taken from Douglass' autobiography, will be held in the

south and has been active in Georgia politics

since being elected the first black

secretary of the

Georgia
Scott,

Young Republicans of

in 1965.

who

holds a bachelor's degree

from Howard University in Washington,
D.C., and a master's degree from Atlanta

was

Portia A. Scott

Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium of Carver Hall. Sponsors include the
Kehr Union program board and the residence life office.

University,

Portia Alexandria Scott, assistant to the editor and general
manager of the Atlanta Daily World
the oldest black daily
newspaper in the United States
will discuss "Black Press and the
American Political Agenda in the 1990's" at 7 p.m., Wednesday,
Feb. 5, in the forum of McCormick Human Services Center.
Scott, who started as a proofreader in the newspaper business, has
trained and supervised the typesetting and editorial departments at
the Atlanta Daily World She was appointed by former President
Ronald Reagan to the National African-American History and
Culture Commission in 1985 and presently serves as chairwoman
of the National Martin Luther King Jr. Historic Site Advisory
Commission in Atlanta, Ga.

congressional seat in 1986. She also taught in the mass

—

—

A

lifelong

Inc., Scott

member of

the National Council of

Negro Women,

has received numerous honors which include the 1990-

1984 and

won

elected to the Republican National Convention in

her party's nomination for Georgia's 5th District

communi-

cations department at Clark Atlanta University.

Katherine Minehart's play, "Sojourner," featuring Cecily
Patterson as Sojourner Truth

from slavery

to a seat

— the heroic black woman who rose
S. Senate — will be presented by

on the U.

the Germantown Theatre Guild at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 6, in Gross

Auditorium. The play

and the residence

is

sponsored by the Black Cultural Society

life office.

A bus trip to Washington, D.C., including visits to the Frederick
Douglass House, Anacostia Museum and the Smithsonian
Institution's African-American Museum, has been scheduled by
the human relations committee for Saturday, Feb. 8. The bus will
depart at 6 a.m. from Elwell Residence Hall.
Freedom Theatre,

the oldest black theatrical institution in Penn-

"The Traveling Black History Show" at 7:30
Monday, Feb. 17, in Gross Auditorium.
Foimded in 1966, Freedom Theatre has presented more than 275
plays which have helped to affirm black culture to some 400,000
sylvania, will present

p.m.,

theatergoers.

On

Tuesday, Feb. 18, Bloomsburg's Provost's Lecture Series
two public lectures
"Eyes on the Prize Revisited:

—

will present

The Civil Rights Movement Today" and "Election 1992:
Minorities Vote?"

How Will

— featuring guest speaker Juan Williams, who

writes for The Washington Post Magazine.

Williams,

who spoke at Bloomsburg in 1988 on "Civil Rights in

America," has worked as a reporter for The Washington Post since
1977. In 1984, he covered George Bush's vice presidential cam-

paign and Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign,
PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

'WE SHALL OVERCOME'— The university 's Gospel Choir
leads the singing of "We Shall Overcome" during
Day program. See story on page 2.

the

King

Williams firmly established himself as a
the publication of his book,

civil rights expert

"Eyes on the Prize

with

— America's Civil

Rights Years, 1954-1965," which inspired a late 1980s television

Continued on page 2

2 The Communique 30

JAN 92

Author lauds Martin Luther King Jr.
as moral giant of our times'

words

church in Montgomery, Ala., to take up

"

4, 1968:

^

When Martin Luther King Jr. left his first

King's

at

grave site on April

'Thank

God for giving us

According to Yette, America has become a "mercenary nation" using power to

which disagree with

such a man, a perfect warrior with-

out missiles, able

national leadership of the civil rights move-

"correct" nations

ment, he said his ambition had been to build

"Dr. King would have pointed this out," he

a large church.

said.

us.

without an atomic
arsenal, real with-

"But," he said, "I think maybe my days of

King did not object to power, Yette noted,

Maybe I' 11 just build little

but only to the corrupt uses of power. "If he

building are over.

were

sanctuaries in the hearts of people."

Those " Uttle sanctuaries" were evident in
the hearts of

many people

last

Monday

night in the Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium

of Carver Hall, including Bloomsburg President Harry Ausprich,

who recalled King's

last public speech before his murder;

Father

to

speak today, he would repeat his

words about power: 'Power is nothing but
a method to achieve a purpose,' " said
Yette, adding King would advise black
people to gain power through economic
strength and political organization to

who knew King personally,

program.

asking King

In his keynote speech, author

and retired

out the country.

twisted his

if

On one trip, Yette recalled
man who

he could love the

arm and forced him

"King said he could love the man, but
that he hated the situation that the man

a table.

Yette,

who wrote two books and

journalism for 14 years
sity in

at

p.m. in Gross Auditorium.

in

Gross Audito-

"Feel the Spirit" and "Available," and

Adrienne Congo recited King's

Dream" speech,

Molefi K. Asante

"I

Have

will

a

prior to Yette 's address.

— Charles C. Mark
lives in

Mark

is

a freelance writer who

Bloomsburg.)

Wednesday, March

Kuster Au-

ditorium of Hartline Science Center.

be

who has been cited as one of
most prominent thinkers, lived

and taught

Louise Williams

Kenya.

Bishop.

television

actor

and come-

dian

Tony

4, in

Asante,
Africa's

emceed by state
representative

"Comedy

panel discussion of the film will

Freeman, led

p.m.,

Night," featuring

A

Amy

6 p.m., Saturday,

6 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb.

and Friday, Feb. 21,

In addition, the university 's Gospel Choir,

under the direction of

(Charles

shown

19,

was

black leaders.

Feb. 22, in Gross

program

4 p.m. in Gross Auditorium.
The "Election 1992" discussion starts at 8

said that King

in

Auditorium. The

1

will begin at

rium.

Kambon Camara

part of a long tradition of inspirational

Howard Univer-

1986, quoted Reverend Ralph Abemathy's

same title aired on PBS.
His "Eyes on the Prize Revisited" lecture

at

"

taught

Washington, D.C., before retiring

Month

film, "Jungle Fever," will be

'and love was the major ingredient

"

in the means.'

represented," said Yette.

series of the

The

added,

the congregation in song and also performed

down on

Continued from page

Quoting from King's philosophy, " 'The
ends of life are in the means of hfe,' " Yette

to lie face

King "the moral giant of our times."
Pointing out that our coimtry needed the
moral guidance of such a man, Yette said
King would have strenuously objected to
the invasions of Grenada, Panama and the
Persian Gulf War, as he did during the
Vietnam conflict

Black History

"
kill.'

trav-

Newsweek photopximalist Samuel F. Yette
called

F. Yette

ing us such a man who was willing to die but

not willing to

sor

eled with him on a number of trips through-

Yette,

Samuel

thank God for giv-

Following his remarks, assistant profes-

achieve their purpose.

who gave the invocation;
and the audience who held hands and sang
"We Shall Overcome" at the end of the
Chester Snyder,

we

out bullets

in

Zimbabwe and

served as an

external examiner in Nigeria,

try,

Ghana and

He has been featured on numerous
and radio programs

in this

coun-

such as "Tony Brown's Joumal," NBC's

"Today" show and National Public Radio.

Bom

in Valdosta, Ga.,

Asante earned a

doctoral degree from the University of Cali-

Los Angeles (UCLA)

He

follow both showings at approximately 8

Woods, has been scheduled at 8 p.m., Mon-

fornia at

p.m. The film will also be shown at

day, Feb. 24, in Gross Auditorium, and

has authored 27 books, serves as editor of
the Journal

sponsored by the minority affairs
program board, residence life office. Com-

"Reggae Night," with George Wesley and
The Irietations, will be held from 9 p.m. to
1 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 27, in the Kehr
Union Annex. Both events are sponsored
by the Kehr Union program board.
Black History Month will conclude with

1

p.m.,

Sunday, Feb. 23.

A "Black History Month Fashion Show"
will be held at 8: 30 p.m., Thursday , Feb. 20,

Scranton

in

event

Commons. Proceeds from

the

—

Women, campus

a lecture by Molefi Kete Asante, professor

dining service and Black Culttiral Society

and chairperson of the African American

—

studies department at

mission on the Status of

will

be donated to the United Negro

College Fund.

"Gospelrama," featuring five university
choirs and two church choirs, will be held at

Temple University

and president of the National Afrocentric
Institute, titled

"Malcolm X: His Life and

Contribution to the Black Struggle" at 7:30

Institute

in 1968.

of Afrocentric Thought, is an
of Black Peoples member and de-

signed the first doctoral program

in African

American studies for the UCLA Center for
Afro- American Studies.
For more information about Black History

Month

activities, call

389-4199.

— Kevin B. Engler

The Communique

30

JAN 92

Faculty, staff members encourage

Carpenter named interim

support of Excellence Campaign

vice president of student

3

life

Jennie H. Carpenter, assistant vice presi-

"This job has meant so

much to me over

we want

way our

our funds to go. This

the past 3 1 years. Supporting the Faculty

money can come back to the areas

and Staff for Excellence campaign is a
small way in which I can repay the univer-

most important

to us.

paign because

feel

everything

sity for

it

has done for me."

These words summarize the decision of
Joann
dent

Farrell, executive secretary

life,

to

further

fifth

paign.

annual campaign will begin

important to the

"Last year, 25 percent of faculty and staff

of diversity

degree in history

feel participating in sports

from the Univer-

programs. "There's a
I

down

breaks

barriers

lot

and helps students

just

my way

of helping to

make

a differ-

ence," he says.

very hopeful more employees will contrib-

history of supporting faculty and staff de-

ute to this year's effort."

velopment.

"We

are

happy

to

work with

donors to help them earmark funds for

am

glad we are able to

we want our
This way our money

designate where

areas that are important to them," she says.

After serving a year as assistant dean of

own

is

important to the further

growth of the

university.

"

— Sharon Swank,
administrative assistant

Jennie Carpenter
counseling
from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala., has
worked in the area of student life and residence life for the last 25 years.
in

students at Coltey College in Missouri, she

are most important to

it

and a master of

concerned about further devel-

is

oping Andruss Library. "Supporting the

port the campaign because Ifeel

of Oklahoma

in Norman, Okla.

David Minderhout, professor of anthropology,

funds to go.
can come back to the areas that
us. I sup-

sity

education degree

According to Hicks, the foundation has a

"/

Carpenter, who

holds a bachelor's

development. "We're

assistant director of

A. Griffis in De-

ath-

better relate to cultural differences. This is

supported the campaign," says Susan Hicks,

president Jerrold

cember.

some of Bloomsburg's smaller

on campus.

early in February.

vice president following the retirement of

Jerry Smith, maintenance repairman, sup-

ports
letic

fifth

it is

growth of the university," explains

annual faculty and staff fund-raising cam-

The

that are

support the cam-

the 17-year university veteran.

of stu-

support Bloomsburg's

I

I

dent of student life, has been named interim

campaign

is

something I do because, in my

small way,

want

I

to help

make

the

and the university a better place. I
want to do something to help the library
library

advance, rather than just complain."

The Commission on the Status of Women
(CSW) is being added to this year's campaign. Gifts will

number of CSW

be used to help fund a
initiatives.

Early in February, faculty and staff mem-

came

to

Bloomsburg in 1968 as assistant
She was promoted to

dean of women.

director of residence halls in 1975, director

of residence

life in

1982 and

president of student

From 1962
ior

assistant vice

1991.

life in

to '66, Carpenter taught jun-

and senior high school

social studies in

Sand Springs, Okla.

She also served as
director of a girl scout summer camp and a
case worker for the Department of Public
Welfare in Oklahoma.

bers will receive pledge packets outlining

The campaign's primary focus on scholBloomsburg Fam-

arships will include the
ily

Scholarship, the University Scholars

Program and Husky Club

athletic scholar-

ships.

About 38 percent of last year's gifts were
designated for Family Scholarships and
Husky Club scholarships.
Gifts duringthe 1991 campaign provided
1 5 new scholarships valued at $250 each.
Students will be selected this spring and
will receive their

awards next

tives category

methods for giving. Those who

return their pledges will be called

Family Rela-

and nine to undergraduate

New campus police

The suggested level of support is $100
for faculty and $35 for staff. Pledges may

Margaret L. Boykin,

who served the last

over a period of time through

19 years on the Chicago police force, has

payroll deduction. The campaign concludes

been appointed chief of police at
Bloomsburg effective Monday, April 6.

be

fulfilled

Feb. 28.

— Susan Schantz
Library announces hours
Spring semester hours have been
announced for Andruss Library: 8 a.m.
to midnight,

Monday through Thurs-

A

graduate of the University of

Before she became a police

Board of Education and the Urban

for the

5 p.m., Saturday; and 2 to 10 p.m.,

Skills Institute in Chicago.

and Sciences, desig-

Sunday. University Archives will be

for the College of Arts

for family
"I

members.

am glad we are able to designate where

open 10 a.m.
p.m.,

to

noon and 1:30

Monday through

Friday.

to 3

officer,

Boykin worked in youth guidance and taught

day; 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday; 9 a.m. to

nated her 1991 gift to support scholarships

Illinois,

Boykin served the Chicago police force as
a patrol officer, academy instructor, youth
officer, neighborhood relations officer and
tactical team leader.

Sharon Swank, administrative assistant

students.

chief

begins duties in April

during a phonathon.

fall.

Four of these scholarships will be awarded
in the Bloomsburg University

the various

do not

Boykin,

who

is

married and has a 12-

year-old son, replaces former chief Ken-

neth

Weaver who

retired last year.

4 The Communique 30

JAN 92
The week-long

Education students
spend break in
urban classroom
Maiy

part of the

tion program " Urban education focuses on
.

While most students were catching up on

"The students need this experiential com-

ciation recently held a successful clothing

ponent There's so much discrimination in

drive to benefit needy children enrolled in

this country,

have

racism goes so very deep,

to train teachers

rience to help

we

with first-hand expe-

them change the way we deal

with differences."

and social

the experience.

changed

Harris and her

trip

students were up, dressed "professionally"

was

and in the classroom by 7: 10 a.m. Evenings

area."

life,

were spent attending professional develop-

ment programs.

riential

this

expe-

component. There 's so

country,

filled a

15-passenger van to the

Mary

One student wrote: "This
I never knew what it

my life.

really like for children in

an urban

The field trip is the most recent in a series

"Our students are so wonderful. They 're so open and so willing to work for others. I'm so
proud of the work they did on
this project.

between the university and the Harrisburg
School District Through the joint effort,
Bloomsburg students better understand is-

— Mary Harris

sues in urban education.

The

Harris has been at Bloomsburg for three

racism goes so very

years. Prior to that, she spent 2 1 years with

ing the Into the Streets volunteer service

Los Angeles Unified School District
and worked with children from the Watts

program

section of the city. "This

burg" was the slogan on signs posted around

we have

the

to train teachers

with first-hand experience to
help them change the

deal with differences.

way we

"

ever had," she says.

is

the best job I've

"If

we can

teach

students how to accept differences in people

they will be able to reach out to children in

— Mary Harris
week was over, the most frequent comment was: "When can we come
the

don't want to leave."

The Cleveland Quartet, recognized as one of the world's premier
string quartets

and acclaimed for

more than 50 award-winning chamber music recordings, will perform
at 8 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 2, inMitrani

Hall aspart ofthe university 's 1 991-

92 Celebrity Artist Series.
tickets

are available to fac-

and students with a
Bloomsburg identification card and
ulty,

staff

valid

Community

Activities sticker

at the Information

Desk located

the University Store lobby.

urban schools."

Funding for the field trip was provided
by the Pennsylvania Academy for the Pro-

clothing drive officially began dur-

wearing

last
it,

in

November.

share

— Susan Schantz

"If you're not

with the kids in Harris-

"Our students are so wonderful. They're
work for others,"
Harrissays. "I'm so proud of the work they
did on this project."
so open and so willing to

Mifflinville's Community Outreach pro-

gram supported

fession of Teaching.

it

campus.

the students' efforts by

collecting 88 pairs of mittens for Harris-

burg children.

The Cleveland Quartet
to perform Sunday

Free

"We

ceiling with bags of clothes," says

in this

much discrimination

I

Harrisburg schools.

Harris, the group's faculty adviser.

of activities resulting from a partnership

"The students need

again?

Harrisburg children

Student evaluations reflect the impact of

inner city.

When

Clothing drive benefits

Bloomsburg 's Urban Education Asso-

sity," Harris says.

Harris, assistant professor of cur-

deep,

was

multicultural issues, prejudice and diver-

riculum and foundations, and 41
Bloomsburg education majors traded a carefree week of winter break vacation for one
of hard work and stark reality in Harrisburg 's

their sleep

field trip

university's comprehensive urban educa-

INVEST IN THE FUTURE
at

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY

Campaign

Jan. 30, 1992

Focus on scholarships

set for

Febraary

The 1992 Faculty and Staff for Excel-

The 1992 Faculty and
lence campaign will be

February.

Campaign

Staff for Excel-

lence campaign focus

underway

centers

in

leaders repre-

their assistance

by coordi-

nating the efforts of 40 to 50 campaign
captains.

With the help of the captains,

on three specific scholarship

funds.

senting various university areas will

be lending

1.

The BU Family Scholarship - The

second year for this fund, gifts will
supix)rt

two categories of scholarships:

BU Family Relatives includes

Option I:

pledge packets will be given to each

staff children, staff

employee.

ees

Leaders and captains will be able to

respond to

many of the questions you

might have about the drive
about the fundraising

itself

or

activities of the

Development Office.

on scholarships

spouses,

and employ-

who want to take more than one

course during a given semester. (Faculty
family

members are covered by the

APSCUF contract.)

Option H:

BU Un-

dergraduate Students includes scholarships created by specific departments.

A phonothon will be held approxi-

See Focus

on Scholarships on

back

mately three weeks following the
distribution of the pledge packets.

Persons

who have not returned their

pledge form will be

called.

Focus on the

A new giving category that focuses

The cam-

paign will conclude February

CSW

on the Commission on the Status of

28.

Women (CSW) will be included in the

Process to create
scholarships described

1992 Faculty and Staff for Excellence

campaign.

Founded in

Members of departments,
sions, or other units

create a

divi-

who would like to

BU Family scholarship should

follow these steps:
1.

major, adult student,

or
2.

CSW is a prior-

program for Bloomsburg University.

If s origin

is

based in two sources:

university's Affirmative Action

1)

the

and

Equal Opportunity Plan and 2) the State

Define the scholarship,

specific criteria

ity

1988, the

etc.

i.

e.,

art

Other

can be defined

now

System of Higher Education's board of
governors charge that each System
university

implement the 15 recommen-

by the American

later.

dations developed

Advise department/ division

Council of Education Commission on

See Process on back

See

CSW on back

CSW

Scholarships continued.
Undesignated

gifts to this

Women in Higher Education.

category are awarded

University Scholars Program - Incoming

who show academic promise and
leadership potential may apply for acceptance

relative to

tor, initiate,

and

sional,

sophomore years.
3.

Husky Qub Athletic Scholarships - Gifts to

replenished.
also

and leadership development of BU women

tunities

and staff.

and oppor-

women's history month, a

women's newsletter, faculty and staff development seminars.

meet established academic criteria.

show that we believe in and

The Commission also fulfills an advisory role

on selected university-wide

support the academic goals students have set for

to the president

themselves. Scholarships also have the potential

policy matters that affect

for helping to

Activities

provided by the CSW include student

leadership internships,

Awards are made to athletes who

Scholarships

and advocate the academic, profes-

students, faculty,

fund are expended annually and must be

this

women.

The major functions of the CSW are to moni-

program. Persons accepted receive

scholarship assistance during the freshman

campus com-

munity ro rethink the way the campus functions

freshmen

into this

Recommendations

are designed to mobilize the entire

to students-at-large.
2.

continued.

women. These and

other endeavors of the Commission help

reduce a student's reliance on a

long-term financial debt needed to complete a

strengthen BU's

college degree.

education.

commitment to women in higher

Gifts designated to the

CSW vsdll assist the

Commission in fulfilling its mission.

Process described

members

continued.

to designate their gift to the

3. File

specific scholarship.
3.

Identify a spokesperson

ment/ division

4.

from the depart-

to contact the

Maintain a 2.5 grade point average or be
first

semester student at BU.

Remaining funds

Development

in departmental accounts,

beyond the $250

Scholarship awards of $250 or greater are

following year's campaign at which time they

If

a department/ division wishes

to participate in the application

may do so.

Committee
the

PHEAA application.

Office for further details.

encouraged.

it

a

a

review process,

Otherwise, the Financial Aid

will select the recipients

based on

BU Family scholarship criteria:
1.

2.

Be enrolled or accepted

Aid
to

become part of the new

total to

be

allo-

cated.

Because a large portion of the funds are
received during the year through payroll

deduction, and because students apply for

Complete scholarship application

able through the Financial

will

multiple, will be held until the

avail-

Office.

BU for at least

scholarships in the spring semester for the

fall

term, funds donated in 1992 will be held in an
interest bearing account for

awarding

in 1993.

three credits.

//

you have questbns about the information presented in

this insert, please contact the

Development Office

staff at

389-4128.

Prepared by Bloomsbxirg University Police
Bloomsburg University Crime Report

December 1991
Offenses

made or incidents
means

Reported to or by

Arrests

University Police

cleared by other

Vandalism

2

9

Disorderly Conduct

2

2

1

1

Public Drunkenness

0

0

Sexual Offenses

0
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0
0

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1

1

0

Aggravated Assaults

0

0

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0

0

Arson

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Weapons Possession

0

0

DUI

0

0

Vagrancy

0

0

Robbery/Burglary

0

0

Liquor

Law Violations

Rape
Drug Violations

Motor Vehicle Theft

0

0

From Buildings
From Vehicle

12

0

0

12

Retail Thefts

J.

1

13

13

Total Thefts

V
Monthly Safety Tip: Protect yourself at

.

night.

Never walk alone at night unless absolutely necessary.
• Refrain from taking shortcuts; walk where there is plenty of light and traffic.
• Know where the emergency telephones are located on campus.
• If you walk alone, walk with confidence and observe your surroundings.
If you beUeve someone is
following you, cross the street, get to a populated area or emergency phone, and call the University
PoUce at 389-4170.
•

V

The Communique

4 p.m. in the Kermeth Gross Auditorimn
His "Election 1992" discus-

in Carver Hall.

in recognition of the foresight and generos-

The Washington
Post Magazine,
will present two
public lectures
titled "Eyes on the

sion starts at 8 p.m. in Gross Auditorium.

ity

and City Hall reporter for The Washington

A. Andruss,

Prize Revisited:

Post since 1977.

WilUams spoke at the university on "Civil
Rights in America" in 1988.

Jones established

He also worked as an editorial writer, op-

cal

and national correspondent covering politiand social issues. In 1984, he covered

on-campus lectures, scholars and artists of
national and international repute."

George Bush's successful vice presidential
campaign and Jesse Jackson's imsuccess-

year, the university will designate one

day" and "Elec18, as part of

who has been designated as
first Vema and Daniel Jones Lecturer,
"Eyes on the Prize Revisited"

campaign.

civil rights

expert with the publication of

his book. Eyes

on the Prize

The Bloomsburg chapter of APSCUF is
scholarships

25 years or

Apphcations are available in

for
older.

Room

call

's

the

Vema and Daniel Jones

For more information,

Lecture.

call the office

the provost at 389-4308.

limited.

is

Graduate school

389-4420.

receives

The Teaching and Learning Enhancement faculty conmiittee has planned two

national recognition

special activities in February.

The School of Graduate Studies at
Bloomsburg University was recently
approved for membership in the Coun-

A brown bag luncheon will be held 1 2:05

111,

Waller Administration Building and are

— America

$275 and enrollment

is

For more information,

Beginning with the 1991-92 academic
Provost's Lecture Series event each year as

Williams firmly established himself as a

Cost

Briefs

nontraditional students,

Vema

ed columnist. White House correspondent

Williams,

several

With support from then- President Harvey

Civil Rights

Provost's Lecture Series pro-

offering

institution in 1936.

Movement To-

ful presidential

News

He has served

as a general assignment, police, education

of Vema E. Jones and her late husband,

Daniel S. Jones. Both graduated from the

Bloomsburg's Endowed Lecture Series in
1960 in memory of her late husband "
to
give students an opportunity to see and hear

How Will Minorities Vote?" at

will discuss

on PBS.
The Vema and Daniel Jones Lecture program has been established at the university

aired

at

writes for

gram.
the

in-

spired a late 1980s television series that

who

Bloomsburg Tuesday, Feb.
this year's

which

to

1

Wednesday, Feb.

p.m.,

12, in

Room

For additional infor-

1252 (TV Studio

Q

mation, contact Janice Shields at 389-4758.

Services Center.

Tom Joseph will speak on

Peter Kasvinsky , assistant vice presi-

audio visual aids for the classroom teacher.

dent for graduate studies and research,

due Friday, Feb.

14.

of McCormick Human

AppUcation forms for the 1992-93 Paul

A panel discussion on successful teach-

Douglas Teacher Scholarship and Scholars

ing strategies will begin at 4 p.m., Monday,

in

Education Awards are

the financial aid office.

deadline

is

May

now available
The

in

program

that encourages academically tal-

ented students to enter the preschool, el-

ementary or secondary teaching
is

McCormick Forum.

fields.

a special program that en-

courages students with high scholastic quaUfications in mathematics and the sciences to

gUsh, recently had a

New

letter published in

The

York Times clarifying an error in a

previously published article.

trial

Safety and Health Seminar series

—

in

— starting

is

a new level of commitment

and accomplishment

for the univer-

School of Graduate Studies.
will

make

avail-

able the resources of the council as an

information source on issues of graduate education

and research poUcy."

Peters' letter explains changes in

Ameri-

can English intonation, in particular, the

Council of Graduate Schools was
founded in 1 960. It has a current mem-

way

bership of 400 colleges and universi-

in

which young Americans end

their

sentences in a questioning tone.

ties in the

Older Americans' intonation at the end
is

characterized by a sUght

His

letter

concludes: ..."future English

speakers will probably remark on

we older American speakers

how flat

sounded."

Spectrum, a student-produced publica-

an off-campus editorial and ad-

United States and Canada

that are significantly involved in gradu-

ate education.

The council produces

a

number of

publications, distributed in this country

and abroad,

that deal with various

issues in graduate education.

Member

"Safety Issues of the '90s" and "Principles

of Industrial Safety and Health"

says this

Located in Washington, D.C., the

(one level below monotone) drop, he notes.

The School of Extended Programs will
offers two noncredit seminars in its Indus-

of Graduate Schools.

"Our membership

of a sentence

enter the teaching profession.

cil

sity's

Frank Peters, associate professor of En-

funded college financial aid

The award

Feb. 24 in

application

1.

The Paul Douglas Teacher Scholarship is
a federally

institutions represent

85

percent of the graduate enrollment in

— 70 percent of the

March.

tion with

H. Edward Knisely, manager of indus-

vertising focus, has been awarded firstplace

master's degrees and 95 percent of the
doctoral degrees.

and manufacturing opera-

for overall excellence in a competition spon-

tions for a Pennsylvania steel manufactur-

sored by the American Scholastic Press

ing firm, will serve as instructor.

Association.

trial

relations

5

Juan Williams,

The

tion 1992:

JAN 92

Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965,

Washington Post correspondent to discuss
civil rights movement, minority vote

Juan Williams

30

the United States

of

6 The Communique

30

JAN 92
Wednesday, Feb. 12

Calendar

•

Film

— "Always," Carver

Monday, Feb. 24
• Comedy Night with Tony Woods,

Hall,

7 and 9:30 p.m.
Friday, Jan. 31

— "The Fisher King," Carver

Film

•

HaU, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 1
• Black History Month begins
• Women's Swimming and Diving vs.
Navy, Nelson Field House, 1 p.m.
• QUEST
Cross Country Skiing,

—

•

•

•

1

•

"Frederick Douglass,"

Hall,

— a one-man

7 p.m.

Gym, 9

•

Wednesday, Feb. 5

—

Film

Hall, 7
•

Lecture

—

•

featuring Portia Alexandria

Agenda in the
1990s," McCormick Human Services

American

Political

Center Forum, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 6
"Sojourner Truth"

— A one-woman

play by Cecily Paterson, Carver Hall,

•

•

•

—

featuring

McCormick Human

Services Center

Forum, 2 p.m.
"Billy Bathgate," Carver Hall,
Film
7 and 9:30 p.m.

—

Saturday, Feb. 8
•

Bus

trip to

Washington, D.C.

— bus

•

The Astonishing Neal

— ESP and

hypnosis show. Carver Hall, 8 p.m.
•

•

QUEST — Cross-Country
Film
1

Skiing,

— "Billy Bathgate," Carver

Hall,

QUEST — Kayak Rolling, Centennial
Gym, 9

How

Minorities Vote?," Carver Hall,

QUEST — Kayak Rolling, Centennial
to 11 p.m.

•

•

•

Forum meeting,
McCormick Human Services Center

University

Forum, 3 p.m.
Film
"Jungle Fever," Carver Hall,
6 and 9:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion on "Jungle Fever,"

•

to 11 p.m.

•

Musical

Film

The Communique
A

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

The Communique publishes
news of aaivities, events and developments at
faculty and staff,

news

briefs

and

calendar information at least two weeks in

advance to The Communiqui University Reand Communication Office,
,

lations

Hall,

Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

BU is committed to providing equal educational

vs. Pitt-

and employment opportunities for

all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,

Skiing,

Eaglesmere, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Gospekama, Carver Hall, 6 p.m.

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

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or union

The

university

is

to affirmative action

additionally committed

and

will take positive

steps to provide such educational

House, 2 p.m.

ployment opportunities.

8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Assistant Editor: Susan

QUEST — Caving, Pleasant Gap,

— "Jungle Fever," Carver

Hall,

mem-

bership.

Wrestling vs. Wilkes, Nelson Field

I p.m.

Hall,

17815.

QUEST — Cross-Country

Film

Hall,

8 p.m. and midnight

Please submit story ideas,

— "Jungle Fever," Carver

Women's basketball

Hall,

BU bi-weekly throughout the academic year.

Wrestling vs. Penn State, Nelson

Film

— "Cabaret," Mitrani

— "Spinal Tap," Carver

—

Sunday, Feb. 23
•

the Stairs,"

Haas Center, 8 p.m., joint production
of theater and music departments

vs.

Johnstown, Nelson Field House, 7 p.m.
•

— "The People Under
Carver
7 and 9:30 p.m.
Musical — "Cabaret," Mitrani

Film

Haas Center, 8 p.m., joint production
of theater and music departments
Saturday, Feb. 29
• Women's and men's basketball vs.
Millersville, Nelson Field House,
6 and 8 p.m.
•

Women's and men's basketball

Saturday, Feb. 22

p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 11
•

— Juan

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Eagles Mere, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
•

Provost's Lecture Series

Field House, 7:30 p.m.

leaves El well Residence Hall at 6 a.m.
•

•

Friday, Feb. 21

David Gilmore,
Topic: "Domestic Power,"

Lecture

Wrestling vs. Lock Haven, Nelson

Hall,

Carver Hall, 8 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 7

•

•

6 and 8 p.m.

7 p.m.

•

-Juan

Kutztown, Nelson Field House,

"Black Press and the

Hall,

Field House, 7:30 p.m.

Provost's Lecture Series

Wednesday, Feb. 19

and 9:30 p.m.

Scott. Topic:

•

•

Gym, 9

"Billy Bathgate," Carver

Stairs,"

Haas Center, 8 p.m., joint production
of theater and music departments
Friday, Feb. 28

8 p.m.

to 11 p.m.

— "Cabaret," Mitrani

7:30 p.m.

Williams. Topic: "Election '92:

Centennial

Musical

Freedom Theatre, Carver Hall,

WiU

QUEST — Kayak Rolling,

—

•

vs. Pitt- Johnstown,

4 p.m.
•

vs.

6 and 8 p.m.
"The People Under the
Carver Hall, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 27
Film

Williams workshop. Carver Hall,

Tuesday, Feb. 4

•

Men's basketball

Women's and men's basketball

•

Tuesday, Feb. 18
•

play by James Roberts, Carver Hall,

•

violin;

Nelson Field House, 7:30 p.m.
•

featuring

The Cleveland Quartet, Mitrani
Haas Center, 8 p.m.
•

— Ann Stokes,

to 11 p.m.

Mansfield, Nelson Field House,

2:30 p.m.

— "The Fisher King," Carver
p.m.
—
Celebrity

Monday, Feb. 3

•

Marie Jelinek, violoncello; Stephen

Film

Artist Series

Gym, 9

Monday, Feb. 17

8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

•

Faculty Recital

QUEST — Kayak RoUing, Centennial

Wednesday, Feb. 26

Wallace, trumpet. Carver Hall,

QUEST — Caving, Pleasant Gap,

Hall,

•

8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 16

Sunday, Feb. 2

•

— "BU Duals," Nelson
QUEST — Caving, Pleasant Gap,

Wrestling

Field House, noon

Eagles Mere, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

•

Carver Hall, 8 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 25

Saturday, Feb. 15

and em-

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

M. Schantz

Editorial Assistant: Christina

J.

Gaudreau

Contributing Writer: Charles C. Mark

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

Expert says students, faculty, staff ^need to talk more'
about cultural diversity, multiculturalism issues
Cultural diversity and "multiculturalism"

audience recently. "But

we need

to talk

vantaged." In other words, he explained,
they feel that

claimed education expert Arthur E. Levine,

more about these terms so they can be
understood by everyone on campus."
Pointing out that the number of 18-yearolds in Pennsylvania will drop by more than

many people

one-third between 1979 and 1993, Levine

and majorities

these

'The population of young people in
this country is changing ... and those who
are 1 8 years old are more likely to be people

are discussion topics of

major concern on

college and university campuses across the
country. But according to author

and ac-

still don't understand what
words mean and the concepts they

represent.

said,

of color."

somebody

Higher Education's Future, said he's concerned about the views conservative and
have voiced regarding

liberal educators

multiculturalism.

...

in short,

everybody."

Admitting that multiculturalism
easy issue to solve, Levine said
raise

more problems" than

it

isn't

Scholars, say colleges are

'bending over backwards' in multiculturalism ...and liberals say colleges 'don't
care' about multiculturalism

and

'live in

a

curriculum that's made up of European white

solutions.

said,

it

was discov-

ered that campus administrators had as-

signed their student affairs department to

come up with some "quick fixes," and
faculty members weren't involved as much
At every institution visited, he said, "the
was stronger than the reality we
saw on campus."
In this study of 300 schools nationwide,
Levine and his colleagues found that oneContinued on page 2
rhetoric

males.' But they both can't be right"

Commissioned by
Levine and

1 1

the

Ford Foundation,

other higher education au-

thorities set out to

conduct surveys on col-

lege and university campuses about one-

and-a-half years ago.

were

large, others

"Some campuses

were small," he

said.

According to Levine, one of the questions
asked of students, faculty and administrators

was "What

is

campus

life like

inside and outside the classroom?

out

some very

cially

both

We found

fascinating things

...

espe-

about students."

Levine reported students tend to describe
themselves more

in

terms of their "differ-

ences" rather than their "similarities," and
they "systematically underestimate" the
"Visit any college or university in the

an

"seems to

as they should be.

"Conservative groups, like the National

Academy of

more

getting

"We found this most commonly among
men and women, rich and poor, minorities

During the study, he

Levine, author of the book titled Shaping

is

than they're getting.

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFEX

amount of interaction they have with each

UON DANCE — Dennis Hwang, as-

other.

sociate professor of accounting, dem-

United States and you'll hear them talking

Levine said he also found that students

the language of multiculturalism," the se-

describe themselves as "victims." They be-

nior faculty

member of Harvard's GraduSchool of Education told a Bloomsburg

lieve

ate

"advantaged" while they are being "disad-

some group on campus

is

being

onstrates the Lion

Dance during

the

university's Chinese New Year celebration.

The event was sponsored by the

International Relations Club.

2 The

Communique

FEB 92

13

Expert
Continued from page

Increased student optimism, concern with
social issues encourages education leader

1

quarter of all colleges and universities had

women

Campuses

had

studies programs, one-twelfth

are experiencing an increase

optimism regarding "our collec-

Spanish studies programs, two percent had

in student

native American studies programs and only

tive future," said

one in 25 had Asian studies programs oper-

Harvard educator, recently

ating

on

"In

their

University. In his speech,

campuses.

comprehensive schools,

Bloomsburg,

we found

Arthur E. Levine, noted

that

like

about 50 per-

at Bloomsburg
'The Changing

Character of Today 's College Student," the

noted advocate of education reform

re-

cent are actively trying to recruit

ported campuses are also seeing a rising

multicultural faculty," he said. "Nearly

concern with social issues.

percent of these schools had

60

Levine, a Provost's Lecture Series

some type of

Bloomsburg

multicultural advising program for students

speaker, told

and about half had multicultural research
institutes and study centers on campus."

members today's

...

Levine emphasized that colleges and

need to talk more about
multiculturaUsm and set "systematic plans
and goals" that include more involvement
from faculty and less responsibiUty on stuuniversities

dent affairs.

"We

faculty

and

staff

students characterize

themselves as "cynically optimistic" which
is

"an encouraging change over prevailing

student attitudes in the 1970s."

Arthur E. Levine

In 1970, and every year thereafter,Levine

and

his colleagues

graduates.

surveyed 25,000 under-

While 91 percent said they were

83 percent were optimistic about our

optimistic about their personal futures, a

This trend of increased optimism has

mere 41 percent were optimistic about the

continued in the last two years. Three out of

collective future of this country.

four freshmen said they had heroes. They

are living in one of the

"They had a burning desire to get the best

hardest times in history for col-

jobs. Sadly," these students reported "they

their parents, their teachers

had no national heroes," said Levine.

bors. Students said these

leges

and

universities. In this

Students were also asked what they hoped

time of economic difficulty in
the United States ...federal

and

educa-

about our responsibilities ...and

our integrity. There have been a

lege

and college presidents. But

the big

one that made the cover

of Time and other national
magazines is political correct-

E. Levine

study in succeeding years.

remained constant

Discussing the "College

CUmate of

the

ture Series,

Levine told several hundred

Kenneth S. Gross
Auditorium diversity and multiculturalism
are just two of the major issues confronting
college campuses in the '90s.
attentive Usteners in the

until

The answers

1989 when they

to notice a significant

change

responses. "In 1989, 91 percent were

in

still

optimistic about their personal futures, but

"We are living in one of the hardest times

ever seen an adult authority figure break

down.
"The lesson

that results

from Challenger

"William Bennett, who used to be Secre-

'You can't

in history for colleges

tary of Education, recently said,

said. "In this

speak freely on college campuses anymore.

and universities," he
time of economic difficulty in

the United States

...

federal

port for higher education

is

and

state sup-

being

cut.

"Additionally," he said, "many questions

have been raised about our responsibilities

and we're hearing complaints about our
.

There have been a whole bunch of

And newspaper reports

say racism, sexism

and gay bashing have significantly increased

on campus."
Levine dispelled the media myth

in this

country that campuses aren't involved and
are uncaring. Noting that

many

reports in

scandals the over past few years dealing

the press are wrong, he said, "there's a lot of

with college athletics, the cost of college

activity occurring, particularly at institu-

and college presidents.

tions like

"But the big one
'90s" as part of Bloomsburg's Provost Lec-

difference.

has most influenced them, said Levine.
"They watched the awful explosion as it
happened. They watched their teachers
cry. For many, it was the first time they had

integrity

— Arthur

made a

plosion as the social or political event that

...

ness on campus.

truly

and at least one car.
Levine and his colleagues repeated the

styles

whole bunch of scandals over
the past few years dealing with
college athletics, the cost of col-

had

and their neigh-

were people they

well-kept lawn, lots of clothes in the latest

began

we're hearing complaints about

felt

figures, but people like

Current students cite the Challenger ex-

tion is being cut. Additionally,

many questions have been raised

They

were not national

listed a big house, a large

to achieve.

state support for higher

col-

lective future."

that

made

the cover of

Time and other national magazines is poUtical correctness on campus."
Levine reported that the nation's "political climate" has changed dramatically over
the past few years and its effect has been felt
strongly on America's college and university

campuses.

Bloomsburg."

In addition to "strong presidential leadership,

soUd plans and goals, and getting our
"what we need

faculty involved," he said,

most

is

"We

a chance to talk with one another.
have to do that because the future

depends upon

it."

— Kevin B. Engler

The Communique

is that

we all have responsibilities," he said.

"We all

have obligations to other people."
Levine emphasi2ed, "the world in which

students live

we grew
same

is

not the same world in which

up." Students

do not share the

historic perspective as faculty

and

members. For example, the majority
after the
of freshmen were bom in 1973
assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert
Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
staff

—

bers of students of color, part-time students

"Many students woik long hours. They're
not on campus like they were in former
years.

Levine explained.

The Harvard educator cited

recent stud-

he conducted which indicate today's

ies

college students represent a transitional

He

sonal preoccupation in 30- year cycles.

known
is

Essentially they have

six

grown up

three

weeks.

good

in

said they are increasingly

"When
also hear

I

talk to students

much

I

frustration. It's

I

hard to

short

is

a prevailing attitude that

and students

According to Levine, one in three college
freshmen takes part in some kind of demonstration during their high school years.

out of three did volunteer

work

Two

prior to

entering college and will continue their

voluntarism while in college.

The

rate of

teach our students to have

make a

it

difference.

find

up for a

trip

feels

students, Levine

when

best,

among
second

it all.

"We have to give our students
hope to go on ... to allow
dreams to come true."

— Arthur

on a sinking luxury

their

E. Levine

ship," he said.

who will be courageous enough
ers.

to

on, hope to allow their dreams to come true.

we

We have to make doing good seem reason-

"Lots of risks won't work out, but

need people who are willing

to experiment.

"The real challenge is to convince students
that they can make a difference. They can't
all

"We have to give our students hope to go

be lead-

be Secretary of State, but they will

all

We must con-

able.

There are all kinds of possibilities

Responsibility

essential,

"We

Levine

said,

make them
understand that altruism is part of the game
plan," he said.

four years.

hope and dedication," he added.

ity to

num-

is

to teach students.

vince them to build a better tomorrow with

— Susan M. Schantz

for

them," he said.

touch countless other lives.

also changing. There are increased

exist

settle for

they could have

voluntarism on college campuses has in-

is

hope does

warns that it is very fragile

and too many students

creased from 40 to 4,000 percent in the last

Levine noted the composition of students

meet major challenges,"

said.

life is

Levine cited the need to educate students

reer that has social value.

"We must

hope, not in a Pollyanna way, but in a way

feel they can't really

give

want a ca-

students reach their full potential.

While he

hear joy, but

convince them they are the future," he said.

"There

Bloomsburg,

visit to

four values he considers crucial to help

that will help them

four college students want to be well-off
financially, but two-thirds also

two-day

his

Levine

doing well and doing good." Three out of

described students as "tom between

During

historically altemates with periods of per-

ways to challenge our
students to do good. Making a difference is
their birthright. We must tell them not to

He

teaching students four
'crucial' values

concemed with social issues, a trend which

"We must

times."

Levine advocates

Arthur E. Levine challenged faculty to teach

troops left Vietnam. Double-digit inflation

wars, but to them a long war

3

Campuses have become a stopping

point in their day, not the focal point,"

generation.

served Levine. "They have

FEB 92

and older students.

They were bom after Watergate, the Great
Society and man's first walk on the moon.
They were only two years old when U.S.
ended when they were 9 years old.
"Current freshmen have only experienced
two presidents, Reagan and Bush," ob-

13

have

to

"We all have a responsibil-

other people, to be

concemed about

their welfare."

Students must also gain understanding.

He cited an observation by noted economist
Jane Bryant Quinn, "If you're not confused
about what's going on today, you don't
understand
Finally,

I

it."

Levine said students must de-

velop a sense of efficacy so they will believe they can

make a difference. "We must

help students understand that talk about
leadership

is

not a lot of bunk. The real

challenge will be to convince students they
are the future."

Recalling a lecture he delivered to a group

of 30 student leaders at a liberal arts college,

told

Levine

"We

OPENING THIS MONTH — The $1.3 million Scranton Commons renovation project is
nearly complete. The expanded student dining area, featuring a spacious solarium,

expected to open later this month. Seating capacity has been enlarged
more than 150 students.

to

is

accommodate

"Twenty-seven students

me they felt that life was short and they

couldn't

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFER

said,

make

a difference.

must help students understand

that

whatever they do, they will touch many
other lives in important ways."

He

said,

"We

have

to

make doing good

seem reasonable and hopeful."

— Susan M. Schantz

4 The Communique 13

FEB 92

Faculty, deans

News Briefs

receive grant funding

The Broadway musical "Cabaret" will be
performed by Bloomsburg theater and the
music department at 8 p.m., Thursday, Feb.

Provost's Lecture Series discussions, "Col-

27, through Saturday, Feb. 29, and at 2

lege Climate of the '90s" and 'The Chang-

for research projects

p.m., Sunday,

Four Bloomsburg faculty members and

two deans have received grant awards totaling $140,189 to conduct research or aca-

demic projects during 1992. The awards
were recently announced by the university

'

s

Haas Center

March

members are invited to attend. For
more information, call Gill at 389^250.
faculty

1, in

Mitrani Hall of

for the Performing Arts.

Free admission

is

Recipients include: Harold Bailey, di-

active Technologies;

Mariana Blackburn,

assistant professor of chemistry;
ris,

Mary Har-

assistant professor of curriculum

and

foundations; Paul Hartung, professor of

available for persons

with a valid university identification card
information, caU

389^287.

System of Higher Education's

"Pri-

staff from

Bloomsburg's audio

leagues on Instructional Ideas" at 5 p.m.,

Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. For more information, caU 387-9159 or 784-6938.

rum.

as part of the Volunteer

Monday, Feb.

24, in the

McCormick Fo-

Presenters include Harry Ackerman, assistant professor of developmental instruc-

in the

1990s" for"Advancing Teach-

and

visual resources department Call 389-4002.

day, Feb. 4, through Wednesday, April 15,

Bloomsburg'scurriculum committee will

State

College S tudent,"

Bloomsburg's Accounting Club will ofincome tax preparation from Tues-

sponsor a discussion on "Multiculturalism

orities for the

s

fer free

and Hsien-Tung Liu, dean

Bailey was awarded $30,000 from the

faculty

'

available for loan to interested

Bloomsburg's teaching and learning enhancement committee will hold a panel
discussion on "Creating Excitement in the
Classroom: Working with Campus Col-

Macauley, dean of the College of Profesof the College of Arts and Sciences.

now

and community activities sticker. For more

mathematics and computer science; Howard
sional Studies;

ing Character of Today
are

grants office.

rector of the university's Institute for Inter-

Videotapes of Arthur E. Levine's recent

Classroom"

17, in the

at 3 p.m.,

Monday, Feb.

McCormick Forum.

Panelists include:

tion;

Winona Cochran,

assistant p)rofessor

of psychology Mary Kay Erickson, associ;

ate professor of marketing;

and John Olivo,

chairperson and professor of business edu-

George Agbango,

sistant professor of political science;

as-

cation

and

office administration.

Jim

Through Technology."
from the Frank
Bressler RehabiUtation Fund of Bloomsburg
for an "Interactive Video Project for the

spondents are Harry Ackerman, assistant

Nelson Field House arenas for their events

professor of developmental instruction;

Handicapped."

Tom

should contact Dick Haupt at 389-4555,
weekdays between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

ing and Learning

Dalton, professor of psychology; and Vera

He

Viditz-Ward, assistant professor of art. Re-

serving the Centennial

also received $2,117

Blackburn was awarded $12,192 from
the

Amoco

Production

Company

to con-

duct research for "Correlating Crude Oil
Origins With Physical Properties."

Aleto, assistant professor of anthro-

pology; and Pamela
fessor of

Nancy
glish,

Harris received $15,000 from the State

Wynn,

Gymnasium

or

associate pro-

The fOTensic team finished second to the

management.
Gill, associate professor

and Pat Torsella,

Individuals or groups interested in re-

of En-

assistant professor

of nursing, will serve as moderators. All

University of Pennsylvania at the Collegiate Forensic Association

ment

last

month

in

Winter Tourna-

Montreal.

System of Higher Education Office of Social Equity foraprojecttitled "Bloomsburg/

Harrisburg Residential Program" and two
additional awards totaling $11,880 from
the Pennsylvania

Academy for the Profes-

sion of Teaching to conduct field experi-

ences and a community workshop.

Hartung was awarded $60,000 from the
Pennsylvania Department of

Commerce

-

Ben Franklin Parmership Challenge Grant
Program through Lehigh University's Advanced Technology Center for the "Development of a Gem Identification System."
Macauley received $2,000 from the Pennsylvania

Academy

for the Profession of

Teaching for an "Academic AlUance Between Bloomsburg University and Danville,

Hahfax and Hazleton School Districts."
He and Liu received a joint award of
$7,000 from the Academy for a project
titled "Liberal Arts and Teacher Education:
Advancing Collaboration."
Kevin B. Engler

—

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFEft

SUCCESSFUL BLOOD DRIVE— AmericanRed Cross volunteer Catherine Teitsworth,
RJ^.

(left),

checks the blood pressure of Mary Jane Parks, a junior from Towanda. at the

recent university blood drive. Donors, nearly all students, contributed 495 pints of blood.

The Communique

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13

5

Campus Notes
Mehdi Haririan,

associate professor of

Leon Szmedra,

assistant professor of

and

an article titled "On Definition and Estimation of

Wind Risk" pubUshed

economics, attended the 1992 annual meet-

health, physical education

ings of the Allied Social Sciences Associa-

will present his research project, "Training

edition of Reliability Engineering

Response of Individuals with Coronary

tem Safety.

tion held recently in

He was

New Orleans.

also invited to attend a

March

conference on "Latin America's Energy
Industry:

New

Opportunities for Growth

Through International Investment and
Trade," sponsored by the Institute of the
Americas at the University of San Diego.

athletics,

in a recent

and Sys-

Artery Disease Stratified by Ejection Fraction," at the

upcoming meeting of the midAmerican

Atlantic regional chapter of The

College of Sports Medicine in Westminster,

Md.

Chang Shub Rob,

professor of sociol-

Dale A. Bertelsen, assistant professor of
communication studies, chaired a panel
discussion on the 'Top Three Papers in
Burkeian Theory" at the recent Speech
Communication Association's annual convention in Atlanta.

social welfare, recently presented

He also presented a paper, "The Pennsyl-

marketing, presented a paper, "Perceptual

a paper titled "Perspectives of Korean

vania Model: Required Course Outcomes."

Measures of an Augmented Product," at the

Gerontological Problems" at the Korean

annual convention of the Congress of Po-

Gerontological Research Institute in Seoul,

Salim Qureshi, associate professor of

Economists, International, held

litical

re-

ogy and

He

cently in Rio de Janeiro.

also delivered a lecture, "Changing

Patterns on Marriage and the Family in a

Terry Oxley, assistant professor of muhad an article titled "A Short Course in
Reeds for the Inexperienced Clarinet
sic,

Teacher" accepted for pubUcation in the

Post-Industrial Society," at Seoul City Family

Brown,

Neil L.

titled

is

co-author of an article

"Employed Females' Clothing

Pref-

erence, Self-image Congruence and Career

Anchorage" recently pubhshed in the Jour-

assistant professor of

curriculum and foundations, recently dis-

zine.

cussed "Social Studies Across the Curricu-

lum" with educators in the Spotswood Public Schools in Spotswood, N.J.

Faculty, students participate
in

history, delivered a paper titled "Salvaging

Patriarchy: Women, ReUgion and Economic

Ericksen, associate professor

nal of Applied Social Psychology.

Counseling Center.

March-April issue of Bandworld Maga-

Jeanette Keith, assistant professor of

Mary K.

of marketing,

Korea.

PAEOPP conference

Several Bloomsburg faculty, students and

Frank

Peters, associate professor of

administrators presented papers or led ses-

Change in Rural Tennessee" at the annual
American Historical Association meeting

English, had an article titled "American

sions

Grammar Teaching and

issues at the annual Pennsylvania Associa-

held recently in Chicago.

Marketplace" recently published in Syntax

tion of Educational Opportunity

She also chaired a session, "Rights in
Rural Contexts," at the American Studies
Association meeting in Baltimore.

in the Schools.

Personnel (PAEOPP) conference this month

Donald Pratt and Frank
tant professors
tions,

Misiti, assis-

of curriculum and founda-

helped plan the recent Pennsylvania

Science Teachers Association convention

"HyperStudio

in

Paul Cochrane, JoAnne Growney,
Reza Noubary, James Fomfret and John
Riley, professors of mathematics and

com-

puter science, attended the National Joint

Mathematics Meetings held recently

in

Baltimore.

Remarks from Growney 's presentation

held recently in Carhsle.
Pratt presented

the International

GS

Sci-

titled

"Mathematical Experiences for Re-

on "Ethnic and Cultural Diversity"
Program

Reading.

They

George Agbango, assisand chairperson of political
science; Mary Badami, professor and chairperson of communication studies; HsienTung Liu, dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences; and Ken Millen-Penn, assistant
included:

tant professor

director of student support services.

Also, Maureen Mulligan, director of the

ence Stacks," and Misiti discussed "Devel-

luctant Students"

oping Observation Skills in the Elementary

page article in The Baltimore Sun. She also

Roosevelt Newson, associate dean of the

School"

helped organize an evening program on

College of Arts and Sciences; Tej Bhan

at the convention.

were included

in a front-

university's

Upward Bound program;

mathematical poetry during which she read

Saini, professor of

Michael C. Blue, associate professor of
accounting, will present two papers at the
1992 mid- Atlantic regional meeting of the
American Accounting Association in Pitts-

two of her poems, "A Mathematician's
Nightmare" and "Beautiful Numbers."

Walker, vice president for university ad-

burgh.

music, recently performed a solo concert at

He

"Updating the Require-

Lycoming College in Williamsport. Nelson,
a baritone, included selections by Haydn,

and the United States" and "Using the Con-

Beethoven and Debussy in his performance.

will discuss
to

trol Graph to Measure the Impact that
Changes in Accounting PoUcy Have on
Managers' Perceptions of Control."

vancement
Students included: freshman Chavonne

B. Eric Nelson, assistant professor of

Become a CPA in China, Taiwan

ments

economics; and John

Hodge of

Harrisburg, sophomore John
McDaniel of Philadelphia and senior Andrea Smith of Myerstown.

PAEOPP

is

a state organization dedi-

cated to assuring underprivileged individuals "opportunity, access

Reza

Noubary,

professor

of

mathmematics and computer science, had

and successful

progress through institutions of higher education."

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Monday, Feb. 24

Calendar
Saturday, Feb. 15

Excitement

— "BU Duals," Nelson
House, noon.
QUEST — Caving, Pleasant Gap,

•

•

Ideas," sponsored

•Faculty Recital

Mark

— Ann Stokes,

— Lu Ann Homza from

the

University of Chicago, "Trends in

McCormick Human

sponsored by the history department, the

Graduate Study

Services Center

in History,"

time

TBA,

History Club and Phi Alpha Theta.

with

Tony Woods,

•

— Lu Ann Homza. Topic:

Address

"Women

Carver Hall, 8 p.m.

and Witchcraft,"

Room

Wallace, trumpet. Carver Hall,

Tuesday, Feb. 25

Haitline Science Center,

7:30 p.m.

•

8 p.m., sponsored by the Committee on

QUEST — Kayak Rolling, Centennial
Gym, 9

vs. Pitt- Johnstown,

Nelson Field House, 7:30 p.m.
•Freedom Theatre, Carver Hall,
7:30 p.m.

Discussion

— "Multiculturalism

Classroom," sponsored by the

in the

BU

to

Mansfield, Nelson Field House,

history department and the Commission
on the Status of Women.
Wednesday, March 4

6 and 8 p.m.

•Lecture

•Film

— "The People Under

Carver Hall, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 27

Human

•

— Juan
4 p.m.
Williams workshop, Carver
— Juan
•Provost's Lecture
Hall,

How

Williams. Topic: "Election '92:

8 p.m.

QUEST
Gym,

— Kayak

— "The People Under
7 and 9:30 p.m.
Carver
production
Musical — "Cabaret,"

the Stairs,"

joint

Millersville,

Forum, 3 p.m.

— "Jungle Fever," Carver

Hall,

Status of

Women.

•

Musical

Carver Hall, 8 p.m.

A

— "Cabaret,"

joint production

department, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

— "Spinal Tap," Carver

Friday, Feb. 21

•Film

•Wrestling vs. Penn State, Nelson Field

8 p.m. and midnight.
Sunday, March 1

— "Jungle Fever," Carver

Hall,

7 and 9:30 p.m.

Nelson Field House, 7 p.m.

•QUEST — Cross-Country
to 5

Skiing,

BU bi-weekly throughout the academic year.
Please submit story ideas,

— "The People Under
p.m.
Carver
production
•Musical — "Cabaret,"

the Stairs,"

1

joint

of Bloomsburg Theater and the music
department, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

Monday, March 2

Sunday, Feb. 23

•Faculty Lecture Series

QUEST — Caving, Pleasant Gap,

BU is committed to providing equal educational and

Hall,

employment

opportunities for

all

persons withoutregard to race, color, religion,
sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or

union

mem-

bership.

university

is

additionally committed

— Marjorie Clay.

steps to provide such educational and

em-

ployment opportunities.

Topic: "Philosophy Constructs the

Woman," Old

Science,

Room

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

122,

6 p.m., sponsored by the Commission on

Women.
Tuesday, March 3
the Status of

8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

and

to affirmative action and will take positive

•Gospelrama, Carver Hall, 6 p.m.

House, 2 p.m.

briefs

17815.

8 p.m.

•Wrestling vs. Wilkes, Nelson Field

news

advance to The Communique, University Relations and Communication Office,

The

p.m.

— "Jungle Fever," Carver

Hall,

•Women's History Month
Hall,

vs. Pitt- Johnstown,

The Communique publishes
news of activities, events and develcjpments at

Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

•Film

Saturday, Feb. 22

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

faculty and staff.

calendar information at least two weeks in

8 p.m.

House, 7:30 p.m.

The Communique

vs.

of Bloomsburg Theater and the music

6 and 9:30 p.m.

p.m.

Diamonds are a Girl's Best
Old Science, Room 122, 6 p.m.,
sponsored by the Commission on the
Sports, or

Friend,"

Nelson Field House,

6 and 8 p.m.

•Panel Discussion on "Jungle Fever,"

1

— Sue Hibbs.

Topic: "The Best Kept Secret in Pro

8 p.m.

•Women's and men's basketball

•Film

28.

department, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

basketball vs.

Forum meeting,
McCormick Human Services Center

•

in the Arts"

of Bloomsburg Theater and the music

•University

Eaglesmere, 8 a.m.

Classes resume

•Faculty Lecture Series

Saturday, Feb. 29

•Women's basketball

— "Women

Haas Gallery, through March

•

6 and 8 p.m.

•Film

Art Exhibit
begins,

8 p.m.

Hall,

•

Kutztown, Nelson Field House,

•Film

•

7

Monday, March 16

Field House, 7:30 p.m.

Hartline

Spring Break begins, noon

department, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

•Wrestling vs. Lock Haven, Nelson

Rolling, Centennial

Wednesday, Feb. 19
•Women's and men's

•

joint production

•Film

9 to 11 p.m.

March

Saturday,

Friday, Feb. 28

Will Minorities Vote?," Carver Hall,

— Molefi Asante,

Science Center, 7:30 p.m.

of Bloomsburg Theater and the music

Provost's Lecture Series

Series

— "Cabaret,"

Musical

vs.

the Stairs,"

Curriculum Committee, McCormick
Services Center Forum, 3 p.m.

83,

Human Relations, Honors and Scholars,

p.m.

1 1

Wednesday, Feb. 26
•Women's and men's basketball

Tuesday, Feb. 18

•

•Workshop

by the BU Teaching
and Learning Enhancement Committee,

•Comedy Night

Jelinek, violoncello; Stephen

Men's basketball

•

Instructional

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Haas Center.

Forum, 5 p.m.
violin;

Monday, Feb. 17

•

Classroom: Working

Campus Colleagues on

with

Field

8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

•

in the

Wrestling

Sunday, Feb. 16

•Women's reception sponsored by the
Commission on the Status of Women,

•Panel discussion — "Creating

Assistant Editor: Susan

M. Schantz

Editorial Assistant: Christina

J.

Gaudreau

Contributing Writer: Charles C. Mark

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

University officials, faculty

preparing for $1.3 million
cut in state appropriation
In the wake of Gov. Robert P. Casey's proposed
$13 million cut in state appropriations for the
1992-93 academic year, officials at the 14 State
System of Higher Education universities are busy

discussing

how they can trim their budgets to meet

the 3.5 percent shortfall.

"Recognizing the Governor's commitment

to

public higher education, the business of considering core reductions will begin immediately," ac-

cording to State System Chancellor James H.

McCormick. "Under the
Governors,
PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

U.S. Rep.

Paul Kanjorski

direction of the

Board of

challenge must be met by the

Office of the Chancellor and the universities.
"Identifying core cuts in university services while
striving to

meet the system's

legislated mission of

providing a high quality education at an affordable

Kanjorski urges education

cost

is

our priority," McCormick added. "The

long-term economic realities of the state of Penn-

support program

officials to

this

sylvania will require in-depth study throughout the

system."

for eastern

European students

At Bloomsburg, university officials, faculty and
staff are

Budget

With communist governments nearly abolished

in eastern bloc nations,

many

U.S leaders in government and education are pondering ways in which America can
.

contribute to the rise of democracy in eastern Europe.
In Pennsylvania, U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D) of the

colleges

and

universities in his region about

1

1th District is talking with

how they can work together to provide

"It is

my

institutions

hope

that

management and

we can

the free enterprise system.

coordinate the efforts of (higher) educational

and community organizations

in

an effort

to

& General (E & G)

reduce approximately $1.3

million in spending for the next academic year.

According

to Betty

D. Allamong, provost and

vice president for academic affairs, Bloomsburg

undergraduate and graduate level business programs to eastern European students
interested in studying business

examining Education
in

our region to bring eastern European

"is as stable as

any of our sister institutions"

in the

system.

"This

and

we

is

a conservatively managed institution

are in

good shape

to face this budgetary

problem," Allamong told Bloomsburg's faculty,
staff

and students

at last

Wednesday's University

McCormick Forum.

undergraduate and graduate students to northeast Pennsylvania to study business

Forum meeting

administration for one or

"The governor is requiring a $ 1 .3 million reducfrom our state appropriation ... and this, of
course, means we'll have fewer dollars to work

Monday

two

years," Kanjorski said at a press conference last

Bloomsburg's Magee Center.
Kanjorski heads a group of higher education
at

tion

officials

other northeast Pennsylvania colleges and universities

from Bloomsburg and 10

who

are discussing the

institutions include:

with next year."

Approximately 83 percent of Bloomsburg's E&

formation of a consortium.

The

in the

College Misericordia, East Stroudsburg University,

Wilkes University, Penn State University - Wilkes Barre Campus, Penn State
University - Hazleton Campus, Marywood College, King's College, University of
Continued on page 2

G budget is used for salaries, and the remaining
percent

is

used

to

pay

17

for operating budgets, in-

cluding such things as physical plant, steam line

Continued on page 2

2 The

Communique 27 FEB 92

Kanjorski's program
Continued from page

1

Scranton, Susquehanna University and

Luzerne County Community College.
This consortium would serve students
from such nations as Austria, Bulgaria,

Czechovslavakia, Hungary Poland, Yugo,

slavia, the

former Soviet republics and other

countries previously behind the Iron Curtain

who

are interested in earning a

bachelor's degree, or an

MBA, from a par-

ticipating institution.

According

to Kanjorski, northeast

Penn-

sylvania colleges and universities can offer

"an understanding of the free market sys-

tem" and how

PHOTO Br JOAN HELFEK
it

works

in the

in conjunction with "the

United States

democratic

tutions that are reflected in our

NEW PROGRAM — (From left) Betty Allamong, provost, Bloomsburg President

insti-

Harry Ausprich, U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski and Charles Chapman, associate
professor of management, discuss a study program for eastern European students.

govem-

menL"

He said youth from developing nations in
eastern

Europe

will benefit

sortium because they

'

11

from the con-

be taught to "appre-

ciate the political institutions of the

United

and complement that understanding with the development of the free market
system in eastern Europe which has been
States

...

missing for over three generations."

The proposed consortium

,

is

titled the Foun-

being developed and

coordinated through the volunteer efforts
of Charles Chapman, associate professor of

management at Bloomsburg.
Chapman, who is working
tion

Kanjorski's

with

soring organizations and famiUes," he noted.

"The greatest benefit (of this program) is
to realize that

we

are involved in a joint

venture to aid eastern Europe in its dream of

economic

stability

totally

new concept toward
to Ausprich,

Continued from page

would agree to offer
to one or two eastern European

institutions

students per year.

or no cash

outlay required of the participating institu-

Chapman, who co-founded

Bloomsburg's Institute for Comparative and

Management Studies.
"Essentially, this means that each school

International

be fining empty seats
...

and

in its classes as

this will

have no

impact on Pennsylvania taxpayers."

When

finalized,

FREE members would

work through Kanjorski' s office to seek out
churches, service clubs and families of east-

em

institution

education

one giant,

European ethnicity

in this

region to

sponsor individual students and cover housing and food costs, said

Chapman.

"Qualified students from eastern Euro-

pean nations will be

is that

essarily 'leader'

...

of

'facilitator,'

because

tutions are going to

not nec-

of the

all

be leaders

insti-

in this

project," he said.

Chapman, "we could conceivably have
some eastern European students on our
campuses by next January."

— Kevin B. Engler

"But we'll try hard not to touch any of the

1

expenses, postage and phone

18 previously approved faculty developbills.

ment

"All these things are necessary

"Absorbing the tuition isprimarily a 'lost-

they're available

ing the logistics of implementing the pro-

gram.

and

office

little

consor-

in conjunc-

member

will

"We are simply

to take the international

commitments of each

Budget cuts

tions," said

international

privileged

this

tium together to begin discussions regard-

exciting step further."

,

opportunity cost' with

not a

is

be the institution bringing

"If everything falls into place," said

According

B loomsburg President Harry Ausprich said
free tuition

is

education.

hoping

Ausprich said Bloomsburg
to

"Our role

and freedom."

College and university officials in northeastern Pennsylvania say this effort

dation for the Reconstruction of Eastern

Europe (FREE),

appropriate schools and introduced to spon-

identified, assigned to

...

so

release times."

it

Other ideas include: delving into the
will

be difficult to reach into that 1 7 percent

and

easily pull out a million dollars," said

university's $85,(X)0 fuel reserve; cutting

Allamong.
University officials have

some

come up

turning back thermostats in

with

suggestions, although not yet final-

ized, to

back on the purchase of new equipment;

meet the Governor's request

administrative position vacancies for the

coming

year," said Allamong, noting

Bloomsburg

will

need

to restructure

some

personnel to handle the duties of those

"We

don't plan to cut back on deferred

cuts or

sary," said

"We
first

being relatively few

...

and by

attrition."

tion

University officials are also contemplating cuts in release times appropriated for
the

coming

year.

the next

maintenance line items or sabbaticals ...
and I do not see retrenchment, departmental

some faculty vacancies, too. But I see those

become vacant during

academic year.

positions.

"We'll probably have to place a freeze on

build-

ings by
and placing freezes on other university positions that

"One possibility is to place a freeze on all

campus

five degrees to conserve energy;

program cuts as being necesAllamong.

must keep

in

mind

that

we're here

and foremost as an academic instituto serve our students ... and we'll

continue to provide them with a program of

academic excellence," she added.
Kevin B. Engler

—

FEB 92

The Communique 27

March

events salute

'Women's History:

A Patchwork of Many Lives'

Bloomsburg will observe Women's History

Linda Wallace, director of community

Month during March with a variety of

relations for

keynote speaker. She received the 1991

A Patchwork of Many

Emmy Award for "Most Outstanding Community Outreach Campaign." Following

Lives."

A

WYOU-TV, is the conference

around the theme,

special events planned

"Women's History:

3

her talk, participants will have the opportu-

reception for faculty and staff spon-

Commission on

the Status of

nity to visit their choice of 18 different

Women (CSW) officially marics the begin-

workshops. They will also receive a free

sored by the

Women's

ning of

History

videotape on breast self-examination.

Month which

Women's

will highlight the variety of experiences

women have

and contributions American

made

to society

Anne Wymer,

throughout the history of

the United States. Guests will be

from 11:30 a.m.

Wymer

Tuesday,

March 3 in Haas Gallery.
The fu-st of eight faculty lectures sponsored by the CSW will feature "Philosophy
Constructs the Woman" by Marjorie Clay,

assistant professor of an-

thropology, on Tuesday,

welcomed

to 1:30 p.m.,

Month observance
Dee

History

continues with two presentations by

will

March

17.

conduct a workshop and

lecture titled "Bringing a Sense of Discov-

ery to the Classroom:

Science Hall; and

Mastodon,"

•"Becoming One's

Own Woman: The

The Burning Tree

at 3:30 p.m.

in

Room

83,

Hartline Science Center.

Beginning at 7 p.m.

same location,

chairperson of the department of philoso-

Significance of Feminist Rhetoric," pre-

Monday, March 2, in Room

sented by Kara Shultz, assistant professor

Old Science Hall,
"The faculty lecture series taps into inter-

of communication studies, at 4 p.m.,
Wednesday, April 1, in Room 122, Old

Wymer' s topic is "A Time Capsule to Our
Living Past: The Burning Tree Mastodon."
Wymer is a member of the international

Science Hall.

excavation team which discovered com-

phy, at 6 p.m.,
122,

women's

disciplinary

topics across the

curriculum," says Jeanette Keith, assistant
professor of history and head of the
task force

planned

CSW

which organized many of the

activities.

Other faculty lectures include:

Additional events include a visit by

Ann Homza,

visiting historian

122,

Her work was included

magazine's list of the top 50 science stories

Old Science

•"Women and Weddings in Renaissance

Tuesday, March

Homza will speak

on "Docile Victims, Vigorous Actors, or

Wicked Witches?

Women

in Early

Mod-

Europe."

Germany and

ety of documents from Italy,

assistant professor of art, at4 p.m., Wednes-

Spain, including personal letters, witch-

March

18, in

Room

122,

Old Science

strate that

Hall;

•"Women and

Business," presented by

Carol Matteson, dean. College of Business,
at 6 p.m., Monday, March 23, in Room 122,
Old Science Hall;
•"Women and International Commerce,"
presented by Janice Shields, associate professorof accounting, at4p.m., Wednesday,
March 25, in Room 122, Old Science Hall;
•"Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling:
Strategies to Empower Women," by Pamela
Wynn, associate professor of management,
at 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 25, in Room

79, Hartline Science Center;

•"Women

craft texts,

and

the

History

of

Photography," presented by Vera Viditz-

Ward, assistant professor of art, at 6 p.m.,
Monday, March 30, in Room 122, Old

Discover

demonwomen controlled economic

and Inquisition

Cambodian refugee Bun Em,

skilled in

the traditional art of silk weaving, will be a

guest

artist at

March

the university

on Thursday,

19.

Bun Em was selected by the
National Endowment for the Arts as a NaIn 1990,

"Contrary to widely held beliefs, a vari-

Florence," presented by Christine Sperling,

day,

in

of 1991.

Hall.

That evening, beginning at 8 in Room 83,

em

Hall;

,500 years ago and pre-

1 1

in History " at 3:30 p.m.,

Hartline Science Center,

Old Science

meal eaten

workshop titled "Trends in Graduate Study

sented by Susan Hibbs, assistant professor

Monday,March 16,inRoom

mon bacteria in the remains of a mastodon 's
last

served with a skeleton discovered in Ohio.

3, in

at6p.m.,

from the

University of Chicago. She will conduct a

•'The Best Kept Secrets in Pro Sports, or
Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend," preof health, physical education and athletics,

Lu

in the

trials,

forces in their own right, manipulated legal

tional Heritage Fellow.

Bun Em will be accompanied by her two
daughters and by

Amy

Skillman, director

of Pennsylvania State Folklife Programs.

The schedule of events

for her visit in-

own ends and

cludes: slide presentation on the fellowship

furthered their own personal religious goals

program, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.; reception

as independent intellects between 1200 and

featuring

structures to achieve their

1700," said

Homza describing the basis for

her presentation.

life

Homza 's visit is sponsored by the history

Cambodian

food, 11:30 a.m. to

1:30 p.m.; slide presentation on

and work,

1

to

tion of traditional

Bun Em's

2 p.m.; and demonstra-

Cambodian silk weaving

department.History Club, Phi Alpha Theta,

techniques, equipment and fabrics, 2 to

Honor and Scholar's Program and the CSW.
The university will be the site of the
annual Columbia and Montour counties
women's conference at 9 a.m., Saturday,
March 14, in Mitrani Hall, Haas Center.
The theme is "Women Making History:
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow." Regis-

3:30 p.m. All events are

panel discussion about "International Gen-

tration begins at 8 a.m. in the

der Roles," at 8 p.m. on Thursday,

Science Center lobby.

Hartline

in

Haas Gallery.

Bun Em's visit is sponsored by the Human Relations Committee, the CSW and
the art

department

Shell Lundahl, adviser to the Student
International Relations Club, will lead a

March

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Khan
Bloomsburg University Crime Report

helps link

Bloomsburg

Prepared by the University Police Department

Reported

Offenses

to

or by

Arrests

made

Bloomsburg will soon be Unked to two of

or incidents

cleared by other

University Police

supercomputers

to

Month of January

the world's most powerful supercomputers,

means

the

CRAY-YMP and the Connection

Ma-

chine.

Vandalism

2

Disorderly Conduct

4
4
0
0
0
0

Liquor Law Violations
Public Drunkenness

Sexual Offenses

Rape
Drug Violations

0
4

ematics and computer science, is training at

4

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center to be-

0
0
0
0

come

Zahira Khan, assistantprofessor of math-

a user-consultant for the computers

which are capable of 2.5

"Supercomputing enables researchers

1

1

Aggravated Assaults

0
0
0
0
0

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

Murder
Arson
Weapons Possession

DUI
Vagrancy

0

Robbery/Burglary

0

Motor Vehicle Theft

0

From Buildings
From Vehicle

4

Retail Thefts

0
4

0

lems," said Khan.

At present, Khan connects
supercomputers using a
fice. Internet

Total Thefts

The

Northwest comer of Centennial

•

Tri-level parking garage

-

1st

Gym

in the center for

Picnic area north of Montour Hall (lower campus)

Bloomsburg Hospital parking

center,

one of

five established

Molefi K. Asante, professor and chair-

person of African American studies at
will discuss

"Malcolm

X: His Life and Contribution to the Black

Suuggle"

at 7:30 p.m.,

Wednesday, March

Kuster Auditorium of Hartline Sci-

ence Center.
Asante,

who

demic consulting and

National Afrocentric Institute, lived and
taught in
external

Zimbabwe and worked as as an
examiner in Nigeria, Ghana and

Kenya.

He

has been featured on numerous tele-

the

burgh.

The grant

on the

CRAY

training grant from

workshops

in Pitts-

entitles her to five hours

and unlimited access

to the

center's front-end system.

Through
Khan's
involvement,
Bloomsburg becomes an academic "part-

by the overpass entrance

Khan

will train inter-

vision and radio programs in this country,

ested faculty to use the supercomputers and

such as "Tony Brown's Journal," NBC's
"Today" show and National Public Radio.
Cited as one of Africa's most prominent

will help

thinkers,

Asante earned a doctoral degree

from the University of California
Angeles (UCLA)

He

in

at

Los

1968.

has authored 27 books, serves as
of Black Peoples member and

designed the nation's

first

them apply

for additional grants.

'This is a fast way to get some important

problems solved.

It

will provide

doctoral pro-

needed

research tools for Bloomsburg," she said.

The

center serves as a catalyst for aca-

demic research, and projects

editorof ihe Journal ofAfrocentric Thought,
is an Institute

serves as president of the

by

and engineers throughout the United

ner" with the center.

Temple prof to speak
on 'Malcolm X'

Carnegie-Mellon

In conjunction with her doctoral work at
Temple University and to advance her research interests. Khan was awarded an aca-

(lower campus)

•

faculty

computers which are

States.

and 2nd levels (lower campus)

lot

to the

the center to attend

•

center.

National Science Foundation, serves scien-

Emergency Phone Locations
• Orange parking lot by Redman Stadium (upper campus)
•

by the

University and the University of Pittsburgh.

0

East of tennis courts (lower campus)

equipment will be installed at

broad access

housed

the

to

in her of-

This connection will provide

0

•

modem

the university this spring

tists

4, in

to

find alternative and faster solutions to prob-

Simple Assaults

Temple University,

billion operations

per second.

related to the

following fields are currently under way:

engineering, physics,

chemistry, as-

tronomy, mathematics, biological science,
biomedical science and social science.

gram in African American studies at UCLA.
The lecture part of B loom sburg s annual

wonderful opportunity," said Khan.

Black History Month observance,

also need to get our students involved in

'

,

and open

is

free

want other faculty

to share in this

"We

supercomputing so they are competitive

to the public.

For more information,

"I

call

389-4199.

the job market."

in

—Susan M. Schantz

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5

Women's History Month
Continued from page 3
19, in

Room

83, Hartline Science Center.

Female and male international students will
take part in the discussion.
"Integrating the Scholarship

Throughout the Curriculum"

is

Women

on

the topic of

workshop planned for Friday,
March 20, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday,
March 21, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., in Magee
a two-day

Center.

Susan Van Dyne and Marilyn Schuster,
curriculum consultants from Smith College in Northampton, Mass., will lead the

event which will explore strategies for building a

more inclusive syllabus, stages

in the

process of bringing gender and ethnicity in
the curriculum
uity in the

and three strategies for eq-

curriculum and the classroom.

The program

will

conclude with meetings

to discuss specific courses

for

and next steps

Bloomsburg.

The workshop is coordinated by the CS
Women's Studies Task Force.

"Women

Creating the Future"

is

W

SCHOLARSHIP ON WOMEN—Susan VanDyne (left) and Marilyn Schuster, curriculum
consultantsfrom Smith College in Northampton, Mass., will lead a two-day workshop titled
Integratiing the Scholarship on

Women Throughout the Curriculum as one of the highlights

of the university's observance of Women's History

the

theme of the Women Student's Conference

"Women

scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Fri-

Haas Gallery. Women's History Month
materials will also be displayed in Andruss
Library, Old Science Hall and McCormick

day,

March 27,

in

Columbia

Hall.

Topics will include leadership,
nications styles,

women's

commu-

munication and time management. Student
leaders will conduct the sessions.
is

in the Arts," will

be featured

in

Human

Services Center.

For more information about Women's
History Month, call 389-4167.

—Susan M. Schantz

health issues,

goal setting, mentoring, cross-culture com-

Campus Notes

and Knattleikr in the Icelandic Sagas" published in Germanic Notes.

The event

sponsored by the Residence Life Office

and the

Month.

CSW.

Vera Viditz-Ward,

assistant professor

of art, recently served as visiting artist at the

On Saturday, March 28, Keith will lead a

Gary Clark,

assistant professor of art,

American University in Cairo, Egypt, where

recently delivered a speech about art edu-

bus trip for students to Washington, D.C. to

she presented her photographic work and

cation in today's schools for the Pleasant

Museum of Women in the Arts and
the Smithsonian Museum of American His-

research.

Valley High School chapter of the National

tour the

Students will visit special exhibits in-

"From Parlor to Politics," which
examines the suffrage movement, and "First

cluding

Ladies: Political Roles and Public Images."
They will also attend a special presentation
of American music highlighting women's
role in American history.

For

Information Desk at

tickets, call the

389-3900. The

sponsored by Resi-

trip is

dence Life, Committee on
tions

A

and

Human

will

March 3 1

,

in

be held

of geography and earth science,
cently

at 5 p.m.,

Tuesday,

ARA Food Service

was

re-

named a Sigma Xi national scientific

research society lecturer for 1992-93.

Dennis Hwang, associate professor of
accounting, recently published a paper titled

From March 7 to 3 1 an art exhibit, titled
,

Bruce L. Rockwood, professor of
nance and business law, will participate

fi-

in

an April conference sponsored by the

American Bar Association's Commission
on College and University Nonprofessional
Legal Studies in Rye, N.Y.

"The Accounting Education and The New

SPA Exams

in

China"

in

Accounting Re-

Alfred Pelham, associate professor of
marketing, recently received an award from

search Monthly.

the Marketing Science Institute for his pro-

associate professors of

art,

recently juried

posal, "Marketing Orientation: Links to

Performance,

A Contingency Approach."

the regional Governor's School for the Arts

Mehdi Haririan,

entries.

associate professor of

economics, was recently named to the Board

and the

Office of Student Life.

Society.

Short, associate professor

Robert Koslosky and Karl Beamer,

Scranton Commons. Theevent

sponsored by

M.

Rela-

CSW.

dinner for students and area career

women
is

Honor
Nicholas

tory.

Frank

Peters, associate professor of

English, recently had an article titled "GUma

of Editors of the /owr/ia/ ofEconomics and
Finance.

6 The Communiqui 27

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Williams decries

political apathy,

minority voter polarization

and ever-

Ineffective political leadership

changing demographics have caused mi-

and poor people

norities

to

become

"inter-

nal aliens" in America, said author

and

Washington Post Magazine coirespondent
Juan Williams, recently at Bloomsburg University.

"During the

20

last century, the richest

percent of Americans have increased their

income
lost

. . .

while the poorest 20 percent have

income," said Williams.

'The problems facing the poor

be

will

exacerbated in the next decade because
you'll

have less (government dollars)

in-

vested in public schools, facilities and social

programs that are necessary

to help

these people."

Speaking to a large Gross Auditorium
audience of faculty, staff and students as
part of

Bloomsburg's Provost Lecture SeWilliams said the main politi-

ries program ,

cal objective that concerns minorities

poor Americans

is

and

economic reform.

"Poverty affects 50 percent of

all

black

children in this country," he said. "In tech-

I'm talking about a lack of

nical terms,

health care, education
nities for the

and

poor that

is

time that politicians are lacking in effec-

organize

tiveness as leaders.

lines

(other) opportu-

He

absolutely crip-

King

recalled, "In

1967, Martin Luther

told his aides,

'We must recognize

that we can ' t sol ve our problems until there ' s

Citing a recent Washington Post poll that
shows George Bush's overall approval rating having dropped below 50 percent, Wil-

political

world we live in today stands as an attribute

do anymore.

liams said, "Americans are clearly dissatis-

to King's foresight."

start

80 percent of those polled feel
the president is mismanaging the economy.
But, he added, Americans currently display

with a divided society in which the rich and

apathy toward politics.

ment?

and only 50 percent of registered
blacks and 29 percent of registered Hispanto vote

...

ics voted," said

WilUams. "When election

lic

American pub-

say 'to hell with it'

"Complicating

this issue are the

chang-

it,

but too often today

we

we

noL

are

"Too often we are staying at home, being

The

angry and content," he added. "That won't

power

in the

United

States.'

So how long can Americans

try to

It's

up

to us to get rolling

and

our fight to make a difference."

— Kevin B. Engler

cope

the poor eyeball each other with resent-

Sixth Annual

"The kind of politics that elected Ronald
Reagan without any black support is also

President's Ball

Planned For April 4

the kind of politics that will continue to
isolate black

America today,"

said Wil-

liams.

...

The

sixth annual President's Ball,

sponsored by the Bloomsburg founda-

"What we need is a

time comes around in this country, threequarters to four-fifths of the

can do

a radical redistribution of economic and

fied," noting

than half of the registered voters bothered

fight with the idea that

to hold politicians accountable,

pling this society."

"In the 1988 presidential election, less

and

does count," he emphasized. "If we

politics

want

build coaUtions across racial

...

listen

...

'maturation process'

wherein black voters will see white can-

tion, will

be held

didates speak about the interests of blacks,"

Magee's

he said, "and white candidates can speak to

Bloomsburg.

way

at

April 4, in the 24

Main

6 p.m., Saturday,

West Ballroom of
Street

Inn

in

ing demographics of America," he added.

black voters in such a

"By

wouldn't simply be black concerns, but

Music will be provided by the Studio
Band, University-Community Orches-

national concerns."

tra

the

end of this decade, we're going

have more immigration

...

to

and more mi-

norities in this country than ever before.

And

the largest

in this

group of young minorities

who wrote Eyes on

America's Civil Rights Years
this "radical

'what

we

in

Williams called on Americans

nize themselves in opposition to the anti-

who capitalize on

voter resentment

the Prize:

ticians

1987, said

and increase demagoguery.

change of 'who we

are'

are' " is occurring at the

to orga-

estabhshment campaigns run by some poli-

country will be Hispanics."

Williams,

that there

and

same

"You
said

to

pianist,
is

Harry Martenas.

limited and the cost

is

$50

per person. Proceeds benefit the
university's general scholarship fund.

Last year, nearly $4,200 was raised.

For more information, call Linda Hill

are in a fight against poUticians,"

Wilhams. "You have

and

Seating

be willing

to

at

389-4705.

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7

program
homes for pets,

Television
finds

'friends' for university
Terry Hoover, chief engineer of televi-

new

sion and radio services, produced a

television program that combines his technical skills with a desire to support

and

enhance Bloomsburg's positive image
the

in

community.

The result is "Pet Parade," a 10-minute,
public service program that airs Tuesday

and Friday

at 1:45

and 10:45 p.m. on

BUTV cable channels.
...

a

'7 had an opportunity to do

little

versity

something for the uni-

and the community."

—Terry Hoover,
chief engineer

To Hoover, "Pet Parade" is more than
new program in BUTV's four-

another

hour daily lineup. "In creating the pro-

gram,

I

had an opportunity

to

do a

little

something for the university and the community," Hoover said.

Clayton Hulsizer, manager of the

Townsend Memorial Shelter located at
2801 Bloom Road, opens the program
with a brief discussion on proper pet care.

The

shelter is

— Terry Hoover, chief engineer of

Animals (SPCA).
The remainder of the program is video-

taped at the shelter, located three miles

Pittsburgh Opera Theater to perform *Carmen'
Georges Bizet's "Carmen," featuring

south of Bloomsburg. Pets in need of

Joyce Campana

homes are featured.
"The program has two

performed by the Opera Theater of

in the lead role, will

be

Pitts-

We spot-

burgh at 8 p.m., Sunday March 22, in Mitrani

light the

animals in hopes they will be

Hall of Haas Center for the Performing Arts.

adopted.

We also want to take advantage

goals.

of the vast knowledge of SPCA personnel
to help people better understand the proper

care of pets,"

Hoover

said.

Tom Joseph, director of television and
radio services,

is

pleased with viewers'

positive reaction to the program. "Al-

though

we

run quite a bit of educational

programming on

BUTV

cable channels,

we try to provide community service programming

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

and radio services,
films a segmentfor Pet Parade, a new, 10-minute public service program that airs biweekly
on BUTV cable channels.
television

a branch of the Pennsylva-

nia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to

CLOSE ENCOUNTER

as well," said Joseph.

According to the SPCA, animal adoptions have increased since the program

,

Composed by

Bizet in 1875, the play

focuses on the emotional love story of

Carmen, a gypsy girl who works in a cigarette factory, and Don Jose, a corporal in the
dragoons of Almanza.

The production,

directed by Mildred

some of the most
composed for opera.

Miller Posvar, contains
energetic music ever

The songs

will

be sung

in

Free tickets are available to faculty, staff

and students with a Bloomsburg identification card and valid Community Activities

began. For more information on adopting

sticker at the Information

a pet, call 275-0340.

University Store lobby.

— Susan M. Schantz

English following

a recent translation.

Desk located in the

Joyce Campana

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27

FEB 92

Calendar
Thursday, Feb. 27
•

Musical

— "Cabaret,"

Spring Break begins, noon

•

Art Exhibit

— "Women

•Women's Conference

— "The People Under
production
Musical — "Cabaret,"

•Film

the Stairs,"

Carver Hall, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Magee

featuring

Kept Secret

joint

8 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 29

•Women's and Men's

Basketball vs.

Nelson Field House,

Millersville,

6 and 8 p.m.
Musical

— "Cabaret,"

Classes resume

•Faculty Lecture Series

of Bloomsburg Players and music
department, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

relations director,

TV, Mitrani Hall, Haas
Monday, March 16
•

in

of Bloomsburg Players and music

WYOU-

Center, 9 a.m.

Pro Sports, or Diamonds

are a Girl's Best Friend"

122,

6 p.m.

•Young Person's Concert featuring BUCommunity Orchestra, Mitrani Hall,
Haas Center, 10 a.m. and

1

— "TBA," Mitrani
Haas
•Workshop and Lecture — "Bringing a
Hall,

Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Sense of Discovery to the Classroom:

8 p.m.

The Burning Tree Mastodon" by Dee

Ann Wymer,

Hall,

Room

8 p.m. and midnight.

Sunday, March

•Women's

History

Month begins

Hartline Science Center,

— "A Time Capsule

Wednesday, March 18

of Bloomsburg Players and the music

•Faculty Lecture Series

Science Center,

1

joint

department, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

•Faculty Lecture Series

— "Philosophy

Woman" by Marjorie
Clay, Old Science, Room 122, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, March 3
Constructs the

•Women's

reception

the Status of

— Commission on

Room

Study

in

History" with

83, 7 p.m.

— "Women and

—

—

10:30 to

Graduate

1

Lu Ann Homza

1

1:30 a.m.

—

to

2 p.m.

—

2 to 3:30 p.m.

slide

slide

—

show;

— demonstration of

silk

Science, 3:30 p.m.

fabrics.

Actors or Wicked Witches?
Early

Women in

Modem Europe" by Lu Ann

Homza from

the University of Chicago,

Haitline Science Center,

Room

83,

8 p.m.

Wednesday, March 4
•Lecture

— "Malcoln X: His Life and

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 p.m.
•Men's Tennis vs. American, 1 p.m.
Monday, March 23

— "Women and

•Faculty Lecture Series

Room

Science,

122, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, March 24
•Provost's Lecture Series

— Alternative

Journalists Panel Discussion, Carver

Hall, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, March 25
International

Shields,

— "Women and

Commerce" by

Old Science,

Room

Janice

122, 4 p.m.

— "Breaking

•Faculty Lecture Series

Hartline Science Center,

Room

7, 7 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,

Panel Discussion

—

"International

Lundahl, Harthne Science Center,

Room

83, 8 p.m.

March 20

—

"Integrating the Scholar•Workshop
ship on Women Throughout the Curriculum," with Susan Van Dyne and

to

17815.

BU is committed to providing equal educaand employment opportunities for

all

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

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or union

The

university

is

additionally committed

to affirmative action and will take positive

steps to provide such educational

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

M. Schantz

Assistant Editor: Susan

by Molefi Asante, Kuster
Auditorium, HarUine Science Center,

Magee

Editorial Assistant: Christina

Saturday,

7:30 p.m.

•Bus

March 21
Baltimore, Md., leave

and em-

ployment opportunities.

Marilyn Schuster of Smith College,
Center, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

mem-

bership.

Contribution to the Black Struggle,"

trip to

and

persons without regard to race, color, religion,

Gender Roles" with leader Shell

Friday,

briefs

lations

tional

•

news

The Communique, University Reand Communication Office,
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

advance

reception;

weaving techniques, equipment and

—"Docile Victims, Vigorous

Pittsburgh

Artist Series

calendar information at least two weeks in

show;

from the University of Chicago, Old
•Lecture

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Communique

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

in

— Rock Climbing, Mocanaqua,
—
•Celebrity

•QUEST

Through the Glass Ceiling: Strategies to
Empower Women" by Pamela Wynn,

"People With
AIDS," McCormick Forum, 7 p.m.
Thursday, March 19
• Visiting Artist
Bun Em, Cambodian
silk weaver, Haas Gallery:

Women, Haas Gallery,

— "Trends

p.m.

campus, 1 p.m.
Sunday, March 22

122, 4 p.m.

•Panel Discussion

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Workshop

Room

1

Weddings in Renaissance Rorence"
by Christine Sperling, Old Science,

8 p.m.

Monday, March 2

Our

odon" by Dee Ann Wymer, Hartline

the Stairs,"

Hall,

to

Living Past: The Burning Tree Mast-

— "The People Under
p.m.
Carver
production
•Musical — "Cabaret,"

•Film

Georgetown,

•Faculty Lecture Series

83, 3:30 p.m.

•Lecture

1

vs.

Softball vs. St. Bonaventure, lower

Business" with Carol Matieson, Old

p.m.

department, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

•Film — "Spinal Tap," Carver

•

Opera's production of "Carmen,"

by Sue

Room

Hibbs, Old Science,
Tuesday, March 17

Center, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

•Men's Tennis

— "The Best

•Film
joint production

the

Throughout the

Curriculum," with Susan Van Dyne and

31.

keynote speaker Linda Wallace,

Field House, 7:30 p.m.

Women

Marilyn Schuster of Smith College,

department, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

community

— "Integrating

Scholarship on

in the Arts,"

March 14

Saturday,

•Wrestling vs. Lock Haven, Nelson

•

•Workshop

Haas Gallery, through March

joint production

of Bloomsburg Players and music

Friday, Feb. 28

•

Elwell Residence Hall at 6 a.m.

7

•

8 p.m.

•

March

Saturday,

J.

Gaudreau

Contributing Writer: Charles C. Mark

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

This

is

a place

called home.

Our home. We
reclaim

it for

people of good
will everywhere.

Here may we
share our joys

and calm our
fears.

May we

welcome

come

all

who

in peace.

May we welcome all who
work to promote
justice.

May we

encourage

who

all

long to be

understood.

—

Father Chet

Snyder
PHOTO BY JOAN HEWER

2,000 unite to reclaim Carver Hall steps
Led by

the inspirational voices of the

university ' s Gospel Choir, more than 2,000

Bloomsburg students, faculty, administrators, staff and townspeople braved chilly
weather to sing out loudly against racism
last

Wednesday evening

in front

of Carver

Walker, vice president for university ad-

throughout the service.

able with this situation."

Calling the cross-burning an "act of hate,"

Hall.

And the message in their song was crystal-clear "We are not afraid
we shall live
in peace
we shall overcome, someday!"
...

...

The prayer service, organized by campus
ministers Chester Snyder andRobertPeiffer,

was a peaceful community-wide

—
— where

"take back the space"

Carver Hall

effort to

the front steps of
university police

found a two-foot wooden cross

officers

wr^ped

in rags

and burning

at approxi-

mately 2:35 a.m., Monday, March
"It is

... the university community
and the Town of Bloomsburg ... to pray,
reflect, think and most importantly, to reclaim these steps as our own," Snyder told
the huge congregation who held lit candles

of friendship

"we want

to reconsecrate the

use of this campus to higher purposes of

and acceptance."
As university and town poUce continue
their investigation, campus offrcials and
students have voiced outrage at this incilove, understanding

spirit

"I'm angry," said senior student Jeffrey

Mack, president of the

university's Black

Cultural Society, "and I'm very imcomfort-

On Tuesday evening, Ausprich and other
university officials held an open forum for

Bloomsburg students in Mitrani Hall.
The large gathering of students who

all

attended that meeting vented their frustrations

pus

and voiced their concerns about cam-

safety.

Bloomsburg officials responded to those

dent.

and we're

concerns, assuring students of new strate-

taking very specific measures to deal with

gies that are currently being implemented

"The
this

university

is

angry

...

situation," said President Harry

"We

all

to increase

At

Ausprich.

2.

important to get together in a

Peiffer said

vancement

feel violated,"

added John

campus

safety.

the meeting. Vice President for

Ad-

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MARCH 92

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2 The

Ausprich said he and other university

Reclaim steps
Continued from page 1

repoted die
university *s recent installation of emergency call boxes at seven locations around
ministration Robert Parrish

Parrish said foot patrols have been as-

signed to the univCTsity police force and an
electronic surveillance system has been

purchased to help the officers keep watch

"By the end of March

eight cameras will

,

be installed on top of campus buildings
which will feed live video to TV monitors

campus police department,"

said

Parrish.

The university will place a camera on top
of the following campus buildings: Elwell

Residence Hall Waller, Nelson Field House
,

and Redman Stadium.
"Two cameras will be installed in the trilevel parking garage and on (both ends of)

our university community and of the larger

against racial harassment.

community share

"It is time to form

a community coalition,

my commitment to pro-

vide a supportive, nurturing and culturally

communicate openly and to work togetha: in doing everything humanly possible to defeat those who are working to

diverse learning environment

oppress our individual rights and freedoms."

the exchange of ideas and free from dis-

In addition, various campus and commu-

"I hope that faculty

and staff will join me

in providing an atmosphere that

totaling

is

ap&n

to

crimination and the sickness of racism."

— Kevin B. Engler

organizations have offered rewards

$8,500 for information leading to

the arrest

and convictions of those respon-

sible for the cross-burning.

EDITOR'S NOTE: For further

The reward fund is comprised of $5,000
offered by the Community Government
Association, $1,000 contributed by the

in-

formation on steps the university has
taken to increase communication and
safety on campus, see President
Ausprich's Special Report to Stu-

Bloomsburg University Foundation; $ 1 ,000
by APSCUF, faculty union; $1,000 by Uie
Town of Bloomsburg and $500 by the
Bloomsburg Chamber of Commerce.

Program

Andruss Library," Parrish added.

am confi-

begin building a "community coalition"

nity

over isolated areas on campus.

In his lettCT, Ausprich said, "I

dent that a great majority of the membCTS of

to

campus.

in the

have met with town

officials to

officials

dents inserted in this issue of

The

Communique.

focuses on alternative journalism

Other strategies designed to enhance

campus

He will discuss services

safety include extending the

Eight nationally renowned journalists will

school's bus and van service to off-campus

participate in a panel discussion on alterna-

for alternative journalists and media. Salim

"Media Coverage of
American Social Issues and the Role of the

—a

and offering on-campus housing

locations

to frightened or threatened students

who

"We have a few spaces that are available
in lower and upper campus residence halls,"

Tom Kresch, assistant direc-

according to
tor

of residence

Kresch said one student has moved back
at least

two oth^s are

considering a move.

"Students

who

desire

on-campus hous-

year, should contact the residence life of-

On

lishment press views

The panel discussion
Series program and

is

part of the

soon as possible," he noted.

Tuesday, March

3, university offi-

March 24-26

—

critical s6cial issues.

Daniel Lazare, columnist for the

York Observer and

New

New York editor of In

Alter-

These Times, will discuss government and

native Journalism Conference. Both events

labor issues. Also participating is Jeff Reid,

are

ing for the rest of the semester, or for next

fice as

rium of Carver Hall.

8 p.m., Tuesday,

university's 1991-92 Provost's Lecture

life.

on campus and

March 24, in the Kenneth S. Gross Audito-

Muwakkil, senior editor of In These Times
national socialist weekly published in
will speak on issues which
Chicago, 111.
affect urban America and how the estab-

tive journalism tided

Alternative Press" at

currenUy live ofif-campus.

native Journalists.

fiw and open

its

to the public.

of the panel discussion

is

Moderator

Walter Brasch,

professor of mass communications,

worked

as a

porter/editor

who

newspaper and magazine reand has written several books

and counter-culture publications.

nationally syndicated cartoonist and cultural editor

culture.

who

of In These Times,

how

speak on

the

will

media views American

Matthew Rothschild,

freelance

writer and publisher of The Progressive

—

a national social issues magazine published

—

how

phoned minority students, their parand sent letters to all university students notifying them about the cross-burn-

nalism focuses on American social issues

ing incident the day befwe.

underreported by the mainstream press,

media can survive and the problems it encounters. John Mandes, editor of
Philadelphia Gay News, will speak on how

such as racism, homelessness and political

the establishment

corruption.

community.

cials

ents,

In an

q)en

letter to all

campus employ-

ees, Ausprich urged faculty and staff mem-

bers to discuss racism's "negative impact"

with colleagues and students.

"We are conconed about all of our brothers

and

sisters

who

have, and continue to

he

Madison, Wis.

will discuss

the

media covers

the gay

Cohen,

All speakers will conduct at least one

founder and executive director of Fairness

writing or editing workshop and at least one

and Accuracy In Reporting, which

general issues discussion workshop during

the panelists

is

the topic of his presentation.

Jeff

He

will

be

will dis-

the conference.

They will also be available

for informal discussions.

values respect and

Provost's Lecture Series, Society of Pro-

and the dignity of the

speak on the image of women and minori-

fessional Journalists,

who

human spirit must join together in publicly
rejecting anonymous and hateful acts. We
and

Among

ing.

justice for all persons

not,

that oftentimes are not reported or

in

alternative

Susan E>ouglas, a faculty member at
Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., will

and intimida-

said.

"Every person

must

to Brasch, alternative jour-

cuss fairness and accuracy in news report-

be, the target of harassment
tion,"

According

will not,

remain

silent."

ties in the

news media.

Also scheduled

to

speak

The conference

mittee on
is

Don Hazen,

executive director of the Institute for Alter-

nity

Human

is

sponsored by the

Campus- Wide Com-

Relations and

Commu-

GovCTnment Association. For more

information, call Brasch at 389-4565.

The Communiqui 12 MARCH 92 3

Asante

Megacy of disbelief

assails

There is a "legacy of disbelief which has
in the West over the past 500

grown up

years regarding African people. This legacy,
built into the structure

of Western knowl-

edge, contends that African people do not

have not contributed, to hu-

contribute, or

man

history in

any major way.

impOTtant to understand Malcolm

"It is

in the context

of

this structure

X

of knowl-

edge, " said Molefi Kete Asante, chairper-

son of the department of Afirican American

Temple University. When

Studies at

Malcolm X reached the height of his politi-

Asante pointed out that American
dents

stu-

who can easily identify ten European

ethnic groups are hard pressed to identify
six of the African ethnic

groups brought to

America on slave ships.
It is even possible in this country, he said,
to receive a college degree in music and
never to have studied the music of Duke
Ellington, the most prolific composer
America has produced.
Asante emphasized the two "pillars"
which support the legacy of disbelief are
unquestionably Eurocentric.

and moral authority, Asante

The first pillar upholds that philosophy is

added, one of the main things he attempted

the highest discipline, the mother of all

cal, social

to

do was

to

knowledge, and that

end the legacy of disbelief.

all

genres of knowl-

Asante ' s lecture, which brought to a close

edge flow from philosophy. "The Greeks

Bloomsburg University's Black History
Month, was sponsored by the Provost Lec-

gave us philosophy, so rational thinking
must be European, it has to be Western,"

ture Series.

said Asante.

The legacy of disbelief, beginning with

"Therefore, the Chinese could not have

the European Renaissance and the concur-

philosophy, but rather they have thoughts

rent rise of the European slave trade, influ-

the 19th century German writer stated, "Let

and teachings. The Africans could not have
philosophy, they must have myths and religion. And yet Thales, the first Greek phi-

us forget Africa, never to return to

losopher

enced the greatest minds, Asanti said. Hegel,

cause Africa

is

British historian

outside of history."

Toynbee wrote

be-

it

The

that of the

21 great civilizations in the world, Africans

lived circa

600 B.C.,

ex-

horted the young Pythagoras to 'do as

I

"If you begin to look at a whole history of

statements such as these, " said Asante, "it

almost impossible for people to think of

Africans'."

democracy
was brought to America by the Europeans
and that democracy is a white concept
ing legacy of disbelief

is that

Africa outside of the stereotype which has

Asante cited several flaws

in this thinking.

The Europeans who came

to

legacy of disbe-

The legacy is so important in the
structure of knowledge that almost nothing

lief.

in

an organized fashion

Africa

if

is

known about

we have been educated

in

Cambodian refugee

America did
not bring democracy with them as they
were fleeing despotic governments. Democracy is not uniquely European; as a

concept

it

has occurred to almost every

group of human beings on

America."

not originate with them.

to demonstrate silk

earth.

weaving

skilled in that country's traditional art of

artist at Bloomsburg on Thursday, March 19.
Accompanied by her daughters, Lynn and Pech Yuos, and Amy Skillman, who
directs Pennsylvania Stale Folklife Programs, Bun Em will discuss her life and work
during a slide presentation at 1 p.m. in Haas Gallery of Art.
Following the slide show, she and her daughters will demonstrate traditional
Cambodian silk weaving techniques, equipment and fabrics.
In addition, Skillman will give a slide presentation on the "National Heritage
Fellowship Program," followed by a reception featuring Cambodian food. The slide
show starts at 10:30 a.m. in Haas Gallery of Art.
This program is sponsored by the Human Relations Committee, Commission on
the Status of Women and art department For more information, call 389-4853.

silk

many

important elements of the American sys-

—

including the concept
tem of democracy
of a federal government and the protocol
were taken
for speaking in Congress
directly from the Iroquois confederacy, he

—

said.

The legacy of disbelief also became
America, and persisted even

ended "We believed

in

in-

after slavery

and accepted our

inferior status," said Asante. "It

with great men and

was only

women like Anna Julia

Cooper and Malcolm

X

that the African

said ' never again will I be a slave. '

Malcolm

demonstrated a rationale for action which

was

different

and which would always

struggle against conditions of oppression

and

inferiority."

Malcolm believed that to be bom in
America and yet to be considered a secondclass American doesn't really make you an
American.

Bun Em, a Cambodian refugee who is

In fact,

corporated into the thinking of Africans in

been passed down by

this

Our romantic notion of democracy comes
from the Athenian Greeks, but the idea did

have done and learn philosophy from the

The second pillar supporting the continu-

produced none.

is

who

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFEJt

"I

am not an

American,

I

am a

victim of America," he said.

weaving, will be a guest

"I'm not going

to sit at

your table and

watch you eat with nothing on my plate and
Sitting at the table
call myself a diner.

make you a diner unless you eat
some of what's on that plate."
"Very few people have come so far,

doesn't

against such hostilities, against such odds,
in

such a short time as have African people

in

America," concluded Dr. Asante. "One

must remember that"

4 The Communique 12

MARCH 92

Eight faculty

News Briefs

members awarded

Books and posters commemorating
Women's History Mwith wiU be exhibited

State System minority development grants

in

members at
Eight faculty
B loomsburg have been awarded grants
from the State System of Higher Education Minority Faculty Development
Fund.
tor of grants, the

fund was established

component of the State System's
efforts toward equity and diversity.
"The primary purpose of this fund is
to assist State System universities in
as a

supporting the professional develop-

ment of minority teaching

faculty,"

she says.

•Zahira Khan, assistant professor of

recipients in-

clude:

ing instructor,

who

received $800 to

attend this year's National Associa-

this

month.

com-

The Ubrary will be closed Saturday and
Simday, March 14-15, and the University

puter science at Temple University in

Archives will be closed during the we^ of

Philadelphia.

spring break. Both will reopen Monday,

work toward a doctorate

in

•Charles Lumpkins, reference and
catalog librarian

,

March

16.

who received $ 1 1 26
,

An art exhibit titled "Women in the Arts"

to complete a second master's degree

be featured

thesis in history at the University of

will

Maine

Gallery,

at

Orono.

•Jing Luo, languages

who

and cultures

received

$1,230 to

French at Penn State Univer-

•Vishakha Rawool, assistant professor of communication disorders and

who received $535

special education,

to serve as a presenter at the Pennsyl-

Other Women's History Month mataials

Harvey A. Andruss
Old Science Hall and McCormick

will be displayed in the

Human

Services Center.

The theme for National Women's History Month 1992, "Women's History: A
Patchwork of

Many

Lives," emphasizes

•Gene Gordon, associate professor
of computer and information systems,
who received $3,900 to attend an in-

vania Speech-Language-Hearing As-

the variety of experiences

sociation conference in Philadelphia.

tions

formation systems mini-sabbatical at

developmental instruction,

fessor of English,
to

•Irvin Wright, assistant director of

who

Md.

ceived $2,471 to continue graduate

work toward a doctorate in higher education at Penn State University in State

who received $600

conduct research at the School of

Oriental-Afirican Studies of the Uni-

College.

— Kevin B. Engler

women

and contribu-

have made to our

pluralistic

society.

For more information,

re-

assistant pro-

the

ob-

servance in March.

Library,

sity in State College.

Bloomsburg 's Haas

in

March 7-31, as part of
university's Women's History Month

continue graduate work toward a doc-

ference in San Antonio, Texas.

•M.A. Rafey Habib,

book

Posters and books are also on display in the

who received $738 to continue gradu-

tion for Developmental Educators con-

the University of Baltimore,

A

located near the main entrance.

Gallery on the ground level.

torate in

Virgie Bryan, developmental read-

is

mathematics and computer science,

instructor,

Bloomsburg award
•

versity of London, England.

ate

According to Peggy Bailey, direc-

Andruss Library

display

call

389-4167.

Dee Anne Wymer, assistant professor of
"A Time Capsule to Our Living Past: The Burning Tree

anthropology, will discuss

Mastodon"
in

at 7 p.m.,

Tuesday, March

17,

Room

83 of Hartline Science CentCT.
She will also conduct a workshop on

"Bringing a Sense of Discovery to the Class-

International education

room: The Burning Tree Mastodon" at 3: 30
p.m. in Room 83 of Hartline Science Cen-

coordinator appointed

ter.

The lecture and workshc^ are part of the
Women's History Month ob-

Jennifer Seaver, who worked as a foreign

imiversity's

student adviser at the University of Hawaii
at

Manoa from

servance.

1986-90, was recendy ap-

•••

pointed Bloomsburg' s international educa-

A leadership conference for women stu-

tion coordinates".

dents, titled "Women Creating the Future,"

From 1980 to '83, Seaver was the administrative coordinator of the

be held Friday, March 27
HaU.
will

Center for Inter-

national Studies at California State University at

munication, sexual harassment, leadership,

She also served as international student

gender communication and competing

The conference

Seaver holds a mastw's degree in educa-

sponsored by

women

Women's History task fwce. For additional

lege Park, Md., and a bachelor of arts de-

Hadley, Mass.

is

students, the Residence Life staff and the

from the UnivCTsity of Maryland, Col-

Mount Holyoke

in

the workplace.

College Park from 1969-80.

gree from

Columbia

Discussion t(^ics include assertive com-

Chico.

adviser at the University of Maryland at

tion

in

information or to register, call Deborah

College, South

Jennifer Seaver

Bentz

at

389^324.

SPECIAL

Dear Students,

break to be refreshing and

you are returning to

that

classes with a renewed spirit,

ready to accomplish your

have received

many

and on the electronic board in
the pizza shop in the

timely imformation on crime

reports/campus incidents and
safety tips.

in several areas.

commending the student body, faculty,

At our meeting on Tuesday evening,

and community for the positive

you expressed many ideas and feelings.

way

in

which you dealt with the cross

burning incident on Monday,

March 2,

I

listened very carefully to your ques-

tions

and comments and believe most

and the days that followed. The care

center around three

and support you have shown toward

cern

one another, the outpouring of solidar-

pecially as

ity

evidenced

at

Wednesday evening's

main areas of con-

—communication,

safety.

I

prejudice (es-

will devote the remainder of

this report to

been made to continue working together

you on action the university has taken

to establish harmony in our conmiunity

in each of these very important areas.

we hold

as a univer-

sity

—values which

sify

our efforts to build a stronger

will help us inten-

rights

commend you

for the

and freedoms.

I

way in which you have conducted yourselves and

informing and updating

want you to know I am very

proud of you.

ask that you read the following infor-

Before spring break, I promised those

who attended our meeting on Tuesday
I

would com-

municate with you upon your return,

might

arise.

The university police

monitors, in the lobbies of

McCormick Hall, Nelson Field House
and Waller Administration BuUding,

which

will broadcast timely crime re-

ports/campus incidents and safety tips,

•

Broadcast of timely crime reports/

campus

incidents and safety tips via

SperryLink, which wUl reach aU de-

partments and offices that have

at least

one terminal linked to the network.

•

Crimes considered to be an immediate threat to students

and employees,

such as murder, rape, aggravated

hicle theft,

Monthly

as-

crime reports

statistical

which are published

Communication

in

The Voice and

The Communiqui, the
newsletter.

by the

faculty/staff

These reports are compiled

university police department

burglary and motor ve-

which are reported

to

cam-

pus police or local police, will be

re-

ported to the university community in

•

Communication/Rumor Control

Center, has a

number

—389-4304 —

students can caU to report rumors so
that they can be checked out or, in crisis

the following ways:

situations, to receive information the

informing you of any further incidents
that

TV

mation carefully and thoughtfully.

sault, robbery,

evening of March 3 that

I

cli-

mate of respect for individual

•

and

relates to racism)

it

program, and the commitment that has

reflect the values

re-

corded messages carrying

letters

expressing their support for us and

staff

hoUine (389-

2723) which will provide

from friends of the university

A BSAF

•

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY* MARCH '92

I

Com-

mons.

FROM PRESIDENT HARRY AUSPRICH

goals for spring semester.

During your absence,

boards in the residence haUs

REPORT
TO STUDENTS

hope you found your

I

the glass-encased bulletin

•

University

News Netwoik,

created

have reported no new incidents to me,

and established by the residence

norhasthetown'schiefofpolice. How-

staff, will

ever, the university has initiated actions

information students need to

life

be responsible for posting

know on

university is releasing on crime or cam-

pus incidents. This center, housed in

Luzerne HaU, will be staffed from 8
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Fri-

After hours, students

day.

may

call

will

be announced soon.

A camera will be located on top

ment.

4304 to get a recorded message of other

Various university and town groups

of the following campus buildings:

case of an emer-

have contributed funds totaling $8,500,

Elwell Residence Hall, Waller Ad-

offering a reward for information lead-

ministration Building, Nelson Field

ing to the arrest and conviction of those

House and Redman Stadium. Two cam-

The

eras will be installed in the tri-level

$5,000;

parking garage and on both ends of

numbers

to call in

gency.

responsible for the cross burning.

Prejudice

The

University and the

Town

of

Bloomsburg have established a task
Bloomsburg University

force of

ulty, staff and students,

fac-

members of the

Town Council, Giamber of Commerce,

CGA,

groups include:

Bloomsburg University Foundation,
$ 1 ,000;

APSCUF, $ 1 ,000; Bloomsburg

Chamber of Commerce, $500; and

Town of Bloomsburg,

the

$1,000.

and town police to address

sues of racism and prejudice.

is-

mental

Town

instruction,

and a

member of

Council will serve as co-chairs.

The purpose of

the task force

is

nurturing

community;

Bloomsburg

—

—

a more

to

make

the town and university

welcoming and comfortable

place for persons of color to live and

work;

to

room

Safety
Steps the university has implemented
to increase

campus

safety include the

provide opportunities for

•

orange parking

lot

by Redman

standing

among

racial

and ethnic under-

•

east of tennis courts (lower

cam-

•

northwest comer of Centennial

Gymnasium (lower campus);

feel their safety has

been compromised. Also under develis

the creation of an escort

service.

tri-level

parking garage,

first

and

dence Hall (lower campus);

The Bloomsburg

lot

by the overpass entrance.

work

I

hope we

together with

renewed spirit to resolve issues of communication, racism and prejudice and

picnic area north of Montour Resi-

•

Again, welcome back.
will continue to

Hospital parking

The Bloomsburg Univesity Com-

Foot patrols have been assigned to

munity Government Association will

the university police force and an elec-

"Un-

tronic surveillance system has been pur-

derstanding Through Diversity," on

chased to help the officers keep watch

March 26. The rally will address issues

over isolated areas on campus.

on hate crimes and prejudice, as well as

end of March, eight cameras wUl be

highlight learning to appreciate differ-

installed

ences and learning to live in harmony.

which will feed live video to TV moni-

More information on time and place

tors in the university police depart-

rally,

who

to off-cam-

pus);

residents.

sponsor a university-wide

bus and van

on-campus housing

opment

•

and

Sta-

dium (upper campus);

from each other, and to provide educa-

diversity

to extend the school's

pus students

second levels (lower campus);

promote awareness of the value of

Other strategies are being planned

fering

backgrounds to interact with and learn

will

doors.

locations around campus, including:

•

and experiential learning which

all

service to off-campus locations and of-

people of different races and ethnic

tion

to 3 a.m. All

recent installation of call boxes at seven

to

develop plans to create a more open and

by two people from 7 p.m.

and dead bolt locks are installed on

Irvin

Wright, assistant director of develop-

Residence hall desks will be staffed

residence halls have outside door alarms

ministerium, teachers, as well as university

Andniss Library.

By the

on top of campus buildings

safety.

The Communique 12

MARCH 92

5

Scholar-athletes pay tribute to faculty mentors at luncheon
Forty-five

Bloomsburg

scholar-athletes

paid tribute to faculty members,

who have

been instrumental in helping them achieve
academically, at last week's fourth annual
Scholar- Athlete Luncheon.

Each student was honored

for achieving

a grade point average of 3.25 or higher
during 1990-91. Students and the respective faculty

members recognized at the lun-

cheon include:
Ronica Yingst, cross country, and
Dorette Welk nursing professor; Bridget

Hedman,

cross country, and

Henry Dob-

Erin Far, soccer, and James Pomfret,
mathematics and computer science professor; Bethany Davis, soccer, and Rosemary
Radzievich, curriculum and foundations
professor; Laura Jones, soccer, and Mary
Harris, curriculum and foundations professor; Suzanne Kalman, soccer, Stephanie
Grosch, lacrosse, and Gary Doby, curriculum and foundations professor; Megan
Gillen, swimming, and Jack Couch, physics professor. Shannon Simonet, swimming, Gretchen Adams, field hockey, and
Cynthia Surmacz, biological and allied

Mark

professor;

Kim Turofski, track and field,

Matthew Kreider,
Harris, curriculum

wrestling, and Mary
and foundations profes-

sor; Shonna Wueschinski, track and field,
and Constance Schick, psychology professor; Jean Buskirk, softball, and Charles

Hoppel, computer and information sys-

tems professor; Amy Prey, field hockey,
and Julia Weitz, communication disorders
and special education professor; Michael
Peterson, tennis, Kerry Puhl, football,

and Linda LeMura, health, physical education, and athletics professor; Alan Eck,
football , and John Dennen , accounting pro-

son, curriculum and foundations professor;

health sciences professor;

Sabrina Nierer, cross country, David
Smith, football, Eric Zoschg, wrestling,

cross country, Erik Ross, football, and

fessor,

Bernard Dill, finance and business law pro-

Astor-Stetson, psychology professor;

and Richard McClellan, accounting professor, Aleta Graf, crosscountry, and Bruce

Ronan,

and

Jason Hippenstiel, Lisa Booth,
track and field, and Ronald Puhl, health,
physical education, and athletics professor;
Renee Adams, track and field, and Frank
Misiti, curriculum and foundations professor; Natalie Alansky, track and field, and
Gilda Oran, curriculum and foundations
professor; Tracey Krall, track and field,
and John Maittlen-Harris, mass communi-

management professor;

Jessica LaCarrubba,

Rockwood, finance and business law professor, Laura Travis, cross country, and
Ronald Champoux, communication disorders and special education professor, Aileen

Para, cross country, and Sheila Jones, communication disorders and special education
professor; Jennifer Cooley, soccer,

Francis Gallagher,

fessor,

cations professor;
track

Bloomsburg

Jobes,

and

field,

Melissa Spaulding, field

hockey, and Bonnie Williams, cmriculum

to host

and foundations professor; Jennifer
Podwika, track and field, and James Par-

Humanities Council
funding workshop

sons, biological

and

allied health sciences

Mark Meloy, football, and Eileen
football,

tory professor;

John

Serff,

Tim

and Walter Howard,

Todd

his-

Hitz, baseball, and

geography and earth sciences

Kevin Kenjarski, soccer, and
Mark Raynes, computer and information
systems professor; Carol Sands, lacrosse,
and Edward Warden, curriculum and founprofessor;

dations professor, Jennifer Ward, lacrosse,

and Samuel Slike, communication disorders and special education professor; Kelly
Bracken, lacrosse, and Mary Ericksen,
marketing professor.

Other honorees not present include:

Trudy Horst, field hockey Larry Beilis,
football; and Shawn Remish, wrestling.
;

Craig R. Eisendrath, executive director of the

Pennsylvania Humanities Coun-

(PHC), will conduct a free public work-

cil

shop

titled

"Money

for Cultural Programs:

Finding Itand Using It Well" from 9 a.m. to
noon, Thursday, March 19, at the

Magee

Center.

Eisendrath will discuss

how individu-

and organizations can develop exciting
programs, raise funds and apply for grants
als

to support their projects.

He

will also provide information re-

garding the criteria and application process
for

PHC s large, mini and planning grants.
PHC is a private,

statewide organiza-

Commonwealth as an afof the National Endowment for the

tion serving the
filiate

Humanities. Bloomsburg President Harry

PHOTO BYJOANHEWEK

Ausprich presently serves as the council's

WOMEN IN THE ARTS — Staff members pause to admire an untitled painting during a

vice chairperson.

Haas Art Galley to mark the beginning of the university's observance
of Women's History Month. Pictured, from left, are Bonnie Burke, clerk stenographer,
personnel and labor relations; Madelyn Foshay, accounts payable supervisor; Rosemary
McGrady, supervisor, mail room; Barbara McCc^ey, custodial worker; and Ann Mariano,
recent reception in

To register or receive additional information about
at

this

workshop,

call the

PHC

1-800-462-0442, no later than one week

prior to the wOTkshop.

affirmative action secretary.

6 The Communique 12

MARCH

92

News Briefs
Maintenance and savice contracts for
the

coming fiscal year must be immediately

submitted to the purchasing office, according to Joseph Quinn, director of purchasing.

An open

discussion with a culturally

diverse panel of individuals who have contracted the

AIDS

virus will be held at 7

Wednesday, March 18, in the
McCormick Forum. The program, sponsored by the univa^ty's AIDS Working
Group and the Stxxlent Health Center, is

p.m.,

free

and open

Maintenance department announces
steam, electrical shutdown schedule
University buildings will undergo steam
and electrical shutdowns during the semes-

break periods this spring and summer.
'The spring steam and electrical shutdown schedule will accommodate the ITT
ter

Woricshop, Reading Conference, PIAA tennis

tournament and the early

says

Tom

of Ex-

Messinger, acting director of

maintenance and energy management
Electrical shutdouTis are scheduled as

follows:

— Nelson
House and
Monty's
•May 12 — Montgomery Place Apartments:
Marmon and Barton.
•May 13 — Montgomery Place Apart•May

to the public.

start

tended Programs' conference schedule,"

Field

11

Delicatessen.

The deadline for Bloomsburg faculty

to

submit Ben Franklin technology grant proposals

is

Friday, April 17. Guidelines and

applicant forms are available in the grants
office. For more information, call Peggy
Bailey at 389^129.

Albert,

ments: Englehart, Diehl and Marshall.

•May
ing,

14

auxiliar)'

The Kehr Union Program Board
sponsor a bus

trip to

at

trailer

and greenhouse,

greenhouse and water tanks.

Navy Hall and university bookstore/police.
•May 19
Kehr Union, Boiler Plant,

—

Old Science Hall, Schuylkill Hall, Montour
Hall, Carver Hall, ElweUHall andScranton

Commons.
•

May 20

— McCormick Human Services

Center, Bakeless Center for the Humanities,

Haas Center

for the Performing Arts,

Andruss Library and Waller Administration Building.

—

•May 21
Columbia Hall, North Hall,
Lycoming Hall, Luzerne Hall, Simon Hall
and carpenter shop.

The spring steam shutdown

May

is

scheduled

9-20. Boilers will be turned on

13-15 to provide steam to Scranton

mons only.
The summer steam shutdown
tively scheduled

May

Com-

is tenta-

Aug. 15-28.

will

Baltimore's Inner

Harbor on Saturday, March 21. The bus
\^ill

—ROTC building, DCS build-

ground crew

•May 18— Sutliff Hall, Centennial Gym,
Hartline Science Center, Ben Franklin Hall,

leave Elwell Hall at 7 a.m. and return

Tippin' scheduled for Haas Center

11:30 pjn.

Cost is S7 with university identification
and a valid community activities sticker,
S 12 for

all others.

For more information,

caU 389-4344.
Six Bloomsburg faculty

for the

members have

summer

to

conduct research

or other scholarly projects.

They

are

ai 8

will be per-

p.m., Saturday,

Arts.

"Pippin," which ran

Am, assistant professor

of English; Joseph Pifer, associate profes-

mwe

than four years on Broadway,
will

John Baird, professor of psy-

chology; Mar>' Jo

formed

March 28, in Mitrani Hall of
Haas Center for the Performing

received a 25 percent released time assign-

ment

m

Roger O. Hirson's musical

comedy "Pippin"

be performed by

ductions, Inc. from

The play

is

3D

Pro-

New Yoit

part

of the

university's 1991-92 Celebrit>-

Dee Anne

Artist Series aivd received nu-

W>Tner, assistant professor of anthropol-

merous Tony Award nomina-

sor of geography/earth science;

ogy;

Nancy

Gill, associate professor

of

English; and Vera Viditz-Ward, assistant

professor of art

tions.

Tickets are free few faculty,
staff
sit>'

Six Bloomsburg faculty

members were

recently selected as chairpersons of their

respective academic departments:

Burel Gum, accounting; Carroll Redfem,

communicaticm disorders and special education;

William

Baillie, English;

Ericksen, marketing;

Mark

Nlary

Larson, man-

agement; and George Agbango, political
science.

and students with univeridentification

and a valid

community activities sticker
and are available beginning
Monday. March 16, at the Information Desk in the University Store lobby.

For moct information,
389^201.

call

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Campus Notes

professor of psychology, recently presented

Dale A. Bertelsen, assistant professor
of communications studies, was recently
notified hisarticle, "Kenneth Burke'sCon-

ception of Reality:

The Process of Trans-

formation and

Implications for Rhe-

Its

be published later
this year in Extensions of the Burkean
System, an anthology produced by the
torical Criticism," will

University of

Alabama Press.

a paper

titled

"You Believe

That?: Student

About Evolution, Animal Research,
and Paranormal Phenomena as a Function of
Religious Preference, Fundamentalism,
and Major" at the 14th annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology in Sl
Beliefs

and social welfare, reviewed the book Lobbying for Social
Change by Williard C. Richan for the
January-February issue of The Pennsylsor of sociology

vania Social Worker.

John Olivo, chairperson of

the busi-

ness education and office administration

department, has been awarded $7,075 for

a "Vocational Personnel Professional
vania E)epartment of Education through
State's Vocational Education

Cen-

Salim Qureshi, associate professor of
ket Driven

psychology, and Eileen Astor-Stetson,

titled

'Teach-

She was also

responsible for organizing and chairing the
session.

was

titled

'Teaching the

PubUc

Institution Attract

Re-

In addition, Seaver had an article titled
"Pantomime as an L2 Classroom Strategy"

published in the February issue of the For-

sources" accepted for publication in the Fall

eign Language Annals.

1993 issue of the Journal of Professional
Marketing.

of

Callay had an article

titled "The

Concept

Destiny in Chr6tien's Perceval"

2x:-

ceptedforpubhcationinArturi«/?ex (Studia

Reza Noubary, professor of mathematics
and computer science, made a presentation
last month on "Statistical Modeling of Seismic Records" at the Geophysics Seminar
sponsored by the department of earth and
mineral sciences at Penn State University.
Paul Seaver and Brenda Reiser, both
assistant professors,

and Brigitte Callay,

languages and cultures deparbnent,
Brett L. Beck, assistant professor of

Callay presented a paper
ing Possession (French)."

Reiser's paper

associate professor and chairperson of the

ter.

Actively: Focus on the Spanish

Subjunctive."

Reflexive in German."

Development Project" from the PennsylPenn

7

Seaver's paper was titled "Teaching

Grammar

Petersburg Beach, Fla.

marketing, recently had an article titled "Mar-

Dale L. Sultzbaugh, assistant profes-

MARCH 92

presentations at

Conference

a session of the

last fall in

made

ACTFL

Medievalia), University of Lourain Press,
1991.

Linda LeMura,

assistant professor of

health, physical education,

had an article

and

athletics,

titled

"Central vs. Peripheral

Ad£q)tations for the

Enhancement of Func-

tional Capacity via Non-Invasive Measures
in Patients

with Coronary Artery Disease"

accepted for publication in the Journal of
Sports Medicine, Training, and Rehabilitation.

Washington, D.C.

Greeks, senior citizens celebrate ^making a difference'
A hundred students who are members
of social fraternities or sororities at

Bloomsburg held a "Greek-Senior

Citi-

zen Mixer" recently on campus.

As

part of "National Make-a-Differ-

ence Day" sponsored by
cal ch^ters of the Area

USA

Today,

lo-

Agency on Aging

brought approximately 100 senior

citi-

zens from Columbia and Montour counties to

the

Bloomsburg campus where

they enjoyed a meal and were paired with

a student for an afternoon of big band,
ballroom and folk dancing.
Senior citizens were inducted into the

"Alpha Alpha Alpha" (or "AAA" which
stands for Area Agency on Aging) honorary sorwity.

Music was provided by the
Band and other local

university's Studio

musical ensembles.

The event was sponsored by the Area
Agency on Aging, Columbia County
Farmers National Bank and the
university's Intrafratemity Council, National Panhellenic

Campus

Ministry.

Council and Protestant

PHOTO BY JOAN HEWER

Dancin* To The Music

8 The Communique

MARCH 92

12

Calendar

Curriculum" with Susan Van Dyne and
Marilyn Schuster of Smith College,

March 7, through
Tuesday, March 31

Magee Center, 9

Saturday,
•

Art exhibit

— "Women

Saturday,

in the Arts,"

•

Bus

•

QUEST — Rappelling, Mocanaqua,

•

Celebrity Artist Series

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

a.m. to 5 p.m.

March 21
Baltimore, Md., leave Elwell

trip to

•

Residence Hall

Haas Gallery.

March 14
Women's Conference

Saturday,
•

•

community relations director, WYOUTV, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 9 a.m.

Monday, March 16
•

•

Faculty Lecture Series

Kept Secret

in

"Integrating the

— "The Best

Pro Sports, or Diamonds

Women Throughout the

Magee Center, 9 a.m.
•

Classes resume

—

6 a.m.

Curriculum" with Susan Van Dyne and
Marilyn Schuster of Smith College,

keynote speaker Linda Wallace,

•

Workshop

Scholarship on

featuring

at

•

1

Faculty Lecture Series

— "Women and

the History of Photography"

to

Men's Tennis vs.
1 p.m.
Softball vs. Sl Bonaventure, lower
campus,

—

Viditz-Ward, Old Science,

2 p.m.
Georgetown,

Fihn

"Pippin*.

"The Prince of Tides,"
CarvCT Hall, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Fihn

Monday, March 30

6 p.m.
Tuesday,
•

•

—

Mitrani Hall of Haas Center, 8 p.m.

p.m.

— "The Last Boy Scout,"

by

V^a

Room

122,

March 31

Baseball vs. Millersville (DH), upper

campus,

1

p.m.

Men's Tennis vs. U.S. MiUtary
Academy, 3 p.m.
Wednesday, April 1
• Faculty Lecture Series
"Becoming
One's Own Women: The Significance
of Feminist Rhetoric" by Kara Shultz,
Old Science, Room 122, 4 p.m.
• University Forum Meeting, McCormick
Human Services Center Forum, 3 p.m.
• Fihn
"The Addams Family,"
Mitrani Hall of Haas Center, 7 and
•

Are a Girl's Best Friend" by Sue Hibbs,
Old Science, Room 122, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, March 17
•

Young Person's Concert featuring BUCommunity Orchestra, Mitrani Hall,
Haas Center, 10 a.m. and

•

1

•

•

Carver Hall,
•

— "A Time C^sule

Hartline Science Center,

to

Our

Room

•

Faculty Lecture Series

Weddings

in

122,

— "Women and

•

Shields,

4 p.m.

Panel Discussion

•

— "People With

Alternative

— sUde show;
11:30 a.m.
1:30 p.m. —
2 p.m. —
show;
2
3:30 p.m. — demonstration of
1:30 a.m.

to

•

— "The Prince of Tides,"

Understanding through Diversity

83, 8 p.m.

Friday,

March 20

Workshop
ship on

—

—

"Integrating the Scholar-

and Communication Office,
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
17815.

BU is committed to providing equal educaand employment opportunities for

all

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

affecdonal or sexual preference, handicap,

March 27

Women Student's Conference

—

"Women Creating the Future,"

"International

Women Throughout the

advance to The CommuniqiU, University Relations

person s without regard to race, ccdor, religion,

•

Room

Please submit story ideas, news briefs and

Community Government
Association. TBA.

Friday,

—

The Communique publishes
news of activities, events and developments at
faculty and staff.

tional

fabrics.

Gender Roles" with leader Shell
Lundahl, HartUne Science Center,

newsleaer for Bloomsburg University

Rally sponsored by Bloomsburg

weaving techniques, equipment and
Panel Discussion

The Communique
A

calendar information at least two weeks in

University
silk

9:30 p.m.

BU bi-weekly throughout the academic year.
7,

Thursday, March 26

slide

to

Room

Mitrani Hall of Haas Center, 7 p.m.

reception;

to

Ceiling: Strategies to

7 p.m.
Fihn

— "The Addams Family,"

Janice

— "Breaking

Hartline Science Center,

•

Friday, April 3

122, 4 p.m.

Empower Women" by Pamela Wynn,

—

1

— "Women and

Room

Faculty Lecture Series

Millersville Jazz Ensemble,

Mitrani Hall of Haas Center, 8 p.m.

Mitirani Hall of Haas Cent^, 7 and

Commerce" by

Old Science,

Through the Glass

—

10:30 to

Faculty Lecture Series
International

Old Science,

AIDS," McCormick Fwum, 7 p.m.
• Film
"The Last Boy Scout," Mitrani
Hall of Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 19
• Visiting Artist
Bun Em, Cambodian
silk weaver, Haas Gallery:

•

—

— "Jazz Night," BU Studio

ConcCTt

•Fihn

Wednesday, March 25

Renaissance Florence" by

Christine Sperling,

•

Provost's Lecture Series

9:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 2

Band and

Journalists Panel Discussion, Carver

83,

—

•

Room 122, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, March 24

Hall, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, March 18

1

— "Women and

Science,

7 p.m.

Room

Faculty Lecture Series

Business" by Carol Matteson, Old

83, 3:30 p.m.

Lecture

Mastodon" by Dee Ann Wymer,

•

p.m.

1

Monday, March 23

Living Past: The Burning Tree

•

—

Ann Wymer,

Room

Pittsburgh

Men's Tennis vs. American, 1 p.m.
"The Last Boy Scout,"

Fihn

The Burning Tree Mastodon" by Dee
Hartline Science Center,

—

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 p.m.
•

Sense of Discovery to the Qassroom:

•

Celebrity Artist Series

—

Opera's production of "Carmen,"

Hall,

Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
•

—

p.m.

— "TBA," Mitrani Haas
Workshop and Lecture — "Bringing a
Film

Carver Hall, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 22
• QUEST
Rock CUmbing,
Mocanaqua, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Columbia
Saturday,
•

Bus

March 28

trip to

of the

Hall, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Washington, D.C.

Museum

— Tour

of Women in the Arts

and the Smithsonian Museum of
American History.

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 em-

ployment of^rtunides.
Editor: Kevin B. Engler
AssisUnt Editor: Susan M. Schantz
Editorial AssisUnt: Christina J. Gaudrean
Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

University provides
'helping hands' for

hearing impaired
Maureen

Hill says she

"scared to death"

if

would be

asked to speak

before a large gathering of people on
the Mitrani Hall stage in

Haas Center

for the Performing Arts.

But the Binghamton, N.Y.,

who works

native,

as an interpreter for hear-

ing impaired and deaf students at

Bloomsburg, says she's

GETTING TO KNOW EACH

OTHER

—

I

Hill,

Two members of American Indian tribes

— Carla

J.

S.

part of the university's Native

American Awareness

Messinger, founder and president of the Lenni Lenape Historical Society at the Museum

make

three presentations

on Monday, April

6.

Messinger will discuss "Lenni Lenape History and Culture" at 10 a.m., and she'll present

Methods to S tereotyping Native Americans" at 2 p.m. Both lectures
L-35 of the Harvey A. Andruss Library.

"Alternative Education

will discuss "Unstereotyping Indian Stereotypes" in the

McCormick Human

Forum of

Services Center.

museum

dedicated to the Lenni

Award

for leadership in

Len^ tribe.

On behalf of the Lenni Lenape Historical Society, she received a meritorious award from
the Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies for continuing achievement in public

education in 1986.

Jimmy Boy
events

to

work 20 hours

per week. They presently assist six
hearing impaired students in their stud-

Dial, editor of

The Spike

— and a member of theLumbee

"We work with a different student
Hill. "We go to class

each day," says

with the student and finger sign the
professor's lecture for them."

Bloomsburg 's Tutorial and 504 Services program,

now in its fifth year of

operation, offers a wide range of ser-

In 1985, Messinger received a President's Volunteer Action

developing a

She and interpreters Randi Katz
and Sharon Rainey are contracted
through the imiversity's Tutorial and

ies.

of Indian Culture in Allentown, will

be in Room
At 7 p.m., she

from

deaf employed by the university.

504 Services office

Messinger and Jimmy Boy Dial

program next month.

will

degree

Bloomsburg's
program in 1988, is one of three parttime, permanent interpreters for the

Native American issues
Bloomsburg as

graduated with a bach-

science

Interpreter Training

Guest lecturers to highlight
at

who

of

elor

Native Americans.

speak

don't feel that pressure, even though

I'm standing in the spotlight"

days of lectures designed tofoster greater understanding of

will

trade.

"When I'm interpreting atan event,

Jimmy Boy Dial
(above) and Carta J.S.
Messinger will discuss Native
American concerns during two

—

totally re-

when performing her

laxed

— an

tribe

east coast newsletter for Native

American

vices designed to support and enhance

the performances of university students.

tutoring to all

component offers peer
Bloomsburg students

upon

And

The

tutorial

request.

through the 504

of North Carolina, will make two presentations

Continued on page 2

Continued on page 2

2 The

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MARCH 92

Helping hands

Upon graduating from

the two-year col-

lege. Hill was advised by some of Broome'

Continued from page

1

faculty

and professional

interpreters about

function, physically challenged students

furthering her education and interpreting

with special needs can receive help.

skills at

"Bloomsburg has always attempted
provide support services

fcx"

who

students

staff said,

*

may

they

miss something impor-

Bloomsburg.

"One female

to

tion to the in-

terpreter, or

on the Broome
Yes, you must go to Bloomsburg

tant."

has a four-year de-

signs

interpreter

Walters as-

the

Waltws, coordinator of the univCTsity's Tutorial and 504

University because

gree program in interpreter training,' " she

three inter-

Services program.

recalls.

preters to all

require them," says Peter

"Our goal is to achieve educational parity ... by providing students who have special needs with the same educational opportxmities as any student."
Services offered to students with hearing

impairments include sign language
preting, notetaking and

hancement

gram

FM

inter-

auditory en-

imits. Additionally, the pro-

university's bachelor of science de-

graduations,

gree program in interpreter training, of-

orientations

fered through the department of communication disorders and special education, pro-

and
open
houses on

vides specialized training for individuals

campus.

The

seeking to

students

who

are visually impaired, blind

"On the tutoring side, we assist hundreds

become interpreters for the deaf

in a variety of settings, such as schools,

hospitals

"You never
know who is
going to show

and courtrooms.

Donald Rubel, who

university ' s only full-time interpreter train-

up at these activities ... and

ing instructor, says students

come from all

someone

over the country to study in

this

program.

might benefit

"We have students from Oregon, Wash-

from having

has an array of recorded textbooks for

or learning disabled.

it

of Bloomsburg students," says Walters.

currently the

is

and 54 of

an interpreter

"And we work with about 85 students who

ington and other distant places

are considered by themselves or an outside

the 55 students that are presently in the

there,"
says.

agency

to

have a

larly with state

agencies, in-

a curriculum leading to the B.S. degree or a

and thank the interpreter

cluding

minor

program.

disability."

the

in sign language.

Office of Vo-

"In their senior year, interpreter training

cational Reha-

students may be assigned to one of the three

bilitation

and

interpreters in the

which

interpreting doesn't

come easy

the interpreter or the student, says Hill.

who took sign

"Interpreting for class lectures can

language
classes in high

"The intermust also devise signs and draw

language interpreters," she says. "And now

lustrate her point. Hill claims she

graphic pictures in the air for students so
they can understand what's being talked

about

in class

terminology

...

is

especially

when technical

being discussed."

Recalling a recent biology lecture to

il-

had

to

when

people to participate in the mainstream

for her student client

hearing society."

human body was being

discussed.

Walters says hearing impaired students

must devote

to their assigned interpreter.

notetaker for
students.

its

and work as a

large population of deaf

total attention

during lectures

"There is no down time ... no time to gaze

the chance to take

interpreting classes

— Kevin

B. Engler

Continued from page 1

on Wednesday, April 8.
Dial will speak on "The Pnaci People"
at 2 p.m. in Room L-35 of Andruss
Library. "Pnaci" is an ancient southwestern native word that means "descendants of the old ones"
this

tive

who

are in-

hemisphere.
will discuss

"A Na-

American's Perspective on Colum-

bus 'Discovering' America"

in

Kuster

Auditorium of Hartline Science Center.

The programs are sponsored by the
Campus-Wide Committee

university's

Bingham ton. As a
Broome offered her
more

and I'm

our community."

At 7:30 p.m., he

that part of the

enrolled at Broome Community College in
liberal arts major,

in

digenous to

"draw a picture in the air" of a human heart

After graduating from high school. Hill

...

has a program that

Native Americans
be

interpreter's arms," she admits.

school
and
worked with the deaf community in her
hometown, serving Bloomsburg students
as a notetaker and interpreter provides a
great amount of personal satisfaction.
"I've always been fascinated by sign
can provide a service which allows deaf

who live

taxing on the student's eyes and on the

preter

I

this university

for either

Hill,

For

end of the

'be out there' partici-

pating with everybody else

But the business of sign language and

Ser-

the

can meet the needs of these special people

teaching for education majors," he says.

vices.

"The deaf want to

at the

is in

come up

504 program as a

Blindness and

is

a hearing impaired person

equivalent to student

practicum

...

If

audience, Walters says, they'll

happy

the Office of

Visual

Peter Walters

he

program are women," he says.
According to Rubel, students who are
interested in the program have two options:

Walters says the university works regu-

^

...

Maureen Hill
commencement
in December

at

around," he says.
in

"We all take little breaks

our attention span each day, but these

students really can ' t afford to not pay atten-

on Human Relations. Admission is free
and the public is invited.
For more information, call Madeline
Foshay at 389-4017 or Mary Harris at
389-4281.

— Kevin B. Engler

The Communiqui 26

MARCH 92

3

Faculty awarded State System research grants
Eight Bloomsburg faculty members have

teaching of English.

•Dee Anne Wymer,

assistant professor

tem of Higher Education Faculty Professional Development Council to conduct

of anthropology,

who

received $3,745 to

conduct research

at the

research this year.

plex in Newark, Ohio, where archaeolo-

The award recipients, recently announced
by the university's grants office, include:

gists recently

received grant awards from the State Sys-

•Dianne Angelo, associate professor of
communication disorders and special edu-

who

cation,

received $1,333 for a project

that dates to

Earthwork Com-

discovered a moundbuilding

100 B.C.

"Our faculty worked hard

to prepare the

best possible proposals and were rewarded,"
said Peter J. Kasvinsky , assistant vice presi-

Needs and Resources of
Families with Adolescents and Young
Adults Using Assistive Devices: A Statewide Survey." She will investigate the needs
of young adults and parents of adolescents
who use communication devices to overcome impaired speaking and writing abili-

more than 10 percent of the
$259,196 awarded by the State System's
Faculty Professional Development Coun-

ties.

faculty," he said,

titled "Stressors,

dent for graduate studies and research.

According

to

Kasvinsky, Bloomsburg

will obtain

cil this year.

"This

is

a great accomplishment for our

"and

will not only

it

•Christopher Hallen, assistant professor

improve them professionally but make them

who received $3,960 for the

"Investigation of Surface Activity Using

more competitive in seeking federal, private and other types of non-state funding to

Immobilized Fluorescent Reagents." His

support their research."

of chemistry,

study

is

,

— Kevin B. Engler

anticipated to result in a better

understanding of how chemicals reside and
act

on

solid surfaces.

•John Hranitz, professor of curriculum

and foundations, and Lorraine Shanoski,
associate professor of curriculum and foun-

Two faculty members and an ad-

ness of a Continuous Progress Approach in

ministrator have received funding

Science and Mathematics Instruction at the

from the Bloomsburg University

Kindergarten through Grade 2 Levels."

Foundation Inc for special projects.
,

•John Olivo, professor of business edu-

—

This stone

sculpture, titled "Standing Tall,"

was

recently donated to the university by

re-

ceived $1,500 for the "Enhancement of

awarded $2,500 to participate in the

Knowledge and

first

tronic

Skills in the

Meeting Systems."

who

Area of Elec-

He will

attend a

annual meeting of the Global

weeklong seminar on specialized hardware

Awareness Society Intemational to
be held May 1-3 in Washington,

and software computer aids called

D.C.

"groupware."

Christine Sperling, assistant pro-

local sculptor Loretta Carmelandstands

•Nancy Onuschak, professor of nursing,
and Ann Lee, associate professor of com-

Haas Gallery

munication disorders and special educa-

as a permanentfixture in

. ,

Chang Shub Roh, professor of sociology and social welfare, was

cation and office administration,

'STANDING TALL'

Foundation awards

who jointly received $6,920. They
will conduct "An Analysis of the Effective-

dations,

FHOTO BVJOAN HELFEK

Faculty, staff receive

fessor of art, received $ 1 , 1 50 to con-

duct a two-day symposium next No-

vember

titled

"Coming

to the

New

who jointly received $4,490 for "Inte-

Worl± Columbus and the American

Carmel

grating Technology into Health Science

Experience, 1492- 1992," which fea-

studied liberal arts at Wilkes Univer-

and Teacher Education Cuiricula." They
will conduct a two-day interactive video

cartographer atNewberry Library in

workshop for health science and education

Chicago,

of Art.

tion,

Originally

from

New

York,

and sculpture at New
York University and sculpture at Sum-

sity,

art history

mit Art Center in
affiliated with

Livingston,

New

Jersey. She

faculty.

NJ.

Bloomsburg

is

currently accepting

•Natalie White, assistant professor of

curriculum and foundations,

David Buisseret,

historian

and

111.

G. Michael Vavrek, dean of the

is

Riker Hill Art Park of

tures

who received

School of Extended Programs, was

awarded $250

to

support the

$4, 1 00 to complete a book manuscript titled

university's annual Internships/Co-

"Ariadne's Thread: Toward a Global

op Employer Recognition Breakfast

The manuscript describes how
international movement affects the

heldrecently in Scran ton Commons.

artwork donations. Call the art depart-

Songline."

ment at 389-4646for more information.

the

4 The Communiqui 26

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92

News Briefs

Bloomsburg University Crime Report
Prepared by the University Police Department

An

Month of February

Presses"

Offenses

made

Reported to or by

Arrests

University Police

cleared by other

or incidents

on display in the exhibit case located inside the main entrance
to Andruss Library.

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levels of the library.

Both exhibits run throughout March.
***
Tuberculin Tine testing for prospective
university teachers and other interested faculty and staff members will be administwed

2 p.m., Monday, April 6, in

from 10 a.m.

to

the lobby of

McCormick Human

Services

Center.
Individuals
return to the

and 2 p.m.,

who undergo

the test must

same location between 10 a.m.
Wednesday, April 8, for their

test reading.

Cost is $2 per person. For more information, call the university's health center at

389^51.
***

Commuter students at Bloomsburg have
developed a new student organization titled
CARS
Commuting and Returning Stu-

—
— and

will hold their first meeting at

6:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 14, at the Magee

Always lock your vehicle

•

Try

•

Keep your auto locked Never leave keys

•

His-

.

•

to

"Women's

A Patchwork of Many Lives," is being

dents
.

currently

displayed on both the main and ground

n
n
u

n

i^iMjiucriy i^uiiuuLi

is

Also, an exhibit titled

means

tory:
\/i*nHiilicm

"The Alternative

exhibit titled

doors.

Center.

park in a well-lighted area.

Avoid leaving property where it

is visible

At the meeting,

in the vehicle.

on the

seats or in

Tom Lyons,

directw of

many financial aid opportunities for students who attend the university. Door prizes will be
financial aid, will discuss the

a hatchback.

distributed.
sci-

The purpose of CARS is to keep local and

Lisp Workbook which was

area students informed about campus ac-

John Riley, professor of mathematics and computer
ence, has written

published

last

A Common

December by Prentice Hall Publishing Co. of

Math,
computer

Riley designed the workbook to familiarize students in his
"Programming in Lisp" class with Common Lisp
an
interactive, symbol processing type of computer language.
The workbook can be used by educators as an introduction to programming and "will help computer science ma-

science

jors observe

professor

—

they're

and understand the language, especially when

smdying on

Riley,

tivities

such as study groups, workshops

and social events. The organization plans to

Englewood, NJ.

their

own," he says.

who wrote two textbooks on programming in 1987

produce a monthly newsletter.

For more information,
***

call

389-4420.

Bloomsburg has installed a "BE SAFE"
emergency hotline as a service to its students,

employees and area

When a serious crime

residents.

— or other campus

emergency considered to be a threat to
is reported to the
public safety

—

publishes

and 1989, says "sophomores and juniors majoring in computer science can use the workbook when studying in

workbook

campus computer labs, or on their own personal computer
via a modem."
The "best kind of learning is by doing," says Riley. "I've
had lots of fun programming in Lisp ... and I think students

will

will, too."

The hotline number is 389-2723 (or 389BSAF).

— Kevin B. Engler

university's police department, a message

be recorded on the "BE SAFE" hotline

that will provide callers with timely, up-

dated information concerning the details
that pertain to each incident.

Qeustions can be directed
sity relations office at

to the univCT-

389-44 11.

The Communique 26

MARCH 92

5

News Briefs
Summer orientation dates for new freshmen,

transfer students

and adult or return-

ing students are as follows:

June 14-16:

Summer Freshmen

June 21-23: Fall Freshmen

(I)

June 28-30: Fall Freshmen

(II)

July 12-14: Fall Freshmen (HI)
July 19-20: Transfer Students

Freshmen (IV)
August 27: Adult/Returning Students
August 30: Freshman Meeting
***

July 26-28: Fall

Bloomsburg's Husky Ambassadors captured the gold medal

among 26

colleges

and universities that participated

at the

Student Alumni Association/StudentFoundation Conference held recently at the

University of Buffalo in

New York.

PHOTO BY DAVEASmr

Bun Em, a

refugee from Cambodia, demonstrates traditional Cambodian
during a recent Women's History Month presentation.

silk

weaving

Nineteen Husky Ambassadors attended
the conference with their adviser,

Doug

Hippenstiel, director of alumni affairs.

Applications to join the

Husky Ambas-

7,296 enrolled for spring semester

sadors are being accepted for the 1992-93

academic year, says Hippenstiel.
For more information,

call the

Enrollment for the cuirent spring semester at

Alumni

Official data recentiy

***

—

less

than 1.5 percent over a year ago.

Office at 389-4058.

The

Bloomsburg has increased by

and 12 graduate students.
There are 6,691 undergraduate students
enrolled at the university this spring. This

announced by the

university indicates an increase of

86

stu-

figure includes 5 ,802 full-time undergraduate students

and 889 part-time undergraduThere are 604 non-degree un-

15th annual Renaissance Jamboree

dents, from 6,391 students last year to 6,477

ate students.

and enter-

this spring, as calculated by full-time equiva-

dergraduate students attending the univer-

lency enrollment

sity this spring.

featuring crafts, games, food

—

be held from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m., Saturday, April 25, on Main Street in
tainment

will

downtown Bloomsburg.
at the

event should call

Bloomsburg's total headcount this spring
is

who would

Local entertainers

perform

like to

Jimmy

criteria.

7,296 students, 69 more than

total

In addition,

605 graduate students are

last year's

enrolled at the university this spring, in-

of 7,227. Headcount figures include

cluding 172 full-time students and433 part-

an increase of 57 undergraduate students

time students.

GiUiland before March 27 at 389^344.

Tony Award-winning playwright
who received
Award of Merit from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters for five plays
Playwright John Guare,

the

— "The House of B lue Leaves," "Rich and
Famous," "Marco Polo Sings a Solo,"
"Landscapes of the Body" and "Bosoms
and Neglect"
will discuss "American
Theater Today" at 8 p.m., Thursday, April

—

16, in Mitrani Hall of

Haas Center

for the

Performing Arts.

for Louis Malle's "Atlantic City"

Oscar nomination and the

Guare,

who

and lectured

He wrote the lyrics for "Two Gendemen
of Verona," which won a Tony award for

at

for Best

Best Musical of 1972, and his screenplay

won an

New York, Los

Award.
His latest play, "Six Degrees of Separation," was presented in 1990 at the Lincoln
Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater and
featured an ensemble of 1 7 actors including
Stockard Channing, James McDaniel and
John Cunningham.

American Play of
1971 and four Tony awards with "The
House of Blue Leaves."

Award

speak in Mitrani Hall

Angeles and National Film Critics Circle

Guare won the New York Drama Critics
Circle

to

taught at Yale University

at

Brown, Georgetown and

other universities and art institutes, will

conduct a "Writers and Actors Workshop"

4 p.m. in Mitrani Hall. The lecture and
workshop are free and open to the public.
For more information, call 389-4308.

John Guare

Communique 26 MARCH 92

6 The

New assistant football coaches named

News Briefs
Frances S. Parow, compensation man-

Bloomsburg head

football coach Pete

ager in Bloomsburg' s personnel office, will

Adrian has announced the addition of two

discuss "Job Descriptions and Reviews" at

new

today's Supervisory Roundtable seminar

from 9 a.m.

noon at the Magee Center.
***

to

A "Jazz Night" concert, featuring
Bloomsburg's Studio Band and a jazz band
from Millersville University, will be held at
8 p.m., Thursday, April 2, in Mitrani Hall of
Haas Center for the Performing Arts.

The bands, directed by Bloomsburg's
Stephen Wallace and Millersville' s Keith

assistant coaches to his staff.

is

Your Heart?" from 8:30 a.m.

to

position," said Adrian.

Burlington, Vt.,

like

have joined the

can only be a plus for us, and his family

"His expositfe to the game under people

^ x

j

spring

|

sive exposure to the professional organiza-

drills.

tions."

Jordan joins the Huskies'

Kurt Beathard

fensive unit and direct the quarterbacks.

Jordan will coach the defensive secondary.

he helped the club

The remainder of

Uie staff for the 1992

season will consist of Frank Williams, de-

Lou Mingrone,
Dave Fortunato, of-

offensive backs (3rd season).

Bloomsburg and

Susan Hetrick of Northumberland.
For more information,

call Pratt at

387-

seventh season with a record of 35-28-1.

conference recog-

"They're young, energetic coaches
will

be a

who

definite asset to our program."

ends' coach

at

won first prize for a
"A Comparison of Two Popu-

—
—

honor society

the national matiiematics
at Sl Francis College in

Loretto.

as a senior. He fin-

at

in

Washington, D.C.,

in 1988.

undergraduate, Beathard

was a

University in Baltimore, Md. where he

still

named

1 1 inter-

quarterback sacks.
In high school, Jordan

was a quarterback

South Burlington High School under the
direction of his father and head coach Paul

Jordan.

"Garry

is

a bright young

man who

will

provide us with some different ideas defensively,

making us a more diverse team,"

most valuable player following
two seasons and was an honorable mention
All-American selection in 1985.
Beathard spent one season playing professionally with the Washington Commo-

good understanding of the passing game in

dores of the Arena Football League.

proper techniques for defensive backfield

"Math Jeop-

State and is a member of the San

tion.

,s

Garry Jordan

the receivers' coach at Catholic University

His brother, Jeff, was a standout receiver

ardy" team that competed at the conven-

f/p:

ceptions, five fumble recoveries and four

Russell and mathematics professor John

Riley were on the winning

and was awarded
the squad's "Unsung Hero" award

ished his career with 177 tackles,

stint,

the team's

Epsilon

He

led the team with

he served two seasons
as a graduate assistant at the University of
Louisville in Kentucky. In addition, he was
Prior to that

holds five school records and was

Mu

nition in 1988.

the opening round before losing to Samford.

mathematics major,

which she presented earlier this
month at the Region I convention of Kappa

all-

tions as a junior

paper tided
lations"

dan earned

seven intercep-

in Harrisonburg, Va.

in

ference, and Jor-

season as the tight

last

New Hampcompeting

Yankee Con-

James Madison University

Beathard spent

record-setting quarterback at Tow son State

Karen M. Russell of Lansdale, a senior

During his college career.
the

As an

1770 or Hetrick at 473-9584.
***

Wildcats as a three-year starter at free safety.

"The addition of Beathard and Jordan
helps us tremendously on both sides of the
ball," said Adrian, who will be entering his

and a berth in the NCAA Division I-AA
playoffs where they defeated Delaware in

dents Katiileen Pratt of

New Hampshire in Durham where

shire posted a 27-15 record

countable for 30 to 40 percent of the deaths

disease, according to senior nursing stu-

Jordan went to Springfield from the Uni-

Bob

He helped lead the Dukes to a 9-4 record

The program's goal is to increase awareness of preventive measures to combat heart

school record

he enjoyed a fine playing career for the

sessment which holds heart disease acof people ages 24 to65 in Columbia County.

new

kickers (9th season),

Rohm,

snacks and information about diets, exercise and cholesterol will be available.
The "Heart Smart" project is based on the
latest results from a community health as-

set a

season with 26 interceptions.

versity of

vices Center.

and an American Heart Association movie
on "Women and Heart Disease." Healthy

last

fensive line (16th season),

fensive coordinator and line (7th season),

and features blood pressure

staff following

two seasons as the secondary coach at
Springfield College in Massachusetts where

Joe Bressi, receivers (3rd season) and

screening, a "heart walk," an aerobics class

to

see the sport at every level, including exten-

12:30 p.m., Thursday, April 9, in the front

heart disease

Howard Schnellenberger at Louisville

background has given him opportunities

Huskies' football

program in time
for the upcoming

entrance lobby of McCormick Human Ser-

The program emphasizes prevention of

a great

and Garry Jordan,
a native of South

workwitiitheof-

Healthy

game and

mechanical knowledge of the quarterback

band swing music.
Admission is free and the public is invited. For more information, call 389^284.
***

How

the drop-back passing

of Vienna, Va.,

Beathard will

Senior community health nursing stu-

ers of the National Football League.

"Kurt has a tremendous understanding of

Kurt Beatiiard

Wiley, will perform jazz, ballads and big

dents will sponsor "Heart Smart:

the general manager of the San Diego Charg-

at Towson

Antonio Riders of the World League of
American Football. His father, Bobby, is

said Adrian.

"His playing background has given him a
addition to the secondary. That combination,

along with his sohd knowledge of the

play, will

be valuable to our success

stopping opponents."

in

— JimHollister

The Communique 26 MARCH 92 7

Campus Notes
Neil L.

Brown,

News Briefs

assistant i^ofessor of

Sandra Walker, coordinator of

orienta-

p^r titled "Link-

Bloomsburg's annual Employee RecogDay will be held from 9:30 to 11:30

curriculum and foundations, recently com-

tion, recently

pleted an action-research project with el-

ing Academic and Student Affairs Strate-

nition

ementary students in the Bethlehem Area

gies:

Using Orientation Programs to Explore

a.m.,

School District

Student Values" at the Institute on College

The

project's focus

was on teaching

presented a

15, in the

***

Student Values held at Horida State Univer-

Bloomsburg's Alumni Association

history to first grade "at-risk" children

sity,

through a literature-based approach. The
study was funded by a mini grant from the

The paper is based on the Values Inquiry
program that was initiated during last

Bethlehem school

summer's university

district.

Wednesday, April
McCormick Forum.

Tallahasse, Fla.

is

sponsoring an "Alumni Luncheon Lecture
Series" this spring.

Remaining lecturers, their topics and dates

orientation..

include:

Amanda Caastro-Mitchell, instructor

JoAnne Growney,professorof mathemat-

of languages and cultures, recently pre-

and computer science, recently particiDay at Penn State
University's Ogontz campus.
Growney spoke to more than 500 junior
high school girls from the Philadelphia area
on "What Can Go Wrong With an Election?"

sented a

p^r titled "Gender and Class in

Pronominal Address in Honduras" at the
Rediscovering American conference held
at

Louisiana State University, Baton

Rouge, La.

pated in Math Options

The
Gilbert Darbouze, assistant professor

of languages and cultures, recently presented a paper titled

"La

Antillaise Francophone:

talk

Women in the

assistant professor of art

Tuesday, April 7

focused on opportunities to study

"Current Research in

mathematics at Bloomsburg and mathematical

methods applied

Sports Medicine"

to voting.

featuring Linda

Mehdi Haririan, associate professor of

at the ninth

economics, was invited by The Institute of

on For-

eign Language and Literature held at

Americas to attend this year's Conference on Latin America's Energy Industry:

Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.

New

bi-annual Southeast Conference

RezaNoubary,professorofmathematics and computer science, recently gave a

19th Century"

featuring Vera Viditz-Ward,

Litt6rature

La Recherche

D'une Expression Oringale"

Tuesday, March 31
"Kodak Girls: Photography and

ics

LeMura,

assistant professor of health, physicial

education and athletics

the

Tuesday April 14
"Pennsylvania German

Growth through
International Investment and Trade held
earlier this month at the University of CaliOpportunities

fornia,

for

Medicinal Plants"
featuring

La Jolla, Calif.

David Minderhout,

professor of anthropology

lecture on "Stochastic Models for Seismic
Records" for faculty and graduate stu-

sored by the Argentine Ministry of the

Wednesday, April 29

dents of the mathematics, statistics and

Economy regarding

"Let's Learn Braille"

computer science department at Marquette

Argentina's electric power and natural gas

University, Milwaukee,

Wis

Haririan also attended a seminar spon-

sectors this month.

privatization of

featuring

Mary

Hill,

professor of communication disorders

The seminar was held at

and special education

the University of California.

Luncheon lectures are held from noon to

Mulligan appointed

Upward Bound

director

Maureen Mulligan, who worked the last seven years as
assistant director and counselor for Bloomsburg's Upward
Bound program, was recently named director of the pro-

:

15 p.m. at The Inn at Turkey Hill. Cost is

$5 per person.
For reservations,

call the

Alumni Office

at 389-4058.

"Share a Day," a new program sponsored
by Bloomsburg's Alumni Association and
Husky Ambassadors, is designed to pro-

gram.
Prior to this job. Mulligan served six years as an assistant
dean of residence life at Bloomsburg. She was a member of

vide undergraduate students with career

Smdent Life Standing
Committee and Upward Bound Alumni Association.
the Student-Faculty Judicial Board,

opportunities.

By using a data base, students are matched
who work profes-

Mulligan serves on the Project RETAIN advisory board

with university alumni

and the Pennsylvania Association of Educational Opportu-

sionally in the student's chosen career field.

Program Personnel executive board.
She holds abachelor's degree in psychology from Wheel-

nity

Selected students can "share a day" working with the alumnus at her or his place of

ing Jesuit College in Wheeling, W.Va.,

and a master's
degree in student personnel work at Indiana State University at

1

employment
Referrals from faculty are greatly en-

Terre Haute, Ind.

Maureen Mulligan

couraged. Call

Doug

Weaver at 389-4058.

Hippenstiel or Keith

8 The

Communique 26

MARCH 92
BU Studio Band and Millersville Jazz

Calendar

Ensemble, Mitrani Hall, Haas Crater,

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
•Baseball vs. East Stroudsburg (DIQ,

8 p.m.

Thursday, March 26
•

Student Rally

— "Understanding

CGA,

Carver Hall, noon.

•

March 27

Women Student's Conference

—

lov/ei campus, 1 p.m.
Sunday, April 12
• QUEST
Rafting on the Lehigh River,
8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Spring Concert featuring the Maroon
and Gold Concert Band, Mitrani Hall,
Haas Center, 2:30 p.m.
• Men's Tennis BU Duals
9 a.m.
Tuesday, April 14
• Alumni Luncheon Lecture

Saturday, March 28
•

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

and the Smithsonian

the Arts

•

QUEST — Rappelling
Celebrity Artist Series

at

Film

in

Museum

— "Pippin,"

Carver Hall, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 29
• Concert
"The Columbia Vocal Arts
Ensemble," directed by Eric Nelson,

Spring Concert

Gross Auditorium, Carver Hall,

and the History of Photography" by
Vera Viditz-Ward, Old Science,

Room

122, 6 p.m.

March 31

Tuesday,
•

•

•

1

—

Viditz-Ward, Inn at Turkey Hill, noon.

— "Multiculturalism: Win-Win

Strategies in Transforming the

—

Nagano," Haas Gallery, through
April 20.

•Slide

vice provost for under-represented

Penn

1

Faculty Lecture Series

One's

— "Becoming

•

•

Old Science,

Room

122, 4 p.m.

Forum Meeting,
McCormick Forum, 3 p.m.
"The Addams Family,"
Film

University

—

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

7 and 9:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 2
•

Concert

Amazon

—

8 p.m.

Hill,

upper campus,

1

p.m.

•Softball vs. Shippensburg,

lower campus, 3:30 p.m.
•Film

— "JFK," Mitrani

Hall,

Haas Center, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, April 15

— "JFK," Mitrani

Hall,

Haas Center, 8 p.m.
Thursday, April 16
•Provost's Lecture Series

— John Guare

Workshop, Haas Center, 4 p.m.
" American Theater Today"
•Lecture

—

by John Guare, Mitrani

—

Hall,

Haas

Center, 8 p.m.
•

QUEST — Assateague Island trip

•Spring

Weekend begins, 10 p.m.

•Tine Test Readings, McCormick Center
lobby, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

•Men's Tennis vs. Penn State, 3 p.m.
•Film
"Cape Fear," Mitrani Hall,
Haas Center, 9:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 9
• Softball vs. Lock Haven,

—

lower campus, 3:30 p.m.
•

— "Jazz Night,"

College of Business Professional

Development Forum, Centennial Gym,
•Lecture

by John
4 p.m.

— "Women

in

Amish Society"

Hostetler, Hartline,

Room 83,

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weekly throughout the academic year.
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and employment opportunities for

all

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

nam era status veterans, or union membersh^.

College of Business Professional

Development Forum,

Sutliff Hall,

The university is

additionally committed to

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

8 a.m.

•Film — "Cape

Fear," Mitrani Hall,

Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m
Saturday, April 11

featuring the

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5:30 p.m.

Own Women: The Signifi-

cance of Feminist Rhetoric" by Kara
Shultz,

trip to

and Andes Mountains,

Kuster Auditorium, Hartline, 7 p.m.

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 8 p.m.

•

Show — QUEST

"Current
•Alumni Luncheon Lecture
Research in Sports Medicine" by
Linda LeMura, Inn at Turkey Hill, noon.
• Student Recital
Todd Mengal,
saxophone, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

State University,

Wednesday, April

Turkey

•Film

Tuesday, April 7

Curriculum" by James Stewart,
groups,

McCormick

by David Minderhout, Inn at
noon
•Baseball vs. Kutztown (DH),
Plants,"

Wednesday, April 8

p.m.

Men's Tennis vs. Army, 3 p.m.
Alumni Luncheon Lecture
"Kodak Girls: Photography and
Women in the 19th Century" by Vera

•Lecture

featuring the

Center lobby, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
"Paintings by Shozo
•Art Exhibit

Baseball vs. Millersville (DH),

upper campus,

—

•Tuberculin Tine Tests,

rainforests

— "Women

—

"Pennsylvania German Medicinal

Madrigal Singers, Gross Auditorium,
Carver Hall, 2:30 p.m.
Monday, April 6

7:30 p.m.
Faculty Lecture Series

West BaUroom,

Women's Choral Ensemble and

—

•

p.m.

Hotel Magee, 6 p.m.
Sunday, April 5

Mocanaqua,

— "The Prince of Tides,"

Monday, March 30

1

,

Mid^ Hall, Haas Center, 8 p.m.
•

SUppery Rock (DH),

Softball vs.

•

•

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
•

QUEST — Rafting on the Lehigh River,

•President's Ball, 24

of American History.
•

—

7 and 9:30 p.m
Saturday, April 4

lower campus,

—

Bus trip to
Tour of the Museiun of Women
Washington, D.C.

— "The Addams Family,"

8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Hall, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

p.m.

•Film

"Women Creating the Future,"
Columbia

1

West Chester (DH),

•Softball vs.

Through Diversity," sponsored by
Friday,

upper campus,

Friday, April 3

•Men's Tennis BU Duals, 9 a.m.
• QUEST
Kayaking on Fishing Creek,

—

employment

opportunities.

Editor: Kevin B. Engler
AssisUnt Editor: Susan M. Schantz
Editorial Assistant: Christina

Contributing Writer:

Patricia

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

J.

Gaudreau

Kerwin

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY

A NEWSLETTER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT

•

9

APRIL 92

Ausprich announces plans to step down
Bloomsburg President Harry Ausprich

record reflects the confidence employers

have

has announced he will not seek an exten-

in

our graduates."

Ausprich said the university has improved

sion to his contract citing "personal consid-

academic climate and created a more

erations" after discussions with his family.

its

Ausprich, whose contract with
Bloomsburg and the State System of Higher
Education extends through June 1994, no-

diverse university

"We

System Chancellor James H.
McCormick and university trustees' chairtified State

person

LaRoy Davis of

his decision

March 25

university's first major fund-raising

on

the

letter to university faculty

"By announcing my plans

at this time,

versities to

tage of seeking and selecting

"Our accomplishments in the past decade

an interim appointment

my

who was appointed

as

Bloomsburg' s president in July 1985, hopes
the university can finish some projects and
his last

two

a fine faculty

to at-

who are ready and emi-

teaching for which Bloomsburg has been

— President Harry Ausprich

known.

not neces-

is

their access mission.

nently able to continue the quality level of

universities in the State System."

term so

sary."

new ones during

tract

have helped us remain one of the strongest

next presi-

its

dent before the conclusion of

meet

"But our university has been able

I

believe the university will have the advan-

make it increas-

ingly difficult for public colleges and uni-

university.

begin a few

campaign one year ahead of schedule."
state's woe-

ful financial situation will

transi-

tion in leadership" is important for the

Ausprich,

cam-

According to Ausprich, the

and staff, Ausprich wrote "a smooth

that

also recently completed the

paign, exceeding our goal and completing

Tuesday, March 24.
In a

community since his ar-

rival in 1985.

"I look forward to continuing

work with

"Our admissions demand is at its highest

our university community and the larger

level ever, retention of undergraduate stu-

community during the next two years to
ensure that Bloomsburg will remain the

dents through graduation

is

approximately

strong university

twice the national average for public universities

it

has become."

and our outstanding placement

— Kevin

B. Engler

years as president.

"During

this time,

I

expect

we

will

be

able to complete implementation of the
strategic planning process, diversify oiu"

Rally speakers* message: 'Get involved'

curricular offerings and have funds released
for construction of our

new

In a prepared statement to the Press
terprise,

Ausprich said,

"I

Over 400

library."

En-

am proud of the

achievements of the university

...

our ac-

faculty, administrators, staff

and students gathered

"We

are

brilliant

lazy.

helped us remain one of the strongest uni-

Hall,

the

rally in Mitrani

Haas Center.

The Community Government Association, rally sponsor, provided bright yellow

System."

frequent

to

We are tall and short, skinny and fat, saint and sinner,
We are black and white and red and brown and yellow," the Rev.

Chet Snyder, Catholic Campus Ministry, said opening the noon

Noting

Thursday

all different.

and

complishments during the past decade have
versities in the State

last

denounce hate crimes and seek support and understanding of diversity.

recognition

T-shirts boasting the rally's "Understanding through Diversity"

Speakers' messages reflected a

common

theme

in red.

theme. Each speaker challenged the

Bloomsburg receives for its strong academic programs and quality financial man-

audience to get involved, to demand an atmosphere that cherishes diversity and to

agement, Ausprich said the school has a

empower themselves to really make a difference.
Mary Badami, chairperson of communication studies, spoke on

history of "institutional health"

measured

through admissions, retention and place-

ment

Spirit,

behalf of Free

an organization of lesbians and gay men. Telling the crowd she

is

a "very

Continued on page 2

2 The Communique 9

APRIL 92

'Get involved'
Continued from page 1
proud mother of a very proud lesbian daugh-

Badami discussed

ter,"

individuals' diffi-

pubUcly acknowledging

culty in

their ho-

mosexuality.

Jeff

Mack, president of

tural Society, said

cal to try

become politi-

to

and change

the Black Cul-

certain that racism

away, but that everyone must
do everything necessary to contain it
"My aim is not for people to abandon

and

ers

offer so

the sys-

is

will never go

their culture, but

"We have

he

merely to understand oth-

that other cultures

we

have things to

can live in harmony with our

fellowman."

tem so the so-called Ameri-

Thomas Bonomo, associate professor of

can dream is possiblefor more

sociology and social welfare, emphasized

people, not fewer."

that rallies like the

— Thomas Bonomo,

where education

one

at

Bloomsburg are

really takes place.

Racial incidents are increasing across

associate professor

and Bonomo described the

the country

of minorities

firustration

who

feel

an

creasing sense of urgency at their inability

Sophia "Fe-Fe" Fair, a 25-year-old junior,
I

to reahze the

spoke next. "If anyone knows prejudice

do," she said speaking in a soft but deter-

mined

"I'm a minority three times.
I'm black. I'm a woman. I'm a lesbian and
voice.

"We have to become political to try and

of student support services, emphasized the

urgency of teaching multiculturalism and
lem,

it's

that

you know

the prob-

time to act," he said.

He challenged students
diversity courses, to

should be

women's history

You must educate

course.

yourselves," he said.

Female empowerment and the role of
women at Bloomsburg was the subject of
remarks by Lynda Michaels, resident
rector,

Columbia Residence

Hall,

di-

and a

1987 alumna "I'm proud of what we're
doing here today. We're standing up for

what

we know

is right,"

she said.

Pointing out that Women's History Month

observed in March, Michaels reminded

is

the audience that diversity isn't limited to
different cultures, but extends to all of

humanity.

"Every individual has the rightful place

on

this earth

and the potential

to

make

a

contribution that will continue to support

thecauseof diversity long after we're gone,"
she said.

multiculturalism

ter.

in

Critical of those who do not equate sexual

need to understand there can be no

dom
in

or equality unless everyone

you to realize that history is
being made by what we do and what we

Demand

diversity," she said.

is

workplace

as

"MulticulturaUsm

free-

safe to

in the

Workplace"

is

the topic of the keynote address at

Bloomsburg's second annual College of

Bloomsburg.

"As long

you remain

silent,

you are

part of the problem," she said.

Florence Thompson, Bloomsburg councilwoman who has Uved in town for 29
years, echoed Jacques' message. "Racism
and prejudice and discrimination can flourish only if no one confronts it," she said.
"Report any incident that is threatening,
any violence you see, to the town police.

Working together we shall overcome."
Thompson, a native of New Yoiic, praised
the university's stand

on

Business Professional Development Foriim,
Thursday and Friday, April 9-10.

Alem
fairs at

will
at

Asres, director of multicultural af-

Bucknell University in Lewisburg,

deUver the address during a luncheon

noon, Friday, April 10,

in

Centennial

Gymnasium.
Asres, a former assistant director of the

Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland,

College Park, has developed an array of
multicultural training programs in educa-

diversity.

Quoting Indian nationalist leader Ma-

hatma Gandhi, President Harry Ausprich
reminded those in attendance that "to slight

and industrial settings.
"The purpose of the forum is to recognize

tional

achievement, enhance learning and pro-

harm not only
whole world."

mote scholarly discussion among students,
faculty, alumni and local and regional busi-

Ausprich pledged that the university's

ness leaders," says Carol Matteson, dean of

a single
that

human being

is to

being but with him the

actions againstracism and other hate crimes
will not

"I challenge

don't do.

to discuss

by Terry Jacques, assistant to the executive
director of the Bloomsburg Women's Cen-

be

in this university

required to take a

Keynote speaker

more people, not

assault with hate crimes, Jacques cited a

demand more
demand more of each
to

other and of their professors.

"Every man

Forum

Sexual assault awareness was discussed

Ken Millen Penn, counselor coordinator

"Now

possible for

fewer," he said.

I'm damn proud."

diversity.

is

College of Business

American dream.

change the system so the so-called American dream

Alem Asres

in-

be temporary, but will continue on

a permanent basis. "Freedom and justice

and peace are our primary goals," he

the College of Business.

This year's forum begins

Thursday, April

9, with a

at

5:30 p.m.,

two-hour session

said.

— Susan M. Schantz

Continued on page 3

The Communique 9 APRIL 92 3

Business

Forum

Continued from page 2
tilled

"Alumni Perspectives on Careers" in

Health Care in the '908, theme
of first Health Sciences symposium

Centennial Gymnasium.

Student organizations from the College

"Health Care Delivery in the Nineties:

of Business will host alumni and area business representatives
tips

and

Tom

who

will share career

Quality Assurance"

is

the

theme for

Bloomsburg's firstannual Health Sciences

insights.

Davies of the university's Career

Symposium, Thursday and Friday, April

Development Center will serve as moderator. Refreshments will be served after the

23-24, in Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, and

Nelson Field House.
Serving as the symposium's keynote

program.

A series of concurrent presentations featuring guest speakers will be held from 8:20

Topics include: "Effective Time Man-

agement" by Rick Flynn, American

Rockville,

Home

Foods; 'Total Quality Management" by
Peter Palmiero, Kawneer, Inc., and Dennis

Mumane, Heinz Pet Products.
Also featured, "A Crisis in Education:
Can Business/Education Partnerships
Help?" by Andre Phillips, Radiant Steel

New

Carol

is

Frattali, director

health services division for the

of the

American

Speech-Language-Hearing Association in

a.m. to noon, Friday, April 10.

Products; and "Starting a

speaker

Md.

Frattali will present

"Health Economics

on Quality Management and Consumerism" at 7 p.m.,
in the Nineties: Its Effect

Thursday, April 23,
Frattali,

who

is

in Mitrani Hall.

chiefly responsible for

national health care activities that impact

speech and language pathology and audiol-

Business"

ogy, will discuss America's health care

by Marilyn Amott, Logic -Chem.
In addition, "Distributing Data Entry Processes to Relatively Novice End-Users" by

system from three different perspectives:

Karrie Meyers,

Options: Labor

Merck & Co.; "Positive
Management Approaches

to Survival in the '90s" by Jack McNulty,
Labor Management Corporation and John
Healy, Scranton-Lackawanna AL/MC.

the practitioner's, the policymaker's

Bloomsburg health sciences students, facand local health care practitioners will

ulty

business professors Pamela

Wynn, Ruhul

Amin and Woo Bong Lee completes

the

make pa-

present concuirent seminars and

Friday, April 24, in Nelson Field House.

Seminar topics include: "Current Trends
in the Physiologic

Assessment of Olympic

A series of concurrent general paper pre-

munity Reintegration and Rehabilitation

A

Panel

Discussion;" "Home Health Rehabilitation:

Name

of the Game;" and

"Family Stressors: Needs and Resources of

Friday, April 10.

ogy."

Quality

is

the

Children Using Assistive Device TechnolStudents and faculty will also give a

Marketing Association, Society for Human

variety of poster presentations throughout

the day.

Delta, Phi Beta Lambda, Pi Omega Pi,
Alumni Association and College of Busi-

Thursday, April 23,
at Nelson Field
is

129 of

For more information,

call

389-4019.

lobby of Mitrani

House. The registration fee

$5.

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In addition, an optional

who

affectional or sexual preference, handicap, Viet-

nam

era status veterans, or union membership.

The

university

is

additionally committed to

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opportunities.

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4 The Communique 9 APRIL 92

Alternative journalist calls traditional press 'shallow'
Alternative journalists attribute growing

They

tual connection to political reality.

and

ful. It's true

she makes lots of money. But,

support for their publications to the public's

have to setUe for

dissatisfaction with the conventional press,

graphs on the front page." In contrast, he

said Jeff Reid, culture editor of the Chicago

explained the alternative press is more likely

good music," Reid said.
Reid challenged the students

weekly newspaper In These Times during

to carry longer, in-depth articles with con-

things.

the university's recent Alternative Journal-

siderable emphasis on analysis.

cially

"People are turned off by the mainstream

They don't give the pubUc an avenue

of personal expression," said Reid

Winner of
National

for best culture coverage

in the alternative

press, according to Reid, is

smelhng what

is

its

"nose for

really happening."

Reid

it's

media, Reid was one of

seven speakers featured at the conference.

"Too many stories are not being covered
by the established press. Issues that are
important to people, no matter what their
personal beliefs, women's issues, gay com-

more quickly than

their establishment col-

also true she really doesn't

make very

to change
"People have to get involved so-

and politically," he said. "Get out
and vote. Write to your congressman and
your local newspaper. Do something to
bring attention to your concerns."

He assured students that even if nothing

says the alternative press covers stories

the 1990 Alternative Press

Award

grin' photo-

Another advantage of the alternative

ism Conference.

press.

'grip

is

accomphshed

in the short-term

by

their

leagues.

actions, they will feel better if they refuse

"The mainstream press only gets interwhen something starts making
money," Reid said in one of his many

to settle for

complacency.

references to the "materialistic society" of

"The point of poUtics and culture is to
give meaning you have in your life to
someone else so together you can find a

the United States.

rational meeting place," he concluded.

ested

Reid cited the phenomenal commercial

The conference was sponsored by

the

munity issues, black issues are ignored or

success of pop singer

Madonna as the clas-

Provost Lecture Series, Society of Profes-

covered in a shallow manner," Reid

example of the shallowness of the estabMadonna's fame, according to
Reid, is due to her strong media promo-

sional Journalists, Campus-Wide Commit-

said.

Reid blasted the estabUshed press for
what he views as its shallow coverage of
pohtical issues. "Readers don't get an ac-

sic

lished press.

tional skills. "It's true she's very success-

tee

on Human Relations and the CommuGovernment Association.
Susan M. Schantz

nity

—

Black media 'oasis in racist wasteland'
"One of

the

effective

"Black people looked to the black media

most persistent and vexing

problems for black America

methods

is to

design

to counteract the

mass

media's negative portrayal of black Ameri-

as an oasis in a racist wasteland," Muwakkil
said.

"The Chicago Defender, founded

in

cans," said Salim Muwakkil, senior editor

905 was conceived to defend black people
who were being lynched at a rate of nearly

of In These Times, a weekly national so-

2,000 per year.

ciaUst newspaper published in Chicago.
"It is the

job of the mainstream media to

forge a cultural consensus beneficial to
those

who are in control," Muwakkil added

during an Alternative Journalism Confer-

has long been the consensus in this

country to think of African Americans as
inferior.

,

'ThispubUcation, which is stillpublished
today,

was almost

entirely responsible for

the so-called great migration of blacks from
the South to the North," he said.
In the

1

990s the black media' s influence
,

has shifted from newspapers to magazines

ence workshop.
"It

1

Since colonial days, white image

and

its

forum

greatest contribution

is

to provide a

for black personalities, issues

activities

which are marginalized

and

in the

makers have portrayed blacks in ways that
conformed to this consensus. That is why
stereotypes of African Americans as lazy,

provides the black community with an op-

violent, unintelligent, provincial, criminal,

portunity to come to terms with its differing

sex-crazed, irresponsible, animahstic and

viewpoints about what

childlike are so easily and readily accepted."

African American.

mainstream press.

Muwakkil explained the black media also

it

means

to

be an

Freedom's Journal, the firstblack news1 827 when two free

"Though the mission of black media becomes more complex and multifaceted these

men were angered by the relentlessly

days, the purpose remains essentially the

paper, was published in

black

negative depiction of blacks and the proslavery articles in a

New Yoric newspaper,

which ignored their letters, said Muwakkil.

same as it did whtnFreedom' s Journal was
created," said

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFEK

Muwakkil.

—

Patricia

Kerwin

Salim Muwakkil

The Communique 9 APRIL 92 5

Sylvia Costa chosen as finalist for national 'humanitarian'
Sylvia

M. Costa of Shamokin, a

senior

organized local work

and held on-

sites

sociology and social welfare major at

campus

Bloomsburg, was recently selected as one

voluntarism for the program.

of 60 student

finalists fi-om colleges

and

In

activities to

Howard R. Swearer
Award from Cam-

"Genesis," for separated, divorced and wid-

Student Humanitarian

owed persons.

pus Compact.
graduate in May, was nominated by Presi-

She also serves as a board member for the
Housing Alliance of Northumberland County
which aids homeless individuals and fami-

dent Harry Ausprich for her leadership in

lies.

Costa, a non-traditional student who will

local

community

service activities con-

ducted by university students.
served as program director for the

"Into the Streets" event last November.

Campus Compact
member institutions," says Nozaki. "The
money will be used to further humanitarian activities as directed

She

field. "I

tion persists because

Last month, the university community had the opportunity to

HTV and AIDS from area people whose lives

have been directly affected by the virus or the disease. For the
overflow crowd which packed

McCormick Forum

With AIDS," HIV
and AIDS suddenly became
much more than mere statistics.

vocate and promote student volunteer com-

hope to make changes in the lives of

those in need," says Costa.

for the panel

munity service

how virus tears lives apart

Wendy discovered that she had
HIV when she became pregnant and went for prenatal blood work.
a recovering addict and a student.

was devastated when I found out," she said. "I had been 'clean'
and a half and I really wanted to keep the baby. The

"I

for a year

who

doctor

tive did

positive, and Larry,

HIV

who is HIV negative.

Also speaking were Nancy West, direc-

AIDS Resource Alliance, and
Bloomsburg communication studies protor of the

fessor Stuart Schrader, chairperson of the
university's AIDS

WorkingGroup, which

HIV testing offered

During April, the university,

an appointment,

co-sponsored theevent with the University

West

call

I

tested posi-

wouldn't perform an abor-

and he didn't know

if

he could find

anybody who would touch me."
This was only the first of many

in-

stances of discrimination against

Wendy by

schedule

She

389-4451.

is

the medical community.

presently taking legal action

who refused to treat
HIV status.
"His office told me that they're not equipped to take HIV positive
against a dentist

her because of her

Health Center.
stressed the difference

between having the

HIV

Human Immu-

and having Acquired
Immunodeficiency Syndrome, the disease known as AIDS.
"AIDS is the end stage of the HIV infection continuum," said
West. "In order to have AIDS, a person has to meet certain criteria
set by the Center for Disease Control.
"For example, they must have certain opportunistic infections
(Kaposi's sarcoma, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia) and a wasting
syndrome in which a person loses 30 percent or more of his or her
body weight for no apparent reason."
She pointed out, however, that there is a problem with these
criteria. "Women in general don't get Kaposi's sarcoma. In fact, 48
percent of women who have died of AIDS did not meet the CDC
criteria for the disease ... and 65 percent of women who died of AIDS
were diagnosed posthumously."
West emphasized the HIV virus is very unstable outside the body
and it dies as soon as blood, semen or vaginal fluid dries.
"The three primary ways to get the virus are from unprotected sex,
sharing needles or, as a newborn, from one's mother. Other means
nodeficiency Virus (testing

in

HIV testing at the UniTo

that

tion because of his religious beliefs,

Department of Health, will offer free,
versity Health Center.

me

told

so without any compassion.

He said he

conjunction with the Pennsylvania
confidential

— Kevin B. Engler

my heart is really in it."

infection

Panelists included Wendy, who is

activities.

"My determina-

discussion, "Living

Free

by the recipient."

Campus Compact is a national coalition
of higher educational institutions who ad-

After graduation, Costa plans a career in

'Living with AIDS' panelists describe
learn firsthand about

"Five awards of $1,500 will be granted
to undergraduates at

the ChildrenA'outh and Family Services

Costa, very active in extracurricular activities,

R. Swearer, a founder of

Shamokin, the single mother of three

founded and coordinates a support group,

ceive the prestigious

The award is named in honor of Howard
Campus Compact and past pre-sident of Brown University, says Roger Nozaki, coalition coordinator for Campus Compact.

promote student

universities across the United States to re-

award

positive)

of transmission are miniscule," she said.

Wendy tested positive three and a half years ago. She is married.

patients because they'd have to put us in a separate

room and

fumigate the room after we'd leave."

Wendy admits

that the hardest thing for her to deal with is such

unenlightened attitudes in the medical community.
"I could believe the ignorance in other people, but when
to professionals in the medical field

honest and

let

people know I'm

...

?

it

comes

And because I am always

HIV positive so they can take the

proper precautions, I'm treated with contempt."
Larry's lover, Chris, was diagnosed from the onset with AIDS
and had the disease for two and a half years before he died last July.
"Chris' family, well,

with

it,"

I'll

began Larry. "

be nice and say that they couldn't deal

When

he died, something

in

me died."

Larry was adamant about the importance of getting the facts out

about

HIV and AIDS.

"This disease

terrifying disease I've ever seen,"

he

is

the

most

horrifying,

said. "I've lost

55 of

my

friends to it

"You

don't want to go through this or see this happen to your

best friend, so practice safer sex," he advised.

— Patricia Kerwin

6 The

Communique 9 APRIL 92

Global Awareness
Society plans meeting
"Issues of multicultural awareness

and acceptance ... and the search for
answers to these issues must be pursued on a global scale," according to

Chang Shub Roh, professor of sociology and social welfare.
Individuals and organizations from
the United States and around the world
will be attending the first annual Glo-

Awareness Society International
(GASI) conference. May 1-3, at the

bal

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFER

STUDENTS CAPTURE FIRST PLACE—

Under

the direction of B. Eric Nelson,

Crystal City Marriott Hotel in

At

ington, D.C.

Wash40

pressent, over

Bloomsburg's 40-voice Concert Choir recently earned top honors at a prestigious compe-

Bloomsburg faculty and students have

tition.

registered to attend.

Concert Choir wins national
"The

Bloomsburg's Concert Choir captured
the first annual National Collegiate Choral

Competition championship

Georgetown University

last

in

month

at

The

semble, directed
tant professor

of music, competed against

four choral groups at colleges and universities

from across the nation.

The

five choirs

—

Erskine College

Choraleers fi-om Due West, S.C., Kentucky
Christian College Concert Choir from

By

capturing

first

College Chorale from Worcester, Mass.,

and B loomsburg

— submitted

audition tapes

of past performances and were selected as
finalists

vited to

by a screening committee and incompete in the national competi-

tion.

the experience

...

and

I

really wasn't sure

that we'd win," said Nelson.

been peaking of

late,

"The choir has

but I've never heard

them sing quite that well. The students were
magnificent

an engraved plaque,

...

they really outdid them-

selves at the competition."

Judges included former choral and sym-

phony conductor Robert Wagner, New York
Choral Society music director Robert De
Cormier and University of Colorado choral
music professor Walter Collins.

dent of GASI.

"The world has changed drastically
and the people of the world are search-

September issue of Choral Journal.

ing for new direction," he says. "People

The choir also sang at the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington last month. "The program was taped

other than the traditional government

the

and excerpts from our performance

will

be

broadcast internationally on the armed

But for Nelson, winning the national title
is

especially rewarding. "I

who

is

am

a director

never satisfied," he admits, "and

with a

will

The challenge

new

need

to get

presents us

opportunity to further ex-

plore the global goal of educating evthis

world about how

dependent we are

...

inter-

and how we affect

each other's hves."

According to Roh,

tend to compare our choir with the best

"The other choirs came from schools
with larger music programs and their choral

and graduate students," he noted.

"With the exception of two students, all
of our choir members are non-music majors. They sing for personal enrichment and

GASI

is

dedi-

cated to promoting universal aware-

ness of the interdependence and diversity

of

all

societies

humankind's

and increasing

sensitivity to the issues

caused by the rapid globalization of
this planet.

"We hope

to provide a yearly inter-

national forum for the exchange of

information and expertise

among aca-

demicians, business and industry lead-

enjoyment."

The choir will perform its spring concert,
featuring Gabriel Faure's

May

involved.

I

professional choirs I've ever heard.

Saturday,

and business leaders

eryone in

forces radio network," said Nelson.

groups primarily consisted of music majors

"We entered the competition simply for

to pursue "peace,

humanity
and information exchange in our mission to increase worldwide awareness
and understanding of this planet as a
is

global village," says Roh, who is presi-

place at the competi-

a $ 1 ,500 cash prize and will be featured in

Grayson, Ky., Old Dominion University

Choir from Norfolk, Va., Worcester State

among the most
men in choral music

today," said Nelson.

tion, the choir received

40-member choral enby B. Eric Nelson, assis-

university's

,

purpose

three judges are

revered and respected

Washington,

D.C.

EstabUshed in includel991 ,GASrs

title

"The Requiem,"

2, at the First Presbyterian

Church on Market Street

in

Bloomsburg.

— Kevin B. Engler

ers

and concerned citizens," says Roh.
call James

For more information,

Huber
4242.

at

717-389^238 or 717-389-

— Kevin B. Engler

The Communique 9 APRIL 92 7

News Briefs

Campus Notes
Saleem Khan, professor of economics,
has been invited to serve a three-year term
as a senior editor of the Journal of Asian
Economics (JAE). The JAE is published
by the economics department of Rutgers

Neil L.

Brown, assistant professor of

cur-

riculum and foundations, has been appointed

by the National Council

for the Social Stud-

Com-

ers" from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m., Tuesday,

ies to the Early Childhood/Elementary

April 21, in

mittee.

has accepted responsibility as coordinator of

Economists.

exhibits for the

Roger W. Fromm,

Fromm will

an

article titled

"A

university archivist,

Harvey A. Andruss Library.
schedule exhibits in the main
ground level gallery,
and coordination of spe-

floor exhibit cases,

traveling exhibits
cial exhibits

sponsored by the

library.

Working Philosophy of Adult Education:
Implications for the Practitioner" accepted

Henry Dobson, assistant professor of cur-

for publication in the spring issue of

riculum and foundations, recently presented

MPAEA Journal ofAdult Education, pub-

a paper

lished

by the University of Wyoming,

Laramie,

Wyo.

of Prussia.

Ogontz campus.
Growney spoke to more than 500 junior
high school girls from the Philadelphia
area on "What Can Go Wrong With an
Election?" The talk focused on opportunities to study mathematics at Bloomsburg
and mathematical methods applied to vot-

lem Solving and Science Process

Growney also had two poems published
in the spring issue of Four Quarters, a
literary journal

published by LaSalle Col-

Mary-Jo Arn,

Dobson also presented a paper titled "STS
in the Elementary

Science Curriculum: ProbSkills" at

the National Association for Science Tech-

nology Society held recently in Alexandria,

assistant professor of

and computer science, delivered a lecture
titled "Geomathematics vs. Mathematical

Some Examples"

at the

Depart-

ment of Mathematics Colloquium of

the

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

on
Holy Blood
in the Context of Late Medieval Drama" at
Buffalo State College, Buffalo, N.Y.

Sue Jackson, associate professor of
sociology and social welfare, recently
published a book review of The Questfor
a Radical Profession: Social Service Careers and Political Ideology in the February issue of Humanity and Society.
I.

Tamrat Mereba,

associate professor of

titled

"Macintosh Solutions for Math and Science" is available to faculty in the Audio
Visual Resources video collection.

The video explores how computers can
help students understand abstract concepts
in these disciplines.

***

Bloomsburg's student team of math majors

— Laurie A. Cook, C. Todd Reichart
—

received honorand Marian A. Reifer
able mention in the eighth annual "Mathematical Contest in Modeling" last month.
The solution to their selected problem

Radar."

The

national contest, sponsored by the

mately 200 colleges and universities.

vision Market from Competition" published
in the spring issue of

***

FEEDBACK, the jour-

nal of the Broadcast Education Association

The Scholars and Honors program

(BEA).

The

article is

a synopsis of emerging

is-

marketing, has been elected to the edito-

ing political, social and economic conditions

terly.

The latest in a series of Apple Computer

Broadcasting Mean Protecting Europe's Tele-

Salim Qureshi, associate professor of

Marketing, Journal of Professional Marketing and Health Care Marketing Quar-

***

Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, attracted competitors from approxi-

European telecommunications
market with particular emphasis on the chang-

rial

who

York metropolitan area
and his experiences with West Africans.
His visit is sponsored by the Campuswide Committee on Human Resources and
the communication studies department.
For more information, call Kara Shultz at
389^712.

mass communications, had an article titled
"The Changing Face of European Television: Does Use of the MAC Standard in

sues in the

boards of the Journal of Hospital

West

was "A Simple Geometric Approach to the
Power Problem for an Air Traffic Control

ologists towards modeling.

English, recently delivered a lecture
the "Bruges Procession of the

frequently visits

live in the greater

Reza Noubary, professor of mathematics

Geology,

who

counters with blacks and Hispanic s

found

Va.

His lecture focused on the difference between the views of mathematicians and ge-

lege, Philadelphia.

Rev. Scott,

educational video satellite programs

Jo Anne Growney, professor of mathematics and computer science, recently
participated in Math Options Day at Penn

ing.

L-35 of Andruss Li-

Africa, will talk about his intercultural en-

titled "Tools for Thinking: Microcomputer Based Activities for the Science
Classroom" at the Eastern Pennsylvania Edu-

cational Computing Conference held in King

State University's

Room

brary.

New Brunswick, NJ.
Khan has also been elected a member of
the Pakistan Society of Development

relations office, has

will discuss

"Cultural Awareness: Encountering Oth-

University,

Robert Wislock, education and training manager in the personnel and labor

Carl H. Scott, captain of chaplains for the

York City Police Department,

and

how

this will affect the technical

competitive aspects of European
in the 1990s.

and

television

is

currently sponsoring an exhibit of poetry

and drawings by Gary Doby, assistant professor of curriculum and foundations, titled
"Viemam: Recollections from a Different

Time"

in the

lobby of Bakeless Center for

the Humanities through April.

8 The Communique

26

MARCH 92

Calendar
Thursday, April 9
•Softball vs. Lock Haven, lower campus,
3:30 p.m

Monday, April 20

•College of B usiness Professional Devel-

Tuesday, April 21

•Classes resume, 6 p.m.

— "Cultural

opment Forum, Centennial Gym, 5:30

•Lecture

p.m.

countering Others" by the Rev. Carl H.

•Lecture

— "Women

in

Amish Society"

by John Hostetler, Hartline Science Center, Room 83, 4 p.m.

York City

Scott, captain of chaplains,

Room

L-35, Andruss Li1:45 p.m.

Police Dept.,
brary, 12:30

-

•Film — "Beauty and
Hall,

Friday, April 10

Awareness: En-

the Beast," Mitrani

Haas Center, 6:30 p.m.

•College of Business Professional Devel-

opment Forum, Sutliff Hall, 8 a.m.
•Film
"Cape Fear," Mitrani Hall, Haas
Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

—

•Men's Tennis,

BU Duals

Wednesday, April 22
•Baseball vs. Shippensburg, upper campus,

p.m.

1

•University Forum meeting,

McCormick

Forum, 3 p.m.
•Film
"Beauty and the Beast," Mitrani
Hall, Haas Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

—

Saturday, April 11

— Kayaking, Fishing Creek, 9

•QUEST

a.m. to 4 p.m.

•Baseball vs. East Stroudsburg (DH), up-

•Softball vs. East Stroudsburg, lower cam-

1

pus, 3:30 p.m.

•Softball vs.

West Chester (DH), lower

1

•Consortium

— School

p.m.

— Rafting,

Maroon and Gold Con-

noon
•Baseball vs. Kutztown (DH), upper cam-

Minderhout, Inn at Turkey

Hill,

cam-

— "JFK," Mitrani

Hall,

Haas Cen-

8 p.m.

Let's Learn

by Mary Hill, Inn at Turkey Hill,

noon.

West Ballroom, 6 p.m.
•Children's Theatre, Carver Hall, 8 p.m.

•Film "Beauty and the Beast," outdoors,
8:30 p.m.

•Siblings/Children's

Weekend

Thursday, April 30
•Informal Outdoor Jazz Concert
featuring the Studio Band, Andruss Library

—

— "JFK," Mitrani

Friday,

•Art exhibit

—

•Film

Juried Student Exhibition,

Haas Gallery, through

Hall,

Haas Cen-

May

pus
•Renaissance Jamboree,

May

1)

Bloomsburg, 10 a.m.

May

1

— "Bugsy," Mitrani

Hall,

Haas

Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

1

lower cam-

May 2

Saturday,

•Classes end
arts

entertainment, food, etc..

8 p.m.

and

crafts,

Downtown

to 5 p.m.

•Concert

—

featuring the Concert Choir,

First Presbyterian

Church, Bloomsburg,

7:30 p.m.

•Baseball vs. Mansfield, Litwhiler Field,

Thursday, April 16
•Provost's Lecture Series

— John Guare

Workshop, Mitrani

Haas Center, 4

Hall,

1

p.m.

Monday, May 4

•Children's Theatre, Carver Hall,

2 and 8

•Final

exams begin, 8 a.m.

p.m.

p.m.
•Lecture

— "American Theater Today"

by John Guare, Mitrani Hall, Haas Cen8 p.m.

•Spring

Hall, Halls

Braille"

•Alumni Weekend

Wednesday, April 15

ter,

— "Bugsy," Mitrani
•Alumni Luncheon Lecture —
•Film

Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

•Softball, spring tournament,

ter,

Wednesday, April 29

Saturday, April 25

•Softball vs. Shippensburg, lower

•Film

p.m.

1

8 p.m.

Plaza, 2:30 p.m. (rain date

p.m.

pus, 3:30 p.m.

ter,

of Health Sci-

•Husky Club Auction/Dinner Dance, 24

vania German Medicinal Plants" by David

•FUm

— School

ences, Nelson Field House, 8 a.m. to 3

p.m.

•Alumni Luncheon Lectiu^ — "Pennsyl-

1

Swarthmore,

Weekend

•Baseball vs. York, Litwhiler Field, 3

BU Duals

Tuesday, April 14

pus,

•Consortium

ter,

p.m.

2:30 p.m.

•Men's Tennis,

Friday, April 24
•Siblings/Children's

Band, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

cert

Vs.

•Softball vs. Bucknell, lower campus, 3

•StudentRecital, Mitrani Hall, Haas Cen-

Lehigh River, 8

a.m. to 7 p.m.

•Spring Concert,

•Men's Tennis
p.m.

Sunday, April 12

•QUEST

lower cam-

Tuesday, April 28
of Health Sci-

ences, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 7 to 9

p.m.

p.m.

pus

per campus,

campus,

—

•Spring Concert
featuring the
Bloomsburg University-Community Orchestra, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center, 2:30
•Softball, spring tournament,

Thursday, April 23
p.m.

Bloomsburg's Studio Band

Weekend begins, 10 p.m.

Saturday,

Sunday, April 26
•Siblings/Children's

May 8

exams end
•Spring Commencement, Bloomsburg
•Final

Weekend

•Children's Theatre, Carver Hall, 2 p.m.

Fairgrounds, 2:45 p.m.

University trustees approve fee increases for 1992-93
Bloomsburg's council of trustees approved a slight rate increase for student
housing on the lower campus, meals and
application fees for the 1992-93 academic

year at

its

quarterly meeting last

week

in

Magee Center.
Housing on the lower campus, based on
double occupancy, has been raised 3 percent or $22 per semester

— from $745 per

student to $767 per student. Students desir-

room

pay 3 percent or $25
$890 per semester
during the next academic year.
Housing costs on the upper campus, however, will remain at $770 per semester for
selected juniors and seniors.
ing a single

more

will

— from $865

to

Two percent increases per semester will
affect the university's

weekly 19- and 14-

meal plans. The cost of a 19-meal plan has

QUARTERLY MEETING — Participating at last week' s council oftrustees meeting were

to

(from left) Wayne M. Richardson, chief legal counsel for the State System, Bloomsburg
President Harry Ausprich and LaRoy Davis, chairperson of the trustees.

to

reported the university's enrollment goal

submitted by African American, Asian and
Latino students, he said.

and seven-meal plans stay

upcoming fall semester is 6,525
students based on full-time equivalency.
"We're in the process of enrolling our
current students ... and in a few weeks we'll
be able to determine if our full-time return-

mester.

ing students have indeed registered," said

— from $598
of a 14-meal plan was
$610 — and
$11 per semester — from $578
increased $ 12 per semester
the cost

raised

$589.

for the

No increases have been affixed to the 1 0meal and seven-meal plans. The cost of a
10-meal plan remains

at

$494 per semester
at $452 per se-

Meals and housing on the lower campus
have also been increased for the 1993 sum-

Citing Bloomsburg's pre-set goal of en-

mer term.
The price for a 19- or 15-meal plan next
summer has been raised $5. The 19-meal

rolling 1,313

plan, currently priced at $33 per week, will

"There are

new

is

very close to reaching that projection.
still

more

students

Robert Parrish, vice president for admin-

who

donated $ 14,000 to the Town of Bloomsburg

have already submitted deposits will cancel

The cost for housing on the university's
main campus will increase $5 next summer
from $50 to $55 per week
while the
upper campus fee remains at $55 per week.
The trustees also approved raising the

on us," he

university's application fee

$25 next

from $15

to

year.

Bemie Vinovrski, director of admissions.

...

and there

how many

"But we hope

and

is

students

that we'll

for fire

that will not

be within

1

percent of our goal."

and police

Based on an April 10 eru-ollment report

annual contribution from

students this year looks promising. Current

numbers indicate an increase

in deposits

town

for fire

its

operating bud-

and police protec-

tion," said Parrish.

office, the

more minority

services.

"Since 1977, the university has made an
get to the

compiled by the admissions
university's efforts to enroll

to continue to attract addi-

Asian and Latino students,"

istration, reported the university recently

uncertainty as to

...

hope

the

$36.

materialize

"We

tional black,

will

costing $31 per week, will be increased to

said.

19 this year.

said Vinovrski.

who

be submitting deposits

—

—

six last year to eight this year
by two
and deposits from Latino students have
increased by 12
from seven last year to

full-time students this

Vinovrski indicated the university

cost $38 and die 15-meal plan, presently

—

received from Asian students have increased

—

Vinovrski.

fall,

Deposits from black students have risen

from 23 last year to 45 this year, while those

According
its

to Parrish, the university

Community Government

and

Association

have given more than $ 1 96,000 to the Town
Continued on page 2

2 The

Communique 23 APRIL 92

Continued from page

we

preparation,

Trustees

on urban

and staying in residence halls as part of
B loomsburg s PRIDE program Harris said.
At the meeting, the trustees also j^)p-oved

attention
fire

and police

education

protection for the past 14 years.

...

be-

cause that's where

"Act 86 of 1975 provides for optional

Harrisburg will spend a week at

in

the university this summer attending classes

1

of Bloomsburg for adequate

School

have to focus our

'

,

contributions of funds from a state

said

Harris.

a waiver of tuition for Bloomsburg student
John McDaniel of Philadelphia to attend

university's annual operating budget to lo-

"Therefore, urban

the highly selective Minority Leaders Fel-

education

lowship Program

cal municipalities for volunteer fire

thejobs are today,"

and

Bloomsburg has
become very criu-

ambulance services," Parrish added.

Mary

Mary Harris

Harris, assistant professor of cur-

riculum and foundations

who

teaches ur-

cal."

In

Harris will send 20

students to Harrisburg as part of an

nership project.

weeks.

Harris said she's involved in the "experi-

ton,

this

summer in Washing-

D.C.

The 10-week program, sponsored by the
Washington Center for Internships and
Academic Seminars, provides talented minority students an c^portunity to work with

national business and political leaders in an
experiential learning environment.

"Our students

component" of the program which
consists of taking Bloomsburg education
majors on field trips to Harrisburg schools
in an attempt to "change their attitudes"

be working in the city
schools during the mornings and doing com-

ential

munity service for various Harrisburg agen-

McDaniel, a sc^homore sociology and
was nominated lot
theprogram by Bloomsburg President Harry

cies in the afternoons," she said.

Ausprich.

will

criminal justice major,

— Kevin B. Engler

Approximately 90 seventh, eighth and

toward teaching in an urban setting.

we

May,

Bloomsburg
Urban
School-Community experience for two

ban education courses at Bloomsburg, reported on the Bloomsburg-Harrisburg Part-

"Since

at

are in the business of teacher

Seven faculty appointed

ninth graders from Scott-Rowland Middle

Bucks County

Kutztown University, a master's degree in
school administration from
Longwood College in Farmville, Va, and a

Intermediate Unit in Doylestown from

doctwate in instructional systems from Penn

1990-9 1 Beers served as superintendent of

State-University Park.

Lacey Township School District
Lanoiko Harbor, N.J., fi-om 1987-90.

appointed assistant professor of mathemat-

to tenure-track positions

public

Seven faculty members have been appointed to full-time, tenure-track positions
at

Bloomsburg.

Jane McPherson of

A

grants writer for the

,

Dallas, Tex., has

been named assistant professor of curricu-

the

in

Beers holds a bachelor's degree in social

Nancy Thornton of Kearney, Neb., was

lum and foundations.
For the last five years, McPherson was
head of Solomon Schechter Academy, an

studies, a master's degree in education in
in

For the past three years, Thornton woriced

elementary school in Dallas.

education administration from the Univer-

as an assistant iwofessor at the University of

McPherson earned a bachelor's degree in

secondary education and a doctorate

sity

of Pittsburgh.

ics

and computer science in the Institute for

Interactive Technologies.

Nebraska

in

Kearney, Neb.

elementary education and a master's de-

Charles Lumpkins of Orono, Maine,

gree in education in reading and educa-

was appointed assistant professor and online
services librarian in the Harvey A. Andruss

speech and pathology from the College of

Library.

degree in speech and hearing from Wash-

tional

psychology from Western Washing-

ton State College in Bellingham,

Wash.

Thornton holds a bachelor's degree

St.

in

Catherine in Sl Paul, Minn., a master's

in early

For the past two years, Lumpkins worked

childhood education and a doctorate in cur-

as a reference librarian, teaching assistant

doctorate in educational psychology from

riculum and instruction from the Univer-

and academic mentor

Arizona State University

She also holds a master's degree

sity

of Oregon.

Elaine Anderson of Harrisburg was ap-

at the University of

Maine, Orono, Maine.

Patricia

Lumpkins holds a bachelor's degree

in

pointed assistant professor of curriculum

sociology and history from Boston State

and foundations.

College and a master's degree

A substitute teacher in the Susquehanna,
Harrisburg and West Shore school districts

two years, Anderson earned a
bachelor's degree in biology from
Bloomsburg, a master's degree in education and a doctorate in secondary education
fi-om Penn State-University Park.
C. Meade Beers of Yardley, who taught
on a temporary basis at Bloomsburg last
fall, has received permanent status as assistant iH-ofessor of curriculum and foundafor the past

tions.

sciences from

Timothy

in library

Simmons College in Boston.

Phillips of

ington University in

Iowa

City, Iowa,

named

Wolf

St.

Louis, Mo., and a

in

Tempe,

Ariz.

of Pittsburgh has been

assistant professor of curriculum

and foundations.

Wolf holds a

bachelor's degree in

el-

ementary education from Morehead University in

Morehead, Ky., a master's degree

has been named assistant professor of math-

from Duquesne University

ematics and computer science in the

and a doctorate in curriculum supervision
from the University of Pittsburgh.
The appointments were confirmed at the

Insti-

tute for Interactive Technologies.

An

assistant professor at the University

in Pittsburgh

of Iowa in Iowa City, he served as assistant

April 14 meeting of the university 's council

director in the Learning Materials Design

of trustees

Center at Penn State-University Park from
1985-87.
Phillips holds a bachelor's degree in el-

ementary and special education from

in the

Magee

Center.

— Kevin

B. Engler

The Communique 23 APRIL 92 3

California President John P. Watkins
to speak at spring commencement
John Pierce Watkins, president of Cali-

State Colleges

News Briefs

and Universities' special

fornia University of Pennsylvania, will dis-

commission on economic development

cuss "The Butterfly Factor" during

higher education.

in

Bloomsburg's Spring Commencement
Convocation which begins at 2:45 p.m.,
Saturday, May 8, at the Bloomsburg Fair-

the Association of Pennsylvania State Col-

grounds.

served as a

A

1953 graduate of California, Watkins

formCTly served as professor of English

and chairperson of the department

He was

appointed vice president for academic affairs in

1973 and assumed the presidency in

1977. Earlier in his career, he taught in
three public school districts in the greater

Pittsburgh area.

After earning a bachelor of science de-

gree at California, Watkins received a

lege and University Faculties union and

member of the Governor's Spe-

Committee during the period when the State System of Higher Education was founded in 1983.
From 1982 until 1984, Watkins served as
chairperson of the commission for the universities of the State System of Higher
Education. In 1984, he was co-chairperson
of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities' committee on intercial Transition

national programs.

Virginia Uni-

His community involvement encom-

Morgantown, W. Va. He was a

passes membership on the board of direc-

West

master's degree from
versity in

For three years, Watkins was president of

Danforth Fellow from 1960-62 at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was awarded

tors

of the Mon Valley United Way, United

Way

a doctor of philosophy degree in medieval

of Pennsylvania,
Y.M.C.A., and the United

literature in 1963.

western Pennsylvania.

His professional activities include membership on several committees at CalifcMnia

as chairperson of the

Mon
Way

Valley

of South-

He served two terms

Mon

Valley United

Way.

is

A native of Washington County in southwestern Pennsylvania, Watkins and his wife,

Association of Colleges and Universities

Carole, have a daughter, Jennifer, and a

and serves on the American Association of

son, John.

at the state

and national

levels.

He

ment," "Tom Peters Live," "Denis Waitley

On Winning," "Team Building" and
"Management and Leadership Skills for

Live

Women."
on "Power Talking
Give Exceptional Customer Service," "First Time Manager,"
"Getting Things Done," "How to Deal With
DifficultPeople," 'The Psychology of SelfEsteem" and "Self-Empowerment" are
In addition, videos

Skills,"

"How

to

available.

For more information,

call

Bob Wislock

at 389-4414.

A

brass quintet concert featuring

Bloomsburg's "Brass Menagerie" and "Columbia Brassworks" will be held
Tuesday,

May

5, in the

Kenneth

at 8 p.m.,
S.

Gross

Auditorium of Carver Hall.

The

brass ensembles will perform sepaand together on a variety of selections by Mozart, Cheetam, Sousa and others. Admission is free.
***
rately

presently chairperson of the Pennsylvania

and

Bloomsburg' s personnel office has a new
volume of videotape cassettes that are available for use by faculty and staff.
Topics include "High Output Manage-

Students are permitted to study in three

Bakeless Center for the Humanities class-

rooms

— 202, 204 and 210 — from 9 p.m.

to midnight,

North Central Pa.
Education Consortium

Sundays through Fridays,

through the remainder of the spring semester,

according to

J.

Daniel Vann, dean of

library services.

set for T\iesday

In addition, Vann says twoexhibits, titled

More

than 300 education majors from

colleges

and universities

"Bicycle Month" by Bill Frost and "Rus-

in this region will

sian Culture"

be interviewed for entry level teaching positions

by

tricts in

recruiters

from 45 school

will

be

dis-

Library through the month of May.

eight states at the ninth annual

Nwth Central Pennsylvania Education ConS(Hti urn , Tuesday ,

The

April 28, at Bloomsburg ' s

Approximately 80 recruiters from school

New Jersey, New

This discount is based on space availabil-

York, Penn-

ity

sylvania and Virginia will be conducting

job interviews with students

who

one of seven colleges or universities

—

attend
in this

Bloomsburg, Bucknell, East

Stroudsburg, Lock Haven, Lycoming,
Mansfield and Susquehanna.

Formal interviews have been scheduled
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the main
gymnasium. For more information, call
Carol Bamett at 389-4070.

department will offer a 20

all summer sports
camps for immediate family members of
Bloomsburg faculty and staff.

systems in California, Delaware, Florida,

Maryland,

athletics

percent fee reduction on

Nelson Field House.

region

by Anatole Scaun,

displayed on the main level of Andruss

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFEK

TALANCA HONORED

—

Veto

per camp. Interested persons should

contact the camp directors prior to registering for further details.

Talanca, maintenance repairman, received the State System Board of Governors'

The Bloomsburg University-Community

Certification of Facilities
Project AuthorityfromPresident Harry

Orchestra, featuring flute soloist Victoria

Ausprich. Robert Parrish, vice presi-

nual spring concert at 2:30 p.m., Sunday,

dent for administration, witnessed the

April 26, in Mitrani Hall of Haas Center for

presentation earlier this week.

Miller of Bloomsburg, will perform

the Arts.

Admission

is free.

its

an-

4 The Commumqtti 23

APRIL 92

Curriculum transformation advocate
debunks myths about cultural diversity
Officials at higher educational institu-

must "manage

tions

sues better"

if

cultural diversity is-

they are to transform their

schools into multicultural institutions, a

cation skills" if they wish to adequately

function in a global society during the 21st
century.

"We

simply cannot base our commit-

cultural diversity expert recently told his

ment

Bloomsburg audience.
"We need to develop a common understanding of what we mean by diversity and
multiculturalism ... and then have a joint
perspective on leadership between faculty
members and institution- wide leadership,"

eradication of social injustices

James B. Stewart, vice provost for
under-represented groups at Penn State

the abihty to interact in a cross-cultural

environment both domestically and

University in State College.

nationally."

said

to diversity

on social equity or the
...

but on our

responsibility to prepare the sons and daughters

of the working class to be productive

citizens of the

Commonwealth," he said.

"Students will have to be well versed and

knowledgeable of other cultures and have
FHOTO BY JO AH HELFEK

James B. Stewart

inter-

on

Stewart reported there are at least four

Strategies in

common myths regarding the implementa-

Transforming the Ciuriculum," Stewart

tion of cultural diversity requirements in

cultural diversity requirements "emphasize

affirmed the need for colleges and universi-

higher education's academic curriculum.

differences with commonalities and, as a

Speaking

Mitrani

in

"Multiculturalism:

Win-Win

Hall

develop strategic plans and joint

ties to

One myth

suggests cultural diversity re-

leadership perspectives between faculty and

quirements "distort the traditional curricu-

administration.

lum and supplant the traditional knowledge
that has served students well for decades,"

"We

simply cannot base our

commitment

to diversity

on so-

"But the university curricula are always
undergoing change," he noted. "A typical
only one or two courses

responsibility to prepare the sons

absolute nonsense."

and daughters of

the working

class to be productive citizens of

the

cultural diversity requirement

A

second myth

...

mandates

so this belief

is

"Colleges and universities must incorpo-

general education curriculum because the

the notion that general

to

be "skill-focused."

"One of the goals of diversity is to cultieffort to transform the curriculum is consis-

1990,

sity is

a change process, and the managers

involved are change agents."
Citing faculty

members

agents for their curriculum, Stewart said

schools must place greater emphasis on
faculty

development to help them "become

familiar with

new

disciplines and,

material in their various

more

generally, the pro-

of general education,"

tent with the goals

A

third

myth, he

said, suggests cultural

diversity requirements "are the response to
social

as responsible

problems and student activism."

Stewart explained, "While

it

is true that

student activism has been important in shaping the movement toward cultural diversity

requirements at

must be noted

many

institutions,

that for the last

it

also

20 years a

wealth of scholarship has been generated
through specialized areas, such as women's,

cess of quick transformation."

According to Stewart, students will be

black and Latino studies, that combine the

communi-

foundation for any effort to jM^omote cul-

required to learn "cross-cultural

all

who come to University

areas across the state and

"What we've
many

tried to

do is reflect on

the

students have broken the

bonds of parental authwity for the first time

Concmring with

vate a different type of basic skill so that the

in

students

than content-focused," said Stewart

to Affir-

Harvard Business Review

was

State, our response to that ar-

fact that

mative Diversity," which was published in
Stewart said, "Learning to manage diver-

"At Penn
ticle

newsp^r that decried rac-

Centre County.

requirements are discipline-focused rather

ments are also said

the

in

and behaviors to our campus that we have
to respond to as an institution.

pline-focused," Stewart noted those require-

"From Affirmative Action

ism

These students \xing their own set of values

type of academic curriculum," he said.

titled

the Johnstown

have no academic con-

members adjust to a more culturally diverse
his article

this belief with the

are not the products of Centre County.

education requirements are more "disci-

Quoting Thomas Roosevelt in

Stewart responded to
following story:

states cultural diversity

approach to help faculty

rate a systematic

exascerbate patterns of a deficient

society."

Park are from

tent and are inappropriate for inclusion in a

— James B. Stewart

result,

fourth myth, Stewart said, indicates

requirements "are simply the reaction to
social events, really

Commonwealth."

The

"About a year ago, there was an article in

said Stewart.

or the eradication of
social injustices ... but on our
cial equity

tural diversity into the curriculum."

and are experimenting with the process of
becoming adults. So the behaviors that we
see have their origins in the student's socialization prior to they're

pus and not

in

coming to cam-

anything that's associated

with what the university

is

doing."

Because students come fi^om

rural areas,

where they have limited contact with cultural groups, and inner city areas, where
they may not have interacted with European-Americans, colleges and universities
have a very complex problem, said Stewart
"What we must do is prepare our students
to be viable citizens in a world that is
characterized by growing global interdependence and increasing cross-cultural interaction," he added.
Kevin B.Engler

—

The Communiqui 23 APRIL 92 5

America needs 'genuine commitment' for
implementing cultural
Large and small businesses

in

America

can "increase productivity and competitiveness" if they begin

managing

cultural

News Briefs

Asres

diversity, says

Two

would also benefit. "Our community service and business sectors will benefit from
the availability of these individuals

who

diversity in their respective workplace, a

have developed the skills and knowledge to

multicultural affairs specialist told a

feel

Bloomsburg audience

effectively

last

week.

"Cultural diversity, multiculturalism.

Workforce 2000 ... these are the new buzz
words of the '90s," said Alem Asres, director of multicultural affairs at

Bucknell Uni-

in the

to

an audience of 170 faculty,

staff, students,

alumni and regional busi-

Gymnasium,
Asres emphasized a "genuine commitment"
ness leaders in Centennial

implement cultural diversity

tion

and business

Acknowledging a report
immigrants

—

— not

Bill

is

Northumberland, will

dis-

Grammar: The Pennsylvania German
Tombstones of Isaac Faust Stiehly" at 7:30
tonight at the Mezzanine in Old Science

600,000

Aurora Johansen of Halifax, a senior art

including illegal aliens

receive permanent residency in the

"We are multicultural in our faces

"Harvey L.

history major, will discuss

Magee and

a culturally diverse nation with rational-

ized monocultural institutions.

May

the
1,

Magee Home" at 7
at the Magee Center.

For more information,

call

p.m.,

Charles

Walters at 389-4850.
...

but

not in our heads, hearts or institutionalized
practices," he said.

Asres said America's involvement in

Ameri-

cultural diversity is not simply a domestic

will benefit all

in

cuss "Compositional Space as Ethnographic

Hall.
that

in educa-

issue anymore. He noted the corporate world

cans.

be

Richardson, chief curator of the Jo-

seph House

Friday,

Speaking on "Cultural Diversity

to

and work productively with
national and international communities."

United States each year, Asres said America

versity in Lewisburg.

Workplace"

comfortable and secure, communicate

art history p'esentations will

held on campus.

become interrelated and international.
"Improvements in transportation and
communication ... have made the global
market more accessible to American busihas

Asres then quoted a statement made re-

cendy by an executive of

DOW Chemical

Company: "We are not simply a U.S. comthat sells

her thesis titled "Anti-utopias:

of

Communism"

A Criticism

at the annual convention

of the American Popular Culture Association held recently in Lexington,

Ky. Her

work was supervised by William Hudon of
the history department.

nesses," he said.

pany

Honors student Karol Kovalovich of
Strong, a senior history major, presented

its

product worldwide, but

an international company headquartered in
the U.S."

Honors student Nathan Walker of Washington Crossing, a senior geography and
earth science major, recently presented a

paper

titled

"Threats to the Amazonian

Rainforest in Ecuador" at the northeast
regional conference of the National Colle-

Honors Council. His woik was supwLou Mingrone and George
Chamuris of biology and allied health scigiate

According

to Asres, issues of racism,

sexism and cultural chauvinism are major
factors that cause

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFEK

Alem Asres

communication

barriers

ences.

both domestically and globally.
"Cultural arrogance,

combined with

"Educational institutions, small and large
. . .

have been

gearing up to meet the demands predicted
by a 1987 report titled "Workforce 2000."
If this movement is genuine and well thought
out, then

I

believe

right direction,"

it is

a

Both students received support from the
ra-

Honors and Scholars program
and funding fi-om the Bloomsburg Foundauniversity's

cial prejudice, continues to separate

organizations and corporations

vised by

movement

in the

Asres said.

Serving as the keynote speaker at a lun-

Euro-

pean Americans from those with diverse

tion.

cultural backgrounds,"

he

said.

"Multicultural thinking requires a re-

newed analysis
understanding

and demands crystal clear

A

we are to move fwward as

ners

. . .

if

three-session tennis clinic for begin-

and intermediate players

will

be

of-

We must look beyond our differ-

fered by Bloomsburg's School of Extended

ences and concentrate more on our similari-

Programs starting Monday, May 25.
Taught by members of the university's

a nation.
ues."

cheon during the university's College of

Asres called on educators to take a lead-

tennis team, participants will learn the i^qjer

Business Professional DevelopmentForum,

ing role in creating "multicultural people"

fundamentals of tennis including stance,

Asres said structural changes in America's

— those recognized by

educational system are necessary to "re-

open

gain an enlightened

campus climate"

that

to the

the way they remain

"eminence of experience."

But, he concluded, "It

would be a great

movement toward

promotes the development of a multicultural

tragedy

society.

cultural diversity is dictated only

"These changes ... would help to increase
our ability to recruit, retain and graduate
students

who

represent

all

our citizenry,"

Asres said, noting that other (M'ganizations

if

supply and

the current

by the

demand of the marketplace."

— Kevin B. Engler

grip, forehand,

backhand, service,

court etiquette, scoring and the basic

rules,
strat-

egies for playing singles and doubles. Participants will also receive individual atten-

and playing time.
Each session is limited to 1 2 participants.
Cost is $20. Fot more information, call the
School of Extended Programs at 389-4420.
tion, on-court practice

6 The Communiqtti 23

APRIL 92

East Stroudsburg
counselor offers
mental health tips

•If

something

Campus Notes

doesn't go the

way you want
to,

it

An article on Bloomsburg President
Harry Ausprich titled "Going Down the
Road to a College Presidency" was fea-

keep going

with it, persevere.

This endurance is

to clerical staff

tured in the winter issue of Cornerstone, a

especially impor-

When was the last time you told someone
he at she was a

that

terrific

person?

who

led a

development session for

mem-

counselor Sheila Luschas,

lively staff

tant in the pursuit

falo Foundation in Buffalo,

of your dreams.

According to East Stroudsburg University

quarterly newsletter published by The Buf-

•Respect your-

Sheila Luschas

you set
yourself up to be someone' s doormat, don t
be surprised if people walk all over you.
The way you respect yourself will determine the level of respect you get back from
self.

N.Y.

In 1955, Ausprich received a $500 schol-

If

arship from the foundation which helped

him begin graduate woiic

in theater

and

'

bers of Bloomsburg's clerical staff on
Patrick's

Day, many people fear doing

St.

this

because they might sound insincere or manipulative.

"After
tells

not

says Luschas, "if
terrific,

we wonder what

it is

someone

more often than
they want from

us."

•Accept responsibility for discovering

what

such a simple affirmation

prime importance

to

is

of

an individual's confi-

dence and emotiwial well being, she noted.
"If we're not hearing 'you're terrific'

from others,

we must

reinforce our

own

sense of self worth," says Luschas. "So

it is

that

then go for

make
yet,

at the University

According to the

makes you happy

it.

Nobody

in life

and

you can

else but

yourself happy.

article, the scholarship

"l^ovided the building block for a
guished career."

distin-

things. Often the

experience can

mere perception of an

make it fun or pure

torture.

son is whole and complete, there's a sound-

mental attitude about ourselves to begin

ness to them.

with, we're off to a

much better start."

Luschas cited attitudes and qualities that

•Know what you're about A terrific per-

encouraged her audience to cultivate the

that

following eight behaviors into their daily
lives.

A terrific person can't

some
You never know

help but contribute on

someone's

life.

America?" and "Issues and Problems
In addition, he

English, attended the joint National College English Association and Pennsylvania

College English Association conference in

life.

Pittsburgh last month.

Anderson

deserve

"You are priceless and unique just because

— Patricia Kerwin

{H'esented a paper titled "Afri-

can and African American Folklore and
of the

a many-faceted jewel," she said.

you are you."

Who in

Finance and Industry, 1992-93.

Literature"

,

was notified that his name

appears in the 27th edition of Who's

of you

limits" place in our lives.

in

Airport Privatization."

ence that every individual is precious. "Each

bathroom the one universally accepted "off

titled "Is

Privatization a Fashion or Reality in Latin

even if it's only 15 minutes. You need it and
If all else fails, retreat to the

month.

level to

a seemingly small thing, like a smile,

may have on someone's

is

last

two papers

the effect

In closing, Luschas reminded her audi-

•Take time out for yourself every day,

New York City

Haririan {x^esented

Dale Anderson, associate professor of

•Give of yourself.

can be found in all "terrific" people, and she

Mehdi Haririan, associate professor of
economics, attended the 18th annual convention of the Eastern Economic Association held in

•Be an individual, not part of the herd.
Terrific people know who they are and
stand their ground. Relax and be yourself.
•Have fun in hfe. Take joy in the little

much of what happens in our lives happens
in our minds first, but if we have a positive

it.

of Wisconsin.

others.

all,"

us that we're

And

speech

and was elected vice president

PCEA for

Frank L.

1992-93.

Misiti, assistant professor of

curriculum and foundations, recoitly presented a paper titled "Cognitive Dissonance

Theory:

A Strategy for Improving Middle

School Science Attitudes" at the 65th annual meeting of the National Association
for Research in Science
ton,

Teaching

in

Bos-

Mass.

Joseph Tloczynski,

assistant professor

of psychology, had an article

titled

"Visual

E>ominance in a Lateral Plane Motor Learning Task" recently published in Perceptual

and Motor Skills.

Roy Smith, director of QUEST; Donna
Cochrane,

assistant professor of business

education/office administration;

CANVAS PAINTING
to

—

Gary

PHOTO BY JOAN HELtbK

Japanese artist Shozo Nagano is pictured standing next
one of his canvas paintings exhibited recently in Haas Gallery of Art.

Doby,

assistant professor of curriculum

and foundations and Joseph Tloczynski,
assistant professw of psychology, made

The Communiqui 23 APRIL 92 7
presentations during a career day program

Queen of Peace Junior High School
Shamokin recently.

at

John

in

"Development-Democracy-Growth Conundrum" at the 18th Annual Convention
of the Eastern Economic Association held
recently in New Yoik City.

titled "Auxiliaries:

Providing Responsible

Guidance" published in Proceedings, a
publication of the Association of College
UnicMis-Intemational.

the Bulletin of the Council

Music Education.
Her dissertation is titled "Intelligence
and Feeling: A Philosophical Examination
for Research in

of These Concepts as Interdependent Fac-

Trathen, director of student
and Kehr Union, had a paper

J.

activities

Award by

tion

Sheila

Dove Jones,

assistant professor

of communication disorders and special
education, recently published a

tors in

Musical Experience and Music Edu-

cation."

column

'Tips for Teachers: Suicide Among
Children Under 14" in the March issue of

Shell E. Lundhal, chairperson of the

titled

Lambda Theta Newsletter.
Pi Lambda Theta is an intemational honor

Center for Counseling and

Human

Devel-

opment, presented a workshop on "Sexual

Trathen presented his paper at the
association's 71st annual conference.

Pi

In addition, Trathen and Michael E.
Sowash, associate directs of student activities and Kehr Union, co-authored an

and professional association in education.
Jones and Ann L. Lee, associate professor of communication disorders and special

Eurocentricism in Recovery" at the 1992

in the Associa-

education, presented research titled "Col-

Psychology Conference held recently

The

laboration

Long Beach,

Titled 'ToQoseorStay Open: The Reno-

Between Basic and Higher Education Special Educators: Writing Workshop for Students with Mild Mental Handi-

She also presented a roundtable discuson "Defining Therapist Abuse of Clients" at the 1991 National American Psychological Association Annual Conference
last summer in San Francisco, Calif.

article that

was published

tion of College Unions-International's

Bulletin.

Dilemma," the article also includes

caps" at the Intemational Council for Ex-

photos taken by university photographer

ceptional Children 70th Annual Conven-

Joan Heifer.

tion held recently in Baltimore,

vation

Walter Brasch, professor of mass communications, discussed the "American

Media's Failure to Respond
cial Issues" recently at

NorthamptCMi County

to Critical

So-

Wilkes University,

Community College

Md.

Assistant professor Joseph Tloczynski
and professor Steven L. Cohen of the psychology department, presented a two-day
workshop on hypnosis held recently at the
Milton H. Erickson Institute of Hypnosis in

New York City.

and Lehigh University.

Harassment on the College Campus

—

Moving Beyond Androcentrism and

Women

in

Psychology NaticMial Feminist
in

Calif.

sion

Reza Noubary, professor of mathematics and computer science, presented a paper
titled

"Modeling the Transmission Path,

Why ARMA"

at the

874th meeting of die

American Mathematical Society held
cenUy at Lehigh University.

re-

The workshop focused on techniques and

Tom Martucci, assistant wrestling coach
was recently inducted

into the Division III

Ceremonies were held in March

at Tren-

where

Chairperson Jim Lauffer and associate
professor Dale Springer of geogr^hy and

James H. Huber
and

,

professor of sociology

social welfare, presented "The Report-

BAC

in

DUI

Cases" at the annual

27th annual meeting of the

Husky Lode and Convention

Gillmeister

the meeting.

Chang Shub Roh,

professor of sociol-

social welfare,

had an article

titled

on

tended the meeting.

,

person of health, physical education and
athletics,

served as co-investigators for the

project.

Post-Industrial Society" included in the

ofToegy Studies, which is pubHe initially presented the
paper at the Academy of Science in Mos-

Journal

lished in Korea.

The meeting was co-sponsored by
Bloomsburg and other State System universities, Penn State, Dickinson College
and Harrisburg Area Community College.
Springer also chaired a session and presented a paper on "Gradients in Fossil and
Recent Communities."
Academic, state, federal and consulting
geologists from Pennsylvania to Maine at-

Ischemic Heart

Linda LeMura, assistant professor, and
Bill Sproule, professor and assistant chair-

Center.

"Effects of Confucian Social Control

Norman

in Patients with

Disease Following Cardiac Rehabilitation"
at the American College of SpcMt Medicine 's

Society of America in Hanisburg last month.

for all poster sessions at

Plasma Caatecholamine and Cardiac

Output

annual meeting in Dallas, Tex. next month.

at the

ogy and

was chairperson

in

Pennsylvania Division held recently

Northeastern Section of the Geological

Associate professor

athletics,

meeting of the American Trauma Society,

earth sciences, served as co-chairs for registration at the

and

will present a research project on "Changes

ing on

Martucci attended college.

assistant professor of

health, physical education

research.

Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Okla.
ton State College in Trenton, NJ.,

Leon Szmedra,

applications of hypnosis in therapy and

cow, Soviet Union,

in 1990.

Harry C. Strine, directOT of forensics,
was recently elected to a two-year term as
Lt. Governor for the Province of the Colonies of Pi Kappa Delta
the national

—

honorary forensic fraternity

Vera Viditz-Ward,

assistant professor

of art, presented an overview of her photohistorical research

presi-

board.

on African photogra-

West Af-

Emily Ledger, who served 18 years as a

meeting of the Society for

clerk stenographer in the curriculum and

phers working in Sierra Leone,
rica, at the annual

— and

dent of the organization's endowment fund

Photographic Education held recently in

foundations department, has recently been

Washington, D.C.

appointed administrative assistant in the
registrar's office.

assistant profes-

W. Ann

sor of economics, presented a paper titled

music, has

Sukhwinder K. Bagi,

Stokes, assistant professor of

won

an Outstanding Disserta-

Ledger replaces Joan Walton who retired
last

December.

8 The Communique 23

APRIL 92
Bloomsburg, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Calendar

•Baseball vs. Mansfield,

Thursday, April 23

1

Plaza, 2:30 p.m. (rain date

•Children's Theater, Gross Auditorium,

•Softball vs. E. Stroudsburg, lower

cam-

Carver Hall, 2 and 8 p.m.

May

1)

May

1

— "Bugsy," Mitrani

Haas

Hall,

Center, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

•Health Sciences Consortium, Mitrani

Haas Centw, 7

to

Sunday, April 26

9 p.m.

•Children's Theater, Carver Hall, 2 p.m.

•Spring Concert

Friday, April 24

—

featuring the Univer-

— Spring Tournament, lower

•Softball

Tuesday,

•Health Sciences Consortium, Nelson

— "Beauty and

2

featuring the Concert Choir,

7:30 p.m.

campus, 9 a.m.

Tuesday, April 28
•Men's Tennis vs. Swarthmore,
•Softball vs. Bucknell, lower

featuring Brass Menagerie
Hall, 8 p.m.

p.m.

1

campus, 3

Saturday,

May 8

exams end
•Spring Commencement, Bloomsburg

•Final

•StudentRecital, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center,

—

and Columbia Brass, Carver

p.m.

the Beast," outdoor

Church, Bloomsburg,

May 5

•Concert

•Husky Qub Auction & Dinner-Dance,
24 West Balhxx)m, 6 p.m.
•Children's Theater, Carver Hall, 8 p.m.

May

—

First Presbyterian

sponsored by Student Activities,

•Baseball vs. York, 3 p.m.

•Concert

Haas Center, 2:30 p.m.

April 24-26

Field House, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday,

sity-Community Orchestra, Mitrani Hall,

Weekend,

•Siblings/Children's

•Film

Friday,
•Film

pus, 3:30 p.m.

Hall,

is

p.m.

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A NEWSLETTER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY

7

•

MAY 92

AUamong announces retirement
Provost praises faculty for 'great strides'
in scholarship and publication
has served as

Sciences and Humanities.

Bloomsburg's provost and vice president

She also taught biology

Betty D. Allamong,

for

academic

who

affairs for the last five years,

has announced her retirement from the university effective June 30.

In an April 28 memo addressed to
Bloomsburg faculty and staff, Allamong
said her decision to leave

was not

easy.

"My five years here have been both permuch

the ranks of assistant profes-

sor and associate professor to full professor

— at Ball State from 1972-87.
In addition, Allamong taught biology at
West Virginia University in Morgantown
from 1967-72, and at Morgantown High

School from 1961-67.

I

She holds a bachelor of science degree in

appreciate having had the op-

biology, a master of arts degree in biology

sonally and professionally rewarding and

very

way through

portunity to serve as provost and vice presi-

and a doctoral degree

dent for academic affairs," she said.

lecular biology

According to Allamong, she witnessed

"many accomplishments" by
faculty

— working her

and mo-

Betty

versity.

Allamong

— Kevin B. Engler

university

members during her years

in cellular

from West Virginia Uni-

at

Bloomsburg.

"Most notable are the great strides many
members) have made with respect
to scholarship and publication," said
Allamong. "It is my sincere hope that these
strides will continue in the years to come."
Allamong indicated she will return to her
hometown of Morgantown, W.Va., where
she will reside with her husband, Joe, and

ployee Recognition Day program held

"pursue new business or professional inter-

in April.

(faculty

Bloomsburg honored

Bloomsburg President Harry Ausprich,

who announced

March his intention to
university when his current con-

tract expires in

in

June 1994, said he regrets

Allamong's decision.

10, 15, 20, 25

and 30 years of service to
its second annual Em-

the university at

are proud of each one of you,"

council of trustees

member Aima Mae

Lehr of Bloomsburg told the gathering
of honorees in the

"You

McCormick Forum.

are vital to the success

university the best

professionalism and integrity to the office

State System."

of the provost."

...

and

need your contributions to make

university," said Ausprich. "She's brought

who was

12 faculty and

progress of this institution

"I'm sorry Betty has chosen to leave the

Allamong,

1

staff members who have contributed five,

"We

ests."

leave the

112 employees honored for service

among

current position in July 1987,

came

to

Bloomsburg from Ball State University in
Muncie, Ind., where she served six years as
associate and acting dean of the College of

Ausprich. "But to quote Ralph

Waldo

According to Ausprich, the university
must exercise "the best management"
and receive "support from everyone" on
campus in dealing with institutional problems.
"I think

adversities

the 14 in the

and have been through

Emerson, 'Bad times are occasions a
good learner would not miss.'

we
this

...

odier bad times this year," noted

and

made

we have
...

and

learned from these

I

believe they have

us stronger," he added.

Ausprich debunked those
tion the integrity of the

President Harry Ausprich briefly re-

appointed to her

timidation

some

who

ques-

Employee Rec-

Day program.
"Some people have expressed the sen-

ognition

on happenings during the past
year that have "tested our resilience and

timent that there's nothing special about

loyalty" to the university.

this

flected

"We

have

felt the stings

of racial in-

day

...

program doesn't
Continued on page 4

that the

2 The Communique 7

MAY 92

President issues sexual harassment policy
After several revisions and thorough re-

view by

legal counsel for the State

System,

people take for granted, but often don't

plaints concerning sexual harassment

understand." Camplese says.

to facilitate satisfactory resolution of the

was

Bloomsburg's sexual harassment poUcy
recently issued by President Harry

develop a policy that would meet the needs

Ausprich.

of various vmiversity constituencies

"Sexual harassment in any context

Task force members were determined to

and

complaint without undue anxiety and provocation for the parties involved.

— fac-

The

affirmative action office

is

desig-

is

ulty, staff and students. "Students are often

nated as the office of referral for informa-

reprehensible, but of particular concern to

in the middle and need advocates,"
Camplese says. "I've always felt strongly
that students need accessible and equitable

vidual feel imcomfortable bringing a com-

intellectual trust

complaint procedures. This policy meets

bring the complaint to

fore,

those needs."

sity

an academic community in which students,
faculty and staff must rely on bonds of

and dependence. Theresexual harassment will not be toler-

ated," says Ausprich.

The policy reiterates Bloomsburg's mission to estabUsh and maintain an environment in which the dignity and worth of all
individuals are respected. Each person is
admonished to respect the personal dignity
of others and to demonstrate a basic

spirit

that precludes expressions of bigotry and

Sexual harassment
the policy as

Bloomsburg 's policy features a two-step,

was designed

is clearly

defined in

to pro-

vide an accessible grievance procedure that

may

plaint to this office, the individual

some

other univer-

employee, such as resident hall direcof personnel or the chairper-

Due

process protec-

Women.

This individual

assist the

complainant throughout the reso-

lution process.

developed to encourage reporting

advise and

part of the implementa-

tified.

An
was
of com-

resolution

As

may

tion process, various advocates will be iden-

tion will be afforded both parties.

The informal complaint

discrimination.

indi-

son of the Commission on the Status of

informal and formal, complaint resolution

protects both parties.

and advice. However, should an

tor, director

Two-step procedure

process. This system

tion

individual

making a sexual

harass-

ment complaint does not have to speak first
with a supervisor or with the accused. How-

any imwanted sexual ad-

vances, requests for sexual favor, or other
verbal or physical conduct of a sexual na-

•

Commission

when:

ture,

reelects

duct

is

made either expUcitly or implicitly

a term or condition of an individual's em-

Kay Camplese has been elected to a third

ployment or educational advancement or

term as chairperson of the university s Com-

evaluation; or

mission on the Status of

•

Submission to or rejection of such con-

duct is used as the basis for employment or

'

Women (CSW).

Camplese, a faculty member for 23 years,
served as a psychological counselor until

when she began

teaching himian

educational advancement, or evaluation

last fall

decisions affecting that individual; or

sexuahty courses in the biology depart-

•

Kay Camplese

Submission to or rejection of such con-

Such conduct has the purpose or effect

ment. Currently she teaches three-quarter

of interfering with an individual's work

time and serves the commission through

performance or educational experience;

one-quarter release time.

creates an intimidating, hostil, or offensive

work/educational envirotunent

Kay Camplese, who
force that developed the

Prior to the election, steering committee

members reviewed

significant budget de-

chaired the task

velopments. Bloomsburg's commission

new

the only

policy, says

is

CSW in the state system to have

schools in

estabhshed a foundation fund to support its

the state system to develop a sexual harass-

work. This year's annual phonathon for the

ment document in 1981. "Although we had
different opinions, most individuals on cam-

Faculty/Staff Excellence Campaign resulted

Bloomsburg was one of the

pus were concerned about
topic

first

this

important

and supportive of the need to revise

and expand our previous document

in or-

in donations of $2,494.50.

CSW

Kay Camplese

also received $2,000 from the

Bloomsburg University Foundation and
$2,000 from

the general budget to be used

Commission membership
university

is

open

to all

women — staff, faculty, admin-

and students. Those

interested in

for a faculty development workshop; $2,500

istration

bated and discussed by the University Fo-

from the Hiunan Relations Committee for
Women's History Month programs; and

rum before an affirmative vote was

$534 from the president'soffice for projects

becoming members or learning more should
contact Camplese at 389-4819 or Marilyn
Muehlhof in the president's office at 389-

achieved. "Sexual harassment

and

4523.

der to adopt a university-wide policy."

Twice

the proposed

ing topic.

It

new policy was

hits at the core

is

de-

a confus-

of behavior

staff support.

The Communique 7
ever, this person is encouraged to do so with

president, director or immediate supervi-

president.

the assistance of an adviser.

complainant and appropriate adviser, and the
accused and appropriate adviser. The vice
president will forward a recommendation
to the president for review and resolution

faculty

be based on certain

along with the evidence considered in the

pohcy.

"People need to

sor, the affirmative action officer, the

come forward if we

are

to establish and maintain an environment in

which the dignity and worth of all individuals is respected,"

Camplese

says.

She ex-

most people feel great anxiety
and embarrassment about reporting sexual
harassment "People worry about what will
happen to them if they report an incident.
They are concerned about the power the
plains that

may have

alleged perpetrator

over them."

In the informal process, the complainant

process. These meetings will also be taped

are entitied to one written appeal of any

decision rendered. Appeals must, however,

complaint procedure, but are not

complaint.

quired to do so.

complaint

is

against a dean, the

The

ings.

affirmative action officer will

criteria listed in the

"Individuals are encouraged to utilize
this

If the

3

The appeal board will include a
member, administrator and a staff
member. The complainant and the accused

and occur within 10 working days of the

provost will conduct the fact-finding meet-

MAY 92

re-

They may choose to pursue

other civil and legal options," Camplese
says.

"Our policy is not intended to interany legal rights. In addition, it is

fere with

and adviser discuss the complaint with the

conduct fact-finding meetings when the

not intended to interfere with any rights an

accused to reach resolution. Advisers will

complaint

employee may have under an appropriate

not inform other university employees of

the Chancellor's office will review

the complaint without the consent of the

plaints against the president.

complainant and not unless the accused

is

is

against a vice president, and

com-

— Susan M. Schantz

Complaints against students are made to

informed of the complaint

the office of student life in accordance with

"The informal stage is very important,"
Camplese says. "Much of our behavior is

The Code of Conduct listed under "Student

rooted in social values,

how we

other. This stage provides a

treat

each

forum for us

misimderstandings in a less threatening

manner."

personnel director
The

university

poUcy provides protecand malicious

accusations of sexual harassment will not

be tolerated and those individuals making

complaint caimot be resolved in-

may

file

a for-

them may be subject
tions," says

to university sanc-

Complese.

If allegations are

mal complaint against the accused. Formal

not substantiated during the formal fact-

complaint forms are available through the

finding process, all reasonable steps will be

affirmative action office and various offices

and departments on campus. All

mal complaints

will

for-

be investigated and

resolved following specific procedures.

Complaints against a faculty member or

taken to restore the reputation of the ac-

cused

To

if

damaged

in

any way.

protect the complainant, formal in-

vestigation shall be initiated only with the

complainant's consent Reasonable action

be taken to assure that the complainant

a graduate assistant are brought to the dean

will

of the accused party. The dean

sible for conducting the formal resolution

and those testifying in support will suffer
no retaliation from the accused or others

process and will preside at a fact-finding

within the university.

is

respon-

meeting or meetings. Those attending will

During both the informal and formal steps

include the dean of the accused, provost,

of the complaint process, the university
will

make every effort to assure confidenti-

appropriate adviser, and the accused and

aUty and protect the due process rights of

appropriate adviser.

both individuals. Both individuals and their

The provost will then forward a recommendation

to the president for

resolution.

Evidence considered during the

review and

process will also be sent to the president.
Fact-finding meetings will be taped and

working days follow-

ing notification by the dean to the accused.

Complaints against a manager or a staff

member may be brought to
dent of the accused

the vice presi-

who is responsible

for

conducting fact-finding meetings. These

meetings will include the appropriate vice

advisers shall be fully informed of the findings and of steps taken during the course of

In all instances, the president has the sole
to take formal disciplinary action

against an employee.
include, but

is

human resources and labor relations.
Since 1986, Manning has served
as personnel director at Johns

Hopkins University in Baltimore
where she oversees professional and
employee redevelopment and training, policy development and job clastechnical recruitment,
lations, staff

sifications.

She also

participates in

wage and

salary decisions at Johns Hopkins.

Maiming, who begins her new job

Monday, May

1 1

,

previously served

as corporate employee and labor re-

Such action could

not limited

to,

an informal

oral reprimand, a written reprimand, or

up to and including termination of employment.
A three-member President's Appeal
Board will be appointed annually by the
other disciplinary action

in Silver Spring,

Md.

— a health care

organization that employs 18,000

also

—

from 1984-86. Maiming
worked as a personnel officer in

workers

dining services at Cornell University
in Ithaca, N.Y.,

from 1982-84.

Manning holds a bachelor of science degree from the

the complaint procedures.

power

Margaret B. Maiming of Baltimore,

Md., has been appointed director of

lations specialist at Manor Care, Inc.,

affirmative action officer, complainant and

will occur within 10

University hires

Protection provided

tion for both parties. "False

Formal complaint
If the

Standards" and "Statement of Hearing Procedures" in the Pilot.

to

discuss social-sexual issues and possible

formally, the complainant

collective bargaining agreement.

Human

Re-

sources School of Industrial Labor
Relations at Cornell University and a

master's degree in higher education
administration from Johns Hopkins
University.

She succeeds former

director of

personnel and labor relations J. David

Cunningham, who
tember.

retired last Sep-

4 The Communique 7

MAY 92

Employees recognized
Continued from page

30 years of service to university

1

recognize any specific accomplishment or
level of achievement," said Ausprich.

"To our critics, I say this day is as imporand significant to our 'family' as any

tant

other recognition day that this university

sponsors

...

because

it

celebrates our

cam-

pus community and signifies the major
contributions

you make to this university,"

he added.

The honorees are

lissted

below. Retir-

ees listed were honored for years of service

completed prior to their recent retirement.

30 Year Awards
William Eisenberg, associate professor,
English; Joann Farrell, executive secretary,
student life; Eileen Kovach, clerk stenographer, academic advisement and Tutorial &
504 Services; and C. Bemice Long, clerk

William

Joann

Eileen

Eisenberg

Farrell

Kovach

computer and informatoin systems
Mark Homberger, associate pro-

fessor,

(retired);

fessor,

geography and earth science;

Lucinda Kishbaugh, administrative
tant, financial aid;

assis-

C.

Bemice
Long

and special education; Donald

disorders

Klinger, carpenter (retired); Robert Kruse,
professor,

communication disorders and
McQellan, as-

special education; Richard

Robert Koslosky, asso-

sistant professor, accounting; Rajesh

Emily Ledger, admin-

Mohindru, associate professor, econcHnics;

Dale

Evanna Nolte, executive secretary, admin-

stenographer, registrar's office.

ciate professor, art;

25 Year Awards

istrative assistant, registrar's office;

Dale Anderson, associate professor, En-

Leighow, university police officer (retired);

istration office; Lauretta Pierce, professor,

Edith Barton, fiscal coordinator, uni-

Arthur Lysiak, associate professor, history;

nursing (retired); Kenneth Sorber, custo-

Lee Masteller, computer operations mancomputer services; Joaim Mengel,

dian;

glish;

versity bookstore; Charles Bayler, associate professor, accounting (retired);

Leroy

Brown, associate professor, mathematics
and computer science (retired); Blaise
Delnis, associate professor, languages and
cultures (retired); John Dennen, assistant
professor, accounting; Ronald Ferdock,
associate professor, English; George Gellos,
associate professor, biological and allied
health sciences; Marilyn Muehlhof, uni-

ager,

clerk stenographer, history; G.

Donald

Mike Sowash, associate director, stu-

dent activities and Kehr Union; and Robert
Watts, associate professor, marketing.

Awards (BU

Miller, professor, commimication disorders

10 Year

and special education; Hubert Mulaney,

Fern Agresta, clerk

custodian;

Ann Noakes, professor, curricu-

and foundations

pins)

typist,

extended pro-

grams; Crystal Andrezze, clerk stenogra-

Shirley

pher, communication disorders and special

Oxenrider, assistant textbook buyer, uni-

education; Barbara Barnes, administrative

limi

versity bookstore;
trar;

(retired);

Kenneth Schnure, regis-

Gerry Snyder, campus dining; Ruth

assistant,

community services; Leo Banile,

professor, sociology and social welfare;

and

Steinhart, fiscal technician supervisor, busi-

Stephen Batory, associate professor, mar-

council of trustees; Clinton Oxenrider, as-

ness office; Harry Strine, associate profes-

keting; Carol Baucher, clerk stenographs,

versity secretary, president's office

sociate professor, mathematics

and com-

puter science; James Percey, associate professor, political science;

Frances Schell,

campus dining; Anthony Sylvester, associGeorge

ate professor, history (retired);

sor,

communication studies and director of

forensics; Cynthia Turner, administrative
assistant,

School of Extended Programs;

health, physical education

sistant professor, nursing;

professor,

Brobst, garage

Awards (paperweights)

15 Year

vice president for university advancement;

Debra Adams, clerk

Beatrice Weaver, campus dining; and Janice

Wayne Anderson;

Youse, assistant professor, communication

Rollin Bankes, plumber; Harvey Beck, cus-

studies.

todian;

20 Year Awards

and earth science; Paul Cochrane, profes-

Ujagar Bawa, professor, economics; Jeaime

sor,

as-

Walter Brasch,

mass communications; James
manager and transportation

and Karlene Wright, clerk stenographer,

Turner, professor, history; John Walker,

athletics;

Bonnie Berger, custodian; Jean Berry,

computer services

(retired).

and

supervisor; Diane Correll, campxis dining;

admissions;

Eleanor Dalious, campus dining; Wayne

professor, chemistry;

Farver, maintenance repairmen; William

typist,

Duane Braun, professor, geography

Fausnaught, custodian;
sel

WilUam Fisher, die-

mechanic; Judy Franklm, imiversity

police officer, Terrance Gerst, custodian;

mathematics and computer science;

Linda Graboski, secretary and bookkeeper,

community activities; Douglas Hippenstiel,

Tom Cooper, assistant vice

Gary Clark, assistant professor, art; Judith
Downing, professor, biological and alhed

Michael

health sciences; Carol Getkin, clerk ste-

assistant professor,

Gaynor, professor, psychology; David

nographer, psychology; Marlyse Heaps,

ders and special education; James Hollister,

Greenwald, associate professor, sociology

staff assistant to provost and vice president

sports information director, Charles Hoppel,

and social welfare; Ervene Gulley, profes-

for

Bucher, administrative assistant,
nity activities;

president for academic affairs;

sor, English;

director of alumni affairs; Judith Hirshfeld,

communicaticm

disor-

Frederick Hill, pro-

associate professor, computer and informa-

Gum, associate profes-

fessor, biological and allied health sciences;

tion systems; Frank Hunsinger, maintenance

John Hartzel, assistant pro-

Kenneth Hunt, professor, communication

Continued on page 5

Burel

sor, accounting;

commu-

academic

affairs;

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Humor focus of secretarial symposium

daily diseases

Calling

humor "an

attitude rather than a

Anne Holmes of Penn

University's Wilkes Barre

State

Campus

told

more than 115 Bloomsburg secretaries and

good opportunities

very

light

for

incurs."

body's immunoglobulin A, which

heartedness, to appreciate hfe for what it is,

causes people to have fewer respiratory
infections, she added.

to gain perspective," she noted.

Hohnes, who holds a bachelor of science

...

"When we laugh, we release endorphins
chemicals that, when released, make us
good," she explained. "This

degree in health from Penn State University

feel really

laugh more sim-

and a master of education degree in health
and physical education from East

helps to reduce pain, not by masking

ply because

Stroudsburg University, beUeves everyone

support staff they

should learn to
it's

should

"good for you."

"Humor

start

AT&T principle

assure that no one will be at the

Symposium,

your brand of humor.

West Ballroom

in

last

said she "feels bad" for those

who believe

we

—

to

mercy of

consider the frequent release

receive from laughter and

"a real good belly laugh" include positive
increases in heart rate, blood pressure and

breathing rate, she said.

According

they are too wise to laugh.
"If

appropriate, timely and tasteful

The physiological changes that occur from

month at the 24
Bloomsburg, Holmes

Roundtable

how

we

often

it

to

Holmes, studies indicate

said.

These people "are missing out on some

you

can decrease.

body

is

arthritis, less

pain

needed.

the ability to respond, rather than to

react,

and

to let

Her own

go of negative emotions."

strategies for laughter include

discovering what makes you laugh, laughing at yourself, mixing with people

making time

looking at

"When we laugh, we decrease an immune depressor called Cortisol," Holmes
said. "When Cortisol is at lower levels, the

is

In addition, laughter can be an effective
communication tool, said Holmes. "It gives

aging their stress well, the body's ability to
fight disease

she

medication

laugh,

mind, one would take care not to grow too
life,"

a person suffering from

when people are stressed and are not man-

breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the

wise for such a great pleasure in

being used by medical ex-

Hohnes, explaining when muscles relax in

annual Secretarial

Secretarial

is

up, not tear them down," said Holmes, who

—
Anne Holmes

but

in the sensory perception."

tating diseases such as arthritis, said

to build

the university's

sponsored by the

Laughter

it,

it

people

suggested people use the

Stress" as part of

by reducing

perts in therapy for individuals with debili-

laughing more.

"Humor should be used

on
Your

Speaking

5

During periods of laughter, there's a rise
in the

skill,"

it

MAY 92

who

to laugh, smiling

and

life's funnies.

"Grasp the moments

...

you can laugh at

yourself," said Holmes.

"Make time

to

make

others laugh," she

added. "Be a candle in the darkness."

able to function better to fight the

— Christina Gaudreau

Employees
Continued from page 4
repairman; Bonnie Johnson,

campus

din-

Cindy Kelley, clerk typist, library services; Deborah Kocher, clerk typist, reading;

ing chnic;
erator;

Gary Laubach, equipment op-

Duy McBride, university

police of-

Donald McCulloch, director, physiplant and energy management; Joseph

ficer;

cal

Onisick, utility plant operator;

Nancy

Onuschak, professor, nursing; Robert
Progansky, custodian; George Pupchock,
computer operator, computer services; John
Reigle, campus dining; Jacqueline
Reitmeyer, clerk stenographer, physical
plant;

Maynard Rubenstein, custodian

pervisor; Esther
sor;

su-

Rudy, custodian supervi-

William Sponseller,

fiscal technician,

financial aid; Patricia Stockalis, clerk typ-

Veto Talanca, maintenance repairman; James Tomlinson, assoist,

financial aid;

ciate professor, communication studies;

and

management;
Nancy Vought, administrative assistant,
student development; and Aime Wilson,
professor, sociology and social welfare.
Peter Venuto, professor,

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

A WARD RECIPIENTS — Students pictured above

recently received class

awards for

outstanding performance in academics and leadership in extracurricular activities. They
left: Corine Cadle, Paoli freshman elementary education major; Sylvia Costa,
Shamokin senior social welfare major; Anne Shannon, Leola junior mass communications
major, and John McDaniel, Philadelphia sophomore sociology major with a concentration in criminal justice. In addition to their class awards, Costa received a Service Key
Award and a Who 's Who Certificate and McDaniel was invited to attend the Minority
Leaders Fellowship Program this summer in Washington, D.C.

are, from

6 The Communique 7

MAY 92

Speaker says:

Society needs to understand Native
Native Americans becoming extinct

is

"entirely within the realm of possibility"

and

their

hope

means a

and reUgion.

Dial said his tribe, the

Lumbees

—

a

"may he with

conglomerate of many tribes from North

each one of us,"

Carolina that has never fought a war with

according to a
member of the

the United States and consequenUy escaped

extinction

Lumbee

recognized by the federal government.

for survival

Indian

North
Carolina who
spoke recently at
Bloomsburg.
tribe of

Speaking in the

McCormick Forum as part of the

Jimmy Boy Dial

their culture

"We

— are currenUy fighting to be

are the largest tribal nation east of

the Mississippi

and the

"We

U.S.," said Dial.

third largest in the

are a very progres-

many doctors, lawyers,
artists among our

sive tribe and have

and

teachers, athletes

members."

Lumbees

Na-

Dial believes the

American Awareness program

last

become more "civilized" in their ways.
"From my perspective, to be 'civilized'

month, Jimmy Boy Dial repeatedly asked

issues

great loss of character, integrity

and pride," he

said.

Dial believes Native Americans have

much

to offer this country.

"We
down

have a structure of elders handing

tradition

code of ethics
tegrity

and giving guidance

that

...

demands goodness,

a

in-

and a sense of responsibiUty, even

young people
community."
for

...

and a

true sense of

In conclusion, Dial said people living in

the United S tates do not think to take care of

each other.

Despite his people's accomplishments,

university's
tive

American

are starting to

"It's

society

time we changed the structure of the
...

because we need to be a tribe," he

added.

— Patricia Kerwin

his audience if they ever wrote letters to
their

congressmen on issues

that

impact

Carla Messinger:

Native Americans.

"How many

people have written their

congressmen about land acquisition of the
Black Hills," Dial asked. "How many have
written about a quincentennial celebration

funded with tax dollars involving the glori-

Columbus?

fication of

Stereotypes perpetuate misunderstanding
Because Native Americans have been
stereotyped in our society for

500 years, many U.S.

citizens

they

more than

still

believe

live in teepees,

and smoke "peace"

awareness of important Native American

pipes, said Native

American Carla

concerns. Dial conceded such issues are

Messinger recentiy

After his audience admitted they lacked

not normally covered in the mainstream

American

He

Bloomsburg.

then reconmiended they read Indian

publications such as The Lakota Times and

News from Indian Country

to get a

proper

on current Native American

Museum

"With over 300 Indian nations in this
country ... that have individual tribal con-

how

300 Indian

United States and each

is

tribes in the

independent and

culturally imique.
"It

concerns.

at the

of Indian Culture in Allentown,

said there are over

all to

work," such as the weaving of cloth, is done
exclusively by men.

According

to

Messinger, there are non-

who beUeve American

native Americans

Indians have produced "nothing of value"

Messinger, founder and president of the

Lenni Lenape Historical Society

press.

perspective

at

she said, noting in the Hopi tribe "women's

to people living in this country.

"This belief was held despite the fact that
native foods such as

com, beans, squash,

potatoes, tomatoes, chocolate and peanuts

became important

staples of our diet and

remain so today," said Messinger. "Forty-

would be next to impossible for them

five percent of our medicines are

made of

be

native plant extracts

and our

forai of

alike," she said.

In her discussion titied "Unstereotyping

...

government was adopted from the

Indi-

they

Indian Stereotypes" during the university's

Na-

Native American Awareness program,

in general terms,"

Messinger said non-native citizens have

ture is

said Dial.

received inaccurate information about Na-

terms such as "low man on the totem pole,"

"However, native peoples have defined
identity with problems such as
a
tribal land acquisition, reclamation and re-

tive

Americans for hundreds of years.

said Messinger, noting both meanings are

cerns about where they live and

live their lives, it's difficult to discuss
tive

American concerns

common

tention, the pursuit of their traditional reli-

The submissive,

inferior status of Indian

women is a persistent part of the stereotype,
said Messinger. "Lenape women had, and

and reUgion, and the right to
practice a system of justice within each

continue to have, more rights and power

nation."

opportunities, equal

gion, bigotry

According

to Dial,

many

Native Ameri-

cans have problems obtaining adequate
kinds of food, medical care and education
for their children without

compromising

than non-native women.

We have equal job

pay and

five

days va-

cation a month."

Further misunderstanding of Indian cul-

evidenced by Americans' use of

ccHnplimentary in Indian society.

"The most important figure of the totem
is the one on the bottom," she said,
"because it represents the foundaticm upon

pole

which everything

else is built."

In concluding her talk, Messinger called

on parents and teachers

Some Indian women
men in their tribe, said Messinger.
"Women, as well as men, can be chief,"

have more power

than

ans."

to give accurate

information about Native Americans to their
children and students.

— Patricia Kerwin

The Communique 7

News

The State System's 1992 Writing Across

Main

18-19 at Magee's

be held

Street Inn

from the Waller Administration Building
lot at 8 a.m. ARA Dining Services

parking

Dress

"Academic
Literacy: Reading, Writing and Thinking
in the Undergraduate Curriculum" and features faculty presenters from the 14 univer-

Wislock

This year's theme

is titled

is

at

Bloomsburg faculty are encouraged to
For more information, call Terry

attend.

Riley at 389-4427.

***

Roy Smith, director of QUEST, will discuss "Empowering the Employee and Commimications" at the next Supervisory
Roundtable meeting from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.,

May

14, at

Keystone Mountain

Park near Eagles Mere.

casual. For
389-4414 or

for all attendees.
details, call

Tom

Bob

Patacconi at

389^212.

pleting the networking process of the
center's

Mary

Frances Parow, compensation and clas-

transportation to the resort. They'll depart

J.

Rhodes of Elysburg, a junior

who

medical technology major

plans to

manager, will discuss "Manage-

pursue a career in medicine, presented a

ment Performance Appraisal" at the next
Effective Management Network workshop
from 9 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, May 13,
at the Magee Center. For more information,

research paper titled "Responses of Mito-

call

Bob Wislock at 389-4414.
***

Bob Abbott, coordinator of the Center
Academic Computing, and Nancy

chondria

Gut

in

Tissues

of

Strongylocentrous Droebachiensis to Feeding and Starvation" at the 23rd annual Commonwealth of Pennsylvania University Biologists conference held recently at
Kutztown University.

for

Onuschak, chairperson of the nursing de-

Correction
In the April 23 issue of TTie Communique,

partment, were recently awarded grants

In addition, university vans will provide

IBM equipment

Onuschak received $ 1 50 for the first annual School of Health Sciences Symposium held last month.
***

***

sification

sities.

box lunch

will provide a

(formerly The Hotel Magee) in Bloomsburg.

Thursday,

7

Briefs

the Curriculum conference will

May

MAY 92

from the Bloomsburg Foundation.
Abbott received $3,550 to

a

assist

com-

few

errors appeared in the story titled

"East Stroudsburg coimselor offers mental
health tips to clerical staff."

The

presenter's

name is "Stella

Lushis,"

not Sheila Luschas. Also, the sponsor for

24 granted emeritus status by trustees

this

— Staff Development Com— was inadvertently omitted from

program

mittee

the story.

26

years; Robert Norton, assistant

Twenty -one retired Bloomsburg faculty
members and three former administrators

history,

have been granted emeritus status for their

years; Lauretta Pierce, professor of nurs-

years of service to the university.

ing, 16 years;

They

include: William

ate professor of

Aciemo,

associ-

mass communications, 25

vice president and dean of student

life,

29

John Scrimgeour, psycho-

logical counselor, 32 years;

Susan Rusinko,

assistant professor of

geography and

years; Charles Bayler, associate professor

Jr.,

of accounting, 26 years; Donald Camplese,

earth science,

professor of psychology, 22 years; William

professor of history, 26 years;

Carlough, professor of philosophy, 27 years;

Woodward, professor of marketing, 16

Charles Carlson, assistant vice president

years;

for

academic

affairs,

32

22 years; Anthony Sylvester,

Melvyn

and Robert Yori, professor of ac-

counting, 22 years.

years.

The announcement was made at the April

of languages and cultures, 26 years; Ber-

14 meeting of the university's council of

nard Dill, professor of finance and business

trustees in the

Magee

Center.

Three faculty

Martin Gildea, associate professor of po-

receive tenure

life,

20

years;

Three faculty members

— Thomas Aleto,

assistant professor of anthropology; Rich-

access services librarian, 22 years.

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Campus Notes

Calendar
May 8

John

exams end.

activities

Saturday,
•

Final

J.

Trathen, director of student

and Kehr Union, gave the keynote

"Unsung Heroes, the Advis-

•Spring Commencement, Bloomsburg

address, titled

Fairgrounds, 2:45 p.m.

ers of Student Organizations," at an adviser's

limcheon held at East Stroudsburg Univer-

Tuesday, May 12
• Spring
Concert

sity last

—

month.

ET

IDEAS, a journal of

kindergarten through eighth grade.

The article deals with brainstorming and
creativity applied to

human

rights in the

m inimum

classroom

management program and 56 suggested

Reza Noubary, professor of mathematics

Haas Center, 8 p.m.

issue of

classroom, a basic

featuring the

Catawissa Military Band, Mitrani Hall,

March

classroom ideas for elementary teachers of

and computer science, presented a paper

"Use of Modem Statistical Theories
Hazard Assessment with AppUcation to Quiet Regions of Eastern North
America" at the 87th aimual meeting of the
Seismological Society of America held in

examples of human rights stipulations
all

for

people.

titled

Thursday, May 14; Friday, May 15
• 28th Annual Reading Conference, sponsored by Reading Clinic, 8 a.m. registration in Haas Center.

for Seismic

Santa Fe, CaUf.,

The

last

month.

abstract of this

work

is

published in

the Seismological Research Letter, vol. 63,

no.

1,

1992.

The paper was

jointly re-

James H. Huber, professor of sociology and social welfare, presented a ps^r
titled "The Social Characteristics of Trauma
Patients" at the 39th annual meeting of the

American College of Siu'geons Central
Pennsylvania Chapter held last month at
the Hotel

Hershey

The paper

is

in Hershey.

a result of a social survey

searched with C. Scharenberger from

done

Millersville University.

Sheldon Brotman, M.D., Matthew Indeck,

at

Geisinger Medical Center with

M.D., and Diane Leonard, M.D.

Donald A. Vannan, professor emeritus

•

May 25
Memorial Day holiday observed

the social behavioral

factors related to physical

ment, has an article titled "Divergent Think-

these factors relate to the increased prob-

ing and

Monday,

The study defines

of the curriculum and foundations depart-

Human

Rights" pubUshed in the

trauma and how

abihty of drunk driving.

— no

classes, offices closed.

Tuesday,
•

May 26

Summer

Sessions

1

and 4 begin.

Friday, June 12
•

Summer

Session 4 ends.

Tuesday, June 16
•

Summer

Sessions 2 and 5 begin.

Wednesday, June 17
•

Summer

Session 7 begins.

Saturday, June 20
•

"Symphcmy

at

Sea" cruise begins.

Thursday, July 2
•

Summer

Sessions

1

and 5 end.

Tuesday, July 7

Summer

Sessions 3 and 6 begin.

PHOTO Br JOAN HELPER
Friday, July 24
•

Summer

Sessions 2 and 6 end.

Friday, Aug. 14
•

Summer

Sessions 3 and 7 end.

WELL-EARNED BREAK — Dan Arnold, equipment operator (left);

"Butch

"

Woomer,

labor foreman (center) and Todd Knecht, equipment operator, take a break after setting
up aridfinally tearing down the stages at the 14th Annual Renaissance Jamboree held last
month in downtown Bloomsburg. Their efforts are part of the university 's extensive

commitment

to the successful

annual community event.

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

The ancient splendor of
this graduation ceremony

— a 'plodding rituaV

Bloomsburg University graduates

— 813

bachelor's and master's degree candidates

up

—

of the grandstand at the
Bloomsburg Fairgrounds as university photoline

in front

grapher Joan Heifer captures this view of the
opening procession at Spring Commencement
'92.

See story on page

2.

2 The

Communique 21

MAY 92

John Pierce Watkins urges
graduates to ^assume responsibility'

making a

for

J

difference

Under dark, ominous clouds that seemed

delphia where he worked for the U.S. Postal

to beckon for a severe thunderstorm, spring

Service and studied accounting

commencement speaker John

University.

Pierce

at

Temple

Watkins assured an attentive audience of

After he retired, Jones purchased his

813 Bloomsburg graduates they can "make
a difference" and charged them to be gener-

family 'sprop)erty in Espy and subsequently
returned to live in the Bloomsburg area.

ous and responsible with

reentered the university in 1985, declared

"You

are ready

their talents.

now," said the president

of Cahfomia University of Pennsylvania
during the mid-afternoon graduation cer-

emony

held recently at the Bloomsburg

Fairgrounds.

"You're accomplished

bright

...

...

hand-

and learned. What more evidence

some
do you need? The ancient splendor of
...

graduation ceremony,

its

this

plodding ritual,

is

your reminder.

"We

say to you," he continued, "go out

and make a difference and, most important,

assume sole responsibility

for

making

that

Among

sociology as a major, and has finally
achieved a baccalaureate degree.
"I

have always been a dreamer, so no

"There is no point to talent
unshared ...learning notfreely given

Enterprise reporter during a recent inter-

... and wealth hoarded. It is as you
are generous that you will be made

view. "I say, dreams are the stuff hfe's

great."

dream

is

made of
say,

'I

impossible," Jones told a Press

and as one of

...

my

idols

— John Pierce Watkins

would

have a dream.'"

In addition, Patricia

M. Kaczmarek of

the start of his discussion.

South Williamsport and her daughter,

"There is, in the south of France, the most

Kristine, received degrees at the spring

sophisticated weather center in the world,"

commencement program.

he continued, "and

Patricia,

who

holds a bachelor's degree

from Bloomsburg

difference."

He

in 1967,

its

purpose

is to

predict

the global weather accurately."

was one of 97

But, noted Watkins, climatologists at the

716 bachelor's

master's degree graduates while Kristine

center have discovered they

degree recipients was 75-year-old retired

received a bachelor's degree in elementary

accurately forecast the weather. "It

education.

gued

the gathering of

postal worker

Ralph Carrington Jones of

who may have been the first African
American to take courses at Bloomsburg.
"Ralph claims he's the first black person to
attend Bloomsburg and he may have been,

Espy,

but a person's ethnicity was not recorded

back

in those days,"

according to Kenneth

Schnure, university registrar.

on record as havBloomsburg in 1936.

Nevertheless, Jones
ing

first

enrolled at

is

After one year of study, he

moved to Phila-

OLDEST GRADUATE —

According to Patricia, her husband, Tom,
graduated from Bloomsburg

1965, and

four other relatives also received degrees

butterfly

In his address titled
tor,"

Watkins explained how the flutter of a

butterfly's

wings

"power and

"Why

are

is

a metaphor for the

potential" of a

we

human

being.

so preoccupied with the

enough

to set in

flight

we can imagine

motion a

...

train

said.

that the delicate

of a butterfly might lead

...

to the

immeasurable power of a hurricane, might

we then imagine all this as metaphor for the
power and potential

in the life

of any one of

you."

Continued on page 3

weather," Watkins asked the graduates at

Seventy-five year old graduate Ralph

is ar-

of the wings of a

provoke a hurricane," he
"If

"The Butterfly Fac-

is

cannot

of events in the atmosphere sufficient to

from the university.

Carrington Jones of Espy receives his bachelor's degree from
of the College of Professional Studies.

Howard Macauley, dean

in

that the flutter

still

MOTHER, DAUGHTER GRADUATE

— Patricia Kaczmarek.

left, anddaughter, Kristine, of SouthWilliamsportreceivedmaster s

and bachelor' s degrees,

respectively, at spring

commencement.

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3

Provost's Lecture Series:

Playwright John Guare recalls early years as a professional writer
Playwright John Guare recentiy told a

Bloomsburg audience he fulfilled a lifelong dream in becoming a professional

triumphant 1986 revival at Lincoln

in a

what your quality

Center. "But," Guare cautioned, "if you

of

write for the awards, you'll go mad."

the next year."

Guare said he writes

writer.

for

enjoyment and

life will

Guare

be for
does,

way of overcoming

contends writing contributes to his physical

however, seek the

shyness, Guare admitted he never acted.

well-being. "If I don't write for a few days,

advice and

Calling writing his

"Being

in a play is

my

idea of hell because

the thought of acting is so terrifying."

who served as the final speaker in

Guare,

this year's

Provost's Lecture Series pro-

gram, shared stories with university

stu-

I

he

start to feel ill,"

said.

Guare writes about"whatever it is I don't
want to face." He keeps a journal and writes
freely, taking care not to

He

ciates.

gives

them a specific

censor himself.

"Censorship is the great enemy," he said.

down

criti-

cism of trusted
friends and asso-

John Guare

task to perform in

dents and answered questions during an

"One can always

informal afternoon workshop held in

later,

Mitrani Hall last month.

rein."

the narrative or finding gaps in a character's

consistency.

but initially

pare

it's

or pull back

important to have free

their critique of his

works while they are

in

progress, such as following the clarity of

1964 where he met Lanford Wilson and

Each night, Guare reads over that day's
work and gives himself a writing task for
the following day. "I go to bed with a
technical writing problem on my mind because I trust how the brain works when we

other aspiring playwrights.

sleep," he explained.

but I can't get from

was a wonderful time, a very exciting
"From 1963 to '69,
Edward Albee rented a theater for six months
each year and every week we performed a
different new play. It was the ideal laboratory in which emerging young theater art-

no such thing as a
perfect work of writing, Guare said, "With

play needs reworking."

any play

night "pulls the plug" on the writing, prov-

After attending Georgetown University
in

Washington, D.C., and the Yale School

of Drama in New Haven, Conn., Guare got
involved in Off-Off Broadway theater in

"It

time," he recalled.

ists

could experiment."

At the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in
1966, Guare wrote the first act of "The
House of Blue Leaves," but admits it took
him five more years to finish the play.
That play, however, captured the

New

York Drama Critics Award as Best American Play of 197 1 and won four Tony Awards

Spring

Commencement
live in the

"age of the culprit" and believe

we are not

accountable for our actions because others

"You are ... the marvel and wonder of our
time," Watkins told the graduates. "There
the stuff of greatness.

the 1,000 butterflies of

You

are

May and the flutter

of your wings can change the course of
seasons and the future of mankind.

"You

now

fragile

and delicate perhaps, but you will soon take
change.

...

may have more writing tasks,

set in

motion the very winds of

is

actors during the writing

also very helpful, said Guare.

"Actors can help you

tell if

your work

is

AtoB,
I then know the

finished. They'll say, 'lean getfrom

B

to

C

But ultimately, he continued, opening
ing that "nothing

is

ever finished,

it's

only

abandoned."

Guare doesn't read reviews of his work,

Among Guare's award- winning plays are

a direct result of a scathing critique he

"Rich and Famous," "Marco Polo Sings a

received for his play "Copout" at the Court

Solo" and "Six Degrees of Separation."

Immensely disturbed by the

Theatre.

view, he admitted "fleeing" to

where he remained

re-

Norway

to the sea," said

In addition, he wrote lyrics for the musical

"Two Gentlemen

of Verona" and the

screenplay for Louis Malle's "Atlantic

for months.

"Reviews are to the theater what reefs are

City."

— Patricia Kerwin

Guare. "They are an occu-

pational hazard which largely determine

"You

will,

from

this

moment

on, be re-

lost

...

...

regret over an occasion

sorrow over achievement unfulfilled

will serve.

"You now

take flight, and the flutter of

Although admitting

how

important

it is

for individuals to serve themselves, Watkins

pointed out that sharing learned talents

is

no point

to talent

learning not freely given

...

unshared

...

and wealth

hoarded," he said. "It is as you are generous

you will be made great."
Reminding the graduates of the butterfly
factor, Watkins said, "How delicate a creathat

vulnerable, yet

umphs

in its

it

...

how

fragile

...

how

endures and surely

tri-

way.

"When you

despair, consider the butter-

"When you doubt your

fly,"

he concluded.

own

worth, close your eyes and see the

butterfly."
I

matter,'

you

ask.

'Can

I

make a

difference at all?'

"Recall the butterfly," he added, "and

contemplate

blow

important, too.
is

ture is the butterfly

"'Do

great accomplishment."

"There

are here today to be declared

emerged," he added. "You are
flight and

it. I

but they can be approached in anotherplay."

your passing will mount the very storms of

are at fault.

...

in writing

I've accomplished certain tasks

another's fault

According to Watkins, we

you

...

is

sponsible and no lamentation about

Continued from page 2

is in

Believing there

Working with
process

...

flight."

just

how

the winds of change will

because you dared

to take

— Kevin B. Engler

MAY 92

4 The Communique 21

York police captain says

'true equality'

Alumni phonathon

essential for a culturally diverse society
Exercising "true equality" by ridding
ourselves of past stereotypes

way cultural

diversity

is

"the only

going to work"

is

in

our society, according to a York police

nets $150,000

mative action as a favor to minorities," he
said.

body

"When we talk about including everyculturally, we have to learn how to

to

look at everybody equally."

last

During his presentation, sponsored by

"We somehow have to come to a knowl-

Resources and the communication studies

edge of equality, regardless of color and

deparunent, Scott gave true accounts of

official

who spoke

Bloomsburg

at

the

month.

ethnic background," said Reverend Carl H.

York

Scott, captain of chaplains for the

stereotypical behaviors that he feels

awareness

tural

only

man

the country,

where

has been arrested because he

"For example,

if

police are patroling in a

how

white neighborhood and come across a black

firmative action

man dressed in dirty old clothes walking
down the street, a police officer's mind

have been mis-

might say,

recent

in

action can be a

good

thing, but

it's

been

so

almost become a bad thing
people of color

...

and

it

shouldn't be that way," Scott said.

"Affirmative action should represent an
in lieu of the fact that

guy's up to no good.' The

police aren't looking at the
...

"Affirmative

'that

but as a black

man

man as a person

that is

probably up to

Scott noted, however, that these racial

man because they think

he's up to something

...

maybe adrug dealer

or a businessman looking for a prostitute,"

begin to look at true equality for everyone,"
a correlation be-

"I think

we have

ployed by a company that matches
Efforts are already
tact

who

alumni

underway

em-

gifts.

to con-

could not be reached

during the phonathon.
In addition,

230

faculty

and

staff

do-

nated $ 1 9 ,7 1 9 to the Faculty and Staff for
percent increase in participants and a 20

he added.

for biology

and allied health science, the

School of Extended Programs and mathematics and computer science.

The mathematics and computer

said Scott.

the majority have."
is

tions said they or their spouses are

through black neighborhoods, arrest a

well-dressed white

we have to get away from this mentality and

Scott believes there

were thinking about participating.
Pledges ranged from $5 to $1,000.

Eleven scholarships will receive fund-

opportunity

tween cultural diversity and equality.

of $37.34 and another 8 percent said they

ing next year including two earmarked

to get some of the job positions that those in

much

Assisting with this year's campaign
were 47 undergraduate students who attempted 25,829 phone calls to alumni.
Twenty-nine percent of the 13,861
alumni contacted pledged an average gift

pa-

who

"In order for cultural diversity to work,

minorities don't have as

in pledges

from 4,009 former students for the
university's Annual Fund campaign.

percent increase in pledges.

work two ways.

"I've also seen police officers,
trol

eight-week spring phonathon

Excellence campaign representing a 2

trouble."

stereotypes can

its

alumni receiving $150,000

Some 250 alumni who made contribu-

like af-

audience

years.

...

York but across

didn't look right," Scott recalled.

used

Rev. Carl H. Scott

in

a black

his

equal opportunity

must

achieve a cul-

Andruss Library,

programs

like a favor to

is to

recently in the

Scott explained to

...

America

"There have been a number of cases, not

Discussing cul-

it's

if

turally diverse society.

City Police Department.

abused that

Campus-wide Committee on Human

be changed

The development office recently completed

sci-

ence scholarships will be funded through
the

J.

Edward Kerlin Memorial Fund.

One

scholarship has been awarded to

geography and earth science and two

— Kevin B. Engler

each through the Family Relatives Scholarship program and the Undergraduate

to stop looking at affir-

Student Scholarship program.

Donations to the Husky Club and other

APSCUF SCHOLARSHIPS

athletic scholarship accounts will pro-

These five non-traditional
Bloomsburg students, pictured
at right, were recently awarded

$300 scholarships from
university's

APSCUF

vide added funds for student-athletes.

Primary

the

faculty

union chapter for the 1992-93

academic year during a recent
ceremony at Carver Hall. The

be photographed.

to the

scholars program.

from left to right, are
Veronica Kenney, Victoria
Magdeburg, Dixie Gavason,
Kathleen Reed and Charlotte
Diehm. Another scholarship recipient, Marceen Malaney, was
to

were designated

Trust for Generations and university

students,

unavailable

gifts

Annual Fund, family scholarships. Commission on the Status of Women, departmental scholarships, gifts in kind, Husky
Club scholarships. President's Ball, The

Other contributions were designated
for the library, various

memorial schol-

arships, cultural diversity, career devel-

opment, minority scholarships and the
Celebrity Artist Series.
PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

— Sue Hicks

The Communique 21

University to host conferences, sports
From

senior citizens taking on the unfa-

The

Since

participants will stay in Schuylkill

miliar posture of "college" student to five

Residence Hall and attend a variety of so-

year olds booting a soccer ball, the School

cial

of Extended f*rograms and athletics depart-

the week, he noted.

ment have arranged a number of confer-

camps

and recreational

activities

5

summer

this

its

MAY 92

mid 1980s,

inception in the

the

College Sampler program has been directed

by

throughout

staff

from the School of Extended Pro-

grams, and classes have been taught by

Classes include: "The Palestinian/Zion-

university faculty.

"When Values Collide in Modem Medicine" and "An Introduction to the Human

Pamela Wynn, associate professor of
management, is the contact person for this
year's program. She can be reached at 389-

Beginning Memorial Day weekend, the

Body."

4591.

600 young men and

From

ences and sports camps that will bring diverse groups of people to the

campus

Bloomsburg

summer.

this

university will host

women and

when the
Christ Crusaders Youth Conference comes
their adult leaders

to campus. This is the third time the organi-

zation has held

its

annual conference at the

ist

Conflict and American Foreign Policy,"

The event

will feature

worship services,

workshops and various outdoor

activities

900 youngsters will
Youth
Conference on campus that features wor-

demically talented, college-bound African

ship services, workshops, small-group dis-

pler program.

cussions, structured social and recreational
is

to ex-

activities

pose students to the various aspects of college

life.

2-6,

participate in a four-day Lutheran

American high school students will visit
campus as part of this year's College Sam-

The program's primary focus

university.

From August

July 19-24, approximately 50 aca-

and other special

"This conference

Students will be housed in Elwell

is

projects.

the latest in a series

of Lutheran groups that Bloomsburg has

for the participating youth, according to

Residence Hall and receive a sampling of

had the pleasure of hosting over the years,"

John Abell, assistant dean of the School of

academic course work on the college level.

Abell said.

Extended Programs.

They'll also learn study and time manage-

"Participants will be housed in Elwell

and Lycoming residence halls and

they'll

campus buildings during

use various

the

ment

skills,

Amidst the

have leadership opportunities

ties,

and receive academic advisement and ca-

flurry of conference activi-

hundreds of boys and girls will flock to

campus

to participate in various sports

reer planning assistance.

Continued on page 6

three-day event," said Abell.

From June 5-7, approximately 200 to 300
campus for a week-

Bloomsburg University Crime Report

single adults will visit

Prepared by the University Police Department

end of informal networking, social and
recreational activities and

workshops dur-

April 1992

ing the second annual Pennsylvania Singles

Convention.

Reported

Offenses

"Activities

have been designed

the special needs of single adults

to

meet

25 years

of age and older," Abell said.

The conference

will begin with registra-

to or

by

University Police

Arrests

made or

Vandalism

5

1

Disorderly Conduct

1

1

Law

Liquor

6

6

Public Drunkenness

0

0

end Sunday afternoon, June 7, with a picnic

Sexual Offenses

0

and volleyball game.

0

sessions will focus on "Dat-

Rape
Drug Violations

0

ing in the '90s," "Step-families," "Single

Simple Assaults

0

Parenting,""CopingwithLifeTransitions,"

Aggravated Assaults

0

"Communication

"Self-improvement," "Personality" and

Murder
Arson

"Being Single

Weapons Possession

0
0
0
0
0
0
0

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

From Buildings
From Vehicle

8

8

3

3

Retail Thefts

0
11

0
0

3

3

tion

from 6

to

Workshop

9 p.m., Friday, June

5,

and

Skills," "Relationships,"

in a Coupled Society."
Raven Rudnitsky, who works as a part-

Vioations

DUI

ner in private practice for the Courtyard

Vagrancy

Counseling Center in Selinsgrove, will dis-

Robbery/Burglary

cuss

"To Dream

the Possible

Dream"

at

6:30 p.m., Saturday, June 6, at the
Bloomsburg Moose Club.

From July

12-18, 50 retirees will partici-

Motor Vehicle Theft

pate in the Pennsylvania Elderhostel pro-

Total Thefts

gram

Bomb Threats

at the university.

incidents

cleared by other means

"Elderhostel has brought hundreds of
retired adults to

Safety Tip

— Remember

1980s

swimming

in the

...

Bloomsburg since the early
where they attend special classes

taught by university faculty," said Abell.

to remove all valuables from lockers while working out or
gymnasium pools.

6 The Communique 21

MAY 92

Conferences, camps

boys ages 12 to

A

Continued from page 5

camps

starting with a tennis

and girls, ages

11

ers

$50

and $205

camp for boys

through 17, from June 14-

19 and June 21-26. Cost

is

$250

for board-

commuters, including a

for

8.

pleted eighth grade and have not graduated

"Special Intensive Lightweight Sys-

135

for

boys 80

to

be offered from June 28-July

lbs. will

2 at a cost of $205 for boarders and $ 1 50 for

from high school
19-23. Cost
for

scheduled from July

is

$230

and $180
commuters, including a $50 deposit at
is

for boarders

registration.

The Husky

commuters.

The"Husky Junior WrestlingCamp" will
camps

A Softball camp for girls who have com-

The boarder fee is $205

tem of Champions" camp

registration deposit.

Swimming and

1

and commuters pay $150.

football

camp

July 26-30 for boys ages

1 1

will

to 17

be held

who have

for girls

run from July 12-16 for boys ages 6 to 11.

not yet graduated from high school. Cost is

and boys ages 10 and older begins with

Fees are $250 for boarders and $150 for

$160

commuters.

non-resident campers, including a $50 de-

diving

"Stroke Development

Camp" and "Husky

Gold Camp" from June 14-19.
Stroke development camps will also be
offered June 21-26 and June 28-July 3.
Additional Husky Gold camps will begin
June 21-26 and June 28-July
is

$220

a

two through nine are

camp that
"Fundamental Day Camp."

eligible for the girl's basketball
starts

with a

These one-day sessions
15-19. Cost

is

will

be held June

$60 with a $25 deposit

re-

individual basketball

camp

will

be

offered from June 21-25 for girls in grades

4 through 10. Cost is $190 for boarders and

$125

for

1

commuters, including a $50 de-

Girls in grades four through 12 can par-

boys ages

28-July 2 and July 12-16. Cost

is

$190

for

camp

special mini

for

boys ages

8,

9

and 1 0 wil be offered on the same dates but
1

will serve as a one-day

4 p.m. Cost

A

camp from 9 a.m. to

$50 deposit

is

required at registration

for both basketball camps.

participate in a baseball "Fundamental

Camp"
Aug.

3-7.

Cost

Day

from June 29-July 3 and

that runs

is

$80, including a $25

deposit at registration.

will

baseball "Individual/Team

Camp"

be held July 19-24 for players in grades

nine through 12. Fees are $170 for boarders

and $125 for commuters, including a $50

$50 deposit at registration.
Wresding camps will begin with the
"Bloomsburg Father/Son Weekend," June
26-28.

A

fee of

$90

will

be charged per

cross country

camp

will be offered

from July 19-23, and a track and

field

camp

be held from July 26-30, for boys and

will
girls

who have completed

sixth grade but

are not yet seniors in high school. Cost

person.

The "Husky Wrestling Camp"

deposit at registration.

A

will

be

offered June 28-July 2 and July 12-16 for

ages 5 to

1 1

.

Cost

$80

is

dren pay $75 per child.
Session two

is

a "Soccer

geared toward boys and

girls

Team Camp"
ages 12 to 18.

Cost is $70 per person for a team with 10 or

more players.
The Bloomsburg Coaching School

for

held from 6 to 8:30 p.m., July 27-31. Cost

$55 per coach.
field hockey summer camps are for
girls in grades nine through 12 who have
not yet graduated from high school. The
first session will be held Aug. 2-6 and the
second session is Aug. 9-13.
Fees for both sessions are $230 for boarders and $180 for commuters, including a

The

$50 deposit at registration.
For more information on summer conferences, call the School of Extended Programs at 389-4420.
Persons interested

information

camps may

on summer sports
4371.

in further

call

389-

— Christina Gaudreau

$ 1 80 for boarders and $ 140 for commuters,
including a $50 deposit at registration.

Bloomsburg

provost following
internal search

girls

is

President Harry Ausprich has notified

Ausprich to
appoint interim

boys and

is

to 14 are eligible to

Bas-

ing a

for

will offer three sessions

noon, beginning July 27-31

to

beginning and advanced coaches will be

$100.

is

camp

Sessions are from 5 to 8 p.m., July 27-31.

Camp," July 26-30. Cost is $ 190 for
boarders and $125 for commuters, includ-

ticipate in the "Five-on-Fi ve Concepts

ketball

Soccer

from 9 a.m.

per player. Families with two or more chil-

1

boarders and $150 for commuters.

The

posit at registration.

for

who have not graduated or begun their

7

Boys and girls ages 7

quired at registration.

An

to

$205
commuters.
is

senior year in high school will be held June

A

registration.

Girls in grades

and $150 for

for boarders

Two basketball camps

for boarders
is

19-23 for boys ages 12 to 18. Cost

for

posit at registration.

ing System"

3.

and $190 for
$10 discount for
those who register with full payment by
June 1. Otherwise, a $50 deposit is due at
Cost

commuters. There

The "Bloomsburg IntensiveGroup Traincamp will be held from July

campers and $100

for resident

and

faculty

staff of his inten-

and submit

mended

to

me

...

three unranked recom-

candidates," said Ausprich.

tion to appoint an interim successor to Betty

"I believe it's appropriate for the next

D. Allamong, provost and vice president

president to have the opportunity to appoint

for

academic

affairs,

following an internal

and

memo, Ausprich

staff a search

permanent provost," he added. 'There-

fore, the interim

search and screen process.
In a recent

the

told faculty

and screen committee

—

for

academic

provost and vice president

affairs will

serve until this

is

be expected

to

accomplished."

color, a

Ausprich 's decision follows Allamong's

student and representatives from academic

recent announcement that she will retire

and uni-

from the university on June 30.
Kevin B. Engler

consisting of

women, persons of

affairs, student life, adminisffation

versity advancement

—

will

soon be formed.

"The (search and screen) committee will
be charged

to

conduct an internal search

—

MAY 92

The Communique 21

Dennis

Campus Notes
of

art,

phy

assistant professor

presented a paper

in the Field:

titled

"Photogra-

Contexts and Conse-

selected as a reviewer for

"The Causal Relationship Between Energy and GNP: The Case of Taiwan" at the Eastern Econom ic Association s
annual conference in New York City.

Industries Journal.

titled

'

quences" during the Ninth Triennial Sym-

posium on African Art at the University of
Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa,

last

Viditz-Ward participated

month.
panel

in the

Carol Hodes, assistant professor of psychology, presented a paper titled "The Impact of Computer Feedback on Post-test

Power of Visual
Images; Field Photography Film and
Video." The conference was organized by

Performance of Female Students"

the Arts Council of the African Studies

ety International meeting held recently in

Association.

Crystal City, Va.

exploring "Ethics and the

human

glish,

Gill, associate professor

of En-

organized an informal panel discus-

sion on "Exploring Common Ground:

What

We've Been Learning Lately About

at the

research and multicultural educa-

tion session of the

Global Awareness Soci-

She also served as a presenter

Nancy

at the

Elaine Anderson, assistant professor of

Afza will spend four weeks
July

—

1

— May 21

to

as part of the Business and Eco-

nomic Fellowship in Eastern Europe, sponsored by the Center for Russian and Eastern
European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. During the trip, he will visit

ematics and Engineering conference last

month

at

Penn State-University Park.

Joan Pallante, coordinator of
ate professor of marketing, presented a pa-

per

titled

"Student Perceptions and Class-

community reading and

university's

tation

and explained student interaction with

room Behavior: Evaluations of Classroom
Experience, Perceptions of Standard Evalu-

tivity to

ations,

and Exhibited Behaviors"

Academy of Marketing Science
in

The
Mar-

titled

"Pur-

Calif.

Advances

and reading language ac-

parents during a reception for edu-

cation pre-service students last month.

confer-

in

San Diego,
in

at the

the

writ-

ing tutorial program, gave a media presen-

text as a writing

paper was published
curriculum and foundations, was recently

Hungary.

Czechoslavakia's Management Center in

ence held recently

Writing Center.

Mainuddin Afza, associate professor of
management, is one of 20 professors in
America to receive a research fellowship
from the U.S. Government to do research
on the largest petro-chemical company in

Prague.

Mary Ericksen, chairperson and associ-

members included associate professor Harry Ackerman and insfructor
Carol Venule of the developmental instruction department; Deborah Schneer
and Mary- Jo Arn, assistant professors of
English, and Terry Riley, director of the
Panel

The Services

Expanding Your Horizons in Science, Math-

the

Teaching of Writing."

ference in San Antonio, Tex., and was

ate professors of accounting, presented a

paper

Vera Viditz-Ward,

Hwang and Burel Gum, associ-

7

Roy Smith, director of experiential edu(QUEST) and the university's Cor-

cation

porate Institute, discussed empowerment,

keting Science.

She also discussed a paper

dealing with the

unknown and

risk taking,

meeting of regional bank presidents

awarded a$2,(X)0 grant from Pennsylvania's

chase Motivation as a Function of Self-

at a

Academy

Congruity and Functional Congruity" at

and staff from Mellon Bank held recently at

the conference.

the

for

to research

The Profession of Teaching

funding sources for a proposed

In addition, she served

urban project.

on a focus group

Westmoreland Club

He drew

"parallels"

in

Wilkes Barre.

between leading a

Anderson also gave a talk about teaching

to discuss textbooks dealing with strategic

National Geographic sponsored expedition

more than 100 students at the Southern
Columbia Area School District's Career
Day held in March.

marketing for Southwestern Publishing

down

Company, made a presentation at the American Marketing Association Educator's Con-

in Ethiopia

to

the following hours: 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.,

Monday
Purchase requests will not be accepted

May

29, according to Joe

Quinn, director of purchasing. Those with

emergency requests
call the

May 29

after

should

purchasing office at 389-431

In addition, storeroom, travel

1.

and food

must be submitted to the
purchasing office by Wednesday, June 17.
service requests

through Thursday; 8 a.m. to 9

p.m., Friday; and 2 to 10 p.m., Sunday.

The

library will

Andruss Library and the University Ar-

May

23-25,

in

obser-

vance of the Memorial Day weekend.

During the university 's summer sessions

which run from Tuesday,

May 26, through

be closed on Saturdays

and during the Independence Day weekend, July 3-5.

On Friday, August

—

summer classes
from 8 a.m.

to 5

14

—

the library will be

open

will

Omo River

in the

bank-

ing industry.

m
Based on recommendations of the Fac-

Development CommitBloomsburg faculty members have
been awarded a 25 percent released time
ulty Professional
tee, six

assignment for the Fall 1992 semester.

They
the final day of

include:

tant professor of

Vishakha Rawool,

assis-

communication disorders

and special edication; Julia Weitz, assistant
professor of communication disorders and

p.m.

special education;

*##

QUEST
chives will be closed

and current issues

Friday, August 14, the library will be open

News Briefs
after Friday,

the virtually unexplored

sponsor a variety of pro-

JoAnne Growney, proand computer sci-

fessor of mathematics

grams including rock climbing, kayaking,

ence; Charles Walters, assistant professor

rappelling, rafting, caving, canoeing, back-

of art; Frank Lindenfeld, professor of soci-

packing and high ropes for university

ology and social welfare; and Mark Larson,

stu-

dents and area youth ages 11 to 16 this

summer. For information,

call

389-4323.

associate professor of management.

8 The

Communique 21

MAY 92

Friday,

May

begins; runs through Sunday,

Monday, May 25
•Memorial Day holiday
no

•Boy's Football

throughThursday, July

through Thursday, July 30.

Camp:

2.

May

24.

Monday, July 27

begins; runs through Thursday, July 2.

Camp begins;

•Boy's Basketball

through Thursday, July

•Boy's Basketball Day
observed;

runs

May

begins;

Monday, June 29
1

and 4 begin.

Friday, July

•Second Annual Pennsylvania Singles
Convention begins; runs through
Sunday, June 7.

Sunday, August 2
•Lutheran Youth Conference begins;
runs through Thursday, Aug. 6.
•Girl's Field Hockey Camp begins;
runs through Thursday, Aug. 6.

Thursday, July 2

•Summer Sessions

•Independence
ends.

no

—

3.

1

and 5 end.

Friday, July 3
Friday, June 12

Camp begins

Bloomsburg Coaching
School for soccer coaches begins; runs
through Friday, July 31.
•Soccer

•Boy's and Girl's Baseball Fundamental Day Camp begins; runs through

Friday, June 5

•Summer Session 4

•Boy's and Girl's Soccer

for ages 12 to 18; runs through Friday,

runs through Thursday, July 2.

July 31.

26

•Summer Sessions

•Boy's and Girl's Soccer Camp begins
for ages 5 to 11; runs through Friday,
July 31.

2.

Camp

classes, offices closed.

Tuesday,

runs

Special Intensive

Lightweight System of Champions

Youth Conference

Camp begins;

•"Husky Wrestling Camp" begins; runs
•Wrestling

22

•Christ Crusaders

July 30.

begin; run through Friday, July 3.

Calendar

Day

holiday observed;

Monday, August 3

classes, offices closed.

•Boy's and Girl's Baseball Fundamen-

Sunday, June 14
•Tennis

Camp begins;

Tuesday, July 7
runs through

tal

•Summer Sessions

3

Day Camp

begins; runs through

Friday, Aug. 7.

and 6 begin.

Friday, June 19.

•Swimming and Diving, Stroke
Development and Husky Gold camps
begin; runs through Friday, June 19.

Sunday, July 12
•Pennsylvania Elderhostel program
begins; runs through Saturday, July 18.

Sunday, August 9
•Girl's Field Hockey

Camp begins;

runs through Thursday, Aug. 13.

•"Husky Wrestling Camp"begins; runs

Monday, June 15
•Girls Basketball

Camp begins;

Friday, August 14

through Thursday, July 16.

Fundamental Day

runs through Friday, June

19.

•"Husky Junior Wrestling Camp"
begins; runs through Sunday, July
•Boy's basketball

Camp begins;

•Summer Sessions

3

and 7 end.

12.

runs

through Thursday, July 16.

Tuesday, June 16

•Summer Sessions 2 and

•Boy's Basketball Day
5 begin.

Wednesday, June 17
•Summer Session 7 begins.

Camp

begins;

Sunday, July 19
•College Sampler Program begins; runs

through Saturday, June 27.

camp

begins; runs through

Friday, June 26.

Special Intensive

Lightweight System of Champions

begin; run through Friday, June 26.

Camp

begins; runs through Thursday, June 25.

Camp: Father/Son Weekend

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begins; runs through

lations

BU is committed to providing equal educa-

Friday, July 24.

Camp

tional

and employment opportunities for

all

persons without regard to race, color, religion,

begins; runs through Thursday, July 23.
•Girl's Softball

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runs

through Thursday, July 23.

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

affectional or sexual preference, handicap,

Vietnam era

status veterans, or union

mem-

bership.

The

Friday, July 24

university

is

additionally committed

to affirmative action and will take positive

steps to provide such educational

and em-

ployment opportunities.

Sunday, July 26
•Girl's Five-on-Five
ball

Sunday, June 28
•Swimming and Diving, Stroke
Development and Husky Gold camps

,

Team Camp

•Summer Sessions 2 and 6 end.
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J.

Gaudreau

Kerwin

Annual Reading Conference draws record attendance
Last month, an all-time record of 1,375 reading educators and
specialists

converged on campus

reading conference.

to attend

Bloomsburg's annual

The two-day event was "the

largest reading

conference sponsored by a college or university in Pennsylvania,"
according to

Ed Poostay, conference director for the past

"Through the years since

its

1 1

years.

But

in the last

few

years,

more

librarians, superintendents,

curriculum coordinators and special education instructors have
registered to attend the annual event.
is to find out what reading
and make each conference an event that will keep

"Part of our challenge each year

educators want

...

inception 28 years ago by former

Reading Clinic director
Margaret M. Sponseller,

"Part of our challenge each year is to find out

the conference has

gone

beyond being a

local

what reading educators want ... and make each
conference an event that will keep these people
interested in returning to Bloomsburg year after
year."
Ed Poostay

event for teachers in

this

—

area," says the director

of the university's Reading Clinic.

His

conference

first

asdirector, in 1982, drew

a

little

he

over 200 people,

recalls.

he says,

At

"my

that time,
first

reac-

tion was, 'This isn't a

conference,

it's

a meet-

to Poostay, the

primary emphasis of each conference

help educators teach reading better in their classes.

"These teachers are not interested
says Poostay. "They want to learn

in theories

and philosophies,"

how to teach the

'most difficult'

In planning a conference, Poostay looks for a "blend" of present-

university

ers that consists of "teachers in the trenches," university reading

expand

authorities and featured speakers, such as Jan Brett and

the

needed
mailing

to
list

get at least

and

1

its

strive to

,000 confer-

ence attendees each year.

To draw

these

bers, he says,

num-

"We do

mass mailings to every school district in Pennsylvania ... and mail
out information to anyone who has attended our conference on a
regular basis," he says.

According

According
is to

So Poostay decided
that

Ed Poostay

Bloomsburg year after year,"

child or the 'academically deficient' child in their class."

ing.'"

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

these people interested in returning to

says Poostay.

to Poostay, other higher education institutions in

Pennsylvania have attempted reading conferences, but

many have

who

appeared

Mary Bigler

at this year's event.

"We have a sensitivity to provide sessions on topics that teachers
are currently interested in

...

be

it

children's literature,

"Two State System universities. East Stroudsburg and Kutztown,

developmental students with remedial students," says Poostay.

A

few featured speakers have already made commitments

attend next year's 29th annual Reading Conference to be held

who is known around the world

13-14.

They include Jim

books and tapes on the benefits of reading aloud to children.

"We've

Trelease,

also received confirmations from 'The Beauty and the

Michigan University, who

will return for the third consecutive

conference each year, but our conference

Conference Planning Committee and other university

is

at least as large as

he adds.

classroom teachers or reading specialists
ideas they can

implement

In addition, Poostay

bers

The primary attendees at Bloomsburg's conference each year are

who come searching

into their teaching.

for

New

York, and teacher education professor Mary Bigler of Eastern
conference," says Poostay.

in the

to

May

for his

summer, but the major
universities like Penn State, Pitt and Temple do not," says Poostay.
"The Keystone State Reading Association runs a statewide
conduct one-day conferences

theirs,"

to get

Beast Storytellers,' a husband and wife storytelling duo from

failed.

still

how

parents involved in their child's education or cross-sectioning

who work

"We would
efforts of

hard to

is

quick to recognize the members of his

make each conference

not be able to hold this conference

many

staff

staff

mem-

successful.
if

not for the

people from the university," he notes.

— Kevin B. Engler

Communique 04 JUN 92

2 The

Children's books planned, analyzed
says renowned author-illustrator
From

when she would draw

the days

French island of Martinique in the

to the

cartoon characters during her kindergarten

West Indies to do research for The Owl and

years in a small, rural Massachusetts town,

the Pussycat.

Jan Brett knew exactly what she wanted to

do with her

life.

"I

wanted to visit an island that is colorful

you know, lots of tropical flowers where
the residents wear colorful costumes," Brett
...

"I've always wanted to be a children's
book illustrator," the internationally renowned and award-winning fairytale au-

recalled.

thor and illustrator admitted during an in-

For example,

terview at Bloomsburg's 28th annual Read-

'red'

ing Conference last month.

Martinique were green, chartreuse and

This year's conference was attended by
1

,375 educators, librarians and other read-

ing specialists from Pennsylvania and neigh-

boring

my

draw a landscape or a por-

artwork has always looked like

came from a
Brett,

I

it

conference, has written and

lustrated eight children's

England there are

pink.

was

It

inspiring

il-

books including

and so

fla-

excit-

almost like learning a new language."

In choosing

and developing the charac-

from people, especially children,
she has met

and

whom

her travels.

in

the Three

Goldilocks

Bears was inspired by a

remember this

always being

little girl

such best-sellers as Berlioz the Bear, The

curious, just like 'Goldilocks' in the story,"

Owl and the Pussycat and The Wild Christmas Reindeer.

phor for

In addition, Brett's

books and

illustra-

have been published throughout the

tions

world and her artwork has been exhibited in

Museum

the Metropolitan

of Art in

New

Yorkand the Bush Gallery in Boston, Mass.
But fame and fortune as a children's
book writer has not come easy for Brett.
not that easy to find a publishable

"It's

story," she says,

much

"and

it

might take

me

as

as 10 years to get all the pieces of a

story together."
Brett,

who lives

in

Norwell, Mass., cited

"When

overcome with

curiosity

taste everything

and

she wants to

...

try everything,"

says

"The metaphor

for life is that kids are

always doing things for the
spending the night

first

time, like

at a friend's

house or

starting lessons to learn
adult,

I still

how to skate. As an

find myself doing things for the

time, such as public speaking or trav-

"Sure, I could do a study of one, but there

would be something missing," she

says.

"I've got to have this 'magical connection'

my

with

knowns
with

me

story. It's just

as to
...

why

one of those un-

certain things resonate

and I think other authors

feel the

same way."
Brett says

new

have a

experience."

"I

want

At the end of the
a "memorable

story, "Goldilocks" has

moment" with the baby bear.

"She gives him flowers
feeling that he'll
that she'll

to impress

and

cially teachers

ideas for stories

and you get the
always remember her and

go home and

...

tell

thing that goes into the

book

is

lyzed," says Brett, noting the

book

conceives in the beginning

is

different

Boston Symphony,

life,"

she notes. "It pleases

In the off-season, she

and Joe often

ers recognize the
u-avel

away places to conduct research for a
new book. She recalled a trip they planned

a

that she

often very

from the finished product

Brett says she writes on the second grade
level using simple

words

to help children

learn to read.
...

but

a child's mind will pick up more from a

page than the adult mind," she says. 'They
see

all the little

nuances that an adult won't

even notice. For me,

that

makes it inspiring

stories

about

Like her writing, Brett claims her goals
as a children's

book author and

illustrator

are also simple.

"My goal is simply to do the next book,"
she says.

— Kevin B. Engler

you
draw from those experiences in

to

on concert tours with the orchestra.

making of

often planned and ana-

"In order to write and be creative,

have

Joe, a bassist with the

upon people, espe-

librarians, that every-

her experience," says Brett.

many of her

Brett

to write for children."

occur when she accompanies her husband,

to far

— Jan

"Children must have simple words

eling on an airplane.

for the first time), only that you'll

fire trucks.

librarians,

making of a children's book is often
planned and analyzed."

children's

Brett.

draw

years, but

and

that everything that goes into the

'Goldilocks' opens the door to

the three bears' house, she's fascinated and

has "thrown out" the idea because she can't

many

impress upon people,

to

life."

"Whether you're a kid or an adult, nobody can promise that you'll always have
wonderful experiences (when you try things

story about fire trucks for

want

Brett recalled, noting the story has a "meta-

first

her interest in writing and illustrating a

"I

especially teachers

titled

bright, but curious, eight-year-old girl.
"I

PHOTO Br JOAN HELFEK

book, Brett receives inspiration

For example, her book

children's book."

who served as a keynote speaker at

this year's

mingo
ing,

New

in

lobster boats, but the boats in

ters for a

states.

"Whether
trait,

"In Martinique, the colors were so unique.

me when

metaphors

in

read-

my books."

After researching her topic, Brett says

it

Editor's Note

— Jan

Brett's newest book,

"Trouble with Trolls," will be released by

Putnam Publishing Company of New

takes about a year to write and illustrate a

G.P.

book.

York,N.Y.,in October.

The Communique 04

J

UN 92

3

Seniors athletes earn top honors in Pennsylvania conference
Bloomsburg senior student-athletes
Softball, and Mike Bruno,

Marty Laudato,
baseball, have

been honored as the top

by the

players in their respective sports

Her hits included 1 1 doubles, four triples,
home runs, 42 runs batted in and 37

eight

as the designated

hitter.

Among

runs scored.

Laudato was equally outstanding on de-

She handled 280 chances

in the field

the

nation's leading
hitters

with a

Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference

fense.

(PSAC)

while committing only one error for a field-

.449 batting av-

ing percentage of .996.

erage,

this season.

Laudato was also selected as the "Player
of the Year" in the Eastern College Athletic

Conference (ECAC), and Bruno was named

Both

to that organization's all-star team.

completed outstanding four-year

athletes

a .443

average with 44 doubles, 15

hits in

home

bats.

She drove

runs.

in

triples and 33
200 runs while

He

scoring 161.

drilled

Selected three
times as a

ninth time in the past 10 years and

first

All-

Huskies' soft-

team.

ball

their 10th consecutive

appearance

made
in the

The team

a .401

and 18

43-5 record.

home

ofthe Year" this

honor with Clarion University pitcher Brad

season.

Frazier.

Bruno played

holds 15 Bloomsburg single-game, season

Huskies —

and career records, was one of the nation's

designated hitter

leading hitters this spring with a .465 bat-

years.

155

at-

several positions for the

outfield, first base, pitcher

— during

and

the last four

Bruno pitched in seven games this spring,
t on the mound, he served

but when he wasn

bats.

cred-

triples

PSAC's "Player

hits in

was

and 24 runs
hit for

reer, shared the conference's top baseball

who

in

Bruno

times during his Bloomsburg baseball ca-

Laudato,

spring and

33 runs batted

average with 27 doubles, six

the

named

home runs this

ited with

tournament and closed the season with a

was

Laudato

seven

Mike Bruno

scored.

finished third in the national

Bruno, an all-conference choice three

72

at-

three triples and

catcher for the

Marty Laudato

89

way, the Huskies won the PSAC title for the

NCAA tournament.

lP

Bruno

rapped out 40

eight doubles,

team

^H|^I||^V

ting average, including

hit for

With Laudato's bat and glove leading the

careers for the Huskies this spring.

^^1^^

Laudato

In her career.

'

During

his career,

runs.

He

drove

in

106 runs while

scoring 73.

His booming bat helped the Huskies compile a 16-18 record this spring.

— Jim

Hollister

News Brief
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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,
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stallation of

BU is committed to providing equal educational

Franklin halls

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

affecuonal or sexual preference, handicap,
status veterans, or union

cessible to the handi-

mem-

bership.

capped.

The university is additionally committed to
affirmative action and will take positive steps
to provide such educational

and employment

opportunities.

Editor: Kevin B. Engler
Assistant Editor: Susan

M. Schantz

Editorial Assistant: Christina

J.

ramping

near Navy and Ben
to make
Bloomsburg more ac-

and employment opportunities for aU

persons without regard to race, color, religion,

Vietnam era

continues on in-

Gaudreau

Contributing Writer: Patricia Kerwin

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

4 The Communique

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04

tal

Calendar

Day Camp

begins; runs through

Sunday, August 2
•Lutheran Youth Conference begins;
runs through Thursday, Aug. 6.
•Girl's Field Hockey Camp begins;
runs through Thursday, Aug. 6.

Friday, June 5

•Second Annual Pennsylvania Singles

Thursday, July 2

•Summer Sessions

Convention begins; runs through
Sunday, June 7.

1

and 5 end.

Friday, July 3

Day

•Independence

Friday, June 12

•Summer Session 4

no

ends.

holiday observed;

classes, offices closed.

Campus Notes

Tuesday, July 7

Sunday, June 14
•Tennis

Camp begins;

runs through

•Summer Sessions

3 and

Howard

6 begin.

•Swimming and Diving, Stroke
Development and Husky Gold camps
begin; run through Friday, June 19.

Monday, June 15
•Girls Basketball

Fundamental Day

runs through Friday, June

sented a paper, "Legitimate Knowledge:

Sunday, July 12
•Pennsylvania Elderhostel program

Art vs. Science in Understanding the Viet-

begins; runs through Saturday, July 18.

nam War,"

•"Husky Wrestling Camp" begins; runs

Association convention inPortland, Maine.

through Thursday, July 16.

He also chaired a panel on "Interpreting
and Applying Kenneth Burke."

•"Husky Junior Wrestling Camp"
begins; runs through Sunday, July
•Boy's Basketball

19.

Camp

•Boy's Basketball Day

•Summer Sessions 2 and

5 begin.

Camp

at the Eastern

Communication

12.

begins; runs

through Thursday, July 16.

Tuesday, June 16

Schreier, associate professor

of communication studies, recently pre-

Friday, June 19.

Camp begins;

through Friday, July 31.

Friday, July 3.

Christine Sperling, assistant professor
of

begins;

runs through Thursday, July 16.

art,

recently presented a paper titled

"The Origins of Ghiberti's Heroic
Idiom

at

New

Orsanmichele, Florence" at a con-

ference on Late Quattrocento Sculpture

Sunday, July 19
•College Sampler Program begins; runs

Wednesday, June 17
•Summer Session 7 begins.

through Friday, July 24.
•Wrestling

Saturday, June 20

•"Symphony

Sea" cruise begins; runs
through Saturday, June 27.
at

Camp:

Special Intensive

Lightweight System of Champions
begins; runs through Thursday, July 23.

at Brigham

II

Young University Provo, Utah.
,

Her article "Donatello's Bronze David
and the Demands of Medici Politics" appeared

in the April issue

of the London

Burlington Magazine.

•Boy's and Girl's Baseball Individual/

Team Camp

Sunday, June 21
•Tennis

camp begins;

runs through

begins; runs through

Friday, July 24.

Camp

year term as president of the 400-member

begins; runs through Thursday, July 23.

Central Pennsylvania chapter of the Soci-

•Boy's and Girl's Cross Country

Friday, June 26.

•Swimming and Diving, Stroke
Development and Husky Gold camps
begin; run through Friday, June 26.

•Girl's Softball

Camp begins;

runs

begins; runs through Thursday, June 25.

Founded

Sessions 2 and 6 end.

SPJ

Camp: Father/Son Weekend

begins; runs through Sunday, June 28.

Sunday, July 26

Sunday, June 28
•Swimming and Diving, Stroke
Development and Husky Gold camps
begin; run through Friday, July 3.

•"Husky Wresthng Camp" begins; runs
through Thursday, July

Camp

Concepts Basket-

begins; runs through

in 1909, the

18,000-member

the oldest continuing professional

2.

fessional Chapter in Southern California,

the largest chapter in the country.

Thursday, July 30.

•Boy's and Girl's Track and Field

Camp

begins; runs through Thursday,

Lynne Miller, associate professor of bioand allied health sciences, has been

July 30.

logical

•Boy's Football

invited to present a paper titled "Quantifi-

Camp begins;

runs

cation of the Degree of Larval Penetration

through Thursday, July 30.

through Host Epithelium Using Solid Geo-

Special Intensive

Lightweight System of Champions
begins; runs through Thursday, July 2.

•Boy's Basketball

is

formerly vice president of the inland Pro-

•Girl's Five-on-Five
ball

Camp:

The

of Pennsylvania

organization for journalists. Brasch was

Friday, June 26

•Wrestling

all

except Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

Friday, July 24

•Summer
•Wrestling

ety of Professional Journalists (SPJ).

chapter encompasses

through Thursday, July 23.

Camp

•Girl's Individual Basketball

Walter Brasch, professor of mass communications, was recently elected to a two-

Camp begins;

through Thursday, July

•Boy's Basketball Day

runs

•Boy's and Girl's Soccer
for ages 5 to

1 1;

Camp

begins

runs through Friday,

Camp

begins;

2.

Monday, June 29
•Boy's and Girl's Baseball Fundamen-

the

American Society of Parasitologists

to

be held at the University of Pennsylvania,

for ages 12 to 18; runs through Friday,

August
The paper relates to a mathematical model
recently derived by Miller which has po-

July 31.

tential applications related to

July 31.

2.

runs through Thursday, July

metrical Analysis" at the annual meeting of

Monday, July 27

Philadelphia, in

•Boy's and Girl's Soccer

•Soccer

Camp

begins

— Bloomsburg Coaching

School for soccer coaches begins; runs

tion

measurement in

cine.

tumor forma-

agriculture and medi-

President Ausprich discusses
budget contingency plans
While

it

is still

loo early to

know what

tion will be, estimates are the State

the 1992-93 state appropria-

System will experiencea 3.5 percent

reduction over last year's allocation, says President Harry Ausprich.
Utilizing this scenario, the university's

Budget Committee has

proposed the following measures to meet the expected funding gap
Bloomsburg's 1992-93 budget:

in

•Hold vacant five management positions.

•Hold vacant three teaching faculty positions.
•Hold vacant one library faculty position.

•Reduce equipment allocations by 50 percent.
•Reduce the

fuel reserve

and contingency reserve.

•Reduce overload and summer releases.
•Eliminate the administrative internship.

•Reduce temperatures
FllOl O

Itr

Crisiina Smith, senior elementary education major from

Lancaster, makes a

newfriend at a Harrisburg commu-

nity center.

Harrisburg partnership
builds PRIDE, understanding
When you come from

a

liny

rural

buildings during the heating season.

in

JOAN llliU'llR

village like

Any

further reduction to the State

would most

System appropriation allocation

likely result in the total elimination of

"In the event our budget allocation has not been legislated and signed

Myersiown, says Bloomsburg senior elcmenuiry education major Andrea Smith, making a career decision to

and

teach in the city can be rather intimidating.

so departments can continue to operate.

But despite
others,

all

Andrea

teaching career

the "horror stories" she's heard from

still

in

plans to pursue her

first

love

—

an urban school because

challenging," says Andrea.

"The kids

find

"I will apprise

the budget committee has

you of the

final disposition

soon as the information

it

a plan, endorsed

I've had the plea-

1,

recommended,

have authorized, the distribution of some funds into the 300 area

In addition,
I

is

of the 1992-93 budget

available."

Ausprich reports the Chancellor's Office has proposed

by the Board of Governors, which "may expedite

release of funds for the construction of our

new

library.

"The plan calls for universities to raise 25 percent of the construction

Andrea and 16 other Bloomsburg senior education
in May working each morning

majors spent two weeks

In the afternoons, they learned about the lifestyles
live in the city

volunteer work at various Harrisburg

cost through a capital campaign, thereby enabling release of a greater

number of higher education

A

as teacher assistants in Harrisburg public schools.

who

I

all(x;aiion as

sure of working with arc great."

cultures of people

by the governor by July

a

an inner-city public school.

"I plan to teach in

equipment (400

money) and deferred maintenance.
The special academic equipment fee would still provide for the
purchase of some equipment in the academic affairs area, says Ausprich.
"As you may have recently heard. Gov. Casey has asked the State
System to return lapsed state appropriation funds. His request will be
considered by the Board of Governors.

and

by performing

community agen-

university's Council of Trustees at

"Should

Continued on page 2

this

plan be realized,

its

we

by the

next quarterly meeting.

will initiate an

approximate $2.5

million capital campaign to encourage release of the library," says

Ausprich.

cies.

capital programs."

resolution supporting this initiative will be considered

2 The

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18

JUNE

92

Harrisburg partnership
Continued from page

1

kids" will

to

eight lower level readers.

Through a partnership program

ing success," she says. "I simply hope

further behind.

fall

So Rider assigned Lisa

work with the
"The things I

"Bloomsburg-Harrisburg School-Commu-

have Lisa doing now are the things I normally do at the beginning of the school year

Workshop," education majors at
Bloomsburg can get acquainted with the

can develop the vocabulary."

titled the

nity

differences in lifestyles and cultural values

evidenced when teaching

in

an urban com-

munity.

Mary

...

like

Lisa,

cation in the curriculum and foundations

who

reminds herself to deal with each

stu-

dent individually. "You've got to deal with

each child's aptitude level

way

to

motivate them to learn

ior or discipline

problems."

Aileen admits she's not used to dealing
with the attitude swings of the children in

...

then

work

"I love the kids, but

every day

I

have

become

nasty.

Of course, I'm

special education class and

admit

that

woricing in a

my

training

isn't in that area."

Andrea, however, says her
is "very reserved" and

class

part-

nership project that stem s from

the teacher has a lot of con-

commitment

trol.

"Many

lenge

uni-

is

to

my

of the kids in

class are gifted

to cultural diversity.

With funding from the

to

pray they'll be good," she says.
"Sometimes they get all worked up and
I

signed the program as part of a

the university's

can

and

hope I can deal effectively with any behav-

deparunentatBloomsburg, de-

Bloomsburg-Harrisburg

I

...

her special education class.

married with two school-

is

age children of her own, says she continually

Harris, assistant professor of edu-

working at a slower pace so the kids

find a

...

and my chal-

keep them occu-

and the Pennsylvania

pied doing creative types of

Academy for the Profession of

things so they don't have time

versity

walk around bugging each

Teaching, theprogram exposes

to

university education majors to

other." Secondary education

and cons" of teach-

majors Katie Rae of Bluebell
and Renee Mannion of

the "pros

ing in a city school system.

"Our students need

to

Bethlehem were stationed at
Scott/Rowland Middle School

have

direct field experiences in ur-

ban areas," says Harris,

who

during the program.

spent more than 20 years teaching high school in the

Although Katie and Renee

adm

Los An-

geles, Calif., school system.

During her years

in

Los An-

geles, Harris received an as-

PHOTO BY JOAH HELPER

— two of them armed —

roamed campus daily.
"This program offers university education

majors an opportunity to interact with

urban youth both inside and outside the
classroom," she adds.

into Scott/ Rowland

with them from there."
Lisa says she's unccriiiin about whether

she would want lo leach

in a city

school,

but the experience gained through the

"School- Community Workshop" program

rural district

...

it's

differ-

Lisa Smeltz, a non-traditional student

ent," Lisa says in regard to teaching at an

from Hemdon, helped 1973 Edinboro Uni-

urban school. "These really are great kids,

versity graduate

her class of 28

Bev Rider teach reading to
first

grade pupils

at the

Lincoln Early Childhood Center.

According

to Rider,

most of her students

But others are having problems ad-

vancing past the kindergarten
"I

...

and

to realize

I

this

experience has helped

could handle

it."

Andrea and two other senior elementary

are already reading at the second grade
level.

though

me

education majors

Aileen Notz of

fifth

graders

in

"learning support"

classes at Melrose Elementary School.

The clas.ses are designed to help learning

Then

disabled and socially or emotionally dis-

pointing to the floor she said, "But another

turbed children, according to Cristina, and

eight are

way down

here."

Rider says she must continue to challenge the 16 pupils that can read well so
they can advance, even though the "lower

Renee says she's learned that kids are
no matter where they come from. "It

"Like Katie,
she continued.

come from

...

I

was scared at first, too,"
were both raised in

"We

middle class neighborhoods and went

to

schools with kids like ourselves. But the

experience at Scott/Rowland has made

me

my student teaching in Har-

With an enrollment of 2,000

sixth, sev-

enth and eighth graders, Scott/Rowland

is

the only middle school located within

Harrisburg's city limits.
"In the classroom the students are very
friendly, but

which forces the teachers

when many

it

can get a

bit intimidating

of them gather in the school's

long hallway," says Renee.

tience.
"1 don't

they're raised or what

they're just kids.

many of the kids have short attention spans
to exercise pa-

how

ethnic background they

risburg."

third, fourth

but it's

kids,

consider doing

— worked with

...

fine," says Katie.

Scranton and Cristina Smith (no relation)

teacher said as she horizontally positioned

her right hand near her forehead.

been

of Lancaster

and

level.

have 16 kids reading way up here," the

—

to

because of the stories I

had heard about the students there

doesn't matter

has helped to boost her confidence.

"Being from a

to being "scared at first,"

overcome those initial fears."!
was very upset about going

students at Lincoln Early Childhood Center in Harrisburg.

signment as head counselor of
security personnel

t

Rowland has enabled them

Lisa Smeliz. senior education major from Herndon, teaches reading to

a junior high school in WaiLs where seven

i

their experience at Scott-

go

into class every

day expect-

"But the most discouraging thing

I've

The Communique

found

is

the lack of

encouragemenl and

support these kids receive from their

18

JUNE 92

3

Campus Notes

p-ar-

... and they really need it."
Next month, 90 Scott/Rowland Middle
School students will come to Bloomsburg

ents

Henry D. Dobson

President Harry Ausprich delivered the
commencement address, titled"In iheSpirit

and Professor John Hranitz, both of the

Assistant Professor

as part of the Bloomsburg-Harrisburg

of Giving," to the 1992 graduating class of

curriculum and foundations department,

PRIDE program sponsored by the Office of

Northern Senior High School

had an

Social Equity, Greater Harrisburg Founda-

last

tion,

AMP Corporation and the university.

From

Bloomsburg education

July 5-25,

majors will serve as mentors
city

to the inner

youths as they experience college

life

in

Dillsburg

Ausprich discussed

In the speech,

how

community

A member of the Pennsylvania Association of Colleges

performed various volunteer service activi-

risburg to discuss various issues pertaining

program

for children

through sixth grade that

is

lot

teaching strategies that would promote the

kindergarten

involvement of more females and minori-

conducted

at the
is

higher education

ties'

in

committee on academic

In addition, he

ties in the

affairs.

sciences and engineering fields.

was recently elected chair

of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council.

of great programs

staffed very well," says Katie.

"They
.

Bloomsburg University Crime Report
Prepared by the University Police Department

do a good job keeping these k ids occ up ied
"We help supervise the children ... and

we

tion of a collaborative faculty grant dealing

Ausprich also serves on the American As-

operated by the United Methodist Church.

"The Center has a

Har-

sociation of SiiUe Colleges and Universi-

Third Street Neighborhood Center which

and

"Adapting the Think-

Enhance Science Skills in
Females and Minorities," was the culmina-

an after school

in
is

in

article, titled

ing Processes to

with the development of unique classroom

each afternoon.
in

Montclair State College,

Pennsylvania,

to

of them worked

The

and Universities executive

committee which meets regularly

Many

at

Montclair, N.J.

"School-Community Workshop"
program, the Bloomsburg students also
In the

ties

held recently at the Institute for Critical

Thinking

service "is changing

us individually and collectively."

in a rural area for the first time.

published in the Critical

ogy Proceedings of the 1990 conference

Pennsylvania's "renewed commitment" to
volunteer

article

Thinking: Focus on Science and Technol-

Sunday.

teach them values like responsibility,

respect and

how

to share

and cooperate

May

with others," notes Cristina.

"We've also designed posters for a local
home repairs assistance program and do
...

Reported

Offenses

to or

1992

by

University Police

other odds and ends to assist the staff," adds

Arrests

Made

or incidents

cleared by other

means

Aileen.

Vandalism

1

Center staff personnel, the students indi-

Disorderly Conduct

1

1

cate they have learned a lot about the Har-

Liquor

Law

2

2
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0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

In their discussions with

risburg

now

Violations

Public Drunkenness

community.

"I realize

much

Neighborhood

that these kids are pretty

who

problems they must deal with arc more

Rape
Drug Violations
Simple AssaulLs

prevalent because there are a lot more people

Aggravated Assaults

living here than in smaller towns.

Murder
Arson

the

same

as kids

live in other

neighborhoods," says Cristina. "But the

"As I see it," she continued, "the city kids
need a good reason

them

that reason

to learn.

Ifyou can give

and show them why they

should do something, they'll do

it."

School-Community Workshop should be mandatory for all education
"I think the

majors," adds Katie.

— Kevin B. Engler

0
0
0
0
2

Sexual Offenses

0
0
0
0
0
0
0

Weapons Possession
DUI
Vagrancy
Robberty/B urg lary

Motor Vehicle Theft

From Buildings
From Vehicle

1

12
1

0

Rcuiil Thefts

Total Thefts

14

All Other Theft

Safety Tip:

2

Do NOT prop open
They

0

outside building doors that are supposed to be locked.

are locked for your protection.

4 The Communique 18

JUNE

92

•Fall

Calendar

Freshmen Orientation, Group

through Thursday, July 23.

III,

through July 14

•Boy's and Girl's Baseball Individual/

Team Camp,

through Friday, July 24.
•Boy's and Girl's Cross Country Camp,

Saturday, June 20

•"Symphony

at Sea" cruise begins; runs

through Saturday, June 27.

Sunday, July 19
•College Sampler Program, through

through Thursday, July 23.

Friday, July 24.

Sunday, June 21
•Tennis camp, through Friday, June 26.
•Swimming and Diving, Stroke
Development and Husky Gold camps,
through Friday, June 26.
•Girl's Individual Basketball

Freshmen Orientation, Group

Special Intensive

1,

Lightweight System of Champions,

•Transfer Students Orientation

News Briefs
enthusiasts will climb aboard

Norwegian

Camp: Father/Son Week-

by the Bloomsburg University-Community

place Saturday, June 27.

through Friday, July

3.

Caribbean

from

cruiseliner will depart

Miami,

isles

Thomas.

St.

en route to the

Fla.,

of St. Maarten, St. John and

A

final

stop will be

made

at

to orchestra director

•"Husky Wrestling Camp," through

Jelinek, assistant professor of music, the

ensemble

Camp:

Special Intensive

Lightweight System of Champions,
through Thursday, July

perform aboard ship

will

p.m., Tuesday, June 23, and at

1

at 7

p.m.,

Wednesday, June 24, at Immaculate Park in
St. Thomas.

2.

•Boy's Basketball Camp, through
Thursday, July

community

more information,

$15
call

QUEST at 389-4323.
***

B loomsburg's faculty and staff telephone
directory

is

currently being upxlated for the

1992-93 academic year by University Relations.

Winnie Ney

— Room 104A, Waller

Administration Building; phone 389-4411

2.

Freshman Orientation, Group
through June 30

activities sticker receive a

discount. For

ing to

•Fall

will take

Please call or send any changes in writ-

2.

•Boy's Basketball Day Camp, through
Thursday, July

scheduled

students with a valid identification card and

Mark

Thursday, July
•Wrestling

is

Pleasure Island, Bahamas.

According

2.

,

Sunday, June 21; and rappelling

Cost is S30 for each program. University

Orchestra.

the Port of

Sunday, June 28
•Swimming and Diving, Stroke
Development and Husky Gold camps,

Kayaking and canoeing will be held Sat-

Norway Saturday for a
weeklong "S y mphony at Sea" cruise, hosted

The luxury

end, through Sunday, June 28.

ing the last days of June.

urday June 20; rock climbing

Cruise Line's SS

Friday, June 26

Camp, through Thurs-

day, July 23.

More than 90 cruise and orchestfal music

through June 23.

•Wrestling

•Girl's Softball

Camp:

Camp,

through Thursday, June 25.
•Fall

•Wrestling

U.S. Savings Bonds, considered one of

— no

later than

Wednesday, July

8.

II,

the best all-purpose financial products available, offer competitive interest rates, tax

advantages, cash on

Monday, June 29
•Boy's and Girl's Baseball Fundamental

Day Camp, through

Friday, July 3.

demand and

Bloomsburg's 1992 savings bond campaign drive will end June 30.

vantage of

Thursday, July 2

•Summer Sessions

1

and 5 end.

nity,

fill

this excellent

Human

•Independence Day holiday observed;

no

To

lake ad-

savings opportu-

out the card you received in

pus mail and return
Friday, July 3

tax-free

it

to Bonita

Rhone

camin

the

Resources Office, Waller Admin-

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Tuesday, July 7
3 and 6 begin.

Stewart Nagel, professor of art, has been
appointed director of Haas Gallery of Art

Sunday, July 12

effective June

•Pennsylvania Elderhostel program,
through Saturday, July

18.

•"Husky Wrestling Camp," through
Thursday, July 16.

•"Husky Junior Wrestling Camp,"
through Sunday, July 12.
Thursday, July 16.

•Boy's Basketball Day Camp, through

1

Fr.

Chester Snyder,

managed Haas Gallery
In addition,

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

affectionalor sexual preference, handicap, Viet-

nam

Nagel replaces

who

the last three years.

Robert Koslosky, associate

era status veterans, or union membership.

The

university

is

additionally comrtutted to

affimiati ve action and will take positive steps to

provide such educational and employment opportunities.

professor of an, has been
tor

named coordina-

of the department's graduate program.

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

Assistant Editor: Susan

•Boy's Basketball Camp, through

Thursday, July 16.

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vance to The Communique, University Rela-

isu^ation Building.

classes, offices closed.

•Summer Sessions

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education funds.

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QUEST will

spon.sor three daylong out-

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M. Schantz

Editorial Assistant: Christina

J.

Gaudreau

Contributing Writer: Patricia Kerwin
Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

Matteson appointed interim provost

Officials investigating

two student assaults
CarolJ. Matteson, dean of Bloomsburg's

interim provost and vice president for aca-

Two female Bloomsburg students
were sexually assaulted in separate

demic affairs by university President Harry

incidents during the early morning

Ausprich, effective Wednesday, July

hours of Friday, June 19, and Satur-

College of Business, has been appointed

Matteson will

nent replacement

served the

the position currently

fill

held by Betty D.

Allamong
hired.

is

last five

until a

day, June 20.

perma-

The first assault occurred in Colum-

who

bia Residence Hall, according to the

Allamong,

years as Bloomsburg's

chief academic officer,

is

working more than 30 years
"I

1.

who

victim

retiring after

reported the incident to

university poUce.

in education.

At

am pleased to have this opportunity to

present, the victim has not filed

criminal charges against her attacker.

work as Bloomsburg's interim provost and

But campus pohce and residence

vice president for academic affairs," says

officials are continuing their investi-

Matteson. "The university has a strong fac-

gation.

and devoted support
and as we move into the coming

ulty, quality students

staff

...

year,

I

life

The second assault took place at a
downtown apartment. Town police

look forward to working with every-

have arrested two suspects who are

one on campus because we're all part of the

not university students.

Dr. Carol Matteson

educational enterprise."

According

With more than 15 years of classroom

to

John Walker, vice

president for university advancement,

experience, Matteson has an intimate un-

Matteson worked two years as an associate

the university's Counseling Center and

"My

professor of business administration at the

residence

derstanding of the teaching process.

experiences range from the traditional class-

University of

room environment

that time, she also served as a graduate

to the technologically

advanced classroom," says Matteson,

who

has worked 22 years in education.

facilitate the learning

by garnering resources
in their teaching

...

to

process

support faculty

and research

activities,

and allow enriched educational experiences
for students."

According

member in

the

at

Augusta. During

MBA curriculum at

the University of Southern

"In the academic setting, the role of man-

agement is to

faculty

Maine

work-

to Matteson, collegial

becoming more imcolleges and universities face

Maine and

the

MPA program at the University of Maine.
From 1974-87, Matteson performed
ministrative

and faculty duties

Rock University. She served

as director of

the university's Evening College

and Continuing Education program, and was an

assistant to the president.

She was also a
Rock's man-

ing relationships are

faculty

j)ortant as

agement/marketing and physical education

increasingly difficult decisions regarding
the use of resources

and planning

for the

future.

"The provost must be able

to articulate

the academic goals of the university with
the help, input

and collective agreement of

member

in Slippery

Earlier in her career, Matteson

1989,

was a

High School. She also served as

a lecturer in the teacher education program

Advanced Education

in

Continued on page 3

is

adher-

policy of notifying students

of attacks on and off campus with as

much

information as

is

available.

"Students feel that they need to know
if

there is

somebody who is

a threat to

their safety around, so they

can take

the proper precautions," said Walker.
it

devel-

ops, students and personnel can check
the Univeristy

Spartansburg and

Adelaide, South Australia.
in

its

board

in

at Sturt College of

Before coming to Bloomsburg

Meanwhile, the university
ing to

Merged Schools

the various representative bodies in aca-

she says.

with this," said Walker.

public school teacher for four years at Sparta

demic

affairs,"

"Our foremost concern is to see that
two victims are receiving the support and information they need to deal

For updated information as

departments.

Titusville

are assisting the

the

ad-

at Slippery

life staff

students.

News Network bulletin

in residence halls or telephone

the university's
sis"

"Be Safe" and

"Cri-

hoUines at 389-BSAF and 389-

4304.

— Kevin

B. Engler

2 The Communique 2

JULY 92

1991-92 grant awards
exceed $1.4 million
Forty-seven of 77 research, education

and training proposals
and administrators

by faculty
Bloomsburg were

initiated

at

awarded more than $1.4 million in grant
funding from federal, state or private agencies during the 1991-92 fiscal year.

"The grant awards

268

totaled $1,477,

according to university grants

this year,"

Peggy Bailey.
"The number of proposals we processed
... projects that were funded ... and the total
dollar amount are record numbers for the
director

university."

Previous records were set in 1988-89

when 42 of

70 projects proposed

the

re-

ceived $1,366,448 in grant funding, and in

Libby Medrich
in

is pictured

with her sculpture "Torse Imaginaire" which will be included

an exhibition of her work in Haas Gallery from July 6-31.

1989-90 when 42 of the 67 proposals were

Renowned

awarded $1,388,647.

sculptor to exhibit in

Haas Gallery

Last year, 36 out of 70 proposals re-

ceived $1,137,706 in grant funding.
Federal grants totaling $670,0 1

1

were awarded by the National Science Foundation U.S Department of Education
,

.

,

U.S

Department of Health and Human Services
and the Administration on Aging. The
ter

was subcontracted with

Bloomsburg's Elderhostel program, has
been invited
at

the University

an

art exhibition titled

Grant funding from the

for the Profession of Teaching,

Council on the Arts, Department of

Com-

— Northeast Tier Ben Franklin

Part-

nership Program Department of Education

sources.
State funding

was also received from

Department of Labor and Industry

the

— Job

Training Partnership Act, the state's Green

Thumb program and

the State

System of

Grants from private sources totaling

$122,683 were received from the Helene
Fuld Health Trust, Frank Bressler Reha-

Fund and the Amoco Production
Company.
Area companies contributing to Ben
bilitation

Franklin Partnership projects were

Modem

Machine Shop and McBride Machine Corp.
In addition, a technical assistance grant

was received from

American Association of State Colleges and Universities
through Exxon Foundation funds.
Kevin B. Engler
the

—

part of the university's perma-

brochure.

For more information,
associate profesor of

call

Karl Beamer,

389-4646.

art, at

to 3 p.m., Saturday, July 11, in the art

gallery.

Medrich, 81, has received numerous

The Communique

awards for her sculptures and has exhibited her

work

at

10 solo sculptor shows

A
ulty

since 1973.

newsletter for Bloomsburg University fac-

and

staff.

The Communique publishes news

of activities, events and developments

Her work has been displayed in more
than 250 juried and invitational art shows
at galleries, corporations, universities

museums

— including

and

the Metropolitan

Museum of Art in New York City

—

in the

United States, and her sculptures appear in

Higher Education.

is

more than 90

collections worldwide.

Medrich attended
sity,

New York

Univer-

Vassar College, the Art Students

League and Silvermine College of the
Arts. She studied sculpture with John
Hovannes, DomenicoFacci, Helen Beling,
Henry Castor, George Karos and Raymond

A resident ofLarchmont.N.Y., Medrich
is included in "Who's Who in American
Art," "American Artists" and "The New
York Art Review."
Medrich came to Bloomsburg

f)ersons without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

sexual orientation, handicap, Vietnam era status
veterans, or union membership.

The

university

is

additionally committed to

affirmative action and

wUl take

positive steps to

provide such educational and employment op-

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

Assistant Editor: Susan

sum-

as a student in the university's

M. Schantz

Editorial Assistant: Christina

Contributing Writer:
last

at

Bloomsburg University 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, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA 17815.
Bloomsburg is committed to providing equal
education and employment opportuiulies for all

portunities.

Rocklin.

mer

A

to the

cover of the 1992-93 Celebrity Artist Series

Haas Gallery

,

and Department of Environmental Re-

Dance,"

"Homage

"Roots and Re-

An opening reception will be held from
1

piece of her work, titled

nent art collection and was selected for the

flections" in the university's

state totaling

Elderhostel program for senior citizens.

work July 6-3

to display her

of Art.

$684,574 was awarded by Pennsylvania's

merce

nowned

lat-

of Maryland.

Academy

Libby Medrich, an internationally resculptor and former student in

this year

Patricia

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

J.

Gaudreau

Kerwin

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Alumni spearhead $95,000
Two Bloomsburg
Kozlowski, '69, of

alumni

—

Alex

Wayne and Nelson

—

Swarts, '63, of Franklin Lakes, N.J.

recently helped the university secure a five-

to-one equipment match offer from their

Kozlowski and Swarts, who work for
Corporation, were instrumental in

ing kindergarten through 12th grade. "Stu-

dents can also create their

securing $95,000 worth of equipment and

curriculum," she noted.

own

classroom

new

McCormick Human

Services Center, was
opened at a dedication ceremony
held Monday, June 8.
According to Susan Helwig, associate

officially

IBM

"Eventually,

offered a

any school that couldraise more than$5,000

student-computer laboratories and faculty
offices in Sudiff Hall

IBM employees.

The

that in previous years,

Bloomsburg only qualified for a two-toone cash match offer from IBM.
Helwig said the university actively sought
donations from alumni last year after missing the

IBM

opportunity in 1990.

works on a fiscal year from
15,

May

(CSIU), serves as the regional curriculum

ence a new connection between

in

coursework assignments

their

and the actual classroom encounStudents will become knowlsoft-

ware programs

raised,

and

was used

to

purchase computers and edu-

Classroom Tech-

nology Center," Helwig said, noting that
contributions collected from

IBM employ-

Wayne. Swarts, who used

in

men have

"This fantastic agreement will enable our
students to experience a
their

new connection

coursework assignments and

the actual classroom encounter," said

Henry

assistant professor of curriculum

"Students will

educational opportunity

who work

at

IBM, mushroomed

into this exceptional program," he added.

about the various software programs that are

now

being used in school

districts

before

they enter the classroom."

Included

in the

software are programs in

rates voice synthesis and has

classroom management for each topic.

"Through individualized

Matteson interim provost
Continued from page
In

1

1

99 1 Matteson was named an "emerg,

woman

leader in higher education" by
American Council of Education's Office of Women in Education. She was also

instruction, stu-

chosen as a "distinguished educator" by

own

Pennsylvania's Council of Alumni Asso-

dents will master the material at their

because the software has been designed
exclusively to help teachers," Helwig said.

packages to

the software.

this

— Christina Gaudreau

son. "Teachers can also

and

presently attend

become knowledgeable

pace and be tested periodically," said Dob-

IBM that can be renewed each year,
IBM has agreed to annually upgrade

make

and foundations.

in the College of Professional Studies is

with

who

"Their efforts, along with gifts from other

alumni

the

The equipment and software are being
made available through a loan agreement

daughters

President Harry Ausprich.

components on

equipment was placed

to live in

group program

available for our students," said Bloomsburg

ing

this

IBM

an

"Nelson and Alex have helped the university

science, mathematics, reading, language arts

"The reason

is

the university.

and social science. The software incorpo-

IBM to purchase software for teachers.

purchase various types of software.

Carmel, is an IBM state education manager

tributor.

opportunity to acquire another $65 ,000 from

use," said Helwig, noting their ap-

tricts to

ees were used as specified by each con-

Additionally, Kozlowski learned of an

teachers to

administrator in Franklin Lakes, N.J. Both

— Henry Dobson

Dobson,

cational software for the

now be-

fore they enter the classroom."

help raise $5,000.

sum of $5,136 was

its

proval would permit individual school dis-

Bloomsburg,

between

total

that are

ing used in school districts be-

Helwig said letters were written to
Bloomsburg alumni, parents and friends
who work at IBM requesting donations to

"A

eager for

is

evaluate the software packages for class-

Kozlowski, who is originally from Mount

"IBM

IBM matched that with a $25,680 grant that

our area.

"The CSIU

room
ter...

16 to May

and wejust missed the 1990 deadline."

university, in partnership with the

materials center for public school teachers

edgeable about the various

about IBM's giving opportunity," said

who noted

and persons off

...

enable our students to experi-

"Alex and Nelson called (the university)
Helwig,

should be possible to ex-

it

Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit

five-to-one equipment match in 1990 for

from

will

education

tend the network to the College of Business

"This fantastic agreement will

floor (Curriculum Materials Center) of the

director of development,

all

dems."

located on the second

facility,

eventually be networked to

—

campus who want to access the technology
will be able to do so via telephone mo-

IBM Classroom Technology Center.
The new

was

that runs the software that

initially installed for the center

students to review

IBM

software to establish the university's

computer

faculty offices, said Helwig.

Helwig.

The software allows

possible classroom curriculums for teach-

employer.

3

IBM computer, softwear gift

At present, there are four computers
hooked up to the system, "but (the system)
will eventually be expanded to 50 computers," said

JULY 92

modify the software

ciations last year.

Matteson holds a doctoral degree from
the Katz Graduate School of Business at the

suit their lesson plans."

In addition, the center will offer in-service

University of Pittsburgh, a master of sci-

training forpublic and parochial school teach-

ence degree from the University of Oregon

ers, as

well as occasional workshops con-

ducted by
It

is

IBM representatives.

hoped

that the "file server"

and a bachelor of science degree from
pery Rock.

—a

Slip-

— Kevin B. Engler

4 The Communique 2

JULY 92

Calendar
Thursday, July 2

•Summer Sessions

1

and 5 end.

Friday, July 3

•Independence Day holiday observed;

no

classes, offices closed.

Tuesday, July 7

•Summer Sessions

3

and 6 begin.

Sunday, July 12
•Pennsylvania Elderhostel program,

through Sanirday, July 18.

•"Husky Wrestling Camp," through
Thursday, July 16.

•"Husky Junior Wrestling Camp,"
through Sunday, July 12.

Epic Brass to perform at BloomFest '92

•Boy's Basketball Camp, through
Thursday, July 16.

•Boy's Basketball

Day Camp, through

•Fall

Freshmen Orientation, Group

III,

through July 14

Wednesday, July 15
•"BloomFest '92," featuring the Epic
Brass, 6 to 9 p.m.. Carver Hall lawn;
free

and open

Epic Brass will perform their "Star
Spangled Pops" concert during

Thursday, July 16.

to the public.

•Wrestling

Camp:

Special Intensive

Lightweight System of Champions,
through Thursday, July 23.

•Boy's and Girl's Baseball Individual/
through Friday, July 24.
•Boy's and Girl's Cross Country Camp,

Team Camp,

•Girl's Softball

cial picnic baskets,

The quintet, founded in Boston by trumRaney in 1983, will begin their

peter Earl

performance

•Transfer Students Orientation

Friday, July 24

•Summer Sessions 2 and 6

end.

—a

Faculty/Staff

Phone Book

Bloomsburg's faculty and

phone directory

is

staff tele-

currently being up-

dated for the 1992-93 academic year by

won

the Alliance

Please call or send any changes in

music houses throughout the world.

Community

Those planning to attend the concert are
asked to bring lawn chairs or blankets.
Everyone is reminded no alcoholic bever-

hospitalized,

Those attending can

calling 389-4409.

also bring their

own picnic baskets.

Funding has been provided by the Community Government Association and the

If

it

Arts Council.

rains, the concert will

be moved

to

Mitrani Hall of Haas Center for the Per-

forming Arts.

open heart surgery planned

Winnie Ney

Betty D. Allamong, who recently announced her intention to retire from the
position of provost and vice president for

academic

affairs,

has been admitted to the

Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.

— Room 104A,

on Friday, June

19, to

be treated for pneu-

monia. "She was transferred to Geisinger's

CICU on

Saturday," he said.

Allamong,

who was placed on a respira-

president for academic affairs, the

a "low point" on Sunday, June 21, but has

university's chief academic officer

is

suf-

fering from a mitral valve prolapse condi-

shown steady improvement

since, said

Cooper.

"The physicians hope

tion.

respirator

...

to take her off the

then proceed with open heart

the correct amount of blood flowing through

surgery to replace the valve," he said.

the heart.

Cards and other expressions of concern
to: Betty Allamong, CICU,
Center, 100 N. AcadMedical
Geisinger

"Betty has known about the mitral valve

later than

first

tory machine to assist her breathing, reached

condition for years, but it hasn't been seri-

— no

Cooper indicated Allamong had

taken herself to the Bloomsburg Hospital

According to Tom Cooper, assistant vice

Wednesday,

July 8.

in ad-

tained in the Celebrity Artist Series office

by

Waller Administration Building; phone
1

company, can be ordered

vance.

northeast chamber music
The quintet has performed at
Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Weill Recital Hall, Ambassador Auditorium and at

competition.

When damaged, the valve interferes with

University Relations.

389-441

service

prepared by the food

Picnic basket order forms can be ob-

p.m.

Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) at

Deadline Nears For Changes

writing to

at 7

and soft drinks. Spe-

ice cream, fruit juices

Camp, through Thurs-

day, July 23.

To

service,

lawn.

Allamong

through Thursday, July 23.

Bloomsburg's campus dining

ARA, will set up food stands selling pizza,

Auditions

Friday, July 24.

ages are permitted on university grounds.

"BloomFest '92" program from 6 to 9 p.m.,
Wednesday, July 15, on the Carver Hall

In 1986, Epic Brass

Sunday, July 19
•College Sampler Program, through

this year's

ous
with

until

now," said Cooper, who spoke

AUamong's husband, Joe.

can be sent

emy

Ave., DanviUe, Pa., 17822.

— Kevin B.Engler

IIT training State System faculty to 'enhance teaching and learning'
members who

Faculty

teach at the 14

State System of Higher Education universities are learning

how

to

implement high

technology in the classroom to improve
teaching and enhance learning.

This year, a
faculty

total

of 26 State System

members is participating in a series

of three-day interactive technology training workshops being conducted by the Institute for Interactive Technologies (IIT) at

Bloomsburg University.
"The purpose of these workshops is to
encourage and train faculty within the State
System ... to use high technology for improving their teaching and enhancing students' learning," says Harold Bailey, pro-

and computer scithe IIT at Bloomsburg.

fessor of mathematics

ence

who

directs

Bloomsburg operates the only master's
degree program in instructional technology

among the

14 universities in the State Sys-

tem. In addition,

it is

the only university in

the United States with an instructional tech-

nology program that focuses on interactive
processes.

With funding provided from a $30,000
System "Priorities for the '90s" grant.
Bailey and his associates
assistant IIT
directors Timothy Phillips and Nancy
State

—

Thornton, and 26 graduate students from

Bloomsburg's master's degree program

—

conducted three -day computer-based training woiicshops for System faculty in

March

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFEK

Dr. Michael Pearson of West Chester University enters data on a computer for his
interactive video project during a recent training workshop conducted atBloomsburg 's IIT

and May. A final seminar is scheduled Nov.

laboratory. Looking on are workshop participants

2-4.

University

and Dr. Ralph Patrick ofCheyney

Emyln Jones

(left)

of West Chester

University.

we are training State System
on new technology," explains
Bailey, "by showing them how computers
and video can be combined to provide more
effective instruction. But we're also teaching them the various processes they must
use to plan and organize an interactive

program

them," says Miller. "We're hoping to put

audiology graduate students.

technology project."

together a package of information that will

At Bloomsburg, professors G. Donald
Miller and Vishakha Rawool of communi-

be helpful to hearing aid users

and sec-

At Cheyney University, Nola Blye and
Ralph Patrick are hoping they can incorpo-

ondary individuals, such as spouses and

Continued on page 2

"Basically,

faculty

who must assist those with

cation disorders and special education are

relatives,

developing a "Hearing Aid Orientation"

ing deficiencies."

for users of hearing devices.

"Individuals
to

know how

who

use hearing aids need

to properly use

and maintain

...

hear-

When completed, the interactive project
being produced by Miller and Rawool can
also be used as a training

program

for

JULY 92

2 The Communique 16

Bloomsburg's IIT laboratory, were de-

IIT training faculty

signed for specific purposes.

Continued from page

1

rate interactive video in

"At the

begin to

campus between the second and third workshops, and deliver a brief presentation about

to use interactive

"So we show them some completed interactive projects ... and give them
a chance to discuss and critique those

ber.

projects."

tious task

video to help our teaching

...

by making the

chairp)erson of the mathematics

it

...

among these projects were the

1989 Cindy Award winning "Attributes

"We don' t have this technology at Cheney

velop

Included

and com-

puter science department.

we're here

our plans ," she continues. "So

Bloomsburg) learning to deand institute its use on our cam(at

who directs Cheyney's

technol-

program

for Successful Employability"

produced for the Harrison School District

Colorado Springs, Colo., and a

in

"Takisawa

CNC

project for the

pus."
Patrick,

workshop,

first

Bailey.

student an active participant," says Blye,

yet, but it ' s in

com-

home

that will

programs

how

are learning

participants are expected to

stimulate the participants' thinking," says

assist students in their studies.

"We

we

The

plete their respective projects at their

"The

Lathe Training" 1991

TRW plant in Danville.

participants learn to distinguish

seminar

their project at the final

"We

in

Novem-

have given these people an ambiby actually requiring that they

produce an interactive project," admits

when

Bailey. "Hopefully,

here in November, they
strate

'

11

come back

they

be able to demon-

an exemplar project."

Due to rapid technological changes which
often occur in this field and in citing the
State System's mission statement that "re-

quires high technology to be used to im-

ogy department, says he hopes to add interactive programs as a "learning tool" for

the 'good' characteristics of an interactive

prove teaching and learning

technology program from the 'bad' ones,"

tutions to get students actively involved in

students.

he noted, "and are responsible for coming

faculty research," Bailey emphasizes the

"My departmentcurrently produces video
programs

shown on

that are

instructional

up with ideas for

their

own

particular

and for insti-

need for these training workshops

ongoing State System

project."

...

to

be an

project.

and cable television stations in various parts

During the second workshop, the par-

"We want to be able to keep State System

of the country," he says, noting that a study

ticipants are taught the "step-by-step pro-

faculty apprised of instructional techno-

skills project for at-risk students is currently

cesses" of

under production at Cheney.

"By seeing how they do
implement

to

adds.
it's

this

kind of program," he

"We have most of the components

just a matter of

make

it

And

puUing

it

...

together to

technology program.

"They also learn how to use various
and are
types of computer hardware
...

introduced to the

many

types of software

available to produce a program," adds

logical changes

...

so they can make adapta-

tions to their needs," says Bailey.

"But

to

do

this,

tional funding

...

we need

and

to

to receive addi-

develop some kind

of an initiative so the State System can

continue this kind of activity," he notes.

— Kevin B. Engler

Bailey.

comprehensive."

at

Shippensburg University, math-

ematics professors Dick Weller and Diane

McNichols are hoping they can develop an
interactive project that will help them enhance

and put together

to design

their interactive

things here at

we have the capability

Bloomsburg, 1 think

how

their students learning

"Diane and
project in

I

of calculus.

are involved in a calculus

which we are

outfitting a class-

Urban youths learning about
Ninety seventh, eighth and ninth grade
students from Scott-Rowland Middle

School
this

in

Harrisburg are spending time

month learning about college life, caand themselves as part of

college

life

and enter college," says Mary Harris, assistant professor of education

and PRIDE pro-

gram director.
"The university is committed to this program ... and the PRIDE staff has worked

room with computers ... and we're trying to
learn more about the interactive use of ani-

reers

mation and other kinds of multimedia pro-

sponsibility In Developing Excellence

excited about the possibilities

grams," says Weller.

program.

hope these students

Bloomsburg's

PRIDE

— Personal Re—

hard to put

it

together," she adds. "We're

will

...

choose

and we

to attend

Bloomsburg when the time comes."

McNichols believes lecturing on a math

Last week, the university hosted 30 sev-

some students.
subject
many
times what
"You can talk and talk, but
you say will just go right by some students,"

enth grade students. This week, eighth

PRIDE is a collaborative effort involving

graders are on campus and next week ninth

Bloomsburg, Scott-Rowland, the Harris-

graders will attend the workshop.

burg School District and JTPA. Sponsors

is

too abstract for

she says.

However, she notes,

if

you can show

students a "picture," they will have a mental

image of an otherwise abstract concept.
"Everyone has heard the saying, 'A picture
is

worth a thousand words'

concept Dick and

1

...

that's the

are trying to capitalize

to Bailey, the three faculty

training workshops,

include the State System of Higher

week of class-

Education 's Office of Social Equity, Greater

the youths participate in a

room and outdoor activities, group discussions and training sessions. They also explore the dimensions of discrimination and
prejudice, and have

which comprise three

consecutive daylong seminars held in

opportunities to inter-

Harrisburg Foundation,

AMP Corporation

and the university.

The program

is

part of a Bloomsburg-

Harrisburg Partnership Project that stems

act with university students while residing

from the university's commitment

campus residence hall.
"We're hoping thatPRlDE students will
want to stay in school, complete high school

tural diversity.

in a

on here," she says.
According

While visiting the Bloomsburg campus,

to cul-

— Kevin B. Engler

The Communique

Professors Hudon, Green
Two Bloomsburg

professors have re-

tion

William Hudon, associate professor of
history, has written a book titled "Marcello

all

from working a tough schedule," says

messed up" when he worked

split

and

In addition to his daily reporting job,

was published by

Gre-en enrolled in a "rigorous" graduate

Northern

DeKalb,

Illinois University

Press in

to pursue a doctoral degree in

program

literature at the University

Dl.

of Toledo

in

Hudon' s monograph focuses on this 1 6thcentury Italian churchman and his role as a
reformer while working as a member of the

Ohio.

ever fervent,

managing fatigue became
and I eventually obtained a

Council of Trent, leading the northern

book contract

to write about

ian diocese

Ital-

and serving a pontificate

in

In the book,

Hudon

illustrates

how

Cervini profoundly influenced change be-

during and after the Council of Trent

fore,

by illuminating the

politics

and culture of

"My

"I sent

my

it,"

he says.

agent an outline of some

it to Plenum in
two days," he recalled.
Most articles that are written on fatigue

are "technical," says Green,

book

contributing factors that lead to a person

becoming
"Those

fatigued.
factors include a poor diet, too

being overweight, not getting enough exercise

and being depressed," he

Green feels the book

Management" and

'

says.

s chapters

on "Time

"Stress and Stress Re-

duction" are especially helpful to those
interest in

sample chapters and he sold

1555.

92 3

much caffeine, smoking, drinking alcohol,

rotating shifts at the newspap)er.

Cervini and Ecclesiastical Government in
Tridentine Italy" which

JULY

Have Books Published

Green, noting his "sleep cycles would get

cently had their books published.

16

in

who work in

the field of higher education.

But, he noted, "There is something in the

book

for

everybody

ers, nutritionists

—

it

— smokers,

exercis-

covers a wide array of

subjects that pertain to fatigue."

The book can be purchased for $23.95

at

Friends in Mind Bookstore in Bloomsburg.

who wrote his

— Christina Gaudreau

layman's terms focusing on the

16th-century Italy.

Hudon, who has worked on the book

for

the past five years, says the publication

Bloomsburg University Crime Report
Prepared by the University Police Department

challenges standard notions of the Catholic

Church

in the 16th century.

Drawing extensively from archival

— including Cervini

's

personal

correspondence with important

political,

sources

literary, artistic

and

ecclesiastical figures

during the 16th century
the

June 1992

— Hudon

Offenses

believes

Made

Reported to or by

Arrests

University Police

cleared by other

or incidents

means

book is a "valuable contribution" to the

history of early

modem

Italy.

Vandahsm

2

1

Disorderly Conduct

1

Law

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0

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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0
0
0
0
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The book can be accessed in research
libraries and used by specialists in the field

Liquor

of 16th-century religious history.

Public Drunkenness

"A copy

of the book will also be avail-

able in Andruss Library," says Hudon.
In addition,

other
ity"

Hudon

is

working on an-

book to be titled "Theatine

—

Spiritual-

the study of a Catholic religious

order of the 16th century

— which

will

be

published by Paulist Press of Mahwah, N.J.

William Green, associate professor of

mass communications, has written a selfhelp book on the nature of fatigue titled
Fatigue Free: How to Revitalize Your Life.
The 325-page book, published by Ple-

num Publishing Corporation of New York,
N.Y.,

is

.fatigue

based on current research about

and the human

lifestyles that

con-

tribute to its cause.

Green,

Sexual Offenses

Rape
Drug Violations
Simple Assaults
Aggravated Assaults

Murder
Arson

Weapons Possession

DUI
Vagrancy
Robberty/Burglary

Motor Vehicle Theft

1

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

From Buildings
From Vehicle

1

Retail Thefts

0
2

Total Thefts

1

0

who conducted research in medi-

cal school libraries to find ways individuals

can reduce tension, says he

first

became

interested in the subject while working as a

The Toledo Blade newspaper.
wanted to learn how to avoid exhaus-

repxjrter at

"I

Violations

Safety Tip: Protect your property. Do not keep large sums of cash in your office or dorm
room. Open a savings or checking account and keep track of the last check written. Keep
MAC cards and pin numbers separate, and do not give pin numbers to friends or allow them
to use

your

MAC card.

4 The Communique 16

JULY 92

Calendar

Campus Notes

Sunday, July 19
•College Sampler Program, through

riculum and foundations, was part of a

Friday, July 24.

•Wrestling

Camp:

Mary Harris, assistant professor of curpanel representing the Pennsylvania Acad-

Special Intensive

Lightweight System of Champions,
through Thursday, July 23.

•Boy's and Girl's Baseball Individual/
through Friday, July 24.

Team Camp,

•Boy's and Girl's Cross Country Camp,
through Thursday, July 23.
•Girl's Softball Camp, through Thursday, July 23.

emy

for the Profession of Teaching at the
American Association for Higher Education conference on school/college collaboration recently in San Diego, CaUf. Panel
members included university and public
school personnel from throughout Pennsyl-

vania.

The panel presented
tion Project at a

the

Urban Educa-

dress the facilitation of collaborations be-

tween universities and urban schools

in

Museum of Modem Art in

Brian Johnson, professor of geography,
recently presented a paper titled "Indicators

of Viability of Downtowns" at the

second annual Pennsylvania Downtown
Conference held in State College.

Pamela Wynn,

"From Bangladesh

a paper titled

Steven L. Cohen, professor of psychol-

Sunday, July 26
Concepts Basketball Camp, through Thursday, July 30.
•Boy's and Girl's Track and Field
Camp, through Thursday, July 30.

ogy, attended the 18th Annual Meeting of

•Boy's Football Camp, through

Cohen presented the results of an experiment titled "Effects of Experimental History on Responding Under Progressive-

•Girl's Five-on-Five

Thursday, July 30.
•Fall

Freshmen Orientation, Group IV,

through July 28

5 to

1 1

;

Camp

for ages

through Friday, July 3 1

•Boy's and Girl's Soccer

Camp

An

International Organization held recently in

Bloomsburg,

Pa.:

for the Rural Poor" published in the

nizing Newsletter.

Calif.

Frank

Peters, associate professor of

English, recently presented a paper titled

"Revision and Cognitive Development"

campus.

Barbara E. Behr, professor of finance
fifth edition

of

Study Guide to Accompany West's Busi-

Friday, July 31.

ness Law published by West Publishing Co.

Sunday, August 2
•Lutheran Youth Conference, through
Thursday, Aug. 6.

A newsletterfor Bloomsburg University facand computer science, gave a presentation in April titled "Probability and Risk,

ics

Monday, August 3
•Boy's and Girl's Baseball Fundamental Day Camp, through Friday, Aug. 7.

Allamong discharged
from Geisinger
Betty D. Allamong was discharged

from Geisinger Medical Center

in

Danville on Friday, July 10, following successful surgery. Surgeons re-

Similarities and Differences" at the Armand

Hammer

United World College in
Montezuma, N.M.
A selected paper by Noubary titled "On
Reliability Calculation When Stresses Are
Generated by a Non-Homogeneous Poison
Process" published this year in the Journal

ofReliability Engineering and System Safety
is listed in the 1991 issue of Bibliographia

ulty and staff.

The Convnurdqu£ publishes news

of activities, events and developments at
Bloomsburg University bi-weekly throughout
the academic year.

Please submit story ideas, news briefs and

calendar information at least two weeks in ad-

vance to The Communique, University Relations and Communication Office, Bloomsburg
University, Bloomsburg,

PA

17815.

Bloomsburg is commiaed to providing equal
education and employment opportunities for all
persons without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life style,

sexual orientation, handicap, Vietnam era status
veterans, or union membership.

The

Humboldtiana.

university

is

additionally committed to

affirmative action and will take positive steps to

The paper

is

a result of a research grant

paired the mitral valve which con-

from the Alexander von Humboldt Foun-

amount of blood flowing
through the heart. The former pro-

dation.

trols the

The Communique

in January.

Reza Noubary, professor of mathemat-

provide such educational and employment opportuniues.

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

Assistant Editor: Susan

vost will continue her recuperation

C.T. Walters, assistant professor of art,

home in Morgantown, W. Va.

and Marie M. Walters of the Bloomsburg
Historic Preservation Society recently had

at

on Academic Literacy:
Reading, Writing and Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum which was held on
the conference

The presentation was co-authored by two
former Bloomsburg students, Jennifer
Pedersen and Gene Kinney, and by James

and business law, had the

School for soccer coaches, through

at her

May/

June issue of Grassroots Economic Orga-

Myers, presently a student.

— Bloomsburg Coaching

to

A Grameen-Type Bank

for ages

12 to 18; through Friday, July 31.
•Soccer

Behavior Analysis:

Ratio Schedules of Reinforcement."

Monday, July 27
•Boy's and Girl's Soccer

the Association for

San Francisco,

associate professor of

management, and Frank Lindenfeld, professor of sociology and social welfare, had

Pennsylvania.

•Summer Sessions 2 and 6 end.

Kingsley of the

New York City.

round table format to ad-

•Transfer Students Orientation

Friday, July 24

two works of art accepted for Regional Art
'92, an exhibition on display at Marywood
College. The exhibit was juried by April

M. Schantz

Contributing Writer: Patricia Kerwin

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

Trustees endorse proposal

pay 25 percent of cost

to

for building

new

library

Bloomsburg's council of trustees has approved a State System of
Higher Education shared funding resolution that would

call for

state-owned universities to raise 25 percent of the total cost to
construct academic buildings, including libraries, on their campus.

By

a vote of eight to two, the trustees endorsed a proposal that

could help expedite the release of state funds to build a
at

Bloomsburg. The action took place

new

library

at the council's quarterly

this month in the Magee Center.
The plan was recently endorsed by the State System board of
governors. If approved by Gov. Robert P. Casey, the state would

meeting

'

^

pay the remaining 75 percent of the
"I

wish

...

the

total

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

building cost.

Commonwealth was in a position to totally fund the
new library," said trustee chairperson LaRoy

construction of a

Davis of Feasterville. This proposal

"is trying to

respond

to the

Dan

Vann, dean of library services, listens as Carol
Matteson makes her first report to the council of trustees
as interim provost.

current fiscal crisis in the state," said John Walker, vice president for
university advancement.

The

Constfucting a larger library has been Bloomsburg's top priority

many years. But there's an enormous backlog of
capital project requests among the 14 state-owned universities, and
capital project for

"Over

the last several years, the (State System) universities

identified a

I

have

think this (resolution) breaks a covenant that has been

established (in Pennsylvania) for a long time."

The council's approval of the plan will be forwarded
System Chancellor James McCormick.

CD-ROM system for Andruss Library. "Our students

and faculty will be able

to

engage

in

end-user elecconic literature

searches through a variety of (on-line) sources," said Ausprich.

^

Updating the U"ustees on campus consffuction projects, Ausprich
reported the addition to Scranton

Commons

and the Kehr Union renovation

"coming along beautifully" and
anticipate the Union will be

should be completed in the

fall.

is

"We

open for operation next spring," he

said.

steam plant during the

coal consumption," said

Ausprich.

Other projects under way include renovating Gross Auditorium
in

Carver Hall and designing the new student recreation center, he

added.

Bemie Vinovrski, director of admissions, reported "a slight
summer enrollment this year. Full-time equivalency

decline" in

data indicates 1,561 students are attending the university this

summer, signifying a drop of 52 students from

last year's total

has been completed

of

1,613.

Jennie Carpenter, acting vice president for student
to State

At the meeting, Ausprich reported Bloomsburg's purchase of an
eight-station

presently installing natural gas lines and hot

project. "This will allow us to close the

new and important priority ... private fund raising," said

Bloomsburg President Harry Ausprich.
"The Commonwealth is now looking to the universities to fund
capital projects," said trustee Robert Buehner of Danville, who,
along with trustee Gerald Malinowski of Mount Carmel, voted
against the resolution. "One of the differences (between pubhc and
private universities) is the way buildings are built and who pays for
them.

is

summer and save about $250,000 on

pay for those projects.

insufficient funds in state coffers to

university

water boilers in campus buildings as part of an energy conservation

the installation of security alarms
halls

life,

reported

on the doors of men's residence

and the extension of staffing hours

at all

residence hall

entrance desks.

Noting the residence life staff has received "several complaints"

from

women

students concerned about walking to and from the

lower campus and the upper campus Montgomery Apartment

complex

announced the
between the two campuses

after dark. Carpenter

shuttle bus service

start

of an evening

this fall.

"This (bus service) will be a big security plus for the upper

campus," Carpenter

bus can be used by
Continued on page 4

said, noting the shuttle

2 The

Communique 30 JULY 92

PP&L official to give August
commencement address
John T. Kauffman, chairman and chief
executive officer of Pennsylvania Power

&

Light Company, will discuss "Fulfilling the

Promise" during Bloomsburg's commence-

ment convocation at 7 p.m., Saturday, Aug.
15, in Mitrani Hall.

A 42-year veteran
industry,
bility for

of the electric

sive construction project in

—

utility

Kauffman had principle responsithe completion of the most exten-

the start

PP&L's history

up and early operation of the

Susquehanna nuclear power plant near
Berwick.

Kauffman earned a bachelor of science
degree in mechanical engineering from

Purdue University
in West Lafayette,

Ind.

The New Jer-

sey native holds a

bachelor of

L
LEADERS NAMED

— Recently

PHOrO BY JOAN HELPER

members of the council of trustees' executive
Johnson, vice chairperson; Kevin M. O'Connor,

elected

committee are (from left) Howard B.
chairperson; and Gerald E. Malinowski, secretary.

sci-

ence degree

in

Trustees elect 1992-93 executive committee officers

marine engineerBloomsburg's council of trustees elected

ing from the U.S.

executive committee officers

Academy in Kings

son, vice chairperson and secretary

N.Y.
His
professional activities include serving on the board
of the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness
and membership on the American Nuclear

John

T.

Kauffman

Point,

Energy Council, Association of Edison

Il-

luminating Companies, Living Lakes, Inc.,

and the U.S.

Chamber of Commerce's

1992-93 at

the governing bod-

of Pennsylvania's Chamber of Business

—

for

1

vice chairperson of the council.

appointed

8 in Kingston, was elected chairperson of

He

Johnson,

He was

to the university's trustees

Gov. Casey

recent quarterly meeting.

in

by

June 1989.

who

holds a bachelor of arts

degree from Bloomsburg, worked from

1973-77 as a court representative for the

Glen Mills School

Glen Mills. He was

in

currently serving a sec-

executive director of the West Philadelphia

ond term as a Bloomsburg trustee after
being reappointed by Gov. Robert P. Casey

Youth Counseling Center from 1978-80, a

in April 1988.

Radnor from 1981-85 and an accountrepresentative for Datagraphix, Inc., in Willow
Grove from 1985-86.

the council.

is

O'Connor, who

initially

served on the

council from February 1976 to

Education.

Kauffman serves on
ies

its

chairper-

Kevin M. O'Connor of Plains, executive director of Luzerne Intermediate Unit

Center for Workforce Preparation and Quality

—

Merchant Marine

1

December

marketing representative for

He

983 after being appointed by Gov. Milton

J.

Shaap, taught from 1969-72 in the

succeeds council

IBM Corp.

in

member Anna Mae

Lehr of Bloomsburg who was vice

chair-

and Industry and Business Roundtable,

Wilkes-Barre school system. In 1972, he

Pennsylvanians for Effective Government

was named regional

director of the Penn-

Gerald E. Malinowski, an attorney from

and the Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of

sylvania Higher Education Assistance

The Nature Conservancy. He is a member
of The Pennsylvania Society and was past

Agency. He began

Mount Carmel, was re-elected secretary of
the council. He has been a member of the

his current position in

chairperson of the Pennsylvania Electric

March 1973.
O'Connor holds a bachelor of

Association, an organization of the state's

gree from King's College in Wilkes-Barre

investor-owned

utilities.

His community involvement encompasses membership on the board of directors of

2000:

Pennsylvania 2000, Lehigh Valley
Business Education Partnership,

Lehigh Valley Parmership, Quality Valley

person for one year.

Bloomsburg trustees since being appointed
arts de-

by Gov. Richard Thornburgh

and a master of science degree from the
University of Scranton.

He conducted post-

Malinowski,

who

has served the

the past 24 years, also

Bethlehem.

in the

He succeeds LaRoy

G. Davis of

who served as chairperson of

September

resi-

dents of Mount Carmel as legal counsel for

graduate work at Lehigh University in

Feasterville

in

1983.

in

worked as a teacher
Downingtown Area School District

Chester County.
Malinowski holds a bachelor of science
|

-

USA, Lehigh

Valley Business Confer-

ence on Health Care and Minsi Trails Council

of the

Boy Scouts of America.
Susan M. Schanlz

—

two years.
Howard B. Johnson of Exton, a market-

the trustees the last

ing representative for Decision

puter Corp. in Springhouse,

DataCom-

was

elected

degree from Bloomsburg and a juris doctoral

degree from Dickinson Law School

Carlisle.

in

— Kevin B. Engler

JULY 92

The Communique 30

Sculptor Libby Medrich

explains the loop in the road
straight road."

still

impact

feels 'vital'

of Elderhostel experience

still

was through the Elderhostel program on campus a year ago that
Bloomsburg University discovered Libby Medrich
the sculptor
in a philosophy professor's class on Medical Ethics.
When the elderhostel student showed photos of her work to
professor Marjorie Clay, she was so impressed with her work she
introduced Medrich to John Walker,
vice president for advancement, and
art professor Karl Beamer. Out of

—

—

really

Libby Medrich

titled

"Roots

she says,

"I've

been nurtured by them.

They're like

my

security blanket.

them go." But Medrich, 83, from Larchmont,
N. Y., has exhibited her works in shows since 1973 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and beyond. She is used to letting go.
Besides being an artist, the native of New York says, "I am a
It's difficult letting

)

philosopher. Ideas get

Among the
women like

me going.

I

feast

on them." Sculpting, she

some difficult times in her life
to stand on her own. She has been widowed twice.
Her solo sculpture show titled "Roots and Relationships" em-

admits, has helped get her through

—

bodies themes such as the holocaust, struggle for peace, equality for

volunteer in the community."

Giacometti's influence
figure of a

six notches at

WWII,

why

influence of Henri

'Holocaust

Memorial'

Moore

the work,

is

tall, thin,

haunting

"The Crown Jewel." The
apparent in "From Generation to
titled

In contrast
ties in the

is

child.

—

the

Medrich describes the woman's form

— what a woman should be

the piece

to a

as

man."

"Of Feminine Mystique" featuring caviabdomen of a woman. "People can put

head, chest and

what they want

into these areas," she says.

"Listen World"

is

sitting in different

a 10-piece assemblage featuring female figures

poses with their leader standing in front of a

"They're worshipping the shrine of the new woman," says

shrine.

Medrich. The small doorways on the side symbolize "women

who

have had to crawl through the side door in the past for their (career)
opportunities," explains Medrich.

opening where the leader
nities that

is

In front of the shrine

standing.

The

shrine

itself,

she explains,

is

"an outline of an

image of a man and woman being equal." Suspended in

bosom" because "feminism has
women's movement."

is

in the

a big

have opened up for women today she can go through the

front door."

form

is

"Because of more opportu-

a "weeping

When Medrich

lost

front of the

something

speaks of the Elderhostel experience, she could

be talking about her solo sculpture show:

— exposes

The Elderhostel

us to a wide variety of subjects that

stimulate and intrigue us."

For Medrich, the Elderhostel became "a forum for the exchange
of ideas of people of varied backgrounds, experiences and percep-

such a tragedy had to happen.

As she approaches

commu-

Jews who were
of David are bodies

six million

Below the star
falling on either side of a vacuous column to their graves. A
question mark, the number six and six zeroes tumble down the wall
in back. The question mark serves as a reminder for the viewer to

ask

at the side

The

the "Holocaust Memorial."

she says.

open door

Generation," which "reaffirms the continuity of the family"

"nurtures us

killed during

small,

reflected in the

is

woman and her child,

With the exception of three construction pieces, most of the works
are built in wax and cast in bronze.
the top symbolize the

The

nity."

easily

is

tribute to

represents "an ear attuned to the needs of the family and

women and family. Her work ranges from semi-abstract to abstract.

One of her "important pieces"

not a

yet."

is

"languorous, sensuous

show,

is

— you don't have peace
show's 23 pieces
a "Woman of Valor," a
"Eleanor Roosevelt and Golda Meir — and every

involved in making peace

came the idea for a Medrich 's invitational sculpture show on exhibit this
month in Haas Art Gallery. Looking
around the room recently at the variand Reflections,"

peace

—

man, woman and

in the

to

Looming in the background is an "evil form
the face of
The surface "is not polished," she explains, "because you're

that meeting and others that followed,

ous pieces

means "the road

the right are cylindrical shapes symbolizing

nations.

war."

It

On

3

tions.

Medrich

'Make Peace
Not War'

a process of give and take from one to another."
is

deeply grateful for the "give and take," especially

professor Clay's class. Speaking of her friend
her last year and this year to Bloomsburg,
vital

"Make Peace Not War,"

It is

and provocative we

she

'From Generation
to

Generation'

still

in

who accompanied

"we found

her class so

feel its impact."

— Joan

T.

Lentczner

PHOTOS BY JOAN HELPER

'Listen World'

4 The Communique 30

JULY

92

Jean Kalat, nursing

QUEST schedules
August

professor, dies at

"Mother loved
the university a

home

great deal and was

classes
Jean K. Kalet.assistantprofessorof nurs-

QUEST, an outdoor experiential education program at Bloomsburg, has

scheduled four courses in August.

ropes and safety equipment from 8 a.m.

climbing

ence

site in

Aug.

Danville.

1, at

No

a rock
experi-

necessary.

is

children's imagination and
in

knowledge

a caving course from

8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday, Aug. 7, at a

cave near State College. Area youth,
ages 11 to 16, will explore stalagtites

and passages during

for 11 years.

at her

home.

Bloomsburg pro-

She

initiated a

this safe under-

ground adventure.

course on

nursing trends and issues, including
transcultural aspects in the United King-

dom-International studies at Oxford Uni-

be on the

says

daughter Martha
Smith. "She was

always speaking

Jean K. Kalat

fondly of the col-

among

legiality

the faculty.

She was so

impressed with the quality of education the

in

England

in

1991

caring atmosphere."

From 1989

she researched and implemented methods
for mother and child bonding at the Bethlem

Royal Hospital

in

until her death,

in-service consultant at the

Kalat was an

Muncy

Slate

Correctional Institution in Muncy.

London.

"Jean will be greatly missed in the deparunent and at the university," says Dorette

Welk, chairperson of the nursing department. "She was so quick to share her expertise,

to

faculty,"

students received, as well as the loving and

versity.

During a sabbatical

Parents interested in expanding their

can enroll them

Tuesday, July 21

Kalat, 61, had been a

fessor of psychiatric/mental health nursing

Rock climbing enthusiasts will learn
how to climb steep rock cliffs using
to 5 p.m., Saturday,

ing, died

proud

She served as a director of the Mental
Health Association of Columbia and

Montour

counties.

She was a board mem-

ber of the American Cancer Society of

Montour County and served on the Nurse
Hope Committee. She was a charter

warmth, humor and caring."

of

Individuals interested in exciting

Whitewater adventures can learn the

member of the

basics of kayaking from 9 a.m. to 4

of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor

p.m., Sunday, Aug. 9, at the lower

of

section

Creek

Fishing

in

problem-solving and

In addition,

risk-taking skills can be learned through

high ropes program from 9

4 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 16, on

a.m. to

Continued from page
students

Bloomsburg.

QUEST'S

Trustees meeting

Society of Nursing.

1

Kalat graduated from the

live in the

upper campus

housing complex and those who park

Orange parking

"We
safety

lot

near

Redman

in the

Stadium.

are continually working to better

and security on campus," she added.

Anthony laniero, assistant vice president

Bloomsburg's upper campus.
For more information, call

who

389-4323.

for development, reported the university

has raised $16 million over the past seven
years.

"We

raised nearly $3.8 million in

less than three years for the Trust for

and

staff,

The Communique pubhshcs news

of activities, events and developments

at

fund to enhance Andruss Library. "I'm

Bloomsburg University bi-weekly throughout

happy to say that sometime closer to Christ-

mas we'll be able to release the first portion
news

briefs

and

calendar information at least two weeks in ad-

vance
tions

to

The Communique, University Rela-

and Communication Office, Bloomsburg

University, Bloomsburg,

PA

17815.

Bloomsburg is committed to providing equal
education and employment opportunities for all
persons without regard to race, color, religion,

of accrued interest to the library which will

go toward purchasing equipment, books
and periodicals," said laniero.

port the Honors and Scholars program.

secure a major trust for the university.

university

membership.
is

additionally committed to

affirmative action and will take positive steps to

provide such educational and employment op-

hope to tell you exactly what that value
be

at the next (trustees)

M. Schantz

Contributing Writer: Patricia

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

Kerwin

gree in psychiatric nursing from the Texas

Woman's Univesity

in

Denton.

Survivors include her husband, George
R. Kalat; her sons, Everett H.

and

Lt.

Kent L. Webber,

Webber

II

her daughters

Smith and Amelia A. Webber; and two

Calendar
Sunday, August 2
•Lutheran Youth Conference, through
Thursday, Aug. 6.
•Girl's Field Hockey Camp, through
Thursday, Aug. 6.

Monday, August

3
•Boy's and Girl's Baseball Fundamental Day Camp, through Friday, Aug. 7.

Sunday, August 9
•Girl's Field Hockey Camp, through
Thursday, Aug. 13.

Richardson, chief legal counsel

for the State System,

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

meeting," he

said.

Wayne

portunities.

Assistant Editor: Susan

"I

will

He

announced working with a prospect to

also

sexual orientation, handicap, Vietnam era status

The

.

nursing from the University of Vermont in \
Burlington, and her master of science de-

In addition, laniero said the university

foundation has approved $20,000 to sup-

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

veterans, or union

received her bachelor of science degree in

grandsons.

component of the $3.5 million Trust
for Generations campaign was a $1 million

the academic year.

Please submit story ideas,

New England

Baptist Hospital School of Nursing and

A

A newsletierfor Bloomsburg University faculty

Gen-

erations campaign," laniero said.

The Communique

local chapter of Theta Zeta

and new attorneys

ToddBrownfield andLeslie Lewis Johnson,
attended the meeting.

— Kevin

B. Engler

Friday, August 14

•Summer

Sessions 3 and 7 end.

Thursday, August 27
•Adult/Returning Students Orientation

^

Bloomsburg, Danville

initiative benefits
Olivo

education majors, 'special needs' children
Ann Lee and asked, "What do you think of

the concept of integrating children with

ing methods right on site?"

setting initially

was not a good

"Our expectations of these students were
not as high as they should have been," the
special education instructor

Lee,

assistant

acknowledges

Concern with finding a better way

to

was not until

ments in teaching,

it

expose them to children

who

could help

challenge them academically.
Initiating a
cial

program

that integrates spe-

needs students with regular students

and community

concerns were worked out.
letter

I

look for-

working
with him," says

of

to

in-

Matteson.

cation students

...

Olivo, professor

and chairperson
John OIIvo Jr.

of the Department
of Business Edu-

cation and Office Administration,
joined the Bloomsburg faculty in 1982.

mainstream special edu-

He has developed and taught numerous

which was a prerequisite

courses at the graduate and undergradu-

Initiatives grant to

the state required to
ship," she says.

So Opdenhoff contacted Bloomsburg's

ward

viting

school superintendent William Opdenhoff,

School Board, and others.

service.

from

Department

Pennsylvania

received enthusiastic support from Danville

Principal Shelley Crawford, the Danville

scholarly growth

a year later that logistical problems and

Bloomsburg to participate in a new
grant program that would support initiatives to promote collaborations between
basic (elementary) and higher education.
"Fortunately, Danville Elementary
School had been awarded a State Supported

with special needs in regular classes to

named

in this position with John's accomplish-

wonderful idea." However,

the

has been

was "a

it

ally led teachers to rethink their position.

ementary School decided to place children

Jr.

dean of the university's

Education's special education division

years ago, teachers at Danville El-

Olivo

by Interim Provost Carol Mattcson.
"I am very pleased to have someone

serve children with special needs eventu-

Two

J.

interim dean of the College of Business

to Danville

Meanwhile, Lee received a

in retrospect.

John

and teach-

your faculty coming

School of Education, thought

idea.

interim

College of Business dean

For Mary Jones, who has taught nearly
20 years at Danville Elementary School,
"special needs" into a regular classroonn

named

members

form such a partner-

ate levels in office systems

and tech-

nology.

Bloomsburg and

During his tenure at Bloomsburg, he

teachers from Danville Elementary School

has been successful in securing over

Continued on page 2

$820,000 in grants. In 1991, he was
named Postsecondary Educator of the
Year by the Pennsylvania Business
Education Association. He is also a
past Teaching Scholar. He has pub-

Faculty

at

lished articles in various business edu-

cation and office systems journals, as

well as co-authored a textbook.

have mixed emotions about my
Bloomsburg," he says. "I
look forward to the challenge, but I
"I

new

role at

shall greatly

miss the classroom."

Olivo describes himself as a "team
player" and is eager to work with faculty to continue to develop initiatives

begun by former Dean Matteson.
Olivo earned a bachelor of science at
Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, W.
Va., a master's degree in education
PHOTO BY JOAS HELFEK

from Trenton State College

in

New

Amy Lowe,

senior elementary education major from Bloomsburg, encourages a student

Jersey and a Ph.D. degree from Michi-

at Danville

Elementary School.

gan State University

in

East Lansing.

2 The

Communique

13

AUG 92

Education majors
in

ment between Bloomsburg and Danville,
Buehner adds "this particular partnership

program could be improved. "The steering
committee met with the teachers in May to

May 1991. The workshop, held in Hershey,

should enhance the educational opportuni-

evaluate each module and determine how to

was arranged by Lee, Opdenhoff Crawford
and officials from the Central Susquehanna

ties for

Intermediate Unit (CSIU).

one

Continued from page
participated in a

1

workshop on "teaming"

,

Sheila Dove Jones, assistant professor of

Danville students and teachers

(because)

it's

...

a partnership where every-

Model program

at

Danville Elementary School, an "instruc-

how we

education teachers provides assistance to

could bring together two distinctively
ferent groups of

majors to help

dif-

Bloomsburg education

tional support

by observing
and working one-

regular classroom teachers
special needs students,

The 1ST

weekly meet-

specialists hold

fessor of curriculum and foundations, be-

ings with teachers at each grade level to

much

focus on better ways of helping students

needed improvement in communications
between basic and higher education.

who are having difficulties in their studies.

lieved the project could provide

could learn

how to better prepare

their students in

"cutting-edge"

In addition, they said university educa-

how

to better

own

schools.

an award from Gov. Robert P. Casey for its

cation program, helped implement the In-

clusion

Model by working

at the school

two days each week.

"special efforts for special kids."

For Amy Lowe, a senior elementary education major, "the single most important

aspect of the program was the experience of

working with the

teachers. In the afternoons, they received

sion of

On

Thursdays, the schedule was re-

teaching methods.

discussions.

The

what

we studied this

students often lunched

children extra individualized attention that

they needed. There were lots of hugs

we made them

"Out of that discussion came the idea for

with Danville teachers, and spent time
with the elementary school children on the

continue to pilot

who

playground before school and

demic

committee for the BloomsburgDanville Inclusion Model Project, and held
steering

at lunch.

Five of seven instructional teaching modules

—

Ethical Behavior, Classroom

Man-

As

...

and

feel special."

the grant," says Jones, noting that the group
the

semester."

Senior elementary education major, Jesse

LaCarrubba, adds "we were able to give the

and the teachers.
versed, and included 45 minutes for group

became

was hands-on

practice, not just theory, a wonderful exten-

prepare their students in "cutting-edge"

attended the workshop

kids. It

elementary classes observing Danville

group instruction from Jones, WiUiams
tion professors could learn

The Inclusion Model has been
successful and it has attracted
educators from across the state
who hope to replicate it in their

from the special education cur-

On Tuesdays, they spent the mornings in

teaching methods.

has attracted educators from across

it

the state who hope to replicate it in their
own schools. In May, the program received

riculum and 12 from the elementary edu-

education professors

and

Seventeen Bloomsburg education majors, five

...university

in the pro-

team" (1ST) of two special

on-one with the children.

in this project."

Jones and Bonnie WiUiams, assistant pro-

communication

gram," she says.

The Inclusion Model has been successful

benefits."

In the Inclusion

communication disorders and special education, recalled how the group "sat around
the table and brainstormed about

better facilitate

for the future of the program, "we'll
it

year, then

it

through the next acawill

have to be put

forward as a course and go through the
official

approval to be a course option,"

agement, Curriculum Based Assessment

explains WilUams.

(CBA) and Adaptations

Whole Language, Cooperative Learning

"If I have any concerns, whatsoever, it
would be in regard to continued funding ...
and I hope the university would see this as

ceived the grant award last August. In addi-

and Peer Coaching

a very viable option for students," adds

Danville School District allocated

during the program.

regular planning sessions during the

mer and

fall

terms

sum-

last year.

Following many months of preparation,
the university finally got

tion, the

word

it

had

re-

tional

in the Instruc-

Support Model, Mastery Learning,

— were

field tested

Jones.

modules, shared

"The program was much more successful
than I ever imagined it would be," notes
Crawford. 'The benefits were great for our
teachers and our children received lots of

made observa-

personal attention from the university stu-

and CSIU

Throughout the program, university stu-

agreed to serve as a resource for expertise.

dents were required to maintain journals

Robert W. Buehner Jr. of Danville, a 12-

recording their experience. In those jour-

financial support for the project,

year

member of Bloomsburg's council of
who serves as district attorney for

trustees

Montour County, is pleased to learn
program has received grant funding.

the

nals, they evaluated the

thoughts and concerns, and

and recommendations.
This summer, Jones and Williams are

tions

dents

...

they

became very attached

to

one

another."

According to Danville's Mary Jones, who
now works as an 1ST specialist, "these chil-

the result of trustee ef-

reading the journals and conducting a con-

arrange partnerships between local

tent analysis to target those areas of the

school districts and the university," says

program they believe need improvement.

Buehner, noting these kinds of partnerships

They

provide unique opportunities for university

during the semester.

they're doing beautifully, both academi-

Williams credits the Danville teachers
with providing vital input about how the

cally

"This project
forts to

is

students and faculty

beyond the campus.

Speaking of the collaborative arrange-

are also evaluating data collected

dren are fully mainstreamed and included in
their grade level with their peers ... and

and

socially."

—

Patricia Kerwin

The Communique 13

23 faculty promoted
Twenty-three faculty members
Bloomsburg have received promotions

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3

Bloomsburg University Crime Report
Prepared by the University Police Department

at
in

rank.

July 1992

Seven promoted from associate professor to professor include: Richard Angelo,

Reported

Offenses

communication disorders and special edu-

to or

I Iiiivpr<«itv

and culmanagement; E.

Vandalism

accounting; Robert Koslosky,

Disnrde.rlv

Arrests Made or Incidents
CIparpH hv

by

Polirp

cation; Brigitte Callay, languages
tures; Francis Gallagher,

Burel
art;

Gum,

Lynne

Miller, biological

health sciences;
logical

and

and

allied

and Cynthia S urmacz, bio-

Liquor

Conduct

Law

Violations

Public Drunkenness

Spxual Offpnsps

allied health sciences.

Fourteen promoted from assistant professor to associate professor include:

Tho-

Rape
Dnip Violations

mas Aleto, anthropology; George Chamuris,

Simnle Assaults

biological

and allied health sciences; Chris
Cherrington, curriculum and foundations;

Aggravated Assaults

Winona Cochran, psychology; Donna

Arson

Cochrane, business education and office

Weapons Possession

Henry Dobson, curriculum
and foundations; Linda LeMura, health,
physical education and athletics; Robert
Lowe, communication disorders and special education; S. Michael McCully, English; Wendy Miller, music; Donald Pratt,
curriculum and foundations; Danny
Robinson, English; Emeric Schultz, chemistry; and Dale Sultzbaugh, sociology and

DUI

administration;

social welfare.

Maureen Mulligan, administrative facmemberanddirectorof Upward Bound,

ulty

and Carol Venuto, developmental instruction,

were promoted from instructor

to as-

sistant professor.

Murder

Vagrancy
Robbery/Burglary

Motor Vehicle Theft

From Buildings
From Vehicles

of international education

0

3

3

5

5

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1

1

1

Retail Thefts

0

Bicycle

1

0
0
0
2

Others

1

Total Thefts

9

Safety Tip: Participate in "Operation ID" by engraving your Social Security number/
Driver's License

number on

valuables. Engravers

Police Department by showing your university ID.
serial

Sharma named coordinator

4

numbers of

all

Madhav

P.

Sharma has been appointed

Bloomsburg. Sharma,

^^^^^^^
^^^^W^^k

signed out of the University

a record of model numbers and

technical training and careers courses that

were specially designed

research associate for the Permanent Mis-

for international

sion of Nepal to the United Nations and

His administrative duties included nego-

World University Services in New York.
In addition, he was a language teacher in

tiating overseas technical

development

the

Peace Corps training program

at the

who began his posi-

projects, organizing conferences in interna-

University of California at Davis, Calif.,

and served as assistant executive secretary

tion in July, served the

tional education programs and assisting fac-

past eight years as an

ulty in developing international

assistant professor

cultural education programs.

and special

assistant

and cross-

of the Fulbright Foundation in Nepal.

Sharma holds a bachelor's degree in En-

Since 1988, Sharma has served as a

liai-

glish, history

and

political science

to the dean in the Col-

son between colleges and universities

lege of Technical Ca-

United States and People's College of

from Tribhuban University

reers at Southern

Paknajol Kathmandu in Nepal. In this posi-

Nepal.

Illi-

nois University (SIU)
in

M.P. Sharma

Keep

your valuables.

students.

coordinator of international education at

may be

Carbondale,

111.

As an instructor at
SIU, Sharma taught

tion,

in the

he has helped negotiate technical de-

and a

master's degree in culture and archaelogy

He also holds

in

Kathmandu,

a master's degree in

com-

velopment project proposals by correspond-

munity development and a doctorate

ing with U.S. and international foundations.

higher education from SIU.

Earlier in his career,

Sharma worked as a

in

— Kevin B. Engler

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News Briefs

Campus Notes

Bloomsburg's summer steam shutdown
on the lower campus begins

at

4 p.m.,

Saturday, Aug. 15, and runs until midnight,

awarded $1,000

to support the National

Forensic Association

s

23rd Annual Cham -

pionship hosted by Bloomsburg next year.

**

Friday, Aug. 28.

"The primary inconvenience for faculty
and staff during the shutdown will be the
lack of hot water in most lower campus
buildings," says

'

Thomas Messinger, acting

director of maintenance

and energy man-

agement.
=•<**

The Bloomsburg University Foundation,
has awarded more than $23,000 to

Slike, professor of communica-

and special education, and

Dorothy Hobbis,

interactive video spe-

cialist in the Institute for Interactive

"Spectrum," a magazine published by

Bloomsburg journalism

Samuel

tion disorders

Tech-

nologies, presented an interactive video

students, recently

project titled "Speechreading Challenges

received a Certificate of Special Merit award

on Videodisc" at the Pennsylvania Self
Help for Hard of Hearing conference re-

by the

for distinguished public service

American Bar Association (ABA).
According to Walter Brasch, professor of
journalism and the magazine's editor-inchief, "Spectrum" earned the honor for a

cently in State College.

Judith Hirshfeld, assistant professor of
communication disorders and special edu-

special issue published last December which

spoke on "Educating Teachers for
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students" at the

support faculty and staff endeavors during

focused on child custody.

conference.

the 1992-93

Stephen Kokoska, associate professor of

was entered in a national
competition that drew entries from 262

discussed "Language, Communication and

mathematics and computer science, and

different media organizations," Brasch said.

Literacy Issues in the Education of Stu-

Inc.,

"The

academic year.

John Baird, director of the Honors and

issue

"This award

is

the first 'Spectrum' has

Scholars program, received $ 19,530 to help

received in competition against non-stu-

implement a scholars course in calculus.
Madeline Foshay, chairperson of the
university's Native American Awareness

dent magazines

Committee, was awarded $2,000 to support
a campus presentation by Suzan Shown
Harjo.

Dale Bertelsen, assistant professor of

communication

studies, received

$950

to

support a K-12 Outreach program in conjunction with the Speech

Communication

Association of Pennsylvania.

Harry S trine, director of forensics, was

...

and

it's

the

first

time the

ABA has presented an award to a studentproduced publication," he added.
***

and

staff.

The Communique pubhshes news

of activities, events and developments at

Bloomsburg University bi-weekly throughout
the academic year.
Please submit story ideas, news briefs and
calendar information at least two weeks in adand Communication Office, Bloomsburg

University, Bloomsburg,

PA

17815.

Bloomsburg is committed to providing equal
education and employment opf)ortunities for all

sexual orientation, handicap, Vietnam era status
veterans, or union membership.

The

university

is

Aug. 29,
Park

at

Knoebels Grove Amusement

in Elysburg.

provide such educational and employment op-

Hot dogs, hamburgers and other picnic
is $6 per

foods will be served at noon. Cost

Disparities:

Ohio Valley" included

M. Schantz
Contributing Writer: Patricia Kerwin
Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

in Cultural Vari-

presented at the 54th annual meeting of the
Society for American Archaeology in 1989.

call the

alumni

3894058.

a paper

Faculty and staff are reminded that the

Personnel and Labor Relations Office has

changed

its

name

Dale Bertelsen,

communication

to the Office

of Human

Resources and Labor Relations.

titled

assistant professor of

studies, recently presented

"Art and Science

in Society:

Voices of Reason and Aesthetics
Discourse"

at the

in Public

annual convention of the

Eastern Communication Association

(ECA).
In addition, Bertelsen chaired a panel

discussion on 'The Nature of Rhetorical

Calendar

Ontologies and Epistemologies: Perspec-

Sunday, August 16

ECA's

tive

•QUEST

— high

p.m., upper

ropes, 9 a.m. to

and Replies" and was nominated
first

as

vice president.

4

campus

Janet Reynolds Bodenman,

assistant

professor of communication studies, dis-

Thursday, August 27
•Adult/Returning Students Orientation

cussed "Person

-

Organization

ceptual Model Explaining how

Fit:

A Con-

'Fit' is

Com-

municated During the Selection Review"

Monday, August 31
•Classes begin, 8 a.m.

at the recent Eastern

Wednesday, September 2
•Movie

—"Wayne's World," Haas

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

Communication As-

sociation convention.

Bodenman also
Assistant Editor: Susan

Woodland

The

person. Children under four are free.

portunities.

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

assistant professor

of anthropology, had a paper titled "Trends

ability in Context, a collection of papers

additionally committed to

affirmative action and will take jxjsiiive steps to

held recently in Hershey.

and

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

Educators of Students with Hearing Loss

Paleoethnobotanical Record of the Mid-

starting at noon, Saturday,

vance to The Communique, University Relations

this

year's annual convocation of Pennsylvania

sponsor the university's annual "Alumni

***

A newsleiier for Bloomsburg University fac-

dents with Hearing Loss in the '90s" at

Family Picnic"

For more information,

ulty

In addition, Slike served on a panel that

Dee Anne Wymer,

Bloomsburg's Alumni Association will

office at

The Communique

cation,

sion on

participated in a discus-

"The Impact of Social Change on

Our Relationships."

commiiflw
A NEWSLETTER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT

Summer Commencement

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY

in

this

country

He

society.

on

also congratulated the gradu-

have become cynics and believe they can't

ates

make

"Today we celebrate not an end, but a
beginning," Kauffman reminded the gradu-

a difference in the world, a head

of the state's largest public

official

utility

their achievements.

ates.

"We celebrate your first steps on a new

"lead the change" in our society.

life.

But more importantly, we celebrate the

take personal responsibility

world.. .and the

and

begin to change the
world, one person
at a time,"

John Kauffman

urged

to

that

you bring

"But there

is

hope

is

ity for

Pennsylvania

Kauffman requested the graduates take
responsibility for making our society more

Power & Light Co.

tolerant, just

the past

and

full

of hope.

we

celebrate today will be realized only

if

Admitting he's not surprised that

the

Kauffman.

bachelor's degree candidates and 96
master's degree recipients the job market

many

efits"

Kauffman went on to discuss some of
major incidents Americans have had to

He

in this

deal with during recent months.

"We cannot dismiss

Los Angeles as someone else's problem ... blame
homelessness and poverty on failed government programs ... condemn the scandals
in the savings and loan industry ... rebuke
nations that go to war over political boundaries

the riots in

and cultural differences

...

or decry the

sorry slate of basic education in our society," he cautioned.

Kauffman took a few moments

commend Bloomsburg's faculty and staff on
their contributions to education and our

of their college education.
added, however, that these benefits

would come equipped with certain obligations that include making financial contributions as well as time commitments to
their

Trustee

member Anna Mae Lehr

congratulates her son Gregory Elias

Lehr who received a Master of Educa
tion in reading.

Mullen assigned
to temporarily head
affirmative action
Gail Derek Mullen, executiveassistant to

communities.

267 graduates here today take the
challenge of personal responsibility, you

been assigned temporarily to oversee the

can make a real difference

affirmative action office in Carver Hall.

"If all

nities," said

America

is

your commu-

on the

the president for the past four years, has

Mullen earned a Bachelor of Science

to turn the tide

so that

right course again."

Kauffman challenged

in

human behavior and development at Drexel
University and a Master of Education at

for suc-

West Chester University.
Prior to coming to B loomsburg, she served

and take responsibility for attaining

as associate director of admissions at Cedar

closing,

Bloomsburg graduates
cess,

in

Kauffman.

"You can begin
In

to

MOTHER AND SON — Council of

graduates would eventually "reap the ben-

country have become cyni-

people
cal,

said

could be "tough," Kauffman noted that

25 years.

feel

"Thepromise...possibility...and hope that

Indicating to his audience of 171

endure during

we

B. Engler

improving your corner of the world."

issues as political scandals, racial tension,

to

that

new

execuiiveofficerof

economic recession

hope

—Kevin

based on one important condition:

Each of you m ust take personal responsibil-

Americans have had

today."

a catch," he noted. "Our

celebration of promise, possibility and

each of us makes a commitment to act,"

that

truly fulfill the promise,

to

ment convocation in Mitrani Hall earlier
this month, Kauffman reflected on such
assassinations and an

you

our society.

John Kauffman,

Bloomsburg's summer commence-

will

our nation and our

new hope

chairman and chief

Speaking on "Fulfilling the Promise" as
part of

you bring

bility that

the lives of those
you...

Only then

promise of your achievement.. .the possi-

for your lives. ..for

^around

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^lead the change'
the possibility and the

challenged 267 Bloomsburg graduates to

"You must

27

*92

PP&L official urges graduates to
Because many people

•

those dreams.

to

dream

Crest College in Allentown for four years.

2 The

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Communique 27

New Community

Service Initiative

SOLVE combines

work with
student employment program

federal
More

volunteer

than 30 representatives from non-

and organizations

profit agencies

in north-

eastern and central Pennsylvania learned

new community

about a

service initiative

Lori Fraind of Berwick, a graduate stu-

dent in the Institute for Interactive Technologies,

came up with

the winning entry,

she notes.

during a recent seminar in Blocmsburg's

According

SOLVE

to Barnes,

Husky Comers last month.
The program, which has been named

deavor to place students

SOL\^

other students

for "Students

Organized

to

Learn

who

will en-

are eligible

for the federal work-study program,

who

and

simply wish to do vol-

through Volunteerism and Employment,"

unteer work, with the many non-profit agen-

combines the university's volunteer

cies

vices office with a

student

ser-

newly created federal

employment program

called

Ser\'ice

Main

Learning

is

a fed-

erally funded work-study program designed
to initiate

and expand student employment

opportunities in the area of
service," says

Tom

community

Lyons, director of

fi-

According
eral

to

who meet

Lyons, Bloomsburg

stu-

the requirements for fed-

work-study assistance are ehgible

to

participate in the program. Students are

paid the current

minimum wage

of S4.25

B ut this new partnership program needed
name. So Barbara Barnes, who coordi-

nates the effort, conducted a contest to
solicit ideas

from university students.

"Contest entries were narrowed to five

"We

names," says Barnes.
profit representatives

seminar

offices are

housed

Street in the former

restaurant location.

The

site

—

Husky Comers

as

at

330 East

Hungry Hombre

— now known

offers students,

cam-

pus personnel and community residents a
central location to get information

on a

wide range of community service and vol-

asked the non-

who

attended our

to vote for their favorite entry',

the majority selected

and

SOLX'E."

13 faculty get tenure

in

the

heart of

downtown

Bloomsburg. ..where our resources are easily

accessible to students and

the

community," says Lyons.

members of

learn about Bloomsburg' s new
program.
(in class)

to

about what that service has meant

ihem, and what

it's

meant

In addition, the university will continue
its

involvement with the national "Into the

duce college and university students

about the role of the citizen in a Democratic

volunteer

society.

ties.

"One part of the course requires students
to w ork tw o hours per week as a volunteer
somewhere in the area. .and they'll reflect

Nov.

associate professor and psychological coun-

Library Hours Announced

ment

office;

This program, funded by the

community

and Linda LeMura, associate

6.

— Kevin B. Engler

Fall

Semester 1992:
8 a.m.

-

12 a.m.

Friday

8 a.m.

-

9 p.m.
5 p.m.

-

Thurs.

philosophy; Mehdi Razzaghi, professor of

Saturday

9 a.m.

-

Comparative and International Man-

-mathematics and computer science; Louise

Sunday

2 p.m.

-

agement Studies; George Chamuris, associate professor of biological and aUied health

Stone, assistant professor of English; and

Bruce Wilcox, assistant professor of chem-

sciences; Chris Cherringion, associate pro-

istry.

Mary Gavaghan, associate
of nursing; Gene Gordon, asso-

Others are
professor

ciate professor of
tion systems;

computer and informa-

and M. A. Rafey Habib, assis-

tant professor

of English; Barr>' Jackson,

10 p.m.

•University Archives, open weekdays

10 a.m. -noon, 1:30 p.m. -3 p.m.

Labor Day Weekend
September 4-7:

Correction
Christopher "Kip" Armstrong was re-

cenUy promoted from associate professor
to professor of sociology
fare.

His

and social wel-

name was inadvertanUy omitted

from the Aug. l3iss\icof The Communique.

to

service opportuni-

of marketing and director of the Institute

and foundations; and

K.

intro-

This year's event will be held Friday,

Mon.

Also Scoti Lowe, assistant professor of

guages and cultures.

W.

designed to

is

and human develop-

athletics.

Pauicia Dorame, assistant professor of lan-

persons

Kellogg Foundation,

Ausprich.

fessor of curriculum

to the

they have served," explained Peiffer.

opment of a new university course tided
"Democracy and Civic Responsibility" that
will require students to "read and think"

professor of health, physical education and

for

SOLVE

Streets" program, he says.

have been gran ted te nure by Presiden t Harry

They include: M. Ruhul Amin, professor

assistant for the Town of Bloomsburg,
joined representatives from area nonprofit agencies and organizations to

coordinator Bob Peiffer reported the devel-

selor in the counseling

Thirteen faculty members at Bloomsburg

PHOTO BY JOAS HELFEK

Shelley A. Evans, an administrative

"The university has established an office
located

During the seminar, volunteer service

per hour, he says.

a

re-

unteer initiatives in the area.

nancial aid.

dents

SOLVE

Com-

munity Service Learning.

"Community

and organizations throughout the

gion.

8 a.m.

Friday

Saturday

-

-

5 p.m.

Monday CLOSED

•University Archives will be closed

through

this period.

The Communique 27

Math

ics in her poetry

professor
finds solace in
writing poetry
JoAnne Growney says she gets "a
great feeling" when her poetry is published.
The Bloomsburg professor of mathematand computer science has enjoyed writ-

ing poetry since she

was a kid. But instead

of making it her career, Growney pursued a
degree in mathematics and decided to teach.

Growney.
was teaching

"I really like to write," says

"But

I

gave

it

up because

math and going

was taking up

I

to graduate school

all

of

my

time, as

that

...

was my

five years ago,

Growney found

hand writing poetry

pen
She since has written a dozen poems
of which several have been published.
"Paradoxes" and
Two of her poems
herself with

in

stract,"

again.

—
—
"Beautiful Numbers"
were published

in

ary.

The poem was

Janu-

recently accepted for

publication in The Newsletter of the

Hu-

problem

poem
that

I

is

about an unsolved math

have been working on

for

about as long as I've been writing poeu-y
again," says

Growney,

indicating her po-

etry almost always incorporates mathematics

because

two things

I

"it

allows

me

to integrate the

driving. "There's

she's jogging or

something about those

times," she says. "I tune out... kind of like

meditation. ..and that's when ideas,rhythms

and sounds

start

coming

into

my

head."

Growney gets most of her ideas for poems from "things that are very familiar" to
For example, she wrote "The Boston

Aunt" as a

woman

tribute to her sister

entertains

and

Growney 's

the

way

children

Boston, Mass., apartment.

Other poems, however, are based on

mar of the term "Ukraine" included
same issue.

in the

"American Deaf Culture: Community
through Conflict" at the 13th annual Discourse Analysis Conference on Conflict

and Diversity held recently at Temple University.

She also presented a paper

titled

"Coping with Anomie: Further Implication
of Kenneth Burke's Dramatism as Applied
to Social Movements" at this year's Eastern
Communication Association convention.

Dennis Gehris,

assistant professor of

business education and office administration,

discussed "Business Applications for

Microcomputer" during a recent
Danville Chamber of Commerce meeting
held at the Days Inn in Danville.
the

Growney 's personal experiences. "Power,"
for instance, grew out of a recent divorce.
"The poems come from those kinds of

experiences. ..mostly

my

dealings with

is

not usually

monetary, Growney knows she'll never get
rich writing poetry.

cause

to

Mark

Jelinek, assistant professor of

music and director of the Bloomsburg Uni-

versity-Community Orchestra, recently
conducted the 567th Air Force Band during

Since her compensation

But

that's okay, be-

a concert at the Otis Air National Guard

Base, Cape Cod, Mass.

He also served as a

cello soloist during the concert.

her there's more to writing poetry

Karl Beamer, associate professor of art,

than receiving a paycheck.
"It's nice to see

print," she says.

like to do."

Peters, master tutor in student

few words."

people," she says.

manistic Mathematics Network.

"This

joAnne Growney

poems occur when

in her

last

Teena

coming a math teacher was to make the
subject more understandable to students.
She's found that, by combining poetry and
math, students do learn better.
According to Growney, many of her ideas

Bloomsburg's interdisciplinary journal.

Md.,

in the spring is-

Kara Shultz, assistant professorof com-

Died," have been published in Carver,

etry reading in Baltimore,

article

munication studies, presented a paper titled

the

Growney presented a poem
"A Mathematics Nightmare" at a po-

grammar published

says part of her interest in be-

Growney

Four Quarters. Other poems, such as
"Power," "Boston Aunt" and "When Daddy

In addition,

had an

teach

support services, had an article on the gram-

in that ab-

straction with a

her.

titled

she ex-

who understand
poetry find a
power

using place names to

glish,

sue of Syntax in the Schools.

plained. "People

for

marriage and family."

About

Frank Peters, associate professor of En-

mathematics or
poetry is ab-

Admitting she will "never make a living

ics

"Mostpeople

think that either

at it,"

3

Campus Notes

during a sabbatical.

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Growney began writing about mathemat-

your accomplishments in

exhibited six sculptures, including "The
Partisan" (pictured below), "Larry" and

— Christina Gaudreau

"Winter Citizen,"

at

a three-person sculp-

show held recently in The Marquis
George MacDonald Art Gallery at College
ture

Six former faculty receive emeritus status
Six retired Bloomsburg faculty

members

have been granted emeritus status for

their

communication disorders and special education, 23 years; Ronald W. Novak, associ-

Karl
Beamer's

and computer

sculpture,

years of service to the university.

ate professor of mathematics

They are Leroy H. Brown, associate professor of mathematics and computer science, 26 years; Andrew J. Karpinski, pro-

science, 27 years; and

fessor and former chairperson of communi-

Misericordia in Dallas.

Thomas

L. Ohl,

"The

assisiantprofessor of mathematics and com-

Partisan,"

puter science, 23 years.

was part of
a recent art

The announcement of

this action

was

exhibit at

cation disorders and special education, 24

made at the recent quarterly meeting of the

and Colleen J. Marks, professor of
communication disorders and special edu-

university's Council of Trustees at the

College

Magee

Misericordia

years;

cation,

22

years.

Also John M. McLaughlin, professor of

Center.

in Dallas.

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Calendar

Eight faculty appointed
to tenure-track positions

Monday, August 31
Fall classes begin, 8 a.m.

—

Eight new faculty members have been

at Bucknell,

Women's Soccer

—

at

1

p.m.

appointed to full-time, tenure-track posi-

Gannon, 4 p.m.

Sunday, September 6
Men's Soccer
vs. Lewis, upper
campus soccer field, 1 1 a.m.

—

Women's Soccer
1

—

at

Monday, September 7
Labor Day
no classes; offices closed
Wednesday, September 9
Women's Soccer
at Kutztown,

—

—

Field

tions at

Bloomsburg.

named associate professor of computer and
information systems.

For the

last eight years,

Chimi served as

—
—

at

Lebanon Valley,

New

an assistant professor at Western

England College

in Springfield,

Mass.

Chimi holds a bachelor's degree in music
from the University of Massachusetts at
in

business ad-

and a doctorate in management information systems from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
ministration,

4 p.m.
downtown Bloomsburg,
Block Party
sponsored by University -Community
Task Force for Racial Equity,

been appointed assistantprofessor of math-

5 p.m.

ematics and computer science.

Thursday, September 10
vs. Gannon, upper
Men's Soccer
campus soccer field, 4 p.m.
Friday, September 11

—

—
lower campus
Women's Soccer —
Women's Tennis

vs.

West

Messiah,

—

at

Shippensburg,

—

Men's Soccer
at Millersville, 1 p.m.
Men'sAVomen's Cross Country
at
Kutztown (vs. Kutztown and West

—

Chester), 10 a.m.

—

Hockey
vs. Scranton, upper
campus hockey field, 1 p.m.
Sunday, September 13
Field

QUEST — Rafting,
Faculty Recital

—

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

featuring

Barbara City College.
Doll holds a diploma

Wendy

3:30 p.m.

—
—

Hockey
at Ithaca, 4 p.m.
Wednesday, September 16
vs. Muhlenberg,
Men's Soccer
upper campus soccer field, 4 p.m.
Friday, September 18
Parents' Weekend
Saturday, September 19
Field

QUEST — Rappelling, 8

389^323.
Sunday, September 27
Candlelight Unity Vigil

Grandstand, 7:30 p.m.

a.m.

-

Ger-

in

mathematics from UC-Santa Barbara.

in

Georgetown, Del.

a bachelor of science and a master's

tion

degree in education from Bloomsburg, and

a doctorate from the University of Maryland.

Irem Ozkarahan of Erie has been named

management.
For the last five years, Ozkarahan served

assistant professor of

as an assistant professor of

management

science for Behrend College of Penn State

University at Erie.

Ozkarahan holds three degrees
engineering

in indus-

—a bachelor of

from Middle East Technical

in

science

Ankara, a

master of science from the University of
Toronto, andadoctorale from Arizona State.
City, Iowa, has been

appointed assistant professor of mathematics

and computer science.

Shi served the past five years as a teach-

Iowa

in

Shi holds two degrees in mathematics

—

ing assistant at the University of

Iowa

City.

a bachelor of science from Anhui Normal
University in Chuzhon, China, and a mas-

professor at

Temple University

in

Ambler

from 1990-1991.

She holds two degrees

in history

—a

ter of science

from Shanghai Teachers Uni-

versity.

— Kevin B. Engler

bachelor of arts and a master of arts from

Temple.

The Communique

Anita Gleason of Socorro, N.M., has

A newsletler for Bloomsburg University fac-

been appointed assistantprofessor of math-

ulty and staff,

ematics and computer science.
last eight years,

Gleason served

as a teaching and research assistant at

New

Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro.
She holds three degrees in computer science

—bachelor of

science, master of sci-

—from New Mexico

ence, and doctorate
Institute

assistant professor of

mathematics

persons without regard to race, color,

reli-

gion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry,

life-

last

style,

sexual orientation, handicap, Vietnam era

veteran, or union membership.

and computer science.
For the

at

Bloomsburg University 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, Bloomsburg
University, Bloomsburg, PA 17815.
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all

named

The Communique publishes news

of activities, events and developments

educational and employment opportunities for

of Mining and Technology.

Scott Inch of Blacksburg, Va., has been

5 p.m.,

— Fairgrounds

High School

Gentile served as an adjunct assistant

For the

—

Karpinski was a

Nancy J. Gentile of Pcnilyn has been
named assistant professor of history.

Miller, Mitrani Hall, 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, September 15
Women's Tennis
at Bucknell,

last five years,

resource teacher at Sussex Central Senior

Yixun Shi of Iowa
mathematics

in

from the University of Stuttgart

p.m.

1

years, Doll served as a

Santa Barbara and as an instructor at Santa

in

tournament, 11 a.m.

—

two

many, a master of science degree in mathematics from Oregon State, and a doctorate

tournament, 2 p.m.
Saturday, September 12
Women's Soccer
at Messiah,
Football

last

cation disorders and special education.

trial

lecturer at the University of California at

Chester,

tennis courts, 3 p.m.
at

Helmut Doll of Santa Barbara, Calif., has

For the

appointed assistant professor of communi-

He holds three degrees in special educa-

Boston, a master's degree

Hockey

VPI.

For the

Carl Chimi of Colrain, Mass., has been

Mercyhurst,

p.m.

3:30 p.m.

Bloomsburg and a master's degree from
Michael Karpinski of Seaford, Del., was

Saturday, September 5
Football

bachelor's degree in mathematics from

seven years, Inch served as a

The

university

is

additionally committed to

affirmau v c action and will take positive steps to

graduate teach ing assistant at Virginia Poly-

provide such educational and employment op-

technic Institute and State University (VPI)

portunities.

in

Blacksburg.

He

holds an associate

Williamsport Area

in

Community

arts

from

College, a

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

laniero appointed
acting vice president
Anthony M. laniero, assistant vice president for development and executive director

of the Bloomsburg University Founda-

tion, Inc.,

has been appointed acting vice

president for university advancement

by

President Harry Ausprich.

His appointment runs

until Jan. 8

when

advancement vice president John Walker
returns from sab-

abatical

leave,

laniero,

who

began his assignment Aug. 3, wiU

,

preside over the
areas of affirma-

TRAINING SESSION

— BUTAC

associate director Paul Hartung, professor of mathPC-based training program produced by senior math majors Jill
Johnson of Hazleton, seated next to Hartung, and Mary Beth Hrasko, also ofHazleton,
ematics, supervises a

during a weeklong technical assistance seminar in July.

tive action, alumni

Anthony laniero

affairs, development, university
relations and com-

munication, legislative relations and the

BUTAC to help local businesses
develop PC-based programs

Foundation.
"If the library capital

campaign becomes

A

new

initiative at

Bloomsburg

is

pro-

a reality, the next six months will be par-

viding technical assistance in personal com-

important for the entire university

puter (PC) applications to area businesses

ticularly

advancement team," says

and industries while giving math and com-

laniero.

"Preparing our marketing and develop-

ment

strategies for all of

our constituents

puter science majors

some hands on job

their

computer problems," says Kokoska,

an associate professor of mathematics.
Trained on campus under the watchful
eyes of Kokoska and
directors

BUTAC

the students will specialize in

opportunities.

associate

Jim Pomfret and Paul Hdrtung,
PC-based

Decem-

vania in Harrisburg, the university's School

ber 1983 from Trenton State College in

of Extended Programs and department of

Computer Aided
Design (CAD), Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM), Statistical Process Control,
Electronic Data Interchange, database man-

New Jersey where he served more than two

mathematics and computer science have

agement, spreadsheet applications and ac-

years as assistant director of college devel-

established the

opment.

Technical Assistance Center

will play

a key role in the success of the

totaling

$4 1 ,500 from the Center for Rural Pennsyl-

project."

laniero

Aided by a one-year grant

came

to

Bloomsburg

in

Earlier in his career, laniero spent seven

According

Bloomsburg University

(BUTAC).

to Stephen Kokoska, director

years as Trenton State's assistant headfoot-

of BUTAC, undergraduate math and com-

coach and served as director of alumni

puter science majors at Bloomsburg will be

ball

affairs, assistant director

and

BUTAC

has already placed 15 student

assistant

sized companies in northeastern and cen-

gion including Wolf's Market

tral

resolve PC-based problems.

at the college.

holds a bachelor's degree in history

Trenton S tate.

problems," says Kokoska.
interns with several

grams

He

"We can place a student with a company
to help solve the most common PC -related

placed as interns at small and medium-

coach for the baseball and football pro-

and a master's degree

counting systems.

affairs,

of alumni

sports information director

applications including

in education

from

— Kevin B Engler
.

Pennsylvania to help those businesses

"Bloomsburg has some very talented
math and computer science majors who are
capable of helping area companies solve

companies

in this re-

in Danville,

The James Wood Co. in Williamsport,
Schuman's Insurance Agency in Bloomsburg and Montour Systems Co. in
Orangeville.

Continued on page 3

2 The Communique 10

SEPT 92

program awarded reaccreditation

Social welfare

by Council on Social
Bloomsburg's four-year bachelor's degree program in social welfare recentiy had
its

accreditation reaffirmed

on Social

by the Council

accreditation from

dard

first

from the sociology

CSWE

...

for their stan-

time accreditation period of four

from

accredited programs are no longer permitted to

CSWE

CSWE ensures

that our under-

a

of the university's social welfare graduates
secured their

first jobs

as social workers in

cies.

its

Commission

on Accreditation."
Hsien-Tung Liu

—

dean of Arts and Sciences

Other graduates were hired as

social

workers in hospitals, domestic violence
centers

and criminal justice

settings.

"Another 25 percent enrolled in graduate
social

work programs which

lead to a

master's degree," Sultzbaugh adds.

program has met an array of standards
established by its Commission on Accreditation," says Hsien-Tung Liu, dean of the

gram can

College of Arts and Sciences.

rather than a case worker trainee

who

graduate from our pro-

In addition, Sultzbaugh reports the social

enter a variety of Pennsylvania

welfare undergraduate program at
Bloomsburg has increased its enrollment

"Students

state c ivil service positionsasa case worker,
...

and this

means they get a higher entry level salary,"

by about 50 percent since earning

"We

New legislation adopted a few years ago
in

its first

accreditation four years ago.

he says.

new

knowledge, changing needs and experi-

in

has met an array of standards

CSWE

findings from educational research,

worker

graduate social work program

ensures that our undergraduate social work

on the basis of

as a social case

child welfare, aging and mental health agen-

established by

work education.

"These national standards of quality are

work

Over the last four years, about 60 percent

"Receiving accreditation from

500 bachelor's and master's degree social
work programs at colleges and universities
nationwide, employs rigorous standards designed to improve and enhance professional

continually being revised

with 120 beds or more.

nursing home or hospital," says Sultzbaugh.

August stating the program's accreditation has been extended for eight years.
CSWE, which accredits approximately

"Receiving accreditation from

home

social welfare curriculum

benefit from the program's accreditation.

in

social

accredited

they want to work in a hospital

"Individuals who have degrees from non-

and social welfare department, university
officials received notification

if

of

to Sultzbaugh, graduates

Bloomsburg's

CSWE

have a degree from a

program

or nursing

According

Following two years of preparation by

Education

years."

Work Education (CSWE).

social welfare faculty

Work

have 117 majors right now

from about 80

in

...

up

1988," he adds.

— Kevin B. Engler

Pennsylvania requires social workers to

ence," he says.

According to Dale L. Sultzbaugh, associate professor of social welfare

and director

of the program, Bloomsburg's

first social

work course
was taught

in

University hires, promotes
non-instructional employees

1969.

mem-

Todd Knecht, who formerly worked as a

son, associate

bers have recently been appointed to full-

grounds crew laborer, has been promoted

professor of

time, permanent positions at Bloomsburg.

I.

Sue Jack-

mas McCormick of Berwick, plumber;

tion for stu-

Diana Pegg of Bloomsburg, custodian; and

in sociology,"

Roger VanLoan of Berwick, police officer.
In academic affairs, David Celli of
Berwick has been appointed electronic systems technician in the Center for Academic
Computing.

Douglas Loss has been promoted from
computer programmer n to data network
coordinator in the computer services de-

eventually

Sultzbaugh recalls.

few years

after the State

System of

Higher Education was established, the university received state approval to develop a
social

work undergraduate degree program

"On
state

April 15, 1986,

we received official

approval to develop a program within

a two-year period," Sultzbaugh recounts,

"and

in 1988, the

in the university's

it

gram in the
1970s "and

A

equipment operator

to

became an op-

oping the pro-

who were majoring

non-instructional staff

automotive department

began devel-

dents

They

new

Bloomsburg, custodian; Clayton Hulsizer of
Bloomsburg, utility plant operator; Ray
Knecht of Orangeville, grounds and moving crew laborer; Terry Lehman of
Bloomsburg, utility plant operator; Tho-

social welfare,

Dale Sultzbaugh

Eight

program received

initial

include: Betsy Barnes of

In addition, six non-instructional staff

members

recently received promotions at

the university.

Richard Eye has been promoted from
custodial worker

I

to custodial

worker

II.

Emily Ledger, who formerly worked as a
stenographer in in the department of
curriculum and foundations, has been promoted to administrative assistant in the
cleric

registrar's office.

partment.

Karen Murtin has been promoted from
clerk stenographer
III

II to

clerk stenographer

in the department of curriculum and

foundations.

Bruce Weir, who formerly worked as a
custodial worker I, has been promoted to
tradesman helper in the university's
penter shop.

car-

The Communique 10 SEPT 92 3

BUTAC
Continued from page

1

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them the kinds of assistance our students

For now, area companies can receive the
computer help they need while math and

can provide," he says.

computer science majors get

ness and industry representatives and show

they'll

need support from the companies who ben-

number of grants

efit

were awarded

Pomfret

•

But the three professors know

evolved after a
to

and

from

"We

BUTAC services.

want

this

program

to

become

self-

make contributions to help

Hartung over the

companies

past few years

us continue the service. We're also trying to

from the

secure federal funding to support the pro-

Ben

state's

Franklin

may

full-time position

"real world"

lead to a permanent

when

"If a student does a

perpetuating," says Kokoska, "and we hope
will

experience that

they graduate.

good

job, there's a

good chance the company they
will offer

intern with

them employment," says

Kokoska.

For more information about
call

Kokoska

BUTAC,

at 389-4629.

gram."

— Kevin B. Engler

Partnership pro-

Stephen Kokoska

g^^m

"Professors Pomfret and Hartung,

who

math professors, have

wit-

are university

nessed a need for
assistance at a

this

kind of technical

number of small and me-

dium-sized companies in this region," notes

Kokoska. "Many companies have expressed
interest in receiving student help

than the

have

number of

in the

more

...

qualified students

program

we

at present."

In July, the three professors

conducted a

weeklong seminar for 20 math and computer science majors
est in the

who expressed

inter-

BUTAC program.

"Since local demand is high, we invited
some of our majors to campus and gave

them an overview of the program," rewe asked them to

counts Kokoska, "and

choose one or two
that they

PC -based

might be interested

applications
PHOTO BY JOAN HEWER
in."

Kokoska says students are required to
work independently on their chosen topics
and "when we feel a student is qualified to
provide assistance to a particular company,
we will try to place him or her with that
company."
Since the university was fortunate to receive a grant from the Center for Rural

Pennsylvania

this year,

BUTAC

students

UNIFIED QUARTET— Racial Equity Task Force co-chairs Irvin Wright, left, and Tom
right, present "Bloomsburg
A Unity Community" T-shirts to

—

Evans, second from

President Harry Ausprich and Mayor George
steps of Carver Hall.

The

T-shirts will

Hemingway at a recent presentation on the

soon be sold

at the university bookstore for $5.

New parking regulations announced
by

office of university police

can be paid up to $6 per hour during their
internship.

"The grant provides us with money to
pay our students, so no financial support is
exjjected

from a company for the

ship," says

intern-

Kokoska, noting other dollars

from the grant

will

be used to purchase

additional computer equipment for the math

and computer science learning lab

McCormick Human
"It's possible the

in

Services Center.

grant could be renewed

two additional years," he adds.
Kokoska and his colleagues envision a
campus facility that will eventually house
BUTAC offices and a conference room.
"We would like to have a facility at
Bloomsburg where we can meet with busifor

University Police has established some
new regulations regarding campus parking.

According

to Lt.

Deborah Barnes, acting
campus police

chief of university police,

officers will issue parking citations

hourly basis starting this

on an

who are the wives, husbands or

sonnel,
their

and who use a vehicle registered to

spouse or parent, should obtain a tem-

porary student parking permit from the
university police department.

fall.

"Students, faculty and staff

Students

children of university faculty and staff per-

who

park

"Those students issued temporary

per-

their vehicles in inappropriate areas for

mits will be required to interchange their

more than one hour

spouse's or parent's faculty/staff rearview

will run the risk of

being ticketed for every hour they are

ille-

gally parked," says Barnes.
In addition, the university is reverting

back

to

bumper decals

for display

on

stu-

dent vehicles only "S tudent bumper decals
.

must be displayed on the left rear bumper,"
says Barnes.

mirror 'hanger' decal with the temporary
permit,

and display the permit on the dash-

board of their vehicle when they park on

campus," adds Barnes.

For more information,
police at 389-4168.

call

university

4 The Communique 10

SEPT 92

— Kehr Union Annex, p.m.
— Wilkes,
campus soccer
2 p.m.
Fibn —
Act, Mitrani
p.m.
Comedian Wayne Federman —
Bingo

Calendar
Thursday, Sept. 10

—

Men's Soccer
campus soccer

Sister

4 p.m.

field,

Friday, Sept. 11

vs.

West Chester,

1

ogy volunteers who conducted leisure activities and games for more than 100 children with disabihties at the conference.
Phillip Farber, professor of biological

admission fee

—

tennis courts, 3 p.m.

Program Board near Cheers

at Messiah,

ing Laser Karaoke, 9 p.m. to

tournament, 2 p.m.

Women's Soccer

Hall,

1

featur-

Women's Soccer
at

Messiah,

campus soccer

—

field,

—

Shippensburg,

at

—

Men's Soccer

a.m.

titled

vs.

Lehigh, upper

at Millersville, 1

p.m.

—

Men's/Women's Cross Country
Kutztown (vs. Kutztown and West

4 p.m.

Chester), 10 a.m.

—

Hockey
campus hockey
Field

upper

vs. Scranton,

field, 1

According

QUEST — Rafting,
Faculty Recital

—

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

featuring

Wendy

MiUer, Mitrani Hall, 2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 15

Women's Tennis
3:30 p.m.

—

—
—

Weekend

Film

Sister Act, Mitrani Hall, 7

9:30 p.m.

Casino Night

The TRIAD

—

— Centennial

start-

ing at 11:15 a.m. Rain location Nelson

House

QUEST—Rappelling, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
upper campus soccer

Women's Soccer

—

—

vs.

Moon

Commons,

1

Lemoyne,

field, 1

p.m.

Buffet

— Scranton

reservations needed,

An Example" pub-

lished in a recent issue of Mathematical

Geology.

Bob

Abbott, director of academic com-

puting, will discuss "Utilizing Technology

Your Teaching" from 5-6 p.m., ThursMcCormick Forum.
The seminar is sponsored by the Teaching
and Learning Enhancement Committee.
in

Jazz Ensemble" published in the August-

The Communique

October issue of Bandworld, an interna-

A newsletter for Bloomsburg University fac-

Associate professor Dianne Angelo and

a.m.

Lock Haven, Redman

vs.

Stadium, 1:30 p.m.

Harvest

field, 1

.

upper campus soccer
Football

for

band magazine.
Terry Oxley, assistant professor of music, had a second article about clarinet reed
alteration and adjustment tided "Clarinet
Reed Tips" pubhshed in the same issue of
Bandworld.

reservations needed, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30

Field

Academy

tional

upper campus,

p.m. Buses leave from Bakeless

and computer science, had an article
"Stochastic Modeling Based on De-

terministic Formulation:

supported by a

Stephen Wallace, associate professor
and chairperson of the music department,
had an article titled "Tips on Improving

a.m. to noon

Barbeque Picnic

Reza Noubary, professor of mathemat-

day, SepL 24, in the

— Kehr Union Annex,

Information Stations

regarding "Non-traditional Student Involve-

ABBOTT to present seminar

in August.

is

and

8 p.m.

Gym, 9

project

the Profession of Teaching.

Saturday, Sept. 19

director of foren-

a panel discussion

titled

semester.

grant from the Pennsylvania

Parents'

—

fall

shop at Messiah College

Friday, Sept. 18

Harry C. Strine HI,
sics, will participate in

ics

Anderson, who serves on "The TRIAD
Approach for Cooperative Teacher Development" task force in the Harrisburg area,
led several sessions during a two-day work-

Field Hockey
at Ithaca, 4 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 16
vs. Muhlenberg,
Men's Soccer
upper campus soccer field, 4 p.m.

assistant professor Sheila

Jones of com-

munication disorders and special education,

and special education honors student

ulty

and staff. The Communique publishes news

of activities, events and developments

all

persons without regard to race, color,

paper

titled

"Family Su^essors, Needs and

Resources of Children using Assistive Device Technology" at the fifth annual

Sunday, Sept. 20
Brunch

— Scranton Commons, 10 a.m.

sexual ohentation, handicap, Vietnam era

veteran, or union membership.

The

university

is

additionally committed to

affirmative action and will take positive steps to

provide such educational and employment op-

Assistive Device conference in Harrisburg.

Angelo, together with Berwick residents

Ruth Ann and James Hess, discussed "Par-

Editor: Kevin B. Engler

Assistant Eklitor: Jo A.

DeMarco

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer
to 1:30 p.m.

ents as Partners" at the conference.

reli-

gion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, lifestyle,

Jennifer Livelsberger, recenUy presented a

at

Bloomsburg University bi-weekly throughout
the academic year.
Please submit story ideas, news briefs and
calendar information at least two weeks in advance to The Communiqui, University Relations and Communication Office, Bloomsburg
University, Bloomsburg, PA 17815.
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educational and employment opportunities for

portunities.

5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

will

Bloomsburg in August. The workshop attracted more than 70 educators who will
supervise Bloomsburg student teachers during the

at Bucknell,

manual

nerships in the Classroom" held at

teacher workshop titled "Challenges toPart-

Sunday, Sept. 13

to Farber, the

ment in Forensics" at the Virginia State
Communication Association convention in
Richmond, Va., later this month.

sional Studies, in developing a cooperative

p.m.

Cyto-

become the standard reference for describing chromosome abnormalities in cancer.

Elaine Anderson and Mary Alice
Wheeler, assistant professors of curriculum and foundations, assisted Ann Lee,
assistant dean of the College of Profes-

at

Guidelines for Cancer Cytogenetics:

An International System for Human
genetic Nomenclature.

Campus Notes

p.m.

1

allied health sciences, contributed to

developing a recently pubhshed manual

Wednesday, Sept. 23

—

and

tournament, 11 a.m.
Football

Angelo coordinated a group

of 12 Bloomsburg student speech pathol-

Miu-ani Hall, 8 p.m., reserve tickets, no

—
lower campus
Women's Soccer —
Women's Tennis

Saturday, Sept. 12

upp>er

vs.

field,

Gannon, upper

vs.

In addition,

1

Women's Soccer

commuflioi
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•

24 SEPT 92

Alumnus donates $500,000
unrestricted
facilities,

gift;

trustees review

budgets and enrollment

A Bloomsburg alumnus who graduated
from the university 50 years ago is

in

celebrating his "golden" anniversary year

offices and departments including the Public

Washington, D.C., where he conducted
management reviews of various government

Maritime

by donating a large sum of money to his

Housing

alma mater.
Jack Mertz who completed a bachelor of

Administration and Foreign Operations

,

science degree in business education at

Bloomsburg

in 1942, will

an unrestricted

gift

soon contribute

of $500,000 to the

Administration,

Administration.

He was named

chief assistant to the

director of the Civil Accounting and

Auditing Division in 1957 and was

university.

responsible for recruiting, hiring and

Anthony laniero, acting vice president of
news
to Bloomsburg's Council of Trustees at its
quarterly meeting two weeks ago in the

training

university advancement, reported the

Magee

of about a half million dollars," laniero told

"The money can be used, if
applicable, towards the library campaign or
the trustees.

any other purpose."

Mertz, 78, was

bom and raised in nearby

Northumberland. Following his graduation
from Bloomsburg, he was drafted and served
as an air operations specialist in the

Air Corps during World

Army

War II.

After the war, Mertz returned

home and

Lewisburg where he earned a master of

1

commerce and finance in

947 Later that year, he accepted a position

to

.

accounting

teach

mathematics

Technology
In 1948,

Jack Mertz

auditing positions with the federal

meet the needs of the university."
In addition, the trustees unanimously
accepted the university 's capital and general
fund budget requests for the 1993-94

government.

academic

Bloomsburg graduates, are presently

at the

For

his service,

and business

Drexel Institute of

in Philadelphia.

Mertz was appointed assistant

professor of business administration at

Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio,

United States General Accounting Office's

reported the university

Meritorious Service Award in 1972 by then-

its

comptroller general Elmer B.

Now

retired,

leisure at his

Mertz spends much of

homes

in Arlington, Va.,

his

and

secretary Gerald Malinowski of Mount
Carmel reported the board had completed
its annual inspection of campus facililies.
Malinowski read a resolution from the
trustees that unanimously approves the
maintenance and care of the university's

The

resolution will be

forwarded to the Board of Governors of the
State

System of Higher Education.

As an addendum to
MaHnowski read, "Be it

said Vinovrski.

fall

below

is slightly

"But it's

semester.
last year,"

slightly

above the

goal established through the planning and

further resolved

that the council of trustees

express deep concern over the crowded

. . .

Vinovrski noted the university has
exceeded

its

goal of enrolling more black

students in the

goal

was

fall

enrollment

is

class. "Our
and our actual

freshmen

4.3 percent

...

6.6 percent."

Bloomsburg surpassed its
more Latino students in this
fall's freshmen class. "Our goal was 0.9
percent and we enrolled 1 .45 percent," said
In addition,

goal to enroll

Vinovrski.

the resolution,

where he taught accounting, economics
teaching in 195 1 and accepted

"on target" with

budget process."

Venice, Fla.

physical plant.

is

enrollment goals for the

"The FTE

Statts.

and business communications.

Mertz

year.

Bemie Vinovrski, director of admissions,

Mertz was awarded the

At the quarterly meeting, trustees

enrolled at Bucknell University in
science degree in

staff.

serving in important administrative and

Center.

"Mr. Mertz has set up an irrevocable trust

for

new

Many staff personnel recruited and trained
by Mertz, including more than 50

conunues

to

"We've made some nice gains in the area
of minority recruitment," he added.

JoAnne Day,

director of internships and

cooperative education, and graduate

conditions in the Harvey A. Andruss Library

students from the Institute for Interactive

a job as a junior accountant on the staff of

and urges the Board of Governors

Technologies

the United S tates General Accounting Office

support the construction of a new facihty to

left

...

to

demonstrated a new
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2 The Communique 24

SEPT 92

State legislature's

President Ausprich pledges aid

Black Caucus
to meet on campus
Members

for sexual harassment victims

Pennsylvania
Legislature's Black Caucus will visit
Bloomsburg University Monday, Sept. 28.
The black legislators will hold a meeting
open to students and faculty in the Forum of
the

of

the

McCormick Human

from 1:30

From

Ausprich

1:30 to 2:30 p.m. the legislators are

Task Force, which

is

comprised of members from the town and
university,

Mary Harris, coordinator of the

university's P.R.I.D.E. program, Oliver

APSCUF, and Eileen
Kovach, president of AFSCME. From 2:30

Larmi, president of

to 3:30 p.m., they are

members of

the

campus

scheduled to meet

with black student leaders and representa-

from the university's Black Caucus.
While on campus, the legislators will

tives

meet with University President Dr.
Harry Ausprich, state Rep. Ted Stuban, the
also

Columbia

County Commissioners,
Bloomsburg Mayor George Hemingway,
laniero, acting vice president for

University Advancement, and representatives from the university 's Council of Trust-

ees.

to live in silence with their private pain

are aware, the Press-

Enterprise carried a story (recently) re-

garding an alleged case of sexual harass-

ment involving a former employee of the
university.

Due to legal constraints and,

more importantly,

honor the privacy

to

of all individuals involved, it is my policy
to decline

commenting on

situations.

While I shall continue to main-

tain this position,

all

personnel

wish to

I

equivocally that due process

is

is

committed

fair vesper

I

am

determined that sexual harass-

ment will not occur at Bloomsburg University. If you are being sexually harassed and if you decide to seek resolution to end the haras sment you are enduring, I pledge to you that I and my administration will protect

observed

realize there is

to providing

mem-

bers of their community.

fullest extent of

whenever required. Further, Bloomsburg
University

rather than face public scorn from

state un-

your privacy to the

our abiUty to do

so.

I

much from which I cannot protect you, but I promise we will do

our very

best.

There are a number of

equal educational and employment op-

individuals in our university

portunities for all persons without re-

including myself, the provost, the vice

gard to race, color, religion, sex, age,

presidents, the deans and directors, the

national origin, ancestry, lifestyle, sexual

counseling center

Vietnam era veteran, or union membership, and I share
in this commitment.
There is something else I want to share

human

orientation, handicap,

with you, something that concerns

Unity, diversity topics
of state Rep. Bishop's

find that when they seek justice they
become victimized once again. Knowing that this is a reality, many victims

decide not to press charges; they decide

As many of you

to 3:30 p.m.

the Racial Equity

to

community.

Services Center

scheduled to meet with representatives from

Anthony

Editor's note: The following letter
has been sent by President Harry

deeply. People
injustice

who

me

are the victims of

and discrimination all too often

staff,

community

the director of

resources, the acting director of

affirmative action, and the

members of

the Commission on the Status of Women

who

will gladly offer

you assistance,

counsel and support. Whether you decide to

file

a complaint or not, I urge you

to seek counsel

and

help.

address

Rev. Louise Williams Bishop of Philadelphia, a Baptist Evangelist minister

member of Pennsylvania's House

and

of Rep-

The Communique

Trustees

A newsletter for Bloomsburg University fac-

resentatives, will discuss "Unity En-

hanced by Diversity: Drawing Large the
Circle of

Love"

at this year's candlelight

Vesper Service from 7:30 to 9 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 27, on the main stage at the

Bloomsburg Fairgrounds.

Continued from page

ulty

1

interactive multimedia project called

"Explore."

The

project,

which enables Bloomsburg

students to "explore" co

and

staff.

The Communique publishes news

of activities, events and developments

op and internship

vance

to

The Communique, University Rela-

and Communication Office, Bloomsburg

Bishop presently serves as secretary for

opportunities in their major field of study,

tions

the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus

was produced with a $100,000 TitleVni
grant awarded to Day's program last year.
"The federally funded grant can be
renewed for two additional years," noted

University, Bloomsburg,

and is a member of the Legislative Housing
Caucus.
This year's service will feature singing

by the Bloomsburg University Gospel
Choir. In addition, "Bloomsburg
A Unity

Day.

Community"

chief legal counsel,

—

T-shirts will

be available

for

at

Bloomsburg University bi-weekly throughout
the academic year.
Please submit story ideas, news briefs and
calendar information at least two weeks in ad-

PA

17815.

Bloomsburg is committed to providing equal
educational and employment opportunities for
aU f>ersons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, lifestyle,

sexual orientation, handicap, Vietnam era

veteran, or union membership.

State System officials WayneRichardson,

Edward

Kelley, vice

The

university

is

additionally committed to

affirmative action and

wiU take positive steps to

purchase from members of the Task Force

chancellor for employee and labor relations,

provide such educational and employment op-

on Racial Equity. Admission

and Wayne Melnick, university legal

portunities.

and

fair is free after

to the service

6 p.m. Entrance

to the

Fairgrounds for the event can be accessed
at the Fifth Street Gate.

counsel, attended the meeting.

— Kevin B. Engler

Editor: Kevin Engler

Assistant Editor: Eric Foster

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

The Communique 24 SEPT 92 3

President explains budget, outlines priorities

during annual

fall

Thefollowing remarks were delivered by
President Harry Ausprich at the annualfall

convocation ceremonies
campus telecommu-

lished an irrevocable trust valued at approxi-

nications network and have 257 users hooked

mately a half a million dollars. We're very

SSHEnet and Internet

excited to receive this gift and are apprecia-

also are completing the

convocation ceremonies for faculty and

to

staff held Sept. 3 in Mitrani Hall.

connections will be available on Nov.

ethemet

at this time.

tive of

1.

To bring you up-to-date on the $16 million
It is

a pleasure to

welcome all of you to this

1992-1993 academic year. Beginning

a

new

school year, welcoming faculty and staff

To

always pleasurable and satisfying.

who are new to
University, may I extend
all

those

Bloomsburg
a special welcome.
are glad you are here; I believe you have

of you

We

is

made

us

at

Scranton

fall

semester

we

we

are of every gift

receive.

Science Center,

dation and Development Office since 1985.

Commons, and the handicap acces-

installation for the

we

received by the Bloomsburg University Foun-

activity that

sibility projects are essentially

This

as

it

than $16 million in gifts have been

we

worth of capital construction
initiated last year, Hartline

More

completed.

will finish the gas line

steam plant summer shut-

And

currently, the foundation's

portfolio totals over

Included in

this portfolio is

$3.5 million

raised through the successful Trust for Generations

million

the right choice.

endowment

$7 million.

Campaign. As you will recall, $1.1
was raised in support of the library;

$1.4 million in support of scholarships; and
are returning after a

$1.1 million in support of academic excel-

good summer of teaching, research, service,
travel, and fun, as the case may be, I am very
happy to see you and welcome you back.

endowment will be released for the first time

To

those of you

Much

who

has happened during the

lence. Interest accumulated in the library fund

year and will provide a supplemental
income of between $40,000 and $100,000
aimually. Funding for the Celebrity Artist
Series is assisted by the $440,000 endowment
later this

summer

months. The information I've chosen to hightoday

light

is

raised in previous years.

information that reinforces the

quality educational experiences

Each year monies are set aside to support a
number of important initiatives. Over the last

can to and for our students.

five years, the foundation has provided

we

fact that

are here to provide the highest

important aspect that
this

goal

is

the

is

we possibly
One critically

$100,000

central to supporting

management of our

to support faculty

opment plus $220,000

fiscal

and

staff devel-

to support

margin of

excellence projects. Additional projects have

resources.

included $ 1 30,000 for the renovation of Carver

The State System of Higher Education suf-

$50,000 for a computer lab

in Hartline

fered a 3 1/2 percent budget decrease for the

Hall,

1992-93 year, which translated into a $1.3

Science Center, and $20,000 for computers

million expenditure reduction

at

President Harry Ausprich

Bloomsburg

for the Technical Assistance Center.

University. After reviewing the situation, the

University Budget Committee recommended

down and

the following actions:

project.

will

complete the Kehr Union

We have assigned an architect for the

student recreation center project, and

we

faculty,
•

and one library faculty positions,
cut equipment allocations to 50 percent of

working with the town to build a storm sewer
on Second Street as a part of that project.
While the current budget cuts do have a

the 1991-1992 levels,

negative impact on the university, we, in

•

eliminate the fuel reserve, and turn back

comparison with many of the colleges and

•

•
•

freeze five

management, three teaching

and across the

temperatures this winter to conserve

universities in Pennsylvania

energy,

nation, have much for which to be thankful.

reduce the university contingency reserve,

principle reason is because we have one of the

effect

some savings

in overload

and

local

best,

staff

On

the positive side, these

recommenda-

tions allow us to maintain departmental

operating expense allocations without reduction,

thereby supporting the delivery of qual-

ity instruction to

I

say one of the best

operations in the

release time.

our student body.

We

are

continuing with our plans to provide a per-

state.

managed

A

—

success, our

proven track record in

rais-

money from the private
sector is now critically iming

portant.

No

the cake,

longer icing on

it is

the cake along

with state funding.'

fiscal

Robert Parrish and his

and the budget committee under the

leadership of Dr. Lauffer have served us well.

Certainly our foundation has also

made

a

contribution to the financial stability of this
institution

and

in

every

making enormous
fiscal stability

way has helped

strides in

us in

enhancing our

and academic mission.

Corporations and foundations are increasingly supporting

1991 an

Bloomsburg 's programs.

In

IBM challenge to alumni and friends

of Bloomsburg resulted in a gift of $95,000 of
computer hardware and software. In 1992
computer hardware totalling $24,610 will be

purchased for the College of Business.

sonal computer for each instructional faculty

member
an activity that will be well under
way before the end of the fall semester. We

means our

'It

are

It's

am happy to announce that alumnus Jack

also important to note that area corporations

Mertz of the Class of '42 has recently estab-

Continued on page 4

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4 The Communique 24 SEPT 92
Continued from page 3
are supporting our academic efforts with their

For example,

gifts.

$10,000

in

PP&L

recently gave

and by the words we
speak, we establish the untions,

support of the IIT program.

What does this mean? It means our success,
our proven track record in raising money
from the private sector
portant.

is

now

critically

set

written code of conduct by

im-

To enhance our academic learning environment has indeed been uppermost in my

which our university society

No longer icing on the cake, it is the

cake along with

these important issues. They need to hear
from us as individuals, and they need to be
individually challenged by the exan:q)les we

'By our silence, by our ac-

mind over the

functions. That code of con-

state funding.

duct must reflect respect and
What's next?

of you. By working together we have
improved the campus climate; we have be-

are discussing a shared funding of the build-

new

library

on our campus

such strucnire being looked

at.

is

one

come
SperryLink and a variety of other communication avenues.

On Tuesday evening of this week, a student

cussions call for Bloomsburg University to

body meeting was convened under the leadership of Jeimie Carpenter. At that meeting, our

from private

students were informed about the incidents

soiu-ces with the state funding

becomes

we

a reality,

when)

plan

this

anticipate that con-

would begin within one year. I have

struction

reason to believe

— probably

reality

75/25 will become a

this

as early as this fall.

I

pledge

you to put the library project number one in
my priority for fund raising and to work
harder that I have ever worked to realize that
25 percent goal so we may at long last have
to

our

new

library.

7 pledge

you to put the
library project number one
in

to

and to work harder that
I have ever worked to realize that 25 percent goal so
we may at long last have our
new library.'
ing

We,

as a university

and were clearly told
ior. Oiu"

change

to

way

assults

two

attitudes

that our total

and behaviors in such a

campus environment

clear responsibility to

make

this

will

you have a clear responsibility to make this
happen too. Each of us shape the assiunptions
of this community regarding what is acceptable behavior. By om- silence, by our actions,
and by the words we speak, we establish the
unwritten code of conduct by which oiu" uniThat code of con-

campus and

racial inci-

arrests

were

made in connection with two of the cases. The
third victim decided not to press charges.

fourth sexual assault occurred in

and

The

Columbia

Sutliff,

work has been done on Kehr

BSAF hotline.

bulletin boards.

residence halls.

We've seen

the construction

of the new residence apartments and are on

me means

total

There are a number of things we
in addition to

all

can do

modeling respectful behavior

and encouraging the same from those around

new

your cooperation
have been able to enhance the
physical learning environment on this

and support

that through

I

campus.

No other school

in our system, as far as

I

sponsoring

know, has done such an extensive amount of
work. Much of this effort, as you well know,

number of educational programs this fall.
All of you by now should have received or

came about through sound planning strategies. Over the past years, our faculty, through

us.

For example, the university

is

a

should have seen

"Understanding

the planning/budget committee, has advised

through Diversity" calendar of events. Please,

me and helped me to implement many of the

make time

physical improvements that

this fall's

many of

to attend as

these pro-

do the same. While

were

Union, Scranton Commons, and a nimiber of

to

committed to providing educational programming, probably the most ef-

News Network

attenticm

speak of Science Hall,

effort. I

the verge of seeing the building of a

courage yoiu" students

University

of our aca-

recreation center for otir students. All of this

Hall, and the victim in this situation decided

immediately notified via the

all

needed serious

state.'

not to press charges. At the time of these
staff

We have been able to

agedfiscal operations in the

will permit

and

done a magnificent job.
that

reflect our

then we, together, have

renovate or remodel almost

individual.

grams as your schedule

incidents, students, faculty

Boyer has commented, buildings
priorities. If this is so,

demic buildings

have one of the best,
I say one of the best man-

with that situation. Three of the sexual assaults occurred off

planning strategies.'

duct must reflect respect and dignity for every

'....we

cormection

in

as you well know,

came about through sound

Additionally,

was physically assulted and

have been made

this effort,

have a
happen and
I

Hartline, Mitrani and Gross Auditorium.

and two students were the victims of

arrests

'No Other school in our system, as far as I know, has

who may not be aware, four

dents, the student

we have done so much. As Ernest

done such an extensive
amount of work. Much of

community, experithis summer.

one of the

portunities;

improve

to

is

be free from acts of intimidation.

of our students were the victims of sexual

racial intimidation. In

estab-

among individuals. Our work is

enced some very difficult times

For those of you

we have

service;

that this university will

goal as a imiversity

relationships

and

lished effective and meaningful volunteer op-

not tolerate discriminatory or abusive behav-

versity society functions.

my priority for fund rais-

a more diverse community; we have
enhanced the imiversity through our teaching, research,

Current dis-

raise 25 percent of the cost of the building

the other 75 percent. If (or

of

all

The State System and the Governor's Offfce

tion of a

One way

has been by re-

this objective

ceiving enormous help and cooperation from

dignityfor every individual.'

ing of state university structures. Construc-

last several years.

accomplishing

the university

to

and en-

is

fective, influential thing

of us in our own

we can do is for each

way to talk to students about

tioned. This

is

I

have just men-

an enviable accomplishment.

Planning continues at Bloomsburg University.

mix

Even though

the program/service

somewhat exfew months, much

issue has been discussed

tensively over the last

remains to be done.

The Communique 24 SEPT 92 5

Provost Matteson charts Bloomsburg's progress
in strengthening educational programs
Thefollowing remarks were delivered by
Carol Matteson, interim provost and

to say that a great

vice-

many

of the recommenda-

tions have been implemented. Additionally, a

presidentfor academic affairs, at the annual

large

fall convocation ceremoniesforfaculty and

under review while only a very small number,

staff held Sept.

3

in

number

are in progress and currently

14 of the 103 recommendations, have been

Mitrani Hall.

listed for future review.

am very pleased

I

to

have

I,

as in-

by the program/service task force.
The program/service mix portion of

terim provost and vice-president for Aca-

demic

Affairs, see the university

As

grams.

my

I

indicated earUer this

and

its

pro-

summer

fact that such a

been done while others are in progress and
under review attests to the positive work done

today to speak briefly with you about the

1992-93 academic year and where

The

recommendations have

large nimiber of the

opportunity

this

planning process

in

is

the

nearing completion. The

strongly

next phase of the planning process will be to

believe the guiding principle in our decision-

determine the imiversity's comparative ad-

interview for this position,

making process should be:

First

— what

the best interest of our students,

— what

is

I

is

vantage; this will be part of the

in

planning that will be conducted

and second

Planning

in the best interest of the univer-

We have

good students
Over the
course of the last eight weeks, I have met with
ahnost 60 heads of units within and outside of
Academic Affairs. I found the individuals
with whom I spoke to be open, honest and
very committed to the university. Each of the
individuals showed me the work environment
of faculty and staff colleagues, including the
space with which they have to work. I must
and a quality

say that
realistic

I

a strong faculty,

found

overall, people are being

given our current tight budget situato

be part of helping

us look ahead and change things where necessary to

become more

efficient so oiu- re-

sources will be best utilized.
individuals to indicate to

most

critical

I

also asked these

me

what they

feel

need would be for the

coming year, if indeed they had such a need.
Not surprisingly, people were able to "zero
in" very quickly on one or two pressing concerns that they will address this year. In

some

where some additional funds will
be necessary to meet some of those needs, we
have been working to see where we might free
some dollars to assist.
instances

Of

were my meetings
staff, maintenance and trades

particular interest

with secretarial

supervisors and the support staff across the
university.

why

I

WTiile

Interim Provost Carol Matteson

and should remain a continuous

now have a much clearer feel

as

I

will not inundate

numerical data today,

staff at this university.

and also very willing

their

in

process.

sity?

tion

is

work

this year.

I

commend them

work and
few weeks have

for their hard

Truly, the last

dedication.

been most interesting and enlightening learning experiences.
In my role as provost, which you will hear
me enunciate from time to time vis-a-vis my

role as vice-president for academic affairs, I

have responsibility for

institutional planning

and budgeting. Over the

two months

last

I

have worked with the other vice-presidents in
this area

The cooperation

of responsibility.

and support

that

I

have had from

leagues in this endeavor

my

col-

appreciated.

is

I

continue to be very impressed with the quality

and professionalism

own

her

we need

that

each lends to his or

While some may say that
have more detailed plans, I must

find a profile of our
interest.

I

you with

alot of

thought you might

new

students to be of

Out of the 1,782 new

students, the

new freshman
category ( 1,024). There are 237 new transfer
students, 341 new nondegree students and
180 new graduate students. The average SAT
scores of the new freshman students excludlargest proportion is in the

ing nondegree, graduate, and transfer stu-

dents have actually declined slightly from last

However, we

year.

the average

above

are considerably

SAT score of Pennsylvania high

school college-bound seniors and also of that

of the national average.

The primary reason

for this is broader distribution of students

across

all

majors. In terms of gender makeup,

new

group,

we

are approximately 37.5

division.

in the

to

percent male and 62.5 percent female.

In

assure you that the kinds of things that are

class standing, the average percentile of class

happening and the efficiencies and qualities

rank was 73.

that

occur in each division could not have

Enrollment continues to be strong.

Pre-

occurred unless these individuals were plan-

liminary first-day figures reveal that 6,610

ning.

PTE

The

vice presidents and

I

we

students registered on Monday. This
number represents a slight increase above the

everyone

opening day report of a year ago. However, as

agree that

want to do the kind of planning

that

can easily understand, believe in and buy into.

a result of a smaller

Planning should be part of our everyday fhink-

it

ing and operational

mode

looking into the future.

as well as a

way of

We look forward to

is

"no show" rate

this year,

anticipated that fewer late registrations

will occur, so the 14th

day

official

count

should achieve our goal of a small decline.

has operated as well as

working with the planning and budgeting

The freshmen were

We have a quality support staff in place

committee this year. Good planning becomes

cant pool of 7,004 and the 237 transfers from

— people who care about Bloomsburg, people

of greater necessity as budgets become tighter.

who are proud of this university and are proud

This summer the vice-presidents and I com-

to
it

has.

this university

of the kind of

work

to continue to

be able

They want

1,130 applications.

selected

from an

The freshman

appli-

class in-

cludes nine valedictorians and two salutatori-

on the program/service
mix task force recommendations. This will be

ans.

their

degree through high school par-

services to our students

shared with the planning and budget commit-

ticipation in

advanced placement courses and

set

tee

that they do.

to deliver the

kinds of

and faculty that can
Bloomsburg apart from other institutions.

pleted a status report

on Sept. 10

for their review.

I

am pleased

In addition,

toward

54 students earned

credits

Continued on page 6

6 The Communique 24

SEPT 92

Continued from page 5
achievement on advanced placement examinations. We appreciate the good work the
admissions office

is

cates that emphasis will be placed
. .

we have on

board

think there

is

this fall are impressive.

I

going to be some wonderful

stimulation occurring in many departments.

I

look forward to the challenge of trying to

meet the needs of these newer and younger

What

a

or not to pursue accreditation, and the review

of the core curricula of the business major.
In the School of Extended programs, Dr.
Vavrek explains that emphasis will be placed
on institutionalizing a full-time coordinator

general education.'

in

in International Education,

new instructional faculty that

proximately 51

faculty as

development and

the

implementation of a cultural diversity requirement

The second group of new individuals I
would like to briefly discuss and give a warm
and wonderful welcome to is our new faculty
and staff group. The credentials of the ap-

am sure the department chairs do.
great opportunity we have at
I

to

is

work with

students, faculty

and the

college deans in insuring additional opportunities for students to

become

non-credit programs and finalization of the

concept of a center for regional development.

grams.

It is

very important to continue to be

concemed with

the strengthening of our gen-

program.

eral education

tinue to

concerning curriculum, but particular focus

day and age of

will

straints, I

am

tight

budgets and other con-

we have such

thankful that

an

work with

the

will plan to con-

I

BUCC

in all areas

be on the development and implementa-

tion of a cultural diversity requirement in

who

pleted doctorates, seven are instructors, 39
are assistant professors, and five are associate

goal of Academic Affairs. There are

the 51

new

instructional faculty

joined the university this

33 have com-

fall,

Twenty-seven are male and 24

professors.

are female. Forty-six are full-time, five are

34 are tenure-track, and 17 are

part-lime,

for the

The planning efforts for a new library structure and developing altemative means of inis

of

There

different this fall.

new computerized Andruss information
that is now providing online indexes

a

network

and abstracts

to

more than 2,000 journals and

has downloading capability through four databases

— ^RIC,

Inform, and the business index.

asked Dr.

Psych

Lit.

Vann

ABI/

periodicals index,
I

have also

to investigate the cost of

This access will be extended to

faculty offices and student

computer labs by

interdisciplinary

work and

first

NSF

also

is

all

also

of

its

periodicals and other serials available through

PALS

tion will

PALS
and

in

circulation system. This informa-

be available in conjunction with the

on faculty computers
student computer labs as well as in the
online catalog

Our students and their learning experiences
are the prime focus of what
to that extent,

am

is

to

The aim of

upgrade the undergraduate

experimental psychology laboratory.

One of

we

one of my

are

all

about.

initiatives this

request, each vice-president pre-

pared an executive summary of his/her 1992-

93 plan, addressing

how

he/she would sup-

port the academic mission of the university.

The

significant thrusts in the student affairs

ity affairs position

students

on

within its area to work with

diversity issues

Also, they will continue to
in the student

and concerns.

work for diversity

and professional workforce.

Orientation, residence

life,

student activities,

and the Kehr Union personnel
to

will continue

work on leadership development

larly as

it

particu-

relates to student employees.

to allow the number

In the university advancement area, there

of students participating in independent re-

are several efforts planned to support the

have requested

meeting of the

academic mission of the university. The advancement division will continue efforts to

graduate faculty later this semester to discuss

feature faculty and students' contributions

research and graduate concerns.

and achievement in external communications

the goals of the project

is

search projects to increase.
that Dr.

Kasvinsky

In the Arts
that

call a

I

and Sciences, Dr. Liu indicates

emphasis

this

year will be placed on

and publications. They also expect

to build

into the publications plan the concepts uti-

new

viewbook and

finding a long-term solution to the annual

lized in the

problem of a shortage of

freshmen

cooperation with the School of Extended Pro-

courses; faculty needs in those departments

grams, will publish a public service directory.

seats in

lems

in

In the spring, imiversity relations hopes to

and the resolution of the fume prob-

publish a brochure featuring the research ac-

in

Old Science and ventilation problems
Macauley

indicates that emphasis in

professional studies will be placed

tivities

of our faculty.

Another major

in the chemistry labs.

Dr.

university

enrollment pres-

on

the

activity in the

advancement

area, as the president indicated earlier, is the

major fund-raising

activity this year to sup-

new

Contin-

following: grant opportunities, international

port the building of the

exchanges especially for Bloomsburg

ued work will occur with alumni affairs and in
particular, featuring the faculty and staff in

stu-

dents and faculty to go abroad; examination

library.

And

joint
I

the leadership of

sures;

forging ahead in making records of

more

Instrumentation and Laboratory

Improvement grant under

new campus network.

the

in place,

pleased to note the university has received its

that are experiencing strong

library

changes of his reportages.

my

sity programming in residence halls and across
campus. Residence life will develop a minor-

hubbing the library 's local area network to the

The

facility

sion of the university include cultural diver-

the proposal

little

unit of

With these opportunities

recommendation regarding expanded computer access to
library holdings and services, Andruss Lithe program/service task force

new

Academic Support Services which is being
headed by Dean Jack Mulka, and the potential

support scholarly and creative activities of the
faculty.

project director Dr. Steven Cohen.

brary will look a

tem; the implementation of the

division that will support the academic mis-

primary importance this year. Taking heed of

is

many

faculty/student research activities.

creasing appropriate library holdings

the computerized scheduling/ registration sys-

opportunities that have been developed to

our efforts this year will be to encourage more

temporary.

The initiatives in Academic Affairs
coming year are as follows.

affairs, indicates that emphasis will
be place on the evaluation and refinement of

At

Enhancing the teaching and learning process via scholarly growth and professional
development will continue to be a primary

Of

Dr. Cooper, assistant vice president for

academic

general education.

opportunity to reinvigorate the university.

in-

creasing the number, size and breadth of the

actively en-

number of teaching faculty at
384, we have 13.3 percent new people. In this
the total

Magee

Center to a multi-purpose auditorium,

gaged in the learning process and the development of new curricular offerings and pro-

Bloomsburg. Think about this for a moment:

With

completion of the

conversion of the pool area of the
year

the

finalization of the mission statement, whether

on

doing.

on

.particularfocus will be

library.

of the governance structure of the college and

alumni programming in special events

the resolution of space problems.

continue.

In the College of Business, Dr. Olivo indi-

will

Continued on page 7

The Communique 24 SEPT 92 7

Matteson

Aleto exhibit chronicals decade

Continued from page 6

The main
fairs

thrust of the administrative af-

plan this year is the telecommunications

and Ecuadoran

of Mexican

network and working with academic affairs in

Over the past decade, Thomas Aleto,

implementing the "computer for every fac-

associate professor of anthropology, has

ulty" project that

was recommended by

the

program/service task force under information
technology.

As

$437,000.

By

this project

the end of this academic year

should be complete.

am

I

very

pleased to indicate to you that through the

hard work of administrative and academic

computing, the overall plan for networking
the campus, once completed, will put us ahead

of 90 percent of the other campuses around

There

the country similiar to us.

will

be

life in

Starting Sept. 28, the best 31 of those

in

many

with the folk artifacts.

Aleto Sept. 29 at 11:30 a.m.

"The

religious

life,

In

sacred

life

The people decorate

and October, regarding the use of the BUnet,

ters to the saints.

INTERnet and PREPnet.

Louis, Mo.

Administrative affairs will continue to seek

He spent his sophomore year in
Mexico annu-

ways of increasing the number of minorities

past seven years he's visited

in their division as well as increasing the

ally.

number of women in nontraditional roles.
We, students, faculty and staff, are all part

in the last 10 years.

of a learning community.

study groups in Mexico and Ecuador.

Enabling each

member of this educational enterprise to conmore, not only in our professional

tribute

but also in the lives of those

lives,

and with

we

teach

whom we interact is the part of our
I certainly am look-

individual responsibility.

ing forward to working with the faculty, staff,

and students of Bloomsburg. I feel that we are
very exciting point in this university's

at a

development.

As

job.

am

I

really enjoying

part of the learning

my new

community,

it

He's also visited Ecuador eight times

The
lar:

title

A church

Images of Folk Life from Mexico and

is

more

a place to meet.

it's

the altar or write

let-

"Also, lines between past and present

"You can see
people doing things we know they did 500,
are blurred," says Aleto.

1,000, 2,000 years ago."
in the

Mayan

region of

Mexico, Aleto has unearthed carvings which

show a woman wearing a

of the exhibit, "La Vida Popu-

religion in-

between secular and

than a place to worship,

For example,

Aleto has undertaken research and headed

way

the

has blurred.

15-year-old high school student from St.

college studying in Mexico City and for the

be exhibited

Mexico and Ecuador, Aleto has found

out the year, but in particular in September

and development seminars through-

will

tant aspect of the folk culture," says Aleto.

become second homes.
He first visited Mexico 20 years ago as a

training

in

teracts with daily life, that's a very impor-

that the distinction

For Aleto, Mexico and Ecuador have

worked

when a photograph

cases,

same mask or costume

by

I

depicts a mask, or ceremonial costume, that

Gallery of Art.

there will be a reception with a talk

when

"I've lived with them

South America," says Aleto.

photographs will be exhibited

at the Haas
Along with photographs,
examples of Mexican and Ecuadoran folk
crafts and artwork will be exhibited.
The exhibit will run until Oct. 23, and

life

years of travel in the countries.

And

Mexico and Ecuador.

part of this plan, the univer-

year committed approximately

sity last

taken 15,000 photographs of folk

folk

nearby village, a

woman

dress with the exact

same

In the

dress.

today wears a
pattern.

Ecuador," translates roughly into "the folk

"When you go to Latin America, you can

or the hfe of the common person," says

look at aspects of the culture that were like

life

they were 1,000 years ago," says Aleto.

Aleto.

Some of the people shown

in the photo-

graphs are people Aleto knows from his

"It's sort

of like a small

window

into the

past."

Carol Channing and Rita Moreno will

should be expected that we will have different
opinions, that
issues,

we may not always agree on
if we can leam to respect

perform the best of Broadway on Oct. 9

however,

each other's opinion and

listen,

then

all

will

Carol Channing and Rita Moreno will

As we grow in an information society, there
many things that impinge upon lives, the
more sharing of resources and of individual
ideas of an interdisciplinary nature, the more

Bloomsburg University to
present Two Ladies of Broadway, a spectacular evening of music and comedy featuring two of Broadway's brightest stars.
Through songs and anecdotes, these leg-

we can enhance the learning environment for

endary performers will recreate

join forces at

profit.

are

our students and also the professional growth

environment for each other.
collaborate

staff; let

us

cooperate.

leave you with

we look forward to this year,

this thought: as
lets

I

among

students, faculty, and

leam from one another; let us
have a shared governance

We

system that is part and parcel of higher educa-

selections from their nightclub acts.
Channing and Moreno will perform Friday, Oct. 9, at Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for

relations is requesting submission of pro-

the Arts beginning at 8 p.m.

posals for funding by the committee.

Tickets are

$20 and $25 and may be purchased by
students, admission

is

of the various constitutienls within the uni-

nity Activities sticker

versity

— and

Have

that last, let

a great year.

us communicate.

many of

ite

understand the issues and concerns and needs

try to

—

Grant proposals sought

For faculty,

Shared governance means that we

and actress, is
win all four major
entertainment industry awards
the Oscar, the Tony, the Emmy, and the Grammy.
singer, dancer,

their acclaimed stage roles as well as favor-

calling 389-4409.

tion.

Moreno, a

the only performer to

free with a

on

their

The campus-wide committee on human

If

you are bringing a speaker

to

campus

and

or organizing an event which would sup-

Commu-

port the recruitment and retention of pro-

staff

ID

card.

tected class persons at Bloomsburg Univer-

Channing has received Tony Award
nominations for every show in which she

proposal form. Wednesday, Oct. 16,

has appeared.

date to submit your proposal for funding.

sity,

please call extension 4528 to obtain a
is

the

8 The Communique 24

SEPT 92

Calendar
Friday, September 25
•

Movie

—"Far & Away," Haas Center

Chicano novelist Rudolfo Anaya
to speak at Provost Lecture Oct. 7
Rudolfo Anaya, celebrated Chicano nov-

and 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, September 26

for the Arts, 7

•

elist and

Lackawanna Co. multi-purpose stadium,
•

campus
•

p.m.

1

Women's Tennis
courts,

vs. Colgate,

lower

QUEST—Rock climbing

I,

at

Mocanaqua or Danville, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday, September 27
• Movie
"Far & Away," Haas Center

—

for the Arts,
•

1

campus,

1

Davis

vs.

& Elkins, upper

•

Art Exhibit

for the Arts,

and

of Ecuadoran and Mexican

artifacts

•

Women's Tennis

vs.

East Stroudsburg,

pockets of people

and open

whose history, atany

Worlds,"

is free

Anaya

workshop,

for

in the

Human

Forum of McCormick Center

Shippensburg, upper

campus, 3 p.m.
•

Men's Soccer

vs. Bucknell,

upper

Wednesday, September 30
• Movie
Alien III," Haas Center
^"

lation is a case in

point," writes Anaya.

tion for his novels suchasBlessMe, Ultima,

"Moving through

and Tortuga.

A

high school without

bus Foundation, Anaya

is

devoted

to the

—"Alien

III," Haas Center for
and 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 3

QUEST— Rappelling, at either a local
or a 40-foot rappel tower

located on the upper campus, 8 a.m. -5

•

Men 'sAVom en's
Bloomsburg

"We knew there was a long history of the

not reflect this."

Movie

—

Games," Haas Center

Provost's Lecture Series

Workshop

—

"Writing from a Sense of Place" by

Rudolfo Anaya, Forum, McCormick
Center for
•

F*rovost's

Human

Services, 4 p.m.

Lecture Series

— "The New

World People: Synthesis of the Old and
the

New Worlds"

Cross Country hosts

Invitational, 10:30 a.m.

Women's Soccer

vs. California (Pa.),

by Rudolfo Anaya,

p.m.
•

Men's Soccer

vs.

we

received did

II,

8 a.m.-5

p.m.

Women's Soccer

vs. Slippery

Rock,

Celebrity Artist Series

—^"Two Ladies

of Broadway" with Carol Channing and

campus courts, 3 p.m.
Tuesday, October 6
vs.

for the Arts, 8 p.m.

Saturday, October 10

Monday, October 5
• Women's Tennis vs. Marywood, lower

Women's Soccer

East Stroudsburg,

Rita Moreno, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center

upper campus, 11 a.m.

Women's Tennis

•

1

vs. Clarion,

1

lower

p.m.

Women's Soccer vs.

campus,
•

courts,

Beaver, upper

p.m.

Football vs. Clarion,

Redman

Stadium,

1:30 p.m.
•

Field

Hockey

vs. Slippery

Rock, uppCT

campus, 2 p.m.

Sunday, October 11
• QUEST— Kayaking 1, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.;
prerequisite for Kayaking n.
• Homecoming Pops Concert, Mitrani
Hall, Haas Center for the Arts, 2:30 p.m.

upper campus, 3 p.m.

•

QUEST—Rock climbing

•

campus

for the Arts, 7

Friday, October 9

•

States, but the education

a.m.-4 p.m.

"Patriot

Sunday, October 4

•

the displaced."

Bom in 1937 in Pastura, a small New Mexi-

upper campus, 2 p.m.

•

litera-

Hispanic presence in the Southwest United

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for the Arts, 8

p.m.

the

never reading the history or the

Anaya's own childhood heritage draws
on Spanish and Native American elements.

•

the Arts, 7

•

teach-

ture of the people, created in us a sense of

literature to reflect

•

site

Mexican

mainstream American

Friday, October 2

chmbing

ing
ers,

campus, 4 p.m.

•

a purpose, never see-

task of redefining Americans' notion of

campus, 4 p.m.

Women's Soccer vs. Huhlenberg, upper

Movie

Rudolfo Anaya

board member of the Before Colum-

and 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 7

•

can-American popu-

for

and 9:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 1
the Arts, 7

•

never

can village, he grew up speaking Spanish.

campus, 4 p.m.

—

is

The large Mexi-

recogni-

multiracial diversity.

vs.

told.

Services

this country's multicultural, multiethnic and

Hockey

given time,

"Writing from a Sense of Place," Oct. 7, at

lower campus courts, 3 p.m.
Field

"There are huge

to the public.

will also give a free

Tuesday, September 29
•

the world spoke

except for the teachers at school.

through Oct. 23, Exhibit of photographs

Folk Art.

all

Anaya of his childhood. "I
school and learned English. Mov-

lecture, titled

Anaya has gained world-wide

—Haas Center

knew,

"The New World
People: Synthesis of the Old and New

p.m.

Monday, September 28

I

the Arts.

4 p.m

p.m.

Men's Soccer

far as

went to
ing from a world of Spanish into a world of
English was shocking. I had very little help,

The

p.m.

1

"As

Spanish," writes

of New Mexico, will speak at
Bloomsburg University Wednesday, Oct..
7, at 8 p.m in Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for
sity

Football vs. East Stroudsburg, at

Moosic, Pa.,

professor of English at the Univer-

•

Homecoming

•

QUEST—High

parade, 10 a.m.

Ropes, upper campus, 9

Deadline for

SECA

pledge cards

is

Oct. 16

The deadline to return pledge cards for
Employee Combined Appeal
(SEC A/United Way Campaign) is Oct. 16.
The pledge cards should be returned to

the State

the Office of

Budget and Administrative

Services on the ground floor of Waller

Bucknell, upper

Administration Building.

'We need each

other,'

vesper speaker advises
The day

after

Martin Luther King

Jr.

was murdered,

the Rev.

Vincent SiciUano remembered wanting to hit somebody because at
Philadelphia City Hall, the American flag
the

was

flying at the top of

mast instead of half mast as the president of the United States

had ordered.

and I forgot the man who touched
crowd of well over 1,000 people gathered

"I sat there, seething in anger,

me," said Siciliano

to a

Bloomsburg Fair Vesper Service on Sunday, Sept. 27.
The sponsors of the service were the University-Town Task
Force on Racial Equity and the Bloomsburg Ministerium, with the
help of the Bloomsburg Fair Board.
Siciliano, pastor of the First English Baptist Church in
Bloomsburg, was called to speak at the last minute in place of the
at the

Rev. Louise Williams Bishop of Philadelphia,

who couldn't attend
many Bloomsburg

because of poor weather. The crowd, including
University students, staff and faculty,

was mesmerized anyway.

Sicihano remembered King speaking

at his

seminary 25 years

"What impressed me was his compassion. He reached out and
us, black and white," said Siciliano. "He wasn't preaching to black and he wasn't preaching to white. He was preaching
to honesty and truth. It was a truth that was more valid at a Monday
morning maricetplace than a Sunday morning worship service."
After King was murdered, Siciliano marched through Philadelago.

embraced

When the marchers were told that the flag at city hall couldn't
be lowered because the man with the key was out to lunch, Siciliano

PHOTO Br JOAN HEWER

SHARING IDEAS— State Rep.
the Legislative

Vincent Hughes (left), chairman of

Black Caucus, confers with John McDaniel, trea-

surer of the Student Government Association, following the students' meeting with caucus

members.

Black Caucus

wanted

"I didn't want to kneel down and pray.

"I

to take pride in

Bloomsburg

to fight.
I

wanted to hit somebody,"

he told the vesper service crowd. But an old black man touched him,
told

students

tells

phia.

him

that the thing to

prayed and

I

do was pray.

cried and the flag

Members of the Pennsylvania
and

was lowered."

Caucus met

Legislature's Black

with about 50 minority students, and with about 30 minority faculty
staff

on Monday, Sept 28. The

was the result of an
weeks ago by state Rep.

visit

invitation issued to the legislators several

down to the fact that we are all people, and oh how we
"How many lives are we going to
lose because we have forgotten that we need each other?"
Those who attended the service pledged that they had not

Ted Stuban.
Trustee Howard Johnson opened the student session by encour-

forgotten.

other minority students

"It all boils

need each other," said Siciliano.

Representatives of university student groups such as sororities,
fraternities

and residence

halls,

one by one stood up and pledged:

"We value our area's rich racial, ethnic and religious diversity."
They were joined by representatives of the town of Bloomsburg.
The Bloomsburg University Gospel Choir sang several songs,
which moved the crowd physically as well as emotionally. The
service concluded with the Ughting of candles, which were distribContinued on page 3

aging a frank discussion of concerns and issues. "Through these

exchanges you have the opportunity

who

to set forth a lasting legacy for

will follow

you on

this

campus," he

said.

Telling students they are the "treasure for the future," Johnson

reminded them

that "sharing reality leads to

growth of excellence."

Rep. William Robinson of Allegheny County,

who

chaired the

meetings, challenged students to do something positive to improve

Bloomsburg,

to use their intellectual capacity to find solutions to

issues. "Invest

something positive of yourself. Be proud of your

Continued on page 3

2 The

Communique 8

OCT 92

Nursing to dedicate

new computer

Bloomsburg's nursing department
dedicate the

will

McCormick Center

room 3151 of

for

Human

the

Reported

Offenses

to or

by

Arrests

Services,

on Friday, Oct. 16 from 1 to 3 p.m.
The lab, which has been open since the
beginning of the semester, was funded by a
$101,332 grant from the Helene Fuld Foundation and includes 20 computers and three
laser printers. The writers of the grant were
Jean Berry, Sharon Kribbs and Alexis Perri,
assistant professors of nursing.

Speakers at the dedication will include
Dorette Welk, chairperson of the nursing

department, Carol Matteson, interim provost and vice president of academic affairs,

Howard Macauley, dean of the College of
Professional Studies, and Nancy Onuschak,
as former chairperson of the nursing

department coordinated the effort to

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Drug Violations
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Awarded the grant in 1 99 1 Bloomsburg 's
nursing department was one of only 126
,

organizations to receive Helene Fuld grants

The Helene Fuld Foundation awards

and education of students enrolled

at accredited nursing schools nationwide.
is

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nancial assistance to promote the health,

The dedication

Motor Vehicle Theft

From Buildings
From Vehicle
Retail Theft

out of 377 proposals.

welfare,

August 1992

new "Helene Fuld AV/Com-

puter Lab," located in

who

Bloomsburg University Crime Report
Prepared by the University Police Department

center

Safety Tip: Keep your car locked and parked in well-lighted areas. Don't leave valuables
in full

view inside your car, and if you have a removable car stereo, take it out if the car will

to the public.

Refreshments will follow the ceremony.

be parked overnight

Bus

service offered between

upper and lower campus

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and staff. The Communique publishes news

of activities, events and developments at

Bloomsburg University bi-weekly throughout
the academic year.
Please submit story ideas, news briefs and
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all

employment opportunities

penons without regard

for

to race, color, reli-

gion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, lifestyle, sexual orientation,

era veteran, or union

The

university

is

handicap, Vietnam

expected to help im-

prove Bloomsburg University's campus
safety and security, according to Linda
Sowash, associate director of residence life.
The two newly purchased shuttle buses
transport students, faculty and staff to and

membership.

ments, the orange paridng

Redman

to provide such educational

and employment

opportunities.

M. Schantz

Assistant Editor: Eric Foster

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

adds that one of the shuttle buses is equipped
for the handicapped.

The shuttle bus system has been implemented as a trial program. "Feedback from
the students, thus far,

is

very positive", says

Sowash, "which may mean
more buses in the future."

the addition of

lot (north

of

Stadium), and the Waller parking

Clarification

lot.

Jennie Carpenter, interim vice president
for student Ufe, says that the shuttle bus'

additionally committed to

affirmative action and will take positive steps

Editor: Susan

is

from Monty's, the Montgomery Place apart-

17815.

Bloomsburg is committed to providing equal
educational and

The recent addition of a shuttle bus transportation system

The

story about

Thomas

Aleto's exhibit

extended hours of operation (from 7:45 to

in the

12:15 a.m. with pick-up every 15 minutes)

incorrectly stated that Aleto unearthed carv-

Sept 24 edition of The Communique

are designed to provide safe d^vel between

ings in Mexico.

the upper and lower campuses.

associate professor of anthropology, dis-

"Funded entirely by residence life for the
needs of the students, the buses may be used

by faculty and

staff," says

Sowash. She

In his interview, Aleto,

cussed the previously discovered carvings
as an example of

how

the folk culture has

retained elements from the past.

The Communiqud 8

OCT 92 3

Victory Dance Marathon to help

handicapped children go to camp
Bloomsburg

will host the Victory

Friday, Oct. 23

Dance Marathon from 7 p.m.,
Oct 24 at the Nelson Field

7 p.m., Saturday,

to

House.

The marathon will raise funds for Camp
camp designed for handicapped children.
According

to

Samuel

Victory in Millville, a

Slike, professor of communication disor-

ders and special education and adviser for the dance marathon, the

camp needs $1.6

million to complete

its facilities,

with Douglas Hippenstiel, director of alumni
PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

A MEASURE FOR SUCCESS

— Jim Appelman paints a red

marker on the thermometer outside of Carver Hall which measures
the success of Bloomsburg s SECA campaign. The campaign is
being coordinated by Don
administrative services,

Hock (kneeling), director of budget and
and Audra Halye, secretary.

Slike

with $276,000

member of the Camp Victory board, along

raised so far. Slike is a

affairs.

became involved with Camp Victory two and a half years

ago. "I train the teachers of deaf children and they needed a person

with a background in deafness because they wanted to have a camp
for deaf children," says Slike.

When

camp

the

is

completed, Slike feels

it

could provide an

opportunity for Bloomsburg students to do volunteer work, and for
students in majors such as nursing or special education to gain

Bloomsburg

sets highest

SECA goal of state universities
Bloomsburg University isn't the largest of the 14 state system
But it is the most generous when it comes to its goal
for the SECAAJnited Way Campaign.
This year, Bloomsburg has set a goal of $31,732, the same
amount raised last year, to be pledged by university employees for
the SECA (State Employee Combined Appeal) campaign.
Don Hock, director of budget and administrative services, is
overseeing this year's SECA campaign with the help of secretary
Audra Halye. The deadline to return pledge cards is Friday, Oct. 16.
Even though the SECA campaign is a large undertaking across
the commonwealth, raising $2.5 million last year, pledges can still
be personalized, says Hock.
"You can pledge it to go anywhere you want to. You can pledge
universities.

it

to

United

Ways

in Pittsburgh,

Hock, giving examples.

"It

some

practical experience.

The Camp Victory Foundation, a non-profit organization, was
in 1987 by Dennis and Lois Wolff after they couldn't find
a summer camp for their son, Nicholas, who was bom with liver
disease. The camp's 35 acres of gently rolling fields are adjacent to
the Wolffs dairy farm, which will also be available for camp
formed

activities.

According

to the

Tracy Carr, chairperson of the dance and a

senior special education major from Lansdale, the goal of the

marathon

is to attract

250 dancers. The

registration fee is

$5 per

dancer, and each dancer must have at least $25 in pledges.

For more information,

call

Tracy Carr

at extension

41 19.

— By Eric Foster

Black Caucus
Continued from page

1

Philadelphia or Dubois," says

can go to different organizations within

a given United Way."

— By Eric Foster

university," he said.

After introductory remarks, at the students' request, Robinson
then closed the session to university trustees, employees and the
press.

Throughout the day, Robinson and other black

legislators ad-

vised those with concerns to put their thoughts in writing and

Vesper Service

forward them to the university's administration or directly to the

Continued from page

caucus.

1

Prior to departing, the legislators

Husky ambassadors.
think it showed the students here

uted by
"I

that there are
sity," said

many groups

officials.

at

Bloomsburg University
and cultural diver-

that support racial

John Olivo, interim dean of business.

"I thought the singing

was excellent," said John Trathen, director

of student activities and the Kehr Union. Trathen was pleased that
the service brought students

other and with
"It

was

from the university together, with each
local community.

members of the

for everyone,

it

wasn't just for the students."

— By Eric Foster

"We welcome

met

briefly with university

their insightful feedback," said President

Harry Ausprich.

The

legislators

resources to

encouraged the administration to

work with

utilize

caucus

the system to bring about changes. Climate

issues, graduation rates, financial concerns, retention

services for minority students were

among

and support

the topics discussed in

the meeting with administration.

University officials hope the caucus will return soon to meet with

members of the University-Town Task Force on Racial Equity.
By Susan M. Schantz

—

4 The Communique 8

OCT 92

Five sports stars elected to Bloomsburg
The induction of five individuals will
number of members in the
Bloomsburg University Athletic Hall of
Fame to 40 when ceremonies are held Fri-

bring the total

day,

Oct

6 p.m.

Main

16.

in the

This season's event

24 West Ballroom

Street Inn in

at

is set

for

Magee's

unit under coach Franklin 'Ed' Jones, also

a member of the Hall of Fame. As a catcher
for the baseball squad, he
first team all -conference

the unit to

tiie

was selected as a

member and helped

conference

titie

in 1955.

He

batted .390 in his final season and earned

yard race for two seasons.
Engleman was the Penn Relays three-mile champion in

1960 and finished third

This year's recipients of the university's

land Indians.

in

cross country

event on two occasions.

tryouts with the Boston Red Sox and Cleve-

Bloomsburg.

PSAC

the

Following his graduation

from Bloomsburg, he remained in competitive rac-

highest athletic honor are Harvey Boughner

He went on to teach and coach in all three

Engleman '61 of
Ephrata, Linda Smith, M.D., '81 of Young-

sports at the high school level at Trevorton

and Line Mountain.

stown, Ohio, Bill Swisher '59 of Cortland,

record of 45-21-4 at Trevorton from 1958-

two-mile races

of the national master's distance medley

the following day during pre-game ceremoniesof the Huskies' Pennsylvania State

66 winning three conference championships. At Line Mountain from 1968-74, his
teams posted a 40-16-1 mark including an
undefeated campaign in 1971 before he
moved on to assume the athletic director's

and

Athletic Conference Eastern Division con-

duties.

boy's track and field coach.

'56 of Shamokin, Terry

N. Y., and

Don Wise

'56 of Blakeslee. In

addition to being honored at Friday night's
affair, the

test

new inductees will be recognized

against Kutztown.

Boughner was the only three-sport per-

Engleman was a Pennsylvania State AthConference (PSAC) champion in sev-

eral events in track

Bloomsburg competing in football, basketball and baseball. He was a fullback and
inside linebacker for the football team and
was a first team all-conference selection in
1954. The following year, Boughner was

letterwinner.

instrumental in leading the Huskies to a
titie

and a final record of 5-2-1.

During the winter season, he played for
the Huskies basketball program
'

and served

as captain of the 195 1 undefeated freshman

built a football

letic

former for the Huskies during his tenure at

conference

He

and

He was

field as a four-year

Penn Relays
titlist and participated in the 1960 Olympic
also a

a four-time

PSAC

champion

in

the two-mile run and was undefeated at that

won

the Eastern

1981 and was a member

in

team in 1981. He has been a teacher
and coach in the Ephrata School District for
relay

the past 3 1 years serving as the head boy's
girl's cross

country coach and head

Smith holds more All-American honors
than any swimmer in the history of the sport

Bloomsburg.

at

She earned the national

recognition based on her high placings at
the national championships

sophomore, junior

and senior seasons.
earned a

total

She

of 15 All-

distance in dual meets throughout his ca-

American honors and was

reer.

He was also undefeated for three years
in dual action in the one-mile run and won

a member of three national

a pair of

champion relay units.
She was a three-time

PSAC

tides in the mile.

His

undefeated ways also continued in the 880-

Harvey Boughn

Master's Indoor mile and

in her

Trials.

He was

ing and

PSAC champion

in the

freestyle sprint events

and

served as captain for two

Linda Smith

seasons for the nationally

Parade, brunch, and pops concert
planned for homecoming weekend

rated Huskies.

Among the activities planned for homecoming are a parade, brunch and pops con-

Mitrani Hall of Haas Center for the Arts.

teams.

The Women's Choral Ensemble, Chamber Singers, Husky Singers male chorus.
Concert Choir and Studio (jazz) Band will

coach and current Bloomsburg

cert.

The Homecoming Parade will begin Saturday.Oct. 10, at 10 a.m. at the Bloomsburg
High School.
Also on Saturday, campus dining will

Homecoming Harvest

Smith held multiple

for several seasons.

She was a member of

four of the five school record-holding relay

Smith was the leading performer for head
rector Mary

present a variety of music reflecting the

into national prominance in the early stages

homecoming theme "Broadway Bound."

of varsity status for the sport at Bloomsburg.

Musicals with songs featured in the con-

Smith

is

practicing medi-

cert include LesMiserables, Finian ' s Rain-

cine in Ohio.

m. to 2 p.m.

For $5.50 a person, faculty, staff, alumni

bow, Fiddler on the Roof, Annie Get Your
Gun, Forty Second Street, Phantom of the

basketball player in school

and friends can enjoy a gourmet brunch that

Opera and West Side

history to surpass the

Scran ton

Commons from

1 1 a.

includes eggs Benedict, bacon, sausage,

mushrooms, fruit, danish, and much more.
The brunch is also open to the public.
On Sunday, Oct 11, Bloomsburg's department of music will present its Annual
Homecoming Pops Concert at 2:30 p.m. in

athletic di-

Gardner as the Huskies moved

Buffet in

offer a

indi-

vidual Bloomsburg team and pool records

Story.

Faculty directors are

Wendy

Miller, as-

sociate professor, Eric Nelson, assistant

professor,

and Stephen Wallace, chairper-

son of the department of music.

Admission is free and open to the public.

Swisher became the first

1

,000-

point plateau in a career.

He was

a four-year

starter

and currently ranks 14th on the
for the Huskies

school's all-time scoring
list

with 1,014 points.

Don Wise

The Communique 8

Hall of Fame

Ellen Blamick has been
tant athletic trainer.

A

named

assis-

native of North

Huntington, Pa., Blamick earned her un-

He was an

all-conference selection on

two occasions and was nominated for AllAmerican honors in his senior season. Prior
to attending the university, he was a standout

Fame member

player for current Hall of

Frank Colder at Bloomsburg High School,
earning all-league honors three times and
all-state recognition

United States

He served in the

once.

Armed Forces

for

two years

before college.

For the past 33 years,
in elementary education as

a teacher and administrator.

He

has been an

el-

ementary school principal
in

New York for tlie past 30

years.

Wise was instrumental
varsity status at the university in the

1954-55 season

and served as team captain
final

degree

medicine from West

in sports

Virginia University in Morgantown,

graduating with honors from both
schools.

named

coaches,

Blamick appointed
assistant trainer

Blamick was a student trainer at

was a trainer
work with Head Trainer Joe Hazzard and staff in

California while earning varsity letters in cross country and track, and
at

West

Blamick

Virginia.

will

implementing a sports medicine program for the university's 18 varsity

athletic

in 1956.

two seasons, he placed

conference championships.

His

third in the

He went on to

a highly successful coaching career and
served as trainer to the 1972 U.S. Olympic

Wise was

Wrestling Team.

Roch King has been named head coach of the men's swimming and

diving team.

A native of Madera, Calif., King received his bachelor of science degree from Fresno
State University, his master's degree in sports psychology from
in Philadelphia,

and

is

Temple University

completing his doctorate in the same field at Temple.

King will take over the men's swimmingprogram from Dave Rider, who was men's
coach for the past six years posting a 16-37 record. King will be responsible for the

men's program, while Rider remains

at the

helm of the nationally-ranked women's

who still competes in swimming at the master's level, also serves as
a faculty member in the department of health, physical education and athletics.
Lance Milner has been named women's tennis coach. Milner earned a bachelor's
degree in business adminis&ation at Bloomsburg while a member of the Huskies'
program. King,

in the return of wrestling to

Engleman

California (Pa.) University and a master'

Milner and King

teams.

Swisher has been involved

Terry

dergraduate degree in education from

OCT 92 5

tennis

team under Head Coach Burt Reese. Milner was a five-time state Athletic
in both singles and doubles and a three-time Ail-American

Conference Champion

from 1988-1990. Mibier, a graduate

assistant in the

department of

over the women's tennis program from Mike Herbert,

athletics, takes

who was head coach

for 15

years posting a record of 127-88. Milner holds the school record for tennis victories

with 119.

the first

Bloomsburg wrestler inducted into the
Pennsylvania Wrestling Hall of Fame.

He coached and

taught in the Levittown

School District for two years before being
called

upon for military duty.

He returned

where he had
a successful tenure as head
wrestling
coach
at
Woodrow Wilson High
to the district

Jim Ross has been named acting assistant
director of sports information/athletic de-

velopment.

He will

tests as

well as assist in athletic fund-rais-

ing efforts.

Ross

serve under Sports In-

assigning duties

who also

to a staff includ-

School. His teams posted a

serves as director of athletic development.

ing graduate as-

recordof 101-24-3 and won

Ross, a native of Euclid, Ohio, earned his

seven consecutive league

bachelor's degree in speech communica-

titles.

At one stage of

career, his

teams

won

formation Director Jim HoUister,

tions in

1990 from Edinboro University. He

student assistants

continued studies at the graduate level at

Tom Cooper, Ron

Edinboro and worked in the sports informa-

LeVan, and Mike
and Pat Lester.

teaching to serve as a ski

tion office as a graduate assistant.

past 10 months, Ross

For the

was a graduate intern

be responsible

Ross

was a

instructor in the Poconos, as well as stints in

in the athletic public relations office at

three-year starter

Germany, he took a pair of

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.,
where he served as the primary media con-

quarterback for

AM

Edinboro where

Jim Ross

Austria and

sabbaticals from his teaching duties to spend

time teaching and coordinating activities in

tact for the

the sport of wrestling in Europe.

and basketball teams.

Tickets for the banquet iire still available
and may be purchased by sending a check

overall media/public relations

for $ 1 8 per

Hall of

person payable to "BU Athletic

Fame Banquet"

to:

Sports Information Office.

Jim HoUister,

Boilermakers' golf, wrestling

for

Bruce

sistant

his

Before Wise retired from

will

Rosengrant and

38-

straight league matches.

BUI Swisher

Jim Ross appointed acting assistant director
of sports information and athletic development

he

set

school

records for passing yards and pass attempts

At Bloomsburg, Ross

will supervise the

in the

He

1987 season.

member of

program

for

the school's 18-sport athletic program.

He

Information Directors of America and has

media coverage and

been honored nationally by the organiza-

will also coordinate
statistical

information at home athletic con-

is

tion for

a

the College Sports

media publications.

6 The Communique 8

OCT 92

Grants awarded

to faculty for 13 projects

During the summer of 1992 and the current academic year, 11 faculty members
received awards through university competitions to conduct "research and disciplin-

Japanese master
potter Shiho Kanzaki
visits campus, plans
exhibit next year

ary projects" or "individual and collaborative research projects" which will contribute
to scholarly

growth, knowledge or professional performance.

Japanese master potter Shiho Kanzaki

two faculty received minority faculty/staff development awards.
Collaborative research grants were awarded to support research conducted by
teams of two or more faculty members.
A total of $23,949 was awarded from funds allocated for research development by
the assistant vice president for graduate studies and research to the following faculty
members for research and disciplinary projects:
• Wayne Anderson, professor of chemistry, $5,183 for "Quantum Mechanical
In addition,

Studies of the Interaction of a Small

Crown Ether

with Acetonitrile."

had the opportunity

to meet some friends at
Bloomsburg University at a reception held
for him Sept 23.
Kanzaki and his wife Keiko stopped at
Bloomsburg during their return trip from an
exhibit of Kanzaki's work in Munich, Germany, where all of his works were sold on

the first day.

Diane Angeio, associate professor of communication disorders and special
education, $3 ,240 for "A Comparison of Traditional and Computer- Aided Phonological Treatment Approaches for Remediation of Unintelligible Speech Among

Kanzaki has had a continuing

•

Preschoolers."

Mariana Blackburn,

•

assistant professor of chemistry,

$2,200 for "Simulating

Design on Analytical Accuracy."

the Effects of Analysis

Pennsylvania Business Profile: Phase 3."

Cynthia Surmacz, professor of biological and allied health services, $5,000 for
"Acute Effects of Resistance Exercise on Plasma Cholesterol Levels in Men and
Women." Other project participants are: Linda LeMura, associate professor of
•

and

athletics,

biological and allied health services,

Bruce Wilcox,

•

Characterization of

Margaret

Till,

assistant professor of

and Anne Tomalonis, graduate

total

ited

Thomas

Academic

the Terpyridine Ligand," in

September of
fu-st

art.

Kanzaki

is

planning an exhibit of his

work at Bloomsburg next year.
At the reception, Kanzaki met with Wilson, Beamer, and other members of the art
department, as well as President Harry
Ausprich, Interim Provost Carol Matteson

and Madhav Sharma, coordinator of inter-

Residence hall director,
counselor appointed
Two new

Aleto, associate professor of anthropology, $800 for "Punae-Inca

by Mortuary Patterns

at

State

ments

Ceibo Grande."

• Ronald Ferdock, associate professor of English, $1,977.50 for "Study of 'The
Shadow' Radio Scripts Collection at Syracuse University."
• Stephen Hicks, assistant professor of English, $350 for "First Edition of Eliza
Haywood's The Female Spectator."
• Michael DeVivo, assistant professor of geography and earth science, Matthew
Bampton and Glenn Stracher, former Bloomsburg faculty, $2,400 for "Identification of Ecoregions in Columbia and Montour Counties."
Recipients of the minority faculty /staff development awards from funds allocated

Bloomsburg by the

mem-

System of Higher Education Office of Social Equity

at

Bloomsburg University.
Faye Maria

In the admissions office,

Ortiz of Allentown has been appointed ad-

missions counselor. For the

last four years,

Ortiz had been a business education teacher
at

Northwestern Lehigh High School

in

New Tripoli.
She holds a bachelor's degree

in busi-

ness education from Bloomsburg and a
certification in

Spanish from the University

of Madrid in Spain.
In student life, Renee S. Glass of Erie has

include:

who received $776 to participate in the
Economics Association World Congress in Moscow.
• George Agbango, assistant professor of political science, who received $500 to
attend the 88th Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association in
Chicago and participate in special workshops for chairpersons.
Funding is provided by the State System of Higher Education Office of Social
Equity to assist system universities in their support of the professional development
TejBhan

non-instructional staff

bers have received manager-level appoint-

Affairs:

Political Ties as Indicated

•

In

of $5,527.50 was awarded to the following faculty for individual and

President for

to

in Japan.

public demonstration of how he creates his

collaborative research projects from funds allocated by the Office of the Vice

•

Kanzaki

1991, Bloomsburg hosted Kanzaki's

and

collaboration with Professor Arnold Rheingold of the University of Delaware.

A

associate professor of art, along with Gerald

national education.

assistant.

assistant professor of chemistry, $4,423 for "Synthesis

Rhenium Complexes Containing

years. InMayof 1991, Ken Wilson, chairman of the art department, and Karl Beamo-,

Depo, Bloomsburg town administrator, vis-

Robert Lowe, associate professor of communication disorders and special
education, $1,150 for "Vowel Discrimination: A Comparison of Synthetic Vowel
Discrimination Between Children With and Without Misarticulation of The /r/
Sound." Diane Angeio is also participating in the project.
• Stephen Markell, associate professor of management, $2,749 for "Northeastern
•

health, physical education

relation-

ship with Bloomsburg for the past several

Saini, professor of economics,

10th International

of minority faculty and professional staff

been named residence director of Columbia Hall. For the last three years. Glass had

been an assistant residence hall coordinator
at

Edinboro University in Edinboro.
Glass holds a bachelor's degree in En-

gUsh and psychology from Gannon University in Erie, and a master's degree from
Edinboro.

The Communique 8

Susan Schantz appointed acting
director of news and media relations
Susan M. Schantz has been appointed
acting director of news

and media relations
in the office of University Relations and
Communication. She will serve as editor of
The Communique.
Schantz recendy completed a 10-month

Schantz has won numerous other regional,
national and inter-

News

OCT 92 7

briefs

The department of mathematics and commark International Day
for Natural Disaster Reduction, Wednes-

puter science will

OcL

14, with a poster display in the

lobby of

McCormick Center for Human
The display will begin at 9 a.m.

day,

national awards

Services.

for her work, in-

and continue through the following day.
about the International Decade of Natural

appointment as Acting Director of Publica-

cluding
the
Golden Quill, presented by the

tions at the university.

Pittsburgh Press

ters, their

She spent the first 14 years of her career
as a newspaper editor for the Sunday Tri-

Club, for best col-

ters

bune-Review

in

Greensburg, Pa. She then

umn
is a

a need for a coordinated international pro-

international an-

the hospital, she

Vim

&

was a regional

editor for

Vigor, a national healthcare maga-

gation.

Susan M. Schantz

nual report competition with over 1,000
entries.

She resides with her husband, the Rev.

&

Edward Schantz, in Numidia. There are six

Vigor in national competitions.

According

children in the Schantz family.

jamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva
University, N.Y., will present the 1992

Law and Literature Symposium Address in
the

Andruss Library auditorium on Tues-

day, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m.

in 1974. In 1984,

*

Weisberg published a

seminal work in the law and literature field.

The Failure of the Word: The Protagonist
as Lawyer in Modern Fiction, a study of the
work of Dostoevski, Flaubert, Camus and

tuberculin tine test for prospective

and other interested members of
community will be given in

This year, he published Poethics and

Other Strategies of Law and Literature,
which introduces a critical reinterpretation

invited

to attend the free lecture.

Weisberg earned
fi-om

his doctorate in

law

Columbia University School of Law

Services on Monday, Oct 12, from 10 a.m.
until

2 p.m.

The

cost of the test is $2 per person.
Those tested must return for a reading of the
test on Wednesday, Oct 14, at the same

time in the lobby of

Business of Justice: The Case of the
is

*

the lobby of McCormick Center for Human

Melville.

Merchant of Venice." The public

*

the university

Weisberg 's address is titled "Storytelling
in the

McCormick Center.

*

*

*

Quest will be traveling

to

Ecuador

Indian villages, and raft

chant of Venice^ Melville's Billy Budd and

headwater tributaries of the Amazon.

among

others.

this

winter to climb in the Andes, visit remote

of such works as Shakespeare's The MerDickens' Bleak House,

in

two decades three million people
have been killed and 900 million people
adversely affected by natural disasters.

A

literature lecture Oct. 19

Professor Richard Weisberg of the Ben-

Reza Noubary, professor

the last

teachers

Law and

to

of mathematics and computer science,

zine with a circulation in excess of 700,000.

She received over 20 awards from Vim

impacts, selected natural disas-

of this century, and a demonstration of

gram on hazard reduction and disaster miti-

town, the state's largest hospital. While at

Lehigh Valley Hospital

Disaster Reduction, types of natural disas-

She

writing.

and bronze 1989
ACT Awards, an

tions for

posters will include information

winner of gold

in Allen-

served five years as director of public rela-

The

The group

down one

of the

Bloomsburg on

will leave

about Dec. 16, and return on Jan. 14, 1993.

Noakes awarded

'faculty emeritus' status

Ann Marie Noakes, who served 21

years

degrees in early childhood education at

The next meeting for the trip is Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 5 p.m. in the Quest Office,

Walter Simon Building. For more information, call

as a professor of curriculum
tions,

and founda-

has received faculty emeritus status

Bloomsburg.

Noakes came

to

Bloomsburg

in

a third grade teacher in the Benjamin

tary school to the college level.

science from the University of Delaware

She served on a university committee
that developed the master's and bachelor's

and master' s and bachelor s degrees in education from Penn State University.

Franklin Elementary Laboratory School

where she taught

*

1963 as

Bloomsburg University.
Noakes won the state's Distinguished
Academic Service Award in 1978 with
fellow Bloomsburg professor John R.
Hranitz. That year, Noakes and Hranitz
also published the book Working with the
Young Child: A Text of Readings - U.
A teacher and reading specialist, Noakes
worked with students ranging from elemen-

at

Roy Smith

for four years.

After teaching at the University of Dela-

ware in Newark, and serving as principal of
an elementary school in Delaware, she re-

at extension

«

4466.

*

James Moser, professor of physics,
as chairperson of the
Bloomsburg University Curriculum ComP.

was reelected

mittee (BUCC) at the committee's meeting

Wednesday, Sept 30.

Mary

Harris, assistant professor of cur-

turned to Bloomsburg in 1970 to teach

riculum and foundations, was chosen to be

before retiring last August.

chairperson of the BUCC subcommittee on

Noakes holds a doctorate

'

in

behavior

Diversity in Curriculum.

BUCC

also voted to

recommend

that

Interim Provost Carol Matteson change

graduate course 72.530 to a double

listing.

OCT 92

8 The Communique 8

Calendar
Friday, October 9
•

An Exhibit—Haas Center for the Arts,
OcL

23, exhibit of photographs

artifacts

of Ecuadoran and Mexican

through

and

Folk Art.
•

Celebrity Artist Series

—"Two Ladies

of Broadway" with Carol Channing and
Rita Moreno, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center
for the Arts, 8 p.m.

Saturday, October 10
•

Homecoming Parade

— Beginning

at

10

Bloomsburg High School.

a.m. at the

• Homecoming Harvest Buffet, Scranton
Commons, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
•

QUEST*

—High Ropes, Bloomsburg

University's upper campus, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
•

Women's Tennis

campus
•

courts,

lower

Beaver, upper

Football vs. Clarion,

Redman

Stadium,

1:30 p.m.
•

Field

Hockey

Hall.

Haas Center for

in Mitrani

the Arts. Created as part of the Soviet Union's Strategic Missile

Forces in 1977, the troupeof singers anddancers quickly went beyondentertaining the men

p.m.

1

RED STAR PERFORMERS— The Incomparable Red Stars Red Army Chorus and Dance
Ensemble will performfor the Celebrity Artist Series on Sunday, Oct. 18 at 8 p.m.

p.m.

Women's Soccer vs.

campus,
•

1

vs. Clarion,

vs. Slippery

Rock, upper

and women in the Soviet military. The ensemble soon was performing in the top concert
halls of Moscow, and then embarking on tours of Europe. For more information on the
show, call extension 4409.

campus, 2 p.m.
•

Movie

—

"Patriot

Games," Haas Center

and 9:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 11
• Homecoming Pops Concert, Mitrani
for the Arts, 7

Haas Center for the Arts, 2:30 p.m.
QUEST*—Kayaking 1, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; a
prerequisite for Kayaking U.
Monday, October 12
• Women's Tennis vs. Lock Haven, lower
campus courts, 3 p.m.
Wednesday, October 14
• Teaching and Learning Enhancement
Seminar, noon, 3149 McCormick Center.

Math and computer science
The department of mathematic s and com-

Oct 20, Stephen Kokoska, associate pro-

puter science will hold a series of coUoquia

"The Visualization of Calculus: A
Guided Tour of the TI85."
Oct 27, Yixim Shi, assistant professOT,
"Enclosing the Simple Root of a Function."
Nov. 3, John Riley, professor, "Pixels at
an Exhibition: Cellular Automata."
Nov. 10, Anita Gleason, assistant profes-

Hall,
•

Open

Women's

Soccer
(Pa.),

The

vs.

lectures are held every

Tuesday

at

3:30 p.m. in Bakeless Center for the Humanities,

room

105, and are

open

to the

public.

Upcoming lectures include:
OcL 13, David Heffner, academic com-

A

faculty.
•

throughout the cmrent semester.

fessor,

sor, "Built-in Self Testing

puting consultant, "Computers and Music:

to all

plan lectures

Hands-on Demonstration Using a

PC

and a Kurzweil K-2000."

Nov.

17,

Technique."

Dennis Huthnance, associate

professo, "Mathematics and the Music of

Bach,"

at

a location to be announced.

King's

upper

campus, 4 p.m.
Saturday,

Hall,

October 17

•

•

QUEST*—

Kayaking

II,

climbing

9

a.m. -4 p.m.
•

Football vs.

Kutztown,

Redman Stadium,
1

p.m.

Latin American dog
nuisk on exhibit at

Haas Art Gallery

Sunday,
October 18
•

Haas Center

QUEST*

Celebrity Artist Series

—

^The

Incomparable Red Stars Red

Army

Chorus and Dance Ensemble, Mitrani

for the Arts, 8 p.m.

—Rappelling,

site

at either a local

or a 40' rappel tower

•

Men's Soccer

vs. Shippensburg,

upper

campus, 3:30 p.m.
Friday, October 23

Dance Marathon

Camp Victory, 7

located on Bloomsburg's upper campus,

•

8 a.m.-5 p.m.

p.m. Nelson Field House. Runs imtil 7

Monday, October 19
• Field Hockey vs. Wilkes, upper

p.m. Oct. 24.

campus, 3:30 p.m.

for the Arts, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, October 21
• Field Hockey vs. Lock Haven, upper

Saturday, October 24

campus, 3 p.m.

campus,

•

—"Mambo Kings," Haas Center

•

•

Movie

Field

for

—^"Mambo Kings," Haas Center

Hockey
1

vs.

and 9:30 p.m.
Messiah, upper

p.m.

Movie

and 9:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 22
for the Arts, 7 p.m.

* For

more infcnmation on

tivities, call extension

4323.

QUEST ac-

Larger library
will eliminate

overcrowding
Although recommendations regarding the proposed site and design of the
larger library

have not yet been ap-

proved by university administration
or the Council of Trustees,
PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

LOOKING FOR ELBOW ROOM —Like students who have come before them for the past
20 years, these students must make the best use of little space in the Andruss Library. With
the release of funds from the Higher Education Capital Construction Program, a larger
library will soon become a reality

it is

ex-

pected the building will be located on
the Softball field adjacent to Waller

Administration Building and the tennis courts.

The proposed 125,000 square

foot

.

building will increase seating from

387 reader stations to 1,219 and hold
more than 400,000 volumes. The Cur-

Governor's cost-sharing plan

riculum Materials Center collections

gives larger library 'jumpstart'

and the University Archives resources
will

be again housed

in the library,

along with the return of some 35,000
President Harry Ausprich has announced
plans to

move forward

with a unique fund-

System of Higher Education and
Bloomsburg University Council of

nia State

the

bound periodicals and other materials
currently in off-campus storage.

HECCP

"The library is the heart of the camIt is our academic hub where

campaign to raise $2.3 million, or
25 percent, toward the construction of a
larger library. Bloomsburg will receive the
balance of the $11.5 million project from

Trustees previously endorsed the

will ensure a solid foundation for the future

and

Commonwealth funds included

of higher education

interim provost. "Since the Andruss

raising

the

in

concept of a one-time shared funding plan.
"This unparalleled construction campaign

in

Pennsylvania," said

news conference. "This

Higher Education Capital Construction Pro-

Casey during

gram (HECCP), which

program, a partnership between the

Now

is

part of Operation

his

monwealth and

Com-

pus.

students

come

to

seek information

to study," says

Carol Matteson,

Library was built in 1966,
increased not only the

we have

number of our

public universities, will

faculty, but their scholarly growth and

tion Jumpstart capital construction projects

finance 66 construction or renovation

research activities. Faculty are also

are expected to result in nearly 16,000 jobs

projects totalling nearly

Jumpstart.

in its

second year. Opera-

$313.7 milUon

throughout Pennsylvania.

Gov. Robert Casey unveiled the HECCP
during a press conference on Thursday,

to

in state

—

$468 million
funding and $153.9

working with the slate's

projects at other state-owned universities

the current recession

and build

for the fu-

Despite escalating space problems

Matteson commends

in recent years,

The funding of Bloomsburg'slibrary and

public universities to help them withstand

making assignments that place greater
demands on students."

research

million raised by our state-owned and staterelated universities."

that

Oct. 8, in Harrisburg.

he is committed

He emphasized

its

included in the program

is

based on the

the library staff under the direction of
J.

Daniel

services.

Vann
"The

III,

found very creative and innovative

75 percent of the construction cost and the

ways

university attempts to raise 25 percent from

faculty's needs."

funds for capital construction projects for

private sources. Historically, the state has

The

HECCP

is

the state-owned

designed to release

and

state-related universi-

funded

all

academic and administrative

through a unique cost-sharing program.

construction at the 14 state-owned univer-

The Board of Governors of the Pennsylva-

Continued on page 3

ties

have

cost-sharing concept that the state provides

state

ture.

dean of library

library faculty

to

meet our students' and

Robert Parrish, vice president of
administration, estimates

it

will

be

at

Continued on page 3

2 The

Communique 22

OCT 92

Non-instructional
personnel promoted
Three non-instructional

staff

Bloomsburg University Crime Report
Prepared by the University Police Department

members

September 1992

have been promoted.

John M. Rymell of Muncy has been promoted from computer operator to computer
programmer in university computer ser-

Reported

Offenses

to or

by

Arrests

Made

or Incidents

Cleared by Other Means

University Police

vices.

Doris O. Bailey of Bloomsburg has been

promoted from administrative

assistant in

the grants office to director of grants in the

Laura Kocher of Benton has been pro-

moted from clerk stenographer to management technician in the planning and institutional research and information management office.

staff

members appointed
Four full-time non-instructional personnel have been hired.

Ann F. Diseroad and Catherine Fulkersin,
both of Bloomsburg, have been appointed
as library assistants in the Harvey A. Andruss

Library.

Ellen Zeisloft of Bloomsburg has

Mary

been appointed as a clerk stenographer in
the department of curriculum

and founda-

0
2

Disorderly Conduct

Law

Liquor

Violations

PubUc Drunkenness

office of graduate studies.

Four new

Vandahsm

Sexual Offenses

0
2

1

1

2

2

1

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

1

Rape
Drug Violations

Murder
Arson

0
0
0
0
0
0

Weapons Possession

0

DUI
Vagrancy

0
0

Robbery/Burglary

1

Motor Vehicle Theft

0

From Buildings
Theft From Vehicle

8

Simple Assaults
Aggravated Assaults

Theft

1

0
0
0

1

Retail Theft

0

Other Thefts

2

Criminal Mischief

1

5

Harassment

1

0

by Communication
Safety Tip: Avoid leaving property where

tions.

Richard L. Wilhams of Bloomsburg has

been hired as a

utility

visible in an automobile, either on the seals,

plant operator.

The Communique
A

it is

or in a hatchback.

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

The Communique publishes
news of activities, events and developments at
Bloomsburg University bi-weekly throughout

faculty and staff,

the academic year.

Eric Foster named editorial assistant
in university relations office
Eric Foster has been named editorial news
assistant in the University Relations

news briefs and
calendar information at least two weeks in
advance to The Communique, University RelaPlease submit story ideas,

and Communication Office, Bloomsburg
University, Bloomsburg, PA 17815.

tions

and

Communication

vania Newspaper Publisher's Association
in the

economic story category

for a pack-

age of features on property assessment and
the relationship of housing growth to tax

Office.
Foster, a native

rates.

He also won a second place award in

of Harveys Lake,

the feature category for a story on the

Bloomsburg is committed toproviding equal
employment opportunities for

earned

eutrophication of Harveys Lake, and a sec-

persons without regard to race, color,

reli-

bachelor's degree

ond place

gion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, life-

inEnglishinl989

on proposed

from Penn State

Previously, he

University. For

years at The Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre.

educational and
all

style,

sexual orientation, handicap, Vietnam

membership.
additionally committed

era veteran, or union

The

university

is

to

his

in the

news category

tuition

voucher

for a story
legislation.

was an editorial aide for two

affirmative action and will take positive steps

the past year, Fos-

In 1989, he had a story published in Phila-

and employment

was a reporter,
copy editor and

delphia Magazine.

to provide such educational

opportunities.

Editor: Susan

M. Schantz

ter

photographer for

Assistant Editor: Eric Foster

The Dallas Post

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

newspaper. While

won

a

first

Eric Foster
at

The Dallas Post, he

place award from the Pennsyl-

At Bloomsburg, Foster will write stories
and serve as assistant editor for The
Communique. He will assist the director of
news and media relations in writing press
releases and related duties.

The Communique 22

OCT 92 3

Library funds
Continued from page

make up

sities that

President Harry Ausprich

1

the State

The proposal to construct a larger library

During the

on Bloomsburg's campus was included in a
capital spending plan approved in 1988.

of incidents of overt racism in our soci-

and hate have appeared both on college
and university campuses and in society-

Constructing a larger library has been

many

priority capital project

years. Just eight years after the

Library, a consultant

was commissioned

to

suggest solutions for the crowded condi-

Although Bloomsburg has the fourth

is

largest full-time equivalent enrollment of

the 14 State

System

universities,

it

library

ranks

and

staff.

for learning,
racial justice

and the net library square footage

the

all

To
we

and

of our students, fac-

side.

of finally having a library that will meet the

community," said Ausprich.

"We are very

willing to cooperate in this special one-time

funding initiative that will help us realize
important goal and at the same time

ment

I

com-

have asked our law enforce-

officials to

once again review the

ethnic intimidation legislation, to be-

come

intimately familiar with

sions,

and

utilize

it

its

provi-

whenever appropri-

ate to address the issues of ethnic harass-

ment. In carrying out our responsibihty
as an educational institution,

we

will

violence or intimidation.

We

will

I

am confident that a very great major-

of the members of our university
community and of the larger community
share my commiunent to provide a supity

make members
of our university and the larger community aware of where we stand and that we

join

intend to respond.

is

in Pennsylvania.

the heinous acts have been

mitted.

be from within

it

Acts of racial intimidation and ha-

Ethnic intimidation

help provide a 'jumpstart' for the area

whom

prosecution of racially motivated acts of

and ethnic

use every opportunity to

as well as those of our neighbors in the

1982

in

pursue

will actively

reject racial

rassment will not be tolerated.

academic needs of our students and faculty,

and Vandalism Act, passed

actively pursue public disclosure and

our university community or from out-

"We are very excited about the prospect

tion

and revised in 1988, provides a means of
redress for all of our citizens against

ensure such a climate

intimidation whether

per student.

this

supportive of

ulty

14th in both the percent of seating space in
its

Among

most odious ofand ethnic inare
of
racial
fenses
acts
which
are
anonymous.
timidation
Bloomsburg University is committed
to providing an educational setting which
at-large.

1966 opening of the Harvey A. Andruss

tions.

Those expressions of intolerance

ety.

released through the Governor's Office.

for

last several years, the na-

media have reported an increase

tional

Funds for approved capital projects must be

Bloomsburg's top

on racism

issues statement

System of

Higher Education.

is

against the law

The Ethnic

Intimida-

portive, nurturing

and culturally diverse

learning environment.

hope you

I

will

me in providing an aunosphere that

open

to the

exchange of ideas and free

from discrimination and the sickness of
racism.

economy."
"In these difficult economic times, the

HECCP offers a creative solution to a longstanding problem and an added,

much

needed economic benefit to the region. The

port from external sources for the larger
library

campaign.

university will finally be able to build the

Bloomsburg has previously raised over
$16 million from the private sector. "I am

so desperately needs, and con-

optimistic about our ability to raise the

library

it

struction of

an $11.5 million building will

money we need

help fuel the area's economy," said Kevin

said. "It

O'Connor, chairperson. Council of Trust-

overnight."

for the library,"

won't be easy and

it

Ausprich

won't happen

Library
Continued from page
least

1

1

8 months before ground can be

broken for the larger library. Now that
the funds have been released from the

Commonwealth,

the Pennsylvania

Deparunent of General Services

is

is

expected to begin, in December, the

nothing new. The university recently com-

process of selecting architects for the

pleted a successful $3.5 million campaign.

various capital projects. Because of

released simultaneously, this process

plan to formally begin our fund-raising

The Trust for Generations, under the direction of Anthony laniero, acting vice president of university advancement. "One of

campaign

the three phases of this

Raising funds to support the library

ees.

Jan Girton, chairperson of the
Bloomsburg University Foundation, acknowledged that raising funds for "brick
and mortar" presents a new challenge.
in January.

I

"We

believe our alumni,

parents, students, friends

and the commu-

nity will support this very necessary
project."

Representatives from various university

— Council of
Foundation, alumni,
— well from
and
community —
be
serve on

Trustees, the

constituencies

faculty, staff, parents

students

as

will

special advisory

guidance

in

as

the local

invited to

committee

a

that will offer

garnering the necessary sup-

a $1 million

campaign included

endowment specifically raised

the large

number of

projects being

might take as long as a year. The
subsequent design and bidding process

is

projected to require an addi-

tional year before construction

can

augment university funding for library
acquisitions and equipment," he said. The

begin.

Foundation will begin

ing the larger library is summer, 1 996,"

to

from these funds

to disburse interest

to the library this spring.

laniero hopes to have pledge

"An

optimistic date for open-

says Parrish.

The

commit-

larger library will be designed

be a functional building that pro-

ments for the larger library campaign within

to

two years and to be
monies within four

space, Parrish adds.

in receipt

years.

of all pledge

—By Susan M. Schantz

vides adequate stack, seating and study

— By Susan M. Schantz

4 The Communique 22

OCT 92

America 500 years

after

David Buisseret

Conference speakers
will

examine

Was Columbus

a hero or villain?

An

"but they also illustrate

lot of these

America 500 years ago has changed the
history of the peoples on both

on them."

and Friday, Nov.

5,

6.

in the

Aztec maps and how those Aztec maps influenced Spanish
mapmaking.

related to the

at 9 a.m.

is

offered on Nov. 5

from 5:30

to 7:30 p.m. in the

Human

will last until

Services.

Room

The conference

has received several grants from the

cost

organize institutes in cartography and on

encounters between the cultures on either

the conference, call

Sperling at extension 4852.

— By Eric Foster

assis-

He

$ 14.50, with

a banquet reservation, or for

more information on

ing in the Caribbean.

National Endowment for the Humanities to

reservations due by Oct. 30.

about 4: 30 p.m. Thursday and

noon Friday.
Organized by Christine Sperling,

is

Columbian encounter.

Buisseret has also spent many years woiic-

of

Commons. The

of the banquet

To make

spends countless hours researching themes

part of the conference, a

Pennsylvania

Forum, McCormick Cen-

ter for

As director of the Hermon Dunlap Smith

Scranton

begin each day

David

Center for the History of Cartography at
Newberry Library in Chicago, Buisseret

banquet

Christine Sperling

historian of cartography

Buisseret.

be how the Spaniards used

As

pubhc.
will

followed Columbus than internationally

ing part of Buisseret's lecture
will

The conference "Coming to
the New World: Columbus and
the American Experience, 14921992" is free and open to the
It

of the New World awaiting Europeans who

Sperling says that an intrigu-

to explore that

change on Thursday, Nov.

Few people have a greater understanding

A

renowned

will host a two-

day conference

these Europe-

maps have illustrations of people

sides of the Atlantic.

Bloomsburg

how

European view

ans perceived other peoples of the world.

either event, Columbus's voyage from Spain
to

will chart the

views

different

intrepid explorer or simply a plunderer? In

Columbus

side of the Atlantic.

Buisseret has had more than a dozen
books published. He serves on the editorial

board for the Columbus Encyclopedia,puhlished

by Simon and Schuster.

tant professor of art, the conference is spon-

sored by the Bloomsburg University Foundation, Provost's Lecture Series, Dean's

Anaya seeks 'New

World' vision

Special Initiatives Fund, and the depart-

ment of art.
"Columbus is an especially controversial
figure these days. The conference isn't designed to promote an agenda that is either
for or against him," says Sperling. "The
intention is to advance understanding of
this historic encounter, and the resulting
clash between cultures, by offering the diverse viewpoints in the conference."

For Rudolfo Anaya the meeting and mixing of Spanish and Native
ture in

American

cul-

America has not represented one

able to identify with self and the
nity.

humanity."

A great leap forward in Anaya' s quest for

culture gaining at the other's expense.

For Anaya, whose heritage
ish

and Native American,

represented two cultures

it

is

both Span-

self-knowledge was the Chicano move-

ment of the 1960s.

has

Anaya described

com-

ing together, and creating a new

The Chicano

novelist

—

and

possible for people with Span-

and Native American ances-

presentations over the two-day conference.

playwright from Albuquerque,

ish

The speakers

N.M., spoke

try to

will include

Bloomsburg's

at the

Provost's

William Baillie, professor of English, Ralph

Lecture Series Thursday, Oct.

Smiley, professor of art and adjunct profes-

8, in

Mitrani Hall, outhning his

mass communications, and Thomas

own

quest to understand his

sor of

Aleto, associate professor of anthropology.
Sperling, a historian of Renaissance

art,

also helped bring cartography historian

David Buisseret

to

campus

to

speak for the

Provost Lecture Series Nov. 5 at 8 p.m.

in

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for the Arts.
"It

seems to me that maps are the ultimate
document. Not only do

visual historical

came

many

Columbian era maps reveal how 15th century Europeans viewed the world and its

said

limits in a very literal sense," says Sperling,

of our history,

istics that

inter-

New World

of the Native

thentic to the

the unique character-

have evolved from

this

union,"

Anaya. "When we encounter the roots

we

"In

my writings, I have sought

to discover the nature of the

to

American ways, said Anaya. "From that
interaction and intermarriage, a unique
American mestizo was bom."

"We need to know

feel-

for definition.

America, they survived because they
married and adopted

the resources

ing dependent on either culture

Rudolfo Anaya
the Spanish

draw upon

of their heritage, without

identity.

When

the term

Chicano as a "Declaration of
Independence"
making it

culture.

Thirteen speakers will give half-hour

commu-

Finding self should also mean finding

feel authentic

and are

"I

man,

that person

had only myself

journey.

I

who

is

au-

New World view," said Anaya.
to encounter in the

am the New World man I sought"

"The Americas represent a wonderful
experiment

in the synthesis of divergent

world views. Each one of us
tative

of that process."

is

a represen-

— By Eric Foster

OCT 92 5

The Communique 22

'Into the Streets'

program seeks

volunteer workers for Nov. 6
Faculty and staff are encouraged to volunteer their time to help

conduct an afternoon of community service activion Friday, Nov. 6, in conjunction with the national "Into the

local agencies
ties

Streets" program.

Last year, more than 400
members from Bloomsburg

recognized by the
national leader in

students and 100 faculty and staff
participated.

Bloomsburg has been

Campus Outreach Opportunity League as a
the community service movement and was

selected as Pennsylvania' s "hub campus" for "Into the Streets." The
role of the

hub

is

to act as a resource

and

recruiter for

campuses

across the state.

The "Into the Streets" service day will be preceded by a preprogramming week of activities highlighting the issues of community service.

To become

part of "Into the Streets," faculty

and

staff

should

contact Karen Girton at extension 4455, or at 389-1216.

News

briefs

"Effective Decision Making," a supervisory roundtable con-

ducted by management consultant Bruce Nilson, will be held

Thursday, Nov.

5,

from 9 a.m.

to

noon

at the

Magee Center.

For registration information about the roundtable,

call

Jolene

Folk at extension 4206. The deadline to register for the free program

Monday, Oct. 26.
whose clients include The University of Pittsburgh and
the Pfaltzgraff Co., will discuss the two main factors that determine
whether we make good decisions and the five steps to effective
is

Nilson,

decision-making.

He will also discuss how different organizations

approach decision making, when and when not to include others

in

making decisions, and what to do when the wrong decision is made.
Nilson is an instructor for the American Management Associa-

A GOLDEN

and teaches business administration as an adjunct faculty

tion

MOMENT — Danny Litwhiler

and Mary Gardner,
athletic director, share a light moment at the Huskies' homecoming
game Oct. 10 before he presented Bloomsburg with one of his Gold

member

Gloves.

tion will hold

A 1938 alumnus, Litwhiler moved on from the Huskies'
team

to

play in the major leagues for 12 years

Philadelphia Phillies,

St.

—

baseball
with the

Louis Cardinals, Boston Braves and

Cincinnati Reds.
In 1 942 he
,

became thefirst major league baseball player to play

every inning of every game for an entire season without an error

—

154 games in all. The errorless streak continuedfor 33 games into
the next season.

He played in two World Series, and was a member

of the championship

A

St.

Louis Cardinals

Elizabethtown College
*

The Women's Consortium of the
its

12th annual

was

Michigan State University for 20 years. More than a great

State

System of Higher Educa-

"The Consortium, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" at
6, through Saturday, Nov. 7.
The conference will offer discussion sessions, workshops and
panels on topics pertaining to the advancement of women in higher
education. The keynote address will be given by M. Emily Hannah.
Registration forms have been circulated to consortium members,
and are also available by contacting Kay Camplese at extension
4819 or through campus mail; biology department.
Kutztown University, Friday, Nov.

Five student groups will be filmed by

The groups include

the Student

have 10 children and

live in

New Port

Nurses Association, the Fellow-

Husky Ambassadors,
and Alpha Phi Omega, a service fraternity.

Singers,

to time pitches.

WNEP-TV to appear on the

opening segment of the "Good Morning America" television show.

Gun, a radar gun used

his wife Patricia

*

titled

ship of Christian Athletes, the

He and

Elizabethtown.

in

Women's Consortium Conference

ballplayer, Litwhiler was an inventor and helped develop the Juggs

Richey, Fla.

*

in 1944.

charter member of Bloomsburg s Hall of Fame, Litwhiler

head baseball coachat FloridaState Universityfor sevenyears and
at

at

Husky
They are

the

scheduled to film at the lawn facing Waller Administration Building,

on Thursday, Nov.

12, at 10 a.m.

OCT 92

Communique 22

6 The

Twenty-one educators join Bloomsburg's faculty
Twenty-one faculty members have been
appointed to full-time, tenure-track positions.
•

JaniceS.Broder of Bethlehem has been

named

assistant professor of English.

For

two years, Broder has been a lecMuhlenberg College in Allentown.
She holds a bachelor's degree in art from
Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley,
Mass., and doctorate and master's degrees

gland and a doctorate in physical chemistry

years, Kipe-Nolt served as a senior scientist

from Michigan State University
Lansing, Mich.

Center for Tropical Agriculture in Colom-

Wayne George

•

named

tal instruction.

turer at

was

from Brandeis University
Waltham, Mass.
in English

in

Arthur Crowell of Port Gibson, Miss.,

of Berwick has been

assistant professor of

the last

in East

developmen-

For the last 27 years, George

a teacher and department head in the

Berwick Area School

District.

George holds a master's degree in mathematics from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and a bachelor's degree in
mathematics from Bloomsburg.
• Michael Hickey of Morris, Minn., has

in

bean microbiology

bia,

at the International

where she was a senior research fellow

since 1984.

She holds a bachelor's degree
from Messiah College

in

in

biology

Grantham and a

doctorate and master's degree in microbiology from Penn State University.
• Wendy Lee-Lampshire of Milwaukee,

Wis., has been

named assistant professor of

philosophy. For the past four years, Lee-

has been named associate professor of com-

been named assistant professor of

munication disorders and special educa-

For the past two years, Hickey served as an

Lampshire has served as a teaching fellow
at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis.
She holds a bachelor's degree in philoso-

instructor at the University of Minnesota at

phy from the University of Colorado

Morris, Minn.

Colorado Springs, Colo.

•

tion.

For the

last 1 1 years,

Crowell served

as an associate professor at

Alcom

State

He

University in Lorman, Miss.

He

holds master's and bachelor's de-

grees in special education from Southern

Connecticut State University

in

New

Ha-

history.

holds bachelor's and master's de-

grees in history from Northern Illinois University in

DeKalb,

111.

Amarilis Hidalgo-DeJesusof Kirksville,

•

•

in

David G. Martin of Olean, N.Y., has

been named associate professor of fmance

and business law. For the past four years,
Martin served as an assistant professor at

ven, Conn., and a doctorate in special edu-

Mo., has been named assistant professor of

Saint Bonaventure University in Saint

cation from the University of Connecticut

languages and cultures. For the past year,

Bonaventure, N.Y.

in Storrs,
•

Conn.

Hildalgo-DeJesus served as an assistant

Michael DeVivo of Bend, Ore., has

professor of Spanish at Northeast Missouri

Mo.

He

holds a bachelor's degree in history

from Long Island University's C.W. Post

been named assistant professor of geogra-

State University in Kirksville,

phy and earth science. For the

She holds a bachelor's degree in history
from the University of Puerto Rico in Rio

degree in business administration from

in

Pedras, Puerto Rico, a master's degree in

and a doctorate in finance from Saint
Louis University in Saint Louis, Mo.

geogra-

delphia and a doctorate in Spanish from the

years,

last three

DeVivo served as assistant professor

Oregon Institute of Technology
Klamath Falls, Ore.
at the

He

holds a bachelor's degree

in

Spanish from Temple University in Phila-

phy from Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven Conn and a master s

University of Colorado.

degree in geography from the University of

Australia, has been

. ,

,

Tennessee

'

in Nashville.

Ky has
been named assistant professor of commu•

Arthur G. Dignan of Danville,

nication disorders

For the

last

two

and

years,

.,

special education.

Dignan served as a

graphic arts teacher at the Kentucky School
for the

He

Deaf

in Danville,

Ky.

holds a bachelor's degree in sociolin

Wash-

ington, D.C., a master's of education de-

gree in counseling from East Central University in

Ada, Okla., and a master's degree

in special

education from CaUfomia State

Harold Fonda of Fort Collins, Colo.,

has been named assistant professor of chem-

For the

last

two

years,

Fonda has

served as an assistant professor at Colorado
State University in Fort Collins, Colo.

He holds a bachelor's degree
try

named assistant profes-

in

from Nottingham University

in

En-

University in

Macomb,

•

Carol M.

Moore of Bloomsburg

has

Moore served as an

instructor at Lycoming

College in WiUiamsporL Previously, she

sor of geography and earth science. For the

was a nurse at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

senior town planner for Gutteridge, Haskins

She holds a bachelor's degree in nursing
from Bloomsburg and a master's degree in
nursing from the University of Pennsylva-

and Davey,

in Victoria, Australia.

She holds a doctorate

in

geography and

planning from the University of Queensland,

Ohio

Columbus, Ohio, and a
bachelor's degree in geography from
Queens University in Kingston, Ontario.
State University in

•

Roch King of Andalusia has been named

instructor of health, physical education,

and

athletics.

For the past four years. King

He

holds a bachelor's degree in biology

from California State University

nia in Philadelphia.
•

Robert

Owen

at

Fresno,

ing.

For the

last five years,

Judith Kipe-Noltof Cali, Colombia, has

Owen served as

a teaching assistant at Ohio State University in

Columbus, Ohio.

He holds a bachelor's degree in management from Park College

in Parkville,

Mo.,

a master's degree in marketing from Ohio

and a master's degree

in

management from Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Mich.
•

Calif.

of Johnstown, Ohio, has

been named assistant professor of market-

State University

University in Philadelphia.

•

chemis-

Illinois

111.,

past two years, Kehoe-Forutan served as a

served as a graduate assistant at Temple

University in Northridge, Calif.

istry.

Sandra Kehoe-Forutan of Melbourne,

•

Western

been named instructor of nursing. Last year,

a master's degree in planning from

ogy from Gallaudet University

•

College in Brookville, N.Y., a master's

Sabah Salih of Ashland, Ky., has been

named

assistant professor of English. For

been named assistant professor of biologi-

the past three years, Salih served as an

and health sciences. For the past

assistant professor at the University of Ken-

cal

six

The Communique 22

He also

tucky in Ashland, Ky.

served as a

graduate assistant at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale,

111.,

Campus Notes

where he earned

a doctorate and master's degree in English.

SaHh holds a bachelor's degree

in English

from the University of Baghdad

in Iraq.

W. Schrader of Tallahassee,
Ra., has been named assistant professor of
Richard

•

OCT 92 7

Dianne Angelo,

associate professor, and Sheila Jones, assistant professor,

munication disorders and special education, presented a paper
Stressors

titled

com-

"Family Needs,

and Resources of Children using Assistive Device Technology"

at the

Biennial International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication

convention held recently

in Philadelphia.

accounting. For the past five years, Schrader

served as a graduate assistant at Florida

Ha.
He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Michigan State University in East
Lansing, Mich., and a master's degree in
accounting from Central Michigan UniverState University in Tallahassee,

sity in

American National Biography on Jacob

Cist,

article requested for the

Wilkes-Barre merchant and anthracite

entrepreneur (1782-1825). Powell's book, Philadelphia's First Fuel Crisis: Jacob
Cist and the Developing Market for Pennsylvania Anthracite (1978) has been cited
by scholarly works as the authority on the origins of the Pennsylvania anthracite
industry.

Mount Pleasant, Mich.

Luke Springman of Minot, N.D., has

•

H. Benjamin Powell, professor of history, has written an

Frank

Peters, associate professor of English,

was

the luncheon speaker at the

been named assistantprofessor of languages

national conference of the Association for Teaching English

and

Williamsport

cultures.

For the past three years,

Springman was an assistant professor of
German at Minot State University in Minot,
holds a bachelor's degree in

German

from Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.,

and master's and doctorate degrees

in

Ger-

man from Ohio State University in Colum-

held in

Teach Grammar."

Lawrence Tanner of Hamilton, N.Y.,

has been

by Allyn

&

Bacon Publishers. The book,

titled

Speech-Language Pathology and

Related Professions in the Schools, provides an overview of various professions

working

in

school settings and

how they interact in providing service to children with

disabilities.

Contributors from the department of communication disorders and special educa-

bus Ohio.
•

Grammar

summer. The topic of Peters' presentation was "Using Humor To

Several Bloomsburg faculty contributed chapters to a textbook released in August

N.D.

He

this

named

assistant professor of ge-

ography and earth science. Last year, Tanner served as a visiting assistant professor
at Colgate University in

Hamilton, N.Y.

He

Dianne Angelo, Ann Lee, and
Robert Lowe, associate professors; Samuel B. Slike, professor; and William Jones
and Colleen Marks, professors emeritus. Lowe served as editor. A chapter on health
concerns in the schools was contributed by Mary Gavaghan, associate professor of
tion include: Sheila Jones, assistant professor;

nursing.

holds a bachelor's degree in geology from

Williams College

in

Williamstown, Mass.,

a master's degree in geology from Tulsa
University in Tulsa, Okla., and a doctorate
in

geology from the University of Massa-

chusetts.
•

KarenTrifonoff of Lawrence, Kan., has

been named assistant professor of geogra-

phy and earth science. For the past five
years, Trifonoff served as an instructor at
the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan
She holds a master's degree in geography and a bachelor's degree in education
from the University of Akron.
•

Janet Rarig of

named an

logical counselor in

seling

Bloomsburg has been

associate professor and psycho-

thedepartmentof coun-

and human development. She previ-

ously served as an assistant professor and

psychological counselor at Bloomsburg.

She holds a bachelor's degree

in

psyPHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

chology from Bloomsburg, a master's degree in clinical psychology from

West

Chester University and a doctorate in professional clinical psychology
versity of

Denver

in

from the Uni-

Denver, Colo.

MEETING A BROADWAY LEGEND

— Jack Mulka, dean ofAcademic Support

Services,

meets Carol Channing at a reception after her performance Friday, Oct. 9 in Mitrani Hall.

Channing performed with Rita Moreno as part of the Celebrity Artist Series, which Mulka
administrates.

8 The

OCT 92

Communique 22

Calendar

New World Symphony will perform

Thursday, October 22
• Men's Soccer vs. Shippensburg, upper
campus, 3:30 p.m.
Friday, October 23
• Camp Victory Dance Marathon, Nelson
Field House, 7 p.m. to Oct. 24 at 7 p.m.
• Movie
"Mambo Kings," Haas Center
for the Arts, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 24

in

—

•

Field

Hockey

campus,

Messiah, upper

vs.

Movie

—"Mambo Kings," Haas Center

for the Arts,

1

Art Exhibit

p.m.

—Haas Center

North Mountain

,

Celebrity Artist Series.

Estabhshed

appeared on

Nov

22.

Men's Soccer

vs.

King's

upper

(Pa.),

campus, 3 p.m.
• Lecture
"Enclosing a Simple Root of

—

a Function" by Yixun Shi,

1987 under the

artistic

PBS and toured in Paris, South

Symphonies No.

Room

105,

1

temporary Ameri-

an

John Nelson, will

intensive learning and performing experi-

be released in 1993

ence for gifted graduates of the country's

on the Argo

is

recordings,

Michael Tilson

can music with

Miami, Fla., the symphony

and 4 with the Chicago

Thomas and con-

America, Japan, Great Britain and the
in

his recordings of Ives'

Symphony Orchestra.
The symphony's first two
Latin American
works
with

label.

Community Ac-

most prestigious music schools.

Tuesday, October 27
•

in

1992 for

tions in

United States.

Based
for the Arts,

An League Juried

Exhibition, through

at

Bloomsburg on Thursday Oct. 29, at 8 p.m.
in Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for the Arts.
The performance is part of B loomsburg's

Monday, October 26
•

will

Thomas, the
symphony has performed in Carnegie Hall,

Sunday, October 25
•

Bernstein.

orchestral

leadership of Michael Tilson

p.m.

1

Bloomsburg's Celebrity Artist Series
The New World Symphony — America's
Leonard
academy —
perform
Thomas received two Grammy nomina-

Thomas has been principal conductor of
London Symphony Orchestra and for
the past three summers he has been artistic
the

tivities cardholders

may

pick up their

Michael Tilson

tickets at the infor-

Thomas

director of the Pacific

mation desk

in

cated in the University Store lobby

Music Festival, held
Sapporo, Japan, which he founded with

lo-

Bakeless Center for the Humanities, 3:30
p.m.
•

Reception

Artist's

—North Mountain

Art League Juried Exhibition, 7-9 p.m.,

Thursday, November 5

Haas Gallery, Haas Center for the Arts.

•

Wednesday, October 28
• Movie
"Unlawful Entry," Haas Center

World: Columbus and the American

—

for the Arts, 7
•

and 9:30 p.m.
is

a prerequisite for the

to the

For a

6.

list

•

of events, contact

Provost's Lecture Series

Thursday, October 29

David Buisseret, Mitrani

—The New

World Symphony, Mitrani

Hall,

Center for the Arts, 8 p.m.
Friday, October 30
•

Movie

—"Unlawful Entry," Haas Center

for the Arts, 7

and 9:30 p.m.

Men's Soccer

campus,

1

West

vs.

QUEST*

Hall,

Seminar

information call Jolene Folk at ext. 4206.

Chester, upper

November

and

1

—

Caving, J-4 (a cave near

conduct community

Cellular

Automata" by John Riley,

Room

24th Annual

Mad

Hatter Competitive

noon

-

3:30 p.m.

•

Diving hosts Bloomsburg Relays,

p.m.; this clinic

is

a prerequisite for

on the creeks.

will

be open for

Men's and Women's Swimming and

QUEST*

—Caving,

is

being pro-

*
its

*

*

meeting Wednesday, Oct

14, the

curriculum committee voted, after consid-

1

p.m..

Nelson Field House.
•

Security for the open areas

vided by the University PoUce.

At

10 p.m.

Wednesday, November 4
• QUEST*— Kayak Rolling
1 1

—

Sundays through Fridays for the remaind»

Saturday, November 7

the kayaking sessions

301, 302 and 304

of the semester.

105, Bakeless Center for the Humanities,

Clinic, 9 to

—

Bakeless Center for the Humanities

contact Rev. Robert Peiffer, 784-0703.

Speech Tournament, through Saturday,
Nov. 7, Bakeless Center for Humanites,

at an Exhibition:

in

service activities. For further information,

Tuesday, November 3

— "Pixels

briefs

student study from 9 a.m. until midnight

•

Lecture

News

QUEST ac-

extension 4323.

Beginning immediately, three classrooms
faculty

State College), 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

•

For more information on

tivities, call

6

—Students,

staff will volunteer their time to help

local agencies

the Arts, 2 p.m.

*

—"Effective Decision Making,"

"Into the Streets"

Classic

Haas

by management consultant Bruce Nilson,
Magee Center, from 9 a.m. to noon. For

•

p.m.

Sunday, November
•

•

Friday,

Saturday, October 31
•

the

Center for the Arts, 8 p.m.

Haas

Music Mattered, Annex, 7 p.m.
Rock Band, The Awakening,
Annex, 9:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 8
• Image, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for
•

New World" by

Europeans Saw Their

Celebrity Artist Series

—"How

— When

the

Christine Sperhng at 389-4852.

kayaking sessions on the creeks.

•

New

Experience, 1492-1992, through Friday,

Nov.

QUEST*— Kayak Rolling Clinic, 9-11

p.m.; this clinic

—Coming

Conference

Multimedia Show: '60s Rock

•

erable discussion, not to delete College

Algebra, course 53.114, from group

C

of

the university's required courses.

J-4 (a cave near

State College), 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

There were six votes against deleting
course, and four in favor.

the

New technology speeds data searches

Andruss Library expands reference services
While funding

for a long-awaited,

community won't have

new

facility is

improvements

CD-ROM

new

been released, the university

library has

to wait until the

occupied in 1996

to

in library services.

reference network

enjoy

A

new

became op-

erational in August.

J.

With the data bases on the new network,
Vann III, dean of library services,

Daniel

anticipates users will be able to get

more

information about available materials faster.

He expects, in turn, a significant increase in
the

number of interlibrary loan requests

in

order to obtain materials. This spiraling

demand

for information has the library in-

vestigating additional means to secure docu-

ments.

One

possibility is overnight docu-

ment delivery service, he says.
"The technology provides a new service
which our students need," says Vann. "CD-

ROM

is

just

an

initial

glimpse at what the

electronic library will be. In the future we'll

have the capability to retrieve most publications, text

and graphics, via optical disks

and other electronic media."

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

NETWORKING — The

new

CD-ROM

reference network in Andruss Library, installed

The five data bases currently on the network are Business Index, ERIC, AB I/IN-

over the summer,

FORM, Access Pennsylvania and Periodi-

Journal and the business section of The

and Business Collections.

New

abstracts hundreds of periodicals

cal Abstracts.

PsycLIT

is

targeted for ac-

quisition in the near future.

Business Index
time, while

is

limited to

Access to the

one user

It

already attracting heavy use by students.

also has abstracts for

many of the citations.
•ERIC (Educational Resources Informa-

to

tion Center) is a broad source for general
and scholarly information on education and

four simultaneous users, and two offer ac-

number of users. Serbased on the number of po-

cess by an unhmited

related topics.

vice costs are

tions for journal articles

tential users.

•Business Index, formerly on microfilm,
provides access to 800 business and man-

agement periodicals, plus the Wall Street

The data base contains citaand other docu-

ments published since 1966.

It is

updated

indexes and

on ac-

telecommunications.

•Access Pennsylvania is a shared catalog
of books and other materials
libraries

throughout the

braries in the State

state,

owned by

including

li-

System of Higher Edu-

cation.

•Periodical Abstracts has citations and

quarterly.

•ABI/INFORM

It

counting, marketing, strategic planning and

a

at

two data bases are restricted

York Times.

is

the computerized

abstracts covering a wealth of subjects.

equivalent of Business Periodicals Index

Continued on page 7

is

Native American Indian Awareness month

...

stories

on page 4

Communique

2 The

5

NOV 92

Bloomsburg thespians

show

will stage

Moose Lodge

at

News
The following

Tuesday. The show runs through Sunday,

Nov. 8, at the Moose Lodge on Main Street
in Bloomsburg.
Featuring a cast of 13 students, the play

individuals will serve as co-coordinators of the

Academic Grievance

academic year: Donna Cochrane, associate professor of business
education and office administration; Robert Reeder, associate professor of anthropology;

Board

The Players of Bloomsburg University
opened performances of Jim Leonard Jr.'s
And They Dance Real Slow In Jackson

briefs

for the 1992-93

Lorraine Shanoski, associate professor of curriculum and foundations.

Copies of the academic grievance procedures and forms can be obtained from any of the
above individuals or by calling the provost's office at extension 4308. The grievance
procedures can also be found on page 78 of the Pilot 1992-93.
*

A

workshop on obtaining grants

*

*

in the arts,

humanities and education will be given

on a young girl with cerebral palsy
and examines the manner in which people
who are different are treated and how adults
pass these attitudes to children and suc-

Tuesday, Nov. 17, from 8

ceeding generations.

The location of the workshop will be announced based on the number of registrations.
The deadUne for registration is Tuesday, Nov. 10. For more information, contact the grants

centers

"This play's subject matter concerns us
all,"

says Michael Collins, director of the-

ater

and assistant professor of communica-

tion studies

and

theater.

This production marks the

memory

recent

first

time in

that the university organi-

zation will perform off-campus during the

regular school year.

to 10 a.m.

The workshop will include presentations by Hsien-Tung Liu, dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences, Peter J. Kasvinsky
and James

,

assistant vice president for graduate studies

office at extension 4129.
*

*

*

The Bloomsburg Huskies Marching Band has been invited to perform as the exhibition
band at the Cavalcade of Bands state championship competition at Hersheypark Stadium
in Hershey on Saturday, Nov. 7. The band is under the direction of Terry Oxley, assistant
professor of music.

The move is prompted
The department of art and the Bloomsburg

by ongoing renovations to Gross Auditorium in Carver Hall and numerous events

a lecture and slide presentation about 19th century middle-class

scheduled in Haas Center for the Arts.

in this area on

Performance times are 8 p.m. now through
Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Admission
free with a valid Bloomsburg

Activities sticker. Seating

is

is

Community
limited.

For

Wednesday, Nov.

1 1

,

at

4287 from 2

Historic Preservation Society are sponsoring

homes and houses located

7:30 p.m on the fourth floor mezzanine. Old Science
.

Hall.

The presentation will be given by Bill Richardson, chief curator of the Joseph Priestly
House on Vernacular Architecture in Rural Northeastern Pennsylvania. For more information, contact

Charles T. Walters, assistant professor of
*

reservations or information, telephone ex-

tension

and research,

F. Matta, acting director of grants.

*

art, at

extension 4850.

*

Bloomsburg students have organized a multi-cultural fashion show to be held Thursday,
19, at 8 p.m. at the Bookstore Annex.
According to student organizer Rahshene Davis, the show will feature fashions from
Africa, the Far East, Latin America and the Caribbean. A $1 donation is requested.

to 5 p.m. daily.

Nov.

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and staff. The Communique publishes
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the

news briefs and
two weeks in

Please submit story ideas,

calendar information

at least

advance to The Communique, University Relations

and Communication Office, Bloomsburg

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PA

persons without regard to race, color,

sexual orientation, handicap, Vietnam

membership.
additionally committed

era veteran, or union

The

university

is

to

affirmative action and will take positive steps
to provide such educational

universities across

the nation in serving as a host site for a

teleconference on "Confronting Sexual
interac-

and employment

M. Schantz

Assistant Editor: Eric Foster

Photographer: Joan K. HeLfer

victims, harassers and the institu-

tion?

"Throughout the program, our
staff

and students

will

be able

faculty,

to interact

with the panel members by phoning-in their

day, Nov. 12, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the

questions.

forum, third floor,

McCormick

Center.

Issues to be addressed during the pro-

gram include:
•What is a hostile environment?
•How do we get individuals to

They will also have the opportu-

•How

ence," says

Bob Wislock,
human

education and
resources and

labor relations.
report

The teleconference
Bloomsburg by
Status of

is

sponsored

at

Commission on the
and the office of human

the

Women

resources and labor relations.

campuses?
can colleges and universities ef-

fectively balance the needs

nity to share reactions with the studio audi-

training specialist,

•What is the extent of the problem on our
Editor: Susan

—

tive teleconference will be broadcast Thurs-

sexual harassment?

opportunities.

parties

reli-

gion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, lifestyle,

Bloomsburg will join

Harassment on Campus." The live,

17815.

Bloomsburg is committed to providing equal
educational and employment ofjportuniues for
all

Sexual harassment teleconference Nov. 12

academic year.

and rights of all

For reservations and additional information, contact

Wislock

at

extension 4414.

The Communique 5

Newson

NOV 92 3

soloist for Nov. 15 concert

with University-Community Orchestra
A

When Roosevelt Newson leaves Bloomsburg University at night
for

piano

to pursue.

Newson, associate dean of

hard to find quality time to practice," says

to

can't conceive of

I

Newson
Hall,

life

but his

in-

Newson of his

be a professional baseball

At age 13, Newson
was back playing piano.

player.

Through high school and his
early college career, he was

15, at 2:30 p.m. in Mitrani

for the Arts, with the

his study of

9,

him
because Newson wanted to

without playing the piano."

perform Sunday, Nov.

will

Haas Center

age

structor quit teaching

dual career. "I don't sleep much, but that's a trade-off I'm willing

make.

at

is

and Sciences,

the College of Arts

also a concert pianist with a world-wide reputation.
"It's

native of Louisiana,

Newson began

home in Wilkes-Barre, he still has a second professional career

University-Community

also an accomplished clari-

Orchestra.
free with a valid Bloomsburg community activities

Admission is

netist.

Newson earned his bach-

card.

elor of music degree at

The orchestra will perform Wagner's "Overture to 'Rienzi' " and
from Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess." Newson

the

Southern University in Ba-

featured soloist with the orchestra for Franck's "Variations

ton Rouge, La., his master's
and doctoral degrees in
music from Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Md., and has done
post-doctoral work at the
Juilliard School of Music in
New York City.

highlights

Symphoniques" and Gershwin's "Rhapsody

in Blue."

is

Newson has

performed both the Gershwin and the Franck selections with the
Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic Orchestra.

"Gershwin

is

American composer who attempted to
Newson. "In his own lifetime, Gershwin was

the first

legitimize jazz," says

often maligned by critics for his work.

"When it comes to indigenous American
at the contributions of

Black Americans

music,

—

we have to look

"A

blues, jazz, spirituals

piano

and gospel. Until recently, Americans have been slow to accept this

unto

body of music as indigenous," says Newson, noting that Scandinavian composer Dvorak acknowledged influence by the music of
both black Americans and Native American Indians in his "New
World Symphony."

"You can

Newson
at

its

highest level.

The Gershwin Rhapsody

is

is

you please

and obvious keyboard

When

"You

practicing," says

he per-

volved

in

While

National Gallery of Art, The Washington Post

Newson.

Newson. "There

playing the piano.
critics

It's

is

try to

perform without

physical conditioning in-

a discipline just like a sport."

have praised the energy of his performances,

Newson says he does not take risks with the music, rather he makes

He has also toured Europe, with performances in Salzburg,

Vienna, Brussels, The Hague and a

do not exempt one

can't perform without keeping your practice up. You're

going to do physical harm to yourself if you

described his playing as "bursting with drive, direction and impetuosity."

Newson

make it louder or softer. As a pianist, I'm not only the

several promising pianist's careers, says

concerto through

flair."

Roosevelt

as

from practice. Tendonitis and carpal tunnel syndrome have ended

all he needed to say in a single movement."
The Los Angeles Times has described Newson as a "pianist of

at the

to

it

sional pianist, past accomplishment and acclaim

chamber music

able to say

formed

take a single note

performer, I'm the conductor and the interpreter." For the profes-

and through. Both are one movement works. Each composer was

fine musical instinct

an orchestra

says Newson.

from a chord and voice

describes Franck's "Variations Symphoniques" as a

dialogue between the piano and orchestra. "This

is

itself,"

meet the demands of the music.
compromise the music to play it safe."

the performance

Wigmore Hall performance in

"1 will not

— Eric Foster

London.

Red Cross seeks blood donors
Bloomsburg

will host a Red Cross

Drive Wednesday, Nov.

Nov.

12,

1 1,

from 11:30 a.m.

Centennial

Blood
and Thursday,

to 5:30

p.m. in

Gymnasium.

Donating blood takes about an hour, according to Mary Ann Stasik, program coordinator of the

Bloomsburg chapter of the

American Red Cross.

at

Centennial

Gym Nov. 11 and 12

To avoid having to wait in line, blood
may make an appointment by calling 784- 1 395 Monday through Friday from

by Trathen and Julia Shoup, secretary

donors

academic support services.

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

and faculty members donate blood. "There

John Trathen, director of student
ties,

urges faculty

members

to

activi-

make

their

students aware of the blood drive.

The blood drive on campus is co-chaired

Trathen would also like to see more

seems

to

be fewer faculty and

staff

staff giving

than there were a few years ago, and

would

like to see those

in

we

numbers increase."

4 The Communique

5

NOV 92

Native American Indian
activist to speak Nov. 17
Suzan Shown Harjo, a Native American Indian leader, writer and
advocate will speak at Bloomsburg on Tuesday, Nov. 17, as part of
the Provost's Lecture Series.

Harjo will conduct a workshop, "Racism: Native Americans and

Other Minorities," at 4 p.m. in Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for the
Arts.

At 8 p.m. she

and Native Affairs"

will lecture

on "Quincentennial Observations

in N4itrani Hall.

Harjo is a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes and a greatgranddaughter of the Cheyenne chiefs who fought against Custer at
the battle of Little Big Horn.

She serves as the president and director

of the Morning Star Foundation, a non-profit. Native American
Indian cultural rights and arts advocacy group.

She is national coordinator for the 1992 Alliance, an organization
which focuses on the significance of the Columbus Quincentenary
from the Native American Indian perspective.

Suzan Shown Harjo

Harjo has helped Indian nations recover nearly a million acres of
land to achieve appropriations and protections for sacred
natural resources, child welfare, health

programs.

From 1984

to 1989, she

ship organization.

sites,

and other social services

was executive

A

poet whose work has been published

in

journals, anthologies and textbooks, Harjo 's political writings have

director of the

app)eared in the

National Congress of American Indians, the largest tribal member-

Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, Chicago

Tri-

bune and Newsweek.

Native American Indian awareness
focus of craft
A

show and

Native American Indian craft show

and the screening of the film Incident

at

Oglala are two events which will mark
Native American Indian awareness month
at

craft

show.
"I've always supported the underdog,"
Foshay says. "In our country the Native
American Indians have been pushed to the

worst land, and the government has failed

Bloomsburg.

The

show and

sale will

be held

to

Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 14 and 15,

from 10 a.m.

to

6 p.m.

in

Centennial

Gym-

Indian issues

event which will feature Native American

through the Christian Children's Fund.

On Tuesday, Nov.

10, at 7

and 9:30 p.m.,
be shown in

In addition to crafts, exhibitions will in-

the fUrn Incident at Oglala will

clude the Greater Philadelphia Leonard

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for the Arts.

Admission
and $1

is

free with a

for others.

The

Bloomsburg

I.D.

film, narrated

by

actor Robert Redford, chronicles the plight

of Leonard Peltier, a Native American

who was

In-

convicted of the murder of

include turquoise, silver, quill and beaded

dian

jewelry, pottery, sand paintings, Kachina

two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout
Though Peltier was convicted and sentenced

dolls, fashions

and miscellaneous items.

Native American Indian foods will be

to

two consecutive

life

sentences, others

featured in the food stand, according to

allegedly involved in the shootings were

event organizer Madeline Foshay, a super-

acquitted.

visor in the business office.

The events are sponsored by the Native
American Indian awareness committee,
human relations committee. Program Board,

INDIGENOUS CRAFTS —Madeline

A "Meet the Traders Night" will be held

shown with some of the Native

Friday evening, Nov. 13, from 7 to 10 p.m.

Americalndian crafts which will befeatured

Native American

rooted in her 20-year spon-

is

sorship of Native American Indian children

Mountain Support Group and
The Spike, a Native American Indian newsletter edited by Jimmy Boy Dial, who spoke
at Bloomsburg last spring. The crafts will

is

all its treaties."

interest in

nasium. There is no admission charge to the

Peltier/Big

Foshay

honor nearly

Foshay 's

artisans from both North and South America.

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFEK

film screening

in the

Bookstore Annex. Joe Salzano, a

Bloomsburg University Foundation and

at the craft show she organizedfor Nov. 14-

Choctaw musician

American

Provost's Lecture Series. For more infor-

15 in Centennial Gymnasium.

Indian flute Friday night and at the craft

mation, contact Foshay at extension 4574.

will play the

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Stine to chair

Forum

Peter Stine, assistant professor of physics,

was unanimously

Campus

we can work together and
have a constructive year," Stine said. "If we
come together, we can accomplish a great
meeting. "I hope

Mathematics professors Reza Noubary and Mehdi Razzaghi have published a joint
paper

titled

"Bootstrap Construction of the Upper Confidence Limit for Unreliability" in

the journal Reliability Engineering

Linda LeMura,

deal."

President Harry Ausprich told forum

members and observers

the current aca-

demic year began on a very positive note.
Lauding the recent release of long-awaited

who have

lobbied to have the funds released since

"The

Safety, Vol. 37, Spring 1992.

associate professor of health, physical education

and

athletics,

had a

tics.

The paper is titled "Interrelationship Between Potassium (K+) Concentration, Pulmo-

nary Ventilation and Electrocardiographic Change During and After Highly Intense
Exercise."

new and larger library,

of faculty, students and alumni

1988.

and System

paper accepted for publication in the Journal ofManipulative and Physiological Therapeu-

The Rev. Robert

Ausprich acknowledged the contributions

come

notes

elected chairperson

of the University Forum during the October

funds to construct a

NOV 92 5

larger library

a reality because

is

about

to be-

we worked

B. Peiffer, Protestant campus minister, was

named one of

six

clergypersons to participate in special services observing the 200th anniversary of St. Paul's

Episcopal Church in Bloomsburg.

Bloomsburg

tion in the

St.

Paul's

is

the oldest continuously meeting congrega-

area.

hard

Frank L. Misiti, assistant professor of curriculum and foundations, has been appointed
board for Science and Children, a publication of the National Science

together," he said.

to the editorial review

Ausprich announced the rededication of
Kehr Union Building was scheduled for

Teachers Association.

Tuesday, Jan. 19. Students will have

in Science

full

He has also been appointed to the National Association for Research

Teaching outstanding paper award committee.

access to the building next semester.

on forum meetings held during the previous

The following graduate students were recently elected to university committees:
Regina Fornara, audiology, and Janilyn Elias, education of the hearing impaired, were

"We turned a major comer

elected to the Graduate Council; Christine Pelletier, education of the hearing impaired.

He concluded
academic year.
in

forum

his

history.

remarks by reflecting

We had some of our best

discussions on substantive issues," Ausprich
said.

He added

he hopes members

that

Library Council; Charlyn

Conaway, education of

the hearing impaired. University

Forum; Linda Regan, education of the hearing impaired, Bloomsburg University curricu-

lum committee; Yang (Dillon) Jiang, master of business administration,

international

continue to use the forum as a positive

education advisory committee; Josephine Flesh, special education, academic grievance

opportunity to express themselves and to

committee.

communicate concerns.

A motion to extend one voting forum
membership to a representative of the State
Colleges and Universities Professional
Association (SCUPA) was unanimously

Dennis

Hwang and Richard

Baker, professors of accounting, recently published a

"A Comparative Study

of Chinese Fund Accounting and American Government Accounting" in the transactions of the "1992 International Conference of the Pacific
Region Management," Washington, D.C.

paper

titled

supported.

Lynn

Miller, professor of biology

Dennis

and

Hwang

allied health sciences, introduced a discus-

sion on an interim policy concerning integ-

is

rity in scientific research.

will vote

on the policy

and Burel

at the

Nov. 11

— Susan M. Schantz

Roger Fromm,

university archivist, recendy gave a presentation at the Archives and

Museum Commission on
public recognition and

Gymnasium

University police received a report of a

rape of a senior female student, Saturday,
Oct. 31, at 2 p.m. in Centennial

The victim has

university police
incident.
that

Gymna-

filed a report with

sponsored by the Pennsylvania Historical and

management support

Fromm

discussed techniques used to gain

for county

and

state university-operated

Harry C. Strine

professor of mass communications and director of
two members of the forensic team who provided the entertainment
program at a recent meeting of the Columbia- Montour Torch Club held at the Hotel Magee
in Bloomsburg. The team members were senior Victoria Magdeburg and sophomore
III, associate

forensics, introduced

Tracey Rinehart. Strine also gave a presentation explaining forensics.

who are investigating the

Anyone having any information

might help

in Carlisle

Archival Outreach.

archival programs.

Rape reported in
Centennial

professors of accounting, had a paper accepted for

Forum members
Records Management Seminar

meeting.

sium.

Gum,

Volume 16 of the Journal of Energy and Development. The title of the paper
"The Causal Relationship Between Energy and GNP: The Case of Taiwan."

publication in

in the investigation is re-

quested to contact University Police at 389-

4168. Atpress time Monday, no additional
information was available.

Joan Heifer,

university photographer, had a photograph of an untitled painting by artist

Tetsuroh Sawada used
the

book

is

now

in the

catalogue "Resume," prepared by the

part of the university's

permanent collection.

artist's wife.

A copy of

6 The Communique 5

NOV 92

Campus

BUCC approves courses

notes
soccer championship and

Several new courses were unanimously
approved by the Bloomsburg University
Curriculum Committee (BUCC) during its

as the assistant state director of coaching development for the National Soccer Coaches

October meeting. Endorsed courses include

Chuck Laudermilch, head women's
northeast advisory committee for the

soccer coach, has been

NCAA Division II women

'

s

named

to the 1992-93

Association of America.

who was

Laudermilch,

making

it

Internship in Communication, undergradu-

instrumental in organizing the

a varsity sport at Bloomsburg,

is in his

women's soccer program and

third season as

head coach.

ate

and graduate; U.S. Social History; and

the following special topics courses: Topics in

European History, Studies

in

Con-

Curt Jones, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science, and Thang Bui
of Penn State University, recently pubUshed a paper in \ht Information Processing Letters
Journal. Their paper is titled "Finding Good Approximate Vertex and Edge Partition is NP-

temporary Literature and Women in Litera-

Hard."

ject matter. Students

ture.

Special topics courses offer variable sub-

may

take a special

topics course twice, provided they study

Connie Schick, professor of psychology, and J. David Arnold, associate dean of arts and
sciences at Clarion University, recently presented 'Teaching the Healthy Personality as a

Topic of a Course" at the centennial convention of the American Psychological Association
in

different topics within the subject

The undergraduate
According

Washington, D.C.

Internship in

Com-

munication stipulates pass-fail grading.

Kenneth Schnure, registrar,
graded separately from

to

this internship is

William S. O'Bruba, professor of curriculum and foundations, has been cited in the book

courses covered by the pass-fail px)hcy

Phonics in Proper Perspective authored by Arthur W. Heilman and pubUshed by Macmillan

which states that a maximum of two courses

Publishing Company

The book is a classic text used throughout th e country to train reading
teachers. O' Bruba was recognized for his assistance in the review prior to publication of the

may be

seventh edition.

graduation requirement.

.

(totaling not more than eight semester hours)

included as part of the

BUCC
Capt. Eric Feindler, officer in charge of the
recently

ROTC

program

at

Bloomsburg, was

named honor graduate of the Army's School of Cadet Command at Fort Monroe,

Va. The school

is

designed to prepare

Army

and non-commissioned

officers

effectively teach students leadership skills required to

become a

officers to

assistant professor of

unanimously approved a resoluby John Riley, professor of

tion proffered

mathematics and computer science, and

seconded by Lawrence Mack, professor of

The proposal directs appropriBloomsburg representatives to convey

chemistry.

successful officer.

ate

Zahira Khan,

minimum

mathematics and computer science, presented a

to administrators of the State

System of

"Effectiveness of Join Processing Techniques on Parallel and Distributed

Higher Education the university's concern

Architectures" at the fifth International Society for Mini and Micro Computers Interna-

regarding the Board of Governor's recently

paper

tional

titled

Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems. The conference was held recently

at the Pittsburgh

Supercomputing Center. Khan's extended abstract was published

in the

imposed "40 percent

rule."

The

policy, to

be implemented over a five-year period,
will require students to complete 40 percent

conference proceedings.

of their undergraduate studies in 300 and

Dale L. Sultzbaugh, associate professor of sociology and social welfare, recently
presented a continuing education training workshop for the social work staff at Danville
State Hospital.

The workshop focused on family therapy

theories and their applications to

400

men

Thomas

Walters, assistant professor of

art history,

Bloomsburg Historic Preservation Society, presented a paper
Adapting the Arts for the Visually Impaired"

James Moser,

at the Sixth

Arts and the Education of Artists held recendy in

and Marie

titled

M.

Walters,

testing procedures relative to course

placement.

—Susan M. Schantz

"Liberating the Artist:

National Conference on Liberal

New York and sponsored by

the School

of Visual Arts.

Workshop

set for

The teaching and
Robert Abbott, coordinator of academic computing, Robert Parrish, vice president for
administration, and David HefTner, academic computing consultant, co-authored a chapter

committee

is

Nov. 23

learning enhancement

sponsoring a workshop

day, Nov. 23, in the Forum,

Meckler Press

Center.

April 1992.

assistant professor of curriculum

and foundations, was chosen by the

MonMcCormick

ing Strategies in University Classes"

Registration

Egerton Osunde,

titled

"Involving Students Using Active Learn-

on academic computing perspectives and networking for Campus-wide Information
Systems and Networks edited by Les Lloyd of Lafayette University and published by
in

BUCC

chairperson, charged the subcommittee on

admissions and retention to examine fresh-

hospitalized patients and their famiUes.

Charles

level classes.

In other business,

is

due by Monday, Nov. 16.
call Carol Venuto,

For more information,

National Council of Social Studies to serve as manuscript reviewer for Social Education,

assistant professor of developmental in-

a research journal, and other special publications of the council for 1992-93.

struction, at extension 4733.

The Communique 5

NOV 92 7

Board of Governors approves additional $49 million
over 1992-93 budget for state system universities
To meet mandatory and inflationary cost
Board of Governors of the
State System of Higher Education recently
approved 1993-94 instructional appropriaincreases, the

The board also approved several

special

ties

Act, an Americans with disabilities out-

purpose appropriation requests for deferred

reach center, an international business cen-

maintenance, affirmative action efforts,

ter,

li-

brary enhancement, instructional technol-

an outcomes assessment program and a

labor studies institute.

tions requests of $407,1 17,823. If provided

ogy and the Pennsylvania Academy for the

by the Commonwealth, this sum would
restore the $13 million eUminated from the

Profession of Teaching, which includes

munity get behind these appropriations

funding for the Bloomsburg/Harrisburg

quests," says President Harry Ausprich. "We

state-owned universities' appropriation

imperative that our university com-

"It is

re-

in

Partnership Program. Other approved re-

need everyone's support

in-

quests include: the Rural Participation in

tinued funding of valuable endeavors like

crease of $49,141,823 over the 1992-93

Post-Secondary Education program, com-

our Bloomsburg/Harrisburg Partnership

appropriations.

pliance with the Americans with Disabili-

Program."

fiscal

year 1992-93.

The request

is

an

to ensure the con-

Library
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1

from the arts, commentary, consumer news,

and medicine,

health

politics, literary re-

views, to social issues.

The CD-ROM ver-

Lumpkins

In the future, the library data bases will

be accessible through the campus-wide
local area

network from

all

com-

faculty

sees the

new technology

as a

definite time-saver versus the typical eye-

straining approach of scanning

huge

vol-

to

puters and student computer laboratories.

umes of indexes

printed in small type.

Periodical Literature and Magazine In-

Linkage through the university network

says people are

welcome and,

sion

is

comparable to Reader's Guide

24-hour access to the data

dex.

will also bring

These data bases enable users to search
in a variety of ways. Typical approaches

bases. Currently

are cued to subject, author,

title,

dates.

its

operation coincides

recalls initial planning to identify

to

touch base with a reference

"CDs

are a very powerful

need

funding for die project started in late spring

proach, you

expand or narrow a search as deand proximity operators (the first

of 1991. The project was sparked largely

designed strategy.

term must be written within n words of the

professor of management; Bill Frost, asso-

sired)

second), truncation and

word

The reference network

by the

efforts of

ciate professor

phrases.

links eight per-

Minoo

Tehrani, associate

and interim coordinator of

way

to

access information, yet whatever your ap-

Boolean (inclusion of and/or/not connectors to

He

in fact,

librarian for assistance in conceptualizing a

search.

with scheduled library hours.

Vann

encouraged

still

still

to start with a well

And

that's

why we con-

do routine presentations in the library and the classrooms to orient students
tinue to

and others."

Bodenman,

Janet

reference services; John B. Pitcher, assis-

assistant professor in

floor of

tant director for

automation and technical

communication studies who teaches a gradu-

server housed in the

operations; and

Bob

Abbott, director of

ate course in research, says graduate stu-

academic computing. Ultimately a joint

dents have positive things to say about the

proposal authored by Carol Matteson, then

new

bases on the system are run on 16 disks.

dean of the College of Business and pres-

their searches

numerous remote on-line
data bases were only available to students
and faculty through utilities such as DIALOG. Searches had to be conducted by a
reference librarian, says Vann. The librarian would go online, download the data

ently serving as interim provost

sonal computers on the

Andruss with a
reference office.

file

main

Each computer is mated
The five data

with an adjacent printer.

Previously,

and print requested

citations.

Scheduling

succeeded
cial

in

Vann

launching the project. Finan-

support from the College of Business

is

what you need

ary funds from the provost's office.

may need

new

The only

— you know
— sometimes our

to find

Along with

sys-

to get

does not have the

library

task of implementing the

search.

CD-ROM system

gives you great information

and the library was pooled with discretion-

The

manual

that while the

it

article

and you

at another library."

come new commust be updated peri-

the advances

requests and

of Abbott, Dave Heffner, academic com-

Equipment, due

A

puting consultant, and Eric Ackerman, a

have a replacement cycle of three

infor-

work-study student. Charles L. Lumpkins,

And

search would sometimes glean

little

tem

fell

mation from the descriptors provided, and

assistant professor

a new strategy would have to be developed

librarian interim coordinator for data

and explored. With the advent of the new

searching, authored a series of user guides

CD-ROM network, users can now captain
own

negative

and extent of individual

searches influenced the response time.

their

easier than doing a

plications. Databases

The number of search

the complexity

president of academic affairs, and

on campus.

upon Pitcher and a team from
academic computing services comprised

constraints frequently posed difficulties for
users.

and vice

now do
And it's so much

reference services. "They can

searches.

for the data bases

and reference/catalog
base

which can be found at the

workstations or the reference desk.

odically to be of value, an added expense.

to

to

heavy use,

will probably

years.

additional library staff time will need

be devoted

to instruction in the use of the

system as well as
equipment.

in

maintenance of the

— Jo DeMarco

8 The Communique 5

NOV 92

Master mime
Marcel Marceau
to perform Nov. 24

Calendar
Thursday, November 5
Conference

—"Coming

to the

New
The world's

World: Columbus and the American
Experience, 1492-1992," through Friday,

Nov.

6.

For a

list

Europeans Saw Their

the

New World" by

David Buisseret, Mitrani

Hall,

Haas

Center for the Arts, 8 p.m.
Play

— And They Dance Real Slow

in

Jackson, performed by the Players of

Bloomsburg University, Moose Lodge,
Bloomsburg, at 8 p.m. through Saturday,
Nov. 7, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8. For

Community Activity cardholders can pick

and

desk in the University Store lobby. For

November 6

"Into the Streets"

—

those without Community Activities cards,

Students, faculty

tickets are

staff will volunteer their time to help

local agencies

in Mitrani Hall,

up their tickets beginning at noon on
Wednesday, Nov. 11, at the information

information, call extension 4287.

Friday,

Bloomsburg on

at

Haas Center for the Arts.
Marceau's performance is part of
Bloomsburg's Celebrity Artist Series.
Marceau, 69, was active in the French
underground during World War II.
After the war, he studied drama with the
mime master, EtienneDecroux and by 1949
founded his own company.

Christine Sperling at 389-4852.

—"How

know mime. Marcel

Tuesday, Nov. 24, at 8 p.m.

of events, contact

Provost's Lecture Series

best

Marceau, will f)erform

Marcel Marceau

conduct community

$20 and $15. For more informa-

extension 4409.

tion, call

service activities. For further information,

contact Rev. Robert Peiffer, 784-0703.

24th Annual

Mad

Hatter Competitive

Speech Tournament, through Saturday,

Nov.

7,

Humanities, noon

10 p.m.

Diving hosts Bloomsburg Relays,

1

p.m..

—Caving,

J-4 (a cave near

State College), 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Multimedia Show: '60s Rock

— When

Music Mattered, bookstore annex, 7

Rock Band, The Awakening,

Annex, 9:30 p.m.

Haas Center

for the Arts,

Monday, November

2 p.m.

9

Image, a sign singing group, Mitrani

Haas Center for the
Tuesday, November 10
Hall,

Arts, 8 p.m.

Lecture —

^"Built-in Self-Testing

Techniques" by Anita Gleason,

Room

105, Bakeless Center for the Humanities,

3:30 p.m.

Women's Swimming and Diving

vs.

Field House.
—"IncidentNelson
Oglala," Mitrani

Millersville, 7 p.m..

Movie
Hall,

Haas Center

at

for the Arts, 7

and 9:30

Workshop "Racism: Native Americans

Arts,

Teleconference

a prerequisite for the

— "Confronting

McCormick Center,

third floor,

1:30 to

November 13
"A League of Their Own,"

—

Movie

for the Arts, 7 p.m.

and 9:30

p.m.

Stadium,

1

—

"Quincentennial Observations and Native
Affairs" by Suzan
Hall,

3:30 p.m.

Friday,

4 p.m.

Provost Lecture Series

Haas Center

Shown

Harjo, Mitrani

for the Arts, 8 p.m.

Live band, "Fiction," bookstore annex,
9 p.m.

Wednesday, November 18
Women's Swimming and Diving
Movie

Redman

—"Batman

II,"

Haas Center

p.m.

QUEST*—Kayak Rolhng Chnic, 9-11
a prerequisite for the

University's upper campus, 9 a.m. -4 p.m.

p.m.; this clinic

Native American Arts and Crafts
Show, through Nov. 15, Centennial
Gymnasium, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday, November 15
Fall Concert, Bloomsburg University-

kayaking sessions on the creeks.

Community Orchestra, Roosevelt
Newson (guest artist), Mitrani Hall, Haas

—Rappelling,

site

at either

a local

or a 40' rappel tower

located on Bloomsburg's upper campus,

9 a.m. -4 p.m.

Wednesday, November 11

Tuesday, November 17
"Mathematics and the Music
Lecture

—

Friday,

is

November 20

Movie

—"Batman

the Arts, 7 p.m.

Saturday,

II,"

Haas Center

for

and 9:30 p.m.

November 21

Wresthng

—Bloomsburg

Invitational,

9

a.m.. Nelson Field House.

Men's Swimming and Diving

Center for the Arts, 2:30 p.m.

QUEST*

for

the Arts, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

QUEST*—High Ropes, Bloomsburg

climbing

vs.

Bucknell, 4 p.m.. Nelson Field House.

November 14

p.m.

Bloodmobile, Centennial Gymnasium,

Bloomsburg.

Thursday, November 12

is

Football vs. Mansfield,

Image, a sign singing group, Mitrani

p.m., St. Paul's Episcopal Church,

kayaking sessions on the creeks.

Saturday,

Sunday, November 8
Hall,

and 9:30 p.m.

of Bach" by Dennis Huthnance, 3:30

and Other Minorities" by Suzan Shown
Harjo, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for the

Haas Center

p.m.
Classic

for the Arts, 7

Sexual Harassment on Campus," Forum,

Nelson Field House.

the

Haas Center

p.m.; this clinic

November 7
Men's and Women's Swimming and

Saturday,

QUEST*

—
Movie "A League of Their Own,"

QUEST*— Kayak Rolling Chnic, 9-11

Bakeless Center for the
-

through Nov. 12, 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Bucknell,

1

vs.

p.m.. Nelson Field House.

QUEST*—Caving, J-4

(a

cave near

State College), 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

*

For more information on

tivities, call

extension 4323.

QUEST ac-

University volunteers go 'Into the Streets'
More than 300 students, faculty and staff
members braved unseasonably cold tem-

VOICES FOR

peratures recently to volunteer their time to

Speakers at the "Into the

help local agencies conduct an afternoon of

Streets" rally,

community service in conjunction with the
national "Into the Streets" movement.
The program began with a rally on the
steps of Carver Hall. The rock group The
Badlees, Right Off Records recording art-

from

ists

from Harrisburg, donated

VOLUNTEERISM

professor of curriculum

and foundations;
and

their time to

senior Karen Girton, this
year's "Streets"

coordinator;

assigned agency for a work

and Sue

Jackson, associate

session.

Mary

last year's "Into the

Streets" coordinator;

and community leaders, volunteers
to their

Sylvia

Costa, a 1992 graduate

remarks by students, faculty, administra-

went

shown

Mary

Harris, assistant

perform from 12:30 to 1:30p.m. After brief

tion

left

are:

professor of sociology

Harris, assistant professor of cur-

riculum and foundations, was

among

and social

the

welfare.

speakers. Harris reminded the volunteers

people have changed the

that ordinary

course of history. "It was ordinary people

who

sat at the

lunch counters in the south

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

and broke the bonds of centuries of segregation," Harris said. "I stand here today full

of hope

— because of you. Because you are

willing to

work for change, for equality, for

social justice, for the

environment."

John McDaniel, treasurer of the Community

Government Association and a junior

importance of working together to solve

in student

development. "Programs like

'Into the Streets' give

our students experi-

ences of the heart that they can't get in the
classroom.

What we're

trying to

do

is

en-

courage a commitment to helping others

volunteerism gives students a "worthwhile

that will last a lifetime."

velopment." McDaniel was one of the vol-

unteers assigned to the

Women's Center, which

Bloomsburg

provides services

those

problems. "Together there

is

nothing

we

When problems seem
insurmountable, if we pull together we can

can't accomplish.

handle them."

Walker and Peiffer recalled

the

university's tradition of encouraging and
all

promoting volunteerism. Bloomsburg has

according to Sue

been recognized by the Campus Outreach

Jackson, associate professor of sociology

Opportunity League (COOL), the nation-

Social workers can't begin to solve
the problems of daily

and

domestic violence and sexual

part to

assault. "It is

important to shed more light

dents,

life,

"We all need to do our

wide organization which coordinates the

make a difference. Bloomsburg stuvoting in record numbers, made a

"Into the Streets" program, as a national

social welfare.

to victims of

on domestic violence and issues of as-

difference in

he said. "Men need to take a lead in
making sure the message gets out."
The Rev. Robert Peiffer, coordinator of

results."

sault,"

as he emphasized the

all

'

sociology major from Philadelphia, said

sense of accomplishment, growth and de-

who spoke

the university s volunteer services program
reflected on the importance of volunteerism

Columbia County

John Walker, vice president
sity

election

leader in the

ment.

community

service

of 50 hub campuses, one in each
for univer-

assist institutions in

advancement, echoed the sentiments of

'Take Back the Night' march

...

story

move-

COOL selected Bloomsburg as one
need of help in

state, to

starting

Continued on page 7

on page 4

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News

NOV 92

briefs

Bloomsburg University Crime Report
Prepared by the University Police

Due

to the

Thanksgiving holiday, employees

be paid on

will

Wednesday, Nov. 25. Checks and earnings statements
distributed in the normal manner.
*

*

will

be

October 1992

*

The Adult Health Majors Club will offer free blood pressure
screening and body composition assessment for all faculty and staff
on Thursday and Friday, Dec. 3 and 4, from 8:30 a.m.

room

3 of Centennial

*

System of Higher Education who are covered by Blue Cross/Blue
Shield/Major Medical and have questions about their health cover-

The toll-free number is 1-800-433-SSHE (7743).
The university's human resource office is still available

age.

to

*

*

Anyone planning a

multicultural

*

program who would

like the

on the spring 1993 calendar of co-curricular pro-

Hyman

grams on diversity should contact Jeff
activities office before

Dec.

1

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in the student

1.

Liiw V luiauons

J

3

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1

Sexual Offenses

L

Rape
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1

Retail Thefts

0

Theft Outside Bldgs.

2

1

Receiving Stolen Prop.

1

1

V lUiaUUIlo

\j

Simple Assaults

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

Murder
Arson

Weapons Possession

DUI
Robbery/Burglary
Theft

Copies of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus report. The
African-American Reality in Higher Education in Pennsylvania:
Opportunities Denied! 1980-1990, are available at the Andruss
Library's reserve desk.

Bloomsburg students

interested in a career in mathematics, the

natural sciences or those engineering disciplines that contribute
significantly to the technological

invited to apply to the Barry

advances of the United States are

M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excel-

1

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u
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

1

Motor Vehicle Theft

January.

0
2

Public Drunkenness

Vagrancy

The calendar on diversity programs will be distributed to students

z

1

Disorderly Conduct

Aggravated Assaults

answer any questions regarding health insurance coverage.

in

Incidents Cleared

by Other Means

i->iquur

*

A toll-free hotline has been established for employees of the State

and faculty

Arrests

University Police

Gymnasium.

*

listed

Made or

Reported to or by

to 5 p.m. in

Those interested in the body composition assessment should
bring or wear a T-shirt.

program

Offenses

Theft

From Buildings
From Vehicles

Safety Tip:

around you.

and shoes

7

4

Be ALERT to your surroundings and the people
Be OBSERVANT. Walk confidently. Wear clothes

that give

attract attention

you freedom of movement.

If in trouble,

any way you can. Yelling "FIRE"

is

a

good

attention-getter.

lence in Education Program.

To be eligible, a student must be a full-time sophomore or junior
and must be pursuing a baccalaureate degree, have a
equivalent, stand in the upper fourth of the class
citizen, resident alien or national

who

B

average or

and be a U.S.

will pursue a career in

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sophomores and juniors should contact Mehdi
Razzaghi, professor of mathematics and computer science, in room
1 136 of the McCormick Center, or call ext. 4628 before Dec. 1.
Interested

*

More

*

*

than 500 children's books and 170 assorted adult fiction,

non-fiction and how-to books will be featured at the University
Store's overstock

book

sale

which runs from Monday, Nov. 23

to

Thursday Dec. 24.

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will

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and developments
academic year.

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additionaUy committed to affirmative action and will

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The Communique 19

Vespucci

first to

understand

they did not think

...and

new world had been found

NOV 92 3

the world

was

flat!

Contrary to popular folklore, when
Christopher
first European

Columbus

is

His 60 separate printings

credited as the

to "discover" the

New World

20 ac-

triple the

"Why were Vespucci

'

in

1492, he was not alone in believing

counts pubhshed by Columbus.

but a large part of the glory has gone to

Christopher Columbus sailed west

s writings

so popu-

that the earth

was a sphere.

another man, Amerigo Vespucci.

lar? In vivid prose

"Amerigo Vespucci was honored as no
other human
his name was given to two
of the planet's seven continents. North and

elaborate ritual dances, free love, cannibal-

"Some people visualized it
disk, but many people by the

ism and other oddities which provoked

century believed the earth was round,"

intense interest across Europe," said Baillie.

said cartography historian David

South America," said English professor

"He did not simply

—

William

Baillie,

speaking at the Columbus

he depicted scenes of

list

dates and landfalls,

"Yet from the very first this signal honor

and Drawings," was part of the

"Vespucci popularized the most revolu-

modem era: the
concept of a Mundus Novus or New World,"

nition that rightly

belonged

to the

tionary idea of the early

Genoese

A

said Baillie.

Florentine navigator and merchant,

New World between

1497 and

is

voyage ever happened, Baillie

in

1506

still

Post

Columbus mapmakers' work

offered one distinct advantage over
their predecessors, said Buisseret.

not draw anything.

naming of

the continents.

A

group of

scholars living in the mountains of eastern

map

France published a large wall

said.

Provost's Lecture Series.

of Asia," said Baillie.

the

of the

Saw

World: Early Representations in Maps

"When

Vespucci himself had nothing to do with

1504, though most scholars deny that the
first

"Columbus died

the Europeans

convinced that he had found unknown parts

Vespucci claimed to have made four voyages to the

show,

Their New

indians.

has evoked intense controversy, with parti-

explorer."

slide

"How

little

sans of Vespucci's friend Christopher Co-

lumbus claiming that Vespucci stole recog-

and

15th

dramas of
interactions between Europeans and Amerbut developed gripping

conference.

Buisseret. His talk

as a

they did not know, they did
In the medieval

maps, if they did not know something
they drew something fantastical."
Buisseret's lecture

was funded by a

grant from the Pennsylvania Humani-

Council and was part of a two-day

"Whatever his merits as a navigator, there

world in 1507, and labeled the southern

ties

Vespucci was a gifted

continental landmass "America," said

conference titled "Coming to the New

Baillie.

World: Columbus and the American
Experience, 1492-1992."

no doubt

that

writer; his colorful descriptions

of events,

"Which European voyagers

peoples, flora and fauna witnessed on his

first set

foot

factor in introducing the newly-discovered

on the mainland can't now be determined
with certainty, and anyway it doesn't mat-

lands to the Europeans," said BailUe.

ter," said Baillie.

voyages were the most important single

Nearly half of all the accounts of voyages
to the

New World published between

"The crux was in realizing

the significance of that footfall,

1493

— Eric Foster

and 1526 were the accounts of Vespucci.

Columbus

sailed

America there is a
'dawn of a new era'
and as part of the 'discovery of the world and man' of the Renaissance," said Ralph Smiley, professor of history, at the Columbus
conference. "But in point of reality, Columbus was a medieval man
it

in terms of the

departing from medieval civihzation in his four voyages."

Crusading, a hallmark of the Middle Ages,

still

very

much

preoccupied Europe, said Smiley. "Even in that same year that

Columbus launched his first voyage. King Ferdinand II of Aragon
and Queen Isabella I of Castille together had just captured and
destroyed the last Moorish kingdom in Granada in the south of
Spain. King Charles VIII of France would invade Italy two years
later in

1494, with the view not only to claim the Kingdom of Naples

but to pursue his expedition across the Adriatic and Ionian seas
against the

Sperling, assistant professor of

art.

from world very much medieval

"In looking at Columbus' discovery of

prevalent tendency to consider

and here

Vespucci's claim takes precedence."

The conference, which included
lectures by Bloomsburg faculty Thomas Aleto, William Baillie and Ralph
Smiley, was organized by Christine

Moslem Turks."

If Columbus

was motivated to sail west in search of eastern spices
to spread the word of Christ, said Smiley, he
motivated by the chance to further the cause of the

ary wealthy Christian ruler of Further Asia, supposedly a lineal

descendant of the Maji of the Christ child, 'the

him by Pope Alexander III in 1 177," said Smiley.
and glory were present in Columbus,
the idea of reaching the Indies and contacting Prester John in a great
crusading project was also there.
"Even his navigational calculations owed much to the Bible,"
said Smiley "for the Apocryphal Second Book of Esdras stated that
the world was six parts dry and one part wet, and so he figured that
the distance from the Canaries to the Indies was only 3,900 miles.
"Columbus was no modem man, he made his way in a medieval
sea world of great activity on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic
and got support from the medieval. Catholic, crusading rulers of
Spain, Ferdinand and Isabella," said Smiley.
"As we review the so-called turning points from the medieval to
"If the motives of God, gold

,

modem

the

was also

their precision.

"There stood over Europe the legend of Prester John, the legend-

and

letter to

and the opportunity
Crusades.

illustrious

magnificent king of the Indies and a beloved son of Christ' in the

age," said Smiley,

the old than a

"we

find that they all lose

much

of

Their ambiguity suggests more of a continuance of

commencement of the new."

— Eric Foster

4 The Communique 19

NOV 92
LIGHT FOR

University community
'Takes Back the Night'

THE FUTURE —

Five-year-old

Amalija McGuire
holds a lighted

It

candle at the

was raining

steadily

and the winds intensified the winter-like

temperatures, but that didn't stop students and administrators from
attending Bloomsburg's annual "Take

About 100 women and men from

Back

the Night" rally.

the Night" march.

the university

She attended

community

women and

father,

children. Planned several

Bloomsburg

weeks ago, the timing of the annual "Take Back the Night "march
was especially poignant. Just two days earlier, a 21 -year-old
student reported being raped in the

the

rally with her

gathered in Centennial Gymnasium to take a stand against violence
that is perpetrated against

Back

recent "Take

student Earl

McGuire Jr.

women's locker room adjacent

gym.

to the

Earl

McGuire

Jr.,

a non-traditional student, brought his five-

year-old daughter. Stephanie Rinaldis, a senior business administration

PHOTO BY ERIC FOSTER

major from Selinsgrove, came despite a fever and laryngitis.

The normal

fatigue that follows the first day

on a new job didn't

enhance safety and security, and

we

will continue our plans to

stop Margaret Boykin, director of university police, from coming.

broaden safety measures

Their backgrounds are different, their reasons for attending are not.

Among future security measures Ausprich outlined were the inten-

"I'm concerned about the welfare of those on our campus and 1 want
to help," said

As

at

tion to install additional call

an accelerated rate," Ausprich

said.

boxes and plans to add lighting in areas

identified as needing increased illumination.

McGuire.

the marchers arrived, they received candles.

"These candles

symbol that we won't empower those who use force and
violence on our campus or in our community" said Kay Camplese,
chairperson of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW),
sponsor of the annual march which began in the '60s.
are a

This year's event was organized by

CSW student interns.

Before

"We

will reassess security levels in buildings, particularly the

potentially

more vulnerable spots

Nelson Field House.
feasibility

Ausprich

We

in

Centennial

will explore with

Gymnasium and

renewed vigor

the

of establishing an on-campus, paid escort service,"

said.

Reminding

the audience that victims are attacked because they

her voice failed her, Rinaldis, student coordinator, reminded the

are vulnerable, Ausprich said the university

crowd

make certain academic buildings are secured to the best
of the university's ability. "Some of the steps we must take might
anger and frustrate some people," said Ausprich. "We have long
prided ourselves in making our campus accessible. But, the time has
come for all of us to realize that safety and security are far more

there

is

strength in numbers. Jan Hoffman, student co-

coordinator and a senior business administration major from

Finksburg, Md., delivered the remainder of Rinaldis' remarks.

"Each one of us has the power to make a difference.
a stand and protest the violence against

It's

time to take

women that is on the rise in

would do everything

possible to

our country," said Hoffman.

important than the inconvenience that might result from making our

Community Government Association president, encouraged everyone to take a free copy of Avoiding Rape On
and Off Campus, a resource booklet purchased with CGA funds.
"It's time we all took some responsibiUty for our safety and

more secure."
Boykin announced there were now three university police patrols
assigned to the lower campus during the second and third shifts.
A central theme of the messages was the need for everyone to
work together and to share responsibility for personal safety. "We

Janice Michaud,

security," she said.
situations. If

"We need to be aware of potentially dangerous

we work

together,

we can

create a positive change."

Michaud, a senior secondary education major from Lawrenceville,
N.J.,

announced plans

to

form a student task force to work with

Jennie Carpenter, interim vice president of student
building accessibility and other

campus

life, to

security issues.

campus would receive immediate

She

by campus

President Harry Ausprich expressed outrage in the

wake of the

officials.

reported rape which occurred in broad daylight.

notified the

campus of the reported

in

do

it

without your help," Carpenter said.

At the conclusion of the remarks, marchers holding
candles walked solemnly on campus in the rain.

lighted

— Susan M. Schantz

indi-

attention

"immediate and comprehensive manner"

can't

review

cated a recent student-prepared report regarding inadequate lighting on

buildings

He reviewed

the

which the university

rape. In addition to contacting

area media, university officials placed the information on the

How do we get the word out?
The university has a crisis communication network in place
convey information regarding serious situations on campus.

to

In the case of violent crime, the university relations office notifies

area media. In addition, the
sity

BeSAFe

News Network, SperryLink

campus and

Hotline (389-2723), Univer-

bulletin board,

TV

monitors on

around campus.

Communication/Rumor Control Center (3894303) carry updated information as it becomes available.
In the aftermath of the recent reported rape on campus, notices

Tuesday.

residence hall bulletin boards. President Ausprich sent informa-

BeS AFe hotline, UNN Network and SperryLink. Signs were posted
By late afternoon Monday, letters had been drafted
to all students, faculty and staff. A letter to parents was prepared

"We have done a number of things over the past several years to

the

were placed in academic and administrative buildings, as well as on
tional letters to all students, faculty, staff

and parents.

The Communique 19

new university police chief

Margaret Boykin
Margaret Boy kin made a big change when
she

left

Chicago

to

become

police and

chief of Bloomsburg's

to initiate

But one very important thing remains
she'll be working with young

I

hope

work-

on safety."
Boykin stresses

people.

Chicago police,

that the university

Boykin worked in patrol, narcotics and vice

police officers are

units.

just that, police of-

A former teacher who taught seventh and
eighth grade Chicago students,

ficers,

Boykin also

"Many people
think we're secu-

juveniles and helping rehabilitate delin-

rity

guards, we're

quent students.

not.

We're sanc-

own

do

to aid police

and make

Boykin.

day,

first

1

it was in a
worked 13

Since she's taken over the helm of the

Margaret Boykin

university police,

Boykin has increased
is working with

police foot patrols and

Jennie Carpenter, interim vice president for

"We don't just write tickets, escort

In addition to nearly

lives safer.

My

hours," says Boykin.

student life, to start student foot patrols and

students and unlock doors."

their

Monday

got here

I

whirlwind.

tioned police officers by the state," says

a neighborhood relations officer,

Boykin educated the public about what
they could

"When

and not se-

officer, investigating

As

,

curity guards.

child abuse cases, searching for missing

worked as a youth

She has taught adult education and high
school diploma equivalency courses. She
and her husband have a son in eighth grade
at the Bloomsburg Middle School and a
married daughter in North Carolina.
Boykin was to begin her duties Monday,
Nov. 2, but started work instead on Sunday,
Nov. 1 when she was informed that a rape
had been reported in Centennial Gymnasium on Oct. 31.

enhance

shops for students

—

In her 19 years with the

I'd like to

the student relationship with the university

university police starting this month.

constant

At Bloomsburg

others.

her position as a police officer in

NOV 92 5

an escort service.
"1

two decades of ex-

want

to let the students, faculty

was

perience in pohce work, Boykin has a

staff know that I'm available," says

the eyes

and ears for the police department
community," says Boykin. "In the
did a lot of training for officers and

bachelor's degree in elementary education

in the

with a minor in sociology and psychology

"They can call and set up a time
do have an open door policy."

"For the

job,

I

last

10 years, as a liaison,

I

from the University of

Tips to help improve safety

Illinois,

to meet.

I

— Eric Foster

Chicago.

Architect to be selected
soon for library design

The recent reported rape on campus reminds our commuimportance of taking security precautions. The

nity of the

Selection of an architect for the

new hbrary

place during the Dec.

and well being.
•Do not prop open outside building doors that are supposed
to be locked. They are locked for your protection.
•Do not leave your keys lying around in public places or in
your coat or jacket when you're not wearing it.
•Do not put your name and address on your key ring.

Board of the Department of General Services.

1 1

is

expected to take

meeting of the Architectural Selection

following suggestions, provided by university police, are
offered for your safety

and

Boykin.

Several architects have expressed interest in the project, according to Robert Parrish, vice president for administration. These
architects will

The

make formal

proposals to the state committee.

work with a university library conThe design process is expected to take almost

selected architect will

struction committee.

•Never leave personal property unattended.

a year.

•Always lock your car doors. Have your keys in your hands

accommodate 10,000
would meet guidelines established by the American College of Libraries. The proposed 125,000 square foot structure would be one-and-one-half

as you approach your car.

you get

Always look

inside the car before

in.

•Try to park in a well-lighted area and avoid leaving
personal items where they are visible.

•Never walk alone

Tentative plans call for a library that could

students and 500 faculty members. Stack space

times the size of the

"Although

at night unless absolutely necessary. If

you must walk alone, walk with confidence and observe your

it

McCormick Center

we plan

to

for

Human

keep enrollment steady

would be irresponsible not to plan

Services.

in the short-term,

for the long-term," says Carol

surroundings. If you believe

someone is following you, cross
the street, get to a populated area or emergency phone and call

Matteson, interim provost. S he will chair the steering committee for

university police.

shortly.

library. Committee members are expected to be named
They will represent a wide range of university departments.

Tony laniero, acting vice president for advancement, has already

and easy

be used in the fund-raising campaign. This represents phase four of

is

begun development of various marketing publications which

traffic.

•Mark your personal property

for positive

will

the Trust for Generations campaign.

indentification.

For additional information, contact the university police
and request a copy of

new

plenty

•Refrain from taking shortcuts; walk where there

of light and

the

their safety brochure.

Potential major donors will be contacted beginning in January.

The pubhc phase of the campaign may begin

as early as

May

1.

— Susan M. Schantz

Communique 19

6 The

NOV 92

Position vacancies,

employee searches
To assist interested employees, The
Communique will publish information regarding vacant positions on campus. Posting periods

and The Communique's dead-

may sometimes conflict; it is therefore
possible some positions may not be inline

cluded in the

listing.

For additional

mation, contact the office of

infor-

human

re-

sources and labor relations.

The following

position

cant;

currently va-

is

Custodial Worker

— in-house

2

promotion, bids only.

The following

is

a

list

of unfilled posi-

tions for authorized searches for 1992-93
(as of

Nov.

9):

Instructor/Assistant Professor

—

ography, mathematics and computer

gesci-

ence, political science (two positions), cur-

riculum and foundations, communication
disorders and special education, nursing

(two positions), sociology;
Assistant/Associate Professor

—

li-

Ken Gross Scholarship. The recipients of the 1992 Ken Gross Scholarship
Kathleen Crocker of Bloomsburg, Alice Maczuga of Mijflinville. Ausprich,
Marceen Malaney of West Milton, and Gross, who established the scholarship in 1990 to
recipients of the
are, from

brary;

— marketing;
— performing and
and
Instructor — Upward Bound
Assistant Professor

Manager

facili-

arts

ties;

The following

is

a

list

sors for 1993-94 (as of Nov.
art,

left,

aid nontraditional students. Gross is a Bloomsburg University graduate andformer owner
ofTri-Siate Security Systems. Other recipients of the scholarship are JoanMarie Herczku

and Julie

Steffin,

both of Bloomsburg.

of authorized

searches for instructor/assistant profes-

ogy,

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFEJt

KEN GROSS SCHOLARS — President Harry Ausprich and Ken Gross congratulate

9):

anthropol-

Religious holidays during academic year listed
Occasionally students request exemp-

economics, English (four posi-

languages and cultures, mass com-

calendar.

(I)

— Ash Wednesday, (RC, P)
March 8 —
Spring
(H,
March 24 — (approximate)
end

Feb. 24

and other uni-

•

munications, political science, psychology,

versity obligations for purposes of reli-

•

sociology, business education and office

gious observance. Most university faculty

•

administration, marketing, developmental

and

of fast of Ramadan. Exact date dependent

instruction, library and communication dis-

quests, but

orders and special education.

holy days merit excusable absence.

tions),

The following

is

a

list

—94

993

:

marketing, curriculum and foun-

dations (five positions), nursing,
nication disorders

commu-

and special education.

Searches have been authorized for assistant/associate professors of marketing and

finance and business law.

staff are willing to entertain

The

of authorized

searches for assistant professors for
1

tions fi"om class attendance

many

listing

such

are unsure as to

re-

which
affir-

mative action office, specifies holy days
for

which observance may require a

•
•

remainder of the academic

year.

— Buddhist; B — Baha'i; H —
Hindu; — Islam; — Jewish; Ja —
M — Latter-day Saints (Mormon); O —
RC
Orthodox
P —
— Roman Catholic; S — Sikh.
Nov. 20 — Guru Nanak birthday
Dec. 8 — Bodhi Day (Enlightenment) (B)
Dec. 8 — Immaculate Conception (RC)
Feb. 22 — (approximate) Ramadan (30
B

I

Jain

J

Christian;

•

(I)

— Passover begins

at

sundown
at

sun-

April 7 (J)

April

9—

Good

Friday (RC, P)

— Holy Friday (O)
April 21 —
of Ridvan (Ba)
May 20 — Ascension Day (RC, P)
May 26-27 — Shavuot begins sundown
May 25 and ends sundown May 27
May 30 — (approximate) Idul-Adha
AprU 16

Festival

•

•

Religious groups are abbreviated as fol-

lows:

April 6-7

down

stu-

Ja)

Idul-Fitr,

April 5 and most observances end

dent to depart from his or her normal routine during the

Festival

upon lunar calendar
•

below, prepared by the

Holi,

Protestant;

(S)

•

at

at

tival

of Sacrifice); exact date dependent

upon lunar calendar
•

June 2 1

(1)

— (approximate) Muharram (New

Year); exact date dependent upon lunar

calendar

(I)

— (approximate)

•

•June 21

•

(New

•

lunar calendar (H)

days); exact dates dependent upon lunar

(J)

(Fes-

•

Ratha-yatra

Year); exact date dependent upon

The Communique 19

Kehr Union

to

NOV 92 7

reopen for the spring semester

University offices which were relocated

from the Kehr Union Building during con-

the information center, student supervi-

games room.

walls are all glass for lots of light and a very

Obiter, The Voice, pro-

pleasant dining experience," says Parrish.

begin moving back into the union in De-

gram board, volunteer services. Black Cultural Society and Fellowship of Christian

"The student lounge spaces, study rooms,
conference rooms and an activity hall are

cember, according to Robert Parrish, vice

Athletes.

great additions to the study environment."

struction

and renovation are expected

to

sors,

Additions to the expanded union include

president for administration.

The $7.5 million expansion

project has

a lounge with a fireplace, a computer lab,

been under way since the summer of 1991

six conference rooms and space for the

and has doubled the size of the union.

health center and career development cen-

"We
cause

have really missed the Union be-

it is

a gathering and study place for

students," says Parrish.

had

to

absorb a

lot

"The

library has

of that activity."

Offices which were temporarily

from the union include: student

moved

activities,

community activiCommunity Government Association,

student development,
ties.

says Parrish.

in subtle

It

will

be open

to students at

the beginning of the spring semester.

Therededication of Kehr Union

ter.

is

sched-

The new union also includes a multipurpose room suitable for showing movies

uled for Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 2 p.m. James

McCormick, chancellor of

the State Sys-

and other activities that have formerly been

tem of Higher Education,

will attend the

scheduled in the Kenneth

ceremony with other

rium

in

S.

Gross Audito-

dignitaries.

— Eric Foster

Carver Hall or Mitrani Hall in Haas

Center for the Arts.

"The snack bar will double in size and the

1

Bloomsburg University
a volunteer services

be decorated

will

SECA campaign still striving for goal

Volunteers
Continued from page

new

The union

earthy colors for an inviting atmosphere,

program on

their

cam-

pledges for the

SEC A

is still

(State

Combined Appeal) campaign.

pus.

Thirty-four universities in Pennsylvania

While

SECA donors pledge a small percentage

accepting

Employee

the official deadline for the

cam-

of their paycheck to go

to charitable organi-

zations, often a United

Way. The donors

can specify that

pledge goes

their

to a

Way anywhere in the state,

took part in "Into the Streets," according to

paign has passed, additional pledges are

specific United

Karen Girton, Bloomsburg's student coor-

needed to help B loomsburg meet its $3 1 ,732

or to a specific charity or organization within

dinator. "Social justice begins with a single

goal, according to

action, a single act of volunteerism

can

make a difference," she said. "Many people
want to get involved in volunteer work, but
they don't

know how

to get started," said

Girton, a senior psychology

and pre-social

welfare major from Bloomsburg.
Participating agencies

unteers in addition to

Women's Center

welcoming volthe Bloomsburg

included: Catawissa Se-

Berwick Hospital, Fishing
Creek Alliance and Town Park Village.
nior Center,

is

in the

secretary

budget and administrative services

Hayle
with

a United

Way

Salvation

Army.

According

office.

co-coordinating the campaign

is

Don Hock,

director of budget

and

At press time, Bloomsburg had raised
$26,270

in pledges,

83 percent of

its

goal,

such as the Red Cross or

to

Hayle, other universities

ing their

SECA

campaign goals as

well.

the 14 state system universities

have raised 87 percent of

Anyone who would

their goal.

like to contribute to

the

SECA campaign may do so by stopping

system universities.

by

the budget

now we're calling people who
contributed last year who didn't contribute

or by calling extension 4023.

which is the highest goal among the 14

state

"Right

this year,"

designed to introduce more college stu-

give,

office,

and administrative services

40 Waller Administration Building,

— Eric Foster

says Hayle. "If anyone wants to

we'd be happy

to take their pledge."

many commu-

nity service opportunities in their area.

"Many people want to get involved in volunteer work, but they don't know how to

Forum holds November meeting

get started," said Girton. "I volunteer not

Formal actions taken during the November meeting of the University Forum included defeat of a motion proffered by George Agbango, chairperson

just to help people, but to help

people help

themselves. I've learned a great deal from
volunteering."

— Susan M. Schantz

in

the state system are having difficulty meet-

Combined,

administrative services.

Now in its second year, "Into the Streets"
dents and personnel to the

Audra Hayle,

and assistant professor of

political sci-

ence, to form a committee to reassess the
role

and

responsibilities of the forum.

A motion made by John Riley, profes-

ways

to "streamline

meetings to provide

time to address substantive issues" was
also defeated.

During open forum discussion, Lynne
Miller, professor of biological

and allied

health sciences, outlined proposed revi-

sions to the interim policy on integrity in
scientific research.

She requested and

sor of mathematics and computer sci-

received a "straw vote" in support of the

ence, to create a committee to examine

changes.

8 The Communique 19

NOV 92

Calendar
Thursday, November 19
Art Exhibit Haas Center for the
North Mountain Art League Juried
Exhibition, through Nov. 22.

—

Friday,

EXAMINING

Bloomsburg art department faculty
members (from left) Joan Krejcar, Gary

Arts,

F. Clark, andCharles T. Walters examine

November 20

Movie

—"Batman

the Arts, 7 p.m.

Saturday,

a sculpture

Haas Center

II,"

"Hive" by Victoria

Art League exhibit in Haas Center for

and 9:30 p.m.

the Arts. All three faculty members have

—Bloomsburg

works in the exhibit, which runs through
Nov. 22.

Invitational,

Nelson Field House, 9 a.m.
Men's Swimming and Diving

vs.

Bucknell, Nelson Field House,

p.m.

QUEST*—Caving, J-4

titled

Franklin Dillon at the North Mountain

for

November 21

Wrestling

—

THE HIVE

1

cave near

(a

State College), 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sunday, November 22
Men's Basketball hosts India National
Team, Nelson Field House, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, November 23
Conference

— "Involving

For nearly five centuries the Vienna Choir
Students:

Using Active Learning Strategies in the
College Classroom," Forum, McCormick
Center, workshops from 9 to 10 a.m. and
1

to

3:30 p.m. For more information, call

Carol Venuto, assistant professor of

developmental instruction,

Vienna Choir Boys

at

On
Boys

the

Friday, Dec. 4, the Vienna Choir
will

perform

in Mitrani Hall,

at

West. Josef Haydn was a choir boy, as well
as Franz Schubert,

from 1808

Bloomsburg at 8 p.m.

Haas Center for the Arts, as

part of the university's Celebrity Artist

4733.

Women's Swimming and Diving

Boys have enchanted listeners with
charm and excellence of their music.

perform Dec. 4

to

Though

the group

was disbanded with

the collapse of the Austrian-Hungarian

Empire

in 19 18, the choir

was refounded in

1924.

Community

Series.

who sang with the group

to 1813.

Activity cardholders

may

The Vienna Choir Boys were founded by

pick up their tickets at the information desk

LaSalle, Nelson Field House, 4 p.m.

Imperial decree in 1498 by the humanist

in the University Store. Additional tickets

Tuesday, November 24

Emperor Maximilian

The organization

are$20and$15. For more information, call

Celebrity Artist Series

vs.

—Marcel

I

.

has attracted the finest musicians

in the

extension 4409.

Marceau, Mitrani
Hall,

'Christmas in the Forties banquet Dec. 5 and 6

Haas

Center for the

The sounds of big band swing and

Arts, 8 p.m.

holi-

Commons

Wednesday,

day carols

November 25

on Saturday, Dec. 5, and Sunday, Dec. 6, as
the Bloomsburg University Chamber Sing-

Thanksgiving

will ring in Scranton

Recess begins at

ers present their

1:50 p.m.

holiday banquet and dance.

Monday,
November 30

While diners feast on

Chamber

at 8

in the Forties"

After the meal, the Bloomsburg University

Studio Band, directed by Stephen C.

Wallace, associate professor of music, will
play the big band music of the 1940s for

dancing.

a turkey dinner, the

Singers, directed by

Wendy

Miller, associate professor of music, will

Classes

resume

"Christmas

sing a variety of festive music.

Tickets for the banquet and dance are $ 1
each. For

more information, call extension

4284.

Marcel Marceau

a.m.

Tuesday,

December

Arts, 7

1

Art Exhibit

— Haas Gallery, Haas
BU

and 9:30 p.m.

Friday,

December 4

Textile,

Nelson Field House, 7:30 p.m.

Movie

—Vienna Choir

—

"Single,"

Haas Center

for the

for the

Graduate Student Exhibition, through

Boys, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for the

December 11.
Wednesday, December 2
QUEST*—Kayak Rolling CUnic, 9-11

Arts, 8 p.m.

and 9:30 p.m.
Sunday, December 6
"Single," Haas Center
Movie

Saturday, December 5

Arts,

Center for the Arts,

p.m.; this clinic

is

Master of Arts

a prerequisite for the

kayaking sessions on the creeks.

Men's Basketball

vs. Shipj)ensburg,

Nelson Field House, 7:30 p.m.
"Single," Haas Center for the
Movie

—

Celebrity Artist Series

QUEST*—Caving, J-4

(a

cave near

State College), 8 a.m. -5 p.m.

Chamber Singers

"Forties" Holiday

Dinner-Concert, Scranton

—

1

p.m.

Chamber

Singers "Forties" Holiday

Dinner-Concert, Scranton

Commons,

7:30 p.m. For tickets

4284.

call

Commons,

7:30 p.m. For tickets call extension 4284.

Men's Basketball

Arts, 7

vs. Philadelphia

*

For more information on QUEST ac-

tivities, call

4323.

State Rep. William Robinson,

winter commencement speaker

Haas

campus NAACP chapter and a star runner
on the track team. Robinson earned his
master of arts in political science at
Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He subsequendy served on the faculty of Duquesne,

Center for the Arts, beginning at 2:30 p.m.

Community College of Allegheny County,

PennsylvaniaState Rep. William Russell

Robinson will discuss "The 'X' Factor: The

Unknown Quantity" during Bloomsburg's
winter commencement convocation on
Sunday, Dec. 20,

in Miffani Hall,

Robinson, a Democrat, was

first

elected

the University of Pittsburgh

and Carlow

from the 19th Dis(Allegheny County) in 1988. A mem-

College in Pittsburgh. At these institutions,

ber of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black

political science, African- American history,

Caucus, he was chairperson of the caucus

urban affairs and public administration.

to the state legislature
trict

meetings held on campus

last

September.

He serves on the following legislative committees: education, health

ban

affairs

and welfare,

ur-

and majority policy.

He received his bachelor of arts in political science

from Ohio State University

in

Columbus, where he was president of the

he taught such diverse subjects as history,

Robinson served on Pittsburgh City Council

from 1978

to 1985.

During

his tenure

on

was a

trustee of Carnegie Insti-

tute of Pittsburgh

and the Carnegie Library

council, he

in Pittsburgh.

Councilman Robinson developed a proContinued on page 7

Rep. William Robinson

Sexual harassment teleconference draws large crowd
Generally, teleconferences attract only a
smattering of people at Bloomsburg. But,

when

the topic was sexual harassment it
was nearly standing-room only in the Forum at McCormick Center.

More than 100 faculty, staff and students

The teleconference provided

the oppor-

Panel members included Margaret J. Barr,

examine various forms of sexual
harassment, myths and facts surrounding

vice president for student affairs at North-

sexual harassment and the development of

Jacqueline D. Gardner, assistant dean for

a campus "action plan."

academic

Bloomsburg by

Greencastle, Ind.; Johan A. Madson, asso-

tunity to

the

Women

It was sponsored at
Commission on the

and the office of human

western University
affairs at

in

Evanston,

DePauw

111.;

University,

attended the recent national teleconference

Status of

on "Confronting Sexual Harassment on

resources and labor relations.

Nashville, Tenn

Campus." Bloomsburg served as one of the
275 host campus sites for the teleconference which was broadcast live from Washington, D.C., and sponsored and produced
by the National Association of S tudent Per-

Throughout the program, the audience
had the opportunity to interact with the

president for student affairs at the State

audience. Pre-taped segments with students

Women Policy

sonnel Administrators.

provided a stimulus for discussion.

"The teleconference pointed out that nationally more than 90 percent of college

panel
tions

members by phoning-in

their ques-

and sharing reactions with the studio

ciate provost at Vanderbilt University in

University of

page 3
New course requires volunteer work ... page 5
Native American Indians stereotyped ... page 8
...

.

New York

at

Stony Brook;

with the Washington-based Center for

ment, either

Visitors Center opens in Waller

Frederick R Preston, vice

and Bemice R. Sandler, senior associate

women have

Inside:

. ;

Studies.

experienced sexual harass-

in subtle or overt

forms," says

Bob Wislock, raining and education specialist with the office of human resources
and labor

relations.

Continued on page 6

2 The Communique 3

Print

DEC 92

by Gary Clark

News

chosen for exhibit
at Governor's home

briefs

The College of Business faculty has overwhelmingly approved the proposal to apply to
American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) for candidacy
partnership. The vote, taken on Oct. 30, was 38-4-1.
The purpose of the candidacy partnership program is to establish stable, constructive,
the

A thermal computer print by Gary Clark,
assistant professor of art, is among

30 pieces

of artwork selected for display at the

Governor's Residence
title

of the print

is

in Harrisburg.

The

"Self-Similar."

The exhibit, titled "Creative Forces," features a collection of artwork by faculty
from the 14 universities within
Pennsylvania's State System of Higher
Education and runs through Feb. 15.

It

celebrates the 10th anniversary of the sign-

ing of

Act 188 of 1982, the

legislation

which created the State System.
The 30 pieces on display were chosen
from over 200 submissions. Two- and threedimensional works, sculptures and fiber art
are included.

"This exhibit symbolizes the breaddi and
diversity of contributions the State
universities

make

System

AACSB and institutions working toward
Through the candidacy program, the College of Business has
voluntarily committed to participate in a systematic program of quality enhancement and
continuous improvement that makes AACS B accreditation a more realistic and operational

ongoing and helpful partnerships between

AACSB

accreditation.

objective.
*

The

*

*

advancement has purchased the video "Enhancing Race
Relations on Campus: New Challenges and Opportunities."
The video will be available for loan from the affirmative action office beginning in 1993.
The video features panelists who discuss positive methods, programs and ways to enhance
race relations on American college and university campuses. The following panelists are
featured: William Kirwan, president of the University of Maryland, College Park; Julianne
Malveaux, columnist on black issues in higher education and TV/radio commentator on
economic and political issues; Ronald Takaki, professor of ethnic and Asian American
studies at the University of California; Evelyn Hu-DeHart, director of the Center for Studies
of Ethnicity and Race in America at the University of Colorado at Boulder; James
office of university

Anderson, dean of undergraduate studies

at

North Carolina State University

*

to Pennsylvania," State

*

in Raleigh.

*

System Chancellor James H. McCormick
says. "It illustrates the exchange of ideas

The University Store will hold a holiday sale Monday, Dec. 7, through Saturday, Dec. 12.
The sale will feature 10 percent off the price of clothing, posters and gifts and 20 percent

and cultural enrichment encountered

off non-texts.

throughout the State System."

Each day of the sale, one line of items will be selected for an additional 10 percent
markdown. The store will have an open house Thursday, Dec. 10, from 1 to 4 p.m. with
refreshments served. There will also be drawings for $550 in prizes.
"Unity Through Diversity" T-shirts are on sale at the University Store at a cost of $5. The
shirts are sponsored by the University-Community Task Force for Racial Equity.

Gov. and Mrs. Casey hosted a reception
in

honor of the exhibit's

artists.

nor said, 'This exhibit of fine

The gover-

art

from our

state-owned universities shows that we have

*

much to be proud of in the Commonwealth."
The

shuttle

*

*

van service from the lower campus to Montgomery Place Apartments

will

stop at Bakeless Center for the Humanities instead of Waller Administration Building.

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The van

will also stop at the

Orange parking

lot starting at

4:30 p.m. each day.

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

The Communique publishes
news of activities, events and developments at
Bloomsburg University bi-weekly throughout
faculty and staff.

Bloomsburg choral groups

to

hold holiday concert

academic year.

the

Please submit story ideas,

calendar information

news briefs and
two weeks in

Four university choral groups comprised

Women 's Choral Ensemble and the Cham-

at least

Wendy

advance to The Communique, University Rela-

of more than a hundred singers will present

ber Singers, directed by

and Communication Office, Bloomsburg

a "Joy of Christmas Concert" Friday, Dec.

associate professor of music.

tions

University, Bloomsburg,

PA

17815.

11,

and Saturday, Dec.

12, at the First

Bloomsburg is committed to providing equal
educational and employment opportunities for

Presbyterian Church, 345 Market

aU persons without regard to race,

Bloomsburg.

color, reli-

gion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, lifestyle, sexual orientation,

era veteran, or union

The university

is

handicap, Vietnam

provide such educational and employment

opportunities.

each

night and will include music spanning five
centuries.

"We will perform music from the

1500s to the present day, ranging from

Susan M. Schantz

Assistant Editor: Eric Foster

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer

be asked to join

in singing several

of

the carols during the 90-minute concert

Gross Auditorium

in

is

held in

Carver Hall, but

this

year the concert had to be moved because of

renovations in Carver's auditorium.

"This

is

the first year at the First Presby-

'Do You Hear What I
Hear? " says concert director B Eric Nelson

terian

assistant professor of music.

old stained glass windows," says Nelson.

The groups performing

"They also have a fine pipe organ there
which we will use to accompany some of

'Ave Maria'

to

'

.

Exlitor:

will

Usually the annual concert

free concert will begin at 7:30

membership.

additionally committed to

affirmative action and will take positive steps
to

The

St.,

Miller,

The audience

will include the

in the concert

Concert Choir and Husky

Singers, directed by Nelson, and the

Church.

It's

a beautiful setting for a

Christmas concert because of the 100-year-

the songs."

DEC 92 3

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Visitors Center will serve as a guide to
Prospective students, their parents and
other visitors are now able to stop at a single
location to find a variety of helpful infor-

mation about Bloomsburg

—

the Visitors

services.

The

Visitors Center will greatly

help us in our efforts to

'tell

our story.'"

"We
dents

discovered that many of the stuwho were accepted and did not select

unannounced, on a Saturday

campus

"We plan to have students assigned to the
center to help visitors and answer questions," laniero says.

Signs will be installed around campus
directing visitors to the center, which will

Center recently installed in the lobby of

us, visited us

Waller Administration Building.

or a Sunday," says Bemie Vinovrski, direc-

eventually be open on weekends.

tor of admissions.

active video monitor will be installed to

"We're trying

to

'visitor friendly' as

make our campus as
possible," says Tony

The display includes a large, lighted map
of the campus. Individual buildings are

the university.

advancement. "We have many visitors who

easily identified to help visitors find their

"The center

is

the result of a year of

come to campus during non- working hours.

way around campus. Brochures about

We want to better meet their informational

coming events on campus,

needs and help them understand our cam-

information, the redesigned viewbook and

and the

other publications are available.

ogy," says laniero.

pus and

its

many

available programs and

Professor gives pointers to
Several seconds can be the difference

between students getting involved

in their

make

up-

careful planning by the university advance-

ment team

in cooperation with

admissions

Technol-

Institute for Interactive

students active learners
learning and

"Give your students think time."
"If

inter-

provide another source of information about

laniero, acting vice president for university

financial aid

An

you wait three seconds or five sec-

better,

remember what they

learn

Eison said.

Another simple strategy

college classes and asking questions, or

onds, good things will happen," said Eison.

students sitting passively at their desks, an

Not only would more students volunteer
to answer questions, or ask additional ones,
students who were previously quiet would

active participation in the classroom

is to

down

their

"One study of college instructors found
that there was only an average nine-tenths
of a second pause between when an instructor asked a question and when they re-

begin to enter the classroom discussion, he

before asking them out loud.

phrased the question or answered

cently.

education expert said at a recent teaching

workshop held

selves," said

here.

it

them-

Jim Eison, founding director

of the Center for Teaching Enhancement at
the University of South Rorida.

study

showed

"Another

the interval at only 2.2 sec-

onds."

"Research suggests that silence
classroom

is

in the

very uncomfortable for the

vast majority of instructors," said Eison.

Eison, a professor of psychology, pre-

sented two workshops at Bloomsburg re-

learning strategy.

It gets

is

a useful

students focused,"

said Eison.

Breaking up a class period into several

enhancement
committee and funded by a grant from a
State System of Higher Education faculty

shorter lectures, with two-minute discus-

professional development grant.

said. In

the teaching and learning

sions between paired students after each
lecture can also help students learn, Eison

one study of a class with short

At the workshops, Eison discussed a va-

discussion periods, the students' retention

become

of the material was better and they earned

riety of strategies to help students

active learners. Students involved in their

university will hold a holiday

If each

higher grades.

— Eric Foster

more fun

education, will learn more, have

Tuesday, Dec.

needy families

questions and discuss them with a partner

The workshops were sponsored by

The

sought for

give students a chance to write

"Writing to promote thinking

said.

food drive Monday, Dec.

Food donations

for encouraging

7,

through

following locations: Andruss Library,
employee lounge; Bakeless Center, English department;

15.

member of the faculty and staff

room

11;

Ben Franklin

Hall,

Carver Hall, lobby; Elwell

G-45; Haas Center, room 114;

donates one can of food, the goal of

Hall,

1,000 food items will be achieved.

Hartline Science Center,

Canned

or processed food will be ac-

Luzerne Hall residence life office; Main-

cepted and contributions of S&H Green

McCormickCenroom 1132; Navy Hall, room 101;
Nelson Field House, room 238; Old Science Hall, room 103, history depart-

Stamps

will

keys

Weis Markets.

at

be used to buy holiday

tur-

The food will be distributed to deserving area families through several social
service agencies.

Donors may designate

a family to receive the food by

filling

out

a form sent to university employees.

The food may be dropped

off at the

room

125;

,

tenance Center, lobby;
ter,

ment; Sutliff Hall, faculty/staff lounge;

Waller Administration, switchboard.

For more information, contact Bonita
Rhone at ext. 4038 or Bob Wislock at
ext.

4414.

4 The Communique 3

DEC 92

Gross auditorium scheduled to open in March
Renovations in the Kenneth

Auditorium are scheduled

to

S.

Gross

be completed

by March, 1993, according

to

Kenneth

feature carpeted steps.

Ardmore. He has also donated 5100,000 to
establish a scholarship program for non-

The auditorium

Robert

will

be cooler during

performances on hot summer days. "One of

Parrish, vice president for administration.

The redecorated auditorium

side areas of the auditorium balcony will

will include

we've always had

Marguerite Bierman of Williamsport

ences.

installing air conditioning."

The

seats will

"We will be changing

The renovations

be maroon with antique

that

are paid for in part

by

gift

oUve gray, and the ceiling teal blue.
"The auditorium was crowded with 880
seats," says Parrish. "We're reducing the
occupancy to 600 seats. They will be larger

Bryn Mawr. Gross, a Bloomsburg undergraduate from 1970-74, donated $100,000

from alumnus Kenneth

is

past president and

the

He now

devices.

Upward Bound expands

marble streaked

Behind

in green.

the scenes,

improvements

trol

for Tri-State

booth

to the stage

and an improved

electrical system.

— Eric Foster

services with increased grant

Bloomsburg's Upward Bound program will expand its services
thanks to an increase in federal grant money, according to
program's director, Maureen Mulligan.

is

to get

them through high

school and into post-secondar>' education, either two or four-year

programs," says Mulhgan. "The

new

"We try to push the students to go for what is going to be best for
them.
to

with high school students from disadvantaged back-

grounds. The purpose of the program

grant has allowed us to add

and work with 90 students, an increase

We encourage them to follow their dreams but stress the need

be open

The Upward Bound program has had

its

grant renewed by the

award being S287,288, a 16 percent increase from

this year's

last year.

"Research shows that Upward Bound

Mulhgan.

to options," says

Upward Bound serves

students in the following school

districts:

Benton, Berwick, Bloomsburg, Central Columbia, Southern Columbia, Danville,

Mahanoy City, Milton, Minersville, ML CarmeL,

North Schuylkill,

Pottsville,

Shamokin and Shikellamy.

Karen Visscher,
and Karen S wartz, secretary. The increased grant

In addition to Mulligan, the staff includes

assistant director,

last year."

U.S. Department of Education for three years, with

will

include an intercom system from the con-

serves as president of the

this year,

from 80 students

Gross of

Alarm Company, a retailer of security alarm

To accommodate overflow crowds,

three additional schools

owner

hall.

Bierman has hand-painted the wood columns and baseboards to simulate black

towards the auditorium renovations. Gross

and better spaced."

"We work

S.

of the

by a

gold edge plates. The walls will be painted

the

traditional students.

served as a consultant for the redecoration

auditorium

says Parrish.

in

the lack of air conditioning,"

new seating and new flooring which will
provide more elbow room for the audi-

is

Gross Investment Group

in the

the deficiencies

all

S.

program to add an additional counselor in January.
"The rewards of the job aren't often immediate," says Mulhgan.
"We recruit students in eighth grade and follow them through high
school and college. Sometimes we can't see successes until four or
will allow the

five years after

we first see

Visscher

named Mulligan's

them."

— Eric Foster

stu-

dents arefour times more likely to graduatefrom
college than students with similar backgrounds

who don't participate,"
Maureen Mulligan, Upward Bound director

—

Karen Visscher has been named
Upward Bound Program.

more

likely to graduate

backgrounds

who

from college than students with similar

Mulligan says that 85 percent of Bloomsburg Upward Bound
students go on to post- secondary education, and 83 percent of them

Perhaps the most visible part of

Upward Bound

is

the six-week

summer program which runs in June and July. Sixty students spend

Bloomsburg, Visscher was an

international

student personnel administration at Columbia University
in

New York City. In

in international studies

College

A

graduate.

to

student assistant while working towards a master's degree in

College

don't participate," says Mulligan.

assistant director/counselw of

the

Before coming

"Research shows that Upward Bound students are four times

assistant

in

'

s Tea;her ' s

1987, she earned a bachelor's degree

with a minor in mathematics from Hope

Holland, Mich.

native of

Grand Rapids, Mich., Visscher was a high school

teacher for two years in the Peace Corps in Kenya, East Africa, from

1987

to 1989.

weekday mornings in intensive reading, writing, mathematics
and career development courses. In the afternoon, they have a

tion as well as serving as an assistant financial analyst for the U.S.

choice of elective courses.

Department of Housing and Urban Development

their

During the academic year, each student involved
spends two hours a week with a teacher hired by

from

their

home school. The teacher and

strengthen the student's

weak

student

in the

program

Upward Bound
work together to

areas and choose a career path.

In addition, she has held various positions in the field of educa-

Visscher's responsibihties will include visiting the 14 school
district's participating in the

Upward Bound program, visiting

homes of students and serving

the

as a contact for teachers, students,

counselors and parents involved in

Upward Bound.

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DEC 92 5

New course requires students to serve others
Kate King, senior so-

Assignments for the 16 students in Christopher Armstrong's new Democracy and

ciology major from

Civic Responsibility class are not limited to

Philadelphia, learned

book work.

by volunteering

One third of the course grade is based on
required weekly volunteer work. Students

must also keep journals of their volunteer
experiences and attend bi-weekly "reflection sessions" with The Rev. Robert Pe iffer,

at the

Bloomsburg

Area
Agency on Aging that
people want to be
needed.

coordinator of volunteer services at

As president of the
student Program

Bloomsburg.

Board, she had a large

"The whole focus of the course is empowerment. In an effective democracy,
people are responsible for themselves, and
they also contribute to the community,"
says Armstrong, professor of sociology and
social welfare. Armstrong'scourseisamong
the first in the State System of Higher
Education to require volunteer work for

mailing to do. Senior

citizens at the
Bloomsburg center
were happy to help her
and felt enormously
useful.

"People like

tant,

credit.

Armstrong believes the power people
have in their own lives translates into activity in the civic

and

community and

political affairs

of their

to

be

needed and feel impor-

which

is

a lesson

when you
vol unteer," says
you

learn

Armstrong.

Before teaching at

society.

"Political participation is directly related

Bloomsburg,

Armstrong. "Gener-

Armstrong worked two

to social class," says
ally, as

people become poorer, not only are

they less involved politically, they often

sense a loss of control in their

Those who feel no ability

own

lives.

to influence their

summers

in psychiat-

ric hospitals,

a half year

in a corrections center

with juveniles in

New

own lives obviously are not very interested

Jersey as a probation

in political participation."

officer with alcoholics

As

a

way

to teach students the joy of

and as

in Philadelphia

helping others through volunteer efforts,

chief researcher at the

each student volunteers two hours of work

Philadelphia Crime

a week

Commission.

community agency.
Tutoring children at the Berwick and
Bloomsburg middle schools, caring for senior citizens in Bloomsburg and becoming

role

in a

models and mentors

for the children at

The course

is

PHOTO BY JOAN HELFER

mod-

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

taught by Benjamin

Armstrong discusses volunteerism with

Barber at Rutgers Uni-

course.

Democracy and Civic
do

dent volunteer projects.

Thomas

when people

from Newton, N.J., volunteering as a tutor
at the

Berwick Middle School has opened

how

her eyes to

important she can be to

another person.

"I'm starting a more personal relation-

in

Jefferson,

Victor

Frankl,

never

that

I'm spending the time

to

and want to meet her afterwards.

felt

I

had the

ability to

difference to someone."

make such

I

a

"What happens

is that

people en-

that

we're

"I

hope

In the class,

Jr.

Armstrong challenges cur-

all in this

my

together.

student volunteers gain that

rent notions that government action always

feeling from their experience.

helps people.

teaches our students a

"Does government empower people?"
volunteers will do is create a situation where

makes her

participate

Martin Luther King

he asks his students. "What

tutor her

so," says Armstrong.

joy themselves because they get the feeling

who went trick-or-treating with her
new-found friend. "You can tell how happy
it

new

Tocqueville, Ralph Ellison, Thoreau and

ship with one girl outside of tutoring," says
Putera,

the students in his

New

Brunswick, N. J., and includes readings from

versity

Professor Christopher

Responsiblity.

Town Park Village, a low-income housing
project in Bloomsburg, are among the stuFor Keri Putera, a senior sociology major

—

eled on a similar class

I

hope you as

you're not needed anymore, to

make

the

individual able to be responsible and be self

originators intended

America."
dents to

"People can be empxjwered if you can get

ers."

to believe

it is

in their best interest to

democracy

how
to

the

work,

And

he says,

"I

want

become responsible

my

stu-

students as

well as active participants in our democ-

racy

them

The course

about

both in ancient Greece and 18th century

than dependent.

reliant, rather

little

— doers and

givers rather than tak-

— Eric Foster

DEC 92

6 The Communique 3

Honoring past service
and guests attended Retiree
Keystone Mountain Retreat,
Eagles Mere. University President Harry Ausprich welcomed the
Eighty-six university staff retirees

Appreciation

Day early

in the fall at

retirees. Robert Parrish vice presidentfor administration
,

,

presented

a slide show of the current construction projects and renovations
that are occurring on the university campus. The main address was
delivered by

Roy

Smith, director of the Corporate Institute

and

Quest Program. The slide show focused on Smith's experiences
during the National Geographic expedition he led down the Omo
River in Ethiopia. Staff retirees attending the event were: Mary
Baker, Homer Beaver, Frank Billman, Aldama Brusseau, Bernice

Bunger.Fred Cleaver, Arley Comstock, Paul Conard, Jay Crawford,

Arlene Barton Deily, Marian Downs, Robert Drake, Doyle Edgar,
Nellie Edwards,

Elwood

Elliot,

June Edwards, Rita Fahringer,

Mary Haggerty, Russ Haines, Carl Home, James
Johnson. Harold Kapp, Margot Karnes, Elizabeth Keiser. Dane
Lamoine

Fritz,

Keichem, Robert Knapp, Charles Kocher, Evelyn
Dale Leighow, Betty LeVan, David Llewellyn, Martha
NacNeal, Mary Jane Marshall. Robert McEwen, Philip Pealer,
BernettePegg, Kimber Reese, RalphRemley, H J^ .Rescorla.Charles
Robbins, Cora Sharrow, Dot Sitler, Leah Arlene Stine, Valera
Valentino, Carl Viets, Richard Viets and Raymond Wood. Retiree
Keller, Robert

Kressler,

Appreciation

and labor

Day is coordinated by the office of human resources

relations.

Teleconference
Continued from page

1

"The key word in defining sexual harassment is unwelcome" Wislock says. "When
any unwanted, unwelcomed or unsolicited
sexual conduct is imposed on a person who
regards

it

as offensive or undesirable,

it is

President Harry Ausprich attended the
teleconference and spoke out against sexual

"We will eventually cover the entire cam-

range of institutional disciplinary ac-

tions,

up

to

and including separation from

pus with these workshops," Wislock

says.

the university, but also to any civil or crimi-

Copies of the university's sexual harass-

which may accompany such

ment policy have already been distributed
to every employee. "We want sexual harassment on our campus to stop. Nationally, 46 percent of people who have been

nal charges
acts.

Sexual harassment

is

defined in the

policy as any unwanted sexual advances,

sexual harassment"

"We

full

requests for sexual favors or other verbal or

physical conduct of a sexual nature.

sexually harassed ignore

We

it

and don't report

want everyone on our campus

simply will not tolerate

The teleconference was just one phase of

kind of behavior on our campus," he

the university's continuing efforts to

understand they don't have to tolerate

heighten awareness of sexual harassment
and the university's policy. Wislock regu-

kind of behavior and to

effect since April 2, specifically says,

'Sexual harassment in any context

larly

harassment
this

said.

"Our sexual harassment

policy, in

is

repre-

conducts workshops

titled,

"A Matter

hensible but of particular concern to an

of Respect." Session objectives are

academic community

fine sexual harassment, explain the nation-

faculty

and

staff

intellectual trust

According

in

must

which students,

rely

on bonds of

and dependence."

to the

pohcy, those inflicting

such behavior on others are subject to the

to de-

wide extent of the problem, provide

infor-

mation on options and actions open

to vic-

tims and familiarize everyone with the
university's policy.

it

about making

it

know how

to

this

to

go

stop."

Wislock advises acting quickly and firmly

when confronted with sexual harassment.
"You can't ignore the problem. Everyone
has a personal responsibihty to make it
clear this type of behavior

must

stop."

— Susan M. Schantz

The Communique 3

Campus

Commencement
Continued from page

gram
and

1

to assure participation

women in all

projects in Pittsburgh. Heauthoredthecity's

urban homesteading program legislation.

notes

Chang Shub Roh, professor of sociology and social welfare, recently presented a paper,

by minorities

phases of developmental

DEC 92 7

"Confucianism and Postindustrial Societies"

Conference on

at the 13th International

Toegye and Confucius studies at GOttingen University, Germany. His
published in Toegye' s View of Nature and Humanity at the university.

was also

article

A patron of the arts, through his position
Zahira Khan,

as treasu'"' of the Public Auditorium of
Pittsburgh,

Robinson was deeply involved

in the authority's efforts to

help develop

assistant professor of

mathematics and computer science, presented a

paper, "Incorporating Supercomputing in the Undergraduate

lum,"

at the

Computer Science Curricu-

Eighth Eastern Small College Computing Conference held recently

what is now known as the "cultural district"

Muhlenburg College

in Pittsburgh.

in

AUentown. The paper was published

in

in \he

at

Journal of Computing

Small Colleges.

Robinson has extensive media experi-

He has produced, directed and hosted

ence.

Donna Cochrane, associate professor of business education and office administration,
recently presented a paper titled "Office Systems Research Association

Pittsburgh. In

and television programs in
the 1960s, he was political

at the Eastern

editor of the

New

Pittsburgh Courier, a

N.J.

in Pittsburgh.

will also serve

several radio

weekly newspaper

number of Pittsburgh civic and community organizations.
He is a trustee of St. Luke Baptist Church,
Robinson

a

life

is

that conference, she

on the 1993

Model Curriculum"

(EBEA) conference held in East Brunswick,

was reappointed Pennsylvania membership chairperson and

EBEA

conference board.

active in a

member of

Frank Peters, associate professor of English, had an article, "The Wrestling in fieoww//,"
published in the journal English Language Notes.

the Pittsburgh Branch

NAACP and a board member of the Centre
Avenue

At

Business Education Association

YMCA. He serves as a Common-

Teena

Peters, master tutor

in

student support services, and

professor of English, presented a paper

wealth trustee of the University of Pitts-

Education Programs"

burgh.

conference held at Bloomsburg

titled

at the English Association
in

Frank

Peters, associate

"Multicultural Impetus in Norwegian English

of Pennsylvania Stale Universities

October.

His numerous awards include the OpporIndustrial Center Government
Award, Champions Association Most Valutunities

able Person

Award, an award from the

Business Resource Center for his efforts in
the area of minority business

development

Math professor Reza Noubary published a research paper

titled

"Estimation of Sffess-

Strength Reliability Based on Tail Modeling" in the journal Applied Stochastic Models and

Data Analysis

(vol. 8, 1992).

He

also published a joint paper titled "Stress-Strength

Based on Large Historic Values of Stress"
Applied
Mathematics (vol. 41, 1992).
Computational and

Reliability for Designs

in the

Journal of

and the Community Service Award from
the Pennsylvania Baptist Convention.

Robinson

is

the father of

William Russell

II

two

children,

and Nyota Namibia, and

resides in Pittsburgh.

— Susan M. Schantz

Mark Jelinek, assistant professor of music, served as guest conductor for the Southwest
Symphony at a recent performance at the Mabee Southwest Heritage Center, College of the
Southwest in Hobbs, N.M.
Leon Szmedra,

assistant professor of health, physical education

and

athletics, will

Headphone Music on Cardiovascular Hemodynamics, Perceived Exertion, and Plasma Lactate During Treadmill Running" at the
American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance National Conven-

present the research project "Influence of

tion to

Deadline for updated
telephone directory
information is Dec. 18
The

university relations and

com-

be held

in

Washington, D.C.,

in

April 1993.

Mary-Jo Arn, assistant professor of English, recently

Dame

Speaks"

at the

delivered a paper

titled

"La Belle

26th annual conference of the Center of Medieval and Early

at Binghamton University, in Binghamton, N.Y. The subject of
was "The Roles of Women in the Middle Ages: A Reassessment."

Renaissance Studies held
the conference

Peter B. Walters, coordinator of Tutorial/504 Services, recently co-presented a work-

munication office plans to update the

shop

1992-93 Faculty-Staff Telephone Di-

Pennsylvania Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel held

rectory for the spring 1993 semester.
If

titled

"Trio and the American Disabilities Act" at the state conference of the
in State

College.

you have any changes, deletions,

them in
Winnie Ney, 104A Waller
Administration Building, no later than

additions, etc., please send

H. Benjamin Powell,professorof history, was appointed by the Pennsylvania Historical

writing to

Association to serve on the Philip S. Klein Prize committee which awards a monetary prize

Friday, Dec. 18.

of Pennsylvania History from 1972 to 1976 during which time the magazine was ranked

for the best article appearing in the

among

magazine Pennsylvania History. Powell served as editor

the top state historical journals in the nation.

8 The

Communique

3

DEC 92
NATIVE AMERICAN
MUSICIANS — Native

Calendar

American Indian musicians
Joe Salzano, left, and
Darrell Zehner entertained

Thursday, December 3
Haas Gallery, Haas
Art Exhibit
Center for the Arts, works by Michael
Maize, Master of Arts Graduate Student

—

those

Indian craft show and sale

Exhibition, through Dec. 11. Reception
is

held recently in Centennial

Dec. 3 from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Friday,

December 4

Celebrity Artist Series

who attended the

two-day Native American

Gymnasium. The show was
organized by Madeline

—Vienna Choir

Foshay

in

Bloomsburg'

Boys, Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for the

business office and was

Arts, 8 p.m.

one of several events
which marked Native

Saturday, December 5

QUEST

—Caving,

J-4 (a cave near

American Indian
Awareness Month
November.

State College), 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Chamber Singers

"Forties" Holiday

Dinner-Concert, Scranton

Commons,

in

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

7:30 p.m. Tickets required.

Men's Basketball
Textile,

Movie
Arts, 7

vs. Philadelphia

Nelson Field House, 7:30 p.m.

—"Single," Haas Center

Sunday, December 6
"Single," Haas Center
Movie

—

Arts,

1

for the

and 9:30 p.m.

Native American Indians
still stereotyped, says lecturer

for the

Today, no one would use a derogatory

p.m.

Chamber Singers

name

"Forties" Holiday

Commons,

for

an ethnic group

— unless

to

name

a sports

adding that sports

where racism

is

is

one area

in

America

not unusual. The team

7:30 p.m. Tickets required.

American Indians, said S uzan S hown Harjo

names, logos and behavior at some athletic
games are an example of "a nearly obscene

Tuesday, December 8
Fall Semester Student Recital, Mitrani

of the Provost's

caricature of the

Lecture Series.
Harjo, president of the Morning Star

Foundation, a non-profit. Native American

way native people
look, the way we
dance, the way we

Indian cultural rights and arts advocacy

sing," she said.

Dinner/Concert, Scranton

Hall,

Haas Center

Women's

team

for the Arts, 8 p.m.

Basketball vs. Adelphi

College, Nelson Field House, 7 p.m.

Friday,

December 11

Presbyterian Church, 345 Market

Basketball hosts

12.

Husky

Native

is

Nelson Field House, 6 and 8

Saturday, December 12
Basketball hosts

Invitational (consolation

Husky

and

championship). Nelson Field House,

1

Monday, December 14
Final exams begin.
Saturday, December 19
Final exams end.
Sunday, December 20
Winter Commencement,

image of Native Americans today.

"How do you blondes like it? Do you like
Of course not," said Harjo. "That's the kind

Haas Center

self-es-

to stop calling

We

people names," said
it's

that

and you're racism

Harjo has helped
federal

ball

file

government

to

is

invisible."

a lawsuit asking the

remove

the copy-

from the Washington Redskins foot-

team name and logo.

"We're asking that the federal governtivities, call

extension 4323.

still

has

same punch

many old westerns, said Harjo.

Through managing a rock band called
"Red Thunder," which fuses rock and roll

because of lack of

teem.

right

QUEST ac-

the

States, mostly

lation

For more information on

Indians,

line as

you 're ignorant and we're an invisible popu-

January 18

Suzan Shown Harjo

dians dead, gone, buried."

Harjo. "It's not that you're stupid,

for the Arts, 2:30 p.m.

to

the highest rate of suicide in the United

have

Classes resume at 8 a.m.

*

sympathetic

Native American

course. Today, our native teenagers have

society that we have to unlearn quickly.

Mitrani Hall,

with

Wolves," though

"We have a lot of bad habits in American

and 3 p.m.

the film

"Dances

to the

of thing my people go through as a matter of

Women's

Even

that stereotyped

being stereotyped as bimbos and airheads?

p.m.

Monday,

group

images of Native Americans cause
self

St.,

Bloomsburg, 7:30 p.m., through Dec.
Invitational,

in a recent lecture as part

group, spoke of the harm

"The Joy of Christmas" Concert, First

Women's

the ethnic

ment not grant an exclusive franchise right
to an offensive

name

or logo," said Harjo,

with tribal percussion, Harjo

is

"In-

working

to

make America more aware of Native Americans today.

"We

need

to bring ourselves, native

people, into this world and into the minds of
people.

We're almost into the next century,
as well catch up with this one.

we might

"The missing ingredient

in

1492

in the

relationship between the native people and
the

Europeans was respect, and

missing ingredient today."

it's

the

— Eric Foster

John Haggerty
newest trustee

WELCOMING
ANEV/
TRUSTEE —

From

left

John

are

Haggerty of Scran ton has been

J.

University

appointed to the Bloomsburg University

President

Council of Trustees by Gov. Robert P.

Harry

Casey.

Ausprich and

Haggerty has more than 38 years of expe-

Kevin

rience in education and public service.

0 'Conner,

retired in

He

1987 as director of special educa-

president of

tion for Northeastern Educational Interme-

the Council of

diate Unit 19. In 1987, he

Trustees, with

cial

new

partment of Education.

trustee

John

He was

J.

Haggerty

1988
PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

After considerable debate the motion was

dominated the December meeting of the

defeated. Several trustees expressed inter-

Council of Trustees.

est in the

President Hairy Ausprich advised the

council the university
riod and

was

was in a critical peand thoughtfully

carefully

examining safety

issues.

He

expressed his

appreciation to faculty, students and staff
for their "help

and support"

safety concerns. "I

want

in

felt

concept of additional housing, but

they needed additional information and

time to adequately formulate a decision.

Council President Kevin O'Conner indicated a committee would be charged with

career,

Jennie Carpenter, interim vice president

he taught the disabled

He was named

1966 before assuming

Haggerty holds a bachelor's degree

in

Thomas College

in

education from

and a master's degree

of the White
tion for

cure funding for additional student housing

on the upper campus."

thoughtful and careful decisions."

Carpenter indicated there are students

Montgomery
Continued on page 3

waiting for housing in the

psychology and
has

done additional graduate work at New York

We

president to take appropriate action to se-

in

guidance from the University of Scranton.

"We need to look at the campus as a whole.

made a motion "to direct the

St.

Scranton (now the University of Scranton)

heroes' of this university."

make

in

his position at Inter-

mediate Unit 19.

programs should not be isolated to housing.

of Danville

assistant director of spe-

education for Lackawanna County

of student life, said she felt safety issues and

Jr.

at Scranton

schools.

to give special

don't want to overreact, but to

Scranton

Technical and North Scranton Junior High

thanks toourstaff who are truly the 'unsung

In a related matter, trustee Robert Buehner

in the

For much of his

in 1950.

He is a state-licensed psychologist and

exploring the housing issue.

addressing

De-

a Scranton school director from

Haggerty began teaching

cial

Discussion concerning safety issues

state

to 1992.

School District

Safety discussion dominates
Council of Trustees meeting

was named Spe-

Educator of the Year by the

University in

New

York, N.Y.

He is a former vice president of the board
Haven

Center, a state institu-

handicapped students and adults

Luzerne County. He

is

also a former

in

mem-

ber of the board of the Lackawanna County

Vocational-Technical School.
Presently, Haggerty

is

a consultant with

Lackawanna County Juvenile Detention Center and works with the Head Start
the

program.

Inside:

Classes will end early for King Day ... page 3
Library steering committee named ... page 4
Library card catalog is retired ... page 5

He also serves as chairman of the

special education

committee of the Diocese

of Scranton.

A

veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, he

Continued on page 3

2 The Communique 17

DEC 92

new educators join Bloomsburg's faculty

Six

Six faculty members have been appointed

•Stephen Wiist, formerly of S yosset, N. Y.

to full-time, tenure track positions.

has been

named assistant professor serving

In addition, Venus Williams, formerly of
Columbus, Ohio, has been named to the

Mary Alexandrakos-Koko of Lewisburg
named instructor of nursing. During the 1991-92 academic year,

as coordinator of access services in the

permanent, non-tenure track position of

Harvey A. Andruss Library. For the past
year, Wiist served as head of access services at Columbia University Libraries in
New York, N.Y.

assistant professor in the capacity of psy-

•

has been

Alexandrakos-Koko served as an instructor of nursing at Bloomsburg University.

She holds a bachelor's degree

in

Philadelphia and a master's degree in nursing from

Thomas

Jefferson University in

Philadelphia.

•Christopher Bracikowski, formerly of

North Tonawanda, N.Y., has been named
assistant professor or physics.

Huygens Laboratory, University of
Leiden, Leiden The Netherlands.
ship at

in

N.Y., and a doctorate in physics from

•Marion Mason, formerly of Milliard,

named

assistant professor

Mason served as

adjunct faculty at Wright State University

She holds a bachelor's degree

in psy-

chology from Southern Nazarene UniverBethany, Okla., and a master's de-

in

Ann

Arbor.

to

fill

both permanent and temporary posi-

•Rachel Burgin of Bloomsburg has been
appointed clerk steno

II in

the office of the

provost and vice president for academic

Smathers,

all

Shamokin have been appointed to custodial

fessor at the University of Wisconsin in

holds a bachelor's degree in forestry
in business

adminis-

from the University of Georgia

in

Athens, a master's degree in finance from

The Ohio

State University in

and a doctorate
sity

of

in finance

Alabama

in

Columbus,

from the Univer-

Tuscaloosa.

•Juhe Toner, formerly of Tallahassee,
Fla.,

has been

I

named

assistant professor of

marketing. For the past four years. Toner

served as a teaching and research assistant
at Florida Stale University in Tallahassee.

She holds a bachelor's degree in public
relations and a master's degree in business
administration from Central Missouri State

University in Warrensburg.

Bloomsburg and Rodney Pursel

of Catawissa have been appointed carpenters.

•Rickey Lash of Lewistown has been
appointed police officer
•John

service learning office.

been hired as an equipment operator B with
the fransportation department.

•Indigo Crone of Bloomsburg has been
III in

com-

puter services.

Appointments made
to temporary positions
The following have been appointed
temporary positions

at

pointed acting director/administrator of
grants.

He

holds a bachelor's degree

Ph.D.

in

entomology, both from the Uni-

versity of Florida in Gainesville.

I.

Moyer of Catawissa has been hired

•Carolyn Butcher, formerly of Plymouth,
has been appointed residence director

services.

student life/residence

•Rebecca Musselman of Orangeville has
in the

accounts payable

•Belwood Shetterly of Berwick has been
hired as electrician.

She holds a bachelor's degree

in psy-

chology from Bloomsburg University.

I

in the

mail room.

operator

II

in

She holds a bachelor's degree in commuBloomsburg University.

nications from

•Kenneth Treon of Danville has been

named computer

has been appointed coordinator of minority
affairs in student life/residence life.

•David Shultz of Danville has been ap-

services.

in

life.

•Marcella Woods, formerly of Lancaster,

office.

pointed clerk

in

entomology from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst; a master's degree and

as a refrigeration mechanic in electrical

been named clerk II

to

Bloomsburg:

•James Matta of Milton has been ap-

positions.

•Roger Hartman of Millville, Delbert
Miller of

Milwaukee.

tration

worker

Yoder or Nescopeck has been
I in the community

named

groundskeepers.

Benton, Debra Fronk, Rosalie Newhart,

Smith served as visiting assistant pro-

•Jodie

appointed clerk typist

of Bloomsburg, and Timothy

Heintz of Orangeville have been

associate professor

He

Dayton, Ohio.

appointed part-time clerk steno

affairs.

of finance and business law. For the past

and a master's degree

holds a bachelor's degree in public

•Darlene Zumerling of Bloomsburg has

tions at the university.

Fay Weller and James Wintersieen, all of
Bloomsburg, and Beverly Tharp of

year.

in

New non-instructional personnel hired

•William Smith, formerly of Shorewood,

The Ohio

University in Columbus.

named

He

in

•Wanda Cole and Bonnie Young, both of

Wis., has been

Community College

Columbus, Ohio, and a master's degree in
counseling from the University of Dayton

sciences from the University of Michigan

State

gree in psychology from

State

Columbus, Ohio.

Haute, Ind., and a master of arts in library

•Michael Boykin, Jason Bryan, Michael

Dayton, Ohio.

sity in

Columbus

Last

academic adviser

administration from Franklin University in

Roch-

of psychology. Last year.

at

a master's degree in library sci-

Twenty-three full-time and one part-time

Ohio, has been

human development.

year, Williams served as

ences from Indiana State University, Terre

non-instructional personnel have been hired

Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

in

ville, Ind.,

holds a bachelor's degree in optics

from the University of Rochester
ester,

holds a bachelor's degree in history

from the University of Evansville, Evans-

counseling and

Bracikowski

recently completed a post-doctoral fellow-

He

He

in nursing

from the University of Pennsylvania

chological counselor in the deparunent of

computer

The Communique 17

Classes to end early on Martin Luther King
Wednesday, Dec. 9, the Bloomsburg
University Curriculum Committee (BUCC) voted to cancel classes
in the afternoon in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Day.

At a

special meeting held

Martin Luther King

Day

falls

on

January 18, 1993, the first

day

of classes and registration at Bloomsburg.

Members of
that classes

the university's Black Cultural Society requested

be cancelled on Jan. 18 so they could hold

their

own

educational programs about King throughout the day, in addition to
the

program the university has planned

in the

evening. Working

together, student and faculty leaders agreed to a compromise

which

will call for classes to run until noon, registration to be held until

2:30 p.m., and moving afternoon labs to Friday, Jan. 22.

BUCC

voted 8 to 0 to adopt the compromise plan.

Bloomsburg will become only the third state system university to
observe Martin Luther King

Day with

the cancellation of classes

Cheyney and Slippery Rock.
"Most of us don't need to be reminded of what Dr. King did, but
some of us do," said Jeffrey Mack, president of the Black Cultural
Society. "We would also like to observe this next year."
The Black Cultural Society has planned a series of events starting
at noon and running past 4 p.m. to commemorate King's birthday.
P. James Moser, chairperson of BUCC and professor of physics,
after

said that

BUCC

one of the reasons

did not want to cancel classes

on Jan. 18 was that there may have been few students
around to attend any educational programs.
entirely

"There was a concern that

if

Monday, students would extend

classes

were called off

totally

their holiday break," said

on

Moser.

"Having classes and registration encourages students to return from
break and participate

in

events commemorating the day."

health sciences. "I think the

compromise plan

is

a

DEC 92 3

Day
good

foot in the

door."

Martin Luther King Day Activities
by the Black Cultural Society in observance
of Martin Luther King Day include:
• Noon to 2 p.m.
Vigil on the steps of Carver Hall.
• Noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. a biographical film, "The Boy King,"
will be shown in all residence halls.
• 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
The films"From Montgomery to Memphis"
and "1 Have a Dream" will be shown in Kehr Union, followed by an
Activities planned

—

—

hour-long panel discussion.

—

"1

Have a Dream" dance will be held in the
Hideaway Lounge.
• At 7 p.m. there will be a university-sponsored program, including dramatic readings of King's speeches and a performance by the
Bloomsburg Gospel Choir in the Kehr Union ballroom.
•

3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Student reports off-campus rape
Shordy before press time on Friday, Dec.

female

11, a

student, staying overnight with other students in an off-

campus apartment, reported being

Bloomsburg town

raped.

police are investigating the incident. This

is

the third reported

rape of a university student in the last six weeks.

Residence

life

has

made

special on-campus, housing ar-

rangements available to female students living off campus.

These arrangements are
until

in effect

throughout finals week and

Thursday, Dec. 24. Female students

who choose

to stay

off campus have been asked to notify the residence life office

"We're talking about observing a day for a man who deserves it,"
BUCC member James Cole, professor of biology and allied

of their location and planned length of stay.

said

Trustees
Continued from page

1

Apartments, but she also said not

all resi-

dence hall rooms on the lower campus were
filled.

There

is

a need, she added, to speak

with students and accurately evaluate their
interest in additional

on-campus housing.

and assistive devices for the hearing impaired are offered.

The clinic was founded

in the early 1940s,

chnics

one of the

first

status as an "outstanding alumni."

graduated

in

1952.

such

Daly

— Susan M. Schantz

in the state.

Last year, the clinic collected $8,339.57

The actual cost of services provided
clinic at a fair market value was
$249,203. "The university has donated in
excess of $240,000 in services to the community," Angelo said. "The clinic, which is

Continued from page

nationally recognized, serves as an exten-

chological Association, American Guid-

sion of the classroom where students de-

ance Association, Appalachian Trail Con-

provided services to 914 clients from Sep-

velop competencies

ference and Disabled American Veterans.

tember 1991 through June 1992. The clinic

tion

Dr. Richard Angelo, director. Speech,

Hearing and Language Clinic, gave a brief
presentation on the clinic's modest fee

schedule enacted

last year.

on income, according

to

Fees are based

Angelo, and most

are waived.

Angelo reported Bloomsburg's program

in fees.

by the

in the areas

of evalua-

and treatment procedure."

and fluency

In other business, the council unani-

augmentative communication services, au-

mously supported the recommendation to
rename the street parallel to Centennial
Gymnasium, "Chuck Daly Way," in recognition of theNew Jersey Nets' head coach's

offers speech, language, voice

ral rehabilitation

tion. In addition,

and

and audiological evaluahearing aid evaluations

fitting, special testing for site

of lesion

Haggerty
1

holds membership in the American Psy-

He and

his wife,

Mary

Louise, are the

parents of a daughter, Attorney

Mary Kay

of Brookline, Mass., and a son, James of

Dunmore.

— Susan M. Schantz

DEC 92

4 The Communique 17

named

Steering committee
President Harry Ausprich and Carol

Friday, Jan. 22.

The

for

committee

steering

Matteson, interim provost and vice presi-

plans to hold a retreat prior to the beginning

dent for academic affairs, will co-chair the

of the spring semester. They will develop

steering

committee

for the

new

library.

"Every effort is being made to have broad
representation from

shape our

new

library,"

tee will include: dean. College of Business,

John Olivo;
Steering committee

computer center, Doyle Dodson; director,
academic computing, Robert Abbott; li-

be comprised of the following posi-

brary coordinator of database searching,

Daniel Vann;

Charles Lumpkins; director. Institute for

in

will

tions: dean, library services,

sur-

and tech-

the steering committee

Membership

and commitment, we can build a library
and the

director, automation

nical operations, John Pitcher; director,

"Together, through hard work, dedication

that will serve the university

Technology committee
Membership on the technology commit-

the charges to the various other committees

that will help

Ausprich says.

dation Board representatives.

at this time.

campus constituencies

on the various committees

new library

two

from the

library faculty; three faculty

Interactive Technologies,

Hank Bailey;
Sue Bodman;

rounding communities well into the next

Library Advisory Committee; one under-

century."

graduate student and one graduate student;

three faculty representatives; one under-

vice president for administration, Robert

graduate student and one graduate student.

The

committee

library planning

ture includes four

struc-

committees that will

re-

They are the

vancement, Tony laniero; representative of

users committee, to be chaired

by a faculty

Howard Macauley,
College of Professional Studies; commu-

the steering committee; de-

velopment committee, Tony laniero,

act-

the academic deans,

nity representative; director.

Curriculum

ing vice president for advancement, chair-

Materials Center, Paul Quick; director, au-

person; technology committee, Robert

dio visual resources,

Parrish, vice president for administration,

partment representative; library staff repre-

chairperson; and administrative infrastruc-

sentative; Council of Trustees

ture committee, chaired by Daniel

dean of

Vann III,

Tom

Joseph; art de-

member;

Foundation Board member; student

life

representative, John Trathen, director, stu-

library services.

Three subcommittees will report

to the

dent activities, Kehr Union; and an alumni

Hugh McFadden,

administrative infrastructure committee.

representative.

Stephen Wiist, coordinator of access

of planning, institutional research and

ser-

director
in-

vices in the Andruss Library, will serve as

formation management, and

Tom Cooper,

chairperson of the public services subcom-

assistant vice president for

academic

mittee.

John Pitcher,

director, library auto-

mation and technical operations, will chair

fairs,

director, physical plant,

three Hbrary faculty;

Tom

two

Messinger;

library non-in-

structional staff; three faculty,

one from

each college; a representative of the physical plant staff

and one undergraduate

stu-

dent and one graduate student.
Library faculty and non- instructional staff
will serve

on the automation and technical

services subcommittee.

Public services committee

The following

will be appointed to the

Users committee
in the users

committee

from

library reference services,

li-

brary collection development faculty, nonwill

insductional library

staff, director

of the

include six faculty representatives from the

Curriculum Materials Center, Paul Quick

Appointment process

areas of business, health sciences, educa-

and director of radio and television

for committees

tion, humanities/fine arts, social sciences

Tom

All faculty appointments to the various

committees, with the exception of the

li-

brary faculty and the Library Advisory

Council members

who

APSCLT

will serve

on the

service,

Joseph.

and natural sciences/mathematics; two undergraduate students and one graduate student;

community

representatives; dean of

the College of Arts

and Sciences, Hsien-

Library Advisory Council

The Library Advisory Council

includes:

Daniel Vann, dean, library services; faculty

be made through

Tung Liu, and dean and assistant vice presi-

members Thomas

office. Faculty interested in

dent for graduate studies and research, Pe-

and Sciences, Michael Blue and Ellen
Clemens, College of Business, William
Frost and Stephen Wiist, Andruss Library,
Kathy Livengood and Robert Lowe, College of Professional Studies, Glen Sadler,

steering committee, will
the

to the

administrative infrastructure committee:

tives

Membership

subcommittee.

committee
The following will be appointed

public services subcommittee: representa-

committee.

and technical services subcommittee. The Library Advisory Council

Administrative infrastructure

af-

will serve as staff to the steering

the automation

will function as the third

specialist,

Parrish; vice president for university ad-

port to the steering committee.

member from

communications

serving should contact Oliver Larmi at ext.

ter

Kasvinsky.

4329.

Aleto, College of Arts

tion and graduate students will be appointed

Development committee
The development committee will include
four management representatives, James

by the Graduate Council for all committees

Matta, acting director/administrator of

except the steering committee. Students on

grants, Michael Vavrek, dean. School of

graduate student; Christine Pelletier, gradu-

on

Extended Programs, Jo DeMarco, director
of publications, and Sue Helwig, acting

ate student

Undergraduate students will be appointed

by the Community Government Associa-

the Library Advisory Council will serve
the steering committee.

All appointments to the committees and

assistant vice president of development,

subcommittees should be completed by

three faculty representatives and six Foun-

College of Arts of Sciences; Janice Walters,

developmental instruction; Hai Ly, under-

secretary.

and Cindy Kelley, recording

— Susan M. Schantz

The Communique 17

more than 100

After

Bloomsburg's

DEC 92 5

years, card catalog retired

library card catalog has

gone the way of the dinosaur.
In the final

weeks of November, the
cabinets were emptied of

wooden

familiar

one and a half million cards and carted

away

In their place sit

to storage.

some

dozen computer terminals ready to tell
tors

where

visi-

to find the materials they seek.

The online computerized system has
several

key advantages over the card

says

Daniel Vann

J.

III,

dean of

file

library

services.

"You can have much more
same collection with an

active use of

online cata-

the

log," says

Vann. "Using the term search,

you can access things easily.

In

some cases

you can include authors who wrote chapbooks. You couldn't do that before."
"The other advantage is greater accuracy," says Vann. "The rules of filing cards
were very complex. There were 150 pages

NEW MEMBER OF THE FAMILY — The library's public card catalog joins a couple

of rules."

director of publications.

ters in

With the computerized system,

in

chine readable records followed a standard-

catalogues," says Pitcher. "Card catalogues

which can be

ized format established by the Library of

computer screen by asking for

Congress which made the computerization

were a huge innovation because you could
insert a card between the two cards instead

of library records possible.

of rewriting the page of a book."

computer

called to the

file exists

several different types of information: au-

terms used in the

thor, tide, subject or

description of the work.
if

a

the

adds faculty librarian Janet Olsen,

who was responsible for filing catalog cards.
Though the library stopped filing new
cards in the catalog in

May

For the next decade, new materials were
cataloged both in the card

"With the online system, you can tell
book is on the shelf without going to
shelf,"

ofother extinct species, suppliedfor the photograph by Peter DeMarco, son ofJo DeMarco,

place

of several different cards for each item, a
single

PHOTO BY JOAN HELPER

of 1990, and

erized

PALS

system.

file

and comput-

In those 10 years,

Hinchcliff and others also entered the
library's existing materials into the

com-

Bloomsburg's card catalog dates from
least the

1

through the '20s and '30s.

"There was a library
had

"We worked with the cards to put them in
"To make
information on the cards was

books

years old.

some 10,000 new materials have been added

sure that the

part of

to the collection since then, faculty cata-

correct,

loger Marilou Hinchcliff says that

some

patrons continued to use the card catalog.

"We want them

to

know

that

we have

While going through

so people know whata card catalogue looked

some
Limited and

like," says Vann. The cards begin with 5,
which includes another institution which

unexpected treasures.

autographed editions were found

system and the reference librarians are avail-

general collection and promptly

able to help," says Hinchcliff.

special collections.

there

is

computerized system goes down,
a backup

— CD-ROM disks

called

Access Pennsylvania which are updated
yearly and include

works from most of the

14 state system universities as well as other
libraries.

For the library's catalogers, the end of
the venerable card catalog caps a

dozen

years of work.

"In 1980

we started

in

the

moved

They've also kept the cards which begin
with Bloomsburg.

There are some things about the card

Though the PALS computer database
now includes more than 272,000 items from

catalog that the library staff will

remember

fondly.
"It

the library's general collection, there

was easy

to

browse with a card

cata-

You could stick your fingers between
two cards and look at two at the same time,"
log.

says Hinchcliff. "With the automated catalog,

you can look

at only

one screen

at a

Card catalogs were an innovation when

able records to prepare to replace the card

they were

catalog with a computer system," says

ago, says John Pitcher, assistant director.

Hinchcliff,

head of cataloging. The ma-

has becomepart of history, the Soviet Union.

to

time."

using machine read-

life."

have kept one cabinet of cards just

the library 's collec-

tion a book at a time, Hinchcliff found

handbooks available on the computerized

If the

Vann,

helping his mother find

when he was six
"The card catalogue has been

my

"We

handled every book."

everybody

for a master's thesis

the computer," says Hinchcliff.

we

script,

to learn the library script," says

who remembers

puter database.

at

870s, with the cards hand- written

first

introduced over 100 years

"Before card catalogues, there were book

is still

work for the library's catalogers.
have some microforms which were

plenty of

"We
never

in

the catalog," says Hinchcliff.

"We're one-fourth of the way through the
periodicals. The periodicals are now printed
in a holdings list in book form. The govemmeni documents collection and University
Archives collection haven't been cataloged."

— Eric Foster

6 The Communique 17

DEC 92

Campus

SECA campaign

notes

comes
Leon Szmedra, assistant professor of health, physical education and athletics, served as
co-author on the research papers, "The Vahdity of Blood Lactate Measures During Lab and
Field Tests in Elite Biathlon Skiers" and "Selected Respiratory Gas Exchange Measures as
Predictors of the Anaerobic Threshold: A Meta-Analytic Review." The papers were
presented recently at The American College of Sport Medicine's 1992 annual meeting
which convened

Bloomsburg's 1992 State Employees

Combined Appeal campaign has come to a
close, raising $26,739.

would

"I

Salim Qureshi, associate professor of marketing, presented a paper titled "A ComparaAnalysis of Career Concerns at Two Campuses" at the recent annual meeting of the

tive

at Crystal City,

Va.

raise $31,732.
this year.

Reza Noubary, professor of mathematics, published the paper "A Method for Estimating
and Detecting Treatment Effects" in Computational Statistics, Vol. 7 (with A. Nanthakumar).
also

made

a recent presentation

titled "International

Decade of Natural Disaster

Reduction Role of Sociology" at the 42nd annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Sociological
:

Bieryla, assistant director of financial aid, recently co-presented a financial aid

J.

workshop for area guidance counselors deaUng witii changes in

the Reauthorization

Act of

of those people

is

We

The

"Our goal was

to

did not reach that goal

total raised

was $26,739,

84 percent of our goal.

We had a

of 282 contributors for 83.9 percent of

total

we fell short
we are still the largest contribu-

our goal of 336. Even though
of our goal,

SSHE

tor in the

System."

with 100 percent participation this year.
Those departments are: the president's ofvice president for administration, aca-

fice,

demic advisement, vice president

1992.

dent

Kara

all

Bloomsburg did have 14 departments

Society held at Lincoln University in Lincoln University, Pa.

John

thank

administrative services.

which

Noubary

like to

who chose to give to this worthwhile cause,"
says Don Hock, director of budget and

in Dallas, Texas.

Global Awareness Society International

to close

development

life,

office,

for stu-

budget and

Shultz, assistant professor of communication studies, recently presented two

administrative services, vice president for

papers at the 78th annual Speech Communication Association Convention held in Chicago,

university advancement, registrar's office,

The papers were titled "The Rhetoric of the 'Deaf Power' Movement: A Drama Enacted
Many Acts" and "On Questions We Might Ask ... Towards a New Agenda in

student development, orientation. Curricu-

111.

in

:

Intercultural

Communication."

Dale E. Bertelsen, assistant professor of communication studies, recendy published an
"Media Form and Government: Democracy as an Archetypal Image in the

Age"

in

Communication Quarterly.

Institute for Interac-

affairs, and Upward Bound.
"These areas will be receiving donuts for
their effort," says Hock. "I would also like

tive

article titled

Electronic

lum Materials Center,

Technologies, alumni

to give special thanks to all of the volunteers

Linda LeMura, associate professor of health, physical education and athletics, has had
in the Journal ofPhysiologicalTherapeutics. The article
is titled "Determination of Lactate Threshold by Respiratory Gas Exchange Measures and
Blood Lactate Levels During Incremental Load Work."

who

helped distribute and collect the

cards."

an article accepted for publication

Walter Brasch, professor of mass communications, recently received the Directors'
The Keystone State
for 1992 from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Professional chapter, of which he is president, was honored as the outstanding professional

APSCUF offers
nontraditional
students scholarships

Award

The Bloomsburg University chapter of
the Association of Pennsylvania State Col-

chapter in the east region.

lege and University Faculties

Frank L.

Misiti, assistant professor of curriculum and foundations, recently presented

a session, "Using Operational Questions in Elementary School Science," at the annual

Pennsylvania Science Teachers Association convention held recently

in Pittsburgh.

is

accepting

applications for six scholarships to nontraditional (25 years old or older) students.

To be eligible

for the scholarship, appli-

cants must have completed two semesters

JoAnne Day, director of cooperative education/internships, and Darley Hobbis, Jean
Downing, and Ken Job of the Institute for Interactive Technologies recently presented
their project "Explore" at the Mid-Atlantic Cooperative Education Conference in Ocean
City, Md. and at the meeting of the National Society for Experiential Education in Newport,
,

R.l.

"Explore"

op professional

is

a complete instructional and motivational program designed to assist co-

in their

work with prospective co-op students and is
The project is funded by a Title VIII demonstration

driven, interactive multimedia format.
grant.

presented in a learner-

of college work and a
courses.

minimum

of three

They must demonstrate financial

need as indicated by evaluation of the Pennsylvania State Grant/Federal Student Aid
Application, which must be filed by Dec.
31, 1992.

The deadline
1993.

for applications

is

Scholarship recipients will

Jan. 31,

be

noti-

fied by the end of the Spring 1993 semester.

For more information

call

4329.

The Communique 17

Campus

Bloomsburg University Crime Report

DEC 92 7

notes

Prepared by the University Police
Terry A. Oxiey,

assistant professor of

music and director of

bands, has been awarded a $5(X) grant from the Bloomsburg

November 1992

University Foundation to provide support for the Maroon and Gold

Offenses

Made or

Reported to or by

Arrests

University Police

Incidents Cleared

Band to participate as an exhibition band in the Cavalcade of Bands
State

Championships

which were held

for high school bands,

recently in Hershey.

by Other Means
Vandalism
Disorderly Conduct

Liquor

Law

1

2

Violations

Public Drunkenness

1

1

Sexual Offenses

1

Rape
Drug Violations

0

0
0

1

1

Simple Assaults

0

Aggravated Assaults

0

Murder
Arson

Vagrancy

0
0
0
0
0

Robbery/Burglary

1

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

Weapons Possession

DUl

Minoo Tehrani, associate professor of management, and Ivone
Gutierrez Boucher, a recent graduate of Bloomsburg and man-

0
0
2

1

Motor Vehicle Theft

0

Theft

From Buildings
Theft From Vehicles

11
1

Retail Thefts

0

agement student of Tehrani's, recently presented a co-authored
paper, "The Rise to Economic Power: The Case of Taiwan," at the
national meeting of the Association for Global Business in

The trip to the meeting was funded in
Bloomsburg University Foundation and the Alumni
Orleans.

part

New

by the

Association.

Susan M. Schantz, acting director of news and media relations,
workshop in Allentown on "Communication Tools that Work." The event was sponsored by the

recently conducted an all-day

Lehigh Valley Conference of Churches.

Henry D. Dobson, associate professor of curriculum and foundations, presented a paper titled

"Using Discrepant Events

in

Science to Motivate the Unmotivated" at the Pennsylvania Science

Teachers Association convention held recently

Dee Welk,

in Pittsburgh.

associate professor of nursing, recenUy presented

research titled

"The Effect of

Insu-uctional

Format on Nursing

Student Cue Recognition of Pulmonary Edema" as a member of the
Safety Tip: Reduce your vulnerability by being aware of your
surroundings. Take all basic precautions such as locking your doors

and windows and travel

in pairs

whenever

health-related panel at the Lilly Conference

College Teaching held

in

on Innovations

in

Oxford, Ohio.

possible.

Mary-Jo Arn, assistant professor ofEnglish, and Frank Peters,
associate professor ofEnglish, have had an article titled "Finding

News

the Subject" published in the journal. Syntax in the Schools.

briefs

Mehdi Haririan,

associate professor of economics, recently

presented a paper titled "Privatization: The Challenge of the 1990s

The 1993 holidays recognized by

the

Commonwealth of Penn-

sylvania and the State System of Higher Education will be as

in Eastern

Europe"

at the

Economic Association

in

62nd annual conference of the Southern
Washington, D.C.

follows:

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 18;

Dale L. Sultzbaugh, associate professor of sociology and social

Memorial Day, May 31; Independence
6; Columbus Day, Oct. 1 1 Veterans'
Day, Nov. 11; Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25; the day after Thanksgiving (for AFSME and PSSU collective bargaining unit employees only), Nov. 26; Chrisunas Day, Dec. 24; New Year's Day (for

welfare, recently presented a paper titled "Family Health Care

New Year's Day, Jan.
Presidents'

Day, Feb.

1;

15;

Day, July 5; Labor Day, Sept.

*

*

The accounts payable department

in the

Any

will cease printing checks

made

before

42nd annual meeting of the
at

Lincoln University

in

been awarded a S2,000 grant from the Pennsylvania

Campus Compact

requests should be

at the

Harris, assistant professor of curriculum and founda-

tions, has

on

1990s"

Lincoln University, Pa.

*

Dec. 22. The check printing process will resume Monday, Jan. 4,
at 8 a.m.

America

Pennsylvania Sociology Society held

Mary

1994), Dec. 31.

Tuesday, Dec. 22, at 4 p.m.

Policy:

;

for the

"Bloomsburg/Harrisburg Partnership

Project."

The

project will enable

48 education majors

to teach in Harris-

burg classrooms with a mentor teacher from Jan. 11

to 15.

The

students will attend evening programs at the University Center.

The Bloomsburg University Foundation and Community Government Association are also providing funding for the project.

8 The

Communique

DEC 92

17

Recreation Center construction
could begin this summer

Calendar
Saturday, December 19

exams end.
Sunday, December 20
Final

Ground-breaking

Winter Commencement, Mitrani Hall,

Haas Center

—Sculptures by Matthew

Zupnick, Haas Gallery, Haas Center for

1993, according to

director of planning

and

the Arts, through January 28.

Northern Iowa, Nelson

Wednesday, January 6
Basketball vs. Alvemia

ings, according to

The $5.3
ter will

McCulloch.

million student recreation cen-

have approximately 60,000 square-

The center

will feature

pre-

a 200-meter exercise running track and four

liminary drawings of the recreation center,

basketball courts which can be converted

and

into volleyball

will receive the preliminary

A

drawings

review of the

and tennis

The center will

courts.

take approximately 12 to

preliminary drawings has been scheduled

15 months to construct, said McCulloch.

for Dec. 23.

Construction of the center will be funded

Preliminary drawings are the second stage

Field House, 7:30 p.m.

drawings, pre-final drawingsand final draw-

feet of floor space.

soon, says McCulloch.

Tuesday, January 5

Women's

summer of

The university has received interim

Monday, January 4

vs.

in the

construction.

1993

Wresthng

begin

Don McCulloch,

for the Arts, 2:30 p.m.

Art Exhibit

for the student recre-

ation center planned for lower campus could

by an additional $60 per semester

fee that

in a four-step process of architectural plan-

students voted to assess themselves to pay

ning consisting of sketches, preliminary

for the facility.

College, Nelson Field House, 6 p.m.

Men's Basketball

vs.

Alvemia College,

Nelson Field House, 8 p.m.

endorses integrity in scientific research policy

Friday, January 8

Men's Basketball

Husky

hosts

Tournament, Nelson Field

Invitational

House, 6 and 8 p.m.

Saturday, January 9

Men's Basketball

Nelson Field House, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 16

Army, Nelson Field House,

1

vs.

in the first

the program,

Vigil on the steps ofCarver Hall,

noon to

Biology permanent. Carol

Matteson, interim provost, said she would
allow an exception for the course to be
offered next semester.

— Eric Foster

students enrolled in the bachelor of arts in

search policy.

the

The Communique

Boy King," will

residence halls, noon, 2 p.m.

— The

Lynne

Miller, professor of

committee which drafted the policy.

BUCC

2 p.m.

films

"From
Have a

voted to endorse changes

in the

English department curriculum, which

newsletter for Bloomsburg University

and staff. The Communique publishes
news of activities, events and developments at
Bloomsburg University bi-weekly throughout
the academic year.

Please submit story ideas, news briefs and

calendar information at least two weeks in

clude a renumbering of the courses and

and Communication Office,
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

adding a contemporary

17815.

ment

literature require-

to the major, raising the niunber of

required credits in the major from 45 to 48.

followed by an hour-long panel discussion.

the English department to offer accelerated

Have a Dream" dance. Hideaway

A

faculty

advance to The Communique, University Rein-

Montgomery to Memphis" and "I
Dream" will be shown in Kehr Union,
"I

voted against making the course
in

program from the chemistry department in favor of a two-track bachelor of

biology and allied health sciences, chaired

activities.

2:30 to 3:30 p.m.

two years of

and reduce the emphasis on mathematics.
The changes also eliminate a bachelor of

vised interim Integrity in Scientific Re-

Classes will end at noon for Martin

and 4 p.m.

increase lab experi-

BUCC also unanimously endorsed a re-

Classes resume at 8 a.m.

all

BUCC

chemistry program.

Monday, January 18

Biographical film, "The

point average.

Writing

riculum.

ence

two English courses, one of them
and have a least a 2.25 grade

literature,

science program. There are currently no

p.m.

Basketball vs. Clarion,

Nelson Field House, 2 p.m.

be shown in

unanimously approved

chemistry department cur-

least

arts

Women's Swimming and Diving

Day

in the

The changes would

Wednesday, January 13
Men's Basketball vs. Lock Haven,

Luther King

(BUCC)

changes

House, 6 and 8 p.m.

Women's

At its regular December meeting, the
Bloomsburg University Curriculum Committee

Husky

hosts

Tournament, Nelson Field

Invitational

BUCC approves chemistry curriculum changes,

BUCC voted against a proposal to allow
placement

in

composition and permit

stu-

lations

Bloomsburg is committed to providing equal
educational and employment opportunities for
all j>ersons

without regard to race, color,

reli-

gion, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, lifestyle, sexual orientation,

handicap, Vietnam

era veteran, or union membership.

The university is additionally committed

Lounge, 3:30

dents to skip Composition

to 5:30 p.m.

I.

Dramatic readings of King's speeches by

BUCC also voted against a request by the

Jim Lucas and a performance by the Gos-

English department to require students

pel Choir,

Kehr Union ballroom, 7

p.m..

Tuesday, January 19
Rededication of the expanded/
renovated Kehr Union Building, 2 p.m.

transferring into the English major to take

prerequisite courses.

The proposal would

have required transfer students, and
dents

who

to

affirmative action and will lake positive steps

stu-

are changing majors, to take at

to provide such educational

and employment

opportunities.

Editor: Susan

M. Schantz

Assistant Editor: Eric Foster

Photographer: Joan K. Heifer