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A NEWSLETTER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSTTY

8 JAN 1998

Scholar to speak for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Mahmoud

criminal justice; Sydney

El Kati will be the

keynote speaket for Bloomsburg's Martin

Luther King
Jan. 19, at

Day

celebration

7 p.m.

in the

Monday,

Kehr Union

forum

In his address, "Social Progress in

will be

moderated by

Kambon
human

development.

America - The Legacy of African

American Leadership,"
examine the

1

"A

El Kati will

says

963 march on Washington

man march and

and the 1995 million

lot

of people read of civil rights,"

Camara, a member of the Black

History
El Kati

Month Committee.
is

"Professor

an individual who's not only

movement,

the contributions of Dr. Martin Luther

written about the

King Jr.

involved. He's not just a historian, he's a

Following the address. El Kati will
participate in a panel discussion

open forum featuring

Howard,

he's

been

history maker."

and

panelists Walter

"Professor

El Kati is

an

individual who's

history; Christopher "Kip"

Armstrong, sociology,

El Kati

and

Wilson Bradshaw, provost. The open
Camara, chair of counseling and

Ballroom.

Mahmoud

Howe-

Barksdale, director of social equity;

social welfare

not only written about the movement,

and

he's been involved."

A professor of history at Macalester

Trustees hear reports on DAWN,
Middle States, and master planning

College in

University's Council of

Trustees heard several presentations at

its

individuals,

recommends treatment and

and

Tom

at

the

University of Minnesota and has served
faculty of Macalester College

since 1974.

He

has authored and

published numerous

conducts research.

Sandra Kehoe-Forutan, geography

quarterly meeting Dec. 12, 1997.

Minn., El Kati was

African studies department

on the
Bloomsburg

St. Paul,

one of the founding members of the

articles, several

books and monographs. The focus of his

John Riley, mathematics and
computer science and chair of the

and earth

Middle

construction, co-chairs of the Master

history, the Civil Rights

Planning Advisory Committee, updated

the historical social dynamics affecting

States Accreditation Steering

Committee, described the university
self-study currently being

conducted

preparation for a

by the accred-

itation

site visit

committee

in

in

March 1999. Ad-

ditional information about this project

can be found on the steering committee's

web

(DAWN)

provide a

hockey team

for

winning

women's

its

was presented by program
and

sixth

National Collegiate Athletic Association

Opening and Memorial

at

1

p.m. and a

zt 2 p.m., both in the Kehr
Union Ballroom. The film Rosewood

Rosewood

concerns the massacre of a Black

community in Florida during the 1930s.
The Black History Month committee

approved a recommendation to confer

is

an honorary doctor of humane

events throughout the semester,

upon Ervin

human development. Jackson detailed
how DAWN provides educational

degree

programs designed to reduce substance

Broadcasting Service

abuse and related violence, assesses

undergraduate commencement.

and chief executive

S.

letters

Duggan, president

officer
at

of Public

the

Jr.

events include a Celebration

screening and discussion of the film

In other business, the trustees

this year's

Additional Martin Luther King

Day

Master Plan by 2001.

Facilities

Movement and

African American leadership.

championship. In addition, they

and Alcohol Wellness Network
director Barry Jackson, counseling

on the committee's work

Higher Education requirement to

field

Drug

scholarship and activism has been the

African American experience and

toward complying with a State System of

Hutchinson honoring

middle/index, html

overview of the university's

trusteees

Contos,

of planning and

presented a resolution to Coach Jan

site at:

www. bloomu.edu/departments/

An

science,

assistant director

May 1998

also involved in

planning additional

including: lecture with Derrick Bell,

Martin Luther King

Jr.

Banquet, and

Sankofa Conference. For more information see the calendar on

page

4.

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Bloomsburg University Crime Report
Prepared by University Police for

December 1997

Reported

Offenses

Arrests

to or

by University Police

made

or

Incidents Cleared by

Other Means

0

Simple Assault

1

Larceny Totals

9

1

Book bag

7

0

thefts

Theft from buildings

1

1

Theft from vehicles

1

0

Vandalism

1

0

Drug Abuse Violations

2

2

D.U.I.

1

1

6

6

Drunkenness

2

2

drive.

Disorderly Conduct

4

4

certificates

1

0

Liquor

Laws

Other Offenses

All

(except

BRIGHTENING THE HOLIDAYS FOR FAMILIES
Seventeen area families had a
to the holiday

from

traffic)

Each

left

Dang

university property.

It

does not include incidents

in

the

human

Town

of

family

was

brighter holiday

In addition to

season thanks

to

employees who contributed

hundreds of food items, $800 was collected

for the

given a box stuffed with food items, including a canned ham,

from Giant and Weis markets, candy and

fruit,

and a toy

for

each

child.

gift

Shown

are food drive workers Bonnie Uoidan, sociology, social welfare and criminal justice;

LaBelle, storeroom; Bonita Rhone,

instruction;

This report reflects only those incidents which occur on

food drive.

Tom

human

resources;

Deb

Schell, developmental

Patacconi, duplicating services; Audra Halye, budget office;

Bob

Wislock,

resources; Louann Laidacker, business office; Charles Laudermilch, sociology, social

welfare and criminal justice; Joanne Redder, residence

life.

Bloomsburg.

SAFETY

TIP; Eleven people

campus

December 1997.

All of

A total

in

in

prevented.

of

$1,162

became

victims of thefts

on

these crimes could have been

items

was

taken.

Campus
Mehdi

notes

Haririan, economics, recently

presented a paper titled "Non-oil Export

Promotion"

at

the 67* annual Confer-

ence of the Southern Economic

Communique

Association in Atlanta, Ga.
Editor: Eric Foster, ext.

4412

Publication date for next issue: Thursday, Jan. 22.
(Publication

is

generally twice a

month during

Four-digit

phone numbers

listed in the

389

first.

The

area code

is

and news items

Donald

at:

http://www.bloomu.edu

S.

Ekema Agbaw,

English, recently

Pratt, curriculum

and

Bloomsburg
"
UNIVERSITY

titled

"Using the Internet to

Do

Science

Association of Pennsylvania State

Teachers Association Area (NSTA)

The

papers were

Teach Literatute" and "The Traditional,

The

Transitional

he participated

State System of Higher Education

at the

Louis University.

Projects" at the National Science

and the Modern

in

African Literature." At the conference,

A Member of Pennsylvania's

at St.

presented two papers at the English

"Using Problem-Based Learning to

Web

Louis Confer-

on "Diverse

Universities conference.

at:

fost@husky.bIoomu.edu

Bloomsburg can be found on the World Wide

at the 24'"' St.

Vatican Library

are

dial

to Eric Foster,

122 Waller Administration Building, or by e-mail

Three

foundations, recently presented a paper

717.

Please submit story ideas

in

Fifteenth-Century

Riddle Aeronautical University. Haririan

Economic Topics."

Communique

Example"

A

ence on Manuscript Studies, held

academic year and monthly during the summer.)

on-campus extensions. To use the numbers ofF campus,

English, recently

Manuscript Production
Languages:

The paper is
Embry

Am,

CO- authored with Bijan Vasigh of

also chaired a session

the

Mary-Jo

delivered a paper titled "MasterMinding

in a panel session

on

Conference

in Pittsburgh. Pratt also

attended the Annual Meeting of the

School Science and Mathematics
Association

(SSMA) and made two

presentations: one as the sole presenter

of a session on "Teaching Measurement

Teaching African American Literature.

Without Formulas" and the other

Agbaw

panelist

also presented a paper, "Diversity

Across the Curriculum,"

at

the Fourth

Annual Diversity Conference

for

Area

Colleges and Universities held at

Luzerne County
Nanticoke.

Community

College in

as a

on the subject of activities

for

the gifted in science and mathematics.
Pratt

was a chief planner of the

confetence and was responsible for
registration activities.

all

8

Bedosky and
'Employees
of the Month'

A group of faculty and staff have formed

been named Employees of the

Month

November and December,

respec-

by the supervisory roundtable.

office,

years.

Her

includes information on the

has been at Bloomsburg 13

scholarships.

Husky Club

One

of her most

also helps to

actively involved

church choir, and for 25 years has

in every classroom
she's

sorority.

and

who

Fisher,

has been at Bloomsburg

she's

on campus.

When

not working, Fisher paints in
acrylics

and

is

at

4336

or

4100.

likes to travel.

Though

President Jessica Kozloff recognized the university's faculty

who

1987. Facidty emeriti in

retired before July

attendance included: Martin A. Satz, retired

1

979, psychology;

Alfred E. Tonolo, 1982, foreign languages; Craig L. Himes,

Mary Lou

1983, biological sciences;

and

Alaska.

commencement

Faculty emeriti honored at graduate

emeriti

oils

been to Europe, her favorite

destination

at

Pileski.

maintain the

she cleaned the audio visual equipment

been a member of Beta Zeta chapter of

2 years, oversees equipment reserva-

Abbott

equipment. During the semester break,

Theta Sigma Phi, an international

1

also

For more

information on the organization, contact Lee

ment, Fisher

two hermit crabs before they

and Joanne

keeping track of cameras, projectors,

home
in her

cultural

professor emeritus of

friends Barbara Bohling

videos and other equip-

is

Chang Shub Roh,

tions in audio visual resources. Besides

lights, films,

for

and

Pomfret, mathematics and computer science; and university

activities

unusual assignments was providing a

were auctioned. She

art, literature

sociology; Richard Ganahl, mass communications; James

Joy Bedosky and Marie Fisher

golf outings and an

annual auction.

Dennis

Korea and Japan. The group has

of Arts and Sciences;

Husky

raises fiinds for athletic

raffles,

Woo Bong

cultures;

formed an advisory board that includes Hsien-Tung Liu, dean

Club, which

include

traditions of China,

responsibilities include

coordinating activities for the

and

Hwang, accounting; and Robert Abbott, academic computing,
have created a homepage on the World Wide Web that can be
found at http://hubble.bloomu.edu/-eacs/. The homepage

Bedosky, secretary in the develop-

ment

an East Asia

Group members

Lee, economics; Jing Luo, languages

Joy Bedosky and Marie Fisher have

tively,

3

East Asia Cultural Society formed

Cultural Society at Bloomsburg.

for

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News briefs

named

Fisher

JAN

cultures; Francis

J.

F.

John, 1984, languages

Radice, 1985, finance and business law;

and Richard C. Savage, 1985, English.
Trustees recognize retirements and promotion

Ben Franklin

floor repairs expected February

The Bloomsburg

University Council of Trustees recognized

retirements and a promotion at their quarterly meeting in
Repairs to the subsided floor in

Benjamin Franklin Hall

The computer

location.

lab

which was

December. Recognized were James Sperry,

who

retired as

displaced by the registrar's office will

professor of history after

be complete in February, according to

remain in the Kehr Union. Computer

Sally L.

Cox,

Tom Messinger,

services will return

service;

and Shawn M. Williams, who was promoted

plant.

The

are expected to

director of physical

floor subsidence occurred last

spring, necessitating that the registrar's
office,

computer

computer

lab be

services,

and a

is

repaired,

it

L-shaped area where

to construct

state

Services

the floor has been replaced.
that construction

The

will take

months

computing

new

is

Department of General

expected to officially turn the

new

building just after the close of

other side of the building because of the

the spring semester and the

in

new

its

Two tenure-track faculty join

Two

to police

university

members have joined the
They are: Jacqueline Evans-

tenure-track faculty

university starting this semester.
Shields, nursing,

and Victor Berardi, management.

Institutional review

The

new

building to open several weeks

later.

team wins 70 awards during fall

board plans research worl(shop

Institutional

Review Board

will present a

Human

"Considerations in the Conduct of
for faculty, staff graduate

workshop

will

3:30 p.m. in

Forensics

10 years of

after

officer 2 supervisor in the university police office.

books and materials to be moved into
the

remain

worker

retired as a custodial

library building over to the

university in January. Plans call for

complete,

is

who

years of service at Bloomsburg;

will

registrar's office.

the registrar's office, relocated to the

floor subsidence, will

Ben

Library Construction Update

new

offices in the

offices in

Franklin, while academic

be located in the former

several additional

When

nance Annex to their old

moved.

After the floor

from the Mainte-

29

in

human

workshop,

Subjects Research,"

and undergraduate students. The

be presented Thursday, Jan. 29, from 12:30 to

McCormick

Center, Forum. All those interested

subjects research are

welcome

to attend. For

additional information, contact Jim Matta, office of research

The Bloomsburg

forensics

70 awards during the

fall

team won

First-Place

Team Award

at

colleges, the

among

12

Huskies returned to campus

included:

Amy Vitacco,

Gephart,

McClanahan, David

Ryan

Andi

Calvert, Jenn

with 24 awards. In November, the team

Stratton,

Amy Griffin,

took the Second-Place Sweepstakes

Butcher,

Mike Schearer and Kimmy

Award

at a

tournament

at

Morgan

and sponsored programs,

at

4129, or Brett Beck, chair of the

institutional review board, at

4477.

Health Sciences Symposium calls for presentations

awards.

Team members

Shepherd College in Shepherdstown,
W.V., in October. Competing

Md. Competing

19 colleges and universities, the

Huskies returned to campus with 16

Highlights of the semester include

winning the

University in Baltimore,

among

semester.

State

Masteller.

Christine

The Health

Sciences

Symposium committee

invites

proposals for presentations on health-related topics.

committee

will select proposals

on the

currency and diversity. Deadline
tion, call

is

Jan. 16. For

4426. The annual symposium

features Steven Blair, author

The

basis of quality,

is

more informa-

April 2 and 3 and

of Fitness After

Fifty.

,

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Calendar
Provost's Lecture Series
Lectures are free

and open

to the public.

Concerts

For more

information, call Academic Support Services at

Concerts are free unless otherwise specified. For

more information,

call

(717) 389-4284.

4199.
Faculty String

Derrick Bell -

Feb.

A

1,

Chamber

Recital

featuring works by Bach,

- Sunday,
Weber and

Arriaga.

Conducted by Ann Stokes and Mark

law professor and well-

Jelinek.

Guest performers Donna Gutknecht,

known

Margaret Abbott and Heidi Karod.

Thursday, Feb. 12.

scholar, Bell left

Harvard

a position at

University to protest

Suzuki Recital - Saturday, March 21,

the school's failure to

2:30 p.m., featuring area Suzuki

hire

and tenure

women

Kenneth

S.

violinists,

Gross Auditorium, Carver Hall.

faculty of color. His
latest

book

is

ing Authority.

Piano Master Class - Sunday, March 22,

Confront-

He

give a workshop,

will

2:30 p.m., with

Derrick Bell

"The

Raymond Cramer, Haas Center

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

Elusive Quest for Racial Justice in America," at

4 p.m., and

a lecture, "Civil Rights: Racism's

Role in America,"

at

7:30 p.m. in Kehr Union,

Ballroom.

Allan Stackhouse

Studio Band with Alumni - Sunday, March 29,
2:30 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Hall.

Art Exhibits
Exhibits are in the

Frank

Friel

- Wednesday, March

Carver Hall, Kenneth

S.

18, 7:30 p.m.,

Gross Auditorium. Co-

author of the book, Breaking the Mob,

Friel

Special Events

Haas

through Friday,

more information,

call

Gallery ofArt. Hours are

9

a.

m.

to

Martin Luther King

His investigative work

Feb. 13, 6 p.m.,

an officer in the

Jr.

Banquet -

Friday,

Kehr Union, Ballroom.

Allan Stackhouse -

A

Bloomsburg alumnus,

Stackhouse will exhibit ceramics from Jan. 12

Philadelphia Police Department resulted in the

Featuring remarks by legal scholar Derek Bell.

through Feb. 12. Reception and gallery

prosecution of more than 60 organized crime

For information, contact the office of social

Thursday, Feb. 12, noon.

members. As director of public

equity at 4528.

Bensalem Township,
cleared an innocent

safety in

Friel's investigative

man wrongly

For

4 p. m.

(717) 389-4646.

has

over 30 years of law enforcement experience.
as

Monday

work

convicted of

murder.

Sankofa Conference - Friday and Saturday,
Feb.

20 and 21, Opening

Session, Friday,

talk,

Computer Graphics by Jan Ruby-Baird Feb. 16 through March 5. Reception and gallery
talk, Tuesday, March 3, noon.

6 p.m.; Concurrent Workshops, Saturday, 9
a.m. to 4 p.m.; Closing Dinner/Dance,

Celebrity Artist Series
Call the Celebrity Artist Series box office at

Saturday, 6 p.m.,

4409

Kehr Union. For information,

contact the Multicultural Center

at

4510.

President's

Willow Run

Company -

tion, call

Friday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m., Mitrani

Haas Center

"Birds" will

9.

Reception, Wednesday, March

Gala - Saturday, March 21,6 p.m..

Julius Caesar performed by Aquila Theatre

Feb. 26, a special

through April
25, noon.

for more information.

Hall,

Bloomsburg University Student Art
Association - Juried exhibition, March 17

for the Arts.

Inn,

Route

1 1

.

For ticket informa-

4128.

Governance

On Thursday,

performance of Aristophanes'

be given for Bloomsburg University

Husky Club Auction information,

students and area schools.

Friday, April 3,

6:30 p.m., Magee's Main Street Inn. For
call

4128.

Bloomsburg University Curriculum Commit(BUCC) - Wednesday, Jan. 21, Feb. 4 and

tee

18,

March 4 (open forum), March

25, April 8

and 22, 3 p.m., McCormick Center, Forum.
Cincinnati

Symphony Orchestra with Nadia

Salerno Sonnenberg - Wednesday, March 25,
8 p.m., Mitrani Hall,

Haas Center

for the Arts.

Theatre

University

Tickets are required. All performances are in

March

Carver Hall, Kenneth

McCormick

S.

Gross Auditorium.

Forum - Wednesday,

18, April 15

Feb.

1 1

and 29, 3 p.m.,

Center, Forum.

"Daughter of the Regiment" performed by
New York City Opera National Company -

An Evening

Tuesday, April 14, 8 p.m., Mitrani Hall, Haas

student-written works, Feb. 19-21,

Feb 12, March 19, April 16 and 30, 3:30 p.m.,

Center for the Arts.

8 p.m.; Feb. 22, 2 p.m.

McCormick

of One Acts -

A reading of

Planning and Budget - Thursday, Jan.
Center, Forum.

15,

Communique
A NEWSLEHER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY

22 JAN 1998

New Student Support
Services program helps
students succeed

SIGNING ON

SERIOUS TALKERS
Harry C. Strine

Bloomsburg has launched

a

new program, Student

Support Services, to help students succeed

Launched during the

university.

spring

the

is

fall

at the

forensics,

semester, this

(left)

and Mike Nailor

of

Danville Area High School,

semester of operation for the

first full

III,

Bloomsburg's director of

prepare to register contestants

in

;

program, which

$180,000

is

funded by a

the 16*^ annual Husky High

federal grant,

School Speech Tournament held

renewable for four years.

on campus Saturday, Jan.

"We're targeted to students

who might be

at risk," says

program director

Prisciila

Dunn. "Tutoring

is

of our services, but
offer counseling,

and advocacy

area high schools competed

a big part

we

also

Agbango

advisement

for students."

As
Dunn

there are eligibility require-

To introduce

the

campus

will be held

to the

published

new program, an

Wednesday, Feb.

4,

from 6 to

9 p.m. in the Lycoming Hall basement, where tutoring
sessions are held.

"We're not able to offer tutoring in every subject,"

Dunn,

says

"so

it's

wonderful that we have a strong

additional source of tutoring in tutorial services."

While

tutorial services uses student tutors.

Support Services'

who

six tutors are

hold advanced degrees

Tutoring
study

is

Student

primarily area teachers

in their subject areas.

offered in communications, reading and

skills,

mathematics, sociology, psychology,

and some accounting courses. In addition to

sciences

the tutors and

Dunn,

has edited a

book

book on African

political science,

titled Issues

and

the program

is

staffed

by

last

year by Peter Lang.

Liberian Experience."

"A growing number of African

and

the

solutions to the

continent's

predicament.

With Africa's
enormous
economic

scholars are reexamining Africa's place in
politics

rise to

simply find

In addition to serving as editor,

are looking for

solutions to the continent's problems.

realization that

occasion and

Agbango wrote two chapters, "Political
Instability and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa" and "The
Crisis of Nation Building: The

world

resources,

George Agbango
it is

capable of reversing the current

To

downward socioeconomic and
trends.

problems does not

excellent

with always

political

This requires good leadership,

these scholars, the solution to Africa's
lie

politics

Africans have to

Trends in Contemporary African Politics

for students to participate.

open house

edits

George Agbango,
Prisciila

ments

in 11

events at the tournament.

funded program,

a federally

17.

More than 250 students from 18

economic planning and

a

blaming the external enemies of Africa

sustained period of political stability,"

and

writes

their local collaborators but in the

Agbango

in the introduction.

program counselor Theresa Bloskey, learning coordinaBrad Ross-MacLeod, and secretary Michele

tor

who

all

work from an

office in the

Frazier,

lobby of Elwell

Hall.

The

grant proposal for the program was written by

Janice Walters, director of tutorial services. "Because

proposals for existing programs are automatically given
points in the application process, getting this grant was
a significant

Each
will

achievement," stresses Dunn.

year,

The planning and budget committee
meeting Jan. 8 included discussion of
actions taken

two participating Bloomsburg students

be nominated for awards given by the

Board of Governors actions
discussed at planning and budget

state

by the

State

System Board

of Governors.

Bloomsburg's out-of-state enrollment
already at

its

organization serving Student Support Services

proposed to allow individual institutions

programs.

to set their

tuition for out-of-state

students at somewhere between 1.5 and

is

cap, out-of-state tuition for

those students

The Board of Governors have

own

2.5 times in-state tuition. Because

would not be reduced

this institution,

at

according to President

Jessica Kozloff

The Board of Governors

has adopted

Continued on page

4.

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Campus notes

News briefs
President Kozloff schedules open office hours

President Jessica Kozloff will hold
Friday, Jan. 30,

from 9 to

occasionally change,

4526

to be sure the

it is

1 1

open

Michael Shepard, geography and
hours

office

a.m. Because schedules

recommended

may

that individuals call

time remains available.

earth science,

is

Linda LeMura, health, physical

co-author of a paper

education and athletics, presented the

published in the December 1997 issue

of the Journal of Geophysical Research

paper "Assessment of Energy Expenditure Using a Triaxial Accelerometer and

-

Planets, titled "Optical Scattering

Self Report in Italian Children" at the

Properties of Terrestrial Varnished

Program board plans bus trips

The

first

Kehr Union program board bus

of the

trip

D.C. The bus
leaves Bloomsburg at 6 a.m. and leaves D.C. at 6 p.m. Cost
is $19 with a spring community activities sticker and $24
for those with only a Bloomsburg ID and guests of those
with IDs. Registration for the trip is at the Kehr Union
semester

is

at

Upcoming trips include: New York City,
Baltimore, March 28; and New York City again,

the Viking Lander Sites."

Wendy

Lee-Lampshire, philosophy,

publication and presentation.
Reflections

on

'Women's

Its

in

honor of James R. Sperry, professor of history, on the

Implications for

its

Phi Alpha Theta Chapter and the history

club have established the James R. Sperry

Award

for

Women
this

summer

publication in the journal Feminist

Her

for

Walls That Are Carried by the House:
IMalntenance/service contract requests due Feb. 27

as

Performance,"

Scholars.

registrar,

session

on "Fingertip Access to Faculty"

Middle

States Association of College

Registrars

and Officers of Admissions

Atlantic City.

tion system.

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and Laura

the recent annual meeting of the

The

faculty informa-

Schnure continues

member of the

Critique of the Poverty of Stimulus

committee

newsletter editor. Youtz was

maintenance and service contract needs for the coming year

Dennettian Alternative," has been

the association's

be submitted to the purchasing office by Feb. 27.

accepted for publication in The Journal

committee.

all

ofMind and Behavior She has also been
invited to be a member of the assessing
editorial sraff

of The Journal ofMind and

Lee-Lampshire

Editor: Eric Foster, ext.

also

co-authored a

Laura

as

named

to

women's

Dow

titled

issues

Cynthia Venn, geography and earth
science, gave a seminar titled "Goose-

El

"Queering

in the Tropical

Nino Conditions"

Onset of

for the Millersville

University biology department in

Ecofeminism: Towards a Lesbian

44 1

completing a term

Pacific: Potential Signal for the

paper with recent English graduate

Communique

after

neck Barnacle Settlement

Behavior.

as a

association's publications

Thesis and a Wittgensteinian-

Joe Quinn, purchasing director, requests that

in

session featured the

Bloomsburg University

"The Foundation

essay,

a paper,

Predicting the

Youtz, assistant registrar, presented a

at

Sound of Little

recognize the outstanding graduating senior history major of

Studies.

System magazine

Ken Schnure,

at

Hummingbirds' Wings: Forms of Life
Forms of Power," has been accepted

and a cash award of $100.

Human

Limits of

Philoso-

Excellence in History. Each spring, the department will

that year with a plaque

had

accepted for publication in the State

the University of Massachusetts in

Boston. Her essay, "The

also

the Interna-

at

Congress of Philosophy

Grant of the College of Arts

Initiatives

"Cirius, Altius, Fortius:

phers conference which opens the World

honor of James Sperry

occasion of his retirement from the university, the history

department,

"Some

Place' in His Psychic Hierar-

tional Association of

Award established

Italy.

project was supported, in part, by a

and Sciences. She

Conception of

Aristotle's

Living Things and

The

Bloomsburg University Research and
Disciplinary Grant and by a Special

has had several articles accepted for

chy" will be presented

April 4.

In

Sport Science Institute in Rome,
Soils

Saturday, Jan. 31, to Washington,

Information Desk.
Feb. 28;

Compared with Rocks and

Basalts

.

December.

Philosophy of Ecology," which has been
Publication date for next issue: Thursday, Feb.
(Publication

is

generally twice a

month during

5.

the

academic year and monthly during the summer.)

phone numbers listed in the Communique are
on-campus extensions. To use the numbers off campus, dial
389 first. The area code is 717.
Please submit story ideas and news items to Eric Foster,
122 Waller Administration Building, or by e-mail at:
fost@bloomu.edu
Bloomsburg can be found on the World Wide Web at:
Four-digit

http://www.bloomu.edu

accepted for presentation
for

Women

conference

in

at the

Society

Philosophy (SWIP) spring

at the

Universiry of

New

SWIP

in Baltimore,

Md.

division executive secretary.

During the past

Mark Noon,

presented a paper titled

Age

is

Upon

Us':

"

'The Great

recital at

Student Responses to

State Universities at

University.

Shippensburg

fall

semester,

by

Bloomsburg, plus extended

voice recitals at

and

Penn

WVIA-FM. The

State University
latter

is

ro be

broadcast in May. Ervene GuUey,
English,

accompanied on piano

all

State System of Higher Education

of

those programs. In December, Miller
traveled to

Ohio

to sing the soptano

members of the
Lima Symphony Orchestra and the

solos in "Messiah" with

A Member of Pennsylvania's

Wendy

Miller, music, gave her annual voice

English, recently

the English Association of Pennsylvania

UNIVERSITY

mathematics and

science, presented a paper,

the Polydisk," at the joint mathematics

meeting

eastern

the Millennium" at a conference held

Bloomsburg
^

Riley,

"Cluster Sets of Analytic Functions on

Hampshire. She has been re-appointed
to a second term as

John

computer

Bluffton College Choral Society.

22

Quest offers summer adventures
Loch Lomond and

Quest, the university's outdoor

landscapes to Fort William at the

summer walking

foot of

tours in Europe, South

Ben Nevis,

mountain. From Fort William, the

more information about the

group

the Quest office at 4466.

Peru - June
(airfare

5 to July

1

1

,

1

00

not included). This trip will

include stops at Cuzco, the ancient
capital

of the Inca Empire, rigorous

hikes through

Machu

mountain

passes,

and

Pichu, an extensive religious

center of the Incas and one of the
world's

most spectacular

ruins.

France - June 16 to 29, cost: $1,500
(airfare

not included). This walking

and

in the valley of the

travel north, scaling

trip

is

who

designed for those

Rhine

moderate

Committee

is

planning lunchtime seminars for the

spring semester. Seminars will be held Thursdays, at

12:30 p.m., in Kehr Union, room 340.

Up Armageddon,

Digging

will

enjoy walking through the spectacular

The TALE (Teaching and Learning Enhancement)

not included). This nine-day

(airfare

Palestine

- William

Archeology in Bronze Age

Baillie, Jan. 22.

high-country of the Colorado

While not on the

Rockies.

participants will have
tions in

Exploring

trail,

accommoda-

bed and breakfast inns

Birthday and Deathday:
- G. Reza Noubary, Feb.

,

$1,500

New Worlds,

Mars, Venus and the

Asteroids - Michael Shepard, Jan. 29.

at

Aspen and Crested Butte.
England - July 20 to Aug. 1 cost:

An Unexpected Connection
5.

not included). This

(airfare

walk across Northern England

tour will begin in the city of

Mulhouse

of Skye

will travel to the Isle

and conclude the visit in Edinburgh.
Colorado - July 20 to 28, cost $995
cost $2,

will

Building a Valid Trainer Competency Model Using

cover some of the island's most

the Analytic Hierarchy Process

beautiful mountains

Feb. 12.

and moorland.

(AHP) -

Karl Kapp,

peaks and passing medieval ruins,

The walk

ending

the Irish Sea and finish at Robin

Factors Influencing Self-Esteem in Middle School

Hood's Bay on the North Sea.

Students - Brett Beck and Eileen Astor-Stetson,

in Strasbourg.

Swiss Alps - July 2 to 16, cost: $1,500
(airfare

not included). Hiking

among

the world's

will begin at St. Bee's

Holland Biking Tour - July

most magnificent

on

(dates to be

announced), cost $1,500

(airfare

Feb. 19.

not

glaciers of the world,

included). This 12-day biking tour

Affirmative Action and the Morality of the

participants will use a country inn as

along the backroads and byways of

- John

mountains and

No

their base.

experience

is

climbing or glacier

necessary, but the hikes

will include steep

and long climbs

on sometimes rocky paths.
Scotland - July 3 to 1 5 cost: $1,500
,

(airfare

not included). This walk

Holland and Germany
for the

weekend

biker.

is

Pendulum

Baird, Feb. 26.

designed

The

trip will

begin and end in Amsterdam, while

Gooseneck Barnacles in the Tropical Pacific:
Messengers of El Nino - Cynthia Venn, March

5.

three strategically located towns in
different parts of

Holland

will

Glimpsing the Abstract: A Graphic Lesson on Writing
the Position Paper - Joseph F. Battaglia, March 19.

be

used to explore the surrounding

through the Highlands of Scotland
will

3

Britain's highest

America and the American West. For
trips, call

COMMUNIQUE

TALE lunchtime
seminars scheduled

cross wild

adventure program, has scheduled

JAN 98

countryside.

begin on the eastern shores of

Crime - Leo

Federal Prosecutions of Environmental

G. Barrile and Neal Slone, March 26.
Variations of the Liar Paradox -William Calhoun,
April 2.

Global Awareness Society plans lecture,
prepares for annual conference in Turkey

Using Problem-Based Learning
S.

Plans for the Global Awareness
Society's

will include:

Seventh International

Ekema Agbaw,

Topic to be announced. - Yixun Shi, April 23.

welfare and criminal justice;

conference will be held in Istanbul,

Piotrowski, professor emeritus

Comprehension of Metaphor

(director of Learning Resource

Harold Ackerman, April 30.

The

May

28 to 31.

society will present a video

and

5, at

7 p.m.

in the

Thaddeus

Kehr

Union, Multicultural Center. Panelists

Second Language -

Center); and James Pomfret,

Refreshments
discussion,

will

which

be provided for the
is

sponsored by the

Multicultural Center and the division

of continuing and distance education.

CORRECTION:

Those wishing

to

submit a paper

Ortman was misidentified as
Louann Laidacker in a photo caption
on page 2 of the Jan. 8 issue of

send an abstract to Pomfret by Feb.

Communique.

conference,

Georgia

in a

mathematics and computer science.

hold a discussion about Turkey

Thursday, Feb.

-

Chang Shub Roh,

professor emeritus of sociology, social

Conference are underway. The

Turkey

in a Literature Class

April 16.

be presented

at the

to

conference should
1.

For more information about the
call

the Global Awareness

Society office at 4292.

Father McNeil on sabbatical leave

Father Larry McNeil, Catholic
recently was

awarded

semester to study at
his absence,

St.

Ministries,

Vincent College in Latrobe. During

continue to

McGowan. McNeil

Campus

a sabbatical leave for the spring

refer students to Sister

will return to

campus

this

Anita

summer.

,

COMMUNIQUE 22 JAN 98

4

Calendar
Lectures are free

and open

to the public.

Films

Concerts

Provost's Lecture Series
For more

Concerts are free unless otherwise specified. For

more information,

information, call Academic Support Services at

call

(717) 389-4284.

In

Faculty String

A law

Derrick Bell - Thursday, Feb. 12.

Feb.

professor and well-known scholar, Bell will give
a

workshop, "The Elusive Quest for Racial

Justice in America," at 4 p.m.,

and

Chamber

Jan. 25,

7 p.m., Haas

- Sunday,

Recital

Weber and

featuring works by Bach,

1,

Conducted by Ann Stokes and Mark

p.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall;

Jelinek.

Guest performers Donna Gutknecht,

Friday, Jan. 30,

Margaret Abbott and Heidi Karod.

a lecture,

Friel

Carver Hall, Kenneth

Special Events

Gross Auditorium. Co-

S.

Friel

1,

7 p.m., Kehr Union,

I Know What You Did Last Summer Wednesday and Friday, Feb. 4 and 6, 7 and 9:30

18, 7:30 p.m.,

author of the book. Breaking the Mob,

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

Ballroom; Sunday, Feb.
Ballroom.

7:30 p.m. in Kehr Union, Ballroom.

- Wednesday, March

Kiss the Girls - Wednesday, Jan. 28, 7 and 9:30

Arriaga.

"Civil Rights: Racism's Role in America," at

Frank

and Out - Sunday,

Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

4199.

has

Martin Luther King
Feb. 13, 6 p.m.,

Jr.

Banquet -

Friday,

Kehr Union, Ballroom.

Sunday, Feb.

Featuring remarks by legal scholar Derek

over 30 years of law enforcement experience.

p.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall;
8,

7 p.m., Kehr Union, Ballroom.

Bell.

For information, contact the office of social
equity at 4528.

Art Exhibits

Sankofa Conference - Friday and Saturday,

Monday

Haas Gallery ofArt. Hours
9 a. m. to 4 p. m. For
more information, call (717) 389-4646.

Exhibits are in the

Celebrity Artist Series
4409

Call the Celebrity Artist Series box office at

Feb.

20 and 21, Opening Session,

Friday,

6 p.m.; Concurrent Workshops, Saturday, 9

for more information.

Allan Stackhouse -

a.m. to 4 p.m.; Closing Dinner/Dance,
Julius Caesar, performed

Company Hall,

Saturday, 6 p.m.,

by Aquila Theatre

for the Arts.

at

4510.

On Thursday,

Bloomsburg University

A

Feb. 4 and

5,11 a.m.

to 5 p.m.,
call

Kehr Union,
4196.

Tickets are required. All performances are in

1.

all

smooth

transition of

transfer students,

particularly those with associates degrees

community

colleges, according to

from

Wilson

institutional research

student-written works, Feb. 19-21,

While the

announced that the

on the workings of the formula.

subcommittee, reported that the search

reading of

8 p.m.; Feb. 22, 2 p.m.

14-day enrollment report

yield rate for applicants for

34%.

open discussion. President

Jessica

for the renovation of Centennial

to be

modeled

after the

committee

proposed Student Services Center. The

steering

committee

will be chaired

by

Wilson Bradshaw.

administrative services will interview six

is

Governance

and 22, 3 p.m., McCormick Center, Forum.

new

candidates and should have finalists selected in

George Agbango, chair of the space and

Acts -

Kozloff said that she would like the steering

In the

for the

of budget and

Don Hock

One

committee

fall is

Gymnasium

Robert Obutelewicz, chair of the budget

end of February.

of

Bloomsburg University Curriculum
Committee (BUCC) - Wednesday, Feb. 4 and
18, March 4 (open forum), March 25, April 8

next

System funding formula, pending a future

retiring at the

official

and information manage-

February. Current budget director

newly-purchased

not ready, admissions director Chris Keller

is

for the director

A

An Evening

renovation concept, as well as the university's

director of planning,

tabled action on the full implementation of the

committee

Gross Auditorium.

Mitchell property.

ment, reported that the Board of Governors

presentation

S.

subcommittee, reported that the

subcommittee has endorsed the Centennial

affairs.

Hugh McFadden,

State

facilities

efforts in rezoning the

Bradshaw, provost and vice president for

academic

talk,

Computer Graphics by Jan Ruby-Baird Feb. 16 through March 5. Reception and gallery
talk, Tuesday, March 3, noon.

Carver Hall, Kenneth

transfer credits for

ceramics from Jan. 12

through Feb. 12. Reception and gallery

Theater

Planning and budget
a resolution to facilitate the

Bloomsburg alumnus,

will exhibit

Bloodmobile Visit - Wednesday and Thursday,
Ballroom. For information,

students and area schools.

Continued from page

Stackhouse

Thursday, Feb. 12, noon.

Feb. 26, a special performance of Aristophanes'

"Birds" will be given for

Kehr Union. For information,

contact the Multicultural Center

Friday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m., Mitrani

Haas Center

are

through Friday,

An

University

March

Forum - Wednesday,

18, April 15

McCormick

Feb.

1 1

and 29, 3 p.m.,

Center, Forum.

additional planning and budget meeting

has been added to the calendar for Friday, April
17, at 3:30 p.m. in

Human

Services,

McCormick Center

Forum.

for

Planning and Budget - Thursday, Feb 12,

March

19, April 16

17, 3:30 p.m.,

and 30, and

McCormick

Friday, April

Center, Forum.

Coimnunique
A NEWSLEHER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY

Derrick Bell to
speak Feb. 12 on
race and the law

5 FEB 1998

Distance education facility goes
online to teach in Harrisburg
Students are taking a Bloomsburg University
graduate course this spring

Bloomsburg Univer-

Bell will speak at

Thursday, Feb. 12,

sity

as part

Bell will give a

Quest

America,"

However, the course

Mary

instructor,

Harris,

curriculum and foundations, doesn't have to

commute; the

workshop, "The

university's

for Racial Justice in

while Harris

p.m. and a

class

new

conferencing

4

at

System

Harrisburg.

of the

university's Provost's Lecture Series.

Elusive

at the State

of Higher Education's Dixon Center in

Legal scholar and author Derrick

is

taught from the

distance education video

facility in the
is

Magee

Center.

teaching "Studies in

And

Human

lecture, "Civil

Diversity" for the Harrisburg students, a dozen

Rights: Racism's

students will be taking the course with her in

Role In

Bloomsburg.

America,"

Installed in

7:30

at

p.m. in the Kehr

facility

Union, Ballroom.

State

Both

Derrick Bell

public.

After an early career as a
lawryer for the U.S. Justice

became the

faculty

has also been used for meetings with

System personnel

Equipment includes

talks are

open to the

Bell

December, the conferencing

member

first

at

civil rights

Department,

at

Harvard Law School.

administrative group

who used

director at Central

cameras. There will also be an integrated media

conferencing center. Huber notes that at

station

which

will display materials at the

Magee Center

as well as

transmit the informa-

cost

The

project's total

was more than $50,000, with $17,000

One

Columbia, which has

used to provide a local student with a course in
Japanese taught in the northern part of the
state.

"Distance education

The

conferencing consortium funded by

also expand. Plans are

Pennsylvania's Link to Learn Initiative.

another center

law school

And We Are Not

"Though

Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial

and Faces at the Bottom of the
The Permanence of Racism, have

Justice
Well:

used allegorical fiction to illustrate the
intersection of law

In 1990, Bell

and

achieve

among

more

racial

and gender

,

is

is

now

we

Pennsylvania Education.

The
on

New

at Bloomsburg's Martin Luther
King Banquet, speaking on "Survival in

is

banquet; for more

video conferencing center

Wayne Mohr,
services,

director of TV/ radio

and the distance education

advisory committee, chaired by Jim

Huber, sociology,

and criminal

social welfare

justice.

"Distance education

is

not

going to go away," says Huber,
is

who

familiar with distance education

though his work

as a

school

Harris

in the

Center for Agile

(left),

is

curriculum and

using the video

conferencing equipment to teach
students

the result of work by several

individuals and groups, including

an Alien Land Called Home." Tickets

4528.

make this center
community groups and

Mary

speak

call

will also

foundations,

Friday, Feb. 13, Bell will also

information

received through the university's

membership

education.

a reflection

to create

Center. Partial funding will be

dean of continuing and distance

a visiting professor at

are required for the

underway

Forum of McCormick

diversity

York University Law School.

On

in the

failure to

the risks and rewards of such protests.

He

to extend the

going to expand."

reach of our educational offerings,

the faculty. His latest book.

Confronting Authority

is

is

university's video conferencing tools will

businesses," says Michael Vavrek,

position at

Harvard to protest the school's

the primary purpose

of the equipment

available to

race.

left his

Pennsylvania, a video-

a video

Central Columbia, video conferencing has been

Law has become

a standard

new video

lighting, three video

provided by

Subsequent books.

the

and computer

among an

monitors, two cameras and a control pad for the

His book Race, Racism and American

text.

(left)

conferencing equipment.

tion to off-campus locations.

black tenured

Dixon Center.

the

Purchasing director Joseph Quinn

services director Glenn Bieber were

in

Harrisburg and

Bloomsburg simultaneously. The
system incorporates two large
monitors (below).

COMMUNIQUE

2

FEB 98

5

Bloomsburg adds
$76 million to Columbia
County economy

Campus notes
Nancy Gentile
presented a paper

According to an independent study performed
the State System of Higher Education,

University infuses

more than $183

into Pennsylvania's

education and office information

and War Issues:
and Citizenship, in
Her paper was titled

systems, recently had an article titled

Gender, Race, Identity,

"The Univetsity

San Antonio, Texas.

Student Teaching" published in the

"The Old Country School: Gender,

of

in excess

$76 million in Columbia County alone. Tripp,
Umbach and Associates Inc. of Pittsburgh released

Identity

Immigrant

its

Women

System's Board of Governors.

war Europe." The paper

state's

System combined add $2.2

economy, including one

universities

international

billion in direct

spending by the schools, their faculty and

staff,

students and visitors.

Employment, both

direct

and

indirect, as a result

of

1919

John
Post-

focused on the

attempt to spread pre-war American
social welfare

billion to the

university's faculty, staff

impact on the county and

state.

from the 1995-96 academic

Investment Advisory Industry: Metropolitan Philadelphia, 1983-1993,"

community. David

which appears

Among
and

The

survey used data

pp. 112-126.

as the

Mark
written an article, "Tracking the First

Scouting Manual" in the January 1998
issue

of Biblio.

and students accounted

for another

stores, restaurants

and

In addition to the university's

966 employees, the

survey showed that another 1,875 jobs in Columbia

County were

attributable to the university.

also included

time spent by faculty,

volunteering in the county.

staff

R. Jelinek and John Couch,

and students

The 528,700 hours

will

Williamspott

Pilot

Programs

at a

Public

perform their selection with the

Symphony on an upcom-

ing concert.

Univetsity and a Private College" with

David Arnold, provost,

College, at the 20th

St. John Fisher
Annual National

on the Teaching of Psychology

Institute

in St. Petersburg Beach, Fla.

reported equals 66,088 eight-hour days of volunteer

day

institute also featured

and charitable

and

lectures

activities.

Orchestra. There was one

winner and two runners-up; the winner

Comparison of Cluster Learning

J.

The study

at

Young Artists Competition at
Clarke Chapel, Lycoming College. The
the 25th

psychology, recently presented "A

Community

for lodging.

Feb. 1998:

music, recently served as adjudicators

Symphony

$39.2 million.

1,

event was sponsored by the Williamspott

Connie Schick and Brett Beck,

an estimated $21.7 million off-campus

Visitors, including parents, spent $4.3 million in local

The Professional

Department of State, acted
commentator

the findings were that university faculty

staff spent

in

Geographer, vol. 50, No.

Steven D. Hales, philosophy, has

year.

"The

Suburbanization of the Institutional

Pattetson, historian for the U.S.

and

students were also factors used to determine the overall

Bodenman, geography and

E.

earth science, has written a papet,

philosophy to the post-war

the existence of a university in a community, taxation

and involvement of the

View of

Business Education Forum.

in International

Social Welfare Engineering in

Bloomsburg and the other 13 member

Supervisor's

and the YWCA's Training of

findings at January's quarterly meeting of the State

in the State

Janice Keil and John Olivo, business

the Peace History

Society Conference, Peace

for

Bloomsburg

million annually

economy, including

Ford, history,
at

The

four-

workshops

by nationally known

The

research article "Energy Cost of

Rifle Catriage in Biathlon Skiing, co-

authored by Kenneth Rundell, senior
sport physiologist at the

Olympic

Training Center in Lake Placid, N.Y.,

and Leon Szmedra,

exercise science, has

psychologists on techniques and

been accepted for publication by the

materials for use in the college

journal Medicine

classroom.

and Exercise.

and Science

in Sports

Communique
Editor: Eric Foster, ext.

4412

Publication date for next issue: Thursday, Feb. 19.
(Publication

is

generally twice a

month during

Matli department schedules talks

the

academic year and monthly during the summer.)
Four-digit

phone numbers

listed in the

Communique

on-campus extensions. To use the numbers off campus,

389

first.

The

area code

is

717.

Please submit story ideas

and news items

The department of mathematics and

are

dial

computer science
talks

to Eric Foster,

122 Waller Administration Building, or by e-mail

at:

Web

at:

series

of

The

held Tuesday afternoons from 3:30

Human
open

http://www.bloomu.edu

holding a

during the spring semester.

to 5 p.m. in

fost@bloomu.edu

Bloomsburg can be found on the World Wide

talks,

is

McCormick Center for
Forum (3"' floor), are

Services,

Computers Take Musical Dictation March 17, E. Dennis Huthnance,
mathematics and computer

Game 24 - March

mathematics and computet

and computet
Josephus and the Amazing Technicolor

Bloomsbun
UNIVERSITY

Doug

Ensley,

mathematics and computer science,

*

Shippensburg University.

A

Local Case Study of Media Gratifica-

Why

People Read the

A Member of Pennsylvania's

tions:

State System of Higher Education

Newspaper -

science.

Simpson's Paradox in Sports - March
31, G. Reza Noubary, mathematics

to the public. Talks include:

Fixed Points - Feb. 17,

science.

24, Yixun Shi,

Feb. 24, Richard

Ganahl, mass communications.

Title to be

science.

announced -

April 7,

W.

Steven Smith, finance and business
law.

Mathematics and Sports - Aptil 28,
mathematics and computet science
students.

5

Barbara McCaffrey named
January's Employee of the Month
Union

the supervisory roundtable.

McCaffrey
Jan. 30, after

to

retired Friday,

more than 26

The

university.

in the

during day
led a

Barbara McCaffrey

rooms and conference rooms

knew what
I

had

for various

a friendly

Her husband,

Before working in the Kehr Union,

McCaffrey was assigned to work

Though

in

Hartline Science Center, and, because

it

wasn't yet built, the Student Recreation

Center. "I

worked

president's

house under Dr. Mc-

will

Columbia/Montour

Home

office

general scholarships at

music and

Bloomsburg

University, will be held Saturday,

Route

1 1

The

Messimer,

7 p.m., accompanied by music of the
Orchestra.

The

salad, pasta

stir-fry selections

carving station of smoked salmon

and a

years of teaching and

filet,

retirement this May.

beef tenderloin and smoked turkey
breast.

A

full

cash bar will be available

through the evening. From 8 to 10 p.m.,

meeting Jan. 21, the Bloomsburg University

(BUCC) approved

new

by Stephen

The newly approved

Wallace, will

health science, "Neotropic Biology," and geography and earth

provide dance

science,

music. Wallace

ment changes

be honored

option

BUCC

"Aqueous Geochemistry."

11,

to the

several

courses.

courses include: biological and allied

approved require-

geography and earth science department's

"Emphasis on Urban and Regional Planning" and

with a toast in

granted diversity approval to an honors seminar, "Understand-

recognition of

ing Diversity," taught by

28 years

There was a

as

first

Mary

Harris.

reading of the integrity in research and a

Studio Band

modification in the graduate studies candidacy policies. There

conductor, 31

was

also discussion

of the academic integrity

policy.

upcoming

Tickets for the event are $75 per
person. For

its

curriculum committee

his

Stephen Wallace

buffet meal will include

and

Robert

Band, directed

will

at

At

Studio

nthe

Bloomsburg University Chamber

special education. Pool: Jean Berry, nursing;

BUCC approves new courses

Don

of '70. Dinner begins

class

information systems; Stephen Markell, management;

foundations.

gala begins at 6 p.m. with a

hour and piano music by

business education/office

Campbell, nursing; Mary Alice Wheeler, curriculum and

Berwick.

,

Ellis,

Coordinator: Vishakha Rawool, communication disorders

Willow Run Inn and Golf Course,

21, at

social

March

Winona Cochran,

College of Professional Studies

program.

President's Spring Gala, a fiind-

mathematics and computer

political science;

Richard McClellan, accounting.

Health

President's Spring Gala
to raise scholarship funds
The

George Agbango,

James Parsons, biological and

Shi,

information systems. Pool: Janice Keil, business education/

and

raising event to benefit

executive board has

College of Business

Visiting Nurses Association's hospice

for six years at the

art;

Yixun

Coordinator: Roger

McCaffrey

be busy as a volunteer for the

still

first-

psychology.

22

after

Strohman

allied health sciences;

science;

Francis

she's retired,

and the

Coordinator: Peter Stine, physics. Pool: Jeanette Keith,

years of service.

building but the Nelson Field House,

campus with

five speakers

The Bloomsburg Universiry/APSCUF

history; Barbara

luncheon

Bloomsburg's custodial services

in every

states participated in

College of Arts and Sciences

McCaffrey, retired in June 1993 from

events.

place

approved the following academic grievance board members:

time of her retirement, McCaffrey was

January.

from four

universities

first

Falls Jan. 24.

Academic grievance board members named

bunch

longest serving

a covered dish

Beaver

to expect,"

in custodial services at the

honored with

up the Ballroom, Multipurpose

setting

in

place sweepstakes award.

The

also responsible for

is

and

Fifteen colleges

Team won

University Forensic

Geneva College

the competition. Bloomsburg's team returned to

of people to work with."

employee

at

every day was different, you

custodians in maintaining the

appearance of the union. In addition to

tournament

16 awards, including four of the top

knew

McCaffrey

team

because of the

in

"Every day was an

says McCaffrey. "I always

team of four other

cleaning, the

in a

interesting day, because

never

lead custodial

Kehr Union

shift,

work

variety.

years of service at the

worker

The Bloomsburg

building

as the best

3

Bloomsburg University Forensic Team wins first place

She describes Kehr

Employee of the Month by

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Barbara McCaffrey has

been named January's

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at

call

the

New library catalog system Implemented
The Andruss Library is joining with
ties in

Voyager, a

4128.

the other 13 universi-

the State System of Higher Education in implementing

new

integrated library system.

replace our current

PALS system

The new system

will

over the course of the spring

semester.

14-day enrollment consistent with last spring

Bibliographic data in

PALS was

transferred to the Voyager

system recently and the Voyager catalog

Bloomsburg's spring 14-day
enrollment

is

6,356

FTE

(full-time

equivalency), including full-

and

part-

time graduate and undergraduate
students.

That

last spring's

students,

figure

FTE

is

consistent with

enrollment of 6,361

and an increase over spring

1996 enrollment of 6,049 FTE.

While undergraduate FTE enrollment was down very slightly from 6,088
last

spring to 6,074 this spring, graduate

enrollment increased

272

last

slightly,

spring to 281

graduate and graduate
in the spring of

262

respectively.

can be seen on the World

going from

enrollment

1996 were 5,787 and

is

now

operational.

It

at:

http://voyager.ship.edu/bloomu/ or from the "Andruss
Library Catalog" icon on our

Web

page

at:

http://www.bloomu.edu/library/

FTE. Under-

FTE

Wide Web

The PALS system

will

remain

in service until the

semester, but technical functions will gradually be

the
will

new Voyager

system.

New

books cataloged

only be found in the Voyager system.

end of the

moved

after

to

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Provost's Lecture Series
Lectures are free

and open

to the public.

Concerts

For more

information, call Academic Support Services at

Films

Concerts are free unless otherwise specified. For

more information,

call

(717) 389-4284.

I

4199.

Derrick Bell - Thursday, Feb.

1

2.

A law

professor and well-known scholar, Bell will give
a

Know What You Did

Suzuki Recital - Saturday, March 21,

Arts, Mitrani Hall;

2:30 p.m., featuring area Suzuki

Union, Ballroom.

Kenneth

S.

violinists,

and a

lecture,

Summer -

Sunday

Friday,

for the

Feb. 8, 7 p.m.,

Kehr

Gross Auditorium, Carver Hall.

workshop, "The Elusive Quest for Racial

Justice in America," at 4 p.m.,

Last

and 9:30 p.m., Haas Center

Feb. 6, 7

Piano Master Class - Sunday, March 22,

Raymond Cramer, Haas Center

"Civil Rights: Racism's Role in America," at

2:30 p.m., with

7:30 p.m. in Kehr Union, Ballroom.

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

The

Jackal -

and

13, 7

Wednesday and

Friday, Feb.

1

and 9:30 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 15, 7
p.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.
Soul Food - Wednesday and Thursday, Feb.

Frank

Friel

- Wednesday, March

Carver Hail, Kenneth

S.

and

18, 7:30 p.m.,

Gross Auditorium. Co-

author of the book, Breaking the Mob,

has

Friel

7 p.m., Kehr Union, Ballroom.

Special Events

The

over 30 years of law enforcement experience.

Martin Luther King
Feb. 13, 6 p.m.,

Celebrity Artist Series
Call the Celebrity Artist Series box

office at

Jr.

Banquet -

Devil's

Advocate - Wednesday and

Feb. 25 and 27, 7

Friday,

Kehr Union, Ballroom.

March

1,

7 p.m., Kehr Union, Ballroom.

4409

For information, contact the office of social

Flubber -

equity at 4528.

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

Monday and Tuesday, March

Wednesday, March

Company Hall,

performed by Aquila Theatre

Friday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m., Mitrani

Haas Center

for the Arts.

On Thursday,

Feb. 26, a special performance of Aristophanes'

"Birds" will be given for

Bloomsburg University

students and area schools.

Sankofa Conference - Friday and Saturday,
Feb.

20 and 21, Opening Session,

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Closing Dinner/Dance,

Art Exhibits
Exhibits are in the

Gala - Saturday, March 21, 6 p.m..

Willow Run Inn and Golf Course, Route
For ticket information,

p.m., in

call

Haas

through Friday,

more information,

call

Gallery ofArt. Hours are

9 a. m.

to

4 p. m.

For

(717) 389-4646.

1 1

Allan Stackhouse -

4128.

An Unexpected
5,

7 and 9:30 p.m., Haas

4,

Friday,

Saturday, 6 p.m., Kehr Union. For information,

President's

Connection - G. Reza Noubary, Feb.

A

Bloomsburg alumnus,

Stackhouse will exhibit ceramics through
12:30

Kehr Union, room 340.

Husky Club Auction -

Feb. 12. Reception

Friday, April 3,

6:30 p.m., Magee's Main Street Inn. For
information,

call

Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Karl Kapp, Feb. 12, 12:30 p.m., Kehr Union,
room 340.

and

gallery talk, Thursday,

Feb. 12, noon.

4128.

Computer Graphics by Jan Ruby-Baird Feb. 16 through March 5. Reception and gallery
talk, Tuesday, March 3, noon.

Building a Valid Trainer Competency Model

Governance

Bloomsburg University Student Art
Factors Influencing Self-Esteem in Middle

School Students - Brett Beck and Eileen
Astor-Stetson, Feb. 19, 12:30 p.m.,

Kehr

Union, room 340.

Bloomsburg University Curriculum
Committee (BUCC) - Wednesday Feb.

March 4 (open forum), March

University

Pendulum - John Baird,
Kehr Union, room 340.

March

Feb. 26, 12:30 p.m.,

18,

25, April 8

in the Tropical Pacific:

12:30 p.m., Kehr Union,

Forum - Wednesday,

18, April 15

McCormick

Messengers of El Nino - Cynthia Venn, March
5,

Association - Juried exhibition, March 17

through April

9.

Reception, Wednesday,

March 25, noon.

and 22, 3 p.m., McCormick Center, Forum.

Affirmative Action and the Morality of the

Gooseneck Barnacles

room 340.

3,

6 p.m.; Concurrent Workshops, Saturday,

contact the Multicultural Center at 4510.

Lectures

2 and

Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

Monday

Birthday and Deathday:

Friday,

and 9:30 p.m.; Sunday,

Featuring remarks by legal scholar Derrick Bell.

for more information.

Julius Caesar,

1

7 and 9:30 p.m.; Sunday Feb. 22,

19,

Feb.

1 1

and 29, 3 p.m.,

Center, Forum.

Theater
Tickets are required. All performances are in

Carver Hall, Kenneth

S.

Gross Auditorium.

A

Planning and Budget - Thursday, Feb 12,

An Evening

March

student-written works, Feb. 19-21,

19, April 16 and 30, and Friday, April

17, 3:30 p.m.,

McCormick

Center, Forum.

of One Acts -

8 p.m.; Feb. 22, 2 p.m.

reading of

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A NEWSLEHER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY

19 FEB 1998

Foundation raises
record $1.8 miiiion
Planned

gifts

by rwo former teachers helped the

Bloomsburg University Foundation
in gifts, in-kind

raise a record

$1.8 million

donations and royalties in 1997, according to

development director Susan Helwig.

The

largest gift

of 1997 was the bequest of $485,000 from

Adaline Burgess '21 of Wyoming, Pa. Burgess was a teacher at

White Haven Normal School and

the

principal of that school.

the estate of Karleen

Elemen-

at Trucksville

Kingston Township and

tary School in

later served as the

Another $105,000 was received from

Hoffman

'30 of San Diego, Calif. This

was the second installment of a $422,000 bequest made in
1996. Hoffman taught in Bloomsburg, Bradford, and
Montandon before teaching special education for 22 years

in

Newark, N.J. Both gifts will support student scholarships.
"The development office did an extraordinary job considering

vice president for university

Anthony M.

advancement and executive

known

college

and graduated

many

students

who had

they

made modest

gifts

from

their income.

as a teacher's

wonderful

careers as teachers," says Helwig. "Loyal to their

alma mater,

Through

at

Bloomsburg University."
gifts last year,

donors. Alumni, with a participation rate of

of the funds
gifts

raised.

The

average gift

18%, contributed
from alumni was $72

the Legacy Society, the recognition club for those
provisions for the future of

through planned and deferred

who

have

Bloomsburg University

Humanitarian awards are presented

annually to individuals

who have

further racial justice.

Shown from

their

staff (active

gifts that

and

retired)

$45,096 and

private foundations $36,500.

Organizations like the
special events,

behalf of former Bloomsburg
current council

John Mulka

member

(faculty award),

are;

as the President's

J.

mayor and

Daniel

Bauman;

dean of academic

support services; Joan Mosier (community

Wayne Whitaker (staff award),
was

assistant
Bell,

who

the banquet's featured speaker. Bell,

who

director of admissions;

1

and Derrick

2 as part of the Provost's

upon

his

Survival in

book Gospel Choirs: Psalms of

at)

Alien

Land Called Home and

accompanied by Bloomsburg's Gospel

Associa-

Choir.

During the evening, president Jessica Kozloff

honored choir director

Community Government

such

left

Lecture Series, delivered an address based

employee contributions. Parents contributed

$64,789, faculty and

strived to

Bloomsburg mayor Mary Lenzini-Howe, who

also spoke Feb.

gifts.

contributed $72,382 plus an additional $135,451 in

and

Jr.

13.

award); Julius Armstrong (student award),

Friends of the university contributed $271,744. Businesses

tion

King

members of

Other 1997 development highlights:

matched

Banquet Feb.

of $1,000 or more were received.

Twenty-five alumni and friends become charter

made

The Martin Luther

Jr.

the

majority of the funds were received from the university's 7,822

55%

Annual Martin Luther

at Bloonfisburg's Fifth

King

accepted a distinquished service award on

While there were a number of large

and 128

Five individuals were presented with awards

financial

planning, these same teachers are able to create legacies of their

own

Banquet

Jr.

laniero,

director of the Foundation. "We're looking forward to 1998."

"For years, Bloomsburg University was

King

Lutlier

of the projects we're working on, especially the

all

conclusion of the library campaign," says

Five honored at Martin

leaving her post after

Amy

Freeman, who

seven years of

is

service.

Gala and golf

outings, brought $96,871 to Bloomsburg's fundraising efforts.

Half of the monies received supported current operations

equipment purchases and employee developwas directed to build the university's endowment,

(scholarships,

39%
1% fulfilled

ment),

and

1

pledges to the library campaign.

Amy Freeman

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Campus notes
Bloomsburg University Crime Report
Prepared by University Police for
Steven L. Cohen, psychology, has

January 1998

Reported

Offenses

made

Arrests

to or

or

tion studies

and theatre

tum: The Effects of the Temporal

paper

"The

Separation of Rates of Reinforcement,"

promptu Speech Contest" which appears

which appears

Incidents Cleared by

by University Police

Other Means

Timothy Rumbough, communica-

Momen-

written a paper, "Behavioral

in the

January issue of the

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of
Behavior.

The paper was

also selected

the journal to be featured in

its

by

entirety

Simple Assault

1

Larceny Totals

8

at

Theft from buildings

5

behavior/jeab/jeabhome.htm" and then

Theft from vehicles

3

choosing "selected reprints."

Arson

on the

internet.

The paper may be found

"www.envmed.rochester.edu/wwwrap/

in the Speech

Communication

Winter 1997,

vol. 12, no. 2.

web

has also designed a

Teacher,

Rumbough

site for

the

Speech Communication Association of
Pennsylvania that

available at http://

is

vesta.bloomu.edu/-scap/.

exercise science,

has written a paper titled "Comparison

8

Laws

Liquor

authored a

arts,

'Um...Uh...' Im-

Swapan Mookerjee,

1

Vandalism

titled

Reza Noubary and Yixun Shi,

of Strength Differences and Joint Action

1

mathematics and computer science, have

Durations Between Full and

Drunkenness

3

recently coauthored a paper, "Difference

Range-of-Motion Bench Press Exercise"

Disorderly Conduct

3

Equation Models for Estimating Athletic

accepted for publication in the Journal of

Records," which has been accepted for

Strength

publication in the Journal of Computa-

Coauthor

tional and Applied Mathematics. Shi has

graduated with a master's degree

This report reflects only those incidents
university property.

It

vi/hich

occur on

does not include incidents

in

the

Town

of

Bloomsburg.

also

been asked to deliver a one-hour

invited lecture at the Seventh International

SAFETY

TIP: There

were eight

thefts

with a total value of $3,043 stolen.

on campus

in

January,

Remember: Never leave your

car unlocked. Secure items of value

in

your

office

and

classrooms when possible. Never put anything of value

Colloquium on Numerical

Analysis and

Applications, which

August
in

a

gym

locker.

Computer Science with

in Bidgaria.

is

to be held in

The

title

of the

lecture will be "Globalization Procedures
for

and Conditioning Research.
Nicholas Ratamess,

is

997.

The

who
in

from Bloomsburg

exercise science
1

Partial

in

study was partially funded by

the office of graduate studies and
research and the

Mookerjee has

Alumni Foundation.

also

been appointed to

the editorial board of the Journal of
Strength

and Covditioning Research.

Nonlinear Systems, Unconstrained

Wayne

Optimization Problems, and Complex

P.

Uncommon
Samuel

B. Slike,

communication

disorders and special education, recently

served as a

Anderson, chemistry, has

"Common Versus

written an article,

Equations."

site

evaluator for the National

Oxidation Numbers of

Nonmetals" that appears

in the

February

of the Journal of Chemical

issue

Education.

Council on Education of the Deaf. His

Editor: Eric Foster, ext.

Karl

team reviewed the education of the deaf/

Communique

hard of hearing program

at

Flagler

College, St. Augustine, Fla.

4412

March

month during

Christopher Bracikowski, physics,

5.

instructional

"Forging Corporate and Academic Ties
at

Publication date for next issue: Thursday,

M. Kapp,

technology, presented a session on

Bloomsburg University"
and

Work

tive

that Produce Torques," published in the

held in Reno, Nev.

Four-digit phone numbers listed in the Communique are
on-campus extensions. To use the numbers off campus, dial

January issue of The Physics Teacher.

389

first.

The

is

generally twice a

area code

is

the

23rd

Experience Educators

has written an article, "Feeling Forces

academic year and monthly during the summer.)

(Publication

at the

Annual Western Association of Coopera-

717.

Please submit story ideas

and news items

to Eric Foster,

122 Waller Administration Building, or by e-mail

at:

fost@bloomu.edu

Bloomsburg can be found on the World Wide

Web

at:

Janet Ruby-Baird

http://www.bloomu.edu

images
5.

Bloomsbun
UNIVERSITY

*

She

at the
will

will exhibit

Haas

have a

Tuesday March

computer graphic

Gallery of Art through March

gallery talk

3, at

and reception on

noon. While

has been the focus of her work
years, Ruby-Baird

mediums

like

and colored

A Member of Pennsylvania's

paints

State System of Higher Education

background
her works.

is

began making

printmaking,
pencils.

evident

in

oil

digital

imagery

for the past four
art in traditional

and watercolor

Her

traditional art

the painterly quality of

19

Alumna Eda Bessie Edwards dies
Well-known
alumna Eda

a 55th

and

Bessie

Mary

a sister,

Millville Health

Friday, Feb. 13, at

Raymond

A brother,

lived in

40

Kane, and CoatsviUe. She taught

home

stricken at her

Kane and

Drive.

A

Eda Bessie Edwards

of the ftjrmer Bloomsburg State Teachers
College,

Edwards

also

took graduate

courses at Penn State University.

May

1919,

1,

in

daughter of the

Born

Andrew and Bertha

Bloomsburg

1839

years
Past,

A

State College spanning the

1979

to

titled Profile

Living Legacy, which was

in

1989 on the occasion of the 150th
She

is

member

whom

BUCC approves Integrity in research
At

its

meeting Feb.

for the School of

member and

five

of

policy

Bloomsburg University curricu-

4, the

the

new

"Integrity in

Graduate Studies.

Hock, Polonsky retiring after three decades of service

past

president of the Bloomsburg Ivy Club.

Thomas

is

in

Don Hock,

director of budget

and administrative

services,

and Aaron Polonsky, acquisitions and collections development

Wesley

at

Salsgiver, officiating. Burial

she celebrated

The

Sisterhood,

United Methodist Church, Bloomsburg,

Dr. C. Stuart Edwards, a native of

Edwardsville, with

PEO

Montreal, Canada.

Research" policy and modifications in candidacy requirements

American Association of University
the

in

lum committee (BUCC) approved

member of the

with her pastor, the Rev. Dr.

survived by her husband.

won

recently

of the

a past president

Funeral services were

anniversary of the college.

Team

place at the Collegiate Forensic Assciation's IS* annual

first

Huskies returned to campus with 32 awards, including

United Methodist Women's Group. At

Lewisburg; and a

published in 1982. She wrote an update

Canada

the top six speakers and the first-place sweepstakes award.

Women;

of the

In

University Forensic

United Methodist Church, Bloomsburg,

church. She was also a

of

team wins first place

The Bloomsburg

Winter Weekend Tournament

of the administrative council of the

1937.

that individuals

campus of Bloomsburg State College.
Edwards was a member of Wesley

Muncy High School

in

Forensic
at

Ben Franklin School on the

the time of her death, she was a

a history

recommended

it is

to be sure the time remains available.

Ridgway,

in the

Smith Beilhartz and graduated from

Edwards wrote

occasionally change,

4526

call

taught for two years during the 1960s

where she was

Muncy, she was the

late

Thursday, Feb. 26, from 10 a.m. to noon. Because schedules

may

Coatsville schools. She last

the former

1941 graduate

for

Ridgway,

years, previously living in

elementary education

on Country Club

President Kozloff schedules open office hours
President Jessica Kozloff will hold open office hours

Bloomsburg

Hospital emergency

being

News briefs

Beilhartz, died in 1978.

room

after

3

Laird, a guest at

Care Center.

Edwards had

Bloomsburg

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Edwards, 78, died

the

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L.

librarian, are retiring at the

their

SO'**

end of this month. Both

are in

year at Bloomsburg.

New

Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg.

committee clianges
announced at Forum

student

State funding, fall enrollment
discussed at planning and budget

life

At the Forum meeting Feb.

how

the

upcoming

state

impact the university

at

budget may
the planning

and budget committee meeting Feb.

Under the current

state

1

1.

budget

proposal, the state appropriation to the

System would increase by 4.95%.

State

approximately

translate into

2.5%

an

the Centennial renovation advisory

19 members are composed

committee, presented a tentative

life as

timeline for the project as follows:

professionals,

sketch submission, April 10; preliminary

development, counseling center, financial

submission, June 19; pre-final submis-

and student

its

Admissions director Chris Keller

at the

same time

the university

is

250

admission than

for fall

last year.

But, because

deliberately capping

its

enrollment goal, there were 400 fewer
offers

of admission so

enrollment for the

far.

fall is

Projected

6,670

200 students expected
Sankofa Conference

be an action item

Committee

reports

FTE

is

holding

its

recently passed
transfers

aid, residence life

four faculty and seven students.

at the

next

prompted dialogue on

by the Board of Governors

friendly.

policy,

which

Forum meeting March

from community colleges

more student

life

athletics, career

to State

The

is

18.

several issues,

resolution

intended to make

System schools

According to Wilson Bradshaw, vice

president of academic affairs, the proposal will not significantly

fourth

annual Sankofa Conference Friday and

affect

Saturday, Feb. 20 and 21. Approxi-

mately 85 Bloomsburg University 115

Bloomsburg University curriculum committee announced their
approval of an academic renewal policy that allows students,

students from outside the university are

five or

registered to attend the conference.

admission.

Sankofa

is

As

an African word that

means "We must go back and reclaim
our past so

we can move

(ftiU-time equivalency), including 1,678

can understand

new

to be

students.

one each from admissions,

activities,

made
The

life.

the vice president for student

There was discussion of the revised hazing
will

for

Bloomsburg

in tuition.

reported that to date, there were

of:

of student

an ex-officio non-voting member, seven student

including the academic passport resolution.

providing

to a zero percent increase

more applications

Nov.

30, 1999;

completion of construction, June, 2000.

the Board of Governors maintains

commitment

March

increase in the

university's operating budget,

and chairman of the committee,

to reflect current divisions within the office

24; bid award date,

would

standing

Provost Wilson Bradshaw, as chair of

sion, Sept. 16; final submission,

increase

life

explained that changes in the committee's structure were

Because state appropriations are only
state

previously discussed

Other announcements included:

48%

of the university's budget, the

,

committee were approved.
Peter Stine, physics

President Jessica Kozloff discussed

1 1

changes to the composition of the student

who we

forward; so

we

why and how we came

are today."

Bloomsburg's current transfer procedures. Also, the

more

years after an academic dismissal, to reapply for

part of the ongoing data collection for the

Middle

States

Gene Gordon, computer and information services
and a member of the outcomes assessment subcommittee,
conducted a focus group. More focus groups and surveys will
self-study.

take place as the process for reaccreditation continues.

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Calendar
Provost's Lecture Series
Lectures are free

and open

to the public.

Concerts

For more

Films

Concerts are free unless otherwise specified. For

more information,

information, call Academic Support Services at

call

Soul Food - Sunday, Feb. 22, 7 p.m., Kehr
Union, Ballroom.

(717) 389-4284.

4199.

Suzuki Recital - Saturday, March 21,

Frank

Friel

- Wednesday, March

Carver Hall, Kenneth

18, 7:30 p.m..

Co-author of the book. Breaking the Mob,

work

as

S.

The

violinists,

Gross Auditorium, Carver Hall.

Feb.

Advocate - Wednesday and Friday,
25 and 27, 7 and 9:30 p.m.; Sunday,

Devil's

March

Friel

7 p.m., Kehr Union, Ballroom.

1,

Piano Master Class - Sunday, March 22,

has over 30 years of law enforcement experience. His investigative

2:30 p.m., featuring area Suzuki

Kenneth

Gross Auditorium.

S.

an officer in the

Philadelphia Police Department resulted in the

2:30 p.m., with

Raymond Cramer, Haas Center

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

Flubber -

Monday and

prosecution of more than 60 organized crime

Wednesday, March
Studio

members.

Tuesday,

March 2 and

3,

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

Band with Alumni - Sunday, March

29,

4,

7 and 9:30 p.m., Haas

Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

2:30 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Hall.

Celebrity Artist Series
Call the Celebrity Artist Series box

office at

4409

for more information.

Special Events

Art Exhibits
Exhibits are in the

Julius Caesar,

Company Hall,

Monday

performed by Aquila Theatre
for the Arts.

call

Sankofa Conference - Friday and Saturday,
Gallery

ofArt. Hours are

9 a. m.

to

4 p. m.

For

(717) 389-4646.

On Thursday,

Feb. 26, a special performance of Aristophanes'

"Birds" will be given for

through Friday,

more information,

Friday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m., Mitrani

Haas Center

Haas

Bloomsburg University

students and area schools.

20 and 21, Opening Session,

Computer Graphics by Jan Ruby-Baird Through March 5. Reception and gallery talk,
Tuesday, March 3, noon.

Friday,

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Closing Dinner/Dance,
Saturday, 6 p.m.,

Bloomsburg University Student Art
March 17

Lectures

Feb.

6 p.m.; Concurrent Workshops, Saturday,

Kehr Union. For information,

contact the Multicultural Center at 4510.

President's Gala - Saturday, March 21,6 p.m.,
Willow Run Inn and Golf Course, Route 11.

4128.

For ticket information,

call

Husky Club Auction -

Friday, April 3,

Association - Juried exhibition,

through April
Factors Influencing Self-Esteem in Middle

March

9.

Reception, Wednesday,

6:30 p.m., Magee's Main Street Inn. For

25, noon.

School Students - Brett Beck and Eileen

information,

call

4128.

Astor- Stetson, psychology, Feb. 19, 12:30 p.m.,

Steven Bagnell, Sculpture and Painting

Kehr Union, room 340.

Retrospective - April 13 through April 24.

Student Research Poster Session - April 22-

Reception, April 15, 5 to 7 p.m.

23, Kehr Union, Multipurpose

A Local Case Study of Media Gratifications:
Why People Read the Newspaper - Richard

Master of Art Thesis Exhibition - April 27

Ganahl, mass communications, Tuesday,

through

McCormick Center

Feb. 24, 3:30 to 5 p.m.,

Human

Services,

May

Resort, Benton, Pa. For information, call

(717) 389-4128.

Governance

Affirmative Action and the Morality of the

Pendulum - John

Baird, psychology, Feb. 26,

12:30 p.m., Kehr Union,

Gooseneck Barnacles

room 340.

in the Tropical Pacific:

12:30 p.m., Kehr Union,

Tickets are required. All performances are in

(open forum), March 25, April 8 and 22,

Carver Hall, Kenneth

3 p.m.,

McCormick

room 340.

Forum - Wednesday, March 18,
and 29, 3 p.m., McCormick Center,

McCormick Center

for

17, 3:30 to 5 p.m.,

Human

Evening of One Acts -

A

reading of

student-written works, Thursday, Friday and

April 15

Saturday, Feb. 19-21, 8 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 22,

2 p.m.

E.

Dennis Huthnance, mathematics and computer

March

Gross Auditorium.

University

Forum.

science, Tuesday,

S.

Center, Forum.

An

5,

Computers Take Musical Dictation -

Theater

Bloomsburg University Curriculum
Committee (BUCC) - Wednesday, March 4

Messengers of El Nino - Cynthia Venn,
geography and earth science, March

Husky Club Spring Golf Outing - Friday,
Camping

April 24, Mill Race Golf and

10.

for

Forum.

Rooms.

Services,

Forum.

Planning and Budget - Thursday, March 19,
April 16

and 30, and

3:30 p.m.,

Friday, April 17,

McCormick

Center, Forum.

The Robber Bridegroom - Adapted from
novella by

and

May

1

the

Eudora Welty, April 24, 25, 29, 30
and

2, 8 p.m.; April 26,

2 p.m.

Communique
A NEWSinTER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Top cop Frank Friel
to discuss status
of organized crime

Former League of Women Voters
president to speak Marcii 24

Friel,

police officers
the

Mob,

and co-author of the book Breaking
speak

will

the nation's most honored

among
at

Bloomsburg University

Wednesday, March 18,

as part

of the university's

League of Women Voters,
speak

workshop

Friel will give a

Law Enforcement"

titled

"Careers in

4 p.m. and a lecture

at

titled

"Mafia Murders and the Status of Organized

Crime

America" Wednesday

in

Carver Hall, Kenneth

at

7:30 p.m. in

Gross Auditorium. Both

A 30-year veteran
investigative

work

as

Department

of law enforcement,

Friel's

an officer in the Philadelphia

resulted in the prosecution of

more than 60 organized crime members, including the only conviction for the murder of a mob
boss within the United States.

'A

good cop'

Neuman's

talk,

is

is

free

the most

can earn. Frank

A

and public

innocent

of public safety in Bensalem

investigation cleared an

man who had been wrongly

convicted of

His remarkable investigative record has
Friel accolades

community and

from the law enforcement

the media.

He

"National Police Officer of the

women in
Neuman has

College. She

is

Pomona

editor of the

has been

named

Month" and

60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace, who
on television, said, "A good cop' is

book A

Bloomsburg University has been
second consecutive

and

good cop."

monthly column

for the

In compiling the guide, publisher

The Student Guide

to

John Culler researched 1,800 higher
education institutions throughout the
nation.

universities.

America's

100

To be

selected {oi America's

100

Best College Buys, colleges had to meet

They must be an

Best College Buys profiles schools that are

specific requirements.

rated highest academically, but have the

accredited, four-year institution; offer

lowest total cost for the college year.

full residential facilities

Compiled by Institutional Research
and Evaluation in Gainesville, Ga., the

residence halls and dining services; offer

opportunities for need-based, academic-

guide gives complete information on

based and athletic-based financial

each selected institution, including costs,

have an entering freshmen

majors offered and campus

SAT

The guide

describes

life.

Bloomsburg

as a

place where "academic programs have

current, relevant educational opportuni-

a very

a

room, the labs and the studios."

best college buys

the most satisfying accolade a police officer can
is

currently lives in Lewisburg

Voice

kept pace with the times, offering

Friel

Neuman

Sunbury Daily Item.

profiled Friel

Frank

Woodrow Wilson

National Fellowship Foundation.

Bloomsburg listed among
America's 100 Best College Buys

Pennsylvania "Police Chief of the Year."

earn.

a visiting fellow of the

and writes

year by a publication that rates America's

murder.

brought

nia Women's Campaign
Fund from 1991-1996. She is currendy

visiting professor at

Bucknell University and

served as

Friel

Township, the fastest-growing community in
Friel's

policy,

Neuman

president of the Pennsylva-

Nancy Neuman

Washington and Jefferson College,

colleges

Pennsylvania,

to 1990,

and writer on

lecturer

named one of the 100

a very good cop.

Later, as director

Mom:

and open to

in the U.S. for the

is

After leading the League

of Women Voters from 1986

"From

the public.

politics

1920-

Voters in Perspective:

The American Woman
Voter,"

and author

1995.

Multicultural Center.

satisfying accolade a police
officer

24, at 4 p.m.

Kehr Union,

been a distinguished

and open to the public.

are free

Police

S.

the Right to Vote

of The League of Women

Bloomsburg

March

Tuesday,
in the

at

Suffragist to Soccer

Provost's Lecture Series.

of Our Own: Leading
American Women Celebrate

Nancy Neuman, former
national president of the

will

Frank

MARCH 1998

5

ties for today's

world. As a teaching

institution, the university offers
full

you the

benefit of professors in the class-

or

average;

ACT score
and have

including

class

aid;

with a

above the national

a cost of attendance

below the national average.

Bloomsburg University and Indiana
University were the only two universities

from Pennsylvania selected
in the guide.

for inclusion

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2

98

Hack named 'Employee of the Month'
by Supervisory Roundtable

Bloomsburg University Crime Report
Prepared by University Police for
February 1998

Reported

Offenses

made

Arrests

to or

workshops each

supervisory roundtable.

50

or

Hack, secretary

Incidents Cleared by

by University Police

Cindy Hack has been
named February's Employee
of the Month by the

Other Means

each attracting more than

1

1

Larceny Totals

16

2

participants.

She has been

in the

member

a

department of business

of the "Bloomsburg

education and office

Automated Transfer System"
continuous imptovement

information systems, has
Burglary

year, often

in Harrisburg or Allentown,

been

at the university since

A permanent,

1984.

team.

part-

Theft from buildings

5

0

time employee, Hack works

Theft from vehicles

10

1

mornings

Outside the

Cindy Hack

Hack

at the university. In

addition

is

a

university,

home

decorating

consultant and has done presentations

Fraud

1

1

to her secretarial work, her duties

for staff

Vandalism

7

2

include coordinating business education

roundtable. She also teaches Sunday

school at Wesley United Methodist

1

0

workshops

7

7

teachers in the state. Typically,

Drunkenness

5

5

Bloomsburg sponsors three or four such

Disorderly Conduct

6

3

DUI
Liquor

Laws

It

does not include incidents

in

the

secretarial

Church.

Campus notes

This report reflects only those incidents which occur on
university property.

for high school business

development and the

Town

of

Bloomsburg.

Raymond

Jeanette Keith, history, presented a

SAFETY

TIP:

The

total

value of items taken

February was $15,184. Remember,

chances are
theft

can

that

ruin

someone

else

if

in thefts

you need or

will too.

during

like

an item,

And they may take

it.

A

your day, not to mention your department budget.

paper, "Don't

Want

to Fight: Class

Conscription

in the

World War

South,"

at

and

curriculum and

the February issue of the Multimedia

I

the Social Science History

Association conference

S. Pastore,

foundations, had an article published in

"Strategies for Translating

last fall in

Washington, D.C. Keith also went to

and

Internet Training Newsletter titled

Instruction to

Classroom

Web-based Courses."

the American Historical Association

conference in Seattle in January where
she attended a council meeting of the
Society for Historians of the Gilded

and Progressive

Age

John

Bodenman, geography and

"Local Entrepreneurs Contributions to
the

Era.

E.

earth science, has written a paper titled

Economic

Base:

Hardwood

Processors in the Northetn and Central

Harry C. Strine

Communique

studies

and

communication

III,

theatre, presented a paper

4412

Publication date for next issue: Thursday,
(Publication

is

generally twice a

March

month during

19.

the

academic year and monthly during the summer.)

phone numbers listed in the Communique are
on-campus extensions. To use the numbers off campus, dial
389 first. The area code is 717.
Please submit story ideas and news items to Eric Foster,
104 Waller Administration Building, or by e-mail at:
fost@bloomu.edu
Bloomsburg can be found on the World Wide Web at:
Four-digit

accepted for publication in the journal

"The Tenured Professor of
Forensics: The Good Old Days" at the

Middle

National Communication Association

The Pennsylvania

titled

Editor: Eric Foster, ext.

Appalachian Region," which has been

Convention

on

in

Chicago,

a panel titled

111.

He

was

also

Boondoogle?" In April,

Eastern

at the

Communication Association Convenhe

will

be a

member of a

titled "Interpretations

When

Stephen M.

State University, are

co-authors on the paper.

"High School Tourna-

ments on the College Campus: Boon or

tion,

States Geographer.

Smith and Kathlene Meyers, both of

panel

of Interpretation:

Does Interpretation Become

Christopher Bracikowski,
Garcia and David
have written an

J.

P.

Joseph

Harper, physics,
"Getting

article titled

the Feel for Vector Addition of Forces,"

which has been published

in

The Physics

Teacher, vol. 36, no. 2.

Acting?"

http://www.bloomu.edu

Shahalam

Mehdi

Bloomsburg
"
UNIVERSITY

A Member of Pennsylvania's
State System of Higher Education

Haririan, economics, co-

"The U.S.

authored

a paper,

Industry,

How Are

the

Airline

Low Cost Air

Carriers Doing.'" with Bihan Vasigh of

Embry
that

Riddle Aeronautical University

was ptesented

at

the 37*

Annual

Meeting of the Western Regional Science
Association in Monterey, Calif.

and earth

M.N. Amin,

geography

science, presented a paper, "A

Comparative Study of Bluff Erosion
Process in the Pennsylvania and

Ohio

Shorelines of Lake Erie," at the Annual

Meeting of the Pennsylvania Geographical Society in York.

.

Leader ship.

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Lreutenant Governor

Senator

Representative

Representative

Senator

Mark

Roy C. Afflerbach

Joseph W.

Karl W. Boyes

J.

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Jeffrey W.

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Edinboro University

Indiana Unfversity

Indiana University

OF Pennsylvania

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Jr.

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Brett Feese

Michael K. Hanna

Indiana University

Indiana University

Lock Haven University

Cheyney University

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Phyllis Mundy

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Thaddeus KIrkland

John

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Roy Reinard

James

West Chester

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Doyle Gorman

Battisto
East Stroudsburg
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Shippensburg University
of Pennsylvania

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West Chester

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West Chester University

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Tracy Seyfert

Indiana University

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Edinboro University

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East Stroudsburg
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Patrick J. Stapleton

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Thomas

Indiana University

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MARCH

5

Women's Conference to feature
The

18'''

annual Women's Conference

of Columbia and Montour Counties will
be held on the campus of Bloomsburg

March

University Saturday,

will feature

more than 80 workshops, including
many given by faculty and staff at the

The keynote

university.

rights for lesbian

News briefs

"Contemporary Resumes" by Nancy
Dittman, business education and office

for equal

and gay Americans and

Newt

BUCC approves legal studies minor

Badami, communication studies and

A new minor in legal studies was approved by the
Bloomsburg University curriculum committee (BUCC) at
meeting Feb. 18. The minor has since been approved by

theatre.

provost and vice president for academic affairs Wilson

Employment

speaker will be

Candace Gingrich, a speaker

3

an international trade association;

information systems; "Successful

28.

The day-long conference

Gingrich

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Interviewing" by

Mary

In connection with the conference,

Bradshaw and has been sent to the State System

The

the Penn State Geisinger Health Systems
is

co-sponsoring a play, "Attitude With

its

for approval.

minor, proposed by Bruce Rockwood, finance and

business law, will consist of 2

credits, including

1

Law and

one required

Wings," focusing on the friendship of

course, "Introduction to

Gingrich. She will give her address,

two women on

Additional courses would be chosen from selected offerings of

"From Apathy

7 to 10 p.m. in Haas Center for the

sister

the

of Speaker of the House

to Activism," at 9 a.m. in

Kehr Union, Ballroom.
Approximately 350

Friday,

Arts, Mitrani Hall.

women

there will be a

are

March

27,

Along with the

Women's Health

the lobby of Haas and a reception

according to Shell Lundahl, psychologi-

following the performance. Play

$10

the departments of communication studies and theatre,

play,

Fair in

expected to attend the conference,

cal

from

The conference

those attending the conference, and free

special career

will also feature a

workshop track

that

to

Registration

Yourself in Today's Environment" by

or $25 after

Nancy Gober,

call

director of education for

and

political science

$5

for

at its Feb.

18 meeting,

tion of the certificate in

BUCC

German and

approved the

reactiva-

bachelor of science degree

with a major in secondary education/German.

Bloomsburg University students.

on "Marketing

includes workshops

mass communications, philosophy,
Also

admission

for the public,

English, finance and business law, geography and earth science,

psychology.

counselor and conference chair.

is

the Legal Environment."

is

$18, including lunch,

March

Student pliysics society recognized as outstanding

The Bloomsburg

16. For information,

the Information

Desk

at

University chapter of the Society of

by

Physics Students (SPS), advised

3900.

faculty

Bracikowski, has recently been recognized
as

Foundation board weicomes new members

an outstanding chapter.

The

distinction

commitment

to strengthening

SPS

Chris

national office

was based upon the

and scholarship,

chapter's "exemplary degree of activity
as

member
SPS

as well

as the physics profes-

sional society for students."

Harold

Bailey

J.

and William Selden

named members of the

have been

Before his retirement in 1983,

William Selden was senior program

Electrical service

Bloomsburg University Foundation

specialist in business

Board of Directors, and Mary

Pennsylvania Department of Education.

has been

named an

associate

The Bloomsburg

L.

Metallo

member.

University

Foundation was reactivated in 1985 to
solicit private

funding to support the

mission of Bloomsburg University.

He

education for the

served as a writer and editor for

follows:

including: Business Education Forum,

Monday,

He

Business Teachers Association Yearbook.

was the author of Notemaking and

A

professor emeritus of mathematics

Planning the

A

Eacilities for Business

Bloomsburg's faculty from 1969 until

School, Selden earned his bachelor of

as

1997. At Bloomsburg,

university's master's

program

mathematics education from

976

instructional technology program,

multimedia developers. In

1985, he established the Institute for

Interactive Inc. in

is

a

Bloomsburg.

president of Bailey

Bloomsburg, a

Ben Franklin

May

Gymnasium, Hartline Science

Hall, University

L. Metallo,

CFP,

is

officer of First

Store/Campus

Police

19

Northumberland
Wednesday,

State

member

of the

Hall, Carpenter Shop,

Union National Bank

A 1987 graduate of
Bloomsburg University with a degree

Simon

Hall,

Kehr

May 20

Montgomery Apartments
Thursday,

May

1

,

2,

3 and 4

2
5

and

6,

Modular Office

1

(R.O.T.C.), Modular Office 2 (D.G.S.), Modular Office 3

vice

president and senior financial planning

which

prepares individuals for careers as

Currendy, Bailey

is

Center,

Montgomery Apartments

Mary

Bloomsburg's master of science in

Interactive Technologies at

Bloomsburg

to

1983. In 1984, he helped launch

interactive

science degree at

18

Union, Columbia Hall, Luzerne Hall and Lycoming Hall.

Bloomsburg University Alumni Board.

in
1

graduate of Berwick High

Teachers College and

coordinator of the

May

Sutliff Hall, Centennial

Tuesday,

Education.

he served

May

and Navy Hall.

and computer science. Bailey served on

his retirement in

in

campus buildings will be shut off at
designated times in May to accommodate repairs to the electric
systems. The current schedule for electrical shutdown is as

several business education publications,

American Vocational Journal -mA Eastern

shutdown sclieduled

Electrical service to

in

Wilkes-Barre.

in

business administration and finance,

(TIP), Ground Crew Trailer, Auxiliary Greenhouse,
Ground Crew Greenhouse and Watet Tanks.
Friday, May 22
Total Upper Campus, except trailers.

Saturday,

May

23

Human

Metallo has attended the Pennsylvania

McCormick Center

Bankers Association Trust School,

tration Building, Bakeless

Cannon

Center for the Arts, Andruss Library, Student Recreation

Financial Institute and the

multimedia company that develops

College of Financial Planning, where she

interactive technology-based education

earned the certified financial planner

and training programs.

designation.

for

Services, Waller

Adminis-

Center for the Humanities, Haas

Center and Buckalew Place.
Sunday,

May 24

Total

Lower Campus

Hall, Schuylkill Hall,

Hall and Scranton

(if

needed). Boiler Plant,

Montour

Commons.

Old Science

Hall, Carver Hall, Elwell

,

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Provost's Lecture Series
Lectures are free

and open

For more

to the public.

information, call Academic Support Services at

Concerts

Films

Concerts are free unless otherwise specified. For

more information,

call

(717) 389-4284.

4199.

Suzuki Recital - Saturday, March 2 1

Frank

Friel

"Careers in
lecture,

- Wednesday, March

Law Enforcement,"

18,

workshop,

4 p.m.; and

2:30 p.m., featuring area Suzuki

Kenneth

Kehr Union, Multicultural Center.

"Mafia Murders and the Status of

Piano Master Class - Sunday, March 22,

Carver Hall, Kenneth

2:30 p.m., with

Gross Auditorium.

3, 1998. Author of the book Fitness After

Studio Band with Alumni - Sunday, March 29,

50, Blair will give a lecture, 'The Public

2:30 p.m., Haa5 Center for the Arts, Mitrani

Health Importance of Physical Activity,"

Hall.

"How

at

7:30 p.m., and a workshop,

to Increase

- Thursday,

Brass Menagerie

Old Science

Hall,

April 2, 8 p.m.,
President's Gala - Saturday, March 21, 6 p.m.,
Willow Run Inn and Golf Course, Route 1 1

room G-20.

a.m. in the Kehr Union, Ballroom. His
is

in conjunction with the Seventh

Annual Health Sciences Symposium.

Art Exhibits
Exhibits are in the

Celebrity Artist Series
Call the Celebrity Artist Series box
fr)r

at

office

Monday
4409

Haas

through Friday,

more information,

call

Gallery ofArt.

9

a.

m.

to

Hours are

4 p. m. For

For ticket information,

call

Husky Club Auction -

Friday, April 3,

6:30 p.m., Magee's Main Street Inn. For
information,

call

4128.

Opening Reception:

Symphony Orchestra with Nadia

4128.

(717) 389-4646.

more infi)rmation.

Cincinnati

Outstanding Bloomsburg University Women
Reception - Monday, March 16, 11 a.m., Kehr
Union, Midticultural Center.

Your Physical Activity by

Integrating Lifestyle Activities," Friday at 8:30

appearance

Kehr Union, Multicultural

Center.

Special Events

Steven Blair - Thursday and Friday, April 2

Thursday

Postino (Italian/French film) - Monday,

Raymond Cramer, Haas Center

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

and

II

April 20, 7 p.m.,

Organized Crime in America," 7:30 p.m. in
S.

the Lake of Scented Souls
(Chinese Film) - Monday, March 23, 7 p.m.,

violinists,

Gross Auditorium, Carver Hall.

S.

Women From

"Life in the Caribbean"

Computer Graphics by Jan Ruby-Baird through March 5.

Union, Multicultural Center.

Bloomsburg University Student Art

Student Research Poster Session - April 22-23,

Association - Juried exhibition,

Kehr Union, Midtipurpose Rooms.

Exhibit - Wednesday, April 15, 10 a.m., Kehr

Salerno Sonnenberg - Wednesday, March 25,
8 p.m., Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for the Arts.

through April

Lectures

March

Gooseneck Barnacles

in the Tropical Pacific:

9.

March 17

Reception, Wednesday,

Husky Club Spring Golf Outing - Friday,
24, Mill Race Golf and Camping Resort,

25, noon.

Steven Bagnell, Sculpture and Painting

-

Messengers of El Nino - Cynthia Venn,

Retrospective

geography and earth science, March

Reception, April 15, 5 to 7 p.m.

12:30 p.m., Kehr Union,

5,

Siblings'

p.m.,

science, Tuesday,

McCormick Center

March

for

Master of Art Thesis Exhibition - April 27
through May 10.

and Children's Weekend - April 24-

Renaissance Jamboree - Saturday, April 25,
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,

17, 3:30 to 5

Human

4128.

26. For information, call 4346.

Dennis Huthnance, mathematics and

computer

call

April 13 through April 24.

room 340.

Computers Take Musical Dictation E.

Benton, Pa. For information,

April

Services,

downtown Bloomsburg.

Governance

information about this street

Bloomsburg University Curriculum
Committee (BUCC) - Wednesday, March 25,

Alumni Day -

Chamber of Commerce

at

For

the

festival, call

(717) 784-2522.

Forum.

Glimpsing the Abstract: A Graphic Lesson on
Writing the Position Paper - Joseph F.
Battaglia, English,

March

19, 12:30 p.m.,

Kehr

April 8 and 22, 3 p.m.,

McCormick

Center,

Forum - Wednesday, March 18,
and 29, 3 p.m., McCormick Center,

University

computer
p.m.,

Shi,

mathematics and

science, Tuesday,

McCormick Center

March

for

24, 3:30 to 5

Human

Saturday, April 25. For informa-

4058.

Forum.

Union, room 340.

Game 24 - Yixun

tion, call

April 15

Theater
Tickets are required. All performances are in

Forum.

Carver Hall, Kenneth

Planning and Budget - Thursday, March 19,

The Robber Bridegroom - Adapted from

April 16 and 30, and Friday, April 17,

novella by

S.

Gross Auditorium.

Services,

Forum.
Sojourner Truth Lecture - Tuesday, March 24,
7 p.m., Kehr Union, Multicultural Center.

3:30 p.m.,

McCormick

Center, Forum.

and

May

the

Eudora Welty, April 24, 25, 29, 30
1 and 2, 8 p.m.; April 26, 2 p.m.

"

Steven Blair to discuss
iiow to stay fit witiiout
stressing over weiglit
Think you have

to be

slim and toned to be
healthy?

Think

again.

According to researcher
Steven

amount

the

Blair,

of exercise an individual
gets has

more

do with

to

than the

his or her health

person's weight.

ir.

The author of the
Steven Blair

best-seller Fitness After
Fifty, Blair will

speak

as

AT&T TRAINERS - Timothy

part of the university's Provost's Lecture Series

and

Health Sciences Symposium Thursday and Friday,

Phillips,

Mary Nicholson, June Trudnak and

Karl

Kapp

for Interactive

Technologies have received a grant from telecommunications giant

workshops

improve employee

to

of the Institute

AT&T

to provide

training.

April 2 and 3.
Blair

is

an internationally recognized expert on the

association

between

lifestyle

and

He was

health.

the

senior editor for the Surgeon General's Report on

Physical Activity

and has been awarded the Surgeon

General's Medal. His

book Living With

on the health benefits of moderate
individuals can integrate

more

Exercise focuses

exercise

A team

and how

titled

munications giant

will give a lecture

a

Thursday, April

2, at

7:30 p.m.

"The Public Health Importance of Physical

Activity."

On

Friday, April 3, at 8:30 a.m.,

"How

workshop,

by Integrating

to Increase

he

will give

Your Physical Activity

Both

Lifestyle Activities."

held in the Kehr

Union Ballroom and

talks will

are

open

be

to the

Blair's lecture will serve as

the keynote address to

the seventh annual Health Sciences

"Healthy

Lifestyles:

symposium
a

workshops

to

AT&T

to develop

enhance their employee

principles of interactive design that can

be incorporated into web-based
instruction."

In addition to face-to-face instruc-

Bloomsburg team

training.

tion, the

Mary Nicholson, Timothy Phillips,
Karl Kapp and June Trudnak from the

a variety of resources to support the

workshops, including

Institute for Interactive Technologies

examples, job aids and web-based

received the grant to design

two hands-

a

will

produce

CD-ROM

of

instructional modules.

on workshops focusing on designing

public.

sionals

of four faculty members have

received a $42,300 grant from telecom-

physical activity into

their daily routines.

He

Faculty awarded AT&T grant
to create training programs

A Fitness

Imperative."

instruction.

The

workshop

more than 500 health profesand students to campus and feature more than
will bring

dozen presentations Friday. Bloomsburg students

will

have health-related poster displays in Kehr Union

Multipurpose

Rooms A and B Thursday and

call

The

will

first

"People at

be held in March or April

AT&T training facility in New
Jersey. A second two-day workshop
also planned. About a dozen AT&T

"People

will participate in each

Continued on page

3.

contacted us.

Nicholson.

The

grant funds will be used to

purchase a laptop and a desktop PC,

development software, and support four
at

AT&T know our

graduate assistants from the related

reputation and they contacted us," says

4426.

our reputation and they

is

workshop.

Friday.

AT&T know

three-day

at the

employees

For more information about the Health Sciences

Symposium,

world wide web-based

interactive

Symposium,

"We

will

be working with

instructional designers, teaching

them

Master of Science

in Instructional

Technology program
project.

to

work on

the

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linics

education consortium

Nobel Laureate in economics
to discuss giobai money woes
Economics Nobel Laureate Lawrence

The department of curriculum and foundations has
launched a new organization to promote interaction
between the

university's faculty

and teachers

Klein will speak Friday, April 3, at 3 p.m.

Carver Hall, Kenneth

in

the Bloomsburg University Education

Consortiimi, representatives of 17 school districts

attended the organization's

March

4, in

first

Commons.

the Scranton

Gross

Economy"

induction ceremony for

An

and open

free

is

to the public.

economics and finance professor

founded Wharton Econometric
Forecasting Associates and was a
principal investigator for Project

members and school

A the first meeting, presentations were given by
Henry Dobson, curriculum and foundations; Mark
DiRocco, secondary principal

at

Mifflinburg Area School District.

"You can help us produce the kind of teachers we
in

activity.

Wednesday, April

LINK,

for studying interna-

won

also

1:50 p.m. in

8, at

Kehr Union, Multipurpose
Taylor

Room

B.

an economics professor

is

at

Stanford University and served on

payments and economic

Klein

is

Economic

President Bush's Council of

the Nobel Prize for

Advisors.

Lewisburg Area

School District; and Ben Van Horn, superintendent of

need

tional trade,

The economics department

sponsoring a talk by John B. Taylor

which combined models from countries
around the world

district representatives.

Omicron Delta

Epsilon, the economics honor society.

University of Pennsylvania, Klein

at the

by university faculty

Friday evening, Klein will be the
featured speaker at Bloomsburg's

month, October through May. Over lunch, each
will feature presentations

he

economic

Carter's

task force in a successful presidential

on the "Impact of

foundations, the consortium plans to meet each

meeting

Jimmy

Global Financial Crisis on the U.S.

meeting Wednesday,

Organized by the department of curriculum and

in 1980. In 1976,

campaign.

Klein's discussion

region's school districts.

Dubbed

S.

Auditofium.

in the

Economics
coordinated

Trustees extend Kozioff 's contract,
approve room and board fee increase

our public schools," John Hranitz, chair of

curriculum and foundations, told the group

"I feel

At

at the first

its

quartetly meeting

March

mandated student

12,

the Council of Trustees endorsed the

meeting.
very strongly about building bridges between

our colleges, between our departments, and between
the university and the schools," said

Ann

Lee, dean of

extension of President Kozloff 's contract
for

fee schedule for student

remain unchanged.

reported that the projected

ment

another year and approved a

proposed

fees

Chris Keller, directot of admissions,

room

is

enroll-

fall

expected to meet the established

goal of 6,670

FTE. Although freshmen

of an informal review of

ago,

up 565 from three years
60 fewer freshmen than last year

counties have been invited to participate in the

presidential leadership, President Kozloff

will

be admitted. This intentional

consortium.

was commended

downsizing

and board

the College of Professional Studies.

Approximately 40 school

districts in

As the

nearby

1998-1999.

rates for

result

for her

applications are

performance

and her contract was renewed through
the year 2001.

room and board

Communique

life-cycle

(Publication

is

issue:

generally twice a

in

of 5.4 per-

1997-98

to

$1,775

Thursday, April

month during

2.

halls.

the

academic year and monthly during the summer.)

phone numbers listed in the Communique are
on-campus extensions. To use the numbers off campus, dial
389 first. The area code is 717.
Please submit story ideas and news items to Eric Foster,

freshmen

two years and

rates increased in

average

students

is

SAT

scores for admitted

1069 and average

class

rank

is

top 29 percent.
In other business, the trustees were

upgrade program for residence

Board

large

brought up to date on consttuction

allows the continuation of a nine-year

4412

Publication date for next

rate inctease

from $1,684

The

combined

1998-99. The room rate increase

in

Editor: Eric Foster, ext.

due to

higher than projected retention figures.

Trustees also approved a

cent,

is

classes in the previous

projects

BUCC

an effort

and infotmed of approval by
of a

new interdisciplinary minor
The proposal has been

to stay current with the increase in real

in legal studies.

food costs and

set aside

forwarded to the State System for

service facility

improvements. All other

funds for food

final

Four-digit

104 Waller Administration Building, or by e-mail

at:

Piano master class offered March 22

fost@bloomu.edu

Bloomsburg can be found on the World Wide

Web

Pianist
at:

http://www.bloomu.edu

a

Raymond

piano master

at

Bloomsbun
A Member of Pennsylvania's
Stale System of Higher Education

class

presented with numerous distinguished

Ctamer will give
Sunday, March 22,
A.

service awards

by the Music Teachets

National Association.

2:30 p.m. in Haas Center for the Arts,

Mitrani Hall.

UNIVERSITY

approval.

The

Husky Club Auction

public, as well as

piano teachers and students, are invited
to attend this lectutc
free

and petfotmance

is

sponsoring the

scholarship fund.
at

Bucknell University and Keystone Juniot
College, has been

Stteet Inn. Proceeds

named Teacher of the

Year for the State of Pennsylvania and

3

hold

at

a

dinner

Magee's Main

from the auction

will benefit the general athletic

class.

Cramer, adjunct professor of music

will

auction Friday, April 3,

of charge. Pianist John Couch of the

music department

is April

The Husky Club

The

event begins at

6:30 p.m. Tickets are $35 per person

and include dinner and

Bloomsburg

a DJ.

football star Irv Sigler will

sign autographs at the event.

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19

MBA program changes approved ]STp™
Recent curriculum revisions make the

work and an undergraduate

Up

course.

(MBA) program more

credits could be waived,

attractive to

working professionals. Changes

MBA program

in the

Also

replaced 30 credits of undergraduate

undergraduate calciJus course and

of graduate work

program

as

1

MBA

Mary W.

and David Long, dean of

McCormick

ing in two intercollegiate sports to earn

Future, and answer any questions regarding projects

academic physical education credit

activities to

implement the new System

community

is

for

affiliation

program with Mansfield University was

new curriculum

respiratory therapy at Mansfield could

change,

of

reflects the strengths

continue

Bloomsburg

easily matriculate to

to earn

their formal education in a graduate

a bachelor of science degree.

A similar

school.

agreement was implemented

last fall for

MBA program,

students could possibly be required to

undergraduate and graduate levels

to earn the

MBA.

Under the

and

The campus

ideas.

The committee approved new

revised program, presented

hours Tuesday, April 7,

office

may

recommended

occasionally

that individuals call

4526

to be sure

The Red Cross

drive April

8

hold a blood drive Wednesday, April

will

Union Ballroom. Up

a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Kehr

1 1

four people can be helped for each person

who

donates blood.

For more information, contact John Trathen or Julie Shoup

Courses" and "Student Scheduling"

at

policies.

There were

revised

would be required to take a
maximum of 48 credit hours of graduate

and "Undergraduate

first

8,

to

"Placement Testing for Developmental

by David Martin, finance and business
law, students

it is

Red Cross to hold blood
from

medical imaging.

open

to 10:30 a.m. Because schedules

the time remains available.

Mansfield's associate degree students in

take a total of 66 credit hours of courses
at the

and share

invited to attend

President Kozloff will hold

from 9

Under the old

goals.

President Kozloff schedules open office hours April 7

approved. Under the agreement,
students earning an associate degree in

who

Center, Forum. She will discuss the implementa-

tion of the State System's strategic plan, Imperatives for the

An

will

present a program Tuesday, April 7, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in

the College of Business, stressed that the

working professionals

Academic and

Burger, Vice Chancellor for

agreement for the respiratory therapy

president and dean of graduate studies
research,

State System Vice Chancellor to discuss strategic plan

Student Affairs from the State System of Higher Education

meeting, approval was

at the

briefs

given to allow student athletes compet-

each of their sports.

prerequisites.

Patrick Schloss, assistant vice

and

depending upon

students in the program.

prerequisites with a three-credit

3

calculus

Currently, there are about 40

curriculum committee March 4 have

credits

1

the student's academic background.

approved by the

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Master of Business Administration

to

MARCH

4196.

readings of a

"Academic Grievance Procedure"
Pass/Fail" policy.

Baseball legend Hank Aaron to speak on

Hank Aaron

Baseball legend

will

campus

speak on campus Friday,

April 24, at 2 p.m. in Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

His lecture will be
be held

Campus notes

at

"Chasing the Dream."

titled

6 p.m. that evening

West Ballroom. Tickets

at

Magee's

will be required.

be forthcoming. To accommodate Aaron's

A dinner will

Main Street Inn, 24
More information will

visit,

the

Husky Club

golf outing at Mill Race has been rescheduled from April 24 to
Friday,

Dale A. Bertelsen, communication

paper

S.

Ekema Agbaw,

and

theatre, recently presented a

published an

titled

"Emerging Communication

Heart of Darkness

studies

article

titled "The Dog
Conrad and An African

Breeches:

Communication Studies" at the Speech
Communication Association of Puerto

Spring

Rico annual convention.

Literatures published

In addition, Bertelsen has accepted
several positions in the

communication

He has been named
Book Review Editor for the National
Communication Association journal,

1

English, has

on Joseph Conrad's

Technologies and Their Implications for

Pedagogy."

The

998

article

issue

in

appeared in the

of Research in African

Critical Studies in

for

Mass Communication.

named associate editor
two National Communication
has also been

Slike,

communication

an associate editor for two Eastern
Communication Association journals.
Communication Quarterly and Communi-

cation Research Reports.

He

is

also the

cardiovascular fitness of

Men

Deaf/Hard of Hearing

in Lexington, Ky.

CD-ROM

and presented a paper regarding the
creation of the

computer program. The

fit

can carry

- and

that a

sion tided

"NCATE-CED-CEC: Three
One Program Review."

Endorsements,

also a runner.

he has been testing the

men of all sizes. His findings:
much as 28 percent body fat and be
fit, fat man is likely to live longer than

a

President of the

American College of Sports

Medicine, Blair has written more than 200 papers and
chapters in scientific literature and serves

book

also

Describing
is

thin, sedentary one.

a collaborative effort with the Institute

He

years,

size.

Blair

as

editorial boards

for Interactive Technologies.

20

for the past

creation of Speechreading Challenges was

Communication

Award Committee.

and bald,"

attended the annual conference of the

served as a moderator for a panel discus-

Association's Gerald R.

fat

Association of College Educators of the

current chairperson of the National

Miller Dissertation

himself as "short,

And

Speechreading Challenges on

as

News and World Report,

time for Americans to focus on

disorders and special education, recently

Mass Communication and The Quarterly
continues to serve

it's

being healthy, regardless of their

Samuel B.

At the conference, he demonstrated

He

1.

In a recent issue of U.S.
Blair stressed that

State University.

Association journals. Critical Studies in

journal of Speech.

Continued from page

by Indiana

studies discipline.

He

Health

University Press in collaboration with

The Ohio

June 12.

Fitness After Fifty, written

women

health.

the

with Drs. Walter

Ettinger and Brenda Mitchell, describes

and

on

of many scientific publications. His

how

older

men

can increase physical activity to improve

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Calendar
Provost's Lecture Series
Lectures are free

and open

to the public.

For more

information, call Academic Support Services at

Films

Concerts
Concerts are free unless otherwise specified. For

more information,

call

(717) 389-4284.

Ulee's

Gold -

Friday,

March

20, 7 and

9:30 p.m., Sunday, March 22, 7 p.m., Kehr

Union, Ballroom.

4199.

Suzuki Recital - Saturday, March 21,

Steven Blair - Thursday and Friday, April 2

and

3,

1998. Author of the book Fitness After

Fifty, Blair will give a lecture,

"How

at

7:30 p.m., and a workshop,

Your Physical Activity by

to Increase

Kenneth

S.

Women From

the Lake of Scented Souls
(Chinese Film) - Monday, March 23, 7 p.m.,

violinists,

Gross Auditorium, Carver Hall.

"The Public

Health Importance of Physical Activity,"

Thursday

2:30 p.m., featuring area Suzuki

Kehr Union, Multicultural Center.
Piano Master Class - Sunday, March 22,
2:30 p.m., with

Raymond Cramer, Haas Center

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

Friday,

March 25 and

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

Sunday, March 29, 7 p.m., Kehr Union,

Integrating Lifestyle Activities," Friday at

8:30 a.m. in the Kehr Union, Ballroom.

Tomorrow Never Dies - Wednesday and

Studio Band with Alumni - Sunday, March 29,

Ballroom.

2:30 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani

Amistad - Wednesday, April

Hall.

Lectures

Brass Menagerie - Thursday, April 2, 8 p.m.,

Game 24 computer

Yixun

Shi,

Old Science

mathematics and

science, Tuesday,

3:30 p.m.,

March

McCormick Center

for

room G-20.

Hall,

Center; Sunday, April

5,

7 p.m., Kehr
3,

7 p.m., Haas

7 p.m., Kehr Union,

Ballroom.

24,

Human

Forum.

Services,

1,

Union, Ballroom; Friday, April

University-Community Orchestra - Sunday,
April

5,

2:30 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts,

Mitrani Hall.

Special Events

From Suffragist to Soccer Mom - Nancy
Neuman, former

Women

president of the League of

Voters, Tuesday,

March

24, 4 p.m.,

Monday

The Challenges of a College Administrator:
The Experiences of an African-American
Female - Everlena Holmes, East Stroudsburg
University, Tuesday,

March

24, 7 p.m.,

Kehr

more information,

Federal Prosecutions of Environmental
Barrile

March

and Neal Slone,

and criminal

26, 12:30 p.m.,

a.

m.

to

Thursday,

Kehr Union, room 340.

Berwick. For ticket information,

call

4128.

4 p. m. For
IS"*" Annual Women's Conference of
Columbia and Montour Counties - Saturday,
March 28. For information, call the Information Desk at 3900.

(717) 389-4646.

Bloomsburg University Student Art
Reception, Wednesday,

9.

Husky Club Auction -

25, noon.

Friday, April 3,

6:30 p.m., Magee's Main Street Inn. For

Crime

sociology,

justice,

call

9

Association - Juried exhibition, March 17

March

social welfare

through Friday,

through April

Union, Multicultural Center.

- Leo G.

Haas Gallery ofArt. Hours are

Exhibits are in the

Kehr Union, Mulitcultural Center.

President's Gala - Saturday, March 21,6 p.m.,
Willow Run Inn and Golf Course, Route 1 1,

Art Exhibits

Steven Bagnell, Sculpture and Painting
Retrospective - April

1

information,

call

4128.

3 through 24.

Opening Reception:

Reception, April 15, 5 to 7 p.m.

"Life in the Caribbean"

Exhibit - Wednesday, April 15, 10 a.m., Kehr

Simpson's Paradox in Sports - G. Reza

Noubary, mathematics and computer science,
Tuesday,

March 31, 3:30

Center for

Human

p.m.,

Services,

McCormick

Forum.

Union, Multicultural Center.

Celebrity Artist Series
Call the Celebrity Artist Series box

office at

4409

Images of Nepal: Mary Harris 1, 5 p.m., Kehr Union,

Cincinnati

Wednesday, April

Salerno Sonnenberg - Wednesday, March 25,

Multicultural Center.

8 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

Symphony Orchestra with Nadia

Thursday, April

2,

12:30 p.m., Kehr Union,

room 409.

Theater

Forum.

Tickets are required. All performances are in

Carver Hall, Kenneth

S.

Multicultural Center.

Kehr Union,

Forum - Wednesday, April 5 and
McCormick Center, Forum.
Planning and Budget - Thursday, March 19,

University

Gross Auditorium.

Chinese Martial Arts: "Taichi GongFu" Friday, April 3, 6 p.m.,

Governance
Bloomsburg University Curriculum
Committee (BUCC) - Wednesday, March 25,
April 8 and 22, 3 p.m., McCormick Center,

Variations of the Liar Paradox -William

Calhoun, mathematics and computer science,

Student Research Poster Session - April 22-23,

Kehr Union, Multipurpose Rooms.

for more information.

1

29, 3 p.m.,

The Robber Bridegroom - Adapted from
novella by Eudora

and

May

1

and

2,

Welty

the

April 24, 25, 29,

8 p.m.; April 26, 2 p.m.

30

April 16

and 30, and

3:30 p.m.,

Friday, April 17,

McCormick

Center, Forum.

Communique
A NEWSLEHER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

2 APRIL 1998

Baseball legend Hank Aaron to speak
Hank Aaron

Baseball legend

2 p.m.

Friday, April 24, at

System (TBS) documentary, "Hank Aaron:

speak

will

Haas Center

in

Chasing the Dream," was a 1995 Academy

for

the Arts, Mitrani Hall, as part of the university's

Award nominee.
Since retiring from playing baseball in 1976,

Provost's Lecture Series.

Aaron has become

Tickets for his speech, "Chasing the

Dream,"

and may be obtained begin-

are free

ning Wednesday, April 15,

office in

1

starting at noon.

his 23-year career in the

books -

Aaron rewrote

and

holds more batting records than any

baseball's record

In 1974, at the peak of his career,

home run

record.

years later, fans voted that yiS"*"

Aaron

home run "The

still

stand today.

and

career batting average of .305

3,771 career

hits,

he was the

than 500

home

runs.

Golden Glove Award
and 1960.
of Fame

in

He was

Aaron

hits

also

of

1959

for fielding in 1958,

first

year of

Aaron's autobiography, /
a bestseller in 1991.

at

A reception will

dinner,

was

Broadcasting

Kishbaugh named
'Employee of the Month'

at a

24 West, Magee's Main

The

begin

Aaron

6 p.m. and

at

cost of the dinner

will

call

is

the

be introduced by

Litwhiler '38, a major-league ballplayer

years. Litwhiler

Golden Gloves

invented the

won

Golden Glove

the

He

to the university.

JUGS

lifetime

raised

the "Chase the

He

also

gun, which measures the

who

have participated

at

Bloomsburg, such

PRIDE, with

as

Upward Bound

or

preference given to recruited

athletes.

through the dinner

Dream

Hank Aaron

has donated one of

speed of a thrown baseball.

Funds

eligibility.

Had a Hammer,

A Turner

1 1

his

elected to the Baseball Hall

1982, his

be the guest of honor

batting average of .281.

the

on the

serves

two consecutive years and amassed a

and more

won

Danny
for

player to

first

accumulate both 3,000 career

a total

a

TBS and

relations for

$50 per person. For reservations,
Alumni House at 4058.

At the

With

farm

a corporate vice president of

the dinner at 7 p.m.

records for

runs batted in (2,297)

is

will also

Street Inn.

Twenty

works to develop the

board of directors.

Aaron

Moment in Baseball History." His
most home runs (755) and most

Greatest

He

dinner that evening

other player in the history of the game.

broke Babe Ruth's

system.

As

and recruiting

talent of young players in the team's

community

major

leagues,
still

for the Atlanta Braves, he

0 a.m. and the box

Haas Center for the Arts

During

Kehr Union

at the

Information Desk starting at

a successful businessman.

vice president of team relations

will

endow

Scholarship" for students
in precoUegiate

programs

To accommodate Aaron's
Club golf outing

at

visit,

the

Husky

Mill Race has been

rescheduled from April 24 to Friday, June 12.

Bloomsburg awarded
$500,000 Link-to-Learn grant

Lucinda

Bloomsburg has been awarded

Kishbaugh,

if
Kishbaugh,

manager

been selected

that will allow

as

28

1

state's

a

$500,000

Link-to-Learn initiative

9 organizations in Northeastern

the supervisory

Pennsylvania to participate in distance educa-

roundtable

tion projects.

The

project director for "Regional Synergy

for Statewide Student Success"

Month"

Vavrek, dean of continuing and distance

for

has been at

for financial aid.

She deals

Michael

is

evidence of Bloomsburg's

to regional

development," says

Educational objectives of the project include:
1 )

and

3) Offering

by

who

work

teachers, with

an

instruct teachers.

force

development

for

4)

Conducting a security study

confidentiality

Many

to ensure

on public networks.

of the "Regional Synergy" partners

Creating the

Link-to-Learn program, SusQNet, a

commu-

nity-based telecommunications network.

"A major advantage of this proposal was the

Vavrek.

3-

emphasis on those

have previously worked together in another

"This grant

commitment

extensively with outside agencies, such

Continued on page

is

education.

years, serves as office

Promoting professional development on

2)

the use of technology

adults.

"Employee of the
March.

who

for

grant through the

committee's

Lucinda Kishbaugh

Bloomsburg

financial aid, has

state's first

cyber high school

instructional applications for

K-12 students.

history of the organization
successfully. It gave the

working together

people in Harrisburg

Continued on page

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2

Student business group wins
most awards in state competition

News briefs
Enrollment, budget, facilities planning updates given at Forum
President KozlofF presented updated information

enrollment numbers, budget issues and the
process at the

forum meeting March

facilities

SAT

The

offer

leadership conference in Harrisburg

18.

of admissions

awards

rate

52 percent.

is

at the

Phi Beta

Lambda

information systems.

Keil, business

concerns about the current organizational structure of the two

The

encouraged individuals to offer

next meeting

is

Wednesday, April

Burger, Vice Chancellor for

Academic and
will

present a program Tuesday, April 7, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in

As

The campus community

is

a group,

President Kozloff will hold

from 9 to 10:30 a.m.

4526

It is

open

office

that individuals call

to be sure the time remains available.

Kovaschetz, accounting

accounting

I;

II;

Nick

Seier,

Steven Thompson,

from 14

Mull, hiunan resource management; Kerri

Bingaman, information management.
Third-place winners include: Joshua

human

tesource management;

Local Chapter Annual Business Report

DeGroat,

and second place

Jennifer Roche, marketing; Laurie

years,

in the

Outstanding

Bloomsburg has had more

winners are

the results of

tests,

and written

and second-place

compete

eligible to

Two Bloomsburg

at

II.

students were

elected state officers. Calvert was elected

the category, awards

upon

are given based

Zablocky, accounting

state

winners than any other university.

materials. First-

hours Tuesday, April 7,

recommended

Fromm, management; Carina

Haggerty, marketing; Crystal

Bloomsburg won the

interviews, presentations

President Kozloff schedules open office hours April 7

computer

Second-place winners include: Jan

thirty students

Depending upon

invited to attend.

Billig,

information management.

education and office

One hundred

Center, Forum, to discuss the State System's

strategic plan.

The

advised by Janice

is

Chapter competition. For the past 14

Student Affairs from the State System of Higher Education

McCormick

Jennifer

schools attended the conference.

15.

State System Vice Chancellor to discuss strategic plan

Mary W.

a national

is

Dana

Executive;

concepts; David Calvert, finance;

Future Business Leaders of America.

answer specific computer-related questions. Responding to

divisions, Kozloff

Charles Borst IV, Mr. Future Business

won

business organization associated with the

local organization

suggested changes.

Thomas, Ms. Future Business Teacher;

Lambda

conference.

During the open discussion session of the meeting, staff
from computer services and academic computing helped

computer

who

4 Bloomsburg students

planning

average of 1069 and an average class rank in the

top 29 percent.

1

attended the state Phi Beta

Highlights of the admissions report included an admitted

student

All

on

the

National Leadership Conference to be
held this July in Orlando, Fla.

vice president

nia

First-place winners include: Nicole

and Mull,

secretary.

Fromm, Kovaschetz and Thomas were
named to Who's Who in Pennsylvania
Phi Beta Lambda. Thomas was also
selected ftom among the more than 400
members statewide to be the Pennsylva-

member

Who's

Who

included in the National
in Phi Beta

Lambda.

Curriculum committee approves nurse anesthesia option

At

its

meeting March 25, the curriculum committee

approved a nurse anesthesia option
nursing program.

The

in the

master of science in

option, expected to attract five to six

students beginning in the

fall

of 1998, would

be offered in

cooperation with Penn State-Geisinger Medical Center.

committee

also

approved a proposal to allow nurses

The

who

Link-to-Learn grant
Continued from page
evidence that

we

could pull off the
Partners

pioject."

already certified as nurse anesthetists to be awarded credits

million initiative,

based upon their professional experience.

year.

Bloomsburg's

Editor: Eric Foster, ext.

funding

which

Publication date for next issue: Thursday, April 16.
(Publication

is

generally twice a

month during

The

area code

is

717.

Please submit story ideas

and news items

to Eric Foster,

104 Waller Administration Building, or by e-mail

will

Web

grant will

at:

http://www.bloomu.edu

one of 21

$6

projects,

million, selected for

more information

Bloomsbun

District

$200,000,

be matched by $190,000 of

make

Carbon Lehigh Intermediate
Center

for Agile

Unit

Pennsylvania

Education
Central Columbia School District

will receive

Central Pennsylvania

Fomm

for the

Future
Central

Susquehanna Intermediate

improvements that the

Colonial Intermediate Unit

possible include:

Columbia County Human Services
Coalition

Upgrading the State System of

Lewisburg Area School

Area School

District

Higher Education computer network

Milton

connection between Bloomsburg and

Mount Carmel Area School

East Stroudsburg universities.
will

The

be able to

transmit approximately 30 times

more

data than the cutrent connection.
3) Constructing a

computer

"firewall" so the univeisitys

computer

A Member of Pennsylvania's

operations can operate separately from

State System nf Higher Education

Link-to-Learn

activities.

Unit

East Stroudsburg University

multipoint video conferencing.

upgtaded connection

UNIVERSITY

Allentown School

1) Installing a video bridge to control

2)

at:

efoster@bloomu.edu

Bloomsburg can be found on the World Wide

is

this year. (For

On campus,

Four-digit phone numbers listed in the Communique are
on-campus extensions. To use the numbers off campus, dial
first.

second

labor and equipment from the university.

the

academic year and monthly during the summer.)

389

its

www.invest.iup.edu)

Bloomsburg

4412

in

Regional Synergy for

Statewide Student Success

Bloomsburg University

totaling just over

see:

now

is

in

$127

Link-to-Learn, a three-year

are

Communique

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District
District

Northumberiand County Area
Vocational-Technical School

Northwest Area School

District

Northwestern Lehigh School

District

Pen TeleData
SEDA-Council
State

System

of

Governments

of Higher Education,

Office of the Chancellor

2

Campus

notes

technology program faculty, presented a

Writer Cooperation," published in the February

workshop on Authorware Professional

issue

at the

Frank Peters, English, has written an
as

Educational Communications and TechnolLouis,

Mo.

of Syntax in the Schools.

titled

conducted several focus groups for the

recently

at

the

March meeting of the Eastern
The paper,

The

included educators, parents and children.
research explored current contributions

"Biofeedback Training of Frontal

Effects of Rate of

and

students

Kay

M. Buck, John

John

Olive and

J.

systems, co-authored a paper,
in the

Issues

Education

OEIS

titled

for the

Curriculum," that was presented in February
the 17*

at

Annual Office Systems Research

Association Conference in

Michael C. Hickey,

New

in

Services, 12:30 to 3 p.m.,

Ben Franklin

Washington, D.C. The paper,

April 17:

"Authentic Assessment of Computer

Delaware Valley Seminar on Russian

History

at

Swarthmore

in

as

and

theatre,

communication

studies

role as president

room

Strine founded

ties,

1

1

to 4 p.m.,

Commons, 2

April 23: Scranton

of the International Forensic

Tournament and Conference.

this

room 227.
Crew Building, 7:30

234; Kehr Union,

in Portugal in his

and the Smolensk Countryside in 1917"

will

to 3 p.m.,

a.m.;

Nelson Field House, 8:30 to 10 a.m., room

in Lisbon, Portugal, for a

Association at the organization's Eighth Annual

and Post-Soviet Review

1

April 21: Grounds

Zemliachestva and Rural Revolution: Petrograd

appear in The Soviet

to 3 p.m.,

April 20: Maintenance Center, 7:30 a.m.,

reception of the English-Speaking Union's

"Urban

1

administration office.

lobby; Development Center, after

was recently invited to the

Debating group. Strine was

article

10 to 10:30 a.m.. Green Room;

Maintenance Center; Old Science Hall,
III,

Southern Slavic Association Conference in

N.C. Hickey's

Hall, 8 to 10 a.m., Speech,

for the Arts,

American Embassy

Hill,

124.

room 125;
room 9.

to 3 p.m.,

1

Waller Administration Building,

commentator on the panel "Revolutionary
Politics and Propaganda, 1917-1920" at the
Chapel

Navy

Hall,

(TCP©1997)," was published in diree
formats, as a printed document in the conference proceedings, on a CD-ROM and on the

Harry C. Strine

March, and served

1

Competencies: The Technology Competency

paper on "Law, Order, and Revolution in 1917"
at the

room

Hearing and Language Clinic; Haas Center

Teacher Education Internet Server.

history, presented a

office.

Human

for

Science Center, 10 a.m. to noon,

Technology and Teacher

Profiler

Orleans.

McCormick Center

April 16: Carpenter Shop, 7:30 a.m.; Hardine

Ninth International Conference of the Society

"Ergonomic

Workplace and Implications

Residence Hall, 9 a.m., G38;

Andruss Library, 3 to 4:30 p.m., dean's

Henry D. Dobson, curriculum and

for Information

locations.

University Store, 10 a.m., textbook area;

April 15:

office information

and

April 14: Carver Hall, 8:30 a.m., president's

Schreffler and Kristin A. Haase.

Donna J. Cochrane,

and

and

to three

be registered. Vehicles will be

registered at the following time

office; Elwell

foundations, recendy presented a paper at the

business education

may

vehicles

S.

future innovations of the newspaper's mascot

Thaddeus Quackus (TQ).

at

EMG:

Feedback on Acquisition and

E. Ennis, Lori

Up

insurance card for each vehicle.

Extinction," was co-authored by psychology

Focus group participants

may be registered
To obtain a

locations throughout campus.

license, vehicle registration (owner's card)

Psychological Association in Boston.

Press-Enterprise.

April 30. This year, vehicles

permit, the following items are required: driver's

Steven L. Cohen, psychology, presented a
paper

Richard Ganahl, mass communications,

Faculty/staff parking hanger permits expire

article,

Avenues to Teacher-

1998 National Convention of the Association

St.

3

distribution sclieduied
"Garden Path Sentences

ogy in

COMMUNIQUE

Parking permit

Timothy L. Phillips, June L. Trudnak, and
Mary J. Nicholson, master of instructional

for

APRIL 98

room 340.

to 4 p.m.,

37; Bakeless Center for the

9 to 11 a.m., economics

Humani-

office.

April 24: Sutliff Hall, 10 a.m. to noon, business

education

the organization in 1991.

office.

summer.

Those unable
Michael K. Shepard, geography and earth
science, recently presented

two papers

at the

29th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference,

Houston, Texas. They were "Fractal Planets:

A

Generalized Surface Roughness

Model

Remote Sensing" and "Hagfors

Revisited: Near-

for

Nadir Coherent Scattering from a Fractal
Surface."

Bush adviser to discuss
monetary policy April 8

Both papers were co-authored by

Bruce Campbell of the Smithsonian Institution.

science, presented a

Enhancement

paper

in the

NSF-ILI Program"

titled

"Curriculum

Geosciences Through the

at a

National Science

Foundation conference on "Transforming

Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering

New Jersey
will

Institute

and Technology"
of Technology.

at the

The paper

appear in the conference proceedings.

adviser to the

Bush administra-

tion will speak Wednesday, April 8.

John

may

B. Taylor,

work during

the times

get a permit at the university police

office April 27,

from 8 a.m.

to 5:30 p.m., or

29 and 30 from 8 a.m.

Permits will not be available

at

to 4:30 p.m.

the university

police office until April 27.

an economics professor

at

Stanford University and director of Stanford's

Center for Economic Policy Research, will
discuss

Lawrence H. Tanner, geography and earth

listed

April 28,

An economic

to obtain a parking permit in

the building in which

"The Long Boom: What Has Been the

Role of Monetary Policy" from 1:50 to 3 p.m.
in the

Kehr Union, Multipurpose

A reception will
Multipurpose

be held

Room

Taylor served

Room

B.

after the talk in

member of President

George Bush's Council of Economic Advisors

from 1989

to 1991.

He was

responsible for

assembling the administration's economic
forecasts.

as

PHEAA

1.

(Pennsylvania Higher Education

Assistance Agency)

A.

as a

Kishbaugh
Continued from page

and vocational

rehabilitation

program. She also has primary responsibility for
the Perkins Loan Program, the Supplemental

Educational Opportunity Grant Program and
the university's private scholarship programs.

5

COMMUNIQUE 2 APRIL 98

4

Calendar
Provost's Lecture Series
and open

Lectures are free

For more

to the public.

information, call Academic Support Services at

Concerts

Films

Concerts are ftee unless otherwise specifted. For

more information,

Amistad -

(717) 389-4284.

call

University-Community Orchestra Steven Blair - Thursday and Friday, April 2

and

Friday, April 3,

Sunday, April

4199.

3.

Author of the book

Blair will give a lecture,

Importance of Physical

Fitness After Fifty,

"The Public Health
Activity," Thursday at

"How

7:30 p.m., and a workshop,

to Increase

Your Physical Activity by Integrating
Activities," Friday at

Lifestyle

Dvorak" concert, Sunday, April

Haas Center

It

Gets - Thursday and Friday,

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

Ballroom, Sunday, April 19, 7 p.m., Haas

Women's Choral Ensemble and Husky Singers
- Tuesday, April 7, 7:30 p.m., Kehr Union,
Ballroom.

Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

II

Postino (Italian/French film) - Monday,

April 20, 7 p.m.,

Chamber Singers - Samrday,

April 18, 7:30 p.m.,

Kehr Union, Multicultural

Center.

Church, Bloomsburg.

First Presbyterian

Hank Aaron -

As Good As

April 16 and 17, 7

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

8:30 a.m. in the Kehr

Union, Ballroom.

7 p.m., Haas Center;

7 p.m., Kehr Union, Ballroom.

"All-

2:30 p.m.,

5,

5,

"Chasing the Dream," Friday,

E.T.

Band Spring Concert -

- Wednesday, April 22, 7 and 9:30

p.m.,

April 24, 2 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts,

University Concert

Mitrani Hall. Aaron will be the guest of honor

Sunday, April 19, 2:30 p.m., featuring guest

8 p.m., Friday, April 24, 6 and 8:30 p.m.,

conductor/composer Bruce Yurko, Haas Center

Sunday, April 26, 10 a.m.,

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

Kehr Union, Ballroom.

Art Exhibits

Special Events

at

a dinner at 24 West, Magee's

Friday beginning at 6 p.m.

dinner

is

The

$50 per person. For

4058. Proceeds

endow

will

Main

Street Inn,

cost of the

Exhibits are in the

Monday

Haas

through Friday,

more information,

call

Gallery

ofArt. Hours are

9 a.m.

to

4 p.m.

For

(717) 389-4646.

Klein, University of

Pennsylvania, Friday, April 3, 3 p.m.. Carver

Kenneth

S.

1

and 7 p.m.,

8,

1 1

a.m.

Kehr Union, Ballroom. For more

information,

call

4196.

Bloomsburg University Student Art
Association

- Juried

exhibition, through April 9.

Opening Reception:

"Life in the Caribbean"

Exhibit - Wednesday, April 15, 10 a.m.,

Gross Auditorium.

Steven Bagnell, Sculpture and Painting

Chinese Martial Arts: "Taichi GongFu" Friday, April 3,

Thursday, April 23,

Blood Drive - Wednesday, April
to 5 p.m.,

Impact of Global Financial Crisis on the U.S.

Hall,

for the Arts;

reservations, call

a scholarship.

Lectures
Economy - Lawrence

Haas Center

6 p.m., Kehr Union,

Retrospective

-

Kehr Union, Multicultural Center.

April 13 through 24.

Student Research Poster Session - April 22-23,

Reception, April 15, 5 to 7 p.m.

Kehr Union, Multipurpose Rooms.

Multicultural Center

Maile Marshall - Master of Art Thesis
Time, Money and the Truth About Credit —
Steven Smith, finance and business law,

W.

Human

Services,

Reception, Friday,

May

1,

May

Siblings'

10.

and Children's Weekend more information, call 4346.

April 24-26. For

noon.

McCormick

Tuesday, April 7, 3:30 to 5 p.m.,

Center for

Exhibition, April 27 through

Forum.

Renaissance Jamboree - Saturday, April 25,

Celebrity Artist Series

Movie Night and Panel Discussion Tuesday, April 7, 7 p.m., Kehr Union,

GLB

Call the Celebrity Artist Series box

10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,

4409

offtce at

for more information.

information,

call

downtown Bloomsburg. For
Chamber of Commerce at

the

(717) 784-2522.

Multicultural Center.

The Long Boom: What Has Been
Monetary Policy - John
University,

B. Taylor, Stanford

Wednesday, April

Kehr Union, Multipurpose

8,

1:50 p.m.,

Room

Using Problem-Based Learning
Class

-

S.

Ekema Agbaw,

April 16, 12:30 p.m.,

Shi,

"Daughter of the Regiment," performed by
National Company -

New York City Opera

in a Literature

Kehr Union, room 340.
the

Game PIG

mathematics and computer science,

Alumni Day information,

Saturday, April 25. For

call

more

4058.

Tuesday, April 14, 8 p.m., Mitrani Hall, Haas

Center for the Arts. Tickets are $30.

Governance

B.

English, Thursday,

A Decision-Making Strategy for
- Yixun

the Role of

Theater
Tickets are required. All performances are in

Carver Hall, Kenneth

Assassins

-

S.

Gross Auditorium.

A Stephen Sondheim

April 22, 23, 29, 30 and

Thursday, April 23, 12:30 p.m., Kehr Union,

Tickets are

room 409.

senior citizens.

$10

May

for adults,

$5

1

musical,

and

2, 8

p.m.

for students

and

Bloomsburg University Curriculum
Committee (BUCC) - Wednesdays, April 8
and 22, 3 p.m., McCormick Center, Forum.
University Forum - Wednesdays, April 1
and 29, 3 p.m., McCormick Center, Forum.
Planning and Budget - Thursdays, April 16
and 30, and

Friday, April 17, 3:30 p.m.,

McCormick

Center, Forum.

Communique
A NEWSLEHER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

PBS

Library services
to be suspended
May 9 for move
Saturday,
the

May

will

Duggan

Library services will resume Tuesday,

new Andruss

end,

Circulating books can be returned in

book drops

new

at the entries

for

Bloomsburg Fairgrounds.

move

make PBS

has worked to

a

date to 1967,

Lyndon

PBS

its

has launched a host of

345 member

deliver information,

be available by calling 2799.

PBS

Wide Web

member

of President

he helped

B. Johnson's staff,

craft the

1960s

Washington

his

career in the

The Washington Post

as a reporter for

later served as national editor for

The

He

Washingtonian magazine in the 1980s.
author, with

Ben

Wattenberg,

J.

is

co-

Against All

Enemies, a 1977 political novel.

Graduate commencement

to

and PBS Mathline, the

development

professional

and
that

separately Friday,

Haas Center

telecommunications-based

nation's largest

will

early

initiatives

stations, including

as a

government's role in public broadcasting.

more

new

public broadcasting

ties to

when

Duggan began

To

after four years as

Public Broadcasting Act to define the federal

students are anticipated to

Online, which uses the World

of

library buildings. Up-to-

date information during the

will begin at

nimble, entrepreneurial organization.

Library.

the external

at the

The ceremony

Since his arrival as president in 1994,

university's new^ library building.

the old or

Commission. His

commencement

PBS

to

commissioner of the Federal Communications

receive their degrees at the ceremony.

into the

26, at 8 a.m. in the

9.

More than 850

p.m. to expedite

Duggan came

(Public Broadcasting

be the featured speaker for

May

2:15 p.m.

9, at 5

PBS

Bloomsburg's undergraduate

be suspended

speak at commencement

Duggan, president and chief

Service), will

Saturday,

move of collections

May

S.

executive officer of

Harvey A.

All services at the

Andruss Library

Ervin

chief to

16 APRIL 1998

service for teachers.

imately

1

May

8,

will

be held

beginning

7 p.m. in

at

Approx-

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

50 students

will receive their degrees.

Faculty are requested to return books

and other resources that they

are not

Alumni Association to iionor six April 25

presently using as soon as possible to
assist library

personnel in spacing the

collections in the

new

Bloomsburg's Alumni Association will honor

library building.

name two individuals honorary
alumni on Alumni Day, Saturday, April 25.
four alumni and

Interlibrary loan services will not be
available except

on an emergency

basis

Jan Young Berninger '77 and

during this period. Should an emer-

where

gency

arise

other

document

named Young Alumni of the Year.
McCracken Hontz '65 and Daniel J.
Tearpock '70 will be presented with the Alumni

interlibrary loan or

delivery services are

needed, faculty should

4218.

call

Tim Holden

reasonable effort will be

made

to satisfy

emergency needs.

at

Luncheon

tickets are

1

Sallle

The SOLVE program

Mae

grant

Kenneth

(Students Organized

to Learn through Volunteerism

ceremony

will

S.

Award.

Jesse

Muehlhof will be
luncheon

Commons.

$10 and may be obtained
4058.

office at

be held

at

An

awards

p.m. in Carver Hall,

1

public schools in

New Jersey

Montessori school

in

in operation for four years.

been published

Berninger has advanced during a 20-year

Tearpock

is

in five languages.

CEO

and president of SPX Oil

Market. As one of five market presidents - and

Exploration and Production

Institute Grant.

$5,000 to

the only female

who

- she

is

responsible for over

employees

training in recognition of

stretching from the Lehigh Valley to the

efforts to provide

students learning experiences through
nity service

The
works

commu-

and employment.

Sallie

Mae

Institute,

to identify current

founded

York

state

service a

in

1997,
issues

of

is

the only

Bloomsburg graduate ever elected

House of

known

to the U.S.

Representatives. First elected to the

1992

national importance, conduct research and

house

publish findings.

counties, he was re-elected in

in

New

border and west to State College.

Congressman Holden

and emerging

1

900

5-county territory

support need-based grants and financial aid
its

Her

books. Infinite Potential and Inner Treasures have

Gross Auditorium.

Mae Education

will receive

and her own

she established a Montessori school in Budapest,

which has been

and Gas, LLC,

Sallie

The Nether-

Venezuela. Most recently,

president of CoreStates' Pennsylvania Northern

The SOLVE program

in

Albrook Montessori School and

ment) was one of only 10 recipients of a grant

from the

real estate

to gain experience in the

first

lands, the

career in banking to her current position as

and Employ-

him

Wassenaur Montessori School
a

1:30 a.m. in Scranton

beginning

by calling the alumni

SOLVE wins

L.

named Honorary Alumni.
Alumni Day will feature

circulation desk at 4205. Every

agent, enabling

of two terms as sheriff of Schuylkill.
Hontz has a 33-year career as an educator
spanning several continents. She has taught at
the American School of the Hague and the

A. Bryan and Marilyn

the

Holden earned

an insurance broker and

family business. In 1985, he was elected to the

Association's Distinguished Service

call

his license as

Carol

Faculty needing library resources on an

should

sociology degree at Bloomsburg,

'80 will be

emergency

basis

percent of the vote. After completing a

to represent Schuylkill

and Berks

1996 with 59

a

newly-formed Oil and Gas

Company

in

Lafayette, La. Since 1988, he has also served as

CEO

and president of Subsurface Consultants

and Associates, LCC, an international petro-

leum consulting

firm.

The

co-author of two

textbooks. Applied Subsurface Geological

Mapping and Quick Look

Techniques, Tearpock

has taught geology at several institutions.

Bryan touched the

lives

of hundreds of

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Bloomsburg University Crime Report
Bloomsburg students duting

Prepared by University Police for

at

1998

IVIarcli

the

this fall,

Reported

Offenses

Arrests

to or

by University Police

made

or

Incidents Cleared by

Other Means

he

will

continue to help

Memorial Scholarship and the

4

Liquor

from the

1

serve

Laws

6

Drunkenness

4

Disorderly Conduct

6

the

university,

This report reflects only those incidents which occur on
It

does not include incidents

in

the

Town

of

retired

for

Employment of People with
and

as a

101 Advisory Board

to the ptesident

and has been

at

Bloomsburg.
in the

as university

a

member

974

Also duting the weekend, the student

and

activities office will host "Siblings'

activities

Weekend" with

ftom April 24

sance Jamboree, a

The

special

to 26. Renais-

downtown

street

be Satutday from 10 a.m.

festival, will

university's president's office for nearly

5 p.m.

33

entertainment, games and

years, serving eight presidents

1

of Professional

Secretaries International since 1963.

Children's

member of the Act

and now

She earned the designation

Certified Professional Secretary in

Bryan continues to

Muehlhof has worked

university property

Jesse A.

be presented to

on the Govetnot's Committee

Disabilities

Muehlhof has been

an invaluable source of information in

secretary.

male minority students. Though

4

Vandalism

will

Providing continuity from one administration to another,

her long-time role as executive secretary

The

Btyan and Laney B. Ward

Bryan Scholarship
Theft from buildings

23 years

students thtough two scholarships.
Felix

Larceny Totals

his

many of those heading
Act 101/EOP program. Beginning

the university,

to

festival will featute food,
crafts.

beginning with Harvey A. Andruss.

Bloomsburg.

SAFETY
when

TIP:

leaving.

Take the time
It

to

Psychology faculty, students
present papers at conference

secure the doors behind you

takes less time than

filling

out a purchase

request for replacement equipment.

Several

members of the Psychology

Department and
Two hundred three pints of blood donated at Bloodmobile
At the bloodmobile
potential donors

223

blood.
fall,

The

next

visit at

the Kehr

Union April

came and donated 203

pints of

the Bloodmobile will be here Tuesday, Nov. 10,

and Wednesday, Nov.

presented tesearch studies

at the

annual

Astor-Stetson, Beck, Jara and Zarecky

Student Kathy Parillo and faculty

member Connie Schick

"Effect of Hypermascuiinity/ femininity,

Support on Self-Esteem and Psychologi-

Gendet, and Type of Video Seen on

cal

about Justifications

Views and

for,

Statistics on.

L.

Date

4412

Beck presented

Publication date for next issue: Thursday,
generally twice a

Style, Religion,

May 7.

month during

"Billy Joel

Was

and Alcohol Use to

academic year and monthly during the summer.)

Related Beliefs, Behaviors and Traits."

Four-digit phone numbers listed in the Communique are
on-campus extensions. To use the numbers off campus, dial

Astor-Stetson, Beck and Schick

is

717.

Please submit story ideas

and news items

Student Holly Aton and faculty

to Eric Foster,

efoster@bloomu.edu
Bloomsburg can be found on the World Wide

at:

Web

Effects of Sex,

The

Overt Self-Esteem,

Prescribed Petfectionism on
at:

Condom

Schick, Beck and Astor-Stetson

UNIVERSITY

presented "Ego Ptotection:

The

Effects

of Self-Esteem, Gendet and Perfectionism on Self-Handicapping."
Beck, student April Zarecky, Astor-

A Member of Pennsylvania 's
Stale System of Higher Education

Self-

Restrained Eating in Middle School

Faculty

Marion Mason and student

Holly Vanderhoff presented "Altetnative

Ways of Moral Reasoning."
Faculty Steven L. Cohen and
students Kay E. Ennis, Lori M. Buck,
S. Schreffler

and Kristin A. Haase

presented "Biofeedback Training of
Frontal

EMG:

Effects of Rate of

Extinction."

Faculty Julie Kontos and student

Attitudes."

Student Todd C. Doebler and faculty

Bloomsbun

Social

Feedback on Acquisition and

Covett Self-Esteem and Socially

http://www.bloomu.edu

Body Image,

Esteem, Psychological Well-Being and

John

presented "Don't Be Embarrassed:

104 Waller Administration Building, or by e-mail

Effects of

Students."

College Students' Sexual and Intimacy-

the

"The

Support and Media Sensitivity on

Wrong: Relationship of Attachment
Editor: Eric Foster, ext.

Well Being." Beck, Jara, Astor-

Stetson, Zarecky and Starks presented

and

Schick, Eileen Astor-Stetson and Brett

area code

presented "The Effects of Family

1 1

Communique

The

Starks,

Control, Family Acceptance and Social

presented

Student Heidi Trauger and faculty

first.

Middle School Students."

Association in Boston.

Rape."

389

Psychological Well-Being and Depression in

Political

is

and Family Involvement on Self-Esteem,

meeting of the Eastern Psychological

Beliefs

(Publication

of Age, Sex, Grade Level, Body Image,

8,

scheduled for July 22. In the

visit is

theit students recently

Stetson, and students David Jara and

Michael Starks presented "The Effects

Brad Davis presented "Achievement,
Test Anxiety, Depression and Student
Financial Status:

The

College

Dilemma.'"
Faculty Joseph Tloczynski presented

"Psychological Effects of Prayer:

Prcliminarv Studv."

A

6

1

Dee Welk, nursing

faculty

TALE

and

been elected the Region 2

Coordinator for the Pennsylvania Society

of Teaching Scholars.

The group

comprised mainly of graduates of

week-long program held

at

Dennis Gehris, business education
and

office information systems,

a paper entitled

the

a

Allenbury on

1

Talks to focus on

"Multimedia on the

New

Orleans.

teaching and learning strategies that was

universities in this area

Andrea Pearson, art, presented a
"Gender and Artistic Format in

regional

programming

Modern Europe: Devotional

Early

Portrait Diptychs

related to

teaching and learning.

Manuscripts,"

Haririan, economics, has co-

"My World: Through

on Panel and

"Voodoo":

University,

Waco, Texas,

in April.

International Atlantic

Conference

Rome,

in

45'''

Women,

She

Art and Piety: Devotional

Modern Europe,"

Genders

carried out at the Library of Congress

summer. Pearson

I

The Native American
Ballroom.

"Newsletter of the Historians of

pianist Joe

in the

artists

John

in Boston, Mass.

Riley,

computer

Leon Szmedra,

exercise physiology,

in collaboration with the

cardiology

at

Penn

department of

State Geisinger

The concert
McBride,

at

mathematics and

science, gave

two

who

is

at its

meeting April

8.

Newly-approved undergraduate courses include: philosophy, "Metaphysics"; anthropology, "Indigenous Cultures of

Lawrence Tanner, geography and

art,

teaching and
State

meeting.

The

Volume and

HB/MB

service of the

on the

He

has

board since 1995.

editorial

"Blood

Oxygen

earth science, "Volcanoes";

"Romanesque and Gothic" and "Northern Renaissance

Art."

Newly approved graduate

courses include: communication

disorders and special education, "Central Auditory Processing

Disorders" and "Internship in Audiology"; curriculum and

four exercise

students and their

projects are: Garrett Felix,

community

System of Higher Education.

served

Reza Noubary, mathematics and

graduate students working with Szmedra

at the

recording

The curriculum committee approved numerous new
courses

University of Pennsylvania.

Modern Mexico"; geography and

will present as first authors their findings

all

Curriculum committee approves new courses

physics departments of Indiana

of Scholars, the journal of research,

Fla. Additionally,

Kenny Blake,
drummer

free.

Following Coronary Revascularization

Orlando,

sponsoring a jazz

Gerald Veasley and

earth science, has been appointed editor

of Sports Medicine annual meeting in

p.m.

have recorded more than half a dozen albums

between them. Admission

chaos and fractals to the psychology and

paper, "Exercise Tolerance in Patients

American College

is

will feature saxophonist

bassist

with Impaired Left Ventricidar Function

for presentation at the

1

on

lectures

Medical Center, has had a research

and Cardiac Rehabilitation," accepted

Friends School,

7 p.m. in the Kehr Union,

Keith Carlock. Blake, McBride and Veasley are

Netherlandish Art."

American Association of Geographers

Annual Meeting

Cultural Society

concert Monday, April 27,

"Sixteenth Century Journal" and the

Industry in the United States," at the

Greenwood

27

Jazz concert planned April

in a poster session titled, "Control

The Investment Management

p.m.

languages and cultures, Tuesday, April 28, 2 p.m.

book reviews

Points:

Perspective - Walter Howard,

The Commuter Nation: Puerto Rican Literature
United States - Amarilis Hidalgo de Jesus,

in the

also has published

1997-98

and the

talks include:

a Newyorikan or a Puerto Rican Born and Raised in the

earth science, recently presented a paper

in

The

United States? - Student panel, Tuesday, April 28,

to be

and the University of Maryland Library
this

A Psychological

7.

Puerto Rico,

Economic

in Early

exhibit,

Student Presentations - Monday, April 27, 3 p.m.

towards a book, "Men,

Italy.

John E. Bodenman, geography and

Am

Diptychs and the Piety of the

Portrait

The

Thursday, April 23, 6 p.m.

for research

the

May

Taci Styer and Judy Hunchar,

Prospect and Retrospect," with Bijan

at

The

Local School and a Rural Haitian School - Sheila Lunger,

in

has received a Special Initiatives Grant

University that they presented

the Eyes of Children."

history, Tuesday, April 21, 2

South-Central

at the

April.

art exhibit in the Multicultural Center,

Friendly Connections: Building a Relationship Between a

authored a paper, "Airline Safety:

Vasigh of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical

with an

featuring drawings by children from the United States

Renaissance Conference at Baylor

Mehdi

Caribbean

life in

Kehr Union, Multicultural Center, during

talks coincide

paper,

and provides

3

of talks about "Life in the Caribbean" will be held

Caribbean, runs through

sponsored by the State System. Region 2

encompasses 10 public and private

series

in the
at

7th Annual Office Systems Research

Association Conference in

A

authored

was presented recently

Internet," that

is

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computer

science, has written an article

with JoAnne Growney, professor
emeritus of mathematics and computer
science, titled "Risk,

A Motivating

Theme

Volleyball Players Following Training";

Course" which appears in the February

an Introductory

Teachers."

Two new courses were approved as swing courses: curriculum and foundations, "Computers in the Curriculum" and
"Integrating Technology into Teaching."

Desaturation in the Vastus Lateralis of

for

foundations, "Internet for Teachers" and "Technology for

Statistics

The committee
undergraduate

also approved:

pass/fail policies; a

academic grievance and
proposal from the account-

ing department to require six of 12 credits of electives to be

Joohee Im, "Hemoglobin/Myoglobin

issue

Oxygen Desaturation During Alpine

Noubary has

Skiing in Junior Elite Skiers Stratified by

cal

Age"; Claire Watson, "The Effects of

joint meetings of the

Short-Term Training on Oxygen

Mathematical Society and the Math-

course requirements in the exercise science and education of

Consumption and Anaerobic Threshold

ematical Association of America in

the deaf/hard of hearing programs.

in Individuals

Disease";

with Ischemic Heart

Susan Yochim, "Indices of

Exercise Tolerance

and Depression

Following Cardiac Rehabilitation."

of The American

Statistician.

also presented

"Mathemati-

Analysis of a Volleyball Match" at the

Baltimore,

Md.

American

A summary

arts, as

of the paper

appears in the conference abstracts.

He

presented "Record Values and Record

Times"

at

Penn

accounting

State University, Scranton.

electives; a

proposal to require students in the

college of business to take half of their courses in the liberal

recommended by

There was
policy.

the accrediting body; changes in the

also the first reading of the

academic integrity

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Calendar
Concerts

Provost's Lecture Series
Lectures are free

and open

to the public.

For more

Films

Concerts are free unless otherwise specified. For

more information,

information, call Academic Support Services at

call

As Good As

(717) 389-4284.

Gets - Thursday and Friday,

It

April 16 and 17, 7 and 9:30 p.m.,

4199.

Chamber Singers —

Hank Aaron -

"Chasing the Dream," Friday,

First Presbyterian

Saturday, April 18, 7:30 p.m..

Church, Bloomsburg.

Kehr Union,

Ballroom, Sunday, April 19, 7 p.m., Haas

Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

April 24, 2 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts,

University Concert

Mitrani Hall. Aaron will also be the guest of

24 West, Magee's Main

Band Spring Concert -

II

Postino (Italian/French fdm) - Monday,

Sunday, April 19, 2:30 p.m., featuring guest

April 20, 7 p.m.,

Street Inn, that evening, beginning at 6 p.m.

conductor/composer Bruce Yurko, Haas Center

Center.

The

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

honor

at a

dinner

at

cost of the dinner

reservations, call

is

$50 per person. For

4058. Proceeds will endow a

scholarship.

Call the Celebrity Artist Series box office at

E.T. - Wednesday, April 22, 7 and 9:30 p.m.,

Jewels of the Diaspora: "A Concert of African

Haas Center

American and Jewish Song" - Tuesday,

8 p.m.; Friday, April 24, 6

April 21, 7 p.m.,

Celebrity Artist Series

Kehr Union, Multicultural

Kehr Union, Ballroom.

for the Arts; Thursday, April 23,

and 8:30 p.m.;

Sunday, April 26, 10 a.m.,

1

and 7 p.m.,

Kehr Union, Ballroom.

4409

for more information.

Concert Choir and Husky Singers - Saturday,
April 25, 7:30 p.m.. First Presbyterian Church,

Good Wdl Hunting - Wednesday,

Bloomsburg.

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

Concert Band Knoebel's Grove "Pops" Concert
- Sunday, April 26, 2 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.,

Special Events

April 29,

New York Chamber Ensemble - Thursday,
May

28, 8 p.m., Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for

the Arts. Tickets are $15.

Knoebel's Grove, Elysburg, weather permitting.

Paramount Brass - Thursday, July

Student Research Poster Session - April 22-23,

30, 8 p.m.,

Monday, April 27, 6:30 p.m.,

Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for the Arts. Tickets

Orchestra Pops

are $15.

Columbia Mall, Buckhorn.

Le Trio Gershwin - Thursday, Oct. 15,
8 p.m., Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for the

Student Semester Recital

-

Kehr Union, Multipurpose Rooms.
Siblings'

Arts.

-

Tuesday, April 28,

call

4346.

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

Renaissance Jamboree - Saturday, April 25,

Tickets are $15.

Bloomsburg

First Presbyterian

Haas Gallery ofArt. Hours
Monday through Friday, 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. For
Exhibits are in the

more information,

call

University's Children's

Spring Concert - Sunday,

Art Exhibits

May

Chorus

10, 2:30 p.m..

Church, Bloomsburg.

4646.

information,

Serious or Sensational:

What Makes Young
-

May

1,

Deborah Savage,

Monday, April 20, 4:30 p.m., Kehr Union,
Hideaway Lounge.

Maile Marshall - Master of Art Thesis
Reception, Friday,

10.

downtown Bloomsburg. For
Chamber of Commerce at

the

First

Saturday, April 25. For

call

more

4058.

World Graduation - Sunday, May

3 p.m.,

3,

Kehr Union, Midticultural Center.

Graduate Commencement — Friday, May
Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

8,

A Decision-Making Strategy for the Game

noon.

PIG - Yixun

Shi,

mathematics and computer

science, Thursday, April 23, 12:30 p.m.,

Governance

Kehr

Undergraduate

May

9,

Commencement -

Saturday,

Bloomsburg Fairgrounds.

Union, room 409.

Bloomsburg University Curriculum
Committee (BUCC) - Wednesday, April

McCormick Center, Forum.
University Forum - Wednesday, April
3 p.m., McCormick Center, Forum.

call

Alumni Day —

Lectures

Adult Literature Valid?

April 24.

May

5 p.m.,

(717) 784-2522.

— Through

Exhibition, April 27 through

10 a.m. to

information,

are

Steven Bagnell, Sculpture and Painting
Retrospective

and Children's Weekend -

April 24-26. For more information,

Mathematics and Sports - Mathematics and
22,

computer science students, Tuesday, April 28,
3:30 to

3 p.m.,

5 p.m.,

McCormick

Center, Forum.

Theater
Tickets are required. All performances are in

Carver Hall, Kenneth

S.

Gross Auditorium.

29,

Planning and Budget - Thursdays, April 16

Comprehension of Metaphor in a Second
Language - Harold Ackerman, developmental

Assassins -

A

Stephen Sondheim musical,

April 22, 23, 29, 30 and

$10

and 30, and

Friday, April 17, 3:30 p.m.,

instruction, Thursday, April 30, 12:30 p.m.,

Tickets are

McCormick

Center, Forum.

Kehr Union, room 340.

senior citizens.

May

for adults,

1

and

2,

8 p.m.

$5 for students and

Commimique
A NEWSLEHER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

7

MAY 1998

Jack Mertz, sister
Eleanor Mertz Seward,
We've come to the end of another academic

donate $250,000

year.

Bloomsburg alumnus Jack Mertz and his
Eleanor Mertz Seward, have recently

As always, preparation

commencement

for

I'm excited for the graduates, most of whom

given the university gifts totaling $250,000

have been part of our family for four years -

to support student scholarships.

some even

Mercz, 83, gave the university three

$195,000 and

annuities totaling

territory

These

Mertz has made to the

and

gift,

in

talent

department

faculty.

was

school, unless there

a state college.

1

in

many

brother.

challenges,

We're
not a Bloomsburg alumna,

Seward has participated

of the Bloomsburg events with her
"From the very beginning, I went to

Seward. "I'm

Jack's functions," says

beginning to think

went

I

Mertz completed

I

as

I

my fourth

it is

year at

my next

look forward to

feel great satisfaction

We,

many

The

Scholars and Honors programs were

challenging academic experience.

Student

for their living

Theater. After the war, he returned

and enrolled

at

home

Bucknell University, where

staff

Accounting Office

He was named

Washington, D.C.

in

chief assistant to the

director of the Civil

Auditing Division

of the U.S. General

Accounting and

and create a distance education

library

The

university

advancement team

record $1.8 million in 1997 in

campaign, which they hope,

gifts,

Office's Meritorious Service

Seward, working

at

Award

in

1972.

WKOK radio in

Sunbury during the 30s and 40s, helped pay
for Jack's college expenses at

in

New Jersey.

for

Later,

she too joined the General Accounting
Office,

working there

for 19 years.

other

scholarships and renovating the old library into

interest housing,

more than $2 million

in grants for the

academic

$250,000 more than our

record

This

year.

amount

initiatives

for

is

any one

When

year.

These

1997/98

first

came

here,

service

more convenient, creating small subcommunities on campus.

Our Greek

system has undergone a

ization process, with
as the

We continue
of

initiatives

revital-

emphasis on service and

foundations for fraternal

to build relationships with our

neighbors and extended community.

A

number

have been implemented to

continue communication and cooperation,

I

force created to deal with alcohol-related issues),

Town/Gown

regular

Four years ago,
because

I

believed

one of the top

expressed concern

meetings, and the Univer-

sity-Community Task Force on Racial Equity.

successftil

allow us to maintain high academic

I

where students of

including the Bloomsburg Initiative (a task

a student services center.

Today,

I

I

enthusiastically

came here

Bloomsburg University was

state universities in the country.

can say that the achievements of this

my

about the implications of declining enrollment.

university have exceeded

We surpassed

I'm proud to be part of this community, and

challenge

is

our enrollment goals.

choosing from

applicants than

We've

Bloomsburg.

During the Korean War, she worked
American Red Cross

among

standards for programs and equipment.

Mertz was awarded the General Accounting

responsibility

also imple-

efforts

raised a

in-kind

provide additional funding for

initiatives, will

1957. For his service,

in

It

makes coordinating study groups or

new

I'm also pleased to say we've been awarded

After teaching for several years, in 1951

more

the Internet, replace outdated wiring, help equip

our

he earned a master's degree in 1947.

Mertz joined the

to take

environment.

similar interests or majors live together. This

continue to plan for a comprehensive capital

the China/Burma/Indonesia

list

mented

drafted and served as an air operations

II in

the

has experienced changes, as well.

life

organizations.

World War

And

The Office of Residence Life adopted a
community standards model for living that

academics

during

program

of academic improvements goes on and on.

donations and royalties, and they expect to

Army Air Corps

MBA

new Depart-

integtated into a single, fout-year

exceed that in coming years. Currently, they

specialist in the

a

approved.

1942. Following graduation, he was

in

And

appropriations allowed us to upgrade our link to

classroom.

degree in business education at Bloomsburg

choose a career in

technology on campus. Several grants and special

to Bloomsburg."

his bachelor of science

attractive.

empowers students

goals.

aware of the fast-paced changes in

all

who

Recent curriculum revisions make our

with what

too, have faced

and through collaboration and hard

work, we've achieved

says Mertz.

since her retirement,

Yet,

for students

designed to provide top-level students a

we've already accomplished.

always had fond memories of Bloomsburg,"

she's

And

Bloomsburg.

four years here,

probably could not have gone to

Though

and idealism out into the world.

I'm also completing

development of accounting

"1

Hopkins

ment of Instructional Technology has been

met the challenges of higher

tough to say goodbye.

1995, he donated $50,000 to support
professional

Island.

medical imaging.

ments. Like you, I'm eager to see them take their

Mr.

university. In 1992,

he gave a $500,000 unrestricted

we have

program more

education and can be proud of their accomplish-

are not the first gifts that

Wallops

longer. They've explored unfamiliar

and opened new doors. They've

successfidly

his sister,

85, contributed $55,000.

at

agreements with Mansfield University and John

evokes bittersweet retrospection.

sister,

Marine Science Consortium

Also, in the health science area

also

for students.

we can

Now our

many more

qualified

expanded our educational options

We've entered into a cooperative

agreement with Widener College of Law and
created a
a

new

legal studies minor.

I

thank each of you for your contributions that

make Bloomsburg

accept.

We now have

marine biology option in coordination with the

expectations.

institution

it is.

University the respected

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COMMUNIQUE 7 MAY 98

2

News briefs

Campus

Special events raise more tiian $25,000 for sclioiarsiiips

George Agbango,

A dinner held
campus

raised

for students

in

Hank

connection with

$4,000

who

Aaron's

as

Upward Bound

With

the National Conference of

PRIDE, with
The Husky Club

Gala raised $6,300

Peters, English, has written an

"Grammar

in the Twenty-first

Century Curriculum," which appears

music and

for

Frank
article,

athletic scholar-

Salih, English, recently

presented a paper

the "To

Grammar

or

Not

in

Grammar"

to

"What

to

Do

Binghamton

ing the Past" conference at

He

on
"The Human Situation in Iraqi
Kurdistan" at Trinity Reformed United
Church of Christ in Bloomsburg and
also gave a lecture

spoke about Bernard Shaw to Millville

High School

issue of the journal. Inland.

titled,

a Colonial Past," at the "Recover-

University.

at

or

Auction raised over $15,000 for the general
President's

Teaching

Black Political Scientists in Atlanta, Ga.

to

have participated in precollegiate programs

Bloomsburg, such

The

visit

at

in

"Chase the Dream Scholarship"

for the

preference given to recruited athletes.

ship fund.

Award

for student scholarships.

Sabah

political science,

was awarded the Excellence

Special events held during the spring semester have raised

more than $25,000

notes

students.

general scholarships.

David Randall, English, presented
Volunteers souglit for Ciiildren's IMuseum events

The

State

paper

System of Higher Education has formed a

partnership with the Conservation Volunteer Program of the
state's

Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

Bloomsburg University can contribute

to the partnership in

two ways. The Children's Museum, which
with the state Department of Forestry,

is

help set up the Natural Bridges Exhibit
teers

may

also sign

up

3-hour

for

1

working

call

the

at

the "Recovering the

Past" conference, sponsored

by the
of New

literatures at the State University

York

at

Science Center,

Market Square,

museum

at

389-9206.

and earth
titled,

Binghamton.

E.

South Shore of Lake Erie,"

Washburn and Neil

Annual Meeting

Gary

Brown, curriculum and foundations,

F.

Clark,

"Multicultural Education in the United

where he presented workshops and

States," at the

1998 Comparative and

Annual

participated in a panel discussion related
to

computer

art.

is

The supervisory roundtable has recognized The Kehr
Union custodial staff for the month of April for their outstand-

The

book signing

Shippensburg's

Taylor,

Tommy

Fair such a great success.

Brian Sweetra, Jim Wintersteen,

Lewis, Jackie Ridall,

Mae

Tammy

Klinger and Sandy

Thomas.

Society also hosted a

autographed copies of their books.

and The Multicultural Education

international

Huber Art

Computer Image." He

Multicultural Education in the United
States

His computer artwork

also part of a four-artist exhibition at

membership of the

Shippensburg's Arts and Sciences

work has

series. In

Berkeley, Calif,

Madara, physics students, have written

Secrets,

Editor: Eric Foster, ext.

4412

Motion," which has been published

Publication date for next issue: Thursday, June 4.
(Publication

is

generally twice a

month during

"Feeling the Physics of Linear

The Physics

the

Teacher, vol. 36,

academic year and monthly during the summer.)

1998, and an

phone numbers listed in the Communique are
on-campus extensions. To use the numbers off campus, dial

Feeling for Newton's

Four-digit

389

first.

The

area code

is

717.

Please submit story ideas

and news items

No.

7,

in Science

and

at:

Bloomsburg can be found on the World Wide

Web

at:

special education,

and

Bruce L. Rockwood, finance and
business law, was recently appointed to
the editorial board of The Legal Studies

ton, D.C., he

research study titled, "A

UNIVERSITY
A Member of Pennsylvania'
Stale Syslem of Higher Education

^

at

the Conference on Law,

met with

the editors to plan
issue

he

will edit.

County

Intermediate Unit, co-authored a

Bloomsbun

Inc., Foster

City, Calif

an upcoming symposium

Jennifer Saskiewica '96, hearing
consultant for the Bucks

http://www.bloomu.edu

by Adele and Seth Greenberg,

Culture and the Humanities in Washing-

Gerry Powers,

efoster@bloomu.edu

Press,

and Painter 5 Studio

Books Worldwide,

Forum. While

1998.

to Eric Foster,

104 Waller Administration Building, or by e-mail

Book, by Cher

4,

Laws of Motion,"

which has been published

IDG

"Getting a

article titled,

Children, vol. 35,

No.

in

5 Wow

Threinen, Pendarvis, Peachpit

Doug Bowman, Karen Brown and Russ
article,

addition, Clark's

recently been published in two

books: The Painter

Christopher Bracikowski, physics,

also presented a

lecture, "Fractal Fairy Tales," as a part of

colloquium

organization.

an

Center,

Kauffman Gallery. The exhibition is
titled, "1998 Art and Technology, The

where Washburn and Brown

Directory, for a large contingent of the

Communique

has recently

returned from Shippensburg University

New York.

making the recent Job

art,

recently presented a paper,

Meeting, held in Buffalo,

staff includes:

in Boston.

L.

Supervisory roundtable recognizes Kehr Union custodians

ing efforts in

at the

Association of American Geographers

International Education Society

The

Two

Recent High Lake Level Episodes on the

94'''

David

science, presented a paper

"A Comparison of Bluff Erosion

Process in Glacial Till During

department of romance languages and

seeking volunteers to

to July 31, in the Caldwell Consistory,

Bloomsburg. For information,

closely

May 18-29. Volunas museum guides

Summer Art and

during the Third Annual

June

shifts

is

Expect Delays,"

Shahalam M. N. Amin, geography

a

"Postmodern Construction:

titled,

Patricia

Comparison

Dorame-Holoviak,

languages and cultures, recently

Amor

Study of Educational Involvement of

presented a paper, "Poemas de

Hearing Parents of Deaf Children of

Propio y de Propio Amor: Reconfiguring
Space from Exile," at the Southeast

Elementary School-Age Children,"

which was published
of the American

in the

March

An nab of the

Deaf.

issue

Conference on Foreign Language and
Literatures at Stetson Univetsiry in

De

Land,

Fla.

REVENUE COMPARISON

University works

Budget Control
(Projected)

The University Planning and Budget Committee heard a presentaon the university budget during its April 16 meeting and met

again April 30 to endorse a spending plan for the 1998/99

The approved balanced spending plan

Fiscal Year 98/99

(Budgeted)

budget

to balance
tion

Fiscal Year 97/98

fiscal year.

eliminates an anticipated budget

Tuition

Less Waivers

29,512,842

29,531,190

(1,330,195)

(1,062,758)

Less International Waivers

n26

Less 1/2%

(140,913)

(150,000)

Total Tuition

27,915,044

28,147,476

State Appropriation

30,518,750

32,161,613

1,788,732

2,209,577

(33,140)

(106,346)

Deferred Maintenance

420,000

420,000

Cash Carry-Forward

553,127

550,000

One-Time Retirement Savings

780,252

to Chancellor's Office

690)

f170 956)

shortfall of $985,881.

The

potential shortfall

was created by

several factors. Last year,

the university used one-time fimds of $780,252 (retirement savings

refunded from the

state)

and $194,600 (favorable enrollment

number

balance the budget and finance a

tuition) to

In addition, the budget for the State System of Higher Education

and signed by Governor Ridge is
than the amount requested. Last fall, the Board of

recently passed

$8 million less

by the

Other Funding

Academic Enfiancement Fee

of initiatives.

legislature

Governors had asked for an additional $32 million in state appropriaThe request was based on anticipated spending for

tions for 1998/99.

Less Academic

Facility

Debt

Favorable Enrollment Tuition

194,600

Net Interest Earned

salary increases ($22.5 million), benefits ($5.5 million), operating

and

increases ($3.7 million)

capital needs ($1.1 million).

However, without

E&G Funds

Total Available

a

combination of the

first

64,682,320

will consider three options:

SPENDING PLAN

a

(1)

(2)

budget reductions of $8 million, or

Fiscal Year 97/98

Fiscal Year 98/99

two

options. In previous statements, the

(Budgeted)

Budget Control

tuition increase of 2.3 percent,
(3)

63,437,365

revenue for

Bloomsburg University will be less than 2 percent more than last year.
The Board of Governors will meet on May 14 to decide how to
It

300,000

The approved

a tuition increase, actual

address this $8 million shortfall.

1,000,000

300,000

Miscellaneous Revenue

budget increases the State System's operating budget by approximately
4.95 percent.

1,000,000

Plan

Board of Governors has indicated a strong desire not to increase
Expenses by Area

tuition.

"We

all

as possible,

appreciate the concern about keeping student cost as

but

we

can't

deny the

mean we do not have the

fact that

low

the loss of this revenue will

financial resources necessary to fully

fund

our needs," said President Kozloff.

and each vice president present operating budgets that

keep divisional increases to

less

President's Office

672,638

675,163

Academic Affairs

39,803,992

40,561,645

Administration

10,818,532

10,921,085

3,264,557

3,313,447

Student

In an effort to eliminate the projected shortfall, Kozloff requested
that her office

(Includes salaries of regular employees)

Life

Advancement
Total

Expenses

1,339,186

1,371,685

55,898,905

56,843,025

than 2.5 percent. This cost contain-

ment, combined with use of some one-time funds ($196,000 from
program service mix and $301,928 from health care reserves), deletes

General Personnel Costs

the shortfall and leaves an unallocated balance of $172,297.

compensation, and worker's compensation.)

"Once

again,

we

are balancing

However, he

funds being utilized

also pointed out that the

is

less

than

amount of one-time

also possible that the projection of cash carried forward

estimated at $550,000,

requests could be funded

"We should

all

if

Other Expenses
(Includes

utility

3,608,499

4,038,850

charges, telephones, computers, networking/distance learning

expenses, government charges, contingency resen/es, deferred maintenance,

"enhancement budget request." Enhancement budget requests could be
funded through the $172,297 balance, and through additional revenue
available if the Board of Governors did approve a tuition increase. It is
fiscal year,

2,022,845

unemployment

last year.

Kozloff also indicated that each vice president could propose an

1997/98

2,074,381

sick leave payout, annual leave payout, social security,

our budget with one-time funds

that ought not be used for continuing costs," cautioned Vice President
Parrish.

(Mudes

is

all

furniture.)

Academic Enhancement Fee
Less Academic Facility Debt
Total

Expenses

1,788,732

2,209,577
(106,346)

63,370,517

65,007,951

66,848

(325,631)

conservative. Additional

the carry-forward

understand that not

from the

and classroom

is

more

favorable.

enhancement requests can

be funded, and prioritization of these requests will be a very important

Unallocated Funds

Program Service Mix

196,000

Health Care Reserve

301,928

undertaking," said Vice President Bradshaw.

Continued on next page.

Total Available

E&G Funds

66,848

172,297

Budget Control by Division
Plan to Balance the Budget

Enhancement Budget Request
(In Priority

Order)

President's Ojfice
Personnel Changes

52,130

Tofal

$2,130

No Requests

Academic Affairs
Decrease 300 Operating by

$72,323

Decrease 400 Equipment by

$92,261

Decrease Faculty Overload by

1 )

Restore

$200,000

Freeze Two Faculty Positions

$67,416

Two

Faculty Positions

mathematics and computer science
sociology, social welfare
2)

Restore 300 Operating

3)

Restore 400 Equipment

4) Partially Restore Faculty

$432,000

Total

$56,243

and criminal

$56,243

justice

$72,323
$92,261

Overioad

$100,000

Toy

$377,070

Adm in istratio n
Seasonal Position Freezes

$66,000

Reduce Overtime Costs

$30,000

Constnjction Design Reimbursement

$12,500

$108,500

Total

1 )

Defen-ed Maintenance on Nelson Field House Roof

$230,000

$230,000

Total

Student Life
Appropriate Salary Transfer from

Reduce Admissions

Do Not Replace

E&G to Auxiliaries

Position to Part-Time

Counseling Center Sabbatical Vacancy

S90,000

1 )

Replace Counseling Center Vacancy (Full-Time)

$25,000

2)

Restore Admissions Assistant Director to Full-Time

$23,000

3) Provide Benefits to Asst.

Women's

Basketall

4) Provide Salary for Part-Time Lacrosse

Tott

$138,000

$55,000
$25,000

Coach

$1 3,000

Coach

$7,500

$100,500

Total

University Advancement
Support For Upcoming Capital Campaign

Reduce Operating Expenses

S5,000

1)

Total

$5,000

Total

$10,000

$10,000

Balance the budget
Continued from previous page.

Kozloff informed the University Planning and Budget Committee that a

Academic

coming year, the university
Centennial, Navy and Hartline.

Facility Debt. In the

buildings:

will

pay S1C6,CCC

new

expenditure line has been added, that of the

in debt service toward the renovation of three

"We're authorized to spend $21 million for the renovation of these buildings, but
that total ourselves," said Kozloff.

The

we were

required to finance S7 million of

yearly debt burden will gradually increase to $545,038 from 2002 through 2017, and then

gradually decrease through the year 2C24. In approving the academic building renovation bond, the Board of Governors modified
its

academic enhancement

nity

fee pohq.' so that

Government Association passed

5331,437 this

commg year,

to

some

of those funds could be used for facihty renovation. This spring, the

guidelines that authorize the use of 15 percent of the academic

be used for

facilities

money

enhancement

fee,

Commuestimated

at

renovation.

meet our debt payment and to uindertake selected renovations of academic faciUiies,"
which we must judiciously anticipate."
Kozloff added, "The budget process is always challenging, and this year was no different. I commend everyone for a job well
done. This year's actions have resulted in a balanced budget that refleas a tremendous team effort and commitment to the future
"That

fee will

Kozloff noted.

provide enough

"Paymg

of this university."

to

off this debt ser\'ice will provide a challenge

7

MAY 98 COMMUNIQUE

3

Campus notes
Rosemary
sor,

McGrady, mailroom

T.

was recently recognized

outstanding

women

the

at

Richelle Carlonas, a graduate student, have

Annual Women's

IS'*"

Linda M. LeMura, exercise physiology, and

supervi-

one of four

as

Conference of Columbia and Montour counties

written an

article,

Accumulation

"The Relationship of Lactate
and

to Central

exemplary service to students and employers

presented a paper,

"Un Voyage au Mont Athos ou

Southeast Conference

at

the

on Foreign Language and

Literatures at Stetson University in

De

Land,

Fla.

project was supported, in part,
disciplinary grant

athletics,

and

health, physical education

gave a presentation titled "Exercise

Promotion Strategies and Stages of Change
Worksite Employees"

in

the Health Educators

at

She

also

participated in the recent Healthy Kids

Day

Institute conference in Harrisburg.

the

Bloomsburg

YMCA.

a paper at the national

at

and

LeMura

and

meeting of the American

Hadduck and

European College of Sports Medicine and
a

Association by running the

Mathemat-

SSMA booth.

has also had an

director of academic intern-

and Peter Walters, director of accommo-

is

Cooperative:

John

Olivo, business

J.

education and office information systems,
recently presented a session

on

Strategies for

Teaching Business Education Methods Courses
at the

1998 National Business Education

Association Convention in San Antonio, Texas.

Jessica KozlofF, president,

presenter at

Temple

was an invited

University's national

conference on "The Cutting Edge:
Perspectives in Alcohol

New

and Other Drug

Education." She spoke on "Changing

Perspective

A

Campus

President's

by Barry Jackson,

arts,

recently presented

ing from Garland Press.

two papers

Communication Association

Eastern

Lawrence H. Tanner, geography and earth

annual conference. "Emerging Communication
Technologies:

Change and Paradox

settings.

science, presented

two papers

at the

1

5th

International Sedimentological Congress held in

in the

Academy" examined the influences of new
communication technologies in university

Alicante, Spain. "Volcaniclastic Breccia Beds

Deposited by Subaqueous Debris Flows, Coastal

"Teaching Excellence: Challenge and

conducted

Sicily" reported research

in Italy last

Change" considered the challenges of teaching

summer and funded by

which

development grant. "Pedogenic Evidence

result

delivery,

from changes

changes

objectives

and changes

and

Late Triassic Climate

was honored

a State

Change

System faculty

in

for

North

America" reported research conducted

popula-

in the student

tion. In addition, Bertelsen

1998

in instructional

in instructional goals

in

Arizona and funded by a Bloomsburg research

as the

and disciplinary

recipient of the association's "Distin-

high

levels

Eastern

grant.

of service to the profession and the

Communication

Library to close

Association.

All services at the

Kapp, Mary Nicholson

Technologies, have recently been awarded two

Andruss Library

Joseph Tloczynski, psychology, has had an
"A Comparison of the Effects of Zen

Adjustment," published

Institute for Interactive

Psychologia:

An

in the

March

issue

Saturday,

research coinvestigated

is

9, at 5

p.m. to expedite

move of collections
university's new library

of

into the

building.

Library services will resume Tuesday,

May

based on

by Michele Tantriella,

Harvey A.
be suspended

will

the

International Journal ofPsychol-

ogy in the Orient. This publication

May

May 9

a

26, at 8 a.m. in the

Library. Circidating

new Andruss

books can be

graduate of Bloomsburg's psychology program

returned in the external book drops at

Pennsylvania Independent Regulatory Review

and the University of Oregon graduate

the entries of the old or

Commission for $2,000 and one from
One, Link-to- Learn for $7,000.

psychology program.

buildings.

grants to develop

sites:

one from the

Project

and

Writing Pedagogies Across the Disciplines, eds.

Dale A. Bertelsen, communication studies

and theatre

Breath Meditation or Relaxation on College

web

...

in the

Alice Robertson and Barbara Smith, forthcom-

article,

life.

Phillips, Karl

in

anthology Twenty Teachers Teaching: Adapting

president for student

Tim

that Binds:

Beyond," accepted for publication

meeting of the

counseling center, and Preston Herring, vice

and June Trudnak,

"The Tie

Composition and Literature Classrooms

on Alcohol Education." She was

assisted in her presentation

article,

Towards an Understanding of Ideology

guished Service Award" in recognition of his

Prevention and Intervention in Higher

Culture through Programming:

Working with Students with

Cooperative Education Association in Boston.

at the

Janice C. Keil and

Modern Language
Md. She

Northeastern Division of the

Pratt also

represented the School Science and

paper, "Maria Edgeworth's Belinda: Writing the

Association conference in Baltimore,

Disabilities," at the national

ics

Teacher, Spring 1998.

Middling-Class' Private Sphere," at the

northern Italian children.

Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual

Measurement Without Formulas."

via the

in the Speech

Patricia Comitini, English, presented a

$1 5,000 grant to study

the effects of caloric expenditure on obesity in

JoAnne Day,

"Teaching

Communication

which was published

Communication

dative services, presented a workshop, "It Really

titled

has written a paper

arts,

Analysis." Finally, Paolo Bellotti of the

their parents.

Washington, D.C.,

office.

Rumbough, communication

B.

and theatre

Internet,"

Donald Pratt, curriculum and foundations,
recently made a presentation at the National
in

Timothy
studies

titled "Intercultural

John O'Leary. The paper is titled "Endurance
Training and V02 Max in Children: A Meta-

ships,

meeting

and

by the Academic Internships Advisory

Board and the provost's

science major conducted a physical fitness
circuit for children

selected

several of his students

will also present

College of Sports Medicine along with graduate

LeMura were awarded

Students in the exercise

a research

program. Slone

in the internship

was nominated by

and by the Bloomsburg

University Foundation.

students Susan Presper, Sherri

Tamra Cash,

by

through work

The

Journal of Exercise and Sport Psychology.

rimmensite Intime de Francois Augerias,"

The award is presented
member who gives

Adolescent

of Perceived Exertion in

Athletes," accepted for publication in the

Gilbert Darbouze, languages and cultures,

Gallagher Award.

annually to the faculty

ment opportunities

Elite

and

social welfare

Periperal Indicies

for her role in establishing professional developfor noninstructional staff

Neal Slone, sociology,

criminal justice, recently received the Francis

new

library

COMMUNIQUE 7 MAY 98

4

Role of forum discussed at April 29 meeting

Calendar

The meeting of the

university

forum

Wednesday, April 29, was devoted
discussion of the role that the

Celebrity Artist Series
Call the Celebrity Artist Series box

office at

forum

index.html

4409

Kontos, chair of the forum, said that a

Julie

of the forum next

- Thursday,

"One of the

28, 8 p.m., Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for

the Arts. Tickets are $1

at the

to look at

is

have been completed and others are expected

States Accreditation committee,

that several

8 p.m., Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for the Arts.

Middle

States

session of that meeting,

process of issuing faculty and staff parking

will

be on reserve

and have been posted on the

committee web

After listening to comments, Robert Parrish,

announced
would be made in the

vice president for administration,

subcommittee reports

Copies of the reports

at the library

15,

identical to the state law regarding

permits seemed time-consuming and inefficient.

meeting, John Riley, chair of the

are $15.

Le Trio Gershwin - Thursday, Oct.

is

the

Peter Stine, physics, noted that the current

Middle

shortly.

policy

During the open

we want

Paramount Brass - Thursday, July 30, 8 p.m.,
Mitrani Hall, Haas Center for the Arts. Tickets

announced

The

5,

policy.

how

fall.

things

1

hazing.

the committees advise the vice presidents," said

Also

meeting Wednesday, April

role

President Kozloff.

5.

its

forum passed an updated anti-hazing

committee would be formed to examine the

New York Chamber Ensemble

At

plays in

the university governance structure.

for more information.

May

www.bloomu.edu/departments/middle/

largely to

that several changes

process, including: 1) not requiring insurance

cards to register vehicles,

effective until

site at:

and

2) allowing

current parking permit hangers to remain

May

15 (instead of April 30).

Tickets are $15.

News briefs

Special Events
Graduate

Commencement —

Friday,

May

8,

Curriculum committee approves

7 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani

student academic Integrity policy

Hall.

The curriculum committee approved
new student academic integrity policy at

Commencement -

Undergraduate

May

9,

Saturday,

2:15 p.m., Bloomsburg Fairgrounds.

the
its

meeting April 22.

Changes

to the "Natural Sciences

and

Mathematics Broad-Area Program"to require

34th Annual Reading Conference Thursday and Friday, May 14-15. For
information,

call

students in the program to take a core curricu-

lum and

the equivalent of two academic minors.

Changes were

4092.

also

approved

in the

and cultures curriculum so students

Husky Club Spring Golf Outing -

linguistics courses in the

Friday,

June 12, Mill Race Golf and Camping Resort,
Benton, Pa. For information,

call

languages

will take

language they are

The committee approved the following new
"War and Society in America:

4128.

courses: history,

Southeastern Pennsylvania Golf Outing Friday, July 17,

1898 to the Present";

Skippack Golf Course,

Skippack, Pa. For information,

call

physics,

Haas

Friday,

more information,

There was

a

first

reading of a computer users

president

Gallery ofArt. Hours are

The Kehr Union summer schedule

9 a. m.

First three

to

4 p. m. For

is:

Maile Marshall - Master of Art Thesis

May

10.

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

in the office

of

resources and labor relations for

1 1

position as director of continuous

years, will

maintain his current

improvement.
Before coming to Bloomsburg, he

was employed by Pennsylvania Blue

call

(717) 389-4284.

Catawissa Military Band - Tuesday,

May

has been education

Monday, Wednesday and

Friday, 8 a.m. to 9

will

in the

Remainder of the summer:

Saturday and Sunday, 2 p.m. to 9 p.m

Concerts are free unless otherwise specified. For

more information,

who

and training manager

human

p.m.; Thursday, 8 a.m. to midnight;

Concerts

He

College of Business.

weeks:

Monday through

Donna Cochrane, who

resume her faculty position

Saturday and Sunday, closed.

Exhibition, through

Robert Wislock has been named
executive assistant to the president.
replaces faculty assistant to the

Kehr Union summer hours announced

4646.

call

assistant to president

Aided Design and Engineering Graphics."

4128.

Art Exhibits
Monday through

Wislock named

"Computer-

policy.

Exhibits are in the

Robert Wislock

studying rather than in English.

12, 7:30 p.m., Carver Hall,

Gross Auditorium.

Kenneth

Shield.

John Michaels, design and copy editor at the
Reading Eagle-Times, was a guest of the mass

Pennsylvania State University, a master's

communications department April
S.

Wislock has earned a D.Ed,

Newspaper editor visits Journalism classes

to classes in editing,

He spoke

magazine editing and

production. Michaels
the Press-Enterprise.

8.

is

former sports editor of

degree in Industrial Relations

at St.

Francis Loretto, and master's and
bachelor's degrees in education at

Bucknell University.

at

Communique
A NEWSLEHER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Faculty sought to teach

News briefs

new freshman seminar

President Kozloff schedules open office hours June

30

President Kozloff will hold open office hours

Tuesday, June 30, from 9 to II a.m.
that individuals call

It is

recommended

4526 to be sure the time remains

available.

U.S. Savings

The
June

Bond

U.S. Savings

30.

The

Bond

drive

Three hundred entering
freshmen will have the opportunity

students per

class.

students

attend voluntarily.

to take a one-credit university

other half will be assigned the

is

underway through

drive offers employees the opportunity to

purchase U.S. Savings Bonds by payroll deduction.
Information and forms have been sent to all employees.
For more information, contact savings bond coordinator Joan Lentczaer at 4112.

Higher Education.

specific major,

which is
designed to promote a successful
transition to college life by presenting information about the academic
to teach the course,

program of the

The course

university.

is

part of a two-year

freshman seminar course on

and retention

to

determine

if

a

who

affiliation.

wish to teach the

course should confer with their

department chairperson and
contact one of the grant's coauthors: John Baird, psychology;
Lynda Michaels, coordinator of
orientation; or Jack Mulka, dean of

academic support
Faculty

who

services.

are selected to teach

be required to participate

two- to three-day training session

students taking the course
be divided into 12 sections of 25

Faculty awarded tenure
The

Celebrity Artist Series
4409 for more

information.

Paramount Brass - Thursday, July 30, 8 p.m.. Carver
Hall, Kenneth S. Gross Auditorium. Tickets are $15.

in a

during the summer.

Special Events
Husky Club Spring Golf Outing - Friday,
June 12, Mill Race Golf and Camping Resort, Benton.
4128.

Southeastern Pennsylvania Golf Outing - Friday,
July 17, Skippack Golf Course, Skippack. For informa-

New Andruss

Library

opens for business

following faculty have been

awarded tenure:
S. Ekema Agbaw, English
Gloria Cohen-Dion, political science
Margie Eckroth-Bucher, nursing
Richard Ganahl, mass
communications
Solange Garcia-Moll, languages and

After two years of construction,
Bloomsburg's new Harvey A.
Andruss Library opened for
business

May

For the

26.

first

time

in years, all

of

the library's resources will be under
a single roof. In addition to nearly
tripling the seating space of the old

cultures

tion, call 4128.

without regard to group
Faculty

be residen-

be mixed

7,

Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. A music
student, Borillo will perform works by Scarlatti,
Beethoven, Brahms and Bartok. Admission is free.

call

will

will

will

3 p.m.,

For information,

some

others

freshmen.

The

Call the Celebrity Artist Series box office at

still

course should be required of all

will

Piano Recital - Marie Arlou Borillo, Sunday, June

and

tial

The

Some

course by the university.

sections will be restricted to a

variables such as student satisfaction

Concerts

Half of the

seminar course funded by a $50,000

study to evaluate the impact of a

Calendar

will

grant from the State System of

Twelve faculty are being sought

underway

drive

4 JUNE 1998

new

Robert Gates, curriculum and

facility,

foundations
Fredda Massari-Novak, nursing

users direct access to

Shelley Randall, curriculum and

Tours of the new building are
being given weekdays at noon

foundations

the

library allows library

1,500 magazines

more than
and journals.

Susan Ross, nursing

through the month of June.

Timothy Rumbough, communication studies and theatre arts
Neal Slone, sociology, social welfare
and criminal justice

through Aug. 14, Monday through
Thursday, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday,

Janice Walters, developmental
instruction

Nancy Weyant,

library

Hours

for the library are,

8 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday, closed;

Sunday, 2 to 10 p.m. The library will
also be closed Friday, July 3, for the

Independence Day weekend.

COMMUNIQUE 4 JUNE 98

2

Campus notes

Bloomsburg University Crime Report
Prepared by University Police for
Reported

Offenses

to or

by University Police

Arrests

made

or

Incidents Cleared by

Karl Kapp, Institute for Interactive

Other Means

Technologies, has published a

software review article

on

a consen-

making software
product called AliahTHINK!

sus-decision

April
Larceny Totals

1998

presentation, based

Advantage.

tion

WVIA-FM aired a voice recital by
Wendy Miller, music, in May. The

will

n
U
0

Theft from vehicles

4

0

1

1

0

4

4

program, taped last November,
featured Ervene GuUey, English,

Drunkenness

9

9

the accompanist.

Disorderly Conduct

6

4

included music by Mozart,

1

1

Schubert, Mahler, Faure, Debussy,

Liquor

All

Laws

other offenses

(except

Chopin and

traffic)

iVIay
Forcible

Rape

Larceny Totals

Book bag

thefts

Theft from buildings

as

Carlisle Floyd.

1998
0

Sharon Haymaker, nursing,

12

7

presented a peer-reviewed paper, "A

5

1

New Approach

6

6

physiology for Nurse Practitioner

in

Teaching Patho-

the National Organiza-

1

0

Students,"

0

Drug abuse violations

1

0

Liquor laws

1

1

Nurse Practitioner Faculties
annual meeting related to "Educational Technologies for the 21st

Disorderly Conduct

3

1

Century."

It

does not include incidents

in

the

at

tion of

This report reflects only those incidents which occur on
university property

Town

of

Bloomsburg.

James C. Pomfret, mathematics
and computer science, and Zhao
Pengwei (a 1992 graduate of the
master of instructional technology

Communique
Editor: Eric Foster, ext. 4412

Publication date for next issue: Thursday, July

9.

month during the
academic year and monthly during the summer)
Four-digit phone numbers listed in the Communique are on-campus extensions. To use the numbers off
campus, dial 389 first. The area code is 717.
(Publication

is

generally twice a

Please submit story ideas and news items to Eric
Foster, 104 Waller Administration Building, or by

e-mail

report on metaphor compre-

hension research among English
language learners in China and
Turkey.

Jing Luo, Patricia DorameHoloviak and Jesus Salas-Elorza,
languages and cultures, delivered a
copresentation entitled "Issues

1

1

other thefts

The

The program

Vandalism

All

5-7.

on the dissertahe recently completed at

Indiana University of Pennsylvania,

6

Vandalism

Bordeaux, France, Aug.

April issue of APICS~T/ie Performance

1

Fraud

NCTE Global Conference on
Language and Literacy to be held in

0

8

thefts

instruction, will present a paper

at the

13

Theft from buildings

Book bag

in the

Harold Ackerman, developmental

program), Shenyang Teachers
College, recently published a paper
in Shuxue Jiaoyu Xuebao, the Chinese
Journal of Mathematics Education,
titled, "American Reform of
Calculus Using Calculators." This
paper is based on a series lectures
given by Pomfret during May and
June 1997 at Bloomsburg's sister
schools of Shenyang Teachers
College, Qinghai Normal University
and Northwest Normal University.

in

Using Computer and Information
Technology in Foreign Language
Teaching" at Computing Across the
Curriculum Conference held at
Shippensburg University in May.
Luo's topic was "Using W^eb-Based
E-mail in Teaching Writing."
Dorame-Holoviak's topic was "The
Benefit of Internet Penpal to
Learning Spanish: Dialect and
Culture Differences of the Spanish-

Speaking World

as Reflected in

E-Mail." Salas-Elorza's topic was

"The Internet as a Teaching/
Learning Tool in a Culture and
Civilization Course at Bloomsburg
University."

Summer enrollment
similar to last year
Enrollment for summer sessions
1

and 4

is

similar to last year's

enrollment, according to figures
released by the office of planning

at:

efoster@bloomu.edu
Bloomsburg can be found on the World Wide Web

and
at:

http://w\vw.bloomu.edu

Bloomsbun
UNIVERSITY
A Member of Pennsyliuinia's
State System of Higher Education

Alumni players to
stage Blithe Spirit
The Bloomsburg University
Alumni Players will stage Noel
Coward's Blithe Spirit in July.
Performances will be in Carver Hall,
Kenneth S. Gros.s Aiiditoriinn.
Tickets are $6. Showtimes will begin
at 8 p.m. July 16, 17, 18, 22, 24, and
25. There will be a 2 p.m. matinee
on Sunday, July 19.

institutional research.

For sessions 1 and 4, there are
1,564 undergraduate students
taking 7,403 credit hours of courses,
and 385 graduate students taking
1,500 credit hours of courses.
Last year, there were 1,600
imdergraduate students taking
7,343 credit hours of courses and
454 graduate students taking 1,686
credit hours for sessions 1 and 4.

Communique
A NEWSLETTER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

9 JULY 1998

Concern for
safety prompts
parking changes
Concern for the

safety of

pedestrians going to the

new

Andruss Library has prompted
changes in the traffic patterns of
the Waller Building

and Centennial

Gymnasium parking lots.
Two new walkways have been
constructed to accommodate
pedestrians walking from the corner

of Centennial to the

new

library or

Student Recreation Center.
The walkways will also restrict
vehicular traffic between the Waller
and Centennial lots. Access to the
Centennial Gymnasium parking lot

be possible only from East
Second Street. Traffic in that lot will
be one way. The direction of travel
for the parking lot running parallel

will

to
to

Chestnut Street will be reversed
run from Swisher Circle to East

Second

STOP SIGNS



NEW WALKWAYS

Street.

curbed
walkways, stop signs will be located
In addition to the

at the

following locations.

The northeast corner of
Centennial Gymnasium will now

TVustees hear of Centennial renovation

have three stop signs.

There

will

be two stop signs

at

the intersection of Swisher Circle

and Chestnut

Street.

The changes were made

after

study by the university's safety

committee. PennDOT also reviewed
the changes and made suggestions
that have been incorporated into
the project.

The

project will eliminate six

parking spaces

The university's Council of Trustees
heard a presentation about the renovation of Centennial Gymnasium at its
quarterly meeting in June.
The renovation project, expected to
begin in mid-1999 and finish by the fall
of 2000,

will cost

$6.9 million.

facility's available

behind the new

renovated building

Begun

in

library.

May, the project

will

be

complete before the beginning of
the fall semester in late August.

from 43,000

space

will

increase

to 70,000 square feet.
will

department.
Classroom spaces

The

house a nursing

wellness center, the athletics depart-

ment, audiology and speech pathology

will include: a 250-

seat theater-style lecture hall; five

rooms

with seats for 100 students each; a 2,700-

square-foot multipurpose room;
1

The project will entail replacing the
gym and swimming pool with several
floors of classroom and office space. The

in the Waller
parking lot. However, the university
has gained an additional 60 spaces

department and the anthropology

and a

,500-square-foot adult fitness studio.

The

exterior of the building will

maintain a gable-style roofline.
Trustees elect officers
Officers chosen at the meeting

include: Joseph

Mowad, chairperson;

William A. Kelly, vice-chairperson; Robert
W. Buehner, secretary.

2

COMMUNIQUE 9 JULY 98

New agreement for physical
therapy signed with Allegheny
An agreement with Allegheny
Health Sciences

in

Campus notes

University of the

Roger Sanders,

Philadelphia has increased the

health, physical

Walter Brasch, mass communicawas one of 12 alumni that San

options available to Bloomsburg students interested in

education and

pursuing a career in physical therapy.
With the new agreement, students who complete a
degree at Bloomsburg and meet the entry standards at
Allegheny are virtually assured entry into that
vmiversity's two-year master's degree program in

given the National Wrestling Hall of

Diego State University named

Fame

"Point of Excellence." Brasch was

physical therapy.

This option complements an

Thomas Jefferson

affiliation

made

with

University in 1983 whereby students

attend Bloomsburg for two or three years before
transferring to

Thomas Jefferson

athletics, has

Lifetime Service to Wrestling

Award. Sanders, who won 300
career matches, was wrestling coach
at Bloomsburg from 1972 to 1993.
He has also served as coordinator of
the United States Association of
Blind Athletes and accompanied
the Blind Wrestling

for three years to

complete a master's program in physical therapy.
Now, students completing a degree at Bloomsburg
(typically in biology) can choose between these two
universities or others where no formal agreement
exists. There are presently 86 students in Bloomsburg's
prephysical therapy program.

been

Team

World Championships

to the

in Istanbul,

Patricia Dorame-Holoviak,

languages and cultures, presented a
paper titled "La Casa del Sano

and Prostitution"

Placer: Literature

Northeast Modern Language
Association convention in Baltimore.
visit

sclieduled July 22

The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in the
Kehr Union Wednesday, July 22. In the fall, the
Bloodmobile will be here Tuesday, Nov.
Wednesday, Nov. 11.
Kehr Union

10,

and

The Kehr Union summer schedule is:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 8 a.m.
to 9

Phillip Farber, biological

4412

month during

He

took

five first-place

awards from

the Pennsylvania Press Club,

allied

and radio interview/talk shows. In
addition to a biweekly newspaper
column, Brasch does a weekly talk
show about the media that is
syndicated to

more than 125

radio

United Broadcasting
Network. The Press Club named
stations by the

Brasch the

state's

outstanding

adviser of a college publication for

Spectrum magazine.

The magazine

is

only the fourth to be inducted into
the Associated Collegiate Press Hall

of Fame. Brasch was also

named

the

for Sex

and

the Single Beer

media

collection of essays about

paper, "Methods of Assessment of

vania Historic Preservation and

Brasch has also recently been
given a second-place award from
the Pennsylvania Women's Press

Heritage Partnership Conference

Association and an honorable

Viability," at the Pennsyl-

He was also

a

issues.

mention

in the Society

of Profes-

Pennsylvania

sional Journalist's Spotlight

Planning Association program,

competition for his column

"Centralia:

The Whole

Saga."

L.

M. Stallbaumer,

Web

history,

presented a paper, "Between
Coercion and Cooperation: The
Flick

Concern

Germany
the Economic

in Nazi

Before the War," at

and Business History

at:

annual conference

Awards

"Wanderings."

in

Society's

Milwaukee,

Susan Dauria, anthropology, and
Julia Bucher, nursing, gave a lecture
at the

Pennsylvania Rural Health

Conference in State College. The
lecture was titled "Help Us Improve
Migrant Health Care in Central
Pennsylvania."

at:

http:/ /www.bloomu.edu

Wis.

Judy Franklin,

Nancy Gentile Ford,

Bloomsburg
^

presented a paper

titled

history,

"For the

Old Country and New: Mobilizing

Service

Award by the Pennsylvania

Coalition Against Rape. She was

America's Foreign Legions for the

nominated

Women's Center

A Member of Pennsylvania's

and French Armies during
the First World War" at the Society
British

for Military Historians conference
in

Wheaton,

111.

university police,

has been given an Outstanding

UNIVERSITY

Stale System of Higher Education

Can, a

earth science, recently presented a

the

academic year and monthly during the summer.)
Four-digit phone numbers listed are on-campus
extensions. To use the numbers off campus, dial 389
first. The area code is 717.
Please submit story ideas and news items to Eric
Foster, 104A Waller Administradon Building, or by
efoster@blooinu.edu
Bloomsburg can be found on the World Wide

Brasch has also won several
awards from state press associations.

for 1998-99.

in Williamsport.

Publication date for next issue: Thursday, Aug. 13.

e-mail

and

Brian Johnson, geography and

p.m

generally twice a

in sociol-

Columbia-

facilitator for the

is

Diego State with an A.B.
ogy-

Montour Torch Club
to

Communique

(Publication

as a journal-

He graduated from San

vice president of the

Downtown

Editor: Eric Foster, ext.

work

for his

ist/writer.

author of the best nonfiction book

9 p.m.; Thursday, 8 a.m. to midnight; Saturday

and Sunday, 2 p.m.

Robert Obutelewicz, economics,
has been elected president, and
health sciences, has been elected

summer hours

honored

as a

including awards for humor
columns, general issues columns,

Turkey.

at the

Bloodmobile

tions,

for the award by the
in

Bloomsburg.

9 JULY 98

Trudnak and Tim

Phillips,

tional technology,

presented several

sessions at the 1998

SSHE

instruc-

Confer-

ence "Computing Across the
Curriculum" in May at
Shippensburg University. Phillips
and Trudnak presented a session
titled "Designing Interactive

precollegiate programs
Adrianne Flack has been named director of
She joined the university

Steven L. Cohen, psychology,
presented a paper at the recent

precollegiate programs.

meeting of the Association for
in Orlando, Fla.

three years at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.

The

engineering and a master's degree

this

Behavior Analysis
talk,

"Biofeedback:

Is It Still

of

Interest to Behavior Analysts," was

coauthored with four psychology
majors, Kristan Haase, Lori Buck,
John Schreffler and Kay Ennis.

Instructional Solutions for the

Web." Nicholson and Kapp presented a session titled "Making the
Learner a Participant in Web-based
Instruction." Nicholson also
presented a session titled "Webbased Support for Instruction," and
conducted a workshop with Shelly
Gross-Gray titled "An Introduction
to Toolbook II Instructor."

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Adrianne Flack to direct

Campus notes
Mary Nicholson, Karl Kapp, June

COMMUNIQUE

Wendy Miller,

music, will give a

lecture recital of Colonial period

staff

after serving as a residence director for

Flack earned a bachelor's degree in electrical
in college student
personnel from Penn State University. While at Penn
State, she was a graduate assistant for programs that
served the children of migrant farm workers and

summer

science programs for high school students.
This summer, 250 high school and middle school
students will visit the university as participants in
precollegiate programs.

vocal music Tuesday, July 21, at the

Bruton Parrish Church in historic
Williamsburg, Va. She will be
accompanied on harpsichord by
Ervene Gulley, English.

summer

"For
doesn't

many of these students, higher education
seem like a possibility or something they'd be

interested in," says Flack. "These

programs are de-

signed to show them what higher education has to offer
and help them prepare academically for college."
Precollegiate programs include:

ing from the University of Scranton.

Harry C. Strine III, communication studies and theatre, served as a
judge at the National Catholic
Forensic League's Grand National
High School Tournament in
Detroit, Mich. There were more

burg School District June 14 to July 10.
The Harrisburg Partnership Program, in its first year,
will bring 50 high school juniors from the Harrisburg,

Kollar graduated with honors as a

than 470 high schools represented.

Steelton-Hirespire and

Katherine Kollar, residence
director,

earned her Master of
in School Counsel-

Science degree

member

of Chi Sigma Rho, the

International
Professional

Academic and

Honor

Society which

recognizes scholastic and professional excellence in Counseling.

earned the NCC (National
Certified Counselor) credential.

She

also

Robert Wislock,

"Applying Covey's Seven Habits to

Education and Training Initiatives
in Higher Education" at the College
and University Personnel Associa-

(CUPA) Eastern Region

Conference.

The conference was

held in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Jim

media
and marketing, has been

Hollister, director of

relations

presented the Eastern College
Athletic Conference-Sports Infor-

mation Directors Association's
Irving T. Marsh Award. Hollister was
formerly director of sports information at the university. The award was
presented at the association's

workshop in Wilkes-Barre. The
Irving T. Marsh Award is awarded
for contributions to
in the sports

150 students

campus July

in

1 1

is

bringing

from the Harris-

Susquehanna school districts to
Program participants who choose
System of Higher Education university

to attend a State

will receive a full-tuition

High School.
The exhibition has entries from the
northeastern United States.

seventh year,

12 to 24.

Ken Wilson,

18 at the Selinsgrove

its

grades 7 through

art, will

professor emeritus
be "Juror of the Awards"
for the 1998 Susquehanna Valley
Art Exhibition hanging through July

of

(Personal Responsibility in Developing

Excellence) Program, in

scholarship for their freshman

summer session.
The College Sampler Program,

year

bring 50 minority
to

campus July 26

11"'

in

its 14"'

year, will

grade students from across

state

to 31.

assistant to the

president, presented a paper titled

tion

The PRIDE

and excellence

information

field.

Michael Vavrek, dean of continu-

and distance education, has
been named vice president of the
board of directors of the Central
ing

Pennsylvania

The

Forum

for the Future.

nine-year-old organization has

conducted conferences on education, the environment, economic
development and information
technologies.

Faculty promotions
The following faculty have
To associate professor

recently been promoted:

Christopher Bracikowski, physics; Julia Bucher,
nursing; Steven D. Hales, philosophy; Janice C. Keil,

business education/office information systems; Jing

Luo, languages and cultures; Marion G. Mason,
psychology; Robert S. Obutelewicz, economics; Kara
Shultz,

MarkJelinek, music, directed the
six-member "Chamber Ensemble At
Sea" group in two concerts aboard
the Holland America Line M. S.
Rotterdam as it toured several
European capitals. Both performances received standing ovations.
Ports of call included the countries
of Greece, Italy, Monaco, Gibraltar,
Portugal, France, and England.

announced

communication studies and theatre

arts;

Julie

Vandivere, English; Irvin Wright, developmental
instruction.

To professor
Karen Anselm, communication studies and theatre
arts;

Brett L. Beck, psychology;

Mary

Harris, curriculum

and foundations; Barry L.Jackson, counseling center;
I. Sue Jackson, sociology, social welfare and criminal
D.Jones, education for exceptionalities;
Vishakha Rawool, audiology and speech pathology;
Leon Szmedra, health, physical education and athletics.

justice; Sheila

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REMEMBERING JACK FISHER

Celebrity Artist Series

A

memorial

Jack Fisher was dedicated

to

Call the Celebrity Artist Series box office at

Magee Center

4409 for more

custodian, lost a long battle with cancer

information.

in

at the

June. Fisher, a university
in

August 1997. The ceremony was attended by

Paramount Brass - Thursday, July 30,
8 p.m., Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross

dozens

of Jack's

coworkers from the university

as well as family members.

Auditorium. Tickets are $15.

Shown from

left

at

the dedication are his widow, Cyndi Fisher,
administrative assistant

Special Events

assistant

the office of

dean

of continuing

and distance

education; and Cyndi and Jack's children,

Southeastern Pennsylvania Golf Outing Friday, July 17,

in

continuing and distance education; John Abel!,

Alison and Joshua.

Skippack Golf Course,

Skippack. For information,

call

4128.

Physicist named associate dean
of tlie College of Arts and Sciences

News briefs

Robert P. Marande has been named
dean of the College of Arts and

associate

and developed teacher certification
programs in both mathematics and
physics. Through the implementation of
new personnel policies, Marande helped

New departments formed
Three new department names have
been announced. The masters of instructional technology program now has its own
department of instructional technology

Sciences.

rather than being a division of the

Sciences in Philadelphia (formerly the

mathematics and computer science
department.
The department of communication
disorders and special education has also
been divided into two departments - the

Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and

Heidelberg College. His research has led

Science).

to several patents.

department of audiology and speech
pathology and the department of exceptionality

He

previously served as associate

professor and chairperson of the depart-

increase faculty publications by 250

ment of mathematics,

percent.

physics

and com-

While at Philadelphia, Marande
reduced the department's operating
budget by 15 percent, created applied
physics and applied mathematics majors.

Orientation, student move-In scheduled

Orientation workshop days

and Aug. 10

and 20

for

will

be held

new freshmen

Approximately 250 students will attend
each session.
Student move-in will be Thursday,
Aug. 27. Orientation will run Aug. 27
through Sunday, Aug. 30. The first day of
classes will be Monday, Aug 31.
Interim recreation center director appointed

Connie Root, a graduate assistant

and adult

in

be
serving as interim director of the Student
Recreation Center until the search is
fitness, will

completed and a new director hired. She
replaces Grace Mah, who recently resigned from the position. Root can be
contacted

at

4772.

Marande earned

his

bachelor of

science degree in physics and mathematics
at

Saginaw Valley State University, a master

of science degree in physics at the
University of Akron

and

his doctorate in

Alumni Players to stage
Coward's Blithe Spirit In July
The Bloomsburg

University

Alumni

Players will stage Noel Coward's Blithe

for transfer students.

exercise science

positions at

physics at Kent State University.

programs.

July 8, 10, 14, 16

Marande has also held teaching
Penn State University and

puter science at the University of the

Spirit in July.

Performances

Carver Hall, Kenneth

S.

will be in
Gross Auditorium.

Tickets are $6. Showtimes will begin at 8

p.m. July 16, 17. 18, 22, 24 and 25. There
be a 2 p.m. matinee Sunday, July 19.

will

KrollkowskI and Swartz named
Employees of the Month
Michael Krolikowski, maintenance
repairman, has been recognized by the
supervisory roundtable as "Employee of
the Month" for May. Karen Swartz,
instructional technology, has

been

recognized as Employee of the Month for
June.

Former Sen. Paul Simon
to speak in September
Former

U.S. Senator Paul

Simon

speak on libraries and
literacy in conjunction with the
Provost Lecture Series and the
dedication of the new Andruss
Library Thursday, Sept. 10, at
7 p.m. in Haas Center for the Arts,
(D-Ill.) will

Mitrani Hall.

The new Harvey

A. Andruss

be dedicated Friday,
Sept. 11, at 1:30 p.m. in front of
the new building. In case of rain,
the ceremony will be held in Haas
Library

will

Center for the

Arts.

Communique
A NEWSLEHER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

20 AUGUST 1998

Gift of sculpture brings artistic wei^t to

campus

Fiour large stone sculptures will
find a
fall.

home on campus

Muriel

this

Berman of

member of the State
System of Higher Education Board

Allentown, a

of Governors, donated the works,

valued

at

more than

$1 10,000.

They

include: two L-shaped benches by

Peter Hide; a marble

column and

Muriel

a

assistant director of

development, has
given the university
four large pieces of
sculpture.

benches

Adolescent."

Sculpture garden

were chosen for the
sculptures by an ad hoc group that
Sites

for Renaissance

named

man

included President Jessica Kozloff;

The

laniero, vice president for

Tom

Tom

Percival R. Roberts

Sculpture Garden was

Contos, assistant director, planning

and construction;

a Renaissance

The

Messinger,

Laureate of that state

III

named

for

man.

sculpture garden

director of physical plant; Christine

established in the area aroimd

Sperling, chairperson of the art

the McCormick Center by
Bloomsburg's Council of
Trustees in 1985 honors the art
department chairperson who
died in 1984.
A native of Delaware, Roberts
was known for his poetry as well
as artwork - developing a
reputation in each field that
extended far beyond campus.
He was named the ninth Poet

department; Sue Hicks, assistant
director of development; and Karl
Beamer, art department.

"When we

selected the benches,

we envisioned students sitting on
them," says Beamer. "The works are
large, and they need a large space.
The area in front of McCormick is a
large space and it's central to
activity. With the new library open.
Continued on page

be

mall near the bronze

of Bakeless

advancement;

will

figure, "Standing

Bakeless Center.

university

the

placed on the library

Center for the Humanities; and
"King and Queen" will be placed on
the north (parking lot) side of

Tony

The

in

photograph

on the west side of the
future Student Services Center (old
Andruss); the marble column will
in front

(left)

shown

with Susan Hicks,

in the plaza

be placed

Berman

of Allentown,

marble screen by Thomas Sternal;
and "King and Queen" by Sternal
and Martha Enzmann.
The benches will be placed in
the Percival R. Roberts III Sculpture
Garden, near "Standing Adolescent" on the library mall.
The marble screen will be placed

3.

1963

in

and won the American Poets'
Gold Cup Award. In 1974,
,

Roberts was named a Commonwealth Teaching Fellow in
recognition of his exemplary
teaching,

won

the

and two years

later,

Commonwealth

Award. As an

artist,

he

Service

he worked
and relief

primarily in painting
sculpture.

founding

He was also a
member of the

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble.
The first work commissioned
for the

garden was a bronze
Continued on page

3.

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Campus notes
At the meeting of the Global Awareness

Oliver Larmi, philosophy, presented a

Society hiternational in Istanbul, Turkey,

paper, "Parmenides' Greatest Objection:

two Bloomsburg faculty were elected

Plea for Simplicity" at Paideia:

James
Pomfret, mathematics and computer
science, was elected president, and Dennis
Hwang, accounting, was elected treasurer.

Congress of Philosophy

officers of the organization.

Presenters at the meeting included:

Pomfret; Hwang;
marketing;

Mary

Mary

K. Ericksen,

Harris, curriculum

and

foundations; Sue Jackson, sociology, social

and criminal justice; James
Parsons, biological and allied health
sciences; Chang Shub Rob, faculty
emeritus of sociology and social welfare.

XXth World
MA.

Boston,

in

Mary Nicholson, Tim

A

Phillips, Karl

Kapp, and June Trudnak, instructional
technology, presented a three-day workshop titled "Designing for Interactivity on
the Web" to training professionals from

AT&T.

Julia Bucher, nursing, presented a

O'Bruba, curriculum and
foundations, has been selected to serve on
the publications committee of Childhood
William

S.

Education, the official journal of the

Association for Childhood Education

Diseroad, library, presented a

paper, "Searching for Jack," about the

work of an

gravestone symbolism at the 21st annual
conference of the Association for Gravestone Studies held at
sity in

International.

early 19th century area

gravestone carver, and led a session on

Monmouth

Univer-

West Long Branch, NJ.

President Jessica

faculty/mentor and

S.

Kozloff served as a

made

through Interactive Programs," at the
Higher Education "Computing Across the Curriculum" conference
at Shippensburg University. He also
presented "The Puzzle of Beowulf at the
Re-Covering the Past Conference held at
SUNY Binghamton.
State System of

paper

welfare

Ann

Frank Peters, English, presented the
paper, "Teaching English Differendy

Dennis Gebris, business education and

titled

"Innovations in Telephone

Interventions for Psychosocial Oncology"

annual meeting of the European Society of Psychosocial Oncology in
Stockholm, Sweden. She also presented
"The Application of Problem-Solving
Therapy to Family Caregiver Education" in
Montreal to psychosocial researchers from
throughout Canada.
at the 10"'

office information systems, presented a

paper

titled

"Multimedia Applications and

Tools on the World

Wide Web"

at the

World Conference on Educational
Multimedia and Telecommunications
Freiburg, Germany.

Michael Vavrek, dean of continuing
and distance education, has been elected
vice president of Central Pennsylvania

in

Forum

for the Future.

a presentation,

"Financial Challenges in Higher Education:

Their Effect on Athletics," to the
Institute for Administra-

NACWAA/HERS
tive

Advancement

at

Academic calendar revised

Bryn Mawr College.

Karen Trifonoff, geography and earth

The academic calendar published

in

science, presented a workshop, "Thematic

the Undergraduate Cataloghas been revised.

Mapping

The

in the

Elementary Grades,"

to

teachers at the Pennsylvania Geographic
Alliance

Summer Geography

following

is

the correct calendar for

Spring 1999

the 1998-99 academic year.

Electronic Registration -Jan. 12 to

Institute at

Beaver College, Glenside.

Fall

1998

Electronic Registration - Aug. 25 to

Aug.

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Next

issue:

Thursday, Aug. 27.

phone numbers listed are
on-cainpus extensions. To use
the numbers off campus, dial 389

Four-digit

first.

Area code 717.

Editor: Eric Foster, ext. 4412;
e-mail, efoster@bloomu.edu
Bloomsburg can be found on the
World Wide Web at:
http://www.bloomu.edu

Bloomsbun
UNIVERSITY
State System nf lltgher tducation

ending 2 p.m.
Monday, Aug.

31,

Labor Day - Monday, Sept. 7
(no

classes).

Mid-Term Reading Day -

Friday, Oct. 16

10 p.m.

(no classes)

Mid-Term - Wednesday, Oct.

21, 10 p.m.

Thanksgiving Recess - Begins Tuesday,
Nov. 24, 10 p.m.
Classes Resume - Monday, Nov. 30, 8 a.m.
Classes End - Saturday, Dec. 12.
Reading Day - Simday, Dec. 13.
Finals Begin - Monday, Dec. 14.

Graduate Cominenceineiit Dec.

Friday,

18.

End -

Classes Meet - Friday, Jan. 22
(no evening classes).
Mid-Term - Wednesday, March 3, 10 p.m.
Spring Break - Begins Saturday, March 6,

Monday

8 a.m.

Finals
A Member of Pennsylvania's

31,

Classes Begin -

Jan. 19, ending 2 p.m.
Martin Luther King Day - Monday, Jan. 18
(no classes).
Classes Begin - Tuesday, Jan. 19, 8 a.m.

Saturday, Dec. 19.

Undergraduate Commencement Saturday, Dec. 19.

Classes

Resume - Monday, March

15,

8 a.m.

Spring

Weekend - Begins Thursday,

April

1,

10 p.m.

Resume - Monday, April 5, 6
Classes End - Saturday, May 8.
Reading Day - Sunday, May 9.
Finals Begin - Monday, May 10.
Graduate Commenceinent - Friday,
May 14.
Finals End - Saturday, May 15.
Classes

Commencement -

Saturday, Mayl5.

p.m.

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Campus

notes

Swapan Mookeijee, exercise

Continued from page

Karl M. Kapp, instructional technology,

physiology,

the Journal of Cardiopulmonary RehabilitaHe also gave a series of invited

tion.

American College of Sports
Medicine Certification Workshop at
Canisius College in Buffalo, NY, and has
passed the American College of Sports
lectures at the

presented a paper titled "Teaching
Integrated Resource Management Using
Problem-based Learning" at the APICS
Educational & Research Foundation 1998
Summer Academic/Practitioner Workshop held in Seattle, WA. He also wrote an
article,

HAL Syndrome,"
magazine APICS-The

"Avoiding the

that appears in the

APICS

Performance Advantage.

is

The

Medicine Health Fitness Certification

Educational Society for Resource Manage-

Exam.

ment.

A chapter by Michael Hickey,
"Smolensk

in 19

1

Political Process,
will

appear

(in

7:

Vincent Hron,

history,

has had three solo

art,

work during the spring and
summer. His work has been shown at
Rosewood Art Center, Kettering, OH;
Marymount Manhattan College, New York
City; and The Casements Cultural Center,
Ormond Beach, FL. This fall, his work will
be shown at Kirkland Art Center, Clinton,
exhibits of his

Revolution as a

Questions and Sources,"

Russian) in Stalinism in a

Russian Province, a collection of essays to

be published this fall by the Open Society
Foundation and the Smolensk State
Pedagogical University. This June, several
of his articles were featured in an exhibi-

on "Foreign Historians on the
Smolensk Lands" at the Smolensk State
Pedagogical University and the Smolensk
tion

NY, Sept. 13 to Oct.

7;

The

University of

Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX,
Oct. 19 to Nov. 25; and Kentuck

Northport, AL, Nov. 3 to Jan.

Museum,

2.

this will

become

1.

hub on cam-

a central

pus."

Bloomsburg was the first of the 14 State
System universities to respond to the
invitation from Berman to select pieces
from her
visited

collection. Hicks

Berman

and Beamer

in April to select the works.

years, Berman and her late
husband, Philip, have contributed many

Over the

artworks to the university.

Roberts
Continued from page

bell,

1.

"Endless Circle," by internationally

artist Toshiko Takaezu. The bell
was cast on campus and installed in 1987.

acclaimed
Philip

uted

six

I.

and Muriel Berman contrib-

sculptures to the university in

1988 and

'89,

including three bronze

figures by Minnesota sculptor Michael
Price. "Standing Adolescent" overlooks the

library mall, while the sculptures "Seated

Woman" and "Woman

Public Universal Library.

in

Leotard" are

often exhibited in Haas Gallery of Art.

IIT receives $275,000 grant to
promote use of instructional technology

Other contributed works include "The
Snake" and "Totem" by Ernie Shaw, and
"Marble Bench" by Thomas Sternal.
The sculpture garden was formally
dedicated Oct. 1, 1989, to acknowledge
the contributions that Takaezu, the

Bermans and Michael

The

Institute for Interactive

gies has

been awarded

Technolo-

a three-year

PhotoShop, multimedia and web
authoring tools, and video conferencing.

$275,000 State System of Higher Education Imperatives Challenge Grant.

In the

and Staff Development
Technology Utilization at
the University Level," the grant was
awarded to a consortium of State System
universities that also includes Lock Haven,
Shippensburg, Millersville and Mansfield.
"Bloonisburg will be the hub; most of
the training will emanate from here," says

purchase of equipment and software.

Titled "Faculty

Phillips, director

of the

IIT. "In

we are establishing a virtual help
center where we can provide online help
to any consortium member." The center

essence,

will

be staffed by graduate

assistants.

The project will use technology as
means of instruction for employees
throughout the
staff will

five

a

campuses. Faculty and

be trained in the use of the

computer applications PowerPoint,

first

Price

made

to the

university.

year of the grant, $175,000 of

the funding will be dispersed to allow the

The equipment

for Instructional

Tim

3

Sculpture

wrote a paper titled "The Application of
Interval Training for Exercise Prescription
in Cardiac Rehabilitation," which appears
in

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will

include the items

necessary to construct a

new video

conferencing classroom at Bloomsburg
and desktop video conferencing facilities
at

Phillips is excited about the use of new
Centra Symposium software that will allow
for real-time web-based training.

software will allow students to

hear the trainer speaking and see the
lesson

on

their

Events
Faculty and staff are invited to

each school.

The new

Opening of School

computer

screens. Stu-

dents will also be able to give the trainer
feedback on whether the lesson is moving
too slowly or quickly.

The

trainer's

computer screen will show which students
have a question and allow the instructor to
provide individualized help.

these events:

Picnic

Tuesday, Sept. 8
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Kehr Union, Ballroom
Faculty and Staff Convocation
Tue.sday, Sept. 15

3 p.m.

Kehr Union, Ballroom

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Heather Derek named student

Scholarship established
in

Heather L. Derek of Bloomsburg has
been named the student representative
on the Bloomsburg University Council of
Trustees. Her appointment was made by

memory ofJohn Devlin

Bloomsburg's late
John S. Devlin Jr. is be-

Tom Ridge.
A senior marketing

Gov.

ing memorialized with a

major, Derek is
pursuing a minor in computer and
information systems. A participant in the

football scholarship.
Devlin,

who served

also

as

the Huskies' defensive

university's

coordinator for six sea-

member

sons, died of a heart at-

honor

spanned 37

Honors Program, she

is

a

of the interdisciplinary honor

society Phi

tack July 15. His coach-

ing career

trustee

Kappa Phi and

societ)'

Delta

the business

Mu Delta.

years.

coach

Football

Danny Hale says that
when awarding the scholarship,

he'll

look for

"an overachiever. Not necessarily the biggest or
fastest player,

but someone

who

has worked

hard to become a good player. John
admired those kinds of players."

News briefs

really

Those interested in making a contribution
should call the development office at 4128.

Korean sculptor exhibiting work

Greeks have new coordinator

Korean sculptor Jong-Soon Bok
is exhibiting work in Haas Gallery of
Art through Sept. 30. Bok works
with paper mache, acrylic paint,
fabric and found objects. His
contemplative approach to art is a

Gretchen Osterman has been
Life coordinator. She
has a master's degree in student
personnel services from Edinboro
University and earned bachelor's
degrees in psychology and English
at Allegheny College. Before
coming to Bloomsburg, she held
positions in Edinboro 's student
standards and Greek life office and
enrollment management and
retention office. She can be
reached at 4997.

result of two years spent in seclusion

Parking, traffic patterns to

change for student move-in

at a

Buddhist temple. Bok has

exhibited in Korea, Japan, Mexico

and the United
Library

To make move-in a smooth process for
students and their families, there will be changes
in traffic and parking patterns on Thursday,
Aug. 27, (freshmen arrive) and Sunday, Aug. 30,
(upperclassmen return).

On

States.

masonry named the best

The Masonry Contractors
Association of Central Pennsylvania

has presented Bloomsburg with the

"Excellence in Masonry Design

Award"

for the

new Andruss

Library.

those days, faculty and staff are requested

to park in the Waller lot.

The

following lots

move

will

Kozioff schedules office hours

be reserved to aid

Old
Science, rear of Ellwell Hall, Tri-Level, Navy
Hall, the lot between Columbia Hall and Haas
students'

into the residence halls:

In recent weeks, the university

hours Wednesday, Sept. 2,
from 1 to 3 p.m. Individuals should
call 4526 to reserve a time.

has experienced a series of thefts
involving computer equipment in
academic buildings. In an effort to

ensure the safety of

on East Second

Street will

be one-way, eastbound, both days.

Lehr contributes sculpture

Paul Lehr, a sculptor and science fiction
illustrator whose paintings graced the covers of hun-

The

Computer equipment
stolen in recent weeks

President Kozioff will hold open
office

Center.
Additionally, traffic

named Greek

late

dreds of books, gave a work to the the university,

titled

"The Jewish Wedding." The university purchased Lehr's
"The Grin," which has been placed in the second floor
of the Kehr Union. The artist, who died July 27,
illustrated the covers of books by Isaac Isimov, Ray
Bradbury, Arthur C. Clark, H.G. Wells and others.

on campus

all

Rec Center director named

and

David J. Pearson has been named
director of the Student Recreation
Center. Pearson earned a master's

are urged to

degree

in athletics administration

building, classroom or office area

and a bachelor's degree in health
and physical education at West

outside normal working hours, be

Chester University. Previously

locked. (Should there be difficulty

assistant facilities/ events

manager

at

do the

employees

following:

entering or leaving a

all

doors are closed and

locking any door, contact campus
police at 4168.)

baseball, basketball,

boxing, football, track and

and wrestling

summer

When

certain

Princeton University, he has

coached

curtail this activity,

at the

field,

high school or

or youth league

level.

If

you observe any suspicious

activity, notify

immediately.

campus

police

Communique
ANEWSLEHER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT BLOOMSBURG

Dedication opens
Bloomsburg opens a new chapter when
new Harvey A. Andruss Library is

the

dedicated Friday, Sept.

The ceremony,
transfer

11, at 1:30

featuring a symbolic

from the old

new chapterforAndruss Library
Weyant (moderating), coordinator of

library to the new,

be held outdoors, in front of Andruss
and Waller Administration buildings.

will

will march in procession wearing
academic regalia from the old library to
the new, each carrying a work related to

Faculty

Department of
Education's Office of Post Secondary and
Higher Education; John Berry III, editor
of Library Journal; Vicki Hancock, vice
state

chair for National

Forum

for Informa-

librarian.

James H. McCormick, Chancellor of the
State System of Higher Education; Joseph
J. Mowad, chair of the Bloomsburg
University Council of Trustees; and Elbern
H. Alkire Jr., chair of the Bloomsburg
University Foundation. Area legislators,

Parking changes planned
to

accommodate dedication
accommodate

the library

>

A

campus

will

will

to lower

campus. Signs

Literacy in a Democratic Society," will be

new

held Friday from 10 to 11:30 a.m.

p.m.

In

case of

held

in

Haas Center for the

noon and reopen

Gathering Place of the new

library. Panelists will

facility will

at

ceremony

will

be

is

study for student use
closed.

more than

half a million

I Up-to-date reader/printers for viewing

the library's 1.9 million microforms.
I

2:30 p.m. Tours of the

the dedication

the library

volumes.

at

be conducted from 2:30 to 4
rain,

An extended hours

>

Open

access to current periodicals.

Photocopying/computer printing rooms
on all levels.
Three Tiffany and four Spence stained
glass windows from old Waller Hall.

Arts, Mitrani Hall.

include Nancy

U.S, Sen,

libraries

library will close for the

University Archives/Special

when

will direct

The

in the

I

be available from 7;30 a.m. to

connection with the dedication, a
colloquium, "Libraries and Information
In

>

I Stack space for

park on upper campus. An additional

university guests to dedication parking areas.

Former

>

processing rooms with personal
computers and printers on all levels.
A 38-computer classroom/laboratory.
Study seating for 890 patrons.
22 group study rooms.

dedication. Faculty and staff are asked to

shuttlebus

Word

Collections reading room.

also attend.

floor

future plug-in of laptop computers.

Half of Waller parking lot will be closed
Friday, Sept. 11, to

200 personal computers for public use.

I 135 public access connections for the

I

4:30 p.m. to make round trips from upper

to the library fund-raising drive,

and members of the Andruss family

first

I

>

The dozens of dignitaries at the event
will include: Lt. Gov. Mark Schweiker;

new

Andruss Library

tional Literacy; William Frost, reference

their field.

donors

Features of the

reference services; Michael Poliakoff,

deputy secretary,

p.m.

27 AUGUST 1998

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Paul Simon

to

speak on

Sept 10 for Provost's Lecture Series

Street Festival brings

world to Main Street
Bloomsburg's Community Street
Festival '98 will bring the world's

Former U.S. Sen. Paul Simon will speak
about information and politics Thursday,
Sept. 10, at 7 p.m., in

Haas Center for the

Arts, Mitrani Hall, as part of the Provost's

Lecture Series.

Simon, a former newspaper publisher,
professor at Southern
Illinois University. He has authored 15
books, including Advise and Consent, The
is

now a journalism

Politics of World Hunger, and The Glass
House, Politics and Morality in The Nation

Capitol.

's

Before retiring from the Senate in

Simon served five terms in the U.S.
House of Representatives and two terms in
1997,

the Senate. As a member of Congress, he
was a leader in drafting legislation on
education, disability policy and foreign
affairs.

Simon previously served on the Illinois
House and Senate, where he was a chief
sponsor of the state's open meetings law
and played a leading role in chartering
Illinois' community college system.

Main Street Wednesday,
from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Featuring cuisine from around

cultures to
Sept. 16,

the world, an international fashion

show and ethnic dancing, the
festival is sponsored by community
and university organizations.
Rain date is Thursday, Sept. 17.
For more information, contact the

Bloomsburg Area Chamber of

Commerce

at

784-2522.

COMMUNIQUE 27 AUG 98

2

Campus notes
Christopher Bracikowski, physics,
presented a paper, "Using Computers
Introductory Physics and Chemistry
Laboratories" at the State System

Comput-

ing Across the Curriculum Conference.

chemistry; chemistry majors John Landis

and Brian Myers; and physics majors Russ
Madara, Rick Schneider and Joe Singley.
S.

Pastore, curricuhim

similar to last year

welcomed

and

Stephen Clickard, music
Linda J. Cook, nursing
Cindy Kepler, chemistry

James K. Krause, exceptionality
programs
Darlene Perner, exceptionality
programs

Mark
Mark

Site:

Evaluation Techniques for

Teachers and Students" at the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Conference.
He gave a workshop, "Designing,
Authoring, Delivering, and Evaluating
Web-based Courses," at the State System

Computing Across the Curriculum
Conference. At the 9th International
Conference of the Society for Information
Technology and Teacher Education, he
presented "A Study of Internet Research
Activities of Preservice Teachers." His
paper was published in the Technology and
Teacher Education

Annual and on the

Teacher Education Internet Server.

Quintanilla, history

G. Stocksdale, chemistry

Vivian Yenkia-Agbaw, English

Suncom

Industries, Inc.

The nonprofit

organization provides vocational evaluation, training

and placement

services for

Next

issue:

Thursday, Sept.

10.

phone numbers listed are
on-campus extensions. To use
the numbers off campus, dial 389

Four-digit

first.

"We're continuing to make gains in the
our students," says admissions

Joseph R. Fischer, history
Laura Geller, geography and earth

director Chris Keller. According to Keller,

Darrell S.

new freshman is in the top 29
percent of the their high school graduating class and scored 1050 on the SAT. Sixty
percent of freshmen are women.

science

Carolyn Grossman, English

Gundrun, anthropology
Cindy Harper, art
William Hill, mass communications

the typical

Carolyn Lindberg, library

"We've worked hard to fill areas where
we have additional capacity," says Keller.
"One of the areas where we've made gains

Allison Maloney, nursing

is

Dwight Means, finance and business

nursing. Faculty have been a great help by

the sciences - chemistry, physics,

meeting with prospective students and

law

making follow-up

Barry L. Nolt, biology
Peter J. Petokas, geography and

calls."

Actual enrollment figures
final with the 14"'

day of

will

become

classes.

Linda Reinink-Smith, geography and
earth science

SECA campaign

Anita Singer, accounting
Jeffrey Vargas, health, physical

begins Sept

education and athletics
F.

3

West, health, physical

Bloomsburg's

New administrator appointments:
Peggy Snyder, speech-language
pathologist in audiology and
speech pathology
James Green, temporary coordinator
of adult advisement

Area code 717.

efoster@bloomu.edu
Bloomsburg can be found on the
World Wide Web at:
http://www.bloomu.edu

88 Act 101, 159 summer freshmen),
350 transfer, 100 readmitted, and 15
second-degree students. The freshmen
were selected from an applicant pool of
fall,

quality of

SECA

(State

Employees

Combined Appeal) Campaign will run
Sept. 3 to Oct. 15 this year. Campaign
chairperson is John Trathen, director of
student

activities

and the Kehr Union.

Materials for this year's campaign, with
a goal of $34,000, are being sent to all
employees. Return forms or questions
should be directed to Trathen at 4198.
Last year, more than $32,000 was raised.

Questions may also be addressed to

Editor: Eric Foster, ext. 4412;
e-mail,

FTE) students will be enrolled. Within this
number, there are 1,387 freshmen (1,140

Sarah Farrant, English

education and athletics

Communique

semester enrollment

6,100 candidates.

Thomas

individuals with disabilities.

fall

ment will be very similar to the fall 1997
semester enrollment of 6,815 FTE. It is
expected that approximately 7,500 (6,825

Temporary faculty appointments:

earth science
Eric Foster, news writer, has been
appointed to the board of directors of

Preliminary

figures indicate that the overall enroll-

foundations, presented "Anatomy of a

Web

Fall enrollment figures

Tenure-track faculty appointments:
in

The paper was coauthored by Larry Mack,

Raymond

Faculty, administrators

area representatives assisting in the

Kozloff schedules office hours

President Kozloff will hold open office

hours Wednesday, Sept. 2, from 1 to
3 p.m. To reserve a time, call 4526.

campaign who include: James Cole,
College of Arts and Sciences; James Dutt,
College of Business; Kathy Hunsinger,
business office; Pat Rudy, custodial

Bloomsbun
UNIVERSITY
A Member of Pennsylvania's
State System of Higher tducatinn

Faculty and Staff Picnic - Tuesday,
Sept. 8, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.,

Joan Lentczner, university
advancement; Michael Vavrek, management; Irvin Wright, nonaligned areas; Julia

services;

Openlng-of-School Events

Kchr

Union, Ballroom.

Mount

Faculty and Staff Convocation - Tuesday,

Studies; Burt Reese, student

Sept. 15, 3 p.m.,

Kehr Union, Ballroom.

Weitz, College of Professional

Krolikowski, trades people.

life;

Michael

Bhomsburg ranked among the 100
best by Kiplinger^s Personal
Bloomsbiirg has been
the 100 best

pubHc

named one

of

universities by

Based on

from 1,813 colleges
and universities in North America,
Kiplinger's has ranked Bloomsburg 89th.
The list was reduced to 200 based primarily on selecti\it\' as evidenced by SAT
scores of the 1997 freshman class and the
statistics

percentage of applicants granted admission.

Those 200 were further reduced

based on a formula that ranked quality
only, taking into

account graduate

the percentage of freshmen

who

factors: total cost, cost as a

rates,

return

affordability for residents), the percentage

of a student's financial need the school

meets with

all

forms of financial

percentage of that aid that
work-study,

Bloomsburg

is

U.S.

also listed

News and World

are based

upon

Report.

statistics

among

the

Those rankings
from

collected

approximately 1,400 accredited colleges

and

COMMUNITY FUND-RAISERS Mulka
year's

Kathy and Jack

are serving as chairpersons of this

(left)

Columbia County United

while John Trathen (right)

is

Way

campaign,

chair of the

SECA

campaign.

universities.

Student Guide

100 were then sorted on

a

leading public universities in the north by

resources.
final

aid, the

loans or

and the average amount

Bloomsburg has

The

is

student borrows to graduate.

sophomore year, SAT scores,
admission rates, and computer and library
for their

percentage of a

income (which measures

state's per-capita

Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine.

Finance

For the second consecutive

Buys.

to

also

been

year,

listed in

The

Bloomsburg people

America's 100 Best College

take leading role in

those quality measures, plus five financial

United

Way

drive

Bloomsburg University

is

taking a

leading role in this year's Columbia

County United 'Way campaign.
Jack and Kathy Mulka (dean of academic support services and assistant
director of admissions) are serving as

chairpersons of the campaign, which has a
goal of $480,000. President Jessica Kozloff
is

serving as co-chair of the Susquehanna

Society, a leadership giving

individuals

who

group of

contribute $500 or more.

John Trathen, director of student
and the Kehr Union, is serving

activities

chairperson of the

SECA

(State

as

Employees

Combined Appeal) Campaign that runs
Sept. 3 to Oct. 15. The United Way is one
of the

member

agencies in the

SECA

campaign.
Materials for this year's campaign, with
a goal of $34,000, are being sent to

all

employees. Return forms or questions
should be directed to Trathen at ext. 4198.
Last year,

more than $32,000 was

raised.

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SEPT 98

Campus notes
June Locke Trudnak, instructional

Joseph Battaglia, English, has written a
"A Day in the Life of Vincent

Shahalam M. N. Amin, geography and

technolog)', with the assistance of 14

story,

earth science, chaired a paper session

graduate students from the instructional
technolog)' program, conducted five

Lucciola," that appears in the collection

titled "Mapping and Planning" at the 43"'
Annual Meeting and International
Conference of the Bangladesh Geographical Society, and presented a seminar on
"Coastal Bluff Erosion: Lake Erie and Lake

workshops for

visitors to

campus during

July and August. The first two groups were
high school students participating in the

Harrisburg Partnership program. The
second two groups were high school
students from New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania who were part of the College
Sampler program. The final group
consisted of third and fourth grade
students from Bloomsburg, Berwick,
Central and Danville school districts. Each
workshop participant developed several

Web pages.

personal

Lawrence Tanner, geography and earth
science, is co-author of an article, "DebrisAvalanche Deposits of the Milo-Lahar

Sequence and the Opening of the Valle
del Bove on Etna Volcano (Italy)," that has
been accepted for publication in the
Journal of Volcano logy and Geothermal
Resources.

Shore Stories: Tales of the Jersey Shore, an

anthology of fiction and poetry about the

New Jersey shore published in July by
Down the Shore Publishing, Inc. The story
is

a chapter of a novel-in-progress.

Ontario"

Reza Noubary, mathematics and
computer science, has written an article,
"Classification of Seismic Events Based on

in

He

also

a consultative

group meeting on "Pedestrian and

Stochastic Properties of the Short-Period

Records," that appears in the journal

Bank.

Soil

Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, vol.
17. At the 45''' Conference for Advancement of Mathematics Teaching, he gave

Sidewalk

David G. Martin, finance and business
presented a paper, "Determinants of

law,

A Statistical Analysis,"

three invited presentations, "Teaching

Bad Debt:

Mathematics and

Association of

Using Sport
Data," "Risk, A Motivating Theme for an
Introductory Statistics Course" and
"Extreme Value Theory and its Place in
Statistics Curriculum."
Statistics

at the

Management Conference.

Plan ahead for steam

and electric shut doivn

Co-authors are Sonia Calvari of

(Catania, Italy)

Those planning events for next May
should take note of the steam and

and Gianluca Gropelli of

the University of Milan,

electrical

Bill Barnes, academic computing, and
Tina Barnes, instructional technology
graduate student, have passed the

Microsoft Certified Professional exams for

NT Workstation

4.0.

Due

to the

need

for additional visitor

parking spaces at Buckalew Place at
evening and weekend events, a sidewalk

issue:

damaging the landscape

and represents a

significant cost savings

phone numbers listed are
on-campus extensions. To use
the numbers off campus, dial 389
first. Area code 717.

Four-digit

spaces available to students.

The new

e-mail, efoster@bloomu.edu
Bloomsburg can be found on the
World Wide Web at:
http: //www.bloomu.edu

pedestrian walkways separating

the Waller and Centennial parking lots

have noticeably slowed the speed of

and directed traffic in that area.
"The purpose of those walkways was to
direct traffic and make the area safer for
pedestrians," says Bob KJinger, manager of
occupation health and safety. "But, we've
also seen that traffic is moving slower,
which increases safety more."

vehicles

Bloomsbun
Slate System of Higher Education

will

as

is

follows:

tVednesday,

and

May

19 - Apartments

1, 2,

3

4.

May 20 - Apartments, 5 and 6;
Modular offices for ROTC, DGS and
TIP; Grounds crew trailer; Green-

Thursday,

houses; water tanks.
Friday,

May

21 - Total upper campus,

except modular offices.
Satvu-day, May 22 - McCormick, Waller,
Bakeless, Haas, Andruss Library,

Pedestrian walkways working to slow traffic

Editor: Eric Foster, ext. 4412;

A Member of Pennsylvania's

lot.

Because most events at Buckalew are not
held during class hours, the use of the
library lot should not impact the parking

Thursday, Sept. 24.

UNIVERSITY

.

pedestrians from

over enlarging the current Buckalew

Communique

is

being constructed from the Buckale-v
driveway to the parking lot of thr
library. The new sidewalk will prevent
.i

shutdown schedule. Steam

be shut down Tuesday, May 18, at
3 p.m., through Tuesday, May 25.
The electrical shutdown schedule

Sidewalk to reduce need for additional parking

Next

Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Management of the Dhaka
Urban Transport Project" that was
sponsored and organized by The World

the Istituto Internazionale di Vulcanologia

Windows

in

served as a discussant

*

Student Recreation Center, Student
Services Center and Buckalew Place.
Sunday, May 23 - Total lower campus (if
needed), Sutliff; Centennial, Hartline,

Ben Franklin, University Store/
University Police, Navy.

Monday, May 24 - Boiler Plant, Old
Science, Schuylkill, Montoin, Carv'er,
Elwell, Scranton Commons.
Tuesday, May 25 - Northumberland,
Carpenter Shop, Simon, Kehr Union,
ColiuTibia, Luzerne, Lycoming.

PresidentJessica Kozloff discusses alcohol

and responsibility
In her recent convocation address

making responsible

at freshman convocation

to freshmen, President Jessica

decisions, particularly concerning alcohol.

Kozloff stressed the importance of students

The part of her address dealing with

these

issues is excerpted below.

Apology challenges us -

Socrates'
lives, to

We

as

it

challenged generations before us - to examine our

question the values and principles that guide our existence.

are beginning this academic year with an examination of these questions.

the Apology.

You have

reflected

on

its

meaning. The text

itself

has challenged you to struggle

with ideas, to wrestle with unfamiliar language and sentence structures

That struggle

is

part of what education should be.

questions during your years with us.

your own decisions.
lect,

values

and

We want you

character.

during your collegiate

But

life,

to

I

to

You

will

You

will

You have read

.

be asked to struggle with

many

be given an enormous amount of freedom to make

have that freedom so you can truly develop your

would ask you,

as

own

intel-

you exercise your own personal freedom

consider that you are also part of a community, and as such, you

have certain responsibilities.

Let

me

conclude by giving you one example of personal decision making that you may

consider simply a personal choice, but one that has great significance on the rest of us.

This
the

last

spring

we read about

tragic deaths

phenomenon more commonly known

related tragedies here at Bloomsburg.
as simply a "rite

of passage" to which

entitled to drink for the
life at risk.

I

all

of students related to alcohol abuse, particularly

as "binge drinking." Indeed,

know

there are those

students are entitled.

we have had alcohol

who look upon drinking escapades
I

would argue

that

no one

is

purpose ofjust getting drunk - and in so doing, putting his or her own

As a president,
to one's health

harm

have seen the

I

self-inflicted

or career plans - even death.

yourself in this way.

consequences of such reckless behavior - harm

It is

We know that college

hard for

women had
and

that

actual injury to others.

to accept that

binge drinking

problems, including disruption of innocent peoples'

damaged property) or

me

lives

is

of all college students

(ranging from noisy residence halls to

A recent Harvard study found

had been drinking or taking drugs
reports of students

who

who had been

have been disrupted - because of the actions of those

sible

binge drinking.

Martin Luther King's

who engage

to

"I

We

pledge that

are people here
us

you? I'm reminded that

who

to

have a

of your

That

is

life.

is

our commitment

this

week

is

may

why we

energy, talent
this

to

are here.

will

consider

the 35th anniversary address of

to

be one that

is

- could
to

all

their poten-

fulfill

be successful, that there

both enjoyable and challenging.

outside the classroom. These are, indeed,

You

and idealism
to

and irrespon-

affect others.

you - that we want you

and

professors, the staff at this university,

community

their very

are devoting their professional lives to help you realize your dreams. All of

full social life

Your

drinking

have a dream" speech. In that speech, he spoke of his dream where

want your collegiate experience

you

of

this

in reckless

our expectation that as members of this community, you

qualified people - regardless of their race, sex or other characteristics
tial.

who had been

of college

We should all be concerned by

the personal consequences of your actions awrfhow those actions

What do we pledge

26%

been disrupted - indeed sometimes

lives

It is

that

assaulted reported that they or their attackers

shortly before the attack.

feel their studying has

"entitled" to

related to a host of other

experienced unwanted sexual advances or assault by those

64%

you are

make

bloom - where you can

I

some of the very

want you

to

We

pledge

to

best years

reach your dreams.

are a very, very talented group of individuals.

that this world badly needs.

We want

You have

work together

intelligence,
as

members

sure that our words and deeds create an environment where you can

fulfill

your dreams.

Today, we invite you to continue your intellectual training, to participate in the academic
tradition of this universit)'. Today,

you become part of this

importandy, today you begin a journey that

All of us

Bloomsburg

-

faculty, staff

University.

will create

institution's

proud

history. But,

our future.

and administrators - wish you great

success in your years at

more

SEPT

10

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Bring your passport

Calendar

for Street Fest prizes

Concerts

Celebrity Artist Series

For more information, contact the music

Call the Celebrity Artist Series

department at 4284.

at

Faculty Recital - Sunday, Sept. 13,

Yesterday:

box

Bloomsburg's Community Street
Wednesday, Sept. 16, from 5 to

Festival '98

office

4201 for more information.

7:30 p.m. will feature prizes for those
visit all five

who

stations representing the

continents of North and South America,

Wendy

2:30 p.m.,

Miller, soprano,

accom-

panied by Ervene Gulley, First Presbyterian Church, 345 Market Street,
Bloomsburg. Miller will give a program of
Colonial music that she earlier performed
in Williamsburg, VA.

A Tribute

to the Beatles

-

Africa, Asia

passports stamped at each station and

the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Tickets are $20.

turning them

A Funny Thing Happened on

the

Way

to

the

Forum, featuring Jo Anne Worley Sunday, Oct. 11,8 p.m., Haas Center for

downtown businesses. Prizes will be
announced at the Main Stage in front of

the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Tickets are $25.

the Courthouse.

Le Trio Gershwin - Thursday, Oct. 15,
8 p.m.. Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross

world, the festival

Rasmus Montanus - Directed by Michael
Collins, Oct. 21, 22, 23. 24, 29, 30, and 31,

Auditorium.

8 p.m.; Oct. 25, 2 p.m.; Carver Hall,

Provosfs Lecture Series

S.

in, visitors' names will be
entered into a drawing. The passports will
be distributed to university students and at

Featuring cuisine from around the

Theater

Kenneth

and Europe. By having

Saturday, Sept. 19, 8 p.m., Haas Center for

Gross Auditorium. Tickets

is

sponsored by the

Town of Bloomsburg, Bloomsburg
University, the Bloomsburg Area Chamber
of Commerce Downtown Division and the
University-Community Task Force on
Racial Equity. Twenty-five university

student organizations

required.

Special Events

Rain date

Center for the

information, contact the Bloomsburg Area

Arts, Mitrani Hall.

the festival.

Main

Street will be closed for the event.

Chamber
Library Dedication

Ceremony -

Friday,

Sept. 11, 1:30 p.m., outdoors in front of
Andruss and Waller buildings. In case of
rain, Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani
Hall.

will participate in

Paul Simon - "Information, Politics and
the Common Good from Lincoln to
Clinton," Thursday, Sept. 10, 7 p.m., Haas

is

of

Thursday, Sept.

Commerce

at

17.

For more

784-2522.

Louis Albert - Thursday, Sept. 24, "Service
Learning Disciplines" (workshop), 4 p.m.,

"The Engaged Campus: A New Context
and Faculty Work"
(lecture), 7:30 p.m., Kehr Union, Ball-

for Student Learning

TALE Center plans talks

room

The TALE (Teaching And Learning

Street Festival '98-

Wednesday, Sept. 16,
5 to 7:30 p.m., downtown Bloomsburg,
Main Street.

Enhancement) Center

Six Days, Seven Nights - Wednesday,

which are held Wednesdays from noon
1 p.m. in the TALE Center (Bookstore

Sept. 16,

Curriculum Committee - Wednesdays,

9:30 p.m.; Saturday, Sept. 19, 3 p.m.;

3 p.m.,

McCormick Center, Forum,

and Nov.

(open forum)

and Thursday, Sept.

Sunday, Sept. 20,
Union, Ballroom.

1

17, 7

and

and 7 p.m., Kehr

McCormick

Center, Forum,

Sept. 17, Oct. 22, Nov. 12.

Fonun - Wednesdays, 3 p.m.,
McCormick Center, Forum, Oct. 14,
Oct. 21 (open forum), Nov. 4 and Dec. 9.

A Perfect Murder - Wednesday,

Sept. 23,

and Sunday, Sept. 27, 7
and 9:30 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts.
Friday, Sept. 25,

University

Faculty

The

talks,

to

annex), include:

Sept 16 -John Bodenman, geography
and earth science, "Do Manufacturers
Search for a Location? The Case of

18.

Planning and Budget - Thursdays,
3:30 p.m.,

sponsoring

several talks in September.

Governance
Sept. 23, Oct. 7, Nov. 11

is

Films

The Tnunan Show - Wednesday,

Sept. 30,

and 9:30 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts;
Friday, Oct. 2, 7 and 9:30 p.m., Sunday,
Oct. 4, 7 p.m., Kehr Union, Ballroom.
7

Hardwood

Processors."

Sept. 23 (in Sutliff Hall,

room 103)-

Dennis Gehris, business education and
office information systems, "Multimedia
Applications and Tools on the World
Wide Web."
Sept. 30 - Cynthia Venn, geography and
earth science, "Fifty Days on Ice."

and Staff Convocation

Tuesday, Sept. 15, 3 p.m.

Kehr Union, Ballroom.

The

X-Files -

Wednesday, Oct. 7, and
8, 7 and 9:30 p.m., Sunday,
Oct. 11,7 p.m., Kehr Union, Ballroom.

Thursday, Oct.

More information about TALE activities
can be found on the world wide web at:
hubble.bloomu.edu/~tale/

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SEPT 98

MOVE-IN HELPERS
Three hundred blue-shirted

Bloomsburg people were on hand
help students and parents

campus Aug. 27 and

30.

to

move onto

The helpers

included 75 faculty and staff
volunteers, orientation
leaders, residence

workshop

life staff,

food

service personnel, custodians and

residence

life

computer

lab assistants.

Student organizations, including the
Fellowship of Christian Athletes,
fraternities

members

and

sororities,

and

of the football team,

contributed another 50 volunteers to
the move-in effort.

named

Scholarship

honor BJ, Host

to

A scholarship

is

being established

honor of the
Rost,

in

late B.J.

former lacrosse

coach. Rost, 69, died

Aug. 2 at DuBois
Regional Medical
Center-East. After

joining the health,
physical education

and athletics
department in 1971,
Rost started the women's lacrosse program
on a club basis in 1975. She served as its
varsit)' coach from 1977 to 1980 and 1982.

A

native of Brookville, PA, Rost

graduated from East Stroudsburg Universit\' and earned a master's degree at
Springfield College,

MA. Those

interested

SUMMER SCHOOL
This summer, about 70 fifth-graders from Millville

Elementary School visited the Hartline Science
Center.

The students were given demonstrations

in contributing to the scholarship should

and performed experiments

contact the development office at 4128.

biological

and

allied health

led

by Cindy Surmacz,

sciences; Chris Hallen,

chemistry; Dale Springer, geography and earth
science; and Chris Bracikowski, physics.

Shown

above, 1998 physics graduate Ross Madara

demonstrates
students.

lab

equipment

for the Millville

Coimnimique
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24 SEPTEMBER 1998

Dedication a day of thanks for new library
hundreds of computers," said
Schweiker "It took TV 30 years to reach 60
million homes. Today, Internet connections, after three years, have reached 90
million homes. This competitive global
economy waits for no one. (The library)
library has

gives students the tools they

need

nod to the future, at the dedication of the
new Harvey A. Andruss Library.
Welcoming Lt. Gov. Mark Schweiker to
the podium during the Sept. 11 ceremony.
President Jessica Kozloff thanked him for
help in getting state funds released for

the $1

had

1

million project.

this library,

"We would have

but we would not have

it

today without the help of the wonderful

politics

recently as part of the Provost's

Lecture Series. But the

Foundation; John Mulka, president of the

about the importance of education
- and libraries.

Community Government

The ceremony

his

were on many
when former Sen.
Paul Simon spoke on campus
Current

people's minds

ity

of

much

advertising,

featured a procession of

Illinois

While he lamented the negativ-

dent of the faculty union; Shelley Levan,

around, and a

Simon

statesman also had things to say

Association.

all

says Paul

chair of the Bloomsbtirg University

president of the

There were thanks

education

to

emeritus of Bloomsburg; Elbern Alkire Jr.,

.\lumni Association; Roy Pointer, presiGov. Mark Schweiker

element

a hey

to

succeed in the new economy."
Speakers at the event included: James
McCormick, chancellor of the State
System of Higher Education and president

Lt.

Libraries

of today's political

he added that

libraries

are an ideal place to get balanced

faculty in

information.

new

Simon compared education to
making improvements to one's
home. "If I want to improve my
home, I have to make an investment. To improve the state of

academic regalia carrying books
related to their discipline. At the close of
the event, they carried the books into the
library.

Pennsylvania, or Illinois or any
state,

you have

to

make an

investment."
"Part of our mission

we build

ought

that

"WTien it came time to rally the
campus, very few outworked your presi-

educational opportunity for

dent," said Schweiker, '75.

artificial barriers

this project

over the top.

"I

We

think she put

know that
come about by
all

this ven' special

day doesn't

accident. Today,

we not only dedicate

new

library,

we celebrate

to

be

a country with

alumnus Mark Schweiker"

everyone and take down the

between

us.

Libraries are a very important part

of that process."

a

successful

teamwork."

Schweiker also discussed the growing
role of technology in education,

and the

Andruss Library plays in providing that technology at Bloomsburg.
"Technology has changed the home

Faculty symbolically carry books from their

and the workplace. That's why

discipline into the

role that

this

new

new Harvey

A.

Andruss

Library.

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24

Campus notes
John J. Olivo, business education and
office information systems,
article, "Status

co-authored an

of Internet Usage

Secondary Business Educators

Among

in Pennsyl-

Nancy Gentile Ford,

history, has written

an article, "Old Country Service School:
Gender, Class and Identity and the
YWCA's Training of Immigrant Women in

vania," that appears in the latest issue of

the International Social Welfare Philoso-

NABTE Review - A Journal of the National

phy, 1919," that will appear in the October

Association for Business Teacher Education.

and Change (Peace History
is also on the
editorial advisory board for Annual
Editions, American History Vol. 1 and II.

articles that

appear

in three peer-reviewed

New Dimensions of
an Old Role for Chaplaincy: Community
Liaison," written with Paul Derrickson,
appears in The Care^ver Journal. "The
Effects of Pictographs on Recall of Medical

campus note

Communique. She

is

in the

SepL 10

the technical specialist in

the Institute for Interacdve Technologies.

issue of Peace

Society Journal). Ford

Julia Bucher, nursing, has written

Correction: Tina Barnes' affiliadon was
incorrect in a

Quest sets sights on
South American peaks

journals. "Exploring

Mary Gavaghan,

nursing, wrote an article,

published in the August issue ofJournal

Quest will take off for Ecuador over the
Christmas break to climb two of the
highest peaks in the Central Andes,

Association of Operating Room Nurses.

Cotopaxi (19,750

"Vascular Hemodynamics," that was

Information" with a team from Penn State
College of Medicine appears in Patient
Education and Counseling. "The

COPE

Cancer
Pain," with Matthew Loscalzo at Johns
Model:

Its

Clinical Usefulness for

(20,600
S.

Ekema Agbaw,

English,

and Karson

Andes and

sented a paper

Forest.

at the

recent International

Meeting of the Joseph Conrad Society of
America at Colgate University. Their

social Oncology.

paper, "Reincarnation of Kurtz in

Norman

Rush's Mating," examined Conrad's

sented a paper,

political science, pre-

"

'Ain't

I

a Human?':

Inadequacy of United States
Legislation as a

Remedy

Civil

The

Rights

to Violations of

Women's Human Rights," at the Southeastern Women's Studies Association
Annual Conference. She
paper,

"Human
National

Women's

Raymond

S. Pastore,

curriculum and

foundations, conducted a series of

technology workshops for the Bald Eagle
Area School District.

also presented a

Rights in America:

The

Schizophrenic State," and chaired a panel
at the

influence on Rush.

Studies Associa-

tion Conference.

Law,

and Chimborazo

trip,

running Dec. 27

to

a

visit

to the

Amazonian Cloud

mountain in the Western Hemisphere,
Aconcagua (23,300 ft.), which lies on the
border of Chile and Argentina.
In 2001, a Quest group will travel to the
Caucusus in Russia to climb the highest
peak in Europe.
For more information about the trips,
call

Institutions,

ft.)

The trip will also serve as training for
more loftier peaks in 1999 when Quest
plans to make an attempt on the highest

4323.

Bruce Rockwood, finance and business
law, has written a paper, "Communication
and Self-Governance: Is Democracy
Possible?," that has been published as
chapter XI, of Revolutions,

The

Jan. 18, will include trekking in the high

Kiesinger, honors student, jointly pre-

Hopkins, appears in The Journal of Psycho-

Diana Zoelle,

ft.).

President to hold open hours
President Jessica Kozloff will hold

open office hours Thursday, Oct. 29,
from 9 to 11 a.m. To reserve a time,

Joel Levin, editor.

Christopher Bracikowsld, physics,

call

4526.

presented a poster, "Computer-Assisted

Communique
Next

issue:

Four-digit

Thursday, Oct.

phone numbers

Mapping

8.

listed are

on-campus extensions. To use
the numbers off campus, dial 389
first. Area code 717.

of Electric Potentials

and

meeting
of the American Association of Physics

Magnetic

Fields," at the national

Teachers.

The

poster was co-authored by

students Art Campbell,

Mark Karkohety,

Russell Madara, Richard Schneider and

Editor: Eric Foster, ext. 4412;

Joe

efoster@bloomu.edu
Bloomsburg can be found on the
World Wide Web at:
http: / / www. bloomu.edu

paper, "Computer-Aided Analysis of

e-mciil,

Bloomsbun
UNIVERSITY

Singley. Bracikowski also co-authored a

Holographic Interferograms," that was
presented by Madara.
Jeff Davis, history, presented a paper,

"The Brothers Johnston: Immigrant

^vrt»»m

n/ lltohi>r

fAtu-tttiftn

information systems.

Story ideas sought for magazine
The office of marketing and
communication is requesting ideas for
stories for the Spring 1999 Bloomsburg

tions for Fighting

Magazine. Please forward suggestions
to Kathleen Mohr, editor

ences," at

(kmohr@bloomu.edu).

Soldiers in the Civil War, Their Motiva-

A Member of Pennsylvania's
Kfa/fi

New business chairs named
Nancy Coulmas has been named chair
of the accounting department while
Donna Cochrane is the new chairperson of business education and office

and Wartime Experithe 65th annual meeting of the

Society for Military History.

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Calendar
Concerts

Celebrity Artist Series

Chancellor tells trustees

For more information, contact the music

Call the Celebrity Artist Series box office at

department at 4284.

4201 for more information.

of changes in Board

Young Person's Concerts - Tuesday,
Oct. 6, 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.,
Bloomsburg University - Community
Orchestra, Markjelinek directing, Haas

A Funny Thing Happened on

the

Way

of Governors' structure
to

the Forum, featiuing Rip Taylor - Sunday,

Oct. 11,8 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts,

In a special presentation Sept. 11, State

System Chancellor James McCormick
discussed changes in the structure of the
Board of Governors and praised President

Mitrani Hall. Tickets are $25.

with a

Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Music
theme of Toyland for school groups.
Contact Ann Stokes at (717) 389-4293 for

Le Trio Gershwin - Thursday, Oct. 15,
8 p.m., Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross

Jessica Kozloff for the

reservations.

Auditorium.

at the

Theater

Emanuel Ax, pianist - Sunday, Nov. 22,
3 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani

work that she's done
meeting of Bloomsburg's Council of

Trustees.

Hall. Tickets are $25.

Rasmus Montanus - Directed by Michael
Collins, Oct. 21, 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 and 31,
8 p.m.; Oct. 25, 2 p.m.; Carver Hall,

Kenneth

S.

"to

The

university presidents will be involved
developing policy and providing
leadership on the State System level. The
in

Provost's Lecture Series

Gross Auditorium. Tickets

Louis Albert - Thursday, Sept. 24, "Service
Learning Disciplines" (workshop), 4 p.m.,
"The Engaged Campus: A New Context

required.

Special Events
Golf Outing - Thursday,
Country Club,

Fall

and Faculty Work"
Kehr Union,

for Student Learning
(lecture), 7:30 p.m.,

Husky Club

Ballroom.

Oct. 15, Frosty Valley
Danville.

For information,

Athletic Hall of

call

4128.

Fame Banquet -

Films

Friday,

Oct. 23, Magee's 24

The Truman Show - Wednesday,

Call

and 9:30 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts;
Friday, Oct. 2, 7 and 9:30 p.m., Sunday,
Oct. 4, 7 p.m., Kehr Union, Ballroom.

West Ballroom.
4058 for more information.

Homecoming - October 23

Thursday, Oct.

Art Exhibits
are

Haas

Monday through

Gallery of Art.

Friday,

9 a.m.

to

30.

Paintings, "Philadelphia to
in

60 Years

Flat," Oct. 8 to

Governance
Curriculum Committee - Wednesdays,
3 p.m., McCormick Center, Forum, Oct.
Nov. 11 (open forum) and Nov. 18.
Planning and Budget - Thursdays,
3:30 p.m., McCormick Center, Forum,
Oct. 22, Nov. 12.

University

Forum - Wednesdays,
McCormick Center, Forum, Oct.

Michael Morris - Photographs, graduate
Dec. 3 to 17. Reception,

Thursday, Dec.

3,

noon

to 2 p.m.

to seek better ways to serve students.

Bloomsburg is represented on the
Performance Indicator Task Force by
Kozloff; the funding formula group by
Hugh McFadden; director of institutional
planning, research and information
management; the tuition group by Wilson
Bradshaw, provost and vice president for
academic affairs; and the facilities group
by

Tom

Contos, assistant director of

physical plant.

"We're going to make a good system
even better in the spirit of continuous
improvement," said McCormick.
During the regular trustees meeting,
the council approved the 21" annual
contribution to the town's volunteer
in the

fire

amount of $14,500.

The

noon

to 2 p.m.

chancellor also reported that a dozen
systemic change groups have been formed

department

Nov. 22. Reception, Thursday, Oct. 22,

thesis exhibit,

7

4 p.m.

Jong-Soon Bok - Sculpture, through Sept.

Bloomsburg

8,

Hours

For more information, call 4646.

Sam Dion -

X-Files - Wednesday, Oct. 7,

and
and 9:30 p.m., Sunday,
Oct. 11,7 p.m., Kehr Union, Ballroom.

The

Exhibits are in the

Sept. 30,

7

to 25.

will move into a
empowers four committees
do substantive work," said McCormick.

The new board
direction that

7,

3 p.m.,
14,

Oct. 21 (open forum), Nov. 4 and Dec.

9.

trustees also approved a $15,000
payment, the third and final installment
on a $35,000 pledge to the town fire
department's capital campaign.
There was also discussion of a study by

the Pennsylvania Association of Scholars

and the Commonwealth Foundation that
examined the core curriculum of State
System and state-related universities.
President Kozloff noted that the study
was not an objective analysis, but a
reflection of a national debate about
higher education. It "offers food for

thought, but

I

think

the context in which

we need
it

to take

it

was presented."

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Favorable enrollment allows restoration
of cuts in academic affairs budget
Favorable enrollment and cash carry
for^vard

from the pre%ious

enable the

fiscal

year

will

universit)' to restore cuts

The

the planning and budget committee
meeting Sept. 17. Because of the additional funds, $433,000 will be restored to
the academic affairs budget, including:

$72,323 to operating expenses, $92,261 to

equipment; $40,294 to upgrade secretarial
computers; $200,000 to meet additional
instruction needs; and $28,121 for an

member

we thought we had

to

make

them," says Wilson Bradshaw, provost and

academic affairs. "So
be able to put that money

vice president for

back into the budget."
The favorable funding will also allow
for the replacement of the ceiling over the
Nelson Field House swimming pool. In
addition, the university will increase

its

reserve fund from $250,000 to $350,000.

This
lency)

fall,

new

transfers.

came

1,778

FTE

(full-time equiva-

students, including freshmen,

Act 101 and

2)

The

yield rate for

summer freshmen

eligible to return in the fall increased by

18 percent, with 31
last

more

year eligible for

3)

students than

There was an opportunity

summer freshmen,

The Middle States Self-Study Commitmembers of the campus
community to open meetings to discuss
tee invites

the Self-Study and its recommendations
and conclusions. A copy of the Self-Study
will be distributed to departments and
offices shortly and will also be accessible at
the Middle States web site. The open
will

be held:

late in the

recruitment cycle to bring in additional
students in under-enrolled majors,
including:
last

year to 76

Wednesday, Sept. 30, 3 p.m., McCormick
Center, Forum.
Thursday, Oct. 1, 3:30 p.m., Kehr Union,
Multicultural Center.

Thursday, Oct.

Chemistry - 11 students to 20.
Mathematics/secondary education in
mathematics - 34 students to 52.
Engineering - 8 students to 15.
Computer information systems -

8,

3:30 p.m.,

Kehr Union,

Multicultural Center.

Tuesday, Oct. 13, 3:30 p.m., Kehr Union,
Multicultural Center.

BUCC

approves criminal justice changes

its meeting Sept. 9, the curriculum
committee (BUCC) approved a criminal

At

20 students to 40.
President Jessica Kozloff recognized the

work that faculty did to fill their majors by
making follow-up calls to potential students.
"We trying to move to an enrollment
management system where we fill by
program wherever we can," explains
admissions director Chris Keller. "A lot of
the credit goes to the faculty

who met

to the university.

briefs

Middle States committee to hoid meetings

meetings

fall.

this year.

"Obviously, these cuts were not

we're thrilled to

to 37.5 percent.

Nursing - 51 new students

in sociology

beginning in the spring.
painless, but

The yield rate (percentage of
students who enroll after acceptance) of
incoming freshmen increased by 2 percent

area budget.

additional funding was discussed at

additional facult\'

factors contributed to the

1)

projected in the spring to the academic
affairs \ice presidential

Three

favorable enrollment.

News

and

chairs

with these students."

Graduate programs have record enrollment

justice internship course as well as changes
to the

major.

requirements for a criminal justice
A computer users' policy was

discussed and will undergo further

was the Board of
Governors policy that addresses the
transference and acceptance of grades
from two-year institutions.
revisions. Also discussed

Emeritus status conferred on retirees

The Bloomsburg

Universit}-

Council of

Trustees has conferred emeritus status

Graduate school enrollment has
reached a record this semester, thanks
largely to successful off-campus programs.
According to the official 14-day report,
graduate enrollment is 328 FTE (full-time
equivalency), an increase of 10 percent

over

last fall's

"The increased number of students
is

upon

and 40 percent for the Bucks County
program to their present enrollment of 47
FTE and 17 FTE respectively," says Schloss.

the president's office, for her 25 years of

The FTE enrollment

for undergraduate

students has risen from 6,522

293 FTE.

the graduate school

"These programs have increased by
approximately 50 percent for the MBA

in

a reflection of the

strength of our programs,

and the efforts
making them

last fall to

6,562 this semester, an increase of

than

1

less

FTE

is

in

March 29, 1996.
Nancy Gilgannon, curriculum and

service, effective

foundations, for her 22 years of service,

May 22, 1998.
Gorman L. Miller, curriculum and

effective

foundations, for his 25 years of service,

percent.

Total

the following retirees.

Joann Mengel, confidential secretary

6,891,

up just over

1

The

effective

May

22, 1998.

accessible to students by offering courses

14-day enrollment figures are the official

Donald E. Hock, director of budget
and administrative services, for his

off campus," says Pat Schloss, assistant vice

figures used to determine enrollment for

29 years of service, effective Feb. 27, 1998.

president and dean of graduate studies

the State System of Higher Education.

and

FTE is determined by dividing the total
number of undergraduate credit hours
scheduled by 15 and the total number of

that faculty have

made

in

research.

Off-campus graduate programs include

MBA

courses offered in the Williamsport

area and curriculum and foundations

courses offered in Bucks County.

percent from 6,815

FTE

last year.

graduate credits hours by

12.

Husky Club holds Wednesday lunches

The Husky Club

is

holding football

lunches every Wednesday at noon in the
University Room of Scranton Commons.
Cost of the lunch

is

$6.75.

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A NEWSLETTER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Comerchero, Alkire

honored for their
foundation support
The Fund

for the

Advancement

of the State System of Higher

Education Inc. has recently
recognized Leonard Comerchero
and Elbern H. Alkire Jr. for their
contributions to Bloomsburg

McCormick presented each
the

first

medal

is

named

in

will

Homecoming Parade Marshal

Saturday, Oct. 24. This will be the 39"'

consecutive Bloomsburg

parade

homecoming

which Cusatis has participated.
The long-time baker in the Scranton
Commons plans to retire soon after
in

homecoming.
The theme of this

year's

homecoming,

with student events running throughout

week of Oct.

19,

will

is

"Mardi Gras."

begin Saturday at

Bloomsburg Hospital
parking lot, travel along Penn Street to
College Hill and Main Street, turning onto
Market Street and ending at Town Park.
10:30 a.m. in the

with

The

honor of the

Eberly family of Uniontown for

Dominick "Tony the Baker" Cusatis
serve as

The parade

Eberly Medals for Philan-

thropy and Volunteerism.

'Tor^ the Baker^ to lead homecoming parade

the

and the State System.
Chancellor James H.

University

8 OCTOBER 1998

The

football

game

will

its

support of higher education

and nationally.
Comerchero, chief executive
officer of Milco Industries Inc. and
the Mitrani Family Foundation of
Bloomsburg, was honored for

1:30 p.m. versus Cheyney.

ing King

begin

at

The Homecom-

and Queen, along with winners

of awards for floats and decorating,

will

be

announced at halftime.
The Alumni Association is sponsoring
a picnic at Nelson Field House from
1

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

The

picnic will

feature a choice of buffet for $10 or

Berrigan sub for $7. Tables will be reserved for reunion classes ending in "3" or
"8."

There will also be an alumni dinnerdance beginning at 6:15 p.m. at Magee's
Main Street Inn. Tickets are $20 per
person.

To make

reservations for the

picnic or dinner-dance, call the alumni
office at 4058.

On

Sunday, Oct. 25, the Concert Choir,

Husky Singers and Women's Choral
Ensemble will give their annual Homecoming Pops Concert at 2:30 p.m. in Haas
Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

statewide

philanthropy.

The

Mitrani Family

Foundation has supported a variety
of programs at Bloomsburg,
including scholarships, construction of the

new

library,

and

renovations to Mitrani Hall,
for

Marco and Louise

named

Mitrani.

Bloomsburg
\J^.:ity Foundation Board of
Directors, was honored for
Alkire, chair of the


He was

recognized as
an honorary alumnus in 1995 for

volunteerism.

his years of service to the university,

which began in 1975 when he was
appointed by Gov. Milton J. Shapp

team to study the costs of
higher education. Since then, he
has served as a founding member
of the university's College of
to a

Business Advisory Board and

Council of Trustees.
More than 30 individuals in all
were honored at the ceremony.

Planning and construction
Departments that may be considering
renovations of their space - or need to

offers design help

before coming to Bloomsburg. Staff

consult on these projects as early as

member Kurt Lambert is a licensed
engineer and Colin Reitmeyer received his
degree in architectural technology from
the University of Tennessee. Any drawings
that are needed can be produced inhouse, using a computer-aided drafting
system operated by Gary Hilderbrandt.
To find out more about design services

possible."

available, call 4923.

find

room

for an additional staff

member

- can find help through the university's
physical plant department.
"Many people on campus don't realize
that

we

offer design services," says

Contos, assistant director.

The

Tom

"We want

to

physical plant staff can help with

projects as simple as selecting

new

"Sometimes we can suggest new
alternatives to arranging an office to

furniture.

increase productivity," says Contos.
are not here to

This

is

tell

people what to do.

something that we enjoy doing, and

The design

staff

includes two licensed

who worked

in

San

Francisco and Boston design firms before
a university planner; and Ed
Gunshore, who worked with the nationally
recognized firm Bohlin, Cywinski, Jackson

becoming

available for viewing
Anyone who would like to see
the drawings of the proposed

the services are free."
architects: Contos,

Centennial drawings

"We

renovations to Centennial Building

may do

so in the

Alumni Room of

Carver Hall. To make sure that the
room is not being used for a
meeting, call 4308.

COMMUNIQUE 8 OCT 98

2

Campus notes
Daniel Vann

J.

III, will

dean of librar)' services

down as
new

step

to accept a

Karl M. Kapp, instructional technology,
recently lectured to the Pittsburgh

Psychology students

and

later.

Chapter of APICS on the topic of "Learning Requirements Planning." APICS is the
Educational Society for Resource Management. Kapp also recently published two
books through APICS as part of a course

Michael Shepard, geography and earth
science, has written a paper, "Shadows on

to help members receive certification in
production and inventory control. He
wrote a participant workbook titled "CPIM

research at the University of
Scranton Psychology Conference.

a Planetary Surface and Implications for

Just-in-Time Certification Review Course

Eileen Astor-Stetson, Brett L. Beck,

position as special assistant to the state

system vice chancellor for information
technolog}' beginning Jan.

1,

1999,

and

continuing until his retirement a year

Photometric Roughness," that appears in
the August issue of Icarus, The International
Journal of Solar System Studies. Bruce
Campbell, Smithsonian Institution,
co-authored the work.

Participant

Workbook" and the "CPIM

Just-in-Time Certification Review Course
Instructor's Guide."

was a member of
three panels at the 1998 conference of the
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. He chaired the
panel "Beyond Petrograd and Moscow:
Civil

War

history,

in Provincial Russia, 1917-1921,"

Psychology department faculty
and students recently presented

Faculty presenters included:

Steven L. Cohen and Connie
Schick.

Student presenters included:
M. Buck,
Kay E. Ennis, K. A. Haase, David
Kristen L. Aldinger, L.

Lawrence Tanner, geography and earth
science, presented a paper, "Debris

Mike Hickey,

faculty present research

Avalanche and Debris-Flow Deposits of the
Milo Lahar Sequence, Mt. Etna, Italy," at
the International Conference on Sediment
Transport by Particulate Gravity Currents
held recently at the University of Leeds,
U.K. Sonia Calvari of the Istituto

delivered a paper on the panel "The

Internazionale di Vulcanologia, Catania,

Vexed Question: Urban-Rural Relations in
Late-Tsarist and Early Soviet Society," and
was discussant on the panel, "Revolution-

Italy,

Jara, Kristine Y. Sudol, J. S.
Schreffler, Michael Starks and April

Zarecky.

Slike

named faculty

athletics representative

was co-author.

Sam Slike, professor of exceptionality
programs, has been appointed faculty

ary Voices: Russian Leaflets, 1900-1917."

athletics representative for the university.

Mehdi

Haririan, economics, presented

Slike replaces Brian Johnson,

who

served

"The Effects of Privatization on
Saving and Investment," at the 8'^' Annual
Convention of the Monetary and Banking

News briefs

Research Institute of the Central Bank of
Iran. WTiile in Iran, he presented the same
paper at the University of Isfahan and the

President to hold open hours

works closely with the director of athletics,
the vice president for student life and the

President Jessica Kozloff will hold open

president to provide significant leadership

office

in the

University of Tabriz.

1 1

athletics

a paper,

in this position for the past

The

hours Thursday, Oct. 29, from 9 to
a.m. To reserve a time, call 4526.

nine years.

faculty athletics representative

governance of the intercollegiate
program. Slike will place a

strategic role to facilitate institutional

Communique
Next

issue:

Thursday, Oct. 22.

phone numbers listed are oncampus extensions. To use the
numbers off campus, dial 389 first.

Four-digit

Religious observance policy has first reading

control of the athletic program and the

There was a

academic

first

reading of the religious

observance policy for students and

employees at the forum meeting Sept. 29.
Kontos was re-elected forum chair
There was also discussion of the role of
the forum in the university governance

Julie

Forensics team wins 16 awards

structure.

Area code 717.
Editor: Eric Foster, ext. 4412;
e-mail,

efoster@blooniu.edu

Bloomsburg can be found on the World
Wide Web at: http://www.bloomu.edu

employee of the month for
September. August employees of the
month were Lynda Michaels and Janet

The forensic team hosted its IS""
annual "Through the Looking Glass"
Novice Tournament in September. More
than 100 competitors and coaches from 15
colleges competed, with Bloomsburg
winning 16 awards. The university will host
the annual Mad Hatter Forensics Tourna-

Boyd of the orientation

ment Nov.

Supervisory roundtable recognizes employees

The

supervisory roundtable has recog-

nized

Bob

Wislock, assistant to the

president, as

Bloomsburg
^
UNIVERSITY
A Member of Peniuytvunla's
Slate System

of Higher Bducatton

integrity of the student-athlete

experience.

office.

Pat

Stockalis of financial aid was July

of the month.

employee

6 and

7.

,

OCT 98 COMMUNIQUE

8

3

Math and computer

Calendar

science sponsors talks

Concerts

Art Exhibits

For more information, contact the music

Exhibits are in the

department at 4284.

are

Monday

Haas

Gallery of Art.

through Friday, 9 a.m.

For more information,

Gospel Choir - Sunday, Oct. 11, at 10:15
a.m. at First Presbyterian Church, Market
Street, Bloomsburg.

The mathematics and computer
science department

call

Sam Dion - Paintings,
Bloomsburg

in

Hours

4 p.m.

to

4646.

Flat," Oct.

What

Sunday,

Oct. 25, 2:30 p.m., Concert Choir,

noon

Governance

Haas Center

Curriculum Committee - Wednesdays,

McCormick

Forum,
Oct. 28, Nov. 1 1 (open forum) and Nov.
Planning and Budget - Thursdays,

Theater

3:30 p.m.,

Rasmus Montanus - Directed by Michael
Collins, Oct. 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 and 31,

McCormick

18.

Carolin Frey, Hershey College

Population Growth and Sports Records Nov.

10, Bill

Calhoun.
Investigate Experi-

3 p.m.,
14,

in

McCormick

Center,

room

2226).

9.

required.

SECA campaign

Special Events

Multicultural Center,

Golf Outing - Thursday,

Fall

Free Spirit plan anrference

Oct. 15, Frosty Valley Country Club,

The

Multicultural Center

and the

student organization Free Spirit
Athletic Hall of

Fame Banquet -

Friday,

Oct. 23, Magee's 24 West Ballroom.

4058 for more information.

present a conference
to

Community:

Bisexual at the

Tuesday,

Celebrity Artist Series

reaches $26,000
Bloomsburg

faculty

and

staff

contributed $26,023 so far to

Danville. For information, call 4128.

Call

Oct. 20,

mental Design in Toxicology - Dec 1
Helen Law, honors student, (to be held

Oct. 21 (open forum), Nov. 4 and Dec.

University

3,

A Computer Model to

Oct. 22. Nov. 12.

Kenneth

Husky Club

Dennis

of Medicine.

Center, Forum,

Forum - Wednesdays,
McCormick Center, Forum, Oct.

Gross Auditorium. Tickets

Nov.

Center,

8 p.m.; Oct. 25, 2 p.m.; Carver Hall,
S.

13,

Risk and the Stock Market - Oct. 27,
Reza Noubary.
Perspectives of a Practicing Statistician —

Women's

3 p.m.,

a Loop? - Oct.

The New Kings of Swing Ken Delamarter.

to 2 p.m.

Choral Ensemble, and Husky Singers,
Wendy Miller and Alan Baker directing,
for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

Is

Huthnance.

8 to

Nov. 22. Reception, Thursday, Oct. 22,

Homecoming Pops Concert -

sponsoring seminars

talks include:

"Philadelphia to

60 Years

is

on Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
in McCormick Center, Forum. Upcoming

Oct

will

"From Closet
Lesbian, Gay or

titled

Life as a

End of the 20''' Century"
The program includes:

13.

Pohtics of Being Other (Conference

Call the Celebrity Artist Series box office at

Opening) - Rita Edessa, director of the

4201 for more information.

Pennsylvania Lesbian and Gay Task

SECA

(State

Appeal).

have

this year's

Employees Combined

The campaign,

with a goal of

$34,000, runs through Oct. 15.

Campaign

chairperson John Trathen, director of
activities and the Kehr Union, asks
employees return their forms, even if
they choose not to participate in the
campaign. Last year, more than $32,000
was raised. Those with questions about the
campaign may call Trathen at 4198.

student
that

Force, 11 a.m., Kehr Union,

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to
Forum, featuring Rip Taylor - Sunday,
Oct. 11,8 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts,

the

Mitrani Hall. Tickets are $25.

Multipurpose Room.
Gay Families and Adoption - Julie
Vandivere, 12:30 p.m., Kehr Union,

Multipurpose Room.
Young College Student: What's It
Like at BU? - Members of Free Spirit,

Gay,

Le Trio Gershwin - Thursday, Oct. 15,
8 p.m., Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross

Center.

Films
Dr. Dolittle -

Wednesday, Oct.

21,

and

and 9:30 p.m.; Sunday,
Haas Center for the Arts,

Friday, Oct. 23, 7

7 p.m.,

Mitrani Hall.

2 p.m.. Multipurpose

Room.

Movie and Panel Discussion - "In and
Out," 7 p.m., Kehr Union, Multicultural

Auditorium. Tickets are $15.

Curriculum committee
schedules additional meeting
At its meeting Oct 7, the curriculum
committee heard a report from John Riley,
chair of the Middle States self-study
committee. The committee also scheduled
an additional working meeting for
Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 3 p.m. in
McCormick Center, Forum. A new chair of
the curriculum committee will be elected
at that

meeting.

COMMUNIQUE 8 OCT 98

4

Card access system being investigated
The

university

is

currently investigating

the possibility of converting to a system
that

would allow

faculty

and

staff, as

students, to use a single card to
variety of functions

items on

well as

perform a

- such as purchasing

campus or unlocking

doors.

"The main purpose is to create a system
is efficient and convenient for
students as well as faculty and staff," says
James McCormack, assistant director for
administration and technology in residence life. "The system could include all
functions that we use an ID or other
plastic card for now." At its most sophistithat

cated, the student cards could function

building security. With card access, the

card can be traced.

Bloomsburg's Second Annual
Education Conference Friday,

university police station," says McBride.

Oct. 16.

"That would eliminate the temptation to

Donald Young,

a traditional key

is

lost, a

and replace duplicate keys

to maintain

Designed for teachers of all

prop open doors."
The ad-hoc committee working on the
project includes: McBride; Lee Masteller
and Glenn Beiber, computer services; Bob
Abbott, academic computing; John

David

if

16

be able to give students access to buildings
without having them pick up keys at the

For unlocking doors, a card access
system has several security advantages over
traditional keys, according Duy McBride,
Currently,

Oct,

More than 210 teachers from
area school districts will attend

"With a card system, professors would

ATM card.

locksmith needs to change the lock core

planned for

Additionally, efforts to use the deactivated

Pitcher, library;

university police.

Education Conference

lost

card can be deactivated quickly on a
computer and replaced with a new card.

an account into which student payroll
and financial aid checks are deposited, or
(by working with a bank) function like an
like

Second Annual

plant;

Tom

grades, the conference features

on science, technology,
and managing classrooms.
Presenters include faculty from

sessions

writing

all

Messinger, physical

Gary Melnick, communications
Tom Cooper, academic affairs;

Many of the

center;

Hill,

are from the

CGA comptroller; McCormack,
Tom Kresch and Ed

Valovage, residence

life;

three of Bloomsburg's colleges

as well as area teachers.

teachers attending

Benton and Central

Columbia school

districts,

which

are using their teacher in-service

and student

days to take advantage of the

Robert Dixon.
As the next step in the investigation, a
questionnaire will be sent to all directors
on campus and the Community Government Association to determine how a card
access and/or one-card system could meet
the needs and desires of the university
community.

conference. In addition to teachers, more than 30 undergraduate

and graduate Bloomsburg students
affording them the

will attend,

opportunity to interact with

working professionals. For more
information about the conference,
contact Donald Pratt at 4639 or
4915.

Physics student group

named outstanding

Highway cleanup planned

The

supervisory roundtable

is

holding an

Adopt-A-Highway cleanup of the
interchange Saturday, Oct.
Oct. 17).
at 9 a.m.

10.

exit 35

(Raindate:

The group will meet at Denny's
Those interested in participating

should contact

Tom

Patacconi in duplicat-

ing services.

Architects attend meeting on apartment project

Thirty-five architectural firms sent

representatives to a recent question

and

answer session regarding the new apartments planned on the upper campus. The
apartment project is expected to house
284 students. Architects must submit
proposals for the design this month. An
architect is expected to be selected by
early 1999. Design is expected to take
about a year, with construction to begin in
spring of the year 2000 and be complete
in

summer

of 2001.

The Bloomsburg

University Chapter of

Employees volunteer
to answer questions

Physics Students, advised by Christopher

Bracikowski, has been recognized by the
society's national office as

an outstanding

in 1997-98. The distinction was
based upon the chapter's "high standard
of extracurricular professional
development."
Students in the Bloomsburg chapter
gave seven presentations at professional

chapter

meetings and had three papers published.
tutoring four nights a

Members provided
week

and introductory
and gave demonstrations

to physical science

physics students
to 75 Millville

Elementary School children

who visited campus

in May.

The

organiza-

tion also took four trips to industrial

plants

and

laboratories.

Nearly 90 faculty, staff and administravolunteered their time to staff

tors

information stations in the Kehr Union on
Sept. 19 for Parents'

and Family Weekend.

More than 50 departments had

tables at

the event, which provided a forum for

parents and family

members

to learn

more

about individual departments. The event
is organized by the Career Development
Center. That morning. President Jessica
Kozloff also held an open discussion
session with approximately two dozen
parents.

During the Bloomsburg Fair, faculty,
and students staffed the university's
kiosk in Education Building throughout

staff

the week.



Communique
A NEWSLEnER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

-

OCTOBER 1998

Bloomsburg receives state grant to curb underage drinking
Bloomsburg has received $15,000 to
support programs to curb underage
drinking. The funding is part of a pro-

gram announced

Tom

this

summer

by Gov.

sobriety checks conducted by the

partnership established between the

"Most of these projects are directed
toward changing student attitudes," says
H. Preston Herring, vice president for
student life. Herring and Mary Lenzini
Howe, mayor of the Town of Bloomsburg,

university

imiversi-

selected by Ridge to be partners in his

pilot

and town

Educational

Ridge.

Bloomsburg was one of nine
ties

community outreach and enforcement
through the Bloomsburg Initiative, a

program to battle alcohol abuse. The
Penn State University, the

last year.

initiatives

include begin-

ning a "social marketing" campaign on
campus to change how students establish
patterns of alcohol and other drug abuse.

others are

A

University of Pittsburgh, the University of

campus to support the educational
programming currently presented to
student organizations and academic

Scranton, Indiana University of Pennsylvania,

Shippensburg University, Lafayette

College, the University of Pennsylvania

and Gannon University.
"The war on imderage drinking cannot
be won overnight and it cannot be won
alone," said Gov. Ridge. "We need to work
together, fight together to make sure our
children know what is at stake and to help
them make the right decisions."



The funds

will

be used to support

projects in the areas of education,

resource library

will

be created on

Outreach programs

will

establishment of regional

Drunk

Assisting

include the

SADD

(Students

and SAS (Students
Students) organizations on
Driving)

campus. The university will also create a
World Wide Web site for student leaders to
access cinient information on alcohol use
and abuse.
Enforcement programs will include

Police.

are co-chairs of the

"We need

Bloomsburg

Initiative.

to help students develop a

culture in which binge drinking

is

not

perceived as a 'cool' thing to do," adds
Herring. "Irresponsible drinking can have
tragic

classes.

Against

Bloomsburg Town

consequences for those who do

it

but it also impacts the entire community.
"I'm delighted they recognized the

work we've done

in the last year

and

will

help us continue our efforts."
This

latest

funding

is

in addition to

$36,000 that the Bloomsburg

Initiative

received in the past year to fimd
nity projects related to

commu-

underage drinking

and alcohol abuse.

Sam Dion

exhibits

work in Haas Gallery
Illustrator

and painter Sam Dion

is

exhibiting works in Haas Gallery of Art

through Nov. 22. Gallery hours are
Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The

exhibit, "Philadelphia to

Bloomsburg

in

60 Years

Flat," features

more than two dozen examples of illustrations

Dion created for publications and

works done for himself.

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2

OCT 98

29

Campus notes
Howard
studies

arts,

paper, "Perspectives

Metaphor

communication

Schreier,

and theatre
in

the

on the Journey

Zen and

Maintenance and

President Jessica Kozloff represented

presented a

the Art of Motorcycle

Lila," for a

panel of the

at

Commimication

the Eastern

a regional

meeting

Teaneck, NJ, for presidents of institutions
seeking Division II affiliation. She spoke

on the

topics of "institutional control"

an invited speaker

and

Association Fall Conference.

meeting of the

at a

Pennsylvania Association of Council of
Trustees held at California University of

Harry C. Strine III, communication
and theatre, presented a paper,

Indicators in Systemic Change."

Amy

District 7

Griffin presented

Computing gets boost in speedy convenience

a paper, "Forensic Etiquette," while

student David Calvert presented

Mehdi
an

"How

to

Impromptu Speech."

Present an

Haririan, economics, has written

article, "It's

Time

to Privatize

Our

Airports," in the spring issue of The Leader

magazine.

The paper

is

co-authored by

The offices of academic computing and
computer services have implemented
several new programs this summer and fall
that will make using the campus computer
network faster and more convenient.
These projects include:

Bijan Vasigh of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University in Florida.

paper on "Emile
and Carlos Reyles'
Beba: Two Discourses on Incest" at the
seventh annual Meeting of AIZEN, the
cultures, presented a

Zola's Doctor Pascal

Approaches and Com-

check their calendar
from any computer with World Wide Web
access on or off campus. All faculty and
staff desktops will be upgraded over the
fall '98 and spring '99 semesters.

He

another paper, "Ordure
mon Amour (My Filthy Love): Film
Adaptation of Emile Zola's novel Nana" At
the West Chester University Conference
also presented

on Literature and the

is

featured in

created about the

new program.

Easing mainframe access

New

software. Info Access, allows users

download information

users to transfer

mainframe data

into a

PC

spreadsheet or database program. This
application can be installed on desktop

PCs by request.

retrieve e-mail, or

Association International for
parative Studies related to Emile Zola.

Web TS, Bloomsburg

directly from the
mainframe. The application also allows

GroupWise 5 is being installed on PCs
and MACs throughout campus. Similar to
previous versions, GroupWise 5 has the
added feature of allowing users to send or

and

to use

a video the manufacturer, Unisys, has

to

Upgrading GroupWise

Gilbert Darbouze, languages

Multidisciplinary

workshop, "Linking the International
Petchenik Children's Map Award to the
Curriculum" to the National Council for
Geographic Education.

"The Role of Performance

topic of

"Stretching the Forensic Budget," at the

workshop. Student

and Cartography in Geographic Education," at the North American Cartographic
Information Society. She presented a

Pennsylvania where she addressed the

studies

American Forensic Association

Karen Trifonoff, geography and earth
science, presented a paper, "Creativity, Art

in

"personnel/staffing issues." She was also

Rhetoric and Public Address Interest

Group

NCAA at

Arts.

Speeding up the network

The campus network has been
graded

significantly,

up-

enabling data to be

transferred between 10

and 60 times more

quickly and allow for the transmission of

Web access to Planetx mail
Students and faculty now have an
additional way for viewing and sending
e-mail via Planetx. Using a web browser,
like Netscape, students and faculty can

voice

and video images

in the future.

Additionally, a fiber optics cable has been

from campus to the Magee
Center as part of the Link-to-Learn
installed

Project.

enter http://webmail.bloomu.edu which

Communique
Next

issue:

Thursday, Nov.

5.

phone numbers listed are oncampus extensions. To use the
numbers off campus, dial 389 first.

Four-digit

Area code 717.
Editor: Eric Foster, ext. 4412;

allows a login to Planetx using the

Creating e-mail stations

standard webpage interface. Users can

E-mail stations are being installed
throughout campus in building lobbies. By
using older computers for the e-mail
stations, the state-of-the art computers in
computer labs have been freed up for

alternate between Pine

connection

as

and the web

they choose.

Simplifying student information access

New

software,

Web

TS, has been

on the network

installed

Wide Web

(FCINF) through a World Wide

at;

http://www.bIooinu.edu

to access the faculty information system

Web

Wiring Elwell for student access

were often unfamiliar with the system.

One

are

frame transaction codes to access this
information. Because they typically only

needed
A Member of Pennsylvania's
Mate System nf Ibgber kducation

sophisticated uses.

Over the summer, all of the student
rooms in Elwell Residence Hall were wired
for compiuer access, making three of the
universit)''s seven residence halls and the
Montgomery Apartments wired for room
access. Over half of the rooms on campus

interface. Previously, faculty used main-

Bloomsburg
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UNIVERSITY

more

to enable faculty

efoster@blooniu.edu
Bloomsburg can be found on the World
e-mail,

to

of the

do

this several

first

times a year, they

institutions in the nation

now

wired.

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Calendar

Bloomsburg Players update Danish

Concerts
For more information, contact the music
department at 4284.

Suzuki Recital - Saturday, Nov.

7,

2:30 p.m., featuring area Suzuki violinists.
First Baptist

OCT 98 COMMUNIQUE

Church of Danville,

20 Brookside Drive, Danville.
Jazz Ensemble - Thursday, Nov. 12, 7:30
p.m., Steven Clickard directing, Haas

Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

Special Events

There's something rotten in Denmark,
and it's coming to Bloomsburg. The
Bloomsburg Players have dusted off a 275year-old Danish play, "Rasmus Montanus,"
and added new twists.
Written by Ludwig Holberg, who's
been called the Danish Moliere, "Rasmus
Montanus" is the story of a poor farm
couple, the Bergs, with two sons. They
saved their ducats for years to send the
oldest boy, Rasmus, off to college. Now
he's coming home. When Rasmus arrives,
he declares that he is now too educated to
resume his former life and that the Earth
is round! It's up to his younger, less
educated (but perhaps smarter?), brother

"This

3

satire

a story about education abuse,"

is

says director

Michael Collins, who adapted

the play with student Carissa Boak.

"Rasmus

so overeducated, he doesn't

is

know how

to talk to anybody."

While Collins has kept the play's old
Danish setting, the script has undergone
significant revision. "We worked from a 90year-old translation and contemporized
says Collins.

it,"

The

play will be staged in Carver Hall,

Kenneth

S.

Gross Auditorium, at 8 p.m.

Oct. 28, 29, 30 and 31. Tickets are $6 for
adults

and $4 for students and senior
and free with a Community

citizens

Activities Card.

to retrain him.

Thanksgiving Recess - Begins Tuesday,
Nov. 24, 10 p.m., and runs through

New equipment makes interlibrary loans easier

Sunday, Nov. 29.
Interlibrary loan requests at the

illustrations

Andruss Library are now faster and more
convenient with the installation of an

Document Delivery System.
The Ariel system consists of a digital

Ariel

Celebrity Artist Series

computer and

With

Call the Celebrity Artist Series box office at

scanner,

4201 for more information.

the system, articles, photos and illustrations are

Emanuel Ax, pianist - Sunday, Nov. 22,
3 p.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani

laser printer.

scanned and transmitted

requestor via the Internet.

The

to the

resolution

of the transmission is much higher than a
fax trasmission - making small type.

Hall. Tickets are $25.

and photos

legible.

Additionally, the transmitted files can

be forwarded to others electronically
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State System of Higher Education universi-

without
ties

are

The
a grant

now equipped

with Ariel,

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from the Keystone Library

Network. Those with questions about the
system can contact Jo Crossley, coordinator of interlibrary loan.

Governance
Curriculum Committee - Wednesdays,
3 p.m.,

McCormick

Center, Forum, Nov. 11

(open forum) and Nov. 18.
Planning and Budget - Thursdays,
3:30 p.m.,

McCormick

The Student

Center, Forum,

Religious Observance

Policy was passed at the

Nov. 12.

Forum meeting

Oct. 14. Effective spring semester 1999,

Forum - Wednesdays, 3
McCormick Center, Forum, Nov. 4

University

and Dec.

Student Religious Observance Policy approved

p.m.,

the policy states that "students

may

observe their religious holy days/holidays

without penalty or undue hardship."

9.

Also

at that

meeting, John Riley, chair

of Middle States Self-Study, reported the
findings of the Middle States steering

SECA campaign reaches $32,000
Bloomsburg faculty and staff have
contributed more than $32,000 so far to
this year's

SECA

(State

Employees

Combined Appeal). The campaign goal
$34,000. Those with questions may call
campaign chair John Trathen at 4198.

is

committee and facilitated discussions
focusing enrollment management and
outcomes assessment. A complete draft of
the committee's self-study report can be
found on the Web at:
rvivw. bloomu. edu/ departments/ middle/

index.html

At an open forum Oct. 21, President

Jessica Kozloff talked about 14-day

enrollment figures. State System appropriations requests for 1999-00,

and

State

System change initiatives in the areas of
academic and student affairs, advance-

ment, finance and administration, and
human resources. She then addressed
concerns from the audience regarding
dissemination of information about recent
alleged sexual assaults, a potential
4-day

summer schedule,

stricter

standards for teacher education programs,

and expansion of evening course

offer-

ings.

The next meeting is Wednesday, Nov. 4.
Another open forum with Kozloff will be
held

in

the spring.

OCT 98

COMMl'XIQl'E

4

Children invited

campus

New

to

Trick-or-Treat

Residence

life is

Like

York toxvn draws

many

in\iting area

written in

small cities in the northeast-

architecture.

its

"The buildings were gorgeous, but

students in residence halls Thursday,
Oct. 29, from 6 to 9 p.m. Participants

they're empty," says Susan Dauria,

should meet

anthropology',

in the Ehvell Hall lobby.

may park in the Tri-Level
on Second Street. Treat-or-

Parents

Treat guides

wall escort

parents through the

in the city

A costume

Today, to support
efforts, the city

be awarded for the
and most elaborate

costumes.

The program is sponsored by the
Residence Hall Association Advisory
Board. For information, contact Rita
Hiscocks, area coordinator for

In the 50s

and

60s, deindustrialization

Susan Dauria

affected communities throughout the

Amsterdam was
no exception. Jobs moved elsewhere and
factories closed down. The population
dropped from a high of about 35,000 to

For more on

about 20,000.

at:

northern United

Luzerne and Northumberland
halls, at

redevelopment

its

using a publication

is

Dauria has written based upon that
research, "The History of Industry and
Ethnic Communities in Amsterdam, NY."

Elwell. Prizes will

residence

years living

were

contest will begin at 5:30 p.m. at

cutest, scariest

who spent two

researching for her dissertation.

"Many of these magnificent old factories
falling down or burned out."

children and

halls.

on Dauna^s research

ern United States, Amsterdam, NY, was a
shell of its former self. And the stoiy was

children to "Trick-or-Treat" with

facility

u\

4809.

States.

this story, see the

World Wide Web

wivw.blooTnu.edu

News briefs
Faculty granted emeritus status

Recent retirees James

and Joan

geography and earth science,
been granted faculty emeritus

T. Lorelli,

B. Stone, nursing, have

status.

Academic grievance coordinators named

Academic grievance board coordinators
academic year

for the 1998-99

are: Peter Stine, physics; Janice Keil, business

education and office information systems; Vishakha Rawool,
audiology and speech pathology.
EBERLY

AWARD WINNERS

Leonard Comerchero and Elbern
Eberly

Awards by the Fund

Higher Education

H. Alkire Jr.

for the

Inc. for their

of the State

System

Comerchero, CEO

Shown from

left

of Milco Industries,

are: Chancellor

who

who

James

received the award

for philanthropy; President Jessica Kozloff; Alkire, chair of the

University Foundation board,

of

contributions to Bloomsburg University and

the State System of Higher Education.
H. McCormicl<;

were recently presented with

Advancement

Bloomsburg

received the award for volunteerism; and

featured speaker Richard (Tom) Ingram, president of the Association of

Governing Boards

of Universities

of the Eberly family of

Uniontown

statewide and nationally.

and Colleges. The award
for

its

is

named

support of higher education

in

honor

Communique
A NEWSLETTER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

discussed at planning

heads task force

on alcohol abuse
is

chairing a state-wide task force to
investigate alcohol use

and abuse

on college campuses.
Fifteen leaders from education,
law enforcement and state agencies
came to campus in October for a
meeting of the Pennsylvania
Association of Colleges
Universities

year ago, while foiu" reported slight

Board of Governors asks for 5.5 percent boost

Bloomsburg is also fourth overall in
headcount enrollment. Cheyney had the
largest gain, in both niunbers and percent-

In October, the

approved a

Board of Covernors

state appropriation request of

nearly $448.3 million next year, an

and

increase of about $23.5 million, or 5.5

(PACU) Task Force on

and

report titled "Drugs on

Campus

at

the Bimillennium."

"The

PACU

asked us to

board of directors

revisit that report," says

"A major thrust this time
will be an analysis of binge drinking, which nationally has been
linked to injuries, deaths

the top four in

age - an additional 313 students brings
total enrollment to 1,743.

average.

which would come from student tuition

and required

fees.

The

total

represents a

4.2 percent increase over the current

Kozloff.

community

among

enrollment increase, along with Cheyney,
Lock Haven and West Chester.

year totals $926.5 million, about half of

is

without a tuition increase as a result of

substance abuse on campus in a

Bloomsbiu g, with an increase of 148
students, was

expected enrollment growth. The State
System's overall proposed educational and
general budget for the 1999-2000 school

fee revenue

vania Campuses.
investigated

declines.

Looking at efficiency measures and
performance indicators, Kozloff, who
serves on the State System's finance and
administration committee, noted that
Bloomsburg has a lower cost per student
credit hour and per student than the

percent. Tuition

projected to increase by $1.5 million even

PACU

and budget

The State System Board of Governors
budget request and State System enrollment (and where Bloomsburg ranks) were
highlights of the planning and budget
conmiittee meeting Oct. 22.

Alcohol Use and Abuse on PennsylIn 1992,

NOVEMBER 1998

State appropriation^ System enrollment

President Kozloff

President Jessica Kozloff

5

operating budget.

University Store to temporarily

move

to Student Services Center

The committee

also

approved a request

to relocate the University Store to the

and

disruption."

State System enrollment tops 95,000

fiuure Student Services Center over spring

enrollment increased for the
second year in a row to more than 95,000
students, a gain of 815 students. Ten of the
14 universities showed an increase over a

break next March so that renovations to
the store can be made. The project is

This

hi addition to Kozloff,

Bloomsburg was represented by
Preston Herring, vice president for

fall,

expected

to

be complete by August 1999.
Continued on page

and Barry Jackson,
director of the drug, alcohol and
student

life,

wellness network.

The

task force

formed three

subcommittees:
1

)

to review the

1992

PACU

report on substance abuse.
2) to investigate current

campus
Old Friends

culture.
3) to generate a plan

The university

based

upon promising practices undertaken on a variety of campuses.
The reports of the subcommit-

miss two old friends

Cusatis, retired Oct.

serving students

be completed in February
and combined into a report to be
tees will

Continued on page

will

who

are retiring. Dominic "Tony the Baker"

2.

in

30

after

39 years

of

food service. Marilyn

Muehlhof, secretary to the president's office

and Council

of Trustees, will retire Jan. 1,

1999, after 33 years, 4 months, of service.

Her

last

day

in

the office will be Dec. 3.

3.

COMMUNIQUE 5 NOV 98

2

About our people
Mainuddin Afza, management, recently
Ameer Khan, a Fulbright scholar
from Bangladesh, to speak to students on

"Burkitt's

"Culture Conflict in Joint Ventures in

of Genetics: Basics

invited

Asia."

Khan

is

E.

Bodenman, geography and

United

Tim

allied

for the Encyclopedia

and Applications. The twowill

be published

Institutional
in the

States, 1983-1996," at the

Middle

Phillips

and Karl Kapp,

along with students Hai Ly, Shawn

Milheim and Malcom Powell, the Pennsylweb page as well as the web
page for Governor Tom Ridge. Both are
scheduled to go live on the web in three
weeks. The address will be www.state.pa.us.
From that site, you can get to the
vania state

in

H. Preston Herring, vice president for
life, and trustee Robert Buehner
have been recognized with the Governor's
Highway Safety Awards. Both were
honored in the category "Alcohol Highway
Safety." Herring was honored for his work
as co-chair of the "Bloomsburg Initiative,"

governor's

site.

Gerry Powers, exceptionality programs,
and graduate Samantha Pollack '97,
coauthored a research study, "Services for
the Gifted Deaf," which has been accepted

States Division of the Association of

a coalition established by leaders of the

American Geographers 1998 Annual
Meeting. He also chaired a paper session
on "economic change" and was elected

university

vice president of the division's executive

network, accepted the award on behalf of

board.

Herring. Buehner, Montour County

paper, "Crash: Autoeroticism

was recognized for his
assistance and support of sobriety check-

on Literature and Film.

and town of Bloomsburg

for presentation at the

to

address alcohol abuse. Barry Jackson,
director of the drug, alcohol

Stacie

Bond

has joined the community
coordinator. She

responsible for the Student Recreation
Center and Commimity Government
is

points,

DUI

was

and

named

the

Mary Beth Simmons,

management

president of the group this

leave.
is

Becky Musselman of

Brenda Musselman

open accounts payable

Communique
issue:

Thursday, Nov.

19.

phone numbers listed are oncampus extensions. To use the
numbers off campus, dial 389 first.

Four-digit

Area code 717.
Editor: Eric Foster, ext. 4412;

efoster@blooinu.edu
Bloomsburg can be found on the World

travel

serving in the

at:

http://www.blooinu.edu

From Prevention

UNIVERSITY

A Member of Pennsylvania's
State System of Higher Education

Conference.

Ken Wilson,

professor emeritus of art,

had two paintings accepted into the North
Mountain Art League's October Juried
Exhibition.

Linda Long, alumni office, was honored at the Alumni Homecoming Dinner
Dance Oct. 24 for her 30 years of service
at the university.

English department, wrote the article,

"The True Key

to

My Whole

Life:

The

injohn Henry Newman's
Apologia Pro Vita Sua," which appears in
Soul's Journey

the

fall

edition of Chicago Studies.

to Intervention.

Three hundred

sixty-

seven alumni registered during

Alcohol task force
Continued from page

presented to the

1.

PACU

board of

directors in spring 1999.

The

homecoming.

task force has

been en-

dorsed by Secretary of Education

Andrea Pearson, art, presented a paper,
'Privacy,' and the Art of Wor-

"Gender,

Bloomsburs
^

English Associa-

William C. Zehringer, retired from the

e-mail,

Wide Web

at the

position.

Linda LeMura and Leon Szmedra,
exercise physiology, presented the paper
"The Effects of Short-Term Training on
Selected Coronary Risk Factors in Obese,
African-American Women" at the Second
International Congress on Coronary
Disease

Next

and

is

Back Row,"

is

serving in Hunsinger's

position as student payroll
clerk.

A 1956 VW Beetle owned by Donna
Cochrane, business education and office
information systems, and Paul Cochrane,
mathematics and computer science, won
"best of show" in the air-cooled division at
Bug Meet 2, an all-Volkswagen motorsports
event at Beaver Springs Dragway.

English, pre-

tion of the Pennsylvania State Universities

technician in the budget and

accounts payable

is

in the

is

in

administrative services office while Halye

on maternity

She

office,

Audra Halye's position

Bloomsburg Business and Professional

year.

for

sented a paper, "Trying to Reach the Boy

Women's Organization "Woman of the
Year."

David Randall, English, presented a

and Autobiography," at the 23"" Annual Colloquium

youth.

serving in
Ellen Clemens, business education

International

and wellness

and programs

Kathy Hunsinger, business

Association accounts.

office information systems,

patrols

first

Conference on Deafness.

District Attorney,

activities office as a fiscal

instruc-

tional technology, recently completed,

student

Location and Growth of InformationIntensive Industries in the Information

Investment Advisory Industry

and

1999.

earth science, presented a paper, "The

Economy: The Case of the

Lymphoma,"

volume reference

currently conducting

research on entrepreneurship.

John

Phillip A. Farber, biological

health sciences, has written an essay,

ship," at the Sixteenth

Conference.

Century Studies

Eugene Hickok and Secretary of
Health Daniel Hoffmann.

NOV 98 COMMUNIQUE

5

Coming events

Calendar

Mad

Concerts
For more information, contact the music

Hatter Speech Tourney celebrates 30*^ year

The annual Mad Hatter Speech
Tournament will celebrate its 30"' anniversary Friday

department at 4284.

This year

Suzuki Recital - Saturday, Nov.

a

7,

2:30 p.m., featuring area Suzuki violinists.
First Baptist

7.

see the inauguration of

new trophy - which,

at 12-feet tall,

is

the

country's largest for a speech competition.

The trophy was

Church of Danville,

created by Bloomsburg
graduate Jim Davis of Sweet Valley. About
150 competitors are expected to attend

20 Brookside Drive, Danville.
Jazz Ensemble - Thursday, Nov. 12,
7:30 p.m., Steven Clickard directing,

Haas Center for the

and Saturday, Nov. 6 and

will also

Arts, Mitrani Hall.

from more than two dozen schools. The
tournament runs from 2 to 10 p.m. Friday
and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. Most events
Humanities. For information,

10 a.m., Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani

Strine

call

Harry

Hall. Featuring Takayori Atsumi.
Native American

Concert - Sunday, Nov. 15, 2:30 p.m.,
Bloomsburg University - Community

Fall

Mark Jelinek

Orchestra,

Haas Center for the
Featuring

cellist

Arts, Mitrani Hall.

An Evensong Concert Chamber

Saturday, Nov. 21,5 p.m..
Singers,

Wendy

Miller directing. First

Presbyterian Church, 345 Market Street,

Bloomsburg.

Special Events
Thanksgiving Recess - Begins Tuesday,
Nov. 24, 10 p.m.,

Union)

7

feature the Silver Cloud

will

Singers from

Takayori Atsumi.

from Tchaikovsky, Faure,
Popper and William Grant Still.
Selections

Holiday Classics:

Month begins with song

The opening of Native American
Heritage Month Thursday, Nov. 5, at

p.m. in the Multicultural Center (Kehr

directing,

and runs through

and open

New Jersey. The

to the public

and

event

will

is

free

feature

Multicultural events planned

November
Heritage Week Kick-Off

Multicultural events in
include: African

Monday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. in the Kehr
Union, Ballroom; the "Apollo at
Bloomsburg" talent show Wednesday,
Nov. 11, at 7 p.m. in the Kehr Union,
Hideaway; and the talk "Asian America:
Where Have We Been and Where Are We
Going?" Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. in

Red Cross to hold blood

3 p.m.,

The Red Cross

McCormick

Center, Forum,

and Nov. 18.
Planning and Budget - Thursday,
3:30 p.m., McCormick Center, Forum,
Nov. 11 (open forum)

Nov. 12.
University

Forum - Wednesday,

3 p.m.,

McCormick Center, Forum, Dec.

9.

Exhibits are in the

Haas

through Friday, 9 a.m.

Gallery of Art,

to

Monday

4 p.m. For more

information, call 4646.

Sam Dion 60 Years

"Philadelphia to Bloomsburg in

Flat,"

through Nov. 22.

10 and 11
hold a blood drive

drive Nov.

will

Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 10 and 11,
from 1 1 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Kehr Union,
Ballroom. The goal of the drive is 485
pints. For information, call 4196.
Players to

Office at

Theater troupe Improvs on college

life

Nov.

23

improvisational theater troupe

BUSTED

(Bloomsburg University Student
Drama) will perform
Monday, Nov. 23, at 8 p.m. in the Kehr
Union Ballroom. During the free performance, the troupe explores real-life issues
that college students face - alcohol,

roommate

an
perform
Monday, Dec. 7 (holiday program),
8 p.m. in the Kehr Ballroom.
conflicts, establishing

BUSTED

will also

at

tell

story of child labor crusader

Planning and budget
Continued from page

1.

The

project will include replacement of
windows, ceiling, electrical service and
fixtures, air conditioning, carpeting,

furniture

and

fixtures.

Reassignment of space in Waller
Administration Building was also
approved. The three offices now occupied
by the office of graduate studies and
research will be assigned to J. Daniel Vann
111, University Advancement, and the
College of Arts and Sciences.

Summer school issues decided
The committee also approved a plan to
allow departments to schedule four or five
day classes during the

summer

sessions.

The Bloomsburg Players will stage
"Mother Jones and Her Children's

The Summer Freshmen Program
now offer 150 students admission to

Crusade." Written and directed by Ross

summer and

Genzel, the play

Art Exhibits

Box

light refreshments.

the Multicultural Center.

Curriculum Committee - Wednesdays,

the Celebrity Artist Series

4409.

identity.

Sunday, Nov. 29.

Governance

include works by Haydn,
Debussy and Schumann.
Tickets for the performance are $25 (or
free with a Community Activities Card)
and can be obtained by visiting or calling
will

Corigliani,

Theatrical Education

4576.

III at

Ax's program

John

The

are held in Bakeless Center for the

Cello Master Class - Saturday, Nov. 14,

22
Piano virtuoso Emanuel Ax will
perform Sunday, Nov. 22, at 3 p.m. in
Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.
Pianist Ax to perform Nov.

tells

the story of

Mother

Jones and her fight to stop the abuse of
child labor. Appropriate for children in
middle school or older, the play runs Nov.
18 through 20 at 7 p.m., and Nov. 21 at 2
and 7 p.m. in Carver Hall, Kenneth S.
Gross Auditorium. Tickets are $5 for

and senior citizens
community activities card.

adults, $3 for students

and

free with a

fall

will

the

semesters, with the

remaining students offered summer/
spring semester admission. Currently, the

Summer Freshmen Program allows
who achieve a 3.0 grade point
average during the summer to attend

students

during the

fall

semester.

4

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OMMIMQI

News

T.

> N()\' <)«

briefs

SECA campaign goes over the top!
ThaiiLs lo nearl\ HO(J cmplovfcs
contributed, Bloomsburg's

SECA

who

(State

Employees Combined Appeal) campaign
has exceeded its goal of $34,000 to reach
o%er 838,000.

A victory

celebration

Cleanup Volunteers
Janice Phillips

is

and Melanie

(left)

Mills,

being planned. For anyone who hasn't
returned their form, there's still time.
For information, call campaign chair John

computer services, were among 23 university

Trathen

turned out for the Supervisory Roundtable's

supervisors and

at 4198.

litter

Riley elected chair of curriculum

John

Rile\,

members

of Pi

Kappa

committee

pickup

at the

mathcnialits and ccjinputer

in

on and

part of

October. The cleanup

ramps

off

Ptii.

a

who

national social and service fraternity,

was

held

of Exit 35. 1-81 as

PennDOT's Adopt-A-Highway

Tom

science, was recently elected chair of the

Program.

curriculum committee. The committee

services, coordinated the program.

Patacconi. duplicating

approved a new histoiT course, "'Old
South/New South." Julie Kontos led a

also

discussion of the committee's part of the

governance document.
Student representative Joseph Radievich
noted that the committee has only two
nonvoting undergraduate student
members, leaving one college unrepresented bv an undergraduate student.

Library

State System responds to

Commonwealth Foundation Report
The State System (jf Higher Education
has responded to the recent Commonwealth Foundation Report that was critical
of the general education provided by
state-owned and state-related universities.
Signed by F. Eugene Dixon Jr., chairman
of the State System of Higher Education 's

Extended Hours Study opens

The Hai\(

imiversily's

\

.V.

.\iulruss l.ii)rarv's

Extended Hours Siud\ Rcjom is now open
Sunday from 10 p.m. to midnight and
Monday through Thursday from midnight
to 2 a.m. The study can be accessed from
the south side of the library on Swisher
Circle. The study room will be monitored
by a student assistant under the direction
of universitv police.

Be sure to loctt up those IMPS stations

The

university's

IMPS

(Integrated

Media Presentation Systems) in Kenneth
Gross Auditorium and .Mitrani Hall were
missing equipment and the station in
Sutliff 132 suffered

damage

Board of Governors, and James H.

an attempted break-in.

McCormick, chancellor of the State
System, the response can be found on the
World Wide Web at: luimu. sshechan.edu/

an

that indicates

W^en

finished with

be sure to lock it up, along with
an\ components, such as microphones.
I.VIPS,

S.

Gerald Weaver recognized
Gerald Weaver, paint shop,

is

being

recognized by the Supervisory Roundtable as
the October employee of the month.

year veteran at Bloomsburg, Weaver
specializes

in lettering

signs.

ssnewspb.hlm

Army ROTC provides scholarships
The Blo(jmsburg .\\ m\ ROTCJ Instructor Group has launched its fall scholarship
campaign. The scholarship is open to all
full-time freshmen and sophomores. The
scholarship could result in either a threeyear or two-year scholarship that covers
tuition, a

month

S450 book allowance and S150-a-

stipend. Nursing students are

highly encouraged to apply. Those

who

know a student who may be interested
should contact Maj. Robert Boehnlein
2123 or e-mail rboehnle@bloomu.edu

Campaign Planners
The team coordinating the
phase

of

Bloomsburg's

silent

capital

campaign recently met on campus.
Anthony

laniero

(left),

vice

president for university

advancement, and Barbara
at

Hudock, campaign
v/ays the

chair,

discuss

campaign can enhance

the Student Services Center (old

Andruss

Library),

A

six-

Communique
A NEWSLETTER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

19

NOVEMBER 1998

Dedication, sendee recognized
30 years ago

...

It was 1968. Civil rights leader Martin
Luther King Jr. had been assassinated. The
war in Vietnam still raged on.
It was a tumultuous time in the world.
At Bloomsburg State College (not yet a
university), growth was apparent everywhere. Elwell Residence Hall, still the
largest on campus, had just been constructed. President Harvey A. Andruss
wrote an open letter discussing the thin-

stretched lines of communication

on the

quickly growing campus.

The

college applied for an

FM

radio

license to start a 1,000-watt station. In the

music world, the Beatles released The While
Album.

A headline in the student paper Maroon
and Gold read: Join the Peace Corps, It Pays
Well. The chess team (the Husky Rooks)
won their first match of the season against
Shippensburg.

And dozens
Faculty

of folks had just

come

and

Nov. 12, the university honored those

left):

Linda Long, Louis

Rosemary McGrady, Richard Haupt. Seated: James

Cole,

Dominic Cusatis, Paul Hartung and Jessica

to

combined 2,315

who

people," Kozloff continued.

and

years of service to

retirement to attend the ceremony and
lunch.
In addressing the group. President
trip to

was really struck by the attitude
toward people and the investment they
Israel. "I

make in people.
"My host explained,
resource we have.'"

many

resources, "our most important asset

the university. Several returned from

upon her recent

while the university has

Day

chose to make their career at Bloomsburg.
The 138 employees honored for
tenures ranging from 10 to 35 years have

Kozloff drew

with President Kozloff are 30- and 35-year employees. Standing (from

Mingrone, June Trudnak, John Mulka, Sandy Long, John Trathen, Beatrice Weaver, Donald Hock,

And

Staff Appreciation

stayed with the growing state college

given a

Shown

Kozloff.

the college to work.

On

395 YEARS OF SERVICE

is

our

were presented in
appreciation: a wrist watch for 30 years of
service, a mantle clock for 25 years, a desk
pen set for 20 years, a paperweight for 15
years and a pin for 10 years. Dominic
"Tony the Baker" Cusatis, received a husky
As

in years past, gifts

statue in

honor of surpassing 35

years of

service to reach 39 years by his retirement
in October.

And

for the first time in years,

campus

dining employees were included in the
event to honor their service to students.

How do the Carver hells ring?
Ever wonder how the bells from
Carver Hall ring out?

They're produced by an automated system that uses recordings of
real bells on 8-track catridges.

The system chimes

every quarter

hour, just like the bells of England's

Westminster Abbey, and counts the
hour with tolls. At 4:30 p.m., it plays
the alma mater and at 6:30 p.m., it
plays three or four songs. Randall
Presswood, performing arts facilities
director, maintains the system and
periodically alternates songs.

'That's the only

For

list

of all honorees, see page

3.

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19

NOV 98

About our people
Nicole Balliet has joined food services
as catering

manager.

Amarilis Hidalgo de Jesus, languages

and

cultures, presented a paper, "Reflec-

tions:

Terry Oxiey, music, was recently
"New Music
Festival" at Winona State University. His
composition "Five Songs from the Poems
of Stephen Crane" was selected as one of
eight featured chamber compositions for
the festival concert. While in attendance,
he also took part in a roundtable discussion involving the eight composers.
selected as a participant in a

The Testimonial Novel

in

Venezu-

American Studies
Association conference. She also chaired a
panel, "New Tendencies in the Columbian
ela" to the Latin

Novel."

Raymond
December
of Dog Fancy magazine. The story of
is

featured

in

the

Bloomsburg's first mascot, Roongo,
appears on page 22 of the magazine.

Region"

in

the Bloomsburg

of the Pennsylvania Rural
Development Cotmcil Pennsylvania
as part

Housing Forum.
Lawrence Tanner, geography and earth

S.

Pastore, curriculum

and

Valley,

the Third International Conference of the

of the Geological Society of America.

WWW,

paper was coauthored with Steven
Carpenter of the U.S. Borax Corporation
and former student James Conolly.

Internet,

&:

Intranet sponsored by

the Association for the

Advancement of

in Education. His presentation

Develop a Learning
Requirements Plan for Your Manufactur-

titled "The Effect of Web Page Design
on Student Perception of Information."
His paper was published on CD-ROM in

ing Organization" at the 41st International

the "Proceedings of WebNet 98."

Karl Kapp, instructional technology,

presented

"How

to

APICS (Educational Society for Resource
Management) Conference. In addition,
Kapp had his 1997 APICS conference
presentation paper chosen for inclusion in
the 1998

APICS CPIM JIT Reprints

was published

this

that

Training for Teachers of the Deaf/Hard of

Conference

Planning: Does the

at the

Gown

Fit the

annual meeting of the

Pennsylvania Planning Association.

Vishakha Rawool, audiology and
speech pathology, has written the papers
"Effect of Probe Frequency and Gender

on Click-Rate-Induced
Gretchen Osterman, coordinator of
greek affairs, joined 20 Greek life coordinators from around the state at Biickneli
University for a roundtable discussion and
teleconference about Greek life.

Diop

in Dakar, Senegal.

Another solo

exhibit of her recent photographs of

Freetown, Sierra Leone, was on display
from June through October at the York W.
Bailey Museum of the Penn Center, Hilton

Head, SC.

on Deafness.

earth science, presented "University
Facilities

Vera Viditz-Ward, art, has a solo exhibit
of her recent photographs of West Africa
at the Centre de Recherche Ouest
Africaine of the University Cheick Antija

Gerry Powers, exceptionality programs,
and Yvonne Clark '97, co-authored a
research study, "Computer Technolog)'

tion at the First International

Sandra Kehoe-Forutan, geography and

The

was

Hearing," that was accepted for presenta-

October.

Deposits in the Ryan Plateau Area, Death
CA" at the recent national meeting

foundations, recently presented a paper at

Computing

Town?"

"What's Happening

science, presented "Genesis of Borate

The Husky
issue

Linda Sowash, director of residence
and Brian Johnson, geography and
earth science, were members of a panel on
life,

Facilitation of

Faith Warner, anthropology, contributed a chapter to the book Power Ethics,

and

Human Rights: Anthropological Studies of

Refugee Research

Rowman and
"The

Acoustic Reflex Thresholds," published in

titled

Scandinavian Audiology; "Effect of Probe
Frequency and Gender on Click-Evoked

Feminism

Ipsilateral Acoustic Reflex Thresholds,"

with Q'eqchi'

published

in

and Action, published by

Her chapter is
Method in Refugee

Littlefield.

Testimonio

Research: Practicing Advocacy and
in

an Ethnographic Encounter

and K'iche' Women."

Acta Oto-laryngologia; and

"Effects of Click Polarity on the Brainstem
Auditory Evoked Potentials of Older

Men," published

in Audiology.

Faculty from the exercise science and

and allied health sciences
programs presented research papers with
biological

exercise science graduate students at the

Communique
Next

issue:

Thursday, Dec.

3.

phone numbers listed are oncampus extensions. To use the
numbers off campus, dial 389 first.
Area code 717.
Editor: Enc Foster, ext. 4412;
e-mail, efoster@bloomu.edu
Bloomsburg can be found on the World
Wide Web at: http://wvvw.bloomu.edu
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UNIVERSITY
A Member of Pennsylvania's
itale System of Ihgher education

Jesus Salas-Elorza, languages and
cultures, presented a paper, "Honeycomb
by Fanny Buitrago: Textualization of the

Female Character,"

at the Latin

American

Studies Association conference.

annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic
Chapter of the American College of Sports
Medicine. Presenters included Linda
Lemura, Swapan Mookeijee, and Leon
Szmedra, exercise science; Margaret Till

and Cynthia Surmacz,
Yvette J. Samson, sociology, social
welfare

and criminal justice, has

co-

aiuhored an article, "Reporting Ethnography to Subjects: How Teachers and
Researchers Made Sense of High School
Science," that appears in the fall issue of
Harvard Educaliotwl Review.

biological

and

allied

health sciences; graduate students Joseph

Andreacci, Richelle Carlonas, Dawn
Colving, Matt Eicher, Jodi Klebez, Juia

Louro, Monica Matthews, Chris
Partenope, Susan Presper, Cormie Root,
Dan Rushton, Joe Russo, Scott Rosenbaum
and Andrew Stuka, and former graduate
student Claire Watson.

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Individuals honored for their years oj service

Day

and

Staff Appreciation

Joe Quinn, Purchasing

20 Years

John

Years

Dominic "Tony the Baker"

Cusatis,

Food

Service

Robert Abbott, Academic Computing
Richard Angelo, Audiology and Speech
Pathology
Carol Arnold, Graduate Studies and
Research
Deborah Barnes, Residence Life
Carol Barnett, Career Development
Mona Bartholomew, Student Life

30 Years

Vicki Beishline, Health, Physical

Richard Anderson, History

Peter Bohling, Economics

James Cole, Biological and Allied Health

Colleen Brandon,

Education and Athletics

Nancy

Sciences

Paul Hartung, Mathematics and

Computer

Science

Richard Haupt, Student Life Operations

Donald Hock, Retired

Dietrick,

Melanie Dworsak, English

Joanne Fedder, Residence Life
Harold Frey, Computer and Information
Systems
Patrick Gaffney, Electrical

Linda Long, Alumni Office
Sandra Long, Mathematics and Computer

Marilou Hinchcliff, Harvey A. Andruss
Library

Belva House,

Science

Rosemary McGrady, Mailroom
Louis Mingrone, Biological and Allied

John Mulka, Academic Support Services
Janet Olsen, Harvey A. Andruss Library
James Sperry, Retired
John Trathen, Student Life
June Trudnak, Instructional Technology
Beatrice Weaver, Food Service

Food

Service

Welfare and Criminal Justice
Ronald Mourey, Retired
James Mullen, Developmental Instruction
John Pollard, University Police

Mary

Hill,

Exceptionality Programs

Mark

Swisher, Food Service
Peg Trathen, Development
Peggy Tubberville, Food Service
Dana Ulloth, Mass Communications

10 Years
Emily Anoia, Food Service
Margaret Beach, Food Service
Brett Beck, Psychology
Joyce Bennett, Custodial Services
William Benscoter, Paint Shop

Betty

Foundations

Food Service

Linda Sowash, Residence Life
Sherri Valencik, Accounting
Julia Weitz, Audiology and Speech

Robert Coombe, Custodial Services
Jack Couch, Physics
Henry Dobson, Curriculum and
Foundations
Gary Doby, Curriculum and Foundations
James Draughn, Custodial Services

Cole,

Ruthann

Fisher, Arts

and Sciences

Karen Frantz, Continuing and Distance
Education
Elizabeth Frederick, Harvey A. Andruss

15 Years

Earth Science

Jean Hawk, Purchasing

Cynthia Surmacz, Biological and Allied
Health Sciences

Bob

and Distance

Geography and

Resources

Carol Sands, Retired

Education
Gillmeister,

Human

and Labor Relations
Joan Stone, Retired

and Theatre Arts
Bowman, Food Service
Judy Brinich, Child Care Center
Brigitte Callay, Languages and Cultures
Robert Clarke, Curriculum and

Food Service

Larry Yeager, Retired

Norman

Dolores Sponseller,

Dale Bertelsen, Communication Studies

Kreisher,

Harold Woomer, Maintenance

Steven Cohen, Psychology

Resources

Nan

Pathology

25 Years

Human

and Labor Relations
Julia Shoup, Student Activities

Janet Hutchinson, Athletics
Charles Laudermilch, Sociology, Social

Health Sciences

Abell, Continuing

Food Service

Management
Food Service

Oliver Larmi, Philosophy

John

Reigle,

Judith Roach,

celebration included:

35

3

and staff honoredfor service

Faculty
at the recent Faculty

NOV 98 COMMUNIQUE

Library

Eileen Astor-Stetson, Psychology

Catherine Burke, Food Service

Marsha Gottstein, Custodial Services
Audra Halye, Budget and Administrative

Janet Huntington, Physical Plant

Diane Correll, Food Service

Ida Sue Jackson. Sociology, Social Welfare

Lynn Davis, Custodial Services
Helen Dietrich, Purchasing
Margaret Fry, Food Service

Shirley

Jimmy

Linda Hock, Planning, Institutional
Research and Information Management
Dawn Hornberger, Food Service

and Criminal Justice
Gorman Miller, Curriculum and
Foundations
Ronald Morgan, Health, Physical
Education and Athletics
William O'Bruba, Curriculum and
Foundations
Constance Schick, Psychology
John Stockalis, Admissions

Gilliland,

Student Activities

Nancy Graboski, Health, Physical
Education and Athletics
Bonnie Johnston, Food Service
Nancy Keller, University Bookstore
David Knorr, Utility Plant
Michael Pugh, Chemistry

Services

Hartman, Food Service

Rickey Hayes, Plumbing
Darla Henrickson, Duplicating

Doris Howell, Food Service
JoAnn Kandrot, Business Office

Continued on

jxis^c 4.

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NOV 98

10 Years
Continued from page

3.

Jim Karnes, Food Service
Mary Knorr, Food Service
Frank Lindenfeld, Sociology, Social
Welfare and Criminal Justice
Cathy Livengood, Nursing
Edward Long, Food Service
Lewis Lubold, Food Service
Steven Martz, Health, Physical Education

and Athletics
Virginia McAfee, Planning and

Did you know ?
The

Health Center

cold prevention tips

university storeroom in Waller

Administration Building contains nearly
1,700 different items, ranging from fan
belts

and wrenches

to light bulbs

Like to make it through winter
without catching a cold?

and foam

cups.

Dolores Hranitz, Student Health
Center director, offers these tips:
© Wash your hands often. Most
colds aren't caught from germs
floating in the air, but from germs
picked up by touching a contaminated surface.
© When working in an office,
wipe your desk, keyboard, telephone and other surfaces clean

Bloomsburg's interpreting program is
one of only three four-year programs east
of the Mississippi.

Construction

Arthur McDonnell, Business Office
Maria Mendoza-Enright, Mass

The

university has internship

relationships with over 1,000 companies.

Communications
Lynda Michaels, Admissions/Orientation
Shirley Miscannon, Custodial Services

periodically.

Karen Murtin, Curriculum and
Foundations
Paula Novak, Custodial Services
Judith Rough, Food Service

©

Anatole Scaun, Har%'ey A. Andruss Library
Sevison,

Food Service

Larry Smith, Custodial Services

Roy Smith, Quest
Barbara Stiner, Budget and Administrative
Services

Wendy Ann Stokes, Music
LouAnn Tarlecky, Human Resources and
Labor Relations
Sandra Taylor, Registrar's Office
Margaret Till, Biological and Allied Health
Sciences

Bonita Vanderslice, Accommodative
Services

Vera Viditz-Ward, Art
John Waggoner, Psychology
Jane Weaver, Food Service
Bonnie Williams, Curriculum and
Foundations

The university is sponsoring its annual
food drive to help deserving families in
the area, so look for the collection box in,
your building beginning Nov. 30. Monetary donations will be accepted in the
developmental instruction office. Waller
Administration Building, room 14. Checks
should be made payable to "Bloomsburg
University Agency Fund" and submitted to
Deb Schell. Monetary contributions will be

used to purchase a holiday ham or turkey
for each family. If extra funds are available, a small gift will be purchased for
each child.

in

News briefs

by drinking

Math brings high schoolers to campus
The department of mathematics and

enough sleep, have a balanced diet
and exercise. Exercise can reduce
stress and help keep resistance to
germs high.

©

computer science has sponsored several
programs this semester which have
brought more than 100 high school
students to campus. Steve Kokoska
organized workshops in October for about
70 students from Bishop Neuman, Bishop
Hannan and Lock Haven high schools. In
November, the university's math club and
Kappa Mu Epsilon, the national math
honor society, sponsored a math contest
that attracted about 100 students from

lots

Of course,

©

If

of fluids.

it's

best to get

you are running a

fever,

sneezing, coughing and feeling
ill - take a day off to rest,
medicate yourself if indicated and
pamper yourself. This may help
you recuperate more quickly and
prevent the spread of the disease to

very

others.

nine regional high schools. Scott Inch

helped organize the contest.
Planning and budget OKs enrollment targets

AFSCME elects officers
The Bloomsburg chapter of AFSCME
(American Federation of State, County
and Municipal Employees) recently

The planning and budget committee
approved enrollment projections for the
coming spring and summer semesters and
1999/2000 academic year at its meeting

elected officers for 1999. Vicki Beishline,

Nov.

and athletics,
was elected president; Mike Krolikowski,
health, physical education

Food drive runs Nov. 30 to Dec. 11

Because buildings are dry

the winter, keep yourself hydrated

Terry Sanders, Custodial Services

John

offers

electrical/refrigeration, vice president;

Donna

and allied health
Mary Hoover, business

Farver, biological

sciences, secretary;

office, treasurer; Alice Fink, custodial

services, chief steward.

Global Awareness Society sponsors slide show

The Global Awareness

Society

is

sponsoring a panel discussion and slide
program on Ho Chi Minh (^iiv andjakarta
Thursday, Dec, at 7 p.m. in the Kehr
Union, Multinilimal Center. Refreshments will be pio\ idecl.

10.

The

projections call for an additional
367 students to be admitted for spring
1999 to keep total enrollment at 6,350

FTE (full-time equivalency).
Summer 1999 enrollment

is

projected

be 735 FTE.
Fall 1999 enrollment is targeted to be
6,825 FTE - a slight decrease from this
to

semester's enrollment of 6,890 FTE.

Enrollment for the spring 2000 semester is
targeted at 6,350 FTE.
The meeting also included discussion of
the Middle States Self-Study Report, the

Campus Master

Plan and a presentation on

the State Sy stem of Higher Education

budget formula.

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Coming events

Calendar
Concerts
For more information, contact the music
department at 4284.

Holiday cheer painted in Poinsettia red

Multicultural Center celebrates Outstanding IVIen

Holiday cheer will come to campus
Saturday, Dec. 12, for the annual Poinset-

December is "Men's Month" with the
Bloomsburg University Outstanding Men

tia

Pops concert. Running from 7:30

to

9:30 p.m. in Kehr Union, Ballroom, the
"Carols by Candlelight" Concert - Friday,

Dec. 4

,

7:30 p.m.

and Sunday, Dec.

6,

Women's Choral Ensemble,
Concert Choir and Husky Singers, Wendy
2:30 p.m.,

Pops will feature performances by the
University-Community Orchestra and the
Chamber Singers. Doors open at 7 p.m.
with seasonal music by the Brass Menag-

and Chamber

Miller

and Alan Baker directing. First
Presbyterian Church, 345 Market Street,

erie Quintet

Bloomsburg.

table. Tickets are

refreshments

will

be provided at each
$4 for students and

children and $8 for adults.

Student Recital - Tuesday, Dec. 8,
7:30 p.m., Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross

Auditorium.

Films
There's Something About

Mary -

17"'

Art Exhibits
Haas

through Friday, 9 a.m.

Gallery of Art,

to

Monday

4 p.m. For more

information, call 4646.

Michael Morris - Photographs, graduate
thesis exhibit, Dec. 3 to 17. Reception,
Thursday, Dec.

3,

noon

to 2 p.m.

and art
Monday, Nov. 23,
Lecture

workshop

McCormick Center

for

at 11

Human

Dressed
will tell

in

Renaissance

astronomer and

The Scranton Commons
close

Tuesday

will

at 7 p.m.; Monty's,

Itza Pizza and C-Store at 8 p.m.;
and the Husky Lounge, Wednesday

at 10 a.m.

The Husky Lounge

lute songs

The

improvisational theater troupe

BUSTED

(Bloomsburg University Student
Drama) will perform
a holiday program Monday, Dec. 7, at
8 p.m. in the Kehr Ballroom.

Theatrical Education

Adagios feature of chamber performance

The Chamber Orchestra
Sunday, Nov. 22,

will

perform

a.m. in
Services,

Elgar's Serenade for Strings, Op. 20; Joseph

attire,

at 7:30

cellist

will

include

Willcox Jenkins' Adagio for Small Orchestra;

and Respighi's Adagio Con

Variazioni.

Thompthe

and writings of the
physicist.

He

from the

late

Congratulations

will

Renaissance

Bloomsburg alumni claimed
victory in the Nov. 3 elections.

Mark Schweiker '75 and
Ridge won a second term.
Other alumni victors included

period.

Lt.

Gov.

Two-Way Street focuses on neighborhoods

The University-Community Task Force
on Racial Equity and the Town of
Bloomsburg will hold a "Two-Way Street
Program" Monday, Nov. 23, from 7 to
9 p.m. at the Bloomsburg Middle School.
Shalom Staub, CEO/consultant for The
Harrisburg will lead discussion on "Community Dialogue on Diversity in Our
Neighborhoods." A bus will take passen-

for their regular hours.

6:30 and 6:45 p.m. Refreshments

gers from Elwell Hall to the school at

served and admission

is

free.

will

Gov.

Tom

Phyllis

Mundy

tive for

'70, state representathe 120"' district in the

Wyoming Valley, and
Holden

be

U.S. Rep.

Tim

'80 of the 6th district,

which
includes Schuylkill and Berks and
parts of Northumberland and

Montgomery

Institute for Cultural Partnerships in

reopen
Sunday at noon; the Scranton
Commons Sunday at 4 p.m.; and all
other facilities on Monday, Nov. 30,
will

BUSTED to perform Dec. 7

Street,

intersperse the narration with entertaining

Thanksgiving break begins
Tuesday, Nov. 24, at 10 p.m.
Residence halls close Wednesday,
Nov. 25, at noon and reopen
Sunday, Nov. 29, at noon.

do

the story of the "Father of

actual correspondence

Keep break times in mind

Merriam

Philadelphia on Wednesday,

Presbyterian Church, Market
Bloomsburg. Featuring guest
Takayori Atsumi, the concert

Modern Science" by drawing upon
Italian

in

at First

Forum; and an evening performance at
7:30 p.m. in Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross
Auditorium. Admission to both events is
free and open to the public.
son

Theatre

p.m.

Recreated by Mark Thompson, the

will give a

office has tickets to the

tion, call 4058.

century Italian scientist and philoso-

pher

The Alumni

play Sunset Boulevard at the

life

as part of the university's Provost's

Series.

Alumni going to Sunset Boulevard

and

"Galileo" will bring the science
life

a.m. in

1 1

not include transportation. For informa-

music scholarship funds. The event is cosponsored by Breisch's Dairy and Berwick
Industries. Table reservations for friends
and family can be made by calling the
Development Center at 4128.

of the Renaissance to

4, at

the Kehr Union, Multicultural Center.

Jan. 27. Tickets are $54 a person and

The fund-

raising event benefits the general

Galileo brings Renaissance science to

Wednesday and Friday, Dec. 2 and 4,
7 and 9:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 6, 7 p.m.,
Kehr Union, Ballroom.

Exhibits are in the

Singers. Light

Celebration Friday, Dec.

counties.

Also re-elected were state Rep.

John Gordner of the 109"' district,
and U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski of the
11"' district. Both
Bloomsburg.

districts

include

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News briefs
Forum discusses alcohol policy

An open dialogue to facilitate personal
opinion of and reaction to the current
campus alcohol policy was the primary
focus of a University Forum meeting
Nov.

4.

The

Dining services contributes

Campus

discussion followed a request

contributed $1,000 to Bloomsburg's

by the University Advancement Committee to consider

exemptions

SECA

to the policy

for special events. This issue will

further review by the Secretariat.

SECA

to

dining services has

(State

Employees Combined

Appeal) campaign. The campaign has

undergo

gone

The

well over

its

goal of $34,000 to

reach $40,400. Shovi/n from

Forum is Wednesday,
Dec. 9, at 3 p.m. in McCormick Center
for Human Services, Forum room.
next meeting of the

Bill

Bauman,

director of

SECA

dining services, and

left

are

campus
chair

John

Trathen, director of student activities

and the Kehr Union.

Curriculum committee analyzes

Commonwealth Foundation Report
The Commonwealth Foundation
Report, critical of general education

at

See a

state-owned and state-related universities,

If

light

out?

you see an unlit pole

light

on campus

was discussed at the Nov. 1 1 open forum
meeting of the curriculum committee.
Larry Mack, chemistry, analyzed the
report and noted that all of the report's
charts contained the same information
recast in different ways. He also noted that

in the evening, contact university police at

the report categorized courses in a

Computer

manner

nearly identical to the way that

they are categorized at one of the author's
institutions.

The

State System of

Higher

Education's response to the report can be

found on the World Wide Web at:
www.sshechan.edu/ssnewspb.htm
Open house draws 1,900 visitors
More than 1,900 potential students and
their parents visited

campus

Saturday,

Nov. 14, as part of the admission office's

Open House. Admissions
who

and administrators give
presentations and about 100 students give
tours. The Husky Ambassadors act as
hosts. This open house featured a
performance by the Jazz Ensemble.
Nearly

500

staff

give blood

Nearly 500 individuals came to the Red
Cross Blood Drive Nov. 3 and 4. A total of
493 people came into the bloodmobile
and 432 pints were collected, nearing the
goal of 480 pints. There were 102 first-

time donors.

new

network lines, requests for new computer
lines should be submitted to computer
services by Dec. 18 for the spring semester
wiring schedule. Requests received after
the closing date will be held for the fall
semester 1999 network wiring schedule.
Request forms have been sent to deans,
chaii"persons

and

directors. Requests

must

Karnes named "Employee

Todd Karnes

of the

of the

the supervisory roundtable's
of the

Month

telecommunications center

is

November employee

month. Karnes has been

at

Bloomsburg

for

have prior signature approval by the

a year and a

appropriate vice president.

telephones and associated lines on campus. He

Library offers virtual reference help

The

attend the university's four

annual open house programs will apply,
or already have applied for admission.
During each open house, approximately
75 faculty,

requests due Dec. 18

line

In order to effectively plan for

director Chris

Keller estimates that 95 percent of the

students

4168 so they can request that it be fixed.
It's helpful to note the niunber on the
light pole so electricians can identify which
light to examine during the daytime.

library

now

half,

helping maintain the 3,000

maintaining the fiber optics

also involved

in

from campus

to the IVIagee Center.

is

line

offers a virtual informa-

tion desk for help with library research

when reference

A

on
Higher Education

librarians are not

State System of

project, the virtual information desk

dut\'.

Husky Club has holiday items to
is

based at Mansfield University and can be
reached toll free by calling: 1-888-7619401, or on the World
vid.sshe.edu.

Hours

Wide Web

at:

for the service are

Sunday through Thursday, 9 p.m. to
1 a.m., and Friday, 4 to 8 p.m. Those using
the ser\'ice will be asked to provide the

barcode number from their universit)' ID
The service is closed during holidays.

card.

The Husky Club has

sell

a large selection of

holiday cards and wrapping paper

left

over

from the Husky Club Auction in April.
Boxes of cards cost $2 and wrapping paper
costs SI. 50, $2, and $3. Proceeds benefit
the general athletic scholarship fund. For

more information, contact
ment office at 4128.

the develop-

Communique
A NEWSLEHER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF AT BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

3

DECEMBER 1998

Employee generosity brightens lives
Thank you!
The Bloomsburg University family has
done it again! Our SECA campaign has
just concluded, and we are once again one
of the top contributors in the State
System. This year's campaign has netted

$40,405 from 299 contributors, much
higher than our goal of $34,000. As a

comparison,

last

year 230 people contrib-

uted $32,009.
Success like this doesn'tjust happen.
Strong leadership from Kathy and Jack

Mulka, United Way campaign chairs, and
John Trathen, our SECA chair who was
ably assisted by Julie Shoup, laid the
foundation for an effective appeal. They
would be the first to give credit to the
"team leaders" whose names appear below
the photo. These are the folks who
personalized each letter and contacted

Because of their

their colleagues.

Bloom went "over the

was certainly a team effort,
to particularly thank the wonder-

While
I'd like

efforts.

top."

this

ful folks in

Under the
amount of

custodial services.

leadership of Pat Rudy, the

money pledged from

SECA LEADERS
Shown above are SECA team

office

trades people; Joan Lentczner, University

contributed increased by 700%!

Jeanne Bucher, Community Government

providing refreshments

at special

campaign events.
On behalf of our fellow citizens in
Columbia County, thank you for giving so
their lives may be brighter.

letters

and contacting the employees

Penn

be the
featured speaker for undergraduate
Dec. 19, at

2:15 p.m. in Haas Center for the Arts,

Mitrani Hall. At the ceremony, 355
students

will receive their

Michael Krolikowski,

Life;

degrees.

Senior vice president for operations for
the north-central region, Rizzo

is

Mount

Weitz, College of Professional Studies; Irvin

Wright, nonaligned departments and offices.

speak at commencement

to

L. Rizzo, vice president for

commencement Saturday,

offices;

administration and special donors; Julia

James

and Sciences; Tony Cusatis,

Health care expert
Nancy

Dutt,

Pat Rudy, custodial services; Michael Vavrek,

Association employees (for United Way);
Cole, College of Arts

and Waller

Advancement; Burt Reese, Student

in their

State Geisinger Health System, will

Jessica S. Kozloff

Way); James

did the "leg work" for the campaign, personalizing

areas. These leaders included:

thank Aramark for

(for United

College of Business; Kathy Hunsinger, business

Columbia County United Way. SECA team leaders

this group increased
1,275% and the percentage of staff who

I'd also like to

Aramark employees

leaders with

President Kozloff and representatives from the

respon-

sible for directing the

operations for 3,500

employees and 400 physicians. A native of
Boston, MA, Rizzo was previously vice
president at Lahey-Hitchcock Clinic in
Boston.

Graduate commencement will be held
Friday evening, Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. in

Mitrani Hall with 55 students expected to
receive their master's degrees.

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Shahalam M. N. Amin, geography and
earth science, presented a paper, "An

OutHne of Geography Education
Bangladesh,"

at the

in

annual meeting of the

Pennsylvania Geographical Society.

Karen Trifonoff geography and earth
science, has written an article, "Introducing Thematic Maps in the Primary Grades"
that appears in the September/October
issue of Social Studies and the Young Learner.
,

Calendar
Peter Venuto, management, presented

on Dillon Floral at the North
American Case Research Association's
his case draft

annual conference. He also served as a
reviewer at a roundtable critique of five
case drafts and has been accepted as a
regular reviewer. Case research is fieldbased and reviewed until ready for
publication.

was invited to
the University of
art,

Pennsylvania's Sixth Annual African

Studies Consortium

Workshop on "Com-

municating Africa." Her paper, "Photographing Africa: Intention, Meaning and
Perception," will be included in the
University of Pennsylvania's "Working
Paper Series."

President Kozloff will hold open office

hours Thursday, Dec.

To

17,

from 9

Curriculum committee approves physics minor

At its Nov. 18 meeting, the curriculum
committee approved a minor in physics

program

in

The following employees have officially
announced their retirement.
John Couch, music, retired effective
Oct. 9, after 26 years of service.

Ronald Ferdock, English,
Aug.

After considerable discussion, the commit-

Jerry Medlock, health, physical education

approved a law studies option in
the department of political science. Bylaw
amendments and corrections were also
discussed. A correction to the bylaws was
approved, while the committee chose to
allow the faculty to vote on a proposed
amendment to allow for each college to
have a non-voting undergraduate student

and

tee also

representative.

Communique
issue:

Thursday, Dec.

Music by the Brass Menagerie,

Bloomsburg University-Community
Orchestra and Chamber Singers, Wendy
Miller and Mark Jelinek directing, Kehr
light refresh-

ments, carol sing-a-long and visit from
Santa Claus. Tickets are $8 for adults and
$4 for students and children and help
support scholarships. Cosponsors include
Breisch's Dairy

and Berwick

Reservations can be

development

made

Industries.

by calling the

office at 4128.

Spring Semester Classes Begin -

Governance

elementary and special education in the
department of exceptionality programs.

Next

Pops Concert - Saturday,
Kehr Union, Ballroom.

12, 7 p.m.,

to 11 a.m.

Retirements announced

a dual certification

Dec.

Tuesday, Jan. 19, 8 a.m.

reserve a time, call 4526.

and

Poinsettia

Union, Ballroom. Features
Vera Viditz-Ward,
participate in

President schedules open hours

special Events

17.

athletics, effective Jan.

Bloomsburs
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For more information, contact the music
department at 4284.

1999, after

"Carols by Candlelight" Concert - Friday,

effective Jan.

1999, after 30 years of

1,

service.

,

7:30 p.m.

and Sunday, Dec.

6,

Women's Choral Ensemble,
Concert Choir and Husky Singers, Wendy
2:30 p.m.,
Miller

and Alan Baker

directing, First

Color copier, lockers available at Andruss

Presbyterian Church, 345 Market Street,

Color copies can now be made at the
Harvey A. Andruss Library in the
photocopying room on the first floor.
Color copies cost $1 (or 75 cents with a
copy card).
Lockers are also now available in the

Bloomsburg.

faculty study area

Faculty

may apply
on

on the fourth

floor.

for a locker at the access

a first-come, first-served

Graduate student lockers will
become available at the beginning of

Student Recital - Tuesday, Dec. 8,
7:30 p.m., Carver Hall, Kenneth S. Gross
Auditorium.

Art Exhibits
Exhibits are in the

through Friday, 9

Haas
a.

m.

Gallery of Art,

to

Monday

4 p. m. For more

information, call 4646.

spring semester.

Michael Morris - Photographs, graduate
thesis exhibit, Dec. 3 to 17. Reception,
Thursday, Dec. 3, noon to 2 p.m.

30 years
Bloomsburg

A Member of Pennsylvanta's
State System of Higher EducatUm

Concerts

Dec. 4

basis.

efoster@bloomu.edu
Bloomsburg can be found on the World
Wide Web at: http://www.bloomu.edu

9,

30 years of service.

services desk

e-mciil,

1,

3 p.m.,

June Trudnak, instructional technology,

Area code 717.
Editor: Eric Foster, ext. 4412;

33 years of service.

14, after

phone numbers listed are oncampus extensions. To use the
numbers off campus, dial 389 first.

Four-digit

effective

Forum - Wednesday, Dec.
McCormick Center, Forum.

University

Center was

in

with offices in

ago,..
State College's Counseling

its first

year of operation

Old Waller

Hall.

REIVIiNDER: The area code for the university and

surrounding community changes to 570 as of
Dec. 5.

Steven Barth appointed to Trustees

Chronister tabbed

for president 's

Steven B. Barth has been appointed to
the

Bloomsburg University Council of

office position

Trustees by Gov.

Carol Chronister has been
appohited administrative coordina-

loan officer and

tor in the president's office.

She

head

who

A secretary

retired this

month.

in the nursing

department since 1990, Chronister
previously worked in the residence
life office from 1972 to 1990.
Chronister earned a bachelor's
degree in business education at
Bloomsburg in 1986 and was a

member

of Pi

Omega

Pi,

p.m.

in

at

Commonat

of Trustees, Dec.

The

five years.

Saturday, Dec. 19,

Mitrani Hall.

Voice

9,

students representing

expressed concern about losing

their adviser in the spring.

The newspaper's current

adviser,

be on sabbatical next
semester. Wilson Bradshaw, vice president
for academic affairs and Hsien-Tung Liu,
William Green,

will

dean of the College of Arts and Sciences,
responded to comments made by Monica
Eagles, news editor for The Voice, Joe
Lucadamo and David Berryman, assuring
them the issue would be resolved.
Earlier, Dana UUoth, chair of the
department of mass communications, and
Wayne Mohr, director of television
services, gave informational presentations

Loolting

a bachelor's

business administration

Lycoming College and

degree

ahead

business administration at Bucknell

in

University.

Barth takes the place of James Atherton

whose term on the Council of Trustees
on the Council of
Trustees expires in January 2003.

Jr.,

tions. Trustees

operated by a student broadcasting club
advised by Mohr.
In other business, the trustees adopted
two resolutions. JohnPaul Karpovich was
recognized for the selfless act of heroism

he exhibited during the Saturday,
fire, when he
awakened and helped four residents to
safety. Coachjan Hutchinson, representing the field hockey team, was congratulated for winning the 1998 Division II
national championship and commended
for the contributions the coaches and
that

Oct. 10, 1998, Iron Street

student athletes

make

to the university.

King Day speaker interviewed
Horace Huntley, American

William Kelly and Robert

Jan. 19, at 8 a.m.

Buehner used the example of WBUQ's

professor at the University of

recent decision not to broadcast university

Alabama

Santa on screen
For those who believe in Santa Clause,
or have children who do, Santa's Christmas Eve trajectory can be viewed at the

basketball

North American Aerospace Defense

a senior

Command's (NORAD)

Santa-tracking

Web

(www.noradsanta.org) for 24 hours

beginning

at 7 a.m.

Dec. 24.

(from U.S.

at

a master's degree

hundreds of marchers

to the trustees. Following the presenta-

Spring semester classes begin Tuesday,

site

in

and economics

expired. Barth 's term

At the quarterly meeting of the Council

Keep commencement times in mind
Graduate commencement is Friday,
Dec. 18, at 7 p.m. in Haas Center for the
Arts, Mitrani Hall. Undergraduate
at 2:15

community

Trustees discuss student newspaper, radio station

secretary at Gettysburg College.

is

of

the

She also held positions as a
permanent substitute teacher at
Berwick High School, a secretary at
Magee Industrial Enterprises and a

commencement

office division

wealth/Meridian Bank system and

Chronister also served as

cheerleading adviser for

He earned

senior vice president, senior

community

number

organizations.

variety of positions within the

honorary business education
fraternity.

is

as a volunteer for a

Ridge.

West Milton State Bank. Previously, he served as senior vice president
and commercial loan officer at Commonwealth Bancshares/Meridian Bank from
1993 to 1995. Before that, he held a

takes the position of Marilyn

Miiehlhof,

Barth

Tom

Northern Central Bank. Barth has served

News and World Report)

games

to voice their

at

Birmingham,

will

history

be the

featured speaker for Bloomsburg's

concerns

regarding the decision-making process of

Martin Luther King Day Celebration

the student-operated radio station. Mike

Jan. 18. Huntley has interviewed

manager and
communications studies major,

more than 200 people who participated in the Civil Rights Movement

explained the decision, suggested a
reorganization of the governing structure
of the radio station and asked for administrative guidance. Bradshaw agreed to look

led by King in the sixties. There will
be a panel discussion at 2 p.m. and

Progin, the station's general

into the situation. Currently, the station

is

an evening program at 7 p.m.
the Kehr Union Ballroom.

in

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News briefs
Paychecks to be distributed Dec. 31
Paychecks for January 1 will be distrib-

uted in the university police department
on Thursday, Dec. 31, from 9 to 11 a.m.
Direct deposits will be made on that date
as well. Individuals should be sure to bring

campus

identification to pick

up

their

paycheck. Paychecks not picked up Dec.
31 and earnings statements for employees

room named in honor of Schwelker
The Council of Trustees voted Dec. 9
to honor Lt. Governor Mark Schweiker by
naming the first floor exhibits room of the
new Harvey A. Andruss Library "The Mark
Library

Schweiker Exhibits Room." A 1975
graduate of Bloomsburg University,
Schweiker was the featured speaker at the
S.

dedication of the

new

facility this fall.

with direct deposit will be distributed

Monday, Jan.

Husky Club Raffle tops $12,000
This year's Husky Club Raffie raised
$12,651 for athletic scholarships, a $1,173
increase over last year. The top three

teams for

were baseball, football and
At the Dec. 4 drawing, the
following winners were chosen: first place
($1,000), Mary Jane High of Harrisburg;
second place ($500), Rhonda Miller of
sales

field hockey.

Boalsburg; and third place ($250),

Retirements announced

4.

Ron

Stouffer of Mt. Penn.

Charles Chapman, management, effective
Art students raise Children's

Museum funds

Bloomsburg University Art Students
the Children's

the Children's
auction.

Museum
Museum

for

raised $2,500 for
at their

recent art

More than 100 student and

professional works were auctioned at the
event. Faculty

Vince Hron and Karl

Beamer advised the group. The
Bloomsburg Student Art Association,
advised by Hron, won first prize in the
Bloomsburg TreeFest professional

Jan. 2, 1999, after 22 years of service.
William Eisenberg, English, effective
Jan.

1,

Emeritus status conferred

Emeritus status has been conferred

upon

1999, after 39 years of service.

Kemieth Hunt, exceptionality programs,
effective

May

21, 1999, after 24 years

office information systems, in recogni-

of service.

tion of 19 years of service.

Brian Johnson, geography and earth
science, effective

May

Ronald Ferdock, English,

athletics

George Gellos,

manager, effective Jan.

equipment
15, after

biological

and

allied

health sciences, in recognition of

25 years

33 years of service.

James

of service.

division.

in recognition

of 33 years of service.

21, 1999, after

32 years of service.

Ronald Morgan,

the following retirees:

Ellen Clemens, business education and

Lorelli,

geography and earth

science, in recognition of 31 years

Curriculum and foundations to split

The department
foundations

will

of curriculum and

divide into two separate

departments effective May 1, 1999. The
department of early childhood and
elementary education will have 10 faculty
and one secretary. (A chair has not be
elected yet.) The department of educational studies and secondary education
will have 17 faculty and one secretary and
be chaired by David Washburn.
Current department members, Chris
Cherrington and Ed Poostay, will
be assigned to exceptionality programs.

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issue:

Thursday, Jan

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of service.

Ronald Mourey,

Snellen Cooley, president's office, has

been promoted

to state system

manager

president's office, in recognition

of 33 years of service.

Joan Stone, nursing,

in recognition

of

15 years of service.

to clerk typist 2.

Donna Murphy, chemistry and
been promoted

electrical services, in

recognition of 20 years of service.

Marilyn Muehlhof, secretary in the

assistant.

Nancy Graboski, athletics, has been
promoted to clerk typist 3.
Wendy Hoyt, registrar, has been promoted
physics, has

Forum discusses alcohol

to clerk steno 3.

policy

Exceptions to the Alcoholic Beverage

forum

Get the most from Groupwise 5
Would you like use all of the features of

Policy were discussed at a universit)'

Groupwise 5, or know how to do CPR.
Then check out the training courses
offered by human resources and labor

by the university advancement committee,
would allow alcoholic beverages to be

relations in January:

According to the document these events
would be "in special circumstances, where
written permission has been obtained
from the president or his/her designee."
This issue will be an action item at the

Adult

phone numbers listed are oncampus extensions. To use the
numbers off campus, dial 389 first.

Four-digit

A Member of Pennsylvantu

Staff promoted

CPR - Thursday, Jan.

14,

8:30 a.m.

noon.
Powerpoint - Wednesday, Jan. 20 and 27,
10 a.m. to noon.
Introduction to Word - Thursday, Jan. 21
and 28, 10 a.m. to noon.
Introduction to Excel - Monday, Jan. 25
and Feb. 1, 10 a.m. to noon.
First Aid - Tuesday, Jan. 26, 8:30 a.m.

To register, contact Bonita Rhone at
4038 or by e-mail: brhone@bloomu.edu

9.

The

exceptions, drafted

served at imiversit)'-sponsored events.

to

to noon.
Groupwise 5 - Tuesday, Jan. 26 and Feb.
10 a.m. to noon.

meeting Dec.

next meeting.

Other business included a discussion
of modification of the university advance-

ment committee membership for the
governance document. If passed as an
action item at the next meeting, this
2,

would update the accuracy of current
governance structure. The next meeting
will be Wednesday, Feb. 10.

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