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NEWSLEHER FOR FACULTY AND STAFF

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AT

BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

20 January 2000

Trustees endorse
facilities priorities
The Council
final

of Trustees endorsed the

conceptual draft of the university's

Facilities

meeting

which

Master Plan
in

will

at their quarterly

December. The
be

officially

Kozloffs contribute

final plan,

approved

to Capital

March,

in

guide the physical development of
campus over the next 20 years. Color maps
from the plan can be viewed on the world
wide web at www.bloomu.edu/news/pages/
will

mpac.html.

Two

contributed $25,000 to the Bloomsburg
University Foundation. Half of the

the remaining funds

to

begin

this spring. (See

support

later part is in

Maxine Kozloff
second

memory

of

gift

Briner. This is the Kozloff's

to the university. Five years

ago, they contributed $15,000 toward
fall.

the construction of the

honor

new

library in

of President Kozloff's parents.

Jack and Ann Sledge.

.scheduled

"We

maps of the

feel

we're making an investment

the future as well as giving a

renovations on page 3.

gift

in

to the

univeristy," says President Kozloff.

Four resolutions were approved dining
the session. Kevin M.

will

Steve's parents, William Kozloff and

The entire facility will be called "The
Howard F. Fenstemaker Alumni Center."
to

The

Center.

is

to

renovation of the Student Services

Sasaki Associates.

Construction of the addition

gift will

support undergraduate research while

years in the making, the

honor of the alumnus and former
Bloomsburg president who died this

endowment

be used to create an

plan was presented by consultants from

The trustees also passed a resolution
name an addition to the alumni house
"The Curtis R. English Great Room" in

Campaign

Jessica and Steve Kozloff have

"We're privileged to honor our parents

O'Connor was

in

this way."

recognized for his service to the council as
a

member beginning

in 1976.

Also honored

were coach Jan Hutchinson and her
hockey team which captured

it's

field

fourth-

Robert Gibble joins Council of Trustees

consecutive national championship, and

Danny Hale, who became the
football

university's

coach with the most career

victories last season.

Robert J. Gibble, president
of Beard and Company,

Ernst and Whinney) from 1969

Inc.,

to 1979.

Certified Public Accountants,

As required by the Pennsylvania State

Gibble earned a bachelor of

has been appointed to the

science degree in accounting

System Board of Governors, the trustees

Coimcil of Trustees by Gov.

at

adopted a resolution certifying the

Tom

1968. While at Bloomsburg, he

compliance of the Bloomsburg University

Foundation with system
activity

The

policy.

Purchasing

Gibble, of Sinking Spring,

joined Beard and

Company

Bloomsburg University

for the baseball team. In 1966,

1979 as a director/shareholder

he led the Huskies

council heard presentations by the

and has served

pitched, complete games,

continuous improvement team for

"Fast,

Athletic Advisory
equity.

Committee concerning

as president

since 1986.

in

games

innings pitched and strikeouts.

Prior to that, he was a

manager of audit services at
Ernst and Yoimg (formerly

in

was a four-year letter winner

in

was also approved.

Accurate Transcript Service" and the

gender

Ridge.

In 1968, he led the team in
wins,
Robert

J.

Gibble

ERA,

strikeouts

and

Continued on page

4.

COMMUNIQUE 20 JAN 2000

2

About our people
Jim Cole, biological and

allied health

awarded

a

$3,000 Strategic Plan Project

Annual Convention. The papers were

Web

sciences, along with several students, were

grant to bring collaborative learning

"Political Attack

recognized

expert Karl Smith to campus

Cyberspace" and "Interpersonal Communi-

the graduation exercises of

at

the radiography

program

at Johns

Hopkins

this

spring to

present a workshop.

initiating

panel, "Cyber-Politics:

and coordinating the Johns

Claire Lawrence, English, will have a

Hopkins Hospital option within

story, "Light,"

Bloomsburg's medical imaging major. In

It

Bloomsburg students graduated

all, six

at

Two of them, Jaime DiiBois
and Theresa Hammaker, received awards.
the ceremony.

appears

anthologized twice

Fuller, English, organized

and participated in a one-day workshop,
"Reading the Media: Teaching Literacy
Skills,

at the

"

Earth Reader: The Best of Terra Nova

viewed
(click

editor of Media Matters, the newsletter of

fiction;

story can

be

she publishes under C.T

on Media Arts,

Fuller also

Tom

Lyons, director of financial aid,

appeared on the

He was

a high school

planner and

Ervene Gulley, English, served

part of a panel that included

guidance counselor, financial

Sallie

Mae

representative.

on Shakespeare's Measure for
Measure
the Law and Literature session
of the recent American Legal Studies

in

the Journal of Geography, Vol.98,

number

5,

1999, published by the National

instructional technology;

David G. Martin, finance and business
law, will

present a paper, "Real Options:

The Purchase Contract

"A Continuous Improvement
to

Support Staff Workload

Analysis" which appears in the Information

The

article

and Performance
can be read online

at:

wwiu .nyu.edu/education/alt/beprogram/
osrajoumal/

Decision," at the

February. Co-author

is

Roger Daniels,

recent Bloomsburg University

Learning Enhancement Center director;

graduate.

AFSCME

a

MBA

William

O'Bruba, early childhood

S.

Vice President: Ronnie Breisch, Andruss

paper, "Using Multiple Intelligences for

Assessment,"

Communique

at the

Library

Pennsylvania Science

Teachers Association annual convention.

Secretary:

listed are

Donald

on-campus extensions. To use the
numbers off campus, dial 389
first. Area code 570.

Pratt, educational studies

and

secondary education, presided over the
keynote banquet session, the board

meeting and the general membership

efoster@bloomu.edu
Bloomsburg can be found on the

meeting of the Pennsylvania Science
Teachers Association

www.bloomu.edu
was president

Bloomsbun

board

in

in

December.

custodial services

studies

A Member of Pennsylvania 's

and theatre

Slate System of Higher Edu
the National Communication Association's

presented two papers

services

Trustees: Jim Draiighn, custodial services

Chief Steward: Alice Fink, custodial services
Stewards: Jim Draughn, custodial services

*

arts,

Mary J. Hoover, business office.
Arms: Marsha Gottstein,

at

Glenda Vansock, custodial

Pratt

through 2000.

Tim Rumbough, commimication

Sergeant

admissions office

1999 and remains on the

as Past-President

D. Farver, biological and

Executive Board: John Stockalis,

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

Donna

allied health sciences

Treasurer:

3.

UNIVERSITY

2361 has

education and athletics

and elementary education, presented a

Thursday, Feb

local

President: Vicki Beishline, health, physical

Stallbaumer, history, were recently

phone numbers

elects officers

Bloomsburg AFSCME
elected new officers.

Neal Slone, sociology; and Lisa

at:

article,

Approach

Journal.

Dorette E. Welk, nursing, Teaching and

World Wide Web

Marlyse M. Heaps, Cindy Kelley, JohnJ,
Olivo and Sherri Valencik have written an

American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences seventh annual meeting in

Association meeting.

issue:

appears

Technology, Learning,

as a

discussant

M. Kapp.

WVIA program "Money

Matters" that aired Wednesday, Jan. 12, at

meeting of the Assembly.

Four-digit

Geography: Learning Activities for
Elementary and Secondary Levels," which

Council for Geographic Education.

Lawrence).

8 p.m.

Next

Karen M. Trifonoff, geography and
geosciences, had an article, "Quilting and

A Journal of Natural

Terrain:

participated in the annual business

Karl

and the

at 7>rram's website: www.terrain.org

on

of

Political

annual convention of the

National Council of Teachers of English. As

the Assembly

this year.

winter issue (titled Atmosphere and

Beyond) of

American
Communication."
Digital Politics in

in

the January issue of The New

in

and Built Environments. Her
Lawrence B.

Mudslinging

He also chaired a
The Emergence

cation Icebreaker."

Hospital. Cole was cited for his efforts in

Sites:

at

Dave Knorr, utility plant
Jere Vietz, maintenance
Lori Snyder, custodial services

Ronnie Breisch,

secretarial

—

—
20 JAN 2000

COMMUNIQUE

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Fenstemaker Alumni House Renovation
Details in Trustees story

on page

1.

Andruss Library weekend hours change
In response to student requests and usage patterns, Andruss
Library's hours for Fridays

and Sundays have been changed

during academic sessions beginning spring semester.

New

hours

are:

Fridays: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Sundays: noon to 12 midnight.

The Extended Hours Study
Thursday from 12 midnight

Monday through

be open

will

until 2 a.m.

during academic sessions

beginning Monday, Jan. 24.
President Kozloff schedules open office hours
President Kozloff will hold

from 11:30 a.m.
Scranton

Due

to

Commons

to the

patio,

office

hours Friday, Jan. 21,

Scranton

call

4526.

renovation changes pedestian walkways

Commons'

pattern between Kehr

changed. This area

open

p.m. To reserve a time,

1

renovations, the foot traffic

Union and the Scranton Commons has

will

be blocked off for construction on the

amphitheater and new entrance on the north side of the

Commons. There

will

be no access to or from Kehr Union

southwest door, but the south doors of Kehr (near the
sculpture)

will

tall

via the

metallic

be available for use. The area between the

Commons and Union will also be closed to pedestrian
Scranton Commons Renovation web page at

traffic.

Visit the

www.bloomu.edu/news/scranton/SCReno.htmfor information on the

changes and how inconveniences will be kept

to a

minimum.

Looking Ahead
18""

Front elevation looking south

Annual Husky High School Forensics Tournament

Jan. 22,

— Saturday,

beginning at 8 a.m., Bakeless Center for the Humanities.

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Observance

—Tuesday, Jan. 25,

Kehr Union, Ballroom. Film Showing and Panel Discussion, 3 p.m.,
dramatic readings and performance by the Bloomsburg University
Gospel Choir, 7 p.m.
Side elevation looking west

Blood Drive

—Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb.

1-2,

1 1

a.m. to 5 p.m.,

Kehr Union, Ballroom.
Governance Meetings

Open Mic Night

—

Friday, Feb. 4, 8 p.m.,

Kehr Union, Hideaway.

BUCC
Mini-Concert Featuring The Wall-Reflections on Pink Floyd
Saturday, Feb.

5,

10 p.m.,

Kehr Union, Ballroom.

(Bloomsburg University Curriculum Committee)

Wednesdays, 3 p.m., Jan. 19, Feb. 16, March 1, March 29, April
April 19, McCormick Center for Human Services, Forum.
Planning and Budget

Provost's Lecture Series, Wyatt

Douglass Institute
lecture,

Tee Walker of the Frederick

—Tuesday, Feb.

Kehr Union, Ballroom.

8,

4 p.m. workshop, 7:30 p.m.

—Thursdays, 3:30 p.m., Feb.

April 13, April 14, April 27,

McCormick Center

for

17,

March

16,

Human

Services, Forimi.

Forum

—Wednesdays, 3:30 p.m., February

April 26,

McCormick Center

for

March 22, April
Human Services, Forum.
9,

12,

5,

COMMLMQI E 20 JAN 2000

4

Albertjoins staff

as university trainer
Catherine
.-Mben has joined

Bloomsburg

as the

training specialist
in

human

re-

sources.

,\lben
staff,

will aid

managers

and facultA in
making full use of
universii)- sofiw^are

such as Microsoft

Word. Excel and
PowerPoint. In
addition to

scheduled training sessions on technical

and development
a\7iilable for

indi\iduals

issues,

she

be

Twenty-two families helped by faculty/staff food drive

help by appointment for

and small groups.

earned a master

.\lbert

will also

s

Twenr,-r.'.o area ia^r.hies

degree

.'.ere

ne^pea

received a box of food, a ham. a

in

Penn State Univerand has taken 12 credits of course \%'ork
Bloomsburg s instructional technology-

$15

i.n.s

noiioaj season o, ine iaculty, staff food drive.

certificate for Giant

Instructional Design at

movie pass

sin.-

food were also given to an area food pantry.

in

drive

Sue Snvder

continue to conduct

will

and health training, .\lben can be
reached on campus at 4414. Watch for
human resources new Online Help Desk,
comfKjnent of their upwroming web site.

safet\

1.

innings pitched. 0\er his entire collegiate

he averaged over one strikeout per

inning pitched,

.\fter

graduation, he signed

a professional baseball contract with the

Oakland

Athletics

and played in the Gulf
and Southern leagues

Coast, Florida State

before retiring.

Duplicating services honored
with STRIVE award
Duplicating services
(Staff

Efforts)

were the

AFSCME

Among

Union, which donated a

and Teams Recognized

Award

from

was honored

left

for the

are

Tom

month

of

with

ttie

in their

STRIVE

Valuable

December Shown

Patacconi. Gail Berbick, and

Larry Recta with President Jessica Kozloff. Absent

from the photo

is

Darla Henrickson.

the

of candies, snacks,

campus

gift certificate to

fruit

Shown from

certificate for

The families each

Weis Markets, a toy or
and

fruit.

Two boxes

Giant Markets for each family, the

and snacks, and the Secretarial Roundtable.

their candle sale.

Debbie Schell. Jodi

Diann Shamburg, LouAnn Tariecky, Audra Hatye. Bonita Rhone, Chris

Rotli.

of

organizations that contributed to the

which donated S250 from

Bracikov/ski, Georgia Ortman.

a

Gibble
Continued from page

career,

and a multitude

for each child (55 children total)

Alumni Association who provided a large amount of

program.

and a S10

left

with the donated

Bob Hakim. Nancy Vought and George Tregear

goods

are:

Dang

LaBelle,

1

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

Bloomsburg preparing response
The

State System of

The

Higher Education

Board of Governors has approved the

"Convergence Report" include: an

"Convergence Report," a synthesis of three

America study

studies

commissioned by the board, and

instructed Chancellor James H.

McCormick
Each

implement the

to

university

must develop a perfor-

mance and outcomes plan
the

report.

to

respond to

recommendations of the report.

President Jessica Kozloff has appointed
Provost Wilson Bradshaw to chair

Bloomsburg's committee to develop the
plan.

is

to have

member

institutions

operate more efficiently based upon

benchmarks
better

and

—

to

in a

accomplish our mission

more

examined

the

State System universities, the report clearly

MOT

states the advisability

faculty

its

own

of each university

plan, based

on

its

own

mission and unique circumstances. I'm

giving us an opportunity to craft our

PricewaterhouseCooper study that

plan, rather than imposing a 'one size

examined

staff levels

and

productivity.

The format and approach of this study
Commonwealth's
Management Performance and Cost
Control Task Force (IMPACCT), chaired
by Lt. Governor Mark Schweiker. Like the
is

very close to the

Report, the Convergence

pleased that the Office of the Chancellor

air formula

upon

is

own
fits

us."

"We've been asked to establish productivity

goals for both academic

and non-

instructional functions," says Bradshaw.

"We

are going to look at areas, not

from

the perspective of eliminating programs,

but to determine

how we can

continuously

Report provides estimates of and recom-

improve our efficiency and our

mendations for potential cost avoidance,

ness,"

cost cutting or cost control.

look at outcomes for student learning, and

President Kozloff notes that "while the

cost-effective

manner," says Bradshaw.

developing

and student learning outcomes: a GartnerGroup study that
examined information systems; and a
productivity

IMPACCT

"The intent of the 'Convergence
Report'

that

FEBRUARY 2000

'Convergence Report^

to

make up

three reports that

4

recommendations are

effective-

adds Bradshaw. "We're also going to

how we can continue

to focus

for the collective 14

on student

Continued on page

4.

University foundation raises record $3.6 million
The Bloomsburg

Universit)'

Foundation

Anthony M.

laniero, vice president for

raised a record $3.6 million in 1999, an 18

university

percent increase over the $3 million raised

continued relationship with the university

last year.

indicates the confidence that people have

For the past

Bloomsburg

fiscal year,

1998-99,

advancement. "This kind of

in this institution.

also led the 14 universities in

the State System of Higher Education in

funds raised.

We're very proud of that

confidence."
Last year, the foundation received

continued support of

The record-breaking

year comes as

gifts

of

more than

from the Eleanor Sharadin Faust Estate

endow

Organizations, including the Student

Government Association, were the single
largest group of contributors
providing
$1 .54 million. Alumni contributed

—

$845,623.

Other groups of donors include:

$100,000 each from the Fred Smith Estate,

businesses

Bloomsburg University launched its first
comprehensive capital campaign, Neiv

Robert Warren and Mildred Quick MuUer

alumni estate

Challenges, Neju Opportunities, last October.

from Jack Mertz for the College of

So

far,

more than

$6.6 (or

60%) of the

$1

million capital campaign goal has been

in

support of student scholarships, and

Business.

and corporations, $200,180;
gifts, $211,116; current and

retired employees, $72,942; parents,

$73,540; foundations, $42,100; friends of
the university, $492,800;

Significant

new support came

as a

received or pledged.

bequest from the Richard Sands Estate of

"Our success has been a result of
continued support from close friends of
the university and some verv' significant
contributions from new donors," says

$250,000 that

will

fund Margaret McCern

and matching

Altogether, there were 13,664 donors in
1999, a point that Susan Hicks,

development operations,

member

emphasize.

of the economics faculty from

to 1976.

Another bequest of $100,000

gift

companies, $165,214.

Memorial Scholarships. McCern was a
1954

will

a nursing department lecture series.

is

manager of

quick to

Continued on page

4.

COMMUNIQUE 4 FF.B 2000

2

About our people
Karen Anselm, communication studies

James Douthit. music, presented

David Randall, English, presented a

a

anci theatre arts, served as chair of the

lecture/ recital, "The Piano Compositions

paper, "The Ejk! of the

Kennedy Center/American College

ofTheodor Leschetizky (1830-1915),"

Pornography of the Aulogedden," and was
moderator for his panel at the 14"' annual

Theatre

Region

Festival for

the Pennsylvania Music Teachers' Associa-

II.

Chris Bracikowski, physics, has written

an

article,

"Graphical Analysis of Electric

Fields of Dipoles

appears

and Bipoles, which
"

The Physics

in

Teacher.

Walter Brasch's (mass communications)

book. Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and
'Cornfield Journalist

Harris,

is

':

at

The Tale ofJoel Chandler

the cover feature of Mercer

International Conference in Literature,
Visual Arts,

tion

and

state associa-

as the recording secretary for the

Stipan/Ivo

arts,

in

is

Literature, at the State University of West

National Association, a 13-state region.

Georgia.

Kevin Ferland, mathematics, computer
statistics,

presented a paper,

"Toughness of Generalized Petersen
at

the Bloomsburg Theatre

He

Facing West," which runs through Feb.

Mathematical Association of America.

Shaw's Heartbreak House,"

history, has

Research Center

He

will

General Theory of Cartesian Clarity and

Slavic

COE Visiting Fellowship

Distinctness in Descartes's Rules" at the

be a scholar

96th Annual Eastern Division Meetings of

in

residence

Union Army: The Case of the Fighting

book, Sown With

Pittsburgh-Johnstown.

"The Mingo Creek

He

Militia:

of

at

The Jerus of Smolensk.

The

Din ham

The Third West

Virginia

University Senator Rush Holt History

the

an international

conference on the Russian Revolution

and Organizational Role of the Western
Pennsylvania Militia in the Whiskev
Rebellion" at

Tears:

Hickey gave papers

also presented
Political

the

poem, "Halloween

issue:

Area code

a

for Identity" at the

Association Annual

Convention, "Picture Storybooks, Culture,

and Literacy
at the

in

an Elementary Classroom"

National Council of Teachers of

English

89''"

Annual Convention and

listed are

Program

at the University

.570.

Bloomsburg can be found on the
World Wide Web at: www.bloomu.edu

Bloomsburg
's

State System of Higher I'.ducattnn

at

State Universities conference.

Jerry Wemple, English, was selected by

recognizes

a
'

to

a $.T,000

"artistic

award

to

further his or her career.

of 84

Band Festival.

fellowship

be used bv the

Music Educators Association

District 8

The

excellence" and carries

area band directors at the Pennsylvania

artists statewide, in

this year.

A poet with

eight artistic

honor

publications in

numerous journals, Wemple 's
is

artist to

Wemple was one

categories, to be selected for the

length collection
A Member of Pvnttsyii'nnta

in Granfield's

Newton's Dilemma"

Fellowship in Literature.

masterclass, "Conducting Technique.

e-mail, efoster@blooinu.edu

Grof^: John

the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for a

of Houston, her alma mater.

Terry Oxley, music, presented

Editor: Eric P'oster, ext. 4412;

Amazing

the English Association of the Pennsylvania

1999," accepted for

on-canipus extensions. To use the
numbers off campus, dial 389
first.

Modern Language

celebrate the 20th anniversary of the

Creative V\'riting

Thursday, Feb. 24.

phone numbers

had

publication in the edition of Gulf Coast thzl
will

Four-digit

Dangaremba's Nervous

in

The Search

"Economics and Morality
Claire Lawrence, English, recently

Next

Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, English, presented

Conditions:

in

UK; at the American
Association for Advancement of Slavic
Studies conference in St. Louis; and at an
international conference on the history of
provincial Russia at Chapel Hill, NC.
in

American Philosophical Association.

"Adolescent Girls

Conference.

Communique

at a national

Kurt Smith, philosophy, presented "A

for a Japanese Ministry of

at the research center in Sapporo from
June through November and work on his

at the University

in a

been

presentation, "Immigrant Soldiers in the

Johnston Brothers,"

"Home

of Bernard

conference.

for 2000.

Jeff Davis, history, gave an invited

A Read

Cultural Distance:

nominated
13.

in the Critical Survey of Long Fiction.

also presented a paper,

American Mathematical Society and the

Education-Hokkaido University

Ensemble's production of "Ambition

Sabah Salih, English, wrote an article,
"The Middle Eastern Novel," which
appears

-

the joint meetings of the

Michael Hickey,

playing the part of

and/or Cinema sponsored by
Department of Foreign Languages and

the

Eastern Division of the Music Teachers'

Michael Collins, communication studies

and theatre

The

tion State Convention. Douthit was elected

Graphs,"

university Press catalog.

Film:

second vice-president for the

science and

the

Road

first

book-

forthcoming from

Lotus Press of Detroit, Michigan.

—

,

FEB 2000

4

Looking Ahead

Math department plans lectures
The department
and

Martin Luther King Jr. Banquet

— Friday, Feb.

COMMUNIQUE

11,6 p.m., Kehr

Union, Ballroom. Tickets required. Call 4528 for information.

statistics

of mathematics, computer science

u ill hold

seminar series

a

Tuesdays (except Friday, Feb.

McCormick

1

1)

this

semester on

from 3:30

to 5 p.m. in

Center, Forum.

Seminars include:
6""

Annual Sankofa Conference

—Satinday, Feb.

19,

9 a.m., Kehr

Union, Multicultural Center. Registration required. For

more

"Magic

The London

Rute"— Saturday,

more information,

Game

Engine?" Feb.

1

1,

Dave Eberly, graduate,

Then What?"

"How Tough Can Graphs

the

Box Office

Be?" Feb. 29, Kevin Ferland,

mathematics, computer science and

Feb. 19, 8 p.m. Tickets are $25. For

the Celebrity Artist Series

call

a

"F(0)=),l F' (0)1 = 1.

Opera presents

City

is

NiuTierical Design Limited.

Feb. 22, John Riley,
mathematics, compiuer science and statistics.

information, contact the Multicultural Center at 4510.

Celebrity Artist Series,

"What

at

(570) 389-4409.

statistics.

"The Theory of Everything:" March 14, Dennis
Huthnance, mathematics, computer science and
statistics.

Food Show and Cooking Salon
1

—Thursday, Feb. 24,

1 1

a.m. to

Kehr Union, Ballroom.

p.m.,

Jazz Ensemble Concert

Kenneth

S.

—Thursday, Feb.

24, 7:30 p.m.. Carver Hall,

Gross Auditorium.

—Sunday, Feb.

Music Faculty Recital

27, 2:30 p.m.,

Haas Center

"Ingenious Mathematical Amateurs: M.C. Escher
(graphic artist) and Marjorie Rice (homemaker):"
March 21, Doris Schatt.schnrider, Moravian College.
"Programming for the LEGO Mindstorms Robot:"
March 28, Elizabeth Mauch and Pari! Hartung,
mathematics, computer science and statistics.

"Building a Virtual Campus:" April

"Why Bother
Spring Break Begins

4,

Erik Wynters,

mathematics, computer science and

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

—Saturday, March

4,

noon.

Bill

statistics.

Noncomputable Numbers?" April 1 1
Calhoun, mathematics, computer science and
with

statistics.

Classes

Resume— Monday, March

"Structure Theory and Commutative Results:" April 25,

13, 8 a.m.

Dr. Yamini,

Amir-Kabir University, Tehran, Iran.

"Computer Graphics
Governance Meetings

BUCC

May

2,

student

(Bloomsburg University Curriculum Committee)

March 29, April 12, April 19,
Forum.
Planning and Budget Thursdays, 3:30 p.m., Feb. 17, March 16,
April 13, April 14, April 27, McCormick Center for Human
Wednesdays, 3 p.m., Feb.

McCormick Center

for

16,

March

Human

1,

Services,

—

Services,

Forum

Class:"

presentations.

Forum.

—Wednesdays,

April 26,

3 p.m.,

McCormick Center

February
for

9,

Human

March

22, April 5,

Services,

Forum.

Bloomsburg Players to stage musical "Into the Woods"
The Bloomsburg University Players will stage the musical "Into
the Woods" Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 10, 1 1 and 12.
Performances begin at 8 p.m. in Haas Center for the Arts,
Mitrani Hall. Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for students and
senior citizens.
lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and
on Broadway by James Lapine, combines
elements of several familiar fairy tales to create a fantastic new

The

Harlem preacher Wyatt Tee Walker to talk on

civil rights

Wyatt Tee Walker, senior pastor of Harlem's Canaan Baptist

Church of Christ,
Feb.

8, as

Known

will

speak

at

Bloomsburg University Tuesday,

part of the university's Provost's Lecture Series.

world-wide as a pastor, theologian,

civil rights

leader

and essayist. Walker was named one of the 15 greatest AfricanAmerican preachers in the United States in a 1993 Ebony magazine
poll. At 4 p.m., he will hold a workshop, "An Informal Conversation with Dr. Walker," and at 7:30 p.m., he will give a lecture, "The
Civil Rights Agenda for the 21st Centiu y." Both talks, which are
free and open to the public, will be held in the Kehr Union,
Ballroom.

play, with

music and

originally directed

story that's full of surprises.

The Bloomsburg

Players production

is

directed by E. Ross

Genzel, communication studies and theatre

arts.

3

(X)MML NIQUE

4

News

FEB

4

2()()()

Briefs

named STRIVE

Fitzgerald

Jeanne Fitzgerald

approval to doctorate
At

its

meetingjan.

in

month

audiology

19, the

named employee

has been

office

Curriculum committee gives concept

for

of the

January by the STRIVE

and Teams Recognized

cmiiciilum

recipient
development

of the career

(Staff

for Valuable Efforts)

committee gave concept approval

to a

committee. Most recently, Fitzgerald

Doctorate in Audiology (Au.D.)

ap-

coordinated the benefit luncheon held for

If

Bobby Coombe

proved bv the State System of Higher

III,

the

19-month

custodian Bobby Coombe,

who

Education, the program would supplant
the master's program in audiology

suffering from cancer. Over $3,500

currently at the university' with the Au.D.

raised at the luncheon help the

program. Audiolog}' professional organiza-

family with medical expenses.
Kozloff (right)

2007 as the date for

tions have set the year

award

the Au.D. to be the minimimi practicing

degree

in the profession.

is

son

old

of

is

was

Coombe
President

shown presenting

the

to Fitzgerald.

Bloomsburg has

the only graduate audiology program

among State System schools.
The committee also recommended
the provost approve a

statistics

Convergence
that

Continued from pfige

department of mathematics, computer
science

and

statistics; diversit)- status

success. This

for

fully

the "Introduction to Anthropology"

to

course; courses in the "Philosophv of

ensure that

ail

biolog)'

students take a physiolog)' laboratory

do

it

class.

an opportunity

to thought-

members of

Chancellor by April

life;

Hollister, director of

Jim

relations

and marketing and Pat

dean of graduate studies and

be returned

is

record of who has the keys.

"We have

a very ambitious time line.

However, we are already addressing these

CCA

issues," says

and the participation of the

presi-

AFSCME and SCUPA or

Hugh McFadden,

director

Bob

Bradshaw. "We identified

many

of them ourselves as a part of our strategic

planning and five-year review processes.

The "Convergence Report" can be
found on the web on the

Wislock, executive assistant to the presi-

Commons

dent, will serve as resource personnel for

rvjotv. bloomu.

The key

page

University'

at:

edu/common fco m m on. htm

Foundation
.

Continued from page

1.

"To be successful, we need the

you need

Students, employees and

pation of

community

members donated 3.51 pints of blood at
recent Red Cross blood drive in Kehr
Union.

for comple-

be established and submitted.

an accurate

at 4542.

is all

2000. By June 16,

the committee.

control officer, Charles Harris, can be

Blood

tion will

3,

and timelines

to the key control office in the

Carpenter Shop so there

reached

final target goals

to the Office of the

requested a student representative from

information management, and

members of their department. Keys must

and develop a
campus input into

University,

process for engaging

student

their designees.

should not give their keys to other

Bloomsburg

the plan. President Kozloff must submit a

of planning, institutional research and

Key facts to keep in mind
Employees who are retiring or resigning

to a series

proposed design

dents of APSCUF,

mitted to the purchasing office by Feb. 29.

respond

will

the Chancellor, propose an approach for

better."

research. President Kozloff has also

year be sub-

The committee

of questions being posed by the Office of

H. Preston Herring, vice president for

media

Maintenance contract requests due
Purchasing director Joe Quinn requests
that all maintenance and service contract
fiscal

is

our mission and explore ways

Meyer, vice president for administration;

Schloss,

needs for the coming

at

the committee will also include: Sharon

and "Health Concerns in the Classroom"
for nursing; and a re\ision of the biolog)'
will

look

In addition to Bradshaw,

Ecology" from the philosophy department

curriculum that

1.

track in the

in

the

all

our fund-raising

"Small

partici-

of the university's constituents

gifts, as

efforts," says Hicks.

well as large

gifts,

are

important because they indicate the
strength of

commitment our alumni,

parents and friends have for Bloomsburg."

For the
was

first

fiscal

year 1998-99, Bloomsburg

among State System

dollars raised

and

as a

universities in

percentage of the

educational and general budget.

Bloomsburg

is

in the top five State

universities for dollars raised per

System

alumni of

record, alumni participation, and both the

percentage increase in funds raised and

endowment growth

in five years.

Bloomsburg has the fourth

ment per

largest

endow-

full-time equivalent student

among State System

Universities with

more

than $1,600 in endowed funds per student.

Scholarship
Shepard awarded NASA grant
to build high-tech instrument

Michael
Shepard, geography

and geosciences,
has been awarded a

Banking on

$46,000 grant from

Bloomshurg success

NASA

to construct

will

Federal

First

an instrument that

Bank has

contributed $10,000

help scientists

toward the creation

of a

determine the

new computer

lab in the

appearance and

Magee

Shown from

topography of

left

surfaces of planets,

Gatski, First Federal senior

asteroids

and

United

will

States,

Gary

vice president for special

moons. The instrument, a photometric
goniometer,

Center.

are, (seated)

projects,

be one of only four in the

and the only one

that

is

and Lee Beard,

First Federal

fully

CEO. Standing

are Michael Vavrek, dean of

automated.

continuing and distance
education, and President

IMarande talces the

Kozloff. Last year, the First

pain out of measuring panes

A

Federal also contributed

device

$10,000

invented by Robert

to the university

for scholarships.

Marande, associate

dean of arts and

Enrollment discussed at planning and budget

sciences, could

make

replacing a

broken insulated

window
easier.

a

At the planning and budget meeting
Feb. 17, discussion centered

little

Rather than

removing an
insulated
to

determine the

thicknesses of its

pane of glass

in the

window, the

space to the next pane, and the next

pane

—up

to four

panes

are displayed in seconds

on a

The

results

screen,

Continued on page

of 6,845

actual enrollment for

fall

1999. After

more

students would have at the university, the

Using

state

appropriation and

committee approved

a

motion

that allows

tuition assumptions provided by the

admissions to accept at least one percent

Chancellor's office, each of the current

more

proposals reflects a shortfall.

actual enrollment.

deficit

reduction plan that incorporates a

combination of solutions, but increased
4.

FTE

fall

more students than

possible budget case scenarios for the next

administration would have to develop a

similar to that of a calculator.

students, only two

considering the potential impact

President Jessica Kozloff suggested the

LCD

thick.

Cturently, the proposed budget

scenarios assume a

administrative services, presented three

fiscal year.

thickness (to the thousandth of an inch) of
first

proposed 2000-2001 year budget.
Barbara Stiner, director of budget and

window

panes, Marande's device measures the

the

on the

enrollment could be part of that solution.

students than this academic year's

The new FTE

goal

is

6,912.

Admissions director Chris
the

new

Keller, said

goal can be achieved without

affecting quality or internal

program

caps.

Continued on page

4.

COMMUNIQUE 24 FEB 2000

2

About our people
John Baird, psycholog), presented a
at the 22nd annual meeting of the
National Institute on the Teaching of
paper

The

history, has had five
book chapters accepted

Michael Hickey,

new

articles or

John
for

publication, including: "Big Strike in a

The Smolensk Metalworkers'

Small

City:

Peer Review Systems: Recommendations

Strike

and the Dynamics of Labor Conflict
which will appear in New Labor

Improvement" was co-authored by

for

recent graduate Michael T. McCartin.

Walter Brasch, mass communications,

in 1917,"

The

state,

panel, which

from throughout the

was sponsored by Elizabethtown

College and the Society of Professional
Journalists.

Gottlieb,

Other

panelists

head counsel

were Brian

for the Pennsylva-

Newspaper Association; William M.
House of Representatives Democratic Caucus; and Sean
Young, broadcast communications

ington D.C.

He

portfolios at that session.

will

appear

in

and dean of faculty

American Slavic

Studies.

"The Rise and

Smolensk,"

Politics of Class

in 1917," will

has one of the nation's weakest laws,

in

7-

Memory, and a Good Story:
Got Its 'October'" will

Mark Jelinek, music,

ser\'ed as

one of

22nd Annual National

a

will

Russia: Challenges of Implementa-

efoster@blootnu.edu
Bloomsburg can he found on the

World Wide Web

He

phone numbers listed are
on-campus extensions. To use the
numbers off campus, dial 389
first. Area code 570.

Four-digit

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

at:

www.bloomu.edu

He

Teaching Rhetorical Criticism,"
respondent for a panel on "The

Public Functions of Celebrity Rhetoric," at

present a

and
March at the
Finance Academy in Moscow. In December, Khan presented "Resource Management and Economic Development in
South Asia at the Second International
Conference on Asian Economics in Seoul.

9.

Teachet.

"The Madness of

Communication Association's
Rhetoric and Public Address conference.

tion," at the International Scientific

Thursday, March

article,

the Eastern

Saleem Khan, economics,

issue:

wrote an

2000 issue of Communication
also presented a paper,

Roy Smith and Alison

paper, "Continuing Education (Econom-

Next

communication

arts,

suader," which was published in the Winter

in

their spring concert.

ics) in

at the

on the

"Experiencing Persuasion and the Per-

and was
in

Schreier,

and theatre

Method

forms with

Institute

Teaching of Psycholog)'.

The winner perthe Williamsport Symphony
Orchestra.

Am

"I

A Cognitive Map

Teach About a Person's World

Activity to

sponsored by the Williamsport

tion was

Symphony

Communique

—Somewhere!

Howard

four adjudicators at the 27th Annual
Young Artists' Competition at Clarke
Chapel, Lycoming College. The competi-

according to the Reporters Committee for

Fisher

View and Individual Differences"

in Provincial Land-

Russian Historical Studies.

Freedom of the

Press.

Here

studies

The panel
Pennsylvania

The

scapes: Local Dimensions of Soviet Power, 1 91

appear

at St. John

College, Rochester, NT, presented

Fall

and the Rhetoric of Crisis

appear

1953. "Paper,

law.

Canadian-

of Smolensk's Moderate Socialists:

How Smolensk

problems of the current

Connie Schick and Brett L. Beck,
psychology, and J. David Arnold, provost

nia

discussed proposed legislation and the

also gave a presentation

of Crime in Revolutionary

Politics

Sloane, counsel for the

coordinator for Gov. Ridge.

at

the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Wash-

on teaching

and the

law.

Mathematical Association of America

and Self-Imaging, 1880-191 7. "Jews and AntiSemitism," will appear in The Encyclopedia of

three-hour discussion about the state's

in

NExT of the

History: Russian Worker Discourses, Religion,

European Social History. "Moderate Socialists

attracted journalists

organized a panel

Teaching," for Project

was one of four invited panelists for a
Right-to-Know

mathematics, computer

statistics,

"Documenting Excellence

discussion,

paper, "Guiding Faculty

Psychology.

Polhill,

science and

Methodical Conference

in

published a review of publications of

Institute, recently

development training for Biocompatible
(with Bob Wislock, president's office, and

Tony Draus, Quest),
the medical

field;

a British

Twinlab,

company

in

New York;

Bureau of State Parks, and Thomson

Consumer Electronics, Scranton. Training
Thomson Electronics was conducted at

for

the Columbia University School of Business

New York. A

the South Asian Association for Regional

Center

Cooperation

managers were involved

in the Journal of Asian

Stone, Corporate

conducted team-

in

total

of 125

in the training.

Economics 10.

Bloomsbun
UNIVHRSITY
A Member of Pentisylvania s
State System of Higher Education

*

Jing Luo, languages and cultures,
article, "Theories and
Methods of Modern Distance Education,"

published an

in e-Education Research

(Nol 2000) a
.

leading research journal of China.

,

Harry Strine, communication studies
and theatre arts, will be a member of a
panel presentation, "Rhetorical Criticism/

Communication
All," at the

Analysis:

A Nightmare for

Eastern Communication

Association Annual Convention in April.

— —

,

24

FEB 2000

COMMUNIQUE

3

Looking Ahead
Music Faculty Recital

—Sunday, Feb. 27, 2:30 p.m., Haas Center

President schedules open hours

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

President Kozloff will hold open office hours Tues., Feb. 29,

from 10:30 a.m.
Spring Break Begins

—Saturday, March

4,

to

noon. To reserve a time,

4526.

call

noon.

Opening Darwin's box
Classes Resiune

—Monday, March

13,

8 a.m.

—

Women with Doreen Loury Wednesday,
Kehr Union, Multicultural Center.

Celebrating African

March

15, 7 p.m.,

Sound Stage Featuring Women of
8 p.m., Kehr Union, Ballroom.

critic of evolution and author of Darwin's
on "Creation or Evolution" Tuesday, Feb. 29,

Michael J. Behe, a
Black Box, will speak

—Saturday, March

Music^

from 6

to 8 p.m. in the

Kehr Union, Ballroom. The

talk

is

spon-

sored by the Philosophy Club.

Child care help

18,

may be

available

Bloomsburg's Child Care Center

is

participating in Child Care

Connections, a subsidized child care program through a grant

North Central Pennsylvania Education Consortium Job Fair
Tuesday, April 4, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Kehr Union, Multipurpose

Rooms A and

from the Columbia County Commissioners. This program
assistance with child care

B.

ity

and Children's Weekend

—Friday, April

28,

income

through

Sunday, April 30.

at least

—Saturday, April

five;

and $3,444 for

The

local

six.

For additional

center

at the child

4547 or

at

new number

Clarion has a

Governance Meetings

household

limits are $1,705 for a family of two; $2,140 for three;

information, contact Kathy Johnson
e-mailjcoleman@bloomu.edu

29.

in the

25 hours a week. Gross monthly family

$2,575 for four; $3,009 for

Renaissance Jamboree

offers

to eligible individuals. Eligibil-

requirements include: Parent(s)/guardians

must be working
Siblings

payments

telephone exchange for telephone numbers

Clarion University has changed to 393.

The

at

area code remains 814.

BUCC (Bloomsburg University Curriculum Committee)
Wednesdays, 3 p.m., March

McCormick Center

1,

March

Human

for

29, April 12, April 19,

Services,

The chemistry department will hold

—Thursdays, 3:30 p.m., March

Planning and Budget
April 14, April 27,

Forum

McCormick Center for Human

—Wednesdays, 3 p.m., March 22, April

April 26,

McCormick Center for Human

Chemistry plans talks

Forum.
16, April 13,

Services,

Forum.

its

meeting Feb.

16,

the

degree

in a subject

teaching credentials

area to earn a master's degree and

in

two summers and one academic year.

program must next be approved by the

State System of

Education before gaining formal approval

at

tee, a vote will

be taken

to

March

1

The

to

at

—Preparing Future Faculty

University of New Hampshire," Date

TBA (March

24 or 31), Christopher Bauer, University of New Hampshire.
"Synthesis

and Optical Properties of Complex Metal
7, Colby Foss, Georgetown

"Senior Research Seminars," April 28 and

May

5

(if

University.

needed)

at

meeting of the commit-

determine whether or not

Program

Bloomsburg chemistry and physics majors.

Higher

Bloomsburg. Also

proceed

developing a plan for conflict-avoidance scheduling for student
athletes.

in the chemistry

Nanostructures," April

the meeting, the committee discussed conflict-avoidance scheduling for student-athletes. At the

Refreshments will be served

"Chemical Education Research

Bloomsburg University Curriculum

Committee gave concept approval to a master of arts in teaching
program. The program would allow students with an undergraduate

79.

"Light Scattering," March 3, Larry Mack.
"From Liquid Sand to Optical Fiber: Optical Quality Glass through
Chemistry," March 17, Mary Mandich, Lucent Technologies.

new education graduate degree
At

room

a series of talks this

p.m. in Hartline Science

Forum.

Curriculum committee gives concept approval
to

Center,

at 3

department beginning at 2:30 p.m. Talks include:

5,

Services,

semester on Friday afternoons

The chemistry department
giate

is

also hosting the 64th Intercolle-

Student Chemists Convention on Saturday, April

15, in

Hartline Science Center. Keynote speaker for the convention

be John Richardson of Shippensburg University.

will

COMMUNIQUE 24 FEB 2000

4

Financial Aid's John Bleryla
finds federal form faux pas
John

Bieryla, assistant director of financial aid, lias

been given
in

tlie

STRIVE

keen attention to

detail

and Teams Recognized

(Staff

their Valuable Efforts)

award

for February. Bieryla's

caught an error on the Free

Application for Federal Student Aid mailed by the
federal

Department of Education

last fall.

As

a result,

the presses were stopped and about 100,000 forms

were

recalled so the error (along with several others)

could be corrected.

Shown from

Lyons, director of financial

Kozloff with the financial aid staff,
for the

Policies discussed atforum

Tom

and president

who nominated him

award.

Planning and budget

Scholarship

Continued from page

Continued from page

1.

right are

aid, Bieryla,

1.

Six university policies that have

been re\ised were discussed and had
a first reading at tlie meeting of the

Forum Feb. 9.
The poHcies

In other business, the space
facilities

and

Exercise science students

committee recommended that the

bookstore annex be

made

available to the

take Olympic internship

Two

in Italy

exercise science graduate students

Rome and

department of communication studies and

recently spent 10 days in

storm Policy (PRP 5205); Emergency

theatre arts for use as a black box theater.

Florence through a research internship

Snow Regulations (PRP

Provost Wilson Bradshaw gave an update

with the Italian Ohinpic Committee.

included: Snow-

5207); Policy

for Releasing Information from

University Police to

Media Relations

(PRP 5230); University Police Arms
Policy (5274); Arrest Policy (PRP

from the convergence report
this time,

responses according to directives from the

more

State System. (For

specific informa-

tion about the report, look

5292). There was also discussion of

Wide Web

revisions to the University

Motor

will

have a second reading

at

the

next Forum meeting March 22.
.\lso at the

Kozloff

meeting, president

announced
District

converge/ronvstory.htm)

And Hugh

tives for

2001-2006.

from

And our enrollment

critical

our policy

Official 14-day
is

6,411

FTE

this

semester

this issue.

and

field

Italian

Olympic Committee usually

says

something about

these students really are,"

Linda LeMura, professor of exercise

physiology,

who arranged

for the intern-

have done, she said that

conduct a study of

is

web

on

at:

last

derived by dividing undngradii-

ale credit hours scheduled by
credit

these stories can be found

the world wide

www.bloomu.edu/common/common.htm

(full-time equivalency),

spring. /
Higher Education

will

"The

More on

is ...

enrollment

carr)'ing firearms. Like several other

Bloomsburg

track

ship.

approximately two percent more than

universities

and Joseph

of the Italian Tae

national teams.

how wonderful

and objec-

prohibiting university police from

State System of

Kwon Do, swimming, and

internships, so this says

strategic plan

the university's strategic goals

tests

accepts only doctoral students for these

review group, presented a working draft of

Attorney William

Kreisher that was

on the World

www.bloomu.edu/news/

McFadden, chair of the

students, Jodi Klebez

that the

university has received a letter

former

at:

The

Andreacci, obsened

subcommittees are drafting

5274); and Key Control Policy (PRP

Vehicle Regulations. These policies

At

task force.

15 and graduate
Did you

hours by 12.

Total headcount enrollment

is

7,155.

Of

The

know?
university

's

80 custodians use 123

those students, 6,061 are full-time, 683 are

different cleaning products to keep the

graduate students, 4,467 are female and

campus

2,688 are male.

clean.

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

Web

site

9

MARCH 2000

ivim bronze medal

in national competition
Bloomsburg

University's

web

site

earned a bronze medal award

from Admissions Marketing Report's Admissions Advertising Awards.

The Admissions

Advertising Awards is the largest educational
and marketing awards competition in the country, with
two thousand entries from more than 900 institutions.
The university's web site was judged among schools with 5,000
to 9,999 students. Gold medalist was Southeast Missouri State
University's news and events web page and silver medalist was the
University of Dayton's web site. Merit awards were given to

advertising

Northern Michigan University,
nity College

Pellissippi State Technical

Commu-

and Middlesex Community College.

Bloomsburg's web

site,

redesigned

last

summer,

is

managed by
The

publications director Geoffrey Mehl, assisted by Eric Foster.
site's

Campus Commons {www.bloomu.edu/common/common.htm)

page

is

updated

daily

on weekdays.

Registrar's office staffers capture

Brenda Musselman

STRIVE

(Staff

employees

(left)

and Karen

STRIVE award with microfilm
Diltz (right)

and Teams Recognized

of the

month

presented the award.

for

Diltz

have been named

Valuable Efforts)

March. President Kozloff (center)

and IVIusselman joined the

summer and undertook

registrar last

In their

backlog of student records, which they completed

more information about STRIVE, or an

Curriculum committee OKs conflict avoidance

Burke

scheduling for athletes

on

After long discussion, the curriculum committee approved,
a 5 to 4 vote, a

recommendation

at

staff of the

a project of microfilming a
in

four months. For

application, contact Bonnie

4040. The Bloomsburg University Foundation and the

University Store support the award.

to the provost that the schedul-

ing policy be changed to allow student athletes to schedule before
fellow students in the

change would be

same

class year.

The purpose of such a
more effectively

Poet contrasts

schedule around practices and games. In other business, the

She

department

Center,

courses;

change the sequencing and numbers of several

add "International Finance"

finance majors; and approve a

new

to the required courses for

elective course in "Personal

Finance."

will give

a lecture at 3 p.m. in the

and a poetry reading

Multipurpose

Room

Kehr Union,

Multictiltural

p.m. in the Kehr Union,

A.

of Mifflin County. In contrast to her family's agrarian roots, she

Trek to the library for Quest photos

Andruss Library, Mark

S.

is

on

Schweiker Exhibit Room,

through March. Locales pictured range from the Amazonian
rainforest to the shores of the Arctic.

young Roy Smith (Quest

at

New York University. Her poetry often

explores the dichotomy of the dissimilar worlds of urbanity and

collection of photographs of Quest expeditions

display in the

very

at 7:30

Kasdorf was born into the Mennonite and Amish communities

earned graduate degrees

A large

and country

Poet Julia Kasdorf will be on campus Wednesday, March 29.

committee recommended that the provost allow the chemistry
to

city

to allow student athletes to

A special

treat:

A photo

director) preparing for a climb.

the rural

and

lifestyle.

Call Jerry

of a

She has published two books.

Sleeping Preacher

Eve's Striptease, to critical acclaim.

Kasdorf s

Wemple,

visit.

English, 389-4881 for

more information on

COMMUNIQUE 9 MARCH 2000

2

About our people
V
Henry Dobson, educational

and

studies

Rand Martin,

finance and business law,

secondary education, presented a paper,

has written an article, "The Stock Return

"Changing Preservice Teacher Education:

Volatility

A New Paradigm

Splits Revisited,"

Integrating Technology,"

Conference of the

at the 11"' International

and

Society for Information Technology

Teacher Education.

paper

at the

He

also presented a

Pennsylvania Educational

Technology Conference

titled

"Creating

Technology' Adventures."

and Beta Changes Around Stock
which appears

International Journal of Finance.

for the U.S. Geological Survey.

also

presented a paper, "A Comparative
Analysis of Open-End

Bill

and Closed-End

Zehringer, retired from the English

department, had an

Bond Fund Expenses," at the annual
meeting of the Academy of Financial

Campus

in

The manuscript is entitled: " An
Invisible Line: Forms of Truth and the Lie
in G.K.

present a paper co-authored with students

published

Review.

Rev. Lawrence McNeil, Catholic

will

article

the Fall '99 edition of Literary Magazine

Services.

Sharon Fredericks, chemistry,

McNeil

spoke on "Ethics: The Real World of
Decision Making."

in the

He

leadership development training course

Chesterton's The Innocence of Father

Brown.

Minister, was a speaker for a

Barry Husowitz, Steven Yankay, Christina

Bauer and Mark Gordon

at the

American

Chemical Society National Meeting
Francisco in March.

The paper

"Effects of Solvent Molecules

is

in

San

titled

Zwiterion-Neutral Isomerization of Glycine

and

Diglycine."

"The Consilium

de

emendanda

ecclesia

and the 1555 Reform Bull of Pope Julius
III: Dead Letters or Building Blocks?" that
appears in the book Reform and Renewal in
the Middle Ages

Thomas M.

The department of mathematics, computer
science

William Hudon, history, has written an
essay,

Math department displays recent scholarship

on the

and

Izbicki

the Renaissance,

edited by

and Christopher M.

Bellitto (Leiden: Brill, 2000), pp. 240-258.

and statistics has set up a

display case of

Zahira Khan and John Reynolds, "Two
Approaches for Introducing Parallel

recent faculty scholarship in the first floor

Processing to Undergraduates," Proceedings

hallway ofMcCormick Center where the

ofthelSCA

department

offices

IZ** International Conference, 1999.

are located. Works include:

Zahira Khan, "Encouraging Under-

Kevin Ferland, "On the RO(G)-Graded

Cohomology of
Complexes for

graduate Research

at

Equivariant Ordinary

and

Generalized G-Cell

Annual Eastern Small

G = Z/ p," Ph.D. Thesis, Syracuse University,

Small Colleges

Universities," Proceedings of the 15"'
Colleges

Computation

Conference, 1999.

1999.

Stephen Kokoska, TI-83 Manual for
Kevin Ferland and Florian Luca,

Johnson and Kuby's: Ju^t

"Deconstructing Conic Sections, Prob-

Communique

lems,"

Number

Vol. 72, No. 5,

Thursday, March 23.
phone numbers listed are
on-campus extensions. To use the
numbers off campus, dial 389

Next

1587, Mathematics Magazine,

December

1999.

Elementary

Manual

issue:

for

first.

Dennis Huthnance, "Mathematics

in

Area code 570.

the 1999 International Conference, Global

Awareness

e-mail, efoster(S)bloomu.edu

Society InternationalJournal,

1999.

Bloomsburg can be found on the
at:

Deformations of Polynomials," Ph.D.
Thesis,

Mason, Lind, and Marshal's:

An Introduction, 5* Ed., Duxbury,
Stephen Kokoska and Daniel

Purdue

University, 1999.

Paul Loomis and Shreeram Abhyankar,

Bloomsbun
State System

of Higher Education

Statistics

1999.

Zwillinger,

CRC Standard Probability and Statistics Tables
andFormulae, Chapman and Hall, 2000.
Elizabeth Mauch, "Representations of

Schmudgen

type for Semidefmite Polyno-

mials," Ph.D. Thesis,

A Member of Pennsyivanfa 's

and Kuby's: Elementary

Duxbury, 1999; and TI-83 Manual

Paul Loomis, "Galois Theory of

www.bloomu.edu

UNIVERSITY

the Essentials of

Ed. 1999; TI-83

Environmental Problems," Proceedings of

Editor: Eric Foster, ext. 4412;

World Wide Web

for Johnson

Statistics,

Four-digit

Statistics, 2""

*

"Twice

More Nice Equations

University,

for Nice

Groups," Contemporary Mathematics,
Vol. 245, 1999.

Lehigh

1999.

Reza Noubary, "Measuring Diversity
Using Entropy,

"

The Fields Institutefor

Research on Mathematical Sciences,

on Information Theory, 1999.

6"*

Volume

—
9

News

Looking Ahead
Classes

Resume

after Spring Break

Student Art Show

—Monday, March

13. 8

—Wednesday, March 15 through April

a.m.

Haas

5,

Galler)' of Art.

—

Women with Doreen Loury Wednesday,
Kehr Union, Multicultural Center.

Celebrating African

March

15, 7 p.m.,

Sound Stage Featuring Women of Music
8 p.m., Kehr Union, Ballroom.

—Saturday, March

—Sunday, March

University Faculty Trio Recital
First Presbyterian

Church, 345 Market

St.,

James Douthit, piano, Jonathan Graber,

18,

MARCH 2000 COMiMUNIQUE

3

Briefs

Geographer to speak on mapping forests with satellites

An expert in satellite sensing and mapping will speak Friday,
March 24, at 3:30 p.m. in Hartline Science Center, Kuster Auditorium. Mark Jakubauskas of the University of Kansas will speak on
"From Satellite to Sample Site: Tracking the Wild Yellowstone
Pixel. The talk is sponsored by the departments of geography and
geosciences and biological and allied health sciences and funded
by a grant from the College of Arts and Sciences. Jakubauskas has
been awarded a half million dollar NASA grant to use satellite
images of earth to map Yellowstone National Park. The maps will
be used to assess forest health and growth problems as well as
"

provide information about potential wildfires.

19, 2:30 p.m.,

Bloomsburg. Featuring

violin,

and Markjelinek,

Learn to swim with the Huskies

The men's and women's varsity swimming teams will provide

cello.

beginning swimming lessons for children ages 5-10 from March
Spring

—Sunday, March 26,

Chamber Orchestra Concert

2:30 p.m.. First Presbyterian Church, 345 Market

1

Bloomsburg.

St.,

and March 20-24 (Session B) Cost

7 (Session A)

for

one

is

.

five-class session

and $35

if

the child signs

13-

$20 per child

up

for both

Directed by Markjelinek. Features Jennifer Updegrove. Works by

sessions

Mozart, Sammartini and Grabrielli.

three class times each evening: 5:00-5:45, 5:45-6:30, and 6:30-7: 15.

Celebrity Artist Series
8 p.m.,

Haas Center

For information,

—"H.M.S. Pinafore," Thursday, March

(

10 classes) Classes are 45 minutes each day.
.

For more information,
30,

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Tickets are $25.

rking@bloomu.edu.
Bloomsburg's web

call

Roch King

A registration

site at:

at

4155 or

There are

via email at

form can be found on

wxvw.bloomu.edu/coTnmon/common.htm

(570) 389-4409.

call

Looking for a few leaders

—

Women

Symposium Thursday
and Friday, April 13-14. Featured speaker: Dr. George Lundberg.
Lecture, "The Evolving U.S. Health Care System: Truth and

Women.

Consequences, Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; workshop, "Today's Health

goals to

Provost's Lecture Series/Health Sciences

"

Care:

How Safe?" Friday,

8:30 a.m.,

Kehr Union, Ballroom.

students are being sought to attend the State System of

Higher Education's 12th Leadership

—Friday, April

and Children's Weekend

28,

through

Undergraduate

promote and enhance the personal and academic

leadership

skills

institute will

Siblings

Institute for

This institute embodies one of the consortium's major

women students. The
McKeever Environmental Learning Center

of our undergraduate

be held

at

near Slippery Rock University, July 30 - August

4.

Expenses for the

are paid by the university through the Student Life Department.

Sunday, April 30.

Renaissance Jamboree

—Saturday, April

29.

—Friday, May

12.

Graduate Commencement

Bloomsburg will send at least three women. Nominations are due
no later than March 17, 2000 with an application deadline of April
7. For more information, contact Debbie Barnes at 389-4774 or
Marcei Woods at 389-4091. Nomination forms can be found on
Bloomsburg's web site at: www.bloomu.edu/common/common.htm

—Saturday, May

Undergraduate Commencement

13.

Presidential gallery is online
University Archivist Robert Dunkelberger has created

Governance Meetings

exhibit of photos

The

BUCC

(Bloomsburg University Curriculum Committee)

Wednesdays, 3 p.m., March 29, April
Center for Human Services, Forum.

12, April 19,

April 14, April 27,

Forum

McCormick

Thursdays, 3:30 p.m., March

McCormick Center for

Human

—Wednesdays, 3 p.m., March 22, April

April 26,

McCormick Center

for

Human

exhibit can be found at ivww.bloomu.edu/library/pages/Archives/

Presidents/ Galleryindex. htm

See the

—

Planning and Budget

16, April 13,

Services,

Forum.

The

final

master plan

final facilities

master plan

will

be presented to the Council

of Trustees Thursday, March 30, from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. in

Andruss Library, Gathering Place. Master plan consultants Sasaki

5,

Services,

on online

and information about Bloomsburg's presidents.

Forum.

and Associates

will

make

the presentation.

COMMUNIQUE 9 M\RCH

4

2000

Tall tales to be told here
Let music light up your

Bloomsburg

life

The Bloomsburg University-Community
Orchestra

is

selHng Victoria's Candles,

which make nice

gifts for

Mother's Day. To order,

Easter or

Markjelinek

call

or Linda Fisher at ext. 4289 by March 13.

Candles come

in three sizes: small -$10,

medium - $13, and

large -$15.

is

On

sponsoring a

"Triumph of the
Human Spirit," Thursday, March 23,
and Friday, March 24. The festival,

storytelling fesUval,

and open to the public,
will run Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. and
Friday from 9 to 1 p.m. in the Kehr
which

is

free

will

be Joseph

Voice staffers talk on

Bruchac, "Renaissance" Ruby L.

columnist conundrums

Perkins and

Seven \'oice

stiiffers

(Joe

national convention at the

Columbia

Scholastic Press Association in
Cit)'

from March 16

to 18.

On

Lucadamo,

The

Thursday

at

program

will

9 a.m. by

Wilson Bradshaw, provost and vice
president for academic

affairs, fol-

lowed by a keynote address,
"Ston telling and Cultural Diversity
the

in

Age of Technolog)," by Bruchac.
Individual storytelling sessions with

Featured storytellers

Greg Albert, Seth Bordner, Matt Grisafi,
Mike Owazany, Tim Hare, and Christa
Rolen) will serve on a panel at this year's

Friday, the festival

begin with a welcome

Union, Ballroom.

Kim

March 23-24

will

to 11:15 a.m. in

separate sections of the Ballroom.

Bruchac

will

From

1

1:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in the

"More Worlds Than One:
Native American in Contemporary

same room, the

American

session will follow.

give a talk,

Society," followed by a

be held from 9:30

and 10:30

to 10:15 a.m.

Spanos-Telsing.
at 7 p.m.,

each ston teller

book

turns telling

storytellers will take

tales.

An autographing

autographing session.

New York
staffers will

present a session, "Writing Something

About Nothing

Ever)'

Week," which

will

address developing a voice, finding good
topics week after week, writing creatively,
and dealing with reader response. Voice
ad\iser Mary Bernath, English, will
moderate the talk.

Help support
needs

special

bid for the Huskies

special children with

Camp Victory's 5K walk/

run Saturday, April 8 on the upper

campus. Experienced and inexperienced
runners are welcome to join the event,

which begins

For more informa-

at 10 a.m.

784-1260 and ask for Jen or

tion, call

Make a

at

be Friday, April 28,

at

6 p.m. in Magee's

24 West Ballroom. Cost of the event

is

$35

per person. For more information, contact
the development office at 4128.

to victory

exhibits

work

Harrisburg

Sharon Swank,
administrative assistant
in the

College of

Professional Studies,

has an exhibit of

the Richards Hall Art

Dine Italian style to help

The

Camp

Stipenisory Roundtable

Victory
is

sponsor-

Gallery at the Dixon
Universitv'

Center

ing a spaghetti dinner to benefit the

Harrisburg.

D.E.A.F. (Deafness/Education/Acdviues/

will

Friends)

On the road

in

charcoal drawings in

Carrie.

The Husky Club Auction/Dinner Dance
will

Swank

this

Camp at Camp Victon

summer. The dinner
from noon

will

in Milhille

be Saturday,

March

25,

Trinitv'

United Methodist Church, 2361 Old

to 6:30 p.m. at

The

in

exhibit of a dozen works

be up through April

29.

The primary

ptirpose of the Richards Hall Gallerv

provide an exhibit space for facult),

is

to

staff,

students and alumni of the State System of

Higher Education.

Berwick Road, Espy. Tickets are $5 for
adults

and $3

purchased

in

for children

advance or

and can be

at the door.

Tickets are available from Jeanne
Fitzgerald, career development, ext. 4070;

Aldrich contributes

Jolene Folk,

to Alumni Assoc.

electrical services, 4535;

Doris Morse

left

the

4206; Terr\'

Alumni

Lemon,

Gary Melnick,

telecommunications, 4113;

Aldrich, class of 1924,

has

library,

Tom

Patacconi,

duplicating services, 4042; Nancy Vought,
universitv

advancement, 4201; Bob

Association 515,565.

Wislock, president's office, 4674; George

The funds

Tregear, residence

will

be

used to support the construction of an

addidon

to the

Alumni House.

life,

4809; Dave Celli,

academic computing, 4882.

Moran recognized by
state legislator
Craig Moran,

telecommunications
center, was recog-

nized by the chair of
the Pennsylvania

House Education
Committee, Jess M.
Stairs, for his

setting

up

work

in

a

videoconference

between the committee and five Pennsylvania High Schools. Bloomsburg acted as the
"bridge" for the Jan. 18 videoconference.

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

LaBuda,

Polhemus

who

the state's Link-To-Learn program.

Bloomsburg was the only

honor of Marcus

and

Higher Education

—the three TKE brothers

funding

in this

cycle.

IVIatliematics grant to fund

TKE Brothers

computer

to:

Memorial Fund

400 East Second Street
Families of the students involved

TKE

new

laboratory over the

coming

year.

Currently, the department has a classroom

brothers, will be consulted regard-

on the

the funds will be directed.

first

floor of

McCormick

and equipment space

Questions can be addressed to

coffee lounge

Susan Hicks, manager of develop-

at the rear of the

ment operations,

development

awarded a $284,000 grant to revamp the
computer science curriculum and equip a

Bloomsburg PA 17815

in this tragedy, as well as

lab, faculty

The department of mathematics,
computer science and statistics has been

c/o Development Center

how

be

fire

19.

Contributions can be sent

ing

State System of

institution to

awarded two Link-To-Leam grants

Kristoffer

perished in an off-campus

March

grants totaling

fund has been

Cliff Vail

$650^000 in grants

month with the awarding of
more than $650,000 from

big boost this

TKE brothers
established in

zirin

Bloomsburg's technology profile got a

established for
A memorial

math

Physics^

Memorial fiind

4 APRIL 2000

at (570) 389-4128.

The grant

Center,

in the first-floor

and in the projection booth
Forum.

also provides for faculty

were approved. These

Shown from

left are:

Jim Pomfret, chairperson,

Zahira Khan, Curt Jones and Robert Montante

programming

development

in the latest

and network

software. Faculty

who

will

participate in the training opportunities

Forum approves revised policies
At the March 15 meeting of the Forum,

Math grant team adds success

include Curt Jones, Robert Montante,

of Higher Education Board of Governors
this April.

The

physics

program

also has received a

Zahira Khan, Erik Wynters, Dennis

$250,000 venture capital grant from the

The amount of the loan

Huthnance,

State System.

are the snowstorm policy (PRP#5205),

William Calhoun,

the university must repay will be

emergency snow regulations (PRP#5207),

John

five revised policies

university police

arms policy (PRP#5242),

policy (PRP#52920).

to

university police

be further

announced
committee

upon enrollment

and

arms policy

is

likely

revised. President Kozloff

that she

would appoint a

to study the issue of university

police firearms.

They currendy do not

carry firearms.

There was

also discussion of the

in the Electrical Engi-

Yixun Shi.

neering Technology Program.

Physics grant to

ing Technology program

The

(PRP#5274) and key control

arrest policy

The

Riley

support

new

The

grants for the Electrical Engineerwill

hire an addidonal physics

program

that

dependent

be used

to

member and

to

purchase of specialized equipment.
"We're already getting

physics

calls

department has

who have heard about

been awarded a

physics chairperson Jim Moser.

from people

the program," says

$350,858 grant to
support the new

Jim Moser

Convergence Report, which can be found
on the Web at:

Electrical Engineer-

u/ww. bloomu. edu/ news/converge/convstory. htm

pected to be approved by the State System

ing Technology Program, which

More information about

these grants

can be found on the world wide web
is

ex-

www.bloomu.edu/common/common.htm

at:

COMMUNIQUE 4 APRIL 2000

2

About our people
M. Christine Alichnie, nursing,

recently

was honored for her three-year tenure as
chairperson of the Pennsylvania State

Pennsylvania Northeast region of the Mid-

Board of Nursing. An

Atlantic Association of College

official resolution,

Mary Beth Simmons,

Katherine Kollar, residence life>was

appointed Regional Coordinator for the

and

"We're not

a paper,

braska)

in

English, presented

Kansas (or Ne-

Anymore: Early 20th Century
Osa Johnson and

Travel Narratives of

University

Housing Officers (MACUHO).

Nettie Fowler Dietz," at the Poetics of

Pennsylvania and the Bureau of Profes-

She

coordinating a regional drive-in

Space conference

and Occupational Affairs, recognized Alichnie's "commitment to the

conference

highest standards of ethics, the betterment

Housing and Benchmarking"

Commonwealth of

issued jointly by the

sional

ogy

also

in

is

at

Residence

Life,

Interest/Theme
in April.

of the nursing profession and responsible
Jing Luo, languages and cultures,

acts as a public servant."

in

Binghamton.

Bloomsburg on "Technol-

Middle School and Xiahe

Leon Szmedra, exercise science, wrote
article, "Hemoglobin/Myoglobin
Oxygen Desaturation During Alpine

an

Skiing," accepted for publication in

and

Tibetan Middle School of Gansu Province,

cultures, presented a paper, "Espace

China, in setting up a sister-school relation-

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
and "Training-Induced Changes in Stroke
Volume in Patients with Ischemic Heart

ship. Established last

Disease" accepted for publication in

assisted Danville

Gilbert Darbouze, languages

Romanesque, Espace Poetique dans
(The

I'Apprenti Sorrier de Francois Augieras"

Space of the Novel

as Poetic

Space

culture through various

in

Francois Augieras' The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
at the

held

was

the relationship

means of commu-

Binghamton

University.

The paper

Elizabeth Mauch, assistant professor of

statistics,

Richard Ganahl, mass communications,
was elected to serve a three-year term on
the Board of Directors of the United

Way

of Columbia County.

presented a paper, "Using

Mindstorms
Skills

to

(co-authored with

of Middle School Students

Tiered Approach,"

at the

-

A Two-

Pennsylvania

art,

had three

articles

in national

Ideals of Women's. Monasticism:

and the

Quarterly,

Area code 570.

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

Identities:

Paleoclimate," which was accepted for

publication in Journal of Sedimentary
Research.

Shane WilUamson, director of the
Multicultural Center, will receive the

"Female Patrons/Masculine
Margaret of Austria and the

Annuit Coeptis Award from the American
College Personnel Association (ACPA) as

by Woman's Art Journal; and "Personal

one of the top top national emerging
professionals at ACPA's national conven-

Worship, Gender, and the Devotional

tion April 4 in Washington, D.C.

Devotional Portrait Diptich," was accepted

efoster@blooniu.edu

Portrait Diptych," was accepted by the
Sixteenth Century Journal.

was presented

at the

The

College Art Association. She also published a review of The Visual

World Wide Web

Visionary: Art

www.bloomu.edu

and

burger

UNIVERSITY

in Sixteenth

State System of Higher Education

F.

in the

Ham-

Century Journal, and

Vivian YenikaAgbaw, English, and Joy

Ekema-Agbaw have co-authored an article
titled "Mommy, I Just Want to Fit In: An
African Girl's Story," which appears in the

book Runningfor Their Lives: Girls, Cultural
Identity, and Stories of Survival, edited by
Sherrie Inness.

organized sessions for the South-Central
Renaissance Conference and the College
Art Association.

A Member of Pennsylvania 's

the

and Female Spirituality

Late Medieval Germany by Jeffrey

Bloomsbun

paper

latter

annual meeting of the

Bloomsburg can be found on the
at:

Lacustrine and Alluvial Facies of the

13.

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

Four-digit

first.

Lawrence Tanner, geography and
geosciences, wrote an article, "Palustrine/

Two

Flines" was accepted by Renaissance

Thursday, April

and

ern U.S.A.: Implications for Late Triassic

Andrea Pearson,

Paintings from the Cistercian Convent of

issue:

Sports

(Norian) Owl Rock Formation (Chinle

refereed journals. "Nuns, Images,

Next

and Science in

Group), Four Corners region, southwest-

Colorado Springs) that was published

Communique

tion in Medicine
Exercise.

convention.

accepted for publication

recently by the University of Illinois Press.

Laboratory

Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Rex Welshon of the University of Colorado,
,

co-authored

LEGO

Improve Problem-Solving

Steve Hales, philosophy, wrote a book,
Nietzsche's Perspectivism

He

Exercise Challenge," accepted for publica-

mathematics, computer science and

French.

Clinical Exercise Physiology.

"Exercise-Induced Asthma Screening of
Elite Athletes: Field versus

nication.

conference on "Poetics of Space"

at

in

fall,

allows students to learn about each other"

Vivian Yenika

Agbaw and Jerry Wemple,

English, led a panel discussion, "Racism
101," at the Pennsylvania Black

on Higher Education.

Conference

COMMUNIQUE

4 APRIL 2000

and

Trustees pass fire
In

its

quarterly meeting

March

30, the

health safety resolution
President Kozloff announced that she

Bloomsburg University Council of Trustees

had conferred

charged Presidentjessica Kozloff to

Patricia Boyne,

"develop a comprehensive
safety

program

those students

for

who

all

fire

and health

students, including

be moving off

will

campus."

The

trustees instructed the president to

on

faculty emeritus status

computer and information

systems; Paul Cochrane, mathematics,

computer science and

statistics;

Mary

resolution, presented by

trustee Robert Buehner,

comes

in the

wake

garage.

An

additional 13 parking spaces for

Powers, exceptionality programs.

the vicinity of Andruss Library, Centennial

The

trustees

approved executive

Community

The

month, 14 parking spaces

commuter students have been

vice president for administration,

Council."

In the past

have been identified for students and

exceptionality programs; and Gerald

emeritus status on Robert Parrish, former

Pan-Hellenic Council and Inter-Fraternity

Found: More parking spaces

faculty/staff in the Tri-Level parking
Hill,

develop the plan "in consultation with the

Government Association and

3

and non-

identified in

and Waller Administration Building. And
finally,

two additional parking spaces have

been created near the former shuttle bus

instructional emeritus status for Jule

stop at Waller Administration Building.

Smathers of the custodial department.

The spaces were

At the recommendation of president's

created by re-examining

the layout of the various parking areas.

of a fire at an off-campus fraternity house,

cabinet, the council endorsed Joseph

Bob

Klinger, director of university safety

which claimed the

Mowad and Jack Mertz

and

police, estimates that each space turns

lives

students. Calling for a

of three university

comprehensive

educational program, the trustees want
extensive student input to initiate
effective

programming

more

to be directed at

on- and off-campus students.

The

trustees also

State System's Eberly

Awards

over at least four times a day during peak

for

volunteerism and philanthropy. They also

endorsed

Mowad and

professor emeritus

hours, so that these additional 29 spaces
serve an estimated

1

16 people.

Robert Warren to receive university
medallions

approved the room

as recipients of the

at

the spring graduate com-

mencement ceremony.

Supervisory Roundtable

serves up $1 ,000 for D.E.A.F.

Camp

The Supervisory Roundtable

and board fee schedule for the 2000-2001
academic year and voted to recommend
the State System of Higher Education

Wilson Bradshaw on the Convergence

Report required by the Office of the

(Deafness/Education/Activities/Friends)

Board of Governors adopt the

Chancellor and David Poch of the

Camp at Camp Victory in

Bloomsburg University Foundation on the
strategies the investment committee he

a spaghetti dinner. Approximately 15 staff

chairs employs.

held at Trinity United Methodist Church

of the university's

presented

at

facilities

final draft

master plan

the meeting by university

consultant Sasaki Associates. In addition,
the trustees'

Reports were presented by Provost

endorsement of a new

members put on
Espy.

program administered by the physics

raised

approximately $1 ,000 for the D.E.A.F

The

through

Millville

the dinner, which was

Secretarial Roundtable

in

donated

desserts for the dinner.

department offering a bachelor of science
in electrical

and electronics engineering

technology was forwarded to the board of
governors.

They're making the

list for

ties for

priori-

the next five years, the

university's physical plant

The council approved

fixes

To determine maintenance

foremen

IVIake a bid for the liuskies

The Husky Club Auction/Dinner Dance
will

will

be Friday, April 28,

at

6 p.m. in Magee's

24 West Ballroom. Cost of the event

is

$35

be conducting their annual inspection

per person. For more information, contact

H designating the upper campus

of all campus

the development office at 4128.

roadway connecting the proposed

two months. Foreman conducting the

resolutions:

apartment complex to Welsh

Edwards Drive, honoring

Circle,

Dr. C.

and Eda Bessie Edwards
'41. Stu Edwards was the university's
first dean of professional studies from
1970 to 1979. Eda Bessie Edwards
served on numerous university
committees and wrote a history of
Bloomsburg University, Profile of the
Stuart '41

Past:

H

A Living Legacy.
activities John

more than

over the next

inspections will include

Bob Campbell,

maintenance foreman and

assistant

director of physical plant; Charles
Harris, carpentry shop; John Moyer,

HVAC;

Terry

services;

Lemon,

electrical

Norman Manney,

Tim Downs, plumbing.

paint shop;

Governance IVIeetings
BUCC (Bloomsburg University Curriculum
Committee) Wednesdays, 3 p.m., April

—

12, April 19,

Human

McCormick Center for

Services,

Forum.

—Thursdays, 3:30

Planning and Budget

p.m., April 13, April 14, April 27,

McCormick Center

honoring former director of

student

facilities

Trathen for

31 years of service.

for

Human

Services,

Forum.

Forum

—Wednesdays, 3 p.m., April

April 26,

McCormick Center

Services,

Forum.

for

5,

Human

COMMUNIQUE 4 .\PRIL 2000

4

Vice provost search cancelled
The

Looking at business globally

The College of Business

International

Exchange Programs will host

its

Second

university

communication and

Denmark,
France, Germany, Spain, and Sweden will
international business from

give concurrent presentations

April

5,

and Thursday, April

6,

a.m. to 4 p.m. in Multipurpose

and

B,

April

Kehr Union Building.

7,

's

vice provost for information

reached "very reluctantly"

in

from 8:45

million.

we couldn't

and not look

at a

Jeff Lewis, Executive Vice President and

available

from 3

be

Candidates will be notified that the

In a related matter, Kozloff

her strong opposition to

exchange programs with interested

look at

she said.

Tehrani, ext. 4759 or 4770.

announced

is

take first in state contest

I

can

A team
prize

of four accounting students

home

from

first

competition

measure achievement and

establish

benchmarks.

some

point,

we

will

provide hard

as the Cabinet

and

this

group," he said.

different basis."

Convergence Report. The report

if

Each

university

must develop a perforin

response to

the State System of Higher Education's

designed to help

is

member institutions

2001 budget, David Martin, speaking for

operate more efficiently and accomplish

the budget subcommittee, said the plan

their missions in a

assumes a 3 percent increase

manner.

a 4 percent tuition increase
in

student

in state funds,

and

FTE

more

cost-effective

Also during the meeting,

a 1.3
(full-time

McFadden, chair of the

Hugh

strategic plan

review group, distributed an updated draft

equivalency).

Sharon Meyer,

in

Bradshaw said

mance and outcomes plan

hope

meet

will

new budgeting

we can stem the tide for
a year or two, that we will get to a point
where we can make these decisions on a

place and a $1,500 cash

a statewide

start a

copies of drafts to governing bodies, such

positions that are being vacated,"
"I

percent increase

brought

budget subcommittee

process, at the president's request.

"At

In further discussion about the 2000-

Accounting students

tied

the group continues to consider ways to

layoffs as a cost-

"That means that the only thing

students.

For more information, contact Minoo

The next budget, she added, will be
built upon a base budget.

task force. Provost Wilson

cutting move.

to 4 p.m. to discuss

and

Reporting on the convergence report

search has been terminated, she added.

speak about Global Partnerships.

salaries

14 percent

PTEs and

two weeks to

person who was not

Kehr Union Building, Michael Katerman,
President and Chief Executive Officer and

Inc., will

"We have

institution."

that the

and other vacan-

already here," the president said.

All international guest presenters will

86 percent

across the board for the rest of the

to

ask the provost to

freeze faculty positions

Chief Operating Officer of Magee Reiter,

of ways to address the

Martin, finance and business law, said

"I felt

cies

is

benefits," she said.

response to a

Wednesday,

On Friday,
Room A,

number

shortfall.

"Our budget

March 16 meeting of the Planning and
Budget Committee that the decision was

Rooms A

at a

expected

President Jessica Kozloff said during the

projected budget deficit of about $1.2

10 a.m., Multipurpose

looking

resources and technology.

International Week, April 5-7. Experts in
the fields of global

search has been suspended for the

of the university's strategic goals and

vice president for

administration, said her department

objectives for 2001-2006.

is

sponsored by the Pennsylvania Institute of
Certified Public Accountants.

Nicole Baker, a junior from Effort;

Counseling Centerforms grief support group

Melissa Snyder, a junior from Moosic;

Heidi Meyerhoffer, a junior from
Elizabethtown; and Christine Bertatie, a
senior from

New

Berlinville,

put their

classroom knowledge and experience to a
practical test.

Their professor, Michael Blue, account-,
ing, required students in his

accounting

class to

advanced cost

The Center for Counseling and Human
Development is forming a Grief Support
Group to help address the needs of
students coping with loss. The group will
meet weekly for six weeks starting Wednesday, April 5, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in room
17, Ben Franklin Hall.
Sylvia Costa will serve as leader. Costa

form teams and enter

the Business Plan Challenge competition.
In addition to Blue, accounting

and Nancy
Coulmas served as team advisers. Hank
Laskey and Mary Eriksen, marketing,
professors Richard Baker

provided assistance with the marketing
plans in the solutions for

all

teams.

a

is

Bloomsburg University alumna and
who experienced first hand the

counselor

trauma of the 1994

fire in

which

five

students perished. She has facilitated grief

support groups for more than
Individuals who would
for the

five years.

like to sign

up

group sessions or have any ques-

tions, please call the

counseling center at

389-4255 between the hours of 8 a.m.
and 4:30 p.m.
No one can anticipate the emotional
and spiritual agony a major loss brings. To
talk about grief is a normal and appropriate response to a

major

and an important step

loss

experience

in recovery.

While

grief is an intensely personal experience,

working your way through grief effectively
isn't best done alone. The best support is a
group of other people who are also
experiencing loss and grief. A group can
help you recognize responses to major loss

that often

seem

bizarre but which are

perfectly normal.

— — —

—
4

Ahead

Five

Bloomsburg State College and

(SCUPA) members were awarded

Women's Choral Ensemble and Husky
Center for the

sional

Haas

7:30 p.m.,

7,

development fimds

this

will

attend the

—Sunday, April

Center for the

9,

2:30 p.m.,

Arts, Mitrani Hall.

Haas

Featuring

Bonnie Wolfgang, bassoon. Works by
Haydn, Weber and Bizet.

Chamber

Singers Spring

rian

Church, 345 Market

These funds are available

Sunday, April

Band Spring Concert

16, 2:30 p.m.,

Haas Center

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall. Featuring guest

composer/conductor

Eric Ewazen.

Works

by Hoist, Copeland and Chance.

Brass Menagerie

(in

to

SCUPA

addition to those provided

by their department) to pursue educational

Program

conferences, support teleconferences or

in Indiana, PA.

pathology,

life,

attended

will

Laura Youtz,

multi-university opportunities,

pertinent to the

of student learning, student person-

nel, counseling,

other related
Interested

in April.

registrar's office, will present

higher education, and/or

fields.

SCUPA members should

submit four copies of their proposal to

"The Use of Core Competencies

in the

Kathy Mulka

Design of Supervisory Training"

at the

April 14, July 14 or Oct. 13,

2000

CUPA Eastern

ence

in

Regional Confer-

enhance

research skills/projects and to submit

field

attend the Pennsylvania

Conference

advancement, attend professional

articles to juried journals

Speech Language and Hearing Association

University Concert

in June.

attended the Grantsmanship Training

World Conference.
Peggy Snyder, audiology and speech

Bloomsburg.

St.,

Adrianne Flack, precollegiate programs,

the American Counseling Association

Saturday, April 15, 7:30 p.m., First Presbyte-

Ethnicity in

&:

through a program between the State

Katherine Kollar, residence

Concert-

Annual National

American Higher Education

semester

employees
University-Commmiity Orchestra Spring

13'''

Conference on Race

profes-

System of Higher Education and SCUPA.

Arts, Mitrani Hall.

Concert

5

Shane Williamson, Multicultural Center,

University Professional Association

—Friday, April

COMMUNIQUE

SCUPA members earn development grants

Looking

Singers

APRIL 2000

in the

committee

for

Admissions Office by

2000deadhnes

review.

May.

—Wednesday, April 26,

7:30 p.m., Carver Hall,

Kenneth

S.

Gross

Auditorium.

Siblings

—

and Children's Weekend

More recent math scholarship
Friday,

April 28, through Sunday, April 30.

Concert Choir Spring Concert

set

up a

display case of

recent faculty scholarship in the first floor

ings of the 1999 International Conference,

hallway of McCormick Center. Works, in

Global Awareness Society International.

for chorus, soloist

addition

and

to those listed in the

March 9 issue,

John

include:

orchestra.

Polhill Jr., "Constructing

Reza Noubary, "Measuring Diversity

—Saturday, April

Haas Center

29,

noon,

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.

sity

of Virginia, 1999.

Using Entropy," The Fields Institute for

The

University Jazz Ensemble. Featured guest

David Liebmann.

Research on Mathematical Sciences,

6"'

Volume

on Information Theory, 1999. Also the article,

"A Linear Discriminant

for Gaussian

Time

Series," appears in Journal of Time Series

Renaissance Jamboree

Analysis, Vol. 20,

No.

2,

1999,

Saturday, April 29, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,

Time Series with Applications

downtown Bloomsburg.

Nova Science Publishers

and

a book.

to Seismology,

Mehdi Razzaghi, "Quantitative Risk
Assessment for Developmental Toxicants

May

12, 7 p.m.,

in Statistics for the Environment 4: Pollution

Assessment Control, Editors: Barrett, Stein,

and Turkman, Wiley, 1999.

Inc., 1999.

Reza Noubary and Ervene GuUey, "Can

Haas Center for the

We Postpone Our Deathday?"

Carver, 1999.

Game

Shi,

"A Mathematical Study of the

'Twenty-Four Points,

"

Mathematics

Teacher, 1999.

Arts, Mitrani Hall.

Undergraduate Commencement
Saturday,

May

Fairgrounds.

13, 2:15 p.m.,

Bloomsburg

Reza Noubary and Yixun Shi, "CompuPeriodogram Using ajackknife
Procedure and its Applications," in the
book Recent Advances in Numerical Methods
and Applications, 1999.
tation of

in

Non-Homogeneous Populations" appears

Yixun
Graduate Commencement
Friday,

PDSs

Using Galois Rings," Ph.D. Thesis, Univer-

Jazz Festival

artist

"Diversity

Church, 345

Market St., Bloomsburg. Featuringjohn

"Requiem"

and statistics has

—Friday, April

28, 7:30 p.m.. First Presbyterian

Rutter's

Reza Noubary and Jim Pomfret,
and its Quantification," Proceed-

The department of mathematics, computer
science

Yixun Shi and David Ashelman,
"Improving the Order of Convergence to
Euler's Constant," International Journal of

Applied Mathematics,Vo\.

1,

No.

5,

1999.

COMMUNIQUE 4 ,APRIL 2000

6

Medscape
The

editor of

Symposium

editor to examine health care safety at

Medscape

Inc.'s elec-

strategic

manage-

Union Building covering areas such

tronic medical information site will be the

ment and health

medical

featured speaker at Bloomsburg's ninth

system reform,

disorders, cardiovascular health,

annual Health Sciences Symposium.

pa.st

is

ethics,

as

medical imaging, eating

newborn

hearing screening, high-risk behaviors and

president of the

American Society of

peer pressure, food habits, local health

Clinical Pathologists.

needs, school-based immunization pro-

System: Truth and Consequences," will kick

He

grams and special needs children.

off the sxTTiposium Thursday, April 13, at

Northwestern and

Dr.

George Lundberg's keynote

address,

"The Evolving U.S. Health Care

7:30 p.m. in the university's

Ballroom.

The program

Kehr Union

will

continue

Friday, April 14, with presentations,

wellness day activities

and an 8:30 a.m.

workshop, "Today's Health Care:

How

editor-in-chief of the

Journal of the American Medical Association,

Lundberg recendy became editor of
Medscape.com, a

Web

site that

provides

free clinical information for consumers,

and other health care profesLundberg, who has professional

physicians
sionals.

a professor at

Harvard

More than 60

interests in toxicology, the behavioral

dynamics of violence, physician behavior.

exhibits, demonstrations

and information booths on a variety of
health and wellness topics will be featured

universities.

The symposium,
presented in

George Lundberg

conjunction with

at the

Student Health Center's Wellness

Day.

the Provost's Lecture Series

and the

Student Health Center's Wellness Day,

Safe?" also led by Lundberg.

The former

is

will

on health issues in the 21st century.
The program is designed to recognize
achievement, enhance learning and
promote discussion among faculty,
students, practitioners and the community.
Following Lundberg's Friday morning
workshop, Bloomsburg University health
science students and health care professionals will offer presentations in Kehr
focus

News

Briefs

King Arthur talk topic April 5

A European

expert in medieval

Wednesday, April

5, at

Union, Multicultural Center.

The
will

"Remember King Arthur...,"

talk,

be presented by Dr. Herman Braet, the

author of six books, a professor
University of Antwerp

Leuven, and

the

Braet

Karl

ceramic works

May

2

last

in

April

Haas Gallery

in

Beamer created the

exhibited

at the

home

of friend

art,

wood

Lasting ten days, the firings

economics

S.

is

organized and installed by the students

museum

at

-

An opening reception

.

April 13, at

will

be Thursday,

the gallery. Gallery

T

hours are Monday through Friday from

J

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

George Mason

1

University, will

p.m. in Carver Hall, Kenneth

Gross Auditorium.

open

The

talk

is

free

and

to the public.

Later that evening, he

induction of

exhibition course.

in

and can be made by notifying
and cultures at ext. 4750.

speak on "Government Externality" Friday,
April 14, at

the art department's

on medieval visions of

Economist to discuss government's role
Gordon Tullock, professor of law and

2,600 degrees centigrade. The exhibit

noon

Services.

in

bring the temperature inside the kiln to

in

Human

the languages

and mentor

Japan, Beamer conducted two

kiln firings.

10:45 a.m. in
for

rinvisible," will focus

this lecture,

of Art.

works

Shiho Kanzaki. Kanzaki. During his stay
in

at

to the public.

the afterlife. Reservations are required for

13

year during a three-month stay

Japan

be served

Presented in French, "Visions de

Beamer, associate professor of

through

will

a second lecture

8, at

McCormick Center

showcases

Japanese journey

will exhibit

open

will offer

Saturday, April
exhibit

is

both the

Berkeley

visiting professor at

which

talk,

at

and the University of

Refreshments

University.

Beamer

litera-

on King Arthur
7 p.m. in the Kehr

ture will give a lecture

Epsilon, the

Tullock

is

will

speak

at the

Omicron Delta
economics honor society.

members

into

a former Foreign Service official

Hong Kong and Korea
and the author of more than 20 books.
assigned to China,

Dixon announces
intention to resign from

State System
F.

Board

Eugene Dixon Jr., founding chairman

of the State System of Higher Education's

Board of Governors, has announced
intent to resign

Dixon was

from the Board

first

named

his

in July.

to the governing

board of the 14 state-owned universities
steam

fitter

of the

plumbing shop

John Pursel

the Board of Governors by three successive

governors

for Elwell

Hall.

pipes

will

when

the steam

The new

be installed

visible,

The

construction of the inside of the

university's project

construction office,

gymnasium

floor,

is

shown

there are

in

the photo.

now

building

is

October

When

computer classrooms,
hall.

Where

there

The target

well.

was once

a

for completion of the

complete. Centennial

nursing-wellness center, a

theater-style lecture

underway as

block walls outlining two floors of

future classrooms and offices.

new

facility is

manager, Ed Gunshore of the planning and

number

five large

Housed

in

of

will

include a

seminar rooms and

classrooms, and a 250-seat,

the

facility will

be the offices of

the departments of anthropology, and audiology and speech

pathology, along with the undergraduate and graduate exercise

science and adult fitness programs.

Casey and

—Dick Thornburgh, Robert
Tom

Dixon plans

to attend his last quarterly

He

shutdown on campus.

down.

For the entire steam and

nominating committee that

shut

P.

Ridge.

Board meeting on July 13 before stepping

is

mend

down

schedule, see page

building witliin a building

has served as chair-

copper pipe

electrical

A

He

ever since, having been appointed to

assembles four-inch

Residence

While the outside walls of the new section of Centennial are clearly

the State System.

man

aligns a fitting as he

in

January 1983, shortly after the creation of

5.

is

responsible for appointing a

the next Board chair.

will

recom-

COMMUNIQUE 25 APRIL 2000

2

About our people
Ekema Agbaw,

chapter, "The

Steven L. Cohen, psychology, and four
Bloomsburg students (Joseph Richardson,

Jody Klebez, Stacy Febbo and David
Tucker) presented a paper at the recent

Anzaldua, and Cisneros").

to the book, African Images: Recent Studies

meeting of the Eastern Psychological

Death of the Author a Queer Thing"

S.

English, contributed a

Cameroonian Film as An
Instrument of Social and Political Change,"
and

"The

Text in Cinema. His article,

Reincarnation of Kurtz

in

Norman

Rush's

Association in Baltimore.

Mating, co-authored with former student

titled

Karson Kiesinger appeared

FR, VR,

in the

spring

issue of Conradiana : A Journal of Conrad

He

Studies.

presented "Norman Rush and

Western Writing about Africa
of the Century"

at

at the

Turn

"Biofeedback:

Effects of CRF,

geosciences, presented a paper, "Environ-

mental Impacts of Solid Waste

in

Dhaka

Causes and Mitigation" at the 96th

annual meeting of the Association of
American Geographers. At the meeting, he
organized two paper sessions on South Asia
jointly with Jayati Gosh of the University of

Bodenman, geography and

Characteristics

Sublimation of Homoerotic Desire

Theories of Space.

"Antagonism and Architecture:

Mehdi

and Location: The Case of

and

How Physical Evidence Reflects Ethnic

ment

at the

Workers' Struggles," which appears

International Atlantic

in

in

Developing Nations,"

Anthropology of Work Review, winter issue

ence

2000, published by the American Anthro-

G.

pological Association. Dauria also was

Kentucky.

in

Invest-

49th

Economic ConferMunich, Germany. Co-author is

Rod Erfani of Transylvania University in

interviewed for a public television docu-

mentary about Amsterdam,
expected

NY that is

Woody Holton,

history, has

won two

prestigious awards for his latest book.

to air in June.

Fulbright Commission of the Czech

Republic awarded Lawrence B. Fuller,
English, a lectureship in

during the

fall

American Studies

2000 term

at

recognizes books in the fields of American

Ostrava

and American intellectual
also been awarded the
Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

courses focusing on depictions of adoles-

history.

that appears in the January

2000 edition of

the journal Papers in Regional Science Vol.
pp. 33-56.

in recent American literature and
on New York City as a microcosm of the
American experience. Ostrava University,
located in northern Moravia, was founded
a decade ago following the "Velvet

cence

Revolution." This

Communique
Thursday,

May

Fuller's

second

Holton

presented each year to the author of the
best,

newly published work on the Ameri-

can Revolutionary period, combining
original scholarship, insight

and good

writing.

Fulbright award; he previously served as a

roving scholar in Norway in 1993-94.

Saleem Khan, economics, participated
in the

opening ceremony of the Interna-

4.

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

Four-digit

Area code 570.

Editor: Eric Foster, ext. 4412;
e-mail, efoster@bloomu.edu
Bloomsburg can be found on the
at:

is

and

Making of the American Revolution in
Virginia. He has won the 2000 Merle Curti
Social History Award, which annual
the

Industry in the United States, 1983-1996,"

World Wide Web

at

Hariarian, economics, presented

a paper, "Privatization: Saving

social history

issue:

1980s

to Homoeroticism"
SUNY-Binghamton's Conference on

University. Fuller will teach graduate-level

first.

in

from Autoeroticism

the Institutional Investment Advisory

Next

at the

Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves,

geosciences, has written an article, "Firm

1:

the

Is

Response."

The

No.

Or

Action Television: 'Knight Rider's' Trek

FI,

Wisconsin.

79,

presented

'A':

Twentieth Century Conference; and "The

Susan Dauria, anthropology, wrote an

Shahalam M. N. Amin, geography and

E.

He

and VI Schedules of Reinforcement (feedback) on Acquisition and
Extinction of Increases in Forearm EMG

article,

John

the paper, "Andy Warhol's

the African Literature

Association Conference.

City:

The

The paper was

("Coatlicue on the Loose: Demythifying
the Female Archetypes in Estella Tramble,

www.bloomu.edu

Nathaniel Greene, physics, wrote an

on March 28. The first
Russia, IFU offers its curriculum

Physics Teacher.

of the global

—

Michael Hardin, English, wrote a book,
published by Peter Lang.

He has written articles that have appeared
in "MELUS" ("The Trickster of History:
Gerald Vizenor's 'Heirs of Columbus' and

A Member of Pennsylvania s
State System of Higher Education

the Dehistoricization of Narrative"),
"Revista

de Estudios Hispanicos"

and

Moscow

private university in

to

prepare

Khan took

Reflexive Fiction,

UNIVERSITY

in

former physics student Ryan
Dunn. "A Conical Spring WTiich End
Up?" appears in the April edition of The
article with

Playing the Reader: The Homoerotics of Self-

Bloomsbun

tional Finance University (IFU)

its

in English

students to meet the needs

economy

in the 2P' century.

part in developing the concept

of the University. While in Moscow,

made

a presentation, "Distance

in Russia:

Khan

Education

Implementation Issues" co-

authored with Zahira Khan, mathematics,

computer science and

statistics.

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University divisions present planning summaries for next year

summaries

The proposed budget

budget planning

for 2000-2001

The proposal

Bob Wislock, President's Office

Representatives of five university
divisions presented

during the

and benefits, $215,793 for operaand $4,842 in equipment, for a total
of $789,295, up from $738,333 in 1999-

fiscal

salaries

tions

Adding

laniero outlined a plan with $409,798 in

operating expenses - identical to 1999-2000
- and $1,593,342 for personnel, an increase

from $1,502,866

in

1999-2000 that includes

half of the salary for the assistant to the

advancement.

vice president for university

The summary shows savings of $52,000
salary

in

and benefits from a frozen adminis-

to this year's

is

an

Duplicating Service, $43,266; and Univer-

Advancement operations, $41,71 1.

accommodation.
Wislock said his move to faculty status
the department of business education

in

and

result in savings

up

to $15,907.

A replace-

approved a music education

Sharon Meyer, Administration

Meyer presented

proposed budget of

a

Life's current

Bachelor of Arts degree program Wednes-

and benefits from six
vacancies while adding two new positions a budget analyst, $46,550, and an executive

day, April 12.

.

assistant, $59,850.

The

frozen positions are

equipment operator, mainte-

nance repair tech

implementation

manager and

II,

clerk

3.

The proposal was developed

Administration's objectives for the next

receptions and overnight programs for

fiscal year:

improve productivity, enhance the use of
technology,

The current budget
in operating

cost-efficient,

process.

includes $373,000

expenses and $22,100 for

equipment. The budget also
tions for auxiliary

become more

and develop and implement a new budget

community's growing need for

lists

Wilson Bradshaw, Academic Affairs

alloca-

departments that

assess a

The Academic Affairs planning summary includes new programs and
needs, Bradshaw explained.

Student Health Center, $175,555, and

Among the nine new degree programs
are: a BS in electrical and electronics

DAWN Program, $18,000; Student Recreation Center, $258,700;

$577,425;

Kehr Union,

Campus Child

Center, $17,442;

and University Bookstore, $537,700.

engineering technology;
ics, statistics

still

The

be approved by

Kozloff, the Council of Trustees
State System of

and the

Higher Education.

Corrections:

The grant amount that mathematics,
computer science and statistics was
awarded from Link to Learn was incorrect
in the April 4 Communique. The grant
amount was $304,000 from Link to Learn,
plus matching funds from companies and
the university.

faculty

fee for services: Residence Life, $2,200,000;
its

in ethnic studies.

minor will be housed

a "service" agenda,

minority students, expanded hours for the

to the

minor

interdisciplinary

Provost Wilson Bradshaw, President Jessica
for

Counseling Center and increased response
financial aid information.

management department

following

admissions office, additional campus

promote

The

a

three programs must

equipment expenditures show $160,000
physical plant, $25,000 for police and
$236,000 for computing services.

Office, increased hours for

in the

within the department of history.

are projected to be $191,498. Capital

SOLVE

neurship

and approved

also gave
in entrepre-

Net personnel savings

of the Web-based candidate registration

volunteer service opportunities through

The committee

concept approval to a minor

painter, project

system, continuation of the Job Vacancy

expanded community and

certification

track within the music department's

$42 1 ,000 for 2000-200 1 The proposal

budget for 2000-2001: continued support

the

Music ed, entrepreneurship and
ethnic studies programs approved

hired.

a custodian,

Hotline,

Copies of the planning documents are
on reserve at the Andruss Library circulation desk under Provost Bradshaw's name.

President Kozloff s executive assistant will

budget and outlined the factors driving the

activities,

operating expenses of

office administration after serving as

freezes the salaries

Preston Herring, Student Life

of co-curricular

lists

The curriculum committee (BUCC)

$145,745; Bloomsburg Magazine, $73,130;

Herring shared Student

year

$2,307,522 and academic/office equip-

cans with Disabilities Act coordination and

Major operating expenses include
Marketing and Communication Office,

sity

The planning summary for the next

$2,180,695, increased from $2,132,201.

additional line item of $7,500 for Ameri-

ment will be

trative assistant position.

budget

in

ment of $293,122 - both unchanged from
1999-2000 - and academic enhancement of

2000.

Advancement

number of

and part-time employees

various departments.

Meeting. Highlights from these presenta-

Tony laniero, University

also seeks a

full-

President's Office includes $568,660 in

Thursday, April 13, Planning and Budget

tions follow.

temporary,

for the

BA in mathemat-

track; clinical doctorate in

audiology; and an ethnic studies minor.

The

individuals

who will

receive the

University Medallion were listed incorrectly
in the April 4

Warren

will

Communique. Robert "Doc"

be presented the University

Medallion during graduate commence-

ment ceremonies May

12.

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4

High schooljazzers come to campus forfestival
Bloomsburg

President plans open office hours
President Jessica KozlofF will hold open
office

hours Tuesday, May

from 11:30

2,

a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Carver Hall.

To

reserve

host a jazz festival

will

featuring performances by nine regional

The

was inducted into the Hall of Fame of The

Saturday, April 29.

At their recent meeting, Bloomsburg's
Council of Trustees recommended that the
State System of

Higher Education Board of

Governors extend President Kozloff s
rolling contract by

university's

one

year. If

extended,

the contract will run to June 30, 2003.

Board of Governors are expected

on the recommendation

perform.

will

The

to act

International Association of Jazz Educators

jazz education.

The

at their July

begin at 9:30 a.m. in

festival will

Haas Center

for the Arts, Mitrani Hall,

European musicians such as Joachim
Kuhn, Daniel Humair, Paolo Fresu, Jon
Christensen and Bobo Stenson. In 1989, he
founded the International Association of

with performances by the high school

Schools of Jazz, an organization that

Bloomsburg's Jazz Ensemble from 12:30 to

connects educators and students from

1:15 p.m.

middle school jazz bands. Liebman
hold a public

exchange programs and newsletters.

Liebman was nominated

In 1998,

clinic

from noon

More information
world wide web

at

and

will

until 12:30

performance with

p.m., followed by a

international jazz schools through meet-

meeting.

list

the recording of

earlier this year for his contributions to

albums and has been a featured sideman
on 150 more. He has performed with

ings,

They're making the

own

artist,

Liebman has recorded more than 75

president's contract be extended

the Best Jazz Solo category for

"My Favorite Things"
from the album "Thank You, John" and he

David Liebman, also
Trustees recommend

in

high school and middle school jazz bands
Jazz Ensemble and a special guest

a time, call 4526.

Grammy

is

available

on the

www. bloomu.edu/media

for a

for fixes

To determine maintenance

priorities

for the next five years, the university's

physical plant

foremen

be conducting

will

their annual inspection of all
facilities

campus

over the next two months.

Foreman conducting the inspections will
include Bob Campbell, maintenance
foreman and assistant director of physical
plant; Charles Harris, carpentry shop; John
Moyer, HVAC; Terry Lemon, electrical
services;

About our people

Norman Manney,

Claire Lawrence, assistant professor of

The project will be
summer. Halls already
ethernet computer access in

Baudrillard's America," at the Poetics of

Reza Noubary, professor of mathematics,

Space conference

in

Binghamton, NY.

computer science and

tion of Pediatric

conference.

at the

National Associa-

Applied

appear

Statistical Science.

in

Volume

11, 2000,

The

poster,

"The Impact of a

Chronic Condition on the Families of

Roy Smith,

Organization (YEOs)

Challenge of Change:

student,

Emma L. Kurnat, 98'.

William

S.

O'Bruba, professor of early

childhood and elementary education,

Which paint works best?

Strategy for Motivating Learning" at the

presented a paper

floor of

McCormick Center

for

titled

Human

State

Conference

at

Penn

State University.

They've used two brands of latex paint for
the walls to determine which stands

How Do We

"The

Cross

Unknown Territory" was the subject
He will be co-moderator at the

of

Aspen

Institute Seminar, "Frontiers of the

Mind,"

in

September.

Harry C. Strine
sics

III,

director of foren-

and members of the Bloomsburg

forensics team served as judges at the

recent Pennsylvania High School Speech

Services over the past several weeks.

over time.

the

in Philadelphia.

"DINMA: A

Pennsylvania Middle School Association

first

of the journal.

his talk.

ments.

University painters painted the

The paper will

made a
Young Entrepreneurs

research she conducted with former

Schuylkill

was

director of Quest,

presentation to the

Children with Asthma," was based upon

rooms are Elwell, Montour and
halls, and Montgomery Apart-

and

Nurse Practitioners

individual rooms.

individual

statistics,

Inter-

accepted for publication in the Journal of

undertaken
wired for

and

Arrival Times," co-authored by Shi

Carol Murphy Moore, nursing, recently

this

"Seismic Hazard

Representation: Wilderness Icons and

presented a poster

Columbia next in line to be wired
Columbia Hall will be the next residence hall wired for computer access in

A paper,

Calculation Based on Sizes

paint shop; and

Tim Downs, plumbing.

Mathematics.

English, presented a paper, "The Nature of

up

best

Yixun

Shi, associate professor of

mathematics, computer science and
statistics,

presented a paper, "Numerical

Computing
Records,"

at

in

Predicting Future Sport

the 2000 Annual Conference

of the Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of

League

tournament at Susquehanna
Selinsgrove. Bloomsburgjudges

state

University,

were Jemiifer Stratton, Daniel Gross, Yee-

Fan Chiang, Nina Latassa, Elizabeth
Bonifield, Kathy Miner, and Verne Wadel.

—— —
APRIL 2000

25

Ahead

Bloomsburg's Chamber Series 2000

opens Monday, May

—Wednesday, April
Kenneth

7:30 p.m.. Carver Hall,

S.

Gross

Elizabeth Weigle.
7:30 p.m. in

The concert

Kenneth

S.

begins

at

Gross Auditorium

of the university's Carver Hall.

and Children's Weekend

—Friday,

April 28, through Sunday, April 30.

Concert Choir Spring Concert

Church, 345

for chorus, soloist

and

orchestra.

in

G

major, opus 12Ia; Reid's "Eye of the

and Dvorak's Trio
"Dumky."

Blackbird";

opus 90,

Market St., Bloomsburg. Featuringjohn

"Requiem"

perform Beethoven's Trio

Now celebrating its

in

in recital,

storyteller

Blake, was released

Weigle,

known

Connie Regan-

last year.

soprano

roles, will

Ways of Looking

at a Blackbird."

downtown Bloomsburg.

Public Radio.

Vocalist"

More information

Public Radio's

poem

work

"Thirteen

Her

recordings include "Baroque Christmas,"

"The American

"Performance Today" and Minnesota

perform with

the trio on "Eye of the Blackbird," a

Fourth Symphony.

News Hour," National

New

for her repertoire of

broadcasts, including the "McNeil/Lehrer
Saturday, April 29, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,

the

composed by Mike Reid

"

with orchestras and on radio and television

Renaissance Jamboree

at

School of Music. Their recording of "Tales

based on Wallace Stevens'

12th season, the

Kandinsky Trio has appeared

violin;

and Elizabeth

England Conservatory and the Eastman

light lyric

E minor,

cello;

Bacheider, piano, studied

and featuring

in

residence at Roanoke College, Roanoke,
will

Members Benedict Goodfriend,
Alan Weinstein,

of Appalachia,

The Kandinsky Trio, ensemble
VA,

—Friday, April

28, 7:30 p.m., First Presbyterian

Rutter's

with a concert by

1,

the Kandinsky Trio, featuring soprano
26,

Auditorium.

Siblings'

5

Kandinsky Trio opens Chamber Series May 1

Looking
Brass Menagerie

COMMUNIQUE

world wide web

at

is

and Mahler's

available

on the

www.bloomu.edu/media

Graduate Commencement

May

Friday,

Haas Center

12, 7 p.m.,

for the

Military-Civilian relationsfocus ofsymposium

Arts, Mitrani Hall.

Registrations are being accepted for a

Undergraduate Commencement
Saturday,

May

13, 2:15 p.m.,

symposium on

Bloomsburg

Friday,

May

Civilian-Military Relations

5, in

the

Kehr Union Ballroom.

Co-sponsored by the university's Alumni

Fairgrounds.

will

convene

at

9

a.m. and conclude with a reception at 4:50

Governance Meetings

The symposium is open to the public.
The program features six speakers,

—Thursday,

Planning and Budget

3:30 p.m., April 27,
for

the Bloomsburg University

Alumni

Office at 570-3809-4058 or 1-800-526-0254.

including representatives from the

world wide web

More information
at

is

available

on the

www.bloomu.edu/media

Steam and electrical shutdoum schedule announced
Those planning events in May should
and electrical

take note of the steam

shutdown schedule. Steam
a bid for the Huslcies

The Husky Club Auction/Dinner Dance
be held Friday, April 28, at 6 p.m.

in

will

be shut

down Sunday, May 14, through Sunday,
May 21. The electrical shutdown schedule
is

is

$35 per person. For more informa-

tion, contact

the development office at

May 18 - Apartments 5 and 6,
Modular Offices (ROTC, DGS, TIP),
Grounds Crew Trailer Greenhouses,
and Water Tanks.

Thursday,

Friday,

May 19 Apartments, 1-4.
May 20 - McCormick Center for
-

Saturday,

as follows:

Human

Magee's 24 West Ballroom. Cost of the

4128.

call

p.m.

Forum.

event

registration fee for the event

includes a buffet lunch. For reservations,

McCormick Center

—

will

States.

Human Ser-vices, Forum.

Forum Wednesday, 3 p.m., April 26,
McCormick Center for Human Services,

Make

defense and the citizens of the United

The $10

Association and the Judge Advocates
Association, the event

Department of Defense as well as experts
on the relationship between the national

Monday, May 15 - Boiler

Old Science
Hall, Schuylkill Hall, Montour Hall,
Carver Hall, Elwell Hall, and Scranton

Commons.
May

Plant,

Arts,

16

-

Center for

Andruss Library, Student Recre-

ation Center, Student Services Center,

and Buckalew

Northumberland Hall,
Carpenter Shop, Simon Hall, Kehr
Union, Columbia Hall, Luzerne Hall,
Lycoming Hall.
Wednesday, May 17 - Entire upper campus.
Tuesday,

Services, Bakeless

the Humanities, Haas Center for the

Sunday,

May 21

-

Place.

Entire lower campus,

Sutliff Hall, Centennial, Hartline

Science Center, Benjamin Franklin Hall,
University Store/University Police
office,

and Navy

Hall.

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News

Briefs

Kirk finishes in top

Dan

8%

at Boston

Kirk, daytime custodian in

top 8 percent of

runners

jK^^^^^^M

at the

President stops at receiving

>

''"^

Boston Marathon

Monday. April

Luzerne

^^^^^^V

Hall, finished in the

to drop off STRIVE

Kirk finished the

Margaret Steinruck of the receiving

26.2 mile course in

department, and Hazel Harvey from the

just over three

hours

grounds (and moving)

at 3:01:20,

placing him at

among

1

presented

i

,374

*

April.

17,813

.^"^

/"""^^Stfe,

crew/

were

STRIVE Aw^ard

for

The campus underwent a major

easier, the receiving staff created a

marathons. Cross countrv' and track coach

Karen Brandt placed 10,683 among

among women,

system

that allows computer services personnel

all

to configure

at 3:57:51.

and

install

software on

computers while the computers are

Kim Gasper placed
3,333 among women, at

Cross countn,' runner
1,399 overall,

the

months. To make that process faster and

run more than 20

1

w^ith

computer upgrade over the past 18

runners. Kirk has

runners, 2,942

Award

Roland Gensel, Dave Permar, and

17,

storeroom.

Shown from

Gensel, Permar (on the

4:02:50.

left

in

the

are: Harvey,

forklift),

Steinruck

and President

Kozloff.

Selden contributes to
Student Services Center renovation
William Selden, a

member

of the

Bloomsburg
University Foundation

Board of

and
Campaign Steering
Committee memDirectors

ber, has contrib-

t

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through a planned

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Student Services

Center renovation

S'^*^-

^e

sponsor-

ing the office which
will house ROTC programs at Bloomsburg.
A World War II Army veteran, Selden

graduated from Bloomsburg

Many

of Selden's family

in 1943.

members had

military careers, including his great great

who fought
Army during the

grandfather, Elias Selden,
in the Continental

Revolutionar)' War.

Tliey've got tlie tiard floor facts
Custodial supervisors and lead workers attended an all-day seminar on "The Art and Science of
Floor Care"

in April at

Luzerne County Community College. The seminar focused on the proper care

of solid surface floors. Custodial supervisors

from

left

are, kneeling;

and lead workers who attended the seminar shown

Glenda Vansock, Tim Johnson, Pat Rudy and Beckey Greenly. Standing: Jim

Draughn, Bob Coombe, Chris Rovito, Cookie Marks, Bruce Barton. John Switay, Jackie
Rick Eye. Absent from the photo

is

Tony Lopez, who also served as

Ridall

driver for the group.

and

MAY

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

Teacher of the Year

Staters

Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year Faith
G. Kline will speak at Bloomsburg

May

13.

The ceremony,

which 936 students

in

will participate, will

be held

Named

Pennsylvania

Teacher of the Year for 2000, Kline

is

B.

Day Elementar)' School. Prior

she was a grade teacher

District

and

maintain

at

its

to

of Philadelphia from 1992 to 1998

a social studies teacher in Colonial

to

the

December

He

for his love of students.

social fraternity

member

ties"

he began

in 1964.

A

of the university's Legacy Society,

serves

on the steering committee

"New Challenges, New Opportuni-

for the

the School

histor)' at

from June 1964

known

is

the universit)'

"margin of excellence."

continues to advise Sigma lota Omega, a

Warren

a

fourth-grade teacher at Philadelphia's

that,

ment ceremonies to
interest and support helped

1983,

Kline has been a

leader in the Philadelphia School District

Anna

Award is precommenceindividuals whose

the University Medallion

imiversity

at

2:15 p.m.

for nearly a decade.

be featured commencement speaker

to

Warren, who taught

at the

Bloomsburg Fairgrounds beginning

A Bloomsburg alumna,

MAY 2000

sented during undergraduate

's

undergraduate commencement ceremony
Saturday,

11

campaign. His dedication

to the

university over the past 30 years

him the

status of

Faith Kline

earned

honorary alumnus

five

years ago.

Beach Elementary School, Colonial Beach,

VA,from 1991

to 1992.

Kline earned a bachelor of science

Planning and budget okays space changes

degree in elementary education from

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

in

1990 and a master of education degree in
elementary' education from

University of Pennsylvania in 1995.

and training programs

in the Phila-

delphia School District and for the 1999-

2000 academic
training for

year,

she led the

new teacher

district's

inductees.

Also at the ceremony, the University

Medallion Award

will

be presented

Robert "Doc" Warren. Established

identities

gives a final

She's conducted wide-ranging presentations

Space in two campus buildings

on new

Cheyney

nod

if

will

take

the university's cabinet

to action

approved

at the

in 1983,

held Friday,

May

12, at 7

Haas Center for the

be

p.m. in

Arts, Mitrani

available

move
when Tony

Nancy Vought and

Elena Lockard join with

McCormick Center
will transform from a meeting room to a
computer lab for the math and computer

House, Development Center and the

The Forum

in the

will

be reassigned from University Advance-

facilities

subcommittee, said the

group found other available space
too small for the lab, but large

meetings now held

in the

to

The Planning and Budget Committee
also

agreed

Room
der

to

convert a portion of Waller

140 for use by the Institutional

for

Forum. Current

will

staff.

The remain-

continue to serve as a small

conference room.

be

enough

Alumni

operation's functions.

Planning and Research

to Social Equity.

staff in the

adjoining cottage to better integrate the

department. Office space on the second

space and
will

made

laniero. Jack Mulka,

Sandi Kehoe-Forutan, representing the

Graduate commencement

into space

ning and Budget Committee.

ment
Graduate Commencement

cabinet approves the change at

Thursday, April 27, meeting of the Plan-

floor of the Waller Administration Building

to

If

Waller, the Social Equity staff will

Also during the meeting. President
Jessica Kozloff explained that total salaries
in

her area's budget may see a savings of

Hall. Ninety-seven graduate students

renovation projects, as well as the possible

$3,700 to $40,000 after executive assistant

are expected to participate in the

conversion of the Carver Hall Alumni

Bob Wislock moves

ceremony

Room
the

to a

conference room, should ease

campus space crunch, she added.

to a faculty position.

Savings will be substantial, Kozloff said,

Continued on page

3.

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About our people
Chris Bracikowski, associate professor

Fowler,

Ryan Love, and Scott Savidge, gave

of physics, gave a presentation, "A Discus-

an invited

sion of Textbook Analyses of Young's

ephants." This talk was a presentation of

Double

Slit

Experiment,"

American

at the

Association of Physics Teachers Central

talk,

their

award-winning solution to the 2000

ICM

in

which they participated

and Southeastern Pennsylvania Sections

under

Joint Meeting at Moravian College.

Scott Inch.

this

spring

faculty advisers Kevin Ferland

on

Clinical Exercise Medicine.

the chapter

"Playing Darts with El-

and

The

title

of

"Pediatric Obesity."

is

Rand Martin, finance and

business law,

presented a paper, "A Comparative
Analysis of the

Expense Ratios of Open-

End and Closed-End Equity Funds," at the
annual meetings of the Eastern Finance

Dennis Gehris, business education and

Julia Bucher, nursing, presented an
all-day

workshop

in

Washington, D.C.

office information systems

and

assistant

Society.

"Caring for Families Living with Cancer."

dean, College of Business, presented a

The second

paper entitled "Using Multimedia on the

families,

edition of her

manual

for

"American Cancer Society's Guide

to Caregiving:

A Step-by-Step

Resource for

Home,"
has been published by the American
Caring for People with Cancer

Cancer Society
2000 (Houts

at

Internet with PowerPoint" and conducted
a

hands-on computer workshop

Faith Traditions, Biblical Orientation, arid

the Perception of Hazard Events," at the

Business Education Association.

annual meeting of the Association of

American Geographers.
Peter Judge, psychology, published an
article,

Robert Dunkelberger,
authored an

at the

Jerry T. Mitchell, geography and
geosciences, presented a paper, "Christian

annual convention of the National

for national distribution in

& Bucher, Eds).

Association and the Multinational Finance

library, co-

"Coping with Crowding,"

May 2000

issue of Scientific

Bruce L. Rockwood, finance and

in the

American. The

business law, presented a paper, "The

piece reviews popular conceptions of the

Color of the Constitution,"

Roundtable on Law and Semiotics

accepted for publication in Research

and
contrasts common beliefs about crowding
with actual data on humans, non-human

Strategies.

primates and other animals. Although

article, "Full-Text

Database

Dependency: An Emerging Trend among
Undergraduate Library Users?" that was

effects of

crowding on

social behavior

Kevin Ferland, mathematics, computer
statistics,

contributed a

"Toughness of Graphs,"

at the State

more

System

reduce the

of Higher Education Mathematics Association

Conference

at the

at

Clarion University. Also

conference, the student Interdisci-

plinary Contest in

sion, the authors

talk,

Modeling team of Marc

Communique

emphasize that animals

often use behavioral
possibility

mechanisms

of conflict and

to

live

peaceably under crowded conditions.

at

the

University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Lawrence Tanner, geography and

crowding can sometimes increase aggresscience and

at the 14th

He

also published a detailed review of crowd-

book chapter, "Coping
Under Crowded Conditions,"

geosciences, will present "Record of

Miocene-age Explosive Volcanism and

Diatreme Formation
Southeastern

in the Iblean Plateau,

Sicily" at the

spring meeting

of the American Geophysical Union in

Washington, D.C. injune.

He will

ing research in a

present "Record of Miocene

Strategies

Phreatomagmatic

also

Activity in a Shallow

that appears in Natural Conflict Resolution

Carbonate Setting, Southern

edited by Filippo Aureli and Frans B.M. de

General Assembly of the International

Waal.

Association of Volcanology and Chemistry

Sicily" at the

of the Earth's Interior to be held in Nusa

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

Linda LeMura, exercise physiology, had

Four-digit

first.

the following paper accepted for publication in

Area code 570.

e-mail, efoster(S)bloomu.edu

Bloomsburg can be found on the
World Wide Web

at:

*

in July.

Both papers are

Internazionale di Vulcanologia, in Catania,

geosciences, presented a paper, "Using

graduate students

Student Understanding of Topographic

in

Exercise Science:

co-

Calvari, Istituto

and combination
young women." The paper was
co-authored with current and recent

Karen Trifonoff, geography and
Student Generated Questions to Evaulate
Maps,"

at the

annual meeting of the

Joseph Andreacci, Jodi Klebez, Joseph
Russo and Sara Chelland. The study was

Association of American Geographers. She

supported by a Research and Disciplinary

was also chair of the session, "The Various

A Member of Pennsylvania's
State System of Higher Education

S.

Italy.

training in

Bloomsbun

authored by

Physiology: "Lipid

after resistance, aerobic,

www.bloomu.edu

UNIVERSITY

The European Journal of Applied

and lipoprotein profiles,
cardiovascular fitness and diet, during and

Editor: Eric Foster, ext. 4412;

Dua, Indonesia,

Grant.

LeMura

also

had a book chapter

accepted for publication

in

an edited text

Faces of Cartography."

1 1

MAY 2000 COMMUNIQUE

3

News Briefs
'Everyone' will stay on GroupWIse

The
to

use of the

GroupWise

suggestions for a mottos under consider-

e-mail system

send messages addressed to "everyone"

was discussed
University

at the

meeting of the

Forum April

26. Jim Hollister,

and marketing,

director of media relations

presented several reasons why the "every-

one" address should be restricted,

among

forum took

objections raised by John Hrantiz, chair of
the department of early childhood

"From Knowledge, Understanding;" "Truth
and Virtue;" "Empowerment with Knowl-

elementary education.

edge;" "In Pursuit of Learning, Life and

approved:

Humanity;" "Learn, Understand, Apply;"

A post certification

ness;"

is

Wisdom

is

to Prepare, to Enable."

The

mottos are from Benjamin

final three

Science in Nursing program.

A new graduate

instrumentation course in

the department of audiology

A change
Curriculum committee

a

he would explore other avenues

A

approves education courses
At

of not restricting the "everyone." Hollister

its

meeting April

committee approved two new

the department of health physical

elective

education and

courses from the department of educa-

And the good words are ...
The forum also discussed the possibilities of a university motto. The final

The

tional studies

of major requirements for the
department of exceptionality programs.
general education course addition from

curriculum

19, the

for prioritizing critical university messages.

athletics.

and secondary education.

courses, "Instructional Design

Systems" and "Virtual Learning
ties,"

Communi-

were approved after discussion of

Planning and budget
Continuedfrom page
if

to take

and

speech pathology.

Franklin.

straw vote that was overwhelmingly in favor

Communique

for Certified Regis-

tered Nurse Midwives for the Master for

the Fruit of Reflection;"

and "To Teach,

and

Also at the meeting, the committee

the Foundation of Happi-

messages sent to "everyone."

After the presentation, the

said that

"From Knowledge, Power;"

"Education

them the inappropriateness of some
messages sent to the entire campus
community and difficulty in prioritizing
truly critical

ation are:

new

electronic form

1.

the executive assistant's responsibilities

are fulfilled by an intern funded through

an American Council on Education (ACE)
For many of you,
will

much

of this issue

look familiar. Every story in

already appeared

web

site. It's

be the

last

on the

it

has

university's

our intention that

this will

Communique ^uhWsheA on

No

print publication could be this

A Susquehanna University faculty

responsive.

The scholarship by individuals on
campus is also featured on our web site

member has expressed

under "People

the relationship could provide an execu-

in the

News" on the

Campus Commons page. These

paper.

With the redesign of the university's

notices

can include color photos of the

web site last fall, the office of marketing
and communication found that we can
get news to our campus and off-campus
constituents more quickly and more
completely with the web than with a

possible with a newsletter. For example,

publication distributed every several

the entire convergence

weeks.

master plan reports are online and

—

—

The Campus Commons web page
( xvww. bloomu.edu/common/common.htm)

is

updated

daily.

Information on the

page ranges from the routine, such

as

weather forecasts, sports scores and

menus

for the Scranton

Commons,

and Andruss

Cart, to the

University
vital,

News

such

as

updates in times of crisis.

stories are

added

to the

page

each day; some as short as a paragraph,
others extensive and featuring artwork.

fellowship.

individuals, again,

something not

If it materializes,

tive assistant for one year at a cost of
$17,000—3 $5,000 fee to ACE and an

additional $12,000 to cover required

educational expenses.

possible in a print publication.

The web site also provides informamuch greater depth than is

tion in

and

interest in a

mentorship with Kozloff.

facilities

Commons Page.
We realize, there are individuals on

linked to the

campus who do not have a computer
on their desk. To serve these individuals, we are developing a daily Communique that can be e-mailed to offices and
distributed to these employees.

We believe this change will bring
campus information to you in a timely
manner and welcome your feedback.
Eric Foster

In another fiscal matter, Vice President

Sharon Meyer said the 2000-2001 Educa-

and General (E&G) budget of nearly
will be balanced, based on
current projections which assume a 4
percent increase in tuition and the state
tion

$69.9 million

appropriation.
Projecting out three years as the

Convergence Report requires shows an
anticipated shortfall of nearly $3.3 million
for 2001-2002 (with an anticipated increase

of 3.5 percent in income) and a deficit of

$908,691 for 2002-2003.

Meyer

stressed that the budget

for the fiscal year beginningjuly
"solid,"

1

numbers
are

but other years' budgets are based

on assumptions.

COMMUNIQUE

4

M\Y 2000

1 1

Student FTE Enrollment

Take a tour of Harlem

The Frederick Douglass

Institute for

Academic Excellence is organizing a
cultural and literan' tour of Harlem
June

Saturday, Jime 24, to Simday,
Participants will

Year 1991

for

25.

the Apollo Theatre,

\isit

Year 1995

Studio

Museum, Schomberg

Center,

Malcolm Shabazz Market, Marcus Garvey
Park and the Langston Hughes House.
Cost

is

SI 18, which includes transportation,

hotel accommodations, a lunch

dinner. For information, contact

Agbaw

\ia e-mail at

S.

1

Year 1999

and a

6,844

Ekema

sagbaw@bloomu.edu

2000

1000

0

4000

3000

5000

6000

7000

Teachers come to campus
for the reading conference
Xearlv 1.000 teachers

will

gain insight

Staffing Levels

into the latest instructional techniques at

Bloomsburg"s 36th .Annual Reading

Conference Thursday and Friday, May 18
and 19. For more information look on the
World Wide Web at: ximmj.bloomu.edu/ media

Staff

Year 1991

455

378

Faculty

Placement rate tops 90 percent

More than 90 percent
in

of

all

gradtiates

1999 have found meaningful employ-

ment

in their field.

Year 1995

504

Year 1999

534

The emplo)Tnent

report, just issued by the Career Develop-

ment

Center, shows an overall placement

rate of 90.91 percent for 1999 graduates

(the most recent data available),

up from

88.2 percent in 1988. Placement rates by
college are: Arts

and

Sciences, 89.45

percent; Business, 93.49 percent; and
Professional Studies, 90.67 percent.

Baby elephant
It s

deal for alumna
when an elephant

At birth a baby pachyderm can

University'

Ellen Wolfe, '98 M.S. biolog\-,

it

was
to

Moola gave

— the
been

first

news when Asian Elephant

birth to a son last

November

time an Asian elephant that had

artificially

inseminated successfully

gave birth. Wolfe spent four years researching elephant reproduction to help keep
this

endangered species

alive,

and Moola

was one of the research group. For more
information look on the Worldwide
at:

1200

1000

800

Enrollment and staffing put in perspective

weigh upwards of 300 pounds. But for

especially big

600

Is big

always big news

gives birth.

400

200

iimmj.bk>omu.edu/m£dia

Web

many

enrollment

is

a

concern

indi\iduals, both on-

and

off-

lencv)

from

combined

campus. Residents of the towTi are

a

concerned about the impact of

staff to 961,

additional students

hood.

Facult)-

about the

and

on the neighborconcerned

staff are

ability to deliver qualit)

education and senice to students.

Over the past nine
has grown 140

FTE

years,

enrollment

(full-time equiva-

its

former 1991 peak, or

just 2 percent. Staffing has

"Our
vears has

total

of 833

grovm from

facult)-

and

an increase of 15 percent.

strategy'

been

over the past seven

to reverse the enroll-

ment decline of 1991

to 1995.

Because

of increased staffing, we've also
appropriately exceeded the 1991

enrollment," says President Kozloff.