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see. For these people, a long time ago, art was a necessity.’

“In short, the beads make the man or woman; just as today, what you are wearing under your gown helps express your own individuality and your place in the group. We’re not so different, you see, from our ancient ancestors: We still need visual cues, spiritual icons and rituals, such as this graduation ceremony. Four hundred centu­ries ago, people discovered tools that allowed them to paint images on cave walls. And now we’ve learned that music may have accompanied the viewing of these cave paintings, sort o f a multimedia event of the time. Today, we’ve discovered tools that can send those images out to millions over the thin wire of the Internet. How long have we been making art? All of our lives.” Continued on page 6

In t h i s i s s u e . ..

Focus on zinc ................... 2Neurologists identify new cause of brain damage after cardiac arrest

A striking Im age............... 3Michael I. Miller, Ph.D., learns from the best in many fields and puts that knowledge into Innovative applications to benefit society

Ozone Action D ays...........6University com m unity to work together to improve region’s air quality

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUISVol. 20 No. 33 June 13, 1996

Employee appreciation centerpiece of Staff Day

Jane Alexander asks Class of 1996: Which millennium will you choose?

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton threw himself into his work at the recent Staff Day softball tournament.

As Washington University’s highest- ranking pitcher, Wrighton demonstrated his leadership mettle when he stepped fearlessly into the path o f a long bomb thrown from right field to home plate by Photo Services Director Joe Angeles.The softball took a hard skip in the dirt and bounced off the chancellor’s chest. The runner scored.

“This was the most humiliating day of my life,” Wrighton later joked as he presented the trophy to the winning team from Central Stores. “We snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.”

The vigorous — and good-natured — game was just one o f many activities the staff enjoyed May 20 as part o f the an­nual festivities honoring jobs well-done. The day started with the Staff Service Awards and Recognition Ceremony in Edison Theatre. Gloria W. White, vice chancellor for human resources, opened the ceremony by leading the standing- room-only crowd in a heartfelt cheer:“We are the staff without whom Wash­ington University would be nothing at all!”

Wrighton echoed this sentiment in his address to the group. “The staff plays a critical role in the life and success o f the University,” Wrighton said, noting as an example the staff’s outstanding efforts during April Welcome. “The staff really turned out to assist in recruiting a great group o f people. We had a 45 percent increase in applications (for admission)

over the past two years. That doesn’t just happen by accident. It required an enor­mous effort on the part of all o f you.”

Wrighton then helped the vice chan­cellors honor employees who have served for 10, 15, 20 and 26 years. (See story on page 5.) After the ceremony, staff members lined up for lunch in Bowles Plaza.

Hundreds of people snaked past tables filled with salads, pasta, beans, bratwursts and chicken and barbecued-beef sand­wiches. A Dixieland band played sprightly tunes, which helped take staff members’ minds off the 90-plus-degree temperatures.

The festive mood wasn’t spoiled even after one o f the food heaters ignited a small fire on a table. It was extinguished by a quick-thinking Marriott Manage­ment Services Corp. employee, who doused it with a vat o f Caesar salad.

George Carr o f Computing and Com­munications said Staff Day is a great way to end the academic year. “It’s a little stress-breaker at the end o f the year,” he said.

Bobby Golliday, an administrative coordinator in undergraduate admission, agreed. “I think it’s very important they recognize staff for all the hard work we do over the year,” she said. “I appreciate Staff Day. Itlfets me know I’m appreciated.”

After lunch, the staff dispersed to vari­ous activities, including volleyball and softball tournaments, bingo, a campus botanical walk, a bike ride around Forest Park, an arts-and-crafts competition, a campus tour and various other sports.

Continued on page 5

On May 17, Jane Alexander, chairman o f the National Endowment fo r the Arts (NEA), presented the 135th Commence­ment address at Washington University. She also received an honorary doctor o f fin e arts degree. The following are excerpts from her address:

Introduction“It gives me great pleasure to be with you today at this rite o f passage for the Class o f 1996.1 am always pleased to be asked to give a commencement address, but I think particularly so at this most presti­gious University, where I am honored by an honorary doctor of fine arts. I envy those of you graduates who’ve spent these past several years on the Hilltop. The historic buildings, the Gothic architecture, Forest Park, the Medical Campus, the Edison Theatre — which the NEA proudly helped support — all o f it has given you a rich and a pleasant setting in which to learn, to live in a community, and to discover your own skills and tal­ents.”

Art and humanity“In the dawn of the human community, it took about one hour to make a bead out of a piece of ivory or an animal’s tooth. Randall White of New York University suggests that primitive people would never have undertaken such a time-con­suming process unless personal adorn­ment was vital to human identity. White says: ‘We have this image of art being the result o f people having a lot o f excess time. But that’s totally contrary to what we

100 media members tour debate siteearly 100 members o f the national and local media visited Washington

i* University’s Athletic Complex last month to tour the site o f the first 1996 presiden­tial debate.

Composed mostly of production team members from major TV networks and affiliates and members o f the local print and broadcast media, the group convened in Francis Gymnasium on the morning of May 21. The first order o f business was a briefing session conducted by members of the Commission on Presidential Debates’ Production team and University officials.

' Washington University has experience in preparing for a presidential debate.In 1992, the University hosted the first nationally televised three-person presi­dential debate between George Bush,

> Bill Clinton and Ross Perot. The first o f A the 1996 presidential debates will be

held at the University on Sept. 25, which is a Wednesday. This is the first time the same university has hosted a presidential debate in two consecutive campaigns.

While addressing the group during the briefing session, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, Ph.D., noted the long history of Francis Gymnasium and its connection to the 1904 Third Olympiad Games held here.

“You are in a facility that has a historic significance. This very facility was the site o f the indoor events of that competition,” Wrighton said. “We’re here to help you, and I believe we have the people and the resources to make this a great event.”

Robert Asman, executive producer for the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), said the format o f this presiden- tial debate will be different compared with four years ago.

Continued on page K

Revisiting Olympic historyTy Keough, W ashington University’s m en’s soccer coach, carries the Olympic torch through the Francis Field gate on May 28. The event marked the

ft University’s continuing legacy with the Olympic Games. Francis Field was the site of the 1904 Third Olympiad Games, the first held in the Western Hemi­sphere. After a short cerem ony at Francis Field, the torch made its way into Clayton and then into downtown St. Louis. The nationwide Olympic Torch

k Relay will wind its way to Atlanta, site of this sum m er’s Olympic Games. Keough was chosen to carry the torch because he was a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic soccer team . Keough did not get the chance to compete, however, because the United States boycotted the Moscow Games.

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Medical Update

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About half o f those who survive cardiac arrest leave the hospital with symptoms o f brain damage. Now School o f Medicine scientists have

found that zinc is a major culprit. They also have devised a way to prevent this zinc damage in rats. The study is de­scribed in the May 17 issue o f Science.

“This opens up a whole new avenue to the treatment o f this type of brain injury,” said Dennis W. Choi, M.D., Ph.D., the Andrew B. and Gretchen P. Jones Professor o f Neurology and head o f the Department

o f Neurology. “Zinc was not on the radar screens before.”

The lead author o f the paper is Jae-Young Koh, M.D., Ph.D., now at Asan Medical Center at the Ulsan University Medical School in Seoul, Korea. As a research assistant professor at the School o f Medicine, Koh performed the work in the Center for the Study o f Nervous Sys­tem Injury, which Choi directs.

When the heart stops beating, the sup­ply o f blood to the brain dwindles, prompt­ing a cascade of molecular events that

harm neurons. But neurologists have been at a loss to explain why cardiac arrest damages some parts o f the brain and not others even though the entire brain runs short o f blood.

Choi suspected the answer might involve zinc, which certain parts o f the brain use in cell to cell communication. In 1986, he found that cultured neurons die if they are exposed to too much zinc.

In the current study, researchers briefly interrupted the supply o f blood to the brain, using rats as an animal model. They later stained brain slices with a fluores-

Commencement speakerDavid Kessler, M.D., com m issioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Adm inistration, gave an address titled “Doctors and Healers” at the School of Medicine Com m encem ent cerem ony on May 17. Afterward, he talked with students.

Medical school announces appointmentsDaniel P. Schuster, M.D., has been

named associate dean for clinical studies, and Joan M. Podleski has been appointed assistant dean for clinical operations. Also, S. Bruce Dowton,M.D. (Syd.), received the additional title o f associate vice chancellor for medical education.

William A. Peck, M.D., executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School o f Medicine, announced the appointments.

In addition to his new position as associate dean for clinical studies, Schuster will serve as director o f the new Center for Clinical Studies. His responsibilities will include developing the center and establishing an infra­structure for the oversight o f industry- sponsored clinical trials o f new pharma­ceuticals and devices.

Schuster, associate professor o f medicine and o f radiology, joined Wash­ington University in 1981 as an instruc­tor in medicine. He was named assistant professor o f medicine in 1982 and associate professor in 1988. He became director o f the Critical Care Program in the Department o f Medicine in 1989, and in 1993, he was named associate professor o f radiology. Next month, Schuster will become professor o f medicine and o f radiology.

In her new position, Podleski will help coordinate School o f Medicine clinical operations. She is actively involved in analyzing and planning the possible reorganization o f clinical services in a new ambulatory care facility and the creation o f an integrated professional practice plan.

Podleski formerly was business man­ager in the Department o f Neurological Surgery. In that position, she was respon­sible for all financial and administrative areas o f the department. She also served as chair o f the Medical School Clinical Oversight Committee and o f the Manage­ment Committee o f Washington Univer­sity Shared Billing and Collection Ser­vices.

Podleski joined the Office o f the General Counsel and the Office o f Governmental Relations at Washington University in 1986. She served as interim director o f the Washington University Medical Alliance Corp. from 1988-89 and as assistant administrator in the Office o f Administration and Finance from 1989 to 1992.

Dowton’s additional title o f associate vice chancellor for medical education reflects the extensive degree to which he manages and coordinates affairs be­tween the School o f Medicine and external organizations related to educa­tion and training. His current title is associate dean for medical education and director o f the Division o f Medical Genetics in the Department o f Pediat­rics.

Dowton joined Washington Univer­sity in 1986 as an assistant professor o f pediatrics and o f genetics. He was appointed associate dean for medical education in 1993. In that role, he is responsible for supervising the medical curriculum to better prepare medical students for the future.

Raichle elected to National Academy of Sciences

Marcus E. Raichle, M.D., is one o f 60 new members elected into the

National Academy o f Sciences. Election into this organization is considered one o f the highest honors that can be ac­corded to a scientist in the United States. Currently, there are 1,760 active mem­bers o f the academy.

Raichle is a professor o f radiology and co-director o f the Division o f Radia­tion Sciences at Washington University’s Mallinckrodt Institute o f Radiology. He also is a professor o f neurology and o f anatomy and neurobiology and a senior fellow with the McDonnell Center for Studies o f Higher Brain Function.

He is known for his pioneering research in the use of an imaging technique called

positron emission tomography (PET) to map specific brain areas used in tasks such as seeing, hearing and speaking.

Raichle’s research has helped in the development o f a brain atlas that maps regions responsible for language and thought-processing. By using PET to measure blood flow and metabolism, Raichle and fellow investigators have shown how the brain responds when a subject is asked to memorize words or to think sad thoughts.

Raichle joined the Washington Uni­versity faculty in 1971 as a research instructor in neurology. He became professor o f neurology in 1978, professor o f radiology in 1979 and professor o f anatomy and neurobiology in 1993.

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cent dye specific for zinc. Through the microscope, they saw that zinc-contain­ing neurons had released their stores of the ion, exposing neighboring cells to toxic concentrations. Cells that took up the zinc died a few days later, whereas cells whose bodies did not stain for zinc remained healthy.

The dead cells were in regions of the brain that can be damaged by cardiac arrest. These include the hippocampus, which is involved in learning and memory, and the amygdala, which plays a role in emotion. The fact that some regions o f the brain do not contain zinc could contribute to the selective nature of the damage, Choi pointed out.

The researchers were able to both . centei prevent the transfer o f zinc and reduce ™ the resulting death o f neurons by inject- i l3VOran( ing a zinc-grabbing substance into spaces every in the brain before they interrupted blood flow. This chelator could not get into W whicl cells, so it would have stopped zinc in its tracks before the ion could do damage. T

“So treatm ents'that reduce the toxic influx o f zinc into cells should be able to protect the brain after people suffer cardiac arrest,” Choi said.

Physicians would inject chelators into the cerebrospinal fluid or a vein. In the latter case, the substances would need to pass through the walls o f the brain’s blood vessels to reach neurons. “Such drugs could be developed,” Choi said.“Now that we’ve targeted zinc, it will be a matter o f human ingenuity.”

The discovery that zinc can damage neurons does not conflict with current ideas about brain damage after heart attack or stroke. The main focus has been on glutamate, a chemical that also floods out o f neurons under these conditions.When too much glutamate bathes boring cells, it kills them by allowing lethal levels o f calcium to enter.

Choi suspects a connection between zinc and glutamate toxicity. He suggests that cellular channels that admit calcium also may let in zinc. So when high concen­trations o f glutamate make these channels stay open too long, zinc gets through the door. Because the ion activates many enzymes critical for cell function, an overload can cause major damage. “So calcium may be getting all the blame even in situations where zinc is the actual cul­prit,” Choi said. “We just hadn’t realized this before.” — Linda Sag?

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Miller’s expertise evokes striking imagesQ^ n a cold, damp November morning, one

man is prominent among a large gathering in the Women’s Building Lounge. As tall as

% W M a small forward in the NBA — rangy and lcitjj rawboned, warm and affable — he movesforjv freely and casually through the crowd, greeting people

with the relaxed charm o f a seasoned host. sofjJ It is as if the attendees are playing off Michael I. Miller, rdi* Ph.D., the Newton R. and Sarah Louisa Glasgow Wilson ^'Professor of Biomedical Engineering. They are an impres- i sive brain trust of physicists, mathematicians, engineers :li|b and computer scientists who have come from throughout out the country to attend the formal opening of the national injj Center for Imaging Science. natlf Miller is director o f the center

i— the School o f Engineering Ijotl and Applied Science’s first ■ed ’national center — and it is i j ., clear that he is connected, in t0scI one way or another, with

virtually everyone in the room, iu | The Nov. 6, 1995, center inc „ opening, which featured a two- mJday seminar on imaging sci-

In his doctoral work, Miller was immersed in the math­ematics o f point processes, which describe such things as action potentials in the nervous system or tiny packets of light, called photons, in astronomical imaging. He came across the classic book “Random Point Processes,” written by Donald L. Snyder, Ph.D., then chair o f the Washington University Department of Electrical Engineering and now the Samuel C. Sachs Professor.

“I read that book and used it heavily for my thesis . work,” Miller says. “ I thought, ‘Gosh, wouldn’t it be great if I could work with Don Snyder?’ So I applied for a postdoctoral appointment at Washington University and came here in the fall of 1983.”

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ence, represented a hallmark of Miller’s career in biomedicalengineering and illustrated the

, modus operandi o f the highly10,,,' respected engineer: He learns [P from the best in many fields

and puts that multifaceted owledge into innovative

'applications to benefit society.The Center for Imaging

Science, funded by the Army Research Office at $7.5 million over five years, brings together the nation’s top researchers in image representation and analysis — from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute o f Technology, the University of Texas,Austin, the University o f Texas,El Paso, and Washington University — to delineate an adaptable theory o f how com­puters can be constructed to recognize and describe objects in cluttered scenes.

While the Army sees obvious advantages for de­fense, the breadth o f the research at the center will encompass not only military settings but also biological and physiological structures and planetary surfaces, to name a few. It is typical for Miller, who has re­searched systems as diverse as radar, cellular structures and the brain, to be unburdened by limitations.

i ’ve always loved mathematics’At the crux o f computer image-understanding research is mathematics, a discipline Miller reveres. Two o f the researchers working through the center, U lf Grenander, Ph.D., professor o f mathematics at Brown University, and David Mumford, Ph.D., professor o f mathematics at Harvard, are internationally known — Grenander as the “father o f metric pattern theory” and Mumford, a Field’s Medalist (the equivalent o f a Nobel in mathematics), as a breakthrough computer vision and algorithm specialist.

“I’ve always loved mathematics, but I wasn’t smart enough to become a mathematician,” Miller says in playful self-deprecation. “By the time I was looking to go to graduate school, it was clear to me that I wanted to try to do something that would make a contribution to people. That’s why I chose biomedical engineering.”

The Brooklyn-born Miller grew up in Long Island,N.Y., and attended the State University o f New York at Stony Brook, where he bounced from mathematics to physics to electrical engineering, intrigued by them all.He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1976 and chose the Department o f Biomedical Engineer­ing at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University for graduate work with a neuroscience emphasis.

He received a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins in 1978 and then worked in the “com­puter belt” outside Boston for two years before coming back to pursue a doctorate in biomedical engineering, finishing in 1983. At Johns Hopkins, Miller did his doc-

< toral work in the theory of hearing — how neurons actu­ally transduce auditory sensory signals into electrical signals, or “action potentials.” What zeros and ones are to

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Michael I. Miller, Ph.D., left, discusses images of monkey and human brains with Diego Navarro, an undergraduate in eleqtrical engineering.

digital computers, action potentials are to neural systems.The work w ent very well. M iller’s group was the first

to describe the neural code for consonants. He won several individual aw ards, including the Paul Ehrlich Award, given every year at the Johns H opkins M edical School for outstanding graduate work, and a national award from the Institute o f E lectrical and E lectronics Engineers for the best paper in biom edical engineering.

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a contribution to people.”

M iller’s wish led to his professorship at Washington University and fruitful collaborations with Synder and others.

“At the time, I had a perception of his potential,”Snyder says. “Today, he’s only partway there. Just watch— there’s lots more to come. Mike is one of those rare individuals who combines a wide-ranging curiosity with creativity and an understanding of fundamentals in sci­ence, mathematics and engineering. Top that off with someone who seems to have unlimited energy to move things forward, and you have someone who produces one important result after another in a variety of disciplines.”

Working with Snyder and Lewis J. Thomas Jr., M.D., director o f the Biomedical Computer Laboratory at the School o f Medicine, Miller extended his intellectual reach to encompass the basic algorithms that reconstruct images from emission tomography, which measures photons that are products from radioactive tracer decay to give doctors a reading on metabolic and physiological functions.

From 1983-87, Miller worked on a variety of medical imaging projects with Snyder, Thomas and others, leading to the publication o f several important biomedical engi­neering papers. While he was on sabbatical in 1989-90 at Brown University, Miller met Grenander, whose work and theories would become the foundation for much of Miller’s subsequent work. During that year, the two teamed on a computational rendering o f the mitochondrion, a cellular^ structure outside the nucleus. They built the concept of deformable shapes into the model, allowing them to con­tort the original, simple geometric shape of the mitochon­drion into variable, more complex shapes, such as are observed in nature. They called the fluctuating shapes “high-dimensional transformations” and adapted the mathematics of the model to run on a very fast, massively parallel computer.

At the crux of this work is Grenander’s metric pattern theory, which, Miller says, “generalizes Euclidean theory in a beautiful way.” Metric pattern theory, which Grenander first described in the mid-1970s, combines

several classic mathematical fields — algebra, geometry and probability — to delineate natural entities. Whereas students leam in lOth-grade Euclidean geometry how to determine if two triangles are similar or congruent by mapping one to the other, metric pattern theory recognizes that other, more complex shapes, such as the human face or brain, require many more steps to establish the congru­ence relationship. This notion of recognizability is what Miller and his many collaborators are trying to program into computers or robots.

“The difference between mapping two Euclidean tri­angles and two human brains is that the triangles require just two parameters — you move it and rotate it — to see

congruency. That’s not very hard to do,” Miller says. “But to map a human brain to a human brain takes hundreds of millions o f parameters — rotations and translations — because they’re so different.”

Map of brain variationThe theory has allowed Miller, Grenander and Gary Christensen, D.Sc., research assistant professor o f sur­gery and of radiology, to develop a computerized textbook map o f biological variation that neurologists and neurosurgeons can use to contrast the biological coordinates o f a real brain for comparison. The data come from magnetic reso­nance imaging and com­puted tomography scans and involve billions o f numbers and some of the most pow­erful computation of its kind in the world, located here at the Electronic Systems and Signals Research Labora­tory, directed by Snyder. Other University collabora­tors on brain projects in­clude David C. Van Essen, Ph.D., the Edison Professor

of Neurobiology and head of the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology; Michael W. Vannier, M.D., professor o f radiology; Marcus E. Raichle, M.D., profes­sor of neurology and of radiology; Jeffrey L. Marsh, M.D., professor o f surgery and of radiology; and John G. Csemansky, M.D., the Gregory B. Couch Professor of psychiatry and medical director of the Metropolitan St. Louis Psychiatric Center.

And where does it lead? Researchers who study schizophrenia have theorized that the brain shape of schizophrenics may be different than that of people without the disease. Miller and other brain researchers are collaborating with researchers at the Metropolitan St. Louis Psychiatric Center and plan to use the biologi­cal map o f variation to study that possibility.

“The measurement o f brain shapes in schizophrenia may lead to a breakthrough in our understanding of this disease, perhaps allowing us to detect it and treat it before its disabling symptoms appear,” says Csemansky, a big fan of Miller’s work.

Miller’s boardinghouse reach extends far beyond the research field. He’s a popular teacher who has a special rapport with undergraduates and a loyal, close relation­ship with graduate students.

“I love undergraduate and graduate students, and they tend to like me,” he says. “I’m especially fond of ‘Signals and Systems,’ a junior-level course that’s chal­lenging but lots o f fun. I’ve been very fortunate to have wonderful students.”

Miller also said he feels fortunate that his wife, Elizabeth Patton, Ph.D., associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and director o f the college’s Focus Program, is back home in St. Louis. They married in 1990. Two years later, Patton received a doctorate in English from Washington University. After an appointment as a visiting faculty member here for one year, she became an assistant professor o f English at the State University of New York at Geneseo. It wasn’t until the fall of 1995 that Patton and Miller were able to work in the same city again.

Miller is stepfather to Patton’s daughter Maggie, an 18-year-old who loves acting. Maggie often can be found, Miller laughs, with dramatists around Edison Theatre.

While it may seem that Miller has had a master plan in his engineering career, he denies knowing what he’s about to do next.

“From the start, nothing was ever apparent to me,” he says. “I never knew what I was going to do, and still don’t know. I hope that never stops because it’s too much fun not knowing.” — Tony Fitzpatrick

June 13-July I f

Exhibitions“Art to Enchant: Illustrators and Shakespeare.” Through Aug. 30. Spccial Collections, Olin Library, Level Five. Hours: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. 935-5495.“Two-person Show." Drawings by Bob Hansman, asst. prof. in the School of Architecture, and works by Choenae Kim, visiting instructor at Southern Illinois U.-Carbondale. Through June 22. R.Duane Reed Gallery, 1 N. Taylor Ave. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays. 361-8872.

of molecular biology and pharmacology Clopton Aud., 4950 Children’s Place. 454-6128.

Tuesday, June 257 p.m. Midlife Women’> Fan Club seminar/ discussion. “Skin Cancer Prevention — How to Look Your Best During Midlife,” Tamara Ehktt, facial plastic and cosmetic surgeon First-floor conference room, Missouri Bone and Joint Bldg.. Barnes West County Hospi­tal. 12634 Olive Blvd. 362-6667.

MusicWednesday, June 198 p.m. Classic summer orchestra concert. Directed by Dan Presgrave. instrumental music coordinator and lecturer in music. Graham Chapel. 935-5581.

LecturesFriday, June 149:15 a.m. Pediatric G rand Rounds.“Bronchiolitis Obliterans: Progressive Lung Injury After Lung Transplantation — A Clinical and Research Challenge,” George Mallory, assoc, prof. of pediatrics and mcdical director, Pcdiatnc Lung Transplant Program, and Stuart C. Sweet, fellow in pediatric pulmonology. Clopton Aud.. 4950 Children’s Place. 454-6128.

Wednesday, June 197 p.m. Art slide lecture. Featuring Michael C'ronon and Karen Hibma. Spon­sored by the School o f Art. Steinberg HallAud. 935-8400.7:30 p.m. Science lecture series for high school students. The George Engelmann Mathematics and Science Institute Pfizer Lecture Scncs. “Mathematics and Computer­generated Art.” Raymond Balbes, prof. and chair. Dept, of Mathematics and Computer Science, U. of Missouri-St. Louis.104 Stadler Hall. UMSL campus. 516-6226.

Friday, June 219:15 a.m. Pediatric G rand Rounds. “The Achondroplasia Gene: How It Does It and Other Stones," David M. Omitz, asst. prof.

MiscellanyThursday, June 13Fourth International Conference on Computational Biology continues. “Intel­ligent Systems for Molecular Biology ’96." The conference, which began June 12, continues through June 15. Eric P. Newman Education Center. 362-2134.

Sunday, June 168 a.m. Literary reading. Bloomsday — the fourth annual marathon reading of James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” featuring William H. Gass, the David May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities and director of the International Writers Center, as one o f the readers. Concludes the morn­ing of "June 17. (See story, this page.) Left Bank Books. 399 N. Euclid Ave., Central West End 935-5576.

Monday, June 171:30 p.m. Literary reading. Gerald Early, the Merle Kling Professor of Modem Let­

ters and prof. and director of the African and Afro-American Studies Program, will read from his works. Hurst Lounge,Room 201 Duncker Hall. 935-6720.

Tuesday, (une 181:30 p.m. Literarv reading. Poet Donald Finkcl, author of "Adequate Earth" and “Beyond Despair,” will read from his works. Hurst Lounge, Room 201 Duncker Hall. 935-6720.

Wednesday, )une 1910 a.m.-noon. Internet instruction ses­sion. “Questions About Using the Internet ” A self-guided exploration of the Internet using WorldWindow. Sessions held Wednesdays through July 24. Multimedia Lab. Olin Library, Level Four. Open to WU community only. Enrollment is limited.Call 935-5400 to register.1:30 p.m. Literary reading. Graduate student Ethan Bumas, author of “The Price of Tea in China," will read from his work. Hurst Lounge, Room 201 Duncker Hall. 935-6720.

Friday, June 2111:30 a.m.-l p.m. Toastmasters meeting.WUTFOR (Washington University Toast­masters For Oratorical Readiness) will hold a spccial meeting for Toastmasters Interna­tional to present the club charter. Seminar Room A, Eric P. Newman Education Cen­ter. 935-6276.Office of Continuing Medical Education conference. “Annual Frontiers in Endourology.” Continues through June 23. Eric P. Newman Education Center. For more info, and to register, call 362-6891.

Thursday, June 271:30 p.m. Literary reading. William H. Gass, the David May Distinguished Uni­versity Professor in the Humanities, direc­tor of the International Writers Center and author of “The Tunnel,” will read from his works. Hurst Lounge, Room 201 Duncker Hall. 935-6720.

Friday, July 5Summer School registration deadline forSession IV. Your mailed or faxed registra­tion for the Arts and Sciences 1996 Sum­mer Session IV (starting July 15) must be received by July 5, or you may register in person through July 10 with an applicable late charge. For more info., call 935-6777. Fax: 935-4847.

Friday, July 12Office of Continuing Medical Education registration deadline. “Clinical Allergy for the Practicing Physician,” to be held July 25-27 at the Eric P. Newman Educa­tion Center. For more info, and to register, call 362-6891.

Three from University elected fellows of AAASThree individuals associated with

Washington University arc among 159 new fellows and 26 foreign honorary fellows elected to the American Acad­emy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) for their distinguished contributions to sciencc, scholarship, public affairs and the arts.

New |y elected fellows associated with the University are: Richard H. Popkin. Ph.D.. professor emeritus of philosophy in Arts and Sciences: Rob­ert B. Shapiro. J.D., chairman and chief executive officer o f Monsanto Co. and a University trustee; and Mona Van Duyn. a Pulitzer Prize w inner, the nation's first female poet laureate and a former instructor in the Department o f English in Arts and Sciences

Popkin joined Washington University in 1972 as a visiting professor A year later, he was named a full professor, serv ing in that capacity for 14 years

Popkin is internationally known for his vwrk in the history o f skepticism, which revolutionized scholarship on the origins of modem philosophy and sci­ence. He now is an adjunct professor of history and philosophy at the University of Cahfomia-Los Angeles.

Van Duyn served as the first female U S. poet laureate from 1992-93.In April 1991, she won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book “Near Changes." She was the Visiting Hurst Professor o f English in 1987 and served as a visiting professor in the graduate Writing Program in 1983 and 1985. She lectured in English in University Col­lege in Arts and Sciences from 1950 to 1967.

Van Duyn delivered the University's Commencement address in 1990. She has published nine volumes o f poetry.

Shapiro became Monsanto’s president and chief operating officer in 1993 and was appointed to his present position two years later.

He joined CfD Searlc & Co.. now a subsidiary o f Monsanto, in 1979 as vice president and general counsel. He was named president o f the NutraSwect Group o f Scarie in 1982. and when Searic was acquired by Monsanto in 1985. Shapiro was appointed chairman *nd CFO of The NutraSw-eet Co.. a subsidiary of Monsanto.

In 1990. he was named Monsanto's executive vice president and president o f its Agricultural Group. Shapiro was

named to the University’s Board o f Trustees in the fall o f 1995.

The AAAS was founded in 1780 by John Adams and other leaders o f the young republic who chartered the learned society “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happi­ness o f a free, independent, and virtu­ous people."

Today, the academy includes more than 4,000 fellows and foreign honor­ary fellows from a broad range o f geographic, professional and cultural backgrounds.

CorrectionT h e caption under the photo on page I o f the May 16 Record should have stated that the academic proces­sion during the University’s 1907 Commencement was heading toward a tent near where Olin Library now stands. Commencement ceremonies back then were held in a tent erected in front of Cupples II Hall

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Bloomsday reading planned for June 16

The International Writers Center in Arts and Sciences, along with Uft

Bank Books and The New Theatre, will present the fourth annual 24-how of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” beginmr* at8 a in Sunday, June 16, at Left Bank Books, 399 N. Euclid Ave. The event it fo* and open to the public.

Joyce devotees, writers and others each will read a 30-minute segment from the 1986 Random House edition o f “Ulys8e*<i»fl D A midnight performance o f the play pint* “Ulysses in Nighttown” will be presented by members o f The New Theatre.

The novel follows Leopold Bloom through the course o f one day — June 16,1904 — in Dublin, Ireland. Taking its i from the novel’s protagonist, the Bloomsdy reading has become an annual tradition in Dublin since shortly after the novel fir* 1 was published in 1922. Now, readings are held June 16 worldwide.

Two C entral West End eateries —Dressd's Pub and Duff’s Restaurant will prepare special menus inspired by Joyce and his native Ireland.

“Ulysses” is recognized as the epitome irthr i of modernism and is lauded as one of the vcar most significant 20th-century novels wnt- cncil t ten in English. The work first was publish# eeive. in a limited edition in Paris. Five hundredi wi> these copies were shipped to New York butj nice were detained there by postal authorities <* ncil s the grounds o f obscenity. The novel was Tte banned in the United States until 1933, I*V when a U.S. District Court judge ruled the1 wielpt novel was not obscene. This decision al- >1 ilicn. J lowed Random House to publish “Ulysse*1 jfcy1 in 1934.

The novel has been maligned by in f t y d illustrious group o f writers and critics. I tool, noted William H. Gass, Ph.D., the David i au! May Distinguished University Professor tn wia !• the Humanities in Arts and Sciences and A1 and director o f the International Writers CcnterJ evicts who will be a featured reader in the event1 clitic:

Gass pointed out that “history is full ol mthia lessons o f this sort. T.S. Eliot believed i fodi that ‘U lysses’ had killed the 19th eenturyi Ro Yet here we are nearly at the end of the I Kman 20th. and the 19th, like an operatic hero-j fcpanm ine, has refused to die. * l||r• if*

“Any public reading of'Ulysses’is m r ices exorcism, a purgation o f the past, a laugh 1 Man i so much bad judgmenC' Gass continued ivacal “But it is a celebration as well of dirmgl iopi originality, courage, perception, sensuality, w k the renewable promise of great art, and thd irjra. ( attitude which says to snobbery and Wand I Jeites bourgeois pap, ‘Oh, go to hell!’” * Cil‘ties

For information, call (314) 935-5576, land t.'W- & B ' *T.

SCITKCampus Y offers summer classesThe Campus Y is offering a diverse

selection o f classes this summer While some classes have begun, partici­pants still can join them at reduced fees

“Body Toning” is held from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. on nine Wednesdays from June 5 to July 31 in Mallinckrodt Cotter 100A “Yoga” is held from noon to 1 p.m. on ctgfe Mondays from June 3 to Aug. 5 in the Women’s Building Lounge. (There will be no classes July 1 and 8.) “Step Aerobics i* _ held from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. Tuesdays and YThursdays (17 sessions) from June 4 to ^Aug. I in Mallinckrodt Center 100A. - m (There will be no class July 4.)

“Basic First Aid” will be held from 10 a.m. to noon July 20 in Lambert Lounge, Room 303 Mallinckrodt Center i ' oi, “CPR” will be held from 10 a.m. to noon ^

in Lambert Lounge.“Women's Self-Defense Class,” taught

July 13 in Lambert Lounge.“Women's Self-Defense Class,” taught Ffc

by women for women, is held from 5:30* J )7 p.m. on four Wednesdays from June in lam bert Ixmnge. “Tai Chi Chuan” will be held from noon to 1 p.m. on fourTuev , ty \ days from July 9-30 in Umbert Lounge ( ^ f

For information, call (314)935*5010

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ABOVE: Chancellor Mark S. W righton shows his leadership mettle durina a Staff Day softball game. RIGHT: Bobby Golliday of the Office of Undergraduate Admission joins the University com m unity for lunch during Staff Day on May 20.

Staff Day ceremony pays tribute to employees for years of serviceE i

3mployees who have worked at Washington University for 10, 15, 20 and 26 years received service

awards at a ceremony in Edison Theatre during the May 20 Staff Day.

Employees with 26 years o f service received a watch with the University seal on the face. Employees who have served 20 years received a gold Cross pen and pencil set. Those with 15 years o f service received walnut bookends with the Uni­versity seal. Employees with 10 years o f service received a silver Cross pen and pencil set.

The following are the award recipients: 10 Years o f Service: Josephine

\chelpohl, University College; Ronald Mien, John M. Olin School o f Business;

;es” Cathy Atnip, Arts and Sciences Comput- ng Center; Victoria Babbitt, Department )f Psychology; Brian Bannister, business school; Bobbie Beck, University Police; Saul Becker, Department o f Biology;Sylvia Berhorst, Department o f Engineer- ng and Policy; Alma Boyer, Accounting Services; Kevin Brooks, Department of 'acilities Planning and Management;

ofCynthia Brown, Career Center; Dixie iuford, Office o f Undergraduate Admis­sion; Robert Busby, facilities planning ffld management; Therese Clemens, 3epartment o f Athletics; Karen Crawford, 31in Library; Betty Darron, Accounting Services; Elisabeth Davis, Center for the iistory of Freedom; Larry Downey,’hysical Facilities; Jan Druyvesteyn, )evelopment and National Councils; oann Eckrich, School o f Law; Mary Ann errara, Graduate School o f Arts and ciences; Timothy Flynn, Computing acilities; David French, facilities plan­ing and management; Lisa Goessling, iology; Jerry Harmon, Information ystems; Barbara Harold, Accounting ervices; Steve Hedgcorth, Physical acilities; William Hester, Physical Facili- es; Jeannette Huey, Alumni International delations and Parents Programs; Carolyn

Kohring, biology; Catherine Komotos, Center for Engineering Computing; Ruth Lewis, Olin Library; Patricia Logsdon, Olin Library; Bette Marbs, Department o f History; Robert Marbs, University Police; Karen Margo, Development Programs; Patricia Masidonski, business school;Terri McDonald, Information Systems; Barbara McIntosh, Accounting Services; Clara McLeod, Olin Library; Michael McMahon, Campus Bookstore; Rosa McNeil, Office o f Human Resources; Christine Miller, Department o f Earth and Planetary Sciences; Anne Myers, Campus Bookstore; Mike Nadel, Accounting Services; David Nolan, Forsyth Residence Halls; Ibe Oteh, Information Systems; Wendy Overkamp, psychology; Despina Pashos, Campus Bookstore; James Pease, biology; Daniel Piatchek, biology; Steven Picker, Department of Chemical Engi­neering; Addie Price, University Police; Rochelle Robinson, business school; Patricia Rolfe, business school; Robert Russell, Euclid Power Plant; Laura Savoldi, Department o f Music; Myma Savoldi, Women’s Society; JoAnn Scanlon, Accounting Services; Paul Schmidt, Olin Library; Darlene Schoon, Accounting Services; Paul Schoon, Spe­cial Development Programs; Steven Schuchardt, Physical Facilities;Charmaine Scott, Olin Library; James Severine, Forsyth Residence Halls; Mar­garet Sigelnski, Forsyth Residence Halls; Kathy Steiner-Lang, International Office; Leslie Stroker, business school; Jim Swiney, Accounting Services; Ann Tegethoff, Accounting Services;Geraldine Thompson, Health Service; Christian Tiefenauer, Euclid Power Plant; Margo Trump, School o f Art; Susan Tschetter, undergraduate admission;Adele Tuchler, African and Afro-Ameri­can Studies Program; Sandra Turner, University Police; Deborah Van Booven, Office of Public Affairs; Judy Van Dyke, business school; Soo-Young Wanda,

biology; David Wilmot, development writer.

15 Years of Service: Edna Canada, University Police; Rudolph Clay, Olin Library; Elaine Coe, Health Service; Juli Einspanier, Office of Human Resources; William Fletcher, Physical Facilities; James Gahn, Physical Facilities; Leonard Gibson, Physical Facilities; Stephen Hermann, Euclid Power Plant; Anne Hetlage, Univer­sity College; Margaret Hilpert, Information Systems; Mona Hughes, Olin Library; Joyce Jackson, Department o f Transporta­tion; Shelli Kastin, Olin Library; Michael Koemer, Central Stores; Kathleen Lasater, athletics; Alan Mader, Information Sys­tems; Joanne Margherita, School of Law; Phyllis Mario, Accounting Services; Katherine McDaniel, Central Stores; Kathleen O ’Donnell, School of Architec­ture; Jacquelyn Olden, Consortium for Graduate Study in Management; Larry Poll, Physical Facilities; William Price, Accounting Services; Ellen Ronchetto, Central Stores; Joyce Rucinsky, law school; Cynthia Russell, George Warren Brown School of Social Work; Doris Smetak, Purchasing Department; Jan Snow, under­graduate admission; Harriet Switzer, secretary to the Board of Trustees; Anna Tsadka, Information Systems; Fred Volkmann, vice chancellor for public affairs; Melinda Warren, Center for the Study o f American Business (CSAB); Crystal Watts, Computing Facilities.

20 Years of Service: Jane Bettlach, law school; Anthony Biondo, Department of Physics; Alberta Breckinridge, Campus

Bookstore; Dennis Callahan, facilities planning and management; Elaine Cox, Department o f Comparative Literature; David Cronin, social work school; Marie Cuccia-Brand, School of Engineering and Applied Science Continuing Education; Jonathan Elson, Department o f Chemistry; Cynthia Haynes-Brown, Computing Facili­ties; Shirley Hillemann, social work school; Gregory Koemer, Campus Book­store; Gloria Lucy, CSAB; Thelma Neuman, Campus Bookstore; James Payne, Physical Facilities; Vivian Riney, Information Systems; Paul Scheffel, Cam­pus Bookstore; Bernard Sunier, Engineer­ing Materials Research Lab; Karen Tho­mas, undergraduate admission; Barbara Wilcox, physics; Diane Woepke, Schedul­ing Office.

26 Years of Service: Zellina Anderson, Telephone Services; James Burmeister, public affairs; Betty Daniel, Olin Library; James Franklin, physics; Judith Gerber, Health Service; Rosemary Hahn, School of Law Library; Julia Hamilton, physics; Wayne Hanebrink, College of Arts and Sciences; Jacqueline Henderson, Olin Library; Felton Hibbler, facilities planning and management; Barbara Hofmann, Olin Library; Donald Lalumandier, Physical Facilities; Robert Nordman, Physical Facilities; Mary Ellen Powers, law school; John Russell, engineering school registrar; Ronald Schuchardt, University Police;Gary Sparks, Department of Transporta­tion; Pranoat Suntharothok, physics; Jane Tolson, Accounting Services; Carole Wallace, University College.

Jniversity community shows its appreciation to staff members for jobs well-done -from page 1

At the bingo tournament, about 5 people hunched over their cards as the °ordinates were called. The prizes included ckets to Edison Theatre’s “OVATIONS!” rformance by The Nylons; wine from the hittemore House; videocassette tapes

Central Stores; coffee mugs,“atshirts, caps and more from the Cam- Bookstore; and coupons for coffee and

Presso from Marriott.Lorraine Wood, a secretary at the

tfeer Center, said she enjoyed the game. !'s a lot o f fun for me,” she said. “This foe only thing I’m going to do today.Vc got a bum knee.”The other non-physically strenuous

0 tivity was the arts-and-crafts competition. 6 k creative offerings included needlepoint

°Hc, copper relief sculpture, paintings and ^ h y William Wibbing o f Olin Library g first place for his intricate needlepoint

1 ® life of a teapot. •

Craig Snow, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor o f communication in the John M. Olin School o f Business, enjoyed the highly physical activity o f volleyball. Snow and his teammates from the busi­ness school took the winning trophy. Did their success flow from the cutthroat competitive spirit o f the business world?

“No,” said the 6-foot-plus Snow, drip­ping with sweat. “Teamwork is the key. Everybody has their role. And communica­tion is most important. It doesn’t hurt thatI play basketball five times a week.”

The volleyball team members from the Office o f Residential Life were magnani­mous in their defeat. “We just want to play and have some fun,” said Cindy Janney o f residential life. “Our motto is that everyone get along. I think they (the business school team members) have some pretty good talent.”

More hot competition was taking place

on the ball fields outside. Angela Weatherspoon, a secretary in the Depart­ment o f Chemical Engineering, pitched a sizzling softball for the Central Stores team. “We play once a year,” she said.“ It’s a lot o f fun. I think we need to do it more often.”

The Central Stores team went on to win the tournament. Jon Hollander of Central Stores said the team played par­ticularly good defense. “We didn’t make a lot o f errors,” he said. The hot weather may have been a factor in the win as well. “We’re used to moving around in the heat,” he said.

During a ceremony at the end o f the day, White and Wrighton presented tro­phies to the winning sports teams and awards to the winning crafts-makers. And then came the highly anticipated free-trip lottery. Two winners were pulled: Terry Wirtel, a senior personnel specialist in the

Office o f Human Resources, who will travel to Clearwater, Fla., and Neal Learner, a news writer in the Office of University Communications, who will travel to Los Angeles.

Wirtel was ecstatic and a bit shocked. “I just sat there for a moment,” she said.“1 can’t believe it. It feels great. This will be a mini-trip for me and my husband.We already have the baby sitter.”

Ann Prenatt, director of employee relations and chair o f the Staff Day Committee, was happy with the event.“ It was a combined effort on the part o f the committee that made it a success,” she said. Prenatt added that she would be happy to consider suggestions for future Staff Day events.

White closed the day by again praising the staff for its hard work. “This gives the University the opportunity to show the staff how important it is,” she said.

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Campus WatchThe following is a summary o f incidents reported to the University Police Department from May 6-June 9. Readers with information that could assist the investigation o f these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This release is provided as a public service to promote safety-awareness on campus.

• University Police received 34 theft reports totaling a loss o f $15,046, including $7,410 worth o f University property. About $720 worth o f prop­erty was recovered.

• University Police responded to nine reports o f vandalism.

• University Police made two arrests. A student was arrested for the alleged theft o f milk crates. A non-student was arrested on an outstanding warrant.

• A staff member reported a stolen vehicle from the Millbrook Boulevard

parking garage. The vehicle later was recovered in East St. Louis, 111., but had been set on fire.

• A fraternity member reported becoming involved in an altercation with two members o f another fraternity.

• University Police are investigating 13 counts o f forgery involving stolen checks cashed in Brookings Hall.

• University Police and neighboring fire departments responded to a minor chemical fire in a chemistry lab in Louderman Hall.

University supporting ozone-reduction effortsThe Washington University commu­

nity is being asked to meet the serious challenge o f reducing

ozone in the St. Louis atmosphere this summer and fall.

Students and employees are urged to consider a host o f ways, individually and collectively, to improve the region’s air quality — from car pooling to avoiding the use o f charcoal lighter fluid. The theme o f the University effort is “We Care About Clean Air.”

In May, Chancellor Mark S.Wrighton, Ph.D., announced the forma­tion o f a committee to develop a business plan for the University’s collaboration with the St. Louis Regional Clean Air Partnership (SLRCAP), which is a coali­tion o f industry, government and private individuals seeking voluntary measures to help bring St. Louis within compli­ance o f federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ozone standards.

The University’s clean air committee is coordinated by Gloria W. White, vice chancellor for human resources, and is made up o f faculty, staff and students from the Hilltop and Medical campuses. The committee has devised a plan to alert the University community when Ozone Action Days will be in effect. These are extremely hot, humid days conducive to high ground- level ozone, a harmful pollutant that can cause health problems, especially for children, the elderly and people with respi­ratory conditions.

The public probably is most familiar with ozone as the diffuse layer o f mol­ecules in the Earth’s upper atmosphere that plays a beneficial role as a natural sun­screen. The “ozone layer” has been widely reported as being depleted during the past 20 years. Ground-level ozone, on the other hand, is a major contributor to smog.Ozone at this level is an irritating gas formed when hydrocarbons mix with nitrogen oxide in sunlight. Industrial and consumer activities, most involving com­bustion, are behind the formation of ground-level ozone, and sunlight and temperature play key roles in driving atmospheric levels to the damaging point.

The ozone “season” in St. Louis runs from April through October, with virtually all o f the problem days occurring between Memorial Day in May and Labor Day in September. Amendments to the Clean Air Act o f 1990 established five categories o f ozone nonattainment: marginal; moderate; serious; severe; and extreme. St. Louis currently is classified as moderate nonattainment for ozone with an attain­ment deadline o f November 1996.

Washington University air pollution expert Jay R. Turner, D.Sc., assistant professor o f chemical engineering and o f engineering and policy, serves as co­chair o f SLRCAP, as well as adviser to the University’s clean air committee. According to Turner, monitoring data during the past two years indicate that St. Louis is on the brink o f being reclas­sified from moderate to serious nonattainment. He said the impact o f high ozone levels extends beyond per­sonal health to economic concerns o f the St. Louis region.

“Restrictions imposed by the EPA

down the road could put up a really big wall for economic growth in the area, especially for large businesses,” Turner said. “This could constrain the expansion o f existing businesses or prevent new businesses from locating in the area.”

A reclassification.to serious does not necessarily subject St. Louis to sanctions, but it does mean the area would get “an additional layer o f federally mandated programs, and thus less flexibility to design a control strategy tailored for St. Louis,” said Turner. “Failure to implement such programs could result in sanctions.

“It benefits all o f St. Louis to meet the ozone air quality standards both for quality o f life and a thriving economic climate. As such, it’s important from our perspective that the whole University becomes in­volved in cleaning the air.”

This summer, the University will begin a series o f steps to prepare the community for Ozone Action Days. A flag with a special logo designed by the Hilltop Publi­cations Office will fly on the Brookings Hall flagpole one day before Action Days; the flag also will be raised at the principal parking facilities on the Medical Campus. Buttons will be distributed to the Univer­sity community displaying the logo and slogan. Faculty, staff and students with computer access will receive an e-mail message relaying the alert. The message will advise them to look at the University’s home page or call the Ozone Action Day Hotline for suggestions to help reduce ozone production.

These include seemingly minor consid­erations such as avoiding filling your car with gasoline or, if filling is necessary, waiting until the evening hours; deferring mowing the lawn until the evening; car pooling, walking or bicycling to work or taking a Bi-State Development Agency bus or the MetroLink; cutting back on air- conditioning use to reduce demands on power plants; limiting driving; and post­poning chores that use oil-based paints, solvents or varnishes, among others.

“We want to involve as many people on the Hilltop and medical school campuses as we possibly can to meet this problem head-on,” White said. “Already, we are taking steps to insure that the University fleet and the campus police cars will gas up the day before an Action Day, for instance. There will be a standing order that all University cars and vans will not be sitting and idling. Also, shuttles will not run their air conditioners between runs on Action Days. It’s our hope that these small steps and others taken in unison can make a difference in our air quality.”

While it is difficult to quantify how much o f an impact individual actions can have on reducing ozone levels, there are approximations being compiled by SLRCAP, said Turner, who is in his second year as co-chair and spokesper­son for the partnership.

“Last year, due to TV and radio expo­sure and stories in the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, there was a significant awareness raised about ozone in St. Louis but little evidence of behavioral change by St. Louisans,” said Turner. “This year, we hope to see a change in thinking.”

— Tony Fitzpatrick

Jane Alexander, chairm an of the National Endowm ent for the Arts, delivers the 135th Com m encem ent address May 17 in Brookings Quadrangle.

Alexander: ‘Become involved citizens’ —from page I

Politics“Our recent agency cuts were almost 40 percent. The NEA, o f course, has had its critics, and I have spent most o f my two-and-a-half years defending the agency and the worth o f artists. But politicians generally, as we all know, have had a tough time lately. There’s been an awful lot o f mistrust o f politics, and I’ve had my share, let me tell you.

“A couple o f months ago, I went into a store to buy a soda, and the fellow behind the counter said, ‘Did anyone ever tell you (that) you look like Jane Alexander?’ I replied, ‘Well, yes, they actually have.’ And he said, ‘Makes you kinda mad, doesn’t it?’

“Well, there may be some things wrong with government, but there is really an awful lot that is right, too. And that tends to be obscured by the rhetoric today. Let me tell you about the arts endowment, which was created in 1965 to help make the arts accessible to all people in all parts o f America and to attract more money for the arts from the private sector, and it’s been immensely successful in doing so. For every dollar we award today, we leverage 12 other dollars from public and private sources. And we’ve helped sustain thou­sands of artists and arts institutions in every pocket o f America, including those here in St. Louis as well.”

Entering the ‘real world’“What does this have to do with those of you graduating today? Whatever the future may hold for you — a career as a banker or a baker, an engineer or a doctor, a politi­cian or a playwright — you have been schooled here at Washington University to be creative thinkers. Carry that creativity and the creativity that the arts give you wherever you go. They will affect how you think and act and respond to others — children, family, friends, co-workers and acquaintances. I contend that the arts will make you better people, more compassion­ate and more tolerant and understanding. The arts demonstrate most clearly our connectedness, our common human nature They speak to what unites us all under the skin, to the human spirit in all our pain, our joy, our disenchantment, our beguilement our anger and our celebration.

“What my generation asks o f yours is ttiat you become involved citizens o f

your community, your state and your country, that you take good care of the world you inherit at the beginning of this new millennium. Now the year 2000 is not a specious symbol. It’s a placemark in our Western history. Philosopher Hillel Schwartz notes that there are three millennia ahead:

“The first is the year 1999. Just the thought o f it is awesome and somehow fraught with danger. It signals the end; it’s apocalyptic; it’s an omen. And if you feel bad about 1999 already, it’ll be a lot worse when it arrives. I know some people who are planning to spend the whole year under the covers.

“The second millennium is the year2000, a midpoint in people’s minds, a time o f assessment. Not quite the 21st century, yet not really the 20th. In 2000, we as a nation will be looking back at what w e’ve done, the messes we made, ju st as we will try to find ways to move forward.

“The third way o f looking at the millennium is as beginning with the year2001. A brave new world, fresh-scrubbed— a time for amnesty, too, I think, to forgive our trespassers and to move on.

Looking to the future“Where do each o f you graduates want to be in five years? Which millennium will you choose? 1999,2000,2001? Or per* haps a combination? Being an optimist by nature, I always think in terms of * beginning a new millennium, the ncw,j« ( century, rather than ending the one we ft in. But no matter how you may look at t* this University has given you the t00‘s and great opportunity to seize firmly the. challenge o f good stewardship.

“Lastly, care about your fellow hum^ beings. It is not good enough when we W step over the ill and destitute in the |J^ , street; it is not good enough that one i y child goes to bed hungry or bruised or L uneducated. It is not enough when we L j exclude anyone because they look din W ently or talk differently. An indignity suffered by any one o f us is our indi#11 , personally as well. You have been pnvl | Ieged here to receive one o f the best JiiVe educations in the world at Washington 1:^ University. Live up to your intelligent j Jch, Qthers have cared for you here today- . 'tl Now it is your turn.” I'V

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College in Arts and Sciences, effective July 1. Wiltenburg succeeds Wayne Fields, Ph.D., as University College dean. Fields will become director o f the American Culture Studies Program in Arts and Sciences, in addition to his role as professor o f English.

“I am delighted that Bob has agreed to assume the leadership o f University "-''cge ” said Edward S. Macias, Ph.D.,

:utive vice chancellor and dean of and Sciences. “He has a history o f iss in leading important programs in and Sciences, including the English

iposition program and the Summer ol, and he was instrumental in loping opportunities for honors ints in the College o f Arts and Sci-

and also in developing the Writing He is an outstanding teacher and lie leader who will bring distinc-

to University College as we enter the millennium.”riltenburg said, “It’s an honor, and be a challenge, to be dean o f Univer- College, which has long been a part

University’s educational mission > outreach to the community.”

'iltenburg joined Washington Uni- ' in 1982 as director o f freshman isition and as an assistant professor

le Department o f English in Arts and ces. In 1989, he became director o f itory writing, adjunct associate

:ssor o f English, and assistant dean i College o f Arts and Sciences.

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Summer School and associate dean in University College in the spring o f 1995. He will continue to serve as Summer School director until a replacement is found.

In December 1994, Wiltenburg re­ceived aGovernor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from M issouri’s Coordi­nating Board for Higher Education. The awards are given annually to an outstanding faculty member from each o f about

50 public and independent colleges and universities in Missouri.

Wiltenburg earned a bachelor’s degree in English in 1968 from Cornell Univer­sity in Ithaca, N.Y. He went on to earn a master’s degree in 1974 and a doctorate in 1982, both in English and both from the University o f Rochester in New York.

He is a member o f the Modern Lan­guage Association, the National Council o f Teachers o f English, the Council o f Writing Program Administrators, the Milton Society o f America and the John Donne Society.

Wiltenburg’s academic specialties include Renaissance and 17th-century literature. In addition to a number o f ar­ticles, he has written two books: “Ben Jonson and Self-Love: The Subtlest Maze of AH” and “Collective Wisdom:A Sourcebook for Writing Teachers,” which he co-authored with Sondra J. Stang.

George Varghese wins young investigator awardeorge Varghese, Ph.D., associate

v Jp ro fesso r o f computer science, has received one o f thirty-four 1996 Young Investigator Program awards from the Office of Naval Research. The winners were chosen from among 416 applicants in scientific fields ranging from math­ematics to acoustics.

Varghese was one o f two computer scientists to receive awards this year. He was cited by Rear Adm. Marc Pelaez for “being among the best and brightest young academic researchers this country has to offer” and for “his ability to con­tribute to the nation’s research and devel­opment.”

The Young Investigator Program supports research by exceptional scholars who have held doctoral degrees for less than five years. The awards provide researchers with up to $100,000 per year for three years to support their projects. The funds can be applied to salaries, graduate student stipends and laboratory supplies. Additional funds may be allo­cated to purchase equipment.

Varghese will be designing and imple­menting fault-tolerant protocols for com­puter networks. Protocols are the rules that

underlie orderly communication. Fault- tolerant protocols are necessary because faults, like node and link failures, can otherwise cripple the Internet and other communication infrastructures.

Varghese was cited for two new ap­proaches to the problem. The first ap­

proach is the design o f self- correcting proto­cols that recover without manual intervention. The second approach looks at the in­verse problem of characterizing the power, or “fault-

George Varghese span,” o f particu­lar sets o f faults. The insight from the fault-span characterization then is used to design robust protocols. Applications include high-speed communications for the U.S. Navy and for industry systems.

Varghese received a doctorate in computer science in 1992 from the Mas­sachusetts Institute o f Technology. He joined the University in 1993 as an associate professor.

Architect Cottle earns Steedman FellowshipA tlanta architect Mark Cottle is the

t \ \ 996-97 Steedman Fellowship award winner, the Steedman Fellowship Govern­ing Committee at Washington University has announced. Every other year, the School of Architecture awards the fellow­ship, which provides $20,000 for nine months o f travel and architectural study abroad.

Cottle is planning to go to India to study the works o f architects Pierre Jeanneret, Antonin Raymond and Laurie Baker.

V Mason Wickham of New York wasI'amed alternate. James Gabriel of San Diego; B.K. Boley o f Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Anne-Elise Feiersinger- Mlison of Vienna, Austria, received honor- *ble mentions.

Cottle, a graduate of Rice and Harvard universities, is a visiting studio and course instructor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College o f Architecture in Atlanta. His drawing was selected from 85 entries in the international competition.

His project involved the design of a build­ing and exterior spaces in Italy that would display American minimal art.

Founded in 1925, the Steedman Fel­lowship is named for James Harrison Steedman, an 1889 University graduate. Steedman died after serving in the U.S. Naval Reserves during World War L

Fellowship applicants must be graduates o f accredited architecture schools and have at least one year o f experience working in a practicing architect’s office. The competi­tion is open to architects, regardless o f age, for a period o f up to eight years after they have received bachelor’s or master’s de­grees in accredited programs.

Applications for the next fellowship (1998-99) will be available in August 1997. Inquiries should be addressed to the Steedman Fellowship Governing Commit­tee, Washington University School o f Architecture, 1 Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1079, St. Louis, MO, 63130-4899.

For information, call (314) 935-6293.

For The Record contains news about a wide variety o f faculty, staff and student scholarly and professional activities.

Of noteThe work of Bob Hansman, assistant professor o f architecture, recently was cited in a White House report, “Coming Up Taller.” The report, by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, documents how community arts programs explore the connections among art, culture, behavior and achievement. In Hansman’s Arts Connection/City Faces program, youths from St. Louis public housing and juvenile detention facilities learn to create, exhibit and sell their art.

Speaking ofM erton C. Bernstein, L.L.B., professor of law, led a-session on the future prospects of Social Security at a program conducted by the national Academy o f Social Insurance for the senior officials o f the Social Secu­rity Administration’s Southwest Regional Office in Dallas. ...

K athleen Brickey, J.D., the James Carr Professor o f Criminal Jurispru­dence, presented a paper on “Environ­mental Criminal Enforcement” at a conference on “The Law, Economics and Politics o f the Environment.” The conference, held on campus, was spon­sored by the Business, Law and Eco­nomics Center and the Center for the Study o f American Business. Brickey also had an article, “The Commerce Clause and Federalized Crime: A Tale of Two Thieves,” published in a sympo­sium in “The Annals o f the American Academy o f Political and Social Sci­ence.” The symposium was on “The Federal Role in Criminal Law.”

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Kerry Back appointed associate dean for academic affairs in business schoolKerry E. Back, Ph.D., professor o f

finance, has been named associate dean for academic affairs at the John M. Olin School o f Business, said Stuart I. Greenbaum, Ph.D., dean of the business school. The appointment is effective July 1.

As associate dean, Back will be re­sponsible for all matters pertaining to the academic mission o f the school, includ­ing faculty recruitment and retention, staffing o f business courses, and interac­tion with faculty in their teaching and research roles. He also will continue his teaching and research. .

Back received a doctorate in econom­ics in 1983 from the University o f Ken­tucky. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in economics, which he received in 1978 from Western Kentucky University.

Among other honors and awards,Back received a $60,000 Batterymarch Fellowship for the 1991-92 academic year. The fellowship is awarded each year by Batterymarch Financial Management

to the three most promising scholars in finance.

Before joining the business school as a visiting associate professor o f finance in 1989, Back served as a faculty mem­ber at Indiana University, the University o f Pennsylvania and Northwestern Uni­versity. He is the author o f numerous journal articles and is the editor o f “Re­view of Financial Studies.” He also is an associate editor o f “Journal o f Economic Theory,” “Journal o f Economic Dynam­ics and Control” and others.

Back will replace Gary Miller, Ph.D., the Reuben C. Taylor Jr. and Anne Car­penter Taylor Professor of Political Economy, who has served as associate dean for academic affairs since July 1995. Miller has accepted a research fellowship at the Australian National University in Canberra, where he will reside through August 1996. Upon his return to the business school, Miller will continue teaching and research.

Edward MacCordy, retired associate vice chancellor

Edward L. MacCordy, 69, retired associate vice chancellor for research

at Washington University, died Wednes­day, May 8, 1996, o f cancer at Barnes West County Hospital.

MacCordy joined the University in 1967 as administrative officer o f Wash­ington University’s Computer Laborato­ries. He also served as patent coordinator for the University.

He was appointed associate vice chancellor for research in January 1976 and served in that post until his retire­ment at the end o f 1991.

In 1971, he established the University’s technology-transfer program to bring inventions out o f research laboratories and into the marketplace. In 1982, he helped craft the Washington University/Monsanto Biomedical Research Agreement, the largest collaborative research agreement between a US. company and a U.S. institu­tion o f higher learning.

MacCordy was active in the National Council o f University Research Adminis­trators, serving as vice president in 1983, president-elect in 1984 and president in 1985.

He also was active in the Association o f University Technology Managers (AUTM), serving as president-elect in 1989, president in 1990 and past presi­dent in 1991. AUTM honored MacCordy last February with the Bayh-Dole Award

for lifetime achievement and for his contributions to the licensing profession.

MacCordy was appointed by the U.S. secretary o f commerce to the Advi­

sory Commission on Patent Law Reform and was a longtime member o f the Licensing Executive Society.

He served in various adminis­trative assign­ments with theCivil Engineer

Edward L. MacCordy Corps of the

U.S. Navy for about 20 years before joining the University.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1947 from Tufts University in Medford, Mass., and a master’s degree in management in 1957 from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y

MacCordy lived in Ballwin, Mo. Among the survivors are his wife, Dorothy MacCordy; three daughters, Rebecca Bruemmer o f Sacramento, Calif., and Leslie and Lynne MacCordy, both o f Ballwin; a son, Gregory MacCordy o f Westport, Conn.; and two grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 4207 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO, 63108.

newsHilltop CampusThe following is a partial list of positions available on the Hilltop Campus. Information regarding these and other positions may be obtained in the Office of Human Resources, Room 126 North Brookings Hall, or by calling (314) 935-5990.

PC Support Assistant 960210.School of Law. Requirements: high school graduate; specific training in hardware, software or networking preferred; experience installing and troubleshooting PCs, cards and peripherals; ex­perience working with PC-based software, including operating systems, DOS, Windows, general office software, WordPerfect Of­fice and Microsoft; experience working in a medium-sized Unix, Novell and Windows NT network environment; good customer- service and communication skills. Application required.

Assistant Publications Editor 960241. Office of Public Affairs. Requirements: bachelor’s degree; outstanding editing and writing abilities; familiarity with typogra­phy and print production; ability to work well with a wide range of people. When completing on-line application, please submit resume and three writing samples.

Department Secretary 960245.Major Gifts. Requirements: associate's degree or equivalent knowledge; specialized secre­tarial and business training; de­tail-oriented; accurate typing; ex­cellent communication skills; three years general office experi­ence; ability to work well within the office environment and relate easily to people; sensitive to the needs and mission of Washing­ton University and the role of the Development Office; ability to deal with multiple priorities. Ap­plication required.

Interlibrary Loan Borrowing As­sistant 960249. Olin Library. Re­quirements: four years of college or equivalent experience, college degree preferred; library experi­ence desirable; strong communi­cation skills; willingness to re­spond courteously to user re­quests and questions; experience in a public-service office; excel­lent organizational skills; accu­racy; attention to detail; ability to enter data quickly and accurately in an electronic-request system; keystroking ability of 35 wpm; bibliographic skills; familiarity with foreign languages desirable; experience with OCLC helpful; ability to work effectively under pressure. Application required.

Coordinator for Information Tech­nology 960254. School of Social Work. Requirements: bachelor’s

degree in computer science or re­lated field with some multimedia experience; Novell certified; experi­ence installing and maintaining PC hardware and software; manage­ment and problem-solving skills; commitment to user support and training; strong communication skills; ability to work with end us­ers of varying computer profi­ciency; knowledge of PC-based ap­plications such as Word, Excel, WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, SAS and SPSS; network protocol such as TCP/IP experience; multimedia authoring and World Wide Web publishing experience; experience with HTML and Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator software and programming of latest develop­ments relevant to the Web (JAVA) is preferred. Application required.

Associate Network Engineer 960258. Office of the Network Coordinator. Requirements: cer­tificate or associate’s degree; bachelor’s degree in electrical en­gineering or computer science or equivalent experience; working knowledge of LANs, WANs, Appletalk, TCP/IP and IPX; expe­rience installing and maintaining Ethernet networks, UTP cabling and fiber optics; systems experi­ence with Unix workstations, PCs and Macintosh computers; strong problem-solving skills; attention to detail; experience in customer relations and/or in a service organization; experience with spreadsheet and word pro­cessing applications; experience with telephones, cable TV and RS232. Application required.

Academic Coordinator 960262.College of Arts and Sciences. Re­quirements: master's degree; ad­vanced degree; Ph.D. in a liberal arts discipline preferred; appre­ciation for and comprehensive understanding of liberal arts edu­cation; excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to work effectively with students, parents, faculty and staff; supe­rior organizational skills; demon­strated program development, implementation and evaluation skills; high degree of initiative and flexibility; ability to work co­operatively. Application required.

Computer Facility Support/Me­dia Services Manager 960265.Arts and Sciences Computing Center. Requirements: certificate or associate's degree; experience with software support on DOS, WIN3X, WIN95 and Macintosh, including word processing, spreadsheets, graphics and net­work applications; multimedia support experience, including a variety of computer software and hardware, such as scanners and laserdiscs, and a variety of audio-visual equipment; hard­ware maintenance experience, including installation of network cards and drives; experience in troubleshooting a variety of dial­up software packages and mo­

dems is helpful; familiarity with TCP/IP networking tools, such as file tran remote access and World Wide Web browsers, cable TV technology, video conferencing and fiber-optic net­works, is a plus; experience in a computer help center desirable; excellent interpersonal skills; ability to work with a variety of people. Application required.

Undergraduate Secretary 960266. Department of Econom­ics. Requirements: high school graduate; ability to handle large quantity of correspondence; abil­ity to make travel arrangements, domestic and foreign. Quattro Pro or Excel spreadsheet experi­ence; general office experience. Application required.

Graduate Secretary 960269. De­partment of Economics. Require­ments: high school graduate; ability to keep and maintain all graduate student records; ability to work closely with the John M. Olin School of Business, with the Department of Systems Science and Mathematics in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and with the School of Law in coordinating the joint degree be­tween the respective programs; experience with correspondence, filing and general office duties; ability to assist administrative assistant; ability to prioritize work assignments. Application required.

Administrative Assistant 960272. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Require­ments: high school graduate, some college preferred; strong verbal and written communica­tion skills; ability to master and retain detailed administrative and academic policies and proce­dures; ability to exercise inde­pendent judgment and to work with minimal supervision; ability to interact courteously and effi­ciently with faculty, staff, stu­dents and visitors; ability to man­age human, facility and financial resources; ability to organize and prioritize work assignments. Ap­plication required.

Medical CampusThe following is a partial list of positions available at the School of Medicine. Employees who are interested in submitting a transfer request should contact the Hu­man Resources Department of the medical school at (314) 362-7197 to request an application. External candidates may call (314) 362- 7195 for information regarding application procedures or may submit a resumt to the human re­sources office located at 4480 Clayton Ave., Campus Box 8002, St. Louis, MO, 63110. Please note that the medical school does not

disclose salary information for vacancies, and the office strongly discourages inquiries to depart­ments other than human resources.

Systems Support Coordinator 960749-R. Neurology. Require­ments: bachelor’s degree; thor­ough understanding of shell script programming, Unix file permissions and linking, the Pine mailer, the Lynx World Wide Web browser, and gopher clients. Responsibilities include providing Internet services sup­port, software and hardware maintenance, computer training, and remote-user training at re­mote sites.

Statistical Data Analyst 960789-R. Psychiatry. Require­ments: master’s degree in bio­statistics, math or statistics; three years experience preferred. Responsibilities include devel­opment of programs to enter and manage large computer datasets; performing Ancova and other multivariate tech­niques; performing Life Table and other survival analytic tech­niques; and performing multiple system checks for data verifica­tion.

Programmer Analyst 960825-R.Anesthesiology. Requirements: bachelor’s degree in computer science, math, engineering or related field or equivalent experi­ence; two or more years experi­ence in an academic research environment. Responsibilities include developing and main­taining specialized applications software; developing software for data acquisition and analysis; providing system and network administration services; and analyzing the hardware and soft­ware needs of the unit.

Assistant Supervisor Lead IBC 960849-R, 960850-R. Washing­ton University Shared Billing and

Collection Services. Require­ments: two years experience with billing, insurance or collection, preferably medical; working knowledge of IDX, BAR and PSC applications; understanding of computerized billing systems; supervisory capabilities; ability to communicate effectively; famil­iarity with ICD-9 and CPT-4 pre- ■ ferred. Responsibilities include assisting with the supervision of insurance collection staff; train­ing staff to perform daily job functions; assisting staff with daily operational issues; and monitoring daily work flow within a designated area.

Coordinator I: Protocol 960865-R. General Internal Medi­cine. Requirements: experience using the ethnograph program; in­terest in health professionals’ practice behavior desirable; famil­iarity with qualitative methodology, including content analysis. Re­sponsibilities include assisting an assistant professor of medicine in the study of health professionals’ practice patterns; transcribing and helping to analyze interviews; summarizing the results; assisting in the preparation of publications; and abstraction of data from pa­tient medical records. Schedule: part-time, 15 hours per week.

Medical Secretary II960924 -R .Barnard Cancer Center. Require­ments: high school graduate or equivalent with some business work experience; working knowl­edge of medical terminology and general office machines; high de­gree of accuracy; typing 60-70 wpm; ability to maintain confi­dentiality; effective communica­tion and organizational skills. Re­sponsibilities include performing secretarial duties involving sub­stantial patient care information and contact and utilizing the knowledge of medical terminol­ogy. Schedule: part-time, 20 hours per week.

Clerk Typist IRequirement: i sponsibilities: lf{ filing. Scheduk hours per we

Medical R«960978-R,cat Surgery. bachelor's degr ties include perfo tory assistar conducting pr cular studies in I dissection; prepar tions; data mana analysis; cor ments; mani dering supplii signed duties.

Coordinator: Clii 960983-R. Inhquirerpents: i business or related f three years ex fice setting; ci ganization, personal skills;i edge of accounting, ( keting, personnel,! ning and general i systems. Re directing the busin of the clinical offic clerical staff, i and lab and X-r conjunction wit administrator; i sonnel matters; i nancial data and re ing as liaison I site and division bu through sound I timal staffing pra

Nurse PractitionerInternal Medicine. bachelor's degri with registration/licem creditation in a nurse program. Respo elude performing total care and providing coi and education to patients and families under the direction of a physician.

Addressing em ployee questions concerning the Washington University community Id

Q# Will the tuition program for employees that allows• children to attend school free of charge still be here in

20 years when my children are of age?

A # We do not know what will hap- • pen 20 years from now. But we

will make every effort to do what is best for Washington University, the faculty and staff, and their families. Individuals

interested in the current tuition-assistancc program may obtain information from their human resources offices.— Gloria W. White, vice chancellor for human resources

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Athletic Complex to bustle with activity during first presidential debate in September — /m m page

In 1992, Bush, Clinton and Perot each stood behind podiums and answered ques­tions posed by a four-person panel. This year, the candidates will sit at a round table and answer questions posed by a single moderator. The debate will last 90 minutes.

Asman said this format has never been used by the CPD or by the League o f Women Voters. The formats for all o f the 1996 debates were designed after the CPD conducted focus groups to measure the effectiveness o f various formats.

After the briefing session, the group toured the Athletic Complex to see how it will be converted into the site of the first 1996 presidential debate. The Athletic Complex will be split into three major areas of activity during the days leading up to and including the debate.

• Francis Gymnasium and its adjoining rooms will be used as work space for the major TV networks and affiliates. The

gymnasium itself will be divided into about 20 cubicle-type spaces for affiliates. Media members will have access to their assigned spaces in the Francis Gymnasium building beginning Sept. 20.

• The Field House will be converted into the actual debate hall. The stage on which the candidates debate will take up half o f the basketball floor. Audience members will be seated in chairs on the floor in front o f the stage. Located opposite the stage will be elevated platforms for the cameras of the major TV networks.

Nearly every square inch o f wall space and concrete in the Field House will be covered with carpet and then with heavy drapes to create the best acoustics. The air-conditioning system will be fine- tuned to ensure it operates quietly.

Each candidate will have a holding room on the floor o f the debate hall near the stage.

• The Recreational Gym will be con­verted into the media filing center used by as many as 2,000 members o f the print media. The journalists will sit at rows o f tables with telephones available to them. About 40 TV monitors will be scattered throughout the filing center so the journalists can watch the debate.

The filing center also will include what is known as “Spin Alley,” in which campaign officials and political experts give their “spin” as to how well the candidates performed in the debate. Members of the media will have access to the Recreational Gym beginning the morning of Sept. 24.

After the Sept. 25 presidential debate at Washington University, there will be a vice presidential debate Oct. 2 in the Civic Center in Hartford, Conn. The second presidential debate will be Oct. 9 in the Bayfront Center in St. Petersburg. Fla., and

the last presidential debate will be Oct. at the University o f San Diego.

Chancellor Wrighton has named thr# administrators to manage key areas of debate preparation. Handling facilities j .q, will be Richard A. Roloff, executive vi# chancellor. Handling the education K component o f the debate will be I v Edward S. Macias, Ph.D., executive vict^chancellor and dean of Arts and Sci* %ences. Handling news media relations will be M. Fredric Volkmann, vice chafHi cellor for public affairs. - - I S

W righton also has named his admit11*] ^ trative assistant, Sara Johnson, to serve 1^, as convener o f the University’s overall ^ planning committee. James W. Davis* ] Ph.D., professor o f political science in *Vc Arts and Sciences, will chair a subcoro* mittee to coordinate educational pro- j gramming for students in conjunction . , with the debate. — Michael Sin11