VOLUME 30, NUMBER 2

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1998

Briefly

Meeting of the Voting Faculty to be held Wednesday
The Faculty Senate will hold its Annual Meeting of the Voting Faculty at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Center for Tomorrow.

The meeting will provide an opportunity to review issues discussed last year and to hear about plans for the coming year. UB President William R. Greiner, as chair of the Voting Faculty, will present the Report of the President.

For more information, call the Senate office at 645-2003.

Greiner and his guests will answer questions from listeners on this first call-in of the school year. Call 829-6000 with your questions.

The son of Jamaican immigrants, Powell graduated from City College of New York in 1958. He was commissioned as an Army second lieutenant and served in a variety of assignments, attaining the rank of general in 1989. He was appointed that year as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Powell's role in Operation Desert Storm during the Persian Gulf War made him a household name. He retired from the Army in 1993.

Since 1997, he has been serving as chairman of America's Promise-The Alliance for Youth, the national campaign on behalf of the nation's young people.

Other speakers in the series presented by UB and the Don Davis Auto World Lectureship Fund will be Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, Nov. 10; ABC News co-anchor and National Public Radio news analyst Cokie Roberts, March 24 and former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, April 22.

Tickets are available through the Center for the Arts box office or at TicketMaster locations.

Campus bus service now is available from a stop at Goodyear Hall on Goodyear Road and at the Main Circle, just above the Metro bus stop. Campus bus service no longer is provided at the Bailey Avenue stop or at Diefendorf Annex.

The directory, which can be accessed at http://ldap. buffalo.edu, is a comprehensive and searchable electronic source of information that includes names, titles, campus addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses.

Updating information in the directory is simple. After logging in, click on "update" to bring up the form that will allow users to update personal information and insert their preferred e-mail address. A UNIX password is needed to make changes; users who do not know their password can have it reset by calling 645-3540.

Instructions for updating information are available online. Persons who need more assistance can call the CIT help desk at 645-3540.

Her topic will be "The Challenges Facing Nursing During An Era of Market-Driven Health Care." The lecture will be free, but reservations are required.

The Dr. Bonnie Bullough Lecture was established in 1996 through a $100,000 gift from Vern L. Bullough to honor the memory of his wife and colleague, Bonnie, former dean of the UB nursing school, who died in 1996.

Gordon is the author of five books and more than 250 articles about health care, nursing and women's issues. Her latest book, "Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines," was published by Little Brown in 1997. Her earlier books were "Black Mesa: The Angel of Death," "Lonely in America," "Off Balance: The Real World of Ballet" and "Prisoners of Men's Dreams."

She is co-editor of "Caregiving: Readings in Knowledge, Practice, Ethics and Politics," and "The Abandonment of the Patient: The Impact of Profit-Driven Health Care on the Public." She also is a commentator on public radio's "Marketplace," and an adjunct professor in the McGill University School of Nursing.

Co-founder of Nurses Network for a National Health Program, Gordon is a co-author of the "Massachusetts Call to Action" of the Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Health Care, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in December 1997. For information or to make a reservation, call 829-2533.

Staffed by librarians, the LHC will offer free workshops, drop-in services, individual appointments and e-mail and telephone help on how to use BISON, e-mail, Microsoft Office and the World Wide Web.

Workshops are scheduled to begin Sept. 8 and will be held in 127 Capen Hall, located in the Undergraduate Library (UGL) on the North Campus. Registration for workshops is not required. Workshop schedules will be posted on the UGL bulletin board, on the LHC web page at http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/ugl/help and in the Reporter and The Spectrum.

Drop-in services will be available during office hours posted outside 126 Capen Hall in the UGL.

Students interested in setting individual appointments or in obtaining e-mail help or telephone help can call 645-3528 or send e-mail to askugl@acsu.buffalo.edu

The lively and informative half-hour show, rebroadcast throughout the month, airs at 6:30 p.m. Sundays on Adelphia Channels 18, 30, and 10, and at 6:30 p.m. Fridays on TCI's Channel 21.

The hosts of the show are William J. Evitts and Judith Schwendler, executive director and an assistant director, respectively, in the UB Office of Alumni Relations, which produces the program in cooperation with Adelphia Cable.

Among the topics and interviewees scheduled for September are:

n Regional Community Policing Center, UB Public Safety Director John Grela and Buffalo Police Department Capt. James Giammaresi

n Offerings for non-traditional students by UB's Millard Fillmore College, Dean George J. Lopos

n Career services for UB students and alumni, Daniel J. Ryan, director of the UB Office of Career Planning and Placement

n Science education and the UB Honors Program, Clyde F. Herreid, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and academic director of UB's Honors Program.

Hang tag violators to be ticketed
Parking enforcement in all parking lots for hang tag violations will begin Tuesday, the Campus Parking Office has announced. Persons not displaying a current faculty, staff or student hang tag in the parking lots will be ticketed.

In the wake of a number of shootings in American schools, Ewing-professor of law and adjunct professor of psychology-will examine the nature and extent of violence in our schools today and offer suggestions for preventing and responding to such violence.

An expert on juvenile violence, he is the author of "Kids Who Kill" (1990), which predicted juvenile homicide would reach epidemic proportions by the end of the decade. He has served as a consultant and expert witness in criminal and domestic trials.

The cost of the lecture, which includes a full breakfast, is $10 for UB Alumni Association members and $12 for the general public. Deadline for reservations is Sept. 14.

"UB at Sunrise" is supported by the Office of University Development, UB News Services, the Office of Publications and the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Urban Affairs.

For more information, or to make reservations, call 829-2608.

Phillips Stevens, Jr., associate professor of anthropology, will lead the discussion, beginning at noon on Sept. 18 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus. His presentation will include art and other materials that depict how ancient and modern-day people and religions have viewed the coming of the millennium.

The cost of the luncheon, designed for senior alumni, their spouses and guests, is $10 per person. For more information or to make reservations, call 829-2608.

His work at UB will involve the university choir and chorus, two performing groups with different repertoires and vocal requirements. The UB Chorus performs large-scale works like Brahms' Requiem, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Haydn's Creation. Its size is not limited. The chorus will meet weekly for rehearsals, Thursdays from 7-9:30 p.m. in 250 Baird Hall on the North Campus. There are no auditions. Those interested can sign up at Sept. 10 or 17 rehearsals.

The UB Choir is a smaller group of 30-50 members that requires a higher level of music sight-reading skills and a greater time commitment. It will meet for rehearsal three times a week, from 4-6 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. To schedule auditions for the choir, call 645-600, ext. 1242.

Rosenbaum's choirs have several CDs to their credit, including the popular The Orpheus on the CRI label. HLH Music Productions soon will release a series of edited works under the title Harold Rosenbaum Choral Series.

"School 53 is an area that has a need for increased services," said Howard Doueck, associate dean for research and program development. "The school community is comprised mostly of families with below-average income and more than 90 percent of its students receive free or reduced-cost lunches.

"An on-site field educator to supervise our students gives us the ability to establish a student unit at School 53 which, in collaboration with students from other UB departments, as well as teachers and other staff from the school, will provide increased services to children and families."

The lecture, sponsored by the Economics Department in the College of Arts and Sciences and Dean Kerry S. Grant, will be free and open to the public.

McDonough, who joined the New York Fed as executive vice president in 1992 and was named president one year later, also serves as the vice chairman and a permanent member of the Federal Open Market Committee, whch is responsible for formulating the nation's monetary policy.

Alpha Tau Omega, with 143 U.S. chapters, has been recognized for its emphasis on leadership training, community service and student involvement in university life.

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