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Burrows, who has worked as a consultant to several Canadian

theaters as well as to St. Peter's Lutheran Church in New York City, previously served for five years as managing director of theater operations and assistant to the dean of the Yale School of Drama and the Yale Repertory Theatre Company.

Please call Rosemary Mecca at 645-2258 if you plan to attend.

GREAT LAKES CONSORTIUM WINS GRANT FOR LAKE ONTARIO RESEARCH

The New York Great Lakes Research Consortium has received a one-year $75,000 grant from EPA-Region II for research on Lake Ontario. The goal is to develop a long-term binational plan to reduce toxic chemical exposure and bioaccumulation in the Niagara River/Lake Ontario System.

The grant was obtained on the basis of a proposal submitted by UB on behalf of the consortium.

Joseph V. DePinto, director of the Great Lakes Program at UB and research director for the Great Lakes Consortium, will be principal investigator/project director. Co-investigators are Thomas C. Young of Clarkson University and William Booty of the National Water Research Institute of Canada.

CAMPUS CLUB GEARS UP FOR FALL WITH SERIES OF PARTIES AND PROGRAMS
A series of events and activities are planned for this year by UB's Campus Club, beginning with participation in a reception for Thomas Burrows, interim director of the Center for the Arts on Oct. 29. Other activities include sponsoring a Faculty/Staff Day Nov. 9, which includes the Bulls football game and a pregame brunch and a traditional holiday party for members, planned for Dec. 12. After the holidays, the club expects to attend a Zodiaque dance production in February and a program by the Amherst Saxophone Quartet in April.

The Campus Club aims to build a sense of community and collegiality between faculty and professional staff. The group encourages all faculty and professional staff who are part of the UB community, including active or retired constituents of State, Research Foundation, UB Foundation and Faculty Student Association, as well as members of the UB Alumni Association, to join the club. The club's headquarters is now in Goodyear Hall.

To obtain more details on programs, contact Jane DiSalvo, programs chair, at 645-2592, ext. 743 or by e-mail: disalvo@acsu.buffalo.edu.

RICHARDS TO CONDUCT AMHERST SYMPHONY

Ronald Richards, a member of the UB music faculty, will be guest conductor at the opening concert of the Amherst Symphony Sunday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. in Amherst Middle School. Richards, a lecturer in oboe at UB, has been a member of the Amherst Symphony since its founding in 1946. He joined the orchestra when he was a high school sophomore, and this spring, was honored for his 50 years of service.

Richards is a 1954 graduate of the UB School of Pharmacy and received a master's degree in music history from UB in 1969. For many years, Richards balanced dual careers as a pharmacist and musician. A widely acclaimed oboist, he joined the UB music faculty in 1958

UB PROF TO RUN IN MARATHON TO FIGHT LEUKEMIA
Salah Qutaishat, UB assistant clinical professor of microbiology, will join runners from across the country for the Marine Corps Marathon taking place Oct. 26 in Washington, D.C.

Along with 50 runners representing the Leukemia Society of Western New York's "Teams in Training," he participates in marathons across the country to help the Leukemia Society continue their efforts to find a cure for the disease.

Qutaishat, who is director of epidemiology and education at Lockport Memorial Hospital, will dedicate his 26.2-mile run to Christopher Petruzzi, a 10-year-old North Buffalo child recovering from leukemia.

STUDENT ASSOCIATION PLANS SPEAKER SERIES
Black Panther leader Bobby Seale, performer Gregory Henderson and Chinese dissident Chai Ling will be featured in this fall's People's Speaker Series sponsored by the undergraduate Student Association (SA) at UB.

A lecture by Emmy Award-winning actor Edward James Olmos, part of the university's Distinguished Speaker Series, also will be co-sponsored by SA.

All lectures will be free of charge and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis, except for the Olmos lecture. While students will be admitted free, there will be a charge for members of the public. Call 645-ARTS for Olmos ticket information.

Versatile performer Gregory Henderson will appear at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 29, in the Student Union Theater on the North Campus. Henderson, who won New York's 1995 Back Stage "Bistro Award" for Outstanding Characterization, has been described by The New York Times as having the extraordinary ability to "utterly transform his face, his attitude, his slightest gesture."

Bobby Seale, one of the "Chicago Seven" activists of the 1960s who is now a writer and lecturer, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7, in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

A founder of the Black Panther Party, Seale helped initiate numerous community programs, including those providing breakfasts to school children and free busing to senior citizens, as well as organizing mass voter-registration drives.

Chai Ling, who was commander-in-chief of the Defend Tiananmen Square Headquarters during the 1989 democracy protests in China, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14, in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts. A student at Harvard Business School, Ling has twice been nominated for a Nobel Prize.

Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Edward James Olmos, a leading spokesman for the Hispanic community, will speak at 8 p.m. Nov. 19, in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts.

For more information on any of the lectures, contact SA President Fernando Maisonett at 645-2950.

GIFT WILL BENEFIT UB'S DIGITAL INFORMATION RESOURCES
The UB Libraries have received a gift of five multimedia workstations, valued at $28,000, from Sun Microsystems Computer Co. This will augment efforts to increase the libraries' commitment to digital information resources.

"UB wants to continue distributing comprehensive information to users of the University Libraries, but needs a more flexible and sophisticated environment than is now available," said Stephen Roberts, associate director of University Libraries. "The workstations are the first major phase in developing the next generation of information interface that's graphical in nature and tied into the Internet environment."

Workstation users will be able to access a variety of bibliographic, full-text and multimedia resources via three newly installed UNIX

servers at University Libraries or through connections to remote information servers around the world over the Internet. Presently, 400,000 transactions per day are logged onto the University Libraries' BISON online catalog and bibliographic index. With Sun's powerful and user-friendly workstations, the number of library network transactions is expected to increase.

In addition to electronic journals, the workstations will provide direct links to other resources, including local databases and Internet access to subject-oriented electronic discussion groups that promote communication and scholarly interchange among colleagues around the world.

UB's library system is nearly a year into its five-year Digital Library Initiative, which will make UB's libraries vastly more efficient and place them among the top university libraries, technologically, in the country, according to Barbara von Wahlde, UB associate vice president for University Libraries. The initiative also will bring the vast resources of the library network and the Internet directly to the desktop computers of students and staff.

CONVOCATION SET OCT. 26 FOR ENGLISH MAJORS
A convocation for English majors sponsored by The Western New York Organization of English Departments, will be held Saturday, Oct. 26 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on the second and third floors of Clemens Hall. All undergraduate English majors are invited to this first cooperative convocation offering workshops and performances, where they can meet and exchange ideas, enjoy literature and consider career choices.

The event will include a welcoming coffee session at 9:30 a.m., a buffet lunch and a conversation hour.

Six panels will be offered, as follows:

10 a.m.:
Transferring from a Two-Year College to a Four-Year School, Dr. Michael Pikus, NCCC; Dr. Robert Durante, Canisius; Counselor Larry Bolster, NCCC.

Public Relations and Advertising, how to get a job and shape a career, Blair Boone, Ph.D., writer and president of The Writer's Block: Art Directors and Communicators of Buffalo; Dom Cimei, vice president and executive director, Marketing Resources of New York; Nancy Hargrove, creative services manager, Carr Marketing and Communications.

11 a.m.:
Would You like to Create a Career in College? Dr. Kathleen C. Boone, associate dean of academic affairs and acting dean of student affairs, Daemen College.

Graduate School Admissions and the GRE Testing Process, Robert S. Newman, UB associate professor of English.

1 p.m.:
Journalism as a Career, Lee Smith, retired senior editor, Buffalo News.

Internships, Work Experiences and Law School Admissions, Victor Doyno, UB professor of English.

2 p.m.:
Eric Gansworth, NCCC, will read and discuss the composition of his published short story, "The Ballad of Plastic Fred."

3 p.m.:
Some suppressed sections of "Huckleberry Finn" will be read.

The Silverman Room, third floor, will serve for informal conversations; several other rooms will be devoted to presenting works of art and videotape interviews.

For more information, call Victor Doyno, 634-9221.

UGL HAS SATELLITE REFERENCE SERVICE
The Undergraduate Library (UGL) is offering ugl.union, a satellite reference service located on the second floor of the Student Union. UGL librarians will be available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from Oct. 21 through Nov. 22 to assist students with research questions, the UB Libraries Catalog, BISON II, and the Internet. Please stop by to see what we have to offer. If you have questions about ugl.union, contact Laura Bushallow-Wilbur at lbw@acsu.buffalo.edu or 645-2943, ext 236.

HIP-HOP GROUPS SET FOR ALUMNI ARENA
UUAB will present The Fugees and A Tribe Called Quest at 8 p.m. Oct. 28 in Alumni Arena, North Campus.

The Fugees recently hit the top of the charts with "Killing Me Softly," and their album, "The Score" is making major waves throughout the music industry. A Tribe Called Quest is familiar to hip-hop fans-the ground-breaking trio was on the House of Blues' "Smokin' Grooves Tour" this past summer along with The Fugees.