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<base href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol29/vol29n27/"> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" alink="#dddddd" vlink="#000000" link="#006699"> <table width="475" border="0"> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/images/blank.gif" alt=" " width="2" height="2" border="0"> </td> <td> <table width=99%> <tr><td> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>VOLUME 29, NUMBER 29</b></font> </td><td align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1998</b></font> </td></tr> </table> <img src="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/images/Flag.gif" alt="Reporter" width="450" height="77"> <table border="0"> <tr><td><img src="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol29/vol29n29/Graphics/cover.jpg" alt="" width="310" height="222" alt="preview day"></td> <td valign="bottom"> <p> <font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="10">Preview Day</font> <br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"> Saturday's Preview Day brought more than 1,500 accepted students and their families to the campus for lectures, receptions, tours and informational sessions. Checking out UB maps in Capen lobby are Betty Gousse, left, and Jessica Davis of New York City. </font> </td></tr></table> <br> <p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><b>Year 2000: preventing computer 'doomsday' <i>IT specialists helping UB community become aware of potential problems </i></b> </font><br> Information-technology specialists are dividing people in their organizations into two categories: those who have "gotten religion" on the Year 2000 issue (usually mid-level managers) and those who haven't (usually upper-level managers). <br> <div align="right"><a href="f1.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="1">FULL STORY</font></a></div> <p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><b>UB professor leads effort to fund GIS research</b> </font><br> A UB professor is leading the effort to increase federal funding of university research in the field of geographic information systems (GIS), applications of which are addressing important social problems ranging from the handling of medical emergencies, to fighting crime, to monitoring agricultural crops. <br> <div align="right"><a href="f2.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="1">FULL STORY</font></a></div> <p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="3"><b>Photos...</b></font><br> <center> <table width="90%" border="0"> <tr><td> · <a href="photo1.html">Dumpster Dive </a><br> </td></tr> </table> </center> <p> <a name="Top_Stories"></a><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="3"><b>Top Stories...</b></font><br> <center> <table width="90%" border="0"> <tr><td> · <a href="n1.html">Taller is better? Not necessarily, UB study says </a><br> · <a href="n2.html">King lecture: 'hip hop' history lesson </a><br> · <a href="n3.html">Change comes, but slowly, Women and Gender panel says </a><br> · <a href="n4.html">Lifetime Lessons; Professor develops a Web site describing rich tradition of blacks in mathematics </a><br> · <a href="n5.html">Athletics volunteer 'stretches' to help division </a><br> · <a href="n6.html">Improving human performance; 'Office ergonomics' adjusts the job to the individual worker </a><br> · <a href="n7.html">Summer at UB anything but lazy </a><br> · <a href="n8.html">Philosophy 'tools' can clarify contemporary issues </a><br> · <a href="n9.html">31 execs in Singapore MBA program </a><br> </td></tr> </table> </center> <p> <center> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"> <a href="front.html" target="Right">Front Page</a> | <a href="front.html#Top_Stories" target="Right">Top Stories</a> | <a href="briefly.html" target="Right">Briefly</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/Calendar.html" target="Right">Events</a> | <a href="eh.html" target="Right">Electronic Highways</a> | <a href="transitions.html" target="Right">Transitions</a> | <a href="obit.html" target="Right">Obituary</a> | <a href="sports.html" target="Right">Sports</a> <br> <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/" target="_parent">Current Issue</a> | <a href="mailto:reporter@ubnews.buffalo.edu" target="Right">Comments?</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/Archives.html" target="Right">Archives</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/Search.html" target="Right">Search</a> <br> <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/index.html" target="_parent">UB Home</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/news/index.html" target="_parent">UB News Services</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/UBT/index.html" target="_parent"><i>UB Today</i></a> </font> </center> <br> <hr noshade width="90%" size="1"> <font size="2"> The Reporter is a campus community newspaper published by the Division of University Services, State University of New York at Buffalo. 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