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<base href=""> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" alink="#dddddd" vlink="#000000" link="#006699"> <table width="475" border="0"> <tr><td> <table width=99%> <tr><td> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>VOLUME 30, NUMBER 13</b></font> </td><td align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 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="Graphics/cover.jpg" alt="" alt=""></td> <td valign="bottom"> <p> <font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="10">Nobelist at UB</font> <br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"> Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel speaks at a press conference in the Center for Tomorrow preceding his lecture Nov. 10 in UB's Distinguished Speaker Series. Wiesel has dedicated his life to relief of human suffering worldwide. His talk focused on the Holocaust and the legacy that the 20th century will leave behind.</font> </td></tr></table> <br> <p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><f1mark><b>Retention focuses on freshmen, transfers <i>Progress reports, expanded UB 101, block scheduling among initiatives to keep students</i></b> </font><br> Having successfully bolstered its undergraduate recruitment efforts, the university has turned its attention to keeping those students it worked so hard to enroll, this fall initiating new strategies and expanding existing ones designed to increase retention of freshmen and transfer students in particular. <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"><f2mark><b>Electronic-age preservation: archivists' nightmare</b> </font><br> The electronic age has transformed nearly all fields of human endeavor and one of the conundrums in its wake-how to preserve historic records-turns out to be enormous and ironic. <br> <div align="right"><a href="f2.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="1">FULL STORY</font></a></div> <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">Festschrift pays tribute to UB philosophy professor </a><br> · <a href="n2.html">Holocaust 'preventable,' Wiesel says </a><br> · <a href="n3.html">Treatment for ADHD discussed </a><br> · <a href="n4.html">Events at UB to celebrate creation of Nunavut, new Inuit territory </a><br> · <a href="n5.html">Preserving electronic documents </a><br> · <a href="n6.html">Intersession Curtailment Program </a><br> · <a href="n7.html">Five players earn academic honors </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="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/eh.html" target="Right">Electronic Highways</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/transitions.html" target="Right">Transitions</a> | <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/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. Editorial offices are located at <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/news/" target="_parent"><b>UB News Services</b></a>, 136 Crofts Hall, Amherst, NY, 14260, 716-645-2626. <br><br> The Reporter publishes in print and online every Thursday during the academic year.<br><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Director of News Services:</b></font> Arthur Page<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Associate Director of News Services:</b></font> Sue Wuetcher<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Editor:</b></font> Christine Vidal<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Associate Editor:</b></font> Joan Danzig<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Art Director:</b></font> Becky Farnham<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>News Services Editors:</b></font> Lois Baker, Patricia Donovan, Ellen Goldbaum, Mary Beth Spina<br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><b>Online Publisher:</b></font> Benjamin Edelman </font> </td></tr> </table> </body>