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Feb. 21, 2002
Vol. 21, No. 14
U r b a n a - C h a m p a i g n
Surf against surface
In This Issue
UI researchers: Tortured water ripples at contact
By James E. Kloeppel
News Bureau Staff Writer
Parenting tips
Researcher Laurie
Kramer knows there’s no
shortage of parenting
books, but fears the
information is not based
on work done by
researchers.
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photo by Bill Wiegand
Why water beads Steve Granick, a
Who is watching?
professor of materials science, chemistry and
physics at the UI, is researching why water
beads on some surfaces and not on others.
Have workplace privacy
issues been pushed to
the back burner? A UI
privacy expert reviews
the issue.
PAGE 6
IMPE project stalled;
IBHE approval needed
By Sharita Forrest
Assistant Editor
New director
The Illinois Program for
Research in the
Humanities has a new
director. Meet Suvir Kaul.
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INDEX
ACHIEVEMENTS
6
BRIEF NOTES
8
CALENDAR
10
DEATHS
4
JOB MARKET
5
ON THE JOB
3
On the Web
www.news.uiuc.edu/ii
Renovation and expansion plans for the
Urbana campus’s recreation centers have been
stalled by the Illinois Board of Higher Education because of board members’ concerns about
cost and necessity.
Plans for upgrading and expanding the
Intramural-Physical Education building and
the Campus Recreation Center East facility
were presented to the IBHE for approval at its
Feb. 5 meeting. However, in reviewing the
plans, one board member voiced concerns
about the cost and scope of the project and
asked if the modifications were “absolutely
needed” in light of the state’s and the UI’s
financial difficulties.
“We’ve sent them a long list of detailed
answers to the questions they had,” said W.
Randall Kangas, director of the Office for
Planning and Budgeting. “I fully believe that
once all those are answered, the IBHE will be
supportive of the project.”
The IBHE will address the issue again at its
next meeting on April 2.
In November 2001, Urbana students passed
a referendum to increase the general fee to pay
for the $76 million project. The UI Board of
Trustees also approved the project at its January 2002 meeting. However, capital projects
involving non-instructional facilities must also
be approved by the IBHE. ◆
Water trapped against a surface it doesn’t
like will ripple in frustration as it seeks to
escape, say researchers at the UI who reported
their findings in the Jan. 25 issue of the journal
Science.
“When water is confined between two competing surfaces, the result is neither simple
wetting nor dewetting,” said Steve Granick, a
professor of materials science, chemistry and
physics at the UI and senior author of the
Science paper. “Instead, the surface of the water
thrashes about, trying to get away from the
undesirable material.”
Why water beads on some surfaces but not
on others has puzzled scientists and engineers
for a long time. Water-repellent surfaces – such
as raincoats, plant leaves and freshly waxed
cars – are called hydrophobic, and studying
how water behaves when forced into contact
with something it doesn’t like has not been
easy.
“The problem, of course, is that the water
doesn’t want to be there,” said Granick, who
also is a researcher at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory on the UI campus. In
the past, scientists who attempted to study this
behavior by confining the water between two
hydrophobic surfaces were unsuccessful because the water would immediately squirt out –
before measurements could be taken.
Now, however, Granick and his colleagues
– postdoctoral research associate Xueyan
(Rebecca) Zhang and doctoral student Yingxi
(Elaine) Zhu – have succeeded in both pinning
down the water and its response at a hydrophobic surface. First they “glued” a drop of water
to a hydrophilic (water-loving) surface. Then
they squashed it against a water-hating surface.
Thus tricked, the water was available for
study at what Granick described as a “Janus
interface.” (In Roman mythology, Janus was
the god of change and transitions, often portrayed with two faces gazing in opposite directions.) After squeezing the drop into a thin layer
about 10 molecules thick in a modified surface
forces apparatus, the researchers carefully measured its motions.
“While surface energetics encouraged the
water to dewet the hydrophobic side of the
interface, the hydrophilic side held the water in
place, resulting in a fluctuating film of capillary
waves,” Granick said. “These waves moved in
one direction and then another, unable to escape contact with the hydrophobic surface.”
Granick compared the capillary waves to
SEE TORTURED WATER, PAGE 2
Book focuses on school response to
Japanese-American internment
By Craig Chamberlain
News Bureau Staff Writer
Sixty years ago this month – shortly after
Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor – an executive
order was signed that imprisoned JapaneseAmericans until World War II ended.
At Washington School in Seattle, that meant
one-third of its students were gone by May, sent
first to a detention center hours away and later
to an internment camp in Idaho.
As they left, the seventh- and eighth-grade
students of Ella Evanson wrote farewell letters
to their teacher. In them, they lamented leaving
school and friends. They thanked their teacher
for her kindness. And some testified to their
loyalty, clearly doubted by a country forcing
them to leave their homes. “I am a American,”
one wrote at the end of a letter. “We all hope we
will win this war,” wrote another, adding in
parentheses, “not the Japs.”
Discovered years later, the letters now serve
as the centerpiece of a new book, “Wherever I
Go, I Will Always Be a Loyal American: Schooling Seattle’s Japanese Americans During World
War II.”
In it, author Yoon Pak, a UI education professor, uses the letters and other research to
flesh out the conflicts felt not only by the
Japanese-American students, but also by their
teachers and principals.
The Seattle schools, Pak found, were part of
SEE STUDENT LETTERS, PAGE 2
photo by Bill Wiegand
Students during wartime Letters to
their teachers from seventh- and eighthgrade Japanese-American students as they
were sent to internment camps during
World War II are the centerpiece for a new
book by Yoon Pak, a UI education professor.
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InsideIllinois
Feb. 21, 2002
Tuition forum
Provost Richard Herman explains that the UI
administration will use the tuition surcharge approved
last fall to improve educational programs and not to
meet the budget shortfall caused by reduced state
funding. The proposed tuition increase, however, is
meant to help ease that financial burden.
About 25 students, faculty and staff members attended a
Feb. 6 forum at the Illini Union, which was moderated by
UI Trustee Kenneth Schmidt and Student Trustee Eamon
Kelly. While some students spoke in favor of the tuition
increase, others voiced concerns that increased tuition
will preclude out-of-state students, first-year medical
students and younger siblings from attending the UI.
UI administrators have set up several public forums and
are continuing to meet with students since the
additional 5 percent tuition increase was proposed at
the UI Board of Trustees meeting. The board is to vote on
the proposal in March.
photo by Bill Wiegand
Campus crime
Robberies, aggravated assaults, batteries and burglaries decrease
By Sharita Forrest
Assistant Editor
The incidence of robberies and aggravated assaults and batteries declined significantly during the period Sept. 1 to Dec.
31, 2001, in the UI district, according to the
latest crime statistics released by the UI
police department.
Robberies were down 42.8 percent during the period, with eight robberies reported as compared to 14 during the same
period the previous year. Seventeen robberies were reported for the same period in
the 1999-2000 academic year.
Aggravated assaults and batteries de-
clined 13.6 percent as well, with 38 reported. Forty-four aggravated assaults and
batteries were reported during the same
period the previous year.
However, the September to December
2001 figure still exceeded those for the
corresponding periods of the academic years
1999-2000 (28 reports) and 1998-1999 (37).
“The decline in reported aggravated assaults, batteries and robberies is what we
are hoping to see as a result of our educational efforts and information sharing,” said
UI police Capt. Krystal Fitzpatrick. “We
will continue with our education and reeducation efforts on how to avoid becom-
TORTURED WATER, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
their much bigger brethren that roll across found near patchy hydrophilic-hydrophothe surface of a pond. “Unlike a pond, bic surfaces that are ubiquitous in nature.
however, where the waves ripple against
“With proteins, for example, the sidethe air, at the Janus interface the waves chains of roughly half of the amino acids
ripple against a surface,” he said. “The are hydrophilic, while the other half are
undulating tips of the capillary waves briefly hydrophobic,” Granick said. “The non-mixcontacted the hydrophobic surface, then ing of the two is a major mechanism steermoved off and touched the surface at an- ing protein folding and other self-assembly
other point.”
processes.”
The researchers’ findings may aid in
The U.S. Department of Energy supunderstanding the structure of water films ported the research. ◆
STUDENT LETTERS, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
an “interculturalism” movement in educa- according to a Seattle school system newstion that emphasized tolerance and plural- letter, the principal reminded her student
ism as part of a democratic ideal. In a body: “You were American citizens last
wartime atmosphere of growing hatred and Friday; you are American citizens today.
suspicion, it was a message that Japanese- You were friends last Friday; you are friends
American students and their peers needed today.”
In those instances and others, the Seattle
to hear, said Pak, a Korean-American who
educators “acted as moral agents … in the
grew up in the Seattle area.
The message of tolerance got special context of injustice,” Pak wrote. “They
emphasis at Washington School on the first knew that the political forces of the Second
day after Pearl Harbor, a Monday, when World War and the incarceration could not
principal Arthur Sears spoke at a special be stopped … However, they knew that the
school assembly. “He spoke to us about not principles of democracy, on which the
hating each other first because we have United States stands, needed reinforcing,
mixed nationalities in this school,” wrote especially for their (Japanese-American)
one Japanese-American student in an as- students.”
Pak thinks the message and the attention
signment for Evanson. “Mr. Sears told us
that if even we have a different color face, made a difference for many of those stuit’s alright because we’re American Citi- dents. Some of Evanson’s students kept writing her letters, not only from their internzen,” wrote another.
At another school’s assembly that day, ment camps but also for decades after. ◆
ing a victim. I believe that Sept. 11 may
have had some bearing on the decrease as
well because it made some people more
conscious of the possibility of violence and
more attentive about their surroundings.”
The number of criminal sexual assaults
reported remained unchanged for the third
year in a row at seven.
All of the criminal sexual assaults as well
as the majority of the aggravated assaults and
batteries and robberies occurred in the district’s
northwest quadrant and not on UI property.
The northwest quadrant of the university
reporting district is an area roughly bounded
by University Avenue on the north, Daniel
Street and Gregory Drive on the south, Wright
Street on the east and the railroad tracks east
of Neil Street on the west.
Consistent with data from the previous
two years’ September to December reporting periods, the majority of the aggravated
assault/battery and robbery victims were
males between the ages of 18 and 20. Most
of the crimes were perpetrated by strangers
on UI students.
The majority of the aggravated assaults
and batteries occurred on Saturday and
Sunday nights between midnight and 3 a.m.
However, fewer victims and suspects had
been consuming alcohol than during the
prior two years.
Residential burglaries during the period
increased 4.2 percent to 74 from 71 the
previous year.
Burglaries from motor vehicles declined
3.7 percent, from 81 to 78, half the number
reported during the corresponding period
of the 1999-2000 academic year.
Three burglaries of motor vehicle parts
were reported from Sept. 1 to Dec. 31,
2001; one had been reported during the
same period the preceding year.
The number of public indecency and
Peeping Tom cases remained unchanged
over the prior year at three; likewise, the
number of home invasions remained unchanged at two.
The UI reporting district covers an area
extending from University Avenue on the
north to Windsor Road on the south, Race
Street on the east and the railroad tracks just
east of Neil Street on the west. ◆
correction
In the Senate article in the Feb. 7 issue of Inside Illinois, the affiliation for Jenny Barrett,
a senior research programmer in the department of psychology, was listed incorrectly.
In speaking before the senate, Barrett was representing the Association of Academic
Professionals.
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Sharita Forrest
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News Bureau contributors:
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InsideIllinois
Feb. 21, 2002
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On the job David Shunk
Dave Shunk, a clerk in the
Law Library, has been
active in community theater
for more than 20 years.
Shunk is currently playing
the role of King Pellinore in
the production of
“Camelot” at the Fine Arts
Center in Tuscola. He has
directed and written plays
and is one of the partners in
The Simple Little Play
Company, which has
produced four comedies,
including “The Odd Couple”
and “Three Murders and It’s
Only Monday.”
photo by Bill Wiegand
How did you get involved in acting?
Our high school didn’t have a theater program
per se because it got cut due to the budget. We
had a woman in town who wanted to get it
started back up and volunteered to do a small
play during the school year. She was one of the
board members of the Villa Grove Community
Theater and recruited those of us who were in
the play. We did summer musicals for probably
15 years then began branching out and doing
two or three shows a year.
What roles have you played?
My first role was Herr Zeller in “The Sound of
Music.” I’ve played villains. I’ve played
sidekicks. I’ve played leads. I played Oscar in
“The Odd Couple.” I played General Bullmoose
in “Li’l Abner.” I played Harry Monday, a spoof
on the Sam Spade detective character, in
“Three Murders and It’s Only Monday.” The
character parts tend to be more fun because
they’re eccentric, but it depends on the role. I’ve
also directed about five plays. I’ve also done a little
set designing, but my skills are in the very
developmental stages. Some of us in the group have
tried writing plays too, so I’ve dabbled in that, too, in
the last year.
Do have any preference as to the type of
production?
I like doing the comedies. I don’t mind the musicals,
but they require a lot more work. I can sing but I’m
not comfortable singing in front of people. With the
plays, I feel you get to do more with the characters
because the plot is character-driven. Generally, with
musicals you’ve got your four main characters and
most of the other characters just come in for a few
scenes. In plays the cast is small and the majority
are on stage most of the time. With a musical, you
may come on and sing and then be backstage for an
hour. With “Camelot,” my character, King Pellinore,
doesn’t come into the show until Scene Five. So
you’re sitting backstage for an hour and 15 minutes
trying to keep in character until you can go on.
What have you learned over the course of your
acting career?
Comedy is hard. Some people can’t do it no matter
how hard they try. It has a lot to do with timing,
how you say the lines, your body language. It’s the
delivery that’s important to really make it funny.
I’ve been able to do that pretty well.
With all the productions you’ve been in, have you
had anything funny happen onstage?
The last musical I did, about six years ago, was
“Annie.” The director was just determined to have
us use a real dog onstage, and every night the dog
would do its business onstage while little Annie
sang “Tomorrow.” I think we did eight shows and
five out of the eight times that dog did its business
while we were out there. We’ve had a couple of
guys almost lose their pants onstage. One didn’t
have anything on underneath, we found out, but
they didn’t fall all the way down, thank goodness.
We’ve had props not show up, and you turn to get
it and it’s not there. We’ve had scenes where
somebody skipped a page in their lines, and we
had to figure out how to go back because there
was something important that got skipped. We’ve
had people get caught out onstage during a scene
change, and they’ve had to hide behind a rock or a
tree or a pillar until we got done with the scene.
Tell me a little bit about your work here at the
university. How long have you been here?
Twelve years, all here at the Law Library. I actually
graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a
bachelor’s degree in science. I do serial materials
check in. My main job is checking in and processing the foreign law materials. I’m on a serials
implementation team over at the main library
that’s one of several committees looking at how
we can transfer our work over to the new Voyager
library system that is being installed over the next
year.
– Interview by Sharita Forrest
UI Arabic language program growing, now includes online component
By Andrea Lynn
News Bureau Staff Writer
photo by Bill Wiegand
Fastest growing UI’s Arabic language program is “one of the
biggest in the country in terms of numbers of students who
regularly take Arabic,” says the coordinator of the program,
Elabbas Benmamoun, a professor of linguistics.
Oddly enough, one of the fastest growing Arabic language programs in the United States isn’t in
a metropolis, but rather, at a university in the rural
Midwest.
The UI now offers 10 sections a year in Arabic;
more than 100 students are enrolled this semester
– a substantial increase over the last five years. The
program includes courses in all levels of standard
and colloquial Arabic. A course in “Business Arabic” – a mixture of standard and Egyptian Arabic
– is being developed, as is a Web-based language
project called “Arabic-Online” (www.linguistics.
uiuc.edu/arabic/). In the next two years the UI will
hire a professor of Arabic literature, and a minor in
Islamic studies will be offered.
The UI program is “one of the biggest in the
country in terms of numbers of students who
regularly take Arabic,” says the coordinator of the
program, Elabbas Benmamoun, a professor of
linguistics. “Also, we are one of the few programs
that offer both standard and colloquial Arabic.”
Arabic is a “relatively difficult” language to
learn, Benmamoun concedes. It uses a writing
system, or script, which is different from English,
and it’s written from right to left. Also, it doesn’t
share as many cognates with English as Romance
languages do. “In these respects, it is like Chinese
or Japanese,” he said.
Benmamoun’s own research focuses on Arabic
syntax, sentence structure and word derivations in
standard Arabic and the modern dialects. He also is
interested in what he describes as “the language
situation in the Arab world, and its social, political
and educational dimensions.” Recently he wrote an
article about the history of the situation in Morocco
since the Islamic conquest.
“In Morocco,” he said, “four languages occupy the linguistic space: classical Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Berber and French. The complex
interplay between these languages is driven by
religion, ethnicity and issues of identity, education and development. In the article, I deal with
the historical background to explain how the
current linguistic situation evolved over the last
14 centuries.”
UI graduate students also are conducting research on various aspects of Arabic.
“I would say that we have one of the largest
numbers of such students in the country. They are
working on Arabic syntax, sociolinguistics, semantics, Arabic as a second language and the
acquisition of Arabic. The linguistics department
has produced a large number of graduates with
expertise in Arabic, again, one of the largest in the
country.”
Still, the state of Arabic language programs in
the United States is wanting.
“It is in need of improvement in terms of methods of delivery, quality of textbooks and integration of technology. More funding is needed to
undertake the necessary improvements and accommodate the increase in demand.” ◆
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InsideIllinois
Feb. 21, 2002
Young faculty member finds both roles satisfying in mentoring relationships
By Sharita Forrest
Assistant Editor
Just like in the movie, Tiffany Barnett
White is “paying it forward.”
Because mentors have played such an
integral role in her development, Barnett
White, a professor of business administration, wants to offer the same kind of support
and guidance to her students now that she is
a member of the UI faculty.
“I have had tremendous success with
mentors, so it is super important for me to
give some back,” Barnett White said.
On a bookshelf in Barnett White’s office
in David Kinley Hall is a blue hat emblazoned with “UI McNair Faculty Mentor”
signifying one means through which Barnett
White has given back. The Ronald E. McNair
Scholars program, administered by the Office of Minority Student Affairs, offers cultural activities and educational enrichment
programs, including summer research opportunities for juniors and seniors.
Barnett White collaborates with undergraduate McNair scholars on summer research projects. The program enables students to gain a feel for the challenges of
graduate school and fosters mentoring relationships as the students work closely with
faculty members on their projects.
“The ultimate goal of the McNair program is to diversify faculty and to place
people in graduate school,” said Michael
Jeffries, associate dean of students. “Our
faculty have been phenomenal in getting
that message across and in their desire to
help students.”
Calling herself a “come-from-behind
girl,” Barnett White said that students like
her from inner-city schools may find the
competition and complexity of the university environment daunting.
“You come here and you are competing
against kids who went to really superb
schools that just have resources that you
never even knew you were missing,” Barnett
White said. “I think that those students are
most in need of a helping hand to just sort of
expose them to the possibilities.”
Furthermore, since she was at neither
end of the academic spectrum as a student –
neither an exceptional achiever nor at risk
for failure – Barnett White said she felt she
had fallen into a void where there were no
specific programs designed to support and
guide her. Through her two roommates,
Barnett White found the OMSA.
Barnett White was a self-described
“clueless” sophomore when she stumbled
into assistant dean of students Otis Williams’ office in OMSA asking for help selecting a major. With help from Williams
and OMSA, Barnett White not only found a
major, advertising, but through OMSA’s
programs and Williams’ tutelage also
learned how to market herself so she could
land a job and gain admission to graduate
school.
It was while she was pursuing her
master’s degree in advertising at the UI that
Barnett White became a graduate counselor
through OMSA and first became a mentor
for other students.
Now that she is a member of the faculty,
Barnett White considers mentoring an important part of her vocation, an aspect she
finds fun and meaningful.
“I really like to grab a sophomore stu-
dent and say, ‘So you really want to go to
graduate school? Let me try to help you,’ ”
Barnett White said.
One such student was Micyelia (Mikki)
Wyatt, who was a sophomore when Barnett
White became her mentor through the
McNair program.
Now a senior, Wyatt has maintained her
mentoring relationship with Barnett White
and has found her an invaluable resource
and a supportive friend.
“I think she has opened a lot of doors for
me,” Wyatt said. “Most of my professors
are men and to see a black woman in the
field I am in motivates me. I have a better
idea what I want to do because of her
guidance.”
When Wyatt’s application was rejected,
Barnett White helped her gain admission to
the PhD Project, an alliance of corporations
and higher education institutions that aims
to diversify business school faculties and
the workforce.
Barnett White also has assisted Wyatt in
developing effective study habits and in
selecting a graduate school. Wyatt plans to
graduate in May and study marketing in
graduate school.
“Without her as my mentor, I am sure
my path would be much different,” Wyatt
said. “I have a better idea of what I want to
do because of her guidance.”
Barnett White jokingly calls herself a
“pseudo career counselor” because she has
helped so many timorous students sort out
their vocational dreams and opportunities.
She has ministered to many a student as
they have perched or lounged in the armchair in her office, agonizing over scholarly
and personal crises, such as conflicts with
their parents over money and career aspirations and flubbed job interviews. She has
even soothed some self-doubting students
who have panicked when faced with remarkable opportunities.
“One of my little buddies called me the
other day and said, ‘I got into Harvard Law
School! Now what do I do?’ “ Barnett
White said with a laugh.
In addition to being a mentor, Barnett
White continues to be mentored. She has
sustained relationships with two of the UI
professors who mentored her while she was
a graduate student in advertising: Cele
Otnes and Sharon Shavitt.
Otnes and Shavitt, fellow faculty members in the department of business administration, critique Barnett White’s work and
bolster her flagging spirit as she struggles
to establish herself in her field.
Barnett White is finding that persistence
is the watchword for those pursuing careers
in academia, and Otnes and Shavitt coach
and encourage her as she toils through
round after round of revisions and prepares
to send rejected articles out once more.
Saying she feels more like a “mentee”
than a “mentor,” Barnett White, in turn,
counsels her students that if a “come-frombehind” girl like her can accomplish her
goals, they can too.
“I just surrounded myself with people
who believed in me,” Barnett White said.
“Now I try to be somebody who encourages
my students and says, ‘You can do it.’ People
just need to know that people like them or
worse succeeded and that is the encouragement they need to keep trying.” ◆
Guiding
hand
Tiffany
Barnett White
(right),
professor of
business
administration,
meets with
senior
Micyelia
(Mikki) Wyatt.
Barnett White
began
mentoring
Wyatt as part
of the UI
Ronald E.
McNair
Scholars
program. “I
have a better
idea what I
want to do
because of her
guidance,”
Wyatt said.
photo by Bill Wiegand
deaths
Charles J. Ellis, 74, died Feb. 9 at Provena
Covenant Medical Center, Urbana. Ellis
began working in the Division of Operation and Maintenance as a building services worker in 1981. He retired in 1990.
Memorials: American Cancer Society.
Cheryl A. Frichtl, 38, died Feb. 15 at her
Arcola home. She had worked at WILLTV as a television broadcast equipment
operator since 1997. Memorials: to a
fund for her children’s education.
Wilbert Thomas Hart, 70, died Feb. 3 at
Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Hart
started in 1956 as a groundskeeper in the
Division of Operation and Maintenance
and retired as a steam distribution operator at the Physical Plant in 1990 after
more than 28 years of service. Memorials: Urbana VFW Post 630.
Mary O. Hubbard, 93, died Feb. 9. She
taught in the home economics department. Memorials: Covenant Hospice,
1005 W. College Blvd., Suite B,
Niceville, FL 32578.
Evelyn B. Moran, 79, died Feb. 9 at
Provena Covenant Medical Center, Urbana. Moran worked as a kitchen helper
for Housing and the Illini Union from
1963 to 1971. Memorials: Provena Covenant Medical Center Hospice Care program.
C. Ladd Prosser, 94, died Feb. 3 at
Meadowbrook Health Care Center, Urbana. Prosser was an assistant and associate professor in the UI zoology department from 1939 to 1949, professor of
physiology from 1949 to 1975, and was
head of the physiology and biophysics
departments from 1960 to 1969. He was
named professor emeritus in 1975. Memorials: Unitarian Universalist Church
or donor’s choice.
Jane D. Scofield, 57, died Feb. 5 at
Provena Covenant Medical Center, Urbana. Scofield had worked as a kitchen
helper in Gregory Drive Residence Halls
since 1985.
Darrell A. Scott, 42, died Feb. 11 at his
Champaign home. He worked in food
services for the Division of Housing
from 2000 to 2001.
Stephanie Terry, 32, died Feb. 12 at
Provena Covenant Medical Center, Urbana. She had worked as an extra help
office assistant II since 1997. Memorials: A trust fund for Demario and Brittney
Hayes in care of Salem Baptist Church
and Lillian Terry.
Leif H. Thompson, 58, died Feb. 14 at
his Philo home. Thompson was a professor in the department of animal sciences.
He retired in 1999. Memorials: Wesley
United Methodist Church, 1203 W.
Green St., Urbana, IL 61801 or Community Blood Services of Illinois, 1408 W.
University Ave., Urbana, IL 61801.
Wanda Whitton, 82, died Feb. 9 at the
Champaign County Nursing Home, Urbana. She worked in accounting from
1946 until 1982, retiring as a chief clerk
of business office accounting. Memorials: Diabetes Foundation or the American Cancer Society. ◆
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Feb. 21, 2002
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Media ignore research-based advice that would smooth sibling ties
By Jim Barlow
News Bureau Staff Writer
Two UI researchers duly note in a new study
that welcoming a second child into a family and
helping the children establish sibling relationships involves many challenging tasks. Unfortunately,
they say, the advice parents
are getting falls short.
Most troubling is that
“pronounced gaps exist between the advice offered in
popular press materials and
the available research,” the authors wrote in the
January issue of Family Relations, a quarterly
journal of the National Council on Family Relations.
Research-based strategies for helping older
children establish a positive relationship with a
new sibling don’t get sufficient emphasis in the
popular press, said Laurie Kramer, a professor
of applied family studies in the department of
human and community development.
In their study, Kramer and postdoctoral researcher Dawn Ramsburg reviewed 47 popular
books published in 1975-2000; 16 were devoted solely to sibling relationships, and 31 had
related chapters.
Absent, they said, was a recognition of the
changing face of the family. The number of
working mothers increased from 31 percent to
59 percent in those years, “but there is very little
being written that speaks to dads, and a lot of
what has been written is really insulting,” Kramer
said. “Much of it is written for women about
how men could get involved. It doesn’t acknowledge that dads have their own pressing
interest in learning to relate better to their kids.”
They also found “a real disconnect between
the types of information that families want and
need and the kind of information that they are
finding in the popular press,” she said. “A lot of
what is out there is based on people’s ideas about
what should work for families, based on conventional
wisdom or personal experience, and a lot of that information has not been tested for its
accuracy.”
Too much attention, for example, is devoted to optimum
spacing between children, with a wide range of
conclusions, she said. Writers also dwelled on
how to prepare for a second baby, such as what
and when to tell an older child, and how much of
a care-giving role an older child should have, but
the advice doesn’t go far enough, Kramer said.
Based on her own studies and a review of
recent research, Kramer said, “we find that when
that second child is born doesn’t account for a
whole lot of difference in terms of how well
children get along.” Much of her research focuses on factors that set the stage for positive
sibling relationships. Older children learn to
respect a younger child, she said, when they are
coached both on the changes a baby will bring
and on how a baby will be a new person “with its
own needs and ideas and feelings.”
There is a need for reliable information for
parents, pediatricians, educators and child-care
providers, Kramer said. Writers need to be better
tuned into the research, she said, as much as the
scientists need to be working harder to address
the issues that are important to families.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture supported the research. ◆
research
news
photo by Bill Wiegand
Research-based strategies Laurie Kramer, a professor of
applied family studies in the department of human and
community development, said that research-based strategies for
helping older children establish a positive relationship with a new
sibling don’t get sufficient emphasis in the popular press.
job market
The Office of Academic Human Resources,
Suite 420, 807 S. Wright St., maintains listings
of academic openings that can be reviewed
during regular business hours. Listings also are
available online. Academic professional positions
are listed at www.uihr.uillinois.edu/jobs. Faculty
job opportunity information can be found at
http://webster.uihr.uiuc.edu/ahr/jobs/index.asp.
Prospective employees and students can receive
e-mail notification of open positions by subscribing to the academic jobs listserve (look under
Career Information at http://
webster.uihr.uiuc.edu/ahr/default.asp#acjob).
academic professional
Administrative Information Technology Services.
Research programmer (enterprise application integration – analyst/2 positions). Bachelor’s and two years’
experience in business process analysis, Web design,
Web application development, relational databases,
logical and physical database design, object-oriented
concepts and Unix platform and SQL required. Available immediately. Contact AITS, Human Resources,
[email protected]. Closing date: March 5.
Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. Research specialist in agribusiness management. Master’s in agribusiness management, agricultural economics or a related field and strong training in
systems dynamics and visualization required. Available: March 15. Contact Steven Sonka, 244-1706, [email protected]. Closing date: Feb. 28.
Animal Sciences. Computer-assisted instructional
specialist. MS with two years’ relevant work experience in the use of computer-based instructional material or BS with five years’ experience; significant
animal science background; significant experience
with Web-based course development and course management software required. Available: Aug. 21. Contact Chair of Search Committee, c/o Evonne Hausman,
333-2624. Closing date: April 30.
Animal Sciences. Research specialist in agriculture.
Bachelor’s and two years’ experience or master’s in
related field with experience in molecular biology;
experience with DNA isolation, PCR, RT-PCR, RNA
extraction; and good computer skills required. Avail-
able immediately. Contact Jon Beever, 333-4194 or [email protected]. Closing date: Feb. 28.
Beckman Institute. Senior systems administrator.
Bachelor’s and five years’ professional experience as
administrator of a mixed-OS computer network required. Available: March 1. Contact Lori Heil, 2440170 or [email protected]. Closing date: Feb. 25.
Business and Financial Services – Accounting
Division. Visiting business and financial specialist.
Bachelor’s in accounting, administration or finance
and two years’ experience in accounting or related
field required. Available immediately. Contact Rebecca
Moyer, [email protected]. Closing date: March 15.
Business and Financial Services – Payroll Operations. Assistant director, payroll operations. Bachelor’s
degree in business or accounting, five years’ supervisory managerial experience in payroll or tax compliance required. Available immediately. Contact Laurie
Pitner, [email protected]. Closing date: March 1.
Crop Sciences. Senior research specialist in agriculture. PhD in crop sciences, plant pathobiology, microbiology, or related discipline required. Available:
March 25. Contact Glen Hartman, 244-3258 or
[email protected]. Closing date: March 5.
Electrical and Computer Engineering. Grants and
contracts specialist. Bachelor’s in business-related
field and three years’ experience in research administration; university experience required. Available immediately. Contact S. Tankersley, 333-2811 or
[email protected]. Closing date: Feb. 22.
Environmental Health and Safety. Assistant director. PhD in relevant field of science and two years’
related experience; or master’s in relevant field of
science and five years’ related experience; or bachelor’s
in relevant field of science and eight years’ related
experience required. Available immediately. Contact
David Wilcoxen, 333-2755. Closing date: March 29.
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Member services coordinator. Bachelor’s and one
year’s teaching experience required. Available immediately. Contact Dorlene Clark, 333-3281, 244-3302 (fax),
or [email protected]. Closing date: March 11.
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Assistant
to the lighting director. BA or BFA; ability to supervise large crews and take initiative when needed;
knowledge of ETC instrumentation, dimming and
control systems; strong desire to teach and work
closely with students; and computer skills (i.e. CAD,
Lightwright, etc.) required. Available: Aug. 21. Contact Michael Williams, 333-6700.
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Specialist, assistant director, computer information and access. Bachelor’s degree and two years’ experience
with computer technology and practical experience in
one of the performing arts in a professional, educational or amateur capacity required. Available: Aug.
21. Contact Gary Bernstein, 333-6700. Closing date:
March 29.
Microbiology. Research specialist in life sciences.
Bachelor’s degree required. Available: March 11.
Contact Diane Combs, 601 S. Goodwin Ave., MC110. Closing date: March 4.
Molecular and Integrative Physiology. Research specialist in life sciences. BS in biology, biochemistry,
chemistry or related field required. Available immediately. Contact Denice Wells, 333-1734, 333-1133 (fax)
or [email protected]. Closing date: April 1.
Professional Development and Public Service. Visiting assistant to the director. Bachelor’s and two
years’ experience in budget management or related
field required. Available immediately. Contact Cindy
Reiter, 333-0960, [email protected]. Closing date:
Feb. 22.
Veterinary Clinical Medicine. Visiting veterinary
research specialist. BS in biology, biochemistry or a
related field with one year’s laboratory experience
required. Available immediately. Contact Nicole
Ehrhart, 333-6314 or [email protected]. Closing date:
March 6.
faculty
Agricultural Engineering. Assistant/associate professor. PhD in agricultural, environmental, civil mechanical or closely related engineering field required.
Available: Aug. 21. Contact Yuanhui Zhang, 3332693 or [email protected]. Closing date: April 15.
Library. Middle Eastern studies librarian and assistant,
associate, or full professor of library administration.
MLS from ALA-accredited library school or its equivalent; strong English language communication skills;
language and subject expertise in Arabic and the Middle
East as well as knowledge and understanding of Middle
Eastern culture required. Available immediately. Contact Cindy Kelly, 333-8168 or [email protected].
Closing date: March 29.
Library. Music digital services coordinator and assistant or associate professor of library administration.
Master’s or equivalent from ALA-accredited library
school and bachelor’s in music or equivalent; two
years’ experience in academic music library; experience providing reference service and creating and
maintaining Web pages and Web-based resources;
ability to read German or French required. Available:
Aug. 21. Contact: Cindy Kelly, 333-8169 or
[email protected]. Closing date: April 1.
Library. Reference law librarian and assistant professor of library administration. MLS from ALA-accredited program or equivalent; JD from ABA-accredited
program or equivalent; strong service orientation;
working knowledge of Westlaw, Lexis and the Internet
required. Available: April 1. Contact Janis Johnston,
333-8168 or [email protected]. Closing date: March
29.
Library. South Asian studies librarian and assistant,
associate, or full professor of library administration.
MLS from ALA-accredited library school; strong
English language communication skills; language and
subject expertise in South Asia, especially Hindi and
Sanskrit, and knowledge and understanding of South
Asian culture required. Available immediately. Contact Cindy Kelly, 333-8168 or [email protected].
Closing date: March 29.
staff
Personnel Services Office is located at 52 E.
Gregory Drive, Champaign. For information about
PSO’s Employment Information Program, which
provides information to those seeking staff
employment at the university, visit the Personnel
Services Office Web site at www.pso.uiuc.edu.
Paper employment applications or paper civil
service exam requests are no longer accepted by
PSO. To complete an online employment
application and to submit an exam request, visit
the online Employment Center at
www.uihr.uillinois.edu/jobs.
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Feb. 21, 2002
Implications of monitoring employee behavior need to be reviewed
By Mark Reutter
News Bureau Staff Writer
Private electronic monitoring of employee behavior grows apace even as questions over the government’s right to track
intimate data on citizens have grown more
heated among some lawmakers and civil
libertarians.
The Bush administration’s proposal to
sniff out terrorists by giving government
agencies power to spy on citizen e-mail,
mine electronic databases and plant surveillance equipment has raised hackles from
both conservatives and liberals.
Ironically, such measures are almost
routine in corporate America, according to
Big brother?
Matthew W.
Finkin, a UI law
professor, has
written
extensively on
workplace privacy
issues. “Long
before Sept. 11,
technology was
creating a
workplace where
phone calls, voice
mail and e-mail
messages were
regularly
monitored by
employers,”
Finkin said.
photo by Bill Wiegand
achievements
business administration
James Gentry, IBE Distinguished Professor of Finance, received the first Midwest
Finance Association Lifetime Achievement
Award. The award recognizes members
who have made significant contributions to
the association. The association’s board
also voted unanimously to rename the CFO
Breakfast, held at the association’s annual
meeting, the James Gentry Distinguished
Financial Executive Presentation.
The association develops and disseminates information on the finance discipline
to its members, who are academicians and
practitioners. The association fulfills its
mission through annual professional meetings and sponsorship of the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance.
Marianne Ferber, professor emerita of economics, was honored by the Committee on
the Status of Women in the Economics Profession at the Allied Social Science Association Convention in Atlanta in January.
Ferber was named a co-recipient of the
Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, which was created in 1998 to honor a person who has
furthered the status of women in the economics profession, through example,
achievements, increasing the understanding of how women can advance in the
economics profession, or the mentoring of
others.
Ferber was cited for being an outstanding example to students for decades, a
teacher and a researcher who followed her
heart, focusing her work on benefiting
women. She edited, with Julie Nelson, “Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and
Economics,” which a nominator said
marked the beginning of academic respectability for feminist economics.
Ferber shares the Shaw award with
former UI colleague Francine Blau, the
Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and
Labor Relations at Cornell University.
a UI privacy expert. “Long before Sept. 11,
technology was creating a workplace where
phone calls, voice mail and e-mail messages were regularly monitored by employers,” said Matthew W. Finkin, a UI law
professor, who has written extensively on
workplace privacy issues.
Before the terrorist attacks, Congress
was considering measures to protect privacy, and opinion polls showed that Americans were concerned about the issue. Today the question of privacy in the workplace has been pushed onto the back burner.
“There are no standards, legal or otherwise, that exist for limiting the collection or
utilization of personal information about
employees in cyberspace,” Finkin pointed
out. “The only law on the books, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, permits systematic employer monitoring so
long as employees have notice or so long as
it is done as a matter of routine for business
purposes.”
The Internet revolution has spurred a
long-term push by employers to monitor
employee behavior. “Data for 2001 indicate that 77.7 percent of large companies
responding to a survey by the American
Management Association record and re-
view employee communications or other
activities on the job by monitoring e-mail
messages and computer files,” Finkin said.
Of the estimated 41 million “online”
employees whose e-mail or Internet access
is monitored, about 14 million workers are
under “continuous” surveillance as opposed
to spot checks or “reasonable suspicion”
searches of computer records.
The reason for heightened business surveillance involves several factors, Finkin
said. Many businesses are concerned that
employees “surf the net” while at work,
especially (until the stock market bubble
burst) for financial data or stock trading.
Others worry about potential liability for
the transmission and display of pornographic material over company computers
or on employee home pages accessible to
the public. A final concern is the transmission of trade secrets and other confidential
information over the Internet.
While employers do have legitimate
concerns, Finkin believes that the implications of cyber-monitoring should be reviewed. “There are lots of needs of commerce that could be satisfied without sacrificing privacy or revealing unnecessary information about employees,” he said. ◆
A report on honors, awards, offices and other outstanding achievements of faculty and staff members
Ferber and Blau are co-authors of “The
Economics of Women, Man and Work,”
(the latest edition with Anne Winkler), a
standard text on women in the economy.
dads association
The Dads Association at the UI has honored an outstanding staff member and outstanding student with its Certificate of Merit
Awards.
Dennis May, a clinical counselor for the
UI Counseling Center, was named the Outstanding Staff Member. May was honored
for his excellent counseling skills and commitment to helping students and staff members. Nominator Abbie Broga, assistant
dean of students, described May as “extremely supportive but practical and realistic at the same time.”
The Marching Illini also received a Special Recognition Award from the Dads
Association in gratitude for the many contributions the organization has made to the
prestige and traditions of the UI.
engineering
Gordon A. Baym, Center for Advanced
Study Professor of Physics, has been selected as the 2002 recipient of the Hans A.
Bethe Prize from the American Physical
Society.
The prize, which recognizes Baym for
“superb synthesis of fundamental concepts,
which have provided an understanding of
matter at extreme conditions, ranging from
crusts and interiors of neutron stars to matter at ultrahigh temperature,” will be presented April 22 at the society’s meeting in
Albuquerque, N.M.
Baym has been a leader in the study of
matter under extreme conditions in astrophysics and nuclear physics. He has made
original, seminal contributions to the understanding of neutron stars, relativistic
effects in nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, quantum fluids and Bose-
Einstein condensates. His work is characterized by a superb melding of basic theoretical physics concepts, from condensed
matter to nuclear to elementary particle
physics.
Paul V. Braun, professor of materials science
and engineering, received the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society’s Robert Lansing
Hardy Award for 2002. This award recognizes a young person in the field of metallurgy
who demonstrates promise for a successful
career. In addition, the winner receives a $500
stipend from the Ford Motor Co.
Thomas S. Huang, the William L. Everitt
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, has been elected a Foreign Member of
the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Huang’s research centers on image-sequence processing and its applications to
digital television, pattern recognition and
computer animation. The technology he
helped create has been widely used in digital television, computer graphics and robotics.
The academy is China’s most prestigious academic and advisory institution in
engineering and technological sciences. Its
missions are to promote the progress of
engineering and technological sciences,
foster the growth of outstanding talents in
collaboration with the engineering and technological community, and enhance international cooperation in order to facilitate
sustainable economic and social development in China. The academy named its
seven new foreign members Dec. 12.
fine and applied arts
James P. Warfield, professor of architecture, was awarded the 2001-02 Distinguished Professor Award by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
The award is the highest honor bestowed
by the association, an organization that
includes 115 accredited architecture programs in the United States and Canada and
120 affiliate programs worldwide. Each
year, the association gives the award to a
professor at a member school who has
demonstrated sustained achievement in the
advancement of architectural education
through teaching, design, scholarship, research and service.
The lifetime achievement award recognizes Warfield for his “stimulating and
nurturing influence upon students” and for
“teaching that inspired a generation of students who have themselves contributed to
the advancement of architecture.”
Warfield’s teaching focuses on design
studios emphasizing cultural responsiveness in projects of international scope. His
research addresses worldwide vernacular
architecture and its relevance to contemporary design.
liberal arts and sciences
Thomas B. Rauchfuss, professor of chemistry and director of the School of Chemical
Sciences, has been selected as the 2002
recipient of the Award in Inorganic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society.
The award, which recognizes Rauchfuss
for his outstanding research in the preparation, properties and reactions of inorganic
substances, will be presented April 8 at the
society’s meeting in Orlando, Fla.
Rauchfuss’ research focuses on the synthesis and reactivity of new inorganic and
organometallic compounds. His current
work includes the design of organometallic
boxes, bowls and tubes as nanoscale containers; the synthesis of look-alike enzymes
that produce hydrogen; and the development of new catalysts for removing sulfur
from petroleum for cleaner-burning fuels.
Founded in 1876, the society has more
than 163,000 members worldwide.◆
InsideIllinois
Feb. 21, 2002
IPRH Fellowships,
post-docs announced
By Andrea Lynn
News Bureau Staff Writer
Six faculty members and six graduate
students at the UI have been awarded fellowships to the UI’s Illinois Program for
Research in the Humanities for 2002-2003.
Fellowships will support research over
the coming academic year on projects that
consider IPRH’s new theme: “The South.”
Fellows also will take part in the yearlong
Fellows’ Seminar and present their research
at IPRH’s annual conference in late spring
2003. Current fellows will present their
research at the 2002 annual conference,
which will be held April 4-7 and will focus
on the 2001-2002 theme, “The Means of
Reproduction.”
2002-2003 IPRH Faculty Fellows, their
departments and projects:
■ Nancy Castro, English, “A Southern
Problem Writ Large: The Caribbean as
U.S. Laboratory”
■ S. Max Edelson, history, “Developing
Plantation America: The Politics of
Territorial Expansion in Virginia, South
Carolina and Jamaica, 1607-1776”
■ Zsuzsanna Fagyal, French, “Assimilation or Clash? Contemporary Parisian
French in Contact With Immigrant Languages From the South”
■ Lauren M.E. Goodlad, English, “Victorian Literature and Liberal Internationalism: British Encounters With the
South”
■ Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Spanish, Italian and
Portuguese, “Diagonal Australity:
Southern Identities in Argentine Culture”
■ Shannon O’Lear, geography, “Environmental and Human Security in ‘The
South’: The Case of Azerbaijan”
2002-2003 IPRH Graduate Student Fellows, departments and projects:
■ Ian Binnington, history, “ ‘They Have
Made a Nation’: Confederates and the
Creation of Confederate Nationalism”
■ Jonathan Coit, history, “Racial Boundaries, Racial Violence: Chicago, 19161922”
■ Sherita Lavon Johnson, English, “To
Speak and Be Heard: Representing Black
Southern Women in American Literature”
■ Samuel Martland, history, “Southern
Progress: Constructing Urban Improvement in Valparaiso, Chile, 1840-1918”
■ Giovanna Micarelli, anthropology, “The
Development of Industry and Indigenous
Processes of Cultural Reaffirmation in
Colombian Amazonia”
■ Phoebe Wolfskill, art history, “The Lure
of the South in Paintings by Archibald
Motley Jr.”
Faculty fellows are released from one
semester of teaching, with the approval of
their departments and colleges. They also
are asked to teach one course during the
award year or the year after on a subject
related to their fellowship. Graduate student fellows receive a stipend and a tuition
and fee waiver from IPRH.
All IPRH Fellows are expected to
remain in residence on the UI campus
during the award year and to participate in the program’s annual conference and related activities, including
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Meet Suvir Kaul
By Andrea Lynn
News Bureau Staff Writer
English professor Suvir Kaul is the
new director of IPRH, the Illinois
Program for Research in the Humanities. He started his new post in
August, succeeding the program’s
first director, Michael Bérubé, who
left the UI.
Before coming to the UI in 1999,
Kaul taught in the department of
English at Jamia Milia Islamia
University in New Delhi for a year
while he was on leave from Stanford
University. He taught for many years
at the Khalsa College, Delhi University, before joining Stanford.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: 18th century
British literature, literary and cultural
theory, colonial and post-colonial
discourse studies and modern
Indian writing, including the works of
V.S. Naipaul.
photo by Bill Wiegand
IPRH director English professor Suvir Kaul is the new director of IPRH, the
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.
member of the advisory committee
of Publications of the Modern
Language Association of America.
How will your research fold into
your new role as director of IPRH?
This is my third year at the UI, and I
have found it a wonderful place for
academic work and intellectual
exchange. There is an enormous
cohort of new faculty hires who are
energetic and skilled, and their
presence is revitalizing the humanities on the campus.
I am at the beginning of a new
project on literary and non-literary
representations of cultural trauma.
This will lead to a book in which I will
concentrate on 18th century British
culture, but I am also writing on
South Asian materials, in particular,
those that deal with the 1947
partition of colonial India into
Pakistan and India.
While the IPRH does involve administrative and other functions that might
make it harder to do my research, the
IPRH is fortunate to have a wonderful
staff, including the associate director,
Christine Catanzarite, who runs the
program with great efficiency and
makes it possible for me to be an
administrator and to teach (a reduced
load) and pursue my own scholarship.
What do you consider your main
priorities at IPRH, both short- and
long-term?
To make certain that my faculty
colleagues and graduate students
recognize the extraordinary expertise
and talent available on our campus in
departments and programs with which
they might ordinarily not be in touch.
The IPRH is committed to showcasing
the best academic work on our campus
– to ourselves as much as to other
academics across the nation.
We are building a program in external
postdoctoral fellowships that will bring
outstanding younger scholars to
campus for a year in which they will
teach a course and interact with our
internal fellows and with their ‘home’
departments. We hope to expand this
program to bring to the UI, for one
semester at a time, senior scholars
with international reputations whose
extended presence here will be
valuable for the campus as a whole.
Any new trends in the humanities that
you are tapping into?
The idea, in place for a while now, that
new ways of thinking are often developed in the friction between different
academic disciplines and in the
many ways that methodologies
developed in one area of scholarly
inquiry question the assumptions
enshrined in others. The IPRH is set
up to enable and to benefit from
this kind of ‘friction.’
What is the status of the humanities at the UI and in American
academe?
As the events of Sept. 11 have
proven in the most unfortunate way,
U.S. academic and cultural institutions have to take leadership roles
in enabling U.S. citizens to understand the world in which they live,
and in making sure that key values
– democracy and the rule of law,
religious and cultural plurality,
egalitarian social and gender values
– are reaffirmed, at home and
overseas.◆
the monthly interdisciplinary Fellows’
Seminar.
IPRH, with the support of the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences, also announces
the appointment of the inaugural Illinois
Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellows for
2002-2003. The awards, which will span
the academic year and include research and
teaching at the UI, have been given to
Elizabeth Duquette of Reed College and
Sophia Mihic of Rutgers.
Duquette’s research project will be on
“Successful Conversions: The Problem of
Moral Allegiance in Postbellum America.”
She will teach a course, “Inherit the War:
The Civil War in the American Imagination,” in the English department.
Mihic will engage in research on “The
American South at Ghetto: The Politics of
‘Race’ in the United States as Problem.”
Her course, “Prejudice and the Production
of Order,” will be taught in the department
of political science.
Duquette and Mihic will join the IPRH
Fellows for the Fellows Seminar on “The
South,” and will present their work at the
IPRH annual conference in the spring of
2003.
More information about the IPRH Fellowship Programs can be found at
www.iprh.uiuc.edu or by contacting associate director Christine Catanzarite at
244-3344. ◆
RECENT BOOKS: “Poems of Nation,
Anthems of Empire: English Verse in
the Long Eighteenth Century”
(University Press of Virginia, 2000;
Oxford University Press, 2001),
winner of the Walker Cowen Prize,
awarded biennially to a scholarly
manuscript in 18th century studies
in history, literature, philosophy or
the arts.
“Thomas Gray and Literary Authority:
A Study in Ideology and Poetics”
(Oxford, 1992; Stanford, 1992).
EDUCATION: Delhi University (B.A.,
M.A. and M.Phil.) and Cornell (Ph.D.)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: Currently a
The next big event for IPRH will be
April 4-7, the IPRH Fourth Annual
Conference, “The Means of
Reproduction,” at the Levis Faculty
Center. It is free and open to the public.
The conference will feature Robert
Rosen, dean of the School of Theater,
Film, and Television at UCLA and noted
expert on film preservation; Dorothy
Roberts, professor of law at
Northwestern University; Martin
Pernick, professor of history at the
University of Michigan; and other
invited guests; as well as presentations
by the IPRH faculty and graduate
student fellows for
2001-02. More information is available
at www.iprh.uiuc.edu.
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Feb. 21, 2002
brief notes
Teaching Advancement Board/Office of the Provost
Workshop, travel grants available
The Teaching Advancement Board and the Office of the
Provost are sponsoring workshop and travel grants worth a
total of $60,000. Both types of grants are intended to
support teaching advancement activities.
Teaching Advancement Workshop Grants are made to
academic units (departments, schools, institutes or colleges) in support of on-campus workshops or institutes that
promote teaching innovation.
Teaching Advancement Travel Grants assist individuals
seeking to participate in a distant seminar or workshop that
primarily aims to improve teaching.
Application deadlines for the grants are March 8 and
May 17.
Guidelines and application forms are available on the
Web at www.provost.uiuc.edu/departments/tab/
guidelines.html.
rant tours; how to prepare sushi, Asian pasta, tofu, shellfish, rice dishes in 20 minutes or less; and more. All courses
are open to the public and are offered as single sessions. For
cost, dates and a complete listing of the courses, visit the
Web at www.ag.uiuc.edu/~food-lab/classes/sac or call 3331326. Registration and payment must be received prior to
the first day of class to attend. All courses meet in the
cafeteria in Bevier Hall.
Intersession program
Foreign language classes available
The Intensive Foreign Language Intersession Program
2002 provides language instruction for current or retired UI
employees, their spouses or adult children. Classes will be
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday from May 13
to May 31. Classes will not meet on Memorial Day, May 27.
These classes are not open to undergraduate students
and children under the age of 18. Graduate assistants and
their dependents are eligible to participate.
No academic credit is given for these classes. Cost for
Sexual orientation and gender identity
instruction is $50 for UI employees and retirees and $75 for
dependents of UI employees. For additional information or
The Ally Network will meet from noon to 1:30 p.m. to register online, visit the Web at www.ips.uiuc.edu/ific/
March 1 in Room 406 Illini Union and will cover campus iflip.html or call 333-1990. Each class is limited to 25
and local resources pertaining to sexual orientation and participants.
gender identity. There will be a break at 1 p.m. for those who
need to leave. Refreshments will be served. For more March 18, 19
information, contact Jane Reid at the Counseling Center at
333-3701. The group plans to continue to meet the first
After more than a decade of debate on health care
Friday of each month.
reform, the quality, cost and effectiveness of the health care
system is still a major item on the nation’s policy agenda.
Expecting a baby?
A March 18 and 19 symposium, presented by the UI
College of Law, College of Medicine, Institute of GovernThe Family Development Project is looking for couples ment and Public Affairs and the Nursing Institute, will
expecting a baby and interested in participating in a study of examine three key areas of health care reform.
family transitions. Couples will be interviewed and obThe conference will begin at 5 p.m. March 18 with a
served in their homes once during the third trimester of reception, followed by a keynote address on critical health
pregnancy and once approximately three months after the care policy issues by Lynn Martin, former U.S. secretary of
baby is born. Couples should be married or cohabiting for labor. Ted Marmor of Yale University will provide the
at least two years and will receive gifts as compensation for closing keynote address at 3:45 p.m. March 19.
participation. For more information, call 244-0716, e-mail
Rimi Cohen of U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle’s office will
[email protected] or go to discuss the health care bill of rights during one of three panel
www.psych.uiuc.edu/~sschoppe. This project is being con- discussions between 8:15 a.m. and 3:45 p.m. March 19.
ducted through the UI psychology department.
Panel topics:
Targets of Reform: Opportunities and Barriers will
Food science and human nutrition department
cover publicly provided health insurance, financing longterm care, critical issues in Medicaid, the Children’s Health
The Culinary Program of the Food Sciences and Human Insurance Program, the Employment Retirement Income
Nutrition department will offer Asian and seafood cooking Security Act and the health care labor crisis.
Quality of Care and Consumer Issues will cover
courses on Saturdays during spring semester. Courses inovercoming
barriers to physician volunteerism, healthclude Korean cooking; native Vietnamese cooking; restau-
Ally Network to meet March 1
Symposium to focus on health care
Expectant couples needed for study
Cooking courses offered
benefitsbriefs
Free retirement planning seminars offered
The University Office of Human Resources and the Benefits Center are presenting a new retirement planning
seminar series for UI employees. Five free sessions will be offered, covering topics from financial planning to
investing. Employees may enroll in the entire series or select individual sessions.
Representatives from the Benefits Center, MetLife, Aetna, TIAA-CREF, Fidelity and Central Management
Services will lead the seminar discussions. The seminars:
“The 2001 Tax Law: A Review of the Economic
Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001”
March 7, Room 407, Illini Union
10:30 a.m. to noon or 1:30 to 3 p.m.
“Developing an Investment Strategy”
March 27, Room 405, Illini Union
10:30 a.m. to noon or 1:30 to 3 p.m.
“Staying on Track in a Market Downturn”
March 14, Room 405, Illini Union
10:30 a.m. to noon or 1:30 to 3 p.m.
“Central Management Services –457 Deferred
Compensation Plan”
April 17, Room 407, Illini Union
10:30 a.m. to noon or 1:30 to 3 p.m.
“Financial Planning”
March 21, Room 407, Illini Union
10:30 a.m. to noon or 1:30 to 3 p.m.
“Tax-Deferred Annuity”
May 7, Room 404, Illini Union
10:30 a.m. to noon or 1:30 to 3 p.m.
Seating is limited; interested faculty and staff members are encouraged register as soon as possible. Register
on the Web at https://nessie.uihr.uillinois.edu/cf/benefits/seminars/. For further information, contact the Benefits
Center at 333-3111 or toll free at (866) 669-4772.
care regulation, the health care bill of rights and quality of
care issues.
Bioethical Challenges and Health Care Reform will
cover rationing, human cloning/fetal tissue research/organ
transplantation and choices about health-care treatments
and systems.
All sessions will take place at the UI College of Law.
Registration fee is $75. For more information or to request
a brochure, e-mail [email protected] or contact the
College of Medicine at 333-6524.
Women’s Club
Scholarship recipients honored
The Women’s Club at the UI will hold a reception for its
scholarship recipients from 4 to 6 p.m. Feb. 21 at the Levis
Faculty Center. The scholarship-winning students for 20012002 will be honored. The speaker is Jean Driscoll, a noted
wheelchair athlete and motivational speaker. For more
information, contact Jean Creswell by phone at 359-1877
or by e-mail at [email protected].
UI School of Music
Composers festival to be Feb. 24-27
The theory division of the UI School of Music Composition will present the third annual UI Composers Festival
Feb. 24 -27. The festival will feature 29 original compositions by faculty and student composers, the UI New Music
Ensemble and directors Zack Browning and Stephen Taylor, who will co-direct four concerts. Russell Pinkston,
director of the Electronic Music
Studios at the University of Texas
at Austin, will be a guest composer.
The first concert will begin at 3
p.m. Feb 24 in the Studio Theater
of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and will present
works by Pinkston and UI faculty
composers.
Student composers will be feaRussell Pinkston
tured at concerts at 8 p.m. Feb. 25
and 26 in the Recital Hall of Smith Music Hall.
As the winner of this year’s 21st Century Piano Commission, Kyongmee Choi will present her award-winning
composition in concert at 8 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Krannert
Center for the Performing Arts in the Foellinger Great Hall.
The commission award is given annually to a musiciancomposer at the graduate level and was established through
a gift to the UI School of Music by Richard Anderson and
Jana Mason. Anderson is a UI professor of educational
psychology, and Mason is a professor emerita of educational psychology and in the Center for the Study of
Reading.
Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for senior citizens and $2
for students for all concerts held in Krannert. The concerts
at Smith Music Hall are free and open to the public.
Pinkston will present a lecture on his music, “A Place
for Everything, and Everything in its Place: Mixing Media,
Music, and Technology,” at noon Feb 25 in the auditorium
of the Music Building. For more information, call the
School of Music at 333-2620.
Employee health
Free sharps containers available
Sharps disposal containers are provided at no charge to
employees who need to use needles or syringes for medical
purposes while at work. Medical needles and syringes with
or without needles are categorized as “sharps” by state of
Illinois regulations on potentially infectious medical waste.
It is a violation of state of Illinois regulations and UI
campus policy for employees to dispose of these items
directly into the regular trash. Inappropriately discarded
needles also pose a serious hazard for employees who
empty trash containers or those who sort trash.
Sharps disposal containers are available from Central
Stores. To place an order, call 333-4299 or e-mail
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[email protected]. Employees also can obtain a request
form at Central Stores and mail it to Volatile Stores, 1609
S. Oak, Champaign, MC-662 or fax it to 244-1790.
For more information, go to www.ehs.uiuc.edu/~bss/
fact/persndle.htm. Questions may be directed to the Biological Safety Section of the Division of Environmental
Health and Safety at 333-2755 or e-mail [email protected].
The Counseling Center
Nominations for award due March 1
The Counseling Center is seeking nominations for the
Robert P. Larsen Human Development Award to recognize an individual or group that makes a significant contribution to the campus.
Any person or group that is part of the UI community is
eligible for these awards, but preference will be given to
students or student groups.
The individual and group recipients will each receive a
cash award of $200 and plaques honoring their accomplishments. Recipients also will be honored on a permanent plaque located in the Counseling Center lobby.
Nomination forms are available in Room 110 of the
Fred H. Turner Student Services Building or on the Web at
www.counselingcenter.uiuc.edu/
robert_larsen_award_form.htm. All nominations must be
received by March 1 and submitted to James F. Sipich,
chair of the Robert P. Larsen Awards Committee of the
Counseling Center.
For more information, call 244-3356.
Center for Advanced Study
Conference to explore ‘new biology’
The Center for Advanced Study is hosting a spring
conference, “The New Biology: Issues and Opportunities,” March 8 and 9 at the Levis Faculty Center. The
conference ties in to the initiative of the same name hosted
by CAS this academic year, which also consists of a public
lecture series (three of which have already taken place, the
final one will be in April) and a semesterlong seminar.
The conference explores the implications of having
sequenced the human genome and of related breakthroughs
that will affect many areas of human life, ranging from
health and medicine to food production, and which also
have serious implications for our future as a species.
Sessions will run from 9 a.m. until noon and 1:30 until
4:30 p.m. each day. The keynote address “From Stem Cells
to Jail Cells – The Politics of Embryo Research,” will be
delivered at 8 p.m. March 8 by Alta Charo, University of
Wisconsin Law School, Madison.
All sessions are free and open to the public; registration
is not required. Specific times for each speaker have not
been set but will be posted to at www.cas.uiuc.edu as soon
as possible. Call 333-6729 for more information.
The initiative is coordinated by CAS Resident Associates Richard Burkhardt, professor of history and campus
honors faculty member, and Harris Lewin, Gutgsell Endowed Chair in Animal Sciences and director of the W.M.
Keck Center and the Biotechnology Center.
The New Biology Initiative is sponsored by the Beckman
Institute, Center for Advanced Study, colleges of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Law, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Veterinary
Medicine, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, School of Integrative Biology, and School of
Molecular and Cellular Biology.
UI Alumni Association
Book signing will be Feb. 22
The UI Alumni Association is hosting a reception and
book signing featuring Steven B. Sample, president of the
University of Southern California.
The event will be from 2 to 4 p.m.
Feb. 22 in the Pine Lounge of the
Illini Union.
Sample, who holds three degrees from UI’s department of electrical and computer engineering,
will discuss his new book, “The
Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership.”
The book challenges much of
the conventional wisdom about
what makes effective leaders, ofSteven B. Sample
fering a vision for how leadership
can be taught, learned and practiced.
Sample’s presentation will begin at 2:30 p.m. Copies of
the book will be available for purchase at the event, and
Sample will sign them following his presentation. Light
refreshments will be served before and after the program.
For more information, contact Paula Havlik at the UI
Alumni Association at 333-1471 or [email protected].
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Mark your calendars
Details about ACES and Engineering Open
Houses, both March 8 and 9, will appear in the
next issue of Inside Illinois.
For more information:
ACES Open House
www.aces.uiuc.edu/openhouse
Engineering Open House
http://eoh.cen.uiuc.edu/eoh.cfm
Construction alert
Streetscape plans under way
Preliminary work for the Campustown Infrastructure
Reconstruction and Streetscape Project is under way with
the closing of the north lane of Green Street, from Fourth
Street to Wright Street. Temporary fencing and lighting
has been installed. Delays on Green Street can be expected.
Major project work is scheduled to begin March 16.
Green Street will be closed to all through-traffic beginning
the week of March 18. The project has a scheduled completion date of Aug. 23. Feutz Contractors Inc. of Paris, Ill.,
will complete the work.
Spring workshops
Register now for Library workshops
The Library’s User Education Committee is sponsoring
a series of workshops Feb. 25 through April 11. The
workshops:
• “Finding books and journals: Searching for articles”
• “Web detective: Clues for evaluating Web resources”
• “Stuck on the Web? Tips for effective Web searching”
• “Find facts and figures on the Web using government
resources”
• “Unlocking the secrets of finding statistics in the social
sciences”
• “It’s somewhere out there: Getting materials through
interlibrary loan”
For more information or to register, go to
www.library.uiuc.edu/help/workshops/. Print copies of the
workshop schedule also are available at the Undergraduate
Library Reference Desk and by request by sending e-mail
to [email protected]. Registration is
required.◆
‘Quartet in Residence’ busy with outreach activities and performances
By Melissa Mitchell
News Bureau Staff Writer
Students in Chris Butler’s modern history class at University High School started
their week on an upbeat note Feb. 18 with a
visit by members of the Alexander String
Quartet. The quartet, which is in residence
at the UI’s Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, has been making the rounds
throughout the community this week as
part of an intensive, three-stage residency
this academic year in which they are presenting the complete string quartets of
Beethoven. Also high on the visiting musicians’ agenda is to meet with a number of
diverse audiences, on and off campus, to
emphasize connections between music and
other disciplines. At Uni, where Butler’s
students are studying the 18th century, the
musicians talked about Beethoven’s life
and musical activities, and discussed how it
all related to historical events of the period.
The quartet first visited the UI in October and will return in April.
Coinciding with the residencies,
Krannert Center commissioned composer
Augusta Read Thomas to write a new work
for the quartet. Thomas also was on campus
earlier this week to discuss her work at a
public forum on “Women and Creativity,”
with Kal Alston, director of the UI’s
Women’s Studies Program.
The Alexander String Quartet’s itinerary this week has included performancedemonstrations at the Campus Honors Program, Central Illinois Conservatory of
Music and the University YMCA’s “Know
Your University” lecture series.
The quartet’s public performance schedule includes a free 9 a.m. performance Feb.
21 at the News-Gazette, 15 Main St.,
Champaign, and two concerts at Krannert
Center: at 7 p.m. Feb. 21, and 10 a.m. Feb.
23. Preceding the Feb. 21 concert will be a
“Prelude” discussion with the group at 6
p.m. in the Krannert Room, hosted by Rick
Murphy, Uni High music director. The
morning concert on Feb. 23 will be a casual
event, complete with coffee and bagels for
audience members, who will have an opportunity to interact with the musicians. ◆
photo by Bill Wiegand
Historical note Members of the Alexander Quartet perform for students in
Chris Butler’s modern history class at University High School Feb. 18. At Uni,
where Butler’s students are studying the 18th century, quartet members talked
about Beethoven’s life and musical activities, and discussed their relationship
to historical events of the period.
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calendar
of events
Feb. 21, 2002
Entries for the calendar should be sent 15 days before the desired publication date to
Inside Illinois Calendar, News Bureau, 807 S. Wright St., Suite 520 East, Champaign,
MC-314, or to [email protected]. More information is available from Marty Yeakel at
333-1085. The online UIUC Events Calendar is at www.uiuc.edu/uicalendar/cal.html.
lectures
22 Friday
“Do Banks Have a Future?
Banking Crises Around the
World.” Morgan Lynge, UI.
Lunch 11:45 a.m.; speaker
12:10 p.m. Latzer Hall,
University YMCA. Friday
Forum.
24 Sunday
“The Dead Sea Scrolls and
the Origins of Rabbinic
Judaism and the Early
Church.” Adolfo Roitman,
Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
7:30 p.m. 62 Krannert Art
Museum. Drobny Interdisciplinary Program for the
Study of Jewish Culture and
Society; Illinois Program for
Research in the Humanities;
and Classics.
26 Tuesday
“ROTC Today.” Allen B.
Worley, UI. Lunch 11:55
a.m.; speaker 12:10 p.m.
Latzer Hall, University
YMCA. Know Your University.
28 Thursday
“Did Comparative Linguistics Prepare the Ground for
the Holocaust?” Hans
Henrich Hock, UI. Noon.
Music room, Levis Faculty
Center. Center for Advanced
Study.
“Urban Landscapes and the
Everyday.” Walter Hood,
University of California. 7 p.m.
Plym Auditorium, Temple
Buell Hall. Landscape
Architecture.
1 Friday
“Pentagon and Profit –
Partners in Propaganda.”
Inger Stole, UI. Lunch 11:45
a.m.; speaker 12:10 p.m.
Latzer Hall, University
YMCA. Friday Forum.
“Law, Pragmatism, and
Democracy: Pragmatism
and Adjudication.” Richard
A. Posner, University of
Chicago Law School. 4 p.m.
College of Law auditorium.
Law, Philosophy and
MillerComm.
5 Tuesday
“The Daily Illini, Inside and
Out.” Katherine Schwartz,
UI. Lunch 11:55 a.m.;
speaker 12:10 p.m. Latzer
Hall, University YMCA.
Know Your University.
7 Thursday
“Aur Binnendifferenzierung
des Weiblichen am Beispiel
der Schwesterbeziehung.”
Gertrud Roesch, University
of Leipzig. 7:30 p.m. Lucy
Ellis Lounge, Foreign
Languages Building.
Germanic Languages and
Literatures.
“Geographies of Gender:
Britain in Black and White.”
Hazel Carby, Yale University. 7:30 p.m. Third floor,
Levis Faculty Center.
MillerComm, History,
Women’s and Gender History
Graduate Symposium
Planning Council.
8 Friday
“Muslim Views on U.S.
Ives, University of Washington. 4 p.m. 2240 Digital
Computer Lab. Computer
Science.
Foreign Policy.” Badredine
Arfi, UI. Lunch 11:45 a.m.;
speaker 12:10 p.m. Latzer
Hall, University YMCA.
Friday Forum.
8 Friday
10 Sunday
“Black Revolt: Asian
American Newspapers and
the L.A. Riots.” Michael
Thornton, University of
Wisconsin. 1-3 p.m. 210
Illini Union. Asian American
Studies Program.
“Understanding Word
Recognition in Cochlear
Implants.” Ted Meyer,
Indiana University. 1-4 p.m.
150 Animal Sciences Lab.
Pre-registration required; call
333-2230. John O’Neill
Lecture/Speech and Hearing
Science.
“Touring Ancient Times in
Contemporary Peru.”
Helaine Silverman, UI. 3
p.m. 62 Krannert Art
Museum. Archaeological
Institute of America, Classics
and Krannert Art Museum.
colloquia
21 Thursday
“Custom Data Visualization
Tools for Maya.” Benjamin
Grosser and Rob Gillespie,
UI. Noon. 3269 Beckman
Institute. Imaging Technology Group/Beckman
Institute.
“Evangelical Movements,
NGOs and Used Clothing:
The Effects of Globalization
on the Mayan Literacy
Revitalization Movement in
Guatemala.” Mary Jo
Holbrock, UI. Noon. 101
International Studies
Building. Latin American
and Caribbean Studies.
22 Friday
“Men of War and Wisdom:
Plutarch’s Roman Aristocratic Ideal.” Hans Beck,
University of Cologne.
2 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge,
1080 Foreign Languages
Building. Oldfather Lecture
Series/Classics.
“Sitting at the Feet of
Vygotsky’s Sociocultural
Historic Theory: The
Intellectual Life of a New
Scholar.” Lilie Albert, UI.
Noon. 210A Education
Building. Educational
Research.
25 Monday
Composers Forum: “A
Place for Everything and
Everything in Its Place:
Mixing Media, Music and
Technology.” Russell
Pinkston, University of
Texas. Noon. Music Building
Auditorium. School of
Music.
“Engaging With Difference
via Mixed-Method Social
Inquiry.” Jennifer Greene,
UI. Noon. 101 International
Studies Building. Women
and Gender in global
Perspectives.
“Digital Geometry Processing.” Peter Schröder,
California Institute of
Technology. 4 p.m. 1320
Digital Computer Lab.
Computer Science.
“Mariners, Renegades and
Castaways: C.L.R. James
and the Radical
Postcolonial Imagination.”
Cameron McCarthy, Fazal
Rizvi and David Roediger,
UI. 8 p.m. Levis Faculty
Center. Criticism and
Interpretive Theory.
27 Wednesday
“ ‘Determined and Bigoted
Feminists’ in the Glossies
of the Teens and Twenties:
Women, Magazines and
Popular Modernism.”
Elizabeth Majerus, UI.
Feb 21 to March 10
All-Mozart concert
theater
Conductor Christopher Hogwood (right) and the
Academy of Ancient Music along with pianist Robert
Levin (left) will present an all-Mozart concert in
traditional 18th century concert style at 8 p.m.
Feb. 28 at Foellinger Great Hall at Krannert Center
for the Performing Arts.
Hogwood, a pioneer in historically informed
performance practices, founded the modern revival
of the Academy of Ancient Music in 1973 to allow
audiences to experience music as it might have
sounded at the time it was written.
Levin, who has made it his personal mission to
“bring back the element of surprise that’s supposed
to be part of the listening experience,” will play
Mozart-style improvisations on themes offered by the
audience.
A free prelude discussion will be held before the
concert at 7 p.m. in the Krannert Room.
Noon. Women’s Studies
Building, 911 S. Sixth St.,
Champaign. Women’s
Studies.
Midweek Artspeak:
“Painting.” Jerry Savage, UI.
Noon. Krannert Art Museum.
Krannert Art Museum.
“Aviation Security Issues: A
Mathematical Perspective.”
Sheldon Jacobson, UI. 4 p.m.
356 Armory Building. Arms
Control, Disarmament and
International Security.
“Exercise Immunology–
Nutritional Countermeasures.” David C. Nieman,
Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C. 4 p.m. 150
Animal Sciences Lab.
Nutritional Sciences.
28 Thursday
“Traveling Cultures, Flexible
Identities and the Uses of
International Education.”
Rizvi Fazal, UI. Noon.
242 Education Building.
Educational Research.
“How Effective Are Private
Schools in Latin America?”
Patrick McEwan, UI. Noon.
101 International Studies
Building. Latin American
and Caribbean Studies.
4 Monday
“Embodying France as
Political Criticism in Meiji
Japan.” Kevin Doak, UI.
Noon. 101 International
Studies Building. East Asian
and Pacific Studies.
“Black Expatriates in
Nkrumah’s Ghana.” Kevin
K. Gaines, University of
Michigan. Noon-1:30 p.m.
Second floor, Levis Faculty
Center. Afro-American
Studies and Research.
“Religion, Politics and
Security in Central Asia.”
Shireen Hunter, Center for
Strategic and International
Studies. 3:30 p.m. 101
International Studies
Building. Russian and East
European Center.
5 Tuesday
“Security Protocols for
Broadcast Communication.” Adrian Perrig,
University of California,
Berkeley. 4 p.m. 2240
Digital Computer Lab.
Computer Science.
6 Wednesday
“The Changing Role of
Intelligence vs. Terrorism.”
James Marchio, United
States Transportation
Command’s Joint Intelligence Center. 4 p.m. 356
Armory Building. Arms
Control, Disarmament and
International Security.
“Metabolic and Trophic
Effects of Glucagon-like
Peptide-2 in the Neonatal
Gut.” Douglas G. Burrin,
Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston. 4 p.m. 150 Animal
Sciences Lab. Nutritional
Sciences.
7 Thursday
“Efficient Query Processing
for Data Integration.” Zack
21 Thursday
“Candida.” Tom Mitchell,
director. 8 p.m. Colwell
Playhouse, Krannert Center.
Bernard Shaw’s portrait of a
marriage put to a test when a
love-sick poet falls hopelessly for Candida, the
parson’s wife. Admission
charge.
22 Friday
“Candida.” Tom Mitchell,
director. 8 p.m. Colwell
Playhouse, Krannert Center.
Dessert and Conversation:
7 p.m. Krannert Room,
Krannert Center. Admission
charge.
23 Saturday
“Candida.” Tom Mitchell,
director. 8 p.m. Colwell
Playhouse, Krannert Center.
Admission charge.
28 Thursday
“Candida.” Tom Mitchell,
director. 8 p.m. Colwell
Playhouse, Krannert Center.
Admission charge.
1 Friday
“Candida.” Tom Mitchell,
director. 8 p.m. Colwell
Playhouse, Krannert Center.
Admission charge.
2 Saturday
“Candida.” Tom Mitchell,
director. 8 p.m. Colwell
Playhouse, Krannert Center.
Admission charge.
3 Sunday
“Candida.” Tom Mitchell,
director. 3 p.m. Colwell
Playhouse, Krannert Center.
Dessert and Conversation:
2 p.m. Krannert Room,
Krannert Center. Admission
charge.
music
21 Thursday
Alexander String Quartet:
The Complete String
Quartets of Beethoven.
7 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall,
Krannert Center. All 16 of
Beethoven’s string quartets
will be performed over a
series of six performances
beginning with this program,
which features the string
quartets Op. 18, No. 3; Op.
135; Op. 130 (alternate); and
Op. 59, No. 2. Admission
charge.
Music Education Senior
Recital/Undergraduate
Recital. Scott Beatty and
Thomas Madeja, trumpet.
8 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith
Hall.
22 Friday
Master of Music Recital.
Christopher Mahieu, piano.
5:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith
Hall.
UI Chamber Orchestra.
Chester Alwes, guest
conductor. 8 p.m. Foellinger
Great Hall, Krannert Center.
The program features
important works from the
orchestral repertoire.
Admission charge. School of
Music.
Undergraduate Recital.
Heidi Radtke and Nicole
Stevenson, saxophone. 8 p.m.
Memorial Room, Smith Hall.
23 Saturday
Alexander String Quartet:
The Complete String
Quartets of Beethoven. 10
a.m. Foellinger Great Hall,
Krannert Center. The second
of six performances features
the string quartets Op. 18,
No. 4; Op. 74; and Op. 59,
No. 1. Admission charge.
Undergraduate Recital.
Alex Rivera and Jessica
Bayliss, euphonium. 2 p.m.
Music Building auditorium.
Senior Recital. Sarah
Ballard, oboe. 4 p.m.
Memorial Room, Smith Hall.
Undergraduate Recital.
Chris Barnum and Chris
Brown, euphonium. 8 p.m.
Music Building auditorium.
24 Sunday
Undergraduate Recital.
Tara Hays and Val Rocha,
trumpet. 1 p.m. Music
Building auditorium.
Senior Recital. Brian Aron,
piano. 2 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
Illini Symphony. Jack
Ranney, conductor. 3 p.m.
Foellinger Great Hall,
Krannert Center. Several
School of Music ensembles
join forces to present an
unusual program of choral
and orchestral works.
Admission charge. School of
Music.
UIUC Composers’ Festival.
Zack Browning and Stephen
Taylor, co-directors. 3 p.m.
Studio Theater, Krannert
Center. Browning and Taylor
begin the festival by leading
the UI New Music Ensemble
in a program that includes
works by faculty composers
and music for instruments
and electronics by guest
composer Russell Pinkston,
University of Texas.
Additional concerts take
place at Smith Memorial
Hall. Admission charge.
School of Music.
Concerto Urbano. Charlotte
Mattax, director. 7 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Love songs of Henry Purcell
and Matthew Locke.
25 Monday
UIUC Composers’ Festival:
Concert 2. 8 p.m. Recital
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Hall, Smith Hall. Zack
Browning and Stephen
Taylor, co-directors. With the
UI New Music Ensemble.
The program will feature
recent compositions of
student composers. School of
Music.
26 Tuesday
Voice Division Recital. 11 a.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
UIUC Composers’ Festival:
Concert 3. 8 p.m. Recital
Hall, Smith Hall. Zack
Browning and Stephen
Taylor, co-directors. With the
UI New Music Ensemble.
The program will feature
recent compositions of
student composers. School of
Music.
27 Wednesday
Master of Music Recital.
Soohyun Yun, piano. 5 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
UIUC Composers’ Festival:
21st Century Piano
Commission Award
Concert. Anthony Fuoco,
piano, and Elizabeth
Campbell, soprano. 8 p.m.
Foellinger Great Hall,
Krannert Center. Music by
the winner of this year’s
School of Music 21st
Century Piano Commission
Award, composer Kyongmee
Choi, will be featured on this
fourth and final concert of
the festival. Admission
charge. School of Music.
28 Thursday
Academy of Ancient Music.
Christopher Hogwood,
conductor. Robert Levin,
fortepiano. 8 p.m. Foellinger
Great Hall, Krannert Center.
Pianist Levin illuminates an
all-Mozart program by
taking musical themes
suggested by the audience
and playing them Mozartstyle. Admission charge.
Undergraduate Recital. Xin
Ted Tian, violin. 8 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Master of Music Recital.
Peter Chou, trombone. 8 p.m.
Memorial Room, Smith Hall.
1 Friday
Doctor of Musical Arts
Recital. Lisa Kristina,
soprano. 4:30 p.m. Recital
Hall, Smith Hall.
Jazz Immersion: CrossCultural Directions in Jazz.
Jason Finkelman, percussion.
7 p.m. Krannert Art
Museum. A concert of free
jazz explorations.
UI Wind Symphony and UI
Symphonic Band I. James F.
Keene and Thomas E.
Caneva, conductors. 8 p.m.
Foellinger Great Hall,
Krannert Center. The concert
will feature these two
ensembles from the Division
of Bands. Admission charge.
School of Music.
Junior Recital. Sarah
Shreder, cello. 8 p.m. Music
Building auditorium.
2 Saturday
Senior Recital. Michelle
Molnor, violin. 11 a.m.
Bill T. Jones creates a poetic response to life’s joys
and struggles through the language of moving
bodies in his dances. Jones and his Arnie Zane Dance
Company will present a wide selection of Jones’ work
at an 8 p.m. March 9 performance in the Tryon
Festival Theater at Krannert Center for the
Performing Arts. The selections performed will
highlight Jones’ power to surprise.
Jones also will present “The Breathing Show,” his
80-minute “solo with accomplices,” in which he expresses
the whole range of today’s American dance, a range he
helped to shape and expand. “The Breathing Show”
begins at 8 p.m. March 6, also in Krannert’s Tryon
Festival Theater.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Guest Artist Recital. JeanLouis Haguenauer, Indiana
University, piano. 8 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Program will include etudes
of Debussy and works of
Dukas. School of Music.
The Stefon Harris Quartet.
Stefon Harris, vibraphone.
8 p.m. Tryon Festival
Theater, Krannert Center.
Harris explores the rich
potential of jazz composition
and blazes new trails on the
vibraphone. Admission
charge.
Junior Recital. Jennifer
Burns, viola. 8 p.m.
Memorial Room, Smith Hall.
Foellinger Great Hall,
Krannert Center. Laurien
Laufman, cello, with William
Heiles, piano. A program of
violin music played on the
cello. Admission charge.
School of Music.
Senior Recital. Scott
Tomlinson, bass. 8 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
3 Sunday
8 Friday
Doctor of Musical Arts
Recital. Ruth Lenz, violin. 1
p.m. Memorial Room, Smith
Hall.
Sinfonia da Camera. Fred
Stoltzfus, conductor. 3 p.m.
Foellinger Great Hall,
Krannert Center. With the UI
Chorale and Oratorio
Society. Choral and orchestral forces unite for music by
Johann Sebastian Bach – the
“St. John Passion.” Admission charge.
Guest Artist Recital. John
Mueller, University of
Memphis, euphonium.
3 p.m. Music Building
auditorium.
Senior Recital. Thomas
Parker, bassoon. 4 p.m.
Memorial Room, Smith Hall.
Doctor of Musical Arts
Recital. Jacqueline Ware,
soprano. 5 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
Junior Recital. Ken Windler,
cello. 7 p.m. Memorial
Room, Smith Hall.
Kocian String Quartet. 8 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall. Pavel
Hula and Milos Cerny, violin;
Zbynek Padourek, viola; and
Vaclav Bernasek, violoncello.
Ghanaian Ritual Drumming. 8 p.m. Music Building
auditorium. Midawo Gideon
Foli Alorwoyie and friends
present an evening of ritual
drumming and dancing from
Ghana.
4 Monday
Kocian String Quartet. 8 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Pavel Hula and Milos Cerny,
violin; Zbynek Padourek,
viola; and Vaclav Bernasek,
violoncello.
5 Tuesday
Piano Division Recital. 11
a.m. Recital Hall, Smith
Hall.
Faculty Recital. Michael
Ewald, trumpet. 8 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
With Dana Robinson, organ;
Ronald Romm, trumpet; and
William Heiles, piano.
6 Wednesday
Kocian String Quartet. 8 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall. Pavel
Hula and Milos Cerny, violin;
Zbynek Padourek, viola; and
Vaclav Bernasek, violoncello.
7 Thursday
Junior Recital. David
Husser, piano. 11 a.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Graduate Woodwind
Quintet. 6:30 p.m. Music
Building auditorium. Theresa
O’Hare, flute; Julie Meyer,
oboe; Lisa Reams, clarinet;
Michelle Swinney, bassoon;
and Tony Licata, horn.
Faculty Recital. “The
Violin-Cello.” 8 p.m.
9 Saturday
Senior Recital. Margaret
Plocher, soprano. 11:30 a.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Senior Recital. Margaret
FioRito, violin. 2 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Music Education Senior
Recital. Bethany Stewart,
horn. 2 p.m. Memorial
Room, Smith Hall.
Undergraduate Recital.
Paul Carlson and Eric
Weisseg, tuba. 2 p.m. Music
Building auditorium.
Senior Recital. Eurydice
Han, piano. 5 p.m. Recital
Hall, Smith Hall.
Master of Music Recital.
Charles Lynch III, harp.
5 p.m. Music Building
auditorium.
Senior Recital. Shanka LaVerne Falls, soprano. 7 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Undergraduate Recital.
Rose Wollman, viola. 7 p.m.
Memorial Room, Smith Hall.
10 Sunday
Junior Recital. Justin White,
trumpet. 11 a.m. Recital
Hall, Smith Hall.
Second Sunday Concert. UI
Graduate Brass Quintet.
2 p.m. Krannert Art Museum. Steven Roberts and
Malgorzata Wlodarska,
trumpet; Lukasz Hodor,
trombone; Gerald Wood,
horn; and Joel White, tuba.
Broadcast live on WILL-FM
(90.9).
Champaign-Urbana
Symphony Orchestra.
Steven Larsen, music
director and conductor.
3 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall,
Krannert Center. With The
Chorale and Parkland
Chorus. A centennial salute
to Richard Rodgers.
Admission charge.
Master of Music Recital.
Julia Jamieson, harp. 4 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Guest Artist Recital.
Hugues Leclere, Nancy
Conservatory of Music,
France, piano. 7 p.m. Recital
Hall, Smith Hall. Program
will include works of George
Crumb, Henry Cowell, Ives,
Debussy, Ravel and Chopin.
Undergraduate Recital.
Megan Miller, viola. 8:30 p.m.
Memorial Room, Smith Hall.
opera
23 Saturday
“The Tales of Hoffmann.”
Michel Singher, conductor,
and Nicholas Di Virgilio,
director. 8 p.m. Tryon
Festival Theater, Krannert
Center. Loosely based on
three short fantasies by
E.T.A. Hoffmann, the opera
is set in a tavern, where the
author is surrounded by
students, friends and
interested observers. The
stories focus on three women
the author loved. Sung in
French with English
surtitles. Admission charge.
School of Music Opera
Program.
24 Sunday
“The Tales of Hoffmann.”
Michel Singher, conductor,
and Nicholas Di Virgilio,
director. 3 p.m. Tryon
Festival Theater, Krannert
Center. Sung in French with
English surtitles. Admission
charge. Libretto: 2 p.m.
Krannert Room, Krannert
Center. School of Music
Opera Program.
films
Studies Building. An
analysis of the international
debt situation through the
eyes of the women of
Bolivia. Asian Educational
Media Service, African
Studies, Russian and East
European Center, Woman
and Gender in Global
Perspectives.
26 Tuesday
sports
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane
Dance Company. Bill T.
Jones, artistic director. 8
p.m. Tryon Festival Theater,
Krannert Center. A selection
of works from the company’s
repertoire. Admission
charge.
“Ballad of a Soldier.”
Grigorii Chukhrai, director.
7 p.m. 101 International
Studies Building. Russian
and East European Center.
27 Wednesday
“Hari Bhari.” Shyam
Benegal, director. 6:30 p.m.
Plym Auditorium, Temple
Buell Hall. Women and
Gender in Global Perspectives, and Urban and
Regional Planning.
1 Friday
“Sa I gu: From Korean
Women’s Perspectives.”
Noon. 209 Illini Union.
Asian American Studies
Program.
“Lagaan: Once Upon a
Time in India.” 7:47 p.m.
Latzer Hall, University
YMCA. University YMCA.
5 Monday
“Down in the Delta.” Kal
Alston, moderator, UI. 3-5
p.m. Second floor, Levis
Faculty Center. AfroAmerican Studies and
Research.
dance
6 Tuesday
6 Wednesday
International Documentary
Film Series: “KumekuchaFrom Sunup. Noon. 101
International Studies
Building. Documents
Tanzanian women’s daily
lives. Asian Educational
Media Service, African
Studies, Russian and East
European Center, Woman
and Gender in Global
Perspectives.
“Another America.” Michael
Cho, director. Noon.
209 Illini Union. Asian
American Studies Program.
“Sherlock Jr.” Buster
Keaton, director. 4 p.m. 62
Krannert Art Museum. Part
of the film series “Re-Make/
Re-Model” presented by
IPRH. Illinois Program for
Research in the Humanities.
“Slums of Beverly Hills.”
Tamara Jenkins, director.
6:30 p.m. Plym Auditorium,
Temple Buell Hall. Women
and Gender in Global
Perspectives, and Urban and
Regional Planning.
Bill T. Jones: “The Breathing Show.” 8 p.m. Tryon
Festival Theater, Krannert
Center. Creating a poetic
response to life’s joys and
struggles through the
language of moving bodies.
Admission charge.
7 Thursday
Studiodance I. 8 p.m. Studio
Theater, Krannert Center. In
addition to works by MFA
degree candidates, faculty
member Chris Aiken and his
wife, choreographer Cathy
Young, will present their
duet “Cessate Di Piagarmi”
(“Cease Wounding Me”).
Admission charge. Department of Dance.
8 Friday
Studiodance I. 7 and 9 p.m.
Studio Theater, Krannert
Center. Admission charge.
Department of Dance.
9 Saturday
Studiodance I. 7 and 9 p.m.
Studio Theater, Krannert
Center. Admission charge.
Department of Dance.
7 Wednesday
International Documentary
Film Series: “Hell to Pay.”
Noon. 101 International
21 Thursday
Women’s Basketball. UI vs.
Indiana University. 7 p.m.
Assembly Hall. Admission
charge.
22 Friday
Illini Hockey. UI vs. Ferris
State University. 7 p.m. UI
Ice Arena. Admission charge.
26 Tuesday
Men’s Basketball. UI vs.
Indiana University. 6 p.m.
Assembly Hall. Admission
charge.
et cetera
21 Thursday
Coffee Hour: Chinese. 7:30
p.m. Cosmopolitan Club,
307 E. John St., Champaign.
For more information, call
367-3079 or visit the Web
site at www.prairienet.org/
cosmo/. Cosmopolitan Club.
23 Saturday
Sushi Lessons. Walter Rhee,
UI, instructor. Basic
10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.; intermediate 3-5 p.m. 298 Bevier
Hall. Pre-registration is
required. Visit the Web site
at http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/
~food-lab/classes/sac/. Food
Sciences and Human
Nutrition.
24 Sunday
International Dinner Series:
Bangladeshi. 6 p.m.
Cosmopolitan Club, 307 E.
John St., Champaign. Hosted
by the Bangladeshi students.
For more information and to
make reservations, call 3673079. Cosmopolitan Club.
25 Monday
Tour of the University
Archives. Maynard
Brichford, UI. 1-3:30 p.m.
Horticulture Field Research
Lab, 1707 S. Orchard St.,
Urbana. For more information send e-mail to
[email protected]. University of Wisconsin Alumni
Club of East Central Illinois.
28 Thursday
Presentation and Book
Signing. 3-4:30 p.m. ACES
Library, 1101 S. Goodwin
Ave., Urbana. Winton U.
Solberg, UI, will discuss his
research regarding the
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university’s history and sign
copies of his book, “The
University of Illinois, 18941904: The Shaping of the
University.” R.S.V.P.
Acceptances only by calling
333-5683 or send e-mail to [email protected]. University
Library.
Reading Group: “Women’s
Ways of Activism: Black
Women’s Contributions to
the Black Freedom
Movement.” 6-8 p.m. AfroAmerican Studies, 1201 W.
Nevada St., Urbana. For
more information, send email to [email protected] or
call 333-7781. AfroAmerican Studies and
Research.
Coffee Hour: South African.
7:30 p.m. Cosmopolitan
Club, 307 E. John St.,
Champaign. Hosted by
Vivienne Mackie and friends.
For more information, call
367-3079 or visit the Web
site at www.prairienet.org/
cosmo/. Cosmopolitan Club.
2 Saturday
Sushi Lessons. Walter Rhee,
UI, instructor. Basic
10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.; intermediate 3-5 p.m. 298 Bevier Hall.
Pre-registration is required.
Visit the Web site at
www.ag.uiuc.edu/~food-lab/
classes/sac/. Food Sciences
and Human Nutrition.
4 Monday
“Painting in Venice.”
Collection in Context: A
Survey of Western Art.
Marcel Franciscono, UI. 10
a.m. Krannert Art Museum.
Krannert Art Museum.
Panel discussion: “Sexual
Abuse: Healing and
Recovery Among AfricanAmerican Women.” 4-6 p.m.
Music room, Levis Faculty
Center. Imani Bazzell,
Parkland College; Helen
Neville and Anita Hund, UI.
Afro-American Studies and
Research.
6 Wednesday
Gallery presentation:
“Authenticity.” David
O’Brien, UI. 5:30 p.m.
Krannert Art Museum.
Krannert Art Museum.
7 Thursday
Retirement Planning
Seminar: The 2001 Tax
Law. 10:30 a.m.-noon or
1:30-3 p.m. 407 Illini Union.
New legislation contains a
number of changes that may
have a positive impact on
retirement savings. Register
online at https://
nessie.uihr.uillinois.edu/cf/
benefits/seminars/ or call
333-3111. Human Resources
and Benefits.
Panel discussion: “Building
Bridges: An Examination of
Race Relations in the 21st
Century.” 4-6 p.m. Latzer
Hall, University YMCA.
George Yu, moderator, UI;
Louis DeSipio and Sundiata
Cha-Jua, UI; and Michael
Thornton, University of
Wisconsin. Reception to
follow. For more information, send e-mail to
[email protected] or call
265-6240. Asian American
Studies Program.
Coffee Hour: Turkish. 7:30
p.m. Cosmopolitan Club,
307 E. John St., Champaign.
Hosted by Turkish Student
Association. For more
information, call 367-3079
or visit the Web site at
www.prairienet.org/cosmo/.
Cosmopolitan Club.
8 Friday
82nd Annual Engineering
Open House: “Free Your
Mind.” 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Kenney
Gym Annex, 1402 W.
Springfield Ave., Urbana.
Bill Nye, the Science Guy,
will speak from 12:30-1:30
p.m. both days on the
Engineering Quad. Other
highlights: the 15th annual
W.J. “Jerry” Sanders
Creative Design Competition; more than 150 exhibits;
food and entertainment. For
more information, visit http:/
/eoh.cen.uiuc.edu/eoh.cfm.
Engineering Council
students.
ACES Open House. 9 a.m.-4
p.m. Stock Pavilion, 1402 W.
Pennsylvania Ave.; Meat
Science Laboratory, 1503 S.
Maryland Ave.; Plant
Sciences Laboratory, 1201 S.
Dorner Drive; and ACES
Library, 1101 S. Goodwin
Ave., Urbana. A unique,
behind-the-scenes look at
what goes on in some of the
hundreds of labs, fields and
greenhouses. For more
information, visit
www.aces.uiuc.edu/
openhouse. Agricultural,
Consumer and Environmental Sciences.
9 Saturday
ACES Open House. 9 a.m.4 p.m. Stock Pavilion, 1402
W. Pennsylvania Ave.; Meat
Science Laboratory, 1503 S.
Maryland Ave.; Plant
Sciences Laboratory, 1201 S.
Dorner Drive; and ACES
Library, 1101 S. Goodwin
Ave., Urbana. For more
information, visit
www.aces.uiuc.edu/
openhouse. Agricultural,
Consumer and Environmental Sciences.
82nd Annual Engineering
Open House: “Free Your
Mind.” 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Kenney
Gym Annex, 1402 W.
Springfield Ave., Urbana.
For more information, visit
http://eoh.cen.uiuc.edu/
eoh.cfm. Engineering
Council students.
10 Sunday
International Dinner Series:
Argentine. 6 p.m. Cosmopolitan Club, 307 E. John
St., Champaign. Hosted by
the Argentine community of
Champaign-Urbana. For
more information and to
make reservations, call 3673079. Cosmopolitan Club.
exhibits
“Black History: Spotlights
of Political Change”
Government Documents
Library, main hall wall
cases.
“Chinese Presence in
Cuba.”
Latin American and
Caribbean Library.
“Blacks in Chicago”
Main hall cases, Library.
“This Was Their Land:
Native American
Indians in the U.S.”
Map and Geography
Library.
“The Euro is Here”
Modern Languages and
Linguistics Library.
“John Philip Sousa and the
Star-Spangled Banner”
Mueller case, east foyer,
Library.
“Welcome Back Bears: The
UI Bears Connection,
1920-2001”
University Archives.
Through Feb. 28.
“Lincoln: Greatest President, Least-Known
First Lady?”
346 Library.
Through March 23.
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School of Art and Design
Faculty Art Exhibition
Through Feb. 24.
Featured Works: “Authenticity”
Through March 10.
“Seduction of Paint: Jerry
Savage Painting, 19952001”
Through March 17.
Master of Fine Arts
Exhibition.
On view March 9.
Krannert Art Museum and
Kinkead Pavilion. 10 a.m.-5
p.m. Tuesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday; 10
a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday; 2-5
p.m. Sunday. Admission to
the museum is free; a
donation of $3 is suggested.
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“resemblance+habit”
“La Dallman Architects:
Works in Progress”
On view Feb. 22.
I space, 230 W. Superior St.,
Chicago. 11a.m.-5 p.m.
Tuesday-Saturday.
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@art gallery. Online exhibit
of the UI School of Art and
Design. www.art.uiuc.edu/
@art.
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World Heritage Museum.
Closed. Will reopen as the
new Spurlock Museum of
World Cultures at a new
location in 2002.
www.spurlock.uiuc.edu.
ongoing
Altgeld Chime-Tower Tours
12:30-1 p.m. weekdays.
Enter through 323 Altgeld
Hall.
Beckman Institute Cafe
Open to the public. 8 a.m.3 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Bevier Cafe
8:30-11 a.m. coffee, juice
and baked goods; and 11:30
a.m. to 1 p.m. lunch.
Cerebral Cafe
Noon Wednesdays when
classes are in session.
Courtyard Cafe, Illini Union.
Bring your lunch and
opinions. Ideas for topics
welcome; call Illini Union
Program Department, 3333660.
Huizenga Commons
Cafeteria
8 a.m.-2 p.m. MondayFriday. East end of College
of Law Building, 504 E.
Pennsylvania Ave.,
Champaign.
Illini Union Ballroom
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Monday-Friday. Second
Free music
The Kocian String Quartet, a Czechoslovakian group, will perform
concerts at 8 p.m. March 4, 6 and 8 in the Recital Hall of Smith Memorial
Hall. The concerts are free and open to the public.
Quartet members (from left) are: Zbynek Pad’ourek, viola; Milos Cerny,
violin II; Václav Bernásek, cello; and Pavel Hula, violin I.
During the course of their three concerts at the UI, the Kocian Quartet
will perform works by Haydn, Erwin Schulhoff, Beethoven, Mozart,
Bartók, Dvorák, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Leos Janácek.
The quartet is considered one of the finest of the new wave of quartets
established in the Czech tradition of teachers passing along their artistic
experience to the next generation.
During their weeklong visit, the quartet will coach student chamber
ensembles from the School of Music and local musical organizations. For
more information about the coaching sessions, which are open to the
public, call 244-2676.
floor, northeast corner. Call
333-0690 for reservations;
walk-ins welcome.
Intermezzo Cafe: Krannert
Center
Morning menu: 7-11 a.m.;
Lunch menu: 11 a.m.-2 p.m.;
Cafe menu: 2-3:30 p.m. on
nonperformance weekdays; 2
p.m. until 30 minutes after
performance on weekdays;
90 minutes before until 30
minutes after performance
on Saturday and Sunday.
Japan House Tours
1-4 p.m. Thursdays.
Krannert Center for the
Performing Arts
Tours: 3 p.m. daily. Meet in
the main lobby. Promenade
gift shop: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Monday-Saturday; one hour
before until 30 minutes after
all performances.
Library Tours
Self-guided audiocassettes of
main and undergraduate
libraries available at the
Information Desk, second
floor of the main library or
the Media Center of the
undergraduate library.
Meat Salesroom
102 Meat Sciences Lab. 15:30 p.m. Tuesday and
Thursday; 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
Friday. Retail outlet for
federally inspected beef,
pork and lamb, processed by
animal sciences department.
Call for price list and
specials, 333-3404.
Robert Allerton Park
Open 8 a.m. to dusk daily.
“Allerton Legacy” exhibit at
Visitors Center, 8 a.m.-5
p.m. daily; 244-1035.
Garden tours: call 333-2127.
organizations
Chancellor’s Committee on
the Status of Women
3 p.m. 400 Swanlund
Administration Building.
For calendar, see the Web
site located at
www.oc.uiuc.edu/oc/csw/
which also outlines the
committee’s purposes,
structure and work.
Classified Employees
Association
11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. first
Thursday monthly. For more
information, call Nancy
Blackburn, 244-2466 or
[email protected]
Contra Dancing
To live fiddle music with
featured callers in an
atmosphere friendly to
singles, couples and
families. Visit
www.prairienet.org/contra/
or e-mail [email protected]
for more information.
French Department: Pause
Café
5-6 p.m. Espresso Royale,
1117 W. Oregon, Urbana.
German Stammtisch
1-3 p.m. Wednesdays. The
Bread Company, 706 S.
Goodwin Ave., Urbana.
Illini Folk Dance Society
8-10 p.m. Tuesday and
Saturday. Illini Union.
Teaching dances first hour;
beginners welcome. Anne
Martel, 398-6686.
Illini Glider Club
7:30 p.m. first Thursday
monthly. 132 Bevier Hall.
Prospective members
welcome. Information hot
line: 762-4917.
Italian Table
Italian conversation
Mondays at noon, Intermezzo Cafe, Krannert
Center.
Lifetime Fitness Program
Individual and group
activities. 6-8:50 a.m.
weekdays. Kinesiology, 2444510.
Normal Person’s Book
Discussion Group
7 p.m. 317 Illini Union. Read
“A Death in the Family,” for
March 21. For more
information, call 355-3167.
PC User Group
7 p.m. 1310 Digital Computer Lab. Call Mark
Zinzow, 244-1289, or David
Harley, 333-5656, for more
information.
Scandinavian Coffee Hour
4:30-7 p.m. Wednesdays.
The Bread Company, 706 S.
Goodwin Ave., Urbana.
Secretariat
11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. third
Wednesday monthly. Illini
Union. For more information, call 333-1374, visit
www.uiuc.edu/ro/secretariat
or e-mail [email protected]
Women’s Club
Open to both male and
female faculty and staff
members and spouses.
Information about upcoming
meetings and interest groups
is posted on the Web at http:/
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