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March 16, 2006
Vol. 25, No. 17
U r b a n a - C h a m p a i g n
Rare Chinese frogs communicate by means of ultrasonic sound
By Jim Barlow
News Bureau Staff Writer
F
irst came word that a rare frog
(Amolops tormotus) in China sings
like a bird, then that the species
produces very high-pitch ultrasonic sounds. Now scientists say that these
concave-eared torrent frogs also hear and
respond to the sounds.
The findings, to appear
in today’s issue of Nature,
represent the first documented case of an amphibian being able to communicate like bats, whales and
dolphins, said corresponding author Albert S. Feng,
a UI professor of molecular and integrative
physiology.
Feng, a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, was introduced to the frog species by
Kraig Adler, a Cornell University biologist
who had learned about it while conducting
a survey of amphibians in China. Feng continues to study frogs and bats to understand
how the brain processes sound patterns, especially in sound-cluttered environments in
which filtering is required to allow for communication.
Feng and colleagues previously reported
that males of the species make these highpitched bird-like calls, with numerous variants in terms of harmonics and frequency
sweeps. Some sounds exceeded their recording device’s maximum capability of 128 kilohertz. Human ears hear sound waves generally no higher than 20 kilohertz. The frogs
studied inhabit Huangshan Hot Springs, a
popular scenic mountainous area, alive with
noisy waterfalls and wildlife west of Shanghai.
“Nature has a way of evolving mechanisms to facilitate communication in very
adverse situations,” Feng said. “One of the
ways is to shift the frequencies beyond the
spectrum of the background noise. Mammals such as bats, whales and dolphins do
this, and use ultrasound for their sonar system and communication. Frogs were never
taken into consideration for being able to do
this.”
Adler had drawn attention to the species
because the frogs do not
have external eardrums,
raising the possibility of
unusual hearing abilities. “Now we are getting
a better understanding
of why their ear drums
are recessed,” Feng said.
“Thin eardrums are needed
for detection of ultrasound. Recessed ears
shorten the path between eardrums and the
ear, enabling the transmission of ultrasound
to the ears.”
To test if the frogs actually communicated with their ultrasonic sounds, Feng
and colleagues returned to China with their
recording equipment and a special device
that allowed playback of recorded frog calls
in the audible or ultrasonic ranges. They
observed eight male frogs under three experimental conditions (no sounds, playback
of calls containing only audible parts and
playback of just ultrasonic frog calls).
During playback, the researchers watched
for evoked calling activity in which a male
frog begins calling upon hearing calls from
other frogs in the area. Six frogs responded
to ultrasonic and audible sound ranges, with
four responding with calls in both ranges.
One frog called 18 times to ultrasonic calls,
including four very telling rapid responses,
Feng said. Another frog did not respond to
ultrasonic stimulation but produced calls 18
times to an audible prompt.
Clearly, Feng said, some of the frogs
indeed communicated ultrasonically. They
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Ultrasonic amphibians Albert S. Feng, a UI professor of molecular and integrative
physiology, and his colleagues have found that a rare species of frogs in China has the
ability to communicate ultrasonically, an ability that scientists previously believed
was limited to animals with sophisticated sonar systems, such as whales and bats.
Campus prepares for possible avian flu outbreak
By Sharita Forrest
Assistant Editor
In This Issue
Campus officials hope the next
flu season flies by as relatively uneventfully as this winter’s flu season
has done. However, amid growing
concern about the potential spread
of the H5N1 avian flu virus among
bird populations worldwide, communities throughout the U.S., including the UI’s Urbana campus,
are preparing comprehensive action plans to mitigate the effects of
a potential outbreak of the disease
among humans.
A naturally occurring virus
among birds, the H5N1 virus usually does not infect humans. Although the virus has not been detected among birds in the U.S. yet
and is not expected to migrate to
North America until fall or later, it
is endemic among flocks in Africa,
Europe, the Near East and South-
east Asia.
Following a directive from the
U.S. federal government, state
and local officials, health-care
facilities and emergency services
agencies are preparing pandemic
response plans in the event the
H5N1 virus mutates to a form
capable of sustained human-tohuman transmission and becomes
a global public health concern.
Peer universities such as Pennsylvania State University, Stanford
University and the University of
Minnesota have developed or are
developing response plans for
their campuses.
At the UI’s Urbana campus, the
Infectious Disease Work Group is
updating the Infectious Disease
Response/Incident Action Plan,
a comprehensive program of
monitoring, communication and
containment protocols that UI
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officials would deploy in accordance with directives from state
officials, including the Illinois Department of Public Health, emergency services agencies and Carle
Foundation Hospital, the hospital
designated by IDPH to coordinate
responses to medical crises in Region 6 of Illinois.
The current draft UI plan outlines protocols that would be undertaken in three phases: if a confirmed case of human-to-human
transmission of avian flu were to
occur anywhere, if a suspected or
confirmed case appeared in the
contiguous United States or in the
Midwest, and if a case were confirmed on campus and had the potential to disrupt normal university
operations, such as classes, administrative functions and events.
Kip Mecum, chair of the work
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Flu fighter Kip Mecum, director of emergency planning in the
Division of Public Safety, leads the Infectious Disease Work Group,
which is preparing action plans for the campus in the event that
the avian influenza virus becomes transmissible between people.
Federal, state and local officials, as well as peer universities, are
developing similar plans to monitor and control a possible outbreak
of the disease among humans.
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Student-run restaurants
provide dining
alternatives for campus
community.
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Trustees approve CAS appointments and renovation projects
By Sabryna Cornish
UIC News Bureau
The UI Board of Trustees met at the
Chicago campus on March 9 with half the
members attending by conference call from
the Urbana campus. The special meeting
was convened because there were too many
items that needed timely attention prior to
the next regular meeting on April 11.
The board approved various appointments and phases of construction projects
on each of the campuses.
At the Urbana campus, the board approved the appointment of eight faculty
members as associates and eight faculty
members as fellows in the Center for Advanced Study for the 2006-2007 academic
year. The appointments stem from an annual
competition and allow faculty members one
semester of release time for creative work.
“These are all worthy scholars,” said
Chancellor Richard Herman.
“This is an exciting concept,” said Kenneth Schmidt. “We’re very pleased with the
appointments.”
The board approved a $770,000 roofing
contract to Henson Robinson Company,
Springfield, part of the final phase of a
multiphase renovation and expansion project for the Intramural-Physical Education
Building and the Campus Recreation Center East. The final phase of work at IMPE
includes renovating 30,000 square feet of
strength and conditioning space; enclosing ground level space at the existing tennis courts up to the existing roof level; and
installing a 1/6-mile track, a climbing wall,
three additional basketball/volleyball courts
and seven multipurpose rooms. The SportWell space and locker rooms will be modified, and the building will be expanded to
provide new office space and a snack bar
area with an instructional kitchen.
In February 2005, the board approved a
final budget of $82.7 million for the Campus Recreation renovation and expansion
project after construction bids received in
the fall of 2004 exceeded the original project budget of $77.6 million. The roofing
work will be paid from the proceeds of a
future sale of auxiliary facilities system revenue bonds.
The board also approved relocating the
Poultry Research Facilities at Urbana to ac-
commodate expansion of the Atkins Tennis
Center. The $2.8 million poultry project will
include five buildings, two of which will be
used for highly controlled, intensive and/or
specialized research, with approximately
16,6000 square feet of new space and approximately 2,800 square feet of remodeled
space.
A proposal from the president’s office to
hire the executive recruitment firm of Russell Reynolds at an estimated $125,000 to
help fill the newly created position of vice
president and chief financial officer for the
university also received the board’s approval.
President B. Joseph White said the outlook for governmental funding of higher
education during the next fiscal year is cautiously optimistic. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has proposed a modest 1.5 percent
increase in the higher education budget during FY07, which begins July 1.
“My hope is that this is the beginning of
a turnaround for public support in higher
education,” White said, and added that he is
concerned that the university remain accessible to all students, which can be compro-
mised during tough financial times.
“The University of Illinois deserves the
support of the state,” White said. “I’d say
with guarded optimism that finances are
turning around.”
Among items approved for the Chicago
campus was a proposal to retain the law firm
of Stadheim and Grear on a contingency fee
basis to enforce the university’s intellectual
property rights with regard to a UIC-developed vaccine. An audit of licensee Organon
Teknika Corp. conducted by the accounting
firm of McGladrey & Pullen during 2005 at
the request of the Chicago campus Office
of Technology Management revealed that
during a three-year period Organon Teknika
Corporation underpaid its royalties to the
university on sales of the vaccine by more
than $2.5 million. The board previously
had approved retaining Stadheim & Grear
in July 2005 to pursue license negotiations
with various companies that had infringed
on a patent portfolio donated to the university by Procter & Gamble Co., action that is
expected to bring “significant revenues” to
the university, according to the proposal. u
New facility to feature senior design projects
By Rick Kubetz
Office of Engineering Communications
Tucked away on the College of Engineering campus, the new Engineering Student Projects Laboratory, 1021 W. Western
Ave., Urbana, is the new home for one of
the university’s most innovative undergraduate instructional programs – the Interdisciplinary Design Program, managed by the
Engineering Design Council. The facility
was dedicated March 10 as part of the 86th
Engineering Open House.
“The Engineering Student Projects Laboratory will serve as a showroom for many of the
projects completed over the past few years,”
said Myron Salamon, associate dean for administrative affairs at the College of Engineering. “It will also provide dedicated workspace
for current students, as well as showing our
sponsors what can be accomplished.”
At the dedication, Salamon was joined
by Keith Hjemlstad, associate dean for
academic programs, and Harry Wildblood,
chair of the Engineering Design Council. Jiang J. Yu, a junior in aerospace engineering
deaths
Isidora Albrecht-Wiegler, 80, died Feb.
26 at Provena Covenant Medical Center,
Urbana. Albrecht-Wiegler worked at the UI
for 17 years, retiring in 1985 as a research
scientist in botany. Memorials: UI Mathematics Library.
Suzanne Appelle Cavette, 78, died March
5 at Home Hospital, Lafayette, Ind. Cavette
worked at the UI Student Counseling Bureau
for two years as a junior clerk. Memorials:
Tippecanoe County Humane Society.
Betsy Rames Davis, 51, died Feb. 27 at her
Champaign home. Davis worked at the UI
for six years. She left the UI in 1999 as a
visiting assistant to the vice chancellor for
research. Memorials: Betsy Rames Davis
Educational Trust Fund, in care of Bank of
Champaign, P.O. Box 1490, Champaign, IL
61824.
Arleen Everett, 66, died Feb. 26 at her
Champaign home. Everett worked at the UI
for 10 years. Memorials: St. John’s Lutheran
Church, 509 S. Mattis Ave., Champaign, IL
61821; or the American Cancer Society.
Margaret L. Kimbrell, 83, died March 2 at
Champaign County Nursing Home, Urbana.
Kimbrell worked at the UI Library and Visual Aids Department for eight years.
James A. Roderick, 67, died March 2 at
Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Roderick worked at the UI Physical Plant for 33
years, retiring in 1998 as a steam distribution operator. Memorials: American Lung
Association. u
and an active member of Engineering Initiatives, also was recognized for helping name
the building as part of a student contest last
fall.
Engineering students are typically required to complete a semester of hands-on,
team-based work in collaboration with an
industry sponsor and faculty adviser from
one or more departments. The Engineering
Design Council provides matching support
for those projects that are interdisciplinary,
involving students from several departments. Award-winning capstone projects
include a hybrid electric car, the Sunrayce
solar car, and a better baby bottle.
“One of the compelling features of the
Senior Design Program is the opportunity
for large and small firms to take advantage
of the latest research and technology that is
available,” Salamon said. Program sponsors include corporations such as 3M, Boeing, Caterpillar, Ford Motor Co., General
Electric, Hewlett Packard, John Deere and
many smaller regional companies.
“Most importantly, this is not just a
showroom, but also a workspace where interdisciplinary teams can meet and work on
their projects. I think this space is a reflection of the nature of Engineering at Illinois,
and the variety of work being done here,”
Salamon said.
While department-centered senior design projects provide valuable experiences
for all students, team-based, multidisciplinary projects prepare students for the
workplace.
“Students and faculty members benefit
by solving problems in a real-world situation,” Wildblood said. “That environment
cannot be duplicated in the classroom.”
Encompassing approximately 7,000
square feet, the laboratory includes the
showroom, space for team meetings, computer workstations, plus clean and “dirty”
workspaces. The Engineering Design Coun-
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cil, a group of representatives from each of
the departments within the college, provided input on the floor plan and the building.
“Primarily, we wanted to stay flexible on
how we might use the building–moveable
partitions, a clean room, and open workspace,” explained Peter Lenzini, a lecturer
and undergraduate advisor in civil and environmental engineering, and former Engineering Design Council chair. The intent
of the building is to replace two temporary
facilities, and provide a permanent space.
“The Design Council promotes interdisciplinary design which brings together
different departments within the college,”
Lenzini said. “The groups currently work in
whatever space they can find, either in their
own departments or the buildings we have.
Some of these groups will be able to use the
space in this new facility.”
Several projects are slated for inclusion
in the new facility. The ION Cubesat project – the university’s first student-built satellite, launched in October 2005 – will be
on display as well two hybrid electric vehicles – originally produced for the Hybrid
Electric Vehicle Challenge and FutureCar
Challenge competitions – plus a hydraulic
bicycle that recently won the Parker Hannifin Chainless Challenge.
The laboratory is between Daniels Graduate Hall and the Engineering Sciences
Building, just east of the Frederick Seitz
Materials Research Laboratory. The new
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Lofty project Engineering student Ray Bejjani, left, works with Michael Davidsaver
of the Aerial Robotics Club on an autonomously controlled helicopter at the new
Engineering Student Projects Laboratory.
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March 16, 2006 InsideIllinois
On the Job Tom Martin
Twelve win UI fellowships
from research program in the
humanities
By Andrea Lynn
News Bureau Staff Writer
photo by L. Brian Stauffer
Tom Martin has worked as a UI locksmith for 21 years. Martin is one of the
eight locksmiths who manage thousands of doors and locks on campus. He
cuts keys, changes locks and every once in a while, rescues people who have
locked themselves in rooms. In addition to his job, Martin is involved with the
Staff Advisory Council as a representative of the skilled crafts and trades
classification. Outside of work, he enjoys travel and remodeling.
What made you want to work for the university?
We had a young family and the benefits and job security (were important).
I had worked for nine years as a locksmith outside the university and was
always interested in what was going on (on campus). I’m curious by nature. I’m
fascinated with a lot stuff that goes on around here. As a university locksmith,
you take care of things and maintain things more rather than working for
someone on the outside (where) you’re more inclined to sell (a customer)
something new.
Tell me about your job and your day-to-day activities.
There are eight of us in the shop and basically our day-to day duties are to
maintain all of the keys and locks for the campus as well as the door closers.
We’re responsible for keeping track of all the keying systems and we cut all of
the keys for the campus. We take care of card access, the new electronic access
on campus. We also maintain safes. My main focus right now is card access.
I manage well over 200 stand-alone card readers around campus. I take care
of the databases and maintenance on those. We all basically do anything that
needs to get done in the shop. It’s pretty varied.
What’s the biggest challenge in being a locksmith at the UI?
If you come from the outside, it’s learning to slow down. You don’t have
somebody watching over your shoulder all the time. They’ve hired you because
they’re confident in your abilities. You don’t have to make a profit for someone. …
Time is money here, but we’re trying to save money, not make a profit. We get a
lot of different challenges. We’re asked for different ways to lock things up.
A good example is out at one of the animal clinics – they’ve got a big lab that’s
got a treadmill for horses. They were having a lot of trouble with people walking
by, swinging that door open and spooking the horses when they were up on the
treadmill. So we had to come up with a way that they could control that so that
the door could be left unlocked at certain times and they could lock it back.
We’re putting a card reader on it. They’ll be able to control the times the door
is unlocked and then when it’s locked, certain people will be able to access it.
You’re challenged to come up with different ideas.
What do you like most about your job?
I come to work every day enjoying my job and the people I work with and all the
people I know on campus. I probably know somebody in every building. I’ve been
here that long and been in that many buildings. It’s a fun place to work. You’ve
got to have the right attitude every day. In our particular job, we have a little more
freedom than some because we’re not stuck in one place all the time. We’re all
over the campus. We can be anywhere, from a lab at Beckman to working on a
barn door in the South Farms. Every day, there’s going to be something a little bit
different than what you did the day before. And that’s what makes it so fun and
that’s what’s made the years go by so fast.
What is the most interesting thing that has happened to you on the job?
Spurlock Museum called one time and they needed to have a case unlocked
because they had an artifact in there that was donated to the museum. They
had lost the keys or never had the keys to it. When I got over there, they had me
put on white gloves and I picked the lock open. It was supposedly a casting of a
death mask of Abraham Lincoln. That’s probably one of the coolest things I’ve
done. I was seeing it at the same time they were seeing it.
What are your interests outside of work?
We like to travel. I just got back from Cozumel, Mexico. We’ve been down
there nine or 10 times now. We go at least once, sometimes twice, a year. We
don’t sightsee or anything like that. We relax [and] lie on the beach. I highly
recommend it. You feel all the stress drain out of you when you lie down on that
hot sand.
We have an old house in Mahomet that we kind of fixed up. I’ve got a woodshop
that I tinker in. I basically use it to do the remodeling that we do on the house.
Remodeling is kind of our hobby. It’s a really old house and we do one room at
a time. We’re down to the last room. When we finish the house, we’ll probably
start all over again. My wife has a great sense of style and color, and is always
sketching new ideas. So, who knows?
Interview by Abby Cañeda
News Bureau Intern
PAGE Six professors and six graduate students
have won fellowships for the academic year
2006-2007 from the Illinois Program for
Research in the Humanities at the UI.
The newly elected fellows will spend
the year on research projects that consider
“Beauty,” IPRH’s theme through 2007.
Fellows also will participate in the yearlong Fellows’ Seminar and will present
their research at IPRH’s annual conference
in late spring 2007.
A postdoctoral scholar from another
university has received IRPH’s Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship. She will
spend the year in residence at the Urbana
campus also engaged in a research project
related to the new theme and will teach a
course.
The IPRH Faculty Fellows, their departments and projects:
• Brett Kaplan, comparative and world
literature, “Landscape and Holocaust Postmemory.”
• Richard Mohr, philosophy, “Beauty,
Goodness, Love, and Sexuality in Plato’s
‘Symposium’ and ‘Phaedrus.’ ”
• Isabel Molina, Institute of Communications Research, “Consuming Latina Bodies
and the Racialized Politics of Beauty.”
• Ned O’Gorman, speech communication, “Catastrophic Vistas: Discourses
About Disaster in Cold War America and
the American Sublime.”
• Deke Weaver, narrative media, School
of Art and Design, “The Palimpsest Project.”
• Yutian Wong, dance and Asian American Studies, “Choreographing Asian America: Club O’Noodles and Other Mis-Acts.”
IPRH Graduate Student Fellows, their
departments and projects:
• Sarah Dennis, English, “Prose for Art’s
Sake: Creating and Documenting an American Aesthetic, 1820-1900.”
• Aisha Durham, Institute of Communications Research, “Beauty as the Beast:
Un/Desirable Iconic Black Female Bodies
in Popular Culture.”
• Danielle Kinsey, history, “Modern Imperial Beauty: Diamonds and the Production
of Taste in Nineteenth-Century Britain.”
• Anthony Perman, musicology, School
of Music, “Hearing an Ndau Past: The Semiotics of Music, History, and Affect in
Ndau Drumming Styles in Zimbabwe.”
• Julia Sienkewicz, art history, “Planting
Ancient Mores on an ‘Untouched’ Land:
Charles Willson Peale’s Citizen-Building
Project at Belfield.”
• Polyxeni Strolonga, classics, “The
Perils of Beauty and the Aesthetics of Exchange in Greek Poetry.”
The Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral
Fellow is Elizabeth B. Boyd, a senior lecturer in the American and Southern Studies
Program at Vanderbilt University. Boyd,
who earned her doctorate in American
Studies at the University of Texas in 2000,
will spend the year at Illinois doing research
on a project titled “Southern Beauty: Performing Region on the Feminine Body”;
she also will teach a course in the history
department.
Matti Bunzl, IPRH director, said that the
“Beauty” theme should allow the scholars
to consider the ways in which beauty has
been “a mainstay of humanistic thought
across space and time.”
Beauty features prominently in Plato’s
theory of mimesis and in Confucius’ teachings on enjoyment in moral and political
education, Bunzl said. It became “systematized” in western thought with the formal
development of aesthetics.
“To this tradition, we owe an ongoing
preoccupation with judgment and criticism,
the sublime and the ugly, imagination and
pleasure,” he said.
Kant and Schiller emphasized the “unencumbered play of the imagination,” Bunzl
said, while those from Hegel to Bourdieu
stressed “historical and cultural specificity.”
Much 20th-century art, music and literature “actively defied the beautiful.” Marxist critics regarded certain forms of beauty
with political and aesthetic suspicion, and
feminist and anti-colonial thinkers “expanded on this critique of kitsch, identifying ideologies of beauty as central sites of
systemic oppression.”
“While the pursuit of beauty was antithetical to serious creative work for much
of the 20th century, it seems to be making
something of a comeback in the 21st century,” Bunzl said.
“In a postmodern world where composers return to tonality and artists rediscover
painting, the distinction between high and
popular culture has effectively evaporated.
Whether the attendant retreat into aesthetics
should be critiqued as a reactionary move
or celebrated as a strategic response to the
geopolitical transformations of the post9/11 order is just one of the many questions
beauty continues to pose today.”
Faculty Fellows are released from one
semester of teaching. They also are asked to
teach one course during their award year or
the year immediately following it on a topic
related to their fellowship.
Graduate Student Fellows receive a
stipend and a tuition and fee waiver from
IPRH.
All IPRH Fellows, including the postdoctoral Fellows, are expected to remain
in residence on the UI campus during their
award year.
Applications for IPRH Fellowships are
typically distributed in the early fall for the
following academic year, and UI faculty
members and graduate students are invited
to apply for the awards.
For more information about the IPRH
Fellowship Programs go to www.iprh.uiuc.
edu or contact IPRH associate director
Christine Catanzarite at 217-244-7913. u
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The University Library is
reaching out to faculty members
during April as part of its capital
campaign, a campus wide initiative through which the library
hopes to raise $30 million for
acquisition and preservation, facilities construction and renovation, and the creation of endowed
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Square deals Women’s Club members Jennifer Richardson, left, visiting program coordinator in
the department of agricultural and biological engineering, and Sandi Thomas, club president, show
the decorative Motawi tiles that the club is selling to raise money for its scholarship fund. The tiles
showing ears of corn commemorate the Morrow Plots and are available in yellow or green; a new tile
commemorating the dairy round barns will be available soon in shades of brown, blue or orange.
evolution has reflected societal
changes: The Mother-Child Playgroup is now called the ParentChild Playgroup, and many of
the interest groups’ activities are
held in the evenings and on weekends to accommodate members’
work schedules. And, despite the
club’s name, approximately 10 of
the club’s 350 members are men.
Membership is open to anyone affiliated with the university.
While many things have
changed over the century that the
Women’s Club has been in existence, some activities have remained fundamental, such as the
club’s scholarship program. Each
year the club gives out five or six
“Make A Difference Awards,”
$1,000 scholarships to UI juniors
or seniors, and confers one named
scholarship to a student in the fine
arts, the Judith Life Ikenberry
Scholarship, in honor of the wife
of former UI president Stanley
Ikenberry. Since 1973, the club
has provided more than 180 university students with more than
$86,000 in scholarships.
This year, the club is hoping to
raise at least $25,000 for its scholarship endowment through its
“Decades of Giving” fundraising
campaign, which allows donors to
give from $50 to $1,000. As it has
in the past, the club also is selling decorative Motawi tiles that
SEE WOMEN’S CLUB, PAGE 13
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University Women’s Club celebrates 100 years
community is one of the missions
of the Women’s Club, a social and
Sandi Thomas had a 2-year-old philanthropic organization that is
son and was seven months preg- celebrating its centennial annivernant with the second of her three sary this year. The foundation of
children when she and her hus- the club is its 25 special interest
band, Brian Thomas, arrived in groups, which offer members a
Champaignmultiplicity
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For more information about the
years ago for
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ranging
Women’s Club or to support its
Brian’s new
from antique
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job as a procollecting to
club’s Web site:
fessor of memovie gowww.uiucwomensclub.org.
chanical ening,
from
gineering at
foreign lanIllinois. They also were newcom- guage conversations to knitting,
ers to the United States, having and investing and hiking. The
left behind their families and the Newcomers Group, which is open
mountaintops and ocean vistas of to club members during their first
Vancouver, British Columbia, for two years, sponsors field trips to
the landlocked horizons of Central places in Illinois and neighborIllinois, a change of scenery that ing states, and the Cosmopolitan
Sandi Thomas described as “quite Group, Sandi’s favorite, aims to
a shock.”
create an inclusive environment
But Sandi Thomas found the for people from other countries
transition to her new life a bit while providing opportunities for
easier once she found the Mother- members to learn about other culChild PlayGroup, a special inter- tures.
est group of the UI Women’s Club,
Anna James, wife of the UI’s
that provided 2-year-old Chris fifth president, is believed to
with twice-a-month play dates and have founded the club in FebruSandi with “a wonderful group of ary 1906 as an informal means
friends.”
for “the women connected with
“The club provided the basis of the faculty of the University of Ilmy feeling like I belonged when linois” and the wives of local minI first moved here,” Sandi said. isters to get acquainted with each
“Everyone was just so friendly and other, the campus and the commuhelpful,” providing welcome ad- nity. The club’s activities included
vice on the best obstetricians and monthly Tuesday Teas, a variety
pediatricians and other necessities of social and enrichment activities
that helped her family make their and service work, such as sewing
new home feel like home. Sandi is bandages for the Red Cross during
now the club’s president.
wartime.
Helping people find a sense of
Over the years, the club’s
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March 16, 2006 faculty positions. Thus far, more
than $18.9 million has been raised
through the campaign.
During April, the Library will
invite faculty members to participate in the Library Friends Annual
Fund Program. Gifts to the annual
fund typically are unrestricted and
used to address the most urgent
needs throughout the library system. However, faculty members
may choose to support the departmental library that they use most
often or specific programs or initiatives.
“The library is an important
part of every faculty member’s
teaching and research,” said Paula
Kaufman, university librarian.
“Faculty support will reflect the
strength of this relationship and
demonstrate how essential the
library is to the university’s missions.”
Kaufman said that many retired and current faculty members
already have made significant
contributions and that the library
is looking forward to a strong
partnership with faculty members
throughout the campaign. “To
succeed in the future, the library
needs the support of faculty, just
as faculty need the
support of the library. It truly is a
reciprocal relationship,” Kaufman
said.
The
Friends
group, which was
established during the 1972-73
academic year, has
more than 3,500 members and has
contributed nearly $2.2 million to
the library in the past five years.
The Division of Intercollegiate
Athletics pledged $500,000 to the
campaign, which will be used to
create a Learning Commons, a
model program combining computing resources and information
services in a contemporary, easyto use layout. The library and
Campus Information Technologies
and Educational Services will collaborate on designing the learning
commons.
Most of the library’s facilities
were built to house print-based
media, and with funds from the
campaign, the main Library building and the Undergraduate Library
will be renovated to better meet
contemporary needs.
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During the past 20 years, the
library’s purchasing power has
been eroded from a combination
of factors, including dwindling
state support for higher education, double-digit price increases
caused by inflation, and general
price hikes as well as the shrinking value of the U.S. dollar against
the Euro when purchasing publications from Western Europe.
Due to budgetary constraints, the
library canceled more than 1,000
serial titles during the last few
years.
Access to electronic materials,
such as full-text journal articles,
electronic books and reference
guides are critically important to
many disciplines and increasingly
preferred by faculty members and
students. However, electronic
journals cost on average 10 percent to 30 percent more than their
print equivalents, with prices rising an average of 10 percent to
12 percent annually. Additionally,
electronic and print versions of
some materials must be purchased
simultaneously because future access to electronic versions is not
assured.
Another challenge facing the
library is preservation and conservation of the nearly 24 million
items in its collections, 40 percent
of which are at risk of physical
deterioration because of poor environmental conditions in library
facilities and the acidic content of
paper used in scholarly publications. With a $300,000 grant from
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, $700,000 in matching funds
Be a Library Friend
The UI Library is looking for several gifts to enhance its collections:
n $300 for the City Planning and Landscape Architecture
Library to purchase “Trip Generation,” 7th edition, a threevolume reference work on transportation planning, to benefit
research and teaching in urban and regional planning,
landscape architecture and transportation engineering.
n $449 for the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Library
to purchase “Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture and
Society in the United States.”
n $450 for the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art to
purchase “Armenian Painters in the Ottoman Empire, 16001923,” which provides information on artists not found
readily in other biographical dictionaries.
n Funds for the History and Philosophy Library to purchase:
“Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Culture,
History and Politics” ($270); “Indian Religious Traditions:
An Encyclopedia” ($285); and the “Encyclopedia of Modern
Jewish Culture” ($395).
n $3,520 for the Modern Languages and Linguistics Library to
n $10,000 for microfilming issues of the vaudeville industry
n $12,000 to purchase seven exhibition cases for the Rare
purchase four lounge chairs for a new reading alcove.
journal The Player not already owned by the UI.
Book and Manuscript Library.
For more information about needs of the library, go to www.library.
uiuc.edu/friends/index.php and click on “Library is Looking.” Gifts
can be made online or by calling the Library Office of Development
and Public Affairs at 333-5682.
and contributions of $1.4 million
from more than 1,000 “Library
Friends,” the library is designing and equipping a conservation
laboratory that is expected to open
this summer. (See March 2, 2006,
issue of “Inside Illinois,” www.
news.uiuc.edu/ii/06/0302/library_
archives.html.)
For more information about
the campaign, contact the Library
Office of Development and Public
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PAGE March 16, 2006
UI expert: Hit film adaptations for young audiences a ‘mixed blessing
By Andrea Lynn
News Bureau Staff Writer
What’s not to like about today’s
youth films, titles such as “The
Chronicles of Narnia” and “Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire?”
Adapted from respected novels
for children, the PG and PG-13
titles, respectively, have a lot going for them: They are not only
enjoying huge box-office receipts,
but between them were nominated
for four Academy Awards.
Like their namesake novels, the
films have their appeal, says Betsy
Hearne, one of the country’s top
experts in children’s literature.
Both, however, are “a mixed
blessing for their young audiences,” Hearne said. Moreover, their
shared shortcoming is symptomatic of the way most children’s
stories are being told on the silver
screen these days.
The problem, according to
Hearne, is that two critical elements – “creative spaces and silences” – are typically left on the
cutting-room floor in the process
of translating a children’s book
into celluloid.
“Silence and space are important elements in all stories – regardless of format,” Hearne said,
but instead of offering modulated
spaces – silences that often reflect
the “real mystery of the story” –
contemporary filmmakers are “besieging and ultimately shortening
children’s attention spans through
unnecessary over stimulation.”
“What we have is the ‘ADHDing’ of pop culture for kids,” said
Hearne, the director of the Center
for Children’s Books and a UI
professor of library and information science.
Instead of the slow quiet moments authors build into stories so
that young readers can step back,
rest and reflect between climactic
moments, filmmakers often substitute “frenetic activity” – loud music,
chase scenes, violence, gimmicks
and busy computer animation.
“Apparently, it is assumed that
young people will not want to
pause for even a moment while
no exciting action happens on
screen,” Hearne said. “Unfortunately, this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. We have created a
juvenile audience with hyperactive expectations often involving
a range of violence from slapstick
to sensational.”
She also suspects that today’s
pop culture creators “don’t really
believe in the power of story to
hold children’s attention.”
Hearne believes that now, more
than ever, as we grapple with our
“information-besieged
lives,”
finding space and even silence in
our lives is “critical.”
“Somehow we must reappropriate the all-important silences
that convey suspense, emphasis
and humorous pacing. We need
space to think and be.”
A prize-winning author, Hearne
also is the former children’s book
editor of Booklist and of The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s
Books. She has reviewed books
for 38 years and contributes regularly to the New York Times Book
Review.
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Hearne demonstrated her point
about silence and space with a
scene from “The Chronicles of
Narnia.”
“When Aslan the lion sacrifices
himself to save Edmund, the focus
in the book is on him and on the
witch who is enforcing the old
magic,” she said.
“Although C.S. Lewis includes
a restrained description of Aslan’s
being reviled and beaten, the
film’s long lurid sequence featuring a horde of horrific creatures indulging in pagan ritual calls more
attention to the movie’s special
effects than to the character’s sadness and nobility,” Hearne said.
A parallel in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” might be the
dancing dishes, “which, however
‘charming,’ distract from a focus
on the relationship between the
two main characters.”
The new film “Curious
George,” on the other hand, does
give the kind of space featured in
the picture book, Hearne said.
“In the scene where Curious
George and the Man with the Yellow Hat are sailing over New York
City with a bunch of balloons,
there’s a wonderful sense of release and joy that just takes over
the screen without interference or
overdramatics.
“In fact, one of the film’s major
motifs is a simple game of peek-aboo, which accords perfectly with
the child audience’s experience
without peppering or pressuring
them with nonstop gimmicks.”
Similarly, “Holes” (2003)
based on Louis Sachar’s New-
Film adaptations Betsy Hearne, one of the country’s top experts
in children’s literature, says “The Chronicles of Narnia” and “Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire” are “a mixed blessing for their young
audiences.” Their shared shortcoming is symptomatic of the way
most children’s stories are being told on the silver screen these days.
bery-winning novel, “is a film that
does not betray the book’s subtle
balance of action and reflection,”
Hearne said.
“Nor does it become strictly
duplicative, in the vein of literal
facsimile that is characteristic of
the ‘Harry Potter’ movies. Rather,
‘Holes’ transforms one work of
art into another. The flashbacks
indicated by spaces in the book
are, in the film, skillfully rendered
through fadeouts that clarify transitions between present and past
events but at the same time add a
striking visual dimension.” u
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PAGE Campaign seeks to refocus Americans on value of higher education
huge liability.”
Doing more to address that liability beCollege basketball fans will be getting came a focus of the American Council on
something extra with their “March Mad- Education about two years ago, Ikenberry
ness” this year: a plug for the value of said, when a Texas businessman contacted
American higher education.
the organization and asked who provided
Beginning March 16, as part of their the voice for higher education. “The folks
coverage of the men’s and women’s NCAA at the ACE said, ‘Well, we do,” Ikenberry
Division I basketball tournament, CBS said, “and his response was, ‘Well, I can’t
and ESPN will broadcast public service hear you.’ ”
announcements. Fox Television also will
A difficult conversation followed, but
broadcast them during its prime-time sched- what resulted was a donation to support reule in the last half of March. And full-page search on a campaign to change that perads are planned for donated space in the Wall ception, Ikenberry said. Since then, numerStreet Journal.
ous colleges and
It’s all part of the
have
“Every time graduates walk universities
kickoff for a public
contributed addicampaign,
called across the stage (during tional funds and
“Solutions for Our
time.
commencement) at the UI, staffIkenberry,
Future,” (www.sonow
lutionsforourfuture. there are benefits there that a Regent Profesorg) sponsored and
sor of educational
are accruing to all of us.”
organized by the
organization and
American Council
–Stanley O. Ikenberry leadership in the
on Education, with
UI’s College of
the support of more than 400 colleges and Education, was brought in a short time latuniversities.
er by the ACE and asked to lead the early
The goal is to “refocus Americans on planning and development of the campaign.
the value of higher education, its role in To assist him, he recruited Judith Rowan,
shaping our innovators and leaders, and its former associate chancellor for public afimportance to our future prosperity, well- fairs on the Urbana campus.
being, and competitive edge,” according to
Their role, Ikenberry said, was “to give it
the Web site.
the extra push at the beginning to get it off
“Everybody understands the benefits that the ground.” They worked on the planning
come to the individual college graduate,” for more than a year, then phased out of it
says Stanley O. Ikenberry, a former presi- beginning last fall, he said.
dent of the UI and of the American Council
Several worrisome trends have helped
on Education. He played a key early role in spur the organization of the campaign, Ikenplanning the campaign.
berry said. Key among them is the signifiWhat the public has lost sight of are cant decline over recent years in the states’
the benefits that go beyond the individual, investment in higher education. Another is
Ikenberry said. “Every time graduates walk the gradual shift of education costs to stuacross the stage (during commencement) at dents, as well as the shift from need-based
the University of Illinois, there are benefits to merit-based student aid.
there that are accruing to all of us,” he said,
“The shift of costs to the student can be
in terms of leadership and future advance- justified if you’re focusing on the individual
ments in every field. In addition, there are benefits that derive to the individual graduthe many benefits of higher education re- ate,” Ikenberry said. But if the broader bensearch and outreach.
efits of higher education are taken into acIndustry and business groups “all have count, “it means that the cost ought to be
ways of speaking to the American public, or shared equitably between the student and
engaging in a conversation with the Ameri- the society,” he said.
can public, but it’s very difficult for higher
A public conversation about the role of
education to do that,” Ikenberry said.
higher education also is crucial given the
With more than 3,000 schools, “getting challenges the country will be facing over
ourselves organized to try to speak to the the next 20 to 30 years, Ikenberry said.
public in a common language, with a com- Concerns such as economic competitivemon voice, is a big challenge.” But failing ness, the quality of the workforce, the health
to do that “means that somebody else will of cities, and the quality of health care “all
be defining the conversation for us, and in a are directly and indirectly tied to access to
highly media-oriented world, it becomes a high-quality higher education,” he said.
By Craig Chamberlain
News Bureau Staff Writer
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Let’s talk Stanley O. Ikenberry, a former president of the UI and of the American
Council on Education, was instrumental in developing a public campaign on the
value of higher education that will be broadcast on CBS, ESPN and Fox Television.
Ikenberry, now a Regent Professor of educational organization and leadership in the
College of Education, said the campaign enables colleges and universities to speak
with a common voice and begin a public dialogue about the benefits – and failings – of
higher education.
That access to higher education, Ikenberry suggested, has been key to much of
the country’s success over the past century,
“but that competitive advantage is shifting
now, and many other countries are beginning to catch up.”
In opening up a public conversation
about the role of higher education, the or-
ganizers know that it also opens them to
criticism about higher education’s problems and failings, but they consider that
“fair game,” Ikenberry said. “There are
specific areas out there where the public
has legitimate concerns,” he said, “and
we’ve got to be prepared to listen and
respond.” u
Janus particles offer new physics, new technology
By James E. Kloeppel
News Bureau Staff Writer
In Roman mythology, Janus was the god
of change and transition, often portrayed
with two faces gazing in opposite directions. At the UI, Janus particles are providing insight into the movement of molecules,
and serving as the basis for new materials
and sensors.
“By modifying the surface of colloidal
particles into a Janus chemical compound,
we can measure the rotational dynamics of
single colloidal particles in suspension as
well as at interfaces,” said Steve Granick,
a professor of materials science and engineering, of chemistry and of physics. “We
can also take advantage of the particles’ two
very dissimilar sides to create families of
microsensors.”
Using a metal-deposition technique,
Granick and his research team – graduate
students Liang Hong and Steven Anthony,
and postdoctoral research associate Huilin
Tu – make particles half-covered by metal,
and generate geometrically symmetric but
chemically asymmetric materials. Trapped
inside the micron-size particles are fluorescent dyes, which can only be seen through
the uncoated hemisphere, not through the
metal-coated hemisphere.
“Because these colloidal particles are rotating, they twinkle as they move back and
forth, ‘swimming’ by Brownian motion,”
said Granick, who also is a researcher at the
Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory and at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. “By carefully monitoring the motion of the particles,
we can now ask questions about that motion
that were not possible before.”
Individual particles can be tied together
like strings of pearls. Using precision imaging and tracking techniques, the researchers
can measure the movement as the strings
tumble around. The particles can also be
used as microprobes and microrheometers.
“We are continuing to explore the
chemical modification of the metal surface to form new colloid-based materials,”
said Granick, who will describe his team’s
work at the March Meeting of the American
Physical Society, to be held at the Baltimore
Convention Center this week, March 13-17.
“We are also investigating the use of electrical fields and magnetic fields to manipulate
the particles.”
The U.S. Department of Energy funded
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Monitoring motion Steve Granick, a professor of materials science and
engineering, of chemistry and of physics, has modified the surface of colloidal
particles into a Janus chemical compound. “We can measure the rotational dynamics
of single colloidal particles in suspension as well as at interfaces,” Granick said. “We
can also take advantage of the particles’ two very dissimilar sides to create families of
microsensors.”
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News Bureau Student Intern
InsideIllinois
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March 16, 2006 Bevier Café and Spice Box provide lessons in healthy food and business
T
wo students in the Quantity Foods
Laboratory, wearing white chef
coats and hats, their hands caked
in caramelized onions, roasted
almonds and teriyaki sauce, stare
uncertainly into the giant bowl of ingredients they’ve been mixing.
“Does it look good or nasty?” freshman
Kandace Roberson of Chicago asks guest
chef Jesse Quinonez as she helps prepare
for that evening’s Spice Box meal.
“Would you eat it?” Quinonez asks.
“Yes.”
“Then keep mixing.”
The Spice Box, along with Bevier Café,
is a student-run restaurant on the UI campus. Showcasing the talents of senior hospitality-management majors, the Spice Box
serves two- and four-course gourmet meals
on Friday and Tuesday evenings in the
spring. Students enrolled in the junior-level
“Food Production and Service” course run
Bevier Café, open weekdays for breakfast,
lunch and afternoon snacks.
“What sets our Hospitality Management
program apart is that we offer in-house,
practical experience, and most schools send
their students out to other restaurants,” said
Jill North, teaching associate and director of
the Spice Box and Bevier Café. “It’s more
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On-the-job training Undergraduate teaching assistant Katie Pecharich, of Avon, Ill., explains to servers the proper way to serve
helpful and a safer environment to learn.”
In “Fine-Dining Management,” affiliated plates to diners. Students run the Spice Box and Bevier Café as self-sustaining businesses and are expected to make a profit.
with the Spice Box, each senior is responEach student at Bevier Café works 10
sible for planning, staffing and executing shouting plating instructions to students.
“If you come in blank, you definitely can
“I like dealing with food more than peo- hours a week and is graded according to learn,” said Kevin Grace, a junior hospitala financially viable fine-dining meal to be
served to the public. With the help of a guest ple,” Kim said. With more than 140 reserva- a daily checklist of factors, including how ity-management major from Blue Island, Ill.
chef and freshmen enrolled in “Introduction tions to fill over the course of four seatings, they deal with food temperatures, sanita- “It’s a pretty small major, so everyone knows
to Hospitality Management,” the Spice Box Kim dealt with much more on her night as tion, preparation and clean up. Students ro- each other and helps each other out.”
manager of the tate every two weeks through five stations:
often serves up
Graduation rates within the program are
management, hot foods, pantry, bakery and high, and most graduates go into food serSpice Box.
to 160 guests a
For more information and menus for Bevier Café
and the Spice Box, go to:
An oven ex- scullery.
night for an avervice, catering or restaurant management,
www.fshn.uiuc.edu
A line forms as the doors to Bevier Café North said.
ploded earlier in
age of $14 to $26
the day, the steak open for lunch at 11:30 a.m. Junior Jessica
a meal.
The students may serve up to 180 guests
“These are fine-dining experiences peo- skewers caught fire because someone for- Klein of West Brooklyn, Ill., greets custom- in one day at Bevier Café. Daily menus are
ple can’t get from other places in Cham- got to soak them, and servers mistimed their ers from behind the salad bar.
online and posted outside the Café, on the
“I can make you a salad or sandwich second floor of Bevier Hall, at the corner of
paign-Urbana or the surrounding area,” said courses, which led to problems keeping the
however you want it,” Klein says. Bevier Goodwin Avenue and Gregory Street.
Marla Todd, coordinator for external and plated food warm, Kim said.
“Like a real restaurant, anything can Café serves daily lunch entrees starting from
alumni relations in the department of food
Music professor William Heiles has been
science and human nutrition. “You have to happen,” North said. In a previous semes- $4.25, with a variety of vegetarian entrees eating at Bevier Café for 20 years. “The
go a couple hours away to get the experi- ter, one student chose to flambé bananas and a la carte soups, salads and desserts.
food is good, the service is nice, and they
A lot of menu changes were made af- have excellent desserts,” he said. “I don’t
ence and variety you’re going to get at the tableside. While the student had counted on
a gorgeous presentation, the student had not ter Executive Chef Jean-Louis Ledent was get tired coming here every day.”
Spice Box.”
Student meal managers at the Spice Box, planned on setting off the smoke detectors. hired in the fall of 2004, North said.
Students running Bevier Café usually
“Before I came, every day was some- don’t get tired either. Yes, the traditional
on the second floor of Bevier Hall, have Everyone had to leave the restaurant.
“Luckily, nothing did catch on fire,” North thing fried,” Ledent said. “I like fried foods, chef hats slip off easily. The hours are long.
planned meals for the current semester on
but not on everything and every day. Now The scullery is hot. But the food …
themes ranging from Colonial American to said. “We try to prevent things like that.”
By the time students are coordinating we roast a lot, steam a lot and sauté more.”
French Rivieran to Mediterranean cuisine.
“The food is always the best part,” said
“The trend is toward healthier food,” junior Jeff Matuszewski of Woodridge, Ill.,
Senior Janice Kim of Northbrook, Ill., their Spice Box meals, they’ve had the exNorth said. But it’s not all about food. who had been on dish-washing duty for two
chose Inspirations From the Orient as her perience of fully managing Bevier Café.
“Experience is the best part of the job,” “We’re training managers, so the business days at Bevier Café. He looked over at his
Spice Box theme, with dishes such as crab
said junior Carly Steinman, who is part of side is very important.” Students run the classmate Grace, sitting with a full tray of
rangoon and miso-glazed salmon.
“I was so nervous I only slept an hour last the student team running Bevier Café. Their Spice Box and Bevier Café as self-sustain- food – chicken noodle soup, charbroiled
three big goals are cost control, customer ing businesses and are expected to make a Italian sausage, wild rice, fried okra and
night,” Kim said on the day of her meal.
As the phone continued to ring for res- service and quality, she said. “We always profit, she said.
fresh fruit.
Many of the students majoring in hospiervations minutes before the first seating try to improve food quality, like with batch
“Are you sure you can eat all that?” Mabegan at 5:30 p.m., Kim gave last-minute cooking. We don’t cook everything at once tality management or dietetics have some ex- tuszewski asked.
perience in the field but not everyone does.
driving instructions to guests in between and let it sit.”
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From left, clockwise: Doug
Buscemi delivers an order
during a Spice Box dinner.
Guest Chef Brian Roman
reviews incoming orders for a
night of Inspirations from the
Orient in January.
Diners await their meals at
the Spice Box restaurant.
Student meal managers
are also responsible for
decorating the Spice Box to
complement the theme of their
meal.
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Next course
Facelift, equipment upgrade needed for kitchen, restaurants
By Alexis Terrell
News Bureau Student Intern
A
ging equipment and additional customers have heightened the need
to raise funds for two student-run
restaurants on the UI campus. The department of food science and human nutrition is
campaigning to raise $1.5 million to refurbish Bevier Halls’ Quantity Foods Facility,
including the Spice Box, Bevier Café and
the kitchen they share.
“The facilities are from the 1950s, so a
lot of the equipment is 30 years old if not
50,” said Jill North, teaching associate and
director of the Spice Box and Bevier Café.
“Unreliable equipment and outdated décor
can hurt the students’ profitability.”
Students enrolled in Food Science and
Human Nutrition 340 and FSHN 443 operate Bevier Café and the Spice Box. Major
renovations are planned for the interiors
of both establishments. The department is
working with a UI architecture alumnus to
design a more efficient layout for the entrances, seating areas and serving lines.
“The speed at which we can serve is not
ideal,” said Greg Knott, assistant to the head
and business manager for FSHN. “The line
is a bottleneck.”
A larger volume of customers adds to the
problem. The average Café attendance for
the first week of classes has doubled in the
last two years from 80 to 160 patrons. Bevier Café staff attributes this to higher food
quality since Executive Chef Jean-Louis
Ledent was hired in the fall of 2004.
“Two years ago they made salmon
loaves, and that food doesn’t exist anymore,” Ledent said. “Now they’re exposed
to cream sauces and demi-glaze, salmon
and flank steak, pesto and panini. We make
do, but with more money, we will be able
to expose them to more variety and modern
trends.”
Renovations will be done in stages as the the project through individual and corpomoney comes in, Knott said. Funding will rate sponsors, said Marla Todd, coordinator
come entirely through donations and not the for external and alumni relations for FSHN.
university.
Recent events such as the Beaujolais Nou“The Spice Box and Café are self-sus- veau Celebration and the Winter Carnival
taining,” Knott said.
added nearly $5,000.
“They pay for their
Another fundraising
Interested in donating?
own supplies, and
event at Bevier Hall is
Contact Kim Morton, director of
whatever profit they
being planned for the
development, at kamorton@uiuc.edu or
make is reinvested
late spring or summer
312-575-7805, for more information.
back into the proof 2006 highlighting
gram.” Money already
fresh, local ingredihas been used for new
ents.
tables and chairs in the Spice Box, as well
Individuals can still sponsor tables and
as a new grill for the kitchen. A new oven chairs in the Spice Box for $150 to $250,
moved to the top of the wish list to replace a Todd said. In return, a name of the donor’s
1968 model that recently broke down. Also, choice will be engraved on a brass plaque
the facility lacks a modern point-of-sale affixed to the furniture.
computer system, found in small and large
Raising money is the main goal, but cash
restaurants, to handle financial reports and isn’t the only help needed, Todd said. “Inhelp keep inventory.
kind donations are appreciated.” u
Roughly $250,000 has been raised for
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March 16, 2006
Creation of antibiotic in test tube holds promise for better antibiotics
By Jim Barlow
News Bureau Staff Writer
Scientists have made nisin, a
natural antibiotic used for more
than 40 years to preserve food, in
a test tube using nature’s toolbox.
They also identified the structure
of the enzyme that makes nisin
and gives it its unique biological
power.
The work – published in the
March 10 issue of Science – sheds
light on the almost magical manner in which nisin is made in nature and moves researchers closer
to producing new antibiotics that
would preclude the development
and spread of antibiotic-resistant
bacteria, said Wilfred A. van der
Donk, a UI professor of chemistry, and Satish Nair, a UI professor
of biochemistry.
Nisin, a peptide, contains 34
amino acid residues and the unusual amino acids lanthionine,
methyllanthionine, dehydroalanine and dehydro-amino-butyric
acid. The latter are made by posttranslational modification of proteins.
Nisin works well against Grampositive bacteria and food-borne
pathogens that cause botulism
and listeriosis because it punches
holes into cell membranes and
binds to essential molecules in the
disease-causing bacteria. Hitting
on at least two targets reduces the
risk of resistance occurring, van
der Donk said.
The researchers synthesized nisin simply in a test tube by using a
single cyclase enzyme to re-create
the process that normally occurs
in a strain of the bacterium Lac-
tococcus lactis found naturally in
milk. They demonstrated how just
one protein (NisC) makes 10 new
chemical bonds in a stereochemically defined fashion. Specifically,
they showed that NisC is responsible for the formation of five characteristic thioether rings required
for nisin’s biological activity.
“Despite all the progress in synthetic chemistry, we cannot come
close to making a compound like
nisin efficiently,” van der Donk
said.
“Synthetic chemists in the past
needed 67 steps to make it, while
nature uses just two enzymes,”
van der Donk added. “One of
these is the cyclase whose activity we have demonstrated in this
paper.”
The thioether rings vary in size
from four to seven amino acids
and provide sturdy protease-resistant bonds at precise locations.
They account for nisin’s robust
resistance capability. It was theorized that one enzyme makes all
five rings despite their very different sizes, but how it did so was
like the mystery of a magic show,
van der Donk said.
Nisin is one of numerous members of a family of compounds
called lantibiotics, all of which
are candidates for bioengineering
into new pharmaceuticals, van der
Donk said. The key is learning
more about the enzymes involved
in their biosynthesis. “Our work,
while not explaining everything,
has brought us much closer to that
understanding, in particular the
beautiful structure solved by the
Nair group,” he said.
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on how nature creates the peptide and moving scientists closer to producing new antibiotics. From left,
are biochemist Satish Nair; Bo Li, a biochemistry doctoral student; Wilfred van der Donk, professor of
chemistry; and John Paul J. Yu, an M.D.-Ph.D student in the Nair group. The computer screen shows the
crystal structure of the lantibiotic cyclase, NisC.
Van der Donk previously identified the molecular activity of another enzyme (LctM) responsible
for naturally turning a small protein into a lantibiotic. That discovery, reported in Science in 2004,
involved lacticin 481.
The new research also showed
that NisC has unexpected structural similarities with mammalian
farnesyl transferases, which are
important for the activity of the
RAS protein which when mutat-
ed is implicated in 25 percent of
breast cancers. Preventing farnesylation possibly could prevent
the cancerous effects, because the
mutant protein would no longer be
localized at the membrane, Nair
said.
An accompanying Perspectives article in Science, written by
chemist David W. Christianson of
the University of Pennsylvania,
suggests that nisin’s five thioether
rings may turn out to be golden “in
the never-ending search for blockbuster antibiotics.”
Joining van der Donk and Nair
on the research, funded primarily by the National Institutes of
Health, were Bo Li, a biochemistry doctoral student in van der
Donk’s group; John Paul J. Yu,
an M.D.-Ph.D student in the Nair
group; Joseph S. Brunzuelle of
Argonne National Labs; and Gert
N. Moll of BiOMaDe Technology
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Child-welfare study shows recovery coaches can help reunite families
By Craig Chamberlain
News Bureau Staff Writer
Nature’s helpers A UI research team has made the antibiotic nisin in a laboratory, shedding light
InsideIllinois
March 16, 2006 On any given day, as many as
70 percent of the Illinois children
in foster care are in that situation,
at least in part, because their parents abuse drugs or alcohol. Only
a small percentage will ever be reunited with their parents.
What if those parents, however,
had extra help from a “recovery
coach,” someone whose primary
job was to prod and encourage
them to get and complete treatment for substance abuse?
A five-year study by the UI,
involving 1,300 parents of 1,900
children in foster care in Cook
County, found that having such a
coach does make a difference for
a small but significant number of
families.
The parents in the study who
were assigned coaches “got into
treatment more quickly, completed treatment at a higher rate, were
more likely to get their children
back, and were less likely to have
a subsequent allegation of maltreatment,” according to Joseph
Ryan, the study’s principal investigator.
Because fewer children spent
less time in foster care, Ryan said,
the intervention also saved the
Illinois Department of Children
and Family Services about $5.6
million over the five years of the
study, conducted between April
2000 and June 2005.
Ryan is a professor in the Children and Family Research Center,
part of the university’s School of
Social Work. He presented his
findings March 10 at the University of Chicago at a working
symposium titled “Accepting the
Challenge of Substance Use in
Family Reunification,” funded by
DCFS and attended by its director,
Bryan Samuels.
The findings also are part of a
report prepared for DCFS, which
supported the study and shared
needed data as part of a decadelong agreement with the Children
and Family Research Center. The
study was done in connection with
a federal waiver giving the state
temporary authority to redirect
child-welfare funds.
Almost no experimental studies have been conducted to test
interventions for substance-abusing families in the child-welfare
system, and the waiver made this
one possible, Ryan said. Families
for the study were drawn from foster-care cases opened in Chicago
and suburban Cook County during
the study period, by way of assessments conducted by the Juvenile
Court Assessment Program.
One-third of the parents in the
study were randomly assigned to
a control group, which had access
to substance-abuse treatment but
did not have recovery coaches.
Within that group, 11.6 percent
were reunited with their children
before the end of the study. The
other two-thirds were assigned
to the demonstration group; each
had the services of a coach. Within
that group, 15.5 percent were reunited.
The improvement is significant
in research terms, in savings and
for the families involved, especially since families with serious
drug problems are “a really difficult population to work with,”
Ryan said. “The idea is to sort of
chip away at solving the problem
of substance abuse in child welfare. No single intervention is going to do it.”
Of the mothers in the study, 64
percent had had at least one prior
substance-exposed infant, meaning
medical tests on the child showed
evidence of substance abuse during pregnancy. Forty-two percent
had had more than one.
The task is made more difficult
because, for most of these parents,
substance abuse is only one of the
problems creating a barrier to safe
reunification, Ryan said. Sixtytwo percent of the families in the
study were dealing with at least
three major problems simultaneously, according to the records of
their child-welfare caseworkers.
The most common were domestic violence (30 percent), mental
health (40 percent) and problems
related to housing (56 percent).
The study found that the existence of those co-occurring problems, along with a lack of progress within those problem areas,
appear to be the two factors limiting or obstructing the reunification process, Ryan said.
Parents who completed treatment for substance abuse, but did
not make progress in other problem areas, improved their chances
for reunification, but only slightly. “The ones who have multiple
problems and are only making
UI photo
A winning team A five-year study of families with children in
the Illinois foster-care system led by Joseph Ryan, a professor in the
Children and Family Research Center, found that recovery coaches
helped a small but significant number of parents reunite with their
families.
progress in substance abuse have
a very low likelihood of getting
their children back,” Ryan said.
The rate of reunification was
much higher for those who not
only completed treatment, but also
made progress in other areas.
Overall, 28 percent of those
in the demonstration group, the
group that had coaches, completed treatment for substance
abuse. Those who completed
treatment were significantly more
likely than those who did not to
achieve reunification: 28 percent
versus 8 percent. The women who
completed treatment were significantly less likely to then give birth
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to a substance-exposed child: 7.9
percent versus 18.8 percent.
What Ryan sees in the study is
evidence that targeted help with
other problems besides substance
abuse could build upon the success
found with recovery coaches. “A
unique contribution of this study
is that we’ve identified that these
problems are impacting the likelihood of reunification,” he said.
The prospect, which he hopes to
test in an extension of this study, is
that more children could eventually be reunified safely with their
families, a primary goal of the
child-welfare system. u
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Spurlock Museum
two to complete.
“Lisa Klapstock: Photography” showcases 24 images
from the Toronto-based artist’s “Threshold” series. The
photographs depict glimpses of backyard scenes or private
spaces framed by boundaries such as fences and walls.
I space gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday
through Saturday.
A celebration of world cultures is April 1
The Spurlock Museum will host WorldFest, a celebration of culture, from 12:30 to 4 p.m. April 1. Greek myths
will be told in the Ancient Mediterranean Gallery; marionettes will perform in the European Gallery; and Japanese
taiko drumming will take place in the Knight Auditorium.
Crafts will be available for children of all ages. The suggested donation is $5 per person. For more information
about the museum, visit www.spurlock.uiuc.edu.
Champaign County Chamber of Commerce
Business, consumer expo is March 29
College of Law
New TV program highlights law issues
“Illinois Law,” a new 30-minute show on WCIA-Channel 3, highlights legal issues in the news and features UI
College of Law faculty members and alumni. The program
covers legal topics and issues.
The show, hosted by Amy Gajda, professor of law and
of journalism, began March 5 and also will be broadcast at
10 a.m. March 19; April 2, 16 and 30; and May 14. A full
schedule of programs will begin during the fall semester,
including statewide syndication on the 80-station Illinois
Channel.
UI Ethics Office
Economic interests forms due April 24
The Office of the Secretary of State has sent notification
letters and forms to UI employees required to file a Statement of Economic Interests under the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act.
All completed Statements of Economic Interests must be
submitted by April 24 to the UI Ethics Office, Human Resources Building, Room 20, One University Plaza, Springfield, IL 62703-5407. The Ethics Officer will review and
forward all completed Statements of Economic Interests to
the Office of the Secretary of State by May 1.
Employees with questions about the criteria for filing
may call the Ethics Help Line at 866-758-2146 or visit the
University Ethics Office Web page at http://ethics.uillinois.
edu/statements/index.html. Questions about the Illinois
Governmental Ethics Act should be directed to the Office of
the Secretary of State at 782-7017. Questions about certification of names to the Secretary of State should be directed
to the unit’s human resources contact.
Science, engineering and math
Sign up now for summer camps
The College of Engineering is offering science, engineering and math camps to middle- and high-school students with scholarships available. For more information on
each camp, visit the camp Web site listed.
“G.A.M.E.S. Summer Camp: Girls’ Adventures in
Mathematics, Engineering and Science” (Aug. 6-12) is a
residential program for middle-school girls. The early-acceptance application deadline is April 1, and the regular application deadline is May 27. (www.wie.uiuc.edu/games)
“CAMPWS WaterTEC: Exploring Water Purification”
(July 16-22) will introduce 10th- and 11th-grade campers
to the engineering, science and technology of water purification. Application deadline is March 31. (www.watercampws.uiuc.edu/index.php?menu_item_id=44)
“Exploring Your Options” (June 11-17 or July 9-15) is
a residential camp that provides high-school students interested in math and science a chance to visit and participate
in hands-on activities in each of the departments in the College of Engineering. (www.engr.uiuc.edu/WYSE/)
“Discover Engineering” (July 23-29) is a residential
camp for rising sophomores interested in math and science.
(www.engr.uiuc.edu/WYSE/)
“Aerospace Institute” (July 9-15) offers high-school students classroom and hands-on experience in the areas of
propulsion systems, theory of flight, aerodynamics, principles of aircraft and spacecraft design. The application
deadline is April 30. (www.ae.uiuc.edu/IAI/)
WebCT and Blackboard
Illinois Compass unchanged by merger
WebCT, the software provider for Illinois Compass, officially merged with Blackboard on Feb. 28, following approval by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Illinois Compass service will largely be unchanged
over the next couple of years as a result of the merger,” said
Lanny Arvan, assistant CIO for CITES Educational Technologies.
Though Illinois Compass software, service and upgrades
will not be influenced by the merger in the short term,
CITES continues to improve the growing service. New
servers, to be installed this month, will more than double
the capacity of the system. Operational support of Compass
also has been restructured.
Over time, Blackboard will integrate features of both
product lines into a “new standards-based product set,” ac-
March 16, 2006
photo by Tom Schaefges
VetMed hosts open house April 1
The UI College of Veterinary Medicine will host its
annual open house from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 1. It
is a free, student-run event that provides a behindthe-scenes look at the only veterinary college in the
state.
There will be more than 40 exhibits and demonstrations. Hands-on activities include cow and
goat milking, the “window” cow and a petting zoo.
Visitors can meet and learn about the birds of prey
that reside in the college’s Wildlife Medical Clinic
and learn more about admission to veterinary
school.
For a list of exhibits and directions, visit www.
cvm.uiuc.edu/openhouse/.
cording to its Web site. For more information on the merger,
visit www.blackboard.com/webct. Units interested in setting up a discussion of the merger should contact EdTech
at 333-1078.
Campus Recreation
Opinions on UI Ice Arena needed
Campus Recreation is hosting two focus-group sessions
to get feedback about the UI Ice Arena.
Students will meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. April 9 at the
Campus Recreation Center East Building. Non-students
(faculty and staff members and community members) will
meet from 5:30 to 7 p.m. April 11 at the Strata Building,
2001 S. First St., Champaign.
Participants will be provided dinner during the session
and a pass for a free movie. To register, visit www.campusrec.uiuc.edu or fill out a form at the UI Ice Arena by April 5.
Selected participants will be contacted by April 7.
UI Library
Gift shop opening is April 3
The Library Friends Gift Shop will open at noon April
3 at the welcome desk of the Main Library. The hours of
operation will be 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 1
to 5 p.m. Saturday during the academic semester. All proceeds will benefit the Library Friends, which supports the
library’s collections, programs and services.
Secretariat
Nominations for award due March 17
The Secretariat is seeking nominations of Secretariat
members for its 14th annual Office Professional of the Year
Award. Nominations are due March 17. To be eligible, each
nominee must have been a dues-paying member of the Secretariat by Jan. 1, 2006, and must have attended two luncheon meetings of the Secretariat between July 2005 and
March 2006.
Completed nominations should be submitted to Rob
Chappell, 104 Mumford Hall, MC-710. The winner and
nominees will be honored at a luncheon on April 19. For
nomination forms or guidelines, visit https://netfiles.uiuc.
edu/ro/www/Secretariat,The/.
I space gallery
Three exhibitions on view through April 1
Collaborative paintings, photographs, drawings and
installation are part of the mix of work on view in three
exhibitions through April 1 at I space gallery, the Chicago
gallery of the UI’s Urbana campus.
“Galina Shevchenko: Drawings and Installation” features drawings and animated videos of drawings with an
installation and video projection in the gallery’s atrium.
“Team SHaG” is a collaborative exhibition of work by
New York artists David Humphrey, Elliott Green and Amy
Sillman. Taking their cue from Surrealist artists Andre
Breton and Paul Eluard, the artists create “team paintings.”
One artist begins the work, then passes it along to the other
The Champaign County Chamber of Commerce will
present its annual Business and Consumer Expo from
10 a.m. to 7 p.m. March 29 at Assembly Hall. More than
100 businesses from East Central Illinois will participate. It
is open to the public. Admission and parking are free.
The Ultimate Power Lunch will be from 11 a.m. to 2
p.m. and include food samples from Chamber member restaurants, caterers and specialty food shops. Tickets for the
event are $5 per person for six sample servings. Tickets are
available at the door or can be purchased in advance by
calling 359-1791.
Wine Tasting After Hours will begin at 5 p.m. and is also
open to the public. Many exhibitors will offer door prizes
and free giveaways throughout the day. The expo will end
with a grand prize drawing.
Black power movement
Conference to be held March 29-April 1
The legacy of the black power movement will be the
subject of a four-day conference, March 29 through April
1, at UI. Titled “Race, Roots, and Resistance: Revisiting the
Legacies of Black Power,” the conference will explore the
influence of the movement on African-American political,
economic and social development.
“The black power movement was one of the most significant developments in the African-American experience,” said Sundiata Cha-Jua, director of the UI African
American Studies and Research Program, which is sponsoring the conference.
More than 100 presentations will deal with topics ranging from blaxploitation films and the roots of hip hop, to
perceptions of racism, the media’s influence on the movement and the movement’s influence abroad.
The conference is free and open to the public, and those
who plan to attend are asked to register. For the schedule or
to register, visit www.aasrp.uiuc.edu/conference. For more
information, contact Christopher Benson or Will Patterson
at 333-7781.
University Library
Dissertation workshops offered
The University Library will offer a free dissertation
workshop, which focuses on finding dissertations completed on the Urbana campus as well nationally and internationally. The workshop will be offered March 29 and
April 5 in Room 291 of the Undergraduate Library. Faculty
and staff members, and students may attend and can either
walk in or register online at: http://130.126.32.16/evanced/
lib0/eventcalendar.asp.
Festival is April 3
Celebrate reading with edible books
An upcoming event at the UI gives a whole new meaning to the notion of “devouring” a book. The First Annual
C-U Edible Books Festival is coming to campus April 3.
The event, sponsored by the UI Library and held in conjunction with the International Edible Books Festival, will
be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in 407 Illini Union. It is free and
open to the public, but requires an online RSVP.
Every year in early April, bibliophiles, book artists and
food lovers around the world gather to celebrate the book
arts and the literal ingestion of culture. Participants create
edible books that are exhibited, documented then consumed
on the spot.
For Illinois’ event, entries will appear, before being
sliced, diced and tossed on the C-U Books2Eat Web site:
www.library.uiuc.edu/mdx/Books2Eat/books2eat_cu.htm.
To enter a readable-edible to the C-U event or to come to
the judging and eating, one must send an RSVP by March
29 to the local Web site. Entries must be delivered to the
Illini Union between 9 and 10 a.m. the day of the event.
Doyle Moore, chef-in-residence at WILL-AM (580), will
judge entries. Prizes will be awarded and there will be live
music.
The UI is the second site in Illinois to join in the event;
the other is Columbia College in Chicago. The festival
has been held every April since 2000, the year after event
founder Judith A. Hoffberg and other California book artists were inspired during a Thanksgiving dinner in Pacific
Palisades.
A dozen festivals were held the first year of the event,
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including several abroad. More than 70 edible book events
in 16 nations are expected this year.
Other UI sponsors are the School of Art and Design and
the Beta Chapter of Alpha Phi Mu, the library and information science honor society. Pages for All Ages is the only
local business sponsor so far, but the organizers are soliciting others.
Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival
Single-film tickets on sale April 3
The list of films selected for the eighth annual Roger
Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival, coming April 26-30,
should be available soon on the festival Web site: www.
ebertfest.com.
Additional updates on the festival – including the film
schedule, guests, panel discussions and other events – also
will be posted on the site over the next few weeks, according to festival organizers.
Tickets for individual films will go on sale April 3, at $9
each, through the theater box office; phone 217-356-9063;
fax: 217-356-5729.
Ebert is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning critic for the Chicago
Sun-Times and co-hosts “Ebert & Roeper and the Movies,”
a weekly televised movie-review program. He also is a
1964 Illinois journalism graduate and adjunct professor.
Ebert selects films for the festival that he feels have been
overlooked in some way, generally by critics, distributors
or audiences. Guests connected with the selected films are
invited to attend, and many appear on stage with Ebert for
informal discussions after the screenings.
The 1,000 festival passes, covering all 12 screenings,
were sold out on Jan. 20, more than a month before passes
were sold out last year. It marked the second year in a row
that passes were sold out before the films were announced.
All of the featured films will be screened, as usual, in the
1,500-seat Virginia Theater in downtown Champaign, with
other events on the UI campus. The festival is presented by
the College of Communications.
Transition into adulthood
Education forum is April 1
The transition into adulthood will be the topic at a public
forum April 1, the last this school year in an education-related series at the UI.
The Saturday morning forum, titled “Young People, Entrapped, Endangered or on Their Way – The Transition into
Adulthood,” will run from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Krannert Art Museum.
“It’s definitely more confusing now for young people
moving into adulthood,” says Anne Robertson, coordinator
of school-university research relations in the university’s
College of Education, and the organizer of the event.
Many young people feel disconnected from their families and communities, and “there are a lot of issues when
a young person turns 18 that have potentially serious consequences,” she said. The forum will explore those issues
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and examine strategies that families, schools and the local
community can use to help.
Parents, teachers, administrators, university faculty and
students, and anyone with an interest in education are invited to attend.
The event will start with presentations, followed by a
town hall-style panel discussion. A continental breakfast
will be offered at 8:30 a.m.
Scheduled presenters will be Debra Bragg, a UI professor of education; Linda Moore, dean of students at Parkland
College; Kathleen Oertle, a UI doctoral candidate in special
education; Linda Page, coordinator of the Advancement Via
Individual Determination (AVID) Program for the Champaign School District; Dale Petre, director of community
services for Cunningham Children’s Home; Dave Requa,
superintendent of Rantoul Township High School, and Peter Thomas, director of Lincoln’s Challenge Academy.
Joining the presenters as panelists for the town hall discussion will be other educators, officials and youth.
The forum series is sponsored by the university’s College of Education and organized by the university’s chapter
of Phi Delta Kappa, a professional association for educators.
Co-planners include Parkland College and the Champaign
and Urbana school districts. Co-sponsors for the forum include local school districts and community organizations.
Teachers and school personnel can earn CEU and CPDU
credits by attending.
Petals and Paintings
KAM hosts annual benefit April 6-9
The UI Krannert Art Museum Council will present its annual “Petals and Paintings” benefit April 6-9 at the museum.
The event – which features dramatic floral presentations
created by regional floral designers in response to selected
works from the museum – kicks off with a gala opening reception from 6-8 p.m. on April 6. The reception will feature
music, hors d’oeuvres and wine, a silent auction of work by
local artists, and a raffle of an original pastel by Chicago
artist Nancie King Mertz. Tickets are $55.
The exhibition, curated by Champaign florist Rick Orr,
will be open to the public from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. April 7-8, and
from noon-5 p.m. April 9
“Petals and Paintings” organizer Diane Schumacher said
this year’s event will include a new feature – a Plein Air
workshop given by Nancie King Mertz from 1-4 p.m. on
April 7 at the Lake House at Crystal Lake Park in Urbana.
Tickets are $40. Schumacher said “Plein Air” is the Impressionist-era term for “open air,” and refers to a style of
painting done outdoors and popularized in the second half
of the 19th century.
Mertz said the workshop is designed “to bring beginning
and serious painters together to work in any media they’re
comfortable in.” Attendees are encouraged to bring an easel
or small table along with their media of preference.
For more information about the event or for reservations,
call 333-1861 or visit www.kamcouncil.org.u
AVIAN FLU, CONTINUED FROM PAGE group and director of emergency Disease Control and Prevention
planning in the Division of Pub- distributes in cooperation with
lic Safety, said that nearly two federal, state and local agencies to
dozen campus units have respon- people in areas affected by public
sibilities under the plan, such health emergencies, such as flu
as conducting educational pro- epidemics, terrorist attacks and
grams about symptoms and self- natural disasters.
Dr. Robert Palinkas, the diprotection; dispensing immunirector
of McKinley Health Cenzations or antiviral medications;
ter,
said
that events such as the
addressing research and univerSept.
11,
2001, terrorist attacks
sity operating concerns; training
and
the
emergence
of Severe
and equipping essential personnel
Acute
Respiratory
Syndrome,
a
with proper safety equipment; and
viral
disease
that
first
emerged
limiting exposure to contagion
through modified work schedules, in Southern China during 2002,
travel restrictions, sanitation pro- have underscored the necessity of
emergency response planning.
grams or quarantines.
“The plans have gotten more
If the avian flu were to infect
robust;
there’s much more flesh
large numbers of people in the
on
them
than there was before,”
area, current plans include the use
Palinkas
said. “With SARS, we
of UI facilities such as Memorial
were
sort
of planning as the cases
Stadium and Assembly Hall as
were
emerging.
The university
a “surge” hospital facility and a
has
a
lot
of
brainpower
and a lot
mass inoculation center, respecof
capacity
to
address
such
issues,
tively. A surge hospital could achas
a
done
a
lot
of
networking
and
commodate large numbers of paplanning,
and
has
established
a
tients, such as would occur during
process
where
it
would
respond
as
a pandemic, once the capacity of
local hospitals has been exceeded. fast if not faster than the rest of the
A mass inoculation center would community. The university is not
distribute supplies of a vac- likely to be caught unawares, and
cine from the Strategic National its response would be integrated
Stockpile, a reserve of large quan- with the greater community. It’s
tities of medicines and medical very possible that all our planning
supplies that the U.S. Centers for might never come in to play, and
we’re hoping that’s the case.”
Representatives from the Office of Student Affairs, Environmental Health and Safety Division,
the Institute for Genomic Biology,
McKinley Health Center, University
Housing Division and other campus
units are refining the plan with input
from the Champaign-Urbana Public
Health District and the Champaign
County Emergency Management
Agency. Mecum said the work group
expects to have a final draft by May
1, when the plan will be sent to unit
leaders and experts on campus for
comments and review.
According to the World Health
Organization, since the H5N1 avian flu virus surfaced in 2003, 175
people have contracted it through
direct contact with infected birds,
and 95 people have died. Experts
report that the risk of people contracting the virus is very low, even
in countries that have large populations of infected birds, but people
are being cautioned to avoid direct
contact with dead or sick birds,
their feathers and their feces.
A commercial vaccine to protect people against avian flu is
not available currently because a
pandemic form of the virus must
emerge and be identified before a
vaccine can be developed. u
WOMEN’S CLUB, CONTINUED FROM PAGE commemorate the Morrow Plots and the dairy round
barns on campus. Jennifer Richardson, a Women’s Club
board member and visiting program coordinator in the
department of agricultural and biological engineering,
said the group has sold about 50 of the tiles so far and
hopes to sell a total of 200 by the end of the year.
Richardson said that when she was a newcomer to
campus two years ago she knew the club would be a
good fit for her once she learned about the club’s emphasis on its scholarship program. “It’s been a privilege
to be part of a club that puts a priority on community
and provides a way to give back to deserving students,”
Richardson said.
The club’s centennial celebration this year has included a gala event, “A Night of 100 Lights,” at the
Illini Union in January. On Valentine’s Day, members
donned their white gloves and most fashionable hats for
a Tuesday Tea at Clark-Lindsey Village in Urbana, with
15 of the club’s former presidents. u
FROGS, CONTINUED FROM PAGE have the ability to do so, but for some reason some frogs do
and some don’t, he said. “We believe that all of them have
the capacity to respond to the ultrasound.”
Ultrasonic communication likely will be found in other
amphibians and birds, Feng said, but, until now, no one has
bothered to look into it.
“Humans have always been fascinated by how some
animals can discern their world through a sensing system
vastly different from our own,” Feng said. “The electromagnetic sense in fishes and homing pigeons, polarized
light vision in ants, chemical sensing of pheromones in insects and rodents, echolocation by ultrasound in bats and
dolphins, are just a few examples.
“That frogs can communicate with ultrasound adds to
that list and represents a novel finding, because we normally think such ability is limited to animals equipped with
a sophisticated sonar system,” he said. “This suggests that
there are likely many other examples of unexpected forms
of communication out there.”
The eight authors were Feng; Wen-Yu Lin, a senior research scientist in Feng’s lab; Peter M. Narins of the University of California at Los Angeles; Chun-He Xu of the
Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Shanghai; and Zu-Lin Yu, Qiang Qiu,
Zhi-Min Xu and Jun-Xian Shen of the State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing.
Feng and Narins received funding from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders,
one of the National Institutes of Health. Feng also was
funded by the National Science Foundation. Additional
Chinese grants from the State Key Basic Research and Development Plan and the National Natural Sciences Foundation to Chun-He Xu and Shen, respectively, supported the
work. u
How does seasonal flu differ
from pandemic flu?
Pandemic flu
Seasonal flu
• Outbreaks follow predictable
seasonal patterns; occurs
annually, usually during winter in
temperate climates.
• People usually have some
immunity built up from previous
exposure.
• Healthy adults usually not at risk
for serious complications.
• Health systems can usually meet
public and patient needs.
• Vaccine developed based on
known flu strains and available for
annual flu season.
• Adequate supplies of antiviral
medications are usually available.
• Average U.S. deaths
approximately 36,000 per year.
•Occurs rarely (three times in the
20th century, most recently in
1968).
•No previous exposure; little or no
pre-existing immunity.
•Healthy people may be at
increased risk for serious
complications
•Health systems may be
overwhelmed.
•Vaccine probably would not be
available in the early stages of a
pandemic.
•Effective antiviral medications
may be in limited supply.
•Number of deaths could be quite
high (e.g. U.S. death toll in 1918
was approximately 500,000).
•Symptoms may be more
severe and complications more
frequent.
• Symptoms: fever, cough, runny
nose, muscle pain. Deaths often
caused by complications, such as
pneumonia.
• Generally causes modest societal impact and manageable impact on
domestic and world economy.
•May cause major impact on
society (for example, widespread
travel restrictions, closings
of schools and businesses,
cancellation of large public
gatherings). Potential for severe
impact on domestic and world
economy.
Source: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Additional information on pandemic and avian influenza is available on the Web at www.pandemicflu.gov.
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calendar
of events
lectures
4 Tuesday
16 Thursday
“Serendipity
in
Practice:
Breakthroughs in Nutrition of
Animals and Humans.” David
H. Baker, UI. 7:30 p.m. Auditorium, 1404 Siebel Center. Chancellor’s Office and Center for
Advanced Study/MillerComm.
27 Monday
“Trusting Edison: From Speculative Belief to Reliably Reconstitutable Phenomena.”
Charles Bazerman, University
of California, Santa Barbara.
4 p.m. Third floor, Levis Faculty
Center. MillerComm and Electrical & Computer Engineering.
28 Tuesday
“Sounds From the Violin.”
David Harrington, Kronos
Quartet, UI. Noon. Latzer Hall,
University YMCA. Know Your
University.
“Realizing Human Rights:
Access to HIV/AIDS-related
Medication and the Role of
Civil Society in South Africa.”
Zackie Achmat, Treatment
Action Campaign, South Africa. 4 p.m. Levis Faculty Center. MillerComm and African
Studies.
“The Mars Exploration Rover
Mission.” Steven Squyres, Cornell University. 7 p.m. Foellinger Auditorium. Icko Iben
Lecture/Astronomy and Supercomputing Applications.
“American Midrash: Urban
Jewish Writing and the Reclaiming of Jerusalem.” Murray Baumgarten, University of
California, Santa Cruz. 7:30
p.m. 407 Levis Center. Goldberg Annual Lecture/Jewish
Culture and Society.
29 Wednesday
“The Lion King on the Black
Stone: Deciphering the Assyrian Pictographs.” Michael
Roaf, University of Munich.
5:30 p.m. 62 Krannert Art Museum. Classics and Archaeological Institute of America.
31 Friday
“Starting at the End: The
Challenge the Religious Right
Poses to Democracy.” Larry
Greenfield, American Baptist
Churches of Metro Chicago.
Noon. Latzer Hall, University
YMCA. Friday Forum.
“Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to
Change Higher Education.”
Joe Berry, UI. 3:30 p.m. Wagner Education Center, Institute
of Labor and Industrial Relations. History and Labor and
Industrial Relations.
“The Black Power Movement:
Self-Determination,
Transformation and Sabotage.”
Kathleen Cleaver, Emory University. 4 p.m. 112 Gregory
Hall. MillerComm and African
American Studies and Research
Program.
“Keeping Our Campus Safe.”
Bruce Knight, UI. Noon. Latzer
Hall, University YMCA. Know
Your University.
6 Thursday
“The Spider Trap: Corruption,
Organized Crime and Transition in the Balkans and Russia.” Misha Glenny, journalist
and historian, London. 7:30
p.m. Third floor, Levis Faculty
Center. MillerComm and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center.
“Sacrificing the Sacrifices of
War.” Stanley Hauerwas, Duke
University Divinity School. 8
p.m. Spurlock Museum Auditorium. Thulin Lecture/Program for the Study of Religion.
7 Friday
“Legal Threats to Accessing Reproductive Health
Care.” Leah Bartelt, ACLU.
Noon. Latzer Hall, University
YMCA. Friday Forum.
colloquia
16 Thursday
“Gideon Klein’s Terezin Trio
or Shooting the Wild Goose.”
Michael Beckerman, New
York University. 4 p.m. 101
International Studies Building.
Russian, East European and
Eurasian Center.
“An 11-Year Longitudinal
Case Study of a Teacher- Education Program: Data, Theories, and Critique.” Marilyn
Johnston-Parsons, UI. Noon.
242 Education. Bureau of Educational Research.
“New Uses for ‘Rust’: Recent
Developments in Compound
Semiconductor Oxidation for
Optoelectronic and Electronic
Devices.” Doug Hall, University of Notre Dame. 4 p.m. 151
Everitt Laboratory. Electrical
and Computer Engineering.
17 Friday
“The Response of the Churches to the Environmental Crisis.” Peter Bakken, Wisconsin
Council of Churches. Noon.
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building. Program for the Study of Religion.
“Step by Step Progress Towards Understanding Helicase-Catalyzed DNA Unwinding.” Kevin Raney, University of Arkansas. Noon. B102
CLSL. Biochemistry.
“A Longitudinal Analysis of
the International Communication Network.” George
A. Barnett, State University
of New York, Buffalo. 1 p.m.
1040 NCSA. Sociology and
Speech Communication.
27 Monday
Collection in Context Lecture. “Le Corbusier.” Marcel
Franciscono, UI. Noon. Trees
Gallery, Krannert Art Museum.
Krannert Art Museum Council.
“New Methods for Developing
Vaccines: Protecting Patients
From Poultry to People.” Paul
Budworth, Diversa Inc. Noon.
2506 Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Building. CVM
Translational Biomedical Research Seminar Series.
28 Tuesday
“Rom Musicians – Endangered Mediators in Kosovo?”
Svanibor Pettan, University of
Ljubljana, Slovenia. Noon. 101
International Studies Building.
Russian, East European and
Eurasian Center.
“Visual Signal Constancy in
a Variable Environment.”
Thomas Cronin, University of
Maryland. 4 p.m. 1005 Beckman Institute. Neuroscience
Program.
29 Wednesday
“Gender and the Cultural
Origins of Children’s Librarianship.” Kate McDowell, UI.
Noon. Gender and Women’s
Studies Building. Gender and
Women’s Studies.
Astronomy
Colloquium.
Steve Squyres, Cornell University. 4 p.m. 134 Astronomy
Building. Astronomy.
“Protecting the Power Grid
in Cyberspace.” William H.
Sanders, UI. 4 p.m. 370 Armory Building. Arms Control,
Disarmament and International Security.
30 Thursday
“Blacks in Colonial Mexico:
Transgressing ‘Racial’ Porous
Boundaries.” Sergio Lemus,
University of California, Riverside. Noon. 101 International
Studies Building. Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
“What Simulation and Statistical Analyses Tell Us About
Empathy.” Carolyn Anderson and Sharon Tettegah, UI.
Noon. 242 Education. Bureau
of Educational Research.
“Systems and SoC Architectures for Next Generation
Wireless Communications.”
Don Shaver, Texas Instruments.
4 p.m. 151 Everitt Laboratory.
Electrical and Computer Engineering.
31 Friday
Biochemistry Seminar. J.
Woodland Hastings, Harvard
University. Noon. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab.
Biochemistry.
The Age of Networks Lecture Series. Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota.
1 p.m. 1040 NCSA. Center for
Advanced Study, Supercomputing Applications and Speech
Communication.
“The Surface of Titan.” Rosaly
Lopes, JPL. 4 p.m. 229 Natural
History building. Geology.
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3 Monday
Lunch and Learn: Nordic
Walking. Lynn Wachtel, UI.
Noon. CRC-E Meeting Room,
1102 W. Gregory Drive,
Urbana. For more info and to
register, visit www.campusrec.
uiuc.edu. Campus Recreation.
“Desire, Procreative Fluid,
and Power: A Balinese Hierarchy of Sexual Practice and
the Politics of Asceticism
and Licentiousness.” Laura
Bellows, UI. Noon. 101 International Studies Building. East
Asian and Pacific Studies.
“Women and Islamic Activism in Egypt.” Sahar Tawfiq,
UI. Noon. 101 International
Studies Building. Women and
Gender in Global Perspectives
and South Asian and Middle
Eastern Studies.
“Does Surveillance Make Us
Safer?” Jodie Boyer, UI. 3:30
p.m. 329 Armory Building.
Arms Control, Disarmament
and International Security.
4 Tuesday
Prisms of Globalization Seminar. Patrick Keenan, UI. 3:30
p.m. 101 International Studies
Building. Center for Global
Studies.
Astronomy Colloquium. David Neufeld, Johns Hopkins
University. 4 p.m. 144 Loomis
Lab. Astronomy.
5 Wednesday
“Media in the Arab World &
Images of the U.S.: Internet
Culture in Egypt.” Sahar Tawfiq, UI. Noon.101 International
Studies Building. African
Studies.
“What About Bridget? Irish
American Women in the Old
World and the New.” Jim Barrett, UI. Noon. Gender and
Women’s Studies Building,
911 S. Sixth St. Gender and
Women’s Studies.
Title TBA. Michael Fayer,
Stanford University. 4 p.m.
112 Chemistry Annex. Physical Chemistry.
“Challenges of Renewable
Energy: Hydro, Wind and Solar Power.” George Gross, UI.
4 p.m. 370 Armory Building.
Arms Control, Disarmament
and International Security.
6 Thursday
“Consuming Blackness: Tourism and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Late Socialist
Cuba.” Marc Perry, UI. Noon.
101 International Studies
Building. Latin American and
Caribbean Studies.
“Age of Networks.” Michael
North, Argonne National Laboratory. 3 p.m. 1040 NCSA.
Center for Advanced Study,
Supercomputing Applications
and Speech Communication.
“Removing Photographic Blur
Caused by Camera Motion.”
Bill Freeman, Massachusetts
March 16-April 9
Lost& Found
In an effort to provide information in a more timely manner, the
Lost&Found listing is being maintained online. If you’ve lost or
found something on campus, send a description of the item,
where and when it was found or lost and an e-mail address and
phone number to dkdahl@uiuc.edu. E-mail addresses will be
posted. To see if someone else has found your lost item, consult
our online listings:
www.news.uiuc.edu/ii/lostandfound.html
For lost gloves or mittens, visit the Lost Glove Bank:
www.charleshouseroderick.com/
present/lgb/lgb_home.html
Institute of Technology. 4 p.m.
151 Everitt Laboratory. Electrical and Computer Engineering.
7 Friday
Biochemistry Seminar. Nancy
Horton, University of Arizona.
Noon. B102 Chemical and Life
Science Lab. Biochemistry.
“Water On Mars: Can Hydrous
Minerals Explain.” David Bish,
Indiana University. 4 p.m. 229
Natural History Building.
Geology.
8 Saturday
“Soundscaping the World:
The Cultural Poetics of Power
and Meaning in Wakuenai
Flute Music.” Jonathan Hill,
Southern Illinois University.
2 p.m. Knight Auditorium,
Spurlock Museum. Center for
Latin American and Caribbean
Studies.
theater
30 Thursday
“Intimate Apparel.” Robert
Castro, director. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center.
A poignant tale of love, loneliness and endurance. Adult
themes. $
31 Friday
“Intimate Apparel.” Robert
Castro, director. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center.
Adult themes. $
Nightcap. 10 p.m. Lobby,
Krannert Center. Department
of theatre students present
a late-night cabaret of song,
dance and spoken word.
1 Saturday
“Intimate Apparel.” Robert
Castro, director. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center.
Adult themes. $
Nightcap. 10 p.m. Lobby,
Krannert Center.
5 Wednesday
“Intimate Apparel.” Robert
Castro, director. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center.
Adult themes. $
6 Thursday
“Intimate Apparel.” Robert
Castro, director. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center.
Adult themes. $
7 Friday
IUB Spring Musical. “Grease.”
7:30 p.m. Assembly Hall. $ Illini Union Board.
“Intimate Apparel.” Robert
Castro, director. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center.
Adult themes. $
Nightcap. 10 p.m. Lobby,
Krannert Center.
8 Saturday
IUB Spring Musical. “Grease.”
2 and 7:30 p.m. Assembly Hall.
$ Illini Union Board.
“Intimate Apparel.” Robert
Castro, director. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center.
Adult themes. $
9 Sunday
“Intimate Apparel.” Robert
Castro, director. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center.
Adult themes. $
music
16 Thursday
UI Symphony Orchestra.
Donald Schleicher, conductor. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great
Hall, Krannert Center. With
Yao-Tsu Lu, violin, winner of
the UI Student Concerto Competition.
“Intimate Apparel.” Robert
Castro, director. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center.
Adult themes. $
Master of Music Recital. Sung
Sin Kim, piano. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
17 Friday
Senior Recital. Colleen Potter, harp. 5 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
27 Monday
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Chu-Chun Liang, piano.
7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith
Hall.
28 Tuesday
Kronos Quartet. “Visual Music.” 7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival
Theater, Krannert Center. $
Curtain Call Discussion: 9:30
p.m. Lobby, Krannert Center.
Illinois Program for Research
in the Humanities.
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29 Wednesday
Enescu Ensemble. Sherban
Lupu, director. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert
Center. In celebration of Mozart’s 250th birthday year, the
ensemble presents an all-Mozart program featuring Lupu in
three violin concertos. $
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Andrew Buchanan, percussion. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
30 Thursday
Joshua McCormick, marimba. 12:15 p.m. Atrium, Beckman Institute.
Senior Recital. Jeremy House,
organ. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
31 Friday
Junior Recital. Andrew Dixon,
jazz saxophone. 7:30 p.m. 25
Smith Hall.
1 Saturday
Red Grammer: “Teaching
Peace.” 10 a.m. Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center. Grammer draws upon a treasure
trove of original songs to celebrate the human race. Recommended for ages 3 and up. $
Sinfonia da Camera. Ian Hobson, music director and conductor. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger
Great Hall, Krannert Center.
With Denise Posnak, choreographer; Jonathan Keeble, flute;
John Dee, oboe; and Michael
Ewald, trumpet. $ Student
Performance Project: 6:45
p.m. Lobby, Krannert Center.
Senior Recital. Mary Wuestenfield, mezzo-soprano. 7:30
p.m. Memorial Room, Smith
Hall.
Undergraduate Recital. April
Enos, tenor trombone, and Kiel
Lauer, bass trombone. 7:30
p.m. 25 Smith Hall.
2 Sunday
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Christopher Cree, percussion. 1 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
Junior Recital. Jenna Lake
and Rachel Coari, saxophone.
2 p.m. Music Building auditorium.
Pacifica Quartet. UI Graduate
String Quartet. 3 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert
Center. Preview of the repertoire of this quartet’s upcoming Lincoln Center concert. $
School of Music.
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Amy Fuller, soprano. 3 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
UI Music Club. 3:30 p.m. 25
Smith Hall. Members of Music
Teachers National Association.
Junior Recital. Derek Sanchez,
trumpet. 5:30 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
Junior Recital. Dana Neustel, clarinet. 7:30 p.m. Recital
Hall, Smith Hall.
3 Monday
Junior Recital. Kyra Saltman,
cello. 7:30 p.m. Memorial
photos by L. Brian Stauffer
Restorative powers In honor of the Latina/Latino Studies Program’s 10th anniversary, artist Oscar Martinez restored, completed and
added to murals on the walls of the house at 510 E. Chalmers Street where the program is located. Martinez started the murals 30 years ago
when he was a student, using his own paints and small donations from other students. “The wall mural represents the struggles that Latino
students had individually and collectively during the 1970s but are situated within the larger economic, political and social movements
among Latinos in the U.S. at the time,” said Arlene Torres, director of the Latina/Latino Studies Program.
A new mural on the ceiling (inset photo) represents the accomplishments made by Latino students on campus and the Latino community
as a whole during the 30 years since artist Oscar Martinez painted the wall murals. The doves taking flight also symbolize a growing
awareness by contemporary students of the issues facing the Latino community today.
Room, Smith Hall.
Junior
Recital.
Andrew
Schumm, jazz trumpet. 7:30
p.m. 25 Smith Hall.
5 Wednesday
Junior Recital. Catherine
Price, violin. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.
6 Thursday
Paradox Saxophone Quartet.
12:15 p.m. Atrium, Beckman
Institute. Michael Holmes,
soprano saxophone; Chris Anderson, alto saxophone; Heidi
Radtke, tenor saxophone; and
Nathan Mandel, baritone saxophone.
UI Oratorio Society and
Symphony Orchestra. Fred
Stoltzfus, conductor. 7:30 p.m.
Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert
Center. $
7 Friday
Undergraduate Recital. Tiffany Pan, oboe. 5:30 p.m. Recital
Hall, Smith Hall.
Undergraduate Recital. Keturah Bixby and Keelin Eder,
harp. 5:30 p.m. Music Building
auditorium.
Yo-Yo Ma, cello. 7:30 p.m. Foel-
linger Great Hall, Krannert
Center. The program includes
music of J.S. Bach: Cello
Suites, Nos. 3, 5 and 6. $
Master of Music Recital.
Jennifer Griest, piano. 7:30
p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Senior Music Education Recital/Undergraduate Recital.
Danielle Beard and Jane Kinas, flute. 7:30 p.m. Memorial
Room, Smith Hall.
Atius Sachem “Mom’s Day
Sing.” 8 p.m. Foellinger Auditorium. $
8 Saturday
Annual Moms Day Harp Studio Recital. 11 a.m. Music
Building auditorium. Harp
students of Ann Yeung and
Jing-I Jang.
UI Women’s Glee Club Annual Mom’s Weekend Concert.
Joe Grant, conductor. 2
p.m. Foellinger Great Hall,
Krannert Center. A program of
varied repertoire will be presented in honor of moms. $
Junior Recital. Andrew Hsu,
violin. 2 p.m. Memorial Room,
Smith Hall.
Junior Recital. Katie Drown,
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Room, Smith Hall.
Black Chorus. Ollie Watts Davis, conductor. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert
Center. Annual Moms Weekend event. $
“At the Horo.” An Evening of
Balkan Dance Music.
Donna Buchanan, director.
7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith
Hall.
Undergraduate Recital. Phil
Pierick and Jim Spigner, saxophones. 7:30 p.m. Memorial
Room, Smith Hall.
Atius Sachem “Moms Day
Sing.” 8 p.m. Foellinger Auditorium. $
9 Sunday
UI Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. 1 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Second Sunday Concert.
William Moersch, percussion.
2 p.m. Krannert Art Museum.
Broadcast at 7 p.m. on the first
Sunday of the following month
on sponsoring station WILLFM (90.9/101.1 in Champaign-Urbana). Krannert Art
Museum.
Senior Recital. David Webb,
clarinet. 2 p.m. Music Building
auditorium.
Trombone Choir/50th Anniversary Reunion Concert. Elliot Chasanov, director. 3 p.m.
Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert
Center. $
Senior Recital. Anna Mudroch, flute. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.
UI Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble. Mark Moore, director.
7:30 p.m. Music Building auditorium.
dance
1 Saturday
Ronald K. Brown: “Evidence.”
7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. Brown’s
work mixes African and contemporary dance and the
struggle for peace amid human
conflict. $
8 Saturday
Mark Morris Dance Group.
7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. This
groups’ multi-dimensional work
involves movement, music,
light, sculpture and design. $
Afterglow. 10 p.m. Lobby,
Krannert Center. A showcase
for department of dance student musicians.
9 Sunday
Mark Morris Dance Group.
7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival
Theater, Krannert Center. In
its 25th anniversary year, this
group’s
multi-dimensional
work involves movement,
music, light, sculpture and
design. $
films
16 Thursday
Social Justice Film Festival:
“Thin Blue Line.” 6:30 p.m.
Room B, Law Building. College of Law.
28 Tuesday
“The Stroll, ‘Progulka Uchitel’ (2003).” 7:30 p.m. G13
Foreign Languages Building.
Slavic Languages and Literatures.
30 Thursday
Social Justice Film Festival:
“Other People’s Money.” 6:30
p.m. Room B, Law Building.
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College of Law.
6 Thursday
Social Justice Film Festival:
“Milagro Beanfield Wars.”
6:30 p.m. Room B, Law Building. College of Law.
sports
To confirm times, go to
www .fightingillini.com
16 Thursday
Men’s Tennis. UI vs. University of Southern California. 1:30
p.m. Atkins Tennis Center. $
29 Wednesday
Men’s Tennis. UI vs. Stanford.
6 p.m. Atkins Tennis Center.
$
31 Friday
Baseball. UI vs. Purdue. 6
p.m. Illinois Field. $
Softball. UI vs. University
of Iowa. 6 p.m. Eichelberger
Field. $
1 Saturday
Softball. UI vs. University
of Iowa. Noon. Eichelberger
Field. $
Baseball. UI vs. Purdue. 3 and
6 p.m. Illinois Field. $
2 Sunday
Women’s Tennis. UI vs. Ohio
State University. Noon. Atkins
Tennis Center. $
Softball. UI vs. University of
Wisconsin. Noon and 2 p.m.
Eichelberger Field. $
Baseball. UI vs. Purdue University. 1 p.m. Illinois Field. $
4 Tuesday
Baseball. UI vs. Western
Michigan University. 6:35 p.m.
Illinois Field. $
5 Wednesday
Baseball. UI vs. Western
Michigan University. 2:05 p.m.
Illinois Field. $
8 Saturday
Men’s Tennis. UI vs. Michigan
State University. Noon. Atkins
Tennis Center. $
9 Sunday
Men’s Tennis. UI vs. University of Michigan. Noon. Atkins
Tennis Center. $
et cetera
16 Thursday
Panel Discussion: “Literatures of the Real.” 3 p.m. Humanities Lecture Hall, IPRH
Building, 805 W. Pennsylvania
Avenue, Urbana. Panelists:
Andrea Goulet, Naomi Reed,
Robert Rushing and Joe Valente, UI. Illinois Program for
Research in the Humanities.
Coffee hour. Colombia. 7:30
p.m. Cosmopolitan Club,
307 E. John St., Champaign.
Cosmopolitan Club.
28 Tuesday
“How Much is Your Phone
Bill? – Long Distance Rela-
tionships.” Counseling Center
Paraprofessionals. 7 p.m. 209
Illini Union. Counseling Center/Student Affairs.
29 Wednesday
Spa Night. 6-9 p.m. CRCE
Meeting Room. McKinley
Health Education.
30 Thursday
Panel discussion: “A Pet’s
Place.” Sally Foote, Okaw Vet
Clinic, Tuscola; Jennifer Stone
and Jason Smith, Champaign
County Humane Society. Noon.
2258 Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Building. College
of Veterinary Medicine.
Coffee hour: Austria. 7:30
p.m. Cosmopolitan Club, 307
E. John St., Champaign. Cosmopolitan Club.
1 Saturday
Veterinary Medicine Open
House. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. VMBSB,
2001 S. Lincoln Ave. More
than 40 exhibits and demonstrations; learn about parasites,
explore veterinary clinical
specialties such as cardiology
and dentistry; ask questions
about veterinary education and
careers; and meet lots of animals, including birds of prey,
reptiles, and adoptable puppies
and kittens. Hands-on activities
such as visiting the petting zoo
and peering into microscopes.
Demonstrations on grooming
or shoeing horses, police dog
training, and ultrasound imaging. For more info: www.cvm.
uiuc.edu/openhouse/. Veterinary Medicine.
4 Tuesday
“Chil-lax: Learn to Defrazzle –
Stress Management.” Counseling Center Paraprofessionals. 7 p.m. 209 Illini Union.
Counseling Center Student
Affairs.
5 Wednesday
Lunch and Learn: “Backpacking – How to Hit the Trail.” Bob
McGrew, UI. Noon. CRCE
Meeting Room. For more info
and to register, visit www.campusrec.uiuc.edu. Campus Recreation.
6 Thursday
Coffee hour: Poland. 7:30
p.m. Cosmopolitan Club, 307
E. John St., Champaign. Cosmopolitan Club.
7 Friday
Moms Weekend. Takes place
all weekend. For a complete
schedule, visit www.uofiparentprograms.uiuc.edu.
International conference on
“Post-Communist
Nostalgia.” 9 a.m.-6:45 p.m. 314 Illini Union. Opening address
by Maria Todorova, UI. For a
complete schedule, visit www.
reec.uiuc.edu/events/annual.
html. Continues April 8. Russian, East European and Eurasian Center.
8 Saturday
Moms Weekend Flower and
Garden Show. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Stock Pavilion.
Moms Weekend Craft Fair. 10
a.m.-5 p.m. Illini Union.
Japan House Spring Open
House. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Japan
House,. Members of Illinois
Prairie Chapter of the Ikenobo
Ikebana Society of America
will demonstrate Ikebana arrangements. Tea ceremonies
will be performed throughout
the day. Japan House.
9 Sunday
Moms Weekend Flower and
Garden Show. 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Stock Pavilion.
Second
Sunday
Gallery
Tour. “Petals and Paintings.”
Rick Orr, local florist. 1 p.m.
Krannert Art Museum.
exhibits
“Spectacles of the Real: Truth
and Representation in Art
and Literature”
Through March 31.
IPRH, 805 W. Pennsylvania
Ave., Urbana. Monday-Friday
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
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“Citizen Writers in Romania
Today: Selections From
the Andrei Codrescu Collection”
Through March 31.
Main hallway, Library.
“Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the School of
Social Work”
Main hallway, Library.
On view April 1-30.
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“Fanfare for an Uncommon
Man: Paul Martin Zonn”
Through April 14.
“Would the Real Chief Illiniwek Please Stand Up?”
Through May 19.
“Portraying American Femininity Through Melody
and Art”
“The Long Good-Bye”
Ongoing.
Sousa Archives and Center for
American Music,
236 Harding Band Building,
1103 S. Sixth St., Champaign.
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“Rain Forest Visions”
Through July 30.
Five galleries featuring the
cultures of the world. Spurlock
Museum, 600 S. Gregory St.,
Urbana. Noon-5 p.m. Tuesday;
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Friday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday;
Noon-4 p.m. Sunday.
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On view April 7-9.
“Uninterrupted Flux: Hedda
Sterne, A Retrospective”
Through March 26.
“Pattern Language: Clothing
as Communicator”
Through April 9.
“Project 66: An Exploration of
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“Sacra Imago: Devotional Art
of the Middle Ages”
“Canvas: An Electronic Gallery”
Ongoing.
Krannert Art Museum and
Kinkead Pavilion. 9 a.m.-5
p.m. Tuesday, Thursday-Saturday; 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday;
2-5 p.m. Sunday. Free admission; $3 donation suggested.
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Altgeld Chime-Tower Tours
12:30-1 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Enter through 323 Altgeld Hall.
To arrange a concert or Bell
Tower visit, e-mail chimes@
uiuc.edu or call 333-6068
Arboretum Tours
To arrange a tour, 333-7579.
Beckman Institute Cafe
Open to the public. 8 a.m.3 p.m. Monday-Friday. Lunch
served 11 a.m.-2 p.m. For
monthly menu, www.beckman.
uiuc.edu/café/.
Bevier Cafe
8:30-11 a.m. coffee, juice and
baked goods; and 11:30 a.m. to
1 p.m. lunch.
Campus Recreation
IMPE, 201 E. Peabody Drive,
Champaign
CRCE, 1102 W. Gregory,
Urbana
See www.campusrec.uiuc.edu
for complete schedule.
Kenney Gym and pool will be
open to all faculty/staff at no
charge during scheduled hours
with valid ID card.
English as a Second
Language Course
7-8:30 p.m. LDS Institute
Building, 402 S. Lincoln Ave.,
Urbana. Weekly on Thursdays.
Faculty/Staff Assistance
Program
8 a.m.-5 p.m. 1011 W. University Ave., Urbana. Phone 2445312.
Ice Arena
Open skate: 11:20 a.m.-12:40
p.m. Monday-Friday (while
university is in session); 7-9
p.m. Wednesday and Friday;
1:30-4 p.m. Sunday.
Cheap Skates: 7-9 p.m. First
Wednesday of each month.
Adult Rat Hockey: Fridays,
3:15-4:45 p.m. (must be over
18). See Web site for complete
schedule.
Illini Union Ballroom
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Second floor, NE
corner. For reservations, 3330690; walk-ins welcome.
Japan House
For a group tour, 244-9934. Tea
Ceremony: 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month. $5/person.
Krannert Art Museum and
Kinkead Pavilion
Tours: By appointment, please
call 333-8218.
Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. TuesdaySaturday, until 9 p.m. Thursday, 2-5 p.m. Sunday.
The Fred and Donna Giertz
Education Center: 10 a.m.noon and 1-5 p.m. TuesdayFriday, until 7 p.m. Th., 10
a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.
Palette Cafe: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Monday-Saturday.
Office hours: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Monday-Friday.
Krannert Center for the
Performing Arts
Interlude: Open one hour before until after events on performance nights.
Krannert Uncorked: Wine tastings at 5 p.m. most Thursdays.
Intermezzo Cafe: Open 7:30
a.m.-3:30 p.m. on non-performance weekdays; 7:30 a.m.
through weekday performances; weekends from 90 minutes
before until after performances.
Promenade gift shop: 10 a.m.6 p.m. M-Sa; one hour before
until 30 minutes after performances.
Ticket Office: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
daily, and 10 a.m. through first
intermission on performance
days.
Tours: 3 p.m. daily; meet in
main lobby.
Law Café
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. 8
a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday.
Serving full breakfast, hot and
cold lunch entrees, salads and
desserts, and coffee. Call 2446017 for more information.
Library Tours
Self-guided of main and undergraduate libraries: go to Information Desk (second floor,
main library) or Media Center
(undergrad library).
Meat Salesroom
02 Meat Sciences Lab.
1-5:30 p.m. Tuesday & Thursday; 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday. For
price list and specials, 3333404.
Robert Allerton Park
Open 8 a.m. to dusk daily.
“Allerton Legacy” exhibit at
Visitors Center, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
daily; 244-1035. Garden tours,
333-2127.
organizations
mjreilly@uiuc.edu.
Classified Employees
Association
11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. first Thursday monthly. 244-2466 or
nblackbu@uiuc.edu.
UIUC Falun Dafa Practice
group
4:10-6:10 p.m. each Sunday.
405 Illini Union. For more information call, 244-2571.
French Department: Pause
Café
5-6 p.m. Thursdays, Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon,
Urbana.
Illini Folk Dance Society
8-10 p.m. Tu & Sa, Illini
Union. Beginners welcome,
398-6686.
Italian Table
Italian conversation Mondays
at noon, Intermezzo Cafe,
KCPA.
Lifetime Fitness Program
6-8:50 a.m. M-F. Kinesiology,
244-3983.
Normal Person’s Book
Discussion Group
7 p.m. 317 Illini Union. Read
“Housekeeping: A Novel,” by
Marilynne Robinson for April
6. More info: 355-3167 or
www.uiuc.edu/~beuoy.
PC User Group
For schedule, call Mark
Zinzow, 244-1289, or David
Harley, 333-5656.
Scandinavian Coffee Hour
4-6 p.m. W. The Bread Company, 706 S. Goodwin Ave.,
Urbana.
Secretariat
11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. third
Wednesday monthly. Illini
Union. 333-1374, mdavis@
uiuc.edu or www.uiuc.edu/ro/
secretariat.
The Deutsche
Konversationsgruppe
1-3 p.m. W. The Bread Company, 706 S. Goodwin Ave.,
Urbana.
VOICE
Poetry and fiction reading. 7:45
p.m. Second Thursday of each
month. The Bread Company,
706 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana.
Women’s Club
Open to male and female faculty and staff members and
spouses. 398-5967, kmarshak@prairienet.org or http://
wc-uiuc.prairienet.org. u
Association of Academic
Professionals
Happy hour, third Friday each
month. 5 p.m. Bread Company,
706 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana.
www.shout.net/~aap.
Book Collectors’ Club – The
No. 44 Society.
4 p.m. First Wednesday of each
month. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 346 Main Library. Call 333-3777 for more
information.
Council of Academic
Professionals Meeting
1:30 p.m. First Thursday
monthly. www.cap.uiuc.edu or
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