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Changes to strengthen College of Communications
By Craig Chamberlain
News Bureau Staff Writer
T
here is a future for the UI College
of Communications – and potentially a very bright one, according
to its interim dean, Ron Yates.
After more than a year of uncertainty
and examination – during which disbanding the college and other severe options
were discussed by two committees – the
college officially has been told by the
campus administration that it will proceed intact, Yates said.
“The college is not only here as it was
before, itʼs going to be bigger,” Yates
said. One major initiative will be the
creation and development of a broad and
strong media studies program, building
on existing college and campus strengths
in that area. One emphasis of the program
would be to offer courses on the media
available to undergraduates throughout
the campus and to establish a strong media studies major.
The college comprises the departments of journalism and advertising, the
Institute of Communications Research
and the Division of Broadcasting, includ-
ing WILL radio and TV stations. All of its
academic units have continued to be ranked
among the best in the nation, Yates said.
His comments came in the aftermath of
a meeting April 30 with tenured faculty in
the college, during which campus Provost
and Interim Chancellor Richard Herman discussed steps the college should take in moving forward. Herman also announced that he
was appointing Yates as the permanent dean,
pending approval from the universityʼs board
of trustees.
Hermanʼs recommendations came in a
four-page letter to Yates that was written in
response to the report from a 19-member college task force, chaired by journalism professor Walter Harrington, who recently was appointed interim head of his department.
The task force, which met throughout the
fall semester and reported in February, had
been asked by Yates to address concerns
raised last summer by an ad hoc campus committee.
That committee cited what it saw as serious communication and budgetary problems.
Among its recommendations were that the
provost consider disbanding the college,
SEE COMMUNICATIONS, PAGE 2
CMS announces decision to
reopen bidding process
By Sharita Forrest
Assistant Editor
In This Issue
The Department of Central Management Services announced May 3 that
it will reopen the bidding process for
health-insurance carriers for the coming fiscal year, which begins July 1,
following an outpouring of protests by
lawmakers, state employees and other
concerned citizens who were upset to
learn that Health Alliance Medical Plan
would not be offered next year. CMS announced recently its decision not to offer
Health Alliance in FY05 after reviewing
bids from Health Alliance and other insurance carriers.
CMS officials agreed to conduct the
bidding process for FY05 health-insurance carriers again but did not indicate a
time frame for that to happen, said James
Davito, director of benefits at the Urbana
campus Benefits Center.
Neither did CMS officials commit to
extending the Health Alliance contract
for a particular period of time, although
some media reported that the contract
was being extended for several months,
Davito said.
CMS officials did say that the recent
bidding and selection process had taken
six monthsʼ time. However, they said
that much of that time was preparatory
work that would not need to be repeated,
perhaps shortening the time required for
a second round of bidding and selection.
Thousands of UI employees and retir-
ees remain in limbo, wondering whether
they will be able to remain with their
Health Alliance HMO health plan next
year. Health Alliance, based in Urbana,
provides health-care coverage to about
90,000 state employees, retirees and
their families, including about 7,000
faculty and staff members at the three
UI campuses. Health Alliance has an
exclusive contract with Carle Clinic and
Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana.
People affected by the decision to
drop Health Alliance rallied outside the
state capitol on May 3 prior to a meeting
on health-care-benefit selection by the
House of Representatives State Government Administration Committee. UI
staff attended the committee meeting
to provide information and respond to
questions about the impact of this action
on UI employees.
“We have communicated to the
stateʼs Department of Central Management Services that this decision is a
concern for many of our employees and
for the University of Illinois, and we
have encouraged a review by CMS of
the decision to drop Health Alliance,”
President James J. Stukel said in a
May 1 e-mail to the campus.
Norman Denzin, chair of the UrbanaChampaign Senate Committee on Faculty Benefits, had urged people to contact
Health Alliance, Central Management
Services, Gov. Rod Blagojevich and
SEE HEALTH ALLIANCE, PAGE 9
Fostering success
The Irwin Academic
Services Center has
become an important
resource for the more
than 550 student athletes
representing the
UI campus.
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photo by Bill Wiegand
Moving forward Ron Yates says the College of Communications is proceeding with
changes that will improve and enlarge on what it offers, following a year of external
and internal reviews. Yates, the college’s interim dean since September, has been appointed to fill the post permanently, pending approval by the UI Board of Trustees.
Parking improvements, new
decks require rate increase
parking program and finance construction
of parking decks around campus to meet
Give ʼem an inch and they may try to the ever-growing demand for parking.
Administration chose not to enact the
park in it, especially if that inch is in a conparking planʼs recommended rate hikes in
gested area of the Urbana campus.
FY03 and FY04 because
And beginning July 1,
the campus community
permission to park in that
FY05 Parking rate
already was feeling the
spot will cost a bit more,
increase:
pinch of the stateʼs lagaccording to new rates
7.5 percent
ging economy, said Bob
recently announced by the
New annual rates:
Kelly, director of parkFacilities & Services parkFaculty/Staff: $370
ing.
ing department.
Students: $312
However, Kelly said,
Rates will increase 7.5
7.5 percent increases
percent next fiscal year,
to $370 annually for faculty/staff permits are unavoidable for FY05 and FY06 to
and $312 for school-year student permits. keep pace with rising operating costs,
Permits for departmental/24-hour spaces, fund renovations of two parking decks in
evenings and motorcycles will increase as central campus and finance construction of
well; however, charges for bagged meters the parking deck just east of the Beckman
and day meter tags will remain unchanged, Institute that is scheduled to open in June.
“Now that weʼve got this deck coming
as will costs for metered parking and parkon board, weʼll pick up a $1.4 million bond
ing citations.
Since 1995 faculty/staff permits have debt in FY05 that we didnʼt have last year,”
increased from $225 to $345, and some Kelly said. “And even though we will use
faculty members think that is too much, some of our reserves to help pay for that,
although campus officials say those rates weʼre still going to be short next year.”
The $26 million north campus parking
are barely covering the costs of the parking
program and are far lower than motorists deck comprises six levels with more than
1,500 rental spaces, including 150 metered
pay at peer institutions.
Parking rates on campus have been the spaces. Negotiations are under way with
same for the past two fiscal years, despite various retailers and restaurants to lease
recommendations in the parking master 20,000 gross square feet of commercial
plan, which indicated that permits should space on the ground level of the deck.
“Leasing of those spaces will not only
increase by at least 12.5 percent annually through 2009 and that metered parking provide much needed services to the north
should be raised to a dollar in order for the campus, (it) will help defray the debt costs
campus to cover operating costs for the SEE PARKING, PAGE 12
By Sharita Forrest
Assistant Editor
Campuswide
honors
Awards for excellence in
teaching and advising
were presented at the
Honors Banquet
on April 26.
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ACHIEVEMENTS
BOOK CORNER
BRIEF NOTES
CALENDAR
DEATHS
11
9 & 14
15
16
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May 6, 2004
Trustees meet by phone in executive session
By Sharita Forrest
Assistant Editor
The Executive Committee of the UI
Board of Trustees, meeting by teleconference on April 30, awarded a contract to the
search firm of Baker-Parker and Associates
to assist in the selection of a successor for
President James J. Stukel, who will retire
Feb. 1, 2005. Clients of the Atlanta-based
firm have included Harvard University,
Johns Hopkins University and the NCAA
in addition to various high-profile private
sector companies. The contract costs, which
may vary depending on candidatesʼ actual
travel expenses, include a professional fee
of $105,000 plus $29,000 for estimated
travel expenses. The costs will be covered
by gift funds.
The boardʼs consultative committee,
which comprises Trustees Devon Bruce,
Frances Carroll and Robert Vickrey, recommended Baker-Parker after viewing
presentations by the firm and three other
prospects.
In other business, the committee autho-
rized the Springfield campus to confer an
honorary doctor of humane letters degree
to Stukel at the campusʼs May 8 commencement ceremony in recognition of his
service to the university and his personal
and professional achievements.
Students at all three UI campuses will
have better health insurance benefits next
fiscal year, but some will pay higher premiums, according to plans that were approved
by the executive committee.
A self-funded health insurance plan will
be implemented for Chicago students with
services except emergency care provided
by UIC Medical Center. All participating
students will be covered at the rate of $363.
The plan will provide more comprehensive
coverage than students have had under
Mega Life Insurance, and the self-funded
program will help contain costs, according
to the proposal.
As they have been for the past seven
years, participating students at the Urbana
campus will receive coverage from Mega
Life Insurance. However, premiums will
increase 7 percent, to $166, for under-
graduate students and 9 percent, to $233,
for graduate students.
The university is initiating a contract
with The Chickering Group to provide coverage for participating Springfield students
at the universal rate of $270, a 39 percent
increase for students under age 35 and 9
percent decrease for older students.
Enhanced benefits and escalating costs
for health care in general explain the premium increases for the Urbana and Springfield campuses, said Mike Provenzano,
senior assistant vice president for business
and finance.
The committee approved the purchase
of a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
spectrometer and cryoprobe for UICʼs new
Structural Biology Instrumentation Building. The $5.04 million contract, which
includes the equipment cost and installation, will be wholly funded by a grant
from the National Institutes of Health,
said UIC Chancellor Sylvia Manning,
who described the equipment as “a kind
of jewel in the crown” for the building.
Biomedical researchers can use the 900
Mhz spectrometer to examine the structure
and dynamics of proteins, nucleic acids or
small molecules of drugs or other inhibitors. Board approval for the purchase had
to be expedited because the vendor, BrukerBiospin Corp. of Billerica, Mass., has only
one system available and “the public announcement that they have built it to these
specifications will create interest on the part
of other universities,” Manning said. “If we
donʼt get this one, we will have a waiting
period of a year before another one can be
manufactured.”
The purchase of a new scoreboard for Assembly Hall on the Urbana campus was also
approved. The $1.6 million system, which
will be purchased from Daktronics Inc. of
South Dakota, will include a center-hung
scoreboard with four large video screens
and four scoreboards as well as two side
auxiliary display boards. The Assembly Hall
and the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics
will share the costs of the system, which
they plan to install before basketball season
begins in the fall, Provenzano said. ◆
Senate discusses NCA meeting, parking and benefits issues
By Sharita Forrest
Assistant Editor
Stephen Kaufman, professor of cell and
structural biology, presented at the April 26
Urbana-Champaign Senate meeting a letter
he said was sent to North Central Association officials and signed by him, Frederick
Hoxie, professor of history and director of
Native American House, and Carol Spindel, a lecturer in the department of English,
raising objections that individual faculty
members had not been scheduled to meet
with NCA representatives who were on
campus last month.
“Weʼve had this issue with us for 15
years and when this opportunity that is now
before us with the NCA is being bypassed,
as an educational institution that thrives on
information and resolution of problems, I
would have hoped that this could have been
arranged otherwise,” Kaufman said, in presenting the letter to Priscilla Yu, vice chair
of the senate executive committee.
Yu explained that the senate executive
COMMUNICATIONS, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
establishing a separate school of journalism, and disbanding the department of advertising in favor of a possible advertising
track in the new school.
In response to the collegeʼs task force
report, however, Herman recommended
mending the college rather than ending
it. “The chancellor has basically accepted
the meat of our report,” Harrington said.
“Weʼre going to be moving ahead here doing the things that we promised and forging
even better programs.”
“Thereʼs still a lot of water to be carried” in addressing some problems and
issues, Yates said. But he called Hermanʼs
response to the task force report a positive
outcome. “It validates the college and its
academic role on this campus,” he said,
and the task force process “helped us understand ourselves more than we possibly
could have otherwise.”
A key point for Harrington was that Herman “was convinced that we did belong
together (as a college) – that there was an
educational and philosophical rationale.”
Herman did accept almost all of the task
forceʼs recommendations, though not without qualifications in some areas. “I recognize there is desire in your college to bring
this process to a speedy end,” he wrote in
his letter, “but we both appreciate that some
matters need to be more fully understood
before sound decisions can be made concerning them.”
Among other immediate steps recommended by Herman, largely in concert with
recommendations from Yates and the task
force:
committee did meet with NCA representatives as the elected representatives of the
faculty. Ken Andersen, senate observer and
representative to the faculty advisory council of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, reported that the Senate Executive
Committee had met with NCA officials for
45 minutes.
The senate approved the nominations of
James Anderson, professor of educational
policy studies, and Vernon Burton, professor of history, as possible chairs of the
search committee to advise the president
on the selection of a chancellor. President
James J. Stukel will appoint one of them as
chair and the other as a committee member. The senate also voted on nominees for
the committee. Elected to the committee
were May Berenbaum, entomology; Norm
Denzin, sociology and communications;
Mary Mallory, head of the government
documents library and associate provost;
Rolando Romero, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese; and Jane Loeb, educational psy-
chology. Also elected were Paula Kaufman,
university librarian; Pam Hohn, executive
assistant dean, College of Fine and Applied
Arts; and Franci Miller, staff secretary in
the Office of the Chancellor.
Parking policies and an increase in permit rates evoked much debate and prompted
two resolutions at the meeting (see parking
story for details).
■ Senators passed a resolution urging
the administration to oppose any
reduction in health care, dental or vision benefits as well as any increase
in premiums or co-payments for faculty members.
■ The senate approved an amended
policy on information security that
would allow users to share usernames
and passwords in certain circumstances. Once the modified policy has
been approved by all three campusesʼ
senates, it will go to university administration for action.
■ Senators approved academic calendars for 2006-2007 and 2007-2008
and a policy for implementing a
review system for campus units that
function in the manner of academic
departments.
■ Barclay Jones, chair of the Budget
Committee and professor of mechanical engineering, reported on the state
budget, saying that the committeeʼs
recommendations to the provost
would include opposition to any
benefit reductions. The capitol budget
recommended by the governor was
“better than anticipated,” Jones said,
and any decrease in state appropriations would be significantly offset by
the FY05 tuition increases. Jones
asked senators for letters describing
how the budget reductions have affected their instruction.
■ Yu presented Cantor with a resolution
of appreciation for her service to the
Urbana-Champaign campus. ◆
■ Work toward resolving leadership
and communication problems within
the department of advertising under
an interim head, waiting perhaps
two years before launching a search
for a permanent head “of the caliber
the department will need for the
long term.” Yates recently appointed
Steve Helle, a former head of the
department of journalism, as the
interim head of the department of advertising. Helle also holds a faculty
appointment in advertising.
■ Expand immediately the undergraduate courses offered by the Institute of
Communications Research, in part
as a means for making the institute
more financially viable.
■ Produce a report by this fall that explores the possibilities for a broader
media studies program, involving
connections between the Institute of
Communications Research and units
outside the college, most prominently
in the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences.
■ Explore a move toward reconfiguring the faculty of ICR as a department, perhaps with the title of media
studies, while still continuing a unit
called the Institute of Communications Research.
■ Produce a plan by June 1 for allowing
“more meaningful and extensive student experiences for academic credit”
at the WILL stations.
■ Address needs for better advising for
“pre-journalism” students in LAS.
(The College of Communications
currently is a two-year college that
students enter in their junior year.)
Herman wrote that “I understand and
appreciate some of your arguments
for a four-year college,” but also
noted it was “a complex issue with
implications that need careful consideration and discussion.”
■ Proceed with a thorough examination
of development efforts within the
college.
Both Yates and Harrington credited the
thorough work of the task force in making
the case for the value of the units within the
college, for the value of keeping those units
together and for seeing new possibilities
that might build on college strengths. They
both also commented on what they thought
was a surprising lack of rancor and dissension in a difficult process.
“I said it early on that I looked at this
whole thing as an opportunity,” Yates said,
though not discounting the extreme discomfort in such a thorough self-examination.
“I wouldnʼt wish this on anybody,”
Harrington said. “This is a matter, though,
where the gain will be worth the pain.” ◆
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Like ozone hole, polar clouds take bite out of meteoric iron
co-authors of a paper that appeared in the
April 16 issue of the journal Science.
First deployed over Okinawa, Japan, to
Polar clouds are known to play a major
observe
meteor trails during the 1998 Leorole in the destruction of Earthʼs protective
nid
meteor
shower, the Illinois lidar system
ozone layer, creating the springtime “ozone
uses
two
powerful
lasers operating in the
hole” above Antarctica. Now, scientists
near
ultraviolet
region
of the spectrum
have found that polar clouds also play a sigand
two
telescopes
to
detect
laser pulses
nificant role in removing meteoric iron from
reflected
from
the
atmosphere.
The system
Earthʼs mesosphere. The discovery could
was
moved to
help researchers
the
Amundsenrefine their modScott South Pole
els of atmospheric
Station in late
chemistry
and
1999.
global warming.
“SimultaneUsing a sensious
observative laser radar
tions
of
the iron
(lidar)
system,
layer
and
the
laboratory expericlouds
revealed
ments and comnearly complete
puter modeling,
removal of iron
UI
researchers
atoms inside the
and
colleagues
clouds,” Gardner
from the Universaid. “Laborasity of East Antory experiments
glia in Norwich,
and atmospheric
England, studied
modeling done
the removal of
by our colmeteoric iron by
leagues at the
polar mesospheric
University
of
clouds that they Laser radar The UI Fe Boltzmann
East
Anglia
then
observed during temperature lidar is currently installed in
showed that this
the summer at the the Atmospheric Research Observatory at the
phenomenon
South Pole.
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, where it
could be ex“Our measure- is used to characterize the upper atmosphere
plained by the
ments and models temperature structure throughout the year.
efficient uptake
have shown that
of
iron
on
the
surfaces
of
ice
crystals.”
another type of reaction that takes place in
Polar
mesospheric
clouds
are the highthe upper atmosphere – this time related to
est
on
Earth,
forming
at
an
altitude of
ice particles – plays a very important role in
about
52
miles.
The
clouds
form
over the
the processes that influence the chemistry
summertime
polar
caps
when
temperatures
of metal layers in this region,” said Chester
Gardner, a professor of electrical and com- fall below minus 125 degrees Celsius, and
puter engineering at Illinois and one of the overlap a layer of iron atoms produced by
By James E. Kloeppel
News Bureau Staff Writer
UI commencement
ceremonies take place May 16
The UIʼs 133rd commencement will be
In 1998, Guinier became the first black
held in two ceremonies May 16 at Assem- woman to be appointed to a tenured probly Hall.
fessorship at Harvard Law School. Before
The speaker at both ceremonies will be joining the faculty at Harvard, she was
Lani Guinier, a civil rights activist, author a tenured professor for 10 years at the
and Harvard Law
University of PennSchool
professor.
sylvania Law School.
Commencement Ceremonies
She and seven others
During the 1980s
10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., May 16
will receive honorary
Guinier was head
Assembly Hall
degrees at the cerSpeaker: Lani Guinier
of the voting rights
emonies.
project at the NAACP
Other ceremonies:
At the 10:30 a.m.
Legal Defense Fund
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dates in the colleges
Civil Rights Division
of Applied Life Studduring the Carter adies, Communications, Law, Liberal Arts ministration as special assistant to Drew
and Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine; S. Days, who then was an assistant U.S.
the Institute of Aviation; the Institute of attorney general.
Labor and Industrial Relations; the School
Guinier came to prominent public attenof Social Work; and the Graduate School tion when she was nominated by President
of Library and Information Science will Bill Clinton in 1993 to head the Civil Rights
receive degrees.
Division of the Department of Justice, only
Candidates in the colleges of Agricultur- to have her name withdrawn without a
al, Consumer and Environmental Sciences; confirmation hearing. Guinier turned that
Business; Education; Engineering; and Fine incident into a powerful personal and politiand Applied Arts will receive their degrees cal memoir, “Lift Every Voice: Turning a
at the 2 p.m. ceremony.
Civil Rights Setback Into a New Vision of
Doors will open at 9:30 a.m. for the Social Justice.”
morning ceremony and at 1 p.m. for the
All graduating students and their guests
afternoon ceremony. After all students and are invited to a reception hosted by univertheir guests are seated, the remaining seats sity President James J. Stukel and Chancelwill be available to the public. Shuttle buses lor Nancy Cantor from 8 to 9:30 a.m. May
also will stop at various locations on cam- 16 in the gardens of the presidentʼs house.
pus, including Assembly Hall, from 9 a.m. Academic attire is encouraged.
to 6 p.m.
The first floor of the main library will be
All students who have earned bache- open from 1 to 4 p.m. May 15 and May 16
lorʼs, masterʼs, doctoral and professional for visitors and students to view the Univerdegrees and advanced certificates during sity Honors Bronze Tablets.
the preceding year are honored at the anMany individual UI units have schednual commencement.
uled additional commencement ceremoWILL-AM (580) will provide on-air and nies. A complete schedule is available on
online coverage of the 2 p.m. ceremony.
the Web. ◆
the ablation of meteoroids entering the atmosphere.
“At such cold temperatures, the iron
atoms stick when they
bump into the ice crystals,” Gardner said. “If
the removal of iron
is rapid compared to
both the input of fresh
meteoric ablation and
the vertical transport of
iron into the clouds, a
local depletion or ʻbiteoutʼ in the iron layer
will result.”
Polar clouds UI researchers and their colleagues from the
To examine whether University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, spent their
the observed bite-outs summer at the South Pole studying the polar mesospheric
could be fully ex- clouds.
plained by the removal
of iron atoms by ice particles, John Plane, a
The researchers answered this question
professor of environmental sciences at East by carefully modeling the size distribution
Anglia, and graduate student Benjamin of ice particles as a function of altitude.
Murray measured the rate of iron uptake They concluded there was sufficient surface
on ice.
area to remove the iron.
In their laboratory, Plane and Murray
“Our results clearly demonstrate the
first deposited a layer of ice on the inside of importance of ice particles in the chemistry
a flow tube. Iron atoms were then generated of this region of the atmosphere,” Gardner
by laser ablation of an iron target at one end said. “Not too many years ago we learned
of the tube. At the other end, a second laser how important polar stratospheric clouds
measured how much iron made it through were to the chemistry of the ozone layer.
the tube.
Now we are seeing something very similar
“By changing the temperature in the happening at higher altitudes.”
tube, we could compare how much iron
In addition to Gardner, Plane and Murwas absorbed by the ice and calculate the ray, the team included research scientist
sticking coefficient,” Plane said. “Once we Xinzhao Chu from the University of Ilknew how efficiently the iron atoms stick linois who made the measurements at the
to the ice, our next question was whether South Pole.
there was enough ice surface in the polar
The National Science Foundation, the
clouds to deplete the iron and cause the Royal Society and the Natural Environmendramatic bite-outs revealed in the lidar tal Research Council funded the work. ◆
observations.”
deaths
Donald L. Agans Jr., 50, died April 18
at his home in Sidney. Agans worked
for the Housing Division and the Division of Operation and Maintenance for
25 years, first as a kitchen laborer then
as a building service worker and later
as a groundskeeper. He left the UI in
1998.
Katherine Van Cleave, 84, died
April 18 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Van Cleave worked for
the Alumni Association for 33 years,
retiring in 1989 as a typing clerk III.
Memorials:
Multiple Sclerosis Association.
Michael A. Drews, 60, died April
20 at his home in Champaign. Drews
worked for the Division of Operation
and Maintenance for 32 years, first as a
building service worker, then as a campus transportation operator and later
as a truck driver. He retired in 1999.
Memorials: St. John Lutheran Church,
509 S. Mattis Ave., Champaign.
Marguerite R. Fisher, 86, died May
1 at ManorCare Health Services of
Champaign. Fisher worked at the UI for
33 years, retiring in 1982. She worked
for the English department and was an
administrative aide at the Presidentʼs
Office at the time of her retirement.
Memorials: First United Methodist
Church, Urbana, or the American Cancer Society.
Nesbit Roe Siems, 87, died April 16 at
the Champaign County Nursing Home,
Urbana. Siems was a secretary for educational research and psychology for 19
years, retiring in 1980.
Roy A. Smith, 79, died April 15 at Carle
Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Smith
was a building service worker for O&M
for 21 years, leaving the UI in 1969.
Cleo Syfert, 88, died April 14 at Methodist Union County Hospital, Morganfield, Ky. Syfert worked for O&M as a
building service worker for 13 years,
retiring in 1982. Memorials: Gideons
International, c/o Carolyn Either, 202 S.
Morgan St., Morganfield, KY 42437.
Clifford E. Waller, 86, died May 2 at
Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana.
Waller worked at the UI Physical Plant
for 34 years. Memorials: St. Johnʼs Lutheran Church, Champaign. ◆
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InsideIllinois
May 6, 2004
Center offers services to help student athletes succeed academically
By John Loos
Student Intern
L
ocated in what was once the Kappa
Alpha Psi fraternity house, the
Irwin Academic Services Center has
fostered its own version of student camaraderie through the extensive educational
assistance it provides to the approximately
550 student athletes representing the UI.
The center promotes academic excellence,
health and wellness issues, community outreach and inter-sport socialization.
“The center [provides] an opportunity for our student athletes to have a place
where they can get some productive studying done,” said Tom Michael, the assistant
athletic director for academic affairs. “We
have computer labs here; they can meet
their tutors here; we have academic counselors here. And, it gives an opportunity for
athletes to intermingle.”
Most of the services the center provides begin with one of its six academic
counselors. These counselors are divided
up by sport and, along with advising on
class choices and basic schedule-shaping,
they interact with a studentʼs departmental
adviser, assist them in finding resources on
campus, and open up communication lines
between the students and their professors.
“Weʼre basically a liaison between the
academic departments and advisers and
professors,” said Kathy Kaler, a counselor
who also serves as the life skills coordinator
for the center. “Itʼs important for those professors to know who (the student athletes)
are, that they care about the classes and that
they really want to do well.”
The center is equipped with 45 computers and several study areas designed to
give the student athlete an optimal study
environment. There also is a career area
with information on companies interested
in hiring student athletes as well as information on writing resumes and tips for being interviewed. The center places a strong
emphasis on helping student athletes find a
career upon graduating, Michael said.
While the center opened its doors in
1998, its genesis was in 1995 when the UI,
having purchased the old Kappa Alpha Psi
house at 402 E. Armory, received a $1.5
million gift from the Irwin Family Foundation intended for the consolidation of all
academic services for student athletes.
“Itʼs been unbelievable what kind of support the Irwin Foundation has been able to
give this facility and to provide those benefits for the student athletes that put them in
a position to be successful,” Michael said.
The center also receives support from
the community in the form of professionals
who volunteer their time to lead workshops
for student athletes. The workshops cover
everything from nutrition to time management to financial planning to ballroom
dancing or dinner etiquette. Each is designed, through consultation with the stu-
Balancing act
Kathy Kaler, academic
counselor and life
skills coordinator
for the Division of
Intercollegiate Athletics,
talks with a student
in her office at Irwin
Academic Services
Center. Kaler, a former
coach at a community
college, said she loves
the competitive spirit
of student athletes and
how hard they have to
work to balance their
academic careers with
their sports careers. To
design programming
that meets the needs of
the campus’s student
athletes, Kaler gathers
input from coaches as
well as students.
photo by Bill Wiegand
Under the direction of
Tom Michael, assistant
athletic director of
academic affairs,
the Irwin Academic
Services Center brings
together student athletes
from the 19 sports
offered at the Urbana
campus, offering
academic support
as well as health and
wellness programs,
life skills training and
community outreach.
Michael, a former
UI basketball player,
understands the kinds
of pressures faced by
the UI’s 550 student
athletes and said that
one of the center’s most
important functions is
that it enables athletes
to socialize with
people other than their
teammates.
UI scientists studying vaccinia virus, a
close relative of smallpox, have determined
that a gene necessary for virus replication
also has a key role in turning off inflammation, a crucial anti-viral
immune response of
host cells.
The discovery, reported last month in
the Journal of Virology,
potentially broadens the
knowledge base of how
all poxviruses cause
disease and how they may be outwitted by
improvements in vaccines against them,
said Joanna L. Shisler, a UI professor of
microbiology in the College of Medicine.
“If we can find out how the virus evades
immune responses and learn more about
the signals the virus sees as necessary for
replicating within the host cell, then we can
figure out how to inhibit them and halt the
viral replication,” she said.
Post 9-11 fears of bioterrorism by means
of the deliberate introduction of smallpox
have spawned renewed interest in new,
safer vaccines against the deadly disease,
which was eradicated as a naturally occurring danger in 1977. Some U.S. medical
workers and military
personnel have received
vaccinations
made of the live vaccinia virus, but while
this tamer relative of
smallpox
normally
doesnʼt cause disease,
complications, including death, are possible especially among
immune-compromised individuals.
The vaccinia virus genome is 97 percent genetically identical to the smallpox
genome, making it an ideal model virus
to use in the laboratory to understand how
smallpox and other dangerous poxviruses
function, Shisler said.
In their research, Shisler and Xiao-Lu
Jin, a research specialist in microbiology,
research
news
Thomas Siebel (left), chairman and CEO
of Siebel Systems Inc., and David Daniel,
dean of the College of Engineering,
unveiled the Thomas M. Siebel Center
for Computer Science at the facility’s
dedication and grand opening
celebration, which began April 29 and
continued through May 1. The $80
million center, which will accommodate
almost twice as many faculty and
students as the previous computer
science facility, was created with a $32
million gift from alumnus Siebel and
support from the state of Illinois.
The 225,000-square-foot building unites
the faculty, researchers, graduate
and undergraduate students in the
department of computer science
under one roof for the first time. The
center’s leading edge digital technology
forms a “computing habitat,” a living
laboratory where physical and
digital infrastructures are coupled
with humans to create an integrated
ecosystem. The center, which is being
called the world’s most advanced
“sentient building,” utilizes UltraWideband technology to track people
and equipment in real time.
The Siebel Center will form one anchor
for a new information technology
quadrangle on north campus in
conjunction with a new building
that is under construction for the
National Center for Supercomputing
Applications.
photo by Bill Wiegand
Not only do the student athletes recognize the center as a helpful resource in their
college careers, but they also use it far more
than had been envisioned at its inception.
Still the size of a basic fraternity house, a
structure that generally houses about 50
people, the center must accommodate 550
“members.” This results in study areas and
computer terminals filling up rapidly on
any night.
“We are tight on space right now and
thatʼs a direct reflection of the number
of student athletes using the building,”
Michael said. “Thatʼs a great problem to
have.”
One unique and self-created side effect
of the extensive use that the center sees is
a distinct camaraderie developed between
athletes and teams of different sports. Michael, a UI basketball player in the early
ʼ90s, recognizes such opportunities are
created by having all of the student athletesʼ
academic resources under one roof.
“Now student athletes support other
student athletes at their events,” he said.
“Itʼs not just your small group of teammates you interact with, now you get to
know other people in other sports. And I
think thatʼs as important as anything we
provide here.” ◆
Gene that plays key role in replicating viruses halts inflammation
By Jim Barlow
News Bureau Staff Writer
Siebel visits campus
for grand opening
of new computer
science building
Academic support
dent athletes and coaches, to help students
learn about a topic that may be pertinent
or helpful to them in their post-collegiate
careers and lives.
There also are workshops for incoming
freshman athletes designed to acclimate
them to life as a college athlete.
“Weʼll cover alcohol and sexual responsibility, budgeting, dealing with the media
… anything that we think might help them
make a successful transition to the life of a
college athlete,” Kaler said.
Another unique feature to the center is
the 39-member Student Athlete Advisory
Board. With representatives from each of
the 19 UI sports, the board typically meets
once a month and functions as an outlet for
discussion of problems and concerns in the
life of a student athlete. This is one direct
way that the center strives not to create
more pressure in the student athletesʼ lives,
but to make the weighty obligations a student athlete has easier to carry.
“There are a lot of demands on the student athletes to begin with and we donʼt
want to add to that,” said Kaler. “We want to
help in their growth and their development
while they are here. So itʼs really important
that they see us as a resource for them as
well as to their team in any area.”
found that a 5.2 kb segment of vaccinia virus DNA containing six genes was responsible for inhibiting a key cellular transcription factor called NF kappa B (NF-kB).
NF-kB serves to turn on other host cell
genes involved in anti-viral immune responses and inflammation.
The researchers then sought to determine
what specific genes in the segment inhibit
NF-kB activation. To carry out the study,
they introduced individual genes from the
5.2kb segment into a mutant poxvirus vector that activates NF-kB.
They infected human and rabbit cell
lines with the new recombinant viruses
and detected NF-kB activity levels. They
found that the recombinant virus containing the introduced K1L gene prevented
degradation of the cellular inhibitor of NFkB, therefore inhibiting NF-kBʼs ability to
ignite immune responses.
Since the 1980s it was known that K1L
was necessary for vaccinia virus replication. The additional function of K1L, as
determined in the new study, suggests that
poxviruses may need to turn NF-kB on and
off at crucial times to regulate replication.
Understanding the molecular machinery
involved may make it possible to eventually manufacture safer vaccines for smallpox and vaccinia-based vaccines for HIV
by specifically manipulating genes, Shisler
said.
Because the K1L gene inhibited NFkB activation in numerous cell lines
tested, it suggests that its activity is
global. Since this study was completed,
the researchers subsequently have found
a second protein that inhibits NF-kB,
suggesting there may be multiple genes
at work, Shisler said.
“These viral proteins are present in
smallpox, monkey pox and many other
poxes, and they are very homologous,” she
said. “If we know how these proteins function, we can start figuring out why smallpox
and monkey pox cause disease.”
The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of
Muscatine, Iowa, funded the research. ◆
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T
he John Philip Sousa collection on
the Urbana-Champaign campus is
marching to the beat of a different
drummer, and by all appearances, it is a
quick march.
The drummer in this case is an archivist, Scott Schwartz. On board as
the new Sousa archivist since last fall,
Schwartz has wasted little time in reorganizing Sousaʼs large collection at
Illinois and organizing an ambitious celebration of and for the beloved American
band leader-musician-composer known
as “The March King.”
In five months, Schwartz has reenergized, refocused and renamed the
archives – a major band music collection
and museum. The new incarnation is
called the Sousa Archives and Center for
American Music. Schwartz also is well
into plans for a monthlong celebration of
American music in November in honor
of the 150th anniversary of Sousaʼs
birth.
An archivist and classical guitarist,
Schwartz also is an author with wideranging interests. He has written extensively on the business and music practices of Duke Ellington and on the music
and culture of the Appalachian serpentand fire-handling believers of eastern
Kentucky. Previously at the Smithsonian Institutionʼs National Museum of
American History, Schwartz said he sees
the new job as “an opportunity to grow
a program from the ground up, to turn a
diamond in the rough into a world-class
archive and repository.”
His plan is to expand the Sousa collection from “what might have been
described as a shrine to Sousaʼs legacy,
instruments and papers, into a vital
repository.” He also wants to use the
revitalized repository as a base from
which to “show the breadth of American
music.”
Although ambitious, these ideas are
do-able. Schwartz discovered that Illinois has hidden treasures in “three major
music collections”: wind band material – the Sousa Archives being the core;
electronic and computer music; and “an
incredible ethnomusicology collection.”
“These three collections,” Schwartz
said, “make us truly unique, and are the
reason why we now have a mission statement that defines us as collecting American music and documenting the legacy
and heritage in these three areas.”
Schwartz said he believes that “being an outsider who has represented a
national and international perspective”
at the National Museum of American
History has helped him see the various
pieces of the puzzle – that is, the music
collection strengths at Illinois – and how
they could be put together to make a
world-class center for American music.
“Thatʼs the reason they brought me
here. Thatʼs the reason I moved my
family – and my sailboat – from the
Chesapeake.”
Schwartz already has taken several
steps toward realizing his goals, the first
step being to begin developing close
working collaborations with people
across campus.
“The School of Music, the Library,
University Bands, Intercollegiate Athletics and many other units, divisions and
schools across campus will have to work
together if we are going to create a center
for American music,” Schwartz said.
Similarly, Schwartz has begun developing collaborative relationships with
the other major U.S. music repositories
that document American music. He believes that this kind of linkage eventually
will lead to a sharing of resources among
archives, museums and research centers
both within and outside Illinois, including
the Library of Congress and the National
Museum of American History.
“The idea is to become a confederation,
so to speak,” Schwartz said. “We canʼt
– and shouldnʼt – try to collect all aspects of
American music. That canʼt – and shouldnʼt
– be done by any single repository. Sharing
is the name of the game.”
Already, Schwartz and his staff – three
graduate students and three undergraduates
– are inventorying and processing Sousa
holdings and redesigning the Web site. He
also is planning the physical renovation of
the archive and small museum, including
the creation of a researcher-friendly reading room.
Moreover, he is tapping friends and colleagues across campus and the country to
help put together a first-rate Sousa Sesquicentennial Celebration in November.
The timing couldnʼt be better, Schwartz
said. November also is American Music
Month, “so the Sousa Sesquicentennial will
be a celebration of Americaʼs music.”
Already booked are Illinoisʼ University
Band, which will re-create a Sousa concert;
the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, a concert and one-day residency to
give master classes; Alan Jabbour, the past
director of the Library of Congress Folklife
Center, the keynote lecture on preserving
Americaʼs music legacy; Alison Brown, a
Grammy award winner for the five-string
banjo, and Andrea Zonn, recently named
one of country musicʼs top 10 acts, a talk
on women in music and a performance on
“the music mama taught me”; Sousa and
American music exhibits and displays at
the National Museum of American History
and three sites on the UI campus.
“So weʼve got jazz, weʼve got traditional, weʼve got wind band, and Iʼd love
to see us connect with a gospel group to
highlight a part of Americaʼs religious music heritage,” Schwartz said. “Our intent is
By Andrea Lynn
News Bureau Staff Writer
photo by Bill Wiegand
American music Archivist Scott Schwartz is reorganizing the library’s
John Philip Sousa collection and band archives, which he has renamed the
Sousa Archives and Center for American Music. Schwartz plans to expand the
collection into a vital repository representative of the breadth of American
music. He also is organizing a monthlong celebration for November, which is
American Music Month, to mark the 150th anniversary of Sousa’s birth.
to illustrate the incredibly diversified nature
of Americaʼs music. And what we donʼt get
this year, weʼll get next year.”
Schwartz said he also would like his colleagues across the country to follow suit,
SOUSA
AND
THE UI
at Illinois?
The answer
The UI holds 74 percent is friendship
of the extant Sousa materi- and profesals. The collection includes sional admioriginal scores and parts,
ration.
published music and manuIn the
scripts, personal papers,
early 1900s,
photographs, programs,
Sousa struck
news clippings, broadsides, up what would become a
memorabilia and one of
30-year friendship with
Sousaʼs batons, a pair of his A.A. Harding, Illinoisʼ first
white kid gloves, which he director of bands.
always wore while conductAccording to Paul
ing, his music stand and
Bierley, the primary Sousa
podium.
biographer, Sousa greatly
Why are Sousaʼs papers admired Hardingʼs work
and believed that “the
University of Illinois Band
was the best college band
in the world.” Sousa even
composed a “University
of Illinois March” in 1929
and performed it on the
Illinois campus the next
year; on that occasion he
was made an honorary
conductor of Illinoisʼ concert band.
Sousa promised Harding he would bequeath
most of his band music
library to Illinois, and following his death in March
of 1932, his widow kept
that promise: 18,000
pounds of music in 39
trunks were delivered to
the campus.
Among the manuscripts
UI Sousa Archives for Band Research
are the band parts for
Sousaʼs Christmas Day
By Andrea Lynn
News Bureau Staff Writer
“so this becomes a huge national effort
– and all on the anniversary of Sousaʼs
birth. How much more American can you
get? Sousa and America and American
music.” ◆
1896 composition “The
Stars and Stripes Forever,”
which 101 years later
would be declared the national march of the United
States.
The Sousa Archives and
Center also has a good selection of band instruments
and uniforms, Native
American instruments and
some unidentified instruments.
The collection, in the
Harding Band Building
and under the aegis of the
University Library, has
grown to include the music, instruments and artifacts of many former Sousa
band members, including
first cornetist Herbert L.
Clarke and vocal soloist
Virginia Root.
Sousaʼs biographer
described Sousa as “an
incredible genius” and
“truly an American phenomenon.”
“He was to the march
what Johann Strauss was to
the waltz,” Bierley wrote.
Over his lifetime, Sousa
composed 137 marches
– including “The Washington Post March” and
“Semper Fidelis,” later
adopted by the Marine
Corps. He also wrote 15
operettas, five overtures,
11 suites, 11 waltzes, 13
dances, 28 fantasies and
322 arrangements.
The son of immigrants
and the third of 10 children, Sousa was born Nov.
6, 1854, in Washington,
D.C. When he was 13,
he tried to run away from
home to join a circus band,
but his father apprenticed
him to the U.S. Marine
Band. At 24, Sousa became leader of that band,
and held the job for 12
years. Sousaʼs band, which
stirred hearts for 39 years,
made annual transcontinental tours from 1892 to
1931, four tours of Europe
and a world tour in 19101911. But being a concert
band, they only marched
seven times.
Sousa also wrote seven
books. He was an athlete
who adored baseball, a
husband, father and selfmade millionaire. Sousa
died on March 6, 1932, in
Reading, Pa., following a
band rehearsal. The last
piece he conducted was
“The Stars and Stripes
Forever.” ◆
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Roger Ebert to donate papers to UI Library
New Sousa archivist revitalizing collection, planning monthlong musicfest
By Andrea Lynn
News Bureau Staff Writer
InsideIllinois
May 6, 2004
Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning
film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, will
give his papers to his alma mater, the UIʼs
Urbana-Champaign campus.
Ebert, widely regarded as the most visible and the most influential U.S. film critic,
announced his intention to leave his papers
to Illinoisʼ Library at the kickoff of his
sixth annual “Overlooked Film Festival” in
Champaign on April 21.
An Urbana native, Ebert earned a
bachelorʼs degree in journalism and communications at Illinois in 1964. He also did
graduate work in English at Illinois.
Ebertʼs papers will be housed in the
University Archives, which also is home to
the papers of many UI alumni who went on
to great achievement, including Olympics
administrator Avery Brundage, playwrightscreenwriter Samson Raphaelson, journalist James “Scotty” Reston and sculptor
Loredo Taft.
Ebert began his career in journalism
in earnest at age 15, as a sportswriter for
the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette. He
continued writing for that paper during his
junior and senior years in high school and
his freshman year at Illinois, moving from
sports to the city desk and later to the state
desk.
In the summer of 1961, Ebert joined Illinoisʼ student paper, the Daily Illini, writing
a weekly column and working one night a
week as night editor. In his junior year at
Illinois, he served as news editor, and in his
senior year, as editor-in-chief.
In 1967 – the same year he became film
critic for the Sun-Times – Ebert published
a book titled “Illini Century: One Hundred
Years of Campus Life,” (UI Press). The
book is a social history of the universityʼs
first century, based on the files of the Daily
Illini, which also are in the University Archives.
Ebert began his movie review television
show with co-host Gene Siskel in 1976, and
Ebert has been nominated for an Emmy
many times during his career. He won the
Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1975 for his
film reviews the previous year.
Ebert is the author of several books,
many about the cinema, including “A Kiss
is Still a Kiss,” an anthology of his reviews.
He also has written screenplays, including
the screenplay for the cult classic, “Beyond
the Valley of the Dolls” (1970). Ebert has
contributed to many of the countryʼs top
magazines and newspapers. He also is a
lecturer and an artist.
Details about the contents of the new
Ebert collection, as well as plans for acknowledging his gift, will be announced at
a later date.
According to university archivist William Maher, who will process and oversee
the new collection, the University Archives
already owns some Ebert material. In 2001,
the film critic gave the Archives some 22
cubic feet of one-inch videotapes of “Siskel
and Ebert,” the syndicated series he and
Siskel hosted co-hosted for more than 20
years and under various program names,
and of “Ebert & Roper,” the series he and
Richard Roper currently co-host. Siskel
died in 1999.
Ebert documents – in the form of personal and business-related correspondence
– can be found in the Archivesʼ Daniel Curley Papers. Curley was an English professor at Illinois, an acclaimed writer and the
editor of the universityʼs literary magazine
Ascent from 1975 to his death in 1988. He
also edited the magazineʼs precursor, Accent, for several years.
Curley was Ebertʼs professor at Illinois
and mentor, and later, friend. In 1986, they
photo by Thompson-McClellan
Ebert collection Roger Ebert (center), a UI alumnus and Pulitzer Prize-winning
film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, talks with guests at a reception held in his
honor hosted by UI president James J. Stukel and his wife, Joan. Ebert announced at
the event his plans to donate a collection of his papers to the University Library. The
event also kicked off the sixth annual Roger Ebert Overlooked Film Festival. Jack
Valenti (right), president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, and
Darren Ng, creator of the short film, “The Scapegoat,” were festival guests.
co-wrote the book “The Perfect London
Walk,” which was based on strolls they
took around London in the mid-ʼ60s when
Ebert visited the Curleys, then on leave in
London. The book is still in print.
Maher believes that Ebertʼs correspondence yet to come will be “a great boon” to
researchers and writers, and Maher said he
hopes that Ebertʼs papers will include material from the period “when he was shifting
from a news reporter to a critic.”
“His correspondence with Dan Curley in
the early 1960s as he first experienced London and South Africa and then struggled to
find a niche in Chicago is quite fascinating,” Maher said. Ebert spent a year at the
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University of Cape Town, on a reading program through a Rotary fellowship.
Curley, who in his correspondence
variously addressed Ebert as “Roger,” “The
Jolly Roger” and “Rajah,” once described
his protégé in the ʼ60s as “the finest young
man I have met in the past 10 years. He has
personal and intellectual qualities which
would make for success in any field he
chose to enter.
“He was in my classes at all levels of
undergraduate study, literature and writing,” Curley wrote. “I could well wish that
more of my colleagues were men of his
alert mind.” ◆
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May 6, 2004
Faculty and staff members honored for excellence in teaching and advising
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (faculty members)
Stephen P. Altaner
geology
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
(instructional staff members)
Jeffrey S. Moore
chemistry
Robert M. Skirvin
natural resources and
environmental sciences
Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching
(faculty members)
Campus Award for
Excellence in
Undergraduate Teaching
(graduate teaching
assistants)
■ Eric A. Dunn, electrical and computer
engineering
■ Rebecca C. Harris, political science
■ Marina P. Levina, Institute of
Communications Research
■ Roberto Sanchez, history
■ Jody L. Shipka, English
John David Anderson
English
Ricardo B. Uribe
electrical and computer engineering
book corner
‘Remarkable people’ who shaped the UI featured
Gail E. Hawisher
English
Richard W. Burkhardt Jr.
history
Scott D. Johnson
human resource education
Paula A. Treichler
Institute of Communications
Research
Excellence in Off-Campus Teaching
photo by Bill Wiegand
University Distinguished Teacher/Scholars
photo by Bill Wiegand
F
ourteen UI faculty members,
three academic professionals
and five teaching assistants
were honored for excellence
in teaching and advising April 26 at the
annual Instructional Awards banquet in
the Illini Union.
Faculty winners of the Campus
Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching are Stephen P. Altaner,
geology; Richard W. Burkhardt Jr., history; Gail E. Hawisher, English; Jeffrey
S. Moore, chemistry; and Robert M.
Skirvin, natural resources and environmental sciences.
Instructional staff winners of the
award are John David Anderson, English, and Ricardo B. Uribe, electrical and
computer engineering.
Graduate teaching assistants who received the award are Eric A. Dunn, electrical and computer engineering; Rebecca C. Harris, political science; Marina
P. Levina, Institute of Communications
Research; Roberto Sanchez, history; and
Jody L. Shipka, English.
Scott D. Johnson, human resource
education, and Paula A. Treichler, Institute of Communications Research,
will receive the Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional
Teaching.
The awards recognize professors and
graduate teaching assistants who display consistently excellent performance
in the classroom, take innovative approaches to teaching, positively affect
the lives of their students, and make other contributions to improved instruction,
including influencing the curriculum.
Faculty members who are selected
for the award receive $5,000 and a
$3,000 raise; instructional staff members
receive $4,000 and a $1,500 raise; graduate teaching assistants receive $3,500
and a $1,000 increase in their stipends.
Others honored at the banquet:
Bruce Litchfield, professor of agricultural engineering, and Thomas
Schwandt, professor of educational
psychology, were recognized as Distinguished Teacher/Scholars. The program
promotes excellence in teaching by honoring and supporting outstanding faculty
members who take an active role in
enhancing teaching and learning on the
UI campus. During the past year, these
honorees utilized their skills to mentor
other faculty members. They will retain
the title of University Distinguished
Teacher/Scholar throughout their Illinois
careers.
Donald Briskin, professor of natural
resources and environmental sciences,
and Neil D. Pearson, professor of finance, received the Award for Excellence in Off-Campus Teaching, which
provides $4,000 to each recipient.
Dorothy Espelage, professor of
educational psychology, received the
Campus Award for Excellence in Guiding Undergraduate Research, a $2,000
award designed to foster and reward excellence in involving and guiding undergraduate students in scholarly research.
Kathryn Martensen, assistant director
of the LAS General Curriculum in the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
and Donna F. Nichols, professor of
mechanical and industrial engineering, received the Campus Award for
Excellence in Advising Undergraduate
Students, which provides $2,000 to each
recipient.
Shelly J. Schmidt, professor of food
science and human nutrition, received
the Campus Award for Innovation in
Undergraduate Instruction Using Educational Technologies. The award provides
$2,000 to the recipient. ◆
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Perhaps any large public research uni- Genius: The Life and Science of John
versity could tell the same basic story, but Bardeen” (Joseph Henry Press, 2002).
it is unlikely that any other telling would
The book also makes clear the lengths
be richer or deeper.
to which the great baritone William WarfThe story is in fact 21 stories – historical ield, affectionately called “Uncle Bill,”
vignettes drawn from one
went to welcome, inspire
university over an entire
and nurture music school
century – which together
students and colleagues.
reveal “how knowledge is
“There are endless stoproduced and how great
ries recounting his good
public universities come
deeds,” wrote Ollie Watts
to be,” writes Richard
Davis, who studied with
Herman, UI provost, in his
Warfield and has been a
preface to the new book,
professor of voice at Il“No Boundaries: Univerlinois since 1987.
sity of Illinois Vignettes”
Katherine Sharpʼs Her(UI Press).
culean efforts and vision
Herman, who began
to hew a library school
working at the university
and a major library out of
in 1998, commissioned
the Illinois prairie in the
the book after hearing
1890s also is told. Sharp
story after story about “the
was a protégé of “the re“No Boundaries: University of
remarkable people who Illinois Vignettes,” edited by Lillian doubtable” Melvil Dewey,
Hoddeson (UI Press)
fashioned this institution
and often worked with
across the generations,
“uncontrolled
energy,”
across so many fields of learning, and who wrote Donald Krummel, professor emericontinue to remake it in new ways.”
tus of library science and of music. “Not
“There is a nobility of purpose here and until well into the 1960s were any other
a legacy to be preserved and built upon,” major American academic libraries headed
Herman wrote about the Urbana campus.
by women.”
The impression “No Boundaries”
The title of the book is taken from
leaves is that Illinois always has been a something Isabel Bevier wrote after visitmagnet for visionaries and risk-takers, as ing the UI campus in 1900, to interview for
Herman says, and always has been a cradle the new position of professor of household
of academic invention, creativity, pioneer- science.
ing – even from its earliest days and across
“I thought I had never seen so flat
all decades.
and muddy a place: no trees, no hills, no
The new book, edited by Lillian Hod- boundaries of any kind.”
deson, a professor of history at Illinois,
But, as Paula Treichler, director of
contains a few familiar stories, freshly re- Illinoisʼ Institute of Communications
told, and many previously unknown tales, Research, wrote in her essay on Bevier,
newly revealed. Most of the contributors “the place had character, and as Bevier
are current or emeritus Illinois faculty considered all that she had seen and heard
members; all of their subjects are Illinois at Illinois, the landscape became for her a
faculty and staff members, now deceased. powerful metaphor for the institution she
“This is a book about people whose was about to join: its openness to new
work shaped, and was shaped by, the Uni- ideas, its support for co-education, and its
versity of Illinois,” Hoddeson wrote.
commitment to the land-grant mission that
“This book is also a kind of environ- linked theory to practice, learning to labor,
mental history in that it deals with the role and science to the problems of the world
of ʻplaceʼ in a universityʼs production of where men and women live.”
knowledge, culture, and well-educated
Other profiles include Roger Adams,
people.”
the powerhouse head of chemistry; OsIn the book, enriched with photographs, car Lewis, the anthropologist of poverty;
readers are reminded of John Bardeenʼs Charles Osgood, the pioneering psychotravails and triumphs on the road to win- linguist; and Stuart Pratt Sherman and J.
ning two Nobel prizes while at Illinois. Kerker Quinn, who together, helped put
Hoddeson, who specializes in the history the young campus “on the American literof 20th century science and technology, ary map,” wrote Bruce Michelson, a UI
wrote the Bardeen essay and the introduc- English professor and contributor to “No
tion to the book. She is the author of sever- Boundaries.”
al books, including the most recent, “True
– Andrea Lynn, News Bureau
www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/0504campushistory.html
Bruce Litchfield
agricultural engineering
Excellence in Guiding
Undergraduate Research
Thomas Schwandt
educational psychology
Donald Briskin
natural resources and
environmental sciences
Excellence in Advising Undergraduate Students
Neil D. Pearson
finance
Innovation in Undergraduate Instruction
Using Education Technologies
HEALTH ALLIANCE, FROM PAGE 1
other legislators to voice their concerns in
an April 29 e-mail message to faculty and
staff members.
The UIʼs Benefits Centers at the Urbana
and Springfield campuses reportedly received lots of calls from people who were
upset by the announcement that Health Alliance would be dropped.
UI members of Health Alliance will
have the planʼs coverage through June 30
but will have to pick another carrier effective July 1, unless the decision to drop
Health Alliance is reversed. Alternative
health plans for Urbana campus employees
would be PersonalCare Insurance of Illinois, Quality Care and HealthLink Open
Access plan. ◆
Important Numbers
Dorothy Espelage
educational psychology
Kathryn Martensen
assistant director of LAS General
Curriculum
Donna F. Nichols
professor of mechanical and
industrial engineering
Shelly J. Schmidt
food science and human nutrition
Health Alliance 217-337-8000
Central Management Services
Director Michael Rumman
217-782-2141
CMS Group Insurance Office
217-782-2548 or 800-442-1300
Gov. Rod Blagojevich
Citizens assistance 217-782-0244
Office of the governor: 312-814-1943
www.illinois.gov/gov/
contactthegovernor.cfm
Senator Rick Winkel (52nd district)
217-782-2507
rickwinkel@rickwinkel.com
Rep. Naomi Jakobsson (103rd district)
217-558-1009
Other legislators:
Senators: www.legis.state.il.us/senate
Representatives:
www.legis.state.il.us/house
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May 6, 2004
May 6, 2004
Disciplines unite to improve East St. Louis neighborhood
By Melissa Mitchell
News Bureau Staff Writer
Although they typically function independently from each other, architects,
landscape architects and urban planners
sometimes cross paths while engaged in
community development or urban renewal
projects
But rarely do they begin working together as a team from the outset, according
to Lynne Dearborn, a UI architecture professor. “So many of the firms Iʼve worked
for donʼt work that way,” she said. “Instead,
we find things out late in the project …
things that go wrong, that end up costing
more money to resolve.” With more communication among all the players early in
the process, such cost overruns might be
avoided, she said.
Helping students of architecture, landscape architecture and urban and regional
planning appreciate how professionals
from all three distinct, but interrelated
disciplines, can benefit from a more cooperative approach was just one of many
lessons to emerge from a course Dearborn
co-developed and co-taught with urban and
regional planning professor Stacy Harwood and landscape architecture professor
Laura Lawson. Clients, too, may be better
served by such arrangements, the students
learned.
The studio-based course, “Envisioning
the Future in the South End Neighborhood,” recently received one of two 2004
Education Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects. The award was
presented at the annual meeting of the
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture in Miami in March. The AIA award
recognized the course as “an exceptional
model of instructional and educational
excellence in classroom, studio, community-based service learning, or laboratory
work.”
The course was offered during the
spring 2002 and 2003 semesters, under the
auspices of the universityʼs East St. Louis
Action Research Project. Founded in 1990
and administered by the UI College of Fine
and Applied Arts, ESLARP promotes the
revitalization of distressed areas of East St.
Louis by creating partnerships between university students and faculty members, and
members of neighborhood organizations.
The university and community groups work
cooperatively to identify problems and apply design and planning solutions that best
address the needs of targeted neighborhoods.
“This city has dramatic needs for technical assistance and no existing city-level
agency to provide needed design, planning
or community development support for
non-profits,” Dearborn, Harwood and Lawson noted, adding that most municipalities
have their own planning staffs. Over the
years, they said, one thing that has become
apparent to ESLARP faculty members is
that the “complex, nested relationships
within East St. Louisʼ neighborhoods require very close interdisciplinary collaboration.”
Lawson explained how those layered,
complex problems require coordinated solutions involving more than one discipline:
“The South End neighborhood is the
traditionally African American neighborhood of East St. Louis from the period of
residential segregation. It was developed
with narrow lots for shotgun-style houses.
Now, two-thirds of the lots are vacant.
The community wants new development
to happen, but the lots are not amenable to
current lifestyles. Proposals for wider lots
and new homes have implications for street
and sidewalk design. In addition, there is a
problem of illegal dumping on vacant land.
To solve those kinds of problems calls for
multifaceted solutions involving planning
and design, as well as legal and policy solutions that no one discipline can handle.”
Two primary goals for the studio-based course,
“Envisioning the Future in the South End Neighborhood”:
“To provide technical assistance to the (East St. Louis)
South End New Development Organizations, with the
ultimate goal to produce a neighborhood plan proposal;
and to teach university students about community-based
design and planning.”
The teaching team developed two primary goals for the course: “to provide technical assistance to the South End New Development Organizations (SENDO), with the
ultimate goal to produce a neighborhood
plan proposal; and to teach university students about community-based design and
planning.”
Those goals were achieved, in part,
during class trips to East St. Louis, where
students surveyed residents, analyzed Census and other data, participated in work
weekends, met with SENDO members and
sought their input.
“The folks involved in SENDO made
this project possible,” Harwood said.
“They welcomed us into their homes and
churches.”
In the end, students from the 2003 class
delivered a planning document to SENDO
that serves as a working framework for
change. That document remains a “work
in progress,” according to Harwood, who
said ESLARP staff and research assistants
have facilitated the transition from planning
to implementation by using the planning
document to identify new projects, some of
which are under way in the neighborhood.
Dearborn, Harwood and Lawson acknowledged that the entire process of trying
to challenge students from separate disciplines to think and work outside the lines
was in and of itself a challenge – and more
time-consuming than theyʼd originally an-
ticipated. But some of the blood, sweat and
tears shed along the way was worth it in the
end, since students from each discipline
picked up insights that will be useful to
later as working professionals.
“Weʼre incredibly proud of what was accomplished,” Lawson said.
Some of those accomplishments went
beyond the courseʼs original goals, and
were more subtle. For instance, “architecture students were encouraged to contextualize their ideas at the street, neighborhood and city scale,” said Dearborn, who
noted that architects frequently work in a
vacuum, designing a structure without taking into consideration the bigger picture of
how that building fits into a community or a
neighborhood.
“Something else we all learned,” said
Harwood, “was that we began the course
speaking three different languages, and if
you include our community partner, thatʼs
four. Oftentimes we could not understand
each other even though we were saying
the same thing.” Just learning how to communicate more effectively will be a plus
for these students someday when they encounter colleagues from other disciplines in
professional settings, she said.
Detailed
information
about
the
course and the studentsʼ community
design plan for SENDO is available on
the Web at www.arch.uiuc.edu/events/news/
04_08_04. ◆
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A report on honors, awards, appointments and other outstanding achievements of faculty and staff members
communications
engineering
liberal arts and sciences
Cliff G. Christians, professor in the
Institute of Communications Research,
was recently honored by the Association
for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication. Christians won the 2004
Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence
in Research for distinguished research in
journalism/mass communication will be
presented at the associationʼs convention in
Toronto on Aug. 6. Christians will address
the Deutschmann Award Session on “Ethical Theory in Communication Research.”
The professional organization was founded
in 1912 by professors to promote excellence in journalism education at colleges
and universities in the United States.
A documentary by Jay Rosenstein, professor of journalism, will soon be broadcast
internationally. “In Whose Honor? American Indian Mascots in Sports” has been
licensed for three years to a television network in New Zealand, giving the independent film its first international broadcast audience. The film also recently was screened
at a film festival in Norway. Rosenstein
wrote, produced, directed and edited the
7-year-old documentary that focuses on the
debate regarding Chief Illiniwek and other
Indian sports symbols.
Brian DeMarco, professor of physics,
has received a 2004 Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval
Research, one of only 26 such awards given
in all branches of science and engineering
this year. The Young Investigator Award is
intended to honor outstanding new faculty
members at U.S. universities, to support
their research and to encourage their teaching and research careers. Award recipients
are selected on the basis of past performance and the quality and creativity of their
research proposals. DeMarco will use his
award to begin an experiment in quantum
control of trapped ultra-cold atoms.
Robert W. Ghrist, professor of mathematics, received the 2002 Presidential Early
Career Award for Scientists and Engineers,
the nationʼs highest honor for professionals
at the outset of their independent research
careers. Fifty-seven researchers were honored in a ceremony May 4.
The young scientists and engineers receive a five-year research grant to further
their study in support of critical government missions.
Eight federal departments and agencies
annually nominate scientists and engineers at
the start of their careers whose work shows
the greatest promise to benefit the nominating agencyʼs mission. Ghrist was nominated
by the National Science Foundation.
Eugene Giles, professor emeritus of
anthropology, was recently honored by the
American Academy of Forensic Science.
The academy awarded Giles the Physical
Anthropology Sectionʼs T. Dale Stewart
Award at its 56th annual scientific meeting,
held in February in Dallas. The award is
given for distinguished service in forensic
anthropology.
John Lynn, professor of history, gave
three invited lectures on constructing historical models at Ohio State University in
April. Also in April, he gave invited lectures to the School for Advanced Military
Studies and to the Command and General
Staff College, both at Fort Leavenworth in
Kansas. In March, he gave an invited lecture
at the Military Classics Society in Washington, D.C. Earlier this spring, he presented a
paper on the “Problems and Complexities
of a Cultural Approach to Military History”
at the Presidential Session of the American
Historical Association, and also a series
of lectures at the National Institute for
Defense Studies in Tokyo. On May 21, he
will give the keynote lecture at the annual
education
Mildred Trent, director of educational
career services, was awarded the Priscilla
A. Scotlan Award for Distinguished Service
by the American Association for Employment in Education at the associationʼs recent 70th national conference in San Diego.
This is the highest award given by the association and honors a member who has made
significant contributions to the organization
during several years. Trent was recognized
for excellence in leadership and service to
the profession and to the association.
fine and applied arts
Kimiko Gunji, director of Japan House,
has received the Foreign Ministerʼs Commendation from the foreign minister of Japan. The commendation recognizes meritorious service of individuals and groups who
promote friendly relations between Japan
and the world and to provide further public awareness and understanding for these
activities. Along with Gunji, nine other
individuals and organizations were honored
with this award in commemoration of the
150th anniversary of U.S.-Japan relations.
Robert I. Selby, associate director for
graduate studies in architecture, has been
elevated to the College of Fellows of The
American Institute of Architects. The College of Fellows was founded in 1952 by
the Institute to stimulate fellowship among
architects, promote the purposes of the
institute and advance the profession of architecture. With the exception of the Gold
Medal, it is the highest honor a member
can receive. Selby will be invested into
the College of Fellows at the 2004 national
convention on June 11 at the University of
Chicago.
meeting of the Society for Military History
in Washington, D.C., on the topic “Is There
Any Value in the Theory of a Western Way
of War?”
Brigit Pegeen Kelly and Jean Thompson, professors of English, have been
invited to teach and read at the Indiana
Universityʼs Writerʼs Conference on the
Bloomington campus from June 27 to July
2. Kelly will teach poetry workshops while
Thompson will lead fiction workshops.
ncsa
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications was awarded the Dell
Centers for Research Excellence Award by
computer company Dell Inc. on April 28.
Dellʼs president and chief operating officer,
Kevin Rollins, came to the UI campus to
present the award.
public safety
Sgt. Roy Acree was named Police Officer of the Year 2003 at the UI Police
Departmentʼs awards ceremony April 30.
Acree was nominated by his peers who
cited him for his outstanding leadership
qualities and his ability to inspire those
around him.
Officer Barb Robbins received the
Valor Award for aiding in the apprehension
of a homicide suspect.
Other UI award recipients:
Marksmanship:
Officers William
Smoot (first place), Jeff McCracken (second) and George Sandwick (third);
Cecil Coleman Award: Ilene Harned,
health educator, Counseling Center;
Citizen Commendations: John Horton,
assistant to head, crop sciences; and Rob
Russian;
Excellence in Community Policing
Award: Officers George Sandwick and
SEE ACHIEVEMENTS, PAGE 12
Technique uses humidifier to create nanocomposite materials
By James E. Kloeppel
News Bureau Staff Writer
In what may sound like a project from
a high school science fair, scientists are
using a household humidifier to create
porous spheres a hundred
times smaller than a red
blood cell. The technique
is a new and inexpensive
way to do chemistry using
sound waves, the researchers say.
In the home, ultrasonic
humidifiers are used to
raise humidity, reduce static electricity and
ease discomfort from the common cold or
cough. In the lab, UI chemists are using the
devices to make complex nanocomposite
materials that could prove useful as catalysts in applications ranging from refining
petroleum to making pharmaceuticals. The
procedure is both simple and efficient.
“Normally, the chemical effects of ultrasound (called sonochemistry) are due
to intense heating of small gas bubbles as
they collapse in an otherwise cold liquid,”
said Kenneth S. Suslick, a William H. and
Janet Lycan Professor of Chemistry at Illinois. “But in this case we are looking at
using ultrasound to make very small liquid
droplets and heating them while they are
separated from one another in a heated
gas. Itʼs the inverse of what we do sonochemically.”
To create their novel nanocomposite
materials, Suslick, graduate student Won
Hyuk Suh and research fellow Yuri Didenko start with a solution of chemical reactants and surface-stabilizing surfactants.
The solution is turned into a mist using a
high-frequency ultrasound generator – an
ordinary household ultrasonic humidifier
the researchers purchased at a local discount store.
The resulting droplets are carried by a
gas stream into a furnace, where the solvent
evaporates and the chemicals coalesce into
inorganic-organic composite materials nanometers
in size. The particles are
carried to a second, hotter
furnace, where the organic
part burns away, leaving
behind porous inorganic
nanospheres. These nanospheres are then trapped
in a liquid and collected by centrifuge. The
entire formation process takes only a few
seconds.
“Each tiny droplet serves as its own microscopic chemical reactor,” Suh said. “The
micron-size mist results in particles a few
hundred nanometers in size.”
Among the materials the chemists have
created with their ultrasound induced mists
are porous nanospheres that could be useful for catalytic reactions, and encapsulated
nanoparticles with potential drug delivery
applications. They also have formed metal
balls within ceramic shells, reminiscent of
decorative, hand-carved concentric ivory
spheres from China. The nested nanoballs
could prove useful as molecular sieves.
“Because the outer sphere is porous, we
can selectively dissolve some of the core,
which frees the inner ball from the shell,”
said Suh, who will describe and present
early results from the pyrolysis generated
porous nanospheres at the 227th American
Chemical Society national meeting, which
was held March 28-April 1 in Anaheim,
Calif.
The work was funded by the National
Science Foundation. ◆
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Chemical catalyst UI chemist Kenneth S. Suslick, a William H. and Janet Lycan
Professor of Chemistry, and his colleagues are using ultrasonic household humidifiers
to make complex nanocomposite materials that could prove useful as catalysts in
applications ranging from refining petroleum to making pharmaceuticals. Graduate
student Won Hyuk Suh presented early findings from their work, which is funded
by the National Science Foundation, at the 227th national meeting of the American
Chemical Society.
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By Melissa Mitchell
News Bureau Staff Writer
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for the deck. In turn, that helps us fight rate
escalations,” said Thomas Skaggs, coordinator for capital development in the Facilities and Services parking department.
In addition, a $5 million renovation
program for the parking decks at Fifth and
Daniel streets and Sixth and John streets
begins in mid-May. The deck at Fifth and
Daniel will be refurbished this summer, with
completion expected in late August, and the
deck at Sixth and John will be renovated
during summer 2005. The refurbishments
will include brighter lighting, windowed
stairwells and other safety enhancements
in both structures. Permit holders will be
relocated to nearby lots temporarily during
renovations.
To cope with some of the traffic congestion on campus, administrators also are
investigating proximity-based parking programs, a system used at some other institutions whereby permit fees are based upon
the distance between usersʼ workplaces and
the facilities they choose for parking.
A presentation on proximity-based
parking programs by Pam Voitik, director
of campus services division for Facilities
and Services, at the March 29 UrbanaChampaign Senate meeting prompted two
resolutions from senate committees and
much debate at the April 26 meeting. A
resolution sponsored by the Senate Committee on Faculty Benefits called for freezing parking rates at current levels, rejected
the implementation of a proximity-based
plan and proposed differential rates based
on usersʼ salaries and whether they park
in structures or open lots. After debate, the
resolution was remanded to the faculty benefits committee for clarification.
The Senate Committee on Campus Operations also presented a resolution, which
was amended during debate and ultimately
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Eric Vogt;
Team Excellence in Community Policing Award: Tim Hetrick, Tony Micele,
Robert Murphy, Jose Ortiz and Eric Vogt;
Deborah K. Kloth, secretary, Planning,
Construction and Maintenance; Daniel R.
McCue, business intelligence specialist,
PCM; Larry S. Bonebrake, R. Daniel
Davis and John G. Ragland, construction
project coordinators, PCM;
Division Commendation: Officer Tim
Hetrick;
Merit Award: Officer William Smoot;
Director of Public Safety Recognition
Awards: Officers Eric Cook, Todd Short;
Lt. Jeff Christensen; Mark Briggs, campus risk manager; Vicki Strom, secretary,
Public Safety; and Dick Justice, associate
dean of students, Housing;
Civilian Employee of the Year Award:
Jennifer Payan, public safety telecommunicator.
Service recognition and student honors
also were awarded.
voted down, that demanded administration
obtain Senate input on parking operations,
including concurrence with the programʼs
budget, rates and penalties and decisions to
usurp parking lots for new construction.
With space for growth limited on much
of the campus, parking lots often have been
the most feasible sites for new construction,
and over the past five to 10 years more than
a thousand parking spaces have been consumed by development, most recently the
lot west of Bevier Hall where the Institute
for Genomic Biology is being built.
Over the next few years, several hundred
more spaces probably will be consumed as
the campus continues to grow, Skaggs
said. The parking master plan, which was
developed in 2001, calls for construction
of a parking deck in central campus in the
vicinity of the C8 and C9 open lots along
Sixth Street between Chalmers Street and
Armory Avenue; the university is in the
early stages of planning.
“Our hope is to build something around
2006 and 2007,” Kelly said. “That may not
happen if the economy doesnʼt pick up. If
the campus tells us thereʼs no way weʼre
going to be able to raise rates 12-13 percent,
(then it) wonʼt happen for a couple of years
or itʼs going to be put off for a long time. If
these decks donʼt happen, and they still take
the surface lots away from us on the core of
campus, that means we wonʼt have parking.
Thatʼs the ultimate problem weʼre facing.”
The parking master plan indicated that at
the time of the study in 2001 the campusʼs
parking supply was “barely adequate in
most sections,” with about 9,700 spaces
available and a demand for more than
11,340 spaces.
The plan also indicated that campus
growth would necessitate the addition of
5,088 more parking spaces by 2010. ◆
social work
Mark Testa, director of the Children
and Family Research Center, was invited to
present a poster at the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Researchʼs 10th
anniversary poster session and reception
on Capitol Hill in March. Testa was one of
15 researchers chosen to address the broad
areas of social work research. His poster,
“Illinois Subsidized Guardianship Waiver
Demonstration: An Experiment in Family
Permanence,” presented information on the
transferal of 6,822 Illinois children from
state custody to private guardianship.
university library
Priscilla C. Yu, professor of library administration, delivered a lecture, “A Crown
Jewel: The University of Illinois Library
System,” at the National Library of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, on March 29. She was
invited by the director general of the National Library of Malaysia and the president
of the Library Association of Malaysia. ◆
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the Beckman Institute along University Avenue, is scheduled to open by early June.
The six-level deck adds more than 1,500 parking spaces to the supply on campus and
contains more than 20,000 square feet of commercial space, which will be leased to
tenants, such as retailers and restaurants, to help defray construction costs.
ore than a quarter of a century
after they first proposed outfitting New Yorkʼs Central Park
with 1,000 fluttering, saffroncolored fabric panels, artists Christo and
Jeanne-Claude will at last see an even
grander, larger-scale version of their dream
realized next February.
The park wonʼt be transformed for several more months, but a drum roll of sorts for
the massive outdoor art project is sounding
already inside the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, located on park grounds. On view at
the museum through July 25 is a prelude exhibition, “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The
Gates, Central Park, New York, ” featuring
drawings, collages and other preparatory
studies, as well as a sample of one of the
gates. Also generating advance interest in
“The Gates” project is a new book by Jonathan Fineberg, the Gutgsell Professor of Art
History at the UI.
The book, “Christo and Jeanne-Claude:
On the Way to the Gates, Central Park, New
York City” (Yale University Press), doubles
as the exhibition catalog and includes photographs by Wolfgang Volz, and reproductions of collages and drawings associated
with the project, many of which have not
been published previously. Fineberg also
documents the many obstacles the artists
had to negotiate – beginning in 1979 – before city officials finally granted them permission to mount their monumental work in
the park. Weather permitting, “The Gates”
will be installed Feb. 12, and will remain on
view through the end of the month.
“ ʻThe Gatesʼ is a remarkable story of artistic vision, persistence in the face of long
odds, years of hard work, and a creative collaboration that seems to grow more interdependent with time,” Fineberg wrote.
“This temporary work of art will consist
of about 7,500 custom-made rectangular
frames, 16 feet tall, placed at approximately
12-foot intervals and spanning 23 miles of
walkways in Central Park. In February, the
coldest part of the New York winter, when
the light tends to be sharp and clear and
all the
leaves
h a v e
fallen
from the
trees,
the thousands of
shimmering
panels
will be
the most
colorful
Jonathan Fineberg
sight in
the landscape, and every viewer will see them in a
different way.”
In addition to focusing on “The Gates,”
Finebergʼs book relates the larger story of
two unconventional artists with a shared vision that has caused people the world over
to question and redefine traditional concepts
and definitions of art. In the bookʼs first 60
pages of introductory text, Fineberg treats
readers to a richly illustrated history of the
coupleʼs work leading up to “The Gates”
project – from Christoʼs early wrapped bot-
“The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City,” Collage detail (2000)
Unconventional artistry “The Gates,” a temporary work of art that will consist of about 7,500 custom-made rectangular frames,
16 feet tall, placed at approximately 12-foot intervals and spanning 23 miles of walkways in Central Park, is the vision of artists
Christo and Jeanne-Claude. A new book by Jonathan Fineberg, the Gutgsell Professor of Art History at the UI, focuses on the project
but also tells the larger story of two unconventional artists with a shared vision that has caused people the world over to question
and redefine traditional concepts and definitions of art. The book, published by Yale University Press, doubles as the exhibition catalog for a show on view through July 25 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. That exhibition is a prelude to the Christos’ February
2005 installation in New York’s Central Park.
tles, packages and oil cans, to the coupleʼs
more elaborate, highly orchestrated projects in which they directed the wrapping
of major buildings and even a section of
the Australian coast. Other projects documented in the book – which have generated
considerable public interest – include “Valley Curtain, Grand Hogback, Rifle, Colorado, 1970-72”; “Running Fence, Sonoma
and Marin Counties, California,” 1972-76;
Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater
Miami, Florida,” 1980-83; and “The Umbrellas, Japan-USA, 1984-91.”
Additional insights on what motivates,
inspires and even frustrates the artists
emerge through the bookʼs transcripts of
interviews with Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
Fineberg draws out lively, behind-thescenes stories about the evolution of various projects, as well as explanations of how
and why the artists insist on financing their
work entirely through self-generated funds.
The most recent conversation took place
last year; the first, in 1977, when Christo
visited the Illinois campus, at Finebergʼs
invitation, to participate in a lecture series
organized to celebrate the centenary of the
School of Art and Design.
“Iʼve been interviewing him for nearly
30 years,” said Fineberg, whose previous books include “Christo: Surrounded
Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami natural environments in which they are
Florida, 1980-83,” published in 1986. “On installed. Yet, the art-history scholar in him
the Way to the Gates,” he said, is “the most detects a common thread.
comprehensive” book written to date about
“Works of art are important for society,”
the artists and their work.
he said, “because they get us to examine
And much has been written over the things emerging in our culture before we
years in both the popular and art presses have words with which to discuss them.
about the eccentric couple whoʼve elevated This work will open peopleʼs eyes to many
into art forms both their penchant for fight- things about New York, about our culture,
ing bureaucracies and for spending their and about ourselves.” ◆
own
money
– rather than
collecting it, as
most successful artists do.
Judged by what
has been written, their work
remains
an
enigma for the
masses.
According to
Fineberg, each
of the artistsʼ
major projects
has been driven
by
different
goals and motivations, and Informal discussion Christo, left, and Jonathan Fineberg, the
shaped largely Gutgsell Professor of Art History at the UI, chat with students on the UI
by the unique, campus in this archival photo from 1977.
Flash index of Illinois economy breaks 100 barrier for first time in three years
After three years, the UI Flash Economic Index has broken through the 100
level, the dividing line between a sluggish
and vigorous economy.
Aprilʼs reading of 100.3 suggests that
the Illinois economy is undergoing a sustained expansion. This was the first time
the Flash Index has been above 100 since
April 2001. A year ago in April, the index
was at 96.0
“There are numerous signs of growth
in the state and national economy,” said J.
Fred Giertz, the UI economist who released
the data May 3.
“One sign is the growth of corporate
profits reported in the first quarter,” Giertz
said. “Another is the shift by stock market
investors from a concern about a lackluster
economy to a fear that interest rates will rise
because of the strength of the economy.”
All three components of the Flash Index
were up compared with the same month last
year. Individual and corporate income-tax
receipts were especially strong last month.
The Flash Index is a weighted average of
Illinois growth rates in corporate earnings,
consumer spending and personal income.
Tax receipts from corporate income, personal income and retail sales are adjusted
for inflation before growth rates are calculated. The growth rate for each component
is then calculated for the 12-month period
using data through April 30.
For a graph of the index,
go
to
www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/
0503flash.html. ◆
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May 6, 2004
book corner
Philosophers reflects on Wagner’s ‘Ring’ cycle
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In todayʼs landscape of popular culture tend to do when left to their own devices:
the name Richard Wagner appears on few wax philosophical on subjects theyʼre passionate about. In this case, the subject was
billboards or marquees.
But thatʼs of little concern to the many music – and more specifically, Wagnerʼs
“Ring” cycle.
Wagnerphiles out there who
Among other things,
are buying tickets to this
their
discussions focused
springʼs Metropolitan Opera
on
the
philosophical ramiseries featuring all four parts
fications
of the workʼs text,
of Wagnerʼs epic musical
characters,
themes and mudrama, “The Ring of the Niesic.
As
they
continued to
belungs,” or arranging their
compare
notes,
both became
Saturday-afternoon errands
convinced
that
beyond the
and activities around the
grand
spectacle
and
stirring
Metʼs radio broadcasts. But
musical
highpoints
of the
why should they – or anyone
“Ring”
lay
some
fairly
deep
else – care about this 17-hour
considerations
about
the
huoperatic extravaganza, with
man
experience.
its assortment of heroes, giThatʼs hardly surprisants, gods, dwarves, Rhineing,
Schacht said, since
maidens and even a dragon?
“Finding
an
Ending:
Reflections
Wagner
was interested in
Richard Schacht and
on Wagner’s ‘Ring,’ ” by Richard
philosophy,
was initially
Philip Kitcher think this Schacht and Philip Kitcher (Oxford
captivated
by
the secular
question has a good answer,
University Press)
humanist
Ludwig
Feuerfor devotees and neophytes
bach,
then
became
an
ardent
follower
of
alike, which they spell out in “Finding an
the
arch-pessimist
Arthur
Schopenhauer,
Ending: Reflections on Wagnerʼs ʻRing,ʼ ”
published this month by Oxford University and even befriended the young Nietzsche,
Press. Schacht is a professor of philosophy who subsequently became one of the most
and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and influential German philosophers of the 19th
Sciences at the UI, where his academic century.
What has been more surprising, the auinterests focus on the thought of Friedthors
admit, is the fact that the “Ring” conrich Nietzsche and other developments in
tinues
to this day to fascinate so many “reamodern European philosophy. Kitcher is
sonably
sane and quite intelligent people.”
the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at
In
the
book, the authors discuss WagColumbia University, where he specializes
nerʼs
treatment
of themes such as judgment,
in the philosophy of science.
authority,
freedom,
heroism and love. And
How did two philosophy professors
they
offer
a
new
interpretation
of the mythic
come to write a book about opera?
taleʼs
spectacular,
dramatic
ending, in
“Philip and I are both singers – amawhich
the
storyʼs
heroes
and
gods
all perish,
teur singers who take singing seriously,”
and
their
world
is
destroyed.
Schacht said. Over the course of several
– Melissa Mitchell, News Bureau
years, the pair did what philosophy scholars
www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/0407wagner.html
Professor outlines case for media reform
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Robert McChesney and other reformers with the notion that the current system is
have been talking for years about media somehow “natural” or the product of a free
politics, but few were listening.
market. “Itʼs not a free-market system, but
In 2003 that all changed, as the public in fact a system that was created by and run
revolted, from across the political spectrum, by government policies and subsidies.”
against Federal Communications CommisIn the early decades of the republic,
sion rule changes allowing
those policies and subsidies
for increased concentration
supported a diverse range of
of media ownership.
media, McChesney wrote.
“For the first time in genThe idea of a free press
erations,” McChesney writes
was that it should serve the
in his new book, “media
needs of democracy, and not
policy issues were taken
the profit motives of media
from behind closed doors
owners. Key among those
and made the stuff of demosubsidies was a significant
cratic discourse and political
discount for delivery of
engagement.”
newspapers by the post ofEncouraging that disfice.
course and engagement
“The problems we have
was a principal motive in
with the media today … are
writing “The Problem of
in fact the result of highly
the Media: U.S. Commu- “The Problem of the Media: U.S. corrupt policy-making that
nication Politics in the 21st Communication Politics in the 21st lets a handful of commercial
Century” (Monthly Review Century,” by Robert McChesney interests have inordinate
(Monthly Review Press)
Press), said McChesney, a
power,” McChesney said.
professor in the UI Institute
The governmentʼs policies
of Communications Research. He also is a and subsidies, especially in the area of
co-founder of Free Press, a group organized broadcasting, largely serve those commerin 2002 to promote greater public participa- cial interests. Although the public owns
tion in media policy-making.
the airwaves, for instance, commercial
“This book is basically, ideally, a way broadcasters use them at no charge from the
for citizens to understand how the system government, he said.
works so they can change it effectively,”
The products of the current system, from
he said.
its “deplorable journalism” to its “hyperThe book also is a work of scholarship, commercialism,” are a logical result of the
“the culmination of work Iʼve been do- policies upon which it is based, McChesney
ing for a decade,” McChesney said. With said. A change in the policies will produce
significant new research on the history, different results.
politics and policies behind the U.S. media
“The most important struggle is simply to
system, he addresses what he says are eight convince people that the media are political
common myths that often keep the public forces that can be shaped, not natural ones
disengaged.
that must be endured,” he wrote in the conTo understand the case for media reform, cluding chapter on the “uprising of 2003.”
according to McChesney, means dispensing
– Craig Chamberlain, News Bureau
www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/0405mediabook.html
May 6, 2004
brief notes
University YMCA
Get ready to ‘Dump and Run’
For the third year, the University YMCA will collect reusable items students moving out might otherwise
throw away in an attempt to reduce litter and raise funds
by providing inexpensive items for students to purchase in
the fall. The “Dump and Run” program will run primarily
from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. March 14 and 15. Volunteers
also are needed.
“Dump and Run” is a national program running at more
than 15 colleges around the country. Volunteers retrieve
items from participating housing facilities or receive items
at designated drop-off sites and deliver them to the Y. Collected items will then be sold at the YMCAʼs annual garage
sale Aug. 25 through 27 at the UI Stock Pavilion.
For more information, contact Amiee Kandrac at 3371500 or aimee@university ymca.org.
May ALLY meeting
Speaker to discuss rural gay families
The May ALLY meeting, set for noon on May 7 in 217
Illini Union, will focus on the research of Ramona Faith
Oswald. Her research examines how rural gay, lesbian and
transgender people utilize ritual to sustain family ties in
the absence of formal supports. She also is trying to establish the timing and prevalence of same-sex commitment
ceremonies and to predict which respondents have these
rituals.
For more information, contact Jane Reid,
jereid@uiuc.edu, or Anita Hund, ahund@uiuc.edu.
WILL-FM ‘Second Sunday Concert’
Guitarist to perform May 9
Guitarist Timothy Johnson will perform classical guitar
music at the May 9 WILL-FM Second Sunday Concert.
The free concert begins at 2 p.m. at the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. It will be broadcast live on
WILL-FM (90.9/101.1 in Champaign-Urbana) with host
Vic DiGeronimo.
Johnson, a solo recitalist and chamber music performer
as well as a UI doctoral student in music composition, will
perform “Caprice de Chaconne,” by Francesco Corbetta;
“Etude No. 8 in G major,” by Giulio Regondi; and “Liebesleid,” by Johann Kaspar Mertz, along with several
other pieces, including “Elegy (Hommage a de Falla),” by
Johnsonʼs former teacher, Jeffrey Van.
Violinist Dorothy Martirano, concertmaster of the
Champaign-Urbana Symphony, will perform with Johnson
on “LʼHistoire du Tango,” by Astor Piazzolla. Johnson
also will perform two pieces he composed while living in
Portugal, where he taught classical guitar at a conservatory.
School of Art
2004 Summer Art Enrichment Program
The UI School of Art and Design is sponsoring a
summer art enrichment program aimed at children from
preschool to 12th grade designed to expose students to a
variety of creative art experiences.
All classes meet for Monday through Thursday for two
weeks. Classes meet from 8:30 to 10 a.m. or from 10:30
a.m. to noon.
The schedule:
June 14-24: preschool/ kindergarten
June 18-July 8: Grades 1, 2 and 3
July 12-22: Grades 4, 5 and 6
July 26-Aug. 5: Grades 7-12
The registration fee is $65. For more information, contact Carol Smith, 333-1652 or cssmith2@uiuc.edu.
Japan House
Children’s Day is May 8
In Japan, May 5 is celebrated as Childrenʼs Day. Japan
House will open its doors to the public from 1-3 p.m. May
8 for its Childrenʼs Day festivities. The free event offers an
opportunity for adults and children to learn about Japanese
arts and culture.
Activities include origami and calligraphy. Kimono
dressing will be demonstrated at 2 p.m. and children will
be asked to model the robes. For more information, go to
www.art.uiuc.edu/japanhouse.
WILL radio
‘Vintage Vinyl’ drop-off sites
WILL radio is seeking donations of working stereo
equipment as well as used records, tapes and CDs in preparation for its Vintage Vinyl Used Record Sale. Items may
be donated May 17 through June 18.
To arrange for drop-off of used stereo equipment, call
333-1070. Records, audio and VHS tapes, and CDs may
be dropped off at many locations in Central Illinois including:
Urbana: ArtMart, Lincoln Square; Busey Bank, 201 W.
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Krannert Center announces 2004-05 performance season
A “tidal wave” of talent
will be cascading down upon
the Krannert Center for the
Performing Arts in its upcoming season. Committed to the
presentation of distinguished
world-class artists whose
creative gifts as extraordinary
communicators invite engagement and reaction, Krannert
Centerʼs 2004-05 Marquee
(guest artist) and resident performance season celebrates
Mikhail Baryshnikov
tradition and innovation with
highly acclaimed performers of music, theater, dance
and opera.
Opening the season on Sept. 10 will be country/folk
artist Emmylou Harris and her special guests Buddy and
Julie Miller.
Other artists who
will perform in the
weeks and months to
follow include Ravi
Shankar,
Mikhail
Baryshnikov,
Nancy
Wilson, Ramsey Lewis,
Laurie Anderson, Herbie Hancock, Rennie
Harris, Dawn Upshaw,
Ivo Pogorelich, Edgar
Meyer and Chris Thile.
Also featured will be
the Chicago Symphony
Rennie Harris’ Puremovement Orchestra,
Pacifica
Quartet, Juilliard String Quartet,
National Acrobats of Taiwan
and Kodo Drums. The scheduled
performances are too numerous to list but are detailed in the
new season brochures and on the
centerʼs Web site.
The new season brochures are
now available and the ticket office Emmylou Harris
is accepting single event and series ticket orders by phone, mail,
online or through visits to the ticket office.
Main St., or 1717 S. Philo Rd.; Schnuckʼs, 200 N. Vine St.
Champaign: Busey Bank, 909 W. Kirby Ave. and 907
W. Marketview; Hickory Point Bank, 701 Devonshire
Drive; Old Main Book Shoppe, 116 N. Walnut Street;
Schnuckʼs, 109 N. Mattis Ave.; Prairie Gardens, 3000 W.
Springfield Ave.
Savoy: Pages for All Ages, 1201 Savoy Plaza.
For drop-off sites outside of Champaign-Urbana,
go to WILLʼs Web site, www.will.uiuc.edu/pressroom/
vintagevinyldo04.htm.
The Vintage Vinyl Sale, which benefits public radio stations WILL-AM and WILL-FM, will take place June 26 at
Lincoln Square Mall in Urbana.
2005
Jan. 17: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
May 30: Memorial Day
Two floating holidays can be taken anytime during this
fiscal year; however, the scheduling of these holidays is
subject to departmental approval.
Because many university activities must continue
throughout the holiday period, some employees may be required to work on days designated as holidays as well as the
prescribed work days in order to provide necessary services
as determined by their supervisors.
WILL-AM documentary
Students examine C-U desegregation
Seven African-American students from Champaignʼs
Franklin Middle School explored the history of desegregation and integration in local public schools, producing a 60minute radio documentary that will air on WILL-AM (580)
at 5 p.m. May 15 with a repeat at 6 p.m. May 17.
“Our Journey: Stories of School Desegregation and
Community in Champaign-Urbana” weaves together stories about school, family, church and civic life in Champaign-Urbana as told by African Americans between the
ages of 40 and 91.
WILLʼs Kimberlie Kranich, Dave Dickey and Shawyn
Williams coordinated the project along with Will Patterson,
project co-director and a UI visiting professor in the AfroAmerican Studies and Research Program.
After it airs, the documentary can be heard at WILLʼs
Web site, will.uiuc.edu.
WILL-TV will re-broadcast “The Girls of Franklin: A
Live Black Perspectives Special” at 1:30 p.m. and 11:30
p.m. May 9. The call-in program aired live May 6 with
host Imani Bazzell, who talked to the students about what
they learned about making a radio documentary, the Brown
decision and the challenges they face as young African
Americans in school today. Viewers call in during the live
broadcast to talk with the students and share their own
stories.
Fiscal year 2004-05
Holiday schedule announced
The Facilities and Services Division has announced the
UI campus holidays for the fiscal year 2004-2005:
2004:
July 5: Independence Day
Sept. 6: Labor Day
Nov. 25: Thanksgiving Day
Nov. 26: Day after Thanksgiving (designated)
Dec. 24: Christmas Day Observed
Dec. 27: Day after Christmas (designated)
Dec. 31: New Yearʼs Day Observed
To order tickets
n By mail: An order form is included in each
brochure and can be mailed to the Krannert
Center ticket office.
n By telephone: Call 333-6280 or 800KCPATIX or TTY 333-9714 for patrons who
are deaf, hard of hearing or speech-impaired.
n By fax: Fax order form to
244-SHOW.
n By e-mail: Send order to
krantix@uiuc.edu.
n On the Web: Fill
out an order form at
KrannertCenter.com.
n In person: Stop by the
ticket office (open from 10
a.m.-6 p.m. daily).
Information about the 200405 season also is available on
the Krannert Center Web site:
Dan Zanes
KrannertCenter.com.◆
University Primary School
School founder to be honored
University Primary School will honor its founder, Merle
B. Karnes, with a rededication of the playground at the
Childrenʼs Research Center from 5-7 p.m. May 6. School
alumni and families of all children who have attended the
school are invited to participate by planting donated flowers
and designing mosaic stepping stones to be placed throughout the Alumni Garden.
The event will feature a potluck picnic. Reservations for
attendance are required and can be obtained by contacting
the school office, 333-3996 cwyant@uiuc.edu.
University Primary School is an award-winning, early
childhood gifted education program affiliated with the department of special education in the UIʼs College of Education. It serves children ages 3 to 7.
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Three plays chosen for Summerfest
“The Glass Menagerie,” by Tennessee Williams, “Guilty
Conscience,” by Richard Levinson and William Link, and
“Parfumerie,” an adaptation of the play “Illatszertar,” by
Miklos Laszlo, will be the featured plays during Summerfest 2004. The plays will be performed June 18 through
Aug. 1, Tuesdays through Sundays, in the Studio Theater at
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
“The Glass Menagerie,” directed by Matthew Reeder, is
an autobiographical play that follows the Wingfield family
in a drama about responsibilities to oneʼs family conflicting
with responsibilities to oneʼs self.
“Guilty Conscience,” directed by William Martin, was
written by the Emmy-winning writers of TVʼs “Mannix”
and “Columbo.” The play follows a devious criminal defense lawyer who plans the “perfect murder.”
“Parfumerie,” directed by Peter Reynolds, was taken
from the original 1937 script of a classic Hungarian comedy
that has inspired such films as “The Shop Around the Corner” and “Youʼve Got Mail.”
Tickets are available at the Krannert Center box
office or online. For the complete schedule, go to
www.krannertcenter.com. ◆
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calendar
of events
music
6 Thursday
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Sara Kramer, oboe. 5 p.m.
Memorial Room, Smith Hall.
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Joonhee Kim, piano. 7:30
p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Junior and Undergraduate
Recital. Aaron Brizuela, trumpet, and Kyle Adelman, horn.
7:30 p.m. Memorial Room,
Smith Hall.
7 Friday
Superstate Concert Band
Festival. Peter Griffin, coordinator. Noon. Foellinger Great
Hall, Krannert Center. School
of Music.
Master of Music Recital.
Tracey Ford, soprano. 7:30
p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Maureen Murchie, violin.
7:30 p.m. Memorial Room,
Smith Hall.
8 Saturday
Superstate Concert Band
Festival. Peter Griffin, coordinator. 8 a.m. Foellinger Great
Hall, Krannert Center. School
of Music.
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Debra Marsch, soprano.
5:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith
Hall.
Master of Music Recital.
Taerim Lee, soprano. 7:30 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
9 Sunday
Senior Recital. Caroline Stuart, soprano. Noon. Recital
Hall, Smith Hall.
Second Sunday Concert.
Timothy Johnson, guitar.
2 p.m. Krannert Art Museum.
Illini Jazz Lab Band. Ari
Brown, leader. 2 p.m. Music
Building auditorium.
Master of Music Recital.
Chanju Park, piano. 5 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Master of Music Recital.
Ji-Hye Kim, piano. 7:30 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Graduate
Recital.
Marlen Vavrikova, oboe. 7:30
p.m. McKinley Presbyterian Church, 809 S. Fifth St.,
Champaign.
Senior Recital. Raquel Adorno, soprano. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.
10 Monday
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Soojin Bae, piano. 2:30
p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Yoon-Kyung Nam, cello.
5 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith
Hall.
Doctor of Musical Arts Project Recital. Ji Yon Shim, cello.
7:30 p.m. Memorial Room,
Smith Hall.
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital in Vocal Coaching and
Accompanying. Kevin Class,
piano. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
Minnesota. 1:05 p.m. Illinois
Field. $
11 Tuesday
Baseball. UI vs. Southern Illinois University. 6:35 p.m.
Illinois Field. $
Senior Recital. Andrew Watkins, percussion. 7:30 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
12 Wednesday
Master of Music Recital. Robert Mirakian, conductor. 4 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Graduate String Quartet.
Diana Flesner, coordinator.
7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith
Hall.
13 Thursday
Master of Music Recital.
Jin-Kyung Lim, organ. Noon.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Doctor of Musical Arts Project Recital. Ji Yon Shim, cello.
5 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith
Hall.
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Ji-Eun Yun, piano. 5 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Master of Music Recital. Cristina Lixandru, violin. 7:30 p.m.
Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
15 Saturday
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Christine Haju Kim,
flute. 2 p.m. Music Building
auditorium.
UI Wind Symphony: Commencement Pops Concert.
James F. Keene, conductor.
7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great
Hall. School of Music.
23 Sunday
A Concert of 17th Century Italian Music. 7:30 p.m. McKinley
Presbyterian Church, 805 S.
Fifth St., Champaign. Baroque
Artists of Champaign-Urbana.
films
7 Friday
“Son of the Bride” (Argentina). 7:47 p.m. Latzer Hall,
University YMCA. Reel World
International Film Series.
sports
To confirm times, go to
www .fightingillini.com
8 Saturday
Softball. UI vs. University
of Iowa. Noon. Eichelberger
Field. $
9 Sunday
Softball. UI vs. University
of Iowa. Noon. Eichelberger
Field. $
14 Friday
Baseball. UI vs. University of
Minnesota. 6:35 p.m. Illinois
Field. $
15 Saturday
Baseball. UI vs. University of
Minnesota. 4:05 and 6:05 p.m.
Illinois Field. $
16 Sunday
Baseball. UI vs. University of
18 Tuesday
et cetera
6 Thursday
Nanotechnology in Homeland
Security Workshop: “Building
a University Based Research
and Education Program at
the Department of Homeland
Security.” Melvin Bernstein,
Department of Homeland
Security. 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. College of Veterinary Medicine
auditorium. Continues May 7,
8 a.m.-1 p.m. Nanoscale Science and Technology.
Chancellor’s Council of Academic Professionals Meeting.
1:30 p.m. 404 Illini Union.
Chancellorʼs Office and Council of Academic Professionals.
7 Friday
Kayak Clinic. 9 a.m. Campus
Rec Outdoor Center. Campus
Recreation.
May Ally Meeting. Rural Gay
and Lesbian Families. Ramona Faith Oswald. Noon-1:30
pm. 217 Illini Union.
8 Saturday
Horseback Trail Riding Day
Trip. 10 a.m.-4 pm. Campus
Rec Outdoor Center. Campus
Recreation.
Children’s Day at Japan
House. 1-3 p.m. Japan House.
Japan House.
9 Sunday
Second
Sunday
Gallery
Tour. “The Social Context of
Violence in Ancient Peruvian
Art.” Helaine Silverman, guest
curator. 1 p.m. Krannert Art
Museum.
18 Tuesday
“What You Read, What You
Hear, What You See.” A
panel discussion on current
censorship and privacy issues.
David Inge, moderator. 7 p.m.
Auditorium, Champaign Public
Library. Champaign Public Library and WILL.
26 Wednesday
Campus Outreach Coordinators Conference. 8:30 a.m.noon. Monsanto Room, ACES
Library. See www. ips.uiuc.edu/
io/centers.shtml#funk for a
complete schedule. International Programs and Studies
and International Outreach
Coordinators Council.
3 Thursday
Chancellor’s Council of Academic Professionals Meeting.
1:30 p.m. 210 Illini Union.
Chancellorʼs Office and Council of Academic Professionals.
exhibits
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Olympic Games and Avery
Brundage”
Main hall display cases, Library.
“Paris et la Litterature: une
promenade sous la pluie”
Modern Languages and Linguistics Library.
“From Napier’s Bones to Telegraphic Codes: Precursors
to Modern Computing and
Telecommunications”
Rare Book and Special Collections Library.
Through May 31.
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“The Value of University Press
Publishing”
Main Library.
Through May 31.
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“The American Indian Center
of Chicago Celebrates 50
Years of Powwow”
Through June 26.
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.
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“The School of Art and Design Master of Fine Arts
Exhibition”
Through May 16.
“Social Studies: Eight Artists
Address Brown v. Board of
Education”
Featured Works XVI: “The Social Context of Violence in
Ancient Peruvian Art”
Through May 23.
“Changing Rooms: The Creation of Cinematic Space
in the Works of Harry
Horner”
Through Sept. 19.
Featured Works XVII: “From
Hand to Lip: The Art and
Technology of Making a
Greek Vase”
On view May 29.
“Jamming With the Man:
Allen Stringfellow, A Retrospective”
On view June 5.
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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“One Book, One City, One
Show”
Humanities Lecture Hall, 805
W. Pennsylvania Ave., Urbana.
On view May 17- Aug. 15.
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@art gallery. Online exhibit of
the UI School of Art and Design. www.art.uiuc.edu/@art.
ongoing
Altgeld Chime-Tower Tours
12:30-1 p.m. M-F. Enter
May 6 to June 6
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. M-F. Lunch served 11
a.m.-2 p.m. For monthly menu,
w w w. B e c k m a n . u i u c . e d u /
outreach/café.html.
Bevier Cafe
Closed for summer.
Campus Recreation
IMPE Bldg.: 6:30 a.m.-9 p.m.
M-F, 11a.m.-9 p.m. Sa & Su;
IMPE Indoor Pool: 11 a.m.-1
p.m. daily; CRCE: closed for
renovations.
Kenney Gym and pool will
be open to all faculty/staff
at no charge during scheduled hours with valid ID
card. For more information, call 333-3806 or visit
www.campusrec.uiuc.edu.
Falun Dafa Practice Group
3:20-4:40 Sunday 404 or 407
Illini Union. 244-2571.
Huizenga Commons
Cafeteria
Serving breakfast. 7:30-11 a.m.
and lunch 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
M-F. East end of Law Bldg.
Illini Union Ballroom
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. M-F.
Second floor, NE corner. For
reservations, 333-0690; walkins welcome.
Japan House
Tours: 1-4 p.m. Thursdays;
1-5 p.m. Third Saturday of
the month. For a group tour,
244-9934. Tea Ceremony:
2nd and 4th Thursday of the
month. $5/person. Childrenʼs
Day, May 8.
Krannert Art Museum
The Fred and Donna Giertz
Education Center: 11 a.m.-1
p.m. Tu-Th; Gift Shop: 10
a.m.-4:30 p.m. M-Sa; 2-4:
30 p.m. Su; Palette Cafe: 8
a.m.-4:30 p.m. M-Sa, 2-4:30
p.m. Su.
Krannert Center for the
Performing Arts
Interlude: Open one hour before until after events on performance nights. Wine tastings
at 5 p.m. most Thursdays.
Intermezzo
Cafe:
Open
7:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on nonperformance
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.
Library Tours
Self-guided of main and undergraduate libraries: go to Information Desk (second floor,
main library) or Media Center
(undergrad library).
Meat Salesroom
102 Meat Sciences Lab.
1-5:30 p.m. Tu & Th; 8 a.m.-1
p.m. F. For price list & specials, 333-3404.
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
Chancellor’s Council of
Academic Professionals
Meeting
1:30 p.m. First Thursday
monthly.
Illini
Union.
www.cap.uiuc.edu.
Classified Employees
Association
11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. first Thursday monthly. 244-2466 or
nblackbu@uiuc.edu.
Contra Dancing
www.prairienet.org/contra/ or
jsivier@uiuc.edu.
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 “Tropic of Capricorn,”
by Henry Miller for May
13. 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.
The Deutsche
Konversationsgruppe
1-3 p.m. W. The Bread Company, 706 S. Goodwin Ave.,
Urbana.
Secretariat
11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. third Wednesday monthly. Illini Union. 3331374, mdavis@uiuc.edu or
www.uiuc.edu/ro/secretariat.
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.
351-9930,
judyatlhi@aol.com or http:
//wc-uiuc.prairienet.org. ◆
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