Volume 28, No. 27
April 4, 1997
Scott A. Miller
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Monday, April 7
Tuesday, April 8
Wednesday, April 9
Thursday, April 10
Friday, April 11
Saturday, April 12
Global Issues Week offers true international perspective
"Global Issues Week: The Culture, Business, and Politics of Today's Russia," April 7-12, will offer a truly international, multi disciplinary look at a rapidly changing country. The complete schedule of events is noted at the left. Here are brief biographies of the presenters who visit campus throughout the week:
Mick Atkin works in England for the BBC World Service as the head of training programs for translators and journalists. He is a British citizen and an Oxford University graduate. He has studied in Russia and has worked for the BBC Monitoring Service as a Spanish/Russian translator and as a writer of news reports.
Tatiana Anisimova is an architect and teaches architecture at the Volgograd State Architecture Building Academy. She is a Russian citizen and has studied at the Central Institute of Town Planning in Moscow. During the current academic year she is visiting professor at Mansfield University.
Paul Barker is Senior Manager of DFC International, Inc., an international financial consulting firm based in Washington, DC. He is a British citizen and an Oxford University graduate. He has worked with banks and financial institutions in Russia, Eastern Europe, and the countries of the former Soviet Union.
Robert Beard teaches Russian and directs the Russian Studies program at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. He is an American citizen, a University of Michigan graduate, and the author of three books on linguistics, the latest published in 1995.
John Benhart is chair of the department of Geography and Earth Science at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. He is an American citizen and a graduate of the University of Tennessee. He is a specialist of environmental and economic systems and environmental land use planning.
Peter Carnochan is a software developer working in Washington, DC. He is a British citizen and a graduate of Cambridge University. He has studied history at the Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies in Birmingham, England, and at Leningrad State University in Russia.
Steve Crawshaw works in London as chief foreign correspondent for The Independent. He is a British citizen and a graduate of Oxford University. He worked in Poland during the rise of the trade union Solidarity and later in Russia where he was the East European editor for The Independent. He is the author of the 1992 book, Goodbye to the USSR.
Bill Keenan works out of London as CFO for an independent Western-financed oil production company. He is a British citizen and a graduate of the University of London. He has worked in the oil and gas and banking sectors, and for fifteen months was Finance Director with the Russian-American Investment Bank in Moscow.
Alexander Kubyshkin teaches History and directs the Center of American Studies at Volgograd State University in Russia. He is a Russian citizen and a graduate of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has written three books about Latin America. For the current academic year, he is Fulbright scholar-in-residence at Mansfield University.
Frédérique Longuet-Marx is Maître de conférences in sociology at the Université de Caen, in France. She is a French citizen, a graduate of the Institute of Oriental Languages in Paris (and a visiting professor there), and an anthropologist specializing in the Muslim population of the Caucasus region. She is the great great granddaughter of Karl Marx.
Konstantin Ogloblin is the former chair of the Volgograd Province Property Fund. He is a Russian citizen, a specialist of Russian privatization, and a Teaching Fellow in the Economics program at Kent State University in Ohio.
Monique Oyallon teaches French at Penn State University. She is a French citizen and a graduate of the Sorbonne (Université de Paris III). She has taught and studied in Russia and the former Soviet Union for four years and is co-author of a textbook on learning to read Russian.
Robert Scott is head of the Electronic Text Service at Columbia University Library in New York City. He is an American citizen and a graduate of Columbia University. He has lived, studied, and worked in Poland, Lithuania, and Russia.
Thomas Shillinglaw is Assistant General Counsel for Corning, Inc. He is an American citizen and holds both a law degree and an advanced degree in Russian from Stanford University. He has lived in Russia for two years and has worked with Russian enterprises since 1974.
Lesley Sixsmith works in the newsroom at the World Service of the BBC in London. She is a British citizen and a graduate of Bradford University. She worked as a linguist for the British government before joining the BBC as a Russian linguist. She was the World Service's in-house Africa reporter in 1996.
Saturday, April 5, Jazz Festival, Steadman. Area high school jazz bands will perform throughout the day as members of the U.S. Air Force Airmen of Note give clinics. The festival culminates with a 7 p.m. concert featuring the outstanding high school jazz ensemble, the acclaimed MU Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Michael Galloway, music, and the Airmen of Note.
Sunday, April 6, 2 p.m., Steadman. Michael Trowbridge will give a senior voice recital of works by Purcell, Ravel and Schumann.
Sunday, April 6, 8 p.m., Steadman. Matthew Kanon will gives a senior guitar recital of works by Bach, Martin, Defalla, Villa-Lobos and Giuliani.
Monday, April 7, 8 p.m., Steadman. The world-renowned guitar duo The Assad Brothers will perform as part of the University Fine Arts Series. Recognized across the globe for their technical virtuosity, their uncanny precision of ensemble and their musical and stylistic sensitivity, Sergio and Odair Assad are hailed by many critics as the foremost duo guitar team in the world. Tickets are $5 general and $2 for MU students. For tickets call 4444 or 4710.
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Tom Fernsler, education, was the keynote speaker at the final post-session of the 1997 SEQuaL Project Workshop held at IUP recently. His presentation, "A Chi-Square Analysis of Human-Related Causes of Manatee Deaths," explored the impending extinction of the West Indian Manatee in Florida, and possible solutions to the problem of water-craft related deaths of manatees. The West Indian manatee, on the Federal Endangered Species List since 1973, has undergone dramatic reductions in its numbers for the past 23 years. Only 2600 manatees still survive in Florida waters. More than two dozen Pennsylvania secondary teachers specializing in non-mathematics subjects and mathematics professors from IUP participated in the workshop.
Results from the annual statewide opinion poll "The Public Mind" conducted by Gale Largey, sociology, and Richard Feil, psychology, are again garnering the university statewide publicity. So far, information has been released on Gov. Ridge's approval rating, the potential sale of state liquor stores and a proposal to raise Pennsylvania's gas tax.
Dave Coyle turned in impressive performances at the 12th Annual Susquehanna University Invitational Track Meet, finishing first in the 1500 meters while taking fourth in the 200 meter dash. Coyle, in the Mountaineers first outdoor meet of the season, took first place honors in a field of 31 runners in the 1500 meters breaking the tape with a time of 49.32. He bested the next fastest finisher by .50. Coyle's time in the 200 meters was 22.76. Senior Dana Vosburgh took third in the 1500 meters with a time of 4:07.80, 3.81 behind winner Jon Coldren of Dickenson.
Playing its 23rd straight game on the road, the baseball team suffered a 9-1, 5-1 setback to Lock Haven in a non-divisional meeting. The team's record stood at 9-13-1 going into its first home game against Binghamton on Wednesday, April 2. Remember to check out the latest baseball results by clicking on news from the MU homepage, www.mnsfld.edu.
The softball team split a doubleheader with East Stroudsburg, winning the first game 3-2 and losing the nightcap 8-0. It's record stood at 4-10 going into its first home game Wednesday, a doubleheader against powerful Bloomsburg that was cancelled due to snow the day before. Look for the latest softball results by clicking on news from the MU homepage, also.
Mansfield hosted the annual Mansfield Open Badminton Championships March 22, welcoming teams from Penn State, Cornell and MU as well as clubs from Syracuse, Buffalo and Lock Haven. In men's singles C division, Shaker Ramasamy placed second. Don Reiner won first place in men's singles D with Joe DeGuzman finishing second. Jason Brouse was runner up in the E division of men's singles. In men's doubles, Ramasamy and John Pavia of Ithaca placed second in the B division, while Ron Koernig and DeGuzman finished second in the C division. The MU Badminton Club travels to the Penn State Open on Saturday, April 5.