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Volume 29, No. 18
January 23, 1998
Scott A. Miller
Contact: MU PR Office 662-4844
NEWS
Conference enters fourth year: "The Dream Continues"
MU's Office of Multicultural Affairs and Black Students Union will focus on increasing awareness of world culture and creating comfortable learning and working environments during the Fourth Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Intercultural Relations Conference Jan. 29-31.
Based on the theme "The Dream Continues: Building Multicultural and Diverse Communities," the conference will bring together student leaders and faculty members from around the state for workshops and presentation on a variety of issues.
Some of the sessions and workshop topics include:
- a feature movie and continuous film theatre with discussions
- a special session titled "Artistic Expressions: The Heritage of Africa"
- Changing Perspectives Through Travel Abroad
- Classroom Strategies for Culturally Diverse Students
- Cultural Identity and Societal Influences
- Prejudice
- "Sinchikay: A Glimpse of Three Andean Communities"
- a student leaders round table discussion
- The Status of Affirmative Action.
Marilyn Rigby, associate professor of social work at Radford University in Virginia will provide the keynote address at the conference banquet Friday, Jan. 30, at 6 p.m.
The conference will also host a exhibit of African and African-American art, as well as a performance of "Africville Suite" by The Joe Sealy Quartet of Toronto.
The conference is sponsored by the President's Advisory Board for Diversity in addition to the Office of Multicultural Affairs and Black Students Union. The conference fee of $30 includes all sessions, the banquet and Saturday's feature performance. MU students may attend for free, but those without meal cards will be charged $6 for the banquet.
For more information contact Annie Cooper at 4381 and Jannis Floyd at 4795.
Women's Arts & Culture Event focuses on Chinese women
The Women's Studies Program will sponsor the lecture "Chinese Women in the 20th Century" Thursday, Feb. 5, from 3-4:30 p.m. in the North Hall Community Room.
Professor Yu Fengdi will present the lecture. She currently chairs the English Division of the Department of Applied Foreign Language Studies at Nanjing University.
In addition to teaching English to native Chinese students, she also lectures on Chinese women's issues and Chinese political structures to international students attending Nanjing University.
She has co-authored a number of publications, including "A Handbook for Communication" (1990).
The presentation is part of a series of Women's Arts & Culture Events occurring throughout the academic year.
Condolences
The university marks with sadness the passing of Denise Carter-Onyirimba, academic advising center, on Jan. 15, 1998. Funeral services were held at the Eighth Street Baptist Church, Wilmington, DE, on Friday Jan. 23. Interment was in the Gracelawn Memorial Park, Wilmington, DE. Our thoughts are with her family, including brother Bill Carter, custodial services.
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Friday, Jan. 23, 6:30 p.m., Steadman. Student solo competition.
Sunday, Jan. 25, 3 p.m., Steadman. David R. Morrison will perform a senior euphonium recital.
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- The Campus Bookstore invites everyone to stop by Friday, Jan. 23, to wish a happy retirement to Deanna Rumsey. Refreshments will be served.
- The MU Alumni Association is currently accepting nominations for the Employee Appreciation Award, given annually to the MU employee who has shown service to the university above and beyond their job description. Examples of service may include volunteering, departmental support, university-wide support and uncompensated time. The Employee Appreciate Committee of the Alumni Association Executive Board selects recipients based on nominations. The deadline for nominations is Friday, Feb. 13.
- Those who need additional business cards or new business cards should submit their request to Ann Klinger, public relations, Beecher House, before Monday, Jan. 26.
- The blood collection service operated by Soldiers + Sailors Memorial Hospital and the American Red Cross at the Pomona Grange in Wellsboro would like to increase the number of people who give blood there. The facility is open the first and third Monday of each month. The facility must increase its number of volunteer donors or risk closing by the American Red Cross. If your group is interested in donating blood as a service to the community, please consider using the Pomona Grange facility on the first and third Monday of each month.
- The Council of Trustees meeting originally scheduled for Jan. 22 has been postponed. Watch the Updater and other campus media for the meeting date.
- Facilities has a new telephone extension to receive information about university facilities defects and problems observed by the campus community. Larry Clark, director of facilities maintenance, encourages the campus to report all problems to 4333 no matter how small they may be.
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Gale Largey, social work, anthropology and sociology, spoke to the Allegheny-Ohio Association of Engineering Geologists Jan. 21 in Pittsburgh on the topic of his video documentary "The Austin Disaster of 1911: A Chronicle of Character." Accompanying him to the presentation was disaster survivor Alice Ries of Pittsburgh. She was 4 years old when the dam broke and she escaped death when her father, Elmer Harder, a Methodist preacher, carried her up the side of a mountain.
Tom Fernsler, education, is mentioned in an article called "Superstition" in the Jan. 19 edition of "U.S. News and World Report."
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The Tioga County Women's Coalition sends a big "thank you" to campus community members who donated household goods to the drive Marilyn Lapps, residence life, organized before Christmas. The need for items like toiletries and personal care products is ongoing; those who would like to make further donations throughout the year should contact Lapps at 4933.
Further evidence of the generosity of the university family could be found in the donation of more than 200 non-perishable food items by MU's AFSCME employees to the Tioga County Food Bank in December. The donations have been an annual part of the AFSCME holiday luncheon for several years and this was one of the most successful.
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Also check out the Sports News section of our site for more in-depth sports information.
The men's basketball team continued to improve as with a 87-60 victory over the University of Pitt-Bradford Wednesday. MU kept the Panthers on their heels all night with an overall inside-outside game. The team shot 43.8 percent from the floor while knocking down seven of 16 attempts from beyond the arc. Tyson Pye led the victorious Mountaineers with 19 points and nine rebounds. Tommy Harvey warmed up in the second half to score 17 of his 18 after the break, nailing three of his four attempts from three-point land. Mansfield hosts West Chester Saturday at 3 p.m. against West Chester.
The women's basketball team snapped a season-long 16-game losing streak with an 83-70 victory over the University of Pitt-Bradford Panthers Wednesday. The Mountaineers and Panthers traded baskets through the early going, but MU eventually built a 22-point lead on the strength of 60.6 percent shooting from the floor. Four Mountaineers scored double-figures on the evening. Jill Masker led the way with 21 points, while Tracy Moser contributed 20 points and eight rebounds. Lauren Martin and Jackie Williams each added 12 and 11 points respectively. The Mountaineers remain home for a 1 p.m. game against PSAC East rival West Chester Saturday.
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"A dismal new era of higher education has dawned. In ten years, we will look upon the wired remains of our once great democratic higher education system and wonder how we let it happen."
David F. Noble, a history professor at Canada's York University, speculating that one day computers will replace professors. The article appears in the on-line journal "First Monday."
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