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Cold Climate ... " ......... .................................................................. 24 The niver ity has done well in attracting tudents of color to the TIvin itie campu but can admini tratorS make the climate more temperate for them? By Teresa f(f 1::::'0

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Running the U

H OW I RUNN G the niversity of linnesom llllique? In the last issue, we

presented alumnus 'Ym vVallin' thoughts on how the task differs from running a Forrune 500 company. ' allin is in a good position to offer his perspective: He's chair of the board of Medttonic and is serving as an unpaid assistant to President ils Hasselmo for reorganization of the health sciences.

In this issue, we present yet another view of running the n.iversity-that of Judith Garrard, chair of the Faculty Consulmtive Corrunittee (Fcq. The F C is an elected group of faculty leaders who advise the president and admin.ist:ration, serve as the steering committee for the Faculty enate, and senre, along with student represenmtives as the enate Consulmtive mmittee and as the steering committee for the niversity

enate. chair, Garrard is the person the administration often turns to for the faculty viewpoint. he offers advice and counsel and raises impormnt issues. he spends, on average, from 36 to 42 hour a week on go -emance mattefS---illld teaches in the chool of Public Health. Fellow committee member average four to eight hours a eek.

fumiliarity with the FC comes via electronic mail in the form of scrupulously recorded minutes. The committee deal with issues of overwhelming complexity ranging from the core curriculum to budgeting, tenure, research, academic freedom, financial aid formula, and facilities management. urrentlyon the F agenda are the niversity 2000 plan, the budget, re pon ibility-centered management (a proposal to gi e units credit for the income they earn and to charge them for the pace and service they use), and the president' plan to reorganize central administration, among other.

Like the smte itself, the niversity IS a populist entity that takes democratic governance very seriously. Besides the FC and the senates, faculty participate in departmenm1 and unit planning and governance. , ·0

one who has had an conmct with the gll\ernance tructure at the niversity would accuse faculty of sitting in an ivory tower.

o what is unique about running the VOlversity? 'Vhat we've learned so fur IS tlut while the n.iversity, at latest count, has the third-largest number of empl yees in the smte (33,641) and a 1.6 billi n opera budget, ranks third among colleges and uruversities in research and deve] pment fimding and sixth in techno] gy rransfer, produ 32 patents and earned 2 3.3 rnilli n m

grants and contract research awards last year. and has been called the engine that dm the SClte, it' not a busin . That the Volversity, with its ('.\10 senates, Boord of Regents, 23 million square feet systemwide, . its own police force, h spital, and infrastructure, i not a city. That the niversIlY, the SClte' only land-grant university, whJch la.o;( year awarded 10, 1 degrees, sen-ed 33: people thr ugh its e.xtension ervJce and 34549 outpatients at its clinics, and has a SCltewide constiruency of 250, alumru and a history older than the mte itself, is not JUS! another instiruti n of higher educaoon.

we see it fur, running the niveNt) means balancing three missi ns; central \ decentralized perati ns; profit . nonprofit motiv ; public . private funding; fuculty. adrninistrati e, rudent, alumni, legi lao -e. and public c nstiruenci ; due p 3'ld

pers na l privacy . the public'S right to

kn \ ,a.nd discipline . tenure. ther tllan that, running the n.i,·e l)

i ,as tlley say, a piece of cake. -Jean Marie Hamilt n

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GOVERNING THE ACADEMY University Relation writer and editor Maureen mith ha been covering the Faculty onsultative ommittee for eighteen year for B6ef, the weekly new bulletin for all four University campuse. he ha attended more F meeting than any faculty member on campu. he also edits the faculty- taff edition of the niversity's tabloid Update, and write Minnesota's In Brief column. A NOBLES TRADITION Chuck Benda is a writer based in Hasting Minnesota, who specialize in busines and technology. He is managing editor of Items, the alumni magazine of the University's Institute of Technology. COLO CLIMATE Teresa calzo, '90, i Minnesota's associate editor. he also cowrote ampus Digest in this issue. DRAWING ON THE PAST Freelance writer Amy Ward lives on a farm in t. Croix Falls Wisconsin, and writes plays for the cience Museum of Minnesota theater. MINNESOTA'S SECOND ANNUAL VACATION POLL Minnesota contributing editor icki tavig edits A17 of the West and produces newsletter for corporate client. GOPHER GOES GLOBAL

teve Deyo, '89, is editor of Computer User. A COACH FOR ALL SEASONS Brian 0 berg, '73, '86, writes about men's athletic for Minnesota. CAMPUS DIGEST Minnesota editorial assistant Kristie McPhail is a enior in the School ofJournali m and Mass Communication . PHOTOGRAPHY Doug Knutson is a Twin Citie photographer who e work has appeared in Forbes, Business Week , and Smart Money. Twin Cities photographer Dan Vogel pecializes in product, indu try, and portrait photography. Formerly a biochemi t, Twin Cities photographer Mike Burian pecialize in indu trial, leisure and fitnes , and outdoor photograph . His work ha appeared in C01-p01"Ote Report Minnesota. ew York photographer igrid Estrada is an environmental, portrait, and travel photographer whose work ha appeared in Vanity Fai1-, HC, Redbook, and Travel Holiday. Harold weet i a Los Angeles photographer who e work ha appeared in GQ and Us. Per Breiehagen, '87, is a Twin itie ph tographer who e work has appeared in Time, NewS71Jeek, and other publications. Wendell andersluis is eni r photographer for Men's Interco ll egiate thletics at the niver ity. Bill ; ilers is a graduate student in the ch 01 ofJournalism and

Ma ommunicati n and Mi1mesota's taff photogr, pher. ILLUSTRATION Linda Frichtel is a Minneap lis illu trator wh ha won numerous awards for her work. Pitt burgh-based illustrator Kate Brennan Hall i illu trating a c okb ok, Imemfltiollfll Fil1ger Foods, for AJtamont Pre s.

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• MAGIC BUS

Even celebrities ride the bus. Comedian Scott Hansen, U.S. Representative Pat Schroeder, '61, and San Fran

cisco Giants pitcher Bryan Hickerson, '87, were among the University of Minnesota alumni and students praising University Transit Service's Route 52 in a recent advertising campaign. Minneapolis-based Melby Advertising and Public Relations produced the ads, which appear on bill-

• EDITOR'S PICKS

We know there i n shortage of great the

ater in the Twin i tie , bu t don' t let the name Guthrie, OrdW3) , and rpheum fill your dance ard . University Theatre offer 3 mi. r cla sic co: 1edie ,c ntemp raf) tra ~edy, an I In clem Ir3ma at r ice ranging fr m 3.50 fOJ workshop producti n t 9 or gener.11 admis ' ion ( 7

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located in Rarig enter on the ' ''est Bank with plenty of parking nearby. pring performances include Hedda Gllbler, Ib en' p ",erful p ych I gical tudy fa \I oman crippled by the repre she tllrn-of-thc- entury c ll\"enti ns fher l~mul)' and culture, i\1.1) 14-_7. aU ni\er it)' Art ' Ticket ffice at 61--6_4-_345 D r inf rmation.

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"We're enthusiastic about having alumni and students promote what a lot of us have known for a long timeRoute 52 really is the best way to get to campus," says Paul Tschida, assistant vice president for campus health and safety.

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~ RADIO FREE UNIVERSITY

T he Flaming Lips and the mashing Pumpkins have replaced Mozart and Bach on the Twin itie campus air

wave. When administrator decided to merge the two campus radio stations, KUOM- AM and WMMR-FM, they turned 0 er operation of the new station to the students who had run \\ 1MR.

RADIO K, as it's ca lled, broadcasts a mix of music, news, and talk hows in a format dramatically different from tho e of its parent tations. Student programmer have replaced cla ica l music with local and alternative rock music and increa ed coverage of University news. Li teners also hear a wide range of

international music. ld two talk show , Feet to the Fire and The CLashing of Ideas, focu on Univer ity and" orld i ue.

Students looking for broadca t experi ence are welcome at RADI K, which nm has about 75 volunteers. In addition to the three profe -ional retained from the

K OM taff, RADIO K employs ten paid tudent managers. Univer ity-allocated funds, tudent fees, and some

underwriting cover the station's operating co ts. RADIO K broadcasts on 770 AM from dawn to dusk, and on

96.3 FM (Paragon cable) and 106.7 FM ( ontinental cable) all day.

~ U GOPHER FACT FILE

~ OVERHEARD ON CAMPUS .

"Bob Marley lives on.

Everything he sings for was real; he sings of a life that everyone lives."

Rita Marley, right, wife of late reggae Rastafarian Bob Marley and manager of the band liggy Marley and the Melody Makers, spoke to a crowd of about 100 people at the Auditorium in the Hubert H. H Center.

" M usic and mu icians are only a good as the education they have. Memory can only record what

went on .. . intelligence makes thing happen." KR - NE, socia lly consciou rap arti t and founder of

hip-hop label Boogie Down Production , poke to more than 400 pe pIe at the wle uditorium in the Hubert II. Humphrey enter. KR -0 tand for Knowledge Reign

upreme over early E etyone.

TOP FIVE MAJORS DECLARED BY STUDENTS IN FALL QUARTER 1993

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~ ACADEMIC COUNSELING UNIT TAKES TOP HONORS

T he University's Intercollegiate Athletics academic counseling unit was named the number one institutional coun

seling program in the country by the American ollege TestinglNational Academic dvising soclaoon.

The tati tic are impre ive. Each yea r, the academic counseling unit serves about 600 University tudent athlete. Almost 50 percent of them earn a 3.0 grade point average or better in any given quarter. The graduation rate of student athletes has doubled from 27 percent to 54 percent since the counseling unit wa formed in 19 4, and i climbing yea rly, while the niver ity's overall graduation rate has remained constant atabout 35 percent. There also has been a dramatic

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increa e in the number of academic all- llerican , ali -DIstrict, and all-Big Ten tea m honorees among niver ity athletes.

The coun eling unit offer many ervices to tudent athlete from the time they enter the niver ity until they graduate, including enhancement and fre hman study pr grams, year-long curriculum planning, tut ri al assis tance, and com pmer la b .

"Evety student comes in here with something to lend til o th er ~tud ents," says coun elor Brian Berube, " 0 much at

our tutoring is done in a group atm ph ere. Rather than having a tutor in tru t, we facilitate helping tudents help each other lea rn. "

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N THEIR OWN WORDS

innesota asked University students what cour e they took to fulfill the cultural pluralism g duation requirement, what they learned, and if the requirement is a good one.

Lynn tangi 21, senior majoring

in international relations.

ometown: Wausau, Wisconsin

Introduction to " 'orld History. ltwas probably the worst cla s I've ever taken. It W3 too vague and not at all what I expected. I think [the requirement] give [tudents] a good idea of what' going on el ewhere. The com es give us a better under tandmgof people in the world and the uniiarioe and difference in their view.

Tedia Belayneh, 32, junior majoring

in medical technology.

Hometown: Awassa, Ethiopia

r lamic t and ulture. I didn 't know anything ab ut Islamic civilization. T he cla lias reall enlightening. I think that the requirement i a go d thing. eryone h( \lId lnO\ about other

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people lived, and b " perate t da .

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J anis Kerttu, 19, freshman

majoring in business.

Hometown: Farmington,

Minnesota

American tudies 1001. The cla s basically taught me that the white man has ruined everyone' live -women in general, ative Americans, African American. Itwa white Protestant male-ba bing. I gue the requirement i a good idea [to en ure] a well-rounded education, but it' not omething I'm inter

ted in.

Tom Voigt, 21, junior designing

his own degree program.

Hometown: South St. Paul

1 ative Peoples of orth America. I liked it. It dealt with Indian tribe, focu ing on tho e in Minne ota. It was an interesting clas , but I don't know if! would bave taken it ifit wasn't required . I think getting a liberal education is important, especially gaining a more global per-

J nn H alver on 20, sophomore majoring

in pediatric physical therapy.

Hometown: New Hope, Minnesota

candinavian Literature. I m three-fourth canrunavian and my grandma u ed to tell me torie . Thi cla wa [an opportunity] to find out ab ut m heritage [and how] pe pie u ed ~ lk tale to communicate their hi tory and t pa it n. T he requirem nt help [pr ent] an ther ide to 1 ur ducati n . lath and

Erne t Bryant 41 , freshman ,

undecided major.

Hometown: Inver Grove

Heights, Minnesota

I'm a freshman in the College of Liberal Arts, just tarring out, 0 I've only taken an introduction to computers cour e. I think a liberal education i a good thIDg. Knowing about another culture may not help me here [in the

cited tates], but if! go into another culture and I do omethIDg that rna be com

mon here it may be con idered offen ive there. I want to know that.

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~ IT'S GREEK TO U

U niver ity President ils Hasselmo has accepted an honorary member hip in Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at the invitation of niversity and igma Phi alumnu urtis ad on,

founder of Carlson Companie . University admini trator have pledged their upport to the Greek y tem as part of a plan to

build a stronger campus community. Their motivation to work with the Greeks stem partly from a 1991 study, "Students' Views of ommunity on the Twin Citie ampu ," that found that students who belong to fraternities and ororitie have a trong ense of belonging at the University and are more likely than other students to be involved in campu activitie .

The Twin Cities campus Greek community-26 fraternitie and 15 ororitie -involve about 1,700 students. University official say that students who participate in the reek y tem are more likely to complete their degree , which benefits the niversity in increa ed tuition revenues and higher graduation rates.

Administrators will work witll Greek representatives to write a statement of the relation hip between the University and Greek systems, determine how to help Greeks finance renovations of their houses, and support recruitment by giving fraternitie and ororitie more vi ibility in University publications. Recommendations wi\l come next fall.

~ MASKING THEIR AFFECTION

A t virtua lly every game they called for him. It began in the tudent ection, but the momentum would pick up and

soon the entire crowd was chanting: "Play Jo ea. Play Jo ea." Josea rittenden, 19, i a sophomore majoring in busine

management who plays guard for the Gopher ba ketball team. A graduate of Rosemount (Minnesota) High chool, Josea has been a walk-on for the past two seasons.

The 5-foot-9-inch, 175-pound guard genera\ly played only when the Gophers were leading by more than 25 points with less than two minutes remaining. onetheles, the tudent who held season tickets adopted rittenden as one of their favorite players. Leann Baylor, director f promoti n and marketing for men's athletic, thought it would be fun to playoff of the tudent ' affection for Crittenden, 0 she distributed 2,500 rna ks of hi face to the tudent ecti nat William Arena D r a game against Penn tate. The opher won 94-66, and Crittenden scored a three-point ba ket in the final minute f the game. ay Chad Grim rud, an Institute of Technology enior and ea on ticket holder: "Everybody likesJo ea. I-le's the man."

~ U MAKE A . DIFFERENCE :

W ho: The ffice for tudent Affairs and he

Minne ota tudent oci-tion (M ) organized the fir tThank ommuni t) Food Dri e, a niversity ofMinne ota community service project.

What: Thousands of individual niversity employees and tudents donated food, money, and time to make the food drive a uccess . In addItion , Gopher football coacht . and player contributed

2,500. tudents in the re 1-

dence hall participated in a fa t mat re ulted in a 1,500 donation from housing services. Member of 19ma

pha Ep ilon fraternity and ~ppa~ppaGamma

sorority went door to door in me community colJecting food , and me Triangle fraternity d nated everal hundred pounds of canned go d .

Where: Drop-off ite were et up 10 re idence hall ,

fraternitie and ororitie , carpool lots, and work area .

When: The food drive began in me mid t of Homecoming fe tivitie la t fall and ended ju t before me Thanksgiving hoLida .

Why: The tudent affaJr office and M wanted "to unite the niver ity community of tudents, faculty, taft', and alumni working t \ ard . . . collecting 50,000 nonperi hable food item "

How: "When me food drive wa over, four Twin ities food banks received more than 60,000 fo d item, including item purcha ed with m netary donation.

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When the president and his administration want to know what 5, 000 faculty are thinking, they turn to] udith Garrard, chair of the powerful Faculty Consultative Committee

B y M au r ee n S mi th

hen Judith Garrard was elected to chair the Facul ty Consul tative Committee (FCC) in 1993-94, she was already serving as vice chair and thought she had an idea what it would mean to be chair. ow she ays that "until you've been there, you don't know what it's like."

Each year the FCC faces different issues. T he current year-with the U niversity setting out in a new strategic direction called University 2000, and people till reeling from a series of newspaper articles about problems in the Medical chool- has presented huge challenges for the committee and especially for the chair. arrard esti mates that she pends from 36 to 42 hours a week on academic governance, commit

tee members 4 to 8 hours a week. The FCC is an elected group of facul ty leaders with the dual role of advising the

president and other central offi cers and serving as the steering committee for the Faculty Senate. The same faculty members, together with student representatives, meet a the Senate onsultative Committee and are the steering committee for the Uni-

16 MAY-JUNE J 994 PHOTOGRAPHED BY DAN VOGEL

versity Senate. The two senates constitute the University's academic governing structure.

The University enate with faculty and student members, meets once or twice a quarter to vote on policy resolutions, although final authority rests with the regents. Issues of concern just to faculty go to the Faculty Senate.

"\¥ben the administration wants to tell the faculty something, or ask the faculty something, they come to the FCC," says Garrard who is a profes or in the Institute for Health ervices Research in the chool of Public Health and is the econd faculty member from the health cience to chair the FCC. "They cannot

po ibly reach out and touch 5,000 facul ty members."

FCC chair Garrard say she is guided b four principles: "\Ve will be hone t, we will be firm, we will repre ent the faculty, and we will work together with the admini tration for the good of the ni\'er ity provided that we don't violate the fir t three."

Univer ity Pre ident 1 Tils Ha elmo and others in hi administration want to

work with faculty and they are tolerant when I cold them that they aren't paying enough attention to what faculty ay, " he ay. "They're aware that I'll

continue to cold them and hold them accountable for their action a well a their word . I frankly don't mince word ."

Along with telling the truth to Pre ident Ha elmo and hi admini trati e team, he believe in open haring of information. 'I'd be remi if I kept thin" from the admini tration for rea on of protecting them, or protecting

the niYer ity' imaae,' a, Garrard. "I \youldn't be doing my job ..

"I really do fundamentally believe that ecrets are insidiou and de tructiye. 1 belieye that the greate t amount of information in the greate t number of hand ' re ults in the healthie t or!!alliza-

. n h to aon, e a) . T wo Thur days a month the F

meet -sometime with Ha elmo, ometime on its \\11-to talk ab ut the

pr in" i u of the day. Di us ion are often liyely and \\'ide~ranging. ther c mmittee haye de ignat d area ' of onern, bu t any niyersiry matter that'

important i a topic for th~ F . In additi n t the nine faculty wh are ele ted to

\11 N E 0 T I 7

the F by their co lleague, chair of e eral other key committees meet \ ith

the F a nonvoting member. "Mo t of the major is ue of the ni

veri ty come thr ugh that committee," say political science profe or W. Phillip Shively, a former F chair. "It ha as its purview everyth ing that' g ing on at the niversity."

"I ee myself as representi ng the faculty, all 5,000 of them, who seem to have 7,000 op ini on ," Garrard says." f course I can 't go out and talk to every one of them." One of her initiatives this year was to et up an electronic forum for faculty, ca lled Faculty\Vrite . he al 0 organized F member to go out in pair to meet with faculty senator in different colleges to get their view on 111-

versity 2000. ommittee minute are now available

to faculty throughout the Univer ity on electronic mail, and the recent popularity of those minutes, written \ ith great detail and subtl ety by executive a sistant Gary Eng trand, ha given tlle F new visibility. "People can a ll but ee the facial expre ion reflected in minutes," arrard ay.

ot surpri ingly, FCC members di -agree on many topics, including even the role of the F it elf. "Some member eem to take it for granted that they are

suppo ed to lobby for faculty interests, or at lea t make sure that a faculty voice is heard ," ay geography profe or John

dam , F C vice chair. "That's appropriate , but I so metim es find my e lf in tead looking at alJ-Uni ersity i sues Fr 111 a fa cuI ty per pective.

"You get different an swers depending n how you define your mi ion on tlle

C0111111i ttee," dams ays." ometime certain faculty prerogatives, it eems to me, work at cro s purp es to the in tirution 's meeting the needs of the tate." a native Minnesotan witll deep r ts in the state, dam ays, he trie to balance hi concern: "What' good for me, what' good for my department, what' good for the niversity, what's good for the tate."

Even when tlley di agree, F mem-bers expre s respect for each ther. "The F ha ome awfully good people n it," dams say. "They're th ughrful and informed, and they work hard. I 'm proud ofh w well they handle their job."

The elected member, be id es ar-

18 MAY - J

rard and dams, are Mario Bognanno of indu trial relations (la t year' chair), R bert J nes of agron my and plant genetic, Karen ea h re Loui and

eoffrey Maruyama from the li ege of Educa tion , Toni Mc ar n f Engli sh,

hirley Zimmerman fr m tlle oll ege f IIuman Ecology, Jame remmel from tlle Morri campus, and IIarvey Peteron from the ro kston campu .

Typically tlle faculty who ern: on the committee ha e di tingui hed records and "are pe pie who have independent

(( I see myself as representing

the/acuIty all 5 0000/

them, who seem to have 7,000

opinions. " standing," hively ay. "They are in a good po ition to speak freely and frankly to the admini tration. It' that independent critical voice that's 0 important."

hively chaired the committee in 1987 -8 ,tlle year Pre ident Kenneth H. Keller wa forced t re ign because of controversy ove r tlle co t of remodeling Ea tcliff, the niver ity president' home. "It wa uch a terrible year," hively says. "Forthe fir t half of the year, we were working with such great h pe, and tllen in the econd half, we were taking care of the p liti cal cri is." I ell er himel f, a profe s r of chemical engineering,

chaired the F in 1976-77. Faculty member wh watch tlle F

from a distance ometime think the com l11i ttee is too eas), on the administrati n . "It's 0 much ea ier to see things in black and white when you kn w very littl e ab ut the i sue ," ar rard say ' .

"For ome f the faculty, th e c 111 -

minee might appea r omctimes to be too timid ," say Warren Ibele, professor

f mechani ca l e ng in eer in g \1 ho w, 19 9-91 F chair. " T think ma y be admini strator in Morri ll I Tall mctimes may ha e round tll e committee a

bit t 0 strid ent. n the major issu , genera lly it has been c.:ffcctive."

\-\lorking losely witll admini trat( d e gi l e faculty an under tanding ho\ tough the i ue are, lbele sa "You an't help but get a littl!:! educat I. You ee that the admini trat rs are t _

ing t do their be t to ad ance the in l. re t fthe niver ity."

"1 have a vel') high regard ~ r the Pi C

ent aomini tration," dam says. "1 h~ job is terribly, terribly difficult. I'm a li ttle urpri ed that they're able to maintam their enthu ia m and good hum r."

erving on tlle F i "an on-the-J lb trall1l11g pr ce regarding the Issue faced here at the niversity," arr~rcl

say. In addition to frequent meeting , committee members mu t keep up II Ith a heavy reading load of committee reports. budget d cument, and policy anal~'si . "You can't ju t pluck someb dy ut of their lab rarory or cia room" and expect them to have all the knowledge they need, he say.

The time commitment is huge, for aJi F member and especla ll} for the chair. "It c me out of their hide~ , it come out f their teaching, it com!:!, out of their re earch," Ibele says. "It's generall y appreciated, but it' a bigacnfice."

" I t \1 a almo t a backbreaking Joh. tl) be hone t about it," S3Y i\like B gnJnno, la t year' chair. "I'm ure thatjud) '5 running int the arne thing thi ' year."

dmini trators have to make decision eery day, and the FC doesn't meet often enough to be consulted about eve lything, Bognanno says. In tead of ca lling together the II hole c mmlttce, Ha elm and ther admini trators rna} c n ult ju t the chair. "The chair is there on the firing line pretty much on a darto-day ba i ," he ays.

lore frequent meetings i ne of the II ay the committee ha changed I'er the year. pen meeting is another. Ibcle. wh was n the fa ulty but nOt the col11-

mittee in tll e endy years, say hi impn:j n is that in tead o f holding regulJr

meeti ngs the committee "kino f SLO(1d .1t

Lh e read "and wa ca lled t ge ther I hen the president wanted athrice. "The pi c,ident didn't want ad\'ice, :lI1d the cont l11ttee didn 't mee t," he says.

Th e F, , nginal'l} ailed the r lilly mmittec , began in the 195_-5 ltac1emic year, \I hen jame Lewi \\1 nil was pre idellt. Regents' Professor \. .e r-

It 5 Al fred ier recall that he if rod uced a motion in the Faculty enal aski ng for creation of the committee b ~a use there was a feeling thal the presit nt wa not in touch with the faculty.

"Mr. Morrill wa not anxiou for more c( .mmittee and bureaucracy, which I can understand. I Ie said, 'I have my dean .' \\ e told him we didn't thjnk deans were a very good avenue and he needed to hear what real faculty were thinking." 10rrill agreed reluctan tly to the forma tion of the committee, 1 ier recalls. "Morrill was decent, but he wasn't enthusiastic."

• ier himself chaired the committee from 1963 to 1968, when O. leredith Wilson wa president. "\,Vorking with \rtlson was a happy experience. He realII consulted. I remember one aturday afternoon in pring he called. cri i had come up and he wanted to talk. \,Ve all came over in our blue jeans."

The committee back then also had regular meeting with a prepared agenda, he av, but only a few a year. "There wasn't that much activity that warranted any more. It wa a happy tranquil time."

Today the time i not tranquil, and the mood among many faculty is not happ}. "There i a grea t orro\\ in the problem that the niver ity ha had over the pa t evera I year ." arrard )~r . "It' almo t a grieving for the excellent reputation \\ e had, and al 0 a grie\"tng for all the excellence that is till here and not known. The public doe n't realIze what a jewel the nil'er ity and its faculty and staff and tudent repre ent."

In the onver ation~ with · 1innesota ab ut the niver it} _000 plan, a number ofMinne otan expre sed upp rt for the plan but feared that it would be tailed bv faculty re istance to change. I arrard concerned about tl1at perception?

''I'm very concerned ab ut that," he lays. "There' a great eagerne s for change among the faculty. Pe p ie are very eager to participate in the nel\ things that are going on." Jew pos ibilities with telecommu11ication and computer are thrilling, and "you can't help but be excited if you can ju. t keep fr m dr 'ning in the mi er. of di couragemell t," she says.

Evel huml1n being' ants to l eep IOn e part f hi or her IV rid table, and cha 1ge is happening so Fa t. Tt's happe n-109 in indu try, it' h'lppening at the COl 1try level, and it's happening here.

There's botll excitement and also a bit of concern about, 'But \ hat happened to life in the pa t, the traditions?' In academia we have centurie of tradition. vVe go back to the reeks."

Another of Garrard' concerns about how the public views niversity faculty IS

that people may think faculr}' are so wrapped up in their research that they don't care about teaching undergraduate. "Faculty do care very much about undergraduates," he ays. "They really represent the foundation of the University.

((You can)t help but get a

little educated. You see that the administrators

are tryzng to do their best to advance the interests of the University.

"\Ve are concerned not only about what they learn but al 0 how they learn and I~hat happen to them, hOIl we can help young people create them ehe into mature young adult. \\ ' e can't teach them everything they need to

kno'\ . In many case, we teach them how to learn what tl1e) need to know."

arrard 1I'0rrie , too, about the rift bet\~een faculty on the twO ide of \ Va hington Avenue-Medic,ll chool and other health sciences faculty on one ide and the rest of the faculty in ~lin

neap Ii n the other. Hurt and angered by re ent nell ' torie, ome ;\le lical

ch I F.lcult) believe they are all unfairly percei"ed in ide and out ide the nivcr i ly a ' greedy or unethical, II hi Ie ome facu lty n the ther i:le f the

,wenue feel that di h n r ha f.lllen on their niver it) becau e f misdeed in the Medical ch 01.

Garrard, whose academic degrees are in psychology and whose whole career has been in the health ciences, may be just the right per on to be chairing the FCC this year. "I got a heavy dose of liberal arts education in my formative year ," she says. "The health sciences represent omething of a different cul ture in many respects. Knowing what I do, and having lived in this culture all my academic life, makes it more complex than if! were blessed \vith ignorance.

"~1y job i to repre em all of the faculty. I can under tand where different facult), groups are coming from."

One problem in the health ciences, she thinks, is that faculty haven't cho en to participate more in the Cniver ity governance tructure. Garrard has taken the lead this year in organizing health science enator to form a governance body similar to the College of Liberal Arts As embly.

ne i ue on which facult)' on both ide onVashingron I'enue were united

wa their anger with an article in the Star Tribune about the fi h re earch of two ;\ledical chool facult)·, Anthonr Fara and Leo Furcht.

At the January 6 FCC meeting with Pre idem Ha elmo Karen ea hore Louis thanked him for a letrer he "Tote to the new paper in upport of the two faculty member. "I do not know them. I do not know the circum rance ," he aid, but they were treated unfairly in

the article and it wa important for the pre idem to defend them. Other FCC member echoed her word: ' Agree! Agree!"

t the ame meeting, Ha elmo thanked the FC member for their role in leading the Facult), enate to a 116-14 yote in fal'or of are olution that'( trongI~' end r e the need ~ r a trategic plan" and endor e the five rrategic directions outlined in niyer it), :?OOO. "It wouldn' t have h.lppened without you," he aid.

\ \ l1en tl1e regen I'oted unanim usl" for tl1e Unil'ersit), :?OOO plan in January:. Ha elmo again acknowledged the contribution f faculty leader. "Thi plan would not be here tOlhy if it were not for very active and trong facult)' lead rship. n

Facult), and taffhal'e g ne twO years out of three with ut rai e , and fuculty have been ubjected to "a I t of mindJe : ba hing," he aid. "\\'e have t make ure that weexpre urappreciati n." ...

\\ \ " " F , 0 T \ I 9

hen Jim dons his hat a Minnesota's state legislative auditor, he e li cits a wide range of emotion from those with whom he come in con tact. Envy is

se ldom among them. s the per on responsible for ensuring that more than 180 tate or state-supported organizations toe the line when it comes to fiscal and programmatic accountability,

obles often draws a welcome comparable to that afforded a visitor ftom the Internal Revenue Service or a dentist with a drill in one hand and a needle in the other.

"There is often a good deal of nervousness and tension in the air when we how up," says Nobles, wh o earned a

master of science degree from the University's Hubert H . Humphrey Institute of Public Affair in 1973. "People eem to equate our appearances with omething very dramatic happening. In fact, a number of high officials have ort of 'taken their exit' after we've showed up to do our work. But it's not a if every time we do an audit somebody takes a fall."

The more common cenario, according to Nobles, is that he and his staff forge a cooperative working arrangement with whatever program or in titution i being eva luated in order to identify and re olve problem. ccasiona ll y, h wever, situations oble and hi taff uncover

20 M/lV -JUNF ' 994

State legislative auditor Jim Nobles

follows a family tradition

become new paper headline . \. ith the pressure on, people under investigation often look for omeone to blame for their trouble, and obles is generally fingered as the bad guy.

t fir t glance, oble eem to wear the black hat rather well. With his neatly trimmed beard and wire-rimmed gla es, he can appear a bit aloof. But beginning with a firm hand hake, he i quick to make visitors feel at home in his t. Paul office. Articulate and clever, ob les spices hi conversation liberally with anecdote that tend to lead him on a circuitous route toward hi final de tination.

"I've always been intere ted in government," ays obles, "but I didn't want to get involved in politics per se. I'm not interested in running for office. Thi job lets me make a contribution to good, efficient government. That's very atisfying. We see results from the work we do. ur reports don 't end up on a shelf somewhere co ll ecting dust. \ Ve see organization becoming more responsible and making better use of the re ource they have.

"It's especia lly rewarding to d this kind of work in Minne ota. The people here care about accountabili ty and efficiency. You don't have people trying to intimidate you and convince YOll t teer clear of certain program becau e they arc run by paroch ial intere ts. People in Mi nne ota care about go d g ve rnment. That's not trlle everywhere."

Though he' not a native Minne otan, ob les ha lived and worked here for

orne 22 yea r -and hi fami ly ties t tll e

of public service BY CH K BE DA

state go back to his great-great-grandfather, WilJjam Remington oble (name-ake of obles ounty in uthwe tern

Minnesota), who ettled in ;V1inne~ Cl 10

the J 840s; an invent r, expedition leader, and jaek of all trade, he erveu III the Minnesota Territorial Legislature.

"He was the sort of man \1 ho eemed to like to get on hi hor e and ride ,~est,"

ay oble of hi great-great-grandfa-ther. "His son follo\ ed in hi father\ footstep . tinkering, inventing. tral·ehng. He became an engineer working the mine in 010r3do."

ble ' great-grandfather e\'entuall~ ettled in IIot prings, rkan as . IllS

grandfatller became a prominent citizen tll ere, active in civi affair, prompting Jim Nobles's own intere t in w rking in government. \Vhile he wa growing lip in IIot prings, Jim bles met . omeonc wh may have helped lidi~' hiS interest in public li~ :

"I went to high ch I in I-I l pn ngs with Bi ll linton," obles ay. "lIe was a year ahead f me in school, but he re.lll) erved a kind of <1 r Ie model. 1 Je \\al

doing:l lot of thing 1 admired." ftcr fini hing hi gh ch 01 in J lot

obl s enr !lcd at the nivl rSI

hough he , ~s 11IIt ,I

M r111 n, transferred to BrigI al11

ni er ity after h i fre hl11<1n car

and completed hi tudie there earning a bachelor's degree in political science in 1971. 'When he began to 10 k for a graduate chool, the program at the I1lversJ~' of linne ota caught his e e.

"The niversity was doing ome re rga Ol zing at the time," he says. "John Brandl had come here and e tabli hed the In titute of Public ffair [now the Huhert H. Humphrey In titute of Public A.ffa ir ), and the were offering a program with an economic orientati n to\\ Jrd policy analy i that appealed to me. e ides, returning t the of 1 pre,ent'd a ni e opportuni ty t come ba k to an aea \ here my family had s me r ts. '

While he \ a in graduate ch 01, o 'les landed an int rn hip in the

resll rch department of the linne 'ota Leg 'Iatu re. \-Vhen he graduated in 197 ,

PHO GRAPHED BY DOUG KNUTSON

he took a full-time job a a legi lati e re earcher. In 19 9, he became head of the program evaluation branch of the tate legi Jative auclitor' office.

"I began to ink my own roots in l\linne ota," oble a. . "I felt very much at home."

Pan of that proce of inking roots wa helping to deye! p an actiye alumni ociery for the Humphrey In titute. "\ Ve

e pecially \\'anted to work with tuden ," say oble, who en'ed a ne of the earl chair of the board of direct

and the ever-changing nature of what we get into i increclible. Literally within a weekldeah\;thi u thatcanrangefrom upercornputers to ex offenders to how

we are doing with the institutionalization of the mentally ill to how \\'e are doing in road repair. d I ha\'e a yery vibrant taff of orne 0 people who are ah\"3) challenging to work with and deal with. Haymg inter t and pa ion i not a problem."

l\Ian. of the t.lff members-roughly 45 financial 3uclitor , 1 - program enluator , and 10 upport taff-were al 0

trained at the Uni\'er ity, according t Tobie . The dem.md placed on them

require a capable, edu ated QToup. ","' Te're a lot like the General ccount-

ffice [ 1 at the federal leYel," oble . "\\ ' e haye to ha\'e \' rr

killed pe pie who can f cu inten Iy £ r

\1 1 " £ DT \ 2 1

a period of LX to eight months in order to gather the necessary information to evaluate the wide range of program we cover." Ju t like the G 0, the legi lative auditor's office is charged with program evaluations that go far beyond traditional financial audits to place the information in a meaningful context.

In r ece nt years, Nob les's job has brought him back to the University under circumstances rather less plea ant than hi graduate chool days or his involvement with the Humphrey Institute alumni ociety. The auditor's office had followed an informal hands-off policy toward the

niversity until the con trover y over the remodeling of Eastcliff. "Ea tcliff really opened the door for this office to be more involved at the University," says obles.

ubsequent questions about management of the physical plant, the upercomputer Institute, and, most recently, the Medical

chool have kept Noble and hi taff busy identifying challenging problems for Uni er ity administrators to resolve . Alth ou g h this wou ld eem to make

obles an adversary of his alma mater, he doe n'tseeitthatway.

"I know it might seem to some people that it would put me in an awkward po ition and create some confli ct, but it really doesn't," says Nobles. "I think you can be both a supporter of the Univer ity-even feel affection for the University-and till audit the University and be a critic. What we do is much broader than a financial audit, but we respect the autonomy of the University and tlle need for intellectual independence. We don't evaluate the performance of academic departments. I think that would really be inappropriate. But I think it's very legitimate for us to a k questions about efficiency and effectiveness and the use of resources."

Although obles's pre ence may sti ll make people at the Univer ity unea y, his approach to doing the job has helped ease the difficulty.

"Jim Nobles is an extraordinary as et to the work of the legislati ve audit commi -ion," says Senator Phil Riveness, com

mi ion chair. "While it's alway unc mfortable to be tlle ubject of an audit, Jim' style is less confrontational and accu atory than it i educational and upportive. His approach is to a k the question 'How an we use tl,is process to make changes we all agree on?'" oble's work on tlle phy ical plant issue at the University is an excellent

22 MAY-JlI E [994

person would have to be blin~

quite frankly) not to see how important the University is to this state.

example, Rivene says. ue Markham, a sociate vice president

for facilitie management, continue to work with Nobles in an effort to re olve problem with the physical plant. "'Ve went through a period of time during which there wa a great deal of anger at the legislative auditor," ays Markham, who assumed management re ponsibilities for the phy ical plant after tlle initial con trover yaro e and ha played a crucial role in initiating change. "The bu ine s systems here had fai led, not tlle people, but the people wanted to blame omebody for what had happened. It wa very easy to say, 'V e're angry at Jim oble and he' wrong.'

"But Jim ha surrounded him elf witl, an out tanding staff and together tlle), have hown tlle), are tmly committed to eeing po i tive changes. Because they

wear auditors' hats, they must identify problems, but they have shown continued interest in resolving tllOse problem and have created a positive, upportive approach to getting result."

Despite the occasi nal adver arial encounter, oble remain a staunch supporter and even an advocate of the University.

" person wou ld have t be blind, quite frankly, not to ee h w important the University is to this tate," oble say. "The niver ity IS Important as a center f technologica l development and economic development, but it i much more than tllese thing.

"I rea lly believe in e lucation in a very idea li stic, almo t roma nti way. The University i tlle repositolY four greate t hope and idea ls. The sa me character-

ISO that are important t an auditOl being obje tive, eeking the tmth and I ting tl,e chips (all where they may-; e all ideal that are upheld in a uni\er~i

It's the notion of learning, of 5C •

improvement, f overcoming our igll J

rance. he niversity, more tllan all -where el e, i where tho e ideal are h, Id in highe t esteem.

"In my j b I get caught up in issue )f how well the niver ity i bemg managed-the phy ical plant, the accounting r tern -and all tho e are important.

But we hould not 10 e sight of the fact that the niversity is supposed to be a place where young people go to be tramformed into brighter, better, more CI (

minded, more responsible, more m3tllle human being. And that' taking place in the cla room. Eve!) day, in hundreds of elas rooms acro campus, the real \\ ork of the Univer ity goe on."

Furthermore, ! obles points Out, the niver ity has re ponded \\ ell to CritI

cisms he and hi co-worker ha\'e ral ed obles cite the change and imprm(

ments in me phy ical plant a one of the mo t rewarding results of hi job: "I mmk my ffice wa lked into the UniverSIty at J

time when the g erning tnlcture \\3'

really in a tate f cri i . That' changed a great deal. I) ense i that Pre~idcnt Ha elmo has a I t (upp rt from the regents. I think it is particular!) encuuraging that in the midst of the recent controver y over the upercomputer Imtl tute and the ledical chool, I la ~t:ll1ln

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ow just pa t the halfway point of hi, se ond six-year appo inonel1l, oble h.11 serve I ten yea rs as legislative audItor. I [II well (enthusiasm ~ r hi w rk dOl n't appear to be nll1ning dry.

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24 MAY - JUNE 1 994 ILLUSTRATED BY LINDA FRICHTEL

n our third report on diversity at the University) Minnesota examines the climate for students of color on the Twin Cities campus and reports on what administrators are doing to improve it BY TERESA SCALZO

Sticks and st017eS may break my bones, but words will

never hU1Tme. Generations o f child re n have recited that rhyme in response to taWlts by playground bul li es, bu t everyone knows

tha t words can hurt. And sometimes words make tile University of Minnesota a very W1pleasant place for students of color.

Perhaps no one knows that more tllan three graduate students in the geography department on tile Twin Cities campus. Last year, David Mara lack and Udesh Pillay of South Africa and Sarvar Kotllavala fro m India received several tll rea tening anonymous letters. Hatred dripped from the pages: "America is for Am eri cans, you lowly colored humans. Take your black dog guru [a reference to the group's faculty adviser] and get out of here." Another me m o was ove r t ly t hr eate nin g: "Kothava la-QuTT that offensive atti re. You are asking for misery. Maralack-you lowly hybrid, stop creating trouble. Ti-ITS

is your last chance. P ill ay, you will leave anyway .... We will tra umatize you in ways that you cannot imagine. All of you. GET OUT OF 1IERE."

Severa l weeks after the letters were sent, someone opened tile locked door of the office Kothava la and P illay share a teaching ass istants and ransacked and vanda lized their desks. Papers and books were scattered, drawers were emptied on the fl oor , a compu ter was overturned, and at lea t 40 of Kothava la's computer disks-representi ng five yea rs' worth of work-were sto len. Late r, a note that read "go away" was left witll human feces and ne of the stolen computer disks by the office door.

Police have not identi fied tile person or people responsible, tl10ugh tlley believe it was likely to have been someone in tile geography department who had keys to the offi ces and knew the students' routine. "I fee l very angly and frustrated," Pillay told the Minnesota Daily after his office was

vandalized. "Our privacy and our freedom have been violated."

Other instances on the Twin Cities campus in the past year include:

• Photographs of African American counseling psychology graduate tudents were stolen from a bulletin board in Burton Hall; photos of white students were not touched.

• A Jewish resident of Bailey Hall found a swastika on his door.

• Someone wrote "nigger" in human feces in a fourth floor bathroom in Bailey Hall.

• Also in Bailey, a white student called a black student "nigger," and subsequently was arrested for disorderly conduct.

• A week after school began last fall , someone posted an unofficial sign in the St. Paul Student Center saying African American and gay students could not use the center.

Racist behavior on campus is not typical

ly as threatening a that in the geography department, but it is always disconcerting for the students who are its target.

In the Campus Diversity Survey conducted la t year by tile Office of the Vice President for Student Affair, 58 percent of students of color who responded aid they have fe lt di criminated against or harassed on the Twin Cities campu .

Rachel Paulose, a twenty-year-old double h no1'S major in poli tica l science and hi tOlY, ski pped her senior year of high school and moved from Ohio to MiIU1esota to atte nd th e U ni ver ity. She is a

ational Merit Scholar, a Truman Scholar, and chair of the student representatives to the Board o f Regents, and ha been active in student governm ent ince her second yea r at me Univer ity. On a recent visit to tile M ione ta Book enter on the M innea po li ca mpu s, she no ti ced an empl yee sitting on a tool while severa l

students searched nearby bookshelves for textbooks. When Paulose approached the shelve, the employee immediately stood up and followed Paulose around as she hopped. Paulose is Asian American. She

was born in India and moved to the United States when she was eighteen months old. "These things stil l happen, " she says. "Sometimes it's hurtful. Sometimes it's annoying. But I always notice it. I'm not treated the same way as others. Sometimes it's just looks I get from people. Or when I go to a restaurant, I get a table way in the back. What I've found [on campus] is that racist actions are not overt."

Although Amelious Whyte, 25, was accepted by his first choice for graduate school-Harvard ' John F . Kennedy School of Government-he chose instead to attend the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affair at the University of Minne ota. He was impressed by the programs offered at the Humphrey Institute and he decided that M.innesota would be a good place to study government because of its history of innovative public policy. Perhap mo t importantly, he was offered an attractive financial aid package. Whyte, who is African American, grew up in ew York City and attended college at the Univer ity of Soutllern California, so he wa used to a more diver e environment. But in itially, he felt welcome in M.innesota. He saw that the Humphrey Institute was making an effort to recruit a diverse pool of students, and he found the faculty supportive and welcoming-for the most part. T hen he took a course from a profe sor who frequently said things that Whyte found offensive. For example, the professor u ed the terms ghetto, slums, an d projects interchangeably. Whyte grew up in a hou ing project and doesn't con ider his old neighborh od to be a lum or a gh etto. W hen Whyte protested, tile pro fessor accused him of being defensive and wanting to start argument . "There were days when I did not go to cla s becau e I just didn 't feel !.ike

M I N£SOT 25

G. Bruce Meyers

" ven

if we hired ten counselors and kept our doors open eighteen hours a daYJ

we would still be unable to meet the demand. JJ

being in th e sa me room with him," ays \Nhyte. "Throughout the whole [quarter]

he wou ld say thing that people viewed a insensitive and I just don ' t think that he

wlder to d why." There are judicia l PI' ce es at the

26 MAY-JUNE [994

niver ity for students who want to make

formal complain ts relating to faculty or

student conduct, denial of employment or

scholar hip opportuni tie , or envir nment, but many tudents he itate to do s . "There are times when chall enging the

system rea ll y doesn't help and actually

hurts you," says Paulo e. "And it hurts all the people who are in the arne categ ry a you. There have been time ,hen I

len w if I cha ll enge a ituation I'm going

to go through character a sas ination. I'm going to have peop le cha ll enge my motive and que tion me instead f the

per on who committed the act. I realize it i selfi h of me, but I have to think about h w [challenging omeone] wil l affect me long term, whether it will actually ch ange

the per on in que tion, and whether it will produce benefits not ju t for me, but ~ r people of color in general."

upport mechani m for tudent of color are in place at the niversity and admini trators are working constantly to

improve them. The Office for Minority and pecia l Student ffairs (OM ) was establi hed in 1977 to addre academic, historical, and environmental barriers to tudents' ucces in higher education. Included under that office'

jurisdiction are four ethnic learning re ource centers and four tudent cultural center, for African An,erican , An1erican Indian, ianlPacific American, and C hi

cano/Latino tudent . T h e learning resource centers certify for the OMS program tudents who meet t\ 0 of th e following criteria: (1) member of a

minority group, (2) an academic di advantage, (3) a financial disadvantage. tu dents who are OM -certified are eligib le to receive a variety of suppor t

service, incl uding academic advising, persona l and financial aid counseling,

tutoring, career guidance and cou n eling, advocacy, and cult11ral program.

"This is a very complex univer ity and

it could be easy for minority studen ts to just get fed lip and ay, 'I'm leavi ng. It's not for me. It's too impersonal,''' ays

buya Tsuchida, lirector of M "A lot f people don't understand tllat minori ty st11dent who come ",itl, vatying

degrees f di sa lva ntages rea ll y n eed

addition al he lp to und ersta nd th e y tem. It's n t just your intellecLual ability. To

urvive you have to know the y tem and take adva ntage of it. Th, t' why it i ery

criti ca l fo r tile Univer ity to provide ser-

vices for st11dents of co lo r who ha e c -I ture-specific need tllat are not easily ffi l t byexi ting ervice ."

. Bruce Meyer, J i rect r of tI merican Indian Le.uning Re oun

enter, recounts a re ent four-week pL -od in hi ffice . ne tudent did r t

receive the tribal fund to pay hi tui ti, 'n and bu textbo k until almost three

weeks into the quarter. Ratl1er than do poorly in hi s cia e, he dropped out. Anotl,er t11dent had an ou tanding loan

on hi record, which pr hibited him from regi tering for cia e. U nable to payoff the 500 loan, he dropped out to earn the

money. Meyers al had to intervene on behalf of a st11dent whose car had broken

down, leaving her .vith no way to get her children to day care and her elf to cia sse " \ e advocate for student in these instance,' ay !{eyer. "I know we're

not a ocia l service agency, but m~se extenuating circumstances, problem, within the community, getting adjusted , knowing where the re urce are, reall) take a toll on ollr rodents."

To help meet roden 'need, Meyers

ha hired an extra coun elor but, he sa) , 'even if we hired ten coun elor and kept

our do rs open eighteen h ur a da}, we \ ould till be unable to meet the demand."

Tim ,Meyer has begwl recruiting American Indian from the Twin itie to em as ment rs to the tudents. "Right now lie have matched 23 mentor with rodents. That's 23 extra people we ha e helpmg our t11dents, making sure me ' feel con

nected, making sure they know wher the re ource are, taking them out to dinner once in a while, topping b to 3}" 'How are thing going?'"

O erall , lack of ~nancial re ource con011ues to

be a major prob lem for

tud ents of co lor at tbe Unj er ity. the number

of t11d ents ha ri en, the

am unt of available aid in the form f federal gra nt and other

appli ed-fo r mon ey has been hrin~ ing each year. And tile rule ~ I' applying tor finan ial aid may ca ll e hardship f, r ,ttl

dents f col r a well. F r instance, 111'ID)'

ian tudenLS ' parents do n t live it tlle nite I tate, if th ya re held ttl the

sta ndard pro edure for npp lying for fi l J]'

ial aid, which in lude I r viding COpl . of

tI, eir parent ' t~x ret1ll'n , tl1ey ,Ire UI hie

II complete the application packet. In , 'dition, while many tudents can rely on f 'nily upport if they need a few extra dol-I • until the next aid check arrives, many 5 jdents of color do not have thi option and must drop out of chool if they can't nleet their financial needs.

In a study titled" Report on the taM of rodents of Color" that Jo ie Johnson, a ociate vice pre ident for academic a and assocIate provo t with special responsibility for minority affairs, submitted to the Board of Regents la t December, he wrote," dequate financial aid alone may not guarantee the minority tudents' ati factory progress. However, the removal of the financial barrier is a precondition for their academic succes at the Gniver ity of linnesota."

To that end, the President' linority Ta k Force on trengthening Excellence through Diver lty, formed in 19 9 by Vniver ity Pre ldent 1 il Ha elmo, i sued a erie of recommendation to Improve the academic eX'Perience for fac-

I ult}' and undergraduate and graduate tudents of color. In the area of financial aid,

I they recommended that financial aid e timate be guaranteed upon acceptance to all fir t-ye r minority and high-abi lity sruden , and that funds be re en'ed for mmority tudents who e application are received cl er t the tarting date of the quarter. The ta k ~ rce al recommended that ollege dean expl re the potential for private d nor to pon or addinonal cholar hips for rodents of color at

the niver it}, which i bei ng done already in ome college. Finally the ta k force ugge ted that the niver it}, pro\,de financial aid for tudent of color who attend cho I part time, beyond what i available thr ugh onrinuing Education and Exten i n. urrentiy, part-time tudent are n t eligible for

\1 funding, federal and ampu dollar, and m t department fund. Only the fir t two of th ere ommenda-tion have been implemented far.

.\nother barrier is the current h rt

age of work-study grants. \ Vork- tudy i a t;lrIl1 f financial aid that qualifie tudents t appl ~ r ertain j b . u ually n cap lpu .. ,\ ork n ampu i really rioeal" ay Johnson. "You get to kl1 \ [the VI I 'er ity). Y u under tand h " it fun -tio 1 • \ e rea lly want that expericn e ~ r ou ~tuden f c I r a a wa f integrat-in~ them in th mmLUti ty."

P)i l f OGAAPHS BY HIKE BURIAN

Amelious Whyte

" hroughout the whole

[quarter} he WOlf ld say things that people viewed as insensitive and I just don t think that he understood thy.

\II 'IE OT\ 27

" ou have

to have people interact with others and get to know them)

understand them) see them. And our students will only do that when they feel comfortable) and when they see that the playing field is level and

everyone has an equal

. )) opportuntty. Josie Johnson

Three faces of the University. These students, left to right, are from Trinidad, Laos, and the United States.

In addition to moneyworries, some students fee l

that the curricu lum does not adequately represent people of color. "In ome cJas es, when we were talking about political involve

ment, it was assumed that everyone would have an equ al shot a t impacting the proce ," ays Whyte. "But people of color may not fee l that they can go to their [representative) and that theywiU be listened to."

28 MAY - JUNE ' 994

Jol:ulSon decries the absence at the ruversity of materials written by minority cholars. "The materials are out there," she

say , "they're ju t not here. The assumption that students make, r that faculty imply, is that the materia! don't quite fit the ruversity of Minnesota's curriculum."

Another curriculum is ue i courses the niver ity require tudents to take before they can graduate. Paulo e is a member of the ounci l for Liberal Education, which nne Hopkin, the Univer-ity's vice president for arts, cience , and

engineering, created in 1992 to formulate new graduation requirement. "I think the Univer ity has taken positive step ," says Paulose. "We have di cussed mandatory cultural pluralism cour e fora ll tudents at the niversity becau e many tudents wh come [here) haven't had exposure to other etl1J1ic group . Taking those courses helped me llJ1der tand what diversity means. But I'm al 0 concerned that if we have cultural pluralism c urse, then peo pl e tI,ink it ' all taken care f

when really we sh uld make m re of an effort to integrate i ue urroundmg people of color into every cour e II hen it's relevant." onetl1ele ,beginning full quarter 1994, all tuden will be required I to take a cour e dealing witl1 human rela tions and cultural awarene .

Also critical i ilie 1<1 k f teaching a sistJnt

opp rtill1 i ties for graduate tudents of color. recent niver ity study offenJJle

graduate tudents h011 ed that minority fem il le

grad uate tudents are Ie likel to get teaching a i tant hip . "Faculty would say pretty deli berately, 'I can't work , irh her. I'm ju t not comrortab le, ' " ~Jy J o hn on . "They would take a \I nne woman graduate tudent, but not a gl duate student or 10r. ,..Jl/ graduate stud nl> need tint kind of ment ring in nit r to a si t them in lheir a ademie work: Ire:-enting paper , havi ng j int :JlIt11 r h p in

CrI tical w rk, getting tho e experiences tha t prepare them for employment and tenure-track po itions."

It' not ju t faculty who are ho tile toward international and graduate tudents of color. \Nhyte, who i now an asSI t:lnt to the vice pre ident for tudent affair, recall a recent conver ation he had with an undergraduate tudent who came to his office to complain about In ternational' teaching a i tant who don' t peak English.' The tudent wa also up et that the e tudent \ ere receiving cholar hip that he believe should go to American . \Nhyte told him that the tudent w uldn't be tea hing here if ilie didn't peak Engli h, and iliat ,rudents cho e to attend tile niler ity be,1U e iliis i where they want t get theIr edu ation . " lot f people iliink tile c are t man [thi or ilint gr up an that ilie ni er ity i going out f i \\'3) to recruit ilie e people and iliereb 101\ ring i cltldard , but that i jU ' t not the ase," 3) \Nhyte.

PkO OG RAPHS BY PER BREIEHAGEN

The Pre ident' Minority Ta k Force recommendations for graduate tudenrs include providing peer group suppOrt to

help new graduate tudents acclimate to

their re pectiye coli ge , convening a half-day workshop at lea t once a year for directors of graduate tudy and appropriate faculty and taff from profe ional ch I to oi cus \I'a) to a 1 t !!TIlduate tudent in completing their p:'ogram ,

and guaranteeing full funding ~ r ilie four to ~ years it ma take tudenrs to complete meir progrJt11S. Implementation of mese re onmlendation i under wa)" and n taff po ition i bing tabli hed in ilie

raduate cho I f r recruiting and tud n I r.

The ampu Dil'er ity urvey f, und mat po -

itive hang are urring in h \1 tudents lie\\' ne an ilier. In re p n e to J

que tion a king tudents if ilieir attitudes toward p 0-

pie of different races, eAuaJ orientation, or religious bac:lsaround had changed since me)' arri\'ed on campus, tudents reported feeling more accepting toward e\'err group except men, in general, tOl ard \I·hom the feel I accepting. "\\Te repre-eot a mirror of the larger ociety," a)

,\!3f\"a.!ene Hugh ,\ice president for tudent affair . "To e:\-pect our tudents to arrive at me Unil'ersit)"~im a different et of \"alue man the ociety from whence ilier come i not to be fair ~o tudents. tudents arrive wim little eA-perience with diver-it)" particularly if they are from i\linn ora, unl me)' are from certain corrunuruo in i\linneapoli or t. PauL

ur r earch hO\I that as tudenrs!!"3.i.n more e.\.-perience in college, ili r b c~me more t lerant, and that' a! true nationlIide. 'Ve probably repre ent me noml but, frankly, I haye higher cmdard ilian iliat. I would like to create me id aJ m-munityattll ni, rsiryofi\linn ta."

Toward iliat end, Hugh cr ated ilie tudent Diver it)' In tirute, , hi h i

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designed to "actively promote the multicul tural development of students at the

niversity of Minnesota." Unique to postsecondary education in the United States, the insti tute provides training, workshops, consu ltations, advocacy, internship and research opportunities, and small grants in an effort to combat oppression based on human difference . Since the insti tute opened in 1992, its staff has conducted more than 200 individual training sessions on diversity for more than 5,000 faculty, staff, and studen ts. During the 1992 -93 academic year, sixteen students participated in the insti tute's Diversity Connections Internship P rogram, which includes a day-long retreat and weekly seminars aimed at raising awareness of differences and developing skills to create a better campus climate. In the same year, five students received grants of $500 for participating in "extended immersion experience' to help them see the world from a perspective of those who are different from themselves.

Beyond thi , says Hughes, "it's just important that we be available to students. I have open hours every Friday afternoon for two or three hours. I usually see about six students who ordinarily would not have the opportunity. Some have complaints or are eeking advice, others ju t drop in because they know I'm there. '

J ohnson believe that the be t way to

improve the campus climate is to involve students of color in the community. Mo re than half of the student wh responded to the Campu Diver ity urvey said they either do not experience a ense of community at dIe Univer ity at

all or experience it only to a maJl extent. Beca u e of the racial makeup of the student body, it i not uncommon for students f color to find them elve alone in a cla s of whi te tudent taugh t by a white profe or. "Our ethnic tudents have to put up with a lot f isolation in many of th e course they take," say J ohn on. "For example, eldom will students of color be invited to join a rudy group. It' one way dlat preven them from becoming full-fl edged members of dle mmunity. You have t have people interact wi dl odler and get to kn w them, under-tand dIem, see them. Id ur studen

will n ly 10 dIat when they feel comfortable :U1d when dley ee dlat the playing fie ld is level and everyb dy ba an equa l

3 0 Y - JU E 1994

" eJve

got to create an atmosphere

[at the University] that saysJ (UI(/ re

glad youJre here. J JJ

Tim Wolf

opportunity. Until we can do that, our tudents will continue to feel isolated,

and the old attitude toward people of color will remain."

The students and staff who were contacted for this article generally agree that respon ibility for changing the campu climate does not lie olely with the administration . "Just to take a potshot at the administration wimout giving them a clue how to do iliings differendy wouldn' t be fair," says Meyer . "INe have to tell them what we want and then sugge tome new program and policies to achieve it. ment ring pr gram i one way d13twe can help meet [dle ni ersity' ] g al of retaining Indian undergraduate tuden . 0 this year we'll start a mentoring program and ne t year we may come up with a proposal to pr vide more ervi e to graduate and pr fe i na l tudents."

Tim VV If, wh received hi ba helor' degree in urban tudie from the

niver ity in 1993 and is now director of its tudent dvo ate ervi e, ays, "It is not the re pon ibility of the white [p pulation] to layout dle red carpet and wine and dine pe pie or 01 r, but y 1I ca n certainly make u fee l welc me. \I e've gOl to create an atmosphere [at the niver 'ity] dIal say, 'We're gla I y u're here.' We're not a king f, r ;) handout, ju t let pe pIe f lor kn w th t if there's anyiliing yuan do t assist u ,you're there.

If someone is not willing to go ut to d 1-

ner widl you or be your friend, at It st when you fir t get here, your chance f urvival are minimal. But I'm not g l:lg

to di appear. That' wha t [people of color] do-they di appear."

I

The harassmen t ') f the students in the

geography departm ent stopped suddenl y In May 1993. dmini tra - I tors and faculty in the department say t hey

felt helpless to do anything other than relieve the tudents of th eir a i tantship re pon ibilities and gi 'c them enough financial support tf) continue their re earch and studies at the Univer ity unhindered.

"It wa really ou t of our control becau e we had no idea who wa doing it, " ays geography profes or JOhL

dam , who wa the department' acting chair at the time of the attack. "We pent a lot of time making ure that the

people who" ere under attack were upported. They were given financial support to help minimize the obstacle that the incidents had cau ed. \ e have had a I t of foreign rodents in thi deparunent and never had this problem before. I'crall, I would ay we are a more heterogeneous department than mo t n campus and iliat it i a friendly place."

The graduate tudent did not respond to Nlil1nesota' requ t iliat the) comment n the incident, but all three bave v wed to continue their tudies at dle niver ity.

Paul s belie e that change mu 't ccur at an individual, a well a an imo

tuti nal, level. "I reali ze that' a big challenge," she -ay , 'but when I think about b w deepl [raci 111] ha affected people and h wit ha hurt many people .... It make me ad t think mat we till h;lI c thi pI' blem and that we can' t creat each

ther kind ly or equall r e en civill} ju r because of skin c lor or ethnic background. 0 I think it' a change that come with a personal c nviction and a ense f what's right and wr ng. ()bl~u Iy, President Has elm and the! can

provide leader hip and 111 ral guid, nee, but un less more pe pie intera t\ ith ')copie of c lor and gain :1 per nal 01 ' Icrtanding f thi i 'ue nd hoI' it a( cr:.

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Systemwide Minority Student Enrollment by Ethnicity and Percent of Total Enrollment

%

American Indian Fall 1988* 377 0.7%

Fall 1992 399 0.8%

Fall 1993 428 0.9%

Chicano/Latino Fall 1988* 534 1.0%

Fall 1992 640 1.3%

Fall 1993 679 1.4%

African American Fall 1988* 956 1.7%

Fall 1992 1,075 2.2%

Fall 1993 1.175 2.4%

Asian/Pacific Fall 1988* 1,803 3.3%

Fall 1992 2,266 4.6%

Fall 1993 2.501 5.2%

All Minority Fall 1988* 3,670 6.7% Fall 1992 4.380 8.9% Fall 1993 4.786 9.9%

Includes University of Minnesota, Waseca Note The data include all full-time and part-tome minority undergraduate, graduate, professional. and unclassified students, and exclude International students.

Source; Office of the Registrar

Minority Undergraduate Enrollment in Fall 1992, Minority Recipients of Bachelor's Degrees in 1992-93, and Percent of Total Enrollment and Graduates, Twin Cities Campus

Fall 1992 %

American Indian Enrollment 183 0.8% Grad uates 27 0.5%

Chicano/Latino En rollment 379 1.5% Graduates 56 1.0%

African American Enrollment 700 2.9% Graduates 83 1.5%

Asian/Pacific Enrollment 1,593 6.5%

240 4.4%

II Minority r rollment 2,855 11.7% ( raduates 406 7.4%

5 >urce: Office of the Registrar

Systemwide Minority Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty and Percent of Total Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty

%

American Indian October 1988 6 .2%

October 1992 II .3%

October 1993 13 .4%

African American October 1988 25 .8%

October 1992 35 1.1%

October 1993 42 1.4%

Chicano/Latino October 1988 35 1.1%

October 1992 39 1.2%

October 1993 38 1.2%

Asian/Pacific American October 1988 146 4 .5%

October 1992 186 5.8%

October 1993 184 5.9%

All Minority October 1988 212 6.6%

October 1992 271 8.4%

October 1993 277 8.9%

Total Faculty October 1988 3,228 100.0%

October 1992 3,196 100.0% October 1993 3.111 100.0%

Note: The tenured and tenure-track faculty includes professors. associate professors, assistant professors, instructors. and Regents' Professors.

Source: Human Resources Information System, Counts of Regular Faculty by Sex and Race

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Systemwide Minority Academic Executives and Percent of Total Academic Executives

%

American Indian O ctober 1988 3 .5% O ctober 1992 5 .9% O ctober 1993 4 .8%

Chicano/Latino O ctober 1988 3 .5% O ctober 1992 6 1.1% O ctober 1993 5 1.0%

Asian/Pacific American October I 988 5 .9% O ctober 1992 12 2. 1% October 1993 12 2.3%

African American O ctober 1988 13 2.4% O ctober 1992 15 2.6% O ctober 1993 15 2.9%

All Minority O ctober 1988 24 4.4% October 1992 38 6.7% O ctober 1993 36 6.9%

Total Executive s O ctober 1988 546 100.0% October 1992 567 100.0% October 1993 522 100.0%

Note: The academic executives category includes president. senior vice president. vice president. associate and assistant vice president. chancellor. vice chancellor. a.ssociate and assistant vice chancellor. dean. associate and assistant dean . university librarian. executive director and corporate secretary to the Board of Regents. general counsel. University attorney. vice provost. director (University-wide). associate and assistant director (University-wide) . Office of Minority and Special Student Affairs coordinator. director (campus/college level) . associate and assistant directors (campus/ college level). departmenta l director. associate and assistant departmental director. chair (with facu lty rank) . head (with faculty rank) . director (with faculty rank). library division head. and Waseca/Crookston division director.

Source: Human Resources Information System. Counts of Administrative Academics by Sex and Race

MAY - JUNE 1 994

Office for Minority and Special Student Affairs (OMSSA) and Non·OMSSA Minority Students' Academic Performance During the 1992·93 School Year

OMSSA Non-OMSSA All Students of Color Students of Color St udents of Colo (2,220) ( 1,987) (4 ,207)

Average number of credits earned per year 28.8 31.0 29.8

Average annual grade point average 2.64 2.68 2.66

Percentage of students making satisfactory progress 54.2% 57. 1% 55.7%

Number of graduates 235 194 429

Source: "A Report on the StatuS of Students of Color." Office of the Associate Vice PreSident for Academic Affairs and Associate Provost with Special Responsibility for Minority Affairs. December 199]

Average Loan Indebtedness upon Graduation for 1992·93 Academic Year

Office for Minority and Special Student Affairs (OMSSA)-Certified Students African American $ 15.786 American Indian 6,431 Asian/Pacific American 9,262 Chicano/Latino 12,811

Average OMSSA Students of Color $ 10.610

Average for Non·OMSSA Students of Color $ 7,889

Average Indebtedness for Undergraduate Seniors (all races) $ 8.761

Source: "A Report on the Status of Students of Color," Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic Affai rs and Associate Provost with Special Responsibility for Minority Affairs. December 199]. and the Office of Student Financial Aid

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Three architect Their paths to design career began at the Univer ity of Minnesota but have diverged markedly. From New York, William Pedersen ha built high -rises that shape city silhouettes acro the country. In California,William Adams creates habitats between the mountains and the ea. And in the Twin Cities, Loren Able designed a cultural center that honors the past and the present of Minnesota and the people of the tate.

William Pedersen

36 M A Y - J U N E I 9 9 4 PHOTOGRAPHED BY SIGRID ESTRADA

THE SKY'S THE LIMIT -" p eter. en!" growled le gendary Gopher hockey coach John Mari

ucci , intentionally mi pronouncing the orwegian surname as Swedish. "Take a

rest." The reproach-aimed at defenseman William Peder en during a break in the action again t Michigan Techcame during the young player' self-profe ed worst game. He'd been up all night working on an architecrure project when he should have been re ting up for the big game. Trouble wa , he wasn't doing very well in architecrure, either. He wa skating when he should have been working on hi design .

Peder en quit hockey soon after and, thoroughly di couraged, would have quit architecrure as well, had not one of hi profe ors, Jim Stageberg, een a glimmer of promise in one of the sophomore 's design and urged him to continue . Pedersen graduated from the

niversity in 1961 and went on to earn a master's degree at MIT in 1963 .

His early promise has been realized again and again as he has carved out the kylines of urban center acro s the coun

try. Recognized as a major influence in the evolution of high-rise buildings, Pedersen won the American In titute of Architects ational Honor ward in 19 4 for 333 Wacker Drive in hicago and again in 1987 for the Procter & Gamble General Office Complex in Cincinnati. He won the Progressive Architecture ward in 1987, 1988, and 1989.

Oddly enough, hockey-at least the curve of his skate blade-had more than a little effect on his architecrure.

"Myae thetic en ibility tends toward an elegance that I'm looking for," say Pedersen. "If you think about the blade of one of my hockey skates, you' ll be pretty clo e to what I hold a an ideal. ... I was ob essed with having Packaberry skate, n t because they were more functiona l-a lthough they were- but becau e they were far more bea utiful. I couldn 't afford to buy botll tile hoe and the blades 0 I bought the blade and had the h emaker put them on myoid kate hoe. (My] need to have the blade for

their phy ical, aesthetic characteri tic wa so trong tl1at I should have known that I had some inclination toward thi profe in."

Pedersen i n ted for creative and ae -

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thetically innovative design of major commercia l work that complement their urban environment . One of hi fir t high-ri e buildings, 333 Wacker Drive in Chicago, bear out his de ign ae thetic.

greenish gla to\ er on a granite and marble ba e, the high-rise tand at a bend in the Chicago River on a triangular ite, which struck him as a fan opening up to the river. "\ e e tablished the primary gesture of the building-a large curving glas wall, which faced the river. The building i very imple, very minimal," say the architect. "And I like it very much to this day.'

tie bit like a tree grO\\ a it adds new layer to th

utside." It' fortunate lh a

Peder en i still atisfil I with what he call tl building' internal biol( gy, becau e he i now . l work on an addition.

In retr pect, he's not plea ed with everythin ~ he' built. "It's part of an architect's development to go up a blind alley,"ay Pedersen , describing a

period when hi work wa sentimental and no talgic. The Mainzer Land st ras e 58 In Frankfurt, German) , which he de igned In 19 , marked a turrung away from that hi tollcally based period. 0\\

hi ,ork "acknO\ledge the pa t but is '·er) much focu ed on the

pre ent and the future,"

he a) . Ped ersen' \\ork

Before cofounding the ew York finn of Kohn Ped-

Mainzer landstrasse 58 Frankfurt, Germany

include the \Vorld Bank in v a hlngton, D. ., and the t. PJul

omparue buildmg 111

hi native t. Paul. HI er en Fox, Peder-sen worked for 1. M. Pei on the ational Gallery in Washington, D. ., and, a head of design for John arl Warnecke, built the Aid sociation for Lutherans building in ppleton, Wi con in. The huge 1,200-acre Wi consin site, recalls Pedersen, "was 0 a t and 0 flat that it was almost like we were building on the ocean. 0 we tried to create a ense of inner containment. The building, which is a very large twO- tory rectangle, ha a circular courtyard carved out in ide of it. It is an exterior courtyard and becom s the entry court for the entire building."

Understandably, the client wanted the building itself to represent hri tianity, 0 Peder en f1 oded it with narure' own light. " verybody, ork under skylights, which are on tl1e roof of the building," he ay. "Becau e you don't have to bring light in mr ugh til e

ut ide wa ll , the bui lding i capable of growing out latera lly, h riz nta ll ,a lit-

firm ,a recently elected to de ign the ne\ federal court

hou e in d wntown linneapoli . "We learned to draw ery well at

Minne ota," ay Peder en of hi da)'~ at the niver ity. "V e were given an emlc that the profe ion wa really a religion and omething that you completely tledlcated your elf to .... It is till very important to me what Leonard Parker think f my work," he a of the J\111lneap Ii architect who wa hi mentor, teacher, and fir t employer.

Peder en draw by hand "with a Llue china marker n ab olutel), an thing I can find ." Hi be t days are tho e "spent doing nothing but dra\ ing, , hen), u get phy ically exhau ted and get a lot n paper. . . . metime T draw t find 01 t

, hat I am thinking .... Frank Llo) I \ right aid thal he had it completl \ formulated in hi head and it ju l p us

u ua ll a matler of Il ' s

Becau e meeting torment him at the '(ice, he doe hi real design work at his lelter I land, ew York, home and stuo. aturday afternoons find him drawIg as he Ii tens to the Metropolitan

I Jpera on the radio. By the time fellow umnu Garrison Keillor, one of hi cul

t'l ral heroes, come on the air, Pedersen,

like any good 1 orwegian on a aturday night, i in the 'auna,

Peder en i m ing all ay from high-ri e -"I think I've done about a much a I can" right no", he ay -and focu ing n the more traditional architectural practice of de igning mailer building. He' al\o de igning a line f fur-nl ure, u ing arbon fiber with a bal a li D d core, the amc material u ed t h\ ild rlllll''';m Cubed, the II inning ailOI 'Jt f the la t Ameri a' up r~l e. "It' 1\ ') light and the culptural hara teri -til', that I'm able t achieve with it are It y intere ting."

I lhat he' hung up the h key

III MS PHOTOGRAPHED BY HAROLD SWEET O' lEN HOUSE BY TOM BONNER

skates, he finds delight in the aesthetics of ail boats, including his own Luder's L-16, which he sails off Long Island. He muses about the contrast of heavy hulls to light sails and about the geometry of straight versus curved lines: "The taut athletic quality that sailboats have is something I've always held as an ideal in

William Adams, top; O' Brien house, Malibu, above

111)' work," he a) . \"hat draw Peder en to the ea al 0

draw him to hi " rk. "\"hen you ail, y u're c n rantly facing different conditi nand y u have to adju t to them,' he ar . It d that' what' intere ting about

architecture. It' only meaningful in relationshjp t its pia e .Uld c ntext and

to the people one designs it for and the resources that they have.

"You have to adjust to different conditions and do very different things under different circumstances. That's when it becomes meaningful."

MODel HOMES -" I 've always felt that the activity of architecture-of being alone and

imagining-is very similar to the things I was doing as a kid,' ays \"rilliam Adams. "I was in training but I didn t know it."

First he made model planes and cars. ext, motorbikes and go-carts. Then it

was an rique cars, pain takingly taken apart and rebuilt. "I did that right up until the moment I entered architecture chool, then I topped completely, ' says darns. I had to ell the 1931 Ford I was

working on in pieces because I didn't have the de ire to put it back toaether.'

Today dams heads \Villiam Adams Architects and is profes or of architectural design at California tate Polp:echnic eniversity in Pomona. (He teaches with other niYer ity of ~linne ota alumni Patrick ullivan Brooks Cayin ill, who e father taught dams at .\1innesota when dam was a tudent, and dean Man-in Malecha.) Adam de ign habita that range from ingle-family dwelling to condominium and apartment hou e ,a well a commercial paces- tore and film tudio '

La t pring the cover of Architectllrr magazine featured dam' Kippen

ondominium in anta ~lonica for which he won both tate and Lo AngeIe American In titute of Architect ( ) award.

dam graduated from the eni\,ersity oHlirme ota in 196 ,and interned \\ith Ron Goldman in Lo Angeles. After fini hing hi intern hip, he built a house in Topang-.l anron outside Lo Angele. The hou e triggered a network of referral that ha kept dam bu yeyer ince. "Ju t about all of the intere ting work I\-e done, I'm able to trace to that hou e," <1)' dam, although pre ent client may not know about the hou e it elf. "It \\'a a geometrically ordered de ign deri\'ed fr m a cube, and a half ube, and a half of a half ub . It wa a

mountain hou e that had orne loped. angled wall and imilarly angled roof,"

Hi ar hite tural idea often come t

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him when he's engaged in some form of contemplation, like his 50-mile commute between Pomona and his Santa Monica office. "If I have a de ign problem to olve, I can sometimes solve it better driving in my car than any other place," says Adams.

The problems themselves seed the solutions. When a client wanted to put a seven-unit apartment building on a long, narrow lot in Malibu, with a view of the ocean on only one end, dam "stacked the seven units up next to each other and then rotated them slightly, maybe fifteen degrees, so tllat each one had an exposure to that end view." The Zuma Mesa apartment building garnered dams an AIA Honor Award from tlle Los Angeles chapter.

Adams draws wim a pencil on paper, eschewing the computers he finds all around him. "I tart out soft, witll broad trokes, and work toward hard line. I also

start out on a very small scale, wim a plan tllat's as big as a postcard. You can keep track of me big ideas a little better that way. I find you get too sucked into little problems when you try to draw the building at a larger scale."

In rudimentary design explorations, Adams can surprise himsel f. "You tl1ink you know what you're drawing, but then you see somethiJlg you didn't intend to draw.

40 MAY-JUNE T994

loren Ahles

You can capitalize on that, on the experience of designing or model building."

When he wa building a film tudio inside a warehouse for television commercial director Joe Pytka, dam created the studio offices as entirely different buildings. ince mese rooms were covered by the warehou e roof and he dirul't have to deal wim "roof reality," dam played with office rooAines, varying them from a flat, Japane e-style top to one reminiscent of me Parthenon. (Pytka had earlier bought an dams house in which the different rooms were also expres ed a nearly individual buildings.)

VV'hen dams gets close to the architectural so luti on, he say, he indulges himself in "producing omething pretty-a pretty drawing or a pretty model. 1 can fall back and not tlUnk for a little while and let it happen in front of my eyes." But teaching and running his practice leave little time for such rewards. "It' hard the e days to get to doing any architecture-with a pencil and paper. Most of what I d is talk to people about what we're doing."

To counter tlle resulting frustration, dam is building him elf a hou e. ay

Adams, "The views [of downtown Los Angele ], privacy is ue ,t P graphy, and .. . U'ees on the ite generated line f force," triggering tlle design: a erie of

tall structure that seem t )

co ll ide with each oth u and have p rtions openl I up to the view.

dams the client in i ~ -ed that all the prim ar ~

paces be up high for the view and made me but -getary re triction th . t

dam the archi tect found difficult. "I think it' s a good experience," ap

dam , unconvincingly, of having himself for a client. "But as the architect, I wished that the cli ent would make up his mind . . and as the client, I had the same complaint ab ut me architect."

Could the client ', problem with the architect have anyming to do WIth th e arch i tect' re fl eXI\'e respon e to built thing ? "I find my elf almo t pa -

sionate about every building on one level or anomer," ay dams. " < ven dumb. simple, tupid buildings have a peml place in my mind." Perhap mi acute, all-encompa ing perception-whIch appreciate inherent, even unreali zed po ibilitie in a tructure-i v hat dnve dams to de ign not culturalmonuments, but dwelling place de tined to

hold individual lives. "I am much more intere ted in com

m n -man a rchi tecture tha n I a m in the gloriou achie ements," a dam.

ABBEYS AND ITALY -Minnesota Hi tory enter visitor nosing through genealogy records,

lunching in me cafeteria, or tanding in the sunlit ault of the reat Hall-a splendid view of tlle tate apitol before them--come face to face with me work of Loren hies, de ign director and a principal at Hammel Green and braham on in Minneapoli . Allie ,a the senior de igner on the firm' team tl13t won a nati nal de ign c mpetition to build the 14 -year-o ld Minnesota H htorical ociety' new 60 million hom e, hai led as the tate' 'most impres Ie work r monumental archite ture i -e the 3]itoli elf."

T he center ,fits amles ly into i ite .IS

AHLES PHOTOGRAPHED BY DAN VOl £L

tI third point in a triumphant triangle c. illeccing it to the apitol and the athed 11 of t. Paul. "We tried to design a buiJdII r that did not ecm new, that eemed to h , e been there and wanted to be there, n, xt to the apitol and the cathedral," ays tl" architect. The c ntext was especially 111' rtant, ays Ahles, because t Paul "has a I tstoryyou can feel. ou can feel t Paul as a place .... It i sub tantially different from 1inneapolis in that respect"

Blame Ahle 's love affair With Italy for the generous \'estibule and the loggia-like h:lllway to the lower level of the Great Hall. After earnmg a bachelor's degree in 19 5 from the niver ity of Minnesota and a master's degree in 1977 from MlT, -\hles won the Roche Traveling Fellow hip and tudied architecture abroad, including in Ita I) .

Vi ltor expecting an oppressively dark and brood-ing b k-llOed mau oleum had b t bring sungla e. In order to preserve artifac ,exhibit hall and re earch area could n t let in natural light. • 0 our on I} recourse was to fill the public paces \11th light ~ you could orient yourself to the \\orld,":1Y lIe. From the Great Hall and both f the two g:JUerias bi ecring the building, visitors can ee outside, often III two directi ns.

De igning a tructure \vith the nece -ary functional capa bilitie on a particu

lar site and within a budget is just half of the architectural proce s, ay Ahle . "It' ea y to 01 e the pr blem and create a facIlity. You have to go beyond that. lOU

have t create architecture. . .. 0 an architect i alway earching for the soul in the project-\\hat it i that will make people \ ant to experience the building. ... Building ha e to ha e oul to be great building ... and \ hen it happen, it's tremend u ."

It' the hirt from practical to ae th tIC I" sue that mark the tran iti n to

arlhitec.ture. "It s not a lightbulb-goe -on kind f en ation," ays Ahle , "but if yOl work n the pr blem I ng en ugh, yo,. fee l as if u're in c ntr I fit .... TL~n ou can crcatc the ar hite ture."

Vhen that happens, lie generate ml tipl architectura l luti n , ea h f wt ch an tand al ne. "It's great t be

able to pick the best of a batch of good ones .... There isn't one great one and five dumb one ."

Ahles doesn't try to impose his preconceptions on a structure. case in point i his riverfront addition to the Minneapolis Post Hice. By sidestepping the architectural pitfall of trying to one-up the original structure with a markedly different addition, Ahle created a new whole in tead of a two-part

Minnesota History Center St . Paul, Minnesota

structure. "\tVe allowed the building to be more of what it wa -a great 1930 art deco building,' he say.

good day for Ahle i when he i left alone in hi cubicle and the idea "flow down [hi ] arm and onto the paper." He draw freehand with black marker.

Architecture is hard work and requires a serious work ethic, says Ahles, but he doesn't force his designs on the days he's feeling blocked. "You have to keep working at it, but know when not to work. n

s an adolescent visiting ~larcel Breuer 's bbey Church at t. John '

niver ity in Collegeville, Minnesota, Ahle first realized "that a building could move you." Before that, his only architectural experience had been carving the Parthenon out of a bar ofIvory oap.

ow his designs are modeled in foam carved with a hot wire and clay and paper.

card board model of the history center hang cavalierly, vertically, from an office wall. Ahles and his team worked on the de ign from the outside in (from the limitations of the physical site) as well as from the inside out (to meet the functional requirements of the building). " ometimes, working from those two directions, you can end up with an inherent conflict,' ay Ahle. "Either the internal function has to subvert itself for the sake of a si te solution or vice \'ersa. In thi ca e, we struck upon a olution that really allowed both to ",'ork well. ... lOU

don't sen e a conflict in the building. 'Thi i n't a boa t, but, of all the

pro 'ect I've worked on, the hi tory center come the clo e t to resolving aU the i ues and creating a place. '

building-with oul. ..

IN THE TWIN CITIES

C ityBlIsiness recencl compiled alit of the top - ~ archi tectural firm , ranked by billings, in the Twin ities metropolitan area. Of the firms' admini trator

who were Ii ted, 19 were Uni"er ity oL\linne ota alumni.

1. John v'mnt, '62, '64, Ellerbe Becket 3.7I1ark wen on,' 1,' 3,and

Donald Hunt, '73,' 5, BRW lnc.IBR'" ArchiteCts

4. Don.lld LW1d, '60, hort Elliot Henuricks n

5. Fritz Rohkohl, ' 5, B\\'BRArchitects 6. Duane Prew, '66, oltz, King, DUl'all,

Ander on' 'ociate . Richard "\ ':1 atb, '52, etter,

Leach 2' ind tr 111

. Alexander Ritter, '6 ,R P Architects I I. lichael 0 ",' 4, \ V Id chi teet

:lnu Engineer

12 . 'Vayne v\'in r, '54, \ 111 r!Faricr hite

13. Lauren Larsen, ' 6, LHB Architec ". Engineer

14. Leonard Parker, '4 ,The Leonard Parker - 0 iate ,Archirects

1:.JonP pe, '73, Pope . ociate 1 ~ . Jack Boannan,' 0, Boarman Kro

Pti ter u- cia tes

17. Thoma Meyer, ' O,7IIeyer, cl1erer ,,- Rockca de Ltd.

19. Robert "'al hJr., '6 ,Ankeny, 1:. 11 , Richter, \\'al h chitec P .

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25. Da\;d Rum'an, '69, The Rum, n/ Vogel r ~p .

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BY VICKI STAVIG

favorite walleye spot at Big Sand lake,

Park Rapids. Right, Judy Rikala

and daughter Jenna a t Gunn Lake.

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Minnesota's SEC O ND ANNUAL VACATI O N

p LL innesota' not ju t for ummer anym reo The tate ha'i

become a year-ro un d de t ination for traveler eellng

everything from the ca ll of the I n t a nowm bi le run to

a hopping spree at the Ma ll of erica to an e ening at 3

dd to that Mi nne ota' culmra l ffering, i~ 2.1\

atingwater . and its profe sional p rtingeven • and the re ul tl

199 1, t uri m contribu ted an estimated

6.6 billi n to the tate's econ my, sal's

Art di ar te, an industrial economi t \1 1th

tn ffi ce f T urism. In

1990 and 199 1 the number f lI t-of-

state and in-state trave lers increa ed b)

4.41 ercent and 11.5 per en t, re pectl\C

Iy, ay Adi arte. In .I 992 o ut- r-st, tc

traveler increa ed .13 . per ent and n

sta te trave ler increased j .2 perc It.

"This coincide with the opening or the ilall of meri a and the a in s," say Po li

arte. "There' a growing trend in bopping and in gr up t ur t Minne ota. •

"illiall1 ,armer, director of the iI hnne Ita f\tension SCl\ ice T uri m entCI he.ldquarlered on the niYer ity's r. Pa I campus, abo credit the b ost in tOl Nn to the Mall f . \ 111 rica lind the

casin s. ".\ recent rudy howed are dr,l\\ing people from ut f tate and keeping illinne ' tan h re, pe pie who \I lIld h(\\"e gone t Ren r La Veg-J ," he says. illinne ota' h r p

al 0 include the Korth hore, the Brainerd Lake area, the Boundary ",",' ater Canoe Area (En' A.), and the outhwe tern comer of the tate . "The northern part of the tate gets all the publicity," he a} ,"but I think the outh ,,-ill ee a lot of

tourism deyelopment ill the coming years. " The Touri m enter conduct

re earch and provide ' education, traming, and adyice to people in the rouri m indu try a well a- to communitie that want to get into, or increa e their hare of, the touri m market. The center re endr publi hed a book on rural touri m de\'elopment, featuring tip and rrategie fr m 60 touri m experts, and a

b ok on fe tiyal and even management. It a1 produce a quarterly new letter, a monthly lecrur erie, and myriad eduational and re our e material . The . . Agency for international Deyelop

l11ent re enclr ele ted the center to help

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hana promote tourism in, est Africa. loser to home, Glenn Kreag of the

Tourism enter in Duluth works with community bu iness and civic leader . " ommunitie and counties [are] looking at touri m as a way of diversifying the economy," he say. "The idea i to get some new indu try in to minimize the impact of the downturn of anyone industry like forestry or agriculture."

The Duluth area has seen a dramatic increase in the number of touri ts drawn by the area's natural beauty, in part a a re ult of city officia ls' commitment to promoting tourism, says Kreag, who is al 0 affili ated with ea Grant, a federally funded program that focuses on the u e of coastal resources. " ea rant tudy a few years ago showed that the number one rea on people came here was the cenic beauty," says Kreag. "That wa

unusual because in most surveys of thi kind people usually list orne activity."

nowmobiling in the northern and northeastern part of the state i another growing attraction, says Dan Erkkila, a tourism and travel specialist based at the University's orth entral Experiment

tation in rand Rapids. "The Department of atural Resource and county and local organization ha e done a lot of work to deve lop the n wmobile trail sy terns up here. When we have g od now, Highway 65 and 169 are loaded

with people coming up with their nm mobile . It pump a lot of dollar into the local econom . Previou ly, bu ines es that depended on touri malmo t hut down in the winter; nm the 're bu

In short, ays t diarte, "we've a remarkable growth in tourism in nesota , and it' continuing."

l'Ylinn esotfl a ked se era l ni ve r ity alumni, faculty, taff, and vo lunteers where and why they vacation in Minne ota. Their an wer are a diverse as the state's ,lttraction .

"MY favorite vacation occurred in the summer of 1990. YVe rented

a 43-foot hou eboat and traveled south on the Mi i ippi Ri ver to the IowaiMinne ota border, on to Winona, and back. The boat didn 't have a generator, 0 we had light when til e un wa out, and when it went d wn we went to

bed. 'Ve'd m t rab ut ~ ur kno ,fin , sa ndy i land , beach the bat, barbec , and pIa in the water. My son wa~ a } r

Id at the time and lea rned to walk on e boat, 0 now he ha a littl e 5a ilor lu rch I had never driven a hou eb at before , IU wa glad no one who knew me saw 11 •

The next ummer we bought an old _ -foot cabin crui er, but have go le nowhere with it becau e tile weather's been bad and I've spent mo t of m) nIne fixing it."

-Bob Valente, '77 B.S.,

rheumatologist at the Mayo Clinic

"MY favorite vacation spot in \110-ne ota i right at my hou e. I ha .e

a tenni court and swimming po I and live on a big tract of land . I don't hke to drive anywhere to vacation; I have e"errthing I need right here. When I do go I like to vi it the orth hore for a weekend or go to the Root River 111 outhwt:St Minne ota or fishing in Rainy Lake."

-Pierson M. "Sandy" Grie/e

chair and chief executive of Ecolab

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, Once a year or more, I go beautiful going through the channel to other lake and watching the loons nesting in the pflng . There's a olitude there,

_ which is nice because in my

My second favorite spot i the Lanesboro area, [near] Roche ter. It has beautiful rolling hills and river and miles of bikeways. There aJ 0 are orne wonderful bed and breakfasts there, including a converted county jail in Preston."

-Bob Bruininks ,

dean, College of Education

"MY grandparents settled in '\-1adi-

to reen Lake near S leer, where I attended ninetl n consecutive Fourth of July p rade . I like reen Lake b ( au~e it's a nice size; not big e ugh to be dangerous but big t. ,,,ugh to have a few fi hand Cllm enough t swim. I also g tf Duluth nce a year. I grew up In lih\ aukee, and the alf in Duluth is the same. "Vhen you work in the [Twin itie], you

Andrea Hjelm

busines I'm meeting people and on the phone all the time. I'm getting better at fi hing and am learning from one of my on friend , who went to a fi h-

on Lake near Mankato. \Vhen I get back to .\-1inne ota, I stay with either Charles , olte [profe or of theater arts] or a childhood friend . ~Iy aunt still lives in Mankato, and I pend a day w'ith her. \Ve go together to '\-1adi on Lake and look at the cemetery and at family house . \Ve have a lot of written hi tory on our family, 0 I can walk around the town and know where things happened. I feel very trongly about '\1inne ota. If my life were different and if I had children I would live there."

don't get to ee people doing real work. Ir Duluth you ee huge barge toting aw material puJled from the earth. It'

so much Ie ab tract than the work that gets done in downtown Minneapolis. It's Inspinng and evoke a ense of po sibility and no talgl3. I al 0 like the beer at Fitger' , but I can't ay that."

-Jay Novak, '77 M.A.,

editor, Twin Cities Business Monthly

" I lo\'e to g up to Park RapId and fi h for \\ alleye. I learned to fi hand

hunt\\Jth my dad . \\'e have a lake place on Big and Lake. It' very peaceful and

ing camp. I watch him do hI leader and ee what jig he uses . "Vhen I catch fish, I clean them, bread them, and fry them in butter. It' great."

-Andrea Hjelm, '65 B.A.,

owner, Eleanor Moore Model

and Talent Agency

"MY favorite vacation pot i the northea tern part of the tate.

\Ve have a cabin on Loon Lake north of Grand .\larai and vacation there in the ummer, fall, and winter and like it for i

beauty and olirude. I go up there to fi h. I'm an ;]\'id outdoor man and canoei t,

too, 0 I al 0 take trips to the B'" A ..

- Marianne Muellerleile, '79 M.F.A.,

actress living in los Angeles

"Mr fa\'Orite ~1inne ota \'acation i dri\-ing to Duluth, then up the

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orth Shore. It s wonderful any time of year. \,ve've gone in summer and in fall and would like to go in winter. Blue Fin Bay is a special place for us; so is Lutsen. I ve been doing this as long as I've lived in Minne ota and normally go up twice a year for three or four days. The location and history make it an interesting area. If you start in Duluth, you can do urban things, then go up and do outdoor things on the orth Shore."

Sandra Gardebring, '73 J.D.,

Minnesota Supreme Court just ice

" I have three favorite acation spots in Minnesota: Cragun's Re Ort; Red

vVing, where we stay at the St. James Hotel; and Bird Wing Spa in Litchfield. \! e go to Cragun's once a year. \ e have a lot of great resorts in Minnesota, but we happen to like this one. I don't do anything there but sit. Red Wing is just our favorite little town in the state. We go antiquing and go to the wonderful T. B. Sheldon Theatre, where they will have classical music one night and maybe a spoon band the next. The Bird vVing

pa is wonderful, too. They teach you

how to exercise, which I avoid, but they also have superb, healthy food and ma -sages. You can hike and wim, which I don't do, but I watch others do it. \Ve go there once a year.'

Burt Cohen, '54 B.A.,

president of MSP Communications

and publisher of Mpls St. Poul

"MY favorite place to go i up north to our cabin on Gun Lake

in Aitkin County, where I grew up. I love going up there for a readathon picking blueberrie ,taking auna, wearing my arne clothes with no one bothering me about it, and praying my pager doesn't go off. We water ski, swim, sailboard, and walk. It's nice to be away from the phone. I go up twice a month if po sible."

-Joy Rikala, ' 75 B.A.,

chie f of the University of Minnesota

Police Department

" G rand View Lodge is about the only place we vacation in Min

nesota. I love the golf course there, but I'm a little dangerous because I have a

high handicap. People are friendly, a I the food is uper. I playa little tennis I P there, too. Last year I played in lJ e Camp onfidence Tournament [ Grand iew. It's an area camp for phy·. cally challenged children. We usually 1'0

up for a long weekend. My wife's au 'lt and her hu band have a place on Lal.e

hamana, and we go up there for a long weekend each summer, too. It's a neat place about40 minutes from Brainerd.~

-Jerry Noyce, '67 B.S.,

director, Northwest Racquet,

Swim and Health Clubs

" My favorite vacation spots are \Ln-neapolis and Lutsen's; we gu

north or south. Lutsen's i a cozy vacation. We ju t walk around and enjo} the cenery. It's a wonderful place to do noth-

ing, to sit and read. We also love drinng to Minneapolis and going to the Guthrie and Orchestra HalJ and living It up at Dayton's and aks. We're culture vultures. Vl e also take the bus down for a day to t. Paul for the 1inne ota Opera or the rdway. And we enjoy the Children's Theatre and the 1inneapolis Institute of

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A s, because it has such wonderful coJJece 1 and lunche . In the T\~ln loes we r r around. At Lu en's we it around.'

- Ann Anderson, '51 B.S.,

music professor on the Duluth campus

and president of the UMD Alumni

Association Board

" e like to go up to northern Min-ne ota. nre get a good fishing

guIde, so we're 'ure we ']] catch fish, then iJ3Ve a shore lunch. n e go for a week; a Cf uple of day I~n 't long enough. \\'e like (rane Lake, which i north of Duluth ar d HIbbing. almo t on the CanadIan

rder. I really enjo}" fi hing and have been very ucce sful in outfi hmg the ~ 0\ ernor each year a t the Governor' Fi hing pener. I epecially lIke t catch \\alleye becau ether ta te 0 good."

-Joanell Dyrstad,

lieutenant governor of Minnesota

and University of Minnesota Foundation

Board of Trustees member

" W e have a cottage on ttertail Lake, \1 e t of Detroit Lake . I

Ole the beautyoftht. lake. It' a place to get away from the acm'ltr of the city, to watch the \ ater and enjoy the sun et!>. It' time to it back and renect. I get out 10 the boat, ami I do a lot of walking, reading, bird watchmg, and \·i iting. OnertaiJ Lake i huge and beautiful. I\'e been going up there for the la t 30 year. It' a place to relax and forget the tre of da}-to-da} bu me ."

- Sister Bernice Ebner, '68 B.S.,

president and chief executive officer,

St. Therese, Inc.

"I grew up In lem\ od, and \1 e built a lake home four )ear ago on Lake

.\tmnewaska near there. I go there and pia\, with m) to} . I go baring, fi hlng, cross-count[) kl1ng, and nO\1 m btlmg. It\ a year-r und home, II here we gather with the Iud and the grandktd . In the IUtnmer I hke to get up there and putz ou Ide and Ii h; 10 the faJJ It' hunong-. GI nllood ha a ummer elebrati ~n cared \\ 'a tefJma 10 Jul), IlhlCh I fun an I bring a I t of pe pie h me. \\ 'e ha e a II ildnower garden, too. I enJo~ pu . ng m) hand in the s il."

- Ro bert Gandr ud , '65 B.A.,

Universi ty o f Minnesota, Morris,

preside nt a nd ch ief executive officer

of Luthe ran Brotherhood

" I enjoy the woods and quiet lakes-the emphasis is on quiet-in any of

the state parks or on private property. I like the gentlene of the .\linne ora terrain. I like t. rolX tate Park, Goo eberry Falls, and Ita ca tate Park. I camp or stay at a nearb} bed and breakfast. \lmnesota has a great bed and breakfa t

sy tern. For me, a i\Imne ora \'acation is real down-home, a arrison Keillor would ay; a time of gentle sohtude.~

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GOPHER

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Five programmers from the U niversity of Minnesota's Microcomputer Center-Mark McCahill,

Farhad Anklesaria , D ave Johnson , Paul Lindner, and Bob Alberti-have put Minnesota on the global map, electronically speaking. In 1991 they wrote a com puter software program called Gopher that has become an extremely popular tool for people who want to find and acces information on the worldwide Internet.

Millions of In tem et ci tizens use Gopher to burrow into electronic libraries on every continent to find documents, pictures, animations, sounds, and video clips. Once it's located, any bit of information of any size can be "downloaded" at once-and Gopher enables users to run many sea rch and download sessions at the same time.

Like everything in the vas t data sto reh ouses spread among the thousands of schools and institutions on the Intem et, Gopher is copied freely, so it's unknown just how wide ly it is in use among the Intern et's 2 million or so network (they increase by 7 to 10 percent per month). Network an alyses show, however, that

opher is the seventh most highl y used protocol for inform ation transfer

(among more than 200). The Univer ity of Minnesota program

mer designed Gopher and wrote ver ions of it for Macintosh and UNIX and P -compatible computer. Others have inee followed Minnesota's lead and created versions of Gopher for nearly every computer platform in existence, in addition to versions in many human languages.

How did Ankle aria,Johnson, Lindner, Alberti, and their supervisor, Mark McCahill, come to make such a contribution to the developing information highway? "I hired them," quips Mc ahill. Before that, Lindner, Alberti, andJ Imson were in computer science, Anklesaria was a geneticist, and McCa hill wa a chemi t.

Mc ahill sta rted at the University ten years ago as a junior programmer-a lowly po ition,John on jokes, "like the mold on a pi zza box." Johnson himself did contract program ming for variou Uni versity departments but "hung around" the computer-support operation so mllch that in 1989 he was "hired 0 he'd stop askiJlg us questions," McCahi ll says. " punishment," adds John on.

Anklesaria came to the Microc I11puter enter ix years ago after working for a

The Gopher team, clockwise from left:

Farhad Anklesaria, '80, '84, '8S; David

Johnson, '87; Paul lindner, '91 ; Mark

McCahill , '81 ; and Bob Alberti.

Midwe t software company and teachll1g at Macale ter oll ege.

Lindner wa a tudent employe who ad ministe red an Institute fTeclmologv computer lab. s h . explains it, one d3~ he said to Mc ahill , "Mark, I'm boreJ. \Nhat can I do for you?" TIe W<l hi red 1 ,

pri11991, and , head Is, "1 ha cn'tbCt I

bored since." Alberti' busi ne. ran aground in

1990 a ftcr back- to-back in idents wil law breaki ng eml loyee . Today he's

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happy in academe. Unofficially, the Millilesota team

WrOte opher with a "vel)' elfish moti ation,"~:Jy Mc ahjll. "\ e 'weregettinga lot of que tion on the help line and we were getting behind," Alberti ays.

"Y u can t rea lIy onvin e someone to get lore out f the system by teaching them [about it]," Mc ahill e..xplain . "They Just want to solve <l pr blel1l. But by havi n" a lot of fun stuff ut there" and provi ling cas: access tit, omputer u er can learn tOe pand their h rizons, he a •

I)ffi iall ,the tea l11\ rote Gopher to

~VI fac ul ty, stafl", an I stu I nt access t Un II rsity inC rmation frOI11 their hOlIes a \ ell ::r from c'lmpus. "Th IS

e senti ally a commuter campus, and you have to provide a lot of the same acce s" to information and services for everyone, Mc ahill says.

The first information that went into the niver ity' Gopher-accessible data banks were answers to common computer problems, recipes, and job-placement notices. ow that the niver ity community has een its usefulnes ,Mc ahill ay, "it's not a hard thing to get people to put [more offerings] on the electronic net."

omputer aren t "stand-alone boxes, they're communication tool ," McCahill ays. "The niversity has a real need for

communication tools, and we're in the busines of moving information around."

Team members defined a strict protOcol that could get Gopher up and running on a number of platforms, then developed a ver ion for the Macinto h, the niver ity's computer of choice, within ten days. After a month or so, the team had produced" omething I wa actually willing wlet other people ee," say icCahil1.

Many of the people who use the Internet are researchers, 0 it has the trong feel of a campu etting. It's that collegial give and take that helped Gopher gather momentum and take the Internet by torm.

"\ Ve wanted more people who weren't at the ni er ityto be tes tin a

opher,' Mc ahill 3. ' 0 the team placed th program n the Internet with an open invitation for other to try it out. Mc a hill ays it was a thrill to discover that, "hey, they're actually u ing it!"

The team \\ orks well together, if their ea y rapport is any indication. "There are [only] a few of us," ay Anklesaria. U\ Ve can do thing informally and just walk into each other' office and b unce idea off each other. If [an idea is] bogu ,it gets hot down. ld if it doe n 't work," say

Ank.l aria-"we change it," <l}

Mc ahi ll , fini hing the thought. "[It' J a differ nt philosophy from

[developing] the grand d ign that will olve all thint:> ," ay' ic ahill. "\Vith the

c mputing world moving a Fa t a it i , there" a r al en 'e f'l d better get this d nefu toritwontg tdone,' ' he a} .

'Turni ng ropher onto the Internet ha been <l huge boon f r the 11 ahill say.

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c o HING IS Roy GRlAK' job, hobby, and ob es IOn. For 31 year ,

he ha been the head coach of the men' cross-country and track and field programs on the Twin itie campu. '''You du what you love to do," ays Griak. "It's really not a j b. Y u look at it in a different way. I never regret coming here in the morrung, \\ orking on aturda} or unda)' . It' really a even-day-a-week

Job." And with three ea on -cro country m the fall , track and field indoor in the \I mter and outdoor in the spring-it' al a a year-long job. "I clunk that a I t of people don't realize tbt a track and fielu coach goes the \\hole year," he ay.

Griak Joe n't haye much time for other interests, but he doe n't eem to

mll1d. "\\'hen do you go hunting, or fi,hmg, r play golf? n your weekend. \\' e don ' t ha e the weekend . I forgot ab ut fi hing. I forgot about hunting g lfing, and anything else. But I've been ble ed by being with all tho e kid, helping them all," ay riak. "\Ve have to look at it that way.

"It's different in basketball and football, where y u have a damn much pressure from y ur critics every time you turn ar undo If y u lose the game, you're criticized, if you win the game, you're great. You have to win, and if ),OU don't fill the tadium, you're out looking for an ther job. Y u create your own pre su re in track and field when you want to e. I, but that other presun:. i n t there."

( .riak i as proml of the ,lcademic performance f hi "kids" a he is of their ath letic e\ce ll ence, and the lack of pre -SUr all \\' him t re ruit tudent wh are top-n t h both on and off the field . "It , nicc if you have a c mbinati n," sa) GriaL "i\lartin Frik on. a enior, i a lout a 3.8 student in mputer s i-

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good tud nts, you get good rudeots to begio with, I alway tell the kids that there are 24 hours in the day. You have to leep about ,eat about ] , go to clas for about 4 or 5-if you have lab, you might be in cla for 6. You have to work out for a couple hours, and you have to rudy.

In his ] I-year career, Roy Griak has coached 41 cross-country and track and field all-Americans and three NCAA champions.

o in e eoce, you queeze a 3D-hour

day into about _ 4 hour. You don't have time for a lot of thin that the other tudents may do because rou are

ence. He' also a national champion. Two or three year ag, our cro -country team had a traight 4.0 a\'erage f r ixteen kid. That' ne\'er happened at the ni,'er it) before or in e, and it may ne\'er h'lppen ag-Jin.

Year in and year out, the cro -country team i generally ar und 3._ or 3.4.

"It'!) kind of hard \\' rk to work with the kids becau you haye t \\ atch what you oar t them be "use they're s damn mart. They're going to be phy i s major" or engineer " or C 111-

puter ~cien e expert. It's fun to be \\ ith pe pie like that. lOU d n't h~we t push thCIll t d their cho Iw rk-they'r pl1 hing ) ou t giye them m re time to stud~.

"A I t of time~ people 351-., '\\ 'hat do you do to motivate kid t be good rudent ?' You don't motivate kid t be

working out, going to cia ,and you have to keep the line of communication open with your family, your brother, iter, mother, grandpa.

"Y\ nen I wa going to high chool, I worked in the teel mill in Duluth. You put a lunch bucket under your arm and you went to work. It'. the ame for ch 01 except in tead of that lunch buck

et you put the book under your aml. You've gOt t put in your time if it' going to work. It' n t con\'ertible and bl nd heer! ader and all that you ee in magazine . ch 01 i hard w rk."

riak ha :\ sembled an inlpre i"'e coaching re ume. L\Jter nlking yer the rein f the .\ [inne ora pr gr-Jm in 1963, he prol11ptl~' I d the Toph r to th 1964 Big Ten cr " -C llTItry title, the school' fir t in tlle p rt in e 1914.

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Under hi guidance, the track and fi eld program won the league title in 1968. The 196 cross-country squad fini hed second at a Big Ten meet and then went on to place fourth at the CAA championship . In 1969, the cro s-country team wrapped up another conference title and then fini shed eventh at the nationa l meet.

Griak' cro s-country team have recorded an verall dual meet record of 159 wins and 42 losses, winning an impressive 79 percent. Overall , he ha coached a total of 41 cro -country and track and field all-Americans, including three C champions: shot putter Ron Backe (1986 indoor title), runner Garry Bjorklund (1971 outdoor ix-mile title), and pole vaulter Martin Eriks on (1993 indoor). His athlete have collected 53 Big Ten conference individual titles as well.

Griak is very emotional when he talks about all the student-athletes he has coached over the year. H e continues to be in touch with his "boys."" ne wonderful thing about being a collegiate coach i you develop unique relationships with your athletes," says riak.

"When they leave college and go out in the world to make a living, you keep in touch with them. I can tell you where a lot of the boy are-i n AJa ka, 010-rado, Florida, No rth D akota. T hey come back to the Univer ity, to . T hey cement those tie.

"It' always fun to win champion hip, but I think my fondest mem rie are of the kids," he ay.

Much ha changed during riak' 31-year career." ompetition are much t 0

long now," he ays. " ear ago we would tart at 12 :00 and were thr ugh at 3:00. ow we have a lot of competitions

where both men and women compete. I think that omething ha t be done to reduce the time that it take to conduct a competition. People get bored. 0-

body want t it ut there for ix hours and watch a track and field meet."

riak recall the day when a school like CLA had 36 cholar hips. "When tl1e et the number of cholar-hip for track and field, I think there

were some misguided individuals who said you could ha e 14 scholar hip and have a go d program. ow that we're down to 12.5 ch larships, it' impo i-

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ble. That' all there i to it. hat\ he way the situation i at tile pre ent tl 'le. It' g ne from bad t wor e, in my 01 inI n.

"\ iVhen I fir t tarted at the 111 \ 'rity, we would have a dual meet \ Ith

\ i co n in and I wa," ays r Ik. " w, with the reduction of scholarhip , y u ju t can't do that anym<)re

unle s you get a lot of walk-on . We don't have any printer in our progr m.

enior hri Darkins and Omar Dou-gla came over from the football team to help us out, otherwi e we woulJ not have anybody in tllat event who IS a Big Ten-caliber competitor."

The opher are not as competitll in cro s country a they once werefor various rea ons, according to Griak. "We have cho en t pend our cholar hip monies in other area . \h

don't have a separate a)Jonnent for ero c un try. We have 12 .5 scholar hips f r cr c untry a77d for track and field. We have to di tribute them equally.

"And now it's much more compen tive than it was when we won me Big Ten championship in cro country. I remember that we were third or C urth in the national ne year, all of the Iuds were fr m [within] J 50 mile f \bnneapolis. You can't do that anym re and be competitive.

"Iowa ta te ha even guy from Kenya. Providence has four guy fr m Ireland . labama ha six guy from Bahrain. 1m a tate ha a couple from Ru ia. ell , f r g odne ake , you ca n't ompete. u can ' t take a e\enteen-year-old kid from Minne ta \\ ho wa a tate champion and e pect him to compete wim me twenty-year-old guy from Kenya who ha already been in the lympic game ."

De pite the ob tad e, riak i Opti

mistic about til e pr gram. F r the third traight year, tile ophers fini hed ir.

fourth place 3t the Big Ten ind or champion hips this winter. Omar Dougla , who set ~l areer record in receptions ~ r the fo tball team, won the 55- mete r with a d cking of 629.

rik s 11 fini hed a di app inting ecnd and went on to place ixth at the

nati na l meet. 1 he ophers c mpete for Lh e I ut

door hampi 11 hi, n M, 21 and 22. and riak believe Lh ey ha e a eh t win it all. "\Ne'r going t be

pI sed next year," he says. "We're losin some key individuals. We lost some kl lcid last year but we managed to re lace them a little bit. It all depends or the kind of recruiting year we have.

ne people have made verbal com-m. ments to us, providing everything works out in school and they are accepted."

ne thing Griak doesn't miss about the old days is the old field house with its dirt floor-the old dust bam, as Griak calls it. He recalls recrui ting Garry Bjorklund to come to the U . "I remember telling Garry, probably one of the finest athletes this state has ever produced, that we were going to get a new indoor facility. He came to school here, and one year went by, then two, and then three, and he graduated, and we were till running in the din. bout six or seven years later, he said, 'Hey coach , you always told me you were going to get the field hou e fixed and you never did. '

"V e'd go in there every day in that dirt bin, year after year. Central adminIstration wasn't too concerned about the conditions. They'd give us words of encouragement, but nothing el e. They had a priority list of facilities that they were going to fix, but that had to be the war t facility on this campu . Even the cattle 0 er on the t. Paul campus had it bemer than we had it, but nobody ever eemed to care. Finally Paul Giel [then athletic director] found money, and it took about 600,000 to get that place fixed up. ow we have beauti ful facilities . It took a long time for it to happen, but it did happen, and I guess aU good things come to flouri h ooner or later if you're around long enough."

For ali of hi 31 coaching year, Griak' inspiration has been his 91-year-old mother, who e philo ophy he adopted . " he's an old country lad ," he says. "My mother aw me play ba ketball once. She never cared if I ran or jumped or thre~ , whatever. But her hard work ethic is something that I stuck to, and it' omething that I've gotten from her.

t. When I wa a kid we ju t phl ed and did things becau e ~ e loved to. It wa n't org tnized. We pounded nail in our bat wh. n it broke and ewed up ball \ h n the ;eam came Dt. That' the big different '. Kid today get everything read mal e ~ r them." ..

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Pharmacy alumnus Fredmck Chomtlo, a therapClI/ICs outcome manager jor Dlversifud Phamramttlcal ServIces, a d,vIS,on oj mud Health Care Corporatloll, rearved Petm' scholarships In 19 2- and 19 3- -1

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inne ota," ays Or. Frederick Chomllo,' 5 B .. ,' 6 Pharm.

D. native of Cameroon, Or. homdo lone of more than

120 tudents who ha e received cholarship contnbuted b '

ildred and \ ilham Peters, a niver iry alumnu .

1fT he cholarship were timel '. I had ju t gotten married and

m \ ife had ju t had our fir t chdd. Toda I have a good job

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By educating young people like m elf, the Peter e tnve ted In

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T he Peter' legacy continue with a recent 13.5 million

beque t from the Mildred Peter es e tate, part of whlch will

provide scholarship for hundred of fucure tudent.

S cholar hlp conttnue to be a major need at the fllver In.

where tuition ha n en dramatically 10 the pa t decade. Jom rh

man Univer iry alumfll , ho are helptng talented youth create

their future.

To find Ollt more about gIvIng to scholarshIps through bequests alld other gifts, call the ell/verslty FoundatIon at 612-62-1-33 or 1- 00-775-21 7.

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HE • I ERSITY administration's budget plan for 1994-95 went to

the Board of Regents in April. strategic ~v ent pool of .5 million includes Items in each of five trategic directions in the University 2000 plan. More than half of the total (53 percent) would go toward building a more user-friendly niversity community. The plan includes 10 million in internal reallocation, but does not call for closing any academic unit.

The budget plan calls for an overall tuition increase of 4.1 percent, with all of rhe money beyond a 3 percent increase wgeted for specific quality improvements. A guaranteed tuition plan on the T\\in Cities campus will be offered as a pilot program. tudents will pay tuition higher than the current rate but QUar-

I anteed for five rears. rebate will be gi ... en to any student who finishes in four years.

.\ report on the propo ed University College was also presented to the regentS. The proposal has evoh-ed since it was mtroduced, in response to feedback from stakeholder in the Conyersations with \linne ora discussion erie. The name Cni\'ersity College i till open for dis-

Ion. The plan now calls for more integration of day and evening programs.

Legislative strategy for 1995-9 was one topiC discussed when ni:versity President . 'ils Has elmo met with the Faculty ConIU.!tative Committee (FCC) in 1 larch. Funding in the 1995 ession will be central to the success of Diversity :2000, President Ha elmo aid, and because he has ob erved that legislators' eyes glaze over when a case is b ed on general state-

i ments, he is considering building a case • around specific examples.

~Iost FCC members responded po i, lively, but orne expressed concern that the examples would be units with identifiable constituencies and economic benefits that , ould be easy to sell. Physi pro or Ken Heller aid the University has strong centers on the periphery and in t"le midst acre that' decaying rapid~." Pr ident Ha elmo aid the legi la-trl't e might include an argwnent f, r the glish department (for e.xample) 3.

the lean of d1e ni ersity.

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An alarming national trend for private universities to outdistance public universities in faculty salaries and thus quality was outlined for the FCC by D ave Berg, assistant to the president. "\Ve are headed for something very different than we've had in the past or than any of US v;--ant,

he said. Tuition has increased in both public and private schools said Berg, but in the publics the money has gone to make up for loss of legislative funding.

The regents voted in MarciJ. to dose the ALG program, after no company came forward with an offer to purchase rights to the antirejection drug. 1 Tegotiations between the University and a major drug company fell through in February. The drug has not been sold since Au.,aust 1992, and estimares are that it would take four years and million to 10 million to complete testing and bring the drug to market; by then. it is not clear that there would be buyers.

Bob Erickson, senior vice president for finance and operations, who recommended shutting dO\li'11 the prO!ITal1l, said the problem was one of the most difficult be has eyer dealt ,vith. In light of the scarcity of dollars and the uncertainty that ALG could be marketed successfully, he could not justify continuinO' the investment. He said the ~niversi[r ... rill make the technology available on a none.xclusive basis to anyone who wants it.

The largest bequest ever made to the University "ill 0'0 to the College of Pharmacy in the form of a 13. - million gift from the estate of ..\Iildred Peters. be and her husband, Bill, a 1910 pharmacy graduate, were owners of Lowry Hill DruO' tore in lIIinneapolis from 191 - to

194 . Bill Peter- died in 1979, and Mildred Peters died last December.

Regent Ann Wynia resigned her eat February _1. he aid her husband' illn and her running for the G. . enate forced her to leaye the board. President Hasselrno said, "All of us will miss Ann iYynia's thoughtfuln and effectiven a regent' and we "owe her than.ks and b twi hes."

Th Faculty enate voted without di -ent in February for a ne . conflict of in

terest policy for faculty and other academic employe .

University student and professional bour Tory Scales (top) gets help adjusting his belt from his sparring partner. leah Sanders, University Sailing Team alumnus, hoists the mast as team member Michelle Sorenson tightens it down .

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National President

A few month ago, I attended the niver ity of Minne ota Foun

o dation IF) Board of Trustee ' meeting at the new ports Pavilion. arol -til n hudlick , recently named the naoon' mo t outstanding enior woman athlete, spoke to the group, a did hri Voelz, T\vln ioe campus women' athleoc direct r. I came away impre ed and fee ling 0 pr ud of our niversity. The pavilion, hudlick, and oelz all emb dIed the role I have alw~y thought athletICS hould play m an educational etting: acces ible to all, upported by all, and yet not the be-all and end-all.

Let me explam. rO\l ing up during the

IQ60s, girls Ul my generation had virtually no ace to rganized ports. Intere Mgl) , ttdidn't tart ut that way. In grade sch I, we had it pretty good. 'Vhat porLS we played were c nfined to gym, which all bor and girl participated in together dur-109 the chool year, and the games \ e c uld deVIse in the neighborhood \~~th \\ hate\'er girls or boys we c uld find when chool \\'as out. Kickball, trench (d you remember trench?), cr quet (my m m' flo\ er bed were out ofb und ; a hit into the r e bed resulted in a one-ho p penalty), and oftball at the sch I playground-these were Our staples. \ Vee en created our own minigolf cour e in my next-d r neighb r' backyard to pra tiee our pr we at pitching ,md putting. Park b ard portS plared no r Ie in ur neighb rh d. Eith r they didl 't exist in t. Paulln th se years or \\ e lUSt \\'eren't aware of dlem.

I 0 king back, what \V3

abo t chi time \111 dl:! tnt nJy did t ) ' and -:irb ha e equal act and support for athl tics, but kids f dll: sa me age seemed to

me be pretty equal in abilities, regard I of , der. I kn wI uld dlro", a ball "like a

boy"---after all, with m. ancient mitt and a hardball, I played catch with my dad nearly every night-and it eemed like the girls \ ere picked for teams as often as the boys. Weweren'tsa ed forlast.

By high chool, acce ,support, and, ultimately, ability changed dramaocaJJy. Boy had their ar ity and mtramural teams in numerous ports throughout the

every sense of the word. I know that women's athletics has not

reached its full potential. Funding and scholarships for female athletes are still wanting (for example, only 15 percent of recnriting dollars go to women's programs, and only 30 percent of the scholarships are available to

women athletes), availability of desirable locations and times to practice remains an

is ue, and media coverage and public anendance at women'

chool year. Participation by girls in varsity ports was limited to cheerleading, the dance line, or watching the bo) play; eventually, we had intramural

"olleyball, ba ketball, and oftball . Girls' ports imply took a no eruve. f cour e, in tho e years, as \Va true in college, we didn't even kn \I' that omething \\'a \\Tong with this picture. '''hile we knew we were being treateu differently, we

Janie Mayeron

porting events i an up -anddown affair. 1 everthele , whether it is the result of vision, of guilt, of twisting the arms of U ni"ersiry administrators. the men' athletic program. private donors or the raxpayers of ~ Iinnesota or of the force of legi lation and court intem:ntion, gender equity in athletics has come a long way, and I am proud of the role the

didn't feel like we were being deprived. The tem1 discrimination was not part of our yocabulary.

l OW, we d know differently and we are em'lou . T day, elementary and high ch ols, colleg and urU\'ersiti ,and park

board offer a variety of ports for girl and \ omen. I lm'e hearing my friend talk about their daughte 'latest ucce e in oftball, bting, or g)111J1a tics, or how

m m or dad i off to ach their daughters' teams. It wa fi r thi very arne rea on thatl wa 0 thrilled and pr ud to hear hudEd peak at the iI [f board meeting.

Here wa J r ung \I'om3 n who had et numerou national record in w men'

lIegiate ba ketball : tllird in the nati n in . ring, all-tim leading corer at

l innesota f r men and women with 2,09 areer point, and Big Ten Player f the \' e,lr. T t p it off, hudlick will

graduate in f ur year and ha:. a 3.13 grade pint average. The ni\'er ity

hudli k the pp r nity .111d the 1I ceetl, and he ha d ne 0 in

nin:rsity has played in the change. "'hatllike best is that women' athletics

at the niversity is being touted as a component of the educational experience. For a long tin1e, it eemed like we perceived our athletes a athletes first and students econd. The athlete \\ measured by su in ports notacadenu . Voelz' prograrnis dearly conmutted to a different model: me tudent scholar-athlete who graduates, is a

good citizen, and can conaibute to oci.ety. And it works.

ince 19 ,women' athletic team have achie\'ed LX Big Ten charnpi n hip . La t year female ' rudent athlet carried a ' .0 grade p int average-compared to _.9 for the undergraduate tudent b dya :J whole-and _ percent graduated c 111-

pared to 3 per ent for the rudent b dy. t the pavilion, grade point aYel'Jo and

the athletic a mpli hments of players are flashed n the reboard. To me, that sa) it al.I: ch lat hip ,md athleticism need not detract from e-ach other, but rather can and

gether hand in hand .


WORKING FOR

.9liIVERSITY n 1991 the University of Minnesota Alumni Associa

tion (UMAA) National Board app1-oved a series ofrec

om771endations of its University Issues Committee that

included monitoring and periodically repo'rting on both

UMAA and University progress in achieving diversity

and pluralism_ This is our third annual UMAA rep OTt.

While the UMAA has given a high pri ority to increasing diversity within its own ranks perhaps none of its effortS is likely to have greater payoffS in the long run than the mentoring programs it has helped establi h and those with which it has ties.

"Advice and encouragement from an alumni mentor can make the difference between success and fai lure to a tudent who is struggling to meet the academic and cultural demands of studying at the University," ays Margaret Sughrue Carlson, UMAA executive director . "And the successful s tud ents of today are the alumni of tomorro. -the UMAA member , leaders, and staff."

The UMAA currently work wi th fourte en co ll egia te- ba sed mentoring programs in which students are paired with alumni mentors . It coordinated a mentoring program for the University Scholars program and is working to establish tie with the Twin Cities campus learning resource centers for African American, American Indian, ian/Pacific Ameri can, and Chicano-Latino students.

The American Indian L ea rning Resource Center recentl y match ed 23 student-mentor pairs in response to recommendations made last fa ll by the President's Twin ities American Indian dvisory ouncil, composed f University people and community repre entati ve . The group focused on combating raci m and recruiting and retaining American

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Indian students and faculty members . '" e have undertaken to act on our

own recommendation ," says resource center director Bruce Meyer, "and we have cho en retaining undergraduate tu-

Mentors Josie johnson (left) and jacqueline Cott ingham-Ziert

dents a our first priority." T he initiative was begun e entially wi thout funding, though a donor has now provided eed money. Even at a univer ity with a high overall dropout rate, the rate among American Indian students-60 to 92 percent- i cause for concern, Meycr say .

The resource enter i concentrating on retention of all inc ming Am eri can Indian students, whatever their academic background , Meyers says." ur message to students is that they cfln get an educati on, they cfln graduate-and that they're n t alone," Meyer ay. "We ca ll it 'your American Indian fami ly 11 ca mpus.' It is part f the Indian tradition 6 r

the elder to help young people. W e can draw on thi cultural strength to help tudent com bat discrimination and to ucceed in a competi tive, in titutional

system." To "a pproach the eld ers for wi dom and knowledge," not to "stand by the trail and complain," is the Indiar way, he ays.

Of the 23 mentors, at least half are niver ity of Minnesota alumni, and all of

them are Indian people. "vVe don't rule out anyone with the heart to understand where our students are coming from," Meyer says, but the under tanding that comes from a shared cultural backgroWld

hard to beat. There i often a match 10

career intere ts between tudent and ment r, too: mortuary cience ~tudent wa hoping to get a mentor when an article appeared In the newspaper about an American Indian mortician . The mortician \\ as contacted by the re ource cenler and wa happy to become a mentor.

ollaboration between the center and M \ mentoring prog rams are just beginning. -\t an upcoming joint training es ion for the mentor group and 1AA program dire tor, "we'll all be able to

it down together," he sa) . "There' not much awarene of

cultural dj fference at the ni\·er.ity," says andi Goulding, a graduate SUI

dent in ocio logy who vo lunteered to

help Meyer \ ith the mentoring program, in keeping ' ith the Indian custom that "wherever ou are, ou contribute to an Indian commun.ity." oulding, whose Indian heritage i from her moth-er, prai es the ~ r it assista nce: "The alumni " ciati n ha been c ,lP-era Live and helpful. ' Ve felt very pported."

"vVe enc mage all American Inl l:Ul alumni to st p fon ard and lunteci for the mentorin g program-to joi n he American Indian fami l on campus," .1)'S

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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION i

S PEA K (!) U T What can the UMAA do to help build a tronger

University community and improve the climate £ r diversity?

R. C.Johnson '72 M.Ed., '82 Ph.D. Vice president, College ofEducntion ALU1f111i Society

T he alumni association can assist the U niversi ty in achieving grea ter

dive r ity in the tudent body and the faculty by meeting with the leadership of the various minority busines and socia l groups in the Twin ities area. The e group could be a ked to ho t a meeting of the societies, where we could get input from them and ociety members. For in tance, during a meeting, we could pass out variou items related to the College of Education and ask for their assistance in recruiting.

J ackie Looney '79 B.A. Unive7'sity Issues C017lmittee

Education is the key to ending the burden of ignorance within u . It

allows us to go beyond our lack of under-tanding to reach out to others who are

different from us in ethnicity or di abili ty or gender. The niversity need to challenge students to go outside their boxe to be aware of difference -and to

be aware of our imil arit ies as hum an beings as well. tudents hould graduate from the Univer ity not just with kn wledge of their academic fi e ld but also with a higher leve l of under tanding of other people, which make them better citizens, better contributors to the niversity communi ty and to the community at large. And it i important h r alumni to give back to the Univer ity what I ca ll the three T's-their tim e, talent, and treasure.

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Terri Mi che-Riebel '7 B.A., ' 1 J.D. U,l lAA progrnm din!ctor

T he U ni er ity and the UMAA need to recognize, ce lebrate, and make

use of difference. All organizati n are being chall enged to incorporate diver ity. The alumni a ociation i broadening it programs to draw a more diver e group of alumni, in age a well as in all areas of diversity. We are beginning to

focus more on tudents a alumni of the future and on inviting recent graduate to participate. Their intere ts and need are quite different from those of people who have been out of chool for Jllan} years. I would like to have more alumni of co lor involved, not simp ly becau e they are people of color, but for the different per pective and energy they bring.

Tim Klinkner '81 B.S. Ownto7111n Chnpter College of AgriCIIlture Alu7llni SOCIety bOflrd

I n my opinion , the future 01 the agri culture industry depends in part on

dive rsity, since our tradition al student ba 'e-fa rm kids- is ~ Illall e r now . Y OLI

ca n make a c n i us effort t mOl e toward livc rsity; YOll gr w illlo enlightenment. Peo ple in rural Minncsota gen-

erally have limited expo ure t people of color, but the urvivor in the industn are those who pay attention to chang;~ in the world. La t summer at Farmfest In

ustin, tw black women were talking to a white man about a piece of fa rm machinery. When I p ke to one of the women, I found that she wa with a large chemical company, had grO\ln up In

Minneapoli , and was a graduJte of the niver ity of 1inne ota ollege of griculture. It'~ great to ee theory hap

pen in reality.

U;\ lAA i at/ollnl Bonrd

T he mo t bviou and trongest II;)}

the alumni as ciation an support diversity are by pro,~ding a role model fOi the niver ity and giving different group a voice. By actively involving all kind~ of group , we gain the perspective of thos~ group and we in rea e our abi lit} to attract m re people from th 'e group '. T he ni er ity is not a micr ,In of the commu ni -I think it' more diverse than the ommunity- a diverse aluJl1n1 as~ociation board is an appropriate reprcscntati n of the nil er it},.

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• T he MAA wa called to a tion by Carla Maxwell , legi lative network coordinator, who a ked board members t join the network, to recruit other alumni to the network, and to call, i it, and write their legislator . Maxwell and board member Kati a e\rille urged the board to attend precinct caucu e t talk ab ut the importance f education and the Univer ity.

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• Janie Mayer n, 1A natH nal pre idenr, i erving on the earch C 'mmittee ~ r a niver ity vice pre iden for external relation, to whom the ;"-\A executive director wi ll report.

Detroit alumni are planning a picruc on aturday,June 4.

A reception for Veterinary Medicine seruors

and their parents is cheduled for June 10. School of Dentistry Honor Day ,vill be

heldJune 16. Alumni will gather in Madison , Wiscon·

si n , October 22 for a pregame pep fest.

N ew York City: Alumni heard UnivefSJty President ils Ha elmo peak at

a March 3 event planned jointly by the and the niversity of 1innesota

Foundation. Margaret Carl on, ;\[AA

executive director, met with alumni ;\larch 2 to plan a ewYork ity chapter.

Detroit: niver ity Pre ident! il Haselmo poke on "The Future f the lruversity" at a gathering of alul'l1l1i arch +

Rochester, Minnesota: oph r football coach JimWacker poke to the chapter March 9. Hi topic wa "ucce I an Attitude: In cademic, in thletics, and in Life." The chapter al 0 awarded itS fir t annual cholar hip to a econd-) car Rochester ommunity ollege tudent planning to attend the niver ity' T\\1n

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IT ADDENED me to read in In Brief [November/December 1993] that th regents have decided to extend benefits to same-ex dom tic partners of fuculty

and taff member. To me, it's one more ign f the er ion of c mmon ense and moral verity that is d croying ur nation as a whole, and the University of Minnesota in particular. The tax

payers f Minn ota, of whom I anl fofttmately no Inger ne, must be thrilled to k11 w that they are paying for lifestyles that many of them con ider wrong. Furthermore, it' not I gical to pay f, r the dloices made by h m a.mls when at the same time we refuse to pa f, r the dloic made by heter exuals who can get married, but choo e not to.

Are we n the r ad to legitimizing ame-sex marriage? God, J hope not

)'1"11 flA DI·\\'E , '54

Bflinmidge, Inditmn

GIFT TO A BADGER

I TRULY ENJOYED readi.ng "D g Day" n tbe Letters page 0-

vemberlDecember 1993]. Our family are [University o~ Wi -con in alumni and 1 will send dle copy f 1I1hmesotfl to my modler in Redington Beach, Florida. he graduated from Wiseon ill in 1921 and wiJl take Milll1esoffl to bridge dub, [which] c n i oHour ladies, all 93 years of age. ~nu will be her h wand-tell conoibuti n.

TIIOMA.<; 11. S .I Lvlfl-I Alexflndrifl, III illl1eSOtfl

IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER

THE LEWls RE IELE you have listed in y ur magazinc [" Law Alumni \Nho' Wh," ovem-

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berlDecember 1993 J i my futher, wh is n t a lawyer. I wa<; recognized in Best urwye-rs ill A7II1!17{f1, but unforttllla tely did not attend the niversity f 1innesota.

LF\\1S . RI \11. Ll JR. lillneflpolis

THE BInER WINOS OF WINTER

&\10 G THE GOOD things that arJived [in me mail] with a pledlora or gimmc letters was the current issue of lIIillnesotn [NovemberlDecember 1993]. t a time f grave difficulty f, ran intitution mo t f us respe t ami

t warel which we feel b dl I yalty and affecti n, the balanced, ca ndid eva luation between [MiIl7leroffl'sj covers should help us all to view our academi roots more obj ctively. From clle letter by Presiden t ils I la elm t the superb piece by Margaret

arl on- clloughtful, ba lan cd, and insightful- it eems lO thi ~

re dcr a superb i sue, le3\ring only a nUnuscule munbcr or area untouched, yet \\~th a di<;pas ionate t ne or rea oned in ight

To one wh ha de\' teel a ignificant part f his professional life to [clle niver..ity' ] obje -tives, [I clUnk] you have caught, with singular insight, clle things cllat th e r us who have bec me alumni, at \ hatever level, might wi h t have crawled upon clle bitter wind!, of \vinter.

<. 'IN. ZTlIt\Rn I, '47 FUrIIII?"r ime17111 presrdl?"llt

Iln.JI?"ITlty of Nlinnesoto t. Pflul

LESSONS TO LEARN

I OMMEND Margaret arl on for her say "Life's ns"

v mberlDecembcr 1993]. an alwnnus f the niver

sity, I find her th ughts wcll put. , e are all sadd ned and diappointed by events that have tarnished clle g od name of ur Medical choo!. The cleansing ruld rebuilding may be pai.nful, but [dley are] ne ary. Pr ident il I Iasselmo has been and is right The Medical c1l I fu -ulty could well re-ad and foil \ clle four I ns dlat [ arL on]

uclined. I Icalth care i.n titutions and fuculty must be accountLlble f, r uleir acti ns. II f my 01-leagues I have re enuy talked wid1 are of cllC same pinion.

M \NCJot. T. Mrrc J II·U, '32 B. '., '34M.B., '35 1.D.

Bloomingtoll, /l-lillllewtfl

WHERE ARE THE WOMEN?

IV, rvl· R In' r Minnesota gra luate (ch I OrJOLmlil l i~J11),

T have enjoyed reading [J\Ji/lllcSOIf/'S] ruti les on fe llow graduates wh arc making a differencc in urw rid.

I was kinm1.ing the ,(}vcmberlDecemher isue, he "Law Alumni \Nho's \\ '10' caught my atlenti n. cannm" ule li t, I was at first proud of clle big nanles menti ned, but I i

becanle increasingly disturbed b, the lack f females menoontd In fuet, I c unted [the femalesJ,

n only one hand. I run not questioning the ad-

mittance policies of me ruvcr

ity f Minn ta Law . dlool nut] I am w ndering If the .Jlttr scarcity or'Who' \Nho" remale lawyers i n't a tory waitUlg to

be wid. \ Vhy aren't there more females included 1I1 thi ObVlOUS~

prestiglOill list? VVh are 'lIO-n m's [pr mment] female attorneys and where did me}

re eive theLr craming? \\ 1t.1t IS

clle remale-lo-male ratio at th unv hool these dars and hml d it compare to graduaon classes or yC.'al gone b, ? \nd 0

clle fi e (count d1cm) remal~ 3

pearing on clu publi,hecl It;

h \ did Uley nsc ulrough th ranks and h w difficult \\ as tha

umcy? )1 '\1:\, \ VI' !-'--Iln, \.'>, ,

Olll1l1blll Hei~bts, ,HI/mesoll

CORRECTION

\VF INADVERT LV omJtte Phi II i P II. MarOJ1' s name fro

Law A1wnni \ Vho's \ Vho vemberlDe ember 19931

Martin, who pecializcs in tax 131 and is a partner with 0 'C} m \Vlurn in li.nneapoli " \\",1~ m

eluded in cl1e 1 92-93 e(tition 0

Best 1.fi1!'Yl?"ll· ill ,..!7IIl'17Cf1. \ \ re gret the vCI~ght.

Lmers 1I1f11' be edited fiJ1' .1 r/• I('//,fl/h, mit! clmity. end )'0111 let /t'I-r 10 I be editor, 1\ tin nesOtil, 0

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Making the Student Connection

I F THE NTVERSITY of Minnesota Alumni Association (UMAA) had all the resources

it needed, what one service could we provide that could make the biggest impact? I asked myself that question recently as the UMAA began the University 2000 trategic planning process. Like other University units, we had been asked to do an in-deptll analysis of our mi ion, functions, and services. S~ri ingly, the answer came quite easily

to me: mentoring programs. I'm not sure that mentoring would have

been my top pick a few years ago, but my firsthand experience with Katie Tran1 has opened my eyes to the potential tllat a commitment to caring can have on both alumni and students.

While many of tlle UNIAA' collegiate alumni societies have sponsored mentoring programs for some time, last year the ational Board of Directors made mentoring a top priority, approving addi tional funding to expand this important activity in a number of creative ways. We began working with the University's leaming resource centers and otller group such as University Sdlolars, a student-lllIl organization for academic honors students, and we are also piloting a w1.ique community-based a1wm1.i-student partnerhip program.

I met Katie Tram last winter when I volunteered for the University cholars mentoring project. sophomore majoring in busin management, Katie indicated tllat an ideal match for her would be s me ne in admini tration who could help her ee what tl1.ings are really like and who would be easy to talk to.

After being introduced at tlle OIientation session, we met over dinner at Grandma's restaurant on the West Bank. When Kl tie bared her life tory with me, J wa moved

and awed by how mudl thi yOWlg woman had expe ri enced in only nineteen year.

he was bom in Vietnanl, and her family fled the country in two groups when he was eight years Id. After a two-year saga, he and her futher were finally w1.ited with her motller

66 MAY-JUNF 1 994

and sisters in the Twin iti . Although she was in a new country, with a new culrure and language, Katie persevered and graduated with h nors from Anoka High dl001.

ur mentoring program was officially only ne quarter long. Vie smeduled a nwnber of activities, whidl induded Katie shadowing me n a day that I had a meeting with University President iIs elmo and other taff and

alumni volunteers. Margaret Sughrue Carlson

room for so many more. With about 3 ,000 mden~ on the Twin lUes campus-2 ,000 undergraduates and 10,000 graduate and professional students-and 150,000 a1Ul11ni u\;ng in the metropolitan area, the University is geographically and demographically po iti ned to offer mentoring experiences to aU of ow students. And those outside the Twin ities need not be left out. ur community partnership program, called Partner, can

Cheryl Jones, myadministrative assistant, worked \\~th Katie on her application for a

University of Minnesota

'S3 Ph.D.

arlson dlool of Manage-ment dlolarship, and I helped her practice for the interview tl1fough a mock qu tionand-answer session. Following the interview, Katie confided to helyl that she had not done as well as she had expected. \ Ve tried to dleer her up and reassure her.

Katie and I also had conversations at different times about preparing fi r tes , grades, extracurricular activities, and even dating. tllat Katie could be a part f tlle otller side of my life, she had dinner in my homemeeting Julie, my 2+year- Id daughter who lives in Minneapolis, and Bailey, tlle cat 1l1.i ummer, she wi ll meet my 21-year-old

daughter Elizabeth. Our mentoring partne l1.ip is meeting a

need for 1 tie, and it has brought a deptll of meaning to my life that T didn't anti ipate.

o maner how busy I am, J find tllat I want to make ro m for Katie.

r r alize that our ment ring cOlm ction may not be typical in aU ways. But nearly evelY a1wmlus and every mdent who tak part in tlle program and i willing to devote tlle time and energies to it belie es tl13t there are b nefits for all conccme I.

Ow i just one personal tory. There is

provide alumni - tudent gr up activitie and con

tacts during the swnmer and holi lap. III

Mirules ta and in me metr politan areJ.~ around the country.

bviously, the UMAA \\~ never be a oncervice alumni ·ation, but the (;2000

planning pr ess i a good exercise tlnt IS

helping us amI otller w1.its think ::tbout the maj r impa t we can haye on :Woo pnonties. Through ment ring, tlle \ can have a direct effect on educati n, ouo-ead" and crea ting a user-friendly c mmw1.ity. \1) e.\.vel;enc wi tll Katie have also helped me realize that no other group is w1.ique.l} positioned t bridge the gap between arudent' need fi r pr fessj nal, pers nal, and life advice and 311 alwnnus's ability to hare and care.

\ Vhen tie wa . iring with me about her up oming holarsl1.ip intervie\ , I asked her t think ab lit the question, • \ Vhllt will you d if Y' u leam tllat you have \V n?" \Vitll ut h itati n, atie replied, "1 would call my m ther and godmotller." ld then sh added," x l ne.xt I would call y u."

\ ell , Katie did get th scholar:.l1.ip, 31 I I c uldn 't be m re proud of her if I \1'.1~ ,nc of her relatives.

By Margaret Sughrue Carlson

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But in this unpredictable era, what

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ANDERSEN I

CONSULTING I

I III/me 93 · limber 6 July • August 1994

MINNESOTA UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

FEATURES

The Devil 's Advocate .............. ... .. .............. ... ..... .. ................... .... .. 14 ewa ociate Polly el on, '76, '84, was re earching ice cream regulations

for her pre tigiou Wa hington, D. ., law finn when she blindly accepted "a little pro bono project" that became a three-year figh t to keep one of America' mo t abhorrent serial killer off death row. By Teresa Scalzo

Listening to the Pain ..... .. ... ..... . .... ...................................... ...... .. .. 20 Ph.D . candidate in the University' School of ursing, Miriam Cameron

pent a year talking to 25 people with HIV-AlD about dying, health care, the stigma of the disea e, and how they could live out their day with meaning and integrity. Her finding appear in the recently publi hed book Living with AIDS: R'(jJerimcing Ethical Problems. ~y Palll F1'oiland

A Reader's Digest .. ............................ ..... .... ...... .. .. .. ... ...... ............. 24 Excerp from orne of the be t work by niver ity of Minnesota faculty and alumni author, plu a compendium of recently publi hed books. Edited by Tema Scal::.o alld Kristie McPbail

Eastcliff Revisi ted ....... ....... ............ ...... ........................ ... .............. 34 Long before the big white hou e on orth Mi i ippi Boulevard in t. Paul became the ruver ity of Iinne ota pre ident' official residence, it wa the love- and fun-filled home of the Brooks family. By Irki tavig

Saving t he SR CEO ...... ..... ........ ... ....... .... ....... .. ...... .......... ....... ..... . 38 Minne ota ha a long crudition of ocially re pon ible corporate citizen hip, with the like of urt Carl on, the Dayton, and the Pill burys setting a national tandard. orman Bowie, Uni er ity profe or and holder of the Elmer L.

Ander en hair in Corporate Respon ibili ty, ' ants to in till tho e value in a new generation of E By TVillia77l W011S01l

COLUMNS

SPORTS: A Winning Touch ............................ .. ........................... .4 7 opher volleyball coach tephanie chleuder u e aggres i e playing crategi

psychology and an informal maruler to guide her player to victory. By Knren Roacb

DEPARTMENTS

In Focus ....................................... 6 University of Minnesota Contributors .. ............................. 8 Alumni Association Report.. .5 I Campus Digest ......................... 10 National President ................... 5 I Class Notes .............................. .45 Executive Director ................... 58 In Brief ....................................... 49

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MINNESOTA Editor J ean Marie Hamilton

Associate Editor Tere a calzo

Contributing Editor Vicki tavig

Copy Editor Lynn Marasco

Production Assistant Pat ukema

Student Assistant Kristie McPhail

Design Black Dog Graphics

Staff Photographer Charlie esell


National Board of Directors

Executive Director M argaret ughrue Carlson

National President Larry Laukka

Vice President Linda Mona

Second Vice President Bruce Thorpe

Treasurer Marvin Trammel

Secretary Laura Langer

Past President Janie Mayeron

At-Large Members David Beaulieu.]ean Fountain, Curman Gaine , Roxann oertz, Ann Huntrods, arolJolm on,

Jay Kiedrowski , Dale Iseth,James tirrat

Geographic Representatives Mary Flinn,Joe ibilisco, Keith Krueger, Richard Lindgren, Audrey Kuempel McGregor,

Kati Sas eviIJ e, Richard Whitney

Alumni Societies Agriculture, Allied Health, Architecture and Land cape Architecture, Biological cience , Dentistry, Education, Human Ecology, Liberal Arts and University College, arlson School of Management, Medical, atural

Resources, ursing, Pharmacy, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affair , Public Health, Institute of Technology, Veterinary Medicine

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l~nslrol111 jor cxarn-

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perc<'llt 0/011 p/lysi.

clans practicing across lvJinnl'SOla, lIe rcceit,d training 01

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training at a Red

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after mcdical sc/lIXJI and headed Ilart/l lo become a family

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N Foe U S

Mission Accolllplished

T he University of Minnesota Alumni Association (UMAA) connects alu171-

ni to the University, advocating and supporting excellence in education and budding pride, spi1'it, and community.

It sounds so imple, so obvious. H you want to improve your service effectiveness, and ultimately your image, ask your customers what they think.

University President Nils Hasselmo did just that when he took University 2000 the University's strategic plan for entering the next century, to 67 groups-induding the UMAA ational Board of Directors----and asked them to tell him what they thought about the proposal. In the process, those who spoke out not only helped shape the Universi ty of the future, they became smkeholders with a real interest in making the plan work.

Listening to the people worked so well that all collegiate and support units on all campuses were asked to indude their customers--students, faculty and staff, alumni, and friends-in their own planning.

The UMAA began its 2000 planning by analyz.ing the organization's strengths and weaknesses and drafting a revised mission (which begins this column) and five-year goals, then took them to its customers. "\Ve conducted two focus groups of alumni from the Twin ities area-one made up of UMAA members, the other of alumni who aren't members-to find out what they thought of the UMAA and its proposed plans. Minnesota proved to be a common link to both groups.

Members told us they like Minnesota but are busy people who pick and dloo e artides according to their interest and available time. Even though they read the magazine, they

had little knowledge of specific 1M programs, activities, and accomplishments. If they knew about our network of llegt3tebased alumni groups, m t did not assooate

them with the UMM mer than the magazine, most said they never heard fr m he UMAA once they joined or renewed. They said the association hould build nger. more personal connections with them

Those who aren't members were also surprisingly familiar with Minnesota and clunk it is a good publication. (They had received a complimentary copy or had seen It at their parents' home.) They believe the quality of the niversity today affects the value of their degree, making it important f, r them ro work to upport and improve the C'ruver ity. They recognize the ,'lIlue of the UMAA but have not found a personal. specific rea on for joining.

Both groups enthusiastically supported the UMAA' four proposed five-year goals: enhancing the tudent experience; connnuing advocacy efforts; increasing the visibility of the UMAA, induding building a campu> alumru center; and growing a \~brant organization of 50,000 members.

In all, more than 75 alumni, board members, collegiate and geographic chapter reI" resenratives, and the niversity \lurnru

unciJ participated in the 'U'ate-

gic planning pr The UMAA asked i customers to n:U It

like it is, and they did. Tho e who po 0-

pated in the proc were impr ed b the honesty of the answers we heard and b, the pride in and concern for the welfare he

niversity that alumni expr ed. ] udging by their reacti n the new IS

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CON T R BUT 0 R S

THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE Teresa calzo, '90, is linn eso to' associate editor. he also edited" Reader's Digest" and cowrote ampu Dige t in th.is issue. LISTENING TO THE PAIN Twin itie freelance writer and editor Paul Froiland is an adjunct faculty member in the niver ity of Minne ota School ofJournalism and Mass ommunication. A READER'S DIGEST Minnesota editorial as i tant Kristie McPhail graduated III

June from the University' chool of Journalism and Ma s Communication. he plan to work for a year at a Colorado ski re ort before attending graduate school or law school. EASTClIFF REVISITED Minnesota contributing editor icki tavig edits Art of the f,Vest and produce newsletter for corporate client. SAVING THE SR CEO Twin Citie freelance writer and editor William wan on is a frequent contributor to Corporate Report Minnesota, Mimzesota MOllth~y, and Mpls. t. Paul. A WINNING TOUCH Formerly a development editor for the ni ersity of Minnesota Foundation, Karen Roach is a freelance writer based in the Twin Cities. IN BRIEF

niversity Relations writer and editor Maureen mith edits B1'ief, a weekly new bulletin for all four ni ersity campu e , and the faculty-staff edition of the niver ity's award-winning tabloid Update. ILLUSTRATION Andy Powell's illustrations have appeared in Min1lesota Montbly and Atlantic Montbly and were elected for the American Illustration Annual 11 and 12. Linda Fri htel i a Minneapoli illustrator who ha won numerous awa rds for her work, including three for Minnesota from the ouncil for the dvancement and up port of Education. Julie Delton graduated from the ollege of t. Catherine in t. Paul and studied illustrative arts at the City and uilds of London Art chool. Merle acht i a Connecticut illustrator who e work has appeared in the ew Y01'ker and other magazine. Twin Citie freelance illustrator Mary Wor ester works for a number of corporate clients and local and national publication. PHOTOGRAPHY Judy O lau en, '67, is an awa rd-winning Twin Itles photographer whose work has appeared in numerous publication including Time, Fortune, Ms., and Life. he wa named one of the ten be t photographer in the world by lIas elblad camera manufacturer icktor Ha elblad tiebolag. Twin Citie photographer Dan ogel peciali ze in pr duct, indu try, and portrait ph tography. harli e e ell i a student in the chool of Journali sm and Ma s mmunication who begin hi duties as Jinnesotfl' taff photographer with thi s i ue.

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U IVERSITY OF Mr NESOTA AwM I A OCIATIO

Fix a picnic lunch and head to the lvlinneapolis campus-or buy a bratwurst and soda when you get here for the um

mer Session-spon ored lunchtime concerts on Northrop Auditorium plaza. The concerts, held almo t e ery day from noon to 1 :00 p.m. through ugust 24, feature local musician, dancers and the Minneapolis Pops Orche tra .

Call 612-624-2345 for more information and a chedule of performances.

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.. PARTING WORDS OF WISDOM

, ,you young people have reached an

important stage in your lives, and I hope for you the things that are usually wished for in this tribal ritual. I hope that, over the past years, you have had your curiosity stimulated and your analytical kills harpened so that you can

continue your education on your own. I hope that your experience in the College [of Liberal Arts] wi ll enable you to chart your \ ay along path you have never trod before.

10 JULY-A GUST 1994

But I hope for you much more than [this]. In day when pre sures toward vocationalism are 0 trong, I hope that you have been trained, not so much for a job but for life in enriched form.

%en you no longer wear your caps and gown , remember this: ome studie suggest that educated people do not exert as much influence on public policy and the political cene as one might expect. Thi rou t not be.

A whimsical illustration from Strega

Nona Meets Her

Match by Tomie dePaola, who will host the

first-ever Kerlan

Collection Benefit and

Silent Auction this fal l.

lection of hildren' Literature at the niver ity of Minnesota . The evening will feature a silent auction of art by children' book illustrator, in cribed fir t editions, children' hterature memorabilia and item not related pecifically to children ' literature but tied to an appropriate book. hildren's b ok author and illu trator Tomie dePa la will ho t the event at the iVIinne ota History Center in t. Paul.

If you have an item related to children ' literature that you 'd like to contribute to the auction, or for ticket information, call the Kerlan oUection at 612-6H-45 76 .

Don'tca ta ide your ability to think and care; if ou do this, you become capti e to the prejudice of parochiali m, a though you ha e ne er had the benefit of a university education. To remain oicele i to be powerle . To realize that you can make a difference i the first tep toward becoming empo\ ered .

und u i an abundance of evidence-both locally and nationally-that individual with wisd m, vision, and

courage can make a difference in the truggle for improving our ociet), and bol tering the economic tructure . ... It i po ible to

nurture a more altrui tic concerned public opinion that will encourage the pohucal authoritie to turn their face t w rd the future. T h challenge i your ."

- from fbr College of Lib, III ArfS commencement spt tb

delivered by JolJl1 E. Tllrf. r, Regents' Professol· E7IIeritli of

Politiml (It ' /"(

Illustration by T o m Ie de P30la reprinted by perm ls.sion of G. P. Putnam's (IS

(rom Strego Nona Meets' Her Match. <C> 1993 by T omle def 011

ho: Ron Liberrus, '65, lecrurer in American Indian sruditie campus, describes hirnselfa a

tllCher, art curator, art hist rian, and :vtinne ota hippewa. H . I be t knOll n for hi work on twO American Indian art sh.jw at the \[inneapohs In tirute fAr : Vis/om of the People In 1992 and American Indian Art: F01711 ond Tracht/oil in 19 2.

What: ach pring quarter, Liberru take a gr up of niver ity srudents to re ervatlons in ew :\-iexico and izona. In addition to w dung on their own project ( rudpng pueblo archltecrure r ! ' avajo peech pattern, for example), the srudents pend a \Ieek \\ ith each of three Tal'ajo and Pueblo Indian familie anrllearn fir thand the skill of pottery making, kachina (doll that repre ent Hopi religlOlli> Plflts) carving, and rug ... ·eavlng.

Why:" tudents learn not ju t the method to create the art and the form to describe and recogruze it on a lide," ay Llberru , "the} al 0 learn the creati"e proce , \\ luch I very important to lnruan . It' the prouss that Inyolve the entire cul ture, the phJl oph), everything that Indian ha"e, In the making of an object. ' He al 0 \1 an tuden to learn re pect fo r American Indian and their culture. " tuden ee people \1 ho are on the 10\\

est ec noml rung, [who are) impoyer-I hed by any tandard, yet they are the nche t people n earth. The power of

provides a hogan (a traditional .. Tavajo home) for a week. Potter Mary Lewi house rudents in a pueblo. " tudents see the environment and hear the language and speech patterns," ay Libertu . "They become part of [Lewi ' } extended family because they're making pottery \vith her. .\lary has a different approach to art. he won't make a pot for just anybody. It's a whole different proces and it' a rewarding proce . rodents go down there and learn about thernselve ."

When: Liberru wa a ,.jsiring profe or at many colleges tncluding Yale, Temple Gniver ity, and the Cnil'er ity of Cali

fomia, Berkeley, before coming to the GniYer ity of ~1inne ota in 19 O. He ha been taking tudents to the outhwe tern

nited tates each pring for ten rear . Liberru joined the ~1inneapoli Instirote of Arts taff in 1969. u[l told the art in titute that} ifI took the job I wanted to do an Indian 077 how because Indian [objects} had neyer been con idered a art before. They'd alway been in the hand of anthropologi ts. I wanted to do an art how where an object i looked at in and by itself di CDS ed and admired. I don't care about the ani t ' name

the cour e i what the people and the outhwe t regl n teach the rudents."

How: "In many C"ases we li"e with the famihe we ha"e workshop with . 'Ve

Ron Libertus

becau e Indian don't care, but I want the object to be [regarded as} art. I thought thi would be a good war to educate, to bridge cultural gap . I till belie,oe that." Hi fir t how, .-l11l t>ricnn Indian Art: Fonll and Tradition. filled the in tirote and " 'alker Art Center three rear later. "Doing the how wa a great time for me, and where I really de,-el-

camp outside their hou e , u e their bathr om , hower , and kitchen . They c ok ~ r u ,\\ e cook for them." Kachina maker Raphael and Pauljne arracino hare food and kitchen facilitie with the tuden . Bertha teven, a Navajo II eayer,

~ STUDENTS SHOOT -------

Paul Owen, 16, a junior dOUble majoring in studio arts and humanities, shot this

photo of a street musician on the Washington Avenue footbridge. "I always thought phOtography was really cool, but I didn't do anything with It until about five years ago," says o en. "I didn't even have a camera. But when I started to play around with photography, I r lIy liked It. And so In an eHort to get away fr m fast food jobs and restaurant jobs, 'e. use I'd done a million of 'em, I decided to fil d a job in photography." Owen Is a photogra her at the MJnnesota Daily and an assistant t professional photographers In the Twin CI les.

LIBI TUS PHOTOGRAPHED BY CHARLIE GESELL

oped my academic reputation. I helped \\Tite and edit the catalog, which wa a erie of cholarlyarticl about different kind of Indian art. And in the proc , I decided to teach a cia ."

-Cont7'iZ,uted l~v Lydia Rwni(ke

\\ I 'E 0 T \ I I

~ IN THEIR OWN WORDS

We a ked U niversity faculty members to de cribe the bo k they'd mo t like t write.

David Born American Indian studies I would do orne research into my own fa mily history. Myancestor came over in the middle to late 1700 . I grew up in T uscarawas

ounty in Ohio and am related to a I t of people who live there. I carry a strong emotional bond to that par ticular geographic place, and I am very interested in the sen e of place that people have and how that shapes who we are.

Alisha Waller mechanical engineering H onestly, if! could write a book, and had all the time and resources at my dispo aI, it would be about how engineering students lea rn engineering. Conventional wisdom has aid that certain people can lea rn engineeri ng and certain people can' t. We've t und tllat that 's just no t true.

12 J LV - AUGUST 1 99 4

Ken H eller physics I'm ure the book would be about phy ic . I t wo uld be a textbook r; r introductory leve l [ tudents] . The one we have are not a good a they could be. T hey don ' t take into account how tudents learn.

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Marcia aton philosophy I am working on a book right n w about the connection of ae tlletic and ethical value. I t dea ls wi th que tions such as, If y u are an animal rights per on, can you look at a fur coat and see it a beautiful?

an there be beautiful pornography?

H erbert cherer art librarian I'm actually writing a book. now called Streamline Dreams: Movie Theaters and American Life il1 the 1930s. It's about the history of the architecture of movie theater and the ocial phenomena of mt' 1930 .

Five most expensive textbooks a t the Minnesota Book Center and the fields that require them • onlineoT ELyptic and Pombolic Eqllotionsoftbe econd Order, . . Kryl v, 163: math • Concepts of Organic Yl1 tbeSlS: Carbocyclic Cbe77listr)' (paperback), Bradford M undy, 99.75:

ch mi tty • Principles of Combust ion, I ennem Kuo, $95: mechanical engin ering • Posllj es (package), Bretz, $93.85: pani h • Aerosol Teclmology, W ill iam I1inds, 4.95: mechanica l engineering

Five (un ranked) best-selling books at the Minnesota Book Center

• Bl'idgesofModison County, R bertJame W all er • Like Water for Cbocolote, Laur • quivel • The Wily Things Ougbt to Be, Rush Limbaugh • Women Wbo Run witb the r-Volves, lari a Pinkola Este • The Fh-III , Tbe Clie1lf, The Pelicon Bl'ief, and A Time to Kill,] hn ri ham

ILLUSTRATED BY PAUL ME ,EL

fOR THE LOVE Of MUSIC: A Reminiscence by Teresa Scalzo

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun (left)

and University music professor Murry Sid lin.

As a child in northeast Minneapolis, I lived next door to a boy who played the violin. He wa older than I and had a

later bedtime. I remember lying in bed next to an open windo\: on hot ummer nights li tening to him practice.

r am reminded of that now a I sit in the Ted Mann Concert Hall on the \ e t Bank of the Twin Citie campus, listening to the tring ection of the niver ity of linnesota ymphony warm up. T he dark blue and maroon ceiling of the

new concert hall recalls the pink and blue everting lqr of those long-ago ummer evening .

The cho Ichildren for whom thi concert i being staged file lfl with their teacher and a b paren who are along to help herd the children fr m bus to auditorium and back again. The younger kid hold hand ,forming a long human chain while the older one aunter in more confidently showing off their Independence. Three girl , their arms intertwined, gjggle a they try to wa lk down the ai Ie \\~ thout letting go of each other.

Just a the kid are tarting to quirrn ilurry idlin, music profe or and director of the niver ity' conducting program, walks on tage. He de cribe the four election on today' program the first tllTee to be conducted by niver ity students and the last by idlin: Mozart' overture to The i\Iagic Flute, Brahms's Variation 011 a Theme ~y Haydn, 1endels ohn' ymphony no. 5 (Re/onl/arion), and Aaron Copland' A Lincoln

P01'trait, featuring a narration by native 1inne otan and Supreme ourtJu rice H arry Blackmun.

T he tudent conductor take the tage in turn. Before the

music begjns, each explain the background of the selection we will hear and special things to listen for, relating musical themes to everyday activities. The musicians will pass the mu ic from one to another, just like basketball players passing the ball," says WiJliam Intriligator, an animated student who conducts the Mozart overture.

Overall, the children are well behaved, if a little unsure of when to applaud. orne dance in their seats, others sit up straight and Ii ten intently, and other chat with their neighbors, oblivious to their teachers' dirty looks. One little boy cannot sit till. Fir t he sways and bounces in his seat. Then, at one particularly exhilaratina part of the Mendel sohn symphony, he jumps from his seat, arms waving furiou lya he "directs" the musicians in front of him. It i too much for his harried teacher and, after whispering a reprimand temly in his ear, she yanks him away from his cla mates and moves him several rows behind the group, where he its alone head hana-ing dejectedly, for the rest of the concert.

idlin returns to the stage to introduce Copland' Lincoln Portrait, 'veinen in the 19-+0 when America was at war and patriotic music was popular. He ays that Blackmun (who ha since retired) its on the upreme Court and 'i ues judgments that define the way we mu t live." Blad:mun i an American hero in the way that Lincoln wa idlin tell these tudents, who are probably more likely to choo e their heroes from pop music charts and the ro ter of profe ional athletic team .

But Copland and Lincoln could not have a ked for a bener man to deliver the e in pirational word to a group of choolchildren in 1994. Blackmun' deep firm voice i a perfect match to the trona patriotic mu ic. "Fellow citizen , we cannot e cape hi tory," intone Blackmun. "\Ve of thi Congre and thi admini tration \vill be remembered in pite of our elves . . . . The fiery trial through which we pa will light u down in honor or di honor, to the latest generation.' T he children eem mesmerized. \\'e adults are truck by the timeIe ne of Lincoln' word.

The performance pa qwcklr and the children file out, one boy declaring loudly that he ha to g to the bathroom. I think rna be orne day they \vi ll recall thi place and thi music ",~th the arne fondne that I have for a young violini t, practicing on warm unlffier evening many year ago.

~ STUD E NTS W RI TE: P.et rr<-__ ----~ ___________________ __.I

I \ a tanding over my rand father' fre h grave

n the day that we buried him and I rememb r n t \ anting to tl'lr \ a handful of dirt but I did it an va in the same wa r u d to thra> him a ball a d the dirt !<lade a h 11 wound a it hit t le box and choed off him and In ver 3 ' C pted tlli

'y for what it was and my grandfather has ne cr cli ed. (eve Ja obs, ~_, Sl!I1i01'1I/(lj01711g in Eng/isb

PHI TOGRAPHS BY CHARLIE GESELL; MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA PHOTOGRAPH av OM SWEENY/STAR TRIBUNE \ l I " . E T ,\ I 3

NAIVE AND

IDEALISTIC, POLLY

NELSON TRIED

TO SAVE ONE OF

AMERIC~S MOST NOTORIOUS SERIAL

KILLERS FROM THE ELECTRIC CHAIR-AND ALMOST LOST EVERYTHING

awyer Polly Tel n met her client for the fir t ti me a t the Florida ta te Pri on in t"arke, where he awaited her arri 31 in 3 holding cage the ize of 3

phone booth. Hiding n to the bar overhead, the man hung in the cage like a chimpanzee. "It wa very animal-like, the etting," recall 1 el n.

• It wa ort f dark. I :1\\ him from acro the r m and, e I ked ateam ther, but it wa ucil the wrong pia e to be introducing ur eh-e ."

Th e are n t th u ual circumstanc of a first client meeting, but then, thi wa n tan rdinary client, and it mo t definitely \Va n tan rdinar), ca e.

B rn in 19 _ in BI omington, i\linne ota Tel on i the Ide t of five children. Her paren were unhappy t gether, and el on tepped int the r Ie that w ul l haunt her f r the n xt everal

decades: caretaker. he took care of everyone and e,-erything from her younger siblings to worm he found tranded on the idewalk after a rain.

In 19 6 he graduated from the niv rsiryof linn ota with a degree in child p ychology. n UTe" hat to do next, eIon took every civil en;ce t t he quali

fied for and eventuall was hired a a ocial

els n pent t\ 0 year in till rna)) farming c rnmunity" h re ~ nune fluc-

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tuate with the weather and many of her client lived in shacks without running water or electricity. She started to drink. "It was a relief from the feelings of re pon ibility and the frustration ," he say.

Two years later, elson left Marshall County, thinking a change of environment would help. he wa hired by the D epartment of Welfare in St. Paul to license day care centers. he stayed for five years, but the noncommittal nature of the work-the very thing he'd sought-was unsati -fying. And she'd di covered that he could find a drinking com

munity wherever she lived. Without any particular plan in

mind , she took graduate school and law chool qualifying exam . "The law school [exam scores] came in the best," says elson, "so that's what I did."

el on cho e the University of Minnesota Law chool simp ly because "it was the best of the three law schools in Minnesota." Although she hadn't really thought through her decision , she flouri shed there. "I loved law school," Nelson ays. "That gave me a leg up because a lot of people go sort of grudgingly, but for me it was like a vacation because I wasn't responsible for anyone; it was just for me." It also gave her the di -traction she needed to temper her drinking habit-temporarily.

In choo ing her courses, el on deliberately avoided family law and criminal law, determi ned never to get involved in people's personal lives aga in . At fir t, her long- term expectations were mode t. he thought he might become a supervisor in the welfare department's licen ing department. When elson's grade qualified her for a ta ff po i tion on the Law School Review, the school 's prestigious scholarly journal, she was uddenly on a different track. Of the 30 or so first-year tudents cho en for the Law School Review staff, onJy about half make the cut to appointment on the journal's board in their second year; Nelson was elected president. Now she could write her own ticket. Her option included judicial clerkships, positions wi th large law firm ,and teaching appointments down the road.

"It rea lly opened my wor ld up ," she say. "I had an offer to work for the chief ju tice of the Minnesota upreme ourt, butT felt an obligation to leave Minneso-

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tao [Because mo t Law chool graduate] tay in Minnesota, the chool doesn't have

much of a national reputation . I was focused on leaving the state."

he got her law degree in 1984, pent one year clerking for an appeal court judge in ew York ity, then accepted an offer from the pre tigious and politically connected Wa hington, D .. , law firm

Wilmer, Cutler Pick- Ted Bundy

morning I wa hung over. I became f( Il_ ly concerned that my drinking wa gOllg to make me lose my job. ot 0 muh because my work was uffering, I ur becau e I would go to the firm happy ho Irs and n t be in control of what I was a 19 to people. And I couldn ' t imagine who t I would do ifI wa n't at the firm, or What I could hope for in terms of omething great

coming and saving me." The last straw was a cocl.1.all

party that elson threw at her home shortly after he joined the firm. One of me firm's partners remarked casually, "You're drunk and you were drunk the la t time I awyou."

In early 1986, el on quit drinking, cold turkey, thinkJng he would go to Alcoholic nonymous when he got the

shake . The tremor never came, and he didn't contact until everal year later. With her

ering. elson had arrived.

t33,shewasa first-year associate in what he de cribe a "one of tho e Washington law

waved at reporters

as his indictment for t he Chi Omega

drinking habit under control, el on wa finally ready for Real

Life to begin . In tead, he says, "I got Ted

Bundy." mu rders

was read.

firms that major corporations turn to when they are in really big trouble." he was earning 40,000 a year-a izable income in 1985-and she moved into a fabulou six-bedroom townhou e that he hared with only one other woman. Indulging herself, he bought the fir t brand-new mattress he'd ever owned, and she igned up for regular facial.

elson wa as igned t the firm' PIER group: products liability, in urance, environmental, and other regulation. Her fir t assignment was to determine if the new low-fat ice cream fl ding the market violated any regulation for frozen dairy products. "I told my mother that ifI had known I was go ing to be doing ice cream law, I would have gone to law s hoal a lot ooner," he say with a laugh.

After a lifetime f pu hing aside her own need to take care of other, elson hoped her new job would provide the feeling of self-worth and the dazzling per-onallife that far had eluded her. "It

didn't work out that way becau e I was till drinking," she say Witll a heavy sigh. "I had to drink every ni ght, and 0 every

In Defending tbe Devil, the recent-ly publi hed book el n wrote

about h er experience a Bund}' IJ t

lawyer, he recalls with the clarity we re erve for life' pi otal moment the e ening he wa offered hi case: "Although eventually I realized I wa born to represent Ted Bundy, when I fir t got the ca e it eemed quite accidental. rtwa ometime after eight o'clock on Tue day

evening, February 21, 19 6. I'd come to that dreaded part f the now familiar pattern of working late at me office when I'd run out of dela tactic and would finally have to face the tedious ta k at hand. I'd already eaten my u ual take-out hine<e dinner ( zechuan green bean, extra spicy, no meat) ordered through the firm' spectacularly helpful ervices department, anJ it wa ton t go tare at the nack machin e. I didn't know anyone to ca ll loca lly-I hadn't yet developed that rich per onal life I 'd e peeted . nd I had already talked t my m ther on her toll free phone line at work. There wa an i. one thing left t do: T turned to gaze 01 t the wind w in the night. '

lIer reverie wa interrupted when n I a ciaLe, j effR binson, tuck hi heaJ II

PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY O F UPI/BETTMANN N EW SPHOTC ;

h 'r doorway. "\Nant a Little pro bono p oject?" he asked simply.

\i Ilmer, utler & Pickering's polI( v on repre enting clients for free h ,d appealed to elson's caretaker p r onaLity from the beginning. The ru les-before the Bundy case changed everything-were that the fi rm's lawyers could accept pro bono Cd es at their di cretion.

Jumping at the diversion from the mundane assignment at hand and flattered that Robinson thought she could handle a case on her own already, el on accepted without hesitation. he soon found out that her office wa merely the first stop on Robinson' walk down the hall to offer the ca e to any lawyer he happened upon. (He'd been a ked by a friend in a Florida firm to take the

, case, but had to refu e because he already had a death penalty ca e.) elson would not figure out for a very long ame that her casual acceptance of this case would addle her firm with an unsavory, million-dolla! matter and make ;,er an unwilling parmer in Flor.ida' frenzied dri e to execute Bundy.

Instead, elson imagined herself the great vindicator. Robin on explained the ca e-obtaining a stay in the Supreme urt to halt Bundy's execution, which wa cheduled to take place in tlrree weeks- els n pictured Bundy alone and trembling in his pri on cell. Finally, she could help omeone who truly needed and appreciated her.

Bundy, says el on, is to erial killers what Kleenex i to disp able handkerchiefs: the brand name that stands for all other. He i beLieved to have killed 3S young women during the 19705. When elson got involved in his case, Bundy wa sitting on death r w in Flori-da, having received the death penalty in each of tI· 0 cases tried in Florida Di trict Court LX year earlier.

"The fir twa f, rtlleJanuary23, 197 , murder of tWO college tudents in tile hi Omega sorority hou e at Florida tate Dni er icy," a el n. 'The ec nd \ a fo ' the kidnapping and murder a few weeks lat r of a tw I e- ear- ld girl wh had b en w.,lking betw en two cbs room buildings at Lake iL)' Jwuor I-Iigh cho I when he IV, Ia teen ali e. It, a the hi mega dl1 th enten e for which Ted \ a to be ex 'cut d at thi time. I didn't even won-

"n reople ask me how Ted could live

with himself because he seemed to have this other side that wasn't violent. He

mostly wasn)t able to. He was horrified that he had done

those things."

der about the tatu of the Lake itye-d e. o one mentioned it."

el on' fir t t.l k \\'a to file a motion for a tay of execution with the Florida

upreme Olin, \ ait for it ine itable denial (UFI rida itl tho 'e day \Va \ ing with Texa to be the tate with the mo t execution," ays el on), then file an ther motion with the .. npreme urt.

' expe ted, th Ft rida upreme oun dClued and tile .. upr me ourt

granted el on' l11 ti n,' not bee-Ju e I \Va 0 brilliant," sh a 's, "but becau e [Bundy) had b en scheduled ~ r execution

a bit prematurely in rus legal process, so the Supreme Court had never seen any of his cases, and they generaJly will allow at least one shot at revjew."

The legal maneuverings that took place over the next three years fill more than three-fourths of elson's 336-page book and present a fascinating look at the death-row appeals process. lost remarkable is that

elson's main adversaries were not the prosecuting attorney as one might expect, but the the state and federal judge who were intent on executing Bundy and, in their haste, issued everal decisions that were at best unfair and a t worst unconsti tutional.

Tel on's appeal to the upreme Court to overturn Bundy's death entence in the Chi Omega ca e wa

based primarily on whether he was competent to represent him elf at trial, as he had insisted on doing, but there was no shortage of is ue on which to

build her claim. In the tay motion ~ el-on had prepared for the Florida upreme Court, she cited n i sue, ome of which the court had pondered

already during the two rear it took to

decide the original appeal. (~Iurder convictions are automatically appealed.) They ranged from the simple claim that the judge hould have declared a mi -trial after repeatedly acknowledging a leeping juror to the more complex mat

ter of whether a perpetrator can be po -itively identified through a photograph of bite marks on the victim body.

\\11ile he wa drafting the Chi Omega appeal, el on learned that Bundy had al 0 received the death penalty in the Lak City case, forwhich Florida' then governor Robert Gra-

ham could sign a death warrant at any rime. In her fir t year a a lawyer working for her fir t real client, el on found her elf fighting tlVO active death penalty ca

in the Chi mega case, eriou leg-al i ue were rai ed in the handling of the Lake ity trial and original appeal, mo t n tablr the admi i n of te timon), b

laren e "Andy" Ander n, a witne who claimed he had een the victim with Bundy the day he di app ared. deron had ch~lnged hi tory e\reral time

under hypno is. Be au e appellate deci ion et prece-

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dent for all future ca e that rai e the ame legal que ti ns, dle Florida Supreme urt t ok f ur years to decide the Lake ity appeal. "They were not going to verturn Ted BWldy's conviction n matter \ hat," writes el n in Defending the Devil, "but they clearly were di turbed by the alteration of Andy Anderson's te timonyunder hypn is conducted by the po]jce and prosecutor . \Vithout over-

was inn cent, it's just that I was thinking of him a a human being about to be killed and it wasn't the time for judging. I'm coming to ee that that i m re of a iinnesota quality than I thought. I expected everyone to feel that way and, of cour e, nobody else did. And that wa a problem because I could not comprehend that anybody wa actually con idering [kil ling

ca c. lIe had sh wn bad judgment lJ1 II~

legal ca e fr m the beginning, but e fo led pe pie because he c uld talk. AI J pe pie usually think if you can talk, Y' IJ

can think. [t wa n't true in his case." Bun Iy had repeatedly sabotaged I s

legal proceedings. riginally, the pro~,

cutor in the hi mega case had ffer,t! Bundya plea agreement: In e change t Ir

tuming Ted's conviction, they fina lly i sued an opinion ruling that it had been okay in his ca e, but then thereafter, in any other ca e, uch hypnoti ca ll y altered te timony wa not con titutiona lly ad mi ssi ble as evidence. Not that the Con titution had changed in the meanti me."

I -' -: .... • ~ '1 # ,--..~

pleading guilty, he woult! get a life entence. ~r

lengthy con ultatlOn with his lawyer, Bund} agreed to the plea, then went into the courtroom and presented a motion to the judge to have his defense team relieved as coun el. The judge

SF( Tro OIr l fter three years of

frenetic brief fiEng and court hearing in both case and three la tminute tay of execution, the U ..

A Florida State Bundy). It seemed 0 utterly immoral for the government, after they have omeone in custody and he is no longer hannful, to kill him."

University fraternity

celebrated Ted Bundy's

u preme oun annou nced at 10:00 a.m. on Janu ary 17, 199, dlat it would not review the Lake

execution with a

cookout, serving

ity ca e. By noon, Florida Govern r Bob Martinez had igned a death warrant-dle econd in the ca e-and cheduled Bundy' execution for an wlprecedented even

"Bundy burgers" and

electrified hot dogs.

Bundy killed two Chi Five ycars after

Bundy's death, elson sti ll sighs heavily when pcople a k about the young women he killed.

Omega coeds on the

campus in 1978.

day later. el on had been preparing for an evidentiary hearing the following week in the hi Omega ca e, but the judge quickly cancelled the hearing, lest el n try to argue that Bundy be kept alive to attend. uddenly, nothing else mattered. De pite the numerous ound argument for overturning BWldy's deadl penalty in both ca e , he would die in the electric hair f r the kidnapping and murdcr of

twelve-year-old Kimberly Leach. "v e had bcen robbed," el on write in her book. "\tVe had provcd our case and had sti ll It."

In add iti n to fighting Bundy' legal balt ie, els n faced ome ago ni zing per-onal conflicts. BWldy's lawyer, he was

dmlst repeaLedly into dle media sp dight. Throughout the three-ycar ordeal, reporter wou ld demand to kno~ : "\Vhat ab ut the vietim ?"

"For the m st part, I didn't think of the crimes or of Ted as a murdercr at all," ays

el 011." ot that I wa thinking that he

"All I can say i that mo t f the time I had the case, the victim weren't real people [to me). EvelY once in a while they would ort of pop up as rcal pcople and I would

pu h them back down." he wait a moment and, speaking very he itandy, continues:" ow . .. I . . . would ... feel dlat dley arc flesh and bl d, but dlCY are nil flesh and blood, dle victims, Ted, everybody."

Legend hold that Bundy wa handsome, mart, and charming, which omeh w made him more terri~ring b cau e he didn't 10 k and sound like the 1110n ter we imagine would rape, kill, an I dbmember young women. But elson di pute the Bundy myth. "H ewa n'tassmarta people ay. He was glib. He reminded me f a certain kind [ale man who ha the lines, but then when you ask him a question, he' baffled. Ted wa developmentally ]jkc a twel e-year- Id \ ho know the voca bulary and such, but can't u e il with any judgment. He had dle w r t judgment about what w h uld be loi ng wiLh Lhe

granted the motion and the pr ecutor withdrew the plea agreement.

elson would eventually di cover dla t Bundy was under the influence of antidepre ants that day, pro\lded by the pri on' phy ician and unbeknown t to anyone else-includll1g Bundy' att rney .

ne f the centra l i ue in elson's fight to erturn BWldy's two death penalty entences wa "hether he was ment'llIy compeLent to stand trial. D rothy Lc\\; ... a psychiatri t that elan arranged to hare examine Bundy while he \Va on deadl r "". diagn sed him 3S nuni depre i e, \\ hlch explained the irrati nal beha\'ior mat had characterized hi whole life. But by then it was too late. The appell ate and state

uprcme ourt judge, afraid f dle pohti al ramification of letting Bund_ lire. rejected el on' claim fin ompetence despite dle tr ng te timony fLewis JnJ

other witne .. e to the contrary. During the last days of Bundy' life.

elson gradually topped seeing herself as Bundy' 13\\ 'er and tartcd to become hi friend. "There \Va n dling else important for me t d ther than t help make Ted's last day meaningftt! for him because that' sort of why I [took the ca~e) in the first pia e," she ay . "I had imagined ti llS

terrified per on in hi ce ll [1 \\ aiting his c (-uti n, and no\ it wa happening."

elson, who vi ited Bundy in pri ·c il

22 times during dle dlree year she en t as hi 13wyer, pent e eral hours \I I 1

him n th e la t da of his li fe. he.1 d Lewis Ii tened a he recounted the evel "

that led him L c Jnmit lI ch hein us 3 I

18 JU l. -AUG ST 1 994 PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF UPIIBETTMANN NEWSPHO ;)5

( ten random act . Lewis recorded the ( myers. ti n, and elson includes part o the tran cript in Defe11(Img tbe Del'iI, a lowing th reader a rare glimp e im a s nal killer' psyche.

DUring that la!>t interview, eJson fir t h Id Bundy' handcuffed hand and later cnppeu his head4n her hand · a he p ke. \l rJlOugh he ha felt re p n ible for av-11 g Bundy's life from the time he accepted III ca e-she wa the ulti-ma te caretaker- ebon say her rd ati nship with him had been tr ictly that of a lawyer repre ent

Illg her hent. But "he needed n t everyone on hi last uay to think he \101 a leazeball," he a) . "People ILl t didn 't thInk he \1 a a human being anymore. [They thought] he ' I a like a dog or a wolf or omethmg. It eemed pretty bvlOu to me that he wa 011 a human being anu that' how I thought of him and that's how I treated him .

"People a k me hO\\ T eu could live II Ith himself becau e he seemed t have thl other ~ide that \\ a n't violent. I Ie mo tl} 7l,(/S//'t able to. He wa h rrified that he had done tho e thing. And he till thought he was a I·el"} go U person. ne rea!>on I (an under taml that i becau e of m) alc h lism. "'hen y u're an alcoh lie, rou uo a lot of tlll11gS that you don't tI"}' t mc rp rate into your self-image. You till think that y u're a good per on and an hone t peron."

el n had planned to leep through Rund} 's execution. he a ked theuper-11 mg parmer fr m her firm, who became involved in the ca e when it appeared that Bundy would be killed, to attend h uld something happen. But he awoke n the morning ofTueda) ,]anuJI)' ~4, 1 Q Q, at :06-tl1e enct moment of the execution.

Luee weeks later, ba kin \\'a hingt n, ~e1 n 11<1 ' called int the ffice f ne f the firm' managing parmel . Fir the congratulateu her on :1 job II ell done in the Bunuy ca e. Probably no ther bwyer in th l! firm would h:1\'e been able t handle J

C'J·C like tllat, he aid. Bur, he c ntinued, 1l, 'llhalet di cu s me time fr3ll1eth··ee 111 nth, ix months. Y u should be able to find another job b tl1en.

d n under~tood wh" ' he II as n 10 1ger \\'el me at the firm'. The Bundy ca ,e had ' t the partner ' 111 re than I million, auu el~on had been UI1JI';lil-

able to work on any other case for almost three years. \Vorse, "Ted Bundy's case had not aved my life as I had hoped," says Nel-on. "To the contrary, I was becoming les

and les functional. Although I never drank again, I grew more and more depressed."

Two month after Bundy was executed, Tel on left the firm and didn 't work again for three year. t fir t, she could

barely function . 'Ted wa till completeIyalive for me that fir t year after he wa executed," ay Nelon. "I could feel hi pre ence. I didn't feel any gradual dinlini hment of it. It wa till just a trong. And I gra ped onto the idea ohlTiting the book a a way of al;ng m) elf now that I wa -n't at the law firm, but I felt extremely di -loyal becau e he wa 0 present. It had been uch an w1believable experience to have a

person I knew deliberately killed. That was alway on my mind . I finally eked out a bo k pr p al and my agent hopped it around and nobody bought it. t that moment, I knew life a I knew itwa O\·er. I didn't feel capable ofworking, 0 I couldn't g back t practicing lall, and thi one thing I thought wa g ing to keep me I king like a u ce had failed . And it wa a great eneofrelief.Itwa ortoflike panic, panic, panic all year until I actually didn't get [a book ontr,lct] and then I tl1 ught, , od. I an giw it all up.' That' when r a ked meone to be my ,\ p n. r and I g t into therapy and Ted tarted to fade ,1\\ .1)' . It t ok a I'ery I ng time. I couldn't t.l1k ab ut him in themp), for til' years. And \\Titing tl1e b ok wa e ential for me t get back t normal."

' Villiam 1\1 rr II' ,md tually gave el ' nab k contract, \\;th only a n minal adn1l1ce, I 'hi h forc d her t think ab ut her future. 'he began t de ign "little work ther.lp·es" f r he elf,

mduding writing for a vegetarian newsletter and working on the campaign oHVashington mayoral candidate haron Pratt Kelly. \Vhen Kelly won the election, he appointed 1 Telson to the \\Tashington D.C., Board of Parole. As a member of the parole board, 1 elson decide when people get out of prison, or if they've violated parole and must be ent back. t first, •• el-

on worried that he would fall back into her arduous role a caretaker, because once again he i responsible for people in desperate . tuations.

"That hasn't been the case at all," a1's 1 Tel on. "It' been a very dif

ferent ex-perience for me. I feel that they committed the crime and they are re pon ible for their action. [The Bundy ca e] wa definitely the peak of my caretaking and my feelings of being O\'erly re pon ible. I followed that path a far a it took me and I didn't go back."

Ironically, 1 Tel on a} ,her only remaining nighunare i that none

of thi ever happened and he i till practicing corporate law. ''I'm very plea ed at how thi all lIorked out," he ay . "The parole job miraculously combine my otherwi e di parate background in that it a combination of ocial work and lawexactly. It ha made me ee that criminal justice i the place for me. I don't know if I want to be reappointed to the board or go on and do omething el e in criminal ju tice, maybe teaching or re earch or admini tration."

The tory of 1 el on ' experience a Bundy' la t lawyer accompli he many things. For i readers, Defmdill the Dr"';l presents prel;ou I)' unknmm and fa cinating fa ts ofBund),' crime and ub equent trial, how that even the mo t notoriou p ychopath ha a human ide, and documen ~el on' per onal truggle to reconcile the horror of what her client had d ne Witll her teadfa t belief that he hould n t be killed. For ~el n, it imply :1I'ed her unity.

"The experience of repr enting Ted Bundy wa intertwin d with my identity and I had to \JIU'avel them b th at the ame time" explain 1 Tel n. "Till \\'3 definitely

ne of th e b ks that h,ld t be written, , I could put all of till mt perspectiye.

"No Inger \\ a ' it ju t between me, d, and th devil, whi hi what that a ' e

felt like. In tead, it became just another ~

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Miriam Cameron's master's thes is ......................... ... .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................

on living with AIDS turned into .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

a lesson in dying the good death

By PAUL FROILAND

20 JULY-AUGU S T J 994 PHOTOGR.APHED BY DAN VI ,EL

erhaps the most remarkable thing about Miriam Cameron is her compassion. Anyone who has pent a year listening to 25 people with HIV-AIDS, most of whom are now dead, and more of whom will be dead by the time you read this article, i an expert in the arena of com

pa ion. § Since the publication of her book Living with AIDS, An Ethical Perspective by age Press last fall, Cameron has been deluged with requests-more than 50 at last count-to speak on ethical approaches to AIDS. So obliging has she been that she has reached a continuou state of laryngitis, what she calls "the Bill Clinton syndrome." After talking for an hour he ounds like a second oprano trying to peak through a mouthful of gravel.

ameron' b ok i actually her thesis for a Ph.D. in the Universltyof 1innes ta's nursmg pr gram. he is currently

, working on a master' degree In philo ophy at the n.i er it) t g wlth her R. ., 1. ., and d t rate degree .

people were extremely grateful to have someone listen to them, and they were willingto open up ata level that many of them, lacking a caring listener , had never approached before. ometimes Cameron wa shocked. he recalls the case of a twenty-year-old man who looked like a football player and attended a Christian college.

"On the one hand, Cameron a} , "he volunteered as an AID educator: He'd go out to peak to group and ay, 'Be careful whom you have sex \\ith, becau e they may look like me, and they rna actually have AID and you don 't know it.' And lookmg at him, you \\'ouldn't have known he had AID .

" t the arne time, he had a long-term relationship with a girlfriend , and she thought it wa a monogamou relationhip. He used condoms inconsistently ,~ith

her and at the arne time engaged ill unsafe ex w1th other women \\ithout telling hi

,

girlfriend. He \\'a out doing AID education and pretending to be monogamous."

F r h r re earch, ameron tned to a emble a dl er e "r up of per on With AID , or P\V ,so that her tudy participanrs would not fall into any ea ily categ r1zable group, uch a ga \ hite male. he had to eek out ten different agencie in the Twin itie to accompli h thiS, but he wa able to come up with a balance of gender, race, cial clas , age, exual orientation, and mean by which

people contracted the di ease-\\ hether b) un afe ex, intra enou drug u e, or hi d transfusion in the da ber, re bl od product ~ ere creened for the viru ' . In addition t the 25 P\V , ameron' tudy included interview with five" ignifi ant pcr ons": a motl1er, pou e ,lover.

3-15-56 .: 9 -04-'91 ..

t other time , Cameron was overwhelmed \\ith spnpathy. A university pro r, who has ince died poured hi ouI out to her for three hours. "He wa ju t like a fountain," he ar . "He didn't want anyone

el e to know that he had AID , and it almo t broke my heart becau e he \\'a 0 lonely. He went to one pharmacy for hi AID medication and another pharmacy for his other medications. He w' trying 0 hard to keep it a ecret."

ne f the rea ns ameron underto k thi study, he a ' , \ 3 tl1at 'he believed that the current c n en u appr a h to \ .D pre ention, educating every ne al ut the wa AID i contracted-and lfl ensel. edu ating high-risk group -\\'3

III tin ra t1eading t a de line in the numIII r f pe pie \ h "ere ono<tcting the di -ca ,e. The e1emenrs f meaning and integtity vere mi , ing, he believ d.

"Pr babl the m st imp rtant finding

of the re earch," amer n The NAMES Project

a) ,"i that all of [the subjects], AIDS Memorial Quilt,

no matter if they were home- viewed by 5 million

I r drug abusers, all wanted people, has 27 ,000

to live with meaning and integrity. Meaning v a eeing

individual panels.

their life a part ofa bigger, purpo eful picture, and integrity wa Ihing in harmony \\'ith their be t \<tIu ."

ameron belie\'e that b cause he i a nur e he wa able to get tl1em to re\'eal tartling truth about their live and dnl\\'

on deep feelings that all f them had about dying, health care, ociety' attitude to\\-ard them, the tigm3 fhaying the di e,l e, and how tl1ey felt they could ii\'e ut their dar with purpose and prin iple . he practi ed \\'h. t he call "ethi al h tening": "Ii tening n njudgmentall)" \\ith ut trying to gi\"e any advice, and iu t a suming tl1at the per n want to live with meaning and integrit) , enc uraging the pers n t r ok the ethical onAi tinth \\aythathe r he finds i ' right.'

he dis ,'ered tl1at, in mo t ca . , the

ameron wa pre ent at the death of one fher ubjec ,a gay man who died at home \\;th hi 100'er caring for him. "The approach that tho e two took \\ that death wa a part flife," he 3) . "They weren't happy that he wa dying, but [they wanted] to treat it in;1 more natural way. 0 he made the deci ion to top techn logy and die at home."

Hi choi e illu trate a problem that ameron ee in our ciety: " often in

thi culture death i mething t be a\"Oided at all co t., eyen if y u have to g thr ugh two yea ' f techn I ,.,: and hell. If we can think in term f \\ h:1t can I J n t nly to li\ e a go d li~ , but t hay a go d de,ltll, \\ e \\;1\ be likelier to h;1ye a g ddeath,andwe'dal ,\\'eal t f he'llth are d /lars."

PH TOGRAPH COURTESY OF THE NAMES PROJECT FOUNDATION \11'''( OT\ 21

The reason people are wiLling to go through so much, Cameron ays, is that our society values acquisition more highly than finding meaning in life . She thinks that part of the problem with our hea lth care system is that "people are 0 much into acqui ition: How can I get as much as I have a right to get? Therefore people at the end of life may insist on ha ing all kinds of technology to prolong life. But I don't know if it gives them more of a meaningful existence. Wherea , if my research is accurate, meaning and integrity are what we all want to live with anyway. [If so], the focus would be more on what do I need to do, and how do I need to take on more individual re ponsibility, and less on whatyoll hould be giving me since I have the right to acquire as much as po sible."

ome of the study participants came to embrace this point of view before they died, Cameron says. "The meaning of life [comes from] relationships, love, and developing oneself, not [from] making money or any number of other ways of acquisition."

Since more and wider AID education has not stanched the epidemic, Cameron has c ncluded that knowledge about how the disease is contracted and methods of prevention is not enough; education about how to eek ultimate happiness may be the answer instead. This is what Plato and Aristotle called "virtue etllics," Cameron says.

"I think if people know what makes mem happy in a Platonic and Aristotelian sense-things like [developing] human excellence and functioning well-mey're likelier to act with meaning and integrity," says Cameron. They see happiness in terms of a lifetime instead of moments of pleasure that come from, say, getting drunk or eating chocolate. "It's almost like [Abraham] Maslow's hierarchy of needs: How can I be a elf-actualized individual and live up to my human potential? One of the participants sa id that as [acting with meaning and integrity] becomes a way of Ii fe it becomes easier. For example, when someone first get into Alcoholics Anonym u , it's extremely difficu lt. Once you've been goi ng to meeting for five or ten years or whatever it take, then it becomes a way of li fe and yo u don't ha ve to be cho sing at every particular m ment what you're going to do. And then when y u come to an eth ica l problem, you can use logic r rational mean to say, How do Ire olve this in ueb

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a \ ay that I live up to my alues?" ltimately, Cameron says, the people

in tile study who were able to achieve this plane f meaning were me one who died "good deaths ." The subjects who didn't know what would make them ultimately happy would mink, for e ample, that they could find happiness in getting drunk or using drugs-or, in me case of teenagers, bam gay and traight, having un afe sex, because at that age mey still thought they were immortal.

Cameron also found a wide variati n in discrimination against PW by society and me health care indu try. The people she talked \vim were di criminated against by clas , race, gender, sexual orientati n, and how tlley had contracted the disease: You are "innocent" if you gOt AID through a blood transfusion. ou are "guilty" if you are gay or an intravenous drug user. ddi tiona lly, they faced discrinUnation from ignorant people who did not want to be in the r m with them becau e they weren't sure how one conn'acts AIDS.

One of ameron's subjects, a white, married midd le-cia s nurse, contracted tile viru through a blood transfu ion. he and her husband kept her condition ecret for two year. 1 hen they began to travel arOLmd to rural churches in the Midwest, givi ng lectures about HI -AIDS and urging people not to discriminate against those who had it. gay per onoran intra enou dnlg u er who n'ied to do this would pr bably n t be let in the d or, Cameron ay.

Another form of discrimination i ba ed on race, lass, and money. White, uppermidd le-cia I e pIe with pri ate insurance had better relations with their phy ici:)J1 ', often were given b tter means of pain c 11 -

trol, and were able to get better info -mati nab ut how t die. People of col r, pe pie on medical as i tance, al d people who didn't peak' ngli h wtl l didn't fare a well .

"Peop le of color ften fe lt ver} alienated fr m the health care system " ay ameron, "so if tbey were going

to peed up their deam or get enough pain control at the end, tlley'd have to

use treet drugs, and with treet drug:. you ne er know what you're getting."

Whi le the number of gay white men with HIV- ID is gradually receding, people of c lor are an increasing proportion f the urv.

IDS population . The re ult, ameron say, i mat the i sue of AID

eem to be becoming less important to ociety. "\i\lh.ite gar males who have health

insur3J1Ce are often well-educated, articulate, and 111 re likely t be organized than inner-city people f c lor and their exual parmers [and] IV drug u er " 3l11erOn says. "And thi latter group ha neither money nor political clout. 0 AID i getting more and more on the back burner."

ameron felt a deep ympamy for all those he interviewed. "I alwa) felt grateful that riley uUked to me," he "and I fdl such love for them, [ pecially] a fter I got to

know them. Even the t\ enty-year-old man , ho wa lecturing on safe sex ","rule he W;J~ practicing un afe e;l.-I couldn't judge rum a fter I had heard his tory. It' ea ) t judge people if you d n't know their t rie .

"And they just I ved it. er and over again they expre sed gratefu lnes for tIu

pp nunity to tell what it wa ' like for them. o matter h \. painful itw3 , I tried to go

deeper. \ Vhen the cried, I wou ld nel"cr ay, 'Don't cry.' Lo of time we think we

ha e to ay that becau e we feel we have to

fix thing, and I didn't want to fix anything, I just" anted to under rand. I wanted to go as deep a they' ere wil ling to go, and dle) were jll t so gratefu l, becau e even good friend u ually don't do mat."

b ve all , 3mer n all' the com111 n human ityinpe pie, 31 thatAID'isadi,ease dlat pe pie ju t happen to have. \Vh:lt is evident in reading between the line pf her b ok, and directly evident in a 01-

versa ti n wi th h r, i he r c mpa sioll, e en-perhal e pe ially-C r th se t il

whom so iety ha turned its back. learl y, by obse[ ing people \ ho di ( I

a g od dendl, Miriam 3m eron has mal ~ some proJi lind dis overie ab Llt life. C

PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID ALOSI AND RON VAKICOURTE Y OF THE NAMES PROJECT FOUNDATI

,Andre Watts: at the ~;

'. !Andn! WItts is unquestionably

one of music's premier pianists.

He reached the top of his

field by carefully balancing

stylistic discipline with

creativity. And whether this

UXJrld famous pianist is

perpming in recital, with

an onkstnz, orin Ike ~

studio. 1M jJUDJo M fJ/lI1s

nDISt hi cm/ted to l'I!SjI(JNl

to tIuJt balace.

What piano, then, doa

And~ Hf.ztts play? Yamaha . ..

respected ", Mr. Kfztts flIIIl

other leading pUmists

ARe de's Digest "I CAM E TO THE UNlVER ITY from Anoka High

School in the fall of 1960 and I became a

writer here. This is where my world began," said Garrison Keillor, speak

ing at the University ofMinne otaAlumniAs ociacion annual meeting a cou

ple of years ago. § For a hundred years before Keillor came to the Uni

versity-and in the 30 years since he has left- the Univer ity ha guided

numerous students to literary greatness and counted among its facul ty no

less than poet Allen Tate, Pulitzer prize winners John Berryman, Robert

Penn Warren, and aul Bellow, and memoirists Patricia Hampl and Carol

Bly. § M innesota has compiled a selection of excerpts from University writ

ers. And, for the third year, we present an updated list of recently published

books written by University alumni and faculty. Whether you prefer my -

teries or Melville, you'll find something here by an old favorite or a great new

wnter. Edited by Teresa Scalzo and Kristie McPhail

Paper Boy M omo had the face of a twelve-year-old; he was forty-three, in fact. very m rning in the ummer, hi mother drove him into town and Momo went to all the tra h dispo al cans in t. Aidan, recovered lvIinneapolis T1"ibll17e from them, and old them up and down the one treet of the town, houting, "Pa per! Paper!" Al l u1e bu~ine s people ent omeone out, a recepti nist or whoever wa nea rest the d r, to give Momo a nickel and take a paper. \ Vhen he had gone the whole length f the treet, from the anon Funera l hapel at one end to the Rod.), M untain Pr pector ' office at the other, he would find more papers lying on top of the tra h cans, 0 he sold them again-thi time to the other ide f the treet.

"The Dignity of Life" Backbone, h rt st ries by aro l Bly, lecturer in "ngli h

Mi lkweed diti n , 1985

Excerpt from Bllckbonf reprinted by perm,s<lon of hl kweed Pre». E ,cerpl from The Gllllle belJ/lli1 (he Gill'" reprinted by pernllS'''1Il of Voyageur Press. " I lallowe'en" frolll Ilrllry', Fllle

by John Berryman. 'opynght © 1 69 by John Berryman. Reprinted hy pern",,,()n of Farrar, Strau, & (;1(OU , L, . "The \ Volve," frol11 oll<"(led POf1ll.r 1919- 1976 by II cn Tatc. ' npynght © 1977 by l\llen I ate. Reprinted

by pern1l",nn of Farrar, trau, & G,roux, IJ' . Excerpt from olcJm l\kmn,.,r., reprinted by perm",,,,,, ofNodm Press. EXCC'l1 from All (he IVII/{"r fIIell, copYrigh t 1946 and renewed 1974 hy Rnl en Penn " .rren,

reprinted by permission of ll nrcollrt Brace & 01l1l'nny.

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Wrench H i given name i linton Daniel ladden III, which ugge t high tea, impec-cable grooming, tru t fund ,and Little Lord Fa un tier y.

Dan ladden i n ne of the above. In a ba ebaJIl cker r om, hi name i "" Trench," a name gi en to him b. former Twin teammate Kent Hrbek. Like an auto mechanic,

ladden gets dirty playing ba eball. "Y,Trench" i hi trademark. The licen e plate on Dan' car read "" 1 II," and hi " 'ife proudly wear a gold medalli n wrench given to her b Dan.

\Vhen Dan wa ix year old \\ hiJe playing with om of hi brother and friend on a famil , uting, he ch e the wr ng way back t the family camp ite. It wa late afternoon n a co I vember dar, and young Dan wa h pele Iy I tin a lifo mi a ' Portola rate P rk. He walked aimle Iy D r half an h ur, then attempted to cr ' a creek by walking on me log . He lipped and fell into the c Id water, breaking hi arm in the pro e '. old" et, s ared, and hurting, he pushed on. He found a sp t next t orne big I gs, where he w-Icd up f, r the night. },leanwhile, hi frantic family enlisted the help of the park ranger, who ' eot ut a earch party that in luded 5 pri oner fr m a nearby minimum e urity pri 00. In the m rning oe f the pri ner found Dan.

Dan ladden i~ ne t ugh guy. He i · a un;,' r.

Tbe GalliI' bel illd fbI' Game Ron im n, '54, '57

\ 'oyageurPre ,\993

\II . 'E , T'\ 25

ALong Ride h e men in the car remained silent, apparently lost in thought, paying little attention to him. He rested his head on the eat cushion, clo ed hi eyes, and wondered where and when thi rrip would end. He needed the money, that was for ure, and there was little in his young life he hadn't done for money. But thi gig seemed so elaborate, so out of the movies, that he wondered what the final payoff would be. Wait and see, he told himself.

They had been driving for what Rick gues ed to be ten minutes when hi backseat companion reached into a small compartment at his feet and pulled out a bottle of Chi vas Regal. He poured a fmger of the whiskey into a glass and handed it to Rick, then helped him elf.

"Go ahead, drink up. We're going to have to put the blind-

fold on before long." Ther were the fir t word he had poken, and they were aid gently, almo t kindly. Rick did as he was told.

Rick sipped the liquor, feeling the warmth of it pread through hi body, matching the heat f the car. They wound their way around the lake of outh Minneapoli , pa t the alhoun Towers, the band tand on Lake Harriet, the grand h me along Lake of tl1e lies. There eemed to be no de tination, just a meandering path tllat eventually led them al ngside Mmnehaha Creek. Rick felt a ifhe ought to ay omething, to make conver ation, to fill the void. In tead, he just ipped , watched, and waited.

I1Vl1ge ]I/rt/et

R n Handberg, '60 IIarper Paperbacks, 199~

An Emotional Response In so far as a response to an emotional timulus occur, it is to be dealt Wilh like any other re ponse, but the response does not define the stimulu as emotional and is onl the accompaniment of the central emotional change. The change in trength induced by tlle same timulu provide practical criteria, and they are the commone t data in the field. I know that a man is angry, not because he is ecreting adrenaline or becau e hi blood pres ure is increasing, but becau e he greet me dully, shakes hand lowly and weakly, responds to my remarks curtly, and avoid me if po ible. All the resp n e which he is accustomed to make in my presence have undergone a significant change, and that change is the primary datum upon which I ba e the statement that he i angry.

imi larly, I know that a companion on a dark road is afraid, not because he is secreting adrena line or becau e his blood pressure is increasing, but be ause he starts ea ily, speaks in a whi per if at all, keep his eye on hi urroundings, and so on.

26 JULY-A GUST 1994

The Bebavlor ojOlganis7IIs B. F. Skinner, a ociate profe or f p ychology, 1930 t 1945

D. ppleton- entury ompany, 1938

ILLUSTRATED BY ANDREW POY' ELL

No Place Like Home S t. lair Park \Va (and till i ) et on a bluff of the city, the back yard of the rocu Hill hou e and man ion -I called anything '>vith more than three bedroom a mansion-ri ing even higher behind it, and the lowland that fell harpl below the park lying beyond with it broad plain of working-cia hou e . From the height of the park I looked down n my grandmother' neighborhood. It had al 0 been my own neighborhood-I wa born "down there," baptized at t. tani lau , the Czech church. My father till \ rked there; hi greenhou e wa only two

blocks from where I'd been born, in a hou e owned by an old Czech couple, our landlord, who hunted mu hroom with Moravian cunning and pa ion. They gathered them in uburban wood (they took the rreetcar) and brought the ini ter thing -a my mother thought-horne to dry. It

did not occur to me, when I at on my park bench, to write about thi .

Hallowe'en Ttlis Hallowe'en goe out my bab. then for tricks or treats alone: I dump here dealing out treat

he' almo t even. he in i ted. Alone. Two or three other little girl climb with her. That' tile end of our fea

when we scrambled, father - daughter, up long tep , Daddy lagging behind. Beautiful, he got many. Her co tume "a uperb. Thi i the end of Dadd ,the hallowing of the depth of her childhood, when bearded Daddywa any. Daddy, parked at the curb,

will watch hi bab ,muttering in Latin, scrambling up th tep of mith r "\ a . r aYlllCT 'I wnnt a ale man with a yacht after m degree" here n, me in satin, my Daddy can pend hi Ia t years without pa ing, reyi ing hi w rks or n t.'

A Romontic Educotion Patricia RampI, profe or of Engli h

Houghton Mifflin, 1991

HeI17J's Fnte ' Otbe1' Poems. 196--19':_ J hn Berryman, Regen 'Profe r of Engli h, 19. 4 t 1972

Farrar, ln1US - iroux 1 Q

ILL JSTRATED BY JULIE DELTON \1\ E QT . 27

The Wolves h ere are wolve in the next room waiting ' Vith heads bent low, thrust out, breathing At nothing in the dark; between them and me

white door patched with light from the hall \Vhere it seems never (so till i the hou e)

man has walked from the from door to the tair. It has been forever. Beas claw the floor. I have brooded on angels and arch6ends But no man ha ever sat where the next room's Crowded with wolve, and for the honor of man I affirm that never have I before. ow while I have looked for the evening tar at a cold window And whistled when Arcturus spi lt his light, I've heard the wolve cuffle, and said: a this Is man; so-what better conclusion is there-The day will not fall w night, and the heart Of man ha a little dignity, but Ie patience Than a wolf's, and a duller sen e that cann

mell its own mortality. (This and other Meditations wi ll be uited to other time After dog si lence h wls his epitaph.)

ow remember ourage, go to the dar, Open it and see whether coiled on tlle bed Or cringing by tlle wa ll , a avage beast Maybe with golden hair, with deep eye Like a bearded spider on a sunlit floor Will narl-and man can never be alone.

Poe7llS, 19'2-- 19-17 Allen Tate, Regent' Pr fessor of Eng Ii h, I 51 to 196

harles Scribner' !lS, 1948

28 J I. Y-A GUST 1 994 PHOTOGRAPH BY JIM BRANDENBURG/MINDEN PICTl ,ES

Pack Lighdy Of course, I 10 t my clothes. That \\'a the first thing .... I wa jumped by a gang of w men and dive ted of my trou er . They might eally ha\ e a ked me to remove them. The tory given out i that they have decided my wool trou er needed mending at the cuff and a dry cleaning. Dry cleaning take them two week!.. Then I \\ a awarded a bathrobe. But ince the onJ}' top I have is a lurt and weater the) have decided the e must be \\ orn over the bathrobe rather than under. them'i e, ince I

have no pajama bonom , the bathrobe mIght open to reyeal my leg' , a dreadful thing. 0 with mr Ion" Aran sweater m'er a bathrobe I troop about now far more eccentric than the other ladie . And I therefore have an e\'en mailer chance of getting out, ince clothing and appearance are C\'erything in a nuthouse,

Tile Loo11ey-8m Trip Kate ~lillen, ' -6

im n c- chu ter, 1990

To a Romantic 1:, Robert Penn \ Varren You hold your eager head T high in the air, you \1 .llk

if the leep)' dead Had never fallen to dr \I' e

ublime t talk f many a vehement hou e. our head 0 turned turn ' eye

Into the vagrant \\Te l;

Fixing an ir n 111 od In an zymandia' brea t And be au ' e r ur clamor u bl od Beats an impermanent rest You think the dead arise \ Yest\\,ard and fJbu l u : T he dead are tho ' C \\ ho e lie ' \\' cred r ' toa narr \\'h u 'c.

Ponlls.19_2-19·r: ,\lIen Tate, Regents' Profcsor of Engli'\1, 19 1 to 1 Q6

hade ' cribner' ns, 1 48

ILl USTRATED BY MERLE NACHT \It [ OT \ 29

Tradition, Tradition C oached by Fielding Yost, the "Point-a-Minute" Wolverines (as they were called since they had racked up 600 points in 600 minutes over a four-year period) had not 10 t a game in more than three easons when they came to Minne ota in 1903 , but the Gophers battled the mighty Wolverines to a 6-6 tie. the Wolverine returned to Michigan, they left behind a water jug they had purchased that day in Dinkytown. 0 car Mun on, a

orwegian custodian who later became the opher' equipment manager, took the jug to Dr. Louis ooke, who headed the athletic department. Legend has it that, with his heavy Scandinavian accent, Munson reported to ooke that, "Jost left his yug. "

Rather than return the jug, ooke announced that 1ichigan would have to come and win it back. lIe painted the words, "Michigan Jug, Captured by 0 car" on ne ide of it and the 6-6 score of the game n the other, then hung the jug over Iu desk. It tayed there for i year, ince Minne ota and Michigan did not meet on the gridiron again un til 1909. The V olverine won that game to finally get their jug back and it ha witched back and forth ever ince.

Golden AJemorm Ray hri ten en, '49

odin Pre , 1993

Measured Success A ccording to one of his colleague , and colleagues are generally the la t to ay such thing , Benn wa a botanist of a "high level of di tinction. " I d n't uppo e that thi will cut much ice with most people. Why hould they care ab ut the hi togene i of the leaf, or adventitiou roots? I wouldn't myself, if it hadn 't been for nele. cientists? Unless they do cancer re earch or guide you through the universe on televisi n, like al'l agan, what is there to them? The public wants heart transplants, it wants a cure for AID , reversals of senjlity. It doesn 't care a hoot for plant tructure , and why should it? Sure it can tolerate the people who tudy them. powerful society can alway afford a few such type. They're relatively inexpensive t o. It costs more to keep t:w

convicts in tateville than one botani t in hi chair. But c nvicts offcr much more in th way of excitement-riot and ar on in the prison , garroting a guard, driving a take through the warden's head.

30 JUI.V-AUGUST 1994

fore Die of Hem1brenk au l Bellow, a so iate professor of < nglish, 1947 t 1949, 1956 to 1959

Will iam M rrow, 19 7

Sore Loser I 'm proud of ou for trying hard right to the end" aid Grandpa.

U\ e I t," aid ILot. U\\'innmg I n't ev rything," aid Grandpa. UIt i to me," aid Elliot. \Vithout wruting for the prize, he left hi bike

be ide the p 01 and headed for home. Grandpa picked up the bike. Jim r de home be ide randpa, but Iliot got there fir t.

lIiot tayed in lu r om the re t f the morning. lIe at n the tep in the afternoon. J 1m came ver with a mudge of peanut butter on hi cilln. "Do rou want to play marble ,Elliot:-" " T ' t

UD you want to pIa robot?" u 0 ."

oJ 1m rode rus bIke up and down, back and D rth, alone. Elliot tepped on an .

Trbl'l?is JaneRe hThoma, '67. ' - 1

Ticknor . Field ,19 6

Noisemaker A utomatically he re ailed the aptain' ob e ional hatred of noi e, parti ular!}' noi e at night, particular!. n i e in the area of hi abin . He went down to the cabin deck and found, hat he wanted. It wa a gangway tanchion, about the ize of a ba eball bat, and olid lead. I Ie went up t the POrt wing f the aptain' bridge and cal ulated. The

aptain' bedr om was ju t in ide, and th aptain lept athwartSillp . The head of hi bunk \ a right again t thi bulkh ad . R ber figured: it" a about three feet off the deck; it \Va right ab ut here. lIe wung the ranch ion with aU ill trength ag-Jinst the bulkhead. Then he wung a ec nd time and a third. Th blml ho k the hue like an eA'Plo i n. ext III rning e"ery ingle ffi er nfe ed to ha,wg been awakened. and En ign 1 ult n, I h Ii, d ju t aft of the aptain, ",lid he had been kno ked aLn t out of hi bunk. R bertS placed the tan hion arefull) at the aptain' d or, walked calmly U I n the ladder and around the hue. and returned to ill 011'11 r 111 by the tarb ard ladder. II undre ed carefully and g t into bed.

II USTRATED BY MARY WORCESTER

"listrr Robn-ts Th rna IIeogen, '41

H ughton lifHin, 1 46

\\ \ . ,., 0 T A 3 I

The Life Giver h ere was Mi s Lily Mae Littlepaugh, whom, after five weeks, I tracked down to a dark, foul- melling lair in a rooming house on the edge of the slum , in Memphi. he wa a gaunt old woman, wearing black spotted and stained with old food , almost pa t the pretense of gentility, blinking lowly at me from weak red eye set in the age-cru ted face , sitting there in the near-dark room, exuding her old-fox mell, which mixed with the smell of oriental incen e and candle wax. There were holy pictures on the walls on every spare space, and in one corner of the room, on a little table, a ort of shrine, with a curtain of faded wine-colored velvet hang-

ing above it, and in ide not a ladonna or crucifix a you would expect from the other pictures, but a big image made of felt and mounted on a board which I at fir t took to be a sunflower pincu hion swollen to an impractical ~ize, but then realized was an image of the un and its rays, The Life- J\'er And in that room. Before it, on the table, a candle burned fatly as though fed not merely from the wa . but from the ubstance of the grea yair.

<III fbI' King's,HeII Robert Penn v arren, English profes or, 1942-1950

Harcourt, Brace and omp:my, 1946

Alumni Authors Jose Barreiro, '88, Tbe II/dian Cbr01l1des. Hi torical novel recount

ing the Taino Indians' fir t encounters with Europeans, as told by Diego olon, who at age twelve was taken captive and became hristopher olumbus's primary interpreter (Arte Publico Press, niversity ofI-Iou ton, 1993).

Emilie Buchwald, '71, Pamela Fletcher, '83, and Martha Roth, editors, Transj077l1illg a Rope Clllru1'e. oll ection of writing ba ed on the belief that sexual aggression, vio lence, and fear can be overcome (Milbveed Editions, 1993).

hristopher ardozo, '77, editor, aflve arions: First Americans as een by Edward . Curtis. Magniflcent distillation of the bestof photographer/ethnographer/adventurer Edward . urtis's landmark twenty-volume study of the Indians of orth America (Little, Brown, 1993).

Ray hri tensen, ''1-9, with tew Thornley,' 1, Golden !',[emories. utobiographyof hri tensen, the legendary Minnesota sportscast

er; cover the hist ric highlights and the drama behind tlle rise and fall of great teams from an insider's per pective odin Pre s, 1993).

Brian Croone, '79, ~VI)/te-lVlnll-Rulls-Hi7ll . The st ry of one of eneral George uster's row couts ( van ton Publi hing, 1993).

Millar I J. rickson , '53, Evnngelicalllllflprerntiolls: Perspectives 011

Hl!1711l'nellficnllsmes. ix essays on centra l I ues in contempor, ry Bible

32 J LY- UGUST 1994

int<!rpreraoon (Baker Book IIouse, 1993). tephen Frantzich, '70, rl1llencnn GoVe17l1llCIlt: Tbe Poltticnl Gam!.

look at how technology has changed Amencan politic and gmemment (Brown and Benchm,lrk Publi her, 1993).

Kate reen, '72, Blnrk Dreams. Profes~ional psychic Theresa Fortunato and Los Angele Police Depar011ent detective liver jardme, first teamed in reen's novel bnftl:red .110011 , "hich was nominated for an dgar ward, are back working together on t:\ 0 mystenously connected ca es in\olving an abducted hild and a murdered antiques deal er(IIarper ollm, 1993).

Roger Hammer, '73" /lIIel7can IV(N/lOn: lJiddflllll HlStolY. FOI~'fillg tbe FUflm (The Place in the \Noods, 1993).

Ron Handberg, '60, I)' /7engetlIlCf. ct in the same T\\ in me television new room as nvage JUstffe, I landberg'S best-selling first novel, Cty /7mgenllce bristle with the ex Itement and terror of the hunt for a rapist's killer ( ar I Pulli hing Troup, 1993).

I lenry TIolt, '7 1, and \Nill \Veaver, trtklllg Ollt. hildren's book about a young man \I h begll1 to under rand II hat he may accomplISh alld the choices he may ha\ c to make (llarper ollins, 1993).

Garrison Keillor, '66, Book of Guys. a s Keillor:" uys art: mean l

to be I ers and urti t and adventurers .... It's lime ~ r women t(

take over the world that guy can d this." Keill r's deepesnenrun

ILLUSTRATED BY L1NOA FRI CH

into satire (Penguin, 1993). Harvey L. KJevar, '70, £1'skine Coldwell: A Biography. The events,

people, and values that coalesced first to fuel Erskine Caldwell's literary respectability and, later, to erode it ( niversity of Tennessee Press, 1993).

M. D. Lake (akaJ. Allen Simpson), '86, Murder by Mail. Retu.rn to college with fictional campus cop Peggy 0' eill, whose current investigation revolves around hate mail sent to an interracial couple on 0' eill's campus police force, a dead graduate student, and an old man found burned to death in hi house (Avon, 1993).

Don Larson, '62, ,'\iIed/col Cart Crisis: A C(rmmun Srose Solution (Bond Publishing, 199~).

Caroline Lazo, '78, has written a series of biographies of men and women who have contributed to the peace movement. Titles released in 1993 and 1994 include Lech Woleso, Eleol101' Roosevelt, lIIartin Luther King]r., and Rigobertll iHmchu (Macmillan Publishing).

George Levine, '59, editor, Realism and Reprmmtation: Esrnys 011

the Prob/nll of Realism in Relntiun to Science, Literature, and Culture (University onVisconsin Press, 1993).

Mary Louge, ' 5, Still Explosion: A Laltra Molloy Mystery. iVhen Laura ~10Uoy, a 35-year-old journalist for the T'win Cities Times, sets out to write a feature on abortion, she doesn't stop to think abou.t the possible consequences (Seal Press, 1993).

Julian Markels, '57, ,Helville ond the Politics of Identity. An exploration of the ideological transaction between King Lear, Shakespeare's most philosophically political play, and 1I1oby Dick, America's most philosophically politicaI nm'el (University oflllinois Press, 1993).

Bruce MerreU '77, editor, Letters from Alaska. Original versions ofleners wrinen by el>:plorer John Muir in 1 9 and 18 0 as he traveled the waters of outhea tern Alaska in a Tlingit Indian dugout canoe. Rare accounts of Ala ka in its early day: gold mines, rogue to\\n5, Fort " 'rangel, the infancy of the tourist industry, and the native Tlingits' struggle to retam their culture ( niversity of \V"J5consm Press, 1993).

Kate Millett, '56, An Essay on the Literature of Political Imf»'ison-111mt. A new theory of politics for our time, offering a harrowing view of the modem state based on the practice of torIDre as a method of rule (W. W. orton, 1994).

Joe Paddock. '59, Boar's Donee. A collection of the author's poetry (HoIy Cow Press, 1993).

Joan Pohl Pasiuk, '81, Advmtum in Careering-A Twin Cities Field. Guide. Guide to the Twin Cities job market for the unemployed, underemployed, or restlessly employed (Basswood Press, 1991).

E. Lakin Phillips, '49, Permissivmers in Child. Rearing and EdUCIJtion: A Failed Doctrine? e7J) Tl'mds for the 1990s. The need for strUcturing a child's social activity, emphasizing an authoritative (versus authoritarian) parent/teacher style (University Press of America, 1993).

Karen Ritz,' 1, A Picture Book of Anne Pra7lk. illustrates the story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who hid with her family in a secret apartment in 19405 Amsterdam to avoid persecution by the German anny (Holiday House, 1993).

Ron Simon, '54, '5 ,The Game behind the Game: Negotiating in the Big Leagues. Sports anomey Simon describes his experiences with teams---mostly from Minnesota-and the players he represents, including Lou Nanne, Dan Gladden, Kevin McHale, PauL\1olitor, and Jim Kaat oyageur Press, 1993).

Joel Strangis, '70, Grandfather's Rock. Four children try to sway their father's decision to send grandfather to a nursing home; based on a traditional Italian folktale (Houghton Mifflin, 1993).

~ancy Earle "rild, '3 ,Allie. V,rtld tells the story of her sister, who had a rare physical disability but made a happy, rewarding life for herself (Vantage Press, 1993).

Carrie Young, '44, Prairie Cooks: GltJrifted Rice, Three-Day Buns, al1d Other R£711i7liscrnces. Growing up in a ~orwegian American community imbued with the customs and foods of the Old Country, Young recalls in this funny memoir how her mother and her neighbors skillfully blended candinavian with what they called the American style of cooking. Recipes are included (t;niversity ofIowa Press, 1993).

Faculty Authors

John . dam, profe orof geography, planning, and public affairs, and Barbara J. \ 'anDra ek, instructor in geography, Minneapolis alld

t. Palll: People, Place, olld PIIMic Lift. omprehensive, up-to-date look at the metro area and Its unique ocial, economic, political, and physical environment; includes maps, photograph ,~nd graphs (University oLvlinnesota Press, 1993).

Pauline G. Bo and \ \ 'iUiam). Doherty. professors oHamily sociaJ science, editors, QlIIwbook of Fam/~Y Theories twd lIIethods: A Conte.>;tltDl Approach. omprehen ive presentation of the e\'olucion, current progre 's, and future avenue of research in fumilr tudie (plenum Press, 1993).

Daniel Bre\\ er, associate profes or ofFrencll and Italian, Thf Dis(ourse ofEnligbtemJle11t ill Eightemtb-Centllry P,'ollce: DiderOl alld tbe Art ofPbilosopbizing. How Denis Diderot pu hed Enlightenment critique to its limits (Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Miriam E. ameron, ervice fellow in natural re ource , £iring lUitb AID : ErpC1imcil1g Etbicol Prob/ems. Real-life problems and olucion as told by people Iiving \I ith AID ; moral di£6cultie reyoking around relationship, e;\'Uulity, per onho d, chronic illnes , death, and di crirninacion ( age PubIicacion , 1993).

T. K Chang, associate professorofj urnalism, Tbe Press and Cbi1ll1 Polity: Tbe illusion of ino-..Jmc6con Relations, 1950-19 4- (Ablex Publishing, 1993).

Kevin wayna, community program pecialist, Knowillg Wb,"7'c the FOlll1datiollsA7'C: rolies milt tark RetlliriesofHomeless 10mb (Deacone' Pre s, 1993).

\ \ rtlJi,m1 Doherty, profe 'or of Elmily s cial cience,,) fedical P,'7111~Y Tbempy: A BiophysiCilI Ap{l1'oorb to Families witi> Hcalth ProMclI/s. A n \I

approach t psychothemp. thal :\ddres ' the p 'chologicdl and interpersonal problem that arise with un illne", accident, or intr-,lcmbJe medical problem (Bn ic B ks, 199_).

Barbara A. Hanawalt, professor of history and director of the e niversit),'s Center for ,\ledie\'a1 tudies. and .Kathryn L. Reyerson, profe'sor of history, City and Spectacle ill ,'Iediteal EU1"'upe. The u e of ceremony as a tarement of political power, plea for diyine intercession. and expres ion of popular culture in medieruEurope (L-nirersiryof :\1inne ota Pres. 1994).

1'11. Janice Hogan, profe or of family ocial cience, and James 1'Iladdock. associate profe or of family ooal science, editors, Familtes in the U.S. and Russia 011 the Thresbold of tbe T1:'eJlty-fim Crow,)" Collaborative publication with the oviet ademyof cience (Guilford Pre ,1993).

Ruth-Ellen BoetcherJoere ,professor of German, and Elizabeth :\Iittman,' 6. '92, The Politics of the Essay: Fmrini.rt Pmpl'ctil'l's. The work of women e" 3)'i ts from variou nation over the pa t two centurie ; gender, race, cla ,and national identirv as axes of anal, i (Indiana ni\'er ityPre', 1993). . ,

J orce Lyon, associate professor of an, C071,:ersutiOIlS 11'ith lCr.r::;Q7J.'. A dialogue of place, both in the pre ent md in the author' father' pa t in Poland , that im'estigate her Je"'ish heritage (Joyce Lvon, 1993).

D,wid J. .'Ierrel\. profe sor emeritus of geneti ,ecological:lJ1d beha\~oral geneti ,and e\'olution, Tbe ,-I.daptil·e easmpl': The J[ccbalIiJ711 ofEI'olutioll. E:I.,?osition md critique of the modem synthetic theory of e\'olution-its history present difficulties. and fu~e--from the perspective of ecological genetics niyersity oL\Iinnesota Pres , 1994).

,\laria Pagunini, department chair and prof, or of French, Ri'I1ding PrTlILtt: 111 ellJ1'h of the WolfPisb. How and why Prou t'~ work continues to att:r.1Ct and FJ cinate readers (l niYersiry of Mirme' ta Pres , 1994).

Han'er arl " profe or of culml"Jl tudie' a.nd COl11pJ.f3tiye literature, Teacbing as Di/lkgue:.-I. TMt'be1"s tlld)'. t niyersity Pre of Am eriCl , 19(3). '. <4

\l 1 N "E 0 T A 3 3

EASTC REVISI THE BROOKS FAMILY REC

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AT 176 NORTH MISSISSIPPI BOULEVAR D.

PAT HASSELMO TELLS

WHAT

By

IT ' S LIKE TODAY

dward (Ted) Brook J r. was ju t ten when his parents , Edward r. and Markell, decided to remodel their home on the east bank of the Missi sippi River.

a special treat, the senior Brooks, a ucce sful St. Paul lumberman, told his

two elde t on , Ted and Conley, that he would build a hiding place in each of their bedroom .

"When the house wa remodeled, our rooms were paneled ," Brook recalls. "Conley's wa done in wlLite pine, mine in cyprus. Father aid we could pick out omeplace in the room where a board

would be movable, c uld be pulled out, and would give acce s to a pace behind it. I had two above the bookca e. They were suppo ed to be hiding places, but everyone knew about them ."

o what did young Ted keep in hi hiding place? His appendix, which had recently been removed and placed in a small bottle; he would pr udJy remove it

from its hiding place and display it Vic k i 5 t a vi g to his friends. "1 don't know where

the appendix is today," he says. "It could sti ll be there."

It cou ld indeed. Edward Brooks r.

died in 1954, and Mrs. Brooks gave the hou se (named Ea tcliff becau e of its location) to the niver ity of Minnes ta in 1958. ince 1960, it ha been the offi-

34 J tV-AUGUST J994

cia l re idence of five Univer ity pre 1-

dent and their familie. everal years ago, while onley Brooks was isiting with then-pre id ent Peter Magrath, Brooks asked Magrath if he knew where the hiding pIa e were in the hou e.

" 0," came the reply, 0 Bro ks to( k Magrath up tair , opened t\ c1ost"t do rs, and howed him everal ecrd drawer. Tho e drawer sti ll contaiJ1l I item placed there b the Bro ks hldren. In an ther hiding place b a \1 if -dow in what had been onl y Br ok~ s bedro Tn was a b ttle labe led "\ all r fr m the tlanti ," by then emp .

CALLIGRAPHY BY DIANE VON At)(

'astcliff, a t\IO- try, t\lenrr-r 0111

hou e built in 1922 n ~I 0 acre' of land ove rl oling the Mis i ippi Ril'er, wa home to the Brooks family for 111 re than three decade . It \Va a home filled with love, laughter, and con tant acti,·it) as the Bro kse ' four children- onley, Ted, 1arkell (Binky), and DwightlIent ab ut the e\Cryda ' bu ine of g: wing fr m toddler l adult . A u -c' ion f family d added t tile hubbIb. Ru t)', an Iri h~water paniel, \las:J p Irticubr fav rite.

"He was f nd f running ar und tile n "ghb rh d and goi ng up to [the Uni -

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t . Th ma on retin," ay onley. "He

w uld find hi way into the wimming pool area ,md \\'a

befriended by everal member f tlle wimming team. The), would get him int the p I whenever th coa h wa n'tar und ."

From 3,000 to 4.000 guests a year visit Eastcliff, the home

of University President Nils Hasselmo; his wife,

Pat, pictured above; and thei r daughter

Anna.

If that telephone all had nor been made, Ted lJugh , Ea tcliff might n \\ belong t t. Thoma '. The ide yard at Ea tcliff bear te timonr to the Br kse' loye

Ted picks lip the try." ne day the head of t. Thoma, Father ;\lurphy I think hi ' name \\'3 , called m ther and aid, 'Mrs. Br ks, lhi ) , 'ery difficult

f r me, but rOll ha e to ontTol Rusty· he' up ctting ur wimming s hedule.; ,;

f their dot" : Til' \\. den he:Jd tone mark the finoll r ting place of Ru ty ~md a

dach hund named \ \ ' enie. .

Bro ks r. had a wond rful en e f hum r but <11 0 \\3 <1 di ciplinarian. .-\lth ugh the family employed tw maid, a k, a ground keeper, and a part-time bundre , the children were

\l1'Nl ' OT\ 35

re ponsible for mowing the lawn, hoveling snow, and poli rung the bra s ladder in the swimming pool. "Father was quite a ta lana ter, 'says Ted.

But when it was time to play, Brooks u ually had a hand in that, as well. One year, he built a toboggan Ii de on the south ide of the house, then enjoyed the antics of hi children and their friends a they held racing competition.

Eastcliff wa remodeled in 1931 to include a garage with living quarter above it and a new swimming pool. The old swimming pool, which ran east to west, wa filled in and replaced with the current one, which run north to outh.

enjoying him elf \ hile we were champing at the bit to get down tair . [ think he did it on purpo e. Mother would get nervous and father thought it wa funn .'

ince then, five other familie have enjoyed hri tma e at Ea tcliff. Meredith Wil on and hi family became the first niver ity re ident in 1960. They were fo11m ed by pre idents 1\1aJcohn 005, . Peter 1agrath, Kenneth Keller, and il Ha elmo, \ ho urrentIy Lives at Ea tcliff with hi \ ife, Pat, and their daughter Anna.

"We feel ery much at home here," a Pat Ha selmo, "but we re conscious

of the fact that Ea tcLiff i a public facility

W hile the house itself has changed little over the years, today Eastcliffis the site o/two to three University functions each week, with

3, 000 to 4, 000 people passing through its doors each year.

Exca ation and construction of the new pool provided countJes hour of entertainment for the Brook children and their friends. "It wa fa cinating to watch, 'say Ted. "It wa quite an event. Life wa simple in those day . There

asn't much ariety, but ~ e had a lot of fun."

For the mo t part, the Brook es' entertaining at Ea tcLiff con isted oflugh school graduation partie, hri tmas get-together, and an occa ional rna -querade party when the children were young and in dance chool. "i e had three ma querade partie in the amu ement room down tairs," recalls Ted. "v e invited about 50 boy and girl and dres ed up in co turne .'

Conley recalls Chrism13s at Eastcliff as being a speciaJ occasion. Mrs. Brooks decorated the hou e from top to bottom with fresh pine branches that enlitted a woodsy meU throughout tJ1e hou e. n Christmas Eve, the fanlily got into the car and drove up and down ummit Avenue, marveling at the hri tffias Lights.

It wa tradition to have grandfather Dwight Frederick Brooks hare breakfast with the family at Eastcliff on Cmi tma morning. "We could hardly wait to fini h breakfast and race down to the amu ement room where the hristma tree and pre ents were," ay Ted. " rand father would sitat the head of the table in the dining room, taking hi time,

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o that there are ah ay people around being entertained or caring for the h use.' While the h use itself has changed Little over the year, today Ea tcliff i the site of two to three ni er ity function each week, with 3,000 to 4,000 people pas ing through its door each year.

On a sunny pring day, however , Ea tcliff i fairly quiet. tefan, the Hasselmos' cat, is a leep on a chair in the family breakfa t area, undi turbed by the drone of a vacuum cleaner. In the living room, unlight tream acro cott Joplin and hopin mu ic books resting on a baby grand piano that wa a gift from the chool of ur ing. In a mall office at the rear of the hou e, Linda Fox, Ea tcliff events coordinator, quietJy goe about her work, which aloin 01 e over eeing the household taFf-a parttime cleaning per on and a sea onal ground keeper.

eated in a small room, dubbed the Red Den, off the f, yer, Pat Ha elmo talks about life at a tcliff and fund-rai ing efforts to keep up tJle hou e. "The Board of Regents decided that work n certain a pects of the house hould be financed through private fund-raising," he a . "Eastcliff hould be treated Eke any other

niversity faci li ty for basic maintenance; the fund-raising i for an of tho e things that are special and out of the ordinary and ha e extra c timplication."

To that end, the Friend of Eastcliff

ommittee (formed b regents mand t exp.lore alternate funding ur e f<

tJle e pecial pr je ts) created the Ea eliFfLegacy und last year. master pi \\'a de eloped by the a teli Ff echl1lt I

dvi ory mmJttee of volunteer cor ultants from e\'eral ni er ity depar

ments, including architecture and facil J tie management, who e charge i to set out and implement co t-effecti e hou repair , maintenance, and impro\'emen

Among the fir t Legacy Fund pr Jecb \\ ill be making the entryway acce ible to \ heelchairs and redoing the dining room ceiling with a ound-ab orbing matenal. "\Vhen we entertain large group, it ge ery n isy," ay Ha elmo.

The ma ter plan al 0 caU for me land cape and rede ign of the yard, a Legacy Fund proJect. Has elmo hope that the work can be c ordinated \~lth the niver i ty Landscape boretu n and that plants developed by the I11verity can be u ed.

The most recent reno anon and repair, made in the late 19 0 , mcluded upgrading the elec01caJ and heatmg S} -

tem , improving 111 ulation, adding a atering kitchen and kitchen and dirung pace ~ r tJle farruly, enlarging the duung

ro m, and painting the house and fence "Ben re that ex-pan in," ill lIa dmo, "only 12 could be eated in the dining room, 0 table were ften set up throughout the main fl or. ow \\ e Ciln eat -+ m tJle dining room and h t recepo n for up to 75 pe pIe quite ea ily, whi h J an enormou advantage In accomm dJong

ur \' lun1e of event reque ts." Future re toration project \\ ill be

undert:lken a fund become available. T date, the Friend ' of a tcliff ommittee ha rai ed 1 0,000; 100,000 \ a contributed by the Brook famill. "\: e are delighted with the \ ay the 111-

versity ha carried n the tradition of a tcliff," sa Ted Brooks. dd onlt)

Br ks, "\ e tJlink ur contribution J ~ r a worm cau e and hope it might help to rai e more money."

The ruver it)' and the Ha elmo a.-e appreciati e of the Br kse' gener tl,

pa t and pre ent. C \Ve have had igm -cant gifts to a tcliff from many peop ' , and \ e want to acknowledge thnt SUPP( l

and thank them for it. 1d we Jre es( -ciall grnteful t the Br ks famil) f ,r their continuing intere t in and imoh -ment with 3stcliFf," say ITa elmo. ~

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, aVIll,..

H

orman Bowie tells the tory of the former Twin ities chief executive

who looked out over

Has the Socially

Responsible Chief

Executive Officer

gone the way of the

dinosaur? Not yet,

says Norman Bowie

of the Carlson

School of

Management, but

a world of global

competition and

corporate takeovers

is making for some

dangerous habitat

by William Swanson

south Minneapolis from a downtown office tower not long ago and aid, "You know, we have no choice but to take s me responsibility here." To Bowie, a Univer ity of Minnesota facu lty member who teaches c ur e invo lving corporate re ponsib ility, the comment was a sma ll but p wer

fu l statement of hope. It wa evidence that Minnesota has n t yet become, well , e\ Jersey, pr of that even in these pre ure-packed time, local orp rate leadership can

ee beyond the bottom line. In the next breath, however, Bowie concede two important points ab ut the anec

dote. Fir t, the s cially rc pon ible speaker wa a reti7-ed , which rai es the p -sibi lity that hi view may not reflect an up-to-date con ensll . econd , the fact that any such statement i remarkable in a community that ha I ng taken en lightened corporate leader hip for granted i noteworthy in it own right. Al l or our executives have ocia l conscience j they all peak out for the comm n god, and they put their

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money and their muscle behind their beliefs. Don 't they?

Bowie shakes his head and smiles ruefully. He is by training and practice both an ethicist and a philosopher, a person who can articuJate both what ought to be and what is. Holder of the Elmer L. Andersen Chair in Corporate Responsibility at the

niver ity' Curtis L. Carlon chool of Management, Bowie is in a good position to judge which way the wind are blowing, not only because of his perch on the eighth floor of the }.lanagement and Economics buildmg near downtown '\linneapoli , but al 0 because ofhi access to upper management of local busine and industry.

"There' still the kind of environment here that makes [corporate good works] eem appropriate," Bowie sa\'o But

frankly, I worry about it. That"environment is not as trong as it used to be. There are 0 many factor working again tit today. Globalization, competitive pre -ure , greater and greater demand on

re ource , downsizing. The demand on management' time alone-the e people just don't have enough time anymore."

n the face of it, ay Bowie and other ob elyers the local environment do not eem hugely different from the way it wa

twenty rear ago, when the like of Curt Carlson, the Dayton brothers, and the contemporary generarion of the Pill bury family were e tabli hing a nationwide tandard for ocially re pon ible corporate citizen hip. Civic ta k force till draw members from di,"erse local industrie and intere ts, and corporate charitable !rivina

" 1:>' at lea t to main tream in tiruti n , con-

Norman Bowie, holder of the

Elmer l. Andersen Chair in Corporate

Responsibility, Carlson School of Management

tinue at comparati,oely high le,·ei , according to many ource . But the old

guard of movers and hakers i undeniably

older. lmer Ande;-en i - thi year.

lIrt O. 'Yin t n " 'allin, ha retired fr m active

management .It}.Iedtroni , ha neari' c mpleted hi temporary a ignmem "ith the University' health cien perati ns, Jnd would like t play m re g If. The Pill -bury ompa.J1y i wned b . J Blirish mulrinati nal, and the la t DJyt n left the I cal deparUllent t re enterp~i a de ade ag .

" rhile several y ung r like Michael Wright, '63, f 'uper\ Talu,

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Michael Bon ignore ofHoneywell, and William George of Medtronic are making a mark with their own civicmindedness and generosity, observers wonder if the torch i likely to burn as brightly among the leadership yet to come. Unlike their locally born and educated elders , many of the new breed are outsiders, without family roots or loyalties in Minnesota, and they may not be as likely to share their predeces ors' passion for hometown cares and causes.

The motive for doing the right thing is

or at least should be-doing the right thing. But, as a matter of fact, if you do the right thing, in a lot of cases it will also

admits he' not very optimistic about bu ine 's role in community problem solving. He notes an attitude among some chief executive that ince they've "professionalized" their civic and philanthropic bligations, they need not do more. Ironically, he a) ,profe sionalization ha in many case amounted to EO delegating civic responsibilities to corporate departments tha t have since been cu t during economic downturn and belt tightening.

have a positive effect on the

Asked for their views on bottom line. the subject, some of the elders, including Carlson and Wallin , eA'Press guarded optimism about the future of corporate social responsibility in Minnesota. So does David Kidwell, dean of the Carlson School of Management, who points to University grads and contributors like James Watkins , 46-year-old founder of Golden Valley Microwave Foods, as heartening examples of young entrepreneurs who have created successful businesses and give generously to the community. But former governor Elmer Andersen, long-time chair ofH. B. Fuller Company who retired from Fuller's board in April, says he believes too many companies have grown myopic in recent years and are no longer able to envision the long-range benefits of socially active behavior both for themselves and for their communities. "The priorities have gotten confused," he says. "There's too much emphasis on money, on short-term earnings."

Ten years ago, an article by aro l Pine ,'67, and usan Mundale, '65, in C01"

pomte Rep011 Minnesota asked if a "new generation of corporate leaders [would] support the community in the style to which we have become accu tomed ." The answer, of course, was, we' ll just have to wait and see. According to Pine, who advises loca l busines es on matters of corporate culture and values, the question is still perti nent and the answer remains unclear.

Meanwhil e, Cha rl e M un da le, '71, executive di rector of the Minne ota enter fo r Corporate Responsibili ty, an organ ization formed by local busine s leaders back in 1978 and now affi liated with the University of t. T homas in Minneapolis,

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dmitting to a treak of "old-fashioned Lutheran gloom," Charles Mundale posits the image of himself, Bowie, and Kenneth Goodpa ter who holds the Koch Chair in Bu ines Ethics at t. Thoma, as modern Jeremiah crying out against complacency and hardheartedne in trying times . He jokingly uggests that the pre ence of two endowed

chairs in corporate responsibility located in the Twin Cities, rather than providing evidence of continuing enlightenment, may only mean that there are at lea ta couple of wealthy individual in town who till have a social con cience.

orm Bowie neither looks nor ound like an Id Testament

prophet or a public cold . t 52, he's a plain-spoken, friendly-faced fell wwho e low-key manner belies his self-a sessment as "a hard-no ed guy" on the issue of corporate ethics.

Bowie came to Minnesota in 1989 fr m the University of Delaware, where he'd spent a dozen years as director of its enter for the Study of Va lues. With a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester ew Y rk), he ha taught either phi lo ophyor bu ines cour e (ometimes both) for 25 years. t Minnesota, he tea hes in both the philosophy department and the arl on School, where he' chair of the trategic management and organization deparm1enl.

Followi ng David KidweU' arriva l as arlso n School dea n in 1991, Bowie

helped reshape the chool's M.B .. program, which now inclu les a new "leadership core" of course empha izi ng" oft"

i sues like environmenta l responsibility and bu ines ethic . "American bu ine s seho I are the ery be t in the world at teaching students how to analyze and crunch numbers," Kidwell explain . "There i , however, a cri is fleadership a changing c rporation try to deal with the in~ rmation age. In our new 1.B. . program, we're trying to s trike a balance between the quantitative and qualitative sides of busines ." The demand for balance came from the local bu ine community itself, he says. "From all of our survey , we received a trong sense that students needed to under tand omething about ethical behavior."

Both Kidwell and Bowie point out that ethical behavior in t day' corporation often involve questions much more complicated than the common e ample of paying a bribe to do business in a foreign country. "We can ' t tell tudents how to behave," ays Kidwell . "\Vhatwe try to do is help them identify emical problems and provide a framework for analyzing and handling tho e problems." The problems may be as mundane a de,1lingwith a h pfloor employee who punches s mebody else' time card as a favor, or a potentially explo ive as blow1I1g the whi tie on tl1e management of a company that ' polluting a local waterway.

Then there's the question f what the company can and hould do on behalf of its community. Bowie walks his tudents thr ugh two c mpeting theone

on the ubject." n me one side," he says, "me economist 1i lton Friedman argue· that the j b ofbu ines is to maximize profits for stockholder, period. n tl1e orner, the o-ca ll ed stakeholder theory ays business ha obligation t all of th e affected by bLlsine s deci ions, including not onh tockholder , but al 0 CLI tomers, emplo)

ee ,supplier, and tile community." Bowie tand foursquare behind th '

stakeholder appr ach , a po ition he 3) '

i not shared by all of hi colleaguesatth ar l n chool-and one he ha nt

always embra ed him elf. In an exten i\ e, amination f me i ue th ree years ag' he wrotc, "The orthodox vie'> i thal s cially re pon ible corporation pursul

profit while re pecnng me moral minimUIll . I have been an adherent of that position, but I now think the p iti n i mitaken. Part f what it mean for a corporation to be ocially re p n ible i cooperati n with other corp rations and with n nprofit so ial and go\'ernment agencie to he lp oh'e socia l problem ."

It' n t only right for a corporation t help olve soci"l problem, it' \\ i e, ay B wie. In the long run, m st ompanie d well by doing g I, and he doe n 't l1Jve t( reach far t pr vide a mem rable eX<lmp e. \ Vhen the Dayton Huds 11 orp raci )n wa tile object of a h tile take ver altell1pt b) an out- f-st<lte uitor in 19 , \ ilm e otans were ri led up en ugh to suppllrt legi lative pr tc ti n ~ r the homet( wn retai ler. T he em tional local reacti 1I1 wa ' due in part, B wie sa S, t me

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goodwill the Dayton operation had accrued a a highly \ri ible e'g od neighbor" over eyeral

David Kidwell, dean of the

Carlson School

decade. more re ent and per- of Management

Corporation' Target tore. who e hi tory of hiring di abled workers, providing di counts for the elder! ,and giving 5 percent of pretax: profit to charity far onal example i orth\\' L · r-

line E John Da burg' deci i n thi pring to return a large-and well-publii7ed -bonu . Bowie uspe ts that b th

Da burg' and 1 rmwe t ' public-opinion to k ro e a are ult. "I do think mere are advantage in acrifi ing hort-term elf-intere t~and taking a leader hip p i

ti n," BO\vie a) . "I think Dasburg' move wa :1 nlart n ."

i\l reO\'er, one cially r ponsible turn

de erve anotll r, ay B \I;e: The community we the 10 31 c I-poration its 1 yalty in renlrn ~ r the c rp ration' onern . gain drawing on a backyard

example, he pints to t11e arton Huds n

outsaip the philanthropic acmiti of their competitor. "I maintain," he has written, "that Target uperior ocial performance creat an obligation for members of the community to hop at Targ t." Indeed. he ay "If we are t have a truly compre

hen ive theory of corp rate ocial r ponibility, \I'e must de\'el p a theory for deter

mining the appr priate 7-rcip1TJfal duti that exi t :lmong c rp rate t"akeholder .

"L ok, II he a} ,"I make the argument that ethic i a part of trategy. The motiye for ding the right thing is-or at lea t hould be-d inO" the riO"ht thinO"

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But, a a matter f fact, if you do m right

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thing, in a lot of cases it will also have a po itive effect on the bottom line.

"I'm much more hard-nosed about the trategic ad antages of ethical practices

than I used to be, probably because of a more cynica l younger generation. You ha e to show a payoff. " You also have to understand "the real costs" of your actions pro and con, he adds, countering, for instance, the impulse to lay workers off with arguments about employee loyalty, product quality, and community ensibilities. "I don' t think we've seen the true cost of a lot of corporate downsizing yetthe cost of a workforce that has no incentive to be loyal, that may be very angry about the way colleagues have been treated. There's a knee-jerk mentality that a instead of increasing productivity, let's cut employees. An employer may ay, 'Gee, ifI'm producing 1,000 widgets with 100 employees, I could save money by producing the same amount with 50 employees.' V1hat the employer doe n't under tand is that it would be better to use 100 employees to produce 2,000 widgets." That, says Bowie, would be a winning ituation for everyone.

ick up a textbook on the ocial re ponsibility of mod

ern management Bowie says, and you 11 find numerous example of po itive acti ities in neighborh od development, support for the arts, health care, labor

relation, environmental pr tection, and the like from the Twin Citie . On many uch matters, he says \ e are way ahead of

the rest of the nation, thanks in large part to the role played by local busines acting in concert with other private and public organizations. Times are changing, though. The world is hrinking, the takes are getting bigger, and many corporation are in quite a different situation now than they were in only a decade ago: They are global competitors struggling for their lives.

It' one thing to do busine s in Minnesota, Bowie in i ts, and quite another to do busine in ew Jersey, where corporations aren 't so famous for their beneficence. "Move that out farther still-think about doing business in Hong Kong or Singapore-and we're 7'eolly talking about

a different cu lture. We need to figure 0 \

trategie that\: ill make ew Jersey mOl ' like Minne ota in tead of making lir . ne tam re like e\ Jerey."Towarl that end, he cites the inne ta Prine · pies Project f the enter D r orp ra t · Re pon ibility, which seeks to stimulate I

global intere t in locally te ted "ethic I sy tern. ' "There are people in this communitywho are willing to tand up and sa we ought to try to get other to con ider our standard on the e is ues," he says.

"The big challenge for local bu ine ~

people i deciding what they're willing to do beyond simply doing the right thing In

their own companie ," Bowie continue '. "Thi community has gi en a lot to the arts over the years, but I wonder if we're spending our resource 0 wi ely today. \ e've got new problems now-problems of the core cities, for example-and \\ e need to decide what role busines can pia) in dealing with tho e. I've become much more optimistic about bu ine addressing our social problem than I am about government. I've had my gutful of go 'ernment. I think bu ine working \\ith other instituti ns can find bettef\\ay than

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The willingne and ability f the l coming generation of executives to e tend them elves and their companie ' r urce beyond corp rate confine i a Ly factor, Bowie ay . He en e a pervaIve unea ine among the young man

ager he deals with in the arlson chool's e:,ecuti e education programs. "They feel mten e pre ure to perform, to do more II lth Ie s," he ay . "Many of them believe they have to put in twel e- or ixteen-hour days, and 0 they don't have time for a lot of the per onal volunteer and community- ervice activitie the pre\'iou generation might have done in the pa t. orne companie ,like H. B. Fuller reward their employees for their community ervicemake it part of the corporate culrure-but mo t companie aren't like Fu ller."

d there are, he believe, ignificant difference bet\\ een today's youth and their parents. "The b ttom line, I'd ay, i that in term of bus in ethi, young people are I m raJ than older people. ~1aybe that' becaue they're pretty cynical ab ut mstirution . I a k rudcnt, 'H w many of

you, if you were a ked by your employer to do something you consider immoral or ill egal, would do it?' bout half the hands go up. The e kids are ju t getting into the job market. They figure that everybody's out to get everybody el e, that it' a jungle ut there."

Is the niver ity doing enough to prepare a new generation of community-oriented bu ines leaders? This is an e peciaUy alient issue in light of recent Carlson

chaol figure howing that almo t 0 percent of the chool 30,000 alumni have remained in linnesota after graduation; more than half of all Carlson chool alumni, according to its tudie , hold managementor upervi oryposition in the companie where they work. Bo\\;e' reply i , "Probably not, given the re ources we ha\'e to work with. However, I believe we do more with what we've got than anybody. \ Ve now have the mo t coherent executive ethic program in the country, bar none. You won't find what we offer at HarYard, l Torthwe tern, or hicago."

B wie ay he en e no ho tility to hi me age in today' fa t-changing highpre ure busine community-' though I

sometime feel ignored." He believes that in addition to educating the community's future leader, he could prm,;de a valuable service to curren t CEO as a " toryteller," as a conduit of information from other communities. The Twin Cities, for instance, could learn important lessons in race relations from tlanta where Bowie ha spent time observing and talking to executive. "Part of my job is knowing what' going on around the country, around the world " he explains. "I could perhaps ee problem coming that our local busine people may not ee. I could help them anticipate and prepare for problems. I've lived and worked out East, 0 I can ee things coming thi way. I think the

niversity could erye a a clearinghouse of information and therefore a cataly t for change."

It' a role that many concerned busi n people and ocial acti,,;sts, both young and old, would welcome. "Given all the uncertainties and the temptation (for busine leader] to revert to the un'ival mode, the need i greater than e'-er, ay Charle ;\lundale. "Our job i to make people think." <4

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COll.£GE OF AGRICULTURE

';7 W. Richard Dukelow of ' t lansing, M1clu~ Ul, has received the DISDnguished F .1cuJty ward a Mlthigan tate ruversity, where he IS a profesS<lr In the deparonents of arumaJ saence and phYO;Iology and director of the Endocnne Research nlL'!". Dukel w IS an mremao nalJy 1m wn expen n the reproducove ph) ology of nonhuman pnmates and I> cnxhted WIth the research breakthrough that made U1 VItro fertilizaoon safe for humarlS.

COll.£GE OF UBERAl ARTS

'67 Sue Bennett f Deepha~en, Mmnesotl, has heen elected to the Metropoiltan tlte Uruverslty Foundaoon Board of rustecs. consultant for area founJaoons, Bermett served as prCSldent of the ni'"el'ilty of \lmnesota '\Iumru Assooaoon 'aoonal Board In 1990-91.

'68 Thomas Gorey of BI rnmgron, nlJnolS, has been named "Ice pre Jdent f logi 0 operations and rntegranon at ears ,\ lerchandl e Group. orey began Iu career at ears In 196 md ha held a vanet) of posloons "it!un the compan}

77 Michaela Diercks f 10und, tinne.otl, h3!> JOUled l l.lnn n 1.1 as wrector of markeong, Uldulling naoonal markeong for Ilarmon 's GI Depot DI~rcb wa~ prc~i()u,l) With \loorc Darn \Ianagement ' ~rv1CC .

'87 Scott Pries ofl~chficld, ,\ hnne<;()tl, has been promotcd to accowlt <upc" ,-or from 'iCru r cxccuo'e at ;\ lJller .\ I ter \ dIUO! Ulg.

'89 Tara Cole of Eden Pnune, Mmnesotl, has beel1 named a unt e.,-ccucive Jt Miller ,\ le~ter .\dvel1lS1J1g. ' Ie was prel10usl) an account n1;)l1-3ger for 'V liken Promoo n and Advertising.

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'58 Fred Friswold f Fdina, linn CI, has been named OulStll1lling mmwuty Volunteer f ,\ hnn poils R tary Oub 9. Fn I'old IS cluef execuo,c officer fTonka EqUJpment mp3ny.

'6 1 Jerry Figenskau of \ uscin, M1I1n rn, has bten named a VIce president at 1 [onnel FOO<b, 1\ here hL I dIrt!Ctor of speoaIt)' products. Figenskau has ixCIl with llomlel for L ) ear,.

Daniel Schultz of t. loW!>, ~oW1, h.lS lx.>en n, Illcd (,I' parOler-In-ch,lrge for ooper, & L, bl'.lJ1d's IJdll est regton, hul tz h3' been IIllh th mpan inc 1970.

Mark Arnold f \pplc Valle " \ 1.innesocI, hJ'>

been awarded the erial chrevement Medal From the Air Force Reserve ba ed on meritoriou achievement In Operaeon ProVIde PromIse, the

nlted atJon humanitarian relief effort in Bo nta-Herz.egovina. Arnold IS a major In the 934th Arrhft Group, a - 130 Instructor na"gator wrth the 96th rlJft quad ron , and a cJVIIran pilot "1th Amencan Eagle.

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'71 Russell leBarron of CanterVIlle, Oluo, has assumed command of the Defense Dlsoibuoon Depot In gden , Utah. An army colonel , LeBarron "a.~ preVIously chief of staff of the Defen e lecrrorucs upply Center U1 Dayton, hio. I lis decoraoons Include the Legton of lent, Defense j\ lemonous ervrce 1edal, and the Bronze

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78 Steven Brandstad of:\ 1inneapolis has been promoted to ~lce pre Ident, secretary, and rreaurer of ill Brothers Funeral hapel .

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70 Jack Blackwell ofWashmgron, D.C., has been named deputy regional forester for the l..'nited tl Department of AgncuJture Forest ervice' Inte.r-

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'62 Scott Parker of Bounoful, Utah, has been named ch:ur of a naoonal panel that "ill help the American HospJlal Assoaacion mount grassroots support for health care reform measures fuvored by the 4,900-member orgaruzaeon. Parker is presIdent of Intermountain Health Care ill alt Lake City.

'83 Sherry Aetdler of ,\ Uami has recerved the 'orthem IllinoIS IlIversity Outstanding Young

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'67 Thomas Eggum of t. Paul has been named one of the Top Ten Publrc ""orks Leaders b} the Amencan Pubhc " 'or SOCJacion. Currendy director of pubilc wor ' and City engtneer, Eggum ha erved t. Paul in evera] rolC5 Lnce 1964.

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'81 Ross Mayer of IVlinnet nlm, 1.innesota, has completed CON'"mCIl nstruction Pr lucts' sales orientation program at company headquarters in Middletown, hJO. Mayer joined C r~cll in ct ber 1993.

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'68 John Prin of Minneapolis prodllced a documentary video that was awarded a Bronze Plaque at the 4 1st annual olumbus International Film & Ideo Festival. Prin' video, Bringing Llgbt to tbe Sbndows, was one of 00 entries from 3 counoies.

'77 John Clementson of ioux Falls, outh Dakota, has been granted tenure at Augustana College in ioux Falls, where he is an assistant professor in elementary education.

DEATHS

Ralph Backlund, '40, \Vashingt n, D.C., pril I, 1994. Founding editor of 1111cbsoninn magazine, Backlund was a special assistant for the artS in the

ducation and Cultural AffiUrs Bureau of the tate Deparul1ent and a former radio journalist with BS in ewYork.

Grace Chapman, '26, lexandria, Virginia, February 4, 1994. A retired Food and Drug

dministration (FD ) information peciali t, Chapman wa a technical ab tractor with the ational Academy of Sciences from the late 1940 unti l joining the FD in the late 1960s.

Jane Childs, '47 , 1anchester, onnecticut, Apri l 15, 1994. Childs worked as a refercn e bbrarian at the Mary heney Library in Man hester.

Wilson Foote, '4B, Corvallis, Oregon, December 15, 1993. profe r ementus of crop science at

Oreg n tate Iliversiry and ecretary-treasurer f the gricultural Research Foundation, Foote had a lifelong interest in agriculture. lie was a tive m many comminees and re earch projec IIlvolving agricultural development

Shennan Kieffer, 'SO, Boca Raton, FI nda, February 13, 1994. Kieffer was chief of psychiaoic servi e at .. Public Health ervlce h pital in ew

rleans, Baltimore, and Lexington, entud:y. JIe was a istant urgeon general with the ational Insti tute of AI ental Health from 1966 until 1971 , and from 1971 until hi retirement m 19 4 was vice chair and profe or in the Department of Psychiatry and BehaVIOral cience at the tate Univer iry of I ew York, tony Brook, chool of Medicine.

Rolf Larson, '56, Fairrnx, trginia, February 28, 1994. Lm.on was director of the ati nal unciJ for Accreditanon of Teacher Educati n when he retired m 1978. Earlier, he was an istant prof, r of education at the Universiry of Connecticut and dean of the chool of Education at \ Vestern Illinoi

niversiry.

Uoyd Nelson, '40, un iry, Ariwna, March 13 , 1994. Telson \\ a clinical assistant and prof, r emeritus of pediaoics at the niversiry of MinneSOta. maj r in the Army 1edical rps, elson

was a past nan na l president f the ",verslry , r Minnesota Alumni ociation and a past pre-, dent of the lin iry West 1innesot:a :llIh.

Tom Olofson, '53 , nnandale, Virgmia, hbruar 26, 1994. An ir For e colonel, 10Mn retired I I 19H4 as program manager of strategic pctrOICUl I

reserve at the Defense Fuee. upply enter in nandale. I lis 3 I-year AIr Foree career mcludl I service as an rurcraft naVIgator, dury m letnam 11

1967 and 1968, and tudy at the Indusoial Ueg~

of the Armed Fore .

Richard Powers, '29, Bethesda, 1aryland, M 31, 1994. Power covered congre IOnal delegation from Iinnesora, \""iscon Ill , \1Jchlgan,

orch Dakota, and South Dakota as a CaPI I Hill correspondent for the socia ted Press.

Persis Richter, '37, A1exandna, Irguua, ,\-1asch 3 I, 1994. Richter was a reporter for the former

ItlmetlfJIJ"s ]1l1l171nl and edit r of a daily newspaper IJ1 IIoldrege, ebraska. he also wrote for the flice of War Inf, rmation dunng \ orld \ ar U.

Charles "Bud" Wilkinson, '37, t LoUIS, un, February 9, 1994. Best known as the coach who built klahoma's football program mto a dynasty dunng the 19405 and I 950s, \ \'JIJonson played guard and then quarterback for the ni"el'Slry of Minnesota n the three nan nal championslup tcams coached b} BernIe Bierman in 1934, 193 5, and 1936. I Ie was a member of the an naJ Football oaches Hall of Fame, a college f, tball analyst for AS -TV and P , and a f, l1l1er director of the President's unClI on Ph} lcal Fitn

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A Winning Touch Volleyball coach Stephanie Schleuder takes risks on and off the court

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E YEBROW WE T UP when then new opher volleyball coach tepha

rue chleuder pitched her idea for the team' 19 3 media guide. "Killer on the ourt" wa the theme that chleuder propo ed to help liven up the u ual coach and player profile, endle tauti, record, and chedule. F r the cover photograph, chleuder donned a black dre and po ed by a lodel T Ford, team captain "earing fedora and sli nging vIOlin ca e by her ide.

"I had to do quite a ale job the fir t time," he recall . .. w I get a call from the port in~ rmation ffice a king, '\"'hat are y u gOIng to d thi year?"

Ten year later and according to plan, chleuder' un om'entional media

guide have generated con iderable attellli n and publicity. "IIome Improvemen t" W3 la t year' theme, both plaYIng n the popular televi ion erie and ignifying the team' impending mo e to the new p rt P3vili n. chleuder and the player are pictured

wearing hard hat. chleuder believe the guide reflect

her per onality and her approach t the game." ou have to laugh at y ur elf," he say. "Pe pIe can get way t 0 eri

ou." he wantS her team t play with spirit, joy, and enthu ia m-to be "the kind of team people in the tand like to wat h."

IIer attitude i c ntagi me 6,000 fan watched the oph r battle 1 otre Dame in an regi nul cmifina l match la t December, the

third-large. t, lIeyball cr , d in the nation la t eason.

hc yoll cyba II ea n fi na Ie , a In the pr gram' fine t h ur.

T e tcam' ~1-9 erall, \4-6 Big en r~ c rd inclu led i l rie at the en I f th eason ver ranked Penn tate and Oh i ta l C, which pr vided a c nfiden e

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cept one and tallied 5,120 a i tS, econd on Minnesota' all-time Ii t and 1 161 dig, fourth on the all-time li t.

Perhap an even greater a et wa the leader hip Jackson ga,'e the team. "Right from the be!rinning, ue had the talent and wa a natural leader," recall

chleuder. "The team will be different. he willlea"e a huge hole.

Coach Stephanie Schleuder encou rages her athletes to play with spirit , joy, and enthusiasm.

'In my twenry- orne year a a coach, thi wa the mo t amazing team," chJeuder ay. "They complimented each other emotionally and phy ically, the,

pening round f the tournament they beat i\lid

nerican onferen e champion Ball tate and up et the nation' fourth

ranked niver ity f alifornia- anta Barbara, and became the only unranked team to ad,'ance to the regional emifinal.

Th volleyball match ag-Jin t oue Dam la ted a grueling five game and three h ur . It nearly came t a tragic end \I hen, in an emotional la t play f the match, pher etter ue Jack on

f Kalamnoo, Michigan, dove head fir t ff the rai ed \\ illiam ena court. Jackson left n a tretcher her temum. te in tear, the ~Jn - , at hing in tunned silence.

Jacks n cmerged with a tiff n k and «reat mem rie fan impre iv fouryear areer with the pher during whi h he played in every mat h ex-

liked and re pected each other; they were not the mo t talented team, but they played extremely well together."

tepping up to the net till fall are:t t-Il-inch junior Heidi Ihausen of

pple Valley, linne ota, and 6-foot-_inch ophomore Katrien DeDecker of Bredene, Belgium, who b th joined Jackson n the all-recrion econd team. DeD cker' -_0 kill were ju t two hy

f the fre hman r cord, one of the rean he wa named Big Ten Fr hman

of th Year. Al returning are enior Jean

chintz of \ Vhite B ar Lake, :'Ilinn 0-

t"J, wh m hI uder ay "caught fire" when they witched her po iti n t middle hitter, Jnd retch n Dahl of Prior Llk ,i\linne ta, wh et a new h 01 ingle ea n re rd in 199 with L:

blo k a it. R unding ut the lineup are tw m re

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Minnesotans: sophomore outside hitter Sarah Pearman of Apple Va lley and junior setter Kate Callahan of Lakevill e. The Gophers also anticipate a bonu with the transfer of enior Brigette Lourey, a tarter for the University of Wisconsin.

T he Gopher volleyball program is known for an aggressive playing style wi th strategies that include back row attacks and jump serves. "To be a winner, you have to play offensively and put pressure on your opponents," says Schleuder. "Sure the jump serve is risl-.'Y, but hopefully you'll get some points out of it."

For the past several years, chleuder has relied on psychology to help her team move beyond the physical aspects of the game. Last sea on, the players took the Myers-Briggs personality evaluation test, which helped the teammate get to know one other better and apprecia te their differences. "One of the biggest battles as coach is convincing your players that each person contribu tes," says Schleuder.

If mental training sounds weighty, Schleuder also tries to have a good time with her largely Minnesota-grown team.

The players ca ll her Steph. "They're comfortable with me, not intimidated by me," she says, "and that's the way it hould be."

native of Richfield, Minne ota, Schleuder began her athletic career at the University of Minnesota, Duluth (UMD), where he lettered in five ports and was inducted into its th

letic Hall of Fame in 1991. chleuder coached volleyball and basketball at Bemidji State and at UMD before an eight-year coaching stint at the Uni ersity of Alabama that produced four state titles and three trip to the national champion hip. he joined the Gophers in 1982 engineering Minne ota's first trip to the C tournament in 1989. vVith her 21 -year career record an impre sive 538-269, she is the eighth-winningest coach in Division I volleyball.

, Minne ota has treated me well. I hope to end my career here," says

chleuder. "I still feel excited, still enjoy coaching, and still would like to reach the Final Four."

Twenty years after Title IX, chleuder believes women are approaching another hurdle . Professiona l women

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cia l reward they de erve. "It all co !S

down to va lue," he ays. "I be lieve It

people want their daughter to be pr /vided the ame pportunitie a thur sons.

"It can be tough to coach and have a life, particularly for women. You hae to have balance in your life and get away once in a while," she says, noting the high burnout rate for women coaches. " t my age [44], men coache are thought to be just entering their prime."

Schleuder's idol is Billy Jean King, because he has fought a lot of battles that have helped women be recognized for their athletic ability, and becau e she i feisty and competi tive . Schleuder likes to coach that kind of athlete , one who "doesn 't care what ther people think of her, is competitive, and enjoys life ."

he recruits with those characteri -tic in mind. "We don't just recruit athletic talent," she says. "We look for attitude, individuality, leadership, and she's gotta be a personality."

And with chleuder's touch, finish last.

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rr HE REGENTS VOTF.D WIthOUt dissent in May to appr ve the 1994-95 budget

that was presented by the administration, Inc1 Jding an verage tuition increase of 4.2 ~rcent, an average salary increase of 6 percent, internal cuts of IOJ million, and a trategJc Investment pool of .4 m.illJon.

Under a pilot project, 250 freslunen will be offered a new guaranteed tuition plan, in which srudents will pay a higher rat 90 per credit instead of 70.77-in return for .ISS\l.r3Ilce that the rate will not increase for five years.

The niversity's newest regent, Hyon Kim of t. Anthony, founder and president of Juno Medical ~ Trade, was officially sworn in at the May meeting. The first ian -\merican to sene on the board, Kim is a naove of outh Korea \\ ho m ved t the United tates in 1970 anu became a citizen m19H

The 1 legislaoye session ended WIth a bonding bill that induu 8.7 million for the niversity. The bill in dudes 15 nullion for health and safer: items, 9 million for faality renewal, 2) nulhon for the Carl n Sch I f i\1anagement, 2. million for library arc:lm , 13 nullion for mechanical engJneenng, and million for the Duluth.

001 f Medicine. B th h uses of the legislature voted for

supplemental funding of 9.1 milli n for the Uruversity 2000 plan, but vern r Arne Carlson vetoed the bill.

William Brody, profess r and director of radiology and pr fes or of biomedical engineering and electrical and computer engineering at John Hopkins niverslty, has been named provo t of the niyersity' academic health center. He i expected to begin eptember I and will rep rt directly to President il Has elmo. Br -dy aid he i "very excited about thi pportunity" and will work to en ure that health sciences units "remain preeminent centers f teaching, r earch, patient are, and service."

Melvin George, \Vh reol as presiuent of Sl Olaf liege June 30, will become vice pr sident for i.nstitutional relation. BeCa se of prior COnm-l101JCnts to his hullil ard the ationa l cienc F und,lti n, c;,'Orge ,vill work half time at the l-llversit) 6-c In Jul I to her 1, ' hen he will bc-

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gin full time. "I'd planned to stop and smell the proverbial roses after leaving St. Olaf, but the roses are going to have to wait,"

orge said. He said he wants to help strengthen the niversity for the year 2000.

Mario (Mike) Bognanno, industrial relations professor and director of the Carlson School' Indusuial Relations Center, has been named associate to President Ha.sselmo. He succeeds Kathy O'Brien, who left to join

1inneapolJS mayor Sharon ayles Belton's admirustration. Bognanno S3Jd he welcomes the opportunity to work \vith Ha.sselmo "to assure the people of Minnesota that their

niversity remains one of the nation's leading land-grant institutions well into the 21st century."

MarvaJene Hughes, vice president for tudent affair, ha accepted the presidency of California tate niversity at tanilau • a 6 ODD-student campus about an hour' drive outh of an Francisco. he will a ume the ne. po ition ~ ugust l.

Anne Petersen, vice president for research and dean of the Graduate chool, has been nominated by President Clinton as the new

ational cience Foundation deputy director, and she has said that if she is confirmed by the enate he will take the job.

Barbara Muesing has left her position as e.xecuove director of the Board of Regents to accept a j b as director of outreach for the Crookston campus. he will begin there in

ugust. graphy professor John Adams will be

chair of the Faculty nsultative Committee ne.,-'t year, and Carl darns of information and decision cienc will be vice chair.

Alfred O. C. Nier, Regents' Professor Emeritus of Ph) i , died May 16, following a car accident May 4. ier, ~,wa \videly regarded a ne of the mo t brilliant cienti ts ever t \\ rk at the ni\'er5ity.

Repre entative Tim Penny (D-lIlinn.) and fomJer represenr-ati"e Vin \ eber (RMinn.) will direct 3 public policy forum at the Hubert H. Humphrey In titute f Publi Affuirs. They wit! become Humphr r Institute enior fello" and continue the publi poli ' i ue forum taned in 1990 by former .. Vice Pr ident \ Valter i\I ndale and uirected b fom1er , ni r fell \ eri Jo eph

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National President ,

Thi year the niversity of l\1inne ota Alumni ocia-tion ( ) is celebrating i 90th year of connecting alum

ru to the niversity, advocating and upporung exceUence in education, and buildmg pride, pirit, and community. cro the tate and country alumnj have been making the mver It)' oL\linne ota connection In hundreds of important way, a few of which are outlined in the follow-109 page. -\5 thi is my la t column, I thought I'd hare with you a few per onal storie about what "making the connection" ha meant to me.

The fir t event I wam to tell you about IS Home mmg. ne of my Jutie a presIdent >, as to fide in the Homecoming parade. I will be honest with you. I didn't want to do It. But I went. (You have to

understand, a a niver ity tudent I had never attended a parade.) And I almo t hate to admit it, but I had a great time.

The da of the parade it was sunny and about 75 degree. I rode in a bigyellow Cadillac com·ertible with M trea urer Ezell Jones and his on. Rollerblader , bands of dog, and great Aoats that I hadn't een ince I wa a little girl all made the parade pecial. But the be t part of all wa the tl10u and of people on tile treet wa ing and yelling and just having a great time. E en \Vi cononite in bright red vea lun (we \ ere playing ' i con in) came t ur parade. \Ve razzed them. I t Id tl1em to turn their S\> eatslurts inside out becau e they were in \finne ota. T hey ju t laughed and so did We. T have to ay I really did fee l the pirit lIld it fe lt 0 good.

T hen there \\'3 my r Ie a a ment r ~ r a tudent from ni er it)' ch lars, a studlnt- I-un organizati n ~ r academi hon-01 i tudents. F urteen of the lJ 1-

legiate alumni ocieties have mentoring programs; m er ity cholars was a new im tia tive this year.

r was assigned to Cheryl J orgen en, who, like me, was in sociology and wamed to go to law school and then become an attorney. Only she has even greater aspiration: he wants to be a judge.

r told one of the judges r know, Judge

life?" .I. TO wonder so many alumni say yes to our requests for mentors.

The last experience I want to tell you about i my trip to \ adena, .Minnesota. Earlier in my tenure as a mlAA national officer, r had pronlised my cousin Tom Paper who is president of the ID1AA's \\'adena Chapter, that if! ever became pre idem I would travel to \\ adena to be

the keynote speaker at a chapter meeting. After all what are relatives for?

0, on a wonderful pril day I drove to " 'adena for the annual meeting. ,"\ ba t an event it wa . ?\lore than 60 people joined us for illnner. Not only the very be t and brightest high

Jim Ro enbaum, who's on the federal bench, about Cheryl, and he uggested that I bring her to hi courtroom to watch a criminal trial. ' e watched for part of a morning, were reprimanded by the bailiff for pa sing note (I wa trying to explain what was going on), and then we got a note from the judge's clerk inviting u into the judge' chamber during a reces . ' Ye talked

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chool tudent in the area attended (the chapter wa recruiting them), so illd their

about what had taken place and Judge Ro enbaum a ked Cheryl if he had anr que tion . he wanted to know what the clerk did. The judge explained that a clerk i a law chool graduJte who i hired for one or two year to work with a judge, re earching the law and helping write opinion, and in the proce receive a wonderful opportunity to watch attome) in action. ou could ee the light go on in Cheryl' head.

n the way back to work, we talked more about the value of clerking for a judge, Later that day I entJudge Ro enbaum a letter thanking him and telling him that I thought that heryl's brief encounter had ju t added another tep in her cmeer path. I wa right. " 'hen I a ked

heryl ab ut it, he told me he wanted to go to la\\ choo], clerk, be an attorney, and then be a judge.

That brief encounter br ught h me to

me the p wer f mentoring, f helping ;) young per on who is examining i ue of

ho I, career, and "what do r do \\i th my

parents and high chool co unelors and alum of all ages. The be t pan

for me wa raffling off a niver ity of '\Iinnesota T - hirt, which wa won by a high chool junior. He just beamed he was so excited. You would have thought we'd given him a car or a trip- omethillg of real \-alue. As I thought about it later, it occurred to me that maybe we had given him omething of real yalue--a symbol of the niver ity. I wa very proud.

Each of the e encounter ha brought home to me again and again the 5an1e m -sage-the a1unuu ociation i really about people. Y\nether it be miring with crowd in a parade, helping a young woman choo e a career path, or gi\ing a young high chool tudent a Tmbol of the mver ity-it' about making connection with people.

People have a ked me if it' been hard being the pre ident of thi a ociation. I have to tell you in all hone ty that the answer each and e\'ery time \\ no. T the contrary, it has been a real plea ure because every time I got back m re tlun I gave.

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anie Mayeron, University of Minnesota Alumni Association (UMAA) national president, welcomed 1 776 alumni, studen ts, facul ty, frien ds, and Regents Wi ll iam H ogan II , J ean Keffeler , D arrin Rosha, and Stanley Sahlstrom to the

90th Anniversary Celebration and Annual Meeting May 10.

In a short business meeting, new officers and board members for 1994-95 were elected, and Mayeron turned the gavel over to incoming president Larry Laukka, '58, president of L. A. Laukka Development Company. Laukka spoke briefly on "signals society is sending to educators and to those be ing educated" that short- term interests are taking precedence over the long-range values of education. One example: the Minnesota Legislature approved funds to purchase the Target Center. "I am concerned when we applaud an expenditure of $42 million of public resources to buy a basketball court and just prior to that act refuse to invest $9 million to kickstart our U niversity's U2 000 long-range strategic plan. The purchase of the basketball court was considered a priority and a good invesonent- they concluded that there will be a sufficient return on the invesonent to afford the risk."

Clearly determined to lead an effort to make the U niversity a high priority again, Laukka takes offi ce in July.

University President ils H asselmofillin g in for hos pitalized keynote

speaker and alumnus H arvey Mackayexpanded his annual report to alumni on even ts at the U niversity and later took questions from the audience.

Calling the U2 000 strategic plalming effort "a blueprint, a concept that is being fill ed out," H asse lmo said it i "building on the U niversity's proud heritage" and "pulLng together strands in [i ts] development."

"This community, this state, cry out for a world-class unive rsity," aid H assel-

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mo. U2 000 is in tended to ensure that the U niversity of Minneso ta is and remains such an in ti tu tion.

T he formal goals of the plan, Hassel-1110 said , are to:

• ustain and improve the U niver ity's po ition as one of the world 's premier research universities.

• Sustain and improve the quali ty of educa tion (undergraduate, graduate, professional, and ouo·each edu ca tion).

• M aintain and enhance the University's commionent to servi e and outreach

programs ("in the land-grant spirit"). • Provide the best po sible environ

ment for all tudents by treating them as va lued cust mers ( tuden ts "fir t and foremo t").

• ontinue and expand the University's commionent to dive rsity.

• Establish and use criteria to monit lr and measure ucces in meeting U20 ,)O obje tives.

T he oncept "mu tbegiven life,"U selm said, and he call ed on alumni t j 1

in the effort to help the publi under taJ I

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M ISic by band alumni greeted the people streaming down

Fifteenth Avenue to the indoor football practice field fo1· the

University of Minnesota Alumni Association (UMAA) 90th

Anniversmy Celebration and Annual Meeting May 10. Inside,

a number of colleges and other groups-including the College of

LiberalArts Continuing Education and Extension, the

health sciences, and tbe University of Iinnesota Federal Credit Union-bad set up displays.

the lli er ity' " elf-help, bootstrapping efforts," . ts productivity, a.nd the' e entia I na ture of \ hat the niver ity produce ."

President Ha elm ' report to alwnni induded me recent ni ersity a ti -

itie and accompli hment. 'A Todo)I rmked the U ni ersity fMinnesota ten th i the nation in athl etic, h e aid , "and tI at's wher w belong-in everything." Ir his ketch he al talked about:

• 50,000 day students, 25,000 e ening student -and _4,000 facul and taff

"16,000 of whom are not funded by the taxpayer of Minnesota."

• Reaching out to prospective students with a hOWne, early information on financial aid , and three-week turnaround on applications for admission.

• A new core curriculum that is tied to real-world issues: cultural diversity, an international per pective, environmental concerns, and citizen hip and ethics.

• Partnership that make the niversity's resources available to students in other Minnesota higher education ystems-for example, a new applied

busine degree at Inver Hills Community College for which tudents can take specialized cour es at the niversity and a partnership with orth Hennepin Community College in information networking.

• Good new on graduation rates : in just three years, a 41 percent improvement in the four-year graduation rate. The improvement i a re ult of action taken in the late eighties and carried through in the Univer ity' undergraduate initiati e. "It' till too low, but we're on the way" Ha elmo aid .

• "Contribution to the communityfunded by the niversity's own efforts, with no tax dollars ': the \ \'eisman Art 1useum, described by the Ne--u.' York Times

as "five of the mo t gorgeou galleries on earth"; the aquatic cen ter, home of "310,000 spla he 'i the new Iariucci Arena, \ here 60 000 people have already attended events other than hockey games; and the ne\ 1a onic Cancer Re earch

enter, which i applying to the Tational ln titute of Health to be de ignated a national cancer center.

Fielding que tions from the audience after his talk, Has elmo \\'3 a ked how

the niver ity can keep its commionent to di er ity in a time of economic hardhip. He replied that cholar hips pro

gram in the iVlinneapoli and t. Paul cl10 I' , and other efforts "do co t mone .,

but are "a nec ar)', rra tegic invesonent." T he ni\rersity recent! join d the .i\ linority i ati nal raduate Fe der Program whi h conn Cts re ear h uillver itie t hi torically black college.

no ther que ti ner want d to know what ni ersity ollege a propo ed in

the 2000 plan would offer that the University does not now have. Describing University College as "a concept in the land-grant spirit," Hasselmo said that it would offer students "the same high-quality education"-along with counseling and other student services--on evenings and weekends and forge partnerships with community, state, and private colleges so that tudents who are getting their degrees el ewhere can take specialized cour es offered by the University.

Before his speech Hasselmo presented the niver ity'sAlumni erviceAward to UMAA past president ~lichael nger.

NATIONAL OFFICERS 1994-95

Larry Laukka, national president· president ofL. Laukka Development Company

linda Mona, fir t vice president; owner of Creative Environments

Bruce Thorpe, econd vice president; independent marketing con ultant

Laura Langer, ecretary; marketing and ale manager of Barrett

loving and torage Marvin Trammel, treasurer; ellior

vice president of i\linneapoli 1 lCA

Janie Mayeron, past president; parmer at Popham, Ha.ik, chnobrich, and Kaufman

NEW BOARD MEMBERS 1994-95

AT LARGE

Jean Fountain, owner of Fountain sociates

Carol Johnson, a istant to the a ociate uperintendent of the i\linneapoL Public chool (reappointed)

Dale Olseth, pre ident and E of Bio Metri y tem

James Stirrat, executive vice pr ident of Dayton-Hud on Deparonent

tore ompany

GEOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATIVES SOUTHWESTERN MINNESOTA

Mary Flinn, Redwood Fall (reapp inted)

NORTHWESTERNI CENTRAL UNITED STATES

Richard Lindgren, Bloomfield Hill , l\Jichig;an (reappointed)

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JPEAK ~UT Why did you attend the UMAA annual meeting?

Who would be a good speaker for next year's meeting?

D avid LaVine '49 BA. Nlinneapolis

I 've attended in the past and really enjoyed myself. I am a supporter of the

University and love to partake in its activities. It's important that we support the University at functions such as this. I don't really know [who would be a good speaker]-another distinguished Minnesota graduate, I guess.

J oe Driscoll Seni01· majoring in speed) c077l7llzmication Hutchinson, Mh117esota

I t never hurts to hang out with some of the alumni , run into orne big names

and great faces. The annual meetin g [attracts] a pretty pre tigious crowd. It' tough to get students to come. The alumni as ociation need to get the word out. Harry Reasoner would have been a cool speaker but, of cour e, Loni Anderson wouldn't be bad either.

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Graduate of orthe771 Jiootong UlIive1'Sity, Beijing, China Postdoctoral associate, civil and mineral engineering

I 'm interested in getting familiar with this activity and its organization. I read

about it in the Minnesota Daily. [The annual meeting] is a celebration to get members together to communicate and exchange information. Somebody famous would be nice [for next year's speaker].

1993-9-1- president, College ofPhrwmaC)' Alu1Il1li ociety Bom·d

h01'eview, lHinnesoto

I 've attended every year for the past four r five year. It' fun to see people and

there i u ually a high-profil e Univer ity ofMinne ota alulTUlus speaking. It' al 0 a nice evening out with my husband. The annual meeting erve to identify so ieties and generate support and recognition f; r the different chool . The Univer ity is a high-quality institution. For instance, the phannacy school is ranked third outof75 schools in the nation. It' g od for the col-

legiate units to get ome recognition ~ r their inclividual achievements. Yanni would be a great peaker-or if not as the peaker, then at lea t a the entertainment.

Courtney J aren '82 B.A., ' 8 J .D., Ph.D. cnndidote ill American legal bist01J Assistant to the denn, College of Libera I Arts Minneapolis

Juni01' majoring in Cfmdinavian stlldteS and film swdies MiJmeopolis ""{"X Te wanted to pend me quality V V time together to reflect on our

many past and future experience in the ollege fLiberal ts-it's kind of a gen

erational thing. [The annual meeting) IS J

chance for pe pie to under tand what's happening at the niver ity now COl11-

pared to [when] they, ttended. It' al 03

chance to network. ou never lenO\\ who you might find at the annual meeting. \Ve ran into some friend and fellow alumni. Hillary Rodham linton-anytime I an see her i grea t-or [Minne ota upreme Court] Justice Ian Pa~ w uld make a g oCT keyn te speak-

SHE'S COMINIi TO TEA JUNE 24-SEPTEMBER4! Or is she? Find out when you enter the high-brow, slapstick

world of that perennial hit, Charley's Aunt. Full of mistaken

identities, impersonations, and lively physical comedy,

Charley's Aunt remains a hit for the entire family. It's no wonder

that Brandon Thomas's classic has played to packed theatres

throughout the world-including the Minnesota Centennial

Showboat-since its London debut in 1892.

And that's why the Showboat Players have invited

Charley's Auntback in 1994. For just $7-9 per ticket-even less

before the Fourth of July-you can bring your entire family

friends, children, even your own missing aunt-to meet

Charley's Auntin air-conditioned University Theatre.

Shows begin June 24th and run through September 4th.

See you there!

TAKE A CRUISE ON RARIG'S OUTDOOR DECK Rarig's outdoor deck facing Fourth Street South will be the

scene of musIc and refreshments before Charley's Aunt and

during intermission. The Showboat Players' old-fashioned

Olios-spirited theatrical songs featuring singing,

dancing, and high spirits-will accompany you as you enjoy

the evening and our light refreshments.

Inside Rarig Center, the lobby will provide a cruise down

Memory Lane with a display of turn-of-the-century-style sets

and scenery used in previous Showboat performances.

HELP THE SHOWBOAT AND THE SHOWBOAT PLAYERS THROUIiH ROUIiH SEAS! This year, after decades of splendid successes, the

University's most valued vessel is in deep water: needed

structural and electrical repairs are forcing the boat into

drydock for costly renovations.

Butthe show will go on! While the Showboat Players'

riverbound home is being renovated as a fully accessible,

improved performance space, the Players will temporarily dock

themselves in Rarig Center's air-conditioned Experimental

Theatre. bringing you the same energy. fun. and brilliant Olios

you've cometo love.

Anchor yourself atthe Rarig Center this summer for

GharfffY's Aunt and help stlpp-ort the Showboat so we can get

it back on the river in summer 1996.

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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION I

g-H E:!IE A R IN f7l E V l E W

n 1994 the University of Minneso ta lumni Associa tion (UMAA) began celebrating its 90th year of involvement at the University by reaffirming its mission of connecting alumni to the University to support excellence in education and to

build spirit and cornnmnity. In 1993-94, theUMAA:

STUDENT EXPERIENCE • Utilizing unused endowment money,

initiated 24 $1,000 scholarships for incoming freshmen based on leadership, and 4 $1 ,500 leader hip scholarships based on leadership and demonstrated financial need.

• Expanded men toring programs in 14 of the 17 collegiate alumni societies; began working with University Scholars and the 4 campus learning resource centers; held 17 training programs; involved 544 alumni and 548 students.

• Mobilized alumni support in communities across the state for 18 student recruitment activities attended by 655 tudents and parents; wrote to 367 students.

• Held a College of Libera l rts phona thon to call 272 prospective stu dents ; involve d 85 alumni , 26 U staff members, and 14 current students.

• Initiated U Parmers, a communitybased partnership program connecting alumni to students and potential students in their hometowns in the pilot cities of Rochester, Edina, Minneapolis, and St. Paul.

• Continued to fund the Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award to facu lty members for outstanding teaching of undergraduates.

• Hosted the REACH phoning program to new students; involved 100 students, staff, and alumni.

• Donated 10 Macintosh computers to student organizations when the UMAA upgraded its computer hardware.

56 JULY - AUGUST 1994

COMMUNICATIONS • Began producing U Alumni Connec

tion, a 4-page insert in Update, the's tabloid that is sent to nearly 300,000 aJumIll.

• ent the Fall Preview Is ue of Minnesota to 100,000-plus hou eholds.

• Sent 6 issues of linnesota to a total of300,000-plus alumni, including 140,000 alumni who weren' t member, inviting them to join the association.

• Began surveying 100 Minnesota reader each i ue.

• Published the third annual report on diversity at the U/ M (Minnesota, MaylJune 1994).

ADVOCACY • Mobilized the Alumni Legi !ative

etwork to support the U's legisla tive requests; 850-plu participan ts received 6 alerts/calls to action; held 23 briefings and training se sions.

• Encouraged alumni to write letter and opinions to the press on a number of U issues, including ils Ha selmo's leader hip (Twin Cities Reader and the Minnesota Daily), the Medical chool (Daily), University 2000 (Star n ·ibu7le), and legislative funding (Daily).

• Renewed involvement in the regent selection process in collaboration with the Regent Candidate dvisory Council.

SPIRIT AND COMMUNITY • Co ponsored and organized 4 C

playoff pep rallies (in South Bend , Indi ana; ashville, Tenne see; acramento, California; and t. Paul) for women's and men ' basketball and for hockey; 1,250 alumni and fans attended.

• Promoted Maroon and old Days with tll e help ofW Radio; empl yee of360-plu organization wore scho I colors and were sa luted in a full -pa ge UMAAad in tll eMinnesota Daily.

• Ho ted 1,776 alumni, friends, tu-dent , and U sta ff at the UM '90th Anniversary Celebration ;!nd Meeting.

24 GEOGRAPHIC CHAPTERS AND 17 COLLEGIATE SOCIETIES • Ho ted 184 pecial events, projec~,

and activitie attended by 15 949 alumni and friend.

• Cohos ted 5 events with the niversity ofMinne ota Foundation (UMF).

• Held 102 board meetings, 46 planning committee meeting (includes 6 geographic and 400 collegiate ociety committee meeting ).

MEMBERSHIP/MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS

• Added the Internet computer benefi t, attracting 700-plus new member.

• Began a Vi a affinity credit card, attracting 6,000-plu u ers.

• Moved the Alumni lub to the Minneapoli thletic lub.

• Ho ted 4 W hat' ewat the U) meetings in Minneapoli companieslorga-

VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION • ompleted comprehen ive trategJc

planning; rewrote mi ion and goal s; extensi ely inv Ived volunteer in 2 alumni focus group , 8 meetings.

• Formed a / M MF Joint Ta k Force to e plore way of \ orlcing together more effectively.

• Formed the ni er ity lumni ouncil to e tabli h direction and stratt:

gie for alumni relations. • Held 6 national board meetings, 29

board standing committee meetings. • Re tructured the taff. • pgraded the office computer sy~

tem. • Began in-house financial accounting.

I UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

COMING SOON 1 he College of Agriculture A1u.l1Uli ociety I planning a H omecoming pig roa t etab"r 15 on the t. Paul campus. For more In formation, ca ll Mark Al len at 624-5419 in the Twin ities or 00- M- M.

The Sun Cities (Arizona) hapter has planned its 1994-95 calendar: a picnic etober 14; fall luncheon ovember 1 ; annual meetingJanuary 27; day at the races February 11; and pring luncheon March 31 .

ON THE ROAD Alumni teamed up with Redwood Valley C mmunity High chool coun elor to

bnng niver ity repr entatives, ineluding a current rodent, to talk with pro pective tudent and parent in Redwood Falls ,

Minne ota, pril 6. Mapleton, Minne ota , area alumni and

mend, alongWlth the Maple River High chool Ecology Club, ho ted taff and rap

tor from the niver ity' Gabbert Raptor enter at the high school auditorium -\.pril 9. planning meeting for a new alumni chapter wa held after the raptor pre entation.

Janie ayer n , MAAnational president, p ke a the Wadena (Minne ota) Chapter' annual meeting pril17. aria .\1axwell, lumni Legi latlve etwork coordinator, al 0 p ke. An in~ rmation es i n ~ r pro p cti e rodents and their

paren wa held earlier in the day. Alumni met in Cincinnati and Columbus,

hio,in pnh mlkaboutf, rrningUMAA chapters, and the Dayton hapter, one of the alumni a ciation ' oldest, celebrated Its 30th anniversary. program director Rachel P cra wa at aU three events.

. ug ne Allen, niversity vice pr ident for agriculture, f, r try, and home eeonomi , poke to the Martin County hapter in Fairmont, Minn ota pril26 about the U2000 plan for the future f the ni ersi .

larga ret ughrue ad on , 1 e.xecutive director, wa the gu t speaker at the pril 27 meeting of the Austin-Albert

Le hap er in ustin, Minne ota. arl n aI 0 p ke to the Grand Rapids hapter and the rand Rapid R tary lub fa 23.

Otter Tail County alumni and friend phyed h t to phed otball oachJim \racker at a 1a 11 lunell e n in Fergu F; II , Minne ota.

R n M c urdy, a

music, conducted jazz workshops and talked with tudents about the importance of education and the value of music in education May 18 at two St. Louis, Mis ouri, high chools. McCurdy also performed with local jazz artists for Minne ota alumni and the t. Louis community.

Julia Davis, dean of the ollege of Libera! Arts on the Twin Cities campus, poke to the Washington, D.C., Chapter at a May

19 dinner meeting. Professor Robert eninga of the School

of Public Health spoke on "Thriving on Change" at a dinner meeting of the Chica

go Area Chapter June 14.

AT THE U The School of Nursing annual meeting was held in pril at the Radisson Metrodome Hotel. ~

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YLntiquity : Turke . Israel , C prus ' Greece

Featuring An Aegean & Mediterranean Sea Cruise

Our j umey begin in I tanbul, et n the

b autiful B p ru ea, a city where traditi n of the E t and W t meet. Crui e to Dikili, Turk

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E X E CUT V E D R E C TOR

The Freshman Class of 1999?

"l X T fID'EVER ANYONE ASKS ME about my V V job, I tell them that I have one of the best job in the state: 1 meet and work with the talented graduates of the niversity of Minnesota. What more could I ask for? ot much-but I have always wanted to try my hand at teaching.

I wa a bit envious when I read in the Mi,mesota Daily that McKinley Bo ton, pher men's athletic director, makes time to team teach American Culture, a four-credit course. iven his demanding schedule, I am impressed.

·While I haven t sought out a teaching experience, the door to teaching opened to me through the Minneapolis Rotary Club, where I serve on the board of directors. Historically, our club has been generous in philanthropy but has been minimally active in hands-on community service. As a new initiative, the Rotary Club joined with the Minneapolis Public Schools and Junior Achievement to teach "the economics of staying in school" to seventh graders.

Besides my desire to teach, I said yes to the project for another compelling reason: I truly believe that my college education has opened up incredible avenues for me and is a gift for which I should always be thankful. I wanted to give omething back. As a bonus, I wouJd meet students who are the arne age as the Univer ity's freshman c1as of 1999.

The facts of my volunteer assignment were straightforward: 25 or so students, 45-minute classes, six weeks, teacher preparation guidebook and materials provided, and team teaching with a fe llow Rotarian. On February 4, Tom Burton and I were introduced to Joe Gondek' thirdhour geography class at Anthony Middle chool in Minneapous.Joe, '64, '72, a veter

an educator with 30 years of teaching experience who earned a BA and an MA from the University, had prepared us for the world of eventh graders. He also urged us to t rea\j tic expecta tion . If we reached nJy one student who was probably going to drop out---and didn't do so because of what he or

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she learned from us-we would have been successful.

The unbridled honesty of teenagers immediately took over. After Tom and I told the students about our famiues, education, and j b, their fir t que tion was, "How much money do you make?"

what they had learned. And they did.

Karl wrote to say, "1 thought that it was mt(;resting that you didn't tell us what to do, but howed u our choices and the consequences c nnected to them." Rebecca wrote, "For a long time I've thought mat it would be great to drop out of

ince the object of the I -sons was to reinforce the lifetime advantag of completing a rugh school degree and going on to college, we gave them mrughtforward answers. And that degree of candor continued through the final lesson, which dealt

Margaret Sughrue Carlson

choo!. 1 mought mat 1 could get a job at McDonald' and till have enough money for an apartment and everydung.

University of Minnesota

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with the more insidious bar-riers to completing high school-drugs, eating rusorder , pregnancy, fami ly problems depre sion.

The major eye-opener for the tudents was a lesson on choo ing a job and planning a budget They selected a job from the newspaper classified ads that rud not specify that a high school degree was required. They were impressed by all the m ney they could earnuntil they worked through the expenses of uving. The high cost of tax and insurance were foreign to mo t of dle tudentsj they underestimated rent, utilities, transportation, clothing, and entertrunment co ts-how couJd food cost so much fi r one person? To make income matcll dle e.xpenrutures, dle students had to make me choices---ru1other roommate, using the bus rather than a car, secondl1and clodles? Then the class reviewed the ust of jobs and salaries that would be open to dlem with high Scll I and college degrees. This wonderfully designed les-

11 brought the rea\jty of dr pping out of school into clearer foclls. It was w rd1 weeks oflecture time.

we bid Farewell to dle studen ,I asked if dleywould write ~ m and me a letter about

Btlt n w I realize mat unless you are born a milIi n

aire, you're not getting anywhere with ut a

high scllool educati n." milywas pragmatic: "1 a1wa th ught that if you went to

college that au~ maticalJy y u got a j b. Tot so. Maybe not right away, but in me I ng nul college educati n will pay ff."

My teaching days ended some m nths ago, but I can't get me experien e out of m}

mind. I've asked myself what it all has to do widl the niversity, and I realize now mat the answer is everydung. By dIe year 2000, we're h ping dlat d1e niversity will be a more diverse and welcoming place for me best and brightest of dle tate' tudents. Yet it may not be an option fi r a whole generation of tudents if we-people Uke you and me---do not ream ut t mem today. \\ c must start recrui ring ur tudents earlier than high h l. ld it is easy to make a big di£ference. The clUldren, so full f bravado, are eager, 0 trusting, 0 needing f atten-tion.

Pan of ollr resp n ibility a educal.'d alumni j l pa on what we've leamed I can't think of a better way t d mal dl., n by reaching ut to the freshman cia ~ ,f 1999 t day.

By Margaret Sughrue Carlson

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