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Something New This is the first issue of a new magazine: volume one, number one of Syracuse University Magazine. Its purpose, which we hope is clear from this very first issue, is to report on the academic programs, the accomplishments, and the people that make up Syracuse University.

We think the University's growing strength and reputation are sources of pride to those who are already members of the Syracuse community- faculty, staff, students, and alumni. And we think it's also interesting and important to a new audience that doesn't yet know Syracuse well.

This magazine is directed to both those groups.

Despite its new title, new purpose, and new audience, this magazine is not entirely new. It

has its roots in the Syracuse Alumni News, which has already gone through 64 years of publication and is still going strong.

The first issue of the News appeared in 1919. Aimed exclusively at alumni, it reported mainly on campus life, personnel changes, and athletics (always a prominent interest among alumni).

For the next 40 years or so, the Alumni News remained secure in that role, describing familiar people and events to an audience that knew the University well.

That started to change in the mid-1960s, for Syracuse and for other universities. As more and more people attended college, as the role of higher education in our society began to shift, and as our society itself was reshaped by such events as the civil rights

movement and the Vietnam War, the Alumni News started to reflect those changes. It reported on student attitudes, scientific research, social issues, and the host of concerns that affect modern universities. By 1980, those subjects had pushed the News' more traditional material into fewer and fewer pages in the back of each issue.

Now, with the creation of this new magazine, the Alumni News has been freed to return to its original role- reporting directly to alumni on topics of particular interest to them. At the same time, this magazine will take over and expand the more recent role of the News- reporting to a broad and growing audience the achievements that make Syracuse one of America's leading universities.

To those of us who work on it,

Changes in the Alumni News' role during the last 30 years are reflected in its cover designs.

Issues from 1953, 1959, and 1967 (top row) emphasize campus personalities and traditions. Covers from 1972 and 1975 (bottom left and center) reflect changes in format and graphics, as well as the magazine's growing attention to a broad range of topics. The most recent issue (bottom right) was the last in that format and the immediate forerunner of this magazine.

publishing this magazine is a genuinely exciting prospect. We hope that those of you who read it find it equally exciting.

David May Editor

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SU's Who Teachers, students, and alumni-Syracuse people are making themselves known in pursuits that range from the trivial to the Olympian.

SU's News Omni, The New lVrk Times, and the Wall Street Journal monitor Syracuse University achievements.

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Saving the Lady An SU alumnus is helping to rebuild the Statue of Liberty and change the face of New York City.

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Communications The University's architectural legacy is again on readers' minds.

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The Unity of Knowledge The closer we look , the simpler things become, according to University Professor J. Alan Robinson .

Perspectives A new University history book chronicles not only the accomplishments- but also the distractions and pasttimes- of a bygone era.

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University The endowment of new academic programs and professorships makes campus headlines this summer and fall.

Editor David May Managing Editor Stephen Cole Associate Editors Dana L. Cooke, Alix Mitchell Contributors Carol North Schmuckler, Sandi Tams Mulconry, Theresa M. Turner Editorial Assistants Frances Fedrizzi, Sandy Fees Circulation Carol Stone

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A Show of Strength Thanks to current touring exhibitions, the School of Architecture is staying in touch with its surroundings.

Photographs All photos by SU Photo Center except: Jaime Ardiles/ARCE, 18 (top, bottom center); Otto Baitz, 18 (bottom right); Dan Cornish, cover, 13, 19; Howard Dinet, 5 (bottom); Richard Folkers, 11 (right) ; David Grunfeld, 30 (bottom), 31; Wolfgang Hoyt/Esto, 17 (left, top right), 18 (far left, top right) ; Guido Locati, 4 (top); Larry Mason Jr. , 10 (bottom); Steve Parker, 30 (top) ; SITE, 28 (top); Syracuse Post-Standard, 29 (bottom) .

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Sports Journal The Orangemen proved that, despite the polls, the top team is still the one that wins the game.

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The Last Word Former student Susan Henry remembers her SU mentor.

On the Cover For two years, Lady Liberty will stand on her harbor pedestal engulfed by what might easily be mistaken for the world's largest jungle gym. The shroud of scaffolding is part of a massive restoration project that will prepare Liberty for her upcoming centenniel celebration. The architect in charge of the restoration is SU alumnus Richard Hayden. For more, see page 12.

Communications Readers' comments, ideas, and opinions

Past Glories Editor, Thank you for the informative focus on the history of the SU campus (Alumni News, Spring 1984) .

Don Akchin's article was enjoyable to read and the illustrations were great!

When I graduated from SU in 1978, I was pretty much indifferent to the architecture of the campus.

The enthusiasm I felt when seeing and discovering all the sights during freshman year had withered away by my senior year to the inattention one gives a well-traveled route.

When I attended graduate school at the University at Albany, I was surprised to find myself missing the same SU campus I had taken for granted. SUNY/Albany is a modem marvel of straight lines and right angles designed by Edward Durell Stone. It was produced in the late 1960s as a single harmonious piece, including high rise dorms and all classroom and library facilities under a continuous flat roof. It is an architectural "statement':.._a grand design-and it was built as a completed piece, never to be modified, updated (after all , how can you update Modernism?), or otherwise sullied .

Upon returning to SU for a visit, I found myself enthusiastic once again, as I had been as a freshman.

I had to find my way through the new buildings and renovations, and discover the campus all over again .

I realized that the ever-changing architecture adds a vitality to the campus which is missing at SUNY/ Albany, and that the visual display of widely different styles placed among one another provides an energy that is missing from those harmonious and coherent grand designs.

I think that the richness and complexity (or maybe the chaos of the clashing styles) of the architecture adds a certain vitality to the SU environment- there's always something going on . Grand designs can be stifling, whereas SU is built on a human scale, and the diversity of

styles mirrors the diversity of the people who inhabit it.

Thank you for the opportunity to enjoy the campus again.

remember that her first name was Kelly. I wonder ifher grandchildren know that she used to be a tower climber.

Hugh MacNiven '78

Lawrence "Larry" Barnes '43

Slingerlands, N.Y.

Peterborough, N.H .

Editor, It is always a delight to receive the Alumni News, but the Spring 1984 edition is the best ever.

It is an edition that I shall a! ways treasure. I have already leafed through it many times. Each time is a new discovery of a renewed, cherished memory.

Thanks, and keep up the good work. It is appreciated.

Editor's response: Try as we might, we could not discover the purpose of the tower to which Mr. Barnes refers; the prevalent hypothesis is that the tower supported a weather station. As the photo below proves, however, such a tower did exist (between roughly 1915 and 1959, according to photos in the Onondagan).

Phyllis Cromwell '51

Editor, It may well be that the count of compliments flowing to you from readers of the Spring 1984 issue of Alumni News will reach a new high.

Be that as it may, as an alumnus of the Chancellor Day era who has read countless chronicles emanating from the University, it strikes me that this issue has to be rated tops for all times. The clarity of the concisely-written highlights of University history, together with the sup-

Lynchburg, Va. Editor, Your grand history on Syracuse University neglected to mention in particular, during "Explosive Expansion 1942-1969," the Manley Field House- perhaps not an architectural wonder, but surely it did help lay a foundation of rapid financial development for the University.

H. William Smith Jr. '47

porting campus photography-not overlooking the magazine's coverare truly superb.

For those who have given of their time and talent to attain the level of excellence here depicted: magnifique!

Earle S. Corey '18 Tequesta, Fla. Editor, I enjoyed the spring issue very much but missed seeing credit given to Professor Fred R. Lear, who was associate architect of Archbold Stadium and Lyman Hall when he was on the faculty at Syracuse University. He graduated from Syracuse in 1905 and then was on the faculty of architecture for 41 years until he retired because of ill health ... . Many of his papers, drawings, etc. , are in the University's archives. His daughters, who also attended Syracuse University, gave this to the University.

Nancy Sharp might be interested in this if she is writing a history of Syracuse University architecture.

Roma Lear Loren '38 Tucson, Ariz.

Norwich, N.Y. Editor, Your spring issue covering the architectural history of Syracuse was superb, but it completely omitted mention of one structure, no longer in existence, that I recall with warm memories. It was in front of the Hall of Languages and probably was intended to be a flagpole. It was a steel structure, looking somewhat like a skinny oil derrick with a pole sticking out of the top. Because of the cross bracing, it was relatively easy to climb.

Many were the evenings that Johnny Courtenay '48 (forestry) and I, returning to our rooms from a visit to the Orange Cafe, decided that nothing would top off the evening betterthan a little fresh air at the top of the tower.

One time, I got to the top only to find that a coed had gotten there before me. In the years since then, I have forgotten a large percentage of what I learned at SU, but I do

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This tower stood for 40-plus years, but what was it for?

Perspectives A personal view of the University

Time Traveler The third volume of SU history, Syracuse University III : The Critical Years, was published during the summer. The volume covers the terms ofChancellor Charles W. Flint and Chancellor William P Graham, and was prepared by Richard Wilson,formerdirectorof the SU News Bureau, utilizing manuscripts written by W. Freeman Galpin (author ofvolumes one and two) and Oscar T. Barck Jr. , both former SU professors of history.

Featured below are excerpts from "Time Traveler: The Alumni Remember."

Copies of The Critical Years are available for $20 by writing to SU Press, 1600Jamesville Avenue, Syracuse, N.Y 13210.

Travel into the past is not condoned by physicists but is practiced every day by those who browse in the historical records and other archives of the University.

Alumni and others who travel back through time are rewarded with glimpses of a gentler, more leisurely era. The patina of nostalgia settles over the past. A kind of magic invests events long gone. " Is that the way we were?" the time traveler asks. "Was it that long ago?"

"That's the way it was in the twenties, the thirties, and a bit ofthe forties," the chronicler replies. "But if you let the magic work for you, it will seem to have been only yesterday."

The Reverend Donald G. Wright, A.B. '32, Ph.D. '38, in his history of Hendricks Chapel, writes amusingly of the timidity with which the administration approached a certain course in 1935-36: "As a result of a large number of petitions on the issue, Syracuse University, with a kind of reluctant wariness, allowed a non-credit course on the subject of marriage to be held in Hendricks Chapel. . . . The initial enrollment was 150, with more and more students wanting to participate; this Jed to the

course being moved from the Colonial Room to the main auditorium of the chapel. The whole enterprise excited considerable interest and attention. Interestingly enough, when the marriage course was rescheduled the following year it had a very bland, noncontroversial title-='The Art of Living."...

Dr. Wright noted that the course received "a good deal of attention beyond the campus," including coverage by Woman:S Home Companion, the Toronto Star, and the national parent-teacher magazine, and that "the academic authorities" were still wary of it. He added: "Under the repeated requests of students, however, a non-credit course was projected for the second semester under the title 'Personal Relations.' The sessions were held in Hendricks Chapel , and before it was over approximately 780 students had participated.''

How orange was adopted as the color of Syracuse University was described in June 1940 at the fiftieth reunion of the Class of 1890. The chronicler was Frank J. Marion, the motion picture pioneer. Marion, a member of the class he said was responsible for the change from the colors pink and blue, recalled: "At the end of our senior year Syracuse accepted the challenge of Hamilton College to a track meet and ... a number of us went along to cheer our team. We wore high collars, right up under our chinscutaway coats, baggy trousers, and rolled-brim derby hats. On our canes we had ribbons of the college colors, pink and blue. " Much to our surprise, we won the meet, and on the train coming home from Utica we tried to 'whoop it up.' What kind of 'whoopee' can be made with pink and blue, the pale kind that you use on babies' what-do-you -call thems? It just couldn't be done! " So on Monday morning a Jot of us went to see the Chancellor in his office and told him ourtaleofwoe.

Chancellor Sims was a kindly old gentleman , a real father to us all , and he was very sympathetic. He

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Chancellor William P Graham

agreed that pink and blue were not very suitable colors."

Professor J. Scott Clark was named chairman of a committee to find new colors, Marion said. "I recall that we seniors had a sneaking idea that we might put over our class colors, orange and olive green." Professor Clark consulted Baird's Manual , then the authority on college matters, to see what combinations of orange were already taken. Orange and blue were the most popular, but orange alone apparently was not claimed by any school and was Syracuse's for the taking. It was adopted unanimously by the committee, the faculty, the Alumni Association, and finally the trustees.

supposedly coinciding with the last day of fall registration.

The Post-Standard campus correspondent, Ernest J. Bowden, wrote of "the philosophy of a flourrush" in the late 1920's asking " Why are the gates of wisdom varnished with such an uproarious spectacle?':_that of several hundred freshmen, armed with bags of flour, storming a hill defended by several hundred sophomores armed with a fire hose. Bowden saw a safety valve in the fray. " For a few hours the campus is given over to the wildest horseplay- but in daylight, and under the friendly though unconscious supervision of juniors and seniors. "This is a lightning rod for higher temper or strained susceptibility. And it works. Freshmen and sophomores settle down to the business of the campus, and midnight forays and hazing are forgotten."

The fl our rush was abolished toward the end of the (Chancellor) Graham years, in November 1941 , after a defending sophomore fell and suffered a leg injury. This tradition and others had begun to wane before that, a student government representative said. Howard Miller '42, who was doing research on the subject, said that at Syracuse throughout its history " traditions have been observed- at some times with great spirit and at others with less." He added: "We are now in one of those ' less' periods."

Kalman Druck, editor-in-chief of the Daily Orange in 1936 and later a New York public relations executive, was one of the organizers of a campus group calling itself Veterans of Future Wars. Taking its cue from World War I veterans pressing for a federal bonus, the students demanded a bonus in advance, "before we're dead." That movement, begun at Princeton as a burlesque, grew into a national antiwar protest.

A vanished trad ition is the flour rush . Freshmen attacked Crouse College Hill and sophomores did their best to repel them. The event was annual but its date variable,

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Tbe llniversity News of campus programs and events

Professorships Named for Love And Fleming Two newly endowed professorships, both housed in humanities departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, have been named for, in one case, a respected former faculty member and, in the other case, a loyal alumna of the College of Liberal Arts.

Tlie William C. Fleming Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Fine Arts is named for the founder and longtime chairman of SU's fine arts department. It will bring distinguished scholars to campus for a semester or academic year to conduct seminars for faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduates.

Fleming was a member of the faculty between 1945 and 1976. His book, Arts & Ideas, integrated the visual arts, literature, music, and philosophy in a single history of culture. Now in its seventh edition, the book has sold more than one million copies and is used at 700 universities and colleges.

The Winifred Seely Myers Love Distinguished Faculty Fellowship in Foreign Languages and Literatures honors a 1918 SU graduate who was herself a longtime teacher of French. The professorship will be a three-year junior

faculty fellowship, intended to bring a promising young teacher-scholar to the University to teach and conduct research.

In addition to attending SU, Mrs. Love attended the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr. Beyond her work as a teacher, she took over and successfully ran her father's business, the U.S. Lumber Co.; she also has played active roles in a number of civic organizations, including the Daughters ofthe War ofl8l2, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the national board of the Campfire Girls of America.

Both professorships are components of the College of Arts and Sciences' ongoing $3. 9-rnillion endowment campaign. The National Endowment for the Humanities has pledged a $975,000, three-to-one challenge grant to that effort.

Newhouse School Marks Three Anniversaries A celebration held Sept. 21-22 at the Newhouse School of Public Communications formalized three simultaneous anniversaries: 50 years since the founding of the School of Journalism, 20 years since the dedication of the Newhouse I building, and 10 years since the dedication of Newhouse II.

New professorships were named for William Fleming, former fine arts chairman, and alumna Winifred Seely Myers Love.

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f; J_ Dean Edward C Stephens presided over the Newhouse School of Public Communication's Anniversary Dinner in September.

More than 150 alumni attended the two-day event, which began with an academic convocation in Hendricks Chapel. Also on hand was the family of the late Samuel I. Newhouse, whose $15-rnillion gift to the University made the communications center possible.

Newhouse was the subject of praise during the academic convocation, when Chancellor Emeritus William P. Tolley offered recollections of the publisher and his relationshiptoSU. Thekeynoteaddress was given by Everette Dennis, executive director of the newly formed Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University.

Dennis, who earned his master's degree in 1966 from the School of Journalism, is also president ofthe Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.

Videotapes of the Newhouse I and II building dedications were shown on Saturday, Sept. 21. Student exhibitions ofphotography and graphic arts were displayed, and tours of a Newhouse II television studio, the News Lab, Photo Lab, and Editing Lab were conducted throughout the day.

The School of Journalism was formed in 1934 with one dean, one assistant professor, one secretary, and 20 students.

Today, journalism education is combined in the Newhouse School

with photography, radio and television broadcasting, advertising, and public relations. The school has 60 faculty members, 1,800 students, and more than 8,000 alumni. Many graduates of the school hold key positions in the communications field, ranging from Drew Middleton, a 1935 graduate who is a senior staff member of The New York Times, to John Sykes, who graduated in 1979 and is now vice president of production and promotions for MTV.

Cogeneration Plant To Benefit SU A remote five-acre site behind Skytop Hill will be the site of a cogeneration power plant that has already been praised as a model of efficiency in energy production.

The proposed facility will produce steam and electricity simultaneously, fueled by natural gas from western New York state. It will produce up to 230 megawatts of net eletrical power and up to 350,000 pounds per hour of steam for heating. The plant, one of the largest of its kind in the United States, will be developed by Gas Alternative Systems Inc. of Brooklyn, N.Y. SU is leasing the plant site to the developers. Although the University will neither own nor operate the plant, it will purchase steam pro-

duced there and use it to heat most campus buildings, including many not incorporated in the present steam network (such as Manley Field House). SU will also make the steam available to neighboring not-for-profit organizations that share SU's current network, such as Crouse-Irving Memorial Hospital and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

According to Harvey H . Kaiser, SU vice president for facilities administration, completion of the plant sometime in late 1987 will save SU as much as $2.5 million on annual heating costs.

Student Center Receives Gift For Lounge Faye and Henry A. Panasci Jr., of Camillus, N.Y., have pledged $750,000 to the Campaign for the Schine Student Center. In recognition of the gift, the center's main student lounge has been named in their honor.

The lounge will be one of the largest general gathering areas on campus. Measuring 60-by-80 feet, it will feature a central, two-sided fireplace and large, arched windows overlooking the Newhouse School and campus front lawn. The lounge will be located on the second floor of the Schine Center's southwest quarter.

An SU trustee since 1983, Mr. Panasci is chairman and chief ex-

ecutive officer of Fay's Drug Co., which he co-founded in 1958. His honors include the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award from the State oflsrael and the 1982 "Businessman of the Year" award from the Syracuse Herald-American. He and Mrs. Panasci have two children; their son, David, was a 1980 SU graduate.

With the Panascis' gift and continued strong Telefund support from alumni, now totaling more than $2 million, campaign officials have predicted that the funding of SU's first full-fledged student center will be completed well before its anticipated opening next fall.

Construction of the Schine Center began last spring, and completion of its external walls is expected by year's end. Work on the Ann and Alfred R. Goldstein Auditorium will begin at that time in order to assure that the entire project is completed by next year.

Rhodes, Marshall Candidates Named Two SU seniors have been chosen to represent the University as candidates for the prestigious Rhodes and Marshall scholarships.

Chosen to compete for a Rhodes scholarship was Julie L. Kitze, Rochester, N.Y. , a political science and newspaper journalism major who would use the two-year award to study 19th-century British social history. Rhodes scholars conduct

FACULTY EXHIBITION: 1984 School of Art College of VIsual and

Artists and Teachers. "Still Life: Across the Field" (left), by Gary Trento, and "Hallelujah Handel," by Rodger Mack, were both pan of the 1984 edition of the School of Ans annual Faculty Exhibition. The show appeared at the Joe and Emily Lowe An Gallery during October and early November, and included the creative effons of more than 70 faculty members in the school. their graduate work at Oxford University.

Robert C. Shippee, Niagara Falls, N.Y., will vie for a Marshall scholarship, which provides two years of graduate study at any British university. If named a Marshall scholar, Shippee would attend the

The Schine Center's Panasci Lounge will be among the campus' largest gathering areas.

London School of Economics and pursue his master's degree in industrial relations and personnel management.

Both Kitze and Shippee will now be competing against seniors nominated by other universities located in the Northeast. Four Rhodes and five Marshall scholarships will be awarded at this regional level.

The candidates were chosen and their University recommendations secured by the recently established Overseas Fellowship Committee. According to Ronald C. Cavanagh, committee chairman and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, a large number ofSU faculty and staff members contributed to the selection process, and the credentials of the chosen candidates were exhaustively scrutinized. " The Rhodes is, in my estimation, the most distinguished foreign scholarship in the world today," Cavanagh said. " It is an unparalleled opportunity for the scholar.

Also, I believe that a successful candidacy affects the elan of the sponsoring institution. Both are positive things."

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CASE Center Support Blossoms

Citizenship Center Boosted by Grant

Symbolics Inc., a manufacturer of symbol-processing computers based in Cambridge, Mass., has joined IBM, General Electric, and United Technologies as a founding member of the Syracuse Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering (CASE Center) .

Founding members contribute $25,000 per year to the high-technology research center, and support specific project costs totaling up to $200,000 per year. Symbolics has pledged a $25,000 grant and two computers, valued at $200,000.

Other CASE Center support in recent months included receipt of a major gift from the New York Telephone Co. and selection to participate in a large grant from the Department of Defense (DOD) .

The DOD project will provide the center with up to $Z74,000 for computer equipment acquisitions, supporting the center's artificial intelligence work. New York Telephone, The Nynex Corp., made an unrestricted gift, which was used to supplement laboratory facilities in Hinds Hall , where the CASE Center has been located.

The University completed a major renovation of Hinds Hall this fall, creating office and lab space for the CASE Center's staff andresearchers on the first floor.

The Exxon Education Foundation has given the Center for the Study of Citizenship, based in the Maxwell School , a $50,000 one-year grant that will greatly expand the center's civic literacy programs.

The goal of the center, according to its director, Professor Manfred Stanley, is to produce "the sort of scholarship necessary for reforming liberal arts education, professional training, and public policy research to make them more relevant for citizen education in a democracy." The center is made up of education, law, and Maxwell School faculty, as well as SUNY Upstate Medical Center researchers- all concerned with the "disenfranchisement" of the citizens of the American democracy.

Previously, the center has administered a graduate-level program, "Social Foundations of Public Policy," available to students throughout the University. The Exxon grant will allow the center to provide fellowship stipends to graduate students, distribute scholarly papers and publications by center members, name postdoctoral and visiting fellows, and sponsor a dissertation competition.

The center will become a pioneer in the use of local history for citizenship education, Stanley added. Citizens better acquainted

New Quarters. A striking four-story atrium connects the College of Law to its new library wing, first put into use this semester. Roughly $4.5 million went into the project, which featured both construction of the new addition and an extensive renovation of White Hall. A formal dedication is planned for spring.

Newell Rossman Scholars Named Four seniors and a junior, all majoring in SU humanities departments, have been named the University's first Newell W. Rossman Jr. Scholars.

Funded by alumni contributions, the Rossman program provides one-year, full-tuition scholarships based on academic merit. In order to qualify, students must major in a humanities division program and maintain a grade point average of at least 3.4. Grade point averages of the inaugural recipients range between 3.724 and 4.000.

The 1984-85 Rossman Scholars include seniors Michele J. Monette

and Jocelyn Salame, both majoring in French language and culture; Susan M. Scuderi, religion; and Hara Zerva, fine arts; and junior Timothy J. Green, English. Because Green attends SU on a full athletic scholarship, his Rossman award is honorary.

Newell Rossman, who now resides in Cazenovia, N.Y., held a succession of Syracuse University posts between 1945 and 1981, including director of development, vice president for development, vice chancellor for university relations, and, beginning in 1975, vice chancellor and special assistant to the chancellor.

The scholarship program was created on the occasion of Rossman's retirement in 1981.

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The 1984-85 Newell Rossman Scholars in the College ofArts and Sciences are seniors Hara Zerva, Susan M. Scuderi, Michele Monette, and Jocelyn Salame (above, from left); and junior Timothy Green (not pictured).

ing gifted children to meet others like them. "In their grammar schools, some of these children work alone and they feel isolated," she said.

Pfeifer explained that children taking part in the program possess a variety of "gifts." Often the students have I.Q.s above 130, she said, but others may be gifted in problem solving, leadership, visual and performing arts, or sports.

Special Reading Tool Developed

The Simplest Things. Nobel/aureate and astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar spoke on Oct. 4 as part of the University Lecture Series. Prof Chandrasekhar's research led to the discovery of black holes, which he described as "the simplest objects in the universe." with local history, he explained, better understand the influence they have in policy making.

Snow Prize Given Two works shared the 1984 edition of the John Ben Snow Manuscript Prize, awarded annually by Syracuse University Press. The manuscripts were The Life of Marietta Holley by Kate Winter, and Images ofRural Life, compiled by the DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County (New York).

Winter's book, which will be published this spring by SU Press, is a biography of author Marietta Holley, shedding light on the surroundings and people depicted in her many books. Holley lived and wrote at Pierrepont Manor in upstate New York; between 1873 and 1913, she wrote about the fictional character Samantha Allen.

Images of Rural Life, recently published by the press, contains 246 historical photographs by Verne Morton, taken during the early part of the 20th century. They capture the physical and cultural characteristics of rural life during that era.

The Snow Prize is awarded each year to a nonfiction manuscript related to some aspect of New York history.

Center Studies Computers and Senior Citizens The All-University Gerontology Center is conducting a study to determine ways of making computer technology relevant to America's elderly.

In order to implement the study, the center has distributed 20 computers to senior citizens. It is monitoring the use of the computers and will then circulate them to other senior citizens, according to Neal Bellos, director of the center.

According to Bellos, researchers hope to develop a program of computer orientation suited to the elderly, to evaluate software in terms of their special concerns, and to create a network linking senior citizens to health and emergency agencies via computers.

"We're going to demonstrate that older people are not excluded from any development in society," Bellos said.

University Hosts Gifted Children Sixty-four children aged 7 to 14, all identified as intellectually, artistically, or physically gifted, took

part in SU's Gifted Program on campus during a three-week period in mid-summer.

During the program, the students attended workshops on creative writing, drama, mathematics, photography, music, political science, journalism, and science.

They also explored University resources, such as the audio archives and cartography labs.

One of the central benefits ofthe experience, according to Jeanne Pfeifer, program director, is allow-

A portable fiberscopic reading tool for the visually impaired has been developed with the help of a researcher at SU's Institute for Sensory Research.

Denis G. Pelli, assistant professor of neuroscience, developed the fiberscopic aid in collaboration with Gordon Legge, professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota. Also working with Pelli was graduate assistant James A. Serio.

The new device employs flexible optic fibers with, at one end, an eyepiece mounted on a special frame and, at the other end, a lighted lens.

The fiberscope magnifies printed characters up to 40 times utilizing 10,000 optical fibers.

The eyepiece can be individually fitted to adjust to a client's particular eye condition. The entire mechanism is small enough to be carried in a handbag or briefcase.

Research on the vision aid was funded by the National Eye Institute.

Keyboard Kudos. Fred Hohman, a church music director in Durham, N.C, won the 1984 Arthur Poister Competition for organists, an event named for former SU organist and music professor Arthur Poister. The American Guild of Organists, Syracuse chapter, sponsored Hohman's awardee recital in Crouse Auditorium.

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Lilly Fellows Named For Third Year

For Calo, the administrative appointment in Florence represents a return engagement. He was a Syracuse University undergraduate enrolled at the Florence center during 1970-71.

many of which are the only known recordings of historic speeches and musical performances. Added to that collection was a recent gift of 300 cylinders from alumna Roslyn Eggleston Getman and her husband Earl, of West Munroe, N.Y. The U.S. DepartmentofEducation has awarded the Belfer Laboratory $135,000 to support a 15month cataloging and recording project, during which 1,500 ofthe cylinders will be transferred to tape.

The University has designated six junior faculty members 1984-85 Lilly fellows, marking three years of participation in the Lilly PostDoctoral Teaching Awards Program by SU. Lilly fellowships are awarded to teachers in their second, third, or fourth year on the faculty, and are based on specific proposals for instructional or curricular innovation. Fellows receive a stipend and attend conferences throughout the year on the subject of quality teaching; this year, both activities are supported by a $35,734 grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. Lilly fellows at SU this year are Konstanze C. Baumer, assistant professor of German, D. Bruce Carter, assistant professor of psychology, Paul J. Dsley, assistant professor of administrative and adult studies (education), Hope Irvine, assistant professor ofart education, James Kallmerten, assistant professor of chemistry, and Toni A. Toland, assistant professor of visual communications.

During its three years of participation in the program, SU has named 23 Lilly fellows ; support from the endowment now totals approximately $120,000.

Honors, accomplishments, and other milestones

DIPA Appoints Florence Director

Honors and Awards

The Division oflnternational Programs Abroad (DIPA) has appointed the first permanent director of its study center in Florence, Italy. Michael Calo, assistant director of DIPA for eight years, began administering Florence programs this semester.

In his new post, Calo lives at the Florence Center and coordinates the presentation of about 35 courses each semester by both SU and Italian faculty members. DIPA operates study centers in four European cities; the growing popularity of all four, and Florence in particular, led to Calo's appointment.

Also appointed within DIPA were Lore L. Heath, as associate director, previously program administrator for continuing education courses at University College; and Margaret L. Stone, as assistant director, formerly assistant to the director of Georgetown University's international study program.

• William P. Alston, professor of philosophy, had the conference, Research Conference in the Philosophy of Religion, dedicated to him.

Papers from the conference, held at the University of Nebraska from April 12-14, will be collected in a book dedicated to Alston.

• Jozef J. Zwislocki, professor of neuroscience, received a Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award.

The award will support Zwislocki's continued study of the physiology of the inner part of the ear.

• Travis Lewin, professor of law, received the first Richard S. Jacobson Award, given annually by the Roscoe Pound Foundation to an outstanding trial teaching lawyer.

• Harry W. Murray, graduate student in sociology, received the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. The oneyear, $7,500 fellowship will allow Murray to complete his research on the Catholic Worker Movement.

Audio Lab Uses Laser Technology Technicians at the Diane and Arthur B. Belfer Audio Laboratory have developed an instrument that allows them to play antique cylinder recordings with a beam of light.

The revolutionary new invention uses a laser beam to read the cylinder's grooves and reproduces the original recorded message using normal audio equipment.

According to William Storm, director of the laboratory, the new instrument is important because of the fragile condition of the cylinders, which were the predominant form of sound recording at the beginning of the 20th century.

The University's audio archives holds about 7,000 such cylinders,

SU and German University Sign Exchange Pact Syracuse University and Philipps U ni versitiit Marburg have signed a two-year academic and cultural exchange agreement that is expected to facilitate faculty and student visits and research collaboration between the two institutions.

According to John James Prucha, SU's vice chancellor for academic affairs, the agreement will serve as

a broad policy of cooperation-a foundation on which specific exchange projects will be built. The existence of such an agreement, he said, greatly simplifies the process of international academic collaboration.

Specifically, the agreement encourages exchanges of faculty members on teaching assignments; shorter visits for research, seminars, and lectures; student exchanges with full transfer of credit; and exchange of bulletins, catalogs, and reports.

Philipps University is similar in size and makeup to SU, according to Prucha. Founded in 15Z7, the university is located in a city of 40,000, about 40 miles north of Frankfurt, West Germany.

The Philipps pact is the fourth such exchange agreement signed by SU this decade. Others are with the University ofPisa in Italy and two institutions located in the People's RepublicofChina, theNanjinginstitute of Technology and Xi'an Jiaotong University.

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• Marie Provine, associate professor of political science, was appointed one of three judicial fellows to the Supreme Court of the United States. There she worked on a project helping to design and execute an evaluation of new district court rules.

• Harold L. Herber, professor of education and director of the reading and language arts center in the School of Education, was named the 1984 Outstanding Teacher Educator in Reading by the International Reading Association.

Faculty Books • In and Out ofBooks: Reviews and Other Polemics on Special Education was written by Burton Blatt, dean of the School of Education; he also co-edited another book, titled Perspectives in Special Education: Personal Orientations.

• Media and Computers in the Library: A Selected Annotated Resource Guide was written by Evelyn H. Daniel, dean of the

School of Information Studies.

• Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture was edited by Meredith Lillich, professor of fine arts.

• Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child was written by Arnold P. Goldstein, professor of psychology.

• Mental Health Services: The Cross Cultural Context is one oftwo books written by Paul Pedersen, professo r of counseling and guidance; he also wrote Education for International Social Welfare.

• The Ironies ofProgress: Henry Adams and the American Dream was written by William Wasserstrom, professor of English.

Appointments and Promotions • L. Richard Oliker, dean of the School ofManagement, was appointed to the New York Legislative Commission on Science and Technology. He will act as a consultant, aiding the Legislature with the tech-

Professors Edward Muir and Mark Monmonier have been awarded Guggenheim fellowships for special research projects.

Professors Named Guggenheim Fellows Two members of the faculty have been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation to pursue special research projects. Both will take leaves of absence to conduct their studies.

Edward W. Muir Jr., associate professor of history, plans to live in

nical and scientific changes that are occurring.

• Bernard Jump Jr., professor of public administration, was named associate dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Jump is also chairman of the public administration department.

• W. John Hottenstein, assistant professor of telecommunications, was appointed assistant dean of the Newhouse School of Public Communications.

• Ronald T. Verrillo, professor of neuroscience, became director of the Institute for Sensory Research on July 1. Verrillo joined the SU faculty in 1957.

• Russell J, Hamilton, formerly director of placement and alumni relations in the School of Management, was appointed assistant dean and director of undergraduate student services of the school. Jack Huebsch, director of the school's graduate program, was appointed assistant dean for graduate studies.

• Grace M. Severino, University bursar since 1980, was appointed director ofthe Parents Office. She has been with the University staff since 1972.

Venice and collect material for a book on the society of 16th-century Italy. His research will focus on a vendetta that loosely provided the model for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

A member of the faculty since lfJ77, Muir is the author of Civic Ritual in Renaissance 11!nice, which received two awards for scholarly distinction last year.

Deaths • Laurence E. Schmeckebier, professor emeritus and former dean of the SU School of Art, died on July 5 in Hanover, N.H. He was 78 years old.

Schmeckebier was dean of the School of Art from 1954 untill969, and continued as a professor until lfJ71. He was the editor of numerous art journals and the author of many books and articles on art history.

• Peter P. Cataldi, associate professor and chairman of the health and physical education department in the School of Education, died June 14 in Syracuse. He was 58 years old.

Cataldi joined the faculty in 1954 as an instructor of physical education, and was, since August lfJ74, chairman of the University's Department of Health, Recreation, and Physical Education. He was also a longtime University Marshal, representing faculty at commencement exercises. Off campus, he was active as chairman of the local chapter of the American Red Cross, as a founder of the Special Olympics, and as a member of the New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation.

Mark S. Monmonier, professor of geography specializing in geographic information, will use his Guggenheim fellowship to study the effects of electronic publishing on maps. Monmonier will investigate the enhanced use of maps in television news, newspapers, and weather forecasts. He will also look at the home production of maps through personal computers and printer-a trend that may lead to "every person being his or her own cartographer," he said.

Monmonier is the author of the first comprehensive textbook on digital cartography, ComputerAssisted Cartography: Principles and Prospects. He joined the SU faculty in lfJ73.

ESF Evaluates Transfer Students The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) has established the Center for Directed Studies to assist its incoming junior-year students in the tran-

• Margaret G. York, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, died June 2 in Buffalo at the age of64.

In July 1fJ77, York joined the social work faculty on a half-time basis and was named "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" in social work in 1984. York also held a clinical assistant professorship in Upstate Medical Center's department of psychiatry.

• Murray M. Salzberg, 1937 graduate of the School of Management and University benefactor, died on July 31 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., at the age of 69.

Salzberg has been described as "one of the last mass-transportation entrepreneurs in the country." The owner of two bus companies in Queens and short-line railroads in various parts of the country, he was also the principal owner and president of the Louisianna and Northwest Railroad Co. and chairman of the board of Central Jersey Industries from 1fJ79 until his death.

In 1949, Salzberg established the Harry E. Salzberg Transportation Award for the University's School of Management to honor individuals with unusual accomplishments in the field of transportation.

sition from lower-division coursework to ESF programs A $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Comprehensive Assistance for Undergraduates in Science Education (CAUSE) program enabled the development of a diagnostic tool, intended to determine how closely students meet the requirements of their ESF curriculum. By having prerequisite knowledge tested, students can see which oftheir skills are deficient and should be upgraded prior to beginning coursework. In addition, ESF receives important information about new students based on the testing.

Located in Moon Library, the center consists of 60 independent, self-instructed modules in chemistry, biology, and mathematics. It is directed by RobetH. Frey, assistant vice president for academic programs, and Herbert B. Tepper, professor in environmental and forest biology.

SU and Upstate Plan Laboratory Syracuse University and the SUNY Upstate Medical Center have announced plans to collaborate in the creation of a new Biomedical Research Magnetic Resonance Laboratory. The facility will make sophisticated biological scanning equipment available to both institutions' researchers on a regular basis.

Researchers at the laboratory, which is co-directed by George C. Levy, SU professor of chemistry, and Dr. John G. McAfee, professor of radiology and director of radiological sciences at Upstate, will help pioneer magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a nuclear magnetic resonance technique that scientists believe shows extraordinary promise in diagnostic medicine.

MRI is the first non-invasive technique that allows physicians to probe not only the physical structure ofliving tissues, but also their chemical constitution. This is important, Levy said, because disease often alters metabolic processes or chemical balances in affected cells.

The laboratory will be located at Upstate and will contain equipment valued at more than $3 million.

Studies will be conducted by Upstate faculty members in numerous fields, Levy's SU-based research group, and SU's Institute for Sensory Research.

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Sl!'s News Research and scholarship in the news Inadequate Compensation William Johnson, professor of health economics, and graduate student Edward Heier (now teaching at Indiana University, Gary) have conducted, at SU, the first study of compensation received by the survivors of workers' who died as a result of workplace exposure to asbestos.They found the <;ompensation received by the survivors was neither adequate in amount nor equitably distributed.

News of Johnson's study has appeared in Business Insurance, Asbestos Litigation Reporter, Mealey's Litigation Reports, and the Syracuse Post-Standard.

Johnson has also been interviewed by the WallStreetJournal, theNew Yorker, and 60 Minutes.

Johnson and Heier's figures are based on asbestos-related deaths that occurred among 17,800 men who were members of the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers, AFL-CIO, CLC, in 1967.

During 1979 the249 widows surveyed lost a total of $3,401,094 based on the income their husbands would have earned were they still alive. Half of the widows received no compensation at all.

Worker's compensation was received by only 39 of the widows.

Johnson told the Post-Standard's Barbara Shelly that most of the widows he surveyed did not even apply for worker's compensation. " Some told him they assumed they wouldn't receive any money," Shelly wrote. "Others didn't realize they were elig ible to apply. 'For some, it was simply too painful ,' Johnson said."

"The authors conclude that those who benefitted from asbestos production- including asbestos producers- are, in effect, being subsidized by asbestos workers and the ir survivors," reported Stephen Tarnoff in Business Insurance.

"Whether one wishes to measure social goals in terms of economic efficiency, morality, or some common-sense definition of what is

William Johnson says asbestos victims deserve more. just, compensation that fails to pay even the net loss to the survivors of dead workers is grossly inadequate," the researchers told Tarnoff.

A Taxing Competition The Citizenship Education Conference, sponsored by the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, is held each year to help g ifted high school seniors learn more about public policy issues and to help them strengthe n their abi lities to analyze such issues; it also functions as an SU scholarship competition. When the conference was held this spring on the theme, " Improving the Fairness and/or Efficiency of Our Tax System ," it received front-page coverage in the Wlll Street Journal both before and after the event.

The competition drew 172 high school students from states along the Eastern seaboard, and from Montana, Texas, and California; all were among the top 10 percent of SU's incoming freshman class.

During their day-long stay at SU, they competed for scholarships while debating proposals for tax reform.

The Wlll Street Journal 's Scott Schmedel reported that more than 40 percent of the participants favored variations on a fl at tax. A survey of students and parents attending the conference indicated

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that students were in favor of a flatter rate income tax system than were parents, and parents thought the chances of a major tax reform were less likely than did students.

Participants were evaluated on the basis of their proposals, technique, factual knowledge presented, and the quality oftheir oral presentations. Susan Crandall of Stoughton , Mass., won a $2,000 scholarship for distinction. Scholarships for excellence ($1 ,000) were won by Victoria Smith of Hauppauge, N.Y. , and Elizabeth Sykes of Schenectady, N.Y. In addition, twenty-two $500 scholarships for achievement were awarded. The scholarships are renewable for four years of undergraduate study at any school or college at SU. An interesting footnote: reports in the Wall Street Journal prompted calls from USA Today and the U.S. Treasury Department, which requested information on the students' responses for use in a speech by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Carving a Niche Raymond Carver, professor of EngI ish on leave from the creative writing program, was featured this summer in a profile in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, written by Bruce Weber and subtitled "A Chronicler of Blue-Collar Despair."

In 1983, Carver was awarded a Mildred and Harold Strauss Livings stipend, a five-year annual sum of $35,000 from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Weber reported that Carver is now spending the bulk of his time writing poetry, rather than the short stories for which he has become famous. Included in the Times piece was a new poem by Carver titled "My Dad 's Wallet."

Carver has not always made his living as a writer. Weber reports that before he landed his first whitecollar job as editor at a Palo Alto textbook firm , Carver picked tulips, pumped gas, swept hospital

The ''skillful, quiet voice" of Raymond Carver, professor of English on leave from SU, was f eatured in The New York Times.

Stephen Webb has seeded a "rethinking" ofAmerican history. corridors, swabbed toilets, and managed an apartment complex.

That may help to explain why "Carver's stories are populated by characters who live in America's shoddy enclaves of convenience products and conventionalitypeople who shop at Kwik-Mart and who live in saltbox houses or quickly built apartment complexes. They don't seem to want much : ordinarily divided lives of work and home, food on the table, love and solace when they need them. They yearn for serenity rather than achievement."

"The influence of Carver's skillful, quiet voice is being felt by a generation of still unpublished writers," Weber wrote. "According to Tom Jenks, who edits fiction at Esquire, 'The style most often attempted by young writers is one marked by short, hard-edged sentences, like those of Ray Carver, and the subject matter often brushes up against Carver's as well- representative of what I would call a downside neo-realism.' " Carver told Weber: "If I write a story and someone connects up with it in some way, is moved by it and reminded of his humanness, then I'm happy. What more can I want? It's important to do the work because somebody needs to do it.

It's important to be reminded that we're human . I know I make more of it than I should, but I think it's a noble undertaking, this business. It sure beats a lot of other things I can think of."

In a letter to 7he Times a few weeks after the article appeared, Joyce Rutter wrote, ''I'm glad Raymond Carver has a stipend to write, but: as an undergraduate at Syracuse University, I wish he'd hurry back."

Rethinking History

Keeping the Peace

"There has already been talk among historians of having to rewrite history books if StephenS. Webb's version of the American Revolution turns out to be correct," wrote Elizabeth Wasserman this summer in the Syracuse PostStandard.

Initiating the controversy was 1676: 7he End of American independence, Webb's latest book and the subject of a full-page feature in 7he New York Times Review of Books.

"In 1676, Stephen Saunders Webb, a professor of history at Syracuse University and the author of 7he Governors General: 7he English Army and the Definition of Empire, 1569-1681, tells us American Independence was all over a fall 100 years sooner than we had thought it started," wrote William S. McFeely in 7he Times.

"Webb's central thesis," Wasserman reported, "is that the semiautonomous colonies lost much of their independence in 1676 and became part of an English empire that was as militaristic and imperialistic as the Roman empire.''

1676 upsets conventional opinions because of its implications for the history of the 1776 revolution (Was it independence or an empire of their own that the patriots sought?); the Constitution (Were the shades of English kings, asked McFeely, sitting at George Washington's shoulder?); and present policy (Does empire come naturally, even inevitably, to Americans because of our imperial origins?).

Concluded McFeely: "1676, brilliantly controversial, will invite a rethinking of the whole stretch of our American past."

After spending two days on campus in mid-June, Associated Press newsfeatures writer John Barbour completed a detailed account of work done by the Center for Research on Aggression. Barbour interviewed Arnold P. Goldstein, director of the center, and Marshall Segall, professor of social and political psychology, on the underpinnings of violence in our society.

"Aggression is complex in its causes, and so has to be complex in its solutions," Goldstein told Barbour. "In [1981] . . . 11,500 Americans were killed by bullets, as compared with only 8 in Great Britain, 42 in West Germany, 49 in Japan, and 52 in Canada."

Segall noted that 9 times out of 10, violent killers are males. "Compensatory machoism is an American cultural trait," he told Barbour.

"We have produced a society in which there is great pressure on males to continually prove themselves. Much teaching in our society, including the role-modeling in TV and movie fiction, reinforces the view that if males don't get what they want, or iflife has been unfair, they should go out and get even by beating up, even killing, other people."

"The center draws on the expertise of about a dozen faculty members of different disciplines at Syracuse University, seven members of the community concerned with violent acts or settings, including theNew York State Department ofHealth, a local child abuse center, and the Syracuse police department, not to mention the FBI," Barbour wrote.

Its members " help train people all over the country in methods of coping with juvenile delinquents, child abusers, wife beaters, convicts- all sorts of people who engage in aggression.''

"Skills for dealing with stress," Barbour wrote, "include making or answering a complaint, dealing with embarrassment, dealing with being left out, standing up for a friend, responding to failure, responding to persuasion, dealing with group pressure."

Goldstein will continue his war on aggression this fall , as he tests a new program called ART-Aggression Reduction Training- with residents at the Division for Youth facility in Annsville, N.Y.

Computer Crashes Robert Morris, research coordinatorofSU's Communications Studies Laboratory, was recently conducting psychokinesis experiments to determine whether people could influence computerized randomnumber generators. He was forced to abort the study, however, when the computer crashed for 13 of the first 33 test subjects.

After comparing the crash results with attitude questionnaires, Morris was led to a separate, unanticipated, and still preliminary hypothesis: Individuals who grow

Arnold Goldstein battles aggression. nervous in the presence of computers may, without realizing it, psychokinetically sabotage them.

"Our numbers are quite small," Morris explained, "so either this is a statistical aberration of some sort and there is really nothing here, or else we have blundered into something quite important.'' Either way, Morris' notion was intriguing enough that Omni, Computerworld, and the Newhouse News Service all reported it last spring.

According to Sally Squires, writing for the Newhouse News Service, Morris believes that computer crashes may be "due in part to a selffulfilling prophecy: Those who fear computers may destine themselves to failure, if for no other reason than not bothering to read instructions carefully.

"But Morris' ... studies also suggest another phenomenon at work-those anxious people may generate some kind of signal that interferes with computer operations."

Wrote SU alumnus Patrick HuygheinOmni: "Theageoftechnology is not welcomed by all.

Many people repeatedly encounter some quite serious and inexplicable difficulties in their interactions with machines and electronic equipment. Computers crash in their presence, copying machines jam up, watches stop functioning, and telephones won't work."

Despite so much attention, Morris keeps his work in perspective. "[Morris] cautioned," wrote John Desmond of Computerworld, "that the possible power of mind over matter should not be overestimated: 'There is no real evidence from our anecdotes that there are any budding superstars-people who can snap their fingers and make the Pentagon's lights go out.' "

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Saving the Lady

by Carol North Schmuckler

Lady Liberty will celebrate her hundredth birthday shiny and strong, thanks to SU alumnus Richard Hayden.

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ew York City workmen are a notoriously blase lot. Nothing awes them. They've handled it all: the newest, the most expensive, the irreplaceable ... except, once in a lifetime, there's a project so special it touches even these worldly veterans.

Maybe that's why the workmen erecting the scaffolding around the Statue of Liberty last summer astonished onlookers by having a race- to see who would be first up the scaffolding to give the lady a kiss.

Richard Seth Hayden, a 1960 graduate of SU's School of Architecture, loves to tell that story as just one example of the remarkable atmosphere of good will surrounding the project to save and restore the historic statue. And he should know. His firm, Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, bears ultimate responsibility for the success of the restoration.

Because the Statue of Liberty is a national symbol of almost unparalleled popularity-and because the extensive renovation will close it to the public for more than two years-the project has attracted an uncommon amount of attention .

The closing of the statue and the removal of the torch last July 4 was a major network news story.

Members of the French-American Committee of architects and engineers-including Richard Hayden- have appeared on dozens of talk shows.

There have been lengthy articles in many national magazines, including American Heritage (June/ July 1984), Discover (July 1984), Geo (July 1984), Smithsonian (July 1984), and , of course, all the weekly news magazines.

Further interest has been spurred by the vigorous nationwide appeal for funds to restore both Liberty and Ellis Island, the original disembarkation point of most immigrants. Led by Chrysler chief Lee A. Iacocca, the $230-million drive mirrors the grass roots campaigns of a hundred years ago that raised money first in France for Liberty's construction, and then in the U.S. for her pedestal and installation .

With such close public scrutiny of every step, Hayden is well aware of the stakes. But he also

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points out that his firm is not tackling the project alone. There's the French-American Committee for Restoration of the Statue of Liberty. There's the National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior, which actually "owns" the statue.

And there are engineer advisors and associate consultants on both sides of the Atlantic. All of them have opinions and all offer advice. But on the bottom line it's Hayden, as chief architect, who takes responsibility for the project- whether it stands or, so to speak, falls.

Richard Hayden isn't fazed by that kind of responsibility. After all , his Park Avenue architectural firm usually has 70 or 80 projects going on at one time. They include everything from new highrise buildings such as Manhattan's Trump Tower to some of the nation's most visible restorations: the U.S. Capitol, Senate chambers, and Supreme Court chambers in Washington; and the University Club and the original Bowery Bank in New York City. In large part, it was because of these successes that Swanke Hayden Connell Architects were invited to join the Liberty team.

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he Statue of Liberty was a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States. She has stood in New York City's harbor for 98 years, a symbol of freedom and hope, and for millions, embodying America's promise to weary and desperate immigrants. She is the one unmistakable image of America, a totem so unique that even a glimpse of her crown would identify this place to lost travelers.

But Liberty is a victim of time. Her creator, French sculptor Fn~deric Auguste Bartholdi, thought she would last forever, but he didn't foresee the toll that water seepage, the salty environLike his workmen before him, architect Richard Hayden spends a moment scanning the eastern horizon from a unique perspective: eye-level, Statue of Liberty style. Hayden's New York City architectural firm heads the current Liberty restoration project.

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"The statue was never designed for visitors. The stairs and ventilation system were built for two people going up and down to change the lightbulbs."

A Symbol Is Born The Statue of Liberty is so American, it's hard to remember she was born in France.

First proposed in 1865 to honor America's fight for freedom, the idea for the statue was adopted by sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, an admirer of Egypt's colossal statues.

He visited the U.S. in 1871 and found the perfect site: New York harbor. An early illustration (opposite, top right) erroneously placed the statue facing out to sea.

Bartholdi 's fourjoot-tall model was enlarged several times to full size (opposite, top left). Each time, up to 9,000 measurements were made to proportionately increase the statue's dimensions.

Workers then constructed large wooden forms exactly following Liberty's contours, laid copper sheets into them, and hammered the metal into the proper shape (opposite, bottom right).

To support the heroic lady, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel designed an iron skeleton that would allow the statue to expand and contract with changes in temperature and to withstand the violent gales of the Atlantic. Once disassembled and sent to the U.S. , she was carefully reassembled (opposite, bottom left) and placed on a pedestal designed by Richard Morris Hunt.

Money for the base was raised by a public appeal led by newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer.

He also published Emma Lazarus' famous poem, which would forever express the meaning of Liberty: Give me your tired, your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tost to me, /lift my lamp beside the golden door.

ment, pollution, the winds of New York's harbor, and millions of visitors would take on his creation. " When I first walked into the statue," Hayden remembers, "it seemed so incredibly complex it was frightening-and I've been in this business 20 years. But after a year of involvement, it's become simple. After all, it's an open structurethere's no hiding the problems."

Fortunately for its admirers, few of those problems affect Liberty's exterior. Her outer skin, consisting of 300 individually formed copper plates only 3/32" thick, will be repaired and cleaned, with only the worst ones replaced. The 20,000 new rivets needed for the job will be treated to match the statue's distinctive color. " When we're finished," Hayden says reassuringly, "she will look the same."

The torch and flame are another matter. As the most exposed and vulnerable parts of the statue, they are in critical condition.

Bartholdi originally designed a solid flame, but in 1916 windows were cut in it so that inside lights would shine out. Unfortunately, the new glass inserts were never watertight, and for years water has leaked into the body of the torch and arm, corroding the iron supports.

Last July workmen cautiously lifted off the upper half of the torch and flame and moved them to a small building on the island. There the public is invited to watch craftsmen create a new solid flame, without windows, which will then be goldplated to gleam under both sunlight and new nighttime lighting.

The statue's more serious problems are the result of the deterioration of its interior structure, and they are the ones Hayden and his team have found the most challenging.

When Bartholdi designed the statue he named "Liberty Enlightening the World" (using his mother as model for the stern face), he created a lady of epic dimensions. She stands 151 feet tall and weighs 100 tons. Her face is 10 feet wide and her waist an ample 35 feet around. Her index finger alone is 8 feet long.

To support her, Bartholdi called upon the noted structural engineer and bridge builder, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (yes, the same one). Eiffel created an ingenious iron skeleton that Hayden likens to the hoops used by dressmakers.

"It's a system of vertical and horizontal ribs," he explains, "none of which is directly bolted to the thin copper skin. Instead, the ribs pass through U-shaped fittings called saddles, which allow for the different expansion rates of the copper skin and the iron skeleton. But they no longer

work, and about one-third of the saddles and their rivets have pulled loose from the copper skin, leaving holes."

Other structural problems stem from the statue's installation. Although her various parts fit perfectly when she was first assembled in Paris in 1884, something went awry during her disassembly and shipment to New York. When workmen reassembled the statue, they had to make adjustments and drill new rivet holes, leaving the original holes open to the weather. The result has been corrosion of many supports and an overall weakening of the structure.

Despite its problems and its gradual deterioration, Hayden admires the design of the support system. "Conceptually it's brilliant. We would not do anything different today, except use more durable materials. We'll replace the entire rib cage with stainless steel." H@ smiles. "That's what you bring to a restoration- technical ability and a sensitivity to what's already there."

Making and installing the new stainless steel skeleton will be incredibly complex, according to Hayden . " The original workmen had wooden molds to follow," he explains, "but we don't. So we have to go up there and take a shape off every one of them, make them , and put them back one at a time."

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n addition to treating Liberty's structural woes, Hayden is making changes that will affect every one of the two million tourists who visit the statue each year.

Liberty had never been a pleasant place for crowds, with as much as a 45-minute wait for the elevator to the top of the pedestal, internal temperatures sometimes reaching 120 degrees, and high carbon dioxide levels. " Remember," Hayden points out, "the statue was never designed for visitors- it was planned as a lighthouse. The stairs and ventilation system were built for two people going up and down to change the lightbulbs."

To make it more suitable for visitors, Liberty will undergo some extensive renovations. A new glass-fronted double-decker elevator in the base will permit visitors to enter the statue on one level and leave on another, reducing traffic jams; and a new viewing level will be created in the base for those who want to see the interior without climbing the stairs. Both changes will help make the monument accessible to the handicapped for the first time in its history.

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((One of the wonderful things about an architect's basic education is that morality and sensitivity to the human race are somehow built in." against it. Without fail, people who write to the Parks Department talk about climbing those stairs-30 years later, that's what they remember."

In order to make those memories more pleasant, Hayden plans to add new resting platforms, as well as more places to cross over and go down, for those who change their minds about the climb. In addition, the ventilation system will be overhauled and new graphics systems will direct visitors throughout the statue.

Perhaps the most striking change will be that visitors will be able to see the newly cleaned interior of the statue, hidden for years by prisonlike wire mesh encasing the stairways. "We'll remove the screens," Hayden says, "and direct new lights out into those magnificent interior spaces."

He also plans changes in Liberty's exterior lighting. "After spending several nights out there," he explains, "we decided to ring the island with blue lighting to give definition to the statue.

We'll put in a graded wash of lighting with the lights increasing in brilliance as they rise, and that will emphasize her verticality. Liberty deserves the kind of lighting you give a sculpture."

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eeting Richard Hayden leaves you confident that Liberty has found a stalwart protector. This man is solid; he radiates a quiet assurance, which probably comes from always having had his sights set firmly on what he wanted to do. Growing up in Hoosick Falls in New York state's capital district, Hayden learned a great deal from his civil engineer/land surveyor father, and knew then that he wanted to be an architect.

He arrived at Syracuse University smack in the middle of a turbulent period of architectural change, when the Beaux Arts system of design was being swept away in favor of the more functionalist International Style. The emphasis had shifted to eliminating all needless ornament in favor of expressing the structural elements of buildings.

"When Kenneth Sargent became dean in 1958," Hayden recalls, "he brought the School of Architecture forward into the new thinking of the period. In retrospect, I see it was a time of turmoil in design, but Dean Sargent had a sure hand and was a real inspiration to his students."

His years at SU were frantically full, as they are for every architecture student. Nevertheless, Hayden found time to enjoy the campus, join a fraternity, and develop a great loyalty to the University-as well as learn his profession.

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"College is the time you concentrate on design," he says, "but it's also when you learn a philosophy-and without it you're lost. One of the wonderful things about an architect's basic education is that morality and sensitivity to the human race are somehow built in-I don't quite know how," he muses.

After he graduated from Syracuse, Hayden spent a year and a half working for Sargent's architectural firm in Syracuse, but the itch to get to New York City was irresistible.

He took the plunge in 1962 and immediately landed a design job with the office of Alfred Easton Poor, the forerunner of Swanke Hayden Connell. Hayden himself has obviously done well, and is now a managing partner of the 360-employee firm, which has branch offices in Washington and Chicago.

He modestly credits his personal success to being a team player. " I love to work with people, to draw the best out of them," he says. "In a large firm, you must have those qualities. The whole idea is to trust people and give them the opportunity to show their best."

Some knowledge of finance and planning isn't a bad idea either, and Hayden credits partner Albert Swanke with teaching him about the business aspects of architecture. He also describes his relationship with partner Ed Connell as ideal, with Hayden serving as "Mr. Outside" in a classic inside-outside partnership.

In this role, Hayden is not only responsible for new market development, but for the firm's overall architectural design direction and long-range planning. That requires a dozen trips abroad every year, and a killing daily schedule in New York that may find him at the statue at 7 a.m., at two consecutive breakfast meetings, on the telephone for hours integrating project teams, reviewing designs, attending a board meeting at night, and back to Liberty at midnight to check her lighting.

He thrives on it, and at 47 is trim and vigorous.

Although well-dressed, he wears his clothes casually, and in the world of impeccably tailored executives in which he moves, that's as much a personal statement as his unexpected black beard.

Hayden moves quickly- probably because he's often late. But once he's there, you have his undivided attention. He has the top flight administrator's ability to keep a firm grasp on the details without losing sight of the big picture. There's obviously nothing in his profession he hasn't mastered himself; he's as comfortable articulating philosophical goals as he is fixing the slide projector.

Finding Solutions "When we're finished, the Statue of Liberty will last 1,000 years," proclaims Richard Hayden.

To make sure that happens, Hayden s firm is making dozens of changes that affect the lady from top to bottom and from inside out.

Just getting staned was quite a challenge, since none of Libertys original drawings existed.

The first step was taking painstaking measurements and feeding them into the firms computers to get needed data and a clear computer representation of Liberty's spaces (jar right, bottom). The firm also built a detailed model of the statue and pedestal (right) .

In the statue itself, the torch is being rebuilt, the right shoulder replaced, the viewing platform in the crown repaired, and the entire structural framework reconstructed. The helical staircase, which spirals up the core of the statue from base to crown, is also being refurbished, and seven coats ofpaint are being removed from the interior surfaces.

Even greater changes have been planned for the interior of the base, which has been redesigned to provide greater comfon for visitors (jar right, top). Besides a new double decker elevator, new stairs will provide separate up/down circulation. Several new viewing levels are being established, including a colonnade level accessible to the handicapped and a new mezzanine view of Libertys internal structure. A museum is being established in the base, and new lighting will illuminate the statue inside and out.

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Changing the Face of New York Seventy-eight years ago, the architectural firm ofAlfred Easton Poor was responsible for creating the look of Long Island's Gold Coast by designing many of its famous mansions.

Today the descendant of that firm, Swanke Hayden Connell Architects, is just as influential in creating the look of New llirk City. They're constructing highrises, restoring valuable old buildings, and redesigning interiors for a client list that reads like a Whos Who of corporate leaders.

One of their most innovative buildings is the Continental Center in lower Manhattan (below). In order to make the most of a cramped 1.07-acre site, the architects used an octagonal form and rotated the building a critical 45 degrees to pull it away from its neighbors. Its

blue-green glass sides rise from a cathedral-like greenhouse space that serves as an indoor public plaza.

The atrium of Trump Tower (right) on Fifth Avenue includes a spectacular waterfall made up of 1,000 pieces of marble, no two of which are alike. The towers sawtooth design (jar right, top) provides tenants with unparalleled views.

For Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Hayden s firm created the interiors for two floors of executive dining facilities plus a corporate cafeteria. They also designed private anterooms for the chairman (right, below) and other executives, featuring deep colors and rich backgrounds.

Careful research preceded the restoration of New Yorks original Bowery Bank (jar right, below) to its remembered old world elegance.

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((Now there's an attitude that the old is worth saving. I'm happy to be a part of this period-it's a wonderful time in the urban centers."

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ayden describes his firm's work as being divided into three different areas : new highrise buildings, restorations, and interiors. "We usually have 70 or 80 projects going on at one time," he explains. " Some are as small as a 12,000-square-foot law office interior, and others are $100-million office buildings."

Each type of work plays its role in the firm's business, Hayden says, and each has its personal appeal. Apart from such unique projects as the Statue of Liberty, however, it is the highrise buildings that are the most visible and the most exciting.

Four of Swanke Hayden Connell's recent buildings have made significant additions to the New York City skyline. The Continental Illinois Center on Madison Avenue, Seaport Plaza in the historic South Street Seaport district, and the Continental Center near the financial district all make distinctive design statements. But probably the best known among the firm's new buildings is the breathtaking Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, the most revolutionary highrise constructed in New York in the last 50 years. A multi-use building, it combines 6 floors of retail shops, 13 floors of office space, and 38 floors of residential condominiums.

At 664 feet in height, Trump Tower is Manhattan's tallest concrete structure, and at $150 million one of its more expensive. Its exterior is sheathed with reflective bronze glass and features a distinctive sawtooth shape that provides almost every apartment views in two directions. Inside is a stunning seven-story atrium that houses 50 of the world's most elegant shops, along with an 80foot-high marble-backed waterfall.

Trump Tower exemplifies a new shift in architecture, one Hayden calls as revolutionary as the changes that took place while he was an architecture student at SU. " Today there's a need to put personality back into design, along with a sense of ornament and color. You see it in many things, not only architecture: fabrics, women's clothes, industrial design products. This Post Modernism in architecture is a radical departure from the International Style.

"Architecture is always changing, always different ," he points out. "It's a response to what's happening to people. Of coure it's the visual image of the technical ability of the time, but it's also the social image of people of the time."

Hayden feels this longing for more embellishment also accounts for the increasing amount of restoration work in his profession.

"In the 1950s and 1960s it was 'tear it down and build a new one.' But now there's a heightened awareness of our heritage and of the quality of the buildings that already exist. There's also the attitude that the old is worth saving. I'm happy to be part of this period-it's a wonderful time in the urban centers.''

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onsidering Richard Hayden's convictions about architecture and restoration, nothing could be more personally satisfying than the Statue of Liberty project. For Hayden and his team of designers, engineers, and craftspeople, working on her is more than privilege; it is a sacred trust. They are determined to contribute that extra effort that will restore the lady's beauty in time to celebrate her lOOth birthday in 1986.

"Whatever the problems-and they are monumental, because of the nature of the project- they are offset by the dedication of the people involved," Hayden says. "Everyone has an incredible sense of devotion and of patriotism. For them, Liberty represents what's good about this country.

"Of course it's an awesome responsibility. But it's not just another job," he smiles. " It's the experience of a lifetime."

As she has done for 98 years, Lady Liberty watches over another late afternoon in the New York harbor. With a little help, she'll watch over many more.

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by J. Alan Robinson

ne of the more helpful, not to say profound, graffiti I have seen recently said: "If you aren't completely confused by now, then you still haven't grasped the problem."

Given the state of my mind at the time, I found this most encouraging.

All of us who are members of Syracuse University are responding to the same fundamental urge. Each of us is here to work on some part of what is known. We are aware of an enormous heritage, accumulated over dozens of generations of human-kind, which is accessible in and through a university ; we call it "knowledge." Each of us wants a share of it to use and to enjoy for a lifetime. Some of us hope to add to it in some way by research or to help to preserve and disseminate it by teaching, or both.

By "knowledge" I mean not just factual, scientific knowledge, but also the scholarly knowledge of the humanist and the skill of the performing artist; the dex-

J. Alan Robinson is SU's only University Professor, as well as the

research director of the Syracuse Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering (CASE Center). The first title, conferred by SU trustees last December, recognizes the breadth of Robinson's scholarship: Once a student of the classics, then a professor ofphilosophy, Robinson is now internationally known for his work in computer programming.

terous wisdom of the surgeon and the verbal precision of the lawyer; anything which can be made the subject of serious academic study.

There is so much to know; but we are so limited by our short lives, and our small slow brains, and by all the distractions and fripperies intrinsic to ordinary human existence, that no one person can hope to assimilate more than a minuscule fraction of what is already known.

It was not always so. There was a time when a single human being might aspire to know personally the whole of extant knowledge. Aristotle certainly thought he knew everything worth knowing, 22 centuries ago. Perhaps Leonardo da Vinci came as close as anyone has in the past thousand years. As late as the end of the 19th century, an Oxford wit could write, twitting the Master of Balliol College Benjamin Jowett: First come I; my name is Jowett, There's no knowledge but I know it.

I am the Master of this College: What I don't know isn't knowledge.

But Dr. Jowett only thought he knew everything, or at any rate that his classical training would make it easy for him to become an expert on anything in no more than a fortnight. In 1890 there was already far too much for even Dr. Jowett to know more than just a little bit of it.

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We are on the brink of major advances in understanding what knowledge is and how it works. disparity between how much there is to know and how little of it each one of us will ever know, can seem like a rather cruel joke. university is a glorious response to the human "need to know" in light of the feeble capacity of any one individual to do much alone. In some higher sense, a university does indeed know everything that is known and is worth knowing. A good university library contains, or at least can provide access to, almost everything that has ever been seriously written down. A university faculty is a sort of living library. Every scholar and scientist, every artist and performer, is a repository of some particular human-sized module of knowledge, an example of what can be learned in one dedicated life span.

Every graduate student has taken the first steps along this road. There is no more honorable or exciting or satisfying way to spend a life.

A university in its own way excites the same kind of awe, the same sort of wonder, as does the universe itself.

And so it should; the university is an instrument which has evolved in response to our need to know. Its function is to store, organize, and display all the knowledge that there is; to maintain, so to speak, an up-to-date model of all of reality, a model which is continually expanding and improving as new knowledge is incorporated into it.

In this higher, institutional sense, knowledge is one, single whole. Just as the universe is by definition the whole of reality- everything that there is-so mankind's entire knowledge, viewed collectively rather than from wherever each of us individually happens to have taken a stand, is a unity.

As knowledge advances, its unity and coherence become more evident. Indeed, many of the major improvements in our knowledge actually consist of unifications. Our model of reality gets better by becoming simpler. Albert Einstein once said that in physics one must strive to make one's theories "as simple as possible, but no simpler." It is beginning to seem that instead of there being, as Shakespeare wrote, "more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy," there may after all be fewer.

Some of those responsible for such simplifications in our own time have been among the recent distinguished visitors to the Syracuse campus.

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The physicist Sheldon Glashow last year told us of the "grand unification" of three of the four fundamental forces in nature, of the new view of matter and energy, and of the life and extent of the cosmos, which is provided by the resulting simple, elegant, scheme of elementary particles and their various interactions.

The linguist N oam Chomsky was on campus not long ago to tell us his idea of how the brain of each new developing human is programmed to learn whatever natural language surrounds it in its first years. This idea enormously simplifies our model of language and how it works, and gives us hope that one day we may be able to mimic the whole process in artifacts such as the computer.

The neurophysiologist Thorstein Wiesel last year lectured at Syracuse about the amazingly regular structures grown in the part of the brain devoted to managing the vision process.

The ideas and discoveries continue to mount up. It is really very difficult sometimes to refrain from jumping up

Transcending Normal Boundaries On a campus with more than its share of brilliant minds, J. Alan Robinson is a particularly bright star.

Philosopher, logician, mathematician, computer scientist, he is a man whose intellectual scope cuts across traditional fields of study and defies categorization.

Robinson came to SU in 1967 as a professor of computer and information science. At that time, he had already acquired an international reputation for his invention of " resolution," a theory incorporating the principles of logic into computer programming. It was a breakthrough discovery that laid the theoretical foundation for logic programming, a system which allows computers to perform deductive reasoning.

Characteristically, Robinson's achievement in computer science came in a field he had not in-

tended to study. A philosophy major at Cambridge, he originally came to the United States for a doctorate in modern philosophy at Princeton University.

After completing that, he accepted a job as an operations research engineer at the E.I. duPont Company in Delaware, despite the fact that he had no formal background to prepare him. But, as he explains, it was a time of exhilarating experimentation in the field, and no one was trained for it.

At DuPont he received what amounted to a new educationin math, physics, chemistry, and engineering. He also worked with a computer for the first time and was immediately captivated.

After a brief stint at Rice University as a professor of both philosophy and computer science, he moved to Syracuse, where he had a hand in shaping SU's

Many of the major improvements in our knowledge actually consist of unifications. and down with glee as the picture becomes clearer and more beautiful.

In the past 30 years we have been learning how, for all of us, life, at least here on earth, is based on the programs stored in a common universal code as patterns in the structure of the DNA and RNA molecules.

One feels like asking, with the physicist Isador Rabi: "Who ordered this?"

The mathematicians have been for centuries, but ever more rapidly in recent times, finding deep regularities and common, unifying abstractions within the bewildering variety of symbolic-structures and processes in their domain. Mathematicians are par excellence the ones among us who seek to organize what they know in a few simple axioms and definitions from which everything else can be deduced.

The chemists have today arrived at a virtually complete theoretical understanding of their world of molecular structures and reactions. Given enough computing power and time, they could deduce from the basic equations of

University Professor J. Alan Robinson is among America's pioneers in logic programming research.

School of Computer and Information Science.

Robinson's work was a critical factor in SU's selection as the site for the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering (CASE

Center). Robinson now serves as the center's research director.

Robinson has also been appointed "University Professor," the first SU faculty member so designated. In recognition of the fact that his work transcends the normal boundaries of academic disciplines, he will not be tied to any one department. Robinson now serves as a resource for the entire University.

Today Robinson continues his efforts to develop a computer that thinks like a human. It is a goal he shares with researchers all over the world , particularly the Japanese, who have launched a massive program to build the " Fifth Generation" of computers: those with artificial intelligence. And Robinson may just pull it off; he is a man local IBM officials call " in a class by himself in logic programmingin the top 10 in the world ."

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quantum electrodynamics all of the properties observed in the laboratory.

And, yes, the computer. hat a difference the computer has already made in our ability to pursue the consequences of what we know! Not only in technology and the sciences: The scholar, the writer, the musician, the lawyer, the designer, all have felt the simplifying power of this universal instrument.

The drudgery of searching literary texts for occurrences of a given word or phrase; the repeated rewriting and revising of an essay or a book; the frequent redrawing of a design after making changes; there are now things which the individual can more and more relegate to the computer.

By providing us with such enhancements of our capabilities, the computer liberates rather than threatens.

This magnificent device can in these simple ways expand our creativity because of a powerful unifying idea, the idea that symbols and symbolic structures of all kinds can be represented and manipulated as patterns of electronic activity.

The computer is more than simply a tireless, lightningfast literary assistant. It is a marvelously flexible and penetrating general-purpose instrument for investigating a world of symbolic phenomena which previously were beyond the range of observation. In this respect it should be compared to the telescope and the microscope.

It is also, at least in embryo, a model of that part of ourselves which deals with information and indeed knowledge. We are now beginning to see how we can represent knowledge- at least some kinds of it-inside a computer by writing programs of a special kind. The practical benefits of this so-called "artificial intelligence" have been noted widely, but these may pale by comparison with the possible benefits to our understanding of our own nature. Our ability to know is perhaps our most essential characteristic and at present the least well understood. We are now, some people think, on the brink of major advances in understanding what knowledge is and how it works.

This may mean that we can at last make real progress in carrying out the command which is said to have been inscribed over the portal of the Delphic oracle in ancient Greece: " Know Thyself."

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AShow of Strength The reputation of SU's School of Architecture is now on exhibit.

by Alix Mitchell With just 450 students and 28 faculty members, the School of Architecture 路is one of SU's smallest schools. But its national reputation defies its size.

Despite the fact that the school is also one of SU's newest-formed in 1945-instruction in architecture has a long history at Syracuse. In fact, what later became the school began as a department within the College of Fine Arts in 1873, just three years after the University's founding.

Over the last several years, the school has improved upon its distinguished tradition by strengthening its design emphasis, integrating the teaching of visiting architects into the program, and establishing an advisory committee of leading architects to monitor the program.

In order to publicize the school and its revitalized programs, Dean Werner Seligmann, who joined the school in 1976, has plunged the school into new activities.

He and his faculty now organize exhibitions and competitions that spotlight their students and alumni. Seligmann also encourages his faculty to take on architectural projects and exhibit their work.

In addition, the school has begun a series of exhibitions of the works of famous architects, based on an impressive collection of architectural papers and drawings from SU's George Arents Research Library.

"When I came here," Seligmann says, "I wanted to distinguish the school from the other 90 or so in the country."

Part of what distinguishes the school is its strengthened design program. Fully half of its undergraduate courses are now devoted to design.

The teachings of visiting critics adds extra insights to the courses.

Over one hundred visiting lecturers have taught at the school in the last eight years, including Swiss architects Mario Campi, Ernst Studer, and Fabio Reinhart, and Spanish

architect Zavier Ballosillo.

Other visiting critics come to teach week-long segments that make up semester-long senior seminars on selected topics.

Fourth-year students also have an opportunity to study architectural design first-hand. Through the school's Florence and Summer Abroad programs, they visit and analyze great European buildings that are landmarks in the history of architecture.

To monitor the effectiveness of these programs, the school relies on the insights of its advisory committee. The committee members include Bruce Fowle '60, of the wellknown New York City high-rise architecture firm Fox & Fowle Architects, James Garrison '79, an associate of James Stewart Polshek and Associates, Mark de Shong '75, a young, up-and-coming Philadelphia architect, James Freed, of I. M. Pei and Partners, and Raul de Armas, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

The committee meets twice a year, according to Seligmann, to review the school's requirements and goals.

"They look at the work we do," says Assistant Professor Christopher Gray, "and give their opinions of how consistent and valid it is. In addition to the accreditation process we go through, this helps us monitor what we do."

The school has become confident enough in what it does that it now organizes student competitions that showcase the skills of its students.

One such competition, held for the first time last year, is the Soling Architecture Student Design Competition. Sponsored by SU Trustee Chester Soling '54 and organized by Randall Korman, head of the graduate architecture program, the competition called for student teams from SU and seven other schools to create a multi-use high-rise in Manhattan's theater district. The building had to conform to 1982 building codes, under

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..........., Dean 禄i'!rner Seligmann (above) augments the School of Architecture's strong reputation by sending into America faculty-assembled design exhibitions. Current examples include work by William Lescaze (opposite, above left) and Ralph Walker (jar right). At the same time, faculty designs receive similar attention: Simon Ungers proposed this Pan Am Building sphere (near right). which no such structure had yet been built.

The SU team of Peter Wiederspahn and Richard A. Cook walked off with the first-place award, beating out teams from Harvard and Yale.

The impact of the Soling Competition, however, did not end with the judging. Several entries were featured in the spring 1983 issue of Architectural Record; and, according to Korman, a chapter on the competition will be included in a forthcoming book by Ada Louise Huxtable, former architectural critic for The New York Times.

In addition to highlighting student skills, Seligmann is currently organizing an exhibition of the work of alumni who graduated within the past 10 years. The exhibition will open at SU's Lubin House in New York City on Dec. 3, then come to Syracuse, and later travel to alumni clubs across the country.

Work by faculty members also gets its share of attention . The school has held faculty exhibitions and competitions, but, says Seligmann, it also encourages faculty to

work on "select projects" and to promote their own work.

Assistant Professor Simon Ungers' firm, UKZ Architects, recently organized an exhibition of its work, which opened at the Facade Gallery in New York City in September, before beginning a national tour.

U ngers also received national attention last year when he designed a glass sphere that would float atop the Pan American Building. The proposal won an architectural design citation from Progressive Architecture and was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art this past spring. Prepared for developer Adrian Sabo, the sphere could house a nightclub, casino, and small theater or broadcasting center.

In addition to supporting faculty work and promoting the talents of its students and alumni, the school has taken on yet another new project: It is putting the impressive architectural holdings ofthe George Arents Research Library on public display by organizing a series of exhibitions that will tour nationally.

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The first of this series features the work of William Lescaze, the visionary architect of the 1920s and 1930s. Lescaze was a leading figure among modernist architects called New Pioneers.

The Lescaze exhibition, "The Rise of Modern Design in America," is based on the A rents Library's holdings of his personal archive.

The exhibition includes photos and drawings of his work, and models of his buildings, constructed by SU architecture students.

According to Christopher Gray, project director of the exhibition, the Lescaze show focuses on architects' current interest in the origins and demise of the modernist movement.

To address this interest, a symposium was held by the school in February, when the exhibition opened at the Everson Museum in Syracuse. Then in June, a presentation and discussion were held at the National Academy of Design in New York, when the exhibition opened there. A third seminar was held at the Philadelphia College of Art when the exhibition moved there this fall.

The school's second exhibition of influential architects, presented this summer, showed the work of New Traditionalist Ralph Walker, a contemporary of Lescaze who took a much more conservative approach to design.

As with the Lescaze exhibition,

the Walker exhibition was drawn from his personal papers and drawings in the Arents Library.

The exhibition, displayed at Lubin House from June through August, featured design studies of Walker's most famous buildings, including the Barclay-Vesey Telephone building in New York City.

The school will next be turning its attention to the remarkable A rents collection of Marcel Breuer's papers and photographs.

Breuer, like Lescaze, was a leading figure of the New Pioneer movement. The A rents collection spans the years 1934-1953, and contains the surviving Breuer drawings, correspondence, and photographs prior to 1951.

The school is planning to launch a Breuer exhibition in 1987, marking the 50th anniversary ofBreuer's immigration to the states.

Exhibitions such as these help keep the school's name in the public eye, and that is certainly one motive for organizing them, according to Seligmann. Butthey are also one expression of what Korman calls the faculty's "passion for Architecture with a capital A." All that the school does- from its intensive design program to its competitions and exhibitionsreflects this passion.

As Seligmann says, "We're determined to deliver something more than merely an ordinary education."

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Importance of Trivia Like millions of others, two former SU students caught Trivial Pursuit fever as it swept across the country.

But while the rest of the trivia game's loyal players grappled with one nagging side-effect of their disease-the desire to find out more about topics than the succinct answers provided-Erick Frankel '79 and Lisa Merkin (who attended SU for two years) came up with a cure.

They wrote Trivial Conquest.

Published by Avon this summer, the 592-page book contains background information on all of the 6,000 Trivial Pursuit questions. " We were avid players of the game," Frankel recalls, " but we were constantly frustrated by the game's short answers. We were curious to know more. If we answered the question 'What was the fourth country to have the atom bomb?,' we'd wonder who were the first three.

"That curiosity, and the feeling that some of the answers may be wrong, made us keep saying, 'I wish we had a book to look this stuff up in.' Finally we said, 'let's do it ourselves.' " Frankel is now a director of publicity for an entertainment company, and Merkin a computer systems analyst. Both were novices to the publishing field. With the brash optimism of true novices, though, they started at the top walking into the William Morris Agency. Their idea sold.

It took more than two dozen people to research, write, edit, type, and proofread the book. Some of the contributors were also SU alumni, including MarkJ. Greenberg '53, and Edward Bleier '51, both of Warner Communications; Mike Greenstein '70, an instructor at SU; Kihm Winship '68, a senior copywriter at SilvermanMower advertising agency; and Roland Sweet '84, editor of the Syracuse New Times.

The researchers unearthed some 100 inaccuracies in the game's answers, according to Frankel. These

Former SU students Erick Frankel and Lisa Merkin have written Trivial Conquest, encyclopedic companion-piece to Trivial Pursuit. ranged from typographical errors to errors of fact.

As one of the researchers, Sweet recalls what it was like to become a Trivial Pursuit expert. He worked on the project from mid-February to mid-July. " We delved into our hastily assembled 328-volume reference library. Three weeks later, we moved downtown to the public library's reference room. A week after that, we were at the Syracuse University library. All these resources got us barely one-fourth done. It's hard finding sources for things like, 'Who was cremated on the marge of Lake Lebarge?' " Despite the sometimes dogged , frustrating pace of progress, the book was completed in record time.

The first manuscript in Avon's history to be delivered on computer disc, the book was published two months earlier than planned.

SU at the Olympics SU's talent for turning out both sports professionals and sports journalists landed four alumniLeo Rautins '83, Thomas Darling '81, Robert H. Brown '63, and Stephen C. Gladstone '64- in the most prestigious sports arena of all this year: the Olympics.

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Rautins, it was a chance to reach new heights-not on the court, but in the booth .

His first on-the-air experience was as color commentator during Olympic basketball games televised by the Canadian Broadcasting Co.; it was his Newhouse School education and basketball experience that got him there.

After being the interviewee for so long himself, this professional basketball player was empathetic to the Olympic players he interviewed.

"You lose a game and some reporters come up to you as if nothing happened, with no respect as to how you feel ," he recalls. "When I approach athletes, I respect the fact that they have lost a game and try not to be very pushy."

Of his Olympic experience, Rautins says, "I really enjoyed it. Using my first cr.ack to do the Olympics was pretty exciting."

While for Rautins the Olympic experience was a chance to try something new, for Darling it was a second chance to attain the gold in rowing.

While Darling was a freshman, his boat won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association eight-oared event. From 1979-81, he made the four-boat of the U.S. Rowing National Team and pulled for a shot at

the 1980 Olympic gold. The U.S. boycott broke his hopes.

Darling took 1982 off; the following year, he and former 1980 national team members started training again for the eight-boat event.

In 1983-84, the national crew finished seventh in the World Championships (New Zealand was the champion) ; rousted Canada in the second day of the Lucern Championship in the eight-oared event, setting a course record; and became the European Rowing Champions.

The Olympic gold appeared closer than ever.

At the Olympics, on California's Lake Casita, however, Canada took off with a roar, leaving Darling's boat in last place. They rallied quickly and blasted past New Zealand, but Canada grabbed the gold, beating Darling's boat by fourtenths of a second.

"Going into the race, I knew we would win. I was angry at not getting the gold, but I didn't want to mope on the grandstand ."

Looking back, Darling's not bitter. " It was tremendous how much people were behind us. People were yelling 'U.S.A.! U.S.A.! ,' cheering us on. Afterwards, I got a lot of phone calls. It was the most satisfying thing to find I'd had 15 Syracuse friends yelling at the TV. I didn't realize what an effect it was having on the country."

Like Darling, Brown, senior editor for Sports Illustrated, had trained for years for the Olympics.

But at the real thing-a grueling marathon of coordinating Olympic track-and-field event coveragethere were no spectators to cheer him on.

"It was an incredible amount of work," Brown says. "There were an awful lot of events spread out over 125 miles, and we were working on a strict schedule, with essentially one-quarter to one-third of our normal staff. It was kind of tough."

But Brown and his staff did have one advantage: the respect and trust of the Olympic athletes. "We'd covered them for years at Sports Illustrated. They could trust us to be fair," Brown says. The result was a

Teacher of the Year

Jonathan Freedman is University College's top teacher, 1984. series of stories full of anecdotes detailing the emotions of victory and loss.

In between the hurly-burly of covering the Olympics, one groggy morning Brown heard a familiar voice on the radio. It was the voice of Gladstone, a former SU rower, to whom Brown had served dinner when the crew ate at Brown's fraternity, Delta Upsilon.

Gladstone had breezed into a one-week job Brown might have envied for its ease.

With 17 years of coaching experience behind him and as rowing director at Brown University, Gladstone landed the ABC commentator sport for the rowing events.

A mere two-day training program in Hollywood familiarized him with the equipment. When the big week came, it was a breeze.

"I felt completely confident with my knowledge of the subject," Gladstone says. "I wasn't thinking about all the people who would be watching. It was more like talking to a friend next to me."

The only low point for Gladstone was watching Darling's eight-boat miss the gold. " I had coached Darling in one of his World Championship competitions," says Gladstone "and I knew six others of the crew.

I was disappointed."

Broadcasting wasn't completely unfamiliar to Gladstone: His father, Henry Gladstone, has done a radio news program on WOR in New York City that enjoyed the most listeners in the country for 20 years.

"On an unconscious level, I think I might have done the Olympics to please my father," says the younger Gladstone. Please him it did, reports Gladstone happily: "He taped the whole thing."

If you had walked into Jonathon Freedman's sociology class at University College last semester, you might have thought you'd landed in a group of overgrown kindergartners.

Freedman had his entire class of adult students making paper airplanes.

The idea, he says, was to teach them the difference between craft and assembly-line work.

The inspirational assignment was only one of several unusual teaching approaches that helped earn Freedman UC's teacher ofthe year award.

To teach well, Freedman says, teachers must involve students. He does exactly that by arranging for his sociology students to ride in police patrol cars, attend court sessions, and visit jails.

"After a long day at work," he says, "adult students don't like to be lectured at."

Little Apples On April24, 1984, Peter Quinn '73 and Apple Computers shook the computer world: They sold 50,000 Apple lie computers on the same day they introduced the model at a convention in San Francisco.

"We made computer history. It is the largest selling computer in the history of computers. In the first month of its existence, the lie sold more units than any other."

Quinn was engineer director overseeing the Apple lie's creation and birth. The tiny personal computer fits into a briefcase, and is heralded by Popular Computing as the " most dramatic change in the Apple II family."

As a three-and-one-half year contributor to that family, Quinn has certainly made his mark . In his capacity as Apple lie engineer director, he was in charge of its hardware, software, product design, disc drive, manufacturing, and production.

Quinn was chosen for the job after working on the Apple lie, an enhanced version of the Apple II. It took two years for him to complete the Apple Ilc project.

"This was more involved [than the Apple Ile]. It was the biggest thing I've worked on to date," says Quinn.

What's next for him? ''I'm going to go on vacation."

Ken Bowen and Mike Riposo (top left and right) are making computers part of the junior high curriculum in Syracuse.

Computer Kids Michael Riposo and Kenneth Bowen prove that good things still happe n when neighbors get together.

Bowen, an SU professor of computer and information science, teaches and does research in logic programming. On weekends, he sometimes dabbles in less traditional applications- allowing his children and their friends to test their ingenuity on state-of-the-art programming languages.

Riposo is a 1966 SU alumnus who teaches science and math at Clary Middle School in Syracuse.

When he learned that his own daughter was taking part in Bowen's extracurricular research, Riposo took more than a passing interestand SCHOOL PROLOG was born.

Using logic programming, Bowen created a language that greatly

simplifies computer use for beginners. Riposo used that language for a Clary School pilot project intended to familiarize every one of the school's 665 students with computers.

"Every student has gotton to the point of sitting down with a problem and solving it with the computer," Riposo says with a teacher's pride.

Seventh-graders Charles Thomas and Marcus Mueller, for example, designed a program that allows them to input a given medical problem, and the computer responds with a list of Syracuse-area physicians who treat that malady.

Based on their success at Clary school , Riposo and Bowen expect SCHOOL PROLOG to spread throughout the city school district.

And that may be only the beginning; as far as they know, there's nothing like it anywhere else in the country.

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Architecture Old and New One is an artist, one an architect.

Both are intrigued by the architectural conflict between old and new.

But each provides a unique, divergent resolution.

The artist, James Wines '55, designs haunting new structures with jagged walls that cut swaths in the sky, suggesting, in a thoroughly modern motif, ancient ruins.

The architect, S. Guy Lovelace '59, renovates old and designs new structures that re-create the architecture of long-ago eras. His work ranges from turning railroad stations into Victorian restaurants to building a casino in the Caribbean that includes both a sultan's palace and a New Orleans jazz house.

Wines, now chairman of the environmental and interior design department at Parsons School of Design in New York City, studied art and art history at SU and then worked for 15 years as an abstract sculptor in New York City. In 1970, he met experimental sculptor and poet Alison Sky and photographerwriter Michell Stone; the three formed SITE, an acronym for "sculpture in the environment." " We agreed that art and architecture had lost contact with people," Wines recently told Ttme magazine. " We looked at old buildings in Italy," he says, "and found they tell us something about life, mystery, religion. We wanted to create art that relates to its surroundings, to the people who live with it."

SITE's buildings do just that. The structures are striking, yet they blend into their environment. A Best Products Co. showroom in Richmond is built in segments, with jagged, gaping brick walls emerging from a lush, delicate forest of greenery. Another Best showroom, located near Houston, is starkly white. An avalanche of concrete spills from a gash in the top of the facade, and its rubble rests in a pile on the entrance canopy. " We have to bring art back to architecture," Wine says, "not as decoration, but as sculpture in the environment."

For Lovelace, too, the goal is to bring back art- but not, in his case, new art. Lovelace instead transports period architecture into the modern ;age.

"Whenever I see an old building torn down, it breaks my heart,"

Alumnus James Wines dreamed up the Best showroom shown above.

Architect Guy Lovelace (left) approaches "old-versus-new" quite dif ferently, reviving lush styles of the past.

Lovelace says. "Marry the old with the new, and you'll have an ideal union, since all of us living in the glittering present are products of yesteryear."

Lovelace's work is found in restaurants and hotels across the country, although he splits most of his time between his homes in Easton, Md. , and Salt Cay in the Caribbean. In Easton, he restores old hotels and houses; in the Caribbean, he designs new structures which reflect the islands' history.

Currently he is designing and building the Alhambra Casino in Aruba. Described as the " Disney World of casinos," Alhambra is scheduled to open next December and will feature a re-creation of the Casablanca restaurant, a New Orleans jazz house, a sultan's palace, a Victorian saloon, and an art deco room where big bands will perform . Craftspeople whom

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Lovelace trains produce the ornate decorations necessary to complete the period effect.

Known as "The Romantic Revival Architect," Lovelace has more than 200 restaurants, 6 hotels, 16 racetracks, 3 shopping center interiors, and scores of restoration projects behind him.

"I try to create an ambiance that will transport people's imaginations," Lovelace says. "Things have to look the way they were in another era. When you walk into a room, it should be like entering a classical painting.

"Architecture should be art," he concludes, "and I am seeking to revive the art of the splendid Romantic Age."

Sweet Seventeen Last May, Cathi Hanauer '84 made the road to success look remarkably simple: Less than a month after graduating from SU's Newhouse School , she was associate editor of Seventeen 's "Mini-Mag" section-a "magazine within the magazine."

Ironically, when Hanauer started out as a freshman at SU, she had no thoughts of a career in journalism.

Any interest she might have had was squelched during her senior year in high school, when an article she wrote was rejected by the same magazine she's working for now.

It wasn't until she took an SU

course in fiction that Hanauer began to think about a career in magazine writing. After two more semesters, she transferred into the Newhouse School and took an introductory magazine course from Associate Professor William G Iavin. That gave her a permanent case of magazine fever.

"I knew from the first day it was right for me," she says. "And I loved what Glavin said about magazines-that there was one that could fill anyone's interests."

Hanauer's enthusiasm and talent earned her an internship with Syracuse Magazine, assignments for the Daily Orange and the Kensington News (while she was studying in London) , and, eventually, a summer internship with Seventeen.

Back on campus for her senior year, Hanauer continued to do assignments for Seventeen and was asked to test for a position on the regular staff.

"I worked on that test all through finals week," Hanauer recalls. "I stayed up until five every morning.

But in the end they offered it to someone else."

Hanauer's disappointment was short-lived. First, another magazine called with a job offer; then, Seventeen was back on the phone with another offer.

"I was so confused," Hanauer says, "I didn't know which way to go." But Seventeen soon upped the ante, offering more money and the

title of associate editor.

Needless to say, Hanauer has no regrets-she hasn't had time.

Asked where she'd like to be in five years, she says, "I guess everyone's dream is to be editor-in-chief. But I know that will take longer than five years."

With Hanauer's track record, though, who knows?

Syracuse Grasslands It is an incongruous sight, Professor Samuel McNaughton in his laboratory, strolling through the grasslands of the Serengeti in his suit and tie.

But the marriage of civilization with the African wilds is at the crux of McNaughton's research.

This SU biology professor and plant ecologist is studying the grasses-both in the SU greenhouses and during African field trips-as part of an attempt to reduce the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem to an intricate web of mathematical formulae. Those formulae may help to define a grazing system here in America that is

similar to that of the SerengetiMara game reserves. Serengeti grasslands support more than 1.5 million wildebeasts, 600,000 gazelles, 250,000 zebras, 100,000 tapis, and nearly as many cape buffalo.

The success of the SerengetiMara ecosystem merits imitation.

Many of the grasses that McNaughton studies, for example, replenish themselves in a way uncommon to many grazing plants.

Some of the Tanzanian species "are not only tolerant of grazing," McNaughton says. "Their growth is actually stimulated by grazing."

For 10 years McNaughton has researched the grasslands, searching for ways to bring a similar ecosystem to America. It's not far-fetched: The Serengeti grasslands greatly resemble those which once thrived in North America, supporting millions of buffalo.

"We're trying to put together a computer model of all this data," McNaughton explains. "When we do- and if the model works- then we'll have a real tool for managing our own grazing systems."

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Mike Berger is unique among members of the SU Cricket Club: He's an American.

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Samuel McNaughton's SU-based African grasslands may one day improve the vast grazing territories ofAmerica.

Now that Berger knows more about the game, he recognizes its difficulties. ' 'At first I was just whacking at the ball," he admits.

"Now I find there's a lot of finesse involved."

Although cricket has been played informally by foreign students at SU for some 20 years, the cricket club finished its first season this fall, winning three of four matches.

Next year, they hope to play as many 1 as 10 or 12. \ Berger's enthusiasm for the game confounds his American friends. " They can't understand why I like it,'' he says. ''A lot of them think it's a little wierd."

But that is exactly what interested Mike Berger in the first place.

When Mike Berger joined the new SU cricket club last year, it was because he was looking for something completely different.

But Berger, a graduate student in the SUNY College ofEnvironmental Science and Forestry, found that he himself was the odd ball- the only American among the club's 50 members. The others hail from England, India, Pakistan, the West Indies, and Ireland- places where cricket is as popular as baseball is in Berger's homeland .

"The other members used to ask me, 'Are you from New Zealand, South Africa, or Australia?' " Bergerrecalls. "When I'd say, 'New Jersey,' it would really throw them."

Berger first learned about cricket from watching the Eng! ish comedy show, Monty Python 's Flying Circus.

"One night they started making fun of cricket," he explains. "I asked an English friend of mine about it and thought it sounded kind of interesting-different from anything else I'd done."

When Daniel M. Nosenchuck '76 was a student of mechanical and aerospace engineering, winning an Emmy was no doubt the last thing on his mind.

This fall , Nosenchuck won an Emmy for special effects in the television fLlm on nuclear war, The Day After. It was Nosenchuck who was responsible for the mushroomshaped clouds viewers saw rising after the explosion of nuclear warheads during The Day After.

He was hired as a consultant for the job while a graduate student in aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology. To simulate the mushroom clouds, Nosenchuck filmed jets of milk that were injected down into a small laboratory water tank. Inverted and superimposed onto landscape pictures, the milk images were strikingly similar to the clouds produced by nuclear explosions.

When not reproducing catastrophe, Nosenchuck is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Princeton University. He was also a recent recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation.

Nosenchuck wasn't SU's only Emmy-winner, incidentally. Bill Persky '53 won an Emmy for his direction of an episode of the situation comedy series Kate and Allie.

Persky is co-producer and regular director of that series, and for him winning Emmys may be becoming old hat. In addition to this Em my, he has won others for a Bill Cosby special, which he wrote and co-produced, and for a Sid Caesar special.

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Sports Journ~~l An up-close look at SU athletics

Husker Busters Once in a while, a person lives through an experience that seems as if it has changed everything.

On even rarer occasions, 47,000 people live through such an experience together.

One of those experiences came to SU on Sept. 29, 1984, when the unheralded Syracuse University Orangemen thoroughly dismantled the almighty and invincible Cornhuskers from Nebraska, then considered the very best collegiate football team in America.

This the Orangemen did by the convincing score of 17-9, in front of a national television audience and a hysterical Carrier Dome crowda crowd that included 30-plus members of the 1959 SU squad that had once captured Syracuse's only national football title.

If you could bottle euphoria and sell it at the grocery store, you would have wanted to be at the Dome on Sept. 29 with gallon jugs under each arm. All the emotion that a football program turnaround ought to generate was concentrated there in a single dose.

SU fans of recent years have shared as common attributes not only loyalty and bleacher-brand joviality, but also a considerable measure of cynicism. There have been few SU games played during the past 15 years that promised victory as the Orangemen entered the fourth quarter; SU victories came at the price of one's fingernails.

The cynicism seemed to fade in 1983, when the Orangemen closed their campaign with rousing upsets of Boston College and West Virginia. The 1984 season began with a similar domination of Mary land.

But then SU narrowly avoided a loss to lowly Northwestern (the winning extra point came with no time on the clock) and lost 19-0 the following week to Rutgers. It appeared the Orangemen had recaptured their capacity to disappoint.

Only one thing could make matters worse: the arrival that following Saturday of the University of

One might have thought they'd won the Super Bowl. When the Orangemens defeat of top-ranked Nebraska was complete, fans poured onto the Carrier Dome floor. Coach Dick MacPherson (right) joined the celebration.

Nebraska's "Big Red Machine."

The Cornhuskers were, among other things, undefeated in 23 straight regular season games, unparalleled nationally in total defense, and averaging 40.7 points per game thus far in 1984. The previous year, they had scored an NCAA season-record 624 points, 63 of which had come against SU (who scored only 7 in response).

Here in 1984, oddsmakers figured, Syracuse would lose by only 25.

"Most fans came to the game with all the apprehension of a slide into the dentist's chair," wrote Gary Kane of the Syracuse HeraldAmerican. "They just hoped it would be as painless as possible."

Nebraska and SU traded punts on the ir initial possessions (only Nebraska's ninth punt of the year), but on the Cornhuskers' second try quarterback Craig Sundberg took a snap from SU's 25-yard-line, faked a handoff, and then lofted a beautiful arcing pass to loping Todd Frain, a full step ahead of SU defenders Ron Hobby and Vic

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Bellamy.

It's quite possible that scoring a touchdown never seemed so simple, and the SU faithful had no reason to believe that anything other than more of the same lay ahead. In actuality, Nebraska would not score again of its own volition the entire game.

Two possessions later, Nebraska

marched to SU's 14, but All-America candidate Tim Green rushed in from his defensive line post and stripped Sundberg of the ball , and linebacker Rudy Reed recovered.

The Orangemen then drove 83 yards before stalling on the Nebraska 3. Sophomore Don McAuley kicked the 24-yard field goal.

"That drive and being down on-

Rudy Reed (35) recovered a first-quaner fumble, one of many big plays for the Orangemen.

ly 7-3 really got our confidence up," running back Jaime Covington later said. "At that point we knew we could sustain a drive with no problem."

It's not likely that many onlookers shared the team's certainty. Even when, on their next drive, the Cornhuskers were halted again (this time by a Ron Hobby interception), fans were not convinced. Although SU was entering halftime trailing only 7-3, it easily might have been 14-3 or even 21-3.

In the locker room, though, the Orangemen already knew they had the game in hand. " The way they played convinced them," Coach Dick MacPherson said. "Nothing I could say could convince them anymore."

It was during the first two Nebraska possessions of the second half that the skeptics in the crowd were baited for their conversion.

First, Nebraska tried a 4th-and-1 play near midfield, and SU's Jeff Knauf punched through the line and leveled the 'Husker back for a oneyard loss.

Then, following another Syracuse punt, Nebraska suffered two massive losses, one a wild pitch-out from Sundberg to back Doug DuBose, and the second a quarterback sack by Tim Green. (Green would finish with three sacks, earning Spons Illustrated's weekly defensive trophy.) Nebraska punted from their three.

It was probably then that SU fans began to dare to hope. Lon Dean and Mark Tovern, for example, were working as concession hawkers in the Dome, but spontaneously retired as the second half unfolded.

"I was going to work the whole game," Dean said, " but then I saw that the score was 7-3 and I couldn't take it anymore."

"We quit our jobs to watch the game," Tovernadded. " If that ain't fan support, I don't know what is."

SU earned one first down, but then a penalty set them back toNebraska's 40. What happened next though, on 2nd-down-and-11, completed the reformation of the Carrier Dome crowd. SU quarterback Todd Norley stepped straight back and, defying more conservative strategies, lofted toward the roof a high, floating pass seemingly destined for catastrophe.

As it floated through the soft, synthetic stratosphere ofthe Dome, onlookers all but closed their eyes.

Those that didn't were fortunate: Wide receiver Mike Siano and two Nebraska defenders, converging at the goal line, leaped to meet the ball . It disappeared among their six outstretched arms and, as if the ball had exploded, Siano and his adversaries parted in three separate directions. Siano was the one blown into the end zone, and Siano was the one with the ball. It was a Syracuse touchdown.

"All I had to do was outrun the guy, jump up, and catch it," Siano later explained. "Todd threw it up there and the rest is history, as they say."

Norley shared Siano's straightforward interpretation of their accomplishment: " I knew all I had to do was put a little air under the ball and he'd be able to get to it."

The red corner of the Dome, where 2,500 Nebraska loyalists sat, was hushed. Even though SU led only 10-7, there was no indication that Nebraska had the potential to

answer back . On this day, a Syracuse lead seemed genuine. Nebraska would, as it turned out, make only three first downs in the third quarter and none in the fourth; in the final period, the Cornhuskers never crossed midfield.

With 7:30 left in the game, SU punted (by now, a routine maneuver in the defensive struggle), but this time flags flew. Nebraska was indicted for one of football's most embarrassing crimes-12 men on the field. As they'd done all day, SU turned the mistake into an opportunity. Assisted by a dramatic thirddown, 21-yard pass to receiver Scott Schwedes, the Orangemen spent six minutes marching to Nebraska's one and then, with 1:29 left, fullback Harold Gayden followed lineman Steve Villanti into the end zone.

Syracuse- and the fans- had the breathing room they needed to savor the sweetness. Nebraska punted yet again, and, on the last play ofthe game, SU punter Jim Fox conceded a safety in order to run out the clock. The game was won.

Statistics reveal how completely Syracuse won this game. SU held the edge in yards gained (224 to 214), first downs (15 to 12), and particularly time of possession (36:45 to 23: 15) . Nebraska had been held to its lowest point output since the seventh game of its 1981 season.

And this was the first time in SU's 95 years of football that the nation's top-rated team was defeated.

"This wasn't a fluke," MacPherson asserted. "Nebraska will say it too."

They did. "Their defense," said 'Huskers head coach Tom Osborne, "played as good a game of football

as anybody had played against us in three or four years."

What really told the story of the game, though, was what happened when the game had ended. At the final gun, fans stormed the field.

An army of security guards protected the goal posts, but elsewhere bedlam reigned . MacPherson urged his players to return to the field, and a spontaneous festival ensued. Katz Broadcasting, which was still 20 minutes from sign-off time, beamed image after image of the celebration to a regional television audience.

The following day, the SU hill buzzed and basked in the limelight.

Across the country, TV stations replayed highlights, and sports pages retold the drama of a game which The New lOrk Times called "one of the biggest and most exciting upsets in recent college football history." " This has to be one of the biggest ones for us since 1959," said former coach Ben Schwartzwalder, pilot of the national champs.

"It felt great to give these guys a thrill," MacPherson said, referring to the 30-plus members of the 1959 team in attendance. "They were back in the locker room with us.

They want so much for us to be back where they put SU." Gerhard Schwedes, co-captain of the 1959 team, was one of those alumni on hand; his son Scott pulled in the crucial fourth-quarter pass. "This is the first football game lever cried at," he said. "We picked this game because we knew it was going to be the toughest test. I'm overcome."

"This is the greatest day of our lives ," said lineman Doug Marrone.

"It was an unbelievable, euphoric feeling beating the No. I team in the country," said Tim Green . "It was just awesome out there."

"Twenty years from now," said former SU running back Jim Nance, "people will be talking about this game."

And , as if in accord, Orange man Pat Kelly has stashed away a simple souvenir of the day- a grocery store receipt which carries the orange-tinted slogan "Cornhuskers Husked."

"I went out and bought a pack of gum," he said , "just so I could get this to remember this day by. The next day I feel this good will probably be the day I get married."

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Tbe lAst Word Memories, insights, and reflections

Cathy Covert: 'l'"m right here with you!

Professor ofJournalism Catherine L. Covert was loved and respected for her warmth, wit, and scholarship. She died last fall after a long illness.

A faculty member since 1966, Covert taught news writing and,for six years, a course on the history of mass media with David Bennett, professor ofhistory. In August 1983 she received the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications award for outstanding achievement. She was also a recipient of the coveted Lasker Award, based on her reporting for the Syracuse Herald-American during 1951-64, much of it on the topic of health and medical care.

Despite her full teaching schedule and scholarly work, Covert gave selflessly to students,friends, colleagues, andfamily. On Sept. 21, many ofthem gathered at the northwest corner of the Hall of Languages to dedicate a tree in her memory. Below, a former student offers another tribute; Susan Henry '76 studied with Covert approximately a decade ago and is now herself a professor ofjournalism, at California State University, Northridge.

One of my more tangible gifts from Cathy Covert arrived in the mail on a raw February day in 1976.

My doctoral dissertation adviser, Cathy was spending the semester in London, while I was in Syracuse struggling with my dissertation. I had sent her a chapter that had been difficult to write, and she sent me back a large package containing my chapter (the margins filled with her comments), outlines she had created to help me structure my revisions, and, unexpectedly, an audio tape.

I've been playing the tape a lot recently. It begins with sound effects- Cathy doing a Big Ben imitation-followed by her introduction of herself as "your cor-

respondent, Cathy Covert, reporting from the banks of the Thames."

She next describes her just-completed Saturday morning trip to the iron monger and the corner flower stand to buy fresh violets from Devon , as well as highlights of earlier weeks, including visits to art galleries and concerts in Oxford chapels.

Then, having set the scene, she explains why she made the tape: "You must think I'm very remote and far away from you, but I really am not at all-I'm right here with you. And I want you to know from my tone of voice as well as from what I'm saying I'm proud of you and what you' re doing."

This is followed by an extraordinary kind of tutorial on the art of historical writing, the use of evidence, and different ways of conceptualizing history. She then talks through my manuscript page by page, telling me how to clarify and improve virtually every paragraph.

Listening to that tape now is like spending an afternoon with Cathy-humorous, stimulating, enlightening, wrapped in a warmth and pleasure that last long after the tape has stopped. It is also a reminder of many of the reasons she was such an extraordinary teacher, and why the ideas and lessons she communicated will continue to unfold and grow in her students for countless years.

The key to Cathy's brilliance as a teacher was that she herself loved learning and thinking. She was constantly excited by the work done by her students, and by the ideas our observations set off in her. A wonderful listener, she would probe and challenge us until we heard ourselves saying things we had never before known. This done, she would compliment us on our perceptive reasoning.

The fact that she was so interested in our work- and in us- made us want to stretch our capabilities to meet her exceptionally high standards. She asserted those standards in part through the care and thoroug hness with whi ch she responded to our work . I came to

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Catherine L. Covert was a journalism professor at SU until her death last fall. Former student Susan Henry recalls her humor and warmth. take for granted that she would write at least as much as I had on anything I submitted to her. She edited, questioned, suggested alternate interpretations, corrected , praised, and wrote long sections of elaboration pointing out where and why improvements were necessary.

Yet equally important to her teaching success was her own genius. A voracious and eclectic reader, she had sought out and absorbed a tremendous range of material , which she was able to call up, explain , and expand upon in a beautifully effective manner.

And even more admirable than the strength of her mind was the fact that she stretched it constantly in the search for new ideas and interpretations. She did this both in conversation and in the classroom, where, for example, she un-sel f-consciously asked questions to which she didn't know the answers. She delighted in taking intellectual risks.

This receptivity to and search for new ideas was what she tried hardest to teach her students. See-

ing, through her actions, her own commitment to these values, we came to understand their importance, and believe in them too.

As for myself, she taught me to want to teach , and how to teach.

Thinking of the pleasure she took in teaching and learning is what makes me saddest about her death .

It reminds me of the happiness and fulfillment that should have remained for her. In contrast, her impact on me has been so deep that she still seems alive to me. As she tells me on my tape, "I'm right here with you."

Because my life is still so full of her, many ofthe lessons she taught me remain vivid. I especially remember one that became very significant in both of our lives: there are certain important times when one must say precisely what one is feeling.

Thinking and writing about her has led to one of those times.

Thank you , Cathy, for your example and your love.

- Susan Henry '76

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