PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 21, No. 16, March 21, 2002

brief notes

Council for Academic Professionals
CAP to discuss new role April 4
Academic professionals are invited to a brown bag lunch that will focus on the Council for Academic Professionals (formerly known as the Professional Advisory Committee) at noon April 4 in Room 217 of the Illini Union.

The UI Faculty Senate approved a proposal from CAP that will allow most senate committees to include an academic professional member who will act as a liaison to the organization that represents academic professionals on campus.

Speakers at the brown bag include Vera Mainz, CAP liaison to the Faculty Senate’s University Statutes Policies and Procedures Committee; Glen Whitmer, chair of CAP; and Bob Damrau, Office of the Senate.

The self-nomination process for the council also will be discussed.
More information is available at www.cap.uiuc.edu.

Distinguished Teacher/Scholar
Applications due March 27
The Distinguished Teacher/Scholar Program is designed to promote excellence in teaching at the UI by recognizing instructors who take an active role in promoting learning.

Candidates must have received significant recognition of teaching effectiveness and must submit a proposed plan of activity that will foster their commitment to enhancing instruction at the UI.

Candidates may apply or be nominated by a peer or an administrative officer. Nominations must be received by 4 p.m. March 27. Nominees then will be invited to submit an application by 4 p.m. April 12. Selections will be made by the Teaching Advancement Board and announced in late April.
For nomination guidelines, go to www.provost.uiuc.edu/departments/tab/distcall.html. Questions should be directed to Sarah Mangelsdorf, associate provost, 244-0672, or Steven Helle, TAB chair, 244-2602, or any member of the board. Nominations should be sent to Mangelsdorf at 208 Swanlund Administration Building, MC-304,

The program is sponsored by the Teaching Advancement Board and the Office of the Provost.

Campus Recreation
Spring memberships on sale
Campus Recreation is selling spring memberships through June 9 for $86. Membership privileges include use of all facilities, including four indoor pools, free lock and towel service, discounts on outdoor equipment rentals and adventure trips and clinics, eligibility for intramural sports, special rates for personal fitness training programs, daily guest sponsorship, and free admission to public ice-skating sessions.

Campus Recreation memberships are sold in Member Services, 140 IMPE, during facility hours. For more information, call 333-3806, or see www.campusrec.uiuc.edu.

College of Medicine
Community Med School offered
The Community Medical School, a program sponsored by the UI College of Medicine in cooperation with the Carle Foundation, is offering a free three-part course to enhance participants’ knowledge of medicine and science.

The course begins March 26 at the Forum at Carle, located one block north of Carle Foundation Hospital, 611 W. Park St., Urbana, and continues each Tuesday through April 9. Medical experts will conduct the sessions.

"We hope that the Community Medical School will help strengthen the science literacy of the community and create an understanding of science in present-day society," said Bradford S. Schwartz, regional dean of the College of Medicine. "We want to improve the health of the community and enhance the awareness of what the medical community has to offer."

This semester’s topics: "A Focus on Pharmaceuticals," 7 to 9 p.m. (with registration at 6:30 p.m.) March 26; "Orthopedic Medicine in the Modern World," 7 to 9 p.m. April 2; and "Rheumatology Care and Optimal Function of Our Joints," 7 to 9 p.m. April 9.

Participants will receive free class materials and will be able to park free.

Due to limited space, participants are encouraged to enroll early in all three classes by calling 383-2635.

Museum of Natural History
‘Saturday Safari’ classes for kids
The Museum of Natural History is presenting more "Saturday Safari" classes. In its sixth year, the program provides fun and educational classes on animals and the environment for students in kindergarten through third grade. The cost is $5 and pre-registration is required. For more information or to receive a flier, contact Kim Sheahan at 244-3355.

Center for Educational Technologies
Teaching instructional technologies
TeachIT 2002, a campuswide showcase of instructional technologies, will be held April 12 in Grainger Library and the Beckman Institute. All faculty and staff members and students are invited to attend.

TeachIT 2002 was conceived of as an opportunity for faculty, staff and students to come together to address how computer technologies can be used to further the teaching and learning mission of the UI.

The event will begin at 9 a.m. with the poster session in the Grand Gallery of Grainger Library. Chris Dede will give the keynote address, "How Virtual Interactions Deepen Learning for Real Students," at 10 a.m. in Beckman auditorium. Electronic poster sessions and round table sessions will be held in Grainger Library from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The TeachIT 2002 Planning Committee is accepting proposals to participate in the electronic poster sessions.

For more information, see www.cet.uiuc.edu/teachIT2002/.

College of Law
Lecture to focus on civil rights
Pamela Karlan, a law professor at Stanford University, will deliver the David C. Baum Memorial Lecture on civil liberties and civil rights at 4 p.m. April 1 at the Max L. Rowe Auditorium in the Law Building. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The lecture will examine how a number of recent Supreme Court rulings have weakened the idea of the private attorney general as a key enforcement element of civil rights laws. These involve decisions ranging from its 11th and 14th Amendment jurisprudence to attorneys’ fees and private right of action.

Karlan is the co-author of several leading casebooks, including "Civil Rights Actions: Enforcing the Constitution."

The Baum Lecture series is a memorial to the late UI law professor David C. Baum.

Department of Human and Community Development
Family resiliency featured April 2
William Doherty, family psychologist and author, will present a lecture titled "Family Resiliency in a Hurried World" at 7 p.m. April 2 at the Beckman Institute auditorium, as part of The Pampered Chef Family Resiliency Program Lecture Series. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Through the 10 books he has published, Doherty has inspired a new grassroots parent movement called "Family Life First," which aims to prioritize family time and family activities in a fast-paced world.

His books include "Take Back Your Kids: Confident Parenting in Turbulent Times," and "Take Back Your Marriage: Sticking Together in a World That Pulls Us Apart." His latest book, "Putting Family First" will be published this year.

Doherty is a professor and director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program in the department of family social science at the University of Minnesota and a marriage and family psychologist.
The Pampered Chef Family Resiliency Program is a partnership between the Pampered Chef Ltd. and the UI department of human and community development. The program supports a lecture series, faculty research grants and graduate fellowships in the area of family resiliency.

College of Communications
Ebert’s film festival begins April 24
On the list for this year’s Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival April 24-28 in Champaign-Urbana and at the UI are films that focus on family, crime, psychological drama, race relations, coming of age and youthful passion rediscovered in old age.

In making his 14 selections for the festival, Ebert, a Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, looks for films he feels have been overlooked by critics, distributors, audiences (or some combination thereof), and therefore deserve a second look.

This year’s schedule of films (subject to change):
April 24

• 8 p.m. "Patton" (United States, 1970), directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

April 25

• 1 p.m. "Hyenes" (Senegal, 1992), directed by Djibril Diop Mambety
  
  
• 4 p.m. "George Washington" (United States, 2000), directed by David Gordon Green
  
  
• 7 p.m. "Wonder Boys" (United States, 2000), directed by Curtis Hanson, starring Michael Douglas as a college professor.
  
  
• 10 p.m. "Grand Canyon" (United States, 1991), directed by Lawrence Kasdan and featuring Kevin Kline, Danny Glover, Alfre Woodard, Mary McDonnell and Steve Martin

April 26

• 1 p.m. "Kwik Stop" (United States, 2001), directed by Michael Gilio
  
  
• 4 p.m. "Two Women" (Iran, 1999), directed by Tahmineh Milani
  
  
• 7 p.m. "Innocence" (Australia, 2000), directed by Paul Cox
  
  
• 10 p.m. "A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries" (United Kingdom/United States, 1998), directed by James Ivory

April 27

• 1 p.m. "Paperhouse" (United States, 1988), directed by Bernard Rose
  
  
• 4 p.m. "Diamond Men" (United States, 2000), directed by Daniel M. Cohen
  
  
• 7 p.m. "Metropolis" (Germany, 1927), directed by Fritz Lang
  
  
• 10 p.m. "Metropolis" (Japan, 2001), directed by Taro Rin

April 28

• 1 p.m. "Say Amen, Somebody" (United States, 1983), directed by George Nierenberg

Ebert co-hosts "Ebert & Roeper and the Movies," a weekly televised movie-review program, and is a 1964 UI journalism graduate and adjunct professor.

Festival passes are $50 and tickets for individual films are $6. Both are on sale at the Virginia Theater box office, 356-9053. Passes also may be purchased online at www.ebertfest.com.
On April 26, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Ebert will sign copies of his new book, "The Great Movies," on the second floor of the Illini Union Bookstore.

For more information, see the Web site or contact Mary Susan Britt, the festival’s assistant director, at marsue@illinois.edu or 244-0552; Nickie Dalton, the festival manager, at n-dalton@illinois.edu or 333-2350; or Nate Kohn, the festival director, at n-kohn@illinois.edu or 542-4972.

Krannert Art Museum
Tibetan art on display
Tibetan monk and artist Venerable Tenzin Jamyang will visit the UI as a Miller Endowment Visiting Artist-in-Residence as part of the UI/Ford program "Arts of the Sacred: Crossing the Boundaries of Place and Perception." A series of activities is connected with Jamyang’s residency.

There will be an ongoing public demonstration from March 26 to April 7 while the artist creates an elaborate mandala of colored sand at the Krannert Art Museum. The mandala is a sacred object in Tibetan Buddhism. According to tradition, a mandala is immediately destroyed after creation, but the UI has been granted permission to keep it on permanent display.

Ter Ellingson, noted scholar of Tibetan culture from the University of Washington, Seattle, will present "Buddhist Music, Buddhist Road, Reconstruction Experiential Space," at 7 p.m. March 27 in 407 Levis Faculty Center.

Jamyang and Ellingson will present a CAS/MillerComm lecture/demonstration titled "Mandala, the Sacred Art of Tibet" at 5 p.m. March 28 in Room 62 of the Krannert Art Museum to supplement the exhibit "Meditation and Transformation: Devotional Arts of Tibet" that will be on display in the museum March 26 through May 5.

Immediately after this lecture/demonstration, the audience will be invited to the gallery where the mandala in progress is on display. Jamyang and Ellingson will answer questions about the mandala.

Free concert
Harpist to perform April 1
Anne LeBaron, a featured guest of the Environmental Council’s Horizons 2002 and the Center for Advanced Study’s CAS/MillerComm series, will present a concert and a series of lectures April 1 and 2.

LeBaron is professor of composition at the California Institute of the Arts and a pioneering avant-garde harpist. Her music addresses issues ranging from gender to the environment, and her compositions defy a single aesthetic.

LeBaron will give a free concert titled "Music of Anne LeBaron" at 8 p.m. April 1 in the Smith Music Hall.

The performance also will feature faculty and student performers: Elizabeth Campbell, voice; Elliot Chasanov, trombone; Andrea DiOrio, clarinet; Timothy Ehlen, piano; Darren Garvey, percussion; Claire Happel, dancer; Julia Jamieson, harp and trombone; Danwen Jiang, violin; Jie-Youn Lee, flute(s); Eun-Jun Yoo, harp; John Toenjes, soloist; Ann Yeung, director; and students from the School of Music and department of dance.

LeBaron also will present a master class on electric harp and avant-garde techniques from noon to 1 p.m. April 2 in the Music Building auditorium.

In addition, she will present the Lorado Taft Lecture for the College of Fine and Applied Arts titled "How Surrealism Embraced Art (or vice-versa)?" at 4 p.m. April 2 in Room 1201 of the Music Building.

She also will present the CAS/MillerComm Lecture titled "Environmental Awareness Through Art and Music" from 7-8:30 p.m. April 2 in the auditorium of the Music Building during the Environmental Horizons conference.

‘Black Women’s Survival Strategies’
Sociologist to speak April 1
Elizabeth Higginbotham, professor of sociology and of criminal justice at the University of Delaware, will give a lecture, "Invisible Work: Black Women’s Survival Strategies in Predominantly White Schools and Work Sites," at 4 p.m. April 1 in Room 196 of Lincoln Hall.

Higginbotham is one of the nation’s most prominent sociologists of race and gender and is well known for her research on workplace discrimination, professionalization of women of color and the integration of gender issues into the university and school curriculum. She also is known for her work in building the Center for Research on Women, a focal point for the articulation and development of black feminist thought.

After her lecture, Higginbotham will be available to sign her new book, "Much To Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration" (University of North Carolina Press), which is an analysis of the experiences, challenges and achievements of the first black women to integrate American higher education.

For more information, contact James Barrett at 333-1155 or Bernice McNair Barnett at 333-7658.

Science Technology, Information and Medicine
‘New Ontologies’ workshop
The program in Science, Technology, Information and Medicine (STIM) is presenting a workshop, "New Ontologies: Transdisciplinary Objects," March 29 and 30. Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, the workshop is being held at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.

The workshop will be discussion oriented, with papers not being formally presented. Therefore all participants are encouraged to read the papers in advance. For copies of the papers in PDF format, go to the STIM Web site, www.uiuc.edu/unit/STIM. A schedule of the authors and respondents also is available on the Web.

Space is limited. Anyone wanting to attend should e-mail wedge@illinois.edu or asaro@illinois.edu to make reservations.

Campustown Infrastructure Re-construction
Construction changes street access; MTD service re-routed
Work for the Campustown Infrastructure Re-construction and Streetscape Project is underway.
Preliminary work began on Healey Street, between Sixth and Wright streets. Healey Street is now being used for two-way traffic. No parking is permitted on Healey Street during construction.
Meter heads on the east side of Wright Street from Armory to Healey streets and on John Street between Sixth and Wright streets have been removed. Traffic on John Street (between Sixth and Wright), as well as the corresponding parking spaces, was changed to a westbound direction; the remainder of John remains a one-way street for eastbound traffic. This week, the meter heads on Sixth Street between Healey and John streets will be repositioned to accommodate diagonal parking.

Green Street from Sixth to Wright streets is closed to all traffic. Green Street from Fourth to Sixth streets will have one lane of traffic in an eastbound direction open to local traffic only.

The direction of traffic on Wright Street from Armory Avenue to Green Street has changed. Only buses can use the northbound lane. Cars can use only the southbound lane, which buses will also use. Commercial vehicles are being rerouted to Chalmers and Daniels streets.

Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Wright streets will remain open during the construction project.
Campustown visitors are encouraged to use the city of Champaign’s parking Lot J at the intersection of Sixth and Green streets, the UI’s parking garage at the intersection of Sixth and John streets or Lot D-9 at the intersection of Lincoln and Green streets.

For a map of traffic re-routes, see www.vcadmin.uiuc.edu/Reconstruction.html

Major project work is scheduled for completion Aug. 23.

The construction also will cause major reroutes in the MTD bus services. Plans call for buses to be routed off Green Street between Fourth and Wright Streets and also off Sixth Street south of Healey to Chalmers. For complete route information, call 384-8188, or see www.cumtd.com.