Campus Communique

Martin Luther King III to Speak in Kenan Auditorium Jan.14

UNCW will host Martin Luther King III as keynote speaker at the annual program of commemoration honoring his late father at a public lecture at 7 p.m. Jan. 14 in Kenan Auditorium.

Tickets are required for admission to this free event and may be picked up at the following locations: Kenan Auditorium box office, University Union Information Center and the Office of Minority Affairs in the University Union, Room 211. Tickets are also available at the Community Boy's and Girl's Club at 901 Nixon St. from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. The program will also air live on UNCW-TV, channel 11 on Time Warner Cable.

Sponsoring the event are the Office of Minority Affairs and the Upperman African-American Cultural Center. In addition to King's talk titled "The Dream Deferred: An Examination of the Dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Today's Society," the program will include music from the UNCW Gospel Choir.

King, a motivational speaker for nearly 20 years, will assume leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on Jan. 15. A human rights advocate, community activist and political leader, King has been actively involved in significant policy initiatives to maintain the fair and equitable treatment of all citizens, at home and abroad.

In the late 1970s, he represented President Jimmy Carter in two official delegations to promote peace in foreign countries. In 1984, he toured five African nations on a fact-finding tour, the outcome of which was the "Africa Initiative," a program developed to end starvation in Africa.

In 1986, King was elected as an at-large representative on the Fulton County, Ga., Board of Commissioners. After leaving public office, King started "Americans United for Affirmative Action," a national coalition of organizations to prevent the dismantling of affirmative action initiatives across the nation. On Nov. 1, 1997, King was unanimously voted the next president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the organization which his father co-founded in 1957.

Born in Montgomery, Ala., the second oldest of the four children of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, he majored in political science at Morehouse College in Atlanta where he received a bachelor of arts degree.

Teacher Guides and "Treasure Coast" Videos Released
UNCW Promotes Environmental Education

Teaching issues about the North Carolina coastline will be easier thanks to a teachers' guide released by UNCW. The guide expands on issues presented in the documentary Treasure Coast: The Natural Heritage of the North Carolina Shore, produced by UNCW in cooperation with N.C. State University. Treasure Coast aired on North Carolina Public Television in September. Superintendents statewide have been provided with copies of the documentary and educational guide for distribution to middle school teachers. A total of 750 guides and videos were distributed: five each to every school district in the state and one each to every county library.

Development of the guide took several months and involved educators from UNCW, public schools in coastal counties and the N.C. Department of Public Instruction. It includes activities as well as an appendix of supplemental resource materials also developed by the teacher committee. The following UNCW faculty and staff were instrumental in the guide's development: Phillip Brown, Grace Burton, Ann Crawford, Carolyn Dunn, Rich Huber, Rudi Kiefer, Ann Lockledge, Mary Moser, John Myers, Elaine Penn, Cathi Phillips, Karen Shafer and Diane Talley.

Announcements

NationsBank Executive to Speak at Cameron

James H. Hance, Jr., a vice president and chief financial officer of NationsBank Corporation, will lecture at 2 p.m. Jan. 8 in Cameron Hall. He will address the accelerating trend of consolidation in the banking and securities industry. This is the third speech of the 1997-98 Cameron School of Business Executive Lecture Series. Everyone is invited to this free lecture.

American Studies Lecture

Professor Walter Hoelbling of Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria, will lecture on American Studies in Europe at noon Jan. 9 in Bryan Auditorium. Hoelbling's lecture, which is free and open to the public, will focus on the European Association of American Studies that was established in Salzburg, Austria, in 1954.

Earth Sciences Seminars

Mary K. Harris, principal scientist at the Westinghouse River Technology Center, Aiken, S.C., will lecture on "Computer Mapping: Fiction or Reality?" at 1 p.m. Jan. 9 in DeLoach Hall, Room 109. Gerald Blount of the Westinghouse Savannah River Company will discuss "The Practicing Environmental Geologist" following Harris's lecture.

First Seahawk Basketball Golden Social

Make your reservations for this year's first basketball pregame/postgame golden social 5:30 to 7 p.m. Jan. 17 at the Center Stage Cafe. The event is sponsored by the UNCW Alumni Association. Prepaid reservations are required for this buffet social. Door prizes will be awarded. Active alumni and friends contributing $250 or more annually to the alumni association will be admitted with one guest for $5 per person. Other alumni and guests will be admitted for $7 per person. Children, ages six to 12, will be admitted for $5. There is no charge for children five and under. For more information, call the UNCW Alumni Association at 251-2682.

Educational Lab Spring Tutoring

The Educational Lab will offer tutoring in reading/language arts and math for children grades K-9. UNCW education students will be matched one-on-one with a child for tutoring sessions. Sessions will be once or twice a week between 3 and 6 p.m. Mon.-Thurs. Jan. 26-April 23 in King Hall, Room 203. Tutoring fees are: 20 hours of elementary reading/language arts, $150; 25 hours elementary reading/math, $187.50; 10 hours elementary math, $75; and 20 hours special needs tutoring, $150. For more information, call ext. 3633.

Mosaic Artwork on Display

Arts in Action is hosting an exhibit of mosaic artwork by Belinda Bizic. The exhibit will be displayed through Feb. 20 in the University Union Living Room. Everyone is invited to a "meet the artist" reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 8.

Bizic is actively involved in the local art community. Her interests range from acting to designing posters for local theatre productions to creating mosaics. She said she considers herself self-taught and draws her inspiration from everyone and everything. In describing her artwork, she said the appeal "is the wild, irregular shapes coming together and forming something harmonic. There is a sense of motion in the finished image that stimulates, yet soothes."

Non-traditional Students Social Planned

The Office of the Dean of Students will sponsor a "Welcome to UNCW" social for all new and returning non-traditional students from 4 to 5:45 p.m. Jan. 28 in the Glass Room of the Hawk's Nest. All faculty, staff and non-traditional students are invited to attend. Limited space will be available for schools or departments to provide informational displays during the social and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis on the day of the event. Departments interested in having a display should contact Diane Edwards at ext. 3119 by Jan. 21.

Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Receives Grant

The Wilmington Symphony Orchestra, jointly represented by the Department of Music and W.S.O., Inc., received a three-year grant from the New York Times Foundation to support its presentations. The orchestra is conducted by Steven Errante of the Music Department.

Cape Fear Museum Lecture

Harry Warren, assistant director of the Cape Fear Museum, will present "Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Cape Fear Museum, but Were Afraid to Ask" at 11 a.m. Jan. 9 at the museum. The program will take a light-hearted look at the museum's history and will preview the centennial exhibit Looking Back: Cape Fear Museum's First 100 Years. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Activities at the Hawk's Nest

The following events, cosponsored by student affairs, auxiliary services, University Union and the Activities and Leadership Center, are scheduled at the Hawk's Nest: Friday Night Live, 8 p.m. Jan. 9; ESPN basketball: Georgetown vs. Villanova, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 12; ACE movie: Rebel Without a Cause, 8 p.m. Jan. 13; ACE Underground: Night at the Apollo, 9 p.m. Jan. 14; and Hawk's Nest Grand Opening Bash, 4 p.m. Jan. 15.

Elvis Impersonator Show

There's gonna be a whole lotta shakin' going on at 8 p.m. Jan. 16 in Kenan Auditorium. William M. Henderson - author, creative writing professor and acclaimed Elvis impersonator - will gyrate and croon his way into UNCW stage history. In addition to the evening performance, Henderson will give a lecture from 2 to 4 p.m. in Cameron Auditorium regarding his books about Elvis impersonators, then will perform I, Elvis: Confessions of a Counterfeit King at 8 p.m. Both events are part of the Buckner Lecture Series, sponsored by the English Department, and are free and open to the public.

Janson Curates St. John's Art Museum Exhibit

Anthony Janson, art and theatre, guest curated the exhibit "Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Monument Drawings," which will be on display from Jan. 23 to April 11 at St. John's Museum of Art. Additionally, he designed and wrote the full-color catalogue that will accompany the exhibition. Chase-Riboud is a painter and sculptor who has exhibited internationally. She is also the author of four novels, including Sally Hemings, a historical novel about Thomas Jefferson and his slave/mistress, and Echo of Lions, a novel that has been a source of dispute in relation to Steven Spielberg's film Amistad. Chase-Riboud will give a talk about her art and career at 2 p.m. Feb. 1 at the museum. For more information and cost, contact Richard Sceiford at 763-0281.

Summer Initiative Recipients for 1998 Named

Twenty-three faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences have been awarded Summer Initiatives for 1998. The following 15 faculty were selected by a college-appointed committee of former recipients to receive $3,000 stipends to support their research: Lindsay P. Aegerter, Wendy Brenner, Janet Ellerby, Rebecca Lee and Keith Newlin, English; Gur Saran Adhar and David Berman, mathematical sciences; Herbert Berg, philosophy and religion; Maria Cami-Vela and Peter Thomas, foreign languages and literatures; Dale Cohen, psychology; Jocelyn Gaudet, earth sciences; Lisa Pollard and Mark Spaulding, history; Stephen Skrabal, chemistry. Eight faculty were chosen to receive $2,500 stipends for initiatives related to curriculum development: Timothy Ballard, Lawrence Cahoon and Courtney Hackney, biological sciences; Thomas Barth, political sciences; Raymond Burt, foreign languages and literatures; Eleanor Covan, sociology; Robert Cutting, environmental studies; and Ned Martin, chemistry. A total of 35 faculty applied for the awards, which were funded through the dean's office by the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs.


Fiftieth Fact

UNCW's athletic program has grown from the beginnings of Wilmington College's first basketball team. In the early years, games were played at various gymnasiums around town with only a handful of people in the stands. In fact, when Wilmington College's Charles Nivens led the nation with a 37- point average and scored a record 58 points, few people were there to celebrate his achievement.


Focus on Faculty and Staff

Submissions for this section are published in order received. Due to the volume of submissions there can be a two- to three-week delay in publication. Your patience is appreciated.

Lloyd Jones and Steve Meinhold, political science, presented the paper "Natural Disasters and Trust in Public Officials" at the Southern Political Science Association annual meeting in Norfolk.

Paula Kamenish, English, gave the multimedia lecture "Two Maids Came to Murder - On Stage, On Screen, In Print" to faculty and students of Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Her talk was sponsored by the foreign languages lecture series. A version of the same lecture was given at UNCW to faculty, students and the Wilmington community.

Sue Cody, Randall Library, had her article "Historical Museums on the World Wide Web: An Exploration and Critical Analysis" published in The Public Historian.

Tom Macie, art and theatre, completed a scaled architectural model of the Poughkeepsie Municipal Building and multi-level parking garage for R.V. Buric Construction Consultants. The model is a courtroom exhibit for construction litigation in New York.

Andrew F. Clark, history, has a review of the book Africans: The History of a Continent in the current issue of The Historian (Vol. 60, No. 1, 1997): pp. 114-15.

Lisa Pollard, history, served as chair and discussant on the panel "Egyptomania: The Commodity Aesthetics of Ancient Egypt" at the annual meeting of Middle East Studies Association in San Francisco.

Michael J. Durako, biological sciences, presented the seminar "Fisheries Habitat Restoration: A Tale of Tubes, Bags and Coconuts" at the MEAS faculty seminar at North Carolina State University.

Art Spivack, earth sciences, co-authored the paper "Boron Isotope Systematics of Ground-water Pollution" presented at the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Association in Vienna, Austria. The paper will be published in the IAEA proceedings.

Mike Mallin, CMSR, gave the presentation "The Role of Phosphorus Loading in Neuse Estuary Eutrophication" at the conference "Nutrients in the Neuse River: Working Toward Solution" in New Bern.

Yoko Kano, foreign languages and literatures, presented the session "How Can Culture Be Taught in the Language Classroom" at the 31st annual American Council of Teachers of Foreign Language conference in Nashville, Tenn.

Stephen A. Skrabal, chemistry, presented the research report "Fluxes of Metal-complexing Ligands from Estuarine Sediments" at the 12th annual symposium of the Duke-UNC Oceanographic Consortium in Beaufort.

Nancy Grindlay, earth sciences, received $55,053 for her project "A High-Resolution Bathymetric and Geophysical Investigation of the Southwest Indian Ridge: Spatial Characterization of an Ultra-slow Spreading Center."

Steven Dworkin, psychology, received $37,224 for his project "Selective Opioid Receptors Involved in Cocaine Reinforcement."

Susan Lovelace, CMSR, received $20,000 for her project "Estuary-Net National Project Director."


Official Notices

BOT Quarterly Meetings

The regular quarterly committee meetings of the UNCW Board of Trustees are at the following times and locations Jan. 13: Business Affairs, 8 a.m. Alderman Hall, Room 211; Student Affairs, 10 a.m. Alderman Hall, Room 215; University Advancement, 11:30 a.m. Trask Coliseum, Golden Hawk Room; Academic Affairs, 1:30 p.m. Alderman Hall, Room 215; and Long Range Planning, 3:30 p.m. University Center, Room 104. The full board meeting will be at 8:30 a.m. Jan. 14 in Wagoner Hall's Madeline Suite.

Randall Library Retires Transparency Machine

Randall Library is retiring its transparency maker after many long years of service. Transparencies can be made at the Copy Center in Westside Hall for 50 cents per sheet, transparency film included.

Pre-taxing of Medical Insurance Premiums

Medical insurance premium payroll deductions are made on a pre-tax basis, which means that social security, federal, and state taxes are not paid on earnings used for payroll-deducted medical insurance premiums. Currently, 100 percent of eligible employees take advantage of these tax savings. Any employee who would like to have medical insurance premiums deducted on an after-tax basis should complete a request form by Jan. 15. To request a form, contact Elizabeth Greene at ext. 3713 or Willina Mitchell at ext. 3006.

Part-time Faculty Payroll Advantages

Effective Jan. 1, part-time faculty teaching for at least one semester have the opportunity of participating in a tax-deferred annuity that allows a deduction of up to 20 percent of salary on a tax-deferred basis to be invested in one of three university-approved vendors. For more information, contact Willina Mitchell at ext. 3006. Additional optional deduction programs, including medical and dental insurance, are available to part-time faculty teaching at least nine semester hours for two consecutive semesters. Faculty in this group meet the "half-time" eligibility status and are offered the same benefits as half-time staff employees. Anyone who meets this criteria and is interested in learning more about available deduction programs should attend an informational meeting at 3 p.m. Jan 12 or 13 in the human resources training room. Anyone unable to attend the meeting at these times, but would like to schedule another time should call Willina Mitchell at ext. 3006.

Staff Training

· Eudora, 2 to 4 p.m. Jan. 14 and 10 a.m. to noon Jan. 22.

· Microsoft Powerpoint 7, 2 to 4 p.m. Jan 27 and 28.

· Microsoft Word 7, 10 a.m. to noon, Jan. 13 and 21.

· InfoTrac Databases: Searching for Magazine and Newspaper Articles, 2 p.m. Jan. 16, 11 a.m. Jan. 27, 1 p.m. Jan. 28 and 2 p.m. Jan. 29

· Netscape Searching, 10 a.m. Jan. 9, 3 p.m. Jan. 14, 10 a.m. Jan. 23 and 1 p.m. Jan. 28.

· Randall Online Catalog, 10 a.m. Jan. 9, 3 p.m. Jan. 12, 11 a.m. Jan. 13 and 12:30 p.m. Jan. 15.

· Parenting Your Parents: Session I, 9 a.m. to noon Jan. 28.

Refer to the Staff Training and Development Booklet for registration information or call ext. 3274. To register for computer classes, call ext. 4357. To register for library workshops, call ext. 3760.

Shared Leave

Shared leave donations are needed for Kea Foreman, NURC/Key Largo and for Charlotte Marion, physical plant/painting. Please help these employees avoid leave without pay by sending vacation leave hours to Human Resources. Thanks for supporting this valuable program. For more information, call Dale at ext. 3161.

Welcome

Please welcome the following new employees:

Perry Campbell, financial aid; Michael Smith and Raymond Taylor, physical plant; Clifford Rassweiler, NURC; Charles Niforos, university police; Gregory Newport, systems procedures; and Kate Walsh, public service and extended education.

Staff Vacancy

Deadline

98-072 Business Career Counselor Jan.16

Call the Jobline at ext. 3791 or visit HR's website for additional information or to download the state application.

Undergraduate Student Employment

Departments hiring undergraduate students for the spring semester are reminded to follow the instructions provided in Administrative Procedure HR 1.60. Special attention should be given to the following:

Departments must list all undergraduate Federal Work-study vacancies and all work-assistance vacancies with career services via a job order (form HR 1.62).

Once a student has been hired, the department should initiate a HR 1.60 form, which is available in the printing services forms catalog.

Student pay rates should be established in accordance with Appendix A.

Departments must follow instructions regarding recap sheet responsibilities and termination of undergraduate student employment.

This policy may be reviewed on the World Wide Web. The Administrative Policies and Procedures Manual is linked off the UNCW home page under administration and is also accessible via the business affairs home page.

The Campus Communique is UNCW's weekly faculty/staff newsletter. It is published every Thursday. The deadline for Communique submissions is noon, Tuesdays. E-mail submissions to Communique, send faxes to 962-3847 or mail to 108 Alderman Hall. Phillip Brown can be contacted at ext. 7223.

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