Vol. III, No.

9 March 19, 2002

Current year’s budget and prospects for next year

From President Paul Yu
February 25, 2002
On Oct. 31, 2001, I sent you a memo concerning the 2001-
02 budget and prospects for the 2002-03 budget. As you are
aware, Governor Pataki recently released his proposed Execu-
tive Budget. This appears to be a good occasion to provide
you with another update.
1. State Budget Environment
As a result of the national recession and the September 11
attacks, NYS is expecting the following budget gaps:
• $ 1.1 billion in 2001-02.
• $ 5.7 billion in 2002-03.
The 2001-02 budget gap will be closed by:
• $450 million in savings actions (e.g., hiring freeze,
lottery).
• $650 million in use of reserves.
The 2002-03 budget gap will be closed by:
• $3.0 billion of federal revenue maximization and debt
restructuring.
• $0.5 billion extension of 2001-02 savings actions.
• $1.1 billion of new savings initiatives.
• $1.1 billion in use of reserves. (continued on page 2)

(continued on page 2)
SPOTLIGHT ON:
William Heyen
edits Sept. 11
anthology,
page 9
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The next regular issue of

Statements, etc. will be published
Apr. 9. Submissions are due by
noon on Mar. 27. Articles e-mailed
to kmerrifi@brockport.edu or
accompanied by a computer
diskette are preferred.
Statements, etc. is published by
the Divison of Enrollment
Management, SUNY College at
Brockport, 350 New Campus
Drive, Brockport, NY 14420-
2931.
Kevin McCann, a senior theatre major, played the lead in Department of Theatre’s multi-
Editor: Karla Linn Merrifield dimensional production of Henrik Ibsen’s 19th-century play, An Enemy of the People. The
Photographer: Jim Dusen production, a collaborative effort between the Departments of Theatre, Environmental Sciences
and Earth Sciences, focused on the issues of clean water, increasing public awareness of this critical
Visit www.brockport.edu for a and timely topic. A pure waters fair, complete with interactive displays by state clean water agen-
color version of Statements, etc. cies and non-profit organizations, invited audiences to consider the facts surrounding today’s
clean-water issues and concerns.

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Current year’s budget and prospects for next year (continued from page 1)
2. SUNY Budget Request For community colleges, the top budget need is the base
SUNY requested continuation of 2001-02 core instruc- rate:
tional budget($1.768 billion), plus the following if funds Increase base aid by $130 per student $21.3 m
should be available: SUNY’s efforts need to be coordinated with those of UUP
State Operated and Statutory Colleges and Faculty Senate/Council.
Collective bargaining $64.3 m
Enrollment growth $18.9 m 5. What All This Means for Brockport
Sponsored research match $ 5.2 m 2001-02
At this point it appears reasonable to believe that there will
($0.20 match per dollar) not be any additional adverse budget developments – such
Inflation $14.1 m as a mid-year budget reduction – this year. The stiff chal-
Community colleges lenge will come – as will be explained below – in 2002-03,
Increase base aid by $130 per student $21.3 m when we will face a deficit of around $2.2 million. So in
2001-02 we must as an institution try to build up as much
3. SUNY Executive Budget Proposal savings as is possible to cushion the anticipated deficit in
3.1 Core Instructional Budget 2002-03.
State-operated and Statutory Colleges We have continued to operate in a more or less “business-
• Flat base budget – same as 2001-02. No funding as-usual” mode, with the conspicuous exception of curtail-
provided for what has already been enumerated ing our faculty hiring for 2002-03. Instead of allocating
above – negotiated salary raises, enrollment growth, 41 full-time faculty positions (plus two full-time non-ten-
sponsored research match, or inflation. ure-track positions), we have scaled back our allocations to
• No general increase in tuition. 24 full-time faculty positions (plus four full-time non-ten-
• Appropriation increases to other funds – IFRs, ure track positions). Funding will be provided for 2002-03
to replace the 17 suspended full-time faculty searches with
dormitory operations, SUTRA, stabilization, etc. part-time adjunct faculty. The President’s Staff has also
agreed to review every proposed staff position before it is
Community Colleges allowed to proceed.
• Base aid per student held flat at $2,250 per student. 2002-03
• Additional $3.5 million in 2001-02 and another The overall 2002-03 budget situation may be described as
$3.8 million in 2002-03 to reflect growing enroll- austere, perhaps even bleak, but not catastrophic. The pic-
ment. ture is austere, or bleak, because the Executive Budget did
3.2 Other Matters not fund the $64.3 million of agreed-upon collective bar-
Early Retirement gaining costs. The College, in consequence, will have to
An early retirement program will be proposed that in- absorb that cost (as well as enrollment growth and infla-
cludes SUNY. However, SUNY, like other agencies, tion) and anticipates a deficit in the neighborhood of $2.2
would be required to eliminate positions, and the cost million, unless the Legislature takes ameliorating action.
of the retirement incentive will be reduced from SUNY The situation is not catastrophic, however, because we had
budget. anticipated a shortfall of this magnitude and have devised
a plan to cope. The principal elements of the plan are as
Capital follows:
Funding will be provided to continue our current aca- • By having managed our resources prudently, we expect
demic capital program at planned levels. to carry forward savings of around $700,000 from
TAP 2001-02, which can be applied toward the deficit.
The Governor recommends restructuring TAP into two • We will delay our long-term plan to renovate one resi-
components: dence hall per year and utilize $800,000 from the
• A base award equal to two-thirds of the calculated DIFR renovation fund toward our budget deficit.
award. While this is far from an ideal solution, it may be pref-
• A performance award equal to the remaining one- erable to substantial cuts that we would otherwise
third that is paid to students upon graduation. have to make.
• Finally, we will need to reduce our budget by about
4. Strategies $700,000.
A very important point to keep in mind is that the Execu- The President’s Staff, working closely with the Budget and
tive Proposal is only the preliminary step in a long and Resource Committee, will coordinate the College’s efforts
to cope with the deficit. If no new (and at present un-
elaborate process. There is still opportunity to lobby the known) challenges were to appear, then we should be able
Legislature concerning elements of the Executive Budget to manage to cope with the budget challenges of 2002-03.
Proposal. However, we will be in serious difficulties if budget woes
For state-operated colleges, the following budget needs extend beyond 2002-03, and we receive no succor (such as
are the top agenda items: a tuition raise) for another year.
Collective bargaining $64.3 m It goes without saying that, as more information becomes
Enrollment growth $18.9 m available, President’s Staff will work closely with the Bud-
Sponsored research match $ 5.2 m get and Resource Committee to develop campus plans and
Inflation $14.1 m to keep you informed.
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 U.S. Senator from New York
HILLARY CLINTON
will be the SUNY Brockport
Undergraduate Commencement Speaker
May 19, 2002

Bursar announces important changes

that affect your students
From James E. Vetuskey, bursar’s office

On Mar. 31, SUNY College
at Brockport is converting
to the new Banner student
information system to
maintain its financial and
student records. There will
be many changes in College
policies and procedures as-
sociated with the conversion
to the new system. Pre-
sented below are some of
the more important changes
affecting students:
• Web Registration for
Courses - The Touchtone
telephone registration pro-
cess is being replaced by reg-
istration via the Web. The
Touchtone system will no
longer be available after
Mar. 31, 2002. Students
may continue to obtain in-
formation via SUNY Brock-
port Web pages. Summer
Session and fall 2002 and
subsequent semester regis-
tration will be handled
online.
• Enrolled Student Status -
The definition of an en-
rolled student at SUNY
Brockport is being changed.
The current definition of an
enrolled student is one who
has registered for courses
and made payment of their
student bill. The new defini-
tion of an enrolled student
is one who has registered for
courses and “affirmed en-
rollment and accepted
financial responsibility”
for the academic period for
those courses. “Affirming
enrollment and accepting fi-
nancial responsibility”
means that the student is
confirming his or her atten-
dance and responsibility for
tuition and all other educa-
tional costs associated with
attendance for that aca-
demic period. After affirm-
ing enrollment and accept-
ing responsibility, the only
way to avoid liability for tu-
ition and other costs is to
drop courses according to
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established College proce-
dures. All students will be
required to check “affirm
enrollment and accept fi-
nancial responsibility” on
the Web by the published
deadline for each semester
to reserve their classes.
Those not affirming enroll-
ment and accepting finan-
cial responsibility by the
deadline will be
deregistered so that seats
are made available for
other students.
• Special SummerSession
Information — Starting
with summer 2002, students
will receive monthly bills
from the Bursar’s Office. It
will be the student’s respon-
sibility to be sure payment is
received in the Bursar’s Of-
fice by the payment due
date in order to avoid late
payment fees. Late fees of
$30 will be assessed each
month that payment is not
received when due.
A summer installment
plan is available for a fee of
$35, which allows monthly
payments throughout the
summer, culminating with
Aug. 15 as the last payment
due date.
For a student whose sum-
mer 2002 course schedule
has been purged for not
checking the box “affirm
enrollment and accept fi-
nancial responsibility,” late
fees will be assessed for each
subsequent re-registration.
• Minimum Balance Due -
Students who are receiving
financial aid or other third-
party support in excess of
College charges will no
longer be required to make
a payment of $25 to retain
their course schedules. Stu-
dents who are receiving fi-
nancial aid should be re-
minded that actual atten-
dance in the classroom is re-
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Bursar announces important changes that affect your students (continued from page 3)
quired in order to be eligible
for financial aid.
• Monthly Billing - The
Bursar’s Office will be issu-
ing monthly bills to stu-
dents. Students can opt for a
separate billing address if
that best meets their needs.
Monthly bills may contain
A tangible way to make student success a reality
“I wasn’t planning to attend
college for at least a year be-
cause my family couldn’t af-
ford to send me. Receiving
an Extraordinary Scholar-
ship made it possible for me
to start at Brockport right
after I graduated from high
school.”
That comment, from a
personable and self-assured
junior who graduated #1 in
his high school class, under-
scores the vital importance
of the College’s Extraordi-
nary Scholarship Program
and other student scholar-
ships. It also points out why
BASC would like faculty
and staff to know that you
can dial the Food Phone at
x5555 for the daily menus
at Brockway and Harrison
Budget and Resource Committee update
The Budget and Resource
Committee held a special
budget examination meet-
ing on Jan. 31. Preliminary
discussions included the
clarification of processes af-
fecting unfunded budget re-
quests, draft reviews of the
budget “call letter,” and
SUNY policies governing
student fees. Later, Jeff
charges that were previously
billed separately by other
College offices; for example,
telephone and parking
charges.
• Installment Payments -
The multiple installment
payment plans offered un-
By Marianne Virgilio, institutional advancement
the Faculty and Staff
Annual Fund Campaign,
which is presently under
way, is so important. Unless
otherwise designated by the
donor, all funds raised
through the campaign will
support the Extraordinary
Scholarship Program.
Now in its second week,
the 2001-02 campaign is co-
chaired by Anne Parsons,
ITS, and Rich Fenton,
business administration and
economics. Working with
Parsons and Fenton is a
cadre of several dozen vol-
unteers in departments
Appetizing news from BASC
Dining Halls. This is very
popular with students, but
BASC has found that many
employees don’t know about
it!
Post, budget office, pro-
vided an update on this
year’s budget, indicating
that the College is currently
running about an $800,000
surplus. The primary focus
of the meeting was to have
the Committee recommend
College-wide budget reduc-
tions to offset next year’s an-
ticipated shortfall. Previ-
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der the current system will
be replaced with a single
five-month option at the
cost of $35 each semester.
The College is planning
to offer many new and im-
proved services through the
new student information
system, but these are a few
across campus. The volun-
teers act as campaign con-
tact points with colleagues
in their department. They
have additional pledge cards
for those who may have lost
theirs as well as all the de-
tails of how long the cam-
paign runs, where the
money goes, and why it’s so
important.
The Faculty and Staff
Annual Fund Campaign’s
goal of $73,000 represents a
10 percent increase in giving
this year. Overall, the 2001-
02 Brockport College Fund
aims to raise $825,000 in
Also, the BASC Catering
Office has moved to its new
office in Seymour College
Union. To get there, take
the northwest entrance,
ously solicited recommenda-
tions were incorporated into
tables for this purpose.
However, the Committee
decided to postpone action
on this item to allow the
vice presidents the opportu-
nity to review this material
in greater detail, provide
comments on the potential
impacts that these cuts may
of the more immediate
changes that will affect stu-
dents. If you have questions
regarding payment, please
contact the Bursar’s Office
at x2473. If you have ques-
tions concerning registra-
tion, please contact the
Office of Registration and
Records at x2531.
private support. SUNY
Brockport alumni, faculty
and staff emeriti, vendors,
friends and student families
as well as area businesses
and local foundations will
participate in addition to
current faculty and staff. Ev-
ery College constituency has
an important role to play in
the overall success of this
year’s effort.
But, as co-chairs Fenton
and Parsons point out, ex-
pectations for success of the
Faculty and Staff campaign
run high “because we know
you believe in student suc-
cess!”
walk past the Gallery
Lounge and Gameroom,
then turn right into the al-
cove just before the corner
and the Catering Office is
on the right.
have, and rank-order their
preference for adoption. To
accommodate this process,
the Feb. 7 meeting was post-
poned until Feb. 21.* Min-
utes of the meeting are
found on the Web page at
it.brockport.edu/~campus20/
budget.html.
(*No further material sub-
mitted by deadline for this
issue.)
 It’s College policy...
DISASTERS, EMERGENCIES AND OTHER
EXTRAORDINARY CONDITIONS
Introduction
SUNY Brockport’s guidelines for responding to disasters, emergencies, or other extraordinary conditions are
described in detail in its Disaster/Emergency Management Plan, available from and distributed by the
Division of Student Affairs. The information of most immediate concern to the typical employee or student,
however, is the following:

Where to Get Information

In the event of any type of disaster, emergency or other extraordinary condition that might result in the
closing of the College, the cancellation of classes, the curtailment of services, or some other deviation from
normal operations, critical information will be available from the following sources:

Tune To: Radio station WHAM, 1180 on the AM dial

Radio station 89.1 The Point, on the FM dial
TV stations: WOKR 13 Rochester, WIXT Syracuse, WIVB Buffalo
Visit: The College Web site at www.brockport.edu
Call: University Police at x2226
Helpline at x2796 or e-mail helpline@brockport.edu
For weather reports at xCOLD

Weather and Storms in General

The official College policy regarding extraordinary weather conditions requires that normal operations be con-
tinued as much as possible, that essential College services be maintained, and that College employees remain
on duty where necessary to perform essential services. If a decision is made to cancel classes for the day, the
campus community will be notified on the official news stations by 5 am.

Who is in Charge?
In disasters or other major emergencies, the Chief of University Police is designated as director of emergency
management, and will operate from the Office of University Police in Lathrop Hall.
On-campus emergencies might include prolonged power outage, snowstorm, air contamination, chemical
spill, bleacher/building collapse, civil disturbance, fire and food-borne illness. Whether such events would be
classified as an emergency is a matter of scale, and will be determined at the appropriate time by the Chief of
University Police with appropriate consultation.

Reporting an Emergency
Any natural or human-caused event which threatens life or property should be reported directly to University
Police’s emergency number at x2222. Please note: In the event of an injury to an individual requiring emer-
gency care and transportation, do not call 911 or otherwise directly summon an ambulance. Call University
Police at x2222. Officers will summon an ambulance if required, and will also manage traffic and related mat-
ters. All University Police are trained in first aid and CPR.

Note to Employees
Under state policy, employee absences resulting from severe weather conditions, including “directed absences,”
must be charged to personal, overtime, holiday, or vacation accruals, even under circumstances requiring the
cancellation of classes or the closing of the College. For more information regarding this policy, visit the
Human Resources Web page at www.brockport.edu/~hr/policies.htm#weather.

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The Office of Human Resources has announced that the following individuals have joined the
SUNY Brockport community (as of Mar. 1):
• Wesley Byers, adjunct
lecturer, business adminis-
tration and economics
• Thomas Dromgoole,
senior staff assistant, tele-
communications
• Julie Furminger, adjunct
lecturer, physical education
and sports
SUNY Learning Network (SLN) at SUNY Brockport
The SUNY Brockport SLN
faculty have been very busy
this semester with 127 stu-
dents enrolled in four un-
dergraduate and three
graduate courses — a 69
percent increase in enroll-
ment since Brockport first
began offering SLN courses
in the fall 2000 semester.
If you’re not familiar
with SLN, the SUNY
Learning Network is an
asynchronous learning net-
work that is Internet-based.
SLN eliminates the con-
straints of time and location
that higher education nor-
mally places on students.
Students engage in learning
and complete their assign-
ments without having to be
in a “classroom” at a certain
place and time each week.
The activities of asynchro-
The Middle States visiting
team will be on campus
Mar. 24-27. There has been
one change: Donald H.
Dilmore, Associate Vice
Welcome new employees
• Emmanuel Gyimah,
teaching assistant, physical
education and sports
• Tara Kibrick, student ac-
tivities assistant, intercolle-
giate athletics
• Margaret Litter, teaching
assistant, student learning
center
nous courses are the same as
those in a traditional class;
students read and analyze
course materials, write pa-
pers, do research, and com-
municate with their instruc-
tor and fellow students.
However, the students and
the faculty use the technol-
ogy of the Internet to ac-
complish these tasks. Cur-
rently, more than 50 SUNY
institutions are involved in
SLN.
At Brockport, SLN is
implemented under the di-
rection of Karen Schuhle-
Williams, special sessions
and programs. Schuhle-Wil-
liams was awarded a UUP
Labor Management Tech-
nology Grant for this aca-
demic year. Through this
grant faculty have received
course-development assis-
Middle States update
From Jenny Lloyd, history/Faculty Senate
President for University Li-
braries at Edinboro Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, will be
the library expert. The team
will give its preliminary re-
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• Emilie Miller, adjunct
lecturer, education and hu-
man development
• Emma Orsi, graduate as-
sistant, MetroCenter
• Marcy Quackenbush,
student activities assistant,
Tuttle North
tance, allowing them to de-
vote time and energy to en-
hance their courses by in-
corporating online testing
methods, enhancing course
content, and beta testing
online student feedback and
course-evaluation methods.
This assistance has provided
SLN faculty with the neces-
sary support to make con-
tinuous improvements to
their Internet course offer-
ings. As a part of the grant
activities, Susan Stites-Doe,
business administration and
economics, had two confer-
ence submissions accepted
on the topic of online evalu-
ations, and student feedback
from the perspective of par-
ticipating faculty and staff.
One of the conferences is
called “Chalk and Talk” and
is sponsored by the SUNY
port to the campus on Mar.
27.
The latest issue of the
Academic Affairs newsletter
is devoted to the self-study’s
• Naomi Schlagman, lec-
turer, sociology
• Jeffrey Seever, cleaner,
facilities and planning
• Julie Stevens, graduate
assistant, MetroCenter
• Paul Warren, cleaner,
facilities and planning
• Amy Wright, keyboard
specialist I, graduate studies
Oswego CELT office. The
second is the CIT confer-
ence to be held May 28-30.
(For more information
about either conference pre-
sentation, contact Stites-
Doe at x5518.)
If you want to learn more
about online teaching and
learning via SLN, there is an
information session sched-
uled soon. The agenda for
this exchange includes an
information exchange with
veteran SLN faculty, a dem-
onstration of Web-based
classroom grading software,
and using Turnitin plagia-
rism detection software.
Watch your mailbox for de-
tails! If you are interested in
teaching an SLN course, call
x2900. And explore the
SLN Web site at
www.sln.suny.edu.
executive summary. The full
report is available in search-
able form on the College
Web site under Administra-
tive Resources.

As of Mar. 4 Banner system
installation has resulted in
the following:
1. Move of student records
begun: We have begun the
process of moving the
records of nearly 90,000
students from EAGLE to
Banner. Any student who
has academic history on
EAGLE will be converted
to Banner. The first step of
this process is to move the
name, establish a student
ID (not Social Security
Number), and move the
most current address infor-
mation available. Once we
have established the identity
of each student, we will be-
gin the migration of other
academic data.
2. Academic history is be-
ing moved to Banner this
month: Each student’s tran-
script information will be
moved to Banner this
month. Courses, grades, de-
grees, academic standing,
separation information, and
most notational statements
will all be translated into
Banner fields.
One difference between
the EAGLE transcript and
the Banner transcript in-
volves the process of round-
ing GPA. EAGLE has
rounded GPA up, while
Banner truncates GPA.
This difference occasionally
Banner continues to unfurl
By Larry Humm, Banner implementation
causes the Banner GPA to
be .01 of a point lower. Our
colleagues at SUNY
Fredonia report this caused
some confusion the first
term on Banner, but has not
been a problem since.
The Banner transcript
also did not have an easy
way to accommodate the
DNA, DBL, and NIC nota-
tions that we have added to
transcripts to allow for
SUNY Brockport’s academic
forgiveness policy. Since
DBL and NIC both have
the same effect (to count
credit, but not include
course in index), we have
translated those grades by
preceding the grade with a
Q. A Banner grade of QC-
will be a non-indexable “C-.”
Likewise, a DNA (counts
neither as credit nor in in-
dex) will be proceeded by a
letter V.
3. Student accounts are
moving to Banner by the
end of Mar.: All student ac-
counts will be moved to
Banner the last weekend in
Mar. From that time for-
ward no student accounting
will occur on EAGLE. All
billing and receipting of
payments will occur on Ban-
ner starting Apr. 1.
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4. Banner training work-
shops during Mar.:
Experience has shown us
that training too far in ad-
vance of actual use reduces
anxiety but is forgotten by
the time it is needed. Now
is the time to learn how to
use Banner. A Mar. work-
shop schedule has been dis-
tributed to all department
chairs and directors. We will
also provide workshops in
Apr., during the summer,
and again in the fall.
Faculty will need only to
learn the Web for Faculty
(and Web for Student) pro-
cessing, since most of their
needs will be met by this
very easy to use Web portal.
Department chairs and
secretaries who are accus-
tomed to using EAGLE to
look at catalog and schedule
detail will need to learn the
basics of Web-enabled Ban-
ner.
5. More changes Banner
will bring:
A. All blocks are impor-
tant: Banner will permit us
to implement a College
policy that we have been ig-
noring on EAGLE. Students
have been permitted to reg-
ister for courses if they had
telephone, library, or park-
ing holds. College policy
does not permit that to oc-
cur, but we have delayed
implementing that policy
until after the Banner con-
version.
Starting with registration
for summer and fall 2002,
students will no longer be per-
mitted to register if they have
outstanding obligations to the
College.
B. Students will need to
know their Banner PIN to
participate in majors reser-
vation: Banner security in
the Web for Faculty module
will not permit faculty to
register students without the
student’s PIN. This should
be no problem since the stu-
dent should be present dur-
ing the reservation process.
However, it will necessitate
the student’s setting an ac-
tive PIN prior to the advise-
ment session.
C. Advisement Key Num-
bers and Permission Key
Numbers will still be em-
ployed: Matriculated un-
dergraduates are still re-
quired by College policy to
see their advisors before reg-
istering. Advisement Key
Numbers provided by the
advisor will continue to be
proof of meeting that re-
quirement.
Although the Banner
Web for Faculty provides
the capability of entering
overrides (permission into a
closed course) directly, the
flexibility that the Permis-
sion Key Number list pro-
vides faculty will be main-
tained in the Banner system.
Faculty often provide over-
ride permission in the class-
room when access to Web
for Faculty would be incon-
venient.
 Web Advisory Committee forging ahead
The Web Advisory
Committee, formed late
spring 2001 and chaired by
Sharon Vasquez, arts and
performance, has been
moving ahead to address
various issues and policies
that govern the College’s
Web site. Here are a few
highlights:
• This semester the
committee will discuss the
use of Web portals. Larry
Humm, Banner implemen-
tation, will explain what
Banner products can provide
Web-based services for
students, administrators,
faculty, etc.
• Two working groups
have been formed to invest-
igate Web issues:
1. Events Policy
Guidelines to research any
schools that have policies in
writing concerning putting
events on the home page.
The full committee has
looked at several online
examples of college/univer-
sity home pages to see how
they present events. Most
schools did not have student
events on the home page,
but had links. Discussion
was held concerning the
format of event information:
“blurb” or headline format.
No decision on format yet.
The group also formulated
guidelines for events/
activities/information on the
Web’s home page and the
committee approved an
events priority tier system. A
format/style for events
postings will be developed.
2. The Web Policy
Guidelines Group is
developing a series of Angel-
based surveys to go to unit
heads regarding departmen-
tal Web sites and other user
groups (e.g., alumni) to help
determine user needs.
• The committee has
discussed the importance of
providing easier access to
online services, such as
home-page navigation, links
terminology, adding Banner,
etc. More ideas should arise
from surveys.
Also serving on the
committee are Stuart
Appelle, letters and
sciences; Brian Brady, BSG;
Anne Canale, public
administration; Shannon
Doolin, marketing
communications; Diane
Elliott, graduate studies/
academic affairs; Rebecca
Gagné, human resources;
Sue Hawkes, college events;
Max Ivey, IT support
services; Steve Kast,
undergraduate admissions;
Steve Lewis, IT support
services; Robert Miller,
psychology; John Mlyniec,
BASC; Sandy Mullin,
professions (recording
secretary); Reginald
Ocansey, physical education
and sport; Scott Robinson,
education and human
development; John
Sapienza, institutional
advancement; and Natalie
Sommerville, library.

Directory updates Correction

• David Denz is the new re-
gional director of the Small
Business Development Cen-
ter. Also, Christine Viera
has left the SBDC.
• CSEA Local 601 Office,
B54 Hartwell Hall, x2697;
office hours are Wed., 11:30
am-2 pm; also note in that
listing Laurie Hildebrant
(no “d” at the end); see list-
ing on page 9 under “Orga-
nizations” in the directory.
From Colleen Donaldson,
academic affairs: The cam-
pus deadline for the new
Chancellor’s Award for
scholarship and creativity
was Mar. 8; the Mar. 29
date in the previous issue is
actually the date local nomi-
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 William Heyen edits
major September 11
anthology
Soon after the terrible events There will be many Award Winners Ai and
of September 11, Brockport books inspired by the matrix Lucille Clifton; best-selling
poet William Heyen, pro- of events of that tragic day, authors Erica Jong, Terry
fessor of English and poet- but this gathering of Ameri- Tempest Williams, Wendell
in-residence emeritus, began can creative writers will Berry, Maxine Hong
asking writers across the surely make its mark as one Kingston, Joy Harjo, Ishmael
United States to contribute of the most vital and neces- Reed, Naomi Shihab Nye,
to what he thought might sary. and Tess Gallagher; former
become an important book, Heyen chose the work of Poet Laureates Richard
but which grew and rever- 127 writers who set down Wilbur and Robert Pinsky.
berated even beyond what their responses on or soon But many of this volume’s
he imagined. The result is an after Sept. 11. Contributors most unforgettable respon-
anthology to be published in include such luminaries as ses are from writers just
early March, September 11, Pulitzer Prize winners W.S. making their mark. The in-
2001: American Writers Merwin, Henry Taylor, and tensity and variety of the
Respond. John Updike; National Book work –letters, essays, mem-
oirs, poetry, brief fictions,
and even a Tibetan memo-
rial service – have resulted
in a book that Heyen says is
“unlike any other in our lit-
erature. We’re not had a col-
lection in which poets and
other creative writers re-
spond so soon to an event.
Writers usually need to let
some time go by, but in this
case, as many of the con-
tributors say, our whole
world, even the world of
writing, has changed. And I
wanted to catch that pas-
sionate change, right now.”
Most of the contributions to
this book appear in print
there for the first time.
Profits from this book,
which will be published by
Etruscan Press of Easton,
MD, in both hardback and
paperback editions, will go
to a scholarship fund for the
children of victims of the
Sept. 11 attacks.
Local connections are
many. The anthology’s
evocative cover image is of a
Golden Eagles basketball player Adam Smith helped to keep the score sculpture by Alfred ceramist
tight in the NCAA Sectional Championship game against the Wayne Higby from the Me-
University of Rochester on Mar. 9. The Eagles fell 71-62, but enjoyed morial Art Gallery’s perma-
the glory of making the “Sweet 16” for the second consecutive season. nent collection. Poet-critic
“This is tough to take, but we accomplished a lot this season, with a James Longenbach of the
school record in victories,” said Coach Nelson Whitmore.
9
University of Rochester con-
tributes an essay, “A Reason
for Keeping Silent?” Fiction
writer Joanna Scott, also of
the University of Rochester,
is represented here by her
“Our America,” a memoir
of her visit to Ground Zero.
Other work is included by
novelist Mary Elsie
Robertson of Hamlin, poet
Rosemarie DiMatteo of
Hilton, and essayist Steve
Street of SUNY Brockport.
William Heyen is a
former Senior Fulbright
Lecturer in American Litera-
ture in Germany, and has
won National Endowment
for the Arts, Guggenheim,
American Academy & Insti-
tute of Arts & Letters, and
other fellowships and prizes.
He edited American Poets in
1976 and The Generation of
2000: Contemporary Ameri-
can Poets. Joyce Carol
Oates has described him as
a poet “in whom the ‘vision-
ary’ and the unblinkingly
‘historical’ are dramatically
meshed.” His work has ap-
peared in The New Yorker,
Poetry, American Poetry
Review, The Kenyon Review
and in scores of other peri-
odicals and anthologies. His
books of poetry include
Erika: Poems of the Holo-
caust, Ribbons: The Gulf
War, The Host: Selected
Poems 1965-1990, and the
winner of 1997’s Small Press
Book Award for Poetry,
Crazy Horse in Stillness.
Editor’s note: As of press
time, the publishing of
September 11, 2001:
American Writers Respond
has been delayed, possibly un-
til May as demand for the
book continues to grow.
In other areas
• David Abwender, psy-
chology, with undergradu-
ate student authors, recently
published two articles:
“Qualitative Analysis of
Verbal Fluency Output: Re-
view and Comparison of
Several Scoring Methods”
was published in the journal
Assessment (with J. G. Swan,
J. T. Bowerman, and S. W.
Connolly), and “Interactive
Effects of Characteristics of
Defendant and Mock Juror
on U.S. Participants’ Judg-
ment and Sentencing Rec-
ommendations” (co-
authored by K. Hough)
appeared in the Journal of
Social Psychology.
• Stacy Birch, psychology,
recently presented a poster
(with Chris Chase) at the
annual meeting of the
Psychonomic Society in Or-
lando, FL. The paper was
entitled “Visual and Lan-
guage Processing Deficits in
Adults with Varying De-
grees of Reading Impair-
ment.”
• Richard Black, design
and production; and Shan-
non Doolin, Nick Mascari
and Karla Linn Merrified,
marketing communications,
received a national Bronze
Medal from Admissions
Marketing for their “Ex-
traordinary Faculty” maga-
zine advertising campaign.
Featured in the print adver-
tisements targeted to high-
parameter student prospects
were outstanding younger
faculty, including Carvin
Eison and Donna Kowal,
communication; Anne
MacPherson and James
Spiller, history; Jennifer
Hecker, art; Greg Garvey,
English; Christopher
Norment, biological sci-
ences; and Susan Stites-
Doe, business administra-
tion and economics. The
ads ran Aug. 2001-Mar.
2002 in Time, Newsweek,
US News & World Report,
Sports Illustrated and People.
• Kelly Brennan, psychol-
ogy, authored a paper with
K. Carnelley and S. Israel
entitled “Attachment Style
Differences in Reaction to
Partner Feedback,” which
was presented at the recent
annual conference of the
Society of Personality and
Social Psychology in Savan-
nah, GA.
• Zara R. Brenner, nursing,
has published “Lessons for
Critical Care Nurses on
Caring for the Dying” in
Critical Care Nurse, 2002,
22(1); 11-12.
• Steve Breslawski, business
administration and econom-
ics, has seen his major work,
“Selection of Employees for
Telecommuting Programs:
The Relationship Between
Key Employee Traits and IS
Managers’ Recommenda-
tions,” nominated for the
Best Paper Award at the
2002 Annual Meeting of the
Northeast Decision Sciences
Institute.
• John Daly, history, was
appointed session chair and
presented a paper “Evolving
Movies, Evolving Museums:
Public History Sites and
Film Presentations of Sla-
very and Race in Popular
Culture” at the Far West
American Popular Culture
Association Conference,
Feb. 2.
• Jim Dusen, photographic
services, presented a stereo-
scopic (3D) slide show at
the NFRCC Annual Photo
Convention in St. Catha-
rines, ONT, March 1-3.
He’ll present the same show
at Kent State University this
10
June for the annual UPAA
Symposium. The 3D show
includes photographs Dusen
took last June in Utah. Fea-
tured were Bryce Canyon,
Capitol Reef, Canyonlands,
Hovenweep and Arches Na-
tional Parks. He also in-
cluded two shorter features
on Letchworth State Park,
and the space shuttle Discov-
ery.
• Baban Hasnat, business
administration and eco-
nomics, had his article “The
Impact of Core Labor Stan-
dards on Exports” published
in International Business Re-
view, Vol. 5, 2002.
• David Holtzman, psy-
chology, recently published
two notes in the Herpetologi-
cal Review, one with C. D.
Stosic and J. Wyatt, entitled
“Field Use of a Local Anes-
thetic, Lidocaine Hydro-
chloride, for Radio-trans-
mitter Implantation in boa
constrictor imperator;” and
“Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
(Eastern Garter Snake)
Courtship Behavior.” He
also presented a poster,
“The NMDA Receptor An-
tagonist MK-801 Disrupts
Spatial Learning in the
Corn Snake,” co-authored
with A. Tan, at the 31st an-
nual Society for Neuro-
science meeting. Holtzman
received a Scholarly Incen-
tive Award and a UUP Indi-
vidual Development Award
to travel to Ometepe Is-
land, Nicaragua, to conduct
ongoing research on the spa-
tial ecology and orientation
behavior of boa constrictors.
A National Geographic pro-
gram featuring his work pre-
miered Mar. 8 on the Na-
tional Geographic channel.
• Earl Ingersoll, English,
signed a contract with
Fairleigh Dickinson Univer-
sity Press for D. H.
Lawrence: New Worlds, co-
edited with Keith Cushman,
University of North Caro-
lina, Greensboro; and a con-
tract with University Press
of Mississippi to publish
Rita Dove’s interviews.
Dove recently received an
honorary doctorate from the
College.
• M. Asri Jantan, business
administration and econom-
ics, and Earl D. Honeycutt
saw their peer-reviewed pa-
per “Sales Training Practices
In Malaysia” published in
Multinational Business Re-
view, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring
2002. Jantan, along with
Earl D. Honeycutt and W.
Karande Kiran, saw “Sales
Training in Malaysia High-
Versus Low-tech Industries”
accepted for publication in
the summer 2002 edition of
Industrial Marketing Man-
agement.
• Roger Kurtz, English, had
three reviews published in
recent months: The Picador
Book of African Stories, ed.
Stephen Gray, in World Lit-
erature Today 75:3/4 (Sum-
mer/Autumn 2001), 117;
The Companion to African
Literatures, eds. Douglas
Killam and Ruth Rowe, H-
AfrLitCine, H-Net Reviews,
Sept. 2001; and African Lit-
eratures in English: East and
West, by Gareth Griffiths, in
World Literature Today 75:2
(Spring 2001), 303-04. His
essay “Language and Ideol-
ogy in Postcolonial Kenyan
Literature: The Case of
David Maillu’s Macaronic
Fiction” was published in
Readings in African Popular
Fiction, Ed. Stephanie
(continued on page 11)
In other areas (continued from page 10)
Newell, by the Indiana Uni-
versity Press (2002), 124-
28. Kurtz, along with Stan
Sanvel Rubin, English, also
had an interview, “A Con-
versation with Zee Edgell,”
appear in Great River Re-
view 35 (Fall/Winter 2001-
2002), 1-18. Look for
Kurtz’s two forthcoming
works: A 10,000-word essay
on Ngugi wa Thiong’o to
appear in British Writers, Ed.
Jay Parini, from Scribners;
and an essay, “Crossing
Over: Identity and Change
in Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye’s
Song of Nyarloka,” to appear
in Research in African Litera-
tures 33:2 (Summer 2002).
• W. Bruce Leslie, history,
and John Halsey, interna-
tional education/sociology,
have published their essay
“A College Upon a Hill:
Exceptionalism and Ameri-
can Higher Education” in
Marks of Distinction: Ameri-
can Exceptionalism Revisited
(Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus
University Press, 2001.
• Thom Metzger, English,
has sold his second novel to
Houghton Mifflin. Wild
Ride to Heaven will appear
early in 2003. Metzger’s
2001 cover story for City
Newspaper, “Mobile Homes,
Mobile Lives,” featured a
long interview with Anne
Panning, English.
• Robert Miller, psychol-
ogy, recently published a pa-
per entitled “Gender Differ-
ences in Illusion Response:
The Influence of Spatial
Strategy and Sex Ratio,”
which was published in the
journal, Sex Roles.
• Gregory Saxton, public
administration, has had an
article accepted for publica-
tion in a forthcoming issue
of The American Review of
Public Administration with
co-authors Christopher W.
Hoene and Steven P. Erie,
entitled “Fiscal Constraints
and the Loss of Home Rule:
The Long-term Impacts of
California’s Post-Proposition
13 Fiscal Regime.”
• Robert C. Schneider and
William F. Stier, Jr., physi-
cal education and sport, re-
cently co-authored an article
entitled “Leni Riefenstahl’s
Olympia: Brilliant Cinema-
tography or Nazi Propa-
ganda?” It was published in
the fall 2001 The Sport Jour-
nal. In addition, Schneider
and Stier co-presented two
papers at the New York
State Association for Health,
Physical Education, Recre-
ation, and Dance Confer-
ence in Rochester, NY, on
Nov. 15, 2001. The presen-
tations were entitled “Sexual
Harassment in Physical
Education and Sport” and
“Everything You Always
Wanted to Know About
Fundraising but Were
Afraid to Ask.”
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• Marion Schrank, student
affairs, was nominated to re-
ceive a Governor’s Award for
Outstanding SEFA Volun-
teers for the 2001 SEFA
Campaign. She chaired the
SUNY Brockport campaign.
• Susan Shonk, psychology,
recently published a paper
with Dante Cicchetti en-
titled “Maltreatment, Com-
petency Deficits, and Risk
for Academic and Behav-
ioral Maladjustment” in De-
velopmental Psychology.
• John J. Spitzer and
Sandeep Singh, business
administration and econom-
ics, have their paper titled
“Asset Allocation in the
Presence of Varying Re-
turns, Different Contribu-
tion Schemes, and Multiple
Investment Horizons: A
Monte Carlo Study” ac-
cepted for presentation at
the Eighth European Con-
ference of the Financial
Management Association
International to be held in
Copenhagen, Denmark,
June 5-8. Jeff Strieter and
Jerry Weaver, business ad-
ministration and economics,
received the Best Author
Award from the Journal of
the American Academy of
Business.
• Cesar Torres, physical
education and sport, was a
guest on Feb. 19 on the ra-
dio show “Controversy,”
hosted by Kelly Clark (Of-
fice of Multicultural Affairs,
Center for Community,
SUNY Geneseo) at 89.3
FM-WSGU SUNY
Geneseo. The show, which
takes an in-depth look at
current events and topics
that are controversial and
diversity-related, focused on
the Olympics. Torres also
recently received a research
grant from the Olympic
Studies Center for his
“Latin America 1920’s
‘Olympic Explosion:’
Causes and Consequences.”
He was one of six recipients
from 20 countries of the 31
who competed for the grant.
• Marianne Virgilio, insti-
tutional advancement, has
been recertified through
Dec. 2004 as a Certified
Fund-Raising Executive
(CFRE) for her achievement
as a professional fund raiser,
continued professional edu-
cation, and service to the
profession.
• Wendy Wright, public ad-
ministration, presented a
paper at the Association for
Budgeting and Financial
Management (ABFM) Con-
ference in Washington, DC,
on Jan. 18, entitled “What
Influences Change in
Manufacturing Employ-
ment.”
As most of you know, Marion Schrank, vice president for student
affairs, has announced her intent to retire at the close of this
academic year — having spent the whole of her 30-year career at
SUNY Brockport, also her Alma Mater.
In that light...

SUNY Brockport
President Paul Yu
the President’s staff and the
Division of Student Affairs
cordially invite you to attend
a reception in honor of
Marion Schrank
April 15, 2002
from 3:30-5:30 pm in the
Seymour College Union Lounge

Tax-deductible contributions to the

Endowed Student Leadership Fund named in her honor are welcome.
Please contact Beth Benson at x2468 or ebenson@brockport.edu for information.
Letters of remembrance can be sent to
Betsy Rosser, residential life/learning communities,
at brosser@brockport.edu.

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 More Extraordinary Scholars recognized
The following are four more
brief bios, the second in a
series featured in these
pages. Each one is a student
success story in the making.
Look for these outstanding
students in your classes this
semester.
Freshman and Extraordi-
nary Distinguished Scholar
Casey Campbell is a jour-
nalism major with a 4.0
GPA. He hopes to one day
become a journalist for a na-
tional magazine, ideally
working for a video game or
men’s magazine such as
Maxim. Campbell plans to
minor in political science in
order to expand the topics
that he would write about as
a journalist. He is a member
of the Honors Program and
enjoys watching movies,
writing short stories and
movie scripts, and reading
books, especially those by
Ernest Hemingway. He
comes to SUNY Brockport
from Jefferson Central
School in Stamford, NY,
where he was one of a class
of only 17 students.
By Adam Standish, scholarship office
Junior Katharine
Kennedy is also an Extraor-
dinary Distinguished
Scholar. She is a mathemat-
ics major with a computer
science minor, carrying a
3.65 GPA and planning to
one day incorporate her
math and computer science
background into a career in
law enforcement, possibly
with the FBI. Kennedy is
currently pursuing various
internships at the College,
which she hopes will open
doors and possibly intro-
duce her to other math-re-
lated careers. She is a mem-
ber of the Alpha Chi Honor
Society, has been a partici-
pant in intramural sports
such as volleyball and soc-
cer, and has worked as a
substitute lifeguard. She also
enjoys reading, traveling,
movies, theater productions,
outdoor activities, sports,
and “hanging out with her
friends.”
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Freshman Srinivas
Krishnan, is one of SUNY
Brockport’s Extraordinary
Distinguished Scholars. A
computer science major
with a 3.92 GPA, Krishman
is looking to pursue a career
in computer science where
she can do research in data-
base development and
search algorithms. She is a
member of the Association
of Computing Machines,
involved in the Math Club,
and a member of the Hon-
ors Program. Outside of her
academics, Krishman is in-
terested in computer pro-
gramming and problem
solving, likes to play cricket,
enjoys listening to music,
and is interested in applica-
tions of mathematics. She
says that the best part of her
Brockport experience so far
has been being a part of the
Honors Program. The small
classes and discussion-style
classes have helped her to
expand her views of subjects
such as history and film
studies.
Junior Jacqueline
Stachowiak, also a SUNY
Brockport Extraordinary
Distinguished Scholar, has a
dual major in a psychology
and criminal justice major
with a 3.69 GPA, planning
to pursue a PhD in an area
of psychology and then
eventually become a psy-
chology professor. She also
is interested in combining
both of her majors to pursue
a job as a criminal or foren-
sic psychologist. Stachowiak
is an active member in the
Alpha Chi and Psi Chi
Honor Societies and partici-
pates on the SUNY Brock-
port She also enjoys danc-
ing, reading, watching The
Simpsons, and spending time
with her friends and family.

After months of hard work,
the Seymour College Union
is now open for business
and we’re ready to celebrate
its new look! Join the
college community, hosted
by the Presidents Office, the
Division of Student Affairs
Scholars Day spotlights SUNY Brockport research
Day-long event features research by more than 400 faculty, staff and students
Since 1984 Scholars Day at
SUNY Brockport has
brought out the best and the
brightest.
This year will be no dif-
ferent as more than 400 stu-
dents, faculty and staff make
Scholars Day 2002 presen-
tations on Apr. 10, begin-
ning promptly at 8:30 am
and continuing to 3:30 pm.
Presentations cover the
Writers Forum to welcome Waldman
Mark your calendars for
Writers Forum guest Ken
Waldman on Mar. 27 at
8 pm, New York Room,
Cooper Hall. Poet/musi-
cian Ken Waldman is a 15-
year Alaska resident who has
lived in Fairbanks, Juneau,
Sitka, Nome, and now An-
Celebrate a reunified Union
and BASC, April 3, at the
long-awaited grand re-
opening.
Tours of the facility will be
offered in the afternoon,
followed by a ribbon-
cutting ceremony presided
over by Marion Schrank,
entire range of interests
found on a liberal arts cam-
pus, from “The Impact of
Terrorism on Tourism,” to
“Editorial Cartoons: 9/11
and After,” to “Time Curva-
ture and Differential Geom-
etry.” Each presentation is
about 20 minutes long and
reviews a student’s or faculty
member’s research conduct-
ed during the previous year.
chorage. A former college
professor, he has traveled
widely through the state,
and currently teaches and
performs throughout North
America, working regularly
at schools, theaters, festivals,
universities, and coffee-
houses.
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student affaris, with SUNY
Chancellor Robert King,
President Paul Yu, BSG
President Brian Brady,
Sandi Mason, BASC; and
Terry Hover, student affairs
and the first director of the
College Union. And, of
An information table will
be located in Edwards Hall
to offer schedules and direc-
tions to attendees. Presenta-
tions are scheduled primarily
in Edwards Hall, but also
will take place in Hartwell
Hall, the Seymour College
Union, and Tower Fine Arts.
A Jobs and Internships
Fair, sponsored by the Office
of Career Services, will run
As a fiddler and a poet,
what he does is not your
usual folk poetry. He is
subtle and accomplished
and likes to seduce his audi-
ences into listening to his
poetry by playing the fiddle.
His fiddling has a raw sound
that feels like it belongs in
course, BASC will be
providing their usual
culinary delights, including
samples from the Union
Square food services. The
ceremony and ribbon
cutting will begin at 4 pm.
from 11:30 am to 3:30 pm
in Tuttle South.
A senior student-athlete
recognition luncheon will
be held 11:30 am-1 pm, by
invitation only.
The Spring Honors and
Awards Ceremony and Re-
ception, 4 pm, in the
Seymour Union Ballroom,
will conclude the day’s focus
on student success at SUNY
Brockport.
Alaska, or maybe in
Kentucky in the company
of some high-octane corn
squeezin’s. If you enjoy
Alaska, old-time fiddle, po-
etry, or all three, you won’t
want to miss Ken Waldman.

Kitty Hubbard and Jenni-
fer Hecker, art, will have
their project, “Garden
Shed,” exhibited in the
atrium of the Memorial Art
Gallery Apr. 1-29 in con-
junction with MAG’s “Art
in Bloom” program. Their
project grew out of many
conversations that they had
concerning affinities in their
It’s almost
gardening time
work; both use garden im-
agery in their artwork as
metaphors for cycles of life.
They share an interest in ex-
ploring through their art the
beauty and spirituality in-
herent in the natural world
and finding a place for it in
their own backyard, as in a
garden shed. They see the
“Garden Shed” as a cross be-
tween a small chapel and a
gardener’s shed, offering a
spiritual place for intimate
communion. “Garden
Shed” is a mixed-media
sculpture made of hardware
cloth, dried flowers, wire,
screen and stone. Four Delta
College students are work-
ing with Hubbard and
Hecker on the fabrication of
the sculpture as part of their
participation in a “Creative
Project” for DCC310 Hu-
man Heritage. The students
are Rebecca Odili, Sarah
Reinstein, Jake
Piorkowski, and Lena
Agnello. They are docu-
menting the evolution of
the project and will do a
Scholars Day presentation
with the students in 2003.
More than 30 dozen tulips
were donated from the
Dutch Connection exhibi-
tion at the George Eastman
House for the project.

Dawn Jones, mathematics,
wishes to announce that
SUNY Brockport will be
hosting the Spring 2002
Meeting of the Seaway Sec-
tion of the Mathematics As-
sociation of America on
Apr. 19-20. More than 200
participants are expected
Mathematics hosting
spring association meeting
from across New York state
and Canada.
The conference will in-
clude sessions on mathemat-
ics education, pure math-
ematics, and technology in
the mathematics classroom.
There will also be a student
session on knot theory and a
student lunch session focus-
ing on job opportunities in
mathematics. The confer-
ence is free for all pre-regis-
tered students.
Invited speakers will in-
clude Robert Rogers, SUNY
Fredonia, speaking on
“Search for the Mean Value
Theorem;” Ken Ross, Uni-
versity of Oregon, on “Sta-
tistics and the Mathematics
Of Baseball;” and Alan Tay-
lor, Union College, on “Is
Honesty the Best Policy?”

Reserve now for EOP Banquet

The Educational Opportu-
nity Program’s annual ban-
quet is quickly approaching
on Apr. 6 at 6 pm in the
New York Room. EOP asks
that you please support
EOP students with your at-
tendance and/or by sponsor-
ing a student to the ban-
quet.
New faculty and staff,
take note: This is the event
during which the College
honors its EOP students
who have achieved at least a
3.0 GPA for two semesters
or as an overall average, and
who have given service to
the College and community.
Once more, please con-
sider sponsoring a student
to the banquet. For your
convenience, a “Sponsor a
Student” form is printed be-
low. Please indicate your
preference(s) on the form
and return it to EOP by
Mar. 29. Tickets are $13
each. Thank you.
EOP 23rd Annual Banquet Reservation Form
Please check all that apply.
___Faculty/staff attending Name________________
___Sponsoring EOP student Name________________
___I would like to sponsor a student; please select one for me.
___Unable to attend or sponsor a student, but will contribute.
Total Amount Enclosed $______
Please send completed form and payment to Terry Stymus,
EOP, 109 Lathrop Hall.

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 Environmental Science seminar
slated on Apr. 8
“Reducing Energy Use and Rosen of the Department of
Environmental Impact Cost Mechanical Engineering at
Effectively: Case Study for a Ryerson University in
University” will be the topic Canada Apr. 8, 4:30-5:30
of guest lecturer Marc pm in 140 Lennon Hall.
Students, faculty and
staff are invited to attend
the seminar, which is being
sponsored by the Great
Lakes Research Consortium,
Environmental Science Pro-
gram and New York Sea
Grant.

Topolski and Williams art exhibit

continues through Apr. 7
Sculptor and University of
Rochester Art faculty Allen
Topolski, along with
mixed-media artist and
Manhattanville College Art
faculty member Randy
Williams, have mounted
their exhibition of found-
object art and mixed media
works in the Tower Fine
Arts Gallery, now through
Apr. 7.
Topolski and Williams
both use found objects to
create a fascinating blend of
mixed-media pieces. Their
work has been exhibited ex-
tensively in solo shows na-
tionwide. Williams is also
the director of the New York
State Summer School of the
Arts (NYSSSA) Visual Arts
Program. The program, for
high school students, is held
each summer on the SUNY
Brockport campus.
The Tower Fine Arts Gal-
lery hours are Tuesday-Sat-
urday, noon to 5 p.m., and
Tuesday and Thursday
evening hours 6-9 pm. The
gallery will be closed Mar.-
18-23 for Spring Break.

Also in the arts:

• Apr. 4-6, the Department
of Dance will present
Dance Premiere, featuring
new work choreographed
and performed by under-
graduate and graduate dance
artists. It will be held in
Hartwell Dance Theater at
8 pm; tickets are $7 general,
$5 seniors and students.
• Stephen Sondheim’s play
Assassins is slated for Apr.
26-28 and May 3-5. Plan
now to attend this unique
musical that will open on
Broadway in July. Call
xARTS for more informa-
tion or look to these pages
in the next edition of State-
ments, Etc.

Spring (software) training

ITSS is sponsoring a series of spring training sessions for faculty and staff devoted to Microsoft Office 2000 and Mac applica-
tions.
The training will include a lecture and hands-on exercises designed to emphasize practical applications.
All classes will be held in Dailey Hall unless otherwise indicated.

• Beginning Access — Mar. 20, 9 am-noon

• Excel — Mar. 20, 1-4 pm
• Beginning Project— Mar. 21, 9 am-noon
• Beginning Powerpoint — Mar. 21, 1-4 pm
• Intermediate Powerpoint — Mar. 22 9 am-noon
• Intermediate Dreamweaver — Mar. 22, 1-4 pm
• Final Cut Pro I (Mac) — Mar. 29, 2:30-5:30 (103 Holmes)
• Final Cut Pro II (Mac) — Apr. 5, 2:30-5:30 (103 Holmes)
• Final Cut Pro III (Mac) — Apr. 12, 2:30-5:30 (103 Holmes)
• Quicktime (Mac) — Apr. 19, 2:30-5:30 (103 Holmes)
• Director I (Mac) — Apr. 26, 2:30-5:30 (103 Holmes)
• Director II (Mac) — May 3, 2:30-5:30 (103 Holmes)
• Director III (Mac) — May 10, 2:30-5:30 (103 Holmes)

You can register online at: www.itss.brockport.edu/workshop_reg.htm, e-mail tloscomb@brockport.edu, or call x2368.
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another way to look at diversity
On Apr. 17-18 on the
ground floor of Drake
Library, the Women’s Center
and Women’s Studies are
cosponsoring a series of
presentations by the Kansas
City artist Larry Kirkwood,
on “Body Image...Beauty
as a Relative Concept.”
For several years
Kirkwood has made body
casts of women’s torsos (and
a few men’s) ranging in age
from 17 to 77 years in all
sizes and shapes, and from
different ethnic back-
grounds. His purpose is to
demonstrate the diversity
By Jenny Lloyd, history/Faculty Senate
Ballots are being mailed for
the election of Senators-at-
large. Davida Bloom,
theatre, and Richard Frey,
criminal justice, are the can-
didates. The Faculty Senate
president will appoint a
nominee to the third vacant
position.
Some senators’ terms are
up; departments or divi-
The human body —
inherent in the human
body. Through his exhibit
and accompanying presen-
tation, viewers are able to
consider the human form
objectively and without
emotional underpinnings
and value labels. Viewers
may come to realize that
they do not have to be
alienated from themselves
or others as a result of
feelings of guilt associated
with their bodies.
As one viewer has
commented: “As a male in
an image-oriented society,
I’ve struggled to find true
sional groups will be noti-
fied by the Senate office.
New and returning senators
will soon receive a sheet ask-
ing for committee prefer-
ences. Please return it
promptly.
The Undergraduate Cur-
riculum Committee approv-
ed minor changes in the
Nursing and Spanish ma-
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inner beauty. I hope this
exhibit reminds us that there
should be no standard to
physical beauty, and that
what is truly beautiful is
what is inside each and every
one of us.”
Kirkwood’s exhibit will
feature two presentations for
the campus community in
the Kiefer Room (ground
floor of Drake Library), Apr.
17, 9:30-10:30 pm; and
Apr. 18, 4:30-5:30 pm. In
addition, Kirkwood will be
willing to come and speak to
your class anytime during
the day Apr. 17 or 18, other
jors. The Senate Executive
Committee endorsed the
plan for assessment of
SUNY general education
learning outcomes devel-
oped by the General Educa-
tion Committee with
Michael Fox, academic af-
fairs. The plan was sent to
Albany to meet the Mar. 1
deadline.
than the times noted above.
He has presented on
numerous college campuses
during the past several years
in classes such as art, dance,
physical education, health
science, women’s studies,
and biology.
For more information,
contact Maria Scipione,
Women’s Center, at
scipville@earthlink.net or call
the Center at x5584 to
schedule Kirkwood to visit
your class.
Supported by a GICD
grant.
Items currently under
discussion are a change in
the Health Science curricu-
lum, a policy on students
bringing children to class, a
thesis continuation policy
for graduate students, and a
new transfer articulation
policy. Please ask your sena-
tor for details.

Many of you will remember
the pianist, wit, and occa-
sional actor, Oscar Levant,
whose autobiography was
titled Memoirs of an Amne-
siac. I invoke Oscar as I of-
fer you a few of my recollec-
tions of this college, because
I suffer from a fairly com-
mon strain of his disease.
That is, I have forgotten
nothing about these events
except those things that
tend to reflect poorly on
me, and those I have forgot-
ten entirely.
Student Recollections
• Twenty years or so ago a
young man I’ll call Oscar
Ozone, after four carefree
years at Brockport, made a
final, celebratory appearance
at Commencement. His
grandfather, who had picked
up the entire tab for Oscar’s
four years, was here for the
occasion, and a very happy
man he was. A good deal
happier, I might add, than
College officials when they
realized that Oscar had
come up a little short on
graduation requirements —
114 credits short, to be pre-
cise. But not short on brass -
he wasn’t on anyone’s list to
graduate, but he was there,
and had even rented or bor-
rowed a gown. Four years,
and only six credits to show
for his time and his grand-
father’s money. (He may
have been the first student
that we described as being
in our space program; that
is, taking up some of our
space for a few years.) A col-
league told me that Oscar
was talking medical school
with his grandfather that
day, but no one attempted
to ruin grandfather’s day,
and perhaps no one ever
did. I have no idea where
Oscar is now, but whenever
I’m referred to a new physi-
cian, I’m extra careful about
the name.
• Now, I wouldn’t exactly
call Oscar an underachiever;
he probably achieved exactly
what he had set out to do.
For underachievement, at
least in my memory, the
award has to go to two sib-
lings - call them the Cost
brothers - who were our stu-
dents for a brief time back
in the 70s. It seems the Cost
brothers had a major dis-
agreement with a third party
one night in a neighboring
city, reportedly over the
third party’s assessment of
the mother of the Brothers
Cost. Sometime in the
course of their animated dis-
cussion the other party
found himself locked in the
trunk of his car, at which
point the Cost brothers, up-
set with either his clumsi-
ness or his mother-judging
talents, fired a volley of
shots into the locked trunk,
and departed. Police who
later extricated the
betrunked man found him,
to their astonishment, un-
touched, if temporarily a
little hard of hearing. You
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Ah, those were the days
By Roger M. Weir, student affairs
can speculate that the trunk
may have been cavernous,
the occupant tiny, or even
that he had a really effective
auto-immune system (laugh
here, please), but in my
opinion that was under-
achievement as under-
achievement was meant to
be achieved.
• For an example of ingenu-
ity gone for naught, I like to
draw upon the graduate stu-
dent in one of our profes-
sional programs who was
denied her degree because
she had failed one of the re-
quired courses. She chal-
lenged the department,
pointing out (correctly) that
nowhere was it stated that
anyone had to pass the
course. It merely stated that
one must complete the
course, and she had indeed
completed it, even though
she received a failing grade.
Personally, I think she had a
very good point, at least as
far as language is concerned.
Unfortunately for her, per-
haps, she wasn’t pursuing a
master’s in English.
Institutional Recollections
• Early in my career at
SUNY Brockport I received
a call from an upset faculty
member in the Tower Fine
Arts Building, informing me
that upon her arrival at her
office that morning, she had
found a student rifling
through her file cabinet. She
added that the student had
seemed rather confused, but
left the office upon her re-
quest. The faculty member
thought that maybe some-
thing should be done. I
asked her if she knew who
the student was and she told
me she did. “Actually,” she
said, “I’ve found her sitting
underneath my desk when I
arrive at my office every day
for the past two weeks.”
Had she brought this to
anyone’s attention? “No,”
she replied, “it really wasn’t
that much of a problem, but
now she’s gone too far.”
With such a level of toler-
ance, I wondered what ex-
actly was in the file cabinet,
but I let that pass. Given the
disconnection with reality
that the student was experi-
encing, it wasn’t hard to
track her down, nor to have
her admitted for psychiatric
evaluation and treatment. I
still sometimes wonder just
how crazy that young
woman would have had to
get without being reported,
in those “do your own
thing” days, if she just
hadn’t messed with those
damned files.
• When I arrived at SUNY
Brockport, I took over the
administration of the Miller
Analogies Test (100 mul-
tiple-choice analogies, re-
quiring abstract conceptual
reasoning and a lot of gen-
eral cultural knowledge),
which was a popular screen-
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Ah, those were the days (continued from page 18)
ing instrument for graduate
programs at the time, in-
cluding some of our own. I
eventually realized that
some graduate students tak-
ing the test had already
completed all of their course
work for one of our own
master’s programs. It turned
out that even though scores
on the MAT were required
as part of the selection crite-
ria, many students managed
to take all the required
courses anyway. But even if
they finished their course-
work with a 4.0, they still
had to take the MAT before
being granted the degree,
because “it was required.”
To what end, I never did
discover.
• Another version of a tim-
ing problem emerged in the
early l980s, when Academic
Advisement recruited 10
seasoned faculty advisors to
assist a department over-
whelmed with students.
I asked the department to
give each volunteer 10 “In-
tents to Major,” meaning
that most had not yet com-
pleted the department’s pre-
requisite courses, and thus
would be lower division stu-
dents, where advising mis-
takes would be less costly.
To our dismay, we soon dis-
covered that almost all those
Intents were seniors - the
worst possible time to make
an advisement mistake. It
seemed that the prerequisite
requirement was not regu-
larly enforced, so students
tended to let them hang un-
til the very end, thus pro-
gressing from an Intent to
Major to a graduate, all in
the same semester. I ques-
tioned the point of prereq-
uisites, since they didn’t
seem all that necessary to
success in the major itself,
and suggested that it might
at least be more accurate to
refer to them as postre-
quisites. They didn’t buy my
change in name; they had a
better idea, and eventually
managed to clean up the
problem. I still wonder, just
a little, why they kept the
prerequisites, when their
students seemed to manage
all those major courses with-
out them. They would no
doubt answer that those
who take them first do bet-
ter than those who wait.
That sounds reasonable. Do
you assume they have any
evidence for that? Do you
want to buy this bridge?
• Are you familiar with the
term “credit for life experi-
ence?” For a couple of de-
cades, SUNY Brockport and
many other colleges offered
students credit toward their
bachelor’s degree based
upon evidence that they had
mastered elsewhere some
body of knowledge that
could reasonably contribute
to their undergraduate edu-
cation. One of the better ex-
amples is credit for certain
armed services training pro-
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grams. One of the really, re-
ally bad examples I have
here before me, a perfect il-
lustration of why we no
longer offer such an option
at all. Read on.
Across my Academic Ad-
visement desk in back in
l997 came an “Evaluator’s
Report” from a professor X,
employed in a college not all
that far from here. I quote
verbatim from his report:
“(Student) and I spoke on
the phone and we deter-
mined that sending me a
tape would be sufficient in
my determining her ability
on the piano. Here is a list
of seven classical pieces she
recorded on the tape for me,
all of which were played
quite well. I am recom-
mending she receive six
credits as her playing war-
rants such. Her playing ob-
viously shows several years
of hard work up to an ad-
vanced level.” A list of the
seven pieces followed. Six
undergraduate credits, and
the professor had never laid
eyes on the student, much
less observed her playing.
That prompted me to apply
to the same professor for
credit of my own, and here
is the text of my letter to
him.
“I am enclosing an audio
tape of my rock band play-
ing a famous old Beatles
number, “Penny Lane.” My
friends and I made it in our
garage, but we have very so-
phisticated sound equip-
ment, and we’re very good
mimics, so you’ll probably
think you’re hearing the
original song by the Beatles
themselves. That fact alone
should make you want to
award me at least twelve un-
dergraduate credits for this
accomplishment. Thanks
for your assistance; I’ll be
waiting for your response.
P.S. I have enclosed as well a
photograph of some work of
mine from several years ago.
It’s a model of the Brooklyn
Bridge done to full scale,
and let me tell you, it wasn’t
just a weekend project! My
parents think it ought to be
worth a doctorate in engi-
neering, which might be
handy if I don’t find work in
the entertainment business.
You’ll notice in the photo of
my bridge that there appear
to be major buildings at ei-
ther end. Those really aren’t
the ones in Brooklyn, you
understand - I made them
after reading my father’s
back issues of “Popular Me-
chanics,” because I thought
they made the bridge look
better. Why don’t you evalu-
ate them, too, in case archi-
tecture heats up in the near
future?”
Okay, so I didn’t include
either the tape or the photo-
graph, but that’s no excuse
for his not even replying. Is
it? I mean, isn’t even decep-
tion worth a credit or two,
especially these days?
 New on the College Web site
As you’re browsing, take a online in a secure area of the
look at these new sites: Web site (you’ll need your
• The College’s Key Perfor- faculty/staff password) at
mance Indicators are now www.brockport.edu/internal/
ir/kpif01.pdf. Lots of good nority enrollment, student
data and easy-to-read charts SAT scores, retention, etc.
on College goals such as mi-

Employee nominating: Karen Schuhle-Williams, special
sessions and programs
Employees nominated: Kim Scott, design and production,
and Kate Papso, print shop
Reason: Special thanks for expediting the creation and pro-
duction of SummerSession’s ’02 new logo and postcard in
record time.
Employee nominating: Karla Linn Merrifield, marketing
communications
Employees and students nominated: Geri McCormick,
design and production; and Work-Study students Kristin
Swart, psychology; and Elena Pilato, undeclared
Reason: On behalf of all the “clients” across campus who
heavily rely on both the Office of Marketing Communica-
tions and the Office of Design and Production, I offer the
three of you tremendous thanks for the painstaking and
lengthy chore of creating the two departments’ first compre-
hensive — and accessible — photo library/archive. You’ve
made the job of dozens of photo-needy people on campus a
lot easier.

GI Joe Day is always a big hit with children from the Schoolhouse of
Brockport and the ROTC cadets who plan and facilitate the day as
part of their commitment to community service. Youngsters 4-9 years
old spent a Feb. morning in the ROTC gym learning how to march
and salute; the hows and whys of camouflage, including face painting;
the ins and outs of MREs (meals ready to eat, aka mess kits); and
trying on great gear. Cadet Cpl. Travis Stone assisted tykes during the
gear-demonstration and try-on segment of GI Joe Day.

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