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Volume 7 Number 4 - Summer 1996

IN A GREEK LIGHT
Merging the physical and the intellectual: an ancient ideal, a contemporary goal.

SPORTS & SMARTS
Alumnus Trent Poole saw a need and filed it. The result is a
study space especially for student-athletes.

NAME OF THE GAME
One of the largest majors on campus prepares students for the booming sports industry.

BOYS OF SPRINGTIME
At spring-training camp in Florida with three aspiring former Minutemen baseball players.

MUCH IN THE MOMENT
With Coach Pam Hixon's US women's field hockey team in Atlanta; plus the on-the -spot research of a UMass exercise scientist.

WOMEN'S CREW RULES
Move over, Muffy and Buffy, UMass is putting in its oars. Plus a visit with arch-friend of crew Tom Carhart.

COACHING THE RHYTHM
The up-from-behind spirit of our tenth-in-the-nation equestrians. Plus the winning philosophy of alumna Jane Savoie.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
The body politic: at the Public Health and Health Sciences, Dean Gehlbach has ideas for shaping it up.

EPILOGUE
The Old Chapel eye-test, the odoriferous outfield -- tales of Coach Dick Bergquist.

MASS GATHERINGS
Reunion '96, a tribute to Doric Alviani, and more.

CLASS NOTES
Wherein we pump the sports theme still further, and you remind us there's more to life.

SPORTS
"you went a little crazy, didn't you" -- an antic look back at manic hoops season.

Spring 1996 - Volume 7 Number 3

WHAT A STANGE MARTYRDOM
A literary nun of 17th century Mexico captures the heart of a UMass scholar.

WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE
That obliging addictive, olestra; what our profs say about fat-free fat.

GEORGIA ON OUR MINDS
Make that six fried catfish suppers with peach cobbler, please: the upscale LA soul food of Brad Johnson '79.

ENTERPRISING STUDENTS
With names like Earthfoods, People's Market, and the Valley Women's Voice, can these be just another set of capitalist tools?

AT THE ODYSSEY/ ALL THE PRESIDENT'S CAMPUSES
A brief encounter with UMass President William Bulger, plus a pocket tour of his domain.

FLAGSHIP FLYING/ MARRIAGE OF MINDS/ WHAT'S IN A NAME
The W.E.B. DuBois Library is dedicated; the passion of Shirley Graham DuBois is recalled; a

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
Undergrads are up to their lab coats in research, says Dean Linda Slakey of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

EPILOGUE
President Emeritus John Lederle is the father of maodern UMass. He says we can blame him for the bricks on the library too.

FAMILY MATTERS
A Bachelor of Arts with a 3.63 at 61, Pat Bresnahan '96 is a proud product of the University Without Walls.

MASS GATHERINGS
Including announcement of the ascension of another UWW grad, and a poetic offering by

Volume 7 Number 2 - Winter 1996

A MAN OUT OF TIME
A grandson's homage to an alumnus of the land: Lewis Black '27 of Williamsburg.

DOLLARS & SCIENCE
The life and death of cells, the inner workings of cows, the demands of grantmanship: two hefty awards further the work of an exemplary UMass scientist.

TEN AT THE TOP
Ten UMass departments had reason to whoop when the National Research Council announced its rankings of Ph.D. programs. Liguistics and polymer science were the creme de la creme.

FOR THE RECORD
It's a jungle out there, but faculty musicians are going forth and recording.

TRASHING IT
The waste stream, that is. Thanks to Marc Fournier '76 and his crew, our river of garbage is forming frugal tributaries.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
UMass' first dean of graduate education gets a grip on 120 programs.

THE DEAN'S LIST
You want faculty honors? We got faculty honors. A new Mass. Magazine feature.

VISUAL ARTS
Her sculpture is at MOMA, her reviews are in Art in America, and she's teaching our students. A visit to the UMass foundry and art professor Pat Lasch.

FAMILY MATTERS
A scholarship and a sense of acknowledgement for one UMass student and her parents.

SPORTS
Coach Joanie O'Brien has those Minutewomen on an upward trajectory.

Volume 7 Number 1 - Fall 1995

THOMAS AHOY
Gingrich and Clinton agree on one thing: "Thomas," a navigational device for the information age, courtesy of UMass cybernauts.

UMASS MEDIA
Tune in, turn on -- no, no, no. Drop IN on cable TV produced by School of Ed students, with faculty luminaries as stars.

STICKING WITH IT
A long-term relationship with slime mold isn't everyone's cup of protein. But it's brought this UMass biochemist within the sight of a promising cancer therapy.

OUR CAMPUS POND
Its history, lore, and allure. Its decling fortunes, and what can be done to reverse them.

SOME DOGS' LIVES
UMass people are a socially conscious lot. Improving life for people with disablities is an important goal. Throw in puppies, and who can resist?

DEADHEAD-IN-CHIEF
UMass made a historian out of Dennis McNally, but it took Jerry Garcia to make him a publicist.

AT PEACE IN VIETNAM
Photographs of a formerly war-torn land, by nurse-educator and alumna Barbara Poremba.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
A talk with the School of Management's Thomas O'Briend, and several tales of his deandom, kick off a new MM department.

BOOKS
A taboo approach to a hot-button topic: comparative literature professor David Lenson's On Drugs.

FAMILY MATTERS
Coping with the death of his father, UMass senior finds a way to help fellow students deal with loss.

SPORTS
Rene Ingoglia: a tale of triumph over a sprung knee and a shattered dream.

Volume 6 Number 4 - Summer 1995

THE WHEELBARROW AND THE COQUI
Martin Espada -- poet, lawyer, professor, one-time bouncer -- brings the sensibility of the Puerto Rican working class to the art of American poetry.

SHE CAN TELL YOU HOW SHE GOT, HOW SHE GOT TO SESAME STREET
For a quarter of a century, children have enjoyed Loretta Long '73 Ed.D. on the show where learning is brought to you by the letters F-U-N.

ON HER OWN TURF
Entomologist, athlete, and umpire Patricia Vittum knows her science, and her sports, from the ground up.

IN THE RIGHT PLACES AT THE RIGHT TIMES
Josh Meyer '87 got his first taste of investigative reporting at the Collegian. Today he's an award-winning star of the Los Angeles Times newsroom.

HIGH ADVENTURE
Cady Coleman '91 Ph.D. always wanted ajob with out-of-the-ordinary challenges and rewards. Like being an astronaut, for example.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Commencement '95, faculty artists, Airstreams fill the campus, familiar faces in the news again, and more.

BOOKS
For an emeritus English professor, cop stories are all in the family.

SPORTS
Baseball and softball diamonds sparkle.

EPILOGUE
Stevenson Fletcher still looms larger than life in the memories of HRTA alums.

Volume 6 Number 3 - Spring 1995

HALLELUJAH
Move your body, clap your hands -- Horace Boyer wants you to feel the spirit of gospel music.

SIDE BY SIDE
They've gone a long way together since their graduate student days. Today, Eva Schlanger is an educational consultant and Marvin Schlanger is Arco Chemical's Chief Operating Officer.

THE ROCKYROAD TO UTOPIA
Feminist scholar Daphne Patai once believed that women's studies could change the world. Now she wants to see the field reform itself.

FOR ALL THE TALES IN CHINA
Lucien Miller saw a storyteller catch fire while performing one of those folktales. Translating them wasn't quite that dangerous.

THESE WERE THE YEARS OF HAPPY UPHEAVAL
Alumni remember the winds of change that swept the Mass. State campus when the war ended, the battle for university status escalated, and a new era took shape.

ALMOST ALL THE WAY
The Minutewomen didn't quite make it to Seattle, but fans will never forget the thrills of this best-ever basketball season.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Maya Angelou and Elie Weisel at the Mullins Center, Lake Woebegon by the Campus Pond, a professor's legacy, ROTC from A to Z, a biology field trip, the AIDS Quilt on CD-ROM, Coach Cal loves the library, and more.

BOOKS
A communication professor takes a dim view of the way Hollywood has portrayed people with disabilities.

MASS GATHERINGS
The Class of'45 at 50, "Family Matters," and club news from all over.

Volume 6 Number 2 - Winter 1995

ALL THAT JAZZERCISE
Patty Gorman '82 loves teaching, whether it's in a classroom full of special-needs children or a workout room full of sweaty, dancing adults.

SMALL MATTERS OF LIFE & DEATH
Pediatric surgeon Jay Wilson '76 had turned his back on medicine for a career in genetic research, but dying babies drew him out of the lab and into the operating room.

WHOSE WEST IS IT, ANYWAY?
The defense of Western civilization, says Afro-American studies professor John Bracey, is too important to be left to white people.

BACK TO THE GARDEN
In the water resources of the parched Middle East, professor emeritus Daniel Hillel sees a wellspring of peace and prosperity.

THE CANDLE MAN CAN
To Yankee Candle founder Michael Kittredge, bayberry and a hundred other scents add up to the smell of runaway marketing success --$30 million a year and still growing.

DURFEE IN THE PINK
At any season of the year, this garden is designed to make the campus more beautiful, more livable, and more fun.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
A giant-killing start to the basketball season, a spruced-up Fine Arts Center, second thoughts of a one-time Minuteman-hater, a windmill in Massachusetts, a telescope in Mexico, and new honors for faculty writers.

BOOKS
Madeleine Kunin writes a political life as gracefully as she has lived it.

SPORTS
The Minutewomen, with a hard-driving new coach at the helm, set their sights on a volleyball championship.

FAMILY MATTERS
Melissa and Caitlin make the Walters clan a two-generation family of UMass educators and engineers.

MASS GATHERINGS
Get ready for Reunion 1995, and catch up on Alumni Club activities and other matters of interest.

CLASSNOTES
More on the professors who made a difference in your lives. And more, and more, and more. Plus news from the classes, Lost & Found, and In Memoriam.

Volume 6 Number 1-Fall 1994

AS GOOD AS THE GUYS
Gearing up to play for the Silver Bullets, Julie Croteau tests her mental and physical toughness on the field with the Minutemen.

IN THE PRESENCE OF THE ANCESTORS
At New York's African Burial Ground, anthropologist Michael Blakey '85 unearths a treasure trove of neglected black history.

MAD ABOUT ANDY
The cameras are rolling on the set of NBC's hit comedy, "Mad About You." When a gag falls flat it's writer and jokemeister Andy Gordon '84 to the rescue.

TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN
The food was great and the price was right, so giant PepsiCo gobbled up two restaurant chains, much to the delight of their alumni CEO's.

ESTHER'S BOUNTY
Former professor Esther Wallace has been a swimmer all her life, but she's made a really big splash with generous gifts to the university and the Salvation Army.

BACK TO BURUNDI
U.N. field officer Tina Ghelli '90 tries to make life a little less desperate for Rwandan was refugees.

LETTERS
On cow towns and sports teams, our editorial completely missed the evident mistreatment of circus animals, a professor rejects "jazz" label, memories of a Ferris wheel operator turned Coast Guard officer, a foul call on the priority point system for basketball tickets, and other issues on the minds of our readers.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Lou Roe takes basketball around the world; Legos in Lilliput -- SOM students build a miniture campus; plus new appointments and big news in science.

BOOKS
Bill Meissner, poet and lifelong baseball enthusiast, chooses his favorite game as the subject for his first book of prose.

FAMILY MATTERS
UMass is one family tradition for Paul and Neal Melley. Music is another.

MASS GATHERINGS
Hundreds followed the Yellow Brick Road to Homecoming '94; the Alumni Association -- its membership campaign and its new president; plus club activities from around the country.

CLASS NOTES
They changed your life! From Ray Torrey in the thirties to Julius Lester in the nineties, memories of favorite professors abound.

Volume 5 Number 4 - Summer 1994

SETTLED OFF THE COURT
Women's tennis makes a comeback thanks to Title IX.

OF TWO MINDS
Popular, schmopular. Professor Seymour Epstein's new book is being misunderstood by everyone!

EUREKA!
That enlightening, terrifying, and slightly seductive moment when Rodney Hart '66 knew he was hooked on teaching.

THE SOUND
Yusef LAteef: A jazz legend who provides music for the soul.

AMONG THE STARS
A Nobel Prize before he's even middle-aged. Russell Hulse '72 is enjoying every minute of it.

PARADISE PRESERVED
Following their leader into the Mundo Maya, a UMass class explores the tricky territory of travel for the ecologically aware.

THE GREATEST OF EASE
Peter Gold '86 blows off a slot in corporate America and joins the circus.

THE UGLIEST FISH IN THE WORLD
With a face only an ichthyologist could love, an obscure relative of the shark earns the academic ardor of Dominique Didier '92.

REUNION '94
Those were the days, my friend.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Commencement -- a scorching send-off. Equestrians gallop to the Nationals. Thrill-seekers improvise on eclipse day.

SPORTS
Baseball: How a star athlete maintained perfect balance while losing the feel; UMass' long history in the big leagues.

FAMILY MATTERS
Meet the Kozodys: basketball nuts, phtographers, mother and daughter.

MASS GATHERINGS
Th eyear in review, basketball in France, Homecoming in Oz.

CLASS NOTES
Moon Walk inspires memories of grainy TV's, kids being born, travels here and abroad. Are we turning into our parents?

Volume 5 Number 3 - Spring 1994

L.A. STORY
Can a doctor from Boston find hapiness in La-La Land?

A PHANTOM PEACE
Amid bombs and assassinations, an Irish-American scholar reports on the first stirrings of peace in Belfast.

SHELL GAME
As Turtlemania hits new merchandising heights, cartoonist Peter Laird '76 feels a certain vertigo.

SALVAGING JUSTICE
Attorney Randall Coyne '80 used to support the death penalty. Then he met Federico Macias.

SAME TIME NEXT YEAR
Despite dashed hopes and broken hearts, Midnight Madness can't come soon enough.

MEMORIES IN STONE
How countries memorialize the Holocaust says as much aboutthem as their terrible subject.

Rx RAINFOREST
The glamour and savvy of the Huaorani of Amazonian Ecudor.

LETTERS
Some voices In defense of lesbian mothers; readers' memories of Buffy, Taj, and Theresa de Kerpely; parents wish us well; and a conservative consigns us to Rush Limbaugh.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
UMies in high places: The Congress! The White House! The Grammys! The Solar System!

BOOKS
Inner-city violence and mainstream American values.

SPORTS
Born the same day in the same town in Puerto Rico, two freshman athletes join forces as teammates and roommates.

FAMILY MATTERS
Introducing a new section for parents.

MASS GATHERINGS
'80s Decade Reunion gathering speed; alumni cluns forming all over the galaxy.

CLASS NOTES
Items from alums, plus profiles: the used car salesman from heaven; the women who was doc-to-the-jocks; the alumni family who helped make NASA's space suits. And why you, yes, you, should leave the lights burning.

BALLOT
Bylaws and candidates for your inspection and VOTE!

Volume 5 Number 2 - Winter 1994

BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE
Through a physicist's eye: the Umass of tomorrow as imagined by Chancellor David Scott.

WORLD CLASS
Barbara Burn, of International Programs, has given us a campus as big as the entire globe.

IT'S NOT JUST CRAZY KAYAKERS ANYMORE!
Join journalism professor Norm Sims for a wild ride on the political currents of the Deerfield River.

ROAMING WITH WOLVES
Rick McIntyre got his start photgraphing Minutemen. Now his specialty is the large animals of Alaska.

NATIVE VOICE
The heart and soul of Buffy Sainte-Marie have lifted her musical career up where she belongs.

A POWERFUL LEGACY
Keeping Bobby's ideals alive: Philip Johnston and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial.

LETTERS
The Minuteman mascot controversy, advice on reading aloud to children, happy memories of Sumner Dole, Whitey Lanphear, and hockey the last time around, hostility to lesbian mothers, Disney on Ice.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
UMass basketball wins big at Madison Square Garden, Albey Reiner is Mass. Professor of the Year, Bill Cosby on thebattle against racism, astronomy researchers win the Nobel Prize, the mascot muddle.

SPORTS
In field hockey and soccer, two great goalies shut down the opposistion.

MASS GATHERINGS
A WWII grad wowed by Homecoming '93; '80's Decade reunion is coming up, alumni clubs are springing up all over; Parents Newsletter in the works.

CLASS NOTES
Trekkies rejoice, one of ours is on the Enterprise, baseballbuddies reunited at the Mets, UMass spirit in the mountains of Nepal, and thanks for the memories.

EPILOGUE
Theresa de Kerpely - Orchard Hill once had a house mother who was a writer, a mentor to students, and a citizen of the world.

Volume 5 Number 1 - Fall 1993

HONORING THE QUEEN OF COLE
From the Pub to the Emmys, even for Nat King Cole's daughter, it wasn't an easy road.

KING OF THE ROAD
Bringing General Motors back from the brink - homeboy Jack Smith takes the wheel.

DREAM WEAVER
If the Chama Valley is to remain a farming community, we'll have Maria Varela to thank.

OUT OF THE CLOSET AND INTO THE PTA
When her partner had a baby, two things happened to Phyllis Burke - she became political, and she became a mother.

TAKING ANOTHER SHOT AT IT
Hockey is back with a new coach, a brand new team, and a fabulous facility. But can they shoot to score?

KANSAS OR BUST
In 1930, four frat boys set off in their flivver looking for work. What they found was America.

LETTERS
The Kennedy Assassination - last words from Manchester and Prouty; our education series draws praise and criticism; more Mo Lanphear; Department of Correction disappointed in Carey's response.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
The Marching Band's the subject of a new documentary film, Father Quigley retires, the ambassador to Venezuela and the minister in Nigeria are two of ours.

BOOKS
A combat veteran describes the pastoral horror show of Vietnam as "camping out with a terrifying undercurrent."

MASS GATHERINGS
Homecoming and '68 Reunion - Elton John concert, bonfires, games, dances, fall foliage - who could ask for more?

CLASS NOTES
News of the classes, plus Emil Corwin '25 at 90 years old - nowhere near retirement. Christian Jones making bikes for the connoisseur, Kevin Moeller '88 on life and fishing since graduation, Sue Butkewich '80 is keeping the weeds out of the cranberry patch - it's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it.

EPILOGUE
Dutch Barnard: Rebel with a lifetime of causes.

Volume 4 Number 4 - Summer 1993

BANNED IN THE USA
An explorer of censorship is threatened with the same: Jonathan Stack '79 and his film "Damned in the USA."

CLASSROOM CRUSADERS: READING
You'll need to do even more than turn off your TV, says Jim Trelease '63. Pick up a book and read aloud to your children.

CLASSROOM CRUSADERS: WRITING
Can five-year-olds write? Sharon Edwards '71 answers this question with another: Can four-year-old walk?

CLASSROOM CRUSADERS: ARITHMETIC
Bill Morrissey '71 paces the sidelines as his lean, mean MATHletes take to the field and calculate their way to victory.

JOINT VENTURES
Joint-venturing in the former Soviet state? Prepare to ponder the differences between "no" and "nyet," says an enterprising graduate student.

'70S REUNION - POLITICS TO PLATFORMS
Somewhere between the love-fest at Woodstock and the election of Ronald Reagan lies the seventies. What was it all about, ALfie?

LETTERS
Does anyone not have an opinion about the death of JFK? We heard from lots of you. Plus hockey remembered (stay tuned for brand new NCAA hockey in the Mullins) and a current student calls for rememberance of things past.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Our new Chancellor's been named and he's a Scot and a scholar. Commencement poetics and heroics. And more campus news.

VISUAL ARTS
Watch out for falling bottles in the University Gallery's spring show, Alumni III.

BOOKS
"Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos," a rave review of insect symphonics by biologist Vincent Dethier.

MASS GATHERINGS
A hot year for alumni clubs -- they gathered members and steam. From "Miss Saigon" to a blowout party with Coach Cal - alums are getting together in style.

CLASS NOTES
News of the classes. Plus profiles of a still-sparkling centenarian and other stand-out alums.

EPILOGUE
Many will miss the whistling Whitey Lanphear.

Volume 4 Number 3 - Spring 1993

DIPPING INTO SCIENCE
Teacher Ron Hirsch '71 and his flock of high school students came to campus and got a heady dose of biology (and geology and astronomy and physics...)

GOING FOR BROKE
Wall Street lawyer becomes million dollar Hollywood writer practically overnight. Fairytale? Not for this UMie.

WHO KILLED JFK?
Two distinguished alumni, two different answers to the question Americans can't stop asking.

SMALL WORLDS
One women'slife in nuclear physics.

OUR MAN FROM HAVANA
An odyssey from Cuba to the top of the federal bench.

IT'S IN OUR COURT!
Minute Maniacs pass the torch as The Final Rage in the Cage moves into the Magical Mullins.

TURNING BACK THE HANDS OF TIME
The telling and selling of Old Sturbridge Village.

HAVING YOUR CLOCK AND TICKING IT TOO
Clockmeister Robert Cheney hits the big time.

UNLOCKING MINDS
One professor's experience behind bars.

LETTERS
Saga of the crabapple continues, Eric the Rat remembered, military men on preserving history, test for readers: spot the typo on the ID card.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Basketball, Reunion, Basketball, UMass in the News and Cool Quotes from Classnotes, Basketball, gavin Scholarship, Ask the Professor, and Why Coach Cal deserves every penny. Basketball.

CLASS NOTES
News of the classes plus tales from the cockpit, how Mat Brown never had to grow up, the Snake Lady from the Museum of Science, Dick Bresciani and the Dream Job.

BALLOT
It is election time again. Read up on the candidtaes (see inside back cover) use th ehandy card to send in your votes.

Volume 4 Number 2 - Winter 1993

A STARRING ROLE
Bill Pullman '80 returns to Amherst to film a new movie, but this time with his name in lights.

THE MULLINS CENTER
Seven years in planning and two in construction - the Mullins in all its glory.

SING A SONG OF HOPE
South African archbishop Desmond Tutu's visit inspires a celebration.

MY DINNER WITH STALIN
An account by Norman Blake '38 of an encounter with one of history's most formidable figures.

B-BALL BOUNCES BACK
In four years Coach Cal takes the team from no-man's land to fat city. Here's how.

ELECTION '92: POLITICS AND PACKAGING
Commnication scholar Jarice Hanson on the packaging of political candidates.

ELECTION '92: BACKSTAGE AT THE DEBATES
Broadcast journalist Ed Fouhy '56 on the presidential debates.

BEYOND POP
Collage meets the computer age in the confrontational art of Jerry Kearns.

LETTERS
The Kent State Club, West Virginia hollers & memories of a 1923 MAC baseball game.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
UMies making waves, Hooker on the record, quotes and questions, and campus news update.

PERFORMING ARTS
Pretending to be someone else: the fine art of auditioning.

BOOKS
In the Heart Is an Instrument Madeleine Blais paints unforgettable portraits injournalism.

MASS GATHERINGS
George Parks brings it all back home, plus Eleanor Bateman and Mildred Sheridan Barber return to campus, and alumni attend award dinners and celebrations.

CLASS NOTES
News of the classes plus Columbia's economic honcho, a Monet-grubbing computer artist, a dispatch from the dustbowl, a Young republican makes good, a retired astronomy professor answers kids' questions about the cosmos, and a pair of prodigies map the marketplace for Consumers.

Volume 4 Number 1 - Fall 1992

COAL MINER'S SON
Faith in the power of education has brought Michael Hooker, the new president of the university, a long way from his Appalachian boyhood.

SUCCESSFULL EXPERIMENTS
Bright students from resource-starved high schools spend a summer of scientific discovery in the university's labs.

SHARED VISIONS OF PARADISE
A world-class exhibit of Islamic art attempts to bridge the communication gap between cultures with common values.

GREEN ACRES
At the Hadley Farm, students of veterinary and animal sciences have roots in Mass Aggie past and eyes on the 21st century.

THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW
From classrooms to courtrooms to corporate suites, the legal profession offers something less than equal justice to women lawyers.

FOR THE LOVE OF LLAMAS
Far from the Andes, a couple of New England farmers discover the joys of raising these handsome animals.

WE'RE AN AMERICAN BAND
At their gigs in the Hatch or their star turns in Russian jazz clubs, faculty and alumni musicians swing with the Jeff Holmes Big Band.

PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
Taj Mahal's music has been attracting attention since his student days in the early sixties, but now he's enjoying stardom Like Never Before.

LETTERS
Angry rowers, friends of the Goodwin family, a foe of James Tate's poetry, thoughts on Columbus yesterday and Latin America today, search for a missing portrait, and other words from our readers.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Unita Blackwell wins a MacArthur Fellowship, the Mullins Center gets ready to open, the Annual Fund sets a new record, the AIDS Quilt meets the computer age, a former president's family holds a reunion, and more.

SPORTS
Memories of the fishing team, and the coach behind five Olympic medals.

CLASS NOTES
News of the classes plus a State Department world traveler, an engineer with a light touch, a nurse who helps human parents act like kangaroos, and an artist who wants to tie her work around your neck.

EPILOGUE
Stowell Goding: No need to excuse his French.

Volume 3 Number 4 - Summer 1992

NOW PLAYING AT A CLASSROOM NEAR YOU
In the film studies program, students open their eyes to a world of images that don't make it to theaters at the mall.

GOING HOME TO A TROUBLED LAND
After a long exile, a black South African professor receives a hero's welcome but encounters some harsh realities.

HISTORY GOES PUBLIC
David Glassberg trains his students to think about the study of the past in ways that resonate beyond academia.

THE MENSCH BEHIND THE JERK
Umass theatergoers remember Jere Burns as Romeo; now he's Kirk, the sexist swine we love to hate on "Dear John."

THE NEXT GENERATION
Computers and robots will do some amazine things in tomorrow's factories, hospitals, and public transportation systems. They'll do them first at the new CRICCS research center.

LETTERS
Basketball, basketball, basketball, basketball, basketball, and a few other matters of interest to our readers, including black squirrels, Naval history, and a proven method of staying in touch with old friends.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
A Pulitzer Prize poet, two Guggenheim Fellows, a new university president, a solution to an ancient Roman mystery, management professors in Poland, the memories preserved in a 40-year-old wallet, the fortunes of the beleagued library, a day in homor of Dick Garber, a $1 million endowed chair, and more.

BOOKS
What is death? How do we live with it?

SPORTS
Ron Villone's fastball makes him a first-round pick in the Major League draft.

MASS GATHERINGS
Look for yourself and your friends in this year's reunion photo album.

CLASS NOTES
News of the classes plus the man who sang "Amen" for Sidney Poitier, an Emmy-winning TV newswoman, a producer with a passion for summer stock, an American executive in the world of French fashion, and a morris dancers's celebration of the AIDS quilt.

COMMENCEMENT
Last year's ceremony was the best one ever. So was this years.

Volume 3 Number 3 - Spring 1992

AT THE CENTER OF THE ACTION
From his vantage point inside a top Washington think tank, Howard Wiarda harbors no illusions about U.S. foreign policy.

BIOLOGY AND DESTINY
A National Science Foundation grant supports Jennifer Pinkham's teaching about the lives of women scientists.

HALF OF THE HUMAN RACE
Who are these women, and why haven't we heard their stories before? Patricia Morris offers a guided tour of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.

A VISION AND A MISSION
As a student, Heriberto Flores took over university buildings. Now he sits on the board of trustees and channels his passion for social justice into ambitious urban redevolpment projects.

NEW WORLD ORDER
Scholars from many different discilplines set out to rediscover Christopher Columbus and the 1492 ocean voyage that has shaped 500 years of history in Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

SISTERS OF ROSA PARKS
Vicki Crawford brings to light the untold stories of black women in the civil rights movement.

LETTERS
Praise for Frank Lattuca and Mimi Silbert, concern about tuition retention and vanishing credit cards, memories of intramural football in the 1930s and military training in the 1940s, an inquiry from a railroad historian, and other matters on our readers' minds.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Basketball brilliance, speaking in many tongues, vintage music, hungry beetles make their bones, black squirrels come to campus, removing obstacles for disabled workers, and more.

VISUAL ARTS
Alan James Robinson pictures the Bard's birds and beasts.

SPORTS
There's nothing soft about the way Holly Aprile plays softball. Plus, saving soccer.

MASS GATHERINGS
Recollections of last year's reunion and a preview of this year's fun.

CLASS NOTES
News of the classes plus a chief judge, a ship's captain, a landscape architect in full bloom, software success in English and Chinese, and the hardiness of the long-distance musher.

EPILOGUE
Before there was a women's studies program, there was Helen Curtis, dean of women.

Volume 3 Number 2 - Winter 1992

BANGKOK BOOGIE
On a jazz mission to Thailand, Frederick Tillis pursues his lifelong interest in the music of other cultures.

DOING WHAT COMES NATURALLY
Untie those jogging shoes, lose that grimly resigned expression, and listen to what this dancer, exercise scientist, and NASA researcher has to say about making exercise an enjoyable part of your daily life.

TWO MINDS OUT OF SOUTH AFRICA
When Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Stephen Clingman's phone started ringing.

HUNGARIAN TALES
An American professor looks at changing times through the eyes of his Budapest writing students.

HELP YOURSELF
Hard-core criminals and drug addicts achieve an extraordinary 80 percent success rate in Mimi Silbert's Delancey Street rehabilitation program.

OUT OF HIDING
A psychologist who specializes in the study of cruelty and kindness recalls his life as a "hidden child" under Nazi occupation in wartime Europe.

MODERN CONVENIENCES
Charlie Nirenberg started out with a small ice cream business, now he's CEO of the Dairy Mart chain.

LETTERS
Understanding breast cancer, praising Lee Varley, remembering campus legends.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
A new capus landmark, a message to the year 2113, Cambodian nutrition, job-hunting help for alumni, porcupine studies, Nostradamus, and more.

BOOKS
Sex, and how it got that way.

VISUAL ARTS
The subversive photographs of Susan Jahoda.

SPORTS
A player is tested off the basketball court.

CLASSNOTES
News of the classes plus a black belt poet, an Arctic Circle writing teacher, the king of the blueberry hill, and an ex-nun who wants you to have a good laugh. Also Homecoming photos, Clubs & Notices, and more job-hunting help.

ELECTION NEWS
Remember to vote!

Volume 3 Number 1 - Fall 1991

FOREST PRIMEVAL
It's like a landscape out of the Brothers Grimm. In Poland's ancient Bialowieza Forest, botanist Edward Klekowski is studying patterns of life and death that date back to the Ice Age.

A WORLD OF HEALING
Biofeedback, hypnosis, meditation yoga - all these techniques have a place in psychologist Bruce Taub-Bynum's multicultural approach to mental health.

THE SIGNS THEY ARE A CHANGIN'
Artist Christopher True '89 infiltrates public spaces with eye-catching messages on authentic-looking street signs.

BLOOD ON THE WATER
In many minds they are simply the menacing killers of Jaws infamy, but Jack Casey '60 says that sharks have far more to fear from humans than we have to fear from them.

THIS REALLY HAPPENED TO A FRIEND OF MINE
Did you hear about the oft-repeated campus legend that everybody takes for fact even though it's just a popular myth?

A WHOLE NEW RECIPE
Disabled trainees cook up employable skills in a special program at the department of hotel, restaurant, and travel administration.

LETTERS
Dealing with depression, appreciating Japan, setting the mayor's record straight, and more.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
The chancellor talks about the new university, the governer comes to campus, the Annual Fund exceeds its goal, and that's not all.

BOOKS
Setting free the whales.

SPORTS
This short story is no tall tale.

MASS GATHERINGS
Alumni clubs keep school spirit sparking far from campus.

CLUBS & NOTICES
Homecoming, reunion planning, theater, dance, music, cranberries, and other good times.

CLASSNOTES
News of the classes plus a piano-playing environmentalist, an Alaskan nonconformist, a filmmaker, and a TV journalist who makes a difference.

EPILOGUE
English professor Lee Varley carries his passion for Japan into retirement.

Volume 2 Number 4 - Summer 1991

THE MAYOR & THE MOVEMENT
Unita Blackwell '83 MRP, president of the National Conference of Black Mayors and inspiration for a new generation of political activism.

GETTING TECHNICAL
Umass and Digital team up to coach students in the practical art of technical writing.

INNOCENT KILLERS
Lovable, destructable, and endangered, African wild hunting dogs have captivated ecologist Todd Fuller.

BEYOND THE BLUES
Psychologist Bonnie Strickland says clinical depression is common, life-threatening, and treatable.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR
In researching the roots of good and evil, Ervin Staub sees through the celebration to the suffering.

WHODUNIT?
A most peculiar murder provides grist for the social historian's mill.

ONE IS SILVER AND THE OTHER'S GOLD
Reunion '91 brings out the classes of '41 and '66 for friendship and festivities.

GOING OUT IN STYLE
Seniors picnic, party and dance the night away.

LETTERS
The band, Japan, and the pond bring back memories.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
A new chancellor takes the helm at a difficult time plus good news; new buildings, more awards, sports heroes!

BOOKS
Paul Theroux writes a riveting portrait of a murderer possessed with remorse.

VISUAL ARTS
Through his art, sculptor Steven Piscitelli exorcises the pain of his Vietnam years.

SPORTS
Fifty-seven years after Lou Bush laid aside his Umass football uniform, his scoring records still stand.

CLASSNOTES
News of the classes plus an artist, an activist, and a pair of apple-growing politicians.

CLUBS & NOTICES
Homecoming, Five College Sea Adventure, Parent's Day, and more.

EXTRA CREDIT
Commencement 1991 - wild and wonderful celebration.

Volume 2 Number 3 - Spring 1991

GENIUS
What does it take to be called a genius and given lots of money? A jazz drummer and literary scholar describe the careers that led to MacArthur Fellowships.

ENDANGERED PLACES
The spotted owl has become the symbol of the Pacific Northwest's threatened primeval forest, but ecologists point out that much more than the bird's survival is at stake.

QUALITY OF LIFE, QUALITY OF CARE
Over a million older American's move into nursing homes every year. A new book offers families a step-by-step guide to choosing the best available home.

THE WIZARD OF RAHS
Maestro-supremo George Parks takes 300 bright-eyed band members on the road.

JAPAN
Ever since William S. Clark in 1876 told his Japanese students, "Boys, be ambitious," a mutually rewarding friendship has flourished between this campus and the Land of the Rising Sun.

LETTERS
The Cold War, animal research, the messy art of writing, and more cheers & jeers for the magazine.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Grocery bagging as a political act, real life at NBC, and the war hits home.

FICTION
"Stink," by David Holper '91.

VISUAL ARTS
Painter Richard Yarde calls up his "Holy Ghost(s)."

BOOKS
The Umass Press maps the history of Massachusttes; plus new books by alumni, faculty, and staff.

SPORTS
The short, happy, and airborne career of a gymnast.

MASS GATHERINGS
At the annual Madrigal Dinner, alumni singers get back to the Middle Ages.

CLUBS & NOTICES
Baseball games, buffets, bashes!

CLASSNOTES
News of the classes plus a fast-track drop-out, advances in medicine, and a bikin' DA.

EXTRA CREDIT
Fond memories of waterfowl we have known.

Volume 2 Number 2 - Winter 1991

MANY VOICES
Analyzing nonstandard English as dialect, rather than disorder.

GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
The winning instinct of George Ditomassi '57 has taken him to the top of Milton Bradley.

ON THE EDGE
Biologists are immersing themselves in the problems of polluted coastal waters.

CHALLENGING THE GIFTED STUDENT
The Honors Program celebrates 30 years of student and faculty stimulation and reward.

THE MESSY ART OF WRITING
Finding your voice, letting the juices flow, and then cleaning up the mess.

THE COSTLY ILLUSION OF SECURITY
What price did we really pay for the Cold War?

LIFE IN THE LAB
Researchers try to frame standards for the psychological well-being of captive primates.

LETTERS
Cosby kudos, Reardon razzes, and more.

NEWS AND NOTES
Update on budget upheaval, hot rocks, cool birds, lots more.

MASS GATHERINGS
Collegian reunion marks 100th anniversary.

CLUBS, BULLETIN BOARD
New clubs, more events, get involved!

SPORTS
Midnight madness - part pep rally, part basketball tournament, part Rocky Horror Picture Show.

FICTION
"The Waking of the Carrots," by Bill Meissner '72.

BOOKS
Forked Tongue: The Politics of Bilingual Education, by Rosalie Porter '74, Ed.D. '82; plus capsules of new books by alumni, faculty, and staff.

CLASSNOTES
News of the classes plus Dharma Boogie and other alumni success stories.

HOMECOMING
Soggy but satisfying, torrential but triumphant. The few brave souls who ventured out were amply rewarded.

Volume 2 Number 1 - Fall 1990

LETTERS
Recycling, Dr. Cosby, and more.

EXTRA CREDIT
Political cartoons, Lyme disease research.

GRACE UNDER PRESSURE
The university cuts costs, but keeps cool.

IN THE SHADOW OF THE GREEN MONSTER
Jeff Reardon - from Minutemen star to Red Sox relief ace.

PRIOR COMMITMENTS
An acclaimed painter finds his subjects close to home.

WHERE THERE'S SMOKE
American cigarette makers invade Asian markets.

FOOD FALLACY
The cholesterol "hoax," the fiber "fad," and the joy of Mallomars.

NET PROFITS
Fish farming for fun and profit makes ecological sense.

ONE MORE ROUND WITH PAPA
Controversy surrounds a newly published Hemingway story.

IMPASSIONED POETRY
Entering the world of Honduran poet Clementina Suarez.

BOOKS
Shakespeare scholar Kirby Farrell turns mystery novelist.

FICTION
Miracle and mess in the life of an idealistic lawyer.

VISUAL ARTS
A photographic record of centuries-old Massachusetts farms.

NEWS AND NOTES
Alumni leaders meet on campus. Eight new Alumni Association directors. Center for student engineers. Baseball banquet & casino night make fundraising fun. Malawi's protector of endangered species. Speaker of Namibia's parlaiment. Touring the Soviet Union. Your annual fund dollars at work.

MASS GATHERINGS
Rejoicing in memories of the Fabulous Fifties and other happy days.

MASS BAND
Alumni "bandos" toot their old horns.

CLASS NOTES
News from the classes, a playwright, and there she is, Miss Massachusetts.

Volume 1 Number 2 - Spring 1990

LETTERS
Reactions to the new magazine format and more.

EXTRA CREDIT
Birds, bones, bugs, and berries.

REBIRTH OF A NATION
Exiled Hungarian writer Tamas Aczel is welcomed back home.

THE GOVERNOR CHANGES COURSE
Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin '56 decides not to seek another term.

HOOP-LA!
Basketball fan Jay Neugeboren celebrates the Minutemen's great season.

DANCING FEET AND TRAVELING SHOES
The University Dancers take their show on the road.

THE MONSTER AND THE HOUSEMAID
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are seen from the servent's point of view in Valerie Martin's new novel.

A LITTLE BUG WITH A BIG BITE
Bacteriologist Thomas Lessie studies an organism that might be useful in toxic waste clean-up.

BOOKS
The life and times of Winston Churchill by William Manchester '46.

FICTION
Paul Milenski '73 writes about a Polish-American boy and his reunion with his father back from the war.

VISUAL ARTS
Prolific artist John Grillo's pleasure palette.

NEWS AND NOTES
Chancellor Duffey takes on the presidency. Janet Dakin gives "a gem" of a house. Alumni network and learn from the annual Career Day. Alumni scholars are honored. Archive photo exhibit set for reunion.

MASS GATHERINGS
Newscaster Gerry Brooks brings his experience in the media, along with a dose of reality, to students at Van Meter Hall for the inaugural Eleanor Bateman Program.

SPORTS
Lacrosse coach Dick Garber retires this year after putting Garber's Gorillas on the map.

CLASS NOTES
News from the classes plus Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and other unconventional alumni success stories.

Volume 1 Number 1 - Winter 1990

A WORTHY COS
America's most celebrated funnyman gets serious about education, racism -- and comedy.

HO, HO, HO!
On Dasher, On Dancer, on X-mass infractions. On Comet, on Cupid, on class interactions.

MIDLIFE MALARKEY
Cancel that trip to Pago Pago. Midlife crisis may be a myth.

ARMENIA IN AFTERSHOCK
Months after the earthquake, this small Soviet republic is still in ruins.

NO FILTER OF TIME
Researching the life of a South African feminist writer, historian Joyce Berkman finds a kindred spirit.

VISIBLE JAZZ
A tuner's point of view; battered keyboard, broken strings, a composer's ferocious energy.

A CAMPUS DIVIDED
Should university researchers accept money from the Pentagon? Professors on both sides speak their minds.

EXTRA CREDIT
The curtain goes up on an opera for moppets - the premiere of Macchia's "Liombruno." An astonomer turns his gaze from space to the great spaces of the American Southwest. How much is that coyote in the window? Calculating the value of wild critters. A new grip on an old game -- researchers test a redesigned tennis racquet.

BOOKS
An irreverent writer has a field day with classics that never were.

ALUMNI NEWS AND NOTES
President of the Alumni Association, Jack Sweeney, welcomes readers to the new university magazine. Stung by massive budget cuts, students go on strike. Back in the saddle again -- campus police restore horseback patrols. Esther Wallace donates her house to innaugurate the new Faculty Residence Program. Alumni family endows Entrepreneurial Studies Program for SOM. News of the classes.

MASS GATHERINGS
Doing it by the decade -- a new reunion concept kicks off with the Fabulous Fifties. Bulletin Board and Club events.

SPORTS
Water polo team breaks into the national top 20. Scoreboard: men's and women's sports.

INDEPENDENT STUDY
Julius Lester looks for his midlife crisis, and can't find it.

Volume XIV Number 4 - Summer 1989

IN BRIEF

THE GOOD LIFE OF LOREN BARITZ
A cultural historian's new book looks for the soul of the American middle class.

POETICS AND POLITICS
Five College Irish Studies Program covers the complexity of modern Ireland.

NOT JUST ANOTHER PRETTY PLACE
A very cool store design takes first place in regional competition.

A FINE KETTLE OF FISH
What could fish guts and gourmet cookies possibly have in common? Cooperative Extension, of course.

A NOVEL APPROACH
Art historian Criag Harbison reads a picture like a book, and what a story it is.

STEEL COLLAR WORKERS
Engineer Bartholomew Nnaji is converting ignornat robots into intelligent factory workers.

THE ESSENTIAL ESTHER
Esther Terry talks about her past and the mission of the Afro-American studies department.

GENDER & JUSTICE
Equal justice under the law? After an internship at the Supreme Court, Joyce O'Connor has her doubts.

UNNATURAL DISASTER
Ornithologist Rebecca Field ponders the impact of the Exxon oil spill on the birds of Alaska -- and the people.

MR
A new short story anthology showcases a quarter century of the best writing from the university's literary magazine.

Volume XIV Number 3 - Spring 1989

BLOOD SPORT
Historian Carlin Barton takes on Roman gladiators and finds more than gore in their deadly game.

DANUBE BLUES
A dam project changes the course of a mighty river, and protests change the course of Hungarian social policy.

DEATH OF A SMALL PLANET
It's good news for nobody but the taxidermist, if we keep on trashing the rain forest.

LITTLE SHOP OF WONDERS
Fabricating fantasies in the theater department's costume shop.

DAY CARE
We want the best for our kids, but are we ready to take day care seriously?

PLAY-DOH & SOCRATES
Gareth Matthews is convinced that philosophy comes naturally to young children.

COMRADES
From blinis to Big Macs, Russian and American students get it together.

NEW HORIZONS FOR HOME ECONOMICS
A long way from brownie bake-offs -- Penny Ralston takes home ec in another direction.

EDUCATION UNDER FIRE
Rifles lean against classroom walls in Eritrea -- because you can't hold a gun and a pen at the same time.

Volume XIV Number 2 - Winter 1989

FAMILY TIME
On a kibbutz, living apart can bring families together.

HANDS-ON HEARING
The art and politics of sign language for the deaf.

WHITE & WORRIED
A campus group gives whites a way to work on their racism.

BACTERIA TO THE FUTURE
To biologist Lynn Margulis, human beings are "just a certain idiosyncratic form of bacteria."

HOUSE
Four scholars take four different tacks over tea at Historic Deerfield.

SCIENCE FICTION STAR
Samuel Delany rockets the pulp genre into a new literary dimension.

THE BIG PICTURE
Time, space, and toddlers in the studio of natural history painter Will Sillin.

BREEZY RIDER
Flying into the heart of a hurricane -- who'd have thought microwave engineering would be this wild?

SOUL ON ICE
Sister Jeanette Corneau goes to prison to help prostitutes, drug addicts, and other outcasts "discover their best selves."

Volume XIV Number 1 - Fall 1988

HELLO MR. CHIPS
Wood technologist R. Bruce Hoadley delves into the secrets beneath the veneer of valuable antique furniture.

GIVING SOMETHING BACK
Geologist Julie Brigham-Grette helps close the communication gap between visiting scientists and the Inuit people of the Arctic.

MYSTERY OF THE MAPLE MENACE
Entomological sleuth T. Michael Peters tracks down the tiny insect that is defoliating acres of sugar maples.

BODY BEAUTIFUL?
Pumping iron can take a body to its physical limits, but is body building a sport or beauty pageantry?

FLIGHT OF THE FALCON
Once extinct east of the Mississippi, peregrine falcons are back. Five of them now make their home atop the university's tower library.

NATIVE SON
Paul Theroux, celebrity author of movies, novels, and travel books, began his career as a stubborn student activist and continues to be a thorn in the side of the establishment.

STUDENT OF THE 80S
The university's oldest student is still learning after all these years.

SOCIAL DISEASE
An epidemic of ignorance and hysteria impedes efforts to cope with the spread of AIDS. A new book recommends dramatic changes in social policy.

GETTING INTO THE ACT
On location in Northampton, students gain practical experience as they help produce a film for PBS.

Volume XIII Number 3 - Spring 1988

WRITE FROM THE HEART
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Madeleine Blais reads voraciously, writes passionately, and teaches tenderly.

MATH FOR THE MARKET
Anna Nagurney nets an international award for her mathematical models of economic problems.

ADVOCATES FOR ADDITIVES
Why are these two men smiling as they contemplate the preservatives in our groceries?

INTERIORS
Architect Pat Eidson designs interior space concepturally, elegantly, and functionally.

COLLARING BABY BOOM VOTERS
Ralph Whitehead turned the American political scene on its ear with two little words.

BAR MITZVAH
The often misunderstood coming of age ceremony is an important time for the Jewish family.

CHINUA ACHEBE
Things fell aprt when the British colonized Africa; Achebe put things back together by bringing the african novel back home.

ALL GOD'S CHILDREN
America's burgeoning religious diversity roduces Buddhists as well as Baptists, Muslims along with the Methodists.

HOT LICKS
Knocking the socks off the judges at three recent competitions, the student jazz band can blow their own horn.

Volume XIII Number 4 - Summer 1988

BOOGIE BUDDIES
A white guy from Cape Cod taking piano lessons from Harlem's king of boggie woggie? Why not?

FOOD FIGHT
Latke versus hamantasch. Tongue-in-cheek scholars debate merits of rival Jewish delicacies.

YASUKO FUKUMI'S GOLDEN HARVEST
A modest librarian's fund-raising coup nets extraordinary Japanese book collection.

FLOCKING TO THE FARM
Shepherd Kristen Whittle keeps the university's four-legged friends in fine fettle.

SHADES OF MEANING
When things get hot, what looks cool? A photographic sampling of sunglasses on campus.

ACE OF DIAMONDS
From Africa to the Arctic, geologist Stephen Haggerty leaves no precious stone unturned.

GROWING UP ARMENIAN
Arlene Avakian takes a personal journey of feminist politics and ethnic self-discovery.

TRASHING PLASTIC
Chemists study biodegradable polymers that could put an end to plastic pollution.

ON STAGE FOR STATISTICS
Charismatic teacher Bernie Morzuch brings pizazz to a relentlessly technical subject.

BROADCAST NEWS
A small station makes a big hit at National Public Radio headquarters in Washington.

Volume XIII Number 2 - Winter 1988

BODY AND SOUL
Microbiologist Albey Reiner takes his students to the edge of medical knowledge about cancer.

THE SEDUCTIVE SALAMANDER
What makes these little critters so adorable that a whole town makes the earth move to improve their lovelife?

EXPERT WITNESS
Psychologist Susan Fiske studies stereotyping in the laboratory, and combats it in the classroom.

PARKING SPACE - THE FINAL FRONTEIR
Will the author find a parking space? Does he become a member of the vehicular elect? Reminiscences of life at the mercy of the meter.

A VOICE OF HER OWN
Estela Olevsky doesn't just play a piano - she makes it sing.

OUR MAN IN WASHINGTON
Monetary policy expert Andrew Brimmer, formerly a member of the Federal Reserve Board, joins the university's economics department.

POETRY IN MOTION
Paul Mariani shares his passion for poetry with students and teachers in a Springfield high school.

MORE THAN SKIN DEEP
The history of the cosmetics industry has led Kathy Peiss to the Smithsonian where she is unearthing some funny and surprising facts.

Volume XII Number 3 - Spring 1987

DISABLING ATTITUDES
Activist Laura Rauscher says society's stgma is the real handicap.

CHINESE FOLKTALES
Legends from China's minorities appear in print and in English for the first time.

CONTROVERSIAL THEORISTS
How we look at how we look at literature -- poststructuralists shake up lit crit.

WHERE STARS ARE BORN
Judith Young trains her telescope on galaxies 60 million light years away, looking for the birth of a star.

ARGENTINA AND US
The university's connection with Argentina promotes collaboration and mutual understanding.

LEARNING ON LOCATION
Argentine historian, here on academic exchange, talks about his country and studies ours.

COMMUNICATING CULTURE
Argentina's new government has created challenges for the emerging communications field - a Umass team was there.

RISKY BUSINESS
Can gambling on the job increase productivity?

SEEING INTO THE FUTURE
A robot is rolling along campus paths giving researchers a new view of computer vision.

Volume XII Number 4 - Summer 1987

UNCUT JULES
Mensch-in-residence Jules Chametzky talks about ethnicity and literature in his life and his work.

ORDER ON THE COURTS
Glenn Wong has written the book on the newest game in town - sports law.

TAKING SHAPE
A zest for life and art makes Dorrance Hill an irresistible force in the classroom.

THE VOLGA DEUTSCH OF ARGENTINA
German peasants living in Argentina? Richard Wilkie has followed and photographed their lives for 20 years.

TELL ME A STORY
And a tale was told about writers, artists, and educators who gathered each year to talk about children's literature.

CURTAIN CALL
Doris Abramson takes a bow after a remarkable career as a scholar of black theater.

ORDINARY PEOPLE
Roland Sarti's award-winning book on Italian social history celebrates the life of his native village.

Volume XIII Number 1 - Fall 1987

LEMUR FEMUR DREAMER
Paleontologist Laurie Godfrey digs the fabulous fauna of Madagascar.

LIGHTS, CAMERA, REWRITE!
Audiences help shape new plays at the innovative Theater in the Works.

INSIDER/OUTSIDER
In England, Wyoming, Maine, and Massachusetts, novelist John Wideman still hears the voices of black Pittsburgh.

THE SAME NAME GAME
Will the real Paul J. Godfrey please stand up!

MAKING ROOM FOR ISLAM
Historian Yvonne Haddad says it's time to unlearn those negative stereotypes about the Muslim world.

RECIPE FOR A VOLCANO
Michael Rhodes demonstrates that volcanoes are just a piece of cake.

THINKING GAMES CHILDREN PLAY
Carolyn Edwards teaches teachers how to raise social and moral issues in the classroom.

FACING RACISM
In the aftermath of the Southwest incident, eight undergraduates talk about the tense state of black and white at the university.

Volume XII Number 2 - Winter 1987

WHY DOES EVERYONE HATE BATS?
Zoologist David Klingener goes to bat for an animal with a bad reputation.

BATTLING THE BODY
Anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders sre signs of a generation's distorted self-image.

BLOWIN' IN THE WIND
Engineer Robert Kirchoff studies those tricky air currents around tall buildings.

A COMPLEX EDIFICE
Our towering brick and stone skyscrapers -- why are they here, who designed them, and are they architecture or art?

SEDUCTIVE SCENTS
When insects communicate, there's literally a lot of chemistry between them.

PRESERVING WOMEN'S WORDS
From Brazilian oral histories to forgotten English novels, Daphne Patai is working for the survival of women's words.

LEARNING TOGETHER
Waldne Learning Center takes a new approach to the education of autistic children.

MASS TRANSFORMATION
A monumental volunteer effort turns into a campus joke into a symbol of community pride.

Volume XII Number 1 - Fall 1986

SWIMMING UPSTREAM
Salmon are battling their way back up the Connecticut with a little help from their friends.

PRIVATE VOICES
Margo Culley's new book documents the diaries of women as they view their life one day at a time.

CHECKING THE OIL
Can Malaysia's palm oil crop combat cancer? Chemist Barrie Tan thinks so.

THE PROLIFIC ARTHUR KINNEY
With four new books, this Renaissance scholar continues to set a formidable pace.

NEW VACCINES AGAINST DEADLY DISEASES
Researchers are finding ways to prevent the spread of Japanese encephalitis and leishmaniasis.

MILITARY JUSTICE ON TRIAL
Richard Minear asks whether Japan was guilty of war crimes or whether the Tokyo Trials were simply victor's revenge.

IVY-COVERED SALESMANSHIP
Sophisticated marketing techniques are helping the university compete successfully in the new, competitive college admissions.

ALL THAT JAZZ
July sizzles with jazz as students learn the language of improvisation from a faculty of "jazz heroes."

Volume XI Number 3 - Spring 1986

WORLD VIEW
Lewis Hanke's new book takes a global perspective on U.S. history.

AMERICA SAYS A MOUTHFUL
A new dictionary collects regional variations in the English language.

MAKING THE PEACE
Mediators tackle the smoking issue at a symposium led by ex-president Jimmy Carter.

TUNING IN HALLEY'S COMET
Astronomers use radio waves to study the composistion of the comet.

TAKING UP SPACE
Five artists illustrate the many dimensions of sculpture at the university.

THE GOOD OLD DAYS
The Center on Aging reports some good news about old age.

FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
The debate continues - should work of comparable value be rewarded with equal pay?

SOX APPEAL
An internship with the Red Sox provides fun, glamour, and a lot of hard work.

Volume XI number 4 - Summer 1986

A SOUTH AFRICAN STORY
Makaziwe Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, talks of life in her country.

THE ACID TEST
William Manning studies the devastating effects of acid rain on plants and sculptures.

HOW CREAMY YOUR PEANUT BUTTER?
From the consistency of your spread to the aerodynamics of your fish - food engineers engage in tasty and useful science.

TEACHING IN TONGUES
Spanish, English, Creole and more - linguists advise Nicaraguans on primary education.

BENEATH THE SURFACE
David Hoffman has proven the existence of a new minimal surface - the first in two centuries.

PICASSO OF THE PIXELS
Rick Newton, darkroom wizard, takes scientific data and turns it into art.

BIRDSONG
Donald Kroodsma deciphers those lyrical avian trills and hears serious messages of territory and sex.

HANDLE WITH CARE
Donna Carey sees to the health and welfare of the animal subjects of university research.

ENTERTAINMENT AND EXCESS
Charles Rearick's new book takes a critical and affectionate look at turn-of-the-century France.

Volume XI Number 1 - Fall 1985

WORD GAMES
Linguist Barbara Partee studies language to understand the structure of the human mind.

VEILED MEANINGS
Islam brings back the veil - a return to fundamentalism or a sign of women's growing independence.

MAIL-ORDER MAYHEM
A nationally ranked karate champion takes aim against mail-order ninja weapons that are being used by children.

THE YIDDUSH REVIVAL
Mazel tov to Hannah Kliger, who has brought an ancient language back to the moderm curriculum.

PANANMA
Zoology students learn firsthand about the animals of the tropics and the complex ecology of Barro Colorado Islands.

COSTA RICA
A botanist in Costa rica discusses the razing of the rain forest and what it means for the fragile ecosystem.

MARTIAN MYSTERIES
Robert Huguenin is looking at dust from the stars to unravel some of the mysteries of Mars.

HOUSEHOLD HAZARDS
Cleve Williams surveys how Bay Staters dispose of their household toxins, and the results are not reassuring.

BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO
A new television series hepls couples identify issues involved in divorce, make a decision, and live with the results.

Volume X, Number 4 - June 1985

SAY IT AIN'T SO, JOE
Ronald Story, baseball scholar and fan, talks about America's love affair with the game.

BETWEEN TWO CULTURES
Southeast Asian students discover the joys and sorrows of adjusting to American life.

PASSIVE ACCOMPLICES
David Wyman's book, The Abandonment of the Jews, indicts US leader who failed to take action against the Holocaust.

VISIONS AND REVISIONS
Daniel Anderson is studying how children preceive the complicated video shorthand of television.

THE REGREENING OF NAGASAKI
Edward Klekowski is finding mutations in plants directly descended from those which grew at the bomb site.

NURSES BOOST NURSING
New mothers are learning the benefits of breast-feeding in a clinic run by students from the nursing department.

Volume X Number 3 - February 1985

KICKING THE HEROINE HABIT
Heroine into hero - Lee Edwards finds women in fiction are changing.

HIGH-TECH GOES TECHNICOLOR
DIAL is turning scientific data into a rainbow of colors for easier interpretation and artisitic pleasure.

GENETIC ENGINEERING
Scientists are controlling some life-threatening diseases by genetic engineering techniques, but critics feel the risk is too high.

THE PRIME OF MISS PEARL PRIMUS
After decades of dancing and teaching, Pearl Primus is still in her prime.

ANTINUKE FILM ANTICS
Liane Brandon is producing a film which uses testimonials, song, and dance to show people what they can do to stop nuclear war.

CALL OF THE WILD
Graduate students are following the habits of wildlife with the help of radio telemetry.

STREET LETHAL
James Wright and others at SADRI are studying the health care needs of the homeless.

MYSTERIES OF THE MUMMY
Anthropologists are unwrapping the secrets of ancient cultures by examining the bones of mummies.

Volume X Number 2 - December 1984

THE LIFE & TIMES OF FLORA LEWIS
In her commencement address last spring, New York Times columnist Flora Lewis lambasted the current regimes in both Washington and Moscow.

IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT APPLE
The wormy apple may be a thing of the past, if Ron Prokopy and the Integrated Pest Management team perfect their biological control system.

TOYING WITH REALITY
George Forman is studying how chilfren learn from, and play with, the new high-tech toys.

SALEM REPOSSESSED
Stephen Nissenbaum is the historical adviser on the set of a PBS film starring Vanessa Redgrave.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Wendy Lehnert is teaching computers to process natural language, which is a little like teaching a three-year-old to read Proust.

FASHIONABLE CAUSES
Barbara Schreier is studying how the clothing of the fifties reflected the now-famous "feminine mystique" of that period.

WALKING FOR THE HEALTH OF IT
Robert Sweetgall will walk 11,600 miles this year and Frank Katch is testing him to see how walking rates as a fitness regime.

THE IMPOSTER SYNDROME
Valerie Young offers workshops for women who feel that they are imposters in their careers.

Volume IX Number 4 - March-April 1984

Chinese journalists study our ways

New discoveries about the birth of stars

Massachussetts mobilizes to monitor acid rain

Dramatic new treatment for paralysis

Pricking the Orwell bubble

The new censorship laws

A different approach to the teaching of reading and writing

An author shares his secrets

Phi Beta Kappa poem

An update on the trade-union movement

Volume IX Number 3 - January-February 1984

Toward better museums

Voyages of discovery aboard the R/V Regina Maris

Chines-English dictionary a three-way partnership

James Baldwin

Communal societies past and present

Update on the greenhouse effect

Minerals may hold key to nuclear waste disposal

System 6 for hardwood

Gospel goes to college

Saturday morning polka

New directions in health care

Polymers to change your life

Volume IX Number 2 - November-December 1983

Anthropolgists' film refutes creationist dogmas

Historian chosen to edit prestigious journal of the sea

The definitive New England herpetology book

Wily strategies to combat nematode nemesis

The Sturgeon General

Do fat babies become fat adults?

Sculptor and graphics artist Leomard Baskin is first Institute Distinguished Fellow

Better chow for the hounds

A court of last resort for confounded consumers

Research on why the victim blames the victim

A talk with an Oriental rug expert

Polish language instruction

Putting high school math onto the computer

Rossi on crime in America

Volume IX Number 1 - September-October 1983

The education of graphic designers of the future

Field school at W.E.B. Du Bois homestead. Few people know that the great thinker and philosopher Du Bois was born into a black community which had lived in the Berkshires since colonial times. UMass anthropologists are combing the historic site for information about the life of that special community.

Lizzie Borden's 40 whacks Violent and sensational Americana is the basis for an unusual course in historical scholarship.

Honors for the Five College dancers

Colorado-based supercomputer does our number crunching

Thoughts on our metamorphosis

Chancellor to advise Gov. Dukakis on mature industry

The subtext of women's magazines A professor of comparative literature looks for meaning amid recipes and beauty aids

Critical choices for Brattleboro's future

Custom dune buggy zooms and floats

A walking tour for campus habitues and visitors there is venerable arboreal life in the groves of academe

Trash recycled into products and student jobs.

New Herter Gallery director

Ice cream testing is Prof. Potte's sideline

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