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9-1-1996
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News for Faculty and Staff at USF St. Petersburg
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• • Bill Heller • New students north and south · • • • • • • • • •
As we start another fall semester, we have something extra special to be excited about.
I'm so proud that USF classes will be taught this fall at the new Palm Harbor University High School. Our efforts to bring higher education opportunities to north Pinellas County seems to be hitting
• the right note, as some 90 people showed up for an information and registration session held at the high school in early August.
(Thanks to all our staff and faculty who trekked to Palm Harbor to work with the students.)
standing of the state bureaucratic and legal system, and learn how to protect the rights of children. During the last six weeks of class, students will be assigned child abuse cases to work on. Course materials will be provided free, and the class meets on Tuesday nights.
Those who complete the course will be prepared for certification as Guardian ad Litems. I encourage all faculty and staff to consider taking this worthwhile course. More children than you may realize need these special services.
Do it for the kids.
• • • • • • • • • • • Speaking of orientation, we also
• More on Greek history, mythology Two courses relating to an upcom
ing Greek exhibition will be offered on campus this fall. One class, called The Age of Alexander, will cover the reign of Alexander the Great from 336-323 B.C.
Alexander, who in his youth was tutored by the philosopher Aristotle, ruled Greece and conquered most of the ancient world. He was king ot Egypt, Babylon and Persia, and was credited with merging the ancient
Our campus faculty will teach a variety of classes there in criminology, government, English and education. Our goal is to offer programs in Palm Harbor to enable students to complete their degrees
had incredible turnout on campus. In fact, we were almost overwhelmed with the number of new students entering the College of Education this semester- almost double our usual number. Hats off to the advisors and faculty who handled the crowds, and also to the Student Affairs staff.
• cultures of Greece and the Near East.
• without commuting miles and miles to do so.
So far, our main focus is in the College of Education, with seven of our 11 courses offered at PHUHS on teaching. But we have other interesting courses as well, such as the American Literature class taught by Dan Wells.
Another important course is Guardian ad Litem. This course provides a valuable public service, as it trains volunteers to act as special court advocates for children involved in the judicial system.
Taught by Darryl Paulson, students will get a better under-
• • • • • • • • • • • The new library is up and
running fairly smoothly- the library staff did a tremendous job of gettting things moved. Visit our beautiful new space -you'll be impressed.
Meanwhile, work is progressing on the old building to ready it for administrative offices, a computer lab and Student Affairs. The building will be called Bayboro Hall.
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Students will study written accounts of Alexander's life as well as a history of Macedonian culture. The instructor is William Murray, a USF history professor who has lived, taught and conducted research in Greece. The class meets Thursday evenings.
A second course, Classical Mythology, will be offered on Tuesdays nights. It will cover Greek gods, goddesses, satyrs and muses, the heroes such as Hercules and Sisyphus, and sagas such as those of the Golden Fleece and the Trojan War.
The course is taught by Bob Hall. Both courses complement the
upcoming fall exhibition on Alexander
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"Alexander the Great: The Exhibition" 6 p.m. Sept. 5 in the CAC. The speaker is James Broughton, executive director of the Florida International Museum.
"Alexander the Great in the Traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam" 6 p.m. Sept. 25 in the CAC. Speaker is Robert Steve Bianchi, curator of Alexander the Great: The Exhibition.
EreryiJollt's Talking •••
Saturday, Oct. 19, and a campus team is now forming . Families and friends are encouraged to join our march to support pets. Call Sudsy (9842) for details. • Gerald Bacoats, CSPD, has a model daughter. Marisa Bacoats, 16, has modeled for Sports Illustrated for Kids, Ebony and Parade magazines, and appeared in commercials and Nickelodeon TV shows. Meanwhile, she holds a 3.8 GP A at Gibbs High School's Pinellas County Center for the Arts.
Marisa recently was featured in the St. Petersburg Times, and will act as a prenatal care spokeswoman for the public health program Healthy Start.
• John Ogden, FlO, was named as This summer, she worked with one of four national spokespeople for Florida's Department of Health and Sea Web, a program to raise awareness Rehabilitation to educate other of critical ocean issues. The program is teenagers about AIDS. sponsored by Pew Charitable Trusts' • A Back-to-School Sale-abration, aka Marine Conservation Initiative. arts and crafts sale, will be held Sept.
John met with members of the 24-25 outside of Davis Hall. The sale nation's top news organizations, runs from 9:30a.m.- 6 p.m. and including the major networks, news rumor has it that this is the place to magazines and newspapers during start (perish the thought) your holi-information sessions in New York and day shopping. Washington D.C. He focused much of • A RAD self-defense course for his presentation on the coastal sea- women will be offered Saturday and scape of south Florida, addressing the Sunday, Sept. 21-22 in the CAC. The issues of over-fishing, destruction of class runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p .m. and the seascape through human alter- the instructors are USF police officers. ation of the landscape, and the effect This free course is open to female of increased population on water- staff, faculty and students. This is ways. valuable training for women, so sign
He also shared his expertise on up now! Call Sgt. Margie Carr (9140) managing the coastal waters, and the for more information. meaningful actions people can take to • Jim Fellows, business, informs us aid in this effort. that recent USF graduates (with e Herm Brames, finance and admin- advanced degrees at all campuses) istration, reports that during the taking the CPA exam continued their summer break the parking lot across tradition of excellence. USF ranks #2 the street from Davis Hall was resur- nationally over the past 10 years and faced and restripped. our accounting students have placed
The parking lot north of the in the top five colleges nine times. Tavern on the Green/Bayboro Books Congratulations to all accounting and the parking lot on the east (airport professors! side) of the Campus Activities Center • A groundbreaking for the new
participated in local races with the snipe fleet at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club, and also sailed against the St. Petersburg Sailing Association's Twilight Series.
Even some folks in Tampa are paying attention to the club, as at least one Tampa campus student catches a city bus several times a week to come here just to practice with our sailing club. This student's practice and dedication has paid off, as he took second place at a junior national championship in Pensacola recently.
Kudos go to Steve Lang for his good coaching as well. Steve has reared a family of sailors, as his sons Scotty, 12, and Mark, 15, compete too.
The Sail Club this fall will race against the University of Florida, Eckerd College, Embry Riddle University, Rollins College and the College of Charleston. Go, team, go! e The Ethics Center is gearing up for a big fall with a series of community discussion evenings. Titled "Dr. French's Philosophical Four Letter Words," the series focuses on such topics as duty, loss, soul and evil.
Each evening begins with an original video produced by French on the topic, and is followed by a discussion. The first one, Life, begins at 5 p.m. Sept. 11 in the Ethics Center. Duty will be presented Sept. 25 at 5 p.m. Call Rob Huntley (3172) for more information. • USF Day is set for Sept. 25 at 8 a.m . President Castor will be on campus for our breakfast buffet. USF Day, designed to build pride in the university, will showcase our campus to our alunmi. Other events include a luncheon in downtown Tampa, and a groundbreaking for the alumni center and a football scrimmage at the Tampa campus that night. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend this event in the CAC. The cost is $10; call Lisa Wharton(9160) for more details.
also is being redesigned, resurfaced boathouse at Haney Landing is • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • and upgraded. These areas will be anticipated for mid-November. Part Not too late to help spruced up with landscaping as well. of the festivities will include a series ASAP needs you to donate any
Herm wants you to know that the of sailing lectures, sponsored by the spare clothes, canned goods or projects are funded by parking decal Student Activities Board, by promi- toiletries for the homeless. Getting fees- in the amount of about nent yachtsfolk and yacht builders. your contribution there is easier $175,000. With the redesign, plus the Watch for more information on this! than you think. The St. Petersburg reopening of the library parking lot, • According to Steve Lang, USF St. Campus Ambassadors are collect-the campus will net an extra 56 Petersburg Sail Club advisor, many ing your goods, so just call Susdy parking spaces (over last year)! dedicated student sailors have been (9842) for pickup. Or, drop them • The SPCA Pet Walk is set for practicing all summer. They've • off at her office in DA V 120. • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
• You've heard about and seen the success of our xeriscape demonstration project on campus, at the corner of Fourth Street and Fifth A venue South. Now, you have the opportunity to find out how to duplicate that luscious foliage in your own backyard! You can learn how at our dedication for the xeriscape project on Sept. 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
President Castor will be on hand to welcome the crowds, as this is meant to be a big public event to educate folks about water-saving gardening ideas, xeriscape landscaping and irrigation. For children, puppet shows, story-telling and other "info"tainment will be presented under a giant tent. There should be fun for all.
The event is funded by Swiftmud and the City of St. Petersburg. See you there! • The Boston Crusaders, an excellent drum and bugle corps, spent a week living on campus in August while they participated in national competition (ranking 17th) in Orlando. Although they mainly just slept (on the floor) of the CAC and showered here, it was quite a task to house the 120 band members nonetheless. Student Affairs, Campus Police and Physical Plant all did a terrific job of making the CAC as homey as possible for the week. Many thanks! • The Student Activities Board is sponsoring a number of events this semester, beginning with a lecture titled "Like Judgement Day: The True Story of Rosewood." Soon to be a major motion picture by John Singleton (and the basis for the bestselling book Like Judgement Day), this is the story of Rosewood, a mostly black town that was virtually wiped out by a lynch mob in 1923.
Speaker Arnett T. Doctor, a descendent of three Rosewood families who serves as the film's consultant and who brought the Rosewood story to light after nearly 70 years, will share the tragedy and redemption that was finally won for the survivors. This lecture takes place Sept. 9 at 11:30 a.m. in CAC 109. • Yet another provocative SAB event is a workhop on alcoholism and how it affects every member of a family -particularly children's roles when a parent is alcoholic -and
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••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• how those roles persist into adulthood. Clinical psychologist Beth Fishman will explain these patterns and how to change them. The workshop, set for noon Sept. 24 in CAC 133, will be followed by a sixweek group for Adult Children of Alcoholics. To register for the group, call Dr. Fishman at 4-9293. • If recalling your childhood isn't going back far enough for you, attend the lecture "Recalling Past Lives" at 11:30 Sept. 30 in CAC 109.
Speaker Ralph Klicker will discuss whether life after death is possible, near-death experiences, past-life encounters and regression, karma and deja vu. e A 1 0-year retrospective of painter Christopher Drake will be featured Sept. 15-0ct. 16 in DAV 130.
Drake's style and use of color has been described as raw, wild, bold and direct. He is a figurative, realistic painter known for his heavy layering of pigment.
An opening reception and lecture by the artist will be held at 2 p.m. Sept. 15, and Drake also will host a gallery talk at noon Oct. 2. Gallery hours will be 11 a.m.-1 p.m. MondayThursday and Sundays from 2-4 p.m. The gallery will be closed Sept. 24 and Oct. 9. • Just so there's no more confusion than necessary about payroll deposit, let's set the record straight. The new law regarding mandatory direct deposit for state employees only applies to those who began their jobs after July 1. Current employees are exempted.
The law was passed in keeping with the goal of paperless business processes in government, which is supposed to translate into more efficiency. And, most folks who already have direct deposit will vouch for it - they say it's a lot easier than running to the bank before 2 p.m. every other Friday. For more information, call our campus Human Resources Office (9105) .
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Faculty and Staff
Amy Hopkins, student affairs, presented "High School to Community College to University: A Consortium for Change" with SPJC's Sue Blanchard at the National Association on Higher Education and Disability Conference July 18 in New Orleans.
Doug Maczis, bookstore, was promoted to clerk supervisor. Congratulations, Doug!
Rosanne Blass, education, recently published Resource Book: Beyond the Bean Seed = Gardening Activities for Grades K-6 (Teacher Ideas Press).
Ruth Whitney, women's studies, was appointed as a visiting professor for USF's Women's Studies Department. In addition to her class here, she will teach three more classes at the Tampa campus this fall, and continue to teach there for the spring term. Congratulations!
Khaleah Bryant, arts and sciences, has retired, and we wish her well!
Greg Tolley, marine science, published an article and photographs on the Oceanography Camp for Girls in the Pinellas Park News.
Bob Dardenne, journalism studies, published "A Free and Responsible Student Press," an 81-page monograph on communication and community in the student press, in the Poynter Papers: No. 8, Summer 1996.
John Compton and David Mallinson, marine science, published "Geochemical Consequences of Increased Late Cenozoic Weathering Rates and the global COz Balance Since 100 Ma" in the August issue of Paleoceanography.
Margaret Hewitt, education, spent two weeks working with the Oceanography Camp for Girls' teacher's camp, during which she taught high school teachers cooperative learning techniques. Margaret, in a first-ever College of Education collaboratoin with the Department of Marine Science, spent one day at sea testing water quality and sampling various forms of sea life.
Darryl Paulson, government, recently spoke to the Pinellas County Young Republicans on "The '96 Elections," to the Elder Hostel Program at Eckerd College on "Fair Campaign Practices," and was the annual dinner speaker at the American Asociation of Architects conference in Punta Vedra, Florida, speaking on "Political Humor."
Julius Colombo, telecommunications, received an Incentive/ Efficiency Program award for creative programming on our campus phone system. Congratulations!
Four new Ethics Fellows have arrived on campus. Mitch Haney (doctorate in philosophy from the University of Memphis) specializes in ethical theory and moral epistemology.
Michael Byron (doctorate in philosophy from Notre Dame) specializes in the history of ethics, decision theory and ethical theory.
MargaretVValker(atenured professor at Fordham University) plans to spend her year working on her book Moral Understandings, which is under contract with Routledge.
Mark VVoods (doctorate in philosophy from the University of Colorado) is an expert on environmental ethics. He will work with Swiftmud on its complex water issues.
Other new faculty include: Jay Sokolovsky, who formerly
was a visiting professor here, but
now is a professor of anthropology. Also, geographer Rebecca Johns comes to us from various universities in New Jersey where she taught as an adjunct professor.
D. C. White is a new visiting professor in management and information systems.
Welcome to all!
Bill Heller, Sept. 3; Gene Olson, Sept. 4; Gary Stetson, Sept. 7; Regis Factor, Sept. 8; Joan Hesler and Johan Schijf, Sept. 9; John Walsh, Kendall Carder and Marti Garratt, Sept. 11; Bob Fowler, Sept. 14; Tim Lane, Sept. 15; Steve Danese, Sept. 16; Suzanne Struthers and Betty Raines, Sept. 17; Jon Wiles and Steve Lang, Sept. 22; Robert Steward and Dongbin Peng, Sept. 23; Tony Hoff, Sept. 24; Tom Hopkins, and Barbara Frye, Sept. 25; Julius Colombo, Phil Reinersman, Sept. 27; Tina Neville, Sept. 28; and Jackie Jackson, Sept. 30.
Quote of the Month
"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."
- Sam Levenson
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