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iii WESTERN

KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY

Vol. 4 No.1h • l'ublic,ltinl1 For WKU LlCldty ,mel St,lii • D"C,'mbl'r, 1994

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On Campus

TO A By Sheila Eison

When pr. James Ramsey was named vice president for finance and administration at WKU in

1992, his long history of public service to Kentucky's fiscal manage­mentand his back­ground in

Dr. Jam~ RD~ the aca-demic

community were widely re­spected.

His service as executive direc­tor of the State Office of Financial Management and Economic Analysis and nearly twelve years of experience as an adjunct professor in public administra­tion and economics at the Univer­sity of Kentucky made him a natural for working in the area of higher education finance.

Ramsey was the state's chief economist from 1988 until his appointment to Western, and he had the responsibility for the revenue estimating and planning function of Kentucky state gov­ernment.

But few probably know WKU's vice president was selected by the United States Information Agency and the University of Kentucky to teach in a Public Administration and Management seminar in Kazakhstan earlier this semester.

DR. RAMSEY Jllim SII .. lIES­SIRS IIID A REPRlSlITAlM FRIM TIE CaUICIL IF STATE caVERIMIIT II PRaVlDl1IC TRAlIIIIC .1 ECOIOMIC IIID nlAlU:w. IlAlll8lMIIT ISIIIS II TIE "IMER SIVIn STATE

Dr. Ramsey joined six profes­sors and a representative from the Council of State Government in providing training on ec0-nomic and financial management issues in the former Soviet State that is now pursuing a demo­cratic government and a market­oriented economy.

The program was such a suc­cess, the group has been notified by the USIA that they will be invited for a return visit next year, probably in May.

Western Kentucky University December, 1994

ECONO : THE 'GREAT CHALLENGE' The American professors'

students were mid and higher level government officials.

"They were very eager to learn and it was a very positive experi­ence for us," said Ramsey, add­ing: "It was professionally rewarding to try and provide this kind of help and information and to see their interest.

"These were individuals who have always worked in the Soviet system where all the economic

decisions were made in Moscow. As government officials, their role has been to implement the deci­sions made there because basi­cally they didn't make decisions," Ramsey said, adding:

"Our mission was to try and provide them with an overview of economic markets and how the market economies work, public management, and administra­tion-in general to educate them on the role of government officials in a democracy.

"They realize they have a great challenge ahead of them," said WKU's vice president, who is also a member of WKU's economics faculty. "Some of the basic tenets of a market economy are private property rights, prices and profits, but the Kazakhstani people have no experience with this," Ramsey

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explained. Kazakhstan, settled by Turkish

nomads, has been dominated by Russia, and later the Soviet Union for hundreds of years.

"Kazakhstan is 8,000 miles away, literally a world away, and the people there have very little familiarity with the

Western world. They are very interested in our

ways of life and in our social and government programs, and the concept of private property is something they

have

no familiarity with, so to make a dramatic shift from a command economy to a market economy is a tremendous challenge, and the people there realize that. But they have a great hope, a great desire to be successful, and they see this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, not only for themselves, but for their country," Ramsey said.

"They expressed a real apprecia­tion for the opportunity to be involved in this program," Ramsey said, adding as an example a touching experience of being presented with bouquets of flowers by both the men and women at the end of the seminar period.

"The people there are a very warm and generous people with great senses of humor," Ramsey said.

"They work hard; they play hard,

but they talk very much about their goals and their ambitions.

"When you think of 38 percent of the population being Russian, you know there is still some attraction by a lot of the people there to Mother Russia, and so there are some who are a little reluctant to try to change, but a great many of the Kazakhstani have a great commitment," Ramsey said.

Next semester, in addition to his work in the Office of Finance and Administration, Ramsey will teach a course in macroeconomics.

'I IIIJay TUCHlla VERY MUC •••• IT HElPES ME II MY WlRK IERE BECAUSE I aruM EVIIImlla Iff Da .ERE IS DEVOTED TO WlSTERI·S MISSIOI:

ilR. JIM RAMSEY

"I enjoy teaching very much," he says. "It helps me in my work here because I believe everything we do here is devoted to Western's mission, and that is to teaching and to learning.

"In finance and administration we are attempting to become even more customer-oriented, toward students, toward faculty and toward staff," he says.

"We need to be sensitive to their needs and to do what they expect of us, and a customer-driven orientation is an approach we are • striving toward," he says.

"WI IIfD TO BI SIIISIIIVI TO THai Ilms 1110 TO DO WIlT THEY IXPEl:T OF us. 1110 A c CUITOMlRilRIVIII aRllIIIATIOI IS III .".IIACH II( All mini' TOWARD:

WKU's vice president is adively involved in a number of profes­sional endeavors, and some of them include serving as president of the Kentucky Economics Asso­ciation, serving on the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority Board, an appoinbnent by the Kentucky Economic Devel­opment Partnership, serving as treasurer of the WKU Foundation and serving on the board of direc­tors of the Kentucky Science and Technology Council Inc.

Ramsey has been a member of the Governor's Roundtable, an appOintment by Gov. Brereton Jones.

Continu.ed on pDgt 3

On Campus Western Kentucky University December, 1994

Therese D. Baker, Library Public Services. has a review of Textiles of the Wiener Werkstatte, by Angela Volker with Ruperta Pichler, Rizzoli, 1994, in The library Journal, Vol. 119, August 1994, p. 84.

James W. Grimm, Sociology and Anthropology, with others has published an Evaluation Report and a Summary Report concerning The Alaska Native Community~Oriented Tobacco Project. Funded by the Congress,through the Alaska Area Active Health Service, the project was aimed at and succeeded in reducing tobacco usage among Alaska Native school children in grades 2·6. Dr. Grimm was the primary methodological consultant on the project.

The following faculty from the Department of Geography and Geology had papaers published in the Proceedings, Geography Sec­tion, of the Kentucky Academy of Science. Nov. 1994. Stuart Foster, Editor:

L. Michael Trapasso, Water Conservation Systems Developed Centuries B.C., Part One: The Falaj System of Oman, pp. 1-8;

James L. Davis, .. ,,:

A Transpor­tation Analysis of Bowling Green and Warren County, Ky., pp.9-19;

Glen Conner, Latitudinal Variation in Consecutive Days Precipitation, pp. 29-38;

Wayne L. Hoffman and James M. Bingham, Kentucky's Jour­ney to Work, 1970-1990: A Comparative Analysis, pp. 49-58;

David J. Keeling, Developing MERCOSUR: Can Argentina and Brazil Replicate the Euro­pean Common Market? pp. 59-72.

Conrad T. Moore, Inverse Relationships Between Monthly Wind Velocities and Precipita­tion in the United States and Pacific Basin, pp. 73-82.

KAZAKHSTAN: THE 'GREAT CHALLENGE' Continued from page 2

The group advises the Governor and his administration on the state's economic outlook and revenue situation, and he is a member of the board of directors of TQ Inc. which produces sporting goods equipment and clothing, located in Monticello, Ky.

He's a graduate of Western and received his doctoral degree from the University of Kentucky in 1974.

He was an associate dean and director of public administration at Loyola University in New Orleans, and besides the University of Ken­tucky, has also taught at Middle Tennessee State UniverSity.

He has authored dozens of research articles, working papers and other publications on finance, and frequently presents papers before profes­sionalorganizations.

When not thinking about WKU's economy, Ramsey says he likes to spend time with his family.

"We like to take advantage of many things the University has to offer," he says, and one of those activities includes the Friday afternoon Children's Theatre series presentations, he says.

Some of his latest involvements in the community include serving on the board of directors of the Bowling Green-Warren County Chamber of Commerce, and serving this year as president of the Bowling Green­Warren County Arts Commission.

"We like Bowling Green. It's a great community and there are a lot of good people here."

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Other recent publications by the geography and geology faculty include:

Christopher Groves and A.D. Howard, Early Development of Karst Systems: Preferential Flow Path Enlargement Under Laminar Flow, Water Resources Re­search, Vol. 30, pp. 2837-2946, 1994;

David Keeling, Globalization and Socioeconomic Restructing in Argentina, Joumal of Latin American Affairs, Vol. 2, pp. 13-15, 1994; and Regional Develop­ment and Transport Policies in Argentina: An Appraisal, pub­lished in The Journal of Develop­ing Areas, Vol. 28, No.4, July 1994, pp. 487-502.

Kenneth Kuehn, C. Groves, N. Crawford and J. Meiman, Geo­morphology and Environmental Problems of the Central Kentucky Karst, p. 50. Field Trip Guide for the Annual Field Conference of the Kentucky Geological Society, 1994;

Michael Trapasso and Fahad M. Alkolibi, Regional Temperature Trends and Variations in the Contiguous United States from

1835 to 1986. Transactions of the Kentucky Acadey of Science, Vol. 55, No. 3-4, pp. 131-138, 1994.

Trapasso had Indigenous Atti­tudes, Ecotourism, and Menno­nites: Recent Examples in Rainforest DestructioniPreseKra­tion, published in GeoJournal:'Vol. 33, No.4, 1994, pp. 449-452. '

Dr. Robert Pulsinelli, Economics, had Data Manipulation as Crisis published in The Freeman, Vol. 44, No. 11 pp. 620-622, 1994.

Mark P. Robinson, Mathematics, and Graeme Fairweather, Univer­sity of Kentucky, have published Orthogonal spline collocation methods for Schrodinger-type equations in one space variable, in Numerische Mathematik, Vol. 68, 1994, pages 355-375.

John S. Spraker and Daniel C. Biles of Mathematics, have pub· lished Filippov's operation and some attributes in The Czechoslo­vak Mathematical Journal, Vol. 44, 1994, pages 513-520.

When the weather outside is frightfuL! What do we do?

If you ever have a question about whether the University will be conducting classes during any kind of bad weather, the quickest way to find out is to tune into your favorite local radio or television station's weather an­nouncements.

If you do not hear any information about WKU, assume classes are being held. Media will announce only closings for WKU.

Mornings, the decision will have been made by the University Inclement Weather Committee by 5 a.m., and .::::.;';'.:;;;;.:~: :.'~;.;; J~!i instructions to notify media of closings ; .. ,: .' .. ,' . ~~} :.: .. ,.'. only are passed on to Fred Hensley, Director of '.' , '. University Relations, whose office notifies a large number of area and regional media immediately. ")

The Committee has announced no procedure for determing evetting class closings; however, if University Relations receives instructions, we notify media within minutes.

Just remember, if you hear nothing, or if you hear announcers saying they haven't heard from Western yet, assume Western is open. An­nouncers have been discouraged from using misleading chatter be­cause mention of a school can be more confusing than helpful, particu­larly if you heard only part of the message.

In WKU's case, no news regarding weather means no change in schedule.

On Campus

COM ING UP

This calendar is prepared from the University Master Calendar coordinated by the Offiu of University Relations. if you have questions, additions or corrections, plea~ address them to Lou Annt Beckhom, CoordinatorofSp«ia1 Events, 745·2497.

December

8 By reservation - "The American Traditional

Christmas," Kentucky Building, 745.jj()82.

3:15 p.m. - 6 p.m. - Faculty Senate Meeting, Gee Ballroom, contact: Sylvia Pulliam, 6186.

9 By reservation - "The American Traditional

Christmas," Kentucky Building, 745-6082.

2 p ,m, - 6 p.m, - Senior High School Speech Tournament, GCC, Grise, CH, TCCW, STH, contact: Judy Woodring, 6340.

10 8 a.m . - 6 p .m , - Senior High School Speech

Tournament, GCC, Grise, CH, TCCW, STH, contact: Judy Woodring, 6340.

6 - 8 p ,m. - Faculty Staff Appreciation, Diddle Arena Auxiliary Gym, contact: Lou Anne Beckham. 2497,

7 p.m. - Men's Hilltopper BB vs. Belmont, Diddle Arena, contact: Pam Heniiord, 3542.

9 p .m. - 1 p.rn. - Alpha Phi Alpha Christmas Party, GCC Ballroom, contact: Ther rard, 3357,

Western Kentucky University

16 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. - State Drama Festival, FAC,

contact: Judy Woodring, 6340.

17 7 p.m. - Lady Topper BB vs. Murray State,

contact: Pam Herriford, 3542.

19 Holiday Break Begins. The University is

dosed through January 3, 1995,

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28 8 p.m. - Men's Hilltopper BB vs. Alabama­

Birmingham, contact: Pam Herriford, 3542.

January

2 All day - KY Young Woman of the Year,

i>"11"~~~~~~3'\~:;VMA' contact: Donna Hixson, 781-5558. All Week - Final j 0, L I,. .'

. J :., '~' . \ ,

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14 ;.> ..," •

,,"-",=~-'?, .. ,-"""" . "v" aay - KY Young Woman of the Year, I i, ,contact: Donna Hixson, 781-5558.

8 a.m, - 6 p,m, - S"i~fi.f.'· £maiOfE"". val, FA \ "" ) contact: Judy Woodring, ,,~A

--" ':t ----A ~---:;;'.L:-----...,/ 6:45 a,m , (All day) - OAR; DUe VMA, GCC,

2 p.m. - Academi trar,3351.

" contact: Sharon Dyrsen, 4242.

egis­\

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All day - KY Young Woman of the Year, VMA, contact Donna Hixson, 781-5558.

5 Residence Halls open for Spring Semester,

con tact: Housing, 4359.

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December, 1994

6:45 a,m, (All day) - OAR, DUC, VMA, GCC, contact: Sharon Dyrsen, 4242.

Noon -10 p.m. - 3rd District Band Leaders Conference, DUC 340, Theater, TP A, contact: Keith Vincent, 651-8792.

All day - KY Young Woman of the Year, VMA, contact: Donna Hixson, 781-5558.

7 p.m. - Men 's Hilltopper BB vs. Arkansas State, Diddle Arena, contact Pam Herriford, 3542.

6 6:45 a,m, (All day) - OAR; DUe, VMA, GCC,

contact: Sharon Dyrsen, 4242.

All day - 3rd District Band Leaders Confer­ence, DUC 340, Theater, TPA, contact: Keith Vincent, 651-8792.

All day - KY Young Woman of the Year, VMA, contact: Donna Hixson, 781-5558.

7 All day - KY Young Woman of the Year,

VMA, contact Donna Hixson, 781-5558.

4, -7 p ,m, - Big Red's 15th Birthday Party, Kentucky Museum, contact: Earlene Chelf, 2592,

7 p.m. - Men's Hilltopper BB vs. Southwest­ern Louisiana, Diddle Arena, contact: Pam Herriford, 3542.

ClaSl~ Begin,

8 a.m. Dana Jacobson,

5527,

10 8 a.m. - 5 p .m . - Fee Disbursement Student

Loans, GCC Ballroom, contact Dana Jacobson, 5527,

On Campus

11 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. - Fee Disbursement Student

Loans, Gee Ballroom, contact: Dana Jacobson, 5527.

12 7 p.m. - Lady Topper BB vs. Lamar, Diddle

Arena, contact: Pam Herriford, 3542.

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Western Kentucky University

contact: Sandy Webb, 745·1908.

3:15 p.m. - Faculty Senate Meeting, GCC Ballroom, Sylvia Pulliam, 6186.

20 r,

8 a.m. - 6 p.m.· WKU Honors Band Clinic, GCC Bal1r~!,,'lond VMK,' contact: joe ,stites, 4024. J ,i

8 a.m. - RehearSatHigh School Students Honors Band .. VM and Gee, contact: John Carmichael. 5893:-a

8 a.m. -10:30 p.m.- Western Chamber Sing- I 10 p.m. - 2 a.m. - Student Activities Dance, ers Fest/Vocal Fest, VMA, contact: Gary ~ Gee Ballroom, conta~ Batty Witty, 5793.

McKercher, 5915. \. "21'-' . "'w' ,., '.,

6:30 p.m. - Chamber of Co~erce Banquet, Gee Ballroom, contact: Rick DUDose, 843-5467r a _!! l-

14 S a.m. - 6 p.m. - WKU Honors Band Clir!ic, _

,Gee Ballroom and VMA, contact Joe Stites, 4024.

December, 1994

25 4 - 9 p.m. - Student Recruitment Phonathon,

DUe 340, contact: Carla Wuertzer, 2551.

7 p.m. - Wilcutt Day, Gee Auditorium, contact: Lana Flynn, 4493.

26 8 a.m. - 6 p .m. - WKU Honors Band Clinic

(Snow Date), GCC Ballroom and VMA, con­tact: Joe Stites, 4024.

8 a.m. - 7 p.m. - Region II Deca, DUe 226 and 230, contact Jt;rry Boles, 6484.

8 a.m. - 5 p.m.· Wilcutt Day, Gee Audito­r rium, contact: Lana Flynn, 4493.

U :3O a.m. - 1:30 p.m. - High School Scholars Luncheon, contact tou Anne Beckham, 2497.

vi (I 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. - Presidents Club Recep-8 a.m. -10:30 p.m.·· ~:.!!r~~~~~~'::.~:g· B a.m. :~~~r(~~ 0 C 349, '- • tion, Diddle ~na Auxiliary Gym, contact:

ers Fest/ Vocal Fest, V contact: ¥"lir,da 1 (61J?)i~·'-~083. ~ Lou Anne Beckham, 2497.

McKercher, 5915. ;~~~~~~~~~~;~:::;:I~~~;~~~~~t~i~1~~~~~~f~~~~7~t~~~~~~i~~;i~~~~if~ BB vs. Jacksonville, 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. - Herriford,3542.

Green Youth Soccer, tact: Pam Herriford,

Martin Luther ~~g[)aly-.Ji,~~[lr~~~==~ closed. i.

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8 p.m. - Lady Topper BB v.ss"r!l~~~~~~ Diddle Arena, contact: Pam F

4 - 9 p.m. - Student Recruitment Phonathon, DUe 340, contact: Carla Wuertzer, 2551.

19 All day - WKU Honors Band Clinic, GCC

Ballroom, VMA, contact: Joe Stites, 4024.

2 - 4 p.m. - Leadership for the 90s, DUC 308,

4 - 9 p.m . - Shldl':'.tc~eCC1;littnent Phonathon, DUe 340, contact: Wuertzer, 2551.

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BandOinic and VMA, con-

On Campus

University Libraries December Schedule

Dec.S Dec. 9 & 10 Dec.U-1S Dec. 16 Dec. 19·21 Dec.22- Jan.3

Regular Hours Open until 10 p.m. Regular Hours Close at 4:30 p.m. 9 a.m.---4 p.m. Closed

Western Kentucky University

Development director will serve libraries

Debbie H. Conway has been hired as Direc­tor of Development for Western Kentucky University Libraries and The Kentucky Mu­seum.

Conway replaces Mike Brey who resigned earlier this year to take a position with the Wisconsin Heart Association.

Before relocating to the Bowling Green area, Conway served four years as assistant director of agriculture development in the University of Kentucky's Agriculture Alumni and Devel­opment Office. In that position she was re­spohsible for a wide range of fundraising activities, including annual and planned giving and phonothons.

Conway is a 1990 graduate of U. K., with both a B.S. in Agriculture Economics and B.B.A. in Finance.

For more information, contact Earlene Chelf (502) 745·5263.

Happy Bnnhoay, Bzg Reo! December I, 1994, Western Kentucky University's big,

red, fuzzy mascot was 15 years old! To celebrate this important milestone, the lovable creature's "life" will be the subject of a Kentucky Museum exhibit "Big Red: You've Come a Long Way, Baby," which opens on Big Red's birthday.

The exhibit, to be on display one year, will include a variety of Big Red memora-bilia, induding the first costume; photographs and clippings; wild and crazy props used by various Big Reds for skits; trophies and awards garnered from national competition; and many other items bearing the mascot's image.

But don't light the candles or break out the party hats just yet!! Big Red's 15th birthday bash is going to be Sunday, Jan. 8 at The Kentucky Museum following the Lady Topper's 2:30 p.m. game with the University of Iowa.

Festivities will begin during the game's half-time with a salute to everyone's favorite mascot and introductions of former Big Reds who have been invited back for the celebra­tion. After the game, the celebration will move to the museum where Big Red's fans can enjoy a birthday party complete with a birthday cake and all the trimmings.

Partial funding for the Big Red exhibit and birthday party was provided by WKU's Alumni Affairs Office.

For more information, call (502) 745-5263.

Telecourses through the WKU Community College

English, history; psychology, sociology, health, science, literature and art, plus business courses.

Registration is through the Community College, just as for other classes.

For more information, call the Community College, 5371.

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1995 Jan. 8

December, 1994

Kentucky Building Calendar of Events

Big Red's 15th birthday party· 4·7 p.m., at The Kentucky Museum following WKU's Lady Topper's game with the University of Iowa.

Public is invited.

Jan. 3D Scholastic Art Competition. Co-sponsored

with BG/Warren County Chamber of Com­merce, Capitol Arts Center, and WKU Art Dept. Features work of middle school and high school artists in southemKentucky; award-Winning pieces travel to the national competition. (Closes Feb. 19, 1995)

NQw ShnwJnG aT HaROIn P[aneraRlum

'The STaR OF BeThLehem'

The p~eSenTaTlOn WIt! show The auolenee The Berhl£hem sky aRouno The TIme OF The

ReeoROeo BIRTh OF ChRIST, ano The pRoCjRam WIt! also olseuss seVeRal aTl<onomleal posslMlTles FO~ The ChRISTmaS STa~.

Show TImes Tuesoays ano ThuRSoays

7:30 p.m.

Sunoays 2:30 p.m.

Show enos Sunoay, Dec. 18

DooRS open 15 minUTeS BeFOR.e show TIme. No one admlTno apeR p~R.am BegJnS. Call -fCH-f FOR. moR.e InFOJWanon

Call 4845 for Campus News

Call 4620 for Campus Events

OnOImpus

Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

ENGLISH Dr. Robert Ward, professor

emeritus of English, presented a paper at the Southem Conference on British Studies at the Galt House in Louisville, Ky. last month. His paper, Invidious Educational Practices Exposed: The Suppression of the 1791 Parliamentary Report, is a spin-Qff of his book, Encyclopedia of Irish Schools 1500-1800 to be published in late Spring 1995.

HISTORY Dr. Robert Antony will be on

sabbatical leave du~g the spring 1995 semester to be,a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Modem History, Academia Sinica, in Taiwan.

Dr. Jason Thompson presented The View From the Old World: Frederick Catherwood in the Middle East at the Southern Historical Association meeting in Louisville last month.

Education and Behavioral Sciences

TEACHER EDUCATION Dr. Kathleen Matthew, assis­

tant professor of science educa­tion, and Alice Mikovch, instruc­tor of mathematics education, have been selected as two of only 60 professors of education nation­wide to participate in the National Science Foundation-funded Teacher Education Equity Project, whose goal is to increase girls' relatively low level of participa­tion in math, science and technol­ogy.

The Teacher Education Equity Project, housed. at the Center for Advanced Study in Education at the City University of New York Graduate Center, is a $1 million endeavor funded by mM, Hewlett Packard and AT&T.

Western Kentucky University

Institutional Advancement

The Institutional Advancement staff has received seven awards from the Kentucky chapter of the Kentucky Council for the Ad­vancement and Support of Educa­tion (CASE-K).

Western received three awards of excellence in institutional relations: Fred Hensley, director of University Relations, Sheila Eison, editor of On Campus, and Bob Skipper, coordinator of news and photographic services.

The University also received two awards for non-fund raising Special events, including an award of excellence for the Cherry Soci­ety Dinner and an award of merit for the Presidents Club reception.

The Alumni Magazine, edited by Lucinda Anderson, assistant alumni affairs director, received an award of merit for alumni publications.

Tom Meacham, coordinator of publications services, received an award of merit for the Viewbook student recruitment publication.

This brings to 16 the total num­ber of awards won or"snared by the Office of University Relations in 1994.

Science, Technology and Health

GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY At the annual meeting of the

Kentucky Academy of Science in Paducah last month, the following faculty presented papers:

Dr. Christopher Groves, Catastrophism Vs. Uniformitarian­ism: Cave Passage Development in the Central Kentucky Karst;

Dr. Conrad Moore, Central North American Grassland Migration: Stochastic Processes or Climatic Influence?

Dr. Nicholas Crawford and Tim Slattery (student), Sinkhole Collapse Subsurface Investigation Using Microgravity;

Glen Conner, The History of Kentucky Climate;

Dr. Nicholas Crawford, Ground­water Monitoring of Carbonate Aquifers;

Dr. James L. Davis and Dr. Nancy Davis (Dept. of English),

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Spatial Influences in a Literary Context: A Case Study;

Dr. David J. Keeling, Urban Environments, Sense of Place and the Genesis of Popular Music;

James M. Bingham and Dr. Wayne Hoffman, The Persistence of Poverty in Kentucky; A Spatial Analysis;

Dr. Elizabeth A McClellan, Shear-Related Folds in the Scandina­vian Caledonides, Nonvay;

Dr~ Deborah W. Kuehn and Margaret Chai (student), Implica­tions of a Holocene Mangrove Peat from San Salvador, Bahamas; and

Dr. Kenneth W. Kuehn, Pros­pects for Ultra-Clean Kentucky Coals.

Professor Mary Prante pre­sented a paper entitled The Effect of Student Perception on the Teaching of Introductory Cartography at the annual meeting of the National Council for GeographiC Education in Lexington, Ky. last month.

Faculty who presented papers at the Midwestern Association of Latin American Scietists in St. Louis, Mo. were:

Dr. Michael Trapasso, Deforesta­tion of the Amazon, and

Dr. David Keeling, New Peronismo and Urban Restructuring in the Emerging World Economy. Keeling presented a paper on Buenos Aires, Urban Restructuring and Emerging World Economy, at the 17th International Third Studies Conference in Omaha, Neb.

INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY The National Association of

Industrial Technology (NAIT) has granted the maximum six·year accreditation to the WKU Depart­ment of Industrial Technology. The accreditation was granted under provision of a two-year follow-up report that must be presented at the NAIT fall confer­ence in 1996.

MATHEMATICS Tom Richmond presented

Quasiorders, Principal Topologies and Partially Ordered Partitions at Miami University's 22nd annual Mathematics and Statistics Confer­ence in Oxford, Ohio.

Joe Stokes presented Common

December, 1994

Threads of Mathematics Reform Mavements at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics confer­ence in Tulsa, Okla.

Wanda Weidemann presented a session on Active Learning in College Mathematics~-Not Just for Methods Courses Anymore, and conducted a workshop, Using Active Learning in Mathematics Content Courses for Preservice Teachers at the Central Regional Conference of the National Coun­cil of Teachers of Mathematics in Omaha,Neb.

Barry Brunson has been named an IMTP Developer, an honor received through the Interactive -Mathematics Text Project. The IMTP is a program funded by IBM and NSF, and administered through the Mathematical Associa­tion of America. As a developer, he will receive the loan of a fully configured mM PS/2 computer and associated peripherals. He will use the computer equipment in continuing to develop interac­tive courseware for teaching undergraduate mathematics.

At the Mathematics Section of the Kentucky Academy of Science 80th meeting in Paducah last month, the following faculty members presented papers:

Joseph Stokes, Common Threads of Math Reform Movements;

Carroll Wells, 'Hands-On' Geometry Activities;

James B. Barksdale Jr., Parts from Dirichlet;

Mark Robinson, An Examination of a Partial Differential Equation From Underwater Acoustics . .

Lyn Miller gave a poster presen­tation, Algorithms for Computing in Subalgebras of Polynomial Algebras over a Ring.

David Neal spoke on Writing in Calculus With Challenge Problems in Lexington at a Writing in Math­ematics workshop sponsored by the University of. Kentucky.

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PUBLIC HEALTH Dr. Ray Biggerstaff, faculty

adviser for the WKU chapter of the Kentucky Public Health Association, recently was elected secretary of the Southern Health Association. Membership in the group includes health profession­als from 15 states, including Kentucky and Tennessee.

Dr. J. David Dunn, Professor and Head of the Department, was awarded the Sara C. Stice award for outstanding contributions in the field of health education at the annual convention of the Ken­tucky Public Health Association.

WKU has been designated as a Multiple Event Provider for Continuing Education contract hours for Certified Health Educa­tion Specialists (CHES). WKU also has received approval from the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing Inc. as a

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permanent test site for the Na­tional CHES exam.

The WKU Community Health Program was approved by the site visiting team from the Society for Public Health Education Inc., meaning the program has met the guidelines established by SOPHE/ AAHE baccalaureate Program Approval Committee.

The Community Health AHES project has received funding to provide financial support to students completing internships in rural Kentucky for 20 consecutive years. This program has the highest retention rate for employ­ment, following internships, of any other AHEA program in Kentucky.

Dr, Richard Wilson has been presented a Distinguished Service Award from the Barren River Area Champions Against Drugs. The award was given for Dr. Wilson's five-year tenure as the chairperson of the ten-county coalition of drug abuse educators and prevention speCialists. During that period, Dr. Wilson presided over the coalition's expenditure of about 400,000 in prevention activities, conducted annual conference for teen leaders, spon­sored numerous training pro-

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grams for professionals and parents and promoted via mass media, awareness of solutions to the drug problem.

Henry Baughman was part of the Southern Tennis Association All-Star team that finished second in national competition. Baughman won five of his seven matches in the 55 and over cat­egory of the National inter­Sectional Championships in Tucson, Ariz. last mbnth. The Southern team defeated teams from the Missouri Valley, inter­Mountain, Florida, Eastern and Middle States. They lost to South­ern California in the finals.

University Libraries

LIBRARY PUBLIC SERVICES Elaine E. Moore presented

Meeting the Challenge of Electronic Information: Reorganization at Western Kentucky UlIiversity Libraries at the Southeastern Library Association Biennial meeting in Charlotte, N.C.

LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Pat Hodges and Jonathan Jeffrey participated in a panel discussion on Using VolulIteers in tile Archives at the Kentucky Council on Archives' fall meeting.