Reporter Volume 25, No.26 April 28, 1994

Medical students to hike for pediatric cancer care

Two first-year UB medical students, Gregg Kissel and Jean Bae, will be
hiking in the High Peaks region of Adirondack State Park this summer
to raise money for pediatric cancer care and research at Roswell Park
Cancer Institute. Roswell Park Alliance, a nonprofit, volunteer
organization supporting the Institute, has officially sanctioned the
project.
	The High Peaks region of Adirondack State Park is located in
the northeastern part of New York State. The 46 highest peaks are
categorized as such because they are at least 4,000 feet above sea
level, and each peak is no less than 3/4 of a mile from a neighboring
peak. During the months of June and July, Kissel and Bae intend to
hike as many of the High Peaks as possible, hoping to receive
sponsorships on a peak by peak basis for up to 35 peaks. All donations
will go directly toward research and care for children receiving
treatment at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
	Anyone interested in making an up-front donation should send a
check (payable to the Roswell Park Alliance) to Peaks for Peds, 3901
Main St. #9C, Snyder, N.Y. 14226. For more information, call 835-8806.

Nyberg book on lying named to Choice magazine list of books
The Varnished Truth: Truth Telling and Deceiving in Ordinary Life, a
book authored by David Nyberg, professor of education at UB, has been
named to the list of Outstanding Academic Books of 1994 by Choice
magazine. The list honors 611 titles selected from more than 6,500
reviews, approximately 10 percent of those published in the 1993
issues of Choice.
	Truth telling, according to Nyberg, is morally overrated.
Lying, on the other hand, while publicly condemned, is privately
practiced by almost everyone in many forms because it is necessary for
mental health and social well-being.
	A faculty member in the UB Graduate School of Education since
1973, Nyberg is a former president of the Philosophy of Education
Society.

Canadian multimedia corporation to give presentation at UB

Rose Marie Shannon, a producer from the Toronto office of Sanctuary
Woods, a multimedia corporation headquartered in Victoria, B.C., will
give a presentation May 5 at 1 p.m. in B49 Fine Arts Center, auspices
of the Communication Design program of the UB Art Department.
	Sanctuary Woods makes uses of Macintosh computers as the
development platform for its interactive multimedia work. Its software
allows the firm to produce interactive multimedia projects for IBM PCs
running Windows. ROur work is rounded out through the use of scanners,
video equipment, sound equipment, and large screen monitors to both
produce and display client projects,S according to promotional
material provided by the company. In addition to the main office in
Victoria, Sanctuary Woods has offices in Nepean, Ont. and Richardson,
Texas.
	Sanctuary Woods, which plans to open additional studios
throughout North America over the coming decade, notes that the use of
interactive multimedia is expected to become a multi-billion dollar
business in the next five years as more come to understand it
capabilities and applications. 

Flower sale to benefit scholarship fund

The UB WomenUs Club is holding its annual spring flower sale to
benefit the Grace Capen Scholarship Fund. Chairs Barbara Meenaghan and
Joan Sprowl are now taking orders for geraniums and impatiens. Pick up
day is Wednesday, May 11, from Noon to 5 p.m. at the Center for
Tomorrow, North Campus. Members of the university community are urged
to place their orders now to support this scholarship fund.