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Elie Wiesel to lecture at UB on Nov. 10

Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner, champion of human rights and Holocaust survivor, will speak at 8 p.m. on Nov. 10 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts. Wiesel's lecture will be presented by UB and the Don Davis Auto World Lectureship Fund as part of the 12th annual Distinguished Speakers Series.

Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, Wiesel received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his efforts in promoting worldwide peace.

A native of Romania, the Nazis deported the then-teenaged Wiesel, his parents and three sisters to Auschwitz, where his mother and younger sister died.

Wiesel and his father survived to be deported to Buchenwald. His father later died there.

For tickets, call the Center for the Arts box office at 645-ARTS. Tickets also are available at TicketMaster locations.

Food and drug law specialist to speak

Peter Barton Hutt, a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Covington & Burling and a former chief counsel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will speak at 4 p.m. on Monday in the Center for the Arts Screening Room.

His lecture, which will be free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Law School and the School of Dental Medicine.

A Buffalo native, Hutt will discuss issues related to the regulation of drugs, medical devices and foods, controversies related to institutional review boards and other human-subject protection matters, the appointment of a new FDA commissioner and the debate on the market withdrawal of certain prescription drugs within the context of faster FDA drug approvals.

For more information, call 829-3888.

Time management to be focus of video

A video, "Time Trap II," geared to helping individuals manage their time more effectively, will be offered Nov. 4 and Nov. 19 by the Professional Staff Senate Professional Development Committee.

The 23-minute video and a discussion will be held in 106 Jacobs from noon to 1 p.m. as part of the Fall '98 Brown Bag Video Series. It is co-sponsored by the Student Leadership Development Center, Office of Student Life. To attend the presentation, call 645-2003.

Lecture to be presented by British classicist

British classicist Maria Wyke of the University of Reading, England, will present a public talk titled "St. Sebastian and British Homosexuality," at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Room 220 of the Natural Sciences Complex on the North Campus.

Wyke will look at how cultures have appropriated and used Roman images in 20th-century popular culture, most notably in cinematic images of the Roman world and the "ideal" classical body.

Faculty members, alumnus to be honored

The Institute of Human Relations of the American Jewish Committee will honor four UB faculty members and a distinguished alumnus at a dinner to be held Monday in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo. One of the honorees, Jerome P. Kassirer, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and a graduate of the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, will speak at the dinner on "The Evolving Ethics of Medicine."

The other honorees include Evan Calkins, professor emeritus of medicine; Linda C. Duffy, associate professor of pediatrics and social and preventive medicine; Frederick E. Munschauer, III, associate professor of clinical neurology and medicine, and Theodore I. Putnam, associate professor of clinical pediatrics.

The award is given to "outstanding human beings whose dedication and commitment to the greater Buffalo community through medicine, research and the promotion of multi-cultural-ism have brought together people of different races, creeds and backgrounds."

Business Week cites UB's MBA program as "best value"

Business Week magazine has cited the full-time Master of Business Administration program in the School of Management as one of the best values in the country, according to its popular "Best Business Schools" issue, which hit newsstands last week.

Published biennially, Business Week's "Best Business Schools" issue ranks the top-25 business schools in the U.S.

Although not ranked in the top 25, the UB management school was one of 14 business schools named by the magazine for giving students the "best return on investment" in terms of expected salary earnings compared to the total-dollar investment required to complete the two-year MBA program.

According to the magazine, UB MBA graduates can expect a 75 percent increase in the salary they earned prior to enrollment in the full-time program at UB and a 22 percent annual return on the $75,900 they invested to complete the program, which included two years' tuition and two years of lost earnings.

Dealing with school tragedy is subject of conference

A conference to address methods by which school administrators, counselors and teachers can best address school tragedy will be held from 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. today in the University Inn, 2401 North Forest Road. The conference has been organized by Thomas Frantz, associate professor and chair of the Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology. The UB Center for Continuing Professional Education is among the co-sponsors.

"What appears to be the explosion of violence among school-aged children receives a lot of national press attention," Frantz said, "but it is actually far less likely to occur than deadly car accidents and other commonly experienced traumas. Suicide, for instance, one of the most common disasters to strike youngsters, creates as much fear as anything we can think of, even for many counselors and psychologists."

Frantz notes that suicide ranks third as a cause of death among young Americans aged 15-24. Because suicide is not well understood but is, in at least some circumstances, preventable, the act and its aftermath will be one of the principal concerns of the conference.

Presenters, including therapists, police officers and social workers, will discuss the nature of shock and grief in children and adolescents, and how to handle legal issues pertaining to crisis intervention and suicide prevention. They will discuss the "hidden grief" of school staff coping with stress in the aftermath of tragedy, ways to identify and help students who may need therapeutic intervention, as well as school-based crisis management programs and other resources available to schools.

Memorial to remember Charlotte Poole

A memorial celebrating the life of Charlotte Poole will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Emeritus Center in Goodyear Hall. Poole, who retired in 1985, served the university in a number of roles, including many years as an executive secretary in the offices of the executive vice president and president in the 1960s and 1970s. She died Aug. 10.

Poole was active in the Emeritus Center as an officer and volunteer in the REV-UP program.

Following the memorial, at which friends, colleagues and family will speak, a luncheon will be served.

Memorial service planned for Al Cook

The campus community is invited to attend a memorial service tomorrow celebrating the life of Al Cook, former chair of the English Department, who died July 7 at the age of 72. The ceremony will be held at 3 p.m. in the Poetry/Rare Books Room of Lockwood Library, 420 Capen Hall.

UB Architecture to hold lecture series and exhibition

Award-winning architect Neil Denari will speak on "Differences and Repetition" at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday in 114 Wende Hall on the South Campus as part of the School of Architecture and Planning's Fall 1998 lecture series.

Denari, founder of COR-TEX Architecture in Los Angeles and director of the Southern California Institute of Architecture, will explore local and global issues as they relate to corporate structures of advertising rhetoric, the universal and symbolic logics of architecture and the distorted relationship between landscape and economic power.

The series will continue with a presentation on "Seeing Like a Region" by Kathryn Foster, assistant professor of planning, at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 11 in 114 Wende Hall. Director of research for the Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth, Foster will explore the nature, logic and outcomes of regional thinking.

The architecture school also will host an exhibit, "The Urbanism of District Six," curated by Kiran Lalloo, visiting professor of architecture, through Nov. 30 in the James Dyett Gallery, 335 Hayes Hall on the South Campus.

District Six, in Cape Town, South Africa, was declared a White area in 1966 and the government spent millions to relocate 55,000 Africans and Indians to remote areas of the city, making the district a famous example of the ignorance of apartheid. For more information, call 829-3485, ext. 120.

Pre-retirement Planning Seminar

Personnel Services is offering the third semiannual Pre-Retirement Seminar for employees interested in developing a strategy for a financially successful retirement. This daylong seminar, for people between the ages of 30 and 49, will be held on Nov. 6 in the Center for Tomorrow on the North Campus. The program is scheduled from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

It will feature presentations by representatives from the New York State Employees' Retirement System and the optional retirement program TIAA-CREF, as well as METLIFE, Aetna Investment Services, The Copeland Companies and the Social Security Administration. Also featured will be representatives from American Express Financial Advisers and John Hancock Financial Services.

If you are a member of a retirement system and are between the ages of 30 and 49, you received an announcement on or about Oct. 19. Seating is limited, so make your reservations as soon as possible. If you are interested in attending you must mail a reservation form to Conferences and Special Events in 202 Crofts Hall. If you have any questions, please contact call Brian Hines at Human Resource Services, 645-2646, ext. 114 or bhines@avpc.buffalo.edu.