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Maya Angelou, author and poet, to be Distinguished Speaker
A limited number of student tickets remain for the lecture to be delivered by author and poet Maya Angelou, Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University, on April 23, as part of the Distinguished Speakers Series. Tickets for the public are sold out.

Angelou will appear at 8 p.m. on the Mainstage, Center for the Arts, North Campus.

The author of numerous best-selling books, including "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," "Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now" "Singin' and Swingin'" and "Gettin' Merry Christmas," she has written seven collections of poetry including the Pulitzer-Prize-nominated "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die."

The recipient of numerous honorary degrees and awards, she served as the Inaugural Poet for President Bill Clinton in 1993.

Fiedler receives national award for lifetime achievement
Leslie Fiedler, SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Samuel L. Clemens Professor of English, recently received the Ivan Sandroff Award from The National Book Critics Circle in recognition of his outstanding lifetime achievement in American arts and letters. One of America's foremost literary critics and theorists, Fiedler is best known for his application of Jungian and Freudian concepts to U.S. literature and social thought.

His major work, "Love and Death in the American Novel" (1960), is an account of the way in which a large portion of American literature emphasizes the theme of escape from a female-dominated society manifested in close male relations in the wilderness and on the seas.

Volunteers needed for Senior Breakfast
The Office of Student Life is seeking faculty and staff volunteers to help with the Senior Celebration Breakfast to be held from 9:30-11:30 a.m. May 1 in the Student Union lobby.

Volunteers are needed to greet students, cook and help serve the breakfast. To volunteer, e-mail Tim Tryjankowski at tat@acsu.buffalo.edu or Shelby Harris at sjharris@acsu.buffalo.edu, or call 645-6125.

Women's institute plans Celebration of Women & Scholarship
April 17 will mark the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender's first annual Celebration of Women and Scholarship,to take place from noon to 4 p.m. in Harriman Hall on the South Campus.

Highlights will include a panel of distinguished faculty, poster sessions of scholarly works with a focus on women and/or gender and an open house in the institute's offices. Interested scholars are invited to present work in poster form. The posters will be on display from noon until 2:30 p.m. A reception will follow.

The panelists, who will address "The Impact of the Inclusion of Women as Subject and Teacher in Your Discipline," include Carrie Tirado-Bramen, assistant professor of English; Marjorie White, professor of nursing; Lilliam Malavé, associate professor of bilingual education; Susan V. McLeer, chair of the Department of Psychiatry; and Laura Winski-Mattei, assistant professor of political science. Call 829-3451 for more information.

Sinfonietta to present final concert of season
The Slee Sinfonietta will give its final concert of the season at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, with an exciting program featuring Magnus Andersson, a Swedish guitarist who performs a new technique for the classical guitar.

The program also will include amplified piano played with dimes stuck between the strings in a concerto for two solo violins and string orchestra, with Movses Pogossian and Varty Manouelian as soloists. Cheryl Gobbetti-Hoffman will be soloist in a piece for flute and strings.

PSS seeks nominations for Outstanding Service Awards
The Professional Staff Senate is calling for nominations for its Outstanding Service Awards.

The awards are given each year to members of UB's professional staff who are making outstanding community-service contributions. Winners receive a cash award, a certificate of recognition and will be honored at a university-wide luncheon to be held May 20.

To be eligible, nominees must be current full-time professional-staff members of UB, the Research Foundation, the UB Foundation or the Faculty-Student Association, and must have completed at least two years of continuous full-time professional-staff service by January 1998. Previous winners are ineligible for five years after receiving the Outstanding Service Award.

In addition to professional excellence, nominees must demonstrate a commitment to service that must be noteworthy and distinct from that encompassed in their job description. Nominators must prepare a dossier in support of the candidacy. Nominations, with completed dossiers, must be received by 4:30 p.m. April 20.

For more information about criteria for nomination and dossier preparation, call Chris Sauciunac, chair, PSS award committee, at 645-3544. Nomination may be submitted to Sauciunac, c/o Anna Kedzierski, Professional Staff Senate office, 543 Capen, North Campus.

Spring Clinical Day to focus on aging, prevention of disability
"The Aging American" will be the theme of the 61st Annual Spring Clinical Day scheduled for April 25 and sponsored by the UB Medical Alumni Association.

The program, open to the public, will take place from 7:30 a.m. to noon in the Buffalo Marriott, 1340 Millersport Highway, Amherst. There is a registration fee for non-alumni and non-dues-paying alumni of the medical school.

Edward D. Wagner, a 1965 graduate of the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and director of the W.A. MacColl Institute for Health Care Innovation in Seattle, Wash., will present the Stockton Kimball Lecture at the noon alumni luncheon. His topic will be "New Ways to Care for Older People: Building Systems Based on Evidence."

Wagner is professor of health sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. He is senior advisor to the National Institutes of Health on managed-care initiatives and serves on the editorial boards of Health Services Research, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and HMO Practice.

For registration and information, call 829-2778.

Rapper KRS-ONE to speak at UB's King Commemoration
Musician KRS-ONE (a/k/a Kris Parker), whose intelligent, uncompromising views on life in urban America have led to him being dubbed the "conscience of rap" and "its leading advocate" by Rolling Stone, will deliver the keynote speech on April 17 at UB's 22nd annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration.

The event will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

It will be produced by UB's Office of Conferences and Special Events and co-sponsored by the Black Student Union, the Center for the Arts and the Undergraduate Student Association, all at UB, and Buffalo State College's African American Student Organization.

Although the program will be free, admission tickets will be required. Both free and VIP reserved seating at $5 are available at the center's ticket office from noon to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays through Fridays. Tickets also will be available at the door. Proceeds will benefit UB academic scholarships.

A runaway at 13, Parker lived in the subway and public shelters, educating himself at the public library.

Shelter counselor Scott Sterling (a/k/a DJ Scott LaRock) recognized his talent and together they formed Boogie Down Productions (BDP). The partnership led to a self-financed single, "Crack Attack," followed by the legendary album, "Criminal Minded."

After Sterling was murdered in the South Bronx, BDP released "By All Means Necessary," a landmark in establishing rap as a tool for enlightenment.

Two years later, Parker formed Stop the Violence Movement. Its all-star rap single, "Self Destruction," raised more than $300,000 for the National Urban League programs targeting black-on-black violence and education programs for ghetto youth.

With his next two LPs "Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop" and "Edutainment," Parker sharpened his vision to attack hypocrisy, materialism and the Eurocentric view of history.

Immediately following Parker's speech, UB's Black Student Union will hold "Apollo Night" in the Mainstage theater.

Hernandez to speak on military, security issues in Southeast Asia
Carolina G. Hernandez, a specialist in civil-military relations and regional security in Southeast Asia, will make two presentations tomorrow on the North Campus.

Hernandez, who received her doctorate in political science at UB, is professor and former chair of the political science at the University of the Philippines, and president of the independent Institute for Strategic and Development Studies. She is a visiting professor in Asian Studies at Virginia Military Institute. She is widely published in the field of civil-military relations.

Hernandez will speak on "The Political Implications of Southeast Asia's Financial Crisis" at 9:30 a.m. in 502 Park Hall at a colloquium sponsored by the Department of Political Science. She will lecture on "The Political Impact of Rapid Economic Development in Southeast Asia" for Asia at Noon, a brown-bag gathering to be held in 250 Student Union from noon to 1 p.m.

The lectures are sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Asian Studies Program at UB. For more information, call 645-3474.

Albany professor to meet with distance-learning students here
Distance learning doesn't have to mean that professors and students never meet. UB students in the distance-learning class, "An Introduction to Tensors for Geologists," taught by Winthrop D. Means, professor of geology, State University at Albany, will meet with him when he visits UB this month.

Means will teach the class from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences' EngiNet facilities in Bell Hall during his April 21-23 visit, sending his lecture back to Albany for the students there.

Means is an expert in structural geology, specializing in research on live thin-sections, a new approach to understanding igneous textures in geological structures. He will also present a seminar at UB on April 23 about his recent experiments with live thin-sections. Interested faculty and students may call Robert Jacobi at 645-6800, ext. 2468, for information on time and location.

Federman to speak at Emeritus Center meeting Tuesday
Raymond Federman, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and Melodia Jones Chair in French, will read from his novels and speak about his life and career at the Emeritus Center's meeting to be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in 102 Goodyear Hall, South Lounge.

Robert E. Hunt, Emeritus Center president, will be in charge of the session.

Next month's meeting, to be held on May 12, will feature Charles V. Paganelli, acting chair and SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, as speaker. This meeting will include the election of the 1998-99 board of directors and presentation of the Rose Weinstein Memorial Award, as well as recognition of REV-UP volunteers.

Meeting scheduled with chair of the President's Review Board
The Office of the Provost and the Faculty Senate will sponsor a general meeting for faculty members interested in meeting with the chair of the President's Review Board (PRB).

The meeting will be held at 3 p.m. on April 21 in Room 330 of the Student Union on the North Campus. David Nyberg, professor of educational organization, administration and policy and chair of the PRB, and Ken Levy, senior vice provost, will discuss the promotion process and answer questions.

The Faculty Senate passed a resolution five years ago requesting an annual meeting with the chair of the PRB be held to discuss the criteria and procedures used by the PRB in recommending promotion and to address questions.

GA position available at the Reporter
The Office of News Services is looking for a graduate assistant for the 1998-99 academic year to write for the Reporter. Applicants must have excellent writing skills; newspaper experience is preferred.

Applicants should mail resumes and writing samples to Reporter editor Christine Vidal, 136 Crofts Hall, North Campus. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. For more information, call 645-2626.