Dec. 9 issue to be last of fall semester

The Dec. 9 issue of the Reporter will be the final one published for the fall semester. The regular publication schedule will resume on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2000.

Welch a chief speaker at Air Force program

A UB faculty member was one of the chief speakers at the first direct military-training program that included four Iraqi rebel leaders who oppose President Saddam Hussein.

Claude E. Welch, Jr., SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Political Science, spoke Nov. 2 on how civil-military relations exist in democratic societies as part of the Civil-Military Strategy for Internal Development (CMSID) course presented by the United States Air Force Special Operations School at Hurlburt Field in Florida.

The CMSID program is designed to teach military and civilian representatives of countries from a designated region-in this case, the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia-about strategic planning and developmental implementation. The 12-day program also covered topics that included American culture and value systems, working with the media, emergency assistance and disaster planning, U.S. support mechanisms, human rights, law of armed conflict and military legal issues, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and international terrorism.

Poetics Program to present film

"Letters Not About Love," a unique film collaboration between American poet Lyn Hejinian, Russian poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and American filmmaker Jacki Ochs, will be presented by the University at Buffalo Poetics Program at 4 p.m. Dec. 1 in the Screening Room, Room 112 of the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

The screening, presented as part of UB's fall literary series, Wednesdays at 4 PLUS, will be free of charge and open to the public.

The hour-long, 16mm film is based on a five-year correspondence between Hejinian and Dragomoshchenko and has won several awards, including a Best Documentary Feature Award at the Southwest Film Festival.

"Using a written exchange between two writers who riff on definitions of one- and two-syllable words, Ochs has created a fascinating double portrait of the United States and Russia, which emerges through evocative images and storiesŠa truly beautiful and original film," says performance artist Laurie Anderson.

"UB Today" schedule announced

Programs and research at UB on shaken baby syndrome, family violence, distance learning and cutting-edge technology will be discussed on the December edition of "UB Today" on Adelphia cable.

Guests will be Suzanne E. Tomkins, director of the Law School's Family Violence Clinic; George J. Lopos, dean of Millard Fillmore College; Paras N. Prasad, executive director of the new Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics, and Mark Dias, assistant professor of pediatric neurology.

The half-hour program featuring UB people, programs and events, is produced for the Alumni Association by Adelphia as a service to the university and the people of Western New York.

A new program is rebroadcast each month.

Hosts are William J. Evitts, executive director of alumni relations, and Judith Schwendler, assistant director.

The program is broadcast at 6:30 p.m. Sundays on Channel 18 International, Channel 10 in Lancaster, Clarence, Orchard Park, and Elma, and at 9 p.m. Mondays on Channel 18 International.

Dave Brubeck Quartet to perform Dec. 11

The Dave Brubeck Quartet will be featured in "Christmas With Brubeck" at 8 p.m. Dec. 11 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the North Campus.

A highlight of the program will be the quartet performing Brubeck's "La Fiesta de la Posada," a recreation of a Christmas Eve fiesta in a Mexican village. The performance will include a 70-member local chorus, 30 elementary students from the Academy For The Performing Arts in Buffalo and a band of 16 local musicians featuring a "mariachi" sound.

Prices are $25 for general admission, $20 for senior citizens and $15 for students. Call 645-ARTS for tickets.

Proceeds will benefit activities sponsored by the Newman Centers' Catholic Campus Ministry.

For more information, call Rev. Jacob Ledwon at 833-0298.

Symposium to target high-school students

Matter, anti-matter, dancing molecules and "green" chemistry will make an appearance at a symposium for high-school students and their teachers called "Quarks, Biomolecules and Polymers: Modern Science and Technology at UB Today," to be held from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday in 121 Cooke Hall on the North Campus.

It will be free and open to all high-school students and teachers. Following the symposium, teachers will be welcome to attend a presentation describing UB's master's-degree programs in physics education and chemistry education, to be held in Room 306 of the Natural Sciences Complex.

The symposium is designed to familiarize high-school students with the cutting-edge scientific research at UB.

"It's a Wonderful Life" set for Pfeifer Cabaret

Curtain Call Productions, in residence in the Pfeifer Cabaret in UB's Pfeifer Theatre, will present "It's a Wonderful Life," Dec. 3-18.

The holiday classic, which will come to life on stage in a radio-style, staged reading, will be presented at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, with matinee performances at 4 p.m. Dec. 11 and Dec. 18.

Curtain Call Productions in residence at the Pfeifer Cabaret is presented by the Center for the Arts.

Final Clarkson lecture set for today in Crosby

The blurring boundaries between disciplines and the changes they portend for the architectural and design fields will be the subject of the final Clarkson Visiting Chair lecture for the fall term.

The School of Architecture and Planning will host a talk by Clarkson Visiting Chair K. Michael Hays titled "The Smoothing of Architecture" at 5:30 p.m. today in 301 Crosby Hall on the South Campus.

In his talk, Hays, professor of architectural theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, will explore what he calls the 'de-differentiation' of architecture. This process, manifested in the blurred boundaries between various fields of studies, represents one of the most profound influences on the academic disciplines today.

Much of this change is attributed to the impact of computing and the transfer of techniques between practices it makes possible. Hays will speculate about how these changes have produced changes in ways of thinking and seeing architecture.

Concerts to showcase students

The Department of Music will showcase the talents of its students with concerts to be held throughout the month of December.

The month's concert schedule also includes holiday music, a brown-bag concert in the Slee lobby and "A Tuba Christmas."

December's programs will begin with the UB Eclectic Ensemble, which will perform at noon Dec. 1 in Baird Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The UB Jazz Ensemble will perform at 8 p.m. Dec. 2 in Baird. Admission is free.

Works by composers associated with the Creative Associates-era in Buffalo will be performed by the UB Contemporary Ensemble at 8 p.m. Dec. 3 in Baird. Admission is free.

The UB Saxophone Ensemble will perform at 5 p.m. Dec. 4 in Slee Concert Hall. Admission is free.

The UB Symphony will perform a program featuring the works of Haydn and Sibelius at 8 p.m. Dec. 4 in Slee. Admission is $3. The concert will be preceded by 50-100 tuba players performing "Tuba Christmas" from 7:15-7:45 p.m. in the Slee lobby.

This month's Brown Bag Concert will feature flutist Ji-Young Ahn and piccoloist Elizabeth Dose, who will present an "informance" at noon Dec. 7 in the Slee lobby. In addition, LAKE AFFECT, a group dedicated to innovative musical representations of texts by UB poet and faculty member Jorge Guitart, will perform. The program is free.

Renaissance band Calliope will present music selections dating from 1200-1650 at a program to be held at 8 p.m. Dec. 7 in Slee Concert Hall. Tickets are $12, $9 and $5.

Soprano Jane Bryden will present a master class at noon Dec. 8 in Slee. Admission is free.

The UB Symphonic Band will perform arrangements of Duke Ellington's most well-known pieces in a concert to be held at 8 p.m. Dec. 8 in Slee. Admission is free.

The works of Debussy, Gastoldi, Penderecki, Stravinsky and Byrd will be performed by the UB Choir at 8 p.m. Dec. 9 in Slee. Admission is $3.

UB's Slee Quartet-in-Residence, The Cassatt String Quartet, will present the third concert in the Slee/Beethoven String Quartet Cycle at 8 p.m. Dec. 10 in Slee. Tickets are $12, $9 and $5.