PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 25, No. 18, April 6, 2006

brief note

IFLIP returns
Foreign language instruction offered
The foreign languages departments will offer the Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program from May 15-June 2. Classes will run from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday through Friday. No IFLIP classes will meet on Memorial Day.

The program provides language instruction in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish for two hours each day for three weeks period. Classes are taught by advanced graduate students or faculty members. Each class must have a minimum of 10 participants to be offered and is limited to a maximum of 20 participants to provide for an effective learning environment.

The classes are open to UI students, faculty or staff members, retirees and the general public. Children under 18 are not eligible to participate. No academic credit will be received. Tuition will be $75 for UI students, $100 for faculty and staff members and retirees, and $125 for the general public.

Deadline for registration is April 21. For more information and to register, visit http://services.lang.uiuc.edu/forms/IFLIP2006.htm.

WILL AM-FM-TV
Marimba virtuoso featured April 9
The April 9 WILL-FM Second Sunday Concert features marimba virtuoso William Moersch performing works he commissioned for solo marimba, and Argentine tangos with vibraphonist Ricardo Flores.

The concert begins at 2 p.m. at the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. It will be broadcast at 7:06 p.m. May 7 on WILL-FM 90.9 (101.1 in Champaign-Urbana).

Solo numbers will include Jacob Druckman’s “Reflections on the Nature of Water,” Akemi Naito’s “Memory of the Woods” and Andrew Thomas’ “Merlin.”

Moersch, chair of the percussion division of the UI School of Music, has appeared as a soloist with symphonic orchestras around the world. Featured regularly at international percussion festivals, he was the first marimbist ever to receive a National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Fellowship. Moersch is principal timpanist/percussionist for Sinfonia da Camera.

Flores, a professor of percussion at the UI, is principal percussionist with the Champaign-Urbana Symphony and is a member of Sinfonia da Camera. He is an accomplished performer in a variety of jazz and popular music, particularly on drum set and Latin percussion.

Students, faculty and staff members
Bus service offered to and from Danville
Danville Mass Transit now offers bus service between Danville and Champaign-Urbana for $6. Buses leave Danville’s Transfer Zone every two hours from 6:20 a.m. to 4:20 p.m. on weekdays. Service begins at 8:20 a.m. on Saturdays. The route includes seven stops along University Avenue, including Lincoln and Goodwin avenues and Sixth Street, before arriving at the Champaign Illinois Terminal at seven minutes past the hour.

Return trips depart from Illinois Terminal every two hours from 7:22 a.m. to 5:22 p.m. Free transfers to other DMT or CUMTD routes are available.

For complete schedule and fare rate information, visit www.cityofdanville.org or call the DMT at 431-0653 or in Champaign-Urbana, 217-384-3577.

Reference Library
Advanced RefWorks workshops available
The Reference Library is offering advanced workshops for the RefWorks program at noon April 19 and at 1:30 p.m. April 24.

The workshops will discuss how to search and share files in RefWorks and other advanced features. Attendees should have a basic working knowledge of RefWorks. To register, visit http://130.126.32.16/evanced/lib0/eventcalendar.asp andselect the date and workshop you wish to attend.

College of Medicine Urban Health Program
Celebrating blacks, Latinos in medicine
The UI College of Medicine Urban Health Program will host its fourth annual “Celebration of Blacks and Latinos in Medicine” at 6 p.m. April 18 at the Pollard Auditorium in the Carle Forum, 619 W. Park St., Urbana. The celebration is free and open to the public. Wesley McNeese, emergency medicine physician and founder of New Mission Church of God in Springfield, will deliver the keynote address. A sampling of cuisine from both cultures will be served.
The event is sponsored by the Urban Health Program and the Student National Medical Association. For more information, contact Clarissa Williams, 333-4945.

Office for LGBT Concerns
Events aim to increase awareness
The UI Office for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns will host a monthlong series of educational events and community-building activities during April. The series, known as “LGBT Awareness Days,” is meant to promote and celebrate the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their allies.

Educational programs will challenge the campus community to reflect on the impact of sexual orientation on other identities such as race and culture. “Alcohol and Other Drugs” workshops focus on the mental and physical health issues unique to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Other events include a film festival, Ally training and workshops, lectures, artistic performances and student organization meetings.

For more information and a complete schedule, go to www.odos.uiuc.edu/lgbt/.

Office of Student Financial Aid
Student employees recognized April 13
April 9-15 is National Student Employment Week, and the UI will be recognizing the contributions of student employees at the Student Employment Recognition Event at 4 p.m. April 13 in Clark Hall.

The Student Employee of the Year, the runner-up and two honorable mentions will be announced. Each will receive a monetary award along with other prizes. The America Reads/America Counts “Tutor of the Year” awards also will be announced, and each of the winners will receive a monetary award. All nominees will be recognized.

These events are sponsored by the Office of Student Financial Aid.

Illinois Center for Soy Foods
Events celebrate Soy Foods Month
The Illinois Center for Soy Foods at the UI has scheduled several events to celebrate National Soy Foods Month.
A free cooking demonstration and taste test will be from 9 to 11 a.m. April 22 in the test kitchen at the National Soybean Research Center in Urbana. Participants will become familiar with tofu, soy flour, soy milk and textured vegetable protein. Registration for the event is available by e-mail at chersrd@uiuc.edu or by phone at 244-1706. The registration deadline is April 20.

“Around the World With Soy” will be the theme for a soy-tasting event April 19 and will feature international cuisine.  The event is by invitation only, but interested consumers can be invited on a space-available basis. Those interested in securing an invitation can contact Marilyn Nash at 333-7236 or call 244-1706.

Free soy-enhanced cookies will be available during the lunch hour each Tuesday during April. The cookies will be available at the Beckman Café, the Law Commons, the Veterinary Medicine Small and Large Animal clinics, and the National Soybean Research Laboratory’s main office.

In addition, all soy foods cookbooks published by the center will be on sale for 50 percent off the regular price during April. Orders can be made by phone at 244-1706 or at www.soyfoodsillinois.uiuc.edu. The cookbooks are part of the Soy in the American Kitchen series and feature familiar foods made with soy ingredients. There are five cookbooks in the series.

College of ACES
Farm revenue assurance examined
Farm revenue assurance, an alternative to the current mechanisms for distributing farm-program benefits, will be the topic of the first Gardner Endowed Chair Agricultural Policy Lecture at the UI College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.

“Canada’s Experience With Farm Revenue Insurance: Lessons for Future U.S. Farm Policy?” will be at 3:30 p.m. April 6 in the Monsanto Room of the ACES Library. Douglas Hedley, former assistant deputy minister of agriculture and agri-food Canada, will deliver the lecture.

“With the considerable interest around the state in some form of a farm revenue assurance program as a possible alternative to the current mechanisms for distributing farm program benefits, this seminar should be very timely,” said Robert L. Thompson, who holds the Gardner Chair in Agricultural Policy at the UI.

“Hedley recently retired from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, where over many years he played a central role in development of Canada’s farm-income stabilization and risk-management programs. He also was involved in developing Canada’s policies on agriculture and the environment, food safety, trade, innovation and renewal,” Thompson said.
Hedley, an agricultural economist, currently serves as executive director of the Canadian Faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine.

The event is free and open to the public.

WILL AM-FM-TV
Free tornado-safety seminar is April 11
WILL AM-FM-TV chief meteorologist Ed Kieser will present a free tornado safety seminar at 7 p.m. April 11 in the Beckman Institute auditorium.

The seminar also will feature a presentation by the Champaign County Emergency Management Agency about what to expect from local government in a disaster. Kieser, now in his 16th year of presenting tornado-safety shows, uses video and graphics to help arm Central Illinois residents with information to protect them from a storm.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Urbana tornado on April 19, 1996. “We’ll revisit that evening and I hope to have some new video of some of the tornadoes that hit the Midwest in November of last year,” Kieser said.

Free parking for the event is available in the university parking garage  at the corner of University and Mathews avenues. For more information, call 244-5072 or visit www.will.uiuc.edu.

‘Teaching About Religion’
Workshop examines study of religion
The Program for the Study of Religion and the Academic Outreach Division of the Office of Continuing Education will offer a “Teaching About Religion” workshop from July 10-14 on the Urbana campus.

The workshop is intended for high school and junior high teachers of subjects that may involve religion, such as world religions, history or literature courses. The workshop also will be of interest to curriculum planners, as well as administrators, who are interested in the legal and pedagogical issues underlying such courses, or who wish to learn about and discuss ways to incorporate world religions education into their teaching curriculum. The goal of the workshop is to better equip teachers with information about world religions and methods for how best to enlighten their students about traditions of faith.

The fee for the workshop is $295 plus costs for lodging on the UI campus. For more information or to register, visit www.conferences.uiuc.edu/teachingreligion.

UI College of Law
‘Brain Bender Week’ is April 10-17
The UI College of Law will host “Brain Bender Week” with three named lectures, April 10-17, in the Max L. Rowe Auditorium.
The event begins with the Paul M. Van Arsdell Memorial Lecture at 2:45 p.m. April 10, featuring “Places of Power: From Renaissance Town Halls to Guantanamo Bay” presented by Judith Resnik of Yale Law School.

At 4 p.m. April 12, Robin Wilson of the University of Maryland School of Law presents “Nanotechnology: The Challenges of Regulating Known Unknowns” as part of the John David and Elizabeth A. Epstein Health Care Law and Policy Program.

The week ends with the David C. Baum Memorial Lecture, “Pregnancy Stereotyping in South Dakota: A Reading of Casey and Hibbs,” at 4 p.m. April 17. Reva Siegel of Yale Law School delivers the lecture.

A reception will follow each lecture in the Pedersen Pavilion. “Brain Bender Week” is open to the public and admission is free. For more information, go to www.law.uiuc.edu.

Educational and cultural event
Japan House open house is April 8
Japan House, the educational and cultural facility at the UI, will host its annual spring open house from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 8. The event is free and open to the public.

Screenings of a new 10-minute video, “Japan House,” will begin at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Members of the Illinois Prairie Chapter of the Ikenobo Ikebana Society of America will demonstrate ikebana, Japanese flower arranging, after the screenings. Members of the Urbana-Champaign Association of Chado Urasenke Tankokai will conduct tea ceremonies and an exhibition of ikebana by UI students will be on view.

For more information, visit www.art.uiuc.edu/galleries/japanhouse/index.cfm.

Women’s Law Society
Symposium looks at women and politics
The UI Women’s Law Society will host the symposium “Poised for the Presidency? Women and Politics in 21st Century America” at 5:30 p.m. April 6 in the Max L. Rowe Auditorium of the College of Law Building. The symposium will focus on the changing social and political status of women and will center on the acceptance and popularity of potential female presidential candidates heading into the 2008 election.

Among the panelists are former Illinois State Senator and current candidate Judy Myers along with Kellyanne Conway and Celinda Lake, co-authors of the book “What Women Really Want: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live.”

The moderator for the symposium is Kit Kinports, UI professor of law.

The symposium is free and open to the public. A brief reception will follow the program in the Pedersen Pavilion.

Higher education
Conference to look at benefits of diversity
What is the true value of racial and ethnic diversity for a college campus? What difference does it make not only in educational outcomes for students, but in teaching, research, curriculum, campus climate and student life?

Those questions will be the focus of a conference April 21 at the UI, which comes near the end of a comprehensive two-year project examining those questions at Illinois.

The purpose of the conference is to discuss the findings and the model developed from the project and “begin a dialogue that hopefully will continue to examine diversity not only locally, but regionally and nationally,” said Denise Green, who headed the project.

Among the speakers will be academics from universities in Illinois, California, Maryland, Michigan and Wisconsin, and from the American Council on Education. Most have done extensive research on diversity issues in higher education, and several have supplied testimony in court cases related to diversity or affirmative action.

Green, professor of education at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, began her involvement in the project while a professor at Illinois. The project and conference were sponsored by the university’s Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, with funding from the Ford Foundation.

The conference, titled “Documenting the Differences Racial and Ethnic Diversity Makes,” comes almost three years after U.S. Supreme Court rulings regarding the use of affirmative action in admissions at the University of Michigan.

Conference sessions are scheduled to deal with findings from various initiatives and to discuss the issues raised, both for Illinois and higher education in general.

The conference will open with remarks from UI President B. Joseph White and will close with a two-hour “blueprint for diversity” session for the campus, begun with remarks from Chancellor Richard Herman.

Pre-registration for the conference is encouraged and available online, www.conferences.uiuc.edu/diversity, along with the schedule and a list of speakers. The cost to attend is $15 for faculty and staff members and the general public. Students may attend for free.
Most of the conference will be held at the Levis Faculty Center.

Center for Advanced Study/MillerComm
Lectures on ethics, and on pesticides
Ethics will be at the heart of the first of two April lectures in the Center for Advanced Study/MillerComm lecture series at the UI. The second lecture will focus on the health consequences of pesticide use. The lectures are the last in the series for the spring semester.
On April 21, Jonathan Lear will speak on “Ethics and the Collapse of Civilization,” looking at how a group can struggle with how to live when its values and traditional way of life collapse or lose meaning. Lear, the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the department of philosophy at the University of Chicago, will draw from the experience of the Crow tribe. His talk begins at 4 p.m. in Room 100 of Gregory Hall.

The topic on April 25 will be “Toxic Drift: The Lasting Legacy of Post-World War II Pesticide Use,” presented by Pete Daniel, historian and curator from the Division of Work and Industry at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Daniel will discuss the failure of government to protect human health and wildlife from the dangers of pesticide use, and will explore the implications for recent issues such as mad cow disease and genetic engineering. His talk begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Knight Auditorium of the Spurlock Museum.

The lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.cas.uiuc.edu.

Library Colloquium Committee
Copyright law developments discussed
The Library Colloquium Committee will present a talk, “To Mentor or To Monitor, That is the Question: Evolving Roles for Institutional Actors Within the Copyright Law,” by Tomas Lipinski, co-director of the Center for Information Policy Research at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The lecture is from 10-11:30 a.m. April 10 in Room 314 of the Illini Union.

The lecture will review legislative and judicial developments in the area of copyright law as well as industry initiatives that are shaping the role of information intermediaries such as libraries and schools.

For more information, visit www.library.uiuc.edu/committee/colloqm/Lipinski.htm.

Campus Recreation
World Health Day celebration on April 7
Campus Recreation will celebrate World Health Day with an outdoor, music-filled event from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 7 on the Campus Recreation Center East courtyard. The day will recognize the value of living a healthy, active lifestyle.

A sticker and coupon for the event are available at the CRCE lobby, the Intramural Physical Education Building east wing or the Oasis in the lower level of the Illini Union. There will be free smoothies for the first 100 people to bring their coupons to CRCE from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 4 to 6 p.m.

For more information, call 333-3806.

‘Reading the World Festival’
Writers from around the world featured
Distinguished authors from around the world – and the campus – will take part in the first annual “Reading the World Festival” April 18 to 20  at the UI.

All of the festival events are free and open to the public and will be held at the Illini Union Bookstore. The format will consist of conversations among panelists – authors, scholars, translators and publishers – followed by author readings from their works.
The festival, which is aimed at widening the scope of American cultural influence, is part of a joint effort to make international literature available to English speakers and to build an audience for works in translation.

The featured speakers are William Gass, Sahar Tawfiq and Eloy Urroz, and from the UI, Marilyn Booth, Rigoberto González, Philip Graham and Jane Kuntz.

The schedule is online at www.news.uiuc.edu/news/06/0405readtheworld.html.

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