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Friday, April 12, 2002
New A&S Dean hopes to grow, excite, electrify
James Wyche looks forward to smooth SIS integration
By Ernesto Londono
Hurricane Staff Writer
Water spiders sparked James Wythe’s first fling with science.
As a 10-year-old in his native Rhode Island, the recently appointed vice provost and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences one day assembled a rudimentary microscope out of bent pieces of glass to scrutinize the eight-legged creatures.
“It was fascinating,” said Wyche, 59, in an interview from his office in Tougaloo, Miss.
Since that day, he’s never had a vocational change of heart, he said.
However, Wyche maintains that his longtime marriage with the sciences-he has a Ph.P. in biology from )ohn Hopkins University and has taught posts at Hunter College, die University ot
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should not concern those who are in the non-
scientific realms of the college.
“People would only have to look more closely at my background," said Wyche in reference to his commitment to the social sciences and humanities.
His accomplishments as executive director of The Leadership Alliance-a consortium of leading research and teaching institutions dedicated to improving participation of underrepresented minorities-attest to that commitment, he said.
“For the past few years, people have actually been accusing me of abandoning the sciences,” remarked Wyche half-jokingly, adding that he intends to take advantage of UM’s geographical location and diverse population in order to increase the Leadership Alliance’s activities in the Caribbean and South America.
One of Wyche’s first-and possibly most challenging tasks-will be overseeing the transfer of School of International Studies into Arts and Sciences. Wyche said the merger, which outraged some students and faculty members, was a wise move.
“It couldn't fit better into mv game plan,”
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Pres. Shalala slated to teach new class
POL 536 to focus on healthcare policieSy issues
By Ernesto Londono
Hurricane Staff Wnfet
Going, going-gone!
Interested in taking a class in healthcare policy with the longest serving secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the country’s history?
Tcx> late, unless one of the 20 students enrolled in POL 536 gets cokt feet and drops out. When the office of the registrar opened Wednesday morning, five seats remained open. One hour later, they were gone.
The class, which will be taught in President Shalala's conference nxim, marks the veteran lecturer’s debut as a professor at UM.
“As s<xin as I heard about the class, 1 just knew I had to take it,” said junior Israel Andrews, 21, who believes taking the course will increase his chances of getting into a top Medical School. “ I have heard from friends that many ot the questions you have to answer when applying for Medical School relate to policy’he added.
The course will delve into major health policy issues such as providing healthcare for the elder-
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ly and the uninsured.
Students will be “looking at how people make decisions,” said Shalala, who said the recent anthrax scare will likely be addressed. “We will probably examine how the government han-
dled the situation"
Since Shalala left Washington, many of the rules of the game have changed.
“I can't teach from my old notes,” said Shalala, who intends to work on the syllabus during the summer.
Enrolled students be warned: “There will be a kit of writing involved," said Shalala, who added she’s not big on tests, but intends to assign short papers every week.
As far as grades go, the president said she’s got “very tough standards."
Andrews is not scared.“Believe me,”he said,“it can’t be worse than microbiology”
June Dreyer, chairperson of the Political Science Department is very excited the president will teach a course that has never been offered.
See SHALALA • Page 3
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TRUE AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT: Pierre Gaumaurd and Saul Delaguardia battle it out and try to tip each other over in sumo costumes during International Week's USA Day.
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ABOVE: Sarah Syed decorates Sana Nini's hands with intricate and delicate henna designs.
RIGHT: Entertaining the crowds, Amanda Saab performs a belly dancing routine in the UC Patio during Africa/ Middle East day.
Registration priorities change
By Daniel Boniface
Hurricane Staff Writer
Registration for fall classes began on Monday, but this time it started without athletes, honors students and other special group members getting priority treatment.
A committee of deans chaired by Vice Provost Perry Lee Roberts brought the issue before Associate Dean of Enrollments and Registrar Scott Ingold, suggesting changes were needed in the registration process, Ingold said.
“The deans agreed that we’ve gotten to the point now where we really needed to rethink
the process to make it a little bit more equitable,” Ingold said.
Ingold posed the question:
“Do we continue to provide opportunities for special groups to be given priority during registration and then fill in with everybody else, or have we gotten to a point now where we look at the special groups in terms of where they would fall based on their class?” Ingoid decided it was time to make the switch and allow priority registration for hon ors and special groups students only within their class level.
The decision came after juniors and seniors
were being locked out of classes they needed to graduate, Ingold said.
“That was part of the impetus behind the conversation,” Ingoid said. “Those types of
issues are what caused the group to bring it
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“1 think ii’< a good idea because if I was a senior and there was a freshman athlete sign ing up before me, I’d be pretty mad," Megan Dwyer, a junior in the honors program, said
“Instead of letting all the honors students and special groups register on the first day, it is more equitable to allow all the honors and
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MAX ALVAREZ I Humeane Staff ABOVE: Donna Shalala, William Hpp and Luis Glider break ground at the ScfSool of Music.
School of Music s new facilities to open by Spring 2004
Weeks legacy} generosity allows for new music library} technology center; labs
By Seema Gohil
Hurricane Staff Writer
“‘If music be the food of love, play on -William Shakespeare,’” quoted Marta Week, namesake of the latest addition to the School of Music.
April ninth 2002 marked a historical day for the School of Music with the groundbreaking for the $10 million state-of-the-art Marta and Austin Weeks Music and Technology Center.
“It is an extraordinary gift from Marta and Austin Week and is part of a long tradition of generosity to the university," said Luis Glaser. Executive Vice President and Provost.
Previous gifts included the L. Austin Weeks Center for Recording and Performance, home to the 145-seat Cfurk
Recital Hall and a recording studio for music engineering students.
The couple are also responsible for assisting over 40 students through the Marta and Austin Weeks Music Scholarship Endowment. Mrs. Week is on the board ot trustees.
“The Weeks legacy will continue to influence the music school through their generous contribution We are deeply grateful to them,” said William Hipp, School of Music dean.
The Center, expected to he completed by Spring 2004, will include a 15,300 sq. foot
music library and a 5,200 sq. foot advanced technology center, with six computer laboratories.
“For the first time in decades it will per mit the school to house all its collections in one place," said Dean Hipp.
Presently half the collections are stored in the Richter Library and the other half in the School of Music Library.
The six new labs will enable students to work with specialized hi-tech equipment.
“It will allow students to stay on the cutting edge of music technology,” said t President Donna Shalala.	I
The groundbreaking, which took place behind the Clark Recital Hall, was a high profile, highly publicized event, with the appearance of President Shalala, Chairman and Vice Chairmen and Members of the Board of Trustees and Deans and Faculty of various UM schools.
It started off on a high note with a performance by the School of Music students and was followed by a welcome mes«age from Dean Hipp and remarks on the occa sion by President Shalala, Luis Glaser, Philip Frost (on the Board of Trustees), and Mrs. Week Mr. Week could not attend the event due to ill health.
“Music isn’t important in the sense of food or shelter but it has provided me with countless moments of inspiration and made
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