LOCAL/S TATE The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 4, 1999 - 3A - In CArMPUS 'U' sponsors economic equality lecture The Institute for Research on Women and Gender is scheduled to hold a lecture *ntitled "Economic Equality in Marriage: More Independence for Women, Less for Men" on Friday. The lecturer is Annemette Sorenson, the director of the Henry A. Murray Research Center at Radcliffe College. The lecture will include topics such as social stratification with a special emphasis on gender stratification, the sociology of the family and research on the life course of women and men in modern society. The lecture will run *om 12 p.m to 2 p.m. in the second floor conference room of the Literature, Science & Arts building. Visiting writers series kicks off with poet Janowitz The University's visiting writer series s set to begins Thursday. Poet Phyllis nowitz, an English professor at Cornell University, is scheduled to speak. She has published thencollections "Temporary Dwellings" and "Visiting Rites. She will speak about her poetry and how it relates to the human spirit having an optimistic outlook on life despite past misfortunes. The lecture will take place at Rackham Amphitheatre at 5 p.m. ,urgery prof. publishes athletic guidelines New guidelines regarding athletes who receive concussions during the gane have been published in the current issue of "American Journal of Sports Medicine," by a team led by Edward Wojtys, a professor of surgery in the Oniversity Health System. The guidelines propose that athletes who are hit in the head should leave the game immediately and see a doctor if they lose consciousness or have persistent or delayed symptoms of a head injury. According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 300,000 American athletes sustain concussions each year and nearly a third of them neglect to see a doctor. These guidelines are to encour- e athletes to see a doctor and prevent rther injury to the brain. 'U' to honor Parriot with award wring an astronomy department symposium Friday, Joel Parriott, a Ph.D. in astronomy, will be recog- nized as this years recipient of the annual Ralph B. Baldwin Award in stronomy, Astrophysics, and Space -cience. The award, which honors the most outstanding thesis for the year, recog- nizes Parriott's thesis, "The Interaction Between Late-Stage Stellar Mass Loss and the Hot Interstellar Medium in Elliptical Galaxies." He will receive a $2,000 cash prize as well as a bronze medallion at the sympo- sium. Gchool of Art and Design to host series of exhibits The School of Art and Design is scheduled to hold four exhibits dur- ing the month of October. "Impromptu Fibers," an exhibit of fiber work by University faculty, alumni, graduate students and guest Ortist Monika Correa, will be in the Art and Architecture Building until Oct. 16. "Art in a Box," a showcase of the art and talent of its distinguished alumni will be held in the Jean Paul Slusser Gallery until Oct. 18. "Gesture and Contemporary Painting," an exhibition examining the implications of the use of gesture as a point of departure in recent painting, will run from Oct. 29 to Nov. 30 in the *warren M. Robbins Center for Graduate Studies. "El Caminoville," a project by artist Mike Rogers, incorporates photographs, sculpture and video to explain obsession, temptation and history in an exhibit running from Oct. 29 to Nov. 30 in the Jean Paul Slusser Gallery. - Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Lindsey Alpert. UAC to offer funding for special events Fund surplus provides additional $20,000 to $30, 000 By Jewel Gopwani Daily Staff Reporter The piggy bank for funding campus events just got a little bigger. This semester the University Activities Center is adding Special Events to its docket of 14 committees. The new committee will offer funding and UAC resources to students and student groups interested in co-sponsoring campus programming. The other 14 committees fund student perfor- mance outlets such as Amazin' Blue, Impact Dance, Comedy Company and M-Flicks. UAC Executive Chair Abby Adair said the new committee is an effort to strengthen UAC's outreach with other student organizations, one major goal of UAC's executive board. Before Special Events, UAC could not fund and organize events that were not associated with one of its existing committees. Adair said UAC was unable to follow through on an interest to co-sponsor the Encompass show last January. "That was a huge missed opportunity for UAC," Adair said. Adair explained that UAC is able to establish this committee to work with additional events because it has a surplus of funds which she attributes to "frugal spending over the past couple of years." The surplus allows UAC 'to allot S20,000 to $30,000 each year to Special Events, Adair said. She added the amount may vary because Special Events will handle funding on a case-by- case basis. Special Events is chaired by UAC's Coordinator of Outreach Jordan Litwin and Coordinator of Programming Sukti Dhital. Litwin encourages students and student groups to approach the special events committee about pro- gramming. But in deciding whether to help organize and fund an event, the Special Events will consider campus need, the event's audience, the amount of money the event needs and if the event is too similar to what UAC already organizes. "it makes more money available to student - Glen Roe Michigan Student Assembly Budget Priorities Committee chair Adair added that "manpower" will be an impor- tant factor in assisting in the completion of the com- mittee's events. The committee is currently in its initial stages and is seeking new members to fulfill its role of working with campus organizations to complete events. In addition to UAC staff, key resources the com- mittee will offer are access to computers, graphic designers and UAC's experience in programming. Hillel is the first student organization to work with Special Events. With UAC, Hillel will co- sponsor sex therapist Ruth Westheimer's visit to the Michigan Theater on Dec. 1. Litwin said Westheimer's visit should cost about S16,000. UAC and Hillel will split the cost and the revenues from ticket sales. Ross Kirschner said he expects the partnership between Hillel and UAC to be successful. "They compliment each other with the ditThrent aspects that they bring," he said. In addition to bringing Westheimer to campus, UAC plans to help organize Encompass through Special Events. Chair of the Michigan Student Assembly's Budget Priorities Committee, Glen Roe said UAC's special event's committee will help BPC in fulfilling its job of allocating funds. "It makes more money available to student groups," Roe said. Playing dress up1 Mentoring service aims to match women to professionals By Jon Fish For the Daly Women seeking advice to help them prepare for careers in engineering, math and the sciences - traditionally male- dominated fields - can get a little help from the University this fall. MentorNet is an e-mail-based mentoring program that matches women students from participating universities with professional men and women across the country. The program is in its second year at the University. Last year it matched 539 female engineering and science students with mentors. MentorNet currently services 26 universities but expects to add 12 this year, said Peg Single, mentoring specialist and MentorNet's liaison to the University. To participate in MentorNet, interested women can visit the program's Website at www.mentorne~t.net and complete a confidential online registration form. Students will then be matched with mentors on the basis of field specialty. The program also aims to match participants with mentors with similar education levels and sector interest - either public or private. After being matched, the mentor and student communicate solely through e-mail. MentorNet uses e-mail to bring industry mentors from dis- tant cities and students together. Single said e-mail has sever- al other advantages. Because students and mentors do not meet face-to-face, mentors can add an impartial influence to their students' lives, she said. Also, students may not feel as intimidated by an e-mail-based relationship as they might in a face-to-face situation. MentorNet matches students with both male and female mentors, in part because men often outnumber women in math and science fields. While this may seem unusual, due to the pro- gram's focus on women, Single said including men has been successful. "Our goal is to not only increase the number of women in these fields but to also change the nature of these fields to be more conducive and friendly towards women. Having men as mentors furthers this by making everyone awareof the issues," Single said. According to the University's Women in Engineering office, 28 percent of Engineering undergraduate students are women and 19 percent of Engineering graduate students are women. Susan Burke, Women in Engineering director, noted that these numbers are slightly higher than national averages for women engineering students, but there is always room for improvement. Nationally, women comprise six to seven percent of the engineers in the labor force, according to a study conducted by the National Science Foundation. "Engineering is still a male-oriented area. Our office tries to recruit some students, but we mostly work on retention, making sure whatever women are in the college, stay in," Burke said. She said she hopes MentorNet relationships will encourage women to stay in their respective fields, as well as make con- tacts that will help them after graduation. Joyce Yen, an Engineering graduate student recently signed up for the program. Yen is currently pursuing a doctorate and "hopes to gain additional information from a person with long-term industry experience." She also noted that MentorNet covers a great geographical range, matching stu- dents with mentors across the country - another benefit of the program, she said. The online registration deadline for MentorNet is Oct. 8. For more information on the program, Engineering, math and sci- ence students can access MentorNets Website or call the Women in Engineering Office at 647-7012. JOANNA PAINE/Da iy Huron High School sophomore Lynn Sukach experiments with hats a' ie University theatre department's Halloween costume sale Saturday. Penn State prof. addresses change inarchaeology .9 By Hanna LoPatin Daily Staff Reporter It was just a man, his audience and thousands of years of history when Prof. Alexander Jaffe spoke about Israeli archaeology Friday in the Frieze Building. Jaffe, a professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University, has sever- al credits to his name, including author- ing 27 book reviews and several articles in esteemed historical and cultural publi- cations. University near eastern studies Prof. Norman Yoffee, who organized the lec- ture and introduced Jaffe, said he got the idea to have Jaffe speak on campus after one of his colleagues asked him to speak to students in her honors seminar "Anthropology and the Bible." Yoffee thought Jaffe was more qualified to speak about the subject. Jaffe began his lecture by calling it "unconventional." Rather than discussing his archaeological finds, Jaffe said he wanted to review "Israeli archaeology and the role of archaeology in society" He said archaeology is a "facet of cul- tural and educational policy." The shekel, the monetary unit in Israel, Jaffe said, is an example of how archae- ology is used in society today. "The shekel is derived from the imagery of ancient coins,"he said. A slide show accompanied half of the one-and-a-half hour lecture. Jaffe described the artifacts on the screen and their impor- tance to the development of society. Jaffe used his experiences digging at Israel's famous Mount Masada as an example of how archaeology is moving from cultural study to tourist trap. He described how cable cars ran across the top of the site, and people could buy pop- sicles as they walked around. Jaffe said the site had been "Disney-fled." "Archaeology only works so far as part of a hand in creating and promoting eth- nic identities" Jaffe said at the end of his lecture. Pat Belanger, a member of the Michigan Archaeological Society and an audience member, spent six weeks this past summer on a dig in Israel. "The his- tory there connects with our culture and religion. It was interesting seeing that history first-hand," he said. "It was a perspective I didn't expect, Belanger said after the lecture. "He did- n't talk about finds; he talked about phi- losophy." Classical studies Prof. Sharon Herbert attended the lecture "because I'm an archaeologist who digs in Israel; this is right down my line." Jaffe "had a very different take on archaeology, she said. "He asked, 'Why are we doing it? What are the social forces that form our questions?' We do think about them more than he thinks we do, but we could think about them more." The Department for Near Eastern Studies, the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology sponsored the lec- ture. ... ,, . ... W ...4..rf r ,.r,..). r.1