LOCAL/S TATE The Michigan Daily - Monday, January 8, 2001- 3A CA~MPUS Student parents encouraged to attend panel !Both undergraduate and graduate student parents and their children are encouraged to attend a panel discus- sion about child care at the University. Members of the Rackham Student Government and the Graduate Employees Organization will hold the Town Hall Meeting Thursday at Rack- ham Assembly Hall from 3:30 p.m. to ' p.m. and is free to the public. A panel of administrators will be at the event to address questions and *oncerns regarding child care at the University. The panel will include Leslie DePietro, coordinator of Family Care resources Program; Royster Harper, vice president of Student Affairs; Earl Lewis, Rackham Dean of Students; and Jayne London, Rackham Coordi- nator of Diversity Initiatives. *lapanese studies center plans series of lectures The University's Center for Japan- ese Studies is planning a series of noon lectures to be held throughout the month. The first in the series will be Sonia Ryang, a professor of anthropology from Johns Hopkins University, who *ill be speaking Thursday. Ryang's discussion is titled "Kore- ans in Japan: Shifting Positions and Uncertain Identities," and will be held at noon in 1636 School of Social Work Building, at 1080 South Univer- sity and is free to the public. Scholars from ,around the world o discuss tensions Art scholars and curators from the U.S., Russia and China, will hold a panel discussion Thursday on the ten- sion between the marketization of cul- tural treasures and efforts to preserve them in museums. The event titled "Art Treasures and Social Transitions: Cultural Preserva- tion and Economic Imperatives" is ponsored by the University's Center 'or Russian and East European Stud- ies. The discussion will take place from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in room 1636 of the School of Social Work Building. Writers to share work at Rackham The University of Michigan Eng- wish Department will host Sofia Galifi- "anakis and Genevieve Canceko on Friday at 8 p.m. in Rackham West Conference Room. The event is part of the Mark Web- ster Reading Series, in which Univer- sity of Michigan instructors and graduate students read original poetry and fiction. Galifianakis's poetry com- pares America and classical Greece. Canceko's fiction explores emotional isolation in families. The event is free. Microbiology foundation builds home on campus The Waksman Foundation for Microbiology began the new year by establishing a new home at the Univer- sity. Formerly the Foundation for Wicrobiology, the foundation moved to the University on Jan. 1. Along witha new location, the foun- dation also began the new year with a new president, Frederick Neidhardt, the F.G. Novy Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Microbiology and Immunology Neidhardt, a bacterial physiologist, has conducted growth research on Escherichia coli and enteric bacteria. He is a former University vice presi- ent for research. - Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Whitney Elliott. SNRE pr By Jacquelyn Nixon1 Daily Staff Reporter After teaching courses on forestry and the envi- ronment for more than 30 years, University School of Natural Resources Prof. Burton Barnes+ will receive the student-nominated Golden Apple1 Award. Barnes will be the 11th recipient of the award, which honors and recognizes exceptional under- graduate teaching He will receive the Golden Apple on Jan. 30 before delivering his ceremonial "last speech." Students Honoring Outstanding University Teach- ing, a division of Hillel, sponsor the award and ceremony. Prof. Emeritus Charles Olson graduated along with Barnes from SNRE at the University and has also worked with him on the faculty for 35 years. "He was teaching ecosystem management f. wins Golden Apple Award before it became a buzz-word," Olson said. "In many ways he is one of the founders of the envi- ronmental education in its greatest and lightest sense." Barnes earned three degrees in forestry and for- est ecology and finished his schooling in 1959. He became an assistant professor at the University in 1964. As a part of his Ph.D. program, he spent a year in Germany studying forest ecology. Through his overseas experience, he became interested in studying woody plants and since then his research has taken him to China and Japan. Olson said Barnes can be viewed as one of the founders of environmental education. "Everything that he looks at - all of the inter- actions between air, land, water, people and biolo- gy - he is a pioneer in the ecosystem management movement," Olson said. To his colleagues, Barnes' skills as a lecturer have enabled more students to understand the course material. "He has an ingenuity in taking relatively dull material and making it exciting. And more impor- tantly than that he has a genuine liking for the stu- dents," Olson said. "He is, in a sense, a showman - he puts enough enthusiasm and energy and humor and role playing to be a showman,"Olson said. "You never know what he's going to do next, basical- ly." Prof. Emeritus John Bassett said Barnes' enthusiasm and approach to teaching forces stu- dents to become engaged. "He's just an enthusiastic lecturer," Bassett said. "He dresses up in costume in one of his lectures every year. He gets into the subject matter and likes students and students like him," Bassett said. Although Barnes admits teaching is important to his success, he said, adds a lot of interest to his teaching. "Research is equally important in teaching, he said. "I bring my research and other faculty research in teaching woody plants and forest ecol- ogy." Through his research, Barnes has written and edited three books in addition to his contributions to numerous publications. Barnes' most notable course, a field class he teaches in the fall, focuses on woody plants and has brought him notoriety among SNRE students. While team-teaching woody plants with the late Prof. Emeritus Warren Wagner, Barnes has taught more than 4,000 students during the 26 years he has taught the class. But Barnes credits Wagner with the class' suc- cess. "He is the real golden apple of this team," Barnes said. "He was a fine mentor." Following his acceptance of the award in Rack- ham Auditorium on Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m., Barnes will speak about his research in Germany, China and Japan on forest ecosystems and woody plants. I Dance hall daze Nobel pnze winners come to A2 for symposia Daily"This isn't about specialists talking to In an effort to examine the work worthy of Nobel Prizes for the year 2000, the University's Center for the Study of Complex Systems is sponsor- ing its fifth annual Nobel Symposia. University faculty members are scheduled to speak on the prize rele- vant to their specialty, said Lori Cole- man, CSCS administrative assistant. Speeches on physics, literature and chemistry will be covered Wednesday while medicine, peace and economics are scheduled for the session on Jan. 25. CSCS is an interdisciplinary support organization for faculty research inter- ests. University biology Prof. Richard Hume, who will speak about medi- cine, said the symposia aims to trans- late the work of the Nobel winners into the daily lives of a general audi- ence. "This isn't about specialists talking to specialists," Hume said. "This is to let a general audience understand why the Nobel committee thought the work of the laureates was significant." Hume added that he expects to see special istS" ! - Richard Hume University biology professor "a large and diverse" group of students and community members in atten- dance at the symposia. University chemistry Prof. M. David Curtis, who is preparing a speech on the chemistry award, said that it will be a challenge to explain the significance of the award-winning work to some who isn't a chemist. "But it's important because it's nec- essary to humanize this," Curtis said. University economics Prof. Bob Willis will discuss awards in his field, while Asian languages assistant Prof. Henry Em will discuss the peace award. Asian languages Prof. Emeritus Yi-Tsi Feurwerker will present the lit- erature speech. Coleman said that CSCS chose the speakers based on faculty expertise. "We asked ourselves 'who are the faculty at the University who can real- ly address these issues?"' Coleman said. "Often the speakers are acquain- tances of the winners and can offer an interpersonal look." The acquaintance relationship is rel- evant for Curtis, who knows Nobel winner Alan MacDiarmid. "I'll probably get a hold of him so I can ask more personal questions about his work; Curtis said. Coleman said she hopes to see a variety of interests represented in the symposia audience. Hume said he agreed that the event is beneficial to a university commni- ty. "This is important because what a university is all about is sharitg knowledge," Hume said. The first half of the symposia' is Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and the second half will be at the same time Jan. 25. Both sessions will be held in West Hall, room 340. LOUIS BROWN/Daily Aha-Maria Dobrin practices ballroom dancing with Daniel Haas, a graduate student in the math department, at the Michigan Union Ballroom at the weekly meeting of the University ballroom dancers club last night. Habitatfore Humanity reApossesses ho-mes of ti 0 j non-paying owners DETROIT (AP) - The Detroit chap- mortgage, so officials were lenient wh ter of Habitat for Humanity has repos- budget problems surfaced. sessed three homes from owners who Homeowners said that Habitat wast fell months behind on their mortgage responding to complaints about tl payments. houses, so they thought they would g The foreclosures were the first in the attention if they withheld their mortga affiliate's 14-year history. payment. They didn't know that th The affiliate had warned in December should have put the payments in 1999 that it would begin repossessing escrow account. homes. A year ago, more than 50 per- A year ago, 14 of 62 homeown cent of the organization's homeowners faced repossession and 33 others we were in arrears, some more than a year four months or more in arrears. Only behind homeowners were current on their pa Now, Habitat Detroit has pared its ments. delinquency rate to 33 percent. But it Some 38 homeowners are now still lags well behind Habitat's national good standing. About 10 famili delinquency rate of 22 percent. remain four months or more delinque "I am very pleased with the progress and another 13. are one, two or thri they have made," Ken Bensen, Michi- months behind. Four families have fil gan Habitat for Humanity president, for bankruptcy, and another homeown said of the Detroit affiliate's leaders. might face repossession. "They were so far down, but now Vera Kidd is among those wt they're on the right path." were able to turn a dire situati Last year, 20 percent of the affiliate's around. She and her husband, wl families stood to lose their homes. Habi- live in Detroit, were more than tat's national foreclosure rate hovers year behind on their mortgal around 1 percent. because they struggled with car a Problems spun out of control because work problems. Habitat officials weren't tough on home- Kidd's church helped her family. S owners when they started to fall behind found work as a teacher. Her husba in payments, The Detroit News reported got a promotion. The couple began pa yesterday. ing their $370 mortgage payment twi Habitat homes are owned by people a month and finally caught up who are unlikely to qualify for a bank December. en ['t he get ge ey an ers ere 16 ay- in es nt, ee ed ner ,ho ion ho na ge nd he nd ay- ice in Correction: * Emergency radio calls from Safewalk go to the University's Department of Public Safety, not the Ann Arbor Police Iepartment, as incorrectly state in Friday's Daily. 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