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STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 518 442-3073

Contact: Marguerite Baldanza (518) 442-3098
For Immediate Release

Adirondack Mountain Club Director to Discuss State’s Scenic and

Wild Rivers in Natural History Lecture Series

Neil Woodworth, counsel and conservation director for the Adirondack Mountain
Club, will present a slide talk, entitled "The Adirondack Canoe Waterways" on October 16
in the first presentation of this year’s Natural History Lecture Series at the University at
Albany. Woodworth will introduce some of the wild, scenic rivers of the 1,100 miles of the
Adirondack waterways and also discuss the 21st Century Environmental Quality Bond
Act, whose provisions will help to restore some of the canoe waterways to public use.

The program is sponsored jointly by the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at
the University at Albany and the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation. The Tuesday evening series runs through November 13. Lectures will be
held at 8:00 p.m. in Lecture Center 7 at the University at, 1400 Washington Avenue.

Other topics that will be explored in this series are: "Endangered Species in the
Adirondacks," on October 23, presented by Barbara/Woueks, Research Scientist with the
Endangered Species Unit of the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation, "Exploring the Adirondack High Country," on October 30, with Edwin
Ketchledge, Professor Emeritus of the New York State University, "Birds and Mammals of

the Adirondacks," on November 6, facilitated by Gerry Lemmo, a professional

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photographer and "An Adirondack Nature Photographer Looks At the Canadian Rockies,"

on November 13, presented by VéfiGiamb, a well-known outdoor photographer and a

former member of the 1980 Olympic Committee.

The series, originated 20 years ago by meteorologist Ray "Paleoner, is free and
open to the public. Falconer pointed out that the first four lectures concern the
Adirondacks, while the last one is by an Adirondacker reporting on his travels through
the Canadian Rockies.

Donations to sustain the Natural History Series may be made to The University
Fund at Albany, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Gifts are tax deductible.

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IMPORTANT PHILOSOPHIC WORK, THOUGHT LOST, RECOVERED

A three and a half centuries-old theological mystery may soon be solved through the
scholarship and persistence of a University at Albany professor.

The retrieval of Examination of Pharisaic Traditions Compared to Scripture by Uriel da
Costa, a 17th Century Portuguese-born Dutch Jew is often conjectured to have been the
philosophical forerunner of the Jewish heretic Benedict de Spinoza, was made just weeks
ago among the dormant treasures of the Royal Library in Copenhagen through the efforts
of Corson

Written in Portuguese and printed at Amsterdam in 1624, the work made the claim
that Rabbinic Judaism had falsified the Bible by creating non-literal interpretations. Chief
among the Judeo-Christian dogmas which da Costa sought to refute was belief in the
immortality of the soul.

Upon the appearance of the book, da Costa’s opponents denounced him to the
Amsterdam authorities, who ordered the entire run of the 214-page volume destroyed.
Fruitless searches for the work in the major libraries of the world by historians and
philosophers resulted in the general belief that all copies had indeed been lost.

Dr. Salomon, however, continued over the last 20 years to comb out-of-the-way
libraries throughout Western Europe. Finally a copy of the beautifully printed work was
located by Dr. Salomon in an all but forgotten nook of the Copenhagen library, where it
had not been taken off its shelf for the last two and a half centuries. A clue to the work’s
true location was that it was a reply to a treatise by da Costa’s chief philosophical
adversary, Dr. Samuel da Silva.

A preliminary analysis of the book is now being prepared by Dr. Salomon and will be
published by the University Library of Amsterdam in the November 1990 issue of its
journal Studia Rosenthaliana. He has also begun an English translation with commentary.

Professor Salomon was born in Amsterdam and has published three books and
numerous articles on the Portuguese settlement in that city during the 17th Century. He
was invited to the Sorbonne in Paris in Spring 1990 where he taught a course on the 16th
and 17th Century religious background and development of the Amsterdam Portuguese
community. He joined the faculty at the University at Albany in 1969.

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University to Observe World Food Day on Tuesday, Oct. 16

The University at Albany will host a live satellite teleconference on
"Food for the Future: Science, Policy and Ethics" on Tuesday, Oct. 16, as part of
World Food Day, a worldwide effort to combat hunger.

The nationwide teleconference, which will originate beginning at noon
from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., will feature a panel of
international experts. It will be followed by a local discussion of farm, food
and hunger issues from 1 to 2 p.m. and conclude with the international pancl
responding to questions raiscd at as many as 500 participating sites at colleges,
universities, hospitals and other institutions.

The public is welcome to attend the teleconference, which is free and will
be held in the Campus Center Assembly Hall on the University’s uptown
campus at 1400 Washington Ave.

Highlighting the local portion of the program will be a statement from
U.S. Rep. Michael McNulty, D-Green Island, who is a member of the House
Select Committee on Hunger. Also expected to speak as members of the local
panel are a representative of state Assemblywoman Gloria Davis’s Task Force
on Food, Farm and Nutrition; Mark Dunlea, executive director of the Hunger
Action Netwark of New York State; and John DiMura, the northeast
coordinator for RESULTS.

"We view this program as an important part of our responsibility to
educate our students and the community to the critical issues of the world."
said Mitchel D. Livingston, the University’s vice president for student affairs
and one of the event coordinators. He said that, in addition to the Capital
District community, students, faculty and staff were being encouraged to
attend the teleconference.

University President H. Patrick Swygert, in proclaiming the day as "World
Food Day 1990" at the University, pointed out that over 35,000 people die every
day from hunger-related causes and said it represented "an unparalleled global
disaster.". World experts, Swygert said, agree that "we have the resources to end
world hunger in our lifetime, and we need only make ending hunger a global
political priority."

The international panel of experts will discuss the science, policy and
ethical factors that influence the world food supply, with a special emphasis on
high-technology vs. low-input options in food production. Other topics are
expected to include the international ramifications of 1990 U.S. farm legislation

and ethical issues of hunger. food aid and "resource stewardship" in the
post-Cold War era,

The panel members are Robert O. Blake. former ambassador to Mali and
currently the leader of a coalition of 29 private organizations engaged in
development studies; Heitor Gurgulino de Souza, rector of the United Nations
University and one of Brazil’s leading scholars; Joan Dye Gussow, a professor
of nutrition at Teachers College at Columbia University and a member of the
Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences; and John S.
Niederhauser, a world reknowned plant breeder and recipient of the prestigious
World Food Prize.

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Proclamation Declaring
October 16, 1990, as
World Food Day

WHEREAS, over thirty-five thousand people die every day from hunger-related
causes representing an unparalleled global disaster,

WHEREAS, world experts, including the former head of the United Nations World
Development Program, and the United States Congress Select Committee on Hunger,
agree that we have the resources to end world hunger in our lifetime, and we need
only make ending hunger a global political priority,

WHEREAS, the United States Congress and the President of the United States have
declared October 1990 as Ending Hunger Month, in recognition that people who
educate themselves about the basic facts about hunger naturally move into action,
and

WHEREAS, on October 16, 1990, thousands of people across the United States and
Canada will gather together for a live satellite teleconference to address farm, food,
and hunger issues as part of the 10th annual World Food Day,

BE IT KNOWN that October 16, 1990, is designated "World Food Day," a day on
which faculty, students, and staff of the University at Albany, State University of
New York, are called upon to reflect on the conditions of the world's hungry, to
inform themselves about the issues, policies, and ethical questions, to inform
themselves about alternatives and appropriate steps that might be taken locally and
globally, and to commit themselves to contribute to the sustainable end of chronic,
persistent hunger.

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PRESS ADVISORY

Contact: Christine Hanson McKnight, University
or, Frank Mauro, Rockefeller Institute, 518-443

at Albany, 518-442-3091
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Riley to Speak at Rockefeller Institute Conference on Local
Government Restructuring Friday, Oct. 12, 1990

., chairman, president and chief executive officer of
Albany-based KeyCorp., will be the keynote speaker on Friday, Oct. 12, ata
major conference on local government restructuring organized by the Nelson A.
Rockefeller Institute of Government.

Riley will discuss "The Challenge in New York State" at the day-long
conference’s opening session, which runs from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m, at Albany
Law School at 80 New Scotland Ave. in Albany.

Also speaking at the opening session will be New York Secretary of State
Gail S. Shaffer, chair of the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on
Consolidation of Local Governments, and William N. Hansell Jr.. executive
director of the International City Management Association.

Members of the press are welcome to attend all or parts of the conference.
To register, call Christine McKnight at 518-442-3091.

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Center for
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Michael J, Malbin
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411 State Street
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(518) 443-5256
(518) 443-5788 (Fax)

State University
of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 4, 1991

Contact: Peggy L.S. Barmore
Office of University Relations
(518) 442-3092

National Debate on Legislative Term Limitations
Takes Center Stage in Albany, Oct. 11-12

ALBANY, N.Y.--Leading opponents and proponents of term limits for
state legislatures and Congress will convene in Albany next week for a
national conference on term lisnitations. The conference, sponsored by the

“Center for Legislative Studiés of the Rockefeller Institute of Government,
State University of New York, will afford the first comprehensive examination
of the topic. It will bring together activists on both sides of the issue, with
politicians, academics, researchers, and national journalists. A public debate
Friday afternoon, Oct. 11, between former U.S. Senator William Proxmire,
D-Wisconsin, and Edward H. Crane IIL, president of the Washington,
D.C.-based Cato Institute, will highlight the conference.

At issue is whether constitutional limits should be placed on how long a
legislator can hold office. Last year, voters in California, Oklahoma and
Colorado voted to limit legislative terms. This November, voters in
Washington state will have the opportunity to decide. Alaska, Arkansas,
Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Oregon are being mentioned
as the battlegrounds for 1992. President Bush has come out in favor of term
limits for Congress, and major interest groups are gearing up for pitched
battles at the polls this year and next.

"Based on what we have seen so far," says Michael J. Malbin, director of
the Center for Legislative Studies and professor of political science at the
University at Albany, "initiatives in any of these states have to be treated as if
they stand a good chance of passing. So far, whenever the voters have had a
chance to support term limitations, they have done so."

Gerald Benjamin, co-convener of the conference with Malbin and a
professor at the State University of New York College at New Paltz and
majority leader of the Ulster County Legislature, adds, "If the Washington
initiative becomes law, it would have an immediate impact. The state’s
congressional delegation would be decimated within two years, and House
Speaker Tom Foley would be sent into early retirement."

Because of Washington’s importance as a bellwether state, one of the

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CENTER STAGE IN ALBANY, OCT. 11 - 12

conference panels will bring people from across the country to focus on the campaign in that
state and on the organizational efforts of the major groups involved there. Other panels will
review:

-- the history and theory of rotation in office and careerism;

-- field reports on how the limits adopted last year in California,

Colorado and Oklahoma are affecting political ambition and
reapportionment in those states;

-- the effects of term limits for other offices; and

-- the likely impact of term limits on the structure and power of state

legislatures and Congress.

The debate between former Sen. Proxmire and Ed Crane of the Cato Institute, which is
free and open to the public, will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m., Friday, Oct. 11, at Page Hall
on the University at Albany’s downtown campus, 135 Western Ave., Albany. Proxmire will
argue against term limits, and Crane, a former national chairman of the Libertarian Party,
will argue for limitations. The remainder of the conference is open to the press, but not to the
general public. It will take place from 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at
the Rockefeller Institute, 411 State St., Albany. (EDITORS: A copy of the preliminary
program accompanies this release.)

Conference organizers anticipate that it will make a major contribution to public
understanding of this controversial issue.

The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government is the public policy research arm
of the State University of New York.

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TERM LIMITS

A National Conference

October 11-12, 1991

CENTER FOR LEGISLATIVE STUDIES

Michael J. Malbin, Director

Gerald Benjamin
Conference Co-Convener

Rockefeller Institute of Government
State University of New York
411 State Street
Albany, NY 12203
(518) 443-5256

This conference is being supported in part by a
grant from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

TERM LIMITS

A National Conference

Program

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1991

2:00-2:15 PM Greetings
Richard P. Nathan
Director, Rockefeller Institute of Government and
Provost, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy

2215-3745 PANEL I: - The Issue in Perspective

Overview paper describing the background and the issues,

-.Gerald Benjamin of SUNY/New Paltz. Benjamin is co-
convener of the conference (see above).

A Historical Review of the Idea of Rotation in Office and
of Legislative Careerism,

- Mark Petracca of UC/Irvine. Petracca is a prominent ad-
vocate of term limits.

Comment - Michael J. Malbin, Director, Center for Legisla-
tive Studies, SUNY
3:45 - 4:30 Break
Travel to downtown campus, SUNY/Albany (Page Hall)

4:30-6:00PM PUBLIC DEBATE ON THE ISSUE (Page Hall)

For Term Limits: ED CRANE, President, Cato Institute,
Washington, D.c.

Against Term Limits: Former Sen. WILLIAM PROXMIRE of

Wisconsin.

7:00 PM DINNER Albany Marriot Hotel, Wolf Road

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12

9:00-10:30 AM PANEL II: FROM IDEA TO ADOPTION

How a Populist Idea Gains Organizational Support and Oppo~
sition Across the Country.

How the term limitation has moved across country.
The national opposition. How the issue compares
with tax revolt, nuclear freeze and other issues.

Stuart Rothenberg, editor-publisher of The Political

Report, a highly regarded Washington, D.C.
newsletter.

The 1991 Campaign in the state of Washington.

One of the major battleground states of 1991. We envision
this as an article about a political campaign in
progress. As such, it will be the local companion to
the previous paper’s national perspective.

David Olson, University of Washington

Comments - Rick Scott, American Federation of State,
County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
Cleta Mitchell, Attorney, Oklahoma City and
member of the board, Americans to Limit Con-
gressional Terms; Americans Back in Charge

10:45-12:15 PM ANEL III: HOW TERM LIMITS AFFECT POLITICAL
CAREER CALCULA‘ ee

ow Politicians are Adjusting to Term Limits.

- Two interview-based papers about the effects of
term limits on the way state legislators are
thinking about their careers. Also to include the
effects on reapportionment politics and ongoing
court battles.

- California paper: Charles Price, Cal. State/ Chico.

- Oklahoma paper: Gary Copeland, Carl Albert Center
for Congressional Studies, U. of Oklahoma
How Politicians Have Adjusted Their Careers to Term Limits
an Other Offices: Gubernatorial and Mayoral Limits.

- Thad Beyle, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Beyle is the author or editor of four books about
the governorship and the editor of State Govern-
ment: Guide to Current Issues and Activities.

Comments - Linda Fowler, Syracuse University
- Karl Kurtz, National Conference of State
Legislatures

1:15-2:45PM PANEL IV: HOW TERM LIMITS WOULD AFFECT LEGISLATURES

Predictions About the Impact in California

- Bruce Cain, UC/Berkeley. The main focus will be on
electoral, institutional and policy implications for
the California state legislature. Cain will also dis-
cuss County Boards of Supervisors.

Predictions About the Likely Impact of Term Limits on
State Legislatures Nationally.

- Are some kinds of districts or legislators more likely
to lose power with term limitations? Any systematic
effects on urban/rural districts, Democratic/ Repub-
lican, minorities or women? What importance?

- David Everson, Sangamon State U. (Illinois), editor of
the Comparative State Politics Newsletter.

Comments - John Fund, Wall Street Journal
- Alan Rosenthal, Eagleton Institute of
Politics, Rutgers University

3:00-4:30 PANEL V: ASSESSMENTS

- The conference will end with a wrap-up discussion -- no
papers -- involving all conference participants.

The aim will not be to reach an artificial consensus,
but to see what we have learned from each others’ argu-
ments and to prepare for subsequent paper revisions.
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Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute Conference Will Examine Need for Local
Rockefeller Government Restructuring

Institute ALBANY, N.Y. - Vietor'J/Riley-Jr., chairman, president and chief

of executive officer of KeyCorp., will be the keynote speaker on Friday, Oct. 12,

at a major conference on local government restructuring organized by the
Government Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government.

State University . Riley will discuss "The Challenge in New York State" as the day-long
of New York conference kicks off at 9:30 a.m. at Albany Law School at 80 New Scotland
Ave, in Albany. He is the private-sector leader who has been most active in
fi isin Sees pointing out that New York's business community has a vital stake in the
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518-426-7458 (Fax) over $50 billion in goods and services each year.

Also speaking at the opening plenary session will be New York Secretary
of State Gail S. Shaffer, chair of the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on
Consolidation of Local Governments, and William N. Hansell Jr., executive
director of the International City Management Association.

The program will also include panel discussions on the law governing
local government restructuring, incentives for cooperation in service delivery,
and experiences at cooperative service delivery in both New York State and
elsewhere. The panels will feature such state and national experts as Anton
Gardner, county manager of Arlington County, Virginia; John J. Bosley of the
Metro Washington Council of Governments; Broome County (N.Y.) Executive
Tim Grippen and Robert McEvoy, the Schenectady County (N.Y.) manager.

The conference is part of a special project which the Rockefeller Institute
established earlier this year to provide practical advice to state and local
policymakers and the public on how to make local government more efficient
and responsive. The Institute’s project, organized as a private-public
partnership, is directed by a task force that includes Keycorp’s Riley, whose
Albany-based bank holding company has $16 billion in assets and more than
570 offices in eight states; McEvoy of Schenectady County and Dr. Richard P.
Nathan, director of the Rockefeller Institute and provost of the Rockefeller
College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, State
University of New York.

The results of the conference will help shape a white paper on ways to
restructure local government which the task force plans to release early next
year. The task force also intends to share ideas and information from the
conference with government leaders around the state who are examining
possible ways of delivering local government services more efficiently.
Members of the press are welcome to attend all or parts of the conference.
To register, call Christine Hanson McKnight at 518-442-3091.

In the face of a slowing economy, New York State has experienced a
resurgence of interest in local government consolidation, cooperation and
coordination as a means of controlling rising costs of government service,
according to Frank J. Mauro, deputy director of the Rockefeller Institute.

"Governor Cuomo and others have raised questions regarding the large
number of local governments in New York State, their overlapping authority
and territory, their relatively small size and the lack of an apparent logic in
the distinctions among New York State’s several types of local governments,"
Mauro said.

Govermor Cuomo recently appointed a blue-ribbon commission chaired by
Secretary of State Shaffer to address this issue. The commission, which is
composed largely of local government officials, was created "to explore ways to
encourage the consolidation of local government.” There is also evidence of
renewed interest in local government consolidation on Long Island, where the
state legislature, at the governor’s request, has funded a special study of local
government fragmentation; in Broome County, where the county executive has
formed the Broome County Partnership Council; and in Fulton County, where
officials from the governments of Gloversville, Johnstown and the county have
established the Fulton County Consolidation Committee.

Rockefeller Institute, at 411 State Street in downtown Albany, was
founded in 1981 to bring together public-affairs scholars from throughout the
SUNY system and private higher education, public officials and citizens to
share expertise and examine issues of importance to New York State.

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DRAFT
CONFERENCE PROGRAM

LOCAL GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURING PROJECT

October 12, 1990

at
Albany Law School
80 New Scotland Avenue
Albany, New York 12208

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| Registration and Coffee 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Opening Plenary Session 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

: The Future of Local William N. Hansell, Jr.
Government in the United Executive Director,
| States International City

: Management Association
Keynote Address: The Victor J. Riley, Jr.

Challenge in New York State Chairman, President and

CEO, KeyCorp; Chairman,
Local Government
Restructuring Project

The Governor’s Blue Ribbon Gail S. Shaffer
Commission on Consolidation Secretary of State
of Local Governments

Coffee Break 10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

The four concurrent sessions listed below will be repeated at

2:00 p.m. to allow each participant to attend two of the four
sessions. .

Incentives for Cooperation in Service Delivery

Moderator Panelists

John J. Feeney Robert McEvoy, Schenectady
former First Deputy County Manager
Comptroller; former

Director, Governor’s David Pilliod, New York
Office of Managment State Department of State

and Productivity
Paul Moore, Former
Director, Legislative
Commission on State-Local
Relations

Jay Fountain, Governmental
Accounting Standards Board

Steven Gold, Director,
Center for the Study of the
States

Ronald Brach, Director,
Legislative Commission on
Rural Resources

The Law Governing Local Government Restructuring

Moderator Panelists
Frank J. Mauro : Richard Briffault,
Rockefeller Institute Columbia Law School

of Government
George Carpinello,
Albany Law School

James Cole, New York State
Department of Law

Thomas Boyle, Suffolk
County Attorney

Murray Jaros, New York State
Association of Towns

Lester Steinman,

Michaelian Municipal Law
Resource Center, Pace
University (morning session
only)
New York Experiences at Local Government Restructuring and
Cooperative Approaches to Service Delivery

Moderator

Sarah Liebschutz

Professor of Political
Science, State University
of New York at Brockport

Panelists

Lt. Edward O’Callaghan,
Nassau County Police
Department

Robert Schwarting, Western
Finger Lakes Solid Waste
Management Authority

Ben Coe, Tug Hill
Commission

Ruth Scott, former Council
President, City of
Rochester

Andrew DiNitto, Fulton
County Consolidation
Committee

Timothy M. Grippen,
Broome County Executive

Cooperative Approaches to Service Delivery and Alternative
Structural Arrangements: Examples from Other States

Moderator

William R. Dodge, Jr.,
Strategic Partnerships,
Pittsburgh, PA

Lunch 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Panelists

Larry Blick, Assistant
County Administrator,
Hillsborough County,
Florida

Anton Gardner, County
Manager, Arlington County,
Virginia

John J. Bosley, General
Counsel, Metropolitan
Washington Council of
Governments; and, Legal
Counsel, National
Association of Regional
Councils
Concurrent Sessions 2:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. (

The four concurrent sessions held at 11:00 a.m. will be
repeated at this time to allow each participant to attend two
of the four sessions.

Closing Plenary Session 4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Putting It All Together: R. Wayne Diesel, KeyCorp
Discussion of Key Ideas
From the Concurrent Sessions John J. Feeney, former

First Deputy Comptroller

Edward Reinfurt, New York
State Business Council

Sarah Liebschutz, SUNY

Brockport
The Local Government Frank J. Mauro, Rockefeller
Restructuring Project: Institute of Government
Next Steps
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RINGEL INSTITUTE APPOINTS NEW DIRECTOR

A specialist in the study of social programs affecting the elderly has been appointed
the new director of the Ringel Institute of Gerontology of the University at Albany, it was
announced today by University President H. Patrick Swygert.

“Ronald W. Toseland, an 11-year faculty member in the University’s School of Social
Welfare, takes over the post from Dr. Sheldon S. Tobin, who returns to the faculty in order
to conduct research funded by the National Institute for the Aging.

"Dr. Toseland has an ideal combination of experiences which qualifies him to be an
outstanding leader of the Institute’s multi-dimensional agenda," said President Swygert. "He
is a superb educator and planner, and also a noted researcher of programs that reach out
into communities such as the Capital Region to provide long-term assistance to the elderly."

Dr. Richard P. Nathan, provost of the University’s Rockefeller College of Public
Affairs and Policy, called Toseland "one of America’s foremost researchers exploring and
improving the infrastructure of our care-giving to older citizens."

Dr. Toseland has published more than 40 articles and three books in the field of
gerontology, the latest being Group Work with the Elderly in 1990. He currently has a
Veterans Administration grant to research methods of structuring out-patient care for
disabled veterans, and an American Cancer Socicty grant to investigate methods of
supporting care-givers of cancer patients.

The Institute of Gerontology was created at Albany in the late 1960s to foster
multidisciplinary education and research for improving the welfare of the growing number
of older citizens in New York State. Through an endowment from Rhoda and Stanley
Ringel in 1981, the Institute was able to expand its role to provide technical assistance to
service providers in the region, as well as to faculty in all University departments.

In addition to Dr. Toseland’s work, research projects of the Institute include studies
on caregiver support for the community’s frail elderly, the needs of older mentally
retarded citizens and their family-caregivers, and the level of satisfaction with care
received by elderly patients in health maintenance organizations.

A PhD recipient from the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Toseland taught two years at
San Diego State University before coming to the University at Albany.

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University at Albany Issue Paper Highlights Changing
Demographics of New York's Foster Care Population

The f6steMledFe!population in New York State has ballooned at both the
younger and older ends of the age spectrum in recent years, according to a
paper by a School of Social Work faculty member at the University at Albany,
State University of New York.

Babies born HIV-infected and drug addicted have become a growing part
of the state’s foster-care picture, particularly in major metropolitan areas such
as New York City, according to the paper by See: a professor of
social welfare in the School of Social Welfare, part of the Rockefeller College
of Public Affairs and Policy at the University. The median range of children

coming into foster care has also increased, from 10.8 years in 1977 to 13 years
in the mid-1980s.

Stein, a nationally recognized expert on child welfare issues, estimated
that New York State currently has an estimated 40,000 children in foster care,
one of the largest foster-care populations in the country.

In his paper, entitled "Mecting Changing Necds in Foster Care," Stein
outlined a series of steps to strengthen the current system and reduce the
number of children who find their way into foster care. The steps include
increasing funding to develop programs to prevent children being placed in
foster homes and clarifying for service-providers the conditions that make a
family eligible for preventive, rather than protective, services.

An immediate problem, Stein said, was the need to recruit and train
foster parents who are prepared to care for those born HIV-infected or
addicted to drugs, and to seek out parents who are willing to adopt these
special-needs children.

Stein is the author of a new book entitled Child Welfare and the Law,
published in August, and is currently working on a research project for the
New York State Department of Social Services on independent living for teens
in foster care. "Mecting Changing Needs in Foster Care" is part of a continuing
University series of publications called "Emerging Issues" and written primarily
for the state’s public-policy decision makers.

A summary of the paper’s key points can be found on page three.
Professor Stein can be reached directly at (914) 679-7052.

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Fact Sheet
World Food Day Observances at the University at Albany
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 1990

Overview

President H. Patrick Swygert has proclaimed Tuesday, Oct. 16, 1990 as
"World Food Day" at the University at Albany. Ina proclamation, he called on
faculty, students and staff to "inform themselves about the issues, policies and
ethical questions" of hunger and to "commit themselves to contribute to the
sustainable end of chronic, persistent hunger."

Satellite Teleconference

The University will host a live satellite teleconference on "Food for the
Future: Science, Policy and Ethics." The nationwide teleconference, which will
originate beginning at noon from George Washington University in Washington,
D.C., will feature a panel of international exper ts. It will be followed by a
local discussion of farm, food and hunger issues from 1 to 2 p.m. and conclude
with the international panel responding to questions raised at as many as 500
participating sites at colleges, universities, hospitals and other institutions.

Highlighting the local portion of the program will be a statement from
US. Rep. Michael McNulty, D-Green Island, who is a member of the House
Select Committee on Hunger. Also expected to speak as members of the local
panel are a representative of state Assemblywoman Gloria Davis’s Task Force
on Food, Farm and Nutrition; Mark Dunlea, executive director of the Hunger
Action Network of New York State; and John DiMura, the northeast
coordinator for RESULTS.

The publica is welcome to attend the teleconference, which is free and will
be held in the Campus Center Assembly Hall on the University’s uptown
campus at 1400 Washington Ave.

Food Donations

Food donated by students is being collected at Quad offices for
distribution to the Regional Food Bank in Albany.

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Research Scientist to Discuss Endangered Species in the Adirondacks

Barbara Loucks, research scientist with the Endangered Species Unit of the New

York State Department of Environmental Conservation, will present a slide talk on
"Endangered Species in the Adirondacks" on Tuesday, Oct. 23. This is the second topic in
this year’s Natural History Lecture Series at the University at Albany. Loucks will
provide an update on the status of endangered species, including bald eagles, peregrine
falcons, spruce grouse, moose, lynx and other rare species, as well as provide information
concerning management and research to protect species at risk.

The ‘program is sponsored jointly by the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at
the University at Albany and the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation. The Tuesday evening series runs through Nov. 13. Lectures will be held at
8:00 p.m. in Lecture Center 7 at the University at 1400 Washington Avenue.

Other topics that will be presented in this series are: "Exploring the Adirondack
High Country," on Oct. 30, with Edwin Ketchledge, Professor Emeritus of SUNY’s College
of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse; "Birds and Mammals of the

Adirondacks," on Nov. 6, by Gerry Lemmo, a professional photographer; and

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"An Adirondack Nature Photographer Looks At the Canadian Rockies," on Nov. 13;
presented by Vernon Lamb, a well-known outdoor photographer and a former member of
the 1980 Olympic Committee.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the series, originated by University at
Albany meteorologist Ray Falconer. All lectures are free and open to the public.
Donations to sustain the Natural History Series may be made to The University
Fund at Albany, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Gifts are tax deductible.

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Randall Robinson to Give Lecture at University at Albany

‘Randall/Robinson, executive director of TransAfrica and one of the most visible
spokespersons in the U.S. against apartheid, will lecture on "African Americans, the
United States Government and Southern Africa: The Rise of African Power" on
Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m. in the University at Albany’s Page Hall, 135 Western
Ave. The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin with a reception
at 6 p.m. President H. Patrick Swygert will introduce the speaker.

The-lecture is part of "The African American Agenda for the ’90s," an
annual lecture series which presents prominent speakers throughout New York
state to discuss issues important to African Americans. It is sponsored by the New
York African American Institute and co-sponsored by the University’s department
of African and/Afro-American»Studies and the Office of Minority Student
Development, the Albany branch of the NAACP, and the Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid and Racism.

TransAfrica is a leading African American lobby for Africa and the
Caribbean and as its executive director, Robinson has organized popular opinion to
advocate practices aimed at helping to achieve a more progressive U.S. foreign
policy toward African and Caribbean nations. A staunch advocate of human rights

for Southern Africa, Robinson is also a Congressional aide,a public interest lawyer

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and a Ford Foundation Fellow in Tanzanian. He has received many awards
including the Johnson Publishing Company American Black Achievement Award
and the Congressional Black Caucus Humanitarian Award.

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Adirondack Expert to Discuss History of Adirondack Summits

in University Lecture Series

MEG. professor emeritus of the State University of New York

College of Environmental Science and Forestry and respected authority on the
Adirondacks, will present "Exploring the Adirondack High Country" in the
University at Albany’s Natural History Lecture Series on Oct. 30. This is the third of
five presentations in the Tuesday evening series, and will take place at 8:00 p.m. in
Lecture Center 7 on the uptown campus of the University at Albany, 1400
Washington Ave,

In his time-lapse traverse, Ketchledge will share a visual visitation of the 20
highest Adirondack summits and examine some of the rare plants and the strange
ecology that characterizes the historic island summits of sub-arctic landscape now
isolated at the top of New York State.

Final topics in the series are "Birds and Mammals of the Adirondacks," on
Nov. 6 with Gary Lemmo, a professional photographer; and "An Adirondack
Photographer Looks at the Canadian Rockies," on Nov. 13, presented by Vernon

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Photographer to Discuss Adirondack Wildlife

in University’s Natural History Lecture Series

Gerry:Lemmo, a professional photographer from Glens Falls, will host a slide
presentation entitled, "Birds and Animals of the Adirondacks" on Tuesday, Nov. 6, as part
of the University at Albany’s Natural History Lecture Series.

Lemmo’s colorful slide talk will describe the habits and life histories of the birds
and animals of the Adirondacks, including some of the less frequently encountered species
of the region. His presentation will be held at 8:00 p.m. in Lecture Center 7 on the
uptown campus of the University at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave.

The Natural History Lecture Series, now in its 20th year, was founded by
University at Albany meteorologist Ray Falconer, and is sponsored by the University’s
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center and the New York State Department of
Environmental Conservation. All lectures are free and open to the public.

Donations to sustain the Natural History Series may be made to The University
Fund at Albany, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Gifts are tax deductible.

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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOLAR TO LECTURE
ON ne teil KINGDOM OF SYRACUSE ON NOVEMBER 8

Professor MalcolmeBelliof the University of Virginia will discuss the
architecture, painting, sculpture, and minor arts of Syracuse in the 3rd
century, B.C., at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 8, in Room 116 of the
Social Science Building at the Univrsity at Albany. His talk, which is
sponsored by the Albany Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America, will be illustrated with slides and is free and open to the
public.

After the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C., Greek kingdoms
were established throughout the eastern Mediterranean. The only western
Hellenistic kingdom was that of Hieron II, located in modern Sicily with
Syracuse 9 its capital.

Professor Bell will compare Syracuse with the better-known Hellenistic

kingdoms of the east such as Pergamum, Alexandria and Antioch. He will

also discuss its influence on Rome.

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UNIVERSITY ALUMS TO MEET NEW PRESIDENT

The Capital District Regional Alumni Chapter of the University at Albany 4
holding a reception for local alumni to meet the University’s new President, HwPatrick
Swygert, on Wednesday, Nov. 7, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the University Art Gallery, located
on the main campus.

The evening will feature the Gallery’s latest exhibit, "Contemporary Art of the
African Diaspora" as well as music from noted area concert pianist and University
faculty member Findlay Cockrell, and includes punch, hors d’oervres and cash bar.
Reservations are due by Monday, Nov. 5, and can be made by calling the Alumni

House at 442-3080. Cost for the event is $5.

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Adirondack Mountain Club Director to Discuss State’s Scenic and

Wild Rivers in Natural History Lecture Series

Other topics that will be explored in this series are: "Endangered Species in the
Adirondacks," on October 23, presented by Barbara Loucks, Research Scientist with the
Endangered Species Unit of the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation, "Exploring the Adirondack High Country,” on October 30, with Edwin
Ketchledge, Professor Emeritus of the New York State University, "Birds and Mammals of

the Adirondacks," on November 6, facilitated by Gerry Lemmo, a professional

(more)
photographer and "An Adirondack Nature Photographer Looks At the Canadian Rockies,"
on November 13, presented by Vernon Lamb, a well-known outdoor photographer and a
former member of the 1980 Olympic Committee.

The series, originated 20 years ago by meteorologist Ray Falconer, is free and
open to the public. Falconer pointed out that the first four lectures concern the
Adirondacks, while the last one is by an Adirondacker reporting on his travels through
the Canadian Rockies.

Donations to sustain the Natural History Series may be made to The University
Fund at Albany, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Gifts are tax deductible.

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AP, UPI

Contact: Christine Hanson McKnight, University at Albany, 518-442-3091
or, Frank Mauro, Rockefeller Institute, 518-443-5240

The

Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute Conference Will Examine Need for Local
Rockefeller Government Restructuring

Institute

ALBANY, N.Y. - Victor J. Riley Jr., chairman, president and chief
of executive officer of KeyCorp., will be the keynote speaker on Friday, Oct. 12,

at a major conference on local government restructuring organized by the
Government Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government.

State University 7 Riley will discuss "The Challenge in New York State" as the day-long
of New York conference kicks off at 9:30 a.m. at Albany Law School at 80 New Scotland
Ave. in Albany. He is the private-sector leader who has been most active in
pa ee pointing out that New York's business community has a vital stake in the
any, New York 12203 : :
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518-426-7458 (Fax) over $50 billion in goods and services each year.

Govermor Cuomo recently appointed a blue-ribbon commission chaired by
Secretary of State Shaffer to address this issue. The commission, which is
composed largely of local government officials, was created "to explore ways to
encourage the consolidation of local government." There is also evidence of
renewed interest in local government consolidation on Long Island, where the
state legislature, at the governor’s request, has funded a special study of local
government fragmentation; in Broome County, where the county executive has
formed the Broome County Partnership Council; and in Fulton County, where
officials from the governments of Gloversville, Johnstown and the county have
established the Fulton County Consolidation Committee.

October 3, 1990
DRAFT
CONFERENCE PROGRAM

LOCAL GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURING PROJECT

October 12, 1990

at
Albany Law School
80 New Scotland Avenue
Albany, New York 12208

Registration and Coffee 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Opening Plenary Session 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
The Future of Local William N. Hansell, Jr.
Government in the United Executive Director,
States International City
Management Association
Keynote Address: The Victor J. Riley, Jr.
Challenge in New York State Chairman, President and

CEO, KeyCorp; Chairman,
Local Government
Restructuring Project

The Governor’s Blue Ribbon Gail S. Shaffer

Commission on Consolidation Secretary of State
of Local Governments

Coffee Break 10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

The four concurrent sessions listed below will be repeated at

2:00

p.m. to allow each participant to attend two of the four

sessions.

Incentives for Cooperation in Service Delivery

Moderator Panelists

John J. Feeney Robert McEvoy, Schenectady
former First Deputy County Manager
Comptroller; former

Director, Governor’s David Pilliod, New York
Office of Managment State Department of State

and Productivity
Paul Moore, Former
Director, Legislative
Commission on State-Local
Relations

Jay Fountain, Governmental
Accounting Standards Board

Steven Gold, Director,
Center for the Study of the
States

Ronald Brach, Director,
Legislative Commission on
Rural Resources

The Law Governing Local Government Restructuring

Moderator Panelists
Frank J. Mauro Richard Briffault,
Rockefeller Institute Columbia Law School

of Government
George Carpinello,
Albany Law School

James Cole, New York State
Department of Law

Thomas Boyle, Suffolk
County Attorney

Murray Jaros, New York State
Association of Towns

Lester Steinman,

Michaelian Municipal Law
Resource Center, Pace
University (morning session
only)
New York Experiences at Local Government Restructuring and
Cooperative Approaches to Service Delivery

Moderator

Sarah Liebschutz

Professor of Political
Science, State University
of New York at Brockport

Panelists

Lt. Edward O’Callaghan,

Nassau County Police
Department

Robert Schwarting, Western
Finger Lakes Solid Waste
Management Authority

Ben Coe, Tug Hill
Commission

Ruth Scott, former Council
President, City of
Rochester

Andrew DiNitto, Fulton
County Consolidation
Committee

Timothy M. Grippen,
Broome County Executive

Cooperative Approaches to Service Delivery and Alternative

4.
Structural Arrangements:
Moderator
William R. Dodge, Jr.,
Strategic Partnerships,
Pittsburgh, PA
Lunch 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Examples from Other States

Panelists

Larry Blick, Assistant
County Administrator,
Hillsborough County,
Florida

Anton Gardner, County
Manager, Arlington County,
Virginia

John J. Bosley, General
Counsel, Metropolitan
Washington Council of
Governments; and, Legal
Counsel, National
Association of Regional
Councils
Concurrent Sessions 2:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

The four concurrent sessions held at 11:00 a.m. will be
repeated at this time to allow each participant to attend two
of the four sessions.

Closing Plenary Session 4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Putting It All Together: R. Wayne Diesel, KeyCorp
Discussion of Key Ideas
From the Concurrent Sessions John J. Feeney, former

First Deputy Comptroller

Edward Reinfurt, New York
State Business Council

Sarah Liebschutz, SUNY

Brockport
The Local Government Frank J. Mauro, Rockefeller
Restructuring Project: Institute of Government

Next Steps

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IMPORTANT PHILOSOPHIC WORK, THOUGHT LOST, RECOVERED

A three and a half centuries-old theological mystery may soon be solved through the
scholarship and persistence of a University at Albany professor.

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| RINGEL INSTITUTE APPOINTS NEW DIRECTOR

A specialist in the study of social programs affecting the elderly has been appointed.
the new director of the Ringel Institute of Gerontology of the University at Albany, it was

announced today by University President H. Patrick Swygert.

Ronald W, Toseland, an 11-year faculty member in the University’s School of Social
Welfare, takes over the post from Dr. Sheldon S. Tobin, who returns to the faculty in order
i to conduct research funded by the National Institute for the Aging,

Dr. Richard P. Nathan, provost of the University’s Rockefeller College of Public

Affairs and Policy, called Toseland "one of America’s foremost researchers exploring and
improving the infrastructure of our care-giving to older citizens."

disabled veterans, and an American Cancer Society grant to investigate methods of
supporting care-givers of cancer patients.

A PhD recipient from the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Toseland taught two years at
San Diego State University before coming to the University at Albany.

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Contact: Christine Hanson McKnight, University at Albany, 518-442-3091
or, Frank Mauro, Rockefeller Institute, 518-443-5240

Riley to Speak at Rockefeller Institute Conference on Local
Government Restructuring Friday, Oct. 12, 1990

Victor J, Riley Jr., chairman, president and chief executive officer of
Albany-based KeyCorp., will be the keynote speaker on Friday, Oct. 12, ata
major conference on local government restructuring organized by the Nelson A.
Rockefeller Institute of Government.

Riley will discuss "The Challenge in New York State" at the day-long
conference’s opening session, which runs from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. at Albany
Law School at 80 New Scotland Ave. in Albany.

Also speaking at the opening session will be New York Secretary of State
Gail S. Shaffer, chair of the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on
Consolidation of Local Governments, and William N, Hansell Jr., executive
director of the International City Management Association.

Members of the press are welcome to attend all or parts of the conference,
To register, call Christine McKnight at 518-442-3091,

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University to Observe World Food Day on Tuesday, Oct. 16

H The University at Albany will host a live satellite teleconference on
"Food for the Future: Science, Policy and Ethics" on Tucsday, Oct. 16, as part of
World Food Day, a worldwide cffort to combat hunger,

The nationwide teleconference, which will originate beginning at noon
: from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., will feature a panel of
‘ international experts. It will be followed by a local discussion of farm, food

and hunger issues from | to 2 p.m. and conclude with the international panel
responding to questions raised at as many as 500 participating sites at colleges,
universities, hospitals and other institutions,

The public is welcome to attend the teleconference, which is free and will
be held in the Campus Center Assembly Hall on the University’s uptown
campus at 1400 Washington Ave.

I
} Highlighting the local portion of the program will be a statement from
I USS. Rep. Michael McNulty, D-Green Island, who is a member of the House
Select Committee on Hunger. Also expected to speak as members of the local
f panel are a representative of state Assemblywoman Gloria Davis’s Task Force
on Food, Farm and Nutrition; Mark Dunlea, executive director of the Hunger
Action Network of New York State; and John DiMura, the northeast
coordinator for RESULTS.

"We view this program as an important part of our responsibility to
educate our students and the community to the critical issues of the world,"
said Mitchel D. Livingston, the University’s vice president for student affairs
and one of the event coordinators. He said that, in addition to the Capital
District community, students, faculty and staff were being encouraged to
attend the teleconference,

University President H. Patrick Swygert, in proclaiming the day as "World
Food Day 1990" at the University, pointed out that over 35,000 people die every
day from hunger-related causes and said it represented "an unparalleled global
disaster." World experts, Swygert said, agree that "we have the resources to end
world hunger in our lifetime, and we nced only make ending hunger a global
political priority."

The pancl members are Robert O. Blake. former ambassador to Mali and
currently the leader of a coalition of 29 private organizations engaged in
development studies; Heitor Gurgulino de Souza, rector of the United Nations
University and onc of Brazil’s leading scholars; Joan Dye Gussow, a professor
of nutrition at Teachers College at Columbia University and a member of the
Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences; and John S.
Niederhauser, a world reknowned plant brecder and recipient of the prestigious
World Food Prize.

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Proclamation Declaring
October 16, 1990, as
World Food Day

WHEREAS, over thirty-five thousand people die every day from hunger-related
causes representing an unparalleled global disaster,

H. Patrick Swygert
President
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Contact: Christine Hanson McKnight (518) 442-3091

University at Albany Issue papel Highlights Changing
Demographics of New York's Foster Care Population

The foster care population in New York State has ballooned at both the
younger and older ends of the age spectrum in recent years, according to a
paper by a School of Social Work faculty member at the University at Albany,
State University of New York.

Babies born HIV-infected and drug addicted have become a growing part
of the state’s foster-care picture, particularly in major metropolitan areas such
as New York City, according to the paper by Theodore J. Stein, a professor of
social welfare in the School of Social Welfare, part of the Rockefeller College
of Public Affairs and Policy. at the University. The median range of children
coming into foster care has also increased, from 10.8 years in 1977 to 13 years
in the mid-1980s,

Stein, a nationally recognized expert on child welfare issues, estimated.
that New York State currently has an estimated 40,000 children in foster care,
one of the largest foster-care populations in the country.

In his paper, entitled "Meeting Changing Needs in Foster Care," Stein
outlined a series of steps to strengthen the current system and reduce the
number of children who find their way into foster care. The steps include
increasing funding to develop programs to prevent children being placed in
foster homes and clarifying for service-providers the conditions that make a
family eligible for preventive, rather than protective, services,

Stein is the author of a new book entitled Child Welfare and the Law,
published in August, and is currently working on a research project for the
New York State Department of Social Services on independent living for teens
in foster care, "Meeting Changing Needs in Foster Care" is part of a continuing
University series of publications called "Emerging Issues" and written primarily
for the state’s public-policy decision makers.

A summary of the paper’s key points can be found on page three.
Professor Stein can be reached directly at (914) 679-7052.

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Fact Sheet
World Food Day Observances at the University at Albany
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 1990

Overview

President H. Patrick Swygert has proclaimed Tuesday, Oct. 16, 1990 as
"World Food Day" at the University at Albany. In a proclamation, he called on
faculty, students and staff to "inform themselves about the issues, policies and
ethical questions" of hunger and to “commit themselves to contribute to the
sustainable end of chronic, persistent hunger."

Satellite Teleconference

The University will host a live satellite teleconference on "Food for the
4 Future: Science, Policy and Ethics." The nationwide teleconference, which will
‘ me originate beginning at noon from George Washington University in Washington,
D.C., will feature a panel of international experts. It will be followed by a
local discussion of farm, food and hunger issues from | to 2 p.m. and conclude
with the international pancl responding to questions raised at as many as 500
participating sites at colleges, universities, hospitals and other institutions.

Highlighting the local portion of the program will be a statement from
USS. Rep. Michael McNulty, D-Green Island, who is a member of the House
Select Committee on Hunger. Also expected to speak as members of the local
panel are a representative of state Assemblywoman Gloria Davis’s Task Force
on Food, Farm and Nutrition; Mark Dunlea, executive director of the Hunger
Action Network of New York State; and John DiMura, the northeast
coordinator for RESULTS.

The public is welcome to attend the teleconference, which is free and will
be held in the Campus Center Assembly Hall on the University’s uptown
campus at 1400 Washington Ave.

Food Donations
Food donated by students is being collected at Quad offices for
distribution to the Regional Food Bank in Albany.

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For Immediate Release

Research Scientist to Discuss Endangered Species in the Adirondacks

Barbara Loucks, research scientist with the Endangered Species Unit of the New
York State Department of Environmental Conservation, will present a slide talk on
"Endangered Species in the Adirondacks" on Tuesday, Oct. 23, This is the second topic in
this year’s Natural History Lecture Series at the University at Albany. Loucks will
provide an update on the status of endangered species, including bald eagles, peregrine
falcons, spruce grouse, moose, lynx and other rare species, as well as provide information
concerning management and research to protect species at risk.

The program is sponsored jointly by the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at
the University at Albany and the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation, The Tuesday evening series runs through Nov. 13. Lectures will be held at
8:00 p.m, in Lecture Center 7 at the University at 1400 Washington Avenue.

Adirondacks," on Nov. 6, by Gerry Lemmo, a professional photographer; and

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"An Adirondack Nature Photographer Looks At the Canadian Rockies," on Nov, 13,

presented by Vernon Lamb, a well-known outdoor photographer and a former member of

i the 1980 Olympic Committee.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the series, originated by University at
Albany meteorologist Ray Falconer. All lectures are free and open to the public.
| Donations to sustain the Natural History Series may be made to The University
Fund at Albany, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Gifts are tax deductible.

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Randall Robinson to Give Lecture at University at Albany

Randall Robinson, executive director of TransAfrica and one of the most visible

} spokespersons in the U.S. against apartheid, will lecture on "African Americans, the
United States Government and Southern Africa: The Rise of African Power" on
Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m. in the University at Albany’s Page Hall, 135 Western
Ave. The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin with a reception
at 6 p.m. President H. Patrick Swygert will introduce the speaker.

I The lecture is part of "The African American Agenda for the ’90s," an
annual lecture series which presents prominent speakers throughout New York

state to discuss issues important to African Americans. It is sponsored by the New

York African American Institute and co-sponsored by the University’s department

of African and Afro-American Studies and the Office of Minority Student

Development, the Albany branch of the NAACP, and the Capital District Coalition

Against Apartheid and Racism.

TransAfrica is a leading African American lobby for Africa and the
Caribbean and as its executive director, Robinson has organized popular opinion to
advocate practices aimed at helping to achicve a more progressive US. foreign
H policy toward African and Caribbean nations, A staunch advocate of human rights

for Southern Africa, Robinson is also a Congressional aide, a public interest lawyer
and a Ford Foundation Fellow in Tanzanian. He has received many awards
including the Johnson Publishing Company American Black Achicvement Award
and the Congressional Black Caucus Humanitarian Award.

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Adirondack Expert to Discuss History of Adirondack Summits

| in University Lecture Series

Edwin Ketchledge, professor emeritus of the State University of New York
College of Environmental Science and Forestry and respected authority on the
Adirondacks, will present "Exploring the Adirondack High Country" in the

University at Albany’s Natural History Lecture Series on Oct. 30. This is the third of

five presentations in the Tuesday evening series, and will take place at 8:00 p.m. in
Lecture Center 7 on the uptown campus of the University at Albany, 1400
Washington Ave.

isolated at the top of New York State.

Final topics in the series are "Birds and Mammals of the Adirondacks," on

Nov, 6 with Gary Lemmo, a professional photographer; and "An Adirondack

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Photographer Looks at the Canadian Rockies," on Noy. 13, presented by Vernon

(more)
| Lamb, a well-known outdoor photographer and a former member of the 1980 Olympic
Committee.

| This year marks the 20th anniversary of the series, originated by University

é at Albany meteorologist Ray Falconer. The series is co-sponsored by the Atmospheric

Sciences Research Center at the University at Albany and the New York State

Department of Environmental Conservation. All lectures are free and open to the
I public,
Donations to sustain the Natural History Series may be made to The

University Fund at Albany, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Gifts are tax deductible.

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Photographer to Discuss Adirondack Wildlife

in University’s Natural History Lecture Series

Gerry Lemmo, a professional photographer from Glens Falls, will host a slide
presentation entitled, "Birds and Animals of the Adirondacks" on Tuesday, Nov. 6, as part
of the University at Albany’s Natural History Lecture Series.

Donations to sustain the Natural History Series may be made to The University
Fund at Albany, "Attention: Ray Falconer Fund." Gifts are tax deductible.

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Contact: Vince Sweeney (518) 442-3075

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOLAR TO LECTURE
ON MEDITERRANEAN KINGDOM OF SYRACUSE ON NOVEMBER 8
Professor Malcolm Bell of the University of Virginia will discuss the
| architecture, painting, sculpture, and minor arts of Syracuse in the 3rd
century, B.C., at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 8, in Room 116 of the
Social Science Building at the Univrsity at Albany. His talk, which is
sponsored by the Albany Society of the Archaeological Institute of
America, will be illustrated with slides and is free and open to the
public.

After the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C., Greek kingdoms

were established throughout the eastern Mediterranean, The only western

i Hellenistic kingdom was that of Hieron II, located in modern Sicily with

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| Professor Bell will compare Syracuse with the better-known Hellenistic
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kingdoms of the east such as Pergamum, Alexandria and Antioch. He will

also discuss its influence on Rome.

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UNIVERSITY ALUMS TO MEET NEW PRESIDENT

The Capital District Regional Alumni Chapter of the University at Albany is
i holding a reception for local alumni to meet the University’s new President, H. Patrick
Swygert, on Wednesday, Nov. 7, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the University Art Gallery, located
on the main campus.

The evening will feature the Gallery’s latest exhibit, "Contemporary Art of the
African Diaspora" as well as music from noted area concert pianist and University
faculty member Findlay Cockrell, and includes punch, hors d’oervres and cash bar,
Reservations are due by Monday, Nov. 5, and can be made by calling the Alumni

House at 442-3080. Cost for the event is $5,

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