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Contact: Greta Petry (518) 442-3095
Responsible Attitudes Towards Sexuality
To Be Discussed Feb. 6-15
ALBANY - Values and responsible attitudes towards sexuality will be among the
many topics discussed at the University at Albany Feb. 6 through 15 during the
eleventh annual Sexuality Week.
"A large part of our educational efforts during Sexuality Week will focus on
talking about attitudes, responsibility and communication in the area of sexuality,"
said M) Dolores,Cimini, Ph.D., staff psychologist and director of the Middle Earth
Drug Education and Crisis Intervention Program.
‘For example, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8, in Campus Center 375, there will
be a workshop for men on "Sexual Assault Is a Men's Issue." Sponsored by a
group of University men committed to stopping rape and sexual assault, this
workshop will address men's attitudes towards sexual crimes. At that same time in
Campus Center 373, there will be a workshop on the impact of sexual assault on
all women.
The keynote speaker for the week will be Dr. Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant,
an educator on sexuality who is an advice columnist for Essence magazine. Grant
will speak at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15 in the Campus Center Ballroom. The
program for the week is being coordinated by the Middle Earth Peer Assistance
Program.
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Anti-Apartheid Crusader Robinson Speaks at Albany
This ‘April the Republic of South Africa will hold its first democratic election in which all
citizens will be eligible -- included among them 18 million blacks who have never before been
allowed to cast a vote.
~Randall'Robinson;-executive director of the lobbying group TransAfrica as well as of the
research, education and public outreach center, TransAfrica Forum, would be excused for a
special pride on that historic occasion.
Robinson, who is the keynote speaker for the University at Albany’s 15th Annual
Martin Luther King Jr./Black History Month Luncheon on Monday, Feb. 14, staged a
non-violent protest along with Mary Frances Berry and Congressman Walter E. Fauntroy at the
offices of the South African Embassy in Washington D.C. on Nov. 21, 1984. The trio, arrested
for their sit-in, effectively began the Free South Africa Movement.
The event will be held at 12 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom.
"Randall Robinson unquestionably played a key role in mobilizing the support that led to
Ronald Reagan levying economic sanctions against South Africa and its apartheid policies in
1985," says Carl Martin, assistant vice president in the Department of Student Services, whose
Office of Multicultural Student Affairs is a cosponsor with a number of campus organizations for
the King\Black History Month event.
" "Mr. Robinson will no doubt talk about the current situation in South Africa," said Martin.
"And he will speak of other areas of struggle, both at home and abroad, because his overriding
concern has been human rights and how we deal with the concept of justice throughout the
world."
As the head of TransAfrica, the American lobby for Africa and the Caribbean, Robinson
has often testified on Capitol Hill on behalf of foreign policy legislation which would favorably
impact those two regions.
He launched TransAfrica Forum in 1981. It began the Free South Africa Education Project
in 1985, and has brought many spokespersons, such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to the U.S. to
speak with American leaders on shaping democratic solutions to South Africa and other nation’s
problems.
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For Immediate Release
February 7, 1994
Statement by H. Patrick Swygert,
President, University at Albany
On Resignation of SUNY Chancellor
D. Bruce Johnstone |
"I am deeply saddened to learn of Chancellor D. Bruce
Johnstone's resignation. I thank him for his leadership, his vision, and
his hard work for the State University of New York system, its students,
faculty and staff. I have enjoyed both a wonderful professional
relationship with Dr. Johnstone and a warm, personal relationship with
Bruce and his wife, Gail. I offer them both my prayers and best wishes
for the future. I am certain that his successor will continue with the
extraordinary work and achievements that have marked Bruce
Johnstone's tenure as Chancellor of the State University of New York."
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University at Albany Unveils Remodeled Solutions Lab
Feb. 22 at Center-for Technology in'Government
ALBANY - From 3 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 22, University at Albany President
H. Patrick Swygert will host a reception celebrating the opening of the
Government Technology Solutions Laboratory in SB 31 of the Lecture Center at
the Uptown Campus.
The solutions lab is part of the Center for Technology in Government. The Center
picks the brains of the best minds in academia, government and the corporate
world, adds a healthy dose of labor from graduate students, and creates a team to
find solutions to the time-wasting, money-draining problems facing government
and non-profit agencies today.
Case in point: the state Office for Regulatory and Management Assistance ferrets
out permit information for businesses that want to start up or expand. Since this
office receives more than 30,000 phone calls a year, callers will frequently get a
busy signal. ORMA chief Ruth Walters wants to streamline operations so that
callers can obtain the information they need in a timely fashion.
Walters’ office is working with the Center for Technology in Government to find a
solution to that problem, one which she says is common to state agencies. Since
many of the calls that come in are consumer complaints or questions about sales
tax that are referred elsewhere, the Center is testing a prototype of an automated
voice response system to better redirect these calls as efficiently as possible.
The Center's team is building a preliminary prototype of a system that could be
used by ORMA. This model will be demonstrated at the reception.
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Established by Gov. Mario Cuomo in his
January 1993 State of the State Message, this
new center picks the brains of the best heads
in academia, government and the corporate
world, adds a healthy dose of labor from
graduate students, and creates a team to find
solutions to time-wasting, money-draining
problems facing government and non-profit
agencies today.
The Center’s new facility, the Government
Technology Solutions Laboratory, will be un-
veiled at a reception from 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday,
February 22, in SB-31 of the Lecture Center.
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This team is currently working on one of four projects now on the front burner for the Center
for Technology in Government. The goal is to design and test a voice-information and response
system that will allow the state’s Office for Regulatory and Management Assistance to speed
up its response to some 35,000 inquiries a year for permit assistance. From left to right,
standing, are Bill Solis, project manager from ORMA, Peter Avery, project coordinator for
the Center, and Mike Hartigan and Lavina Godfrey, both of ORMA. Special Assistant to the
Governor forRegulatory and Management Assistance Ruth Walters is seated. Walters is also
a member of the Center’s advisory board.
Growing from three years of volunteer ef-
fort by members of the New York State Forum
for Information Resource Management and
seed funds from the University at Albany, the
Center has evolved into a full-blown entity
with a proven track record and state funding
of $1 million this fiscal year, The governor's
1994-95 executive budget calls for a second
$1 million.
The Center has four projects on the front
burner in 1994. They are:
* 1, An automated permit retrieval system
proposed by the Adirondack Park Agency.
This system would speed up the time it
takes the APA to respond to public in-
quiries by developing a rapid document
and map retrieval system for all APA real
property records.
* 2. A voice information/response system
proposed by the Office of Regulatory and
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35,000 requests for permit assistance that
reach this office each year. One of the -
many duties of this office is to provide
permit information to new or expanding
businesses and non-profit undertakings. In
addition to speeding up response rates, the
agency is also seeking to save money.
* 3. A faster and better way to help emergen-
cy room personnel decide whom to admit
for inpatient psychiatric care. This would
have an effect on the estimated 135,000
patients a year who receive emergency
psychiatric services in the state,
* 4. A better way to get information back
and forth between 700 community not-for-
profit groups that serve more than 85,000
people for the Office of Mental Retarda-
tion and Developmental Disabilities at
some 4,000 geographic sites across the
state. The new system is designed to sup-
port improved service planning, needs as-
sessment and budgetary processing, while
reducing or eliminating paper flow and
streamlining information sharing.
The selection of these four projects was
announced late last fall by Gov. Cuomo, who
said, “New York State is committed to using
the latest technological advances to promote
government efficiency. The Center for Tech-
nology in Government will pursue creative
ways to increase productivity and reduce
costs while enhancing the quality of govern-
ment operations to the public sector.”
r each case, from Day 1 the state agency
involved will be working side-by-side with
facully, graduate students, corporate partners
and a Center project coordinator to deliver
results, said Director Sharon Dawes, Graduate
students from the information science Ph.D.
program, as well as the areas of computer
science, public administration and the master’s
level information science and policy program,
are adding their. knowledge and skills.
Research director Peter Bloniarz said the
Center, “is a tremendous resource for students
and faculty to have the chance to work on
state-of-the-art technology and to work on
real problems — to find solutions that will be
a real benefit to the citizens of New York
State.”
One of the first jobs completed was a suc-
cessful test project for the state Department of
Motor Vehicles. The problem was too much
paperwork and too many steps needed to carry
out one task, For example, when Sue Smith
lost her motor vehicle title, she would go to
the motor vehicle office and ask for a dupli-
cate, She might take the application home and
send in a check. But if she sent in a check that
was off the correct amount by a penny, the
whole process was stopped and the paperwork
sponse to the
returned to her. Many pieces of
required to document that she was indeed the
owner of this vehicle,
“Tt was a.one-step-at-a-time, labor-inten-
sive, paper-dependent process,” said Dawes,
“It actually took more than 20 steps to process
that one application.”
So agency representatives, University at
Albany faculty members, graduate students
and vendors came up with a solution: use
document imaging equipment to “scan” or
basically take a picture of the required pieces
of paper, and create an electronic file of all
this information. If the check came in for the
wrong amount, the whole process wouldn’t
have to grind to a halt. The needed “docu-
ments” would stay in the electronic file, and
aletter would be automatically generated tell-
ing the customer to send in the right amount.
“All the people in the title bureau got to
see the model system and in a clear way could
see how their jobs could be improved,”
Dawes said. About 250 Department of Motor
Vehicle workers saw the model, Bloniarz said
this type of staff input helps the agency buy a
better system, one that is tailored to the
department’s needs. “From the person who
opens the envelope to the person who is doing
strategic planning to the person who is the
manager — having them come through and
sce a system similar to the one they'll be
installing really helps them build a better
project so they can deliver better service,”
said Bloniarz, one of two Albany professors
involved in the DMV project. The other was
Seth Chaiken. Bloniarz and Chaiken are as-
sociate professors in the Department of Com-
puter Science. Chaiken said, “The premise of
the Center in general is that the people from
the agency work with the vendors and Univer-
sity people so all three participants can learn
about the new technology and how it applies
to government.”
per were. _ The involvement of the agency is.a critical--——-
ingredient to success, Center officials said.
DMV representatives helped design and im-
plement the prototype solution.” 7
endors like NCR Corp. and New Vision
V syteti Corp. donated $250,000 worth of
hardware, software and services to build the
prototype, Dawes said.
By the time projects like this are done, the
agencies involved can write specifications for
complete system based on a real-life model.
Without this, they could have spent a great
deal of money experimenting with technol-
ogy that might not match their needs,
“We know in government it is very dif-
ficult to experiment. The environment is not
conducive to making mistakes, which results
in people using tried and true old-fashioned
ways of doing business,” Dawes said. By
trying out solutions in the Center the partners
can re-think those old ways of doing business
and find ways to improve quality and save
time and money.
An advisory board, made up of three key
people — New York State Budget Director
Rudy Runko, Special Assistant to the Gover-
nor for Regulatory and Management Assis-
tance Ruth Walters, and Executive Deputy
Director of the New York State Office of
Public Health Diana Ritter — decides which
project proposals will be chosen for testing.
Projects that bring in several government
agencies to work together are encouraged.
What the Center offers is its services, up to
$100,000 worth of services per year for each
project. These services include use of the
Government Technology Solutions
Laboratory, access to vendor products and
services, the expertise of faculty members
like David Andersen of Public Administra-
tion, Tony Cresswell of Education, Jeryl
Mumpower and Tom Stewart of the Center
for Policy Studies, and Chaiken, and the ser-
vices of graduate students.
In his Message to the Legislature this year,
Gov, Cuomo noted, “The Center gives us the
opportunity to test new applications on ‘real-
life’ problems before we try them in the field,
We are able to stretch our scarce state dollars
by tapping into the wealth of knowledge in
the academic community and drawing on pro
bono assistance from businesses in the form
of cutting-edge technology and expertise, The
rewards flow both ways: while the state
benefits from skills and equipment it could
otherwise never afford, the participating
firms also have a chance to test their tech-
nologies on complex, realistic problems.”
Cuomo also said the Center's efforts will
be expanded this year to include technologi-
cal solutions for local governments and non-
profit organizations.
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CAMPAIGN FOR ALBANY
REACHES PHASE 1 $25 MILLION GOAL
ELEVEN MONTHS EARLY
ALBANY, NY, Feb. 17, 1994 -- University at Albany officials announced
today that the Campaign for Albany; the University's first-ever capital campaign,
had surpassed its first objective, nearly a year ahead of schedule.
The campaign formally began in December, 1991 as the largest private fund
drive ever by a State University of New York institution -- with an overall goal of
$55 million by December 31, 1999 and a Phase 1 goal to raise $25 million by the
end of 1994, the University's 150th Anniversary year. Today, President H. Patrick
Swygert announced that as of January 31, 1994, gifts totaled $25,929,529 --
exceeding the Phase 1 goal by nearly $1 million, eleven months ahead of schedule.
Swygert praised KeyCorp Group Executive Vice President/Chief Banking
Officer and Campaign for Albany chair Gary R. Allen, '70. "Gary and the campaign
Steering Committee provided the drive and the vision that have enabl.d the
Campaign for Albany performance to surpass our expectations," Swygert said. "We
also thank Governor Cuomo and the Legislature, especially the local delegation, led
by Senator Hugh Farley and Assembly Member John J. McEneny, for the support
and encouragement they have given the University during this campaign."
Allen said that the number of contributions from “individuals and
corporations, alumni, faculty and friends is indicative of the esteem in which they
hold the University at Albany." Christian G. Kersten, Vice President for University
Advancement, said, "We are delighted with our early success, but the importance
of the continuing collaboration with our many supporters to assure the campaign's
overall success cannot be overstated. We have just begun."
Campaign Vice Chair George R. Hearst, director of operations for Capital
Newspapers, said, "The Albany family's support to date augurs well for the overall
success of the campaign. Judging by the results we've achieved thus far, I am
optimistic that the Campaign for Albany will ultimately outdo its stated goals."
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The campaign will also benefit the Capital Region business community, said
J. Spencer Standish, chairman of Albany International Corporation and president of
The University at Albany Foundation. "The University is one of the region's best
sustomers, annually purchasing more than $31 million of food, furniture, paper
products, fuel, and equipment, with a local payroll of $112 million," Standish said.
Serving with Allen and Hearst on the Steering Committee are: Corporate
Gifts Chair Steven N. Fischer, CPA; Planned Giving Chair Harold C. Hanson, Esq.
‘63; Leadership Gifts Chair Morris Massry; Major Gifts Chair Judith A.
Mysliborski, MD., '69.; Annual Fund National Chair Edith Tanenbaum Rudolf, '47;
Parents' Fund National Chairs William and Hedy Kling; and Parents' Campaign
Chairs Barry and Nina Wagman.
Judge John E. Holt-Harris, Jr., who chairs the University Council, observed
that, through their gifts to the Campaign for Albany, "Graduates, parents, faculty
members, staff, and friends will enhance the University's faculty, student, and
academic programs; enrich campus cultural and social programs; and support
several capital projects, including the Center for Environmental Sciences and
Technology Management (CESTM) and the electronic library." Some examples of
Campaign for Albany contributions are:
e Faculty and academic programs - Grants to establish an endowed
visiting professorship in Judaic Studies; to support the LitNet Project of
the University's National Research Center on Literature Teaching &
Learning and for the East Asian Studies Department; a gift for the
Accounting Department of the School of Business; and endowments for
the Department of Theatre and the new Biodiversity, Conservation, and
Public Policy program.
° Students — A grant to support science education for undergraduates
and to prepare high school students for college level science study, an
endowed financial assistance fund for the new Jnitiatives for Women
program; graduate fellowships in advanced materials research; and in
the School of Public Health.
e Buildings, property, and equipment — Equipment to the Department
of Physics; computer workstations; donations to purchase CESTM
equipment; computer equipment for the School of Public Health; and
gifts to refurbish meeting rooms and lecture centers.
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University at Albany Administrator Wins Competition
Martin’Fogelman, Associate Registrar for Scheduling and Registration and doctoral
candidate in Information Science at the University at Albany, has won first prize for his
paper by the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference. The fourth annual Conference
will be held in Chicago on March 23-26 and is hosted by the John Marshall Law School.
For first prize in the Student Paper Competition, Fogelman receives financial
support to attend the Conference and present his paper on "Freedom and Censorship in
the Emerging Electronic Environment." Fogelman's paper focuses on how the first
amendment will affect and handle the challenges of today's (and tomorrow's)
computer/telecommunications environment.
The Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy will assemble experts,
advocates and interest groups from diverse perspectives and disciplines to consider
freedom and privacy in today's information society. This year's focus will be "Cyberspace
Superhighways: Access, Ethics and Control." Speakers for the Conference will include
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Senator Paul Simon, science fiction writer and journalist
Bruce Sterling and Willis Ware of the Rand Corporation.
Fogelman, who received his bachelor's degree from the University at Buffalo,
earned his MBA and master's in Education from the University at Albany. He has been
employed by the University since 1981. He resides in Glenmont with his wife and two
children.
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University Celebrates Campus Unity During 13th Annual World: Week
The University at Albany will celebrate its 13th annual World Week March 14-19 with the
theme “Visions of a United World: Beyond 150 Years,” in honor of the University's
Sesquicentennial. World Week is the University's recognition of the cultural diversity on
campus and in the community through exhibits, music, food, entertainment and panel
discussions. Most events are free and all are open to the public.
Throughout the World Week celebration, a wide variety of events and programs
have been planned that are part of the University’s longterm commitment to promoting
unity and social justice. One of the most popular World Week events continues to be the
Ethnic Block Party, which will kick off the week on Monday, March 14, from noon to
2:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom. This exciting program will feature food, arts
and crafts, music and dress exhibited by members of the campus community who wish to
display their cultural heritage.
As in past years, the World Week events will reflect issues and people from many
areas of the world. Among the more timely programs is a lecture by Canadian biologist
Yves Guerard on “Hydroelectric Power and the Environment.” It will be held on Monday,
March 14 at 3:30 p.m. in Earth Science 232 and at 7:30 p.m. in Lecture Center 19. Also
on Monday, there will be a program on race relations at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Center
Assembly Hall.
In addition to a variety of daily events, the celebration will also feature several on-
going programs throughout the week. The Latin American and Caribbean Film Festival,
“Portrait of the Caribbean,” will look at the political, cultural and social formation of this
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unique region. In addition, music from around the world will be chimed each day on the
University Carillon.
University President H. Patrick Swygert noted that World Week is among a
continuing series of activities that have made the University a national model for the
celebration and recognition of cultural diversity.
“World Week is another example of the University’s longterm commitment to the
ideals of A Just Community,” said President Swygert. “This is an opportunity for
recognizing and celebrating the work carried out every day on this campus toward that
goal.”
Other campus unity activities include the University’s annual Martin Luther King
Jr./Black History Month Luncheon Feb. 14, featuring remarks by TransAfrica Executive
Director Randall Robinson, Sesquicentennial lectures this year by renowned black poet
Gwendolyn Brooks, Carl Sagan and Elie Wiesel; and special Unity Dinners on each
residential Quadrangle featuring a video conference tape entitled “We Can Get Along,”
moderated by Julian Bond. Other activities include the Award for Justice, an annual
presidential award for the faculty, staff and students who make major contributions to the
ideals of justice on campus; and multicultural awareness workshops led by instructors
trained by the National Coalition Building Institute who present programs designed to
reduce prejudice.
Most other popular World Week programs, according to World Week Co-Chair
Steven A. Thomson, will be held again this year. He urged the people of the Capital
District community to come and share in the University at Albany’s celebration of unity
through diversity. .
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Contact: Greta Petry (518) 442-3095,
or Donald L. Cohen, professor emeritus
and chair of the Thorne event program
committee, at 439-9557.
Twelfth Annual Clifton:C. Thorne Lecture’Slated
ALBANY - The Twelfth Annual Clifton C. Thorne Lecture, presented by Kevin
M. Fickenscher, M.D., will be at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 16 in the Campus
Center Ballroom.
Fickenscher, a health consultant who served as a member of the Health
Professions Advisory Group to President Clinton's Task Force on Health Care
Reform, will offer an update on President Clinton's Health Security Act proposal.
The Clifton C. Thorne Lecture Program was named for the late Dr. Thorne, who
served the University as a professor and administrator for more than 20 years. The
event will include a reception.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is being sponsored by the Health
Policy and Administration Consortium of the Capital Area. The consortium is a
joint effort of faculty representatives of the University at Albany, Albany Medical
College, the Capital District Regional Center of Empire State College, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Sage Graduate School, and Union College.
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‘Science into Dollars’ is Forum Focus
How science and technology will impact economic growth, particularly in the Capital
Region, will be the focus when "Translating Research into Commercial Applications," a
Community Forum Breakfast sponsored by the University atAlbany Foundation and its
Council for Economic Development, is held on Thursday, March 10, from 7:45 to 9:15 a.m. at
the Omni Albany Hotel.
The event features a panel discussion among David M. Gibson, founder and president of
X-Ray Optical Systems Inc.; Dr. Alain E. Kaloyeros, director of the New York State Center
for Advanced Technology in Thin Films and Coatings, and a co-director of Albany-Rensselaer
Joint Laboratories for Advanced Materials; and Dr. Mark Rice, co-founder and director of the
Center For Entrepreneurship, founder of Venture Affiliates of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
and assistant dean of RPI’s School of Management.
Moderator for the panel will be Hugh A. Johnson, chairman and president of First
Albany Asset Management, and chief investment officer for First Albany Corporation. Chair
of the Council for Economic Development Arthur J. Roth, director of middle market services
for Coopers & Lybrand, will welcome participants and guests, and University at Albany
President H. Patrick Swygert will supply an overview.
The forum will highlight the University’s new Center for Environmental Sciences and
Technology Management, which will house the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, the
Center for X-Ray Optics, the Advanced Materials Laboratory, the Small Business
Development Center, an incubator facility and the National Weather Service. The Center will
be located on the corner of Fuller Road and Washington Avenue in Albany.
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