Vol. 22 No. 24 March 19, 1998

Meeting with students on their turf, Susan Rollins (left), assistant dean and academic coordinator in the College of Arts and Sciences, talks with freshmen Mark Rozansky and Katherine Nigen at The Gargoyle.(For more information about the pilot advising project, see story below.) Photo by David Kilper.

News

Advisers' role expands and deepens under Arts and Sciences pilot project

New pediatric research building planned; McDonnell family gift provides funding

Year 2000 problems vexing but fixable

'Moving' poetry: It could be verse

'Machinal' has St. Louis premiere at Edison

Renowned scholars in sociology, classics appear in Assembly Series

Panel on 'Homicide as Self-help' explores women, crime and media

Priscilla Lopez in benefit performance of 'Class Mothers '68' March 20-21

Campus architecture, community links are subject of symposium March 20-21

Architecture students create campus designs

Social work in post-welfare era to be topic of March 26 lecture

Guerrilla Girls appear at University for March 21 lecture and demonstration

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton (right) shared information about a wide range of campus issues at a brown bag luncheon attended by about 75 University employees March 10 in the Women's Building Formal Lounge. Here he talks with (from left) Joe Clarke, head men's soccer coach, and Larry Kindbom, head football coach, after the luncheon.

Medical Update

Women as well as men can inherit drinking problem

Monolo named assistant dean for academic affairs and registrar

Smith to explore how nutrients pass from mother to unborn child

Challenge gift received by CID

Washington People

Breath new life -- literally -- into very ill patients

Sarah Vatterott (left) and Erin Eveker, both sophomores at Nerinx Hall High School, ham it up in a group-produced skit titled

Sarah Vatterott (left) and Erin Eveker, both sophomores at Nerinx Hall High School, ham it up in a group-produced skit titled "Am Bahnhof" ("At the Train Station") March 12 at the 23rd annual German Day activities. Sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in Arts and Sciences, the Office of Student Activities and the Goethe Institut St. Louis, German Day brought more than 1,400 students from 37 area middle, junior and senior high schools to campus to take part in activities ranging from a poster contest to a spelling bee to a scavenger hunt.