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July 15, 1999

High school students in the School of Architecture's
15th annual Architecture Discovery Program are
inspired by Brookings Hall architecture during an
outdoor drawing session. From left are: Virginia
Werner; Rebecca Ratz; Adam Birck; teaching assistant
Dan Murray, an undergraduate senior majoring in
architecture; and Micah Ochs. About 45 students
from around the country, who will be entering their
senior year of high school in the fall, participated in
the two-week program in June. It offers intensive
exposure to the practice of architecture through
faculty lectures, visits with practicing architects,
tours of significant St. Louis sites, an introduction to
architectural computer technology, and studio
assignments.
Graduate students mastering Internet possibilities in teaching
By Greg Moody
Fifty-three University graduate students in Arts and Sciences are staking out territory at "the leading edge of the curve," learning the latest techniques for integrating the Internet with their teaching in a series of weeklong workshops sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in cooperation with the Teaching Center and the Arts and Sciences Computing Center.
"I see the Internet as the major, redefining factor in education today," said Michael Orlando, a Lee M. Liberman Fellow at the University and one of the workshop instructors. "Whether we are just becoming aware of it or we are already doing something about it, it is coming. The question is: do we want to be on the leading edge of the curve, shaping the impact of the Internet in education, or do we want to follow?"
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U College enrollment to open; fast track offered

By Christine Farmer

Enrollment for University College fall courses begins July 21, with more than 250 evening courses offered in 50 academic departments and programs. New courses will allow students to learn marketing communications, analyze the European Union, examine reporting on the Vietnam War, enjoy the literature of travel or explore Africa.

Classes begin Aug. 25, and the last day to register without paying a late fee is Aug. 20. Full-time staff and their spouses or domestic partners receive a 50 percent tuition remission for undergraduate courses.

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University affirms value of racial, ethnic diversity

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, in the following statement to the University community, reaffirms the University's commitment to the goals of affirmative action Ñ equal opportunity and a multi-racial, multi-ethnic community.

Washington University is committed to providing equal opportunity for all who come to work and study here. For more than 30 years, we have actively and energetically recruited minority students, faculty and staff, and we believe we are well on our way to creating a campus where many different ethnic groups come together to learn not only from our professors but from each other.

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Construction workers install red Missouri granite
boulders, three to six feet in diameter, along a
hillside opposite one of the South 40's new
dormitories, west of the Alumni House parking
lot. Numerous trees and shrubs will be planted
around the boulders to make a rock garden lining
the walkway leading to the Forsyth Boulevard
underpass. EDAW landscape architects of Fort
Collins, Colo., designed the slope and the
walkway to resemble Main Street in Vail, Colo.

Weidenbaum reappointed as director of the CSAB

Murray L. Weidenbaum, Ph.D., will resume his role as director of the Center for the Study of American Business (CSAB) on Aug. 1, 1999, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton has announced. An advisory committee will be appointed to recommend candidates for Weidenbaum's successor, Wrighton noted.

Based at Washington University since its formation in 1975, CSAB is an internationally recognized not-for-profit research institute conducting scholarly research on issues affecting the American business system.

"I am pleased that Murray Weidenbaum has agreed to lead CSAB until we conclude our comprehensive search for our next director," Wrighton said. "As CSAB's founder and director for two decades, he can help us find a strong successor."

Weidenbaum helped establish CSAB and served as its director from 1975 until 1995 when he became the center's chairman. He succeeds Virginia V. Weldon, M.D., who had led the center since 1998. Weldon said she decided to step down as director after concluding that the center would be better served if the director's position were held by an eminent economist.

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