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Take that! Jeanne Bryson, right, library assistant in bibliographic searching, practices self-defense techniques with Shawn Sharp, one of five UI Public Safety Officers trained in the RAD (Rape Aggression Defense) System. Bryson and colleagues at the Main Library learned self-defense skills, along with awareness and risk reduction techniques, at a February RAD training course. The protective gear worn by Sharp allows RAD students to practice their self-defense techniques at full strength. Twelve-hour RAD training sessions are offered free of charge to University of Iowa female faculty, staff, and student groups. Session dates and times are flexible. For information, contact the Public Safety Department at (33)5-5022 or visit their web site, www.uiowa.edu/~pubsfty/rad.htm. Photo by Kirk Murray.

History, film, and memory lecture topics

Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Susan Rubin Suleiman, a professor of French and comparative literature at Harvard University, will deliver a public lecture "History, memory, and moral judgment in documentary film: On Marcel Ophuls’s Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie" at 7:30 p.m., April 5, in the South Room of the Iowa Memorial Union. The lecture is free and open to the public.



Two gifts to engineering

A fully endowed, named faculty chair in the College of Engineering has been established through a $1.5 million gift to the University of Iowa Foundation from UI graduate Allen S. Henry of Melbourne, Fla. His gift is the second largest ever made to the college.

The Allen Henry Chair in Engineering will support a faculty member who has a distinguished academic and research program in the college. Selected faculty will hold the Henry Chair for a term of five years.

A $100,000 gift to the University of Iowa Foundation will help fund construction of a classroom in the Mississippi Riverside Environmental Research Station (MRERS), which the University of Iowa will build near Muscatine this summer. Marie F. Carter of Bettendorf made the gift in memory of her late husband, Archie N. Carter, an engineer and UI alumnus.

The Henry and Carter gifts are part of the University’s planned comprehensive campaign to advance the UI’s strategic goals for the years 2000-2005.



Is anyone else warm, or is it me?

Between the heating and cooling seasons, building occupants may experience some environmental discomfort. Particularly in older buildings, the heating systems lack adequate controls for quick adjustment to temperature changes from day to day. If the outdoor temperature fluctuates widely in short periods of time, it may not be possible to use heating one day and air-conditioning the next—even in newer buildings. Even when the temperature is not fluctuating, the beginning of the heating or cooling season may be uncomfortable for a few days as building controls are adjusted. Unlike home furnaces, a simple flip of the switch does not control these complex systems. The staff of Facilities Services Group requests patience as heating and cooling systems are adjusted.

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