• Renowned architect to speak
• Seminar on violence prevention
• SAC to host forums with VPs
• Fraternity conducts fund-raiser
• Take Back the Night continues
• Forum to cover end-of-life care
• Experts to discuss vision health
• Art in the Circle offers sale
• Elderly needed for vision study
• Weight group to start new session
• Manor House to close for renovations
• Symposium to look at evil
• Judges needed for science fair

Moshe Safdie, international award-winning architect, will present "Order and Complexity," the 2003 Campen Lecture in Architecture at CWRU.

His talk, sponsored by CWRU's Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, begins at 5 p.m. April 23 in Strosacker Auditorium.

Born in Israel, Safdie attended McGill University in Montreal. He apprenticed with Louis Kahn of Philadelphia, but returned to Montreal to design some of his best-known works, among which are the master plans for Montreal's 1967 World Exposition and Habitat '67, a cellular residential complex that was pioneering in its exploration of urbanism and modern architecture.

Among Safdie's other designs are the National Gallery of Canada; the city of Modi'in, Israel; the Vancouver Public Library; Exploration Place Science Center in Kansas; and the Skirbull Cultural Center in Los Angeles, Calif.

His work has earned the Gold Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, the Order of Canada and the Governor General's Gold Medal.

For information, call 368-0528.

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor William Mason to Deliver Keynote Address Violent crime among adolescents in the United States and Greater Cleveland is down considerably from its peak in the late 1980s, in part because the police and other elements of the justice system have learned more about how to prevent it.

On April 24, the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, part of CWRU's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, will hold a workshop on "The Best Strategies for Community Violence Prevention."

The seminar will be from 9 a.m to 4:30 p.m. at the Inter-Continental Hotel and Conference Center, 9801 Carnegie Ave., Cleveland.

The keynote speaker for the event will be William Mason, county prosecutor for Cuyahoga County. In the morning presenters will offer strategies for violence prevention in community settings such as high school and high-risk neighborhoods.

The afternoon will consist of question-and-answer sessions with presenters in break-out rooms. Presenters will include Mark Singer, professor and director of the Center on Substance Abuse and Mental Illness at the Mandel School.

Singer has lectured nationally and internationally on issues related to exposure to violence and has done numerous workshops/presentations for social workers, teachers and law enforcement, corrections and school safety personnel. He has published two books and numerous articles on the subjects of violence and victimization.

Continuing Education Units are available for social workers, counselors, psychologists and nurses.

For more information, contact Mark S. Fleisher, director of the Begun Center, at 368-2329.

CWRU's Staff Advisory Council is hosting a series of open forums between staff and a variety of University vice presidents to discuss how employees can help CWRU become the most powerful learning environment in the world.

The town hall meetings continue from 4-5 p.m. April 23 in Guilford House Parlor and from 4-5 p.m. April 29 in 306 White Building. Light refreshments will be served.

To learn more, go to http://www.cwru.edu/president/sac/sac.html.

The Nu Chapter of the Zeta Psi fraternity at CWRU will conduct a charity golf tournament—the proceeds from which will benefit Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital—on April 27 at Spring Vale Golf Club in North Olmstead.

Each team is required to solicit a minimum $200 donation in order to participate n the four-member team scramble.

Competitions include hole-in-one, closest to pin and longest drive. The prize for the hole-in-one contest is a one-year lease on an Audi A-4 donated by Fred Baker Porsche Audi.

Food will be available.

For more information, contact Mario Mazza at 707-1156, e-mail zetekidz@cwru.edu or go to http://www.cwru.edu/orgs/zeta_psi/kidz.

Take Back The Night, an annual, weeklong event to unite the campus in a show of solidarity against violence toward women, continues at 7:45 p.m. today with a march from Wade and Fribley commons to the Kelvin Smith Library, followed by a candelight vigil at the library oval.

During the vigil, participants are encouraged to share their thoughts and experiences concerning sexual violence. Professional counseling services will be available.

The Clothesline Project, a variety of T-shirts dedicated to victims of sexual violence, will continue to be on display from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. through April 18 on the oval or in Thwing Atrium, depending on the weather, through tomorrow. Materials will be available for members of the campus community to create and hang their own shirts.

Take Back the Night concludes with a performance by Erin Smith, a female folk singer from Canada, from 9-11 p.m. April 18 in Guilford Parlor.

For details, go to http://home.cwru.edu/fmla.

The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) will bring together internationally renowned experts, patients and families to participate in a town hall meeting—Living and Dying Well With Cancer: A Community Conversation-at 1 p.m. April 25 in the CWRU Dively Center.

Andrew von Eschenbach, director of the National Cancer Institute, will be the keynote speaker for the program, and Dr. Ira Byock, director of Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care, a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will moderate the community discussion.

These experts will address a live audience in Cleveland and a virtual audience nationally via Web cast at http://www.canceradvocacy.org/townhall.html.

The town hall will recognize the pioneering work of Project Safe Conduct, a collaboration of the Ireland Cancer Center at University Hospitals of Cleveland/CWRU and Hospice of the Western Reserve. Project Safe Conduct incorporates hospice principles into the treatment of newly diagnosed lung cancer patients.

Support for this event has been provided by a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, N.J.

Jonathan Lass, the Charles I Thomas Professor and chair of ophthalmology at University Hospitals of Cleveland (UHC), will join other eye experts on April 28 at an aging eye conference to promote vision health in Ohio.

The conference, organized by the nonprofit group Prevent Blindness Ohio, will address the major social, economic and quality of life challenges resulting from this growing health issue. Location of the conference is NASA Glenn Research Center, at the Ohio Aerospace Institute.

Lass, who also directs the CWRU/UHC Visual Sciences Research Center, will be one of the experts sharing information about vision research, early detection programs, advocacy efforts and vision rehabilitation at the conference.

NASA Glenn was chosen as the site because scientists there have been studying the effects of space travel on the eye and how exposure to lack of gravity and space radiation is similar to the aging process., according to Rafat Ansari, a biomedical researcher at NASA Glenn.

For more information about the conference, contact Laura Schwartz at (800) 301-2020, ext. 112 or visit the conference Web site at http://www.preventblindness.org/ohio/awaken.html.

Art in the Circle is offering 20 percent off of all items in the shop through May 2 to thank the campus community for 16 years of support.

The shop in the lower level of Tomlinson Hall features art and crafts created by families of CWRU faculty and staff. It is managed by the University Women's Club and staffed by volunteers.

Art in the Circle is open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday.

For information call Donna M. Ernst at 283-7462 or the shop during business hours at 368-6060.

People over 64 years old are needed to participate in studies of vision changes that occur with aging to be conducted by CWRU's Perception Lab.

In addition to being 65 or older, volunteers must generally be healthy and must not have experienced macular degeneration, glaucoma, blindness or strabismus.

Participants will be asked to read eye charts, identify images and solve puzzles presented on a computer. Free parking and compensation are available.

To learn more, call the lab at 368-6465.

CWRU's Weight Watchers At-Work program for faculty, staff, students and friends of the University starts its next session from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. May 1 in the Spartan Room of Thwing Center.

The 14-week session is available for the price of 12 weeks. The cost is $138, which can be paid by cash, check or charge. The payment can be divided into three payments of $46 when paying by check.

For more information or to register, contact Sara McIntyre at 368-3924 or sym2.

The Manor House at Squire Valleevue Farm will be undergoing lawn renovations. In order to complete the work required, the house must be closed to meetings and events for the months of July, August and September 2003.

The construction involved will include waterproofing and replacing front lawn drainage.

If the work is completed prior to the projected date, the house will reopen then. Contact Lisa Battista, Manor House administrator at manorhouse@po.cwru.edu, with questions or concerns.

The Interdisciplinary Initiative on Religion and Culture will present a symposium on evil from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 2 at the Manor House at Squire Valleevue Farm.

The symposium will be an open-ended, collegial conversation focused on theorizing the concepts and rhetorics of evil in contemporary culture.

Faculty in all fields are welcome. Common readings will be distributed to participants in advance.

Continental breakfast, lunch and refreshments will be provided. Space is limited. RSVP to Tim Beal, Harkness Professor of Religion and associate director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, at beal or 368-2221.

Volunteers are needed to serve as judges for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which CWRU will host May 11-17.

A doctorate or professional degree or six years of professional experience in one of the fields to be judged are required. Categories include behavioral and social sciences, biochemistry, botany, chemistry, computer sciences, earth and space sciences, engineering, environmental sciences, gerontology, mathematics, medicine and health, microbiology, physics and zoology.

Judges are required to attend orientation the evening of May 13 at the Cleveland Convention Center. Actual judging will take place all day May 14.

Questions may be directed to Christine Moravec at isef2003@ccf.org or visit http://.intelisef2003.org.