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New scanning capabilities for University e-mail

The University's electronic mailing system called VUmail now has antivirus scanning capabilities for all messages passing through the system, including all e-mail sent within the campus from one vanderbilt.edu address to another. Until now, the VUmail system was able to scan only e-mails that came in from outside the system. The improved system was recently installed and all of the known glitches have been addressed. If you find what might be a problem in the antivirus detection, or in VUmail itself, please report it to the Information Technology Services Help Desk at 343-1631. For more information about computer viruses, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/its/antivirus.

Roy Neel to assess White House crisis management

The former director of Vice President Al Gore's transition team, Roy M. Neel, will speak about "The Limits of White House Crisis Management: The Coming Domestic Showdown" Oct. 30. Prior to his work on the transition team during the last presidential election and in the weeks following, Neel was Gore's chief of staff and President Bill Clinton's deputy chief of staff. In that capacity, he managed more than 400 political, communications, policy and administrative staff. Neel has been a significant part of the Washington political and legislative arena for 24 years, having served as Gore's legislative director and chief of staff while Gore was in the U.S. Congress. Neel's lecture is co-sponsored by the Law School and Vanderbilt's Undergraduate Political Science Association. The lecture is at 3:30 p.m. in the Moore Room of the Law School and is free and open to the public.

South African AIDS educator speaks at Divinity School

The role the church should play in the HIV/AIDS pandemic will be the topic of a Nov. 1 discussion at the Divinity School. Christo Greyling is a noted South African AIDS educator who was instrumental in the development of the "I Have Hope" AIDS peer group model, selected by the South African National Population Unit as the best practice model for peer group-based HIV/AIDS prevention programs. Greyling presents this model across the continent, as well as hosts Africa's only national HIV/AIDS radio program. A hemophiliac, Greyling tested HIV positive in 1987 while at seminary. His personal vision for AIDS education is "to see the Church of Christ actively demonstrating the unconditional love of Christ through effective prevention, care and support programs." The talk, sponsored by the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality, will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Room G-23 of the Divinity School. For more information, call 343-3974.

Dyer Observatory to play role in remote telescope operation

The Astronomical League and its fellow stargazers are mounting an ambitious project to provide U.S. students in K-12 with access to a network of remotely operated telescopes in sites around the globe. Vanderbilt's Dyer Observatory is slated to play a central role in the effort and will serve as the control and download center of the network. Vanderbilt will provide observatory space for a satellite dish that will communicate with the telescopes as well as a computer server that will upload control sequences to the telescope, download the astronomical images that they produce, store the images until they can be transferred to a permanent storage facility and host the Web site that will take requests for observations and disseminate the images to participating teachers and students. The initial phase of the project involves setting up a remotely operated telescope in Arizona, with future sites contemplated in New Zealand and Russia. The required communication equipment will be installed at Dyer Observatory over the next few months. The ultimate goal of the project is to mount a similar telescope on the International Space Station, a step that will require the support of NASA.

Faculty applications sought for race and wealth research circle

The Law School and the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities invite faculty applications to a research circle on "Race and Wealth Disparities in 21st Century America." The deadline for applications is Nov. 29. This is a year-long project funded by the Ford Foundation to help build interdisciplinary connections throughout the University. Twenty Vanderbilt faculty members will produce 10 public lectures and a set of edited teaching materials on how various disciplines look at race and wealth disparities in the United States. The program will be directed by Beverly Moran, professor of law, and will begin January 2002. For more information, call Moran at 322-6760 or Mona Frederick, executive director of the Warren Center, at 343-6060.

Project Dialogue brings famous rockers, activists to campus on Halloween

The Spitfire Tour, a group of famous controversial musical artists, poets, actors and activists will make a stop at the Langford Auditorium Oct. 31. The group is on tour to unite in performance as a call to action in the name of a number of social causes. Former Nirvana Bassist Krist Novoselic will speak about meaningful electoral reform, musician Jill Sobule will give a social commentary and acoustic performance and former Sierra Club President Adam Werbach will speak on media activism, as well as other appearances. The tour was created in part by Zack De La Rocha of Rage Against the Machine. The free performance/lecture begins at 7 p.m. and is sponsored by Project Dialogue. For more information, call 343-0350.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month events

The end of Breast Cancer Awareness Month brings two brown-bag lunch events and the Greater Nashville Race for the Cure. Oct. 30, a brown-bag lunch "Does Breast Cancer Run in Your Family?" will be held at the Sarratt Student Center at noon. Oct. 31, another lunch "Nutrition on the Fly" will be held at noon at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Conference Center on the 8th floor of the Preston Building. Nov. 4, the Race For the Cure to benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation will begin at 9:30 a.m. at Metro Center.