UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 23, Page 5
March 11, 1993
In the news

     Recent comments about the University and its community in the media
are featured in this regular column.

Area leader
     The University of Delaware and two of its researchers are mentioned in
the February edition of Philadelphia Magazine. The first article cites
Arnold Rheingold, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, as one of the
Philadelphia area's 12 most influential scientific explorers. The
recognition is based on information from the Institute for Scientific
Information, which chronicles how often a scientist's work is cited in the
scholarly papers of his or her peers.
     Harry Shipman, professor of physics and astronomy, is given an
honorable mention by the magazine for "what he calls stellar geriatrics-the
study of the late stages of a star's life cycle (which he studies) to learn
more about the development and future of our solar system."
     Thirdly, the University is listed sixth on the magazine's roundup of
15 Philadelphia "Miracle Centers"-institutions that contribute the most to
science-based on total citations-according to data from the Institute for
Scientific Information. A reprint of the article on Rheingold follows:

Supreme chemistry
     Arnold Rheingold presides over the "supreme court" of chemistry. That
is how the inorganic chemist likes to refer to his half-million-dollar
laboratory, where industrial and academic researchers bring chemicals for
an exact determination of their molecular structure.
     Rheingold's lab looks more like a newsroom than the Supreme Court. He
publishes more than 60 scholarly papers a year--a furious rate compared to
that of his peers. "I work at a speed that is comfortable for me," he says,
adding that he is mystified that his colleagues can't do the same.
     "By training," he explains, " I'm an inorganic chemist (someone who
synthesizes and describes chemicals for industrial applications)-that's
what gets me out of bed in the he morning."
     But it's Rheingold's work in X-ray crystallography that has made his
reputation. Developed at the turn of the century, X-ray crystallography
focuses an X-ray beam on a chemical, and the beam is diffracted-split into
a symmetrical pattern of light and dark spots-by the regular, ordered
pattern of molecules. Each pattern produced by diffraction is unique and
represents the crystal's molecules in coded form...
     "Many of the compounds we work with are catalysts with industrial and
biological uses," he explains. A tiny change in just a few atoms or how
they are bonded into a molecule can be the difference between a drug that
works properly and one that is ineffective. X-ray diffraction helps
scientists custom-design new chemicals and alter existing ones.
     In addition to analyzing compounds, Rheingold's team synthesizes new
compounds that may have medicinal and industrial uses. And all this
activity generates a lot of information.
     "The rate-determining step is how fast I can write up data," says
Rheingold, who was the editor of his college newspaper. Judging by an
average of one paper a week, that rate is very fast indeed.
      "The Bright Stuff Arnold Rheingold, Breakthrough: X-ray crystallography"
                                                         Philadelphia Magazine
                                                                 February 1993

It's all in the name
     His name alone should have indicated to Spencer Dunkley that he was
destined to play basketball, but as a boy in Wolverhampton, England, the
significance of his surname never occurred to him.
     "I was more concerned with soccer and cricket," says Dunkley. "I knew
what a dunk was, but I certainly didn't think about it much. If my last
name had been, say, Goalscorer, then I might have paid attention."
     But Dunkley eventually found his way to the courts and to the U.S.,
where NBA scouts have found him. A 6'11" senior center at Delaware, he
leads the Blue Hens in scoring ( 20.8 points per game at week's end),
rebounding (13.5) and blocks (3.5). He has had some spectacular
performances this season, including a 39-point, 15-rebound effort against
Vermont last Saturday. In two games against Hartford center Vin Baker, a
probable NBA first-round draft choice, he had a total of 39 points and 29
rebounds. Not bad for someone who began playing seriously only six years
ago.
     Dunkley took up the sport in England when he was 16, largely because
at 6'9" he felt like a giraffe on the soccer field. The following year he
came to the States as an exchange student and played basketball his senior
season at Newark (Del.) High.
     Dunkley weighed only 180 pounds at the time, and since then, he has
gained 60 pounds and a low-post game. Delaware coach Steve Steinwedel
believes Dunkley hasn't begun to reach the limits of his ability.
     "I'm still learning things every day from people I play with and
against," says Dunkley. "I realize everyone's got a head start on me. I
grew up idolizing Maradona and Pele, not Jordan and Bird."
     However, Dunkley, whose parents are Jamaican, has taught his Delaware
teammates a few things, too. He introduced the Blue Hens to Jamaican
dance-hall reggae, which they sometimes play during warm-ups. The music
helps Dunkley feel at home, as does his weekly visit to a local Jamaican
restaurant to get his fill of curried goat and other favorites.
     Dunkley works out with the soccer team when he can-he gets all the
headers-but there is one aspect of home missing. "My parents wanted me to
be a cricket legend," says Dunkley. "But I've pretty much given up on that.
I find there aren't a great many cricket players in Delaware."
                                                   "Inside College Basketball:
                                                            Name for the Game"
                                                            Sports Illustrated
                                                                 Feb. 22, 1993

'Founder of feast'
     For unreconstructed Wildcat fans, this year's basketball season has
become a movable feast. Everything has gone right...
     They have a program led by an unassailable athletic director, a team
coached by one of the finest and funniest practitioners in America, a
legitimate mega-star to lead the charge, ranks of excellent men to throw
into each sortie, and, of course, a little sharp-shooting guard from out in
the state.
     God's in his heaven, and all's right with the world.
     The mythology is secure.
     Everything is as it should be.
     The past is past.
     Only one thing is missing. David Roselle is not sitting on the front
row at Rupp Arena, enjoying what he made possible.
     Make no mistake about it. David Roselle is the founder of this feast.
He gave his all to make it possible.
     Had he followed the example of others, and the advice of many, he
would have stonewalled the NCAA investigators. Instead, as president, he
insisted that the long-term interests of the University of Kentucky would
be served only by doing the right thing. He insisted on having the truth.
And the truth has set "The Program" free.
     This is to take nothing away from the estimable Charles Wethington,
who has made a better president than we thought he would. It's not a lament
over the impossibility of Dr. Roselle's return.
     This is a reminder that the season of plenty was bought at a great
price. It cost David Roselle his job, because too many in the UK
constituency would not accept the hard lesson of the NCAA scandal; which
was that no program is beyond the reach of the rules, nor should be.
     We hope David Roselle, somewhere in Delaware, is watching.
                                                     "Absent from the banquet"
                                              The (Louisville) Courier-Journal
                                                                  Jan. 7, 1993

New day at UK
     Of all the times the University of Kentucky has been ranked No. 1 in
college basketball, none is sweeter than now. It makes no difference how
long it lasts, or even if it is deserved.
     All that matters is the symbolism.
     The Cats are back, with no strings attached, no skeletons in the
closet, no NCAA investigators lurking in the background.
     Only 3 1/2 years ago, when Coach Rick Pitino undertook what many
thought was an impossible job, it was hard to imagine UK atop the polls
before, oh 1995 or so...
     So even as we applaud Pitino, Athletics Director C.M. Newton and the
players, we also should remember David Roselle, the man who got UK started
on the long, hard climb to its current exalted spot.
     Vilified and ridiculed by wrong-headed Big Blue supporters during the
dark days of 1988-89, when the NCAA was snooping around and former Coach
Eddie Sutton was trying to beat him in a vicious power struggle, Roselle
today stands vindicated.
     He started the cleansing process by bringing in Newton; he established
what is now the national model for cooperating with the NCAA during an
investigation; and he held to his principles in the face of powerful
opposition.
     Contacted yesterday at the University of Delaware, where he has been
president since leaving UK in 1989, Roselle said he was delighted to see
the Wildcats back on top.
     "However," he said, "as nice as the No. 1 ranking is, I thought last
year was the amazing one and the one that was really gratifying to me."
     In the wake of Sutton's forced resignation and the hiring of Pitino,
Roselle often gave pep talks to the players who decided to stay.
     He remembers the hurt and confusion in the eyes of players such as
John Pelphrey, Deron Feldhaus, Richie Farmer and Sean Woods.
     "I told them to keep their chins up," Roselle said. "I told then there
would be a day when they would all be proud they had picked the University
of Kentucky."
     Last March, before the NCAA East Regional championship game against
Duke, Newton arranged for Roselle to come to UK's hotel and visit with the
players again.
     And then Roselle sat in the UK cheering section and watched a game
that ranks with the best of all time. The Cats lost, 104-103...but they won
the hearts of fans everywhere.
     Roselle, a Duke graduate, admits that he had mixed feelings. But his
strongest emotion was the pride he felt in the UK seniors.
     "Those guys were the benchwarmers on that team that went 13-19 in
Coach Sutton's last season," Roselle said, "What they accomplished was tour
de force, pretty remarkable stuff."
     Roselle has never had any second thoughts about the way he handled the
UK scandal. Yet because the political forces allied against him were so
strong, he knew it would be better for both him and UK if he went
elsewhere.
     Ask him about his career at Delaware and he'll point out with pride
that he has been able to increase faculty salaries during a difficult
economic period.
     But he'll also mention the University's 9-3 football team, its strong
baseball program and its winning basketball team.
     The point is, no matter what his detractors claim, Roselle was never
against athletics. He was just in favor of playing by the rules.
     He knows some fans-the ones who wore the "Save Sutton" buttons-will
never understand, appreciate or acknowledge his courage and leadership. But
that's OK with Roselle.
     It's enough to know that he was right about UK basketball. It can be
No. 1 without any strings attached.
                                        "No. 1 rating vindication for Roselle"
                                                       Lexington Herald-Leader
                                                                 Jan. 12, 1993