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Middle States Division Meeting
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 Rutgers undergraduate and graduate students, alumnae and faculty were well represented at the Middle States Division meeting of the Association of American Geographers, which was held in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania , October 19-21.
The meeting venue was a labyrinthian streamside resort complex tucked into a small green valley on the edge of one of the countrys oldest industrial centers. It was attended by approximately 200 geographers drawn mainly from New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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| The presentations by Rutgers students, faculty, and alumnae were:
John Hasse: Race to Save the Garden: NJ's Urban and Open Space Future.
Dan Falvo: Polyvarietal Planting and Rice Blast Control in Philippine Uplands.
Wendy Mitteager: Nature-based tourism in urban coastal environments along the Jersey shore.
Bria Holcomb: Golden Geese or White Elephants? New Art Galleries in British Cities.
Dona Schneider: The Whisper of the Ax: Homicide by Cultural Area in Pre-industrial N.J.
Roger Balm: Geography and Visual Art (praxis): Images of Industry.
Robin Leichenko, Bernie Jamroz, and Julie Silva: Economic Conditions on Native American Tribal Lands.
Anne C. Bellows (Cook College): Extant, Yet Invisible: Urban Livestock Agriculture in New Jersey.
Ray Lougeay (SUNY-Geneseo): New York's Urban-Rural Temperature Patterns.
Karen Nichols (SUNY-Geneseo): Environmental Justice Revisted: Recovery of a River, Decline of an Economy.
Bill Solecki (Montclair University): The Hackensack Meadowlands Region - A Landscape in Transition.
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 Outstanding performances were recorded by Daniel Falvo, whose paper, Polyvarietal Planting And Rice Blast Control In Philippine Uplands, was judged the second place student contribution and the Rutgers Geography Bowl Team which blew away all opponents. Because of their eagerness to get the answers out before the moderator had finished asking the questions, this group sometimes came up with inspired but wrong quesses which were then turned over to competitors for completion. As a result, the Rutgers team probably scored a double first - running up most of the points against itself - as well as all of those in the plus column. For the second consecutive year, the incoming graduate class attended with help from the Geography Department's travel fund.
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