Campus Notes Bollinger begins search for VP for Student Affairs University President Lee Bollinger announced last week the launch of a committee to find a new vice president for student affairs. Last spring, former Vice President for Student Affairs Maureen Hartford announced she would resign from her post to become president of Meredith College in North Carolina. Hartford started her tenure as the first female president of the all-girls college in July. E. Royster Harper, former dean of students, currently serves as the interim vice president for student affairs. The committee of 16 University faculty, administrative and student members is chaired by Residential College Prof. Thomas Weisskopf. The committee also includes Julia Ann Hower, the director of New Student Programs in the Office of the Provost and Kerry Larson, senior associate dean of Horace Rackham School of Graduate Studies and associate professor of English. Michigan Student Assembly President Bram Elias is also a memeber of the committee. Elias is currently the only student on the committee. The group will conduct a national search and present a list of final candidates to Bollinger. Nominations for candidates are welcome and can be sent to Chacona Johnson in the Office of the President. WISE to present Lillian Prize The Women in Science and Engineering Residence Program plans to present the second annual Lillian Prize tonight at 6:30 p.m. The presentation will be held in the Chavez Lounge of Mosher Jordan Residence Hall where the WISE members live. The award is named in honor of former WISE student Lillian Waratt, who lived in Mosher Jordan while studying dental hygiene during the 1935-36 school year. The prize is a $300 gift certificate to a local bookstore and will be awarded to a current WISE member who is the winner of an essay contest. The presentation will feature Jose-Marie Griffiths, the University's chief information officer and Barbara O'Keefe, director of the Media Union. 'U' hosts lecture by poet Baker Poet David Baker will present a lecture titled "Heresy and the Ideal: Hummer, Bloom and the Critique of the Romantic" this Thursday at 4 p.m. The lecture, to be held in Angell Hall Room 3222, is sponsored by the Department of English and the Office of the Provost. Baker is the author of five books and five chapbooks. Baker's poems have been published in such journals as Poetry, the Paris Review and The New Yorker magazine. His critical essays on poetry are being collected in a book titled "Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry." For three years he served as editor of Quarterly West and is now poetry editor of the Kenyon Review. Pourshariati to present lecture on Iranian history The Department of Near Eastern Studies is scheduled to present a lecture by Parvaneh Pourshariati, a visiting professor of Iranian history. His lecture titled "The Sub-Culture in the Medieval Iranian World: The Saluks and Ayyars of the Abu Muslim Namas," is scheduled for this afternoon at 4 p.m. in 3050 Frieze Building. - Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Jodie Kaufman. Originally on page 3A in the 1-31-2000 issue of the Daily.