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IN FOCUS
 
February 17, 2006
 
*SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY JOINS HISPANIC ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND 
UNIVERSITIES*
 
Southwestern University has joined the Hispanic Association of Colleges 
and Universities (HACU), which represents more than 400 colleges in the 
United States, Puerto Rico, Latin America and Spain that are dedicated 
to improving educational opportunities for Hispanic students.
 
Hispanic students currently make up 13 percent of Southwestern's student 
body. One of the major goals in Southwestern's Strategic Plan for 2010 
is to increase the diversity of its faculty, staff and students.
 
Read the entire story at 
http://www.southwestern.edu/newsroom/news/060216.html.
 
*CLIMBER AND DISABILITY ADVOCATE **GARY** GULLER TO SPEAK FEB. 23*

Gary Guller, the first man with one arm to summit Mount Everest, will 
speak about his experiences as a climber and disability advocate Feb. 
23, at 7 p.m. in the McCombs Center Ballrooms. The lecture is a 
multi-media presentation including video from Team Everest 2003, a group 
of Texans with Disabilities who accompanied Guller to Everest base camp. 
Guller will be available for questions during a reception following the 
lecture. The lecture will be close-captioned for the hearing impaired. 
For more information on Guller, please see: http://www.garyguller.com. 
For information on the Team Everest expedition, please see: 
http://www.teameverest03.org and 
http://www.everestnews.com/everestnews2/teameverest03.htm. For 
accommodations or general information, please contact Deb McCarthy at 
512-863-1536 or mccarthd at southwestern.edu 
<mailto:mccarthd at southwestern.edu>.

*PEANUT BUTTER 'N "JAM" WITH ARYN CAMPBELL '06*

Peanut Butter 'n "Jam" sessions allow the Southwestern community to 
enjoy the sounds of our musically talented alumni and students, while 
enjoying a complimentary peanut butter and jam sandwich. Aryn Campbell 
'06 will perform Friday, Feb. 17, at noon in the Alumni Center. Campbell 
is pursuing a bachelor of arts with majors in music and communication. 
While attending Southwestern, she privately wrote, produced and released 
four albums of her own material. **
For more information, call Mary Sharon White at ext. 1410.**
*
FACULTY FORUM *
 
Jim Hunt, provost and dean of the faculty, Stephanie Fabritius, 
associate provost and director of the Paideia Program, and Maria Kruger, 
career services internship coordinator, will speak at the noon Faculty 
Forum Monday, Feb. 20, in the Lynda McCombs Room. Come join in this 
information session and discussion of an innovative new concept designed 
to educate citizen-scholars through a cross-disciplinary consortium. 
Southwestern has an exciting opportunity to collaborate on an innovative 
internship, one designed to encourage students to explore the field of 
graduate school and the academy through an academic internship program 
titled "Intellectual Entrepreneurship." Sodexho will provide a hot lunch 
for $4.25 per person and coffee and tea will be available for 50 cents. 
Faculty, staff and guests are welcome to attend.
  * *
*NOTABLES*
 
Senior *Alexandra "Ali" O. Hendley* won the 2006 Odum Student Paper 
Competition at the Southern Sociological Society for her paper, 
"Barreras del Lenguage: Children's Negotiation of Adult-Created 
Exclusionary Structures." This paper examines the dynamics between 
English-only, Spanish-only and bilingual speakers on a children's soccer 
team. Hendley will present the paper at the upcoming Southern 
Sociological Society meetings in New Orleans in March.
 
A paper titled "Using Dalton's Law of Partial Pressure to Determine the 
Vapor Pressure of a Volatile Liquid" by *Fred Hilgeman*, professor of 
chemistry, Gary Bertrand and *Brent Wilson* '06 has been accepted for 
publication in the /Journal of Chemical Education/. The paper represents 
an experiment that was done in Southwestern's General Chemistry II 
laboratory in collaboration with our laboratory and Gary Bertrand at the 
University of Missouri, Rolla. The laboratory work for the experiment 
was done by Wilson and supported by the Welch Chemistry Department Grant 
as a part of Wilson's summer research. Wilson has been accepted, with 
graduate assistantships in chemistry, at four major universities for 
next fall.
 
Sophomore *Bethany Leidlein* will present her paper "Great Expectations: 
Anxiety and the Writing Center" at the annual conference of the South 
Central Writing Center Association Feb. 23-25, in Little Rock, Ark. 
Writing center professionals from Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and 
Texas will attend the conference. Leidlein is a consultant at the Debby 
Ellis Writing Center and developed her work as part of *Elisabeth 
Piedmont-Marton's* Teaching of Writing class.
                              
*SU IN THE NEWS *
 
Fox 7 News aired a story on the study of the effects of caffeine on a 
woman's sexual drive that was based on research conducted by *Fay 
Guarraci*, assistant professor of psychology, and *Staci Benson* '05.
 
The /Austin American-Statesman/ ran a story about Ed Diener's lecture at 
the Brown Symposium.
 
 
CALENDAR

 
February
17-19               Family Days
17                    Men's basketball vs. Centre College, 8 p.m.
17                    Women's basketball vs. Centre College, 6 p.m.
18                    Honors Convocation, Lois Perkins Chapel, 9:30-11 a.m.
18                    Men's baseball vs. Austin College, 2 p.m.
19                    Men's lacrosse vs. Texas Christian University, noon
19                    Men's basketball vs. University of the South, noon
19                    Women's basketball vs. University of the South, 2 
p.m.
19                    Faculty recital, Bruce Cain, baritone, *Kiyoshi 
Tamagawa, piano, **4 p.m.**, Caldwell-Carvey Foyer*
19                    Men's baseball vs. Austin College, 2 p.m.
21                    Men's baseball vs. Texas Lutheran University, 3 p.m.
25                    Men's baseball vs. Rhodes College, 1 p.m.
26                    Men's baseball vs. Rhodes College, noon
26                    Men's lacrosse vs. Austin College, noon
28                    Men's baseball vs. University of Texas at Dallas, 
3 p.m.

 

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