[InFocus] In Focus 10/27

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 IN FOCUS: October 27, 2006
 
* TOP NEWS *
	  	*CALENDAR *
*SOUTHWESTERN NAMED TO COMMUNITY SERVICE HONOR ROLL*
	  	

*October*

*27-29* "The House of Bernarda Alba," Fridays and Saturdays 8 p.m., 
Sundays 3 p.m., Jesse and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater

*29* Guest artist recital, Bruce Rameker, baritone, 7 p.m., First United 
Methodist Church

*November*

*4* Women's soccer vs. Trinity University, noon

*4* Men's soccer vs. Trinity University, 4 p.m.

*6* Guest artist recital, University of Arizona Steel Pan Band, 5 p.m., 
Bishops Lounge

*10-Dec. 6* Chinese painting exhibit, Fine Arts Gallery

*12* Southwestern University Chorale, 7 p.m., Lois Perkins Chapel

*15* Southwestern University Jazz Band, 7 p.m., Bishops Lounge

*18* Men's basketball vs. Texas Lutheran University, 7 p.m.

*18* Southwestern University Orchestra, 7 p.m., Georgetown High School 
Performing Arts Center

*21* Women's basketball vs. Hardin-Simmons University, 6 p.m.

*21* Men's basketball vs. Hardin-Simmons University, 8 p.m.

Southwestern has been placed on the first President's Higher Education 
Community Service Honor Roll, a program designed to increase public 
awareness of the contributions that students, faculty and staff are 
making within their local communities and across the country through 
volunteer service.

The program is sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community 
Service, the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation, and 
the U.S. Departments of Education and Housing and Urban Development.

Last year, 60 percent of Southwestern students reported that they 
participated in some form of community service - twice the national rate 
of 30 percent reported in a recent survey by the Corporation for 
National and Community Service. These students contributed an estimated 
22,500 hours of service to the community.

Southwestern was one of only 16 colleges and universities in Texas to be 
named to the honor roll. Others were Austin College, Blinn College, 
Collin County Community College, Houston Community College - Southwest, 
Howard Payne University, Kingwood College, LeTourneau University, 
Richland College, Sam Houston State University, St. Edward's University, 
St. Mary's University, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M 
University-Kingsville, the University of St. Thomas and the University 
of Texas at El Paso.

For more information on the President's Higher Education Community 
Service Honor Roll, visit www.nationalservice.gov. To read more about 
some of the community service projects Southwestern students were 
involved with last year, go to 
www.southwestern.edu/academic/exp/exp-community.html.



 

 

* EVENTS *

The Sarofim School of Fine Arts presents singer Bruce Rameker with 
pianist Kiyoshi Tamagawa, professor of music, in recital Sunday, Oct. 
29, at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church, 410 
East University Ave. in Georgetown.

Rameker possesses the unique ability to perform as both a baritone and a 
countertenor. He has appeared on the stages of Lincoln Center, Kennedy 
Center, Town Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Spoleto 
Festival in a diverse repertoire that includes ancient music, operetta, 
oratorio and tango. A specialist in Baroque opera and oratorio, Mr. 
Rameker has sung with the Skylight Opera Theatre, Chicago Opera Theater, 
New York City Opera, Anchorage Opera, Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, 
Waverly Consort, Voices of Ascension and New York Ensemble for Early Music.

The concert is free and open to the public. Please call Lacy Vain at 
863-1379 for more information.

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The Fleming Lecture series presents David Noel Freedman, endowed chair 
in Hebrew Biblical Studies at the University of California, San Diego, 
on Thursday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m. in Olin 105. He will be speaking on "The 
Tsunami: The Song of the Sea and the Song of Deborah or Vice Versa." 
Freedman is the general editor of the Anchor Bible. He has had many 
publications and teaches in the Department of History.

For more information, please contact David Stewart at 863-1431.


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*FACULTY FORUM*

The members of the Director of Faculty Development search committee, 
Elizabeth Green Musselman, Marty Gonzales, Diana Tenkhoff and Dirk 
Early, will be on hand to hear from the faculty regarding this position 
at the noon Faculty Forum Monday, Oct. 30, in the Lynda McCombs Room. 
Jack Green Musselman, who held a similar position at St. Edward's 
University, will also be present to provide some general information 
about this position.

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.

MEDIA COVERAGE

The /Denton Record-Chronicle/ ran an article that featured Francie 
Larrieu Smith and her involvement in the Dallas Race for the Cure.



 

NOTABLES

*Shana Bernstein*, assistant professor of history, spoke at the Western 
History Association in St. Louis Oct. 14 as an invited roundtable 
panelist. The roundtable she participated in was titled "Comparative 
Perspectives on Mexican American Citizenship from Law, History and 
Cultural Studies."

*David Gaines*, associate professor of English and director of the 
Paideia® Program, presented "Bobby's in the Canon and I'm in the 
Classroom Mixin' Up the Curriculum" on Oct. 25 at the New School in New 
York City. Gaines was one of the invited lecturers for a New School 
colloquium regarding the life and work of Bob Dylan. He is currently 
turning his lecture into a paper for publication.

The lead article in the October issue of Teaching Sociology is titled 
"Bridging the Gap between Cultures of Teaching and Culture of Research." 
The article presents data from job listings for academic sociology 
positions in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s and documents an increasing call 
for faculty who combine teaching and research in their careers in 
academia. The author of the research article, *Edward L. Kain*, 
professor of sociology and University Scholar in the Sociology and 
Anthropology Department, provides a series of suggestions for changes 
that are needed to help bridge the gap between teaching and research 
within the changing landscape of higher education in the United States.

*Helene Meyers*, professor of English, gave an invited lecture to the 
Women's Studies program at Texas A&M. The title of her talk was "Jewish 
Gender Trouble."

*Aaron Prevots*, assistant professor of French, interviewed Colin 
Newman, a prime mover on the British music and arts scene since the late 
1970s, for his Creative Process series. Newman is a songwriter, record 
producer, label owner and founding member of the group Wire. The 
interview may be read at 
http://www.southwestern.edu/~prevots/colin_newman_interview.html 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/%7Eprevots/colin_newman_interview.html>.

*Eric Selbin*, professor of political science, presented a lecture on 
Oct. 24 titled "Is Revolution Still an Option in Latin America?" at The 
University of Texas' Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies.

*Kim Smith*, associate professor of art history, gave a talk titled 
"Expressionist Art History and the Return of the Repressed" on Oct. 1 at 
the annual German Studies Conference in Pittsburgh.

*Ron Swain*, senior advisor to the president, led a roundtable 
discussion on the Partnership for Engaged Diversity at the American 
Association of Colleges and Universities' (AAC&U) Diversity and Learning 
Conference in Philadelphia. The partnership, involving five liberal arts 
institutions, is designed to create a culture of engaged diversity on 
each campus through joint programs, shared resources, and the meaningful 
interactions of students and faculty. The three-year project is funded 
through a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.


 


 


 

 

 

 
 
 
 
  	  	 



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