[InFocus] In Focus 9/8

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 IN FOCUS: September 8, 2006
 
* TOP NEWS *
	  	*CALENDAR *
*SOUTHWESTERN, ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOLS PARTNER ON UNIQUE THEATRE PROJECT*
	  	

*September*

*9* Southwestern Invitational, cross country

*10* Southwest Wind Quintet, 11 a.m., McCombs Ballroom

*12* Women's soccer vs. The University of Texas at Tyler, 4 p.m.

*15* Board of Visitors meeting

*15* Volleyball vs. The University of Texas at Dallas, 3 p.m.

*15* Volleyball vs. Emory University, 7 p.m.

*16* Volleyball vs. Houston Baptist University, 2 p.m.

*16* Volleyball vs. East Texas Baptist University, 6 p.m.

*19* Faculty recital, Kiyoshi Tamagawa, piano, 7 p.m., Caldwell-Carvey Foyer

*22* Men's soccer vs. Millsaps College, 2 p.m.

*22* Women's soccer vs. Millsaps College, 4 p.m.
22 Friday Night Live, Amalia Ortiz, 8 p.m., The Cove

*24* Men's soccer vs. Rhodes College, noon

*24* Women's soccer vs. Rhodes College, 2 p.m.

*29* Women's soccer vs. University of Dallas, 2 p.m.

*29* Men's soccer vs. Colorado College, 4 p.m.


Can a play change people's attitudes about difficult subjects such as 
race and alternative lifestyles?

A California theater company thinks so, and they are bringing their 
unique form of theater to Southwestern University and the Round Rock 
Independent School District.

The theater company, which is called Fringe Benefits, is using a grant 
it has received to bring a Theatre for Social Justice Institute titled 
"Race and High School Students" to Williamson County.

The project will begin with a series of five workshops that will be held 
evenings during the week of Sept. 12-19 at McNeil High School in Round 
Rock. At these workshops, representatives from Fringe Benefits will 
listen to students from Round Rock high schools describe real 
discrimination problems at their school. They then will work with the 
students to create a play based on the incidents described.

For more information on Fringe Benefits, visit their Web site at 
www.cootieshots.org.

Read the entire story 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/newsroom/news/060907.html>.

* EVENTS *
GROUNDBREAKING FOR SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY HABITAT HOUSE TO BE HELD SEPT. 9
The formal groundbreaking for Southwestern's Habitat for Humanity house 
in Georgetown will be held this Saturday, Sept. 9, at 9:30 a.m. at 1706 
Candee St. This is located on the Old Mill property near the corner of 
17th Street and Leander Road.

The Southwestern community has raised more than $50,000 for the project 
and more than 200 students have signed up to help with it. The house 
will be the future home for Olga Chairez and her children Eduardo and 
Kimberly.
*WYCLEF TO PERFORM AT SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SEPT. 21 *
Grammy award-winning singer Wyclef Jean will be the featured performer 
at a concert to be held at Southwestern University Sept. 21. The concert 
will begin at 8 p.m. in the Corbin J. Robertson Center.

Tickets for the concert are $15 for the general public and will be 
available online Monday, Sept. 11 at www.southwestern.edu/wyclef.

Wyclef is currently on a major concert tour with Shakira that includes 
performances at Madison Square Garden and Houston's Toyota Center. He 
will be performing at Southwestern in between concerts in Corpus Christi 
and San Antonio.

Read the entire story 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/newsroom/news/060906.html>.

*SOUTHWEST WINDS TO PERFORM SEPT. 10*

The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Music Department, will present the 
Southwest Winds, The United States Air Force Band of the West from 
Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, Sunday, Sept. 10, at 3 p.m. 
in the McCombs Ballrooms.

Southwest Winds members hold degrees from universities across the nation 
and have vast experience performing with some of the finest ensembles 
and musicians in the world. The group performs more than 100 concerts a 
year throughout the Southwest.

This performance is free and open to the public. For more information 
about this event and other fine arts events at Southwestern University, 
call The Sarofim School of Fine Arts at 512-863-1379.

MEDIA COVERAGE

The /Williamson County Sun/ ran an article about the groundbreaking for 
the SU Habitat for Humanity house Sept. 9.

 

NOTABLES

*Eileen Cleere*, associate professor of English, delivered a paper at 
the annual North American Victorian Studies Association conference Aug. 
31-Sept. 3. Her paper, "Aesthetic Decay: Decadence and Late-Victorian 
Medical Fiction" is part of her book project on the impact of Victorian 
sanitary reform on aesthetic philosophy.

*Lynn Guziec*, assistant professor of chemistry, *Frank Guziec*, 
professor of chemistry, *Kimberly Larson* '04 and *Jennifer Lang* '02 
were co-authors on two papers dealing with anti-cancer drug development: 
"Structure-activity studies with cytotoxic anthrapyrazoles" in /Oncology 
Reports/ and "A 3D-QSAR study of anthrapyrazole analogs of the 
anticancer agents losoxantrone and piroxantrone" in /Journal of Chemical 
Information and Modeling/.

*Aaron Prevots*, assistant professor of French, interviewed 
singer-songwriter *Eric Hanke* '01, to find out more about the process 
behind writing, recording and promoting his debut CD Autumn Blues. The 
interview can be read at 
http://www.southwestern.edu/~prevots/ehinterview1.html 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/%7Eprevots/ehinterview1.html>.

*Mary Hale Visser*, professor of art, will have work in the annual Women 
and Their Work Invitational RED DOT show Sept. 14-Oct. 1. The gallery is 
nationally known for its exhibitions and programs in Texas.

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
  	  	 

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