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 IN FOCUS: February 23, 2007
 
* TOP NEWS *
	  	*CALENDAR *
*JAMES BAKER III TO GIVE SHILLING LECTURE APRIL 18*
	  	

*February*

*23-March 4* Company, Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m., 
Jesse and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater

*25* Baseball vs. University of Dallas, 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.

*28-March 31 *"Measured Strokes - Spontaneous Beasts: Paintings by Sarah 
Canright & Melissa W. Miller," Fine Arts Gallery

*March*

*3* Tennis vs. Hardin-Simmons University, 2 p.m.

*5-6* Brown Symposium XXIX, "Who Do We Think We Are?!"

*5* Opening Reception for "Measured Strokes - Spontaneous Beasts: 
Paintings by Sarah Canright & Melissa W. Miller," 6 - 7:30 p.m., Fine 
Arts Gallery

*6 *Faculty Recital: Thaddeus Anderson, percussion, 7 p.m., 
Caldwell-Carvey Foyer

*6* Baseball vs. Howard Payne, 3 p.m.

*7* Baseball vs. Mary Hardin-Baylor, 7 p.m.

*9* Tennis vs. Kenyon College, 2 p.m.



James Baker III, the former secretary of state who most recently served 
as co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, will give the 2007 Shilling Lecture 
at Southwestern University. The lecture will be held Wednesday, April 
18, at 3 p.m. in the Corbin J. Robertson Center.

Baker served in senior government positions under three U.S. presidents. 
His career in public service began in 1975 as under secretary of 
commerce to President Gerald Ford. He served as White House chief of 
staff to President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1985, and then served as 
secretary of the treasury and chairman of the President's Economic 
Policy Council from 1985 to 1988.

Baker served as secretary of state under President George Bush from 
January 1989 through August 1992, during which time he traveled to 90 
foreign countries as the United States confronted the unprecedented 
challenges and opportunities of the post-Cold War era. He concluded his 
White House tenure by serving as chief of staff and senior counselor to 
President Bush from August 1992 to January 1993.

 From 1997 to 2004, Baker served as the personal envoy of United Nations 
Secretary-General Kofi Annan to seek a political solution to the 
conflict over Western Sahara. In 2003, he was appointed special 
presidential envoy for President George W. Bush on the issue of Iraqi 
debt. In 2005, he was co-chair, with former President Jimmy Carter, of 
the Federal Commission on Election Reform. In March 2006, Baker and 
former U.S. Congressman Lee H. Hamilton were named co-chairs of the Iraq 
Study Group, a bipartisan blue-ribbon panel examining a forward-looking 
approach to Iraq.
Baker is presently a senior partner in the law firm of Baker Botts. He 
is Honorary Chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public 
Policy at Rice University in Houston and serves on the board of the 
Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Tickets for the lecture will be available to the general public at 
http://www.southwestern.edu/shilling-lectures/ beginning April 2.

Read the entire article here 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/newsroom/news/070219.html>.

*SUMMIT PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE*

In November, Southwestern hosted a national summit of scholars and 
business leaders to discuss ways to improve the business programs 
offered at liberal arts colleges. The summit proceedings are now 
available on the project Web site at www.southwestern.edu/laab. These 
proceedings are being distributed to liberal arts colleges across the 
country. For more information about the summit, contact Mary Grace 
Neville <nevillem at southwestern.edu>. To join the project listserv, 
contact A.J. Senchack <senchack at southwestern.edu>.

* EVENTS *
*SOUTHWESTERN TO SPONSOR E-RECYCLING EVENT FOR THE COMMUNITY MARCH 3*
Students and staff members from Southwestern University are partnering 
with Austin-based Axcess Technologies to offer a communitywide 
"E-recycling" event on Saturday, March 3. The event will be held from 9 
a.m. to 1 p.m. in the parking lot behind the Cullen Building at the 
intersection of Hwy. 29 and Maple Street.

Residents are invited to bring old computers, monitors, printers, 
telephones, cameras, scanners and other "e-waste." All equipment will be 
reused, recycled or refurbished in an environmentally safe way by Axcess 
Technologies.

Southwestern sponsors of the event include Information Technology 
Services (ITS) and Students for Environmental Activism and Knowledge 
(SEAK). Ben Johnson, president of SEAK, said his organization jumped at 
the opportunity to be involved with the event.

"The age of technology that we are experiencing today has brought many 
great things to our world, but it has also brought a huge amount of 
high-tech trash that is usually never recycled because people do not 
have access to a proper recycling service," Johnson said. "This lack of 
recycling often leads to the deportation of trash to Third World 
countries that have no way of properly getting rid of the waste. We want 
to help Southwestern and Georgetown take a step in the right direction 
and relieve pressure on the environment as well as on those who 
unfortunately receive responsibility for our waste."

For more information on the event, call 512-863-1642.

*'COMPANY' OPENS THIS WEEKEND*

The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Theatre Department, presents "Company," 
the 1971 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, directed by Rick Roemer. 
Performances run from Feb. 23 to March 4 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 
p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. in the Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater.

"Company" is a passionate and wonderfully edgy and witty musical that 
takes a sharp look at love and commitment through the marriages of five 
couples as seen through the eyes of their single friend Robert. It 
explores love and commitment, fear and longing, and the simple joy of 
being alive. An honest and sophisticated look at relationships, 
"Company" offers a fresh perspective on our most cherished institution, 
marriage--its troubles and triumphs, its viciousness and victories.

Individual ticket prices are $15 adults, $12 senior and $10 students. 
Call the box office at 512-863-1378 to reserve your tickets.

*FACULTY FORUM*

Joan Parks, head of reference services at the A. Frank Smith Library 
Center, will lead the noon Faculty Forum titled "New database 
(LexisNexis) supports a broad range of interdisciplinary research" on 
Monday, Feb. 26, in the Lynda McCombs Ballroom. LexisNexis Academic is a 
full-text database of English language sources arranged into five major 
categories for easy reference: News, business, medical, legal research, 
and reference information. The new Web-based academic version of 
LexisNexis is now available through the A. Frank Smith Library Center. 
The presentation will demonstrate ways to search each of its five 
categories.

Sodexho will provide a hot lunch for $4.25 per person and coffee and tea 
will be available for 50 cents.

MEDIA COVERAGE

The /Williamson County Sun/ ran a story about Barbara Boucher-Owen's 
oral history project on women in computer science.

The /Williamson County Sun/ ran a story on the presentation of the 
Martha Diaz Hurtado College Town Award to the Downtown Georgetown 
Association.

The /Williamson County Sun /ran a story on the dedication of 
Southwestern University's Habitat for Humanity House.

The January/February issue of /Austin Runner/ included an interview with 
track and cross-country coach Francie Larrieu Smith.

NOTABLES

*Michael Cooper* published the first-ever source-critical edition of 
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's settings of Psalms 2, 43 and 22 with 
Bärenreiter-Verlag (Kassel). First published posthumously and reprinted 
numerous times only in fragmentary and corrupt forms, the works were 
written in 1843-44 as part of a project of sweeping German cultural 
reform and establishment of a reformed Protestant liturgy undertaken by 
the recently crowned King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia. For that 
reason and because of their musical and expressive merits they stand as 
milestones in the history of unaccompanied choral composition.

*Elizabeth Green Musselman*, associate professor of history and chair of 
feminist studies, has had several guest essays appear on 
others'podcasts. You can hear her talking about her junior-high gym 
teacher on the Toronto-based storytelling podcast Quirky Nomads 
http://quirkynomads.com/wp/2006/11/16/ and reflecting on the history of 
men and knitting on the Sydney-based knitting podcast Sticks and String 
http://sticksandstring.com.au/.

*Aaron Prevots*, assistant professor of French, recently published two 
articles. "U2 and Learning/Teaching: You Too" appeared in Brown 
University's Teaching Exchange and "Language and Culture through Music 
Online" appeared in Wabash College's Academic Commons. Prevots also led 
a professional development seminar for professors of French and Spanish 
at Austin Community College on "Songs and Language Learning."

Southwestern University Music Department faculty and students were well 
represented at the recent Texas Music Educators' Association convention 
in San Antonio. *Eileen Meyer Russell*, associate professor of music, 
gave a presentation titled "From Legato to Staccato: Teaching Low Brass 
Players to Articulate." *William Dick*, instructor of music, and Laurie 
Scott, former Southwestern University faculty member and now assistant 
professor of music and human learning at The University of Texas at 
Austin, gave their presentation "Construction Zone: The Beginning Bow 
Arm." The SU student string quartet composed of *Eileen Kwee* and 
*Victoria Chang*, violins, *Rohan Sreenivasan*, viola, and *Megan 
McCarty*, cello, performed in the TMEA Music Showcase. The quartet is 
coached by *Eri Lee Lam*, assistant professor of music. *Kiyoshi 
Tamagawa*'s orchestration of the Handel-Halvorsen "Passacaglia" was 
performed by the Berkner High School (Richardson) State Honor String 
Orchestra. This piece will also be performed by the Gulfport (Miss.) 
High School orchestra on a tour of Germany this coming April.

 
 
 
 
  	  	 

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Ellen Davis
Director of Communications
Southwestern University
1001 E. University Ave.
Georgetown TX 78626
512-863-1570
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