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 IN FOCUS: April 11, 2008
 
* TOP NEWS *
	  	*CALENDAR*
SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT RECEIVES AWARD FOR LEADERSHIP 	  
*CAMPUS CALENDAR *

To view upcoming events at Southwestern by day, week or month, click 
here <http://www.southwestern.edu/sucalendar/main.php>.

Southwestern President Jake B. Schrum has received the Dr. E. Joseph 
Savoie Chief Executive Leadership Award from District IV of the Council 
for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), which includes 
Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mexico.

The Chief Executive Leadership Awards were created in 1999 to recognize 
leaders of CASE-member institutions for outstanding efforts to promote 
understanding and support of education. Nominees must demonstrate the 
ability to create a vision and inspire others, and must establish a 
positive image for their institution while leading it to even higher 
levels of success.

Schrum received the award April 6 during the annual CASE IV conference 
held in Little Rock, Ark.
Schrum has been president of Southwestern University (his alma mater) 
since 2000. Prior to that, he was president of Texas Wesleyan University 
in Fort Worth from 1991 to 2000.

Schrum has served as national board chair for CASE as well as for the 
Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) and the Independent Colleges and 
Universities of Texas (ICUT). He also has served in a leadership role 
for the National Association of Schools and Colleges of the United 
Methodist Church.

EVENTS
FRATERNITY HOSTS TEXAS SENATOR FOR LEADERSHP LUNCHEON APRIL 11

The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at Southwestern will hold its next 
installment of the Leadership Luncheon Series at noon on Friday, April 
11, in the Mood-Bridwell Atrium. The event will feature Texas District 
14 Senator and former Austin Mayor Kirk Watson. Senator Watson is 
vice-chair of the Senate Committee on Transportation and Homeland 
Security. Most recently, he was named legislative "Rookie of the Year" 
by Texas Monthly Magazine. Watson will speak to the Southwestern 
University campus community on the topics of leadership in the 
legislature and law.

Pi Kappa Alpha will provide a free lunch to the first 50 attendees with 
the help of McAlister's Deli of Georgetown.

For additional information on Pi Kappa Alpha or its Leadership Luncheon 
Series, please contact Alexander Pacelli at 512-819-7301 or visit 
www.AOPikes.com.

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SOUTHWESTERN TO HOST MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE APRIL 18-19
Southwestern will host the Seventh Annual Region 6-Texas NAME 
Multicultural Education Conference April 18-19. The theme of this years 
conference is "Multicultural Education: The Path to an Equitable Future 
with Distinction and Purpose.

Events will include an opening keynote speaker from Juliet E. K. Walker, 
professor of African American business history, and by David Campos, 
associate professor at the University of Incarnate Word.

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THEATRE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS SUBURBIA APRIL 23-27

The Southwestern University Theatre Department presents SubUrbia April 
23-27 in the Jones Theater of the Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center. The show 
will begin on Wednesday and Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday at 8 
p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m.

Tickets for the event are available by calling the box office at 
512-863-1378 Monday-Friday between 1-5 p.m. They will also be available 
one hour before curtain. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for youth 
(16 and under) and seniors (63 and over).

The play follows a day in the life of several rootless young Americans 
who hang out every night in the parking lot of a convenience store. 
Critics called SubUrbia one of "the best plays of the season" when it 
premiered at Lincoln Center. For more information about the play, 
contact Rick Roemer at 512-863-1548.

MEDIA COVERAGE

. The /Austin American-Statesman/ ran a story on the Student Works 
Symposium.

. The /Williamson County Sun/ ran a story about Southwestern's Operation 
Achievement Program.

. The /Williamson County Sun /covered the opening lecture of the Brown 
Symposium.

NOTABLES

*Shana Bernstein*, assistant professor of history, presented a paper 
titled "Rethinking the History of U.S. Civil Rights Struggles during the 
Cold War through a Multiracial, Los Angeles, Lens" at the annual 
Organization of American Historians conference in New York City on March 28.

*Ellen Davis*, director of communications, received a gold award in the 
category of General News Writing from District IV of the Council for the 
Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The award was presented at 
the district conference in Little Rock, Ark., April 7.

*Phil Hopkins*, associate professor of philosophy, will present a 
workshop April 11 at the Northeast Conference on Media Literacy titled 
"Mass Moralizing: Building and Selling Moral Identities." Hopkins will 
present a paper titled "Weaving the Fish Basket: Heraclitus and the 
Meta-philosophy of Opposition," in plenary session at the Society for 
Ancient Philosophy annual meeting at the New School for Social Research 
in New York April 12.

*Aaron Prevots*, assistant professor of French, added 10 international 
recording artist contributions to his educational website "French 
Through Songs and Singing," seen here 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/%7Eprevots/songs/>. Featured artists now 
include Évelyne Girardon, La Compagnie Beline and Eric Vincent of 
France, Mes Aïeux of Quebec and Célina Ramsauer of Switzerland. Three 
articles by music and culture specialist Jean-Nicolas De Surmont were 
also added to the site, regarding the "chanson" tradition in Québec. 
Prevots's preface "Teaching French through Music" was published in the 
fourth edition of "Horizons," the first-year French textbook currently 
in use at Southwestern. Prevots also gave an invited presentation on 
"French through Songs" at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin.

*Eric Selbin*, professor of political science and University Scholar, 
and *Meghana Nayak '97*, assistant professor of political science at 
Pace University, have signed a contract with Zed Books for a co-authored 
book titled "Doing International Relations from the
Margins." The book contends that the political concepts/issues discussed 
in international relations are Western liberal bourgeois constructions 
wherein even alternative, critical discussions are "trapped" by the 
discursive stranglehold of these concepts and their genealogies.

Three students in the chemistry and biochemistry department presented 
their research at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society 
in New Orleans. *Radhika Kainthla*, senior biochemistry major, presented 
"Photoexcitation of daunomycin leads to oxidative DNA damage that is 
dependent on molecular oxygen" in collaboration with *Maha Zewail 
Foote*, assistant professor of chemistry. *Carissa Fritz*, sophomore 
chemistry major, presented "DNA binding and cleaving properties of 
intercalating copper(II) complexes" based on her work with Foote and 
Gulnar Rawji, associate professor of chemistry. *Megan Mullins*, senior 
political science major, presented "Kirkwood-Buff derived force fields 
for mixtures of thiols in water" in collaboration with *Nikolaos 
Bentenitis*, assistant professor of chemistry.

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-- 
Katy Boose
Editorial Coordinator
Southwestern University
1001 E. University Ave.
Georgetown, TX 78626
512-863-1487
boosek at southwestern.edu
www.southwestern.edu

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