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 IN FOCUS: February 22, 2008
 
* TOP NEWS *
	  	*CALENDAR*
MAYOR, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRESIDENT RECOGNIZED FOR HELPING MAKE 
GEORGETOWN A 'COLLEGE TOWN' 	  	*CAMPUS CALENDAR *

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

Georgetown Mayor Gary Nelon and Chamber of Commerce President Mel 
Pendland were recognized Feb. 16 for their efforts to help make 
Georgetown seem like more like a college town.

Southwestern presented the two with its third annual Martha Diaz Hurtado 
College Town Award at halftime of the Southwestern men's basketball game 
against Hendrix College.

The award was created in 2006 to recognize citizens, organizations or 
businesses whose exemplary efforts have enhanced the "college town" 
environment for students, faculty and staff at Southwestern. Previous 
recipients of the award include the Williamson County Sun and the 
Downtown Georgetown Association.

To read the rest of the story, go here 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=64>.

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SOUTHWESTERN SPONSORS E-RECYCLING EVENT FOR THE COMMUNITY MARCH 1

Students and staff members from Southwestern are partnering with 
Austin-based Axcess Technologies to offer a communitywide "E-recycling" 
event. 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. The event will take place Sat., March 1, from 8 a.m. to 1 
p.m. in the parking lot behind the Cullen Building at Hwy. 29 and Maple 
Street. A campus map is available here 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/tour/campus-map.pdf>.


Southwestern sponsors of the event include Information Technology 
Services (ITS) and Students for Environmental Activism and Knowledge 
(SEAK).This is the second year Southwestern has sponsored the event. 
Last year's event was a tremendous success, as enough high-tech trash to 
fill an 18-wheeler was collected.

EVENTS
JEWISH IDENTITY SYMPOSIUM FEB. 26

Seth Wolitz, holder of the Edwin Gale Chair of Judaic Studies at The 
University of Texas at Austin, will participate in and lead a symposium, 
along with Michael Saenger and Shana Bernstein, concerning Jewish 
identity and its representation. The symposium will take place Feb. 26 
at 6 p.m. in the Jones Theater, with a reception to follow in the 
Caldwell-Carvey Foyer.

The symposium is funded by the Fleming Lectures in Religion, the Global 
Partners Grant, the Provost, the Paideia Program, the Library, and the 
Departments of Theatre, Modern Languages and Literature, History, and 
English.

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2008 KEYBOARD PERCUSSION FESTIVAL
The 2008 Keyboard Percussion Festival will be Sat. March 29. This year's 
festival will feature percussionist Eric Hollenbeck. The event is 
intended to provide Central Texas percussionists an educational and 
performance outlet in the campus' historic Lois Perkins Chapel. High 
School and College level percussionists are invited to perform standard 
marimba and vibraphone literature and anyone is welcome to attend the 
events throughout the day.

If you are interested in performing a work on the participants recital,
please contact Thaddeus Anderson at 512-863-1369.

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SOTTO VOCE CONCERT AND CLINIC MARCH 29


The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Department of Music presents Sotto Voce 
in concert in the Alma Thomas Theater on Sat. March 29, at 7 p.m. Sotto 
Voce is a tuba-euphonium quartet. Its members include Demondrae Thurman 
on euphonium and trombone, Mark Carlson on euphonium and trombone,Nat 
McIntosh on tuba, sousaphone, euphonium and trombone, and Mike Forbes on 
the tuba and euphonium.

A clinic and master class for euphonium and tuba players will take place 
that day from 10 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. There is no charge to attend the 
clinic, master class, or concert.

If you wish to attend the clinic or perform for Sotto Voce in the master 
class, please contact Eileen Meyer Russell at 512-863-1732 or 
russelle at southwestern.edu.

 

MEDIA COVERAGE

. The February 2008 issue of /University Business/ featured Southwestern 
in a story about cultivating non-alumni donors. Read the story here 
<http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1002>.


. The /Williamson County Sun /ran a story about trees on campus being 
moved in preparation for construction of the new admission center.


. The /Austin Business Journal /ran a story about Caitlin Cooper 
receiving the Academic Internship Student Achievement award from the 
Cooperative Education and Internship Association. Read the story here 
<http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2008/02/18/tidbits1.html>.


. The /Williamson County Sun /ran a feature story about the set design 
for Fiddler on the Roof.


. The/ Chronicle of Higher Education/ reviewed Professor Laura 
Hobgood-Oster's new book, "Holy Dogs & Asses -- Animals in the Christian 
Tradition." Read the review here 
<http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i24/24b01801.htm>. (may require password).

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Georgetown, TX 78626
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