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 IN FOCUS: March 21, 2008
 
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BILL BRADLEY TO GIVE 2008 SHILLING LECTURE AT SOUTHWESTERN APRIL 21 	  
*CAMPUS CALENDAR *

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Bill Bradley, an Olympic gold medalist and NBA basketball player who 
went on to serve three terms in the U.S. Senate, will give the 2008 
Shilling Lecture at Southwestern. The lecture will be held Monday, April 
21, at 7 p.m. in the Alma Thomas Theater.

The title of the lecture will be "The New American Story... Including 
Nine Questions to Ask Before Voting for President."

New American Story is the title of Bradley's latest book, published in 
March 2007, which offers a review of current politics and a collection 
of ideas to improve major policy issues, such as the way we elect 
presidents.

To read the rest of the story, click here 
<http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=73>.

To purchase or reserve tickets or to learn more about the Shilling 
Lecture, click here <http://www.southwestern.edu/shilling-lectures/>.

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SOUTHWESTERN TO HOST GEORGETOWN MAYORAL FORUM APRIL 18

Southwestern will re-establish a local tradition this spring by hosting 
a mayoral forum for candidates George Garver and Doug Smith. The event 
will take place on Friday, April 18, from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Red and 
Charline McCombs Campus Center ballrooms.

The event is being organized by students in Professor Gilbert St. 
Clair's Media and Politics class at Southwestern. Students involved with 
planning the forum include juniors Eric Franco, Matthew Maschino and 
Avery Sheppard, and seniors Eamon Briggs and Laura Gabriel.

Audience members will be able to participate in the forum by submitting 
written questions to a panel of students. Both candidates will have the 
opportunity to make opening and closing remarks.

The forum will be moderated by Eric McKinney, interim chaplain of 
Southwestern.

Garver and Smith are vying to replace Gary Nelon, who has served as 
mayor of Georgetown since 2002. The election is set for Saturday, May 
10. Whoever is elected mayor will serve a three-year term.

For more information on the forum, call 512-863-1662. For directions to 
the campus center, visit http://southwestern.edu/tour/campus-map.pdf.

EVENTS
BASSOON RECITAL MARCH 31

The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Music Department, presents bassoonist 
Eric Stone Miller in a faculty recital at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 31, in 
the Caldwell-Carvey Foyer of the Fine Arts Center at Southwestern. 
Miller will be joined by two faculty colleagues: clarinetist Anna Carney 
and pianist Kiyoshi Tamagawa. Works to be performed will include 
compositions by Mendelssohn, Tansman, Grantham and Reicha.

This recital is free and open to the public.

MEDIA COVERAGE

. The /Austin American-Statesman/ ran an article about the upcoming 
Brown Symposium. Read the article at 
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/03/14/0314hinotes.html

. Romi Burks' First-Year Seminar class on chocolate is featured in the 
/Chronicle of Higher Education/. Read the story at 
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i28/28a00901.htm (password may be required)

. The March 2008 issue of /University Business/ has an article that 
mentions Southwestern's online cost calculator. Read the article at 
http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1015&p=3#0 
<http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1015&p=3#0>

. The /Williamson County Sun/ ran an article about Bill Bradley being 
named the 2008 Shilling Lecturer.

NOTABLES

*Elizabeth Green Musselman*, associate professor of history, recently 
presented a paper titled "Companion Animals as Producers of Natural 
Knowledge in Colonial Southern Africa" at the annual meeting of the 
American Society for Environmental History. She has also been invited to 
present next month at a Mellon-funded workshop that examines Native 
American and African environmental knowledge and practices.

/Have a submission for "Notables"? Send it to infocus at southwestern.edu. /

-- 
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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