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<div class="style10" align="left"> IN FOCUS: August 25, 2006 </div>
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<div class="style11" align="left">SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
RECEIVES ENGLEMAN WORLD PEACE AND NONVIOLENCE COLLECTION</div>
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<p><b>August</b></p>
<p><strong>25</strong> Fall MallBall<br>
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<strong>28</strong> Classes begin<br>
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<strong>28–Oct. 13</strong> Chris Campbell ceramics exhibit</p>
<p><b>September</b> </p>
<p><strong>1</strong> Men’s soccer vs. The University of Texas at
Tyler, 6 p.m.<br>
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<strong>2</strong> Men’s soccer vs. Hardin-Simmons University, 6
p.m.<br>
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<strong>4</strong> Labor Day holiday<br>
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<strong>5</strong> Faculty recital, Eri Lee Lam, violin, 7 p.m.,
Caldwell-Carvey Foyer<br>
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<strong>6</strong> Men’s soccer vs. McMurry University, 4 p.m.<br>
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<strong>7</strong> Opening reception for Chris Campbell ceramics
exhibit, 7 p.m., Fine Arts Gallery<br>
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<strong>9</strong> Southwestern Invitational, cross country<br>
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<strong>10</strong> Southwest Wind Quintet, 11 a.m., McCombs
Ballroom<br>
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<strong>12</strong> Women’s soccer vs. The University of Texas at
Tyler, 4 p.m.<br>
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<strong>15</strong> Board of Visitors meeting<br>
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<strong>15</strong> Volleyball vs. The University of Texas at
Dallas, 3 p.m.<br>
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<strong>15</strong> Volleyball vs. Emory University, 7 p.m.<br>
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<p align="left">Southwestern University’s A. Frank Smith, Jr.
Library Center has received a large collection from the late Vance
Engleman related to world peace and nonviolence. <br>
The Engleman World Peace and Nonviolence Collection includes the
100-volume Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi as well as more than 100
additional printed and audiovisual works about Gandhi’s life and
nonviolent practices, and the work of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother
Teresa. The collection also contains 20 pieces of artwork, including
busts of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa.<br>
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi is accessible for library use in
the periodical reading room. The collected works speak to Gandhi’s
experiences through many letters and journal entries. A display case
adjacent to Gandhi’s Collected Works holds a sampling of several other
items on nonviolence from The King Center in Atlanta as well as an
autographed picture of Mother Teresa. It also holds several smaller
pamphlets written by Gandhi.<br>
Read the entire story <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/newsroom/news/060821.html">here</a>.
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<div class="style11" align="left">MUNDY AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED</div>
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<p align="justify">Four Southwestern faculty and staff members
were named this week as 2006 recipients of the Joe S. Mundy Exemplary
Service Award, which was created in 2002 as a memorial to the
leadership of former alumnus and trustee Joe Mundy. They are:<br>
<strong>Reyes Diaz</strong>, equipment manager in Athletics; <br>
<strong>Jan Nowlin</strong>, senior director of Advancement
Information Services; <br>
<strong>Karen Purdy</strong>, data entry coordinator in
Admission; and <br>
<strong>William B. Jones</strong>, university historian and
professor <em>emeritus</em> of history. <br>
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<div class="style11" align="left">PRESIDENT GIVES ANNUAL STATE OF
THE UNIVERSITY SPEECH</div>
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<p>President Jake B. Schrum gave his annual address to the entire
campus community Aug. 21. Read the entire speech <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/about/pdf/06_FFC-SOTU.pdf">here</a>.
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<div align="left"><b> EVENTS </b></div>
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<div class="style11" align="left">FACULTY RECITAL WITH ERI LEE
LAM AND VINCENT LAM SEPT. 5</div>
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<p align="justify">The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Music
Department, presents Eri Lee Lam, violinist, and Vincent Lam, pianist,
in a faculty recital Tuesday, Sept. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Caldwell-Carvey
Foyer located in the Fine Arts Center on the Southwestern University
campus. </p>
<p align="left">The concert will feature Beethoven’s “Violin
Sonata No. 6 in A Major Op. 30 No. 1,” Bela Bartok’s “Sonata for Solo
Violin,” and Robert Schumann’s “Violin Sonata No.2 in D Minor Op. 12.”
This concert will be repeated at the University of Houston and Brigham
Young University later this month. </p>
<p align="left">The performance is free and open to the public.
Because of construction, guests are advised to park in the Cullen lot
on the corner of Hwy. 29 and Maple Street, behind the Cullen Building.
For more information, call The Sarofim School of Fine Arts at (512)
863-1379.<br>
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<div class="style11" align="left">FIRST VIEWING NIGHT OF THE FALL
SEMESTER AT FOUNTAINWOOD OBSERVATORY SEPT. 1</div>
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<p align="justify">Southwestern University will host a public
viewing at the Fountainwood Observatory from 8:30 to 11 p.m. Friday,
Sept. 1. The Observatory is located on the northeast side of campus
adjacent to the Rockwell Baseball Field.</p>
<p align="left">Physics Department faculty and talented observers
from the Williamson County Astronomy Club (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.williamson-astro.org">www.williamson-astro.org</a>)
will be on hand to guide visitors through their viewing experience. On
this evening, a waxing moon will be just past first quarter phase and
brilliant Jupiter will dominate the western sky. The summer triangle,
an asterism consisting of the brightest stars of Cygnus, Aquila and
Lyra, will be high overhead and fall constellations – such as Andromeda
– will be rising in the eastern sky.</p>
<p align="left">Fountainwood viewing nights are always free and
open to the public. For weather-related updates, call the Fountainwood
Observatory hotline at 512-863-1242. <br>
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<div class="style8" align="left">MEDIA COVERAGE </div>
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<p align="justify">Jesse Purdy, professor of psychology, supplied
information and the sounds of Weddel seals to a radio show that aired
in Corpus Christi and other stations around the country Aug. 8. The
show can be heard or seen on the Web site, <a
href="www.scienceandthesea.org">www.scienceandthesea.org</a>. It is
also available via podcast.</p>
<p align="left">The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran an
article about Arun Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, who will speak at
Southwestern’s Peace Conference Oct. 11-12.<br>
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<div class="style8" align="left">NOTABLES</div>
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<p align="justify"><strong>Shana Bernstein</strong>, assistant
professor of history, presented a paper titled “Collaborating against
Conservatism: Jewish-Mexican American Civil Rights Coalitions in Cold
War Los Angeles,” at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of
the American Historical Association at Stanford University Aug. 4.</p>
<p align="left"><strong>Alexandra Hendley</strong> ’06 received
the top undergraduate paper award in a national competition. This
award, sponsored by the national sociology honorary society, Alpha
Kappa Delta, was presented at the annual meetings of the American
Sociological Association, held in Montreal August 10-14. Hendley
presented her paper, titled “Barreras del Lenguage: Children’s
Negotiation of Adult-Created Exclusionary Structures” in an ASA Honors
Program session. Sociology majors <strong>Lauren Contreras</strong>
and <strong>Meagan Elliott</strong> also presented papers in the ASA
Honors Program. Contreras’s paper was titled “Fitting in at College:
How Social Class Affects Friendships.” Elliot’s paper was titled
“Listening to Silence: Social Class Dialogue on the University Campus.”
All three of these papers were a result of research done in classes
taught by Sandi Nenga, assistant professor of sociology.</p>
<p align="left"><strong>Maria Lowe</strong>, associate professor
of sociology, served on the advisory board for the American
Sociological Association Honors Program at the annual meeting.</p>
<p align="left"><strong>Elizabeth Green Musselman</strong>,
associate professor of history, will present a paper on the
hunting-and-gathering lifestyle of imperial-age naturalists at a
workshop at Cambridge University Sept. 14-16. The participants in the
workshop, which is titled “Beyond Deconstruction: Engaging Colonial
Knowledge,” will consider how, in the wake of postcolonial critique, we
might still glean some information about colonized people from European
travel narratives.<br>
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<strong>Sandi Nenga</strong> and <strong>Edward L. Kain</strong>
co-edited the 4th edition of Innovative Techniques for Teaching
Sociological Concepts. This was published in August and is available
from the American Sociological Association. They co-led a workshop on
this topic at the ASA meetings in Montreal. At the same meetings, Kain
presented a plenary session in a pre-conference workshop for senior
faculty, co-led a workshop on preparing for a department review,
assisted with the orientation of students in the ASA Honors Program,
co-led a workshop for directors of graduate studies on mentoring
graduate students who want to get a job in a liberal arts institution,
and co-led a training session on guidelines for successful joint
sociology/anthropology programs.<br>
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<strong>Eric Selbin</strong>, professor of political science,
published “Elites, Intellectuals, and Revolutionary Leadership,” in
James DeFronzo, ed., Revolutionary Movements in World History: From
1750 to the Present.</p>
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