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<div class="style10" align="left"> IN FOCUS: January 19, 2007</div>
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<p><strong>January</strong></p>
<p><strong>19-Feb. 17</strong> Fine Line: Mental Health/Mental
Illness, Fine Arts Gallery<br>
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<strong>20</strong> Men’s lacrosse vs. The University of Texas
(scrimmage), 11 a.m.<br>
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<strong>26</strong> Women’s basketball vs. Oglethorpe, 6 p.m.<br>
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<strong>26</strong> Men’s basketball vs. Oglethorpe, 8 p.m.<br>
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<strong>27</strong> Swimming and Diving vs. McMurry, 1 p.m.<br>
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<strong>28</strong> Men’s lacrosse vs. Texas State University,
noon<br>
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<strong>28</strong> Women’s basketball vs. Sewanee, noon<br>
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<strong>28</strong> Men’s basketball vs. Sewanee, 2 p.m. <br>
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<strong>28</strong> Opera Theatre: <br>
“ Don Giovanni,” Jones Theater, 4 p.m.<br>
28 Winter flute recital, Caldwell-Carvey Foyer, 7 p.m.<br>
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<strong>29</strong> Guest artist concert: Andreas Klein, piano,
Georgetown High School Performing Arts Center, 7 p.m.<br>
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<strong>30</strong> Guest Artist Concert: Meehan/Perkins
Percussion Duo, Caldwell-Carvey Foyer, 7 p.m.<br>
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<p>Southwestern University has signed a partnership agreement
with Dillard University that will enable the two to pursue
collaborative initiatives in several areas, including institutional
management, diversity education and other academic efforts.</p>
<p>The agreement formalizes a partnership that has already been
in place for several years. In December 2005, Southwestern sponsored a
program to help faculty members from Dillard recreate course materials
lost in Hurricane Katrina and develop new online courses that could be
offered to students regardless of their location. </p>
<p>Southwestern and Dillard also are participating in a
collaborative leadership and student exchange project funded by the
Mellon Foundation. This program also includes Huston-Tillotson
University in Austin, Morehouse College in Atlanta and Rhodes College
in Memphis. </p>
<p>Creating formal alliances with historically black colleges and
universities is one of the goals in Southwestern's Strategic Plan for
2010.</p>
<p>This is the second partnership agreement Southwestern has
signed with an historically black college or university (HBCU). In
April 2001, it signed a similar agreement with Huston-Tillotson
University. As a result of this agreement, several staff members at
Southwestern have provided management/administrative assistance to
Huston-Tillotson. For example, Southwestern's vice president for
institutional advancement has conducted a workshop on fundraising for
the Huston-Tillotson staff and board of trustees, and two members of
Southwestern's fiscal affairs office have provided assistance to
Huston-Tillotson's business office. In 2005, Ron Swain, senior advisor
to the president at Southwestern, conducted the search to hire a new
dean of students at Huston-Tillotson. </p>
<p>Read the entire story <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/newsroom/news/070118.html">here</a>.<br>
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<p>The Sarofim School of Fine Arts presents pianist Andreas Klein
in concert Jan. 29, at 7 p.m. at the Georgetown High School Performing
Arts Center. </p>
<p>Monday evening's concert will feature Mozart’s “Sonata in B
flat major” and “Fantasy in C minor,” Schubert’s “Sonata in B flat
major,” and Beethoven’s “Sonata in C minor.”</p>
<p>He is a graduate of the Juilliard School and complemented his
studies with the legendary Claudio Arrau and Nikita Magaloff. </p>
<p>The concert is free and open to the public. For more
information, call 512-863-1379.<br>
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<p>David Gaines, associate professor of English, director of the
Paideia® Program and Paideia® Professor, will lead the noon Faculty
Forum titled “Paideia®: What It Is, What It Is Not, and Bringing a Few
More Things Together” on Monday, Jan. 22, in the Lynda McCombs Room. </p>
<p>Sodexho will provide a hot lunch for $4.25 per person and
coffee and tea will be available for 50 cents. </p>
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<p align="left">The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran a feature
article on Ed Kain, professor of sociology, who is being honored by the
American Sociological Association.</p>
<p align="left">The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran an
article on the Michael Nye photography exhibit in the SU Fine Arts
Gallery. </p>
<p align="left">The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran an obit
on Grogan Lord, Georgetown business leader and Southwestern University
Board of Trustees member, who died Jan. 13.</p>
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<p align="left">An article titled “The Sociology Major at
Institutions of Higher Education in the United States” appears in the
January 2007 edition of the peer-review journal Teaching Sociology. The
article is authored by <strong>Edward L. Kain</strong>, professor of
sociology and University Scholar in the Sociology and Anthropology
Department. Research in the article examines the extent to which
national recommendations on the undergraduate sociology major, adopted
by the American Sociological Association in 1990, were implemented at
100 colleges and universities across the country a decade later.</p>
<p align="left"><strong>Aaron Prevots</strong>, assistant
professor of French, presented a paper titled “Between Coal and Stars:
Reenchantment in Jacques Réda’s ‘Les bretelles étoilées’” at the
December 2006 Modern Language Association Annual Convention in
Philadelphia, Pa. The panel addressed recuperative themes and
approaches to Paris in this French writer’s recent work. <br>
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