<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body,td,th {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #000000;
}
style1 {
color: #FFFFFF;
font-weight: normal;
}
style6 {color: #000000; font-weight: normal; }
style7 {color: #FFFFFF; }
style8 {color: #FFFFFF; font-weight: bold; }
style10 {font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 24px;}
style11 {color: #000000; font-weight: bold; }
style14 {font-size: 1px}
.style1 {color: #FFFFFF}
.style3 {
font-size: 24px;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
}
-->
</style>
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr bgcolor="#000000">
<th colspan="3" scope="col" height="51">
<div class="style7" align="right">
<div class="style3" align="left"> IN FOCUS: February 23, 2007</div>
</div>
</th>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#999966">
<th colspan="3" scope="col" height="5"><span class="style14"> </span></th>
</tr>
<tr valign="middle">
<th class="style1" scope="row" bgcolor="#000000" height="15"
width="587">
<div class="style7" align="left">
<div align="left"><b> TOP NEWS </b></div>
</div>
</th>
<td bordercolor="#868686" border-weight="1px" bgcolor="#ffffff"
width="1"> </td>
<td bordercolor="#FFFFFF" border-weight="1px" bgcolor="#000000"
height="15" width="167"><b><span class="style7">CALENDAR </span></b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="style6" scope="row" valign="top">
<div align="left"><strong>JAMES BAKER III TO GIVE SHILLING
LECTURE APRIL 18</strong></div>
</th>
<td rowspan="18" valign="top" width="1"> </td>
<td rowspan="18" bordercolor="#000000" valign="top" width="167">
<p><strong>February</strong></p>
<p><strong>23-March 4</strong> Company, Fridays and Saturdays, 8
p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m., Jesse and Mary Gibbs Jones Theater<br>
<br>
<strong>25</strong> Baseball vs. University of Dallas, 1 p.m. and
4 p.m.</p>
<p><strong>28-March 31 </strong>“Measured Strokes - Spontaneous
Beasts: Paintings by Sarah Canright & Melissa W. Miller,” Fine Arts
Gallery</p>
<p><strong>March</strong></p>
<p><strong>3</strong> Tennis vs. Hardin-Simmons University, 2 p.m.</p>
<p><strong>5-6</strong> Brown Symposium XXIX, “Who Do We Think We
Are?!”<br>
<br>
<strong>5</strong> Opening Reception for “Measured Strokes -
Spontaneous Beasts: Paintings by Sarah Canright & Melissa W.
Miller,” 6 - 7:30 p.m., Fine Arts Gallery<br>
<br>
<strong>6 </strong>Faculty Recital: Thaddeus Anderson,
percussion, 7 p.m., Caldwell-Carvey Foyer</p>
<p><strong>6</strong> Baseball vs. Howard Payne, 3 p.m.</p>
<p><strong>7</strong> Baseball vs. Mary Hardin-Baylor, 7 p.m. </p>
<p><strong>9</strong> Tennis vs. Kenyon College, 2 p.m. <br>
</p>
<p><br>
<br>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style6" scope="row" valign="top">
<div align="left">
<p>James Baker III, the former secretary of state who most
recently served as co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, will give the 2007
Shilling Lecture at Southwestern University. The lecture will be held
Wednesday, April 18, at 3 p.m. in the Corbin J. Robertson Center.<br>
<br>
Baker served in senior government positions under three U.S.
presidents. His career in public service began in 1975 as under
secretary of commerce to President Gerald Ford. He served as White
House chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1985, and
then served as secretary of the treasury and chairman of the
President’s Economic Policy Council from 1985 to 1988. <br>
<br>
Baker served as secretary of state under President George Bush from
January 1989 through August 1992, during which time he traveled to 90
foreign countries as the United States confronted the unprecedented
challenges and opportunities of the post-Cold War era. He concluded his
White House tenure by serving as chief of staff and senior counselor to
President Bush from August 1992 to January 1993.<br>
<br>
>From 1997 to 2004, Baker served as the personal envoy of United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan to seek a political solution to the
conflict over Western Sahara. In 2003, he was appointed special
presidential envoy for President George W. Bush on the issue of Iraqi
debt. In 2005, he was co-chair, with former President Jimmy Carter, of
the Federal Commission on Election Reform. In March 2006, Baker and
former U.S. Congressman Lee H. Hamilton were named co-chairs of the
Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan blue-ribbon panel examining a
forward-looking approach to Iraq. <br>
Baker is presently a senior partner in the law firm of Baker Botts. He
is Honorary Chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public
Policy at Rice University in Houston and serves on the board of the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute. <br>
<br>
Tickets for the lecture will be available to the general public at <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/shilling-lectures/">http://www.southwestern.edu/shilling-lectures/</a>
beginning April 2. </p>
<p>Read the entire article <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/newsroom/news/070219.html">here</a>.
</p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="style6" scope="row" valign="top">
<div align="left"><strong>SUMMIT PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE</strong></div>
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style6" scope="row" valign="top">
<div align="left">
<p>In November, Southwestern hosted a national summit of scholars
and business leaders to discuss ways to improve the business programs
offered at liberal arts colleges. The summit proceedings are now
available on the project Web site at <a
href="www.southwestern.edu/laab">www.southwestern.edu/laab</a>. These
proceedings are being distributed to liberal arts colleges across the
country. For more information about the summit, contact <a
href="nevillem@southwestern.edu">Mary Grace Neville</a>. To join the
project listserv, contact <a href="senchack@southwestern.edu">A.J.
Senchack</a>.</p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="middle">
<th class="style1" scope="row" bgcolor="#000000" height="15"
width="587">
<div class="style7" align="left">
<div align="left"><b> EVENTS </b></div>
</div>
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="style6" scope="row" valign="top">
<div align="left"><strong>SOUTHWESTERN TO SPONSOR E-RECYCLING
EVENT FOR THE COMMUNITY MARCH 3</strong></div>
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style6" scope="row" valign="top">
<div align="left">Students and staff members from Southwestern
University are partnering with Austin-based Axcess Technologies to
offer a communitywide “E-recycling” event on Saturday, March 3. The
event will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the parking lot behind the
Cullen Building at the intersection of Hwy. 29 and Maple Street. </div>
<p align="left">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. </p>
<p align="left">Southwestern sponsors of the event include
Information Technology Services (ITS) and Students for Environmental
Activism and Knowledge (SEAK). Ben Johnson, president of SEAK, said his
organization jumped at the opportunity to be involved with the event.</p>
<p align="left"> “The age of technology that we are experiencing
today has brought many great things to our world, but it has also
brought a huge amount of high-tech trash that is usually never recycled
because people do not have access to a proper recycling service,”
Johnson said. “This lack of recycling often leads to the deportation of
trash to Third World countries that have no way of properly getting rid
of the waste. We want to help Southwestern and Georgetown take a step
in the right direction and relieve pressure on the environment as well
as on those who unfortunately receive responsibility for our waste.”</p>
<p align="left">For more information on the event, call
512-863-1642.<br>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="style6" scope="row" valign="top">
<div align="left"><strong>'COMPANY' OPENS THIS WEEKEND</strong></div>
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style6" scope="row" valign="top">
<div align="left">
<p>The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Theatre Department, presents
“Company,” the 1971 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, directed by
Rick Roemer. Performances run from Feb. 23 to March 4 on Fridays and
Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. in the Jesse H. and Mary
Gibbs Jones Theater. </p>
<p>“Company” is a passionate and wonderfully edgy and witty
musical that takes a sharp look at love and commitment through the
marriages of five couples as seen through the eyes of their single
friend Robert. It explores love and commitment, fear and longing, and
the simple joy of being alive. An honest and sophisticated look at
relationships, “Company” offers a fresh perspective on our most
cherished institution, marriage—its troubles and triumphs, its
viciousness and victories.</p>
<p>Individual ticket prices are $15 adults, $12 senior and $10
students. Call the box office at 512-863-1378 to reserve your tickets.<br>
</p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="style6" scope="row" valign="top">
<div align="left"><strong>FACULTY FORUM</strong></div>
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style6" scope="row" valign="top">
<div align="left">
<p>Joan Parks, head of reference services at the A. Frank Smith
Library Center, will lead the noon Faculty Forum titled “New database
(LexisNexis) supports a broad range of interdisciplinary research” on
Monday, Feb. 26, in the Lynda McCombs Ballroom. LexisNexis Academic is
a full-text database of English language sources arranged into five
major categories for easy reference: News, business, medical, legal
research, and reference information. The new Web-based academic version
of LexisNexis is now available through the A. Frank Smith Library
Center. The presentation will demonstrate ways to search each of its
five categories.</p>
<p>Sodexho will provide a hot lunch for $4.25 per person and
coffee and tea will be available for 50 cents.</p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="style1" scope="row" bgcolor="#000000" valign="top"
width="587">
<div class="style8" align="left">MEDIA COVERAGE </div>
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style6" scope="row" valign="top" width="587">
<p align="left">The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran a story
about Barbara Boucher-Owen’s oral history project on women in computer
science.</p>
<p align="left">The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran a story
on the presentation of the Martha Diaz Hurtado College Town Award to
the Downtown Georgetown Association.</p>
<p align="left">The <em>Williamson County Sun </em>ran a story
on the dedication of Southwestern University’s Habitat for Humanity
House.</p>
<p align="left">The January/February issue of <em>Austin Runner</em>
included an interview with track and cross-country coach Francie
Larrieu Smith.<br>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="style1" scope="row" bgcolor="#000000" valign="top"
width="587">
<div class="style8" align="left">NOTABLES</div>
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="style6" scope="row" valign="top" width="587">
<p align="left"><strong>Michael Cooper</strong> published the
first-ever source-critical edition of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s
settings of Psalms 2, 43 and 22 with Bärenreiter-Verlag (Kassel). First
published posthumously and reprinted numerous times only in fragmentary
and corrupt forms, the works were written in 1843-44 as part of a
project of sweeping German cultural reform and establishment of a
reformed Protestant liturgy undertaken by the recently crowned King
Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia. For that reason and because of their
musical and expressive merits they stand as milestones in the history
of unaccompanied choral composition. </p>
<p align="left"><strong>Elizabeth Green Musselman</strong>,
associate professor of history and chair of feminist studies, has had
several guest essays appear on others’podcasts. You can hear her
talking about her junior-high gym teacher on the Toronto-based
storytelling podcast Quirky Nomads
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://quirkynomads.com/wp/2006/11/16/">http://quirkynomads.com/wp/2006/11/16/</a> and reflecting on the history of
men and knitting on the Sydney-based knitting podcast Sticks and String
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sticksandstring.com.au/">http://sticksandstring.com.au/</a>.</p>
<p align="left"><strong>Aaron Prevots</strong>, assistant
professor of French, recently published two articles. “U2 and
Learning/Teaching: You Too” appeared in Brown University’s Teaching
Exchange and “Language and Culture through Music Online” appeared in
Wabash College’s Academic Commons. Prevots also led a professional
development seminar for professors of French and Spanish at Austin
Community College on “Songs and Language Learning.”</p>
<p align="left">Southwestern University Music Department faculty
and students were well represented at the recent Texas Music Educators’
Association convention in San Antonio. <strong>Eileen Meyer Russell</strong>,
associate professor of music, gave a presentation titled “From Legato
to Staccato: Teaching Low Brass Players to Articulate.” <strong>William
Dick</strong>, instructor of music, and Laurie Scott, former
Southwestern University faculty member and now assistant professor of
music and human learning at The University of Texas at Austin, gave
their presentation “Construction Zone: The Beginning Bow Arm.” The SU
student string quartet composed of <strong>Eileen Kwee</strong> and <strong>Victoria
Chang</strong>, violins, <strong>Rohan Sreenivasan</strong>, viola,
and <strong>Megan McCarty</strong>, cello, performed in the TMEA Music
Showcase. The quartet is coached by <strong>Eri Lee Lam</strong>,
assistant professor of music. <strong>Kiyoshi Tamagawa</strong>’s
orchestration of the Handel-Halvorsen “Passacaglia” was performed by
the Berkner High School (Richardson) State Honor String Orchestra. This
piece will also be performed by the Gulfport (Miss.) High School
orchestra on a tour of Germany this coming April.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="style1" scope="row" valign="top" width="587"> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="style6" scope="row" valign="top" width="587"> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="style1" scope="row" valign="top" width="587"> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th class="style1" scope="row" valign="top" width="587"> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row" height="35" width="587"> </th>
<td width="1"> </td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Ellen Davis
Director of Communications
Southwestern University
1001 E. University Ave.
Georgetown TX 78626
512-863-1570
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.southwestern.edu">www.southwestern.edu</a>
</pre>
</body>
</html>