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<div class="style3" align="left"> IN FOCUS: November 2, 2007</div>
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<div align="left">SOUTHWESTERN PROFESSOR FORMS NONPROFIT
ORGANIZATION<br>
TO KEEP TIBETAN LANGUAGE ALIVE</div>
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To view upcoming events at Southwestern by day, week or month, click <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/sucalendar/main.php">here</a>.<br>
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<p>As a graduate student working on her Ph.D. in Chinese
literature, Patricia Schiaffini made several trips to Tibet to learn
more about Tibetan authors. During these visits to Tibet, she also
learned something else: that many Tibetans were becoming less and less
fluent in their own language because they tended to speak more Chinese
in day-to-day life. She also learned that there were very few
children’s books written in Tibetan. </p>
<p>“Tibetan children are losing their own language and their own
culture because they don’t have resources in their own language,” says
Schiaffini, who now teaches Chinese as a part-time assistant professor
in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Southwestern.</p>
<p>When she returned to the United States after completing her
dissertation research in 1999, Schiaffini started to brainstorm ways
that she could help the people of Tibet, but it was not until she had
her own children that she realized exactly how important children’s
books really are. </p>
<p>Read the rest of the story <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=46">here</a>.
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To see pages from some of the books Schiaffini has published, click <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/newsroom/tibet/tibet.html">here</a>.</p>
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<td scope="row" valign="top">Three teams of students from
Southwestern have been preparing for the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM) South Central Regional Programming Contest. The
regional round of competition will move on to the 32nd annual ACM
International Collegiate Programming Contest, sponsored by IBM.
<p>The regional round of competition is on Saturday, Nov. 3, at
Texas A&M University, and teams from nine other Texas universities
will be competing. Teams of three students will be challenged to use
their programming skills and rely on their mental endurance to solve
complex problems under a five-hour deadline. The team that answers the
most problems correctly in the least amount of time will advance to the
world finals in Banff Springs, Alberta, Canada, next April.</p>
<p>In preparation for the contest, the students have been
practicing every Friday afternoon for weeks. Richard Denman, associate
professor of math and computer science, is coaching the three student
teams from Southwestern. On team “su root,” Stephen Foster, Tommy
Rogers and Bob Potter will compete. Students Carl West, Nathan Lindzey
and Michael Party will compete for team “su equipo.” The last team, “su
pirata informatico,” is made up of Sarah Doty, Lane Hill and Nick
Ashford. <br>
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<p>Southwestern will celebrate Homecoming & Reunion Weekend
this weekend, November 2-4. Visit <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/homecoming/">http://www.southwestern.edu/homecoming/</a>
for more information.</p>
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<td scope="row" align="left" valign="top">The Theatre Department
and the Theatre for Social Justice Student Organization presents “The
Disability Project: A Mystical Quest to Slay Normalcy,” created,
written, directed and performed by a collective of Southwestern
students and faculty. The show will be performed through a walking tour
of the campus on a quest to question and “slay” ideas of normalcy.
<p>The tour will be performed Wednesday, Nov. 7, to Sunday, Nov.
11, starting in the lobby of the Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Hones Theatre.
The tours will begin on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, at 7 p.m. and
on Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m. </p>
<p>This event is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>For more information about this project, click <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=47">here</a>.</p>
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<div class="style8" align="left">MEDIA COVERAGE </div>
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<p align="left">• The <em>Williamson County Sun </em>ran a
story about Southwestern’s new grant from the Mellon Foundation for
faculty enrichment. </p>
<p>• The <em>United Methodist Reporter </em>ran President Jake
B. Schrum’s column about students and the environment.</p>
<p>• The <em>Williamson County Sun </em>ran a feature story on
the career of Drusilla Huffmaster Anderson, who served as a professor
of piano at Southwestern from 1961 to 1988.</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Edward L. Kain</strong>, professor of
sociology, served on the site review team for the Department of
Sociology and Anthropology at Gettysburg College Oct. 22-24. Other
members of the review team were from Bowdoin College, Hamilton College
and North Carolina State University.</p>
<p><strong>Mary Grace Neville</strong>, assistant professor of
business and Paideia® professor, presented a paper titled "No Student
Left Behind: Rethinking Our Approach to Management Education" at the
15th annual Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management conference.
At the same conference, Neville was awarded the organization's "Best <br>
Reviewer" commendation for pre-conference participation in the blind,
peer review process leading to the selection and development of
conference papers.</p>
<p><strong>Suzy Pukys</strong>, coordinator of civic engagement,
received an award for education at the 5th annual Hope Alliance
Leadership Luncheon. In addition, student <strong>Kathryn Haskin </strong>received
an award for the Hope Alliance Volunteer of the Year. The Hope Alliance
of Williamson County is a program dedicated to preventing and raising
awareness about domestic violence. </p>
<p><strong>Michael Wolfe</strong>, part-time assistant professor
of English, has written a story that will be featured in the current
issue of Menda City Review. His story is titled “I’ll Pay You Back When
I Get Home.” Read the story at <a
href="http://www.mendacitypress.com/11.2007Wolfe.html">http://www.mendacitypress.com/11.2007Wolfe.html</a>.</p>
<p>This October issue of Teaching Sociology includes an article
co-authored by a Southwestern faculty member and three alumni from the
Department of Sociology and Anthropology. The article is titled
“Sociology in Two-Year Institutions.” The article reports on analyses
of college catalog listings at over 100 two-year institutions across
the United States. It is co-authored by <strong>Edward L. Kain</strong>,
professor of sociology, <strong>Alexandra O. Hendley</strong> '06, who
is in the Ph.D. program in sociology at UC-Santa Barbara, <strong>Lauren
R. Contreras</strong> '07, who is an Americorps member at College
Forward in Austin, and <strong>Krystal K. Wyatt-Baxter</strong> '06,
who is in the Ph.D. program in sociology at The University of Texas at
Austin.</p>
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