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<div class="style3" align="left"> IN FOCUS: January 25, 2008</div>
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To view upcoming events at Southwestern by day, week or month, click <a
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<p>Iranian writer, scholar and social activist Azar Nafisi will
be the 2008 speaker for the Writers Voice series sponsored by the A.
Frank Smith, Jr. Library at Southwestern. The 2008 Writers Voice
lecture has been set for Nov. 11, 2008, in the Alma Thomas Theater.</p>
<p>Nafisi is best known as the author of Reading Lolita in
Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which spent two years on the New York Times
Best Seller List. The book details how Nafisi met privately with a
group of her women students to discuss works of literature against the
back drop of Tehran in the mid-1990s. Nafisi was ousted from her
teaching position at the Tehran University in 1995 for refusing to wear
the mandatory Islamic veil.</p>
<p>Today, Nafisi is a visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins University
in Washington, D.C., and teaches courses on the relation between
culture and politics. She also is director of the SAIS Dialogue Project
at the Foreign Policy Institute of the University’s School of Advanced
International Studies.</p>
<p>“Azar Nafisi’s writing is a wonderful example of the
restorative impact that works of literature can have on our lives,”
said Lynne Brody, dean of library services. Brody said she is
particularly excited about Nafisi’s visit because it will offer an
opportunity to open a dialogue about the role of Iran historically,
politically and culturally through her work.</p>
<p>According to Brody, “Dr. Nafisi is by all accounts a brilliant
and thought-provoking speaker and teacher on literature and politics,
and we expect this to be an especially exciting and rewarding year for
the Writer’s Voice.”</p>
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<td class="style6" scope="row" valign="top">Southwestern will
join more than 1,500 colleges and universities nationwide in a Jan. 31
“teach-in” about global warming.
<p>The project, called “Focus The Nation,” was organized by Eban
Goldstein, a professor of economics at Lewis & Clark College in
Oregon. Organizers claim the event is the largest teach-in in U.S.
history, and will reach nearly 1 million youth. </p>
<p>“No other generation has ever had to face this kind of
civilizational challenge,” Goldstein says. “And we as educators would
be failing if we did not prepare them with the tools to meet this
challenge.”</p>
<p>The teach-in will begin the night of Jan. 30 with a live
webcast produced by the National Wildlife Federation and aired by the
Earth Day Network. Panelists will include Stanford climate scientist
Steve Schneider; Hunter Lovins, an environmental justice leader and CEO
of Natural Capitalism; and Van Jones, executive director of the Ella
Baker Center in Oakland, Calif.</p>
<p>The next day, Jan. 31, faculty members at participating
universities will be asked to incorporate global warming into their
lectures. Here are some examples of how faculty members at Southwestern
will work the topic into their classes Jan. 30 and 31:</p>
<p>• Math Professor Tara Saenz will talk to her Intro to
Statistics course about “good” and “bad” statistics relating to global
warming.<br>
• Biology Professor Ben Pierce will talk to students in his Genetics
class about genetic and evolutionary responses of natural populations
to climate change.<br>
• Spanish Professor Carlos D’Oro will discuss the topic of climate
change in Spanish to his students.<br>
• German Professor Erika Berroth will talk to her classes about
Germany’s perspective on the environment. <br>
• Theater Professor John Ore will talk to students in his Lighting
Design class about LED lights. <br>
• Religion Professor Katherine Baker will talk to her classes about
what the Hebrew Bible says about “good stewardship of creation.”</p>
<p>To read the rest of the story, go <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=59">here</a>.</p>
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<p>The winter issue of Southwestern magazine is now available
online at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.southwestern.edu/magazine">www.southwestern.edu/magazine</a>. The issue features a variety
of stories about Southwestern's current and past connections to China.
Please share it with anyone who may not have received a printed copy of
the magazine.</p>
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<p>The Sarofim School of Fine Arts is offering a New York Theatre
Tour March 20-24. The tour will feature theatre in New York City and
includes the Tony award-winning musical, Spring Awakening. In addition,
it will feature the musicals Sunday in the Park with George and South
Pacific. For more information, contact Rick Roemer at 863-1548 or
Allison Fannin at 863-1504 or go to the website <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/academic/sfa-site/9newyorkprog.htm">here</a>.<br>
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<p align="left">• The<em> Austin American-Statesman</em>
published a commentary piece by President Jake B. Schrum on NCAA
Division III athletics. Read the piece <a
href="http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/01/18/0118schrum_edit.html">here</a>.
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<p>• The Austin American-Statesman ran a story about Biology
Professor Max Taub’s research on how rising CO2 levels could affect the
protein content of major food crops. Read the story <a
href="http://www.statesman.com/search/content/news/stories/local/01/21/0121protein.html">here</a>.
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<p>• Max Taub also was interviewed about his research on a
national radio show that aired on the Progressive Radio Network. He
also was interviewed by radio station KPFT in Houston.</p>
<p>• Southwestern was mentioned in an article the<em> San Antonio
Express News </em>wrote about Bexar County students who go out of town
for higher education. Read the article <a
href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/education/stories/MYSA012208.01B.OUTLYINGSCHOOLS.29b822f.html">here</a>.</p>
<p>• Psychology Professor Fay Guaraci’s research on caffeine and
rats was mentioned recently in several media outlets, including MSNBC, <em>Men’s
Health</em> and the <em>Dallas Morning News</em>. Read the<em> Dallas
Morning News</em> mention <a
href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/healthyliving/nutrition/stories/012208caffaddict.3563ade0.html">here</a>.</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Joe Zavala</strong>, assistant professor
of Spanish, presented a paper titled, “A Nation without Citizens:
Peru's Postcolonial Predicament” at the Chimalpahin 5th Conference on
Colonial Remembering and Forgetfulness held in Mexico City. The paper
evolved from his summer 2007 research in Peru that was funded by a
Cullen grant. It is currently being developed into an article that will
be submitted to a journal in fall 2008.</p>
<p>The January 2008 issue of the journal Teaching Sociology
includes an article co-authored by <strong>Edward L. Kain</strong>,
professor of sociology and University Scholar in the Department of
Sociology and Anthropology. The article is titled “Information
Literacy: The Partnership of Sociology Faculty and Social Science
Librarians.” <strong>Joan Parks</strong>, head of reference services
at the Smith Library Center, worked with Kain during the early stages
of his involvement with the national committee of the American Library
Association.</p>
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<p><em>Have a submission for “Notables”? Send it to
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:infocus@southwestern.edu">infocus@southwestern.edu</a>. </em><br>
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