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<div class="style3" align="left"> IN FOCUS: February 22, 2008</div>
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRESIDENT RECOGNIZED FOR HELPING MAKE GEORGETOWN A
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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>Georgetown Mayor Gary Nelon and Chamber of Commerce President
Mel Pendland were recognized Feb. 16 for their efforts to help make
Georgetown seem like more like a college town.</p>
<p>Southwestern presented the two with its third annual Martha
Diaz Hurtado College Town Award at halftime of the Southwestern men’s
basketball game against Hendrix College.</p>
<p>The award was created in 2006 to recognize citizens,
organizations or businesses whose exemplary efforts have enhanced the
“college town” environment for students, faculty and staff at
Southwestern. Previous recipients of the award include the Williamson
County Sun and the Downtown Georgetown Association.</p>
<p>To read the rest of the story, go <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=64">here</a>.</p>
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SPONSORS E-RECYCLING EVENT FOR THE COMMUNITY MARCH 1</th>
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<p>Students and staff members from Southwestern are partnering
with Austin-based Axcess Technologies to offer a communitywide
“E-recycling” event. 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. The event will take
place Sat., March 1, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the parking lot behind
the Cullen Building at Hwy. 29 and Maple Street. A campus map is
available <a href="http://www.southwestern.edu/tour/campus-map.pdf">here</a>.</p>
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Southwestern sponsors of the event include Information Technology
Services (ITS) and Students for Environmental Activism and Knowledge
(SEAK).This is the second year Southwestern has sponsored the event.
Last year’s event was a tremendous success, as enough high-tech trash
to fill an 18-wheeler was collected. <br>
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<th scope="row" align="left" valign="top">JEWISH IDENTITY
SYMPOSIUM FEB. 26</th>
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<p>Seth Wolitz, holder of the Edwin Gale Chair of Judaic Studies
at The University of Texas at Austin, will participate in and lead a
symposium, along with Michael Saenger and Shana Bernstein, concerning
Jewish identity and its representation. The symposium will take place
Feb. 26 at 6 p.m. in the Jones Theater, with a reception to follow in
the Caldwell-Carvey Foyer.</p>
<p>The symposium is funded by the Fleming Lectures in Religion,
the Global Partners Grant, the Provost, the Paideia Program, the
Library, and the Departments of Theatre, Modern Languages and
Literature, History, and English.<br>
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<td scope="row" align="left" valign="top">The 2008 Keyboard
Percussion Festival will be Sat. March 29. This year's festival will
feature percussionist Eric Hollenbeck. The event is intended to provide
Central Texas percussionists an educational and performance outlet in
the campus’ historic Lois Perkins Chapel. High School and College level
percussionists are invited to perform standard marimba and vibraphone
literature and anyone is welcome to attend the events throughout the
day.
<p>If you are interested in performing a work on the participants
recital, <br>
please contact Thaddeus Anderson at 512-863-1369.</p>
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<p><br>
The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Department of Music presents Sotto
Voce in concert in the Alma Thomas Theater on Sat. March 29, at 7 p.m.
Sotto Voce is a tuba-euphonium quartet. Its members include Demondrae
Thurman on euphonium and trombone, Mark Carlson on euphonium and
trombone,Nat McIntosh on tuba, sousaphone, euphonium and trombone, and
Mike Forbes on the tuba and euphonium.</p>
<p>A clinic and master class for euphonium and tuba players will
take place that day from 10 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. There is no charge to
attend the clinic, master class, or concert. </p>
<p>If you wish to attend the clinic or perform for Sotto Voce in
the master class, please contact Eileen Meyer Russell at 512-863-1732
or <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:russelle@southwestern.edu">russelle@southwestern.edu</a>.</p>
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<div class="style8" align="left">MEDIA COVERAGE </div>
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<p align="left">• The February 2008 issue of <em>University
Business</em> featured Southwestern in a story about cultivating
non-alumni donors. Read the story <a
href="http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1002">here</a>.
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• The <em>Williamson County Sun </em>ran a story about trees on
campus
being moved in preparation for construction of the new admission
center. </p>
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• The <em>Austin Business Journal </em>ran a story about Caitlin
Cooper receiving the Academic Internship Student Achievement award from
the Cooperative Education and Internship Association. Read the story <a
href="http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2008/02/18/tidbits1.html">here</a>.
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• The <em>Williamson County Sun </em>ran a feature story about the
set design for Fiddler on the Roof. </p>
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• The<em> Chronicle of Higher Education</em> reviewed Professor Laura
Hobgood-Oster’s new book, "Holy Dogs & Asses – Animals in the
Christian Tradition." Read the review <a
href="http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i24/24b01801.htm">here</a>. (may
require password).<br>
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<div class="style8" align="left">NOTABLES</div>
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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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Katy Boose
Editorial Coordinator
Southwestern University
1001 E. University Ave.
Georgetown, TX 78626
512-863-1487
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:boosek@southwestern.edu">boosek@southwestern.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.southwestern.edu">www.southwestern.edu</a></pre>
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