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<div class="style3" align="left"> IN FOCUS: March 21, 2008</div>
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BRADLEY TO GIVE 2008 SHILLING LECTURE AT SOUTHWESTERN APRIL 21</th>
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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> <br>
Bill Bradley, an Olympic gold medalist and NBA basketball player who
went on to serve three terms in the U.S. Senate, will give the 2008
Shilling Lecture at Southwestern. The lecture will be held Monday,
April 21, at 7 p.m. in the Alma Thomas Theater. </p>
<p>The title of the lecture will be “The New American Story...
Including Nine Questions to Ask Before Voting for President.”</p>
<p>New American Story is the title of Bradley’s latest book,
published in March 2007, which offers a review of current politics and
a collection of ideas to improve major policy issues, such as the way
we elect presidents.</p>
<p>To read the rest of the story, click <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/cgi-bin/newsroom/article.cgi?id=73">here</a>.
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<p>To purchase or reserve tickets or to learn more about the
Shilling Lecture, click <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/shilling-lectures/">here</a>.</p>
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<p>Southwestern will re-establish a local tradition this spring
by hosting a mayoral forum for candidates George Garver and Doug Smith.
The event will take place on Friday, April 18, from 7-8:30 p.m. in the
Red and Charline McCombs Campus Center ballrooms. </p>
<p>The event is being organized by students in Professor Gilbert
St. Clair’s Media and Politics class at Southwestern. Students involved
with planning the forum include juniors Eric Franco, Matthew Maschino
and Avery Sheppard, and seniors Eamon Briggs and Laura Gabriel.</p>
<p>Audience members will be able to participate in the forum by
submitting written questions to a panel of students. Both candidates
will have the opportunity to make opening and closing remarks.</p>
<p>The forum will be moderated by Eric McKinney, interim chaplain
of Southwestern. </p>
<p>Garver and Smith are vying to replace Gary Nelon, who has
served as mayor of Georgetown since 2002. The election is set for
Saturday, May 10. Whoever is elected mayor will serve a three-year term.</p>
<p>For more information on the forum, call 512-863-1662. For
directions to the campus center, visit <a
href="http://southwestern.edu/tour/campus-map.pdf">http://southwestern.edu/tour/campus-map.pdf</a>.</p>
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<th scope="row" align="left" valign="top">BASSOON RECITAL MARCH
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<p>The Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Music Department, presents
bassoonist Eric Stone Miller in a faculty recital at 7 p.m. on Monday,
March 31, in the Caldwell-Carvey Foyer of the Fine Arts Center at
Southwestern. Miller will be joined by two faculty colleagues:
clarinetist Anna Carney and pianist Kiyoshi Tamagawa. Works to be
performed will include compositions by Mendelssohn, Tansman, Grantham
and Reicha. </p>
<p>This recital is free and open to the public.</p>
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<p align="left">• The <em>Austin American-Statesman</em> ran an
article about the upcoming Brown Symposium. Read the article at <a
href="http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/03/14/0314hinotes.html">http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/03/14/0314hinotes.html</a><br>
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• Romi Burks’ First-Year Seminar class on chocolate is featured in the <em>Chronicle
of Higher Education</em>. Read the story at <a
href="http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i28/28a00901.htm">http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i28/28a00901.htm</a>
(password may be required)<br>
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• The March 2008 issue of <em>University Business</em> has an article
that mentions Southwestern’s online cost calculator. Read the article
at <a
href="http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1015&p=3#0">http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1015&p=3#0</a><br>
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• The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran an article about Bill Bradley
being named the 2008 Shilling Lecturer.<br>
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<p align="left"><strong>Elizabeth Green Musselman</strong>,
associate professor of history, recently presented a paper titled
“Companion Animals as Producers of Natural Knowledge in Colonial
Southern Africa” at the annual meeting of the American Society for
Environmental History. She has also been invited to present next month
at a Mellon-funded workshop that examines Native American and African
environmental knowledge and practices. </p>
<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></p>
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