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<div class="style3" align="left"> IN FOCUS: April 11, 2008</div>
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<p>Southwestern President Jake B. Schrum has received the Dr. E.
Joseph Savoie Chief Executive Leadership Award from District IV of the
Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), which
includes Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mexico. </p>
<p>The Chief Executive Leadership Awards were created in 1999 to
recognize leaders of CASE-member institutions for outstanding efforts
to promote understanding and support of education. Nominees must
demonstrate the ability to create a vision and inspire others, and must
establish a positive image for their institution while leading it to
even higher levels of success.</p>
<p>Schrum received the award April 6 during the annual CASE IV
conference held in Little Rock, Ark.<br>
Schrum has been president of Southwestern University (his alma mater)
since 2000. Prior to that, he was president of Texas Wesleyan
University in Fort Worth from 1991 to 2000.<br>
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Schrum has served as national board chair for CASE as well as for the
Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) and the Independent Colleges and
Universities of Texas (ICUT). He also has served in a leadership role
for the National Association of Schools and Colleges of the United
Methodist Church. </p>
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<th scope="row" align="left" valign="top">FRATERNITY HOSTS TEXAS
SENATOR FOR LEADERSHP LUNCHEON APRIL 11</th>
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<p>The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at Southwestern will hold its
next installment of the Leadership Luncheon Series at noon on Friday,
April 11, in the Mood-Bridwell Atrium. The event will feature Texas
District 14 Senator and former Austin Mayor Kirk Watson. Senator Watson
is vice-chair of the Senate Committee on Transportation and Homeland
Security. Most recently, he was named legislative "Rookie of the Year"
by Texas Monthly Magazine. Watson will speak to the Southwestern
University campus community on the topics of leadership in the
legislature and law. <br>
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Pi Kappa Alpha will provide a free lunch to the first 50 attendees with
the help of McAlister’s Deli of Georgetown.<br>
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For additional information on Pi Kappa Alpha or its Leadership Luncheon
Series, please contact Alexander Pacelli at 512-819-7301 or visit
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.AOPikes.com">www.AOPikes.com</a>.<br>
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<td scope="row" align="left" valign="top">Southwestern will host
the Seventh Annual Region 6-Texas NAME Multicultural Education
Conference April 18-19. The theme of this years conference is
“Multicultural Education: The Path to an Equitable Future with
Distinction and Purpose.
<p>Events will include an opening keynote speaker from Juliet E.
K. Walker, professor of African American business history, and by David
Campos, associate professor at the University of Incarnate Word.</p>
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<p>The Southwestern University Theatre Department presents
SubUrbia April 23-27 in the Jones Theater of the Alma Thomas Fine Arts
Center. The show will begin on Wednesday and Thursday at 7 p.m., Friday
and Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 3 p.m.</p>
<p>Tickets for the event are available by calling the box office
at 512-863-1378 Monday-Friday between 1-5 p.m. They will also be
available one hour before curtain. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10
for youth (16 and under) and seniors (63 and over).</p>
<p>The play follows a day in the life of several rootless young
Americans who hang out every night in the parking lot of a convenience
store. Critics called SubUrbia one of “the best plays of the season”
when it premiered at Lincoln Center. For more information about the
play, contact Rick Roemer at 512-863-1548.</p>
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<p align="left">• The <em>Austin American-Statesman</em> ran a
story on the Student Works Symposium. </p>
<p>• The <em>Williamson County Sun</em> ran a story about
Southwestern’s Operation Achievement Program.</p>
<p>• The <em>Williamson County Sun </em>covered the opening
lecture of the Brown Symposium.</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Shana Bernstein</strong>, assistant
professor of history, presented a paper titled “Rethinking the History
of U.S. Civil Rights Struggles during the Cold War through a
Multiracial, Los Angeles, Lens” at the annual Organization of American
Historians conference in New York City on March 28.</p>
<p><strong>Ellen Davis</strong>, director of communications,
received a gold award in the category of General News Writing from
District IV of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education
(CASE). The award was presented at the district conference in Little
Rock, Ark., April 7.</p>
<p><strong>Phil Hopkins</strong>, associate professor of
philosophy, will present a workshop April 11 at the Northeast
Conference on Media Literacy titled "Mass Moralizing: Building and
Selling Moral Identities." Hopkins will present a paper titled "Weaving
the Fish Basket: Heraclitus and the Meta-philosophy of Opposition," in
plenary session at the Society for Ancient Philosophy annual meeting at
the New School for Social Research in New York April 12.</p>
<p><strong>Aaron Prevots</strong>, assistant professor of French,
added 10 international recording artist contributions to his
educational website "French Through Songs and Singing," seen <a
href="http://www.southwestern.edu/%7Eprevots/songs/">here</a>.
Featured artists now include Évelyne Girardon, La Compagnie Beline and
Eric Vincent of France, Mes Aïeux of Quebec and Célina Ramsauer of
Switzerland. Three articles by music and culture specialist
Jean-Nicolas De Surmont were also added to the site, regarding the
"chanson" tradition in Québec. Prevots’s preface "Teaching French
through Music" was published in the fourth edition of "Horizons,” the
first-year French textbook currently in use at Southwestern. Prevots
also gave an invited presentation on "French through Songs" at
Huston-Tillotson University in Austin.</p>
<p><strong>Eric Selbin</strong>, professor of political science
and University Scholar, and <strong>Meghana Nayak ’97</strong>,
assistant professor of political science at Pace University, have
signed a contract with Zed Books for a co-authored book titled “Doing
International Relations from the <br>
Margins.” The book contends that the political concepts/issues
discussed in international relations are Western liberal bourgeois
constructions wherein even alternative, critical discussions are
"trapped" by the discursive stranglehold of these concepts and their
genealogies.</p>
<p>Three students in the chemistry and biochemistry department
presented their research at the national meeting of the American
Chemical Society in New Orleans. <strong>Radhika Kainthla</strong>,
senior biochemistry major, presented "Photoexcitation of daunomycin
leads to oxidative DNA damage that is dependent on molecular oxygen" in
collaboration with <strong>Maha Zewail Foote</strong>, assistant
professor of chemistry. <strong>Carissa Fritz</strong>, sophomore
chemistry major, presented "DNA binding and cleaving properties of
intercalating copper(II) complexes" based on her work with Foote and
Gulnar Rawji, associate professor of chemistry. <strong>Megan Mullins</strong>,
senior political science major, presented "Kirkwood-Buff derived force
fields for mixtures of thiols in water" in collaboration with <strong>Nikolaos
Bentenitis</strong>, assistant professor of chemistry.<br>
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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></p>
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1001 E. University Ave.
Georgetown, TX 78626
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