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LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY'S STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1884 The Law rentian FRIDAY APRIL 29, 2005 • VOL CXXXtVII, NO. 19 • WWW.LAWRENTIAN.COM The Lawrence deal on Gillette is back for a guest Guster and Better Than Ezra FEATURESeducation /P**2 OP/ED editorial / Page 4 come to Appleton / Page 6 President Beck, liberal learning to be celebrated this inauguration weekend Emily Passey will find an information desk with Lawrence alumni who have gone on to a lecture on "Classics at Lawrence: tled "Guys and Dolls" and "The Staff Writer schedules and maps in the Main Hall have eclectic lives and careers and who From Sampson to Beck" at 2 p.m. in Modem City," will be open to the pub lobby. At four intervals throughout the attribute much of that to their Main Hall 105. The Spanish depart lic all day. In the conservatory, the stu day, the first at 10:30, campus tours Lawrence experience. Finally, faculty, ment will be giving dance demonstra dents from both the "Advanced Acting" On May 7, Lawrence will inaugu will depart from the south steps of students, and representatives will dis tions, presented by the members of class and the spring play "First Lady" rate its 15th president, Jill Beck. The Main Hall. cuss collaborative projects between VTVA, at 11-12, and will also offer will be acting out a few scenes, at 11:30 events surrounding the installation There are also several open houses Lawrence and the Fox Cities. readings of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and 12:30. In Harper at 11:30, 1:30 ceremony are numerous, but the focus interspersed throughout the day. Each The students and faculty of every and presentations to celebrate the and 2:30, two student trios will per of weekend is not Beck's inauguration. of these will also have a few staff mem department will be showing off work, 400th anniversary of the writing of form "The Klezmer’s Wedding" by Srul The theme of the weekend, "A bers on hand to direct people and leading discussions, or answering Don Quixote. The English department Irving Glick and "Come Down Heavy" Celebration of the Arts and Liberal answer questions. The Career Center questions, and many will be there all will also be doing poetry readings, but by Evan Chambers. Besides these Learning," truly says it all. This is an and the Center for Teaching and day. The social sciences department is of student work, at 2 p.m. in Science events, there are many more, all cho idea of which President Beck is a great Learning will be open at various times focusing on displaying student pro Hall 202. Student poets include sen by the faculty to truly exemplify supporter, having founded ArtsBridge, during the day. Visitors can check out jects, conducting people through the Aubree Bojko, Michael Morse, and Lawrence’s position as an amazingly an outreach program designed to offer students' volunteer work in the Union anthropology department, and the psy Joshua Musikantow, three seniors diverse liberal arts university with hands-on arts experience for elemen all day, or experience the technology in choacoustics and child development from Professor Barrett’s "Advanced much to offer. tary through high school students. Main Hall at the Humanities labs, and telling visitors about the Poetry Writing" class. In addition, Friday ends with a faculty concert The kick-off is at 5:30 on May 5th. Computer Lab until 2. There will be a Freeman Trip to Asia. The labs are many of the other humanities depart in Memorial Chapel, followed by vari The Cellular Automata — those elabo special presentation at 11:15 followed open from 11 a.m. until 12:15, and all ments will be giving presentations, ous inaugural dinners around campus rate sculptures adorning Science Hall by a drop-in open discussion — until other events are open house. hosting tea, and showing off student for the exhausted guests and, of atrium — will be dedicated by the about 1:15 — all about Freshman The math and computer science work. course, President Beck. artist, Rob Smart, '96. Attendees at Studies, given by the head of the pro departments will also be displaying In the physical sciences, the labo The inauguration will take place this invitation-only event will include gram, Professor Dirck Vorenkamp. student work and the department ratories will be open for visitors to on Saturday morning, beginning with faculty, trustees, visiting alums, and Three panel presentations are facilities, and Professor Eugenie peruse starting mostly at 1 p.m., with a procession of student leaders, distinguished guests from other liberal scheduled in succession, beginning at Hunsicker will be around from 10-12 the Saliva Lab, Microbiology Lab, and trustees, faculty, and other distin arts universities across the country. 12:45 p.m. and continuing until 4:30. to explain the Knot Theory. They will Geology Labs open at 10. Also, student guished guests. The Installation will The big event is the open house, Each presentation will be an hour also host a Mathematics Tea at 2:30, posters will be on display and the stu begin at 10:30 and is a limited-space, Friday, May 6, from 10-4 p.m., taking long, with small breaks in between, allowing visitors to talk with faculty dents who participated in the geology ticketed event. The University is hop place all over campus. The day and take place in Youngchild 121. The and students and learn more about the trip to Scotland will be describing that ing that many people will attend and includes presentations from nearly all first will cover the ArtsJBridge pro department. experience at 11 a.m. in Youngchild has arranged for a closed-circuit departments and various events show gram, with scholars, sponsoring teach As for the humanities, there are 236. broadcast into Stansbury, and a live casing many fine Lawrence attributes. ers, and faculty mentors discussing the mostly timed events such as lectures The music, theatre arts and art webcast for far-away alums and stu Here are a few highlights: diversity and growth of the new pro and readings throughout the day. departments will make appearances dents home for break. Beginning in the morning, visitors gram. The second will consist of Professor Daniel Taylor will be giving as well. In Wriston, two exhibits, enti Fellows to bring new academic ProfessorSkran opportunities to Lawrence awarded FUbright Liz Tubman also have the opportunity to collabo The interviews have all occurred in Emily Gonzalez dying before the age of five — the Staff Writer rate with fellows on various research the last two weeks of April. Once the Staff Writer _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ impact of war on Sierra Leone' has projects and performances. Fellows Committee reviews the feed been immense. Nearly three-quarters Beck, along with the Fellows back from faculty and students, they The Lawrence Fellows Program Committee, hopes that the program will make recommendations to Beck. In fall 2005 Claudena Skran, was recently established by President will help the fellows in their transi The committee is currently in the associate professor of government, Beck to enhance academic opportuni tion from graduate school to academic process of interviewing 11 candidates, will begin a research project on the ties here at Lawrence. The Fellows careers. With a lighter teaching load, and they hope to hire six fellows for role of non-governmental organiza Committee, comprised of Lawrence the fellows will be able to create new the upcoming academic year. In tions with refugee resettlement in faculty members Alexis Boylan, courses under less pressure while con future years, the committee hopes to Africa. Skran was recently awarded a Marcia Bjomerud, Mark Jenike, Steve tinuing their other professional activ have up to 20 fellows on campus. grant for $60,000 by the Fulbright Jordheim, and Peter Glick, will bring ities. The Fellows Committee also All fields are eligible to seek a fel Scholar Program that will enable her in recent doctoral and MFA graduates hopes that, as the fellows pursue low. The current candidate fields to carry out this international study. who are beginning their academic careers outside Lawrence, they will include math, gender studies, music The project will take Skran to Sierra careers for two- or three-year posi maintain ties to the university and history, biology, psychology, geology, Leone — statistically the world's tions in various departments of the thereby help improve Lawrence's aca physics, philosophy, music composi poorest country — which must now college and conservatory. The fellows demic reputation. tion, theatre/drama, and anthropolo deal with resettling refugees and dis will teach courses and offer individu The process of choosing fellows is gy. The candidates’ academic back placed citizens after a brutal 10-year alized instruction for students while very competitive; according to Glick, grounds are impressive: the under civil war. Photo courtesy of lawrence.edu continuing their own professional the Fellows Committee is "committed graduate schools of the prospective Skran will be investigating how activities as musicians or scholars. to hiring only extremely high-quality fellows include Harvard, Yale, the current NGOs working within of a million people were forced to flee This new program will be benefi candidates." The committee began by Wellesley, Oberlin, Mount Holyoke, Africa — specifically in war-torn their homes during the civil war, and cial not only for students, but for fac advertising in the Chronicle of Higher Tufts, Cornell University, and Sierra Leone — are addressing four an estimated 50,000 citizens died. ulty members and fellows as well. For Education and on listservs — online Colgate. major questions within refugee reset Though the war ended in 2001 with students, having fellows on campus mailing lists — in a variety of differ Glick remarked, "these candi tlement: organization, governance, national elections the following year, will mean increased course offerings ent fields.