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Will Medicare Collapse What Do Followers Creighton at 125: Exceptions Under its Own Weight? Expect from Leaders? The Jesuits Summer 2004 Visit the magazine online at: www.creightonmagazine.org SUMMER 2004 University Magazine Departments 4 University News Scientific Discovery Creighton undergraduates have a unique opportunity to be involved in ground- breaking research. Cancer Find Tracking a gene mutation leads Creighton’s Henry Lynch, M.D., back to an 18th century German immigrant. Photo by Mark Romesser 37 Development News Bible Translations Creighton Bible scholar Leonard Greenspoon, Ph.D., examines 10 common A New Approach to Medical 12 misconceptions. Education Creighton at 125 Creighton alumnus Louis Halamek, BS’81, MD’86, is breaking new ground with the Part IV use of simulators. Former Deans Continue to Give Retired deans Edeth Kitchens, Ph.D., R.N., and Sidney Stohs, Ph.D., continue to give to Creighton through scholarship funds. 40 Alumni News The Forensic Expert Archives University Creighton As the U.S. government’s top forensic The Jesuits Exceptions pathologist, Craig Mallak, JD’85, MD’89, Our series celebrating Creighton’s Examining rules on legal ethics helped identify the bodies of Iraq’s Uday 18 125th anniversary concludes by 24 and rules associated with the and Qusay Hussein. highlighting some of these bereted, cassocked Sabbath leads Law Professor Lawrence Raful to schoolmen. a reflection on exceptions. Tracking Terror William Fox, BA’84, JD’87, is on the front lines of tracking terrorist financing as the new director of FinCEN. 55 The Last Word Omaha Archbishop Elden Francis Curtiss praises the history of support between the archdiocese and Creighton. EPA/Brendan McDermid EPA/Brendan Photo by Larry Larson Contact Us Will Medicare What Do Executive Editor: Stephen T. Kline Collapse? Followers Expect? (402) 280-1784 [email protected] 28 Perhaps, if we don’t make funding 32 Two Creighton professors Editor: Rick Davis for health care a bigger priority, writes Creighton examine why it’s important for leaders to know (402) 280-1785 [email protected] medical ethicist Richard O’Brien, MS’58, MD’60. what followers want. Associate Editor: Sheila Swanson (402) 280-2069 [email protected] Creighton University Magazine’s Purpose Visit the magazine online at: Creighton University Magazine, like the University itself, is committed to excellence and dedicated to the pursuit of truth in all its forms. The magazine will be www.creightonmagazine.org comprehensive in nature. It will support the University’s mission of education through thoughtful and compelling feature articles on a variety of topics. It will feature the brightest, the most stimulating, the most inspirational thinking that Creighton offers. The magazine also will promote Creighton, and its Jesuit Catholic identity, to a broad public and serve as a vital link between the University and its constituents. The magazine will be guided by the core values of Creighton: the inalienable worth of each individual, respect for all of God’s creation, a special concern for the poor, and the promotion of justice. Message from the University President An Academic Renaissance Replete with the traditional pomp and circumstance, some 1,150 clock” access to Creighton students became the University’s newest alumni during technology resources commencement ceremonies held May 15. Commencement marks campus wide, from the culmination of one journey and the beginning of another. residence halls to Our newest graduates now begin careers as educated classrooms to libraries. professionals — doctors, lawyers, journalists, nurses, business Our goal is to create a leaders. We trust that their Creighton education has prepared them fully connected living and well — both professionally and as women and men dedicated to learning environment. serving others. We have come to expect nothing less of a Creighton Our academic quality also is education, and through our strategic plan, Project 125, we reaffirm enhanced by interdisciplinary our commitment to academic excellence. collaboration among our faculty. We As I mentioned in my last column, there are five strategic have encouraged this collaboration by: objectives outlined in Project 125. Last issue, we touched on our first • Hosting our first “academic forum” this spring, which allowed priority: enhancing Creighton’s national identity and focusing its faculty from all schools and colleges to discuss their work with dedication to mission. Now let us focus on the second priority: each other. nurturing Creighton’s academic excellence. • Creating a Board of Undergraduate Studies, which will As I told the campus community in my Founders Day address, coordinate and discuss issues and programs that specifically we expect certain outcomes of a Creighton education. Among those, impact the quality of our undergraduate education. we expect our graduates to possess: • Hiring a director of Freshman Programs to create a more holistic • A disciplinary competence and/or professional proficiency aided freshman experience and expand our efforts to make service by a liberal education and a global perspective; learning more readily available across the curriculum. • An ethical competency that is values centered; • Continuing to enhance our Office for Excellence in Teaching, • A disposition toward service and an engaged civic responsibility; Learning and Assessment, which allows us to more accurately • An ability to communicate effectively — written, verbally and measure our educational success and supports faculty training technically; and and teaching. • A disposition toward lifelong learning. In our Health Sciences programs, it is our intent over the next In our deliberate steps to create a “willed future” as the premier, 10 to 15 years to transform our education, research and clinical national comprehensive university of our size and complexity, we missions to achieve a new threshold of excellence. recognize that academic excellence is at the heart of our enterprise. Creighton University Medical Center will strive to become the To be sure, we are proud of our expanding campus, our increased academic medical center of choice in our region, and we will enrollments, our outreach to the community and our athletic continue to grow our clinical programs, which are recognized success — including the recent National Invitational Tournament locally and regionally for excellence in many areas. title won by our women’s basketball team! Indeed, these are all As we move into our second 125 years, we recognize that elements in our quest for national prominence. However, the Creighton University has achieved regional dominance and national primary engine driving our future is our renewed commitment to prominence in many areas. With our renewed commitment to academic quality, an academic renaissance, if you will. academic excellence, we have raised our expectations for ourselves. How do we go about achieving this renaissance of academic Creighton University is clearly on the move. We have an exciting quality? future ahead of us. The answer lies in an interwoven tapestry of enhanced Enjoy this issue of Creighton University Magazine and have a safe technology; cooperation and collaboration across academic units; and blessed summer. creative and timely courses, programs and research design; and on- going program review. It is essential that we integrate the latest technology into our teaching and learning. That includes online learning and creation of John P. Schlegel, S.J. a “learning network” — that allows for “on-demand, around-the- 3 Summer 2004 University News Winner of a 2003 CASE Gold Medal Award for General Excellence Conference Draws Former NSF Director n Terror: ththe War onWTerror:hen the Assaulting Bough Breaks Democracyt Home? 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Of TChreig ng Disor o ns fro Of Threshers, Co f Love A Realis reshehto in ders rp m The Philosophytam o eter IaThm rs,n Caot 12 Children o a Iambic Pen eb Cicu Pr bb5:lers a ra Winte ricuentalu nd t r 2003 mmete T e S 03 r he B Spring 20 usiness of Q ca Feelin n varied as the deep seas off gu ilts‘Aliv da e’ in NNuclea l Whoepal r Was eradicated, but they can be controlled.” se Pro te: blem is It?Teaching A To ysbout & G Terrorism ender the coast of Peru to the canyons of the American University Magazine Southwest; hitching rides with mosquitoes, rodents and marine animals; waiting Publisher: Creighton University; Rev. John P. for warm El Niño winds or Schlegel, S.J., President; Lisa Calvert, Vice President other climate changes to rev for University Relations. Creighton University their engines; and joining Magazine staff: Stephen T. Kline, Executive Editor; Rick Davis, Editor; Sheila Swanson, Associate human hosts aboard 747’s to Editor; Pamela A. Vaughn, Features Editor. Editorial really travel the world. Advisers: Cam Enarson, M.D., M.B.A.; Christine Wiseman, J.D.; Greg Johnson; Diane Dougherty; “Diseases can spread Rev. Donald A. Doll, S.J.; Ruth Purtilo, Ph.D.; across the world in a matter Tamara Buffalohead-McGill; and Jayne Schram. of hours,” said Rita Colwell, Photo by Dave Weaver Ph.D., former director and Creighton University Magazine Former National Science Foundation director Rita Colwell, published quarterly in February,(USPS728-070) May, August is chair of the National Science Ph.D., speaks at Creighton.

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