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A NEWSLETTER FOR THE GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY

••• Granholm appoints two to Board of Trustees

Gov. Jennifer Granholm chose two West Myers graduated from Grand Valley in 1972 Michigan women to fi ll eight-year terms on and is an attorney in private practice. the university's Board of Trustees. Granholm appointed Kate Pew Wolters of Grand Rapids President Mark A. Murray said both women and Grand Valley alumna Noreen Myers of have significant ties to the community and to Lowell. the university that will prove to be val uable.

If the state Senate approves the appointments, "Noreen Myers' appointment exemplifies the Wolters and Myers will replace Karen Henry fact that our graduates are taking more and Stokes and John Kennedy, whose terms more leadership roles in their communities," expired. he said. "Kate Pew Wolters has been a long­ Noreen Myers Kate Pew Wolters time supporter of Grand Valley and the region. Wolters is president of the Kate and Richard I am grateful to Gov. Granholm fo r her If approved by the Senate, their terms wi ll Wolters Foundation and was the first recipient appointments and I look forward to working expire December 31, 2012. of Grand Valley's Young Leadership Award. with them in the years ahead." ···------Across Campus Trailblazing sports Brennan broke the story of the pairs figure Black History Month skating scandal at the 2002 Olympics. Her journalist to visit campus column in 2002 on Augusta National Golf Club focused debate on the club's policy bar­ Award-winning journalist and USA Today ring women members. She was the first columnist Christine Brennan will visit campus woman to cover the Washington Redskins in on Wednesday, 1985 as a staff writer at the Washington Post. February 9, to talk In 1995, the Toledo native was inducted into with student-athletes the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame. and coaches, jour­ nalism students, and address a general Women's Commission audience. seeks nominations for award The campus commu­ nity and public can The Women's Commission is seeking nomina­ hear Brennan at tions for the Maxine Swanson Award. The 7 p.m. in the award is given annually to someone who has Kirkhof Center, Pere Christine Brennan provided leadership and support to women at Marquette Room. Grand Vall ey. Her visit is presented by Grand Valley's National Women in Sports Program. Nominees will be judged partially on the followi ng qualifications: Brennan's column in USA Today makes her one of the most widely-read fe male sports • Contribution to an environment that supports columnist in the nation. She is the author of the rights of all women on campus; Photo by Adam Bird the best-selling figure skating books Inside Ronald Stephens, coordinator of Edge and Edge of Glory. Brennan has won the African/African American Studies, discusses • Commitment to working in partnership with Women's Sports Foundation's journalism the history behind ldlewild during a Black the university on the development of policies award four times. She is an on-air commenta­ History Month event. Events continue this that remove barriers that impede women's week, beginning with a visit from Shoshana tor for ABC News and ESPN and has Johnson, the first female POW of Operation appeared on a variety of network and cable Iraqi Freedom. Check the Forum calendar for shows. continued on page 2 details.

GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY 2 Forum I February 7, 2005 Across Campus

continued from page 1 Nominations due for student award

learning, professional growth, creativity, employment; Faculty and staff are reminded that nominations for the Kenneth R. Venderbush Student Leadership Award are due in the Dean of Students • Commitment to creating opportunities for interaction among all women Office (202 STU) by 5 p.m. on Friday, February 11. The award will be on campus. presented to a senior at the Awards Banquet on April 11 .

The deadline for returning nomination forms is February 23. Forms can be sent c/o Callie Melton, 161 Kirkhof Center, or nominations can be sub­ Toastmasters award goes to HRO mitted via e-mail, [email protected]. The commission's Web site, www.gvsu.edu/w_commi ssion, also has a downloadable form.

Maxine Swanson was the first woman to become president of Grand Valley's Board of Control.

A/P Award nominations due next month

Nominations are being taken for two administrative/professional staff awards. The A/P Achievement Award, presented each winter, goes to an A/P staff member who has made a significant contribution to the university.

Qualifications include outstanding performance, personal/professional growth, cooperation with other campus units, contributions to the univer­ sity as a whole, and interpersonal skills and relationships.

Nomination forms are available online at www.gvsu.edu/ap. Send com­ pleted nomination forms to GVSU Human Resources, attention Bonnie Maka, 140 Lake Michigan Hall, by March 1. Photo by Jaime Smoes Scott Richardson and Linda Yuhas from the Human Resources Office The A/P Service Award will recognize individuals for outstanding service accept the annual Toastmasters Good Communication Award from Patricia Brown-May, right, district 62 governor. The award was given from each of the eight designated A/P groups. President Mark A. Murray January 28 during an open house hosted by Grand Valley's Toastmasters will present the awards at the annual luncheon on April 12. Clubs . ••• FORUM Volume 29, Number 26 Faculty and Staff Sketches The GVSU Forum is published by the News Vegas; "Brazilian Cordiality and Peasant and Information Services Office every Monday In the News Mobilization, Before, During, and After Military when classes are in session and biweekly Imad Mahawili, executive director of the Michigan Rule," at the Symposium on the Cultures of during the summer. The submission deadline is Alternative Energy Research Center in Muskegon, Dictatorship: Historical Reflections on the Brazilian Tuesday noon. Send publication items to was interviewed by the Muskegon Chronicle about Golpe of 1964 held at the University of Maryland; Michele Coffill, editor, c/o [email protected]. the Iraqi elections. and "Agroneg6cios e a agricultura familiar nos Telephone: 616-331-2221. Fax : 616-331-2250. EUA," in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul. Faculty and staff members can find an online Patricia Clark, professor of writing, was inter­ "Sketches" submission form on the Web at viewed by the Herald-Palladium about a poetry John Taylor, associate professor of marketing, was www.gvsu.edu/online/forum/form.html. workshop. appointed to the Michigan Governor's Forum on Grand Valley State University is an affirmative Transportation Planning, Commerce and action/equal opportunity institution. Roberta Osipoff, office coordinator at the Center Transportation Committee. for Entrepreneurship, was interviewed by the Grand Rapids Press about renting vacation properties. Joel Stillerman, assistant professor of sociology, Visit GVNow, Grand Valley's daily online pub­ wrote an article, "Gender, Class and Generational lication, on the Web at: www.gvnow.gvsu.edu/ Rick Rediske, faculty member at the Annis Water Contexts for Consumption in Contemporary Chile," Resources Institute, was interviewed by the published in the Journal of Consumer Culture. He Muskegon Chronicle about the water quality of also wrote a chapter, "Disciplined Workers and Avid Muskegon Lake. Consumers: Neoliberal Policy and the Transformation of Work and Identity among GVNOW Sketches Chilean Metalworkers," published in Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Michael P. Lombardo, professor of biology, pre­ Pinochet Era, 1973-2002. sented a paper, "The Secret Lives of Birds," to the Great Lakes Avicultural Society. He and Patrick A. William Morison, assistant professor of history, Thorpe, professor of biology, co-wrote an article, presented a paper, "History as a Weapon: Kritias' "Repeated Sampling Affects Tree Swallow Semen Politeiai Emmetroi," at the Annual Meeting of the Characteristics," published in the Journal of Field American Philological Association in Boston. Ornithology. Charles Pazdernik, assistant professor of Classics, Cliff Welch, associate professor of history, present­ was appointed a 2005-06 Fellow of Harvard ed papers, "Brazilian Peasant Movement Responses University's Center for Hellenic Studies in to New Transnational Corporate Control Strategies Washington, D.C. in Agriculture," at the XXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in Las continued on page 4 3 Forum I February 7, 2005 What's Ahead Female POW continues The six-member group formed in 1997 and has Families get free help since performed around the country, including Black History Month concerts at New York's Lincoln Center. The tapping college cash events concert is presented by the Latino Student Union and Office of Multicultural Affairs. Dozens of volunteers from the Michigan Student Financial Aid Association will help During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Shoshana hundreds of families complete the Free Johnson was in a convoy that was ambushed in The Latino Student Union also invites the cam­ Application for Federal Student Aid form or the city of an-Nasiriyah. Johnson received a pus community to its annual dinner and dance FAFSA. College Goal Sunday is February 13 bullet wound to her ankle, causing injuries to on Saturday, February 12, beginning at 7 p.m. - a time when students in West Michigan and both legs. She and five other members of the in the Kirkhof Center, Grand River Room. The around the state can receive one-on-one help 507th Maintenance Company were captured. event is free. filling out the form. House raids conducted by U.S. Marines in the Senior students "The FAFSA is the initial step in the application city of Samarra, Iraq, resulted in the successful process," said Jo Ann Litton, assistant director rescue of seven POWs. Three days later, will direct comedies of financial aid. "We can help prospective col­ Johnson and other POWs came back to a hero's lege students and their parents by answering welcome. Army officials identified Johnson as Theater students who are aspiring directors will questions or we can help them complete the the first female POW of Operation Iraqi present two comedies as part of the winter entire form ." Freedom, and the first black female POW in semester's Performance Studio Series. U.S. war history. "An Actor's Nightmare," directed by Mellissa The De Vos Center is one of two locations in Grand Rapids - the other is at Eastern Avenue She continues Black History Month events with Slack, is an hilarious one-act spoof by one of Christian Reformed Church on Eastern Avenue a speech at 9 p.m. on Wednesday, February 9, in America's greatest comic authors. In the - to host College Goal Sunday. The event will the Kirkhof Center's Grand River Room. Her Christopher Durang play, a stranger is suddenly begin at 2 p.m. talk is sponsored by the Black Student Union. pushed onstage to replace an ailing actor. The FAFSA form is the primary document for Johnson retired from the Army. Her awards and Amy Larink will direct Noel Coward's "Fumed determining most loans, grants and other aid decorations include the U.S. Army Service Oak." Audience members will watch scenes nationwide. Litton said many families overesti­ Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Bronze Star unfold in the middle class drawing room of an mate the cost of college and underestimate how Medal, Purple Heart Medal and the Prisoner of amiable and hard-working man who patiently much financial aid helps. She said students War Medal. puts up with a nagging wife, a bratty daughter, and an imperious mother-in-law before taking should fill out the form even if they are unsure his savings in hand and saucily slamming the about college because a decision can be made Latino Student Union hosts door behind him. later about whether to accept the aid. concert, annual dinner The comedies will be presented on Friday and Parents or students should bring their families Grito Serpentino, a NeoChicano spoken word Saturday, February 11-12, at 7:30 p.m., and on completed 2004 IRS 1040 tax return - if and music ensemble, will play a variety of Sunday, February 13 , at 2 p.m. in the Louis possible - and their W-2 and other income music styles from blues to ska during a noon Armstrong Theatre, located in the Performing records. The deadline to submit the FAFSA concert in the Cook-DeWitt Center on Arts Center at the Allendale Campus. All tickets form is February 28. Thursday, February 10. are $6.

'The Vagina Monologues' will benefit area women's programs For the fourth straight year, proceeds from Grand Valley's production of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" will benefit area women's programs.

The engaging, powerful and sometimes provocative production of Ensler's acclaimed play is presented in conjunction with the V-Day College Campaign, in which colleges around the world host benefit pro­ ductions of the play on Valentine's Day to raise money and awareness to stop violence against women and girls.

Proceeds from Grand Valley's student-run production will go to the Grand Rapids YWCA Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners Program, Center for Women and Transition in Holland and the GVSU Women's Center. A portion of the money will also go toward the V-Day Spotlight Campaign, Women of Iraq, which seeks to change the violent conditions for women and girls in that country. Last year's performances of "The Vagina Monologues" raised more than $13,000. File photo Co-producer Jaime Sheppard said a larger venue (Fountain Street The ?004 c~st of 'The Vagina Monologues' is pictured. This year's pro­ Church in Grand Rapids) was added to accommodate larger crowds and duction will be performed on February 11- 12 at Fountain Street Church and February 14 at the Performing Arts Center. hopefully raise more money. This year's production will feature a trans-gendered monologue that "The Vagina Monologues" will be performed at 8 p.m. on Friday­ Sheppard said will challenge audience members. Saturday, February 11 -12, at Fountain Street Church, 24 Fountain St. NE; and on Monday, February 14, at the Performing Arts Center. Tickets "The Vagina Monologues" is sponsored by Grand Valley's Women's are $16 each ($8 for students) and available at the door and through all Center, Women and Gender Studies Department and supported by the TicketsPlus locations by calling 616-222-4000. Tickets for the February Nokomis Foundation. 14 performance are also available through the GVSU Box Office; call 616-331-2300. 4 Forum I February 7, 2005 ••• ••• ALENDAR OF VENTS General Events l p.m.: Counseling and Career Development Sun., Feb. 13 Seminar: Anxiety Group. 204 STU. Call x 13266 for more information. 2 p.m.: Theater Presentation: "An Actor's Wed., Feb. 9 Nightmare" and "Fumed Oak." LAT, PAC. 4 p.m.: Counseling and Career Development Call xl2300 for ticket information. 7:30 a.m.: Seidman College of Business Workshop: Mastering Your Memory. 204 Breakfast Series: Winning in the Cereal Aisle, STU. Call x13266 for more information. presented by Jeffrey W. Monte. Loosemore Mon., Feb. 14 Auditorium, DEV. Call xl 7100 for more 7 p.m.: Black History Month Presentation: information. "Black Music, Black Power," presented by 8 p.m.: Women's Center presents "The Vagina Craig Benjamin. Loosemore Auditorium, Monologues." LAT, PAC . Call x12300 for 9 a.m.-4 p.m.: TIAA-CREF counseling appoint­ DEV. Call x13298 for more information. ticket information. ments. 228 KC. Call x12215 to schedule. Sports 12 noon: Allendale Toastmasters. KC. Call Fri., Feb. 11 x12204 for more information. 7:30 a.m.: Grand Rapids Toastmasters. DEV. Thurs., Feb. 10 7 p.m.: National Women in Sports Program pres­ Call x12204 for more information. ents lecture by Christine Brennan. KC. Call 6 p.m.: Women's Basketball hosts Saginaw x18800 for more information. 7:30 p.m.: Theater Presentation: "An Actor's Valley State University. Nightmare" and "Fumed Oak." LAT, PAC. 9 p.m.: Black History Month Presentation: Call x 12300 for ticket information. 8 p.m.: Men's Basketball hosts Saginaw Valley Shoshana Johnson, first African American State University. female prisoner of war. 250 KC. Call x12345 8 p.m.: Women's Center presents "The Vagina for more information. Monologues." Fountain Street Church, Grand Rapids. Call 616-222-4000 for tickets. Fri., Feb. 11

Thurs., Feb. 10 4 p.m.: Track and Field hosts GVSU Open. Sat., Feb. 12 9 a.m.-4 p.m.: TIAA-CREF counseling appoint­ ments. 302C DEV. Call xl2215 to schedule. 7:30 p.m.: Theater Presentation: "An Actor's Sat., Feb. 12 Nightmare" and "Fumed Oak." LAT, PAC. 12 noon: Office of Multicultural Affairs and Call x12300 for ticket information. 1 p.m.: Women's Basketball hosts Lake Superior Latino Student Union present Grito State University. Serpentino, a NeoChicano spoken word and 8 p.m.: Women's Center presents "The Vagina music ensemble. CDC. Call xl2177 for more Monologues." Fountain Street Church, Grand 3 p.m.: Men's Basketball hosts Lake Superior information. Rapids. Call 616-222-4000 for tickets. State University. ------Faculty and Staff Sketches

continued from page 2 Accountability," at Zhytomir State Technological at the Ninth Annual Great Lakes Science Vessel University in Zhytomir, Ukraine. She was grant­ Coordination Workshop in Traverse City. Eric L.Van Fleet, director of Occupational ed the title of Honorary Professor by the Safety & Health, wrote an article, "Use of an Zhytomir faculty and scientific board. Roy Cole, associate professor of geography and Industrial Safety Management Accident planning, wrote a Grand Haven Township citizen Causation Model (ISMAC) for Controlling Georgios Paris Loizides, visiting assistant pro­ telephone survey. The survey was accomplished Operational Practices," published in the Journal fessor of sociology, wrote an article, "Fordist with the help of geography and planning and of SH&E Research. Applied Research in the Era of the Five-Dollar research methods students. Day," published in the Journal of Applied Elena Lioubimtseva, assistant professor of Sociology. Azizur Rahman, assistant professor of engi­ geography and planning, reviewed grant propos­ neering, co-authored a paper, "Small-Signal als for the Science Centers program of the State Michael Cotter, associate professor of market­ Analysis of a Soft-Switching, New Gating Department and the U.S. Civilian Research and ing, co-authored a paper, "The Importance of Scheme Controlled Single-Stage Bridge AC-to­ Development Foundation. Consumer Guide Information to Management: DC Converter," published in the Annual IEEE The Mobil 'Check' and Hotel Pricing Behavior," Power Electronics Specialists Conference David Raney, visiting assistant professor of his­ published in Tourism Analysis. Record. tory, delivered the keynote address at the "We the People" state finals in Lansing. Janet Vail, associate professor at the Annis Water Resources Institute, gave a presentation, Susan Martin, professor of accounting and tax­ "U.S. EPA Lake Guardian Teacher Workshops," ation, gave a lecture, "Governmental