Past, Present Blend in Berry Keynote Lecture

2 FEDEROVITCH FINDS HER HISTORY 3 McCOLLORS’ DEVOTED HEART 4 EduCATE 2005 6 ODD TIMES FOR DEADLINES

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GUESTSPEAKER Past, present blend in Berry keynote lecture

BY ERIC RANGUS the Constitution; Jim Crow; seg- regation; sharecropping; lynch- The keynote speaker for ings; black nationalism; and the Emory’s celebration of African founding of the NAACP. But American Heritage Month, she paused to reflect on a major Mary Frances Berry, laid out signpost in African American the thoughts behind her speech, history, the Brown v. Board of “Civil Rights: The Struggle Education Supreme Court case, Defined,” shortly after stepping which was commemorated last behind the podium, Monday year, its 50th anniversary. night, Feb. 21, in WHSCAB “Some now claim that Auditorium. Brown isn’t important,” said Berry, noting that while the case “It’s an endless struggle was decided in 1954, it wasn’t to have people in the United implemented until 1955, making States align reality with the this year another golden anni- great documents of our nation- versary. “Schools are still largely al life—the Declaration of segregated; what impact did it Independence and preamble to have? Brown was important as a the Constitution,” said Berry, milestone because it transformed Geraldine Segal Professor of what people thought blacks American Social Thought and could do. My family members Kay Hinton Kay professor of history at the told me that they thought things University of Pennsylvania. Mary Frances Berry, the keynote speaker for Emory’s celebration of African American Heritage Month, were never going to change. With that, Berry ran though said that because of its consistent flow of successes and drawbacks, the struggle for civil rights is con- What Brown did was it made a few hundred years of black stant. “We have to work and not despair,” she said during her address, “Civil Rights: The Struggle people think that change was Defined,” Monday night, Feb. 21, in WHSCAB Auditorium, “If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she history in the New World: slav- going to happen.” sat down on the bus, she would still be standing up.” Author of seven books, Berry is Geraldine Segal ery; emancipation; the 13th, Professor of American Social Thought and professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. 14th and 15th Amendments to See LECTURE on page 4

WOMEN’SCENTER WOMEN’SHISTORY Unsung Heroines receive due recognition Malveaux highlights BY CHRISTI GRAY of the latter. At Emory, King is a mainstay he eighth annual Unsung at the Center for Women, sitting daring month Heroine awards, held on on the advisory board and coor- Tthe evening of Thursday, dinating the program commit- BY ERIC RANGUS Feb. 17, recognized seven tee for the Women’s Health and Emory women for their dedica- Wellness lunch and learn series, “Daring To Do Things tion to issues that affect women of which one of the most popu- Differently” is this year’s theme at Emory or in the larger com- lar sessions is her own seminar, for Emory’s annual Women’s munity, but whose efforts had “The X-Files of Women’s Health: History Month celebration, as not received accolades or formal Everything You Ever Wanted the groundbreaking attitude of recognition. The awardees were: to Know But Were Afraid to women leaders past and present Joyce King (’95G), Lorraine Ask.” Finally, both at Emory and is commemorated throughout Lombardi, Allison Dykes, beyond, she serves as a support March. Elizabeth Sharp, Sarah Cordes, person for women diagnosed Delivering the month’s key- Emile Crosa and Rev. Susan with breast cancer, being a survi- note speech, “Making Room for Bishop (’75T). vor herself. Sadie—A Diversity Metaphor,” Donna Bradley, chair of • Lorraine Lombardi (staff) will be Julianne Malveaux, an the Center for Women Advisory has been a maintenance engineer economist, writer, syndicated Board, welcomed a full house of in Residential Life for 16 years. columnist and CEO of the mul- attendees in Miller-Ward Alumni She is praised for supporting stu- timedia production company Ann Borden House. About the awardees, dent advisers at Harris complex, Last Word Productions. Clockwise from top left, Joyce King, Sarah Cordes, Emile Crosa, Lor- Bradley said, “This is their where she is currently assigned, “Dr. Malveaux is very raine Lombardi, Rev. Susan Bishop, Allison Dykes and Elizabeth Sharp night to get the accolades they making dorm life more like a were honored at a Feb. 17 banquet as the 2005 Unsung Heroines. impressive,” said Lauren Flook, deserve.” home. Lombardi is known for assistant director for programs Mary Ellen McClellan, co- effective problem solving, show- in the Center for Women. “She the Emory workplace across the midwifery programs at Grady chair of the Unsung Heroines ing care in her relationships with is a groundbreaker for African employee spectrum. Junior chair Hospital, the nursing school committee, and committee custodial staff and administrators American women in many of the President’s Commission on member Brenda Bynum read alike. and the School of Medicine’s ways, and she earned her doc- the nomination letters for each Outside Emory, she serves the Status of Women (PCSW), she Department of Gynecology torate from the Massachusetts awardee and presented the as the lighting designer for the has been instrumental in bring- and Obstetrics. She also was Institute of Technology in a tra- awards. Atlanta Shakespeare Company. ing gender equity to the forefront instrumental in establishing the ditionally male field: econom- • Joyce King (faculty), assis- She also coordinates a group of of University concerns, helping MSN-MPH dual-degree program. ics.” Malveaux’s speech, free tant professor of nursing in the women volunteers to raise funds to establish the PCSW’s Women Sharp has been a fellow in the and open to the public, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School for Our House, a day shelter for in Leadership Committee, and American Academy of Nursing, will take place Wednesday, of Nursing, is a practicing nurse- homeless children. obtaining funding from the pres- and served as president of the March 23, in Tull Auditorium. midwife and an activist • Allison Dykes (admin- ident’s office for a pilot study of American College of Nurse- The “Sadie” in Malveaux’s on women’s health issues. She istrator) is vice president of gender and leadership at Emory Midwives. She has been active title lecture is Sadie Alexander has served on the boards of alumni affairs in the Office of and comparable institutions. with the March of Dimes and (1898–1989), the first African Planned Parenthood and the Development and University • Elizabeth Sharp (retiree) served on their advisory com- Georgia Abortion Rights Action Relations. She is known for was recruited to Emory in 1970, League, also serving as president her dedication to improving then promptly launched nurse- See HEROINES on page 5 See WOMEN’S HISTORY on page 7 2 February 28, 2005 Emory Report

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Nursing alumna to deliver Do you pay attention to Davis lecture Lost and found again prescription drug ads? A study led by Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing Angels at the Carter Center and, Last month, at the Center for alumna Sue Hegyvary found as I sat in the dimly lit theater Women’s 10th annual “Women that demographics may more with numerous academics and Talking with Women: Reflecting significantly affect life expec- feminists alike, I was shocked at on Race, Ethnicity and Culture,” how little we knew about Alice I witnessed women from diverse tancy and child mortality Paul and her role in the suffrage backgrounds really communicate rates than do the resources movement. When the lights came with each other; I watched and of a developed or developing up and people began shuffling participated as we discussed country. about, woman after woman got work, family, religion, music, Hegyvary, professor up to voice her concern and violence and love, and I walked and dean emeritus at the to say that she would certainly away 10 times more enlightened University of Washington show this movie to everyone she than when I sat down. I walked No, unfortunately. Right now, School of Nursing, will discuss could. Because that’s all we have away thinking that, if we could it doesn’t concern me because this project at the annual nurs- to do: Show it. do this every day, if we could be I don’t need prescription drugs. ing school-sponsored Hugh Keeping memories alive isn’t honest and open, what kind of P. Davis lecture, Wednesday, just an exercise for personal his- peace could we have? Rebecca Wilson March 2, at 4 p.m. in room tory and benefit, it’s also for a What kind of peace could sophomore 101 of the nursing school. The culture and a history that needs we have if women recognized Women’s Studies event is free and open to the to be remembered. It’s for strug- their worth as strong, able, Ann Bordon community. For more informa- gles we never knew first hand, beautiful individuals? What kind Jennifer Federovitch, ’04C, tion, call 404-727-0722. but for which we can count our of peace would there be if we is special projects coordinator blessings and praise the goddess- listened to each other instead for the Center for Women. Oxford’s JCAL accepting es every day. And it isn’t over; of to Cosmopolitan and E! spring submissions we’re still making history. News? What kind of enlighten- The Journal of Cognitive- all me a pessimist, but our The month of March isn’t ment have we lost by tuning Effective Learning (JCAL) at lives are filled with loss, just about celebrating women’s out everyone’s history, including Oxford is accepting submis- Cfrom car keys to socks and histories, but also their futures. our own? It isn’t easy to cope sions for its spring issue. The from people to entire histories. I After all, we can’t stop now. with what we’ve already lost, deadline is March 31. wouldn’t want to count how many What would our foremothers but we’ve got so much to find! JCAL publishes original little or irreplaceable things we think? We have so much to cel- We can find it in March and talk lose each year and each lifetime, I do notice an increasing number articles that promote research, ebrate, too—spiritually, artistical- about it every day, because we but I do draw strength from our of ads on TV, but I’m skeptical that education and community ly, academically and physically. owe it to ourselves and to those small attempts to replace them. most people need these drugs to building in the area of cogni- We’ve all lost something without who came before. We can be Perhaps too brash at my own treat their conditions. tive-affective learning and knowing it, and what better inspired to speak, write, paint, labeling, I am optimistic in part month than March to find it? dance and to remember. include areas of focus relating Holly Korschun because of the power that lies in What better year than the 25th It’s really quite simple. to the scholarship of teaching director of science communications the search for things lost—the anniversary year of celebrating When you’ve lost something or and learning. WHSC search that ends not with what Women’s History Month? An open access journal, someone, where do you look? was lost, but with what can fill You know that old cliché JCAL is committed to provid- Of course, always, you look in the void. that we all become our moth- ing access to scholarship at the last place you had it. It’s I was in my sophomore year ers? I, for one, find some truth much easier, though, to find no cost to the reader or at Emory when I lost my father in that, and think of Women’s your car keys or a missing sock author. To submit a paper, go to heart disease. I still haven’t History Month as a time not than it is to find a missing piece to www.jcal.emory.edu/ found the words to describe it, only to reflect on our foremoth- of yourself or a history you’ve submissions.php. For though I’ve tried. Mostly, it feels ers, but on our mothers much lost. Kathy, my “body sculpt” more information, call like I exist in a vacuum now as my closer to home, as well. I look instructor at the Y, talks about 770-784-8380. life keeps growing without him like my mother, act like my her mastectomy by joking, “Yes, to watch it, and sometimes the mother and think like my moth- I lost my breast. I hate to say it Correction air is just sucked right out of me. er (and it’s exhausting!). As she that way, though—it sounds so Yes, depending on the brand. But I’ve found a strength I never and I both cope with loss, I’ve irresponsible.” Some drug ads seem very biased An article in the Feb. 21 thought I could have because of found much inspiration in her I admire Kathy for joking and hard to believe. issue of Emory Report listed the experience—and because of strength to fill in some very deep and for the strength it takes to an incorrect title for Jesse the memories I haven’t lost that spaces. We talk on the phone smile and lift eight-pounders to Gabriel Igietseme Roman, professor and direc- keep me so close to him. Last every day, and I look forward to the rhythm of the Beatles while freshman tor of the Emory Center for night, I made pierogies that I’d the weekly cards she sends; it’s the rest of us poor slobs try to Physics the Treatment and Study of bought in the freezer section communication and narrative I’ll keep up. And while, quite often, Interstitial Lung Disease. of Publix and couldn’t help but have forever. And I’ll pass it on, we are responsible for the loss ER apologizes for the error. think of my dad sitting in my too. of our keys and socks, we can’t grandmother’s kitchen, the two of Narrative is something we claim responsibility for the big us watching her make them from shouldn’t lose because it’s our losses; we can only try to keep scratch. Close enough. best weapon to fight loss. In an up with the beat. We can lift up Memory, I believe, is much age of cell phones and text mes- our voices and our bodies to Emory Report more powerful than loss and, sages, I wonder how much real the hum of a history we haven’t Editor: lucky for us all, women have listening is going on? I wonder really lost, just misplaced in our Michael Terrazas always been good storytellers. As what would happen if people collective memory. We can find [email protected] long as I can open my mouth and took the time to sit, think and it. We can remember it. We can Senior Editor: speak, I’ll tell my children about watch—to reflect. keep adding our stories to it, Eric Rangus their history—it’s something we At Emory, we’re bombarded one on top of another, until we [email protected] can’t afford to lose, after all. Last with opportunities for personal realize our living history is more Yes, it’s really funny how ads year, I had the privilege of attend- and intellectual growth, and than just a month of celebra- mask what a drug is actually for Staff Writer: ing a screening of Iron Jawed we need to take up the offers. tion—it’s countless lifetimes. by showing cheesy images about Katherine Baust well being. But I think there will [email protected] be pressure to disclose more in Designer: EMORYSNAPSHOT ads with the recent Vioxx thing. 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EMORYPROFILE TIA McCOLLORS The Devoted Heart Jon Rou Jon

Tia McCollors’ first novel, A Heart of Devotion, was released this year by Moody Publishers, a Christian publish- by michael terrazas ing house based in Chicago. Through writing the book, McCollors strengthened her own faith; in fact, it was some encouraging words from her pastor in 1998 that prompted McCollors to start writing. No doubt that faith helped her find the discipline to complete a novel on top of her job as a media relations coordinator in health sciences.

prinkled throughout the 320 pages of Tia McCol- my own life are dropped into it, and also bits and pieces meticulous person; she seemed always to have the lors’ new novel are lines in bold print that stand of things I know have happened to other people,” Mc- cleanest and most up-to-date media lists, files and Sout from the rest of the prose. They are, literally, Collors said. “The running joke around my friends is, desktop,” said Ron Sauder, associate vice president for the words of the Holy Spirit, talking to Anisha, the ‘You’d better watch out around Tia; she’ll put you in a health sciences communications. “Now I know why: protagonist. Called A Heart of Devotion, the story is a book.’” Super-organization is key if you want to write a book in work of fiction, but this narrative device has displayed Her friends’ concerns notwithstanding, McCol- your spare time without missing a step at work. itself more than once in the author’s real life. lors said one reason she believed the novel was put on “As far as her writing is concerned,” Sauder con- “I was at church, and my pastor was doing a book hold—she began writing in 1998, then just picked at it tinued, “she is, again, very diligent and well organized, signing,” said McCollors, recounting a day in late 1998. for a few years before rededicating herself in 2002—was attacking a release promptly and letting a draft lie She’d thought about fiction writing before and even that things were happening in her own personal life. overnight so she can read it fresh before she sends it on for editing. In a word, she is disciplined—and that’s how you get big projects done.” “When I write, I know I’m encouraging someone who might Indeed, McCollors credits finding the discipline to write every day as the reason she was able to finish her be going through the same situation. People might come to novel. One of her mentors told her to write a word— one word—every day. If she wrote two words, she’d you when they’re having trouble, when they don’t see that double her output. Pretty soon the problem became shutting the words off. light and that hope.” “It can be difficult, because if you’ve been writing and editing things all day, the last thing you want to do —Tia McCollors, novelist and WHSC media relations coordinator when you get home is write,” she said. “Once you get that discipline, if you already have the story in your head, the story starts to tell itself. Your characters evolve and become ‘people.’ In my head, when I’m hearing the won a short-story contest in high school, but had never “Maybe that,” she said, “was the story that was sup- story, I feel like I’m just taking dictation.” made a serious attempt. “I went to get my book signed, posed to be written.” McCollors also credits one of her friends who and the pastor said, ‘So when are you writing your One thing that happened was McCollors finding her served as her writing partner with helping her get over book?’ And I thought, ‘Oh God, that’s it, I hear you. way to the Clifton Corridor. After moving to Atlanta the first-novel hump. Now she belongs to a writing I’m writing.’” in 1996 from her native North Carolina (“I’m Tar Heel group, sharing ideas and manuscripts in a supportive Seven years later, McCollors now can forever ap- born, Tar Heel bred,” she said), McCollors worked in setting of like-minded writers. McCollors also travels pend her name with two words: published novelist. public relations for the nonprofit West End Medical Cen- when she can to workshops and conferences for her A Heart of Devotion was released last month by ter, but her job was eliminated in a reorganization. She genre of faith-based fiction. Moody Publishers, a Christian publishing house based found another job, but people started telling her good In the future, she may take her writing in a more in Chicago. Its author, between ferreting out and writing things about Emory; when she saw an open director’s mainstream direction. But with a published first novel stories for the Woodruff Health Sciences Center com- position, she decided to take a chance and apply. and a two-book deal with Moody, she’s staying for now munications office, has been busy with book signings “I knew I really didn’t qualify for that position, but in the realm of Christian fiction. After all, the work only and promotional trips of her own (for more on her the only they could do was say no or just not call me, so serves to strengthen her own faith. book, visit www.tiamccollors.com). why not? I sent in my resume anyway,” McCollors said. “Sometimes when people go through experiences, “It feels great; I’m still living in a surreal experi- “About two months later, they called me back—not for they don’t know if they’re going to make it to the ence,” said McCollors, media relations coordinator. the director’s position, but for another opening they end,” McCollors said of the twists and turns in finish- “You see the manifestation of what you’ve worked for, had. So it all worked in my favor, just stepping out and ing A Heart of Devotion. “When I write, I know I’m and it’s like, ‘Wow, this is really mine.’ I’m just elated.” doing it; if [I hadn’t applied for the director’s position], encouraging someone who might be going through the A Heart of Devotion is the story of Anisha, a I may not have even known about the other position twentysomething African American woman living in that happened to come open.” same situation. People might come to you when they’re Atlanta and, at the novel’s beginning, sharing look- That was in April 2001; in one month, McCollors having trouble, when they don’t see that light and that ing-for-love stories with her best friend, Sherri. Enter will celebrate her four-year anniversary. During that hope. Tyson, Anisha’s handsome fellow youth-group leader at time, she’s written press releases on everything from “That means I have to keep myself built up,” she church. The two begin dating, and the question becomes faith and public health to urinary incontinence. said. “I have to study the Bible, study the Word, go to whether Tyson will come between best friends Anisha “What I like most about my job is that it’s different church on a regular basis. I have to really feed myself and Sherri. day to day; you never know what health-related issue because you write out of the overflow of what you have. One can’t help but draw parallels between Anisha is going to pop up,” she said. “Also, I like to work in a If you haven’t taken in any spiritual food, how can you and her creator—in November, the 30-year-old Mc- team, and everybody here is a team player. I’ve worked feed somebody else? That’s how it fills me up.” Collors (formerly Tia Webster) married husband Wayne, in places where people weren’t team players, and I can whom she had met through friends from church—but honestly say—this is my Emory plug—that this is really the author said art doesn’t exactly imitate life, in this the best place I’ve ever worked.” McCollors will read & sign copies of A Heart of Devo- case. Not entirely, anyway. “One of my first and most lasting impressions of Tia tion from 1–3 p.m., on Saturday, March 5, at B’s Books “It’s not an autobiography, but bits and pieces of was that she was an exceedingly well organized, & More in Lithonia, 2926-A Evans Mill Road. 4 February 28, 2005 Emory Report

FOCUS: INFORMATIONTECHNOLOGY INFORMATIONTECHNOLOGY Mini-conference to focus EduCATE ’05 greets digital on computing security generation of learners he security of Emory’s valuable information resources is everyone’s responsibility. In an environment where BY MICHAEL TERRAZAS requires a monthly fee, and play- the opening banquet and see most of the community uses Emory’s shared computer T ers themselves exchange money faculty lab researchers sitting environment daily for e-mail, connecting to websites, access- through purchasing characters next to undergraduates, sit- ing and storing digital resources, and managing business and he next generation of and equipment, wagers, etc.) ting next to librarians, sitting administration transactions, breaches of computing privacy learners is coming—and equaled the per capita gross next to humanities professors. and information security are an ever-present threat. Tthey’re wielding pocket- national product of Russia. Last “There’s not too many On March 9, the 2005 Information Security Awareness books the size of Russia. That year, he said, the electronic gam- things at Emory where you get Mini-Conference will offer faculty, staff and students the was one of the lessons John ing market made money than opportunity to learn about information technology security that kind of group dynamic, Seely Brown imparted during the Hollywood film industry. services offered by the Information Technology Division (ITD) with people from all parts of his opening keynote speech for Brown’s point was to dem- such as intrusion prevention, firewalls and spam scanners, as the University,” Harris said. the fourth annual EduCATE onstrate that “grown-ups” who well as ways to protect their computing privacy and the secu- About 250 people registered (Educational Conference dismiss the youth culture of rity of Emory’s shared digital resources. for one or more portions of the on Academic Technology at gaming, instant messaging, e-mail The conference will offer something of value for people conference. And though one Emory), held Feb. 22–24. and other networked innovations of all levels of computing experience—from IT professionals of the panel discussions did Sponsored by the do so at their own risk. Today’s to those who consider themselves “non-techies.” feature some undergraduates, Information Technology young people, in fact, are “Security was again named as one of the top three con- incorporating more students Division (ITD), this year’s developing a capacity for concerns of university CIOs in the 2004 Educause current IT issues into the program is something EduCATE theme was text-switching mirroring that of survey,” said Don Harris, CIO and vice provost for information Harris pledged for next year. “Understanding a New many corporate CEOs, he said. technology. “Besides the steps we take as IT professionals, Indeed, this year’s keynote Generation of Learners.” “I work with a lot of education and the diligence of the University community are speaker said, when it comes Each year the event serves CEOs; their average attention the most important elements in protecting Emory from IT to technology, teenagers often as part technology showcase, span is about 30 seconds. But security threats. This mini-conference is intended to provide are the most sophisticated part hands-on workshop, they’re able to switch contexts the community with the knowledge and tools they need to consumers. “The surest way to part glimpse-of-the-future [instantaneously],” Brown said. become active participants in this very important process.” label yourself a dinosaur is to as faculty presenters from “There’s a difference between Kicking off the conference will be Tammy Clark, infor- be handed a new cell phone Emory demonstrate how attending to something and mation security officer, and William Monahan, information and ask for a manual,” Brown they incorporate technology being attuned to something. security lead analyst both at Georgia State University. Their said. “I did that, and my teen- into their classrooms, while These kids may be attuned to session, “Security is Not My Responsibility—It’s That ‘IT’ Guy’s age son said, ‘A manual?’” distinguished outside speak- a lot more than you think.” Job,” will highlight desktop computing practices that help Brown said, while he was ers offer their thoughts and Brown delivered two safeguard digital information from attacks by hackers, vi- at Xerox, he helped imple- expertise on where educational lectures, one the evening of ruses, worms and other online security threats. ment a program that brought technologies are headed. Feb. 22 during the conference’s ITD services and resources, practices for safe desktop com- 15-year-olds to Palo Alto dur- Brown, visiting scholar opening banquet, and another puting, and emerging threats like spyware will be covered in ing the summers to work on at the University of Southern during lunch the next day. In the second session, “Why Should Security Matter to You,” led California’s Annenberg Center between, and also on Thursday, research teams. “They were by Jay Flanagan, Emory’s IT security team lead. and former chief scientist of Feb. 24, about two dozen Emory there to ask the really stupid “Nothing is 100 percent or ever will be,” Flanagan said of Xerox Corp., described how questions,” he said, “except IT security. “We’ve made our network much more secure from faculty and ITD staff shared in order to better understand those questions often ended outside attacks. For instance, in August, an intrusion preven- their own experiences through young people growing up in up being not so stupid.” tion service was implemented that has been a huge success workshops and presentations. an increasingly digital envi- Brown conceded that, in blocking hackers and associated compromised machines For example, Oxford’s ronment, he immersed him- while most U.S. teenagers are within the Emory network. It has stopped millions of attacks. Camille Cottrell and Jim Brown self for a year in the gaming comfortable with technology, “But even with all that Emory IT professionals are doing,” talked about helping to develop world. What he found startled not all belong to the hyper- Flanagan said, “information security really comes down to the college’s Teaching, Learning him, as it likely would any- sophisticated subset he’s individual responsibility. Our computing resources are only as and Technology Institute; one else not familiar with spent his time studying. This, secure as the weakest link. Just being aware of how impor- Yerkes’ Stuart Zola and Timothy online, multiplayer gaming. however, is not the point. tant security really is for each of us individually can make a Duong, along with Rob Poh For instance, the game “What I’m really say- huge difference in averting potential harm.” from the Center for Behavioral ing is, before you write all of Doris Kirby, director of IT policy and legal compliance, EverQuest—the main server Neuroscience, led a panel dis- this off, pay more attention to will lead the final session, focusing on the risks and the for which is maintained in cussion on shared databases; what your own kids are doing responsibilities associated with using network resources and San Diego—is solely respon- Daphne Norton from chemistry around the edge of this [inter- copyrighted materials in accordance with all Emory rules, sible for roughly 30 percent of talked about using Blackboard to active] world,” Brown said. guidelines and policies, as well as federal, state and local law. the server traffic in Southern manage large-enrollment courses California at any one time, such as chemistry lab sections. “Because it’s the periphery he said. And the amount of Don Harris, CIO vice pro- that matters, not the center.” “Even with all that Emory IT pro- money that changed hands vost for information technol- For more information per capita in 2003 among ogy, said it was gratifying to on EduCATE, visit http:// fessionals are doing, information EverQuest players (the game look around the room during educate.emory.edu. security really comes down to individual responsibility. Our LECTURE from page 1 of Maryland-College Park and diversity.” chancellor of the University of That Berry would have computing resources are only as When Brown was Colorado. She earned her Ph.D. a problem with the adminis- decided, Berry was a high and J.D. at the University of tration of George W. Bush is secure as the weakest link.” school student in Nashville, Michigan. probably not a surprise. She Tenn. Changes didn’t hap- Giving the “history” was fired from the Civil Rights —Jay Flanagan, IT security team pen as quickly as she thought behind black history was the Commission in 1983 by another they would, so Berry, who lead-in to the central theme of Republican, President Ronald would earn her bachelor’s and Capping the conference will be a luncheon and presenta- Berry’s address. “Where are Reagan, but later won reinstate- master’s degrees at Howard tion by featured speaker Preston Futrell, director of business we now?” she said. “We tried ment in federal court. development for managed security services for Atlanta-based University, joined the civil all these strategies and made a With the idea that progress Internet Security Systems. Futrell, a graduate of Northwestern rights movement and never great deal of progress, but there is in the eye of the beholder, University, oversees the managed services business for the left. is still a great deal of discrimi- Berry said much more remains United States, Canada and Latin America. With more than six Berry chaired the U.S. nation. I call them ‘headwinds to be done. “We have to work years of security industry expertise, Futrell consults with and Commission on Civil Rights against progress.’” and not despair, because if Rosa designs security solutions for some of the largest organiza- from 1993–2004; before Those headwinds are not Parks had taken a poll before tions in the world. His presentation, “Security Strategies: How that, she served as assistant exclusively about race; they she sat down on that bus, she To Sleep at Night Knowing Your Data is Secure,” will explore secretary of education in include the growing influence of would still be standing up,” the current security landscape and discuss cost-effective solu- the Department of Health, traditional ideas about gender Berry said. tions for staying ahead of threats and vulnerabilities. Education and Welfare in and the role of women, health Berry was introduced by an There are no fees for the conference, but registration is the administration of Jimmy care disparities, and tensions old friend from the University required. Attendees can elect to attend the full conference or Carter. about immigration. of Michigan, Provost Earl Lewis, select only individual sessions. To find out more or to register She has written seven Berry added that the defi- who previously was Michigan’s online, visit www.cio.emory.edu/ISA2005.htm. books and is currently working nition of civil rights has been graduate school dean. “I’m not on her eighth, a history of the recast. “Diversity in high places sure I’m happy to have Michigan Donna Price is coordinator for communications and market- reparations movement in the doesn’t really mean progress,” lose him,” Berry said of Lewis. ing services for ITD. late 19th century. She served she said. “There is a rise of “My alma mater needs good as provost at the University conservatives with masks of people like him.” Emory Report February 28, 2005 5

INTERNATIONALAFFAIRS UNIVERSITYGOVERNANCE Nobel Peace Prize winner University Senate gets discusses Northern Ireland master plan preview niversity Senate President Sharon Strocchia opened BY ERIC RANGUS the body’s Feb. 22 meeting, held in the Jones Room Uof Woodruff Library, by calling for officer nomina- n helping broker a 1994 tions for 2005–06. Strocchia said the Senate’s bylaws call cease fire between the Irish for elections to be held before the end of March. IRepublican Army (IRA) Next, Strocchia gave an update on the work of the and Unionist paramilitaries in Benefits Review Committee, which she chairs. The group Northern Ireland, Nobel Peace is reviewing Emory’s employee benefits package with the Prize winner John Hume looked goal of submitting recommendations for changes to Presi- across the Atlantic to the United dent Jim Wagner by the end of the semester. Strocchia States for inspiration. said some 2,796 people responded to last month’s benefits “I visited the grave of preference survey, marking a 33 percent response rate Abraham Lincoln, and I read and giving the committee a valid data set as it continues the philosophies of the found- its work. ing fathers, which really should Jen Fabrick, director of campus planning, previewed be the philosophy of the whole the updated campus master plan, which originally was to Jon Rou Jon world,” said Hume, who spoke be released last fall but was held in order to synthesize it Nobel laurete John Hume (front row, center), pictured with rep- with other ongoing efforts like the strategic plan and the to a standing room only crowd resentatives from the Halle Institute for Global Learning, Emory Clifton Corridor transportation management plan. in White Hall, Friday, Feb. 18. College and a variety of Irish-themed organizations, discussed his Fabrick said the plan follows the guiding principles His address, “The Peace Process work to negotiate a cease-fire in Northern Ireland, Feb. 18. in Northern Ireland and the formulated for the 1998 master plan, with the addition Benefits of the Cease-Fire,” was of another principle stressing environmental stewardship. island,” he said. “The only way Ulster Unionist leader David sponsored by the Halle Institute To that end, she showed the Senate the land classification to reach an agreement on how to Trimble. for Global Learning. map that groups every square foot of Emory real estate live together is to lay down your Geraldine Higgins, associ- “E pluribus unum. From into one of five categories: restricted, preserved, con- arms.” ate professor of English and many we are one,” he said. served, managed and “developable.” In his address, Hume mixed director of Irish studies, called “The essence of our unity is Emory has big plans for the last category, which in recollections from his work Hume “one of the most im- respect for our diversity.” In ad- Fabrick demonstrated with a tour through the various on the cease-fire, which included portant political figures in the dition to Lincoln, Hume listed precinct studies that form the meat of the master plan. Martin Luther King Jr. as one secret talks with leaders of Sinn history of Ireland.” From the roundabout and new greenspace planned for of his inspirations—especially Fein, the IRA’s political arm “In the way that a genera- Emory Village, to the new School of Medicine home his approach in using nonvio- (for which Hume was strongly tion of Americans remember next to WHSCAB, to a new shuttle road passing under- neath Clifton Road along the CSX rail line, to an extensive lent means to achieve change criticized), with calls to action where they were when JFK was reconstruction of campus residence halls, and many other in a world of violence. And few aimed at the many students in shot, no one in Northern Ire- possible building sites, Fabrick took the Senate on a diz- places in the world have seen as attendance. land will forget where we were zying tour through what the physical future could hold. much violence in the last half “Younger people are going to when news of the IRA cease- (Toward the end of the presentation, Wagner quipped, century as Northern Ireland. be the leaders of the new cen- fire broke in August 1994, an “This is the two-year plan, right?”; Fabrick responded, Hume said in 30 years of tury,” he said. “I hope you are go- event which John Hume had “Hey, if you’ve got the money.”) fighting between the IRA, which ing to create a world where there worked toward his entire politi- After Fabrick’s presentation, Tim Bryson and Nancy supports a united Ireland, and is no longer any conflict.” cal life,” said Higgins, a native Creating that world is some- of County Antrim, Northern Bayly, chairs of the Senate committees on the environ- Unionists, who want to remain ment and campus development, respectively, offered their part of Great Britain, one out of thing Hume has worked decades Ireland. to achieve. His political career Despite a spirited question- perspectives on the master plan. Both praised Facilities every 500 people in Northern Management for the increased communication that now began in 1969 when he was and-answer session that includ- Ireland was killed, and one in characterizes project development. Bryson said he hoped elected to the Northern Ireland ed discussion about whether 50 was maimed by bombs or adequate attention will be paid to protecting Emory’s Parliament. He founded and led the Belfast Agreement was still bullets. While the sources of forested areas. Bayly said she’d hoped the plan would the non-sectarian Social Demo- relevant (Alisdair McDonnell, conflict are many and date back address future uses for the Briarcliff Campus (Mike Mandl, before the 17th century, Hume cratic and Labour Party (SDLP), deputy leader of the SDLP and executive vice president for finance and administration, said a primary factor was the which he led until 2001. Hume a guest at the event, stood up at said he will ask an appointed committee to study this Protestants Unionists’ desire to also served in the European Par- this point and pronounced that issue). protect their identity. liament from 1979–2004. it was), there was a good bit of Both Bayly and Bryson said they’re paying close at- “You have every right to For much of that time, he levity, too. tention to the transit study. Fabrick said data show the protect your identity,” Hume was the lone voice of moderation Hume said the Irish are the daily population of the Clifton Corridor will grow by some told the crowd, repeating a in his homeland. After his many world’s most traveled people, 7,000 people by 2009. “If every one of those people drives phrase he often uttered in his years of work paid off with the noting that the island is home his or her own car, that could be a problem,” she said. homeland—he is a native of 1994 cease-fire and the signing to only 5 million persons but Public health’s Richard Levinson, chair of the honor- Derry and served 21 years in of the 1998 Belfast Agreement the United States has more ary degree committee, presented a confidential list of the British Parliament. “But we (also known as the “Good Friday than 35 million Irish-Ameri- proposed degree recipients for 2006. Levinson said his can’t have a solution without Agreement”), which promised cans. He also said the Irish committee only considers individuals who’ve been nomi- you. You have to come to the self-determination in Northern founded France’s wine industry. nated by the community, and he urged the Senate to table.” Ireland and created the North- “We have always been the most solicit nominations, particularly of women candidates. To the IRA, Hume’s persua- ern Ireland Assembly, Hume was spiritual people in the world,” To close the meeting, Wagner said he expects to sion was slightly different. “You awarded the 1998 Nobel Peace he said, downing a phantom have results back from last fall’s Campus Climate Survey are saying you want to unite the Prize, which he shared with beverage. “within a couple weeks.” He also pledged to heed student requests to make mental health awareness a more promi- nent issue on campus, and he said at its most recent meet- HEROINES from page 1 nized health fairs, sought director for the Emory Nursing ing the Board of Trustees focused on the strategic plan. sponsorships and monetary Student Association. Wagner said the plan is at a “blossoming point,” and he mittee. And she currently is support for nuns and students, • Rev. Susan Bishop (alum- urged Senate members to take part in campus discussions working on a book that exam- and helped raise awareness of na) is currently chief chaplain surrounding the overall plan and the proposed signature ines ethical issues in the clinical injustices suffered by Tibetan of Atlanta’s Metro Correctional themes. practice of nurse-midwifery. women. Institution, which serves as the The next Senate meeting will be Tuesday, March 29, • Sarah Cordes (undergrad- at 3:15 p.m. in the Jones Room. —Michael Terrazas uate student) is a junior at • Emile Crosa (graduate intake prison for all female pris- Emory College. She works with student) has two Emory oners in Georgia. Bishop also the Coalition Against Rape at degrees (a B.A. in religion and works with the Atlanta Rape Emory, volunteers at a women’s a B.S. in nursing) and is work- Crisis Center and the Atlanta homeless shelter, and is serving toward a third—a master’s Battered Women’s Shelter, where ing an internship at the DeKalb in nursing supported by a pres- she serves on the board. While Rape Crisis Center, where she tigious Fuld Fellowship. She a student at Candler, Bishop trains volunteers to serve as is the first graduate nursing spent a summer at the Grailville advocates for survivors of sexu- student chosen to serve on the Catholic Women’s Community al assault. Board of Directors for Health studying with pioneers of the In her sophomore Students Taking Action Together women’s movement and later If you have a question or concern for University Senate, year, Cordes traveled to (HealthSTAT), and has helped became a pioneer herself when e-mail Strocchia at [email protected]. Dharamasala, India, to intern lead HealthSTAT’s efforts to she was one of the first women at the Tibetan Women’s lobby for Georgia’s PeachCare ordained in the Southern Baptist Association, where she orga- for Kids. She also is legislative church. 6 February 28, 2005 Emory Report

SCHOLARSHIP&RESEARCH SOM study measures effects of TV drug advertising

BY ALICIA SANDS LURRY ments there were for prescrip- week, 18,906 advertisements tion and the over-the-counter appeared in the 504-hour drugs,” said Brownfield, who sample of network television. School of Medicine study also is an internist at Grady There were 907 advertisements led and authored by Hospital. “We looked at all of for OTC drugs and 428 AErica Brownfield, the commercials, and we found advertisements for prescription assistant professor of medicine, that, if you look at all direct-to- drugs, representing 4.8 percent reveals that increased advertis- consumer drug advertising, the and 2.3 percent of all ads, ing by pharmaceutical compa- number, amount and percentage respectively. nies is disproportionately of commercial time is pretty While OTC drug ads were focused on women and older high.” more common, prescription viewers. Conducted for one week in drug ads were significantly The study, published in the the summer of 2001, the study longer; the average length of November/December issue of explored the quantity, frequency OTC drug ads was 21.7 seconds, the Journal of Health Commu- and placement of prescription compared with 43.9 seconds nications, also concludes that, and over-the-counter (OTC) for prescription drug ads. while direct-to-consumer drug drug advertisements on televi- Nearly half of prescription drug ads may be useful for increasing sion programs on three major ads were more than a minute in public awareness and knowledge networks in Atlanta: ABC, CBS length, compared with fewer of specific conditions and and NBC. During the sample than 1 percent of OTC ads. available treatments, the ads week, direct-to-consumer ads for Together, both ads occupied may also lead to inaccurate self- prescription and OTC drugs more than 8 percent of all diagnoses or incorrect percep- most commonly were aired commercial airtime that week. tions of illness risk or treatment during mid-afternoon and early The team also found that efficacy. evening hours (the highest peaks an average television viewer To date, Brownfield said no were 2–4 p.m. and 6–8 p.m.). who only watched the three study has ever quantified the The targeted program genres networks studied would have Rou Jon amount of direct-to-consumer were news programs and soap been exposed to nearly 40 Erica Brownfield found that most direct-to-consumer drug advertis- drug advertising on television, operas, where nearly 60 percent minutes of direct-to-consumer ing is placed during soap operas and news shows—programming adding that because the average of all direct-to-consumer drug OTC and prescription advertis- that is viewed mostly by women and the elderly. She and a team American likely is exposed to advertising was placed. ing that week, an average of researchers studied such ads during a weeklong period in 2001. some 30 hours of direct-to- “When you think about more than five-and-a-half consumer advertisements each who watches soap operas and minutes of drug ads per day. outcomes,” the article concludes. education in the Rollins School year, many come to their annual news programs,” Brownfield “Consumers are likely to “Further research is needed to of Public Health; Mark Williams, doctor’s appointment with said, “you realize it’s usually receive an increasing propor- define the true scope and impact professor of medicine and biased opinions about certain women, who are the major tion of their information about of direct-to-consumer advertis- hospitalist; Ruth Parker, associ- medications. health care decision makers in conditions and treatment from ing.” ate professor of medicine; and “What we decided to do the family, and the elderly, who television ads with an uncertain In addition to Brownfield, Jennifer Phan, hospitalist at was look at the three major consume the most amount of impact on the demand for other study authors include Jay Piedmont Hospital. The authors networks and [see] how many medication.” advertised medications, health- Bernhardt, assistant professor of received no funding for the direct-to-consumer advertise- Over the course of the care spending, and health behavioral science and health study.

It’s 4:52 p.m.—do you know what your deadline is?

BY DIANA DRAKE creation and, thus, subject to seven minutes past the hour. Five all sorts of human biases,” he of the prototypical groups were tudies have shown that the continued. “For example, when I begun at 45 minutes past the annual one-hour shift in was working a seven-day-a-week hour, and the remaining of the SApril to Daylight Savings job as a consultant, if somebody five of the prototypical groups Time is significantly related to an gave me a project early Friday were begun on the hour. immediate 8 percent increase in morning, I wasn’t going to touch The second study measured traffic accidents. it until Monday—because it was individuals. Seventy-three partici- This phenomenon led Joe Friday. I was still organizing my pants were told they were taking Labianca, assistant professor of time as if I were punching in to a part in a study related to creative organization and management normal, Monday-to-Friday job.” productivity; the experiment in Goizueta Business School, to With Moon’s help, Labi- would consist of two related tasks explore the concept of time that anca applied this thinking to the that would take a total of 30 humans have created and how, concept of deadlines, a natural minutes to complete. Again, half when altered, it can affect their intersection of his past work on the participants began their tasks perception and work perfor- schemas and teams. The two set at typical times, the other half at mance. The results are detailed out to better understand the atypical times. They were advised in his paper, co-authored with cognitive underpinnings of how to spend an equal amount of time

Goizueta organization and time and deadlines are perceived on each task, using a wall clock Hinton Kay management Assistant Professor by both individuals and groups as to stay on schedule, but they The Goizueta Business School’s Joe Labianca found that human con- Henry Moon, “When Is an Hour they attempt to schedule activi- were intentionally provided more cepts of time greatly influence adherence to deadlines; being asked Not Sixty Minutes? Deadlines, ties in the Western culture’s clock scenarios for the first task than to begin or end tasks at odd times (by 3:52 p.m., for example) led to Temporal Schemas, and Indi- time. would be possible to complete decreased performance by participants in Labianca’s study. vidual and Task Group Perfor- In a series of experiments, in 15 minutes, forcing them to mance.” Publication is pending Labianca and Moon gave teams actively manage their time. same kind of thing is going milestones” and therefore in the Academy of Management and individuals the same objec- The outcomes, Labianca said, on in our study; you’re telling should consider the clock in Journal. tive amount of time to complete were quite telling of human time the team that they’ve got 60 project planning. “I was reading about the a task, but they manipulated the perception. Significant differences minutes to complete a project. “I saw this in my own effect of the switch to Daylight starting times between prototypi- arose in groups’ time pacing and If you tell them they need to work behavior,” Labianca said. Savings Time on traffic ac- cal (3:45 p.m., 4 p.m.) and atypi- performance, with prototypical be done at 3:52 p.m., they may “If somebody said, ‘Do this cidents,” said Labianca, who cal (3:52 p.m., 4:07 p.m.). groups achieving higher perfor- not hear or store it in memory project, and you’ve got a week,’ primarily researches teams, In the first experiment, mance. Individuals beginning at as well. They’re likely to make and I got it at an atypical time, social networks and schemas. 20 task groups were charged atypical times spent significantly more mistakes because it I didn’t get to work immediate- “[Another] study that caught my with writing and rehearsing a longer on the first set of tasks, doesn’t ‘fit’ with the way they ly. That’s what you kept seeing eye was about scientists work- 60-second television commercial thus leaving them less time for usually tell time.” with the folks in our experi- ing with Mars rovers. A Martian (for a fictional website that sells the second set, increasing per- Labianca’s ultimate goal ments. They were lost in time.” day is 37 minutes longer than an textbooks) in exactly one hour, ceived time pressure and result- is to provide team leaders The next step in this Earth day, and this was produc- with half the groups beginning at ing in poorer performance. with a better understanding of research, he said, is to inform ing a reaction similar to jet lag atypical times and the other half “If somebody tells you his how starting and ending times people that this phenom- among scientists in the lab. at prototypical times. Five of the flight comes in at 3:57 p.m., influence both individuals and enon exists. If they know, will “We sometimes think about 10 atypical groups were begun at you will most likely store it in groups. Managers, he said, need struggles with time manage- time as if it is objective, but 52 minutes past the hour, while your mind as getting in around to recognize that people are ment and missed deadlines go the concept of time is a human the other five were begun at 4 p.m.,” Labianca said. “The synchronized with “temporal away? Only time will tell. Emory Report February 28, 2005 7

PERFORMINGARTS UNIVERSITYGOVERNANCE Eliot Fisk highlights inaugural, Employee Council to 15-event Emory Guitar Fest replay last year’s relay mployee Council’s annual visit to Oxford, Wednesday, BY SALLY CORBETT & Feb. 16, featured the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) Korrie Chapman, who spoke about ACS’s upcoming NANCY CONDON E Relay for Life fund-raiser. The all-night event, which begins at 7 p.m., Friday, May 13, and concludes the following morning, will take place he inaugural Emory Gui- at Adams Stadium at 2383 N. Druid Hills Road. Last year 50 tar Fest, March 6–April teams, including one from Employee Council, participated in T28, will offer 15 richly a Relay for Life at Druid Hills High School. Emory organizers varied events, from classical to were unable to return to Druid Hills or secure a campus loca- gypsy, to jazz guitar and guitar tion for the 2005 event, so the community is encouraged to with flute and violin. Visit- join in the Adams Stadium relay. Chapman said, with Emory ing artists will include Emory participation, 125 teams are expected, and the monetary goal Coca-Cola Artists-in-Residence is $50,000. Eliot Fisk, Mundell Lowe and “Some may think of Relay for Life as ‘just another fund- Sergio and Odair Assad with raiser,” Chapman said. “It is about raising money, that’s true. violinist Nadja Salerno-Son- But it is primarily about not forgetting those we lost and sup- nenberg. porting those going through treatment right now.” Charismatic virtuoso Fisk, The council sponsored an 11-person team at the Druid a classical guitarist, launches Hills relay and raised more than $1,800, nearly doubling its the festival on March 6 with a goal. It will form another team for the Adams Stadium relay,

solo performance of works by Special and Kimberly Campbell volunteered to be team captain. Council President Susie Lackey passed out copies of the Turina, Scarlatti, Bach, Albeniz, Eliot Fisk, who has been voted best classical guitarist in a readers’ sur- Halffter, Beaser and Paganini. best-selling book Good to Great. The book, which outlines vey by Guitar Player Magazine, will headline Emory’s inaugural Guitar management strategy, was a gift from Mike Mandl, executive Fisk has been voted “Best Fest, which runs throughout March and into April. Classical Guitarist” in a Guitar vice president for finance and administration, in appreciation • solo recital at Gordon Col- for the council’s invitation to speak in January. Copies were Player Magazine readers’ poll, 8 p.m., Lowe will perform a lege (Barnesville, Ga.), March provided for every council member. and he is known for his imagi- free concert with the Emory 14, 7:30 p.m., free. Call Gordon Mandl’s office also pledged funding support for the native and innovative approach. Jazz Ensemble in Emerson College at 770-358-5393 for council’s spring town hall meeting, April 26 in Winship Ball- The last direct disciple of An- Hall. location. room. The town hall is a follow-up to the annual presidential dres Segovia, he combines the Finally, classical guitarist Violinist Salerno-Sonnen- town hall last fall. President Jim Wagner was so encouraged great romantic tradition with berg, one of the most original Luckett and Atlanta Symphony by the event that he offered to participate in another; this is the best of modern music. Fisk’s flutist Carl David Hall will the first time the council has presented a spring town hall. festival appearances include: and daring concert talents performing today, and the offer contemporary music by At the fall event, Wagner was a solo act; in April he • solo concert, March 6, 4 p.m., will be joined by special guests like Mandl, Provost Earl Lewis, preeminent guitar duo of Sergio Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Emerson Concert Hall ($20; Senior Vice President for Development and University Rela- and Odair Assad will offer the Astor Piazzola, Carlo Domeni- Emory faculty/staff $15; free tions Johnnie Ray, and Vice President for Equal Opportunity for students). Atlanta premiere of their ac- coni, Joaquin Rodrigo and Programs Bob Ethridge. Speaking for the council’s commu- • solo recital at Oxford Col- claimed program of music from Luckett on April 8 (8 p.m., Em- nications committee, Sylvia Ennis said the sponsorship from lege, March 7, 8 p.m., Oxford Turkey, Hungary, Spain, Russia, erson Concert Hall, free). And Mandl’s office will cover expenses such as refreshments and Chapel. Call 770-784-8888 to Macedonia and beyond. the Emory Guitar Ensemble, the event’s webcast. reserve tickets. On March 24, the trio will directed by Luckett, will pres- Special issues’ Amy Harms said the committee is draft- give a free afternnon concert at • guitar master class, March 8, ent guitar quartets, trios, duos ing a letter inquiring about the possibilities of adding shuttle 2:30 p.m. in Emerson Concert service to the Carter Center and the Child Care Center at the 7 p.m., free, Emerson Con- and solos, from the Renais- Hall. Later that night, at 8 p.m. Clairmont Campus. cert Hall (public welcome to sance through the 20th century, observe). also in Emerson Hall, the three The next Employee Council meeting will be held on April 28 (8 p.m., Emerson • instrumental master class will perform as part of the Flora Wednesday, March 16, at the Carter Center.—Eric Rangus Concert Hall, free). for non-guitarists, March 10, Glenn Candler Series. Tickets 4 p.m., Emerson Concert Hall, are $48; $36 for faculty/staff; $5 Residencies for Fisk, Saler- If you have a question or comment for Employee Council, e-mail Susie Lackey at [email protected]. free (public welcome to ob- for students. no-Sonnenberg, the Assads and serve). Jazz guitarist Lowe has per- Lowe are supported by the • lecture/demonstration, March formed with musical luminaries Emory Coca-Cola Artists-in- 10, 2:30 p.m., Emerson Concert Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Residence Series. Fisk’s per- PCSW hosts open forum Hall, free. Billie Holiday and Andre Previn. formances are made possible he President’s Commission on the Status of Women • concert with Vega String His television and film composi- in part by the Emory Chamber tion credits include the themes (PCSW) hosted an open forum, Thursday, Feb. 17, giving Quartet, March 11, noon, Music Society of Atlanta. The Carlos Museum, free. from Hawaii Five-O and Starsky Tthe Emory community a place to voice important issues performance by Salerno-Son- • family series solo concert, and Hutch, and Woody Allen’s concerning women and in turn helping the commission un- nenberg and the Assads is also March 12, 4 p.m., Carlos Mu- Everything You Always Wanted derstand what issues it should address. Susan Gilbert, outgoing commission chair, opened seum, $4. to Know About Sex. made possible by the Flora the meeting with an overview of PCSW. She explained the • concert with Vega String On April 18 at 1:30 p.m., Glenn Candler Endowment. commission’s mission statement, accomplishments, current Quartet, March 13, 4 p.m., Lowe will conduct a master class For a full Guitar Fest projects and benefits of becoming a member. “If you’re inter- calenda, visit www.arts. Emerson Concert Hall ($20; in Emerson Concert Hall; the ested in communicating concerns to leading Emory adminis- Emory faculty/staff $15; stu- public is welcome to observe. emory.edu. For concert tration,” Gilbert said, “the commission ensures that you can.” dents free with I.D.) The next night, April 19 at tickets, call 404-727-5050. She then introduced incoming chair Allison Dykes and Nadine Kaslow, incoming junior chair, to answer questions while Gilbert moderated. Attendees’ questions touched on WOMEN’S HISTORY from page 1 issues such as lactation rooms, after-hours childcare, work- The keynote speech is is a great diversity.” home balance, use of campus media for creating awareness, American woman in the one of many events spread A co-sponsorship between the Family Maternity Leave Act (FMLA), and mentorship pro- United States to earn a doc- throughout the month. They the Center for Women and grams for undergraduate women. Dykes and Kaslow pledged torate in economics (1921), start Monday, March 1, Charis Books will bring author to begin discussions on these topics at upcoming meetings. the first to graduate from the with the Candler School of Anne Lamott to campus for a Martha Fagan wrapped up the forum by announcing the University of Pennsylvania Theology’s Women’s Week reading and book signing in commission is accepting nominations for new appointments. Law School, and the first to themed, “Women’s Health Winship Ballroom, Thursday, There are eight one-year student, two three-year faculty, and pass the Pennsylvania bar and Spirituality: Where Do We March 24. Copies of her new four three-year staff appointments available. The nominat- (both 1927). She was secre- Go From Here?” which runs book, Plan B: Further Thoughts ing committee will present the slate of nominees at the April tary of the National Urban through March 4. on Faith, will be available for PCSW meeting, and appointees will be invited to attend the League for 25 years and served There will be films, wor- purchase. last meeting of the semester, Thursday, May 19. Nomination on President Harry Truman’s ship services, several lectures “Speaking to women forms can be found online at www.pcsw.emory.edu. Committee on Human Rights. and symposia and even an open around campus, I’ve found that Commission meetings are open to the public. The next Malveaux, who Center for mic event in the Dobbs Center Lamott has been very influential meeting will be Thursday, March 17, at 4 p.m. in Room 500 Women Director Ali Crown to commemorate International in a lot of their lives,” Flook of Goizueta Business School.—Christi Gray “remarkable,” has said called Women’s Day, March 8. “Many said. Alexander’s life is a metaphor different disciplines around A full schedule of events for the groundbreaking efforts campus have come together to can be found on the Center for If you have a question or comment for PCSW, e-mail of blacks, women and others co-sponsor events,” Flook said. Women’s website at www. Susan Gilbert at [email protected]. in pursuit of human rights and “We have events focusing on womenscenter.emory. equal rights for women and women in art, women in busi- edu. For more information, minorities. ness, women in religion—there contact Flook at 404-727-2001. 8 February 28, 2005 Emory Report

For online event information, visit www.emory.edu/TODAY @emory Events for the Emory Community faculty & staff; free for Free. 404-727-7450. Auditorium, Building A, Emory Colgate University, preaching. PERFORMING students. 404-727-5050. Clinic. Free. 404-727-7450. Free. 404-727-6225. ARTS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 MONDAY, FEB. 28 MONDAY, MARCH 7 McDonald Lecture Aquinas Spirituality Wesley Fellowship Dinner Body Acceptance Week Concert “Facts and Fictions of Lecture 6 p.m. 211 Glenn Church Performance Eliot Fisk, guitar, performing. Separation of Church and “Franciscan Spirituality.” School. Free. 404-727-6225. “The Pomegranate Seed.” 8 p.m. Oxford Chapel. Free. State: There is No ‘Wall.’” Gregory Hartmayer and Cosy Sheridan, performing. 770-784-8389. John Witte, law, present- Vincent Gluc, St. Philip Benizi 6 p.m. Harland Cinema, Dobbs ing. Noon. Tull Auditorium, Catholic Church, presenting. Center. Free. 404-727-7450. Gambrell Hall. Free. 7:30 p.m. Holy Spirit Church, SPECIAL 404-727-5588. 4465 Northside Drive. Free. TUESDAY, MARCH 1 VISUAL ARTS 404-727-8860. WEDNESDAYS Concert Hugh P. Davis Health Toastmasters@Emory Orchestre National de France, Special Collections exhibit Lecture Great Teachers Lecture 8 a.m. 721 Rollins School of performing. Kurt Mazur, “On the Road Home: “Understanding and “Religions in a World of Public Health. Free. conductor. 8 p.m. Emerson An American Family in Improving Global Health.” Violence: Virus or Vaccine?” 404-371-0505. Concert Hall, Schwartz Center. the Philippines.” Special Sue Hegyvary, University Thomas Thangaraj, theology, $60; $45 faculty & staff; Collections, Woodruff Library. of Washington, presenting. presenting. 7:30 p.m. Miller- THURSDAYS $10 students. 404-727-5050. Free. 404-727-6887. Through 4 p.m. 101 Nursing School. Ward Alumni House. Free. Chess club Assigned seating. Feb. 28. Free. 404-727-0722. 404-727-0642. 6:30 p.m. 106 Bishops Hall. Free. 404-778-4121. THURSDAY, MARCH 3 Schatten Gallery exhibit Women’s Studies Tenenbaum Family Lecture Film “To Work His Wonders on the Colloquium Series Series WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 The Innocents. Jack Clayton, Scene: The Life and Times of “Poetry and the Muse “Servants of Kings and Graduation Salute Sale director. 7:30 p.m. 205 White William L. Dawson.” Schatten of History: Scaffolding, Not Servants of Servants: 10 a.m. Winship Ballroom, Hall. Free. 404-727-6761. Gallery, Woodruff Library. Free. Restoration and Monument.” Political History of the Jews.” Dobbs Center. Free. 404-727-6861. Through Natasha Trethewey, creative Yosef Yerushalmi, Columbia 404-727-6022. THURSDAY, MARCH 3 June 30. writing, presenting. 4 p.m. University, presenting. Female Directors Film 206 White Hall. Free. 7:30 p.m. Reception Hall, Pride Banquet Series 404-727-0096. Carlos Museum. Free. Hecter Vargas, Lambda Legal The Bigamist. Ida Lupino, 404-727-6301. Defense and Educational Fund, director. 6:30 p.m. Miller-Ward LECTURES MARIAL Colloquium presenting. 6:30 p.m. Reception Alumni House. Free. Series Center for Health, Culture Hall, Carlos Museum. $10; 404-727-2000. MONDAY, FEB. 28 “Healing Through Rewriting and Society Lecture Series strudents free. 404-727-0272. Human Genetics Seminar Life Narratives.” Chikako “Seeing the Disabled: Oxford Spring Play Series Ozawa-de Silva, anthropol- Images of Disability in Late Body Acceptance Week Clark Lemons, director. 8 p.m. “Huntington Disease.” Xiao ogy, presenting. 4 p.m. Capitalism.” Rosemarie Workshop Tarbutton Theater (Oxford). $5. Li, human genetics, presenting. 415E Briarcliff Campus. Garland-Thomson, women’s “Thin Is In, Or Is It?” Judi-Lee 770-784-8389. Noon. Whitehead Auditorium. Free. 404-727-3440. studies, presenting. 4 p.m. Nelson, University of Georgia, Free. 404-712-2306. 860 Rollins Building. Free. presenting. 7:30 p.m. Brown Concert Journalism Panel 404-727-8686. Auditorium, Building A, Emory William Dawson Chamber Journalism Lecture Discussion Clinic. Free. 404-727-7450. Music. 8 p.m. Emerson Concert “What You Think You Know “The Balance Tips: Will Philosophy Lecture Hall, Schwartz Center. Free. About News, and Why It’s Women be the Media “Porphyrys’ Metaphysics and THURSDAY, MARCH 3 404-727-5050. Wrong.” Kevin Barnhurst, Moguls of the Future?” Julia Plotinus.” Steven Strange, Music Symposium University of Illinois at Wallace, Atlanta Journal- philosophy, presenting. “In Celebration of William L. FRIDAY, MARCH 4 Chicago, presenting. Noon. Constitution, presenting. 4:15 p.m. 205 White Hall. Dawson: An Exploration of William Dawson New Jones Room, Woodruff Library. 7 p.m. 208 Goizueta Free. 404-727-7966. African-American Music and Horizons Concert Free. 404-727-7602. Business School. Free. Identity.” 9 a.m. Emory Hotel 8 p.m. Emerson Hall, Schwartz 404-727-4221. FRIDAY, MARCH 4 and Conference Center. $90. Center. Pricing TBA. Center for Ethics Lecture PBEE Seminar Series 404-712-8926. Registration 404-727-5050. “Palestinian-Israeli Unity THURSDAY, MARCH 3 Roman Biek, biology, present- required. Project: Breaking the Ice.” Biochemistry Seminar ing. Noon. 1052 Rollins Center. Honors Thesis Dance 3 p.m. Winship Ballroom, Series Free. 404-727-0404. MARIAL Reception Concert Dobbs Center. Free. “The Proteasome Portal and 3 p.m. 206 Geosciences 8 p.m. Dance Studio, Schwartz 404-727-1179. Regulation of Proteolysis.” Building. Free. 404-727-3440. Center. Free. 404-727-7266. Michael Glickman, Technion- ECLC Lecture Israel Institute of Technology RELIGION Bloodborne Pathogen Spring Play “Teaching Through Interactive (Israel), presenting. Noon. Training Clark Lemons, director. 8 p.m. Films: An Attempt to Improve Whitehead Auditorium. Free. TUESDAY, MARCH 1 10 a.m. 306 Dental School. Tarbutton Theater (Oxford). $5. Language Teaching Using 404-727-5980. United Methodist Free. 404-727-4910. 770-784-8389. Current Technology.” Pierre Dinner Capretz, Yale University, pre- Environmental Studies 7 p.m. 211 Glenn Church SATURDAY, MARCH 5 senting. 4 p.m. E208 Math Seminar Series School. Free. 404-727-6225. Karnatic Music Association and Science Center. Free. “El Niño—Southern Concert 404-727-2575. Oscillation and Global THURSDAY, MARCH 3 4 p.m. Performing Arts Studio. Warming: New Data from Catholic Topics Discussion Free. 404-727-6280. Asian Studies Lecture Old Corals.” Kimberly Cobb, “Catholic Social Teaching “Is South Asia the Most Georgia Tech, presenting. Engaging Current Events.” ***Please recycle this William Dawson Choral 4 p.m. E306 Math and 7:30 p.m. Dominican Room F-6, Dangerous Place on Earth?” newspaper. Concert of Spirituals Raju Thomas, Marqette Science Center. Free. Aquinas Center. Free. Tuskegee University Choir, University, presenting. 404-727-6476. 404-727-8860. Emory Concert Choir, and 4:30 p.m. 205 White Hall. 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