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Freshman Snapshot Three straight years of near-record enrollments ... but that’s just part of the picture. The Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Creighton Centennial Feature: Lessons to be Learned Rebuilding Hope The School of Pharmacy from the Schiavo Case After the Tsunami and Health Professions Fall 2005 View the magazine online at: FALL 2005 www.creightonmagazine.org University Magazine Fantastic Freshmen . 18 Not since 1979 has Creighton seen a bigger freshman class than the one arriving on campus this fall. The class is bright, diverse and full of potential. This class also marks a three-year trend of near-record enrollments. So what’s happening on the hilltop? We check in with Creighton’s admissions team. The Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Lessons to be Learned from the Schiavo Case . 24 There is a renewed public interest surrounding issues of end-of-life care after the high profile 18 case of Terri Schiavo. Professor Jos Welie from Creighton’s Center for Health Policy and Ethics — along with colleagues from the Center and from law, theology and philosophy — takes a closer look at those issues and what we can learn from the Schiavo case. Rebuilding Hope. 30 Creighton photographer the Rev. Don Doll, S.J., spent several weeks this spring in tsunami-ravaged areas of Sri Lanka and India chronicling the tremendous work of the Jesuits in the aftermath of the destruction. The Jesuits are helping a struggling people rebuild homes, livelihoods and — perhaps most importantly — hope. Creighton Centennial Feature: 24 The School of Pharmacy and Health Professions . 38 Creighton’s School of Pharmacy and Health Professions is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. While the pharmacy profession has changed drastically over the past 100 years, one thing hasn’t changed: Creighton’s leadership in education and pharmacological research. We take a look at two innovative researchers, Chris Destache and Alekha Dash, who are investigating the possibilities of more precise and effective drug delivery through nanotechnology. The Priest and the Troublemaker . xxxxxxxx While growing up, Matt Holland knew Creighton alumnus Denny Holland -------- as simply Dad — a quiet, unassuming life insurance salesman. It wasn’t ------------------- 30 until later that he more fully discovered his father’s relationship with a fiery Creighton Jesuit and his role in the civil rights movement in Omaha. Letters to the Editor . 4 On The Cover University News . 5 Creighton freshman Stephanie Heuring, front, with her fellow classmates, Alumni News. 42 from left, Thomas Smaldone, Josh Dotzler, Creighton Connections . 47 Allan Williams and Megan Manning. Reflections . 54 38 The Last Word . 55 CONTACT US: Editor — Rick Davis, (402) 280-1785, [email protected] • Associate Editor — Sheila Swanson, (402) 280-2069, [email protected] View the magazine online at: www.creightonmagazine.org. Message from the University President The Arts and Creighton American author Theodore Dreiser once described art as the University but at “stored honey of the human soul.” various venues The fine arts, indeed, serve as an essential element of our shared locally and regionally. humanness, and have always played a prominent role in Jesuit In 2004, for example, education. Creighton staged The We are blessed to have a wonderfully diverse arts community Threepenny Opera in here in Omaha — one that both enriches and is enriched by our fine conjunction with Opera and performing arts department here at Creighton. We offer here Omaha, and three students but a glimpse. served as understudies. In October, downtown Omaha and the Omaha Performing Arts This spring, Creighton hosted ACT- Society will lift the curtain on the new $90 million Holland Performing SO (the Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics) Arts Center, which will feature classical and symphonic music, popular — a major youth initiative of the NAACP, in which high school music, chamber ensembles, cabaret artists, and speakers and lectures. students compete in a variety of disciplines, including fine arts. The Joslyn Art Museum enters its 74th year as Creighton’s beloved Creighton also partners with the Hope Center, providing at-risk neighbor, and the bond remains strong. The museum, opened in 1931, youth a chance to perform on stage, and with the Omaha uses our facilities for some of its community workshops, and our Archdiocese, providing space and workshops for the Music in students, faculty and staff benefit from having a first-class art Catholic Schools program. museum in “our backyard.” Our faculty members are engaged in the community. One example Creighton also has been intimately involved with the Nebraska is Creighton’s Littleton Alston, who created a 1,000-pound bronze Shakespeare Festival and its annual Shakespeare on the Green, since sculpture of a jazz trio for North Omaha’s Dreamland Plaza and a its beginnings nearly 20 years ago. The festival flourishes in the 9-foot-tall, 2,000-pound bronze sculpture of the Rev. Martin Luther spirit of the Jesuit Institute for the Arts, which was held on campus King Jr. positioned near the City-County Building; and a sculpture some 25 years ago and featured Shakespearean plays in our own of St. Ignatius erected in front of our Reinert Alumni Memorial Jesuit gardens. Today, Shakespeare on the Green is held in Elmwood Library and created in honor of Creighton’s 125th anniversary. Park, in cooperation with the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and There are many others: from Marilyn Kielniarz and her 14-piece attracts about 35,000 people each summer for its free performances. Indonesian gamelan; to Alan Klem and Fred Hanna and their Creighton theater professor Alan Klem is a founding director, and original musical Lewis and Clark; to the Rev. Michael Flecky, S.J., and theater coordinator Bill Van Deest serves as associate artistic his stunning photos of North African ruins; to Lisa Carter and her director. Creighton also provides office and rehearsal space. exquisite dance productions. Creighton’s Lied Education Center for the Arts annually hosts 15 As for myself, I cautiously accepted the lead role in Opera to 16 musical concerts, four theatrical productions and two dance Omaha’s upcoming production of Paul Bunyan. I am looking productions, along with six to nine gallery exhibits. These productions forward to providing the off-stage voice for the legendary and exhibits attract more than 3,000 attendees annually and are lumberjack. partially funded by the generous support of the Richard and Mary Please enjoy this issue of Creighton University Magazine, and may McCormick Endowment Fund for the Fine and Performing Arts. God bless you and yours. Some 1,000 students take classes in art, graphic arts, dance, music and theater at Creighton every semester (40 to 50 are fine arts majors). These students perform and exhibit not only at the John P. Schlegel, S.J. ATHLETICS REPORT University Magazine CU’s Excels, Page 9 both sides of the truth. Fr. Hamm touched on the dangers to world peace from such theories, but even more insidious is the danger to American Catholics Publisher: Creighton University; Rev. John P. Schlegel, Academic Excellence: due to the outrageous hate and bigotry held S.J., President; Lisa Calvert, Vice President for Footprints in by many of the proponents. The Church University Relations. Creighton University Magazine Government staff: Kim Barnes Manning, Assistant Vice President seems to dismiss this as “dogs nipping at for Marketing and Public Relations; Rick Davis, heels,” but I believe it is critical that educated Fly-Witness Testimony: International Law Happiness Under Attracting The Science of in the 20th Century the Microscope: Gates Scholars Forensic Entomology & Beyond The Science of Joy Editor; Sheila Swanson, Associate Editor; Pamela A. Summer 2005 Catholics become thoroughly educated in (1) Vaughn, Features Editor. Editorial Advisers: Cam their own faith and (2) the “doctrines” such Enarson, M.D., M.B.A.; Christine Wiseman, J.D.; Richard O’Brien, M.D.; Greg Johnson; Diane as the Rapture being spread by zealous Dougherty; Rev. Donald A. Doll, S.J.; Tamara fundamentalists. Creighton would not Buffalohead-McGill; and Jayne Schram. be amiss to set up a course of study just Creighton University Magazine (USPS728-070) is on these subjects and carry out a program published quarterly in February, May, August and Letters of instruction through America. November by Creighton University, 2500 California B. Leon Doud, BS’56 Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178-0001. Periodicals postage to Jasper, Ark. paid at Omaha, Nebraska, and additional entry points. Address all mail to Marketing and Public the Editor Relations, Omaha, NE 68178. Postmaster: Send change A Look at Dorothy Day of address to Creighton University Magazine, P.O. 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Without prayer, she said, check online at www.creighton.edu/alumni. not include in his bibliography, and which is we miss the whole point.