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This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in WKU Archives Records by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 8 No.1. Publication For Faculty, Staff and Friends of WKU • February 1998 ... ii1 WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
~It~s time for change' Gov. Patton says
By Bob Skipper ates, 762 baccalaureate Change is necessary if and 289 masters. universities are to improve, Four students were Kentucky Gov. Paul Patton also honored fo r their told the fall graduating academic achievements. class at Western Kentucky Shanon Peterson, a University Dec. 16. history major from Bowl " ) sense that we're in the ing Green, received the midst of a great sea change scholar of the college in this world in education, award for the highest and we in America, and grade-point average in the particularly, we in Ken~ Potter College of Arts, tucky, and especially you Humanities and Social here at Western Kentucky Sciences. She also received University are in a position the Ogden Trustees' to take advantage of that Award for having the sea change and change highest GPA in the gradu forever this institution and ating class. She is the this Commonwealth, if daughter of Gregg and only we have the wisdom Linda Peterson. and courage to do it," Susan Henderson Patton said. Cook, a marketing major Accepting the invitation from Brownsville, re of WKU President Gary ceived the scholar of the Ransdell, Patton spoke to a college award for the full house in Western's College of Business E.A. Diddle Arena during the Administration and the Ogden school's 142nd Commencement, Patton said universities must that you graduates are going to Trustees' Award. She is the daugh during which the University take advantage of changes in make things happen throughout ter of Ray and Linda Henderson conferred more than 1,200 degrees. technology and provide services this nation," Patton said. and is married to l.R. Cook. "Throughout most of recorded such as distance education to fit Ransdell told the graduates that Nancy Smith, a middle grades history, the transmission of educa the needs of its students. "The they are responsible for writing education major from Elizabeth tion has been with a professor university must be willing to their own life stories. town, scholar of the college award talking face-to-face in the same embrace change because we as a "You are now moving on to the for the College of Education and room with a student, but that is SOCiety must have change," he said next chapter," Ransdell said, Behavioral Sciences. She is the changing," Patton said. The tech Patton told the graduates they adding that while they have daughter of Russell and Dale Hale nology and need are changing and have three choices in life: "We can completed their degrees, "Your and is married to Dale Smith. "we must never abandon that make things happen. We can Western experience is just begin Greg Hackbarth, a computer fundamental student-professor watch what happens. Or we can ning." He urged them to stay science major from Bowling Green, residential relationship that will wonder what happened." close to Western, to defend it and the scholar of the college award for always be a part of our educa " I know that Western Kentucky support it. the Ogden College of Science, tional establishment. But we must University is going to make things Western conferred 1.213 degrees Technology and Hea lth. He is the have more." happen in Kentucky and 1 know during the ceremony: 162 associ- son of Steve and Susan James. New year, new administrative structure The new year brought a new planning, accounting and purchas tor (Lewis Mills), overseeing administrative structure to Western ing. intercollegiate athletics and the Kentucky University. ·The creation of the Executive Hilltopper Athletic Foundation; and WKU President Gary A. Ransdell Assistant to the President for General Counsel (Deborah announced that effective Jan. 1, Public Affairs and Governmental Wilkins), overseeing legal affairs, seven officers report directly to Relations, filled by Fred Hensley, equal opportunity, Human Re him. The reorganization includes: Vice President for Institutional sources, Internal Auditor and -The creation of the position of Advancement. He will oversee Environmental Health and Safety. Provost and Vice President for governmental relations and the "This structure is designed to Academic Affairs, filled by Dr. Office of University Relations. focus on our core responsibilities Barbara Burch, Vice President for The creation of a Vice President to provide a strong and relevant Academic Affairs. The position will for Development and Alumni academic program and ensure be supported by the Vice Presi Relations, to be filled in the spring, optimum intellectual, cultural and dent for Infonnation Technology overseeing development, alumni social growth for out students,- Dr. (Dr. Charles Anderson). the Office relations, affiliated foundations and Ransdell said. "I have tried to of Institutional Research, the Spedal Events. combine conventional wisdom in academic deans and academic Others reporting to Dr. Ransdell higher education with the capaci programs and services. include the Vice President for ties (human and financial) of our -The creation of a Chief Finan Student Affairs (Dr. Jerry Wilder). current staff and budget. ft cial Officer, filled by Ann Mead. overseeing Student Life and An organizational chart illustrat She will oversee budgeting and Student Services; Athletics Direc- ing the changes is on page three. -
·OnCampus Western Kentucky University February 1998
Regents asked to support merit scholarships; discuss vision, mission President Gary Ransdell urged would "send a strong statement" ments would be used to recruit the regents the awarding of up to two the University's Board of Regents that the state values academic top faculty in the country, Dr. honorary doctorates each year in at its quarterly meeting Jan. 30 to achievement, regardless of finan Ransdell said. recognition of significant achieve support Gov. Paul Patton's plan for cial situation. "This will de-em In other business, the board: ments. a statewide merit scholarship phasize money in the decision to "Endorsed the creation of a "Approved five areas as poten program. go to coUege and where to go President's AdviSOry CounciL The tial programs of distinction, as While he said he supported the college," he said. council would be made up of defined in the Postsecondary funding of a need-based scholar Dr. Ransdell also asked regents highly successful alumni and Education Improvement Act. The ship program, which has been in to support a proposed bond issue friends who would counsel the areas include: Center for Applied place but remained unfunded, Dr. to create endowments for faculty president in institutional direction Science and Technology; Educa Ransdell added, " I am most inter positions. Patton has proposed to and p lanning. tion, Health and Human Services ested in a state-funded program the General Assembly that $11 "Accepted responses to 57 recom for Families and Children; Folk that rewards scholarly achieve million in bonds be sold to create mendations outlined in the re Studies; industrial/Organiza ment." endowments of $100 million for cently-completed Institutional tional Psychology; and Journal Patton's plan would create the University of Kentucky and Review. The responses assign the ism and Communication. college scholarships for high school the University of Louisville and recommendations to a member of Dr. Ransdell said up to three students based on grade-pOint $10 million for the remaining state the University administration and areas will be submitted to the average and scores on the Ameri universities. provide a time line for implementa Council on Postsecondary Educa can College Test. The higher the "This would mean taking 20 tion or study. tion for consideration. Each center G PA and test scores, the larger the years to payoff something that "Endorsed the creation of an approved by CPE would be scholarship. would be absolutely pennanent:' honorary doctorate committee. The eligible for $1.4 miHion in fund Dr. Ransdell said such a program he said. Income from the endow- committee will recommend to ing, which would have to be matched by the University. WKU receives $25,000 gift from Faculty Awards Western Kentucky Gas Co. Western Kentucky University to serving communities such as Alumni, faculty, staff, administrators, and students are invited to has received a $25,000 gift from Owensboro and its citizens." nominate fuU-time members of Western's faculty for college and The gift will be given in five uni versity awards for teaching, research/creativity and public Western Kentucky Gas Co. in selVice. Owensboro to be used for support annual installments of $5,000 each The Community College will select one awardee for teaching. of a lecture series in WKU's Col to the Western Kentucky Univer The areas of University Libraries and Information Technology will lege of Business Administration. sity Foundation beginning in jointly select two awardees': one for research/creativity and one for publiC The gift will fund, "Business fiscal year 1997-98 and ending in service. Vision 2020: A Contemporary fiscal year 2001-02. Each of the colleges wiD select three awardees from each college: one for Management Lecture Series," Headquartered in Owensboro, teaching, one for research/creativity, and one for public service. which is co-sponsored by the with regional offices in Bowling These awardees will be publicly recognized and will receive cash Green and Madisonville, Western stipends. Selection of the awardees will be done by faculty advisory Western Kentucky Gas Company committees set up by the dean of each college. and WKU's College of Business Kentucky Gas services more than Administration. It will be a feature 170,000 customers in 38 counties All college awardees will become finalists for the university-wide component of WKU's "Executives throughout west and central awards for teaching, research/creativity and public service. on Campus" speaker series. Kentucky. Selection of recipients for the university-wide awards will be done by The lecture series is an outreach a faculty /student/ a1umni committee which I will chair. Recipients of effort to provide ideas, applica the university awards will be publicly recognized and presented with tions and interesting programs to engraved silver bowls. 1he Alumni Association also provides a cash award to each recipient. interested individuals and commu On Campus nity leaders seeking to better their Deadline for submitting nominations to the Office of the Provost respective organizations. There Winner of and Vice President for Academic Affairs is Monday, February 16, 1998. will be several lectures each year 1997 Grand Award with expected locations of Owens Jar Program Improvemen t Nominations may be made by replying on the form below or prepar boro, Bowling Green, Shelbyville, Council for the Advancement inga memorandum to the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Madisonville and Paducah. and Support of Academic Affairs. If you have any questions, please call Teresa Western Kentucky Gas President Education ~ Kentucky Jackson (22%) in Academic Affairs. Earl Fischer of Owensboro, who is (CASE-K) Advancement Awards I nominate -,------,-=oc-,----,-----,--,,----,---,---~. a full-time also a WKU regent, said the lecture faculty member at WKU, for the following award: series proposal was a natural Program match since the service areas of the __T eaching __R esearch/Creativity ~blic Service University and utility are nearly 1997 Blue Pencil the same. Awards of Excellence In support of the nomination, I would like to add the following "This is an opportunity for us to in Employee Newsletter comments: help Western share some of the and Feature Writing knowledge located on the campus Ky. Association with today's business leaders," of Fischer said. Government Communicators Dr. Robert Jefferson, dean of the College of Business Administra On Campus is a publication for the Western community, produced by the tion, said, the lecture series will Name Office of Unirersity Relations. "further the involvement between We invite faculty and staff to send us the faculty and students of West your profossiarwl adhievements and ern and the surrounding business story idf.'tlS. We invite you to submit Department community. It gives us a chance to stories. Contact Sheila £i5(JrI, fAilor. integrate the three (faculty, stu 745-5380. [email protected]. dents and business community) Website:http://wUTw.wku.eduiDept/ __Faculty _ _ Administrator __Student and demonstrates our commitment Support/UR/tmCtlmpus.htm
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University takes action against radon The University has completed a then-vice president for Finance months, to determine the average Legislative Update voluntary preliminary radon and Administration. radon risk, Reeder said. survey of nearly I,BOO rooms and Although listed as the second Western is located in an area that is now dealing with areas of leading cause of lung cancer, "the has been deSignated as zone one, Legislative Update, a report concern. dangers from radon don't begin to which means that it is a prime on issues affecting Western The University has tested 1,786 equal those of smoking," said Dr. location for radon problems. Kentucky Univeristy, is being rooms, most on ground floors, Charles Lott, director of Western's Radon seeps from the ground and published weekly during the since the last of November for Student Health Service. "The enters buildings through cracks current session of the Ken radon, said Charlotte Reeder, health risks are being responded and other openings in foundations tucky General Assembly. WKU environmental health and to here in a positive fashion." and areas that come into contact It is sent to faculty, staff and safety coordinator. Isolated areas in three buildings with the ground. Southcentral friends of WKU. For more Radon is a naturally occurring, - the Kentucky Building, Central Kentucky's karst, or cave, topogra- infonnation, to report com colorless, odorless radioactive gas Hall and Zacharias Hall -- showed phy allows the gas easier travel to munication with members of that has been linked to lung readings greatly above what is the surface. the Legislature, or to request cancer. Although the Environmen- recommended for residential copies of bills, contact Fred tal Protection Agency has issued structures, Reeder said. Hensley, Executive Assistant recommendations, it does not have The testing also indicated that On c.mpwla publl.hed monthly. to the President for Public Send itemI for publication .round regulatory authority concerning there are potential trouble areas in Affairs and Governmental radon and there are not manda- other parts of the campus. Those the 15th of the month for the followtn51 month. Relations, 745-6208 or tory testing programs. Western areas tested in a range that will Uniftrslty R.latione, [email protected]. began a radon testing program at allow the University to conduct VII" MM., 204. the direction of Dr. James Ramsey, long-tenn testing, six to nine
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B!I Dr. Marvin l1avy, share Hughey's wayside. Mainly, he seems greatly committed to freedom of Proftssor, Library Public Services prognOSiS of an to be advocating technical choice in one's access to informa At first, I thought Aaron increasingly instruction of Internet tion and wary of value judgements Hughey's "The Myth of Internet 'wired' future - navigational, information in assessing those choices. As Addiction" (On Campus, December who doesn't?- seeking, and troubleshoot librarians, we too have been 1997) was a satire. But no, he is in but I hold that no ing skills in aU disciplines. smitten by prospects of an elec prophetic mode, believing that one can be certain of However, if being tronic future described in just as deeply "connected" lntemet users even the short-tenn "connected" as he envis glitzy positive tenns as those used are in no clinical sense addicted. nature of the ages is going to transfonn by Hughey. Instead, they are "pioneers" cyberfuture we are "how we relate to one But go online to do what? Just embracing a "progressive hurtling into. I another as human like reading, movie-going, 1V lifestyle," the vanguard of a future hope that my beings.... in ways viewing, shopping, or chatting, in which "we will all be on-line all unease does not unprecedented in whnt we choose to read, see, listen the time." Indeed, Hughey be render me history", univer to, shop for, and talk about make a lieves that the "Internet is funda "clueless" or in sities will be difference in the quality of our mentally changing the way we league with to existences and in our relationships view ourselves as a species." those "short-sighted, narrow more with others. I suspect that" enter Hughey would no doubt concede minded technophobes" who fail to than sheer technical knowhow to tainment" and "socializing" now his use of hyperbole here, but he is comprehend the wired world. students. Education must entail consume the most online time of serious. Surely Hughey would not paint all sober critical analysis of political, people, young and old. There is I do agree that to label extensive who have questions or misgivings social, econ-omic, and psychologi nothing inherently more debilitat Internet usage, be it to play games, about an inexorable digital future cal impacts w rought by evolving ing or uplifting, 1 would argue, to chat with those of like interests, with the same broad brush. computer technology. I hope that about using the Internet in those to shop, or to surf websites for Hughey is more a utopian than Hughey believes that as a society pastimes. Integrating thinking and information, as an "addiction" a doomsayer in his vision. He we can exert ourselves to modify information-seeking skills in does not help to jlluminate the urges us as educators to encourage the pace and direction of these Internet navigation will be the dynamics of that behavior. (StiU, I and train all of our students to devel- opments. Or are we riding pedagogical trick. My misgivings submit that something might be follow the lead of the "connected" a tiger, a juggernaut of technolog extend beyond matters of web amiss in the lives of those who ones, that is, to go and do likewise. ical and market forces which we pornography or lack of credit card choose to spend" eight or nine Those students who resist will fall are powerless to bridle? security in commercial cyberspace, hours each day" online.) I also by the educational or economic Need? I am in a profession as irksome to some they may be. WKU public tv celebrates Black History Month
WKYU-TV, the public television voices of Gullah elders and in the creators of American culture. service of Westem Kentucky vibrant songs, joyous and sorrow The Strange Demise of Jim Crow University, celebrates February as ful, that are the community's is the never-before-told story of Black History Month with a series lifeline to its past. how the city with the largest of specials. Despite this historical signifi African-American community in the Of ali America's communities cance, the origins of many Gullah South desegregated its public and cultures, theirs is the most songs like KMichael Row the Boat accommodations -- and how it did distinctly African. Ashore," often go unrecognized in so without the violence and strife They are the Gullah people of the schools, summer camps, commonly associated with th e coastal South Carolina and Geor homes and churches where they struggle for civil rights. It is the flip gia. Their way of life - cradled in are still sung. So educators and side of Eyes on the Prize. The the reeds and tidal marshes and performers -like South Carolina's documentary airs Sunday, Feb. 15 fertile soil of isolated sea islands, Hallelujah Singers - are trying to at 7 p.m., and repeats Friday, Feb. sustained by the mainstays of expose more Americans to the 20 at 8 p.m. shrimp and cotton and rice, and Sunday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. and musical legacy of the Gullah The Strange Demise of Jim Crow inspired by the fervor of their repeats Friday, Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. culture. is based on Pulitzer-Prize nominee music and religious faith - has Narrated by actress and activist God's Gonna Trouble the Water Thomas R. Cole's book, No Cofor survived generations after slavery Ruby Dee, this documentary offers chronicles those efforts and ex Is My Kind: The Life of Eldrewey remarkably intact. a rare visit into the heart of Gullah plores the challenges facing the Stearns and the Integration of Even as the Gullah people culture as it endures today. Gullah culture today. The title is Houston. A historian at the Univer forged a culture and a language God's Gonna Trouble the Water from the refrain of the nineteenth sity of Texas Medical Branch, Cole distinctly their own, they preserved examines how a resilient people century Negro Spiritual "Wade in discovered Steams in a Galveston many of the rhythms and folkways, have preserved their heritage, the Water" and alludes to the psychiatric hospital in 1984. He lore and music, of Western Africa. despite the abrasions of assimila Gullah culture's ongoing struggle has spent more than a dozen All the while, they enriched the tion and cultural collision, the more to survive. years researching and crafting this larger American culture. hurried pace of mainland life, and Through it all, rare music record material into one of the strangest God's Gonna Trouble the Water, the belief among many Gullahs ings and modem day perfor and least known tales ever to an hour-long documentary created that their culture is too primitive, mances demonstrate that the emerge from the American civil by South Carolina ETV's award too crude and unsophisticated to Gullah people are not just donors rights movement. winning director Paul Keyserling celebrate and share. of African culture, or recipients of and producer Teresa Bruce, airs II is an insightful story, told in the European culture, but rather, Inauguration Ceremony CUL TURAL ENHANCEMENT SERIES for The University has established of A Thousand Acres. Moo and 8 p .m. Gerard Auditorium. President a series to bring distinguished other novels. Poet and cultural critic, National Gary A. Ransdell scholars and artists to campus, Book Award winner, author most will be planned by the Cultural En Nexus, Wednesday, march 4, 8 recently of The Sibling Society. Friday, May 8. hancement Committee. p.m. Van Meter Auditorium A percussion group which Robert Williams, Monday, April Ivan Wilson Scheduled so far are: performs a variety of musical 13,8 p.m. Van Meter Auditorium. Center Jane Smiley, Monday, Feb. 23, genres. Director of the Hubble Space for Fine Ans 8 p.m. Garrett Ballroom. Telescope Research Project. Outdoor Theatre. Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Sly, Tuesday, March 31,
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OPERA series, for the University Eliot in the Fall 1997 issue of published on pages 43-45 of the of Georgia in November. He also Modem Age. December 1997 issue (Vol. 28, III lectured on his series to a composi No.12) of Nursing Management. tion master class of University of Dr. Patricia Minter, History, Georgia undergraduate and presented A Tale of Two States: Dr. Murat Ticyakioglu, Indus Dr. Robert Antony, History, graduate students and faculty. Regional Variations in the Passage of trial Technology, served as pro published Women, Family, and Segregated Transit Ul'WS in the South gram organizer for the 17th Heat eh'ing LAw: The Potential of Current Dr. Carl Kell, Professor of at the Social Science History Treating Conference in indianapo Western Research in the August Conununication, was one of three Association in Washington, D.C. lis, sponsored by the American 1997 issue of Research on Women commission members representing She presented To Promote the Society for Metals International in Modem Chinese History. Kentucky at the winter meeting in Comfort of All passengers': The and as program organizer for the San Juan Puerto Rico last month of Evolution of Segregated Railroad first International nonferrous Dr. Jeanne R. Feine, Assistant the Commission on the Future of Transit in North Carolina, 1890-1901 Processing and Technology Con Professor, Educational Leadership, the South. at the Southern Historical Associa ference sponsored by the Ameri has received a grant award for Southern Illinois University tion meeting in Atlanta, Ga. can Society for Metals Interna $66,973 from the Kentucky Depart Press will publish this year ~ tional in St Louis, Mo. ment of Education Division of Name of the father. an original Dr. Wei-Ping Pan, Sumpter He presented Statisticallnvestiga Professional Development for historical-critical work on the new Professor of Chemistry, has been tion of the Effect of Superheat, Sll1lpe superintendent assessment centers Southern Baptist Convention, named a Fellow of the North and Size on the Solidification Times of and Superintendent Training and coauthored by Dr. KeU, and Ray American Thermal Analysis Castings at the 101st Casting Testing. Camp, NCSU, Raleigh, N.C. Society. The award acknowledges Congress sponsored by the Ameri and honors individuals who have can Found rymen's SOCiety. Dr. Brian Goff, Economics and Dr. H.Y. Kim, Economics and records of distinguished scientific Marketing. presented The Political Marketing, presented, with Dr. achievement, Significant techno Dr. T.N. Tomazic served as chair Economy of Federal Deficits: 1989- Neal Davis, U.S. Department of logical accomplishment, and / or of a panel disussion on Iss ues in Present at the 67th annual confer Energy, In vestment, Cash Flow, and outstanding scholarship in the Teaching Technology for Session V ence of the Southern Economic Financing constraints; Evidence fro m field of Thermal Analysis. of the Mississippi Valley Technical Association. He also served as a the U.S. Petroleum Industry, at the WKU's Thermal Analysis Labo Teacher Education conference in discussant for papers dealing with 67th annual conference of the ratory was established by Dr. Pan Nashville, Tenn. Empirical Polit ical Economy. The Southern Economic Association. in 1986 and has been developed meetings were held in Atlanta, Ga. He also served as a discussant for into an internationally recognized Dr. Lou Turley, Economics and papers dealing with Money and facility. Dr. Stephen House, Executive Marketing, presented his paper Banking. Since 1987, Dr. Pan has been the Director of the Institute for Eco (coauthored w ith Dr. Ron project director of 38 grants from Milliman), "Atmospheric Effects nomic Development, has been Dr. Minwoo Lee, Accounting, external agencies, providing a total elected President of the National on Shopping Behavior: A Review presented Managers' Discretion on of more than $1.5 million in exter of the Experimental Evidence," at association of Management and Earn ings Manipulation and Charac nal funds (more than 90 percent the American Marketing Associa Technical assistance Centers. He teristics of Forecasting Firms and for thermal analysis studies) for will work closely wAth the U.s. tion SympOSium on Retail and was a moderator of a session at the equipment and salaries fo r stu Service Environment Atmospher Department of conunerce and American Academy of Accounting dents and for faculty. ics Research, Montreal, Canada, other federal agenCies involved in and Finance annual meeting in On Campus plans a feature on Dr. econom ic development efforts. October 23-26, 1997. New Orleans, La. Pan in a future issue.
Dr. Michael Kallstrom of the Dr. William McMahon, Profes Dr. Lee Spear, English, had Department of Music performed sor Emeritus of English, has Writing Business Communications: his one-man musical theater work, published Hart Crane's Mask : T.S. Are Nurse Managers Prepared? GHOSTS, from the ELECTRIC
Who are these guys? The On Campus roving camera wound up in the Ivan Wilson Center for Fine Arts, visiting the Conununication and Broadcasting department, and our eye caught (too bad this photo's not in color) at left, Dr. Karl Kell, Professor of ConunW1ication and Broadcasting in his amazing technicolor sweater, and Bart White, also Professor Making small of Communication and Broadcasting, grading papers in his office. purchases easier Both very graciously allowed us to dick the shutter and capture these happy faces before we left as quickly as we came, so they could get back to work. Purchasing and Who knows where our camera wiU show up next? Accounts and Fiscal Services have joined efforta to provide aca demic and administra tive departments with a new procedure to make small purchases. In the near future, procurement cards will be provided to depart ments to be used for approved purchase, eliminating the local small purchase order. This should reduce paperwork, Improve delivery time, and make IHe easier for depart ments making small purchases. Questions? Call Kim Reed,5339. -Photos by Sheila Eison
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Chad Stevens, a Bowling Green University, by more than 10 points. fifth, persuasion. About Students senior, won the feature and por At Ball State, two WKU teams - Stephan Barnett of Versailles, traiVpersonality competition, Aaron Whaley of Louisville, first, persuasion; receiving a $2,000 award. Kristen Pamperin of Louisville, Courtney Blankenship of Western's Journalism Department Doug Mory of PeWee Valley and Gallatin, Tenn., third, duo acting. Sigma Chi award will receive a matching grant. Mike McDonner of Louisville - Erica Carson of Lexington, fifth, Dave Pierini of Three Rivers, were named co-champions in The WKU Sigma Chi chapter duo acting. Mich., finished 15th in the competi Lincoln-Douglas Debate. won the Peterson Significant Kelly Burchell of Keamey, Neb .. tion. Individual awards by WKU Chapter Award from the fraternity's fifth place, duo acting. In the feature writing competi competitors at Ball State were: national organization for the Shellei Knuckles of Florence, tion , Louisville junior Chris Kerri Richardson of Shelbyville, second time. third, novice duo acting; and sixth, Hutchins placed ninth, receiving a second, extemporaneous speak "Only 10 to 15 percent of the prose. $500 award. The Journalism ing: third, impromptu speaking. chapters receive this award," said Dee Dieckman of Florence, Department will receive a match Brian Sisk of Newport, first, Charley Pride, student organiza third, novice duo acting. ing grant. novice extemporaneous speaking. tion coordinator. "That equals out At Butler, Pamperin, Mory. The annual competitions are Bridget Trame of Florence, to be around 25 or 30 different Richardson, and McDonner were chapters,R held with member colleges and second, novice extemporaneous Lincoln-Douglas Debate co universities of the Association of speaking. In recognition of the award, the champions. Schools of Journalism and Mass Amy Sparks of Franklin, third, Sigma Chi Foundation donated Individual awards induded: Communication with accredited duo acting; fifth, programmed oral $100 to WKU. In addition to the Knuckles, fifth, poetry: an d undergraduate journalism pro interpretation: fourth, persuasion: prestige, the chapter received a fourth, novice prose. grams. sixth, poetry; second, dramatic plaque and a trophy. Barnett, first, persuasion: sixth, interpretation and third, poetry and duo acting; and fifth, Forensics news quadrathon. prose. Journalism awards Amy Jones of Morehead, first, Sparks, third, duo acting. The William E. Bivin Forensics informative speaking; and fourth, Blankenship, third and, duo Three Western Kentucky Uni· Societywon two tournaments in novice persuasion. acting. versity students have won honors three days at Ball State University, Wesley Shirley of Hodgenville, in the Hearst Journalism Awards by almost 100 points, and Butler fourth, informative speaking; and Contillued /lext page Program. Libraries and Kentucky Museum News Bicentennial Briefs February Events Black History Month As a part of the University's 11 observance of Black History Throughout March, The Ken FirstSearch WWW Workshop, Month, John Roberts, Ohio State tucky Museum is sponsoring the 2:30-4p.m. Helm lOS. University English professor and follOWing Lunchtime Learning American Folklore Society programs about Warren County preSident, will speak at 7:30 pm., history: 12 Thursday, Feb. 19, at The Ken lnfoTrac SearchBank WWW tucky Museum. March 4 Roberts' lecture, "African Workshop, 3-4p.m., Helm lOS "They Gave: Warren Countians of American Family Reunions: The Note"Nancy Baird Search for Family and Home in 15 the Post Migration Era," is @BELLSOUTH March 11 "Scholastic Art Awards Exhibi sponsored by WKU's Programs "Literary Ladies: Warren Writers" tion," reception/awards program, in Folk Studies, African Ameri Throughout 1995, BELLSOUTH Carol Crowe Carraco 1-3p.rn. Ky. Museum can Studies and The Kentucky and WKU Lib raries will offer a Museum and is free and open to series of free, hands-on internet March 18 the public. workshops fo r the general public. "The Economic Development of Workshops scheduled for the first Warren County"Ray Buckberry 19 part of the year are: BELLSOUTH Community Regional Art Exhibit March 25 Internet Workshop, "Web Re The "Scholastic Art Awards Feb. 19 "Black Women in Warren County sources for Children and Young Exhibition," featuring about 100 "Web Resources for Children and Kentucky"Saundra Ardrey Adults," 7p.m., Institute for Eco works by middle and high school and Young Adult Literature" - Presentations begin at 11:30 a.m. nomic Development. artists from more than 20 South Ruth Kinnersley Participants are invited to view the ern Kentucky schools, will be museum's Warren County Bicen "African American Family exhibited in The Kentucky Mar. 26 tennial exhibition, "First American Reunions: The Search for Family Museum's Harry L. Jackson "Safe Surfing for Kids and Roads, Rails and Rivers: Warren and Home in the Gallery, Feb. 3 - 15. Parents" - Haiwang Yuan County Then and Now." Exhibit Post Migration Era" by Professor Entries are judged and the co-sponsors are Houchens indus John Roberts, 7:30p.m. Ky. Mu winners recognized at an awards Apr. 2 tries and the Margie Helm Library seum. reception, 1-3p.m., Sunday, Feb. "Fashion Web Sites" - Terri Fund, with additional support IS, at the museum. Artwork Baker from Humana. receiving "Best of Show" and "Gold Achievement" awards will Apr. 16 advance to the national finals to "Investigating Murder Myster Newsletter receives award compete with other regional ies" - Beth Knight Collections & Connections, University Libraries' biannual newsletter, winners from across the country. All workshops are at 7 p.m., at received an "Award of Excellence for Fund Raising Publications" in a Co-sponsors are the Bowling the WKU Institute for Economic competition sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support Green Area Chamber of Com Development, 2355 Nashville of Education -Ky. (CASE-K). merce, Capitol Arts Center, WKU Road where parking should never Newsletter co-editors are Earlene Chelf and Beth Knight; the Art Department and Kentucky be a problem. For more informa editorial staff are Carol Cummings, Connie Foster, Jonathan Jeffrey, Museum. tion or to reserve a spot, contact and Sandy StaebeU. Also involved in newsletter production are The exhibit may be viewed University Libraries Reference Library and Museum administrators Dean Michael B. Binder and during regular museum hours: Office (S02) 745-6115 or Department Heads Linda Allan, Brian Coutts and Riley Handy. 9:30-4 Tues.-Sat.; 1-4 Sun. web.reference®wku.edu. Free to faculty, staff, students.
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Health Education Centers. Partnership. for Long Term Impact of the Grants and Contracts Ecton, Gail. Educational leader Mendel, Colleen. TITAS. Kentucky K-3 Program (Yr. 2). ship. $8,200 from Kentucky De $415,588 from U.S. Department of Shank, Lowell. Chemistry. partment of Education for District Health and Hwnan Services I $4,105 and $6,300 from Kentucky Binder, Michael. University High Performance Rubric Project. Administration for Children and Department of Education I Ex Libraries. $6,000 from Kentucky Hagaman, John. English. $1,000 Families for Head Start. perimental Program to Stimulate Department for Libraries & Ar from National Writing Project / Reeder, Charlotte. Environ Competitive Research for Estab chives for Kentucky Library Kentucky Department of Educa mental Health & Safety. $15,277 lishing Science Alliances for High Information Center Project (KLIC). tion for WKU Writing Project, from Environmental Protection School Teachers. Cline, Dwight. Educational 1997-1998. Agency for Radon Measurement Tiryakioglu, Murat. Industrial Leadership. $12,906 from Ken Handy, Rodney. Engineering Survey. Technology. $280,000 from Na tucky Department of Education for Technology. $6,268 from Great Rice, Paul. Center for Training tional Science Foundation for Principallntemship Program Southern Entertainment Corpora and Development. $309 from Aquisition of Workstation Com FY98. tion for Environmental Noise Flyrm Enterprises / Hopkinsville puters. Dillingham, Mary. English. $30 Sampling. for Flyrm Enterprises - Cash 1; Vourvopoulos, George. Physics and $50 from Kentucky Depart House, Stephen. Institute for $15,532 from Bluegrass State & Astronomy. $73,750 and $56,300 ment of Education for Writing Economic Development. $120,000 Skills Corporation for Nasco-3 from Kentucky Department of Project Outreach. from U.5. Economic Development (Supervisor Training); $1,486 from Education / Experimental Pro Dunn, David. Public Health. Administration for University City of Bowling Green for City of gram to Stimulate Competitive $ 16~80 from University of Louis Center Program. Bowling Green - Cash 7; and Research for Multi-Parameter ville Research Foundation / U.S. Johnson, Ray. Agriculture. $4,767 from Bluegrass State Skills On-Line Coal Bulk Analysis FY98. Department of Health and Human $11,550 from Carey Technologies Corporation for RR. Donnelley & Woods, C. J .. Minority Student Services for Grants for Interdisci for Agricultural Research on Sons - Supervisor Training. Support Services. $28,000 from plinary Training for Rural Areas, N-Viro Soil. Roberts, Julia. Teacher Educa Kentucky Council on Higher and $252,000 from University of Jones, Susan. Nursing. $3,492 tion. $135,137 from Kentucky Education for Activating Interest Louisville School of Medicine for from University of Kentucky Institute for Educational Research in Minority Students (Project South Central Kenrucky Area Research Foundation for Kentucky / U.S. Department of Education AIMS).
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