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LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE Volume 10: 2003

Published annually by the School of Liberal Arts for alumni and friends. Li beral Send address changes and comments to: Liberal Arts Magazine Purdue University 1290 Steven C. Beering Hall of Liberal Arts and Education MAGAZINE 100 N. University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2098 (765) 494-2711 (800) 991-1194 [email protected] RTS SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS A Toby L. Parcel, Dean Joan L. Marshall, Associate Dean David A. Santogrossi, Associate Dean Howard N. Zelaznik, Associate Dean Barbara H. Dixon, Assistant Dean Jan Bessler, Business Manager Lorraine G. Kisselburgh, Director of Information Technology Cathleen G. Ruloff, Director of Development Laura C. Havran, Director of Alumni Relations DEPARTMENT HEADS Rod Bertolet [Philosophy] Susan Curtis [Director of Interdisciplinary Programs] Paul B. Dixon [Foreign Languages and Literatures] R. Douglas Hurt [History] Viktor Gecas [Sociology and Anthropology] William R. Shaffer [Political Science] David L. Sigman [Visual and Performing Arts] Anne Smith [Audiology and Speech Sciences] Howard Sypher [Communication] Thomas J. Templin [Health and Kinesiology] Irwin Weiser [English] Howard M. Weiss [Psychological Sciences] LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE IS PRODUCED BY PURDUE MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS Dave Brannan, Director Grant E. Mabie, Editor/Communications Coordinator Grant A. Flora, Interim Communications Coordinator/Writer Cheryl Glotzbach, Designer Mark Simons, Photographer Additional writing by: Chad Boutin, Marc B. Geller, Amy Patterson-Neubert © 2003 by the Purdue University School of Liberal Arts. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or duplicated without the prior written permission of the publisher. An equal access/equal opportunity university. on the cover

Discovery and Learning, two of the key components of President Martin C. Jischke’s Strategic Plan for the University, have provided our theme for this issue. The School of Liberal Arts is excited about the opportunities to enhance discovery and learning at Purdue through the opening of our new Visual and Performing Arts Center, pictured on our cover from three perspectives. Vision is central to the creative process, and we antici- pate new doors being opened as students and faculty members test their own limits in this amazing new facility. Insets of dancers and Visual Communication Design students, as well as Director of the SLA Honors Program James Nairne, further illustrate the diverse approaches to discovery and learning occurring daily in the School of Liberal Arts.

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3 Completing the Circle From Questions to Research to the Classroom 2 4 Research 101 From the Dean

First-Year Students Discover How Knowledge Is Created s 16 Faculty Notes

6 History Rocks! In Memoriam nt Music as a Primary Source for Discovery New Department Heads and Directors New Faculty me

8 English 106 t Students Writing Their Way into Purdue 20 Fine Print 10 Manifest Destiny Faculty Advisors Refrigerator Rights Mentoring Tomorrow’s Discovery Leaders epar d 12 Cure before Cause 22 Around Campus Dean’s Scholar Makes Discovery Personal Stroke Study Liberal Arts Participation in Italy Infants and Grammar Kirby Connects with the Classics Special Feature Seffrin Receives Honorary Degree Outstanding Seniors Raskin Makes History 14 Visual and Performing Arts Building 32 Alumni News Distinguished Alumni New Development Director From the President

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Dear Alumni and Friends,

IT IS A PRIVILEGE to serve as the Dean of Liberal Arts of BUT WHAT DO WE MEAN by “the classroom”? Our Purdue University. During my first year here, I have classes encompass far more than rooms of students with enjoyed immensely the chance to become better professors at the front. In our small seminars, undergradu- acquainted with SLA faculty, staff, and students, as well as ates have the opportunity to explore key issues in depth our alumni and friends. What a terrific team we make! with a professor, engage in discussion, and make presenta- This magazine highlights some of our most recent accom- tions to the group. Our classrooms are also laboratories in plishments. I hope you are as impressed with them as I which faculty members and graduate students work am. together to pursue common research interests. As they PURDUE PROVIDES GREAT OPPORTUNITIES for us to become partners, their learning and discovery meld tie together the research and discovery of the faculty with together in a seamless whole; at the conclusion of the the learning of our students. In this issue of our magazine, project, both have discovered new knowledge from work- we highlight a few of the many ways ing together. Our classrooms are not always physical loca- in which our faculty members are tions; learning also takes place during individual meetings bringing their research and creative between students and professors over a period of months endeavors into the classroom; in doing while they explore topics of mutual interest. In these so, they enrich students’ learning far “classrooms,” professors’ discovery can guide students’ beyond what can be accomplished learning through individualized discussion and directed with just textbooks and lectures. The research activity. breadth and depth of our research in TO PURSUE THE GOALS our Strategic Plan has articu- SLA is genuinely impressive. With 11 lated, we must do even more to tie together faculty dis- academic departments and 13 interdis- covery with student learning. As a major research ciplinary programs, we are truly an university, Purdue can scale tremendous heights. But we intellectually diverse school, with pro- need your help. Your gifts and involvement can help us grams ranging from the study of the build even stronger bridges between faculty discovery and brain in Psychological Sciences to student learning. Won’t you join us in creating tomor- analyses of historical and political row’s School of Liberal Arts? events to creation of new works of art in our Department of Visual and Performing Arts. More than 350 fac- ulty members are actively engaged in research and creative endeavor throughout the year—and this vital energy carries over TOBY L. PARCEL to the classroom in many ways.

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Completing the Circle: he quest for knowledge begins with a question. Or a passion. Every teacher begins as a student FROMFROM QUESTIONS T in search of answers. When curiosity becomes a QUESTIONS passion for learning, a scholar is born. Each phase of the education process influences the next. Discovery and learning in the School of Liberal Arts TOTO RESEARCHRESEARCH are inseparable. The University’s strategic plan puts it succinctly: I Discovery finds or creates knowledge and thereby TOTO THETHE CLASSROOMCLASSROOM expands it. I Learning embraces the findings of discovery as instruc- tors impart it in creative environments that stimulate an exchange between teacher and student. I Engagement puts knowledge to work in the world. This process renews itself and inspires new questions, new quests for knowledge, and new discoveries. “Discovery,” says Toby L. Parcel, dean of the School of Liberal Arts, “is at the Why do people heart of everything the School of Liberal Arts leave their jobs? does at Purdue. I have seen how discovery is enhancing student learning in our classrooms, What keeps employees and how new discoveries influence social life beyond the campus walls.” from concentrating Faculty members and students in all the on their jobs? departments of the School of Liberal Arts are expanding the boundaries of knowledge both Are social security and welfare nationally and internationally. Faculty members recipients portrayed differently in the school received more than $7 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Health and from each other in the Human Services, the National Science Foundation, media? the Defense Contracting Command through the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as private corporations, Why is it important other universities, and foundations in the last fiscal year. They also conduct independent research. Regardless of the to study history type of research, undergraduate and graduate students are key par- in today’s career- ticipants. Some first-year students—through honors courses and the focused culture? Dean’s Scholars Program—will see their original research integrated in the classroom or presented at national conferences. These discovery and learning initiatives will continue to grow, What causes vows Dean Parcel. Rooted in the school’s strategic plan, which envisions dyslexia? Can increased research, the school’s plan outlines aspirations to retain and it be cured? recruit faculty members who will help sustain and attain preeminence in scholarship and artistic endeavors, and also calls for new ways to enable interdisciplinary and collaborative research. And, of course, these

How does music Fall 2003 research and discovery initiatives will continue to find their way into the influence social change? classroom. The stories on the following pages represent a small sampling of how discovery—the quest for and creation of knowledge—merges with teaching and learning in the School of Liberal Arts. They also offer a taste of the exciting work taking place throughout the school. LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE

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atching and reading the news may W never be the same for first-year students who take Professor Rosalee Clawson’s Honors 199 class, “Politics, Social Groups, and the Media.”

At least that’s the goal. “In the world we live in, understanding how social groups are portrayed and con- structed by media is crucial,” Clawson says. “I want to teach students how to think critically.” Clawson incorporates her own orig- inal research interests in U.S. politics and research methodology in teaching the class, which examines how mass media shape public perception and Are African Americans Rosalee Clawson (left) works policies regarding race, class, gender, and sexual orienta- disproportionately portrayed with Megan Keffaber, an tion. Her work analyzing media portrayals of the poor has among the poor? How do Honors 199 student, on her appeared in research publications such as Public Opinion images of people on social project. At right, Honors 199 Quarterly and the Journal of Black Studies. She also con- security and welfare—both students present and discuss tributes articles to American Political Science Review and established governmental their research projects. American Politics Research. Currently, Clawson is work- social programs—influence ing on a study of how the media covered (and covers) wel- public perception and policy? Questions like these are fare reform; with a colleague, she has followed the explored, discussed, and subjected to scientific scrutiny. University of Michigan’s affirmative action case. Passion Yesterday’s headlines provide source material for for her work, the relevance of the topics she introduces in research projects in Clawson’s class. For example: her stu- her political science classes, and the rapport she estab- dents compare two riots, one on a college campus, and lishes with her students earned her the Charles B. another in inner-city Cincinnati. Both occurred in a similar Murphy University Undergraduate Teaching Award in timeframe with similar damage, but the college riot was 2002. portrayed by media as rowdy mischief. The urban riot was In addition to working with a skilled researcher, her painted as racially charged mayhem. In this example, stu- students learn how to conduct their own original research, dents learn how the very selection of words and images a learning opportunity many undergraduates do not can shape public perception. “The media covered these receive until later in their education or until graduate stories in very different ways,” says Clawson. school. “Students come to understand how knowledge is Collecting and coding the different news accounts and created,” Clawson says. comparing media coverage reveal how stereotypes may Fifty percent of the course requirement involves devis- have influenced journalists’ presentation of events. Such ing and completing a research project that examines the studies lead to class discussions about the norms journal- content of media representations of various social groups. ists follow in presenting the news and how the media Once Clawson’s class explores how social groups are Fall 2003 should behave in a democracy. “constructed” by the media, students can examine the Even the presentation of the news sends a message, political, social, and economic consequences of that media Clawson notes. One recent class exercise analyzed the representation. roles women and men played on the Sunday morning news shows, and students compared the number of guests by gender, the topics discussed, and the stature of the LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE

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people involved. Ultimately, applying these findings how to ask questions may lead to less stereotypical coverage and more diver- of each other, and to sity in the media, Clawson says. answer questions, and The class project exposes first-year students to the even ask why a cer- methods that scholars use to conduct research and, tain research ques- for the purposes of the Honors 199 class specifically, tion is important. media research. Students working in teams choose “I’ve had stu- their project topic and conduct a literature review by dents tell me they’ll gathering journal articles and books about their topic. never watch or read The review reveals what research scholars have the news the same already done on the subject. “You don’t want to rein- way again. They’ve vent the wheel,” Clawson tells students. “You want to really had their be sure your research advances our knowledge.” perceptual lens With a topic selected, students have to specify and changed,” she says. justify the research question. They then devise a “I like to see the research design that further explains how they are light bulb go on, going to answer that question and carry out their to see them grapple process of discovery. with issues. This Collecting and analyzing data, assembling research type of teaching allows thought that leads to findings, discussing those findings, and posing a conclu- understanding.” sion in a final paper round out the project. The student And discovery. It is a skill and a method that teams present their research findings in class at the end of will serve them in their continuing education the semester. Sometimes, in keeping with the rigors of the and careers. empirical process, research findings disprove the teams’ hypotheses. “We also make suggestions about hypotheses that future researchers may look into,” Clawson says of her students’ projects. “It’s wonderful to watch the class learn Fall 2003 LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE

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History Music as a Primary K ! Source for Discovery ROC S e says he can’t sing or dance. He doesn’t play a musical instru- H ment, and he claims to be tone deaf. But when it comes to rock and roll music, Michael A. Morrison is a star in a class all his own. That class is History 371: Society, Culture, and Rock and Roll, the award-winning professor’s survey of post–World War II culture and society in the United States through the music he knows and loves. It’s scholarship with a good beat and a “bad” attitude. The class examines rock music in its historical context and explores five major themes central to its creation and development—African-American cul- ture, postwar demographic shifts, eco- nomic prosperity, technological innovations, and youth culture’s emer- gence. Morrison, associate professor of history and the assistant department head and director of Graduate Studies, says his class “expands the way you can show students to think about history.” The class caroms across the cultural landscape on a tour of discovery set to words and music. It’s all here: race, gender, class, culture, politics, rebellion, war, peace, sex, power, Woodstock, Watergate, and heavy metal. From Elvis to the Sex Pistols, Liverpool to Motown, sock hops to Studio 54, the space race to the Moonwalk, and FM to MTV. Eli Lilly and Company originally

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people to gain a balanced perception of the period. people togainabalancedperceptionofthe emerging counterculture.Sheinterview K Dean’sScholar Program. the research projectthrough ona Morrison just spentasemesterworking with Koontz, studentfromRochester, afirst-year Indiana,who feel robbedifIdidn’tgettotake hisclass,”says Karalee edge ofmusicandhistory. knowl- agreater coursewith Students comeoutofthe t ics, andsociology;itcutsacrossallareas.Andofcourse “Itincorporatestechnology,Morrison. marketing, econom- everyone,” says hooks and bringitalive. “It’saclassthat narrative approach straightforward transcend history’s discussions, andhisown kineticlecturestyleto music,video,animatedclass presentations, mustyreputation. ofhistory’s dust off among Purduestudentsby blowing the achord musicquicklystruck the and history the His passionforboth interest. capturestheir subject that explored ho ture. Identifyingitasadistinctsocialphenomenon,she countercul- social origins,philosophies,andgoalsofthe its wa the era.Koontz especially the focusedprimarilyonCalifornia, musicandlyricsof and, ofcourse,immersedherselfinthe viewed films, andautobiographies, sites, readbiographies sourcematerials,usedInternet ture. Shereadprimary wit her projectwillbeworked class. intoMorrison’s met wit were drugs not necessary.concluding that it, reflected musicthat cultureandthe related tothat dents. Shealsoexploredhow psychoactive were drugs cal antiwarmovement, especiallyamonguniversity stu- helped conf time,sothat personalexperienceofliving inthat had the jour is alsotimeless. but thebestmusic specific toitstime, Good musicis here’s the music. But they have dots.” music.Butthey toconnectthe here’s the oontz alsowantstoseeho h ahistor nal entries,researchf W “I can’t wait to experience him in the classroom;I’d “I can’twaittoexperiencehiminthe incorporatesPowerPointMorrison Koontz, studiesmajor atelecommunications/film Throughout hersemesterasa Dean’s Scholar, Koontz y intot it h Mor h t hese and other sources, sheinvestigated the hese andother ir w itdif y minor, 1960s’ researchedthe countercul- he classroom.Thejour m someof rison on a regular basis, talking abouther rison onaregularbasis,talking f ered fromt indings, andperceptions.“He y research,”K w heroriginalresearchmak he moreagg music, politics,andthe 1967, whichchronicled magazine foundedin scoured timeand letters fromthe area. Shereadarchiv t he SanFranciscoBay nal shek ed alltypesof oontz sa Rolling St

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What factors inhibit concentration at work? he questions at right are among Barros and Kurek are working to those graduate students Eduardo What events affect expand psychological knowledge T Barros and Kathy Kurek explore through research and scholarship in with their faculty advisor, Howard job performance and their respective areas of interest as well Weiss, department head and professor of satisfaction? as working with the Military Family psychological sciences, and co-director of Research Institute. The institute focuses the Military Family Research Institute. on improving the quality of life for mili- Discovery and learning merge perhaps What can the military do tary members and their families. most conspicuously in the collaborative to improve the quality Kurek’s primary interest is religion interaction between major professors and of life and retain at work and how it affects outcomes the graduate students they advise and today’s volunteer armed and performance. She is studying how mentor. “Faculty researchers are in the services members? spiritual beliefs may help workers cope forefront in the creation of knowledge,” and reduce stress. Weiss says. “As a practical matter, part of For Barros, the focus is on resource my job as a research adviser is helping gradu- management, which determines the kind of ate students understand what problems can be solved and “events” that keep workers from staying on task. Those what can’t with the time and other resources that are demands or distractions may vary throughout the workday available. We lay out the general research program, and and keep workers from performing up to their own level within that program students carve out their own prob- or potential. Barros tracks research participants’ self- lems to measure and solve,” he says. performance evaluations. The participants respond to Weiss is a job-satisfaction scholar with more than 10 questions sent four times a day over a two-to-three week years of experience in studying emotions and workplace period via the Purdue Momentary Assessment Tool— behavior. He says research shows that daily events drive a personal digital assistant programmed and developed the emotional states of employees and thus affect their specifically for this research. daily behavior and overall job satisfaction. These states This data contributes to Weiss’s own Affective Events may be the most important factor affecting job satisfaction. Theory (1996) on how emotional states affect momentary

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well. Particular areas of interest focus on satisfaction, about their experiences during loved ones’ deployment. retention, readiness, and performance. “Retention is a The goal is to generate and assess common themes. The major concern for the military,” Weiss says, pointing to discussion board lightly filters out any sensitive informa- previous research on basic work satisfaction. “We are tion family members may inadvertently share. Weiss says trying to establish a standard for the Department of the board will be helpful in shaping future research proj- Defense. Our research data will reach the highest level, ects at the institute and enable users to connect their the Secretary of Defense.” experiences to those of other families in similar situations. The Military Family Research Institute at Purdue Common issues that emerge, he says, may very well be University also has created a Deployment Diary, a virtual turning points that influence future commitment and forum where military families can record their thoughts retention levels. “During times of deployment, military and experiences during the deployment of a loved one. families benefit from all forms of support,” notes Weiss. The online diary was launched in April in an effort to “This discussion board is one way for families to relate gather information from immediate family members of with others in similar circumstances.” those serving in the military. The information collected Ironically, Weiss says it is “a sense of family” that con- will shape upcoming research projects on issues facing mil- nects the roles he plays as co-director of the research insti- itary families. “With the message board, we can incorpo- tute and as a graduate student faculty adviser, department rate current family issues into our projects in a timely head, and professor. He tries to instill in his charges a manner,” Weiss says. sense of tradition and lineage he traces back to the father The Web site—the only site of its kind to collect and of modern social psychology, William James. “The things use this type of data in a research environment—allows we research surface in the classroom,” he says. “If we as users to log in anonymously to read and post comments advisers and mentors do our jobs correctly, we meld discovery and learning in the service of our students.” As Weiss’s work clearly shows, fresh discovery and the cre- ation of knowledge spring from an intellec- tual family tree with deep roots and rich tra- ditions. They also spring from a passion to meet people’s needs. Fall 2003

Graduate students Eduardo Barros (left) and Kathy Kurek observe as Howard

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C U R E Dean’s Scholar Makes Discovery Personal before ometimes personal challenges can ignite the spark of discovery and learning. Such is the case of Andria S René Bahler Schafer. Despite struggling with dyslexia, Schafer became the valedictorian of her Remington, Indiana, graduating class. Based on her experience and by her just-completed research, she believes there is hope for all who suffer from C U this neurologically based learning disorder, which inter- feres with the acquisition and processing of language. Schafer credits her success to her mother, who devoted time and effort to her daughter’s education when “We both learned a lot that reading problems were detected in early grade school, as we didn’t know,” Schafer says, E well as her own determination. Together, they found ways an assessment that Wilbur sec- to compensate for her condition. She says she overcame onds. Heretofore, Wilbur’s pri- A the “default emotions” of “feeling stupid and inadequate” mary expertise focused more on to recognize that people with dyslexia process words dif- deafness and language develop- ferently and must employ strategies to overcome the diffi- ment as well as sign language. culty in learning to read, write, or spell. “I had to learn to Schafer began her work with Wilbur by doing a take more time to read, but I became a very critical review of existing research on her topic and then learning reader,” she says. the nuances on how to read research papers for the main Schafer’s high school academic achievement earned points. She learned to read the abstract of an article first, her the opportunity to be a Dean’s Scholar. The program then the summary for information, and finally go back to provides a $1,000 financial award to a select group of the middle for depth. In the process, Schafer applied the S honors students from the qualified incoming students who compensation skills she developed over the years to pore have been admitted to the School of Liberal Arts. The over vast amounts of information. opportunity allows these scholars to study one-on-one Together, they began studying neurology and the opti- with a professor during their first year at Purdue. As part cal system. Reading and research eventually led to works of the program, Dean’s Scholars can choose research proj- on the human genome project, exploring which chromo- ects involving any area in the School of Liberal Arts. The somes might be at the root of dyslexia. She searched projects expand students’ understanding of specific disci- journal articles and surfed the Internet. And then she dis- plines, develop their academic connections, and test their covered research findings that excited her, the “eureka!” personal career choices. In addition, scholars benefit from experience that is both the prize and the prod of the dis- having professors as their mentors. covery process itself. “I finally found articles on remedial Schafer worked with Ronnie Wilbur, graduate linguis- teaching, and that really excited me,” Schafer says. Fall 2003 tics program chair and professor of audiology/speech sci- What began as a study of dyslexia’s cause became a ences and linguistics. With Wilbur, Schafer completed a focus on finding a cure. As a result, the paper she submit- research review on the possible factors contributing to ted at the end of her semester with Wilbur, “Cure before dyslexia and eventually focused on current innovative, Cause,” became what Schafer calls “a springboard to remedial teaching methods. future research.” LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE

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Schafer’s excitement is evident in her findings: “There is hope,” she writes. “I E found two research projects done in the past A year that focused on remedial or corrective teaching for dyslexics.” One unique study discussed teaching sessions that shifted brain Professor Ronnie Wilbur activity from the right side of the brain to the left, I see dyslexia as nothing more than an obstacle examines the latest online “where it should that can and must be overcome. The end result research on dyslexia with have been in the will be a stronger individual; someone with Andria Schafer (left). first place,” she more of a resolve as to who they are and what writes, citing the they can become. For those who are willing to face neurology of dyslexia and for those who need extra encouragement, language- S there should be experienced help and programs built on processing recent research to help them.” development. As her advising professor, Wilbur found the journey As Schafer adds, equally rewarding. “This project expanded my knowl- “From my own personal experience, I can support the edge,” she notes. “It was a good education for me.” theory that concentrated, specific remedial teaching of For Schafer, “learning together” was the most fun. some kind is needed for any kind of correction of dysfunc- “We talked a lot, laughed a lot, e-mailed each other,” tional language processing. The bright side of this study is she says. “Working with a professor like this, you quickly that it was done and that is was very effective!” become connected with someone who cares. I found a Shafer’s survey led her to believe that many people friend.” Discovery and learning take many forms indeed. could benefit from this current research if it were put into practice. “Students should be given the opportunity,” she argues, “to correct their language processing like those Fall 2003 who participated in this study.” Her studies have also imparted some wisdom. “I’ve come to believe that everyone has weaknesses,” Schafer says. “Some of us face them head on and move ahead

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14 LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE Fall 2003 A music, anddance—willbeunitedunderoneroof.Theart Visual andPerforming anddesign,theatre, Arts—art of Department time,the first Performing Forthe Arts. ofVisualand Department David Sigman,headofthe Arts Building in NewVisualandPerforming Curtain RisesasClassesBegin “It’s a good time to be in the arts atPurdue,”declares arts “It’s agoodtimetobeinthe and designdancedivisionshave alreadybegun as the 2003–04academicyear began. as the stellarnewVisualandPerforming building Arts the phaseof first roseonthe Thecurtain isborn! star classes in the newbuilding,whiletheatre, classes inthe More than $9millionhasbeenraised More than capital campaigncapital progresses. art education,andmusicprograms art a are scheduledtodebutint waiting com wit facility in2006. It isalsoawork inprogress, h someareas“shelled”and ing considerationsinmind. ar designed with artistic light- artistic designed with aesthetics andtechnology.aesthetics stone, and glass was stone, andglass The 166,700-square-foot, Purdue redbrick,lime $38.7 million structure of $38.7 millionstructure t initself,ablendingof The buildingisawork of pletion ast he VPA he new - cam able whenyou have your facultyspreadoutacross ar transition period. Matt replaced by anengineeringbuilding.Stewart and Quonset hutsarebeingcloseddown, destinedtobe datebacktoWorldQuonset hutsthat War II.The Lamber ous homesaroundcampus, includingStewart Center, laborativ sound andt willhave andceramicartists Metal artists. to walk past studentswillhave“Dance andtheatre towalkpastvisual merging ofenergies,concepts,anddesigns,”hesaid. relationships.“This a buildingoffers interdisciplinary fosterscreativityand ates acollaborative atmospherethat buildingdesigncre- Sigmansays the aesthetics. ogy with project. Purdue alsocontributed$5milliontothe and agingQuonsethutstructures, department’s the General Assemblyprovided $20.75milliontoreplace $13toward the millioncampaign goal.TheIndiana ts underoneroof,we willprovide asynergynotavail- “By eventually bringing together all of the academic “By eventually allofthe bringingtogether Pre The VPA technol- buildinghasbeendesignedtomarry pus,” sa hews Hallswillstillbeusedforclassesduringthe viously, divisionshave department’s the foundvari- t FieldHouse,andMatt e projectsamongourar ys Sigman.“Ilookfor heatre classes.” hews Hallasw ts faculty ward toalotmorecol .” ell asf ive -

temporary structures, will no longer house the Visual andPerforming structures,willnolonger house theVisual temporary theoutsettobe The oldCreativeArtsbuildings(below),meantfrom the department’s classes. department’s the ar ar academic studentsmajoringinthe 820 undergraduate stage on which they can hone their talents. talents. canhonetheir onwhichthey stage stars—have arts performing anewstate-of-the-art room, lab,soundst disabilitiesaccesstoevery cations, allowing studentswith Disabilities Act Americanswith specifi- accordance with t will beabletoaddvideoorstillimagesaccom elements.Theyalso recording labtoshapeitoraddother take itintothe asoundorconcept,andthen to construct musiccomputing labswillenablestudents State-of-the-art program. enhancethat open inspring2004—willgreatly in soundengineering,andt dios inLosAngelesorNew York. aPh.D. Purdueoffers compare toprofessional stu- sound recordingfacilitiesthat 300 computer set-ups.Itwillfeature state-of-the-art us.” with arts the vide facilitiestoourlocalcommunityvisitandexplore ouracademicneeds andpro- willserve both building that heir creations.Thebuildingwillbefullyaccessiblein t anddesign.Annually ts asw A The Department ofVisualandPerforming has The Department Arts On with the show! the On with The buildingincludes11 studiolabsandmorethan t last, arts requireanaudience.Nowarts we willhave a ell as30g Arts department. At left, Visiting AssistantProfessor Arts department.Atleft,Visiting hese students—tomor invite the publicin.AsSigmansays, “Theinvite the Rhonda Fasigdiscussesastudent’s Visual Communication Designproject. age, andw raduate studentsint The buildingalsowasdesignedto , about8,000studentsenrollin he soundfacilities—setto ork areaint row’s visualand heatre and30in he building. pan y who attendedthenamingceremonieslastSeptember in herhonor. Mrs.Hansen’s delightatthishonorwasevidenttoall $1.8 milliongifttonamethenewVPA building’sprosceniumtheatre prised hiswife,Nancy, bygivinga Hansen ofZionsville,Indiana,sur- Former Purdue President ArthurG. Matron Passes Away Purdue’s Theatre Hansen passedawayaswewerecompletingthismagazine. theatre attheuniversitysheloved.” and itisfittingshewillalwaysbe remembered inassociationwith President Martin C.Jischke said.“Nancytruly lovedthecreativearts, fact thatPurdue isaplacewhereartandscienceintersect,”Purdue Hansen, whoearnedhisdegreeas anengineer latter providesfortheliftingofsetsandpeopleoffstage. atre alsowillhaveatechnicalcontrolsuiteandflysystem;the experiment withdifferententrances andexits forplays.Thenewthe- theatre withsuchtechnologyasatrappedstagetoallowdirectors serving itsintimateatmosphere.Hansen’s giftwillequipthenew ExperimentalTheatrewhile pre- doubling seatinginStewartCenter’s tion, theNancyT. HansenProscenium Theatrewillseat310,nearly and friends. $200,000 fromfamily to raiseanadditional Hansen saidhehopes engineering school.” P P ties offeredatP ize theartsopportuni because itwillsymbol to P Building isimportant VisualandPerformingHansen saidattheceremonies.“The Arts name thetheatreafterNancy, whoissopassionateaboutthearts,” opportunity tofundthetheatre,Ithoughtitwasonlyappropriate P eople needtoknow urdue ismorethanan urdue’s eighthpresident(1971–82).“ Hansen marriedNancyT “ Upon itscomple- urdue’s campus, The factthatthisgenerousgiftcomesfromP urdue. - - uck er in1972duringhistenureas When Ilearnedaboutthe , trulyunderscoresthe resident Emeritus . Sadly , Mrs.

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EMILY L. ALLEN was promoted to associate professor EHTIBAR N. DZHAFAROV, professor of psychologi- APRIL J. GINTHER was promoted to associate profes- of English. cal sciences, gave the plenary keynote lectures at both sor of English. the Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology XIMENA B. ARRIAGA was promoted to associate and the European Mathematical Psychology Group SALLY A. HASTINGS, associate professor of history, professor of psychological sciences. She is an associate Meeting in Bremen, Germany. He was also the recipient was appointed to the North American Coordinating editor for Personal Relationships. of the Alexander von Humboldt Award, which included Council for Japanese Library Resources as well as the an invitation to spend part of the 2003–04 academic Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian AUSTIN S. BABROW was promoted to professor of year in Germany. During the past year, Dzhafarov was Studies. communication. invited to be a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, and conceived and PATRICK J. HEARDEN was promoted to professor of ROBERT V. BARTLETT, associate professor of political co-organized the first meeting of a new forum for history. science, has accepted a visiting appointment to be the mathematical psychologists, the Purdue Winer Memorial first Frank Church Distinguished Professor of Public Lectures, to be held annually at Purdue through fund- ELIZABETH A. HOFFMANN, assistant professor of Policy at Boise State University in Idaho, for the ing from the Winer Memorial Foundation. sociology, received two national awards for her disserta- 2003–04 academic year. He will teach one graduate tion (University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2001) entitled course per semester and participate in the annual Frank DANIEL O. ENGELKE was promoted to professor of “Compromise, Confrontation, and Coercion: Formal Church Conference on Public Affairs. In addition to art and design. and Informal Dispute Resolution in Cooperative and doing research and writing, he will be actively engaged Hierarchical Worksites.” Hoffman won first place in with students, faculty members, and the general com- DAVID J. ERTMER was promoted to associate the Dissertation Award Competition sponsored by the munity in promoting the ideas and concepts of public professor of audiology and speech sciences. Industrial Relations Research Association and second policy. place in the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment DINO F. FELLUGA was promoted to associate Research’s Dissertation Competition. Both of these ELENA E. BENEDICTO was promoted to associate professor of English. With EMILY ALLEN, Felluga awards were presented at the Annual Meetings of the professor of English. helped establish the North American Victorian Studies Industrial Relations Research Association in January Association. 2003 in Washington, D.C. Additionally, Hoffman was JOSHUA E. BOYD, assistant professor of communica- awarded a fellowship for the Summer Institute at the tion, received the Central States Communication ANNE L. FLIOTSOS, assistant professor of theatre, University of California–Berkeley. Association’s Outstanding New Teacher Award. He is also has been invited to present “Teaching the Unteachable: on the editorial board of the Journal of Business Experiential Evidence from Directing Teachers in the BETSY HOZA was promoted to professor of psycho- Communication. United States” at the Fifth World Congress of the logical sciences. International University Teacher Association in Athens, ZINAIDA A. BRESCHINSKY, associate professor of Greece. She will chair and present for a panel entitled JUDSON L. JEFFRIES, associate professor of political foreign languages and literatures, was a member of “The Trials of Women Directors Building Careers” at the science, was named to the editorial board of the Negro the team that won the 2003 Purdue Agriculture Team Conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Educational Review and to the academic advisory coun- Award. The multidisciplinary team worked to increase Education in New York. Recent publications include the cil of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. His opportunities for agriculture students to study abroad. articles “Curricula in Question: Directing Textbooks and third book, entitled Urban America and Its Police, has Shifting Paradigms” in Research in Drama Education been accepted for publication by the University Press of ROSALEE A. CLAWSON was promoted to associate and “Tisa Chang: In Praise of Illusion” in American Colorado. Jeffries was one of two professors to receive professor of political science. Theatre. Fliotsos also directed a production for New the Best Teacher Award in Political Science. Stage Ensemble in South Carolina. DANIELA M. CORBETTA, associate professor of JOHN T. KIRBY, professor of foreign languages and health and kinesiology, was the chair of the Motor REGINA A. GALER-UNTI, assistant professor of literatures, is a 2003 recipient of the Purdue University Development Program Conference Committee of the health and kinesiology, received the 2002 Early Career Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in memory North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Award from the American Public Health Association, of Charles B. Murphy. Professor Kirby was Indiana Physical Activity. Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section, Classics Professor of the Year for 2002. He also chairs “in recognition of outstanding and promising contribu- the Committee on the Status of Women and Minority ANGELICA A. DURAN, assistant professor of English, tions to the practice and profession of health education, Groups for the American Philological Association and received a $1,000 Dean’s Research Incentive Grant for health promotion, and health communication.” The just finished a term on the executive board of the “Milton among Hispanics.” Her article, “The Sexual award was presented at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. Mathematics of Paradise Lost,” will appear in Milton American Public Health Association, Philadelphia,

Fall 2003 Quarterly in October 2003. Additionally, as Director of Pennsylvania, November 2002. Galer-Unti was also DAVID B. KLENOSKY, associate professor of health the Latino Faculty and Staff Association, she was instru- elected to the Board of Trustees, Society for Public and kinesiology, was appointed to serve as an associate mental in the opening of Purdue’s first Latino Cultural Health Education. editor for the Journal of Travel Research and was reap- Center. pointed to serve as an associate editor for Leisure CHARLES A. GICK was promoted to associate Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Journal. professor of visual and performing arts. LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE

16 notes FACULTY Associate Professor Aimee Surprenant and students in the Research-Based Honors Program discussed their work for the Dean’s Advisory Council’s April 2003 visit to the Department of Psychological Sciences.

GLENN G. SPARKS serves on editorial boards for Human Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, and Media Psychology.

MARK C. TILTON, associate professor of political science, was awarded a George Washington University– Woodrow Wilson Center Asian Policy Studies Faculty Fellowship to work on “Japanese Competition Policy in International Comparison: A Case Study Approach Looking at Steel and Telecommunications.”

MARION T. TROUT was promoted to associate professor of bands. MAREN T. LINETT, assistant professor of English, RICHARD S. RAND was promoted to professor of will guest edit a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies theatre. THEODORE D. WACHS, professor of psychological called “Modernism’s Jews/Jewish Modernisms.” The sciences, received a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar issue is slated to appear in spring 2005. FELICIA D. ROBERTS, assistant professor of commu- award that will allow him to be in residence at the nication, was appointed to the editorial board of Centre for International Child Health, University ROSEANNE M. LYLE, professor of health and kinesi- Communication Studies. College, in London. ology, was re-appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Aging and Physical Activity. SHIRLEY K. ROSE, associate professor of English, was DUANE T. WEGENER was promoted to professor of recently elected Vice President of the Council of Writing psychological sciences. He is on the editorial board of MARTIN J. B. MATUSTÍK, professor of philosophy, Program Administrators. After a two-year term as Vice three journals: Journal of Experimental Social Psychol- organized a national book-relief campaign for the President, she will become the President of CWPA. ogy; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; and flooded philosophy library in Prague (floods of summer Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 2001 destroyed more than 40 thousand volumes of F. ROBERT SABOL, associate professor of visual and philosophy books). The national campaign yielded performing arts, received the Manuel Barkan Memorial VERNON J. WILLIAMS, Professor of history and 3,230 pounds of books donated from private donors Award from the National Art Education Association. The American studies, published “A Gifted Amateur: The and philosophy departments around the United States. award is for the publication in the past three years that Case of George Washington Ellis” in American has had the most important impact on the field of art Anthropologist, June 2002. REBECCA D. MERRITT, associate professor of psy- education. The publication, “Regional Findings from a chological sciences, is on the editorial board of the Secondary Analysis of Responses on Creating and STEVEN R. WILSON, professor of communication, Journal of Personality Assessment. Responding Items on the 1997 National Assessment of serves as an associate editor for the interdisciplinary Educational Progress,” appeared in Studies in Art scholarly journal Personal Relationships, published IAN NEATH was promoted to professor of psychologi- Education. Sabol was also elected President of the Public by the International Association of Relationship cal sciences. Policy and Arts Administration Association of the Researchers. Professor Wilson also received the National Art Education Association. 2003 Franklin Knower Article award from the DAVID C. PARRISH was promoted to professor of art National Communication Association’s Interpersonal and design. ALAN L. SMITH, assistant professor of health and Communication Division. The award, given annually, kinesiology, was elected chair of the Sport and Exercise recognizes one article published in the last five years LISA LEE PETERSON was promoted to professor of Psychology Academy within the National Association for that has made significant contributions to the study of art and design. Sport and Physical Education. Additionally, he was interpersonal communication. recently added to the editorial board of the Journal of ROBERT W. PROCTOR, professor of psychological Sport & Exercise Psychology. LI ZHANG, assistant professor of visual and perform- sciences, was named a Fellow of the American ing arts, had three pieces of design selected for the

Psychological Society. He served as Program Chair of DAVID P. SNOW was promoted to associate professor permanent collection of the Library of Congress. Five Fall 2003 the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers of audiology and speech sciences. pieces of design were selected for the permanent collec- in Psychology and was elected President of the Society tion of the Museum of Gestaltung Zürich in Switzerland. for 2004. He is an associate editor for the Quarterly SHARON D. SOLWITZ, associate professor of Her work entitled Spring Dance won the 2002 Award of Journal of Experimental Psychology and co-edited the English, was granted tenure. Selection at the Korea International Poster Biennale. volume (with Alice F. Healy) Experimental Psychology, Additionally, Zhang won the Award of Distinction at the in the 12-volume set, Handbook of Psychology, Wiley, International Competition of Creativity 32. 2003. LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE 17

18 LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE Fall 2003 FACULTY g writerandspeaker,gifted Mrs.Hansenwasa 26, 1972. Ahighschoolteacheraswell asa onJuly friendship, marrying renewed their g 1947, a Hansen,then whereshemetArthur Ohio, shecametoPurdueasastudentin July27,20, 2003.Born 1928, inGreenville, lady ofPurdueUniversity, diedonSeptember and culturalhistor specialized inEuropean diplomatic,political, Switzerland. In1963, hecametoPurdueand Geneva, Hautes ÉtudesInternationales, doctorate att University atthe ofCincinnatiandhis degrees bachelor’sandmaster’s Ohio, heearned June17,2002. Born 1932, inCincinnati, ciate professor ofhistory, diedOctober3, District. IndianaSecond served fromthe fourterms U.S.modern foreignanddomesticpolicy Cong cially resigninghispositionatPurduein1977. WILLIAM L.KLEINE-AHLBRANDT NANCY TUCKERHANSEN U at Purduefrom1 t College–Peru andmaster’sdoctoratefrom fromNebraska State Teachersdegree November 3,1928, heheldhisbachelor’s of history, diedJune28,2003.Born FLOYD J.FITHIAN JACOB H.ADLER moder literatureand larly 18th-century English ship andpublishedinseveral areas, particu- year.that Professor Adler conductedscholar- appointed Professor EmeritusonApril3of retired fromPurduein1989 andwas apositionhehelduntil1981.English, Adler Purdue in1969 of department asheadofthe University ofKentucky in1949 andcameto Army, Adler beganhisacademiccareeratthe Harvard University. Following serviceinthe University ofFloridaandhisPh.D.from fromthe his bachelor’sandmaster’sdegrees 26, 1919, inEvansville,Indiana,hereceived 7, diedFebruary English, March 2003.Born Mrs. Hansen namedfor Centerwillfeature atheatre Arts students.TheVisualandPerforming with port (1971–82). Shehadanespeciallystrongrap- president husband’s tenureasPurdue’seighth tion of all things French,andwasawarded the tion ofallthings he University ofNebraska–Lincoln. Hetaught reatly lo 25years, they raduate student.After .S. HouseofR In Memoriam ressman Fit n drama. v ed presenceoncampus duringher he InstitutU [See story onpage[See story 15.]. epresent hian wasanhistorianof 964 untilhiselectiontot y . Hehadag , professor emeritusof , associateprofessor atives in1974, offi- niv ersit , for reat apprecia aire de mer first asso- , he - literature. inearlyAmerican wrote onnumerousfigures and AmericanStudies program member ofthe ies from1993 to1997. Shewasanactive 1974 andserved asDirectorofGraduatestud- in ofEnglish department facultyofthe the The Pennsylvania State University. Shejoined from BucknellUniversity andherPh.D.from herbachelor’sandmaster’sdegrees earned 23, 1943, inWilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, she diedMay 19,English, February 2003.Born Republic. theatre arts atPurdue. arts theatre ofthe growth mentoward the butions ofboth g Stockdale/Ross scholarshipforunder- Smith Joseph Playshop the established Purdue In2000,alumniofthe Minnesota. ar Theatre. In1968, heacceptedapositionas tive directorofPurdue’sSummerRepertory andserved program, asexecu-demic theatre aca- precursortothe PurduePlayshop, the the Director ofTheatrein1 Purdue facultyin1 drama, diedJuly26,2003.Hejoinedt science courseto bet et inintroductory principalinstructor was the philosophies ofscienceandsocial science.He w Professor Sosensky’sareasofspecialization his Ph.D.fromColumbiaUniversity in1955. anM.A.atYaleearned in1946, andreceived tion fromWesleyan inMiddletown in1942, distinc- Connecticut, hereceived hisB.A.with Januar of philosophy, 24,2003.Born diedFebruary IRVING SOSENSKY ROSS SMITH CHRISTINA M.ARCHERRIBNEK CHERYL Z.OREOVICZ Ordre desPalmes Académique deat timeofher atthe program collegiate athletics y Ar Ribnek wasanacademicadvisorinLiberal in 1978. hockey, AnAll-American infield Ms. Kentuckyher master’sfromEastern University fromIndianaUniversitydegree in1977 and herbachelor’s Benton, Illinois,sheearned November August 9,2002.Born 16, 1955, in notes ears. 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FACULTY notes Sociology and Heads andDirectors New Department School Welcomes socialization ofhusbandsandwiv relationsandthe focuses onmarital and bookchapters.Cur and haspublishednumerousarticles t relations andsocialpsychology. Heis of academicfocushave beeninfamily Sociology atWSU. areas Hisprimary ChairofRural department as the trative experience includestwo terms U Sociology atWashington State professor ofSociologyandRural 1 from t Ant ofSociology and Department the VIKTOR GECAS Anthropology he co-author or editor of three books oreditorofthree he co-author 969 andmostrecentlyserv niversity. Gecas’sprevious adminis- hropology. hisPh.D. Gecasearned he U niv ersity of Minnesota in ersity ofMinnesota is the newheadof is the rent research ed asa es. History since 1992. editorof Hehasbeenthe Rural Studies atIowa State University and History inAgricultural Program Graduate professor anddirectorofthe in 1975. Mostrecently, hehasbeena his Ph.D.fromKansasState University ofHistory. Department Heearned the Agricultural History Agricultural R. DOUGLASHURT Plains atwarfort w andeditor, author lific heiscurrently Apro- South. Great Plains,andrural West, rural inthe ofagriculture tory ing experiencehasfocusedont N Research InstituteatPurdue of Liberal Arts in1976.of LiberalArts Weiss School facultyinthe joined the publications, chapters,andpapers. HOW Review Human ResourceManag str studyondecon- include acurrent members.Recent publications military of faction, retention,andperformance between satis- qualityoflife andthe relationship conducts researchonthe relat prof from New York University. Heisa hisPh.D.in1976Sciences. Heearned t and co-directoroft Psychological he Department ofPsychologicalhe Department ebraska Press. orking on a book about the Great orking onabookaboutthe ucting jobsatisfactionforthe essor ofPsy ed st ARD WEISS Sciences as well asnumerousother or y onpg.1 chological Sciences is t he U he Milit is the newheadof is the . Hisrecentteach- he newheadof 0.) niv . ement ersity of The institute ar (See y F he his- amily African American African systems ofracialmarking. emphasis onmaternity, slavery, and Feminist Theory,particular with American literatureandBlack research interestsincludeAfrican Renaissance Anthology VENETRIA K.PATTON to Purduefromt of California–Riverside, andcomes her Ph.D.in1996 University atthe African AmericanS newdirectorof andthe of English asassociateprofessor of LiberalArts of Blac in Chains:TheLegacy ofSlavery S and AfricanStudies, andWomen’s AfricanAmerican professor ofEnglish, Nebraska, whereshewasassociate contested. Her1994 book, explain how power isexercised and help that in U.S. culturalhistory 1989. explorescriticalepisodes Curtis in department history faculty ofthe she hasbeeninvolved sincejoiningthe Director ofAmericanStudies, where aprofessor andthe at Purdueasboth SchoolofLiberalArts has served the Missouri in1986. Mostrecently, she Universityher Ph.D.fromthe of Studies. Sheearned Interdisciplinary SUSAN CURTIS ined AfricanAmericant the GreatWhit recent book, biog a Black Man’sTune tudies. She is the author of author tudies. Sheisthe Double- k W raph Interdisciplinary omen’s Fiction y ofScottJoplin.Hermost T ake: ARevisionistHarlem Studies Studies The FirstBlack Actors on e W is the newdirectorof is the he U ay tudies. Sheear , wasacultural niv (1 joins the faculty joins the . Patton’s 998), ex and co-editor heater histor ersity of Dancing to W omen am ned - y .

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ANN W. ASTELL, Professor of English, Joan of Arc FLOYD MERRELL, Professortincidunt of Foreign ut laoreet dolore and Sacrificial Authorship, University of Notre Dame Languages and Literatures, The Mexicans: A Press, 2003. Sense of Culture, Westview Press, 2003. VICTOR G. CICIRELLI, Professor of Psychology, Older MICHAEL MORRISON, magnaAssociate Head and aliquam erat volutpat. Adults’ Views on Death, Springer Publishing, 2002. Associate Professor of History, and James B. JOHN J. CONTRENI, Interim Dean of the Graduate Stewart, editors, Race and Utthe Early Republic: wisi enim ad minim veniam, School and Professor of History, and Santa Casciani, Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the editors, Word, Image, Number: Communication in the Early Republic, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. Middle Ages, Sismel—Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2002. ROBERT PROCTOR, Professorquis of Psychological nostrud exerci tation JOSEPH C. DORSEY, Associate Professor of History Sciences, and ALICE F. HEALY, editors, Handbook and African American Studies, Slave Traffic in the Age of Psychology, Volume 4: Experimentalullamcorper Psychology, suscipit lobortis of Abolition: Puerto Rico, West Africa, and the Non- John Wiley & Sons, 2003. Hispanic Caribbean, 1815–1859, University Press of SUSAN R. RESSLER, Professor of Visual and Florida, 2003. Performing Arts, Women Artistsnisl of the American ut aliquip ex ea commodo JEAN E. DUMAS, Professor of Psychological Sciences, West, McFarland Publishers, 2003. Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology, Allyn and SHIRLEY K. ROSE, Associateconsequat. Professor of English, Duis autem vel eum Bacon, 2003. and IRWIN WEISER, Head and Professor of English, JAMES R. FARR, Professor of History, editor, editors, The Writing Program Administrator as World Eras, Volume 8: Industrial Revolution in Europe, Theorist: Making Knowledgeiriure, Heinemann, 2003. dolor in hendrerit in 1750–1914, Gale, 2002. CHARLES S. ROSS, Chair, Program in JOHN GREENE, Professor of Communication, and Comparative Literature, andvulputate Professor of velit esse molestie BRANT R. BURLESON, Professor of Communication, English, Elizabethan Literature and the editors, Handbook of Communication and Social Law of Fraudulent Conveyance: Sidney, Interaction Skills, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003. Spenser, Shakespeare, Ashgateconsequat, Press, vel illum dolore 2003. MINROSE GWIN, Professor of English, The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading, University CALVIN SCHRAG, George Ade of Illinois Press, 2002. Distinguished Professor Emerituseu of feugiat nulla facilisis Philosophy, Communicative Praxis KAZUMI HATASA, Professor of Foreign Languages and the Space of Subjectivity, and Literatures, IT Literacy for Teachers of Japanese, Purdue University Press, 2003;at vero eros et accumsan et Kuosio Syuppan, 2002. God as Otherwise Than Being: PATRICK J. HEARDEN, Professor of History, Toward a Semantics of theiusto Gift, odio dignissim qui Architects of Globalism: Building a New World Order Northwestern University Press, during World War II, University of Arkansas Press, 2002. 2002. GLENN G. SPARKS, Professorblandit of praesent luptatum JUDSON L. JEFFRIES, Associate Professor of Communication, with Will Miller, Refrigerator Political Science, Huey P. Newton, The Radical Theorist, Rights: Creating Connections and Restoring University Press of Mississippi, 2002. Relationships, Perigee, 2002.zzril The volume was delenit augue duis nominated for a “Books for a Better Life Award,” W. OTIE KILMER, Associate Professor of Art and sponsored by the National Multiple Sclerosis Design, and ROSEMARY KILMER, Associate dolore te feugait nulla Association. Professor of Art and Design, Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors: Basic Skills, Wiley, 2003. JON C. TEAFORD, Professor of History, The Rise of the States: Evolutionfacilisi. of American State JOHN T. KIRBY, Professor of Foreign Languages and Government, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Literatures, World Eras, Volume 3: The Roman Republic and Empire, 264 B.C.E.–476 C.E., Gale, 2001; World MARTA M. VANLANDINGHAM, AssistantLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Eras, Volume 6: Classical Greek Civilization, 800–323 Professor of History, Transforming the State: King, B.C.E., Gale, 2001. Court, and Political Culture in the Realms of Aragon Fall 2003 (1213–1387), Brill Academicconsectetuer Publishers, 2002. adipiscing elit, FRANKLIN T. LAMBERT, Professor of History, The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America, STEVEN R. WILSON, Professor of Communication, Princeton University Press, 2003. Seeking and Resisting Compliance:sed Why People Saydiam nonummy nibh euismod What They Do When Trying to Influence Others, Sage, ROBERT E. MAY, Professor of History, Manifest 2002. Destiny’s Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum

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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, fine consectetuer adipiscing elit, Refrigerator Rights: Creating Connections PRINT sed diam nonummy nibh euismod by WILL MILLER and Restoring Relationships and GLENN SPARKS (pictured) tincidunt ut laoreetCan a refrigerator dolore really indicate intimacy 50 years,” Sparks says. “‘Refrigerator and melt away the distance in our rights’ refers to the deep intimate connec- magna aliquam erat volutpat.relationships? Glenn Sparks, tions that we have with friends, family, Purdue professor of communica- and spouses. Now, the average American tion, along with Will Miller, pastor, moves every five years. We wanted to Ut wisi enim ad minimpsychotherapist, veniam, and sometime TV explore what impact that has on interper- Miller, pastor analyst and standup comic, suggest sonal relationships.” of counseling quis nostrud exercithat allowingtation someone access to your A mobile society prevents people from at University Church at Purdue, is a refrigerator indicates friendship and establishing or preserving close relation- nationally recognized media personality welcomed familiarity. ships, Sparks says. The authors explain from his tenure as the resident television ullamcorper suscipitIn Refrigeratorlobortis Rights, released last how high mobility, an emphasis on indi- therapist on Nick-at-Nite and as the talk fall, Sparks and Miller explain how refrig- vidualism, and the effects of mass media show host of NBC’s “The Other Side.” nisl ut aliquip ex eaerators are gaugescommodo of close relationships contribute to the loss of close relation- He coined the term refrigerator rights. and further explore the loss of close rela- ships. The book also offers suggestions on Sparks, an expert in the effects of mass consequat. Duis autemtionships in America.vel They layeum out why how people can transform their isolation media, teamed with Miller about four the number of Americans who have so into connections, such as how to re- years ago. They published a scholarly called “refrigerator rights” is decreasing. establish vital social networks, reach journal article about media impact while iriure dolor in hendrerit“Life in American culture has changedin out beyond one’s immediate family, and they were working on Refrigerator Rights. vulputate velit essein a verymolestie significant way in the last balance self-care and care for others. consequat, vel illum dolore Manifest Destiny’s Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America eu feugiat nulla facilisisSometimes, a footnote in history, science, by ROBERT MAY or art can be a portal to a new frontier. Such is the case with history professor “In says. Sometimes the filibusters’ at vero eros et accumsanRobert May’s recently released etbook the mid- motive was to advance slavery, Manifest Destiny’s Underworld, a study 19th even as the debate against the iusto odio dignissimof American quioverseas adventurers who century, institution raged in the pre–Civil share similarities with today’s terrorists. filibusters War United States. “The U.S. May spent 15 years researching the little- were government,” says May, “attempted to blandit praesent luptatumknown movement that had significant regarded prevent expeditions, with little more suc- social impact before the Civil War. throughout much cess against them than do modern federal zzril delenit augue Releasedduis last June by the University of of the world with the kind of fear we officials against the international drug North Carolina Press, the book gives new reserve for today’s terrorists,” says May. trade and undocumented aliens.” dolore te feugait nullameaning—or rather restores old mean- “Filibusters were constantly plotting their Once celebrated in popular culture, ing—to the term “filibuster,” which is next invasion. Meanwhile, people living the filibusters are now forgotten, their derived from Dutch, French, and Spanish abroad—mainly in Europe and Latin stories lost to museum exhibits, history facilisi. words meaning “freebooter.” In the America, but even as far away as the textbooks, or Hollywood. “Since the early 1850s, the term did not refer to Sandwich Islands (today’s Hawaii)— 20th century, Americans have developed Lorem ipsum dolor sitobstructionist congamet,ressional assumed the American government a collective public amnesia about speeches. encouraged these invasions, much as America’s pre–Civil War adventurers,” The filibusters were adventurers many Americans today speculate that the May says. He hopes the book revives Fall 2003 consectetuer adipiscingwho organized, elit,funded, or served in governments of other countries are pro- interest in these men. illegal, private military forces that moting terrorism.” By the Civil War, many filibuster sed diam nonummy nibhinvaded euismodcountries with which the The filibusters, though often regarded veterans became soldiers. When the war United States was at peace. Latin as pirates, were glorified because they ended, expeditions resumed. Surprisingly, American countries and Canada were epitomized the romantic spirit of manifest May says there were still expeditions

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troke victims may retain more motor coordination Zelaznik and his collaborators found that the cerebel- than previously thought, according to research led by lum may not be as fully responsible for the timing of “con- S Howard Zelaznik, professor of kinesiology and tinuous” motions—such as drawing circles repeatedly on Associate Dean in the School of Liberal Arts. The findings paper—as it is for “discontinuous” motions that have a challenge current ideas about the part of the brain known more start-stop nature, such as tapping your finger rhyth- as the cerebellum, opening new possibilities mically on a table. Stroke Victims for aiding the physically challenged. Patients with cerebellar damage who participated in the study had difficulty tapping a steady beat, but no such May Retain trouble with drawing circles in rhythm. The study indi- cates that stroke victims may retain some motor skills Continuous thought to have been lost to cerebellar damage. “If the cerebellum controls all types of movement timing, then Motion Ability injury to this brain structure would hurt the timing of tap- ping and circles,” said Zelaznik. “But we found that one skill doesn’t predict the other. So if the cerebellum is injured, you may not necessarily show effects on all types of motor skills that require timing.” The research, which appeared in the May 30 edition of the journal Science, was the Purdue dissertation proj- ect of Rebecca Spencer, who is now at the University of California–Berkeley. It was co-authored by Zelaznik and Spencer’s colleagues at UC Berkeley, J. Diedrichsen and R. Ivry. Zelaznik and Spencer were supported by the National Science Foundation.

Schools of Liberal Arts, Management Form Partnership in Italy

Representatives from the schools of Liberal Arts members University of Illinois, Penn State, and Students who take a sequence of four interna- and Management traveled to northern Italy Michigan State. tional courses will be awarded a certificate in earlier this year to make Purdue a part of the Purdue, via the School of Liberal Arts and international business. All classes are taught in Consortium International University. With this the Krannert School of Management, joined the English by professors from consortium universi- initiative, students will learn about business consortium to offer undergraduate and gradu- ties. “In Italy, communication and journalism and communication while studying in Italy. ate programs just north of Venice, Italy. students can take business classes that they are Purdue took a leadership role by hosting Programs are coordinated through the not able to enroll in on their own campuses,” several universities at a March conference to University of Kansas, the consortium’s desig- Sypher said. “And the same applies for business develop more communication opportunities nated credit-granting institution. The consor- students.” with the consortium. “We saw the meeting in tium began 15 years ago and is supported by The consortium campus is in the foothills March as the first step in building a bigger con- 30 large public universities. Sypher received a of the Dolomite Mountains, about 50 miles sortium of major communication programs that grant from Purdue’s International Programs to from Venice. A 17th-century monastery houses will work with the existing business consortium facilitate Purdue’s involvement and enhance the graduate program in Asolo, while the to fully utilize the facilities in Italy,” said the communications component. undergraduate program is a few miles away at Howard Sypher, head of the Communication Purdue communication faculty members a private high school facility modernized with Fall 2003 department. “This Purdue-led effort also is are teaching there this fall, and a Krannert fac- computer labs and a fitness center. designed to give more communication and ulty member was involved in teaching in the For more information, contact the journalism faculty members opportunities to undergraduate program this summer. Current Study Abroad Office at (765) 494-2383, teach abroad.” Representatives from the uni- course offerings include global entrepreneur- visit www.studyabroad.purdue.edu, or versities of Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, and ship, international marketing, and public rela- contact Sypher at (765) 494-3300, California–Santa Barbara joined Big Ten tions. Business etiquette, European culture, and [email protected]. Italian survival courses also are offered. LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE

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around CAMPUS Based on a Purdue study, infants like two-year-old Jonathan Bol demonstrate a surprisingly strong sense of grammar much earlier than previously assumed, says George Hollich.

Infants Go to School Early on Grammar

chool of Liberal Arts psychology professor George object specifically mentioned in the question, and infants Hollich says that infants appear to understand much will do this, but only if the question is ‘Where is the S more than they are given credit for. “Infants appear flower?’” Hollich says. “Thus, from the earliest ages to learn words and grammar simultaneously,” says Hollich, tested, infants are demonstrating a surprising amount of director of the Infant Language Lab and assistant professor linguistic savvy. This shows kids understand more than of psychological studies. “This underscores the importance just a few words, and that babies understand grammar of talking to them, early and often.” much earlier than previously thought.” Hollich, whose research is funded by Purdue, says, “If Hollich’s other research focuses on the ways children you consider the almost infinite number of words, as well learn to recognize their native language. Hollich is collab- as the potential mappings between words and meanings, orating with a researcher from the University learning a language ought to be impossible. Our studies of Postdam in Berlin. The question in this are determining how infants discover words in the fluent study is whether the melody of speech, regard- Infants appear stream of speech, how they learn the meaning of those less of the specific words, is noticed by infants to learn words words, and how they come to understand grammar.” who hear only English. It had been believed that children learn language step- Another study involves streaming, in and grammar by-step from one word to the next, but Hollich’s research which children find words in speech. These simultaneously. indicates that infants may be learning words and grammar experiments indicate that infants can use what simultaneously. For example, in one study, Hollich is they see to help them follow a person speaking attempting to find out if infants understand just words, or in what can often be a noisy and distracting environment. if they can understand the whole sentence. “Do they “Kids can use what they see to hear better,” Hollich says. understand, ‘Where is the flower?’ versus ‘What hit the “When you talk to a child, let him or her see your face, flower?’ or are they hearing ‘Blah, blah, blah flower?’” because my research suggests that seeing the person’s Hollich asks. face is very important to help infants hear, especially To address this issue, a baby is shown a series of short when it is noisy. In general, visual information is more animated sequences, such as an apple repetitively colliding important than a lot of researchers would have thought.” with a flower. Then another screen will show the apple in About 20 to 40 children participate weekly at the one corner and the flower in the other. A voice asks, language lab, and each study requires 32 to 50 babies. “What hit the flower?” Because these babies don’t talk, Babies who participate receive a gift and a certificate. their answers are recorded by how long they gaze at each For more information about the Infant Language Lab, item. If the baby looks longer at the apple, it shows the call (765) 494-6928. child understands the question. If the baby looks at the Fall 2003 flower, it shows they identify the word “flower,” but don’t comprehend the question. By 15 months, children do look directly at the correct image. “This finding is surprising considering that most experts would predict that infants should look at the LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE

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around CAMPUS Murphy Award Winner Kirby Connects with the Classics

JOHN KIRBY, professor of foreign languages and literatures, How does your research influence memory, wonder, vision, passion, energy, was one of five Purdue University your teaching and students’ learning? humility, compassion, humor, inventive- Q ness, and fluidity. I’ve chosen each one of faculty members honored with the Teaching and research should go hand in Charles B. Murphy Outstanding hand. The best and freshest teaching is those words for a specific reason; several Undergraduate Teaching Award often a reflection of one’s own research, of them are related concepts, but no A two cover identical territory. Readers can during the University Honors while—conversely—some of the most Convocation on April 11. The exciting research is spurred by classroom e-mail me if they want to know more! annual award ceremony pays interaction. My own research, over the tribute to exceptional teaching by past decade or so particularly, has been What methods and techniques have faculty members from all the concerned with the question “Why clas- the most desired effect on students? undergraduate schools. Kirby— sics?”—i.e., in a world now ruled by In my classes, I talk a lot about memory who joins a growing group of Q technology and the sciences, why would and memorization—and about the danger other outstanding School of Liberal anyone want to spend time thinking (and futility) of cramming. What’s the Arts recipients—received $5,000 about these ancient texts and cultures? point of learning something for a test on cash in addition to the award for A Tuesday, only to have it all gone on motivating students and inspiring What is your teaching philosophy? Wednesday? I encourage my students to colleagues with his skill, enthusi- think in terms of “learning this so that asm, and intellectual vigor. QFirst, I am constantly impressed by the you’ll still remember it 50 years from Professor Kirby began teaching fact that the educational experience is a now.” The flip side of that, of course, is the classics and comparative litera- dialectical one. For that reason, I think that I feel a moral obligation to restrict ture at Purdue in 1987. He it’s crucialA to think in terms of a philoso- my material to matters of enduring impor- received the School of Liberal phy of teaching and learning. It is vitally tance. But, really, in this age of informa- Arts Departmental Award for important for the teacher not just to focus tion overload, why focus on ideas that are Educational Excellence in 1993 on her material for the day, but to keep in not of that kind of permanent value? and the Department of Foreign mind that, at the other end of that dis- The endlessly satisfying aspect of this, Languages and Literatures course, there is a student, or group of stu- for me, is that students recognize bona Excellence in Teaching Award in dents, for whom this educational moment fides when they see it. They do buckle 2002. He is also the recipient of in fact exists. “Only connect,” wrote E. down and learn the material—really learn the Award for Excellence in M. Forster, and we might do well to it, rather than cramming it. And some- Teaching of the Classics from the engrave that motto over every classroom times I’ll get an e-mail from a student, American Philosophical Association door. Unless the teacher connects with years after he’s graduated and moved and the Indiana Classics Teacher of his students, he is not really going to have away, who wants to let me know that he the Year Award from the Indiana a memorable impact on their lives. Quite still remembers the data we focused on. Foreign Language Teachers distinct from this, but crucially connected Association. to it, is the fact that a sensitive teacher is What research or other projects are He recently sat with us to share always also a learner herself. There is a you currently engaged in? symbiosis between good teaching and his ideas on the importance of dis- I have several book-length projects in the ongoing learning that constantly nour- Fall 2003 covery, learning, and teaching in Qworks, at various stages of completion. ishes everyone involved. the liberal arts and the philosophy One is a line-by-line commentary on the I have much more to say about teach- that has earned him the accolades Greek text of Aristotle’s Poetics. A larger, of students and peers alike. ing and learning, but, for the moment, let A ongoing project is a consideration of vari- me summarize it in a list of virtues that ous topics in the history of ancient Greek Professor Kirby can be reached by conspire to make good teachers great email at [email protected]. rhetorical and poetic theory, from the ear- LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE ones: patience, stamina, dedication, liest times to Aristotle. I have other irons Copyright © 2003 John T. Kirby. 24

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olutely career-focused and vocationally oriented. These students have their noses held relentlessly to the profes- sional grindstone, sometimes beginning as early as high school. By the time they arrive at a college or university, they are likely to be chronically absorbed in their pre- professional training. Nobody can blame them for that— on the contrary, one admires the energy and dedication of young people who are determined to make their way in the world—but, at a certain point, they are bound to find themselves asking: Is this all there is? I am not talking primarily about spiritual questions here, although, historically, classics were disciplinized by scholars who were as devout as they were educated. Even in sheer human terms—and you’ll notice that “human” is at the core of “humanities” as an academic discipline— one eventually begins to look for answers to some very big questions: What is love? Where does courage come from? Why do I think this music or this painting—or this person—is beautiful? Is true friendship possible? And so on. All such questions eventually lead to an even bigger one: What does it mean to be human? No amount of purely vocational training can possibly in the fire as well, but I only tell my students about those, equip us to cope with questions like these. For such a so if you want to hear more about them, you’ll have to task, I’m not sure that any better preparation has yet been come take one of my classes! discovered than a Liberal Arts education. And what lies at the very foundation of the Liberal Arts education is clas- What role do Liberal Arts and the classics play in sics. I think that is why Purdue students have responded today’s society and the lives of today’s career- so enthusiastically to our program. They realize with very focused and vocational-oriented students? little prompting that a classical education can equip them QWe live in an instant society. We have instant coffee, to live more richly, more beautifully—to access their own instant credit applications, instant everything. When the humanity more fully. computer takes a few extra seconds to save a document, we fretA and fume. Everything in our culture conspires to What is your reaction to winning the Murphy Award? hurry us along, to reduce things to bits and bytes. As one I’m absolutely thrilled. What a tremendous honor. For of my former students has taught me—see what I mean Purdue educators, these are the Oscars! about teaching and learning?—Wittgenstein once said, “This is how philosophers should greet one another: ‘Take Any other thoughts you’d like to share with alumni your time.’” Can you imagine how profoundly our lives and friends of the School of Liberal Arts? would be affected if, rather than “Hi” or “How are you today,” we nodded and smiled as we passed one another QYes. Human knowledge is—or can be—a unity. We think and said, “Take your time”? We might actually slow down of Plato, perhaps, as the ultimate “friend of the liberal enough to think about what life is all about. arts,” and yet on the door of his Academy was posted a Learning Greek and Latin is a way of taking one’s sign thatA said Medeis Ageometretos Eisito—roughly, “If time. No method of instantaneous erudition in the classics You Can’t Do Geometry, Keep Out.” In this respect, he was curiously modern—a thinker for this new millen-

has yet been devised. It just takes time to absorb these lan- Fall 2003 guages, their literatures, and the cultures that produced nium, not just the last three. them. Along the way, one has the luxury of meeting some If we don’t flag in our search for wholeness, maybe we of the greatest minds the Western tradition has ever can find a way to dovetail, integrate, and truly incorporate known. all aspects of learning into the educations we offer the It may initially seem paradoxical, but exposure to the next generation. If we are able to do that, we will have

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around CAMPUS Seffrin and Sohmen Receive Honorary Degrees

JOHN R. SEFFRIN An international leader on health issues, Seffrin cur- received the rently serves on the boards of the Independent Sector, the School of Liberal National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids, Partnership for Arts Honorary Prevention, Research America, and the Institute of Doctor of Social Medicine’s National Cancer Policy Board. He also is in Science degree the first year of a four-year term as president of the during May 2003 International Union against Cancer. commencement ceremonies, one ANNA PAO SOHMEN received an Honorary Doctor of of 12 honorary Letters degree from Purdue in the summer commence- doctoral degrees ment, held August 9. awarded by Daughter of a wealthy Chinese businessman, Anna Pao Purdue this year. set out for Purdue at 16 to assert her independence. A As chief execu- serious student, she received her bachelor’s degree in soci- tive officer of the ology and psychology from Purdue in 1966, then studied American Cancer at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, McGill Pictured, from Society, Seffrin has distinguished himself as a nationally University, and the University of London. While at Purdue, left: Dean Toby L. recognized leader in health education through his work she developed a lifelong friendship with the family of her Parcel, John R. promoting cancer prevention. The society is a nationwide roommate, Nancy Hetzel; indeed, the two families have Seffrin, Provost community-based volunteer organization dedicated to remained close. Sally Frost Mason. eliminating cancer as a major health problem by prevent- After marrying, she returned to Hong Kong with her ing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from husband, who now runs part of the family business. cancer through research, education, advocacy, and service. Sohmen has taught at the It is the largest voluntary health organization in the world University of Hong Kong and been devoted to fighting cancer. an active force in the community. Born and raised in Hagerstown, Indiana, Seffrin studied She is chair of the Hong Kong at Ball State University and the University of Illinois before Academy of Performing Arts, the coming to Purdue to pursue his doctorate of philosophy in Sino-British Friendship Scholarship health education, which he received in 1970. He was Scheme, and the Environment awarded an honorary doctorate of science from Ball State Protection Committee. She is also a in 1994. founding member of the Hong Seffrin has had a long career in the health sciences and Kong Liver Foundation and Helping says he remains deeply committed to the power of educa- Anna Pao Sohmen Hand, a charity for the elderly. She tion as a force for changing the health of a nation. He also runs her own business and sits served as professor of health education and chairman of on numerous boards of directors. the Department of Applied Health Science at Indiana “Throughout her career and through her stellar record University from 1979 to 1992. of community service,” President Martin Jischke com- A 20-year American Cancer Society volunteer, Seffrin mented, Sohmen “has distinguished herself and Purdue moved into the top executive position 11 years ago. Under University. It’s a great privilege for us to have her back on his leadership, volunteer involvement has grown, the soci- campus to receive this honor.” ety’s fund-raising is up, and its research grants have

Fall 2003 funded thousands of researchers who were not being funded by the National Cancer Institute. He also was able to announce that, for the first time in recorded history, cancer incidence and mortality rates in the United States have begun to drop. LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE

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around CAMPUS School of Liberal Arts Honors 13 OUTSTANDING he School of Liberal Arts Alumni Board honored 13 outstanding sen- T iors at the 18th annual recognition banquet in April. The theme, “Tying It All Together,” celebrated the unique role that Liberal Arts plays at Purdue. “We are the second largest out of 10 SENIORS schools, enrolling more than 6,000 under- MONIKA K. JEDRZEJEK, the outstanding volunteer experience with low-income graduate students as majors each year,” senior in the Communication families in Bogotá includes assisting chil- Toby Parcel, dean of the school, said. Department, is from Niles, Illinois. dren with reading, writing, and math “Our alumni number over 47,000 world- Monika was a member of the President’s skills and family lectures on health, nutri- wide—second only to the Schools of Roundtable, Lambda Pi Eta, Phi Kappa tion, and relationships. Alejandro is a Engineering. What sets us apart from the Phi, and Golden Key Honor Societies and board member with the Latino Coalition other schools on campus is that all under- the National Society of Collegiate of Tippecanoe County. He also joined the graduates at Purdue regardless of their Scholars. She was President of the Public international association of students of school and major take liberal arts courses Relations Student Society of America and economics and commerce program to qualify for graduation—truly tying has held positions as Public Relations (AIESEC) and hopes to work in Europe their education all together.” Director and Agency Director. She is the with the organization for a year before The outstanding senior in Audiology recipient of the Purdue University Merit going back to Colombia or applying to and Speech Sciences is LE’ANN D. SCOTT Award and the Lucien J. Kirby Memorial graduate school in the United States. from Gary, Indiana. Le’Ann was a Scholarship. She has actively participated AISHA PEAY, from Pittsburgh, member of the Alpha Lambda Delta, Phi in the American Lung Association/Drew Pennsylvania, is the outstanding senior in Eta Sigma, and Phi Beta Kappa National Brees Stop Smoking Campaign, American English. Aisha was a member of the Phi Honor Societies. She was scholarship Red Cross/PRSSA World Trade Center Beta Kappa, Alpha Lambda Delta, and chairperson for the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Relief Fundraiser, Alpha Lambda Delta Golden Key National Honor Societies. She a member of the National Residence Hall Valentines for Senior Citizens, and the served as Secretary of the Mortar Board Honor Society, a Black Caucus Award National Society of Collegiate Scholars National Senior Honor Society and was a recipient, and a member of the HORI- Purdue Astronaut Space Day for Lafayette member of the Liberal Arts Honors ZONS Student Support Program from Children. Monika plans to pursue a Council and the CFS Multicultural 1999 to 2003. Le’Ann served as a Liberal career in entertainment or health public Society for Excellence. She is the recipi- Arts Ambassador and a Meredith Hall relations. ent of the Purdue Black Caucus Award, floor senator and health coordinator. She The outstanding senior in Economics, the National Achievement Scholarship, is the Mortar Board National Senior a jointly sponsored program between the and the Honors Program Outstanding Honor Society Vice President of Schools of Liberal Arts and Management, Senior Scholarship. She has participated Allocations. Le’Ann actively participated is ALEJANDRO MENDOZA from Bogotá, in the Purdue Student Leaders Retreat in the Hanna Community Center, Columbia. Alejandro was a member of and the Washington Intern Program and Lafayette Urban Ministries, George Davis the Society of Hispanic Professional was a presenter at the Annual Honors Manor Retirement Center, and the Engineers Executive Team, a recipient of Colloquium. Aisha plans to pursue her Fall 2003 Arlington High School Student Mentor the Daimler-Chrysler Academic doctorate in English at Duke University in program. Le’Ann was accepted into the Achievement Award, and the Force Durham, North Carolina, where she has audiology graduate programs at Purdue, Commander’s Certificate of earned a five-year, full-ride fellowship. Vanderbilt, and Northwestern University. Appreciation–Multinational Force and Observers, in Sinai, Egypt. Alejandro’s LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE

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The outstanding senior in nationally as a member of the Purdue The outstanding senior in Foreign Languages and Literatures is Gymnastics Club Team and served as Interdisciplinary Studies is JENNIFER C. KRISTA M. PARADISO from Carmel, their President during the 2001–02 aca- TONSING from Wolcottville, Indiana. Indiana. Krista was a member of the demic year. Her volunteer experience Jennifer was a member of Golden Key, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, includes work with Purdue Lutheran Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Phi Beta Kappa, and the Golden Key Ministries, the Colorado Sports Societies. She was a member of the International Honor Society. She is a Tri- Corporation, and the General Assembly of Classics Club and the American Classics Kappa Scholarship Recipient and served as International Sport Federations, and serv- League, actively participated in Big a Liberal Arts Dean’s Ambassador. She ing as a youth gymnastics coach. She has Sisters/Little Sisters program at Windsor has actively participated in the Purdue twice served as an intern for the U.S. Halls, and was a disc jockey for WLAY at Chapter of Amnesty International, Purdue Olympic Committee; after graduation, Tarkington Hall. She spent an extra year Fencing Club, Stewart Cooperative she hopes to work at their headquarters taking Greek to graduate with both House, and Covenant Presbyterian High in Colorado Springs. Greek and Latin degrees. After taking a School Youth Group. Krista’s future goals The outstanding senior in History is year off to “enjoy a taste of life,” Jennifer include pursuing a doctorate in German ALEXA VANDEGRIFT from Westland, will pursue a graduate degree. to teach at the college level, participating Michigan. Alexa was a member of Phi SARAH RASKIN, from West Lafayette, in overseas humanitarian work through Alpha Theta History Honor Society, Pi Indiana, the outstanding senior in the Peace Corps, and working for the Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Philosophy, had a double major in International Foundation for Education Society, Phi Beta Kappa National Honor History. Sarah was a member of Phi Beta and Self-Help. Society, and Golden Key Honor Society. Kappa, Golden Key, Phi Alpha Theta, and KRISTIN M. ALEXY, the outstanding She was the recipient of the Marzelle Z. Phi Eta Sigma Honor Societies. She is a senior in Health and Kinesiology, is from Schelle Scholarship, the P.U.C.O.N.T.E. National Merit Scholar and received an Jacksonville, Alabama. Kristin was a Scholarship, and the Roy E. Havens Indiana Resident Top Scholar Award. She Thayer Scholar, Dean’s Scholar, and Scholarship. She designed and taught was the recipient of the School’s Liberal Arts Dean’s Ambassador. She was courses for the Gifted Education Resource Outstanding Honors Senior Scholarship, a member of the Health and Kinesiology Institute’s Super Saturday program and the Stover Scholarship, Dean’s Freshman Club and received the Department’s Summer Residential Program. Alexa will Scholarship, and the Thayer Scholarship. Freshman Scholarship in 1999. She was a pursue her law degree at the University of Sarah received the Award for Outstanding member of the Golden Key Honor Society Dayton in Ohio. Original Research at the 2002 Annual and Phi Beta Kappa. She competed Liberal Arts Honors Colloquium. She was the founding president of the Israel Council at Purdue, the undergraduate representative on the Jewish Studies Committee, and a member of the Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference Planning Committee. She actively participated in Purdue Hillel activities and the Purdue Ballroom Dance Club. Sarah has been awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Study and the Richard Hofstadter Faculty Fellowship. She will attend Columbia University for doctoral study in history (See related interview on

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The outstanding senior in Political The outstanding senior in Sociology is Science is BRANDI L. BENNETT from ELIZABETH BERNDT from Bremen, Indiana. Monterey, Indiana. Brandi was a member Elizabeth was a member of Alpha Kappa of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Delta and Phi Beta Kappa Honor Golden Key Honor Societies and the Societies. She was a National Merit National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Scholar, Robert C. Byrd Scholar, and a arah Raskin, at 20, had already She has actively participated in the Kappa Thayer Scholar for the 2000–2001 aca- S earned a special place in the Alpha Theta Fraternity and the Purdue demic year. She was the recipient of the School of Liberal Arts and Purdue Pre-Law Society, and served as vice- Emily Fairchild Award and the Honors University academic history. The May president of the Purdue College Colloquium Award for Superior 2003 graduate, with a double major Democrats. Volunteer work included Presentation. She has actively participated in history and philosophy, was named Lafayette Urban Ministries and the Read- in the Purdue HORIZONS program, the the School’s Outstanding Senior in with-Me program. Brandi plans to attend Lafayette Crisis Center, the Purdue Salsa Philosophy and earned an impressive law school with a focus on constitutional Dance Club, and Kuk Sook Won martial collection of other awards and honors. law and government. arts club. Elizabeth will pursue her gradu- But Raskin secured a lasting place KARI A. TERZINO, the outstanding ate degree in clinical psychology and in School lore when she joined an senior in Psychological Sciences, is from hopes to work in a setting that integrates elite group of scholars as a recipient of Mill Creek, Indiana. Kari is president of both research and clinical efforts. one of 94 Andrew W. Mellon the Purdue chapter of Psi Chi National The outstanding senior in Visual and Fellowships in Humanistic Studies for Psychology Honor Society, an executive Performing Arts is MARK DAVIS. He gradu- 2003. With this accomplishment officer of Golden Key, and a member of ated high school from the Indiana alone, Raskin became the first woman Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Golden Academy in Muncie. Mark was a Steven from the school—and just the second Key, Phi Eta Sigma, and Alpha Lambda C. Beering Scholar and a Thayer Scholar. Purdue student—to win a Mellon Delta. She received the Donald R. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Fellowship. Purdue’s Daniel W. Neal Ottinger Psychology Research Award. She Senior in Industrial Design Award, the earned his fellowship in 1983. was a Thayer Scholar and a recipient of Kimball International Scholarship, and the Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon the Amelia Earhart Scholarship, the Business Professionals Industry Foundation, the prestigious fellowship University Class of 1937 Scholarship, and Association Scholarship. Mark has been includes a stipend of $17,500 and the W. I. Bennett Courtier Scholarship. active in the Industrial Designer’s Society covers full tuition and fees for the first She has been actively involved in the of America, Purdue Equality Alliance, and year of graduate study. Approximately “Take Back the Night” Anti-Violence the Liberal Arts Honors Council. He vol- 1,900 fellowships have been awarded Campaign, the Tomahawk unteered for several organizations, includ- since the competition began in 1982. Service/Leadership Social Fraternity, ing the American Heart Association and Former Mellon Fellows are now teach- Owen Hall Student Government, Adopt-a-Spot. Last year, he served as an ers and scholars at some of the Intramural Flag Football, and numerous intern in directing the Summer Focus nation’s top colleges and universities. community-service activities. She was Academy at the Children’s Museum of The Mellon fellowship will help selected to be the student responder at Indianapolis. Mark will pursue his Raskin join the academic ranks as she the May commencement. Kari will master’s degree in architecture, having pursues a doctorate in history at pursue her doctorate in Social Psychology earned a full-tuition award from the Columbia University in New York City. at the University of Buffalo. University of Michigan. In seeking her place in academia, she will follow the scholarly footsteps of her grandfathers, her uncle, and her Fall 2003 father, Victor Raskin, a Purdue profes- sor of English and linguistics who immigrated to the United States after leaving the Soviet Union. In May, Raskin discussed her

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newspaper reporter Marc B. Geller. An Q Your family excerpt of that interview is reprinted here faced persecution by permission, courtesy of the Lafayette in the Soviet (Ind.) Journal and Courier, a Gannett Union beginning Newspaper. in the 1930s, and your great- Q You’ve been awarded an Andrew W. grandfather, a Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, famous Yiddish one of the most prestigious awards a lib- writer, was killed eral arts student can receive. What does under Joseph this award mean to you in terms of what Stalin’s regime. you accomplished as an undergraduate Later, in the and in terms of your future academic and 1970s, your par- career goals? ents emigrated to Israel and A The Mellon Fellowship is a great then later to the and very flattering honor, and it’s particu- United States. larly significant to me in two ways: First, What role has your family and your her- You participated in the School of I’ve always, since early childhood, tried to Q itage played in shaping the choices you’ve Liberal Arts Honors Program at Purdue. pursue a true humanistic education, not made and the interests you’ve pursued? What advice do you have for others who only in school but also in the books I read may be considering participating in the and the music I played in my spare time A The experiences of my parents and SLA Honors Program? and the places I visited during vacation. the rest of my family—the persecution, So the Mellon is a recognition of how far the anti-Semitism, and the tyranny under The honors program transforms an I’ve come along that route, and I’m really A which they suffered—have ensured that ordinary education into a truly extraordi- grateful to have that encouragement. In to me history isn’t just an abstract force, nary one. As an honors student, one is addition, the Mellon is given to people but it’s a concrete fact of life. It has never just a number. Professors . . . give based on a perception of their research affected their lives and their decisions. It you special encouragement, and help to potential as future academics. And it’s affected where I was born (at Home pursue sometimes even graduate-level extremely encouraging and helpful to see Hospital in Lafayette) and the stories they research at the undergraduate level. I’ve that the scholars who interviewed me told me when I was growing up. History presented some papers that I wrote for think that I’m capable of pursuing my was with me since my childhood. honors courses at conferences, all the way interests in 15th and 16th century And in addition, my family back- having the help and encouragement of England. The developments of that ground has given me a deeper apprecia- the professors, who believed in my capa- period, such as the roots of the tion, I think, of the freedom that I have in bilities precisely because I was an honors Reformation and the development of the living in America and being able to student. The honors program is wonder- idea of liberty of conscious, deeply affect pursue my own interests and get a great ful, and I would encourage absolutely Fall 2003 what people think today about religion, education, travel, learn about the world I anyone who is eligible to participate in it. society, and culture. live in and what made it the way it is. LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE Q&A 331

School of Liberal Arts Names 2003 Distinguished Alumni he School of Liberal Arts honored five distinguished T alumni on Friday, April 25, 2003, at the annual awards dinner.

DANIEL D. ANGEL, from Huntington, West Virginia, is president of Marshall University and a former member of the Michigan state legislature. During his time in the legisla- ture, Angel served on the committee that established educational policy for Michigan’s 13 universities and 29 community colleges. He earned a doctorate in communi- cation in 1965.

DONALD S. BAIN, from North Salem, New York, is the author Inc., a global leader in develop- Pictured left to right: or ghost writer of more than 80 books, including his auto- ing and publishing interactive Russell Rueff Jr., Dorothy biography, Every Midget Has an Uncle Sam Costume: entertainment software for per- Runk Mennen, Donald Bain, Writing for a Living. His current project includes a series sonal computers. Following a Cynthia Stohl, Daniel Angel, of 19 “Murder, She Wrote” mysteries, written in collabora- career in local radio, Rueff Dean Toby Parcel. tion with his wife. Bain earned a bachelor’s degree in held several human resource speech in 1957. positions in companies such as PepsiCo, Pizza Hut, and Frito-Lay Inc. Rueff earned a bachelor’s degree in radio DOROTHY RUNK MENNEN, of West Lafayette, is a professor and television in 1984 and a master’s degree in counsel- emerita of visual and performing arts in Purdue’s Division ing in 1986. of Theatre. From 1964 to 1985, she established the voice curriculum for acting students and founded and presided CYNTHIA STOHL, from Santa Barbara, California, is over Voice and Speech Trainers of America. After retire- professor of communication at the University of ment, Mennen helped establish Purdue’s Classroom California–Santa Barbara; she served as Purdue commu- Fall 2003 Climate Workshops, now known as the Human Relations nication department chair from 1999 to 2001 and Interactive Theatre Ensemble. Mennen earned a master’s was the Margaret Church Distinguished Professor of degree in theater in 1964. Communication. Stohl earned master’s and doctorate degrees in communication in 1978 and 1982, J. RUSSELL RUEFF JR., from Burlingame, California, is execu- respectively. tive vice president of human resources for Electronic Arts LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE

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John Wooden (B.S. 1964 1972 Physical Recreation William P. Templin (B.S. Physical Education Recreation) John A. Skerl (M.S. Sociology; Ph.D. Sociology, 1976) Education; H.D.R. Physical is employed by PCA National, Inc. in Matthews, North recently completed five years as a Senior Analyst with Penton Recreation Education, 1975) Carolina. Media and accepted a position at National City Bank as received the Humanitarian Assistant Vice President, Customer Information and Segment 32 Award for Lifetime Coaching 1965 Management, in Highland Hills, Ohio. 19 Achievement from the Dena Targ (M.S. Sociology; Ph.D. Sociology, 1976), Purdue World Sports Humanitarian Dean Champion (Ph.D. Sociology), Texas A&M International University, recently published Corrections in Extension, was co-recipient of the 2001 AARP Grandparent Hall of Fame in Boise, Award presented by Generations United. The award honors Idaho. the United States: A Contemporary Perspective, 3rd ed. (Prentice-Hall, 2001) and The Juvenile Justice System: outstanding contributions to the field of grandparents and Delinquency, Processing, and the Law, 3rd edition other relatives raising kin. Two national videoconferences, (Prentice-Hall, 2001). broadcast in 1999 and 2001, that provided essential informa- 1947 tion to grandparents and professionals were highlighted in the Eloise Pingry (B.S. Education & Humanities) received the 1966 presentation of the award. Three Sisters Award by the Committee to Save the City for her Gregory L. Weiss (M.S. Sociology; Ph.D. Sociology, 1975) work with the Charleston Symphony in South Carolina. Graham C. Kinloch (M.S. Sociology; Ph.D. Sociology, 1968) and Lynne E. Lonnquist (Ph.D. Sociology, 1982) published is Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Academic The Sociology of Health, Healing, and Illness, 3rd edition, 1958 Affairs in the College of Social Sciences at Florida State 2000. University in Tallahassee, where he has worked since 1971. John Hultman (B.S. Education & Humanities) returned to He has dedicated much of his professional career to helping 1973 work after four years of retirement from CBS-WBBM-AM News others understand the nature and consequences of compara- Lee Crandall (M.S. Sociology; Ph.D. Sociology, 1976) is Head Radio in Chicago to anchor midday and afternoon news. tive race and minority relations. of the Department of Community Health at the University of 1960 Illinois, and became Professor and Associate Chair for 1968 Administration, Department of Epidemiology and Public Joey Cole Kubesch (B.A. Education & Humanities) was Patricia A. Gale (B.S. Psychology), Chicago, received the Health, and Deputy Director, Comprehensive Drug Research recently featured in Successful Farming magazine for taking U.S. Railroad Retirement Board’s “Award for Excellence.” Center, University of Miami School of Medicine. the Barn Again restoration honors. Tom Verplank (B.S. Physical Recreation Education) was R. Wayne Pach (Ph.D. Communication) celebrated his 50th Athletic Director at Broad Ripple High School in Indianapolis wedding anniversary with his wife, Gae, in March. until his retirement in Fall 2001. He played rugby for 30 Vanessa J. Castagna (B.S. Larry Samovar (M.S. Communication; Ph.D. Organizational years. Social Science & Communication, 1962) has three new textbook editions: Education), Frisco,

Intercultural Communication: A Reader, 10th edition, 1969 1 Texas, was featured Wadsworth Publishing; Communication between Cultures, 5th Kent Hannon (B.A. Journalism) is currently editor of Georgia in Fortune edition, Wadsworth Publishing; and Oral Communication: Magazine, the University of Georgia’s award-winning alumni 197 Magazine’s list of Speaking across Cultures, 11th edition, Roxbury Press. publication. His latest book, Damn Good Dogs, will be out this the Top 50 Most 1961 fall. Prior to his work at University of Georgia, Hannon spent Powerful Women in 10 years as a writer at Sports Illustrated. Business. Gerald J. Kallas (M.S. Sociology; Ph.D. Sociology, 1963) has retired from his position as Cultural Attache in the U.S. 1970 Embassy in Brussels. He and his wife, Bernadette, reside in a Sally Ward-Maggard (M.S. Sociology) is currently National R. Paul Duncan (M.S. Sociology; Ph.D. Sociology, 1974) has house they built in the Belgian countryside. Program Leader for Rural Sociology in the Cooperative State been named the Louis C. and Jane Gapenski Professor of Harry Sharp Jr. (M.S. Education, General; Ph.D. Research, Education, and Extension Services, U.S. Department Health Services Administration of the University of Florida, Organizational Communication, 1967) is a Professor and Dean of Agriculture. She is President of the Appalachian Studies. where he has been a member of the faculty since 1979. Emeritus at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Gary Shulman (M.S. Communication; Ph.D. Organizational Obispo. Sharp retired in August 2000 after teaching 25 years 1971 Communication, 1976) is Interim Chair of the Department of at Cal Poly and a total of 37 years as an educator. Communication at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Blanton Croft (Ph.D. Organizational Communication) was 1962 awarded Professor Emeritus status in 2002. He also moved to 1974 a new location and will be serving as an adjunct instructor in Connie Krabbe Lux (B.A. Communication) has spent the last Speech Communication at Hagerstown Community College in Cheryl Maurana (M.S. Sociology; Ph.D. Sociology, 1976) is 13 years growing Lux Seniors’ Insurance in Lafayette, Maryland, as well as serving as a volunteer in the Media Arts Senior Associate Dean, Public and Community Health, Medical Indiana. Center at the college. College of Wisconsin. She was named a Distinguished Alumna Phillip K. Tompkins (Ph.D. Organizational Communication), Andrew Kulley (M.S. Sociology; Ph.D. Sociology, 1974) is the of Seton Hill College in 2002. Professor Emeritus of Communication and Comparative chief methodologist for Ropers in Princeton, New Jersey. Frank R. Shirer (M.A. History) appeared on the History Literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder, gave the Kathy Trier (B.A. Sociology; M.S. Education, General, 1972; Channel show, “Secret Japanese Aircraft of WWII,” which aired keynote address at the annual convention of the Rocky Fall 2003 M.S. Sociology, 1983; Ph.D. Sociology, 1988) left IUPU–Fort February 3, 2003. Mountain Communication Association on January 18, 2003. Wayne after 22 years to work at Biomet, an orthopedic com- 1975 1963 pany, in Warsaw, Indiana. She has been President of the Society for Applied Sociology and secretary for the Max Armstrong (B.A. Radio & TV) marks 25 years of broad- Lois K. Cohen (Ph.D. Sociology; Purdue Honorary Doctor of Commission on Applied and Clinical Sociology and the casting in Chicago. He has been heard daily since 1977 on Letters, 1989) received the International Association For Sociological Practice section of the American Sociological WGN as an agriculture and business reporter. He also hosts the Dental Research Distinguished Service Award. Association. nationally syndicated television show “U.S. Farm Report,” seen LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE each weekend coast-to-coast on 190 television stations. 33

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Paul Krivonos (Ph.D. Organizational Communication) was Jennifer Warner (B.A. Communication) has been operating Phyllis Goudy Myers (M.S. Sociology; Ph.D. Sociology, appointed Director of the Public Sector Management Program First Farm Inn, a B&B outside of Cincinnati, for five years. She 1984) is a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, Northridge. He was Associate also wrote a 400-page book on the history of Boone County, and Anthropology at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. Dean of the College of Arts, Media and Communication. Kentucky, for the county’s bicentennial. Denise Wilson (B.A. Foreign Languages, Multiple; M.A. Jane Shaw Russell (B.A. Speech Education) has been teach- History, 1985) presented “Remember the Ladies: A Musical ing English, speech, and drama at Turkey Run High School in 1978 Celebration of Women from Colonial Days to the Present” at Rockville, Indiana, since 1975. Bill Kelly (B.A. Communication) recently traveled to Cuba to Fowler Hall in Stewart Center on March 25, 2003, in celebra- Alan H. Shiller (M.A. Organizational Communication) tape news stories and a documentary for Nebraska’s public tion of National Women’s History Month. Denise is a member received the 2002 Excellence in Teaching Award from broadcasting service, NETV. Kelly is the state network’s of the band Traveler’s Dream, along with Michael Lewis. Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. Executive Producer for news. 1982 1979 Brandon (Schlenker) Miller Frank Butler (B.A. Theatre) continues to work as production (B.A. History) has been working Leonard Cox (B.A. Communication; M.A. manager at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. on several history books for Organizational Communication, 1996), documen- Laura N. Gitlin (Ph.D. Sociology) has a new appointment as young adults, including her fourth tary producer, had his most recent work, Director of Research, Senior Health Institute, Jefferson Health

6 book, Growing up in Revolution “Questioning Faith,” premiere on Cinemax. The System and Thomas Jefferson University. and the New Nation for grades film followed a seminarian on his search for faith Sheila (Kiergan) Shanks (B.A. Physical Recreation

197 4–6. Two other books, Growing after the death of his best friend. The Boston Education) is working for the Metropolitan School District of up in a New World and Good Globe called it a “must-see film.” Entertainment Washington Township in Indianapolis as a head cook. Women in a Well Blessed Land are Weekly gave the film an A-. due out this spring. Ann (McMath) Ralston (B.A. Physical 1983 Recreation) is President of Ralston Consulting, Inc., Mary Alice Baker (Ph.D. Organizational Communication) is which handles business strategy and implementa- serving as one of nine trustees for the Teachers Retirement tion for organizations. 1976 System of Texas. She represents higher education and is in her Paula Dwyer (B.A. Journalism) co-authored a book with 1980 third year of a six-year term. former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt, titled Take on the Street, John Lothian (B.A. Communication) is President of the published by Random House. Dwyer is the deputy bureau Martin DeJulia (B.A. History; M.A. History, 1982), after a Electronic Trading Division of the Price Futures Group Inc. He chief of the Washington bureau of BusinessWeek. 20-year stay in San Francisco, where he practiced and taught also is editor of the John Lothian Newsletter, a daily e-mail Karen Croake Heisler (B.A. Journalism; M.A. Communi- law, is currently Director of Legal Studies at National College intelligence briefing about what is going on within the world- cation, 1978) is a visiting professional specialist in the Film, of Business in Florence, Kentucky, and a lecturer in personal wide futures and securities communities. Television and Theatre Department at the University of Notre property with the Kentucky Law Review. He is also a practicing Betsy Wiersma (B.A. Communication) has published a Dame. Two television documentaries she wrote—“Love on the bankruptcy lawyer. second edition of her textbook for the special events industry, Rocks: Will Marriage Survive?” and “Kid CEOs”—won Gold David Langley (M.S. Physical Recreation Education) is an Exceptional Events: Concept to Completion. She is the proud and Silver awards at the 36th Annual Worldfest in Houston. Administrative Fellow for the Office of the Provost at Indiana mother of daughter Sarah Elizabeth, born July 23. Steve Lerch (M.S. Sociology; Ph.D. Sociology, 1979) was State University in Terre Haute. recently promoted to Associate Vice President for Academic Deb (Whitacre) Mol (B.P.E., Physical Recreation Education) 1984 teaches German and Health at a Middle School for American Enrichment, Redford University, after four years as Associate Michael Collins (M.F.A. Theatre) directed Cobb for the dependents in Landstuhl, Germany. Her current pet project is a Dean of College of Arts and Sciences and 14 years as Chair of Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, where he also appeared in German/English E-Pal Project for her students. the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Defying Gravity and Death of a Salesman. He is a Professor of Shelby Marzoni (B.A. Psychology; M.S. Education, General Theatre at Bloomsburg University and Director of the Theatre 1978; Ph.D. Sociology, 1983) has retired from a 12-year 1981 Division. career as a parent educator with Sharp Healthcare, and is a Rose Marie Burke (B.A. Communication & Journalism) has Hashem Adnan Kilani (M.S. Physical Recreation Education) full-time mother of five. been living in Paris for the past seven years. In November is Chair and Associate Professor of Health and Recreation at Kathleen J. Turner (M.A. Organizational Communication; 2002, she was back on campus to speak to the the University of Jordan. Ph.D. Communication, 1978) is the first Annabel Hagood Communications in the Global Workplace class. Since 1994, Grant E. Mabie (B.A. History) has joined Purdue’s Office of Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication at the University she has been writing and editing for the Washington Post, Marketing Communications as the Communications of Alabama. BusinessWeek, the Wall Street Journal, and Paris Notes. Coordinator for the School of Liberal Arts. He and wife Joy James Honeycutt (M.A. Organizational Communication), a Heim (B.A. Sociology) have a new son, Julian, born May 15. 1977 Professor of Communication at Louisiana State University, has Charlie MacLeod (B.S. Theatre), in several Purdue Theatre a new book titled, Imagined Interactions: Daydreaming about Communication (Hampton Press). His first book, Cognition, productions in the ’70s, is now on the Board of a large reg- Jay Fehnel (B.A. Communication and Romantic Relationships, was published in ional theatre on Long Island and enjoys acting and directing. Communication) 2001 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Michael L. Radelet (Ph.D. Sociology) has completed a five- was promoted to year term as Chair of the Department of Sociology at the Cindy Kuhn (B.A. Communication) was appointed Executive Vice President of Fall 2003 University of Florida and accepted a position as Professor of Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Smith, 84 business develop- Bucklin & Associates, one of the largest association manage-

Sociology at the University of Colorado. 19 ment at Tribune ment firms in Chicago. Brent Smith (M.S. Sociology; Ph.D. Sociology, 1979) is now Media Services in Professor and Chair, Department of Justice Studies, University Garold L. Markle (M.A. Organizational Communication) Chicago. of Alabama at Birmingham. owns his own HR consulting practice, Energage Inc., “dedicated to energizing and engaging the human spirit at work.” Much Jerry Stark (Ph.D. Sociology) is Professor of Sociology at the of his consulting work is centered on materials in his book, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.

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news ALUMNI Matt Booty (M.F.A. Theatre) was promoted to Vice President of Product Development for the 1985 1989 Chicago Studio of Midway 92 Todd J. Leonard (B.A. History; M.A. History, 1987) recently Thomas W. Cowger (M.A. History; Ph.D. History, 1994), Games. He oversees Sports, published Trendy Traditions: A Cross-Cultural Skills-Based Associate Professor at East Central University in Ada, 19 Entertainment, and GBA Reader of Essays on the United States (Macmillan Language Oklahoma, attended the National Congress of American development. He has led House, 2002). In addition, he recently gave a presentation at Indians annual convention in San Diego. He gave a presenta- many teams that produced Purdue on the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program. tion on the history of the NCAI. In October 2002, Cowger was successful computer games. He is Associate Professor in the English Department of named as a faculty resource person for the Oklahoma Hirosaki Gakuin University. Scholar–Leadership Enrichment Program. Paris Finke Loesch (M.A. Organizational Communication) is Theresa L. Klooz-Keating (B.A. Sociology) is a substitute Michael Waltman (Ph.D. Organizational Communication) is now Executive Vice President of Information Resources Inc., teacher in the Tucson Unified School District in Arizona. an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina. He managing the first $10 billion Wall Street sector. She joined Phil Timberlake (B.A. Theatre) completed his M.F.A. in has received grants to pursue his work on hate speech. IRI, a data and consulting firm, after a combined 16 years at acting at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Procter & Gamble, Nabisco, and the Coca-Cola Co. 1993 Patricia Geist Martin (Ph.D. Organizational Communi- 1990 Jennifer (Atkinson) Forrest (B.A. Foreign Languages, cation) is a Professor in the School of Communication at San Lisa (Lambert) Burks (B.A. Physical Recreation Education; Multiple) and Tim Forrest (B.A. Linguistics) are currently Diego State and has a new book coming out, Communicating living in Indianapolis. Jennifer completed an M.B.A. at Butler Health: Personal, Cultural, and Political Complexities, by M.S. Health & Kinesiology, 1990) is Director of the Aqua Fish Swim Program at the American Sportsplex in Duluth, Georgia. University in 1999. She worked as a financial analyst at the Wadsworth. She also was the keynote speaker for the Org Federal Home Loan Bank before resigning to take care of Jacquelyn Feller (M.S. Sociology; Ph.D. Sociology, 1992) is Comm mini-conference at Purdue in October. their son, Ryan (now 18 months old). Tim works as a Systems Associate Professor/Institutional Research Officer, University of Harvey Wallman (B.A. Physical Recreation Education; M.S. Engineer for Network Engineering, Inc. St. Francis, Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Physical Recreation Education, 1986) is Chair of the Depart- Andrea K. Kalley (B.S. Economics) is a senior contract David Loundy (B.A. Communication) had a case book titled ment of Physical Therapy and the founding Director of the administrator for Kraft Foods in Skokie, Illinois. University of Nevada–Las Vegas’s Physical Therapy Program. Computer Crime, Information Warfare & Economic Espionage published by Carolina Academic Press. Kim K. Eberhard McGlothlin (B.A. Interior Design, Gener- 1986 al) is an art director for Gabriel Interactive in Indianapolis. 1991 Rob Spalding (M.A. Organizational Communication) recently Rosalind Lister (B.A. Communication; M.S. Education, joined Washington Mutual in Seattle as a project manager in Nicole Kucharski Duncan General, 1990) recently accepted the position of Director in (B.A. Communication) oversees their HR Solutions group. He and his wife also are opening the Office of Career Services at Wabash College in community-outreach efforts, marketing media, community their own winery this year, “Seia Wine Cellars.” Crawfordsville, Indiana. sponsorships, and cheerleading for the Indianapolis Colts. Frank Spanopoulos (B.A. Physical Recreation Education) is a Hisham Elkhatib John Maloney (B.A. Communication) is a freelance golf (B.A. Communication) is the owner of a Specialty Representative for Pediatrics in Valparaiso, Indiana. writer and was recently accepted to the Golf Writers small business in California. He and his wife, Sarah, have a newborn daughter, Morgan. Association of America. He has written golf equipment pieces Charles F. Hall (M.S. Sociology; Ph.D. Sociology of Religion, Joel Toppen (M.A. Political Science & Government; Ph.D. for Shark.com, golf course reviews for the Golfer’s Guide, and 1993) was voted Teacher of the Year by California Lutheran Political Science & Government, 1998) was hired to a tenure- other pieces for the U.S. Golf Association. University’s students. track position at Hope College, where he has been on a Margaret Schweer (Ph.D. Sociology), Director of Human Kevin Mayer (B.A. Communication) graduated from the number of one-year appointments for the past few years. Resources for Kraft Foods, has been named as one of the top University of California–Los Angeles’s Anderson Graduate Gregory Weeks (M.A. History) completed his Ph.D. at the 100 Information Technology Leaders for the New Millennium School of Management and is currently national manager of University of Graz in Austria in February, 2003. The disserta- by Computerworld, recognizing her progressive work in the advertising for Hyundai Motor America. tion is entitled “Die Rolle der ‘Ostmark’ in der Deutschen area of recruitment and retention of information-technology Bonnie (Hamer) Sherow (M.A. History) recently gave com- Kolonialpolitk, 1918–1945.“ professionals and in leadership development. ments on “Defining Identity in Twentieth-Century Native Jennifer Solomon (B.A. Humanities & Social Sciences; M.S. American Communities” at the 46th Annual Missouri Valley 1994 Humanities & Social Sciences, 1987; Ph.D. Sociology, 1990) is History Conference. John Carr (B.A. Communication; M.A. Communication, 1997) Professor of Sociology at Winthrop University and was cited in David Studwell (M.F.A. Theatre) performed the lead role in is a freelance copywriter in New Orleans. a USA Today, August 8, 2000, cover story on divorcees. the PCPA Theaterfest production of Sweeney Todd last summer. Edward Thigpen (B.A. Communication) recently finished Studwell has taught at PCPA since 2000. Previously, he was a Elena Cueto-Asin (M.A. English; Ph.D. English, 1999) was his M.B.A. in marketing after a five-year stint as a marketing resident actor/teacher with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. the guest speaker at the 4th Annual Graduate Student representative for the Xerox Corp. Symposium this year. She has been an assistant professor of 1992 Spanish at Bowdoin College in Maine since 2000. 1987 Chad M. Fauber (B.A. History; B.S. Economics, 1995) com- John O. Andersen (M.A. German) owns and operates an pleted his Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago in Theresa Catterson Kraft (B.A. Communication), co-owner independent carpet and upholstery cleaning business. He also December 2002 and is currently a Visiting Scholar in the and President of Eastgate and Westgate Chrysler Jeep, was volunteers as a docent at the Oregon History Center. Department of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana- named one of the “Forty under 40” top business leaders by Sean R. Busick (B.A. History) recently accepted a position as Champaign. Indianapolis Business Journal. an Assistant Professor of History at Kentucky Wesleyan Colleen Chosta Langevin (B.A. Communication) married Charles Vogt (B.A. Communication) was recently named College. He is also editing a volume of the Dictionary of Christopher Langevin on July 27 in Massachusetts. Fall 2003 chief strategy officer for Bremner & Wiley Inc., a healthcare Literary Biography on Writers of the American Revolution. Michael Petrucelli (B.A. History) is the Marshall County facility development and management firm. He also serves on Matt McMahon Tracy Kissel (B.A. Political Science) and editor of the South Bend Tribune. the board of the Canyonville Christian Academy in Oregon and McMahon (B.A. Communication, 1993) had a baby girl, assists with the Briefing Room for the White House. Alyssa Marie, on February 20. Julie Webber (B.A. Political Science & Government; M.A. Political Science & Government, 1996; Ph.D. Political Science Amy Hertz Stoehr 1988 (B.A. Communication) is Chief Operating & Government, 2000) has published Failure to Hold: The Officer of STAR POWER Systems, one of the nation’s top real Politics of School Violence (Rowman & Littlefield). Robert Carl Schehr (M.S. Sociology; Ph.D. Sociology, 1991) estate professionals’ training and motivational organizations. LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE is Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice Department, University of Illinois at Springfield. 35

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Stefanie Wicks (M.S. Physical Recreation Education) is the Kristen Tripp Kelley (M.F.A. Theatre) is the chair of the arts 1995 Manager of the Office of Education and Training for the department and acting teacher at the Nichols School, an inde- Brad Dancer (B.A. Communication) is the Director of Division of Environmental Health. She currently resides in pendent high school in Buffalo, New York. She also teaches at Research for the new National Geographic Channel. He is North Carolina. the University at Buffalo and acts professionally in Buffalo. currently the youngest head of research for any national cable Michele A. Labrie (B.S. Audio & Speech Science; M.S. Audio network. His duties include all programming and analysis of 1997 & Speech Science, 2001) is an audiologist for Harvard the network’s performance. Janet Argentin (B.A. Communication) works at Waggener Vanguard Medical Associates in Boston. Michael DeSanto (B.A. Organizational Communication) was Edstrom in Bellevue, Washington, with Microsoft’s Platform Jessi Lemming (B.A. Communication) is living in Broad promoted to senior director of marketing communications for Strategy Group. Ripple and working in downtown Indianapolis for the broker- Walker Information, an Indianapolis-based stakeholder meas- Debra Holzhauer (Ph.D. Political Science & Government) is age firm Raymond James & Associates Inc. She also qualified urement firm. starting her second year at Coe College. for, and ran in, the 2002 Boston Marathon and volunteered Randall L. Galbraith (B.A. History) is a Staff Attorney with for the 2002 World Basketball Championships in Indianapolis. Sapna Kumar (B.A. Theatre) will understudy one of the lead- the Athens County, Ohio, Child Support Enforcement Agency. ing roles in the Steppenwolf’s Mainstage production of Tony Erin Grant Powell (M.F.A. Theatre) is an associate designer Bonnie Gasior (M.A. Foreign Languages, Multiple; Ph.D. Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul. at Visual Terrain in Los Angeles. She has served as Lighting Foreign Languages, 2001) is teaching at California State Director for several concert tours and special events. Her hus- Terri Malek-Madani (Ph.D. Communication) is an Assistant University in Long Beach. band, Kirk Powell (M.F.A. 2003), is a systems engineer and Professor at the University of South Dakota. She will be doing designer for ATK Audiotek in Burbank; his projects include Mark L. Schuman (B.A. Communication) is an Associate research and teaching in the international studies program Producer for ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut. several awards shows and the Remembrance Ceremonies at and teaching interpersonal and organizational communication Ground Zero. Stephanie Smith (B.A. Communication) has joined the law classes in the Department of Communication Studies. firm of Warner Norcross & Judd LLP in its Holland, Michigan, Kelli (Waibel) Pritts (B.A. Physical Recreation Education) is office. Smith graduated from the Michael E. Moritz College of 1998 a claims adjuster for State Farm Insurance in Wolcott, Indiana. Law at Ohio State University in 2002. Richard P. Garlitz (B.A. History) was notified that his thesis, 2000 1996 “Responses to Catastrophe from Henri Barbusse to Primo Levi: Rethinking the Great War and the Holocaust in Literary Emily Meara Fairchild (B.A. Sociology), 2000 Outstanding Ruchi Anand (M.A. Political Science & Government; Ph.D. History,” was selected as the Ball State University Alumni Senior in Sociology, won the student paper competition Political Science & Government, 2002) had his paper, Association Distinguished Thesis for 2001–02. He is currently with “The Portrayal of Women in Newsweek Magazine: “International Environmental Justice: A North-South a doctoral student at Ohio University in Athens. 1935–1995” at the North Central Sociological Association annual conference. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in sociology at Dimension,” accepted for publication in the International Min-Sik Lee (Ph.D. Sociology) is a Senior Researcher at the Indiana University through a Women in Science Fellowship. Journal of Politics and Ethics (Winter 2001). Korean Institute of Criminology, Division of International Carolyn (Martin) Hissong (B.A. History) is a new mother to Criminal Justice. Liz Graves (B.A. Communication) sells lab services for Follas Laboratories Inc. in Indianapolis. Evan Martin Hissong, with husband Adam Hissong (B.S. Jeremy Quiring (B.A. Physical Recreation Education) works School of Technology, 1999). She is also the Director of for the Wellness Center in Tennessee as an exercise specialist Youn Kim (Ph.D. Political Science & Government) accepted an Scheduling for Los Angeles Mayor Jim Hahn. and personal trainer. Assistant Professorship at St. Mary’s College, in Notre Dame, Indiana, starting Fall 2002. Tanya N. Jordan (B.A. Communication) recently joined Evelyn Simien (M.A. Political Science & Government; Ph.D. General Motors PACE program as Marketing & Communi- Political Science & Government, 2001) has a chapter entitled Robert Kovach (M.F.A. Creative Arts) continues to work for cations Coordinator. PACE contributed more than $116 million “Measuring Black Feminist Consciousness” in The African Chicago Scenic Studios. Among his design assignments was the in software to Purdue, the largest corporate contribution in the American Political Woman: A Reader, edited by Rose M. Harris Chevy Trailblazer exhibit for the Detroit and Chicago auto university’s history. She married Paul Ninefeldt on May 18. for Rutgers University Press. Her article “Gender Differences in shows. He also designed a production of I Do! I Do! for the Maya Rockeymoore (M.A. Political Science & Government; Attitudes toward Black Feminism among African Americans” Drury Lane Theatre in Evergreen Park, Illinois. Ph.D. Political Science & Government, 2000) recently took a will appear in Political Science Quarterly. Matthew Memmer (B.A. History) is currently a third-year new position as Senior Resident Scholar for Health and Income Chris Weare (B.A. Sociology) is the Area Director for Warrick student in Washburn University School of Law and recently Security at the National Urban League Institute for County Young Life Camp in Newburgh, Indiana. was invited to Washington, D.C., to attend an ADA proclama- Opportunity and Equality in Washington, D.C. She will continue tion ceremony at the White House. He is researching Medicare to focus on health and income security policy issues. 1999 and Medicaid, specifically the Medicare homebound rule that Ryan Shively (M.F.A. Theatre) played Petruchio in The was changed by the proclamation. Taming of the Shrew at North Shore Music Theatre in Boston Douglas Buchacek (B.A. History) is enjoying his second trip Kristina Tollefson (M.F.A. Creative Arts) and Jason and numerous roles in It Just Catches at the Minetta Lane to Russia since graduating from Purdue. Since August 2001, Tollefson (M.F.A. Creative Arts) reside in Orlando, where Theatre in New York. he has been working there for the Peace Corps. His service will Kristina is an Assistant Professor at the University of Central end in August 2003. Michael Smith (Ph.D. Organizational Communication) was Florida and is the vice-commissioner for communication in the promoted to Associate Professor at La Salle University, Phila- Nick Jones (B.A. Theatre) heads a not-for-profit theatre Costume Commission, USITT. Jason is a freelance lighting delphia, and named director of La Salle’s M.A. in Professional company, Smoke & Mirror. The designer. Communication and Public Relations in Prague, Czech Repub- group’s first gala benefit, held in lic. He will be teaching a public relations course in Prague as February, featured a performance of Katherine Burke (M.F.A. Theatre) is busy part of the first graduate program in communication there. Jones’s ten-minute play Elixir of Life. working on InterPlay, her new business. She His play Sailing from the Moon was runs interactive theatre workshops to create Jason S. Stalker (B.A. History) is currently living in Fall 2003 performed at the Viaduct Theatre in dialogue about challenging issues. This spring, Richmond, Indiana, and is a Quality Technician at Carlisle

May and June. Jones continues to 9 she worked with a therapy group of convicted Engineered Products in West Alexandria, Ohio. push the limits of theatre and ther- 9 sex offenders. August took her to the nation of Gerritt Vandermeer (B.A. Foreign Languages, Multiple) is apy at Loyola University. 19 Georgia for an interactive theatre program for completing his second year as Harold Hill in The Music Man, young people on tolerance and conflict resolu- which included a February performance in Elliott Hall of Music. tion. She was a featured guest soloist at the While on campus, he presented a workshop with the acting Richard Rodgers concert with PMO University students.

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news ALUMNI 2004 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI NOMINATION

Megan Winger (B.A. Communication) works at the Lafayette THE SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION announces the call for nomina- law firm of Gambs, Mucker & Bauman. tions for the 2004 Distinguished Alumni Awards. Faculty, staff, students, and friends may nominate an alumna/us who is distinguished through professional achievements or involve- 2001 ment in the community or Purdue University. Jason Cornwell (M.F.A Theatre) made his network television TO MAKE A NOMINATION, photocopy this form or use a similar format to describe the debut this winter with roles on the prime-time dramas “Hack” nominee. Mail the nomination, a résumé, two letters of support, or any other supporting and “Law and Order” as well as daytime’s “All My Children.” He and wife Brandi Harrison Cornwell (B.A. Theatre, materials, including newspaper and magazine articles, by December 1, 2003, to: 2000) have relocated to New York. Selection Committee Chair 2002 Attn: Laura Havran Kelly Easton (B.A. History) is currently a master’s student at Purdue University the University of Arizona in Near Eastern Studies. She will be Beering Hall – Room 1280 (Development Office) moving to Cairo for at least a year to work on her Arabic- 100 North University Street language skills. West Lafayette, IN 47907-2098 Nicholas Guehlstorf (Ph.D. Political Science & Government) accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at NOMINEE______Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Jodi Hart (M.F.A. Theatre) accepted a teaching position at ADDRESS______the University of Southern Maine. Her husband, Ted Ozimek (M.F.A. Theatre, 2001) continues as a program manager at ETC ______in Madison, Wisconsin. Recent projects include Jazz@Lincoln ITY TATE IP Center, three new spaces for jazz performance in New York’s C ______S ______Z ______AOL/Time Warner building. TELEPHONE ______Ian Hunter (M.F.A. Creative Arts) continues the pattern of Purdue benefiting from its students’ talents. He joined the OCCUPATION ______theatre consulting firm Auerbach and Associates in San Francisco immediately after graduation. Among his projects YEAR OF GRADUATION, DEGREE, AND MAJOR ______is the sound system for Purdue’s new Visual and Performing Arts building. NOMINATOR’S NAME______For a full listing of Purdue School of Liberal Arts alumni who ADDRESS______have passed away in the past year, please visit SLA Online at www.sla.purdue.edu/alumnifriends. ______CITY ______STATE ______ZIP ______TELEPHONE ______

EXPOUND ON THE FOLLOWING: 1. Personal qualities that distinguish the nominee ______2. Community service ______3. Professional accomplishments ______4. Purdue University involvement, if any ______5. Why nominee deserves award ______

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New Development Director Ruloff Sees Good Things ‘Happening Here’

“Purdue: It’s Happening Here!” is the new theme for the University’s marketing, special events, and major gift announcements. Cathleen G. Ruloff, the new development director for the School of Liberal Arts, couldn’t agree more.

Ruloff comes to Purdue with more than 10 years experience in education fund-raising, including successful efforts at the University of Wisconsin and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin– Madison in 1990. Former director of development Barbara L. Powell retired last year. Ruloff accepted the chal- lenge at Purdue because she was impressed with the excitement, energy, and enthusiasm on Purdue’s campus at a historic moment in both the University and the School’s history. “With my own liberal arts educational background, I readily iden- tify with the School’s alumni, and I welcomed the opportunity to work with the new dean and her team,” Ruloff says. “I really do think it’s the greatest job in the world. I have a strong belief in the power of educa- tion, and I get to spend my career working with people University’s ability to meet and beat fund-raising records who share this belief to improve the opportunities for the past three years was a testament to the continued the next generation of students.” Ruloff, who recently support of alumni, friends, and corporate donors. The became engaged, enjoys travel, reading, and settling School of Liberal Arts’ campaign goal is $26.3 million. into a life as a Boilermaker. The School is currently raising $13 million to support Ruloff noted that, despite the economic slowdown, facilities and equipment and complete the new Visual Purdue raised nearly $312 million in the recent fiscal and Performing Arts building. The first phase of the year, surpassing its $300 million goal and breaking the building opened for classes at the beginning of the previous year’s total of $234 million. Purdue is 2003–04 academic year. now past the halfway point in its $1.3 billion Alumni and friends interested in giving campaign goal, with an overall total of more than opportunities can reach Ruloff at (765) 494-2711 or $716 million raised. via e-mail at [email protected]. Ruloff cited Purdue Fall 2003 President Martin C. Jischke’s assessment that the LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE

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ALUMNInews calendar of events School of Liberal Arts OCTOBER 2003 4 Homecoming — Liberal Arts Tent 11 A.M. – 2:30 P.M. — Pre-game activities 3:30 P.M. — Game 5 Community Visit (Lafayette, Ind.) 21 Community Visit (South Bend, Ind.)

DECEMBER 2003 Stay in Touch 4 Community Visit (Columbus, Ind.) 21 Commencement Reception The School of Liberal Arts needs your input. Visit our Web site to keep our alumni and FEBRUARY 2004 friends up to date on the latest happenings. On this site, you can: 7 Reception and dinner in Naples, Fla., I access information about upcoming events for all Florida alumni I update your alumni information 17 Community Visit (Jasper, Ind.) I review fund-raising initiatives I read the latest news about the school I download PDF files of the Liberal Arts MARCH 2004 Magazine and annual report I stay connected to the school in ways you 23 Community Visit (Bloomington, Ind.) never before could. Take a minute to check us out: http://www.sla.purdue.edu/alumnifriends APRIL 2004 We’re planning some exciting new features 16 Distinguished Alumni Banquet for the coming months. Visit often—you’ll be 16–18 Gala/Spring Fest Weekend glad you did! 22 Community Visit (Gary, Ind.)

MAY 2004 15–16 Commencement

JULY 2004 26 Purdue Day in Chicago 2003–04