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Volume 42 n Number 14 Feb. 18 - March 9, 2008 THE FACULTY/STAFF BULLETIN OF FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY WFSU-TV Zwilich’s ‘Peanuts Gallery’ wins NETA award, 2 KelsayKelsay HUMAN SCIENCES ‘Managing Menopause’ examines symposium to be examines Feb. 21 and 22, 3 NEW CENTER jihadjihad Colleges of Information and Education, and Learning Systems inin newnew Institute launch ‘I-CELTIC’, 4 OMNI bookbook John Kelsay Preview ‘Business John Kelsay Intelligence,’ 7 By Barry Ray petty state.” NEWS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS But what exactly is jihad? Who can de- “The ruling to kill the Americans and their clare it? And what rules govern it? Most SPREAD allies — civilians and military — is an individual Westerners have only a vague understand- THE WORD duty for every Muslim who can do it in any ing of Islamic doctrine and tradition, per- The Florida State country in which it is possible to do it … .” haps leading to increased tensions between University College of the world’s 1 billion Muslims and their non- Business has received With that command, a group of Islamic Muslim neighbors. militants led by Osama bin Laden and Ay- In his new book “Arguing the Just War a $2 million grant man al-Zawahiri declared a jihad, or holy in Islam,” John Kelsay, a Distinguished Re- from the Bank of war, against the United States, Israel and search Professor and Richard L. Rubenstein America Charitable their citizens in 1998. In their “Declaration Professor of Religion at Florida State Univer- Foundation to Concerning Armed Struggles Against Jews sity, shows that Islamic thinkers have debat- establish the and Crusaders,” the militants cited three ed the ethics of war and of specific military factors justifying the jihad: the ongoing tactics going all the way back to the time of Gene Taylor/Bank of presence of American forces in Saudi Ara- the prophet Muhammad some 1,400 years America Center bia following the first Persian Gulf War; the ago. That debate continues today, he says. for Banking and devastation inflicted on the Iraqi people by “When people fight wars, they have some Financial Studies. that war and subsequent embargos; and the conception of right and wrong,” Kelsay said. United States’ ongoing support of “the Jews’ Please see KELSAY, 7 “I don’t think there’s any evidence that you can suddenly become a genius. Everyone has to put in the years of concentrated practice.” Anders Ericsson, who is Florida State University’s FSCW/Kingsburg Eminent Scholar in Honor and Memory of Dr. Edward Conradi and a professor of psychology, and the editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, as quoted Jan. 31 in The Times Online. In his research, Ericsson has found that people excel to the point of genius through “deliberate practice.” FSU makes headlines around the world: www.fsu.edu/~unicomm/news WFSU’s ‘Peanuts Gallery’ wins at ‘08 NETA awards The WFSU Television of the work by Mike Dunn production “Peanuts Gal- and Amy MacFarland. Their lery” has been named the creative contributions took finest performance program this program above the realm from a large market broad- of a standard performance caster by the National Edu- program.” cational Telecommunications Dunn was one of the Association (NETA). The as- show’s producers and Mac- sociation honored 24 public Farland was its editor and broadcasters during its an- assistant director. nual conference and awards “The hardest worker on program in January. the program was Amy Mac- “Peanuts Gallery” is a Farland of our staff,” Dunn musical composition by said. “Her eyes practically Florida State University fell out in front of her com- Francis Eppes Professor of puter screen because she was Music Ellen Taaffe Zwilich locked away in a little closet that honors some of Charles for such a long time putting Music from M. Schulz’s best-loved com- the show together.” ic characters. The panel of Eric Schultz of New Jer- NETA judges praised the sey Network was the show’s ‘Peanuts Gallery’ half-hour program for the director and co-produced Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s way it celebrated the creativ- with Dunn. “Peanuts”-inspired musical ity of two distinct artistic dis- “Peanuts Gallery,” which compositions — six short ciplines — cartooning and was recorded in 2005 and ed- musical sketches — are musical composition. They ited in 2006, was first offered “Charlie Brown’s Lament,” also liked the way interviews nationwide to public televi- and behind-the-scenes mo- sion stations in the fall of “Lucy Freaks Out,” ments were interwoven with 2006. It was again offered in “Schroeder’s the performance. the fall of 2007 and enjoyed Beethoven Fantasy,” “WFSU and the FSU Col- greater national exposure by “Snoopy Does the Samba,” lege of Music have a long public television stations, ac- “Lullaby for Linus” history of cooperation on all cording to Dunn. and kinds of projects,” said Pat- In all, 40 trophies were giv- “Peppermint Patty & rick J. Keating, general man- en during the NETA Awards Marcie Lead the Parade.” ager of WFSU and the show’s program, an annual recogni- executive producer. “I am tion of member-produced ex- delighted that the combined cellence in public broadcast- talents of both entities came ing, a tradition established together so well in ‘Peanuts more than 40 years ago by the Gallery.’ It was an honor to pioneering Southern Educa- work with someone of the tional Communications As- stature of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich sociation. NETA is the profes- on this project. On the WFSU sional association of public side, I am particularly proud broadcasting stations. 2 n FEB. 18 - MARCH 9, 2008 n STATE Human Sciences to host symposium on menopause Because menopause is an age-re- will take place on Feb. 21, from 8 a.m. The symposium is free and open to lated occurrence and involves a defi- to 3:30 p.m., and Feb. 22, from 8 a.m. to the public, but seating will be limited. ciency of estrogen, it is associated with 12:30 p.m., in the Tom and Ginny Futch To register (free of charge) and view a an increased risk of chronic disease and Ballroom, 3rd floor, University Center complete lecture schedule and list of a negative impact on quality of life. To Club. speakers, go to www.chs.fsu.edu and bridge the gap between science and the Faculty and medical experts on ag- click on the link to the Hazel B. Stie- practice of healthy reproductive aging, ing from universities across the nation beling Symposium. Up to 11 hours of Florida State University’s Department and FSU’s College of Human Sciences continuing education credit is available of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Science and College of Medicine will present for physicians and nurses, and applica- –– part of the FSU College of Human a total of 10 lectures on topics rang- tion has been made for 10 hours of con- Sciences –– is sponsoring a sympo- ing from postmenopausal weight gain tinuing education units for dietitians/ sium Feb. 21 and 22 titled “Managing to calcium supplementation and bone nutritionists. Menopause: A Common Denomina- loss, the effects of “functional foods” To learn more, contact Jodee L. tor in the Prevention and Treatment on osteoporosis, and the benefits of ex- Dorsey, associate dean for Academic of Chronic Disease.” The symposium ercise in managing menopause. Affairs, at [email protected]. ence and Policy, and director of the Toxicologist, and a former chief of the Speakers for Vascular Laboratory and Senior Scien- Psychopharmacology Research Pro- tist, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutri- gram of the National Institute of Men- tion Research Center, Tufts University. tal Health. ‘Managing Menopause: •Jerry Cott, Review Pharmacologist/ •Cathy Levenson, Hazel K. Stiebel- A Common Denominator in the Prevention ing Associate Professor, Department of and Treatment of Chronic Disease’ Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences, Florida State University. •Billie Collier, dean, College of Human •Richard Derman, professor and as- Sciences, Florida State University. sociate dean for Clinical Research, Uni- •Connie Weaver, Distinguished Pro- versity of Missouri-Kansas City School of fessor and head, Department of Foods Medicine. and Nutrition, Purdue University. •Lynn Panton, associate professor, De- •Jasminka Ilich-Ernst, professor, De- partment of Nutrition, Food and Exer- partment of Nutrition, Food and Exer- cise Sciences, Florida State University. cise Sciences, Florida State University. •Wendy Kohrt, Professor of Medicine, •Bahram Arjmandi, Margaret A. Sit- Department of Internal Medicine, Divi- ton Professor and chair, Department of sion of Geriatric Medicine, University of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences, Colorado-Denver, and adjunct professor Florida State University. of Integrative Physiology, University of •Barbara Stoecker, Regents Profes- Colorado-Boulder. sor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, •Ken Brummel-Smith, Charlotte Ed- Oklahoma State University. wards Maguire Professor and Chair- •Mohsen Meydani, professor of Nutri- man, Department of Geriatrics, College tion, Friedman School of Nutrition Sci- Richard Derman of Medicine, Florida State University. Florida State University Vice President for State is the faculty/staff bulletin of Florida Board of Trustees University Relations State University. 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