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Creighton of the Future Program Specifically for African-American New Strategic and Master Plans Set an Ambitious Course for Growth Enron 101: Lessons from a Corporate Scandal Of Threshers,Creighton Cobblersat 125: and Nuclear Waste: IambicThe Curriculum Pentameter The BusinessFeeling of Quilts ‘Alive’ Whosein Nepal Problem is It?TeachingToys About & Gender Terrorism Winter 2003 Visit the magazine online at: www.creightonmagazine.org WINTER 2003 University Magazine Departments 4 Letters to the Editor 5 University News New VP Named Cam Enarson, M.D., M.B.A., joins Creighton from Wake Forest University as the new vice president for Health Sciences and dean of the School of Medicine. Healthy Churches Creighton occupational therapist Shirley Blanchard has designed a wellness Building the Creighton of the Future program specifically for African-American New strategic and master plans set an ambitious course for growth. women that is being implemented through 14 local churches. Creighton at 125 40 Development News Part II Pattee Gives Back Forever grateful for the opportunity to attend Creighton University, James Pattee, MD’53, and his wife, Jane, have made a $50,000 unrestricted gift to the School of Medicine. 44 Alumni News Photo by Mark Romesser California Dreamer The Curriculum The Business Creighton alumna Teresa Heger Onoda, Takes Shape of Quilts BA’75, is living a dream — painting 18 In the early years, a debate 24 Creighton professor develops California landscapes. centered on electives versus traditional liberal Quilt Price Index as quilts sell for record prices. Humanitarian Effort arts education. Jeffrey Goodman, MD’71, travels to Iraq to provide medical care as a volunteer with the International Medical Corps. 55 The Last Word Writer Mary Kay Shanley, BA’65, heads back to the classroom and finds the experience very revealing. AP Photo/Dennis Cook Whose Problem Toys and Gender Contact Us Why you may want to rethink Executive Editor: Stephen T. Kline is It, Anyway? (402) 280-1784 [email protected] 30 A journalist and a philosopher 34 your holiday shopping list. Editor: Rick Davis examine the issue of high-level nuclear waste And, Advent symbols ... powerful spiritual (402) 280-1785 [email protected] disposal. reminders. Associate Editor: Sheila Swanson (402) 280-2069 [email protected] Creighton University Magazine’s Purpose Visit the magazine online at: Creighton University Magazine, like the University itself, is committed to excellence and dedicated to the pursuit of truth in all its forms. The magazine will be www.creightonmagazine.org comprehensive in nature. It will support the University’s mission of education through thoughtful and compelling feature articles on a variety of topics. It will feature the brightest, the most stimulating, the most inspirational thinking that Creighton offers. The magazine also will promote Creighton, and its Jesuit Catholic identity, to a broad public and serve as a vital link between the University and its constituents. The magazine will be guided by the core values of Creighton: the inalienable worth of each individual, respect for all of God’s creation, a special concern for the poor, and the promotion of justice. Message Featuresfrom the University President A Season of Hope and Excitement Warmest holiday greetings to you! As I write this, the fall colors • Creighton was ranked No. 1 among Midwestern comprehensive have disappeared from the Jesuit Gardens and the harbingers of universities in U.S. News and World Report’s “America’s Best winter are evident. Shortly, the campus will come alive with the Colleges” for 2004. This is the sixth time in eight years that we lights, sights and sounds of Christmas. Students are wrapping up were ranked No. 1! In that same edition, Creighton’s exceptional what from all accounts has been a highly undergraduate research and creative project opportunities were successful semester. singled out. Of all institutions evaluated by U.S. News, only 39 As mentioned in my last column, merited this distinction. Creighton was in the company of the Creighton has a very healthy enrollment. nation’s finest institutions. The freshman class was up 16.5 percent • Creighton was also listed in the Princeton Review’s best 351 colleges, and academically well prepared, retention from the more than 3,500 universities and colleges surveyed. The was well above the national average at publication puts Creighton on the “top twenty” lists in areas of 88 percent, and all of our professional faith development, civic and community service and our city-to- programs were well subscribed. The institution (“town-gown”) relations with the city of Omaha. Photo by Monte Kruse, BA’83 Photo by Monte Kruse, bottom line being, Creighton’s enrollment for fall 2003 was the largest in our history — 6,559 students! They National recognition such as this, along with so many other are a wonderful group of young people. findings and rankings, fortifies our belief that Creighton is On Sept. 2, we celebrated Creighton’s 125th birthday. At a news “regionally dominant and nationally prominent” in what we conference, we rolled out the new Campus Master Plan. Our do as the finest comprehensive Jesuit university in the country. objective is to create a contemporary city-sited campus in a park-like Finally, I am very pleased to announce that our energetic setting and to provide a cutting-edge learning and living management team is now complete. Dr. Cam Enarson is the newly environment to benefit our students as well as the entire Creighton appointed dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for community. What we will achieve will advance Creighton into the Health Sciences. Dr. Enarson comes to us from Wake Forest front rank of the nation’s faith-based and student-centered School of Medicine. I am confident he will continue to nurture the universities, with broad-based initiatives to enhance academic research, education, patient care and service across all of the units excellence, health care education and delivery, as well as an in the Creighton University Medical Center. Dr. Enarson was enriched campus life. Details of the Master Plan may be found in welcomed with the news that Creighton’s Medical School was a the story that begins on Page 14. I hope that you will save this issue recipient of the prestigious Association of American Medical of the magazine for future reference as our plan unfolds. Colleges Award for Outstanding Community Service for 2003. Three features of that plan are already in evidence: the new Congratulations to all involved in bringing such distinction to Hixson-Lied Science Building that connects a totally renovated the University! Rigge Science Building with the renovated and expanded Criss The future is bright. The vision is focused. The direction is clear. Buildings (see Fall issue); the on-campus soccer field is “in play” Thank you for making this possible. and garnering rave reviews for its design and surface; and, much to Please enjoy this issue of the Creighton University Magazine. the delight of the students, town homes are rising out of the Burt May this season of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa fill your Tower site like crocuses in springtime. And anticipation is building home with joy, hope and renewal. May it bring you the peace and as the Creighton Bluejays prepare to play men’s basketball in the the presence of our common God. new Qwest Center Omaha arena to a record-setting crowd of season All seasonal blessings. ticket holders. As I wrote in my last column, we have much to celebrate as we reflect on the achievements of the past decades and the present wellness of the University. Since then, there is more good news: John P. Schlegel, S.J. dietitians and their knowledge and understand how nutrition impacts health. With increasing demands on physicians, I would encourage them to refer those patients University Magazine in need of nutrition education to a dietitian. Jennifer Schulte, RD, LMNT Omaha Enron 101: Publisher: Creighton University; Rev. John P. Lessons from a Corporate Scandal Schlegel, S.J., President; Lisa Calvert, Vice Where’s the Diversity? Of Threshers,Advancing Cobblers Science and Creighton Celebrates Eating Disorders Iambicat Creighton Pentameter Feeling125th ‘Alive’Anniversary in Nepal Teachingin About Children Terrorism President for University Relations. Creighton Fall 2003 The cry today in most universities, including University Magazine staff: Stephen T. Kline, CU, is diversity. My question is, Executive Editor; Rick Davis, Editor; Sheila “Where is it at CU?” Of late, we were Swanson, Associate Editor; Pamela A. Vaughn, Features Editor. Editorial Advisers: Christine confronted with Kelly and Mack (see Wiseman, J.D.; Greg Johnson; Diane Dougherty; Spring 2003). In the Summer 2003 Rev. Donald A. Doll, S.J.; Ruth Purtilo, Ph.D.; issue, we were given Bergman’s Jesus, Tamara Buffalohead-McGill; and Jayne Schram. Letters Scripture and the Ethics of War. Maybe Bergman can crawl into the minds of Creighton University Magazine (USPS728-070) is to Bush, Hillary Clinton, Bin Laden, published quarterly in February, May, August Hussein, even Christ. But us lesser and November by Creighton University, 2500 the Editor folks have a bit of trouble doing this, California Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178-0001. and we prefer to look adversity in the Periodicals postage paid at Omaha, Nebraska, Dietitians Fit the Bill and additional entry points. Address all mail to eye, and even punch the nose that is situated Public Relations and Information, Omaha, NE After reading Dr. Robert P. Heaney’s editorial between each eye. Let this letter be the first to 68178. Postmaster: Send change of address to “Why Nutrition Doesn’t Make it Onto Medicine’s laugh heartily at him, as did the several Creighton University Magazine, P.O. Box 3266, Radar Screen,” (Summer 2003) which discussed sensible letters to the editor in the same Omaha, NE 68103-0078. how physicians don’t have time to educate mentioned issue about Kelly and Mack.
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