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Vol. 26 Issue 2 WHAT’S NEWS @ Oct. 3, 2005 Rhode Island College Established in 1980 Circulation over 52,000 Newly renovated Alger Hall opens for business BY Jane Fusco, Editor

lger Hall, home to Rhode Island College’s School Aof Management, has had a complete makeover. About $5.5 million worth of renovations and technological improvements have been made to the 47-year-old building that was one of the Mt. Pleasant campus’ original structures used for music and art classes when the college expanded its curriculum to offer a liberal arts program. This semester, Alger reopened as a state-of-the-art, 28,000-square- foot facility with 40 offi ces, two high-tech conference rooms and eight technology-driven classrooms to serve the 1,000 students and 27 faculty members in the college’s School of Management. “Alger has been re-designed

Continued on p 11 NEW AND IMPROVED: An all-new Alger Hall opened this semester with state-of-the-art, technology-driven classrooms and conference rooms. RIC’s Poverty Institute fi nds many R.I. workers RIC responds to falling behind as economy moves ahead Gulf disaster Stagnant wages for lower-in- for public policies that help those BY come workers and rapidly ris- workers at the bottom,” said Kate Jane Fusco, Editor, and ing housing costs leave many Brewster M ’98, director of The Alison Strandberg, Staff Writer families struggling despite job Poverty Institute. “We need to growth, according to The Pov- increase opportunities for low- erty Institute at RIC, which skilled workers to climb the job The College organized “Dollars held its third annual policy ladder while providing supports for Disaster,” a weeklong, cam- symposium last month at the for the large number of workers pus-wide collection drive to aid State House. whose earnings leave them unable hurricane relief agencies, raising to meet basic needs.” over $11,000. Four RIC profes- Labor Day 2005 found the Rhode The report, which takes a com- sors have formed a counseling Island economy growing, but large prehensive look at both the health sectors of its workforce were real- team to help survivors relocated of Rhode Island’s economy and to R.I. The R.I. Writing Project izing few gains from the growth, the workforce, was well received, at RIC held a writing marathon according to a new report issued said Brewster. “The governor and by The Poverty Institute at Rhode many of his appointees thanked us to benefi t children of New Or- Island College. The institute, which KATE BREWSTER, director of The leans. for putting the report together and Poverty Institute at RIC, speaks at a promotes economic security and suggested that we form a work- State House symposium. equitable policies for low- and group to deal with some of the The hurricane-ravaged Gulf moderate-income Rhode Islanders, fi ndings,” she said. to climb the job ladder, including Coast region is approximately unveiled its fi rst bi-annual “State Brewster said she hoped that the making “signifi cant and long-term 1,500 miles from the Rhode Island of Working Rhode Island” report report would encourage elected investments” in adult education College campus. Still, the campus in a symposium held in the Gover- offi cials and leaders from the pub- and job training. community bridged the geographi- nor’s Room at the State House on lic and private sectors to focus on The State of Working Rhode Is- cal distance and responded to Sept. 8. public policies that increase op- “This report highlights the need portunities for low skilled workers Continued on p 11 Continued on p 12 Page 2 — WHAT’S NEWS @ Rhode Island College, Oct. 3, 2005 WN Quotes… “Two years of careful planning and “We need to increase opportunities “It’s capable of playing the design work have resulted in one for low-skilled workers to climb the job gamut of emotions, from sad of the finest teaching facilities in ladder while providing supports for the and mournful to some of the New England, certainly for teaching large number of workers whose earnings happiest pieces.” business and economics.” leave them unable to meet basic needs.” – Jacob Stott ’00, describing – James Schweikart, dean of the School of – Kate Brewster M ‘98, director of the Poverty playing the harpsichord. [p 14] Management, on the newly renovated Alger Institute at RIC. [p 1] Hall, which opened this semeste. [p 1]

“ ? ! ” ʼ . , ; : “ ? ! ” ʼ . , ; : “ ? ! ” ʼ . , ; : “ ? ! ” orld at This regular feature of What’s News looks at the links between What's News W R the world and Rhode Island College. The story below was written by at Rhode Island College e I Cynthia Harakaly, a senior at RIC who received an award from the h C Ridgway F. Shinn, Jr. Study Abroad Fund to spend a year studying Editor: Jane E. Fusco T English literature at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Managing Editor: Rob Martin Information Aide: Pauline McCartney only to other cultures, but also to It also allowed me time to form my own culture and what it means lasting relationships with other stu- Photographers: Gordon E. There is a particular quote, to be American outside of America. dents; ones that I am sure will re- Rowley’64, Lance Gorton ’09 which circulates at nearly every The mosaic of cultures that made sult in the occasional trans-Atlantic Design Manager: Cynthia Page study abroad meeting at RIC: “No up the international program at visit rather than just an occasional M ’93 person knows his own culture who Queens was one of balance and postcard. Graphic Designer: Paul J. Silva ’03 knows only his own culture.” beauty where everyone accommo- As for the future, now that my Staff Writers: Having read the quote 10 times dated and assimilated accordingly, year abroad is behind me? I am or more before I even left for and in a way created the “melting looking for any other possible op- Lauren M. Mesale ’06, Alison Strandberg Northern Ireland, I often wonder pot” metaphor right before my very tions that will allow me this won- why it wasn’t until I arrived back eyes. derful opportunity again. that I really understood the mean- Spending an entire year away Through the course of this whole What's News at Rhode Island ing. seemed like a long time, espe- experience, from applications to College (USPS 681-650) is pub- Having spent a year at Queens cially to my parents, but I believe acceptance forms, I have learned lished by: University in Belfast, I found that it would have been very hard to en- that self-motivation is essential. my time in class was not the only gage in another culture had I been Being able to motivate myself to Rhode Island College intellectual interaction that I was away only one semester. It was not get out there and experience new Offi ce of News and Public Relations learning from. My relations with 600 Mt. Pleasant Ave. until the end of the fi rst semester things taught me a lot about other Providence, RI 02908 the other international students and that I felt comfortable in Belfast, cultures, but even more about my- local students were awakenings not and ready to explore other places. self. It is published monthly from August to June, except twice monthly in Call for Honorary Degree nominations October and March. Periodicals post- age paid at Providence, RI. The Honorary Degrees Commit- be appropriate. Forms are available Please forward all completed nomi- tee of the Council of Rhode Island online at http://www.ric.edu/honorary, nation forms, together with any sup- Printing: TCI Press, Seekonk, College has issued a call for nomina- or may be obtained in person at the porting documents, to Roberts 405 Mass. tions of individuals worthy of con- front desk in the President’s Offi ce, or send via e-mail to msmith@ric. sideration for honorary degrees to at the Alumni Offi ce in the Kauffman edu. All nominations must remain be awarded at the 2006 graduate Center, or at the Student Union Infor- POSTMASTER: confi dential throughout the process. Send address changes to: and undergraduate commencement mation Desk. Nomination deadline is Friday, Oct. What's News at ceremonies and other times as may 21 at 5 p.m. Rhode Island College Offi ce of News and Public RIC Vision Statement “comprehensive, RIC student wins Relations, 600 Mt. Pleasant Ave., Providence, RI 02908. challenging, achievable” NECIT award Deadline: Rhode Island College’s Vision with colleagues, students, and Lisa Rozzero of Warwick, a Deadline for submission of copy and Statement was incorporated into members of the broader RIC com- junior art education major at RIC, photos is noon the Thursday two weeks before publication date. the development of Plan 150, the munity. is one of eight College’s three-year strategic plan “The Vision Statement is meant winners of Telephone: 401-456-8090 adopted in June of 2004. Recently, to be a public commitment to those the First An- Fax: 401-456-8887 Dan King, vice president for aca- things that the RIC community nual Kingston- demic affairs, urged RIC faculty agrees constitute our most impor- Mann Student and staff to review it and “consider tant aspirations for this institution,” Achievement refl ecting on the degree to which said King. Award for you contribute to the fulfi llment of “It is a comprehensive and chal- Excellence one or more of its elements.” He lenging vision, but an achievable in Diversity also recommended that it be shared one,” he added. and Inclusion LISA ROZZERO Scholarship. RIC Vision Statement The award, As Rhode Island College continues to fulfi ll its historic commitment to edu- given by the New England Center cational access for all academically qualifi ed students, it will be widely recog- for Inclusive Teaching (NECIT), is nized for… for the essay “Teaching for Toler- – its excellence as a teaching institution where faculty-scholars continually ance,” which she wrote for her di- The next issue of inspire students to expand their minds, meet new levels of intellectual chal- versity class last semester. What’s News lenge, engage in a wide range of student development activities, and thought- The NECIT is a faculty-based will be Oct. 24. fully prepare for life after college; consortium of colleges and uni- – its importance as an intellectual, cultural, social, and economic resource versities focused on best practices, for the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; curriculum projects and teaching Story ideas are welcome. – its character as an open, caring community in which there is demonstrated scholarship related to diversity Call 401-456-8090 value for diversity, civility, and the principles of American democracy and among students. Rozzero will be civic engagement; and or email [email protected]. honored this month at the NECIT – its success in the identifi cation, recruitment, enrollment, and degree com- Conference at the University of pletion of both traditional and non-traditional students. Massachusetts Boston. WHAT’S NEWS @ Rhode Island College, Oct. 3, 2005 — Page 3 News anchor Frank Coletta to instruct new course with RIC’s Jane Fusco

broadcast examine what constitutes news and ing part in the course. Noting that journalist the differences between hard and the news business is constantly and news feature news stories. changing, he said “if I can keep anchor of Students will learn how to write one leg in the newsroom monitor- NBC 10’s press releases that effectively pitch ing those changes and the other leg Sunrise stories for ink and airtime. Inter- in the classroom to keep everybody show, will viewing, newswriting, researching, informed about those changes, I use their editing, proofreading, news pack- figure it’s good for them and also firsthand aging, production and news an- good for me because I’ll be work- experience choring are topics to be examined ing with them in the very near fu- to teach during the semester. ture.” students “There’s no script here, we’re Harriet Magen, chair of the com- JANE FUSCO AND FRANK COLETTA about news going to tell it all,” Fusco said of munications dept., said, “The pro- reporting, the course. Each class will include fessional experiences that Frank publishing and production. a guest from the media who works and Jane will be sharing in their ewsroom with a View, “This is a course unlike any oth- in the subject area being discussed special topics class will provide a new communications er previously offered at RIC,” said in that day’s session. a unique opportunity for our stu- dept. offering, is set to go Fusco. “It is an opportunity for “Their accounts will be actual, dents.” liveN next semester. The course will students to learn from the people their messages factual, and their Newsroom with a View debuts answer the five W’s of what actu- who work in the media and learn answers may have just as many spring semester 2006, with classes ally goes on in the newsrooms of what isn’t in the textbooks.” questions to get the students think- on Tuesdays and Thursdays from newspapers, magazines, and TV The class will trace the changes ing about news media from a dif- 2-3:20 p.m. in Alger Hall. and radio stations. in the print and broadcast news- ferent perspective,” said Fusco. For more information, con- Instructors Jane Fusco, veteran rooms from the 1960s to the pres- “So expect anything!” tact the Dept. of Communica- print journalist and the director of ent and look at the differences Coletta, a news reporter for over tions at RIC at 401-456-8270 or news and public relations at RIC, between print and broadcast news 25 years, is looking forward to tak- [email protected]. and Frank Coletta, award-winning writing and reporting. It will also

Doctoral preparation for the Filmmaker Lisa Delmonico looking for Everyday Happiness challenges of improving education Delmonico said. “Dr. Enos also She also BY does a lot of the research, writes values lessons Rob Martin, Managing Editor the script, conducts pre-interviews, learned about PH.D. IN EDUCATION etc.” audio, video, A program of the As a grad student at RIC, Del- pacing, music University of Rhode Island and or her current film project, monico produced the documentary and narration Rhode Island College for RIC grad Lisa Delmonico film Classical Differences - Reflec- working with talented professionals in M ’05 is in pursuit of tions on Class in Rhode Island. professors educational settings committed happinessF – where it’s found, who Heemong to research-based reform. Like that film, Everyday Happi- has it, and why. Delmonico, who ness is being made thanks to the Kim and Bon- * Students in this part-time program received an MA in media studies Rhode Island Council for the Hu- nie MacDon- SANDRA ENOS ald in RIC’s can maintain their current positions last semester, continues to build manities, which selected five local (all classes meet at 4 p.m. or later). her nascent film career with a 6- artists to share in a $35,550 grant multimedia lab. part television series, Everyday to explore the meaning of happi- But writing a lengthy, time-con- * Students in each entering class Happiness. The first episode will ness. In addition to Delmonico’s suming grant application for Ev- go through the program as part air Friday, Oct. 14 at 7:30 p.m. on TV series, there will be murals, eryday Happiness just as she was of a supportive cohort. Rhode Island PBS channel 36. exhibits and discussion groups preparing to screen Yellow Cottage * Students pursue specialization The first show, “Happy at Last,” on the subject. Hera Educational Projections, was nearly a show- areas to complement the investigates Rhode Island senior Foundation is Delmonico’s non- stopper. “I went to my RIC com- common core curriculum. citizens and happiness. Series profit sponsoring organization for munications professor, Dr. Valerie the project. Endress, and, crying, I said, ‘I * Students acquire advanced skills host Sandra Enos ’71, RIC associ- in multiple research methods. ate professor of sociology, leads Delmonico’s master’s degree can’t do it, it’s too much.’ ” a roundtable discussion with RIC film project, The Yellow Cottage Endress gave Delmonico the Information Session sociology professor Rachel Fil- Projections, was another project pep talk of her life. “She basically Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005 inson, head of RIC’s gerontology that contributed to her filmmaking resurrected my spirits and told me 9:30-Noon program, and University of Rhode expertise. The 10-minute produc- it could be done, it would be done, Island professor tion recalls the memories and that I could make it happen if I Forman Center Phillip Clark. experiences of former residents worked hard enough.” Auditorium, Classroom C Episode one of the State Home and School for People have asked Delmonico RIC, Providence will also fea- Children, the state’s orphanage if she is having fun producing a ture interviews that closed in 1979. TV show about happiness. Her an- * Explore the Program’s mission, at area senior The film was projected onto swer is “maybe five percent of the curriculum, and requirements. centers and the walls of the cottage that once time.” She is too immersed in the * Hear from current students and with former served as the dormitory for the or- project right now to enjoy the ex- discuss the program with them. All-American phanage, a structure still on RIC’s perience. Though her time is tight Girls Profes- east campus. (she is also development director * Obtain directions for an on-line application. sional Baseball Delmonico said her experience at Slater Mill), she’s finds it worth player Wilma LISA DELMONICO interviewing former residents of the effort. For program details and directions to Briggs. The the State Home helped her prepare “Whenever I see Dr. Endress I the RIC Forman Center please see: second show is scheduled for Nov. for Everyday Happiness. “I can joke with her, ‘It’s all your fault. www.ed.uri.edu/phd_program 18 and tackles the subject of immi- set up lights, audio, and a camera You told me to go for it, you For other information, contact: grants and happiness. and tripod in two minutes flat,” she wouldn’t let me give up!’” Simultaneously, however, Del- said. “I can ask open-ended ques- For Delmonico that’s the moral Dr. Betty Young monico is doing press for episode tions and remember to keep quiet of the story of happiness: “One URI Co-Director [email protected] one and preproduction research for lest my voice get on tape and make person can make a difference in episode three about faith worship- for difficult editing. I can impro- somebody’s life, like Dr. Endress Dr. John Gleason pers and happiness. “It’s tough. I vise if an interview takes a strange did for me and like Dr. Enos does. RIC Co-Director do researching, scheduling, tap- turn or curtail a meandering unre- And that’s what RIC means to me, [email protected] ing, budgeting, editing, publicity,” lated answer.” that’s what happiness is for me.” Page 4 — WHAT’S NEWS @ Rhode Island College, Oct. 3, 2005 NEWS FROM THE Foundation and Alumni Offices

ever, on Friday, Oct. 7, we look BY forward to welcoming the Class Alumni Golf Tournament 2005 of 1942 back to campus. And the Ellie O’Neill Class of 1954 will hold a recep- Director of tion at the President’s House on Alumni Affairs Thursday, Oct. 13 from 5-7 p.m. Both class members have been sent invitations. We have heard from many of our alumni regarding the new four-col- The Alumni Association hosted or format of the Alumni Magazine. another great golf tournament Our e-news has also increased our Sept. 26. The newly named event correspondence with our alumni – The Helen Lombardi ’40 Memo- near and far. If you are not on our rial Tournament – was wonderful, e-news list, please email us your with 104 golfers and over $10,000 address. We do not inundate you in sponsorships. with newsletters. As a matter of Once again we are grateful to fact we have made an effort to the Lombardi family for hosting keep the newsletters to about 10 a the tournament at the Cranston year. We do NOT share our email Country Club. Almost $12,000 addresses with anyone, not even was raised for our RICochet schol- our vendors who we have a part- arship program, which provides nership with. emergency financial assistance to Speaking of partnerships, we THANK YOU TO OUR 2005 GOLF DAY SPONSORS: (l to r) Joseph A. Medeiros students during the academic year have a new one for our credit card (Medeiros Financial Services, Inc.), Paul Bourget ’69 (Bourget and Associates, Inc.), and for other scholarships. For the program, U.S. Bank. You should Jim O’Donnell ’82, Esq. (Equity National Title Insurance Co.), RIC President John next few years a portion of the pro- have received a mailing notify- Nazarian ’54, Tony Ferrarao (Bank of America), Lisa Carbone (Siemens), and Michael ceeds from the greens fees, which ing you of the change. Please visit Lombardi, Cranston Country Club. Missing from photo are Paul Hackley ’85 (Liberty are donated by the family, will go our website to learn more about it Mutual), Norm Cantin ’75 (The TJX Companies), and US Bank. into an emerging endowment in (www.ric.edu and click on alumni). memory of Helen. For our Florida alumni and It is the wish of the family and snowbirds, mark your calendars the Alumni Association that Hel- for our visit. On Tuesday, Jan. 31, en’s leadership and loyalty to the Wileen Coyne ’55 will be host- College be remembered in future ing us at her club in Boca Raton. years. Thank you Michael, Maripat On Thursday, Feb. 2, Ennis Bis- and Diane. bano’55 will be sponsoring us at By the time this edition of the the Charlotte Harbor Yacht Club in newspaper hits your mailbox, Punta Gorda. Look for more infor- Homecoming 2005 will be behind mation on these events in the com- us (more in the next edition). How- ing months.

The Rhode Island College Foundation & Alumni Association present AWESOME FOURSOME: (l to r) Jeffrey Page ’78, Bernie Treml Long Term Care Planning… ’93, Madeline Stahowiak, and Ed Stahowiak ’99 enjoyed a day What You Need to Know of golf.

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City State Zip Clip & Send to: Home phone Email Development Offi ce TEE-MATES: (l to r) Dennis Sousa ’97, Philip Tow, Professor East Campus, Kauffman Center Emeritus Clyde Slicker, Associate Professor Jason Blank. Please respond by October 28. Space is limited. 600 Mt. Pleasant Avenue Providence, RI 02908-1991 Yes, I will attend the workshop. PLEASE CONSIDER You may also email [email protected] or call: 401-456-8827 to reserve RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE AS PART OF YOUR ESTATE PLANNING. Call 401-456-8827 for further information. Please note that there is no fee. WHAT’S NEWS @ Rhode Island College, Oct. 3, 2005 — Page 5 (NOT JUST) Academically Speaking Joining the march of the living

learned was the envy of many) and BY gave him a small box of Greenlite waterproof safety matches and Karen cupped the candle so that he could Surman Paley light it. When I stood up, I saw Asst. Professor that the stone adjacent to Loscice of English was “Minsk.” Only a month be- fore, I had learned from my nor- mally reticent and now deceased ood things can just happen father that both of my paternal without any planning or grandparents were from Minsk, intention. At the beginning Russia. of Gthe spring 2005 semester, I went Exhausted and over stimulated, into the Rhode Island Holocaust we would later board the bus to Museum on Elmgrove Avenue on tour the Warsaw Ghetto, visit the the East side of Providence to bor- headquarters of the Jewish resis- row some films for my Holocaust tance movement at Mila 18, and literature class. the Umschlagplatz where Jews The museum was organizing were once herded in preparation a contingent to join over 20,000 for deportation. people marching through the death The trip itinerary was packed, camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau on dinner was often at 10 p.m. and POLISH YOUTH AT THE MARCH OF THE LIVING. Holocaust Remembrance Day and the morning wake-up call came there were still some openings. at 6 a.m. or earlier. It was easy to The next day we returned to vors who joined us, Abe Zysberg, There I was. I would have to sleep through the hotel call and dual alarms. By the next morning Auschwitz-Birkenau for a tour traveled with two generations of find someone to cover my classes of several permanent exhibits. In his family. He had been imprisoned during the final week. I did. Thank we were on the train to Auschwitz (Oswiecim) to join with 22,000 Block No. 4 we found a wall of at Maidanek with his father and you, Claudine Griggs. When I human hair, 7,000 kilograms to be that is whose photograph the fam- asked her permission to join the others from all over the world. Just before the march began, the flash- exact, shorn from the heads of the ily immediately spotted in an ex- trip, my chair, Joan Dagle, said “By victims of the Nazis. It was found hibit in one of the barracks. Imag- all means.” card in my digital camera filled up and my off-market replacement in warehouses after the camp was ine seeing your great grandfather The Polish Lot airplane we were did not ease in well. liberated in January of 1945, pre- for the first time memorialized on scheduled to take out of JFK to packed and ready to be shipped to a wall in an extermination camp. Luckily the French-speak- Warsaw was delayed. I overheard German factories and the produc- Then there were four generations ing person I asked for help had a man with a wonderful Eastern tion of the textile “haircloth.” in that room, despite the Nazi in- an English-speaking companion European accent use the words tent at a Final Solution. and I worried needlessly that his German firms paid .50 marks “survivor” and “escape” and “Tre- for each kilogram of human hair. This was also Mother’s Day. blinka,” a death camp in Poland impromptu installation, in the rain, hadn’t included formatting. All the hair on display was gray Several of us had rented global cell most known as a site of resistance or white, what I had imagined to phones. I used mine a bit too cava- against the Nazis. Marchers held signs from Israel, Berlin, the Soviet Union, Brazil be the effect of suddenly realizing lierly and have the invoice to prove I eavesdropped, eased into his you were about to be exterminated. it. Inside a building that had been conversation, and asked if he used to test experimental gases would come to RIC to speak to my and trying to follow the guide’s Holocaust students and other inter- scientific explanation that the blue ested parties the following spring. blotches on the wall indicated that His name is Eddie Weinstein, and deaths had occurred in the room, Yad Vashem published his Holo- I wondered what it would be like caust narrative, Quenched Steel. should one of my sons call to wish I adopted him as my trip guide, me Happy Mother’s Day while maybe because of his accent or the I was in there. I left the group fact that my own father had just quickly and initiated the calls from passed away or because he escaped outside the gas chamber. from the Nazis three times. Packed While we did travel to five aboard a freight train, the deportees camps, we also visited several had trouble breathing. Realizing museums of Jewish history (in they were being sent to their death, towns where almost no Jewish life Eddie and his brother pushed their remains), including the Galicia way out through the people. “Better Museum in Krakow. The Traces of to be shot to death on the platform, Memory exhibit is the result of 12 we figured, than to die of suffoca- years of photographic ethnography tion.” conducted by Chris Schwartz in My fellow “pilgrims” and I flew celebration of the Jewish culture of all night, arrived in Warsaw the the Galicia area of Poland. next morning, boarded a bus and NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVOR EDDIE WEINSTEIN (KNEELING) AT It contains 150 large-format col- were taken immediately to the Tre- or photographs of the remains of blinka Concentration Camp, where A STONE IN TREBLINKA ENGRAVED WITH HIS BIRTHPLACE OF LOSCICE. Jewish life in the region. Schwartz Eddie had escaped the second time was especially pleased with the from the Nazis. I wandered with and many more places as we ac- Our tour guide said it was the ef- photo of a tombstone of a Catholic him to memorial stones, engraved knowledged the 60th anniversary of fect of Zyklon B, the poisonous woman who had saved the lives of with the names of the hometowns the liberation of the death camps. gas. Jews. Both a cross and a menorah of the victims. Eddie found the Among the 15,000 teenagers was Of the other striking moments on are engraved on the stone of Maria stone with his birthplace, Loscice. a very large contingent of Polish the trip that remain vividly in my Dzik’s grave. She represents one He had trouble lighting the Yahtzeit youth. I learned that the Holocaust memory, two occurred on the fifth of the many “righteous Christians” candle of remembrance due to the is now a required topic in the day as we toured the death camp who risked losing their lives to rain and his emotional state. I took schools of Poland. Maidanek. One of the many survi- Nazi terror for rescuing Jews. off my REI backpack (which I later Page 6 — WHAT’S NEWS @ Rhode Island College, Oct. 3, 2005 RIC Athletic News

FROM THE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR’S DESK

Gibbs and wish him luck in his new coaching N.Y. Anyone wanting to receive additional Donald E. Tencher endeavors as well. information can contact the baseball offi ce at 401-456-8258. Director • Congratulations to men’s soccer student- of Athletics athlete Kyle Teixeira for breaking the College’s Get well wishes go out to John Bucci, former all-time scoring record. Kyle also holds the custodian in The Murray Center and good guy record for most career goals. Kyle broke extraordinaire. Any student-athletes who would • The Rhode Island Domenico Petrarca’s record in a recent game like to send their College athletic family against MIT, a record that stood for 29 years. good wishes wants to welcome new to Mr. B. can • It is a pretty incredible feat to lead your send them to men’s basketball coach team in scoring. It is an even more incredible Bob Walsh. We are fortunate to have the former him at 99 Stella feat to lead the conference in scoring. Well, Drive, North Providence College assistant at the helm of a women’s lacrosse student-athlete Caitlin basketball program that continues to get better Providence, Gavin led the entire country in goals per game! RI 02911. Mr. with each season. I am confi dent in Bob’s Congratulations Caitlin! ability to lead the program to even greater Bucci, have a heights. I also want to thank Coach Jack Perri • The Rhode Island College baseball team will “lovely day.” for all of his efforts and wish him luck at Long be sponsoring a one-day trip in November to We are all Island University, and thank his assistant Jon the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, thinking of you. Kyle Teixeira shatters RIC soccer records

hey say records are meant came so close to it,” Teixeira says. to be broken, but Domeni- “Coming into this year, I knew I co Petrarca’s career re- was going to break it. It was just cordsT for goals and points in men’s a matter of when I was going to soccer at Rhode Island College do it. When I broke it, I think my were considered to be the excep- teammates were more excited then tion. When Petrarca ’77 walked off I was. Overall, it’s great to break the fi eld for the last time at RIC in a record that old and to know that the fall of 1976, he had amassed 62 you’re at the top of the list. It’s out career goals, 23 career assists and of the way now and we can con- 147 career points. The next closest centrate on making it to the [Little player to him in both categories East] conference fi nals and making was a teammate of his, Orlando it to the [NCAA] tournament.” Andrade ’76, who wrapped up his Teixeira currently has nine goals career a year earlier with 40 goals, and three assists for 21 points in 14 assists and 94 career points. six games. Of the 13 goals the Over the next quarter century, no team has scored, Teixeira has had RIC player had come within 21 a hand in 12 of them. As of the goals or 57 points of Petrarca’s writing of this article, Teixeira has seemingly insurmountable career 72 career goals, 19 career assists totals. and 163 career points in 65 career That was before senior Kyle games. Teixeira set foot on RIC’s soccer “I know it’s a cliché,” RIC men’s fi eld for the fi rst time in 2002 and soccer Head Coach John Mello started piling up goals and points says, “but Kyle is one of those rare at an incredible pace. As a junior players you can’t stop, you just in 2004, Teixeira broke Petrarca’s have to try and contain. Over his career goals record, by netting the career, we’ve played some tough 63rd of his career in RIC’s Little teams and Kyle’s always found a East Conference Men’s Soccer way to get a goal. You can throw Tournament, a 3-1 win over Plym- three players at him defensively outh State. all game and the second you give The Warren native came into him an opening, he’ll burn you. the 2005 season a mere fi ve points He’s got a great shot with a quick shy of Petrarca’s career point to- release.” tal. Teixeira cut the defi cit to two Mello, who recruited Teixeira with a goal and an assist in RIC’s after an All-American senior cam- 3-2 loss to SUNY Oswego at the paign at Mt. Hope High School in KYLE TEIXEIRA IN ACTION Flower City Soccer Tournament on 2001, isn’t surprised at the num- Sept. 4. Six days later at MIT on bers the forward has put up. “I three seasons and broke the points are nothing new to Teixeira, a Sept. 10, the hallowed record be- thought he was one of those special record in 62 games in three-plus three-time All-New England and came Teixeira’s own. In a 3-1 win players who could come in and seasons of work. The two are neck First Team All-Little East Confer- over the Engineers, Teixeira tied turn a program around right away. and neck when it comes to points ence selection coupled with two the record with a goal in the 13th We’ve counted on him since day per game, with Petrarca coming LEC Offensive Player of the Year minute and broke it with an assist one and he hasn’t let us down.” out on top by a small margin, 2.6 honors, he remains focused on on what proved to be the game- When you step back and look ppg to 2.5 ppg. Teixeira holds a team goals. winning goal in the 29th minute. at both Petrarca’s and Teixeira’s slight edge in goals per game at “The seven games we play in the For good measure, he added a goal accomplishments, they are stag- 1.10 gpg to 1.08 gpg. Teixeira conference are all that matters,” in the 84th minute. gering. Petrarca amassed his career broke Petrarca’s record for goals in Teixeira says. “Those are the big- “It was a big accomplishment totals in 57 games over the span of a season with 24 as a sophomore in and something I was looking four seasons. Teixeira broke the ca- 2003. forward to since last year when I reer goals record in 59 games over Although individual accolades Continued on p 7 WHAT’S NEWS @ Rhode Island College, Oct. 3, 2005 — Page 7 SPORTS Bob Walsh takes over as head Events Oct. 3 - 24 men’s basketball coach Rhode Island College has named deserving and distinguished coach. Men’s Soccer Bob Walsh as its new head men’s He will do a great job in preserv- Wed. Oct. 5 at Newbury 3:30 p.m. basketball coach. He takes over ing and continuing the rise of the Sat. Oct. 8 at Western Connecticut * Noon for Jack Perri, who stepped down Rhode Island College basketball Wed. Oct. 12 Bridgewater State 3:30 p.m. last month to accept an assistant program.” Sat. Oct. 15 Keene State * 1 p.m. coach’s position at Long Island Walsh got his start in college Wed. Oct. 19 at Mitchell 4 p.m. University. coaching when he served as an Sat. Oct. 22 at Plymouth State * 3 p.m. Walsh said, administrative assistant on Welsh’s Wed. Oct. 26 Connecticut College 3:30 p.m. “I am very ex- staff at Iona from 1994-1996 while cited about the working on his master’s degree in opportunity to mass communications and public Women’s Soccer lead the basket- relations. ball program at At San Diego, Walsh’s duties Wed. Oct. 5 Salve Regina 3:30 p.m. Rhode Island Sat. Oct. 8 Western Connecticut * Noon included developing an individual College. The workout system, working with the Wed. Oct. 12 at Bridgewater State 3:30 p.m. school contin- team’s guards and post players, Sat. Oct. 15 at Keene State * 1 p.m. ues to grow scouting upcoming opponents and Tues. Oct. 18 at Wesleyan 4:30 p.m. BOB WALSH and the athletic coordinating the school’s off-sea- Sat. Oct. 22 Plymouth State * Noon department is son improvement program. now established at a championship In two seasons at Iona, the New Women’s Tennis level, and that makes it a great time York native organized offi ce re- Mon. Oct. 3 Johnson & Wales 3:30 p.m. to get on board. I am thrilled to cruiting, coordinated scouting, Thurs. Oct. 6 at Clark 4 p.m. have a chance to be a head coach at handled the team’s travel itinerar- Sat. Oct. 8 at UMass Dartmouth * 1 p.m. such a great place.” ies and directed the Gaels’ study Tues. Oct. 11 Suffolk 3:30 p.m. Walsh, 33, spent seven seasons as hall and academic improvement Fri. Oct. 14 at Little East Championships + TBA an assistant coach with the Provi- programs. Prior to joining the staff Sat. Oct. 15 at Little East Championships + TBA. dence College basketball program. at Iona, Walsh served as a student The hard-working assistant assistant coach at his alma mater, joined Head Coach Tim Welsh’s Hamilton College. A 1994 gradu- Women’s Volleyball staff in 1998 after spending the ate, Walsh has a bachelor of arts in Tues. Oct. 4 Keene State * 6 p.m. 1997-98 campaign as an assistant sociology from Hamilton. Sat. Oct. 8 at Eastern Nazarene w/Clark 11 a.m./12:30 p.m. coach at the University of San Di- The Anchormen open the 2005- Thurs. Oct. 13 at Endicott 7 p.m. ego. Welch says, “Bob Walsh has 06 season at the Wheaton College Sat. Oct. 15 at Roger Williams w/Johnson & Wales been an integral part of the success Tip-off Tournament vs. Mt. Ida on & Salve Regina 11 a.m. at Providence College and is a very Nov. 18. Tues. Oct. 18 at Suffolk 7 p.m. Thurs. Oct. 20 Salem State 6 p.m. Sat. Oct. 22 at Little East Round Robin * ^ 1 p.m. Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Sat. Oct. 8 at Roger Williams Invitational 11 a.m. Sat. Oct. 15 at Eastern Connecticut Invitational 10:30 a.m.

* Little East Conference contest + Hosted by Western Connecticut ^ Hosted by Eastern Connecticut Be sure to check out www.ric.eud/athletics for updated scores and standings.

RIC baseball ready for 2005 Cardi’s Furniture Fall Classic

The Rhode Island College team will host Roger Williams baseball team is set to defend in a fi rst round game at 10:30 their back-to-back champion- a.m. at Anchorman Field at RIC. ships at the Cardi’s Furniture From there, the tournament will Fall Baseball Classic on Satur- shift to McCarthy Field in West day, Oct. 8. Warwick for the consolation and Head Coach Jay Grenier’s championship game.

want to host the Little East Tour- Teixeira nament at Rhode Island College Continued from p 6 for the fi rst time ever. It is hard to play Keene State at their fi eld. They know it well and their fans gest games you’re going to play.” get them into the game. We have The season is still a long way them here on our fi eld during the from being done and the team is regular season this year. Two years focused on a Little East Conference ago we played them here and al- Championship. Keene State, which most beat them, 3-2. If we can fi nished fi rst overall and defeated play them here in the tournament, RIC in the championship game of I think we have a good chance at the 2004 LEC Men’s Soccer Tour- beating them.” nament, looks to be the Anchor- The records and accolades will men’s nemesis once again. continue for Teixeira as he plays “We feel that anything less than out his fi nal season and if history a fi rst place fi nish will be a disap- is any indication, they will stand CAITLIN GAVIN LED THE NATION IN GOALS PER GAME, AVERAGING 5.8 PER pointment,” Teixeira adds. “We for a long time to come. CONTEST, DURING THE SPRING 2005 RIC WOMEN’S LACROSSE SEASON. Page 8 — WHAT’S NEWS @ Rhode Island College, Oct. 3, 2005

Passionate mix ofTango dance and Flamenco music fires semble Jarcamora and the tango group Ens- amble Nuevo Tango. In all, 24 brightly costumed dancers and popular musicians perform under the artistic direction of Antonio Najarro and Pascal Gaona. Cristi- na Casanova’s solo in ango Flamenco, a Bordao en oro (Em- saucy blending of broidered in Gold), in which flamenco, Spanish she unfurls a gold shawl, is a classicalT dance and Argentine highlight of the show. tango, will be served pip- Najarro also choreo- ing hot in a Performing Arts graphed and performs in Series presentation Monday, Tango Flamenco, which Oct. 17 at 8 p.m. in the Audi- opened in December of 2002 torium in Roberts Hall. in France. It has become Madrid’s Talent Danza com- hugely successful, gaining

the innovative Najarro children. For your con- continues to showcase venience, tickets can be his unique, contemporary purchased as follows: in style. advance via VISA or Mas- Najarro and Gaona are terCard by calling 401- also teachers and chore- 456-8144 from 10 a.m. to RIC ographers for the French 4 p.m. weekdays; online pany steps, glides and romps rave reviews ever since. figure skating federation. at www.ric.edu/pfa; or in through a sampling of some Compañia Talent Danza Tickets for Tango Fla- person at the Roberts Hall of the latest trends in Span- Ballet Español promotes new menco are $30, with dis- box office until the time

Arts and Entertainment ish dance, spurred on by two forms of Spanish dance in counts for seniors, RIC of the performance on the live bands – the flamenco en- each of their productions, as faculty/staff/students and day of the event. Spreading the Word: RIC presents Siegel’s Keyboard Conversations Rhode Island College presents virtuoso pianist New York, Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and Jeffrey Siegel as part of the College’s Performing has been a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Arts Series. Siegel performs fresh and stimulating London Symphony, Philharmonic and Philharmo- Keyboard Conversations® on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at nia, and the Moscow State Symphony. 7:30 p.m. in Sapinsley Hall in the Nazarian Center. As a conductor, Siegel has appeared with the He will return to RIC on March 6 and April 18. Pittsburgh Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Min- In celebration of the 250th anniversary of Mo- nesota Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Saint Paul zart’s birth, each of Siegel’s programs will include a Chamber Orchestra, as well as orchestras in France, major work of Mozart as well as the music of other Scandinavia and South America. He is at home in composers whom he inspired. the roles of conductor and pianist, directing the This month, Siegel will present “Mozart and orchestra from the keyboard. Siegel has served as Beethoven: Passion and Pathos,” which includes music director and conductor of the Mainly Mozart a fiery A Minor Sonata of Mozart paired with Festival in Arizona for 13 years. Beethoven’s brooding and tempestuous Sonata Pathatique. Tickets for Keyboard Conversations are $25, with RIC welcomed Siegel’s Keyboard Conversations discounts for seniors, RIC faculty/staff/students for the first time three seasons ago. These intimate and children. For your convenience, tickets can be concerts are an eye-, ear- and mind-opening experi- purchased as follows: in advance via VISA or Mas- ence. The program begins with an insightful and en- terCard by calling 401-456-8144 from 10 a.m. to tertaining prologue on the music and its composers, 4 p.m. weekdays; online at www.ric.edu/pfa; or in followed by a full performance of the works, and person at the Roberts Hall box office until the time ends with a question and answer session. of the performance on the day of the event. Siegel has performed with major orchestras in WHAT’S NEWS @ Rhode Island College, Oct. 3, 2005 — Page 9

RIC dance card full in October Text by Dante Del Giudice RIC Dance Company — October Concert features Adam Miller Dance Project Classical ballet gone awry may over 20 dance works by 10 cho- be a reasonable defi nition of con- reographers. The project made its temporary ballet, and perhaps de- New York City debut at the Joyce scribes the tension between ideal- SOHO in 2005, and plans are now ization and its deformity that makes being made for the ensemble to this genre our most properly “mod- participate in the inaugural event of ern” contemporary dance project. the Provincetown Dance Festival. Adam Miller is a choreographer Adam Miller began his profes- who transforms the classic into the sional career at Pennsylvania topsy-turvy rough and tumble of Ballet, and has been a principal our postmodern lives. Here we en- dancer with Pacifi c Northwest counter “noir” characters who use Ballet, Hartford Ballet and Les revolvers, “ballerinas” who dance Grands Ballets Canadiens. He has mini-marathons in an exercise danced major roles in most of the of delightful excess, or the waltz full-length classical ballets, includ- and its digitally-altered music as a ing The Nutcracker, Coppelia, metaphor for the driven and frag- The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, mented life in late capitalism’s grip. and A Midsummer’s Night Dream. One source of Miller’s highly Miller has toured with Cynthia original creativity surely comes Gregory and Mikhail Baryshnikov. from his Providence upbringing As director of the Ballet Project, he in the Adrian Hall universe of the spent two years at Jacob’s Pillow Trinity Repertory Company. Par- Dance Festival. ents Diane (one of the founding In 1999, Miller was appointed members and stage manager) and ballet master and later associate David (one-time managing direc- artistic director of Dance Connecti- tor), provided a critical storm of ADAM MILLER DANCE PROJECT cut. After founding Adam Miller activity, and Adam was witness to Dance Project in 2003, Miller a transformative brand of experi- tions. Winded 2 was created on suggesting the inner narrative of was a recipient of the Connecticut mental theatre that once brought two AMDP dancers who were in a relationship marked by inno- Commission on the Arts 2003 Art- national acclaim to Trinity. residence with Miller at Rhode cence; Fabiola 47, that takes its ist Fellowship Award. He is also This homecoming and perfor- Island College in August. Both ballroom theme from sampled and the artistic director for Eastern mance of the Adam Miller Dance dances present nonstop and near clipped Johann Strauss waltzes; Connecticut Ballet in East Lyme, Project (AMDP) with the Rhode break-neck complexity that require and a modern dance work by the Conn., and serves on the faculty of Island College Dance Company feigned nonchalance and some Cambridge-based Sara Sweet the Hartt School. will take place on Friday, Oct. 14 at tongue-in-cheek fl irtations. Rabidoux, artistic director of Hoi Tickets for the October Concert 8 p.m. in the Auditorium in Roberts Also on the program will be a Polloi. Her dance, A Minor Form with the Adam Miller Dance Proj- Hall. lyrical duet, … All tomorrow’s par- of Despair, has been described by ect are available at the Nazarian Miller has created a new work, ties, a subdued and romantic tone Dance Magazine as a “...searing Center Box Offi ce (401-456-8144). Winded 1, on RIC dancers and the poem with a sense of longing set snapshot of a nuclear family.” General admission is $12 with dis- AMDP will complete the program to Schubert’s Ave Maria; a child- Since its inception, the Adam counts for seniors, groups, and stu- with Winded 2 and repertory selec- like duet, Weights and Measures, Miller Dance Project has presented dents. For more information, call 401-456-9791. Rhode Island Dances Series – RIC Dance Co. New Works/World Traditions to perform entertains youth Melting into Glass The RIC Dance Company he RIC Dept. of and brief refuge, exis- Music, Theatre, tence between violence presents its and Dance is and folly, hope and de- annual Mini- proudT to present Melting spair. Concert into Glass by the Rhode Through pulsating Series for Island-based New Works/ rhythms, chants, song school World Traditions under and text, the perform- children Wednesday through the artistic direction of ers negotiate the need to Friday, Oct. 12-14 in the Michelle Bach-Coulibaly. preserve cultural memory Performances will be and to learn the lessons Auditorium in Roberts Hall. Thursday and Friday, of love. An original score Performances are at 10 Oct. 27 and 28 at 8 p.m. by cellist Ethan Philbrick, a.m. daily and offered in Sapinsley Hall in the guitarist Johnny Edwards, free to K-12 schools in Nazarian Center. saxophonist Paul Auster- Rhode Island and nearby Melting into Glass is a litz, and Malian percus- Massachusetts and movement theatre piece sionists Seydou Couliba- ly and Issa Coulibaly will Connecticut. by Bach-Coulibaly that Since the 1960s, these explores the sights and be fused with some of sounds of refugee texts Jimi Hendrix’s more ob- concerts have provided and how they embody scure music. young audiences with an mythic and real land- Michelle Bach- informative and enjoyable scapes. The dancers, Coulibaly is an educa- introduction to contemporary singers, actors and musi- tor, choreographer, and dance forms. cians bring to life a world dancer who teaches at For information and suspended in time – life Brown University. She in a state that alternates reservations, call Dante Del Giudice at 401-456-9791. between constant siege Continued on p 10 Page 10 — WHAT’S NEWS @ Rhode Island College, Oct. 3, 2005 Iris Klein exhibit centerpiece RIC Symphony Orchestra concert of October Series to feature Judith Lynn Stillman The October Series is an annual The multimedia artist, now Judith Lynn Stillman, RIC pro- the Billboard charts. fall event featuring art dept. lec- based in New York City, creates fessor of music and artist-in-resi- A Juilliard-trained musician, tures and events produced in con- a series of still-life images inhab- dence, will join conductor Edward Stillman has performed at major junction with the Faculty of Arts ited by a featureless life-sized rag Markward and the RIC Symphony music festivals and frequently been and Sciences. doll “peeled” off her body. Like Orchestra for the band’s opening heard on National Public Radio, This long-standing tradition a cartoon, we easily slip into this concert on Monday, Oct. 17 at 8 WGBH’s Morning Pro Musica and gets underway again Oct. 6 with constructed world for the female Classics in the Morning. She was a Austrian artist Iris Klein’s exhibit fi gure functions in these images as featured performer at the Grammy “Notes of a Body-Double.” The a placeholder that reveals invisible Awards celebration for cellist exhibit, which runs through Oct. cultural forces at play. The work Mstislav Rostropovich, and ap- 27, continues Klein’s inquiries into brings novel perspectives on inten- peared on the Academy Awards’ constructed photographic environ- tionality, subjectivity, and gazing Uniting Nations program in Holly- ments. into the photographic discourse. wood, Calif. The October Series’ theme “New She is the winner of 18 national Media Interpretations of Femi- and international competitions, and ninity,” will be explored through has collaborated with members of speakers, performance and fi lms the New York Philharmonic, the about the many ways that feminin- Boston Symphony, concertmasters ity manifests itself in contemporary of the Philadelphia Orchestra and culture. many other ensembles and artists. Markward is the recipient of The series was organized by the 2005-06 Martha and Ronald Katherine Rudolph, associate pro- Distinguished and Sustained Schol- fessor of philosophy; Alexandra arship and Creativity Award. He Broches, former gallery director; has also received the RIC Alumni and Richard R. Weiner, dean of the JUDITH LYNN STILLMAN Faculty of Faculty of Arts and Sciences; with the Year support by the College Lecture Award, Iris Klein. Baum (Tree) II, 2002-04. Series and the Arts and Sciences p.m. in Sapinsley Hall in the Naz- the Rhode Selenium-toned silver print, 5” x 5.” Dean’s Offi ce. arian Center. Island Stillman will be featured in Choral Di- October Series events. All are free and open to the public. Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto rectors As- No. 1 in G Minor. The concert sociation’s Oct. 5 program will also include Alex- Choral Theatre: Only a Woman/Cathy Williams: Oct. 18 ander Borodin’s overture to the Conductor opera Prince Igor and Johannes of the Year Buffalo Soldier Film: Rosenstrasse Brahms’s monumental Symphony Award, Melodie Lynn Clark Thompson Margarethe von Trotta No. 4 in E Minor, his last work in and the EDWARD MARKWARD 10 a.m. in Helen Forman Theatre in the 11 a.m. in Bannister Gallery the symphonic form. Rhode Is- Nazarian Center Renowned for her energetic tem- land Civic Chorale and Orchestra’s Oct. 19 perament and always-present vi- 2nd President’s Award for “his dedi- Oct. 6 Film: Killing Us Softly vaciousness, Stillman has dazzled cation and pursuit of excellence.” Lecture/Reception: Iris Klein Jill Kilbourne audiences in the United States, Markward has guest conducted (Lecture) 5 p.m. in Bannister Gallery 12:30 p.m. in Bannister Gallery Europe, Latin America and the the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the (Opening reception) 7 p.m. in Bannister Middle East. Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and Gallery Oct. 20 Her extensive recording career the Philadelphia Oratorio Choir, Lecture: In a League of Her Own: A Con- has many highlights. The fi rst disc among others. In addition to con- Oct. 11 verstation with Wilma Briggs she recorded on the North Star ducting and teaching at RIC, he is Lecture: Women Who Resisted the Nazis 11 a.m. in Bannister Gallery Music label has sold over 200,000 music director of the Civic Chorale copies, while her most recent CD and Orchestra and conductor for Karen Paley, RIC English Dept. won an Indie Award. Her SONY Festival Ballet Providence. 11 a.m. in Bannister Gallery Oct. 20 Classical recording with double General admission is $7; seniors Lecture: Females, Shemales and Their Grammy award-winner Wynton and non-RIC students, $5. RIC stu- Oct. 12 Reinvention in Almodovar’s Cinema Marsalis was a Top Ten smash on dents, faculty and staff, free. Lecture: Divided Beauty: The Aesthetics Wesley Weaver, SUNY Cortland of the Superego Versus that of the Id: Or Noon in Craig Lee 105 the Lost Battle of the Classical Paradigm each piece with pulsating rhythms, Ingeborg Harms Oct. 24 Dance moving images, chants and spoken 12:30 p.m. in Helen Forman Theatre in Lecture: Interpretation of Femininity Continued from p 9 word poems. All performances are the Nazarian Center Richard Feldstein, RIC English Dept. highly entertaining, educational, and participatory experiences 4 p.m. in Bannister Gallery directs courses related to Mande Oct. 13 that build a sense of community performance, experimental move- through dance, theater and music. Lecture: Body Doubles: Iris Klein in Con- Oct. 25 ment theatre, and composition. As This Rhode Island Dances Series text Film: Aimée and Jaguar the director of New Works/World concert is sponsored in part by the Deborah Bright, Rhode Island School of Max Farberbock Traditions, Bach-Coulibaly has Rhode Island College Department Design 2 p.m. in Bannister Gallery developed over 30 new works for of Music, Theatre and Dance and is 4 p.m. in Bannister Gallery in Roberts the stage that are inter-active pro- part of an ongoing RIC series fea- Hall Oct. 26 grams incorporating ritual play, turing Rhode Island dance artists Film: Marianne and Juliane drumming, storytelling, call and re- and organizations. The series was Oct. 17 Margarethe von Trotta sponse singing, and dances in and established in 1990 and has pro- out of West African tradition. Dance: Senior and Vigorous 4 p.m. in Bannister Gallery duced 40 performances and gener- Aimée Dowling Dance Recital Emerging as an important East ated over $54,000 in artistic fees Coast cultural and performing arts 10 a.m. in Fannie Helen Melcer Dance Oct. 31 paid to local artists. company, New Works/World Tra- Studio in the Nazarian Center Music: Witches’ Brew Concert ditions hosts the highest caliber Alec Redfearn & The Eyesores and Greg of musicians, actors and dancers Tickets for Melting into Glass Oct. 18 Abate, Monsters in the Night, and Liana devoted to the research and de- are available at the Nazarian Lecture: The Image of Women in Spanish Stillman, Judith Lynn Stillman, artistic velopment of new performance. Center Box Offi ce (401-456-8144) Cinema: From Dictatorship to Democracy director Working with contemporary and and general admission is $14 with Wesley Weaver, State University of New 8 p.m. in Sapinsley Hall in the Nazarian traditional artists from various cor- discounts for seniors, groups, and York (Cortland) Center ners of the world, New Works’ per- students. For more information, call 401-456-9791. 9:30 a.m. in Craig-Lee 102 formances and workshops infuse WHAT’S NEWS @ Rhode Island College, Oct. 3, 2005 — Page 11

‘Suite Sounds’ of the RIC Poverty percent. Continued from p 1 • Rhode Island was the only New England state to experience no Wind Ensemble increase in the state’s real median The RIC Wind Ensemble, con- Robert Russell Bennett. Its fi ve land report found: wage between 2000-2004; in fact, ducted by Rob Franzblau, associate movements capture the energy, • Rhode Island weathered the it remained stagnant. professor of music, provides an nostalgia, and youthful optimism 2001–02 recession remarkably • Private, employment-based well, gaining jobs while neighbor- evening of fi ve Suite Sounds from of early 20th century America in a health coverage has declined mark- ing Massachusetts and Connecticut around the world on Tuesday, Oct. style of edly. In 1979-81, three quarters of lost jobs. Since 2003, employment 18 at 8 p.m. in Sapinsley Hall in the music workers enjoyed such coverage, has grown by 2.6 percent in Rhode Nazarian Center. similar compared to 57 percent in 2001-03. Island, compared to 0.8 percent in Baker’s Dictionary of Music to the • Unemployment and underem- Connecticut and –0.2 percent in defi nes “suite” as “a set of pieces golden ployment in Rhode Island remain Massachusetts. in various idealized dance forms.” age of stubbornly high among minorities, • Rhode Island was one of the The RIC Wind Ensemble’s perfor- Broad- the young and the less educated. hardest-hit states in the nation by mance includes suites by Shosta- way. • Working minority families are the North American Free Trade kovich, Darius Milhaud, Kurt The at much higher risk of poverty than Agreement (NAFTA), losing more Weill, Robert Russell Bennett, and RIC the rest of the population; 37 per- jobs to globalization than 44 other a piece by David Dzubay. Wind cent of working minority families states. The concert begins with two Ensem- have incomes below 200 percent of • Growth in service and con- pieces by Shostakovich, Prelude ble was the federal poverty level. ROB FRANZBLAU struction employment in recent in E-fl at Minor, a two-minute, estab- • Housing costs have been years has more than offset the loss- dark and powerful piece, and Folk lished in soaring in recent years and the es to manufacturing, and Rhode Dances, an energetic and melodic 1969 by John Pellegrino, professor Providence area is today among the Island’s economy now closely mir- work, capturing the spirit of the of music, who retired in 2003. In most expensive metropolitan areas rors that of Massachusetts. Russian people. 1972, Francis Marciniak assumed in which to support a family. • Rhode Island workers enjoy Darius Milhaud’s Suite Francaise leadership of the Wind Ensemble Citing the report’s fi nding of a greater protection against econom- was written at the close of World and conducted the group until his stagnant median wage in Rhode ic instability than do workers in War II in 1945 as a tribute to the passing in 1996. Current conduc- Island, Ellen Frank, senior econo- many other states. The state mini- composer’s homeland. It uses sev- tor Rob Franzblau was brought on mist at The Poverty Institute, said, mum wage is the sixth highest in eral French folksongs, each refl ect- board in fall 1997, and begins his “Clearly the benefi ts of recent the nation; the percentage of work- ing a different character and mood, ninth year at the College this fall. growth aren’t reaching workers in ers covered by union contracts, at sparkling with wit and charm. “The Dept. of Music, Theatre, the lower half of the income scale.” 17 percent, is the 10th The Suite from The Threepenny and Dance at Rhode Island Col- highest in To help prevent those work- Opera is a collection of songs from lege has worked hard to build the nation; Rhode Island’s unem- ers from falling further behind, the opera by Bertold Brecht and and maintain the highest artistic ployment benefi ts, which replace Brewster called for increasing the Kurt Weill. It is a jazz-infl uenced standards in all of its productions an average 45.7 percent of prior minimum wage, ensuring access piece from Germany, the period be- – and its musical ensembles are earnings, are among the highest to health benefi ts and unemploy- tween World Wars when the coun- certainly no exception,” said Fran- in the nation; and, because of the ment insurance, and aggressively try struggled to establish a working zblau. “We are very proud of the state’s Medicaid program, Rhode addressing the lack of affordable democracy in the face of economic level of musicianship that students Island is tied with Wisconsin for housing in the state. malaise and the bitterness of mili- display in the chorus, orchestra, the second lowest percentage of The State House symposium, tary defeat. jazz band, and wind ensemble.” uninsured children in the U.S. which was attended by leaders Myaku, written in 1999, the only General admission to the RIC • Workers in the bottom half of from the public, private and philan- piece in the concert that is not a Wind Ensemble’s performance of the income distribution have real- thropic communities, also offered suite, is a contemporary work and Suite Sounds is $7, and $5 for se- ized few benefi ts. Workers at the an opportunity to discuss initiatives is a tour de force for the wind band, niors and non-RIC students. The top of the wage scale have fared underway in Rhode Island. challenging for the performers and performance is free to RIC stu- far better than those at the bottom; “This dialogue was invaluable audience alike. dents, faculty, and staff. For more since 1979, wages for workers in because it helped everyone to un- The fi nal piece in the concert is information, call the box offi ce at the bottom decile (tenth of work- derstand where the state is headed Suite of Old American Dances by 401-456-8144. ers) grew only by 1.8 percent, with workforce development and while those at the top grew by 45.5 adult education,” said Brewster.

technology capability. Alger Hall A multi-purpose auditorium Continued from p 1 seats 275. It has an advanced sound system and dual computer projection on motorized screens. “Two years of careful planning from the inside out, literally,” said and design work have resulted in James Schweikart, dean of the one of the fi nest teaching facili- School of Management, referring ties in New England, certainly for to the unusual construction method teaching business and economics,” used to rebuild the hall. said Schweikart. Architects William Kite and As- Prior to its reconstruction, Alger sociates fi rst had the interior of Al- Hall held the academic depart- ger removed, except for the eleva- ments of accounting and computer tor. The building was then reduced information systems, economics to a foundation, two end walls and and fi nance, management and a roof with a second fl oor slab and technology, and the labor studies supports. Contractors completed all program. Administrative offi ces the major interior renovations be- for accounting, bursar, grant ac- fore building the exterior walls of counting, publishing services, pay- the building. roll, purchasing, and the student From the outside, workers on loan offi ce were also located there. the inside could be seen through Alger Hall, built in 1958, was A high-tech classroom in Alger Hall. what looked like invisible walls. one of the six original buildings a total of 31 years as principal of Construction took 24 months to on the new Rhode Island College tion in 1958 and changed its name the normal school and president of complete. campus. It had 30 classrooms, two from the Rhode Island College of the College, giving him the longest The classrooms have overhead art workrooms, six music practice Education to Rhode Island Col- tenure of any of the institution’s computer projection, and DVD, studios, a lecture room, labs, con- lege. chief executives. Alger is credited VCR and cable television capa- ference areas and study rooms. At The building was named for with implementing the College’s bilities. Instructors’ podiums are the time, the cost to construct all John Lincoln Alger, the fi rst per- fi rst graduate degree program and equipped with Smart Technology’s six buildings was $5.6 million. son to be named president of the the construction of the Henry Bar- Sympodium 250s that allow for pro- The College added liberal arts Rhode Island College of Education nard School laboratory school on jection of illustrations on monitors. programs when it moved to the after its normal school status was campus. The entire building has wireless current Mt. Pleasant Avenue loca- changed to a college. Alger served Page 12 — WHAT’S NEWS @ Rhode Island College, Oct. 3, 2005 Mentoring program for teachers The Rhode Island Writing Proj- ect, in conjunction with the Rhode Looking Back... Island Department of Education, will offer a mentoring program beginning this fall to support new Here at What’s News, we will feature historical photos from the College’s past. Please go to your scrap- educators in their fi rst three years books and send us photos with as much information as possible. All photos will be handled carefully and of teaching. The program will carry returned to sender. Send to: Rhode Island College, Offi ce of News and Public Relations, Kauffman Center, three graduate credits and is open Providence, RI 02908. to all language arts teachers at the elementary, middle and secondary levels. Teachers who enroll in the pro- gram will become part of a support group, hear expert teachers share their best strategies and techniques, become part of a listserv and have instant access to advice and counsel from other teachers. They will also be invited to spend a professional day visiting the classes of one of the co-facilitators. Jennifer Cook, assistant professor of English and secondary education at RIC, is heading the program. The cost of the program is $400, which can be paid by participants or may be contributed by the district. Mentoring funds allocated to the district can be used for this purpose. The rest of the cost is being funded by the state Department of Educa- tion. The program will run on 10 Satur- days from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Rhode Island College. Dates are Oct. 22, WHERE WERE YOU BACK IN ’62? In anticipation of coverage of Homecoming ’05, which took place on the Nov. 5, Nov. 19, Dec. 17, Jan. 14, weekend of Oct. 1 and which will appear in the next issue of What’s News, we present a Homecoming photo Jan. 28, Feb. 11, March 4, March 18, and April 1. from the fall of 1962. Does anyone recognize these participants? If so, contact the Offi ce of News and Public Call 401-456-8668 or visit www. Relations at RIC. ric.edu/riwp for more information.

ter/Whipple Hall corner, all high chologists and health care counsel- Katrina, that we will offer them Katrina pedestrian traffi c areas on campus. ors, organized a volunteer mental the open and warm hospitality that About 100 students and campus health team to assist hurricane sur- they were accustomed to down Continued from p 1 employees volunteered to staff the vivors with the emotional trauma South,” said Obach. collection booths. Check donations of living through a natural disaster Members of The Rhode Island were also sent to the President’s to those survivors who were re- Writing Project and the RIC Writ- the destruction left by Hurricane Offi ce in Roberts Hall. located to the Rhode Island area. ing Center found a creative way Katrina with a campus-wide col- “From the moment the collection Rhode Island has taken in more to raise money for the most vul- lection drive and aid to those relo- tables began accepting contribu- than 100 hurricane evacuees pres- nerable victims of Katrina – the cated after the storm. tions, people have been digging ently being housed at a Middle- children. The group held a writing “One of the strongest character- into their pockets and purses,” said town military housing complex. marathon called “Writing Up a istics of the Rhode Island College Michael Smith, assistant to the The faculty members on the Storm” at the Providence Public community has been its compas- president and one of the organizers team are all from the Dept. of Library’s main branch on Empire sion for those who are in need,” of the drive. “Rhode Island College Counseling, Education, Leadership St. on Saturday, Sept. 17. The said Rhode Island College Presi- is not known as a wealthy campus, and School Psychology in RIC’s event raised funds for the Louisi- dent John Nazarian, responding but it’s clear that we have an abun- Feinstein School of Education and ana Association for the Education to the overwhelming desire of the dance of compassion.” Human Development. The team of Homeless Children and Youth. RIC campus community to provide Professors also announced the working with relocated survivors Participants formed small groups assistance in the aftermath of the drive and collection locations in includes Charles Boisvert (licensed and walked throughout Providence, hurricane. classes that week and urged stu- psychologist – anxiety and stress spending time at sites where they During the week of Sept. 12- dents to contribute. management), Krista Cournoyer felt inspired to write before re- 16, the College held a “Dollars Amritjit Singh, professor of Eng- (licensed psychologist – grief, grouping to share their writing. The for Disaster” campaign to collect lish, took up collections in his three trauma, and loss counseling to event raised $650 dollars. contributions to help support relief classes with the promise to match children and youth), Monica Darcy RIC also granted emergency ad- efforts of the American Red Cross the student donations. He and his (licensed mental health counselor mission to college students in the and the Salvation Army. Campus students raised over $200 for the – family counseling especially hurricane stricken regions. Isaac collections totaled $11,782. cause. those with young children), and DePina of Barrington, a fi lm stud- The American Red Cross re- Fifth graders from the Henry Mifrando Obach (licensed psy- ies student, was about to begin his ceived $8,713 and the Salvation Barnard School, the laboratory chologist – child and adolescent sophomore year at the University Army received $3,069. Check do- elementary school on campus, or- counseling, crisis intervention). of New Orleans when the hurricane nations were urged to include an ganized a hurricane relief drive for Obach, a former resident of struck. He fl ed New Orleans and allocation to either agency in the students, faculty, staff and parents, Covington and New Orleans, La., stayed with his roommate’s family notation line. Checks without nota- and collected $1,650 that was add- worked as a school psychologist in Baton Rouge before returning tions were divided equally between ed to the campus collection. for the St. Bernard Parish Schools to Rhode Island and enrolled at the the two agencies. The campus ministry also col- (one of the most devastated areas College. Nazarian and representatives of lected $660 for the Catholic Chari- in Louisiana) and received a doc- There are 34 RIC alumni known the College community personally ties hurricane relief fund in a sepa- torate from Tulane University in to be living in the hurricane strick- delivered the collections to both rate effort that began as soon as New Orleans. en regions. organizations on Oct. 5. the news of the hurricane damage “As someone from Louisiana “We have caring students, fac- Collection boxes were set up spread. who is now a resident of Rhode ulty, and staff who will make con- at the Murray Center, the Student Four members of the RIC fac- Island, I want to convey to my tributions in many ways,” Nazarian Union plaza, Roberts Hall/Art ulty, who are also licensed psy- brothers and sisters displaced by said. Center, and the Nazarian Cen- WHAT’S NEWS @ Rhode Island College, Oct. 3, 2005 — Page 13 FOCUS ON Faculty and Staff

Faculty and staff are encouraged to submit items about their professional endeavors to What’s News, Office of News and Public Rela- tions, Kauffman Center, or email them to [email protected]. Richard Ke- Faculty of Arts and Sciences and pean Integration Studies in Bonn, tion on adolescent literacy but with ogh, director professor of Germany. Jackson presented two an exclusive focus on ELLs. On of the Office political sci- additional papers, “Immigration June 24, 25 she delivered one of of Research ence, is partic- Policy and the Social Exclusion of six TESOL (Teachers of English and Grants ipating in the Minorities: British Securitization as a Second Language) Academies Administration Quinn Dicke- in Comparative Perspective 1948- designed for English as a Second and professor son Seminar 2003,” and “The Embeddedness of Language (ESL) and English as a of biology, will Series in Po- Criminal Justice Systems: Incar- Foreign Language (EFL) profes- receive the Na- litical Science ceration of Immigrants in Germany, sionals on Strategies for Teaching tional Council at Suffolk France and Britain 1970-2001,” English Language Learners with of Univer- University. In both coauthored with Parkes, at the Special Needs. All TESOL 2005 RICHARD KEOGH sity Research March, Wein- annual meetings of the Society for Academy offerings took place at Administrators’ Award for Distin- RICHARD WEINER er presented a the Study of Social Problems and George Washington University in guished Service. His selection was talk, “Critical the American Sociological Associa- Washington, D.C. In June, she was based on “sustained and distinctive Sociology of Law: Genealogy of tion respectively, in Philadelphia in also a speaker at the Dual Language contributions to NCURA that, in a Normative Institutionalist Tradi- August. Training of Trainers Summer Insti- turn, have had a positive effect on tion.” He will return this academic Raquel Shapiro ’60, professor tute held in the Chicago area. This the entire research community,” said year. In June, Weiner presented a at the Henry Barnard School and event was attended by language NCURA president Jerry Fife. The paper, “The Aporias of Harold Las- Ronald G. Shapiro (manager of educators from across the U.S. award will be presented during a ki and Carl Schmitt: The Possibility technical learning at IBM) present- and included Two-Way Immersion luncheon at the organization’s 47th of Pluralism and the Social,” at a ed “Prepar- (TWI) Program coordinators, staff annual meeting on Oct. 31. meeting of the International Politi- ing for Your developers and teachers. Recently, William Aho, professor emeritus cal Science Association Research Career with her chapter on “Including Students of sociology, chaired a panel discus- Committee on “Democracy, Social- a Psychology Who are Linguistically and Cul- sion last semester at a University of ism and Capitalism.” Degree” at turally Diverse” was published in Miami conference entitled “Calypso George Ladd, assistant professor the 76th An- the book Including Children with and the Carib- of psychology, has coauthored the nual Meeting Special Needs: A Handbook for bean Literary articles “Health and psychosocial of the Eastern Educators and Parents, edited by Imagination.” correlates of disordered gambling Psychological Diane Schwartz and published by The discussion, in older adults” that appeared in Association in Greenwood/Heinemann Publishing “Policy, Poli- the American Journal of Geri- Boston, Mass. Group. tics and Prom- atric Psychiatry, and “Problem RAQUEL SHAPIRO in March. Jianhong Liu, professor of so- ise in Calypso: and pathological gambling are as- They also pre- ciology, recently published two the Eric Wil- sociated with poorer mental and sented “Games To Explain Think- papers – “Crime Patterns during the liams Era,” fea- physical health in older adults” in ing, Learning, and Information Market Transition in China” in the tured Dr. Hollis the International Journal of Geri- Processing” at the Massachusetts British Journal of Criminology, and Liverpool, also atric Psychiatry. He also authored School Counselors Association an- “Predicting WILLIAM AHO known as the “Anxiety” for the Handbook of Hu- nual conference in Hyannis, Mass., recidivism in calypsonian man Development for Health Care in May. a communitar- Chalkdust, a seven-time winner Professionals. Thomas Schmeling, assistant ian society: of Trinidad and Tobago’s coveted Frederic professor of political science, pre- China” in the Calypso Monarch Award. The con- Reamer, pro- sented a paper International ference was co-sponsored by the fessor of so- entitled “That Journal of Caribbean Literary Studies Program cial work and Dreadful Class Offender at the University of Miami and The member of the of Evils: Su- Therapy and Historical Museum of Southern state’s parole preme Court Comparative Florida. review board, Counterma- Criminology. David Blanchette, associate pro- was selected joritarian- JIANHONG LIU Recently, Liu fessor of marketing; John O’del, from 1,400 ism in Cases was invited assistant professor of management; listener sub- Invalidating to make the Plenary Speech at the Michael Casey, associate professor missions as a State Laws” 14th annual conference of Chinese of management; and Stephen Ra- FREDERIC REAMER guest essayist at the annual Society of Criminology in Guiyang, mocki, professor of marketing; had meeting of the China, held July 29 to Aug. 1. The on NPR’s re- THOMAS an article published in the Creativity American Po- title of his speech was “Empirical cently revived This I Believe series. SCHMELING Research Journal, Vol. 17, Num- He recently spoke on the adminis- litical Science Foundation of Modern Criminol- bers 2 & 3, 2005, entitled “Aerobic tration of justice in America. Association in Washington, D.C. ogy.” Liu was also invited to pres- Exercise and Creative Potential: Im- Pamela Irving Jackson, direc- held Aug. 31-Sept. 4. ent the paper “Evaluation Research mediate and Residual Effects.” This tor of the Nancy Cloud, professor of spe- and Restorative Justice” at the In- publication Justice Studies cial education, has been participat- ternational Consortium of Criminal was the result Program and ing as a member of a 16-person Justice Reform in Shenzhen, China, of three years professor of advisory group of national experts held Aug. 19-21. of extensive sociology, has in a Center for Applied Linguistics Carol Bennett-Speight, dean work that was had her article, project based in Washington, D.C. of the School of Social Work, made possible “A Contextual and funded by the Carnegie Cor- will receive through a Analysis of poration of New York. The project a Commu- grant from the the Integration focuses on adolescent literacy for nity Service RIC faculty of Muslims in English Language Learners (ELLs). Award from research com- Four Western The goal of the Rhode mittee. The PAMELA IRVING Societies,” the project Island Mi- STEPHEN RAMOCKI study showed JACKSON published is to develop nority Police that people’s in The Dis- a policy and Association cognitive creativity is significantly course of Sociological Practice, practices (RIMPA) on higher following bouts of aerobic Volume 7, Spring/Fall 2005. The document for Oct. 29 at the exercise as compared to days when paper is coauthored with two Ger- policy mak- association’s no exercise is undertaken. Further- man scholars, Peter Zervakis and ers and school CAROL BENNETT- dinner at the more, this increased creativity tends Roderick Parkes, with whom Jack- administra- SPEIGHT Marriott Hotel to maintain itself for at least two son worked during the summer tors similar to in Providence. hours following the exercise. of 2004, when she was a research the Reading Bennett-Speight will also be the Richard R. Weiner, dean of the fellow at the Center for Euro- NANCY CLOUD Next publica- keynote speaker at the event. Page 14 — WHAT’S NEWS @ Rhode Island College, Oct. 3, 2005

ike many aspiring musi- FACES RIC mid-18th century, “the generation of cians, Jacob Stott majored o Leopold Mozart,” he said, referring in music at RIC, with a f to the father of the famous com- concentrationL in piano. poser. But he plays the harpsichord. Stott said that according to most And masterfully at that. dictionaries, the harpsichord is the Stott is the music director for predecessor of the piano, but play- the Holy Name of Jesus church in ing the harpsichord is quite differ- Providence, the only church in the ent FROM playing the piano. state that still celebrates the Latin “Piano technique is based mostly mass, where he directs the Schola on the weight of the arm and the Cantorum in singing Gregorian use of the wrist. Harpsichord, how- chants and plays early Baroque ever, is based on contact with the and Renaissance music for pa- keys, and a weightless arm, every rishioners. He recently started a nuance being conveyed by careful harpsichord concert series at the articulation of the fingers,” he said. church, called Basically Baroque, “The piano technique is like the collaborating with flautist and RIC kneading of dough and harpsichord grad Jessica Carrera ’03, which, he technique is letting your fingers do said, is “catching on.” He is also the walking. Also, the harder one continuing his study of harpsichord presses on a piano key, the louder music under renowned instructor JACOB STOTT ’00 PROVIDES ACCOMPANIMENT ON THE HARPSICHORD. the sound. On a harpsichord, doing Peter Sykes. that would produce a harsh tone Why the interest in such an un- was saving for a harpsichord. He on the page was not always exactly and a thumping sound.” usual instrument? bought one while a sophomore at how the music was played,” he ex- “You can’t listen to it with mod- “It’s capable of playing the the College. It found its way into plains. ern ears,” he adds. gamut of emotions, from sad and the basement of his parents’ home, Stott said he finds his research to As for learning his craft, he viv- and immedi- be a fun part of the process, learn- idly remembers his days of practic- ately became a ing about the politics, social cul- ing the harpsichord late at night in topic of conver- ture, intrigue and gossip going on a small closet-size room in Roberts sation for visi- during the composer’s time. Hall, where his friends would tors and repair “I like getting into the mindset of sneak around him and turn off the people who the composer and the social setting lights while he was playing. would see it. of the time,” he said. Then there was the time a pipe Mrs. Stott He found learning to play such burst in his practice room at RIC. would simply an unusual instrument was also The door was locked and he had reply that her enjoyable. At RIC, he studied the the only key with him…in St. son was in his harpsichord under Stephen Mar- Louis. own world, torella, and piano under Judith Does he take a lot of ribbing though Jacob Lynn Stillman. He has high praise about his instrument of choice? was most will- for both instructors. Of course. ing to give a “(Martorella) taught me a great After all, when your role mod- musical history deal about not only the technical els are composers who have been lesson to any- aspects of the harpsichord, but also dead for more than 200 years, or one who asked. the stylistic differences. By stylis- the kooky harpsichord-playing mournful to some of the happiest And it’s the history of the instru- tic differences, I mean by country character of Lurch from The Ad- pieces,” he said. ment that impressed Stott as much and time period,” he said. dams Family television series of Stott first heard a recording of as the sound. Though he had several solo the 1960s, people will make com- harpsichord music in the eighth Since no recordings of original piano performances at RIC, he ments, he said. grade and knew then that he was harpsichord music exist, Stott re- mostly accompanied other students But that’s just fine with Stott, destined to play. It had a mesmer- lies on extensive research of the during concerts and recitals. He who says he plays for the love of izing effect, he said. composer to interpret how the in- and two other students even started the music, and knows the secrets of When other teenagers were strument was meant to be played. a Viennese Trio, playing Viennese good playing, but won’t tell. He’d earning money to buy a car, he “Unlike a piano, what was written chamber music from the early- and rather have you listen.

P.E.P. AWARDS: On July 27, the Preparatory Enrollment Program announced the recipients of its summer awards during ceremonies in Sapinsley Hall in the Nazarian Center. The recipients (at left), seated from left, are William Baker, Elizabeth Enel-Cruz, Omaris DelRosario, Lissandra Alvarez, Scarlett Delgado, Jessica Cepin, Rosemarie Rivera and Joseph Teaway. Standing from left are Yessenia Siguenza, Stephanie Wagner, Thanh Nguyen, Jasmine Padilla, Brenda DeLosSantos, Ysatis Peters, Sandra Goncalves, Myra Lundi, Ashley Green, Shani Monteiro, Kevonna Benton and Katiusca Ogando. WHAT’S NEWS @ Rhode Island College, Oct. 3, 2005 — Page 15 13 retiring faculty members granted emeritus rank RIC President John Nazarian announced on May 25 that 13 RIC faculty retirees were promoted to emeritus status: • R. Carol Barnes, associate professor emerita of anthropology • Charles W. Bohnsack, professor emeritus of biology • Mary L. Burke, professor emerita of nursing • John F. Custer, professor emeritus of theatre • Robert W. Elam, professor emeritus of music • Willard F. Enteman, professor emeritus of philosophy R. CAROL BARNES ANGELA MURPHY • Robert E. Hogan, professor emeritus of WILLARD MARIANO English ENTEMAN RODRIGUES JR. • William R. Holland, professor emeritus of educational leadership • Rebecca G. Lassan, professor emerita of nursing • Peter R. Moore, professor emeritus of economics • Angela C. Murphy, professor emerita of nursing • Mariano Rodrigues Jr., professor emeritus of mathematics JOHN CUSTER ROBERT ELAM • Barry Schiller, professor emeritus of WILLIAM HOLLAND BARRY SCHILLER mathematics Eva Kendrick stages several ‘Shining’ performances Shining, a song cycle with music by Boston native who has authored six musical Le Bistro Café. Her chamber RIC grad Eva Kendrick ’97 and text books of prose and poetry. opera Emily, about poet Emily by poet Kathleen Spivack, premiered The Rhode Island premiere of Dickinson, was performed in 2004 in July at the Longy School of Music Shining took place Sept. 10 at St. at the Longfellow National Park in Cambridge, Mass. Martin’s Church in Providence. It was in Cambridge as part of its annual The seven-song work, about a also performed Sept. 11 at Herring summer concert series. Also last year, woman’s journey through life – from Run Arts Fest, Middleborough she wrote the score for a short film, love to divorce to single parenthood (Mass.) Public Library, and on Sept. Realizing Glen, which won a National – features multiple female voices and 23 at Septemberfest in Cambridge, Film Challenge Award. orchestration for flute, bass clarinet, hosted by the Longy School of Music. Kendrick holds a bachelor’s degree violin, cello, piano, and percussion. Kendrick is a composer of in vocal performance from Rhode The poems of Shining are taken contemporary classical and theatrical Island College. She is currently from two collections of poetry, The works. In 2003, the American studying with John Howell Morrison Break-Up Variations and Swimmer Composers Forum awarded at the Longy School of Music in the Spreading Dawn, both by Kendrick a Subito grant for a staged for a master of music degree in EVA KENDRICK Spivack, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated production in Los Angeles of her composition.

Nursing exam prep program R.I. Attorney General visits outlined at RIC Henry Barnard School

EXAM EXPERTISE: Donna Ignatavicius (second from right), a nationally known author/ educator in nursing education, presented her program, “Preparing for the New NCLEX- RN Examination” to the RIC nursing dept. last May. Also pictured are (left to right) faculty members Nicole Smith, Karen Hetzel and Patricia Quigley, and Jane Williams (department chair). The program is designed to assist educators in the development of appropriate multiple-choice test items that stimulate and evaluate critical thinking. It also focuses on the development of a test plan based on the NCLEX master blueprint and use of test procedures to determine test item revisions. The benefits of this program are expected to extend into the future, helping to further improve the results BOOK TALK: Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch shares a story with third of NCLEX examinations and to maintain the status of RIC’s highly regarded nursing graders at Henry Barnard School as part of Reading Week at the school last May. program. Ignatavicius appeared at the College at the invitation of the nursing dept.’s Students were also invited to dress as a favorite character from a book, and some Faculty Outcomes Committee. were in costume for the reading. Page 16 — WHAT’S NEWS @ Rhode Island College, Oct. 3, 2005 The Back Page

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW THE U.S. CONSTITUTION? Jen Swain M ’01, adjunct faculty member, dressed as President James Madison, puts junior Eugenia Fernandes, on the hot seat with some trivia about the Constitution on September 21. The interviews on the campus Quad were in recognition of Constitution Day, which was SUPER ART: Mike Macauley, a senior programmer at RIC, came in second place in the Sept. 17. People’s Choice award at the Sixth Annual Providence Street Painting Festival, co- sponsored by the Graphic Communications Industry of Rhode Island and the Providence Rotary. The event was held at Kennedy Plaza in Providence on Sept. 17. What Color Is My Parachute? bus Wednesday, Oct. 19 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Mall between Gaige and Adams Event open to all students

Sponsored by The Career Development Center

The “Parachute Bus,” a fully-loaded 40-foot RV, complete with the “Para- chute Event Team,” will be visiting RIC on its cross- country trip to 40 colleges and univer- sities.

The team is com- prised of four recent col- lege graduates who are stopping by college campuses around the U.S, running competitions and raffles, handing out infor- mation, answering stu- dents’ questions, and hold- ing events to help prepare students for life during and after college.