UNLV Magazine UNLV Publications Spring 1994 UNLV Magazine Barbara Cloud University of Nevada, Las Vegas Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/unlv_magazine Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Curriculum and Social Inquiry Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Repository Citation Cloud, B. (1994). UNLV Magazine. In S. DiBella (Ed.),, UNLV Magazine, 2(2), 1-17. Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/unlv_magazine/40 This Magazine is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been brought to you by Digital Scholarship@UNLV with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this Magazine in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. 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It also explains why we were recently named a National Flagship University. \~ For more information call NATIONAL FLAGSHIP 895-3011 or 800-334-UNLV. UNIVERSITY AA-EEO on the cover: features UNLV alumna Gingef, Bruner on the Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall stage. Photo 5 The European Witch-hunts by James Romano. UNL V historian Elspeth Whitney explores the reasons fm' the deaths of tho1tsands of Western Europeans dur­ ing the 111itch·h1mts ofthe 16th and 17th centuries. BY BARBARA CLOUD Editor: Suzan DiBella Assistant Editors: Diane Russell , 8 A Nation's Disgrace, Susie Greene A Family's Honor Art Director: john Hobbes Contributing Editor: Tom Flagg UNL V professor Ed Wakayama intends to make Contributing Writer: Barbara Cloud certain that what happened in the World War II lllustrator: john Hobbes Japanese internment camps is not forgotten. Photographers: Tom Flagg, BY DIANE RUSSELL john Hobbes, james Romano Publications Manager: Donna McAleer 13 Ready, Willing, and More Than Able Director, University News and Publkations: Les Raschko The challenges that UNL V graduate John Michael Vice President for Development and Stuart faces have inspired him to spread an impm'­ U niversity Relations: Lyle Rivera tant message abottt the l'eal1neaning of ability. BY TOM FLAGG 16 In Tune with the Times, UNLV Munuu Association Officers On Time with the Tunes President: Pamela Hicks ('70) l st Vice Pres.: Randy Campanale ('77) On anygiven day, UNL V alumna Ginger 2nd Vice Pres.: Russ Petersen ('76) Bruner might be found on the air at KNPR., at Treasurer: Kevin Page ('87) a concert playing hel' tuba, or at a photo shoot Secretary: Rafael Villanueva ('84) Member-at-Large: Art jimenez ('85) behind the camera. Past President: Greg McKinley ('80) BY SUZAN DIBELLA Alumni Association Board Members Bruce Ford ('86) Ralph Piercy ('74) 20 Rewarding Determination Adam Keith ('89) Bob lbther ('80) joe King ('72 & '85) Lynn Shoen ('74) The Jean Nidetch Women's Center Scholarship Marcia Koot ('68) ll1y Tuntland ('89) reJVards stttdent-ncipients for their perseverance Pamela Moore ('77) jim Zeiter ('87) and tenacious spifit. !larry Shinehouse ('69 & '70) BY TE RRY BASKOT BROOKER departments UNLV Mngn:.inc is published two times each 2-4 News academic year in September and March by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 Maryland 14-15 Calendar Parkway, Box 451012, Las Vegas, NV 89 154· 10 12. UNLV is an AA/ EEO institution. 22-23 Class N otes SPRING /994 + NEWS NEWS 101 Best Values Names UNLV "Flagship University" Arriaza Attends Iceman Conference "Nestled in a sun-drenched desert that have been UNLV has also been ranked in the UNLV antl1ropology professor "One of the most important tl1ings valley surrounded by purple mountain featured in other top third of 113 western colleges and Bernardo Arriaza recently attended a tl1at occurred at tl1e conference was that ranges, just minutes away from one of national publica­ universities rated by U.S. News and prestigious conference on tl1e Iceman, a certain agreements were reached on how the world's most exciting resort areas, is tions and seem World Report)s annual America)s Best 5,000-year-old mummified body fOLmd tl1e Iceman will be cared for," said America's youngest major university­ N ATIONAL to have "a sense Colleges 1994 College Guide. frozen in the Italian Alps, and on other Arriaza, who is an expert on the mummi­ the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. FLAGSHIP of institutional UNLV was ranked 35th, according mummies found in various regions of fication practices of an ancient South tl1e world. American people called the Chinchorros. Regardless of age, UNLV's ascendancy UNIVERSITY momentum." to Robert Morse, director of data to national status has been remarkably He writes analysis for the guide, placing it in the Arriaza (featured in tl1e Autumn He added that an international panel was swift." that UNLV's second quartile of regional universities 1993 issue of UNLV Magazine ) was one formed at tl1e conference tl1at will chan­ - 101 of the Best Values "exceptional leadership" has concen­ in the West. of 40 international scholars invited to nel research projects on tl1e Iceman and in American Colleges and trated on building resources for teaching Previously, UNLV was listed for attend tl1e expense-paid conference at oversee its preservation. Universities, 1994 edition and learning, and he praises UNLV's four consecutive years in the guide's the University oflnnsbruck. Scholars at "Naturally, they will try to accommo­ programs in fields such as business, eco­ "up-and-coming regional university" the conference shared information on date research needs while limiting dam­ UNLV has been named one of 34 nomics, humanities, hotel administra­ category, a classification the guide no conserving, presenting, and sn1dying age to the Iceman as much as possible," National Flagship Universities in the tion, education, and exercise physiology. longer uses. 1'.1 botl1 natural and artificial mttmmies. he said. "What makes tl1e Iceman w1ique 1994 edition of the book 101 ofthe Best The Iceman, which is considered a is that tl1ere are not many 5,000-year-old natural mummy because both its flesh mumn1ies of Europeans. Most mummies Values in America)s Colleges and Univer­ UNLV anthropologist Bernardo Arriaza sities, published by d1e Center for Col­ Alumni License Plates Now Available and bone were preserved in the ice, was are from otl1er regions of tl1e world." lege EnroLLment Studies, according to briefly examined by tl1e scholars. Viewing At the conference, Arriaza presented Looking for one more way to show go to the university. The $25 annual David Wilson, the book's editor. of the mummy is very limited because a paper on his research of the Cl1in­ He is currently writing an article your pride in being a UNLV alum? renewal fee will also go to UNLV. The UNLV first appeared an10ng tl1e the delicate preservation techniques be­ chorro's mummification practices, com­ about the 8,000-year-old Chinchorro Special license plates are now avail­ money the university collects from the book's 101 coLLeges and universities in ing used require tl1at it remain frozen, paring them to the preparation of the mumn1ies tl1at has been accepted for pub­ able for UNLV alumni through plates will be divided the 1993 edition. Arriaza said, adding that his own viewing dead practiced by other ancient cultures lication sometime tl1is year by National evenly between the ath­ "The Best Value National Flagship the state Department -~-----•••••r of tl1e mummy lasted only one minute. of the coastal regions near the Andes. Geographic Magazine. f.1 of Motor Vehicles. NEVADA letic department and Universities are those that we feel have • Featuring the the Alumni Scholarship national stature," Wilson said. The list of Rebel mascot and the Endowment Fund. 34 includes such institutions as UCLA, 153-DJW UNLV logo on a gray "This is a great way UNLV Alumni Association Offering Six Educational Tours UC-Berkeley, Duke, Boston College, background, the license to promote your school the University of Michigan, Penn State, The UNLV Alumni Association is $789 per person. plates will provide revenue and help with the grow­ $500, tl1ey can spend June 6-10 seeing Purdue, and Notre Dame. for both the athletic department and for ing scholarship program - and at the offering six educational tours in the The tl1ird group will head for Soutll­ tl1e new MGM Grand Hotel and Theme "When you mention these universi­ the UNLV Alumni Association. same time show some school spirit," coming year, all of them open to anyone east Asia May 2-ll to stay in the Park, the Excalibur, Luxor, Treasure ties anywhere in the country, tl1ey are who would like to go along. The cost of a special UNLV plate is said Pam Hicks, president of the Alumni world-famous Regent Hotels in Hong Island, and The Mirage, with a visit to known," he said. "People are familiar Organized by the association's travel Kong, Bangkok, and Singapore, with a $60 for the first year, $25 of which will Association. 1'.1 Laughlin. with them coast-to-coast, and they have and tour director, Claude Rand, an In September, a group will set out national respect." emeritus professor of hotel administra­ for London and the British countryside.