Justice in the Balance

INSIDE > LIGHTING THE WAY: CREIGHTON’S STRATEGIC PLAN ILLUMINATES BOLD VISION FOR THE FUTURE P32 S PRING 2018 • • S PRING 2018 Volume 34 Issue 1 34 Issue Volume JUSTICE IN THE BALANCE Representing Detainees at Guantanamo Message from the President Springing Forward e are rapidly approaching the end of the spring semester, with com- mencement ceremonies set for May 12 — featuring Mae Jemison, MD, the first female African- American astronaut, as speaker. It has been a busy and fruitful year, highlighted by numerous accomplishments, robust initia- Wtives, engaging events and lectures, and planning for our future. We added eight new academic programs in the past year, many of which are interdisciplinary in nature and include the areas of business, health care, and our Ignatian tradition. The first cohort of accelerated nursing students at our Phoenix campus began classes in January. There is a critical need for nurses and other health professionals in the Southwest, and we are excited to collaborate with our health care partners in Arizona to address the issue. We have launched our Creighton Global Scholars Program, with tremendous interest among incoming freshmen for the fall of 2018. We had more than 180 applicants for 20 spots in the program. Read more about this program on Page 7. This year marks the 140th anniversary of the University’s founding. As part of the cele- bration, we are hosting the Creighton 140 Presidential Lecture Series. Chuck Hagel, former U.S. senator from Nebraska and secretary of defense, delivered the first of these lectures Follow me: on April 3. A link to the webcast is available on the Office of the President website. Other lectures are being planned for the fall. @CreightonPres With approval from our Board of Trustees, we are diligently implementing our strategic CreightonPresident plan, focusing on goals related to three major themes: Achieving academic excellence, thriv- ing in our mission, and engaging the world. We highlight the plan beginning on Page 32. We also continue to make significant strides in the important areas of diversity and global education. Christopher Whitt, PhD, joined us in February as our inaugural vice provost for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion (see Page 9), and we recently announced the criteria for our 2018 Creighton Global Initiative Awards, which fund faculty and student projects and programs. The Jesuit Community at Creighton and the Office of the President have funded 11 four- year, full-tuition scholarships for underserved students beginning with this fall’s incoming class. The scholarships are named for the Rev. John Markoe, SJ, a beloved Creighton Jesuit and early civil rights activist. Finally, with a heavy heart, we said goodbye to a wonderful friend, colleague, and Jesuit, with the passing of the Rev. Richard Hauser, SJ, on April 3. Fr. Hauser served at Creighton for more than 45 years in various capacities, and established the popular candlelight Mass on In a new video campus. His warmth, passion, determination, and sense of humor will be greatly missed. series, Creighton experts explore the I wish you and your families a safe and pleasant summer. As always, you remain in timeless Scriptures my prayers. and breathtaking illuminations found in the Saint John’s Bible — the first handwritten, hand-illuminated Bible Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, SJ commissioned by a President Benedictine monastery in over 500 years. Visit creighton.edu/about/ faith/saint-johns-bible. 1 CREIGHTON SPRING 2018 Volume 34 Issue 1 Voices PUBLISHER Creighton magazine is published Heard on Campus in the spring, summer and fall by Creighton University, 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, “If there is really one thing I “This has been an incredible NE 68178-0001. would like you to remember, year for women. Women PRESIDENT it’s this: Climate change have been demonstrating, Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, SJ can reach crisis levels in a advocating, working and we CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING OFFICER few decades. In fact, all the have found ourselves again at Jim Berscheidt students who are sitting here, a turning point where all of us Contents SR. DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS I predict this is the major have a role in promoting and Glenn Antonucci problem you are going to achieving justice and equality.” THE OPIOID CRISIS: DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS A CREIGHTON Rick Davis be facing. So, it’s an urgent SHARON ISHII-JORDAN, PHD, professor emerita problem, requiring urgent of education, one of three honorees at Creighton’s PERSPECTIVE ASSOC. DIRECTORS OF COMMUNICATIONS annual Mary Lucretia and Sarah Emily Creighton The national nightmare is up Cindy Murphy McMahon solutions.” Awards Luncheon. Sheila Swanson close and personal for two VEERABHADRAN “RAM” RAMANATHAN, professors — and friends WRITERS PHD, popularly known as “the pope’s climate Amanda Brandt — who are among many at scientist,” during a campus lecture hosted by the “God challenges us to break Adam Klinker Creighton Global Initiative as part of the Planetary Creighton fighting the U.S. Emily Rust Emergency Lecture Series. the silence and to break opioid epidemic. ILLUSTRATION through anything or anyone 26 Doug Chayka who stands in the way of Adam Cruft “The work I have tried to do in David Pohl these last 63 years, I see your truth and justice. We must CONTACT be people who stay awake, Address all mail to University University doing the same Communications and Marketing, work. I saw a problem when I but also people who break Omaha, NE 68178. Postmaster: the silence.” Send change of address to Creighton was a teenager and I said that Magazine, P.O. Box 3266, Omaha, becoming a lawyer, I might be THE REV. STEPHEN THORNE, director of the NE 68103-0078. Office for Black Catholics of the Archdiocese able to do something about it.” of Philadelphia, keynote speaker at Creighton’s annual Unity Prayer Luncheon during Martin WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND? THE REV. FRED GRAY, civil rights icon, attorney We are eager to hear from you — whether Luther King Jr. Week. and pastor, keynote speaker for the School of on the cover it’s feedback on a story or a special Law’s 2018 Lane Lecture. memory from your Creighton days 32 38 22 Please send your letters to the editor to JUSTICE IN THE BALANCE LIGHTING THE WAY FROM BLUEJAYS TO SJS [email protected] or via A Creighton law alumnus and a group of postal mail to. As Creighton celebrates Two brothers have added Creighton students are on the defense team Creighton University its 140th year, it looks another bond to their for Guantanamo detainees. U.S. Marine University Communications and to boldly living out relationship, on top of both Marketing Corps Maj. Jason Wareham, JD’07, calls the Attn: Creighton Magazine its mission over the having graduated from 780480 California Plaza next decade through a Creighton. They also are assignment “one of the most important legal Omaha, NE 68178-0480 Let’s Get Social dynamic strategic plan. now both Jesuits. battles going on in the U.S. today.” CREIGHTON MAGAZINE’S PURPOSE Creighton magazine, like the University @Nunez_Ed14: I don’t think that @larkscience: I am so grateful itself, is committed to excellence and dedicated to the pursuit of truth in I can talk enough about the to @Creighton — Every day I all its forms. The magazine will be amount of love and community apply what I learned and am the comprehensive in nature. It will support the University’s mission of education that exists between friends here educator I am today because of through thoughtful and compelling feature articles on a variety of topics. at @Creighton which makes this the Jesuit model, my professors, 4 Creighton 12 By the Numbers 18 Lesson Plan 43 Alumni Notes It will feature the brightest, the most place truly unique. And I’m so and the energy of such a warm A Creighton professor offers stimulating, the most inspirational Connections thinking that Creighton offers. The grateful for it every day. campus #considergiving 14 Health Briefs advice on making your yard a 52 Creighton magazine also will promote Creighton, favorite for migrating monarch and its Jesuit, Catholic identity, to #GoJays @CreightonAlumni. 8 Jesuit Gardens Conversations a broad public and serve as a vital butterflies. @ayushi_kaul: There are currently Don’t be afraid of silence, 16 Dialogue Dental Dean Mark Latta, link between the University and its constituents. The magazine will be some pretty awesome people @CreightonPres: Happy New say two Creighton Jesuits. Athletic Director Bruce DMD, reflects on the state 42 Impact guided by the core values of Creighton: shoveling around campus in this Year! 2018 marks 140 years Unplugging may be the best Rasmussen gives behind-the- of oral health in the U.S. the inalienable worth of each individual, way to listen to your life. scenes insights into March A scholarship recipient finds and Creighton’s new dental respect for all of God’s creation, a special horribly icy/windy weather just so since @Creighton was founded. Madness and more through his Service & Justice Trips have concern for the poor and the promotion school building. of justice. us students can get around safely Please join me in celebrating role with the NCAA. set her on her life’s mission to improve health. Copyright © 2018 by and I think that deserves a big #Creighton140. Creighton University shoutout @Creighton. creighton.edu 2 Creighton SPRING 2018 3 Creighton Connections UNIVERSITY NEWS “The things we’re especially good at, the Ryans transformed Creighton’s we do very well,” Mankerian-Stem says. athletic facilities through their sup- “We have opportunities for students port of the Wayne and Eileen Ryan that aren’t found elsewhere, along with Athletic Center, the Wayne and Eileen small class sizes and an EDGE office that Ryan Athletic Training Center and the supports students all the way through Championship Center.

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