CAN WE IMAGINE PEACE— And then, perhaps, create it?

PRESIDENT-DESIGNATE ERIC KALER: Liberal arts are “the reason for a university.”

AT 94 SHE’S FIERCE, HONEST, AND A PUBLISHED POET What happened when alumna Lucille Broderson returned to CLA...

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> Sustaining excellence with reduced public resources

Our long, snowy winter has finally drawn to are expanding their internationalization efforts. Features a close, and the burgeoning colors of spring The academic job market for Ph.D.s across signal a long-awaited renewal. Spring in the the humanities continues to contract, despite 8 Eric Kaler named New U of M President Midwest also brings the threat of violent strong student interest in these fields, and we Chemical engineer believes the liberal arts are the reason for storms, but some of the greatest storms are in danger of losing a generation of scholars a university. around the country center on the funding of and teachers whose research otherwise would education, especially public higher education, have forged new paths in philosophy, history, 8 CLA Retools for the 21st Century and strategies state governments are pursuing literature and culture, and religion. Can CLA maintain academic excellence in the face of fiscal to balance their budgets. We read almost challenge? Our blue ribbon committee says yes. The University’s daily of looming deep reductions to higher During the past year, the CLA 2015 Planning education in several states and of proposals for Committee—a group of faculty, staff, and incoming president is impressed. The Magazine of the College of Liberal Arts University of Minnesota dramatic increases in tuition. Public research students I charged in December 2009 to provide By Mary Pattock Spring 2011 universities are, of necessity, re-examining their counsel about the long-term future of our DEAN The success of our University depends on James A. Parente, Jr. priorities and devising new ways to fulfill their college—has been meeting. Its report, issued 10 Can We Imagine Peace? educational, research, and outreach missions late last fall, garnered much attention across maintaining a vibrant College of Liberal Arts Imagination—one of the liberal arts’ most valuable tools—allows human beings CHIEF OF STAFF Jennifer Cieslak with fewer resources from states whose citizens the college and University for its eloquent as its strong foundation. Without the liberal to transcend present realities and shape the future. Three scholars investigate arts, our deepest knowledge—of ourselves, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT and economies they were founded to serve. exposition of the centrality of the liberal arts to fundamental components of peace and envision new ways to make it a reality. Mary K. Hicks every great university. our relationships to other cultures, the values By Kate Stanley; introduction by Mary Pattock EDITOR AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF MEDIA & by which we live, and the political, social, and PUBLIC RELATIONS religious institutions that shape our world— Mary Pattock The report outlines steps we must take to ensure that would be sorely wanting. DESIGN With signature programs we will Kelly MacWilliams the liberal arts at Minnesota excel and distinguish ourselves You, our alumni and supporters, are the best Departments C0NTRIBUTING WRITERS will continue to thrive. It Mary K. Hicks ambassadors for the core value of a liberal arts Kelly O’Brien among our peer institutions. emphasizes the need for James A. Parente signature undergraduate, education. Please join with us in promoting 1 Sustaining excellence with reduced Mary Pattock public resources Kate Stanley graduate and research the liberal arts in Minnesota and beyond. The future of our society and our world depend on By Dean James A. Parente, Jr. PHOTOGRAPHY programs, in which we Everett Ayoubzadeh whether we can make visible the myriad ways Darin Back The changing landscape of American higher will excel and by which we will distinguish Trish Grafstrom education—indeed, of higher education ourselves among peer institutions. It calls for in which the liberal arts illuminate the most 2 FIELD of INQUIRY Kelly MacWilliams complex issues of our time and provide a sure Profs ask audacious questions Patrick O’Leary globally—affects all colleges and universities, building greater connections with external path for resolving them. Where PTSD lives in the brain COPY EDITING both public and private, albeit in different ways. communities and partners in accordance with Tessa Eagan Of the many fields represented at a university, our public mission. (You can read more about Raptors ate our ancestors! Kelly O’Brien Rosenstone to lead MnSCU the liberal arts, especially the humanities, the report in this issue of Reach.) PRINTING Old letters from half-mad lovers Bolger Printing arts, and humanistic social sciences, are being

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“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The Audacity of QuestionS New—QR codes!

Scan one of the quick response The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Questioning established patterns of thought: that is codes in this issue with your the audacious core of the liberal arts. The Winton Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun Chair fosters such audacity, bringing world scholars camera phone and…voilà…! An Hyperactivity in the composite brain image on the to CLA whose work “challenges cultural paradigms left indicates PTSD. The composite on the right shows The frumious Bandersnatch!” electronic magic carpet whisks brain activity among people who are recovering from and represents important breaks from dominant you to a poetry reading, a the disorder. —Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland patterns of thought.” classroom, a web page. Currently in residence under the program are Researchers Discover two such bold thinkers: renowned Somali novelist We’re experimenting with them Site of PTSD Lewis Carroll could well have been summon- and playwright Nuruddin Farah, and philosopher as a way to make this print ing primeval body-wisdom when he penned William C. Wimsatt. During their three-year Brain Activity his famous nonsense poem “Jabberwocky.” magazine become a portable residencies they will engage with CLA students and researchers, and deliver public lectures. stage where exciting ideas and First the Minnesota research team discovered It turns out that an early primate, the events from CLA come to life. they could use a special kind of brain scan to Proconsul ape—thought to be an ancestor Farah’s works were identify, with 95 percent accuracy, people with of both humans and chimps, actually was a barred in his native post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Now, as meal of choice for the “jabberwocks” of 16 Just download a QR code reader, Somalia under the they recently announced in the Journal of Neu- to 20 million years ago: the raptors. Siyad Barre regime, scan the code, and watch. ral Engineering, they can actually watch a brain which was known as it experiences PTSD: it becomes hyperactive An archaic mammal called the creodont in the right temporal lobe, which is responsible for its human rights Don’t have a smartphone? apparently enjoyed a good supper of abuses, and he was for memory. Proconsul, too. Visit the web address provided. forced into exile after writing a novel QRs are just faster and Psychology professor Brian Engdahl and his Kirsten Jenkins, a fifth-year Ph.D. anthro- about cross-cultural more convenient. medical school colleague Apostolos Georgo- pology student, uncovered this chapter of love. In Somali and poulos, M.D., used Magnetoencephalography pre-human family history while digging on English, he explores (MEG) to measure magnetic fields in the brains Rusinga Island, Kenya, which, during the themes ranging of 80 people with PTSD; 18 of them were in Miocene age, was a reforested area on the from the patriarchal remission, and 284 were healthy. Many of the side of a large volcano. clan system and sufferers had served in the military in Vietnam, exploitation of Afghanistan, or Iraq. Presenting at the 70th annual conference of women, to the parallels between colonial practices psychology, the social sciences, the history of Benefactors David Michael Winton and the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in and authoritarian regimes in post-colonial Somalia, biology, and the study of complex systems. Penny Rand Winton established the chair in They found clear differences in brain activity Pittsburgh, Jenkins said that tooth pits and to long-standing tribal disputes that continue to During his first semester in CLA, Wimsatt led a 1987 to encourage “innovative, distinctive among the groups—something that X-rays, CT probable beak marks on the fossils provide plague Somalia today. weekly discussion group focused on his book, Re- research in the liberal arts.” scans, and MRIs have been unable to do. They direct evidence of damage from raptor beaks Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise also observed that the telltale hyperactivity con- and talons from creodont teeth. “I hope to One of the most exciting aspects of his tenure at Approximations to Reality. Learn more at z.umn.edu/2vo tinued in the brains of the PTSD sufferers even better understand these ancient predator- CLA will be the opportunity to refine and stage when they were not consciously remembering prey relationships and thus possible selection a production of his new play, a Somali version of Wimsatt addresses the challenges that human past trauma, indicating that the terrifying mem- pressures on Proconsul.” Antigone—involving many collaborative partners and beings, limited creatures that we are, face in ories could return at any moment. close work with the Twin Cities Somali community. understanding an infinitely complex world, and Up until now it has been believed that early humans evolved as aggressive how the process of error and correction is central Engdahl and Georgopoulos, both members of hunters, but if Jenkins is correctly interpreting the defleshed, chomped, and Wimsatt is a professor emeritus of philosophy at to learning. His cheeky concept: “Maybe error the Brain Sciences Center at the Minneapolis gnawed Proconsul bone fossils, they may also have been the hunted. the University of Chicago. His work centers on is okay.” VA Medical Center, hope the findings will help the philosophy of the inexact sciences—biology, them develop better kinds of treatment for PTSD, and encourage more veterans who suf- fer from it to seek help.

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STEVEN ROSENSTONE Pomp and Snowcumstance to Head MnSCU System The Metrodome collapsed under 17 inches of snow, buses got stuck, A “capacity to think big” is what got Steven Rosenstone his flights were canceled and plows pulled off the roads. Here at the new job—chancellor of the Minnesota State Colleges and University, the campus closed for one day—but opened the next, Catalan Atlas of 1375 Universities system, according to MnSCU trustee Duane December 12, to host CLA’s fall 2010 commencement ceremony. (detail)> Benson. Rosenstone will assume the new position August 1. One of the most important maps Only about 30 of CLA’s 600 graduating seniors were unable to make of the medieval period, this section Currently the it to the event, held in Northrop Auditorium. of the Catalan Atlas shows how university’s cultural boundaries were crossed in vice president the exchange of knowledge between Nuruddin Farah, the prominent African novelist currently a Winton for scholarly the Islamic world and Europe. The Chair in the Liberal Arts, delivered the commencement address, original Catalan Atlas is housed in the and cultural calling attention to the community’s investment in the new graduates: Bibliothèque Nationale de France. affairs and CLA professor I keep talking about your life…as though [it] is yours to do with what of political you please. However, let me wonder aloud and ask: how much of a science, young person’s life is his or hers to do with what they please? Has it Rosenstone has ever occurred to you that your life is as much yours as the bank in led a number which you deposit your paychecks…. The truth is, you are a mere of visionary custodian of your life, which belongs, in big or small ways, to many projects, most recently the renovation of Northrop other persons too. I propose that your life belongs, in part, to those who State Department Funds CLA Auditorium, the U of M’s Future Financial Resources Task CROSSING CULTURES have invested in it: your parents, your guardians, your relatives, your Critical Language Scholars Force (which he co-chaired), and new scholarship programs. peers, those of whom you’re enamored and to whom you’ve committed yourself. In short, it belongs to anyone who has invested in your well- Since Europe’s Middle Ages, Islam The conference premiered Journey, a In an effort to expand dramatically the From 1996 to 2007 he was dean of CLA. Under his leadership, being from the instant you opened your lungs at birth until now. has shared with the West remarkable stage adaptation of the 12th century number of Americans studying and mastering the college revamped the undergraduate experience, created contributions to science, architecture, masterpiece Hayy ibn Yaqzan, by the 14 “critical need” languages, the U.S. State state-of-the-art facilities and forged new partnerships with art, and the humanities. A February Andalusian Muslim philosopher and Department annually awards a number of businesses, communities, and cultural and civic organizations. conference, sponsored by the Religious physician Ibn Tufayl. Described by foreign language instruction and cultural He was awarded the McKnight Presidential Leadership Chair Studies program with funding from Beeman as a compendium of many enrichment scholarships. They are highly for his service to the University. the National Endowment for the aspects of Islamic science in the context competitive. Of the 575 students chosen this Humanities, took a closer look at this of a parable, it is a story about a boy raised year, 11 are from the U of M—eight from CLA. MnSCU is a complex organization, comprising 32 state centuries-old exchange of ideas. in the wild by a deer. Its empiricism universities and community and technical colleges. It operates profoundly influenced not only Arabic Students spend seven to ten weeks in intensive 54 campuses and serves some 277,000 students in credit-based “Shared Cultural Spaces: Islam and the and Islamic thinkers, but also Europeans summer language institutes in countries where courses and 157,000 students in non-credit courses. West in Arts and Sciences” brought including Defoe, Newton and Kant, and these languages are spoken. They are expected together prominent scholars from heralded the Scientific Revolution and to continue their language study beyond the across the country and from many local the Enlightenment. scholarship and apply their critical language colleges. Speakers included keynoters skills in their future professional careers. Anouar Majid (addressing “The Other conference sessions addressed Inhumanity of Orthodoxy”) and Wadad science (especially astronomy), Undergraduates: Kadi, an expert on Islamic political aesthetics and architecture, and how Tyler Conklin, studying Turkish in Turkey thought. Speakers from CLA included new media is shaping how Muslims tell Brianna Crowley, Turkish in Turkey professors Catherine Asher (art history), their stories. Susan Metzger, Russian in Russia William Beeman (anthropology), Nabil Kelly Heitz, Arabic in Jordan Matar (English), and Ali Momeni (art), Learn more at http://z.umn.edu/sharedspaces. and Religious Studies program director Graduate students: Jeanne Kilde. Greta Bliss, Arabic in Jordan Michelle Baroody, Arabic in Egypt Dustin Chacon, Bangla/Bengali in Bangladesh Stephanie Rozman, Hindi in India

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of immigrants. This “Minnesota School” of Peek into the past: to come to Finland next summer to have some HEAR ME HILMA! scholarship was fostered in the early part fun. I have been here long enough. I want to of the century by professor and later dean 1899 // Lucia Fazio Hobokan, N.J., see home again, and old friends. I don’t know if Next time you are in the mood for a good of the Graduate School Theodore Blegen, to Alessandro Sisca (aka Riccardo I have any left; maybe I have lost them all. But story, log onto CLA’s Immigration and carried forward by historians including Cordiferro), New York, N.Y. it is you that I want to see, and I don’t care for History Research Center Hy Berman, Clarke Chambers, John Gjerde, “I had the strength to drag myself to the anybody else…” website. and Rudolph Vecoli. (Vecoli, the IHRC’s window and you didn’t even look back. I wanted to cry out to you like a crazy woman, first director, was known to rummage for 1914 // Serhii Neprytsky-Hranovsky, You’ll find century-old letters from half-mad documents through the attics and basements but the tears stopped me. Why did you hurt me Ukraine, to his brother Alexander lovers, pleas from lonely moms in the Old of potential donors, according to his June so much? …. I would like to continue to write Granovsky, Chicago Country, accounts of 23, 2008, obituary in to you but my heart hurts terribly. If you don’t “Easter holiday we spent in sadness. When we communities emptying the New York Times.) mind. Tomorrow, wait for me at 3 pm on the returned from church and sat down to break as the youth left Europe 10th Street at the corner of Bleecker [sic] Street fast, such a grief enveloped us that we cried for the U.S., photos, Holdings range from where the carriage passes. If tonight I don’t die, bitterly. We were heart broken that with a newspapers, legal docu- letters from Iron- tomorrow I will be there to speak with you for heavy heart there were only three of us sitting ments, and more, all of Range Finns, Poles the last time. Will you come? You won’t be around the table. During the holidays none of which shaped the lives of displaced after World cruel to that point, isn’t that true?” our relatives visited us except for the uncle from your married life? ….I don’t know if I will ever others, Taisto Elo, a Finnish lumberjack from Minnesota immigrants— War II, Italians in Bilokrynytsia. The kind of relatives there are in see you. Write me if I can hope for seeing you Beaver Bay who was eventually deported under not to mention our own Chicago, and Libe- 1911 // Bert Aalto of Big Falls, Berezhtsi, are those that just like to drink and ever again. How much I would want to meet the McCarran-Walter Act for having been a cultural legacy. rian and Cambodian MinN. to Hilma Aerila, of Laitila, not help in anything.” and see you again. Most likely it is just a dream, member of the Communist Party—for two Finland refugees, to newspa- which cannot be fulfilled.” months—two decades earlier. (Others deported “Dear Hilma, I come to you as a flying leaf The IHRC, headed by pers and legal docu- 1957 // Anna Paikens to her son under the act included poet Pablo Neruda, because the distance is too long for me to speak professor Donna Gabac- ments. Edward Paikens, Minneapolis 1950s // Ken Enkel, novelists Graham Greene, Doris Lessing, and to you or to greet you with a warm hand. …I cia, has one of the largest “Why aren’t you writing to me about yourself? Minneapolis, to Taisto Elo Gabriel García Márquez, philosopher Michel have no girlfriend now, I guess I never have. collections of materials re- Lately the IHRC has I am asking you if you are married or just Minnesota readers of a certain age will Foucault, and Pierre Trudeau, the future I will tell you about my conditions here. I am lated to immigration and refugee life in the world. been digitizing letters from the period 1850 engaged. And if you are satisfied with your life? remember attorney Ken Enkel—the fierce, prime minister of Canada.) See his letters at working in the logging site again, I do all kinds The collection is unique because it interprets to 1970 by and to immigrants, including let- Son, I am interested in your life. … You have fiery, bushy-browed defender of civil liberties. z.umn.edu/2vq of work in the forest and my salary is 3 dollars U.S. immigration history through the stories ters written in languages other than English. lived there already 6 years. Are you happy in During the McCarthy era he defended, among Find more letters at z.umn.edu/2vp a month. Hear me Hilma, I am really planning

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>> National and International Gary jahn, Slavic languages and Giancarlo casale, history: McGill JoannE miller and Dara Music Society for Exploring Careers in Awards: Teresa gowan, sociology; Sheryl r. lightfoot, political Youth Drug Use: A Multilevel Analysis of Timothy brennan, cultural studies literatures: 2010 Post-secondary University’s Cundill Recognition of Strolovitch, political science: Vocal Music: The Sacred Singer’s Solo Kurt Kipfmueller, geography; science: 2010 Best Dissertation the European Union.” and comparative literature: Mercator Teacher of the Year by American Excellence finalist’s prize for The Best Paper Award from American Vocal Workshop. Keith mayes, African American & Award from American Political Visiting Professor by The German Association of Teachers of Slavic and Ottoman Age of Exploration. Political Science Association’s African studies ; PhiliP sEllew, Science Association’s Race, Ethnicity, >> UNIT AWARDS Research Foundation. East European Languages. Political Organizations and Parties >> UNIVERSITY AWARDS classical & Near Eastern studies. and Politics Section for Indigenous CLA: participating in a three-year, $1.9 Carl flink, theatre arts and dance: Section. “Networking the Parties: A William iacono, psychology, has been Global Politics. million Department of Health and Human Raymond dUvall, political Bernard lEvinson, classical choreographed Jungle Theater’s Mary’s Comparative Study of Democratic named a Regents Professor—the highest >> GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS Services grant awarded to the School science: American Political Science and Near Eastern studies: Fellow of Wedding, which won a Twin Cities and Republican National Convention level of recognition the University gives Carla manzoni, Spanish and Potu- Lauren wilcox, political science: of Dentistry for “Building Bridges to a Association’s Grain of Sand Award for American Academy of Jewish Research. Theater Ivey Award. Delegates in 2008” was co-authored to its faculty. Iacono is a pioneer in the guese: Compton International Fel- 2010 award for Best Graduate Student Career in Dentistry for Disadvantaged contributions that are longstanding by Seth Masket, University of Denver, neurobiological approach to the study low for her work on the independent, Paper from International Studies Students.” The grant aims at increasing and merit special recognition. Paula rabinowitz, English: Hiromi mizuno, history: Outstanding and Michael Heaney, University of mental disorders and one of the democratizing films of women of the Association’s Feminist Theory and diversity in the dental workforce, Fulbright Distinguished Lectureship Academic Title for 2009 by American of Michigan. world’s leading clinical psychologists/ Southern Cone of South America. Gender Studies Section, for “Explosive creating pathways for a dentistry degree Nita Krevans, classical and Near in American Literature in People’s Library Association’s journal CHOICE experimental psychopathologists. He has Bodies: Suicide Bombing as an through undergraduate degrees in CLA Eastern studies: 2010 Award for Republic of China. for Science for the Empire: Scientific JuliE schumacher, English: resi- made seminal contributions to adolescent M. christinE marquis, classical Embodied Practice and the Politics and the College of Biological Sciences. Excellence in Teaching from American Nationalism in Modern Japan. dency at The Rockefeller Foundation’s and adult developmental psychopathology, and Near Eastern studies: Women’s of Abjection.” Philological Association. Charles Baxter, English: Pushcart Bellagio Center in Italy. substance abuse, psychiatric epidemiology, Classical Caucus 2010 award for Institute for global studies Prize for “The Cousins,” which also Chad marsolek, psychology: 2010 behavior genetics, and lie detection, and best orally-delivered pre-Ph.D. paper for Elizabeth m. wEixel, English: Best National Resource Centers: $1.2 Rich lEE, psychology: president- appeared in Best American Short NeuroImage Editors’ Choice Award for Shawn treier, political science: is considered to be one of the world’s “Juno and Amata: Powerful Wives and Graduate School Dissertation in arts million in U.S. Department of Education elect of Asian American Psychological Stories 2010. “Identifying objects impairs knowledge Gregory Luebbert Article Award from foremost research scientists in these Political Disorder in the Aeneid.” and humanities category for “The Title VI funding, over four years, for Association. of other objects: A relearning explanation American Political Science Association areas. Best known for the Minnesota Forest and Social Change in Early the European Studies NRC, including Matthew canepa, art history: for the neural repetition effect.” for “Democracy as a Latent Variable,” Twins Family Study, he ranks among North Ben garthus and Bart Modern English Literature, 1580-1700.“ fellowships for foreign language Gordon Legge, psychology: biennial James Henry Breasted Prize from Co-authors: Becky Deason, Ph.D. co-authored by Simon Jackman, America’s most cited and productive Vargas, art: Outstanding Student graduate and undergraduate students, award from Association for Education American Historical Association for 2008; Nick Ketz, B.A. 2007; Pradeep Stanford University. clinical psychologists. Achievement in Contemporary Michael vUolo, sociology: Best and $1.2 million for its International and Rehabilitation of the Blind and best book in English in any field in Ramanathan, Ph.D. 2009; Ph.D. Sculpture Awards from International Graduate School Dissertation in the Studies NRC. Visually Impaired, and Envision history prior to 1000 C.E. candidate Vaughn Steele; and former Wendy Zaro-Mullins, music: 2010- >> CLA Awards Sculpture Center. social and behavioral sciences and Excellence Award in Low-Vision Research. professors Ed Bernat and Chris Patrick. 2011 Community Seed Grant by College Arthur “Red” Motley Exemplary Teaching education area for “Legal Context and J

Eric Kaler Named New U of M President CLA 2015 CLA Retools for the 21st Century Asserting that CLA is “the beating heart” of the entire University, a blue-ribbon panel has recommended ways to maintain the college’s He believes the liberal arts are the arts are “the reason there is a university….It’s academic excellence in the face of daunting reason for a university. an absolute core competency, and we have to fiscal challenges. Eric Kaler, provost and senior vice president protect it. I will invest in it, and they will not Over a year ago Dean James Parente more coherent paths toward their degrees. Pursue new revenue to enable CLA to The liberal arts remain essential for academic affairs at Stony Brook University, wane. On my watch, that will not happen.” appointed the 30-member panel of faculty, But student-centricity has deeper goals, as pursue these goals. New York, has been named the University of He also commented on the CLA 2015 staff, and students, and in November they well—namely, to make the disciplines actually Offer new degree programs that build on subjects for a productive and Minnesota’s 16th president. He will take office Committee Report to Dean James A. Parente (see submitted their CLA 2015 Committee Final matter to undergraduate students in their own current courses, summer and evening classes, on July 1, 2011, succeeding Robert Bruininks, story at right). “I’m extremely impressed by the Report to Dean James A. Parente. It has earned lives, and help them understand the disciplines and e-classes for non-degree students; pursue participating citizen in modern society. who is returning to a faculty position after nearly recent report by the College of Liberal Arts. It praise inside and outside the University. as tools to be applied in many ways in real more external grants and fellowships; engage a decade of service as president. outlines a clear concept on how the liberal arts The report establishes how the futures of life. A pre-med student, for example, should more private philanthropy. They ask difficult questions that demand Kaler, 54, earned his Ph.D. at the U of M in should be shaped in the 21st century. I share the CLA and the University are inextricably know how studying Asian or African American “There’s a sea change in higher education broad understanding and address some 1982 in chemical engineering. He is only the much of what [the authors] want to do. They’re bound together: every major research culture will help communication with patients; taking place across the nation and here in second U of M alum to become its president. committed to doing things more efficiently.” university requires a strong liberal arts core, a student who is management-bound should Minnesota,” Parente said, “necessitating that of the most important issues that “The University of Minnesota has held Kaler’s career has been called meteoric. He and CLA students make up fully half the know how to use psychology and statistics in we be smaller and more focused. The report a special place in my heart,” he said. “This received his undergraduate degree from the student body on the Twin Cities campus. real life. Student-centricity means helping imagines a strong and distinctive college that is confront our nation and the world. is an institution with an amazing history of California Institute of Technology in 1978, and “The University of Minnesota aspires to undergraduates take purposeful responsibility bold in its commitment to excellence, but it also achievement and a central place in the hearts after earning his doctorate in Minnesota he went become one of the top public research for their own learning, and become creative, responds to the serious fiscal constraints within would protect the integrity of the college. of Minnesotans, but there are some enormous to the University of Washington to become universities but can only do so with a strong independent thinkers, and lifelong learners. which we will need to operate. It establishes a To date CLA has cut 60 faculty positions— challenges on the horizon. It is truly humbling an assistant and then an associate professor of College of Liberal Arts,” the report says. principled foundation for recommendations Increase educational, research, and about 10 percent of the total, as well as 177 course and a true honor to have this level of confidence chemical engineering. In 1989 he moved to the It warns that yet another round of budget that will follow.” outreach connections. sections, 27 staff positions and 10 percent of its bestowed upon me. [My wife] Karen and I look University of Delaware, chaired its Chemical cuts would irreparably damage the academic The report has received student support. The 21st century will only become faster- supply budget. It has increased class sizes while forward to getting to know this university—and Engineering Department and became dean of quality that brings renown to the college and The chair of CLA Student Board’s Academics paced and more complex, requiring faculty teaching the same number of undergraduate this state—even better in the coming months.” the College of Engineering. In 2007 he landed at the University. Committee, Regan Sieck, told the Minnesota and students to become broader and more students, admitted fewer graduate students, and Asked at one of the on-campus public Stony Brook, a highly ranked research university Just as importantly, the report identifies Daily that members were glad to see the agile in our thinking. We can do this with moved administrative units into smaller spaces. interviews what role he thought the liberal arts enrolling some 24,000 students, as provost and steps the college should take to protect and document take a student-centric approach. “A more contact and collaboration across various The CLA 2015 Committee was co-chaired should play at the university, he said the liberal vice president. promote academic excellence. Among them: lot of the conversations were about what’s best academic fields, and with deeper engagement by Gary Oehlert, statistics professor and CLA’s Last year he achieved one the highest for the student and what will attract students Play to our academic strengths. with the community, which will help us shape Associate Dean for Planning, and Chris Uggen, professional distinctions in his field, election to the school and keep them here,” she said. Focus on academic fields in which CLA research and education around real-world issues Distinguished McKnight University Professor to the National Academy of Engineering. He The Daily called the report “a sobering yet excels and where we can create new, and concerns. and chair of the sociology department. holds 10 U.S. patents; his research interests optimistic look at the issues the college must exciting, and path-breaking programs to Parente asked faculty, staff, and students to are surfactant and colloid science, statistical Enhance learning and administration confront in the next few years.” address the rapidly changing world of the respond to the report either in writing or at mechanics, and thermodynamics. with technology. The CLA 2015 report quickly drew the 21st century. By concentrating on programs town hall meetings that were held last fall. He His honors include the Presidential Young The value of technology is its ever-growing attention of the University’s new president- of distinction we can create a clearer, expects implementation to begin in spring 2011. Investigator Award from the National Science capacity to make learning more accessible by designate, Eric Kaler, when he came to campus more distinct identity and role for CLA in -MP Foundation, the Curtis W. McGraw Research connecting—with knowledge, teachers, and for his final interviews; he called it “masterful.” the world. Award from the American Society of Engineering learners around the world. We must move In view of the central role CLA plays in the For the full report, executive summary, and news Education, and the American Chemical Society Become more student-centered. even more actively into technology-enhanced University’s educational mission, the report coverage, go to z.umn.edu/2w2 Award in Colloid or Surface Chemistry. -MP Focusing on our strengths will mean we learning in all of its emerging forms. recommends adjustments in some of the U’s can offer students stronger programs and fiscal and academic policies—changes that Kaler was interviewed on KSTP-TV: z.umn.edu/2vr

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DANCING AND DREAMING OF JUSTICE Like her CLA colleagues, Ananya Chatterjea is on a quest for knowledge. What separates her from others is where she finds it. “Whatever it is I know,” says Chatterjea, “I know most certainly in my body.” It may seem a curious declaration from a scholar. Many academicians regard knowledge as something discovered “out there”—beyond the bounds of the self. Yet for Chatterjea, associate professor in the University’s Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, the territory “out there” is populated not by bits of disembodied knowledge, but by millions of embodied lives being lived. For her, distilling the human meaning from the raw material of those lives—transforming stark fact into the deeply known—is something only the crucible of the body can do. So here we are, at the end of the new millennium’s The atom was just a notion in the 5th century B.C.E., when “It is hard work,” Chatterjea says. “But what the body deeply Democritus and Leucippus came up with the theory of “atomism.” knows, it can reveal to others. This, really, is the essence of dance.” first decade. we’ve peered back at the dawn of It was 2,300 years before that child of the mind actually shook This is the idea that energizes Chatterjea’s work. Raised in Kolkata, hands with reality—first with Einstein and others who produced a she grew up studying the performance of Odissi, India’s most ancient creation, found water on Mars. We’ve mapped most description of the atom’s shape, size, behaviors, and relationships, dance form. The style is associated with the Tantric tradition of then when J. Robert Oppenheimer and colleagues split the atom, goddess-worship and invokes the intensity of female sensuality as an of the human genome, can watch the brain at work, framing its overarching presence in a way that changed the emblem of the spiritual passion for God. world forever. Its release spawned the dark clouds of war, nuclear Yet even as Chatterjea perfected the Odissi form as a girl, she know how to replace hearts, clone pigs from stem proliferation, nuclear terrorism, and mutually assured destruction. noticed contradictions of its artistic content in her surroundings: “I Perhaps, reader, you see this question coming: can we do the same cells, and smash protons. We have smart phones. was raised in a culture divided by class and gender,” she recalls, “one thing with the elusive concept of peace? Are we able to take the first in which violence against women was an everyday reality.” step—to imagine peace, a sustained peace, and make tools of mind And vacuum cleaners with minds of their own. This dissonance between the ideal and the real—found in every and body that might help us create it? Can we figure out what peace culture—led Chatterjea to reject conceptions of dance as a superficial is made of, discover its “atomic” components and release its power so But the thing we claim to desire most continues to elude us. mode of entertainment. Over time, her feminist and egalitarian that at last we can intentionally, knowledgeably, make peace? Peace. And its twin sister, justice. instincts and her conviction that dance could become an instrument The faculty members we feature in this story are doing just Peace exists, but only ephemerally, vanishing as quickly as a bullet for social justice merged into an unshakable passion. After finishing that: imagining peace. They are committed to the belief that with can escape the barrel of a gun. War, political and economic terrorism, two degrees in literature in Kolkata, Chatterjea moved to New York’s knowledge, creativity, and commitment we can, indeed, realize peace and ethnic conflict continue to wrack the globe as they have from Columbia University to earn a master’s degree in dance and then and justice. time immemorial. In fact, our last century was our bloodiest. It pursued her doctorate at Temple University in Philadelphia. Their research questions are radical—about the nature of peace, was also the one in which we first applied practical imagination to By the time she arrived in Minnesota in 1998, Chatterjea had about the “atoms” that make it up and that just might be amenable what was previously unimaginable—how to achieve our own self- found a medium for her message. Years of experimentation led her to to some kind of rearrangement or condition that will allow peace to destruction—and then made the tool to do it: the atom bomb. settle in and stay awhile. develop a distinctive choreography that merged deconstructions of The idea of the atom, the radical component of all matter, Imagination—one of the liberal arts’ most valuable tools—allows classical Odissi style with the liveliness of Indian street theater and the originated long ago where all of our endeavors do: in the human us to transcend present realities and shape the future. Albert rituals of yoga and Indian martial arts. imagination, that astonishing place in the mind we visit when we Einstein said, “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s This unique artistry quickly found a place in the University’s dance need to transcend limitations. coming attractions.” program, which Chatterjea directs, and became the “dance language” of Ananya Dance Theatre, the company of women of color she founded upon her arrival. –Mary Pattock, Editor

10 reach SPRING 2011 VALERIE TIBERIUS SPRING 2011 reach 11 Move the truth of oppression into the minds and hearts of audiences, and in the end, perhaps, dance oppression itself into the dust.

Surely anyone who sees Chatterjea’s company her audiences—and in the end, perhaps, to dance onstage will appreciate how dance can open minds oppression itself into the dust. She has put her to new ideas. faith in the wisdom of the body, in its remarkable In 12 years of performance in the Twin Cities power to express “the truth we know yet cannot and beyond, the company has conjured bodily speak.” declarations of joy and lament, of struggle and “I know that dance has the power to open minds beauty. It has danced the stories of religious and to change them,” Chatterjea says. She knows it fundamentalism and domestic violence, because she has danced it and witnessed it. So long environmental degradation and the oppression as her body knows a truth that needs telling, she’ll of women, the stealing of land and the brutality likely carry on. of war. Often the company provides study guides to accompany its offerings and conducts post-performance discussions about the issues DEFINING HAPPINESS it explores. Valerie Tiberius is all about happiness. A Chatterjea and her fellow dancers often philosophy professor, she’s spent years describing perform for packed houses, and she’s heartened happiness and exploring the circumstances that by the audience response. “A dance performance produce it. is a moment of live connection among human For her—for all of us—happiness is a substanial beings. It’s an especially powerful moment in a concept. In the United States, the pursuit of world overwhelmed by ‘virtual’ connection, by happiness is a right. Happiness drives personal technology. And in the end, all that remains of relationships and serious politics. For lack of a dance performance is that flash of light, that happiness, people hate and fight each other, and experience of connection with the audience.” nations get swept into the black hole of war and This is what Chatterjea cares about most: ethnic conflict. CHATTTERJEA Some years back, having pondered the views coaxing her audiences to recognize the world’s The body doesn’t lie. great wrongs—the first step, she knows, toward of the ancients and of her contemporaries on the eventually setting things right. Her latest project subject, Tiberius, the philosopher, took a rather is a four-performance examination of the suffering unorthodox leap. She started swapping notes with Templeton Foundation. It helps philosophers women endure as the world’s powerful plunder psychologists. The venture acquainted her with the like Tiberius, as well as psychologists, linguists, the Earth for natural lucre—represented by mud, field of positive psychology, whose practitioners computer scientists, pharmacists, and other gold, oil, and water—and of their resistance to have spent decades investigating what makes scholars investigate wisdom, its benefits, how to these “violences.” people happy (and what doesn’t) and how well (or cultivate it, and how to apply it. The first installment,Kshoy!/Decay, was poorly) people know themselves. But Tiberius found that psychology’s findings Ananya Chatterjea performed at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis This inquiry led to her book The Reflective about happiness don’t add up to a recipe for living last September. Invoking the metaphor of mud— Life: Living Wisely Within Our Limits (Oxford well; some philosophy is in order. This is, she says, Associate professor of Theatre Arts and Dance land that holds fast to the body—the choreography University Press), which invokes empirical because “it partly depends on how one defines In the studio, Barbara Barker Center for Dance conveyed the dispossession of women forced from psychology in considering what makes for a good happiness”—a philosophical question. There is a their homes by the corporate clamor for land.This life, or happiness. She continued her work with difference between experiencing pleasure, and the is Chatterjea’s answer to injustice: to dance the the University of Chicago’s acclaimed Defining happiness one associates with “a good life”—what truth of oppression into the minds and hearts of Wisdom project, which is funded by the John the Greeks called eudaimonia.

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Not that Tiberius knows what’s best for the She knows this is a project of a lifetime, or two, rest of us. That’s a decision we must make for or three. That doesn’t bother her. “I often ask ourselves. “Most of us would like to be able to look myself,” she says, “what our culture would be like back at how we’ve lived and honestly say that we if we didn’t have people asking these questions. did our best with what life dealt us,” she’s written. Answering is important, but maybe not as “[T]here are some things we can do to meet important as asking. the goal of living a life that we can review with “I think some of these philosophical satisfaction—and this is the domain of wisdom.” questions—about what it means to have a good But what is wisdom? Her conclusion thus far life, what it is to flourish, what it means to be is that wisdom is not purely cerebral. It merges wise—aren’t really meant to have final answers.” rational and emotional intelligence. So our best tool for reaching wise conclusions is reflection, Tiberius says—but the right kind, and not too CARING, FOR JUSTICE much. According to psychological research, human Whoever you are and whatever you do, says beings aren’t terribly good at it. Joan Tronto, chances are you’re being cheated. “The rational self,” she says, “makes inaccurate No matter how pleased you are with life, you’re predictions about what we’ll find satisfying, almost certainly not getting what you deserve. is plagued by biases, and has a tendency to What does Tronto think you’re missing? Your distraction. When we try to be reflective about our fair share of the experience of care—giving it and choices, we end up confused about our reasons, getting it. and we choose things we don’t ultimately like.” This may seem a small matter, something on In the end, Tiberius urges not that we reflect which you can take a pass without much fuss. But more, but rather that we reflect wisely. Tronto, a professor in the Department of Political It’s a formidable undertaking, of course, to Science, thinks opting out of either end of the reach into a folk concept like wisdom and pull out care equation creates a world of trouble. a list of its parts. Her approach is, with the help Tronto has spent much of her career writing of two graduate students, to look into practices about care—and she’s nowhere near finished. and ideas—ranging from values clarification and In her view, care isn’t a sentimental concept. Valerie Tiberius mindfulness to cognitive behavior therapy and It’s a political one. Neither does she see it as an emotional intelligence—that appear connected optional or peripheral human enterprise. It’s Associate professor of Philosophy with wisdom. a mainstay of existence, a requirement of the In her office, Heller Hall Her work is significant because it explores a unspoken pact that enables societies to thrive. radically new tool people can use to make their lives Tronto’s definition of care might surprise you: happier and help them get along together—a new “It’s everything we do to continually maintain way to imagine ethics. Traditional ethics are based and repair the world,” she says, “so we can live on principles that align with outcomes like good and in it as well as possible.” That world, as Tronto TIBERIUS evil, right and wrong. But Tiberius imagines an sees it, “includes our bodies, our selves, and Reflect wisely. ethic based on using wise process to make decisions. our environment.”

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points out, merely being male can get you a pass All of this could change, she says. In the end, all existence. It allows societies to thrive. out of caring responsibilities. And many buy their that’s necessary is sufficient public resolve and an way out by hiring proxy caregivers to tend to emphatic public voice. But how does a society even children, elders, and others who need care. The begin to solve a problem so vast? price of this purchase is far less than the service Tronto has some starting points in mind. is actually worth. “If you were made to pay its “There are two things we need to think about,” true value,” Tronto says, “you couldn’t possibly she says. “The first is time. On average, Americans afford it.” employed full time work 50-plus hours per week. The clamor to avoid caregiving, and the refusal That’s too much. So the first thing we have to do to pay caregivers well enough, destabilize the is organize time so all people would be free to do entire system. “It assures an unequal distribution care work.” Tronto figures a 20-hour work week of caregiving responsibilities that hurts everyone,” would be about right. Tronto says. “It has a bad effect on people who “That would mean we’d have to spend more have to care too much and on those who care of our resources on caring and on paying care too little.” workers more.” Tronto grants. “We wouldn’t be How, exactly? For the “free-riders,” Tronto able to buy as much stuff as we do now. But stuff explains, it means missing out on the joys of is really a substitute for care. People buy stuff to caregiving and quite possibly on a fully developed show care, but it doesn’t work.” capacity for intimacy. For those who must But changing the American work schedule won’t pick up the caregiving slack, she says, it means be enough. “If all we do is give people more time,” unbearable strain. Tronto says, “men will spend more time in leisure And for those who need care from others—a activities and women will do more care.” What’s group that may include your kids or parents and needed, she says, is a change in how men and that most of us will join sooner or later—this women think about care. disequilibrium poses palpable danger: When too Policy change is daunting enough, but how do few caregivers must do too much for too little pay, we adjust attitudes? “You begin by talking it,” she the work of care may be dispensed inattentively, says. “You call attention to the fact that men and perfunctorily, resentfully, and sometimes not at all. women both have responsibilities for care.” TRONTO “Everyone realizes now that the care system And the government can help, Tronto says, The care system is broken. we have is broken,” says Tronto. “It’s made up of citing Sweden’s move to encourage shared patchworks of daycare for children and nursing caregiving through its parenting-leave regulations. care for elderly people. The workers aren’t paid “If the father doesn’t take parenting time,” she enough and can’t do their work well. It just doesn’t explains, “the mother doesn’t get as much time function.” Given the lowly status of care, the poor as she otherwise would.” Changes in law often This explains why trying to duck out of the care are more likely to end up as caregivers, increasing prompt changes in how people think. pact is such a mistake. For starters, receiving care the distance between them and those who are able It’s an ambitious vision, but not an outlandish isn’t an optional experience: it’s something we do to pay for their services. one. “This is a reform that would benefit for ourselves every day, when we can. The rest of Why hasn’t this shambles of a care system been everyone,” Tronto says. “Such changes happen the time—at the beginning of life, at its end and fixed? Tronto answers without a pause: “Politics very slowly. But they happen.” Joan Tronto at many points in between—the care we need is has always involved activities beyond the realm provided by others. of care, of the household, of the family. All that Professor of Political Science Once we look at care from the perspective of is considered beneath politics, really. And in this >> Kate Stanley, B.A.’80, is a Minneapolis journalist. At the Minnesota State Capitol recipients, it becomes pretty clear that shrugging society, care comes after almost everything else. It’s She was editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Daily from off the duty to help give care just isn’t fair. Yet a result of our preoccupation with economic life: 1979 to 1980. many people do just that. In this society, Tronto we measure too much only in money.”

16 reach SPRING 2011 From an interview of suddenly I reached down and brought up LB: Evidently you use your eyes, but you don’t BOUND Lucille Broderson by this, and I didn’t know who did it. I don’t know you used them! But it’s there inside of you! write these poems. I have nothing to do poet Michael Dennis with it. And then it’s like: here, you can MDB: And then it draws things out from the heart and memory and dreams. Browne and Reach editor have it now—and they give it to me. I don’t know whether I’m dreaming or what. But MP: A lot of people, when they get older, close TO nevertheless I feel like I can’t take any credit Mary Pattock in on their life. You did the opposite, you learned for anything. something new, went back to school. Where did MDB: Lucille, I’ve heard you read MP: Lucille, I heard you say poetry get that energy? twice in the last month—never changed your life. PLEASE heard you give a full-length reading LB: That’s never been a problem. I’m still here, Get 20% off “Bound to Please” books at U of before—at the Loft and Coffman. I was just LB: I think somehow it made me—I hate still getting things that excite me inside. So I read. M Bookstore (Coffman), and 10% off other books blown away by your reading style. Were to use the term, but a nicer human be- I take the Wall Street Journal. A friend of mine (except textbooks). Or, go to: www.bookstores. you ever going to be an actress? Where do ing. I mean a more says, “Oh—they’re umn.edu, click on “Books” and then on “Bound to you get your voice and your strength as a understanding human nuts. I wouldn’t pay Please.” Online or in-store, use this code: BTP41510 reader? being of other people’s any attention to what problems and misery. they tell you to do.” LB: I think from reading my poetry and That’s not it! It’s a way After other students’ poetry in your classes! a rare perspective MP: You’ve had a for me to know what’s Because I knew for some reason that I could long relationship with happening, for God’s The eaves sag on the house, read well. I mean, I thought I did. I don’t You’re Wearing a Blue Shirt the Color of the university. sake, not to get their the Sky: Selected Poems the dog grays, know whether I knew, but I was sure. I want advice! to ! The interesting thing is af- Lucille Broderson its eyes film over, read it right LB: Absolutely. I say, there are lumps on its legs. terwards, one of my sons—I have four—this Lucille, you can’t As far as poetry, what It doesn’t get you up in the morning. is Eric, who is now 60, and he said, “Mom, it did for me, I can Nodin Press, 2010 / She is fierce, delicate, breathtakingly forget that Captain you could have been an actress!” So he was absolutely say this and honest, and writes poetry from a rare perspective: she’s 94 years Dewitt Jennings Payne really impressed! feel comfortable saying old. Alumna Lucille Broderson has become something of a Even your daughter’s love [scholarship]. It was a for you, her Daddy, goes. $200 award. Now I don’t know why I would it: I like myself. This is the person I would be but phenom since the publication of this, her second book. She draws MDB: Any signs of that when you were You die and she looks at her mother get that. It was a lot of money. It must have I would never know that when I was younger. I crowds at her readings at The Loft and elsewhere. Her poems younger, like at home? Did you get to recite been related to the writing. I was an English would have had no idea this is what I should be. I have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. for the first time. things at home? Where did the voice come major. I wanted to be a writer. think it was the poetry. Something drove me to it. from—from inside, like the poems? Broderson graduated from CLA in English in 1937, proceeded to You leave and your clothes MDB: Your poems are so rich in things that MDB: There’s a great Yiddish word, bashert: meant earn a degree in library science and work as a librarian, and served hang untouched for a year. LB: Yea, it’s just there. That’s what I was you see. You see something and the movie to be, destined to be. You were meant to do this. for some years at the U of M. Then, an empty nester in her 60s, On a hanger, a suitcoat with a shirt under it, thinking when I read this wonderful book kind of begins. Robert Bly said once, “It’s she returned to her first love—writing. She signed up for a poetry a tie folded in at the neck. [of my own poetry] that Michael is really LB not a matter of making something up, but : I think so. When I finally could do it, I seemed class in CLA with English professor Michael Dennis Browne, now Your wife leans against it, crying. responsible for. And I picked it up and I tuning in to something.” You sit on a bench to become what I could be, whatever that is. For emeritus, who edited her current book. “It changed my life,” she started at the back—don’t ask me why but and maybe you see a starfish or a young one thing, I think there’s a lot more empathy than says. “I am a better person.” Now your son wears it, I did, and when I got through, I thought, couple and it’s like a painter. It’s enough there ever was. And of course, (gesturing to “I am amazing!” I didn’t say “I” though, to feels comfortable, he says. subject matter to get you going, isn’t it? Michael) it’s brought me such a wonderful friend. The scholarship that launched Broderson on her literary journey the book. I said, “Lucille, you are amazing. I He’s seen your bankbook, knows Your poems are so painterly. The other day some 70 years ago, the Captain DeWitt Jennings Payne Memorial think it is amazing that you can do this!” how much money you left. when you were reading at Coffman you had See Lucille Broderson interview at Scholarship, now provides $2,000 annually to students “who show this line: “splits like fluff from a dandelion” z.umn.edu/2wu special capacity for literary studies.” It was established by the late MDB: Where’d it come from? Your wife raises her face and I thought of Theodore Roethke—and Olivia Payne Stover in memory of her brother, Captain Payne, the to another man, wants more from him LB: It was nothing I did. I found many of it’s a great line: “like a wet log I stand first American aviator killed in World War I.-MP than he can ever give. my poems in my journal. The feeling was within a flame.” But you have a gift of im- that it had been taken from me; I didn’t agery, too. Based on your observation of the do it. It was like I was up here, and then real world. You use your eyes. –Lucille Broderson

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PLEASE Books and other creations by CLA faculty, staff, and alumni » Nonfiction evening news program, “All Things Considered.” She has earned history of the Angel Island Immigration Station not only youth rivalries and a high-risk love affair. But while WSS was the The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics Emmy and Peabody awards, and the University of Minnesota’s commemorates its 100th anniversary, but also helps today’s dramatic vision of mature artists distantly fascinated by youth gangs Walter F. Mondale, with David Hage Outstanding Achievement Award. reader understand America’s complicated relationship to of New York, DLS is by a 28-year-old who grew up, one might say, Scribner, 2010 / If you are reading this magazine, chances are immigration, a story that continues today. -KO on location. The story unfolds over a weekend in Queens, during your life has been affected by former Vice President Walter America and the Pill: A History of Pr omise, which 19-year-old Alfredo Batista, a small-time drug dealer, stages Mondale, whose public service has been a feature of politics Peril, and Liberation Lee is associate professor of history and Asian American studies. a welcome-home for his brother Tariq, newly released from prison. in this state and nation for more than four decades. His book Elaine Tyler May It’s not a purely joyous event, however, since there is some question is a readable, down-to-earth memoir of that long career. It » Creative writing as to whether Alfredo figured in Tariq’s arrest, and there is no is also an argument for a liberalism based on the values and Basic Books, 2010 / Elaine Tyler May was only 12 years old Shrouds of White Earth question that he has made Tariq’s girlfriend, Isabel, pregnant. WSS mature perspective of a man who can say, for example, with in 1960, the year the FDA approved “the pill.” But her mother Gerald Vizenor was tragic and romantic; Burgess’s story is tragic as well, but also genuine humility: “But I’ve been close to power, and I know was an activist who established free birth control clinics in Los gritty, affectionate, and hopeful. He doesn’t seem to think tragedy the temptations a president faces.” He writes, among other Angeles. And her father, Dr. Edward Tyler, who ran clinical tests State University of New York Press, Albany, 2010 / is unconditionally terminal; life goes on and humor happens. His things, of civil rights battles, the Vietnam War, Watergate, the of the pill, had held up its approval because he was concerned This phenomenal little book is called a novel; it reads like characters are tender-tough and memorable, the plot fast and clever. Iran hostage crisis, and his six-day run at the Senate in the stead about significant side effects that weren’t being addressed a prose poem, and might be a fictionalized autobiography Bets are on for when Dogfight becomes a movie. -MP of Senator Paul Wellstone, who was killed mid-campaign in a by the manufacturers. Young Elaine knew more about oral of an artistic spirit living in two cultures. There isn’t a line plane crash. Throughout, his focus is on achieving fairness and contraceptives than most kids her age. Her insider knowledge in it that is unbeautiful. Perhaps it is a kind of psalm, a Burgess, M.F.A. ’09, creative writing, reads from his book on Minnesota intelligent deliberation in the public arena; you see it especially enhances this very readable history of the pill and its impact— prayer reaching for truth wherever it might occur—in Public Radio: z.umn.edu/2w3 when he writes with passion about the U.S. Senate. Mondale good and bad—on the lives of women, politics, and society. Its laments, praise, mystical experiences, in a faint story line pulls no punches—you are clear where he stands; but he writes greatest effect, she argues, was to make it possible for women to from history. The protagonist is a 70-year-old American The Wind Blows, The Ice Breaks Poems of Loss and with grace, modesty, kindness—and refreshing candor. -MP have both a family and a career. -KO Indian artist. The setting is mostly Minnesota and the : White Earth Reservation, but we also visit Paris. The Renewal by Minnesota Poets Ted Bowman and Elizabeth Bourque Johnson, Vice President Mondale, B.A. ’51, political science, J.D. ’56, remains May, Regents Professor of American studies and history, has served subject is art, freedom of expression, and authenticity. The co-editors engaged with the University of Minnesota, especially via lectures as president of both the American Studies Association and the matter is mixed, in the way of magical realism, but Shrouds and forums. Organization of American Historians. of White Earth admits even more variety: real people and Nodin Press, 2010 / The poems in this collection, by some fictional ones, animals, esthetics, mysticism, eros, morality, of the crème de la crème of Minnesota poets past and present, shaminism—all equally entitled occupants of the same reflect on losses from illness, disability, death, divorce, war, and The Grace of Silence: A Memoir Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America world. -MP domestic violence—as well as on the saving graces of healing, Michele Norris Erika Lee and Judy Yung happiness, and the restoration of a whole life. Included are current Pantheon, 2010 / Michele Norris, the NPR news host, has Oxford University Press, USA, 2010 / From 1910 to 1940, Vizenor, B.A. ’60, child development, is Distinguished Professor of and former English department faculty members Patricia Hampl, written movingly of her family and how it was affected by racism more than half a million people sailed through the Golden American studies at the University of New Mexico and Professor John Berryman, James Wright, Michael Dennis Browne, Madelon post-World War II and during Jim Crow. Particularly poignant Gate, hoping to start new lives in America. But they did not Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He previously Sprengnether, and Ray Gonzalez, other well-known figures such is the through-thread story of the quiet heroism of her father, all disembark in San Francisco; most were ferried across the taught in CLA’s American studies program. He is a recipient as Bill Holm, Phebe Hanson, Deborah Keenan, Robert Bly, Wang falsely accused of a crime and shot by a white police officer, bay to the Angel Island Immigration Station. For many, this of the American Book Award and the Sundance Festival’s Ping, Louise Erdrich, Thomas McGrath, and Joyce Sutphen, and even as he simply “aspired to be ordinary.” Norris appreciates was the real gateway to the United States. For others, it was Film-in-the-Cities Award. still others published for the first time.-MP and honors the grace with which this black family did the dance a prison and their final destination before being sent home. we all do with the truths of our lives—now engaging, now Lee and Yung uncover the stories of these surprisingly diverse Johnson, M.A. ’92, Ph. D. ’98, English, recently-retired lecturer in the Dogfight, A Love Story distancing, sometimes singing and sometimes silent—in order immigrants through extensive new research, immigration English department, now teaches in the Office of Distance Learning. Matt Burgess to survive and prepare for their children a path “uncluttered by records, oral histories, and inscriptions on the barrack walls. Bowman has taught at the U of M in family education. their pain.” Is it better to learn the truth? Norris thinks yes, and Readers learn of Chinese “paper sons,” Japanese picture brides, Doubleday, 2010 / Like a West Side Story set in 2001, ends this concise and elegantly written book urging us to do just Korean refugee students, South Asian political activists, Russian Dogfight: A Love Story takes place in New York City that. -MP and Jewish refugees, Mexican families, Filipino repatriates, and against a backdrop of mixed ethnicities, and is driven by many others from around the world. 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ALUMNI Foundation in Saint Paul as manager of Nicholas Clegg, a 1990 CLA Gene Sperling, B.A. ’82, political science, but Jews eventually advanced academically Mitch Anderson, B.A. ’08, journalism, grants and contracts. She formerly worked graduate student, was named deputy J.D. ’85, Yale, is the new director of the White because their “whiteness” gave them more has joined Tunheim Partners, a Twin at 3M, negotiating and overseeing vendor prime minister of the United Kingdom House National Economic Council, replacing opportunity to assimilate. In her own effort Cities strategic communications company. contracts. Peterson holds a master’s degree last May. A Liberal Democrat, he is part Larry Summers. He will be involved in to boost literacy and promote social justice, He previously held newspaper and in organizational leadership from St. of the coalition government headed by the shaping virtually all of the administration’s Weiner has started Brighter World Books, a communications positions at the Minneapolis Catherine University and a mini MBA in Conservative economic policies. In announcing Sperling’s nonprofit organization that collects used books Star Tribune’s Washington, D.C., bureau, the nonprofit organizations from the University Party’s Prime appointment, President Obama said, “He’s a in the United States and ships them to school Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal, and of St. Thomas. Minister David public servant who has devoted his life to making this economy work—and making libraries in South Africa. Edina Public Schools. Cameron— it work specifically for middle-class families. Few people bring the level of intelligence Peter Purin, M.A. ’07, Ph.D. music theory, the result of and sheer work ethic that Gene brings to every assignment he’s ever taken.” Brenda Cassellius, B.A. Sid Bacon, Ph.D. ’85, experimental University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., has a rare “hung Sperling, who most recently served as counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy ’89, psychology, Ed.D. ’07, psychology, is the dean of natural sciences been named an assistant professor of music parliament” Geithner, actually held this NCE directorship before, during President Clinton’s last University of Memphis, was at Arizona State University’s College of at Oklahoma Baptist University. He special- in which no four years as president. He previously was a corporate philanthropy consultant for appointed Commissioner of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and directs ASU’s izes in musical theater; his dissertation was political party Goldman Sachs, an economic columnist and commentator for Bloomberg News, and the Minnesota Department Psychoacoustics Laboratory. titled “Musical Style in the Musical Theatre commanded a consultant and contributing writer to the NBC drama series The West Wing. of Education. Most recently Works of Stephen Sondheim.” Purin previ- a majority in In 1980, while at the U of M, Sperling captained the tennis team as he maintained superintendent of the Emilie Buchwald, Ph.D. ously served as teaching assistant in CLA and the House of a 4.0 grade point average. At Yale, he was the editor of the Yale Law Journal. East Metro Integration District in the Twin ’71, English, received at Kansas. Commons. Cities, she previously served as an associate the 2010 A.P. Anderson At the U, See Associated Press story and video of appointment at z.umn.edu/2vs superintendent in the Minneapolis Public Award from the Anderson Kimberly Allen Snyder, B.A. ’92, history, Clegg studied politics and international Schools, and academic superintendent of Center in Red Wing, M.A. ’97, has been elected to the board of relations, and pursued a special interest in middle schools in Memphis, Tennessee. Minn., in recognition of her contributions directors of the Charities Review Council, human rights. His thesis title was “The to the cultural and artistic life of Minnesota. Saint Paul. Snyder founded and is a partner Deep Green Movement and its Political Communications Association and the Melissa Weiner, Ph.D. ’06, sociology, is an Kathy Tunheim, B.A. ’79, political science, Buchwald recently retired from Milkweed of Excelsior Bay Group, LLC, a business that Philosophy.” Internal Communication Association. assistant professor of sociology at Quinnipiac was named Governor Dayton’s senior adviser Editions, the Minnesota-based influential helps non-profit organizations build and assess Clegg previously served as a Member He is an associate professor at the Harvard University, Hamden, Conn. In her first book, for job creation, an unpaid position. She literary press she co-founded. She has written their long-term fundraising capacity. of the European Parliament, co-founding School of Public Health, Department of Power, Protest, and the Public Schools: Jewish will continue as CEO of Tunheim Partners, award-winning children’s novels and edited or a movement for reforms relating to its Society, Human Development, and Health, and African American Struggles in New York a public relations firm she founded, and as co-edited books that together have won more Jacqueline Stahlmann, B.A. ’10, Spanish expenses, transparency, and accountability. and Director of the Health Communication City, she describes how students in both president of IPREX Worldwide, a network of than 200 awards. She received the McKnight and global studies, worked at the Kennedy Among his signature issues are civil Core of the Dana-Farber/Harvard groups were denied high-quality education, leading PR agencies. Distinguished Artist Award, National Book Center in Washington, D.C., this fall as the liberties, opposition to identity cards and Cancer Center. Critics’ Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, Theater For Young Audiences intern. She excessive counter-terrorism laws, and and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters researched, read, and reported on possible defense of Britain’s Human Rights Act. from the University of Minnesota. subjects for commissions, and contributed to Four of the 12 U of M alumni honored this year with UMAA Alumni Volunteer conversations regarding future international Ann Cathcart Chaplin, B.A. ’95, sociology, children’s theater festivals and tours. Service Awards hail from CLA. J.D. ’98, Harvard Law School, was named the national Uniform Law Commission, and CLA’s nominee was Paul A. Taylor, B.A. ‘61, Other CLA graduates receiving the volunteer award were: a “Minnesotan on the Move” by Finance & Robert Tennessen, chairs its legislative committee. CLA previously economics. He has served the University for Bernadine Joselyn, B.A. ’78, humanities, M.A. ’01, public affairs, Commerce magazine. The award honors 40 B.A. ’65, economics, honored him with an Alumni of Notable many years as a volunteer: on the CLA Career nominated by the Humphrey Institute; she is the director of public Minnesota businesspeople “poised to make J.D. ’68, was elected Achievement award. Services Advisory Board (1987-1992), the policy and engagement at the Charles K. Blandin Foundation. business history during the coming years.” president of The Advocacy CLA Alumni Society Board (1997-2003), the Cathcart Chaplin is the managing principal of Group, a network of Kasisomayajula University’s Council on Public Engagement Bruce W. Mooty, B.A. ’77, sociology, J.D. ’80, nominated by the U the Twin Cities office of Fish & Richardson, independent public affairs (Vish) Viswanath, (2003-2006), the Department of English of M Alumni Association and Law School. He is a principal at Gray the country’s largest intellectual property and government relations companies based M.A. ’86, Ph.D. ’90, Advisory Committee (2004-present); and as an active advocate in Plant Mooty law firm, and was the immediate past president of the U law firm. At 36, she is the firm’s first female in Arlington, Va., that provides professional journalism and mass the Legislative Network and on the University of Minnesota Alumni of M Alumni Association. managing principal and the youngest woman advocacy services worldwide, and over communication, was Association’s Advocacy Committee for more than 18 years. He is ever to head a major Twin Cities law firm. multiple jurisdictions. A former state senator, named Outstanding currently the principal in the Masters Alliance, a business-consulting Sandy Morris, B.A. ’64, journalism, M.A. ’72, educational Tennessen practices law in Minneapolis, Health Communication firm, where he advises the senior management of his clients, and psychology, nominated by the College of Design; she is past president Deborah Ann (Offt) Peterson, B.A. ’74, specializing in government relations and Scholar for 2010 by the specializes in business development, project management, and long- of the Goldstein Museum of Design Board of Directors. German, has joined the Northwest Area administrative law. He is a state appointee to health communication divisions of the National range planning and strategic assessment.

22 reach SPRING 2011 SPRING 2011 reach 23 The Lives They Led United Nations. He eventually served in 11 Best known as a lithographer, Larkin figured to CLA, CALENDAR Year 2010 Curtiss M. Anderson, countries, including England, Brazil, Sweden, on the national scene as a teacher and promoter Donors B.A. ’51, journalism, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Thailand, of lithography education. He was the author died of cancer on May Canada, and the United States. of Design: The Search for Unity, a text on basic Lifetime gifts or pledges Bert M. Gross and Susan Hill Cargill and Cargill Foundation $10,000,000+ Gross John S. and Margaret Chipman 22, 2010 at his home In 1961 he resigned from the foreign design and visual composition. Larkin headed Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. N. Bud* and Beverly N. Grossman Margaret I. Conway* in Tiburon, Calif. He service to assume CLA’s new chair in South the printmaking department and chaired the and The Hubbard Broadcasting Marion D. Groth* David C. and Vicki B. Cox Foundation Herman F. Haeberle* Mathias Dahl* was 81. Anderson had a Asian studies, and began writing books on the fine arts division at the Minneapolis College Fleurette Halpern* Dayton Hudson Corporation and history of India and Pakistan. He taught until of Art and Design, and from 1969 to 1991 was Lifetime gifts or pledges Charlotte H. and Gordon H. Dayton Hudson Foundation career in magazines: he $1,000,000+ Hansen Dicomed 1975, moving to England with his English- a U of M professor in what was called at the Austrian Government Lowell and Cay Shea Hellervik A. Richard Diebold, Jr. was editor-in-chief of Ladies Home Journal "We've always felt music education Nathan* and Theresa Berman Herbert Berridge Elliston Fund Doran Companies and the American Express magazine, Venture. born wife, Louise. time the Department of Design, Housing and Harvey V. Berneking* Vivian H. Hewer* Robert W. and Mary Eichinger As editor of magazine development at Hearst Burke received the Star of Pakistan Apparel. He also served on the Weisman Art Elizabeth B.* and John* Harold L.* and Harriet Thwing* Herbert B. Elliston* is important and needs support. If Cowles, Sr. Holden Embassy of Cyprus Magazines, he helped develop Country Living, Award, Pakistan’s highest civilian honor, from Museum Board of Directors. Sage and John Cowles, Jr. Jay and Rose Phillips Family Equity Services of Saint Paul, Inc. the arts, in general, aren't part Smart Money, and a Sunday magazine for The President Ayub Khan, and a commendation Curtis L. Carlson Family Foundation Estonian Archives in the U.S. Foundation Cecill C. and Judge Earl R.* William E. Faragher of your life when you are young, San Francisco Examiner. He reached beyond from Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi for his Associate Professor Roger Ruth and Bruce Dayton Larson Judy Farmer Deluxe Corporation Foundation Ronald L. and Judith A. Libertus Ted Farmer the magazine world, becoming an editor at book Akbar the Greatest Mogul. Other books Pierce Miller, geography, Edelstein Family Foundation Benjamin Evans Lippincott* and David R.* and Elizabeth P. Fesler when will they be?" Hallmark Cards, and helping its founder, include Pakistan’s Foreign Policy, and The died May 30, 2010, from N. Marbury Efimenco* Gertrude Lawton Lippincott* David D. Floren Beverly Wexler Fink and Richard Robert B. and Mary A. Litterman The Ford Foundation Joyce C. Hall, write his autobiography. British Raj in India. complications following a M. Fink Phyllis B. MacBrair* John E. Free* –Wayne and Meg Gisslen Esther F. Freier* William W. and Nadine M. Jeanne K. Freeman* Anderson’s coming-of-age memoir, Blueberry motorcycle crash he had Starke* and Virginia Hathaway* McGuire Helen Waters Gates* Summers: Growing Up at the Lake, was Maryanna Manfred, en route to see his only Donald V. Hawkins* The McKnight Foundation General Mills and General Mills Erwin A. and Miriam J. Kelen Thomas B.* and Elizabeth K.* Foundation published in 2008 by the Minnesota Historical B. A . ’4 2 , journalism, son, Jonah, graduate from Harvard University. Kelen Family Foundation Merner R. James and Teddy Gesell Each of us in the CLA community plays a role in growing and Society Press. One reviewer described died December 6, 2010, He was 59 years old. Terence E. Kilburn Doris B.* and Raymond O.* Margaret E. Gilbertson* Myron and Anita Kunin Mithun Marion D. Groth* strengthening the college we love. it as “a Garrison Keillor tale as told by in Sioux Falls, S.Dak. Miller joined the Department of Geography David M. and Janis Larson Bruce D.* and Mildred D.* Guy Grove Family Foundation Benjamin Evans Lippincott* and Mudgett Jo-Ida C. Hansen Donors help the college realize its highest ambitions. Those Truman Capote.” She was 90 years old. in 1980, specializing in urban history and Gertrude Lawton Lippincott* Eula* and Gil* Northfield Evelyn J. Hanson* Manfred, a freelance city planning in North America and Europe, Ted Mann* Jevne H.* and George T.* Mark and Jacqueline Hegman listed on these pages have made extraordinary contributions: Don A.* and Edith I. Martindale Pennock Dona M. and Thomas P.* Samuel M. Burke, CLA editor and writer of especially Sweden. A master teacher with a R. F. “Pinky” McNamara Pew Charitable Trusts Hiltunen professor emeritus of poetry, book reviews, colorful personality, he was named to the Hella L. Mears and William F. Harold E.* and Louise A.* Jean McGough Holten • They’ve created hundreds of scholarships and Hueg, Jr. Renquist John S. Holten* South Asian studies, died and news features, was University’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers Charles M. Nolte* Katherine* and W. Gardner Roth* James A. Johnson and Maxine fellowships that keep CLA’s doors open to Arsham H. Ohanessian* Ruth Easton Fund of the Isaacs more than a thousand students each year; on September 10, 2010, in for 33 years the first reader of the novels of and was a favorite with students. Helen F. and Otto A.* Silha Edelstein Family Foundation Richard* and Freda M.* Jordan Watlington, Oxfordshire, her husband, the late Frederick Manfred. She His immensely popular signature class, The Myrtle L.* and Charles E. Stroud* Richard L. and Ellen R. Sandor Kaemmer Fund of the HRK • They’ve established dozens of academic chairs Leland “Lee” and Louise Sundet Showboat Fund Foundation England, at the age of 104. also worked as a supervisor for the American City in Film, sprang from deep interests in Marvin and Elayne Wolfenson Werner Simon* Michael H. and Julie A. Kaplan and professorships that help us recruit and Research Bureau. Manfred was an editorial literature and the cities of the world, but he Star Tribune and Star Tribune Samuel and Sylvia Kaplan The National, the United Lifetime gifts or pledges Foundation Anoush Khoshkish retain top faculty; Arab Emirates’ English-language newspaper, consultant on histories of the Democratic had other interests, too. His family called him $250,000 - $999,999 Raymond J. and Elvira A.* James M.* and Audrey H. Kinney • They’ve fueled discovery through dedicated called Burke “an incorruptible jurist, one of Party and Unitarian Universalism in South a Renaissance man with a puckish sensibility. 3M Company and 3M Foundation Tarleton Ida F. Kramer* AOL Time Warner, Inc. Ted and Roberta Mann Joel R. and Laurie M. Kramer research and outreach funds; Pakistan’s first ambassadors, an academic and Dakota, and a volunteer for Common Cause, He was the director of graduate studies in the Dominick J. Argento and Carolyn Foundation and Blythe Brenden Carol E. Ladwig* Bailey-Argento* Asher Waldfogel Bruce A. Larson an author.” the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and master of liberal studies program, taught in Fern L. and Bernard* Badzin William D. Wells Mary Frances Lehnerts* • They’ve invested in CLA’s educational the Cousteau Society. several units besides geography, and served on Alex Batinich Virginia J. Wimmer* Stephen E. and Sheila R. infrastructure by improving facilities for the A brilliant student of history, Burke was Lyle A. Berman Kurt Winkelmann and Janine Lieberman one of the few Indians to become a senior many committees over the years. He was active Bilinski Educational Foundation Gleason Benjamin Y. H. and Helen C. Liu creative and performing arts, languages, and Selmer Birkelo* David Michael* and Penny Rand Merle W. Loppnow* official—a High Court judge—in the elite Eugene Larkin, B.A. in the Higher Education Consortium for Urban James I. Brown* Winton Donald J. and Diana Lucker social sciences. Indian Civil Service established under the ’4 6 , M . A . ’4 9, art, died Affairs, an organization dedicated to education Sidney L.* and Betty L.* Brown Robert O. Young, Jr.* Natalie C. Lund* John R. and Susan L.* Camp Sidney Lyons* British Raj. on November 13, 2010, for social justice, and chaired its academic China Times Cultural Foundation Lifetime gifts or pledges Emily Maltz and Dale T. In July the University will have a new president, Eric Kaler; the at the age of 89, in South programs committee. He earned his Ph.D. Patrick Corrigan $100,000 - $249,999 Schatzlein* state has new leadership; we are charting a dynamic course for During the partition of India in 1949, Aina Swan Cutler* American Latvian Association in Carol K. March massive upheaval and mutual slaughter of Bend, Indiana, from from the University of California, Berkeley, Ronnaug Dahl* the U.S. Tom and Martha Martin the new century with CLA 2015. As we move into this new era, Carol E. and Charles M. American-Israeli Cooperative Max Kade Foundation some one million Muslims and Hindus complications due to and before coming to Minnesota taught at the Denny, Jr. Enterprise Robert H. Mc Clellan* we are grateful for the continued loyalty, trust, and support of ensued as the country fractured into India and pneumonia. His woodcuts University of Pennsylvania and the University Dietrich W. Botstiber Foundation Frances Coakley Ames* Medtronic and Medtronic our donors. Hannah Kellogg Dowell* Elmer L.* and Eleanor J.* Foundation Pakistan. Burke remained impartial, retiring and other prints appear in the collections of Colorado, Boulder. Everett A.* and Ruth Dickson* Andersen Mertz Gilmore Foundation Thank you for joining us in creating the CLA of tomorrow. of the Library of Congress, Museum of Memorials can be made to the Ralph Brown Drake Andreas Foundation Miller Khoshkish Foundation from the court and refusing to serve either Leaetta M. Hough and Marvin D. James Ford Bell and the Bell Marjorie E.* and Franklin W. government, despite requests to do so from Modern Art, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Fund (# 2308), which supports and encourages Dunnette* Family Mortenson* To see a more comprehensive list of annual donors to CLA, Ruth Easton* Marvin and Betty Borman James W. Nelson both sides. Art Institute of Chicago and the Weisman graduate and undergraduate research and study Freedom Forum Paul Brainerd Marion E. Newman* please visit the donor roster online at He eventually chose to help Pakistan’s Art Museum. Frequent subjects included Go to www.cla.umn.edu/giving Frenzel Foundation Caroline Brede* Otto Bremer Foundation www.cla.umn.edu/donors2010 Gwenith F. Gislason* Gerard L. Cafesjian Robert and Joan* Owens first foreign minister establish the Pakistani musicians, leaves, and trees; he created a series Harrison G. and Kathryn W. Joan Calof Patrick and Aimee Butler Family >> Send us your news! Use the Jean E. Cameron and Robert O. 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Hacker Winslow Lindgren* Shaykh Kamal Adham* Leeann Chin* GE Co. and GE Fund Janice Gardner Foundation Lester A. Malkerson* Salus Mundi Foundation $10,000 - $24,999 S. M. Dahl* Herman F. Haeberle* Janice O. and John D. Lindstrom Advanced Bionics Thomas Choi Anne F. and Seymour Geisser* James J. Jenkins and Winifred Mardag Foundation Parker D. and Isabella Sanders 3 H Industries Lenore B. Danielson James J. Hahn Howard and Roberta Liszt Joan Aldous Charles H. Christensen Meg and Wayne Gisslen Strange Erwin and Doris G. Marquit David B. Sanford and Frank D. Aaron Copland Fund For Music Julia W. and Kenneth* Dayton Milton D. Hakel John Y. and Marjorie C. Loper Allianz Life Insurance Company Christian Services, Inc. GKL Management Consulting Anne and Eric Jensen Jacqueline G. McCauley Hirschbach* Ronald F. Abler DDB Needham Worldwide, Inc. Patrice A. and Gerald P. Halbach Sidney Lyons* of North America City of St. Paul LLP Ardes Johnson Virginia G. McDavid Santa Fe Institute Harold R. Adams Beatrice Lofgren De Lue* Mark Chatterton and Julia David J. Madson American Council of Learned Shirley M. Clark Glen and Harold Bend Paul E. Joncas* James “Red”* and Edythe V.* David and Leena Santore John S. Adams Amos and Sandra S. Deinard Halberg Mark and Charlie’s Gay Lesbian Societies Burt and Rusty Cohen Foundation Chester R. Jones* McLeod Rusdu and Nurdan Saracoglu Russell B. Adams Deutsche Bank Americas Kathleen A. Hansen Fund for Moral Values American Express Company and Mary Sue Comfort Mary and Steven Goldstein Jacqueline Nolte Jones Ellen Messer-Davidow Donald C.* and Mary J.* Kenneth J. and Janet E. Albrecht Foundation Richard A. and Linda S. Hanson Marquit-Grieser Fund American Express Foundation Allison and Dan Connally Lloyd F.* and Mary J.* Gonyea Wendell J. and Elizabeth Josal Janice A. Meyer Savelkoul Douglas Allchin Lois E. DeWitt Harcourt Brace and Company Martin Marietta Corporation American Psychological Assn. Harold and Phyllis* Conrad David F. and Rosemary Good Donald W. and Phyllis L. Kahn Midwest Communications, Inc. Richard L. and Maryan S. Schall James R. and Elaine W. Allen Hazel F. Dicken-Garcia Alfred and Ingrid Lenz Harrison Foundation Americana Arts Foundation Ellen R. Costello* Robert L. and Katherine D. Max M. and Marjorie* WCCO-TV Jean Schlemmer American Broadcasting Co., Inc. Douglas A. Dolliff* George Hatzisavvas Andreu Mas-Colell Katherine B. Andersen* Randy and Carol Cote Goodale Kampelman Midwest Federal Savings and The Nick Schoen Family Craig and Nancy Wilkie Anderson Dee Gaeddert Dorsey and James Casper H. and Mary Hegdal Lawrence J. and Andrea K. Brian* and Kari Anderson C. Mayeron Cowles and C. F. Doug and Jane Gorence Odessa Katsila Loan The Schubert Club Mary A. Andres E. Dorsey Claire K. Hekman McGough Harold C. Anderson* Cowles Government of Cyprus Clayton Kaufman Minnesota State Council on Hertha J. Schulze Ann and Gordon Getty Anna L. Downs and Paul Cohen Emily J.* and Walter W. Heller* McVay Foundation Keith H.* and Martha S. Cowles Media Company Persis R. Gow Wilbur C.* and Kathryn E. Keefer Economic Education Jeff and Mary Scott Foundation George Duncan and Sheryl Kelsey Henry J. Kaiser Family Robert and Wanda McCaa John T. Scott* Carolyn F. and Daniel J. Ansel Dunnette Group LTD Foundation Mildred McClellan

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Aileen* and George McClintock William W. and Mary A. Seeger Wells Fargo Foundation Francis C. Gamelin Joseph J. and Priscilla J. Nauer Sheila J. McNally Stephen R. and Mary Jane Dare L.* and William F.* White Thomas A. and Erica M. Giorgi Sandra K. Nelson > FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING Mary Myers McVay Setterberg Lawrence White Helen J. and William R. Gladwin Arnie and Judy Ness Christopher M. Meadows and Myrna H. and E. Joe Shaw, Jr. Wendy J. Wildung Mary and Steven Goldstein Charles M. Nolte* Barbara Reid Thomas J. Shroyer and Nan K. Emily K. Wilson Natalie Ann De Lue Gonzalez Earl and Judy Nolting Merrill Lynch and Co. Sorensen Donald L. Winkelmann Sheila M. Gothmann Margaret and John* Nordin Foundation, Inc. Marjorie Sibley* John B. Wolf* Andrea K. Goudie J. Douglas O’Brien, Jr. Ministry of Culture of the John A. Simler Milton P. Woodard* Persis R. Gow Patrick A. O’Dougherty I recently heard a group of really In the smaller, student-centric Hellenic Republic Simon Fraser University World Population Fund Norman E. and Helen Rachie Linda Odegard smart Undergraduates talk about what college that we envision, every Shirley P. Moore Dennis A. Simonson and Pamela Xcel Energy Groth William T.* and Jeanne A. Ojala Marion S. Moulton* J. Alsbury Yamaha Musical Products, Inc. Cathy J. E. Gustafson Amy L. Olson brought them to CLA. The list of “competitors” for student will have access to gifted Mary N. Mullaney* Joseph A. Sirola Mary L. and Jack Yanchar Helen M. Hacker John A. and Diane J. Opsahl these students was a kind of who’s who of universities— and committed faculty members Joseph J. and Priscilla J. Nauer Sit Investment Associates, Inc. E. W.* and Betty* Ziebarth Gail and Stuart Hanson Roger* and Mary Anne Page NCS Pearson, Inc. and Sit Investment Associates Gloria B. and Robert E. Zink Susan M. Hanson Darwin Patnode Chicago, North Carolina, Berkeley, and Northwestern, throughout their education. Nederlandse Taalunie Foundation Gladys Lorraine Hefty* June D.* and Theodore C.* to name but a few. So why CLA? One reason stood out: That means we must build faculty Jon D. Nelson George G. Sitaramiah* Heritage Society Norma J. Hervey Paulson William C. Nelson* Charles K. and Susanne M. Smith (all future gifts to CLA) Lawrence J. and Carol J. Hill Deanna Freer Peterson the amazing professors. capacity even as we shrink our New Pioneers SmithKline Beecham Corporation Mark L. and Sharlene Rivi Alch Dona M. and Thomas P.* Carol L. Pine The students talked about the thrill of learning from college and realign our programs New York Times Co. and SmithKline Beecham Joan Aldous Hiltunen Robert H. Putnam Foundation, Inc. Foundation James R. and Elaine W. Allen Gordon and Louella Hirsch Bruce and Sara Qualey professors who were always ahead of the curve in their to address 21st-century realities. Alice Park Newman Norma B.* and James A.* Smutz Harvey L. Anderson Lisa Vecoli and Marjean V. Hoeft Marjorie A. Ransom fields, being inspired to burrow into subjects they’d Just as “the liberal arts are the very core and essence Charles N. Newstrom Michael and Betty Anne Soffin Keith H.* and Martha S. Anderson Joan Vivian Hoffmann Harvey D. Rappaport Katherine and Stuart Nielsen Eugene A. and Joan E. Neil P. Anderson Grace E. Holloway Ruth Willard Redhead never even thought about before, and being invited to of academic learning,” CLA faculty are the “core and Earl and Judy Nolting Sommerfeld Dominick J. Argento and Carolyn Jean McGough Holten Armand A. and Madeleine S.* collaborate on research projects that just could end up essence” of our college. We may define “best” in many Steven Ruggles and Lisa Frank J. Sorauf Bailey-Argento* John S. Holten* Renaud Norling Margaret Spear Manouch and Lila M. “Peggy” Deborah L. Hopp Katherine* and W. Gardner Roth* changing the world. And they stressed again and again different ways, but we probably all agree that no college Northwest Airlines Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Azad Marc H. Hugunin and Alice M. Robert P. Sands and Sally how much their professors—and yes, their TAs, too— can be “best” without a great faculty. Monica B. Novak Foundation, Inc. Ayers Bagley and Marian-Ortolf Pepin Glassberg Sands cared about students and went out of their way to spend We’re at a pivot point. As the economy took a dive Linda Odegard Victor N. Stein* Bagley Leonid Hurwicz* and Evelyn David B. Sanford and Frank D. Josep C. Oliu Glenn and Mary Steinke Beverly Balos and Mary Louise Jensen Hurwicz Hirschbach* quality time with them. in 2007–09, faculty raids subsided. We are now seeing Rhoda C. and Gregory L. Olsen Edwin O. Stene* Fellows James J. Jenkins and Winifred Eileen A. Scallen It’s easy to take for granted the brilliance and stature of a resurgence of raids, especially by private universities Craig N. and Elizabeth A. Ordal James M. Sternberg Carol and George* Barquist Strange Richard L. and Maryan S. Schall Coleen Pantalone Lorraine Gonyea Stewart Robert Beck* and Corrie W. Clayton and Jean* Johnson Thomas D. Schoonover and Ebba our faculty. After all, they’re part of the web and weave of with deeper pockets. This is a serious challenge for Marcia Motley Patterson Virginia and Frederick Stohr Ooms Beck Wendell J. and Elizabeth Josal Wesener Schoonover CLA life. But the conversations I heard got me thinking: CLA. We simply can’t buttress our faculty with public June D.* and Theodore C.* Patrick J. Strother and Patricia Earl C. Benson Dennis R. Johnson and Mary K. General Dennis and Pamela Paulson Henning Nicholas E. Berkholtz Katynski-Johnson Schulstad What makes them so exceptional? And why do they dollars alone. Marilyn K. H. and Steven W. Donald F. and Virginia H. Gertrude L. Berndt Clayton Kaufman Joseph E. Schwartzberg work so hard—teaching, doing research, writing books, This is where you come in. We’re asking you, our Peltier Swanson Daryl Bible Joyce M. and C. Christopher Terry E. Shima and Margaret A. Personnel Decisions International Kristin G. Sweeney Thelma Boeder Kelly Lutz creating art, advising and mentoring students, and alumni and friends, to partner with us in new creative Elaine D. and Erland K. Persson Paul A. and Lucienne J. Taylor Lee A. Borah, Jr. William H. and Madoline D.* Richard H. and Mary Jo Skaggs serving the University in so many ways? It’s certainly ventures to recruit and retain the A-list faculty Pharmaceutical Research/ TCF Corporation, Bank and Sally Bordwell* Kelty Charles K. and Susanne M. Smith Manufacturers of America Foundation Richard A. and Nancy M. Borstad Beverly J. Kespohl Terrence L. Smith not the money. Most of them could earn far more with everybody’s clamoring for. And I don’t mean just the Morton B. and Pauline Phillips Arlene A. Teraoka and James A. Cheryl Lynne Hubbard Brown Terence E. Kilburn Norma B.* and James A.* Smutz their talents in private industry. academic superstars; I mean all of the brilliant, hard- Photo Marketing Association Parente, Jr. Joan Calof Stephanie L. Krusemark Verlyn and Bette Soderstrom International Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Carmen and Jim Campbell Steve and Sarah Kumagai Paul and Rose Solstad I think the answer is simple: it’s a labor of love. working scholars and teachers whose lights could glow Ellen F. and John S. Pillsbury III Robert J.* and Clarine M.* Tiffany James D. Catalano James M. Kushner Frank J. Sorauf They love learning and discovery, and even more, they a whole lot brighter if they only had the resources. Philip W. Pillsbury, Jr. Kenneth E. and Rachel Tilsen* William J. M. Claggett Sharon K. Thompson Kuusisto Glenn and Mary Steinke Pillsbury Company and Pillsbury Hamilton P. Traub* Edward G. Clark, Jr.* Frauncee L. Ladd Lorraine Gonyea Stewart love sharing what they know with their colleagues Just imagine a special research fund, perhaps $5,000- Company Foundation Jose Trujillo Walter T. Connett* Bruce A. Larson Tom H. and Arlene M. Swain and students, and learning from them as well. And $10,000 for each of three years, helping a CLA scholar Polish American Congress Mary C. Turpie* Harold and Phyllis* Conrad Rosalind L. Laskin Raymond J. and Elvira A.* Polish National Alliance Twin Cities Opera Guild, Inc. Roy D. Conradi Fred and Catherine Lauritsen Tarleton they love seeing their discoveries take root in the get a pathbreaking book published and into the hands of Wayne E. and Virginia L. Potratz U.S. Bancorp and U.S. Bancorp Patrick Corrigan Billie C. Lawton Thomas L. Thompson* world, transforming lives and communities. That’s the students; or a major gift for an endowed professorship Pragmatic C. Software Corp. Foundation S. M. Dahl* Michael C. and Lynda R. Le May Stephanie Cain Van D’Elden Prudential Financial, Inc. and the Robert A. Ulstrom Carolynne Darling Jerry Ledin Joy Winkie Viola ultimate jackpot. or chair providing ongoing support for the scholarly and Prudential Foundation UNICO National Twin Cities Donna C. Davis Mary F. Lewis Gerald Vizenor and Laura Hall But all of this is in jeopardy. The CLA 2015 Report creative work that our students are so pumped about. Psi Chi Metro Chapter Joyce Ekman Davis and John G. Ronald L. and Judith A. Libertus Phillip A. Voight Sylvia A. Quast Union Pacific Corp. Davis* Benjamin Y. H. and Helen C. Liu Donn L. Waage warns that the risk of a “slide into mediocrity” is very If you love learning, if you put stock in what those Qwest and Qwest Foundation United Fund For Finnish Marjorie J. and Wendell J. DeBoer Serge E. Logan Jean Worrall Ward real, given the enormous fiscal and political challenges students are saying, if you care about public higher Gwendoline L. Reid* American Archives Hannah Kellogg Dowell* John Y. and Marjorie C. Loper William D. Wells Joanne Wright Reierson and Lars University of Minnesota Band Jean M. Ebbighausen Stephanie K. and Warren L. Sandra K. Walberg Westerman we face. And yet, we remain optimistic. We truly believe education, and if you care about the future of CLA and A. Reierson Alumni Society N. Marbury Efimenco* Lundsgaard Patrick J. Whitcomb and Patty in our own hearts that “CLA is the University’s beating the University of Minnesota, this is your moment, and Harold E.* and Louise A.* UPS Foundation, Inc. Jean M. Ehret Kim Max Lyon A. Napier Renquist US Bank Joan A. Enerson and Kenneth M. Warren and Nancy MacKenzie Marian W. and O. M. Wilson* heart.” How do we keep that heart beating? With a ours. It’s time for all of us to step up and do what we can M. and J. Rice Mildred J. Vacarella Anderson David J. Madson Marvin and Elayne Wolfenson course of treatment that includes bold interventions like to help reinvent CLA for the decades ahead, so that it Right Management Consultants Michele Vaillancourt and Brent Donald E. and Lydia K.* Thomas S. and Kaylen K. Maple Max S.* and Cora R. Wortman can be the strong, innovative, intellectually rich, student- Charles* and Evelyn Ritz* Wennberg Engebretson Carol K. March Tom and Liz Yuzer the 62 strategies recommended in the report (see page 8). Harold and Ruth Roitenberg Stephanie Cain Van D’Elden Emogene Becker Evans David and Marilyn Maxner For some of us, the treatment might feel a little like centric college that we are all so proud of. I’d love to talk Florane* and Jerome Rosenstone* Veritas Software Global Corp. William E. Faragher Steven E. Mayer major surgery—to get better, we’ll have to feel some with you. Falsum Russell* Ceil T. Victor* Judy Farmer Jacqueline G. McCauley Ruth Schaefer Trust Neal F. Viemeister and Virginia Ted Farmer Stephen G. McGraw pain, not to mention anxiety. But we’re absolutely S. C. Johnson Fund M. Kirby Harold D. and Mary Ann R. F. “Pinky” McNamara dedicated to the kind of inside-out transformation and Mary Hicks Florence Saloutos* Lori A. Vosejpka Feldman Valerie Meyer-DeJong and Donald C.* and Mary J.* FlorenceMae Waldron Norma C. and John R. Mitchell T. DeJong renewal that will strengthen our college for the long haul. Director, Development & Alumni Relations Savelkoul David and Mary Ann Wark Finnegan, Sr. Lola M. Miller And driving us toward the fifteen goals outlined in the 612-625-5031, [email protected] Eileen A. Scallen Jean Dain Waters Edward and Janet Foster Kathryn U. Moen Lili Hall Scarpa and Andrea Gerhard and Janet* Weiss Katie and Rick Fournier Carol C. Moore report is our core commitment to teaching and learning. Scarpa Barbara and William Welke Alan P. and Yvonne G. Frailich Joseph P. 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The Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute is an exciting new global initiative in CLA. Two prominent economics alums, Richard Sandor and Robert Litterman, were the featured speakers at the Feb. 9 inaugural event, Addressing Climate Change: Economic Perspectives on Pricing Environmental Risk.

“Why now, why this institute?” asked economics alumnus and advisory board chair Kurt Winkelmann at the event. “The mission of the Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute is consistent with a public university: educate, inform and, by doing so, help influence the direction of public policy. The institute will connect the economics profession to broader themes affecting society.”

Visit hhei.umn.edu to watch video from the event and join the mailing list for the latest research and event information. “We are on the verge of important, innovative thinking in economics, and we hope to bring that to the public at large,” said Professor V.V. Chari, HHEI’s founding director.