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Features Campus Opinion Student media @UIWlogos www.uiwlogos.org @UIWtv http://uiwtv.org/ @kuiwradio UIW receives $10,000 check for sustainability. Check out the latest UIW crime log. Rockport resident: ‘I was mentally prepared’ http://www.kuiw.org/ page 3 page 4 page 5 VOL. 118. NO. 4 Est. 1935 October-November 2017 Consultant to aid ‘strategic vision’ Special to the Logos A consultant enlisted to help Marketing. at colleges and universities in University of Puget Sound, the University of the Incarnate Using Room 2030 in the light of this reasonably new a liberal arts institution in Word’s president, Dr. Thomas Student Engagement Center environment.” Tacoma, Wash. Under her Evans, with “strategic visioning” as her platform, Resnick was At 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. leadership, Puget Sound’s is on campus this week to poised to give on Tuesday, Nov. 8, Thursday, Nov. 9, Pierce endowment grew from $68 Dr. Susan Resnick Pierce address and hear from the 7, “a public presentation on the was scheduled to conduct an million to $213 million; the focus the university’s resources community. current landscape of American “open listening session for college completed almost $100 on its undergraduate campus. Dr. Susan Resneck Pierce, higher education, including its any interested faculty, staff or million of new construction and To honor her work at Puget president of SRP Consulting challenges and opportunities, administrators around topics major renovations; SAT scores Sound, donors endowed both a based in Boca Raton, and how that external landscape such as our aspirations, our increased from 1067 to 1253; and chair in humanities and honors, Fla., advises “colleges and is affecting and may in the identity and culture, challenges applications for 650 freshmen and a lecture series in public universities on various matters future affect Incarnate Word.” and opportunities.” places grew to 4,400 annually. affairs and the arts in her name. including strategic planning,” In the same presentation, Pierce is a former college Her administration sold Puget In addition, thanks also to a according to UIW’s Office Pierce also was to “share with us president herself. She served Sound’s law school to Seattle major donor, the atrium of Puget of Communications and effective approaches to planning 1992-2003 as president of the University, a move designed to Sound’s humanities building Jump to page 2 EconomistSpecial to the Logos plans to launch peace program at UIW An economics professor at the University of the Incarnate Word is the first economist to recieve the peace fellowship from Rotary In- ternational, following other peace promoters including journalists and historians. Washing an elephant wasn’t an everyday routine but it’s an experi- ence Dr. Nursen A. Zanca counted among her experiences in Thailand as a Rotary Peace Fellow. Zanca, who’s been on the faculty at H-E-B School of Business and Administration since 2001, is hop- ing her summerlong experience as a fellow at a Rotary Peace Center in Bangkok will help her launch an Economics and Peace Program at UIW. Each year, Rotary International selects and trains Rotary Peace Fel- lows at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University “based on their ability to have a significant and positive impact on world peace and conflict resolution during their future ca- reers,” according to a news release. Through academic training and global networking opportunities, the center hopes to develop leaders “who become catalysts for peace and conflict prevention and reso- lution” in hopes those trained will “make a lasting contribution to peace and communities across the globe.” “As an economics professor, I am in a unique position to reach a diverse group of domestic and international students and I use this privileged position to facilitate positive changes in young minds and thereby plant seeds of peace,” Zanca said. Originally from Turkey, Zanca re- ceived her bachelor’s degree in eco- nomic development and a master’s Dr. Nursen Zanca, an economics professor, befriends Bum Wee, a 72-year-old male Asian elephant while traveling in Bangkok, Thailand. from the University of Ankara. She the University of Leichester in England. trained as a peace fellow, was established That king who named it after his father, earned a Ph.D. in applied economics in Chulalongkorn University, where she in 1917 by King Vajiravudh (Rama VI). King Chulalongkorn (Rama V), who laid Jump to page 2 ‘LightSpecial to the Logos the Way’ turns into fest The annual “Light the Way” holiday place with the lights already on following people coming to the event will witness kickoff program will take place in Alice celebration is kicking off at 6:30 a short program rather than building musical and dance performances on McDermott Convocation Center. p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18, on the front up to its climax of the past, according the front of the campus, purchase treats The million Christmas lights used of the campus facing Broadway – to the Office of Communications and from a variety of food trucks, shop in the for “Light the Way” will be turned weather permitting – in a festival-type Marketing at the University of the Holiday Shoppe, and take selfies with on immediately following the kickoff atmosphere. Incarnate Word. Santa in the Kids’ Corner, planners said. program and remain on from dusk till And most of the activities will take This year, the anticipated thousands of In the event of a weather issue, the dawn through Jan. 6. NEWS page 2 Est. 1935 October-November 2017 World News Governor of Puerto World Views Rico in contact with For You Elon Musk after offering to rebuild the Word Up Compiled by Jake Fortune island’s power grid LOGOS Staff Writer On Thursday, Oct. 5, Elon Musk tweeted that he could scale his solar Church shooting power grid to work in Puerto Rico. At least 26 people were reported dead along Walmart is ready to party World Series 2017: The small island has been with about 20 people wounded in a mass this Christmas Season Dodgers take game 6 After an extremely profitable holiday absolutely devastated since the harm shooting at a Baptist church in Sutherland Inning by Inning, Astros quarter last year, Walmart has decided that hurricane Maria left in her Springs, Texas on Sunday, Nov. 5. come back in game 7 to hold 20,000 holiday parties at its 4,700 wake. Recorded as the worst shooting in Texas The Los Angeles Dodgers, though facing stores in addition to amping up in-store Ricardo Rossello, the Governor history, the gunman was officially identified elimination on their home field, rallied product demos. of Puerto Rico, responded to Musk as 26-year-old New Braunfels resident, together for a triumphant 3-1 victory in The first round of parties will be focused with a tweet stating “Let’s talk. Devin Patrick Kelly on Monday, Nov. 6. game six of the 2017 World Series. on toys and begins on Nov. 4, followed by Do you want to show the world Ages of the victims range between five and The L.A. team faced a downfall in the parties focused on entertainment on the the power and scalability of your 72. Among the victims was the 14-year-old next game though, being slammed 5-1 Dec. 2, and in store events on Dec. 16 that #TeslaTechnologies? PR could be daughter of the First Baptist Church’s pastor, by the Houston Astros in a surprising will let kids play with toys and take photos that flagship project.” Frank Pomeroy. Both the pastor and his wife turnaround. with Santa Claus. were out of town during the shooting. carriesCont. her name. Consultantacademic affairs at Lewis & such to matters as aideffective board ‘strategic1982’s “The Moral of the Story: Shevision’ has served on the boards Pierce holds a bachelor’s Clark College in Portland, Ore. and presidential performance, Literature, Values and American of the Association of American degree from Wellesley (Mass.) As assistant director of the governance, board development, Higher Education.” She has Colleges and Universities College, master’s degree in Division of Education Programs and strategic planning. She written numerous essays about and American Conference English from the University of at the National Endowment for coaches presidents, advises American literature and is of Academic Deans, on the Chicago in 1966, and Ph.D. in the Humanities, she directed board chairs, and facilitates co-editor of a book on Ralph advisory committee for the English from the University of the three federal programs focused retreats for boards, Ellison’s “Invisible Man.” AAC&U project on engineering Wisconsin-Madison. that supported undergraduate president’s cabinets, and faculty. In recent years, Pierce has and the liberal arts, on the Her background in higher education in the humanities. Pierce writes and speaks given presentations at meetings Council of Presidents of the education administration is After her first year at Puget extensively about higher sponsored by the National Association of Governing extensive. At one time, she Sound, she received the Council education, including Association of Colleges and Boards and on the Washington chaired the English Department for Advancement and Support “Governance Reconsidered: Universities, American Council Women in Leadership Advisory at Ithaca (N.Y.) College, was of Education (CASE) District How Boards, Presidents, on Education, Council of Committee. From 1998-2002, a visiting associate professor VIII Distinguished Leadership Administrators and Faculty Can Independent Colleges, National she served on the National at Princeton (N.J.) University, Award for 2003. Help Their Colleges Thrive” Association for Student Affairs Institute of Alcohol Abuse dean of the College of Arts and Today, as president of SRP (2014), “On Being Presidential: Administrators in Higher and Alcoholism Task Force on Sciences at University of Tulsa Consulting, Pierce advises A Guide for College and Education and the State College Drinking.