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Dec. 10, 2003 - Jan. 21, 2004 Nader Urges Students to Sex Ed Educator Dr. Action, Activism Barbara Frankowski, associate professor of pediatrics, has taught Dec. 10, 1:30 p.m. thousands of students Lecture: Finding the about sex in her role as Best Consumer as a pediatrician and as Health Information the Dr. Ruth of the on the Internet," Burlington School with a hand-on District. computer training session. Fletcher Master's of the Free Library. Information: 656- Airwaves Leo Schiff is 3483. finishing up a final project for his master’s degree in social work Dec. 10, 2 p.m. this week, and will Trustees: Executive present it on-campus on Committee Dec. 11. Pretty Conference Call, Ralph Nader asked students to quell their standard stuff, except Waterman, Room complacency and become civic activists for this: The event will 352. Information: during a Dec. 8 campus appearance. (Photo: be Schiff’s first degree- trustees Sally McCay) related appearance on the main UVM campus. Dec. 11, 4 p.m. Lecture: The making Ralph Nader has not mellowed. And, after School of (Indie) of "The Vermont finishing an impassioned 70-minute broadside Encyclopdia" with arguing for civic education and action to counter Rock Bekah Zietz, the Emeritus Professors the creeping influence of corporate power, he told upbeat senior theatre Ralph Orth and Sam a questioner at his Dec. 9 campus appearance major who serves as Hand. Bailey/Howe that he has not given up the idea of running for the music director for Library, Special President, either. the on-campus WRUV Collections Reading radio station, shrinks in Room. Information: her seat when asked 656-2138. about the list of her favorite music of 2003 she recently published Dec. 12, 8:30 p.m. in the Cynic. Concert: The Top Cats Winter Show. Ira Allen Chapel. Information: 578- 6452. Quantifying the Digital Divide Dec. 13, 6 p.m. Frank Bryan Q+A Event: "DREAM Talent Show" featuring talents of Honors Ethics kids, parents, and mentors. Memorial Lounge, Waterman. Student Jazz Ensemble and Guests to Perform Ellington’s 'Portrait of Ella' Dec. 14, 3 p.m. Athletics: Men's Theatre’s 'Toys' Great for Girls and Boys basketball takes on non-league foe Harvard. Free tickets Study Identifies Stroke Marker in Elderly Men for students. Patrick Gym. Information: 656-4410. Kristol to Describe Democrats' Foreign-Policy Bind Anti-Idling Initiative Aims for Fewer Fumes UVM Investigating Electricity Cogeneration Dec. 10, 2003 - Jan. 21, 2004 Political Expert Shares Views With Students, Predicts a Bush-Dean Showdown The idea that an emerging mass of nonpartisan voters with a disdain for being pigeonholed as liberals or conservatives will decide the next presidential election is dead, says political guru William Kristol. He believes that America has never been more divided along political, social and cultural lines than it is entering the 2004 election. Kristol, editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard, a conservative political magazine, told They came to build it: Thirty-seven teams an audience packed into Ira Allen Chapel on Dec. from 19 high schools vied for $16,000 in 4 that a George Bush-Howard Dean showdown in prizes at the Dec. 6 Design TASC what he believes is the most important election Competition. (Photo courtesy of the College of 80 years is imminent. of Engineering and Mathematics.) “This is a very big election,” Kristol said. “A lot is at stake. The gap between the parties is bigger 2003 Design TASC Contest Celebrates than ever. There’s a huge sociological and Teen Ingenuity cultural divide in America right now. Competitors at the annual Design Technology “A Republican president and a Republican and Science Competition sponsored by the Congress are very rare. A Bush win becomes a College of Engineering and Mathematics had to fundamental referendum on the direction of the figure out how to transport 120 batteries using country. The outcome, either way, will have energy efficient power supplies (a bike pump, dramatic consequences.” flashlight and electric motor.) At stake at the Dec. 6 event were $16,000 in prizes from Introduced by Professor Robert Kaufman as “one sponsors. of America’s most important intellectuals,” and as editor of the “most influential conservative Thirty-seven teams from 19 high schools journal in the nation,” Kristol spoke for about an participated; the winners were as follows: hour, then fielded questions from students for another 40 minutes. The College Republicans sponsored the event. ● IBM Grand Prize for Performance and Design: first place, Hanover High School, for its "Roots" project. The former chief of staff for Vice President Dan Quayle focused heavily on the significance of ● Pizzagalli for Performance: first place, Randolph, "Train Wrecks"; second place, Sept. 11 and how it spawned a new era in Hanover, "Batteries Not Included"; third American politics. With terrorism still weighing place, Sharon, "The Monkey, Not the heavily on the minds of Americans, the next Engineer"; Honorable Mention, Milton, election would be decided based on foreign policy "The Physettes and Dudes." and leadership ability, he said. ● IDX for Design Portfolio, first place, Hanover, "Wired"; second place, Milton, One student asked whether Kristol felt "The Physettes and Dudes (squared)"; responsible for helping steer America into the third place, BFA Fairfax, "Freeze"; war in Iraq by supporting the effort through his honorable mention, Essex, "Screw influential publication. Kristol said he didn’t think Loose." the Bush administration based its decision on the ● Husky, Green Award: first place, opinion of his magazine, and that in his view, the Enosburg Falls, "Hornet 1"; second place, people of Iraq are better off since the U.S. Missisquoi, "I'm Out of Ideas"; third removed Saddam Hussein from power. place, Sharon, "The Monkey, Not the Engineer"; honorable mention, Hanover, "Roots." Kristol was critical of Bush’s post-war planning ● Wal-Mart/UVM, Cost-Effective Award, and other aspects of the overall recovery effort, Enosburg Falls, "Hornet 1." but said that he was a proponent of the war ● TIAA-CREF Creative Award: Randolph, before it started, remains one today, and is "Train Wrecks." confident that the U.S. will prevail. More pictures of the event are available at: Kristol, a John McCain supporter in 2000, http://www.emba.uvm.edu/TASC/2003/index. predicted a Bush victory next year, but said: “If htm the Iraq situation goes south, it’s wide open.” He said Richard Gephardt is the only one who can defeat Dean, whom he grew up near in New UVM and Partners to Launch $3 Million York. Statewide Technology Project “I give Dean and [campaign manager] Joe Trippi The College of Education and Social Services will credit,” he said. “They saw that it was a whole team up with Champlain College and the three new world after Sept. 11. I predicted six months state colleges to train future teachers to make ago that Dean would be the nominee before he the most of the computers in their classrooms was even on the radar. Dean is smart, shrewd, and to create their own state-of-the-art and tough and he’s built an impressive machine “electronic portfolios” in a new $3 million — a steamroller. He’s a little reckless and lacks program. Over the next three years, the packaging, but Democrats like his passion and university will study those first users of the e- the way he says things off the cuff. But some of tools to see how well they use technology when his comments have hurt him and these kind of they become teachers. statements can add up.” UVM’s proposal, the “Electronic Portfolio Kristol said he favors Bush over Dean, possibly in Connection,” will establish a consortia of Vermont a landslide, if the situation in Iraq is decent and teacher preparation programs at UVM; Castleton, the economy continues to improve. If Dean wins Johnson and Lyndon State Colleges; Champlain the Democratic nomination, he envisions the College; as well as the Vermont Department of former Vermont governor choosing John Edwards Education; Vermont Institutes; IBM; and Apple or Wesley Clark as a running mate to help him in Computer. UVM was one of only 25 institutions the South. nationwide to receive U.S. Department of Education funding from the 2003 competition of “Vermont is not really typical of the rest of the “Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use country,” Kristol said. “Dean will have to Technology,” known as PT3. The $1.45 million convince people that governing Vermont is like, grant will be matched with local funds to bring or can translate, into leading the nation.” the total to $3 million over three years. Kristol, a regular on the political talk show circuit, IBM worked with UVM, the Vermont Department shared amusing stories from his days as the lone of Education and eight other education sites conservative on the faculty at Harvard’s Kennedy nationwide for a year and a half to learn School of Government. “They like to have a teachers’ needs before it developed “Teacher’s token conservative so people know what one Workplace,” an electronic portfolio. “Teacher’s looks like, or in case they need a job,” he joked. Workplace” can be a learning tool so students learning to become teachers can store, retrieve Kristol talked briefly following his speech about and share their lesson plans, projects, movie clips of their teaching, and Website links; it also the importance of college students hearing a permits feedback from mentors and peers and variety of opinions, both liberal and conservative, electronic group discussions. The portfolio can jokingly calling himself UVM’s “Mr. Diversity” for also act as an easily updatable job-seeking tool the night.