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Tobacco Road marriages The costliness of a college education Wake For e st M A G A Z I N E Masters of the classroom Ten years of training top teachers Page 10 Volume 46, Number 2 December 1998 cover photo by Billy Howard Editor: David Fyten Associate Editor: Cherin C. Poovey Art Director: Samantha H.E. Hand Class Notes Editor: Andrew Waters Assistant Editor: Kim McGrath Sports Editor: John Justus University Advancement Writer: Kerry M. King (’85) University Photographer: Ken Bennett Printing: The Lane Press, Inc. Wake Forest Magazine (USPS 664-520 ISSN 0279-3946) is published four times a year in September, December, March, and June by the University Editor’s Office, Wake Forest University, 1834 Wake Forest Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205. It is sent to alumni, donors, and friends of the University. Periodicals postage paid at Winston-Salem, NC 27109, and additional mailing offices. Send letters to the editor ([email protected]), classnotes ([email protected]), change of address ([email protected]), and other correspondence to the e-mail addresses listed or to Wake Forest Magazine, P.O. Box 7205 Reynolda Station, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7205. Telephone: (336) 758-5379. You can access the Wake Forest World Wide Web site at http://www.wfu.edu POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Wake Forest Magazine Alumni Records, P.O. Box 7227 Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227. Volume 46, Number 2 Copyright 1998 Wake For e st M A G A Z I N E Features 10 Heads of the Class by Jeff Miller (’93) Wake Forest’s Master Teacher Fellows program applies the princi- ple that a profession is mastered best through mentoring by masters. Meet four of its finest protégés. Page 26 Departments Page 10 22 ACC Mixed Marriages 2 Campus Chronicle by Jay Reddick It’s always interesting when you sleep with the opposing fan you sit 38 Sports next to. 26 Making Sense of 39 Alumni Report the Dollars by Louis R. Morrell 43 University Advancement The bottom line of the higher cost of higher education. Page 22 49 Class Notes Essays 31 Continental Drift 64 The Last Word by Carey King (’99) and Laura Florio (’00) In separate essays, two students report on the changing status of women and sacred tribal space in Africa. Volume 46, Number 2 December 1998 Campus Chronicle Course links students with alumni experts worldwide ‘networking American Institute of Pakistan embassy bombings in Africa, Studies, and Runde, head of the retaliations in Sudan and HE TEN STUDENTS in the International Center for Afghanistan, the debate in TCharles H. Kennedy and Computer Enhanced Learning Congress about the United Craig Runde’s first-year at Wake Forest, were the States’ contribution to the seminar in fall semester went architects of the seminar, IMF, and so on. far beyond class time and titled “Globalization and In between class time, the space in their study of global- Diversity: Whither the State?” students were given on-line ization and diversity. “The first-year seminar is assignments and questions to The students did a way of introducing students address. Runde and Kennedy the standard readings, to college, teaching them to took turns posting on-line papers, and class dis- write and think and showing questions related to the materi- cussion. But they also them how to participate in al and class debates. Alumni chatted regularly with small groups,” Kennedy said. and other guest participants a Wake Forest alum- “What we have here that sets also posted questions, refer- nus who works on the us apart [from other similar enced related reading material, House International courses] is the technology and gave feedback on student Relations Committee component—a process set up comments, all of this accessing staff about current so that people from around the class Web site to update topics like the the world can enter com- the discussion database. Then International ments. Everyone in the class the students wrote back with Monetary Fund, and has access [through their lap- their comments, reacting to the with a former Wake top computers].” questions and to each other. Forest MBA student The class began the semes- The running electronic now working in ter discussing the origin and commentary kept the class- Craig Runde: developing a course that could become a Prague, Czechoslovakia, about nature of states, expanded to room discussion going non- model for alumni participa- his corner of Europe. Other topics such as clashes of civi- stop. “It expands geomet- tion worldwide. alumni from Bolivia, lizations and the effect on rically,” Kennedy said. “There Switzerland, Pakistan, and states of international organiza- is more interaction than a Washington, D.C., also chimed tions like the IMF, the United normal course. In the first in on classroom discussions by Nations and international three weeks we could feel it using the Internet twenty-four courts, and went on to cover expand dramatically.” hours a day. ethnic conflicts, environmental Bethany Dulis, a freshman The course’s innovative issues, and communications. from Washington, Pennsyl- use of subject matter, technol- Throughout the semester, vania, said she enjoyed the ogy, and guest expertise may the world provided the multi-leveled approach. “In make it a model for others. professors and their students class, discussion can move Kennedy, a professor of with plenty of discussion quickly and you might not politics and director of the material—the American think right away how you Wake Forest December 1998 3 Campus Chronicle and Megan Reif, a Wake Forest graduate and Fulbright scholar who taught in Pakistan in 1996-97 and works now in Washington, D.C., for an Afghanistan foundation. Robert D. Mills, associate vice president of university advancement, helped Kennedy and Runde contact the alumni involved in the course. “This is an opportunity to get one- on-one with people regardless Charles H. Kennedy, right, detected more interaction than in a conventional of where they live or in what course. ‘We could feel it expand dramatically,’ he said. time zone,” Mills said. “This is just the beginning of some- want to say something,” she the concept is really a splen- thing very dramatic in the said. “Being able to write com- did concept. If it is an exam- way that alumni and other ments in between class allows ple of what Wake Forest is friends interact with the more time to think through doing for its students today, University.” Wf opinions and respond. those of us who are alumni —ANN C. HOPKINS “[The alumni] really and those of us who are par- brought an interesting perspec- ents can be awfully pleased.” tive,” she continued. “You Other participants includ- tend to get caught up in col- ed Brian S. Piper (MBA ’88), lege as if college is the world. who went to Czechoslovakia “We read so many differ- as a volunteer in 1992 and ent things about culture, eco- stayed on, forming his own nomies, politics, and it was all company, IBDA, an advisory related. It’s interesting to see firm in business and trade the comments because people development; Rasul Baksh in the class have such diverse Rais of Islamabad, Pakistan, interests.” who taught at Wake Forest as Robert M. Hathaway, a Fulbright scholar in 1997- (’69, MA ’73), who works on 98; Bill Harshbarger (’74) , the professional staff of the who is working in Switzer- House International Relations land for DiAx Telecommu- Committee, participated sev- nications; Rodrigo Bedoya eral times. “The level of (’94) of La Paz, Bolivia, a for- Wake Forest President Thomas K. Hearn Jr., center, with Board of Trustees interest and sophistication is mer student of Kennedy; chair John G. Medlin Jr., left, and former UNC president and public televi- sion host William Friday prior to a dinner held in Hearn’s honor October 1 far removed from what I and Kennedy’s daughter, Shannon on the occasion of his fifteenth anniversary as president. Hearn’s tenure is by my fellow freshmen were Poe-Kennedy (’98), who is a far the longest in the ACC and one of the longest in the nation, more than looking at years ago,” graduate student in anthro- doubling the current national average length of presidencies at single institu- tions. For more on Hearn’s tenure, see ‘The Last Word’ on page 64. Hathaway said. “I think that pology at Cornell University; Wake Forest December 1998 4 Campus Chronicle Back-door attack Health recently awarded manage a disease. And it is Kim-Shapiro, a biophysicist not without side effects.” A novel approach to by training, a $460,000 grant Kim-Shapiro is concen- sickle-cell treatment to continue his research trating on understanding through January 2003. “It the process of how cells N A NONDESCRIPT LAB just seemed like a question “unsickle” when restored to I on the second floor of Wake that had not been answered,” high-oxygen conditions in the Forest’s Olin Physical Labora- Kim-Shapiro says simply lungs. “If we could speed up tory sits the obligatory coun- when asked what led him to how fast the cell unsickles, tertop contraption comprising investigate this “back-door” that would be a new pathway syringes and tubes and black approach. for treatment,” he says. boxes. The whole thing is Normal red blood cells His chief tool is a rapid hooked up to the obligatory are donut-shaped and flexible scanning monochromator computer whose monitor dis- in order to squeeze into that is hooked up to a plays the obligatory minuscule capillaries and stopped-flow apparatus. The multicolored squiggly deliver their life-giving oxy- instrument allows Kim- lines. But appearances gen to body tissue.