WINTER 2003 VOL. 26 NO. 1 COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES Dean Kumble R. Subbaswamy Executive Associate Dean David Zaret Associate Dean for Research and Infrastructure Ted Widlanski Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Linda Smith Associate Dean for Program Development and Graduate Education Michael McGerr Executive Director of Development/Alumni Programming Tom Herbert Managing Editor Anne Kibbler COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD President Martha A. Tardy, BA’56 Vice President Kathryn Ann Krueger, M.D., BA’80 Secretary/Treasurer Dan M. Cougill, BA’75, MBA’77 Executive Council Representative THE COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES OFFERS THESE AREAS OF STUDY: James M. Rogers, BS’56 African Studies History & Philosophy of Science BOARD MEMBERS African-American and African Diaspora Studies India Studies Animal Behavior Individualized Major Program Ann M. Anderson, BA’87 Anthropology Information Technology John E. Burks Jr., PhD’79 Apparel Merchandising Interior Design Douglas G. Dayhoff, BA’92 Astronomy & Astrophysics International Studies Lisa A. Marchal, BA'96 Audiology & Hearing Science Italian John D. Papageorge, BA’89 Biochemistry Jewish Studies Dan Peterson, BS’84 Biology Latin American & Caribbean Studies Sheila M. Schroeder, BA’83 Central Eurasian Studies Liberal Arts & Management Chemistry Linguistics Janet S. Smith, BA’67 Classical Civilization Mathematics Alan Spears, BA’79, MPA’81, JD’90 Classical Studies Medieval Studies Frank Violi, BA’80 Cognitive Science Microbiology William V. West, BA’96 Communication & Culture Music Comparative Literature Near Eastern Languages & Cultures INDIANA UNIVERSITY Computer Science Neural Science ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Criminal Justice Philosophy Dutch Studies Physics President/CEO East Asian Languages & Cultures Political Science Ken Beckley East Asian Studies Portuguese Economics Psychology Assistant Alumni Director, English Religious Studies Bloomington Campus Environmental Studies Russian & East European Studies Nicki Bland Film Studies Slavic Languages & Literatures Editor for Constituent Periodicals Fine Arts Sociology Folklore Spanish Julie Dales French Speech & Hearing Sciences Gender Studies Telecommunications To contact the College of Arts & Sciences Geography Theatre & Drama Alumni Board write them at: Geological Sciences Urban Studies [email protected] Germanic Studies West European Studies History THE COLLEGE WINTER 2003 C ONTENTS VOL. 26 NO. 1 FEATURES Love of IU Lives on 5 in Scholarships by Emily Williams Liberal Arts: Dead or Alive? 6 PAGE 5 Scholarship by Kumble R. Subbaswamy The Story Behind the Scenes 8 by Geoffrey Pollock Ahoy! IU Faculty and Students 10 Spend Semester at Sea By Lee Ann Sandweiss Fine Arts — New Fields of Vision 12 by Laura Lane PAGE 8 The Story Behind the Scenes Stellar Professor Recalls Years at IU 16 by Anne Mendelson Steigerwald DEPARTMENTS From the Dean 2 Dean’s Advisory Board 3 From Your Alumni Board 4 PAGE 15 SoFA Gallery Then and Now 6 Around the College 17 Other Developments 19 Cover: Photographs by Jeremy Hogan except for bottom left, courtesy of Margaret Dolinsky. Top left: Sculptor Stuart Hyatt; center, sculptor and School of Fine Arts Director Georgia Strange; printmaker Marc McCay; bottom right, painter Forrest Solis; bottom left, digital arts professor Margaret Dolinsky. Designed by Cheryl Budd, Digital Marketing Group Inc. The College is published twice a year, in winter and summer, by the Indiana University Alumni Association in cooperation with PAGE 16 Stellar Professor the College of Arts and Sciences and its alumni association to encourage alumni interest in and support for Indiana University. The College is paid for in part by dues-paying members of the IUAA. For information about membership or activities, please call (800) 824-3044 or e-mail [email protected]. Information can also be found on the College Web site at www.indiana.edu/~college/. Hands, heart, intellect combine in studio arts “Fine Art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.” — John Ruskin f I had to designate an aesthetic cen- leadership in I ter-of-gravity for the IUB campus, I information would pick the Showalter Fountain. technology New staff member Along the periphery of this architectural infrastruc- Cherí O’Neill is the newest member treasure can be found the Lilly Library ture, it is no of the College’s Office of Develop- of rare manuscripts, the grand IU Audi- wonder our ment major gifts staff, becoming one torium, the I.M. Pei-designed IU Art studio arts of the team with Dave Ellies and Jeff Museum, and the imposing building that faculty are Stuckey. O’Neill started with the houses our outstanding Henry Radford leaders in College as of Aug. 1, 2002; however, Hope School of Fine Arts. exploring her career with Indiana University the frontier The nexus of the arts (the emotional side began in 1990. O’Neill served the of digital of the human) and the sciences (the university as an associate director in art. For rational side) in the College might at the Office of Admissions for five instance, first sight seem odd. On the contrary, years, before taking a position as Professor the very premise of a liberal education is Dean Kumble R. Subbaswamy the associate director of the under- Margaret an exposure to all aspects of the human graduate program at the Kelley School Dolinsky uses the CAVE (Computer endeavor. In a world whose hallmark is of Business. Automated Virtual Environment) to specialization, a liberal education is what With both permit the viewer to travel through her provides the basis for common discourse of these virtual creation and experience it from and the formation of community. Sci- positions different perspectives. The new media ence involves truths that transcend lan- much of are creating new opportunities for artistic guage differences, and so does art. In the O’Neill’s expression even for those trained in words of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “Both work was traditional media like photography the man of science and the man of art targeted at and painting. live always at the edge of mystery, sur- bringing in rounded by it; both always, as the mea- Of course, like all our academic units, the best sure of their creation, have had to do teaching is at the center of the studio art and brightest with the harmonization of what is new department. Can art be taught? Even students pos- and what is familiar, with the balance Picasso had an art teacher! There is a sible to the university between novelty and synthesis, with the body of knowledge that can be taught to Cherí O’Neill struggle to make partial order in total even the most talented artists. Techniques, through chaos.” materials, composition, and design can be recruiting and retention programs. defined and passed on to students. The The various disciplines in studio arts — After helping to successfully launch very talented few incorporate that knowl- from painting to metalsmithing and the Kelley School’s Direct Admit Pro- edge into their creative activity; the less jewelry design — are united by their gram and Kelley Scholars Program, talented may incorporate it into their lives long tradition of guiding the hands with she moved into the role of director and become more discriminating amateur the strength of the intellect and the pas- of alumni programs for the business photographers, create more beautiful sion of the heart to create visual systems school. During her four-and-half-year flower gardens and landscapes, or deco- of explorations, intuition, and cognition. tenure, the Kelley alumni association rate their living spaces with intelligence. Their cohesive purpose is to promote enjoyed major growth in its infra- The arts and what they create enrich our and refine the elements of visual expres- structure, outreach programs, and lives in a great many ways. Evidently, sion and literacy. They present a forum funding base. our students understand this well, for for unifying aesthetic, conceptual, for- our enrollments in the arts have never In her role as one of the directors of mal, and technical aspects of experimen- been better. major gifts for the College, O’Neill tation, critical thinking, and problem will continue her work as both a solving. The thematic and conceptual The next time you are on campus, please fund- and friend-raiser for the interests of artists come from all facets be sure to visit our Henry Radford Hope university. She will visit with alumni, of the natural world and the human School of Fine Arts. Until then, you can donors, and friends of the College intellect. keep up with our art scene via our Web from coast to coast and throughout site: www.fa.indiana.edu/~sofa/. A relatively new medium of expression much of the state of Indiana. for artists is the digital medium — where — KUMBLE R. SUBBASWAMY the art exists in virtual space. Given IU’s 2 THE COLLEGE/WINTER 2003 Meeting of the minds by Emily Williams aced with difficult issues, everyone resource the dean has in the advisory Fseeks advice. We turn to parents, board members. partners, friends, Dear Abby, even the Marsh explains that the dean has con- occasional infomercial psychic. But who sulted the board on issues such as publi- do you get your advice from when you’re cizing the College to students, course the person directing the largest school at content, and the philosophy of adminis- an internationally renowned university, tration from a business and industry overseeing 45 major programs and more point of view. Recently, however, the than 8,000 students? Zeke Friedlander board members have also focused on Membership Committee Chair For Kumble R. Subbaswamy, dean of the bolstering their own ranks. In charge of IUB College of Arts and Sciences, the identifying potential members is the answer is the remarkable group of experts newly formed membership committee. Current members of the who form the Dean’s Advisory Board. Chairing the membership committee is Dean’s Advisory Board: Meeting twice a year, the Dean’s Advis- the Hon.