www.insidevandy.com MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2008 THE VOICE OF VANDERBILT SINCE 1888 120TH YEAR, NO. 75 MILLER: Thank goodness for a culture of style and grace: A love letter to Vandy. SEE PAGE 4 VERDICT: Sex is (still) good, Michelle’s dress was awful and intelligence is down. SEE PAGE 4 LEADERSHIP Ogilvy, freshmen lead ADMINISTRATION Online Commodores in exhibition win BOT member course syllabi Cal Turner Jr. to aid has complicated course legacy by SAMANTHA SMITH VANDERBILT News Contributor BOARD OF TRUST selection SPOTLIGHT Ranked on the Forbes 500 The Hustler’s project pro ling by LILY CHEN top CEO pay, Board of Trust members of the Board of Trust Leadership Specialist member and former CEO of continues with Cal Turner Jr. Dollar General Cal Turner Jr. With registration for has survived both scandal and corporation with a third grade spring classes underway, repute. education and later established a new resource has been Turner graduated from a literacy fund through his stores unveiled to allow students Vanderbilt cum laude in 1962, for local schools and libraries. to see sample course syllabi succeeding his father as CEO In honor of his father, on OAK in order to make in 1977. By the Turner established the Cal the course selection process time he resigned Turner Program for Moral easier. in 2002, the Leadership with former Dean “Getting course syllabi corporation had of the Divinity School Joseph up in time for registration grown to almost Hough. e initiative supports was a big priority for us,” 6,000 stores and the development of moral said Vanderbilt Student had become a TURNER JR. leadership within Vanderbilt’s Government President NYSE company. professional schools. Joseph Williams. “It’s In 2001, Turner returned over “It is only tting that he exciting to be able to put this $6.8 million worth of bonuses endowed the program,” said service up as a functioning and stock options after the Graham Reside, the program’s way to look at sample course Dollar General miscalculated executive director. “He founded syllabi.” earnings by $100 million dollars, the program 10 years ago VSG has worked closely in one of the worst accounting understanding the challenges of with Provost and Vice scandals ever publicly disclosed, leadership in the contemporary Chancellor for Academic according to the Nashville Post. world. Cal is remarkable for Affairs Richard McCarty, In 2006, former employee this — doing the right thing and Dean of Admissions Douglas Jane Cleveland sued the Turner treating everyone well.” Christiansen, OAK Manager family after she felt she was Turner currently serves as Cindy Franco and VSG wrongly red. e Turners then chairman on the YMCA of Attorney General Jared countersued Cleveland, citing Middle Tennessee Board and Anderson to create this fraud, breach of duciary duty was also a chairman for the resource. and other misconduct. Nashville Area Chamber of “It allows students to Turner and his corporation Commerce. review sample course syllabi have been heavily involved e alumnus plays an before register,” Franco said. in promoting literacy and in uential role on Vanderbilt’s “Students can take a look FRANCIS SIMPSON / The Vanderbilt Hustler education in communities in campus. In 2007, he donated at courses and see what the Nashville and Kentucky. $250,000 to Owen students in Led by sophomore A.J. Ogilvy’s 25 points, the Vanderbilt men’s basketball team won its exhibition workload is day to day and Support for education and support of the Pyramid Project. match-up Sunday afternoon with Alabama-Huntsville, 84-65. The Commodores overcame a put together a schedule that literacy holds special relevance e program sent 20 students to will work for them.” slow start and got solid contributions from their heralded freshmen. See page 6 for the story. for Turner. His grandfather, India to facilitate the growth of According to Franco, online J.L. Turner, co-founded the local economies. ■ course syllabi were made available without using new technology; only existing ACADEMICS Blackboard technology was used. In addition, Franco considered feedback from many students and faculty members in deciding which New York Times columnist Applebome would be the best and easiest way for access to online course syllabi. However, because posting syllabi online is to teach course on journalism, stories not mandatory, there is difficulty in getting faculty to by RUTH KINSEY often thought this course will give students Applebome, who taught to 1994 and expanded while participate. News Contributor to be di cult, insight into life as a journalist. an expanded version of the conducting research for his “We’re trying to encourage especially since Applebome’s appointment course at Princeton during the book “Dixie Rising: How the faculty to buy into this e New York Times editor journalists often to teach at Vanderbilt is part spring semester of last year, is South is Shaping American program. We’re also and columnist Peter Applebome report from far of the university’s program thrilled to teach at Vanderbilt Values, Politics and Culture.” encouraging students to will teach a one-credit-hour ung places. of inviting a distinguished this coming semester. He now works for The New request professors to post seminar style course next “I sometimes APPLEBOME media professional every “I’m really eager to teach York Times, writing the twice- syllabi,” Williams said. semester. worry that it’s the year to design and instruct at Vanderbilt, partly because weekly “Our Towns” column Franco said, as of now, e class, titled “Literature forgotten part of journalism. a course that covers their of the quality of the school from almost anywhere in New there are about 170 syllabi of Fact — Telling American So many young journalists area of expertise. The course and the students, and partly York, Connecticut or New posted and more are Stories,” will cover a broad these days think they have has been taught previously because I really like Nashville,” Jersey, except New York City. continually being posted. range of topics in journalism to be in New York or working by Pulitzer Prize winners he said. The special topics in “We did this for all but will mainly focus on the for some cool or snarky blog Joseph Hallinan, then of His love of Nashville journalistic storytelling undergraduate schools, so reporters who cover stories no that I worry they’re missing a The Wall Street Journal, and developed when he was the course will meet on alternate students should take advantage one else wants to cover. grounding in the real world,” Sonny Rawls, formerly of The Southern Bureau Chief for the Mondays from 9 to 11 a.m. of it,” Franco said. ■ Grassroots reporting is said Applebome, who hopes Philadelphia Inquirer. New York Times from 1989 during spring semester. ■ SPORTS: Despite loss, Commodore football remains hopeful for a trip to a bowl game in January. SEE PAGE 6 Over 35,000 unique visitors and hundreds of thousands of ad impressions each month. 2 Monday, November 10, 2008 The Vanderbilt Hustler www.insidevandy.com FROM THE BLOG SNAPSHOTS compiled by HANNAH TWILLMAN WEATHER NEWS BRIEFS WEATHER.COM TODAY Nurse in Times Square war photo reunites with Navy ‘Health Policy: A Global & Domestic Perspective’ — NEW YORK (AP)—A 90-year-old who says she’s the woman being kissed by a sailor in Times Square in one of World War II’s most Monday, 7 to 8:30 p.m. famous photographs reunited in town with the Navy on Sunday — Submitted by Nakul Shekhawat on 11-09-08 at 5:50 p.m. days before she is to serve as grand marshal of the city’s Veterans Day parade. “Health Policy: A Global & Domestic Perspective” Edith Shain of Los Angeles, donning a white nurse’s uniform like Monday, November 10, 2008 HIGH 56, LOW 39 the one she wore back in 1945, went to see the musical revival of 7:00pm - 8:30pm Mostly Sunny “South Pacifi c” and posed for pictures, being hoisted off her feet on Stevenson Center 4327 stage by fi ve of the actors in their Navy whites. As you enjoy FREE PIZZA, hear Professor Sten Vermund, director of On Tuesday, she’ll ride in the parade at the head of a contingent TUESDAY Vanderbilt’s Institute of Global Health, talk about his experience tackling of World War II veterans. AIDS in Mozambique. You’ll have a chance to see what kind of impact you The “South Pacifi c” event was a touching reminder of history, can make going abroad and how directly you can aff ect health policy. Bring but very diff erent from Aug. 15, 1945, the day Shain recalls that she joined thousands of people whooping it up after Japan questions about how to get involved! surrendered. Right there on Broadway and 45th Street, a sailor For more blog entries, go to InsideVandy.com suddenly grabbed and kissed her — and the moment was caught by Alfred Eisenstaedt, a Life magazine photographer. His picture from V-J Day became one of the 20th century’s most HIGH , LOW iconic images. But Eisenstaedt didn’t get the names of either party, 59 46 and eff orts years later by Life to identify them produced a number Showers of claimants, says Bobbi Baker Burrows, a Life editor with deep knowledge of the subject. STAFF Obama to use executive orders for SNAPSHOT Editor Michael Warren [email protected] immediate impact DODECS CROON Day Managers WASHINGTON (AP)—President-elect Obama plans to use his Hannah Twillman [email protected] executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes Eve Attermann offi ce, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell [email protected] research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas.