Campus Connections

Issue Date: November 8, 2004

News and Notices

A virtual view of Lewis & Clark

It’s no secret that one of Lewis & Clark’s greatest assets is its location. Thanks to the Web team, coordinated by Julia Duncan, senior communications officer for new media, the world can now tour the campus grounds via a Web-based virtual tour.

“The virtual tour shows off our great location and provides an inside look at our facilities such as computer labs, residence hall rooms, science labs, and the dining hall,” says Duncan. “More than 30 areas of campus are included in the tour, and we'll be expanding it throughout the coming months.”

The site features panoramic views of the academic core, athletics facilities, the central campus, residential areas, lower campus, graduate school, and law school. Each tour also includes a map of the surrounding area, tour guide text, related photos, and fun facts. The virtual tour team included photographers Rebecca Leeb ’06, Brent Patteson ’04, and Patrick Neighorn ’03. Danielle Johnston ’05 wrote much of the text and set up the tour pages.

Bookwarming celebrates campus author: Elliott Young

The Bookstore’s fall Open Bookcase reception series continues on Thursday, November 18, at 4 p.m. The event honors Elliott Young, associate professor of history, for his new book, “Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border” (Duke University Press, 2004). His forthcoming book is titled “Continental Crossroads.”

Open Bookcase receptions celebrate the works of new and recently published campus authors.

New computer labs at the graduate school

The graduate school’s long-awaited computer lab is now under construction. Room 118 in the South Conference Campus Center (off the parking lot) will become the school’s teaching computer lab, with 20 computer stations for teaching and, when available, for open lab use. To facilitate construction, classes have been moved to other rooms on South Campus and onto the main campus. The computer lab is scheduled to be open for use in early January 2005.

Law school partnership offers students business law experience

The law school has teamed with the Community Development Law Center to develop, launch, and operate the school’s Community Development Law Project, which houses the Business Law Practicum. Center attorneys will train law students to assist tax-exempt corporations with business transactions. Students will gain hands-on experience, under the guidance of experienced attorneys, by assisting clients with an array of business transactions, including financing, corporate, real estate, and employment law. The collaboration expands the center’s capacity to represent clients and enables it to engage a new generation of business lawyers in the representation of nonprofit organizations.

Lecture examines media coverage of politics

In recent weeks, media coverage of the recently ended presidential campaign greeted the nation day in and day out. One of the nation’s premier political scientists will examine the media’s role in politics during a lecture on civility in politics. Scott Althaus will discuss political participation on Thursday, November 11, at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chamber. His lecture is titled “Can the News Media Provide Independent Coverage of America’s Wars When Americans Don’t Demand It?”

Althaus is associate professor at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in speech communication and political science. His research focuses on how the media cover news events, and how public opinion is shaped in the process. His writings have appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Communication Research, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, and Political Communication.

The talk, part of the Civility in Politics lecture series, is presented by Lewis & Clark’s political science department and sponsored, in part, by a generous grant from the Arkay Foundation.

Graduate school hosts cultural conversations

The graduate school is bringing cultures together. The school is launching a Middle East/South Asian Conversation Series, sponsored by its Oregon Center for Inquiry & Social Innovation. Marjan Baradar, a counselor with Oregon Counseling Center, will guide the first conversation on Tuesday, November 9, at noon in Rogers 105.

“These conversations are designed to provide opportunities for teachers, counselors, graduate students, and the public at large to connect directly with Portlanders of Middle Eastern and South Asian ancestry and to discuss areas of interest or concern,” says Mary Clare, professor of counseling psychology and center director. “Our goal is to provide an open forum where children, young people, adults and families can come together to learn ways of supporting all the people of our community.”

Lectures examine war relics, gender, literary translation, wilderness preserves, and ballistics

Reiko Hillyer, minority scholar in residence in the history department, will give a talk titled “The Relics of Remembering: Selective Memory in American Civil War Museums.” Hillyer is a doctoral candidate in U. S. history at Columbia University and will teach a spring course at Lewis & Clark titled Constructing American Landscapes. Her talk is Tuesday, November 9, at 3:45 p.m. in Miller 102.

Janet Davidson, associate professor of psychology, will discuss “Gender, Creativity and Giftedness” in a talk on Wednesday, November 10, at noon. The presentation in Albany 220 is part of the gender studies brown bag series.

Greg Simon, who translated Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Poet in New York” will give a talk titled “Geometry and Anguish: Translating Garcia Lorca.” The talk on Wednesday, November 10, at 4:30 p.m. is on the Main Stage of Fir Acres Theatre. His talk is part of the Lorca Project, presented by the foreign languages, art, music, and theatre departments. The current Main Stage production is Garcia Lorca’s “Yerma.”

Mark Woods, from the University of San Diego’s philosophy department, will give a talk titled “What Should Wilderness Preservation Preserve?” His lecture on Friday, November 12, at 3:30 p.m. is in Miller 305. His presentation is part of the philosophy department colloquium series.

Robert Klohr, from Mentor Graphics, will discuss “Internal and External Ballistics in Cannon Artillery” during a talk on Monday, November 15, at 4 p.m. in Olin 204. His presentation is part of the physics department colloquium series.

Sherrer lecture focuses on information collaboration

Susan Perry, senior adviser for liberal arts colleges at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and director of programs at the Council on Library and Information Resources, will deliver the 2004 Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture in Library Service. The lecture, titled “On the Same Path: Faculty, Librarian and IT Collaboration,” will take place Tuesday, November 16, at 4 p.m. in the Council Chamber.

Perry helps plan and build coalitions and design programs for the Mellon Teaching and Technology Centers, which will help Mellon-supported liberal arts colleges to incorporate technology into the liberal arts curriculum. Perry is especially interested in helping to build library and computing organizations to support undergraduate learning.

Historical snapshot

On February 2, 1867, the Oregon Legislature granted a charter to Albany Collegiate Institute. The institute, founded by a group of Presbyterian pioneers, was located in Albany, 60 miles south of Portland. Forty students enrolled during the first year and were welcomed to campus by President William Monteith.

More College milestones are available online.

IT offers fall classes

Information Technology offers ongoing computer training courses. During the next few weeks, these classes are available: InDesign (3-part), Introduction to Photoshop (2-part), Intermediate Photoshop, and Introduction to FileMaker Scripts. For more information, contact IT at ext. 7020, or sign up at www.lclark. edu/~training.

People News

Published, presented, honors and achievements

Faculty and staff serve as ambassadors for the College through their publications, presentations, awards, grants, and other accomplishments. Recent highlights include:

Kellar Autumn, associate professor of biology, published an article titled “Design principles of gecko adhesive nanostructures” in the Journal of Morphology 260(3).

Two stories by Annie Dawid, professor of English, will be published in 2005: “Celestine Du Bois Plays Brahms, 1943” will appear in Paper Street, and “The Nazi's Daughter Falls in Love, 1933” will be in Poetica. Both stories are sections from her forthcoming novel “And Darkness Was Under His Feet.”

John Grant, visiting professor of law, published “The Lockerbie Trial: A Documentary History.” He attended much of the trial and the whole of the appeal, and has used his experiences to trace, through official and semiofficial documents, the history of the legal events from the destruction of Pan Am 103 in December 1988 up to the present day. The book is the first legal text to be published on this important terrorist trial.

Nancy Nagel, associate dean of the graduate school and professor of education, earned a 2004 AESA Critic’s Choice Award from the American Education Studies Association. She coauthored a book chapter with Celeste M. Brody titled “Teacher Decision Making for Cooperative Learning in a Preservice Master’s Program.” The chapter appears in the book “Teaching Cooperative Learning: The Challenge for Teacher Education” (State University Press of New York, 2004).

More listings of faculty and staff achievements can be found in our online pressroom.

L&C in the news

College faculty and staff are in the news on a regular basis. Recent mentions include:

Oregon Public Broadcasting (TV): Robert Eisinger, associate professor and political science chair, analyzes the recently concluded campaign season. November 5, 2004.

The Oregonian: Jennifer Johnson, professor of law, comments on controversies surrounding Texas Pacific Group’s bid to buy Portland General Electric from Enron. October 17, 2004.

The Oregonian: Jim Kopp, director of Aubrey R. Watzek Library, discusses Oregon’s utopia draw. “Oregon is a place that bears a physical resemblance to Eden ... even when we’re going through a hard time, there’s a spirit of idealism here.” October 15, 2004.

For a sampling of how and where Lewis & Clark is mentioned by media outlets across the nation and around the globe, visit the online pressroom.

Events

Rwanda after the massacres

In 1994, United Nations peacekeeper chief Roméo Dallaire watched as genocide swept through the African nation of Rwanda. Ten years after the massacres, the images of what he saw are still vivid to him. Dallaire will speak about his Rwandan experiences during a panel discussion and a lecture on Thursday, November 18. Both events take place in Agnes Flanagan Chapel.

“The U.N. Security Council resolution passed on Sudan this year all but plagiarizes the resolution on Rwanda 10 years earlier,” says Dallaire. “I recall all too well the West’s indifference to the horror that unfolded in Rwanda. Even as bodies were piled up in the streets, world leaders quibbled over the definition of what was happening.” The death toll from the 1994 massacre in Rwanda is estimated at 800,000 and approximately three million people were forced from their homes.

Thursday, November 18, 3:30 p.m. “Children and War”

Dallaire and Carl Wilkins discuss the impact of war on children. Wilkins, a Seventh-Day Adventist pastor from Days Creek, Ore., was in Rwanda as part of a humanitarian mission. He remained in Rwanda after the U.S. state department ordered Americans to evacuate the African nation.

Thursday, November 18, 7 p.m. “Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda”

Dallaire discusses Rwanda’s ethnic conflict and massacres and the failure of the international community to respond to or intervene in the situation.

Dallaire joined the Canadian army in 1964. In the mid-1990s, he served as commander of the U.N. assistance mission in Rwanda and Uganda. Following the conclusion of that assignment, he served as commander of the 1st Canadian Division and deputy-commander of the Canadian army. Promoted to a three-star general, he was appointed to various senior positions in Canada’s defense ministry and assisted the Canadian Forces and Veterans’ Affairs in matters related to post-traumatic stress disorder. In 2000, Dallaire left military service after he was diagnosed with PTSD and then he served as a special adviser to the Canadian government on war-affected children and on the prohibition of small arms distribution. He is a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government, and Harvard University.

Dallaire’s residency at the College is sponsored by the Associated Students of Lewis & Clark, the Student Academic Affairs Board, and Arts & Ideas series.


Upcoming

Visit the campus Web calendar for events coming up in November.