Campus Connections

Issue Date: February 14, 2005

News and Notices

Research funding opportunities online

Thanks to a new institution-wide subscription, faculty, students, and staff at Lewis & Clark can research private and federal funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. The Illinois Researcher Information Service, known as IRIS, can link members of the campus community to more than 8,600 current funding opportunities. IRIS can be accessed through campus computers or via remote login.

“Once you’ve defined your project, a key next step is to identify possible sources of funding,” says Kelly DelFatti, sponsored research officer. “IRIS is a great resource to help find funding opportunities for research and other projects and to learn more about funding prospects and their priorities.”

IRIS features include access to an extensive database of funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities; Web-based or e-mail alerts with notification of funding opportunities that meet certain criteria; and detailed electronic CVs that can be viewed by key decision-makers, including program officers at funding organizations.

IRIS can be accessed in two ways: on campus through the sponsored research Web site or off campus through the library’s database page. For more information, contact DelFatti at ext. 7211 or sponsres@lclark.edu.

Batting 4,000!

They’re coming in fast and furious, says Mike Sexton, dean of admissions. Applications, that is. Sexton reports that the College of Arts and Sciences admissions office is “up to our eyeballs in applications.” First-year applications are running about 10 percent ahead of last year's record number and have eclipsed the 4,000 mark for the first time ever. Sexton says his office will mail out acceptance letters beginning March 15.

A welcoming campus during College Preview

Prospective students who have been admitted to the College of Arts and Sciences under the College’s nonbinding early action program will be on campus this week. College Preview, which runs Thursday, February 17, through Saturday, February 19, is an opportunity for these students to get the full college experience over the course of three days.

Help these visitors feel welcome by wearing your College nametag and by sharing a friendly smile!

Benefits Open Enrollment

The annual open enrollment period for benefits runs February 21 through March 11. Employees will receive a bright green packet of information via campus mail on February 21.

During open enrollment, employees may change medical and dental plans, and enroll dependent children, spouses, and domestic partners onto their coverage. Changes made during open enrollment to medical or dental enrollments are effective April 1.

Employees may also enroll, or reenroll, in Personal Choice for the Healthcare and Dependent Care pretax spending accounts for the upcoming plan year, April 1, 2005, through March 31, 2006. Reenrollment is required for continued participation.

The Personal Choice account allows employees to set aside pretax earnings for out-of-pocket health-care expenses pertaining to medical, dental, vision, and alternative care. Copayments for office visits and prescriptions, deductibles, over-the-counter medications, expenses for chiropractic or other alternative care, and smoking cessation programs are examples of eligible expenses. Pretax earnings can also be used for dependent care for children up to age 13.

Lewis & Clark’s annual benefits fair, titled “Road to Wellness,” takes place on Wednesday, March 2, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Stamm. The event brings representatives from all of the College’s benefit plans to campus. In addition, more than 20 wellness-related exhibitors will be at the fair. Free health screenings, acupuncture and massage demonstrations, and holistic health and nutrition information will also be available.

Auction raises funds to help law students' public interest work

Over the summer, law student Amy Miller represented abused and neglected children for the Juvenile Rights Project. Her experiences were made possible with funding from the Public Interest Law Project, known as PILP.

The 15th annual PILP auction takes place on Saturday, February 26, at the law school. The benefit event, titled “Raising the Bar,” raises funds to help support public interest work by law students each summer. Last year’s auction raised more than $60,000 and funded 14 stipends. The event begins with a silent auction at 6 p.m. followed by a live auction at 8 p.m. The benefit takes place in the law school’s student lounge. Admission is $15 and includes refreshments. For more information, call ext. 6782.

IT offers spring classes

Information Technology offers ongoing computer training courses. During the next two weeks, these classes are available: FileMaker Pro 7 (four-part course), PhotoShop (two-part course), and Web Page Creation (three-part course). For more information, contact IT at ext. 7020.

Historical snapshot

In 1934, Albany College opens a lower-division extension campus in Portland. Four years later, the Albany campus closes after June commencement and the remaining faculty and students move to Portland.

View more College milestones online.

People News

Honoring service to the College

Time flies when you’re having fun! More than 60 staff and faculty members were honored on Wednesday, February 9, at the staff recognition lunch, hosted by Tom Hochstettler, president.

“I really appreciate the people component at Lewis & Clark,” shares Patsy Read, administrative secretary for alumni and parent programs in College Relations. She is one of four employees honored for a quarter-century of service to the College. “Everything we do is for someone or for a group of people, not to profit, but to benefit others.”

Read began her tenure at Lewis & Clark as a promissory note clerk in the cashier’s office. “My challenge to myself back then was to get students to leave the office with a smile on their face, when they had entered with a look of fear and confusion,” she recalls. She also worked for Dale Holloway in Student Support Services for three years before joining College Relations in 1993.

One honored for 30 years of service: Susan Hubbuch, director, Writing Center.

Four honored for 25 years of service: M’Lou Growden, utility worker, Facilities Services; Dale Holloway, coordinator, Student Support Services; Curtis Johnson, dean, College of Arts and Sciences; and Patsy Read, administrative secretary, College Relations.

Six honored for 20 years of service: Marsha Baker, constituent systems manager, College Relations; Howard Dean, lead groundskeeper, Facilities Services; Martha Spence, associate dean, law school; Kim Stafford, director, Northwest Writing Institute; Wendy Washburn, administrative assistant, Provost’s Office; Duane Wheeler, manager, Duplicating Center, law school.

Ten honored for 15 years of service: Mark Duntley, dean of the chapel; Bob Gaillard, head basketball coach, Physical Education and Athletics; Carrie Loewen, employment and administrative manager, Human Resources; Tom Lynn, groundskeeper, Facilities Services; Wanita McPherson, administrative specialist, graduate school; Mark Pietrok, head athletic trainer, Physical Education and Athletics; Maarit Reed, administrative coordinator, Foreign Languages and Literatures; Barbara Roady, administrative specialist, Student Support Services; Steve Wallo, director, Physical Education and Athletics; Benny Yanez, supervisor, Campus Safety.

Ten honored for 10 years of service: Carla Almaraz, director, Computing Services, law school; Linda Bristol, administrative coordinator, CAS Admissions; Tami Gierloff, associate director, Boley Library; Seneca Gray, assistant director, Boley Library; Carolyn Locke, administrator coordinator, International Student Services; Judy McMullen, associate director, Physical Education and Athletics; Michael Sestric, campus planner; Karin Sherer, senior assistant dean, CAS Admissions; Chris Stevens, director of network and technical services, Information Technology; and Janice Weis, assistant dean, law school.

Thirty honored for five years of service: Larry Atchison, buildings supervisor, Facilities Services; Sean Bishop, general maintenance worker, Facilities Services; MaryJo Cheek, field technician, Computing Services, law school; Kari Chisholm, senior communications officer, College Relations; Doreen Corwin, administrator coordinator, Registrar’s Office, law school; Justin Counts, instructional media consultant, Information Technology; Anastacia Dillon, associate director, Student Financial Services; Jerry Gammon, groundskeeper, Facilities Services; Kimberly Gillette, administrative coordinator, Business Services, law school; Laurie Guild, administrative coordinator, Human Resources; Judy Haley, administrative secretary, CAS Admissions; Sheri Hays, administrative coordinator, graduate school; Kim Jurney, library assistant, Boley Library; Jim Kopp, director, Watzek Library; Nancy Magnus, administrative coordinator, Information Technology; Susan Mako, loan and accounts specialist, Cashier and Credit; Janel McKenna, director of major gifts, College Relations; Paul Moredock, senior development officer, College Relations; Robert Nayer, director, Finance Division; Arlen Nishida, campus safety officer, Campus Safety; Marilyn Nycum, lab technician, Health Center; Erika Quiggins, senior assistant dean, CAS Admissions; Reggie Raiford, utility worker, Facilities Services, law school; Marjorie Reedy, administrative secretary, CAS Admissions; Patrick Ryall, director of instructional media, Information Technology; Zachary Spiller, field technician, Information Technology; Elizabeth Stephens, director, Oregon Law Institute; Carolin Thompson, legal secretary, Legal Clinic, law school; Jerry Vandecoevering, groundskeeper, Facilities Services; and Edward VanKleek, general maintenance worker, Facilities Services.

Pictured above, left to right: Wendy Washburn, Dale Holloway, Marsha Baker, Duane Wheeler, M’Lou Growden, and Patsy Read. Photo by Shannon Smith.

Changing places, new faces

Jennifer Carter McGuirk has been named foundation relations officer in College Relations. Carter McGuirk served for more than three years as communications officer for development in the division. Contact her at ext. 7922 or carter@lclark.edu. New faces around campus include Ofelia Sandoval Heredia, circulation attendant in the Aubrey R. Watzek Library, who can be reached at ext. 7341 or oheredia@lclark.edu, and Amber Spradlin B.A. ’02, administrative secretary in Physical Education and Athletics, who can be reached at ext. 7543 spradlin@lclark.edu.

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:

In January, Kellar Autumn, associate professor of biology, published an article titled “Evidence for self-cleaning in gecko setae” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Jon Eldridge, dean of students, has been named to the board of directors of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators for a two-year term.

Doug Erickson, head of special collections and College archivist, Paul Merchant, manuscript specialist, and Jeremy Skinner, archives coordinator, have published a newly edited facsimile of Thomas Jefferson’s 1806 report to Congress with a scholarly introduction. The book is titled “Jefferson’s Western Explorations: Discoveries made in exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita by captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and William Dunbar, and compiled by Thomas Jefferson, the Natchez Edition, 1806” (Arthur H. Clark Company, 2004).

In January, Robert Kugler, Paul S. Wright Professor of Christian Studies and chair of religious studies, presented a four-week series titled “Demystifying the Dead Sea Scrolls” at Milwaukie Presbyterian Church.

Michael Sestric, campus planner, and Julian Dautremont-Smith ’03 have been selected to present a planning paper at the 40th national conference of the Society for College and University Planning in July. The paper, titled “Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Planning Strategies,” profiles the greenhouse gas inventory work initiated on campus by Dautremont-Smith. Their presentation uses the College’s inventory as a case study to explain methodologies behind conducting a greenhouse gas inventory and illustrates comprehensive strategies to minimize greehouse gases.

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:

Daily Astorian (Astoria, Ore.): Stephen Dow Beckham, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Professor of History, discusses issues surrounding Chinook Indian Nation relics at a proposed highway realignment project along U.S. Highway 101. February 4, 2005.

KOIN-TV (Portland, Ore.): Two news segments with Eban Goodstein, professor of economics, and Cliff Bekar, associate professor and chair of economics, focus on President Bush’s proposed plan to partially privatize social security. The report featured students from Bekar’s Economics 100 class reacting to the president’s proposal. February 3, 2005.

KPAM Radio (Portland, Ore.): Robert Eisinger, associate professor and chair of political science, previews President Bush’s State of the Union address. February 2, 2005.

Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, Wash.): Article explains a new economic study about Washington state’s tree fruit business. The study, conducted by William S. Jensen, professor emeritus of business and administrative studies, was done for the Washington State Horticultural Association. February 1, 2005.

The Oregonian: Barbra Fletcher Stephens, assistant professor of counseling psychology, discusses the importance of support groups for parents of children with attention-deficit disorders. January 27, 2005.

Fox News Channel/Hannity & Colmes program: Steve Kanter, professor of law, discusses constitutional issues involved in the University of Oregon’s request for an employee to remove a bumper sticker from a university-owned vehicle. January 26, 2005.

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

Nikki Giovanni’s powerful literary voice comes to campus

For more than three decades, Nikki Giovanni has been writing from her heart about civil rights and equality. She describes herself as “a Black American, a daughter, a mother, [and] a professor of English.” Giovanni will lecture and read from her works on Sunday, February 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Agnes Flanagan Chapel. The event is sponsored by the Black Student Union. Complimentary tickets for members of the campus community are available at the Bookstore.

Giovanni is the author of more than two dozen books, including poetry, children’s books, and essays. Her poetry volumes “Love Poems,” “Blues: For All the Changes,” and “Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea” earned NAACP Image Awards. She is a University Distinguished Professor in the English department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, known as Virginia Tech, where she teaches writing and literature.

A separately ticketed reception for Giovanni at 6 p.m., immediately before the lecture and reading, will take place in Frank Manor House. The $25 reception supports the Ray Warren Multicultural Symposium. Reception tickets are available in advance at the Bookstore or at the door. For more information, contact Timmie Roach, president of the Black Student Union, at ext. 8660 or troach@lclark.edu.

Civility in Politics lectures continue

Top political scientists and observers will examine the public’s involvement in and understanding of American politics during a lecture series on civility in politics in February and March. All lectures are free and are held in the Council Chamber.

Coming up in the next two weeks:

Thursday, February 17, 6:30 p.m.

David Broder: “Political Horizons: Bush and Beyond”

Broder, national political correspondent for the Washington Post, writes two weekly columns that are carried by more than 300 newspapers around the world. Broder received a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for distinguished commentary. He has covered every national campaign and convention since 1960 and is a regular commentator on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” and regularly appears on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and PBS’s “Washington Week in Review.” He is author or coauthor of seven books on national politics.

Thursday, February 24, 6:30 p.m.

Morris P. Fiorina: “Culture War? The Myth of Polarized America”

Fiorina, the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, researches legislative and electoral processes, with particular emphasis on the ways in which political institutions and procedures facilitate or distort the representation of citizen preferences. He is the author of numerous books including “Divided Government” (MacMillan, 1992), and “Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America,” coauthored with Samuel J. Abrams and Jeremy C. Pope (Longman, 2004).

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. For more information, call ext. 7640.

Throckmorton lecture focuses on the history of modern Japan

Andrew Gordon is one of America’s foremost scholars of Japanese history. Gordon will examine the creation of consumer culture in 20th-century Japan in a talk titled “Writing a Modern Japanese History: Some Thoughts on Nation-Building and Sewing Machines.” His talk is the 2005 Arthur L. Throckmorton lecture in history. Gordon's free presentation on Monday, February 21, at 3:30 p.m. is in the Council Chamber.

Gordon, the Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard University, is director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. He specializes in the economic history of modern Japan and is currently researching the making of the modern consumer in 20th-century Japan. He earned his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard University.

The Throckmorton lecture was established in 1963 to commemorate the life and work of Arthur L. Throckmorton, a professor of history at Lewis & Clark who died unexpectedly in 1962. Each year the series brings a distinguished historian to campus to lecture and to meet with faculty and students.

Intellectual property lecture focuses on fair use issues

In 1985, at age 35, Alex Kozinski became the youngest person ever appointed to a federal judgeship. After nearly two decades on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Kozinski has distinguished himself as a commonsense jurist. Kozinski will speak about fair use in intellectual property cases on Monday, February 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the law school. His free talk is titled “What’s So Fair About Fair Use?”

A popular book reviewer and essayist, Kozinski writes for mainstream publications such as Slate, the New Yorker, the New Republic, and the National Review.

The lecture is part of his visit to the law school as the sixth annual Intellectual Property Distinguished Visitor. The intellectual property visitor program, sponsored by Mentor Graphics Foundation, brings a nationally prominent scholar to the law school each year to teach classes and to present a free public lecture. Kozinski will visit the law school February 28 through March 3.

Upcoming

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