Campus Connections

Issue Date: February 26, 2007

News and Notices

President’s Report to the Board of Trustees

“The core base of giving to the College is as solid as it has ever been, and it is growing,” wrote President Tom Hochstettler in his February 2 report to the Board of Trustees. The board met on campus February 22 and 23. Read more excerpts from the president’s report online.

Open enrollment runs through March 16

The annual open enrollment period for benefits runs February 16 through March 16. Benefits information has been mailed to employee home addresses and additional details have been sent to employees via their Lewis & Clark e-mail accounts.

During open enrollment, employees may enroll in or cancel medical and dental coverage, add or remove dependents, change plans, or enroll in, withdraw from, or change the amount being contributed to a Personal Choice Account spending program. Changes made during open enrollment go into effect on April 1.

Employees who wish to make any changes to medical or dental plans are required to complete a new enrollment form.

Lewis & Clark’s Personal Choice Account allows employees to optimize their net pay by taking advantage of pretax deductions to fund health care and dependent care. Personal Choice Account programs include the Employee Insurance Premium Contribution; the Health Care Spending Account for reimbursement of expenses not covered by insurance, such as deductibles, copays, coinsurance, eyeglasses, and over-the-counter drugs; and the Dependent Care Spending Account. All employees who wish to begin or continue contributing to a Health Care Spending Account or a Dependent Care Spending Account must complete a new Personal Choice Account enrollment form. This form is also available through the Office of Human Resources.

All completed enrollment forms must be received by Human Resources by Friday, March 16, at 5 p.m. Forms received after 5 p.m. on March 16 will not be accepted unless accompanied by documentation of a qualifying event.

For complete information, call the Office of Human Resources at extension 7834 or extension 7837, or e-mail hr@lclark.edu.

Family Weekend 2007

Lewis & Clark presents its annual Family Weekend, Friday through Sunday, March 2 through March 4. This event is an opportunity to welcome over 250 families to Lewis & Clark.

Members of the campus community can help these visitors feel welcome by wearing College nametags and by sharing a friendly smile!

Annual Wellness Fair

Search for “Health—Your Ultimate Treasure” at Lewis & Clark’s annual benefits wellness fair on Tuesday, February 27, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Stamm. The fair will feature osteoporosis and spinal screenings, body fat analysis, mini massage, spirituality information, and more. Over 35 vendors will be joining the celebration, including representatives from TIAA-CREF, Anada Yoga, EASE, the American Diabetes Association, and CoreSource. Jump ship and enjoy the fun, food, goodies, and prizes!

Student Animal Legal Defense Fund competitions

Law students from 17 schools met at Harvard Law School February 24 and 25 to battle in court over animal law cases at the 2007 National Animal Advocacy Competitions. This marks the fifth consecutive year the Lewis & Clark Law School’s National Center for Animal Law has organized the competitions, which currently are hosted by the Harvard chapter of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund.

The competitions are hailed by animal law experts as a training ground for the animal lawyers of tomorrow. Competition judges include some of the nation’s leading authorities on animal law, such as author Steven Wise, Animal Legal Defense Fund founder Joyce Tischler, and other noted law professors, scholars, and practitioners from across the nation.

“Competing is one of the best ways that an animal law student can put his or her passion into practice,” said Laura Ireland Moore J.D. ’01, executive director of the National Center for Animal Law. “By competing, these students learn advocacy skills that can be developed only with practice—and NCAL is here to help turn animal law students into animal law lawyers.”

For more information, call extension 6849.

Read the Chronicle–online!

The winter 2007 Chronicle is now online.

Readers will find stories about Eban Goodstein, professor of economics, and his work on global warming; John Kroger, associate professor of law, and his career as a former federal prosecutor; and Breakaway Adventures, which provides opportunities for first-year students to explore the Pacific Northwest.

Face to face: Black History Month, Missing Pieces and Whole Stories, Paradigms of Spirituality, and Speaking of Diversity

Monday, February 26, 7 p.m.
Agnes Flanagan Chapel
Black History Month Event: Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, presents “Cosmopolitanism.” An internationally known scholar, Appiah has published widely in the area of African and African American literary and cultural studies. His books include In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture and the critically acclaimed Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. He has also written three novels and coedited Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience with Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Wednesday, February 28, 6 p.m.
Albany Quadrangle, Smith Hall
Black History Month Event: Jamie Washington, a nationally known speaker, consultant, and diversity leadership trainer, leads a workshop titled “We’re All in This Together: Coalition Building Across Difference.” Founder of the Washington Consulting Group, a multicultural organizational development firm based in Baltimore, he now serves as the group’s president. Washington was an educator and administrator in higher education for over 18 years. His honors include a mayoral citation as one of Baltimore’s Men of the Year, the 2001 American College Personnel Association Diamond Honoree award for significant contributions to higher education and student affairs work, and a 2002 Voices of Inclusion Award for his work in the area of social justice education.

Thursday, March 1, 4 p.m.
South Campus Conference Center, Room 101
Missing Pieces and Whole Stories: The graduate school’s Oregon Center for Inquiry and Social Innovation hosts a discussion titled “Coming Home From Combat: Veterans’ Perspectives.” Veterans and their families discuss their experiences during and after deployment. What is it like to come home from combat? What obstacles do returning service people face? Who is there to help? This conversation focuses on the ways schools, social service agencies, neighborhood groups, and individual citizens can be of support to veterans and their families.

Thursday, March 1, 5:15 p.m.
Odell Residence Hall, Main Lounge
Paradigms of Spirituality: Exploring Spiritual Practices and Visions: This six-week series provides the Lewis & Clark community with an opportunity to reflect on spirituality in the 21st century. Participants focus on engaging in a process of personal spiritual exploration and discovery through readings, discussions, and a variety of workshops.

Monday, March 5, 6 p.m.
Akin Residence Hall, Main Lounge
Speaking of Diversity: The Lewis & Clark community is invited to an open discussion about diversity on campus.

IT offers spring classes

Information Technology offers ongoing computer training courses. During the next two weeks, two classes are available: Introduction to Moodle and Web Page Creation (a three-part course). For more information, call IT at extension 7020.

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. Highlights include:

Curtis Johnson, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Professor of Government, published an article in the January issue of the Journal of the History of Biology. The article is titled “The Preface to Darwin’s Origin of Species: The Curious History of the ‘Historical Sketch.’”

In January, Jim Kopp, director of the Aubrey R. Watzek Library, moderated a Community Conversations Series panel at the University of Oregon titled “What Is a Cult?” In February, he delivered a Chautauqua presentation, “Dr. Esperanto and the Search for the Ideal Language,” at the Rockaway Beach Public Library. Kopp also published an article titled “Forty-one Cents: The Pendleton-Pilot Rock Stage Line” in the winter 2006 issue of the Oregon Historical Quarterly.

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

Events

Visiting artist Harrell Fletcher

As part of the Senior Seminar artist talk series, the Department of Art is hosting a presentation by Portland-based artist Harrell Fletcher on Tuesday, February 27, 5:15 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Miller 102.

Fletcher, a professor of art at Portland State University, has worked collaboratively and individually on a variety of socially engaged, interdisciplinary projects for over a decade. His work has been shown at SF MoMA; the de Young Museum; the Berkeley Art Museum; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; the Seattle Art Museum; Signal in Malmo, Sweden; Domain de Kerguehennec in France; and the Royal College of Art in London. In 2002, Fletcher started Learning To Love You More, an ongoing participatory website with Miranda July. A participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, he was the 2005 recipient of the Alpert Award in Visual Arts.

For more information, contact extension 7390.

William Stafford Symposium

Two journalists who spent time in Iraq, a poet who worked for the United Nations in Cambodia, and a Vietnam War veteran who studies William Stafford’s poetry are among the presenters featured at the sixth annual William Stafford Symposium, March 2 through March 4. This year’s symposium is titled “Millions of Intricate Moves: Artistic and Spiritual Responses to War and Peace.”

On Friday, March 2, at 7 p.m. the symposium begins with a multimedia presentation that includes photographs by Joel Preston Smith, who worked as a freelance photographer in Iraq. The event also features a short documentary by Bushra Azzouz on life in Iraq, choral music by David Schiff, and an exhibit of artfully modified books by Oregon artist Marcia McKean. After the presentation, participants will be able to engage in a discussion with the artists. This event takes place at First Unitarian Church, 1011 S.W. 12th Avenue.

Registration is required to attend Saturday and Sunday’s presentations and participate in roundtable discussions that occur throughout the day. Fees for this part of the symposium vary.

For more information, call the William Stafford Center at extension 6162.

Friends of Rain

The contemporary music ensemble Friends of Rain performs Friday, March 2, at 8 p.m. in Evans Music Center. The group includes every performing member of Lewis & Clark’s music faculty.

This season’s concert explores two themes: musical voices from the Pacific Northwest and musical tributes. Works by Pacific Northwest composers Bruce Hamilton, James W. Rogers Professor of Music Gil Seeley, and artistic director Michael Johanson are featured.

Gil Seeley also leads the Oregon Repertory Singers, Lewis & Clark’s resident professional choral ensemble, in concert. The ORS performs a pair of songs by Gyorgy Ligeti, who died in June 2006, and Seeley’s own composition, Homage to Mandela, a moving tribute to South African civil rights leader Nelson Mandela.

Guest composer Bruce Hamilton is professor of composition and theory at Western Washington University. During his visit to Lewis & Clark, he will meet with music students and conduct a composition master class. Friends of Rain performs his chamber work Two Pastorales. Hamilton presents a preconcert discussion of his music at 7:15 p.m.

For more information, call extension 7460.

42nd annual International Fair

Lewis & Clark presents the 42nd annual International Fair on Saturday, March 3, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Templeton Student Center. Sponsored by the International Students of Lewis & Clark, the event offers sights, sounds, and food from around the world. The fair, which is appropriate for all ages, provides the cultural experience of 13 regions and over 40 countries. This year’s theme is “Cultivating Cultures.”

Performances begin at 2 p.m. with a fashion show of traditional and contemporary dress from around the world, followed by traditional dance and music from the selected regions. The performances include salsa dancing, Bollywood dance, African hip-hop, German acoustic guitar, and music on the Korean gyageum, a traditional stringed instrument. The fair is free and open to the public.

For more information, call extension 7305.

26th Annual Gender Studies Symposium

Lewis & Clark’s 26th annual Gender Studies Symposium features over 30 events, including lectures, performances, roundtable discussions, readings, and an art exhibition. “Our Voices, Ourselves” will be held Wednesday through Friday, March 7 to 9. All events are free and open to the public, and take place in Templeton Student Center unless otherwise noted.

E. Patrick Johnson, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the department of performance studies at Northwestern University, performs Pouring Tea: Narratives of Black Gay Men of the South at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7. The staged performance is based on the oral histories of a 60-year-old man from Atlanta, a 37-year-old transgendered person from North Carolina, and a 94-year-old man from New Orleans. The text is drawn from Johnson’s forthcoming book, Sweet Tea: An Oral History of the South.

Dolores C. Huerta, cofounder (with César Chávez) of the United Farm Workers of America and president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, is internationally renowned for her work fighting for better wages and improved work conditions for farm workers. For over 50 years, Huerta has battled segregation and police brutality. President Clinton bestowed the Eleanor Roosevelt Award on her in 1998 and she has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Huerta delivers a keynote presentation titled “Reflections on 50 Years of Activism and the Challenges Ahead” at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7.

Daisy Hernández, managing editor of the national newsmagazine ColorLines, shares her perspectives on writing personal essays about feminism and sexuality in a language other than that of her family. She addresses the freedom she has felt writing without worrying about family members reading her work, as well as her sense of loss and disconnection as a result of writing in a language that is not theirs. Hernández’s presentation is titled “Personal Essays: Writing About Familia, Raza, and Feminism.” She speaks at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 8.

Mab Segrest, Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Connecticut College, is an activist and scholar who has worked with many social justice organizations. Her work in antiracism initiatives is recounted in her award-winning book Memoir of a Race Traitor. Segrest delivers a keynote address, “Social Justice and Narratives of (Be)Longing,” at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 8.

Staceyann Chin is an activist, agitator, and artist whose work draws on her identity as a lesbian and her experiences growing up in Jamaica as the child of Chinese and Jamaican parents. She is best known for her spoken-word poetry. Chin cowrote and performed in the Tony Award-winning Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam. She has also written and performed three one-woman plays. Chin performs at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 9.

This year’s art exhibition is curated by Barbara Bartholomew, visiting assistant professor of art. Featuring work by Lewis & Clark community members, Portland artists, and others from around the nation, the exhibition displays a variety of approaches to questions of gender and identity in a wide range of different media. The exhibition is open daily throughout the symposium.

For a complete schedule and presenter biographies, visit http://www.lclark. edu/dept/gender/ symposia.html or call the Department of Gender Studies at extension 7678.

Upcoming

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