Campus Connections

Issue Date: October 8, 2007

News and Notices

Peace Corps honors College for volunteerism

Peace Corps Deputy Director Jody Olsen visits campus next week to present a plaque to President Tom Hochstettler honoring Lewis & Clark as a top producer of Peace Corps Volunteers. The reception will be held on Tuesday, October 16 at 3 p.m., at the Manor House. Refreshments will be served.

Lewis & Clark College tied for ninth in the nation among small colleges and universities with the most Peace Corps volunteers in 2007. The College, which moved up 11 spots in the rankings, has 20 volunteers currently out in the field. Since the Peace Corps’ inception in 1961, 312 Lewis & Clark alumni have served in the organization’s ranks. Peace Corps service requires a 27-month commitment.

The total list of 2007 “Top Producing Colleges and Universities” is available online.

Campus safety report

Each fall, the College publishes its annual security report. The report includes statistics for the past three years concerning reported crimes that occurred on campus, in certain off-campus buildings owned or controlled by Lewis & Clark and on public property immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus.

The report also lists institutional policies concerning campus security, including policies on alcohol and drug use, crime prevention, the reporting of crimes and sexual assault.

The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act is a federal law that requires colleges and universities to disclose information about crime on and around their campuses. The act is named in memory of Jeanne Clery, a Lehigh University student.

Copies of Lewis & Clark’s report are available online or from the Campus Safety Office, extension 7855.

Unique program helps recruit multicultural students

The College of Arts and Sciences welcomes faculty and staff to a YES Prep presentation on Thursday, October 11, at 2 p.m. in Miller 105.

YES Prep is a Houston charter school district comprised of five secondary schools, serving predominantly low-income students in grades 6-12. Eighty percent of YES Prep students are economically disadvantaged, 95 percent are Latino or African American, and 86 percent are first-generation college-bound. Among other innovative aspects of their educational program, YES Prep enforces a unique graduation requirement: acceptance into a four-year college or university. Students who have not met this requirement return for a fifth year of high school.

During their visit to campus, Founder and Head of Schools, Chris Barbic, and Director of College Initiatives, Donald Kamentz, will offer a presentation to interested members the campus community. They will discuss the realities facing low-income urban schools and the ways in which YES Prep has been able to successfully turn the tide towards a college-bound culture. For more information, call extension 7040.

Arts & Ideas Calendar

Lewis & Clark presents a broad array of cultural and intellectual events each year, many of which are open to the general public. These opportunities are advertised on campus through posters, fliers, the Pioneer Log, internal newsletters, Web sites, electronic calendars and email messages, and periodically in event-specific paid advertising in public print media.

In an effort to promote these public programs more broadly, and to insure more timely and accurate program information, the Office for Campus Life has replaced the printed semester calendar of events with monthly advertising in two free newspapers broadly distributed throughout the Portland metropolitan area—the Willamette Week and the Portland Tribune.

The Arts and Ideas Calendar is now available exclusively online and includes a broad array of cultural and intellectual events.

To include speakers, symposia, exhibits and performances that are open to the general public in the Arts & Ideas Web site, call extension 7216.

Math student receives $3,000 scholarship

Senior Amy Streifel has been awarded a $3,000 Trjitzinsky Scholarship by the American Mathematical Society. The scholarship is made possible by a bequest from the estate of Waldemar J., Barbara G. and Juliette Trjitzinsky, which stipulates that the income from the bequest should be used to establish a fund to assist needy students who may be in danger of not completing the degree program in mathematics for financial reasons.

Streifel expects to complete her B.A. in mathematics next spring and plans to go to graduate school and eventually pursue a career in academia. She graduated as co-valedictorian from Newport High School and decided to major in mathematics in college because she had middle and high school math teachers who made the subject fun. Streifel has continued to enjoy studying mathematics at Lewis & Clark, while also pursuing a minor in art and working as a tutor in the Math Skills Center. She recently returned from a semester in Australia, where she made mathematics a permanent part of her life, getting Euler’s famous equation ei*pi + 1 = 0 tattooed on her ankle. In her spare time, Streifel enjoys reading, gardening, origami and raising chickens and pheasants.

The American Mathematical Society made $18,000 in awards to six students nationwide, through the Waldemar J. Trjitzinsky Memorial Fund. The society chose six geographically distributed schools in a random drawing from the pool of the Society’s institutional members, and the mathematics departments at those schools then chose students to receive the funds to assist them in the pursuit of careers in mathematics. For more information, call extension 7563.

IT offers fall classes

Information Technology offers ongoing computer training courses. During the next two weeks, the following classes are available: CSS Basics, Using FileMaker Pro, Filemaker Pro Databases (3-part), Photoshop (2-part), Thuderbird E-mail, and a Moodle demo. For more information, contact 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:

Jens Mache, associate professor of computer science, received a $85,355 grant from the National Science Foundation. His project is titled “CSR-CSI Making Sensor Networks Accessible to Undergraduates Through Activity-Based Laboratory Materials.” Mache will undertake the collaborative project with a colleague at Portland State University.

Paul Merchant, special collections associate for the Aubrey R. Watzek Library and adjunct instructor of English, is a finalist for the 2007 Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry, one of the Oregon Book Awards, for his book Some Business of Affinity (Five Seasons Press). The awards ceremony, during which the recipients are announced, will be held on Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. at the Portland Art Museum.

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

Lewis & Clark in the news

College faculty and staff are in the news on a regular basis. Read full articles without subscription fees by logging in with your Lewis & Clark e-mail username and password. Recent media appearances include:

The New York Times: Todd Lochner weighs in on obscenity prosecution

The Oregonian: Stephen Kanter examines the challenges of presidential impeachment

Events

Who will do science? Educating the next generation

The Science Without Limits Speaker Series is an effort to broaden participation in science at all levels. By making innovative scientific research accessible and relevant to a wide audience, this series seeks to increase participation in the physical and natural sciences among all groups, particularly those that have been historically underrepresented.

Dr. Willie Pearson, a nationally recognized scholar in the sociology of science, will speak as part of the series on Monday, October 8, at 5:30 p.m. in Council Chamber. Pearson is the author of six books, including White Society and Colorless Science: A Study of Universalism in American Science and, most recently, Beyond Small Numbers: Voices of African American Ph.D. Chemists. Pearson has served on advisory boards of many organizations, including the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health. In 2001, he was honored as a lifetime National Associate of the National Academies. The speaker series is free and open to the public. For more information, call extension 7594 or 7727.

Acclaimed maestro Vladimir Minin conducts Rachmaninov

Acclaimed Russian maestro Vladimir Minin will conduct selections from “The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom” by Sergei Rachmaninov on Monday, October 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church. Joining the maestro at the podium will be Oregon Repertory Singers Artistic Director and Rogers Professor of Music Gil Seeley. ORS also welcomes Russian bass Dmitry Beloselskiy, who last performed with ORS in 2001. Tickets are available at the Lewis & Clark College Bookstore. For more information, call extension 7216.

Should the law define medical futility?

Dr. Sandra Johnson, J.D., LL.M., a nationally recognized expert in end-of-life issues, will speak on Tuesday, October 17, at 7 p.m. in the lower student lounge of the Law School’s Legal Research Center. The Providence Center for Health Care Ethics is co-sponsoring the lecture, which will explore when the determination of futility of treatment justifies terminating life-sustaining treatment over the objection of the patient or family.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call extension 6677.

L&C Homecoming Week 2007

“Orange Is The New Black” is the theme for this year’s Homecoming Week festivities. The week of October 15 – 21 features some familiar Lewis & Clark traditions, renowned monologuist Mike Daisey, Cambodian-American author Loung Ung, as well as a few new and exciting events aimed at celebrating our community. Below you’ll find some of the highlights of Homecoming Week:

Monday, October 15
Lewis & Clark students will kick off Homecoming Week with the return of the LC Olympics, a series of daily competitions to inspire excitement and invite participation in the week’s activities. Past events have included pie eating contests, Team Jeopardy, a scavenger hunt and a smoothie-chugging contest.

Tuesday, October 16
Famed monologuist Mike Daisey will take over the Fir Acres Theater stage to present All Stories Are Fiction. Daisey is a fierce storyteller who circles in on his uneasy subject matter, closer and closer, until he exposes its raw heart. The New York Times has called him “the master storyteller” and “one of the finest solo performers of his generation,” and he has been compared to Garrison Keillor, Spalding Gray and David Sedaris. With All Stories Are Fiction, the audience will get the chance to hear one-of-a-kind stories, told for the first and last time.

An hour before curtain, Daisey sits down backstage and creates a one-page outline, usually drawing on the events of that week, and, when the lights come up, he opens his mouth to tell the tale for the first and only time. The audience discovers the story at precisely the same moment the storyteller does—resulting in a performance that defines the very idea of LIVE entertainment and creates an unforgettable bond between performer and audience.

The performance begins at 7:30 pm in the Fir Acres Theatre. Tickets are $5 for L&C students, faculty, staff and alumni; general admission is $15. Tickets are available at the Lewis & Clark College Bookstore (located in the Templeton Campus Center).

Wednesday, October 17
Loung Ung will present her lecture, “First They Killed My Father: a Daughter of Cambodia Remembers.” This is also the title of just one of her books (winner of the 2001 Asian Pacific American Award for Literature). She’s also written Lucky Child: a Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind.

Loung is a featured speaker on Cambodia, child soldiers, women and war, domestic violence and she’s also a national spokesperson for Campaign for a Landmine-Free World. She worked for the Vietnam Veterans’ of America Foundation’s Campaign for a Landmine-Free World from 1997-2003, prior to which she was Community Educator for the Abused Women’s Advocacy Project of the Maine Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Ms. Ung continues to serve as National Spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World. Loung is a survivor of the killing fields of Cambodia, one of the bloodiest episodes of the twentieth century.

Her lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Agnes Flanagan Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

Come cheer on the women’s soccer team as it takes on NWC foe, Linfield College at 7 p.m. in Griswold Stadium.

Thursday, October 18
The Alumni Honors Banquet will recognize the 2007 alumni awards recipients. The annual banquet features an evening of great food, drink, conversation and celebration of the achievements of outstanding Lewis & Clark alumni. E. Ward Plummer ’62 and Shahzeb Jillani ’94 will be honored for their noteworthy accomplishments; David LaFrance ’86 and Patrick B. Hibbard ’52 will be honored for their service to the College. The event begins at 6 p.m. with a reception, followed by dinner and awards program at 7 p.m. The banquet will be held in the Stamm Dining Room, Templeton Campus Center.

Friday, October 19
Join alumni, faculty, students and staff at the Multicultural Reception to celebrate the ethnic and gender diversity at Lewis & Clark. Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served. The program runs from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Armstrong Lounge at the Manor House.

Join inductees Stan Blair ’51, Leanne Desilet ’86, Ena Eakin ’92, Don Sempert ’51, M.A.T. ’72 and the 1965 NWC Championship track & field team at the annual Hall of Fame Dinner. The evening is highlighted by great food, drink, conversation and a celebration of the inspiring athletic achievements of Lewis & Clark College alumni. A reception begins at 5:30 p.m., followed at 6:30 p.m. with a dinner program. The dinner will be held in the Stamm Dining Room, Templeton Campus Center,.

Saturday, October 20
Get up early to watch the L&C women’s and men’s swimming teams compete against Albertson College of Idaho at 9 a.m. in the Zehntbauer Swimming Pavilion.

The Homecoming Brunch is a mix of old and new traditions. Students, faculty, alumni and staff are invited to Griswold Stadium for a pre-game celebration. The event starts at 11 a.m. and runs until 1:30 p.m. Don’t miss out on one of the best, and newest, traditions at L&C! And stick around afterward to watch the game and visit with friends. For more information, contact the Office of Alumni and Parent Programs at extension 7950.

The Pioneers face off against Northwest Conference opponent University of Puget Sound on Fred Wilson Field for the Homecoming Football Game. Kick-off is at 1 p.m. in Griswold Stadium.

Don the Lewis & Clark colors at the Black and Orange Grand Reception. This new event gathers alumni representing a wide range of class years, as well as faculty and staff of the College. Find old friends and make new acquaintances over drinks and hors d’oeuvres. President Hochstettler will discuss the past, present and future of the College. The program runs from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Stamm Dining Room, Templeton Campus Center.

Lewis & Clark goes to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry for Back2Basics—a one-of-a-kind event. Students, faculty, staff, alumni, board of trustees members and friends of the College are invited to spend an evening playing, discovering, exploring and dancing the night away. Many exhibits will be open, including Turbine Hall and the Science Playground, so bring the kids and explore OMSI with your L&C family. There will be food and beverages, and a no-host bar.

This event is sponsored by the Activities Congress, Office of Alumni & Parent Programs and the Dean of Students office. Tickets are $8 for L&C students and children ages 10-17, and $12 for the rest of the L&C community. Children ages 9 and under are free. L&C community tickets can be purchased at the Office of Alumni and Parent Programs. For more information, call extension 7952.

Students write, direct and perform short plays

The Theatre Department presents “Once Upon A Weekend,” an annual event in which students write, direct, rehearse and perform plays within a four-day period. Students’ plays, sketches and scenes will be performed on Saturday, October 20, at 10 p.m. in Fir Acres Theatre.

The event is sponsored by Pause, Lewis & Clark’s journal of student-written dramatic writing. Tickets are free. For more information, call extension 7491.

Upcoming

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