On Campus - Stories February 22, 2002 - Vol. 54, No. 32 National Alumni Scholarship Day set for Saturday Symposium to explore selection of Supreme Court justices Concert to feature Drake Soloist Competition winner Tuesday Drake Business Link workshop draws 165 managers Drake Theatre presents musical that makes Shakespeare rock Concert to tout American songs Presentation on Lyon, France, set for Tuesday evening Fresh and challenging new work to be displayed at Drake galleries Students' art on display in Hawaii Law prof to discuss polygamy

This year 239 candidates from around the world are competing for Drake's six National Alumni Scholarships, which cover full tuition, room and board, and 10 Carpenter Scholarships, which cover full tuition.

Last Saturday 104 candidates visited the campus for National Alumni Scholarship Day. On Saturday, Feb. 23, another 125 candidates will participate in the second National Alumni Scholarship Day. Four candidates from other countries participated via phone and fax last weekend and another six will do so on Saturday.

Candidates and their parents attend a reception the evening before National Alumni Scholarship Day at the home of President David Maxwell and Madeleine Maxwell. During the day they visit campus, students write an essay, interview with members of the selection committee, attend academic sessions and class options, tour the campus and attend a formal luncheon and recognition ceremony.

Eight alumni who were National Alumni Scholars are returning to help with the selection process this weekend. Nearly 60 faculty members, 60 staff members and 60 students also are helping with National Alumni Scholar Days, which are coordinated by the Admission Office and Alumni and Parent Programs.

"This is the crown jewel of our student recruitment program,î said Deneen Dygert, associate director of admission. "An incredible number of people give willingly of their time and energy to make this program a success. It's the best of Drake."

Three of the most knowledgeable and original thinkers on the selection of Supreme Court justices will speak at a symposium on that subject on Saturday, March 2, in Cartwright Hall.

The speakers will be Viet D. Dinh, the Executive Branch official responsible for vetting judicial nominees; and two scholars who will be on the Senate Judiciary Committee's witness list: Stephen L. Carter, the William Nelson Cromwell professor of law at Yale Law School; and Michael Gerhardt, the Arthur B. Hanson chair in constitutional law at the College of William and Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law.

Carter will open the symposium with a talk titled "A Devilish Look at the Confirmation Process." Then Gerhardt will discuss "How to Avoid Thermonuclear War: The Stakes in the Impending Battle over the Next Supreme Court Justice."
Dinh, assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Policy in the U.S. Department of Justice, will speak about "Making Judicious Choices: The Constitutional Responsibility to Nominate Supreme Court Justices."

All three speakers will participate in a roundtable discussion moderated by Thomas E. Baker, the James Madison chair in constitutional law and director of the Constitutional Law Center at Drake University Law School.

The symposium is sponsored by the Constitutional Law Center and the Des Moines law firm of Belin Lamson McCormick Zumbach Flynn P.C.

The registration fee is $50. For an additional $20, registrants will receive a copy of the proceedings reprinted in the Drake Law Review. For more information and registration, call the Constitutional Law Center at x3354.

Pianist Michael Hanson, a sophomore at Drake and the winner of the 2001-2002 Drake Soloist Competition, will be featured in Prokofieff's Piano Concerto No. 3 during the Drake Symphony Orchestra concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main. Hanson, who is majoring in music performance, is from Savage, Minn.

The orchestra, conducted by John Canarina, also will perform the Tragic Overture by Brahms, "Sinfonia sevillana" by Spanish composer Joaquin Turina and Dances from "The Bartered Bride" by Smentana. The concert is free and open to the
public.

The Drake University Business Link attracted 165 managers to a free workshop Jan. 31 on "How to Motivate and Retain Your Best Employees."

The keynote speaker was Marc Drizin of Walker Information, who presented the results of the 2001 National Employee Benchmark Study on employee commitment and loyalty. The workshop also included a panel discussion with local human resource managers who talked about what they are doing to increase employee commitment and retention.

"The workshop was very successful even though we had a snowstorm that day," said Delaney Kirk, professor of management and international business and director of the Drake Business Link.

Drake University Theatre will present "Two Gentlemen of Verona - The Musical," a 1970s-style freewheeling adaptation of William Shakespeare's comedy featuring music by Galt McDermot and lyrics by John Guare.

McDermot, the composer of "Hair," uses rock, pop, Latin, blues and even a touch of country Western to enliven the bard's tale of tangled love, broken vows and a final happy reconciliation. "Two Gentlemen of Verona - The Musical" was a smash hit in 1971 and 1972 and won the Tony Award for Best Musical and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.

"This production is pure flower power - bell bottoms, go-go girls, a doo-wop backing group and psychedelic images," says director Clive Elliott, Drake's Daniel B. Goldberg artist in residence.
Performances will start at 8 p.m. March 7, 8 and 9 and at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 10, in the Performing Arts Hall, Harmon Fine Arts Center.

Elliott will give a presentation on "The Many Attempts to Turn the Works of Shakespeare into Broadway Musicals" at a TalkAbout preceding the performance on Friday, March 8.

The TalkAbout will start at 6 p.m. at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Student Center, 28th Street and Brattleboro Avenue. There will be a light supper featuring Pasta Veronese, fresh vegetables, country bread and assorted biscotti. Elliott will make his presentation at 7 p.m. Tickets for the TalkAbout and Friday night performance are $16. Reservations are required and may be made by calling x4747.

Tickets for the musical, which are $6 for adults, $3 for students and senior citizens, are available at the Drake Fine Arts Box Office at x3841.

The Drake Wind Symphony, conducted by Robert Meunier, will perform a concert featuring American songs and Drake voice professor Leanne Freeman-Miller, soprano, at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 2, on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium.

The program will include works by American composers Ives, Gillingham, Grantham, Nelson and Ticheli. The concert is free and open to the public.

Nelle N. Kottman, professor of history at Iowa State University, will present a slide show and discussion of Lyon, France, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, in room 237 of Meredith Hall. The presentation, which is free and open to the public, is titled "Lyon: France's ëSecond City' and Undiscovered Treasure."

Kottman has been a member of the French section of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at ISU since 1979. As the director of a summer program in Lyon, she has had many opportunities to explore the city of 415,000 in east central France. Kottman's presentation is sponsored by the Alliance Francaise of Central Iowa.

"Four Identities 4 Artists," an exhibition featuring the work of four Drake University senior Bachelor of Fine Arts students, will be on view at the Anderson Gallery and adjacent Weeks Gallery from Tuesday, Feb. 26, through March 12.

The exhibition features graphic designers Kim Rowe Dyer, Heidi Gough and Alesha Hartin and printmaker Adrienne Hooker. Dyer's work will be on display in the Weeks Gallery in the lobby of the Harmon Fine Arts Center. The other three artists will have their work displayed in the Anderson Gallery in the Harmon Fine Arts Center.

The opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, March 1. The reception and the exhibition are free and open to the public.

The Anderson Gallery is open from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. The Weeks Gallery hours are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday.

Two Drake University students have had their drawings selected for the 2002 National Drawing Exhibition at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

Paul J. Harmon, a senior art and drawing major from Fort Collins, Colo., was selected for his drawing titled "Mannequin One." Audrey K. Meyer, a junior drawing major from Des Moines, was selected for an untitled drawing.

The exhibition is unique in that all of the students' drawings submitted for juried review were nominated by their institution or department. Universities and schools from across the country nominated a group of nearly 300 drawings for the exhibition. The works were juried by Leon N. Hicks, professor emeritus of art at Webster University, St. Louis.

The drawings by Harmon and Meyer are on view at the University of Hawaii at Hilo Campus Center Gallery as part of the 2002 National Drawing Exhibition, which runs from Feb. 4 through April 12. In addition to Drake, 24 colleges and universities are represented in the exhibition.

"This is a tremendous honor for both Paul and Audrey," said Angela Battle, assistant professor of art at Drake. "This puts Drake students on the national map."

On Wednesday, March 6, Adrien Wing, the Bessie Dutton Murray distinguished professor of law at the University of Iowa, will present a lecture on polygamy in the 21st century in Britain, South Africa and the United States, and its implications for women of color. Her talk, originally scheduled for Feb. 12, will start at 7:30 p.m. in the Medbury Honors Lounge. The event is presented by the Critical Studies of Culture Program and the Center for the Humanities.

Andrea Conroy, a junior graphic design major from West Des Moines, is one of 11 Drake students painting seven chairs to be auctioned as pieces of art at a March 5 fundraiser for the Arthritis Foundation Iowa Chapter. Angela Battle, assistant professor of art, and Mary Edrington, assistant dean and internship coordinator in the College of Business and Public Administration, coordinated the effort. Chairs to be auctioned are on display now through March 4 at locations such as Merle Hay Mall, Southridge Mall and Kaleidoscope.

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