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February 27, 2004 Vol. 56, No. 26
Ronald Barry, retired chairman and founder of Color Converting Industries, will speak at Drake University's "Let's DU Lunch" series on Wednesday, March 3. The series, which is open to the public, is sponsored by the Drake University Central Iowa Alumni Chapter and the Greater Des Moines Partnership.
In his presentation, Barry will focus on the principles and values that guided critical decision making through good times and bad. After founding Color Converting Industries in 1975, Barry shaped the local start-up into a professionally managed organization that is well positioned to continue to excel in today's demanding global marketplace. In December 2003, Siegwerk, a 150-year-old European company, bought Color Converting Industries, allowing each company to better meet the challenge of globalization.
The spring luncheon series will conclude on Wednesday, April 7, with a speech by Christopher Nelson, president of Kemin Worldwide.
All of the luncheons start at 11:30 a.m. in the Younkers Tea Room in downtown Des Moines. The cost is $15 per lunch. Due to limited seating, reservations are recommended. Call x3378 for reservations.
Karen Manheim Teel, assistant professor of education at Holy Names College in Oakland, Calif., will be the keynote speaker at the Drake School of Education Alumni Dinner Friday, March 5, at Olmsted Center.
Teel's speech is titled "Toward Closing the Achievement Gap: Focusing on the Impact of Racial and Cultural Differences in Schools."
At the dinner, which starts with a reception at 5:30 p.m., the School of Education will honor three alumni for their outstanding contributions to education:
The cost of the dinner is $25. For reservations, call Cheryl Cox, director of marketing and special events for the School of Education, at x2183.
Drake University Theatre will present Alan Ball's "Five Women Wearing The Same Dress," a hilarious and touching comedy by the writer of "Six Feet Under" and the Academy Award-winning "American Beauty."
During an ostentatious wedding reception in Knoxville, Tenn., five identically clad bridesmaids hide out in the bride's bedroom, each with her own reason for avoiding the proceedings below. As the afternoon wears on, events unfold that create a unique and hysterical bond between these five disparate women.
This play, directed by Deena Conley, assistant professor of theatre arts, contains adult language and situations. It is not recommended for young audiences.
Performances start at 8 p.m. March 11, 12 and 13 and at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 14, in Studio 55 of the Harmon Fine Arts Center.
Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for senior citizens and non-Drake students or free with a Drake ID. Reservations are required due to limited seating. For reservations, call the Drake Fine Arts Box Office at x3841.
Robert W. Shumaker, a senior scientist at the Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary in Des Moines, will discuss his research on Friday, March 5, at Drake.
His talk, which is free and open to the public, is titled "Quantity Judgment by Orangutans." The presentation will start at 3 p.m. in room 101 of Olin Hall.
Shumaker holds a Ph.D. in biology from George Mason University and is a noted researcher on great apes, especially regarding their cognitive abilities.
The Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary is a new multimillion-dollar research facility under construction on 200 acres just a few miles southeast of Des Moines. Already, the IPLS has attracted some of the top primate research scientists in the world. It is a non-profit organization devoted to non-invasive studies of the cognition, behavioral ecology, and conservation of primates. Ted Townsend, a well-known Des Moines businessman, founded the IPLS. Construction of the facility is expected to be completed later this year or next. Eventually, the facility will house chimps, orangutans, and gorillas. Further information can be obtained at www.iowagreatapes.org.
Shumaker's speech is sponsored by Drake's Psychology Department and Biology Department.
Massimo Nosetti, one of Italy's outstanding organists, will give a guest recital at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 7, in the Performing Arts Hall in the Harmon Fine Arts Center. Nosetti has performed as a soloist in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and New Zealand. He also has composed and published numerous choral and organ works. Nosetti's repertoire extends from the Renaissance to the present day. The recital has been made possible by a generous gift from Mark McClellan of Iowa Falls. Admission is free.
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| Drake Law School Dean David Walker |
Sharon Walsh, senior editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, traveled to Drake from Washington, D.C., on Feb. 19 to cover a forum sponsored by Drake Law School's Student Bar Association and its chapter of the National Lawyer's Guild. The forum was organized to discuss subpoenas issued to Drake University officials and four Des Moines peace activists following an anti-war conference co-sponsored by the National Lawyer's Guild, which took place on the Drake campus last November.
Speakers included third-year Drake law student Jason Dunn, president of the Drake National Lawyer's Guild; Jane Reissen, a third-year law student and member of the Drake National Lawyer's Guild; Ben Stone, executive director of the Iowa Civil Liberties Union; Drake Law School Dean David Walker, Drake law professors Jim Adams, Robert Hunter and Larry Pope; and Drake Provost Ron Troyer.
Drake President David Maxwell has been interviewed for a story about the subpoenas that is scheduled to air at 9 p.m. Friday, March 5, on "Now with Bill Moyers" on Iowa Public Television (Channel 11).
The French television program "90 Minutes" plans to send a crew to Drake in March to interview University officials for a story on the subpoenas.
Dorothy Roberts, professor of law at Northwestern University Law School, will speak on International Women's Day to mark the beginning of Drake University's annual "In Celebration of Womyn Week," March 8-13.
Roberts will discuss "Feminism, Racial Justice and Child Welfare Policy," at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 8, in Bulldog Theater in Olmsted Center. Roberts has written several books, including Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. In addition, she has written and lectured extensively on the interplay of gender, race and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, motherhood and child welfare policy.
Roberts' speech will highlight the beginning of Drake's "In Celebration of Womyn Week," which is sponsored by Drake's Women's Studies Program, Humanities Center, Coalition of Black Students, Department for the Study of Culture and Society and Student Senate.
"In Celebration of Womyn Week" will continue with the following events:
The week is sponsored by the Women's Awareness Coalition and the Women's Studies Program.
Regarded as one of the world's supreme chamber music ensembles, the Tokyo String Quartet will perform music by Mozart, Webern and Beethoven at Drake on Sunday, March 14. The concert, made possible by a gift from the late Earle Ferguson, ED'31, LW'34, will start at 8 p.m. on the Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main.
The quartet, which has been nominated for seven Grammy Awards, performs on "The Paganini Quartet," a group of renowned Stradivarius instruments named for legendary virtuoso Niccolò Paganini, who acquired and played them during the 19th-century. The valuable instruments have been loaned to the ensemble by the Nippon Music Foundation since 1995, when they were purchased from the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
The quartet is comprised of violist Kazuhide Isomura, a founding member of the group; second violinist Kikuei Ikeda, who joined the ensemble in 1974; cellist Clive Greensmith, formerly principal cellist of London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, who joined in 1999; and first violinist Martin Beaver, who joined the ensemble in 2002.
Tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for students. They will be available at the door and at the Drake Fine Arts Box Office at x3841.
Salman Rushdie, one of the world's most respected writers, will give the Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 30, in the Drake Knapp Center. His lecture, which will be followed by a reception and book signing, is titled "Step Across This Line: An Evening with Salman Rushdie."
In both fiction and non-fiction, Rushdie uses his unique upbringing and personal history to make bold statements about life on earth. His 1989 book The Satanic Verses, was a huge popular and critical success, although also led to a fatwa calling for his death from Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini.
Rushdie's most recent book is Step Across This Line: Collected Non-fiction, 1992-2002. Among other topics, the pieces in this collection explore the reaction of the media, various governments and the writer himself to what he calls the "unfunny Valentine" he received on Feb. 14, 1989, from the Ayatollah Khomeini: the fatwa calling for his death.
It was while living under constant threat of violence that Rushdie produced some of the most sincere and beautiful work. The Moor's Last Sigh and Midnight's Children were especially well received, as were his frequent essays on intellectual freedom. The government of Iran lifted the fatwa in 1998.
A prominent lecturer as well as writer, Rushdie has been a guest of some of the world's finest educational institutions and is an honorary professor of the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Melva and the late Martin Bucksbaum, former chairman and president of General Growth Corp. and long-time member of Drake's governing board.
Drake Law School's 67th Annual Supreme Court Celebration kicks off Wednesday, March 10, and culminates in the Supreme Court Banquet on Saturday, March 13. Other events include a moot court competition, dinners for the Drake Journal of Agricultural Law and Drake Law Review, and a luncheon for the Moot Court Board.
Each year during the Supreme Court Celebration, four students, finalists in an old and distinguished moot court competition, have the privilege of arguing an appellate case to the Iowa Supreme Court. The justices determine who among the finalists is the best oral advocate, and the "opinion of the court" is announced at the banquet.
Drake Law School welcomes Judge Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, as the keynote speaker at the Supreme Court Banquet at Downtown Marriott.
Judge Kozinski serves on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and is widely regarded as one of the nation's leading appellate jurists.
Following graduation first in his class from UCLA Law School, he served successive clerkships for then-Circuit Judge Anthony Kennedy and Chief Justice Warren Burger and practiced law with Covington and Burling. He was appointed by President Reagan, first, to the U.S. Court of Claims as Chief Judge and, in 1985, to the Court of Appeals. He has written more than three dozen articles in law reviews.
A native of Romania, Kozinski emigrated with his family to escape Communist oppression at the age of 12. His conservative jurisprudence is known for both its clarity and humor and retains a strong streak of civil libertarianism.