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April
11, 2003 Vol. 55, No. 38
Kurt Kanaskie announced
today that he is resigning as head coach of the Drake University men's basketball
team.
Drake University President David Maxwell thanked Kanaskie for his honorable service
and wished him well in his future endeavors. Maxwell reiterated that the University
made a commitment to Kanaskie as recently as the weekend of the Missouri Valley
Conference Tournament that he would continue as head coach.
"We told Kurt then that he was our Coach and we looked forward to him continuing,"
Maxwell said. "We understand and respect his desire to go in another direction."
"I appreciate the opportunity I had to lead the Drake men's basketball program,
and I wish the young men I have been associated with the very best in every opportunity
they have in the future," Kanaskie said. "Most importantly, my family
and I are forever grateful for the friendships we've made in this community."
Kanaskie said that he has had discussions with potential employers, but has not
made any final decisions at this time.
Kanaskie was named Drake's head men's basketball coach on April 8, 1996. He had
previously been the head coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Lock
Haven University, and was assistant coach at the University of South Carolina.
While at IUP, he was selected by Basketball Times as the NCAA Division II Coach
of the Year in both 1994 and 1995.
Faculty, staff
and students are invited to attend the Drake University Community to attend the
annual Honors Convocation of the College of Arts and Sciences. The awards ceremony
will start at 7 p.m. Monday, April 14, in Parents Hall at Olmsted Center.
Maria Clapham, associate professor of psychology, will deliver the Honors Address.
Dean Susan Wright will announce the student awards, which will be presented by
the Arts and Sciences faculty. Colin Cairns, chair of the Faculty Cabinet, will
preside. The Outstanding Teacher Award, the 2003 Stalnaker Lecturer and the E.
A. Sheslow Prize are among the awards that will be presented.
A panel discussion
titled "Sustainable Agriculture and Agribusiness: Are They Compatible Practices?"
will be presented Tuesday, April 15, by the Drake Law School Environmental Law
Society. The event will start at 4:30 p.m. in room 213 of Cartwright Hall.
The panel will focus on the past and current conflicts between the two practices,
and how advocates for both are working to make sustainable agriculture and agribusiness
compatible, rather than competing, practices in the future.
Panelists include Maury Wills of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship,
Iowa farmer Larry Cleverly, Des Moines attorney Steve Schoenbaum, Stuart Shulman,
assistant professor of environmental science and policy at Drake, and speakers
from the Natural Resource and Environment Committee and the Agriculture Committee
of the Iowa Legislature.
The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments, consisting of Iowa-grown
products, will be served. For more information, contact J.J. Andrighetti at 778-9788
or ja0006@drake.edu.
The Drake University
Writers and Critics Series will feature a reading by Myung Mi Kim, author of five
poetry collections and professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University,
at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 17. The reading, which is free and open to the public,
will be held in the Honors Lounge in Medbury Hall.
Kim is the author of Commons, Spelt, Dura, The Bounty and Under Flag. Her poems
have appeared in such journals as Conjunctions, Sulfur, Avec, Hambone and Positions:
East Asia Cultures Critique. Kim's work also has been anthologized in Premonitions:
Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, from Talisman House, and Asian
American Literature, as part of the Literary Mosaic Series From HarperCollins.
Drake University,
Hispanic Educational Resources and the Pan American Committee will present "Pan
American Program: Getting Together for a Better Tomorrow" at noon Thursday,
April 17, in Olmsted Center at Drake University, 29th Street and University Avenue.
The event will begin with a luncheon featuring guitarist Lorenzo Sandoval, host
of the Insight Iowa Program, and Drake student pianist Patrick Cruz-Brown. Following
the luncheon, John Paul Chaisson-Cardenas, executive director of the Institute
for the Support of Latino/a Families and Communities, will give a presentation
titled "Latinos in the United States: A Solid Bridge for a Better Tomorrow."
The cost of the event is $10 per person. To make reservations, call x3711.
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