On Campus - Stories
June 7,
2002 - Vol. 55, No. 1
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Wanda Everage, associate
provost for academic services, was one of four women honored Wednesday by the YWCA
of Greater Des Moines for their contributions to the community.
The women were honored at the 21st annual Women of Achievement Awards luncheon at
the Polk County Convention Complex. The awards recognize volunteer efforts to empower
women, children and minorities.
Everage was selected for the honor because of her outstanding work with young people.
In an article in The Des Moines Register on June 1, Everage is quoted as saying that
she has committed her service to young people "not to be acknowledged or recognized
but because it is the right thing to do."
Also honored at the luncheon was Marti Sivi, LA'83. Sivi directs a drama program
for inmates at the state women's prison in Mitchellville. She also uses drama as
part of therapy for children with emotional problems. She's currently directing African-American
inmates in a prison production of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
When the Rainbow Is Enuf."
The Drake University
Choir will give two performances in Carnegie Hall on Sunday, June 9. Choir members
will sing a program by themselves at 2 p.m. that day. Repertoire for that concert
includes pieces sung by the choir on their recent Midwestern tour as well as at the
American Choral Directors Association North Central Division conference in March.
At 3 p.m. on June 9, the Drake Choir, Drake Choir alumni and selected members of
the Drake University/Community Chorus, along with choirs from Missouri and New Jersey,
will collaborate with the New England Symphonic Ensemble, to perform Haydn's monumental
"Schöpfungsmesse" (Creation Mass). Aimee Beckmann-Collier, director
of choral studies at Drake, will conduct.
The Drake Choir made its Carnegie Hall debut in 1998. The Drake Choir and Chamber
Choir also performed at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Manhattan on Wednesday, June
5.
This summer there
is a new opportunity for children at the Drake University Community School of Music,
which is forming a Brass Ensemble under the direction of Joan Oyibo, instructor of
trumpet.
The ensemble will rehearse for 90 minutes weekly starting Thursday, June 20. The
rehearsals, which will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Thursdays, will culminate with
a public performance on Aug. 1.
"This is a wonderful and challenging opportunity for the many talented and hard
working brass players in the greater Des Moines area to grow as musicians and enhance
their ensemble skills," said Christine Schneider, director of the Drake University
Community School of Music. "The Brass Ensemble will learn various styles of
brass ensemble music along with learning how to play within a small group setting."
The tuition and enrollment fee is $70. For additional information and registration,
call Schneider at x4011.
Stuart Shulman, assistant
professor of environmental science and policy, is bringing together government workers,
information technology industry representatives, fellow academics and some of his
students for a June 10 workshop on "e-Rulemaking," in an attempt to foster
cross-agency collaboration and new research partnerships.
Twelve Drake University undergraduate students taking Stuart Shulman's Washington,
D.C., Summer Study Seminar on "National Environmental Policy" will participate
in the workshop.
The workshop is the second in two years organized by Shulman, an "e-Rulemaking"
researcher and member of the National Science Foundation sponsored "Digital
Government Organization." A year ago, Shulman convened a similar meeting attended
by representatives of seven federal agencies.
This year, the daylong meeting will be held Monday, June 10, on the campus of National
Defense University, located at Ft. McNair, in Washington, D.C. The workshop is sponsored
by Drake University.
E-rulemaking is a relatively new concept in government. It involves using the Internet
to seek input from the public about proposed rules. For example, in 1997, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture created a Web site for its National Organic Program, which
was trying to create the standard rules for organic agriculture.
"The USDA was one of the first agencies to allow people to comment and read
other comments over the Web about the proposed rules. They received over 277,000
comments," Shulman said. "Rulemaking is the most democratic and accessible
form of policy making in the U.S. federal government. Government administrative procedure
makes rulemaking open to everyone, and the Internet vastly expands the potential
for public input and deliberation."
Despite reservations about security and cost, the pace of e-Rulemaking is accelerating
in Washington among politicians and policy makers, Shulman says. For example, Sen.
Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) is promoting an e-Government Act, while Mitch Daniels,
director of the Office of Management and Budget, is urging all agencies to adopt
a uniform approach to using the Internet to streamline rulemaking.
The June 10 workshop is one of several recent opportunities for representatives of
different agencies to work together to develop e-Rulemaking capacity, Shulman says.
Officials from the Department of Transportation (DOT), USDA, OMB, NSF and the Department
of Commerce will be among those attending the workshop.
The workshop will feature demonstrations and hands-on simulations in NDU's computer
labs, using the DOT's award-winning Docket Management System. There also will be
discussions about: the future of e-Rulemaking, information storage, security, retrieval,
analysis, privacy, democratic participation and deliberation, interagency collaboration,
portal uniformity, use-ability and seamlessness.
The Drake Neighborhood
Farmers Market will open for the season at 4 p.m. Wednesday, June 5, in the parking
lot of First Christian Church, 25th Street and University Avenue. There will be a
special visit by Ronald McDonald on opening day as well as a live cooking demonstration
by Chef Tag Grandgeorge of the Art House.
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