On Campus - Stories
Oct. 4,
2002 Vol. 55, No. 16
JOIN
CELEBRATION OF CAMPAIGN DRAKE TOMORROW
All faculty and staff members are invited to join in the celebration of the success
of Campaign Drake on Saturday, Oct. 5.
There will be a free barbecue dinner, inflatable games and a concert by The Nadas
from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Drake Knapp Center. In addition, there will be hot air balloon
rides in front of the Drake Knapp Center, weather permitting.
Led by national chair Madelyn M. Levitt, Campaign Drake has raised $190,214,631 -
the largest amount of money ever raised in the history of Drake University. Campaign
Drake, which ended May 31, is the largest fund drive ever undertaken by a private
college or university in Iowa.
Tomorrow morning there will be a dedication ceremony for Branson Plaza, a Campaign
Drake project that is adjacent to Hubbell Dining Hall. The ceremony will start at
11:45 a.m. The plaza is named in memory of Scott Branson, a Drake student who died
in 2001 while trying to break up a fight near campus.
In addition to Campaign Drake events, there will be homecoming activities as well.
A tailgate party will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. under a tent in the parking
lot at 28th Street and Forest Avenue. The cost is $6.50 per person.
The Drake homecoming football game between the Bulldogs and Valparaiso will start
at 1 p.m. in Drake Stadium. Tickets are $7 for adults and children 15 and under are
admitted free when accompanied by a paying adult.
PLAN
TO ATTEND TOWN MEETINGS NEXT WEEK
Two sets of town meetings will take place next week. The first set, which will focus
on Drake's budget, will start at 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, in Bulldog
Theater.
The second set of town meetings will explore Drake's strategic plan. These meetings
will start at3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, and at 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 11, in Bulldog
Theater.
DRAKE
TO DISPLAY OVER 500 BOOKS DURING BOOK WEEK
More than 500 books published in 2002 for children and young adults will be displayed
Oct. 7-9 at Drake University as part of Book Week. The display in the Cowles Library
Reading Room will be open to the public from 1 to 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 9 a.m. to
8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9.
On Monday, Oct. 7, there will be a book review session in the Cowles Library Reading
Room at 4:30 p.m. followed by a speech at 5:30 p.m. by Todd Strasser, author of over
100 novels and novelizations for middle school and adolescent readers. Strasser's
speech is titled "Help! I'm Trapped in an Author's Body."
DRAKE
ESTABLISHES CENTER FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
Drake University is developing a Center for Global Citizenship with the support of
a $225,000 gift from Des Moines business leaders Rolland W. and Mary Nelson, and
a $25,000 gift from Richard S. Cusac, a member of Drake's Board of Trustees.
The center's mission is to educate students to function effectively in different
cultural contexts and to ensure that global and international perspectives and issues
are an integral part of the intellectual and cultural experience of all members of
the Drake community.
The center will invite community leaders to speak to the Drake community about their
experiences with global/international issues. In addition, community organizations
will be invited to participate in the center's conferences and special events.
"We are delighted to receive major gifts for the Drake Center for Global Citizenship
from three individuals who have all enjoyed distinguished careers in international
business," said Drake President David Maxwell. "With their support, we
are developing Drake University's first integrated effort to examine global and international
issues and perspectives in a cross-disciplinary manner and on a university-wide basis."
Rolland W. Nelson, a 1950 Drake graduate, is founder and chairman of Kemin Industries
Inc. and his wife, Mary, is vice president of the company, which manufactures specialty
products for a wide variety of nutritional applications. "It is our hope that
the Center for Global Citizenship will improve the cultural relationships that will
extend beyond Drake University," Rolland W. Nelson said. "The fostering
of better understanding of diverse cultures will improve the quality of life of all
participants."
Cusac, a Drake alumnus, is a strategic business consultant who has worked abroad
for nearly 20 years, serving in senior positions with CitiCorp (now CitiGroup) in
Asia and the Middle East, as CEO of the Gulf Bank of Kuwait, and managing director
of Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in London. He now resides in Incline Village, Nev.,
and Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
"There is a great need for all of us to be more effective in a global context,"
Cusac said. "In its formative stage at Drake, I actively supported the concept.
Now, I want to help the center achieve its potential."
David Skidmore, professor of politics and international relations at Drake, has been
named director of the center. "This gift will allow Drake to provide its students,
faculty and staff with a rich array of opportunities to explore international affairs
and to consider the responsibilities of global citizenship," Skidmore said.
The center will pursue objectives in four basic areas: academic programming and educational
opportunities, faculty development, global programs and initiatives and community
outreach.
DRAKE
TO BE FEATURED IN COLLEGE TOUR ON WHO-TV
Drake University will be featured as part of the College Tour broadcast on WHO-TV.
The tour will air from 6:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, and again from 12:30 to
1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19.
NEW
EXHIBIT EXPLORES LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION IN VISUAL TERMS
The Anderson Gallery's exhibition of paintings by Wade Carter and William Potter
transposes issues of language and communication into the realm of the visual. "Syntagm
:: Paradigm" will be on view at the Anderson Gallery from Oct. 12 through Nov.
7. The opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11.
For Potter (born 1970, Oklahoma City, Okla.), language is primarily a matter of structures
in which syntax is given full play. He is interested in the shifting language of
form, combining sculpture and painting to explore the malleability and pictorial
grammar of the two media. His three-dimensional paintings investigate the intriguing
relationship between the work and the installation space. Like language itself, Potter's
pieces are in a constant state of "shifting, piercing, reconfiguring, and unfolding;"
they evolve physically through the process of refining an idea. Potter teaches foundations
at the Herron School of Art at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis.
His constructed paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions and reviewed
in publications such as Artweek and The Cincinnati Enquirer.
Carter (born 1953, Saint Cloud, Minn.) also is interested in language, but he emphasizes
the metaphor. His paintings reflect an ongoing investigation and manipulation of
surface in an effort to elicit content "drawn from personal and collective experience."
Combining collage with traditional and experimental methods of painting and drawing,
Carter creates internally complex works in the making of which direct interaction
with materials plays a significant role. His work has been exhibited at the Dallas
Museum of Art and the Museum of East Texas, as well as in numerous solo and group
exhibitions. He holds a position at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas.
Carter and Potter will discuss their work in a gallery talk at 5:30 p.m. Friday,
Oct. 11. The gallery talk and opening reception are free and open to the public.
The Anderson Gallery is located in the Harmon Fine Arts Center, 25th Street and Carpenter
Avenue. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. For more information
about the exhibition and the gallery, call (515) 271-1994, send an e-mail message
to cira.pascual-marquina@drake.edu, or visit the gallery's new
Web site at http://www.drake.edu/andersongallery
PADILLA
TO RELEASE SOLO CLARINET CD AT RECITAL
Clarence Padilla, associate professor of clarinet, will officially release his first
solo compact disc recording by giving a recital at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, on the
Jordan Stage in Sheslow Auditorium
The CD, titled "Playing Through," was the result of Padilla's sabbatical
during the 2001-02 academic year and included strong participation from other Drake
music faculty members and staff, including Chiu-Ling Lin, piano; Misha Rosenker,
violin; Cynthia Giunta, piano; and Gilda Biel, piano. Robert Meunier, director of
bands, co-produced the CD.
The recording is enhanced by the inclusion of two commissioned works written specifically
for Padilla's compact disc. They are: "Jazz Suite for Clarinet and Piano"
by Bill Liston, a Los Angeles-based composer and arranger, and "Playing Through
for Clarinet and Tone Generator" by William Dougherty, professor of theory and
composition.
"It has long been a goal of mine to complete a project of this scope and I am
extremely happy that it has finally come to fruition," said Padilla. "I
am grateful to my close friends and colleagues who participated on my CD recording."
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