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On Campus - Stories
November
8, 2002 Vol. 55, No. 21
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Drake joins
Lakeside Laboratory Consortium
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| Attending the signing ceremony
are Thomas Rosburg, Iowa State Provost Benjamin Allen, Robert Barak of the Iowa Board
of Regents, Arnold van der Valk, Ron Troyer and Daryl Smith of the University of
Northern Iowa. |
Drake University recently became the first private institution to join the Iowa
Lakeside Laboratory consortium,
a 140-acre campus and nature preserve on the west shore of West Okoboji Lake. The
consortium is run cooperatively by Iowa State University, the University of Northern
Iowa and the University of Iowa through the Iowa Board of Regents.
By joining the consortium, Drake University gains opportunities for students to obtain
hands-on experience working with Iowa's natural and human environments through field-oriented
summer courses. The lab also provides research facilities and support for graduate
students and faculty.
Two Drake faculty members will teach courses at the lab next summer. They are Thomas
Rosburg, associate professor of biology and co-director of the environmental science
and policy program; and Keith Summerville, assistant professor of environmental science
and policy.
"All Lakeside courses are total immersion courses that run eight hours a day,
five days a week for four weeks in a learning community setting," said Rosburg,
Drake's coordinator for the consortium. "To me, it's an ideal place to learn.
Having 35 courses open to Drake students at Lakeside is the equivalent of adding
seven more faculty members. This will help us attract students and make our biology
and environmental science and policy programs stronger, richer and deeper."
Officials from Drake, the Iowa State Board of Regents, Lakeside Laboratory, ISU and
UNI gathered Oct. 31 at Drake for the signing of the consortium agreement. "I
can't tell you how delighted we are to be the first private university to join the
consortium," Drake Provost Ron Troyer said at the signing ceremony.
Arnold van der Valk, director of Lakeside Laboratory, noted that Lakeside was started
in 1909 by University of Iowa professor Thomas Macbride as a private summer field
station that served the state's public and private colleges and universities. In
1936 Lakeside became a state institution. Today it is run by the Regents institutions
and the Iowa Board of Regents.
"We're going back to our roots and rededicating ourselves to the purposes set
forth by Thomas Macbride," Van der Valk said. "It's certainly appropriate
for Drake - the premier private school in the state - to be the first private institution
to join the Lakeside consortium."
Gallery to
be transformed into conceptual art playroom
Opening Friday, Nov. 15, and on view through Dec. 19 at the Anderson Gallery, "Lucio
Pozzi INDOOR GAMES" presents a major site-specific installation by Italian-born
artist Lucio Pozzi, a pioneer of performance art and installation who is based in
New York City.
Engaged with an art that is democratic, collaborative and experimental in nature,
Pozzi considers himself "a painter who pursues painterly concerns in other media
as well." His exhibitions often include video, installation, photography and
performance and are rooted historically in conceptual art and process art as well
as traditional painting.
At the Anderson Gallery, Pozzi will create a site-specific installation, which is
a main strand in his diverse artistic practice. The installation, called "INDOOR
GAMES," is a single, multi-part work consisting of panels in four basic colors
(red, blue, green, and yellow) as well as large-format photographs of infants and
images of war that are juxtaposed on either side of the gallery. To create the complex
work, the artist will join forces with student collaborators. The exhibition will
be accompanied by a public lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, in room 336 of the
Harmon Fine Arts Center.
The opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, will feature a gallery talk
at 6 p.m. and a performance of "Playrooms" at 6:30 p.m. Described by Pozzi
as "a series of mysterious events and actions," the performance is a new
semi-improvisational collaboration with student artists, musicians and actors.
Born in 1935 in Milan, Italy, Pozzi has had numerous solo and group exhibitions including
one of the first "Projects" solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art,
New York, as well as installations at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, and
the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Pozzi's work is in the collections of the
Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
"We are extremely lucky to have Lucio Pozzi's work at the Anderson Gallery,"
said Cira Pascual Marquina, gallery director. "Pozzi is an artist of extraordinary
merit, whose work, being collaborative, is especially fitting for an educational
institution."
All events associated with "Lucio Pozzi INDOOR GAMES" are free and open
to the public. The Anderson Gallery
is in the Harmon Fine Arts Center. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through
Sunday.
Charitable
campaign ends Nov. 15
The 2002 Drake Charitable Giving Campaign for United Way of Central Iowa and Iowa Shares
will end on Friday, Nov. 15.
All faculty and staff members are encouraged to return pledge forms by then even
if they decide not to contribute to either organization. Pledge forms may be returned
to the designated person in your department or to Dolph Pulliam in institutional
advancement.
Judy Gorman
to perform at Drake
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Judy Gorman will give a lecture titled "The
History of Women and Music" at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13, in Sheslow Auditorium.
She also will give a performance of songs by, about, against and for women at 9 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 14, at Cool Beans. Both events are free and open to the public.
The New York City resident is a high-intensity performer whose songs get their wings
from her imagination and their roots from folk, blues, jazz and gospel music.
Drake
students make a real difference in Des Moines
More than 200 students pitched in to help revitalize the Drake and Mondamin Presidential
neighborhoods in Des Moines on Oct. 26: national "Make a Difference Day."
Twice as many students volunteered this year as last year.
Approximately 160 students donated their time and efforts to make a difference for
80-year-old Rosetta Mills, a neighbor of Drake University for 38 years. They raked
and mowed her lawn, repaired her porch and scraped and painted the exterior of her
house at 1128 27th St.
Mills was in the hospital that day but saw a local TV newscast that showed a large
group of people painting her house. "I just can't thank everyone enough,"
she said after returning home. "A friend came to pick me up for a doctor's appointment
the other day and she drove right by my house. It looks so much better now, that
she didn't recognize it."
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| Some of the 160 students working
in the Drake area pose for a photo in front of Rosetta Mills' home. |
Two students paint and rake leaves
at the home of Iona Freeman in the Mondamin Presidential area. |
Larry Molenburg, real estate manager,
coordinated the work at Mills' house. Dolph Pulliam, director of community outreach
and development, led the students' efforts to improve the Mondamin Presidential Neighborhood
east of the campus.
Approximatley 65 students representing nine student organizations pitched in to rake
leaves, mow lawns, clean up vacant lots and paint the home of Iona Freeman, a blind
woman who lives at 1931 Allison St.
"Even though she couldn't see the results of the students efforts, she said
that she was warmed by their cheerful voices while they worked on her home,"
Pulliam said. "She has lived at this location for eight years and because of
her financial position, she has been unable to afford to paint the house or pay someone
to do her yard work. That is why what the Drake students did that day was so special
on 'Make A Difference Day.' These kids made a difference in the entire neighborhood."
Drake students
research haunted houses near and far
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| Lee Jolliffe and members of her
class pose with an actor at The Beast. |
Even if you're in the Halloween scare-em-silly business, you don't stand a ghost
of a chance if you don't know your victims, er, customers. To get this information,
who you gonna call? Drake students!
Twenty-seven Drake journalism students are earning credit in Lee Jolliffe's Public
Relations Research class by prowling through haunted houses across the Midwest and
interviewing customers as they exit. They're scaring up the research for their client
- Full Moon Productions Inc., which owns and operates The Beast and The Edge of Hell
haunted houses in Kansas City, Mo.
Jolliffe said Full Moon Productions became the class client through her contacts
with Amber Arnett-Bequeaith, a former Des Moines resident who is finishing her master's
degree at Drake while serving as vice president of Full Moon Productions, her family's
business. To help familiarize her students with the client's operations, Jolliffe
organized an optional field trip last week where 17 students toured both The Beast
and The Edge of Hell, which features 23 scenes, a cast of 45 "live" performers
and numerous snakes, including the largest Anaconda in North American captivity.
"I'm very excited that Drake decided to take us on as a client," Arnett-Bequeaith
said. "I think the students enjoyed exploring our haunted houses and seeing
what goes on behind the scenes."
"We all held hands as we walked across a swinging rope bridge, chatted with
Jack the Ripper and dodged surprises at every turn - snapping alligators, hissing
snakes and leaping mummies," Jolliffe said.
"It was an interesting experience for me and I'm terrified of haunted houses
because of a traumatic experience I had when I was younger," said Kira Wade,
a senior from Ames. "I was worried, but it was just a momentary scare."
The students conducted their research at haunted houses in Des Moines, Ames and the
Quad Cities as well as in Omaha and Milwaukee. "We've been doing intercept interviews
to try to find out what's the most fun scary thing for various age groups,"
Jolliffe said. "We're also assessing what other haunted houses are offering.
We look at the number of animatronics - computerized scares, the number of actors
and how the actors interact with the audience. We also ask people how far they've
driven to get there and whether they'd come back again."
Market research is becoming increasingly important now that Halloween is the second
largest retail holiday after Christmas, said Arnett-Bequeaith. "When we started
The Edge of Hell in 1975 there weren't very many haunted houses. Now there's an entire
industry, complete with trade publications and a convention in Chicago every year."
The Drake class will present its findings to Arnett-Bequeaith on Nov. 19.
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