On Campus - Stories November 22, 2002 Vol. 55, No. 23 Dean Hoag to join University of Minnesota at Duluth Drake instructor receives MacArthur Foundation grant Drake Chemistry Club collects supplies for local charities 'Magic' Johnson to speak Dec. 3 Charitable campaign nets $26,767Law School team takes first place at moot court competition Drake student wins top academic award, gains promotion Music students win many awards Reading set for Monday, Dec. 2 Women's basketball team takes part in annual Festival of Trees

Stephen Hoag, dean of the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, has accepted a deanship at the University of Minnesota at Duluth, where he will start a Doctor of Pharmacy program.

"Duluth is his hometown, so it's an ideal opportunity for him," said Provost Ron Troyer. "He's been a wonderful dean. We're going to miss him."

Hoag will be leaving Drake in March. He joined Drake in 1993 and served as interim provost of the University in 1998-99. "It's hard to leave Drake," he said, "but this offer was too good to refuse."

During his tenure as dean, Hoag has hired many new faculty members, increased the emphasis on faculty research and put the focus on learning rather than teaching. "We have excellent faculty. They are the real strength of the program," Hoag said.

Hoag also oversaw the change from a five-year bachelor's degree program to a six-year doctor of pharmacy program. In addition, he established the Community Care Laboratory with Osco Pharmacies and expanded the number and types of experiential learning sites for the senior capstone experience. "We now have students in five states in that program," he said.

Hoag also has been active in community health affairs, including the Iowa Primary Care Collaborative Committee and the Iowa Public Health Foundation.

R. Charli Carpenter, instructor of politics and international relations at Drake University, has received a $73,000 research grant from the MacArthur Foundation to study children born of war rape in the Balkans.

Carpenter's project is titled "Children of the Enemy? Forced Pregnancy, Humanitarian Assistance and Children's Rights in the Balkans."

"After the Balkan wars of the early 1990s, hundreds of children conceived in mass rape campaigns were born to mothers who did not want them," Carpenter said. "Like thousands of other children of forced pregnancy worldwide, war-rape orphans in the Balkans are often viewed as children 'of the enemy.' This has the potential to severely impact their rights to education, identity, family, and security. Despite volumes on the topic of mass rape and forced pregnancy as a women's issue, there is almost no attention to forced pregnancy as a children's issue."

Carpenter has been trying to generate such attention for years, writing and speaking at conferences. She has published articles on children of rape in Human Rights Quarterly and the Journal of Genocide Research, and was invited as a specialist on the topic to the International Conference on War-Affected Children held in Winnipeg, Canada, in 2000. Her paper at the conference concluded with three recommendations:

• Recognize forced pregnancy as a children's issue;
• Expand humanitarian efforts towards acceptance of children of rape as well as their mothers in affected communities and refugee centers;
• Establish fact-finding missions to assess the current and future needs of such children.

The United Nations Report on the Effects of Armed Conflict On Children, written in 1996, also calls for a study tracking children of rape. But the international human rights community has not responded with a campaign or a research effort that would place the rights of these children on the international agenda.

That may be changing, Carpenter said. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which is "dedicated to fostering lasting improvement in the human condition," has agreed to fund such a study beginning next year. "I got tired of waiting for Human Rights Watch or the U.N. to do the footwork," Carpenter said. She plans to research the location, status and fate of war-rape orphans conceived in the Balkans. She also will assess the humanitarian assistance they have received by interviewing relief workers and government officials working with refugees in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia.

The Drake Chemistry Club recently collected more than 1,100 pounds of cleaning supplies during a "Chemistry Makes Cleaning Possible" drive in celebration of National Chemistry Week (Oct. 20-26). The supplies, which include soaps, detergents, toothpaste and toothbrushes, will be donated to local charities.

"The Chemistry Club is sincerely thankful to everyone who helped with the charity drive," said Chris Field, co-president.
The club also held a Halloween Party, complete with a chemical magic show, for children living in local homeless shelters.

Chemistry Club members display some of the supplies they collected. They are (back row) Bob Berendt, Ted Cory, Michelle Lewis and (front row) Colleen Scherer and Ruby Luke.

Approximately 200 tickets remain for the Dec. 3 Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished Lecture by basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson. The tickets, which are free, are available in the Olmsted Information Center and must be picked up in advance.

The lecture, titled "An Evening with Earvin 'Magic' Johnson: A Perspective on Living with HIV," will start at 7 p.m. in the Drake Knapp Center. Seating is not reserved and doors will open at 6 p.m.

Faculty, staff and students who wish to meet Johnson may buy raffle tickets for $1 each in Olmsted Center. Winners of the raffle will be able to attend a reception with Johnson following the lecture. Proceeds will be donated to an HIV/AIDS charity.

Drake faculty, staff and retirees have pledged $21,353 to United Way of Central Iowa and $5,414 to Iowa Shares as part of Drake's 2002 Charitable Giving Campaign. The total - $26,767- is slightly less than the $27,479 collected last year. "It's pretty close to last year. We just might go over that as pledges keep trickling in," said Dolph Pulliam, director of the campaign.

A Drake Law School team won the regional National Moot Court Competition at the University of Iowa on Nov. 17.

The team of second-year students Jill Alesch and Robert Hancock, and third-year student Jill Jensen-Welch defeated a team from the University of Minnesota in the finals. This team will now advance to the national finals in New York City in January.

Another Drake team of Teri Rickert, Rubina Kazi and David Porter advanced to the semi-finals where they were narrowly defeated by the University of Minnesota. Rickert and Porter are second-year students and Kazi is a third-year student.
Both teams were coached by law professor Laurie Doré. The teams are sponsored by Whitfield and Eddy, a Des Moines law firm.

Drake student wins top academic award, gains promotion Drake senior Andrea Conroy, a member of the 132nd Fighter Wing in the Iowa National Guard, has received the Academic Achievement Award for her excellence as a scholar at the Airman Leadership School operated by the Air Force at Hanscom Air Force Base near Boston. The award is given to the graduate who scores highest on all exams, written assignments and speeches. Conroy graduated from the Airman Leadership School last spring. Upon returning to her unit in Des Moines, she was promoted from senior airman to staff sergeant, a non-comissioned officer rank. A resident of West Des Moines, Conroy is majoring in graphic design. She is the daughter of Joyce Anne and Dennis Conroy, senior systems administrator at Drake.

Andrea Conroy accepts her award from Chief Master Sgt. Joel Novak.

A number of Drake students won top awards at two recent music competitions.

In the Iowa State National Association of Teachers Singing Auditions, which were held Nov. 1-2 at Wartburg College, seven students were named Collegiate Division Finalists. They are Leah Alexander, first place in the junior women's division; Kristen French, second place in the freshman women's division; Thomas McCargar, second place in the senior men's division; Christine Fortner, second place in the graduate level division; Stephanie Johnson, third place in the junior women's division; Tim Robinson, third place in the junior men's division; and Carissa Samson, third place in the senior women's division. All of the winners study with Leanne Freeman-Miller, assistant professor of voice.

Four students received awards in the Music Teachers National Association Divisional Competition Nov. 2-3 at Iowa State University. In the Collegiate Voice Competition, the winners were McCargar, first place, and Fortner, second place.

In the Collegiate Piano Competition, Michael Hansen took first place. He studies with Chiu-Ling Lin, professor of piano and chair of the music department. In the Collegiate Organ Competition, Chris Krampe finished in first place. He is a student of Carl Staplin, professor of organ and church music and head of the keyboard area.

John Domini, visiting assistant professor of English, will read from his work on Monday, Dec. 2, as part of the Writers and Critics Series. The event will start at 7 p.m. in the Medbury Honors Lounge.
Domini is author of Highway Trade, a story collection, and the forthcoming novel Talking Heads: 77, both published by Red Hen Press.

The Drake women's basketball team is trimming a tree with basketball paraphernalia and free tickets to games at the Drake Knapp Center as part of the Festival of Trees, a benefit for Blank Children's Hospital.

Madeleine Maxwell, Drake's first lady, made the team aware of the opportunity to gain visibility and help the hospital by participating in the festival. "Any time we can get out in public and draw attention to women's basketball at Drake, we're going to do that," said Barb Franke, assistant women's basketball coach. "We hope our tree will bring a high price at the auction."

Faculty and staff can check out the Drake tree and even bid on it during the festival, which runs from Wednesday, Nov. 27, through Sunday, Dec. 1, at the Varied Industries Building at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Admission is free.

Artist Lucio Pozzi and Taryn Downing, a first-year student from Transfer, Penn., join in the performance of "Playrooms" during the opening reception for Pozzi's "Indoor Games" installation at the Anderson Gallery. Approximately 270 people attended the opening and performance on Nov. 15. "It was a great crowd," said Cira Pascual Marquina, gallery director. The installation will remain on view at the gallery through Dec. 19. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.