A sampling of media clippings about Lawrence University, its faculty, students, and alumni from Spring 2000 and Summer 2000. For more clippings, check out the Lawrence in the News index page.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
August 20, 2000
Headline: HMOS continue to raise premiums as they struggle to crawl out of black hole
Byline: Megan Mulholland and Arlen Boardman, The Post-Crescent
Excerpt: Pam Bee felt sick when her health insurance company told her about this year's premiums. Humana raised the preferred provider organization family plan 52 percent for Bee Forest Products of Mondovi, a year after a 40 percent increase. The company's drug card also increased 280 percent. That's just the beginning. The small firm faces yet another premium hike. For the second year in a row, U.S. health care costs increased in the double digits, with companies and consumers bearing the brunt of the rate hikes, according to management consulting firm Hewitt Associates. Many employers saw increases near 10 percent this year, on the heels of last year's rate hike of 7.8 percent, the highest since the early 1990s. How did HMOs get here? Humana, an indemnity insurance company, is like most others in the industry, raising premiums to offset losses. However, health maintenance organizations took a financial beating in recent years and are trying to get into the black. In Wisconsin, the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance reported health plans lost $58.5 million in 1999, vs. a net income of $6.7 million in 1998. For years, HMOs kept premiums at a flat rate, while medical and prescription costs rose and the use of medical care increased. As a result, HMO profits fell steadily since 1994. "As HMOs were trying to meet the demands of business purchasers to keep costs down, the cost of health care was more rapidly moving in the other direction," said Nancy Wenzel, executive director of the Wisconsin Association of Health Plans. "By keeping down costs and trying to expand the physician network, employers lost a systematic control," said Marty Finkler, an Appleton health care consultant and Lawrence University economics professor.
Suburban Life Citizen, La Grange, Illinois
August 2, 2000
Headline: Students spend breaks volunteering
Byline: Jo Anne Cue
Excerpt: Sand, surf and sun are time-honored traditions of college students on spring break, but when Lawrence University students and La Grange residents Beth Halpern and Adam Kader headed south for their semester recess from Lawrence University they didn't do it to kick up their heels and relax. Halpern, then a sophomore, traded a week of rest and relaxation from classes and research papers for a hands-on lesson in home construction. Involved with Habitat for Humanity since her junior year at Lyons Township High School in La Grange, she helped organize 25 classmates to make the 20-hour drive from Appleton, Wis., to Columbus, Ga. Upon their arrival the empty suburban lot only sported a foundation. Over the course of five days Halpern and her classmates helped build a 1,200-square-foot, two-bedroom house. "The goal of Habitat for Humanity is to eliminate substandard housing," said the 20-year-old psychology major. "Our work served to further that goal." Halpern enjoyed her experience so much she is currently spending six weeks of her summer vacation in Americus, Ga., working with Habitat for Humanity. While Halpern was donning a carpenter's belt, Kader, a 1999 Lyons Township graduate, was a whole continent away, wearing the mantle of unofficial goodwill ambassador for the children of Pa'i Paku, an isolated vocational school two hours from the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion. Kader was one of six Lawrence students who made the 5,000-mile, 36-hour trip. In addition to interacting with the students, Kader spent time working in the gardens, reading stories to the children and teaching English to high school students. While their respective spring breaks provided both Halpern and Kader a respite from classes, the journeys also put life's priorities into perspective.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee
July 28, 2000
Headline: Writer gets curator job
Byline: James Auer
Excerpt: Frank Lewis, a Milwaukee arts writer, education and magazine editor, has been appointed curator of Lawrence University's Wriston Art Center Gallery. Lewis was the first editor of Art Muscle Magazine. He has edited Metalsmith, a magazine devoted to art works in metal, since 1992. He was the Wisconsin editor of The New Art Examiner, and an art critic for the Milwaukee Sentinel. A specialist in modern art and contemporary theory and criticism, Lewis was acting director of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Art Museum in 1992 and an associate curator at the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan in 1989 and 1990.
FW Weekly, Fort Worth, Texas
July 24, 2000
Headline: Fear becomes respect: a photographic essay
Byline: Randy Chavez
Excerpt: Not knowing what to expect as I stepped off the airplane in Havana, I was overwhelmed by feelings of fear and anticipation. For months, I deliberated my decision to travel to Cuba. The people and places I saw in Havana, as well as the attitudes I encountered, have erased every fear I had ever conceived. My initial anxieties have subsided and turned to feelings of enlightenment. These photographs illustrate the personalities and places I have experienced. Life in Cuba moves very slowly. City parks fill daily with people talking about a variety of subjects. For many I talked to, it was just another day off. Some Cubans have little incentive to work or are unable to find jobs. I also had the opportunity to meet Cubans who worked very hard for very little. Yamile, a single mother, showed me that many Cubans, although impoverished, continue to find joy in life through activities such as song and dance. As I walked many miles of city streets, this became apparent.
El Paso native Randy Chavez is a graduate of Lawrence University living in Arlington. He traveled to Cuba through Central America. This is the first time his photographs of Havana have been published.
Wisconsin State Journal, Madison
July 23, 2000
Headline: Ministry, law meld for Brown-Perry
Byline: Anita Clark
Excerpt: It's hard to imagine a job that combines experience as a prosecutor, spirituality and plenty of common sense. Lauren Brown-Perry has found it, coming full circle in a life of law, family and community service. She works part time as the congregation community coordinator for Madison-area Urban Ministry. She also maintains a law practice. It's been a journey of surprises and serendipity from a public housing project on Chicago's South Side through college and law school and life in Madison. She grew up poor in the Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago, one of six children of a mother who "was pretty strict about standards and values and who we associated with." As a child, Lauren Brown was appalled at how police treated people in her neighborhood. When she grew up, she thought, she would like to be someone who could help people, maybe a lawyer. In high school, a counselor suggested the bookish girl apply to a "better" school, a white public school on Chicago's North Side. So she traveled across the city every day, beginning an educational journey that later took her to Lawrence University in Appleton and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana for law school. Brown-Perry was studying for the Wisconsin bar exam and looking for a job, perhaps as a defense attorney. She didn't envision herself as a prosecutor, but District Attorney Jim Doyle offered her a job. In 1980, she became the first African-American woman to be an assistant district attorney in Dane County. She worked in the district attorney's office for about 10 years, off and on, and opened her own law office in 1993. Now she works with religious groups to address problems of housing, discrimination and poverty in city neighborhoods.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Milwaukee
July 21, 2000
Headline: Folk-rock songwriter melaniejane is making music her way
Byline: Nick Carter
Excerpt: For the most part, the local folk and alternative-rock scene remains fairly set in its ways. Most of the bands and solo artists playing around Riverwest and the east side are male bands or solo acts. Among the more pleasant-sounding exceptions is folk-rock songwriter melaniejane, a charismatic writer of her own songs as well as an elaborate interpreter of other works. Most of her self-penned stuff, primarily solo-acoustic material, is written in either an avant-folk chanteuse or a more traditional roots-music mode. Occasionally, she embellishes her sparse acoustic playing and singing with a studio-crafted rhythm section and piano and cello melodies. (melaniejane's day gig is teaching cello.) She's working on recording her first album, produced by familiar local-music figure Mike Hoffman, who's melaniejane's husband. (Hoffman gained modest national success with his '80s post-punk Americana band, E.I.E.I.O.) She grew up in Franklin, taking cello lessons while in grade school and teaching herself piano. She studied cello at Lawrence University in Appleton. Since then, she's become a familiar face on the east side music scene, playing at clubs like Linneman's (where she has a weekly house gig every Monday night), Shank Hall, Cactus Club, Thai Joe's Lounge and the near west-side smoke-and-alcohol-free venue The Coffeehouse.
Boston Herald, Boston
July 16, 2000
Sunday National Edition
Headline: Death of JFK Jr. resonates. Anniversary stirs sorrows
Byline: Tom Mashberg
Excerpt: The waters off Martha's Vineyard are relatively calm today, a year after they were roiled by the untimely deaths of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, in a small-plane crash attributed to pilot error. But the anniversary of the unhappy event, and of the mass bereavement that ensued, will likely stir fresh ripples of sorrow and unease, emotions unleashed to some degree by gauzy, media-driven memories of the three victims, who were all felled in their primes, cultural observers say. For much of the second half of July 1999, the demise of Kennedy was a national conversation topic. People congregated outside the loft in Manhattan's Tribeca district where Kennedy and Bessette lived, leaving flowers and lighting candles in scenes reminiscent of the grief attending the death of Princess Diana in Britain. In Boston, the Kennedy Library became a public shrine of sorts as well. Reflecting on that outpouring, Gary Edgerton, professor of communications at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., and a former president of the American Cultural Society, said: "John F. Kennedy Jr., like his father, represented the unrealized promise of America. The public's conception of him will always be in the state of becoming, rather than decline or failure. As a result, the aura of his image will appeal to the public imagination for years to come." Some, however, are more cynical in assessment, like Jerald Podair, assistant professor of history at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisc. "JFK Jr.'s death," he said, "and the attention it is attracting one year later, is an ongoing illustration of the fact that the culture of celebrity is the defining force in American life today." However the first anniversary of the JFK-Bessette calamity unfolds, simply marking the day offers a chance at solace for those still troubled by the sad events.
St. Paul Pioneer Press, St Paul
July 16, 2000
Headline: Singer-songwriter creates an eclectic mix
Byline: James M. Tarborx, Staff Writer
Excerpt: Is it a rock thing? A blues thing? A country thing? According to the notes that came with this disc ("Real Day," Alice Peacock, Peacock Music), it's an ``Alice Peacock thing.'' And that's a good thing. A native of White Bear Lake, Peacock has since moved on to Luck, Wis., attended Lawrence University in Appleton (where she got hooked on the Great American Songbook), then to San Francisco, where she played in a blues band. Now she's back in Chicago and has lots of pals in Nashville. And all of that works its way into her music. As is kind of standard with these things, there are lots of confessional songs here, lots of self-doubt balanced by exclamations of independence and inner strength. In the end, it's ironic that Peacock has traveled around so much, because the lasting message of this intriguing disc is that you can always go home.
[The review also ran in the July 28 edition of the San Jose Mercury News and the August 4 edition of The State (Columbia, South Carolina)].
Detroit News, Detroit
June 25, 2000
Headline: Domestic partner benefits adding up. Employers say offering packages to same-sex, unmarried couples helps recruit employees
Byline: Brian Tumulty
Excerpt: At Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., only three of the school's 420 employees participate in the domestic partner benefits program available to both same-sex and unmarried heterosexual couples. Although the numbers aren't large at the small independent university or other workplaces where this benefit is available, employers who offer it say it helps to recruit employees and show a commitment to diversity. "I think it shows a sensitivity to the changing definition of family," said Leesa Erickson, the university's director of human resources. Overall, domestic partner benefits were available to an estimated 18 percent of private-sector workers in the United States last year, according to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust. And since the start of 2000, major companies such as Citigroup, Motorola, Prudential and Goldman Sachs have announced plans to recognize gay and lesbian couples for the purpose of granting health insurance coverage and other benefits. In June alone, Coca-Cola and Detroit's Big Three automakers joined a growing list of Fortune 500 companies in offering family health insurance coverage to same-sex couples.
The article went out on Gannett News Service and was picked up by, among others, the Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah; Asheville Citizen-Times, Asheville, North Carolina; High Point Enterprise, High Point, North Carolina; Battle Creek Enquirer, Battle Creek, Michigan; St. Cloud Times, St. Cloud, Minnesota; Burlington Free Press, Burlington, Vermont; Greenville News, Greenville, South Carolina; Times, Gainesville, Florida; Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery, Alabama; Poughkeepsie Journal, Poughkeepsie, New York; Niagara Gazette, Niagara Falls, New York; Leaf-Chronicle, Clarksville, Tennesee; Statesman Journal, Salem, Oregon; Courier-Post, Cherry Hill, New Jersey; Iowa City Press-Citizen, Iowa City, Iowa; Quad-City Times, Davenport, Iowa; Sunday Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown, Pennsylvania; and the Reporter, Lansdale, Pennsylvania. The story also was carried by CNNfn, New York, on July 3.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas
June 25, 2000
Sunday Edition
Headline: The opportunity to make an impact leads folk-singing academician from poetry to politics
Byline: Adriana Torrez
Excerpt: A one-time mariachi singer at Joe T. Garcia's Restaurant in Fort Worth, Juan Hernandez once described himself as a gypsy searching for artistic inspiration. The boy who once shied away from politics is now in the middle of an election campaign that could bring sweeping political changes to Mexico: Hernandez is a senior adviser to Vicente Fox, the National Action Party presidential candidate. Fox's personal appearances are scheduled through Hernandez. "I am the owner of his time," Hernandez joked. This is Hernandez's deepest venture into politics. His involvement might seem odd to many who remember the University of Texas at Dallas associate professor as a folk singer and poet. Although Hernandez was born in his mother's hometown of Fort Worth, he lived with his family in Guanajuato state, where his father grew up, and holds dual citizenship. He left in 1973 to attend Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. After graduating, he returned to Fort Worth to attend Texas Christian University, where he received a master's degree and a Ph.D in English and Spanish letters and culture. Hernandez, who is the founding and current director of the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies at UT-Dallas, met Fox at a university function, where Hernandez pitched an idea of creating a trade office to sell Guanajuato products in the United States. Fox, then governor of Guanajuato, inaugurated the office in Dallas in 1996. Fox was so impressed with Hernandez that he invited him to join his campaign.
Mobile Register, Mobile, Alabama
June 24, 2000
Headline: America's Junior Miss. Norville to host Wednesday's finals
Byline: Joy Davia, Staff Reporter
Excerpt: "Inside Edition" anchor Deborah Norville, Georgia's Junior Miss in 1976, enters into her second year as the America's Junior Miss finals show host. The judging criteria includes judges interview: 25 percent; talent: 25 percent; scholastic achievement: 20 percent; fitness: 15 percent; and poise: 15 percent. [Among the state finalists] Allison Beth Lauber, 18, of Franklin, Wis., representing Wisconsin. Lauber will attend Lawrence University and plans on a career in music education. Her activities include church youth group, directing children's church choir, school musicals, mixed choir, jazz choir, pompom squad, track team, lifeguarding.
CNNfn, New York
June 22, 2000
Headline: Business language constantly changes with the times, technology
Excerpt: As public relations manager, Gigi deYoung holds near and dear a lesson learned years ago. "A very wise teacher once told me communication has one purpose and that's to communicate and if you fail to do so, it doesn't matter how beautiful it is," said de Young of JanSport, Inc. The business world, however, is riddled with beautiful prose, full of sound and fury and signifying almost nothing: multi-tasking, right-sizing, maximizing shareholder value. "Sometimes we feel like our whole language is being rewritten by some business guru," deYoung said. "Language is constantly changing," said Daniel Taylor, the Hiram Jones professor of classics at Lawrence University in Appleton. "It is one of the most adaptable social institutions there is -- One of the reasons languages change is that society changes. We no longer talk about joust and we don't drink mead or swim across moats. Words die out." Businesses have long been conscious of the power of the spoken word, particularly when it's the name of the company. Kodak, for example, researched the psychology of language to select a name that would be easy to remember, Taylor said. Companies do not make random choices.
[The story originally appeared in The Post-Crescent under Joanne Zuhl's byline. It was subsequently picked up by the High Point Enterprise (High Point, North Carolina) as "Business lingo 'multi-tasks' and 'right-sizes': Technology shifts talk at work place," and published on October 1, 2000.]
Westport News, Westport, Connecticut
June 16, 2000
Headline: Westporter helps band earn national award
Excerpt: Dan Asher, a 1997 Staples High School graduate, is a member of the
nation's best college jazz band, according to Down Beat magazine. Mr. Asher
plays bass in the Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble, which has been
named co-winner in the college division of the jazz band category in Down
Beat's 23rd annual student music awards contest. The awards, known as DBs,
are considered among the highest honors accorded college and high school
music students. The Down Beat ensemble award was the ninth time--and the
fifth in the last seven years--that Lawrence musicians have been cited by
the magazine.
Arlington Heights Post, Arlington Heights, Illinois
June 15, 2000
Headline: Results due soon
Byline: Barbara Bell
Excerpt: Advanced Placement courses are the closest thing American public schools have to a national curriculum. AP courses are offered in 32 subjects, from foreign languages to calculus and studio art. Students enrolled in AP classes can take an exam with multiple-choice and essay questions offered in mid-May to determine whether they learned enough to get college credit. The exams are graded by the Educational Testing Service and students get their test results in July. Those knowledgeable about AP classes say the number of students who go through with AP exams at the end of the school year is an indication of the program's quality. Experts say another sign of a quality AP program is the training teachers have to undergo to teach them. The College Board offers workshops on how to teach AP classes, and District 214 teachers take advantage of them. A Prospect High School teacher, for example, will be attending a two-week course on AP biology this summer at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. Barbara Horler, the principal of Hersey High School, says that the requirements to teach an AP class are higher than those of a regular high school class. "It's not something any teacher can teach," she said.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee
June 15, 2000
Headline: The duffel bag
Byline: David Boehler
Excerpt: Leaving for Lawrence. Several athletes have signed to play
football at Lawrence University, including: Justin Berrens,
Waupaca; Jacques Hacquebord, Waunakee; R.J. Rosenthal and Mike Binley,
Iola- Scandinavia; Steve Heindl, Jake Vandeloo, Craig Garvey and Tony
Bouressa, Kaukauna; Zach Michael, Appleton East; Morgan Boltz, Kewaunee;
Josh Meyer, Lakeland; Nathan Simonson, Black River Falls; Derek Lang,
D.C. Everest; B.J. Berlowski, Sheboygan Falls; Kevin Dreyer, Stoughton;
Thaddeus Kramolis, Ashland and Jeff Gilles, Shawano.
The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois
June 13, 2000
Headline: Baumgartner to play basketball at Eureka College. Varda pitches in at Lawrence
Byline: Pantagraph staff
Excerpt: Deer Creek-Mackinaw High School graduate Amy Varda did her part
to make sure Lawrence University posted its fourth straight
winning season in softball this spring. Varda, a freshman pitcher, had a
2-0 record with a 1.31 earned run average in 16 innings. She struck out
three and walked six while allowing 16 hits. Varda also batted .389 with
seven hits in 18 at-bats as the Vikings finished with a 17-12 record.
Telegraph Herald, Dubuque, Iowa
June 12, 2000
Headline: College honors Shullsburg High School teacher
Excerpt: Robert Boyle, a social studies teacher at Shullsburg High School (Wis.), was honored as an exceptional educator Sunday as part of Lawrence University's 151st commencement. Lawrence, located in Appleton, established its Outstanding Teaching in Wisconsin Award in 1985 to annually recognize state secondary school teachers for excellence with students in and out of the classroom. The teachers are selected from nominations submitted by Lawrence seniors and each recipient is presented a certificate, a citation and a monetary award at the college's graduation ceremony. In nominating Boyle for the award, Lawrence grad Vanessa Curtis, a 1996 Shullsburg High School graduate, said Boyle consistently "inspires his students to want to learn...(his) enthusiasm for teaching has had an impact on all of his students. The self-confidence he helped me gain was invaluable as I began my college career." At Lawrence, Curtis majored in biology. She will be attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School this fall. Earlier this year, she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. She's been a four-year member of Lawrence's cross-country and track teams. At Shullsburg High School, she competed in volleyball and track and field. She carried a 4.0 grade-point average throughout her high school career. "She was one of those top-notch students whom you're always proud of," Boyle said.
Billings Gazette, Billings, Montana
June 9, 2000
Headline: Sounds of music echo at Red Lodge festival
Excerpt: The Beartooth Mountains will echo with the sounds of music as
the Red Lodge Music Festival comes to town, from June 10 to 18. The
festival launches its 37th season, when more than 190 junior and senior
high school musicians from around Montana and the U.S. join for nine
days of intensive musical training with professional musicians from
across the nation. In recent years, the festival has developed a jazz
tradition, through the influences of musicians such as John Harmon,
festival composer-in-residence. Harmon founded the jazz studies program
at Lawrence University in the early '70s and has spent the past
15 years concentrating on composing and artistic residencies at various
schools. Some may recall him as leader of the nine-piece "Matrix," one
of the more individual fusion groups of the late '70s, which recorded
four albums for RCA, Warner Bros. and Pablo between 1976 and 1980.
[John Harmon is a member of the Lawrence University Class of 1957 and teaches at the Lawrence Conservatory of Music.]
Healthgate.com, Burlington, Massachusetts
June 8, 2000
Headline: Getting away from it all: unique vacations for adults
Byline: Lain Chroust Ehmann
Excerpt: Escaping the "real world" becomes even easier on these unique getaways. We've tracked down four sure-fire vacation spots that allow you to really get away from it all. Those with music in their veins need look no further than the Tritone Jazz Fantasy Camps. With two camp locations--the Bjorklunden estate in gorgeous Door County, Wisconsin, and Eastman College in Rochester, New York--and enough big-name faculty to impress even the most avid jazz lover, the Jazz Fantasy Camps will have you packing your instrument, shades and all-black wardrobe. Even with faculty like guitarist Gene Bertoncini (formerly of the Benny Goodman Orchestra) vocalist Janet Planet, amateur musicians need not fear. And if you attend, you'll be doing more than just taking your instruments out. You'll master classes, play in concerts and chat with other musicians and renowned faculty at meals--and then join them in informal jam sessions.
Chicago Tribune, Chicago
June 4, 2000
Sunday edition: News section
Headline: Colleges lowering bar to get more males? Girls passed over to close gender gap
Byline: Meg McSherry Breslin, Tribune Staff Writer
Excerpt: In the especially tough college admissions season that just ended, an unlikely and even controversial group of high school seniors proved to have an edge: boys. High school admissions counselors across the country said a growing number of colleges have recently begun admitting boys over girls to achieve some balance on campuses dominated by women. Women have slightly outnumbered men on college campuses nationally since the 1970s, but in recent years the gap has been widening rapidly, for reasons that remain unclear. "To me it is the ultimate irony that if women have overcome discrimination to the point where they're now excelling, that we would put in the proverbial glass ceiling and say, 'Don't succeed too much,'" Lee Parks, an attorney who sued The University of Georgia over its admissions formula, said. Still, many admissions officials say it is important to maintain a balance among the sexes because it makes the university more appealing to both sexes, with more lively classroom discussions and social opportunities. This week, members of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, a consortium of 14 liberal arts colleges, plan to discuss responses to the gender imbalance at a meeting in Iowa. Some colleges in that group have recently seen males dip to 40 percent of their classes. Despite the growing concern over imbalances, some admissions leaders hope they don't have to take more drastic measures to boost male enrollments. "You don't want to start choosing students just based on their gender; that's not fair to anybody," said Michael Thorp, admissions director at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.
[The article also ran in the Colorado Daily, Boulder, Colorado on June 6, 2000.]
PIMA's Papermaker, Mt. Prospect, Illinois
The Paper Industry Management Association
June 2000
Headline: Buchanan named PIMA's Executive of the Year
Excerpt: The Paper Industry Management Association has named Robert C. Buchanan its 2000 Executive of the Year. PIMA's highest honor, the award recognizes excellence in management and outstanding contributions to the industry as a whole. Buchanan is President and CEO, Fox Valley Corp., Appleton, Wis. Buchanan has led the company for many years, putting it on a path of unprecedented expansion through acquisition and the development of propriety manufacturing processes. Under his leadership, Fox Valley--a relatively small, privately owned paper company--has not only survived but thrived among competition from giant corporations. Buchanan joined the company in 1967 and in 1974 was named President, Fox River Paper, a unit of the Fox Valley Corp. In 1980 he was named President of Fox Valley Corp. He received his A.B. degree from Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., and his MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.
Harvard Magazine, Cambridge, Massachussetts
May-June 2000
Headline: History minted. Why should a university want ancient coins?
Excerpt: The loss of the coins focused attention on their real value to Harvard. On the Saturday morning in May of 1979, as Professor David Gordon Mitten gleefully examined the coins dug up on Boston's South Shore and then heaped on a table before him at the Quincy District Court, Mitten held up a thick, silver disk bearing the image of the nymph Arethusa in profile encircled by dophins, and exclaimed to a newspaper reporter, "This is one of the great pieces of ancient art." Their importance as art was reason enough--but far from the only reason--to lament the theft of Harvard's coins. This spring Mitten is teaching a classical archaeology course that explores "Coinage, Politics, and Economy in the Greek World." He and his three students sit at a table and pass around coins from the collection. "What fascinates numismatists and historians alike," notes Lawrence University classicist Daniel J. Taylor, "is that Rome's history is indelibly stamped on its coins." Why should a university want ancient coins? Daniel Taylor answers succinctly: "History is not merely recorded, it is also minted."
Telegraph Herald, Dubuque, Iowa
May 29, 2000
Headline: Students of Note
Byline: Telegraph Herald staff
Excerpt: ED woman works with Habitat for Humanity
Lisa Tranel, of East Dubuque, Ill., a sophomore at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., spent her spring break in Columbus, Ga., working on a Habitat for Humanity project. She was one of 26 members of Lawrence's campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity who made the 20-hour journey in a van to western Georgia as part of HFH's "Collegiate Challenge." Tranel and her classmates spent the week collectively sawing, sanding and siding to help build a 1,200-square-foot, single-family home from the ground up. Since they were "in the neighborhood," Tranel and her construction crewmates took one break from their building chores for a side trip to visit Habitat for Humanity's international headquarters in Americus, Ga.
Quad Cities Online, Moline, Illinois
The online service of The Dispatch, Rock Island Argus, and The Leader
May 28, 2000
Headline: R.I. girl could be one-person band
Byline: Julie Jensen, Correspondent
Excerpt: Amy Farrar, a Rock Island High School senior, plays almost enough instruments to be a one-woman orchestra, but piano is her forte, and she was nominated for the Prodigy series by her piano teacher. "Piano is my favorite," she says, "but I also play flute, trombone and a bit of oboe. I played flute in the Symphonic Band and the marching band during most of my high school career, but because of a schedule conflict this year, I'm playing trombone in the jazz band." She laso lends her alto voice to the Rock Island High School Chamber Singers and other vocal ensembles. For two years she has placed second in the Bradley University piano competition, and she also has done the Performance of the Day for piano solo for the Illinois High School Association Solo and Ensemble Contest for the past two years. She hopes to attend Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., because, she says, "It's the right size and strong in the areas I'm interested in, and it just feels right. I'm considering a double major in music and physics, and I'll end up in science or music."
Wisconsin State Journal, Madison
May 28, 2000
Headline: Grads grew with the school
Byline: Lesley Rogers
Excerpt: As kindergartners 13 years ago, the McFarland High School Class
of 2000 walked through town in the homecoming parade, holding teddy
bears and carrying a banner that read "This Class Bears Watching." On
Saturday, a packed crowd in the McFarland High School gymnasium watched
as the Class of 2000 paraded by carrying diplomas at this year's
graduation ceremony. The years haven't always been easy for the 150
graduates, salutatorian Robert Howard said. The class learned school
lessons over the sounds of jackhammers during a school expansion, which
was completed last fall, and fought the threat of cutting athletic
programs, Howard said. Valedictorian Stacy Anderson, who received a
four-year scholarship to Lawrence University, told her classmates
they all are capable of success, measured by how they serve others.
"'Love those around us' is one of the greatest commandments God gave
us," Anderson said. "We will stand out, unwilling to conform. We choose
the higher ground. It is our responsibility to follow through."
Headlight-Herald, Tillamook, Oregon
May 24, 2000
Headline: Hendrickson earns award, university scholarship
Excerpt: Andrea Hendrickson, a senior at Tillamook High School, has been awarded a $7,500 Lawrence University Presidential Scholarship and Conservatory Ensemble Award for outstanding scholastic and musical achievement. A National Honor Society member, Hendrickson is a section leader in the vocal ensemble and an accompanist for the school choirs, as well as a recipient of the Koch Piano award and a member of the All-State choir. Founded in 1847, Lawrence University is a leading national liberal arts college with an associated conservatory of music. It has produced seven Rhodes Scholars and was cited by U.S. News and World Report as one of the country's top 40 "best national liberal arts colleges."
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee
May 19, 2000
Headline: Down Beat upbeat about trumpeter
Byline: Gemma Tarlach
Excerpt: Tobias Kaemmerer, a junior at Milwaukee High School of the
Arts, was among the winners of the just-announced Down Beat 23rd annual
Student Music Awards. Kaemmerer, a member of the ensemble The Jazz Lab,
was honored for Performing Arts High School Outstanding
Performances-Trumpet. Other Wisconsin winners of Down Beat's annual
student awards are Jeffrey Walk of the University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire for College Outstanding Performances-Trumpet, Lawrence
University Jazz Ensemble of Appleton for College Jazz Big Band and
tenor saxophonist Andrew Frisinger of Eau Claire for College
Blues/Pop/Rock Soloist.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee
May 16, 2000
Headline: Lawrence jazz wins
Byline: Tom Strini
Excerpt: Down Beat magazine has named the Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble a co-winner in the college division of the Jazz Big Band category in the magazine's annual student music contest. Bands from the Appleton liberal arts school have won a total of nine Down Beat awards, including five in the last seven years.
The Hamilton Spectator, Hamilton, Ontario
May 9, 2000
Headline: When all emotions die
Byline: Joanna Frketich, Health Reporter
Excerpt: Depression: The disorder is already the world's No. 1 cause of disability. Major depression affects 5 to 10 per cent of the population at any given time, robbing people of all feelings, making concentration impossible, and creating a sense of helplessness that can often lead to suicide. "It's already in epidemic proportions," said Gerald Metalsky, associate editor of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. "One figure that is kind of dramatic is that it is doubling with each generation. That is what some studies suggest. That is how big of a problem we have on our hands." The term depression is misleading. It brings to mind those blue days we all feel from time to time. But in reality the illness is far more crippling than that. It robs its victims of the very thing that makes us who we are -- emotion. The result is a loss of joy in activities or interests that the person normally loves. "It's not so much not doing the activities," said Metalsky, associate psychology professor at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. "It's that when doing them there is a lack of enjoyment. There is no pleasure." So why are we so depressed? The answer is one of health's great mysteries. There are plenty of theories, ranging from our genes to our fast-paced to the different ways we think to the food we eat. Scientists believe there is a definite genetic link. Depression tends to run in families. But so far that gene has managed to elude researchers desperately trying to pinpoint it. Psychiatrists also know there are major biological changes in the brain when a person is depressed. But it's not clear whether these changes cause depression or are a result of the illness. Standing on equal footing with biological explanations is the theory that life is just too stressful these days. "People bite off more than they can chew and they just keep hanging in there and hanging in there, but eventually as they take on more and more they get overloaded," Metalsky said. "We've become obsessed with obtaining boats, big houses and as much as one can get... without thinking nearly as much about peace of mind or quality of life." And as corny as sounds, the only way to combat the increase in depression may be to return to a simpler lifestyle that puts family before careers. "We can get off this treadmill of more and more acquisitions at the expense of the family," Metalsky said.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Honolulu, Hawaii
May 8, 2000
Headline: Taking Notice
Excerpt: Kimberly Gress, a senior at Kalaheo High School, was among 28 students nationwide who were chosen to participate in a history workshop at Lawrence University.
St. Paul Pioneer Press, St. Paul
May 6, 2000
Letter to the Editor: Honor code lauded
Byline: Dana S. Kass, Appleton, Wis.
Excerpt: I'm encouraged by the University of Minnesota's actions to pursue an academic honor code. I attend Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. and am a member of the university's Honor Council. The code states that each student will complete his or her own work, and allow other people to complete their work. It's more of common sense and good academic practice than a list of "shalls" and "shall nots." The Honor Code encompasses much of campus life, allowing even our final exams to be unproctored. This makes for a very comfortable academic atmosphere--the faculty trusts the students. The system is not perfect, and I am sure many people get away with cheating. However, for the most part, the honor code is respected. The University of Minnesota's decision is definitely a step in the right direction.
Slant magazine, New York
No. 1 2000
Headline: Not just skin deep. Of all the other body parts, it's the face that tattoo artist Chris Torres hesitates to work on the most
Byline: Susan Kitchens
Excerpt: "When somebody comes in here and wants a tattoo on their face," said 22-year-old Torres, the owner of Alphabet City Studios tattoo parlor in New York City, "I almost always try to talk them out of it. What if they don't like the design in a couple of years? What if they wake up when they're 50 and regret they got that butterfly on their cheek?" For the most part, said Torres, people today see tattooing as artwork on a permanent canvas: their skin. But when tattooing first emerged as an art form thousands of years ago in Polynesia, body art--particularly on the face--represented more than a cool design. "In many cases, body art in these ancient cultures was a mark of distinction and a source of pride, of belonging to the group," said Judith Holland Sarnecki, associate professor of French at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, who has researched tattoos and body art for the past several years. For years, Sarnecki said, westerners never viewed tattoos as much more than superficial designs on their skin. "There's definitely a trendy part to tattooing," she said. But in recent years, there has been a revival in the social and cultural significance of body art and tattooing. Modern subcultures, Sarnecki said, have their own sets of identifying symbols. Their members have a "strong desire to bond [and] a desire to be different than everybody else," and rendering these specialized iconographies in tattoo allows them to make their affiliation permanent.
Psychology Today, New York
April-May 2000
Headline: Discrimination. Women's ways work
Excerpt: Working women were once kept beneath a glass ceiling because they were considered too "nice." Now they're being held back because they aren't nice enough. In an effort to erase gender discrimination, many companies have been abandoning their emphasis on stereotypically male qualities like assertiveness, and seeking workers with interpersonal sensitivity and people skills, says Peter Glick, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Wisconsin's Lawrence University, "qualities usually associated with women." Ironically, what he calls the "feminization" of companies may work against women lacking the outgoing attributes that employers now expect from them--attributes that employers don't expect from men. Proof of this double standard comes from Glick's recent study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, in which subjects were asked to rate job applicants vying for a managerial position. Women perceived as being more competitive were deemed competent for the job but also less sociable than other candidates, and thus less hirable.
Finance & Commerce, Minneapolis
April 28, 2000
Headline: Minneapolis Fed names first vice president(BR>
Excerpt: James M. Lyon was named first vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis yesterday. Lyon, who has been the agency's senior vice president in charge of banking supervision and regulation since 1993, joined the Fed in 1977 as a lawyer. Minneapolis Fed President Gary H. Stern said one of Lyon's strengths is thinking globally and strategically about issues facing the bank. Lyon has a bachelor's degree from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., and a law degree from the University of Minnesota.
Englewood Independent, Englewood, Ohio
April 26, 2000
Headline: Alternative spring break. Trading shores for chores
Excerpt: Sand, surf and sun are time-honored traditions of college spring break, but when Englewood's Valeska Okragly headed south during the recent semester recess, she had a different "s" on her mind: service. Okragly, a freshman at Lawrence University, traded a week of R&R from classes and research papers for a hands-on lesson in home construction 101, traveling to Columbus, Ga., to work on a Habitat for Humanity project. She was one of 26 members of Lawrence's campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity who made the 20-hour journey in vans to western Georgia as part of HFH's "Collegiate Challenge." Okragly and her classmates spent the week sawing, sanding and siding to help build a 1,200-square-foot, single-family home from the foundation up. "I thought it would be fun to do something worthwhile during my spring break," Okragly said of her motivation for making the trip.
Wisconsin State Journal, Madison
April 23, 2000
Headline: The challenge and the camaraderie even the weather cooperates for
regatta on Lake Wingra with UW and teams from 30 universities
Byline: Marv Balousek
Excerpt: Women's and men's teams from about 30 universities and colleges participated in Saturday's all-day event. The regatta featured races by both novice and varsity teams. Team members and fans from Lawrence University cheered on their rowers with chants of "L.U.," but it may have been difficult to hear the support across the expanse of open water. Crew team members say the physical challenges and camaraderie draw them to the sport. "It's one of the hardest sports I've ever done," said Stacy Coy of Sun Prairie, who rows on UW's women's freshmen team. The crew season culminates with the national collegiate championships in early June at Camden, N.J.
Morris Daily Herald, Morris, Illinois
April 21, 2000
Headline: Alternative spring break. Setrini trades shores for chores
Excerpt: Gustavo Setrini, a freshman at Lawrence University, bypassed the beaches of Florida for the backroads of Paraguay for a week of community volunteer service at Pa'i Pucu, a rural school founded by Swiss missionaries for children of migrant workers. One of six Lawrence students who traded a week of R&R from term papers and research projects for the cross-cultural exchange, Setrini spearheaded the 5,000 mile, 36-hour journey after visiting relatives in Paraguay last December. Setrini and his classmates served as unofficial "goodwill ambassadors" for the children of Pa'i Pucu, an isolated boarding school two hours from the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion. They arrived bearing gifts--20 large boxes and suitcases of donated items they had collected, including $1,300 in medicine, more than 1,000 pounds of clothing, 76 packets of vegetable seeds, school supplies and books, a computer and $1,600 in cash for the purchase of an industrial copier. In a thank you letter sent to Lawrence's president, the school administrator of Pa'i Pucu cited "the experiences shared with the students" first and foremost among the donations the Lawrence students delivered for which they were grateful.
Chicago Daily Herald, Chicago
April 6, 2000
Headline: Tattoos What were they thinking?
Byline: Joel Reese
Excerpt: We were sure we'd find a great story at the Inkin' Lincoln tattoo convention in Rosemont. Amid the whirring ink machines and loud music, we saw tattoos of dragons, snakes, scorpions, Buddhas, ying-yangs, demons, crosses, skeletons, flags, flames, flaming eyeballs, monkeys, eagles, dolphins, footballs, skylines, and many abstract designs. A-ha! we thought. Look at these weirdos. The flippant element thusly covered, we'd get the essential What Does It All Mean? angle from Judith Sarnecki, associate professor of French at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., who refers to herself as a tattoo researcher. "Tattoos emphasize the aspect of body art in an anonymous culture," she says. "Tattoos allow people to individualize their bodies. It's your own little art gallery." Tattoos also present an opportunity for people who were pushed to the fringes of society, Sarnecki says. "Historically, tattoos were popular among groups who were marginalized and didn't have a lot of voice," she says. "So tattoos were their way of speaking and saying, 'Here I am. Notice me.'" Incidentally, Winston Churchill's mother had a tattoo, Sarnecki says. The academic voice provided, we'd then quote several attendees and boom, we're done: an insightful, if slightly patronizing, look into what we thought sure to be a bizarre subculture. But then we discovered something: people with many tattoos ("skin art collectors," as they prefer to be known) aren't that weird. They're colorful (literally and figuratively), and some of them are kind of imposing-looking, but other than that they're pretty normal. They're business owners, data processors, salesmen. They're polite -- they don't growl at non-tattooed people -- and they're not dumb.
The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles
April 3, 2000
Orange County Edition
Headline: NCAA college notebook
Byline: Lon Eubanks
Excerpt: If Chapman College, 17-4-1 and ranked No. 10 in the nation, advances to the Division III baseball World Series, it will be a homecoming of sorts for Panther Coach Rex Peters. Peters, 34, and his twin brother, Reed, were born in Appleton, Wis., where Lawrence University will host the eight-team, double-elimination finals in May. The brothers, who grew up in Colorado, were born in Appleton while their father, Rex Peters Sr., was playing for the Fox City Foxes, a Class-A minor league affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles.
Cox News Service
April 3, 2000
Section: National political
Headline: Political Ticker: Campaign keystone. A brief roundup of the
day's campaign events, pulled from Cox staff and wire reports
Excerpt: "Great, if he's running for bishop." Alan Keyes is still
running. He brought his message of "restoring America's moral authority"
to Appleton, Wis., speaking to about 500 people at Lawrence
University's Memorial Chapel. Said the Appleton Post-Crescent: "The
resemblance to a church service didn't end there. Keyes' presentation is
much in the style of a tent show preacher, and so was his message. In
fact, it wasn't until the question-and-answer session at the end did he
offer specific policy proposals."
The Guardian, Manchester, England
April 1, 2000
Headline: News
Excerpt: Have a nice day: Women were once kept beneath the glass ceiling because they were 'too nice'. Now they're being held back because they aren't nice enough, says Peter Glick, psychology professor at Lawrence University, Wisconsin. The 'feminisation' of companies may be working against women lacking the soft skills now expected from them.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee
March 31, 2000
Headline: Determination set the tone for judge's quest for justice
Byline: Dennis Chaptman
Excerpt: One of the black kids run off of Chicago's Rainbow Beach by white beach-goers one summer day in the late 1960s was Louis Butler Jr., who has spent a life in a stubborn hunt for fairness. "African-Americans weren't supposed to go there, and we were literally chased away," Butler recalled of the high-school act of defiance. "People are supposed to be equal and have the same opportunity, the same piece of the pie as everyone else." That same streak of principled chutzpah steered Butler's life on Chicago's south side toward Wisconsin, law school, criminal defense work and into a judge's robes in Milwaukee Municipal Court. In its latest turn, that determination finds him squaring off against Justice Diane Sykes in Tuesday's election for a 10-year term on the state Supreme Court. Conventional wisdom says Butler faces an uphill fight against a seven-month incumbent appointed and backed by Republican Gov. Tommy G. Thompson. Butler, 48, rejects that reasoning, and has racked up thousands of miles, traveling throughout the state peddling his message in a high court race that he has long anticipated. "His persistence is key," said James Gramling, presiding judge in Milwaukee Municipal Court and Butler's boss. "Ever since he was appointed in 1992, he has made it clear that he was interested in being a Supreme Court justice. He's made a high peak into a surmountable one." Even Butler's arrival in Wisconsin as a student at Appleton's Lawrence University was the result of his stubborn streak. An argument with his father, a loan officer, over presidential politics in 1968 turned Butler's sights toward Wisconsin. Butler insisted on taking the toughest government class in school, and was warned by his adviser to avoid the class and its demanding professor. "We fought for three days, and I finally took my course sheet and threw it at him and said, 'Sign it. It's my life. If I screw it up, I only have myself to blame,' " Butler said. "I got in and heard his introductory speech, where he intimidated every student in the class. I said, 'This is going to work just fine.' I took eight courses from him." Butler finished in Appleton and got the last laugh on his high school counselor by being accepted at the UW Law School. He went on to do appellate and trial court work as a public defender in Milwaukee for 13 1/2 years. For nine of those years, Butler handled appeals and became the first Wisconsin public defender to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1988.
Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia
March 27, 2000
Headline: To aquarium's new director, GOP convention is critical
Byline: Aamer Madhani
Excerpt: A new big fish was unveiled at the New Jersey State Aquarium last week, and this one is going to have to quickly prove he's got the instincts of a shark. Brian DuVall, who has served in various capacities at the aquarium for more than a decade, was appointed to succeed Mike Crowther as its director. The Republican National Convention is just around the corner, and aquarium and waterfront officials consider this a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to magnify the exposure of South Jersey to the rest of the country. DuVall, 43, is a hybrid of sorts. Trained in the aquatic sciences at Lawrence University and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, he got his first job maintaining fish at the king of fish tanks, the John G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. But for the last four years, he has been an aquarium administrator. He now carries the burden of the waterfront's future while swimming in a high-profile fish bowl. The aquarium and the Waterfront Entertainment Centre are the crown jewels of the Camden waterfront. With an annual attendance of more than 500,000 and a slew of new exhibits being installed, including a tank for coypu (essentially water rodents), the aquarium is the anchor attraction that conventioneers will come see on the waterfront.
The American Prospect
March 27, 2000 - April 10, 2000
Section: Criticism, Books in Review
Headline: The numbers game
Byline: Josh Kurtz
Book reviewed: The Electoral College Primer 2000, by Lawrence D. Longley and Neal R. Peirce. Yale University Press
Excerpt: The key stats in presidential politics have to do with the electoral college, the curious system set up by our founders to choose the nation's presidents. It isn't the American people who select the president on the first Tuesday of November, most will recall; it's our designated electors, meeting in 50 state capitals in mid-December. In a new and worthwhile book, The Electoral College Primer 2000, Lawrence University government professor Lawrence D. Longley and political columnist Neal R. Peirce argue that an electoral crisis could be just a handful of votes away. There have been several near misses in the past. The elections of 1800 and 1824 did not produce a winner in the electoral college, and members of the House elected Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams. In 1876, Samuel J. Tilden received 270,000 more popular votes than Rutherford B. Hayes, but Hayes had a majority in the electoral college and was elected. Equally tantalizing is the fact that in several campaigns, a swing of just a few thousand votes could have changed the results. In 1976, for example, a shift of a mere 11,950 votes in Delaware and Ohio would have resulted in an electoral college deadlock (though Jimmy Carter still would have had a healthy 9-million popular-vote lead over Gerald Ford). A swing of just 9,246 votes in Hawaii and Ohio would have elected Ford instead of Carter. The electoral college skews the campaign in several ways, the authors argue. It gives some states more of a say in the outcome of the election than others. It gives certain political bosses and interest groups an inordinate amount of power. In short, Longley and Peirce say, the electoral college ought to be abolished. And it is hard, even for those of us clutching our calculators and studying the maps, to disagree.
Albuquerque Journal, Albuquerque
March 25, 2000
Headline: Where Are They Now?
Byline: Bob Larkin
Excerpt: Matt Smith, a 1998 Highland grad, is a sophomore hockey and
baseball player at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. He also
works in the school's sports information office and is a pre-med major,
according to SID Joe Vanden Acker. The 6-foot, 175-pound Smith played
forward on the Vikings' hockey team, which compiled a 1-15-1 record.
Smith had no goals or assists and played in nine games before being
sidelined with a shoulder injury. Lawrence's baseball season started
this week, and the NCAA Division III team is playing in Florida and
Georgia during its spring break. Smith, the Vikings' starting center
fielder, went 2 for 3 and drove in two runs Monday in a 9-6 loss to
Union (N.Y.) College. So far, Lawrence's record is 1-3.
WNYC Radio, New York
March 20, 2000
Show: On the line
Host: Brian Lehrer
Topic: Are tattoos the new "in" thing?
Format: Guest and radio call in
Time segment: 11:05-11:20 a.m.
Excerpt:
Lehrer: Tattoos aren't just for people living the street life anymore, they haven't been for years. The Baltimore Sun reports that 1 in 10 Americans have a tattoo. My next guest leads what you might call a double life revolving around tattoos. Judith Sarnecki is chair of the French Department at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. Nice job, straightlaced, a little highbrow, a little continental even. Now she teaches French literature there, but she has this other life in which she travels the country interviewing people who have tattoos. She sees tattoos as cultural narrative, as expressions of empowerment, and more.
Lehrer: What makes a tattoo interesting to you?
Sarnecki: Well, I think several things. I began to be interested in not only the artistic dimension of tattoos, the design dimension, but also why people would permanently mark their bodies with designs that would be with them for the rest of their lives. As a person who studies literature, I became interested in tattoos as a form of narrative, a kind of sign system if you will, that in some cases tells a story.
Lehrer: So, for example?
Sarnecki: I interviewed a young man in Arizona who had been recently released from prison and his tattoos were definitely a way of telling his life story. As he showed his tattoos, which covered his back and his arms, he related that story. Of course, in prison, there is that sort of system of tattooing, which is a system of defense as well as a kind of autobiography that lets people know who you are, who you are affiliated with, what you have done. This young man was an alcoholic and he was in AA at the time I spoke with him. He was telling me that the dragon on his forearm with the flames surrounding it was very important to him--for him to look at that tattoo to remind him of where he had been and where he didn't want to go again.
Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Corpus Christi, Texas
March 16, 2000
Section: People
Headline: In the schools
Excerpt: Geoffrey Ussery, senior at Ray High School, was among 28 students nationally who participated in a weekend physics workshop at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis. Geoffrey was selected for the workshop on the basis of his strong performance in high school physics, chemistry, mathematics, computing and scientific extracurricular programs.
CNNfn, New York
March 13, 2000
Headline: Violin star, piano accompanist make winning musical team
Excerpt: Pianist Robert McDonald was already a veteran accompanist for such acclaimed artists as Elmar Oliveira and Isaac Stern when he agreed to join a teen-age violin sensation named Midori for a short recital tour in Germany in 1987. So three years later, when Midori was around 18 and about to make her Carnegie Hall debut, the violinist's agent asked McDonald if he would be willing to accompany her recitals that season. Recalling his positive memories of the German tour, McDonald said yes, never guessing that the commitment would be the beginning of an extraordinary musical partnership that has lasted a decade and grown steadily closer. In fact, aside from a few scattered guest performances with chamber ensembles and a solo engagement here and there, virtually all of McDonald's 50 or 60 concert appearances each year are now in conjunction with Midori. He has come a long way since his childhood in Council Bluffs (Iowa), when he began taking piano lessons at age 8 from the neighborhood piano teacher. Not sure about his career path, he attended Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., which offered a strong liberal arts program as well as good music training. About midway through his freshman year, he realized that he wanted to be a professional musician. Later studies took him to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and to the Julliard School and Manhattan School of Music in New York. In addition to his performing, McDonald joined the music faculty at the Julliard School last year and continues to teach at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.
[The story originally ran in the The Omaha World-Herald on March 12, 2000]
Albuquerque Tribune, Albuquerque
March 9, 2000
Section: Neighborhood
Headline: Jan's mailbox
Byline: Jan Jonas
Excerpt: Michelle Milne, a Sandia Preparatory School senior, was named a
candidate in the 2000 Presidential Scholars program. She is one of 2,600
selected from an original group of 2.8 million students. Scholars are
selected on the basis of superior academic and artistic achievements,
leadership qualities, strong character, involvement in community and
school activities and their performance on college assessment tests. A
pool of 500 semi-final candidates will be selected in April, and that
group will be honed down to 30 finalists in May. Milne is the
granddaughter of John Milne, former superintendent of Albuquerque Public
Schools. She is also one of two local high school seniors who attended a
physics workshop in February at Lawrence University in Appleton,
Wis. Manzano High School senior Megan Schendel also went to the
workshop.
The Fresno Bee, Fresno, California
March 9, 2000
Headline: Boomer canned by ABC
Byline: Bee staff and news services
Excerpt: Boomer Esiason was fired from the Monday Night Football broadcasting team by ABC on Wednesday. Esiason, a former Pro Bowl quarterback, retired from the Cincinnati Bengals in 1998 to join the ABC telecasts. He lasted only two seasons, one as part of a three-man booth with Michaels and Dan Dierdorf, and then alone with Michaels in 1999. Also ... Freshman Mike Vernon completed his second season with the Lawrence University hockey team in Appleton, Wis. Vernon led the team in goals this season with seven.
Fairfax Journal, Fairfax, Virginia
March 7, 2000
Headline: Names in the news
Excerpt: Matthew Dickert of Alexandria was among 28 students nationwide who participated in a weekend history workshop at Lawrence University. The two-day workshop was led by members of Lawrence's history department, who explored ways to evaluate how historical events are interpreted. Dickert was selected for the workshop because of his academic performance in high school and interest in history, social sciences and humanities.