A fter nearly a year of work,the MTSU tornado-alertplan is ready to be put to

the test. Although far from perfect or

comprehensive, the plan is a posi-tive step toward securing the cam-pus community in the event of atornado or tornado warning.

Please visit the universityhome page and click on “TornadoInformation” under MTSU News,where you’ll find several docu-ments.

The first is “Safest Places.”While not yet complete, this maybe the most important information,because it lists what universitysafety officials have determined asthe safest area in each building oncampus and at several off-campussites.

Someof the“safestareas” aresimply theleast pre-carious,becausesomeMTSUfacilities weren’t designed with tor-nado safety in mind. Where offi-cials haven’t been able to prescribea surefire “safest area” in a particu-larly challenging facility, they havesuggested advisable behaviorunder difficult circumstances.

The “Safest Places” documentis useful to everyone who is oncampus on weekdays and also willbe helpful to students and profes-sors on campus at night or onweekends. This information alsowill be invaluable to universitypersonnel who are playing host tooff-campus groups, such as youthcamps, CUSTOMS or TSSAA.

Tornadoes aren’t picky aboutwhere or when they strike; there-fore, the “Safest Places” documentis an important resource. Everyoneat MTSU needs to read it and learnwhere the safe areas are in build-ings they visit, study or work in.

The Web site also has a list of“Building Runners.” These 150-plus volunteers are primarily

WHAT’S THAT DEGREE GOOD FOR?LEARN AT MARCH 28 MAJORS FAIR

Students: Have you ever wonderedwhat kind of jobs best fit your major?Check out the Second Annual MajorsFair, sponsored by the MTSU Career &Employment Center, from 11 a.m. to1 p.m. Wednesday, March 28, in theKeathley University Center’s second-floor lobby. Advisers from each MTSUcollege will be available to discuss jobopportunities for specific majors as wellas strategies for post-graduation job-seekers. All students and all majors arewelcome. For more information, contact615-898-2500.

FEASTING, FELLOWSHIP ON MENUFOR INTERNATIONAL BANQUET

Tickets for the InternationalBanquet are on sale now through Friday,March 30, at the International Programsand Services office, KUC 124. This year’sbanquet will be held Saturday, March 31,in the James Union Building’s TennesseeRoom, and the menu will include Irishstew, shrimp coconut curry, Asian coleslaw, Yager-style German schnitzel, beeffajitas, tandoori chicken, sushi and more.Doors open at 4:30 p.m. to view culturalexhibits, and dinner will be servedpromptly at 5 p.m. Prices are MTSU stu-dents, $10; adults, $16; children 12 andunder, $14; and other college students,$14. Tickets won’t be sold at the door, soplease buy yours early! For more infor-mation, call 615-898-2238.

HAVE FUN, GET HEALTHY AT COMMUNITY FAIR IN KUC

Join the fun and learn more aboutyour health Thursday, April 12, at theCommunity Health & Education Fairfrom 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Room 314 of theKeathley University Center. This event isfree, open to the public, and featureseducation on chronic health conditionsaffecting African-Americans. Free servic-es include blood-pressure screenings;hearing and vision screenings; body-fatand flexibility measurements; STD,HIV/AIDS and hepatitis education;organ/tissue donation awareness; bone-marrow testing; hemoglobin andoxygen-saturation testing; pregnancyinformation; alcohol and drug informa-tion; mental health issues; financial plan-ning and general health information. Formore about the event, contact 615-898-2987.

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A BC News’ “20/20” correspon-dent Lynn Sherr is thekeynote speaker for a

Women’s HistoryMonth event atMTSU Monday,March 26, on“Women and Media:Are Women’s VoicesHeard in Main-stream Journalism?”

The SeigenthalerChair of Excellencein First AmendmentStudies is sponsor-ing the event, which is free and opento the public. All talks will be held in

the State Farm Lecture Hall ofMTSU’S Business and AerospaceBuilding.

“Women and Media” kicks off at2:20 p.m. with a panel that addressesthe main topic. The panelists are:

• Laurie Goodstein, national reli-gion correspondent at The New YorkTimes;

• Cindy Dampier, freelance jour-nalist and former People magazinebureau chief;

• Rita Henley Jensen, founderand editor-in-chief of Women’seNews;

• Cynthia Williams, anchor/reporter at WSMV-TV Nashville; and

See ‘Tornado’ page 5

from Staff Reports

See ‘Women’ page 7

by Tom Tozer

The play’s the thing

A RAKE’S COSTUME’S PROGRESS—MTSU senior Chris Ford, who portrays therogue Jasper Horner in MTSU’s CenterStage production of the Restoration comedy“The Country Wife,” holds still as costume shop manager Marjorie Miller makes alter-ations to his costume. The 17th-century play opens March 30; for more, see page 6.

photo by Ryan Chittaphong/MTSU Speech & Theatre

‘Women and Media’ March 26

Safety first:tornado FAQnow on Web

ABC’s Sherr is keynote speaker

Sherr

Windham LectureFilmmaker Rory Kennedycontinues series April 5see page 2

Baseball & LitTigers’ McLain to putspin on conferencesee page 5

Feeling goodWellness programstill making stridessee page 6

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D ocumentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy, theco-founder and co-president of MoxieFirecracker Films Inc., will help MTSU‘s

Windham Lecture Series celebrate its 16th anniver-sary by serving as this year’s Windham Lecturer at5 p.m. Thursday, April 5, in the State Farm LectureHall of the Business and Aerospace Building.

In preparation for her visit, two of Kennedy’sfilms, “American Hollow” and “A Boy’s Life,” alsowill be shown in the Keathley University CenterTheater on campus Tuesday through Thursday,March 27-29, from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. daily. Thescreenings are free and open to the public.

Kennedy, one of the nation’s most prolific inde-pendent documentary filmmakers, will speak on“The Camera Doesn’t Lie” during her appearanceat MTSU. Her work has tackled some of our mostpressing social concerns, including poverty, domes-tic abuse, drug addiction, human rights, AIDS andmental illness, and have garnered numerousawards and been featured on HBO, A&E, MTV,Lifetime, The Oxygen Network, Court TV, TheLearning Channel and PBS. Her most recent film,“The Ghost of Abu Ghraib,” premiered on HBO.

Through her films, Kennedy aims to illuminatelarger social issues by telling the stories of every-day people. Kennedy’s “American Hollow,” anaward-winning documentary about anAppalachian family caught between century-oldtradition and the encroaching modern world, pre-

miered to critical acclaim at the Sundance FilmFestival, was broadcast as part of HBO’s AmericaUndercover series and received a Non-FictionPrimetime Emmy Award nomination.

Kennedy directed and produced “A Boy’sLife,” a portrait of the troubling forces that haveshaped the life of a 7-year-old boy from an impov-erished region of Mississippi, touching on drug

abuse, family dysfunction andreligion. She also directed andproduced “Pandemic: FacingAIDS,” which follows the lives offive people living with AIDS andconnects audiences with theheartache and triumph of livingunder the extreme conditions ofthe disease.

Her other films include“Epidemic Africa,” “Fire in OurHouse,” “Juvies,” “The Changing

Face of Beauty,” “Travelers,” “Different Moms,”“Healthy Start,” “The Nazi Officer’s Wife,”“Sixteen” and “Girlhood.”

Kennedy is a committed social activist andhuman rights advocate. She has been a member ofthe board of directors for a number of nonprofitorganizations, including the Legal Action Centerand the Project Return Foundation. She served aschairwoman of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foun-dation Associate Trustees Program and continues asa member of the board and was a member of the1999 Presidential Mission on AIDS in Africa.

Kennedy initiated and helped develop the

Teacher Transfer Program between the UnitedStates and Namibia. She has also been a member ofthe Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Human Rightsdelegations in South Africa, South Korea, Japan, ElSalvador and Poland and is a graduate of BrownUniversity with a bachelor’s degree in women’sstudies.

The Windham Lecture Series in Liberal Artswas established by William and Westy Windhamthrough the MTSU Foundation. Dr. WilliamWindham was a member of the MTSU faculty from1955 to 1989 and served as chairman of theDepartment of History the last 11 years. WestyWindham (1927-1991) earned a master’s degree insociology at MTSU and was the founder of GreatAmerican Singalong.

The Windham series is sponsored annually bythe College of Liberal Arts with the assistance ofthe assorted departments within the college. Formore information, contact 615-494-7628.

16th Windham Lecture features Rory Kennedyfrom Staff Reports

S tudents channel-surfing pastComcast’s Channel 9 recentlymay have noticed a lot of dead

air. Channel 9, MTSU’s EducationResource Channel, is in the process ofan upgrade due for completion inmid-spring.

Outdated audio, video and satel-lite equipment is being replaced toimprove signal quality while provid-ing less expensive satellite time.Channel 9,which is runby MTSU’sInstructionalTechnologySupportCenter, offersprogrammingproduced bothon and offcampus. TheITSC willbroadcast K-12and teacherdevelopment programs to viewers in14 Tennessee counties and inHuntsville, Ala.

Channel 9’s improvements pro-vide new educational and communi-ty-oriented programs, although mostare created outside of MTSU. Theseshows include professional studies bythe Research Channel and NASAEducation TV, showcases from theKennedy Center for the PerformingArts and the child development andeducation series “I Am Your Child.”

The ERC also will present part ofthe Media Ethics Summit, held earlierthis month and filmed in one ofMTSU’s studio classrooms.

“The station tries to film guestlectures whenever we can with theprofessor’s permission,” said StationManager Gail Fedak.

An ERC original show, “AccessNine,” with information on issues like

health care and home-schoolingresources, is scheduled to premiere aswell.

“The show will be produced andanchored entirely by broadcast jour-nalism students ... supervised by theirprofessors,” said Dr. Connie Schmidt,station director.

The ITSC now carries a live web-cast of Channel 9 programmingthrough its Web site, www.mtsu.edu/~itsc. Teacher responses to webcastsshow that viewers are pleased with

the videoquality.

Schmidtand Fedakalso are dis-cussing plansfor an onlinelibrary ofMTSU andoutside pro-grams.

“We areprojecting the(online)

library will be completed by fall 2008and hope Channel 9 has a future inpodcasting as well,” Dr. Schmidt said.

Among the ERC programmingreturning is “Perils for Pedestrians,”concerning problems for walkers andthe disabled, and the university’scurrent-events show, “MiddleTennessee Record.” The ERC alsocontinues to show an updated univer-sity bulletin board several times a day.

Submissions for bulletins andindependent programming areaccepted, but programs must meetcopyright criteria and be educational,dramatic or informative in nature.Information and a complete schedulemay be found on the ERC’s Web siteat www.mtsu.edu/~ercmt.

Questions about programming,bulletins and involvement in the ERCmay be directed to ercmt@mtsu.edu.

ERC on the rise after upgradeby Claire Rogers

F amed music industry execu-tive Tony Brown, producer ofmore than 100 No. 1 hit sin-

gles and winner of more than adozen music awards, will share hisexpertise and experiences withMTSU Tuesday, April 3, as part ofthe 2007 SunTrust Lecture Series.

During his visit to campus,Brown, who is nominated for three2007 Academy of Country MusicAwards at the upcoming May 15ACMs, will present a free lecture forstudents in MTSU's Department ofRecording Industry and the public.

Brown’s visit, made possiblethrough the sup-port of SunTrustBank, is set for7 p.m. in the StateFarm Lecture Hallof the Businessand AerospaceBuilding.

“Tony hasbeen very gener-ous with his timeand has visitedthe MTSU recording industrydepartment whenever we haveasked him,” said Dr. Bob Wood,coordinator of production and tech-nology for the department.

“His commitment to helpingeducate the next generation ofmusic industry professionals islaudable, and our recording indus-try students profit immeasurablyfrom the advice of such an industryluminary.”

Brown, a native of NorthCarolina, is the son of an evangelistand played piano in his family’sgospel group as a teenager. Thatexperience helped him land a tour-ing job with the Oak Ridge Boysand ultimately put him on the pianobench for Elvis Presley’s final U.S.

tour. He then joined EmmylouHarris’s famous Hot Band andplayed piano for bandmate RodneyCrowell’s Cherry Bombs whenCrowell went solo.

Brown soon wound up inNashville working for RCA Recordsand was asked to produce gospelsinger Shirley Caesar in 1983. Thatwork got him noticed by then-MCAchief Jimmy Bowen, whose mentor-ship helped to guide Brown’s talentand experience onto the road thatled to the president’s office at MCANashville in 1993 and work withsuperstars like Vince Gill, RebaMcEntire, George Strait, TrishaYearwood and Wynonna as well asfavorites like Steve Earle, PattyLoveless, Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffithand The Mavericks.

In 2002, Brown joined pal TimDuBois to form Universal SouthRecords, aiming to create what theysaid would be “a home for trulyinventive, highly creative artists.”The pair stepped down from thelabel last December, with Brownsaying he wanted to devote himselfonce again to full-time music pro-duction.

Brown’s 2007 ACM nomina-tions, announced earlier this month,include Album of the Year forBrooks & Dunn’s “Hillbilly Deluxe”and for George Strait’s “It JustComes Natural,” Single of the Yearfor Strait’s “Give It Away” andVocal Event of the Year for“Building Bridges” with Brooks &Dunn, Gill and Sheryl Crow.

Brown also is the reigningCountry Music Association produc-er for “Believe,” the 2006 Single ofthe Year by Brooks & Dunn.

For more information about thevisit, contact Wood at 615-898-2532.

Music Row mogul Brown to speakfrom Staff Reports

Kennedy

The March 12 print edition of The Recordincluded an incorrect time for the April 5Windham Lecture (“Scholars’ Week anticipationgrowing,” page 7) in the State Farm Lecture Hallof the Business and Aerospace Building.

The lecture is set for 5 p.m.

Correction

Brown

L ong before MTSU’s recent trend to build communi-ty and business partnerships, Dr. Cliff Ricketts wasbuilding corporate bridges in his career-long quest

to find alternative fuels.Since 1991, Ricketts, professor in the agribusiness and

agriscience department, has had a sponsorship-turned-partnership with Brentwood-basedTractor Supply Co. TSC has contributedmore than $118,000 to Ricketts’ researchefforts.

“We were trying to set the landspeed record in ’91, and I wrote to aboutsix companies. The only one to respondwas Tractor Supply,” Ricketts said. “(Thelate) Tom Hennessey was the presidentand CEO. He was the National FutureFarmers of America Foundation chair-man. The timing was right. He said he’dsponsor us.”

TSC gave Ricketts’ endeavor $4,750 for nine years,then upped it to $9,500 for each of the past eight years.MTSU has matched every dollar, Ricketts said.

“They’re proud of the research we’ve done,” he saidof TSC. “We wouldn’t have done as much without theirhelp and the university’s matching support.”

Additionally, at the National FFA Convention attend-ed by more than 50,000 people annually, Ricketts said he

and his student participants have had their booth space,which can cost upwards of $10,000, paid by TSC. Helaughs when he says he now works for MTSU alumnaMichelle Butler, one of his former students and formerStudent Government Association president. She is a TSCmerchandising coordinator.

Ricketts recently attended the TSC Manager’sConvention at the Nashville Convention Center. He car-ried his alternative fuel message to the U.S. Congress in2006 and a 30-minute “futuristic” outlook to the TennesseeHouse Agriculture Committee March 6.

Other partnerships Ricketts has crafted through theyears include Valspar Corp. (paint) of Minneapolis, theTennessee Valley Authority (Green Power Switch) andBridgestone/Firestone (tires). Valspar hauled, painted andadded MTSU and sponsor decals to two Corvettes in theresearch program for about $30,000, he said.

Ricketts participated March 14-16 in a meeting ofHypowerfuel Advisory Committee members at Calgary,Alberta, Canada.

In May, Ricketts hopes to conduct a run across thestate in a Toyota Tercel converted to run on hydrogen. Thehydrogen is taken from water through an electrolysis uniton the MTSU campus in the vocational ag shop. The unitis powered by the sun’s energy, which is stored in thegridline of Murfreesboro Electric through the TVA GreenPower Switch program.

Ricketts hopes to make the 600-mile run from Bristolto Memphis, with a stopover in Murfreesboro, in one day,with sun and water as the only two energy sources.

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O rganizers and InsuranceLiaison Committee mem-bers continue to work to

raise student scholarship fundsthrough the 23rd annual MartinChair of Insurance Invitational GolfTournament.

The tournament will be heldTuesday, April 17, at ChampionsRun Golf Course in Rockvale. Theevent is sponsored by the MTSUFoundation.

“Having a good golf tourna-ment involves having a full comple-ment of players, a nice prize foreach player and a large number ofhole sponsors,” Jim Cavendish,chairman of the 36-member com-mittee, told more than 20 of hisinsurance colleagues during a Feb.9 luncheon at Stones River CountryClub.

“We cannot fail in either ofthese areas if we wish to do well,”he added. “However, securing holesponsorships is possibly the mostimportant, because hole sponsor-ship money flows straight to thebottom line with very little expense,if any at all. Unlike players, there isno limit on the number of holesponsors we can accept.”

Cavendish said to “increase ourintake from last year is going totake a concerted effort from everymember of the committee. We wereable to generate $33,000 for the(Martin) Chair of Insurance lastyear. We left some on the table, so Ihope that we can do better this go-round.”

Dr. Ken Hollman, Martin Chairof Insurance chairholder, saidbetween $40,000 and $45,000 inscholarship money will be awardedto 56 students for the 2006-07 aca-demic year.

“For the first time in perhaps 15years, we have increased theamount of money that scholarshipwinners get,” Hollman said.

“This year, majors receive$1,000, up from $750, and minorsreceive $750, up from $500.”

Hollman said the program hasawarded more than 820 scholar-ships to 425 students since 1983-84.“We will have a big to-do when the1,000th scholarship is presented,”he added.

The tournament schedule fea-tures lunch and registration from10:30 to 11:45 a.m.; a shotgun start,rain or shine, at noon; and a 4:30p.m. meal and awards presentation.

Events of the day include bestball scramble play, a putting con-test, par-3 contest, longest driveaward and first hole-in-one on par-3 hole No. 17.

The latter wins a two-year leaseprivilege for the new car on display,courtesy of Alexander Ford LincolnMercury in Murfreesboro.

Partnerships fueling Ricketts’ researchby Randy Weiler

Martin golftourney againteeing off forscholarships

U .S. Bank recently helped funda graduate scholarship pro-gram for the Center for the

Study and Treatment of Dyslexia atMTSU with a check for $2,000 to theMTSU Foundation.

Bryan Nale, branch manager of

the bank and a 2002 MTSU graduate,presented the check to Dr. DianeSawyer, holder of the Katherine DavisMurfree Chair of Excellence inDyslexic Studies.

“We strongly believe that educa-tion and outreach services are thekeys to improving the quality of lifefor those who struggle with dyslex-

ia,” Nale stated. “U.S. Bank is pleasedto be a good neighbor and supporterof the center’s efforts.”

The MTSU Dyslexia Center wasestablished in 1993 and providesassistance to students in grades K-12who are diagnosed with dyslexia tohelp them become successful inschool and life. It also offers supportto the parents of the children.

“In addition to our work withstudents throughout Tennessee, wehave helped teachers and administra-tors to better understand dyslexia—how to identify it and how effectivelyto educate these children,” Sawyerexplained. “We provide no-cost work-shops and we offer graduate-levelcourses to meet this goal. The gener-ous contribution by U.S. Bank willhelp us to start a scholarship fund forteachers who might not be able totake these courses without tuitionassistance.

“This gift will have ripple effectsthroughout our community andthroughout Tennessee. We at theCenter and Middle Tennessee StateUniversity are grateful for thisexpression of support.”

U.S. Bancorp is the parent compa-ny of U.S. Bank with assets of $219billion. The sixth largest commercialbank in the United States, it operates2,472 banking offices throughout thenation.

U.S. Bank gift helps dyslexia grad programby Tom Tozer

READY TO LEARN—Friends and guests of the Dyslexia Center discuss U.S. Bank’srecent scholarship gift to the center’s graduate program. Listening to bank branch man-ager Bryan Nale explain the goals for the $2,000 gift are, seated from left, parent BethHolder, center student Andrew Holder and graduate student Trina Shelton, and stand-ing, Drs. Diane Sawyer of the center and Stuart Bernstein, psychology.

photo by J. Intintoli

Ricketts

B renda Sanford, Susan Ferrelland Fiona King will participatein the first Women in

Engineering Panel, event co-coordina-tor Dr. Judith Iriarte-Gross said.

It will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday,March 29, in Davis Science BuildingRoom 100.

Students and others interested inengineering careers are welcome. Theevent is part of National Women’sHistory Month activities.

Each panelist will share for 10 to15 minutes how they decided onengineering as a career and fieldquestions, Iriarte-Gross said.

Sanford is conservation engineerfor the Prince George’s County SoilConservation District in Maryland.

Farrell is nuclear assurance proj-ect manager at TVA’s Watts BarNuclear Plant.

King is an infrastructure market-ing specialist for Gresham, Smith and

Partners in Nashville.Dr. Sid Sridhara, professor of

engineering technology and industri-al studies, also is working withIriarte-Gross on the event.

For more information, contactIriarte-Gross at jiriarte@mtsu.edu or615-904-8253.

Women engineers await March 29 panel

by Randy Weiler

“Middle Tennessee Record”Cable Channel 9Monday-Sunday, 5 p.m.NewsChannel5+Saturday, 1 p.m.

“Sound in Print: The Art of theContemporary Music Poster”8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-FridayTodd GalleryFor information, contact:jsjohnso@mtsu.edu.

“No Longer on the Sidelines: 35 Years of Title IX at MTSU”11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Monday-Friday(except March 27 and 29)Gore Research Center, Todd Hall 129For information, contact: 615-898-2632.

“Kenda North: Urban Pools”8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday,noon-4 p.m. SaturdayBaldwin Photo Gallery, LRCFor information, contact: 615-898-2085.

Monday, March 26Women’s Tennis vs. South Alabama11 a.m., Buck Bouldin Tennis CenterFor information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-2103.

National Women’s History Month: “Women and Media: Are Women’sVoices Heard in MainstreamJournalism?”2:20 p.m. panel discussion, 6 p.m.keynote by ABC News’ Lynn SherrBAS State Farm Lecture HallFor details, see page 1or contact: 615-898-5150.

Honors Lecture SeriesDr. James Tate, “Causes of Crime” 3-3:55 p.m., HONR 106For information, contact: 615-898-2152.

Nathan B. Forrest Educational Forum:“Middle Tennessee and theReconstruction Era”4:30 p.m., LRC 221For information, contact: Dr. Colette Taylor, 615-898-5812.

Stones River Chamber Players7:30 p.m., WMB Hinton Music HallNo admission chargeFor information, contact: 615-898-2493.

March 27-29Rory Kennedy Film Screenings“American Hollow” and “A Boy’s Life”11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. daily, KUC TheaterNo admission chargeFor information, contact: 615-494-7628.

Tuesday, March 27MT Baseball vs. Austin Peay6 p.m., Reese Smith FieldFor information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-2103.

Legends in Forensic ScienceLectureship: Dr. William Bass ofUT’s “Body Farm”7 p.m., BAS State Farm Lecture Hall For information, contact: 615-494-7628.

Wednesday, March 28National Women’s History Month:“This is What a Feminist Looks Like”11 a.m.-3 p.m., KUC KnollFor information, contact: 615-898-5910.

Second Annual Majors Fairsponsored by the MTSU Career &Employment Center 11 a.m.-1 p.m., KUC second floor For information, contact: 615-898-2500.

Thursday, March 29National Women’s History Month: “Opportunities and Careers forWomen in Engineering” panel7 p.m., Wiser-Patten Science 102For information, contact: 615-898-5910.

March 30-April 1MT Baseball vs. Louisiana-MonroeMarch 30, 6 p.m.; March 31, 4 p.m.;April 1, 1 p.m., Reese Smith FieldFor information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-2103.

Friday, March 30Second Annual Conference onBaseball in Literature and CultureJames Union BuildingFor information, e-mail tormey@mtsu.edu or contact: 615-494-7878.

Women’s Tennis vs. UAB2 p.m., Buck Bouldin Tennis CenterFor information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-2103.

Ideas & Issues: Dr. N.G. Berrill,“Get Inside the Criminal Mind”7 p.m., KUC TheaterFor information, visit www.mtsu.edu/~events/lectures.html.

April 1-3

12th Annual InstructionalTechnology ConferenceFor details, visitwww.mtsu.edu/~itconf/mtsufac/or contact: 615-898-2214.

Sunday, April 1“MTSU On The Record—MIMIC”Guests: Drs. Andrienne Friedli andMarion Wells7 a.m., WMOT 89.5-FMPodcast available at ww.mtsunews.comor free subscription at iTunes.

National Women’s History Month:Spring Out! Nashville in HarmonyConcert5 p.m., KUC KnollFor information, contact: 615-898-5910.

April 2-3AAUW Annual Book SaleKUC first floor outside bookstoreFor information, e-mailAAUWBooksale@mtsu.edu.

April 2-6 Scholars’ WeekFor event details, see page 7 or visit www.mtsu.edu/~research/scholarsweek_schedule.html.

Monday, April 2African American History Month:“Race, the Death Penalty andCriminal Justice” panel discussion9:10-10:05 a.m., LRC 221For information, contact:astaples@mtsu.edu.

National Women’s History Month:Spring Out! Info Fair and Carnival10 a.m.-4 p.m., KUC KnollFor information, contact: 615-898-5910.

Honors Lecture SeriesDr. Gloria Hamilton, “Crime: Intervention andPrevention—What Works?” 3-3:55 p.m., HONR 106For information, contact: 615-898-2152.

National Women’s History Month:Photographer Kenda North lecture7:30 p.m., LRC 221No admission chargeFor information, contact: 615-898-2085.

Faculty Piano Recital: Caleb Harris8 p.m., WMB Hinton Music HallFor information, contact: 615-898-2493.

Tuesday, April 3JAWC Career/ProfessionalDevelopment Brown Bag Terri Johnson & Dr. Gloria Hamilton,“Bullying in the Workplace”Noon-1 p.m, BAS SunTrust RoomFor information, contact: 615-898-2193.

National Women’s History Month:Spring Out! GLBT Issues andReligion panel discussionco-sponsors: MT Lambda Associationand Raiders for Rationalism4 p.m., BAS S213For information, contact: 615-898-5910.

Tuesday, April 3MT Baseball vs. Tennessee Tech6 p.m., Reese Smith FieldFor information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-2103.

2007 SunTrust Lecture Series: Tony Brown7 p.m., BAS State Farm Lecture HallFor details, see page 2or contact: 615-898-2532.

Wednesday, April 4National Women’s History Month:Spring Out!—Kevin Lawson ofNashville CARES, “Let’s Talk About Sex”7-9 p.m., BAS S316For information, contact: 615-898-5910.

MT Softball vs. Memphis5 and 7 p.m., Blue Raider Softball FieldFor information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-2103.

Thursday, April 5Graduate Studies Conversation Hour:Drs. Thomas May and ThomasCooper, “Bioterrorism and theCorrosion of Truth in the Age ofEnron”2 p.m., HONR 202 (conference room)For information, contact: 615-898-2840.

Windham Lecture: Rory Kennedy,“The Camera Doesn’t Lie”5 p.m., BAS State Farm Lecture HallFor information, contact: 615-494-7628.

Stones River Chamber Players7:30 p.m., WMB Hinton Music HallNo admission chargeFor information, contact: 615-898-2493.

Friday, April 6First Friday Star PartyDr. Eric Klumpe, “White Dwarf Stars”6:30-8:30 p.m., WPS Room 102For information, contact: 615-898-2483.

April 7-8MT Softball vs. North TexasApril 7: 1 p.m., 3 p.m.; April 8: 11 a.m.Blue Raider Softball FieldFor information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-2103.

Saturday, April 7Women's Tennis vs. Arkansas State1 p.m., Buck Bouldin Tennis CenterFor information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-2103.

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Tornado from page 1clerical personnel who are willing—inthe event of a tornado warning inRutherford County—to spring intoaction, knock on office and classroomdoors and announce that there is atornado warning and everyone needsto go immediately to that building’sdesignated safe area. These peoplewill be “running” their circuits withthe support and approval of theMTSU administration and safety per-sonnel.

The “Preparation Alert” documentis worth reading immediately; it’sexactly what it says. This alert will besent out to the entire campus commu-nity in advance of possible tornadicactivity, whether a day or hours inadvance. It requires all of us to takehazardous weather seriously and beprepared for action at home, school,daycare center, office and elsewhere.Following the suggestions in the“Preparation Alert” document willlessen last-minute anxieties.

The FAQ document addresses per-tinent issues brought up duringtornado-alert information sessionsacross campus over the last fewweeks. This document will evolve,change and expand over time as morequestions are asked and more infor-mation is discovered. Please read itperiodically.

In addition, there are documentsthat provide basic information aboutthe behavior of tornadoes, as well as atornado poster that can be down-loaded and displayed. All of thisinformation can save lives.

We’ve all seen recent examples ofwhat tornadoes can do. We cannotignore the warnings, and we cannotpretend that our office or building orclassroom at MTSU will somehow beexempt from a tornado touchdown.

When a tornado warning is sentout, here’s what we know will hap-pen: classes will be interrupted, peo-ple will wonder if they can go home,concerned parents will call to check ontheir children—and most of us will beinconvenienced. We can’t control theweather, but we can be prepared for it.

With preparation, the very bestthat can happen is that our routineswill be temporarily disrupted … andnothing else.

D enny McLain, whose pitching brilliancepropelled the Detroit Tigers to the 1968World Series championship, will deliver

the luncheon address at MTSU’s second annualConference on Baseball in Literature and CultureFriday, March 30, in the James Union Building.

McLain, the last major league pitcher to winmore than 30 games in a season, chalked up 31 vic-tories in 1968, capturing the league’s most valuableplayer and Cy Young awards. The three-timeAmerican League All-Star compiled 131 winsagainst 91 losses and registered a 3.39 earned runaverage during his major league career, which last-ed from 1963 to 1972.

In 1985, McLain’s life took a tragic turn whenhe was convicted on federal racketeering and extor-tion charges relating to his partnership in a Floridafinancial services company. The conviction wasoverturned on procedural issues in 1987. WhenMcLain was reindicted, he pleaded guilty andreceived a 12-year sentence but was credited fortime served and got five years’ probation instead.

In 1996, McLain was convicted of conspiracy,theft, money laundering and mail fraud for lootingthe pension fund of aMichigan meat-processing companyhe co-owned. Heserved more thansix years in a feder-al prison inPennsylvania.

McLain’s color-ful past explainsthe title of his lat-est book, I Told YouI Wasn’t Perfect,written with EliZaret and slatedfor release byTriumph Booksthis year. Hisprevious twobooks areNobody’s Perfect (1975) andStrikeout: The Story of Denny McLain (1988).

The keynote speaker for the conference will be

Dr. Gerald Wood, chairman of the Department ofEnglish and dean of humanities at Carson-NewmanCollege in Jefferson City, Tenn. He will speak on

“Doctor Smoke: Joe Wood, Yale University andthe 1926 Baseball Controversy,” a spinoff from abiography he is writing.

Wood also is co-editing Northsiders: Essays inthe Social History of the Chicago Cubs, to be releasedlater this year by McFarland Press. He describeshimself as a baseball player as a “good-field, no-hit second baseman for Wabash College” in 1965-66.

Scholars from all over the country will presentpapers under the broad topics of “Baseball andCritical Theory,” “60s, 70s and 80s,” “Baseball andAmerican Culture,” “Baseball in Language, Historyand Cinema,” “Baseball in Contemporary AmericanLiterature” and “Fiction, Poetry and Memoirs.”

The conference registration fee of $50 includesbreakfast, lunch and the conference program.Public attendance at presentations, excludingmeals, is free.

For more information, contact Warren Tormey,assistant professor of English, at 615-494-7878 ortormey@mtsu.edu.

Tigers’ McLain to put spin on Baseball & Lit eventby Gina K. Logue

Conference set for March 30

GREAT WORK!—Christopher Crowell,right, chairman of MTSU's EmployeeRecognition Committee, presents LisaWales, acquisitions account clerk II for theJames E. Walker Library, with the latestQuarterly Secretarial/Clerical Award aslibrary assistant professor Rachel Kirk,left, looks on. The Employee RecognitionCommittee salutes staffers who make out-standing contributions and demonstrateexcellence in their roles. To nominate anadministrative, secretarial/clerical, classi-fied or technical/service co-worker for thequarterly award program, download anemployee recognition nomination form athrs.web.mtsu.edu/forms.html and submit itto Human Resource Services in CAB 217.

photo by Andy Heidt

Recognizing excellence

N early 40 regional executiveswill take over morningclasses at MTSU Friday,

April 6, for what has become one ofthe university’s signature eventslinking textbook wisdom to thetrenches of the real-world workplace.

The 16th Annual UniversityTakeover/Executives-in-Residenceprogram at MTSU, sponsored by theJennings A. Jones Chair of Excellencein Free Enterprise, is the largestevent of its kind in the Southeast,according to event organizers in theJennings A. Jones College ofBusiness.

Area CEOs, business owners,directors and managers will meetwith 10:20 and 11:30 a.m. classes toshare their experiences and answerquestions from students on subjectsranging from job interviewing toclimbing the corporate ladder.

“The Executives-in-Residenceprogram provides an opportunity forour students to interact with somevery dynamic executives in MiddleTennessee and gives them a chance

to see some of the theory they’rebeing taught in actual practice,” saidDr. Jim Burton, dean of the JonesCollege of Business. “The classroomexperience will also give visitingexecutives an opportunity to knowmore about the quality of the stu-dents that we’re making available tothem as future employees. This eventrepresents every-thing that JenningsJones was about—vision, achievementand giving back.”

Jones, philan-thropist and greatfriend of education,passed away in2005.

Following themorning classes,there will be an invitation-onlyluncheon at 12:30 p.m. in theTennessee Room of the James UnionBuilding. The luncheon speaker willbe Joel C. Gordon, principal of TheGordon Group, a private investmentfirm founded in 1996.

A leader in the healthcare serv-ice industry for more than 35 years,

Gordon founded General Care Corp.in 1969, a model company in theacute-care hospital industry. In 1980,General Care was sold to HCA. Twoyears later, Gordon launchedSurgical Care Affiliates, the secondlargest operator of outpatient sur-gery centers in the nation. It wassubsequently sold to HealthSouth in1996, for which Gordon served asdirector from 1996 to 2005.

Gordon, who served in the U.S.Air Force from 1951 to 1954, hasreceived TPAC’s Applause Awardand the Joe Kraft Humanitarian ofthe Year award, among many others.

During the luncheon, Burton willpresent Gordon with the Joe M.Rodgers Spirit of America Award—an honor presented to a businessper-son who has demonstrated the bestof the spirit of America through sig-nificant contributions in government,education and/or civic and charita-ble organizations.

Ambassador Joe M. Rodgers isformer holder of the Free EnterpriseChair of Excellence and an avid sup-porter of higher education.

Executives take over classes April 6by Tom Tozer

Gordon

page 6 The Record March 26, 2007

W illiam Wycherley’s comedy of manners, “The Country Wife,” willcome to life at 7:30 nightly March 30-31 and April 4-7 in MTSU’sTucker Theatre as the next offering in the MTSU CenterStage

Series. “Love, lust, deception, curious wives and jealous husbands make this

1675 Restoration Comedy one of the funniest and most vulgar plays of itstime,” remarked Jeff Gibson, assistant professor of speech and theatre, whoadds that for 200 years, it was considered too outrageous to be performed.

According to the play’s storyline, London’s elite are reeling from thenews that its most notorious playboy, Jasper Horner, is back from France andrumored to be a medically certified eunuch. Consequently, husbands practi-cally throw their wives at him, delighted that they can have affairs withoutlosing their honor. Horner, however, has not been so honest, and he seducesthe wives of his all-too-trusting friends. His cleverness is taxed when hebecomes involved with Margery Pinchwife, a newlywed from the countrywhose husband is an extremely jealous fop determined to protect her inno-cence at any cost.

“Most of our students have never performed in a play from theRestoration period, so this show is an exceptional opportunity for them tolearn the style of that time,” said Deborah Anderson, professor of speech andtheatre and the show’s producer.

“I have spent a lot of time with the students in developing the move-ment, posture and language of the Restoration period, because we want thisshow to be as historically true and authentic as possible,” she added.

Production organizers said the dedicated work of Tommy Macon, direc-tor of costume, played a vital role in making the show authentic. It was thejob of Macon and his staff to recreate the embellished fashion of the late1600s, including big wigs, elaborate clothing and fancy footwear.

“We are extremely privileged to have Tommy Macon on our faculty,”said Anderson. “He is a true professional in his field and has designedabsolutely stunning costumes for our production.”

Not only will the production be beautiful to view, but it also promises toprovide much humor and wit for audiences.

“I have been having such a blast doing this show,” said RyanChittaphong, a senior theater major who plays the jealous Mr. Pinchwife.

“I don’t think I have ever laughed so much in rehearsals than I have forthis production. There are just so many clever puns and sharp lines withinthe dialogue, and I think the audiences are truly going to love every minuteof it.”

Tickets for “The Country Wife” may be purchased at the door on theevening of the performance. Prices range from $4 to $8. MTSU students willbe admitted free with a valid ID.

For more information, call 615-494-8810 or visit www.mtsu.edu/~theatre.

by Lisa L. Rollins

LAYING THE FOUNDATION—Scene Shop manager Sean Williams, left, and tech-nical director Amethyst Cantrell build the customized raked stage for MTSU’supcoming CenterStage production of the Restoration comedy “The Country Wife."

photo by Ryan Chittaphong/MTSU Speech & Theatre

Love! Lust! Lies! Big wigs! See it all CenterStage at MTSU

T wenty dollars could drastically change yourlife—maybe even save it. That’s the cost forone semester in the MTSU Faculty-Staff

Health and Wellness Program, under the leadershipof Dr. Mark Anshel, and participants say it’s wellworth the price of admission.

“I have lost 30 pounds and 30 inches in 118days!!! I am so thankful for the fitness program andMTSU for providing for us. I truly believethat you all have and are saving my life,”exclaims Linda Feagans, a current partici-pant in the second semester of the pro-gram.

The program is made up of three 10-week sessions and serves approximately100 faculty, staff and administrators persemester. Thanks to the Office of thePresident for underwriting the expense,$20 is all you need to participate.

Jaws are dropping over data from thefirst session of the 10-week program:

• Fitness scores skyrocketed. • Blood tests reflected a decrease in

bad cholesterol and an increase in the good kind.• Only 12 percent of participants dropped out

compared to the average 30 percent in similar pro-grams.

• Post-evaluation results show participantsenjoyed the rigorous program.

“There’s a need on campus to help peopleimprove their habits to go from unhealthy tohealthy,” says Anshel. “People generally needcoaching; they need support; they need structure tocreate a new lifestyle, to improve their health andtheir energy. My job was to create that structure.”

The program focuses on four areas. First,organizers gather data such as blood testing forcholesterol, body fat percentage and blood pressure

from participants. Data are taken at the beginning,middle and end of the program and reported toeach participant.

Second, fitness coaches make individual pre-scriptions for cardiovascular and strength training,then monitor progress, instruct, motivate and holdparticipants accountable.

Third, a routine is developed to “make health-related habits a staple part of their day,” Anshelsays.

Finally, participants are encouraged to thinkabout their values and how those relate to theirhealth and well-being. Most find that their life isnot in line with their values, and their unhealthyhabits carry a heavy expense.

With the help of the program, Anshel says, par-ticipants agree that they’re getting their livesrealigned with their values and are feeling better.

“I have never felt better than I do right now. Iam even trusting myself more,” Feagans noted inan e-mail to Anshel. In the past 35 years, she says,her weight has fluctuated and her closet has reflect-ed those ups and downs. However, since beginningthe program she has gained the confidence to getrid of the larger clothes in her closet.

“You all have given me the strength and powerto understand why and how to achieve and keepmy goal weight forever,” Feagans says. “I no longeram going to hold onto the baggage of the extraclothes in case I might need them someday, becausethat day is never going to happen again. The bag-gage is gone.”

Each participant receives two sessions with aregistered dietitian, a complete inventory on mentalbarriers for maintaining efforts by a licensed psy-

chologist, weekly meetings with a fitnesscoach and two seminars with Anshel onimplementing the skills learned.

“The information stayed with me,”says Karen Nunley, a participant from thefirst semester. “I have a little more confi-dence and am able to do things physicallythat I wasn’t able to do just a few weeksago. I want everyone to know how thank-ful I am that the program was put inplace, and I hope other companies willfollow suit.”

Anshel thanked President Sidney A.McPhee for his support of the programand his willingness to help provide a pro-

gram to benefit the health and wellness of the uni-versity staff.

“The goal here is to create the skills and theself-motivation to do it on their own, so eventuallythey do this as part of their lifestyle,” Anshel says.

Registration is under way now for the summersemester wellness program, which begins June 4with orientation and testing and ends Aug. 17. Aswith the previous semesters, the program is limitedto 100 participants and costs $20 per person.

For more information, contact Anshel by e-mailat manshel@mtsu.edu or the Campus RecreationOffice at 615-898-2104. You can also visit the pro-gram’s new Web site, www.mtsu.edu/~wellness.

Employee wellness program still making stridesby Jennifer Posey

Summer sign-ups under way now

I f you thought a student was carrying a con-cealed weapon in class, would you know whatyou should or should not do to safely handle

the situation?During a recent interview, Buddy Peaster,

director of public safety at MTSU, responded to thisand similar questions on emergencies that couldarise. His answers explain what faculty and staffshould and should not do in emergency situa-tions.

Q: What should I do if I suspect thatsomeone in class is concealing a weapon ofsome type?

Peaster: “Do not confront the person.Report the person to Public Safety and letthem determine the best way to handle it.”

Q: What should I do if a fight suddenlybreaks out inside my classroom?

A: “Call 9-1-1. Don’t strike a student in anattempt to stop the fight.”

Q: What if I hear an argument or violent con-frontation in the hall outside my classroom oroffice?

A: “It depends on the severity of the argument.Do what you would if it was occurring in yourneighborhood. If it sounds bad enough to call thepolice or to be disruptive to the class, call 9-1-1.Stay in the classroom unless you feel there is immi-nent danger. If the argument is simply too loud orbothersome, you may ask the parties to please quietdown.

“Don’t intervene physically in a shoutingmatch or physical altercation.”

Q: What if I suspect a student of being underthe influence of something?

A: “Deal with the student’s behavior. If he orshe is not causing extreme disruptive problems,talk with the student after class or at a later date. Ifhe or she is belligerent, call the police.

“Don’t try to physically restrain or fight withthe student or embarrass him/her in class.”

Q: What should I do if students or I smell astrange odor in the classroom and people startcomplaining of dizziness or nausea?

A: “Inquire about the smell with the students.If no one knows the source of the odor, leave theclassroom and possibly the building, depending onthe area of the smell. Let others in the generalbuilding vicinity know about the situation, evacu-ate the area and call 9-1-1.

“Do not try to withstand the odor and continueclass.”

Q: How about if class members or I detect anelectrical odor in the classroom?

A: “Ask others for their opinion on the smell.Look for its origin. If it can be found and it is a firerisk or the smell continues to get stronger, follow

the directions above regarding a strange odor. “Do not completely ignore it without com-

ment.”Q: How about if a student suddenly passes

out or has some kind of seizure?A: “Move people and objects away from the

victim. Call 9-1-1. Never try to hold the persondown or put a spoon, rag or other object in the per-son’s mouth.”

Q: What should I do if someone falls downinside or outside my building and he or she says,

‘Don’t worry, I’m OK?’”A: “Believe them. Never perform a phys-

ical exam on their injured parts.” Q: What if someone falls down inside

or outside my building and he or she doesnot respond?

A: “Perform CPR and/or (use an) AED(automated external defibrillator), if appro-priate. Call 9-1-1. Do NOT try to move thevictim unless absolutely necessary. You donot want to cause further injury.”

Q: What about when I see someone on cam-pus speeding or driving erratically?

A: “It depends on the degree of hazard associ-ated with the driving. A car creating an extreme orpotentially dangerous public situation should bereported to the police.

“Don’t try to force the car to pull over.”Q: What phone number(s) should students,

faculty and staff always carry with them?A: “The University Police, 615-898-2424, and

9-1-1.”

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• Jennifer Brooks, reporter at TheTennessean.

Beverly Keel, director of theSeigenthaler Chair of Excellence, willmoderate the panel.

“This will certainly be a memo-rable day for our students, facultyand guests,” said Keel, who also is amass communication professor atMTSU.

“I am eager to hear what thesenational journalism leaders in thefields of broadcast, print and Internethave to say. They will provide fasci-nating insights about their personalexperiences and their professionalopinions about the state of women injournalism today.”

Sherr will deliver the keynoteaddress, “Women, Politics and theMedia,” at 6 p.m. She has traveled theworld as a correspondent for “20/20”and reported on presidential elec-tions, NASA shuttle launches andHMO fraud.

Sherr won George Foster PeabodyAwards for her coverage of the mil-lennium in Bombay and her report onan alternative treatment for anorexiaand bulimia. She has received awardsfor stories on presidential elections,Ireland’s abortion amendment, tat-tooed cosmetics, the abortion pill,breast-cancer victims and sexualharassment.

Sherr is the author of severalbooks, including Outside the Box, TallBlondes and Failure is Impossible: SusanB. Anthony in Her Own Words.

Goodstein joined the Times in1997 after working at The WashingtonPost for eight years. She has coveredreligion and politics, the challenge ofincreasing religious diversity in com-munities and schools, clergy sexualabuse, government funding of “faith-based” charities and the conflicts overgay marriage, abortion and stem cellresearch.

Dampier is a freelance journalist

who spent 17 years at People maga-zine. She spent 10 years as theChicago bureau chief and was theyoungest bureau chief in the maga-zine’s history. She oversaw the maga-zine’s coverage in 14 states and partof Canada and worked on storiesinvolving Oprah Winfrey, MichaelJordan, John F. Kennedy Jr. and ReneeZellweger.

Jensen founded Women’s eNews(www.womensenews.org), an award-winning independent daily newsservice covering issues of concern towomen. A former senior writer forThe National Law Journal and a NewYork Times Syndicate columnist, shehas more than 20 years of experiencein journalism and journalism educa-tion. Jensen also is a survivor ofdomestic violence and a former wel-fare mother who earned degrees fromThe Ohio State University andColumbia Graduate School ofJournalism.

Williams has anchored, reportedand produced series pieces for sweepsat WSMV-TV in Nashville. She also isthe accomplished author of a series offour children’s books that focus on afictional inner-city neighborhood. Themain character is “Enid,” a young,adventurous girl who triumphs byusing her leadership skills to improveher troubled community.

Brooks is a reporter for TheTennessean who also has worked as aWhite House and congressional corre-spondent for various Washingtonnews outlets, including United PressInternational and Gannett NewsService. Over the course of a 15-yearjournalism career, she has covered sto-ries ranging from the presidentialimpeachment and trial to theOlympics and Hurricane Katrina.

Women from page 1

Safety chief offers tips for handling emergenciesby Jennifer Posey

Monday, April 2

Scholars Week Kick-Off, 11:30a.m.-12:30 p.m., Library Quad; 11:30a.m. salsa music, noon comments byDrs. Gebert and Allen. Contact: 615-898-2953.

Featured college: BusinessPoster Session, 12:30-2:30 p.m.,

BAS South Lobby.Featured speaker: Dr. Lee

Martin, “Techonomics,” 2:30-3:30p.m., BAS State Farm Lecture Hall.Contact: 615-898-2736.

Tuesday, April 3

Featured college: Basic andApplied Sciences

Hands-On Learning Showcase,noon-2 p.m., Library Quad (or KUCfirst- and second-floor lobbies ifrain). Contact: 615-898-5540.

Office of Research andSponsored Programs Grant Writersand Mentors Reception, 2-3:30 p.m.,JUB 100. Contact: 615-898-5005.

Wednesday, April 4

Featured College: Liberal ArtsTalks, Panels and

Performances, HONR 117, 1–5 p.m.Contact: 615-898-2351.

Thursday, April 5

Featured ccolleges: MassCommunication, Education andBehavioral Science, and GraduateStudies

“Life’s Major QuestionsLuncheon,” 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m., JUBHazlewood Dining Room; Dr. StuartBernstein, “The Literacy Crisis”; Dr.Bill Compton, “Positive Psychologyand Health”; Dr. Chuck Higgins,

“Are We Alone in the Universe”; Dr.Steve Howard, “The Emergence ofThinking Computers”; Dr. Tom May.$5 (subsidized) tickets in advance.Contact: 615-898-5897.

College of Graduate StudiesConversation Hour: “Bioterrorismand the Corrosion of Truth in theAge of Enron: Ethics in theUniversity and the ‘Real World,’”Drs. Thomas May and ThomasCooper, 2-3:30 p.m., HONR 202.Contact: 615-898-2840.

College of Mass Communi-cation Showcase of Scholarly andCreative Work, 4:05-5:45 p.m.,COMM 103.

McNair Dinner and Lecture,4:30-6 p.m., JUB Tennessee Room;Dr. Eugenia Kalnay, University ofMaryland. Contact: 615-898-5472.

College of Liberal ArtsWindham Lecture: Rory Kennedy,Moxie Firecracker Films Inc., 5-6p.m., BAS State Farm Lecture Hall.Contact: 615-494-7628.

Friday, April 6

Universitywide Poster andMultimedia Exposition

Faculty mingling and lunch,noon-12:30 p.m.; faculty session,12:30–1:30 p.m.; undergraduate andgraduate student session, 2-4 p.m.;awards at 4 p.m.; JUB TennesseeRoom. Contact: 615-898-2071.

For more information and anylast-minute changes, visit theScholars Week Web site atwww.mtsu.edu/ ~research/scholarsweek_ schedule.html.

Scholars Week schedule update

‘Don’t try to physicallyrestrain ... the student

or embarrass him in class.’Buddy Peaster

director, Department of Public Safety

Dr. Mark Anshel (health andhuman performance) coordinated asymposium on “Effective Strategiesfor Community Health and WellnessPrograms” March 21-24 at the Societyof Behavioral Medicine Conference inWashington, D.C. He also presented“Strategies That Promote Adherenceto Changes in Exercise and EatingHabits in a Community WellnessProgram: An Outcome-Based ActionStudy.”

Drs. Janice Leone, Mary Evins,Mary Hoffschwelle and PippaHolloway (history) participated inthe Scarritt-Bennett 20th anniversaryconference “Struggle, Faith andVision: Celebrating Women in theUnited Methodist Tradition—1788 toToday,” March 9-11 at Scarritt-BennettCenter in Nashville. MTSU’s historydepartment co-sponsored the eventand presented a symposium,“Intersecting Missions: The Work ofWomen in Progressive Women’sOrganizations in Tennessee—1870-1930.” Evins, who served as sympo-sium chair, presented “‘Dangerous’Women’s Work: ExpandingAcceptable Women’s Roles andDeveloping Primary Education inTennessee in the Early 20th Century”;Leone presented “‘Practical Religion’:Settlement Work of the Woman’sMissionary Council of the Methodist

Episcopal Church, South, 1890-1920”;Hoffschwelle served as commentatoron five papers on church mission andeducation; and Holloway was com-mentator on four papers addressingwomen’s political activism. Hoff-schwelle and Holloway also partici-pated in a Cokesbury book signingthat featured their recently publishedworks, The Rosenwald Schools of theAmerican South (University of FloridaPress, 2006) and Sexuality, Politics, andSocial Control in Virginia, 1920-1945(University of North Carolina Press,2006), respectively.

Marc Barr (electronic media com-munication) is one of 58 U.S. artistswhose work—a computer-designedtea set—has been accepted into theupcoming Biennial Exhibition ofNorth American (Functional) Clay atthe Guilford Art Center in Guilford,Conn. Another of Barr’s tea sets hasbeen selected for inclusion in the 15thAnnual Strictly Functional PotteryNational exhibit at the Market HouseCraft Center in Lancaster, Penn., asone of 110 pieces selected from morethan 1,000 entries.

Grover Baker (Center for PopularMusic) presented “Monkey Biz-ness(Down in Tennessee) or How to

Research Copyrights without GoingBananas” March 8 at the John C.Hodges Library at the University ofTennessee-Knoxville as part of the UTLibraries’ “E-Forum: Electronic Issuesfor the Academy” series. The originalpresentation, “Monkey Biz-ness(Down in Tennessee),” delivered atthe 2006 Annual Meeting of theSoutheast Chapter of the MusicLibrary Association, was recentlychosen as SEMLA’s nominee for theMusic Library Association’s nationalBest of Chapter Competition. Ifselected, Baker will deliver his pres-entation at the 2008 MLA AnnualMeeting in Newport, R.I.

Dr. Joon Soo Lim (journalism)presented “Resistance to ethicallysuspicious video spoof on YouTube:A test of inoculation theory” at the10th Annual International PublicRelations Conference in Miami March8-11.

Drs. Joan Raines (academicenrichment) and Dovie Kimmins(mathematical sciences) presented“Shuffle and Roll: Using theProbability Simulator to TeachProbability Theory” and “Picking aView: Subtleties of GraphingCalculator Window Selection” at theTeachers Teaching with TechnologyInternational Conference in ChicagoMarch 9-10.

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Faculty/Staff Update

Conferences

Exhibits

Places Around Campus

M TSU’s Naked EyeObservatory has garneredmore statewide acclaim for

its designers, Nashville engineeringfirm Hart Freeland Roberts Inc., withthe recent announcement of an HonorAward for Engineering Excellencefrom the American Council ofEngineering Companies of Tennessee.

Hart Freeland won in the specialprojects category for its work on the$1.2 million observatory, located inthe open common area alongsideWalnut Grove and the Cope Admini-stration Building southwest of Wiser-Patten Science Hall .

Four other Nashville firms alsowere honored March 6 for projectsranging from the SchermerhornSymphony Center in Nashville to theInterstate 124 reconstruction project inChattanooga.

“ACEC of Tennessee sponsorsthis annual competition to turn thespotlight on the important contribu-tions that Tennessee engineeringfirms make to the health, safety andquality of life of the people in ourstate and nation and throughout theworld,” noted Joe Chester, PE, chair-man of the Engineering ExcellenceAwards program for ACEC ofTennessee and vice president forinfrastructure services, Tennesseeregion, at engineering firm URS inFranklin.

Describing MTSU’s Naked EyeObservatory as “an interactive monu-ment,” ACEC noted that the projectinvolved highly complex and precise

calculations and required engineers touse astronomy and the graphicalapplication of geometry. The orbits ofthe various planets related to theearth’s orbit, plus the rotation of theearth, the viewer’s location on earthand the time of year the viewer ispresent, all had to be taken intoaccount.

“Intended primarily as a teaching

tool, the observatory is also open tothe general public, bringing knowl-edge and the potential appreciation ofastronomy to all who use it, whileoffering the experience of personallylocating actual stars and planets withthe naked eye,” judges noted in theirreport. “Not subject to technologicaladvances, the observatory’s value isfundamentally timeless.”

Construction on the Naked Eyefacility got under way in late spring2005 and was completed about a yearlater. The second phase of the obser-vatory project includes a building thatwill house the university’s telescope,which will be located across OldMain Circle from the Naked Eye facil-ity between Smith Hall and Wiser-Patten.

Naked Eye Observatory earns design acclaim

CELESTIAL GUIDES—Lights illuminate the columns ofMTSU’s acclaimed “interactive monument,” the Naked EyeObservatory, at night on campus in the photo above. At left,students create a path between the observatory and WalnutGrove on their way to daytime classes.

photos courtesy Hart Freeland Roberts Inc.

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