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Monday, May 1, 2006

UNIVERSITY IN THE NEWS

DIVISIONS CAST ASIDE IN CRY FOR DARFUR / MALL RALLY HIGHLIGHTS GROWING
CONCERN
By Sudarsan Raghavan of The Washington Post
Clutching signs that read "Never Again," thousands of protesters from across religious and political divides descended on the Mall yesterday along with celebrities and politicians to urge President Bush to take stronger measures to end the violence in Sudan's Darfur region that the United States has labeled genocide...In recent months, universities, states and municipalities have divested some of their investments from companies doing business with Sudan...There are divestment campaigns underway at the University of Maryland and the UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.

CRISIS IN DARFUR IS EXPECTED TO DRAW THOUSANDS TO MALL / RALLIES
PROMOTING END TO GENOCIDE PLANNED FOR 17 OTHER CITIES
By Sudarsan Raghavan of The Washington Post / Sunday

PROTESTS ON VA. CAMPUSES ARE SEEN AS LARGELY ISOLATED / OBSERVERS SEE NORMAL COLLEGE ACTIVISM, NOT A LOOMING UPHEAVAL
By Rex Bowman of the Times-Dispatch
Students marched at Virginia Tech, chanted at Radford University and camped in a building at the University of Virginia last month. They also protested at the College of William and Mary. But the events weren't coordinated, and society is not about to be deluged by a wave of anti-establishment campus fervor, according to school administrators, students and observers across the state.

U.VA. CENTER SEES INCREASE IN TRANSPLANTS
By Sarah Barry of The Daily Progress
...[William] Bailey is one of the thousands of patients who have received an organ transplant at the University of Virginia's Charles O. Strickler Transplant Center. Every year, the center celebrates April as National Donate Life Month. But this year's celebration was marked by more than just cake and balloons.

ALL EYE W&M'S HI-TECH RULE
By Bentley Boyd of the (Hampton Road) Daily Press
[...] University of Virginia surveys show 99 percent of U.Va. undergraduates have computers, and about 93 percent of those are laptops, said university spokeswoman Carol Wood.

CONDUCTING ITS OWN STAR SEARCH / TOWN AND GOWN, YOUNG AND OLD HAVE MADE THE SYMPHONY UNIQUE
By David A. Maurer of The Daily Progress / April 30
As the gentle musical strains of Mozart's "Symphony Number 38 'Prague'" welled up around the conductor, he reached out his hands as though to grasp the beautiful melody. … The telling moment was played out in the University of Virginia's Old Cabell Hall before an audience of a few dozen listeners. The conductor was auditioning for the role of music director of the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra.
(Not available online.)

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH IN THE NEWS

RELAXATION GIVES TRUER BLOOD PRESSURE READING
By HealthDay News / April 30
SUNDAY, April 30 (HealthDay News) -- Taking a few minutes to relax and get comfortable before having your blood pressure checked will yield lower readings, according to a study by University of Virginia Health System nurses. It found that systolic blood pressure can be an average of 14 points higher when a reading is taken immediately after a patient arrives in an exam room and sits on an examination table, rather than sitting in a chair with the back supported and feet flat on the floor.

STUDENTS IN THE NEWS

SUSAN MORRISON
Morrison, teacher of the year at Culpeper Middle School who is scheduled to obtain her master's from U.Va. by the end of next year, was featured in Culpeper Star-Exponent article headlined:
PROFILING TEACHER OF THE YEAR CANDIDATES / EVERY DAY IS A SURPRISE FOR MORRISON
By Rhonda Simmons for the Culpeper Star-Exponent / April 30

FACULTY ARTICLES AND OP-EDS

ROSA BROOKS
Brooks, associate professor at the School of Law, authored a Los Angeles Times commentary headlined:
THE CLOCK'S TICKING TO START OF THE NEXT WAR
By Rosa Brooks for the Los Angeles Times / April 29

MARK EDMUNDSON
Edmundson, professor of English and author of a forthcoming book on Sigmund Freud, wrote an article for The New York Times Magazine headlined:
FREUD AND THE FUNDAMENTALIST URGE
By Mark Edmundson for The New York Times Magazine / April 30

ANN LANE
Lane, professor of history, wrote a commentary for today's Chronicle of Higher Education headlined:
GENDER, POWER, AND SEXUALITY: FIRST, DO NO HARM
By Ann J. Lane for The Chronicle of Higher Education

ROBERT F. TURNER
Turner, associate director of the Center for National Security Law, wrote a commentary for the Washington Times headlined:
LESSONS FOR IRAQ
By Robert F. Turner for the Washington Times / April 30

FACULTY/STAFF/ADMINISTRATORS IN THE NEWS

DANIEL L. DUKE
Duke, professor of educational leadership at the Curry School of Education, was quoted April 29 in a Saginaw News article headlined:
SIDES DEBATE EFFECT OF NEWER BUILDINGS
Corey Mitchell of The Saginaw News / April 29

DR. ROBERT EMERY
Emery, director of the Center for Children, Families and the Law, was cited in a Wisconsin Law Journal article headlined:
COMMENTARY: COMMUNICATION GAP CREATES BARRIER IN FAMILY LAW
By Gregg Herman for the Wisconsin Law Journal / April 30

A.E. DICK HOWARD
Howard, professor of law and principal author of Virginia’s current
constitution, was quoted in an article in yesterday’s Washington Post
headlined:
KAINE PREPARING TO AVOID SHUTDOWN /
STRATEGIES AVAILABLE IF BUDGET TALKS FAIL
By Michael D. Shear of The Washington Post / Sunday

TIMOTHY NAFTALI
Naftali, a history professor at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, was featured today in a New Yorker article headlined:
SPRUCING UP NIXON
By Jeffrey Goldberg for The New Yorker

PETER L. RODRIGUEZ
Rodriguez, an associate professor of business administration at The Darden School, was quoted in a Richmond Times Dispatch article headlined:
BOYCOTT MAY GAUGE CLOUT OF HISPANICS / SOME IN AREA WILL JOIN TOMORROW'S PROTEST TO STRESS KEY ECONOMIC ROLE
By Robin Farmer and Juan Lizama of the Richmond Times-Dispatch / April 30

CRAIG SARAZIN
Sarazin, a physicist who this month announced the discovery of the first binary pair of supermassive black holes falling toward each other, was quoted in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article headlined:
BLACK HOLES SEEM TO CONTROL GALAXY DEVELOPMENT
By Eric Hand of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch / April 29

ROBET SPEKMAN
Spekman, professor at the Darden School of Business, was quoted in a Daily Progress article headlined:
GROUP SEEKS TO IMPROVE GROWTH PLANS / April 27


ALUMNI IN THE NEWS

JOHN MCCARTY
McCarty, who received a BA in philosophy with a minor in sculpture from the University of Virginia, was cited in a Hamilton College Spectator article headlined:
SCULPTURE SPACE IN UTICA BRINGS ART TO HAMILTON
By Henry Frechette for the Hamilton College Spectator / April 28

BEN OLSEN
Olsen, a former Cavalier soccer star who plays for D.C. United, will be named to the U.S. World Cup team tomorrow, sources close to the selection process confirmed yesterday. He was featured in an article in The Washington Post headlined:
UNITED'S OLSEN EXPECTED TO BE NAMED TO U.S. TEAM
By News Services and Staff Reports for The Washington Post / April 30

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UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS IN THE NEWS

U.VA.'S FERGUSON GETS EARLY CALL; TECH'S WILLIAMS WAITED LONGER
By The Associated Press / April 30
The New York Jets selected Virginia offensive tackle D'Brickashaw Ferguson with the fourth overall pick in the NFL draft on Saturday, making the 6-foot-6 Long Island native the second-highest selection ever from the University of Virginia.

D’BRICKASHAW FERGUSON
Photo by Frank Franklin II of the Associated Press / April 29
Photo Caption: Top NFL Draft prospect D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, responds to questions during a news interview Thursday April 27, 2006 in New York.

SEEKING RETURNS ON INVESTMENT
By Melinda Waldrop of the (Hampton Roads) Daily Press
Marques Hagans stopped watching. Unable to bear the anticipation of waiting to hear his name called any longer, Hagans flipped from coverage of the NFL draft to the Chicago-Miami NBA playoff game. Not long after, the phone rang.

U.VA. SWEEPS ACC LACROSSE TOURNEY CROWNS
By The Newport Daily Press Staff, Wire Service Reports
Ben Rubeor scored two goals, assisted another and set up several others Sunday to lift top-ranked Virginia to an 11-5 win over Maryland in the Atlantic Coast Conference men's lacrosse tournament final before 5,739 in Baltimore... Virginia also won the women's lacrossse final to start the two-game program in Baltimore, upending top-seeded Duke 13-8 as freshman Blair Weymouth scored a season-high six goals.

HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS -- U.S.

FEDERAL PANEL ON HIGHER EDUCATION RELEASES PAPERS ON ADULT LEARNERS AND
OTHER ISSUES
By Kelly Field of The Chronicle of Higher Education
The federal Commission on the Future of Higher Education issued four more discussion papers on Friday, on adult learners, racial disparities in graduation rates, the state financing of higher education, and shortages in the health-care professions.

TRENDS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

THE EVOLVING (ERODING?) FACULTY JOB
By Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed
A week ago, new data on faculty salaries showed that professors’ pay fell
behind inflation for the second year in a row. A month ago, when a federal
commission studying higher education released a paper on reasons that
college costs so much, it identified professors —  their power and tenure —
as a prime culprit. ... [Two] of the leading scholars of the professoriate
... have just finished what experts are calling a landmark study of the
professoriate, which argues that we are experiencing “a revolution” in
academic life that will be equal in its lasting significance to such events
as the importation of the research university model to the United States in
the late 19th century or the “massification” of higher education after World
War II.

COLLEGE ATHLETICS IN THE NEWS

NCAA REJECTS MASCOT APPEALS FROM 3 UNIVERSITIES
By Brad Wolverton of The Chronicle of Higher Education
The National Collegiate Athletic Association denied final appeals on Friday
from three universities seeking to continue using American Indian mascots
and nicknames that the association has deemed to be "hostile and abusive."
The ruling by the NCAA's Executive Committee, means that Indiana University
of Pennsylvania, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the
University of North Dakota will not be allowed to serve as hosts for NCAA
postseason tournaments unless they drop their American Indian mascots and
team nicknames.

FINANCIAL ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

FEDERAL STUDENT-AID FORM SHOULD BE SIMPLIFIED TO HELP NEEDY STUDENTS,
SCHOLARS ARGUE
By Jeffrey Selingo of  The Chronicle of Higher Education
The federal student-aid application is longer and more complicated than a
federal tax return and can be significantly shortened without radically
changing the current distribution of aid, according to a new paper by two
scholars at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In
the working paper, Susan M. Dynarski and Judith E. Scott-Clayton argue that
the complex federal-aid system was designed for elite private colleges,
which have bundles of money to award, and discourages families that have the
least ability to pay for college. A simplified system -- one possibly even
run through the tax system -- could better allow the federal government to
achieve its stated goal: increasing access to college for academically
qualified but financially needy students.

WITH GOOD REASON / NPR

Romans in Iraq: Is History Repeating Itself? (Apr. 29 - May 5)
Tonight at 7:00 p.m.; WMRA-Harrisonburg (103.5 FM)
In 114 AD, the Roman Empire invaded the land of Parthia , the area where Iraq is now situated. After an easy victory, the Roman were soon immersed in fighting an insurgency they had not prepared for. Historian Rose Mary Sheldon (VMI) <http://academics.vmi.edu/history_rms/>  says there are lessons we can learn.

Also: The study of theArabic language is one of the fastest growing disciplines in higher education today. Arabic studies Professor Khadija Bentouhami (VMI) http://www.vmi.edu/departments.asp?durki=1323&amp;command=faculty and Cadet Brian Kerrebrock, who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq , talk about the cultural meanings of words in Arabic that may not be easily translatable into English.

"With Good Reason," produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, is broadcast on 10 public radio stations in Virginia and Washington, D.C.  For complete listings of shows and times visit the program's website at www.withgoodreasonradio.org

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