People, Papers, Presentations

At the recent
Association of College Unions International regional conference,
Wiess senior Lydia Baldridge, student center building
manager supervisor, and Paul J. Sutera, associate
director, student center, presented a workshop titled “Successful
Student Employee Training Model.” This workshop was
selected by conference attendees as one of five best-of-the-best
sessions, which gave the presenters an additional opportunity
to showcase their program. Out of the five sessions selected,
this was the only one that showcased a student leader.

Michael Barlow,
assistant professor, Dept. of Linguistics, was invited to
the Tuscan Word Centre in Italy to give a presentation on
“Software for Corpus Access and Analysis” as part
of a one-week intensive course on “How To Use Corpora
in Language Teaching” held Oct. 15-20.

Felicia Cavallini,
lecturer; James Disch, associate professor; and Bruce
Etnyre, associate professor, all of the Dept. of Kinesiology,
and J. Wendt and A. Rodriques of U. of Houston gave a research
presentation titled “Relation of Physical Activity
Level to Knowledge of Cardiovascular Risk Factors of Heart
Disease, Barriers to Physical Activity and Acculturation
in the Hispanic Population.” The presentation was given
Oct. 5 at the Scientific Physical Activity Conference in
Dallas.

Steven Crowell,
professor of philosophy, has been elected executive co-director
of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
(SPEP). SPEP, which celebrated its 40th anniversary this
year, is the second-largest philosophical association in
the United States and serves as an umbrella organization
for all the many forms of continental philosophy (phenomenology,
existentialism, hermeneutics, critical theory, poststructuralism,
deconstruction, feminism, etc.). It hosts an annual meeting
attended by about 550 philosophers and other scholars. Crowell’s
term is for three years.

Ben Horne,
Wiess senior and KTRU station manager, spoke on a panel
titled “War Stories” at the Collegiate Broadcasters
third annual convention. In his presentation Horne described
the events that led up to the lockout of students from KTRU
and how the situation was resolved. The panel was designed
to share with other stations a way to identify warning signs
of problems and ways to prevent them at college stations.

Nicholas
Iammarino, professor, Dept. of Kinesiology, over the
past year has led a task force that recently published the
Cancer Facts Sheets for the Intercultural Cancer Council.
The purpose of these fact sheets is to point out cancer
risks prevalent in minority or medically underserved populations
and to raise awareness so that they will seek medical attention.
The fact sheets are primarily for the use of health care
professionals, but contain a wealth of information that
members of the groups discussed might find interesting.

Debra Javeline,
assistant professor of political science, presented “The
Role of Blame in Collective Action: Evidence From Russia”
at the 2001 American Political Science Association annual
meetings. In this professional paper, Javeline analyzed
whether people can attribute blame for their grievances
and the effects of this blame attribution on protest behavior,
specifically in Russia.

Linda M.
McNeil, professor of education, gave the keynote address
at the Michigan Council of Teachers Oct. 6. The presentation
was titled “Words Made Vulnerable: Losing the Power
of Language Through Standardized Teaching.”

Maarten van
Delden, associate professor of Spanish, presented a
paper titled “The Search for a Postcolonial La Malinche”
at a conference on colonial and postcolonial literatures
at the U. of Leiden, the Netherlands, Sept. 21. Van Delden
was invited to speak on “Extremo Occidente: Carlos
Fuentes y la Tradicion Europea” at the Feria del Libro
in Monterrey, Mexico Oct. 17.

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