SCHUCK TO PRESENT FULBRIGHT WORK
For one Linfield College professor, summer vacation was an opportunity to examine agricultural and economic issues abroad.
Eric Schuck, an associate professor of economics, will share his experience teaching in Lebanon in his lecture, “Kefar, Hello, Ca Va – Living, Learning and Lecturing in the Levant,” on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 3 p.m. in Jonasson Hall.
As part of the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program, Schuck spent six weeks teaching and developing a curriculum in water resource management at American University in Beirut, Lebanon. He will discuss his teaching and research at American University, as well as postwar reconstruction and economic development in Lebanon. He will also share some of his experiences traveling in the country.
The Fulbright Senior Specialist Program provides professors with short-term opportunities to teach and conduct research around the world.
This is Schuck’s second stint in the Fulbright program. In 2006, he developed curriculum for the Integrated Water Resource Management Program at the University of Western Cape in Capetown, South Africa. That work inspired the development of Linfield’s 2008 January Term course, Post-Apartheid Developmental and Environmental Economics of South Africa.
Schuck graduated with a B.A. in economics from Pacific Lutheran University in 1993, and a master’s from the University of Montana in 1995. He received his Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from Washington State University in 1999.
The lecture is sponsored by the International Programs Office.
MCCARTHYISM TOPIC OF LECTURE
Controversy surrounding the freedom of press in post-World War II America is the focus of an upcoming lecture by journalism historian Ed Alwood.
Alwood will read from “Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press,” on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Reading Room in the Jereld R. Nicholson Library.
The reading is free and open to the public as part of the Readings at the Nick series. Alwood will discuss how journalists became targets of anti-Communist supporters during the 1950s and draw parallels with modern conflicts over the rights of journalists to protect their sources.
Alwood has worked in the media throughout his professional career. He has 14 years of experience in broadcast news at WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C., and at the Washington bureau of CNN. He is the author of “Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media,” a book regarded by The New York Times as one of the best of 2009.
His work is published in the Christian Science Monitor and esteemed scholarly journals. Additionally, he worked as a public relations manager at a major financial trade association in Washington for 10 years and later served as a senior public affairs specialist at the Treasury Department.
He received his Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and currently teaches writing and journalism at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn.
The reading is sponsored by the Linfield Department of Mass Communication, Office of the President and Friends of Nicholson Library.
CHIN READING ON TAP AT “THE NICK”
Award-winning poet and novelist Marilyn Chin will present her latest novel, “Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen,” and poetry on Thursday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Reading Room in the Jereld R. Nicholson Library at Linfield. Chin will also visit creative writing classes to discuss their works during her visit.
Chin’s previous novels include “Rhapsody in Plain Yellow,” “Dwarf Bamboo” and “The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty.” Her newest addition, “Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen,” is a tale of two Chinese-American girls’ coming of age and the complexities of ethnic identity in America’s melting pot. Chin explores the way generational differences both hinder and enrich a deeper understanding of one’s heritage.
Chin was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland. Her books have become Asian-American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. Awards for her writing include the United Artist Foundation Fellowship, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at Bellagio, two NEAs, the Stegner Fellowship, the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, four Pushcart Prizes and a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan.
Chin was featured in Bill Moyers’ PBS series “The Language of Life,” and has been a guest poet at universities around the world including Beijing, Hong Kong, Manchester, Sydney and Berlin. Chin currently teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at San Diego State University.
The lecture is sponsored by the Linfield English Department, Office of the President and Friends of Nicholson Library. For more information, contact Susan Barnes Whyte, college librarian, at 503-883-2517, swhyte@linfield.edu.
FACULTY LEARNING COMMONS SET
Sandra Lee, professor of English as a second language; Gudrun Hommel, associate professor of German; and Sonia Ticas, associate professor of Spanish, will present “A Thought Provoking Double Feature: Teaching culture through cinema” at the Faculty Learning Commons on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at noon in the Northwest Room of Dillin Hall.
The session will explore the use of film as a vehicle for students to increase awareness of cultures other than their own, question cultural assumptions, develop dialog within and beyond the classroom and more.
ART EXHIBIT DRAPES GALLERY WALLS
“Assembly, line, image, system,” an exhibition of work by Portland artist Bean Gilsdorf, is on display now through Oct. 10 in the Linfield College Fine Art Gallery in the James F. Miller Fine Arts Center.
Using life-sized prints from 10 different automobiles, Gilsdorf constructs a large scale installation from fabric, paint, dye, bleach and thread that sweeps along the circumference and runs beyond the enclosure of the gallery’s four walls, building a continuum of color and implied motion.
Gilsdorf takes a cue for this exhibition from the French idiom faire la navrette, which references the back-and-forth pass of the shuttle in the loom while weaving cloth. The images of industrially-produced objects on hand-printed and dyed fabric explore formal relationships of line, shape and color. Composed of more than 100 continuous feet of cloth and hung from the ceiling by 220 individual threads, the installation references mass production but retains the allure of the hand-crafted.
PHOTOGRAPHY ON EXHIBIT IN PDX
Work by Michelle Bates of Seattle, Wash., will be on display through Oct. 23 at the Camerawork Gallery, located in Peterson Hall at the Linfield College-Good Samaritan School of Nursing.
Established in 1970, the community gallery is the oldest fine art photography gallery in the United States. It has hosted 492 continuous shows through the end of 2008. Exhibits are typically by Northwest Photographers, but national photographers have been represented. The gallery is associated with Good Samaritan Hospital. For more information, go to http://www.thecameraworkgallery.org/.
LEA JOINS OPERATION SANTA
The Linfield Employees Association (LEA), Linfield Students and the McMinnville community will join forces to make the holidays a bit brighter for our troops through Operation Santa USMC.
Holiday stockings and platoon boxes will be sent to Marines during the holiday season. Items can be dropped off now through Oct. 23 at Movietime Video or at the Linfield Bookstore, Nicholson Library or donation barrels around campus. A Care Package Packing Party will be held on Saturday, Oct. 24, at 10 a.m. in 201 Riley Hall.
In addition, the McMinnville Fire Department will donate profits raised at their annual Pancake Breakfast, set for Sunday, Oct. 11, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., to benefit Troop Support and Operation Santa.
Needed items include:
• Men’s and women’s white crew socks
• Snack bars
• Hand warmers
• Hot chocolate mix
• Toothbrush/toothpaste
• Paperback books
• Beef jerky
• Candy, cookies, nuts
• Wrapping paper
Donations are tax deductible. For more information, contact Lisa McKinney, 971-237-5504, lmckinn@linfield.edu, or go to http://marinecorpsfamilyfoundation.org/Santa.html.
COMMUNITY NEWS
“Id,” paintings and drawings by Ron Mills, professor of art, is on display through Oct. 31at the Alpern Gallery Project Space in Portland. A reception will be held Friday, Oct. 9, at 6 p.m. Gallery hours are Thursday and Friday, noon-6 p.m., and Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. or by appointment. For more information, 503-477-7721 or www.alperngallery.com.
CAMPUS CALENDAR
MONDAY, OCT. 5
Today: Men’s golf at Whitworth Invitational
Today and tomorrow: Women’s golf at Concordia Invitational
Today: Women’s tennis vs. Pacific NWITA Regional
TUESDAY, OCT. 6
Today: Women’s golf at Concordia Invitational
Noon: Faculty Learning Commons, “A Thought Provoking Double Feature: Teaching culture through cinema,” NW Room, Dillin Hall
3 p.m.: Eric Schuck, “Kefar, Hello, Ca Va – Living, Learning and Lecturing in the Levant,” Jonasson Hall.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7
Noon: German conversation table, Dillin
THURSDAY, OCT. 8
Noon: Chinese conversation table, Dillin
7:30 p.m.: Ed Alwood, “Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press,” Nicholson Library
FRIDAY, OCT. 9
7 p.m.: Volleyball at Puget Sound
SATURDAY, OCT. 10
Noon: Women’s soccer vs. Puget Sound
1 p.m.: Football at Whitworth
7 p.m.: Volleyball vs. Lewis and Clark
SUNDAY, OCT. 11
Today: Women’s golf, Linfield Invitational
2 p.m.: Women’s soccer at George Fox
2:30 p.m.: Men’s soccer vs. Willamette
