Linfield Reports, 9/28/09

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.

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.

OBERT EXHIBIT ON DISPLAY

“Cybernetic Landscapes,” work by Liz Obert, associate professor of art, is showing now through Sept. 30 in the Linfield Studio Gallery in the Miller Fine Arts Center.

Obert’s new series began with her fascination with the cultural evolution of society in terms of its relationship with portable technology. “We use devices such as cell phones and cameras to connect to the world, but by doing so we become disconnected and removed from our immediate surroundings,” she said. “I find this behavior is particularly ironic in natural settings where people go to escape their usual hectic lives but are unable to fully disengage.”

Obert has exhibited her work locally and internationally. Obert worked on a new project at an artist residency this summer at CAMAC (The Centre d’Arts, Marnay Art Center) in France. View her work at www.lizobert.com.

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.

FACULTY LEARNING COMMONS SET

Nancy Drickey, associate professor of education, will present “Faculty-Student Collaborative Grant – International Opportunities” at the Faculty Learning Commons on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at noon in the Northwest Room of Dillin Hall. Drickey will provide an overview of engaging students in international collaborative research and the application process for such foundational funding through the Asian Network.

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 will be filled with goodies and necessities for each Marine and sent to a point of contact to be distributed during the holiday season. Platoon boxes filled with decorations, games, books and holiday goodies are sent to each platoon to be shared.

Items can be dropped off Oct. 1-23 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.

OPEN HOUSE PLANNED

An open house will be held for the Counseling Center, Career Services, Community Service and Learning Support Services on Thursday, Oct. 1, from 3-4 p.m. in 124 Walker Hall.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Lex Runciman, professor of English, has recently had poems published in literary magazines, Windfall: Poems of Place, and Hubbub. Two of his books have also been selected by Oregon readers, the editors of Poetry Northwest, and by librarians at the Oregon State Library (Salem) for inclusion in the Oregon 150 Poetry Book List, which identifies “150 outstanding Oregon poetry books — one for each year of statehood.” The list also includes two books by Barbara Drake, emeritus professor of English. The entire list can be found at http://poetrynw.org/node/91

CAMPUS CALENDAR

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30

Noon: Nancy Drickey, associate professor of education, “Faculty-Student Collaborative Grant – International Opportunities,” NW Room, Dillin Hall

Noon: German conversation table, Dillin

7 p.m.: Volleyball vs. Willamette

THURSDAY, OCT. 1

Noon: Chinese conversation table, Dillin

3-4 p.m.: Open House — Counseling Center, Career Services, Community Service and Learning Support Services, 124 Walker

FRIDAY, OCT. 2

7 p.m.: Volleyball vs. George Fox

Today: Men’s tennis at Pacific NW ITA regional

SATURDAY, OCT. 3

Today: Women’s tennis hosts Pacific NW ITA regional

Today: Men’s tennis, Pacific NW ITA regional at Claremont

9:30 a.m.: Cross country at Willamette

Noon: Football at Menlo

Noon: Women’s soccer at Whitworth

2:30 p.m.: Men’s soccer at Whitworth

SUNDAY, OCT. 4

Today: Men’s golf at Whitworth Invitational