• The opening reception for the October
University Gallery show of Ann Arbor
artists has been changed to Wednesday,
Oct. 9 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. This is one
week earlier than previously planned.
• Overseas opportunities are available
for SVSU faculty to go to Japan, Austria,
Italy, India and England; plus, faculty
can lead student programs to almost any
country in the world or state in the USA.
For more information, contact Woody
Pelton at ext. 4473, or pelton@svsu.edu.
Those interested in spring/summer 2003
opportunities should contact Pelton by
Nov. 1.
• SVSU will host a Graduate and
Professional School Fair Wednesday,
Oct. 9, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in
Groening Commons. Representatives
from more than 20 regional programs
will be available to answer questions and
help students learn more about graduate
or professional school. For more
information, contact the Career Planning
and Placement Office at ext. 4954, or
visit the website at www.svsu.edu/careers.
• There’s still time to complete the
Community and Professional
Organization Annual Affiliation
Survey, which can be accessed online at
www.svsu.edu/events/affsurveyinfo.htm.
Please complete your survey – regardless
of level of involvement – by Oct. 11.
• National Depression Screening Day
is Thursday, Oct. 10. New this year is
screening not only for depression, but
also manic-depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress. Participate anonymously
at www.mentalhealthscreening.org/
screening/login.asp (enter keyword/
password: SVSUE). The anonymous
online screening will be available through
Oct. 31.
• Campus personnel are reminded to
return information for Open Enrollment,
which runs through Oct. 15. Open
Enrollment is the time to review
enrollment status, add or delete
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dependent coverage, or change medical
plans. Flexible spending accounts
allocations for 2002 also can be arranged.
All Open Enrollment changes will go
into effect Nov. 1. For further
information, contact Employment &
Compensation Services at ext. 4108 or at
ECS@svsu.edu.
noon to 5 p.m., and by special
appointment. For more information,
contact the Gallery at ext. 4391.
• Bing Liu, associate professor of
mathematical sciences, will present a
seminar on the “Asymptotic Expansion
Methods for Singular Perturbation
Problems and French Ducks.” Liu’s talk,
which is part of the College of Science,
• The 2001 Annual Crime Report is
Engineering & Technology Seminar
available online at www.svsu.edu/
Series, will take place at 4:30 p.m.,
publicsafety. The link on the website for
Tuesday, Oct. 15, in
criminal statistics is
The SVSU Theatre Department presents
108 Science West.
“Crime Awareness
Report.” Printed
• Two recruiters from
copies of the Crime
the Walt Disney
Awareness Report are
World College
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 11 and
available at the
Program will be on
12 at 8 p.m.; Sunday, Oct.13 at
Department of Public
campus Tuesday and
2 p.m.; Friday and Saturday,
Safety.
Wednesday, Oct. 22
The Diary of
Anne Frank
Oct. 18 and 19 at 8 p.m.; and
and 23 to interview
• The 2002-03
Sunday, Oct. 20 at 2 p.m. All
prospective interns for
Faculty/Staff
performances take place in the
its college program. A
Directory will be
Performing Arts Theatre. Tickets
presentation by the
delivered the week of
are $7 for general admission and
recruiters takes place
Oct. 7. For additional
$5 for students and seniors. For
from 5 to 6 p.m.,
copies, e-mail
more information or tickets,
Tuesday, Oct. 22 in
ptoyzan@svsu.edu. The
contact the box office at ext 4261.
the Rhea Miller
Directory is also
Recital Hall. The recruiters will conduct
available online at www.svsu.edu/
on-campus interviews with SVSU
phonedir.
students from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.,
• College of Science, Engineering &
Wednesday, Oct. 23. The Walt Disney
Technology Seminar Series presents
World College Program offers students
Jody Pollok, executive director of the
from any academic discipline learning
Corn Marketing Program of Michigan,
opportunities through six courses that
“Future Prospects for Corn-Based
the American Council on Education
Ethanol Production,” at 4:30 p.m.
(ACE) recommends for credit. Each
Tuesday, Oct. 8 in 108 Science West.
course focuses on a topic where the Walt
Refreshments served.
Disney Resort has a reputation for
• An SVSU Student Unity Forum will
excellence. For additional information,
take place at 5 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 9
contact the Office of Career Planning
in the Alumni Lounge. Refreshments will
and Placement at ext. 4954.
be served. This event, which is part of
• The SVSU Faculty Association
Hispanic Heritage Month, will allow
Annual Fall Banquet is set for Friday,
students to voice opinions on diversity.
Oct. 25. The event features a buffet
• University Art Gallery will exhibit
dinner and live music. Tickets are $15
“Works by Karin Coron, Michelle Hegyi,
per person; the deadline for purchase is
Jean Lau, and Norma PenchanskyFriday, Oct. 18. Contact Donna Jenkins
Glasser,” through Oct. 30. Gallery hours
at ext. 4235 for more information.
are Monday through Thursday from
INTERIOR • October 8, 2002
October 8, 2002
In This Issue
• Poet Santos to be
awarded Roethke
Prize • Page 3
• Rush Lecturer
challenges
teachers • Page 3
• SVSU, Delta
students team up
for Rotaract •
Page 3
• Welcome to the
“new” Interior •
Page 3
During Homecoming week, the campus community
participated in a number of social events, parades
and games while construction projects continued
toward completion, including (from top) Zahnow
Library, Student Center, student housing complex,
Regional Education Center, Ryder Center Fitness
Facility, and Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.
(Photos by Tim Inman)
SVSU will turn 40 in 2003
and plans are under way for an anniversary celebration of the
University’s founding. Events will take place in 2003 commemorating this special occasion. A 40th
anniversary committee is chaired by Robert C. Braddock (“Class of 1970”), professor of history. For those with
events planned in 2003, the committee has suggested groups consider a 40th anniversary or “1963” theme.
Those interested in working with the committee to develop their themes, may contact Braddock at ext. 4360.
Campus personnel provide the scoop on news at SVSU
• Endowed Chairs Chris Schilling, Strosacker Chair in Engineering, and David Swenson,
Dow Chair in Chemistry, and David Karpovich, assistant professor of chemistry,
recently were part of a series on university research published by The Saginaw News.
• Endowed Chairs Francis Dane, Finkbeiner Chair in Ethics, and George Puia, Dow
Chair in Global Business, were interviewed by The Saginaw News concerning their
research efforts.
• Craig Baldwin, Dow Visiting Artist, was interviewed about his work during a live
newscast by NBC 25.
• Midland Daily News featured the new Health Education/Athletic Training major and
coordinators Jennifer Bridges, professor of physical and health education, and Paul
Ballard, associate professor of physical and health education.
• The Accelerated Certification Program was featured in the Midland Daily News.
• SVSU tailgate gatherings before home football games was featured in The Saginaw
News.
• The Bay City Times highlighted the University Art Gallery exhibit of the works of
Kirk Roda, sculptor.
• SVSU activities commemorating the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the
United States were featured on ABC 12, in The Saginaw News and Midland Daily News.
Cardinal Red Pride
Follow your favorite athletic teams this season
• Red Pride packages and spirit items can be purchased in the Campus Life Center.
For $10, each package contains a T-shirt, 14- or 34-oz. insulated mug, window decal
and four tickets to any home football or basketball regular season game.
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C L O S E
A N D
Personal
Professional Profile
• Jane Girdham, associate professor of
music, published an article titled “The
Flageolet Player: The Ultimate Amateur
Musician” in Early Music, August 2002.
• Deborah Huntley, associate professor
of chemistry, was lauded by the American
Chemical Society for serving as faculty
advisor to the ACS Student Affiliates
Chapter at SVSU. The student
organization was selected to receive a
Commendable Award for its chapter
activities conducted during the 2001-02
academic year.
• Sandy Mixer, Ava Lewis and Marilyn
McFarland, nursing faculty, will present
on Project OPEN (a federal grant the
Crystal M. Lange College of Nursing &
Health Sciences received to recruit and
retain nurses) at the Transcultural
Nursing Conference, Oct 16 through 19
in Toronto, Canada. Mixer received an
SVSU Foundation grant to take eight
students to this conference to become
familiar with transcultural nursing.
• Demand for tickets for the Grand Valley State University football game, Saturday,
Oct. 19 is expected to exceed 8,000. In an effort to accommodate the demand, SVSU
will sell advanced tickets via credit card or cash through its Cashier’s Office. Tickets are
$5 for adults; $3 for senior citizens and students in K-12. Tickets will be on sale
Tuesday, Oct. 8 through Monday, Oct. 14 via phone (credit card orders only) at
The Michigan Nurses Association
ext. 4212, or in person through Friday, Oct. 18. Requests for tickets to be mailed
presented its “N3 Implementation
must be made by 4:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 14. All ticket sales after Oct. 14 must
be in person. Tickets also will be available at the gate beginning at 10 a.m. for the Award for Schools of Nursing” to
the faculty in the Crystal M. Lange
noon kick-off, Saturday, Oct. 19.
• The Cardinal Fan Bus will be making trips to all the away football games. Cost
is $25/per person, which includes refreshments, game ticket and prizes.
Date
Game
Kickoff Depart
Date
Game
Kickoff Depart
Oct. 12 Findlay 6 p.m. 1 p.m.
Nov. 9 Northern 1 p.m. 12:30 p.m., Nov. 8*
Oct. 26 Ferris
1:30 p.m. 10 a.m.
Nov. 16 Wayne Noon
9 a.m.
*Bus cost for Northern trip will be $75 plus the cost of room at Holiday Inn. Twenty-five rooms are reserved at the
Holiday Inn in Marquette. Make hotel accommodations by calling (906) 228-6000. Tell them you are with the
SVSU Cardinal Fan Bus group. Reservations must be made by Friday, Oct. 25; those who cancel after Monday,
Oct. 28 will be billed for their room. The rate per room, both singles and doubles, is $60, plus 9 percent room tax
and incidentals. To sign up for the bus trips, or for any additional information, call ext. 7306.
College of Nursing & Health
Sciences. The award recognizes
long-term commitment in addition
to creativity to the development,
implementation and dissemination
of nursing diagnoses, inerventions
and outcomes.
The Interior is published bi-weekly when classes are in session fall and winter semesters and periodically
through the summer. Items should be submitted to the Office of University Communications, 389 Wickes
Hall, (989) 964-4039, or E-mail: ucomm@svsu.edu.
University departments sponsoring activities or events listed in the Interior will provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities when contacted at least three days in advance.
Ursula A. Rozanski
Cecilia A. Jerome
Director of University Communications
uarozanski@ameritech.net • (989) 964-2058
Tim M. Inman
Associate Director of University Communications
tmi@svsu.edu • (989) 964-4086
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Media Relations Officer
cajerome@svsu.edu • (989) 964-4055
Tammy J. Elliott
Administrative Secretary
telliott@svsu.edu • (989) 964-4039
Poet Santos to be awarded Roethke Prize
Poet and essayist Sherod Santos will
receive the eighth Roethke Poetry Prize
during a special ceremony Thursday,
Oct. 17 at SVSU. Santos is being
honored for his book The Pilot Star
Elegies, a National Book Award finalist
and one of five nominees for The New
Yorker Book Award. The Roethke Prize
awards ceremony will take place at 7:30
p.m. in the Rhea Miller Recital Hall.
A dinner will precede the presentation
at 6 p.m. in Curtiss Hall. Cost is $20
and reservations may be made by calling
ext. 6017.
Santos is the author of three other
books of poetry, Accidental Weather, The
Southern Reaches and The City of Women.
Rush Lecturer challenges teachers
Susie Emond, the
2002 Rush Lecturer, will
challenge teachers to
“High-Stakes Teaching
(not Testing): The True
Test for Us As
Educators.” Emond’s
lecture will take place at
Susie Emond
4 p.m., Thursday, Oct.
10 in Founders Hall.
Since the early 1990s, Emond said,
school reform has been driven by corporate
America, encouraging teachers to better
prepare students. She said that needs to
be done not just through testing.
• Ron Portwine, assistant director of staff
relations, and his wife, Heidi, gave birth
to a son, Cameron (8 lbs., 5 oz., 21 in.),
Sept. 29.
INTERIOR • October 8, 2002
“If we want to raise scores and do
better on tests, we need to do better
teaching through the assignments we
give,” Emond said. Emond said she will
discuss her keys to effective teaching.
A professor of teacher education,
Emond is the fifth Rush Lecturer named
by the SVSU Foundation Board of
Directors. She is chair of the Department
of Teacher Education: Elementary, Early
Childhood and Special Education.
Thomas and Hilda Rush of Midland
created the Rush Endowment as part of
the Campaign for Distinction. For more
information, call ext. 4042.
As you can
see, we have
updated the
Interior’s look
and feel. The
red, white and
blue banner reflects the University’s
primary institutional color palette. The
bell tower is one of the University’s
most well-known icons. Another
unique perspective on the bell tower, is
that the four bells can be thought of as
decade markers reflecting the
University’s 40-year anniversary in
2003. The University seal, of course,
has an important historical significance
for SVSU, and is our strongest
“foundation” logo.
Our objective with the Interior is to
provide a vital and high-quality news
distribution forum that evolves with
the needs of the University. The
foundation of our news base will be
information about the University, and
about important topics, which you the
reader, want to promote to the rest of
the University population. In addition
to the Interior’s regular news pages, we
will continue to highlight special events
and news via the inserts that you have
seen in the past. We welcome your
input, articles of interest to the general
University population and your ideas.
Please contact us at ucomm@svsu.edu.
— Ursula Rozanski, DIRECTOR
TO THE
NEW
INTERIOR
UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
SVSU and Delta students team up for Rotaract
New Cardinals
• Jeanette Garpiel, technical processing
clerk, Zahnow Library, and her husband,
Robert, welcomed a new son, Hunter
(8 lbs., 8 oz.), Sept. 27.
He also is the author of
a book of literary
essays, A Poetry of Two
Minds, a finalist for the
National Book Critics
Circle Award in
Criticism. A new
collection of poems,
Sherod Santos
The Pershing, is due for
release in January 2003.
The Roethke Poetry Prize marks its
34th anniversary in 2002. It is given
every three years to encourage and foster
work by poets of U.S. citizenship. It is
named in honor of Theodore Roethke, a
Saginaw poet who received the Pulitzer
Prize and two National Book Awards.
WELCOME
Out-n-About
Mandy Risley, 22, a senior from Prescott,
was elected Homecoming Queen. Armen
Hratchian, 20, a junior from St. Clair, was
elected Homecoming King. The pair were
announced during halftime of the football
game versus University of Indianapolis,
Oct. 12, which SVSU won, 63-24.
October 8, 2002 • INTERIOR
In a show of solidarity of purpose,
SVSU and Delta College students have
teamed up to charter a chapter of
Rotaract – higher education’s version of
Rotary International.
The two institutions will formalize the
chapter during a charter ceremony on
Friday, Oct. 11 in Curtiss Hall. SVSU
President Eric R. Gilbertson and Delta
President Peter D. Boyse will address the
group. Donald L. Newport, president of
Alpena Community College and Rotary
District Governor of District No. 6310,
also will speak.
The group meets twice per month. In
addition to the goals of providing
leadership and professional development
opportunities, the chapter will conduct
one community, one international and
one vocational service project each year.
Four Rotarians, charter members of
the Rotary Club of Saginaw-Sunrise, are
coordinating the new organization:
Wynn McDonald, assistant director of
Career Planning and Placement, and
Woody Pelton, director of International
Programs. Winnie Black and Habib
Kheil from Delta also serve as advisors.
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