The Harbinger
March 17, 2008
Bissell Symposium welcomes Stephen G. Post from Case Western Reserve University
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Stephen G. Post |
The eighth annual Howard S. Bissell Symposium will be Monday and Tuesday, March 24 and 25, 2008, featuring keynote speaker Stephen G. Post, Ph.D.
Stephen G. Post, Ph.D., is professor, Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, as well as senior research scholar in the Becket Institute at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University. Post is serving as president of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, which focuses on the scientific study of phenomena such as altruism, compassion, and service. He received his Ph.D. in philosophical and religious ethics from the University of Chicago (1983), where he was an elected university fellow, a fellow in the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, and a co-preceptor in the Pritzker School of Medicine.
Established in 1998, the Howard S. Bissell Symposium is presented via the Howard S. Bissell Chair in Liberal Studies, made possible through gifts to Hiram College by the families of Robert and George Bissell, to honor their father, Howard S. Bissell, a longtime member of the Hiram College Board of Trustees. The symposium was created to recognize Howard Bissell’s broad range of academic interests and to strengthen academic and intellectual interaction among faculty, students, and members of the community.
How giving gives back Monday, March 24, 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. informal discussion
4 p.m. to 5 p.m. informal discussion held in the Library's Prichard Room - Faculty, staff and students are welcome.
Convocation with Keynote speaker Stephen Post 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Ballroom. Dessert and book-signing to follow.
Tuesday, March 25 Hiram faculty and student response - 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Kennedy Center Ballroom.
For more information, contact Linda Rea at 330.569.5216 or reall@hiram.edu.
Phi Beta Kappa plans for visiting scholar
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James J. Sheehan |
On Tuesday, March 25, 2008, at 7:30 p.m. in the Alumni Heritage Room, James J. Sheehan, the visiting Phi Beta Kappa speaker from Stanford, will speak about
"Why the European Union will not become a Superpower." This lecture is open to the public and students are strongly encouraged to attend.
James Sheehan teaches modern European history and is a senior fellow of the Institute for International Studies at Stanford, as well as the Paul Davies Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Past president of the American Historical Association, he is the recipient of four teaching awards, Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, and the Humboldt Research Prize. His books include The Eclipse of Violence: The Transformation of Twentieth-Century Europe (forthcoming), Museums in the German Art World, German History, 1770-1866, and German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century.
Alternative spring break volunteers students in service to others
Alternative spring break encourages students to spend their time off working on community service projects instead of on the beaches of Panama City. Sponsored by Hiram College’s Community Service Office, students on four separate trips spent this year’s spring break in service to others.
Kim Miller ’10 led a group of nine students in a Hiram College van to New
Orleans, LA. For the first few days they volunteered with the Children’s Museum and the Animal Rescue Organization of New Orleans helping abandoned pets recovered from the hurricane Katrina. The remainder of their trip was spent clearing lots where homes were destroyed in the lower ninth ward. Kim Miller stated, "Finding personal family possessions among the debris, like toys and photo albums, made this job emotionally difficult."
Jason Bricker-Thompson led a group of student to Milwaukee, WI where they
worked with the organization Growing Power, a Heifer International project partner dealing in urban agriculture for the inner-city poor. The theme of Jason’s trip was “sustainability,” and they spent their time transplanting, composting, planting seedlings, working with goats, and lots of manual labor.
Mike Corr and Jon Moody supervised a third group of 15 students for Habitat for
Humanity in Lexington, KY. Here they helped with the construction of a two-story, three-bedroom house for a family approved for program. During their short stay they managed to construct all four first floor exterior walls, three interior walls, the second-story floor, and started on the front porch. They were relieved by another group of ambitious students from Harvard University who took up where I students left off. This is part of the Collegiate Challenge program.
A fourth group of students lead by Kathryn Lauer '09, and Anne Stroud '10, represented the SEAC - Student Environmental Action Coalition. They went to the Appalachia area and assisted programs focusing on prevention of mountain top removal, being a coal mining technique where entire mountain tops are removed in a strip mining process.
Hiram College Baseball and Softball Teams Return North After Solid Start in Florida
The Hiram College softball and baseball teams will begin their northern schedules this week after a solid start to the 2008 season this past week with their annual spring trips to Florida.
The softball team traveled to Kissimmee, Fla. to take part in the Rebel Spring Games and posted a 4-6 record with a schedule that included some tough competition. The Terriers recorded two-game splits four of the five days with wins against Ursinus (Pa.) College, Transylvania (Ky.) University, Emmanuel (Mass.) College and Oneonta State (N.Y.) University.
This past week was a good early test for the team,” said second-year Head Coach Kristin Tassey. “We made some good plays and it was good to finally get a chance to play. The teams we faced will help us prepare for our upcoming schedule.”
The softball team is scheduled to open its northern schedule on Saturday, Mar. 22 on the road against Malone College in a non-conference doubleheader in Canton at 1 p.m.
The baseball team traveled to Ft. Pierce, Fla. after spending the past several seasons in Ft. Myers. Hiram ended its “Florida swing” with a 3-5 overall record which included its North Coast Athletic Conference series against Kenyon College posting a 1-3 record. The Terriers took one of two games in a doubleheader against Ursinus (Pa.) College and also captured victories against Penn State-Behrend and Kenyon.
“We had a week full of positives,” said veteran Head Coach Howard Jenter. “We return from Florida with a better record than last season and we had a good number of strong individual performances by our players that we lead to good things later in the season.”
The Hiram baseball team will also begin its “northern schedule” on the road in a scheduled single nine-inning game against Thiel College on Wednesday, Mar. 19 in Greenville, Pa. The first pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m.
Campus events rescheduled
Biology Department senior seminars
The APEX Presentations have been rescheduled for Wednesday, March 19, 2008, starting at 7:00 p.m. in Colton 120. The presenters will be:
- Rebecca Velotta – 7:00 p.m.
Discrimination of Social Odors in Brown Capuchins (Cebus apella)
- Megan Szekely – 7:15 p.m.
Treatment Preference for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Patients: Prolonged Exposure vs. Zoloft
- Nichole Edelman – 7:30 p.m.
Connecting With Our Past: Plant Fossils of the Carboniferous
- Cheryl Diroll – 7:45 p.m.
Infection Control Performance Improvement: Hand Hygiene Compliance
The APEX (apprenticeship and experience) Presentations
are equivalent to Senior Seminars. Each presentation takes about 15 minutes.
Library Forum
Chris Ryan’s Library Forum has been rescheduled for Wednesday, March 19 at 4:15 p.m. in the McDowell Instruction Room (third floor) of the Library (Note that change in location!). He will speak on "Ancient Mosaics and Contemporary Graffiti: Art, Mystery, and Desecration (& the Case of the Floating Hands)." Refreshments will be served. Please join us!
Other News at Hiram College
Hiram graduate received Heroes Humanitarian Award in Clinton County
Hiram faculty approve new courses for nursing major and entrepreneurship minor
Hiram College offers free summer academies for high school students
Friends of the Library hosts talk about intellectual freedom and privacy
Library staffer Jeff Wanser reviews music selections for CD Hotlist
Political science professor Nozar Allaolmolki chairs panel on US-Iran Relations in San Francisco
Upcoming Events
Monday, March 17, 2008
- Academic Advising Sessions for Fall 2008 – contact advisor to set up a time
- ATP – 4:15 p.m. – 3rd Hinsdale
- African Ensemble – 6:30 p.m. – Frohring Music 109
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
- Academic Advising Sessions for Fall 2008 – contact advisor to set up a time
- Practice Interviews – Career Center – call x5131 to schedule a time
- Juried Student Art Show – 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Gelbke Fine Arts Center
- Juried Student Art Show Reception and Awards – 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. – Gelbke Fine Arts Center
- CESC – 4:15 p.m. – 3rd Hinsdale
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Junior Recital - Rachel Inks, soprano 7:00 p.m. Frohring Recital Hall
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
- Academic Advising Sessions for Fall 2008 – contact advisor to set up a time
- Practice Interviews – Career Center – call x5131 to schedule a time
- Juried Student Art Show – 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Gelbke Fine Arts Center
- Baseball @ Thiel College – 3 p.m.
- Department Recital Student Performers 7:30 p.m. Frohring Recital Hall
Thursday, March 20, 2008
- Academic Advising Sessions for Fall 2008 – contact advisor to set up a time
- Juried Student Art Show – 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Gelbke Fine Arts Center
- Mystery Group Book Club – 12 p.m. – Library Pritchard Room
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Senior Seminar - Lisa Beebe - 7:30 p.m. Frohring Music Room 109
Friday, March 21, 2008
- Academic Advising Sessions for Fall 2008 – contact advisor to set up a time
- Juried Student Art Show – 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Gelbke Fine Arts Center
- KCPB Movie Night – time TBA (kcpb@hiram.edu for more info) – Chagrin Cinema
Saturday, March 22, 2008
- Softball @ Malone College – 1 p.m.
Monday, March 24, 2008
- Academic Advising Sessions for Fall 2008 – contact advisor to set up a time
- Juried Student Art Show – 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Gelbke Fine Arts Center
- Open Discussion with Bissell Symposium Keynote Speaker Dr. Stephen Post – 2:45 to 3:45 p.m. and 4 to 5 p.m. – Library Pritchard Room
- African Ensemble – 6:30 p.m. – Frohring Music 109
- Bissell Symposium Keynote Address – 7:30 p.m. – Kennedy Center Ballroom
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