The Harbinger

April 24, 2006

Celebrating Excellence and Honors Recognition Convocation


Sunday, April 30, and Monday, May 1 mark the second annual "Celebrating Excellence at Hiram" achievement awards. Please plan to attend these community events in honor of Hiram’s student leaders.

The Honors Recognition Convocation, held on Monday evening, includes the induction of new members into Phi Beta Kappa, as well as the announcement of recipients of individual awards. An all-campus dessert reception and the music department spring honors recital will follow the convocation.

Sunday, April 30
   
Time
Event
Location
2 p.m.
Excellence in Leadership and Involvement Awards Krabill Garden
(rain location: Pritchard Room)
3:30 p.m. Psi Chi installation and induction ceremony Alumni Heritage Room
6:30 p.m. United Voices of Hiram

 Kennedy Center Ballroom

Monday, May 1
   
Time Event
Location
On-going Senior art exhibit
Frohring Art Gallery
Noon Biology department cookout and student awards
 Martin Common
4 p.m.
 Departmental award presentations
  
   Chemistry
   Education
   Management
   Philosophy
   Political Science
Coleman Room
Jesse Smith Hse.
Hinsdale Hall
TBA
TBA
 5:30 p.m.
 Alpha Society dinner*
Dix Dining Hall
 6:30 p.m.
 Honors Recognition Convocation
Hayden Auditorium
 7:30 p.m.
 All-campus dessert reception
Martin Common
(rain location: Kennedy Center)
 8 p.m.
 Music department spring honors recital
Hayden Auditorium

*R.S.V.P. to Julie Feather-Faber in the Office of Special Events at 330.569.6116, faberje@hiram.edu.



Campus committee positions announced


The Committee on Committees has announced the following election results:

  •     Academic Program Committee (two positions): Willard Greenwood, Mark Taylor
  •     Appointment, Tenure & Promotion (two positions): John Koritansky, Linda Rea
  •     College Executive Steering Committee: Craig Moser
  •     Committee on Committees: Nikki Cvetkovic
  •     Faculty-Trustee Committee: Kirsten Parkinson
  •     Parliamentarian, faculty meetings: Linda Rea
  •     Parliamentarian, College Assembly: Linda Rea
  •     Recorder, faculty meetings: Ella Kirk
  •     Recorder, College Assembly: Cathy Mansor

In addition, the Committee on Committees is authorized to appoint two additional positions:

  •     College Life Steering Committee: Jennifer Miller
  •     Student Life Committee: Rosanne Factor

The members of the Committee on Committees are: Kathryn Craig, John Koritansky, Craig Moser, Beth Schwartz, and Jeff Wanser, outgoing chair.

Of Guinea Pigs and Masters


Hiram College's first class of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies graduates shared their capstone projects Saturday, April 22, in Gerstacker Science Hall to an appreciative audience.

 

When the presenters…

 

  • Karen Donley-Hayes – "Eating Impulses as Understood by Bariatric Patients and Their Medical Providers"

  • Karey Finn – "Veiling skin: How the Veil Informs Personal, Social, and Biological Identity"

  • Lonnie Hill – "The Impact of Deindustrialization on Appalachian Migrants to Ashtabula County"

  • Melinda Kapalin – "Gifts of Grace from Terminally Ill Children: The Benefits of Children Writing Their Own Life Stories"

 

…had finished their presentations, they were given one of their own.

 

Carol Donley, the Herbert L. and Pauline Wentz Andrews Professor in Biomedical Humanities and mother of presenter Karen Donley-Hayes, offered a power point production that explained “The MAIS Guinea Pig Experiment 2004-2006 … during which the first graduate students were subjected to trials of overload, surprise, unpredictable change, fatigue, weird food, suspense, comedy, etc., without giving their informed consent, because no one was informed how MAIS would evolve.”

 

And evolve the MAIS did.

 

Following a series of slides featuring cuddly, cute Guinea Pigs suffering from various traumas, Donley concluded that: "The Guinea Pig Awards are hereby presented to the subjects of the Hiram MAIS experiment in graduate programs for their endurance, flexibility, hard work, and sense of humor."

 

And all the Guinea Pigs laughed.

Hoedt named Hiram College SID


Hiram College has named Jeff Hoedt (pronounced "hate") as its sports information director. Hoedt joins Hiram after three years as assistant sports information director at Baldwin-Wallace College. He did such a good job at B-W as an intern/assistant that the college created a full-time assistant SID position in order to keep Hoedt.

Hoedt also worked as a student assistant in sports information at Capital University, from which he graduated in 2003.

Hiram had a strong field of candidates, and Hoedt emerged at the top.

"We feel fortunate that Jeff has decided to join us," said Steve Love, director of college relations. "Jeff has many skills that will help raise the profile of Hiram College athletics while serving both its student-athletes and a larger community of athletic interest."

Adair is a Grand Finals Winner

 

Hiram College senior Jeffrey Adair has been named a Grand Finals Winner and will attend the Association of Computing Machinery's Awards Banquet in San Francisco on Saturday, May 20.

 

Adair, a prize winner at the Special Interest Group on Computer Education's Student Research Competition, was invited to compete against winners of all four conference competitions in the Grand Finals of the Student Research competition. As a Grand Award Winner, his work has been named among the top three undergraduate efforts among all of the winners.

 

Adair presented "Locating, Tracking, and Interpreting EAN-13 Bar Code Waveforms in a Two-dimensional Video Stream" from his integrated research component of Professor of Computer Science Ellen Walker's Computer Vision course.

 

Adair's award will be announced at the banquet.



These "Jordans" need some air


If this story stinks, consider the subject. It's shoes.


Stinky shoes. Shoes in an olfactory league of their own.


At Hiram College, education concerning health-and-wellness issues comes in many shapes and sizes and degree or odor.


In Miller Dining Hall last week, a number of students submitted their battered and abused footwear to a panel of three noses belonging to basketball Coach Steve Fleming, Residence Hall Director Justin Fitzgerald, and Director of College Relations Steve Love.


Though there was a serious side to the Stinky Shoe Contest – learning proper foot care – the test to which the contestants were put required no study or sense – only bad scents.


The winners (?) and runners-up were:


Female – 1. Sarah Schoenhagen; 2. Jessie Lane.


Male – 1. John Davis; 2. Russ Elek.


Davis' winning footwear is shown  in a photo here. Schoenhagen's turquoise house slipper, with its foam falling out the sides and back and its stench wafting in all directions, was reported to have walked away from the competition on its own and has been unavailable for immortalization.




Great Lakes Theater Festival offers Hiram College community a bargain


The Hiram College faculty and staff are being offered a special subscription opportunity for the Great Lakes Theater Festival's season that begins September 15.

New subscribers to the festival, which is held at Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland, will receive a free subscription when they purchase one. (Prices increase on July 1, 2006. And the offer is valid only for classic, best value, senior, and family matinee packages.) For more information or to subscribe, call 216.664.6064.

The festival will include five plays:

Fall repertory (September 15-October 21):
  • "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart
  •  "Love's Labour's Lost" by William Shakespeare

Holiday tradition (November 24-December 23):

  • "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

Spring repertory (March 16-April 21, 2007):

  • "Hay Fever" by Noel Coward
  • "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare




A loss but an artistic success


A 6-run Hiram College rally fell one short of Case Western Reserve University in a 9-8 non-conference loss at Jacobs Field, home of the Cleveland Indians, on Wednesday (April 19).

Though the outcome left the Terriers with an 8-25 record for the season, the event, which was coordinated by Hiram's Office of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving, proved an artistic success.

In special Hiram T-shirts, some 125 Hiram alumni, friends, staff, parents, students, and prospective students matched the number of Case Western supporters and had much to cheer about in the sixth inning when the Terriers struck for 6 runs.

Sophomore Nick Evilsizer (Westlake, OH/Westlake) led the way with two hits, an RBI, and a run scored in the inning. Evilsizer was one of three Terriers with two hits in the game. The others were sophomore Frank Liscio (Port St. Lucia, FL/SLW Centennial) and first-year Jeremy Law (Arcanum, OH/Arcanum).



Quick Hits…

  • Paul Petric will present a faculty guitar recital tonight (April 24) at 7:30 p.m. in the Frohring Recital Hall. He will play an eclectic selection of music by Domenico Scarlatti, Leonard Bernstein, Oliver Hunt, Julian Orbon, Jimi Hendrix, and Richard Rogers.

  • Works of art by Assistant Professor of Art Christopher Ryan and Professor Emeritus George Schroeder have been selected for inclusion in the Erie Museum of Art’s 83rd Annual Spring Show in Erie, Pennsylvania. Ryan’s mixed media painting “Young Warrior” will be shown, as will Schroeder’s mixed media collage “Untitled (scope).”  The show features artwork juried from submissions by artists from Pennsylvania, Northeast Ohio, and Western New York. The exhibition will run from April 22 to June 11.

  • Faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend the job talk by English department candidate David Ainsworth on Wednesday, April 26, at 4:15 p.m. in Bonney Castle. The talk is titled, "What the heck do I know? Knowledge as a process." Ainsworth will discuss the importance of understanding knowledge as a process, describe the differences in that process between the sciences and the humanities, and explain the vital role that literature plays in the ongoing process of knowing. Dr. Ainsworth graduated magna cum laude from the University of Arizona with a B.A. in English and a B.S. in math and earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

  • Hiram faculty and staff are invited to enjoy an evening of networking and socializing with Hiram alumni and friends over cocktails and heavy hors d'oeuvres on Thursday, April 27, at POSH Nite Club and Bistro in Akron from 6 to 9 p.m. Register online at http://alumni.hiram.edu/events.html ; we must have your RSVP by April 24th! Cost is $15 per person.

  • Blessid Union of Souls kicks off Spring Fest weekend with an 8 p.m. concert on Friday, April 28. Students, faculty, and staff get in free with a Hiram College ID. Additional tickets may be purchased for $10. Pick up your tickets in the Office of Campus Involvement (Kennedy Center) or in the Weekend College (Hinsdale 205).

  • Mark your calendars: the Senior Student-Athlete Awards Banquet will be held on Sunday, May 7, at 6 p.m. in the DiGirolamo Lobby of the Coleman Sports Center.

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