The Harbinger

September 11, 2006

Tuesday: Engage with conflict at campus teach-in

After the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Hiram College community responded. Students, faculty, and staff gathered in teach-in format to consider the attacks through an intellectual lens. Discussion topics included, “Is There a Rhetoric of Violence?” “Conditions for a Just War of Retaliation,” Dealing with Grief,” “Gaining a Perspective through Literature,” and others.

Since 2001, the teach-in has become an annual fall event at Hiram where community members convene to address an overarching theme from multiple perspectives. This year’s teach-in will be held tomorrow, September 12, on the Campus Green (rain location: Kennedy Center). All workshops will explore the theme of conflict, particularly the nature of conflict and the way conflict is handled in American culture or across cultures.

Each teach-in workshop will be offered in two sessions: one beginning at noon and a second beginning at 12:45 p.m. All campus members are strongly encouraged to attend a workshop during both sessions.

Bring your lunch, grab a seat, and listen, contemplate, and share your thoughts on these topics, led by Hiram faculty and staff:

• Foote Chair in Ethics and Professor of Religious Studies Jon Moody: “Of cell phones and IM: What Is Responsibility Anyway?”
• Associate Professor of Biology and Psychology Kim Phillips: “Addiction and Accountability”
• Vice President and Dean of Students Eric Riedel on male images and their impact on our culture
• Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of Assessment Debby Rodriguez and Professor of Communication Linda Rea: “Conflicting Cultural Views of Alcohol in Life and Literature”
• Professor of Theatre Arts Rick Hyde: “The Comic Drunk: Stage, Film, and Advertising Images of Alcohol’s Effects”
• Associate Professor of History Rodney Hessinger: “Drunkenness as a Sensational Seductive Sin: The Nineteenth Century Origins of a Modern Moral Dilemma”
• Minority Dissertation Fellow Jason Johnson on the way our political system handles conflict
• Associate Dean of the College and Associate Professor of Biology Sandy Madar: “Why genes and drinking sometimes don’t mix” (first session only)
• Assistant Professor of Art Chris Ryan on how art reflects conflict and controversy
• Director of Community Relations and Special Projects Roger Cram: “Tuskegee Airmen: Could They Have become Heroes without the Obstacles They Faced?”
• Professor Emerita of Psychology Gwen Fischer: “When, Why, and How Should You Forgive?”
• Assistant Professor of History Adam Cathcart: “Iraq: Beyond the Bush Administration”
• Instructor of Education Jennifer Miller: “Conflicts over censorship: When kids get caught in the middle”
• Professor of Art Linda Bourassa: “Geometry of Self-Imprisonment”
• One or more sessions may also be offered about the U.S. judicial system. 

The ethics teach-in is coordinated by the Foote Chair in Ethics and sponsored by Hiram’s Center for the Study of Ethical Issues.

Chamberlain/Hopkins Symposium on Alcohol and Culture

Plain Dealer columnist Regina Brett (pictured right), who has championed greater judicial responsibility in the sentencing of drunken drivers, will present the keynote speech at the Chamberlain/Hopkins Symposium on Alcohol and Culture at Hiram College on Monday, September 18.

Brett’s presentation, titled “Be the Change You Want to See,” will begin at 7 p.m. in Hayden Auditorium.

Brett is an award-winning writer who is a past president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. When the Society for Professional Journalists named her Best Columnist in Ohio in 2003, its citation noted: “Regina Brett does what not enough local columnists are doing these days. With the righteous indignation of the muckrakers of old, she gives voice to the local issues and people who need it most. A good local columnist should be the conscience of a community. Regina Brett succeeds.”

The symposium, which continues on Tuesday, September 19, and is free and open to the public, is among the responses of the Hiram College community to the death of students Grace Chamberlain of Kirtland and Andy Hopkins of Champion in March. Their auto was struck near Burton, Ohio, by a truck driven by an admittedly intoxicated James L. Cline. Cline had 11 prior drunken driving convictions.

Cline was sentenced on Wednesday (September 6) to the maximum 38 years in prison by Geauga County Superior Court Judge David L. Fuhry.

“The symposium,” said Eric Riedel, vice president and dean of students, “is part of an on-going effort by Hiram College and friends to grapple with the circumstances that resulted in the deaths of Grace and Andy.

“It is the second step in our plan to demonstrate how an educational community responds to a seemingly insoluble problem. The College has a mission to study and draft state-of-the-art legislation to address drunken driving.”

A panel of respondents will follow Brett’s presentation. Respondents are Akron Municipal Court Judge Alison McCarty, psychotherapist Cynthia Downing, director of Earthrise Recovery Services, Inc., in Chagrin Falls, and attorney Jim Scher of Warren.

McCarty presides over the Akron Municipal Drug Court, an intensive judicially supervised treatment program intended to help non-violent drug abusers conquer their addictions. McCarty also has received a federal grant to create a similar DUI Court to address repeated drunken driving.

During the day on Monday and Tuesday, posters posing situations and questions regarding the use of alcohol in our culture will be posted at strategic locations on campus – the Hinsdale Hall arch, the Kennedy Center main lounge and the Coleman Sports, Recreation, and Fitness Center lobby – for response from students.

On Tuesday, during the convocation hour from 11:30 a.m. to 12:50 p.m., an Alcohol Impact Panel will be held in the Kennedy Center Ballroom. The panel will be followed by an Action Fair in the Kennedy Center main lounge.

Among the groups participating in the Action Fair are the Ohio State Patrol Ravenna Post 67, the Portage County DUI Taskforce, Portage County Adult Probation, Family and Community Services of Portage County, Alcohol Monitoring Systems (AMS), Inc., Mid-American Court Services (ignition interlock devices), Kaiser Permanente Addiction Unit, Families Anonymous, and MADD.

Garfield Heritage tour to stop at Hiram

The year 2006 is an historic one for James A. Garfield (pictured left), 20th President of the United States and former student and president of Hiram College: it is the 175th anniversary of his birth and the 125th anniversary of his presidency and untimely death.

On Saturday, September 16, the Garfield Heritage Tour, a vintage automobile tour commemorating Garfield’s life and times in Northeast Ohio, will stop at Hiram College. Participants and drivers will be served a boxed lunch in the Dix Dining Room of the Kennedy Center.

After lunch, two members of the Hiram faculty will speak. Professor of Political Science John Koritansky will introduce the Garfield Institute for Public Leadership (one of Hiram’s six Centers of Excellence), and Associate Professor of History Vivien E. Sandlund will give a talk titled “James A. Garfield at Hiram College.”

Between 11:55 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., the vintage vehicles will be parked along Garfield Road (SR 700) for public viewing.

Other stops on the tour include the Canal Visitor Center in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park (examining Garfield’s short-lived experience working on the Ohio and Erie Canal), the log cabin of Garfield’s birth located in Moreland Hills, the James A. Garfield National Historic Site, and Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, which is President Garfield’s final resting place.

James Garfield attended Hiram College from 1851 to 1854. Garfield returned to the Institute in 1856 to teach the classics, and in 1857 he was named president of the college, a position he held until 1860. He was elected President of the United States in 1880, but served only four months before his assassination.

This Heritage Tour is sponsored by the Crawford Auto Aviation Museum, Hiram College, the James A. Garfield National Historic Site, Lake View Cemetery, the Moreland Hills Historical Society, and Cuyahoga Valley National Park. For more information about the tour, please call the James A. Garfield National Historic Site at 440.255.8722.

Hayashi show to feature prison and war site photo collages

A show featuring the work of late Cleveland artist Masumi Hayashi – “Panoptican: Photo Collages of Prison and War Sites” – will open Wednesday, September 20, in the Frohring Art Gallery.

Christopher Ryan, gallery director and assistant professor of art, arranged with Hayashi earlier in the summer for the show. The internationally acclaimed Cleveland photographer, who taught for 24 years at Cleveland State University, was murdered in August in a West Side building where she lived and worked.

Ryan received the support of Hayashi’s family and her longtime friend Michael Gentile of M. Gentile Studios Inc., in Cleveland, to proceed with the show.

“This is a special honor for Hiram,” Ryan said. “Masumi was really enthusiastic about bringing a show here and talking with our students.”

Ryan said her work would continue to speak for her.

“She provides an excellent model of how an artist weds subject matter, meaningful content, media, and technique in a way that is personally relevant to the artist,” Ryan said. “In addition, the content of her work is certainly relevant in today’s climate of global turmoil and heightened tensions, where images and stories of prisons and atrocities are omnipresent.”

Hayashi was born in a Japanese-American internment camp. The images in the “Panoptican” show will be drawn from her “Abandoned Prison” and “War and Military Sites” photographs.

“Exhibiting images of places of captivity and suffering can be a highly charged affair,” Ryan said. “We hope this event will be an engaging art experience for visitors as well as a fitting tribute to Masumi.”

A reception, with refreshments, will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on opening night. Noted Cleveland photographer Linda Butler will speak at 6:30 p.m. about Hayashi’s life and work. The event is free and open to the public.

The free show will continue through October 11. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Lunch & Learn (& enjoy free pizza)

Join the Hiram library staff for its Lunch and Learn session on Thursday, September 14, from 12:30 to 1:30 pm. This program is a great chance to get acquainted with what’s changed in the library since last spring, to learn the art of successful grant seeking, and to introduce yourself to the wide array of databases and online materials available to you. And of course, pizza will be served.

However, pizza and seating are limited. To reserve your spot, please contact Terri Foy at foytm@hiram.edu or 330.569.5354.

(Did we mention there would be free pizza?)

Calling all singers: It’s not too late!

It’s not too late to join the Hiram Men’s or Women’s Chorus. Rehearsals began last Tuesday, but both groups welcome anyone interested in participating. The choruses are college-community ensembles, open to students, faculty, staff, and area residents of all ages.  

Rehearsal Time: Tuesdays, 7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
• Men’s Chorus: Frohring Music 109, directed by Tina Dreisbach
• Women’s Chorus: Frohring Recital Hall, directed by Damaris Peters Pike

For more information, please contact the Music Department at x5294.

This Week at Hiram

Monday, September 11

• Resume Workshop
  7 to 9 p.m., Hinsdale 214
  Students: learn how to compose a professional resume. Offered by the Career Center.
  

Tuesday, September 12

• Ethics Teach-in
  Noon to 1:30 p.m., Campus Green (rain location: Kennedy Center)
  Sessions will begin at noon and at 12:45 p.m.
  
  
• Study in Italy: Interest meeting for spring 2007 trip
  7 p.m., Frohring Art 5
  
  
• Men’s & Women’s Chorus Rehearsal
  7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Frohring 109 & Frohring Recital Hall

Wednesday, September 13

• Student Open Hour with President Chema
  1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., President’s Office on Third Hinsdale
  To schedule an appointment, contact Donna Rood at ext. 5494.
  
  
• Women’s Soccer @ Adrian
  4 p.m., Adrian, Michigan
  
  
• Library Forum
  4:15 p.m., Pritchard Room of the library
  Assistant Professor of History Adam Cathcart will present the first Library Forum of the year The topic of Adam’s presentation will be: “Entwined Foes: China and Japan in the Early Cold War.” Refreshments will be served.
  
  
• Men’s Soccer @ Adrian
  6 p.m., Adrian, Michigan
  
  
• Grad School FAQs Workshop
  7 to 9 p.m., Library Instruction Room
  Students may come to the Library Instructional Room for assistance and advice regarding the process of applying to graduate and professional school programs.

Thursday, September 14

• Lunch & Learn
  12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Library Instruction Room
  
  
• Faculty Meeting
  4:15 p.m., Kennedy Center Ballroom
  
  
• Employee Recognition Dinner
  5 p.m., Coleman Sports Center
  In place of the annual luncheon convocation, this year’s recognition celebration will include a reception and dinner, followed by an awards program. All Hiram College faculty and staff are encouraged to invite a guest to this event.
  

Friday, September 15

• Volleball v. Wooster
  7 p.m., Price Gymnasium

Saturday, September 16

• Fifth Annual Alumni Volunteer Day
  
  
• Volleyball: Hiram Invitational
  Coleman Sports Center
  Games at 11 a.m. (Oberlin), 1 p.m. (Thomas Moore), and 7 p.m. (St. Vincent)
  
  
• Cross Country @ Penn State Behrend
  11 a.m., Erie, Pennsylvania
  
  
• Football @ Allegheny
  1 p.m., Meadville, Pennsylvania
  
  
• Men’s Soccer v. Hilbert
  2 p.m., Hiram Soccer Complex

Sunday, September 17

• Women’s Soccer @ Capital
  1 p.m., Bexley, Ohio

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