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Former representative Oxley opens Greek Week
AU fraternity and sorority members kicked off Greek Week with a reception at the president’s residence with longtime Rep. Michael Oxley. The veteran Republican from Ohio, who co-sponsored the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in response to corporate accounting scandals, spoke about how his fraternity experience in Sigma Chi prepared him for leadership roles in life. He is now retired from Congress. Here, Oxley speaks with Greek Week organizer Marlene Stapinkski.
The week-long series of events included a sing-off at the Tavern, participation in the campus Take Back the Night march and a community Multiple Sclerosis Walk, and a Games Day with Ping-Pong and tug-of-war contests.
The work of sororities Delta Gamma and Alpha Epsilon Phi to maintain the greenery in their adopted spots in front of the Ward Circle and McKinley Buildings was also recognized with certificates from AU Interim President Neil Kerwin. —SA |
Honors/Awards/Appointments
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS and Center for Global Peace: presented the Outstanding Scholar Award by the Association of Third World Studies at its 2006 Annual Meeting, Winston Salem University, N. Car., November. Brock Brady, language and foreign studies, CAS: appointed by the superintendent of the District of Columbia Public Schools to the Joint Advisory Council for the Plan to Provide Services to English Language Learner Students, March. Christian Maisch, WSP and SIS: has been elected to the Executive Council of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS). Lectures/Presentations
Richard Benedetto, SOC and SPA: lectured on covering the White House, Utica College, Utica, N.Y., March. Jeffrey Lubbers, WCL: “Transformation of the U.S. Rulemaking Process,” as part of the Dean’s Lecture Series, Ohio Northern University Petit School of Law, Ada, Ohio; also taught a class for Ohio Northern University’s LLM Democratic Governance and the Rule of Law program, February. Robert Marshak, SPA: “The Political Dimension of Transformational Change,” Chesapeake Bay Organization Development Network Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., March. Colman McCarthy, SIS: addressed the student body at Georgetown Day School on the philosophy of pacifism, January. Karen O’Connor, director, Women and Politics Institute, and SPA; Richard Cupitt, SIS; and Diya Agha, student, SIS: coauthored the paper “Gender and Democracies Around the World,” which O’Connor presented at the 2007 Southern Political Science Association. Diane Orentlicher, WCL: presented testimony on genocide and the rule of law at the inaugural hearing of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, February. Lucinda Peach, philosophy and religion, CAS: delivered “Buddhist Perspectives on Religion and Ethnicity in Public Policy,” to a visiting delegation of South Asian journalists sponsored by the U.S. State Department International Visitors Leadership Program on Religious Diversity in America, Washington, D.C., March. Ira Robbins, WCL: “Federal Habeas Corpus Relief for State and Federal Prisoners,” at the Federal Judicial Center’s Seminar for Newly Appointed District Judges, Washington, D.C., February. Papers Presented
Daniel Dreisbach, SPA: “George Washington on Religion’s Place in Public Life: Lessons from the Farewell Addresses,” at the conference “Religion in American Politics,” Regent University, February. The presentation was broadcast on C-SPAN and originally aired Apr. 5. Published Works
Muneer Ahmad, WCL: published an op-ed, “Canada’s Responsibility to Omar Khadr,” in the Toronto Globe and Mail, February. H. Kent Baker, Kogod, with John Haslem (University of Maryland) and David Smith (University of Albany): “S&P 500 Index Mutual Funds: Diverse Expenses and Performance Characteristics,” in the Journal of Indexes 9 (March-April 2007). Robert Durant, SPA: “Toxic Politic, Organizational Change, and the Greening of the U.S. Military: Toward a Polity-Centered Perspective,” Administration and Society, May-June 2007. Bryan Fantie, psychology, CAS: coauthored (with CAS alumna Neda Farzad Gould and others “Performance on a Virtual Reality Spatial Memory Navigation Task in Depressed Patients,” in American Journal of Psychiatry 2007 (March) 164. Consuelo Hernandez, language and foreign studies, CAS: included in Antología internacional de poesía amorosa. Ediciones Alejo; also included in Antología Poética. Voces y memorias, Editorial Buho, 2006. Philip Johnson, CAP, CAS: coauthored “A Phase Diagram for the Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons,” in Journal of Applied Physics 101, 09G103 (2007); reprinted in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology (2007). William LeoGrande, dean, SPA: coauthored “Wright Redux,” in American Prospect, February. Nancy Polikoff, WCL: “Beyond Marriage: Love and the Law,” in The Nation, January. Ron Sutton, professor emeritus, SOC: “Where the Truth Lies: When Reality Ain’t”, a book review of F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing, in the February issue of Documentary, the magazine of the International Documentary Association (IDA). Emilio Viano, SPA: “Penal Policies and Practices in the U.S. and Europe: Reflections on How and Why They Are Different,” in The Implementation of Prison Sentences and Aspects of Security, Wolf Legal Publishers. Media
Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: was interviewed by Moment magazine on the effects of IM on speech and writing; also was interviewed by the Albany Times Union on the changing role of away messages (in instant messaging) in the light of Facebook, January. Walter Effross, WCL: quoted in BNA’s Electronic Commerce and Law Report (Mar. 21) concerning his suggestions for more effective legal methods of online
contracting. Billie Jo Kaufman, WCL: interviewed by DowJones.com for an upcoming story on e-mail and employees’ rights to privacy, February. Candace Kovasic-Fleischer, WCL: interviewed by CNN International regarding the Wal-Mart sex bias case, February, 2007. Korin Munsterman, WCL: interviewed by Univision for a feature on WCL’s podcasting program, February. Alicia Shepard, SOC: appeared on the The News Hour with Jim Lehrer to discuss the scrutiny journalism in Washington, D.C., has come under scrutiny since the trail of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, February. Martha Starr, economics, CAS: quoted in an Agence France Presse article reporting that Americans spent more than they earned last year, pushing the personal savings rate to negative 1.0 percent, February. James Thurber, director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, and SPA: was interviewed by Reuters News Agency on his expectations for Speaker Pelosi, January.
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