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March 10, 2003

Volume 50, No. 24

 

Founders Day: SFSU turns 104! Arts and Artists in Taiwan


Announcements

CampusMemo's spring break
 
Nominations needed for Senate elections Prepare! Fiscal year's end is near
 
KTVU airs features produced by BECA students Spring break = care break


This Week

Trends in the film business
 
Academic Senate meeting Perspectives on the costs of war
Also see "Arts and Artists in Taiwan"


Coming Up

Women suicide bombers


News

In memoriam: Donald Castleberry

 

About CampusMemo



Announcements

CampusMemo's spring break

CampusMemo will not be published Monday, March 17 due to spring break. Submit items for the March 24 edition by Tuesday, March 20. For events that happen the week of March 17, see the Web calendar: www.sfsu.edu/calendar.

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Nominations needed for Senate elections

The Academic Senate office this week will send out ballots for nominations for spring elections. Please check your mailboxes. Nominations should be returned to the Senate office by 5 p.m. Friday. Nominations should include the candidate's acceptance of the nomination by signature. An optional one-page position paper may also be included.

The following positions will be filled this semester. All faculty members whose terms are expiring are eligible for reelection.

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Prepare! Fiscal year's end is near

The Accounts Payable Department will hold pre-year end workshops for departments and colleges in April. With the looming budget problems, now is a good time to review your accounts before the fiscal year closes out in June. Accounts Payable will discuss changes for the next fiscal year, and University account policies and procedures.

All workshops will be held from 9 a.m. to noon in the NEC Conference Room on the fifth floor of the Administration building. Workshops will be held Thursday, April 10; Friday, April 11; Tuesday, April 15; Thursday April 17; and Tuesday, April 22.

RSVP to Mike Getman at ext. 8-7139 or mygetman@sfsu.edu.

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KTVU airs features produced by BECA students

KTVU-Channel 2 will air a series of six community affairs feature stories produced by students in the Broadcasting and Electronic Communications Arts Department (BECA). The stories will be broadcast on KTVU's "Bay Area People" program at 6 a.m. Saturday, March 15 and Saturday, March 22.

The stories were produced by students in BECA's advanced video and audio production classes last fall under the supervision of professors Ron Compesi, Larry Whitney and Josh Hecht. This is the ninth year that KTVU will broadcast programs created by BECA.

For details, contact Compesi at ext. 8-1225 or Rosy Chu, KTVU community affairs director, at (510) 874-0180.

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Spring break = care break

Students from a Recreation and Leisure Studies class have adopted five non-profit organizations they will assist during spring break. They would like the campus community's help in their efforts to aid terminally ill children at San Francisco General Hospital.

To help, donate a new or used toy, children's book or movie. Used items must be in good condition. Drop off donations this week at the boxes placed just outside room 118 of the Gymnasium.

The donations will be given to the hospital Monday, March 17. For details or to volunteer to help with other efforts, contact David Varela at (415) 729-1112 or dave43sf@sbcglobal.net.

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This Week


Trends in the film business

Stephen Ujlaki, chair of the Cinema Department, will speak on "Trends in the Film Business" from noon to 1:30 p.m. in room 202 of the Business building. The event is part of the College of Business Research Roundtable. All are welcome to attend.

For details, contact Sally Baack at ext. 8-6421 or sbaack@sfsu.edu.

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Academic Senate meeting

The Academic Senate will meet from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Nob Hill Room of the Seven Hills Conference Center.

Agenda items include: revisions to the University policy on written English proficiency; recodification and revision of Senate bylaws; discontinuance of the minor in psychological services and certificate in psychological field services programs; approval of the joint doctoral program in physical therapy; a revision of the policy on evaluation of teaching effectiveness; a resolution urging use of University-assigned identification numbers in place of social security numbers; and a discussion on the University calendar including the scheduling of spring break and the winter and summer seesions.

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Perspectives on the costs of war

The Annual Public Lecture Series in celebration of Women's History Month and International Women's Day continues with a panel discussion of "Insider and Outsider Perspectives: The Costs of War" from 2 to 4 p.m. in room 362 of the HSS building.

Panel moderators are JoAnn Aviel, International Relations, and Kathryn Johnson, Marian Wright Edelman Institute. Panelists will speak on a number of subjects:

Women in the U.S. Military: Liz Dunbar Knox, a student in the School of Social Work and former officer in the U.S. Army, and Sgt. Stephanie Caulley, U.S. Army voice intercept electronic warfare specialist.

Women in Media: War in Central America in the 1980's: Mary Jo McConahay, correspondent for the Pacific News Service.

War and Prostitution: Melissa Farley, director, Prostitution Research and Education Project, San Francisco Women's Centers Inc.

The Impact of War on the Daily Lives of Women and Children in Iraq and Afghanistan: Rula Khalafawi, former worker with the United Nations Iraq Oil for Food Program.

The lecture series is supported by the College of Humanities, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Women Studies Department, Marian Wright Edelman Institute and Office of the Dean of Human Relations. Additional sponsors include the departments of Anthropology, Geography, History, International Relations and Sociology, the Global Peace Studies program and the Office of International Programs.

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Coming Up

Women suicide bombers

The Annual Public Lecture Series in celebration of Women's History Month and International Women's Day concludes with a presentation by Frances Hasso on "Arab and Political Discursive Deployments of the Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers" from noon to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, in room 362 of the HSS building.

Hasso is a professor of gender and women's studies at Oberlin College.

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News

In memoriam: Donald Castleberry

Donald M. Castleberry, who served SFSU for three decades first as professor of political science and later as dean of the Graduate Division, died at his home in San Mateo on Feb. 16, 2003. He was 88.

Castleberry joined SFSU in 1948 and held a variety of senior administrative positions during his 31-year tenure at the University. In addition to teaching courses on government, Castleberry held appointments as chair of the Political Science Department, chair of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and dean of Continuing Education. In 1967 he was named dean of the Graduate Division, a position he held until his retirement in 1979.

"It was my good fortune to work closely with Don Castleberry for 25 years," said Urban Whitaker, professor emeritus of international relations and a former top administrator who served with Castleberry. "He was a treasured friend, a wonderful colleague and-most importantly for me and for many others on the campus-a world-class mentor."

Whitaker also said that Castleberry's leadership was instrumental in the creation of the current College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

While at SFSU, Castleberry taught at American University in Beirut as a Fulbright scholar and served as faculty adviser in Sweden for the California State Colleges International Program. Castleberry also led the summer Peace Corps Training Program conducted at SFSU during the 1960s.

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Features

Founders Day: SFSU turns 104!

SFSUwill celebrate Founders Day at noon Tuesday, March 25, on the Main Lawn. The celebration includes comments by President Robert A. Corrigan, announcement of the staff STARof the Year award and performances by a jazz band led by SFSU music lecturer Andrew Speight and by the University Choir. Following the program, Corrigan and other administrators will serve birthday cake to the campus community.

Gear up for Founders Day with a dose of Gator history:

SFSU's Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives, which celebrates its 50th anniversary next year, has sponsored poetry readings for nearly 100 consecutive seasons and now has a catalogue featuring 2,000 authors on tape. Among the Poetry Center's vast collection are readings by William Carlos Williams, a Pulitzer Prize winner in literature; Marianne Moore, a major poet of the Modernist movement; and Langston Hughes, voice of the Harlem Renaissance. Theodore Roethke gave the Center's first reading on Feb. 21, 1954, the same year he won the Pulitzer Prize.

The College of Ethnic Studies -- born out of the famous student strike at SFSU that began 35 years ago in November -- now includes the Cesar E. Chavez Institute, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year; the Center for Applied Cultural Studies in Educational Achievement, which was established in 1989; and the Vietnamese American Studies Center, which began in 1996 and is the only such center in the country. The college, with its departments of American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Black Studies and Raza Studies, now offers 167 classes, enrolling about 5,000 students.

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Arts and Artists in Taiwan -- This Week!

"Arts and Artists in Taiwan," a free three-day symposium celebrating the reopening of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco will take place on campus Thursday through Saturday.

Film: 'Run Away' by Wang Toon
"Run Away" will be screened from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday in August Coppola Theatre in the Fine Arts building. Toon will discuss the film after the screening.

Dance: Tapei Dance Circle presents FLOW
The Tapei Dance Circle will present FLOW at 7 p.m. Friday in McKenna Theatre of the Creative Arts building.

Symposium: Artists, Scholars and Arts Administrators
Artists, art critics and scholars and administrators of major arts organizations will discuss arts in Taiwan A morning panel discussion takes place from 9:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Knuth Hall of the Creative Arts building. An afternoon panel discussion takes place from 2 to 5 p.m. in Jack Adams Hall of the Cesar Chavez Student Center.

Exhibit: Arts and Artists in Taiwan
A companion exhibit can be viewed in the Cesar Chavez Student Center Art Gallery March 14 through April 9. The Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday and Wednesdays and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays.

For details on the events see: www.collegeofcreativearts.org.

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