Monday, March 6, 2006
Monday, March 6, 2006
Quote
of the Day
" Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."
-
J. K. Rowling
Hot Topic
01.Drexel Delta Zeta Chapter Wins ABC Campus Invasion Contest
Topics of the Day
02. Student Life Seeks Orientation Leaders and Dragon Assistants
03.
Whiff of Spring: Join CAB at the Philadelphia Flower Show
04.
"Gender and the Book of Esther"
05.
CAB and Weekend Warriors Sponsor Ski Trip
06.
CoAS Seminar on Sign Theory and the Miracle of Life
07.
Lexerd 2006 to Hold Open Meeting
08.
CEO Workshop: Mentors in Violence Prevention
09. Letter from Patagonia
10. MS/MBA Television Management Program Hosts Bill Rosenblatt
11. Dr. Donna
Gentile O'Donnell Appointed to Drexel Board
Drexel Delta Zeta Chapter Wins ABC Campus Invasion Contest
Drexel's Epsilon Zeta chapter of the Delta Zeta sorority was the grand prize winner of the ABC Daytime Campus Invasion Competition.Last fall, ABC selected 15 universities across the country to see who could host the best soap opera viewing party. Sixty groups from universities such as Penn, USC and San Francisco State were given the same budget and materials to create the best viewing experience on their campuses. Epsilon Zeta produced a series of events based around All My Children and created a scrapbook that demonstrated their enthusiasm for ABC Daytime programming.
As the grand prize winner, Epsilon Zeta will be visited on campus by ABC Daytime stars. The visit will be filmed and aired nationally on ABC later this year.
Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University Relations
Student Life Seeks Orientation Leaders and Dragon Assistants
The Division of Student Life seeks enthusiastic applicants for Orientation Leader and Dragon Assistant. Don't miss out on these fun, skill-building summer and end-of-summer employment opportunities.For more information and the downloadable application, please visit http://www.drexel.edu/studentlife/studentstaffselection.
Approved under the authority of Anthony T. Caneris, Senior Vice President for Student Life and Administrative Services
A Whiff of Spring: Join CAB at the Philadelphia Flower Show
Join the Campus Activities Board
(CAB) for a trip to the Philadelphia Flower Show on Tuesday, March 7, 2006. Buses
leave Towers Hall at 6 p.m. Tickets are $10 each. There is a limit of two tickets per Drexel undergraduate
ID.
CAB ticket sale hours are Monday-Friday, 1-2 p.m. and Monday-Thursday, 6-7 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.drexel.edu/cab or contact CAB at 215-895-2575 or cab@drexel.edu.
Approved under the authority of Anthony T. Caneris, Senior Vice President for
Student Life and Administrative Services
"Gender and the Book of Esther"
"Gender and the Book
of Esther," a lecture and booksigning by Philadelphia-based artist and
educator J.T. Waldman, will be held on Tuesday, March 7, 2006,
from 9:30-11 a.m. in Hagerty Library room 302 (33rd and Market Streets).
Waldman is the author of the new graphic novel, Megillat Esther. He will examine how the battle of the sexes plays out in the Book of Esther and, through an examination of the art history of Esther, uncover how the understanding of gender has shifted throughout history. Included will be the enigmatic presence of eunuchs in the book, and how they propel the narrative and the struggle between genders.
The lecture is made possible by the Milton & Miriam Handler Foundation, the Louis & Bessie Stein Foundation, and the Friends of Judaic Studies. For information, email kathy.carll@drexel.edu or call 215-895-6388.
Approved under the authority of Dr. Stephen W. Director, Provost
CAB and Weekend Warriors Sponsor Ski Trip
Campus Activities Board and
Weekend Warriors are sponsoring a ski trip to Camelback Mountain,
Saturday, March 11, 2006. Buses will leave the Daskalakis Athletic Center (33rd and Market Streets) at 8:30 a.m. and return by 9:30 p.m.
All participants must attend one of the two pre-trip meetings in the lower level of the DAC on Thursday, March 9, at 5 p.m. or 9 p.m., when they will turn in the release forms and go over trip details.
Tickets are available from the DAC security window from 6-9 p.m. through March 8. Ticket prices vary with the choice of services: Lift tickets, $15; lift ticket and ski rental, $23; lift ticket and snowboard rental, $26; ski lesson and rental, $30; snowboard lesson and rental, $33. Valid undergraduate student ID is required.
For information about Camelback Mountain, see http://www.skicamelback.com. For information about the trip, visit http://cab.student-org.drexel.edu or http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dsoww.
Approved under the authority of Anthony T. Caneris, Senior Vice President for
Student Life and Administrative Services
CoAS Seminar on Sign Theory and the Miracle of Life
Dr. Stacey Ake (above)
from Drexel's department of English and Philosophy will present "Life
Is a Miracle, Isn't It?" on Wednesday, March 8, 2006 in Disque Hall (32nd
and Chestnut Streets) room 109 at 3:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
The talk, part of the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Seminar series, will ask whether, if life is a miracle, is it a sign (standing in for something else) or a wonder (a marvel belonging to life alone). Dr. Ake applies ideas from the field of biosemiotics, or sign theory, to the phenomena of life.
For information, contact Chuck McNally at 215-895-1805 or cdm27@drexel.edu.
Approved under the authority of Dr. Stephen W. Director, Provost
Lexerd 2006 to Hold Open Meeting
The Lexerd, the official yearbook of Drexel University, is looking
for a few good members to work on the 2006 yearbook.
An information meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 8, 2006 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lexerd Office in MacAlister Hall room 3012 (33rd and Chestnut Streets). Interested students, both those who have had experience on yearbooks and new talent, are welcome. A variety of skills is needed.
Come and enjoy pizza with the Lexerd yearbook staff. Email lexerd@drexel.edu so we can order enough pizza and prepare packets.
Approved under the authority of Anthony T. Caneris, Senior Vice President for
Student Life and Administrative Services
CEO Workshop: Mentors in Violence Prevention
The Creating Excellent Organizations (CEO) program will hold the workshop "MVP:
Mentors in Violence Prevention" today, March 6, 2006 from 6-7:30 p.m. in
MacAlister Hall room 2020 (33rd and Chestnut Streets).
Jon Kapell (above) , associate director of campus activities, will lead a discussion-based workshop on how to diffuse potentially violent situations. Participation in this workshop is limited to men only.
The workshop is designed for student organizational leaders and members. For information, visit http://www.drexel.edu/oca/leadership/workshop_schedule.html.
Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University
Relations
Dr. Kenneth Lacovara, professor of bioscience and biotechnology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has returned to Patagonia to continue excavations in search of one of the most massive dinosaur fossils ever found and possibly a species unknown to science. Below is the first in a series of letters he will send to the Drexel community from Patagonia:
Greetings from Patagonia . We're back in town after another 12 days at the dig site. The film crew from the Academy of Natural Sciences completed their shoot and obtained some great footage for an exhibit based on our work that will open later this year. Today, March 3, 2006, we will be joined by Drexel adjunct professor Dr. Bill Gallagher from the New Jersey State Museum, who will spend a week with us.
After rising through February, the river is dropping a little every day now as snow begins to accumulate in the nearby Andes . Daily temperature differences from morning until afternoon are as much as 50 degrees and it's almost always windy. On most days we can see it raining in the foothills, but we've lost only one day so far to weather.
Our dinosaur skeleton grows more complete and interesting each day. We made several important discoveries this week and are going through burlap and plaster at an unprecedented rate. Many of the bones we uncover display characteristics not found in other dinosaurs and point towards specialized anatomical adaptations in this species.
Our students here are brimming with grit and determination and I couldn't be more proud of them. We are headed out tomorrow for 8 days, which will be followed by one more supply run and the final push towards extraction day on Saturday, March 18.
I'll report back when I can.
All the best,
Dr. Ken Lacovara, Bioscience and Biotechnology
Photo caption:
The Drexel team members from Bioscience & Biotechnology with some of the smaller plaster-jacketed dinosaur bones.
Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University Relations
MS/MBA Television Management Program Hosts Bill Rosenblatt
The Paul F. Harron Graduate Program in Television Management will host Bill
Rosenblatt (above), founder and CEO of Giant Steps (Media Technology Strategies)
in New York today, March 6, 2006 from 6-9 p.m. in University Crossings Room
027 (15 N. 32nd Street).
The free lecture is part of the program's winter term colloquium series that brings industry professionals to Drexel to share their insights in the rapidly changing media business with students, faculty and staff.
For more information, contact the program's director Howard Homonoff at 215-895-2408 or hbh24@drexel.edu.
Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University
Relations
Dr. Donna Gentile O'Donnell Appointed to Drexel Board
Eastern Technology Council Managing Director Dr. Donna Gentile O'Donnell (above)
was appointed to the Drexel University Board of Trustees. The announcement was
made by Chairman of the Board Joseph Jacovini.
Dr. O'Donnell has served for more than two years as a trustee of the Drexel University College of Medicine Board on every working committee of the board, including academic affairs, investment, audit and finance. She previously served as president of the board of The Franklin Health Trust, a $40 million non-profit foundation, which was created following a bankruptcy court decree of the Allegheny Health System hospitals. In June 2003, she led negotiations for the merger of the foundation's assets to the Drexel University College of Medicine.
A community leader and activist, Dr. O'Donnell has spent more than a decade providing leadership in a variety of venues. She is a special limited partner in PA Early Stage Partners, serves as an appointee of the Pennsylvania Senate to the Tobacco Health Advisory Committee and the PNC Bank's Financial Services Network Advisory Board.
Prior to her leadership role with the Technology Council, Dr. O'Donnell served as the deputy health commissioner of policy and planning for the City of Philadelphia.
She was chosen as a 2005 Woman of Distinction by the Philadelphia Business Journal for her outstanding contributions to work and society.
Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University
Relations
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