December 8, 1998

Faculty/Staff Footnotes

S. L. Alexander, assistant professor of communications, recently published Covering the Courts: A Handbook for Journalists.

Assistant Director for Residential Development Tim Albert’s publication, The Resident Register, received the Handbook Award at the Southern Association of College Student Affairs (SACSA) in Charlotte, North Carolina. Awards are given annually by SACSA to a select number of outstanding publications in the southern region. The Resident Register is distributed to students living on campus and emphasizes educational information on student life issues, policies for residents, and a yearly calendar of activities.

Jeffrey B. Barron, regional initiative coordinator for the ECOnomics Institute, was a panelist for the People’s Economic Summit at Dillard University. The summit, organized by the Crescent City Peace Alliance, focused on ending unemployment in New Orleans. Barron discussed employment opportunities in both open-air markets and rural small-scale farms. The ECOnomics Institute runs the Crescent City Farmers Market–a tangible example of economic development in our city.

The Robert Hunter Distinguished Professor John Biguenet’s story “Rose” was accepted for publication in Esquire. His story, “The Vulgar Soul,” which appeared originally in Granta, has been selected for inclusion in the annual list of 100 distinguished stories by the editors of The Best American Short Stories 1998. Three of Biguenet’s poems, “A Short History of Barbed Wire,” “Sestina,” and “A Song” appeared in Uncommonplace, an anthology of contemporary poetry recently published by Louisiana State University Press. He recently conducted a series of creative writing workshops at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts.

Craig Bogar, athletic director, served as editor-in-chief and publisher of the first edition of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Operating Manual.

Lloyd Brandt, Jr., professor of accounting, addressed the New Orleans chapter of the Association of Government Accountants at a dinner meeting in October. His discussion focused on deficit financing and decimals. Brandt has over 35 years of professional accounting experience.

Dorothy H. Brown, professor of English Emerita in City College, authored Humankind in the Future: The Great Race That Is To Come? which was published on CD-ROM by the International Society for the Study of European Ideas. The paper was read at a conference in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Brown also read a paper on “That Old Shapeshifter: The Devil on Stage,” at the annual meeting of the South Central Modern Languages Association in New Orleans where she was honored with a lifetime membership in the organization.

Assistant Professor of Law Dane Ciolino’s article, “The Reconsidering Restitution in Copyright,” was published as the lead article in the winter 1999 issue of the Emory Law Review. In October, Ciolino appeared on the cable TV program, “It’s the Law,” to discuss legal ethics and professionalism in Louisiana. Recently, he was included in the fifth edition of Who’s Who Among American Teachers.

Adell Cokley was hired in Counseling and Career Services as an administrative assistant.

Part-time lecturer in the College of Music Stephen Dankner’s, orchestral work, “Hurricane,” was performed by the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette in October and by the Lake Charles Symphony in November.

Margie Dermody, assistant professor of education, presented a paper, “Analysis of Embedded Skills Lesson in Literary Groups with Inner City Title I Second Grade Students,” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum in Orlando.

Under the guidance of Patricia Dorn, assistant professor of biology, student Vanessa Rouzier presented the results of her undergraduate research project, “Preliminary Studies on the Genetic Structure of a Chagas Vector in Guatemala,” at the special seminar.

Marcel Dumestre, dean of City College, has been elected president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) Deans of Adult and Continuing Education Conference. Having served as vice president of the organization last year, his term will continue until fall of 2000. The conference recently completed a Department of Commerce NTIA planning grant to construct a virtual AJCU network that will enable Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States to share courses and reach out to student constituencies throughout the world. The network planning will continue over this next year, pending another grant from the Department of Commerce. The conference will meet at Loyola in February.

Nancy McKenzie Dupont, assistant professor of communications, presented a paper, “Supporting a Northerner in Pre-Secession Mississippi: The Story of James M. Swords and his Vicksburg Citizen,” at the Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on November 6.

Amanda Fox was hired as a nurse in Student Health Services.

Vernon Gregson, professor of religious studies, was elected chair of the university senate and a faculty representative to the Board of Trustees.

Robin Ingram joined the Division of Institutional Advancement as a data assistant in advancement records.

James M. Klebba, associate dean for academic affairs and the Victor H. Schiro Professor of Law, was a moderator and commentator for the meeting of the International Association of Procedural Law held at Tulane Law School in October. Recently, Klebba was interviewed on WWL­Radio about economic and political developments in Russia.

Anthony Ladd, chair and associate professor of sociology and environmental studies, presented a co-authored paper at the Mid-South Sociological Society meetings in Lafayette. The paper was titled “Corporate Swine Production and Environmental Justice in North Carolina: An Emerging Issue in Grassroots Environmentalism.”

Antonio M. Lopez, Jr., Ph.D., professor of mathematics and computer science, traveled to Washington, D.C., to serve on a review panel for grant proposals submitted to the National Science Foundation in the Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education. Lopez was part of a team that met with the Project Staff of the New Orleans Public Schools Urban Systemic Initiative (NOPS-USI) for Mathematics, Science, and Technology to discuss ways in which universities could provide professional development programs to service teachers. He also was appointed to the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Council of the NOPS-USI. Additionally, Lopez completed five reviews of papers submitted for presentation at the Annual South Central Conference of the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges. The papers ranged in topics from Web Course Development to Robotics Labs for Computer Science majors.

Larry Lorenz, professor of communications, has been named to the board of directors of the Center for Nonprofit Resources. He chairs the center’s Marketing Committee.

Dean of the School of Law John Makdisi’s book Estates in Land and Future Interests will be published in January. His article, “The Islamic Origins of the Common Law,” has been accepted for publication in the summer 1999 issue of The North Carolina Law Review.

Tim Pearman, adjunct faculty member of psychology, is director of Alternative Services at East Lake Hospital and director of Employee Assistant programs for the city of New Orleans, Xavier University, UNO, the St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office, and the B. W. Cooper Housing Project.

School of Law professor Gerard Rault, who returned this semester from sabbatical as the Distinguished Lecturer in China, addressed the China Fulbright scholars on “The Other Side of China” and his remarks were published in the most recent Fulbright newsletter. He also presented an introduction to Chinese Law Trade and Society at the law school in September.

Daniel Refre was hired as a police office in the University Police Department.

Mark Rubinfeld, assistant professor of sociology, and students in his introductory sociology class were featured in WDSU-TV’s two­part news service “Lost Boys.” The series examined the role that popular culture may play in contributing to male violence in society. In addition to being featured, Rubinfeld served as an advisor for the series.

Nicole Scallan was hired as a teacher of three-year-olds in the Whelan Children’s Center.

Keith Vetter, professor of law, addressed the faculty of the University of Edinburgh Law School in Edinburgh Scotland on the difference between the Roman-inspired Spanish law of slavery in Louisiana and the common law slavery applicable in the rest of the United States.