December 3, 1999

Faculty/Staff Footnotes

S.L. Alexander, assistant professor of communications, served as a host for a USID "Training Program for Azerbaijan Professional Journalists" on the subject of developing a professional journalism organization. In October, the Loyola chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, of which Alexander is advisor, was awarded the Outstanding Chapter Award (Region XII) for the second consecutive year at the national convention. Also in October, Alexander led "Covering Courts: A Workshop for Journalists" at the state Supreme Court. The Press Club with the Supreme Court, and the Louisiana Bar Association sponsored the event. Workshop materials included Alexander's handbook Covering Courts and the just published Guide to Legal Terms and Procedures, edited by Alexander.

Michelle Andrews, assistant director for residential operations, was recently appointed by Jill Landesberg, state director for the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), to serve as the 1999 - 2000 professional programs coordinator for Louisiana NASPA. In this position, Andrews will coordinate professional development opportunities for student affairs professionals in the state.

Peter Bernardi, S.J., assistant professor of systematic theology, had his essay, "Physician-Assisted Suicide is Unethical" selected for inclusion in the college textbook, The Sundance Writer by Mark Connelly.

Brian Biggs was hired as a mechanic in the Physical Plant.

John Biguenet, Robert Hunter Distinguished Professor, has had his interview "The Story Comes First: A Conversation with John Sayles" accepted for publication by DoubleTake. His story "And Never Come Up," which appeared originally in Granta, has been selected for inclusion in the annual list of 100 distinguished stories chosen by the editors of The Best American Short Stories 1999; this is the third straight year one of his stories has been named to the list. His story "Pants on Fire" appears in the current issue of Speak. His review of Ellen Willis's Don't Think, Smile: Notes on a Decade of Denial appears in the current issue of World.

Also, Biguenet lectured at the master class on poetry and led a panel discussion on spirituality in literature at Words & Music 99: A Writers' Conference of the Faulkner Society. Biguenet was installed as president of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), an organization of academic and professional translators of literature in the United States and abroad, at its annual conference in New York, having served as ALTA's president from 1983 - 1985. He is the first individual in the history of the organization to be elected president twice. He also chaired a panel on "The Dissemination of Information on Translation." In addition, he chaired the jurying and hosted the presentation of the National Translation Award for the past year's outstanding translation into English of a book of literature. Biguenet also has been named co-chair of the Diversity Task Force of Metairie Park Country Day School.

Ronald Black was hired as a police officer in the University Police Department.

Dorothy H. Brown, professor emerita of English in City College, has had published Christian Humanism in the Late English Morality Plays. In the book, Brown examines plays from 1560s through the 1580s to demonstrate how theories of the privileged class became part of everyday life for many English citizens.

Janel Chaix was hired as a OCLP production coordinator in City College.

John P. Clark, professor of philosophy in City College, has recently published two books, a brochure, eight articles, and three reviews. The books include the second edition of Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology (Prentice Hall), which he co-edited; and Elisee Reclus: Natura E Societa (Milan: Eleuthera). He is co-author of a brochure titled Nature Societes Humaines Languages (Lyon: Atelier de Creation Libertaire). Recent articles include "Replies to Critics" published in Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, "Une Ecologie Sociale" published in Refractions, "Naess and Lloyd on Spinoza as Ecophilosopher" in Philosophical Dialogues: Arne Naess and the Progress of Philosophy, "Municipal Dreams: A Social Ecological Critique of the Bookchin's Politics" in Social Ecology After Bookchin; two entries were published in the Encyclopedia of the American Left, and "Nie-tzschean Anarchy and the Post-Mortem Condition" in Exquisite Corpse. He also reviewed David Macauley, Minding Nature: The Philosophers of Ecology in Environmental Ethics, Jacqueline Bishop's Em Memoria Chico Mendes in The New Orleans Review, and Graham Purchase, Evolution and Revolution: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Peter Kropotkin in Fifth Estate.

Bernard Cook, professor of history, presented a paper, "Woodrow Wilson's Inquiry Group and the Peace Treaty with Bulgaria," at a conference in Varna, Bulgaria, sponsored by
the Bulgarian Association of Military History. The paper will be published in Bulgarian in the Bulgarian Journal of Military History and in English in the journal of the Macedonian Scientific Institute. While in Bulgaria, Cook was interviewed by Bulgarian National Radio on the Balkan policy of the United States and was invited to give a lecture to graduate students in International Relations at the Free University of Varna. His article, "Augusto Del Noce, Walter Lippmann, e Reinhold Niebuhr: parallelism e convergenze," was published in the August edition of the quarterly Rassegna Siciliana di Storia e Cultura. It can be accessed on the web at www.futuraonlus.it/isspe/ras_sic/7/Cook.html. Cook contributed the entry on "Armenia and Azerbaijan" to World Conflicts and Confrontations edited by Charles Bahmueller and published by Salem Press.

Ernest Ferlita, S.J., professor of drama and speech, had two books published recently. The Bells of Nagasaki and The Mask of Hiroshima were published by Baker's Plays under the title Two Cities. The fourth in a series of books titled The Paths of Life: Reflections on the Readings for the Weekdays of Advent and the Christmas Season, was published by Alba House.

Paul Garvey joined the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics as a cross-country coach.

Robert Gnuse, professor of religious studies, presented five, 90-minute lectures on "The Modern Social Message of the Ten Commandments" at Gretna Presbyterian Church for a series of joint Lutheran-Presbyterian Bible Classes.

Deborah Halter, instructor in the Department of Religious Studies, has been named national coordinator of the U.S. Women's Ordination Conference, headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. The organization, founded in 1975, works for the ordination of women as priests and bishops in the Roman Catholic Church.

Bobby Marzine Har-ges, professor of law, participated in a panel discussion on "Honing Mediator Techniques" at the annual business meeting of the Louisiana State Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Section in Destin, Florida. Additionally, Harges spoke on Louisiana's New Mediation Act at the 1999 Summer School for Lawyers Program sponsored by the Louisiana State Bar Association. He lead a panel discussion on "Mediator Qualifications in Court Appointed Cases" at the annual international meeting of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution in Baltimore in September. In that same month, Harges spoke to a delegation of Dominican Republic government officials visiting the United States to study the use of alternative dispute resolution in the United States. Harges spoke of the topics "An Overview of the Various ADR Processes" and "ADR Legislation in the United States." The U.S. Information Agency funded the ADR Study Tour.

In addition, Harges recently completed, with Russell Jones, the 1999 Supplement to Harges and Jones' Louisiana Evidence, 3rd Edition. He also won at the 17th Annual LSBA five-kilometer (5K) race at the 1999 Bar Convention with a time of 17 minutes and seven seconds (17:07).

Dee Harper, professor of sociology in City College, read a paper titled "The Tourist-Victim Pattern in Street Robbery" in November at the American Society of Criminology meetings in Ontario, Canada. Also, Harper has been selected by the National Institute of Justice to serve as a consultant to evaluate institute-funded research and demonstration projects grants; provide technical assistance and peer review of selected grant applications; and provide technical advice to the Office of Justice Programs grantees and advice on the content and style of various reports developed under NIJ funding and being considered for publication.

Leslie Henderson was hired as an administrative assistant in the School of Law.

Moses Hogan joined the College of Music as a Artist-in-Residence.

Emily Holmes was hired as a technical services assistant in the university library.

Craig S. Hood, associate professor of biological sciences, presented a paper titled "Integrating geometric morphometric, modeling, and swimming performance approaches to the study of body shape change in blacktail shiners, Cyprinella venusta," at the Midwest Regional meeting of the Division of Vertebrate Morphology of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology held at Ohio University.

Denis Janz, Provost Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, delivered the fall H. James Yamauchi Lecture in Religion last month. The lecture was titled "The Uneasy Conscience of a Nation: Christian Reflections on National Guilt."

Anthony Ladd, chair and associate professor of sociology, presented a coauthored paper at the Association for Humanist Sociology meetings in Memphis, Tennessee, titled "Babe in Bondage and Environmental Injustice: The Agro-Industrialization of Pork Production."

Antonio M. Lopez, Jr., professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, was one of the moderators for an Internet wide Virtual Workshop on Women in Information Technology. The six clusters that comprise the workshop were the brainchild of Professor Doris Carver (Louisiana State University) and the project was supported by the National Science Foundation. The purpose of the cluster that Lopez co-moderatesCareer Pathsis to identify research issues that will enhance the education, recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in information technology careers. Also, Lopez was a referee for several papers and articles. The first was on automatic translation of formal specification methods into a formalism of sequential processes communication submitted to the Journal of Systems and Software; an article on mathematical modeling of meteorological data submitted to the Mathematics Teacher; and four papers submitted to the Association of Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education's 2000 Conference. These papers covered topics on using animation on the Internet, Java scripting, using templates, and quality control of software production. He also was a referee for a paper submitted to the National Educational Computing Conference on the computer as an educational model for learning.

Lopez's article "Creating a Technological Presence in the Classroom" has been published in the Journal of Computing in Small Colleges. He served as a judge for the 1999 ICTCM Award for Excellence and Innovation with the Use of Technology in Collegiate Mathematics. The award was presented at the International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics in San Francisco in November.

A.R. Marlow, S.J., professor of physics, had his paper "A Shift Theorem and Solutions to Partial Differential Equations" published in the fall 1999 issue of the Mathematics and Computer Education journal.

M. Isabel Medina, professor of law, gave a talk on "A Dialogue on Gender" to the Association of Women Law Students at Loyola's School of Law. Medina serves as director of the law school's Academic Support Program this year.

Peter Morgan joined the Office of Admissions as an admissions counselor.

Rosary O'Neill, professor of drama and speech, will be the Guest International Professor and Artist-in-Residence at the University of Bonn, Germany. O'Neill will lecture on American drama and a German translation of her play, A Woman of Property, will be performed at the university.

Jon Ness was hired as assistant director of student activities.

The United States Commission on Civil Rights has re-appointed William Quigley, dean of academic affairs in the School of Law, to the Louisiana State Advisory Committee. The United States Commission on Civil Rights is an independent, bipartisan, fact-finding agency of the executive branch first established under the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The Commission has 51 advisory committees. Each is composed of citizens familiar with local and state civil rights issues. The members serve without compensation and assist the commission with its fact-finding, investigative, and information dissemination functions. Individual members of these committees are nominated by the commissioners or the regional director of their area and voted upon at a regular meeting of the commissioners. Their term of office is two years, but commissioners can be re-appointed. Quigley's term will expire in 2001.

Michael Rayford was hired as a carpenter in Physical Plant.

Thomas Smith, associate professor of religious studies, presented a paper, "Agonism and Antagonism: Metaphor and the Resistance to Augustine," at the 13th International Conference on Patristic Studies in Oxford, England. His article, "The Pleasure of Hell in City of God 21" appeared in Augustinian Studies. His articles, "Faustus of Riez" and "Fulgentius of Ruspe" have appeared in Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia.

Robert A. Thomas, Loyola Chair in Environmental Communications and director of the Center for Environmental Communications, has made several presentations recently. In April, he led the Council on Foundations environmental group on a swamp tour that focused on communicating the national impact of coastal erosion in Louisiana and giving funding. The session was titled "Our Environment, Our Future: Issues & Opportunities." Also, he discussed "Making Rational Decisions about Environmental Issues" to the Garden Club of America, Southeastern Division, Conservation Committee in Knoxville, Tennessee. At the Partnership for Environmental Technology Education, South Central Zone meeting in Baton Rouge, Thomas discussed "Communicating Effectively on Environmental Issues." In May, Thomas debated the "Environmentalists versus the Oil Industry: Communicating Through the Conflict" to representatives of the Shell Oil Offshore Diversity Program.

In June the audience was members of the Governor's Environmental Education Task Force and the members of the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards program. At the award's program, Thomas lectured on "Corporate Responsibility toward the Environment" Thomas also was a featured speaker at the Fundação LusoAmericana Environmental Communications Workshop, Communicating about Marine Ecosystems: How Do We Tell the Story? in Lisboa, Portugal. In July in Mandeville, Thomas discussed wetlands and environmental issues in his presentation, " Tropical/Temperate Ecosystems: Communicating the Connections" to attendees of the Louisiana Youth Environmental Summit.

Paul Trouard joined the Office of Financial Affairs as a senior accountant.

Catherine Wessinger, professor of religious studies, gave a presentation titled "Understanding Contemporary Millennial Expressions: Peaceful and Violent" at the 12^th annual Klutznick Symposium sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Omaha and Creighton University.

Roger White, assistant professor of political science in City College, has an article appearing in a forthcoming issue of the Bulletin de la Societe Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Francaise. The title of the article is "Instrumentalism, Conflict and the Temporality of Consciousness in Sartre's Philosophy."

Erik Vogt, assistant professor of philosophy, was recently appointed vice-president and treasurer of the Society for the Philosophic Study of Genocide and the Holocaust. He gave papers at the APA in Washington on Sartre and racism, at the IAPL on Hofmannsthal's conception of cultural space, and at the University of Vienna on Sartre and multi-culturalism. His Amerikanische PhilosophInnen, the third volume of his book series Neue Amerikanische Philosophie will be, as all his previous books, presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair. His Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch, a translation of Slavoj Zizek, will be forthcoming in October. His Filmen, Kapital und Urteil, the fourth volume of his book series, will be out in late December. His article "Austria's Heading" will appear in Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz, as well as two of his translated articles. He also is writing a book on the "Aesthetic Ideology of the 2nd Austrian Republic." And he is finishing articles on "Sartre and Racism" and on "Cultural Space and Language in Hofmannsthal and Jelinek" to be published in collections by Indiana University Press and Routledge.