"Media coverage of stormy public gatherings may give the impression that we've entered an especially fraught time for public discourse, but I can tell you that anyone who's been in public life for a while has seen plenty of fierce town hall meetings," writes Lee Hamilton. In a newspaper op-ed, the veteran statesman and 1952 graduate of DePauw University states, "The challenge is not to avoid controversy; it's to make it productive."
DePauw University's "Tigers will travel to Thomas More in Crestview Hills, Ky., to face the 10-0 Saints [of Thomas More College] at noon Saturday" in the opening round of the NCAA Division III football playoffs, reports Terry Hutchens in this morning's Indianapolis Star. He notes that DePauw"qualified for its first playoff berth by winning the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference title."
The current global recession has highlighted the tenuous and difficult nature of work in a volatile economic climate. On Thursday and Friday, November 19-20, DePauw University's Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics will present a symposium,"Ethics of Employment Practices." The sessions, which are free and open to the public, will bring together practitioners, academics, and social critics to discuss how employment practices are evolving in an increasingly interdependent, technologically driven global economic system.
Brian Jaworski, head men's soccer coach at Grinnell College and 1989 graduate of DePauw University, has been named the 2009 Midwest Conference "coach of the year." Jaworski was honored "for leading his team to a runner-up finish in league standings, a MWC title, and his program's first-ever NCAA tournament berth ... Grinnell concluded the season with a 6-1-3 mark in the MWC and a 9-8-4 overall record."
The life work of the late Richard E. Peeler, a longtime professor of art at DePauw and 1949 graduate of the University, and his wife, Marj, is detailed in a new book, Peeler Pottery: A Retrospective. It has been published in published in both hardbound and softbound editions by the Putnam County Museum.
"David Spotts, a junior economics major at DePauw University in Indiana who raised money for the (Cleveland) Foodbank as a high school student, saw an instant philanthropic tie-in with a hefty animal not usually associated with the season's eight tiny reindeer," notes a story in today's Cleveland Plain Dealer. Spotts and his mother, Judy Zamlen-Spotts, are selling chocolate hippopotamuses as a holiday fundraiser and are the subjects of a feature article in the newspaper.
The 2009-10 DePauw University Band will present a concert this Sunday afternoon, November 22, at 3 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium of the Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts. The performance is free of charge and open to the public.