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Media Watch (April 10 – 18, 2006)
Posted 4/18/2006
"Media Watch" is a round-up of recent stories in the media about the University of Hartford, as well as significant stories about other local and peer institutions and news about trends and issues in higher education.
Professor Warren Goldstein, chair of the history department in the College of Arts and Sciences, conducted a number of media interviews in conjunction with the death of The Rev. William Sloane Coffin. Goldstein, the author of William Sloane Coffin Jr.: A Holy Impatience, also wrote a remembrance of Coffin for the “Commentary” section of the April 16 Hartford Courant. Read Goldstein's column. A former chaplain at Yale University, Coffin’s activism in the causes of peace and social justice led some to call him the conscience of a nation. (Hartford Courant, April 16 and April 13; WTIC-AM, April 13; WFCR-FM, April 13; WFCR, April 14)
The naming of Dan Leibovitz as the University of Hartford’s new head men’s basketball coach generated significant media coverage in the Hartford and Philadelphia areas. Leibovitz has been an assistant coach at Temple University in Philadelphia for the past 10 years, and is a protégé of Temple’s recently retired head coach, Hall of Famer John Chaney. Leibovitz, most recently the top assistant under Chaney, will replace Larry Harrison, who resigned March 15 after six seasons at Hartford. (Hartford Courant, April 15 and April 14; Philadelphia Inquirer, April 15 and April 14)
The Hartford Courant ran a profile of Scott Campbell, who is retiring after 35 years as a music instructor and choir director – 32 of them at Farmington High School, where he is credited with elevating the status of the music program statewide and across New England. Campbell decided to pursue a career in music when he was a student at the University of Hartford, studying accounting, and he was moved by an opera he saw at The Hartt School. He auditioned for Hartt and was accepted. (Hartford Courant, April 17)
The Courant announced that University of Hartford President Walter Harrison will host a neighborhood meeting on Thursday at 7 p.m. to discuss construction projects on campus. (Hartford Courant, April 17)
Michael Clancy, associate professor of political science in the College of Arts and Sciences, was a guest on the Dan Lovallo Show on WDRC-AM. He was invited on to speak about possible United States government responses to the situation with Iran and its nuclear ambitions. (WDRC-AM, April 13)
Hartt School alumna Julie Bickford, 25, was cited in a story about how a trio of new faculty have energized the students and the band and chorus programs in Plainfield public schools. Bickford serves as chorus director for both the Plainfield High School and Plainfield Central School. Bickford and the two new band directors have “brought a new sense of spirit and enthusiasm to the music programs at the schools. More students are participating in the programs. The three also have started coffeehouse nights that have increased awareness of the schools’ music programs,” noted the article. (Norwich Bulletin, April 12)
A story in the April 12 Hartford Courant provided a glimpse into the newly available online version of the Courant that includes every story from its beginning in 1764 through 1922. The University Libraries participate in the state’s “iCONN” program that brings this resource to your desktop. To access it on campus, go to the Libraries homepage at http://library.hartford.edu, click on Databases, choose News from the pull down menu, and then connect to the Historical Hartford Courant. (Hartford Courant, April 12)
The Hartford Courant’s “Education Briefs” column noted that the University has approved the “Learning Innovation and Performance” program, a certificate program aimed at working professionals who have a training component to their jobs but have never received education in how to develop the most effective training techniques. The program will combine theory, skill training and practical application on real-world projects. The first group of students will be working with the Yale/New Haven Hospital Office of Emergency Preparedness to create a training program for health care professionals this fall. (Hartford Courant, April 11)
Darryl McMiller, assistant professor of political science at Hillyer College, had a letter to the editor published in the Journal Inquirer of Manchester. He was writing about a negative incident that he experienced involving parking and towing by the City of Hartford that has led him and other city regulars to not want to visit Hartford again. (Journal Inquirer, Manchester, April 11)
The legacy of jazz great Jackie McLean, who recently passed away, was chronicled in Jazz Times magazine. His career, which included leading the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at The Hartt School and co-founding with his wife Dollie the Artist’s Collective in Hartford, spanned more than 50 years and 14 albums. His career was also celebrated in an article in The Australian. Owen McNally’s “Jazz Notes” column in the “Cal” section of the Hartford Courant was primarily devoted to a recent CD release that sampled McLean’s illustrious career. (Jazz Times magazine, April 10; The Australian, April 11; Hartford Courant, April 13)
Tim Black, associate professor of sociology and director of the university’s Center for Social Research, was part of a panel discussion about non-custodial fathers and fatherhood that was sponsored by the state Commission on Children and broadcast on CTN, the governmental public access network, several times in late March and early April. (CTN, March and April, 2006 )
Black was also a guest on a Connecticut Public Television program called “Reclaiming Our Neighborhoods.” Black talked about the proposed change in state law regarding the penalties for being convicted of selling drugs within 1,500 feet of a school. (CPTV, March 28)
Other News
Authorities have charged two Duke University lacrosse players with rape, sexual offense, and kidnapping, in connection with the alleged assualt of a black exotic dancer at a lacrosse team party where she was hired to dance. The story has divided a city that is 45 percent black from the private, predominantly white university. (CBS News, April 18; Charlotte Observer, April 14)
Students and faculty at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College struggled with Hurricane Katrina at the beginning of this academic year. To end the year, they're getting the most sought-after graduation speaker in the country: President Bush. The ceremony is set for 2 p.m. May 11 at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi. (The Clarion Ledger, April 14)
Tornadoes tore across the University of Iowa campus overnight, ripping walls off a church and sorority house, crushing houses and cars, and killing a woman in a mobile home southeast of town. (Associated Press, April 14)
A two-alarm fire that broke out inside a turbine in the new power plant on the University of Connecticut campus was caused by technicians working on the engine who accidentally spilled fuel on it. The technicians, from the company that built the turbines, quickly shut the door of the turbine and the turbine shut itself off. (Hartford Courant, April 14)
Connecticut College in New London selected Leo I. Higdon Jr., 59, as its new president. He will start on July 1. Higdon is a veteran higher education official who has been an investment banker, a proven fundraiser and a champion of the liberal arts. He will head the 1,900-student private college after five years as president of the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C. He will succeed Norman Fainstein, who will step down to take a sabbatical at Harvard University and then return to teaching at Connecticut College, where he has been president since 2001. (Hartford Courant, April 11)
The visit of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to the UConn Law School spurred vigorous discussion on the University of Connecticut Law School campus e-mail system. His visit gave students a chance to meet the man behind the opinions. (Hartford Courant, April 13)
The University of Connecticut's board of trustees approved money to install sprinklers in the attic of the Charter Oak Suites dormitory and $12.5 million to repair the leaking facade of the law school library. The trustees set aside $605,000 to install the attic sprinklers this summer in Charter Oak Suites, a dorm complex that was put on a round-the-clock fire watch for several months this school year because of safety concerns. (Hartford Courant, April 12)
A cloud of election rule violations is hanging over student elections this week at Yale University, one of the nation's most politically active campuses where presidential hopefuls have been groomed for generations. All five candidates for the school's top office were cited for breaking the student government's strict rules on how candidates can campaign and when. (Hartford Courant, April 12)
Upcoming
Warren Goldstein, chair of the history department of the College of Arts and Sciences, is scheduled to be interviewed by New England Cable News this week about the death of The Rev. William Sloane Coffin.
Professor Warren Goldstein, chair of the history department in the College of Arts and Sciences, conducted a number of media interviews in conjunction with the death of The Rev. William Sloane Coffin. Goldstein, the author of William Sloane Coffin Jr.: A Holy Impatience, also wrote a remembrance of Coffin for the “Commentary” section of the April 16 Hartford Courant. Read Goldstein's column. A former chaplain at Yale University, Coffin’s activism in the causes of peace and social justice led some to call him the conscience of a nation. (Hartford Courant, April 16 and April 13; WTIC-AM, April 13; WFCR-FM, April 13; WFCR, April 14)
The naming of Dan Leibovitz as the University of Hartford’s new head men’s basketball coach generated significant media coverage in the Hartford and Philadelphia areas. Leibovitz has been an assistant coach at Temple University in Philadelphia for the past 10 years, and is a protégé of Temple’s recently retired head coach, Hall of Famer John Chaney. Leibovitz, most recently the top assistant under Chaney, will replace Larry Harrison, who resigned March 15 after six seasons at Hartford. (Hartford Courant, April 15 and April 14; Philadelphia Inquirer, April 15 and April 14)
The Hartford Courant ran a profile of Scott Campbell, who is retiring after 35 years as a music instructor and choir director – 32 of them at Farmington High School, where he is credited with elevating the status of the music program statewide and across New England. Campbell decided to pursue a career in music when he was a student at the University of Hartford, studying accounting, and he was moved by an opera he saw at The Hartt School. He auditioned for Hartt and was accepted. (Hartford Courant, April 17)
The Courant announced that University of Hartford President Walter Harrison will host a neighborhood meeting on Thursday at 7 p.m. to discuss construction projects on campus. (Hartford Courant, April 17)
Michael Clancy, associate professor of political science in the College of Arts and Sciences, was a guest on the Dan Lovallo Show on WDRC-AM. He was invited on to speak about possible United States government responses to the situation with Iran and its nuclear ambitions. (WDRC-AM, April 13)
Hartt School alumna Julie Bickford, 25, was cited in a story about how a trio of new faculty have energized the students and the band and chorus programs in Plainfield public schools. Bickford serves as chorus director for both the Plainfield High School and Plainfield Central School. Bickford and the two new band directors have “brought a new sense of spirit and enthusiasm to the music programs at the schools. More students are participating in the programs. The three also have started coffeehouse nights that have increased awareness of the schools’ music programs,” noted the article. (Norwich Bulletin, April 12)
A story in the April 12 Hartford Courant provided a glimpse into the newly available online version of the Courant that includes every story from its beginning in 1764 through 1922. The University Libraries participate in the state’s “iCONN” program that brings this resource to your desktop. To access it on campus, go to the Libraries homepage at http://library.hartford.edu, click on Databases, choose News from the pull down menu, and then connect to the Historical Hartford Courant. (Hartford Courant, April 12)
The Hartford Courant’s “Education Briefs” column noted that the University has approved the “Learning Innovation and Performance” program, a certificate program aimed at working professionals who have a training component to their jobs but have never received education in how to develop the most effective training techniques. The program will combine theory, skill training and practical application on real-world projects. The first group of students will be working with the Yale/New Haven Hospital Office of Emergency Preparedness to create a training program for health care professionals this fall. (Hartford Courant, April 11)
Darryl McMiller, assistant professor of political science at Hillyer College, had a letter to the editor published in the Journal Inquirer of Manchester. He was writing about a negative incident that he experienced involving parking and towing by the City of Hartford that has led him and other city regulars to not want to visit Hartford again. (Journal Inquirer, Manchester, April 11)
The legacy of jazz great Jackie McLean, who recently passed away, was chronicled in Jazz Times magazine. His career, which included leading the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at The Hartt School and co-founding with his wife Dollie the Artist’s Collective in Hartford, spanned more than 50 years and 14 albums. His career was also celebrated in an article in The Australian. Owen McNally’s “Jazz Notes” column in the “Cal” section of the Hartford Courant was primarily devoted to a recent CD release that sampled McLean’s illustrious career. (Jazz Times magazine, April 10; The Australian, April 11; Hartford Courant, April 13)
Tim Black, associate professor of sociology and director of the university’s Center for Social Research, was part of a panel discussion about non-custodial fathers and fatherhood that was sponsored by the state Commission on Children and broadcast on CTN, the governmental public access network, several times in late March and early April. (CTN, March and April, 2006 )
Black was also a guest on a Connecticut Public Television program called “Reclaiming Our Neighborhoods.” Black talked about the proposed change in state law regarding the penalties for being convicted of selling drugs within 1,500 feet of a school. (CPTV, March 28)
Other News
Authorities have charged two Duke University lacrosse players with rape, sexual offense, and kidnapping, in connection with the alleged assualt of a black exotic dancer at a lacrosse team party where she was hired to dance. The story has divided a city that is 45 percent black from the private, predominantly white university. (CBS News, April 18; Charlotte Observer, April 14)
Students and faculty at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College struggled with Hurricane Katrina at the beginning of this academic year. To end the year, they're getting the most sought-after graduation speaker in the country: President Bush. The ceremony is set for 2 p.m. May 11 at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi. (The Clarion Ledger, April 14)
Tornadoes tore across the University of Iowa campus overnight, ripping walls off a church and sorority house, crushing houses and cars, and killing a woman in a mobile home southeast of town. (Associated Press, April 14)
A two-alarm fire that broke out inside a turbine in the new power plant on the University of Connecticut campus was caused by technicians working on the engine who accidentally spilled fuel on it. The technicians, from the company that built the turbines, quickly shut the door of the turbine and the turbine shut itself off. (Hartford Courant, April 14)
Connecticut College in New London selected Leo I. Higdon Jr., 59, as its new president. He will start on July 1. Higdon is a veteran higher education official who has been an investment banker, a proven fundraiser and a champion of the liberal arts. He will head the 1,900-student private college after five years as president of the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C. He will succeed Norman Fainstein, who will step down to take a sabbatical at Harvard University and then return to teaching at Connecticut College, where he has been president since 2001. (Hartford Courant, April 11)
The visit of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to the UConn Law School spurred vigorous discussion on the University of Connecticut Law School campus e-mail system. His visit gave students a chance to meet the man behind the opinions. (Hartford Courant, April 13)
The University of Connecticut's board of trustees approved money to install sprinklers in the attic of the Charter Oak Suites dormitory and $12.5 million to repair the leaking facade of the law school library. The trustees set aside $605,000 to install the attic sprinklers this summer in Charter Oak Suites, a dorm complex that was put on a round-the-clock fire watch for several months this school year because of safety concerns. (Hartford Courant, April 12)
A cloud of election rule violations is hanging over student elections this week at Yale University, one of the nation's most politically active campuses where presidential hopefuls have been groomed for generations. All five candidates for the school's top office were cited for breaking the student government's strict rules on how candidates can campaign and when. (Hartford Courant, April 12)
Upcoming
Warren Goldstein, chair of the history department of the College of Arts and Sciences, is scheduled to be interviewed by New England Cable News this week about the death of The Rev. William Sloane Coffin.
