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Media Watch (July 9 – 17, 2006)
Posted 7/18/2006
"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.
Hartford Art School Professor Fred Wessel, who was in residence last week at the Evansville Museum in Indiana, was profiled in a July 13 article in the Evansville Courier & Press. Wessel's work is on exhibit at the museum through July 30. “Wessel is considered a contemporary master of the early-Renaissance styles, using egg tempera, gold leaf and thin, oil glazes, in some sections of the painting, to enhance dark areas,” the article noted. Wessel’s work also is the subject of a cover story in the July/August issue of American Artist magazine, titled "Using Egg Tempera & Gold Leaf to Achieve Renaissance Luminosity." (Courier & Press, Evansville, Ind., July 13; American Artist, July 2006 issue)
Chris Zimmerman, chair of orchestra activities at The Hartt School and music director of the Hartt Symphony, was profiled in advance of conducting the Symphony of Southeast Texas in its season-opening concert in October. The article noted that “While leading the Beaumont-based symphony, he has elevated the sound quality, helped players mature, attracted notable soloists and guided the troupe through the aftermath of a devastating hurricane, supporters say.” (Beaumont Enterprise, Beaumont, Texas, July 14)
Shani Hadjian, a sophomore majoring in music theatre at The Hartt School, has one of the two lead roles in a production of “Little Shop of Horrors” at The Bexley Summer Stock Theatre, near Columbus, Ohio. (This Week, Columbus, Ohio, July 13)
A glowing review of a performance of the play “Noises Off,” which was directed by Hartt School Dean Malcolm Morrison and which starred Hartt theatre professor Joanna Morrison, was published in The Cape Codder. The play, which was performed at Monomoy Theater in Chatham, Mass., is “a super package put together by all for a super show,” raved the newspaper. (The Cape Codder, July 14)
The performance of the Adaskin String Trio in the Princeton University Summer Concert series received a strong review. “Nothing cools off a humid summer night like well-played chamber music, and in its second presentation of the season, Princeton University Summer Concerts offered a delightful and energizing ensemble,” noted the review. The Adaskin String Trio includes violist Steve Larson, assistant professor of viola and chair for strings at The Hartt School, and violinist Emlyn Ngai, an adjunct faculty member in violin and early music at Hartt. (Town Topics, Princeton, N.J., July 5)
Timothy Chambers, who teaches philosophy at the University, had a letter published in “NE” magazine in response to an editor’s request for readers to write in and tell what they would do if confronted with the situation she faced recently when a disheveled, apparent drug addict asked her for money outside a coffee shop. “One reason for the difficulty is that the addict causes a collision between what we feel and what we know,” he wrote. “We see the beggar’s plight in her eyes and feel compassion: Yet we also know how that dollar will prolong the addict’s condition: For myself, I give up the dollar. Because compassion, like a muscle, seems to atrophy if it remains inactive. Ignored empathy, I worry, risks curdling into callous apathy.” (Hartford Courant, NE magazine, July 9)
The Rev. Michael Smith of the Church of the Holy Family in Hebron, and a graduate of the University of Hartford, was profiled in the Hartford Courant. “Smith reflects a new wave of priests who believe that individuality and spirituality can mix,” said the article. “Smith, with his ‘I-can-do-anything-you-can-do’ attitude and his rapport with young and old alike, is, well, cool.” The story noted that Smith works out at Club USA in Colchester, plays golf, and rides a Harley. (Hartford Courant, July 10)
Hartford Hawks women’s basketball coach Jen Rizzotti was featured in news stories about her role as an assistant coach for the USA Basketball Under-18 women’s national team that beat Canada 85-72 on July 2 to win the gold medal at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship for Women. “As I went through it, you understand the significance of what you’re doing there. You’re…shaping the future of USA Basketball,” she told the Hartford Courant. “It’s pretty overwhelming. It’s not just coaching. It’s more significant than you ever thought.” (Hartford Courant, July 11; Waterbury Republican-American, July 11)
Other News
Three University of Wyoming students were found dead in a home near campus in what police said appeared to be a triple murder or murder-suicide. A fourth student, who lived at the house, suffered superficial wounds and had yelled for neighbors to call for help. Investigators were treating the case as a triple murder but were considering the possibility of a murder-suicide. (Associated Press, July 17)
Carbon monoxide leaked into a Roanoke College dormitory, sickening more than 100 teenagers and adults. Walter Vierling, 91, a retired pastor from Virginia., was found dead in a dormitory room. Fire officials were trying to determine the source of the leak, and said they were focusing on a gas hot water system. (Chicago Tribune, July 17)
Negotiations over three major donations to Harvard University, totaling $275 million, have stalled following Lawrence H. Summers’s resignation as president, a new sign of how difficult it will be for Harvard to encourage large gifts without a permanent leader. (Boston Globe, July 14)
College Board executives have agreed to release a report on scoring errors in the SAT college entrance exam after a New York state senator warned they were risking a contempt charge. The chairman of the N.Y. state Senate Higher Education Committee issued a subpoena seeking to compel College Board President Gaston Caperton to disclose what is in the report. More than 4,000 high school students nationwide received incorrect scores on the SATs they took in October because of a computer glitch. (New York Times, July 14)
Microsoft Corp. pays close attention to the world of academia and sponsors technology contests, partners with academics, runs extensive research centers around the world, and donates products to educators. Although many of its competitors have similar programs, academics and analysts say the company’s extensive involvement, especially through its Microsoft Research centers, seems to go further than most. (Associated Press, July 14; Hartford Courant, July 14)
Google plans to build an office and research center that will have up to 1,000 employees in downtown Ann Arbor, the hometown of the University of Michigan, where Larry Page, one of Google's founders, earned his undergraduate degree in engineering. His company is in the midst of a project to digitize all seven million volumes in the university's libraries. (New York Times, July 13)
U.S. Department of Education statistics show that men, whatever their race or socioeconomic group, are less likely than women to earn bachelor’s degrees, and among those who do, fewer complete their degrees in four or five years. Men also get worse grades than women. And in two national studies, college men reported that they studied less and socialized more than their female classmates. (Associated Press, July 11)
With nine out of 10 college students carrying cell phones, schools are seeking ways to maintain a line of communication. Some colleges are abandoning the wires and phone jacks in their dormitories. Many of those systems, formerly a source of extra revenue for institutions, now operate at a loss. As a replacement, some are introducing their own cellular services and handsets customized to connect students with campus services and information, while adding security and instructional tools. (Associated Press, July 11)
Some small American colleges, eager to attract men to increasingly female campuses, have taken notice of how students can be lured to attend by adding football teams. Officials at these colleges say football can bring in more tuition-paying students than any other course or activity, and not just players themselves. (New York Times, July 10)
Upcoming
Subhash Chandra, director of the University’s new Clean Energy Institute, was interviewed by the Hartford Business Journal for an upcoming story about the institute, launched by the Engineering Applications Center (EAC) within the College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture, to continue the EAC’s role of producing solutions to industrial, municipal, and statewide problems.
Al DiChiara, head of the criminal justice program in the College of Arts and Sciences, was interviewed by U.S. News & World Report for a story about increasing violence among young people in the nation’s urban areas.
Hartford Art School Professor Fred Wessel, who was in residence last week at the Evansville Museum in Indiana, was profiled in a July 13 article in the Evansville Courier & Press. Wessel's work is on exhibit at the museum through July 30. “Wessel is considered a contemporary master of the early-Renaissance styles, using egg tempera, gold leaf and thin, oil glazes, in some sections of the painting, to enhance dark areas,” the article noted. Wessel’s work also is the subject of a cover story in the July/August issue of American Artist magazine, titled "Using Egg Tempera & Gold Leaf to Achieve Renaissance Luminosity." (Courier & Press, Evansville, Ind., July 13; American Artist, July 2006 issue)
Chris Zimmerman, chair of orchestra activities at The Hartt School and music director of the Hartt Symphony, was profiled in advance of conducting the Symphony of Southeast Texas in its season-opening concert in October. The article noted that “While leading the Beaumont-based symphony, he has elevated the sound quality, helped players mature, attracted notable soloists and guided the troupe through the aftermath of a devastating hurricane, supporters say.” (Beaumont Enterprise, Beaumont, Texas, July 14)
Shani Hadjian, a sophomore majoring in music theatre at The Hartt School, has one of the two lead roles in a production of “Little Shop of Horrors” at The Bexley Summer Stock Theatre, near Columbus, Ohio. (This Week, Columbus, Ohio, July 13)
A glowing review of a performance of the play “Noises Off,” which was directed by Hartt School Dean Malcolm Morrison and which starred Hartt theatre professor Joanna Morrison, was published in The Cape Codder. The play, which was performed at Monomoy Theater in Chatham, Mass., is “a super package put together by all for a super show,” raved the newspaper. (The Cape Codder, July 14)
The performance of the Adaskin String Trio in the Princeton University Summer Concert series received a strong review. “Nothing cools off a humid summer night like well-played chamber music, and in its second presentation of the season, Princeton University Summer Concerts offered a delightful and energizing ensemble,” noted the review. The Adaskin String Trio includes violist Steve Larson, assistant professor of viola and chair for strings at The Hartt School, and violinist Emlyn Ngai, an adjunct faculty member in violin and early music at Hartt. (Town Topics, Princeton, N.J., July 5)
Timothy Chambers, who teaches philosophy at the University, had a letter published in “NE” magazine in response to an editor’s request for readers to write in and tell what they would do if confronted with the situation she faced recently when a disheveled, apparent drug addict asked her for money outside a coffee shop. “One reason for the difficulty is that the addict causes a collision between what we feel and what we know,” he wrote. “We see the beggar’s plight in her eyes and feel compassion: Yet we also know how that dollar will prolong the addict’s condition: For myself, I give up the dollar. Because compassion, like a muscle, seems to atrophy if it remains inactive. Ignored empathy, I worry, risks curdling into callous apathy.” (Hartford Courant, NE magazine, July 9)
The Rev. Michael Smith of the Church of the Holy Family in Hebron, and a graduate of the University of Hartford, was profiled in the Hartford Courant. “Smith reflects a new wave of priests who believe that individuality and spirituality can mix,” said the article. “Smith, with his ‘I-can-do-anything-you-can-do’ attitude and his rapport with young and old alike, is, well, cool.” The story noted that Smith works out at Club USA in Colchester, plays golf, and rides a Harley. (Hartford Courant, July 10)
Hartford Hawks women’s basketball coach Jen Rizzotti was featured in news stories about her role as an assistant coach for the USA Basketball Under-18 women’s national team that beat Canada 85-72 on July 2 to win the gold medal at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship for Women. “As I went through it, you understand the significance of what you’re doing there. You’re…shaping the future of USA Basketball,” she told the Hartford Courant. “It’s pretty overwhelming. It’s not just coaching. It’s more significant than you ever thought.” (Hartford Courant, July 11; Waterbury Republican-American, July 11)
Other News
Three University of Wyoming students were found dead in a home near campus in what police said appeared to be a triple murder or murder-suicide. A fourth student, who lived at the house, suffered superficial wounds and had yelled for neighbors to call for help. Investigators were treating the case as a triple murder but were considering the possibility of a murder-suicide. (Associated Press, July 17)
Carbon monoxide leaked into a Roanoke College dormitory, sickening more than 100 teenagers and adults. Walter Vierling, 91, a retired pastor from Virginia., was found dead in a dormitory room. Fire officials were trying to determine the source of the leak, and said they were focusing on a gas hot water system. (Chicago Tribune, July 17)
Negotiations over three major donations to Harvard University, totaling $275 million, have stalled following Lawrence H. Summers’s resignation as president, a new sign of how difficult it will be for Harvard to encourage large gifts without a permanent leader. (Boston Globe, July 14)
College Board executives have agreed to release a report on scoring errors in the SAT college entrance exam after a New York state senator warned they were risking a contempt charge. The chairman of the N.Y. state Senate Higher Education Committee issued a subpoena seeking to compel College Board President Gaston Caperton to disclose what is in the report. More than 4,000 high school students nationwide received incorrect scores on the SATs they took in October because of a computer glitch. (New York Times, July 14)
Microsoft Corp. pays close attention to the world of academia and sponsors technology contests, partners with academics, runs extensive research centers around the world, and donates products to educators. Although many of its competitors have similar programs, academics and analysts say the company’s extensive involvement, especially through its Microsoft Research centers, seems to go further than most. (Associated Press, July 14; Hartford Courant, July 14)
Google plans to build an office and research center that will have up to 1,000 employees in downtown Ann Arbor, the hometown of the University of Michigan, where Larry Page, one of Google's founders, earned his undergraduate degree in engineering. His company is in the midst of a project to digitize all seven million volumes in the university's libraries. (New York Times, July 13)
U.S. Department of Education statistics show that men, whatever their race or socioeconomic group, are less likely than women to earn bachelor’s degrees, and among those who do, fewer complete their degrees in four or five years. Men also get worse grades than women. And in two national studies, college men reported that they studied less and socialized more than their female classmates. (Associated Press, July 11)
With nine out of 10 college students carrying cell phones, schools are seeking ways to maintain a line of communication. Some colleges are abandoning the wires and phone jacks in their dormitories. Many of those systems, formerly a source of extra revenue for institutions, now operate at a loss. As a replacement, some are introducing their own cellular services and handsets customized to connect students with campus services and information, while adding security and instructional tools. (Associated Press, July 11)
Some small American colleges, eager to attract men to increasingly female campuses, have taken notice of how students can be lured to attend by adding football teams. Officials at these colleges say football can bring in more tuition-paying students than any other course or activity, and not just players themselves. (New York Times, July 10)
Upcoming
Subhash Chandra, director of the University’s new Clean Energy Institute, was interviewed by the Hartford Business Journal for an upcoming story about the institute, launched by the Engineering Applications Center (EAC) within the College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture, to continue the EAC’s role of producing solutions to industrial, municipal, and statewide problems.
Al DiChiara, head of the criminal justice program in the College of Arts and Sciences, was interviewed by U.S. News & World Report for a story about increasing violence among young people in the nation’s urban areas.
