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Vol. 1 No. 38 |
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As part of an ongoing partnership between Central Washington University and Edmonds Community College, students have a new, shared facility where they can earn bachelor's degrees, master's degrees and certificates.
A grand opening and open house for Snoqualmie Hall was held Nov. 21. Gary Locke was a guest speaker. Other speakers included CWU President Jerilyn S. McIntyre and Edmonds Community College President Jack Oharah.
"We have served the needs of students in Snohomish County for 27 years, but we've always been in rented facilities that didn't fully meet the needs of our students, staff and faculty," McIntyre says. "We are delighted with the new building. It not only helps us fulfill the academic mission we have through our CWU-Lynnwood Center, it also is a stunning architectural structure of which we all can be proud."
In the new building, students can pursue bachelor's degrees from CWU in business administration, general studies, accounting, and law and justice after completing two-year transfer degrees. Other opportunities include a master's degree in professional accountancy; a certificate in supply chain management; and minors in business administration, law and justice, economics and psychology. A 15-month teaching certificate helps mathematicians, scientists and engineers switch careers to become high school teachers.
"Snoqualmie Hall brings more educational opportunity to Snohomish County," Oharah adds. "It benefits students who need to earn bachelor's degrees locally because of family or jobs, and the new opportunity is already drawing students. The building is completed, but our partnership in higher education will continue to grow with new degrees and services being developed."
Construction of the 51,000-square-foot building began a year ago. The general contractor was Spee West Construction Company of Edmonds and the architect was Seattle's BJSS Duarte Bryant Architecture. The building's south entrance features a steel pergola sculpture by Seattle artists Jean Whitesavage and Nick Lyle, who attended the grand opening.
The design is classical with added imagery of local plants and animals, including the Stellar's Jay. In the artists' words, the jay represents, in part, "the many fabulous and exotic things which are right in our backyards, if only we look through fresh eyes."
Find out more about Snoqualmie Hall and its opportunities at www.edcc.edu/cwu.
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Geologists just back from a reconnaissance of the 7.9-magnitude Alaska earthquake of Nov. 3 confirm that rupture of the Denali fault was the principal cause of the quake.
According to Dr. Charles Rubin, Central Washington University geological sciences professor, Dr. Kerry Sieh, California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, geology professor and Peter Haeussler of the U.S. Geological Survey, investigations over a weeklong period revealed three large ruptures with a total length of about 320 kilometers.
The principal rupture was a 210-kilometer-long section of the Denali fault, with horizontal shifts of up to nearly 9 meters (26 feet). This places the rupture in the same class as those that produced the San Andreas fault's two historical great earthquakes in 1906 and 1857. These three ruptures are the largest such events in the Western Hemisphere in at least the past 150 years.
Like California's San Andreas fault, the Denali is a strike-slip fault, which means that the blocks on either side of the fracture move sideways relative to one another. Over millions of years, the cumulative effect of tens of thousands of large shifts has been to move southern Alaska tens of kilometers westward relative to the rest of the state. These shifts have produced a set of large aligned valleys that arch through the middle of the snowy Alaska range, from the Canadian border on the east to the foot of Mount McKinley on the west. Along much of its length the great fracture traverses large glaciers. Surprisingly, the fault broke up through the glaciers, offsetting large crevasses and rocky ridges within the ice.
At the crossing of the Trans-Alaska pipeline, about in the center of the 320-kilometer rupture, the horizontal shift was about 4 meters. Fortunately, geological studies of the fault prior to construction led to a special design that would have allowed for shifts greater than this without failure of the pipeline.
The earthquake shook loose thousands of snow avalanches and rock falls in the rugged terrain adjacent to the fault. Although most of these measured only a few tens of meters in dimension, many were much larger.
In some places enormous blocks of rock and ice fell onto glaciers and valley floors, skidding a kilometer or more out over ice, stream and tundra.
The rugged range is traversed by just two highways, and so the scientists used helicopters to access the fault ruptures in the remote and rugged terrain.
Perhaps the most surprising discovery in the field was that the fault rupture propagated only eastward from the epicenter and left the western half of the great fault unbroken. Several members of the team wonder if, in fact, this great earthquake is the first in a series of large events that will eventually include breaks farther west toward Mount McKinley and Denali National Park.
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Vijay SINGH, Music, recently published four new vocal jazz compositions/arrangements with Sound Music Publishing for national distribution. Singh's pieces are part of an ongoing collection of vocal jazz works intended to help raise the national standards and repertoire of vocal jazz ensembles in North America. He has also accepted the position of National Repertoire and Standards Chair for Jazz Choirs with the American Choral Directors Association, and will be presenting research/repertoire and presiding over the Jazz sessions at the national ACDA Convention in New York City, February 2003.
Lila HARPER, English, presented a paper titled "'A Traveller in Skirts?': A Map of Misreading," while attending In Transit: The Third North American Conference on Travel Writing, Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 26.
Bob HICKEY, Geography and Land Studies, Rob Corner and Simon Cook, published a paper in Transactions in GIS (2002, v. 6, no. 4, pp. 383-402) titled "Knowledge Based Soil Attribute Mapping in GIS: the Expector Method." Corner was Hickey's Ph.D. student at Curtin University in Perth, Australia; he now holds Hickey's former position at Curtin. Both Corner and Cook worked for CSIRO, an Australian government research agency, when this work was done.
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Robert KUHLKEN, Geography and Land Studies, has published a paper titled "Intensive Agricultural Landscapes of Oceania" in the current issue of Journal of Cultural Geography 19(2): 161-195. Based on Kuhlken's fieldwork in Fiji, this article documents the several methods used by Pacific Islanders for increasing production of tropical root crops through irrigation, terracing, and other soil management strategies.
Roger FOUTS, Psychology, CHCI, presented "Apes and the Law: Empirical Realities vs. Cartesian Delusions" at the Harvard Law School Symposium "The Evolving Legal Status of Chimpanzees," Sept. 30.
Sharon ROSELL, Physics, and students Kathryn HADLEY, Physics, Matthew ALDAY, Computer Science, and Lacy LEDBETER, Chemistry, presented two hands-on physics workshops. The "Making Waves" workshops were for middle-school girls as part of an Expanding Your Horizons Program at Yakima Valley Community College on Nov. 16.
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OISP RECEIVES FIPSE GRANT
Central Washington University's Office of International Studies and Programs (OISP) received a four-year $90,000 FIPSE (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education) grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help fund student exchanges with Mexican and Canadian partner institutions. Students interested in studying topics related to North American Studies will have access to up to $3,000 stipends to offset the costs of their exchange.
CWU's partner institutions in Mexico are the Universidad de Guadalajara and the Universidad de Monterrey and in Canada the University of Calgary and the Université Laval. The new grant complements an existing mobility grant for the study of civic societies and sustainable communities with the Universidad de Guanajuato, Universidad La Salle, St. Francis Xavier University, and the University of Northern British Columbia.
ARTIFACTS REMAIN ON DISPLAY
Artifacts from the "L.H. Walker Ethnographic Collection: 50 Years of Central Washington University Stewardship" are on display through Dec. 15 in Barge Hall and the Library on the CWU campus.
"The Walker Collection is extremely important to the university's Anthropology Museum, our campus and the heritage of central Washington," says Martha Duskin-Smith, museum curator.
In 1953, Linus H. Walker donated his collection to Central. A doctor of osteopathic medicine, mayor and health officer of Ellensburg in the late 1920s and early 1930s, he spent his leisure time amassing an impressive collection of local Native American artifacts.
He was also a serious self-taught student of the "scientific side of archaeology," according to Duskin-Smith. Walker died in 1956, just three years after donating his collection, which included natural history specimens and an assortment of historic stone tools and other material.
His son, Dr. Phillip Walker, also recently donated his father's personal papers.
NESTING CHIMPS NEED ITEMS
Dr. Carole Noon observed a nesting desire in 266 chimpanzees and 61 monkeys used for biomedical research in the Coulston Foundation, a registered animal research facility in Alamogordo, N.M.
Noon, founder and director of the Center for Captive Chimpanzee Care, based in Fort Pierce, Fla., observed this behavior when the Center took over the Coulston Foundation's facilities.
When members of "Roots and Shoots," a Central Washington University student group focused on animal rights and environmental issues, heard about the behavior Noon observed, they decided to do something to enrich the lives of these animals.
Roots and Shoots, in partnership with CWU's Service-Learning and Volunteer Center, Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute (CHCI), Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), and Friends of Washoe, is now collecting sheets, towels, new toothbrushes, hair brushes, nuts in shells, dried fruit (in sealed packaging) and new or used blankets,
In addition, monetary donations received will be matched by the non-profit Friends of Washoe, an organization dedicated to the welfare of chimpanzees and especially the four chimps at CHCI.
Donations can be dropped off at Jerrol's Book and Supply Co. or the Service-Learning and Volunteer Center, located in Samuelson Union Building 211. For more information, contact CHCI at (509) 963-2244, or the CWU Service-Learning and Volunteer Center at (509) 963-1643.
The Coulston Foundation was facing bankruptcy and foreclosure when Noon's Center offered to purchase the buildings and equipment under the condition that all animals would be donated to the Center. The animals were permanently retired from research when the Center took over in September.
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SHARED LEAVE NEEDED
CWU employees may donate leave to a fellow employee who is severely ill or injured (or who is caring for a family member who is severely ill or injured) and who is off work and has exhausted all personal paid leave.
The following individuals are in need of shared leave: William Cummings, facilities management, and Maxine Ryan, university store.
You may donate annual (vacation) and sick leave in eight-hour blocks. A minimum balance of 80 hours of annual leave must be maintained. No more than six days of sick leave may be given during a 12-month period. The personal holiday can be donated.
The shared leave donation form can be downloaded from www.cwu.edu/~hr/forms/hrforms2.htm or requested from the HR office by calling 963-1202.
CWU EMPLOYEES
Civil Service new hires: Laura Hecker, Fiscal Technician II, Student Financial Services; Elizabeth Henry, Credentials Evaluator II, Registrar Services; Peggy Hill, Fiscal Technician II, Graduate Studies, Research & Continuing Education; Todd Pederson, Food Service Worker Lead, Dining Services; Jeanne Sanders, Office Assistant III, Admissions; and April Steele, Food Service Worker Lead, Dining Services.
CWU JOB OPENINGS
Searches are underway for the following positions. You can access the CWU Home page (www.cwu.edu/~hr/jobs) or the Job Line at (509) 963-1562.
Faculty:
Accounting, Assistant/Associate Professor, Jay Forsyth, 963-3340;
Applied Voice Teacher/Performer, Asst. Professor, Peter Gries, 963-1216;
Bilingual Education, Asst./Assoc. Professor, Nancy Schnebly, 963-1737;
Biological Anthropologist, Assistant Professor, 963-3201;
Botanist, Assistant/Associate Professor, Linda Raubeson, 963-2734;
Computer Science, Assistant/Associate Professor, James Schwing, 963-1449;
Constitutional/Public Law, Assistant Professor, Linda Rubio, 963-2408;
Contemporary Philosophy, Assistant Professor, 963-1818;
Cultural Anthropologist, Assistant/Associate Professor, 963-3201;
Economics, Asst./Assoc. Prof. (two positions), Peter Saunders, 963-1266;
Early Childhood Education, Assistant Professor, Velma Henry, 963-1357;
Flight Technology, Assistant Professor, Search Committee, 963-2297;
Health Education, Assistant Professor, Rhonda Busch-Gehlen, 963-2481;
Information Literary/Outreach Librarian, Assistant Professor, Kirsten Erickson, 963-1023;
Information Technology, Assistant Professor, Catherine Bertelson, 963-2611;
Instructional Technology, Assistant Professor, Tina Clark, 963-1465;
Management/Human Resources Management, Assistant/Associate Professor, Tinja Wyman, 963-3339;
Media Writing, Assistant Professor, Search Committee, 963-1066;
Operations Management Asst./Assoc. Professor, Tinja Wyman, 963-3339;
Organic Chemistry, Assistant Professor, Lisa Stowe, 963-2811;
Physical Education, Assistant/Assoc. Professor, Stephen Jefferies, 963-2241;
Psychology, Counseling, Assistant Professor, Terrence Schwartz, 963-3661;
Public Relations/Advertising, Asst. Professor, Search Committee, 963-1066;
Sculpture, Assistant Professor, Search Committee, 963-2665.
Exempt:
Research Assistant, Biology, Holly Pinkart, 963-2710.
Civil Service:
Accountant/Accountant, Principal/Accountant, Senior;
Fiscal Technician II/III.
WASHINGTON QUARTER FIVE YEARS AWAY
Those collecting U.S. quarters featuring the states will have to wait until 2007 for the Washington state coin. Each year, five state quarters are added in the order they joined the union. Washington is 42nd. The state quarter project began in 1999 with Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia and Connecticut.
2000: Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia;
2001: New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, Kentucky;
2002: Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi;
2003: Illinois, Alabama, Maine, Missouri, Arkansas;
2004: Michigan, Florida, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin;
2005: California, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas, West Virginia;
2006: Nevada, Nebraska, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota;
2007: Montana, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah;
2008: Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Scholastic Book Fair: 8 a.m., Black Hall 138
Geological Sciences Seminar: "Monitoring active salt tectonics with GPS and InSAR: Canyonlands National Park, by Juliet Crider, Western Washington University, noon, Lind 215
Chemistry Seminar Series: "Protein Folding and Dynamics," by Dr. Frederick Dahlquist, University of Oregon, 1 p.m., Science Building 216
Auction: Student Art Council, preview of items from 1 to 5 p.m., auction at 6:30 p.m., Spurgeon Art Gallery in Randall Hall
Basketball: CWU women vs. Whitman, 8 p.m., Nicholson Pavilion
Theatre Arts: "Hay Fever," by Noel Coward, 8 p.m., Tower Theatre, $10, $9 senior citizens, $8 students
Concert: "Late Tuesday/Paper Moons," 8-11 p.m., SUB Theatre, $4
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23
Football Playoffs: CWU vs. University of California - Davis, noon, Tomlinson Field
Basketball: CWU women vs. Evergreen State College or Lewis-Clark State, 6 p.m. or 8 p.m., Nicholson Pavilion
Theatre Arts: "Hay Fever," by Noel Coward, 8 p.m., Tower Theatre, $10, $9 senior citizens, $8 students
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Faculty Concert: Jeff Snedeker, Horn, 3 p.m., Hertz Recital Hall, $3 scholarship donation
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26
Classic Film Series: "Chunhyang" (Korea, 2000, 120 min., drama), 7 p.m., McConnell Auditorium, $3
Concert: CWU Choral Department, 8 p.m., Hertz Recital Hall
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27
Thanksgiving Recess: (begins at noon for classes)
MONDAY, DECEMBER 2
Warefair: SUB, through December 7
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3
Classic Film Series: "Metropolis" (Germany, 1927, 124 min., B/W, Science Fiction), Digitally Restored Silent), 7 p.m., McConnell Auditorium, $3
Concert: CWU Wind Ensemble, 8 p.m., Hertz Recital Hall
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4
Meeting: Faculty Senate, 3:10 p.m., Barge 412
Theatre Arts: "Rash Acts," by guest artists Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller, 7 p.m., Tower Theatre, $5, mature themes, best suited for those over 12
Concert: CWU Symphonic Band, 8 p.m., Hertz Recital Hall
For other calendar items, please visit:
CWU Life
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5
Holiday Party: 4 to 6 p.m., Tunstall/Sue Dining Room
Theatre Arts: "Rash Acts," by guest artists Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller, 7 p.m., Tower Theatre, $5
Basketball: CWU vs. Seattle Pacific, 7 p.m., Nicholson Pavilion
Concert: CWU Brass Choir, 8 p.m., Hertz Recital Hall
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6
Meeting: CWU Board of Trustees, 1 p.m., Barge 412
Natural Science Seminar: "What Good is a Venomous Lizard? New Ideas Emerging from Studies of Ancient Monsters," by Dan Beck, CWU Department of Biological Sciences, 4 p.m., Science Building 147
Swimming: Northwest Invitational, through Dec. 7, CWU pool
Concert: CWU Jazz Night, 7 p.m., Hertz Recital Hall
Theatre Arts: "Rash Acts," by guest artists Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller, 8 p.m., Tower Theatre, $5
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7
Concert: CWU Guitar Ensemble, 7 p.m., Hertz Recital Hall
Basketball: CWU vs. Western Washington, 7 p.m., Nicholson Pavilion
Theatre Arts: "Rash Acts," by guest artists Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller, 8 p.m., Tower Theatre, $5
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