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 Contents
Features

26 Facing Forward, Looking Back

Alumna Condoleezza Rice opens up about DU, 9/11, the George
Bush legacy and more.
Interview by Tamara Chapman

32 Whole Wide World

Study-abroad students capture their experiences in photos.
By Elizabeth Fritzler

36 All the Rage

Assistant Professor Lisa Pasko has a plan to help violent girls.
By Tamara Chapman

Departments

44 Editors Note
45 Letters
47 DU Update
8 News Astronomy discovery
15 Sports Gymnasts cancer fight
17 History Evans Chapel
19 Academics New common curriculum
21 People Movie producer Zak Kadison
23 Q&A Medical marijuana
24 Arts Sculptor Ed Dwight
39 Alumni Connections
Online only at www.du.edu/magazine:
Essay Learning in Alaska

On the cover: One of DUs best-known alumni, Condoleezza Rice, will be honored with
the Josef Korbel Outstanding Alumni Award at the annual Korbel Dinner in August; read an
interview with her on page 26. Photo by Jeffrey Haessler.

This page: Junior photography major Rachael Roarks photo of a food market in Vienna,
Austria, was one of dozens of submissions to the 2010 study abroad photo contest; read
the story on page 32.

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Im long overdue in introducing the newest MAGAZINE
Publisher
member of the University of Denver Magazine editorial
Carol Farnsworth
team. Greg Glasgow joined the magazine in June
Managing Editor
2009 after a decade as the arts and entertainment
Chelsey Baker-Hauck (BA 96)
editor at the Boulder Daily Camera. As assistant
Assistant Managing Editor
managing editor of the University of Denver Magazine,
Greg Glasgow
he writes and edits stories and manages much of
Associate Editor
the magazines day-to-day business. Dont miss his
Tamara Chapman
articles about movie producer Zak Kadison (page 21)
Editor
and sculptor Ed Dwight (page 24) in this issue. You
Kathryn Mayer (BA 07, MA 10)
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can learn more about Greg, and read more of his

Editorial Assistant
work, online at www.du.edu/today.
Elizabeth Fritzler
Greg is the latest addition to a team of
Staff Writer
exceptional writers, photographers, designers and editors who have garnered
Richard Chapman
more than 100 awards for magazine excellence since the University of Denver
Art Director
Magazine published its first issue in fall 2000.
Craig Korn, VeggieGraphics
Im extremely proud of all weve accomplished. But as we
Contributors
complete our 10th year in print, I find myself most excited about
Jordan Ames (BA 02) Wayne Armstrong
whats to comeparticularly in the digital realm. We recently launched Jim Berscheidt Tamara Chapman
Janalee Card Chmel (MLS 97) Kim DeVigil
a new online version of the magazine at www.du.edu/magazine. Its a
Kristal Griffith Jeffrey Haessler
companion to DU Today (www.du.edu/today), the Universitys daily Doug McPherson John Schiavone
Andrew Sherbo Nathan Solheim Chase Squires
news Web site. There, youll find online-only extras and fresh content
virtually every day. You also can subscribe to our news feeds, join Facebook Editorial Board
Chelsey Baker-Hauck, editorial director
conversations, watch DU videos, browse images of campus and more.
Jim Berscheidt, associate vice chancellor
Follow the magazine on Twitter (twitter.com/DUMagazine) for the latest for university communications
Thomas Douglis (BA 86) Carol Farnsworth,
alumni news and an inside track on whats coming out in the magazine. The
vice chancellor for university communications
sites are works-in-progress, and we plan to roll out new interactive features Jeffrey Howard, executive director of alumni
relations Sarah Satterwhite, senior director of
and content on an ongoing basis. development for research and writing
In our most recent reader survey, more than 95 percent of respondents Amber Scott (MA 02) Laura Stevens (BA 69),
director of parent relations
said they prefer to read the magazine in print, and more than 67 percent said
theyd never visited the magazines Web site. The print version isnt going
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Immigration debate
Regarding Can immigration be reformed?
[spring 2010]: I remember working in the
fields alongside the braceros. This was a
good program while it lasted. They made
enough money during harvest time to last
them all winter back in their home country,
where living is much cheaper. Then along
came some reformer congresspeople who
thought they had a better idea: Make them
U.S. citizens so we would have a permanent
agricultural work force. Only one problem:
U.S. citizens dont do that kind of work.
Now I read that DU is recommending
the same solution to the same problem all
over again, a solution that will once again
multiply the problem rather than solving it.
Has anyone at DU ever heard of the
principle of unintended consequences?
What do you think is going to happen
when word gets around to an over-
populated, underfed global population
that all they have to do is sneak into the
U.S. illegally and we will make them
citizens? Boatloads of the poor and
desperate are already arriving on the
shores of European countries, and it
doesnt take much imagination to realize
we will be the next targetespecially if we
unwittingly issue an invitation. What
a wonderful opportunity for terrorists
to blend in with the hordes, thereby
bypassing pat-downs from customs!
Dean Edmonds
Palmer Lake, Colo.
It seems astounding that for all the
enlightened leaders brought together to
draft this immigration road map, not one
of their recommendations dealt with the
influence of U.S. foreign trade policy. The
lessons of NAFTA alone should teach us
that border porosity and domestic immigra-
tion policy are not the only issues at hand.
By inking exploitive economic policy
with other countries and reducing real
wages and sustainable living opportunities
there, shortsighted free-trade agreements are
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largely to blame as well.
When the quality of life
for foreign populations
is suppressed and they
are more than moti-
vated to migrate, so it goes that it affects our
interests.
Until these gabby experts see and act
on whats happening on both sides of the
fence, dont expect enduring solutions any-
time soon.
David Reusch
Denver
I commend the University of Denver
policy panel for its excellent proposals
regarding immigration reform, with which I
wholeheartedly agree.
As for my own family history, my great-
grandparents fled Jewish pogroms in the
Ukraine and settled in the San Luis Valley
[in Colorado] in the 1890s. They operated
a family store, living among the Spanish-
Americans, most of whom, although
practicing Catholics, were descended from
Marrano Jews. In 1917 my grandparents,
also fleeing Jewish pogroms, settled there as
well. My father, Ely (BS 48), tells me that
his parents, although they could speak many
Eastern European languages, insisted on
speaking English in the home.
To become an American citizen, my
grandfather diligently studied the U.S.
Constitution and other documents and
came before a federal judge in Missouri.
The judge questioned him extensively, and
my grandfather feared that he might be sent
back to the Ukraine. After he took the oath
of citizenship, however, the judge praised
him in front of the other immigrants and
cited him as an example of learning to
which they should all aspire.
My view: Let those who come here and
are willing to study, work hard, obey our
laws and speak our language be welcomed
with open arms.
Marc Birnbaum (JD 78)
Overland Park, Kan.
Letters
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Remembering Rosie
I was pleased to see the story
Can immigration
be reformed? about Rosie Meyer [Donor
Spotlight] in the spring 2010
issue of the magazine.
I knew Rosie while we were fellow
students in the late 1940s. Contact was lost
after we graduated but one day, some 50
years later, my telephone rang. It was Rosie
calling to say that she had come across my
novel, Wars Wake, which is based upon my
time at DU as a GI Bill of Rights student.
She had found a picture of herself among
the photos I used as inspiration for the
story and recognized her father, Professor
Elwood Murray, as the model for one of
the fictional characters.
Afterward, we exchanged correspon-
dence and pictures and enjoyed reminisc-
ing by way of several delightful telephone
conversations. We had planned to meet,
but Rosie passed away before that came
about. I never knew about the Richard
and Rosalind Meyer Family Kitchen at the
hotel, restaurant and tourism management
building and her generous support of the
University. In characteristic humility she
never mentioned it.
Anyone who knew Rosie never forgot
her laughter and zest for living that enliv-
ened many a gathering during those heady
GI Bill days just after World War II.
Allan Howerton (BA 48, MA 51)
Alexandria, Va.
Heating up
Don Burgess letter in the spring 2010
issue stated his skepticism regarding
global warming, declaring it to be a fraud
and a tool for those with socialist political
agendas.
Skepticism is an integral part of all
scientific inquiry. Challenges to scientific
thought are the means by which erroneous
concepts are discarded and valid ones are
made stronger. Over time, the scientific
community gravitates toward positions that
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 are generally defensible, although unanim-
ity is seldom reached and dissenters serve
to keep the majority honest.
Regarding global warming, it is
notable that the U.S. National Academy of
Sciences and comparable organizations in
more than 30 other countries have come
to the position that global warming is hap-
pening and that human activities are a
significant contributor to it. These groups,
and the respected scientists in them, are
risking their reputations by concluding that
global warming is a real and serious prob-
lem. Such positions are not taken lightly.
It seems highly unlikely that all of these
groups have been fooled and that they sup-
port a common political agenda.
We should all be skeptical of evolv-
ing science, but we should also be open to
changing our positions as evidence is col-
lected and authoritative bodies weigh in to
the debate.
Steve Johnson (BSME 67)
Lakewood, Colo.
Its not a choice
After reading your article Full House
[winter 2009] and the letters to the editor
in regard to it, I am again reminded of
the long struggle gays and lesbians have
against being demonized in our society.
And it seems that DU continues to blindly
follow along with that demonization by
publishing letters that continue to portray
being gay as a lifestyle, one that is unfit,
unhealthy, etc.
If DU were truly concerned with
diversity and inclusion, I would not have
to read how my life is again put down by
certain people, who with their letters make
being gay a sin or something to hide. While
I am all for freedom of speech, where are
the letters denigrating certain religions or
interracial marriage, etc.? Of course you
wont find them here, because those types
of letters are not acceptable. So why is it
acceptable to publish letters demeaning
gay men and women? Is it because gays are
the only group of people left that it is still
acceptable to demonize? DU has a choice
to not partake in this action, to stop this
cycle of denigration. Americans have the
right to their viewpoints, but if you want to
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denigrate, save, change, scorn or belittle gay
men and women, keep it to yourself.
Being gay is not a lifestyle, not a
choice. It is not a sin, it is not a shame, it
simply is. How many Ted Haggards, Mark
Foleys, Larry Craigs and others do we have
to hear about because certain people think
that being gay is wrong or sinful? How
many times do we have to hear that sexual
orientation can be changed? How many
times do we have to hear religion used as a
basis to discriminate?
I look forward to the day when I wont
have to read or hear people say I should be
treated with dignity yet be told that my
life is unhealthy, immoral or abhorrent. I
personally dont want or need acceptance
or tolerance; what I do need is for people
to stop using my life as an excuse to tell me
how awful or immoral I am. The next time
you write an article about a gay family or
individual, I want to say thanks, but please
write it with the knowledge that while it is
good to hear about the acceptance of gay
families and individuals, it is not good to
hear about the misconceptions, lies and
twisted ways that people think my life and
those of other gay men and women are
supposed to be.
James Rogers (MLIS 08)
Denver
According to your editorial policies,
the alumni magazine aspires to accuracy:
The University of Denver Magazine will cor-
rect all errors of fact, and requires that
submissions ... may not malign specific
individuals or groups.
I was therefore surprised and deeply
saddened that several letters regarding the
Full House article do both. I enjoyed the
article and commend you for publishing it
in the first place.
Ronald Munozs letter suggests
that LBGT lifestyles are biologically
unhealthy. William Browns letter calls
LBGT people aberrant, and compares
homosexuality to a physiological and/
or psychological dysfunction akin to alco-
holism. He also suggests that gays can be
turned heterosexual.
As a masters candidate in the
University of Colorado at Denvers coun-
seling psychology program in marriage and
family therapy, I feel compelled to note that
homosexuality (an offensive and outdated
term that implies disorder) was removed as
a form of psychological dysfunction from
the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders in 1973. It is no lon-
ger considered aberrant or any form of
psychological disorder by the American
Medical Association, the American
Psychological Association or the American
Counseling Association.
Furthermore, reparative therapy
(turning gays straight) is considered
unethical and unquestionably psychologi-
cally harmful. Contrary to Browns claims
that being gay is not predetermined, or
inevitable, most research suggests that
sexual orientation is a predetermined trait
caused by the biology during gestation
in fact, it is more predetermined than the
left/right handedness of an individual and
cannot be changed after birth.
I found both of these letters full of
factual errors and an attempt to malign gays
and lesbians, and I am frankly surprised
that they were published in our magazine.
Gays, lesbians and transgender individuals
continue to be the most blatantly marginal-
ized and oppressed group in our society,
and DU does no service to them by pub-
lishing letters that are uninformed and
perpetuate misinformation that is used
to rationalize their further degradation. I
understand the magazine is interested in
providing fair and balanced coverage and
reader input, but allowing it to be a vehicle
for misleading, false statements; supporting
a culture that causes unconscionable harm
to an entire group of people; and allowing
the suggestion that they can be changed
(contrary to opinions of mental health
professionals and scientific research) does
nothing to advance and support the devel-
opment of mankind, which is the purpose
of DU.
Robin Ruscio (BM 01)
Denver
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University Blvd., Denver, CO 80208-4816. Or
e-mail du-magazine@du.edu. Include your full
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Letters may be edited for clarity and length.
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22 Business school ranking
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Home to theater students for 82 years, the Little Theatre in Margery Reed Hall hosted its final departmental
performance in February 2010 with a production of Closer, the Patrick Marber play that was turned into a
2004 movie starring Clive Owen and Julia Roberts. Most theater productions will now be performed at the
Newman Center for the Performing Arts. Daniels College of Business faculty and staff will occupy Margery Reed
and plan to use the theater as a lecture auditorium.

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 Top News
Astronomy professor publishes star system
discovery in Nature
By Chase Squires

For more than a century, there has been a mystery. For decades, there have been hypotheses. For years, University
of Denver astronomy Professor Robert Stencel has sought answers.
But there hasnt been an image. Until now.
Stencel (pictured) and DU PhD student Brian Kloppenborg are co-authors of a paper that appeared in April in the
international science journal Nature. The paper details how the two worked with teams from Georgia State University and
the University of Michigan to capture an image of the mysterious binary star system Epsilon Aurigae.
The system, with one bright star that appears to blink every 27 years, was discovered in 1821. The blink, which is
actually an eclipse, lasts for two years. The cause of the eclipse was unknown. Some astronomers suggested an orbiting
twin star or a black hole, but there was no way to capture an image and be sure.
Stencel has studied the system since the 1980s and was joined by
teams of scientists and even amateur astronomersall funded by four
separate National Science Foundation grants. Stencel and the teams from
Michigan and Georgia tested Stencels proposal to combine the University
of Michigans newly developed imager and software with Georgia States
giant array of conjoined telescopes in the California mountains near Los
Angeles to produce a snapshot of what exactly is going on during the
eclipse.
What were seeing has been the subject of hypotheses for decades.
What weve never had was a picture of what is actually happening,
Stencel says. Weve produced a reconstruction of an image based on sam-
pling done with multiple telescopes. A reasonable analogy is what you see
with MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). You dont have a shutter going
off, but youve scanned the object repeatedly, and after a while the com-
puter has enough information to put together a picture.
For the first time, scientists are seeing whats happening some 2,000
light-years away: A huge star 150 times the mass of our sun is being
eclipsed by a whirling dust cloud 930 million miles across.
What were seeing, that weve never seen before, is this giant cloud,
Stencel says. Its just that, a giant, dense cloud of dust.
Because astronomers had not been able to see much light from the
system, they had described it as a smaller star orbited by a disk of dust
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that had to be precisely aligned with the stars orbit and then again aligned
along the same plane as the Earths orbit to catch the eclipse. It was all
very unlikely.
The new images show that as nearly impossible as that seems, it is the case.
This really shows that the basic paradigm was right, despite the slim probability, says University of Michigan
Professor John Monnier. It kind of blows my mind that we could capture this.
Stencel says getting everything to workfrom the funding to a Citizen Sky initiative that encouraged amateur
astronomers to help assemble data to getting the critical telescope time from the California arraytook an immense
amount of time and work, and a bit of luck. This plus the work of graduate students such as Kloppenborg, who processed
the volumes of raw data, made the discovery possible.
This has been a very good project for all of us, Stencel says. We have a picture of something that until now weve
only had hypotheses about. We are certainly not done, but this is a big step forward.
>>www.nature.com

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 University selling Phipps estate
Pioneers Top 10
DU put its Lawrence C. Phipps Memorial Conference
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Center up for sale in March, and the historic estate had a
buyer within a month. sold at
Tim Gill, founder of Quark Inc. and the Gill Founda-
tion, and his husband, Scott Miller, a local investment adviser, DU hockey
announced plans to purchase the estate. The sale is ex-
pected to close in December 2010; the price is around the
games
$9 million listed for the property.
Gill and Miller plan to live in the 33,123-square-foot 1. Soft drinks/water
Georgian home in Denvers Belcaro neighborhood. 2. Beer
The mansion has a storied history: It was the home of a
3. Popcorn
senator, the location of hundreds of weddings and the host of
world leaders for the Summit of the Eight in 1997. 4. Carved sandwiches
The University will use the sale proceeds to fund student scholarships. DU Chancellor Robert Coombe said the 5. Nachos
decision to sell the property was consistent with the Universitys focus on its core mission: education. Bookings at the
Margaret Rogers Phipps House and adjoining Phipps Tennis Pavilion had declined due to increased competition from 6. Dippin Dots ice cream
other Denver-area venues as well as the economy. Plus, DU now has ample on-campus meeting space, which made 7. Pretzels
an off-campus facility unnecessary.
8. All-beef hot dogs
Sen. Lawrence Phipps built the 6.5-acre estate between 193133. His widow, Margaret Rogers Phipps, donated
the estates tennis pavilion to DU in 1960 and the mansion in 1964. 9. All-beef footlong hot dogs
Gill founded Quark in 1981, and the company became a world leader in the development of page-layout soft- 10. Nutty Bavarian nuts
ware. He started the Denver-based Gill Foundation in 1994 to support nonprofit organizations that serve lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender and allied individuals, as well as people with HIV/AIDS.
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Denver Teacher Residency program awarded

$8.2 million grant
Denver Public Schools has received an $8.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to expand and
broaden the Denver Teacher Residency program (DTR), a partnership between Denver Public Schools and DUs
Morgridge College of Education.
Launched in 2009 with a grant from the Janus Alliance, the nations first district-based teacher residency program
is modeled on medical residency programs. The five-year program includes a yearlong classroom residency with a
lead teacher, a DU masters degree in curriculum and instruction and a four-year classroom teaching commitment.

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Its hands-on teacher preparation is designed to cultivate and support quality teachers in high-needs schools within the
Denver school system.
The $8,204,269 grant will be used to bring talented teachers to Denver and train them to serve in areas of critical
need. It also will expand programs in special education and linguistically diverse education. The program is one of 12
that will receive funds from a $100 million Teacher Quality Partnership grant aimed at raising student achievement by
improving instruction.
Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the grant will enable the DTR to expand the work
initiated through the Janus Alliance and deepen the districts work to support the Denver plan. The residency program
directly supports the districts wider investment in recruiting, developing and retaining high-quality teachers.
There is no harder job than teaching in a school district with children living in poverty, but there is also not a more
important job, says U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, who helped secure the grant.
Starting with a group of 25 residents apprenticing in five Denver elementary schoolsArchuleta, Gust, Har- Compiled by Christopher Lauber,
rington, McMeen and Montclairthe program draws on DUs experience in teacher preparation and educational concessions manager for Sodexo
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leadership. The first group of residents will begin teaching this fall. Ritchie Center
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 Staff Spotlight
Tyrone Mills
Tyrone Mills, associate director for campus safety, is well-known across the University

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of Denver campus. Nearly 40 years of employment with one institution will get you that.
But there was a time when Mills was so well-known that he could enter a hockey game and
students would start shouting his name en masse: TY! MILLS! TY! MILLS!
And it was not a friendly chant.
They hated me! he says, laughing. I was the top ticket-writer on campus.
Mills received the Distinguished Service to the University award at the 2010 Founders
Day gala in March. Since he was hired as a security officer in 1972, Mills has held nearly every
position in the campus safety department, including 18 years as its director. In those four
decades, he has served five chancellors and has seen the annual car registration fee climb from
$2 to more than $100.
He also has seen his share of tragedies and world-class events.
Mills remembers 1985, when an arsonist was igniting fires at fraternity houses on many
of Colorados college campuses. DU suffered through three blazes, and Mills called the biggest
meeting he has ever had to lead.
There was a mob mentality on campus, he recalls. People were saying they would take
up arms and patrol campus themselves. I was the only person to stand up in front of the
group, and I had to calm them down.
Mills ability to calm others is one of his strengths, according to Assistant Director of
Campus Safety Michael Holt.
One of the things about Ty, whatever the challenge is, whatever comes up, and especially
in really difficult situations, he is very cool and calm, Holt says. In fact, hes the person that
Ive tried to pattern my professional life after.
Mills is credited with many safety advancements at DU, including the Rape Aggression
and Defense program, emergency blue light telephones and the nighttime shuttle. Hes received more late-night phone calls than he can count, and
he admits that some of them break his heart.
On the flip side, Mills also has shaken hands with President Barack Obama and coordinated security for President Bill Clinton, Secretary General
of the United Nations Kurt Waldheim and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
You have to have a commitment to this job, Mills says. There are a lot of ups and downs in police work. Some things can cut you to the ground
and others leave you happy for days, but you learn how to accept all the areas of the job.
Janalee Card Chmel

History professor awarded Guggenheim fellowship

Susan Schulten, associate professor of history at DU, has received a fellowship from the
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The fellowships, according to the Guggenheim Web site,
are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for
productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.
The award will fund Schultens current book project, A Nation in Time and Space. The
book, which is under contract with University of Chicago Press, will examine the rise of new
forms of mapping and graphic knowledge in 19th and 20th century American life.
Schulten has written about half of the book and will use the fellowship to finish it while
on sabbatical from fall 2010 to fall 2011. She will spend the bulk of her time in Denver writing
the book, but the short-term fellowship will allow her to spend June researching at the Hun-
Courtesy of Susan Schulten

tington Library in Pasadena, Calif. She also will make short trips to study archives in Chicago,
Washington, D.C., and Milwaukee.
In addition to the book, Schulten plans to deliver a companion Web site where visitors
can see high-resolution versions of the maps.
Kristal Griffith

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 Volunteer Spotlight
Margaret Hall
Students help lead conservation on
campus

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University of Denver students who live in residence halls are finding that the best carbon
offset is the carbon that isnt used at all.
A fall-quarter competition among residence halls saw students reduce energy and water
use across the board. Overall, students doing everything from turning down the thermostat to
taking shorter showers cut water use by more than a million gallons and slashed electricity use
by more than 100,000 kilowatt hours, successfully keeping nearly 190,000 pounds of carbon
out of the atmosphere.
Throughout the fall quarter, students were reminded of the conservation challenge with
signs such as Dont gush when you brush (turn off the water when brushing teeth), Flip it
off (turn off lights) and Dont be a drip (bring a towel to the bathroom rather than use paper
towels to dry hands). Its Thursday afternoon at DUs Fisher Early Learn-
Several local and campus businesses donated prizes to the contest. The prizes were used ing Center, and naptime is just ending. Groggy toddlers
as incentives for students to make a pledge to help the environment or to nominate friends wake up to crackers, bottles and a familiar presence in
and neighbors efforts to make a difference. their classroom: Grandma Margaret Hall.
Also during fall quarter, a conservation blitz at residence halls helped reduce natural gas, The Volunteers of America (VOA) foster grandpar-
electricity and water consumption. The grand prize went to Nelson Hall, which saw a 28.9 ent program came to Halls senior citizen residence in
percent drop in electricity usage and an 8 percent cut in natural gas usage. Residents also used January to recruit volunteers for schools in the Denver
14.5 percent less water. area. Hall was looking for volunteer opportunities in
DU Energy Engineer Tom McGee says warm weather helped cut some costs, but the early childhood care, so VOA matched her with Fisher.
biggest factor was students willingness to turn down the thermostat and wear a sweater on It was a good chance to be with little kids again,
chilly days. says Hall, whose four grandchildren live on the East
In the past three years, McGee says, DU has reduced its carbon footprint by nearly Coast. Ive felt welcome since the day I started.
10 percent, with more cuts anticipated in the coming year. This year, the campus has added Hall is the first volunteer from VOA to donate
energy-saving measures such as lights that turn off automatically in unused restrooms. her time to Fisher. She volunteers three to six hours a
Administrators continue to explore options such as incorporating solar panels and working day, three days a week. She works with children ages 6
with the city of Denver to bring so-called gray water lines for irrigation, instead of using weeks to 1 year.
potable water. Grandma Margaret brings diversity and a valu-
Chase Squires able age difference to us, says Fisher Human Resources
Manager Nicole Kramis. Shes so helpful, and the kids
love her.
University community makes donation Although the classrooms have a low child-to-
teacher ratio, Fisher teachers still need volunteers like
to Haitian relief Hall to accommodate the kids short attention spans.
Hall spends the majority of her time playing, often
The University of Denver community has exceeded its goal in raising money to help the sitting with kids during mealtime or helping them get
earthquake-stricken Caribbean nation of Haiti. accustomed to playtime outside.
DU students, staff, faculty, organizations and departments donated $13,610 to the relief Hall has gained an unexpected benefit from her
campaign. Organizers originally had hoped to raise $10,000. volunteer work: sign language. Her Fisher kids are too
Im just really proud that the University came together around a single cause, young to talk, but teachers have shown them how to
says Jami Duffy (BA 03), program coordinator for DUs Social Justice Living and Learning communicate through simple hand signs. The signs
Community. strike a personal note with Hall, too.
More than 200 individuals and 30 student organizations and DU departments donated I have hearing loss in my right ear, Hall says.
money to Haiti. Proceeds from the campaign will go directly to the Lambi Fund of Haiti, a Learning to sign gave something back to me.
nonprofit dedicated to building democracy and sustainable development in the country. Outside her time at DU, Hall enjoys sewing and
In the days and weeks after the earthquake, DU hosted a number of events to raise baking and belongs to a local plant club. But she sees
money and awareness for Haiti, including a barbecue on Driscoll Green, a panel at the Josef her most generous hobby, volunteering at Fisher,
Korbel School of International Studies and an a cappella concert. enduring for a long time.
Nathan Solheim Elizabeth Fritzler

University of Denver Magazine Update 11

 Students think globally during Earth Day events
The message was clear at the University of Denvers Earth Day Summit:
You can do this (and you really dont have a choice).
Scores of University of Denver students assembled April 22 to recognize
the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and learn about what can be done to save the
planet they will one day help run.
The summit, with its slogan Acting locally, thinking globally, attracted leading
government and activist speakersincluding an actual rock starwho challenged
students to do something now, no matter how small. In between presentations,
students broke into smaller sessions for group discussions with business, civic and
government leaders on how to reduce emissions and live more sustainably.
James Jonny 5 Lauriea rapper with the nationally known, Denver-
based rock band Flobotspresented the summits keynote address, focusing
on the bands social activist role. The Flobots run programs through a Denver
studio that encourages young people to express themselves through music and
energizes them to get active in their community.
Students also dedicated a new permaculture garden behind the SI
CHOU-KANG Center for International Security and Diplomacy. The
garden, which will be tended by students and volunteers, will demonstrate
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 One to Watch
Brian Stafford
Athletics are a family affair for sophomore finance major Brian Stafford. His father played football and
his mother ran track and field at the University of California-Berkeley, and his grandfather helped the school
win an NCAA title in basketball. His older brother currently plays basketball at Azusa Pacific University.
With influences like these, its no wonder Stafford has been playing sports since age 5 and is now the
top returning scorer for the Pioneers basketball team.
Stafford came to DU from the San Francisco Bay area. After University of Denver coaches watched
him play in an Amateur Athletics Union tournament, they recruited him for the Pioneers basketball team.
I fell in love with the DU campus and area after I had already made my decision to come here,
Stafford says. And I thought the coaches and team were great.
Since he began his basketball career at DU, Staffords defensive skills have improved immensely. He
practices up to three hours a day.
The demands of practice and high-pressure games have yielded impressive results for Stafford. During
the 200809 season, he was named the Pioneers most valuable freshman and led the team in scoring five
times, steals 10 times, blocks twice, rebounding once and assists once. In the 200910 season, Stafford
was among the top 10 three-point shooters in the Sun Belt Conference.
Brian has started every game since hes been at DU, says mens basketball coach Joe Scott. His
experience and even-keeled demeanor will help him improve through his junior and senior years.
Though much of his life is dedicated to sports, Stafford still manages to maintain a 3.81 GPA. He
takes summer classes to lighten his workload during basketball season. Off the court, he enjoys fly-fishing,
the outdoors and classical piano.
Ill probably play piano for the rest of my life. It helps me relax, he says.
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Stafford is unsure what he will pursue after graduation in 2012, but he says he wants to stay involved
with basketball.
Elizabeth Fritzler

Changes to communication Business college to launch

programs expand options one-year MBA program
The University of Denver is realigning a part of its Division of Arts, Humanities
and Social Sciences (AHSS) in an effort to provide a greater number of choices to
communication students.
The new arrangementapproved by the DU Board of Trusteesdissolves
the School of Communication as an academic and administrative unit. The schools
departments have been renamed the Department of Communication Studies and
the Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies. Four new majors also were
created.
Im very pleased that these thoughtful changes to the communication program
at DU will result in greater options for our students, says Anne McCall, AHSS dean.
The Department of Communication Studies will feature a single major with
three emphases: culture and communication, interpersonal and family communica-
tion, and rhetoric and communication ethics. The department will continue to offer
masters and PhD degrees in communication studies.
The Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies will offer three new
majors: strategic communication, media studies, and film studies and production. The
department will keep its journalism studies program, its graduate programs and its re-
lationship with the School of Art and Art History for its digital media studies program.
Current communication students can finish the degree they started or opt into
one of the new majors.
Kristal Griffith
DUs Daniels College of Business will launch a one-year MBA
program specifically for students who have recently graduated with an
undergraduate degree from an AACSB-accredited business school.
The program, which launches in August 2010, is designed to
encourage undergraduate students to move directly into the graduate
school track. The program will provide the same academic rigor and
learning opportunities as Daniels traditional two-year MBA, but in a for-
mat that leverages the momentum students have gained during their
undergraduate business studies. Students can reduce the amount of
time spent out of the workforce and reduce tuition dollars spent.
Students will be able to select a concentration in marketing,
innovation, entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, or real estate and
construction management. Business ethics and values-based leadership
theories will be integrated throughout the programs core courses.
Students also will engage in consulting projects, development of
business plans, and career and professional development to build their
experience and prepare them for the job market.
The one-year MBA is a highly selective program that requires stu-
dents to start within 11 months of receiving an undergraduate business
degree. Students are not required to have professional work experi-
ence, though an internship is preferred.
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University of Denver Magazine Update 13

 Campus Safety officer gets
commendation from Denver police
Denver police presented commendations toDUCampus Safety Sgt. Steve Banet
and three other citizens April 26 for extraordinary service in support of police.
To honor citizens who have supported what we do is a great honor, saidChief
Gerald Whitman at the award ceremony at police headquarters in downtown Denver.
The Denver police department would not be so successful without the support of the
community, and this is a good example of that.
Banets commendation was for his keen attention to duty in preventing a convicted
sex offender from entering the womens locker room in the Ritchie Center. Banets rec-
ognition skills on the Universitys surveillance system helped Denver police get a very
dangerous party off the street, said Kris Kroncke, District 3 police commander.
The individual, whom police identified as Ronald McClain, has a record for sexual
assault, robbery and theft from motor vehicles.
On March 25 he pleaded guilty to being a habitual criminal and to assault on an at-risk
adult and was sentenced to six years in prison.
Banet is an eight-year Campus Safety officer with nearly four decades of investigative
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experience. Although he got thanks from the Denver police, Banet says he was just doing
his job.
Richard Chapman

UNLOCKING DOORS
FOR DU STUDENTS
Giving Real Estate and Other Assets
Can Make A Huge Impact

Cliff Heglin, long-time Lamont School of Music supporter,

gave a vacation home to DU while retaining the right to use it.
After he passed away, the property was sold and used to
create a scholarship for talented music students.

My sadness has been lessened by seeing what

Cliff s scholarship has meant to deserving students.
Jennifer Heglin, Donor & Volunteer

At the Lamont School of Music Ive

Office of Gift Planning
1.800.448.3238 or 303.871.2739
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learned from world-class faculty and
performed with amazing student musicians.
Receiving the Heglin Scholarship made it
all possible!
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14 University of Denver Magazine Summer 2010

 Sports
Degree of difficulty
By Doug McPherson

When Kelley Hennigan was 12 years old she had a secretone that, if kept, could have killed her.
Hennigans story began when she was 5 years old, growing up near Houston, Texas. It was at that young age
that she fell in love.
I loved gymnastics immediately. It stuck from that age on, and it always won out over other sports, says Hennigan (BA
digital media studies 10), today a newly minted graduate who was a standout gymnast for the University of Denver. Its a
sport you dont do just halfway, and you have to decide early on if youre going to be competitive at it.
She decided she wanted to be competitive, and she backed that vow up by piling on the hours of practice after school and
on weekends, flying through the air in her routines.

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But at age 12 she noticed some pain in her shoulder. At first it was
nothing. Pain was part of what she signed up for. But it lingered. Then
after a while I noticed a lump, Hennigan says.
Still she kept quiet.
I kept it a secret. I hid it because its part of the sportyou try
to work through pain. I wanted to keep competing, she says. I loved
gymnastics, and I didnt want anything to come between me and it.
After a few weeks, as the lump kept growing, Hennigan finally
relented. Her doctor found cancersoft-tissue sarcomain her
shoulder. Not surprisingly, she was told no gymnastics and no practice.
That was something Hennigan wouldnt accept.
I went ahead anyway, she says. I cut back some, but I kept
training. I know that was crazy, but it was the only thing that kept me
feeling normal. I didnt want to feel sick.
But she was very sick. She faced five weeks of radiation treatment
and then surgery. After three months of treatment the cancer went
away.
Looking back, Hennigan says it was the lessons from gymnastics
that served as her chief weapon in her battle with cancer.
Gymnastics has taught me an insane amount of lessons, but
especially how to handle pressure and to put everything I can into
what Im doing, to do the best I can, she says.
Fighting cancer, she tapped those lessons. I looked at treatment
as a challenge. I had a calendar and I marked off each day of treatment
knowing that if I could make it through, something good would be
waiting for me on the other side.
Waiting on the other side was the sport she loved. Ive always
loved it. Every day is different, and I think that makes it fun. But its challenging. The sport has always kicked my butt.
Hennigan has done her fair share of kicking butt, too. She was one of the nations best collegiate gymnasts and a star on
the DU squad. As a freshman she helped the team earn a berth to the NCAA tournament for the first time in seven years. In
2009, Hennigan finished second on the team with six event titles (three vault, two all-around and one bars), along with season
averages on vault (9.806), floor (9.747), bars (9.658) and all-around (38.954). In April, she made her second trip to the NCAA
national championships, where she took 20th place in the all-around in the semifinals. (Sophomore Brianna Artemev finished
in 11th place.)
Head coach Melissa Kutcher-Rinehart isnt surprised by Hennigans resilience.
Kelley has been a tremendous competitor throughout her career; she has been one of the most consistent on our team,
Kutcher-Rinehart says. Her competitive drive, fire and focus set her apart from the rest.
When asked if she has advice for those fighting cancer or other hardships, Hennigan says, Each day is a new day. Youre
given what youre given, so make the best of it you can.
University of Denver Magazine Update 15
 Sturm College of Law raising
DU Health the bar on diversity
and The University of Denver Sturm College of Law, with a new

Counseling dean and a newly developed strategic plan, is taking on yet another
new goal in 2010: diversity.
Center Dean Martin Katz announced in March the appointment of
Catherine Smith to the post of associate dean of institutional diversity
flu shots, and inclusiveness.
In her new role, Smith says shell focus on broadening DUs
200910 commitment to diversity, recruiting a broad range of faculty and

academic students and reaching into traditionally underserved segments of the

community.
year A graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law,
Smith was an assistant professor at the Thurgood Marshall School
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of Law at Texas Southern University from 200004 before coming

to DU. She teaches torts and employment discrimination, and her
H1N1 vaccines research interests include civil rights law and critical race theory.
given Smith says she envisions building stronger ties to associations and organizations that serve minority communities

2,400 and reach into socioeconomically disadvantaged populations. The goal, she says, is to have a law school and a com-
munity of lawyers that better reflect Colorados diversity. Diversity, she says, brings in new ideas and ways of looking at
legal challenges and fosters opportunities for a traditionally disadvantaged population that has much to contribute.
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Seasonal flu
vaccines given
1,800 Celebrated alumni return to DU to connect with
students

Jeffrey Haessler
Community members
who came to Notable alumni from across the country
made their way back to the University of
campus for a
Denver campus April 1213 for the Masters
flu shot
Program.
75 The Masters Program is an annual event
that recognizes alumni who are distinguished
professionals in their fields. The alumni master
Health officials at scholars are nominated by division deans and
the center faculty and staff from various colleges.
Fifteen scholars were named for 2010.
14 They include Peter Funt (BA 69), president
of Candid Camera Inc.; Eloise May (MA 74),
executive director of the Arapahoe Library
Months that flu District in Colorado; and Michael Kromrey,
season is at (MSW 80, pictured with Graduate School of
its peak Social Work Dean James Herbert Williams),
director of Metro Organizations for People.
4 The scholars returned to campus to teach, learn and engage with current students and faculty in their degree
programs, says Cheri Stanford, associate director of alumni programs and communications.
Through the direct connection with current DU students, the master scholars demonstrate how their
Compiled by Bryndi Schult, H1N1 professional achievements and life experiences continuously exemplify the rich tradition and excellence we value at
nurse coordinator at the health center
the University of Denver, Stanford says.
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 History
Going to the chapel By Kathryn Mayer

Courtesy of Tom and Ruth Drabek

Evans Chapel was so narrowly finished when Tom
and Ruth Drabek were married in it in 1960
that then-Chaplain William Rhodes told Tom before the couples
ceremony: Hopefully Ruths gown doesnt drag along a wall of
wet paint.
Evans Chapel was rededicated to the University of Denver
at 2 p.m. on June 10, 1960. The Drabeks were married at 5 p.m.
that day.
She was convinced it wouldnt be ready by then, Tom says.
Well, it was close, Ruth says with a laugh.
Indeed it was. The chapel had been disassembled stone by
stone from its downtown location and then reassembled in the
heart of campus during the winter and spring of 1960.
I was living in Aspen Hall at the time and would see them
bringing the pieces of Evans Chapel to the campus, says Ruth,
who was studying journalism. Day by day, I would go to class and
watch the process of more pieces being put together.
The chapelcompleted in 1878 in downtown Denverwas
the initiative of DU founder John Evans in honor of his daughter,
Josephine, who had died a decade earlier. DU bought the historic
Tom and Ruth Drabek were married in Evans Chapel on June 10, 1960, hours
building in 1958 as part of a land purchase. after the building was rededicated to the University of Denver.
In 1960, Ruth Obduskey and Tom Drabek were both enrolled
at DU. She was 19; he was 20. They were high school sweethearts
from Pueblo, Colo. I invited her to join the debate club [at Central High School in Pueblo], Tom says. But we found that
we enjoyed looking in each others eyes, I guess.
At DU, Tom got involved with the schools chapel committee. He had worked on issues regarding DUs Buchtel Chapel
and regularly attended Sunday services there. The committee also spoke about Evans Chapel coming to DU. Rhodes was
very involved in the planningeverything from new paint to an updated interior, Tom says.
The chapel was important to Tom, Ruth says. Because of his involvement in the committee and his relationship with
[the chaplain], we decided we wanted Chaplain Rhodes to marry us and we wanted it to be in Evans Chapel.
The couple didnt stray from the University after graduation: Tom taught sociology and criminology at DU for years;
Ruth worked in the library and in the alumni department. Their son, Russell Drabek, and daughter, Debi (Drabek) Kerr,
attended DU as well.
Many other couples have followed in the Drabeks footsteps. The chapel holds an average of 53 weddings each year, the
majority of them DU-affiliated. The chapels small size creates a feeling of intimacyit holds 60 people at most. Members
of DUs Fellowship of Catholic University Students attend mass there weekly, officiated by a local priest. Current DU
Chaplain Gary Brower holds meditation there. And many have been mourned and remembered at memorial services held at
the chapel.
To many, Evans Chapel has filled a void on campus. Buchtel Chapel was very largewhich was useful during an Easter
service, for examplebut at most services, it made attendees seem dwarfed, Tom recalls. When Buchtel Chapel burned
down in the 1980s, it only increased Evans Chapels presence on campus.
So much of what we do at universities is aimed at the mind and the bodythink classroom buildings and sports
facilities, Brower says. To have this one small chapel is a great visual reminder of that other part of the human experience:
that of the heart.
While there are no plans to celebrate Evans Chapels 50 years on campus, the Drabeks do plan to celebrate their half
century togetherin the Bahamas.

University of Denver Magazine Update 17

 Pioneers win 21st NCAA skiing championship
University of Denver junior Nordic skier Antje Maempel
won the womens 15K freestyle on March 13, completing the
Nordic sweep for the second straight year as the Pioneers won
their record 21st overall and third straight NCAA championship.
Maempel became the second womens skier in NCAA history
to win both the classical and freestyle individual championships in
two consecutive seasons. DU sophomore and 2010 Olympian
Leif Kristian Haugen gave Denver another individual title with a
win in the giant slalom, while sophomore Lindsay Cone captured
second in slalom and giant slalom.
Denver ran away with the title, becoming the first team since
2002 to lead the NCAA championships from start to finish. DU
opened up the NCAA championship by winning the mens and
womens giant slalom on Mount Werner at Steamboat Ski Resort
March 10, and the Pioneers carried the momentum across town
to Howelsen Hill for the remaining three days.
After entering the last day of competition with a 54.5-point
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lead, the DU mens Nordic team held the lead and the womens
Nordic team blew the gap open, winning by 70.5 points with
a four-day total of 785.5 points. The University of Colorado-
Boulder finished second and New Mexico finished third.
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 Academics
Common knowledge

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By Tamara Chapman

When the class of 2014 arrives at DU in the fall, its members

will participate in a new general education programthe
common curriculumdesigned to help students integrate and apply
knowledge from across disciplines.
All DU undergraduate students will be required to complete 5260
credits in the curriculum. Thats down from the 72 credits called for in
the current general education program known as UReqs, or University
Requirements.
By freeing up student schedules, the re-imagined curriculum allows
students to complete more coursework in their majors and minors, says
Jennifer Karas, associate provost of academic programs. Still others, she adds,
may apply the hours to double majors or an additional minor.
Eighteen months in the making, the common curriculum was developed
by a 15-member faculty committee chaired by Luc Beaudoin, associate
professor of Russian. The committee was charged with structuring a
curriculum relevant to a global culture and tied to the Universitys vision,
values, mission and goals.
Its outcomes-focused, Beaudoin explains, noting that the curriculum
was shaped with specific learning objectives in mind. Whats more, it
demonstrates how various fields of knowledge relate to one another.
The new requirements focus on two themes: the natural and physical
world, and society and culture.
Students begin the curriculum with a first-year seminar that helps them
discover what it means to be an active member of an intellectual community.
A carryover from the previous general education curriculum, the seminar Luc Beaudoin, associate professor of Russian, chaired the
faculty committee that developed DUs new common curriculum.
emphasizes critical reading, discussion, research and writing.
The seminar is followed by two courses in writing and rhetoric. These
develop the skills essential for college-level writing and reasoning.
The common curriculum also calls for three courses in a language of the students choice. Even if students test out of the three
introductory language classes that generally satisfy this requirement, Beaudoin says, they will be required to take at least one advanced
course in that language or one introductory course in another language. This requirement prepares students for study abroad and for
an increasingly global marketplace.
Another component of the curriculum emphasizes ways of knowingboth through analytical inquiry and scientific inquiry.
Analytical inquiry is cultivated by one course in math or computer science and two in the arts and humanities. In these courses,
students will learn to apply formal reasoning to problem solving; to understand connections between different areas of logic; to create
or interpret the texts, ideas and artifacts of human culture; and to analyze the connections characterizing human experience.
Students will immerse themselves in scientific inquiry through five courses drawn from the natural and social sciences. They will
learn how the scientific process is used to contend with uncertainty, draw conclusions and make predictions. They also will learn how
to apply qualitative and quantitative forms of analysis and evidence, and theyll explore the basic principles of human conduct in social
and cultural contexts.
The common curriculum concludes with a writing-intensive advanced seminar in which students apply knowledge and skills
gained from previous courses in the curriculum.
Its a class that is upper-level where students will be able to work on issues from various points of view, Beaudoin says.
Most students will take an advanced seminar in a subject outside their major. Karas and Beaudoin believe this will broaden
perspectives and prepare students for capstone projects and senior theses required in the majors.
The curriculum was approved by the DU Board of Trustees, the Faculty Senate and the Undergraduate Council, a faculty group
responsible for new curriculum.

University of Denver Magazine Update 19

 Business college ups its admission requirements
Students who enter the University of Denver beginning in fall 2010 with the intention of majoring in business will face new competitive entrance require-
ments for the Daniels College of Business.
The secondary admission process is designed to reduce the number of undergraduate business majors from roughly 2,200 to 1,800 over the course of four
years.
Nationwide, the interest in business degrees is increasing, and as the Daniels College of Business reputation has grown, so have our numbers, says Dan
Connolly, associate dean for undergraduate programs at Daniels. By reducing the number of students, we will be able to continue to deliver a high-quality edu-
cational experience in the personal manner for which we are known.
Daniels joins many other schoolsincluding Texas Christian University, Notre Dame, the University of Virginia and Southern Methodist Universityin
implementing a secondary admission process.
Students will be able to enter the Daniels College of Business through three channels. A very small number of highly accomplished candidates will be invited
to be admitted upon application to the University. Transfer students also will be evaluated for direct admission to Daniels when applying to DU, provided they have
met the prerequisite course requirements. The majority of students will participate in the secondary application process during the fall quarter of their sophomore
year. Students who are currently enrolled at the University of Denver will not be subject to the new admission requirement.
To apply, students must first complete seven prerequisite courses and pass the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist exams for Microsoft Excel 2007,
Word 2007 and PowerPoint 2007. The application process includes an online application, submission of a cover letter and resum, and an interview with business
professionals.
Using a whole-person evaluation approach, the admission committee will base decisions on a students academic performance and promise, involvement in
the University and surrounding communities, quality of resum and cover letter, interview performance, and overall well-roundedness. Those who are not admit-
ted on their first attempt may apply again during the next application cycle, provided their applications and credentials have changed enough to warrant a second
consideration. Students interested in pursuing one of five business minors are not required to complete an application.
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 People

Multi media
By Greg Glasgow

Theres more than one way to tell a story, and Zak Kadison wants control over all of them. Through his
company, Blacklight Transmedia, Kadison (BSBA 03) is pioneering a new approach to the business
of show, developing original stories that can be told across multiple platforms: movies, video games and comic books.
While I was at Fox I learned of this notion of transmedia storytelling, which is essentially when you tell a cohesive
narrative using a variety of platformsvideo games, comic books, movies, TVbut each one of those properties tells
a unique story thats stand-alone but complementary to the whole, says Kadison, who spent two years as a senior
production executive at Fox Atomic after interning for Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Spyglass Entertainment during
breaks at DU. An example of a transmedia story would be Star Wars. The film is different than the video games, which are
different than the comic books.
Of course, comic books and video games based on
movies already exist, but the current model, Kadison says,
is for studios to license a films plot and characters to other
companies, which often end up making inferior products.
Our company has actually been set up to manage the
creative process of the video game, the comic book, the
movie, etc., across all of those platforms, he says. Its an
incredible opportunity for creative talent to expand on the
stories and create new experiences for fans of the movie or
vice versa.
Blacklight has only shopped two projects so far, and
both have been purchased by studios. The firstsimply
called Blacklightwill roll out this summer with an online
video game and a comic book. A movie is in development
at 20th Century Fox, along with a console game. All the
content is overseen by creative talent working for Blacklight
Transmedia and its partner company, video game designer
Zombie Studios.
One of the main benefits of transmedia storytelling is
that it doesnt matter in what order the content is created
or in what order its consumed, Kadison says. Everything
is designed to be a stand-alone experience thats good in
John Schiavone

whatever medium its in.

Another benefit, he says, is that transmedia stories
further involve the audience in the narrative and reward
viewers for making subtle connections. He points to a minor character in The Matrix Reloaded who was the protagonist of
a Matrix-themed comic book that came out around the same time as the film. You didnt have to know about the comic
to enjoy the movie, and vice-versa, but someone familiar with both might have experienced a deeper connection with the
storyand a bit of a thrill at having an extra piece of inside knowledge.
Kadison started Blacklight less than a year ago, but already hes got some major movie muscle on his sideproducer
Brian Grazer, who owns Imagine Entertainment with actor-turned-director Ron Howard. Impressed with Kadisons vision,
Grazer offered the young mogul a first-look deal that gives Imagine the first opportunity to partner on a Blacklight project.
The projects I saw were well-thought-out concepts with strong underlying symbolism and archetypal foundations,
with graphic novels and designs that were exquisite, Grazer told the Web site Deadline Hollywood. Zak was enormously
charismatic, and his ideas were different from the typical movies Imagine has made. I wanted to bet on him and his team.
>>www.blacklighttransmedia.com

University of Denver Magazine Update 21

 Business magazine ranks Daniels Longtime neighborhood eatery
tops in Colorado closes
The University of Denvers Daniels College of Business is ranked No. 74 A popular University
on BusinessWeeks 2010 list of undergraduate business programs. Park eatery that served the
Daniels also is the top undergraduate business school in the state, accord- campus community for
ing to BusinessWeek, which ranked Colorado State University No. 84 and more than 25 years has
Leeds School of Business at CU-Boulder No. 93. closed its doors.
The report uses a methodology that includes nine measures of student New York native
satisfaction, postgraduation outcomes and academic quality. Mike Schettler (BSBA 83)
The survey asked corporate recruiters which programs turn out the best closed Stick-e-Star, which was
graduates and asked each institution the median starting salary for its most located near the intersec-
recent graduating class, the ratio of full-time faculty to students and its average tion of University Boule-
class size. vard and Evans Avenue.
In October 2009 the Daniels College of Business Executive MBA pro- Previously, his Star Market
gram was ranked No. 85 in the world by the Financial Timesit was the only delilocated in a nearby
Colorado school to be rankedin addition to being named No. 20 in the storefrontwas a popu-
world for teaching business ethics by the Aspen Institute. In November 2009, lar lunch spot with a similar
BusinessWeek ranked the Daniels Professional MBA program for working pro- menu. Schettler and his
fessionals 53rd in the country. Daniels was the only Colorado business school wife, Tina, closed Stick-e-Star
in the rankings. April 5. In mid-March, the cou-
Kim DeVigil ple opened a new restaurant,
Richard Chapman

Emerald Grill, in the Denver

area and were unable to sus-
tain both restaurants.
Kathryn Mayer

DUs debt rating raised

The University of Denvers long-term debt rating has been upgraded to
A+ from A by Standard & Poors. The agency also reports that the Universitys
rating outlook is stable.
The upgrade is based on Standard & Poors assessment of the
Universitys continued strong demand trends and healthy financial profile,
including continued strong operating surpluses and adequate levels of financial
resources during an otherwise challenging economic environment, according
to a Standard & Poors statement.
The statement notes that the Universitys debt of $143 million currently
is structured at a fixed rate. The maximum annual debt service is approximately
$11.6 million, or a low 2.8 percent of budget, and the University has indicated
it has no near-term debt plans.
The stable outlook reflects our expectation that DU will continue to
report strong operational surpluses and maintain its solid demand profile and
financial resources as well as conduct a successful capital campaign, says Blake
Cullimore, credit analyst for Standard & Poors. We also expect that any addi-
tional debt will be commensurate with a growth in financial resources.
Craig Woody, DUs vice chancellor for business and financial affairs, says
the Standard & Poors rating upgrade matches the Universitys current credit
rating from Moodys Investors Services of A-1. Its very good news for the
University, especially in this challenging economic climate, Woody says.
Jim Berscheidt

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 Q&A
Sensible Colorado founder Brian Vicente
on medical marijuana
Interview by Greg Glasgow
Wayne Armstrong
Empowered by a 2000 Colorado
constitutional amendment
legalizing medical marijuana in the state and emboldened by a liberal
presidential administration, entrepreneurs are opening medical-
marijuana dispensaries at a record rate across the Front Range. As
founder and executive director of nonprofit medical marijuana advocacy
group Sensible Colorado, Brian Vicente (JD 04) is on the forefront of
the medical marijuana issue in the state, lobbying to make sure that
new laws regulating dispensaries wont end up hurting patients.
Q What is Sensible Colorado and how long has it been
around?
A We were formed in 2004; I actually helped found the organiza-
tion when I was a law student at DU. Were the lead nonprofit
that advocates for Colorados medical marijuana patients. We do that
in the courtroom, at the legislature, at the ballot box, wherever it
needs to be done. We also work on broader drug policy reform issues,
focused largely on removing criminal penalties for adults possessing
marijuana.
Q Colorado passed a ballot initiative legalizing medical
marijuana in 2000, but only recently have we seen an
explosion in the number of dispensaries. What changed?
A I think it was a number of factors. One was just that the econo-
my took such a nosedive that a lot of people cant afford health
insurance. And marijuana is actually a medicine that people can grow
on their own. They dont have to pay hundreds and hundreds of dol-
lars to buy it at the pharmacy. So I think a lot of people started think-
ing about alternative health care when they couldnt afford traditional
health care.
Also, the Obama administration came out and said, As long as
youre following state law, were not interested in prosecuting you
federally. They issued an official memo from the Department of
Justice in October 2009 saying this. For the nine years prior to that,
if you used medical marijuana the federal governments position
was, Were going to put you in jail. I think for a lot of people that
shroud of fear was lifted and a lot of people began talking to their
doctors about medical marijuana, becoming educated, and learning
that it does indeed have some degree of medical efficacy for certain
conditions.
Q A lot of people think that dispensaries and medical
marijuana are the first steps toward outright legalization
of marijuana in Colorado. Do you agree?
A
I think its important to separate the two issues. The first and
foremost issue for us is making sure patients have safe and legal
access to medical marijuana. With the emergence of these regulated
storefronts where people are purchasing marijuana for medical pur-
poses, will that lead to a broader discussion about whether our current
marijuana laws make sense? Its quite possible. Weve had 70-plus
years in our country where the sale of marijuana to anyone would
put you in prison. And now we have a number of states, including
Colorado, where these regulated sales are entirely sanctioned by state
and local government. The sky hasnt fallen, and there have been a lot
of positive effects. If you look at our economy, one of the few growing
industries right now in Colorado is the medical marijuana field.
Q Do you ever worry that people are going to label you as
the pothead lawyer?
A Not reallyto me this is an issue that I care passionately
about. Its a matter of social justice. We need to change the
drug law and the war on drugs, and if I can be a part of that then
Im happy. I happened upon an issue that has really been at the fore-
front of Colorado and the nation in the past couple of years. Its a
fun ride.
>>www.sensiblecolorado.org
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 Arts
Heavy metal
By Greg Glasgow

Theres

Wayne Armstrong
a place where Martin Luther King Jr.,
Miles Davis and Barack Obama all
hang out together, and it isnt in the fantasy of a jazz-loving,
nonviolent Democrat. Its at the 25,000-square-foot north
Denver studio of sculptor Ed Dwight (MFA 77), who specializes
in pieces on black history, from his funky sculptures of jazz
musicians like Davis, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie to more
realistic portraits of leaders like King and Obama.
Dwight himself is part of black historyin 1962 President
John F. Kennedy appointed the young Air Force jet pilot as
Americas first black astronaut trainee. Dwight went through
training but never made it out of the Earths orbit: When
Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, racial politics at NASA
forced Dwight out of the program.
After the president got killed my life changed dramatically,
Dwight says. I got appointed to the regular officer corps, which
means I could have stayed in 30 years if I wanted to. But after
he died, the whole thing was so controversialI said, Screw it,

Wayne Armstrong
Im getting out.
He had been interested in art at a young age, but Dwight
had turned down an art school scholarship to study engineering
and flight. Once his dreams of being an astronaut were behind
him, he slowly returned to art, eventually teaching himself to
weld and sculpt in metal. His first serious foray in the field came
in 1974, when George Brown, Colorados first black lieutenant
governor, asked Dwight to build a sculpture of him for the state
capitol building. Brown challenged Dwight to quit his sales job
at IBM and turn to sculpture full time, where he could document
the contributions African-Americans had made to U.S. history.
He said, If you look at the United States and the history of
blacks, blacks have done all this wonderful stufftheyve made
scientific discoveries, theyve fought in the warsand nobody
nowhere is recording this, Dwight says. Theres nothing in
the public square where you can walk into a town or even walk
into Washington, D.C., and see a statue or any kind of art of any
black people.
I said, Thats crazywhat have black people done? I went to white schools and I didnt know anything about black history. So
hes telling me about Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass and George Washington CarverI was 42 years old and I had never
heard of these people. And he said I was pitiful; I should be ashamed of myself.
Dwight more than made up for his initial lack of knowledge in the years to follow, doing extensive research to create series
on black cowboys, black soldiers and black athletes. He enrolled at DUs art school at age 45 to study art history and refine his
sculpting technique. As word spread about his skills, he received public art commissions including Underground Railroad memorials
in Michigan and Ontario, the still-in-progress Black Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the African
American History Monument in Columbia, S.C.
I found out there was something missing in the landscape of history reflecting black folks doing things, he says. I did this
whole series on the buffalo soldierson black soldiersI did another series on black cowboys, and I presented myself to the gallery

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See a video of Ed Dwights

studio and a photo gallery
of his sculptures at
www.du.edu/magazine.

system, and all these people with these massive collections didnt know there were black cowboys or black soldiers. I ended up hitting a
niche I didnt know was there.
At 77, Dwight is ready to retirebut not before he finishes a sculpture of Dr. King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, for the city
of Allentown, Pa., and a portrait of Rosa Parks for Grand Rapids, Mich. His new exhibit The Inauguration of Hope, which celebrates the
election of Barack Obama, recently was on display at the Colorado History Museum.
The exhibitwhich features sculptures of Obama accepting the presidential nomination at Invesco Field during the 2008
Democratic National Convention and the Obama family during the presidents swearing-in ceremony in Washington, D.C.is Dwights
testament to the onward march of black history.
It isnt over, and thats why I did the Obama thing, he says. Regardless of what you feel about Obama and his politicsscrew all
that. The fact of the matter is, he was the first black guy to be the president of the United States. The history is still being made.

University of Denver Magazine Update 25

 Alumna Condoleezza Rice opens up about
DU, 9/11, the George Bush legacy and more.

FacingForward,
Looking Back
Interview by Tamara Chapman
Photography by Jeffrey Haessler

As the nations 66th secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice (BA 74, PhD 81) logged more than a million miles and
visited 85 countries. By the time she left her post in January 2009, she had confronted everything from the decades-old
Israeli-Palestinian problem to the 2008 Russia-Georgia conflict over South Ossetia.
Today Rice is out of the diplomatic spotlight, but she is nonetheless on the go, serving on two faculties at Stanford
University and as a senior fellow at the schools Hoover Institution, traveling the globe for various speaking engagements
and preparingaccomplished classical pianist that she isfor a series of benefit concerts, including one with queen of
soul Aretha Franklin.
One of DUs best-known alumni, Rice will be honored with the Josef Korbel Outstanding Alumni Award at the
annual Korbel Dinner in August.
The biographical details of Rices career are well-known: She grew up in Birmingham, Ala., during the civil rights
era; pursued her college education at DU, where her father served as a vice chancellor for enrollment; and prepared
for a career in Sovietology under the tutelage of Josef Korbel, who founded what is today the Josef Korbel School of
International Studies at DU.
She joined the faculty at Stanford in 1981. While at Stanford, she met Brent Scowcroft, who later served as national
security adviser to President George H.W. Bush and who recruited her to serve as the 41st presidents director of Soviet
and East European affairs in the National Security Council. She returned to Stanford in 1991 and was appointed provost
in 1993. When George W. Bush announced his campaign for the presidency, Rice became one of his key advisers on
foreign affairs. She served as his national security adviser during his first term in office and during his second term she
served as secretary of state.
Throughout her career, Rice has made history and generated controversyas the first female national security
adviser, as a provost who took aggressive steps to balance the budget, and as the foreign policy adviser who, in the
months preceding the Iraq War, first warned about the dangers of smoking guns and mushroom clouds.
In February, Rice sat down with the University of Denver Magazine to discuss her life and career. The following is an
edited transcript of that conversation.

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 University of Denver Magazine: Rumor has it that you have a book
coming outthe first installment in a two-volume memoir. Could
you give us a sneak preview?
Condoleezza Rice: I do have a book coming out in Octobera
family memoir, really. I decided that while its very important to
write the policy memoirthe sort of obligatory secretary of states
policy memoirthat it would be better to start with my family
and my extraordinary parents and how I grew up and give people
a sense of where I came from, because whenever people ask me,
How did you get to be who you are? I say you had to know John
and Angelena Rice. This book is as much about them as it is about
me.
DU: Will you spend some time in Denver in that book?
Rice: Well, the book starts in Birmingham, where I was born, and
then traces my familys decision to move to Denver. And it has
quite a bit in there about my time at the University of Denver and
then on to Stanford. It will end just before I go to Washington.
DU: The story goes that you were set to have a career in music.
And then one day you wandered into a course with Josef Korbel
(founder of what was then DUs Graduate School of International
Studies). That must have been some course.
Rice: The truth of the matter is that I was a failed piano major by
the time I wandered into Dr. Korbels course. I had studied piano
from age 3; I could read music before I could readI was really
headed for a career at Carnegie Hall. And then, the summer of my
sophomore year, I went to the Aspen Music Festival school. I met
12-year-olds who could play from sight what it had taken me all
year to learn, and I thought, Uh-oh, Im going to end up teaching
13-year-olds to murder Beethoven, or maybe Im going to play
[in a] piano bar, but Im not playing Carnegie Hall.
And so I came back to the University. I was already a junior,
trying to find a major. My parents were really worried that I wasnt
going to find a major and figure out what to do with my life. I
took a course in international politics in the spring quarter of
junior year, so it was pretty late. And Dr. Korbel was a magnificent
storyteller. He was someone who made international politics and
the Soviet Union come alive. He did it through wonderful stories
about his time as a diplomat, about his time in the dark days of
World War II. He had magnificent stories about being in Yugoslavia
and knowing Tito. And suddenly this world opened up to me, of
Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and I thought, Thats what
I want to do. It really was this course that led me to believe there
was another future for me. Even if I couldnt be a great concert
musician, maybe the study of the Soviet Union would provide a
passion. Ive often said, sometimes your passion finds you instead
of the other way around. I think this is a case where my passion
found me.
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DU: Could you walk us through your day on Sept. 11, 2001?
Rice: Well, Sept. 11 was, of course, a day that no American will
ever forget, maybe no one in the world will ever forget. But for
those of us in a position of authority, every day after Sept. 11 was
Sept. 12. You really had a complete change in the way you thought
about everything after Sept. 11.
I got to the office, as usual, early6:15 or so. The president
happened to be going that day down to Florida to do an education
event, and ironically, either the deputy national security adviser,
Steve Hadley, or I would normally have been with him whenever
he traveled, even domestically. But this was just going to be a
four-hour trip, so both of us stayed in Washington. There was lots
to do.
Just after the first plane went into the World Trade Center,
my executive assistant came in and said, You know, a plane has
hit the World Trade Center. I thought, Well, thats a strange
accident. I called the president, and we talked about how odd it
was. Then I went down for my staff meeting, and they handed me
a note that said a second plane had hit the World Trade Center.
I thought, My God, this is a terrorist attack. So I went into the
situation room to try to gather the national security principals
Colin Powell was in Peru; George Tenet, the CIA director, had
already gone to the bunker; and I couldnt get Don Rumsfeld, the
secretary of defense. I looked behind me, and a plane had hit the
Pentagon on the television. At about that time the Secret Service
came to me and said, You have to go to the bunker, planes are
flying into every building in Washington; we dont know if the
White House is going to be next.
And so I was sort of spirited away down to a bunker. On the
way, I stopped and I called my aunt and uncle, and I said, Terrible
pictures are going to be coming out of Washington, but Im OK.
Tell everybody Im OK.
And I called the president, and the president said, Im
coming back. And I did something I never did before or after: I
raised my voice to him, and I said, You stay where you are. I said,
You cannot come back here. Washington is under attack. And the
rest of the day was trying to deal with the consequences. I talked
to Vladimir Putin on the phone. He said, We know that your
forces are going up on alert. We are bringing our forces down.
As an old Soviet specialist, it was really confirmation for me that
the Cold War was over, and here was Russia trying to help at that
moment.
I remember the horrors of thinking that the plane that went
down in Pennsylvaniathat wed shot it down, because the
president had given an order that any plane that was not properly
responding could be shot down by the fighters. We couldnt let
planes keep flying into buildings in Washington. And I remember
sitting there just trying to deal with everything that was coming
across our desk in a sort of fog that, frankly, didnt lift until several
days later at the memorial service, when, I think, for all of us
the period of mourning was over and the period of action and
defiance began.
 Ive moved on to my other life,
which is teaching at Stanford
and writing books.
DU: I read in The New York Times that you considered the national
security post a great job, but then you added, Its also a very difficult
job because everything is by remote control. You do not own any of
the assets. What did you mean by that?
Rice: Well, national security adviser is a fancy title for assistant to
the president for national security affairs, and you are the presidents
staff. Its your responsibility to help him in any way that you can.
But the fact of the matter is that the way you help him the most is
to get the constitutional officersthe secretary of state, the secretary
of defense, the secretary of the treasuryall working in the same
direction to help the presidents policies. But the secretary of state
is the person who has the diplomats, the secretary of defense has
the military forces. They are the people who have the authority that
comes with being confirmed by the Senate.
As national security adviser, you are staffrarified staff to
be sure, but youre staff. So I told President Bush once, Its like
working by remote control. Can I get secretary A to do this, and can
I get secretary B to do that and secretary C to stop doing that? And
thats really what being national security adviser is like.
DU: In 2002, the administration outlined what came to be known
as the Bush Doctrine, with two pillars being preemptive strikes and
encouraging democratic regime change. Given that preemption could
be used as justification for aggression, was this controversial within the
foreign policy [and] national security apparatus?
Rice: Of course, preemptionor its cousin, preventive warhave
long been a part of American military doctrine. If you ask the
question in a rather simple wayif you suspect that something is
about to attack you, or if the storm clouds are gathering, the threat
is gathering, do you wait until you are attacked? Or do you try to
deal with the problem before? Then I think people understand
why prevention and preemption have a place in military strategy.
And after Sept. 11, the idea that we would sit again and wait for
threats to gather, as they had in Afghanistan, I think that was what
was far-fetched. And yes, for some it was controversial. But I think
the mistaken view is that we intended somehow to go around
preempting and preventing warwith preventive warall over
the globe. In fact, there were a limited number of threats that
were concerning enough to try and deal with before they fully
materialized.
DU: March 19, 2003: The United States launches an air strike on
the Dora Farms, where Saddam Hussein was supposedly visiting his
sons. The next day the war begins. Tell me about March 19.
Rice: As of fall 2002, the president had gone to the Security
Council to say it was time for Saddam Hussein to either comply
with the will of the international community, expressed in more
than a dozen Security Council resolutions16 or 17 Security
Council resolutionsand fully disarm and allow inspectors back
in with full access or he would have to pay the consequences. That
work then unfolded until February, when I think it was clear that
Saddam Hussein was not going to fully comply, that the word of
the United States and the word of the Security Council had to have
meaning, and it was at that point pretty clear that we were likely
headed toward some kind of military confrontation with Iraq.
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 But the Dora Farms events were not planned, and they are, to
me, one piece of evidence against the idea that somehow we were
just dying to go to warwe just wanted to go to war against Saddam
Hussein. The reason that we launched the strike at Dora Farms was
that we had intelligence that Saddam might be going there, and we
thought if we could kill him, then perhaps we wouldnt have to go to
war. And it required a revision of the war plan. The war was supposed
to start with air strikes the next day against Iraqi air defenses. But
instead we took this chance to try and get rid of Saddam Hussein. As it
turns out, he either wasnt there or he escaped. Most likely he wasnt
there. And we then went to war the next day.

DU: So you must have been on the edge of your seat wondering,
when the strike was launched, have we just prevented the war?
Rice: What was actually controversial was whether to launch Dora
Farms at all. I can remember being in the Oval Office with the
president, Don Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Colin Powell and the
chairman of the joint chiefs, because everything was set for the
execution of the war plan. The president had that morning met
with his commanders one last time by video, asking if there was
anything more that they needed. Everyone had said, God bless
America, and we were ready to launch the war. Then to suddenly
decide to change the planwhich could have, of course, given the
Iraqis strategic warning of the time of the launch of the military
advancewas somewhat dangerous. And we had a long discussion
about whether to even do that, whether to do this and give the
Iraqis a chance to get ready. We decided, in the final analysis,
that it was worth taking the shot. And yes, we waited some 12 Ive often said, sometimes your
hours and then learned that, in fact, wed not gotten Saddam
Hussein, although there was a false reportjust shows you how passion finds you instead of the
the fog of war actsthere was a false report that somebody had
seen somebody like Saddam Hussein on a stretcher. And that got other way around.
everybodys heart rate going for a moment, but then it came in that
probably hed not been killed then.
to be on an airplane all the time. The fact is, Im kind of a nester.
DU: Lets move on to the secretary of state years. Im curious: After For somebody who does international politics, I dont really like to
four grueling years as national security adviser, why werent you ready travel that much. Id just as soon be in my bed in my house with my
to retire? Why did you want such a challenging job as secretary of state? things. And I thought, OK, youre just going to have to get ready to
travel, because I traveled a million miles as secretary. You cannot do
Rice: The truth of the matter was, I was ready to retire after being it by video, you cannot do it by phone. You have to be with people.
national security adviser and told the president so. I said, You For me, that was in some ways the hardest decision, determining, in
know, your national security team is exhausted. Weve had the worst fact, that I could go forward.
terrorist attack in American history, fighting two wars, its time to
leave. I would not have remained as national security adviser. When
DU: What did you think you could bring to the position?
the president and I talked about my becoming secretary of state
because Colin had said that he was ready to step down as secretary of Rice: Well, I thought I could bring to the position the experience
stateI said to the president, Are you sure you want to do this? You of having been national security adviser, but also I knew what we
probably could use new blood. needed to achieve strategically, and I knew where the president
We then talked about what was on the agenda for reconciliation was. The secretary of state and the president of the United
with our allies after the difficulties of 2003, 2004. I felt that we had States need to be close. It cant be that any foreign government
a lot of work to do in the Middle East, particularly if we wanted to or even the bureaucracy in Washington thinks they can split the
launch a Palestinian-Israeli negotiation. And so for those reasons, it president and the secretary of state. The president and I had
seemed worth doing. differences during my tenure as secretary of state. Nobody ever
The part for me that was daunting was that I knew I was going knew it, because we would sit down and wed hammer it out,

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 Keynote
Condoleezza Rice will deliver
the keynote address at the
and hed listen to meultimately, he 13th annual Korbel Dinner on different Middle East than we found. If,
was president. But I felt that bringing Aug. 27 at the Hyatt Regency in fact, al-Qaida is defeated, that will be a
that close relationship and the need to fundamentally different situation than we
Denver at Colorado Convention
do some things that would now lay a found. And if the presidents efforts to deal
firm foundation going forward, from the Center. Rice also will receive the with the scourge of AIDS and malaria and
difficult years that wed been through 2010 Josef Korbel Outstanding poverty in Africa, something for which he
from Sept. 11 through 2004that I could Alumni Award, which will be is fondly remembered on the continent, if
do that. presented by former Secretary there are fewer orphans as a resultthere are
of State Madeleine Albright. currently 2 million people under treatment
For ticket information, with antiretrovirals; there were 50,000
DU: Since leaving the post of secretary of
contact Yvette Peterson at when we startedhistory will judge our
state, youve been very quiet about foreign
administration well.
policy and unfolding circumstances. Why is 303-871-2882 or
that? Yvette.Peterson@du.edu.
DU: Would you return to the foreign policy
Rice: Well, first of all because I dont really
apparatus in another administration?
want to be a former anything. Ive moved
on to my other life, which is teaching at Rice: I cant imagine why anybody, after
Stanford and writing books and doing some speaking and work having been secretary of state, would want to go back and be part
that I love with the Boys and Girls Club and K-12 education. Ive of the foreign policy establishment. Secretary of state is the greatest
never particularly wanted to just sort of hang out in Washington and job in government. You get to represent this great country that I
comment on foreign policy. I was the nations chief diplomatI love so much, you get to see its strengths and its challenges, and
had my chance. We had eight years, and after eight years, we did theres nothing quite like stepping off that plane as secretary of state,
what we could dosome of it good, some things Id do differently. with the plane behind you saying United States of America. Once
But Im very aware that it looks a lot easier from the outside than it youve done that, I dont know why you would want to try and
does when youre sitting at that desk. I dont want to be somebody replicate an experience like that. In that sense, maybe you really cant
sitting out chirping criticism at my successor. I think you owe go home again. I will always find ways to engage in public service,
those who come after you more than that. You owe them a certain but I am content with what I did and with what we did, and I dont
decorumyouve had your chance, youve done your best. The really see the circumstances that would return me to Washington.
good thing about change is that they now get to do it their way.
DU: To wrap up this interview, I want to deliver another quote of
DU: There are critics and historians today who say the Bush yours: I dont do life crises. I really dont. Lifes too short. Get over it.
administration will be ranked as one of the worst in history. How do Move on. Still feel that way?
you feel about that?
Rice: I feel very much that way. I dont quite understand the
Rice: Id say theyre not very good historians if theyre making those impulse of people, first of all, to always have their hair on fire.
judgments now. I think about all the times that todays headlines Everythings a crisis; everythings nuclear war. A lot of life is paper
and historys judgment didnt turn out to be the same. In fact, I clips. A lot of life you just have to say, OK, Im putting that aside,
kept four portraits of secretaries of state near me: Thomas Jefferson, Im going on, its too bad, but Im going on. We all have our
although to my mind hes a little bit overrated as a founding father. emotional times and struggles. The deaths of my parents were times
Alexander Hamilton is my favorite founding father. I kept George that were not so easy just to get over. Obviously those times come.
Marshall, certainly the greatest secretary of state. But I also kept But for the most part, Im not, frankly, all that reflective. I dont
Dean Acheson. When Dean Acheson left office, people talked spend a lot of time trying to get to know myself. Maybe thats
about who lost China. Now Dean Acheson is known as the father somebody you wont like very much if you spend too much time
of NATO and he laid the foundation for victory in the Cold War, trying to get to know yourself, so I think Im just maybe not that
in which I was lucky enough to participate in 1990 and 1991. And reflective. Maybe its not a good thing, but I try very hard to take life
I kept William Seward. He bought Alaska, and at the time it was as a blessing and a gift. I am a deeply religious personwhatever
Sewards Folly and Sewards Icebox. I think were all glad now that you go through, I believe, is part of honing yourself to be better the
William Seward bought Alaska from the tsar of Russiafor $7 next time. And in that regard, just being thrown off kilter whenever
million by the way. life gets a little difficult seems not really worth it.
So I give no credence to any historian who is ready to make
those judgments now. They ought to read their history and realize
that it takes a long time, especially for consequential events, to play To read a full transcript of the interview, in which Rice discusses
out the string. History has a long arc, not a short one, and if, in growing up in Alabama, her favorite composers, the election of
fact, the Middle East is a place that, instead of Saddam Hussein, Barack Obama and her debt to Josef Korbel, visit www.du.edu/
finally has an Arab democracy in Iraq, that will be a fundamentally magazine.

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 Whole
W ide
World
Study-abroad students capture their experiences in photos.
By Elizabeth Fritzler

O
fficials at the University of Denver know that travel is an education unto itself. Through DUs Cherrington
Global Scholars program, students have an unparalleled opportunity to explore the world beyond their
front doors.
The Cherrington programwhich allows eligible students to spend a quarter abroad with no additional cost for
tuition, room and boardwas a major factor in DUs third-place ranking in the 2009 Open Doors report on percentage
of undergraduate students studying abroad.
Our study-abroad programs encourage students to immerse themselves in other cultures, says Eric Gould, vice
provost for internationalization. We have tremendous support from our faculty and administration, which has allowed
these programs to become so popular.
The report, which was released Nov. 16 by the Institute of International Education, shows DU sent 73.6 percent of
its undergraduates to study abroad. Only Pepperdine University and the University of San Diego ranked higher than DU.
Study abroad gives students the opportunity to live in a culture while having structure and earning credit for a
degree, says Karen Becker, associate director of study abroad. Its a win-win situation.
Students can choose from more than 150 locations around the globe for their study-abroad program, including
Kenya, Turkey and Denmark.
Worldview is one of the most important parts of education, says junior human communication and French major
Alex Gross, who studied in France in fall 2009. It affects how we learn and how we apply what we learn. Study abroad
was a liberating, independent experience for me.
Since 2003, DU has sponsored a study-abroad photo contest that encourages students to capture their
experiences to share with others. The following photos were submitted for the 2010 contest. A judging panel of students
and staff picked five winners and 15 honorable mentions in the following categories: cultural interaction; DU students
abroad; people, places and food; and flora and fauna. Winners were awarded cash prizes at a gala event in January.
The photos offer glimpses of life outside the U.S. through the eyes of students abroad during the fall 2009 quarter.
Some photos feature breathtaking scenery; others capture local life and the faces of citizens. Each one reveals beauty
and a distinct culture, regardless of the countrys social problems or economic condition.

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 The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
St. Augustine

While in India, junior theater and anthropology major Gwen Adams met
these four Rabari girls, who displayed their traditional tribal dress before
a wedding. They gave Adams a tour of their village, offering her chai and
showing her their mothers embroidery.

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 Junior Alex Gross stayed in
Aix-en-Provence, France.
He was preparing to
photograph this rainy square
when the couple under
the umbrella passed. He
snapped the picture just in
time to see them kiss. Gross
is a human communication
and French major.

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 Junior mass
communications
major James Tarras
captured this dramatic
image during an August
freeride competition
at the Temple Basin ski
area in New Zealand.
It was unlike any other
mountainor resort,
if you would even call
it thatthat I have
ever been to, he says.
Immense amounts of
hiking were involved
in getting up to some
of the best snow and
most beautiful peaks
imaginable within the
Southern Alps of New
Zealand.

Junior international business and finance major
Nathan Polta spent his fall quarter in San Jose,
Costa Rica. He was fascinated with the local life
and art in the country and snapped this photo
of two men breakdancing in a park gazebo in
downtown San Jose.
Senior international studies major Jessi Jones visited Gaziantep,
Turkey, and shared her story about the local woman pictured here:
I was walking through these pistachio fields and saw an elderly lady
who was murmuring Muslim prayers for forgiveness. She was sitting
in such serenity next to the fields in which she had spent her life
picking pistachios.

See more study-abroad photo contest entries at www.du.edu/magazine.

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Peggy Fox/Getty Images

Rage All the Rage

Assistant
Professor
By Tamara Chapman

At a party in a west Denver neighborhood on Halloween night, the tensions between two
teenage girls turned into a full-fledged fight. After the initial violence, one of the girls left the scene,
only to return later with three friends. Then, according to The Denver Post, the fight continued, with

Lisa Pasko five sets of fists flying and five pairs of legs thrashing and kicking.
It took the police to break up the fracas, and the two primary combatants, as the Post called
has a plan them, were taken to Denver Health with injuries. One of the girls was subsequently arrested on

to help assault charges, and police hinted that more arrests might be in the offing.
Because they were juveniles, their names were not published. To readers, they were just two
violent girls. faceless girls gone dangerously wild, one of them headed for a juvenile justice system that knows
too little about violent girls and not enough about how to help them.
Lisa Pasko, an assistant professor in DUs Department of Sociology and Criminology, wants to
remedy that.

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 o Co-author of The Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime and
a nationally recognized expert on issues of gender and delinquency,
Pasko has spent the last two years examining how Colorados
juvenile justice agencies respond to violent middle school and high
school girls. Her work, supported by a grant from the Colorado
Division of Criminal Justice, aims to help professionals working
with violent girls better understandand thus better addressthe
adolescents and teenagers populating their caseloads.
Her research helps explain why the number of female
offenders has grown significantly over recent years and what
approaches work best to help them become productive members
of society. Her findings also suggest that, across the board, the
strategies for dealing with violent girls beg for fine-tuning.
Considering how many girls are crowding the juvenile justice
system, the sooner that fine-tuning begins, the better. A 2008
report by the U.S. Department of Justices Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention notes that in the last three
decades arrests of girls have increased steadily, even as arrests of
boys have decreased.
As recently as 2004, girls accounted for an unprecedented 30
percent of all juvenile arrests nationwide. In 2003, the arrest rate
of girls for simple assault was more than triple the rate in 1980,
while the arrest rate for aggravated assault nearly doubled.
Although these statistics suggest that violence among girls
is up dramatically, Pasko isnt so sure. Girls have always been
picking fights with one another, she says. Whats new is that
were responding to their offenses more aggressively.
Thats especially true in school settings. Once upon a time,
before heightened concerns about bullying, gang violence and
school shootings, administrators might have responded to a girl
fight by calling both parties into the office and mediating. Today,
they call the police.
With zero tolerance, there is no discretion. Our school
systems have transformed themselves into a capture-and-release
program, Pasko says, noting that fighting girls are captured
on camera and released to the juvenile justice system. Many of
them, she contends, dont belong there.
If zero-tolerance policies account for some of the increase in
arrest statistics, technology also shares top billing. It plays a role in
escalating tensions and in documenting their zenith. For example,
before the advent of cell phones, schoolgirls taunted one another
via passed notes. Chances were good that these missives would
be intercepted by an adult prepared to quash mischief. Today,
Pasko explains, girls can text fighting words to dozens of people
without an adult ever learning about it. With the chances for adult
intervention minimized, fights inevitably break out.
Once fights do break out, they often are recorded for
posterity by security video systems or cell phone cameras. Should
these fights happen on school premises, administrators often have
little choice but to summon police.
In many instances, Pasko says, fights could easily have been
avoided. After all, where adolescent girls are concerned, violence
typically is a desperate, last-resort option.
To illustrate her pointand the violent girls quandary
Pasko shares a story from Colorado case files: In one middle
school, a seventh-grade girllets call her Juliawas dating the
former boyfriend of her former best friend (Sally). Angry and
jealous, Sally dispatched text messages far and wide, alerting the
community to Julias supposedly promiscuous behavior.
The slanderous text messages continued long after the
boyfriend had moved on to another girl. Time and again, Julia
took the problem to teachers and counselors, who proposed
solutions that yielded lackluster results. Mediation didnt work;
face-to-face meetings didnt work; admonitions and warnings
didnt work. The text messages continued. Finally, Julia asked her
mother for advice.
Her mom told her, Kick her ass, Pasko recalls.
Which she did. Julia did such a thorough job that she earned
a felony assault charge. Later, when her probation officer asked
if she regretted her actions, Julia offered an emphatic no. Why
o
should she regret the one tactic that put a stop to the harassment?
Girls try to avoid physical violence, Pasko explains. Then
it happens, and its pretty functional for them.
Education and social work professionals could help girls
avoid violence if they knew more about how girls come to
violence and about how their fights and issues differ from those
of their male counterparts, Pasko maintains. As brutal as violence
among boys can be, it flares up and de-escalates quickly.
For boys, violence is often the result of a masculinity
challenge. In order to prove yourself as masculine, you have to
be ready to fight, or at least not back down from a fight, Pasko
says. The issues generally are straightforward and uncomplicated,
making it relatively easy to mediate boy-on-boy conflicts.
In fact, boy violence is often telegraphed in advance, giving
adults ample opportunity to intervene. Some may schedule their
fights for after school or off campus. As Kristi McCollum, a
psychologist with Denver Public Schools (DPS), notes, boys are
much more flat-out upfront about it.
In her 11 years with DPS, McCollum has counseled a fair
number of violent girls. Their fights often grow out of simmering
gossip, much of it centering on boys and much of it conducted off
the adults radar screen.
The girl drama can go on for days, McCollum says.
Somebody telling somebody that somebody said something bad
about them. It starts with a lot of verbal back-and-forth. Pretty
soon youve got a big drama and they start screaming in the
hallway.
By the time it gets to that point, several girls may have united
against a single peer, McCollum explains.
Such scenarios, Pasko says, typically result from a hierarchical
power structure in which girls are evaluated by other girls on
three primary criteria: whom they are dating, what they look like
and how they express their sexuality. A failure to pass muster
in girl world cuts a girl off from the social networks and
relationships associated with a healthy adolescence.
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 Wayne Armstrong
o The complexity of girls
issues makes prevention and
intervention tricky. Strategies
that often work with boys can
backfire with girls. Take peer
counseling, a tool thought to
foster group cohesiveness.
Such counterproductive
behavior changes, Bolding and
Pasko agree, when girls have
access to programs structured with
them in mind.
One of the intervention
programs Bolding directs,
That is probably the most InterCept Too, offers a gender-
humiliating situation for girls, specific skills curriculum for girls
Pasko says, explaining that girls in the juvenile justice system.
who get into trouble tend not Many of them have been referred
to trust their peers or value to the program by teen courts.
their advice. They are in trouble InterCept Toowhose
precisely because they are not practices and philosophy feature
functioning well within their prominently in Paskos research
peer groups. teaches girls how to channel anger
What does work, Pasko into productive behavior and how
says, is professional mediation to deal with the troubled personal
mediation that takes gender into histories they bring with them.
account by addressing the girls Girl offenders are far more likely
needs to talk through issues than boys to have endured sexual
and air concerns. Because this abuse, Bolding points out, and
approach requires time and that requires special therapies and
professional services, it isnt strategies.
cheap. And too often, it isnt the DU Assistant Professor Lisa Pasko says social work professionals Perhaps most important,
recourse of first resort. could help girls avoid violence if they knew more about how their InterCept Too shows girls how to
Once they enter the fights and issues differ from those of their male counterparts. build and maintain relationships
juvenile justice system, violent with other girls and women.
girls face a world constructed Most of our girls will tell
without much thought for you, I dont get along with
their reality or their needs. As Kimberly Bolding, director of youth females. I only get along with guys, Bolding says. Thats an
services at the Colorado Springs-based Womens Resource Agency, immediate indicator that they are headed for additional trouble.
puts it, Our juvenile justice systems were devised by males, for To help them change course, InterCept Too takes the time to
males, and [are] run by males. model productive female relationships, showing the girls how to
As a result, Pasko says, males understand the system and know share experiences and negotiate differences and conflicts. Were these
how to function within it. For example, boys tend to have crisp, girls in a more traditional program, one designed for boys, theyd be
businesslike relationships with their probation officers. They check urged to work off steam on the basketball court.
in when expected and provide only the minimum information Although the InterCept Too approach is time-consuming and
needed to comply with the terms of their sentences. Girls, on the labor-intensiveand thus expensiveit gets results, Bolding says,
other hand, often see their probation officers as sympathetic friends pointing to a 20 percent recidivism rate, compared to a 30 percent
and mentors. Theyll unwittingly confide in them, letting slip, rate for many other state programs.
perhaps, that they skipped school or smoked a joint. As Pasko sees it, the emphasis on female relationships is critical
They provide evidence for their own revocation, Pasko for the long-term prospects of violent girls. Thats a point she
explains, noting that as a result, girls typically remain on probation emphasizes in her report to the Colorado Division of Criminal
twice as long as boys. Justice. Girls who can maintain a strong tie with at least one female,
In fact, without effective intervention, girls tunnel deeper into whether a friend or relative, tend to make healthy and safer choices.
the criminal justice system. Not over major, major crimes, Bolding As long as they have their feet in girl world, they dont engage
says, but over failures. in violence as much, she says.
For example, while on probation or serving a sentence, theyre And investing in their success is important not just for the
more likely than boys to commit status offenses, such as running juvenile justice system but also for society as a whole. After all, she
away from home or violating curfews at group homes. These says, theyre the people who are going to be raising the next
arent crimes, but they are violations that come with significant generation.
consequences.

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 44 Dads & granddads
47 Book bin
48 Pioneer pics
49 Reunion recap
51 Announcements
DU Archives

A member of the DU Pioneers baseball team takes a swing during a home game photographed sometime
between 1955 and 1965. Baseball at DU has been around since the early daysthe first recorded athletic
event at the University was a Colorado Seminary baseball game in 1867. Though varsity baseball disappeared
in 1997, the game returned as a club sport in 2008. If you have any athletics photos you would like to share,
please let us know.

University of Denver Magazine Connections 39

 The classes 1957
Rob Conklin
Chapter for his fundraising efforts for
Camp Mak-A-Dream, a free program for
(BA 57, MA 60) young cancer patients.
1952 has worked for
Kurt Weinke (BS 52) and Elizabeth Colorados athletic
(Knowles) Weinke (BA 54) of Cherry Hills, administration for 1967
N.J., have been married for 57 years. Kurt 33 years and Denver Nancy Hall Chase (BSBA 67) of
is a Korean War veteran and was the first Public Schools Denver is the Osher Lifelong Learning
ROTC student at DU to be commissioned (DPS) for more than Institute (OLLI) program coordinator for
as a second lieutenant in the military police. 50 years. He has University College at DU. Before her
He has spent the last 10 years working coached at Denver University College position, she worked
internationally in agricultural chemistry. South High School, directed athletics and in nonprofit management and developed
After retirement, he founded a company in student activities for DPS and served as a wedding consulting business, Nancy
Sao Paolo, Brazil. president of the Colorado High School Chase Weddings and Celebrations. During
Activities Association and the Colorado her 2009 DU sorority reunion, Nancy
High School Athletic Directors Association. guided a tour of the campus and sorority
1953 Nationally, Rob helped create the National house. She has two daughters and four
Calvin Ammerman Interscholastic Athletic Administrators grandchildren.
(BA 53) of Denver Association. In 2002, he was inducted into
retired from his the National High School Hall of Fame.
ministry position at 1968
Augustana Lutheran Mary Anne (Edwards) Cole (MA 68)
Church in October 1964 was confirmed in the Roman Catholic
2000 after 38 years. G.D. Corky Church. In November 2007 she received
He has delivered Christman (BSBA a pacemaker, allowing her to continue her
papers worldwide 64) of Billings, Mont., political writing. Despite some chronic
on family and was named 2009 health issues, Mary Anne is building her
sexual ethics; one was published as a book. person of the year by strength to pursue her hobbies: organic
He and his wife, Thelma, have two children, the Montana Certified gardening and listening to recorded books.
Rise and Ravel. Residential Specialists She resides in Lutherville, Md.

1969
Winning combination A. Michael Marasco (BS 69) and his
wife, Pamela Marasco (BA 70), reside in
Crown Point, Ind. Michael has spent the
DUs Young Alumni Endowed Scholarship Committee joined with the Recent Graduate last 30 years specializing in foot and ankle
Committee in January to create a new organization that will promote networking for alumni and surgery with a private medical practice.
raise funds for scholarships. So many members had served on both committees that combining Pamela recently won a contest for her travel
the two seemed natural. writing about Italy; her business, Cositutti,
We had tapped all our resources, says Solveig Tschudi Lawrence (BSBA 02), co-founder markets Italian artisan products.
of the scholarship committee. The committees were combined to get reconnected with more
recent graduates and to get some new, fresh ideas and new people in there too.
The new organization, still called the Recent Graduate Committee, will handle alumni
1972
Al Batten (MS 72) retired from the
events and social activities at DU, including a spring cocktail party and fundraiser. According to
electrical and computer engineering
Lawrence, the groups overall goal is to communicate with scholarship providers and reach out faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy
to potential donors while keeping recent graduates connected to the University. in December 2009. He has worked in
Last October the scholarship committee made its first award to junior Lacey Henderson, a academia for 30 years, including a teaching
Spanish and international studies major. Henderson is a DU cheerleader who lost a leg to cancer position at Colorado Technical University.
at age 9 and provides mentoring at Childrens Hospital. The committee was searching for an He and his wife of 41 years, Nancy, reside
upperclassman who was overcoming obstacles and providing community service. in Black Forest, Colo., and frequently
Members of the new committee are finding it easier to network with one another, and the travel to Wisconsin to visit their new
scholarship funds are seeing a wider range of donors. granddaughter.
Were close to getting over $100,000 in total commitments, says Craig Harrison (BSBA
03), co-founder of the scholarship committee. Thats a pretty huge accomplishment.
Elizabeth Fritzler

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 Janet Beardsley
(BA 72) received
a Daily Camera
Pacesetter Award
on Feb. 16 for
her community
service in
Boulder County,
Colo. She has
been executive
director of Boulders YWCA for 23 years,
overseeing service for more than 2,500
people annually. Janet also led the YWCAs
$2.5 million capital campaign project,
which included a large addition to the
facility. She has received the Be Bold
Award from the Womens Foundation
of Colorado and was named a Woman
Who Lights Up the Community by the
Boulder Chamber of Commerce.
1977
Wayne Armstrong
Brenda Hollis (JD 77) has been
appointed prosecutor of the Special
Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague,
Netherlands. She also is a senior trial
attorney at the Special Court and leads
the team prosecuting Charles Taylor, the
former president of Liberia. Brenda has
served in the office of the prosecutor at
the International Criminal Tribunals for
the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
1978
John Hale (MPA 78) has been appointed
chief communications officer of the
Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
He is responsible for communications and
public affairs for VHAs 153 hospitals and
more than 800 clinics nationwide. Hale
also teaches the capstone public relations
course at Hood College in Frederick,
Md. He was selected in the first class of
presidential management interns after
receiving his MPA from the Daniels
College of Business in 1978 and has
served in business and governmentmost
recently as founder and principal of
consulting firm MINDWEST Strategies,
which continues under independent
management.
Volunteer Meyer Saltzman
Meyer Saltzman (BA accounting 58)
knows that one man cant change the
education and health care systems enough
to make life better for everyone. Instead,
for most of his life, he has worked to
change peoples lives through education
and health care, one person at a time.
If you can get one kid into college,
all the rest of the kids in that family
will follow, he says. If you can put 100
kids into college and then see the rest
of their siblings and then their own kids
go, the economic benefit to this country
is immeasurable. Certainly you havent
solved the systemic problems, but youve
taken a small bite of the apple.
Saltzman, who received the DU
Community Service Award at the
Founders Day ceremony in March,
was born and raised in Denver. His
father died three days before he was
born and his mom continued to work as a seamstress and waitress. Saltzman started
working when he was 12.
He received a scholarship to attend DU and believes that was the beginning of many
opportunities the Denver community provided to him. Thus, throughout his successful
accounting career, Saltzman has tried to return the favor.
He has chaired the boards of National Jewish Health and the Caring for Colorado
Foundation. He currently is on the board of Western State College and serves as a
commissioner of the Colorado Limited Gaming Commission. He and his wife, Geri Bader
Saltzman, endowed a scholarship at DU, and Saltzman serves on the board of the Denver
Zoo because he likes to see families enjoying themselves.
But he gains the most satisfaction when he sees that the organizations he works for
are changing lives.
Some of these kids we help through Caring for Colorado have never been shown
how to brush their teeth. Or they believe that they wont live past the age of 20. They
havent been shown any opportunities, Saltzman says. When I see young people who
believe they dont have opportunities, it is important to me to help. I get a lot of good
feelings for doing it.
Lynn Taussig, former president and CEO of National Jewish and special adviser to
the provost for life sciences at DUs Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, says that when Saltzman
decides to join an organization or champion a cause, he commits everything hes gottime,
resources and good old-fashioned elbow grease.
Hes a fabulous role model for community service, Taussig says. He works hard to
enhance the community and help people who need assistance, whether financial, medical,
educational or professional advancement. Thats what he feels is his role in the community
and in life.
Still working at Saltzman Hamma Nelson Massaro, the accounting firm he helped
found, and volunteering many hours each week, Saltzman, 73, says that his friends ask him
when hes going to retire.
He simply states, I am retired. Im doing what I love to do.
Janalee Card Chmel
University of Denver Magazine Connections 41
 1979 Downtown Hotel. Warner and his joint consultation and property management
R. Lee Mays (BA 79) moved to Dallas venture partner, Suburban Water Technology, company. Happy Home Solutions owns
after his graduation from DU and earned installed an environmentally beneficial or controls 14 properties, primarily in the
an MBA at Southern Methodist University. water softener for the hotel. This was the Chicago area. Diane uses her TV reporter
Lee worked in banking until 1989, when he largest project of its kind ever completed by experience to create video presentations of the
became a real estate developer in Madrid and an independent water treatment dealer in companys available properties. She also is a
Barcelona, Spain. He returned to banking in Colorado. volunteer with her childrens activities: She is
2007 but remained in Madrid. He married a Girl Scout leader, room parent, soccer coach,
his wife, Maria, in 1981; they have two chess teacher and homework facilitator. She
children, ages 12 and 19. 1983 lives in Woodridge, Ill.
Mary Jo Rapini (BA 83) published Start
Talking: A Girls Guide for You and Your
1982 Mom About Health, Sex, or Whatever (Bayou 1987
Keith Warner Publishing, 2008), a question-and-answer Jeff Hannah (MA
(BSBA 82), book featuring advice from two nationally 87) of West Des
Denver resident recognized womens health experts. Rapini Moines, Iowa,
and president of resides in Houston, Texas. owns Touchstone
Highland Water Executive
LLC, was recently Development,
chosen for a special 1986 which recently
project with the Diane Moca (BA 86) started Happy was appointed
Sheraton Denver Home Solutions, a real estate investment, as a certified

General George Casey Jr.

DU has graduated plenty of leaders in its time, but its likely few have as solemn a responsibility
as Gen. George Casey Jr. (MA 80), who was sworn in as the 36th chief of staff of the United States
Army on April 10, 2007. He previously served as commander of the Multi-National Force in Iraq,
overseeing a coalition of more than 30 countries.
Casey, a previous recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Josef Korbel School
of International Studies, received the Evans Awardthe Universitys highest alumni honorat this
years Founders Day ceremony. Named for University founder John Evans, the award recognizes
alumni who have demonstrated professional achievement, humanitarian service to the community
and continuing interest in the University.
It was 32 years ago that Casey enrolled in DUs international studies program while stationed
Associated Press/Lauren Victoria Burke

in Colorado Springs, Colo. He thanks three of his professors at the Korbel SchoolArthur Gilbert,
Karen Feste and Jonathan Adelmanfor their work and what they taught him.
How fortunate I was to have studied here, Casey says. I had no idea at the time that I would
do some of the things Ive done.
Though he came from a military family, Casey didnt initially plan on having a career in the
armed forces. He planned to do his required two years of military service, then go to law school.
Instead, he told Georgetown University reporter Geneva Collins, I got to my first unit and I
fell in love with it. Theres that bond that you build with your soldiers, when you realize they depend on you for their lives. And it was that
commitment back to them to never let them down that has driven me my whole careernever to let my subordinates down.
As part of the Korbel Schools D.C. Career Connections Program, several Korbel students recently met with Casey at the Pentagon to
learn more about professional opportunities and operations at the Department of Defense.
Having lunch with Gen. Casey was one of the highlights of the D.C. Career Connections trip, says Heather Beebe, who is working on
a masters degree in international security with a certificate in homeland security. We expected him to walk in while we were having lunch,
say hello, and then depart to deal with more important matters. Instead, he sat with us during the entire meal and discussed issues that we
found interesting and wanted to learn more about, such as the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Greg Glasgow

42 University of Denver Magazine Summer 2010


affiliate within Resource Associates Corp.s
international network of senior-level business
and executive development professionals. The
firm specializes in organizational development
and change management for businesses. Jeff
has led several businesses and health care
systems and taught for several years at DU
and the University of Minnesota; he also has
experience in financial services and hospitality.
1988
Ignacio Jimenez (BS 88) and Christina
(Rice) Jimenez (MA 88) of Denver have
been married for almost 20 years. Ignacio runs
the translation and interpretation company
Translationlinks, which received the Denver
Metro Chamber of Commerce Minority
Business of the Year award in 2009. Christina
has worked in cardiac rehabilitation for 22
years. The couple also imports food from
Spain and operates an e-commerce retail store,
Stephen Voss
Comida Espaa.
1989
Mitchell Foster (BSBA 89) is a trial attorney
and has founded Mitch Foster Law, a criminal
defense firm dedicated to defending the rights
of the accused in criminal and drunk driving
cases. Mitch was named to Michigan Super
Lawyers magazine for the past three years. He
and his wife, Kelly, reside in Milford, Mich.,
with their daughter, Emma.
1990
Frank Bonanno (BSBA 90) of Denver was
nominated for outstanding restaurateur in
the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards,
which promote culinary heritage and diversity.
Bonanno is the executive chef-owner of
Bones, Luca DItalia, Mizuna and Osteria
Marco.
1992
Elizabeth (Dietsche) Montgomery (MA
92), of Tulsa, Okla., released her seventh
album, Somebodys Praying For You, in
December 2009. Though classically trained
with experience in opera, Elizabeth is now
a Christian recording artist. As a child, she
struggled with a severe lung illness, but she
recovered and recorded her first gospel album
before age 20. She has toured in the U.S. and
Europe.
Ambassador Cindy Courville
Cindy Courville (MA 80, PhD 88)
says that sometimes she has to pinch
herself as a reminder that its all real.
I have this image of myself in my
head, and Im all grown up, still growing
up, but I am this little girl from Opelousas,
Louisiana, who made it to the White
House and became ambassador to the
African Union, she says, pausing. Wow!
Courville has served as senior
director of African affairs for the National
Security Council, senior intelligence agent
for the Defense Intelligence Agency,
special assistant to the president of the
United States and the first-ever (from
any country) ambassador to the African
Union. She was this years recipient of
the University of Denver Professional
Achievement Award at the Founders Day
ceremony in March.
One might expect a person of Courvilles caliber to be ultra-serious and aloof.
Instead, shes warm, witty and quick with a story about her childhood.
Courville grew up in a very loving family during the days of Jim Crow law.
Her father worked for International Harvester and her mother was an in-home
seamstress and cook at Courvilles school. She also was a civil rights activist who toted
her kids along to NAACP meetings, set them up on phone banks during elections and
volunteered them as fraud watchdogs at the polls.
Courville was one of the first black students at an all-white school under the
Freedom of Choice Act, and she served as secretary of her towns NAACP chapter at
the age of 15. Still, she says, it wasnt until she enrolled at DUs Josef Korbel School of
International Studies that her perspective moved from local to international politics.
DU was where I made the leap across the ocean, she says, explaining that she
discovered parallels between her childhood and the struggles that were ensuing in
Zimbabwe, then known as Rhodesia.
The segregation of Rhodesia mirrored Louisiana. It fascinated me to watch it
unfold while I was in school.
Good friend Joan Helpern, who met Courville several years ago at Harvard
Universitys John F. Kennedy School of Government, where Helpern is on the Womens
Leadership Board, says Courville has a passion for making anything she comes into
contact with a little bit better than the way she found it.
She doesnt waste a moment feeling sorry for herself or for anyone else in the
world, Helpern adds. She demonstrates that each of us, by moving slowly forward, can
ultimately make the world slightly better than it was when we found it.
Courville, now a professor at the National Defense Intelligence College in
Washington, D.C., credits many others with her career accomplishments, calling them
her mentors, patrons and extended family. And she says this family has supported her
as she continuously redefines herself.
My parents gave me that gift, teaching me that I define who I am, she says. The
civil rights movement taught me to always rise above. You can define yourself. Its not
easy, but you can do it.
Janalee Card Chmel
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 cool off this Dads and granddads get a
summer in
glimpse of student life at DU
Pioneer Every February, the DU Parents

Laura Stevens
style! Association sponsors a weekend of tours and
events for DU students and their parents and
grandparents. This year, Dads and Granddads
Weekend took place Feb. 1920.
The event drew 260 dads and 40
granddads from 35 states, including Alaska
and Hawaii.
On-campus activities included two
hockey games, a DU Grilling Society pre-
game rally, carillon tours in Williams Tower
and a pizza-making contest hosted by the
School of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism
Management. In Denver and the surrounding
area, a sold-out ski bus transported families
to Breckenridge, and Metech Recycling and
Project C.U.R.E. hosted their own tours.
We had a really great response to the
activities this year. The weekend was a huge
success, says Hilde Gill Kaiser, co-chair of the
Parents Council. Hugh Meeker Sr., Hugh Meeker Jr., Henry Meeker and
Dads and Granddads Weekend Lee Sundet
alternates years with Moms and Grandmoms
Weekend. Last year, Moms and Grandmoms Weekend featured a tea at the Brown Palace
Hotel.
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or grandfather to participate in the activities, a few legacy
families were in attendance. Kaiser and her husband, Jerry
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or call 800-289-3848. Kirsten Litchfield, a sophomore English major, has
two grandfathers who earned degrees at DU; sophomore
regular store Andrea Fitch and her alumnus father, Carl (MBA 83),
Hunt and Tim Bergen registered for the weekend too.
Hours
Mondaythursday: The events are one way for alumni
8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. parents and grandparents to stay in touch
Friday: with their alma mater. Many remarked at how
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. much the DU campus has improved since
saturday: their college days.
10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The campus is dramatically different,
sunday: closed Carl Fitch said, but the spirit of the place still
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seems the same to me.

Elizabeth Fritzler

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 1993
Bill Cushard (BSBA 93) of Charlotte, N.C.,
was hired as chief learning officer for the
Knowland Group, a hospitality marketing
company. Bill has spent 10 years developing
learning strategies for customer-company
relations. During his first year as learning and
development director for E-Trade Financial,
Bill increased quality monitoring scores by
25 percent and customer satisfaction with
employee knowledge by 31 percent.
Bryan Ehrenholm (BSBA 93) of Modesto,
Calif., won first place in the nut pie category
for his Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut
Pie at the 2009 APC Crisco National Pie
Championship. The annual contest, featured
on Food Network Challenge, also awarded
Bryan second place in the open category for
his Hula-licious Pie. Bryan owns the Lunch
Pail restaurant in Modesto, Calif.
Erik Jacobsen (JD 93) was elected town
justice for Bedford, N.Y. His term began
Jan. 1, 2010.
Daniel Robinson (PhD 93) of Fort Collins,
Colo., received the Clay Reynolds Award for
his second book, The Shadow of Violence (Texas
Review Press, 2010).

Pioneer Mike St. John

Wayne Armstrong
In a way, Mike St. Johns work on behalf of the University of Denver
mirrors his professional life.
Over the course of his career, St. John (BSBA 81) has created and
launched successful businesses in many different industries and discovered
a passion for fields he never expected. He remains committed to absolutely
everything he decides to tackle. His endeavors include success in the
cellular phone industry with a business called Cellular Products Inc. and in
the high-tech industry with a company called Life Cycle Services LLC.
At his alma mater, St. John has volunteered for, donated to and
assisted students, causes and campaigns across many schools, departments
and teams. He says that at the heart of his ability to work and volunteer in
so many areas is an innate sense of curiosity.
My curiosity leads me to meet a lot of great folks, learn from them,
understand where there are opportunities and where we can make a
positive impact in the community, he says.
For his extensive efforts and impact, St. John was the winner of the
Randolph P. McDonough Award for Service to Alumni at DUs Founders
Day ceremony in March.
St. John is the first to admit that he needed a little nudging to
realize how important DU was in his life.
That nudging came in 1995 in the form of Peter Firmin, then-dean of
the College of Business Administration. Firmin had been instrumental in St. John attending DU, even helping him to secure a scholarship, so
when Firmin called and asked him to lunch, St. John obliged.
I had had no involvement with DU since graduation, St. John confesses. Peter basically chastised me and said, in his succinct, dry,
direct way, You got a heck of an education on our dime. You need toand have an obligation tocontribute back to the University. And he
was absolutely right.
Firmin says he always believed St. John had something special to offer both his community and his alma mater.
I saw in him, early on, a person with a great deal of talent and a person with vision, Firmin says. He has obviously worked very hard
with alumni and committed himself to the University. Mikes a leader, and he always has been a leader.
St. John has given his time, know-how and personal resources to the Daniels College of Business, the Josef Korbel School of
International Studies, the DU ski team, the alumni association and many others. However, he believes he gains more from his relationship
with DU than he can give, and he simply likes being part of the community.
Whenever I go back on campus, there is a sense of calm, there is a sense of youthfulness, he says. DU has, thanks to many people, a
life and a soul. Im proud to be part of it.
Janalee Card Chmel

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 1994
Suzanne Peters Payne (MSW 94) of
Lafayette, Colo., retired from her job as
a palliative care social worker in 2009. In
November of the same year, she married
Heinz Bulmahn surrounded by 110 family
members and close friends at St. Johns
Cathedral in Denver.
Jason Starr (BSBA
94) was promoted
to vice president
of Winona Capital
Management, a
venture capital
and private equity
firm based in
Chicago. Jason
previously was
an associate at Opus Capital, a principal at
BoldTech Systems and a manager at Andersen
Consulting (now Accenture). Prior to joining
Winona Capital, he earned his MBA from
the University of Chicago. Jason lives in Oak
Park, Ill., with his wife, Kathy, and his two
children, Zachary and Madeline.
2003 2006
Kevin Charles (MBA 03) of Kannapolis, Anthony Epps (BSBA 06, JD 09) of Denver
N.C., married Caitlin Elizabeth Walter in was hired at Kutak Rock LLP, a corporate
August 2009. He is financial manager of practice group. His practice will focus on
Cabarrus Pools in Concord, N.C. assisting a variety of national clients in
securities, general corporate and franchise law
issues.
2004
Erik Johnson (BSBA 04) of Denver is Karly (Campbell)
the advance coordinator for Our America Kothmann (BA 06)
Initiative, a political advocacy committee that and her husband,
seeks to increase discussion and involvement Tanner, welcomed their
regarding current issues in America. first child, Bella Reese
Kothmann, on Sept.
14, 2009. The family
2005 lives in New Braunfels,
Jill Doherty (BSBA 05, MBA 06) and Texas.
Adam Wallenstein (BA 05, MBA 06)
were married Aug. 29, 2009, in Westminster,
Colo. The couple met the first week of their
freshman year at DU. They live in Cleveland,
Ohio.

Save the Date for Homecoming and Family Weekend

October 14-17, 2010

Return to campus
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Dont miss the excitementalumni and parent celebrations,

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The book, Dawids third, also has been reviewed by Colorado Central and The Oregonian. It won
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 Pioneer pics 2007
Ewan Rankin
(BSBA 07)
Since I am an alumna and a staff married his
member on campus, my kiddos have sported longtime
DU gear since they were born! writes girlfriend,
Kristin Olson (MA 04), assistant director Shanelyn
for the Office of Citizenship & Community Pablo, in
Standards and adviser for campus fundraising Maui, Hawaii,
on Oct. 3,
group Up Til Dawn. Recently our family
2009. The
went to explore the not-so-far-away Black
couple resides
Canyon of the Gunnison [National Park, in in Issaquah,
western Colorado] where this photo was Wash.
taken.
As you pioneer lands far and wide, be
sure to pack your DU gear and strike a pose 2008
in front of a national monument, the fourth Sara Hebert (MA
08) of Shreveport,
wonder of the world or your hometown
La., joined
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Deaths
1940s
Thomas Allen (BA 49, MA 55), San Francisco, Calif., 6-19-09
Sal Guido (BS 49), Lakewood, Colo., 9-3-09
Alan Hess (BSBA 49), Littleton, Colo., 10-5-09
Andrew Koonce (BS 49), Albuquerque, N.M., 12-13-09
1980s
Renye Ress (attd. 8183), Denver, 12-22-09
Thomas Taylor Jr. (BS 84), Venice, Fla., 5-25-08
Susan Weston-Frey (attd. 8789), Scarborough, Australia, 9-12-09
1990s
Roger Hogoboom Jr. (JD 96), Arvada, Colo., 11-11-09

1950s Faculty and Staff

Bruce MacFarland (BSBA 53), Encinitas, Calif., 2-25-10
Robert Maines (BA 54), Lakewood, Colo., 12-22-09
1960s
Yale Huffman (JD 60), Denver, 10-27-09
Robert Grinstead (BS 61), Denver, 12-19-08
Donna Ryan (MSW 68), New Richmond, Wis., 10-28-09
1970s
Daniel Pakenham (MA 73), Elm Grove, Wis., 1-15-09
Troy Bledsoe (PhD 73), Pioneers head basketball coach (196268),
Grand Junction, Colo., 12-31-09
Francis Bonomo (BA 43, MS 49), retired lecturer and research assistant
at the Denver Research Institute, Englewood, Colo., 1-9-10
Sallye (Wrye) Smith (MA 69), Penrose Library assistant professor
emerita (9092), Denver, 1-1-10
Friends
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 J. Couch Internet Research Award for
her masters thesis, Your World, Your
Imagination: Representation and Social
Expectation in Virtual Memorials.
Brooke Meyer (BSBA 08), of Aurora,
Colo., completed a sports marketing
internship at the University of California-
Berkeley and was then hired as assistant
director of operations for the universitys
womens basketball team. This summer
she will travel with Up With People, a
program that aids underserved communities
worldwide. Brooke will work with 100
young adults to present a musical stage
production; the group will perform more
than 200 hours of community service for
cities in the United States, Mexico and Asia.
Post your class note online at
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On the Road
Reunion recap
During the 2009 holiday season,
Courtesy of Michael Brehm
the DU Twin Cities Alumni chapter
worked with Hope for the Citya
Minnesota-based nonprofit organiza-
tion that donates overstock food,
medical and consumer products to
people in needto provide outreach
services in Minnesota communities.
On Nov. 17, four chapter mem-
bers helped unload 10 semi-trucks of
Target baby products (such as sham-
poo, baby oil and diapers), and then
resorted the items for distribution to
those in need.
Volunteer Michael Brehm says Left to right, Meghan Draxler, Becca Burns, Michael Brehm
he and his team felt compelled to and Katie Ross
reach out and share our time and
energy to help others. We would like to make this a regular activity, and as our chapter grows,
we hope to get more volunteers and do more work around the community.
>>www.du.edu/alumni
Elizabeth Fritzler
Do you ever
WONDER WHAT YOUR ALMA
MATER HAS BEEN DOING
SINCE YOU LEFT ?
Come to a DU on the Road event and
find out. University representatives
will travel to cities this fall to provide an
update on campus developments and the
vision and goals behind them. All DU
alumni, friends and parents are invited
to enjoy an evening of food and drinks
with fellow Pioneers, faculty and staff.
Look for us this fall as we travel
to the following areas:
Los Angeles, CA
Chicago, IL
Milwaukee, WI
Salt Lake City, UT
Washington, DC
For more information, please visit
www.alumni.du.edu/DUontheroad
or call 1-800-448-3238, Ext. 0
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 Money matters
Although its easy to put off financial decisions, there is one item
you probably want to put on your financial calendar in 2010: Consider
converting your traditional individual retirement account (IRA) to a
Roth IRA. This year is the first to offer that opportunity for everyone,
regardless of annual income. (Prior to 2010, the limit was $100,000 in
annual income.)
If you convert to a Roth, you will have to pay taxes on all those
taxable gains you had in your traditional IRA. That could be a big
amount, but then any withdrawals from your Roth IRA are tax-free.
If you convert in 2010 then you can split the tax bill, with 50 percent
paid in 2011 and 50 percent paid in 2012. For example, if your tax bill
because of the Roth IRA conversion in 2010 is $10,000, you can pay
$5,000 in 2011 (when your 2010 taxes are due) and $5,000 in 2012,
with no interest penalty. Although IRA conversions regardless of annual
income limits are available after 2010, the 50 percent rule does not
apply after this year.
The best way to figure out whether the Roth IRA conversion is a
good deal for you is to go to a Roth IRA conversion calculator.
I have looked at a few of them, and the best one I found was Fidelity
Investments Roth Conversion Evaluator at www.fidelity.com. Their
methodology does consider, among many assumptions you need to
make, the time value of money. That is very important because, after
all, you are paying taxes today so you do not have to pay taxes on your
IRA withdrawals in the future. In short, do the math and only then will
you be able to make a sound investment decision.
Andrew Sherbo is a lecturer of finance in the Daniels College of Business and director
of the Center for Cost and Financial Analysis for Science Applications International
Corporation, a Fortune 500 company with offices in Colorado Springs.He has 35 years
of financial management experience in the public and private sectors.

Salesperson Nora Heitmann

Nora Ellen (Schneider) Heitmann (BA communication, political science 00) was named one of
Colorados 25 most powerful salespeople by Colorado Biz Magazine in February 2009. At the company
where she works, Forward Logistics Group (FLG), she is consistently the No. 1-ranked salesperson,
accruing more than $2.5 million annually.
And shes achieved all this while working only two days a week.
Two years ago, after the birth of her daughter, Heitmann decided to reduce her hours. She says
that motherhood is her first and favorite role in life. Yet she still maintains top numbers for FLG and
also finds time to volunteer extensively for the community. It was for these accomplishments that
Heitmann received the Ammi Hyde Award for Recent Graduate Achievement at the Founders Day
ceremony in March.
According to fellow DU alumna and friend Laura Rogers (BSBA 02), the secret is in Heitmanns
approach to life.
Nora is a very passionate person about everything she does. She is one of those unique women
who can do it all and who has this amazing ability to balance personal, professional, community, family
and social, and juggle all these aspects of her life with flair, Rogers says.
Heitmann believes her success is based on one fundamental aspect of her personality.
Wayne Armstrong

I sincerely like people, she says. Im the opposite of schmooze. I have a genuine love of getting to
know people and what makes them tick. My mom says I could make friends in a paper bag.
She also enjoys being busy. Heitmann serves on the Junior League of Denver and has held many
leadership positions at DU since graduation, including executive member of the Alumni Association Advisory Council and co-sponsor of the Young
Alumni Endowed Scholarship Committee, for which she has helped to raise more than $100,000.
At FLG, Heitmanns job is to secure new clients and maintain existing customers who need help coordinating their national and international
freight shipping. It sounds rather dry, but Heitmann gets practically giddy when she talks about it.
I have the funniest meetings all day, she says. I work with a lot of entrepreneurs who are very creative people. Many have found a product they
love or have made and designed themselves and they need help sourcing in China and bringing it here to sell domestically.
I look at supply chains and can tell them, Heres where we can make improvements, she explains. I build paths and connect people.
Heitmann, 31, seems to possess a rare ability to do it all happily.
There is nowhere else Id rather be in my life right now, she says. My real achievement is balance. I have a job and a family I love. I feel blessed.
Janalee Card Chmel

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 Miscellanea
Cover to cover
A collection of vintage science fiction
paperbacks amassed by Trace Reddell,
associate professor of media, film and
journalism studies at DU, was part of
the Faculty Collects exhibit that was on
display at the Myhren Gallery in April.
Showcasing the diverse collections of DU
faculty and staff, the exhibit included sets
of motel keys, airline safety cards, Popsicle
sticks, bottle caps, Fiestaware, antique
vibrators and more. Ive been collecting
sci-fi paperbacks since I was 12, but only
a few of those are actually still in this
collection, which Ive gathered up over the
last nine years or so, Reddell says. This
collection is more about the cover art than
anything else.Im interested in the surreal
space art more than accurate or nostalgic
representations of space technology
(rockets, astronautic gear), aliens or
planetary surfaces.I particularly like the
psychedelic covers from the mid-1960s
Wayne Armstrong

for this reason, though my favorite in the

collection is the Unexpected Dimension book
by Algis Budrys.

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