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September 2001
In This Issue In Every Issue
IUP Joins Nation in
Prayer and Remembrance Students, staff and faculty responded to the invitation to address the crowd and many joined together in building a memorial wall of flowers in front of Stapleton Library. Yvonne Redd, IUP Human Resources, closed the program by leading the crowd in We Shall Overcome, chosen for the program as a symbol of humanity’s ability to overcome violence and adversity. Appolonia discussed the many volunteer options available to all members of the community. Dr. Kaniasty’s message focused on healing and encouraged this present generation to build a world that will overcome hate and violence. A Time of Healing … As words of encouragement, unity and caring were delivered during the hour-long program, many took an opportunity to visually express thoughts and feelings on a mural begun by Dr. Vaughn Clay and his students or to add to the memorial wall of flowers in front of Stapleton Library. The mural was introduced as part of a program held Sept. 13 at the HUB MPR that will begin a year-long series of discussions about the Sept. 11 attack on the United States. The series, titled 9-11: A Community Discussion focused first on “How can we heal? How can we help?” and featured presentations by IUP President Dr. Lawrence K. Pettit; IUP-APSCUF President Dr. Patricia Heilman; a commentary on the historical ability of our nation to overcome tragedy by Steven Schroeder, history; a commentary on the healing process by Dr. Krys Kaniasty, psychology; and a question and answer period moderated by IUP Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Mark Staszkiewicz. Interfaith Council members Rev. Priscilla Richter and Dr. Peter Broad opened and closed the program, which also included Yvonne Redd, IUP Human Resources, offering We Shall Overcome, not in its traditional spirit of protest, but for its reassurance that humanity will overcome tragedy, and peace can overcome violence. During both programs, persons heard messages on how to help through volunteerism. A listing of volunteer opportunities to help families of victims, survivors and rescue workers has been compiled by IUP’s Center for Student Life at www.iup.edu/studentlife/crisis.shtm. The text of Dr. Kaniasty’s program, as requested by a number of persons in the community, is available on the IUP Web site. Dr. Mary Catherine
Bateson at IUP on Oct. 2 The program is free and open to the community. The program, "Composing a Community," is part of the University’s year of "Celebrating our Community, Respecting our Differences." As the daughter of internationally known anthropologist Margaret Mead, Bateson lectures throughout the world and has been a lifelong advocate of the necessity to develop a deeper appreciation and understand of other ways of life in order to be better equipped in a challenging and changing world. Bateson is not only well known throughout the United States, where she is the Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English at George Mason University. She is also known in Iran, where she has been the University of Northern Iran Dean of Social Studies and Humanities. She is also the president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies in New York City. Bateson’s presentation will focus on our society becoming more diverse and subject to more rapid change and what kinds of communication can hold us together, and what are the available patterns for dealing with difference, building on curiosity. Immediately following the presentation, there will be a book signing.Bateson has written and co-authored numerous books, including "Composing a Life," "With a Daughter’s Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson," "Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred," "Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way" and "Thinking AIDS." Her books may be purchased at the HUB Co-op Store and will be available that evening. "For all of us, continuing development depends on nurture and guidance long after the years of formal education," Bateson said, "just as it depends on seeing others ahead on the road with whom it is possible to identify. "A special effort is needed when doubts have been deeply implanted during the years of growing up or when some fact of difference raises barriers or undermines those identifications, but all the unfolding experiences of life that present new problems and requires new learning." Bateson has also taught and researched at
Harvard University, Northeastern University, Damavand
College (Tehran), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and Spelman College. She is married to J. Barkev Kassarjian and has one child, Sevanne Margaret Kassarjian. The program is co-sponsored by the Office of the President, Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, Office of Social Equity, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Eberly College of Business and Information Technology, the Robert E. Cook Honors College, Women’s Studies Program, Liberal Studies Program, Anthropology Club, Office of Career Services and Institutional Advancement. Free parking is available in the HUB parking lot after 5 p.m. "Potters of La
Chamba" Exhibit Joins Art, Music, History and
Anthropology The exhibit, designed by Dr. Laurence Kruckman of the IUP Anthropology Department, centers around the unique ceramic blackware of La Chamba, Colombia, a mestizo village located in the Northern Andean Lowlands. Dr. Kruckman has designed the exhibit to extend beyond a traditional display of pottery into elements of cultural pattern through the use of photographs, music and even food. A community reception will open the exhibit on Thursday, Sept. 27 from 5 to 7 p.m. In addition to ethnic food based on a village recipe, the reception will feature the Andean traditional instrumental group, Sacha, from 5 to 9 p.m., bringing to the exhibit the traditional Inca flute music and various stringed instruments. As a follow up to Sacha’s performance, IUP enthnomusicologist Dr. Carl Rahkonen will host a demonstration/workshop on Friday, Sept. 28 at 10:30 a.m. in McElhaney Hall, room 104.The demonstration/workshop will offer participants the chance to learn about and play the Andean pan flutes kena and sikus and the charango guitar and bombo drum. Admission is free. The thrust of the exhibit is a collection of some 300 ceramic pieces and 100 photographs collected during a 35-year period.A 20-minute documentary video created in part by IUP students, "La Chamba Ceramic Technology," will also be shown at the exhibit. Imogene Waugh began documenting La Chamba’s unique ceramic process in the early 1960s and continued through 1973 when Dr. Kruckman and Michael Milligan became involved. The ceramic pieces were collected while they assisted the villagers as participant-observers, learning the ceramic process and producing ceramics with the village women.The three amassed a stunning collection of black and white, color and video images in addition to their beautiful display of ceramics, Dr. Kruckman explained. "The portraits not only reveal the villagers as faithful guardians of an amazing, ancient ceramic technology,' Dr. Kruckman pointed out, "but also capture the cycle of daily life and the beauty the villagers create through their ceramics." The village’s cultural patterns, especially the role of the new cash economy in changing gender roles, are also portrayed.The exhibit attempts to document from an ethnographic point of view village life and how they are making the transition from traditional family-centered agrarian rural life to a cash-based system, a change that is coming fast and furious to a large portion of the world’s rural people. Several IUP students will gain hands-on experience into La Chamba ceramic production as part of the exhibition.Dr. Kruckman has developed an art challenge called "Conversations in Clay" where students will be asked to utilize La Chamba technology to create a new piece of art.Entries will be judged and photographs sent to the La Chamba ceramics cooperative for display. "The result will be a dialogue between artisans in two very distinctive cultures on ceramic technology," Dr. Kruckman said. Kruckman has published on La Chamba ceramic technology and related cultural issues in professional journals and also created and co-organized the Marriage Project at IUP in 1996, an exhibit combining 20 departments, three exhibits and 25 speakers.However, these ceramic pieces and photography, the largest collection of La Chamba photographs and ceramics known, have never been displayed before. Other venues throughout the United States are in the planning stages, possibly to include other university museums and the Inter American Virtual Museum in Washington DC. "Women in Clay" is made possible by a unique involvement of students from several IUP departments including Anthropology, Archaeology, Spanish, History and Art. The exhibit is supported in part by funding from the President’s Office, an IUP University Senate Research Grant, the Robert Cook Honor’s College, the College of Fine Arts, the College of Humanities and Social Science, Liberal Studies and the IUP departments of Anthropology, History, International Management, Sociology, Criminology, and Spanish. Free parking on the IUP campus is available after 5 p.m. in the University’s parking garage, located off Grant Street. For more information about "Women in Clay: The Potters of La Chamba, Colombia," contact Dr. Kruckman at 724-463-7476 or 724-357-3935. The University Museum, located on the first floor of Sutton Hall, is free and open to the community from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday and 1 to 4 p.m. weekends. The museum is closed on Mondays and during scheduled University break times. E-University Director
Named Beginning this fall, the first fully online degree program, an associate's in arts and sciences, will be offered. This first degree will be granted through Clarion University. Both Clarion and IUP faculty will be teaching the online courses to support all programs through e-University. Once this initial program gets underway, a variety of additional degree programs through both IUP and Clarion will be added. Smith’s educational background includes a BS in marketing from Gannon University and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. In this new position, she will be helping to coordinate the development of programs, course offerings and student services, as well as creating e-University marketing and advertising programs. For more information on the e-University, she can be contacted at 814-393-1880 or ismith@Clarion.edu. |
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