9/27/2004		Talk on Iraq exit strategy to kick off Center for Global Citizenship
9/13/2004		E-town To Award Scholarships During Sept. 25 Open House
9/13/2004		Anthropology Professor Earns NSF Grant to Study Arctic Pollution

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A talk on an exit strategy for Iraq will kick off programming offered by Elizabethtown College’s newly formed Center for Global Citizenship. R. Craig Nation of the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle will present “War Without End? Exit Strategy and Iraq” at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 7, in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies.  His talk is open to the public free of charge.

Nation is professor of strategy at the Army War College and a resident fellow with the Clarke Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Contemporary Issues at Dickinson College. A native of Philadelphia and graduate of Villanova University, he earned a doctorate in modern history from Duke University and has taught with Duke University, the University of Southern California, Cornell University, and The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He is a specialist in war and peace studies with particular emphasis upon the European and Eurasian regions. His most recent major publication is “War in the Balkans, 1991-2002.”

Nation’s talk is a peacemaking initiative of Elizabethtown’s Center for Global Citizenship, which brings together three areas of programming central to the mission and Brethren heritage of the College: international studies, service learning and peacemaking. Its purpose is to foster student encounters with these three dimensions of global citizenship in and outside the classroom and on and off campus.

• The Center builds upon Elizabethtown's commitment to service, manifested through popular service-oriented programs like occupational therapy, social work, allied health and education; through the College's annual program, "Into the Street," which places hundreds of students, alumni, faculty and administrators into the community for a day of service; through service-related organizations, like Habitat for Humanity; and through Student Directed Learning Communities, college-owned houses that provide groups of students with the opportunity to conduct a community service project.
• Also under the umbrella of the Center for Global Citizenship are the College’s international studies program, which annually welcomes a growing number of international students to campus and at the same time coordinates a variety of study abroad options for the College’s resident students, from a three-week summer programs to semester- or yearlong programs of foreign study through the Brethren Colleges Abroad (BCA) partnership.
• The final component of the Center involves peacemaking, an expression of the College’s Church of the Brethren heritage that affirms the values of peace, nonviolence, human dignity and social justice. The College’s religious studies department emphasizes the study of nonviolence and sponsors interdisciplinary minors in peace and conflict studies and Anabaptist and Pietist studies. Michael Long, assistant professor of religious studies, anchors the peacemaking initiative of the Center.

Ron McAllister, former provost and dean of the faculty who currently serves as professor of peace and conflict studies and sociology, has recently been named director of Elizabethtown’s Center for Global Citizenship. “The work of the Center is the educational work necessary for the 21st century: students, faculty and staff engaged in learning and service in all areas of our citizenship, including local, state, national and global,” McAllister said. “We all must come to see ourselves as international students now. The Center for Global Citizenship will continually seek to expand opportunities for make that global citizenship meaningful.”

Elizabethtown College will award scholarships to two students who submit 500-word essays describing their most embarrassing experience in high school during the College’s Sept. 25 Open House.

            A $1,000 award will be presented for first place and $500 will go to the runner-up. Winners will be chosen around January 1, after students have formally applied to the College and been admitted.

More than 200 students have registered for the event, which will include registration and conversation with faculty from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. and a stage presentation titled “Welcome to Elizabethtown” from 9:30 to 10 a.m. in Thompson Gymnasium. Financial aid workshops, student panels and a presentation titled “The Admissions Game” by W. Kent Barnds, dean of admissions and enrollment management, will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and campus tours will be available during that time as well.  The event will also feature a picnic in the Dell from noon to 2 p.m.

Elizabethtown College will waive its $30 application fee for students who attend the event. More information is available by at www.etown.edu/admissions/septoh.html or by calling 717-361-1400.

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Elizabethtown College anthropology professor Robert Wheelersburg, along with colleague and natural scientist Alexey Voinov of the University of Vermont, has earned an $80,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue research in the Artic.

Wheelersburg is currently part of a team of American and Russian researchers studying the role of human dynamics on the ecosystem of the Kola Peninsula of Russia, one of the most populated and polluted regions in the Arctic. The team is also exploring development strategies to enhance ecosystem health, ecological sustainability and economic diversity.

Wheelersburg and Voinov received an earlier $220,000 grant to begin the project, (www.aaas.org/international/eca/kola) which focuses on the Imandra Lake watershed. The watershed cuts through the heart of the industrially developed ecosystems of the Kola Peninsula and accounts for the release of major pollutants into the Barents and White seas and the Artic Ocean.

Working with Russian anthropologists on the project, Wheelelersburg is locating and interviewing Saami (Lapp) reindeer herding survivors that lived in the region prior to the Stalinist repressions in the late 1930s, when Saami males were imprisoned and killed, and their families and herds removed from the region. Following their removal, the Imandra Lake region was heavily industrialized and militarized, resulting in the extremely polluted ecosystem.

Chair of Elizabethtown’s sociology and anthropology department, Wheelersburg earned a doctorate in Arctic studies from Brown University and has worked in the Arctic for nearly 20 years studying indigenous peoples and the loss of traditional resources.