2/24/2005		Tsunami efforts yield van load of donations
2/23/2005		E-town students start revolution with T-shirts
2/18/2005		Intelligent design forum on March 1
2/16/2005		Political science student accepted to Stanford summer institute
2/14/2005		E-town prof part of Grammy-winning group
2/11/2005		Harvard professor, chaplain to discuss 'the good life'
2/10/2005		Benefit concert to feature Ingram Hill
2/1/2005		Acting prof enjoys success with commedia dell’arte

Elizabethtown College’s Center for Global Citizenship organized a relief effort through which members of the campus and local communities donated health, school and medical kits, along with cash, to the victims of the southeast Asian tsunami. The Center’s program was coordinated with the Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren and Church World Service.

Dinesh Jeyaram of Sri Lanka, a senior computer engineering major, helps loads the first shipment of donations -- 156 health kits, 31 school kits and two medical kits. The Center’s efforts also yielded a cash donation of $1,500.

Written by Megan Muller '05 for The Etownian . . .

While visiting Germany, Elizabethtown College senior Justin Smith of Havre de Grace, Md., purchased an at-home T-shirt making kit. So begin "the revolution."

Smith and fellow senior Jeremy Ebersole, from Copley, Ohio, teamed up to create a T-shirt business called The Revolution Lives. Their first batch of shirts was introduced to the Elizabethtown College community in December.

Why the name "Revolution means standing up for what you believe in, not letting other people tell you how to live your life," Smith said. The two wanted to create a T-shirt that would bridge between Hot Topic and Urban Outfitters, combining styles of the two name brands to create a style that everyone can enjoy. "We wanted to make a shirt that is trendy and cool-looking but also rebellious," said Ebersole.

Most of the designs printed on the T-shirts are inspired by historic events. There are currently six designs for men and women, each with a quote on the back of the shirt. Explanations for each design are offered at the company’s website, www.therevolutionlives.com.

Each of the designs – created by the students -- is hand-printed on 100-percent cotton shirts, manufactured in sweatshop-free warehouses. The ink used in the prints is U.S. made and safe for the environment, according to Ebersole and Smith.

So far, the two have sold their product only to friends, but they hope to market the T-shirt through their new website. With the growth of the business, new clothing ideas will be in the works -- sweatshirts, shorts and messenger bags are being considered.

The theory of intelligent design has received much attention recently, withextensive national media coverage being given to the actions taken by the Dover Area School District Board of Directors and the subsequent pending federal lawsuit by parents. Dover is believed to be the only public school district in the nation to require teachers to mention intelligent design in the classroom.

The Elizabethtown College Center for Science and Religion (ECCSR), an entity whose mission is to create a dialogue group that will explore the dynamic interface between religion and science, is sponsoring a March 1 series of debates addressing this topic. The forum,"Intelligent Design: The Scientific, Theological and Civil Dimensions of the Debate," is open to the public free of charge and will be held in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. There is no registration for the event.

The schedule for the forum is below. A question-and-answer session will follow each event.

• 9 a.m. - Opening remarks by Elizabethtown College President Theodore Long and introduction of the topic and speakers by moderator Michael Silberstein, associate professor of philosophy at Elizabethtown College and director of the ECCSR
• 9:30 a.m. - Scientific debate by Michael J.Behe, a national proponent of intelligent design and Lehigh University biology professor, and Niall Shanks, author of the current best-selling critique of intelligent design and East Tennessee State University philosophy professor
• 12:45 p.m. - Theological debate by John Haught, Landegger Distinguished Professor of Theology at Georgetown University, and Rev. Dave Martin, senior pastor at Evangelical Free Church of Hershey
• 3 p.m. - Civil/legal debate by Witold Walczak, legal director of the Pennsylvania ACLU, which is representing Dover families in their federal lawsuit, and Richard Thompson, president of the Thomas More Law Center, who will defend the school district
• 7:45 p.m. - Capstone lecture by Paul Gross, emeritus professor of life sciences at the University of Virginia
  

Additional information
Please look forsigns directing you to parking locations, as the College will provide shuttle service from several off-campus parking locations. Because there will be limited parking available in lots near Leffler Chapel, drivers who cannot locate available parking spaces in on-campus lots will be provided with maps to off-campus parking. Due to limited campus parking when classes are in session, those attending the forum or other scheduled events (World Friendship Day webcast or talk by William Schabas) are encouraged to park in the off-campus lot shown on this map and take the free shuttles to and from the events.

Doors to Leffler Chapel will open at 8 a.m., and the auditorium will open at 8:30 a.m.

Tickets for lunch, which will be served in the Baugher Student Center andSusquehanna Room of Myers Hall, will be sold at Leffler Chapel for $6 per person. Menu will include pasta bar with three sauces, tossed salad, bread, beverages and dessert.

Books by the presentersare available for purchase at the Book Store, located in the Student Center, from 9 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.

A printable campus map is available here.

Pennsylvania Cable Network will record and broadcast the forum at a later date. Please check the network's website, www.pcntv.com, for schedule information.

Matt Miller of Macungie, a senior political science major at Elizabethtown College, has been accepted to attend the 2005 Summer Institute in Political Psychology at Stanford University. The Institute is a three-week intensive training program that introduces graduate students, faculty members and professionals to the world of political psychology scholarship.

Miller will have the opportunity to learn from some of the top scholars in the field of political psychology before beginning graduate school in the fall, according to his adviser April Kelly-Woessner, an assistant professor of political science who attended the Institute prior to beginning her doctorate at The Ohio State University.

"Matt’s acceptance into this competitive and challenging program is a testament to his hard work and dedication over the last four years," said Kelly-Woessner. "He constantly seeks opportunities to challenge himself and never fails to meet those challenges."

Captain of the men’s cross-country and track teams, Miller will enter a doctorate program next fall in formal theory, a sub-field of American politics. "In economics, scholars use quantitative techniques to attempt to predict consumer and producer behavior," he said. "Formal theory uses quantitative techniques to try and predict politician and citizen behavior.  My secondary interest is in political psychology, and I hope to work at the nexus of political psychology and formal theory."

Miller’s plans also include teaching at a college or university and coaching cross country and track. "My cross country and track coach, Chris Straub, works with all his athletes to set athletic, academic and personal-improvement goals, and then the athlete and he work to come up with the means to accomplish these goals," he said. "In high school, I was a mediocre student, but upon coming to E-town, I was thrown into an environment in which I was encouraged to work hard for the purpose of tapping my potential as a person."

An Elizabethtown College adjunct professor is among a group of artists who picked up the Grammy for best pop instrumental recording.

Guitarist David Cullen, a member of the faculty in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, is among the 12 artists featured on "Henry Mancini: Pink Guitar" by Solid Air Records. His contribution to the collection of Mancini songs is "Days of Wine and Roses."

A featured soloist in the 2004 New York Guitar Festival, Cullen has performed with Will Ackerman, Samite, Michael Manring, Victor Wooten, The Jaco Big Band and with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He is featured on the Windham Hill Guitar Sampler and other Windham Hill Compilation CDs, and he has released two books -- "Jazz, Classical and Beyond" and "Grateful Guitar" -- through Warner Brothers Publications.

Cullen has performed throughout North America for classical guitar societies, jazz festivals and performing arts series. He has released nine CDs for the acoustic guitar label Solid Air Records, and his recordings have been featured on NPR stations across the country.

Cullen earned a bachelor of music in classical guitar performance at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music. Amidst his schedule of touring and playing, he teaches at Elizabethtown, Kutztown and Albright colleges. Information on Cullen and ordering his music is available at www.cullenguitar.com and www.acousticmusicresource.com.

Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Harvard University professor and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, will present "The Good Life: Truths That Last in Times of Need" at 7:30 p.m., March 17, in Elizabethtown College’s Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. His talk will be followed by conversation with Elizabethtown Provost and Senior Vice President David Parkyn. Admission is free, but tickets are required and are available by calling 717-361-1410.

Gomes will also conduct a book signing following his presentation. His books will be available for purchase at the event or prior to the event at the College Store.

Widely regarded as one of America’s most distinguished preachers, Gomes has lectured throughout the United States and the British Isles. Named Clergy of the Year in 1998 by Religion in American Life, he participated in the presidential inaugurations of Ronald Reagan and of George H.W. Bush. He is the author of the New York Times and national best-selling books "The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart" and "Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living." He has published seven additional volumes of sermons as well as numerous articles and papers.

Gomes serves on the advisory board of The Living Pulpit. In addition, he serves as trustee of The Roxbury Latin School and of Bates College. He is a member of The Massachusetts Historical Society, The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the Advisory Board of The Winterthur Museum, and a sometime Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, London.

Former acting director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro American Research, Gomes is past president of The Signet Society, Harvard’s oldest literary society; and former trustee of Wellesley College, of The Public Broadcasting Service, and of Plimoth Plantation. He is past president and trustee of The Pilgrim Society of Plymouth, Mass.

Born in Boston, Gomes is an American Baptist minister ordained to the Christian ministry by The First Baptist Church of Plymouth. Since 1970 he has served in The Memorial Church, Harvard University; and since 1974 as Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in The Memorial Church. He has been profiled by Robert Boynton in The New Yorker, and interviewed by Morley Safer on "60 Minutes." Gomes was also included in the summer 1999 premiere issue of Talk magazine as part of its feature article, "The Best Talkers in America: Fifty Big Mouths We Hope Will Never Shut Up."

A concert at Elizabethtown College to raise funds for college students who encounter financial emergencies will feature the group Ingram Hill and a number of Elizabethtown student musicians. The FASE (Fund to Aid the Students of Elizabethtown) concert is scheduled for 3 p.m., Feb. 27, in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Tickets are $8 and will be sold at the door.

During 2004, Ingram Hill signed to Hollywood Records, released nationwide their CD "June's Picture Show" and went on tour, hitting the stage with everyone from Michelle Branch to Los Lonely Boys, Hanson to Johnny Lang. Their first single, "Will I Ever Make It Home," graced both the Billboard Adult Top 40 Singles chart and the Radio & Records Hot AC Chart, and enjoyed a successful ride on the soundtrack for "13 Going On 30," which hit #2 on the Billboard Soundtracks chart.

Building on this momentum, the band has just wrapped a tour with Gavin DeGraw and is now marking the release of their second single, "Almost Perfect," which hit radio on Feb. 1. The accompanying video will be seen in Target and Nordstrom stores nationwide. Fans can also look forward to seeing the pop/rock quartet on national television, starting with an appearance on CBS’s "Second Cup Café" scheduled for Feb. 26.

Formed in the summer of 2000, the quartet is Justin Moore (vocals/guitar), Phil Bogard (guitar), Shea Sowell (bass/vocals) and Matt Chambless (drums). The band initially came together at the University of Memphis, where Moore and Chambless were attending on full scholarships.

Established in 1999, FASE is available to students attending Elizabethtown College or to those who live in the Elizabethtown community and attend another college or university. For more information about the FASE, contact Thomas Bowersox at 717-361-1310 or bowerstj@etown.edu.

An adjunct faculty member who teaches acting in Elizabethtown College’s fine and performing arts department has enjoyed recent success with her original commedia dell’arte.

Terri Mastrobuono’s one-woman show, "Andata e Ritorno (Round Trip)," was presented at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in September. Her first solo show for young audiences, "A Tarantella of Tales," inaugurated the new home of the Valley Forge Children’s Theatre in December. And she has been invited to conduct workshops at the first Festival of Commedia dell’Arte in Sarasota, Fla., later this month.

Commedia dell’arte is a style of comedic performance that was popular in Italy from the late 1400s to the early 1700s, according to Mastrobuono. "It was much like our modern sit-coms in that it was -- and still is -- centered in stock characters who were in every show," she said. "The plays were quasi-improvised off of basic outlines, and most of the characters were masked."

The performance style was broadly comical, sometimes satirical, very physical, and slapstick. "In fact," she said, "‘slapstick comedy’ is derived from the prop used by one of the characters in commedia to whack others."

The commedia’s contribution to western theater is significant for two reasons, according to Mastrobuono. The plots became the inspiration for both Shakepeare and Moliere’s work, and commedia dell’arte was the first time acting became a true profession. "That is, actors worked for their own financial gain from their own artistic inspiration, not a patron’s or the church’s," she said. "Without this, there would have been no Globe theater and no professional theater as we know it."

Mastrobuono traveled to Italy in 1998, thanks to a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, to study this art form in its country of origin. The summer course was taught by Antonio Fava, the keystone around which the Sarasota festival is being built. The Festival of Commedia dell’Arte is cosponsored by Riverview High School – where Mastrobuono will conduct workshops -- and the Asolo Theatre. The event will culminate with additional workshops and performances by Fava.

Mastrobuono has been asked back to the Valley Forge Children’s Theatre to write a version of "Pinocchio" for their next season. "I will be basing the script on the original, Italian version by Collodi, in which Pinocchio is a bad, bad boy," she said. "The cricket, for example, doesn't make it past the third or fourth chapter because Pinocchio smashes him with a wooden mallet!"