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WINTER 2012

M A G A Z I N E

IN ThE

DU shines at first presidential debate

spotlight

Office of the Chancellor

Dear Readers: When the sun rose over the University of Denver on Oct. 3, television crews from the network morning shows were already at work, broadcasting live from outside the Ritchie Center and reminding the country to tune into the biggest news of the day: the first presidential debate of the 2012 campaign.
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As the day unfolded, roughly 3,000 media professionals from 47 countries swarmed across campus, readying for the 90-minute showdown between the two men vying for the highest office in the nation. For the University of Denver and for our students, faculty, staff and alumni, debate day was an opportunity to participate in the ultimate educational event—one critical to our democracy, one that would be followed all over the world and one that would shine a spotlight on our remarkable students and faculty, our astonishing campus, our dynamic city and our beautiful state. We knew the debate would provide us great media exposure. But that’s not the only reason we sought to host the debate. Whenever we scan the horizon for opportunities, we look to our vision statement for guidance: The University of Denver will be a great private university dedicated to the public good. What better way to contribute to the public good than by offering a forum for discussion among those who seek to lead us as we confront the great issues of the day? And what better way to serve our many constituencies than by supporting a process so essential to a healthy democracy? The University also wanted to unite the campus and our alumni community around a spectacular event, something all of us would remember for the rest of our lives. And a presidential debate—which one university president has dubbed the “Super Bowl of politics”—is a spectacular event with great educational value. To ensure the debate’s success, and its value to our students and alumni, the University hosted more than 100 debate-related events—everything from lectures to movie screenings—in the months and weeks leading up to Oct. 3. More than 25,000 people attended this programming—yet more proof that the public thirsts for intelligent discussion about complex issues. The debate also gave us a valuable opportunity to partner with city and state agencies and entities. The University was founded well before Colorado became a state, and we’ve grown up alongside the city we call home. So naturally we savor the chance to bring an international event to this wonderful place. Opinions may differ about which of the candidates emerged victorious from Magness Arena. To my mind, the real winner was the University of Denver. A special thank you is owed to our students, alumni, faculty and staff. Together, we made history.

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FEatuREs

24 Ready for Prime Time
By Kathryn Mayer (BA ’07, MA ’10)

The presidential debate at the University of Denver is now in the history books. Here’s a look at how it all went down.

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U.S. News ranking Digital DU

14 History 17 Academics 19 People 22 Q&A
Prison garden Studying trees in Guatemala Provost Gregg Kvistad on Renew DU Urban Farming class

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On the cover: The Ritchie Center was the site of the first presidential debate of 2012; read the story on page 24. Photo by Wayne Armstrong This page: Students Zach Gonzales, Samuel Gerry and Dia Mohamed were stand-ins on the debate stage for Republican nominee Mitt Romney, debate moderator Jim Lehrer and President Barack Obama, respectively, while technicians perfected lights and sound. Photo by Wayne Armstrong

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We pulled it off. It doesn’t seem that long ago that the University’s Division of Marketing and Communications was scrambling to put together a press conference to announce that the University of Denver had been chosen to host the first presidential debate of the 2012 election. A year of furious planning followed—from developing the stories that would capture what this momentous event meant to putting a plan in place to cover the debate as it happened. We wrestled with deadlines, with technological limitations and with the stress that came with it all. Then came the week of Oct. 3. For a few days, the eyes of the nation were on the University of Denver, and it was incredibly exciting. MSNBC set up a mobile stage just east of the Mary Reed Building, where my office is located. The Ritchie Center parking lot was transformed into a crush of satellite trucks, newscaster platforms and TV cameras. And right outside my office window, the DebateFest stage was set up in the span of a day. On campus, I saw everyone from political pundits and media heavyweights to Secret Service officers and bomb-sniffing dogs. I even saw the two candidates—in the form of cardboard cutouts that made their way around campus throughout the day. It was the longest day I’ve worked in my University of Denver career— more than 12 hours of live blogging, photo sizing, story editing and reporting. But it was probably the best day of my University career as well. We talk a lot about how politics divide our nation. But the debate has made me feel the opposite. Although many of the thousands of students, alumni and neighbors on campus that day voiced their support for either candidate, they still overwhelmingly came together in support of the University. Now that it’s over, we’re experiencing a sort of withdrawal—all that planning, all that work, and it’s over in a day. But we already know that the exposure the University got during the debate will live on past this election cycle. And though it’s over, there’s still a lot to look forward to: the stateof-the-art Academic Commons opening in the spring; a celebration of the University’s 150th anniversary in 2014. We should all be proud to be Pioneers—and that’s not up for debate.

Managing Editor

Greg Glasgow

Senior Editor

Tamara Chapman

Editorial Assistant

Jeffrey Haessler

Kelsey Outman (’13)
Art Director

Craig Korn, VeggieGraphics
Photographer

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Laurie Budgar • Jim Doolittle • Jack Etkin • Neal Lauron • Kathryn Mayer (BA ’07, MA ’10) • Doug McPherson • Ce Shi • Jill Schmieder-Hereau
Editorial Board

Contributors

Kevin A. Carroll, vice chancellor/chief marketing officer • Julie Reeves, associate vice chancellor, brand marketing • Thomas Douglis (BA ’86) • Kristine Cecil, associate vice chancellor/interim executive director of alumni relations • Sarah Satterwhite, senior director of advancement communications • Amber Scott (MA ’02) • Laura Stevens (BA ’69), director of parent relations

Printed on 10% PCW recycled paper

The University of Denver Magazine (USPS 022-177) is published by the University of Denver, Division of Marketing and Communications, 2199 S. University Blvd., Denver, CO 80208-4816. The University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) is an Equal Opportunity Institution. Periodicals postage paid at Denver, CO. Postmaster: Send address changes to University of Denver Magazine, University of Denver, University Advancement, 2190 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, CO 80208-4816.

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Sense of purpose
Editor’s note: When the University debuted its new logo and branding platform in August, we asked subscribers to our email newsletter for alumni to share the ways in which the University has been a catalyst for their purposeful lives. I am a graduate of the Women’s College (prior to the DU expansion) and the Sturm College of Law. As a double graduate, I can hardly say that DU has not been a catalyst for me. I wanted my college experience to be relatively free of the social distractions

employment and risk management with an insurance pool owned by local governments. It offers the right size of organization, the right amount of new projects and challenges, and the opportunity to continue to learn to be an “expert” in new areas. None of this would have happened without the unique opportunities that were offered by the diverse and talented University of Denver community. I now know DU faculty, through a variety of community contacts, who are similarly committed to the success of their students in the individual pursuit of their dreams.
Cynthia Barnes (CWC ’77, JD ’85) Denver

are deceased—the last one about a year ago. Wherever I’ve lived, I’ve always been proud to be able to say that my college degree is from the University of Denver. I’ve never had anyone say, “Where is that?”
Doris Reed Forsyth (BS ’47) Port Orchard, Wash.

of being 18–22 that were posed by men in the classroom. I’ll admit it: I knew I was easily distracted by social opportunity. I wanted to learn to “be myself ” before going out into the wider world. I learned in small class settings and with ample faculty contact just how unique and valuable my own skills and interests could be. I pursued the true purpose of a liberal arts education by taking a wide variety of classes and interacting with a very diverse student body. This took me through the social sciences (and one class short of a double major in English) and gave me a solid grounding in “emotional intelligence” skills that I use to this day in my professional work. After being in the job market for a number of years, I returned to the University of Denver to attend the College of Law. By then, I’d had several years of many different jobs. I still didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I knew that I wanted to learn more about the legal system and how to help people with legal problems. Now I work on loss prevention, doing training and consulting in civil rights,

DU instilled in me a healthy respect for people of all nations, races, colors, creeds and cultures, which has been invaluable in building a successful law practice with clients from Africa, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Romania and Vietnam, as well as the U.S.
Carl Pipoly (BA ’77, JD ’80) San Antonio, Texas

I am really offended by the email notices that I have recently received from the “Division of Marketing and Communications” proclaiming DU’s “new brand strategy.” Talk of “branding platforms” and “visual identity” to “define and differentiate the institution for local, national and international audiences” is Madison Avenue gobbledygook and is beneath the dignity of a great university. When did DU become a commodity product like the soap that Proctor & Gamble sells at Wal-Mart? Come off it; this is ridiculous.
Ned Perkins (BA ’73) Bennington, Vt.

Corrections
The story “Hail to the Chiefs” in the fall 2012 issue had incorrect information about campus visits by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama on Jan. 30, 2008. Obama spoke in the morning and Clinton spoke in the evening. Denver hosted the Democratic National Convention the following August, not “a few days later,” as reported in the article. Also the photo on page 39 of the fall issue shows the staff of the 1972-73 Clarion, not 1971–72 as stated.

Each time I get a message from DU, it brings to my mind so many things I can’t keep up with them all. I graduated from DU in 1947—almost in the dark ages, isn’t it? My degree is in business administration and education. My degree certainly has been a catalyst in my purposeful life. I met so many helpful and nice people in the four years I was there. At that time the Army had all the dorms, so we lived in housing approved by DU, and that also was a very interesting experience. I’ve always felt that the education I got at DU has been something that no one could take away from me. Of the people with whom I kept in touch, all

Send letters to the editor to: Greg Glasgow, University of Denver Magazine, 2199 S. University Blvd., Denver, CO 80208-4816. Or e-mail [email protected]. Include your full name and mailing address with all submissions. Letters may be edited for clarity and length.

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This fall, the University of Denver welcomed 1,450 new first-year and transfer students. Selected from a record-high pool of more than 16,000 applicants, the members of this class were admitted on the basis of their academic and extracurricular records. First-year students come from 46 states and 16 countries. The class includes 15 Boettcher Scholars and 22 Daniels Fund Scholars.
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On the move
university makes ‘up-and-comers’ list in U.S. News’ best colleges issue
By Marketing and Communications Staff

When asked to name the institutions that “have recently made the most promising and innovative changes in the areas of academics, faculty, student life, campus or facilities,” college administrators around the country consistently included the University of Denver on their short lists, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings for undergraduate education. The University is 13th on the magazine’s list of 16 “Up-and-Comers,” as selected by college presidents, provosts and admissions deans as they were filling out their rankings surveys. Other schools on the list include the University of Southern California, Clemson University, Tulane University and the University of San Diego. “These schools are worth watching because they are making promising and innovative changes,” Robert Morse, director of data research for U.S. News & World Report, writes in a news release about the methodology behind the Up-and-Comers list. “This popular item on the peer survey enabled college officials to pick schools within their U.S. News Best Colleges ranking category that are rapidly evolving in ways that the public should be aware of and that are not always quickly noticeable in a college’s yearto-year rankings or the regular peer assessment survey.”

The U.S. News Best Colleges list—released Sept. 11—also ranked the University of Denver among the nation’s top 100 national universities. The University is ranked 83rd among national universities, the magazine’s premier division, tied with Clark University (Mass.), Drexel University (Penn.), Indiana University-Bloomington, Marquette University (Wisc.) and University of Tulsa (Okla.). The University of Denver was ranked 82nd last year. Other ranked universities in Colorado include the Colorado School of Mines at No. 77, the University of Colorado-Boulder at No. 97 and Colorado State University at No. 134. The University’s ranking is based on its Carnegie Foundation category as a doctoral/research university with high research activity. U.S. News & World Report collects data on up to 16 indicators of academic quality within each category. DU ranked high for its freshman retention rate (88 percent), percentage of faculty who are full-time (74 percent) and its percentage of classes with fewer than 20 students (60 percent). “DU is committed to graduating students who are immersed in scholarship, engaged in the community and grounded in ethics,” says Provost Gregg Kvistad. “The academic strength of the University continues to grow, and we are pleased to be recognized for our focus on excellence.”

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Professor’s new book challenges views of the American Revolution
According to Alan Gilbert, there were two revolutions in America in the mid-1770s—one for American independence from the British and the other for the emancipation of slaves. In his new book, Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence (University of Chicago Press, 2012), Gilbert tells the story of this second revolution, which is not nearly as well-known. “I read a book [on the American Revolution] by historian Gary Nash, and in the third chapter he says a gigantic number of blacks escaped to the British side [during the Revolutionary War] and fought in exchange for freedom,” says Gilbert, the John Evans Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies. “I had been taught that the American Revolution was just a change of the person in power and didn’t affect much socially, and that the Civil War was for the real revolution in the United States. in the for “This blew that up entirely,” he continues. Alan Gilbert “There was a huge antislavery movement on the American side, and the British relied for many of their troops—for all the people lugging artillery and getting horses and all that— on slaves who escaped from the South and were freed. And they took many more slaves to Canada who had been freed.” Inspired by what he read, Gilbert—who has been on the University faculty since 1975—began work on what would become Black Patriots and Loyalists. The book took more than 16 years to write and is based on material the author discovered in 13 research libraries in the U.S., London, Spain and Paris. Among the stories he uncovered was one about a German soldier who fought on the American side during the historic siege of Yorktown. “He walked around the field after the battle, and he said most of the corpses lying around the field were black,” Gilbert says. “Most of the dead in the crucial battle of the American Revolution—on both sides—were black. Nobody told me that.” Gilbert, who in 1999 presented a University Lecture on the role of slaves in the Revolutionary War, says the project “breaks open the mainstream account of the American Revolution. “You can’t think about the American Revolution in the same way if you know the facts,” he says.

political documentaries

Pioneers Top 10

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primary
(1960, Robert Drew)

chisholm ’72: unbought & unbossed
(2004, Shola Lynch)

one bright shining moment: the Forgotten summer of george mcgovern
(2005, Stephen Vittoria)

the times of harvey milk
(1984, Rob Epstein)

the War Room
(1993, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus)

Black Patriots and Loyali s

Journeys With george
(2002, Alexandra Pelosi and Aaron Lubarsky)

street Fight
(2005, Marshall Curry)

sicko
(2007, Michael Moore)

made in l.a.
(2007, Almudena Carracedo)

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inside Job
(2010, Charles Ferguson)

Compiled by Sheila Schroeder, associate professor of media, film & journalism studies

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bRiEFs
in the back-to-school issue of its preLaw magazine, The National Jurist—a magazine targeted to law school students—named the university of Denver’s sturm college of law as one of the 20 most innovative law schools in the country. sturm was recognized for its “medical school model,” in which clinics, externships and other hands-on options offer law students real-world opportunities and the chance to develop their practical skills. the article notes that sturm has “expanded its legal skills course to include the fundamentals of a lawyer’s day-to-day routine” and has added a staff member to coordinate a more integrated approach among clinics, faculty members and skills.
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The University of Denver celebrated a longtime collaboration with Denver attorney John Moye on Aug. 23, naming the new campus home of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) in his honor. The newly dedicated John Moye Hall, a former fraternity house renovated with support from University benefactors Ralph and Trish Nagel, will become a permanent headquarters for the institute, a national independent research center dedicated to the improvement of the process and culture of the civil justice system. Moye is credited with developing the idea for the project that became IAALS, along with Chancellor Emeritus Daniel Ritchie, IAALS Executive Director Rebecca Love Kourlis, Charlie Gates, Chancellor Robert Coombe and U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch.

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Kevin Shelburne, a senior research scientist in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and the Center for Orthopaedic Biomechanics have received a $1.2 million bioengineering research award from the National Institutes of Health. The four-year grant will allow Shelburne and his team to create a sophisticated computer model of the human body for use in orthopaedic medicine. It is hoped that the computer model will reduce the need for costly clinical experiments with animals and humans to evaluate current and proposed treatments in orthopaedics.

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Former student-athlete wins prestigious McLendon Scholarship
University of Denver swimmer Jackie Leung is one of five 2012 winners of the prestigious John McLendon Minority Postgraduate Scholarship Award, announced July 27 by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and the John McLendon Minority Scholarship Foundation. Leung will receive a $10,000 grant to be used toward postgraduate studies in athletics administration. Leung graduated in spring 2012 with a degree in international business. She is the first University of Denver studentathlete to earn the McLendon scholarship. As a member of the swimming and diving team, Leung was a member of the first-place and school recordbreaking 800-freestyle relay. She also placed second at the Sun Belt Championships in the 400 individual medley. Leung was named Scholar Athlete of the Year and was a four-time honoree on the Sun Belt’s Commissioner’s List.

The University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies honored the Aspen Institute’s Walter Isaacson during the 15th annual Korbel Dinner on Aug. 15 at the Sheraton Downtown Hotel. Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based in Washington, D.C., received the University of Denver’s Global Leadership Award. An accomplished author who recently wrote a bestselling biography of Steve Jobs, Isaacson has held the positions of chair and CEO of CNN and editor of Time magazine. Also honored at the dinner were Lee McIntire, chair and CEO of CH2M HILL, who received the University’s International Bridge Builders Award, and Trygve Myhren, president of Myhren Media and chair of the University’s Board of Trustees. Myhren received the Josef Korbel Humanitarian Award.

University College has introduced a new global commerce and transportation major in the Bachelor of Arts Completion Program. Developed in partnership with the University’s Intermodal Transportation Institute, the program gives students hands-on instruction in transportation safety and security issues, law and policy, economics and finance, international trade, logistics and supply chain topics, and transportation “modes and nodes”—the ways different types of transportation connect. Classes can

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be taken online or on campus, where weeknight sessions accommodate working adults.
in July, paralympic skiing hopeful Jamie stanton, of oakland township, mich., became the latest recipient of the Willy schaeffler scholarship, which is given to a disabled competitive athlete. stanton began his undergraduate studies at the university of Denver this fall. Named after famed pioneers ski coach Willy schaeffler, the prestigious scholarship provides tuition and room and board costs for a recipient in need of financial assistance, allowing him or her to attend Du for four years, plus an additional year at a university in a country where a foreign language is spoken. stanton, whose right leg was amputated when he was 6 months old, competed on the Rochester adams high school golf and ski teams, serving as captain for both teams as a junior and senior.
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One to watch
laura hendrickson, mechanical engineering
By Kelsey Outman

Bestselling author Karen Salmansohn said, “Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret, or fear.” This is the motto by which University of Denver senior Laura Hendrickson lives her life. Hendrickson, who hails from the small town of Los Gatos, Calif., says she fell in love with the University as soon as she walked onto campus. “It’s what I always imagined a real university would look like,” Hendrickson says. “I honestly can’t imagine a better fit for myself.” A mechanical engineering major with a double minor in mathematics and medical physics, Hendrickson plans to go into the bioengineering field. First, however, she wants to get an EMT basic training certificate and work in ambulances after graduation this spring. After that, she

will head to Europe to pursue a master’s degree. Hendrickson is putting her skills to use as a tutor for the engineering department. Corinne Lengsfeld, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, says Hendrickson also is a talented networker. “One of her most outstanding features has been her active role in developing and maintaining the female engineering community within the department,” Lengsfeld says. Around campus, Hendrickson is a
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member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. She belongs to the University of Denver Alpha Lambda Delta honor society chapter and to Mortar Board, a national honor society. She also spent the summer before her junior year in a Semester at Sea program, an experience she says “formed me and my views on the world.” Hendrickson is a self-described “quote fanatic” and has filled a document, now spanning 30 pages, with quotes that have inspired her. Perhaps she says it best, though, reflecting, “Life is a series of experiences. And even if they may not have been the best, they shaped you, and you learned from them.”

A thought to consider
Turn your real estate into a lasting legacy— So DU students can create theirs
Real estate can be a wonderful investment, but it can also become a real burden. This is true of all types of realty, including rental property, a vacation home, developed or undeveloped commercial real estate, and even your home. The University of Denver Office of Gift Planning offers you a range of smart ways to ease your concerns, generate funds for you or loved ones, and save on taxes all while changing lives at the University. Make a vital impact for students, faculty, and programs at the University—and keep the property you own from owning you. Austin Zucchini-Fowler, BFA ’12 Studio Art, left his legacy at DU— a colorful mural in the Nagel Art Studios on campus. “My scholarship meant everything to me. I would not have been able to attend school here without that support.”
To explore more tax-wise giving options go to:

Office of Gift Planning 303.871.2739 or 800.448.3238 E-mail: [email protected]

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Emeritus Daniel Ritchie was taken at a Commencement ceremony. From the mid-1970s until the early 2000s, Barrett served as the “voice of graduation,” reading the names of new graduates as they stepped up to receive their diplomas. This replica of a clock designed by C.F.A. Voysey reflects Barrett’s interest in the Arts and Crafts design movement of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Barrett is on the board of the Colorado Arts and Crafts Society. Among the plays students study in Barrett’s firstyear seminar, Science Through Theatre, is Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo. “If you want to know how scientists work, don’t read the introduction to a scientific paper,” Barrett says. “There are plays that deal very well with the human side of science.”

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For 30 years, Barrett has been taking students to the Bodega Marine Laboratory, owned by the University of California, Davis, to study the developmental biology of sea urchins. A few years ago, students dedicated a lab there in Barrett’s name.

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The flags on Barrett’s desk include a U.S. flag and a U.N. flag—“bought after the 9/11 surge of jingoism,” he says—plus one from the People’s Republic of China, for the Chinese students in his first-year seminar.
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History at the click of a mouse
New Digital Du site includes yearbooks, photos and more
By Greg Glasgow

Expansion, growth, change, have been the keynote of this jampacked year. The University was indeed on the march. Temporary buildings, trailers, quonset huts went up over night. Downtown buildings were absorbed into classrooms. Classes were held from eight o'clock in the morning until ten at night. All classrooms were filled to overflowing. The faculty was enlarged and new departments added. A mammoth downtown parade started the campaign to raise $2,000,000, the first step in a $15,000,000 goal. The parade was followed by a banquet and basketball game in the city euditorium. The campaign workers were organized into an army. The entire city was aware of its University and its expansion program. The campaign was climaxed by a victory dinner at the Shirley. The goal of $2,000,000 had bee n reached. The university of the future is now -en its way to becoming a reality.

There’s a lot of official University history available for perusal at the new Digital DU website: archival photographs, meeting minutes, media guides. But for those who want a more authentic glimpse at what was going on at the University during any given year, the site’s collection of digitized yearbooks is a treasure trove of social history. Staffers at Penrose Library have scanned in nearly every volume—cover to cover— of the Kynewisbok from 1899 to 2002. “The nice thing about having the entirety of the yearbook available is you can see a really specific snapshot of what the student body liked or thought was funny or was interested in or that was trendy at the time,” says Kate Crowe, curator of special collections and archives at Penrose. Take the 1907 Kynewisbok, which includes fiction and poetry written by students, as well as illustrations by a young Allen Tupper True, soon to become a famous muralist. Or the 1919 edition, which offers an entire page of photos of an apparently short-lived tradition called Dandelion Day.

Then there are the yearbooks of the 1970s, with their fantastic photos of Denver as it looked in the not-so-distant past, as well as images of campus visitors such as folk singer James Taylor, civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael, jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis and consumer advocate Ralph Nader. But yearbooks make up only a small portion of the materials available on Digital DU. A new attempt to collect “permanently valuable” records in one place, the site contains nearly 7,000 athletic photos and media guides from throughout the University’s history, around 3,000 photographs taken in the last 10 years, minutes from faculty senate and other meetings, and video biographies of recent Founders Day honorees. The repository also includes materials from the University’s special collections and archives, including oral histories of the University Park neighborhood collected by Boy Scout Barry Matchett in 1986 and items from the Carson-Brierly Dance Library, which chronicles the history of dance in the Rocky Mountain region. Penrose archivists are busy adding even more materials to Digital DU, focusing on early University history in advance of the institution’s sesquicentennial in 2014. Crowe says the plan is to spotlight traditions like Winter Carnival and big events like Woodstock West. Eventually, even snapshots of University websites will be part of the collection. “We’re hoping it’s going to be the repository of permanently valuable records of the University, whether that’s University archive records—like the records of different academic departments— faculty papers or student work,” Crowe says. “We want it to be the place you can go if you want to know something about the University of Denver.” >>digitaldu.coalliance.org

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Former history professor remembered for generosity
Terence Tarr, a former University of Denver history professor, died Dec. 10, 2011, in Santa Fe, N.M., at the age of 76. He died from a recurrence of lung cancer, 12 years after he underwent surgery for the disease. Tarr, who taught the history of Latin America, Spain and Portugal, received his bachelor’s degree from Washington State University in 1957 and then went to the University of Florida for his master’s degree (1958) and his PhD (1960). After two years as an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi, Tarr began a 28-year teaching career at the University of Denver in 1963. Tarr and his partner, Michael Pulman, another former University history professor, built a house at 2620 S. Fillmore St. in 1972–73 and lived there until they moved to Santa Fe in 1991. They entertained at the residence, which Pulman says came to be “regarded as the history department’s party house.” The home had a large dining room that seated 14. Dinner parties were frequent, Pulman says, and Tarr always did the cooking. “Terry was never happier than when he had fed a lot of people and he could retire to the kitchen and just putter around,” says Cathy Gronquist, a Santa Fe resident who received her BA and MBA from DU in the late 1970s and who, along with her husband, Guy, was very close to Tarr. “He wasn’t a big crowd person, but yet he loved to feed people,” she says. Tarr and Pulman made annual visits to hear the Santa Fe Opera, which influenced their decision to retire there. At the University, Tarr had the opportunity to take any course as a student, and he earned a master’s degree in library science in 1967. Tarr put the degree to use in Santa Fe, where he became the first librarian and archivist of the local botanical garden. Donations in Tarr’s memory may be made to the Raymond Calhoun and Michael Pulman Scholarship in History at the University of Denver, Office of Gift Processing, Dept. 585, Denver, CO 80291. Give online at du.edu/ascend.
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Digging in the dirt
summer class teaches students about urban farming
By Kelsey Outman

Eleven University of Denver students got their hands dirty studying agriculture, food production and more as part of a summer quarter class called Urban Farming. Through site visits, guest speakers and in-depth discussions, students learned about food production, the local-food movement and how food travels from farm to table. They studied different models of urban farming, including nonprofit farms and community-supported agriculture. Urban farming is becoming an important topic to examine. By 2050, according to recent U.S. census statistics, demand for food will double, and 70 percent of the world’s population will live in urban centers. Issues such as nutrition, food assistance programs and sanitation all will play a major role in farming in the future. “Denver is a hotbed of urban agricultural activity,” says Sasha Breger Bush, who taught the summer class. “Both the private and public sectors are ratcheting up their efforts to support urban agriculture as a method of improving food security and health in Denver, generating new sources of income and jobs for the area, creating a more resilient local food system, mitigating environmental damage, improving urban waste management and beautifying urban landscapes.” Students also thought about ways to redefine food production and how societal-based movements, such as the organic food push, impact processing and local food policies. Each student was required to grow a plant or raise an animal and track its progress in a daily journal. Several students even adopted baby chickens.

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Site visits to urban farms in the Denver metro area allowed students to learn about urban farming initiatives. International studies major Seth Markus says he took the class to find possible solutions for the global food system. “I believe food security is one of the most important problems of our generation,” Markus says. “I took away a sense of hope from this class—hope for global food security. Urban agriculture has so much potential to combat not only food insecurity, but also detrimental and unsustainable practices from industrial agriculture.” By the end of the course, students knew how food was produced and had new ideas about local food production. Bush hopes students will continue to “contemplate how food creates connections between individuals and communities living in different parts of the world and grapple with the ways in which different ways of eating and producing food connect us to the Earth.”

In addition to Sprout City Farms, pictured, which cultivates urban farms on underutilized land, students in the Urban Farming class visited Ekar Farm and community garden, in the Lowry neighborhood, which grows thousands of pounds of produce each year for the Jewish Family Service Weinberg Food Pantry. They also visited urbiculture community Farms, which turns donated plots of land—front yards, back yards, church land, school land and more—into lush gardens that grow food for the community. Urbiculture’s 14 plots of land feed hundreds of people each season.

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The good fight
korbel professor honored for book on civil resistance
By Jill Scmieder-Hereau

The American Political Science Association has selected Erica Chenoweth, a professor in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, and her co-author, Maria Stephan of the U.S. State Department, as the recipients of the 2012 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for their book Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia University Press). The Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award is given annually for the best book on government, politics or international affairs published in the U.S. during the previous calendar year. Why Civil Resistance Works examines whether violent or nonviolent resistance methods are superior in producing short- and longterm political change. Based on a data set of more than 300 major nonviolent and violent resistance campaigns from 1900 to 2006, the book combines a number of quantitative tests as well as four comparative case studies of failed and successful nonviolent campaigns in the Palestinian Territories, Iran, the Philippines, and Burma. The book finds that nonviolent resistance is more than twice as successful as violent resistance, even in the face of brutal regime repression. Moreover, countries that have experienced nonviolent uprisings are much more likely to emerge from the conflicts democratic and with a lower risk of civil war relapse than countries that have experienced violent insurgencies.

The book challenges the common claim by insurgents that violent resistance is necessary and fruitful as an avenue of political change, while vindicating the common claim by many activists that nonviolent resistance is a superior strategic choice. According to the book’s findings, in most cases where violent insurgency has occurred, a well-executed nonviolent campaign may have been equally as successful. And in most places where nonviolent resistance is impossible (as in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, for example), violent resistance does not perform any better. “It turns out that, on average, nonviolent campaigns tend to attract far more participants than their violent counterparts,” Chenoweth told Eric Stoner of the Waging Nonviolence website. “This allows nonviolent campaigns to create or exploit cracks within the regime’s pillars of support. Such cracks are difficult to create without mass mobilization with unarmed civilians, who simultaneously demonstrate their commitment, their noncooperation with the existing order and their disinterest in physically harming those whom they oppose. In addition to imposing serious economic, political and social costs on those who resist the movement’s demands, civil resistance is also a form of psychological warfare—and a rather effective one at that.” The Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award is the latest accolade to be bestowed on Why Civil Resistance Works. Since the book was released in July 2011, it has been recognized as a seminal work in the field of civil resistance, with a unique appeal to academics, activists and policymakers alike. Steven Pinker named Why Civil Resistance Works one of the best books of 2011 at The Guardian, and Sir Adam Roberts, head of the British Academy, identified it as among the top five books on civil resistance at The Browser. The article version of the argument, which was published in International Security in 2008, is now among the top 10 most downloaded articles in the journal’s history.

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Sowing the seeds
alumna helps prison lifers brighten their space with an organic garden
By Jack Etkin

Drabness inspired Terry Meyer in late summer 2010. As a volunteer Pilates instructor in one of the women’s prisons of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, she would walk by the women’s minimum facility, where prisoners soon to be released were jabbing at trash with spiked sticks. Meyer (BA ’75), then studying at the University of Rhode Island to be a master gardener, remembers “watching them in this barren landscape, which was just really crabgrass, thinking, ‘Why aren’t they tending to something pretty?’” Looming above the women were the massive stone buildings of the Cranston, R.I., prison complex, along with high fences topped with concertina wire. Scattered about the barren area were a few picnic tables for children visiting their incarcerated mothers. “There was nothing amusing to let your eye rest on,” Meyer says. “You had to really work to make your eye see something pleasant.” That was easier for Meyer, given her aesthetic appreciation. She marveled at the turrets and the distinctive weather vanes crowning the stone cupolas. “Strip the barbed wire away, you’d see an Ivy League campus,” Meyer says. “The beauty is there.” Meyer, a digital cartographer, and two associates—Kate Lacouture, a landscape architect, and Vera Bowen, past president of the Rhode Island Federation of Garden Clubs—approached a prison official about volunteering to teach gardening classes and establishing a garden in the facility. “We really had this program in mind for inmates who would be getting out in under two

years,” Meyer says. They envisioned a program in which inmates could earn certificates for various areas of garden study that might make it slightly easier to obtain a job when paroled. But the women’s buildings were being remodeled, Meyer says, and the women’s wardens didn’t think the timing was right for a new program. The only warden interested in the proposed project was James Weeden, warden of men’s maximum security. Meyer says she and her colleagues initially were dumbfounded when told the garden would be in men’s max, where about 30 inmates are serving life without parole. Ten of those men were chosen for the gardening program. “The warden wanted the lifers to be able to have something,” Meyer says. “He thought, ‘If you give these guys something they like, they may behave better because they don’t want it taken away.’ That may be the prison spin they put on it; I don’t object to that.” The project began in February 2011 with classroom instruction and seed planting. The plants were sprouting indoors by March, followed by a memorable moment in April when a rototiller was rented. “That’s when we first thought, ‘This is going to happen,’” Meyer says. “We were all screaming. We were just yelling in glee.” The 6,000-square-foot organic garden produced a variety of vegetables, herbs and fruits, which enhanced the diet of the 450 inmates in men’s maximum. Meyer says it was “serendipitous” the way the garden came together, adding, “It feels good to be helping another person that most of society has just completely shut the door on.”

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Rhode island is not alone in setting up prison gardens; similar projects exist in california, New York, ohio, pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Washington, New Zealand and london. Research shows that onsite gardens improve the nutritional intake of inmates, reduce violence and improve participants’ mental health, teach horticultural skills that can be used upon inmates’ release, and often produce surplus that is sent to food banks or other community centers or services. —Rachel Cernasky, TLC.com

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Talking to the trees
students travel to guatemala to collect data in the wild
By Greg Glasgow

The things a tree can tell you can change the fate of a civilization. That’s why since 2007, Associate Professor Matthew Taylor of the geography department has been taking University of Denver graduate and undergraduate students to Guatemala to study tree-ring data. The light and dark bands of wood, he says, provide information on rainfall and climate that can help identify weather patterns and predict future activity. “What’s important to the people there primarily is water,” he says. “The population is growing, and they’re concerned about where they’re going to get water from in the future with increased demand and increased population, and also with projections of drying from computer models—all these facets make this research urgent.” So Taylor and his students take to the highlands of Guatemala, searching out trees old enough to provide consistent and reliable data. Using a coring device, they bore deep into the tree to remove a thin sample of ring data. The oldest trees they’ve found so far are “only” 400 years

old, so Taylor wants to go back to look for more— hopefully trees that date back beyond the 1500s and can help answer questions about the fate of the Mayan civilization. A better understanding of just what happened to the Maya could help Guatemalans plan for the coming years, Taylor says. “People say it was climate change; it was internal warfare—if we can get information from 700-year-old trees, we might be able to say there were huge droughts and that contributed toward the decline of the Maya,” he says. Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Geography and Spatial Sciences Program, Taylor says his ultimate goal is to put together a system that takes information about the past and plugs it into models that predict the future. Graduate geography student Becky Brice, who accompanied Taylor and Columbia University researcher Kevin Anchukaitis to Guatemala in March, says taking her first international research trip with such seasoned scholars gave her a definite advantage. “I felt really lucky having been able to go with them because they did have such a deep understanding of that place,” she says. “Had I gone by myself, I probably wouldn’t have had such a positive experience.” Even among students who aren’t geography or biology majors, the trips often ignite an interest in science, Taylor says. “Sometimes when students sign up for a formal class with me, they don’t quite know what they’re getting into,” he says. “I like to leave a lot of my classes open-ended. I have certain outcomes that I expect, but every individual in that class comes away with a different outcome, and three years later I get a note from a student saying, ‘That experience emboldened me to be able to go forth and do other things like that on my own.’ For me, that’s the biggest reward.”

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Q&A
provost gregg kvistad on Renew Du
Interview by Tamara Chapman

n 2011, Provost Gregg Kvistad charged a task force of faculty members and administrators with creating—and testing—new ways to improve learning at every level of the University. The initiative is called Renew DU.

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Q What is driving Renew DU? A There are a few drivers of this initiative. First, after the University received its Higher Learning Commission reaccreditation in spring 2011, we immediately began the process of setting Universitywide academic priorities for the next five to 10 years. We regularly do this after accreditation visits, and this follows that pattern. Second, as we all know, there are enormous challenges, as well as opportunities, facing higher education in the U.S., and it is imperative that the University align its academic programs, initiatives, and faculty and staff resources to meet those. This process must involve broad swaths of the University—most fundamentally, our faculty members. And third, as in all complex institutions, it’s important to take stock of what we are doing, how well we are doing it, and how we can do it better.

Q What are the task force’s strategic priorities? A They’re focused on six areas: academic technology, university teaching, inclusive excellence, internationalization, interdisciplinarity and research. We have six incubators, made up of faculty and administrators, soliciting proposals from the faculty for each of these areas. The goal is to identify a group of promising Universitywide initiatives and pilot-test them by drawing on a “venture fund” created by the University. Then, we’ll select the most successful and transformational of the tested projects and implement them.

Q What has happened to date, and what happens next? A Currently, the incubators are reviewing, sorting and combining proposals to present to the Renew DU Committee, which consists of faculty members and administrators. This process began in the summer and will continue through the fall term.

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Q Is there a precedent in University history for this experimental approach? A The closest analogue at the University is the Marsico Initiative that we used to intensify undergraduate arts and sciences education about a decade ago. That was a five-year initiative that also used pilot testing. It started in 2002 and eventually transformed the undergraduate writing program, the general education curriculum, student orientation, advising, and a number of other key components of the undergraduate academic experience.

Q How will we know if Renew DU is a success? A Renew DU will be a success if, two or three years from now, we can point to a handful of University-wide academic programs that have fundamentally improved the academic experience of our students and faculty.

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fter months of planning, the University of Denver finally took the spotlight Oct. 3 as it hosted the first presidential debate of the 2012 election. Thousands of DU students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members, plus hundreds of media outlets, were on campus. MSNBC broadcast from a temporary stage just east of the Mary Reed Building throughout the day, while representatives from media outlets from around the world roamed around campus, interviewing students and others, prior to the big event. Enthusiasm was palpable. Students were decked out in red, white and blue; voters showed their support with banners and signs; and others cheered as television cameras scanned campus. “This excitement is shared by every member of the DU community,” said Parker Calbert, a senior and student body vice president. Calbert and student body president Sam Estenson oversaw the student end of things in regard to the debate for the past nine months, getting the word out to fellow students and helping to plan DebateFest—an outdoor festival held on campus that celebrated the University’s big day with live music, family activities, food vendors and more. More than 5,000 students, alumni, faculty, staff and neighbors attended the free event. Besides being happy to showcase their school, University of Denver students want the world to know: They know how much the debate means. Estenson said instead of seeing political apathy on campus—often a common complaint against young Americans—he witnessed the opposite. “It’s become so personal,” he said. “There’s such an interest for students.” Danny Zimney-Schmitt, a first-year environmental science student, went to a rally held for President Obama at DeBoer Park, just a couple of blocks south of campus. “I think [Obama is] the better choice for college students because he’ll help with student loans rather than give us higher interest rates,” Zimney-Schmitt said, adding that the debate was one reason he decided to attend the University. A number of students were involved in the debate process—whether volunteering, attending debate-related events in order to increase their chances of getting seats at the debate, or rallying for their pick for president—but perhaps nothing could surpass the experience shared by Zach Gonzales, Samuel Gerry and Dia Mohamed. On Oct. 2 and 3, the three students were stand-ins on the debate stage for Republican nominee Mitt Romney, debate moderator Jim Lehrer and President Barack Obama, respectively, while technicians perfected lights and sound. They had a pseudo-debate in which Gonzales and Mohamed tried to impersonate the candidates in their answers. They admitted they did their homework to find out what the candidates’ platforms entailed. “I did more research [on politics] in one night than I have in my whole life,” Mohamed said. “It’s a one-in-a-million opportunity.” Gerry, a second-year finance student from Fort Collins, Colo., said he was proud of the University and its community. “While [Colorado State University] is debating whether to build a new football stadium, we are hosting the presidential debate and talking about building a new medical school,” he said. “This makes me so proud to be a student here.”

the presidential debate at the university of Denver is now in the history books. here’s a look at how it all went down.
By Kathryn Mayer (BA ’07, MA ’10)

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rom the beginning, the University committed to giving all available debate seats to students. A crowd gathered outside Sturm Hall the morning of Oct. 1 for a lottery drawing that selected the first round of lucky viewers; the rest were notified later as more seats became available. Emily Lande, a JD candidate and public policy master’s student, was one of three graduate students who worked at 9News this fall, fact-checking campaign ads. She also was among the select few who got the chance to watch the presidential debate in person. She shared her experience in the following blog post (reprinted courtesy of 9News):
It all started when I got an email telling me I had scored one of the few (297 to be exact) student tickets to the first presidential debate of the 2012 election. I swear, my first reaction was, “I don’t know that I want to deal with the traffic and hassle of getting to campus.” Luckily, I came to my senses, put on real clothes, and snagged a ride with a friend. We lucked out and scored the last spot in the Colorado Boulevard light-rail station parking lot, and man, they weren’t kidding about the security. Cops on the overpasses, cops at the station, cops on the train—and it was only 1 p.m. We got to campus, trekked past the fences and barricades and made our way to ticket pick-up. The impression most people were under was that we could get our tickets and then there would be metal detectors we’d have to go through before loading onto buses and being taken to the debate site— Magness Arena—at 5 p.m. Not so. We ended up getting tossed straight on buses and were at the arena by 3 p.m.—where we waited ... and waited ... and waited some more. Around 5:30 p.m., they finally let us into the debate hall. We found our seats and commenced to taking pictures of pretty much everything. This was definitely one of those times when you don’t realize how lucky you are, or how awesome an experience is going to be, until you’re there. But really, being on the floor, getting to take pictures next to the stage with the podiums in the background, was truly unique. Following the introduction of members of the Presidential Debate Commission, Chancellor Robert Coombe gave a brief introduction that I think really did justice to the University and to the role of the debates in the electoral process. One of the great things about hosting these debates on college campuses is that they are a part of the political process that really speaks to the values of higher education. Debates are about educating the voters on where candidates stand on the issues: on paying more attention to substance over style. I think Chancellor Coombe did an excellent job, not only in serving as a gracious host to these proceedings, but in getting the whole audience into the right mindset to view and listen to this debate with a somewhat open mind.

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ith the presidential debate happening just a few blocks away in Magness Arena, those who didn’t score a ticket to the big event weren’t upset. They were having just as much fun taking part in the historic event in and around campus. While all was quiet in the debate hall, debate watchers on the University’s Carnegie Green were making their voices heard as the two candidates outlined their cases. Two giant screens were set up on the green to broadcast the debate. “We couldn’t miss this event,” said Peter Gilbertson (BA ’75), a University trustee. Gilbertson and his wife, Mary (Ashmun) Gilbertson (BA ’74), came to Denver from their home in Minnesota to be a part of campus happenings. “We’re thrilled to be here. This is just pure fun,” he said about DebateFest. “It’s a great way to show off campus and the University.” DebateFest—the outdoor campus festival that culminated with the evening watch party—drew roughly 5,000 students, faculty and staff members and University neighbors. Local musicians Zach Heckendorf, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Lumineers performed during the afternoon, and the stage also played host to a hot dog eating contest and addresses from Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock. Nearby establishments also attracted students, alumni and community members during the debate. More than 100 people packed DEbatEFEst into Jordan’s Bistro and Pub near campus for a debate watch party. Other campus favorites—including Crimson and Gold Tavern, Spanky’s Roadhouse, Illegal Pete’s and Snarf ’s Sub Shop—had their TVs tuned to the debate, with eager students watching. In brief remarks that afternoon, Hickenlooper called presidential debates the “backbone of democracy,” and told the assembled crowd that they have a “social obligation” to talk about the election, to vote and to tell their friends to register to vote. “We’re the center of the world tonight, and they’re all watching how we’ll do it,” he said. “Let’s do it right.”

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The two days preceding the debate were packed with preparations. On the day before the big event, three students were selected to represent the two candidates and moderator Jim Lehrer at dress rehearsals. Elsewhere, work crews scrambled to assemble stages and prepare campus for the spotlight.

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On Oct. 3, more than 3,000 members of the media descended upon campus to interview students, cover the 90-minute showdown and capture all the post-event spin for posterity. Reporters and camera crews came from all the major news outlets and from countries as far away as Malaysia and Ukraine. According to numbers from VOCUS, Nielsen and internal analysis, the University yielded $36.4 million in free media exposure on the day of the debate. That grew to $45 million when coverage wrapped up for the week.

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It might have looked effortless, but hosting the first presidential debate at the University of Denver took months of planning, preparation and work by scores of students, faculty, staff, alumni and University community members working side-by-side with city, state and federal officials. More than 1,000 guests were in the audience in the Debate Hall, including 297 University of Denver students. Millions of people around the world watched on television and on the Internet.

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3.2 Gigawatts needed to back up all technology (enough to power 3,200 homes) 6 Major networks covering the debate 6 Miles of I-25 closed during the event 7 Percent increase in @uofdenver Twitter followers in one week 8 Months of planning and installation with CenturyLink telecommunications
(But … 48 hours: Time for CenturyLink to remove telecommunications)

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17 Romney surrogate signs spotted in Spin Alley (5 spotted Obama surrogate signs in Spin Alley) 24 Percent increase in Facebook.com/UofDenver “likes” 30 Booths in Spin Alley 45 Degrees of temperature change during debate day (high of 79 at 2 p.m., 61 at debate start,
down to 54 at debate finish, 34 at midnight. Source: National Weather Service)

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109 Programs, lectures and events in Debate Event Series from Oct. 31, 2011, to Oct. 3, 2012 297 DU students in the Debate Hall 400 University of Denver alumni hosting debate-in-a-box parties (more than 3,300 attendees,
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55 Rent-a-Center television sets placed in Hamilton Gymnasium 56 Miles of electric cable laid

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25,000 Attendees (approximate) at Debate Event Series programs between January 2012 and debate day 100,000 Feet of CenturyLink wire (enough to wire a small town) 10,300,000 Debate-related tweets during the 90 minutes of the debate 67,200,000 Estimated number of television viewers watching in the U.S. (source: Nielsen)
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650 Individual work stations inside media filing station 700 Foreign journalists (representing 47 countries) 850 (plus or minus) Volunteers to help run the show 1,000 (plus a few more) Seats in the Debate Hall 1,300 Specially installed phone/Ethernet ports 3,000 Credentialed media inside the perimeter 5,000 Estimated guests at DebateFest

Connections

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Two students hang out in a Johnson-McFarlane hall room sometime in the late 1970s or early ‘80s. If you know these students or have any residence hall memories of your own to share, please let us know.

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1947
Eleanor Swent (MA ’47) of Palo Alto, Calif., published her first book, Asian Refugees in America: Narratives of Escape and Adaptation (McFarland, 2011). The book, which documents the Asian immigrant experience, is based on interviews conducted by Eleanor.

1955

David Rothenberg (BA ’55) of New York wrote a memoir titled Fortune in My Eyes: A Memoir of Broadway Glamour, Social Justice, and Political Passion (Applause Books, 2012). A former theatrical producer, David founded the Fortune Society, a nonprofit social service and advocacy organization whose mission is to support successful re-entry from prison and promote alternatives to incarceration.

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Donald “Don” Shields (BA ’66, MA ’67) of Boulder, Colo., is retired and writes humorous verse.

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Charlene (Bick) Stout (BSBA ’50) of Littleton, Colo., celebrated 60 years of wedded life with her husband, Bob, in February.

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Gary Spitzer (BA ’59) of Denver wrote Journey From Little Left (Talk Doc Books, 2012), a young-adult novel about a prairie dog colony on a quest for a safer home.

Sandra Arkin (MA ’73, EDD ’85) of Aurora, Colo., was selected by AARP of Colorado to be the association’s first spokesperson on YouTube. Sandra writes her own informational presentations, which cover the ways AARP serves its members.

Diane Watson (BA ’53) of St. Joseph, Mo., is the recipient of the St. Joseph YWCA’s 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of the volunteer work she has performed throughout her life.

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1975

Christopher Brennan (BA ’63) of Miami published his first novel, Ghosts of Paris (Amazon Digital Services, 2012). The book is about famous artworks and gems stolen from France during the Nazi occupation. It follows a young couple living in Paris as they trace the artifacts. Ronald Hellbusch (MA ’63) of Westminster, Colo., writes a column on the outdoors for several newspapers in the north Denver area. Ronald is a member of the Westminster Legacy Foundation and enjoys traveling and outdoor adventures.

Robert Croce (BA ’75) of Portland, Conn., was promoted to vice president of government relations for Valassis, a national marketing, communications and advertising organization. Robert joined the company in 1998, after serving as chief of staff to a member of Congress for 15 years.

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Perry Goorman (JD ’77) of Greenwood Village, Colo., was included in the American Lawyer Magazine’s listing of “Top Rated Lawyers” in April 2012.

QuotablE NotEs
Thank you to everyone who responded to the question of the hour in our last two issues. Spring question: What is your favorite memory from spring or summer break at DU? “Spring skiing, of course!” —Marla Ottenstein (BA ’77) Naples, Fla. “Going to the Central City Opera in the summer. I also always enjoyed being active with the school of theater plays.” —Virginia (Raum) Lacy (BA ’42) San Diego Summer question: Where was your favorite place to study at DU, and why? “The library. Peace.” —Donald Shields (BA ’66, MA ’67) Boulder, Colo. “The egg chair at Penrose.” —Eric Friedman (BA ’82) New Providence, N.J.

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Jim Morrow (MACC ’77) of Bloomington, Minn., a founding partner at Davich, Wilson, Morrow & Associates, is now retired. Jim will continue to work as owner of Recreational Supply Corp. in Forest Lake, Minn.

Profile DivERsitY champioN Sharon Orlopp
Sharon House Orlopp grew up knowing about hatred and intolerance. Her parents—who were from very different religious and socioeconomic backgrounds—faced animosity even within their own families. “Both sets of my grandparents were not happy that my parents married,” says the University of Denver alumna (BA ’81), who now is global chief diversity officer and a senior vice president for Wal-Mart. So when she was 5, her parents decided to move to Colorado “to stop the cycle of stereotype and generalization.” When she was 12, Orlopp’s parents—supporters of the civil rights and women’s rights movements—moved the family to a Colorado Springs neighborhood that was predominantly African-American and Hispanic. “We actually were not welcome when we first moved there. We had our lawn set on fire; our family business was vandalized,” she recalls. “But I was never afraid; I just wanted to make friends and fit in. Our family lived there for about 30 years—it helped me become a champion of diversity. Now, I have this internal radar that goes off when I feel people are being excluded.” After stints in management at Foot Locker and Gart Sports, Orlopp in 2003 became the head of human resources for Sam’s Club, the membership warehouse division of Wal-Mart. “I kept thinking about, ‘How can I help build diversity?’ I kept thinking about my childhood: How can I immerse adults in experiences [that expose them to different cultures]?” she says. Orlopp began taking managers on what she calls “diversity immersion trips,” beginning with a two-day excursion to Montgomery, Ala., where participants toured a number of educational sites, including the Rosa Parks Library and Museum and the Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home. The program was a huge success, and the CEO asked Orlopp to expand it. She initiated similar programs to immerse employees in issues affecting Hispanics, women and people with disabilities. Given Wal-Mart’s status as the world’s largest employer—2.1 million people in 28 countries work for the Arkansas-based corporation—it might seem redundant to focus so much energy on diversity. But Orlopp says it’s a critical mission. “A diverse and inclusive employee base … leads to innovation. And innovation is a competitive advantage. In order to attract the best talent, we have to have an environment that accepts everybody,” she says. By 2013, an additional 90 million women will be in the global workforce, Orlopp says. Based on talent needs, Wal-Mart has established retail training centers in India and Brazil. “They’re not just for our employees,” Orlopp says. Any person can attend—and they can go work for any retailer. “When women are lifted, they lift their families and their communities,” Orlopp says. And making that kind of difference, she says, “is what gets me jazzed every morning about coming to work.”
— Laurie Budgar
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1981

John Amber (MA ’81) of Boston is vice president of strategy and chairman of program development at Oxfam America, an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and injustice. John has traveled the world for the last 35 years, doing humanitarian work.

Carrie Clein (BA ’81, JD ’84) married Tony Giardina (attd. 1973–74) on April 7, 2012. Carrie is licensed to practice law in Colorado and works for the Denver firm Harrington, Brewster & Clein.

1982

Eric Friedman (BA ’82) of New Providence, N.J., is vice president for academic affairs at Hudson County Community College in Jersey City, N.J. Eric also is an adjunct professor of sociology at Drew University. Lee Patton (MA ’82) of Denver published his third book, a collection of short stories titled Au Bon Pain (CreateSpace, 2012).

1983

Diane Burbank (BA ’83) of San Jose, Calif., is principal of Woodside High School in Woodside, Calif. Diane previously was principal of Prospect High School in Saratoga, Calif. Thomas Hames (JD ’83) of Denver is senior trial counsel for the Travelers Insurance Co. Thomas is licensed to practice law in Colorado, Wyoming and Nevada.

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Pioneer pics
Linda (Howington) Zschoche (MSW ’81) and Gerard Zschoche (BA ’63) of Denver showed their Pioneer spirit at Ollantaytambo, Peru, before embarking on a train ride along the Urubamba River to Aquas Calientes, Peru, gateway to Machu Picchu. As you pioneer lands far and wide, be sure to pack your DU gear and strike a pose in front of a national monument, the fourth wonder of the world or your hometown hot spot. If we print your submission, you’ll receive some new DU paraphernalia to take along on your travels. Send your print or high-resolution digital image and a description of the location to: Pioneer Pics, University of Denver Magazine, 2199 S. University Blvd., Denver, CO 80208-4816, or email [email protected]. Be sure to include your full name, address, degree(s) and year(s) of graduation.

Which alum grew up in Colorado Springs? The answer can be found somewhere on pages 33–41 of this issue. Send your answer to du-magazine@ du.edu or University of Denver Magazine, 2199 S. University Blvd., Denver, CO 80208-4816. Be sure to include your full name and mailing address. We’ll select a winner from the correct entries; the winning entry will win a prize. Congratulations to Jessica Bonelli for winning the fall issue’s pop quiz.

Visit www.alumni.du.edu/DUontheRoad to view the 2012-13 schedule and to register for an upcoming DU on the Road.
DU on the Road brings the University of Denver from the foothills of the Rockies to a city near you. Throughout the academic year, complimentary cocktail receptions are held in various cities across the country. These gatherings provide a unique opportunity to speak with University leadership about the latest developments at DU while you mingle with fellow alumni, parents and friends of the university.

Coming to a city near you!

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Profile Michael and Amy Chamberlain-Torres WoRlD tRavElERs
In November 2011, one year and four months after their wedding, Michael (BSBA ’08) and Amy Chamberlain-Torres (BS ’09, MBA ’09) took the plunge they’d talked about for years. They quit their jobs, put their possessions in storage and set off to travel around the world. The couple—who met on their first day at the University—are blogging about their experiences at chamborres.com. By mid-August, the pair had traveled to Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Denmark, Austria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Bosnia, Turkey, China, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. Q I saw on your website that you’re traveling very light and just carrying one pack each. Do you think that’s going to give you a different perspective when you come back, as far as how much stuff you actually need in your life? Amy: Definitely. Our life is packed away in a storage unit in Denver, and I think when we come back we’re going to realize, “Wow, we have way more than we really need to live life.” We’ll see how that goes when we get back. Q You’ve been at this since December—what are some of the other lessons you’ve learned along the way? Michael: One that we talk about frequently is we’re on this trip thinking it will be so great to quote-unquote “see the world,” but every time we go to a city, the world’s not getting any smaller, it’s just getting bigger and bigger, and we’re realizing more and more what an enormous place it is and how much there really is to see out there. Instead of trying to conquer it and see everything, we’re just trying to really enjoy every day and enjoy what we can see. Q Do you have the sense that the trip will change the course of what you want to do, career-wise, when you get back? Amy: It’s something we talk about often. Both of us were very content and excited about our career paths before the trip, so it’s definitely something we would
Courtesy of Michael and Amy Chamberlain-Torres

consider going back to, but after months on the road, we’ve learned so much and talked about different businesses we’d like to start. We’re both really entrepreneurial, and we’d love to make the travel industry part of our career path. It’s definitely still up in the air as to what it will look like if and when we go back home. Q You both studied abroad while you were at the University. Did that change your outlook on travel at all, or did it reinforce what you already thought? Amy: For me it changed my outlook because of the fact that I lived with a host family. I’d never traveled with a home-space situation before, so being able to dive into one culture and really become a part of it changed my outlook on travel. When you are a tourist in a country, it’s a totally different experience than when you live with a host family or surf on someone’s couch. DU study abroad opened me up to the possibility of immersion travel rather than tourism.
— Greg Glasgow

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1985

Michael Carson (BA ’85) of Silver Spring, Md., is executive director of American Friends of Guinea, an international nongovernmental organization whose mission is to improve health, water and sanitation in the Republic of Guinea. Michael enjoys cycling, swimming and playing tennis in his free time. Larry Shupe (MBA ’85) of Parker, Colo., joined Travelers Public Sector Services as an account executive. Larry has 26 years of experience in insurance underwriting, marketing and management.

Struggle (Thomas Nelson, 2012), a book that takes a biblical approach to pornography and sexual addiction. Jamey Hastings (BA ’04) of Colorado Springs, Colo., is a multimedia producer for the Pikes Peak Library District. She was awarded a 2012 Heartland Emmy Award for her piece “Colorado Springs Beat: The News Photography of Stan Payne,” which used old newspaper photos to show the history of Colorado Springs.

1992

Michael Frank (PhD ’92) of Tucson, Ariz., was a 2011 winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching.

1997

Jeffrey Holliday (MSW ’97) of Centennial, Colo., is deputy manager of protection and prevention services at Denver Human Services. Jeffrey has more than 20 years of experience in the realm of child welfare.

Summer Belden (IMBA ’05) of Saint Louis married her husband, Marvin, in May. Summer is manager of global structured transactions and trade analyst for Peabody Energy Corp. Erin (Saar) Hanes (BA ’05) and Philip Hanes (BA ’05) of Fairfield, Calif., welcomed their first child, Hannah, on Dec. 20, 2011. Erin and Philip both are studying for their master’s degrees in cultural management at Sonoma State University.

2005

2002

Martina (Pospisilova) Hamplova (BSBA ’02) of Prague got married in August 2010. She gave birth to her son, Viktor, on Oct. 14, 2011. Anne Wright (MBA ’02) of Broomfield, Colo., has joined Pure Brand Communications in Denver. Anne previously was director of 360 Solutions at Adperio in Denver and has 15 years of experience in designing and implementing marketing strategies.

2004

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Michael Cusick (MA ’04) of Littleton, Colo., is a counselor, speaker, ordained minister and spiritual director who serves as president of Restoring the Soul, a ministry that equips and cares for Christian leaders worldwide. He wrote Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual

Ann Bruce (PhD ’06) is a volunteer at Robins Bay Primary School in the parish of St. Mary, Jamaica. Ann works with students on literacy skills and will be at Robins Bay until September 2013.

2006

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2007

Lauryn (Allbaugh) Shabanowitz (BSBA ’07, MSLA ’11) of Parker, Colo., started an event-planning company that specializes in wine tasting events and wine consultancy. Lauryn is a certified sommelier.

Profile Nicolas Benedict ENtREpRENEuR

2008

Andrew Fiske (JD ’08) of Denver has joined the finance and acquisitions department of Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP as an associate. Elizabeth Stiegman (MA ’08) of Saint Gabriel, La., and her husband, Scott, welcomed their first child, Adele Cecile Stiegman, on May 30, 2012.

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2010

Mila Gates (MA ’10) of Aurora, Colo., is community manager for the Integer Group advertising agency. Wesley “Wes” Feist (MA ’10) is manager of the High School to College Pathways Program for the Montana University System in Helena, Mont.

2011

Robert Clever (BA ’11) of Aurora, Colo., spent a year in Germany as a participant in the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals. Robert was selected as one of 75 participants for the governmentsponsored fellowship. Nardos Ghebregziabher (BA ’11) of Aurora, Colo., has been named a 2012 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellow. The fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of State, will allow Nardos to complete a graduate degree at George Washington University.

Let us know
Post your class note online at www.du.edu/alumni, e-mail [email protected] or mail in the form on page 40.

Online education is allowing thousands of people across the country to earn or finish degrees, but there are still bugs to work out. It’s easy enough for the English major to read a poem online, but what about the chemistry student who still has to find a way to do experiments? That’s where eScience Labs comes in. Founded by Nicolas Benedict (BA ’93, PhD ’01) in 2007, the Denver-based company creates lab kits that it ships to online learners around the world. The company’s more than 300 kits include hands-on tutorials in biology, environmental science, anatomy, physiology, forensics and more. “Education was changing in a lot of areas, and we didn’t really see a good solution for the lab component for online education,” Benedict says. “There was another company that was out doing it, but it wasn’t really up to the caliber and the safety that I would have expected. So we looked at the education market and where it was going and decided that there was room for somebody to come in and do it better.” EScience Labs works mostly with colleges and universities, he says, but it provides kits for high school and home-schooled students as well. The system makes it easy for teachers to select or custom-build kits that match their curricula. “We like to be able to go to a teacher and say, ‘Listen, it’s your course. You teach it the way you like it; just tell us what you need and we’ll take care of the lab part of it for you,’” Benedict says. “We’re not going to try to tell the teacher how to teach their course or what to teach or when to teach it—we’re simply giving them the tools so they can do it how they want to and when they want to.” The response, he says, has been great, whether it’s from teachers happy to take the scheduling pressure off school lab space or from a working parent who can earn a biology degree from home. “I walk through the warehouse, and I look at all the boxes sitting there, and I think, ‘Every one of those is a student,’” he says. “We’ve impacted over 100,000 students at this point. The ability to be able to build a business that’s growing, that’s making some money, and it’s filling a need and doing some good things, that’s great.” >>esciencelabs.com
— Greg Glasgow

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Dead and Not So Buried
James Conway (BA ’71) has worked in film and television for more than 30 years, so it’s only fitting that he set his debut novel, the mystery thriller Dead and Not So Buried, in the world of show business. Inspired by legendary mystery writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, as well as more recent scribes like Michael Connelly and Robert Crais, Conway created his own wisecracking private eye—ex-cop Gideon Kincaid—and put him at the center of a series of bizarre kidnappings involving pampered pets and the skeleton of a 1960s starlet. “I love murder mysteries, I love thrillers, and because you write what you know, I wrote about Hollywood,” says Conway, who has worked as a writer and producer on “MacGyver,” “Beverly Hills, 90210,” “Smallville” and “Charmed,” among others. Library Journal called Dead and Not So Buried “a clever mystery with one more satisfying twist at the very end,” while the New York Journal of Books said, “Mr. Conway’s Hollywood is alive with betrayal, greed, lust, and all the basilar passions that have typified Tinsel Town since the first silent film. His characters breathe on the page and are enlivened with emotions and desires that are nearly palpable.” Credit the accolades to Conway’s knowledge of his subject, and credit them to the book’s captivating villain, a type the author knows all too well. “The bad guy in the book is an actor,” he says. “It always fascinates me how Hollywood is filled with these guys who were the best-looking guy in high school, captain of the football team, good actors, big man on campus, and they always have everything really easy. Then they come to Hollywood, and they walk into a room for their first casting session, and they look around and the room is filled with guys who look just like them, who were big man on campus where they came from. “Suddenly they realize that it’s going to be a little tougher than they thought, and that’s what happens to the antagonist in this book. It doesn’t go quite the way he expects, and he decides to get even with the people who he thinks have wronged him.”
— Greg Glasgow

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Deaths
1940s
The Rev. Donald Swerdfeger (BA ’43), Mead, Wash., 3-9-12 Richard Eccles (MS ’49), Spanish Fort, Ala., 3-5-12 Ester (Knutson) Gossack (BA ’49), Great Falls, Mont., 5-1-12 Mary Hessenflow (BSBA ’49), Auburn, Neb., 12-11-11

1950s

Jarvis “Norman” Messer (BS ’51), Key West, Fla., 6-25-12 Gerald Puls (BA ’51), Pueblo, Colo., 1-18-12 Fred Holmes (MA ’55, EDD ’67), Denver, 6-28-12 Raymond Winter (BS ’55), Colorado Springs, Colo., 6-30-12 Roger Whelen (BS ’57), Denver, 6-26-12

1960s

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Irene Ingram (BS ’61), Austin, Texas, 12-9-09 Gordon Walter (BS ’62), Billings, Mont., 7-2-12 Arlyne (Potter) Wilkerson (BA ’63, MA ’70), Clifton, Colo., 4-27-12 Walter “Walt” Hall (BA ’64), Seattle, 6-9-12

1970s

David “Dave” Briggs (BA ’70), Colorado Springs, Colo., 6-11-12 Donald Schmidt (BA ’74), Rochelle Park, N.J., 7-24-10 Alexander Tejada (JD ’75), Durango, Colo., 6-16-12 Sharon Shuteran (JD ’78), Telluride, Colo., 5-5-12

1980s 1990s 2000s

Patricia Stanley (EdD ’83), Wayland, Mass., 6-16-12 Jennifer Chambers-Neff (MFA ’96), Durango, Colo., 6-19-12 Ted O’Leary (BA ’06, MBA ’06), Mead, Colo., 7-1-12

Faculty and staff

Janice Amme, retired graduate studies board member, Denver, 7-7-12 Gloria Dotzenroth, stockroom manager in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Denver, 2-17-12 Margaret Goggin, dean emeritus of the School of Librarianship, Gainesville, Fla., 6-10-12 Ann Scales, former professor at the Sturm College of Law, Denver, 6-24-12

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Moment in time
To celebrate the presidential debate, we invited members of the University community—students, alumni, faculty, staff and more—to take part in a community photo project called “A DU Moment in Time.” We asked participants to take pictures of themselves and their surroundings at 6:30 p.m. MDT on oct. 3—30 minutes before the debate started. More than 200 submissions came in from around the country and globe, including many photos taken at DebateFest. “A DU Moment in Time” is a snapshot of the University community at one historic moment. To see all the pictures, visit debate2012.du.edu/moment.

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MISCELLANEA

Optimum optics
Photographer Jim Doolittle (MBA ’95) created this 360-degree view of campus by stitching together 12 separate photographs in Photoshop. Doolittle, senior vice president of business development for Colorado-based marketing agency Digital Globe Services, got serious about photography nine years ago and now moonlights shooting landscapes, portraits, long exposures, fashion and glamour photos and more. >>jimdoolittlephotography.com

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