May 2001   

Dear Colleagues,

The month of May brings to a close our publication of "The Chronicle" for yet another academic year. And we are finishing the year very well indeed with news of the increasing stature of our faculty and programs here in the College of Liberal Arts.

In this issue, in addition to information about faculty publications, grants, and awards, we feature the first College of Liberal Arts Authors’ Recognition Event, held on April 26. This event will become a semi-annual tradition of displaying the scholarship, research and creative work of our faculty that was published, exhibited, performed or composed in the the previous calendar year. Faculty who attended were treated to brief reviews of books recently published by Martha Cottam, Michael Myers and Carol Siegel, as well as to art works exhibited by Chris Watts and a musical arrangement by Greg Yasinitsky, performed by our student saxophone quintet.

Also on April 26, the College hosted the second meeting of our Liberal Arts Advisory Council, detailed below. This group of 24 prominent business, government and alumni leaders, along with faculty representatives and our Dean's Office staff, are working on three key areas that impact our relationship to the communities we serve: Resource Development, Public and Community Relations, and Student Recruiting and Career Placement.

Please note, too, news in this issue about our College Commencement and the celebratory events remaining that lead up to graduation this year. Our commencement speaker is Professor Larry EchoHawk, law professor and former attorney general of Idaho. Details appear below.

Best wishes as you prepare for final exams and other end-of-the-year activities. And I wish you a productive and relaxing summer term. Please let us know about your accomplishments; we are eager to feature them in our first fall issue.

Barbara Couture
Dean, College of Liberal Arts

Birgitta Ingemanson (Foreign Languages) has been invited by the Library of Congress to participate in a conference on the Russian Far East this month. She will appear on a panel with James Billington, LOC director, as well as the director of the Russian National Library. The “Meeting of Frontiers” Conference will be held in Fairbanks, Alaska. In addition to the LOC, it is cosponsored by the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, the Open Society Institute of Russia and the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The meeting is part of a congressionally funded project to create a bilingual, English-Russian digital library that chronicles the experiences of the United States and Russia in exploring, developing and settling their frontiers, as well as the meeting of those frontiers in Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, and Siberia and the Russian Far East. Thus far, the site includes about 85,000 images—rare books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, films, and sound recordings; it is the first major digital project of the Library of Congress that involves international material. Ingemanson’s panel deals with future prospects for U.S.-Russian cooperation.

The U.S. Department of Justice granted a fellowship of more than $157,000 to Kelsey Gray (Rural Sociology, WSU Spokane) to study how law enforcement agencies evolve as they implement community policing. Gray is an organizational development specialist for Cooperative Extension and the Western Regional Institute for Community Oriented Public Safety (WRICOPS). She will spend her fellowship year replicating the organizational assessment process she co-developed with Jon Walters for WRICOPS for other Regional Community Policing Institutes (RCPI) in the country. WRICOPS was the first such institute; its success prompted Congress to fund 29 other RCPIs around the country to support law enforcement agencies in furthering the community policing philosophy.

Paul Hirt (History) received one of the nation’s first Fulbright Senior Specialist grants to travel to Yunnan Province, China, this May-June to lecture and consult with collaborators who wish to work with WSU to develop a master’s degree in American studies at Yunnan National University. He will write a grant next fall to fund an exchange and curriculum development program similar to the one WSU has with Ukraine.

The proposed American studies program, Yunnan’s first such program at the graduate level, has an anticipated enrollment of about 60 undergraduates and 20 graduate students. The development phase would include exchange opportunities for faculty and students at both WSU and Yunnan University.

During his visit, Hirt will also deliver lectures on American history and culture. His specializations in the history of the American West and in environmental policy are of particular interest to academics in western China, who see the development of the American West as a potential model for considering the pros and cons of development for their own western region.

Hirt has led a successful three-year effort to establish American studies programs at four universities in Ukraine.  Support to establish these programs was provided by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Tahira Probst (Psychology, WSU Vancouver) has been interviewed by several media in the past week regarding her research on the effects of corporate layoffs. She was interviewed by Siri Carpenter of the Monitor on Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association. This article, in the Monitor’s April 2001 issue, can be viewed at http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr01/worksafety.html.  Her study was also mentioned in USA Today, The Dallas Morning News, The Oregonian and the online editions of ABC and CBS News.

Ross Coates (Fine Arts, professor emeritus) will serve as interim director of the WSU Museum of Art. Coates takes over the post held by Dyana Curreri-Ermatinger, who left to become the director of the Fresno Art Museum. A search for a permanent director will begin this fall. Coates taught at various schools around New York City and in Uganda before coming to WSU in 1976. At WSU, he served several years as department chair and continued to distinguish himself as an artist and teacher.

Paul Brians (English) has recently added to his Web site a new interview with Salman Rushdie on James Joyce. K. Kwan Go, a fan of Rushdie’s of Indonesian descent living in the Netherlands, was kind enough to translate from the original Dutch a recent remarkable interview with the author concerning his relationship with the works of James Joyce, an author much discussed in “postcolonial” circles. Go’s translation of the interview now appears exclusively on Brians’ Web site at http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/anglophone/satanic_verses/joyce.html.

WSU’s 44-member Concert Choir, directed by Lori Wiest and Julie Anne Wieck (both Music), departs May 16 for a two-week tour of Europe. The singers will perform in Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Their program will include pieces by Colfax-born composer Morten Lauridsen and other selections by American composers and arrangers Edwin Fissinger, Randall Thompson, Moses Hogan and Joseph Flummerfelt. Also featured will be motets by Brahms and a set of English church music pieces by Orlando Gibbons, Herbert Howells and William H. Harris. Choir members raised the money for the tour themselves.

Noriko Kawamura (History) has received a $2,000 grant from the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies to support her research in Japan for a forthcoming book.

Three of the four nominations for the Faculty of the Year Award presented by the Disability Awareness Association were Liberal Arts faculty members. Congratulations to Judith Hennessy (Sociology, Ph.D. candidate), Paul Smith (Music, General Education) and Matthew Guterl (Comparative American Cultures), who were honored at the Disability Awareness Banquet on April 24.

Ellen Gorsevski (English) has just been awarded an American Diversity Mini-Grant of $2,000 for the development and conduct of a new course she’ll teach in the 2001-2002 academic year, entitled “Peace Rhetoric: Nonviolence in Literature and Media.” Peaceful persuasion (nonviolent rhetoric) is her area of research.

George Caldwell (Theatre) received a certificate of merit from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts/American College Theatre Festival for his direction and set design of “Godspell.” The work was performed on the WSU main campus as part of the fall production schedule and was selected one of the best among six western states competing in the ACTF/Northwest Drama Conference productions for the 2000-2001 academic theatre season.
Caldwell serves on the boards of ACTF and the Northwest Drama Conference and is also the managing editor of the Northwest Theatre Review. The ninth volume of the Review was recently published by WSU Publications. It includes an article by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner. Caldwell was also named this year to serve on the board of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) for the Inland Northwest Region. USITT is an organization made up of technical theatre professionals and educators from colleges and universities throughout the United States.

Susan Chan (Music) performed her New York piano debut recital in Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, on November 14, 2000. The performance was favorably reviewed in the New York Concert Review. This spring semester, as a part of her sabbatical projects, she visited the University of Hong Kong with an honorary associateship from the music department there. She presented in a research colloquium with a lecture entitled “Alfred Cortot: The Teacher and Performer as Seen in His Edition and Recording of the Chopin Preludes, Op. 28.” In addition, she was guest lecturer in a music performance class. While in Hong Kong, she also performed the Beethoven 4th Piano Concerto with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta on a university campus tour. She is currently visiting the University of Southampton, UK, under a Hartley Visiting Fellowship, where she will perform a piano recital, teach a piano masterclass and conduct research on pianist Artur Schnabel.

Gail Chermak (Speech and Hearing Sciences) presented a paper on differential diagnosis of auditory processing disorder and effects of medication on diagnostic protocols at the annual convention of the American Academy of Audiology in San Diego in April.

A session proposed by Ana María Rodríguez-Vivaldi (Foreign Languages and Literatures) for the Latin American Studies Association conference in Washington, D.C., in September has been accepted. In it, she will present a paper on a film adaptation of ”La guagua aérea” by Puerto Rican author Luis Rafael Sánchez. She will also lead two sessions on Hispanic Identity in the fall convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Vancouver, B.C.

E. San Juan, Jr. (Comparative American Cultures) chaired and presented a paper, “From M. Butterfly to Miss Saigon,” at the College English Association Conference in Memphis, Tenn., April 4-7. This month he will present an invited paper on “Culture and Freedom” at the founding congress of the International League of People’s Struggle. Delia D. Aguilar (Comparative American Cultures, Women’s Studies) will also be giving a paper, titled “Women in the Empire,” at the congress to be held May 25-27 at Zutphen, Netherlands.

Carla Jones (Speech and Hearing Sciences) co-presented two workshops at the annual convention of the Idaho Speech and Hearing Association in April. One workshop focused on treatment of auditory processing disorders and the second covered oral-motor treatment techniques.

In March, Lori Wiest (Music) attended the national convention of the American Choral Directors Association in San Antonio. She was involved in facilitating the three-day Student Conducting Competition for undergraduate and graduate student choral conductors sponsored by ACDA’s Youth and Student Activities Committee. Wiest is the new national chair of this committee.

Wiest also concluded her third year as conductor of the Spokane Symphony Chorale. This season, she prepared the Chorale to perform Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah, Choros No. 10 of Villa-Lobos and Walton’s Henry V, all with the Spokane Symphony. She also conducted the Symphony and the Chorale in the annual Holiday Pops Concert in December.

Gerald Berthiaume (Music) recently performed solo piano recitals for the University of Puget Sound Jacobsen Series in Tacoma and at Gonzaga University, a concert sponsored by its Music Teachers National Association student chapter. In addition to works by Clara and Robert Schumann, Mozart and Rachmaninoff, Berthiaume performed “...between Scylla and Charybdis,” a work composed by Charles Argersinger (Music). Berthiaume also performed works of Mozart and Chopin for the WSU Board of Regents at the home of President Lane Rawlins on March 29.

Marina Tolmacheva (History, associate dean) attended the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges and Universities in New Orleans, in January. On April 21, she spoke on “Higher Education Reform in Kyrgyzstan” at the Northwest Regional Middle East Seminar held at Portland State University.

David Sonnenfeld (Sociology, WSU Tri-Cities) was an invited speaker and session leader at the International Conference on Industry and Environment in Vietnam, held at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in April. He gave a presentation titled “The Role of Civil Society and Communities in Industrial Environmental Reform in Thailand” and chaired the plenary on Environmental Management in Industrial Zones. The conference was co-sponsored by Van Lang University of Vietnam and Wageningen University and the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies of the Netherlands, with support from SAIL, the Dutch Interuniversity Development program.

Several Psychology faculty members have recently received grant awards. Jay Wright (with Joe Harding, VCAPP) received funding from the National Science Foundation for studies of animal models of memory. Mike Morgan’s (WSU Vancouver) National Institutes of Health grant request has been funded for the next two years. Elizabeth Soliday has received notice that her National Cancer Institute grant request has been funded for the next two years. The Northwest Academic Computing Consortium awarded a $50,000 Technology Collaboration grant to Lisa Fournier and collaborators at the University of Idaho.

Barbara Couture (Dean of Liberal Arts) presented a paper entitled "Writing with Hope: Teaching Composition without Argument" at the 2001 Conference on College Composition and Communication, held in Denver in March. Couture also led a case study session at the annual conference of the Council of Arts and Sciences Deans last November.

The Department of Anthropology was well represented at the annual meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference held in Moscow, Idaho, in March. Those who attended to present papers are faculty members Gary Huckleberry and Shila Baksi and graduate students Judson Finley, Karisa Terry, Victoria Hansel, Michael Fletcher, Amy Lawrence, Tina Minor, Keiko Kato, Hua Han, Bonnie Bentz, Sloan Craven, Lisa Miller, Randi Wolf and Fumiyasu Arakawa.

Annual College awards honored the following faculty, students and staff:

Outstanding Graduating Senior, Ryan Brooke (Political Science).
Faculty Distinguished Achievement, Robert Ackerman (Anthropology).
Distinguished Alumna, Burdena “Birdie” Pasenelli (‘67 Political Science).
Outstanding Staff, Elsa Camacho, Program Support Supervisor (Communication).
Outstanding Staff, Barbara Lentz, Coordinator, General Studies.
William F. Mullen Outstanding Teaching, Laurie Mercier (History, WSU Vancouver).
Les Smith Distinguished Visiting Professor in Media Management, Don Lacy (Communication).
Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professorship in Anthropology, John Bodley.
Claudius O. and Mary W. Johnson Distinguished Professor in History, Susan Armitage.
Claudius O. and Mary W. Johnson Distinguished Professor in Political Science, Lance LeLoup.
Lewis E. and Stella G. Buchanan Distinguished Professor in English, Alexander Hammond.

An article by Carter Hay (Sociology), titled “An Exploratory Test of Braithwaite’s Reintegrative Shaming Theory,” was published in the May issue of the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.

Ana María Rodríguez-Vivaldi (Foreign Languages and Literatures) has had a paper on Cuban director and novelist Jesús Díaz accepted for publication in Atenea. She is currently working on a manuscript on film and literature in Latin America as part of her sabbatical project.

Delia D. Aguilar (Comparative American Cultures, Women’s Studies) contributed an entry, “Womanculture,” to the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women, ed. by Cheris Kramarae & Dale Spender.

Gary Huckleberry (Anthropology) is the lead author of an article in the upcoming issue of the journal Quaternary Research titled “Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Environmental Change at the Sunshine Locality, North-Central Nevada, U.S.A.” He also presented a poster in New Orleans at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology titled “Archaeological Insights Gained from Surficial Geologic Mapping of the Middle Moche Valley, Peru” and gave a paper in Moscow, Idaho, at the annual meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, titled “Revisiting the Geo-archaeology of the Marmes Site.”

Bill Stanford Pincheon (Comparative American Cultures) had an article, “‘An Ethnography of Silences’: Race, (Homo) Sexualities, and a Discourse of Africa,” published in African Studies Review in December. He also contributed “African American Lesbian and Gay Associations” and “African American AIDS Associations” for Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations.

John E. Kicza (History, associate dean) has had two book chapters published: “De las estructuras a los procesos: nuevas cuestiones y enfoques en el estudio de la sociedad colonial mexicana,” in Familias Iberoamericas: historia, identidad y conflictos; and “The Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas Before Contact,” in Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History.

E. San Juan, Jr. (Comparative American Cultures) published “Cultural Studies–A Reformist or Revolutionary Force for Social Change” in the winter 2000 edition of Tamkang Review; “Cinema of the Subaltern in Search of an Audience,” in Geopolitics of the Visible, edited by Roland Tolentino for Ateneo University Press; and “Reactionary Tendencies in the U.S. Production of Knowledge about the Filipino/the Philippines,” in the January 2001 Institute of Political Economy Journal.

T.V. Reed’s (American Studies) essay “Famine, Apartheid and the Politics of ‘Agit-Pop’: Music as (Anti)Colonial Discourse” was published in the spring issue of the international online journal Cercles, which may be found at http://www.cercles.com/.

An article by Suzanne Julin (History, Ph.D. candidate), “Art Meets Politics: Peter Norbeck, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Sylvan Lake Hotel Commission,” has been accepted for publication in South Dakota History, the journal of the South Dakota State Historical Society, for fall 2002.

Leonard Burns (Psychology) and collaborators had an article, “Attention-deficit and disruptive behavior disorder symptoms: Usefulness of a frequency count procedure to measure these symptoms,” published in the European Journal of Psychological Assessment.

Sara Ewert (’00 Ph.D., History) was awarded the Charles M. Gates Memorial Award for best article in 2000 in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly. She will be starting a tenure-track job at Weber State this fall.

The Far Side cartoonist and WSU alum Gary Larson (‘72 Communication) was honored by the Society for Conservation Biology with a 2001 Award for Education and Journalism. His award citation reads: “American cartoonist Gary Larson loved to draw when he was young but never studied art nor considered being a cartoonist. His love was science, which ultimately became a frequent topic in his syndicated cartoon The Far Side. The Far Side thrived for 14 years and when Larson retired the cartoon from daily syndication on 1 January 1995, the panel appeared in more than 1900 newspapers and had been translated into 17 languages. Larson has published 21 New York Times best selling Far Side books and he has the distinction of having a biting louse named after him (Strigiphilus garylarsoni). This award is given in recognition of Larson’s unique talent in introducing science and nature to people in an irresistibly funny and thought-provoking style, and in helping people re-think the connection between ourselves and nature from an unlikely perspective.”

Suzanne Julin (History, Ph.D. candidate) presented a paper, “Constructing a Cultural Landscape: The Creation of Mount Rushmore,” at the National Council on Public History Annual Conference in Ottawa, Ontario, in April.

Ph.D. candidates Jenna Ross-Nazzal, Michael Russell (both History), Scott Akins and Chad Smith (both Sociology) have been awarded 2001 Summer Graduate Research Assistantships from the Graduate School. The awards provide funds for summer dissertation research.

American Studies graduate students Alma Montes de Oca, Carlos Adams, Christina Castañeda and Jennifer Mata gave presentations at the Pacific Northwest American Studies Association’s annual conference in April, as did American Studies graduate faculty members Michelle Kendrick, Susan Kilgore and T.V. Reed.

Robert Griffin (Sociology, Ph.D. candidate) appeared on national TV in April. He was a member of a team that built a robot that competed in The Learning Channel’s “Robotica” series, which airs Wednesday nights in the 9-11 p.m. time slot. His team earned a spot in the competition finals where they placed third.

Carol Scally (History, Ph.D. candidate) received a Harvard University Rodney G. Dennis Fellowship in the Study of Manuscripts at Houghton Library. It will allow her to do research on her dissertation regarding an American project to provide a university level education for Spanish women at the turn of the 20th century.

Deborah Thorne (Sociology, Ph.D. candidate) has been awarded a one-year post-doctorate fellowship at Harvard University beginning this summer. She will be working on the Consumer Bankruptcy Project with professors from Harvard and University of Texas-Austin.

Christine Nelson (Fine Arts undergraduate) won the first and second prizes in the three-dimensional class of the Lewiston/Clarkston Dogwood Festival Art Competition. Her winning works were both called “Upholstered Appliances.” The first prize winner, titled “Punk Mix Her,” is a velvet spandex-covered mixer sporting a nose ring and a white Mohawk hairstyle. The second prize winner, titled “Women Sent Her,” is a stretch-lace covered teakettle with a ruffled skirt.

Pui-Yan Lam (Sociology, Ph.D. candidate) has accepted a tenure-track position as assistant professor at Eastern Washington University beginning in fall.

In April the 2001 Master of Fine Arts students went to Columbia Basin Community College in Pasco to discuss the graduate art experience and meet with art classes. The artists participating were Joel Allen, sculpture; Sarah Belnap, drawing; Ryan Belnap, photography; Tobe Harvey, painting; Karen Kaiser, drawing and installation; David Schu, drawing, painting and digital art; Raylene Ward, painting; and Cynthia Zyzda, ceramics. Their thesis exhibition at the WSU Museum of Art runs through May 12.

The Association for Faculty Women bestowed several outstanding women graduate students awards to Liberal Arts majors. The recipient of the Out- standing Woman in a Master’s Program is Christina Castañeda (American Studies). The recipient of the Harriett B. Rigas Award for Outstanding Work in a Doctoral Program is Doryjane Birrer (English).

Ryan Belnap (MFA candidate), an innovative pinhole photographer, won the WSU Teaching Assistant Excellence Award for 2000-2001, for which he received a $300 award.

Winners of the fall 2000 Best University Writing Portfolio submission awards included two from Liberal Arts: Jared Anthony (English, WSU Vancouver) and Paul Zimmerman (Anthropology).

Music major Ryan Jesperson was among the six winners of the annual undergraduate awards sponsored by the Faculty Association for Scholarship and Research and Sigma Xi.

The WSU Graduate and Professional Student Association and the Graduate School announced the winners of the 2000-2001 Dr. William R. Wiley Annual Exposition of Scholarship and Research. Liberal Arts students placed in the following categories.

Social and Administrative Sciences: first place, Heather Nissley (Psychology); second place, Scott Akins (Sociology).
Arts, Humanities, and Education: first place, Jeff Crane (History).

The Graduate and Professional Student Association granted TA awards to Ryan Belnap (Fine Arts), Bernie Olson (Political Science/Criminal Justice), and Darshan Sawantdesai and Guy Smith (both Communication).

The Disability Awareness Association awarded Judy Hennessy (Sociology, graduate student and instructor) their faculty of the year award.

Wanda Costen (Sociology) has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. She will join the faculty in the Hotel Management Department of the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration in the fall.

Until Saturday, May 12  Fine Arts Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Museum of Art.

Until Saturday, May 12  First-Year Graduate Student Exhibition, Fine Arts Center, Gallery II.

May 2  Faculty Research Symposium: “Bringing New Life to the Classroom: Why Not Infuse Some Ethics?” CUB 112-113, 12:10 – 1:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, General Education and the College of Liberal Arts.

May 4  Retirement Reception for William Lipe, Anthropology, Museum of Anthropology, College Hall, 4 p.m., presentations at 5 p.m.

May 10  Farewell Reception for Bonnie Frederick, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Thompson Hall 110, 3–5 p.m.

May 12  WSU Commencement, Liberal Arts Ceremony, Beasley Coliseum, 3 p.m. Commencement speaker is Larry EchoHawk, professor of law, Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School.

May 24  Retirement Reception for Carolyn Hood, CLA Administrative Assistant, Lewis Alumni Centre, 3–5 p.m. Program at 4 p.m.

May 30  Retirement Reception for Barbara Lentz, General Studies Coordinator, CUB Cascade 125-127, 3–5 p.m.

The Advisory Council for the College of Liberal Arts met on campus on April 26. In addition to general meetings, its subcommittees on recruitment, public relations and fundraising all held meetings with college staff. Those attending included co-chair Burdena “Birdie” Pasenelli (‘67 Political Science and Police Administration), retired FBI special agent and administrator; Bill Clark (‘55 political science), retired CEO Shamrock Broadcasting; Janet Creighton (WSU parent and current Ph.D candidate History); Dan Fine (‘82 English), CEO of Bot Inc.; Lonnie Suko (‘65 political science), federal magistrate judge; and faculty members Fran McSweeney (Psychology) and Amy Wharton (Sociology). Participating via conference call were Paul Boyington (former WSU student), owner of Boyington Film Productions, and Phyllis Campbell (‘73 CBE), WSU regent and CEO US Bank of Washington. Liberal Arts staff who participated were Dean Barbara Couture, Associate Deans Marina Tolmacheva and John Kicza, Development Director Jeff Puckett, Development Coordinator Kori Thol, Development Administrative Assistant Kay Hall and Senior Communication Coordinator Sharon Hatch.

Dean Couture outlined the state of the College and, along with co-chair Pasenelli, led discussions that focused on funding and other issues facing WSU and the College.

Above: Burdena "Birdie" Pasenelli ('67 Political Science), right, co-chair of the Liberal Arts Advisory Council, meets with Dean Barbara Couture and Development Director Jeff Puckett during the Council's spring meeting. Pasenelli leads the Council in providing assistance to the College in its fundraising, recruitment and public information efforts. Left: Dan Fine ('82 English) chairs the Council's committee on Public and Community Relations.

Of the 11 graduate programs at WSU that were ranked as among the nation’s best by US News and World Report, nine are in the College of Liberal Arts: audiology, ceramics, clinical psychology, fine arts, history, public affairs, social psychology, sociology and speech pathology.

Washington State University’s commencement ceremonies will be held Saturday, May 12, at Beasley Coliseum. The College of Liberal Arts’ ceremony will be held at 3 p.m. this year with commencement speaker Larry EchoHawk, professor of law in Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School. EchoHawk, a member of the Pawnee Indian tribe, was attorney general of Idaho from 1990-1994, the first American Indian in U.S. history to be elected as a state attorney general.

The ceremony is free and open to all. Commencement participants should assemble no later than 2:30 p.m. The faculty procession will form in the ground floor corridor of Beasley Coliseum. Advanced degree candidates should assemble outside the southeast tunnel entrance, and baccalaureate degree candidates should assemble by department on the paved roads (North Fairway Drive and North Fairway Lane) on the east side of Beasley.

More information may be found on the Web at http://www.registrar.wsu.edu/commencement.

WSU Spokane and Intercollegiate College of Nursing Commencement, Friday, May 11, 2 p.m., Spokane Opera House.

WSU Tri-Cities Commencement, Friday, May 18, 6 p.m., Tri-Cities Coliseum.

WSU Vancouver Commencement, Saturday, May 19, 1 p.m., Vancouver Campus Plaza.