Dean's Message

Dear Colleagues,

March ended splendidly with the first annual university-wide “Celebrating Excellence” banquet. I was delighted to join so many of you that night in honoring Fran McSweeney, recipient of the Eminent Faculty Award, and Roger Schlesinger, recipient of the Sahlin Award for Excellence in teaching, as well as our recently tenured and promoted faculty members. April brings many other pleasant opportunities for us to share pride in our colleagues’ success.

Highlighted this month is the Murrow Symposium on April 14, with ABC anchor Peter Jennings, winner of the Murrow Award for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting. We will be celebrating faculty and staff excellence with two collegewide events this month, our Authors’ Recognition Reception on April 1 and our College Awards Ceremony on April 28. April rounds out with the three-day Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, April 30–May 2, sponsored jointly by the Departments of Philosophy at WSU and the University of Idaho. This year’s INPC features undergraduate students who have been participating in an ongoing seminar with faculty participants from across the nation who will be attending the INPC.

These events reassure us indeed during times when our resources are strained, but equally assuring must be an improvement in our budget. In my message to you last month and in my college address, I talked about the importance of college planning as we face the challenge of serving more students with fewer dollars. I am pleased to report this month that our collective efforts have been fruitful. In response to the college’s efforts to create efficiencies and direct resources toward our stated priorities, Provost Bates extended additional temporary funding that will allow us to support graduate education and meet undergraduate enrollment expected for AY2005. This additional funding has been distributed to six of our departments. Also, the college was awarded initial funding for a cluster hire proposal to recruit new faculty to direct and be affiliated with the Plateau Center for American Indian Studies. Good planning also resulted in seven of our departments receiving teaching and learning grants at the end of March. Their projects are listed below.

Again, thank you for your contributions to department and college planning, and best wishes in your teaching, research, and scholarly work.

Barbara Couture, Dean
College of Liberal Arts

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Worthy of Note

 Christopher Lupke (foreign languages) has received a research grant for the Blakemore Foundation to do advanced and specialized in-language research and training in Chinese this summer at National Taiwan University.

 The manuscript for Carol Siegel’s (English, WSU Vancouver) book The Decline of Goth’s Dark Empire was requested by Indiana University Press and is under review there. Siegel presented a paper March 4, entitled “Identity Hunter A.: New Asian-American Masculinities,” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Atlanta.

 Otwin Marenin (political science, criminal justice) gave an invited presentation on “Convincing the Police of the Merits of Community-Based Policing” at the conference on “Community-Based Policing: Developing Security – Securing Development?” at the International Peace Academy (IPA), United Nations, New York, on March 22, and participated in a Strategy Workshop on Overcoming Implementation Challenges the following day. The two-day session was organized by the IPA, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada, and Saferworld, a human rights NGO, to seek ways to promote and implement more effective and humane policing in developing and transitional countries.

 Gail Chermak (speech and hearing sciences) delivered invited workshops on the neurobiology, diagnosis, and management of auditory processing disorders at the annual convention of the Nevada Speech-Language-Hearing Association, March 12–13, and at Nova Southeastern University on March 27.

 Chris Watts (fine arts) and Ross Coates (professor emeritus, fine arts) are opening their art on April 10 at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington. The exhibit, entitled “Mark My Word,” runs through July 11.

 Brenda Bowser (anthropology) was chosen by the undergraduate students in museum studies at Utah State University to spend three days at their campus and discuss her ethnoarchaeological research among women potters in the Ecuadorian Amazon. March 25–27 she met with undergraduate students and faculty in the Department of Anthropology, gave an invited lecture, and was interviewed on National Public Radio at Utah State. The title of her talk was “The Perceptive Potter: An Ethnoarchaeological Case Study in the Ecuadorian Amazon.” The visit was sponsored by a grant to Dr. Bonnie Pitblado, Department of Anthropology, Utah State University, for a student-organized speaker series in an undergraduate program designed to engage students in the professional practices of their discipline at the beginning stages of their careers.

 Christine Oakley (sociology) will be presenting two papers at the Pacific Sociological Association’s annual meeting in April titled “Not So Strange Bedfellows: Critical Thinking and Service Learning” and “Teaching Critical Thinking Skills to Human Service Students.” She will also be facilitating a workshop entitled “What Can You Do with a Sociology Degree?”

 On March 3 and 4 the Murrow School of Communication hosted Kristopher Passey, editor and publisher of the Marysville Globe and the Arlington Times, as this year’s publisher-in-residence. Passey spent time visiting with classes and working with students in news and advertising at Student Publications. The Washington Newspaper Publishers Association (WNPA) sponsored his visit. Passey also is first vice president of WNPA.

 Sue Peabody (history, WSU Vancouver) has been invited to present her paper “Free upon Higher Ground: Saint-Domingue Slaves’ Suits for Freedom in U.S. Courts, 1792–1830” at a symposium commemorating Haiti’s bicentennial, “The Haitian Revolution after 200 Years,” at the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, June 17–20. She will also moderate a session on “Constructing Racial Identities in the French Empire, 1750–1850” at the annual meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society in Washington, D.C., May 6–8.

 Craig Parks (psychology) has been named associate editor of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. Coupled with his position at Group Dynamics, he is now maintaining associate editorships at two of the top journals in social psychology.

 Gary Huckleberry (anthropology) has been elected vice-chair of the Archaeological Geology Division of the Geological Society of America. The division provides a forum for the presentation of research and teaching strategies in archaeological geology. The term of office is two years, after which he will assume the position of chair for an additional two-year term.

 Don A. Dillman (sociology) presented the keynote address at the Germany Society for On-line Research annual meeting in Duisburg, Germany, on March 30. He also presented an invited short course on the visual design and layout of Internet surveys.

 Leslie Holt (fine arts) is exhibiting work at the Womanmade Gallery in Chicago. The juried exhibition is entitled “Pop” and includes artists who use popular culture in their works. The exhibit opens April 2 and runs through April 30.

 Azfar Hussain’s (English) English translation of selections from the classical Sanskrit play The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kalidasa will be reprinted in a literature textbook by Singapore National Printers. Earlier, his translations from Kalidasa were reprinted in Singapore, India, and the Philippines. Hussain’s translations from the work of the Urdu Marxist poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz have recently been reprinted on the sleeve-notes of the hit music album “Faiz by Abida” produced by Times Music.
     Hussain was invited to give the Semana de La Raza 2004 lecture “Che Guevara in the Twenty-first Century: Beyond T-shirt Semiotics and Coffeeshop Dialectics,” sponsored by WSU Chicano/a and Latino/a Student Alliance, on March 3, while he gave an invited talk called “Politics in the Arab World: Conflicts between Israel and Palestine” on February 10 at the Peace for Palestine Film Festival and Symposium organized by Palouse Peace Coalition, Muslim Students Association, and Ecovista. Hussain’s Edward Said Memorial Lectures delivered at Old Dominion University last semester—one on political economy and the other on Latin American poetry—will appear in Bengali translation in Natun Path, a leading journal of society and culture published from Dhaka.

 Lance T. LeLoup (political science), currently visiting professor at the University of Bordeaux-Montesquieu, on March 30 presented a conference on “Partisanship and Divided Government in U.S. Budgeting” at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux.

 Leonard Burns (psychology) was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.

 Gene Rosa (sociology) presented an Art a la Carte presentation, “Ecolage: Postmodern Art for Modern Challenges,” on February 12 at the CUB. Rosa has been appointed to the National Board on Radioactive Waste Management of the National Academy of Sciences Steering Committee on Implementing Long-Term Stewardship of Hazardous Waste Sites.

 Nicholas Lovrich (political science) served as a panelist on “Affirmative Action in Higher Education” at the University of Oregon in Eugene on March 3. The panel was sponsored by the Honors College and was moderated by Judge David Schuman of the State Court of Appeals. Other panelists included Penny Daugherty, director of the UO Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity; James Florendo, Office of Multicultural Affairs; and Kenneth Hudson, professor of sociology. The panel was televised and recorded for repeated broadcast.

 Michael Delahoyde (English) led a workshop on job letters and resumes for staff and graduate students at the University of Idaho through the Human Resource Development office.

 Carla Jones (speech and hearing sciences) is offering a hybrid (on-line/on-site) seven-week accent reduction course for employees of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which began March 2.

 John Streamas’ (comparative ethnic studies) play “The Serving Class” was among those chosen for performance in the DNA Festival at the University of Idaho. It was performed March 25 and 27. The festival featured thirty-seven plays (each of them only a single page long) on the theme “Diversity in America.” Streamas contributed two poems, “Three Wars” and “Alternatives to Dropping the Big One,” to the Poets Against the War Web site (on-line at http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org). He also spoke at the memorial service for poet Toyo Suyemoto in Columbus, Ohio, on March 6.

 In March the Department of Sociology inducted twenty-two undergraduates, three graduate students, and one faculty member (Greg Hooks, department chair) as life members into Alpha Kappa Delta, the international sociology honor society.

 An article about Cecil Williams (information systems coordinator, foreign languages), titled “He’s Shooting Wildlife in Downtown Pullman,” appeared in the March 16 Moscow-Pullman Daily News. The article included several photographs of wildlife Williams had taken in the downtown area.

 Laurie Drapela (political science, WSU Vancouver) will host a panel on restorative justice in criminal justice practice on April 29 at 7 p.m. in the Vancouver campus auditorium. The event is entitled “Restorative Justice: Theory and Practice among Criminal Justice Professionals” and includes practitioners from across Washington, as well as an international scholar on restorative justice.

 Lin Xu (fine arts) will exhibit her ceramic art entitled “The Longest Dream” in Zaragoza, Spain, at the Museo Pablo Serrano from April 12–June 6. Her entry won the Fourth International Prize in the contemporary ceramics division of the Cerco-Aragon 2004 festival competition.

 Maria Gartstein (psychology) will present “Longitudinal Examination of Fine-grained Aspects of Temperament during Infancy, Toddlerhood, and Early Childhood,” coauthored with Mary Rothbart of the University of Oregon and Samuel Putnam of Bowdoin College, at the biannual convention of the International Society for Infant Study in Chicago in May.

 An exhibit by Robert Helm, Tamara Helm (fine arts), and Brenna Helm (B.F.A. ‘97), “Palouse Artists: A Family Affair,” runs April 3–26 in the Redbud Gallery of Houston, Texas. The opening reception is at 6 p.m. on April 3.

 Ana M. Rodríguez-Vivaldi (foreign languages) is the guest editor for the first edition of the Boletín del Archivo Nacional de Teatro y Cine del Ateneo Puertorriqueño (January to June 2004) published by Editorial LEA in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Professional Productivity

 Joddy Murray’s (English) essay “Michel de Certeau’s Language Theory” was published in the Journal of College Writing 6(1).

 Paula Coomer (English) has had the following poems accepted at Meghbarta: An International Journal of Political and Cultural Activism: “Potlatch,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” “A Nation Full of Americans,” “This Is 1999,” “Stewards of Time,” “American Beauty,” “Galactica,” “Addictive Processes,” “Blank Prescriptions,” “Poverty,” and “Maturity.” The poems appear alongside an interview with Noam Chomsky in the March on-line edition of Meghbarta, accessible at http://www.meghbarta.org/. The poems will also appear in the Bengalese hardcopy anthology of Meghbarta features, to be released later this spring.

 Judith Hennessy and Alison Cliath’s (Ph.D. candidates, sociology) paper “You’ve Come a Long Way Baby: Citizens at Conception? Prenatal Personhood and SCHIP Eligibility” and Christine Oakley’s (sociology) paper “Going It Alone: Public Health Improvement without Comprehensive Healthcare Reform” will appear in a special fall edition of the American Behavioral Scientist titled “When Laws Backfire.”

 Gene Rosa (sociology) served as a committee coauthor of Implementing Climate and Global Change Research: A Review of the Final U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan (Washington, D.C.: the National Academy Presses). He, along with James F. Short Jr. (professor emeritus, sociology), published the article “Some Principles for Siting Controversy Decisions: Lessons from the U.S. Experience with High-Level Nuclear Waste?” in the Journal of Risk Research.

 Tim Kohler (anthropology) has a new book published by the University of New Mexico Press entitled The Archaeology of Bandelier National Monument: Village Formation on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico. He is also coauthor, along with Stephanie VanBuskirk (M.A. candidate, anthropology) and Samantha Ruscavage-Barz (Ph.D. ’99, anthropology), of an article that just appeared in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology entitled “Vessels and Villages: Evidence for Conformist Transmission in Early Village Aggregations on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico.”

 Lance T. LeLoup (political science) has coauthored Politics, Policy, and Budgeting: North American Perspectives (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Scientific Library) with Bogomil Ferfila, Anton Grizold, and Paul Phillips.

 Appearing this month in the anthology Contemporary Media Issues is an article by Val E. Limburg (professor emeritus, communication), “Does Television Reflect Society’s Values?”

 John Streamas (comparative ethnic studies) contributed an article, “The Greatest Generation Steps over The Thin Red Line,” to the book The Cinema of Terrence Malick: Poetic Visions of America, edited by Hannah Patterson and published by Wallflower Press. He also published an article, “’Patriotic Drunk’: To Be Yellow, Brave, and Disappeared in Bad Day at Black Rock,” in the journal American Studies 44(1–2).

 Jeffrey Joireman (psychology) has an article, “Relationships between attributional complexity and empathy,” in press with Individual Differences Research.

 Rebecca Craft (psychology) has coauthored “Pharmacokinetic factors in sex differences in ∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol-induced behavioral effects in rats,” in press with Behavioural Brain Research.

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Student Activities and Awards

 Congratulations to recent graduates and graduates-to-be for securing assistant professorships to begin next year: Tony Zaragoza (Ph.D. candidate, American studies), Evergreen State College; Fiona Glade (Ph.D. candidate, English), California State University at Sacramento; and Jennifer Richardson (Ph.D. ’03, English), University of Hawaii at Hilo. Eric Miraglia (Ph.D. ’98, English) has also landed a faculty post at Stanford University.

 Marta Maldonado (Ph.D. candidate, sociology) was named the 2004 Woman of Distinction in the student category at WSU’s annual Women’s Recognition Luncheon on March 25.

 Native American undergraduate Joanne Harrison (senior, speech and hearing sciences) has been a member of the Governor’s State Interagency Coordinating Council for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities and Their Families over the past year.

 Melissa Hussain’s (Ph.D. candidate, English) article “’This land where only white men ruled by money’: The Political Economy of Audre Lorde’s Poetry as Praxis” has been accepted for publication in a book collection on Audre Lorde’s poetry, to be brought out by the University of Wisconsin Press. Hussain also presented a paper, “The Labor-line Gendered and the Gender-line Classed: A Marxist-Feminist Approach to the International Division of Labor,” at the GRACe Gender Research Symposium held on the WSU Pullman campus February 13.

 Mary Jane Maxwell (Ph.D. candidate, history) gave a paper presentation at the “World History: The Next Ten Years” conference at Northeastern University in Boston March 12–14. Her presentation was so impressive that Donald Ostrowski of Harvard University, a noted scholar of medieval Russian history, is bringing her to Cambridge in the fall to present her research on Afanasii Nikitin. Maxwell has also received a job offer in world history at the University of Hawaii, Hilo. She was the search committee’s top choice in a field of ninety-seven applicants.

 Michael Navejar (junior, fine arts), a student of Tom Clements (M.F.A. candidate), has placed as a finalist in the Twenty-fourth Annual Student Photography Contest of Serbin Communications, sponsored by Nikon, USA.

 Roark Congdon (M.F.A. candidate) will open a solo exhibition of sculptures at La Gauche Gallery in Leavenworth, Washington, on April 2. The show will run through May 1. Congdon’s sculptures also are being featured in a group exhibition at the Exit Art Gallery in New York City during April.

 Carli Crozier Schiffner (Ph.D. candidate, history), assistant professor at State University of New York at Canton, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to study this summer at SUNY Potsdam. In December, she was selected to serve on the SUNY Online Taskforce to facilitate on-line learning throughout the SUNY university system.

 An interview with Julie Neuffer (Ph.D. candidate, history) was featured on the Marriage, the Fascinating Way Web site. Neuffer’s dissertation research is on the Fascinating Womanhood movement.

 The Association for Women in Communications (AWC) is preparing for its annual silent auction to be held in the CUB on Mom’s Weekend. It is the group’s major fund-raiser. Donations from regional organizations, as well as from local merchants, will be featured. AWC welcomes additional donations. More information may be obtained by contacting Kimberly Smith, AWC president, at awccougars@yahoo.com, or Roberta Kelly, AWC faculty advisor, at rkelly@mail.wsu.edu.

 On April 22 from 5:10–7 p.m. in Kimbrough 101, For L 130 students, under the supervision of Bernadette Hyner (foreign languages), will stage a humorous performance (in English) that introduces a university-wide audience to themes and characters from an international collection of texts. These readings include Story in Reverse (Ilse Aichinger, Austria), Adelheit von Rastenberg (Eleonore Thon, Germany), Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel, Mexico), Dialogue between a Prostitute and Her Client (Dacia Maraini, Italy), Lauren’s Call (Paloma Pedreo, Spain), Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden), Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto, Japan), and Hiroshima Mon Amour (Marguerite Duras, France).

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Alumni News

 John Mann (Ph.D. ’01, history) has a book coming out with University of Nebraska Press this fall entitled Sacajawea’s People: The Lemhi Shoshones and the Salmon River Country. He has proposed two new courses in public history at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, now in the catalog, in conjunction with a new degree offering, an undergraduate public history emphasis. Mann is also codirecting a graduate certificate program in public history funded by a $1 million Department of Education Teaching American History Grant.

 Native American speech and hearing sciences alumni Mary Stone (M.A. ’00) and Martha Laronal (M.A. ‘01) will present on child language development for the National Native American Families Together conference to be held in April in San Diego. The conference is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.

 Native American speech and hearing sciences alumna Gari Smith (B.A. ‘91) contributed to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s 2004 publication Knowledge and Skills Needed by Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists to Provide Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services.

 Nickolus Meisel (M.F.A. ‘02) has installed a mixed media solo show, which runs through April at Eastern Washington University in Cheney.

 Mike Brown (Ph.D. ’02, history) will publish “Power in Trans-Gender Relationship: Victorio Acosta Velasco and Maria Louisa Dominguez” in the 2004 Monograph Series, International Association for Asian Studies (forthcoming fall 2004). On March 6, he presented “A Filipino Divorce: Barrinuevo v. Barrinuevo (1952–1959)” at the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild conference in Seattle. In 2003, he published “Race and Gender in the World of Victorio Velasco: Dominance, Subordination, and Changes in Context” in the E-ASPAC (Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast) Journal.

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Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Improvement Grants

The provost’s office has approved funding for seven of eight Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Improvement Grant proposals submitted by faculty in the College of Liberal Arts. University-wide, forty-three proposals were submitted; nineteen proposals totaling $315,000 were awarded. Titles of the successful liberal arts proposals, departments, and project leaders are:

“Assessing Diversity Curriculum and Activities to Effect Individual and Institutional Transformation and Critical Consciousness”
Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies
Yolanda Flores Niemann, Chair

“Enhancing the Undergraduate Experience in Psychology: Engaging Learners in Community Action”
Department of Psychology
Paul Whitney, Samantha Swindell

“Creating Language Learning Communities: Content-specific Foreign Language Conversation Courses”
Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures
Rachel Halverson, Ana M. Rodríguez-Vivaldi, Sonja Hokanson

“Integrating Clinical Problem Solving and the Scientific Method in Service Learning”
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
Jayanti Ray

“Integrating Learning Goals, Outcomes Assessment, and Curricular Review of the Asia Program”
Department of History
Noriko Kawamura, David Pietz

“Proposal for a New English 101 Program”
Department of English
Robert Eddy, William Hamlin, Lisa Johnson

“The Critical Engagement Study”
Department of English and Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
English: Barbara Monroe, Collin Hughes
CTLT: Gary Brown, Sharon Roy

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2004 Tenure and Promotion Decisions

Granted tenure and promotion

Peter Chilson (English)
Jolanta Drzewiecka (communication)
Debbie Lee (English)
Travis Pratt (political science)
Horace-Alexander Young (music)

Granted promotion to full professor

Terry Converse (theatre arts)
Carol Ivory (fine arts)
Steven Kale (history)
George Kennedy (English)
T.V. Reed (American studies)

Granted promotion to regents professor

Frances McSweeney (psychology)

Granted promotion to associate professor/clinical

Sandra Bassett (speech and hearing sciences, WSU Spokane)
Bruce Wright (psychology)

Granted promotion to senior instructor

Judy Meuth (women’s studies)
Marian Sciachitano (women’s studies)
Robert Staab (history)

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WSU Makes Strong Showing at Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival

Soloists and ensembles from Washington State University received the lion’s share of awards on “College Day” at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival held at the University of Idaho on Thursday, February 26.

Awards were received in virtually all categories: instrumental and vocal solos, composition, large ensembles, and combos.

Soloist winners include Matt Reid (junior, communication), trumpet; Rachel Bade (senior, general studies), soprano voice; and David Snider (M.A. candidate, music), bass. All received special prizes and performed in the festival’s Thursday evening concert.

Ryan Jesperson (senior, music and English) was the winner in two composition categories, best vocal composition and best instrumental composition. He received festival trophies.

Ensembles from WSU were also award winners. The Jazz Big Band under the direction of Greg Yasinitsky (music) was first runner-up, VOJAZZ (vocal jazz ensemble) under the direction of Jennifer Scovell (music) was first runner-up, the WSU Sextet under the direction of Horace-Alexander Young (music) was first runner-up, and the WSU Trio, also directed by Young, was second runner-up. These ensembles were awarded festival trophies.

Yasinitsky, coordinator of jazz studies, said, “It has become something of a tradition for WSU to receive so many awards at the Hampton Festival. This is a great tribute to our excellent students and the fine work done by my faculty colleagues in the WSU School of Music.”

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Authors' Recognition Reception: April 1, 2004

All faculty of the College of Liberal Arts are invited to attend the biannual Authors’ Recognition Reception, celebrating the productivity and achievements of liberal arts faculty. This spring’s reception will be held 3–5 p.m. on April 1 in the Honors Hall Lounge.

Presiding: David Shier (philosophy)

Music Performance: David Jarvis (music), composer and percussion, and David Turnbull (music), trumpet
“MacBeth and MacDonwald”

Artist: Kevin Haas (fine arts), prints
Introduction by Carol Ivory (fine arts)

Author: Yolanda Flores Niemann (comparative ethnic studies)
Black-Brown Relations and Stereotypes
Commentator: Jeffrey Joireman (psychology)

Author: Paul Brians (English)
Modern South Asian Literature in English
Commentator: Fritz Blackwell (history)

Author: Clayton Mosher (sociology, WSU Vancouver)
The Mismeasure of Crime
Commentator: Mitch Pickerill (political science)

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Wanapum Traveling Museum to Visit WSU

The Wanapum Native American Discovery Unit is coming to Washington State University for Mom’s Weekend, April 16–17. Billed as a traveling museum, Joy Mastrogiuseppe, curator of the Museum of Anthropology, calls the Discovery Unit a “beautifully presented story of Wanapum culture.”

“The highlight of the exhibit is a detailed model of a traditional Wanapum village, with running water in the river and carefully modeled human figures performing various everyday tasks,” Mastroguiseppe said. The Discovery Unit was developed by the Wanapum people and the Grant County Public Utilities District.

The museum will be located outside College Hall on the Terrell Mall. The exhibit is open to the public and free of charge.

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Peter Jennings to Accept Murrow Award

Peter Jennings, anchor and senior editor of ABCNEWS’ “World News Tonight,” will be on the campus of Washington State University in Pullman April 14, 2004, to accept the Edward R. Murrow Award for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting.

“There are strong similarities between the commitment and dedication of Edward R. Murrow and Peter Jennings,” said Alexis Tan, director of the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication. “Our faculty believes the journalistic standards Peter Jennings has exhibited throughout his career are the very qualities we try to instill in our students and the attributes we celebrate with the Murrow Award,” said Tan.

Edward R. Murrow, a 1930 graduate of Washington State College, is widely regarded as broadcasting’s most illustrious journalist. His reporting work for CBS during World War II is credited with making broadcast journalism respectable, courageous, and sincere. Many journalists credit Murrow with establishing the standards to which broadcast professionals still aspire.

Previous award winners include Daniel Pearl (2003), Sir Howard Stringer (2002), Daniel Schorr (2002), Christiane Amanpour (2002), Bernard Shaw (2001), Ted Turner (2000), Keith Jackson (1999), Al Neuharth (1999), Walter Cronkite (1998), Frank Blethen (1998), and Sam Donaldson (1997).

Jennings joined ABCNEWS in 1964 and has covered the biggest national and international stories, including reports from every European nation formerly behind the Iron Curtain. He served as chief foreign correspondent for ABCNEWS and as the foreign desk anchor for “World News Tonight.” He was the network’s bureau chief in Beirut, Lebanon, for seven years. Jennings was named anchor and senior editor of “World News Tonight” in 1983 with responsibilities that include breaking news, election coverage, and special events.

Jennings will accept the Murrow Award April 14 in a presentation at 7:30 p.m. at Beasley Coliseum. The event is free and open to the public. The Murrow Symposium also includes a career day, which gives students and prospective students a chance to connect with industry professionals. Prior to the public award presentation there is a celebration of academic excellence at a scholarship award dinner.

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Student Art Exhibitions Scheduled

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