Rick Peterson

APPLETON, WIS. — William Scott Green, senior vice provost and dean of undergraduate education at the University of Miami, delivers the opening address of a year-long Lawrence University initiative focusing on the ways liberal education promotes and fosters entrepreneurial thinking and why entrepreneurial thinking is important for success in today’s global economy.

Green presents “Entrepreneurship and the Liberal Arts: The Role Values Play” Tuesday, Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. in Science Hall 102. Following Green’s address, a three-member panel of Lawrence alumni will speak on entrepreneurship as it applies to such areas as financial institutions, the arts and social policy.

Participating in the panel will be Larry Domash ’81, a managing partner and fund manager with Ronin Capital in Chicago, Pete Shuster ’81, CEO and owner of Neuromics Antibodies, a Minnesota-based company that provides antibody products for central nervous system research and Rich Agness ’67, a self-employed pottery artist in Neenah. Merton Finkler, professor of economics and John R. Kimberly Distinguished Professor in the American Economic System, will moderate the panel.

While entrepreneurship is typically identified with the study of business, Green believes it can be a basic component of a liberal education, especially when defined as “transforming an idea into an enterprise that generates value.” He will discuss the importance of integrating entrepreneurship more broadly into undergraduate curriculum across disciplines. According to Green, in an educational setting entrepreneurship can become “a way of thinking, an approach to problems, a habit of mind, a framework for interpretation” and colleges and university should utilize entrepreneurship as “a fundamental category of understanding and analysis.”

Prior to joining the administration at Miami in 2006, Green served as dean of the college at the University of Rochester and led the development of Rochester’s undergraduate liberal arts curriculum. He earned a Ph.D. in religion from Brown University.

Green’s presentation and the panel discussion is the first of three events planned during the 2007-08 academic year designed to build awareness and interest in entrepreneurship among Lawrence students and faculty. A Winter Term program will examine ways entrepreneurial activity might play a role in improving our environment. A Spring Term presentation will focus on entrepreneurship as it relates to sustainable development.

APPLETON, WIS. — The question of what impact censorship and a restrictive environment has on the creative medium of art is explored in four performances of the Lawrence University Theatre Arts production of “Las Meninas; A Fantasia in Two Parts.”

Show times are Nov. 15-17 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 18 at 3 p.m. in Stansbury Theatre of the Lawrence Music-Drama Center. Tickets for “Las Meninas” at $10 for adults, $5 for students and senior citizens, are available at the Lawrence University Box Office, 920-832-6749.

“Las Meninas” is the first of three productions celebrating Spanish playwrights the theatre department will stage during the 2007-08 season.

Written in 1960 by Spanish playwright Antonio Buero Vallejo, the play is loosely based on the life of famed 17th-century Baroque artist Diego Velazquez and his painting “Las Meninas.” It is set in a period when the Spanish Inquisition strictly prohibited any art designated as “lewd” and even court painters like Velazquez required permission to paint what they wanted to. Lawrence’s production will be only the third time Marion Peter Holt’s translation of Buero Vallejo’s script has been performed in English.

“The play drew me in because it asks serious questions about when to stand by your ideals and when to work within the system because your long-term presence might effect more change,” said Associate Professor Kathy Privatt, the production’s director. “It seems to me that those questions transcend art and are worth our time and attention.”

APPLETON, WIS. — Lacey Jo Benter won her third straight state singing title and Emily Fink received outstanding female singer honors as six Lawrence University students earned first-place honors at the 2007 Wisconsin chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) competition held Nov. 2-3 on the Lawrence campus.

Benter, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, earned first-place honors in the junior women’s division. She has previously won the lower college women’s musical theatre division and the freshman women division. Fink, Neenah, won the senior women’s division and was named the competition’s outstanding female singer, a new award presented for the first time this year. Both are voice students of Karen Leigh Post.

Four other Lawrence students, one high school student from the Lawrence Academy of Music and one Lawrence graduate also won their respective divisions. Lawrence students swept the top three places in two categories. A total of 66 Lawrence students participated, with 22 advancing to the finals.

Other Lawrence first-place finishers included Katy Harth, Naperville, Ill., in the freshman women’s division; Katherine Meckel, Baltimore, Md., women’s lower college musical theatre division; Nicholas Benson, Minneapolis, Minn., in the men’s lower college musical theatre division; and Ashley Koroleweski, Manitowoc, women’s upper college musical theatre division.

Danny Rakita, a student at the Lawrence Academy of Music, earned first-place honors in the high school music theatre division, while Kerry Hart, a 2001 Lawrence graduate, won the adult professional division.

Harth studies in the voice studio of Joanne Bozeman. Meckel is a student in the studio of Ken Bozeman. Benson studies with John Gates and Koroleweski studies with Steven Spears. Rakita is a student of Bryan Post at the LAM and Hart is a former student of Patrice Michaels.

All first-place finishers were awarded $150 for their winning efforts, while Fink received an additional $100 for her outstanding singer award. Second- and third-place finishers received $125 and $100, respectively.

A total of 425 singers from around the state competed in 20 separate divisions by gender and level in this year’s auditions. Depending upon the category, NATS competitors are required to sing two, three or four classical pieces from different time periods with at least one selection sung in a foreign language.

2007 NATS Auditions/Lawrence Results

November 2-3, 2007 — Lawrence University

APPLETON, WIS. — The artistic mediums of sculpture, drawing and architecture highlight the new exhibition at Lawrence University’s Wriston Art Center galleries. The exhibition runs Nov. 9 – Dec. 16.

Sculptor Kurt Dyrhaug, associate professor of art at Lamar University, delivers the exhibition’s opening lecture Friday, Nov. 9 at 6 p.m. A reception will follow the address, which is free and open to the public.

Dyrhaug utilizes cast metal, wood construction and steel fabrication in his work, which will be exhibited in the Kohler Gallery. The exhibition also will include several drawings by Dyrhaug. He holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in printmaking from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and a master of fine arts in sculpture from the University of Minnesota.

The Hoffmaster Gallery will feature the drawings of Michael Hopkins. Distinguished by their detailed, abstract nature, his drawings are housed in the permanent collections of several museums.

“Fragments D’ Architecture Antique” will feature selected images of Greek and Roman architectural elements from a 19th-century portfolio by French artists at the Académie des Beaux Arts. Drawings of artifacts and famous sites such as the Acropolis and the Parthenon are part of this portfolio.

Wriston Art Center hours are Tuesday-Friday from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Saturday-Sunday from noon – 4 p.m. The gallery is closed on Mondays. For more information, call 920-832-6621 or visit http://www.lawrence.edu/news/wriston/.

APPLETON, WIS. — Jonathan Schanzer, director of policy at the Jewish Policy Center in Washington, D.C., discusses the war on terror and examines U.S. policies in response to terrorist threats in an address at Lawrence University. Schanzer presents “Radical Islam and the War on Terror” Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Youngchild Hall, Room 121.

A former counterterrorism analyst for the Office of Intelligence and Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Schanzer will review U.S. policies, beginning with the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and examine their effectiveness, especially those policies following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He also will discuss the differences between radical and moderate Islam. A question-and-answer session will follow his address.

Schanzer is the author of the 2004 book “Al-Qaeda’s Armies: Middle East Affiliate Groups and the Next Generation of Terror.” His appearance is sponsored by the Viking Conservatives student organization.

APPLETON, WIS. — Roman Boed, legal officer with the Appeals Chamber of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda discusses the origins of the court and its role in prosecuting perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in an address at Lawrence University.

A 1987 Lawrence graduate, Boed presents “The Development of International Criminal Law: The Case of Rwanda” Thursday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. in Science Hall, Room 102. Free and open to the public, the address is an extension of Lawrence’s Povolny International Studies Lecture Series “Africa Today: Problems and Solutions” that began last spring.

Evolved from the military trials at Nuremberg following World War II, international criminal tribunals were established in the 1990s to prosecute the mass violations of human rights in the former Yugoslavia and during the Rwandan genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 people died, most of whom were members of the country’s ethnic Tutsi minority.

In the 10 years since the first trial began, the Rwandan tribunal has prosecuted more than 80 cases, including the former prime minister, other former government ministers as well as military, religious and local political leaders. The tribunal’s conviction of a Rwandan mayor in 1998 was the first ever conviction by an international tribunal for the crime of genocide while the former prime minister’s conviction for genocide confirmed to the world that the concept of “sovereign immunity” would no longer protect government leaders from responsibility for mass atrocities.

The international tribunal, according to Boed, has played an important role in restoring peace and justice in Rwanda.

“Through its work, the tribunal has exposed those most responsible for the genocide as criminals, discrediting the extremist ideology that fuelled the genocide,” says Boed, who works with the court in The Hague, Netherlands. “In case after case, the tribunal’s judgments have recognized that genocide against the Tutsis took place in Rwanda, foreclosing any future historical revisionism on this issue.”

Boed first joined the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 1999 as an associate legal officer. He spent two years as the tribunal’s judgment coordinator before moving to the tribunal’s appeals chamber as legal officer, overseeing the legal support section of the ICTR Appeals Chamber.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in government and economics from Lawrence, Boed earned a law degree from DePaul University, studied at Oxford University and earned master of law degrees from both Cambridge University and Columbia Law School. He is currently a doctor of law degree candidate at the University of South Africa.

The “Africa Today: Problems and Solutions” lecture series is sponsored by the Mojmir Povolny Lectureship in International Studies. Named in honor of long-time Lawrence government professor Mojmir Povolny, the lectureship promotes interest and discussion on issues of moral significance and ethical dimensions.