FEBRUARY 15, 2013
THANKS FOR THE COOL COUNTRY, GUYS!
To mark the combined birthdays of the two presidents who helped create this nation and keep it together for all of us, Monday will be a day off classes. Monday is also the day you can catch a special Presidents’ Day feature in the Helena Independent Record on Carroll Computer Science Professor Steve Harper’s 18 years as a Lincoln impersonator for the holiday. In period garb, Harper shares Abe’s humble beginnings and glorious deeds in his educational outreach to local grade schools and here at Carroll. This past Wednesday, “Abe” visited Hawthorne, Bryant, and Rossiter Elementary Schools before descending on Carroll President Tom Evans for a surprise presidential summit (captured in photo right).
SAFE ARBOR
For the third year in a row, Carroll College has been named a Tree Campus USA, the Arbor Day Foundation recently announced. Tree Campus USA is a national program created in 2008 to honor colleges and universities for effective campus forest management and for engaging staff and students in conservation goals. Toyota helped launch the program and continues its generous financial support this year. Carroll College achieved the title by meeting Tree Campus USA’s five standards, which include maintaining a tree advisory committee, a campus tree-care plan, dedicated annual expenditures toward trees, an Arbor Day observance and student service-learning projects. QNs will report more on our annual Arbor Day festivities with local school children this spring.
TAKE A FLYING LEAP
That’s the one thing that won’t happen (or will it?) in our madcap new Carroll Theatre production premiering tonight (Feb. 15): < strong>7 Stories. Directed by Carroll alum John Rausch, the hit play follows the misadventures of a suicidal man on a high rise ledge who is deterred from his fatal leap by the building’s raucous residents. Carroll senior Jessica Belisle stars as“The Man.” Performances are Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets are free for Carroll students, faculty and staff; otherwise tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 for students and seniors. The show will continue next weekend.
MEET YOU IN THE DRAWING ROOM
Plenty of visitors have checked out the Carroll Art Gallery’s cool new exhibit, Drawings of Drawing Tools, and next Thursday, Feb. 21, you can hear artist Stephan Glueckert explain his riveting, often enigmatic creations at a free public gallery lecture. Glueckert’s talk is at 7 p.m. in the gallery, located in St. Charles Hall room 034. Since 1992, Stephen Glueckert has been curator of the Missoula Art Museum. A native Montanan, he has also been a working artist for over 35 years. Primarily a sculptor, he has also been engaged for two decades producing an ongoing series creating drawings, actual tools (kinetic sculptures that draw), and videos about the drawing process.
FRACTUAL BASIS
Dr. Kelly Cline’s next free, public talk, “Our Fractal Universe,” is next Friday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre. What do movie special effects, the stock market, heart attacks, and the rings of Saturn have in common? They all consist of fractals, irregular repeating shapes that are found in cloud formations and tree limbs, in stalks of broccoli and craggy mountain ranges, and even in the rhythm of the human heart. Join us for an introduction to the amazing new science of fractal geometry—and math phobes are welcome!
LEAD CERTIFIED
Next Thursday,Feb. 21,Carroll College’s engineering program hosts is first annual Forum on Public Policy and Leadership–Focus on Engineering, free and open to everyone. From 6 to 8:30 p.m. in Carroll’sSimperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre, regional and local professional engineers will give short and engaging presentations on the relationship between public policy and engineering. After a brief welcome at 6 p.m., sessions will include: “Public Policy and How it Affects Engineering” by Jennifer James of Jennifer James Consulting at 6:15 p.m.; “The Role of the Engineer in Public Policy” by Allan Smolko, regional governor for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), at 6:30 p.m.; “Leadership in the Workplace” by Robert Morrison, president of Morrison-Maierle, Inc., at 6:45 p.m.; “Leadership in the Community” by Pat White, regional governor for ASCE, at 7 p.m.; and “Leadership in Education” by Carroll Engineering Professor John Scharf, Montana Tech Engineering Professor Brian Kukay and MSU-Bozeman Civil Engineering Professor Jerry Stephens, at 7:15 p.m. A panel discussion and comment period will wrap up the evening. The event is sponsored by Carroll College Engineering and ASCE. Panelist biographies are online at: https://www.carroll.edu/news/press-release
THE DOGS OF WAR
Next Wednesday, Feb. 20, Carroll College’s Anthrozoology club presents a free, public lecture, “Dogs in the War Zone: < strong>Sergeant Rex and the Human-Animal Bond in Iraq,” by guest speaker Mike Dowling, US Marines veteran of the Iraq war and author of Sergeant Rex: The Unbreakable Bond Between a Marine and His Military Working Dog. Free and open to the public, the talk is at 7 p.m. in Carroll College’s Simperman Hall room 101/202, the Wiegand Amphitheatre.
Dowling served on active duty in the Marine Corps from 2001-2005. He was the honor graduate of his military police class and became a military working dog handler, ultimately paired with a dog named Rex. In Operation Iraqi Freedom during 2004, Dowling and Rex were attached to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, and were part of the first Marine Corps military K9 teams sent to the front lines of combat since Vietnam. In the Triangle of Death, Rex and Mike would uncover weapons caches, suicide bombers, and IEDs, the devastating explosives that killed and maimed troops and civilians. For their actions, they were awarded a Navy Achievement Medal. After a noble career of military service, Rex recently died during the Christmas 2012 season.
STUDENT NEWS
In the News
Sophomore Kacey Gollehon recently welcomed Carroll President Tom Evans to Montana US Senator Jon Tester’s office in DC, where she is completing an internship this semester. In addition to her internship, she is the first student to participate in Carroll’s new affiliation with The Washington Center. Along with the internship, Kacey participates in leadership seminars and will complete an academic course. Follow her on her blog: http://semesteronthehill.weebly.com/
Events
Tonight is Carroll College Night at the Helena Bighorns hockey game, starting at 7:35 p.m.
Tomorrow (Sat.) is the swing dance in the Campus Center, from 9 to midnight.
Monday is Presidents Day—thank George Washington and Abraham Lincoln for a United States, and take the day off from classes.
Jobs and Scholarships
Recruiters will be on campus next week looking to hire. Events include Tuesday, Feb. 19, with a rep from Medora, ND, offering summer tourism jobs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Campus Center upstairs lobby; Fast enterprises, seeking math, computer science and CIS majors for internships and full-time openings, next Wednesday, Feb. 20, from noon to 1:50 p.m. in Simperman Hall room 108 (refreshments will be served); and an Army health professional scholarship presentation on full scholarships and career tracks on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 5:30 p.m. in Trinity Hall lounge. Pizza and refreshments will be provided at the Army event, where medical, dental and veterinary schools, graduate nursing programs, PhD degree tracks in biomedical research, science, engineering and more will be discussed.
Awards
Since 1986, Carroll College has presented the Raymond G. Hunthausen Award for Community Service to deserving students who make outstanding contributions to the college and beyond. The award was named for Archbishop Hunthausen because of his own commitment to peace and justice in his personal life and in his work with the Catholic Church. Nominations of diligent, selfless, service-minded students are due March 1 at 5 p.m. (Friday before spring break), and winners will receive certificates at the annual Honors Convocation in April. The nomination form is available online at /career-services/hunthausen-award or upon request by emailing rwalsh@carroll.edu
ALUMNI NEWS
Get Connected
This week, notice of a special Carroll Class Survey for classes 2001, 2006 and 2011 arrived in mailboxes, asking for alums offer their valuable survey feedback. Tell us about your Carroll experience and how we can make it better! It’s free and it’s online: www.advancement.carroll.edu/alumni-survey
In the News
Jim Michelotti, class of 1966, was inducted into the Butte Sports Hall of Fame this past Tuesday. He was instrumental in the development of the Knights of Columbus sports photo display and developed a Web page for the Butte Sports Hall of Fame while serving on the committee. Jim served as a coach for YMCA youth basketball and also Little League baseball. After graduating from Carroll, he also served as an assistant football coach at Butte Central.
Jasyn Harrington, class of 1987, has recently been named the executive director of Career Training Institute (CTI) in Helena. Harrington has been the assistant director of CTI for 21 years and previously was an insurance agent in both Helena and Philadelphia. Harrington is a member of the American Business Women’s Association and PEO Chapter O and the treasurer of the Capitol Area Workforce System.
FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS
Presentations
Today, Feb. 15, Carroll Assistant Professor of Psychology Leslie Angel (photo left) presents the February Faculty Colloquium, with “Do Rats Know What They Don't Know? Understanding the Evolutionary Roots of Metacognition” at 4 p.m. in the Maronick Board Room.
Awards
Carroll College Assistant Professor of Nursing Kathleen McGuire (photo right), MN, RN, CNL, has been selected through competitive application for the year-long Leadership Development Program for Simulation Educators, an initiative of the National League for Nursing (NLN) designed for those interested in assuming a leadership role in the research or administration of simulation programs in nursing education. McGuire has been facilitating simulation education for nursing students at Carroll College for the past five years. She became a certified clinical nurse leader in 2012. Her nursing career began with specialty training as a renal transplant team member and includes practicing as a certified critical care nurse in the medical, surgical and coronary care units. Later experience includes over fifteen years in practice management and patient care coordination. McGuire is a board member of the Zeta Upsilon chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society. In her current role at Carroll College, she works to optimize the use of simulation through the use of advanced medical mannequin technology, simulated acute care scenarios and other simulation techniques as an innovative, experiential learning experience for students. “Professor McGuire’s involvement with nursing simulation education at the national level enhances student learning experiences at Carroll College and helps to improve patient safety,” says Carroll Nursing Department Chair Jennifer Elison.
Publication
Professor Belle Marie (photo left) of the Carroll Business Department was among the contributing certified public accountants in Sharon Lechter’s book, Save Wisely, Spend Happily: Real Stories about Money & How to Thrive from Trusted Advisors. Professor Marie’s contribution illustrates the value of budgeting skills for children. The book was published as part of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ 125-year anniversary celebrations. Since 2004, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants has provided financial literacy resources for the public on its website at http://www.360financialliteracy.org/. Resources available cover a variety of financial issues for every stage of life.
Grants
Archaeologist Lauri Travis, who heads up Carroll’s summer Archaeological Field School, has announced that the program has been awarded a United States Department of Agriculture/Helena National Forest Heritage Grant for $5,000. The field school will take place this June 10-19 in the Little Belt Mountains outside Helena.
In the News
Tom Brownlee, a faculty member in Carroll’s Anthrozoology program, has announced that the American Society of Canine Trainers has certified him as a K9 law enforcement instructor. This supersedes all previous certification levels. ASCT is the most technically advanced research and education-oriented K9 training and certification organization in the United States and is accredited by the US Department of Justice and Department of Education. The organization operates with 374 law enforcement agencies within the 50 states and three foreign countries. Brownlee teaches advanced canine training at Carroll.
MINISTRY AND JUSTICE
The Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice invites the community to support fair trade and just worker wages by making a purchase at the Fair Trade consignment sale in the upper level of the Campus Center next Wednesday, Feb. 20, from noon to 3 p.m. and again on Thursday, Feb. 21, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Hunthausen Center also invites the community to be part of a faith movement called Live58, dedicated to ending extreme poverty by 2035 through authentic Christian living that includes prayer, fasting, and giving. It is based on Isaiah 58. A special free, public screening of the documentary < strong>Live58takes place next Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. in O’Connell Hall room 107.
The Hunthausen Center’s next free Soup and Substance event, open to all students, faculty and staff, is on Monday, Feb. 25, from noon to 1 p.m. in 130 Borromeo Hall. Over a simple meal, participants will discuss“Fairtrade Co-op Links up with Women Farmers.” RSVP by joining the event on the Hunthausen Center Facebook page or e-mailing Kelly Meros at kmeros@carroll.edu.
Carroll Campus Ministry Headlights students send their thanks to the 300 supporters who came out to dine in style at the annual spaghetti dinner fundraiser last weekend.
For all Campus Ministry news, homilies, Mass and sacraments and more, log on to: https://www.carroll.edu/campus-life/campus-ministry
ATHLETICS
Events
The Saints Athletic Association’s (SAA) annual Shindig, a reverse bingo event, will be held next Friday, February 22, at 6 p.m. in the Campus Center. The cost is $100 per bingo ball and $25 for the dinner.
And, the SAA Annual Auction, both live and silent, will occur on Friday, April 12, at 6 p.m. in the Carroll PE Center.
Proceeds from all of these events go towards athletic scholarships that give Carroll the winning edge in recruiting the finest scholar-athlete talent. For tickets, contact Jennifer Bingham at 406-447-4480 or at jbingham@carroll.edu
Home Games
Track and field is away at the Bobcat Open in Bozeman this weekend while preparing for NAIA indoor championships at the end of the month.
Basketball is also away, with the next home games in the PE Center Feb. 21.
COMING EVENTS
Ongoing: The Carroll Art Gallery’s winter exhibit, “Stephen Glueckert: Drawings of Drawing Tools.” The Carroll Art Gallery is located in St. Charles Hall, room 034. Admission is free. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays; closed weekends and college holidays. The exhibit continues to March 1.
February 25: The Carroll College Business Department Lecture Series presents a free, public lecture, “Did the fiscal cliff push the estate tax over the edge? The changes to the estate and gift tax in today's new tax regime” at 7 p.m. in Carroll’s Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre. Presenters will be Joel Silverman of Silverman Law Office, PLLC, and Spencer Marks of Oilfield Tax Services, LLC.
February 24: Carroll College Choirs provide service music at the 11 a.m. Mass at the Cathedral of St. Helena.
February 28: Carroll’s Theology Dept. and the Sister Annette Moran Center continue the Be(com)ing Church Between Past and Future series, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Vatican II, with classical languages and literature professor and historian Fr. Daniel Shea presenting, “Sacred Liturgy: How the Church Lives & Shares the Mystery of Christ,” at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Campus Center. Free and open to the public.
March 4-8: Spring Break
March 12: Carroll College’s Ethics and Integrity Lecture Series begins with Charlie < strong>Camosy, assistant professor of Christian ethics at Fordham University, presenting "Does a Catholic Understanding of the Common Good Require Health Care Rationing?" at 7 p.m. in Carroll’s Campus Center. Free and open to the public.
March 14: Carroll College astronomy professor Dr. Kelly Cline presents “The Mystery of the Higgs Boson” at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre. Free and open to the public. Last summer, after 40 years of searching, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider laboratory in Europe finally discovered the Higgs boson. This strange new particle, sometimes called “The God Particle,” fills our universe, giving all particles their masses. Yet, the measurements of this newly discovered particle are strange and paradoxical. What secrets does the Higgs boson hold, and what does it tell us about the hidden laws of our universe?
March 14: Carroll College’s first annual Lecture in Constitutional Studies features guest speaker Justice Jim Rice of the Montana Supreme Court at 7:30 p.m. in Trinity Hall lounge on the Carroll College campus. Free and open to the public.
March 15: Carroll student chapter of Engineers Without Borders USA presents its annual Shamrock Soiree fundraiser in the Great Northern Ballroom, across the highway from Carroll’s campus.
March 18-22: Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice Interfaith Week.
March 19: The Carroll College Ethics and Integrity Lecture Series continues with best-selling author and corporate whistleblower Cynthia Cooper delivering a lecture on ethics in modern American business at 7 p.m. in the Campus Center’s lower level. Cooper is an internationally recognized speaker, best-selling author of Extraordinary Circumstances, and a consultant for businesses such as Dell, Bell South, France Telecom, PepsiCo, Raytheon, Walmart and AT&T. Cynthia and her team unraveled the fraud at WorldCom, to date one of the largest corporate frauds in history. She was named one of Time Magazine’s Persons of the Year. Cynthia is a recipient, along with Senator Sarbanes and Representative Oxley, of the Maria & Sidney E. Rolfe Award for contributions to educating the public about economics, business and finance. She was also featured as one of twenty-five influential working mothers in Working Mother magazine. Cynthia has been featured in national periodicals such as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CFO Magazine and Business Week and has appeared on major networks including Fox Business, PBS, NBC (The Today Show), ABC (This Week with George Stephanopoulos) and many others. Cooper donates profits from her book to further ethics education for high school and university students.
March 20: The 18th Annual Helena Area Career Fair will be held in the Carroll College PE Center from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Freshmen can explore career options and learn about what employers want, sophomores and juniors can network for good summer jobs and internships. Seniors can job hunt for that first professional job. Open to the public. For information on how to prepare, what to expect and which businesses will attend, go to www.helenair/careerfair.
March 21: Carroll Jazz Combo Concert in the Campus Center, 4 p.m. Free.
March 21:Carroll’s Theology Dept. and the Sister Annette Moran Center continue the Be(com)ing Church Between Past and Future series, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Vatican II, with Carroll Hunthausen Professor of Peace and Justice Chris Fuller presenting, “Perfidious No More: Catholic/Jewish Relations since Vatican II,” at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Campus Center. Free and open to the public.
March 22: The Carroll College Ethics and Integrity Lecture Series continues with guest speaker James A. Morone, professor of political science at Brown University, presenting “Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History” in Carroll College’s Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre, at 7 p.m. Free and open to the public. Morone’s first book, The Democratic Wish, was named a “notable book of 1991” by the New York Times and won the Political Science Association’s Kammerer Award for the best book on the United States. His Hellfire Nation: the Politics of Sin in American History was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book, The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office (written with David Blumenthal, MD) was featured on the front page of the New York Times Book Review. According to unreliable sources, it has been read by President Obama.He has written over 150 articles, reviews, and essays on health care policy, social policy, and American history.
March 24: Carroll College Choirs provide service music at the 11 a.m. Palm Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of St. Helena.
March 26:: Carroll College Ethics and Integrity Lecture Series concludes with former Olympic gold medalist and champion professional cyclist Tyler Hamilton giving a free public lecture on doping in high-level sports, including the Lance Armstrong controversy, at 7 p.m. in the Carroll PE Center.
April 4: Carroll College astronomy professor Dr. Kelly Cline presents “Curiosity: Searching for Life on Mars” at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Simperman Hall Wiegand Amphitheatre. Free and open to the public. NASA’s new rover is the largest probe ever to set down on the Red Planet. Crammed with amazing scientific instruments, Curiosity is launching a quantum leap in our understanding of Mars. Could there be life on the fourth planet from the sun? Join us as we explore how Curiosity is going to find out.
April 7: Carroll College Choirs provide service music at the 11 a.m. Mass at the Cathedral of St. Helena.
April 10: Carroll’s Theology Dept. and the Sister Annette Moran Center continue the Be(com)ing Church Between Past and Future series, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Vatican II, with Carroll Theology Professor Brian Matz presenting, “Decree on the Catholic Eastern Churches,” at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Campus Center. Free and open to the public.
April 20-21: Softball Weekend.
May 2: Carroll Jazz Combo Concert in the Carroll Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Free.
May 5: Carroll College Choirs present their annual spring concert, 4 p.m. at St. Mary Catholic Community in Helena. Free admission.
May 11: Baccalaureate Mass and Commencement