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By a 14-0 vote, the board approved a plan that would bring NCAA Division I-AA football to at a remodeled Foreman Field, provided that:
The plan also would be contingent on the collection of a $7-per-credit-hour increase in student fees, which would be phased in beginning in 2006. Student admission to football games would be free under the plan. “I think we have shown over the years that Old Dominion is truly a great university that achieves what it sets out to do,” said President Roseann Runte, who added that academic achievement and ethics will not be compromised by the plan. “This means that we can achieve selective excellence in an expanded number of areas.” The football initiative resulted from heightened student interest in the sport and the university’s master plan, which calls for as many as 6,000 students – almost a third of ODU’s current enrollment – to be living on campus in the near future. State enrollment figures for the university also point to a substantial enrollment increase in the next several years. “Students are voting right now with their feet,” said Dana Burnett, vice president for student services, regarding student support last season of Monarch and Lady Monarch basketball at the Ted Constant Convocation Center. “I think what they’re seeking is a sense of community. What they’re seeking is a place they can invest their energy in school spirit. They want to stay here on campus and find things to do.” If the football plan is successful, the university must also add a number of women’s sports as part of NCAA Title IX guidelines. Some 90 participants and 63 scholarships would need to be added to the women’s athletic program. A football team would entail a similar number of scholarships and participants. The university would begin offering women’s crew racing in 2007, softball in 2009 and volleyball in 2015, ODU Athletic Director Jim Jarrett said. The university currently offers eight intercollegiate sports each for men and women. In a proposal presented to the board, university administrators said their 10-year plan, which includes Title IX considerations and all facility improvements, is based on 6,000 tickets sold per game. NCAA Division I-AA teams surveyed as a part of of the proposal said they sold approximately 8,300 tickets per game. It was estimated that single tickets would cost about $20, based on five or six home games per season. The consultant for ODU’s football plan will research sponsorship opportunities and project ticket revenues, administrators said. The university will need to acquire land for football practice fields and facilities for its other athletic programs, they noted. The $8 million in funding includes added parking facilities for games on campus and a special area for tailgate parties. University officials said they are also examining sponsorship and naming rights for Foreman Field. Back to top
No sooner had Dennis Darby, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences, taken on his role as chief scientist of an Arctic expedition in mid-June than he found out why there has been so little oceanographic research in the frozen north. The Coast Guard cutter Healy, the country’s largest ice-breaker and Darby’s home for much of the summer, became trapped in ice on June 14, just one day after casting off from Barrow, Alaska. It was beset for four days, which was a record for the vessel. Even in June, the Arctic Ocean can punish with temperatures well below freezing and with ferocious winds, and these were the conditions that trapped the Healy. The log of the cutter’s captain (see www.odu.edu/sci/oceanography/hotrax/index_leg1.htm) notes that ice “compressed behind us preventing the Healy from backing to ram its way through.” Wind strength and direction also forced cancellation on June 15 of a helicopter mission from the Healy, which had been planned to allow another ODU oceanography professor, Greg Cutter, to search for “dirty ice” containing sediment that offers clues to where the ice formed. The 21-person research team – from a dozen universities and research centers – whiled away time by prepping equipment, watching the Clint Eastwood film “Million-Dollar Baby” and listening to science talks, one of which was delivered by Darby. By June 16, ice had become jammed against the starboard side creating a 3.5-degree list, and ice also lodged beneath the ship blocking transponders that can take acoustical readings off the ocean’s bottom. Nevertheless, conditions improved to allow Cutter to conduct his dirty ice search by helicopter. Also, the Healy captain instituted a strategy using fire hoses against the ice at the stern, and two days later he was able to write in his log, “We broke out.” “Once freed, we worked very hard to make up the lost time,” Darby reported in an e-mail. Leg One of the Healy-Oden Trans-Arctic Expedition, or HOTRAX, which is sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation, ended June 26, and Darby said he was pleased with the results. He said the researchers collected a total of 115 meters of “outstanding core material as well as 15 sea ice samples containing sediment.” Results of ocean-bottom mapping and seismic tests, together with the bottom core sampling and ice sampling, are expected to give scientists new insights into how the Arctic basin formed and how the climate is changing there. Darby said Arctic climate changes are particularly interesting and important because they tend to show up later in more temperate zones. But, despite the value of geological and other information that can be gleaned from this far northern region, scientists at present know more about the nature and origins of the surface of the moon than they do about the floor of the Arctic Ocean. “This ocean is small, but it is critical to the global climate because it acts as one of the primary heat sinks, and if it diminishes in this role, global warming will accelerate far beyond predictions based on models,” Darby said. A heat sink is an environment that can absorb heat without an appreciable increase in temperature. The scientists hope to collect data revealing climate events in the Arctic going back to prehistoric times. The data then will be related to climate events elsewhere. In general, the research is designed to answer questions long resolved for every other ocean basin, but not for the Arctic because of heavy ice conditions. One of Darby’s objectives in HOTRAX, which will bring together a total of about 75 scientists and researchers from at least six countries, is to compile high-resolution sediment records from specific drift deposits on the ocean bottom. The challenge is to locate areas with these drift deposits where deposition rates are higher than the one centimeter per 1,000 years that is normal for the Arctic Ocean. “It’s somewhat like looking for the Dead Sea Scrolls and not knowing which cave to search,” he said. Leg One of HOTRAX was conducted off the Chukchi Shelf northwest of Alaska. For nearly two months beginning Aug. 5, Darby will be co-chief for the second – and somewhat less bone-chilling – Leg Two of the project involving the Swedish icebreaker Oden. This two-vessel crossing of the Arctic Ocean will be only the second ever for surface ships. Other than Darby and Cutter, the Leg One team included Jens Bischof, assistant professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences at Old Dominion, and alumnus Steven Marshall who is working toward a master’s in geology. Two ODU oceanography graduate students, John Rand and Paula Zimmerman, will help with deep-sea coring and bottom mapping during Leg Two. According to Darby, he and the graduate students intend to pose for a picture with an ODU banner when the icebreakers meet up at the North Pole in mid-September. Darby’s research in geological oceanography has taken him many times to the Arctic Ocean. He also has studied the shelf and coastal sediments of the eastern U.S. and gold particle deposits in southwestern Colombia. During the past 15 years he has perfected the “Fe oxide grain fingerprinting” technique, the most accurate method of tracing sand grains to their source. Back to top
The title of the show, “Trope,” the figure of speech describing the nonliteral meaning of a word or words, reflects Schachter, Englehardt and Jones’ metaphorical use of familiar materials in unfamiliar applications. Schachter, a teacher at Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y., uses electrical hardware to form household furniture and other objects. Jones, adjunct professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, creates glass sculpture that appears as flasks, stills and laboratory equipment displayed in mid-experiment. Minnesota State University teacher Jason Englehardt uses chalkboards, children’s clothing and classroom objects to create a world other than the pedagogical. The University Gallery, located at 350 W. 21st St., Norfolk, is open noon to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday; noon to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and 1-4 p.m. Sunday. For more information call 683-2355 or go to www.odu.edu/al/art/gallery. Back to top
“The center is no longer only a ‘paper on glass’ duplicating facility,” says the copy center’s T.C. Hendrickson.
These services apply to both high-speed black-and-white and color printing, as well as poster-size prints. For more information visit the Web site or contact the copy center at 683-4400 or PayPrint@odu.edu. Back to top
Clarkson’s performance will be followed about a month later by “American Idols Live,” a tour featuring the top 10 contestants from the Fox television series. The concert is scheduled for 7 p.m. Sept. 4. Tickets to both concerts may be purchased at the Constant Center box office, all TicketMaster outlets, by phone at 671-8100 or online at www.ticketmaster.com. Back to top
This four-on-four team race event is open to sailing club or junior program teams sailing International Optimist Dinghies. The Optimist, or Opti, is a 7 1/2-foot dinghy raced by more than 150,000 children and teens in over 110 countries, making it the largest international one-design class of sailboat. There are more than 7,300 Optis in the United States. Ages of the competitors range from 6 to 15. Back to top
Also in June, freshman sailor Emily Barlett was selected to the 2005 Ronstan All-America Crew squad, joining senior Anna Tunnicliffe, who was previously named to the Women’s All-America and Co-Ed All-America squads. Barlett, a native of Annapolis, Md., was one of only three freshmen to earn All-America honors. Van der Merwe finished his senior season ranked 24th in the final ITA poll, posting a 27-12 singles record. He earned his second straight Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Year honor, reached the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament and the quarterfinals of the ITA All-America Tournament this year. The South African native concluded his Monarch career with a 100-39 singles record, placing him second all-time in the ODU’s men’s tennis history books. Van der Merwe began his professional tennis career last month by defeating former William and Mary standout Trevor Spracklin, 6-2, 6-2, to win the Legg Mason Wild Card Challenge in Arlington, Va. In winning the tournament, he was awarded a spot into the qualifying round of the Legg Mason tournament to be held at the William H.G. Fitzgerald Tennis Center in Washington, D.C., July 30 to Aug. 7. Back to top
Virginia won 68 percent of its men’s contests and 59 percent of its women’s competitions, and led the state in national top 20 team finishes. The survey began in 1978-79 and includes winning percentages of only those sports with NCAA-sponsored championships. Old Dominion won seven of the first eight titles, and again in 1993-94, 1995-96 and 1998-99. Back to top
The Top 10 ranking marks the second time that ODU’s incoming class earned such a distinction. In May, W.I.N Magazine listed the Monarchs among the Top 10 recruiting classes in the nation. ODU was one of only two schools on the W.I.N Magazine list that was not ranked in the nation’s Top 25 last season. Coach Steve Martin’s 14-man recruiting class includes Chesapeake native Michael Martin. Back to top
The grant, which ODU received in partnership with James Madison University and Tidewater Community College, will support a faculty workshop on international service-learning this fall, faculty travel to the Dominican Republic in the winter and development of the summer 2006 program for students from ODU, JMU and TCC. The summer course will focus on global citizenship, development and service-learning, and will include presentations by government officials, NGOs and social service agencies. Students will also participate in community service during the four-week program in the Caribbean island country. Back to top
For starters, Webb Café is getting a trendier name – Café 1201 – but the bigger news is that the cafeteria is turning into an all-you-care-to-eat facility. As part of the renovation, the food service area will be enlarged and Chick-fil-A will relocate to the east end of the cafeteria as a stand-alone retail eatery. Also this fall, for the first time, meal plans will be available for purchase by faculty and staff. Another new twist, according to Don Runyon, assistant vice president for auxiliary services, involves the food court area, which will have a different look with new tables, chairs, colors and lighting. At night, this area will be transformed into the “House of Blue,” a music and entertainment venue offering everything from WODU DJs, to plasma TVs, to live music, to theme nights. The Office of Student Activities and Leadership will help provide the entertainment and activities. The food court restaurants will remain the same, with one exception: Sukhi’s will move to Café 1201, and taking its place will be Jump, an eatery serving a variety of Asian cuisine. Renovation work at the food court has begun and will continue until the start of the fall semester. Other changes for Café 1201 include the addition of a brick oven for pizza, a larger salad bar, more vegetarian options and the Big Blue Bistro, serving everything from pannini to pasta. The cafeteria will continue to offer “home-cooked” and stir-fry meals. Runyon noted that the faculty/staff dining room will operate next year as it has in the past. Prices have not been set for any of the new Dining Services operations, and while the cost of a single meal in the main cafeteria will be higher because of the all-you-care-to-eat structure, faculty and staff can save money by buying 25- or 50-meal plans, Runyon said, noting that similar plans have proven popular at other universities. In addition to meal plans, Café 1201, as well as all of the restaurants in Webb, will accept credit cards, cash Monarch Plus cards and “flex points.” Yet another change this fall will be the installation of an order-stand kiosk near Quiznos, where patrons can order and pay for their food. The kiosk will also operate for late-night eating at the House of Blue. Aramark, the Philadelphia-based food service corporation which recently won a new, 10-year contract at the university following a competitive bid process, is paying for the renovations, and even more changes are in the works for 2006-07, Runyon said. He added that Dining Services is also exploring the addition of an online ordering system and a food-cart service, where employees can pick up pre-ordered meals at a convenient location on campus. Back to top
The budget reflects raises for faculty and staff, as well as funds for the hiring of 38 new faculty members. Additionally, the budget includes a $3.2 million, 19 percent increase in funding for scholarships and fellowships. “The budget demonstrates the board’s and the administration’s commitment to the classroom,” Rector Jim Hixon said in a June 22 letter to The Virginian-Pilot. In other action, the board approved the following faculty representatives to its standing committees for 2005-06: Paul Champagne, professor of business management, Academic and Research Advancement; Kenneth Daley, professor of art, Administration and Finance; James English, associate professor of community and environmental health, Institutional Advancement; and Linda Miller-Dunleavy, lecturer of early childhood, speech-language pathology and special education, Student Advancement. The board also approved:
Twenty-nine faculty appointments and 25 administrative appointments were approved at the meeting. Among the latter were:
“These leaders bring a vast range of experience and talent to our commonwealth’s system of higher education, and demonstrate strong levels of dedication and service,” Warner said. “I also want to commend the 2005 General Assembly for agreeing to institutionalize our merit-based selection process. It has worked well, and has reduced much of the partisanship that formerly surrounded appointments to college and university boards.” Ampy, Kirk and O’Neill succeed Mary C. Haddad ’92 and William E. Russell, who served two terms on the board, and Scott D. Pattison, who served one term. Back to top
Provost Thomas L. Isenhour and Mohammad Karim, vice president for research, spoke at the event on behalf of ODU. Norfolk Mayor Paul D. Fraim and Harry T. Lester, president of Eastern Virginia Medical School, also offered remarks. The Center for Bioelectrics was developed as a research initiative of Old Dominion in partnership with EVMS. Its mission is to increase scientific knowledge and understanding of how electromagnetic fields and ionized gases interact with biological cells and to apply this knowledge to the development of medical diagnostics and therapeutics, and to environmental decontamination. The center is located on the fifth floor of the Norfolk Public Health Building. Back to top
Although her primary duty is daunting in and of itself – overseeing the budget for a college with seven departments and the Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography – Brown also edits an online quarterly newsletter for the college, called Scire (Latin for “to know”), and last fall began preparing dissertation and thesis reviews for doctoral and master’s degree candidates, which includes checking for compliance with established guidelines. Her volunteerism on campus is likewise varied. She has served as president of the Hourly and Classified Employees Association (and is currently membership chair and historian), sits on the Marketing Council, and for the past 11 years has been college coordinator for both the Dominion Fund and the Common-wealth of Virginia Campaign. She was university co-chair for the 2004 and 2005 CVC campaigns. Since earning her ODU bachelor’s degree five years ago, Brown has taken writing workshops at the university. She’s written several short stories and has even started a few novels. One of her short stories received honorable mention last fall in the national Writer’s Digest contest. A grandmother of two with a third due in October, Brown approaches both her job and her outside interests with passion, enthusiasm – and her trademark sense of humor. Her main hobby is creating 1:12 replicas of old houses, for which she does everything from building the structure itself, using an array of power tools, to attending to the smallest details, such as applying wallpaper and shingles and creating tables and cupboards. – Steve Daniel Year of ODU affiliation: 1994 College degrees: 1985, associate in management, Tri-County Technical College, Pendleton, S.C.; 2000, bachelor’s in communication, ODU Birth date: 9/28/WHOA!! Hometown: Kings Mountain, N.C. (born);Atlanta, Baltimore and Charlotte (raised) Children: Chad, 31, and Brodie, 26 Pets: One dog, a chow named Mandy Pet peeve: Employees who don’t take advantage of the Educational Assistance Program Favorite place on campus: My office. I have a great view of the pond and can always leave my door open. Most memorable ODU experience: As a student, graduating; as an employee, taking a group of physics students to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Greenbank, W.Va. Most treasured possession in my office: My Macintosh computer. Need I say more? Whom I most admire at the university: The science faculty – who do interesting research and who sometimes invite me to participate Last book read: “A Touch of Frost” by R.D. Wingfield (love those Brits!) Favorite movies: For imagination and history, “Gone with the Wind”; for humor, British mysteries (“Midsomer Murders,” “A Touch of Frost,” etc.) Favorite quotation: “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, today is a gift.” Eleanor Roosevelt Four people (living or dead) I would like to meet: My Fryer and Herndon ancestors Greatest accomplishment: After seven years, completing a replica of the Herndon House, an 1865 home built by my great-grandfather, and presenting it to the Kings Mountain Historical Museum in 2000 at its grand opening. The original house was in KM (first brick house in area), but it was torn down in 1965. Activities and organizations outside the university: First Presbyterian Church, Virginia Beach; Kings Mountain Historical Museum Favorite song: “Unchained Melody” by The Righteous Brothers Idea of the perfect day off: Getting up at dawn, visiting a nursery, working in my butterfly and vegetable gardens, filling both “Red Roof Diners” (gazebo bird feeders), working on minis, biking, grilling, e-mailing friends and then reading or working crossword puzzles in front of the TV until I can’t hold my head up any longer Hobbies: Scrapbooking, biking, miniatures, gardening, photography Favorite TV show: The original “CSI” Favorite meal: Barbecue chicken, Hawaiian rolls, baked potato, salad Last vacation: June 2005 – Oakland Plantation (c. 1780) in Council, N.C., to take pictures and note original structure with the intent of building a 1:12 scale replica of it Favorite area restaurant: Silver Diner Last smart thing I did: Made a will Last dumb thing I did: Which time? Recently, I let the oil in the mower run out – a $300 lesson. Worst job: Working in a cigar store as a second job. I had to put Vick’s Vapor Rub up my nose to keep from being sick every day from the tobacco smells. Profession, other than the one I’m in, that interests me: Novelist Appropriate epitaph: THE original Dixie Chick (I’ve lived in five Southern states) Back to top
The itinerary they had in mind would take them across the Atlantic via Bermuda and the Azores. They would spend a bit of time exploring the seacoast of Portugal and Spain, perhaps venture into the Mediter-ranean for a while, and then return to Virginia by way of the Caribbean. Two years ago, however, Joan Conover, wife of Greg and mother of Josh, 19, and Christina, 18, sustained a nasty back injury aboard the ketch during a storm, and soon thereafter found that she had a degenerative spinal disease. The yearlong cruise seemed impossible until the mother’s condition stabilized enough late last year to revive the dream. “We thought, if we’re going to make our dream trip, we have to do it now,” she said. “A year from now I won’t be able to take on something like this.” One hesitation of the mother involved her children, both of whom graduated last month from Smithfield High School and had intended to begin college studies this fall. So she visited Old Dominion to chat with Alice McAdory, director of admissions. The result not only gave a green light to the voyage, which began June 21, but also may write a new chapter in the annals of oceanography. “Alice was so helpful. Everybody at ODU has given us such a positive reception,” Conover said. “We never heard anything like, ‘If you want to do something outside the norm, then we don’t want to work with you.’” Josh and Christina have been accepted as students at ODU, with enrollment deferred until the fall of 2006. Both hope to focus on the sciences, Christina definitely on ocean-ography and Josh on geology or oceanography. McAdory also suggested that the Conovers contact Alexander Bochdansky, assistant professor in the ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences department, whose research interests include the microscopic protists and bacteria within the plankton at the surface of the oceans. Perhaps Christina and Josh could take on an oceanography research project during the cruise, the admissions director suggested. “I jumped on the opportunity immediately because it is rare that pleasure boaters are willing to do scientific work while out on the ocean,” Bochdansky said. “As you can imagine, cross-Atlantic transects with a research vessel are prohibitively expensive.” McAdory said she and her office have been delighted by their contact with the Conovers. “They’re such a lovely and close-knit family, and they have such a spirit of adventure, you just don’t see that very often. This voyage will broaden the perspective of these young people, and we feel lucky to have them returning to become students at our university.” Bochdansky devised a sampling protocol involving relatively simple procedures, but which he hopes will give him valuable insight into life at the surface of the Atlantic. He also conducted several training sessions for Christina and other family members, both on the ODU campus and on the Growltiger, which had been docked at a marina in Hampton. The Conovers, with Christina as the lead researcher, will measure the temperature, salinity and optical qualities of ocean water sampled at regular intervals during the eastward crossing. Water samples also will be filtered onto small membranes that retain anything larger than bacteria. The membranes will be kept in a freezer aboard the Growltiger until Bochdansky can pick them up in Portugal or Spain in late August. “We are then able to compare the distribution of these organisms between locations and with the various water quality measurements,” he said. “For us at ODU it is a great opportunity to get a full transect of key parameters across the Atlantic. For Christina, as a fledgling oceanographer, it is a unique experience in real ocean science.” Bochdansky, who was born in Austria, earned his doctorate and did postdoctoral work in Canada before joining the ODU faculty in 2004. He said he is aware of no oceanography program that solicits the help of pleasure boaters in the conduct of research. But he said he hopes this project, and the publicity it generates, will influence other boaters to volunteer as researchers. “I surely hope it catches on, particularly in the sailing community. Sailboat owners are usually very much in tune with their environment. They enjoy the ocean and would like to help preserve it.” The main target of the Conover research project will be the tiny protists that play an important role in the food web and are predators of marine bacteria. They are so small that thousands of them can be in one teaspoon of ocean water, but their combined weight in the oceans is greater than that of fishes and whales combined. Bochdansky said there have been very few transatlantic transects sampling for organisms the size of protists or smaller. The Conovers – Greg retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel and is now an analyst for the Institute for Defense Analysis in Norfolk and Joan is a computer engineer by training – plan to be on their dream voyage until sometime next summer. Family friends Bill Nash and his 18-year-old son, Alex, who are from Rhode Island, are also aboard for the voyage, helping with sailing chores that Joan no longer can manage. Alex, who also hopes to study oceanography, has been accepted with deferred enrollment at a college in Massachusetts. Joan has put her computer engineering training to work to install several means of communications from Growltiger to shore, and she will send research logs during the eastward voyage to Bochdansky. If analysis of the logs and of the membranes indicate further research is worthwhile, the young scientists-to-be aboard the ketch may continue their project after August. Even with Bochdansky’s efforts to keep the research simple, he admitted that the work will require a considerable commitment from the Conovers, perhaps too much for the average pleasure boater to take on. But he hopes their experience will help oceanographers at ODU develop a scaled-down and more automated sampling protocol that pleasure boaters could more easily manage. He said there could have been instances in the past when scientists mounted instruments on sailboats to take measurements, but that “the detail of the data is not nearly as great as when you take filtered samples for microscopy.” The Conover siblings’ project fits perfectly with the educational philosophy of his department, Bochdansky said. “We encourage every undergraduate student to join a lab to get research experience as early as possible. Our new undergraduate program in oceanography is very hands-on and problem-solving oriented. There is no point just teaching theory when the students don’t know where it will all lead in terms of real, day-to-day science.” Back to top
The schedule and registration form are online at www.odu.edu/af/humanresources/training/banner.pdf. Course descriptions are listed below:
Applicants should complete the registration form, print it out, have it signed by their supervisor, and mail or fax (683-3050) it to the Human Resources Department. For winning the Rookie Award, Sullivan received $100 from the Nolte Endowment Fund, ODU athletic tickets and a $90 bookstore gift certificate, among other prizes. Back to top
The grant, from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), will fund the ODU program in cooperation with regions of Virginia geographically farthest from school library media licensure programs. The ODU program is one of only 37 programs nationwide receiving funds from the grant, and it is the only one of its kind in Virginia higher education recognized by the IMLS. The institute gave $21,087,684 in grants to universities, libraries and library organizations across the country to recruit and educate a new generation of librarians. The grants are designed to help offset a current shortage of school library media specialists, library school faculty and librarians working in underserved communities, as well a looming shortage of library directors and other senior librarians who are expected to retire in the next 20 years. The Institute of Museum and Library Services is an independent federal grant-making agency dedicated to helping libraries and museums serve their communities. Back to top
Tickets to the 6:30 p.m. Dec. 11 performance and a pre-show reception at Norfolk’s Chrysler Hall went on sale July 5. For more information call 683-3097. Back to top
The program policies are available at www.odu.edu/af/humanresources/benefits. Information, applications and related forms are at www.odu.edu/af/humanresources/indformspage/edaidforms.htm. For more information call 683-4237. Back to top
– “‘Public ownership’ idea just didn’t translate” “Is football necessary for a college education? No. But if you ask if students think football is an important part of the total college experience the answer is yes.” (Moody E. “Sonny” Stallings Jr. ’73, Board of Visitors member, as quoted in an editorial) – “Hail Mary pass at Foreman Field” “The administration has generally been very careful in not going into programs without substantial support from the community and the alumni. That makes me a little bit more comfortable with it.” (John W. Kuehl, history department chair) – “ODU faculty tackles football proposal” “Alumni will finally have that homecoming long denied them. The alumni board and the Alumni Association are poised to support this. Just give us a chance.” (Lauren Conner ’79, president-elect of the Alumni Association) – “Board votes 14-0 in favor of reviving ODU football” “Guilty or innocent, the story is the same. Pop culture allows drug overdoses, self-inflicted wounds, even violence. But this crime stands alone; it’s just too heinous. You don’t recover from this.” (Gary R. Edgerton, chair of communication and theatre arts) – “Michael Jackson’s tainted legacy” “I think we become more attractive to high-achieving kids every day.” (John R. Broderick, vice president for institutional advancement and admissions) – “Most top local students stay in Va.” “There’s something sad about how your reading changes when you become a writer. You’re still reading books as a lover of narrative, but you’re also reading them as the magician’s acolyte. You always want to know, ‘How did he do that? How did she manage that effect?’ So you’re always lifted out of the experience. I love it when a new book takes me away and I’m just drifting down the river, not looking for the markings as I go along.” (Michael Pearson, professor of English, in a Q&A) – “The locus of the imagination: An interview with Michael Pearson”
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