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October 2008
Edison Community College lauded for new campus landmark
The Emerson Center at Edison Community College in Piqua was named among 10 notable new buildings on community college campuses by the Chronicle of Higher Education, the leading U.S. newspaper for the academic world.
The Emerson Regional Center of Excellence was highlighted among “new campus landmarks” on Friday, Oct. 31, in a “Community College” supplement in the Chronicle.
“The 35,000-square-foot, $5.9-million building angles, prowlike, into a campus lake, creating an iconic entry to the college,” the Chronicle said. “It houses the institution’s Center for Nursing, as well as a 20,000-square-foot library.”
“Among the sustainable elements are vegetated swales to capture storm water and let it percolate down to the water table; masonry walls designed to collect solar energy; and overhangs that shield the building from direct summer sunlight while allowing winter sunlight to enter.”
Edison was among six higher-education institutions that won awards in 2007 from the American Institute of Architects’ Committee on Architecture for Education. It earned a citation for the Emerson Center, designed by the Collaborative, Inc.
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TweetEducators open wallets for Obama
Greetings. I’m Kelly Mori, health and higher education reporter for the Springfield News-Sun. I’ve joined the On Campus blog to periodically share some thoughts on what’s happening in higher education while giving some face time to Wittenberg, Cedarville and Urbana universities and Clark State Community College.
Now, on to the title of today’s blog.
It might not be a surprise to hear that academe favors Democrat Barack Obama over Republican John McCain. However, The Chronicle of Higher Education has been able to quantify that assumption with some interesting campaign contribution numbers from the Center for Responsive Politics.
According to the Chronicle, college employees have donated $12.2 million to Obama’s campaign compared to $1.5 million to McCain. It’s the widest spread since the Center started keeping track in 1992.
A good example is the the University of California where employees donated the most to both candidates but certainly not equally, with $40,000 going to McCain and $778,000 to Obama.
Why the difference? The Chronicle is a subscription site so I can’t link you to it but here are some highlights: Some cite dissatisfaction with the current administration and a professional connection to Obama, who taught constitutional law as a lecturer at the University of Chicago. Democrats stated Obama “sees issues in shades of gray and appears to grasp policy nuances,” the Chronicle said.
Many of McCain’s donations came from business, law and medical schools. The Republican’s more than 20 years of experience in the U.S. Senate, compared with Obama’s first term, was the deciding factor for many McCain supporters. In today’s Ohio Politics blog, William Hershey talks about the spending side of things. Read Bill Hershey’s blog on candidate spending.
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TweetBen Stiller rocks the vote at UD
Ohio can make a difference in this year’s presidential election, said Ben Stiller in an interview with the Dayton Daily News during the Rock the Vote rally on Thursday, Oct. 30, at the the University of Dayton.
Stiller, whose films include “Meet the Parents” and “Tropic Thunder,” was joined at UD by singer Sheryl Crow, hip-hop group the Beastie Boys and fellow actor Laura Dern.
“These swing states are so important,” said Stiller, a New York City native who lives in Los Angeles. “Living in a place where it isn’t a swing state, you want to come somewhere where you can actually feel like you can make a difference, and just do what you can, really, to try to get people to come out and vote.”
Stiller didn’t vote much when he was young, he admitted. “You realize if you really care about your country and what’s going on, and when you have kids in the future, you’ve got to do whatever you can,” he said.
Aboard the Rock the Vote Road Trip tour bus, Stiller said that it was exciting to see UD students so energized. “The more young people that get out and vote in this election is going to make the difference,” he said. “It’s just great to see that people are so connected and involved in the process. Maybe it just takes times like these for everybody to realize that you have to do something and be part of the solution.”
Stiller also was to appear Thursday night with Crow, the Beastie Boys and Ben Harper as part of the “Get Out and Vote 08” tour stop at Hara Arena. He planned to return home to LA on Friday, Oct. 31, to spend Halloween with his children. Stiller then hoped to rejoin the tour in Colorado, another swing state.
Rock the Vote is a non-partisan organization that registers and turns out voters age 18 to 29.
“I personally am an Obama supporter,” Stiller said. “I got in trouble because I was doing a Rock the Vote interview and I had my Obama sticker on and I didn’t realize it. I almost got tackled,” he said, laughing.
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TweetRock the Vote’s Road Trip comes to UD
The Beastie Boys, Sheryl Crow and Ben Harper will make a free appearance on Thursday, Oct. 30, at the University of Dayton when Rock the Vote’s Road Trip tour bus makes a stop on campus.
The Rock the Vote tour bus will visit UD from 12-2 p.m. The Beastie Boys, Crow and Harper are scheduled to appear at 1:30 p.m. Crow will perform a few songs, and the Beastie Boys and Harper will speak about the importance of voting.
The tour bus is outfitted with computer kiosks that assist in fielding requests for absentee ballots, educating users about key issues and the election process, providing polling locations, early voting locations and more.
The Rock the Vote Road Trip drew 1,000 people on Tuesday, Oct. 28, at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. Other cities on the tour include Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Denver.
The Beastie Boys, Crow and Harper will perform a concert on Thursday, Oct. 30, at Hara Arena as part of the “Get Out and Vote 08” tour. Tickets for the 7 p.m. show are $35 at the box office and Ticketmaster.
For more information on the Rock the Vote Road Trip, click here.
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TweetOhio University to form alliance with Central State, Wilberforce Universities
Ohio University and eight historically black colleges have agreed to form an educational collaborative to expand their efforts in areas such as faculty development and research, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The new collaborative, called the Interlink Alliance, will include Central State University and Wilberforce University in Greene County. The alliance also will include Hampton and Virginia State Universities in Virginia; Johnson C. Smith and North Carolina Central Universities in North Carolina; South Carolina State University; and Spelman College in Georgia.
The colleges plan to formally enter into the alliance on Thursday, Oct. 30, in Washington D.C., the Chronicle reported.
In a written statement announcing the alliance, the colleges said past agreements between predominantly white institutions and historically black ones had mainly benefited the former, by helping them increase diversity. Ohio University’s president, Roderick J. McDavis, has vowed that the Interlink Alliance will be “a very real two-way street,” helping every institution involved.
Among other activities, the collaborative will establish faculty- and student-exchange programs and conduct research intended to improve the education of black males, the Chronicle said.
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TweetChancellor Fingerhut to discuss ‘Strategic Plan’ implementation at Sinclair
Eric D. Fingerhut, chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, will open the Academic Leaders Conference on Friday, Oct. 31, at Sinclair Community College.
The conference, “The Higher Education Plan for Ohio: Mechanics of Implementation,” is presented by the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education and the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities. The event will focus on the Ohio 10-year “Strategic Plan for Higher Education” that was developed by the Board of Regents.
Fingerhut’s presentation will focus on implementation of the “Strategic Plan for Higher Education.”
In addition to Fingerhut’s presentation, the conference will spend the majority of the day addressing key areas in the plan and how to move them to implementation. The key areas include:
Establishing Centers of Excellence
Paving the way from high school to college
Transitioning from quarters to semesters
Implementing accountability
Identifying key partners
Understanding facility development implications
The Academic Leaders Conference will be held from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. in Building 12 at Sinclair’s downtown Dayton campus. Fingerhut is scheduled to speak at 9 a.m.
The registration fee is $75 for SOCHE and GCCCU members and $100 for non-members. Please contact SOCHE about a $35 student rate for the conference. For more information or to register, click here.
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TweetOhio State retains rank as nation’s largest college campus
Ohio State University is the nation’s largest university for the third consecutive year.
Fall 2008 enrollment figures show the Columbus campus has the nation’s highest enrollment with 53,715 undergraduate, graduate and professional students.
Enrollment at all Ohio State campuses — Columbus, Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Newark, and Wooster — set a new record this year at 61,568, up two percent over Fall 2007. The previous record for enrollment was 60,589 in Fall 1991.
Enrollment at Ohio State’s Columbus campus increased by more than two percent, or 1,147 students. It surpasses main campus student enrollment at other large universities such as Arizona State University at Tempe (52,734), the University of Florida at Gainesville (51,413), the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities (51,140), and the University of Texas at Austin (50,006).
The increase in enrollment was driven by higher student retention and more students transferring to Ohio State, according to university officials.
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TweetUD students win SMART scholarships from U.S. Department of Defense
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded SMART scholarships to University of Dayton students Andrew Fist and Megan Miller.
SMART — Science, Math and Research for Transformation — scholarships provide funding for full tuition, a $1,000 book allowance, other education-related fees, paid summer internships, health insurance and a job after graduation.
Fewer than 10 percent of applicants received SMART scholarships in 2008. Winners must work full-time as civil servants for the Department of Defense after graduation for at least the same duration they held a SMART scholarship in college.
Fist, a senior mechanical engineering major from Bellbrook, will intern next summer at the Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tennessee before graduating in December 2009. The U.S. Air Force promotes the center as the most advanced and largest complex of flight simulation test facilities in the world.
Miller, a sophomore math major from Maumee, Ohio, will intern the next two summers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Fairborn. She also we will work there after she graduates in 2011.
Fist and Miller are the second and third UD students to win SMART scholarships in the last two years.
UD ranks 27th among all colleges and universities nationally for all sponsored engineering research and development, according to university officials.
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TweetAntioch to host WYSO general manager forums
Antioch University will host two community meetings with the finalist candidates for the general manager position at Dayton-area public radio station WYSO-FM (91.3).
The forums will allow WYSO listeners to meet the prospective new station directors and ask them about their visions for the station’s future. Listeners who attend will have the opportunity to provide feedback to the Antioch search committee to help in its selection process.
The meetings will be held on Oct. 28 and 29 at the WYSO Performance Space, located in the basement of 150 E. South College Street, on the Antioch University campus in Yellow Springs. Both meetings start at 6:30 p.m.
The Oct. 28 meeting will be with GM finalist Neenah Ellis; the Oct. 29 meeting is with finalist Jon Peterson.
Ellis is a journalist and author who has produced documentaries and reports for National Public Radio, the Discovery Channel and the National Park Service.
Peterson is a management professional who served as general manager at public radio station WNTI-FM in Hackettstown, N.J. He also served as music director at WCBE-FM in Columbus and production director at KPFK-FM, Pacifica Radio, in Los Angeles.
Paul Maassen, former general manager of WYSO, left the public radio station in March to become general manager at WWNO-FM in New Orleans.
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TweetSinclair to launch green initiative
Sinclair Community College will launch its effort to become the “greenest” community college in the nation on Wednesday, Oct. 22, with a “Green Our Scene” celebration.
The kickoff of Sinclair’s re-energized initiative to reduce its carbon footprint and diminish landfill waste will be held from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. on the Dayton campus plaza.
Sinclair will host demonstrations of its newly converted biodiesel tractors, which run on recycled grease from fryers in the Tartan Marketplace cafeteria.
Other events include a solar-powered drag race, sculptures created out of recyclable materials, and a recycled paper graffiti wall.
Students also can learn about how Sinclair is leading in the development of solar, thermal and wind turbines energies, and how they can become a part of these developing industries.
For more information about “Green Our Scene,” click here.
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TweetTask force moves toward an independent Antioch College
The task force charged with developing a plan for an an independent Antioch College met on Oct. 13 in New York City with Antioch University Board of Trustees Chair Art Zucker and Chancellor Toni Murdock. The purpose of the meeting was to brief the chair and chancellor on the work of the of the task force over the past three months, and to elicit their thinking on the strategies being considered by the task force.
“The meeting was positive and constructive, and we made significant progress toward formalizing a resolution,” said Richard Detweiler, president of the Great Lakes College Association and mediator/chair of the task force, in a media release. “It is clear that everyone sitting around the table shares the commitment to the creation of an independent college, and that the only question is the optimal route forward, particularly in these financially turbulent times.”
The task force will continue its work in the coming weeks, refining the approaches it has been developing based on the meeting’s discussions.
A task force of Antioch alumni and trustee representatives in July adopted a resolution to re-establish an independent residential liberal arts college as soon as possible. Antioch College closed June 30 because of declining enrollment and other issues.
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TweetWright State to participate in grant program for nurses who want to teach
Wright State University is among the colleges and universities participating in a new Ohio grant program that will award up to 45 fellowships to build up the ranks of nursing faculty.
Eric D. Fingerhut, chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, announced on Wednesday, Oct. 15, steps to increase the number of nurses in Ohio’s workforce. The 2008-2009 Nursing Faculty Fellowship Grant Program will provide incentive grants — or fellowships — to Registered Nurses currently enrolled in approved Ohio post-licensure nurse education programs and who will serve as faculty members upon graduation.
The program is a collaborative effort of the Ohio Board of Regents and the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services, and contains $700,000 funding under the Workforce Investment Act included in House Bill 119. The funds cover the 2008-2009 academic year, and will be released to those participating colleges and universities whose students have been awarded the nursing fellowships.
The investment in Ohio’s nursing programs provides tuition, book, fee, supplies, and living expense awards to the nursing fellows.
“This grant program will help all the up and coming nurses in the pipeline who will benefit from the leadership, talent, knowledge and skills of our nursing faculty fellows in the classroom,” Fingerhut said in a media release. “The program is aligned with state goals to build a demand-driven workforce and strengthen linkages between higher education and Ohio’s health care industries, a targeted economic development area for Ohio.”
The Nursing Faculty Fellowship Grant Program funding will be awarded to applicants on a first-come, first-served basis and will provide up to 45 students with fellowships valuing up to $15,000 each. Each applicant must commit to a faculty teaching position upon graduation and teach at a participating college or university within Ohio for no less than four years.
Students may apply from October 15 through the priority November 3, 2008, deadline. However, if funds remain after this first priority deadline, additional applicants may be granted funding through a second application deadline of May 15, 2009, or until funding is depleted.
For grant information, call the State Grants and Scholarships Hotline at 888-833-1133 or click here.
Area colleges and universities participating in the grant program also include the University of Cincinnati, Ohio State University and Ohio University.
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TweetBye-bye, Brutus
Ohio State University’s “Brutus on Parade” program, featuring 40 Brutus Buckeye statues, is in its final week. The seven-foot tall, fiberglass statues of the popular Buckeye mascot are each decorated with a unique personality or theme.
The designs depict popular Ohio State figureheads such as Jim Tressel. E. Gordon Gee, Woody Hayes and Archie Griffin. Other decoration themes include the Ohio State Marching Band, along with an Indiana Jones, Tin Man and “Butter” Brutus.
The statues currently are on display outside the Jerome Schottenstein Center on the Ohio State campus. On Oct. 22, the statues will be removed and shipped to the appropriate sponsors, who pledged between $10,000 to $20,000 for a statue.
The project was created to help fund the renovation of the William Oxley Thompson Library. Proceeds from the program also will help fund a general scholarship for Ohio State cheerleaders in the name of Brutus Buckeye.
To see a gallery of the Brutus Buckeye statues, click here. For a map of the statues’ locations, click here.
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TweetWright State’s “Multicultural Halloween” to feature worldwide fall celebrations
Liang Patti, a Chinese acrobat who has appeared on “America’s Got Talent” and the “Today Show,” will perform on Oct. 29 at Wright State University as part of the school’s ninth annual Multicultural Halloween Celebration. The event, which is open to the public, will be held from 5-10 p.m. in the Student Union Apollo Room.
Multicultural Halloween offers a chance to experience fall celebrations from other cultures, including African American Kwanzaa, Asian Indian Diwali, Chinese and Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival, Korean Chusok, Japanese Bon holiday, Nigerian Yam festival, Mexican Day to the Dead and Native American Fall Harvest.
The event will feature the Liang Acrobatic & Comedy Show. Patti will perform the 2,000-year-old art form of plate-spinning. Her other acrobatic skills include twirling 25 hula hoops at once while blindfolded, balancing knives and glasses of water, and a unique “yo-yo” act.
Multicultural Halloween also will include ethnic foods from around the world, costume contests for children and adults, and cultural performances and displays.
Tickets for the public are $10 for adults, $7 for children ages 5-12, available at the door. For more information, call (937) 775-2798 or click here.
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TweetIg Nobel Prize founder to give tongue-in-cheek lecture at Wright State
Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes and editor of the science humor magazine “Annals of Improbable Research,” will give a tongue-in-cheek presentation on this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes on Friday, Oct. 10 at Wright State University.
The Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded in early October to parody the prestigious Nobel Prizes, also awarded in October. Improbable Research organizes the awards to recognize real research projects and bona fide scientific achievements “that first make people laugh, and them make them think,” according to the humor journal’s Web site.
Examples include research on the medical side effects of sword-swallowing, research on the “five-second rule” for food items dropped on floors, and the creation of the plastic pink flamingo.
Abrahams’ talk will cover this year’s 10 Ig Nobel Prizes, which were awarded Oct. 2 and include:
The Nutrition prize to two University of Oxford scientists “for electronically modifying the sound of a potato chip to make the person chewing the chip believe it to be crisper and fresher than it really is.”
The Biology prize to three French veterinary medicine researchers “for discovering that the fleas that live on a dog can jump higher than the fleas that live on a cat.”
The Physics prize to two American scientists “for proving mathematically that heaps of string or hair or almost anything else will inevitably tangle themselves up in knots.”
Additional prize categories included peace, archaeology, cognitive science, medicine, economics, chemistry and literature.
Abrahams’ 8 p.m. presentation is free and open to the public. It will be held in Room 109 of Oelman Hall on the Wright State campus. Visitors should park in Lot 2, in front of the Student Union.
Abrahams’ appearance highlights the fall 2008 joint meeting of the Ohio-Region Section of the American Physical Society, the Southern Ohio Section of the American Association of Physics teachers and the Dayton Section of the American Chemical Society, The two-day interdisciplinary meeting of scientists and teachers, co-hosted by the Department of Engineering Physics at the Air Force Institute of Technology and the Physics Department at Wright State University, will be held Oct. 10-11 on Wright State’s campus.
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TweetUD students spend mid-term break serving poor communities
Nearly 40 University of Dayton students will spend their fall semester mid-term break serving poor communities in Chicago, New Orleans and New Jersey. The three Fall BreakOuts are sponsored by UD’s Center for Social Concern.
One group of students will participate in the Chicago Project, an educational experience that allows students to examine the causes of and solutions to urban poverty. The students will stay in North Lawndale on the west side of Chicago, one of the country’s poorest neighborhoods.
UD student groups also will travel to Camden, N.J., and New Orleans. Students in Camden will volunteer in a variety of service programs in schools, hot meal kitchens, a health center for people with HIV/AIDS, a food bank and housing construction.
Students volunteering time in New Orleans will tour neighborhoods still recovering from the effects of Hurricane Katrina, and join the rebuilding effort.
UD’s fall semester mid-term break starts after classes end on Wednesday, Oct. 8, and runs through Sunday, Oct. 12.
The Center for Social Concern offers annual BreakOuts for students during the fall semester mid-term break, spring break and after classes end in May. More information can be found here.
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Tweet“Zombies” invade college campuses
Zombies are rampaging across the nation’s college campuses, according to USA Today.
Humans vs. Zombies, or “HvZ,” is a tag-like game that’s growing in popularity at U.S. colleges and universities. An HvZ game typically involves hundreds of students and runs 24 hours a day for days on end, as dwindling numbers of humans try to fend off and outlast growing legions of zombies.
If a zombie tags a human, the human becomes a zombie. Zombies in the game wear headbands to distinguish them from armband-wearing humans.
Humans ward off zombies with Nerf guns or by hitting them with a balled-up sock. If struck, the zombie is stunned, usually for 15 minutes. The goal is to still be a live human at the end of the game.
HvZ was created by a group of students at Goucher College in Towson, Md. It began as a live version of the first-person video game, “Splinter Cell,” then turned into tag and became zombie-fied.
“It unfolded just like that,” Brad Sappington, one of the creators, told USA Today. ” ‘We like zombies. Let’s find a way to make real zombies at college.’ It was alcohol-induced, I’m sure.”
No zombie sightings have been reported as yet at Dayton-area campuses. Humans vs. Zombies’ official Web site is here.
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TweetStudent success conference to feature Taft, Fingerhut
Bob Taft, former Ohio governor and distinguished research associate at the University of Dayton, will lead a conference on Oct. 16 to bring together educators and policy makers from Ohio and the region to explore successful ways to increase the number of college graduates.
“Expanding College Access and Enhancing Student Success” will be held from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in the Ponitz Center at Sinclair Community College.
The event is open to the public. Educational leaders, educators at all levels, and those with an interest in education are encouraged to attend.
Eric D. Fingerhut, chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, will participate in a panel at 1:45 p.m. with high-ranking education officials from Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky on how to bridge the gap between high school and college. The panel will include Stanley G. Jones, commissioner for higher education in Indiana, and Dianne Bazell, assistant vice president for academic affairs, Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education.
According to the Board of Regents, only four out of 10 ninth graders are likely to enroll in college by age 19, and too few will graduate.
The conference will feature presentations on new strategies and some of the best practices for expanding college enrollment and graduation through innovative programs from across the state. Other sessions will examine community-based, college-based and school-based college access programs and initiatives by area colleges and universities to help at-risk students succeed in college.
“If we are to achieve the ambitious goal set by Gov. Ted Strickland to increase the number of Ohioans with college degrees, we must learn from each other and move forward with coordination and partnership,” Taft said in a media release.
The cost to attend the conference is $15. Register online here.
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TweetNational columnist to address faith and politics at UD
E.J. Dionne Jr., a nationally syndicated Washington Post columnist and political analyst for National Public Radio, will discuss “Faith and Politics in the 2008 Presidential Race” on Monday, Oct. 6, at the University of Dayton.
The lecture is free and open to the public. It will be held at 8 p.m. in the Kennedy Union ballroom at the University of Dayton.
Dionne’s latest book, “Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith & Politics After the Religious Right,” was published in February. His column on national policy and politics appears on Tuesdays and Fridays in the Washington Post.
Before joining the Post in 1990 as a political reporter, Dionne spent 14 years at the New York Times, covering local, state and national politics. He also served as a foreign correspondent in Paris, Rome and Beirut.
Dionne’s talk is the main event in a three-semester lecture series commemorating a century of the U.S. Catholic Church sponsored by UD’s Forum on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Today.
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TweetUD historian to appear on “ABC World News with Charles Gibson”
John Heitmann, a University of Dayton historian who specializes in the history of science, technology and the American automobile, is scheduled to be interviewed by a producer from “ABC World News with Charles Gibson” as part of the network’s “Great American Battleground Bus Tour.”
The segment, scheduled for Oct. 6 broadcast, will focus on Heitmann’s views on how layoffs in the automotive industry and Ohio’s sagging economy will affect the presidential election. The piece also will feature interviews with workers from General Motors’ Moraine plant, according to Alice Maggin, an ABC-TV producer.
“I will be talking about the plant closings and the loss of living-wage jobs, particularly jobs for high school graduates,” Heitmann said in a media release. “That old notion that high school graduates can make a living wage working at companies like General Motors is gone.”
Heitmann is UD alumni chair in the humanities. He teaches a course entitled “The Automobile in 20th Century America.” Heitmann’s upcoming book, “In High Gear: The Automobile in 20th Century Life,” is expected to be published in 2009.
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TweetJim Gaffigan Hot Pockets Chowdown at Wright State University
Wright State University students will get a taste of comedian Jim Gaffigan’s popular Hot Pockets routine — literally — on Thursday, Oct. 2, at the Jim Gaffigan Hot Pockets Chowdown.
Six Wright State students will compete to see who will be the first to chow down on four Hot Pockets brand stuffed sandwiches — and keep them down. The winners, one male and one female, will each win $100, the opportunity to meet Gaffigan and two tickets to his show on Thursday, Oct. 2, at Wright State’s Ervin J. Nutter Center.
Gaffigan, an Indiana native, likens Hot Pockets to a Pop-Tart filled “with really nasty meat.”
The Chowdown will be held on the patio in front of Hamilton Hall, next to Wright State’s Student Union. Registration begins at 1:30 p.m. Six contestant names, three male and three female, will be drawn at 2:15 p.m. The Chowdown begins at 2:30 p.m.
The event and the winners will be featured on MySpace.com.
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