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DIA art
Students display artwork at Denver International Airport
S arah Soriano spent much of her youth in airports traveling back and forth between her parents’
homes in Indiana and Arizona. She used those memories as inspiration for her portion of the “No
Place Like Home” exhibit at Denver International Airport (DIA).
Of the 2,500 speeches
delivered by Martin Luther
Soriano, along with four other Electronic Media Arts Design (eMAD) graduate students, have their King Jr. between 1957 and
work on display at DIA through February. The exhibit, located on level six of Terminal East, explores 1968, two took place on
memories of transition, migration, journey, comfort, farewells and returns. DU’s campus. King addressed
“My childhood experiences with my parents has influenced my work for DIA,” says Soriano, a members of the community in
second-year graduate student. “The space I created is trying to recreate memories of my childhood the University of Denver Arena
that have begun to fade with time.” on the issue of racial equality
The artwork of students David Fodel, Brigid McAuliffe, Allie Pohl and Soriano varies widely. While and desegregation on Jan. 24,
Soriano’s work feels like the memory of her childhood home, Pohl’s colorful work stacks socks six feet 1964 and again on May 18,
high in the form of a tree. 1967. On the latter occasion,
“This high-profile opportunity is exciting on multiple levels,” says eMAD Assistant Professor Laleh less than a year before he
Mehran. “It has provided valuable insight into DIA’s exhibition art submission process and has given was assassinated, the Nobel
these Masters of Fine Arts students a new direction in thinking about professional practice and the Peace Prize laureate told the
desire for involvement with large and diverse audiences.” assemblage that as a people
Soriano chose DU’s eMAD program because it allows students to pursue their own interests. and a nation, “We all go up
“DU works with each student individually in order for us to follow what we are really passionate together, or we all go down
about, which creates a wonderful diversity between the graduate students.” together,” according to an
“No Place Like Home” is located outside of the airport’s secure areas and is open to the public. article in the Clarion.
—Kristal Griffith
Morgridge College receives $10 million gift Recycling by the
The University of Denver’s Morgridge College of Education received a $10 million gift from Numbers
James “Jim” Cox Kennedy (BSBA ’70) to create the James C. Kennedy Institute for Educational Suc-
cess. The gift, made in part through the Denver Foundation, will endow three faculty chairs and a 3,000
program/research endowment in the college. The number of recycling bins distributed
The Kennedy Institute will seek to identify innovative and cost-effective means for promot-
ing and sustaining the educational success of vulnerable children—from early childhood through
across campus as part of DU’s new “Get
postsecondary education. Caught Green Handed” program
“The Morgridge College is undergoing a major transition, one that will position it to play a
catalytic role in the resolution of major educational issues our society faces, from early childhood
education to K-12 reform to access and affordability issues in higher education,” says Chancellor 20 tons
Robert Coombe. Number of tons of material recycled in
In creating the institute, the gift establishes the James C. Kennedy Endowment for Educational
Success and endowed chairs in early childhood learning, urban education and innovative learning
September 2008, the first month of the
technologies. new program
Kennedy is the CEO of Cox Enterprises, which owns 17 newspapers, 80 radio stations and
15 television stations. He’s a past member of DU’s Board of Trustees.
—Jim Berscheidt 50 tons
Number of tons of recycled material DU
has set as a monthly goal
6
Number of DU employees who collect all
that material for recycling
Compiled by Alfredo Abad, director of custodial services
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Grad student dies from carbon Some drivers may be green
monoxide poisoning with (parking) envy
The University of Denver is mourning the loss of 23-year-old graduate student Move that Suburban
Lauren Johnson, who died Jan. 5 of carbon monoxide poisoning at her off-campus over. There’s no parking
apartment. here for that Hummer.
Johnson’s Josephine Place apartment, located at 2035 S. Josephine St., is just east “The University
of the DU campus; it is not owned by the University. of Denver has designed
Carbon monoxide was at lethal levels inside the apartment, according to the a pilot program designat-
Denver Fire Department, who said a faulty furnace exhaust pipe was to blame. ing 12 premium parking
Johnson was a first-year graduate student from Vancouver, Wash., studying human spots in the E parking
rights at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies. garage (off High Street
At a campus service Jan. 9, Johnson’s professors and colleagues praised her passion next to Nagel Hall) as
for human rights, in particular her desire to help battered women and children from parking for environmen-
around the world. tally friendly vehicles only.
“She was a living expression of human rights,” said international law professor The vehicles allowed to
Claude d’Estree. park there must be certi-
Read more about Johnson at www.du.edu/today. fied “green” by the Coun-
— Media Relations Staff cil for an Energy Efficient Economy, which considers fuel
mileage and other factors such as the materials used in
construction.”
“What we hope is this encourages the use of
energy efficient and LEED endorsed vehicles by offering
what we think of as the premium parking places — the
spots that fill up first every morning,” says Parking Ser-
vices Manager Buddy Knox.
The designation should work in a few ways, Knox
says. First, it rewards commuters who purchased cars
with the environment in mind. Second, it can serve as
a reminder to those who aren’t driving fuel-efficient
cars that when it comes time to get a new vehicle,
DU encourages motorists to think of the environment
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and Persian teas. They hope to have live music on weekends but will not serve alcohol.
Aroma is at 2017 S. University Blvd. near the southwest corner of Asbury Avenue. For
more information call 720-570-1900.
DU will be part of Denver’s The lineup of places near campus with sports themes continues to expand with Univer-
new bike sharing project sity Sports Grill, a newcomer to the 1975-era building at 2442 S. University Blvd., previously
occupied by Cherry Hills Cleaners.
The cleaners relocated to the west side of University Boulevard, giving Sports Grill
Starting this summer, the University of Denver
co-owners Dave Seubert and Lyle Wilson a chance to create a cozy neighborhood-style gather-
will be part of a new citywide bike sharing initiative
ing spot on the east bank between Harvard and Wesley avenues. The grill offers sandwiches,
announced Jan. 14 by Denver Mayor John Hicken-
burgers and Mexican fare, but its specialty is Italian, Seubert says.
looper and community partners.
The signature dish is the calzone, he says, which comes in meatball, sausage, combination
The “Denver B-Cycle” project will distribute
or vegetarian.
500 bikes at 30–40 kiosks across the city. Most will
“We make everything from scratch — pasta, sauces, bread,” Seubert says.
be in the downtown area, but thanks to efforts by
There’s even a $7 blue-plate special that varies daily and is actually served on blue plates as
the All Undergraduate Student Association (AUSA)
diners in the 1920s once did.
and member Zoee Turrill, the DU campus is
Hours are 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. daily. For information or take-out orders, call
expected to host two of the kiosks, both located
720-920-9611.
near student residence halls.
The effort will be managed by a new nonprofit, —Richard Chapman
Denver Bike Sharing, and funded with a $1 million
startup gift from the Denver 2008 Convention Host
Committee. DU takes on other universities in recycling
Although Denver is one of the first cities in the
country to launch such a comprehensive program, challenge
Turrill says her research shows cities across Europe
have wildly successful programs. Paris, for example, For the next few months, the big blue recycling bins spread across campus will give stu-
has some 1,500 kiosks and 20,000 bikes in circula- dents, faculty and staff a chance to extend the University of Denver’s friendly rivalry with Colo-
tion. rado College.
Turrill and others on the AUSA sustainability “We are really excited about RecycleMania,” says MJ O’Malley, head of the All Undergradu-
committee began looking for a way to encourage ate Student Association’s Sustainability Committee. “It gives us another chance to beat CC.”
bike riding last fall. She says many students she talked RecycleMania, a nationwide recycling contest between 345 universities and states, began
with had been to Europe under DU’s Cherrington in mid-January and goes through March 28. The goal is to reduce waste, increase recycling and
Global Scholars program and had seen viable bike raise awareness of DU’s growing push toward sustainability.
sharing programs and wanted something similar The contest began in 2001 as a friendly competition between Ohio and Miami universi-
back home. ties and has grown each year as more universities across the nation strive for sustainability. The
Under the plan — still in development — fre- College and University Recycling Council, which runs the annual competition, reports that 80
quent users will sign up for memberships; infrequent percent of participating institutions see an increase in recycling collection during and after the
users can use a credit card to check bikes out. Bor- contest.
rowers swipe their card at a kiosk, which will un- The competition has several categories, all aimed at reducing a university’s waste stream.
lock a bike. Riders can drop the bike off at any kiosk Institutions win by having the best recycling rate as a percentage of total waste — by collecting
in town. The bikes will be free for short, half-hour the largest amount of paper, cardboard, bottles and cans in total or per person, or by producing
trips, with a nominal fee for longer usage. the least amount of solid waste.
—Chase Squires —Dave Brendsel
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Making history
John Carver recalls JFK inauguration
File
ooking back at Jan. 20, 1961, John Carver knew he had a good seat for a
great speech. He didn’t realize he was a witness to history.
Carver, professor emeritus at the University of Denver Sturm College of
Law, has seen a lot in his 90 years. As the nation prepared in January for Barack
Obama’s historical inauguration, Carver recalled that one particularly freezing
cold day when he was took his place on the stage as John F. Kennedy gave his
now-famous inauguration speech.
As Kennedy urged Americans to “ask not what your country can do for
you; ask what you can do for your country,” Carver was just a few feet away as
the newly named assistant secretary of the interior for the incoming Kennedy
administration.
“It’s hard to separate what you know now from what you knew then, but we
knew then — as we know now — there was something pretty special about this
candidate, John F. Kennedy, how he captured the crowds,” Carver says. “I heard
the speech as everybody else did. Whether I knew that we’d be talking about it 50
years later, I doubt. But I knew it was more than just a passing speech.”
Carver, who earned a law degree from Georgetown University in 1947, had
worked in private practice and served as assistant attorney general for the state
of Idaho and as an administrative assistant to U.S. Sen. Frank Church of Idaho
before he was recruited to head the Kennedy campaign in Michigan.
“They asked me what I knew about Michigan. I told them nothing,” Carver
recalls. “They said, ‘You’re perfect.’ They didn’t want any problems in what was a
very divided party at the time.”
Carver recalls his time in the campaign and the busy days leading up to
the post-election transition from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Kennedy in a video
produced with law Professor Don Smith. Carver and Smith have been working on a series of video presentations, uploaded to the Internet,
that offers a first-person account of history. “After that long [election] night when we were waiting on results from Michigan and Illinois
to come in, and Kennedy had his squeaky, squeaky victory, it wasn’t but a few days after that there was a transition from campaign mode
to transition mode,” Carver says on the video. “A sudden realization hit everyone that now that he was elected, he had to do something to
get prepared for running the country.”
Carver says there may be some similarities between Kennedy’s election and the election of Obama. Both represent times of great
transition. And in both cases, Carver says there is a national sense of anticipation and great expectation.
But the transition itself, he says, is likely very different. Back in 1960 and 1961, things were less formal. Background checks weren’t
as strict and political appointments were handled on a personal basis, with jobs assembled in what was called the “Plum Book.” Today’s
transition team likely has to deal with many, many more positions and many times the number of applicants, all facing strict and lengthy
vetting.
Carver recalls the 1961 transition vividly, rattling off the names of those considered for key posts in the new administration. And he
remembers renting a tuxedo for the inaugural ball the night before the big day, only to be shut in, unable to attend, by a howling snowstorm
that paralyzed the city. As for inauguration day, Carver sat on the stage behind the president, enduring a dreadfully long benediction,
watching poet laureate Robert Frost fumble with his papers in a bitter cold wind, and then, Kennedy’s speech.
“I remember it was a moving, inspiring kind of thing,” Carver says in his video recollection.
Eventually, Carver ended up as assistant secretary of the interior for public land management. In 1965, under President Johnson, he
was promoted to under secretary of the interior, and in 1966 he accepted a post as commissioner on the Federal Power Commission, where
he served until 1972, leaving to teach at the University of Denver.
His papers are now part of the collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and museum in Boston.
The video can be found at www.law.du.edu.
—Chase Squires
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Alumnus is therapist turned tea master
In 2000, Greg Fellman (MSW ’98) had been serving as a therapist to sex offenders
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for two years when he hit burnout.
“I wanted to get as far away from sex offenders as possible,” he says.
In March 2001, Fellman moved to China, where he began teaching English to adults.
While there, he honed his practice of tai chi, an ancient meditative exercise, which in turn
led him to discover a new passion: tea.
“We practiced martial arts, drank tea, practiced, drank tea,” he says. “It became a
part of my lifestyle.”
It helped that Fellman was living in Hangzhou, a city outside Shanghai that is famous
for its Dragonwell green tea.
After two years in China, Fellman returned and opened his own psychotherapy clinic,
but he continued to study tea. He ordered rare leaves from China and stayed on top of
the industry by reading and talking to tea aficionados.
Then, last year, he took a tea leap-of-faith. He opened Seven Cups Denver Chinese
Teas at 1882 South Pearl St. He says he’s been thrilled with the community response.
“Tea lovers, the real aficionados, are finding me,” says Fellman. “For example, Puer
tea is not really well known outside of China, but I have people coming in and asking for
it.”
Colleen Attoma-Mathews (MSW ’98) has known Fellman for 12 years and says this
new business makes sense for him on many levels.
“Greg is a definitely a people person,” she says. “He’s very social and very good at
introducing new things to people. The tea house is a nice culmination of who Greg is.”
Seven Cups is a traditional Chinese tea house and carries Oolong, green, Puer,
white, black and scented Chinese teas. Fellman holds free tea tastings every Friday at
3 p.m., including traditional tea ceremonies.
He says that one of his goals in opening the shop was to educate the public about
high-quality Chinese teas.
“Denver doesn’t have anything like this,” he says. “We think of ourselves as a multicul-
tural city, a big city, but we’re missing out if we don’t experience teas and places like this.”
—Janalee Card Chmel
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Immigration issue is subject of Scholar award winner sets sights
DU panel probe on human rights
As a University of Denver panel began its yearlong Micheline Ishay gets thank you notes
study of immigration, experts warned panel members of from people living in war zones.
the difficulty they face crafting policies that are more practical “They write me for having inspired
than political. them. There is nothing more rewarding than
“I think the dishonesty about this issue is killing us,” said that,” says Ishay, a professor in the Josef Kor-
U.S. Attorney Troy Eid. “Let’s just grow up on this issue.” bel School of International Studies.
The panel, part of the University’s Strategic Issues Pro- She’s also the winner of the 2007–08
gram (SIP), heard Jan. 7 from immigration author and Yale Distinguished Scholar Award, given
law Professor Peter Schuck. On Jan. 8, panel members heard annually by the University of Denver for
presentations by Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, significant achievement in scholarship through
Eid and local immigration attorney Ann Allott. publications and classroom teaching.
The panel will hear from more than 30 local and na- One reason for the award is her book, The History of Human Rights: From Ancient
tional immigration experts this spring before deliberating this Times to the Era of Globalization (University of California Press, 2004), which is used
summer to form a consensus on immigration policy reform. widely in universities around the globe.
A final report is expected before the end of the year. “It’s exciting to see the book translated into languages I will never be able to read,”
There are at least 12 million illegal immigrants in the she says. “Yet the most heartwarming feeling is when the people living in war zones or
U.S. and more than 200,000 entering each year, said Schuck, under repressive regimes write to thank me,” she says.
a nationally recognized immigration expert. He told panel She says her interest in human rights can be traced to her upbringing. She grew up
members that there was no way to stop the influx of people in Israel and says the “relentless conflicting national aspirations of two peoples” strength-
entering the country illegally and that efforts to enforce ened her human rights worldview.
immigration laws have been sporadic and ineffective. Later, she studied at the European School in Germany and Belgium, where she
Suthers said immigration is a federal issue with serious says she learned of a “new Europe,” one of integration “that would transcend the rival
impacts on state and local government. Colorado’s state and nationalisms” that had culminated in two world wars. “That experience further deep-
county criminal justice systems spend about $80 million a ened my understanding of universal values,” she says.
year prosecuting and jailing criminals from outside the U.S., Korbel School Dean Tom Farer says Ishay helps make the Josef Korbel School
he said. The majority of cases, he said, come from Mexican “arguably the leader in human rights studies among all of the country’s professional
drug cartels and criminals reentering the U.S. multiple times. schools of international affairs.”
He called for greater border security, a reasonable guest How hopeful is she that nations can improve human rights?
worker program and implementation of a national identifica- “It would be foolish not to feel some trepidation born of past tragedy. At the same
tion card to track illegal aliens. time, we need to be guided by optimism based on the reality of enormous progress in
>> www.du.edu/issues the effort to advance universal human rights. On balance, I am an optimist.”
—Dave Brendsel —Doug McPherson
provides greater stability than a two-wheeled Segway, and the T3’s zero-degree turn radius
makes it more maneuverable than a golf cart.
—Samantha Stewart
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