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Volume XXXIV, Number 24
University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
May 4, 2005
hemistry professor
new onstantin dean
Student in tofe 100
by Heather O'Connell
Contributing Writer
Dr. Charles Eaker, chemistry
department chair, will assume the
position of Constantin College
dean July 1, Dr. Frank Lazarus,
UD president, said.
"Dr. Eaker has excellent lead-
ership skills; he is an experienced
member of the faculty who has the
respect of all his colleagues. He is
a very well organized and efficient
person, an articulate speaker, and
has an excellent record as faculty
senate chair," Lazarus said.
As dean,
Eaker hopes to
continue this
heavy involve-
ment among
faculty and his
relationships
with students.
A dean's
administrative
meetings are
an opportunity for a better un-
derstanding of the goings-on at
the university and for a broader
perspective, Eaker said.
These meetings and the dean's
other responsibilities leave Eaker
Dr. Charles
Eaker
time to teach only one class next
fall, physical chemistry. Eaker said
he will miss the involvement with
students in the classroom.
"I will particularly miss teach-
ing the freshman classes. To over-
come some of the loss of this
student contact, I intend to attend
more student presentations, per-
formances, athletic events, student
government meetings, than I have
in the past," he said.
Because of this care for students
and concern for faculty and staff,
Eaker wants to help UD and each
of its members reach their goals.
One such institutional goal
Eaker would like to see UD fulfill
is an increase in enrollment in
Constantin College.
"I want the number of students
in Constantin College to grow,
not just because we need the
money but because we offer an
Outstanding education; and I want
more students to benefit from it,"
he said.
Attracting new students to UD
while sustaining current student
enrollment is an obstacle in the
way of this goal. Eaker, however,
is confident UD will continue to
excite students as their lives are
transformed by their education.
"This is a place of learning.
I like this definition of learn-
ing—the ability to do something
that you could never do before.
In learning we re-create ourselves.
Who wouldn't want to be a part
of that?" he said.
Eaker wants to help students
fulfill their individual goals. He
not only wants to help students
win national awards but also
wants to personalize advising.
"I would like our advising to be
more of'what do you want to do
with your life and how can UD
help get you there?' and less of
'what are you going to take next
semester?"' he said.
Eaker plans to accomplish
these goals with the combined
efforts of Dr. James Whittington,
College of Business dean; Dr.
James Klassen, assistant provost;
and Lazarus.
Dr. Frank Doe, Eaker's prede-
cessor, is confident about leaving
the position in Eaker's hands.
"I expect that he will do a won-
derful job as Constantin Dean,"
he said.
V* Ryan Gorman, UD
/ doctoral student and
Texas native, finished
in the top 100 out of
'/ ' 20,000 competitors at
the 109th Annual Bos-
H| ton Marathon April
[|l 18. He finished the
Hi 26.2 mile course with
a time of 2:39:48.
Ethiopian Hailu
Negussie finished first
with a time of 2:11:45.
The first American
was Alan Culpepper
from Colorado who
; fnished fourth with
/■ About the race,
Gorman said, "It was
an amazing experi-
ence. It was by far the
most difficult physical
thing that I have done
in my life.;,..when I
crossed the finish line,
I was filled with great
MS joy and a sense of ac-
I complishment."
courtesy Teresa Gorman
Five professors to leave university
by Lincy George
News Editor
At the end of the semester, five
professors will leave UD at least
temporarily
Dr. John Norris, associate
theology professor, will spend a
year teaching at Jesuit College
Preparatory high school.
Father Jerome Walsh, theology
professor, is retiring.
Dr. Bill Germann, biology
department chair, plans to com-
plete a master's degree in public
health with a concentration in
biostatistics.
Dr. Sarah Byers, assistant phi-
losophy professor, has taken a job
elsewhere.
The elimination of the com-
puter science major at UD has
led Dr. Walker White, assistant
mathematics professor, to pursuse
his long term career goals else-
where; he has accepted a position
at Cornell University.
Norris has been at UD for 14
years and besides teaching theol-
ogy, served as Rome Director
1993-95 and theology depart-
ment chair 2000-04. He wants to
experience teaching theology in a
Jesuit environment.
"I think I will be more at home
with its more inclusive Catholic
identity. My Ph.D. is from Mar-
quette University, a Jesuit institu-
tion. I honor the Jesuit approach to
education and theological forma-
tion. UD in the late 1980s began
to emphasize that we were a 'real'
Catholic university, and to define
ourselves...as a school where we
are distinguished primarily by
our fidelity to the magisterium...
I hat is not my understanding of
my own intellectual heritage as a
UD alum, nor do I think it should
be the defining mark of our great
institution...this emphasis upon
magisterial fidelity [has] a strong,
stultifying influence upon the in-
tellectual and spiritual life of the
university," he said.
Depending on how a year at
the Jesuit high school goes, Nor-
ris will decide whether or not to
return to UD.
See Professors, page 3
Lazarus, Antonelli to speak at graduation
by Monica Tomutsa
and Lincy George
Contributing Writer
and News Editor
Dr. Frank Lazarus, UD presi-
dent, and senior Jamie Antonelli,
physics major, will speak at gradu-
ation May 15.
As three other senior choices
for graduation speaker refused
invitations to speak, as this year
is Lazarus' first as president, and
as commencement will celebrate
UD's golden jubilee; he agreed
to be the graduation speaker,
Lazarus said.
"At first, I thought it immod-
est for the president to deliver the
commencement speech at his own
school. [But] I spoke with a [few]
faculty members and a student
leader, all of whom thought it was
a good idea," he said.
To ensure the junior class gets
the speaker of its choice for gradu-
ation, Lazarus asked junior class
representatives to begin planning
with him before the year ends.
Antonelli won the election
for senior class valedictorian last
week.
"I still am trying to figure out
how to deal with being chosen.
I want to accept it mentally and
psychologically, but not let it go to
my head at the same time. I'm try-
ing to think 'what does it mean to
be valedictorian and why did these
people choose me?' and I don't re-
ally know. But it's a responsibility,
and I'm going to give a darn good
speech," he said.
The previous two years, a phi-
losophy major and politics major
won the valedictorian election;
Antonelli said he does not see sci-
ence majors winning the election
as significant.
"I'm excited that a science
major won, but I wouldn't have
been mad if another major won.
We work hard, but other people
work hard, too. Every time I meet
people and tell them I'm a phys-
ics major, they say, 'Oh you must
be smart'; but I could never be
an English major: my brain does
not work that way. So to each his
own," he said.
Antonelli has begun research-
ing for his speech.
"I've been thinking a lot about
[what to say in my speech]. I know
that it has to be short and funny.
That's what everyone's been telling
me. I feel as if I have something
to say, but I have to work it out
of my head. I'm talking to many
See Graduation, page 3
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