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  • Crossover Genres, Syncretic Form: Understanding Mozart's Concert Aria "Ch'io mi scordi di te," K. 505, as a Link between Piano Concerto and Opera
    The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2018
    Co-Authors: Ayres, Michelle Elizabeth
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    Mozart’s concert aria Ch’io mi scordi di te K. 505 bridges the genres of piano concerto and Opera seria aria by combining elements of sonata rondo, sonata concerto, and ritornello. Mozart’s experimentation with Classical form emerging in the late eighteenth-century is characterized by unique transitions and retransitions, surprising modulations to secondary keys, and polarization of tonic and dominant tonalities. K. 505, a two-tempo rondo for soprano with piano obbligato, is the only one of its type in Mozart’s oeuvre and shares many of the same ritornello form and dialogue between the soloist and the orchestra found in Mozart’s piano concerti. Composed as a duet for himself, an accomplished pianist, and his close friend Nancy Storace, a highly regarded Opera Singer, as part of her farewell concert in Vienna, K. 505 highlights their virtuosic abilities celebrating artistic kinship. After establishing the historic contexts for its composition, this study applies the theories and models developed by James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy (2006), Martha Feldman and Rosa Cafiero (1993), John Irving (2003), and Simon P. Keefe (2001) in order to analyze K. 505 as a work in a composite genre utilizing compositional techniques later associated with more conventional applications of sonata-form. K. 505 is one of several compositions rooted in Mozart’s tonally adventurous Idomeneo (1781/1786). An analytical comparison of K. 505 with related works—the concert aria Non piu tutto ascoltai…non temer amato bene K. 490 for soprano and violin obbligato, a replacement aria in the revised Idomeneo (1786) and the Viennese piano concerto no. 25 in C Major K. 503 (1786) demonstrate how Mozart’s syncretic genres played a part in the creation and expansion of the maturing conventions of sonata-form in the late eighteenth-century

  • Crossover genres, syncretic form: understanding Mozart’s concert aria “Ch’io mi scordi di te,” K. 505, as a link between piano concerto and Opera
    2018
    Co-Authors: Ayres, Michelle Elizabeth, Nc Docks At The University Of North Carolina At Greensboro
    Abstract:

    Mozart’s concert aria Ch’io mi scordi di te K. 505 bridges the genres of piano concerto and Opera seria aria by combining elements of sonata rondo, sonata concerto, and ritornello. Mozart’s experimentation with Classical form emerging in the late eighteenth-century is characterized by unique transitions and retransitions, surprising modulations to secondary keys, and polarization of tonic and dominant tonalities. K. 505, a two-tempo rondo for soprano with piano obbligato, is the only one of its type in Mozart’s oeuvre and shares many of the same ritornello form and dialogue between the soloist and the orchestra found in Mozart’s piano concerti. Composed as a duet for himself, an accomplished pianist, and his close friend Nancy Storace, a highly regarded Opera Singer, as part of her farewell concert in Vienna, K. 505 highlights their virtuosic abilities celebrating artistic kinship. After establishing the historic contexts for its composition, this study applies the theories and models developed by James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy (2006), Martha Feldman and Rosa Cafiero (1993), John Irving (2003), and Simon P. Keefe (2001) in order to analyze K. 505 as a work in a composite genre utilizing compositional techniques later associated with more conventional applications of sonata-form. K. 505 is one of several compositions rooted in Mozart’s tonally adventurous Idomeneo (1781/1786). An analytical comparison of K. 505 with related works – the concert aria Non piu tutto ascoltai…non temer amato bene K. 490 for soprano and violin obbligato, a replacement aria in the revised Idomeneo (1786) and the Viennese piano concerto no. 25 in C Major K. 503 (1786) demonstrate how Mozart’s syncretic genres played a part in the creation and expansion of the maturing conventions of sonata-form in the late eighteenth-century

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  • Crossover genres, syncretic form: understanding Mozart’s concert aria “Ch’io mi scordi di te,” K. 505, as a link between piano concerto and Opera
    2018
    Co-Authors: Ayres, Michelle Elizabeth, Nc Docks At The University Of North Carolina At Greensboro
    Abstract:

    Mozart’s concert aria Ch’io mi scordi di te K. 505 bridges the genres of piano concerto and Opera seria aria by combining elements of sonata rondo, sonata concerto, and ritornello. Mozart’s experimentation with Classical form emerging in the late eighteenth-century is characterized by unique transitions and retransitions, surprising modulations to secondary keys, and polarization of tonic and dominant tonalities. K. 505, a two-tempo rondo for soprano with piano obbligato, is the only one of its type in Mozart’s oeuvre and shares many of the same ritornello form and dialogue between the soloist and the orchestra found in Mozart’s piano concerti. Composed as a duet for himself, an accomplished pianist, and his close friend Nancy Storace, a highly regarded Opera Singer, as part of her farewell concert in Vienna, K. 505 highlights their virtuosic abilities celebrating artistic kinship. After establishing the historic contexts for its composition, this study applies the theories and models developed by James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy (2006), Martha Feldman and Rosa Cafiero (1993), John Irving (2003), and Simon P. Keefe (2001) in order to analyze K. 505 as a work in a composite genre utilizing compositional techniques later associated with more conventional applications of sonata-form. K. 505 is one of several compositions rooted in Mozart’s tonally adventurous Idomeneo (1781/1786). An analytical comparison of K. 505 with related works – the concert aria Non piu tutto ascoltai…non temer amato bene K. 490 for soprano and violin obbligato, a replacement aria in the revised Idomeneo (1786) and the Viennese piano concerto no. 25 in C Major K. 503 (1786) demonstrate how Mozart’s syncretic genres played a part in the creation and expansion of the maturing conventions of sonata-form in the late eighteenth-century

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  • ‘Ma chère petite Aïno.’ : The Role of a Paris Conservatoire Singing Professor as Architect of an Opera Singer’s Career, as Seen through Letters of Edmond Duvernoy and Aïno Ackté
    Russian Institute of Art History & Cultural Ministry of the Russian Federation, 2021
    Co-Authors: Tyrväinen Helena
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    «Ma chère petite Aïno». The Role of a Paris Conservatoire Singing Professor as Architect of an Opera Singer’s Career, as Seen through Letters of Edmond Duvernoy and Aïno Ackté Helena Tyrväinen Abstract. The manuscript collection of Opera Singer Aino (Aïno) Ackté-Jalander (1876–1944) in the National Library of Finland, Helsinki, contains one of the most extensive collections of letters of any Finnish music professional. Besides documenting the solid international standing of this talented citizen of the Grand Duchy during the latter part of the Russian imperial era, it casts light on Parisian Opera culture and on the dynamic internationalization of Finnish musical life taking place at the time. While Ackté is also remembered for her successful initiatives in Finland’s national musical culture, she appears in this article first and foremost as an international Opera diva. In their quest for professionalism and success, European musicians at the turn of the 20th century worked in a changing international environment established in several attractive cultural and musical centres. In this context I observe the formation of the career of one of Finland’s most successful music professionals in its relation to a dynamic powerfield of many contemporaneous but different cultural capitals (Christoph Charle), a powerfield under constant transformation.The principal source material for this study includes the 117 letters, cards, or notes that Aïno Ackté’s voice teacher Edmond Duvernoy (1844–1927) wrote to her over a period of about thirty years; Ackté’s letters to Duvernoy remain undiscovered. Duvernoy’s letters offer information on the strategy for a successful Opera career in the Parisian context. This correspondence unveils a dynamic network Operating behind the Parisian Opera machine, and thus depicts a star Singer’s mastery of her own career as only relative. It is along these lines that I investigate the specific local and cultural conditions behind the formation of Ackté’s singing career. A Singer’s success in Paris did not necessarily guarantee her a favoured position in other Opera centres. Duvernoy’s letters also shed light on the interaction and rivalry of the Opéra with other important Opera houses, and in particular with New York’s Metropolitan Opera. It may reasonably be claimed that Paris shaped Ackté as an artist. At a time when no institutional Operatic activity existed in Finland, she undertook her vocal studies at Paris’s famous Conservatoire in 1894–1897, and was subsequently engaged as a soloist at the Opéra in 1897– 1904. In 1900, at the age of 24, she was the Opéra’s most highly paid female Singer. She also enjoyed a remarkable international career outside Paris, but nowhere else did she gain an equally stable long-term status. After 1913 she appeared no more in foreign Opera houses. The letters of Duvernoy to Ackté reveal that in Paris the singing teacher’s pivotal position as vocal coach, répétiteur, guardian, and contact person vis-à-vis the Opera institution continued uninterrupted throughout a Singer’s professional life. The teacher negotiated with Opera directors to find engagements that would match a student’s role type; yet in fact, Ackté was soon to experience ingénue roles, which frequently were assigned to her, as artistically restrictive

  • ‘Ma chère petite Aïno.’ : The Role of a Paris Conservatoire Singing Professor as Architect of an Opera Singer’s Career, as Seen through Letters of Edmond Duvernoy and Aïno Ackté
    Russian Institute of Art History & Cultural Ministry of the Russian Federation, 2021
    Co-Authors: Tyrväinen Helena
    Abstract:

    «Ma chère petite Aïno». The Role of a Paris Conservatoire Singing Professor as Architect of an Opera Singer’s Career, as Seen through Letters of Edmond Duvernoy and Aïno Ackté Helena Tyrväinen Abstract. The manuscript collection of Opera Singer Aino (Aïno) Ackté-Jalander (1876–1944) in the National Library of Finland, Helsinki, contains one of the most extensive collections of letters of any Finnish music professional. Besides documenting the solid international standing of this talented citizen of the Grand Duchy during the latter part of the Russian imperial era, it casts light on Parisian Opera culture and on the dynamic internationalization of Finnish musical life taking place at the time. While Ackté is also remembered for her successful initiatives in Finland’s national musical culture, she appears in this article first and foremost as an international Opera diva. In their quest for professionalism and success, European musicians at the turn of the 20th century worked in a changing international environment established in several attractive cultural and musical centres. In this context I observe the formation of the career of one of Finland’s most successful music professionals in its relation to a dynamic powerfield of many contemporaneous but different cultural capitals (Christoph Charle), a powerfield under constant transformation.The principal source material for this study includes the 117 letters, cards, or notes that Aïno Ackté’s voice teacher Edmond Duvernoy (1844–1927) wrote to her over a period of about thirty years; Ackté’s letters to Duvernoy remain undiscovered. Duvernoy’s letters offer information on the strategy for a successful Opera career in the Parisian context. This correspondence unveils a dynamic network Operating behind the Parisian Opera machine, and thus depicts a star Singer’s mastery of her own career as only relative. It is along these lines that I investigate the specific local and cultural conditions behind the formation of Ackté’s singing career. A Singer’s success in Paris did not necessarily guarantee her a favoured position in other Opera centres. Duvernoy’s letters also shed light on the interaction and rivalry of the Opéra with other important Opera houses, and in particular with New York’s Metropolitan Opera. It may reasonably be claimed that Paris shaped Ackté as an artist. At a time when no institutional Operatic activity existed in Finland, she undertook her vocal studies at Paris’s famous Conservatoire in 1894–1897, and was subsequently engaged as a soloist at the Opéra in 1897– 1904. In 1900, at the age of 24, she was the Opéra’s most highly paid female Singer. She also enjoyed a remarkable international career outside Paris, but nowhere else did she gain an equally stable long-term status. After 1913 she appeared no more in foreign Opera houses. The letters of Duvernoy to Ackté reveal that in Paris the singing teacher’s pivotal position as vocal coach, répétiteur, guardian, and contact person vis-à-vis the Opera institution continued uninterrupted throughout a Singer’s professional life. The teacher negotiated with Opera directors to find engagements that would match a student’s role type; yet in fact, Ackté was soon to experience ingénue roles, which frequently were assigned to her, as artistically restrictive.Peer reviewe

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  • The Reporter, August 2014
    Hunter Library Digital Collections Western Carolina University Cullowhee NC 28723;, 2017
    Co-Authors: Western Carolina University
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    The Reporter is a publication produced by Western Carolina University featuring news, events, and campus community updates for faculty and staff. The publication began in August of 1970 and continues digitally today. Click on the link in the “Related Materials” field to access recent issues.SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 20, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS Area film lovers find much to love in first annual Best of Controlled Chaos Film Festival A full house of 150 film lovers laughed, cried and cheered student-created films in the Best of Controlled Chaos Film Festival held Sunday, Aug. 17, at the Country Club of Sapphire Valley on the Cashiers-Highlands Plateau. The event showcased the best of Western Carolina University student films from its Film and Television Production Program’s annual, campus-based Controlled Chaos Film Festival. The movie lineup included almost 90 minutes of film, including two 20-minute senior project films – “Jerry,” a comedy about a homeless man who returns to haunt the politician who killed him, which won the 2013 Asheville Cinema Festival Best Student Film Award, and “Strigoii,” a horror film that was screened in the 2009 Sitges Film Festival, one of the world’s top-tier festivals for horror and fantasy. Student filmmakers were on hand to share with the audience the types of films they make and the challenges pertaining to each one. A number of the documentaries – “Face Jugs,” “Sheep to Shawl” and “The Moving Wall” – were filmed locally with interviews from area residents. Students in WCU’s School of Stage and Screen write, direct, act, film, edit and produce the films as well as incorporate musical compositions created by students in the Commercial and Electronic Music Program and title sequences developed in the School of Art and Design. Marcia Shawler, director of Mountain Youth Charities and honorary chair of the festival, cited her positive experience with the WCU Film and Television Production Program in making “A Mountain Challenge,” a promotional film for her organization, as her reason for wanting to bring the student films to the area and draw attention to the WCU program. “The reasons we are here tonight are simple. We want to introduce you to the WCU film program, we want to share the great work the students are doing and we want to have a bunch of fun doing what we love to do – watch movies!” she said. WCU Chancellor David Belcher, on hand to address the audience, cited WCU’s Film and Television Production Program as an emerging program attracting national attention. In 2013, Sony awarded the film program a $100,000 state-of-the-art, high-definition camera. WCU’s film program was one of only 11 across the nation to receive the special honor and the only one in the Southeast. Proceeds and funds raised during the evening will support “wish list” essential equipment needs or senior project films, which are 20- minute, fully-produced features that simulate a professional experience for the students and serves as the capstone experience of their WCU training. Films take a year to write, produce, film and edit, include all FTP students with project crews sometimes numbering 50 to 60 people and cost an average of $5,000 to produce. As part of their education in the film business, students have to raise the funds to finance these films. “That’s a chunk of change, and as a college student, the stereotypes are true – we’re all broke!” said Andrew Dyson, recent graduate of the FTP program and producer of the film “Jerry.” “But we believe in these films so much that we just make it happen.” Wesley Wofford, local resident, sculptor and Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated special effects makeup artist who most recently applied prosthetic makeup for Robert DeNiro in “Grudge Match,” called the WCU films “impressive” and “exciting.” “What these kids can do with $5,000 is amazing – $5,000 wouldn’t get you a call in Hollywood,” said Wofford. Kasey Summers, a WCU film student slated to produce a senior project film this academic year, spoke on behalf of her fellow film students. “You have no idea how much this means to us,” said Summers. “We are so happy you love our films, and to have your support in helping to make them? That is beyond words. Thank you.” For more information about the WCU Film and Television Production Program, contact Jack Sholder, program director, at 828-227-2324 or jsholder@wcu.edu. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond the Glass Matrix 5/29/2017 Water Portraits: Barbara Tyroler 6/9/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' 6/10/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 20, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | Gary Kachadourian, Forest/City (mock-up), 2014, courtesy of the artist TOP STORIES Artist Gary Kachadourian’s “Forest/City” to fill gallery at WCU Fine Art Museum An installation by artist Gary Kachadourian that “re-manufactures” the great outdoors overtaking an urban environment will inhabit the entire main gallery and part of the lobby of the Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University starting Thursday, Aug. 21. Kachadourian’s “Forest/City,” designed specifically for the FAM, will open that day in conjunction with a reception and ArtTalk by the Baltimore-based artist. The artist talk will begin at 5 p.m. in Room 130 of the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center next to the lobby of the museum. The reception, artist talk and admission to the FAM to see the installation, which will be open through Friday, Oct. 17, are free and open to the public. Kachadourian offers a home-brewed batch of “absurd realism,” blurring the boundary between maker/creator and machine, said David J. Brown, FAM director and organizer of the exhibit. “In one sense, he’s like a factory worker,” said Brown. “He ‘manufactures’ objects – familiar ones that exist in his mostly urban world of Baltimore, where he lives and works. In another sense, he Operates quite differently from many in the art world by being fully engaged in the documentation and a democratic distribution of most of his works, making them available to almost everyone. He sells small unfolding works and scaled-down versions of his pieces for roughly twice the cost of printing.” For installations such as his upcoming work at the FAM, he starts with a series of detail-oriented pencil drawings and a gallery mock-up. He then prints the various components to create full-size proportioned elements that are installed section-by-section on the museum’s walls and floor. “Visitors will enter the work and be fully surrounded by the environment,” said Brown. Prior to the exhibition at WCU, Kachadourian produced an entire McDonald’s façade, trash dumpsters, traffic barriers, portable toilets, his old Volvo station wagon, the interior of his house and a vacant lot; installed in both interior and exterior spaces. He also recently completed an installation for the Arkansas Art Center’s “12th National Drawing Invitational: Outside the Lines,” a biennial event that seeks to feature some of the most outstanding and innovative artists drawing in America today. Kachadourian also will be discussing his work and critiquing the work of WCU graduate students in the School of Art and Design while on campus. Also opening Aug. 21 at the FAM is “Abstract Autobiography for a Fractured Narrative,” an exhibition of work by Brooklyn’s Rebecca Ringquist. Using found fabric as her grounding base, Ringquist refers to much of her work as “stitched drawings,” the direct hands-on realization of the medium using thread as the lead of the mark-making tool. Occasionally, she incorporates collaged elements or smaller works that find their way into a composition. “These are bulky drawings,” said Brown. “They hold weight lightly and the narrative feels like many distant echos converging, CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT Rebecca Ringquist, Valentine (2012), courtesy of the artist dreamy and song-like.” Ringquist said she loves to “tell love stories and create veiled fractured narratives full of double entendre.” “My work has been inspired of late by the fictional relocation story of the Swiss Family Robinson and my own cross-country move to Brooklyn,” she said “My work is at times careful, contrasted with moments of fast machine-stitched frenzy, expressing implicit and explicit intensities, and alternating between innocence and recklessness.” Brown said Ringquist has a mash-up approach to her compositions. “Image, text, line, color all compete for our attention yet somehow fuse together, offering a rich experience that is closer to reading a mandala than a painting or drawing, suggesting that life is in all of its absurd complexities is rewarding and full,” he said. The exhibit will be available through Friday, Nov. 7. The FAM is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, with extended hours to 7 p.m. on Thursdays. Museum admission and parking, available on both sides of the Bardo Arts Center, are free. For more information about the installation, ArtTalk and reception, contact Brown at djbrown@wcu.edu or 828-227-2553. For general information about the FAM, visit www.wcu.edu/museum online or call 828-227-3591. © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 27, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | Hannah Dansie, Odditorium mural, photo by Zen Sutherland. TOP STORIES Artists to create on-site murals at WCU Fine Art Museum The Fine Art Museum invited four artists to visit WCU to create live-action, on-site murals on four of the museum’s movable, free-standing walls for an exhibit titled “Teetering on the Edge of the Uncanny” that opens Thursday, Sept. 4. The exhibition of work by artists Gus Cutty, Hannah Dansie, Alli Good and Ian Wilkinson opens with a reception honoring them in the FAM on Sept. 4 from 5 to 7 p.m. The event and admission to the museum to see the exhibit, which runs through Friday, Nov. 7, is free and open to the public. David J. Brown, FAM director, said it is nearly impossible “to visit any urban area anywhere in the world without finding examples of street art, both sanctioned and illegal.” “Websites such as the long-standing Wooster Collective and the recent Google Street Art Project serve as roadmaps for accessing some of the more noted examples globally,” said Brown. “The questions that we asked ourselves were: Why not here? How can our students benefit from the artists’ presence? Is there a way that we can also challenge the artists to create something that they have never done before?” The FAM’s four-sided free-standing walls are typically used as additional wall space or as partitions in exhibition design. After the artists complete their work for the “Teetering” exhibit, the wall works will serve as the sole focus of the exhibition, said Brown. “Visitors will circulate around them as one would with sculpture,” he said. Brown also said he envisions the exhibit will be dynamic. “The works will begin a conversation with each other and with our visitors,” he said. Cutty is a designer and muralist who painted rooftops and walls in the South before moving to San Francisco in 2006. Known for his large-scale spray-painted portraits in Asheville, he has devoted himself to the evolution of portrait and the craft of freehand aerosol work. Dansie, an Asheville artist originally from northern California, studied fine art at Central Saint Martins University in London, where she graduated with an honors degree in 2004. She works with a variety of mediums and describes herself as a “painter at heart.” Good has painted pieces for the private collection of members of George Clinton and the P-Funk and designed a tour shirt for the band. Her work has been shown in Asheville, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. She also creates medical illustration, book and magazine illustration, and advertisements. Wilkinson, director of the Asheville Mural Project, graduated from Governor’s School for the Arts, attended Virginia Commonwealth University and was the lead mural artist for the Holocaust Museum of Virginia. He earned a bachelor’s degree in painting from Adams State University in Colorado. He has been the recipient of state and national grants, and currently teaches in the Asheville City Schools system. For more information, visit www.wcu.edu/museum or call 828-227-3591. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 13, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | The Arts Alive @ 125 event will be held Tuesday, Sept. 2. TOP STORIES Arts Alive @ 125 event on Sept. 2 to benefit arts group Western Carolina University’s first couple will host a show celebrating 125 years of the arts at WCU called “Arts Alive @ 125” in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, Sept. 2. Chancellor David O. Belcher, a classically trained concert pianist, and wife Susan Brummell Belcher, a professional Opera Singer and vocal teacher, will host the event and make special appearances. Performers will include students from the School of Music and School of Stage and Screen, the Catamount Singers and Electric Soul, and the WCU dancers. In addition, there will be a special surprise performance. Musical selections will encompass a variety of composers including George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Stephen Sondheim and many more, said Brenda Lilly, director of the show and an assistant professor of stage and screen. “With songs, dance and stories, we will celebrate the 125-year history of the fine and performing arts, including music, dance, theater, film and fine art,” said Lilly. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a reception sponsored by Fusions Spa and Wellness. The benefit concert launches the 2014-15 membership drive for the WCU Friends of the Arts, an organization that helps support the activities of the Bardo Arts Center and all of the university’s academic programs in the arts. Individuals who join or renew membership in the Friends of the Arts for the 2014-15 season at the $50 level or higher by Friday, Aug. 22, may request tickets for two premium reserved seats. Tickets remaining after Aug. 22 will be made available to the public free of charge. Tickets are required for admission to the show. Others assisting with the production include interstitial writer Terry Curtis Fox, associate professor of stage and screen; choreographer Karyn Tomczak, director of WCU’s dance program; and lighting director David Bortle, technical director at Bardo Arts Center. Musical directors are Bruce Frazier, the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Commercial and Electronic Music; Jon Henson, assistant director of the Pride of the Mountains Marching Band; and Katya Stanislavskaya, assistant professor of musical theatre. For more information about WCU’s yearlong 125th anniversary celebration, visit celebrate125.wcu.edu. To become a member of Friends of the Arts, call the Bardo Arts Center box office at 828-227-2479 or visit the website FriendsOfTheArts.wcu.edu. To request tickets, call the box office. By Teresa Killian Tate CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 13, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Bailey presents at institute and symposium Herb Bailey, director of gift planning in the Office of Development, recently presented “Increasing Your ROI: The 3-Part Ask” at the Western North Carolina Association of Fundraising Professionals 2014 Philanthropy Institute held in Flat Rock. He also presented as part of a panel discussing planned giving and major giving partnerships at the University of North Carolina System Advancement Symposium held in Charlotte. In addition, Bailey was recently re-certified as a Certified Fund Raising Executive by CFRE International. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 6, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | TOP STORIES ‘Big Birthday Bash’ to celebrate WCU’s 125th year set for Aug. 26 Western Carolina University is opening the academic year by throwing itself a party in honor of the 125th anniversary of its founding, and all alumni, friends, students, faculty, staff and members of the surrounding community are invited to take part in the festivities. Christened the Big Birthday Bash, the free event is scheduled from 4 until 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, on the A.K. Hinds University Center lawn and the adjoining Central Plaza. The afternoon will include a picnic on the lawn featuring barbecue, hamburgers, veggie burgers, hot dogs, watermelon, funnel cakes, deep-fried goodies, lemonade, tea and – of course – birthday cake. Also on tap will be a variety of old-fashioned games and photo opportunities with props representative of 125 years of WCU history. The tentative schedule includes musical entertainment provided by the Dirty Guv’nahs, and party-goers will be eligible to win a variety of door prizes. Student hosts will be giving guided tours of a walking trail featuring university landmarks and points of historical interest as part of a project by a WCU history class. The university’s Cat-Tran shuttle service will be available to assist in transporting o-campus guests from designated parking areas to the site of the Big Birthday Bash. No pets are allowed, although service animals are welcome. “We want to invite everyone to come out and join us for what we hope will be a very enjoyable afternoon with good food, good music, interesting activities and a time to relax and socialize with other members of the Western Carolina University family,” said Zeta Smith, WCU director of special events who is co-chair of the events committee planning the bash. “It should be fun for everyone of all ages.” The yearlong observance of the 125th anniversary of the founding of the institution began back in January as hundreds of people crowded into the Grandroom of the University Center for a kicko event highlighted by a fashion show of clothing from throughout the university’s history, modeled by students, faculty, staff and community members. The majority of the year’s celebration is designed around traditional highlights of WCU’s annual calendar, such as spring commencement ceremonies, Mountain Heritage Day, the Spring Literary Festival, Homecoming, alumni receptions across the state and the Southeast, and a variety of events in communities across Western North Carolina. The nal quasquicentennial event is set for Friday, Dec. 5, in the Ramsey Center, with music from the Pride of the Mountains Marching Band (which will have just returned from its appearance in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade), refreshments, remarks from the chancellor and special recognition for those who will graduate during the December 2014 commencement (the last graduating class of WCU’s 125th year). For more information about the Aug. 26 Big Birthday Bash, call 828-227-3033. For more information about other 125th anniversary events, visit the website celebrate125.wcu.edu. By Bill Studenc CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 27, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Bruce wins best paper award Richard Bruce, professor emeritus of biology, was bestowed the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists’ 2013 Copeia Best Paper award in herpetology for his article “Size-mediated Tradeoffs in Life-history Traits in Dusky Salamanders.” The article appeared in the society’s scientific journal, Copeia. Among those Bruce acknowledged in the paper for supporting his research were WCU, Highlands Biological Station and Krista Schmidt, associate professor, research and instruction librarian, and science, technology, engineering and mathematics liaison at Hunter Library. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2014 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 13, 2014 Email This Post Print This Post Share | Chancellor David O. Belcher shares remarks at the 2014 Opening Assembly. TOP STORIES Budget cuts, enrollment growth among topics tackled at WCU Opening Assembly The collective

  • The Reporter, August 2012
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    Co-Authors: Western Carolina University
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    The Reporter is a publication produced by Western Carolina University featuring news, events, and campus community updates for faculty and staff. The publication began in August of 1970 and continues digitally today. Click on the link in the “Related Materials” field to access recent issues.SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 21, 2012 Email This Post Print This Post Share | Jay Barber Daniel Burch Arledge Armenaki TOP STORIES Armenaki enlists former students to improve motel’s online presence During his visits to the William and Garland Motel in Salter Path, Arledge Armenaki was intrigued by the family’s willingness to welcome pets into the small, family owned motel. So when manager Peggy Smith asked Armenaki, associate professor of cinematography in WCU’s Motion Picture and Television Production Program, to work on a makeover for the motel’s website, he accepted. Through his Our Town Video company, Armenaki hired WCU alumni Daniel Burch, who graduated in 2012, and Jay Barber, a 2011 graduate, to help create the new website and a promotional video. Smith wanted a video featuring the dogs and their people enjoying the motel and nearby beaches on Bogue Sound and the Atlantic Ocean. Barber, who edited the video, said he relied on skills and professional editing software he had learned to use as a WCU student. It was not dicult to dierentiate the William and Garland motel from its competitors, Barber said. “I focused on the fact that, not only do they allow animals, they make them guests, just like humans,” he said. Burch, who designed the website, said he tried to capture the essence of cozy comfort at the motel by using a lot of warm reds and bright yellows on the web site. Of course, he included the video of sun, surf and seasonal guests. He wanted his design to make visitors feel welcome at this long-established place near the sea. At the same time, he wanted the site to have a more professional look. “I let them run with their ideas,” Smith said. “We didn’t want a fancy website; this is not a fancy motel. We wanted something simple and easy to work with,” she said. The motel’s playful spirit is evident in a an annual birthday bash it hosts each July originally inspired by Moose and Wabash, two dogs who came to the motel each summer for more than a decade. “We invite everybody in the motel, and their pets and children,” said Smith. For this popular event, motel sta serve a homemade cake for the humans and a special canine cake for the dogs. According to Armenaki, the amount of activity on the website has skyrocketed. “Analytics embedded in the site indicate there were over 6,700 plays of the video from May to August, and 11 percent watched the entire video. Statically that means that 30-40 percent that watch the entire video will engage with the business. Making a quality video and a visually engaging website can bring in business,” Arledge said. “The rst month the new site was up, the trac doubled. That made me happy,” said Burch, who added a feature that allows guests to send room requests online. View the revised website and video at williamandgarlandmotel.com. By Leila Tvedt CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2012 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 14, 2012 Email This Post Print This Post Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS Belchers to present September recital Western Carolina University’s first couple will perform together on stage in Cullowhee this fall for the first time since David O. Belcher became chancellor last year. Belcher, a classically trained concert pianist, and wife Susan Brummell Belcher, a professional Opera Singer and vocal teacher, will give a concert of classical music and songs from stage and screen at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 4, in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. The performance is sponsored by WCU’s Friends of the Arts, which helps support the activities of the Bardo Arts Center and all of the university’s academic programs in the arts. The general admission concert is open to the public free of charge. Current members of Friends of the Arts and those who join the organization by Friday, Aug. 24, will receive special reserved seating to the Belchers’ concert. For information or to become a member of Friends of the Arts, call the Bardo Arts Center box office at 828-227-2479 or visit the website friendsofthearts.wcu.edu. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2012 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 14, 2012 Email This Post Print This Post Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS Buchanan lands grant to enhance library technology initiative The State Library of North Carolina awarded $52,536 to Heidi Buchanan, head of the Research and Instruction Services Department at Hunter Library, for laptop computers, furniture and other items needed to create an active learning classroom that provides a exible learning space for the library’s information literacy instruction program. In active learning classrooms, the technology facilitates student learning. To tailor the best learning experiences to individual class needs, the classroom will be designed to adapt to dierent activities and class sizes. In the new environment, students will experience resources, ask questions and collaborate to solve problems. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2012 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 14, 2012 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Byrd co-authors article published in Malaria Journal Brian Byrd, assistant professor of environmental health sciences, recently co-authored a manuscript in the Malaria Journal titled “PCR detection of malaria parasites in desiccated Anopheles mosquitoes is uninhibited by storage time and temperature.” The article has been designated “Highly Accessed” and is free available (open access) through BioMed Central. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2012 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 21, 2012 Email This Post Print This Post Share | ACHIEVEMENTS Byrd presents in Wisconsin, Washington, D.C. Joan Falconer Byrd, professor of art and author of “Harvey K. Littleton: A Life in Glass,” presented at the Bauscom in Highlands and has been invited to present at the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum in Neenah, Wis., and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2012 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 28, 2012 Email This Post Print This Post Share | Participants in the FOCUS – First-year Opportunities for Community and University Service Day of Service post red ags on campus as part of the Red Zone awareness campaign. The Red Zone refers to the period of time early in the rst and second year at college during which students are most at-risk for unwanted sexual experiences on college campuses. Day of Service participants help with a litter pick-up. TOP STORIES Campuswide learning theme for 2012-13: Citizenship and Civility Members of the Western Carolina University community are invited to embark on a year-long interdisciplinary exploration of what it means to be a citizen and what it means to be civil – concepts that will be brought into focus with the November presidential election. Citizenship and Civility is the WCU 2012-13 interdisciplinary learning theme, and faculty and sta members are encouraged to weave the theme into curricular and co-curricular activities. “It is a good time to highlight these issues because, whether we like it or not, presidential elections are pretty salient on people’s minds. Debates sometimes get really personal and some ads attack other candidates,” said Todd Collins , associate professor of political science and public aairs, director of the WCU Public Policy Institute and co-chair of this year’s interdisciplinary learning theme committee. The theme, however, extends far beyond its context in elections, and could be incorporated into a range of research projects, service- and community-based learning activities and collaborative class projects in which diverse students work together, said Collins. “This theme is about what it means for students to be citizens and have the ability to talk about issues in a civil manner – to have an open discourse about things,” he said. “We hope faculty and sta will build the theme, however it ts best, into their own disciplines and challenge students to dig deep into the concepts. We want students to dene for themselves what citizenship and civility mean.” Lane Perry, who joined WCU in August as director of the Center for Service Learning and is co-chairing the committee with Collins, said he is excited about the kinds of high-quality academic discussions that could be sparked on campus. Etymologically speaking, the “-ship” in “citizenship” suggests that being a citizen is a skill or craft and that citizenship could actually be broken down into elements and learned, said Perry. “We are going to have discussions around these typically glossy topics that we don’t often bring down o of our ags or campaign banners to discuss, make actionable and teach,” he said. “We get to examine what it means to be a citizen and what it means to be civil, and what opportunities are created when we look at who we are as global citizens and as citizens of the United States, of North Carolina, of Western North Carolina and of Western Carolina University.” Activities already planned range from voter registration drives and a Constitution Day panel discussion on the First Amendment and elections to service-learning activities. In CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond the Glass Matrix 5/29/2017 Water Portraits: Barbara Tyroler 6/9/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' 6/10/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT WCU student Alex Mitchiner participates in a letter-writing effort to support soldiers and veterans. Day of Service volunteers work on a section of a new multi-use trail at WCU. one proposed activity titled “Discovering Civility over Coee,” students with opposing viewpoints in areas such as politics and religion would come together over a cup of coee to “civilly” discuss their experiences, said Perry. The students would ask each other to share some of their life experiences, what issues deeply concern them, what they always wanted to ask someone from the other side and why the “other” side makes so many outrageous allegations against the opposite side. The idea was inspired by Elizabeth Lesser’s talk at a TEDxWomen conference in which she suggests taking someone to lunch who does not agree with you. The rst event to be held in connection with the theme was the FOCUS: First-year Opportunities for Community and University ServiceDay of Service Aug. 25. Students participated in service learning activities designed to meaningfully connect them to the WCU community and open the door to reections on citizenship and civility, said Glenda Hensley, director of rst year experiences. More than 150 people took part in seven projects. They helped 43 people register to vote, wrote 124 letters and cards to soldiers, veterans and senior citizens, picked up thousands of cigarette butts and other pieces of trash, helped nish a section of WCU’s new multi-use trail, planted ags to increase awareness of the Red Zone campaign and weeded the campus garden, said Jennifer Cooper, assistant director of service learning. Part of the mission of FOCUS, which is sponsored by the Center for Service Learning, First Year Experience, the Oce of Leadership and Student Involvement and Facilities Management, is to help students consider how every action in their everyday lives can make a difference, said Hensley. “The Citizenship and Civility learning theme oers a real opportunity for students, sta and faculty, and local community members to come together and become a part of something bigger than them, but better because of them,” said Perry. For more information, contact Collins at 828- 227-3898 or tcollins@wcu.edu or Perry at 828-227-2643 or lgperry@wcu.edu. By Teresa Killian Tate © 2012 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 28, 2012 Email This Post Print This Post Share | NOTEWORTHY NEWS Chancellor, first lady to present September recital Western Carolina University’s rst couple will perform together on stage in Cullowhee this fall for the rst time since David O. Belcher became chancellor last year. Belcher, a classically trained concert pianist, and wife Susan Brummell Belcher, a professional Opera Singer and vocal teacher, will give a concert of classical music and songs from stage and screen at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 4, in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. The performance is sponsored by WCU’s Friends of the Arts, which helps support the activities of the Bardo Arts Center and all of the university’s academic programs in the arts. The general admission concert is open to the public free of charge. For information or to become a member of Friends of the Arts, call the Bardo Arts Center box oce at 828-227-2479 or visit the website friendsofthearts.wcu.edu. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond the Glass Matrix 5/29/2017 Water Portraits: Barbara Tyroler 6/9/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' 6/10/2017 Musical Variety Show 'Livin' the Dream' LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT © 2012 Western Carolina University. SEARCH Search Home About Archives Subscribe Contact WCU Home August 15, 2012 Email This Post Print This Post Share | Chancellor David O. Belcher speaks at the 2012 Opening Assembly. TOP STORIES Chancellor, provost speak at Opening Assembly Chancellor David O. Belcher and Provost Angela Laird Brenton delivered remarks at the Opening Assembly to faculty and sta on Wednesday, Aug. 15. A video of the event is posted on Western Carolina University’s YouTube channel by Thursday, Aug. 16. Belcher’s and Brenton’s remarks as delivered vary slightly from the written address shared below. Thank you and welcome to another year of opportunity and possibility at Western Carolina University. I trust that you have had a good summer and are ready to rock and roll into the new academic year. I always love the start of the year. It’s a time to reconnect with colleagues and to welcome new ones. It’s a time to receive a new class of students who come with hopes, dreams, excitement, anxieties, and enormous potential. It’s a time to celebrate achievement even as we look toward the year ahead. It’s a time of renewed energy, of renewed passion for our scholarly pursuits, of renewed dedication to Western Carolina students. And it’s a time of renewed commitment to our individual roles in creating the learning environment our students need to thrive and to prepare them for their futures – whether we teach, create an extraordinarily beautiful campus, work with student organizations, handle nancial aid, ensure campus safety, construct or renovate facilities, coordinate residence hall activities, advise, coach, raise money, maintain IT capabilities, produce reports for General Administration, recruit students, serve on Sta Senate, or clean campus buildings. It does not matter – we are, every one of us, in this enterprise together, dedicated first and foremost to the educational needs of our students. I love the start of the year. Welcome back to what will certainly be a full year but one which will be enormously rewarding as well. Budget Update Last year, I used the opening assembly meeting as an opportunity to lay out budget matters for the university community, and I think it important to do so again. Let me begin with an overarching statement: Western Carolina is in a stronger fiscal position than it was a year ago. We experienced no budget cuts or reversions last year. It might sound like a sobering place to start – not having lost any budget ground, but last year was the first year in four years that WCU did not experience a budget cut or a reversion. This appears to be a sign of stabilization. We actually got a bit of new money – not a lot, but we did receive a little new money from the state, and I will provide some details about that funding momentarily. And we actually got a little bit of a salary increase – again, it’s not a lot, but we did receive small increases. And, again, I will offer some details in a few minutes. The point is that, while we don’t have nearly all of the resources we need, we appear to be at the beginning of a fiscal turn-around. Allow me to provide you some budget details. Local Tuition First, the news on local tuition – we did receive local tuition this year. The Board of Governors requires us to dedicate 25 percent of local tuition to need-based financial aid. Many UNC institutions, including WCU, decided to dedicate more than 25 percent to financial aid in our budget proposals last year. WCU dedicated an additional 5 percent of the local tuition to merit-based aid, a move which will permanently fund support for the New Century Scholars program to which the university committed itself approximately 15 years ago. Funding for this commitment ran out last year, and this 5 percent of tuition for merit-based financial aid will sustain that program allowing us to meet our contractual obligations to the scholarship program. The remaining 70 percent of local tuition goes to Academic Aairs for allocation to top Academic Aairs priorities. Because local tuition funding comes to us so late in the summer, WCU spends this funding during the current year on current, one-time instructional and academic priorities. Provost Brenton will work with Academic Affairs leaders to determine the strategic instructional and academic priorities for permanent allocation of this funding. Enrollment Growth Funding. We did receive some enrollment growth funding this year though not all that we were due. This is a complicated topic, but let me walk you through it. CATEGORIES | THE REPORTER TOP STORIES NOTEWORTHY NEWS ACHIEVEMENTS EVENTS PHOTOS | WCU NEWS SERVICES CALENDAR 5/29/2017 Ancient Forms, Modern Minds 5/29/2017 Print Plus One: Beyond LINKS Calendar Higher Education NewsWatch WCU Hub AFRICA! MORE THAN A CONTINENT First a bit of history about enrollment growth funding. Each UNC system institution predicts what its enrollment will be for the following year, and the legislature, when it does allocate enrollment growth funding, provides that funding to support the predicted enrollment. Theoretically, if one predicts big gains and then does not achieve them, the institution loses the money the following year; however, there has been a history of holding institutions harmless if they don’t make their targets. Indeed, WCU has benefitted at times from the hold harmless approach. It was General Administration’s intention that this current year would be the last of the hold harmless model and that, beginning next year, there would be no more hold harmless. The budget passed by the legislature which has gone into eect, however, eliminates the hold harmless approach eective THIS YEAR. The budget gives about 17 million new dollars to the UNC system to support those institutions, WCU among them, who predicted enrollment growth for this year. BUT the budget removes some $16 million from the system because of the failure of some institutions to achieve their enrollment targets from last year. Just FYI, Western Carolina did meet enrollment targets last year. Thus, there is only around $1.3 million TOTAL in new enrollment growth funding for the system. According to this scenario, each institution that did not meet enrollment targets last year should have money removed from its budget this year. The challenge is, though, that some institutions in the state would have lost millions in the current year. One of our sister institutions, for example, should have lost over $5 million. That’s the worst case in the system, but several others would have lost over $1 million. Some of those institutions are among the least funded in the state and frankly would have hemorrhaged had they lost all of the funding they were slated to los

  • The Reporter, February 1987
    Hunter Library Digital Collections Western Carolina University Cullowhee NC 28723;, 2017
    Co-Authors: Western Carolina University
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    The Reporter is a publication produced by Western Carolina University featuring news, events, and campus community updates for faculty and staff. The publication began in August of 1970 and continues digitally today. Click on the link in the “Related Materials” field to access recent issues.m E=J Reporter February 6, 1987 A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University / Cullowhee, North Carolina WCU'S LONGEST-TENURED FACULTY MEMBER RETIRES "Can you imagine retiring after 37 years and being busier the day after you retire than the day before?" After 37 years of service including 31 years at Western as a coach and professor of health and physical education, 13 of them as head football coach, Dan Robinson is retiring from the uni­versity to manage a new congressional of­fice for U.S. Rep. James McClure Clarke. "I've had it made for the last 15 years," he says. "College teach­ing is a good job because your students want to be there." Now he'll be meeting a different set of needs, helping the WNC community stay in touch with their congressman. One of Clarke's campaign promises was to open an office west of the Balsams, something this district has never had. Robinson will be the staff for Congressional Office West, as it will be called. He will hold meetings monthly in each of the six western counties—Jackson, Macon, Swain, Graham, Cherokee, and Clay—and help communicate between Clarke and the people of those counties. "Congressman Clarke feels very strongly about staying in touch with the people," Robinson says. Open House in the office, located in Colonial Square (across from Harold's Supermarket), will be held Monday, Feb. 16. Congressman Clarke will be there from 4 until 6 p.m. Robinson was asked to staff the office because of his past involvement with the N.C. Wildlife Commission. An avid hunter and fisherman, he had served on the chair­man's advisory committee to the commission and was asked to seek the District 9 commissioner's position when it came open. He served on the commission for six years and held meetings in the 12 western counties. "I got to know a lot of people, and they me," he says. He had also been involved "in a modest way" in Democratic Party activities. Since Helen Hartshorn retired two years ago, Robinson has been the longest-tenured member of the faculty. He actually has been at Western off and on since 1946, when he came as a student and played football for four years. After he graduated, he stayed on a year as line coach for Tom Young. He left to get a master's at George Peabody and went into high school coaching and teaching. He was at Greenwood (S.C.) High School for a year and then went to Morganton High as head football coach and athletic director. In 1956 he came back to Western as head football coach. Twice he was named conference Coach of the Year and twice district Coach of the Year. But after 20 years of coaching, he had had enough. "Particularly where football was concerned, 1 was a very intense person," he says. "It wasn't any fun anymore. Whether we won or we lost, I didn't get any pleasure out of it." He told President Alex Pow that 1968 would be his last season as coach. When Dr. Pow tried to talk him out of resigning, Robinson told him, "If Notre Dame called me today, I'd tell them I Chuck Taylor, and students Sally Alewel, didn't intend to coach." Richard Bovender, and Cliff Clark. Although he had tenure and taught half time in the health and physical education area, Robinson says, "I didn't feel they had an obligation to me, because they brought me here as a coach. But Dr. Pow was gracious enough to offer me a faculty position." One of the first tasks he was assigned as a full-time member of the faculty was to supervise student teachers at the pool. That evolved into a full-time summer job at the pool and the summer swimming program, which grew into the full-scale summer recreation program as it is today. Robinson remained responsible for the swimming program, while Sue Persons took over the other summer activities. "We tried to have a top-notch program. If a kid got a card at the end, he really qualified for it," Robinson says. "The demand always exceeded the capacity. We had about all we could say grace over." —Elizabeth Addison CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE GATHERS IDEAS The committee in charge of coordinating plans for Western's Centennial Celebration from August 1989 through the summer of 1990 invites proposals for events and activities to be included in the celebration. Individuals, organizations, and committees can make proposals in writing to William 3. Kirwan, chairman of the Centennial committee, Hunter Library between now and April 15. Each suggestion should be accompanied by a name, an address, and a telephone number. The Centennial committee, appointed by the chancellor, represents all of the univer­sity community. Serving on the committee, headed by Kirwan, are Mrs. Frank H. Brown, Jr., Reg Moody, Jack Hennessee, Orville Coward, Charles McConnell (president of the WCU Alumni Association), Deb Babel, Royce Woosley, Joe Beck, Max Williams, Joan Byrd, Tyler Blethen, Taylor Huskins, James Dooley, Judy Dowell, J.C. Alexander, Doug Reed, Jack Barnett, C.J. Carter, Judy Stillion, Glenn Stillion, Guy Burchfiel, Hanson Smith, Harry Ramsey, Ken Wood, NCCAT POSITIONS OPEN The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, a year-round residential center designed to promote the intellectual growth of outstanding North Carolina teachers, is advertising two positions, one for a Center Fellow and one for a Coordinator of Information Services. The NCCAT is, like Western, an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and a constituent of The University of North Carolina. As a member of the NCCAT residential faculty, the Center Fellow will join others in planning and conducting seminars on interdisciplinary topics for K-12 teachers, serve as a mentor for independent study projects that are undertaken by teacher-participants, participate in NCCAT research and outreach activities, and work closely with and advise the Director and Associate Director. An applicant should possess a terminal degree in his or her discipline and have an established reputation as teacher and scholar. He or she should have a strong commitment to interdisciplinary teaching and an academic background that reflects diverse exposure to the arts, humanities, and sciences. Experience in designing and conducting programs for elementary and secondary school teachers is desirable. Salary for this position will be commen­surate with qualifications and experience, up to a maximum of $40,000 for a 12-month contract. Appointment will begin July 1. Send letter of application, resume, and the names and addresses of three references no later than March 1 to: R. Bruce McPherson, Director N.C. Center for the Advancement of Teaching Western Carolina University Cullowhee, N.C. 28723 The Coordinator of Information Services (Information and Communications Specialist III, Grade 72) will be responsible for all public information and public relations related to the Center. The job entails preparation and distribution of news re­leases to print media at local, state, and national levels; preparation and dis­tribution of feature stories; preparation and distribution of news material to radio anc television stations; prepara­tion of brochures and other promotional material; super­vision of development of slide/tape shows and video for promotional and recruit­ing purposes; development ant implementation of long-range communications plan for radio, TV, and print media; coordination of alumni news­letter; and related duties. The person will work in col- The new Western North Carolina Regional Cardiac Rehabilitation and laboration with the Office of Intervention Program linking WCU and C.J. Harris Community Hospital Public Information at Western was established Thursday, Jan. 29, at a signing ceremony in Cullowhee. Carolina University. A mini- Chartering *he °ew program were, from left, William Aldis, Sylva physician mum of five vears' exnerienr«> a? ^C, ., °f.the med|cal staff at CJ. Harris; Donald C. Morgan, president . , , P C.J. Harris; Art Pilch, professor of health, physical education, and in print or broadcast jour- recreation at Western; and Chancellor Myron L. Coulter. Dr. Aldis is the nalism, with working knowl- medical director for the new program and Pilch will be co-director, edge of public relations, is preferred. Educational requirements: mini­mum of B.A. in journalism, with master's preferred. The job begins April 1. Salary range (hiring rate $23,592): $23,592-$38,004. Qualified candidates must submit an application, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, and sample of work by March 1 to Judy Smoker in the WCU Personnel Office. NEWS BRIEFS Auditions - Speech and Theatre Arts will conduct auditions for its 1987 One-Act Festival Monday, Feb. 9, from 6 until 6:30 p.m. in Niggli Theatre. Scripts are available in 124 Stillwell. "Amicable Parting" by George Kaufman and Leueen MacGrath, "Buddies" by Mary Gallagher, and "Crosspatch" by Larry Randolph will be performed in dinner theatre March 24; "Luv" by Murray Schisgal will be performed in dinner theatre March 27; and "Make-Up Artist" by David Henry Wilson and "Cowboy Mouth" by Sam Shephard and Patti Smith will be staged April 10 in Niggli. Call ext. 7491 for more information. Concert - The WCU Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Mario Gaetano will conduct its annual winter concert tour of North Carolina high schools Feb. 11-13. In recognition of Black History Month, the group will play special selections by Count Basie and Duke Ellington, among others. Youth Orchestra - The spring term for the WNC Youth Orchestra will begin Saturday, Feb. 14, with 9 a.m. auditions for new members in the band room of the Music-English Building. Regular rehearsals will be from 10 a.m. until noon each Saturday through April 11. The orchestra, conducted by William Henigbaum and Stephen Lawson of the WCU music faculty, is sponsored by the Jackson County Arts Council in coOperation with the music department and area music educators. It is supported by grants and private donors. For further information or to make contributions, contact Eva Adcock at ext. 7242. Art - Photographer Baldwin S. Lee will exhibit his work and give lectures on photography beginning Monday, Feb. 9. His recent photographs of the South will be shown Feb. 9 through March 4 in the art gallery of Belk Building. An opening reception for the exhibit will be held at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9 in the gallery, following his 7 p.m. lecture on the exhibit in 104 Belk. On Tuesday, he will lecture in 104 Belk on his former teacher, Walker Evans. Lee's work has been exhibited nationally and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the University of Kentucky Art Museum. An illustrated catalog is available on request. Groups - Several "Groups for Growth and Change" are being offered by the Counsel­ing, Testing, and Psychological Services Center this semester. Don't delay—they start this week. They are open to all students, staff, and faculty. To find out times and to register, call ext. 7469. Participation in any group is confidential; faculty and staff are encouraged to refer students and to attend themselves. Topics this term: Creative Relaxation, Assertive-ness Training, Developing Healthy Relation­ships, Psychotherapy, Confronting the Alcoholic System, Self-Defeating Behaviors, Focus on Food, Problems with Eating: A Support Group, Dreamwork, Self-Enhancement, Invisible Physical Challenges, Personal Growth through Games, Men's Group, Why Me?, Sexual Assault Support Group, and Women in Relationships. Computer Workshops - The Computer Center is offering two workshops next week. To register, call ext. 7282. On Tuesday or Wednesday, Feb. 10 or 11, learn the use of the VAX text editor (EDT) in creation and modification of data files, text files, and program source code. On Thursday or Friday learn the basic techniques in using the Digital Standard RUNOFF report generator on the VAX. All workshops are scheduled from 3 until 5 p.m. IET Grant - Western's department of indus­trial education and technology received a $6,000 grant from the Society of Plastics Engineers, Carolinas-Virginia section, toward the purchase of a plastics injection machine for lab instruction. The German-made Arburg machine has been Operational in the industrial education and technology department since October. It accompanies a similar computerized plastics injection machine which the department purchased three years ago, also with matching funds from the Society of Plastics Engineers. Spring in England - Plans are under way for the annual Spring in England tour to London and surrounding areas, tentatively scheduled May 11 through June 1. The tour will be led this year by Don Loeffler of Speech and Theatre Arts and Jeff Neff, geography professor. All interested per­sons are eligible to go, and academic credit is available for geography and thea­tre courses. The estimated cost is $1,300, including transportation, accommodations, tickets to several theatre events, some side trips from London, visits to museums, and other places. For more information, contact Dr. Loeffler at ext. 7491. Foreigner Benefit - The rehearsal grape­vine report is that it's getting funnier and funnier. Whether or not you missed the highly acclaimed performances of The Foreigner last November, you'll want to come again Feb. 14 when the cast and crew stage a benefit performance preparatory to taking the production to regional competi­tion in Knoxville. Tickets are $10, and curtain is at 7:30. Western's production was one of six chosen from more than 70 in the Southeast for "high standards of excellence" by the selection committee of the John F. Kennedy Center's 19th American College Theatre Festival. A recommendation in Knoxville will mean the entire cast, crew, and set will travel to the nation's capital in March to perform at the Kennedy Center. REACH Benefit - St. Valentine's Day is also the day for a dance to raise funds for REACH, Jackson County's program for victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence. The dance will be held from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. with music by "Wishful Thinking," a band from Brevard which plays a mixture of classic rock and roll, top 40, and beach music. Set-ups and soft drinks will be available, and a number of door prizes, including a $400. VCR, will be given away. Tickets are $15 each or $30 per couple. If you would like to contribute $5, $10, or $15 rather than attend, your name can be entered for a door prize. Make reserva­tions by calling the REACH office at 586-8969. I Reporter A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University February 13, 1987 / Cullowhee, North Carolina CULTIVATING BEAUTIFUL SONG Forget any stereotyped ideas you may have of an Opera Singer. Laura Mann doesn't fit them. Nothing rotund, nothing somber about this woman. Aerobic exercise, jazz danc­ing, proper diet, an interest in mankind and world peace, serenity and beauty—these are some of the things of importance to Mann, visiting assistant professor of voice at Western. "I can sing any kind of rehearsal just on yogurt and a piece of fruit," Mann said, "but I eat a lot of red meat if I have a performance coming up. "There seems to be a belief about adrenalin when you stand on stage," she said. "You have to channel whatever energy you have; having beef or liver helps to give more energy and more stability." Laura Mann needs a lot of energy to main­tain her busy schedule of teaching and per­forming. Over the past Christmas season, she performed two concerts in Buffalo, N.Y., which featured music for soprano, strings, and harp. Forthcoming are performances as guest recitalist at the Chopin Society at Mid-America Recital Series in Edmond, Okla., during February and as guest artist in April at Principia College in the St. Louis, Mo., area. She also will present a master class and lecture on voice there. And she will be making her Asheville debut March 15. She will present a recital with pianist John Ferguson, visiting artist at Asheville-Buncombe Technical College, at 3 p.m. in Lord Auditorium at Pack Memorial Library. "I've been singing since a child," Mann said. "I made my first appearance when I was five, and I did my first professional show at nine in Niagara Falls, Ont., with a summer theatre. I have always enjoyed being in front of people on stage and singing. "When I was small I used to keep myself awake so I could listen to my mother sing lullabies. She was Lithuanian. I used to memorize the words and that was how I learned my first song." Laura Mann's musical talent was recognized and encouraged and early led to full-tuition scholarships at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., for both Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees. This was followed by studies at the Hochschule fur Musik in Cologne, West Germany, and at the Opera Studio in West Berlin. What is Opera to Laura Mann? "Opera," she said, "is communicating. Com­municating ideas and feelings through char­acters. Like everything else, some have very noble thoughts, some are just purely melodrama." But the reality is that, even though Opera is a major art form, most people in this country are not interested in it. Mann described this as being caused by a lack of familiarity with Opera. "Once exposed to Opera," she said, "almost anyone would like it because deep within us there is something that responds to beauty. "We have to instruct people in the arts," she said. "We have to communicate better, make those forms more available to other persons, to some way strip down the barrier. The barrier is just ignorance. "Everybody responds to beauty, to a beautiful sound or a beautiful picture or to love. There are some universal things everyone responds to. People need to understand that the arts are not extra. They are vital elements of our society and should be recognized as such. North Carolina is very progressive in that area, and it's great." Her own style as a performer is that of a lyric soprano. "Lyric," she said, "is just that, a description of how the part is sung, lyrically. It is generally the heroine's part." Teaching voice is as much a part of her life as performing on stage. Prior to accepting a position at WCU, she taught at Texas Tech in Lubbock as well as other schools. Several of her students have gone on to win scholarships here and abroad. Laura Mann cares very much about that. "Something that is very important," she said, "is cultivating beautiful singing. Because that's what touches people, that's what communicates. So many of the voices today are commercial, they are simply not beautiful." The problem is time. Without strong sup­port, Opera Singers are not able to obtain enough experience to develop properly, according to Mann. Many are forced to end their careers when they should be in mid-career, she said. "There's a lot of mismanagement of voice teaching, too," she said. "People don't take enough time to learn. We are a very impatient society. It's not an age that gives a lot of care to things that are beautiful. We need to nurture Singers. Any kind of Singer. "This is probably the bottom line. Singers need nurturing and they are not getting that. It is bad for everybody. We have to get back to cultivating the beauty of sound that was once prevalent in singing. "When you are on stage just to perform," she said, "it gets to be introverted after a while. I got into teaching because I wanted to communicate what I know to somebody else. I saw my own mistakes. I wanted to share that with students, and it's very exciting for me to do that, to see things click in the student's mind. "I believe there is an order to every­thing," she said, "and the sooner we get in touch with it, the better. I don't think things are happenstance. I didn't give myself my voice—no Singer did. A person who has an ability has that ability from God. We need to let go and do as much as we can to cultivate what we have." Mann has appeared as a leading lyric soprano in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Poland, and has traveled and performed widely in the U.S. — Nils Hardin (Used by permission from the Asheville Citizen-Times, "Smoky Mountain Neighbors," Feb. 4/5, 1987) DEVELOPMENT AIM OF CHINA VISIT Western's Center for Improving Mountain Living may have a counterpart in the People's Republic of China. Chancellor Myron L. Coulter and Interna­tional Instructional Programs Director Ellerd Hulbert left Monday, Feb. 2, on a 16-day trip to Thailand and China to assist in establishing an economic development center for Yunnan Province on the Yunnan University campus, similar to Western's CIML. The WCU officials will spend a week in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province and home of Yunnan University, with which Western has had educational and economic exchanges since 1981. "Yunnan University has not been active in the economic development of the province in the same way that the Center for Improving Mountain Living has been active in our region," Dr. Coulter said. "The people are interested in doing that, and we'll see if there are ways we can help the university set up an economic development center, using our Center for Improving Mountain Living as a model." Coulter and Hulbert, with Wayne Cooper of Arcon Manufacturing, Inc., of Charlotte, also will pursue specific business arrangements between North Carolina and Yunnan Province that were initiated by the Chinese last fall. The province would like to develop business ties in the form of direct import/export of goods and equip­ment, joint ventures and investments, and tourism development,

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  • neural evidence that utterance processing entails mentalizing the case of irony
    NeuroImage, 2012
    Co-Authors: Nicola Spotorno, Eric Koun, Jerome Prado, Jeanbaptiste Van Der Henst, Ira A Noveck
    Abstract:

    It is now well established that communicators interpret others' mental states through what has been called "Theory of Mind" (ToM). From a linguistic-pragmatics perspective, this mentalizing ability is considered critical because it is assumed that the linguistic code in all utterances underdetermines the speaker's meaning, leaving a vital role for ToM to fill the gap. From a neuroscience perspective, understanding others' intentions has been shown to activate a neural ToM network that includes the right and left temporal parietal junction (rTPJ, lTPJ), the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and the precuneus (PC). Surprisingly, however, there are no studies - to our knowledge - that aim to uncover a direct, on-line link between language processing and ToM through neuroimaging. This is why we focus on verbal irony, an obviously pragmatic phenomenon that compels a listener to detect the speaker's (dissociated, mocking) attitude (Wilson, 2009). In the present fMRI investigation, we compare participants' comprehension of 18 target sentences as contexts make them either ironic or literal. Consider an Opera Singer who tells her interlocutor: "Tonight we gave a superb performance!" when the performance in question was clearly awful (making the statement ironic) or very good (making the statement literal). We demonstrate that the ToM network becomes active while a participant is understanding verbal irony. Moreover, we demonstrate - through Psychophysiological Interactions (PPI) analyses - that ToM activity is directly linked with language comprehension processes. The paradigm, its predictions, and the reported results contrast dramatically with those from seven prior fMRI studies on irony.