Chapman Magazine Fall 2013

CAPTURE THE CAMPUS

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The concept was simple – ask via social media for members of the Chapman University family to contribute their best shots of a campus that in 2012 Newsweek magazine ranked the third most beautiful in the nation. Hundreds of images have arrived at #CaptureCU, generating retweets and likes by the score. Some of our favorite photos appear here, including the largest, taken by Scott Stedman ’14 from atop Beckman Hall. That’s also Stedman’s photo at the center of the five across the top, bringing a glow to the patio of the Marvin W. Meyer Faculty Athenaeum. The other images were captured by Mac Bass, Class of ’15 (Panther sculpture at sunset); Strat Goumas ’16 (Ambassador George L. Argyros ’58 Global Citizens Plaza); Matt Simon ’14 (Liberty Plaza); and Jake Curtis ’11 (Gentle Spring Fountain). So what’s your best shot? Please share it with us and the Chapman family.

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ON THE COVER The Atlantic puffin sometimes gets confused for a penguin — until it takes to the air, where at 400 wing beats a minute it propels itself to speeds of up to 60 mph. The puffin on the cover was captured by Colin Arp ’16, a screenwriting major who was one of a dozen Chapman University students to spend two weeks in Iceland this summer making documentary films for an interterm class taught by Professor Sally Rubin. Together they crisscrossed the island nation, stopping often for outdoor adventures — climbing volcanic peaks, riding Icelandic horses and skirting icebergs in search of whales. Want to learn more about the students’ epic journey? An account begins on page 20.

IN THIS ISSUE UP FRONT

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12 Chatter 13 Seen & Heard 14 Undergrad Research: Women Tattooists in the Spotlight 15 Sports: New Baseball Coach Is a Master Builder 34 In Memoriam: Ross Escalette, the Rev. Dean Echols

President’s Message First Person: Miss Quindlen, Your Limo Is Waiting

CHAPMAN NOW 6 A Landmark Gift Names the Dale E. Fowler School of Law 8 Afghan Law Graduates Deliver “A Message for the World” 11 Stroke Boot Camp Helps Survivors Make Little Leaps

ALUMNI NEWS FEATURES 16 18 20 26 28

Fire Agencies Get Some High-Tech Help Women of Comedy Are Leveling the Playing Field Students Chart an Icelandic Journey of Discovery New Pharmacy School Focuses on Next-Gen Rx Whistle-Blowers Face Tough Ethical Choices

36 Loretta Sanchez: Panther in the House 38 Class Notes 39 Chapman Stories: John H. Wood ’77, Michael Hudson-Medina ’00, Samantha Cortese ’11, Roger Craig Smith ’04, Karen Haren ’71 44 Panthers on the Prowl, Friends We Will Miss

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A Time to Act Boldly In May, I had the opportunity to play a guest role on the CBS hit daytime drama The Bold and the Beautiful as Mr. Chapman, the CFO of the Forrester family’s fashion house, Forrester Creations.

I was invited by show producer and proud Chapman University alumnus Casey Kasprzyk ’01, who started out at CBS with an internship through Chapman and has been part of B&B’s three-time Emmy Award-winning production staff ever since.

It may seem unusual to see a university president on a soap opera, but this reflects the amazing spirit of collaboration that prevails at Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, where from day one students and faculty work together to pursue their visions; and where innovative projects like Chapman Filmed Entertainment — Chapman’s sustainable, fully-functioning production company — build bridges into the industry for talented students and alumni.

Producer Casey Kasprzyk ’01 helps This exciting air of opportunity pervades our university. The burgeoning partnership between prepare President Jim Doti for his role on The Bold and the Beautiful. students and faculty members at the College of Performing Arts and Cirque du Soleil is an excellent example. And faculty members at Schmid College of Science and Technology, such as professors Jennifer Funk and Christopher Kim, are consistently recognized for including undergraduates in their original research. In fact, at the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research, Professor Essie Adibi and I have been collaborating with students on our econometric models for more than three decades.

At Opening Convocation this year, I compared university life to a bountiful buffet — one that includes a great variety of academic disciplines as well as athletics, Greek life, leadership and service organizations, internships and study abroad. Pursuing every opportunity — even those that may seem like struggles — helps us to hone our skills and approach life in exciting and innovative ways.

So as you read more about Chapman’s buffet of delicacies, I pass on to you what my Italian Nonna would say to me and everyone else around the dinner table: “Mangia.”

Regards,

James L. Doti

Board of Trustees OFFICERS Doy B. Henley Chairman David A. Janes, Sr. Vice Chair David E.I. Pyott Vice Chair Scott Chapman Secretary Zelma M. Allred Assistant Secretary TRUSTEES Wylie A. Aitken Donna Ford Attallah ’61 Raj S. Bhathal James P. Burra Phillip H. Case Irving M. Chase Arlene R. Craig Jerome W. Cwiertnia Zeinab H. Dabbah, M.D. (J.D. ’12) Kristina Dodge James Emmi Dale E. Fowler ’58 Barry Goldfarb David C. Henley

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Roger C. Hobbs William K. Hood Mark Chapin Johnson ’05 Jennifer L. Keller Parker S. Kennedy Joe E. Kiani Joann Leatherby Charles D. Martin James V. Mazzo Joel P. Moskowitz Sebastian Paul Musco Frank O’Bryan Harry S. Rinker James B. Roszak The Honorable Loretta Sanchez ’82 Mohindar S. Sandhu James Ronald Sechrist Ronald M. Simon Ronald E. Soderling R. David Threshie Emily Crean Vogler Karen R. Wilkinson ’69 David W. Wilson

Board of Governors

EMERITUS CHAIRS The Honorable George L. Argyros ’59 Donald E. Sodaro

OFFICERS Judith A. Garfi-Partridge Chair Melinda M. Masson Executive Vice Chair

EMERITUS TRUSTEES Richard Bertea Lynn Hirsch Booth J. Ben Crowell Leslie N. Duryea Robert A. Elliott Marion Knott Jack B. Lindquist Randall R. McCardle ’58 (M.A. ’66) Cecilia Presley Barry Rodgers Richard R. Schmid EX OFFICIO TRUSTEES Reverend Don Dewey James L. Doti Kelsey C. Flewellen ’05 Judith A. Garfi-Partridge Reverend Mary Jacobs Reverend Dayna Kinkade Penni McRoberts Reverend Felix Villanueva Reverend Denny Williams

Thomas E. Malloy Vice Chair Douglas E. Willits ’72 Secretary GOVERNORS George Adams, Jr. Marilyn Alexander Lisa Argyros ’07 Margaret Baldwin Marta S. Bhathal Deborah Bridges Kathleen A. Bronstein Michael J. Carver Eva Chen Ronn C. Cornelius Rico Garcia Kathleen M. Gardarian Lula F. Halfacre Rebecca A. Hall ’96 Stan Harrelson Sinan Kanatsiz ’97 (M.A. ’00) Elim Kay ’09 Sue Kint Scott A. Kisting John L. Kokulis Dennis Kuhl Stephen M. Lavin ’88 Jean H. Macino Richard D. Marconi

Betty Mower Potalivo James F. Wilson EMERITUS GOVERNORS Gary E. Liebl Jerrel T. Richards EX-OFFICIO GOVERNORS Sheryl A. Bourgeois James L. Doti

President’s Cabinet Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos Julianne Argyros Joyce Brandman Heidi Cortese Sherman Lawrence K. Dodge Onnolee B. Elliott (M.A. ’64) Paul Folino Douglas K. Freeman Marie Gray Frank P. Greinke Gavin S. Herbert Steeve Kay General William Lyon The Honorable Milan Panic Lord Swarj Paul James H. Randall The Honorable Ed Royce Susan Samueli Ralph Stern David Stone

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‘Extraordinary in their Diversity’ Your magazine comes to me because I live in the Old Towne area of Orange and enjoy the many activities offered to the community by the university. I have appreciated the magazine each time it arrives, however the most recent edition (spring 2013) offered so many articles and features that were extraordinary in their diversity and content.

I thank you for sharing with me as you do, and I’ll look forward to the next edition.

JAN CARMICHAEL, ORANGE

Deborah Bridges, a new Chapman University governor, is a former owner of Hires on the Plaza in Kansas City, Mo. She and her husband, Larry, founded the Sparkle Fund, which helps provide tuition assistance to students in need.

Rebecca Hall ’96, a new governor, is founder, president iand CEO of Idea Hall, an award-winning public relations firm in Orange County. She previously served Chapman as an ex-officio trustee and Alumni Association president.

Zeinab H. Dabbah, M.D. (J.D. ’12), a new trustee, is a physician/internist who recently established her own law practice. She and her husband, Daniel Temianka, are philanthropists whose support includes Chapman University.

Joel P. Moskowitz, a new trustee, is co-founder and longtime chairman of Ceradyne, based in Costa Mesa, Calif.

Causes supported by Moskowitz and his wife, Ann, include the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education.

Elim Kay ’09, a new governor, is principal of Insepin, LLC, a holding company for early-stage technology ventures.

James F. Wilson, CFA, a new governor, is managing director and head of residential real estate banking at JMP Securities. He also serves on the board of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at UC Berkeley.

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‘My Lovely Time to Go Back in Time’ I have returned home, but my mind still almost sings with details from our recent Chapman Class of ’63 reunion, which could not have gone better. I was swept back into the young person I once was, with nothing looming but the exciting future. And so I was happily walking the campus grounds again, visiting with friendly classmates on my way to interesting activities.

Of course, the play was a big thing for me, and it turned out to be all I had hoped and dreamed it could be, making all the writing worth the time spent. It was my enormous joy to see the actors, and the audience, enjoy the reading. I teared up when Dave (Hardacre) started reading the lines he acted so well when we were young. Even he wiped a tear, but when I noticed, he declared, “Oh no, I was only acting!” Well, just knowing it reached a place in our hearts long silent made my day! Sitting beside my mates reciting Shakespeare and forgetting our wrinkles and worries created a high point not only during the reunion, but perhaps in my life.

We couldn’t find a photo from the 1961 Chapman staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but this photo from the Ceer yearbook shows Chapman actors, from left, Bob Maher, Mary Mae McConnell, David Hardacre, Sandy (West) Earl, Dennis Short and Craig Frederickson performing Whisper in the Heart, a play about Abraham Lincoln.

All the collegiate ceremonies gave me pause and reminded me of who I was. It was a lovely time. It was my lovely time to go back in time. It was timeless. It was real. And it was nice.

And it was mine ... to have ... for a little while.

SANDY (WEST) EARL ’63

After half a century, the play’s still the thing for these dedicated thespians. The 50-year reunion of the Chapman Class of 1963 this summer included a staged reading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which the cast first performed in April 1961 in the Chapman Auditorium. For the reunion, Sandy (West) Earl did some rewrites, adding a Chapman spin to Shakespeare’s classic. Joining in the fun with Earl, far right, were Katherine (Messer) Eastman, Dennis Short, Sharon (Otteson) Maher, David Hardacre, Margaret (Harvey) Ferguson, Loraine (Cheverton) Lacey, Stephanie (Shaw) Clambaneva and Bill Cumiford.

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MISS QUINDLEN, Your Limo Is Waiting

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By Toby Juffre Goode

’M SEATED ALMOST FRONT AND CENTER IN ROOM 111 OF MARION KNOTT STUDIOS AT CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY, AND I’M WONDERING IF THIS CLASS FULL OF 20-YEAR-OLDS CAN TELL THAT I FEEL OUT OF PLACE.

A week earlier I learned from my daughter Devyn, a student at Dodge College, that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Anna Quindlen would be speaking in Professor Harry Ufland’s class on creativity. It was no coincidence that I was rereading “Aging Gratefully,” a magazine excerpt from Quindlen’s memoir, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake.

I’ve loved to write since elementary school.

After earning my BA in English and journalism, I have written for newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, direct mail, you name it. I have no trouble saying “I’m a copywriter,” but saying “I’m a writer” catches in my throat like a stale saltine.

After a few minutes Quindlen enters the class, and Ufland tells how they became friends when he produced the movie adaptation of her novel One True Thing. He calls on student after student, and it’s clear that they have come prepared with questions. Quindlen answers each one with wisdom, warmth and candor.

She shares that she’s less a cerebral writer than an emotional one. “I’m most interested in engaging your heart,” she says.

Writing a novel requires a good eye, a strong narrative voice and a very good work ethic, she adds. “It’s thought multiplied by time plus a hard slog.”

Later, when she talks about how the hands-on raising of her children was the making of her as a person, I smile.

“Your kids reintroduce you to life in all of its brightest colors,” she says, and as a mother of twin girls, I know exactly what she means.

“What do you fear the most?” a student asks.

Quindlen leans forward in her chair. “I’m afraid of writing,” she says. “Writing is about judgment. It’s about sitting there and thinking that someone is going to say this character is boring.

I have to sweep that fear away every day that I sit in my chair.”

I’ve always wanted to write; yet it’s what I fear the most. Like her, I want my writing to touch someone’s heart. Anna Quindlen is speaking directly to me.

Ufland wraps up the evening and my watch reads 10 o’clock. Three hours have flown by. I want to meet Quindlen, but I don’t know what to say. I leave the classroom and stall in the hallway. This is ridiculous. I’m not going to walk away from the only chance I’ll probably ever have to meet Anna Quindlen.

I re-enter, and when it’s my turn I introduce myself and thank Professor Ufland for making this evening possible.

Now I’m shaking Quindlen’s hand and I hear myself saying, “Listening to you tonight, I think, in some ways, my life parallels yours.”

Oh my God. Did those words really just come out of my mouth? I’m cringing inside, Toby Juffre Goode but she thanks me and smiles with her eyes. She doesn’t let go of my hand right away, or maybe I’m not letting go of hers.

It’s starting to rain when I walk outside the film school doors.

A black limousine is parked by the curb, and the driver emerges.

“Miss Quindlen,” he says, holding the car door open. I look at the driver, then behind me.

“You’re Miss Quindlen, aren’t you?”

“No, but I wish I were,” I say laughing.

He looks embarrassed, and I want to tell him how he has made my night — no, my year.

Sitting in my Honda, in the light rain, I wait. Quindlen emerges with Ufland and they exchange hugs. The limo driver once again holds open the door, and the real Anna Quindlen steps in.

Maybe it wasn’t inane after all that I told Anna Quindlen I saw my life paralleling hers. It’s not up to me to judge the value of what I write; it’s up to me to face my fear and write from my heart.

That night, for 15 seconds, I was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, and my driver stood in the spitting rain holding open the door of my waiting limousine.

Anything can happen.

Toby Juffre Goode is a freelance writer and proud Chapman mom. tobygoode3@gmail.com

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Trustee Wylie Aitken, President Jim Doti, Trustee Dale Fowler and his wife, Sarah Ann, join in the celebration during the September ceremony naming the Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law. At right, former Secretary of State George Shultz is honored by Dean Tom Campbell after Shultz’s keynote address, during which he challenged leaders to foster “an atmosphere where freedom and entrepreneurship can flourish.”

FAR-REACHING EFFECTS A landmark $55 million gift from Dale E. Fowler ’58 and his wife, Sarah Ann, creates “a new trajectory for our law school that will lead to real prominence,” President Doti says.

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“No country is great without the rule of law, which protects individual liberties and guarantees the economic freedom necessary for entrepreneurship and commerce to flourish. A great law school will provide graduates who will excel at both.

Law must be a partner in the creation of opportunity in our country and to keep our country free individually and economically.”

DALE E. FOWLER

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ale E. Fowler ’58 jokes that he has lived all his life within three miles of Chapman University, near the creek where his grandfather started a sand and gravel business and in the shadow of the venerable high school his mother attended, which now forms the historic classroom core of his college alma mater.

“I guess I haven’t progressed very much,” he says.

But others would disagree — especially the university leaders and dignitaries, including former Secretary of State George Shultz, who gathered at Chapman University on Sept. 10 to honor the Fowler’s landmark gift of $55 million to Chapman’s law school. That bequest from Fowler and his wife of 52 years, Sarah Ann, sets a path for the school that will be profound and far-reaching, President Jim Doti said during the dedication program held in Donald P. Kennedy Hall on what Dean Tom Campbell called “the happiest day in the history of our law school.” “(Dale and Sarah Ann Fowler) are helping to create a new trajectory for our law school that will lead to real prominence in terms of the impact it will have on legal education,” Doti said. With such a philanthropic spirit, the Fowlers join a tradition of Chapman donors who “have made a transformational impact in the lives of the graduates and in our larger society.”

In recognition, the university’s law school was formally renamed the Dale E. Fowler School of Law. Fowler has deep ties to the campus and community. In 1912, his grandfather began a business excavating sand and gravel from nearby Santiago Creek. When Dale enrolled at Chapman, its primary buildings were comprised of the old Orange High School, where his mother had been a student. Two of the Fowlers’ three children attended Chapman — Kathryn Fowler Flattum ’88 and Jeffrey Fowler ’88 — and a granddaughter, Sarah Robblee, is a

faculty member in the Department of English. Grandson Jeremy Smith is a student in the Pre-Health Post Baccalaureate Program.

Fowler grew up in Orange County, paid his way through college and made his first real estate investment before graduation.

From that 10-unit Huntington Beach apartment building, he went on to build a thriving business in industrial property development, eventually expanding throughout Orange and Riverside counties.

The law school gift reflects his belief that a strong legal system is fundamental to protecting the “freedom, integrity and entrepreneurship” that have contributed to the nation’s strength and liberties, Fowler said.

In his remarks as the dedication ceremony’s keynote speaker, Shultz said that this kind of entrepreneurial attention comes at a pivotal time in U.S. history. Reflecting on the higher calling of law and its role in monitoring governments, Shultz called on the legal profession to defend the division of state and federal powers intended by the authors of the U.S. Constitution.

“Remember this division of powers. Remember the importance of the market as a way of getting things done. We’ve been drifting away from it,” said Shultz, one of the few Americans to serve in four different presidential cabinet positions.

Those ideals and values were echoed by Alex Kozinski, chief judge with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

“At the Dale E. Fowler School of Law, students will learn how law can be a part of wealth and not an obstacle to the economic development of society as well as a guarantor of individual liberties,” Kozinski said. “Indeed, I would say that you can’t have personal freedom without economic freedom.”

With this gift, Kozinski added, “Chapman’s Dale E. Fowler School of Law announces to the world that it is here to stay.”

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“Ladies and gentlemen, we are worrying about the wrong border. The border we should be worrying about is Mexico’s southern border; call it North America’s southern border. We should help Mexico avoid becoming a transit country, with all of the human degradation and corruption that goes with human trafficking. That’s the problem. Not Mexico.”

GEORGE SHULTZ

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Afghan lawyers Munira Akhunzada, left, and Shamsi Maqsoudi impressed Chapman students and faculty alike. “It’s been an honor to work with them,” Professor Ron Steiner said.

‘A MESSAGE FOR THE WORLD’ Two Afghan lawyers return home as LL.M. graduates – and as agents of reform

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unira Akhunzada and Shamsi Maqsoudi are back in their native Afghanistan now, advocating for clients and for change in their homeland’s legal system. But their impact on the Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law is still being felt.

In May, the two human rights attorneys graduated with LL.M. (Master of Laws) degrees, completing their studies as special selectees of the U.S. government’s Public Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan. At the graduation ceremony on Chapman’s campus, Akhunzada was picked to give the Commencement address by a vote of her classmates, most of whom are men from Saudi Arabia, where women face many restrictions, including not being able to travel without a male guardian.

“These are men who may not have voted before and they voted not only for a woman but an Afghan woman,” said Professor Ron Steiner, director of graduate programs for the Fowler School of Law. “It’s quite extraordinary.”

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“She’s one of the best students in our group,” said LL.M. classmate Waleed Omari, describing Akhunzada to KPCC News, which covered the Commencement ceremony. “She has a message for the world.”

That message still resounds through Kennedy Hall.

“The person who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare,” Akhunzada said in her speech. “This is the challenge that lies before us.”

Akhunzada, who earned the highest grade in four of her classes, plans to use her new knowledge to become a judge in Afghanistan, while Maqsoudi wants to become a professor of law at Kabul University.

Before Maqsoudi and Akhunzada, other lawyers from Afghanistan had traveled to study at Chapman, and more are following them, as the university remains a key player in the educational partnership for justice reform. But the two students, who have faced threats and hardships for seeking expanded rights for women in Afghanistan, won’t soon be forgotten on the Chapman campus.

“They felt an obligation to take advantage of this opportunity,” Steiner said, “and they did just that.”

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Panther Village, Software Engineering

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hapman University is buzzing with new programs, people and construction this year, as the university moves forward with a variety of projects designed to meet current and future student needs.

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Among the new academic programs is a Bachelor of Science degree in software engineering offered by the Schmid College of Science and Technology.

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New additions to the faculty include Oscar-winning producer and Mandalay Pictures President Cathy Schulman (Crash, The Illusionist), who is filmmaker-in-residence at Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.

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Major construction work began on the Marybelle and Sebastian P. Musco Center for the Arts. When completed, the 1,050-seat facility will be a state-of-the-art home for arts instruction and performance, as well as a site for major touring productions.

Live webcam views of the project are at chapman.edu/campus-services/campus-planning/.

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Construction is under way on a parking structure near the future Digital Media Arts Center and Recreation Complex along North Cypress Street, across from Marion Knott Studios.

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Panther Village, at Chapman Avenue and the I-5, opened this fall as an off-campus housing option for juniors and seniors.

The 104-unit village is serviced by the new University Shuttle Service, which reflects the growth of Chapman’s campus.

Chapman No. 1 in Student Selectivity

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or the third year in a row, Chapman University has placed No. 1 in student selectivity among 121 schools in its category in the U.S. News & World Report annual rankings, released in September. The top ranking compares to a placement of No. 92 out of 112 schools in 1991.

“No other school in the nation has made that kind of leap,” President Jim Doti said of the rankings.

In addition, for the sixth year in a row Chapman was recognized as an Up and Coming School. It is the only school to appear on the Up and Coming list every year since its inception.

Dodge College Ranked No. 7 in Nation

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hapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts has been recognized by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the top 10 film schools in America. This year, Dodge ranks No.7, with nods to its first-of-its-kind microbudget production company, Chapman Filmed Entertainment, as well as the impressive roster of Hollywood luminaries who’ve taught at the school.

Chapman Filmed Entertainment recently wrapped production on Trigger, starring Scott Glenn (Training Day). In addition, The Hollywood Reporter praises Dodge for bringing in filmmakers-in-residence like Robert Zemeckis and for the annual Women in Focus panel (see story on page 18).

Chapman Economists Top Worldly List

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An artist’s rendering shows the planned Digital Media Arts Center and Recreation Complex on North Cypress Street, across from Marion Knott Studios.

bounty of publishing success has boosted Chapman University economists to a lofty position. In a recent report, they rank first in the world, as measured by the number of citations and published papers in the field of experimental economics. The data are compiled by Research Papers in Economics at the University of Connecticut.

The rankings account for work from the Economic Science Institute and the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research — both in the Argyros School of Business and Economics. Among other schools in the top 10 are the University of Chicago and Harvard, as well as universities in Switzerland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

More than 1,400 institutions are represented in the database.

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ESTRADA TO LEAD PROGRAM in Physician Assistant Studies

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Michael Estrada

hapman University has appointed Michael Estrada as the founding director for its Physician Assistant Studies (P.A.) Program in the Schmid College of Science and Technology.

Announced earlier this year, the new P.A. program reflects a growing emphasis on the health sciences at Chapman. The program expects to welcome its first cohort of students in fall 2015. Estrada will lead a rigorous accreditation process, build curriculum and assessment systems and hire faculty. Before coming to Chapman, he was associate professor and academic coordinator of the Riverside Community College District Physician Assistant Program in Moreno Valley, Calif.

“We are thrilled that Mike has decided to join our team and lead us into this new venture,” said Janeen Hill, Ph.D., dean of Schmid College. “We see a bright future for the graduates of the P.A. program and a need for more P.A.s in the future.”

The proposed Master’s of Medical Science Physician Assistant Studies curriculum will be divided into a year of clinical instruction and a year of supervised clinical practice. The P.A. program will be located on Chapman’s Health Sciences Campus in Irvine, which will also house the new School of Pharmacy as well as the Department of Physical Therapy.

Estrada, M.S., DHSc, PA-C, said his vision for the program includes increasing access to healthcare in medically underserved communities, establishing a strong base in primary care and preparing graduates to “lead, promote and empower their local and global communities.”

McLAREN NAMED Distinguished Fellow

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ne of the leading architects of a teaching approach that stresses the empowerment of students to become critical observers and problemsolvers has been named a Distinguished Fellow in Critical Studies in Chapman University’s College of Educational Studies.

Peter McLaren, Ph.D., noted scholar and professor of urban schooling at UCLA, will co-teach classes, deliver special lectures and consult with students and faculty. McLaren says he has long admired Chapman’s embrace of global views and CES’s commitment to the legacy and research of the late Paulo Freire, the Brazilian educator who was one of the 20th century’s most influential education scholars. CES is home to the Paulo Freire Democratic Project, which helps lead participatory research within schools.

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somebody like Paulo and would have a Paulo Freire initiative,” he said.

McLaren will collaborate with Tom Wilson, Ed.D., director of Chapman’s Paulo Freire Democratic Project, and Suzanne SooHoo, Ph.D., Hassinger Endowed Chair in Culture, Community and Collaboration, in the reinvention of the Freire Project at Chapman, as well as formal and informal educational projects.

Known as a leading architect of critical pedagogy and for his writings on critical literacy, the sociology of education, cultural studies, critical ethnography and Marxist theory, McLaren has authored and edited 45 books. His work Life in Schools is now in its fifth edition, and collectively his work has been translated into 20 languages.

McLaren was the inaugural recipient of the Paulo Freire Social Justice Award, presented in 2002 at Chapman.

In 2012, McLaren was inducted as an

Calling Chapman “an incredibly amazing place,” UCLA Professor Peter McLaren will collaborate with faculty in the College of Educational Studies.

American Educational Research Fellow and was made Honorary Chair Professor of Northeast Normal University in China.

He also received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Peace Studies by the Central New York Peace Studies Consortium, one of the oldest peace studies organizations in the world recognized by the United Nations.

LITTLE LEAPS

Chapman’s innovative boot camp helps stroke survivors take steps toward recovery.

By Dawn Bonker

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A colorful parachute and a handful of balloons become tools of recovery at Chapman’s Stroke Boot Camp.

During the program at Chapman, each patient is evaluated troke survivor Tom Birkenhead has big plans. The former and receives customized therapy led by McKenzie’s students, college professor wants to build strength and endurance as well as one-on-one work with several professional therapists in his legs, increasing his independence getting in and out who volunteer at the camp. For Los Angeles resident Janet Johnson, of his battery-powered chair. So there’s no room for sloppiness. who suffered a stroke in 2009, progress means relearning how to “That was kind of a sloppy sit,” Alison McKenzie, Ph.D., climb a short ladder. professor in the Department of Physical Therapy in the Crean “Fear is the number one thing for a person who’s had a stroke.

School of Health and Life Science, tells Birkenhead after he But they take your fear away and build your confidence back,” executes a sideways drop into his chair. “And I want you to says Johnson, who has returned to work as a pipe fitter. not hold on to your chair when you sit down.”

Johnson is one of the camp’s high-functioning attendees. Others “Really?” says Birkenhead, his brown eyes widening in just hope to regain some mobility. Still, such gains are significant, surprise. But his uncertainty is brief and he takes a deep breath.

McKenzie says.

With a groaning effort he rises from his “If I can’t walk anywhere, then chair and completes a fairly smooth “IT’S AS MUCH A BOOT CAMP I can’t hold a job,” she says. “I can’t return to a seated position. McKenzie be the spouse I used to be, I can’t smiles and applauds. There’s more, FOR US AS FOR THE PATIENTS.” be a volunteer in my church and all though. She calls out “Drum roll!” and Sam Swabb ‘14, physical therapy student those roles we play in society.” makes him rise for a 10th time, stand Indeed, Birkenhead says he knows he will have to continue the for several seconds, and lower himself into the chair. work long after the camp ends. But he’s already looking forward Sweat dots his brow as Birkenhead mutters “Whoa.” to an immediate benefit.

But he is pleased.

“I am homebound a lot because I don’t think of things to do,” “Thank you. Thank you,” he says to McKenzie. he says. “But this is great now. I’m Such small steps were like leaps for the 24 stroke survivors making some nice friends here. who attended Chapman University’s Stroke Boot Camp this We might go to a movie.” summer. Now in its third year, the camp gives students in the McKenzie smiles.

Crean School’s Doctor of Physical Therapy Program a dose of It’s one more clinical experience and provides stroke survivors intensive step in a good rehabilitation overseen by professional therapists. Chapman’s direction. first-year DPT students arrange their summers around the twoweek camp, which serves as a head start before they begin clinical coursework in the community.

“It’s as much a boot camp for us as for the patients,” says Sam Swabb ’14, a Chapman DPT student. “We’re getting a lot of oneon-one experience. They throw us into the mix and challenge us.”

And it’s not for whimsy that it’s called Boot Camp. While the greatest gains in recovery are made in the first six months after a stroke, research shows that more advances can be gained with hard work, McKenzie says. It’s a costly benefit increasingly trimmed by insurers, but there’s reason to push for more rehabilitation programs. Of the more than 700,000 people who suffer a stroke in the United States each year, about two-thirds will survive and need therapy, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Stroke patient Jeanne Schabarum tackles stairs with help from a physical therapy student.

ON THE WALL What happens when you give people a public place to jot down thoughts and opinions? At Chapman University, that place is adopted by students as a marketplace of ideas. The Global Citizens Wall debuted this fall, and each week Student Civic Engagement posts a new question on the glossy surface in Argyros Forum. Add a few markers, some engaged students and the dialogue flows. So far students have mused about Syria and the Sept. 11 anniversary, and the concept has proved so successful that informal dinners are being scheduled to keep the conversation going. The wall was devised by Gabriela Manriquez ’14, a business administration major from Surprise, Ariz., and a civic engagement program assistant. “It’s a small idea that started off on poster board and now it’s a huge wall,” she said. “It’s great that the school took this so seriously.”

DATING DEBATE: WHO SHOULD PAY? After nearly 50 years of feminism, a key question remains: Who should pay for dates during courtship? Psychology professor David Frederick, Ph.D., of Chapman University posed that query and more in research he presented recently at the 108th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. The data illustrate that while times are changing, many conventions endure. For instance, 64 percent of men think women should help pay dating expenses, although 76 percent of those men feel guilty about accepting the money. Consistent with convention, most men (84 percent) and women (58 percent) reported that men pay the bulk of dating expenses. More than half (57 percent) of women say they offer to help pay, but many (39 percent) confessed that they hope men reject their offers. Ah, rejection. There’s a subject for a whole other dating study.

MOMENTS OF MUSICAL BLISS Excellence crosses generations in the College of Performing Arts, as evidenced by some recent news.

Not long after tenor Ben Bliss ’09 won his category of the Placido Domingo International Operalia Competition in Verona, Italy, came the announcement that musical theatre actor Dennis Kelly ’67 had been cast in the national touring company of Anything Goes, which brought him to Orange County for a September run at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Bliss just completed two years with the Los Angeles Opera, and he recently landed a spot in the young artists program with the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Meanwhile, Kelly has played leading roles on Broadway in Annie Get Your Gun, Damn Yankees and Into the Woods, among many other productions. For Bliss, there’s joy in connecting with Chapman artists wherever he performs. Bridging genres and generations, the CoPA culture “is the cornerstone in the foundation of my musical world,” he says.

Opera legend Placido Domingo congratulates Ben Bliss ’09 after his victory in Verona, Italy.

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ON TOP OF THE WORLD For her senior research paper, Priya Shah ’13 delved into a world in which language was a tool of cultural destruction. She told the story so well that the World History Association has lifted up her work as a shining example of constructive thought.

Shah was co-winner of the association’s top undergraduate award — the prestigious Phi Alpha Theta prize. Her paper, Language, Discipline, and Power: The Extirpation of Idolatry in Colonial Peru and Indigenous Resistance, includes research she conducted in Peru, thanks to travel assistance from the Department of History. In his recommendation letter, Professor Leland Estes, Ph.D., Shah’s Senior Seminar mentor, said, “I have supervised almost 200 senior theses since I began at Chapman, and this is certainly the most sophisticated undergraduate use of social scientific ideas that I have ever encountered.”

Clearly the World History Association was just as impressed.

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“What’s important about this occasion is your family and friends’ love, happiness and pride in your accomplishments. Which, after all, is a small price for the ritual of sitting through a Commencement speech.”

Eugenie Scott, Ph.D., executive director of the National Center for Science Education, speaking at College of Educational Studies Commencement

“By the time I finish that first chapter, I’ve managed to convince myself that I’m kind of a genius. And it’s a wonderful feeling.

Then you get 60 or 70 pages in and that feeling evaporates, and you realize that it is, as always, about the hard work of pushing that rock of writing up the hill.”

Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist

“If you’re not having fun, something’s wrong. Work on something that’s meaningful. I produced Wayne’s World, and I’ll be honest, Wayne’s World didn’t save the world. It didn’t even save Wayne. But it made us all laugh. It made kids living out fantasy lives in their parents’ basements feel that someone understood them. I think that matters.”

Hawk Koch, producer of more than 32 movies and immediate past president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, speaking at Dodge College Commencement

and best-selling author, speaking in Professor Harry Ufland’s class on creativity

“Now we can create our sense of home. If you don’t have a sense of who you are, you can fall through the cracks. Home now is where you feel most yourself. Home has less to do with a place of soil and more to do with a place of soul. ” Pico Iyer, acclaimed author, travel writer and distinguished presidential fellow at Chapman University, speaking in the George H.W. Bush Conference Center

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Chapman anthropology students go more than skin deep to document the experience of women tattooists.

By Dennis Arp

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attooing has been around as long as people have. They would face a big hurdle in found tattoos preserved on the skin of cavemen. We have getting the female artists to embrace the project. always been doing this.”

“The trust they gained comes through in their film,” the That narration begins the film In My Own Skin, made by professor said.

Chapman University anthropology researchers Alyson Vallario ’14 The students focused on three women tattooists for Outer and Drew Heskett ’14. The voice belongs to tattoo artist Laura Limits, including Kari Barbra, who owns the three shops in Wangerin, one of the main subjects of the film. And if by “we” she Southern California and is something of a female pioneer in the means women of the tattooing industry, then industry. She started tattooing in the 1970s. no, they have not always been doing this.

The three artists bring widely varied It’s really only since the 1970s and ’80s perspectives to the film. Jen Davis, who works that women tattooists started making inroads, in Outer Limits’ Orange location, said she and even today they remain a minority in has never felt hamstrung by her gender in the industry. The eight-minute film dips a a male-dominated industry. tattooed toe into the lives of these female “Quite the opposite,” she said. “Generally artists — “how they fit in with the guys and I’ve gotten jobs because I am a female, how that process changed their personalities, including when I started 16 years ago, when if they changed at all,” Vallario said. it was more of a novelty.”

The documentary, made for Professor However, Long Beach-based artist Laura Stephanie Takaragawa’s Anthropology 301 Wangerin said she has had clients make class, is gleaned from five hours of interviews appointments based on the quality of her and dozens more hours of other historical portfolio only to back out when they arrived and ethnographic research. But at its heart, to find that she is a woman. the film reflects the basic curiosity of the She also said she has seen work-related student researchers themselves. changes in her personality.

Vallario came to Chapman from Northern “I feel like I had to toughen up to fit in,” California as a math major but discovered she says in the film. “I know I swear a lot a new passion as a sophomore when she more than I used to. Because if as a girl you’re took Takaragawa’s introductory class in meek and nice and don’t ruffle any feathers, Andrew Heskett ’14 and Alyson Vallario ’14, anthropology. With the professor’s help, you get walked all over and no one will take right, spent hours interviewing women tattooists, including Jen Davis. she eventually crafted her own major in you seriously. So you have to find that line, cultural anthropology. maintaining who you are while not letting Also during her Chapman journey, Vallario met Heskett, yourself be a pushover.” a film major who adopted her appreciation for anthropology.

Though the class is over, Vallario and Heskett want to expand So when the two took the Ethonographic Fieldwork class on their research to include even more subjects, to deepen their together, it seemed natural to present as a film their joint understanding. Meanwhile at Outer Limits, Barbra couldn’t be research on such a visual subject. more happy with her mix of women and men artists.

Takaragawa, Ph.D. “We’re just like a melting pot in here,” she said, “and that’s knew that the students the way we want it.”

To view Vallario and Heskett’s film In My Own Skin, visit chapman.edu/magazine.

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MASTER BUILDER After transforming the program at Redlands, new baseball coach Scott Laverty is out to put the Panthers back on top. urning around a losing sports program is never easy. But head baseball coach Scott Laverty did just that at the University of Redlands, where after early struggles his team became a perennial contender. Still, Laverty couldn’t seem to escape a shadow.

“We were always envious of Chapman,” he said. “I mean all of those College World Series appearances — that’s where we wanted to be.”

And now Laverty is here. This summer, he was named the new head coach at Chapman University, taking over a Panther baseball program that over the past 18 seasons has made 14 NCAA Division III playoff appearances, won 10 West Region championships and in 2003 captured the national championship.

Laverty replaces Tom Tereschuk, who resigned at the end of the 2013 season as the Panthers’ all-time winningest coach with 350 career victories. However, Laverty inherits a Chapman team coming off its first losing season (18–21) since 1995.

He is joined by Dave Edwards, the Panthers’ associate head coach and pitching coach since 2003, who remains on the staff.

Laverty had to endure his share of losing campaigns early in his 14-year tenure at Redlands. He took over a fledgling program that finished under .500 eight times from 1997 to 2004. But by the time he left, the Bulldogs had enjoyed nine consecutive winning seasons and finished first or second in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) five times.

After a nationwide search, Panther officials decided the best man for the job was in their own conference and lived just a few minutes from the Chapman campus, in Placentia.

“This was the largest applicant pool of any position we have filled here at Chapman," said Athletic Director David Currey, who headed the search. “It speaks to the respect our baseball program has earned and the young men and past coaches who have helped to build that.”

Laverty is glad to be in a position to do some building of his own.

“I’m ecstatic about the opportunity to work with this team,” he said.

“We’ll be very young, but we’ll have a lot of talent.”

Laverty has a great reputation as a teacher and coach, Currey said.

“He is a proven team builder, winner and understands the big picture of college athletics,” the athletic director added.

The new Panther coach also has a strong track record as a recruiter, although now he will need to find a new measuring stick.

New Chapman baseball coach Scott Laverty, As the coach of Redlands, “I always knew that if I was recruiting above, “understands the philosophy of NCAA someone Chapman was, too, I was in the right place,” he said.

Division III and brings SCIAC experience to That was good practice. Because as he sits in his office at Chapman, our campus, which we need,” says Athletic Laverty is convinced that now and for the future, he’s in the right place.

Director David Currey.

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or the fourth consecutive year, the Chapman

FUniversity volleyball team has earned the

American Volleyball Coaches Association’s Team Academic Award, thanks to a cumulative 3.5 gradepoint average. Leading the way are juniors Lena Buckendorf (3.89 GPA, biological sciences) and Lauren Schour (3.83 GPA, education studies). Success in the classroom was equaled on the court as the Panthers tied a school Division III record with 24 wins and reached the second round of the NCAA playoffs for the second straight year.

Photo by Nathan Worden ’13

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PRESEASON ALL-AMERICANS our Chapman football players were named to the USA Football

FNetwork’s Division III Preseason All-American list. Junior running back Jeremiah McKibbins and senior wide receiver Robin Harris earned second-team honors, while senior offensive lineman Justin LaLonde and junior punter Markus Trujillo received honorable mention. A year ago, McKibbins ranked sixth in the nation in yards per game (149) en route to 1,190 overall — the second-highest total in school history.

Meanwhile, Harris led Chapman with 45 receptions for 726 yards and nine touchdowns.

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As the planet warms and the fall wildfire risk lengthens, a NASA project involving Chapman researchers offers a first line of defense against the growing threat of mega-blazes.

By Mary Platt he tragic deaths of 19 “Hotshot” firefighters this summer in Arizona brought back to the headlines the extreme dangers of wildfires throughout the nation but especially in the West. By the end of July, almost 2.5 million acres had burned nationally. And that’s before California’s Rim fire erupted, consuming more than 250,000 acres in and around Yosemite National Park, costing better than $100 million to battle and at its peak involving 3,100 firefighters. Here’s the really ominous news: The traditional fire season is only now in full swing.

Experts point to the oscillating weather patterns — from torrential rains to long heat waves — that accompany global climate change as a cause for the recurring syndrome of wet springs followed by dry summers and then fall fires. This year in California, the fire season actually started in May because ample winter rains fed a profusion of growth in brush, which dried out during a parched spring. Local governments, firefighting agencies and residents of fire-prone areas face a challenging fall as they search for long-term solutions to this cycle of fire danger.

One promising front-line defense is being created with the help of Chapman University researchers in the Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling and Observations.

Working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the NOAA National Weather Service, Chapman scientists are using the university’s sophisticated XB Band Direct Broadcast antenna to directly receive key data from orbiting satellites. Co-principal investigator Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., of Chapman’s Schmid College of Science and Technology, and principal investigator Son Nghiem, Ph.D., of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), lead a team of experts who are researching these data in a NASA-funded applied science project focusing on assessing fire danger before blazes start.

From left, Son Nghiem, Ph.D., of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., director of Chapman’s Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling and Observations (CEESMO); and Boksoon Myong, Ph.D., staff research scientist at CEESMO, confer on data that help them assess fire danger.

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To learn more about Chapman’s satellite antenna and its Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling and Observations, as well as view video reports on the wildfire project, visit Chapman Magazine online at chapman.edu/magazine.

Satellite images are captured several times daily by Chapman’s XB Band Direct Broadcast antenna, right. With good pre-fire data, scientists can create a terrain map that shows where the hazard is greatest.

This research project links with another — a climate and agriculture study funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, as wildfires change local conditions affecting climate and ecosystems.

While research based on fire-weather interactions has been ongoing for decades, fire research related to climate change has only recently become a focus for scientists.

“This link is important, as it is related to long-term trends,” Nghiem said. “The data we receive several times daily here measure parameters crucial for fire-danger assessment, from the proliferation of fuel — the plants — to the moisture content of the plants and the soil. Based on all that, we can create a terrain map that shows where vegetation has dried out the most, and show it in near real time.”

“The satellite data we receive from NASA are free, but that doesn’t mean that everyone receives it in a timely manner,”

is greatest.” Once a fire has started, “it’s not currently possible to accurately predict the fire’s path in real time,” he added.

But with good pre-fire data, agencies such as those in Los Angeles, Ventura and Orange County, can make informed decisions about applying resources to mitigate the danger.

“We can see through these images whether vegetation is moist and alive or dead and dried out,” Kafatos said. “The fire agencies routinely send personnel to selected locations, cut and sample the vegetation and make their own measurements. That’s extremely labor-intensive work, and before the satellite data it was almost impossible to do it efficiently and frequently in every area.”

As the project progresses, the national agencies may post the reports online so the public can plan their own defense strategies. “If you live in an area where the fire danger is very high, you’d know to be on alert.” says Nghiem.

Plans for phase two of the project are waiting for approval. This phase would be three years long and build on initial lessons, Kafatos said. “We’ll be able to go into much more detail (on soil moisture), using the newest satellite that’s coming online next fall.”

News of the research is already spreading.

When project scientists presented examples of satellite results to stakeholders, the reaction was “Wow, can we get those maps now?”

Kafatos added. “Because Chapman has its own antenna, we get the data and process them within 15 minutes. With fires, it’s extremely important to have the most updated information, which we receive from NASA satellites in day and night passes.”

The antenna is good at tracking fast-moving fires as well as other hazards, such as floods, dust storms, smoke and pollution, Kafatos noted.

Nghiem emphasized that researchers’ role is not first response. “We’re looking at predicting where the risk of fire

But during the current fire season, news of the research is already spreading. When project scientists presented examples of satellite results to stakeholders at the Fire Summit in Diamond Bar, Calif., in May, the reaction was: “Wow, can we get those maps now?” Kafatos said.

“And that’s when I have to say, ‘Wait a minute, we’re just in phase one; but yes, you can see this is feasible and you can see the potential usage it has.’

“There’s a lot of excitement about the possibilities.”

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Dawn Taubin , left, moderated th e panel discussion W omen in Comedy feat uring, from Taubin’s left, Maya Rudolph, Dia blo Cody, Anne Fletche r, Nancy Meyers, Pene lope Spheeris and Donna Langley.

Together, th e work of the women on the pane l has earned m ore than $2 billion at the box offic e.

FUNNY BUSINESS cross six decades of work and more than 80 mostly wonderful films, Jack Nicholson has done just about everything there is to do in Hollywood. But until 2003, when he signed on to play Harry Sanborn in the romantic comedy Something’s Gotta Give, he had never been directed by a woman.

“Tell me about it,” said Nancy Meyers, the film’s director, writer and producer, drawing great laughter from the predominantly female audience during the annual Women in Focus panel discussion at Chapman University.

“Here’s the truth: I love him, he’s a really good friend,” Meyers said of Nicholson. “But if anyone had told me that during our first week of shooting, I would have said you are out of your mind — he and I will never end up liking each other.

“The first week was tough; the second week was tough. The third got better. It just got better. It was a war — but not for long.”

War stories were what many in the crowd of film students came to hear as they filled Folino Theater at Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. This year’s Women in Focus panel featuring film industry titans was themed Women in Comedy, and attendees got front-line stories full of humor, to be sure. But they also got much more, including an optimistic vision of what lies ahead for women filmmakers.

“Across the board, the climate is changing drastically in favor of us, and you need to own that,” said producerdirector-choreographer Anne Fletcher, whose directing credits include The Guilt Trip (2012), starring Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen, and The Proposal (2009), with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. “The time of sexism and belittling women is going away.”

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relationship — a tack she knows he wouldn’t have taken if she were a man.

His insecurity was showing, she said, and it’s important that women not respond in kind.

“Stay in your strength and your support and your talent and your creativity,” Fletcher said. “Don’t get sucked into craziness.”

Donna Langley, co-chair of Universal Pictures, noted that rejection comes with the territory for filmmakers, along with “stupid notes and people who do not understand your work,” she added. “It’s your passion for your project that should drive you forward regardless.”

Langley’s own passion drove her to champion the film version of Mamma Mia! even though she got laughed out of the project’s first greenlight meeting.

“It was a movie I wanted to see, and over time my enthusiasm got people on the bandwagon,” she said.

The 2008 film, for which the marketing team originally projected $15 million in box office, grossed $450 million worldwide.

“So believe in your passion, even if it involves ABBA,” Langley counseled with a smile.

Maya Rudolph, star of Bridesmaids

Anne Fletcher, director of The Guilt Trip and The Proposal, counsels Chapman film students during the Women in Focus event.

Bridesmaids (2011) is another big winner during the Langley era at Universal — and the runaway hit has become a touchstone of sorts for makers of female-centric comedies. A “Bridesmaids effect” probably is driving a surge in such films, the panelists allowed. But as was noted by Maya Rudolph, who starred in Bridesmaids: Should it really be a surprise that women can be funny?

“It’s a coed sport,” Rudolph said of comedy. “Where were they when we did our sketches on Saturday Night Live? Did they go to the bathroom every time we came on?”

Though Bridesmaids may be helping to open doors in Hollywood for funny women, the panelists said that good work transcends trends.

“The truth is you have to fight to get the work as a human being, not just as a woman,” Rudolph said.

But that doesn’t mean women filmmakers shouldn’t maximize their advantages, said Diablo Cody, who won the Oscar for best original screenplay for her 2007 breakout film Juno.

“People are always saying that every story has been told, but I don’t think that every woman’s story has been told,” she said. “There’s still stuff we need to get off our chest, whereas the guys have been talking for a long time, so they may be out of stories.”

Penelope Spheeris certainly isn’t out of stories. Her tales of directing male-dominated comedies such as Wayne’s World and Black Sheep had the Folino Theater audience howling. For instance, one time she was so frustrated by a male studio executive that she took a ballpoint pen and let the air out of the tires on his limo.

“I’m not saying that should be a first choice,” she said, “but sometimes you just have to get out there and let more air out of tires.”

And sometimes it makes more sense just to be steadfast and strategic, as well as collaborative and diplomatic, Fletcher said.

“Women make incredible leaders because we can operate in the gray areas,” she noted. “We have a chance to be the calming voice.”

Plus, as the six Women in Focus panelists prove, it never hurts to be supremely talented. An outstanding script and a wellspring of confidence can even win over actors who are new to taking direction from a woman.

“Jack is close with a lot of women, and now I’m one of them,” Meyers said of Nicholson. “He calls me Chief. In 10 years, he has never said my name. Once he looked at me and said, ‘I’m bringing you a headdress, Chief.’”

To Meyers it’s a sign that things are headed in the right direction.

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By Colin Arp ’16

The natural wonders and unique culture of Iceland drew Chapman University students such as Charlie Cook ’13 to a summer interterm class on documentary filmmaking.

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efore we walked this land of volcanic rock and ash, where icy glaciers give way to steaming vents and churning geysers; before we drove through endless rolling hills of wild grass flecked with brilliant brush strokes of purple lupine; before we even stepped off the plane in Keflavik to document the lives and land of a people who retain more of the Viking spirit than they probably realize, many of us expected that we would want to return someday, that two weeks wouldn’t possibly be enough time to fully explore a land as rich in natural and cultural history as is Iceland.

And, it turns out, we were right. But that’s not to say we didn’t try.

Like our relationship with Iceland, our group began the trip mostly as strangers — 10 Chapman University students, two recent graduates and Dodge College professor Sally Rubin together on a documentary-filmmaking adventure during summer interterm. Of course, there’s probably no better crash-course in group bonding than sharing the experience of an unfamiliar place.

Hallgrimskirkja Church is a cultural hub and iconic landmark in Reykjavik, Iceland. The capital city provides a base for marine exploration, including of icebergs from the Vatnajokull Glacier, which covers about 8 percent of Iceland’s land mass.

uring summer in Iceland, it’s impossible to sit still, and we never stayed in the same place for long.

We rode horses under the midnight sun, hiked valleys carved by ancient glaciers and braced each other against the wind as we scaled towering cliffs.

Everywhere we went we were warmly welcomed.

In those short weeks we traveled to every corner of Iceland packed shoulder to shoulder in our trusty van, with Oli, our intrepid guide, at the wheel. He’s a tall, muscular man most easily described as the Icelandic Sean Connery — as ruggedly handsome and, at times, as incomprehensible as the actor. As with Sean Connery, I have no idea exactly how old Oli is. If I had to guess, based on his vast knowledge of the land and immense collection of stories, I’d ballpark him at 130. And yet nothing slows 22

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him down — probably because of all that Viking blood.

We quickly learned that Oli doesn’t operate on the same standards of time, distance or physical limitation as everyone else. On the first day, what he described as a “quick hike and easy climb” up Viti Crater turned into a test of our limits. The path seemed to go straight up as we trudged through thick gravel and sand, each step forward more like a half-step back. The air felt perilously thin as we neared the summit.

But somehow we all made it, and our reward was a view across time into Iceland’s origins, when powerful glaciers and colliding tectonic plates sculpted the land. From the lava formations of the Askja Volcano to the shimmering waters of Lake Myvatin and the cloud-covered peak of the unpronounceable,

Hvannadalshnúkur, it was all before us.

After that day, we never questioned Oli and his plans again.

If covering the whole of Iceland in two weeks is ambitious, then trying to document it in a film is truly an oversized challenge, especially since most of us, myself included, had never made a documentary before. Luckily we had the aid of two recent Chapman film graduates, Charlie Cook ’13 and Michael McIlraith ’13, and the leadership of Professor Rubin, a world-class documentarian.

Although we were all together, we weren’t working on the same film. We had formed three teams of four, each with its own project. All in our group had just finished our freshman year, with no previous documentary experience. But what better place and time than this to begin the learning process?

It wasn’t until we arrived in the fishing village of Husavik that we settled on a subject for our film. The town dates to the 9th century, when Norse settlers arrived, and today it’s renowned for its whale-watching.

But a modern town can’t survive on fishing and tourism alone. In the dead of winter, when the whales and tourists are gone, there just aren’t enough jobs to go around.

Similar to other Icelandic towns, Husavik is exploring industrialization. But as we walked the streets of this quaint village nestled into a picturesque fjord, it was hard to imagine a factory fitting in.

It’s a difficult situation, full of competing interests and conflicting points of view, with no clear answers. In other words, it’s a perfect subject for a documentary.

On the morning when we first picked up a camera, our team was dropped off under the overhang of a church as rain poured off the roof in thick sheets. For a moment, we were paralyzed.

A couple of city workers tended flowerbeds nearby, so we decided to try talking to them about how a proposed silica-refining plant might affect the town.

They spoke little English, and we got nowhere. Making a documentary suddenly felt farther away than ever before.

Sara Polito, our director, sought the solace of a warm beverage in the café next door, and a few minutes later she returned with coffee and good news. The owner of one of the whale-watching boats was in the cafe, and he had agreed to be interviewed.

We gathered our gear and headed inside.

During the interview, we asked him how he made his voice heard on local issues, and he replied simply, “I talk to the mayor.”

At some sort of town hall meeting, we assumed. “No,” he said. “I invite him over for coffee. His office is the building right behind this one.”

We didn’t hesitate. Two members of our team found Oli and Professor Rubin, and with their help we planned to sweet talk the mayor into meeting with us. While a couple of us finished shooting in the café, others ran next door, quickly returning to say that we had 10 minutes before the mayor left for Rekjavik.

We wrapped up the first interview and hurried across the slick parking lot,

desperately shielding the camera from the rain.

We were filming an interview with the mayor before we were done shaking his hand, and just like that we went from our lowest point to our highest, all in the first hour of our first day as documentarians.

From then on, the filming went pretty smoothly. We had jumped into the deep end, and, with help, we were learning how to swim. As we delved deeper into the subject matter of our documentary, it was clear that we would take home from Iceland more than an appreciation for its natural wonders. This became crystal clear during the last day of our journey. That’s when Oli took us to the peninsula where one of the first settlers on the island had spent his initial winter.

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Chapman film students, from left, Nico Danilovich ’16, Colin Arp ’16 and Shaun Yee ’16 interview a marine researcher for their documentary exploring the potential impact of industrial development on Iceland’s natural environments, which include large colonies of Icelandic puffins.

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Above, a whale skeleton near the town of Djupivogur stretches toward the shoreline in the shadow of coastal peaks. Below, Westin Ray ‘15 and Michael McIlraith ‘13 surf the steam from a vent in the Lake Myvatn Geothermal Area, where Iceland’s volcanic history is still being made.

to attempt it in the van. The black sand of the beach was slick with water, reflecting the perfect sky above, making it look like we were crossing the ocean itself. Fog hugged the ground in all directions, making it impossible to tell where we had come from and where we were headed. We looked through the van window as if we were in a spaceship exploring another planet.

We got out of the van and climbed our final hill that day, huddled together with our hoods pulled tight as the wind whipped the sand around us. Eventually the sand gave way to rock, and the rock to soil, with the landscape taking on its familiar vibrant glow.

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the contrast with the beach, but I remember the grassy peninsula that appeared before us as the richest green I had ever seen. And there, nestled throughout the grass that extended to rocky cliffs, were the fabled Icelandic puffins — thousands of them perched or preening or flying in with the catch of the day. This was their home, but they were polite enough to let us observe, so long as we kept our distance.

Again we found ourselves looking back from a lofty spot, out across the washed black sand behind us, with only the ocean before us. It was another in a long string of experiences we shared as a group — experiences we never would have had alone.

I now think I know the best part of documentary filmmaking.

You go somewhere in the hopes of finding and recording something to bring back home, but while you’re there you do more than observe a culture or explore an issue. You experience it as fully as you can, you join in the conversation, and oftentimes you find something you were never looking for in the first place.

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❶ Svartifoss — the black falls — draws its name from the basalt columns through which it descends. ❷ A lonely road knifes through moss-covered rocks that were left behind by a huge volcanic eruption. ❸ Glacial ice sculpted by the surf and rain offers a stark contrast with a black sand beach. ❹ Tour leader Olafur Schraum — Oli to the visitors — takes a break from his tales of Icelandic lore to pose with Professor Sally Rubin. ❺ Westin Ray leads the group during a ride through fields of lupine aboard the famous Icelandic horses. ❻ Another moment of repose in an epic setting: clockwise from left, Charlie Cook ’13, Michael McIlraith ‘13, Sarah Salvas ’16, Dylan Sidoo ’16, Shaun Yee ’16, Professor Sally Rubin, Tarah Stuht ’15, Austin Ray ’15, Nico Danilovich ’16, Westin Ray ’15, Amelia Cunningham ’16, Sara Polito ’16 and Colin Arp ’16.

At press time, Iceland trip participants were completing final edits on their documentaries.

Once the films are online, links will be posted at chapman.edu/magazine.

Professor Harry Ufland and 22 students from Chapman’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts visited Australia over interterm to meet artists, executives and politicians significant to the region’s entertainment business. Read an account by participant Brandon Padveen ’14 and see photos from the trip, also in Chapman Magazine online.

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Next-Gen Rx Chapman crafts its new School of Pharmacy to meet changing healthcare demands and link with innovative research opportunities.

Photo by Scott Stedman ’14

By Dennis Arp

arfarin is a substance that wasn’t quite sure what it wanted to be when it grew up. At birth, its purpose was killing rats, and by all accounts it was effective. But now, 65 years later, it’s a drug refined for human use — widely prescribed because it’s really good at saving people’s lives, which it does by thinning the blood, preventing heart attacks, strokes and blood clots.

From efficient poison to trusted remedy?

That’s a journey warfarin couldn’t have made without lots of specialized help. It takes skilled professionals using advanced tools to get drugs and their dosing just right these days. Ron Jordan and his colleagues can’t wait to start preparing the next generation of those professionals.

Jordan, R.Ph., FAPh.A, is the founding dean of the new Chapman University School of Pharmacy (CUSP), which plans to welcome students to the professional portion of its program in 2015, pending WASC and ACPE accreditation approval. It will be the first such school in Orange County.

When that first class of 70 or so pharmacy students completes studies at Chapman’s new

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Health Sciences Campus in Irvine, those pharmacists will enter a fast-evolving healthcare arena. In fact, there may never have been a more exciting time to take on the role of pharmacy professional, Jordan said.

“As the most frequently encountered health care professionals, we have a great opportunity to influence behavior and help people manage their care,” said Jordan, who led the completion of a $75 million research and teaching facility when he was the dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Rhode Island.

“I also believe that there are still too many errors in healthcare delivery and that pharmacists are positioned to lead efforts preventing errors.”

The influence of pharmacists on care is only going to grow, notes Lawrence Brown, professor of pharmacoeconomics and health policy at CUSP. Brown, Pharm.D., Ph.D., FAPh.A, points to warfarin as an example of pharmacists’ critical role in this new healthcare dynamic.

As professionals, Chapman’s Doctor of Pharmacy graduates will be seeing patients who arrive with a portfolio of data on their own genetic makeup. Within the next few years, the testing that yields such data will probably cost just a few hundred dollars, or maybe even less than $100, said Brown, who is also associate dean of student and academic affairs at CUSP. “We know that a drug like warfarin has a different effect on different people, depending on whether they’re a slow or fast metabolizer,” he said. “One patient

As his collection of antique apothecary bottles shows, School of Pharmacy Dean Ron Jordan has an appreciation for history. But he and his colleagues are taking a forward-looking approach as they design a program pegged to a healthcare environment that increasingly prizes collaboration.

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“I want to make sure we have a solid research base, to service the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device innovation all around us in Orange County,” he said.

The Irvine campus is at the epicenter of such activity. Chapman is preparing those facilities for Department of Physical Founding faculty members for the Chapman University School of Pharmacy include, from left, Therapy students in 2014 and the formal Lawrence Brown, professor of pharmacoeconomics and health policy and associate dean of student launch of the College of Pharmacy in and academic affairs; Siu-Fun Wong, professor of oncology and associate dean of assessment and 2015. Chapman’s new Physician Assistant scholarship; Ronald Jordan, dean; Nancy Alvarez, assistant dean for experiential education and continuing professional development; and Keykavous Parang, professor and associate dean of Studies program will also be housed research, graduate studies and global affairs. there. Among other things, the facility will feature research and teaching labs as may need a 15 milligram dose, another push to meet an accreditation deadline, well as high-tech classrooms that support maybe just 5 milligrams.” everyone contributed in critical ways. active learning.

Get it wrong and the drug might “We’ve hired great people,” Jordan said.

“Most of the curriculum won’t involve be ineffective — or even harmful. But Indeed, the credentials are impressive. standard lectures at all,” Jordan said. “We’ll with specific genetic markers, a health Brown recently was elected the next president be working with facilitated teamwork and professional can dose more confidently of the American Pharmacists Association — casework scenarios.” from the start. “a huge honor in our profession,” Jordan The school will nudge students onto “Not only is that great for the patient, noted. Meanwhile, Parang, who was a the path of collaboration by linking to other but it creates a more efficient and costcolleague of Jordan at the University of disciplines at Chapman, including biology, effective healthcare system,” Brown said.

Rhode Island, is a widely published chemistry and film.

Chapman will prepare students to medicinal chemist with an international Film? thrive in such a system, which Brown says reputation for drug design and delivery.

“I’ve long had a desire to get a screenplay also will emphasize collaborative care, as Nancy Alvarez, PharmD, BCPS, FAPhA, or TV show developed with a pharmacist as more pharmacists work alongside other is the school’s assistant dean for experiential a central character,” Brown said. “Consumers specialists on healthcare teams. education and continuing professional have a perception of the pharmacist as “Pharmacists who want more advendevelopment, while someone who turous careers will have those opportunities,” Siu-Fun Wong, PharmD, “PHARMACISTS WHO WANT MORE only dispenses said Keykavous Parang, Pharm.D., Ph.D., FASHP, FCSHP, is professor medications, and I ADVENTUROUS CAREERS WILL professor and associate dean of research, of oncology and associate think that would HAVE THOSE OPPORTUNITIES.” graduate studies and global affairs at dean of assessment and change if they saw CUSP. “They’ll be empowered to impact scholarship.

Keykavous Parang, a more interesting professor and associate dean care directly, in hospital and group Alvarez has been on role in a movie. I’m practice settings.” board for just a few months hoping someone from The process of creating a school from but already senses an entrepreneurial spirit the film school will take up the challenge.” scratch invigorates Jordan and his faculty. within the group.

As the Chapman team reaches across Already they are developing strong ties to “Healthcare itself is changing, and to disciplines and readies facilities and professional organizations, as evidenced by be accountable for the change they want curriculum, the challenges are just the new Dean’s Professional Advisory Group, to see in practice, pharmacists need to beginning. But the dean’s excitement is which features executives from major have a bit of that spirit, and as educators obvious when he talks about preparing employers of pharmacists in Orange County. so do we,” she said. students for the opportunities that await.

“Founding members will have key roles As an oncology expert, Wong is a “We’ll be preparing them for change, in strategic planning and in advising our powerful advocate for a team approach but also to be change agents,” he said. faculty, staff and leadership,” Jordan said. to care. She also arrives with extensive “Delivering something of value to society In their day-to-day work, the CUSP experience conducting regional, national is at that foundation of pharmacy. And all faculty and staff leadership team is taking and international research — a source of us here realize that we have our own on a number of challenges. During a recent of emphasis at CUSP, Jordan said. chance to make a real difference.”

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THE WHISTLE—BLOWERS

By Scott Martelle

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Those who encounter

wrongdoing face tough ethical choices. Does social responsibility

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t almost sounds like an essay prompt in an ethics class: As an employee, you are privy to information of public significance about which you feel your employer is not being honest. Do you remain silent? Or do you speak out, inviting dismissal, possible criminal or civil action, and the scorn of your peers — or, conversely, public gratitude?

What do you do?

It’s not an easy question, nor an academic exercise, as people from Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning to Roger Boisjoly and Daniel Ellsberg can attest. And the right decision is not necessarily the clear, nor unanimously supported, one. Whistle-blowers often are ostracized and face worksite retaliation, from transfers to demotions to dismissal.

Some — especially those dealing in government secrets — face arrest.

Time magazine explored the issue in June in an article headlined “Geeks Who Leak,” examining the “hacker mentality” embrace of a philosophy “that information wants to be free, that privacy is sacred and that he has a responsibility to defend both ideas.” While that would seem to skew to a younger generation, and ethos, a 2011 study by the business-funded Ethics Resource Center suggests an unexpected generational divide in approaches to whistle-blowing, with older workers more likely to go outside their institution to correct a perceived wrong than would younger workers.

All of this creates challenges when it comes

Roger Boisjoly, below, examines a model of the space shuttle’s o-rings in 1991.

to teaching ethics, particularly to those planning to enter the business world, and in establishing a moral foundation for understanding motives, costs and the repercussions of what some might consider to be acts of disloyalty.

“It is very important for students to understand that many times the wrongdoings in society are exposed by people who are on the inside — who actually see what’s going on,” says John Stupar, a former aerospace engineering project manager who teaches courses in business and engineering communications and ethics at Chapman University. “They really have a social responsibility to reveal the misconduct, especially if it’s affecting the health, safety and welfare of society.”

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Chapman philosophy professor Mike W. Martin, Ph.D., believes that “most professionals confront whistleblowing decisions at some time in their career. Hence students need to be prepared in advance about how to handle them.”

In fact, whistle-blowers have had a significant impact on public awareness of governmental and private-sector wrongdoing, and at times have altered the course of the nation’s trajectory.

Public support for the Vietnam War, for instance, plummeted after Ellsberg, a civilian Pentagon analyst, leaked a confidential Defense Departmentwritten history of the war to the New York Times.

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“We were told over and over early in the war that you don’t understand what’s going on; we understand, let us run it,” says Don Will, the Delp-Wilkinson Professor of Peace Studies at Chapman.

“One of the things the Pentagon Papers proved is that they didn’t understand what they thought they understood. We learned during that period that you don’t trust the government.”

Whistle-blowers have also revealed wrongdoing by corporations, such as the secretive internal audits conducted in 2002

by Cynthia Cooper and several members of her staff that revealed a $3.8 billion accounting fraud by telecom giant WorldCom, a scandal that eventually led to bankruptcy for the company and jail time for some of its executives.

Yet whistle-blowing sometimes proves to be tragically ineffective. Boisjoly, whose papers are collected in the Frank Mt.

Edward Snowden: His case revealed details of U.S. war conduct.

Pleasant Library of Special Collections & Archives at Chapman’s Leatherby Libraries, famously tried to warn his Morton Thiokol bosses and NASA officials that O-rings in the shuttle Challenger booster rockets could fail if the launch-time air temperature was too low. Despite Boisjoly’s warning and near-freezing temperatures in Florida in January 1986, the shuttle launched anyway.

Watching on TV, Boisjoly was relieved when the shuttle lifted off without incident, but that turned to horrified agony as the Challenger exploded in the sky just more than a minute later.

“For a long time, I bore the burden of guilt because I hadn’t done more to stop it,” Boisjoly, who died last year, told the Associated Press in 1988. Two years of therapy and public talks about the disaster helped him put the events in a more objective context. “I’ve resolved it now.

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The emotional component of whistleblowing can be significant, and the contours change depending on the nature of the transgression. The decision to out wrongdoing — to tell someone who can take action vs. telling a spouse or friend — can force a whistle-blower to choose between colleagues and the public good.

Stupar argues that the public good should always win out.

“When an employee knows that there is something unethical or illegal going on, it needs to be brought to the attention of the management of that organization,” he says. When management is the problem, or stonewalls the issue, “the employee needs to try to find another avenue.”

Martin, who has written about the practice in several book chapters, as well as the article “Whistleblowing: Professionalism, Personal Life, and Shared

Bradley Manning: Now identifies as transgender and wants to be called Chelsea Manning.

Responsibility for Safety in Engineering” (Business and Professional Ethics Journal, vol. 11, 1992), teaches about the issue in his Business and Professional Ethics class. He defines an internal whistleblower as someone who brings a problem to the attention of superiors. An external whistleblower — someone who feels that internal mechanisms for correcting the problem are ineffective or corrupt — turns to someone outside the organization, such as a journalist, a regulator, or law enforcement.

“Whether whistle-blowing is justified in a given instance turns on many contextual factors, especially on the genuineness and seriousness of the moral problem being reported, and on the likely and actual consequences in blowing the whistle,” Martin says. He adds that the repercussions come into play, too, such as “the likely harm to the organization and to the whistleblower,

in terms of retaliation. Some whistleblowers are heroic; many do much good; many do great harm.”

In fact, Martin says, “one study of corporate whistle-blowing suggested that about half of whistle-blowing is unjustified and harmful.”

Part of the problem is a sense by employees that their managers would not be receptive to reports of malfeasance, and so they go outside the company to report an issue that could have been handled internally. In a few cases, disgruntled employees seek to damage a company they believe has mistreated them. But in other cases, and for reasons ranging from individual careerism to profits, managers put the company’s interest ahead of public safety and public transparency.

INSIDER TRADING

Self-interest propels other ethical frictions in business, too, such as insider trading, in which company executives make personal investment decisions based on information that other shareholders don’t have. Some, such as libertarian Tibor Machan, who holds the R.C. Hoiles Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business and Economics, have argued that insiders should be able to act on information they receive through their jobs.

“It may be one’s achievement or good fortune to learn of opportunities ahead of others, and this may not be morally wrong but quite industrious,” Machan wrote in the 2002 textbook A Primer on Business Ethics, with James E. Chesher. “Acting on such information may be prudent and exhibiting good business acumen whenever it does not involve the violation of others’ rights. … Morality may require one to act promptly, ahead of everyone else, so as to make headway financially.”

But that approach has faded into a decidedly minority view in favor of transparency and an ethos of supporting a level playing field for all investors, says Larry Rosenthal, a professor in the Dale E. Fowler School of Law. Rosenthal is a former federal prosecutor in Chicago who specialized in organized crime, public corruption and insider trading cases.

Among other issues, inside traders place

personal gain ahead of their responsibility to shareholders.

“If the people making corporate policy have an incentive to increase their compensation by making the stock price go up and down a lot, that may be quite inconsistent with long-term corporate welfare,” he says. “We wind up with a system in which insiders get to increase their compensation almost at will while reducing long-term corporate welfare.

That’s a pretty significant problem, especially since insider trading doesn’t generate any wealth for anybody; it’s a wealth transfer.”

At the same time, that incentivizes outsiders to offer bribes and kickbacks to achieve that insider information.

“People shouldn’t be able to profit over and above the amount of money they are supposed to be paid in salaries.

That’s the fair-dealing rationale.”

And because federal authorities don’t “release data on that, for fairly obvious reasons … we don’t really know how often you’ve got a whistle-blower on the inside,” alerting investigators to insider trading. “Whistle-blowing is awfully rare. It’s even rarer when lots of people are making money,” he says.

Master Settlement Agreement with the tobacco industry that has funneled hundreds of billions of dollars to state health and awareness programs.

But some of the highest-profile cases have revolved around government polices — including the current Manning and Snowden cases, which revealed details of how the United States was conducting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the extensive data collections swept up by the National Security Agency (Snowden).

Each of those cases is shrouded in political debates that will not be resolved for years, though Manning was recently convicted by a military tribunal on espionage charges. Snowden has been granted a year’s visa by Russia, despite U.S. requests that he be arrested and extradited to face espionage charges. Leaving aside the legalities of what they did, Martin says, both men acted in what has become a modern American tradition that ultimately helps strengthen democracy.

“Even if you disapprove of the specific action … they were really trying to let the public know things,” Will says, adding that Manning, who now identifies as a transgender named Chelsea Manning, revealed “war crimes”

by American forces. “He wanted to get it out so that the American people knew what was going on in the war and could make a better-informed judgment as to its

Exploring cases like the one involving Edward Snowden helps students understand “how government can go awry, and how to stop it. And sometimes the stopping it takes a whistle-blower,” Professor Will says.

WIDESPREAD EFFECTS

Though rare, whistle-blowing can still have broad repercussions. Jeffrey Wigand was director of research for Brown & Williamson tobacco company from 1989–93, where he discovered that top corporate officials knew that addictive compounds were being added to the firm’s tobacco, revelations he made public in a 1996 interview with the 60 Minutes TV news program, revelations that led to the landmark

pursuit and the morality or immorality of the war.”

Snowden sought to break down walls of secrecy surrounding government activities. “He felt people needed to know what the government was doing,” Will says. And exploring such cases in the classroom, he says, helps students understand “how government can go awry, and how to stop it. And sometimes the stopping it takes a whistle-blower.”

But the whistle-blower needs to be

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As much as possible, first work through normal organization channels to seek a remedy.

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If supervisors are not the source of the problem, keep them informed throughout the process.

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Be prompt in expressing objections.

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Remain focused on issues, not people.

Proceed in a tactful, low-key manner, considerate of the feelings of others.

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Consult a lawyer about potential legal liabilities in whistle-blowing.

Adapted from advice on whistle-blowing in the book Introduction to Engineering Ethics, second edition (McGraw-Hill, 2010), co-authored by Chapman philosophy professor Mike W. Martin, Ph.D.

aware of the personal price. While there are some laws in place to protect whistle-blowers, they aren’t a failsafe. Rosenthal points out that there sometimes are stark differences between what one person might consider the right, moral, and ethical thing to do, and the legal thing to do.

“As a lawyer teaching in the law school, I really can only have one perspective on it, which is, you have to obey the law,” Rosenthal says.

“But if we believe in democracy, then we have to say that when the legislature resolves a question even in a way we disagree with, we’ve got to tell our clients, you’re obligated to respect that. And if you decide to go break the law, you’ve got to face the consequences.”

And who you cultivate advice from could determine the framework for what a potential whistle-blower ultimately decides.

“You want to have one kind of conversation, talk to your priest,” Rosenthal says. “You want to have another kind of conversation, talk to your lawyer.”

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Xiamen University features three picturesque campuses, including that of Tan Kah Kee (TKK) College, where President Ruifang Wang, left, welcomed Chapman Chancellor Daniele Struppa this spring.

CONNECTION A Chapman journey to Xiamen University, assisted by the Kay family, explores opportunities for exchange of students and faculty.

By Larry Bourgeois ’05, ’10

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Xiamen University

Shanghai

Fujian ★ Guangzhou

reating an environment for students to become global citizens is an integral part of the Chapman University mission. Hundreds of students annually participate in study abroad programs, and Chapman has been the academic home to students from more than 60 nations. The goal of inspiring Chapman global citizens took another step forward this spring.

Chapman Chancellor Daniele Struppa led a small contingent to China to visit Xiamen University in the western port city for which it is named.

“We have explored collaborative opportunities with universities in other countries, including China, in the past but with mixed results.

I believe Xiamen University has great promise for success,” Struppa said.

The relationship has enhanced potential, the chancellor said, because it has a catalyst in Chapman alumnus Elim Kay ’09. Struppa explained that “like in any other negotiation, each side has goals and parameters that can get in the way of success. Having the Kay family provide the introduction between Xiamen and Chapman and serve as a bridge to solve potential roadblocks allowed for productive sessions with officials of the university.”

Kay, a member of Chapman's Board of Governors, believes that his Chapman education has been an important part of his life and that an

opportunity to enhance the education of future generations with a global and cultural understanding is simply “paying it forward.”

The Kay familys’ willingness to broker a relationship between Chapman and Xiamen leadership went beyond ceremony. Elim Kay is fluent in Chinese and had visited Xiamen University previously. Knowing the administrations of both universities provided more than an exchange of language, it also provided a deep cultural understanding of all involved.

The trip to Xiamen included visits to all three Xiamen campuses. The original campus opened, much like Chapman, as a private university in 1921. The original campus houses the School of Management, College of Economics, School of Mathematics and several other programs. A ferryboat ride across Xiamen Bay brought the group to the second campus, which includes schools of medicine, nursing, pharmaceuticals and other sciences.

While the main campus winds along a hillside overlooking the coast of Xiamen Bay, a third campus, on which construction began in 2011 and is already hosting classes, is laid out on a single, massive plain — fresh, stately and symmetrical. The new campus, referred to as TKK University, was built at a seemingly extraordinary pace and completed in about two years. TKK houses a variety of technical programs, including a film school.

Xiamen University officials were affable hosts, ensuring that Chapman travelers went beyond the university grounds with visits to historic Gulangyu Island, also known as Piano Island, and a daylong trip into the countryside to visit the Fujian Mountain District.

Piano Island is home to both a great tradition of pianists and a piano museum.

A short ferry ride from the university main campus, the island serves as a local tourist attraction as well as an homage to the piano in all its variations.

The Fujian Mountain District is the site of the Hakka Earthen Buildings, ancient earthen homes, some of which are 600 years old. Incredibly, many of the round fortresslike structures are still home to hundreds of rural Chinese.

After returning to campus, Struppa provided some ideas on how a Xiamen/Chapman partnership might be shaped.

Initially, there are two areas that could prove beneficial to both institutions: faculty exchange and a joint educational degree program.

An exchange between the institutions’ faculty members could include a VIP, or visiting international professor.

A Xiamen professor could locate in Orange for a year, immersing in the U.S. culture while teaching full-time at Chapman and providing students with both academic and cultural insights.

Student exchange is another critical opportunity that a Xiamen/Chapman partnership could accomplish. One potential scenario is a “3 +1” program in which Xiamen students would receive their initial three years of undergraduate study in China and, based on qualification, language skills, academic achievement, etc., would then move to Chapman for a final year of study. As a result, the students could qualify for a degree issued jointly by Xiamen and Chapman.

In both the faculty and student exchange programs, many details would still need agreement, including synchronization of academic programs, academic qualifications and language proficiency requirements. Xiamen has taken a progressive step regarding language; already a significant number of Xiamen University classes are taught in English. Many of Xiamen’s current faculty have either studied or taught in the U.S., and some have done both.

An example is the current Xiamen dean of economics, Yongmiao Hong, Ph.D., who is also a professor at Cornell.

Old Towne in Orange has its own special character, and the prospect of connecting Chapman’s home with the history of Fujian’s earthen houses is one more reason that an academic and cultural exchange between Xiamen and Chapman could create a new educational opportunity of extraordinary depth. Thanks to a thoughtful Chapman alumnus, education has the opportunity to unite all involved as global citizens.

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ROSS ESCALETTE A champion of public art and educational excellence, Chapman University Trustee Ross Escalette passed away in September after a long illness.

“Ross was a beloved friend of Chapman and, as a board member, was an indefatigable force, inspired by his love for higher education and his abiding dedication to philanthropy,” said Chapman President Jim Doti.

Along with his wife, Phyllis, Ross Escalette made many gifts to Chapman, including in 2010, when the couple founded the Phyllis and Ross Escalette Permanent Collection of Art at the university. Their dedicated stewardship has given focus to the university’s growing and distinguished collection of contemporary art by many of today’s most acclaimed painters, sculptors, printmakers and photographers.

Ross Escalette delighted in seeing students and visitors encounter the collection’s more than 700 works, which are exhibited in the highly trafficked halls of classroom buildings and offices on campus.

“It exposes students to real art every day,” he said. “It’s a unique feature

Chapman has that very few institutions can match.”

In his business life, Escalette was “the epitome of a great American entrepreneur,” Doti said. He was founder and president

of Auburn Brass and went on to launch Brasstech/Newport Brass of Santa Ana, a respected maker of faucets and plumbing fixtures that employed more than 500 people. After selling the company and

trying a life of retirement, Escalette re-entered the world of high-end brass fixtures as chairman of a new and highly successful company, Escalette, LLC. “Standing on the sidelines just wasn’t in his nature,” Doti said.

Escalette’s passing came as a shock to the Chapman community, as he had kept his illness hidden from all but his closest family members. The family conducted a private burial at sea.

“We like to give to organizations where we can see the funds being put to immediate and visible use,” Escalette wrote in a forward to Chapman’s 2011 commemorative book The Chapman University Collections. “Chapman University and the art collection fill that requirement in every way.”

Doti suggested that a fitting tribute to Escalette would be to stroll the campus and contemplate the works in the collection he helped make possible.

“This is perhaps his greatest memorial,” Doti said, “because he knew that public art, especially on a university campus, has the power to spark our dreams and enrich our intellectual lives.”

THE REV. DEAN ECHOLS ’46 An alumnus who literally sang the praises of Chapman University and served as an unflagging supporter of alumni activities, the Rev. Dean Echols ’46 passed away Aug. 28. He was 88.

Friends and colleagues remembered Echols as a powerful speaker, tireless president and board member of the Alumni Association and gifted tenor.

As an undergraduate, Echols sang in the Cardinal Quartets, a traveling choral group that toured churches and schools throughout California and Arizona, inspiring students to enroll in Chapman.

“He was a gentleman and scholar. He was just super,” says Bernie Davis ’47, who sang bass with the quartets.

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Throughout his pastoral ministry in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Echols always encouraged youths to attend Chapman. He returned to campus himself in 1984 as director of alumni relations, and in 1986 he was named director of church relations.

Former Alumni Association president Adam Riffe ’95 said he always marveled at Echols’ knack for recruiting students to Chapman with sheer enthusiasm. Echols was proud to list 54 students he had encouraged to attend Chapman.

“He was so passionate about his alma mater and encouraging of students to choose Chapman. I think there’s a much

larger legacy at Chapman because of Dean,” Riffe said. “He truly made a positive impact on the university.”

Condolences may be sent to Dean’s wife, Mally Echols, in care of David Moore in University Advancement, 1 University Drive, Orange, Calif. 92866.

Changing Lives

Chapman University 2013 President’s Award

Is His Life’s Work

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hen Ed Fox’s name was called out as the winner of the President’s Award at the 2013 Chapman University Staff Appreciation and Awards Ceremony, he joked to his colleagues that they were probably the only people who recognized his name.

As associate director of Student Psychological Counseling Services, the licensed marriage and family therapist says he naturally tends to work “behind the scenes.”

But in nominating Fox for the top staff award, Jeanne Walker, Ph.D., director of Psychological Counseling Services, made a point to note that Fox’s influence on generations of Chapman students has been profound, regardless of name recognition.

“Over the 26 plus years I have worked with Ed, I can attest that he has not only helped students graduate in spite of their individual life struggles, he has literally saved the lives of more than a few,” Walker wrote in her nomination letter. “Common

“I’ve never met a clinician with more passion and dedication to each and every one of his therapy clients.”

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phrases used by students in evaluating Ed’s therapy skills include ‘amazing,’ ‘he changed my life’ and a ‘wizard.’”

David Pincus, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Psychology, says that Fox is one of the most skilled and knowledgeable psychotherapists he’s met in 20 years of practice.

“I’ve never met a clinician with more passion and dedication to each and every one of his therapy clients. This is Ed’s greatest strength as a psychotherapist — that he treats each of his student clients with the utmost dignity, compassion and respect,” Pincus says.

Fox joined Chapman in 1986 as a counselor-in-residence in Harris Hall, now called Harris Apartments. He quickly found that working with college-age adults was his calling.

“I stayed because I love working in a university environment,” he says. “A student population is the best population to work

with. They’re motivated, they’re bright, they’re at a phase in their lives when they’re trying to figure things out.”

In addition to working as a psychotherapist, Fox supervises interns who are state-registered counselors on their way to becoming licensed therapists. He’s also taught in the Department of Psychology.

But the heart of his work is in counseling, and that makes for busy days at the Glassell Street center. Young adults who a generation ago avoided or dropped out of college because of conditions ranging from major depression to bipolar disorder are now succeeding in school, thanks to new drug therapies and therapeutic support.

Moreover, all students are more willing to seek out help navigating the challenges of young adulthood.

“People are more open to using counseling services than they were in the past,” he says.

So in the future, Fox might receive more emails similar to one sent recently by an alumnus he counseled back in 1986.

“He’s in his 40s now and has children who are college age.

He just wanted me to know that things are going well. He said, ‘I think back to when I met with you and how confusing and chaotic things were and it’s just really nice to tell you how things turned out,’”says Fox. He smiles broadly and puts his hand to his heart.

“That’s a gift.”

Ed Fox, associate director of Student Psychological Counseling Services, recently won the President’s Award at Chapman, recognizing his profound impact on generations of students. “He has literally saved the lives of more than a few,” Jeanne Walker, Ph.D., wrote in her nominating letter.

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Former Chapman roommates Loretta Sanchez ’82 and Kathy McCarrell ’81 enjoy Commencement 2013, where McCarrell received the Harmon Wilkinson Award.

PANTHER IN THE HOUSE

From her upset victory in 1996 to her current senior status, U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez ’82 pursues her passions for security on home soil, equality for women in the military and a healthy start for children in need.

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Then Sanchez won a razor-thin victory over longtime Republican Congressman Bob Dornan, and the one-woman energy machine from California’s 46th Congressional District kicked into gear. Soon the first Latina elected from an Orange Countybased district became a leading voice on some of the major topics of the last two decades — homeland

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security, sexual assault in the armed services, women in combat, border security and funding for Head Start.

Now she is a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, the most senior female member of the House Committee

on Homeland Security and serves as the Ranking Member of the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee. She sponsored legislation that targets sexual assault in the military and has been a tenacious advocate for allowing women to serve in combat.

Every year she helps drive extra funding into Head Start, the same development program for children and families that she herself benefited from as a shy preschooler. And she has survived numerous challenges for the seat, including a 1998 rematch with Dornan.

Sanchez chats with Major Gen. Megan Tatu during the Orange County Veterans’ Resource Fair.

But even after all that, the Chapman University trustee, alumnae and faculty member — she teaches Women and Leadership in the Women’s Studies program — still relishes the routine home-office duties that fall to all members of Congress.

“Sometimes it’s just an individual person’s life — get back taxes that the killed in action. So it’s just right to IRS has tried to take from them, or get say this is an old policy and we really them decorations from when they were need the skill set that women bring,” in the military, or help somebody get a Sanchez says. disability claim through,” she said during Sanchez met recently with Special an interview in her Congressional Forces servicemen who frankly told office in Washington, D.C. “And that her they didn’t welcome the Pentagon’s completely changes their life. So in a decision. way I change the world every single “They were telling me that women day, even if it’s for just one person. But couldn’t do that job, that they didn’t I think that’s the most exciting thing. see that happening, that it would be a I didn’t realize that there’s so much problem. I sort of looked at them and gratification in being able to go out said, ‘Or an opportunity. Because they’re and slay the dragon, if you will.” coming.’ Women bring a good set of But it’s the slaying of much bigger skills to that job also,” Sanchez says. dragons that has earned Sanchez That’s a prime example of the national attention. From laws that Sanchez style, says friend and former improve port security to pending college roommate Kathy McCarrell ’81, legislation that would link military officers’ promotions with their proper handling of assault claims, the safety of Americans and their service people has long been at the forefront for Sanchez. This summer she saw one of her biggest goals realized when the Pentagon announced that it was lifting the longstanding ban against women serving in combat.

Sanchez shares a moment with The choice is still fellow Chapman trustee Joann Leatherby. questioned among some in the military, but Sanchez, who was one of the politicians who spoke out a Chapman adjunct professor of on the subject of rape in the military sociology and executive director in the Oscar-nominated documentary of Heroes & Healthy Families, a The Invisible War, says the decision is nonprofit program serving veterans an acknowledgement of a reality that suffering with PTSD. McCarrell’s work already exists in modern warfare. on behalf of veterans was honored at “They’ve been there anyway. We’ve Commencement 2013, when she was had 10 years of Iraq and Afghanistan awarded the Harmon Wilkinson Award where we’ve seen women on the front. for Distinguished Contribution to the They’ve been POWs; they’ve been Humanities or Social Sciences.

“Loretta Sanchez is a trailblazer.

She relentlessly pursued the cause of seeking justice for victims of sexual assault in our nation’s military, not willing to take no for an answer until changes were made. I have tremendous respect for her and her commitment to this basic human right. Even when we were roommates at Chapman, I could see her determination and drive. It has been a joy to see that play out on a national stage,” McCarrell says.

Now Sanchez is channeling that energy back to Chapman, where she and fellow trustee Joann Leatherby are leading the creation of The Institute for Women in Leadership. The institute will be a home for research and practical programming led by Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences and will include the Argyros School of Business and Economics and the Dale E. Fowler School of Law. Its launch is expected in spring 2014.

In addition to studying women’s roles in diplomacy and the military, the institute will support Sanchez’s vision of a more globally aware citizenry and perhaps a more peaceful world. Among her initiatives as a congress member is the Global Education Nexus In United States Act (GENIUS ACT), which provides grants to schools for activities that cultivate students' global perspectives.

“I really believe that our children of today are global leaders of tomorrow,” she says. “I would prefer to have young people entering our diplomatic forces and our corporations who understand that working through problems is much better than going to war with somebody.”

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1960s Don Barrett, B.A. communication ’64, was hired to take over the Orange County Register’s radio column for the late Gary Lycan.

1970s A Charles E. “Chuck” Bailey, M.A. education ’77, published If you fly ... don’t crash! (Confessions of a White-Knuckle Pilot), a book about his experiences as a U.S. Air Force combat pilot.

Keith Crane, B.A. government ’72, has been married to Pat (Hargis) Crane, Class of 1965, for 23 years. Keith and Pat reconnected at Chapman Homecoming 1989. They have six children, 12 grandchildren and one great-grandson.

Paul Crumby, B.A. political science ’71 (Ph.D. ’80), published an article titled “From Social Security to Social Insecurity” in Career Planning and Adult Development.

Nancy Witte, B.A. physical education ’71, traveled to Chautauqua, N.Y., last summer with The New Horizons Band of Northwest New Jersey.

New Horizons is a group for musicians 50 and older. Nancy plays the French horn.

D Max Ollendorff, B.A. English ’83, won amateur first place in a competition held at the Artist’s Reception for the Viewpoints at Chemers Gallery in Tustin, Calif.

E Darryl T. Stevens, M.A. marriage, family and child counseling ’84, returned to Chapman in October 2012 after 11 years at UC Riverside.

He now serves as the assistant dean for graduate and professional programs in the Argyros School of Business and Economics.

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F Lisbeth Welch-Stamos, M.A. English ’89, published her first children’s novel, Jeremy Bixtu and the Hillman Husky.

1990s Jessica Ayo (McKinney-Morales) Alabi, Ph.D., B.A. peace studies ’98, published her research on hip hop, social movement organizations and urban youth in Strategies for Social Change.

Jessica is a professor of sociology and gender studies at Orange Coast College. She also assists Chapman students in applying for the Truman Scholarship.

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1980s B Dona Constantine, B.S. health sciences ’84, attended a screening of Much Ado About Nothing in June with director Joss Whedon and her son, Jason Constantine, president of acquisitions and co-productions for Lionsgate.

C Sandra McDaniel, B.M. musical performance ’84, married Gregg Laughlin in May at the Chapman Chapel. Dr. William Hall, founding dean and artistic director of the Musco Center for the Arts at Chapman, gave her away and conducted the Chapman University alumni choir during the ceremony.

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G Susan Burden, MHA ’96, CEO of Beach Cities Health District, was recognized by the Association of California Healthcare Districts as the 2013 Legislative Advocate of the Year.

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Christine Curry, B.A. sociology ’95, has led The Grenada Goat Dairy Project for the past five years. The project serves lowerincome individuals and farmers in Grenada and has developed a goat dairy product for the local market to help sustain the operational expenses of the nonprofit.

H Justin Massey, B.A. political

science ’94, is a real-estate agent with Reality One Group, serving Orange and Los Angeles counties.

He lives in Seal Beach with his wife, Andrea, and daughter, Olivia Grace.

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Matthew McCray, BFA theatre performance ’98, opened his original performance piece Eternal Thou at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, Calif., in June.

Joseph Modica, B.M. conducting ’95, conducted a performance of Mozart’s Requiem in Carnegie Hall with the choirs from the University of Redlands.

Anthony Powell, BFA theatre and dance ’99, received a master’s in theology from Azusa Pacific University and is a pastor at a church in Los Angeles.

He has 7-year-old triplets with his wife, Bonnie BrocattoPowell, BFA film and television production ’99, who received a master’s degree in leadership from APU this year.

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2000s Melody Bahu, B.A. public relations and advertising ’08, returned to Chapman for her master’s in leadership development in summer 2013.

I Daniella Beintema, BFA television

and broadcast journalism ’09, married Kelly Murphy in July 2012. Members of the bridal party included Haley Slusser ’08, Jessey Francies ’10 and Kristen Maloney ’10.

Misha Bouvion, BFA theater performance ’04, is working on an MFA in acting at the New School for Drama in New York City.

Mike Brown, B.S. business administration ’06, is the co-owner of ModBargains, an automotive enhancements and aftermarket products company he founded at age 19.

Seth Casteel, BFA film production ’03, is releasing his second book, Underwater Puppies, in 2014. He also appeared on Duck Dynasty in March.

Adriana Chavez, BFA theatre and dance ’00, is nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Ensemble for her work in Homunculus: Reloaded, produced

by Homunculus Mask Theater.

Erika Cohn, BFA film production ’09, is co-directing and producing the feature documentary In Football We Trust about the rise of Pacific Islanders in the NFL, and is directing and producing the feature documentary Three Judges, about the first female judges to be appointed to the religious courts in the Middle East. Erika has also been accepted into the CPB Producer’s Academy.

Nicholaus Corporon, MFA film production ’09, recently became

John H. Wood ’77 has taught his California students during expeditions in Antarctica and Alaska.

Teaching Exploration

By Justin Slosky

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ohn H. Wood ’77 is one cool teacher. You won’t find any disagreement about this among his students at Talbert Middle School in Fountain Valley, Calif. After all, they’ve watched him teach his science class by Skype from a research station in frozen Alaska.

This year Wood’s willingness to go the extra mile for his students was recognized, as he was named an Orange County Teacher of the Year during a special gala at Disneyland.

“It was phenomenal,” he said of winning the award. “It was a huge honor right from the get-go, since I was nominated by my peers from my school. That’s what meant the most to me.”

Wood was also selected as a finalist for California Teacher of the Year.

Teaching is a second career for Wood.

He spent 11 years as a researcher involved with the National Science Foundation’s polar programs. After switching to teaching, Wood maintained his far-flung interests and joined expeditions to Alaska, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Antarctica’s Mount Erebus, the southernmost active volcano on the planet.

His students back home were able to follow his Antarctic journey.

“I was teaching volcanology on top of a volcano, 10,000 miles away,” he explained.

Winning Orange County Teacher of the Year has encouraged Wood to continue traveling.

“The school district has been so supportive of me going on these expeditions,” he said.

“The kids have responded fantastically.”

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manager of casting at Pilgrim Studios, Inc. His short, Barbie Boy, has gone on to win the Audience Award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and the Best Short Award at the Kansas City Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

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Michael Hudson-Medina ’00 conducts the Boyle Heights Youth Orchestra, which he founded.

Instrument of Change

By Ash Stockemer ’14

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oyle Heights is just five miles from the Walt Disney Concert Hall, but many inner-city families have never seen this epicenter of the arts. Michael Hudson-Medina ’00 co-founded the Boyle Heights Youth Orchestra to share his knowledge and passion for music with children who might never have had the opportunity to pick up an instrument. For the past year, Michael has worked to improve the quality of music education and provide inner-city families the opportunity to go and listen to the L.A. Philharmonic Orchestra.

With a sense of urgency to start the project, Michael did not spend time fundraising.

Instead, he donated his money and “a great labor of love” to get the youth orchestra started. He knew donations and support would come later. His success in starting the project became what he emphatically refers to as the best year of his life.

Michael believes that opening children’s eyes to the world of classical arts, dance and musical theatre prevents them from picking up a gun, joining gangs and using drugs.

While he strives to bring a world of arts to one neighborhood, he also spreads a message that he attributes to his Chapman education.

“The mission of Chapman to create global citizens really holds true,” he says, “because we contribute globally and we belong and we can feel at home everywhere in the world.”

Coss, BFA theatre performance ’06, relocated to Santa Barbara with her husband, Nick Coss, and will appear as a guest soloist with the St. Louis Symphony and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in December.

Chris Eggleton, B.A. economics and B.S. business administration ’02, and Chris Retzer, B.S. business administration ’01, acquired Newpark Resort Management, LLC in Park City, Utah.

K Marna Farver, B.A. sociology

’00, is the operations manager at Grace Family Vineyards, a philanthropic winery in St. Helena, Calif. She lives with her husband, Mitch Moghaddasi, and son, Todd, who was born in December 2011.

L Craig D. Forrest, M.A. film studies ‘08, received a doctor of fine arts degree in redemptive filmmaking from Kingdom Seminary in Edinburg, Va., in June.

Kelly Galuska, B.A. screenwriting and communications ’06, was hired as a writer for the new prime-time CBS comedy series Mom, which is produced by Chuck Lorre (The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men) and stars Anna Faris.

Jennifer Guerra, B.S. business administration ’07, launched Elite Personal Health Coaching this year and is an American Association of Drugless Practitioners certified health coach.

Annelih Garciano-Holganza Hamilton, BFA theatre performance ’09, received a master’s of fine arts degree in theatre performance from the University of Florida and married Joshua Hamilton.

Brittany Hilgers, MFA screenwriting ’07, wrote the spec episode “Juliet Wears the Pantsuit” for the USA Network show Psych, which aired in April. Her recent projects have helped her become a full member of the Writers Guild of America.

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M Sarah Swensson King, B.A. communications ’06, married Stephen King in the Wallace All Faiths Chapel on campus in September.

Matthew Ladensack, BFA film production ’09, and NielsChristian Kielland, BFA film production ’09, produced the feature Blood Type: Unknown, which was selected for the Newport Beach Film Festival.

Greg Lammers, BFA film and television ’05, released a podcast, The Fill in the Blank Podcast: Life After Film School.

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Erin Gonzalez, B.M. performance ’08, has been chosen for a mezzo studio artist position in the Florentine Opera Studio in Milwaukee for the 2013 –2014 season. She was also an Advanced Artist in the OperaWorks training program in Los Angeles in summer 2013.

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Sandi Logan, M.A. counseling ’07, is an instructor and doctoral student at the University of Florida and a blogger for the American Counseling Association.

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Justin Lutsky, BFA film production ’05, directed the Web series Armed Response for Break Media that recently premiered at the South by Southwest film festival.

N Megan MacDonald, B.A.

sociology ’02, runs a social enterprise that employs deaf women in Kenya. Megan finished her master’s in development studies in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Heather (Baldwin) McCurdy, B.A. communication ’03, is owner of Youth Talent Connection, a youth modeling and talent agency.

Her husband, Michael McCurdy, B.A. political science ’05, finished his MBA at Chapman in 2010 and was promoted to insurance supervisor with AAA. O Beau Menchaca, M.A. counseling ’02, was recognized with the Santa Ana Unified School District’s 2013 Support Staff of the Year Award.

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Lauren Miller, B.A. public relations and advertising ’06, opened her second location for Laurenly, a clothing boutique, in the Belmont Shores area of Long Beach in March. Her first shop opened in Orange in June 2010.

P Mark Miller, BFA film production ’06, is the vice president of Clive Barker’s company, Seraphim Inc. Mark co-created a comic book with Clive Barker that was released in May.

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Marla Noel, MBA ’01, was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association in April in Tampa, Fla. Kate Karyus Quinn, MFA film production ’06, released her debut young adult novel, Another Little Piece, published by HarperTeen in June.

Brian Reinsch, B.S. chemistry ’06, moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, to study the environmental effects of uranium mining in Kazakhstan.

He conducts his research through the environmental engineering department at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Q Rob Selway, B.S. business

administration ’07, accepted a position with Citizens Business Bank.

James Smith, BFA film and television production ’01, was the executive in charge of physical production on the feature The Way, Way Back, which premiered in July.

Brynn Terry, B.M. voice performance ’06, was invited to perform with Opera Theater Pittsburgh this summer as a resident artist in the role of Anne Egerman in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music.

Lisa Valentino, B.A. sociology ’04, passed her first section of the Social Worker’s Union test in April.

Jennifer Weinstein, M.A. human resources ’01, won the Benefits Professional of the Year award. She was featured on the cover of Benefits magazine in September and presented the award at the National Benefits Conference in New Orleans.

Brian Wilcox, J.D. ’04, is the president of Once Innovations, Inc., an LED lighting technology developer for the agricultural sector.

“You have to be a perfectionist,” Samantha Cortese ’11 says of her work as a TV news reporter.

Breaking News at the Break of Day

By Cristian Bourgeois ’12

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y favorite part of the job is the unpredictability,” says Samantha Cortese ’11, TV news reporter in Palm Springs for KESQ (ABC) and CBS Local 2 from 5 to 7 a.m. weekdays. “I get to watch news happen right in front of me and connect with people. I like it for the reaction. It’s very raw.”

Cortese earned a BFA in television and broadcast journalism from Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, and she credits her education as a first step on her path to fulfilling ambitious goals.

“I use my degree every day,” she said.

As an undergraduate, she split her schedule between a full-time course load and an internship with CBS in Palm Springs. That helped her focus on what’s most important to her.

“You have to be a perfectionist,” she said.

“Chapman helps you learn time management.”

Cortese produced the CBS Local 2 Morning Show to its highest ratings in the newscast’s history in 2011.

“I follow (Chapman Professor) Pete Weitzner’s mantra: ‘be clear, concise and conversational.’

If you can do those things effectively, you’re golden,” she said.

But Cortese’s exciting, and sometimes heartbreaking, experiences in the field have taught her skills that students can’t learn in the classroom.

“I’ve reported on families who have lost everything because of wildfires,” she said.

“You have to be able to show emotion without letting it affect your report.”

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2010s Kellie Albrecht, Ph.D. education ’13 was hired on the faculty at Concordia University, Irvine as an assistant professor of education.

Michael Aronson, MFA film production ’11, was hired to produce a show called Cook Up a Hook Up, for Tasted.com.

From left, Chapman buddies John-David Currey ’98, Roger Craig Smith ’04 and Michael Penn ’04 meet up at a premier of Planes.

Taking Flight

By Ryan Hines

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uilding on the success if its 2007 film Cars, Disney has taken to the sky for a new spin on the concept, with a Chapman University alumnus among those at the controls.

In Planes, Roger Craig Smith ’04 is the voice of Ripslinger, the rightfully arrogant carbon-fiber racer who for years has dominated an around-the-world aerial competition.

Smith studied visual storytelling at Dodge College, and by 2009 he had already built up an impressive resume of voice acting work. He was at DisneyToon Studios when he recognized a model plane hanging from the ceiling. “That’s an old WWII Corsair,” Smith said. And that’s when casting director Jason Henkel introduced Smith to Planes, in its concept stage at the time.

“I’ve always loved aviation, growing up near El Toro Air Station with planes flying overhead all the time,” Smith said. Combine that love with Smith’s passion for all things Disney, and now he’s living a dream. “I’m an animated Disney plane! Could life get any better?”

Smith had a good time playing the bad guy.

“I’m a geek, and Ripslinger is far from anything I can ever be as a cool factor in life,” Smith said. “He’s the champ.”

Smith’s thrills include a red-carpet premiere at the El Capitan Theatre, and it seems that things are only going up from here.

Veronica Bane, BFA creative writing ’11, released her book, Mara, in August.

Lauren Benke, B.A. creative writing and BFA dance ’12, is completing her master’s in Irish literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and began her Ph.D. in English at the University of Denver this fall.

R Lauren Bruschi, B.A. communication studies ’11, was promoted to assistant account executive at Morgan Marketing & Public Relations, LLC.

Elke Calvert, BFA dance performance ’11, won the Division II Grand Prize Award at the Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival with her original choreography, Framed.

Mariajose Cienfuegos, B.S. business administration ’12, is engaged to Severin Quaranta, B.S. business administration ’12.

The couple plan to marry in May 2014.

Leon Cheo, BFA creative producing ’12 of Chapman’s Singapore campus, is serving as co-producer on the feature film Singapore Cowboy.

Jing Du Chua, BFA creative producing ’12 of Chapman’s Singapore campus, directed eight episodes of the teen Web series Click and is developing a Thailand-Singapore co-production titled Man from the North.

James B. Cox, MFA film production ’11, was hired to write the feature Mimesis 2, the sequel to Anchor Bay Entertainment’s Mimesis.

Daniel J. Dodd, MFA producing ’12, is working as a story producer for Hot Snakes Media’s Amish Mafia on the Discovery Channel. He has also signed development deals with 2C Media, Lapdog Entertainment and Monkey Time Media for three different unscripted television shows.

Azriel Dror, B.S. biological sciences ’13, was accepted into the Fulbright program in Spain.

He was also accepted into medical school at the University of Arizona.

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Kate Ellwanger, B.A. music ’13, was featured on the front page of iTunes in June for her debut full-length album Evolve or Dissolve.

S Sarah Faulkner, B.A. English ’12, is completing her master’s in literature and society at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Sarah and Lauren Benke, B.A. creative writing and BFA dance ’12, traveled together to London, Paris and Edinburgh.

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Serena Felsher, BFA television and broadcast journalism ’12, was hired by Authentic Entertainment as a story editor for Bravo’s Flipping Out with Jeff Lewis.

Lance Frantzich, B.A. theatre and psychology ’12, appeared in Belz! The Jewish Vaudeville Musical at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, Calif.

Alexis Garcia, B.A. psychology ’12, is attending USC Rossier’s online graduate program for teaching and credential.

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computer science ’13, married Brian Chuchua, B.S. computer science ’13, in May. During their time at Chapman, the couple developed Quaternion: The Game and won the Best Space Game award from the first IEEE GameSig Competition hosted at Chapman.

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Ashley Greene, MFA screenwriting ’11, is producing the film Rosco the Flying Rhino, for fiancé Trevor Lincoln, MFA screenwriting ’07, who is the writer and director.

Angelo Jackson, A.A. general education ’10, graduated from the police academy and was hired as a police officer. He is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree at Chapman.

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Katie Kroko, B.M. performance ’10, won the concerto competition at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where she is a master’s candidate.

Anna Lisa (Baison) Lukes, MBA ’13, presented on social entrepreneurship at Cal State Fullerton’s Gianneschi Center Summer School for Nonprofits in July.

Shana Makos, B.A. communication ’10, is pursuing a master’s in organizational communication at Colorado State University.

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Desiree Montalvo, BFA film production ’11, was central production assistant on the DreamWorks Animation film Turbo, which premiered in July.

She also is part of the FX department of How to Train Your Dragon 2.

Deborah Nodelman, Ph.D. education ’13, was named Teacher of the Year in Norwalk La Mirada Unified School District.

Damon Peoples, MFA screenwriting ’11, was signed at Creative Artists Agency.

Elaina Perpelitt, B.A. screenwriting ’13, wrote the play Sewer Rats at Sea, which was performed in June as a part of Hollywood Fringe. She wrote the play while a senior at Chapman under the penname Z.K. Lowenfels.

Robert Pitts Jr., M.A. counseling ’10, is the facility administrator at Crestwood Behavioral Health Center in Eureka, Calif. His youngest son, William, is 14 months old and his eldest, Robert Allen, is 3 years old.

Mike Rotstein, B.S. biological sciences ’11, co-authored two biotech books: Thrombotic Syndrome and Deep Vein Thrombosis and Treatment Options for Chronic Venous Insufficiency.

Kara Rutkin, B.A. public relations and advertising ’11, was promoted to assistant account executive at Kirvin Doak Communications, a public relations firm in Nevada.

Lexi Sakowitz, BFA screen acting ’12, made her debut on the FX series Sons of Anarchy and will appear on several episodes throughout the season.

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As CEO, Karen Haren ’71 helped a Kansas City food bank become one of the nation’s most effective.

Bringing Many to the Table

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Karen Haren ’71 says it was her comprehensive education in that very major that prepared her for a career running one of the largest food banks in the Midwest.

Haren retired in June from a 27-year career with Harvesters Community Food Network in Kansas City, Mo., an award-winning organization that feeds thousands of people a week. It was named Food Bank of the Year

by Feeding America, the nation’s leading food bank network, which also named Haren executive director of the year.

As she reflects on her tenure at Harvesters, from which she retired as president and CEO, Haren says it all began at Chapman University, where she arrived in the late ’60s from Montana.

“Fortunately I had a well-rounded liberal arts education that prepared me to move into lots of different areas that really became my career,” Haren says.

Indeed, it’s her commitment to education that has helped Haren become a leader in the food relief world, says Mary McClure, a longtime Harvesters volunteer and former board chair.

“She’s a lifelong learner who constantly embraces new concepts,” McClure says. “She has worked hard to encourage other leaders to be visionary.”

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Panthers on the Prowl

❯❯❯ Continue from previous page Kara Sargent, B.A. English ’10, got engaged to Bear Kennedy.

Natasha Shahani, B.A. public relations and advertising ‘11, is the head of learning and director of communications for the inaugural Life is Beautiful Festival in Las Vegas in October.

Bill Wetzell, B.A. physical education ’59, and Roberta (Balding) Wetzel, B.A. art ’59, celebrated their 53rd wedding anniversary June 26. They spent five weeks in Brisbane, Australia, with their daughter, Lisa, her husband, Ken, and their two granddaughters, Ashlyn and Briana.

Nick Snyder, MFA film production ’12, was hired to direct a commercial /short film project for the chocolate company Agatha Savage.

Dennis Parrett, B.A. economics/business administration ’62, stayed safe and dry during a rainy day on his trip to Honfleur, France, thanks to his trusty Chapman umbrella.

Efrain Solis, B.M. performance ’11, was in the top 10 at the finals for the National Council Auditions at the Metropolitan Opera in March.

Brett Sprague, B.M. performance ’10, was accepted into the competitive apprentice program at Chautauqua Opera for the 2013 summer season. He performed the role of Rector Adams in Peter Grimes.

Raelyn Tepper, BFA film production ’10, was involved with two films shown at the Newport Beach Film Festival in April.

She did production design for Pasadena and set decoration for Geography Club.

Elizabeth Vysin, B.M. music education and musical performance ’11, was admitted as a master’s theory candidate in addition to her M.M. in performance study at The Hartt School, the performing arts conservatory of the University of Hartford.

Lauren Uranga, B.A. sociology ’11, is the development associate for the Southern California Hospice Foundation.

Friends We Will Miss Corlee Bosch, B.S. accounting ’01, passed away June 2 in Georgetown, Texas, at age 65. Corlee worked in the academic affairs office at Chapman University from 1987 to 2001. She is survived by her husband, John.

The Rev. Harsh J. Brown, B.A. English ’50, passed away June 25 in Columbia, Mo. Harsh was a Navy veteran of World War II. He is survived by his wife, Frances.

The Browns are Chapman’s largest family of alumni, with more than 30 Chapman graduates.

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Brandon Eddy Wade, MFA film production ’10, was accepted into three film festivals for his film Choice of Flight.

He also teaches children the art of filmmaking in Fullerton.

Malia Wright, BFA theatre performance ’12, performed the role of Dorinda in The Beaux’ Stratagem at A Noise Within in Pasadena.

ALUMNI NEWS AND CAMPUS EVENTS SAVE THE DATES

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American Celebration Opening Night, Friday, Nov. 1 Featuring spectacular singing and dancing by student performers, American Celebration is Chapman’s signature scholarship fundraising event. Purchase tickets and learn more at chapman.edu/american-celebration.

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ALUMNI BLOG Check out our new Chapman Alumni Blog at blogs.chapman.edu/alumni and see what fellow Chapman alumni have been up to. Those recently featured include Mark Miller ’06, Elizabeth McCroskey ’07 and Chris Eggleton ’02.

Winterfest and Doy’s Holiday Tree Lighting, Thursday, Dec. 5 The campus comes alive with holiday lights, performances of seasonal music, a holiday gift marketplace, hot drinks and sweet treats.

Greek Skit Night, April 4-5, 2014 Alumni are invited to watch Chapman’s fraternities and sororities square off in a battle of singing, dancing and acting on the stage of Memorial Hall.

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Find Us Online ECONOMIC FORECAST UPDATE Monday, Nov. 25

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Enter the discount code PANTHERS online or contact the Office of Special Events at (714) 628-2750. To register or learn more, visit chapman.edu/economic-forecast.

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Darwin MeetsDisney When

From the file of “Why didn’t they have that class when I was in school?” comes Integrated Educational Studies 207, known to Chapman University students as the “The Pursuit of Happiness and Knowledge: Walt Disney and Charles Darwin.” Brian Alters, Ph.D., a professor in the College of Educational Studies and director of the Evolution Education Research Center, created the course combining his two passions — Darwin, who transformed the scientific world, and Disney, who imagined fantasy worlds. “Science is what is. Disney is what ought to be. Disney has happy endings,” says Alters, who joined Chapman in 2010 and holds appointments at Harvard and McGill universities.

Chapman Trustee Emeritus Jack Lindquist, Disneyland’s first president, pays a visit each semester, too. The worlds of science and whimsy even meet in Alters’ Reeves Hall office. There he amuses visitors with automated bookshelves that can be cued to expose Disney memorabilia, or slide away to reveal his collection of replica hominid skulls. No wonder his class is so popular that it’s waitlisted every semester.

But students are patient, and we’re guessing pretty careful to keep their hands, feet, arms, legs and heads — especially those — inside the vehicle at all times.

Photo by Da Zhang (MFA ‘15)