Lectures
Penn State Intercom......October
24, 2002
Entrepreneur to
discuss leadership 
Entrepreneur and businessman Herman Cain will deliver a lecture, "CEO of Self: You're in Charge," at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, at The Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus.
Cain's lecture is being sponsored by the College of Health and Human Development. The event is free to the public.
Cain currently serves as chairman of Godfather's Pizza Inc.; he also is founder and chief executive officer of T.H.E. Inc., a business and leadership consulting company.
Egyptian antiquities experts
to lecture on the Nile
Mohamed el Bahay Issawi, geologist and director of the Egyptian Geological Survey and Mining Authority in Cairo, and Sabry Abd el Azziz Khatter, archaeologist and head of all antiquities for the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt in Cairo, will present a two-part lecture on environmental and geological issues affecting the preservation of monuments and historical sites in Egypt.
The event, "The Nile, Past and Present: Issues in geology and archaeology, environment and water," will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, at Heritage Hall in the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus.
The event is free to the public.
Issawi will lecture on the early history of the Nile River and Egyptian antiquities at risk in an active environment. He will use satellite images of ancient riverbeds to examine how geological changes have affected the environment and consequently ancient Egyptian temples, tombs, towns and other historically important structures.
Khatter will speak about current problems and protective measures being taken to protect historical sites and structures such as Karnak, Valley of the Kings, tombs of nobles and the temple at Medineh Habu in southern Egypt. He will discuss current efforts to protect against the damaging effects of groundwater, flash floods, moisture and salt accumulation, which can cause the surface of stone to crumble.
Symposium to explore
corporate ethics, scandals
A panel of business and ethics faculty members at Pennsylvania College of Technology -- as well as representatives from the local business community -- will address "Corporate Ethics and Recent Scandals" in a Nov. 7 symposium sponsored by the School of Business and Computer Technologies at Penn College.
The event, which will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Thompson Professional Development Center, is the initial offering in the School of Business and Computer Technologies' Professional Symposium Series.
The symposium is free to the public.
The format will feature short presentations by the panel, followed by a discussion among the panel members. At the conclusion, the panel will answer questions from the audience. The panel will address recent business scandals involving firms such as WorldCom, ImClone and Tyco, among others. The panel members also will consider what can be done by accounting firms, financial-service companies, business managers and business educators to resolve the problems.
Roadside renovations
explored in agronomy talk
Brian Clark, master of science candidate in agronomy, will make a presentation from 3:35 to 4:25 p.m. Oct. 25 in 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building on the University Park campus.
His topic is "The Renovation of Coronilla varia L. (crownvetch) and Weed-Infested Roadsides Using a Native and Non-native Grass Mix."
The host for the event is the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences.
For information, call (814) 863-1601.
Historian to discuss
Lewis and Clark expedition
The Philadelphia connection to the Lewis and Clark Expedition will be explored during a lecture at 2 p.m. Nov. 17 in 112 Woodland Building on the Penn State Abington campus.
Guest lecturer and historian Paul Sivitz will take participants back nearly 200 years to the events in and around Philadelphia that made the expedition and the subsequent publication of Lewis and Clark's journals possible.
The program is free to the public.
Fall academic advising
lunches scheduled
Each semester, the Division of Undergraduate Studies holds a series of brown-bag lunches that focus on topics related to academic advising on the University Park campus.
This fall, the first session will be held from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6, in 18 Henderson Building. It will focus on the University Advising Council, established by Senate legislation in spring of 1997 to pursue initiatives focused on best practices in advising. Eric White, executive director of Division of Undergraduate Studies, and Barbara Welshofer, director of undergraduate studies in the College of the Liberal Arts, will discuss these initiatives and how they affect academic advising.
The second session, "Career Services: An Introduction for Advisers," will be held from noon to 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 25, in 103B MBNA Career Services Center. A tour and presentation will focus on the most effective ways for academic advisers to interact with Career Services.
For information, call Laura Brown at (814) 865-7576 or e-mail lsb7@psu.edu.
Chaudhuri, Kumar to discuss
literary responses
"Colloquium on Violence in South Asia: Literary Responses" will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, in Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art on the University Park campus.
The speakers are Amit Chaudhuri, prize-winning novelist and contributor to Granta, TLS and the London Review of Books, and Amitava Kumar, associate professor of English and author of Bombay-London-New York.
Since the 1990s, the Indian subcontinent has witnessed nuclear tests, continuing war and the rise of Hindu as well as Islamic fundamentalism. During this period, the region also has been home to another kind of explosion -- the phenomenon of Indians writing in English.
The colloquium will explore how writers have responded to the political crises of their time.
Specialist to discuss
employee benefits
Phil Carlin, senior benefits specialist, will present a Penn State Educational Office Professionals seminar at 12:10 p.m. Oct. 24 in 102 Kern Building on the University Park campus. His topic is "Employee Benefits: It's Not Just Insurance." The event is free to the public.
Poet's topic is editing
women's poetry anthology
The Comparative Literature Luncheon, a weekly informal lunchtime gathering of students, faculty and other members of the University community, has announced the next speaker in this semester's series.
Jen Hofer, poet and translator, who free-lances between Mexico City
and Los Angeles, will talk about "No Visible Doors: Editing an Anthology
of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women" on Monday, Oct. 28.
The events begin with lunch from 12:15 to 12:40 p.m. in 102 Kern Building on the University Park campus. Participants may bring their own lunch or buy something in Kern Cafeteria. Coffee and tea are provided. The speaker will begin at about 12:40 p.m. The events are free to the public. For information, e-mail Daniel Walden at dxw8@psu.edu.
Topic is unionization in
women's garment industry
Ken Wolensky, historian with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, will talk about his book, Fighting for the Union Label: The Women's Garment Industry and the ILGWU in Pennsylvania, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, in the Gallery Lounge of Olmsted Building at Penn State Harrisburg.
A special feature of the program will be the participation of one of the women featured in Wolensky's research. Lois Hartel will offer first-hand commentary on her part in the movement.
For information, call (717) 948-6638.
Lies Across America
is talk topic
James Loewen, winner of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, will speak on his book, Lies Across America, from 5 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6, in Olmsted Auditorium on the Penn State Harrisburg campus.
In the book, Loewen portrays what he says are the true occurrences behind the public versions of American history.
The event is free to the public.