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Jan. 15, 2008=20

SBU=20 to mark Martin Luther King Day with lecture on 'The Real MLK'=20
Inauguration=20 program to give St. Bonaventure students behind-the-scenes = perspective=20 on politics
SBU=20 prof co-authors Civil War article
Horowitz=20 writes book on Argentina's struggle for democracy in the early=20 1990's=20
Kevin=20 Locke Native Dance Ensemble to perform in Quick = Center=20
Newsmakers=20 for Fall 2008

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SBU to mark Martin = Luther=20 King Day with lecture on 'The Real MLK'

The St. = Bonaventure=20 University community is invited to join together to mark Martin = Luther=20 King Jr. Day with a dinner and evening program on Monday, Jan.=20 19.

A special = dinner will=20 be available in Hickey Dining Hall from 4:30 to 7 p.m. The cost to = those=20 not on a meal plan is $9.20 plus tax. Following dinner, students, = staff=20 and faculty are encouraged to walk together from the Damietta = Center in=20 Francis Hall to the John J. Murphy Professional Building for the = 7:30 p.m.=20 program. The walk will begin at 7:15 p.m. and community members = are=20 encouraged to join the movement at the following = locations:

Damietta = Center (east=20 side of Francis Hall)
Richter Center entrance
University = Ministries=20 (entrance facing Reilly Center)

Glow sticks = will be=20 provided to walkers.

=93The Real = MLK=94 will=20 be presented at 7:30 p.m. in Dresser Auditorium by St. Bonaventure = faculty=20 members Dr. Barry Gan, professor of philosophy and director of the = Center=20 for Nonviolence, and Dr. Mark Huddle, associate professor of = history and=20 board member of the Association for the Study of African American = History=20 and Life. The lecture is free and open to the public.

=93Each = year we=20 celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr., but we celebrate = only a=20 small part of his life, making him a hero without recognizing that = people=20 become heroic by overcoming their own shortcomings and = weaknesses,=94 said=20 Gan.

=93In this = presentation=20 we will explore the real Martin Luther King Jr., the man few = Americans=20 ever learn about, who, despite his failings, rose to greatness = because he=20 battled with them, and who, despite being sanitized by mainstream = America,=20 offered insights, critiques, and analyses that we still ignore at = our own=20 peril. And we will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr., heroic = because he is=20 in the end a human being like all of us,=94 added Gan.

Also on = Jan. 19, =93We=20 Have A Dream=94 wristbands will be available in the Reilly Center = from 11=20 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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Inauguration program to give St. = Bonaventure students=20 behind-the-scenes perspective on politics

Earlier this fall = when 14 St.=20 Bonaventure students signed up for a special Washington, D.C., = academic=20 seminar about the new presidential administration, they didn=92t = even know=20 who the 44th president of the United States was going to be. It = didn=92t=20 matter; they knew it was going to be an opportunity of a=20 lifetime.

For 10 days = starting=20 Saturday, Jan. 10, the students will participate in a unique = course that=20 will examine the issues and implications of the Obama = administration and=20 study the role the media plays in the political process =96 all = under the=20 backdrop of the nation=92s capital.

The seminar = ends Jan.=20 20, Inauguration Day.

=93This is = one of the=20 most historic elections in American history and in a time with so = many=20 troubles, Barack Obama has promised us so much, so I would like to = be a=20 part of this history,=94 said SBU junior Dan Volkosh of = Middleport,=20 N.Y.

The St. = Bonaventure=20 students and professor Dr. Danette Brickman, who will serve as a = faculty=20 leader and instructor for the course, will join college students = from=20 across the country for The Presidential Inauguration program = sponsored by=20 The Washington Center for Internships and Academic = Seminars.

The seminar = program=20 is taught as a course and will examine the issues and implications = of the=20 Obama administration. The students=92 days will be split between = small=20 seminars in the morning and afternoon speakers and visits to sites = including embassies, news agencies CNN and Fox, the Brookings = Institute,=20 Pew Research Center, Amnesty International and the Democratic and=20 Republican national committees.

Tentative = speakers=20 include ABC News anchor Sam Donaldson, the Discovery Channel=92s = Ted Koppel=20 and U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey.

Volkosh, = who is=20 president of the College Democrats, is looking forward to being = =93in an=20 optimistic atmosphere for 10 days with millions of other Americans = and to=20 experience living history in our country=92s = capital.=94

The = Presidential=20 Inauguration program will host more than 700 college students from = institutions such as Ball State, Loyola Marymount, Miami Dade and = the=20 University of Florida.

=93I think = it=92s going=20 to be a great experience for our students because they=92re going = to be=20 interacting with students from all over the country,=94 Brickman=20 said.

As part of = the=20 course, the students will have the opportunity to visit the = Newseum, the=20 new Capitol Visitors Center, attend a U.S. Chamber of Commerce = cocktail=20 party/social, and enjoy a special performance by satirist Mark = Russell at=20 George Washington University.

Although = they don=92t=20 have tickets to the inauguration of president-elect Obama, = Brickman said=20 the Bona=92s contingent =93will be trying to get as close as = possible=94 to the=20 inauguration festivities on Jan. 20.

With = estimates=20 ranging from 1 million to 5 million people descending on = Washington, D.C.,=20 to mark the inauguration, Brickman said, =93this is going to be = the biggest=20 thing we=92ve seen in years. The students are beside themselves. I = think=20 it=92s going to be a great experience. Most have never been to = D.C.=20 before.=94

As part of = their=20 coursework, the students will be videotaping and photographing = their=20 experiences for presentations to the university community and = local high=20 schools when they return.

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SBU prof co-authors Civil War=20 article

Chris Mackowski, an = associate=20 professor of journalism and mass communication at St. Bonaventure=20 University, has published an article in a Civil War history=20 journal.

=93From = Foxcroft to=20 Fredericksburg: Captain Sewell Gray of the Sixth Maine Infantry=94 = appears=20 in this year=92s volume of Fredericksburg History & Biography, = an annual=20 journal published by the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust. This = year=92s=20 volume =97 volume seven =97 was released in = mid-December.

Mackowski = co-authored=20 the article with Kristopher D. White, a historian who works at=20 Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park, which=20 encompasses four major Civil War battlefields in central Virginia. = Mackowski works at the park one weekend a month as a battlefield = guide and=20 interpreter.

Their = article focuses=20 on an officer, Sewell Gray of Foxcroft, Maine, who served with the = Sixth=20 Maine Infantry. Mackowski and White based their article on = Gray=92s diary,=20 which recently came to light.

=93Sabbath = and a=20 lovelier day never overtook a soldier,=94 Gray wrote in his diary = on May 3,=20 1863. Hours later, he was killed while his regiment stormed a = heavily=20 fortified Confederate position known as Marye=92s Heights in = Fredericksburg.=20 However, Gray=92s unit, the Sixth Maine, successfully captured the = position,=20 although their success was short-lived. The Federal advance was = halted=20 just a few hours later after the Battle at Salem Church. The = action was=20 one of several engagements related to the Battle of=20 Chancellorsville.

=93After = Gray=92s death,=20 his diary had been recovered by someone in his regiment, and it = was passed=20 down through his family. His great-great-grandnephew has it = today,=94=20 Mackowski says. =93He was kind enough to provide a transcript, = which Kris=20 and I then used as the basis for the article. We did additional = research=20 to flesh out Gray=92s story even further. He was an interesting = guy to get=20 to know.=94

Mackowski=92s father=20 lives in the area in Maine where members of Gray=92s regiment were = recruited=20 into service.

=93I spent = part of my=20 life growing up and going to school in the same towns where some = of Gray=92s=20 comradescame from,=94 Mackowski says. =93It was important to me to = do justice=20 to Captain Gray=92s story because of that = connection.=94

The article = by=20 Mackowski and White appears alongside articles by noted Civil War=20 historians Eric Mink, Donald Pfanz, Noel Harrison and Russell P.=20 Smith.

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SBU professor writes book on Argentina's = struggle=20 for democracy in early 1900s =

Joel Horowitz, = Ph.D., a noted=20 scholar on Argentina and professor of history at St. Bonaventure=20 University, has written a new book about Argentina=92s government = in the=20 early 20th century.

=93Argentina=92s Radical=20 Party and Popular Mobilization, 1916-1930=94 examines = democracy=92s first=20 appearance in a country that appeared to satisfy all the criteria = that=20 political development theorists of the 1950s and 1960s identi?ed = as=20 crucial. This experiment lasted in Argentina from 1916 to 1930, = when it=20 ended in a military coup that left a troubled political legacy for = decades=20 to come.

=93This = book sheds new=20 light on a crucial chapter in the struggle for democracy in = Argentina.=20 Drawing on approaches from political and labor history, = Horowitz=92s study=20 examines the complex negotiations between party leaders, state = officials=20 and working people that shaped public life during the heyday of = Radical=20 Party rule,=94 said Eduardo Elena, history professor at the = University of=20 Miami. =93In the process, it questions familiar assumptions = regarding=20 cronyism and popular politics associated with the Argentine = republic in=20 the early 20th century.=94

Horowitz, = who spent=20 more than 15 years working on the book, has studied Argentina=92s = government=20 and society since he was in graduate school more than 30 years=20 ago.

=93It is = intriguing to=20 try to understand how a democracy works or, in fact, fails,=94 = Horowitz=20 said. =93It is usually assumed in the United States that all you = need to do=20 is have elections and there will be a democracy that works. = Unfortunately,=20 sometimes it fails and it is important to try to discover = why.=94

Horowitz = challenges=20 previous interpretations that emphasize the role of clientelism = and=20 patronage. He argues that they fail to account fully for the = Radical Party=20 government=92s ability to mobilize widespread popular support. = Horowitz=20 compares the administrations of Hip=F3lito Yrigoyen and Marcelo T. = de Alvear=20 he shows how much depended on the image Yrigoyen managed to create = for=20 himself: a secular savior who cared deeply about the less = fortunate and=20 the embodiment of the nation.

Later = successes and=20 failures of Argentine democracy, from Juan Per=F3n through the = present,=20 cannot be fully understood without knowing the story of the = Radical Party=20 in this earlier period.

Published = by Penn=20 State University Press, the book will be released in = January.

Formerly a=20 contributing editor of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, = which is=20 prepared by the Library of Congress, Horowitz has been a member of = the St.=20 Bonaventure faculty since 1989. He was promoted to full professor = in 1999.=20 He holds a bachelor=92s degree from the University of Pennsylvania = and=20 master=92s and doctoral degrees from the University of California = at=20 Berkeley.

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Kevin Locke Native Dance Ensemble to = perform at=20 Quick Center

The Kevin Locke = Native Dance=20 Ensemble will open the 2009 world music series at St. Bonaventure=20 University=92s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts with a = performance at=20 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22.

The = performance,=20 =93The Drum is the Thunder, the Flute is the Wind,=94 will be = presented by=20 Friends of Good Music in association with The Quick Center for the = Arts.

=93We = are thrilled=20 to be able to offer Kevin Locke as the first concert in this = unique world=20 music series,=94 said Nancy Consedine, president of Friends of = Good Music.=20 =93We offered the series for the first time last year and it was = extremely=20 popular.=94

The = one-of-a-kind=20 Kevin Locke Native Dance Ensemble features award-winning Native = American=20 performers representing the Plains nations of Lakota, Anishinabe = and=20 Comanche, the Southeastern tribe Choctaw, and the Woodlands = Nations of=20 Ojibwe and Oneida. Their performance offers a rich variety of = native=20 traditions and aesthetics in dance, instrumentals, song, = storytelling,=20 sign language and audience interaction, and includes visionary = hoop=20 dancing, fancy dancing, elegant traditional dancing, soaring = powwow=20 vocals, ancient flute songs, and authentic stories of the First=20 Nations.

Kevin = Locke is=20 known throughout the world as a visionary hoop dancer, a = preeminent player=20 of the indigenous Northern Plains flute, cultural ambassador, = recording=20 artist and educator. The National Endowment of the Arts has = awarded him a=20 National Heritage Fellowship, honoring him as a master traditional = artist=20 who shapes artistic traditions and preserves the cultural = diversity of the=20 nation.

The = Kevin Locke=20 Native Dance Ensemble has been performing for the past seven = years. Recent=20 appearances at the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of = the=20 American Indian and at the World Culture Open at New York=92s = Lincoln=20 Center, sponsored in part by the United Nations, have been met = with high=20 acclaim.

The = ensemble=92s=20 =93The Drum is the Thunder, the Flute is the Wind=94 program = represents the=20 Return of the Thunders and a revitalizing of the spirit within = people,=20 just as spring revitalizes the spirit within living things. Each=20 instrument represents a part of nature: The drum is the thunder, = the=20 rattle is the rain, the flute is the wind and the voice is the=20 lightning.

This = performance=20 is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition =93Land and = Spirit=20 Re-visited,=94 which is on view in the Kenney Gallery on The Quick = Center=92s=20 second floor. The exhibition provides a fresh look at the Edward = S. Curtis=20 photographs of Native Americans with the addition of photographs = taken 100=20 years later. The gallery will remain open throughout the=20 intermission.

Tickets = for the=20 performance are $18 at full cost; $15 for Friends of Good Music=20 subscribers, St. Bonaventure University staff members, and senior=20 citizens; and $5 for students. For tickets and information, call = The Quick=20 Center at (716) 375-2494.

This = performance=20 is supported in part by the New York State Council on the = Arts.

For = this and all=20 other performances, the museum galleries will open one hour before = the=20 start of the performance and remain open throughout the = intermission.=20 Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, = and=20 noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Museum admission is free and = open to=20 the public year round.

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Newsmakers for Fall = 2008

Dr. Neal=20 Carter, associate professor of political science, was = recently=20 interviewed on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation=92s morning = radio=20 program =93The Current=94 to discuss his research on Canadian = Prime Minister=20 Stephan Harper. The research, published in Inroads: The Canadian = Journal=20 of Opinion, presents a personality at a distance profile of = Harper,=20 comparing him to other heads of government.

Carter also = presented=20 =93Does Leading a Minority Government Change Leadership Traits? = The Case of=20 Jean Charest=94 at the American Council for Quebec Studies in = Quebec City in=20 November 2008, and lectured on =93Leadership Trait Analysis: = Profiling=20 Canadian Party Leaders=94 at the University of Southern = California=92s Center=20 for International Studies. Further, Carter has received a Program=20 Enrichment Grant from the Canadian Government to enhance Canadian = studies=20 at SBU. As part of the grant, he took his Canadian Politics class = to=20 Toronto and the students were able to visit the Canadian Consulate = in=20 Buffalo, the U.S. Consulate in Toronto, and attend Question Period = at the=20 Ontario Legislative Assembly.

In = addition, Carter=20 published a review of a book on Canadian constitutional politics = in Quebec=20 Studies, and The Journal of Political Science Education has = accepted his=20 article on the Model United Nations Consortium that he and two = colleagues=20 created. He will be taking St. Bonaventure students to New York = City for a=20 major Model UN conference this semester.

Dr. = Carl J.=20 Case, professor of management science, and Darwin = L.=20 King, professor of accounting, had their paper =93The = Undergraduate=20 Blogosphere: Academic Class Activity and Perceptions=94 selected = as the Best=20 Paper for the MIS II Track of the 2009 American Society of = Business and=20 Behavioral Sciences National Meeting to be held in Las Vegas,=20 Nev.

Dr. = Diana=20 Lawrence-Brown, chair of Inclusive Graduate Programs; = Dr.=20 Ren=E9 Wroblewski, assistant professor of special = education; and=20 Anne-Claire Fisher, assistant professor of = education,=20 presented papers on Dec. 5, 2008, for a session titled "Promoting = Social=20 Justice through Critical Perspectives in Inclusive Teacher = Preparation" at=20 the annual meeting of TASH in Nashville, Tenn. TASH is an = international=20 association of people with disabilities, their family members, = other=20 advocates, and professionals fighting for a society in which = inclusion of=20 all people in all aspects of society is the norm.

Carole=20 McNall, assistant professor of journalism and mass = communication,=20 had an article, "Is Formula Journalism Good Journalism," published = in the=20 fall 2008 edition of "Media Ethics" magazine. The article = considers news=20 coverage of the rape charges against members of the Duke lacrosse = team and=20 of the death of Washington Redskins football player Sean Taylor = and=20 suggests that many reporters jumped to conclusions before doing = needed=20 reporting. It is based in part on a discussion held in the spring = 2008=20 media ethics class at St. Bonaventure, which was taught by McNall = and=20 Chris Mackowski.

Dr. = Carol=20 Wittmeyer, assistant professor of management sciences, = and=20 colleagues from Loyola and Kennesaw state universities, presented = the=20 workshop Best Practices of Self-Sustaining Family Business = Centers, which=20 was nominated for a Best Workshop Award at the 2009 U.S. = Association for=20 Small Business and Entrepreneurship international conference held = in=20 Anaheim, Calif.

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