THE NEWSLETTER
THE NEWSLETTER is the Faculty/Staff newsletter of Stetson University, DeLand, Florida 32720, and is published each Friday. All items
tor THE NEWSLETTER should be sent to Magie Dobson, Office of Academic Affairs, Unit 8358, not later than 4 p.m. on Wednesday of each week.
FEBRUARY 4, 2000
IMPORTANT EVENTS
Friday, February 18 Noon University Faculty Meeting-SR
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Faculty Senate will meet Monday, February 7, at 6:45 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge. Dinner will be served in
the Faculty Lounge preceding the meeting at 6:00 p.m. All interested faculty are invited to attend the meeting.
From: Debbi Dinkins, Secretary /Treasurer, Faculty Senate
Russian Studies, will host Alexander Obolonsky, Russian Institute of State and Law, who will give a lecture on
"Russian Political Life: Its Paradoxes and Western Misperceptions of Them" on Monday, February 7, from 7:00 -
8:15 p.m., in Room 100 of the Lynn Business Center. Dr. Obolonsky is a Head Research Associate at the Institute
of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He has authored The Individual and Public
Administration and The Drama of Russian Political History: System Against Individuality. During the Yeltsin
administration. Dr. Obolonsky.served as a member of the Presidential Commission on Civil Servjce. A 4:00 p.m.
reception at the Russian Studies Center will precede the lecture. From: Gene Huskey, Director, Russian Studies
THURMAN LECTURE. Pulitzer Prize-winning civil rights chronicler Taylor Branch to give Thurman lecture. Taylor
Branch, who wrote what has been called a "sweeping account" of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and
'60s, will be the Howard Thurman Lecturer at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 9, in the Stetson Room of the
Carlton Union Building. Author of two volumes of a planned trilogy chronicling the civil rights movement, including
1988's Pulitzer Prize-winning Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63. he will speak on the topic
"Civil Rights in the New Millennium." Parting the Waters describes the movement that began to stir in Southern
black churches and rose to challenge the national conscience during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. Published
in 1998, the second volume in the trilogy, Pillar of Fire: America in the Kino Years 1963-65. spotlights the pivotal
years of the early 1960s and the tumultuous upheavals represented by Dallas, St. Augustine, Mississippi Freedom
Summer, Vietnam, Selma, LBJ's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While the Reverend Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., is the central figure, other players include Malcolm X, Lyndon Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover and Fannie
Lou Hamer. The books are part of an 18-year effort that has seen Branch interview more than 2,000 people, as
well as study FBI wiretap recordings and White House transcripts. The working life for Branch's third volume,
which he hopes to complete early this decade, is At Canaan's Edoe: America in the King Years 1965-68.
From: Jefferson Rogers, Director, Howard Thurman Program
ROGER NEWMAN, a Scribes Book Award Winner, Finalist for Pulitzer Prize and Author of the following titles:
Banned Films: Movies. Censors and the First Amendment, and The Constitution and Its Amendments will speak
on Tuesday, February 15, at 6:30 p.m., in the Stetson Room, on the topic of "Sex, Censorship and the Internet."
From: Dixon Sutherland, Director, Christian Ethics Institute
SAM R. MARKS PRIZE IN RELIGION, sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, awards cash prizes for
the best research papers in biblical studies. The competition for the Sam R. Marks Prize in Religion is open to
students who have completed at least three hours in Religious Studies. Awards of $500 and $250 will be made
for First and Second place. The application should be returned by February 25, 2000, and the submitted paper
by April 7, 2000. From: Mitchell G. Reddish
ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2000-2001. Attached elsewhere to The Newsletter is the academic calendar for the 2000-
2001. Questions related to this calendar should be addressed to the Office of Academic Affairs.
From: Maggie Dobson
