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Eight new members were selected for the Kiwanis Student Involvement Honors Program for the 2002-03 academic year: Daniel Biddlecom; Paul Kierulf; Maren Krings; Kim Kus; Shelbye Reese; Becki Tower; Kion Wade and Franyel Zelaya. The new members were inducted at the student leadership banquet May 17.

The program honors the outstanding efforts of student leaders at the college, and represents the best of the best, the top one percent of the student body. All of the students selected are rising juniors and seniors and have held a leadership position within the college. In addition to being involved on campus, they must also maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.0.

Current students in the program are Sara Calhoun, Ginger Fuenty, Katie Hammontree, Juan Huerta, Leslie Jensen, Jeffery Jones, Ross Macartney, Jason Meehan, Afshan Poona, Allyson Purcell, Czabrina Ramsay, Kelly Rand, Pedro Rocha, Jessica Rothstein, Martin Schmedt, Virgina Shou, Julie Silva, Leila Singleton, Chris Stulz, Aika Grace, Brian Tilman, and Clint Withers.

Individually, the members have volunteered over 100 hours of community service each quarter, working with such groups as Habitat for Humanity, Greenbriar, Gadson Elementary and Savannah Hospice.

SCAD sign language interpreter Darlene Newton passed the Certificate of Interpretation evaluation March 5. This certificate is sponsored by the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, the national organization of interpreters. She passed the Certificate of Transliteration exam before joining the SCAD. Interpreter Joy Cowart has passed the Level IV evaluation sponsored by the National Association of the Deaf. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, SCAD employs two full-time interpreters and six free-lance employees to open lines of communication between deaf and hearing students, faculty and staff. Beverly Williams, CSC, is the coordinator of deaf services at SCAD and is available to answer any questions; her office is located in the health and wellness department on the fourth floor of the American Building.

A public service announcement, "Save the Manatee," created by computer art M.F.A. candidates Randy Ramsey and Steve Presser has been accepted into the animation theater at the 2002 SIGGRAPH conference July 21-26 in San Antonio, Texas, and will be broadcast on television in Florida and elsewhere. The 30-second animation was created during their M.F.A. studies in the spring of 2001 and can be viewed online at http://www.chronicdesign.com/3d_animation.html.

Lisa Wigger, a staff accountant in the accounting department, is participating in a three-day, 60-mile walk July 12-14 to raise money for breast cancer research. She is one of more than 3,000 volunteers who will walk from San Jose, Calif., to San Francisco to support the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade’s mission to fund access to care and find a cure for breast cancer, with a focus on medically under-served women.

Art history professor Marie Timberlake was one of 10 Inca specialists invited to participate in a workshop titled "Can We Decode Tukapu?" May 17-18 in Washington, D.C. Each participant gave a presentation on one aspect of tukapu, followed by informal discussion. Timberlake’s presentation, "Reading Colonial Tukapu: Empty sign or Andean Semiotic System?" explored representations of tukapu in colonial Peruvian painting. Tukapu are woven or painted abstract squares that functioned as a communication system in the Inca Empire which dominated the Andean area of South America during the last 150 years before the Spanish conquest in 1532. At the behest of the director of pre-Colombian studies at Dumbarton Oaks, it was decided that the 10 participants would form a core group that would meet yearly for the next four to five years (alternating one year at Dumbarton Oaks and one at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University). The project will be modeled after a group of scholars who met yearly and worked toward the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphs. The goal of the project is to define the state of research on tukapu, compile a corpus of tukapu images, publication of a book and conference on the state of research on tukapu, and, ultimately, a better understanding of what kind of information tukapu carried and how that information was conveyed.

The work of video/film students Brandon Cox, Graham DuBose, Vanja Vascarac and Matt Woo, and alumni Jeff Rich, Brad Warren and Nate Theis was shown during the SCAD Student Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight May 16-26. SCAD recently announced a partnership with La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight) that not only includes the SCAD Student Showcase, but also a screening of the 2002 Directors’ Fortnight selections at the Savannah Film and Video Festival, Oct.26 — Nov. 2. The Savannah Film and Video Festival will be the only American festival to showcase the 2002 Directors’ Fortnight selections.

Cox and DuBose worked on "Samson," Vascarac and Woo collaborated on "Insomniac," Rich created "Next Door," Warren’s piece was "A-20," and Theis directed "Bob the Slob."

				Volume 2, No. 27 May 31, 2002




Eight new members were selected for the Kiwanis Student Involvement Honors Program for the 2002-03 academic year: Daniel Biddlecom; Paul Kierulf; Maren Krings; Kim Kus; Shelbye Reese; Becki Tower; Kion Wade and Franyel Zelaya. The new members were inducted at the student leadership banquet May 17. The program honors the outstanding efforts of student leaders at the college, and represents the best of the best, the top one percent of the student body. All of the students selected are rising juniors and seniors and have held a leadership position within the college. In addition to being involved on campus, they must also maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.0. Current students in the program are Sara Calhoun, Ginger Fuenty, Katie Hammontree, Juan Huerta, Leslie Jensen, Jeffery Jones, Ross Macartney, Jason Meehan, Afshan Poona, Allyson Purcell, Czabrina Ramsay, Kelly Rand, Pedro Rocha, Jessica Rothstein, Martin Schmedt, Virgina Shou, Julie Silva, Leila Singleton, Chris Stulz, Aika Grace, Brian Tilman, and Clint Withers. Individually, the members have volunteered over 100 hours of community service each quarter, working with such groups as Habitat for Humanity, Greenbriar, Gadson Elementary and Savannah Hospice. SCAD sign language interpreter Darlene Newton passed the Certificate of Interpretation evaluation March 5. This certificate is sponsored by the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, the national organization of interpreters. She passed the Certificate of Transliteration exam before joining the SCAD. Interpreter Joy Cowart has passed the Level IV evaluation sponsored by the National Association of the Deaf. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, SCAD employs two full-time interpreters and six free-lance employees to open lines of communication between deaf and hearing students, faculty and staff. Beverly Williams, CSC, is the coordinator of deaf services at SCAD and is available to answer any questions; her office is located in the health and wellness department on the fourth floor of the American Building. A public service announcement, "Save the Manatee," created by computer art M.F.A. candidates Randy Ramsey and Steve Presser has been accepted into the animation theater at the 2002 SIGGRAPH conference July 21-26 in San Antonio, Texas, and will be broadcast on television in Florida and elsewhere. The 30-second animation was created during their M.F.A. studies in the spring of 2001 and can be viewed online at http://www.chronicdesign.com/3d_animation.html. Lisa Wigger, a staff accountant in the accounting department, is participating in a three-day, 60-mile walk July 12-14 to raise money for breast cancer research. She is one of more than 3,000 volunteers who will walk from San Jose, Calif., to San Francisco to support the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade’s mission to fund access to care and find a cure for breast cancer, with a focus on medically under-served women. Art history professor Marie Timberlake was one of 10 Inca specialists invited to participate in a workshop titled "Can We Decode Tukapu?" May 17-18 in Washington, D.C. Each participant gave a presentation on one aspect of tukapu, followed by informal discussion. Timberlake’s presentation, "Reading Colonial Tukapu: Empty sign or Andean Semiotic System?" explored representations of tukapu in colonial Peruvian painting. Tukapu are woven or painted abstract squares that functioned as a communication system in the Inca Empire which dominated the Andean area of South America during the last 150 years before the Spanish conquest in 1532. At the behest of the director of pre-Colombian studies at Dumbarton Oaks, it was decided that the 10 participants would form a core group that would meet yearly for the next four to five years (alternating one year at Dumbarton Oaks and one at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University). The project will be modeled after a group of scholars who met yearly and worked toward the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphs. The goal of the project is to define the state of research on tukapu, compile a corpus of tukapu images, publication of a book and conference on the state of research on tukapu, and, ultimately, a better understanding of what kind of information tukapu carried and how that information was conveyed. The work of video/film students Brandon Cox, Graham DuBose, Vanja Vascarac and Matt Woo, and alumni Jeff Rich, Brad Warren and Nate Theis was shown during the SCAD Student Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight May 16-26. SCAD recently announced a partnership with La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight) that not only includes the SCAD Student Showcase, but also a screening of the 2002 Directors’ Fortnight selections at the Savannah Film and Video Festival, Oct.26 — Nov. 2. The Savannah Film and Video Festival will be the only American festival to showcase the 2002 Directors’ Fortnight selections. Cox and DuBose worked on "Samson," Vascarac and Woo collaborated on "Insomniac," Rich created "Next Door," Warren’s piece was "A-20," and Theis directed "Bob the Slob."














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