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Doug Campbell (Visual Arts) had a haiku published in the most recent issue of Adventum. In addition, three of his paintings – “Face in Three Acts,” “The Vine Maiden” and “The Ugly Cross Triptych” – are on exhibit through Feb. 24 in “Wild Women 10,” a juried exhibit sponsored by the River Gallery in Independence, Ore.

Greg Allen (Adult Degree Programs) was elected to the C.S. Lewis Academy board of directors in November. He currently serves as chair of the finance committee and as a member of the marketing committee.

Mark Terry’s (Visual Arts) pieces will be included in “West Coast Wood Fire,” an exhibit featuring wood-fired ceramics by more than 50 contemporary clay artists from California, Oregon and Washington. The exhibit, which will showcase the work of the most prominent artists in Mark’s guild on this side of the country, runs March 2-31 at the Fine Arts Center in Arcata, Calif.

Sarah Gibson’s (Cinema and Media Communication) article, “Who is that Masked Man: Should Anonymous Posters to Newspaper Websites be Unmasked?,” was published in the Southern Law Journal. Gibson was the lead author along with her coauthor, Brad Reid, a professor at Lipscomb University. The article explores recent court cases and the developing precedent for First Amendment and Shield Law protection to online comments. In addition, Sarah’s interactive documentary, “Steve Taylor’s Digital Clone,” was named winner of the 2012 Broadcast Education Association’s Faculty Interactive Media Best of Festival King Foundation Award. The award ceremony will take place in April at the BEA national convention.

A number of English department faculty members participated in the Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association’s 33rd Annual Conference Feb. 8-11 in Albuquerque, N.M. Professors (and others) presented papers and Ed Higgins read poetry in a creative writing session:

In the Women and Religion session, Melanie Mock presented a paper with slide illustrations titled “Be Quiet, Already: Evangelical Popular Culture’s Misogyny Problem.” Kendra Weddle Irons (formally in the religion department at GFU) presented in the same session a paper with slide illustrations titled “Blogging for God: Women, Christianity Today, Sojourners, and the Christian Century.”

In a session on Learning and the Freshman Writing Experience, Gary Tandy presented the paper “Writing About Basic Beliefs in Basic Writing.”

In a session on Interpreting Religion, Kathy Heininge presented the paper “Stephen Colbert and Stephen King: Catechists for a Secular World.”

In a session on The Beat World: Exploration of Countercultural Influences, Sara Kelm (Registrar’s Office) presented the paper “A Failed Success: Divine Right Davenport as a Hero for the Hippie Counterculture.”

In a session on Women’s Studies, Abby Rine presented a paper with slide illustrations titled “The Postfeminist Mystique, or What Can We Learn from Betty Draper?”

In a session on Food and Culture: Regional Food Histories, Polly Peterson read a paper with slide illustrations titled “Accessible With a Hint of Barnyard: The Culture of Food and Wine in the Red Hills of Dundee.”

In a Creative Writing Poetry session, Higgins read a selection of poems under the heading “Four Questions.”

Jennifer Overstreet, Dan Predoehl and David Collett (ADP Admissions) presented a seminar, “Academic Concierges: Working With Students from Start to Finish,” at the Student Success and Retention Conference hosted by the Oregon Council of Student Services Administrators. The conference, held Feb. 2-3 at the Portland Airport Sheraton, was attended by more than 300 people who work at community colleges and public and private universities in Oregon. Jennifer, Dan and David’s presentation detailed the enrollment counselor model we use with our ADP students and how it has improved student success and retention in that program.

Ed Higgins (English) published the poem “I am spoken fragments” in the February issue of Fortunates, an online collection of “profoundly bite-sized poetry.” He also published a flash fiction piece, “My Nose,” in the February issue of the online literary magazine RiverLit.

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