Editor: Keith Davis Writers: Alex Dippold, Dave Maley Publisher: Office of Public Information Volume 22, No. 6   November 1, 1999

Kudos Nancy Brcak, art history, and John Pavia, history, coauthored an article, "The Enemy as ‘Other’: Japanese and American Visual Propaganda of the Pacific Campaign," which recently appeared in Japan Studies. The theme of the issue was "Japan in the 20th Century: International Perspectives." The periodical is published by the Center for Japan Studies at Teikyo-Loretto Heights University in Denver. Raymond Gozzi Jr., television-radio, has just published a new book, The Power of Metaphor in the Age of Electronic Media. In discussing the relationships between media and language, the book argues that the contemporary interest in metaphor is related to the increase in prominence of the electronic media. The iconic imagery of the electronic media, Gozzi says, is pushing the discourse of the entire culture toward metaphorical modes of conception and meaning-making. The book also includes a collection of articles Gozzi wrote on the subject of metaphors in relation to media, computers, and culture and education. Robert Heasley, sociology, and Colleen Kattau, modern languages and literatures, participated in the annual meeting and community gathering of the Ithaca Rape Crisis/Crime Victims Assistance Program on October 20 at Common Ground. Heasley was the special guest speaker, presenting "Stopping Violence Before It Starts: Working with Boys and Men," and Kattau, a singer and songwriter, provided entertainment. Heinz Koch, chemistry, chaired a panel discussion on "Molecular Modeling: A Way to Enhance Laboratory Experiments" at the 33rd annual meeting of the Middle Atlantic Association of Liberal Arts Chemistry Teachers at Lebanon Valley College in September. Also attending were Vincent DeTuri and Judith Koch, chemistry. Andrew Koch ’84, a faculty member at Saint Mary’s College of Maryland, presented material at the panel discussion. Harry McCue, art, displayed a pastel and a chalk drawing in the 16th Maine/Maritime Juried Flatworks Exhibition at the University of Maine at Presque Isle in October. Michael Twomey, English, delivered a paper, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Quest for Historical Origins," at the 19th Congress of the International Arthurian Society in Toulouse, France, in July. He also wrote an essay, "Morgan le Fay," for Mythen des Mittelalters III: Magier, Verführer, Schurken (Myths of the Middle Ages III: Magicians, Seducers, Rogues), published earlier this year in Konstanz, Germany. Jane Vogel, English, presented a paper, "David Loves Miss Shepherd; or, Dickens, Comedian as the Letter ‘C’," at SUNY College at Cortland’s ninth annual Central New York Language and Literature Conference in October. She also read "Gatsby until Proved Innocence: What F. Scott Fitzgerald Owed to Edith Wharton" at last year’s Fitzgerald-Woolf Conference in Asheville, North Carolina.