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SJ NIVERSITY4N E WS
Volume XXXV, Number 7
University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
October 26, 2005
Alumni panels provide guidance to UD students
by Mary Chadvvick
NEWS EDITOR
University of Dallas Alumni
and Career Development Offices
saw a large turnout to the Alumni
Panel titled No B.S.- How to enter
the Professional World with Your
UD Degree.
The Oct. 21 Marketing/Pro-
motion/Journalism panel, mod-
erated by English professor Dr.
Roper, consisted of five successful
UD alumni and attracted 25 to 30
undergraduates.
The panelists gave a brief syn-
opsis of their current careers, how
they landed their jobs, how UD
prepared them in a unique way,
and the bumps they had along the
way. Every speaker was quick to
mention that the ability to write
well is key in any field of work.
"I found that the skill of writ-
ing and being clear was unusual.
Companies are hungry for peo-
ple who can write and perform
well, and UD prepared me. UD
teaches you to communicate hard
ideas clearly and concisely" Jessica
Mandala, '98, told the students.
Mandala is currently the digital
marketing manager for the Ameri-
can Heart Association and the
American Stroke Association.
Panelist Mercedes Olivera,
weekly columnist at The Dal-
las Morning News, agreed with
Mandala, "Here [UD] is where
I learned to love James Joyce and
photo John Schuler/University News
One of the alumni panels, moderated by English professor
Dr. Roper, gives students helpful advice about their career
experiences outside of the UD "bubble."
William Faulkner, and that has
contributed to making me a good
writer."
The panelists not only ad-
dressed the academic side of the
UD education, but the spiritual
side as well.
"The world moves too fast to
build heart and soul out there.
UD allows you to get in touch
with who you are and what you
believe in. A lot of people out
there are lost; here you are able
to build touchstones, these are
the kind of things that will help
you to see the ethical issues when
another may not," Mark Grayson,
'87, explained. Grayson is an edi-
tor at Holt, Rinehart and Win-
ston, one of the nation's premier
textbook publishers explained.
The panelists were quick to
point out that although UD pre-
pares her students for the "real
world," the students really have
to be proactive.
"Nobody else is going to look
out for your career. Nobody
else is going to look out for your
see Panels on page 4
journalist, war artists images express Iraq war narrative
by Mary Sweeny
STAFF WRITER
In a recent lecture and book
signing at Southern Methodist
University, Steve Mumford, war
artist and journalist presented a
collection of images to accom-
pany the narration of his experi-
ences in Iraq.
Mumford's images are mostly
ink and watercolor pieces. They
capture a wide range of scenes,
from soldiers hitting golfballs
into the Tigris to men jamming
themselves up against prison bars
in order to get drawn by the artist.
He carefully recorded each scene,
remembering to include the fam-
ily photo as held up by one of the
eagerly posing prisoners.
Handling inherently politi-
cal subject matter, the war artist
would seem to embrace political
agenda in his art.
A. Kate Sheerin, cu-
rator of the Meadows
Museum at SMU, wrote
in a piece accompanying
the exhibit, "...by let-
ting ambiguity triumph
over indignation and
by introducing beauty
as the star of each draw-
ing, Mumford under-
scores his self-defined
role as witness to, and
not judge of, the con-
flict in Iraq. Mumford
may shun ideological or
political commentary,
but he does not fail to pack a
punch since every scene depicted
is suspended in the tension of
implied actions and inevitable
consequences."
However subtle his pieces,
Mumford was forthright in his
opinions when answering ques-
tions posed to him by the mostly
Mumford chose to illustrate the war finding it
"slowed down the war, recording the spaces
between the bombs."
middle-aged and older audience
at his SMU lecture.
"I didn't support the war when
it started. I participated in the
big protest in New York...My
attitude changed a bit when I got
there. I could never support leav-
ing now—it would be a hell of a
blood bath," said Mumford.
This statement re-
flected his honesty
throughout the lec-
ture. With anecdotes
simultaneously reveal-
ing the character of
the Iraqi people and
their suffering, his
narration of his Iraqi
tenure was balanced
with both the tragic
and the comic.
Contrary to the ex-
perience of many war
photographers who
often arouse suspicion
among Iraqis, his use of ink and
paper rather than a camera ingra-
tiated him with the community.
Many times as he took up his pad
in tea rooms and market places,
crowds would gather, peering and
reacting as he drew. He enjoyed
drawing scenes peripheral to the
combat experience of the war.
"For me, the act of drawing
slowed down the war, recording
the spaces between the bombs,"
said Mumford.
Mumford describes his work as
"illustrative."
"I don't want that to be a dirty
word any more," he proclaimed
about the I-word to sympathetic
listeners at his lecture.
As he related his experience at
Boston's School of the Museum of
Fine Arts, a man in the audience
scoffed at his mention of Abstract
Expressionism. Clearly the audi-
ence at SMU was also "ready for
a huge comeback in narrative
art," as Mumford predicted in his
lecture.
"From visiting schools I get the
feeling that young people have a
story to tell," he said.
Mumford's journal and its
accompanying art can be seen at
Artnet.com
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by Monica Klem
STAFF WRITER
At the beginning of October,
several members of the rugby
team contracted an infection of
Methicillin resistant staphylococ-
cus aureus bacteria, known as
MRS A.
MRSA is a strain of the staph
bacteria commonly found on the
skin. It is resistant to both Methi-
cillin and the cephalosporin class
of drugs.
According to Dr. Laurette
Deket, director of student health
services, "With most of the staph
that's on our bodies, if you get
a cut and it gets infected, your
body's immune system will kill
it and you won't have the infec-
tion anymore. People have these
all the time, infected hair bumps
or little cuts, and they resolve on
their own.
"Now we have this strain of
staph that's resistant to the usual
strain of antibiotic that you'd
usually use, and its much more
aggressive, so that what just looks
like a bug bite One day will within
twenty-four hours form a large
abcess."
"Almost all MRSA infections
will require incision and drainage
and often repeated irrigations.
Because of the setting we have
here, I've been taking care of them
here in the clinic. They just come
back every day and we irrigate
it out, and they're on their way,
making sure that they're taking
their medicine."
Andy Kerner, a junior baseball
player, believes he was among the
first five to contract the infection.
"Mine started out as a bump on
my arm, but it got really sore
because it went down into my
muscle. I showed the trainer and
she said it was staph. I went to
the doctor and she explained that
everybody has it on their skin,
some are just more susceptible
than others," he said.
In contrast with the more
typical strains of staph that can
be treated with antibiotics within
a one to two week period, MRSA
requires that the drugs to be ad-
ministered over four to six weeks,
in order to prevent recurrences.
Since the discovery of the out-
break, there has been a campus-
wide effort to contain the spread
of infection.
"In October, we had a case that
was in one of the rugby players,
and then we had several within
the rugby team, and then their
close contacts, whether it was a
girlfriend or a roommate. It was
when those cases started to come
up, I immediately realized that
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