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WayneArmstrong

On June 18, 1884, trustees,

faculty and students crowdedinto the First Baptist Churchfor the University of Denvers

first Commencement. JohnHipp, the son of German and

Swiss immigrants and the

sole graduate, received hisdiploma from Bishop Warren,who reportedly voiced anenthusiastic and fitting Hipp

Hipp! Hurrah! in praise ofthe honoree. Hipp, a staunch

supporter of the temperancemovement, was admitted to

the Colorado Bar two yearslater and practiced law untilhis death on June 29, 1928.

Oh, the places theyll goSome 850 graduate students received their degrees at DUs

graduate Commencement ceremony June 4 at Magness Arena.

The ceremonys speaker was Lewis Sharp, former director of the

Denver Art Museum, who encouraged graduates to pursue careersin nonprofits. Education is the single most valuable tool that

can be bestowed on an individual, and you have taken advantage

of this opportunity, Sharp said. The next day, more than 1,000

students received diplomas at the undergraduate Commencement

ceremony.


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Volume 33, Number 11

Vice Chancellor for UniversityCommunications

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Editorial DirectorChelsey Baker-Hauck (BA 96)

Managing EditorKathryn Mayer (BA 07, MLS 10)

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DU English Professor Bin Ramke

won a 2010 Colorado Book Award

for his book Theory of Mind: New

& Selected Poems. The prestigious

award, given for 13 different book

categories, represents the best

writing in the state for a given

year. Ramke beat out the other fourpoetry category finalists, including

one of his former students. Dan

Beachy-Quick (BA English 95) was a

finalist for his book This Nest, Swift

Passerine: A Poem. In addition to

teaching, Ramke edits the literary

magazine Denver Quarterly and

has authored another nine books

of poetry. Poetry is different

from novel-writing, in that people

assume a novel is entertaining, andnot many people are entertained by

poems, Ramke has said.

Classes begin in new Morgridge College of Education

building

During the past year,

the entire campus and sur-

rounding DU community

have watched the day-to-day

construction progress o the

Universitys newest building

Katherine A. Ruatto Hall.

Now just minor nishing

touches remain, and aculty

and sta have moved into the

new home o the Morgridge

College o Education. Students started summer courses there June 14.

Construction began a year ago on the 73,568-square-oot, $21.6 million building located on

the corner o Evans Avenue and High Street. The building is the result o a git rom Mike and the

late Joan Ruatto and the Morgridge Family Foundation. It is named ater the Ruattos daughter,

Katherine (BA biological science 05).

Jane Loegren, the primary architect in the design o Ruatto Hall, says the building has been

constructed to provide spaces or collaboration. Ruatto Hall will provide a fexible, innovative and

multidisciplinary learning environment, and it takes advantage o its location to provide great viewso both the campus and the mountains, Loegren says.

Final landscaping and site inrastructure work will be ongoing throughout the summer, she

says. Ruatto Hall houses approximately 75 aculty and sta. It also will house the John and Tashia

Morgridge Literacy Intervention Clinic, the Marsico Institute or Early Learning and Literacy, the

Institute or the Development o Gited Education, the James C. Kennedy Institute or Educational

Success, the DU Learning Eectiveness Program and Disability Services.

Kim DeVigil

Jimmy Johns sandwich shop to open on South University

Competition or the ast-ood appetite on South University Boulevard will get a little toastierthis summer with the opening o a Jimmy Johns store just north o Evans Avenue.

Jimmy Johns a nationwide sub and sandwich shop based in Champaign, Ill. will open

near the end o July in the ormer Colorado Pettters at 2075 S. University Blvd., ranchise owner

Brendan Killian says.

Killian already owns two o the 21 Jimmy Johns stores in Colorado. Nationwide, there are

some 1,100 ranchises, with about 200 opening each year, Killian says.

Situated just north o Mustards Last Stand on the west side o University Boulevard, the

Jimmy Johns store will occupy the end unit o an array o eateries that includes Blackjack Pizza and

in early August a new chicken-and-chili shop called Zingers. The ve-store stretch o retail shops

also houses PakMail and Darque Tan.

The menu at the DU-area location will be the same as at other ranchise stores, a 17-item

array o club and sub sandwiches with bread baked on premises plus pickles and cookies.

Its reaky ast is the slogan and thats no joke, Killian says. We did 50 box lunches recentlyin 15 minutes. Most places want 24 hours notice.

Operating hours are a bit vague, starting when the rst batch o bread comes out o the oven

and extending until an hour ater the bars close, Killian says. He gures that means the shop will be

open rom 11 a.m. to around 3 a.m. Moreover, the store will deliver as little as a single sandwich

in a territory measured as ar as you can drive in any direction or ve minutes at high noon, Killian

says.

I that seems a bit unusual, its because Jimmy Johns is built on a unique tradition o upbeat,

relaxed, riendly attitude combined with speed.

I a sandwich is ready in 30 seconds, thats too slow, Killian says.

Richard Chapman

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Artist poised to share Ideal Woman with the world

I anyone appears to be on the brink o something big, its Allie Pohl.

Pohl, who graduated June 4 with her masters degree in electronic media arts and design

is poised to share herIdeal Woman with the world.

Ideal Woman is the name o a variety o artistic projects Pohl has taken on to convey he

belie that society is obsessed with the perect woman.

In this digital age, women are inundated with images that culturally outline eminine

beauty, she says. Oten, these commercially packaged versions o beauty are simply illusion

created by advanced technology.Pohl uses many art orms, including sculpture, ceramics, video and jewelry. Her na

project or DU, Ideal Woman: 36-24-36, showcased multiple sculptures that modeled the

perect Barbie.

Kyle MacMillan oThe Denver Post reviewed Pohls show at Hinterland Gallery.

Her deliberate mimicking o the repetition and slick, manuactured eel o todays emale

idealizations becomes a savvy, pointed critique o it, MacMillian wrote, adding that Poh

already has a more extensive resume than some better-established proessionals.

While Pohl was delighted to have her work highlighted in the Posts entertainment section

its hardly the rst time her work has drawn attention. She makes Ideal Woman necklaces ou

o Lucite. She enjoys the notion that advancement in technologies that allow her to cut Lucite

into cookie cutter patterns are being used in other ways to make women into cookie cutter patterns as well.

The necklace demonstrates our cultures desire to emulate a look that seems naturally impossible to attain, she says.

The necklaces, which can be purchased online, have attracted notice. Theyve been eatured in magazines including Marie Claire, Denve

Magazine, Trend Hunterand Orange Appeal.

Its been wonderul to watch her blossom, says Laleh Mehran, Pohls adviser and associate proessor o electronic media arts and design.

Mehran says Pohl has an ability to listen to recommendations and execute them at an incredible speed. Mehran says the idea or the necklace

came out o one o their meetings. Beore Mehran knew it, Pohl had designed and created the necklaces. The same thing happened with the idea

or her blog, too.

Pohl says everything really came together or her at DU. Shes not sure what her uture holds, except that shell stay in Denver through the

summer. She just hopes her art and message catch on.

I hope this iconic necklace is more than just a pendant; when worn it is a catalyst or instigating new ideas, conversation and change, she says

>> http://idealwoman.wordpress.com

Kristal Grift

WayneArmstrong

Pioneers hockey star makes academic All-America team

University o Denver senior hockey standout Tyler Ruegsegger

was named to the 2010 ESPN The Magazine academic All-America

mens rst team, as selected by the College Sports Inormation

Directors o America.

Ruegsegger earned a 3.95 GPA in management and helped the

Pioneers to a 27104 record, their 12th WCHA regular-season

championship and their 21st NCAA tournament appearance this

season. Ruegsegger tallied a career-high 41 points on 16 goals

and 25 assists, earned all-WCHA second-team accolades and was

named a WCHA Scholar-Athlete or the third straight year.

With 28 career power play goals, Ruegsegger ranks third on

Denvers all-time list. One o the top-50 scorers in school history,

he tallied 123 points on 56 goals and 67 assists in 147 career games.

Named to the prestigious Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honorary

as a junior, he led Denver to 97 wins, one WHCA championship

and three NCAA tournament appearances in his career.

Ruegsegger was named to the academic All-America second

team last season and to the third team as a sophomore in

200708.

Pioneer Athletics Sta


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Events[ ]

Around campus4 University Park Community Council and

University Park Moms Club Annual BikeParade and Fire Truck Spray. 10 a.m.Observatory Park. Free.

5 Independence Day holiday. University closed.

21 Chinese Art and Photography Exhibit.Also July 22. Driscoll Center Bridge. 10 a.m.4:30 p.m. Free.

24 International Mixed Martial Arts Exhibition.Magness Arena. 9 a.m.10 p.m. Also July 25 from9 a.m. 5 p.m. $25$50.

Arts15 Disneys The Jungle Book. A Rocky Mountain

Conservatory Theatre production. ByronTheatre. 11 a.m. Additional performances July15 at 5 p.m. and July 16 at 2 and 5 p.m. $13 forchildren; $15 for adults.

Guys and Dolls Jr. A Rocky MountainConservatory Theatre production. ByronTheatre. 8 p.m. Additional performances July 16at 11 a.m. and July 17 at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.

A Midsummer Nights Dream.A RockyMountain Conservatory Theatre production.Byron Theatre. 2 p.m. Additional perform-ances

July 16 at 8 p.m. and July 17 at 11 a.m. and8 p.m. $13 for children; $15 for adults.

For ticketing and other information, including a full listing ofcampus events, visit www.du.edu/calendar.

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New faculty member rings a bellOf course with the name Carol, Carol Jickling Lens would grow up to play t

carillon.

Call it fate, karma, whatever. The name Carol was destiny.

I was a December baby and my grandmother sent a telegram suggesting Car

as in carol for Christmas bells, says Jickling Lens, who became DUs carillonneur

January.

As a 5-year-old, she heard the

bells that would eventually define much

of her working life.

I remember walking up to the

church my family attended. It had a

carillon, and it was the best thing I ever

heard, she says. So we pestered the

lady at the church for lessons on it, but

she said I had to be older and bigger.

Finally, at age 13, she started les-

sons. Shes since earned two diplomas

on the carillon from a school in the

Netherlands.

I f youre outside on campus

around noon, you can hear Jickling

Lens playing the carillon that sits atop

the Ritchie Center. And you may either

feel mesmerized or unimpressed.Ive heard it all, Jickling Lens says.

Some are immediately bewitched and some call it a bunch of noise. But I think som

people are entranced the first time they hear it, this music wafting down from on high

The carillon clearly stands apart from most other instruments. DUs features 6

bronze bells, the biggest of which weighs six tons. It has a piano-like keyboard th

musicians strike with their fists.

Jickling Lens fascination with the carillon fails to fade.

It touches me. It makes a gorgeous booming sound that to me is a part of everyd

life along with the birds and the wind, she says. I hope Im giving that kind of pleasu

to other people.

Outside of music, Jickling Lens enjoys travel. Shes done plenty. After having liv

in England, Ghana, Libya, Michigan, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas, (her husband

in the oil business, hence all the homes), her move to Denver in December washomecoming.

She lived here from 199397. When I started the job, Joe Docksey [direct

of the Lamont School of Music] said, Welcome home, and thats exactly what it fe

like.

She says shes happy to be part of DU. Its an amazing university that strives fo

excellence in every part of the school, she says. My son got his degree in finance fro

here, and thats served him well in his career.

Jickling Lens knows shell never gain rock-star status on the carillon.

Its a very anonymous art some think its a machine playing, she says.

Doug McPher

University College program

ranked a best buy

DUs University College has been named a best buy in

online masters programs by GetEducated.com or its Proes-

sional Studies in Leadership and Organizations program.

GetEducated.com is an independent website that pro-

vides consumer inormation about online degree programs.The colleges masters program was ranked No. 12 in the

sites 2010 survey or overall aordability out o 25 regionally

accredited schools oering 32 distance leadership degrees.

According to GetEducated.com, the average cost o a

distance learning leadership degree is $23,077; a University

College degree costs approximately $22,080.

Get Educated.com says the No. 1 thing consumers

want to know is where to obtain a high quality degree at a

reasonable cost.

Kim DeVigil

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