HELP BRING HISTORY ALIVE

You can contribute to the living

legacy of MTSU by allowing offi-

cials at the James E. Walker Library

to make digital images of your uni-

versity memorabilia. The MTSU

Memory Project is looking for pho-

tographs and documents from both

the campus community and the

community at large. These images

eventually will be posted on a user-

friendly, searchable Web site suit-

able for both research and reminisc-

ing. If it’s in your attic, in a piano

bench or on a living-room book-

shelf, the Memory Project wants to

make a digital image of it and pre-

serve it for all time as part of the

institution’s history. For more infor-

mation, contact Ken Middleton at

615-898-8524 or Mayo Taylor at 615-

898-5605.

The Starlink Training Network,a Dallas, Texas-based profes-sional development network

for higher education, recently visitedMTSU to do interviews with facultyand students for its upcoming pro-gram on curriculum redesign.

The program, which will bebroadcast on Starlink’s Web sitethrough Feb. 18, will include MTSU’sredesign of its Department ofDevelopmental Studies, which was

put into place in fall 2006 after abouta year of intense planning.

“This was a major restructuring,”said Dr. Marva Lucas, interim directorof academic enrichment and associateprofessor of mathematical sciences.“The department’s courses have beentransferred, new courses have beendeveloped and all the others have

been eliminated.” An important aspect, Lucas said,

is the fact that students taking theprescribed developmental educationcourses, renamed “K courses,” nowearn elective credit or satisfy generaleducation requirements instead ofjust receiving institutional credit.

“We’ve eliminated one semesterunder the new structure and studentsare then being able to complete theirgeneral education mathematicsrequirement earlier,” Lucas said.

From her role as a graduate assistant and three previ-ous years’ experience with Up ’til Dawn, MeganFlippin has a veteran’s perspective

for the 2008 event.Flippin can offer lots of advice to this

year’s committee hierarchy—ExecutiveDirector Crystal Griffey and AssociateDirectors Josh McKenzie and JameelBraddock.

“They’ve been working really, reallyhard,” Flippin said of the committee. It’sspent hours preparing for the event, which will be heldfrom 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, to 7 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, in theCampus Recreation Center to raise money for St. Jude

Children’s Hospital.“They started with a committee retreat last June,” she

added. “They began brainstorming and preparing. Theypromoted Up ’til Dawn at CUSTOMS (summer orientationfor freshmen and transfer students).”

A key event in October was Up ’tilDawn On the Lawn Awareness Week.

“It was an opportunity for teams tobegin signing up,” Flippin said.

This year’s theme will have a carnival- and circus-like atmosphere, shesaid.

“It has been really easy,” she said.“Generally, carnivals and circuses are a fun concept. It’seasy when you're getting entertainment for the finale

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Walking the walkAnnual Unity Luncheon

recognizes 4 ‘unsung heroes’see page 5

Students waiting Up ’til Dawn Feb. 1-2 by Randy Weiler

T he Princeton Review has des-ignated MTSU as oneamong 146 “Best South-

eastern Colleges” as the result of asurvey of MTSU students by thepublication.

According to survey findings,students said that MTSU offers“the best bang for your buck inacademia, sports, parties andoverall experience.”

The Princeton Review conductssurveys with millions of collegeundergraduates in hopes of identi-fying the top schools in eachregion of the country.

“We include schools that wehave a high opinion of their aca-demics and overall college experi-ence,” said Jen Adams, PrincetonReview student survey manager.“We survey many, many studentsand guidance counselors beforewe make our selections. MTSUshould be pleased with being partof this group.”

In 2007, the Review surveyed arandom population of MTSUundergraduate students andpraised their professors as“extremely knowledgeable andvery willing to meet with studentsoutside of class.” One MTSU jun-ior offered that “if I’ve ever had aproblem, the administration andprofessor were there to help me.”

The comments mirror MTSU’sefforts to be the best comprehen-sive university in the state andcome as no great surprise, saidPresident Sidney A. McPhee.

“We are very pleased to getthis feedback from The PrincetonReview that MTSU is one of theirbest-rated universities in theSouth,” McPhee said. “Moreimportantly, we are pleased thatour students feel MTSU is work-ing hard to make sure they get thesupport they need from both thefaculty and administration.”

To read MTSU’s entry in therankings, visit www.princetonreview.com, register free and searchfor “Middle Tennessee State.”

from Staff Reports

Student survey leadsto MTSU’s ‘best’ pick by Princeton Review

Getting GRITty

SCIENCE!—Participants in the Jan. 10 informational meeting for the GRITS (Girls Raised in Tennessee Science) CollaborativeProject discuss efforts to bring together programs, resources and organizations to support girls and women in science, technology,engineering and math. From left are Drs. Sally Pardue and Corinne Darvennes, professors of mechanical engineering at TennesseeTech; Daphne Eggers of Eastman Chemical; and Jeri Hasselbring, director of education at Nashville’s Adventure Science Center.

photo by News and Public Affairs

page 2 The Record Jan. 28, 2008

Over the past five years, MTSUhas significantly increased thesize and scope of its interna-

tional activities involving students andfaculty. This expansion has been con-sistent with the university’s academicmaster plan, which encourages exter-nal collaboration and experientiallearning for faculty and studentsrespectively.

In response, in 2006 the universi-ty’s Department of Health and HumanPerformance entered into partnershipwith the World Health Organization,or WHO, as well as the U.S. Centersfor Disease Control and Preventionand the Ministry of Education, Scienceand Sports, also known as MOESS, inGhana, West Africa.

The overall goal of the partnershipis to improve the health and well-

being of school-ageadolescents inGhana. The specificaims of the partner-ship are first tomonitor trends inthe prevalence ofhealth-risk behav-iors and factors thatinfluence thosebehaviors among

adolescents ages 13to 15 years. The second aim is to helpGhana develop priorities, establishprograms and advocate for resourcesfor school and youth health programsand policies. The third aim is to allowGhana and international agencies tocompare health risks across countries.The fourth and final aim is to provideMTSU students and faculty collabora-tors with additional opportunities toengage in academic activities andresearch in global health issues.

In September and October 2007,the partnership completed the firstphase of activities. The activities werepartly funded through a FacultyResearch and Creativity ActivityCommittee grant, “A SurveillanceStudy of Health Risk BehaviorsAmong School Youth in Ghana.” Itinvolved the initiation of capacity-building activities and data collectionon health-risk behaviors amongapproximately 6,000 students. Withthis achievement, MTSU is the firstU.S. institution to successfully lead theimplementation of a comprehensivenationwide surveillance system dedi-cated to the health of school childrenin an African country. Analysis of thedata, generation of fact sheets, countryreports and preparation of researchmanuscripts will take place this springsemester.

In November 2007, WHO andCDC agreed to expand their collabora-tion with MTSU to include older ado-lescents. Thus, as a result of MTSU’sleadership, Ghana will be the firstcountry in Africa to have a compre-hensive surveillance system dedicatedto monitoring health-risk behaviorsamong school children ages 13 to 19.

From the initial involvement ofone MTSU area, the Department ofHealth and Human Performance,

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MTSU collaboratingwith World Health,CDC in West Africaby Dr. Andrew Owusu

Owusu

New Web site helps with off-campus housing

The Off-Campus StudentServices office has launched itsoff-campus housing Web site,

www.mtsuoffcampus.com, co-sponsoredwith Off-Campus Partners.

Prospective students, current stu-dents, faculty and staff may log in tothis Web site to search a database ofapartments for rent and houses forsale in the Murfreesboro area.Searches may be conducted by vari-ous locations within the city. Usersmay specify a preferred move-indate, building type, maximummonthly rent, etc., and the search willbring up a list of apartments meetingthe user’s specifications, often includ-ing pictures and floor plans.

This off-campus housing infor-mation should allow viewers to seewhat is available without having togo around to each apartment com-plex, officials said.

New faculty and staff coming toMurfreesboro looking to purchase ahouse will also be able to searchproperties for sale from local real-estate agents using the MTSU Off-Campus Housing Web site.

Students also may log in to par-ticipate in various message boardsmanaged on this site specifically forstudents living off-campus: room-mate matching, furniture buy/sell,textbooks buy/sell, connections forinternational and transfer students,ride board for rides to other locationsand carpooling board for rides to andfrom campus, etc.

Those interested in locating off-campus housing or participating

in one of the messageboards should go to www.mtsu.edu/~ocss and click on “Off-CampusHousing” on the left. Users may login with their regular MTSU user-names and passwords or createanother to access the MTSU Off-Campus Housing site, managed by

Off-Campus Partners. For more information, contact Dr.

Carol Ann Baily, director of Off-Campus Student Services, at 615-898-5989 or in Room 320 of the KeathleyUniversity Center.

Renowned clarinetist, MTSU pianist perform Jan. 30

James Campbell, acclaimed as“Canada’s preeminent clarinetistand wind soloist” by the Toronto Star, will collaborate with MTSU

music professor and pianist LeopoldoErice in a free recital on Wednesday,Jan. 30, at 8 p.m. in the T. Earl HintonMusic Hall.

The concert will feature LuigiBassi’s “Concert Fantasy on Motivesfrom Verdi’s Rigoletto,” JohannesBrahms’s “Sonata in F Minor, op. 120,no. 1,” Carl Maria von Weber’s“Grand Duo Concertant op. 48,”Maurice Ravel’s “Pièce en forme deHabanera” and Leonard Bernstein’s“Sonata.”

In addition to the performance,on the same day Campbell will pres-ent a two-hour master class at 11:30a.m. in the music hall.

Campbell, who has followed hismuse to five television specials, mul-

tiple awards, more than 40 recordingsand more than 30 works commis-sioned, most recently received TheQueen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. Hehas performed in most of the world’smajor concert halls and with morethan 50 orchestras, including theLondon Symphony, OrchestreSymphonique de Montréal and theRussian Philharmonic. He has collab-orated and performed with many ofthe world’s great musicians, includ-ing Janos Starker, Menahem Pressler,

the Borodin Trio and the late GlennGould and Aaron Copland as well aswith the Penderecki, Amadeus andColorado String Quartets. Since 1989,Campbell also has served as profes-sor of music at the prestigious MusicSchool of Indiana University.

In addition to his teaching dutiesat MTSU, Spanish pianist Erice is anaccomplished recitalist, soloist andchamber musician who has per-formed extensively in Europe,America and Asia. He is the winnerof prestigious national prizes and in2000 was awarded the prize for thebest collaborative pianist by unani-mous jury in the Jacinto GuerreroInternational Singing Competition.He has recorded several CDs and isthe founder and director of theFestival Internacional de MúsicaClásica de Ribadeo in Spain.

For more information, call 615-898-2493.

from Staff Reports

MTSU’s Department ofPublic Safety is one offour emergency-services

providers in Rutherford County toreceive a grant from the U.S.Department of Homeland Securityto buy much-needed equipment,U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon announced.

The Commercial EquipmentDirect Assistance Program providedMTSU with $32,275 to purchaseHomeland Security Comprehensive

Assessment Model training and cer-tification and a VulnerabilityAssessment Kit. The departmentwill receive a laptop computer, digi-tal camera and other technology toassess the university’s strengths andvulnerabilities, should some emer-gency occur, Lt. Jason Morton said.

“This will help us to identifyareas to improve,” Morton said.“We can incorporate this with anearlier award [a thermal imager].

We see this as a strength, an addedresource for surveillance or, Godforbid, recovery. This is another toolin the tool belt.”

Gordon noted that CEDAP pro-vides smaller communities andrural areas with technology, equip-ment and technical assistance toenhance their first-responder capa-bilities and “is particularly helpfulfor local police and fire departmentsthat have limited resources.”

Public Safety receives Homeland Security grant

Campbell Erice

See ‘World’ page 7

Four recent MTSU graduates now grace thehalls of the James E. Walker Library and thewalls of Tennessee high schools on posters

encouraging students to read.The latest READ posters are available for

viewing in the periodicals section of the library onthe main floor. They feature young people fromdramatically different walks of life who foundreading to be essential to their academic, spiritualand professional lives.

“All of them have in common that reading isan important part of their success,” says BillBlack, library professor in charge of administra-tive services.

Black says the project started a couple of yearsago when the American Library Association madethe software for its own READ poster program

available to libraries across thecountry. While the national proj-ect displays celebrities, theMTSU counterpart touts theuniversity’s superstar students.

“It really took the shape ofidentifying students on campuswho could serve as examples toyounger students, and youngerstudents would be able to lookat these individuals and get

some inspiration for what theymight be able to do,” Black says.

With a grant from the university and produc-tion assistance from the Offices of Marketing andCommunications, News and Public Affairs,Publications and Graphics, and Photo Services,library officials are working gradually to distrib-ute the posters to schools throughout Tennessee.

“It’ll take a fair amount of money to distributeit across the schools with this iteration,” Blacksays. “But if we do a subset of that and then nextyear we do another four, eventually there’ll be aset of four in each high school across the state.”

In each poster, a student holds a book thatexemplifies that individual’s interests or attitudes.The featured students on this year’s posters are:

• John Awan, a native of southern Sudan anda refugee camp survivor who now is enrolled inseminary at The University of the South inSewanee. An MTSU graduate with a major inpublic administration, Awan has volunteered inthe United Nation’s Child-to-Child program andworked to collect two tons of books for shipment

to Sudan. He is focused on put-ting his knowledge and his faithto use for the betterment of hiswar-torn nation. “I know verywell that my years at MiddleTennessee State University haveprepared me for these futurechallenges,” Awan says. “This isan honor I see as an encourage-ment to do some more work, andI will carry it with me for the restof the time ahead of me.” Heholds the Walker Library’s re-edition of the Gutenberg Bible.

• Matthew Bullington ofMurfreesboro, the recipient of aPresidential Scholarship, whichpaid for all four years of hisMTSU education. Now holdingan economics degree, Bullingtonwas active on campus in theStudent Government Association,University Honors Council, RaiderRepresentatives and the universityorchestra. He belonged to twohonor societies, Phi Kappa Phi andGolden Key International.Bullington’s volunteer workincluded musical performances atresidential-care centers and debatecoaching for a home-school debateteam. He holds the book 1776 byDavid McCullough.

• Kimberly “Kimmie” Jones ofBrentwood, who graduated withhonors, majoring in advertisingwith minors in art and English. Avolunteer for the MuscularDystrophy Association who uses ascooter to overcome her physicallimitations, Jones was visual artseditor of the MTSU arts journalCollage and has interned at McNeely, Pigott andFox, a Nashville public relations firm. “I am soproud to be a part of something as recognizable asthe READ posters,” Jones says. “I love to read, sowhen I was asked, I thought it was one of thecoolest opportunities I have had.” She holds thebook Make a Difference: America’s Guide toVolunteering and Community Service by Arthur I.Blaustein.

• Petar Skobic of Pleasant View, a native ofZagreb, Croatia, whose struggle to continue to

pay for his education was the focus of a specialfundraising effort by volunteers on campus. An exchange student who learned English by readingStephen King and J.R.R. Tolkien novels, Skobicwas president of MTSU’s Financial ManagementAssociation and graduated with an MBA with anemphasis on finance. Skobic now is a district man-ager for the Aldi supermarket chain. He holds thebook Absolute Honesty: Building a Corporate CultureThat Values Straight Talk by Larry Johnson and BobPhillips.

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Library posters inspiring youths to readby Gina K. Logue

MTSU Office of Financial Aid representatives willbe available to assist high-school seniors duringthe annual College Goal Sunday, which will be

held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, in the north lobby of theBusiness and Aerospace Building.

“It’s designed for high-schoolseniors, but we’ll be happy for any-one to join us,” said Bonnie McCarty,assistant director of scholarships.

College Goal Sunday helpsprospective college students get free on-site assistance filling out the FreeApplication for Federal Student Aid formand enables them to talk to financial aidprofessionals about resources and how toapply for scholarships and student loans.

Students and their parents or guardiansshould bring a 2007 federal tax return or other incomedocumentation, Social Security number, driver’s license,2007 W-2 forms or year-end pay stubs and bank state-ments and other “what to bring” information found atwww.collegegoalsundaytn.org.

Attendees should apply for their FAFSA personalidentification number in advance by visitingwww.pin.ed.gov.

Need FAFSA help at MT?Join College Goal Sundayfrom Staff Reports

Awan Bullington

Jones Skobic

The MTSU Career andEmployment Centerrecently introduced

Lightning JobSource as thenew name for its online jobreferral site, center DirectorBill Fletcher said.

The name is loosely basedon Lightning, the MTSU ath-letic mascot, and was chosento better identify with the uni-versity instead of relying onthe name given by the soft-ware program vendor, Fletchersaid. The site formerly wasknown as eRecruiting.

Lightning JobSource fea-tures a streamlined initializa-tion process that allows newregistrants to sign up for anaccount online and receivelogin information the nextbusiness day. When accessing

the Lightning JobSource linkfrom the Career and Employ-ment Center Web site(www.mtsu.edu/~career), regis-trants may read a use state-ment and submit the accountinitialization form through thesite, without having to visit thecareer center or satelliteoffices.

The site also offers thecareer fair module, a new fea-ture allowing users to review alist of employers registered forupcoming career fairs.

Students and alumnialready registered with thesystem will continue usingLightning JobSource to searchfor jobs and upload theirresumes. They also are encour-aged to publish a resume toone or more of the resumebooks provided on the site. Aresume book is a tailored col-

lection of resumes, specific to aparticular desired industryand/or job function. Onlyresumes published in resumebooks are referred to potentialemployers.

“As we look to cementrelationships with the MiddleTennessee business communi-ty, we will rely on LightningJobSource to act as a resourcefor employers, just as much asour students and alumni,”Fletcher said. “Employers willsee evidence of the viableemployee candidates thatMTSU has to offer.”

For more information, call615-898-2500, e-mail career@mtsu.edu, or visit the center’sWeb site.

Career and Employment Centerintroduces Lightning JobSourcefrom Staff Reports

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Cable Channel 9: Monday-Sunday—5 p.m.NewsChannel 5+: Sundays—1:30 p.m.Visit www.mtsunews.com forother cable outlet airtimes.

Gender Circles

Weekly conversations on diversity with emphasis ongender issues1-3 p.m., JUB 206 For information, contact: 615-898-2193.

EARLY VOTING for the

Feb. 5 presidential primary

Visit www.rutherfordcountytn.gov/election/ for locations andtimes; visit www.state.tn.us/sos/election/absentee.htm for absen-tee voting information.

"Maine Women: Living on the

Land”

Photo exhibit by Lauren ShawBaldwin Photo Gallery, LRCFor information and exhibithours, contact: 615-898-2085.

Monday, Jan. 28

Black History Month:

Sierra Leone’s Refugee

All Stars Concert

7 p.m., Tennessee Room, JUBsponsored by the Departmentof Student Programming No admission chargeFor information, visitwww.mtsu.edu/~aahmor contact: 615-898-2987.

Photographer Lauren Shaw:

Lecture, Documentary

Screening and Book-Signing

7 p.m., LRC 221For information, contact: 615-898-2085.

Faculty Oboe Recital:

George T. Riordan

7:30 p.m., Hinton Music HallFor information, contact: 615-898-2493.

Tuesday, Jan. 29

Murfreesboro Youth Orchestra

7 p.m., Hinton Music HallFor information, contact: 615-898-2493.

Jan. 31-Feb. 1

Wind Band Conference

For information, contact: 615-898-2493.

Jan. 31-Feb. 2

MTSU Theatre’s Student-

Directed Studio Series:

“Underwear” by Heidi Ervin

and Brandon Gwinn

7:30 p.m., BDA Studio TheatreFor information, contact: 615-898-2640.

Thursday, Jan. 31

Red Cross Blood Drive10 a.m.-4 p.m., KUC 322 and 318

For information, contact: 615-898-2590.

Friday, Feb. 1

MT Baseball Annual

Groundhog Day Luncheon11:30 a.m., Murphy Center arena

Tickets: $20 per person (order deadline is Jan. 25)For information, contact: 615-898-2103 or 615-898-2210.

MTSU Wind Ensemble

8 p.m., Hinton Music HallFor information, contact: 615-898-2493.

Saturday, Feb. 2

MT Baseball “Show Me” Camp

open to children ages six to 121-5 p.m., Murphy CenterCost: $75 until Feb. 1; $85 day of

For information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-2450.

Honor Band Concert

2 p.m., Hinton Music HallFor information, contact: 615-898-2493.

Sunday, Feb. 3

“MTSU On the Record—

Update on Russia”

Guest: Dr. Andrei Korobkov7 a.m., WMOT 89.5-FM

Feb. 4-5

Black History Month:

Black Inventions Exhibit

sponsored by the StudentGovernment Association10 a.m.-6 p.m., KUC LoungeFor information, visitwww.mtsu.edu/~aahmor contact: 615-898-2987.

Monday, Feb. 4

Red Cross Blood Drivesponsored by School of Nursing

10 a.m.-4 p.m., Cason-KennedyNursing BuildingFor information, contact: 615-898-2590.

Stones River Chamber Players

7:30 p.m., Hinton Music HallFor information, contact: 615-898-2493.

Wednesday, Feb. 6

Black History Month:

Annual Unity Luncheon

“Unsung Heroes” Honors

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., TennesseeRoom, James Union BuildingAdmission: $18 adult; $8 student with MTSU IDTo purchase tickets by Jan. 31,call 615-898-2797 or e-mailbwunder@mtsu.edu;for information, visitwww.mtsu.edu/~aahmor contact: 615-898-2987.

Honors Visiting Artist’s

Public Lecture: Washington Post

illustrator Patterson Clark

4:30 p.m., HONR 106For more information, contact: 615-898-2887.

Women’s Basketball

vs. Arkansas-Little Rock

7 p.m., Murphy CenterFor information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-2103.

Thursday, Feb. 7

Black History Month:

“Africa and the Diaspora:

African, African-American and

Caribbean Student Dialogue”

co-sponsored by InternationalPrograms and Services Office2-4 p.m., JUB 100For information, visit

www.mtsu.edu/~aahmor contact: 615-898-2987.

Thursday, Feb. 7

Black History Month:

“Street Fight”

a film about racial politics inNewark, N.J., sponsored by theUniversity Honors College5 p.m., HONR 106 For information, visitwww.mtsu.edu/~aahmor contact: 615-898-2987.

Men’s Basketball

vs. Arkansas-Little Rock

7 p.m., Murphy CenterFor information, visit www.goblueraiders.comor contact: 615-898-2103.

Jazz Artist Series: Jeff Coffin

7:30 p.m., Hinton Music HallAdmission: $15 general public,MTSU students and staff freeFor information, contact:615-898-2493.

Saturday, Feb. 9

Women’s Invitational Choral

Festival

Wright Music BuildingFor information, contact: 615-898-2493.

Sunday, Feb. 10

"MTSU On the Record—

Post-Mortem of Tsunami

Tuesday"

Guest: Dr. Robb McDaniel7 a.m., WMOT 89.5-FMPodcast available atwww.mtsunews.com.

College Goal Sunday at MTSU

2 p.m., north lobby of Businessand Aerospace BuildingFor more information, visitwww.collegegoalsundaytn.org or call 615-904-8414.

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Dawn from page 1

event, decorations, that kind ofthing.”

Flippin said the committeepushed the monetary goal to$105,000 after more than $96,000was raised in 2007.

“They raised $19,000 in 1999and more than $96,000 last year,”she said. “It’s jumped every year.Hopefully, it’ll be accomplishedagain.”

Event organizers also set agoal of 80 teams trying to raisemoney. By mid-January, more than50 had committed to participate.

Up ’til Dawn will be open tothe public from 7 p.m. to midnightFeb. 1. A $5 donation is requested.Attendees will be entertained bysporting events, live entertainmentand free food. A hypnotist isexpected to be part of the late-night activities.

Among those attending willbe a guest patient speaker from St.Jude. The patient will attend withhis family.

For more information, call615-904-8270 or visitwww.mtsu.edu/~uptldawn.

Up ’til Dawncontributions

through the yearsAmount

Year Teams raised

2008 80* $105,000*2007 72 $96,000+2006 48 $80,000+ 2005 56 $82,000+ 2004 45 $62,000+2003 48 $55,000+2002 30 $40,000+2001 40 $29,000+2000 20 $25,000+ 1999 20 $19,000+

* — Goals for 2008 History, social studies, fine arts, English, geogra-phy, science and health will be among therange of topics covered during the spring K-12

education program schedule that will be webcast by theMTSU Satellite and Webcasting Center.

The Tennessee Mathematics, Science andTechnology Education Center willsponsor two programs connectingastronaut training at the Johnson SpaceCenter in Houston to the K-6 classroomon Jan. 29 and March 25.

“These programs feature a tour ofthe center hosted by Billy Hix, aMotlow State Community College com-puter science professor, and Terry SueFanning, the curriculum and technolo-gy coordinator for Moore CountySchools,” said Dr. Connie Schmidt,director of the Instructional TechnologySupport Center.

Enrichment programs designed for students will airat 9 a.m. CST every Tuesday, except March 4, March 18and April 15. Except for Feb. 19, all of the programs willbe live.

Professional development programs designed forteachers are offered from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. CST onThursdays beginning Jan. 31.

Karen Hargrove and Dr. Cindi Smith-Walters fromMTSU’s Center for Environmental Education will showelementary students how a heart works and how to findtheir own heart rates just in time for Valentines Day in“Hearts and Flowers” Feb. 12, Schmidt said.

Dr. Larry Burriss (journalism) and Dr. Kathy Burriss(elementary and special education) will visit the LandDown Under with students in grades four through eightin “An Australian Adventure” on March 1.

Dr. Janet Colson and two of her Department ofHuman Sciences students will alert middle- and high-school students to the dangers of fast food in “Fast FoodFeeding Frenzy” on April 1, Schmidt said.

Dr. Bobbie Solley in the Department of Elementaryand Special Education and Beverly Barnes, a facultymember at Eagleville School, will help middle-schoolstudents create poems to communicate what they have

learned about the Holocaust in “TheHolocaust: Thinking and Writing toLearn” on April 8.

Dr. Zaf Khan in the Department ofElementary and Special Education willoffer three professional developmentworkshops during the semester,Schmidt said. The first workshop (Jan.31) focuses on Section 504 of the 1973Rehabilitation Act. A Thursday, March13, program will show teachers andschools how to “bully-proof” their class-rooms. Khan will conclude his serieswith an April 10 program promoting

differentiated instruction to maximize student growthby meeting each student “where he or she is” andassisting in the learning process.

Teachers and students in Bedford, Cannon, Coffee,Franklin, Grundy, Knox, Lincoln, Marshall, Moore andWarren counties may view the programs via satellite.Schools and homes in Nashville may view the programson MEAC Channel 10; viewers in Huntsville, Ala., maytune in on ETV Channel 9; and Wilson County viewersmay watch on BNN Channel 9.

Viewers with questions may call in on the toll-freephone line at 866-904-8352 or at 615-904-8352.

More information about the spring program seriesmay be found on the ITSC Web site at www.mtsu.edu/~itsc.

The English Department has dealt with the changes byimplementing the Stretch Program—a program buildingon Arizona State University’s Stretch model.

“Students … with low placement test scores in Englishare capable of writing college level papers, but need moretime for revision, peer review,and conferences with theirinstructors,” Dr. Sheila Otto,coordinator of the StretchEnglish Program, said. “TheStretch Program is designed toprovide the additional supportof extra time, more instructionand a writing community tothose students.”

The English Department hasbeen pleased with success rates,Otto said. In spring 2007, students enrolled in English1010K had a pass rate of 84 percent.

“This is an exciting change,” said Dr. Bill Badley,

assistant vice provost for academic affairs and director ofgeneral education. “We’re saving students’ time; we’resaving them money, and we’re getting the same outcomesas the regular college courses.”

After the one-year pilot, the results have been com-pared and there have been nosignificant differences found inpass rates between students thattook the K courses, students thattook the former developmentalcourses, and students that tookthe regular general educationcollege-credit courses, Lucassaid.

“We’re just very proud,”Badley said. “We literally saidwe expected students to do

more, and they did. They succeeded.”To view the program, visit www.starlinktraining.org and

click on the “Webcast” box on the right.

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Lucas Otto Badley

Unity Luncheon to recognize 4 ‘unsung heroes’

The annual MTSU UnityLuncheon, which is part of theuniversity’s Black History

Month celebration, will be heldWednesday, Feb. 6, beginning at 11a.m. in the Tennessee Room of theJames Union Building.

The Unity Luncheon honors“unsung heroes” who have spent alarge portion of their lives servingothers through their time and energy.This year’s honorees are:

• Mrs. Cornell Bingham ofMurfreesboro, Head Start preschoolteacher and member of Walnut GroveMissionary Baptist Church”;

• Mrs. Verna Bonner of Cowan,Tenn., who is active in New HopeChurch of God in Christ and works

with the local adult literacy and fami-ly abuse survivors programs;

• Mrs. Mary Glass ofMurfreesboro, a longtime MTSU

Business Officeclerk, radio hostand director ofthe Women’sMinistry pro-gram at CherryGrove Mission-ary BaptistChurch; and

• Mr.Charlie King Jr.of Murfrees-

boro, treasurer of Cedar GrovePrimitive Baptist Church and a 35-year employee of the VeteransAdministration who transports dis-abled residents.

The special luncheon speaker willbe Smyrna Judge Keta Barnes, whowas the first African-American officialelected in Smyrna and the firstAfrican-American female judge elect-ed in Rutherford County.

Tickets will be $18 per person and$8 for students. Reservations can bemade by sending a check payable toMTSU, Box 88, Murfreesboro, Tenn.,37132. To purchase tickets, contactBrenda Wunder at 615-898-2797 orbwunder@mtsu.edu. The deadline topurchase tickets is Thursday, Jan. 31.

The theme for the 2008 BlackHistory Month is “Carter G. Woodsonand The Origins of Multiculturalism.”More MTSU Black History Monthevents are in the Campus Calendar onpage 4; an article with events will fol-low in the Feb. 11 Record.

from Staff Reports

The first day of spring 2008 class-es at MTSU included a head-count of 21,096 students

enrolled in classes, Dr. SherianHuddleston, associate vice provost forenrollment services, said Jan 14.

The Day One headcount was 299more than the 20,797 students whoattended the first day of classes Jan.16, 2007, Huddleston said, adding thatit was a 1.4 percent increase.

Final spring enrollment totalswere submitted Sunday, Jan. 27, the14-day census report date, or shortlythereafter to the Tennessee Board orRegents.

Saturday, Feb. 9, is the last day forstudents to drop to part time or with-draw (dropping all classes) from theuniversity and receive a 25 percent feeadjustment. Sunday, March 2, is thelast day to drop or withdraw with agrade of “W.”

Official ‘Day One’headcount nearly22,000 for spring

Jan. 29, March 25 webcasts to feature astronaut trainingfrom Staff Reports

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6 students bring ‘broad range’ of ideas to Posters at Capitol

Another talented group ofMTSU students will be mak-ing presentations of their

research and mingling with state leg-islators Wednesday, Feb. 6, during thethird annual Posters at the StateCapitol in Nashville.

MTSU serves as host of the 10a.m. to 3 p.m. event, which alsoincludes up to six presenters from fel-low Tennessee Board of Regentsmembers East Tennessee StateUniversity, Tennessee Tech, AustinPeay, Tennessee State and theUniversity of Memphis. The MTSUCollege of Basic and Applied Scienceshelps sponsor the event.

MTSU’s six representatives, allseniors, will include:

• Stephanie Mills, a music major

from Murfreesboro, whose mentor isDr. Michael Linton, professor ofmusic. Mills’ presentation is “ACreative Project Based on the Life andWork of Manuel de Falla”;

• Jeremy Minton, psychologymajor from Trenton, whose mentor isDr. Gloria Hamilton, professor of psy-chology. Minton’s presentation is“Family Expressiveness andAlexithymia in College Students”;

• Richard Anderson, a geo-sciences major from Murfreesboro,whose mentor is Dr. Warner Cribb,professor of geosciences. Anderson’spresentation is “Investigation ofPetro-Tectonic Settings of FelsicIgneous Rocks”;

• Taylor Barnes, a physics majorfrom Murfreesboro, whose mentor isDr. Daniel Erenso, assistant professorin physics and astronomy. Barnes’presentation is “Measuring

Mechanical Deformations in HumanErythrocytes Without Using ForceProbes in Both PBS and Calf SerumSamples”;

• Eugene Siebert, an engineeringtechnology and industrial studiesmajor from Memphis, whose mentoris Dr. Walter Boles, ETIS chairman.Siebert’s presentation is “Investiga-tion of Granular Segregation in aHorizontal Rotating Tube from anEnergy Perspective”; and

• Andrea VanHoozer, a psycholo-gy major from Memphis, whose men-tor is Aimee Holt, a psychologyinstructor. VanHoozer’s presentationis “Learning Strategies of CollegeStudents With and Without LearningDisabilities.”

Erenso also serves as mentor toalternates Daniel Solus of Brentwoodand Jeremy Curtis of Ooltewah.Solus’s presentation is “Investigation

of Alternative Green Energy Sourcesfrom Landing Aircraft.” Curtis’s pres-entation is “Formation of SyntheticStructures with Micron-Size SilicaBeads Using Optical Tweezers.”

Dr. Diane Miller, interim viceprovost for academic affairs, serves asdirector of the McNair ScholarsProgram and undergraduate research,and is involved with the selection ofthe presenters.

“The six students were selectedthrough a competitive process oncampus,” Miller said. “Congratu-lations to all six presenters and thealternates. They represent a broadrange of disciplines on campus andwill have a very exciting day visitingwith the state legislators.”

by Randy Weiler

Senior theatre major Jayme M.Smith’s award-winning play,“An Intervention from God,”

is one of five productions to beshowcased at the Region Four pres-entation of the Kennedy CenterAmerican College Theater FestivalFeb. 5-10 at Clemson University inClemson, S.C.

The showcased productions willbe considered for an all-expensepaid trip to the national festivalApril 14-20 at the John F. KennedyCenter for the Performing Arts inWashington, D.C., to perform theirwork. A national selection team willselect a total of four to six produc-tions, taken from eight regionsacross the country, to be showcasedat the Kennedy Center.

Two short plays by MTSU sen-iors, Brandon Gwinn’s ”Fathers”and Matt Cantrell’s “Interrogation,”were selected as regional Short Playand John Cauble finalists and alsowill be seen in staged readings atthe festival.

In addition to the chance to per-form with peers in Washington, thestudents also will be candidates fora host of scholarships and awards.While the KCACTF honors excel-lence in overall production, individ-ual students are also recognized forexcellence in specific categories.Awards will be announced at theKennedy Center during the nationalfestival.

MTSU students nominated forindividual awards at the regionalfestival include the following IreneRyan Award acting nominees:Matthew Frazier-Smith and GeorgiaHemrick for “Kid Icarus,” JustinBourdet and Paige Hall for“Ramona Quimby,” Estelle Hatcherand Valerie Meek for “The CountryWife,” Leah Fincher and VanceMcCarty for “Mother Courage andHer Children,” Dustin Napier andAlli Scott for “Romeo and Juliet”and David Bennett for “AnIntervention from God.”

Paige Hall also was nominatedfor a stage management award forher work with “Romeo and Juliet,”Katrina Stanifer was nominated fora Barbizon Costume Design Awardand an Alcone Makeup Award forher work with “Kid Icarus,” andHunter Raymond was nominatedfor a Barbizon Lighting DesignAward for his work with “TheCountry Wife.”

Speech and Theatre ProfessorDale E. McGilliard also was nomi-nated for a faculty directing awardfor his work on “Romeo and Juliet.”

Faculty working with theRegion IV festival include speechand theatre professors DeborahAnderson (playwriting chair), M.Crosby Hunt (regional director ofthe National Critics Institute) andJeff Gibson (Region IV chair).

Theatre works net nominations

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MTSU video on YouTube generates surprise reunion

In July 2007, the Office of News and PublicAffairs began posting video stories onYouTube, and since that date, the videos have

been viewed more than 22,000 times. The mostpopular of the videos has been a seven-minute clipfrom Dr. Chuck Frost’s documentary on street chil-dren in the Philippines, which originally aired inFebruary 2007.

The social work professor’s documentary hasnot only been popular; it resulted in a surprisereunion for his wife, Melly, and an old friend.According to Frost, his wife discovered an old col-lege friend’s e-mail address on the Internet.

He recounted, “She e-mailed her and updatedher, letting her know that she was now married toDr. Charles Frost, and

mentioned that you could find avideo about street children that I hadproduced on YouTube.

“The Philippine friend, who nowlives in Germany, e-mailed back thatshe had already viewed the YouTubedocumentary BEFORE my wife hadcontacted her and was planning oncontacting me to ask permission touse the video in her efforts to raisefunds to help the street children.”

Among the other popular MTSUvideos on YouTube are stories about“Wilson’s Allen,” the famous horsenow buried near the MillerColiseum; Dr. Bill Robertson’s stu-dents exceeding the speed of light;

evaluation of MTSU’s tornadodrill; Dr. Anthony Newsome’sresearch on staph infections; andDr. Hugh Berryman’s forensicanthropology students.

The videos are taken fromMTSU’s video news magazine,“Middle Tennessee Record,”which has been on the air since February 2004.

To view any of the 60-plus videos, go to YouTubeand search for “mtsunews.”

from Staff Reports

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Drs. Mark Anshel and Minsoo

Kang (health and human perform-ance) have published their article,“Effectiveness of motivational inter-viewing on changes in fitness, bloodlipids, and exercise adherence ofpolice officers: An outcome-basedaction study,” in the Journal ofCorrectional Health Care, January 2008,pp. 48-62.

Dr. Edd Applegate (journalism)has written “The Historical Develop-ment of the Advertising Curriculum.”The article, which was refereed, is thelead article in the Fall 2007 issue ofthe Journal of Advertising Education.

Dr. Wandi Ding (mathematicalsciences) published an article,“Optimal Control on Hybrid ODESystems with Application to a TickDisease Model,” in the journalMathematical Biosciences andEngineering, 4:4, 633-659, October2007. Ding also co-authored “Rabiesin Raccoons: Optimal Control for aDiscrete Time Model on a SpatialGrid” in the Journal of BiologicalDynamics, 1:4, 379-393, October 2007,with Drs. Louis Gross, KeithLangston, Suzanne Lenhart and LeslieA. Real.

Dr. James D. Timmons (econom-ics and finance) and Lara Daniel

(business law) co-authored“Conservation Easements: Windfall orStraightjacket?” for the Fall 2007 edi-tion of Real Estate Issues. Patricia S.

Wall (business law) authored“Unintentional Redlining? ZoningOrdinances and the Living Wage” for

the same edition.

Paul F. Wells (Center for PopularMusic) published a chapter, “IrishMusic in America,” in Ethnic andBorder Music: A Regional Exploration,edited by Norm Cohen (Westport,Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2007).

Dr. Rachel C. Wilson (businesscommunication and entrepreneur-ship) has published “WhenEntrepreneurship and Ethics Collide:The Case of Physician-OwnedSpecialty Hospitals” in the Journal ofApplied Management and Entrepreneur-ship’s January 2008 issue.

Dr. Gary Wulfsberg (chemistry)published “Nuclear QuadrupoleResonance Spectroscopy,” an invitedchapter in Applications of PhysicalMethods to Inorganic and BioinorganicChemistry, Robert Scott and CharlesLukehart, eds, 385-400 (2007). This isvolume 11 of R. B. King, ed.,Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry,2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.,Chichester, UK.

E-mail your faculty/staff accom-plishments to gfann@mtsu.edu or faxto 615-898-5714, Attention: The Record,Faculty/Staff Update. Please note thatpublication of printed or hand-written

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interest on campus has grown toinclude three additional units, includ-ing the School of Nursing and theDepartment of Sociology andAnthropology. These units are repre-sented by seven faculty members,three doctoral graduate students andthree undergraduate students.

For more information on MTSU’sinvolvement in school health activitiesin Ghana, West Africa, please send ane-mail to aowusu@mtsu.edu.

Dr. Andrew Owusu, assistant profes-sor of health and human performance atMTSU, is the primary investigator/country coordinator for the Ghana School-Based Student Health Survey partnershipproject.

The Commission onCollegiate NursingEducation will be conduct-

ing an accreditation site visit forthe baccalaureate degree in nurs-ing program on the MTSU campusfrom April 14 to 16.

Written and signed third-partycomments will be accepted byCCNE until 30 days before the sitevisit, or March 15.

Please direct comments to Ms.LiAnn Shepard, AccreditationAssistant, Commission onCollegiate Nursing Education, OneDupont Circle, Suite 530,Washington, D.C., 20036-1120.

Input sought foraccreditation ofnursing school

MTSU’s Institutional ReviewBoard has set its spring2008 meeting schedule,

officials announced.All meetings will take place the

last Tuesday of each month at 1 p.m.Meetings are set for Jan. 29, Feb. 26,March 25 and April 29; the Maymeeting date will be announcedlater.

Protocol applications must besubmitted by 4:30 p.m. two weeksbefore the review meeting date.

All meetings, with the exception

of the Feb. 26 session, will take placein the Library Conference Room,Room 475. The Feb. 26 meeting willbe conducted in the IngramBuilding’s first-floor conferenceroom.

The MTSU Institutional ReviewBoard reviews all research involvinghuman subjects at MTSU.

The Office of Compliance islocated in the Sam Ingram Buildingin Office 011B. Please visit the IRBWeb site at www.mtsu.edu/~irb orcontact the Office of Compliance(615-494-8918 or irb@mtsu.edu) withquestions.

IRB sets spring ’08 schedulefrom Staff Reports

BRINGING WORLDS TOGETHER—A boy and girl crouch alongside acity street in the Philippines in a still from Dr. Chuck Frost’s February 2007“Middle Tennessee Record” story on street children in the island nation.The video’s inclusion on YouTube has led to publicity and help for the chil-dren, as well as a reunion between Frost’s wife and an old college pal.

photo from “Middle Tennessee Record”/Dr. Chuck Frost

Mary Glass (business office) isthe 2008 recipient of the JerryAnderson Hero/HumanitarianAward from the Murfreesboro andMTSU chapters of the NationalAssociation for the Advancement ofColored People. She was honored Jan.12 during the organizations’ Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. Brunch atMTSU’s James Union Building for hercommunity service work.

Walker Library staffers recentlyearned their designations as CertifiedProfessional Secretaries: Valerie

Hackworth, Katie Kazee, Melanie

Lower and Jackie Morton.

Dr. Phil Oliver (philosophy)chaired a symposium sponsored bythe William James Society on thetopic of “Human Blindness” at theAmerican Philosophical Association’sEastern Division Meetings inBaltimore on Dec. 28.

Dr. Sherry J. Roberts (businesscommunication and entrepreneur-ship) began serving as vice president

of the Southern Business EducationAssociation Jan. 1 after her election tothe post at the 2007 SBEA Conferencein Little Rock, Ark., where she alsoserved as local co-chair. Roberts alsois serving as consultant/instructor forthe Personal Finance Institute at theUniversity of Central Arkansas inConway this semester. The Institute ispart of a $74,000 grant awarded lastfall to UCA’s College of Business,where Roberts served as principalwriter of the grant before joiningMTSU’s faculty.

One of Professor Marc J. Barr’s(electronic media communication)computer-designed ceramic tea setswill be included in “Big Fish, SmallPot 3: Third International SmallTeapot Competition and Show,”which is set Feb. 25-March 20 atSaddleback College in Mission Viejo,Calif. The exhibition will featuremore than 100 pieces from 10 coun-tries.

Dr. Maria Clayton (English) hasaccepted an invitation to present herresearch on active learning and tech-nology, “Collaboration Design:Working Together and Sharing What

We Produce,” at the Lilly Conferenceon College and University Teachingin Greensboro, N.C., in February.

During fall 2007 the InstructionalTechnology Support Center wentthrough a reorganization process thatresulted in the promotions of sevenstaff members. Gail Fedak is nowdirector of Instructional MediaResources; Regina Forsythe is nowcoordinator for media library servicesin IMR; Pat Jackson is the new direc-tor of television for Audio/VisualServices; Jenny Marsh is now techni-cal clerk for AVS; Jeffery Nokes isnow director of engineering/chiefengineer for AVS; Jean Reese is thenew coordinator for collection devel-opment in IMR; and Anthony Tate isnow manager of the ITSC computerfacilities.

The Event Coordination Officehas completed an office reorganiza-tion, promoting Quintina Burton tomanager for event coordination andCharles Treece to night and weekendcoordinator.

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When MTSU student Craig Hutto lost a leg,he gained a new appreciation of the medicalprofession—one so intense that it prompted

him to change his major.A week before his 17th birthday in June 2005, the

Lebanon youth was on vacation with his family atCape San Blas, about 50 miles southeast of PanamaCity. As Craig was fishing with his brother Brian, abull shark, estimated to be 6 to 8 feet long, attackedCraig’s right leg. Brian grabbed his brother and trieddesperately to pull him to shore as Craig tried to prythe creature’s jaws open, only to witness his handsbeing ripped to shreds.

“Right when it bit me, I went straight into shock,” Craig says. “So I don’tknow the exact spot where it bit me, but I know it bit me from mid-thigh allthe way down in different spots.”

Unbeknownst to Craig at the time, the shark’s teeth had pierced his rightfemoral artery, which carries blood from the heart to the lower extremities. Itwas bleeding from this artery that cost Washington Redskins safety SeanTaylor his life when he was shot in November 2007. Medical professionals saycontrolling hemorrhaging in the immediate aftermath of an injury to thisartery is critical.

“To my advantage, there were three nurses, an EMT (emergency medicaltechnician) and a doctor on the shore, just on vacation,” Craig says, “and rightwhen I got on the shore, they immediately did what they were trained to do,which was elevate my right leg and then hold pressure on … my right femoralartery. I mean, they did everything they were supposed to do, and I believethat’s why I’m still alive today.”

While the ambulance arrived on the scene within 10 minutes, Craig had towait inside the ambulance for 45 minutes for the LifeFlight helicopter to trans-port him to a Panama City hospital. He stayed there two-and-a-half weeks,enduring six operations. He walks today with a titanium prosthesis. However,when he concentrates on his walking, there is no evidence of a device becausethe shark did not rip his quadriceps muscle.

“Every time I walk, I’msupposed to fire the quadwhere I can just be sturdy and Iwon’t limp, but I always getlazy and just forget to do it,”Craig says. “I still walk aroundwith a little limp all the time.”

Returning to athletics withan artificial leg was an issue forCraig, who excelled at baseballand basketball prior to theattack. He did not want to bethe focus of undue attention orthe recipient of pity from hiscompetitors. Even so, in 2006,he flew to California and com-peted in a triathlon, forming athree-man team with both ofhis brothers. Brian ran; Zachbiked; Craig swam. It was thefirst time he had entered oceanwater since the accident.

“I wasn’t too worriedabout it, honestly, until I got inthe water,” Craig says, “and

once I was in the water, I wasn’t freaking out, but I was questioning myself—like, why was I doing this?”

With the training of a coach who taught Craig how to adjust his swimmingtechnique to accommodate the loss of his leg, the former lifeguard completedthe 1.2-mile swim in 35 minutes.

“It’s just finding the balance on top of the water and then rotating yourhips, not just your legs,” Craig says.

He altered more than just his swimming style. He changed his mind aboutthe direction of his life. Craig says he was thinking about a career in computerscience prior to the accident, but he says his tragic experience made him real-ize how important doctors and nurses really are. Now Craig is planning tobecome a nurse anesthetist.

Craig lost 3,500 cubic centimeters of blood in the accident. He was giventwo body transfusions and 16 extra pints of blood in the hospital. He nowmakes it his mission to speak to anyone who will listen about the importanceof donating blood.

“The greatest thing about giving blood is that someone will give a pint ofblood and (might) never know who they’ll help at all,” he says.

The one thing Craig says he does know is that his Sigma Chi fraternitybrothers will not allow him to think of himself either as a hero or a victim.

“All my friends … get on me, and I’m glad they do because that’s kind ofwhat keeps me sane,” Craig says. “I’m glad they treat me like everybody else.”

Freshman survivesshark-bite shock to walk into nursingby Gina K. Logue

CHANGING DIRECTIONS—Craig Hutto, shown here in a photo taken inFlorida, is turning a physical setback into a life- and career-changing decision.

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