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Dr. Alison Bailey and President
Emeritus David Strand | Alison Bailey, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Women’s Studies Program, has been selected as the 2006 recipient of the David Strand Diversity Achievement Award atIllinois State. The Strand Award was established and endowed over ten years ago by President Emeritus David Strand to recognize an individual faculty or staff member who has been instrumental in extraordinary curriculum or program activities that assist the University in responding to its commitment to diversity. "Professor Bailey has been dedicated to improving society’s response to diversity for better than a decade, and her current activities demonstrate that this will continue to be a major goal for her,” said Dean Olson. “She has indeed had a strong and positive impact on diversity in the university community and will continue to do so. The College congratulates Professor Bailey on this recognition of her commitment to diversity.”
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| Robert McLaughlin, Associate Professor of English, and Sally Parry, Associate Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, recently published We’ll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema During World War II—a project for which they viewed more than 600 films made between 1937 and 1946, analyzing the cultural and historical importance of these films in explaining the war to moviegoers. According to McLaughlin and Parry, “These films were more than just an explanation of historical events: they asked audiences to consider the Nazi threat, they put a face on both our enemies and allies, and they explored changing wartime gender roles.” Publishers Weekly calls the work an “essential volume” explaining “the process by which actual events become film history and by which film history becomes myths” and contends that the authors “maintain a scholarly tone, treating blockbusters and B-movies with equal rigor, but never forgetting the view from the peanut gallery or the history and movie buffs among them.”
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| Debate Team | For the second year in a row, Illinois State's Debate and Forensics teams both won tournaments in convincing fashion on the weekend of Januray 27-29.’s debate team won the Augustana College Debate tournament. The team of Bryan Asbury (junior, communication studies) and Sheeba Safa (sophomore, English) along with the team of Alex Berger (junior, philosophy) and Robert Kosic (sophomore, political science) closed out the final round of the tournament. “While closing out a final round is not unheard of, it is a rare accomplishment. And, it is certainly something that ISU has not done, to my knowledge, for at least a decade. It is a testament to our continued growth and excellence as an intercollegiate debate program,” said Joe Zompetti, Assistant Professor of Communication and Director of Forensics. “What makes this particularly significant is both of our teams advanced to the finals—meaning they were both the best teams competing in their division.” On the same weekend, the perennial powerhouse forensics team won the University of Nebraska/Kansas State University Swing Tournament.
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On February 10-12, over 38 antique exhibitors from seven Midwestern states will be gathering to display various antiques at the second annual Top of the Class Antiques Show and Sale, sponsored by the School of Communication and WGLT.Proceeds from the show, which is produced and staffed entirely by volunteers, will help provide School of Communication students and faculty with additional educational resources. “The antique show combines opportunities for many of our majors to gain internship experience in actual event planning and business relationships as they deal with two thousand customers and dozens of vendors,” said Douglas Jennings, Associate Director of the School of Communication. “On top of that, the show provides additional revenue to enhance student classroom experiences. It's a win-win situation for our students.”
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| Dr. Rita Bailey | The act of swallowing involves twenty-five different muscles and five different nerves from the salivary glands to the trachea. When a person experiences difficulty or chronic discomfort while swallowing, she or he may want to seek the assistance of Dr. Rita L. Bailey, Assistant Professor of Speech Pathology and Audiology, whose specialty is dysphagia, or swallowing disorders. Bailey first became interested in researching dysphagia after having a premature child who suffered from feeding and swallowing problems. She has worked with geriatric populations in nursing homes and hospitals but states her true passion is working with and treating infants and children with dysphagia.
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