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UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
05.2009
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Patrick Maderia, a senior theater major, talks with Roger Stevens,a homeless man originally from Chicago, during Project HomelessConnect 7, a one-day event at DU’s Ritchie Center. More than600 homeless people came to campus April 24 for assistancewith basic medical care, food stamp benefits, veteran’s services,resumé assistance, legal advice, haircuts, massages and clothing.More than 800 DU students, faculty and staff volunteeredto provide one-on-one support for the homeless individuals.PHC 7 was a partnership between DU, Denver’s Road Home andthe Mile High United Way.
Homeless help
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 Are you smarter thana fifth grader?
Maybe not when comparedto the 100 students, grades4–8, who answered questionsabout locations all overthe world in the NationalGeographic Colorado statechampionship geography bee atDU in early April. The winnerearned a trip to the nationalfinals in Washington, D.C.,with a chance to compete for$25,000 in scholarships. DUprovides the state winner witha two-year scholarship. Alden Savoca, 14, won thebee with this question. Couldyou have taken the title?
Chiba and Nagoya, two of thelargest ports in the world in terms of tonnage, are located in which country? A. ChinaB. TaiwanC. JapanD. United States
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DU makes Denver’s ‘Best of’ list
Westword
’s annual “Best O” collection o the weird, wacky and wonderul in Denver is on thestreets, and as usual, DU hasn’t been let out.For 2009, the University has garnered meritorious mention in two distinct categories: ceram-ics and cookbooks. The culinary citation oers praise to Penrose Library or the 9,000 books andmagazines that comprise its amed Margaret Husted Culinary Collection. It won Best Way to SpiceUp the Kitchen Like It’s 1899.The Best Ceramics Show award honors Myhren Gallery or the show that director Dan Ja-cobs organized o “eye-popping” sculpture done over our decades by artist Paul Soldner. Images o his work can be ound at www.paulsoldner.com.The Husted cookery collection includes tips on ood and health published as ar back as 1683and is one o the three largest such collections in the United States. The material was acquired by the Boettcher Foundation and donated to the University in 1985.DU has been included in
Westword
’s list on a number o occasions over the years or accom-plishments rom art to athletics. Examples include Cab Childress, who was named Best Architec- tural Visionary in 2004, and DU hockey, which earned Best College Sports Team honors in 2005.The Ritchie Center was named Best New Building in 2000 and ormer DU hockey orward PaulStastny was designated Best Avalanche player in 2007.The
Westword
selections are chosen largely by nominations rom staers, but some unscienticpublic balloting also occurs.Many o the categories are coveted, such as Best Talk Show Host, which went to SandyClough o 104.3 FM The Fan. But others are designed to t the honoree, such as the band TheHollyelds, which won or Best Band Playing Country the Way it Was Meant to be Played.
 —Richard Chapman
New research shows children take a tollon marital bliss
 What married couples have suspected or years has now been proven by researchers at the University o Denver and Texas A&M — children can add problems and stress to a marriage. According to an eight-year study o 218 couples, 90 percent o the couples experienced a decreasein marital satisaction once the rst child was born.“Couples who do not have children also show diminished marital quality over time,” saysScott Stanley, research proessor o psychology at DU. “However, having a baby accelerates thedeterioration, especially seen during periods o adjustment right ater the birth o a child.”The research recently appeared in the
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
. The paper  was authored by Brian Doss, assistant proessor o psychology at Texas A&M, along with the teamo researchers rom DU including Stanley, psychology Proessor Howard Markman and senior researcher Galena Rhoades. The $400,000 study was unded by a grant to the University o Denver rom the National Institutes o Health.The research also showed couples who lived together beore marriage experienced moreproblems ater birth than those who lived separately beore marriage. Those whose parents oughtor divorced also experienced more problems.However, some couples said their relationships were stronger post-birth. Couples who had been married longer, or who had higher incomes,seemed to have ewer marital problems related to having a baby than those with lower incomes or who had been married or a shorter period o time.Stanley cautions against concluding that children damage overallhappiness in lie.“There are dierent types o happiness in lie. While some luster maybe o marital happiness or at least a time during this period o lie, thereis a whole dimension o amily happiness and contentment based on the amily that couples are building,” Stanley says. “This type o happiness can bepowerul and positive, but it has not been the ocus o research.”
 —Kristal Griffith
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Volume 32, Number 8
 Vice Chancellor for University Communications
Carol Farnsworth
Publications Director 
Chelsey Baker-Hauck (BA ’96)
Managing Editor 
Kathryn Mayer (BA ’07)
 Art Director 
Craig Korn, VeggieGraphics
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Robert Mill’setiquetteadvice
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As a guest, don’t select the most expensiveitem on the menu.
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Don’t be the only person at the table toorder an appetizer.
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If you must leave the table in the middleof the meal, put your napkin on the seat of your table, never on the table.
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Before you begin to eat, wait for all of the individuals seated at your table to beserved and for your host to begin eating.
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Use your cutlery from the outside in.
 Mill, an HRTM professor, gave etiquette tips duringa three-course protocol dinner at the April 16“Fashion Your Future” fashion show and dinner for undergraduate women and young professionals.The event is part of the “Backpacks to Briefcases” seminar series, which is designed to help studentstransition from school to the work place.
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scar Hasbun (MS engineering and computerscience ’04) knows computer problems arefrustrating, especially for students with plenty of assignments and limited time.“Students don’t want to make an appointmentand drive; they want to be served on-campus andin between classes,” Hasbun says. That’s whyhe’s moved his full-service IT shop, Zettalogica,to a location ideal for DU students at 2430S. University Blvd.Zettalogica currently repairs about 5–6Toshiba computers a day and provides small andmedium-sized businesses with infrastructuremanagement, custom software and technicaltraining solutions, Hasbun says. Zettalogica is aMicrosoft Gold Partner.Costs for repairs usually run about $89 for anhour of service. A full diagnostic fee is $59, butstudents get a 20 percent discount. Laptop rentalsare available starting at $19 a day or $59 a weekfor students; regular prices start at $29 a day and $109 a week.Hasbun, the company’s CEO and president, expects the company’s service to grow to about 25–30 computers a day in addition tolaptop sales and technical support. The service center is authorized to fix Toshiba, Apple and Intel computers, and all other computerequipment no longer under warranty.Zettalogica — zetta meaning the seventh power of a thousand and logica meaning “logical” in Spanish — began when Hasbuntook family-owned business law and values-based leadership classes at DU’s Daniels College of Business. The self-described computergeek didn’t know much about starting a business, though. What he did have was $25,000 to put down with his wife, Debbie Sheanin, acustomer service coordinator in DU’s financial aid office. He also had a strong desire to start a company.“I thought maybe I can make something positive happen,” says Hasbun, who notes his background in corporate business was mostlyfrom Latin America and his native El Salvador.Daniels Professors Ronald Zall and Sam Cassidy, who Hasbun refers to as the “wise men” in matters of business law and ethics,helped Hasbun work out all the kinks.“I can only go so far alone; my knowledge is limited,” Hasbun says.Hasbun is certainly planning on going far with that help. Literally.In December 2008, he opened a Zettalogica shop in El Salvador with Carlos Lara (BS computer science ’06), who he met at DU whileteaching as an adjunct in the computer science department. He’s also working to replicate the same thing in Norway with Sven NicoEppeland (BSEE ’05, MBA ’05).“He’s so good at drawing people with all these different strengths, and he gets them tuned in with the company’s vision,” Sheaninsays.The biggest challenge? Probably being a small business in a weak economy, Hasbun says. “Choice tilts to price-driven, and somecustomers start defaulting in their payments,” he adds. “We had to take measures to maintain liquidity, anticipating delayed incomingcash flows.”In October, Hasbun had to reduce his staff of 12 to five (there’s an additional two employees in El Salvador) after contracts werecancelled.“These people are my friends, not just my colleagues,” he says. “It becomes a personal dilemma, where I ask myself what is the rightthing to do and how. That’s when I take myself back to the core values we wrote [when we started the business],” he says.“I thought in business school I was in it for profits and shareholder value, but walked out of it believing again that it was to maximizestakeholder benefit,” Hasbun says. “Zettalogica is here...to let the fruit of our ethical labor keep our business in the map.”>>www.zettalogica.com
 —Kathryn Mayer 
Tech savvy
 Alum brings computer shop to DU neighborhood
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