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DU has developed an app or Android devices. The app is nowavailable through the AndroidMarket. The ree app gives usersaccess to DU’s online directory,DU Today news updates andlinks to athletics departmentand campus programs, includingTEDxDU. “We have receivedmany positive comments rom the DU community about theapp or Apple products,” says JimBerscheidt, interim vice chancellor or University Communications.“Adding the Android app allowseasy access to University eeds or a rapidly growing market o phonesand other devices.”DU’s app or the Apple iPhone,iPad and iPod Touch launched lastall. Approximately 2,400 users in the United States and abroad havedownloaded the app. Apple and Android users cansearch the term “University o Denver” in application stores todownload the app and join the growing number o DU app users.
Katinka Van Lier Ribbink Lisa MartinTaylor Arns
Myhren exhibition to showcase student work
DU’s annual exhibit of works by graduating seniors will run from May 12–June 3.The 2011 BFA Senior Exhibition — which includes pieces by students from DU’s School of Art & Art History, studio arts and electronic media arts and design programs — will feature mixed media,prints, ceramics, photography and electronic installation pieces.Students exhibiting artwork in the Myhren Gallery include: Taylor Arns, Megan Sullivan, LisaMartin and Katinka Van Lier Ribbink. Graduating seniors Nicci Shaw and Rachael Roark will exhibitin the Schwayder Building’s lobby. Arns explores the different functions that ceremonies and rituals have in our private and publicinteractions in a series of intaglio prints and drawings.Sullivan’s work is inspired by the role of light in traditional silver-based photography.Martin’s childhood in Fruita, Colo., is the inspiration for her playful installation of ceramicanimal forms that encourage viewers to contemplate their own personal relationships with theanimal kingdom.In Van Lier Ribbink’s digital animation piece, she explores current water issues suchprivatization, scarcity and pollution. A public reception will be held May 12 from 5–8 p.m. The gallery is open daily noon–4 p.m.
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Debates by thenumbers
Hosting a presidential or vicepresidential debate that will beviewed by
60 million
Americansis no small undertaking.Universities vying or the eventwill need to fnd space or
3,000
working journalistswho will use
1,300
phonelines. Outside the venue, theremust to be room or
50
remotetelevision trucks. Te debate’shost city also will provide morethan
3,000
hotel roomsor visiting journalists andcampaign workers.
Pioneers gymnasts turn in strong showing in NCAA championships
Pioneers junior gymnast Brianna Springer nished 17th in the all-around competition and reshman Jorie Hall was 35th on the balancebeam at the 2011 NCAA women’s gymnasticschampionships April 15 in Cleveland.Springer nished with a 38.325 in theall-around, scoring a 9.775 on vault, 9.675on beam, 9.600 on foor and 9.275 on bars.Springer, who qualied or nationals with a th-place nish at the NCAA regionals on April 2in Denver, nished 11th in last year’s NCAA championships.Hall scored a 9.575 on balance beam inher rst appearance in nationals. Hall qualied or the beam competition by earning a 9.900 to share the event title at the Denver region-als.Springer and Hall will return to lead thePioneers during the 2012 season.
—Media Relations Staff
DU among 12 universities vying for 2012presidential debate
The University of Denver has submitted an application to host a presidential or vicepresidential debate in fall 2012. It marks the first time DU has competed for one of the nationally televised events that occur just before the November election.The Commission on Presidential Debates announced that 12 universities submitted anapplications prior to the March 31 deadline. The commission visited the DU campus in April and isexpected to announce which locations were chosen this fall.“DU’s commitment to addressing the great issues of the day and serving the public goodmake this a perfect fit for the University, the city of Denver, and the state of Colorado,” says JimBerscheidt, interim vice chancellor for University Communications. “Following the successful 2008Democratic National Convention, it’s appropriate that Denver again host an event of nationalsignificance, especially given the size and quality of the University’s venues.”The University proposes hosting the debate in Magness Arena in the Daniel L. Ritchie Center for Sports and Wellness. A media filing center and offices for commission staff will be locatedelsewhere on campus.The following universities also have submitted an application:
• Belmont University, Nashville, Tenn.• Centre College, Danville, Ky.• Dominican University of California, San Rafael, Calif.• Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Ky.• Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y.• Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.• Lynn University, Boca Raton, Fla.• Saint Mary’s College of California, Moraga, Calif.• The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, N.J.• Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C.• Washington University in St. Louis
—Media Relations Staff
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Jorie Hall competes in a recent meet.
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Schultz outlines Starbucks turnaround
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz brought talk of love to his recent appearance at the
Cable Center.“It’s a term not oten used in business: love. I came back to the company in January 2008because o my love and aection or the organization and the 200,000 people who wear itsuniorm,” Schultz began. “There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do to deend this company.”
Schultz’s appearance was part of the Daniels College of Business’ Voices of Experi
-ence lecture series. The series has brought many o the world’s top business leaders to
DU. Schultz also was promoting his new book, Onward: How Starbucks Fought For Its Life
Without Losing Its Soul.Schultz’s presentation ran down the salient events o his book: Ater serving as Starbucks
CEO since the early 1980s, Schultz stepped down in 2000. After several years, the company
was hurting in a way previously thought impossible. Wall Street and market analysts weresomewhat giddy: the invincible Starbucks was in a tailspin and seemed poised to lose its cli-entele to ast ood. Amid this nadir, which included brutal headlines, sinking stocks and a dirememo rom Schultz to Starbucks brass that was leaked, he re-took the reins in 2008.“Some people were cheering it, and a lot o people said they should shoot me or it,” he
told the audience. “People said, ‘They need a professional CEO to manage this company.’”
Schultz’s makeover o thecompany became one o themost dramatic corporate turn-arounds in memory. Starbucks’low point was partly attributed to an ailing economy. Schultz said the situation is largely unchangedand said companies have tolearn to operate independently rom larger economic issues.“I don’t think the economyis going to improve that much in the next year, i at all,” he said.
“Every company in America has
to create a values proposition,decide what they stand or.”Schultz didn’t mince wordsin making his case. Recentlyreturned rom a trip to Calior-nia, he mentioned the stark re-alities o state budgets.“States, at a ederal andlocal level, just won’t be able todo the things they’ve done in the past,” he said. “Corporations are going to have to do more or the communities they serve.”During a post-lecture interview, Schultz touched upon his well-known “impatient” man-agement style. Schultz didn’t exactly jump to dispute the perception.“When I sat down with the team trying to create instant coee or Starbucks, I asked them a very simple question: ‘How long will it take?’ They told me two-and-a-hal years, andI said the iPod was invented in a year and a hal, rom scratch.’ I said, ‘I want this in the marketin less than a year and a hal’… In less than a year and a hal, we were in the market.”
The crowd seemed pleased with Schultz’s candor. Oleysa Lowery graduated from DU
in June with an MBA. She came to see Schultz because she liked his social message.“I wanted to gain an understanding o how someone without any ormal business educa- tion can make a company that has such a ocus on the human part o it,” she said. “He shows that you can be successul ocusing on the human element.”
—Jeff Francis
W a y n e A r m s t r o n g
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz visited the Cable Center as part o the Daniels College o Business’ Voices o Experience lecture series.
April showers bring deadlyrunoff, law students say
For more than a year, Drew Dutcher has lived in the shadow o what neighbors call “Shingle Mountain,”a pile o discarded roong shingles that may havecrossed the line rom eyesore to community healthmenace.Now, University o Denver Sturm College o Law students are demanding the north Denver shinglerecycling business Shingles 4 Recycling do somethingabout the 30-oot-high mountain o broken shingles they say is oozing potentially contaminated runo onto area streets and possibly into the Platte River.
Working under the guidance of DU Environ
-mental Law Clinic Director Michael Harris, student
lawyers Stephanie Fairbanks and Eric Wilson have
sent a 60-day notice o intent to sue to Shingles 4 Re-cycling on behal o area residents and environmentalactivists. I the company doesn’t cut the pile downand cover it, the students plan to le a lawsuit in ed-eral court under the Clean Water Act, Harris says.There are multiple shingle piles around the site,
but the largest is visible at the corner of East 51st
Avenue and Columbine Street. Harris says neighborsare concerned about runo rom the unsightly debris, which is uncovered and is threatening to spill pastdamaged containment ences.“Locals call it ‘Shingle Mountain,’ or obviousreasons,” Harris says. “What we see here o courseis, or community members, quite an eyesore. Butit’s also a potential re hazard and an environmentalhazard. There’s asbestos and other types o metalsand organics coming loose, getting into the air, andon a rainy day washing right o into the street hereand into the Platte River, which is just 1,100 yardsaway.”
Even if those materials don’t make it to the river
they pose a threat, Harris says. Chemicals and metalslet behind on the street are kicked up into the air bypassing vehicles and contaminate the area, he says.Dutcher says residents worry about possibleairborne and waterborne contaminants.
—Chase Squires
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