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Spring 2011
Climbing Back
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University of Denver Magazine
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University of Denver Magazine
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Contents
Features
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Climbing Back
When double amputee Neil Duncan summited Mount Kilimanjaro, hedid more than conquer Arica’s highest peak. Te climb marked the endo his recovery and the beginning o the rest o his lie.
By Chelsey Baker-Hauck
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Beyond the Veil
Palestinian women are ghting or independence and equality. PhDcandidate Rebecca Otis is documenting their struggle.
By Tamara Chapman
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Powder Days
Alum David Lucy refects on his time as the country’s rst blackcollegiate skier.
By Richard Chapman
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The Phipps Legacy
Te amily that had a hand in everything rom the U.S. Senate to theCentral City Opera to the Denver Broncos also had a lasting impact on DU.
By Richard Chapman
Departments
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Editor’s Note
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Letters
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Views
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DU Update
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News
$3 million git
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Research
Poker strategy
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Sports
Lacrosse coach
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Arts
Ater-school activities
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Academics
CourseMedia
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People
Dana Cain
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Q&A
Cox media’s Jim Kennedy
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Essay
In season
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Alumni Connections
History
Winter Carnival
On the cover: Double amputee Neil Duncan climbs Mount Kilimanjaro in August 2010; read thestory on page 26. Photo by Reed Homann.
This page: Neil Duncan loads his pack or the next stage o his climb up Mount Kilimanjaro. Photoby Reed Homann.
Office of the Chancellor
Dear Readers:It is one o the most vivid and lasting memories o my college years. The time was the spring o my reshman year andI was just 18, a young transplant rom Colorado to Williams College in the Northeast. I was assigned a semester-longresearch paper in my European history class, and I decided to ocus on the Schlieen Plan, the grand strategy developedby the German General Sta in the years leading up to World War I. I spent months rumbling through the stacks o theold library on campus, ollowing research leads, writing notes, learning as much as I could. I had not done such a thingbeore, and I absolutely loved it. That old library became my second home, a place where I could literally eel my mindgrowing. It was a place where thoughts and ideas popped out o me spontaneously, like new plants on ertile ground.That spring was 44 years ago, and I can still remember the eel o the stacks all around me, the cold winter light lteredthrough small windows, the smell o the books, my mind in overdrive. It was magical.Today, college libraries unction in an altogether dierent way. Virtually all o the serials collections in DU’s PenroseLibrary have been digitized and are available online. It’s been many years since I’ve had to go to the library to read themost recent research articles in chemistry; I now simply call them up on my laptop in my oce or at home. A signicantportion o the book collection in Penrose has also been digitized and is available whenever and wherever one wants. With Web access available in every building on campus, in every room in the residence halls, and everywhere outdoors via our wireless network, one might easily wonder what has become o the library and what its uture may be. You might be surprised to know that the number o students using Penrose Library has gone up substantially every year during the past decade, precisely the era o mass digitization. It cannot be that they are drawn there or access toinormation, since so much o the library’s collections (and some would say that the collections
are
the library) areavailable everywhere, anytime. No, the truth is that our students go to the library or precisely the same reasons that I did44 years ago. Individually or in groups, they go there to work, to think, to create, to eel their minds grow. The studentsare drawn to its intellectual intensity. Even in this digital age, the library is still a magical place.O course, the students nd Penrose Library’s old ’70s construction, brilliant orange colors and “egg” chairs amusing. While its guts are technology-rich, little o the outward appearance o the library has changed since it was opened in 1972.This has become a signicant problem—ar too much space is taken up by bound volumes and inrastructure, as wasappropriate decades ago when Penrose opened.Today we need that space or our students and aculty, and a major renovation project is set to begin soon. Therenovation will open up the interior o the building to create a light and airy atmosphere and a rat o new spaces orpeople to gather or work or conversation. There will be spaces or critical support or our students and aculty, suchas the Writing Center, the Math Center and the Center or Teaching and Learning. Aesthetically, technologically andintellectually, the new “Academic Commons” will be the ocal point o the DU campus. The outside o the building willchange as well to include a new entrance, a colonnade, and our trademark stone and copper nishes. (Read more aboutthe Academic Commons project on page 45.) All o this will cost $33 million. The good news is that we’ve raised and saved $27 million o that amount, and werecently began a campaign to complete unding or the project. I the library was a magical place or you as well and you would like to help, please let us know.
Ofce o the Chancellor
Mary Reed Building | 2199 S. University Blvd. | Denver, CO 80208 | 303.871.2111 | Fax 303.871.4101 | www.du.edu/chancellor
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Spring
Letters
Cover to cover
The winter 2010 alumni magazine wasoutstanding, and to be honest, the irstone I’ve ever read cover to cover. “Chinaon the Rise” ascinated me because Iam planning to go on a tour to Chinain March, and I had gone to [ProessorSuisheng Zhao’s] class during the AlumniSymposium the irst weekend in October.The Holocaust memorial article was o interest to me because I have a amilyon my street who are Jewish and whohave teenagers nearing college age, so Ishared the magazine with them ater I was through with it. “Greetings From theSanatorium” was extremely interesting,and I was impressed by the proessor who was using the names and stories to involvestudents in some real research. I alsoenjoyed “States o Change,” “Jersey girl”and “Boo-who?” Altogether the ormat, writing, and the paper o the magazineitsel was truly a pleasurable experience.Thank you or grabbing my attentionthrough the whole issue.
Barbara Nelson (MA ’69)Englewood, Colo.
percent, and where the small-ont contracts have causedlenders to commit suicide on amassive scale. Another important actignored in the story is that microcredit has arich history, and that the original providerso microloans are not doing so well any-more because the private banking industryis taking over their shares in the market.One original provider, Oikocredit in theNetherlands, was ounded by the[ WorldCouncil o Churches]; now it is giving in tothe Deutsche Banks o global capitalism.I had hoped DU’s business studentscould have stood or the plight o the poorrather than to help redeine the DU missioninto making money o the poor.
Paul TimmermansTigard, Ore.
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Last spring I started researching the story o my great uncle Paul Clum, a paratrooper killed inthe Philippines during World War II. His death wasa great source o sorrow or my grandather, and I wanted Uncle Paul to be remembered even aterthose who knew him were gone. With help rom the 503rd Heritage Battalion,I was able to reconstruct much o the last two yearso Paul’s lie serving with the Army 503rd ParachuteRegimental Combat Team. I put out a call to others who may have served with him.One morning last summer, I got an e-mail romthe daughter o Uncle Paul’s service buddy Virgil.He had passed away a ew years earlier but let a written memoir o his best riend, my Uncle Paul.They had ought together in the Battle o Corregidor in February 1945. Virgil was injured and spent the next ew months in the hospital; Paul wenton to other campaigns, including the island o Negros, where he died inMay o that year.Sixty-ive years later, I sat on my kitchen loor and cried as I read aboutmy uncle and his riend and all the other brave men they served with. Istarted to understand the magnitude o their sacriice. Just weeks later, I met another veteran o the 503rd, current DUstudent Neil Duncan, who lost both o his legs in Aghanistan in 2005.I elt an instant connection—here was a young man who had joined theparatroopers at 18, just like my uncle. A young man who answered hiscountry’s call when the rest o us stayed home. A young man who paid aprice or that service. (Read more about Neil on page 26.) And in December, I heard rom ormer
University of Denver Magazine
intern P.J. Glavey (BSBA ’07), who joined the Marines ater graduation. InOctober, he lost both o his legs in Aghanistan; he took his irst steps onprosthetics in January.I protested the American invasions o Aghanistan and Iraq. But now Ihave a dierent message or P.J., Neil, and all the men and women serving,or who served in wars past: Thank you.Chelsey Baker-Hauck Managing Editor
www.du.edu/magazine
Volume 11, Number 3
Publisher
Jim Berscheidt
Managing Editor
Chelsey Baker-Hauck (BA ’9)
Assistant Managing Editor
Greg Glasgow
Associate Editor
Tamara Chapman
Editor
Kathryn Mayer (BA ’, MA ’)
Editorial Assistants
Deidre Helton (Class of 2012) •Katelyn Feldhaus • Amber D’Angelo Na (BA ’06)
Staff Writer
Richard Chapman
Art Director
Craig Korn, VeggieGraphics
Contributors
Jordan Ames • Wayne Armstrong • Julene Bair •Janalee Card Chmel (MLS ’97) • Carl Dalio •Kim DeVigil • Justin Edmonds (BSBA ’08) •Jeff Francis • Brenda Gillen (MLS ’06) • Laurie Younggren Goodman (BA ’84) • Kristal Griffith(MBA ’10) • Jeffrey Haessler • Judy Maillis •Doug McPherson • Allan Roth • NathanSolheim • Chase Squires (MPS ’10)
Editorial Board
Chelsey Baker-Hauck, editorial director •
Jim Berscheidt, interim vice chancellor
for university communications •Thomas Douglis (BA ’86) •
Jeffrey Howard, executive director of alumni
relations • Sarah Satterwhite, senior director of development for research and writing • Amber Scott (MA ’02) • Laura Stevens (BA ’69),
director of parent relations
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Editor’s Note
The dark side of microlending
We received the latestedition o the maga-zine in December.One story [Academics, winter 2010] wasabout how the granting o microcre-dit is being taught at the DU businessschool. Surprisingly, at least to me, allthe economic “externalities” involved inmicrolending were ignored by the writer.For instance, no mention was madeabout how microlending has become aneasy source o large revenues, and evena orm o usury, mostly because o theinvolvement by corporate players such asDeutsche Bank. Recently the prime min-ister o Bangladesh was cited as ollowsin an opinion piece in the
Financial Times
:“Microlenders make the people o this coun-try their guinea pig. … They are suckingblood rom the poor in the name o povertyalleviation.”Several pieces in the
Financial Times
haveechoed sentiments elt every day in manyother poor countries besides Bangladesh andIndia, where microcredit interest rates top 30
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Ski team scrapbook
I read with great interest the last issue o the
University of Denver Magazine
[winter 2010]that included the picture o the 1946 ski teamon page 53. Enclosed are pictures o the 1962ski team around our 1962 Buick team car, with what I believe is the NCAA championship tro-phy we won that year.Pictured, standing, let to right: Coach Willy Schaeler, Aarne Valkama (BS ’64),Phil Shama, Oyvind Floystad (BA ’63), JanBlom, Mike Baar (BSBA ’64), Chris Rounds.Kneeling, let to right: Alan Miller (BS ’62),Chris Selbeck (BS ’62).
Phil Shama (BSBA ’64)Mount Vernon, Wash.
Editor’s response: Readers, if you have old photos toshare, please e-mail us atdu-magazine@du.eduor mail them to
University of Denver Magazine
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