Five questions for ... Alan Leberknight

Managed growth one of TU’s critical issues, says returning business executive

Alan Leberknight returned to TU this fall ready for a new challenge—as chairperson of the Department of Accounting. [more]

So they said...

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller, 1915–2005

Eastern art techniques meet European influences

Exhibit to showcase modern Vietnamese art

What? Art of Vietnam: 20th Century

When? Now to December 8

Where? Center for the Arts, Asian Arts Gallery
Why? Twenty-first century Vietnamese art is a mixture of Eastern techniques such as woodcutting, engraving, silk and lacquer painting, combined with the European influences of Impressionism and Cubism. Never before seen in the Baltimore area, this exhibit of young artists integrates the traditional with modern influences from the Western art world.

How? Admission is free. Gallery hours: Monday–Friday, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.; Saturday, 1–4 p.m. For more information about this and other Asian Arts & Culture Center events, call x42807.

TU in the news

Listening for Clues

The Wall Street Journal, October 27

In a review of Danish authior Peter HØeg's book, The Quiet Girl, Diane Scharper, Department of English, observed that the novel "teems with flashbacks, philosophical asides, theological musings, gripping sences and events, and a sort of magical realism that elevates to celestial heights the uncanny human capacity to hear. It never loses a thriller's sense of go."

Facebook account connects Towson president, students

Baltimore Business Journal, October 26

Reporter Sue Shultz spoke to President Robert Caret about his Facebook profile, which she said he uses as a way to reach faculty, students and potential students on issues from new parking regulations to abuse of alcohol on college campuses. The site averages about 1,000 hits per month. "It's a way to get the dialog going, Caret said. "I feel like I am in touch with their culture."

Pa. man's legal battle is over line between free speech, privacy

Associated Press, October 26

Alex Dominguez consulted Mark Whitman, Department on History, about a York, Pa., man's court battle to make members of a fundamentalist Kansas church pay for marring his son's funeral. Whitman said so-called fighting words that are uttered merely to incite are not protectred by the First Amendment, but added that religious or political statements usually escape that exemption.