Vicky Payseur

The Drake Board of Trustees recently honored Vicky Payseur, vice president for business and finance, for her stewardship of the University's budget - which ended the 2004-05 fiscal year with a surplus for the first time in more than a decade.

The trustees presented Payseur, GR'82, with a proclamation detailing Payseur's accomplishment as vice president, including moving the University from an operating deficit to a surplus and reducing endowment spending while also improving Drake facilities.

"Ms. Payseur has built a culture of fiscal discipline, conservative planning and shared accountability … (and) has exhibited great creativity, responsibility and wisdom in maximizing the effectiveness of resources to move the University forward," said the proclamation signed by both President David Maxwell and David Miles, LA'79, GR'81, chair of the Board of Trustees. "Since joining Drake in 1997, Ms. Payseur has worked tirelessly for the good of the University, has provided consistent leadership, has grown to be a trusted adviser to President Maxwell and to this Board of Trustees and has become a beloved member of our institution."
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Michael Josephson, right, chats with law students Jennifer Beal, Hong Dao and Christian Walk.

The term "ethical lawyer" is not - repeat not - an oxymoron, insists Michael Josephson, a former lawyer, law professor and founder of CHARACTER COUNTS!, a system of teaching ethics employed at schools and workplaces across the country.

Josephson visited Des Moines and the Drake University Law School Jan. 26-27 to emphasize the importance of adding moral and ethical foundations to legal education.

The Drake Law School has partnered with the Institute for Character Development, which uses portions of CHARACTER COUNTS! ideals in giving first-year law students an introduction to ethics as part of their law school learning experience at Drake.

CHARACTER COUNTS! is a process of teaching, encouraging, advocating and modeling six universal ethical values, the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship.

Josephson said America's intensifying win-at-all-costs mentality is particularly harmful to the law profession because it only feeds the stereotype that lawyers will do whatever it takes, no matter how unethical or immoral, in the cause of personal gain.

"It has turned the law into something that is exploitive and oppressive, two things the law should never be," Josephson told about 150 Drake law students, faculty and staff. "People laugh at lawyer jokes because they believe lawyers will do whatever it takes - regardless of ethics or morality - to win. And that's not right."

Josephson enrolled in the UCLA School of Law in the 1960s wanting to accomplish some good, make the world a better place and change society.

Three years, a pile of debt and so-called "real word" expectations later, Josephson exited law school simply wanting to do well for himself.

"I had suddenly become very self-centered," Josephson said. "My life was about getting the best placement in a firm or clerkship with a Supreme Court justice. It wasn't at all what I originally thought law school and the law were about."

Josephson went on to a 20-year career as a law professor and businessman, but the question of a lawyer sacrificing social betterment for personal gain nagged at him throughout the years.

In 1985, he sold his legal publishing business and founded the Josephson Institute of Ethics where CHARACTER COUNTS! was developed. He dedicated his life to instilling and reinforcing ethical underpinnings in everyone from elementary schoolchildren to top corporate executives.

Josephson's efforts have taken on a special role at Drake, which houses the Institute for Character Development. Drake first-year law students meet with Scott Raecker, executive director of the institute, several times during the fall semester to discuss how ethics and morality dovetail with the law and lawyers.

"The pillars of character are the same values we hold dear in the legal profession," said David Walker, dean of the Drake Law School. "We must set the highest examples for our profession and the students at Drake are shining examples of a desire to deliver that."

Lawyers are particularly vulnerable, Josephson said, to self-righteousness and rationalization, ignoring the ethical considerations.

"Nobody hires a lawyer to be fair," Josephson said. "They hire them to win. That does not mean, however, that you have to stoop to the lowest levels to do that."

Josephson used the example of lawyers at large corporations who set up off-the-books partnerships to hide huge amounts of corporate debts in an effort to drive up stock prices.

"It may be completely legal but it's not moral or ethical," Josephson said. "A lawyer might be able to justify this by saying it's within the bounds of the law or that they were merely trying to serve their clients' best interests. But that's where moral courage comes in. We need to be better at making the tough ethical and moral choices, even when it costs us a job or money.

"Doing the right thing is not always the easy thing."
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Justice Clarence Thomas

United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will spend the week of February 6-10 as distinguished jurist in residence at Drake Law School. He will teach a Supreme Court Seminar, meet with students and faculty informally and participate in a question- and-answer session with the entire Law School student body.

The question-and-answer session will take place at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main. Tickets, which will be distributed by the Law School Dean's Office, will be required for admission to the event.

This visit is the second by Justice Thomas to serve as a distinguished jurist in residence at Drake Law School. In 2002 he spent a week at Drake teaching a Supreme Court Seminar. This year's seminar is being facilitated by Mark Kende, James Madison chair in constitutional law and director of the Constitutional Law Center. Kende will teach the first week of the seminar before Justice Thomas arrives.

Justice Thomas also will participate in a class for RaySociety members on "What Would You Like to Know about the U.S. Judicial System" from 3 to 4 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 10. The location of the class will be announced later.

Drake's distinguished jurist in residence is made possible by the support of one of Drake's most generous benefactors: Dwight D. Opperman, a 1951 Drake Law School graduate, chairman of Key Investments Inc. in Minneapolis and former president and CEO of West Publishing Co.

Justice Thomas was born in the Pin Point community of Georgia near Savannah on June 23, 1948. He attended Conception Seminary from 1967-1968 and received an A.B., cum laude, from Holy Cross College in 1971 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1974. He was admitted to law practice in Missouri in 1974, and served as an assistant attorney general of Missouri from 1974-1977; an attorney with the Monsanto Co. from 1977-1979; and legislative assistant to Senator John Danforth from 1979-1981. From 1981-1982 he served as assistant secretary for civil rights, U.S. Department of Education, and as chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1982-1990. From 1990-1991, he was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. President George H.W. Bush nominated him as an associate justice of the Supreme Court and he took his seat on Oct. 23, 1991.
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Shawn Rodgers operates a camera during auditions for anchor positions.

Drake University's TV news capstone "DRAKELINE WEEKLY" begins its eighth season Thursday, Feb. 2. The 15-minute program airs live at 4 p.m. Thursdays on The College Channel 16, and replays at 5 and 7 p.m. It also live-streams to the Internet on www.Drakeline.com.

"DRAKELINE WEEKLY" is a professional activity for seniors majoring in radio-television and broadcast news in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The program gives students real-world experience in television reporting, production and promotion.

Intermediate classes contribute stories and other material to the program. Seniors in broadcast news also are collaborating with seniors majoring in news-Internet to produce content for www.drakedigitalnews.com, a multimedia publication that covers news and events in the Des Moines area.

Seventeen seniors are involved in this semester's "DRAKELINE WEEKLY."

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The 2006 Spring Internship and Career Fair offers students the opportunity to meet recruiters and look for internships and full- and part-time jobs. The fair will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, in Parents Hall at Olmsted Center.

This year's fair features 70 employers, a 32 percent increase over last year's total of 53. Among the new additions this year are two advertising agencies - Integer Group and Strategic America - and two television stations - KCCI in Des Moines and WQAD in the Quad Cities. Also, there are more companies with national reputations participating, such as Pella Corp., McDonalds Corp. and UPS.

"This fair is so broad that it has something for everyone. There are opportunities for those interested in teaching, graphic design, business, broadcast, camp counseling and communication," said Amy Jo Reimer Myers, career development manager for the College of Business and Public Administration and School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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Three outstanding educators will be honored Thursday, Feb. 16, by the Drake University School of Education at the school's Annual Alumni Awards Dinner in Parents Hall at Olmsted Center, 29th Street and University Avenue.

The evening is dedicated to the memory of Marie Hasch, a 1946 graduate of the School of Education. Hash and her sister Helen Schott, a 1942 graduate of the School of Education, have been generous benefactors of the school.

Awards will be presented to:

• Celeste Bremer, a United States magistrate judge. A resident of Urbandale, Bremer earned her doctoral degree from Drake in 2002.

• Davis Eidahl, principal of Evans Middle School in Ottumwa and a recipient of a Milken Educator Award. Eidahl, a resident of Ottumwa, earned his master's degree from Drake in 1999 and his specialist's degree from Drake in 2002.

• Thomas F. Snargrass, a Head Start and youth specialist at the Region 7 Head Start Office in Kansas City, Mo. Snargrass was responsible for all Iowa Head Start programs before retiring in January. He will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work. He is a resident of Kansas City, Mo., and holds a bachelor's degree from Lincoln University and attended the University of Missouri School of Social Work.

Mark Kende poses with Johann Kriegler, recently retired justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

For a constitutional scholar such as Mark Kende, his recent visit to the University of KwaZulu Natal in Durban, South Africa, was "kind of the big buffet at the international restaurant."

At the conference, titled "Comparative Constitutionalism and Rights: Global Perspectives," Kende, the James Madison chair of Constitutional Law, met fellow academics, sociologists, political scientists, lawyers and judges from all over the world to discuss constitutional law issues.

Kende also presented a paper on "The South African Constitutional Court's Cases on Religion."

"The range of perspectives was amazing," the law professor said. "It is always valuable to be able to look at issues that we face in the United States from different points of view. We have a tendency to get locked into our particular point of view and not see other solutions that are working well elsewhere in the world."

For example, the South African constitution - which is nearing its 10-year anniversary - is widely considered to be progressive including constitutional guarantees to education. The U.S. Constitution, by contrast, is thought to be more conservative with a free market perspective and does not include guarantees to education.

Kende noted that South African courts struck down a ban on gay marriages as unconstitutional just before his arrival - an issue that continues to boil in this country.

"The conference reinforced for me that the things we take for granted as lawyers in the U.S. court system are not necessarily how the rest of the world approaches issues," said Kende, who spent 2000 in South Africa as a Fulbright scholar. "Our separation of powers doctrine, for example, is a bedrock principle in this country. Yet in England, their highest judges also have a legislative role. It's all very fascinating."

The international trip also dovetailed with the debate over whether U.S. courts should consider foreign law when considering constitutional issues. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer advocated the practice in a recent book and his speech at Drake last semester. But likely high court-appointee Samuel Alito disagrees with the practice.

Kende, who has been quoted in the media about that debate, tries to pepper his U.S. Constitution courses with perspectives from conferences such as his South African trip while keeping focus on preparing future jurists for practice in the United States.

"If I spent entire classes talking about South Africa, I suspect students would wonder if they were in the wrong class," he said. "But putting what we do in this country into perspective with the rest of the world is also necessary."
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Institutional Advacement staff members pose with Sweepstakes Award.

Drake University was named the Sweepstakes Winner at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District VI annual conference in St. Louis, Jan. 22-24.

Drake received the 2004-05 Sweepstakes Award for "Excellence in Educational Advancement." The award recognizes schools for innovation in communications in such areas as publications, special events, public relations, alumni relations and fundraising. Drake won eight awards in this year's competition and Diane Caldbeck, Drake associate vice president for institutional advancement, received the Distinguished Service Award.

Caldbeck, a Drake graduate and resident of Des Moines, began her career at Drake in 1989 as assistant alumni director and was named alumni director in 1991. She has served on the CASE VI District Board and various conference planning committees. She also has been active in CASE at the national level and recently ended her term as an alumni commissioner.

The eight awards earned by Drake's Marketing and Communications office included a Grand Gold Award for "Excellence in Photography," two Gold Awards for "Excellence in Graphic Design" in support of Law School recruitment initiatives and for Opperman Lecture-related materials and three Silver Awards; three Silver Awards recognizing "Excellence in Overall Publications" for the Student Recruitment Series, "Excellence in Institutional Relations" for Drake blue cover wraps, and "Excellence in Graphic Design for a Single Logo" for the DRAKE 125 anniversary mark. Drake also garnered two Bronze Awards for "Excellence in Writing" in Drake blue and for "Excellence in Graphic Design" for the Drake blue/DRAKE 125 cover.

CASE is a professional organization for those in alumni relations, communications and philanthropy. CASE District VI comprises eight states and approximately 200 colleges and universities.

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From cultural celebrations to academic discussions, Drake University and the Coalition of Black Students at Drake have a plethora of events scheduled to celebrate Black History Month throughout February.

The theme for this year's observances comes from the Issac Newton quote: "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." Most of the events are free and all are open to the public.

Below is a listing of events:

Wednesday, Feb. 1

• "The Meaning of Black History Month," lecture by Wanda Everage, Drake vice provost for academic excellence, 7 p.m., Bulldog Theater, Olmsted Center.

• "Multicultural Fishbowl," cultural exchange event, 8 p.m., Morehouse Ballroom, Morehouse Residence Hall, 2803 University Ave.

• Skating party, 11 p.m. to 1 a.m., $1 to get in, $2 skate rental, Skate North, 5621 Meredith Drive.

• AIDS Awareness Fashion Show, 7:30 p.m., Parents Hall, Olmsted Center.

• "The 17th National African American Read-In" celebrating James Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time," 4 p.m., Cowles Library Reading Room.

• Poetry Slam, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Cool Beans, Olmsted Center.

• Men's Forum, 8 p.m. Cool Beans, Olmsted Center.
• Women's Forum, 8 p.m., Morehouse Living Room, Morehouse Residence Hall.

• "Matrix of Mediocracy" talk by Rasheed-Ali Cromwell an associate at a large intellectual property law firm in Washington, D.C., and a speaker for The Harbor Institute, 7 p.m., Cowles Library Reading Room.

• Stepper's Night, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Cool Beans, Olmsted Center.

• Movie Marathon, 2 p.m. to midnight, Black Cultural Center.

• Quiz Bowl Night, 7 p.m., Cool Beans, Olmsted Center.

• "Reparations" lecture by Adjoa Aiyetoro, a lawyer with the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, 4 p.m., Cartwright Hall, room 213.

• Men's Appreciation Night, 7 p.m., Cool Beans, Olmsted Center.

• BET Uncut, discussion about the portrayal of women in music videos, 8 to 10 p.m., Black Cultural Center.

• Bowl 4 Kids' Sake, raising money for the kids in Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa's mentoring programs, 9 to 11:30 p.m., Plaza Lanes, 2701 Douglas Ave.

• Big XII Conference on "Construction before Destruction," Iowa State University.

• Mama's Cookin', 6 p.m., Black Cultural Center.

• Night at the Movies featuring "Medea's Family Reunion," location and time to be determined.

• Pageant, 7 p.m., Pomerantz Stage, Olmsted Center.

Hoover High School students examine publications and works at the Anderson Gallery.

A total of about 250 art students from four public high schools in Des Moines toured the "Doubletake" graphic design exhibition at the Anderson Gallery and explored Drake's art studios last week, thanks to a $10,000 grant awarded to the Drake School of Fine Arts by Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino. The grant pays for buses to bring high school students to campus to experience the fine arts at Drake this spring and next fall.

"Seeing this type of exhibit allows people to be creative and get ideas," said Aaron Waseskuk, a sophomore at Hoover High School. "It allows people to get an idea of what art really is."

" Going to galleries like this expands your mind and your interests," added Jake Pyle, a senior at Hoover. "If you want to take your art further, then you can expand your views of art on a trip like this."

Cara Krug, also a senior at Hoover, was impressed with Drake's art studios. "I really liked going through classes and seeing students work on their art projects," she said.

"The exhibit at the Anderson Gallery was a total pleasure," said Mirium Alshouse, visual art curriculum coordinator for the Des Moines Public Schools. "It was professionally very satisfying to 'test' the students' visual literacy and to see them 'pass' with such ease. Clearly the art students were able to appreciate the language of visual design and delight in the creativity, clarity of ideas, and cutting edge visual communication expressed by 'high flyers' in the field. Thank you so much to the Drake faculty, staff, students and patrons that made this exhibit possible!"

Nora Wendl, director of the Anderson Gallery, was impressed with the high school students. "I was surprised by how much they were willing to discuss and participate," she said. "They had wonderful questions."
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Add a blush to a sweetheart's face while simultaneously setting his or her heart on fire by sending a Singing Valentine from the Drake University Choir.

Have talented Drake vocal students announce your love at top volume on Valentine's Day, Tuesday, Feb. 14, by delivering a song and flowers to your beloved's workplace or home.

Choose from three packages, including:

• True Romance, which offers a song and a single romantic rose for $25.
• Cupid's Favorite delivers a song and six of the finest roses for $35.
• Hopeless Romantic brings a special song and a full dozen roses for $65.

For more information or to purchase a Singing Valentine, call x3024 or visit www.drake.edu/valentines.
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Cutline: Institutional Advancement staff members pose with the Sweepstakes Award.

Drake University was named the Sweepstakes Winner at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District VI annual conference in St. Louis, Jan. 22-24.

Drake received the 2004-05 Sweepstakes Award for "Excellence in Educational Advancement." The award recognizes schools for innovation in communications in such areas as publications, special events, public relations, alumni relations and fundraising. Drake won eight awards in this year's competition and Diane Caldbeck, Drake associate vice president for institutional advancement, received the Distinguished Service Award.

The eight awards earned by Drake's Marketing and Communications office included a Grand Gold Award for "Excellence in Photography," two Gold Awards for "Excellence in Graphic Design" in support of Law School recruitment initiatives and for Opperman Lecture-related materials and three Silver Awards; three Silver Awards recognizing "Excellence in Overall Publications" for the Student Recruitment Series, "Excellence in Institutional Relations" for Drake blue cover wraps, and "Excellence in Graphic Design for a Single Logo" for the DRAKE 125 anniversary mark. Drake also garnered two Bronze Awards for "Excellence in Writing" in Drake blue and for "Excellence in Graphic Design" for the Drake blue/DRAKE 125 cover.

CASE is a professional organization for those in alumni relations, communications and philanthropy. CASE District VI comprises eight states and approximately 200 colleges and universities.
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On Saturday, Feb. 4, Frank Gilliam Jr. and Karla Burds Antonio will receive the Drake Double D Award, which is presented annually to Drake letterwinners for achievements in their chosen fields of endeavor and/or community service since leaving Drake.

The Double D Award is the highest honor Drake bestows on its student-athletes. Since its inception in 1968, the Double D Honor has been presented to 217 former Drake letterwinners.

The induction dinner will be held at 5 p.m. Saturday at Christopher's Restaurant in Beaverdale. The ceremony will be held during halftime of the Drake men's game against Creighton.

Reservations can be made for dinner by calling x1946 or by e-mailing bulldog.rsvp@drake.edu. The deadline for reservations is Tuesday, Jan. 31.

Gilliam is the associate vice chancellor for community partnerships at UCLA, overseeing the "UCLA in LA" initiative, which links the university to the greater Los Angeles community. He works with UCLA faculty and administrators to further engage the university with schools. Legislators, nonprofit and community organizations, businesses and faith-based groups across Los Angeles.

He earned his bachelor's degree from Drake in 1977 and was co-captain of the 1976 Bulldog football team as a running back. He also received a master's degree and doctoral degree in political science from the University of Iowa.

Burds Antonio, a native of Epworth, Iowa, was a women's track and cross-country standout for the Bulldogs from 1988-92. She won the individual cross-country title at the 1988 and 1989 Missouri Valley Conference Championships. She also competed in the 1989 NCAA Cross Country Championships.

She received a bachelor's degree in graphic design in 1993 and earned her master's degree in medical illustration from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

She worked for nine years as the head of the Medical Illustration Department at a prominent medical malpractice law firm in Dallas, Texas. She also coached high school cross country and track at Ursuline Academy in Dallas, Texas, where she led the track team to consecutive Texas state track titles and the cross country team to three consecutive state titles. She also coached cross country at the University of Nebraska-Kearney.
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• School of Management and Communication Executive in Residence Program: Krause Gentle/Kum & Go Co-founder and Owner W.A. Krause, 7 p.m., Bulldog Theater.

• Drake Neighborhood Improvement Task Force, 3:30 p.m., Drake Room, Olmsted Center.
• College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Development Workshop: Classroom Assessment Techniques, 3:30 to 5 p.m., room 103, Meredith Hall.
• "The Meaning of Black History Month" lecture by Wanda Everage, vice provost for academic excellence, 7 p.m., Bulldog Theater.
• Guest Recital: The Regimental Brass Quintet from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, 8 p.m., Jordan Stage, Sheslow Auditorium.

• Drake Constitutional Law Center Distinguished Lecture Series: "Constitutional Fidelity Through Children's Rights" by Emily Buss of the University of Chicago Law School, 4 p.m., room 213, Cartwright Hall.
• Season opener of "DRAKELINE WEEKLY" news program, The College Channel 16. Replays at 5 and 7 p.m.
• Black History Month: "Multicultural Fishbowl," cultural exchange event, 8 p.m., Morehouse Ballroom, Morehouse Residence Hall.

• Black History Month: Skating party, 11 p.m. to 1 a.m., $1 to get in, $2 skate rental, Skate North, 5621 Meredith Drive.

• Drake men's tennis vs. Nebraska-Kearney, 10 a.m., Drake Tennis Center.
• Drake men's tennis vs. Western Illinois, 3 p.m., Drake Tennis Center.
• Drake men's tennis vs. University of Missouri, Kansas City, 6 p.m., Drake Tennis Center.
• Drake men's basketball vs. Creighton, 7:05 p.m., Drake Knapp Center.
• Saturday, Feb. 4
• Black History Month: AIDS Awareness Fashion Show, 7:30 p.m., Parents Hall, Olmsted Center.

• Drake men's tennis vs. Chicago State, 1 p.m., Drake Tennis Center.
• Faculty Recital: Sean Flanigan, trombone, 2 p.m., Jordan Stage, Sheslow Auditorium.
• Black History Month: "The 17th National African American Read-In" celebrating James Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time," 4 p.m., Cowles Library Reading Room.

• Black History Month: Poetry Slam, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Cool Beans, Olmsted Center.