In Brief
Lax tix available for faculty, staff and students with
J-cards
The men's
lacrosse season gets under
way next week, when the Blue Jays face off against the
University of Pennsylvania at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 28,
on Homewood Field. Other home games this year pit the Blue
Jays against Princeton, Albany, Syracuse, North Carolina,
Maryland and Towson.
Faculty and staff can pick up their two complimentary
season's passes beginning on Wednesday, Feb. 18, by
bringing their J-card to the Athletic Center's main office
between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays.
Again this year, students also must have tickets to
attend games. J-cards must be shown to obtain the tickets,
which can be picked up in the Athletic Center's main office
beginning on Monday of game week, or in the lobby of the
Athletic Center on game day.
For questions about tickets, call 410-516-7490. For
the season schedule, go to
http://hopkinssports.ocsn.com.
Honor goes to SAIS prof's book on national security
studies
Eliot Cohen, director of the SAIS
Strategic Studies Program, has been
awarded the first Huntington Prize for his book Supreme
Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in
Wartime.
Administered by the John M. Olin Institute for
Strategic Studies at Harvard University, the prize
recognizes the best book published each year in the field
of national security studies. The book can be a work of
history or political science, or a work by a statecraft
practitioner. The prize honors renowned political scientist
Samuel P. Huntington, the Albert J. Weatherhead III
University Professor at Harvard and author of Clash of
Civilizations and the Remaking of World
Order.
"This book speaks to our time by laying forth the
enduring dimensions of the interactions between great
leaders of democracies and their senior military officers,"
wrote the Huntington Prize Committee. "Supreme
Command is an excellent example of the policy-relevant
scholarship long encouraged by Samuel P. Huntington."
Supreme Command, published in June 2002 by Free
Press, examines leadership in wartime, specifically the
tension between civilian and military leadership. The book
has been or is being translated into Chinese, Hebrew,
Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish.
'Acoustic Urban Blues' set for Wednesday Noon
Series
The sounds of Acoustic Urban Blues will fill Shriver
Hall at noon on Wendesday, Feb. 18, when Chic Street Man
takes the stage for a musical performance.
Chic Street Man's music is rooted in the blues, but he
branches out to reggae, acoustic funk, cat-gut jazz and
folk. His musical goal, he says, is to share his message of
equality and racial harmony while motivating listeners to
laugh and think about their relationship to the larger
world.
Presented in observance of Black History Month, this
program is part of the Office of
Special Events' Wednesday Noon Series. For more
information, call 443-287-9900.
Johns Hopkins women perform 'Vagina Monologues' for V
Day
Twenty-one female students and staff members will
present three benefit performances of Eve Ensler's
award-winning play The Vagina Monologues this week
on the Homewood campus. The performances
are scheduled for 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 19, Friday,
Feb. 20, and Saturday, Feb 21, and for 7 p.m. on
Sunday, Feb. 22 in Levering Hall's Arellano Theater.
The Johns Hopkins production is among those at 1,000
college campuses as part of the V Day 2004 College
Campaign, a global movement to stop violence against women
and girls. V Day, a nonprofit corporation, distributes
funds to grassroots, national and international programs to
increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit
of existing antiviolence groups.
The Johns Hopkins women — a diverse group of
undergraduate and graduate students and staff members from
the Homewood, Peabody and East Baltimore campuses —
are dedicating all proceeds to the House of Ruth, a
domestic violence shelter in Baltimore. Last year, V Day
JHU 2003 raised $3,000 for the House of Ruth and
TurnAround, another domestic violence shelter in
Baltimore.
Tickets are $10 for the general public; $5 for Johns
Hopkins students with ID. Tickets may be purchased or
reserved by e-mailing
vdayjhu2@jhu.edu. For more information, e-mail producer
Leah Miller at
LRM@jhu.edu.
JHPIEGO recognizes Suzanne Mubarak, first lady of
Egypt
Leslie Mancuso, chief executive officer of
JHPIEGO, recently
returned from Egypt, where she conferred JHPIEGO's Leader
in Health Award to Suzanne Mubarak, first lady of Egypt.
The award was created in 2003 to celebrate JHPIEGO's
30th anniversary by honoring those who are working to
improve the health of women and their families around the
world.
Mubarak, one of seven inaugural honorees, was
recognized for a recently launched initiative against
female genital mutilation and the establishment in 2000 of
the National Council for Women to improve the social status
of Egyptian women, as well as earlier achievements.
JHPIEGO is currently engaged in a project in Egypt
through the Ministry of Higher Education under sanctioning
from Egypt's 2000 National Conference on Higher Education
to work with the government to strengthen the national
medical and nursing school curricula, improve teaching
strategies and improve the use of communication
technologies to better prepare students to enter the
medical and nursing fields. Egypt currently has 17 medical
schools graduating more than 8,000 physicians a year and 11
nursing schools training 1,200 nurses a year.
An inside look at U.S. efforts to rebuild Iraq's national
library
Mary-Jane Deeb, an author and media commentator who
led a Library of Congress mission to Baghdad, will describe
efforts to rebuild that nation's library system in a talk
this week at Evergreen House. The event is sponsored by the
Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries.
Deeb, the Arab World Area specialist at the Library of
Congress, will speak on the topic "The Library of Congress
Mission to Baghdad: Assisting with the Reconstruction of
Iraq's National Library" at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 18. A
wine and cheese reception will precede the lecture at 5
p.m.
Deeb has worked for the United Nations Economic Commission
for Western Asia, UNICEF, Amideast and the U.S. Agency for
International Development in Beirut. She also served as a
U.N. observer for the June 1997 Algerian legislative
elections.
She received her doctorate in international relations
from SAIS and her bachelor's and master's degrees in
sociology and anthropology from the American University in
Cairo.
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