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SAFC NEWS
New Women’s Resource Center
by: Betsy Dendy
The old Commuter Lounge beside the
faculty mailboxes in the LA Building has a new
look and a new purpose. The newly remodeled
space is now the Women’s Resource Center.
The space is intended to be used in a variety
of ways. It can be reserved for small, seminar-
type classes or for club meetings. It is also a
great place to hang out between classes for a
few minutes or to eat lunch while visiting with
friends. In addition, the room is home to books
and journals on women’s and gender issues.
These resources can be checked out to use for
class work or personal reading. There are also
resources available with information about local
organization such as the Domestic Violence
and Rape Crisis Center of Scotland County. The
bulletin board in the WRC will post upcoming
activities for the Women’s Issues Club.
Congratulation Dr.. David Bell!
Congratulations are order for Dr. David
Bell, his first ever novel THE CONDEMNED is
set to be published in January., and to rave pre
pub reviews. The publisher is Delirium Books,
and it will be released in both hard and paper
cover.
We are very excited about this, and wish
Dr. David Bell good luck.
David will read from it at Writers’ Forum early
Spring Semester.
It is already being celebrated in Japan, I
was astounded and delighted to see when I was
wandering on the inter-net. Talk about a run
ning start!
New Books at DeTamble Library:
Print Books can be found on the New Book
shelf in front of the Library Lounge and the
Electronic books can be checked out from
NelLibrary.
If you don't have a NetLibrary account, just
come by the Library and we will be more than
happy to help you set one up.
Here is what Jack Ketchum, author
of THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, says about it:
“Bell’s is an impressive debut.” Greg Gil-
fune exudes: “David Jack Bell’s THE CON
DEMNED is ... .as socially relevant as it is bru
tal and horrifying...(It) will undoubtedly secure
Bell’s position as an electrifying new voice in
the genre.” And Ed Gorman: “David Jack Bell
is the real deal...”
New Women’s Studies Minor:
Info for Women’s Studies Minor
18 hours (minimum of 9 upper level
hours)
3 Required Courses;
WS 101 - Intro to Women’s and Gender
Studies
WS 200 - Feminist Theory
WS 400 - Senior Thesis Project
Other courses chosen from approved
courses (including Women Writ
ers, The Politics of Sex, Religion and
Gender Studies, and Sex, Gender and
Religion)or courses allowing concentra
tion areas (Southern Studies,
Medieval Literature, Ethics, Bad Behavior, and
more). See the catalog or the SAPC web site for
details.
For more information contact Betsy Dendy
5259.
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Gravity Hill ,
now accepting all kinds of
creative work, including
but not limited to:
short stories, poems,
and artwork.
Submission Deadline: December 1st
Submissions or questions can be
addressed to Kime
Neal, Editor, at nealke@sapc.edu.
Previous issues available in the
St Andrews College Press office.
Laura J. Arwood:
Associate Professor of Biology and
North Carolina native Laura Arwood is no
stranger to St. Andrews, having served as As
sistant Professor of Biology from 1994-1998.
“After being away for almost ten years, I
jumped at the chance to come back to St.
Andrews because of what the school and the
community meant to me when I worked here
before,” she said. “St. Andrews was my first
professional academic px)sition. I might have
earned two degrees from N.C. State, but the
most tangible lessons about how to be a profes
sor were learned right here.”
Although she is a life-long Carolina fan,
Arwood received her B.S. in Animal Science
and her Ph.D. in Genetics with a minor in Bio
technology from North Carolina State Univer
sity. She received a postdoctoral fellowship
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in Cell and Molecular Biology frx)m the How
ard Hughes Medical Institute at the University
of Chicago, where she stayed from 1989 until
1993. From there she spent a year as a staff
scientist at the Science Museum of Virginia in
Richmond. Va., before coming to St. Andrews.
She has also worked as an assistant professor
of biology at Marist College in Poughkeepsie,
N.Y., and lecturer at Vassar College, also in
Poughkeepsie.
Those specializations have provided her
with the opportunity to teach several unique
courses over the years.
“My first love is genetics, which I began
teaching in graduate school and still do to this
day,” Arwood said. “Other favorite courses I
teach for biology majors include biotechnology,
molecular cell biology and microbiology.
For non-majors. I’ve taught a human genetics
course and a course on AIDS from scientific,
cultural and political perspectives.”
Arwood helped to create a forensic sci
ence course in 1997, which served as a spark
that is now a fire in the form of a forensic
science major that will see 10 graduates in the
class of 2008.
“I am especially proud of a little non
majors forensic science course I helped develop
for 1997 the Winter Term at SAPC with Dr.
Pam Ely of the psychology department,” she
said. “From that humble beginning. Dr. Ely
and Dr. Mike Morton (chemistry department)
have built a thriving forensic science major. I’m
excited that I will get to come full circle by of
fering a forensic biotechnology class as part of
that major in the future.”
Dedicated to the work before her at St.
Andrews, Arwood enjoys swimming, horseback
riding and watching ACC basketball in her
spare time. If not in the collegiate setting