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Words from the Chair

John Maynor

Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro

Vol. 16, No. 1 Fall 2004

The PoliticalScience De-partmentopened thenew yearwith anotherfull-timefaculty mem-ber but stillwith classesbursting atthe seams.Enrollment isundoubtedlygetting a

presidential election year bump that isfairly common for the major, but it alsoappears to be reflecting an increasinglysteady demand for departmental classesand for classes at the University in gen-eral. Enrollment appears also to havebeen positively affected by the lotteryscholarships that are now available toin-state students with appropriategrades and standardized test scores.

Many of you will know that in January2004 MTSU opened the Paul W. MartinSr. Honors Building, the new home ofthe first Honors College in Tennessee.The department is doing its part toexpand offerings in the Honors Collegeto take advantage of the new facility.

You will see that faculty members andstudents in the department continue tobe busy. Faculty members continuepresenting papers and publishing booksand articles. Students have distin-guished themselves in Mock Trial, Me-diation, and Model U.N. competitions.

Some of you may know that MTSUundertook major curricular reforms over

the past year. Except for the major inPolitical Science with teacher licensure,students can now complete all pro-grams within the department with 120hours of coursework (most had previ-ously required 132 hours). Consistentwith requirements in other public col-leges and universities throughout thestate, the General Education require-ment at MTSU now requires six hoursof social/behavioral science rather thanthree. This has undoubtedly also con-tributed to the department�s increasedenrollment.

On a sadder note, the department losttwo alumni on the battlefield since lastyear�s newsletter. They were KenBallard and Pierre Piche.

The department is once again exploringthe possibility of initiating a master�sdegree in political science. The Tennes-see Board of Regents put an earlierproposal on hold but now seems recep-tive to this idea. Given our prior experi-ence, I hesitate to get any hopes up,but we would certainly like to hearfrom individuals who might be inter-ested in pursuing such a program werewe able to initiate it.

We continue to appreciate those of youwho are sponsoring individual scholar-ships or who have donated money tothe department over the last year. Youmight know that one standard that usedin many college and university rankingsis based on the percentage of alumniwho contribute to the institution eachyear. We certainly consider your contri-butions as testimonies to the value that

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John R. Vile

Welcome toJohn MaynorWe are pleased to welcome Dr.John Maynor to the department. Dr.Maynor earned his B.A. in politicalscience from Millsaps College, hisM.A. in political philosophy andcomparative politics and govern-ment from George WashingtonUniversity, and his D.Phil. from theUniversity of York. He has beenteaching in Great Britain since get-ting his degree and has published abook titled Republicanism in theModern World as well as a numberof articles. Visitors to the depart-ment should be able instantly torecognize Dr. Maynor when theyhear the only professor who speakswith a Southern English accent!

Dr. Maynor and his wife have anew baby boy, Elias, who was bornon April 3.In additionto intro-ductoryclasses,Dr. Maynorwill behelpingDr. RobbMcDanielby pickingup theincreasingload inpoliticaltheory andthe senior seminar. Enrollment inthese and other classes are at arecord high.

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you place on the education that youreceived here, and we do our best tosee that such contributions are spent inthe ways you ask. We have especiallyappreciated unrestricted contributions,which often allow us to meet specialneeds that arise but for which we haveno allocations.

I very much appreciate the responsesthat we continue to receive from ournewsletter. Unfortunately, I often fileyour responses away in a single folderand only review them prior to writing anewsletter. I see that a number of youasked for information. I apologize fornot responding. I will try to keep betterindividual track of your responses overthe next year.

John R. Vile, ChairDepartment of Political Science

Legal Help Wanted!MTSU will hold its annual InvitationalTournament on November 12 and 13.As in the past, we desperately needalumni with law school experienceand/or law degrees to help judge whathas become the largest such invita-tional tournament in the nation.

Please e-mail either Dr. John Vile atjvile@mtsu.edu or Dr. Clyde Willis atcewillis@mtsu.edu if you are availableto help.

Words continued from page 1 Byrnes Wins Seat on School BoardDr. Mark Byrnes won a seat on the RutherfordCounty School Board in early August by winning39% of the vote in Zone 6 among four rivals, thenext highest of whom won 33% of the vote.Byrnes, who has three children, noted that he isn�ttaking his post with a �preconceived agenda� butthat he hopes to be �a good team member on theboard.� Mark, who spent a good deal of time put-ting up yard signs and visiting constituents door-to-door, found that the experience of campaigninggives him a unique appreciation for others whohave won posts in Tennessee government.

Journalist Anne Garrels AddressesPolitical Science ClassDr. Anne Sloan began her opening day of The PoliticalStatus of Women in the World with a guest appearanceby Ms. Anne Garrels, who spoke on the role of women inIraq. Garrells has been a foreign correspondent for Na-tional Public Radio since 1988 and has received numerousawards and recognitions including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and the Overseas Press ClubAward. The author of Naked in Baghdad (2003), Garrellsalso spoke at the University convocation.

Tennessee Supreme Court Visits CampusMembers of the Tennessee Supreme Court visited the campus last fall as part of theSCALES project to hear arguments in a case that was attended by students from areahigh schools as well as students in selected political science classes.

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Meet the Vice-President

Former vice president Al Gore Jr., sonof an MTSU alumnus, met in the Hon-ors College with about 20 political sci-ence students for an hour and a halflecture on Monday, March 15, and led aconversation on civic engagement andthe environment. Largely due to theefforts of Dr. Norman Parks and Dr.David Grubbs, the University continuesto serve as the primary repository forthe papers of Al Gore Sr., who servedfor many years as a U.S. Senator fromTennessee.

American DemocracyProjectSeveral members of the department areactively involved in the AmericanDemocracy Project, which is beingsponsored by the Office of the Execu-tive Vice President and Provost. Dr.Mark Byrnes is faculty coordinator forthis project, which is designed toincrease knowledge about and participa-tion in politics among college-agestudents. The project has included astudent voter registration drive in mid-September.

Academic PerformanceAwardFor the fourth consecutive year, thedepartment has received an AcademicPerformance Award for our graduates�outstanding performance on the 2003�04 major field test. We appreciate theseriousness with which our studentshave taken this test. The recognitioncomes with a much-needed $2,500 forthe department�s travel budget.

Tribute to Department�s FallenCaptain Pierre E.Piche (2000), anative of Vermont,died in combat ina helicopter crashin Iraq on Novem-ber 15, 2003. Anexcellent andmild-manneredstudent, the yearhe graduated heearned the highestscore of any politi-cal science stu-dent on his exitexam. He wascommissioned thatsame year and

attended the Infantry Officer Basic Course at Fort Benning, Georgia. During theoffensive phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom, he provided direct support mainte-nance to the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, later supporting them on their trip toMosul. During his service, he won the Army Commendation Medal, the ArmyAchievement Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, and the National Defense ServiceMedal. Piche was trained in Airborne and Air Assault. He is survived by his wife,Cherish Piche, his mother, Lisa Johnson, and his father, Peter Piche.

Lieutenant Ken Ballard (2002) was killed by small armsfire on May 30, 2004, in Najaf, Iraq, where he wasserving with the 1st Armored Division. He came toMTSU on a Green to Gold Army Scholarship and partici-pated in ROTC and on the Model U.N. team. He was aSpecial Forces tank commander and a platoon leaderwho had been serving in Iraq for just over a year. Anative of California, he had previously served in Bosnia,Macedonia, and Germany, and he had won a BronzeStar for Meritorious Service. His fraternity brothers at theSigma Phi Epsilon house held a memorial service in hishonor. Dr. Anne Sloan delivered a eulogy in which shedescribed Ken as �bright, brash, very funny, and some-times irreverent.� Ken is credited with saving the livesof men in two platoons the day he was killed, and he has been recommended foranother Bronze Star for his action on that occasion. He was buried in ArlingtonCemetery.

African Studies MinorLargely due to the fine work of Dr. Moses Tesi, the University now offers aninterdisciplinary minor in African Studies. Other minors in which the departmentparticipates include African American Studies, Women�s Studies, Global Studies,Early Modern European Studies, Great Books, Russian Studies (headed byDr. Andrei Korobkov), and Film Studies.

MTSU ROTC cadet corps members shovel dirt as they plant a tree inremembrance of Capt. Piche.

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STUDENT NEWSDepartmental ScholarshipsFour students will be receiving CharlesR. Ray scholarships for this fall. Theyare senior Melanie McDavid, juniorMike Jackson, sophomore Stacy Bad-ger, and freshman Brittany Mebane.Brittany, the latest recipient, graduatedfrom Gleason High School, where shewas involved in numerous extracurricu-lar activities and had a 4.0 grade pointaverage.

This year�s recipient of the Harry HorneInternational Relations Scholarship isAmy Taylor from DeKalb County HighSchool. She has been interested ininternational relations since the seventhgrade and hopes one day to work ei-ther as an ambassador or at the UnitedNations.

Departmental Awards

Five studentsreceived depart-mentalawards atthe annualLiberal ArtsAwards Cer-emony thisyear. AspenStewart receivedthe Norman ParksAward; Patrick Chinnery received theC. C. Sims Award; Jennifer Gregoryreceived the John W. Burgess Award;Katherine Legare received the JackJustin Turner Award; and Ashley Haunreceived the Meritorious ServiceAward.

Current Students

Jason Crook, a senior majoring in Po-litical Science, attended a retreat inVermont in June 2004 sponsored byAmericans for Informed Democracy.Jason, who is a congressional staff aidefor Representative Bart Gordon, isworking on sponsoring a teleconfer-ence with a mid-Eastern university inOctober. MTSU is one of three univer-sities in the nation (the others are theUniversity of Chicago and the Univer-

sity of Iowa) that have been asked tosponsor this event.

Markisha Vaughn (2003) captured thenovice division championship at Wash-ington University�s (St. Louis) DanforthInvitational Debate Tournament heldNovember 14�16, 2003. Markisha alsoplaced first in the individual rankings atthe tournament.

Marshall Weber, a junior Political Sci-ence major in the Pre-law concentra-tion, spent last year studying at theLorenzo d�Medici Institute in Florence,Italy, under the auspices of FairfieldUniversity. As part of an internationalrelations course, he took a trip to Brus-

When I left the U.S. for the ThirdInternational Student Symposium inPrague, I was a frightened, untraveledAmerican student whose only experi-ence with international relations camefrom a textbook. In Prague, I metwith other American students whowere equally inexperienced as well asequally curious about the world. Imet Czech students who regarded uswith as much interest and curiosity aswe regarded them. I also met othertruly amazing individuals who eachhad something to teach me about lifeand about the world: a young Afghaniwoman who had fled Kabul severalyears ago when the Taliban discov-ered that she had been running anillegal school for women from herhome; a professor of political scienceand former anti-Communist dissident;and the director of the study sympo-sium, Agnieszka Critchlow, who grewup in Communist Poland beforeAmerican citizens adopted her. She

created the International Student Sym-posium in order to provide an environ-ment in which students from all cul-tures and walks of life could cometogether and learn�about each other,about politics, and about the world.

That is precisely what I experienced atthe symposium in Prague this summer.Ordinarily obsessed with Americanpolitics, for the week that I was inPrague I was immersed in Europeanpolitics. Through discussions with otherstudents, with professors, and with avariety of diplomats, I learned the verybasics of the incredibly complex rela-tions between European Union (EU)member states as well as between theEU and the nonmember states. Re-moved from the geographical, cultural,and political isolation of the UnitedStates, I became a global citizen. TheInternational Student Symposium haschanged me forever.

�Shana Hammaker

Senior Shana Hammaker presented a paper at the Third International Student Sympo-sium this summer in Prague. In addition to the department, the Office of Sponsored Pro-grams and the dean of the College of Liberal Arts supplied financial support for this trip.She has written the following short essay on her experience.

Giving a Student Paperat an International Symposium

sels to see the European Union Parlia-ment. Fatima Badreddine, a sopho-more pre-law student, took a course inBritish security and foreign policy overthe summer in London in conjunctionwith a Kentucky consortium.

Jeremy Allen, a senior InternationalRelations major and AFROTC student,presented the colors at a leadershipluncheon given by the Nashville Cham-ber of Commerce on August 31 hostingGeneral Richard B. Myers, chairman ofthe Joint Chiefs of Staff. Allen had theopportunity to talk personally to GeneralMyers at this event.

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Pi Sigma AlphaMTSU�s chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political sci-ence honor society, is advised by Dr. Robb McDaniel. Thechapter has inducted a record number of students over thepast year. Inductees, who are required to have 3.2 majorGPAs and be in the top third of their classes, include thefollowing: Adedoyin O. Adeyeye, James M. Arnold, ThomasM. Beasley, Rebecca L. Benedetti, Jamie C. Bosch, Joy C.Carroll, Patrick W. Chinnery, Justin A. Coler, Stacey R.

Students Attend National Nominating ConventionsThree political science students attended the Democratic National Convention that met in Boston in July. They were AntwonBailey, senior; Christy Holden, junior; and Bobby Bush, freshman.

Three students with connections to the department also attended the Republican National Convention in New York in late Au-gust and early September. They were Justin Owen, senior; Ashley Elizabeth Graham, senior; and Tyler Smith, a senior MassCommunication major with a Political Science minor. Below are short, edited reports from two of the attendees.

Report from the DemocraticConvention!Fellow officers of the CollegeDemocrats and I were privileged toattend the 2004 Democratic Con-vention in Boston, along with sev-eral other thousand college students. Inaddition, the MTSU College Democratsattended the Gains Training Program, de-signed to heighten and professionalize ourpolitical skills.

Perhaps the most valuable lesson I learned in Boston was theability to facilitate a quintessential College Democrat chapterwith the resources to implement activities such as canvassing,phone banking, and getting out the vote, which are essentialto furthering one�s political beliefs. We also learned the valueof teamwork. We learned what we can accomplish when weutilize our respective strengths to make our organization stron-ger. We learned that teamwork involves working with thosewho agree on big issues while negotiating lesser issues in amanner that is sensitive to all.

Robert F. Kennedy once said, �Some people see things asthey are and ask why; I dream of things that never were andask why not?� I left Boston with this feeling. By listening tothe inspiring words of Bill Clinton, John Kerry, and MaxCleland, I now feel as if I too have the power not just to askwhy not, but, more important, to make dreams come true.America has the potential to do better, and with the experi-ence we received in Boston, America will do better!

Bobby Bush

Report from the RepublicanConvention!The fourth and final night of the convention was the mostsuspenseful and energetic, as Republicans from all acrossAmerica heard the president lay out his plans for a secondterm. The president appeared just after 10:00 p.m. �Mr.Chair, delegates, fellow citizens: I am honored by your sup-port, and I accept your nomination for president of theUnited States,� he said as he opened to an eruption ofcheers. He proceeded to outline his agenda for the next fouryears. He discussed his plan to continue improving ournation�s education system, challenging the �soft bigotry of lowexpectation� that thwarts advancement in certain areas. Healso recounted his economic success, clarifying his vision formore individual ownership and personal responsibility forretirement and health care plans. Bush reassured Americansthat he would defend them against terrorism at all costs while

spreading liberty and democracy abroadin order to preserve freedom here athome.

Overall, the Republican Conventionwas one of hope, focusing on thepossibilities of the future ratherthan on the failed policies of thepast. Now that both candidates

have presented their visions to theAmerican people, the issues themselves will be in the spot-light. The election promises to be one of the most importantand vigorous in quite some time.

Justin Owen

Couser, Christopher N. Davis, Luke E. Dickerson, SelenaL. Flatt, Michael C. Gillespie, Vanya H. Greer, Kevin J.Griffith, Jennifer Gregory, A. Ensley Hagan, Ashley C.Haun, Stephanie M. Hill, Luke R. Kellum, Timothy M.Lord, Michelle P. McKinley, John C. Miller, Whitney L.Quarles, David P. Sprouse, Jared M. Stiefel, Vanessa J.Vaupel, and Ashley Wilson. Congratulations to one and all!

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FACULTY NEWSDr. Mark Byrnes, who now has threechildren in area schools, succeeded incapturing a seat on the RutherfordCounty School Board in an election heldin August. He is heading the AmericanDemocracy Project on campus, which isdesigned to increase student participa-tion in political activities. In the spring of2004, Dr. Byrnes had a noninstructionalassignment to do research on a book onthe lives of ex-presidents.

Dr. David Carleton served last year aspresident of the Tennessee Political Sci-ence Association. He continues to beactively engaged in legislative activity onbehalf of gifted students within thestate: serving on a committee appointedby Governor Bredesen, lobbying, draft-ing legislation, formulating a gifted edu-cation endorsement, and addressinggroups of parents with similar interests.

Dr. Sekou Franklin served as a panelistat meetings of the Southwest LaborStudies Association, the Popular CulturalAssociation, and a seminar sponsored bythe Congressional Black Caucus Founda-tion Leadership Institute. He lectured atVillanova University and received a re-search grant from the William T. GrantFoundation for his study �Policing andProtesting Juvenile Justice Inequality.�He has been appointed to the ExecutiveCouncil of the National Conference ofBlack Political Scientists and to the Boardof Directors of Human Values for Trans-formative Action.

Dr. Andrei Korobkov has published amonograph titled State- and Nation-Building Policies and the New Trends inMigration in the Former Soviet Union aspart of the Carl Beck Papers in Russianand East European Studies. He has alsopublished a chapter titled �The Post-Soviet Transition and the New Trends inMigration� in Post-Communist Countries

in the Globalizing World. His article �TheChanges in the Migration Patterns in thePost-Soviet States: The First Decade�was accepted for publication by theJournal of Communist and Post-Commu-nist Studies and will be published in theDecember 2004 issue of that journal.He presented papers in October 2003 inRussia, in March 2004 in Montreal, andin July 2004 in Salzburg, Austria. He alsoreceived a grant to participate in March2004 in a conference in Washington,D.C., sponsored by the Kennan Institutefor Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. Heserves as the Post-Communist Studiesprogram chair for the 2005 InternationalStudies Association annual meeting. Heis working on a book titled MigrationAspects of the Post-Soviet Transition.

Dr. Lisa Langenbach continues to ad-vance departmental frontiers in teachingclasses online, through correspondence,and as part of the Regents Online De-gree Program. She received her CertifiedOnline Instructor designation this pastfall. She supervised twenty-one depart-mental interns over the last year. Shehas continued a variety of volunteeractivities in schools in Franklin, Tennes-see, and with the Boy Scouts and taughtin the Merit Badge University, whichwas held on the MTSU campus.

Dr. Steven Livingston has continuedediting Global Commerce. He presenteda paper in February at the meeting ofthe Academy of Economics and Financein Biloxi, Mississippi, and at the Interna-tional Symposium on Globalization andUrbanization in Nashville. He served ona number of University committees andtraveled to France as part of theCherbourg-MTSU Internship Develop-ment and Faculty/Business Exchanges.

Dr. Robb McDaniel was selected aspresident of the Tennessee Political Sci-ence Association. About half thedepartment�s faculty members wereable to attend his wedding to ElizabethJones (a department alumna) at theGordon Lee Mansion in Chickamauga,Georgia, on May 22, 2004. Robb and Lizhoneymooned on the West Coast.

Dr. John Maynor�sbook, Republican-ism in the ModernWorld (Cambridge:Polity Press, 2003)was favorablyreviewed in theJune 2004 issue ofPerspectives onPolitics, publishedby the AmericanPolitical ScienceAssociation. This might be a good timeto get in line for autographed copies!

Dr. Mario Perez-Reilly is back to teach-ing after a semester leave for healthreasons. He visited a daughter in Italyfrom June 14 to June 30 and collectedmaterials on various Italian republicssuch as Lucca, Siena, Florence, andLivorno for his class in comparative Euro-pean politics.

Dr. Anne Sloan attended a conferenceat the University of Minnesota for inter-nationalizing the curriculum. She is serv-ing both as an associate dean of LiberalArts and as special assistant to the pro-vost for international education. Thespecial assistant position is part of aninitiative on the part of President SidneyMcPhee and Provost Kaylene Gebert tobroaden the University�s commitment tointernationalizing the curriculum andproviding more opportunities for MTSUstudents to travel abroad. Sloan wasinducted into the Phi Kappa Phi honorsociety on April 27, 2004.

Dr. Moses Tesi continues to edit theJournal of African Policy Studies. He pre-pared a chapter on the Ivory Coast for areference volume titled Governments ofthe World. In April he presented a paperat the Academy of African Business andDevelopment Conference in Atlanta,Georgia. Tesi recently published an essaytitled �Cameroon�s Endangered Environ-ment: Economic Policy and Forest Loss�in Agenda Setting and Public Policy inAfrica, ed. by Kelechi A. Kalu(Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004).

Dr. George Vernardakis attended theannual meeting of the American Society

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of Public Administration. He served overthe past year as a member of the Uni-versity faculty Career AchievementCommittee and on the Academic AffairsCommittee of the Faculty Senate. Hevisited Cyprus over the summer.

Dr. John R.Vile publisheda number ofessays andarticles.Rowman andLittlefield pub-lished his Sum-maries of Lead-ing Cases of theConstitution(coauthoredwith Joseph F.Menez) inMarch; thiswas the fourteenth (fiftieth anniversary)edition of this long-established classic.Vile organized political science panelsfor a Faculty Leadership Conference thathe attended in Alexandria, Virginia, inJune. He participated in a scholars con-ference sponsored by the Center forCivic Education in California in Januaryand addressed a high school facultyseminar on the U.S. Constitution inChattanooga this July. M. E. Sharpe ispublishing his three-volume Civil Liber-ties in America (coauthored with DavidSchultz), to which scores of scholars,including a number of members of theMTSU Political Science Department,have contributed this fall (it might evenbe available by the time this newsletteris published). He has recently submittedthe two-volume The Constitutional Con-vention of 1787: A Comprehensive Ency-clopedia of America's Founding to ABC-CLIO for publication on or before July 4,2005.

Dr. Clyde Willis coached anotherMediation team to fourth place at theannual national tournament at the JohnMarshall Law School in Chicago. Hecontinues to supervise the activities ofMediation Services of Middle Tennessee,Inc. He and wife Irena took a trip toRussia to visit her family in earlysummer.

Former Faculty MembersImogene Bolin continues the practice oflaw in Smyrna. Erin Walker, a seniorpolitical science major with a pre-lawemphasis, is working in her office.

Dr. Everett Cunningham continues tokeep track of current events. He took atrip to South America over the last year.

Dr. Frank Essex continues to reside inMurfreesboro.

Dr. David Grubbs joined a grandson ona trip to Germany over the summer,during which he did research on familygenealogy.

Mrs. Vivian Parks, widow of Dr.Norman Parks, was hospitalized for a hipinjury but is recovering nicely.

Dr. Jack Turner continues to split histime between houses in Tennessee andKentucky.

Dr. Tom VanDervort is becoming in-creasing adept at his woodworking; ex-amples of his beautiful work were onsale at a craft�s fair in Woodbury August14�15. Tom continues to help withMTSU�s Mock Trial program. The depart-ment extends condolences to Dr.VanDervort in the loss of two brothers,Carleton and Bob, over the summer.

Meet the Adjuncts!The Department of Political Sciencedepends chiefly on full-time faculty, butwe also rely on adjuncts to teach special-ized courses (especially in paralegal stud-ies) and to meet demand in introductoryclasses.

Adjuncts for the fall include the follow-ing:

Jay Barger is teaching Legal Writing andResearch. A department alumnus, heearned his J.D. from the University ofTennessee and is employed by Kiousand Rodgers.

Carrie Beth Catron is teaching Law andthe Legal System. An MTSU alumna, sheearned her J.D. from the University ofTennessee.

David Hudson is teaching Legal Writingand Research. A graduate of Duke Uni-versity and the Vanderbilt Law School,he is a research attorney with the Free-dom Forum First Amendment Center atVanderbilt. He has an extensive recordof publications and speeches.

Michael Mc Donald is teaching Litiga-tion. He is an MTSU alumnus whoearned his master�s degree from South-ern Illinois University and his J.D. fromthe John Marshall Law School. He servedfor more than ten years as the adminis-trator of elections for the DavidsonCounty Election Commission.

Stacy Miller is teaching Family Law. Sheis a graduate of Northwestern Universitywho earned a master�s degree from SanFrancisco State University and a J.D.from the Nashville School of Law. Sheworks with the Department of Children�sServices.

Morgan Minch Desposito is teaching aFoundations of Government class. Shegraduated from Belmont University andearned a master�s degree in internationalrelations from Troy State University.

Steve Robertson is teaching two sec-tions of Foundations of Government anda Women and the Law course. He is analumnus of the MTSU Political ScienceDepartment and has done graduate workat Vanderbilt University.

Steve Saunders is teaching two sectionsof American Government and Politicsand a section of American Foreign Policy.He has a bachelor�s and a master�s de-gree from Ohio State University and hasextensive experience as a magazineeditor. He spent a good bit of the sum-mer fishing off the coast of Alaska. Steveis married to Dr. Anne Sloan.

Brandi Snow Bozarth is teaching LegalCourtroom Procedure. She is a PoliticalScience alumna and earned her lawdegree from the University of Dayton.She is married to Shiva Bozarth, anotherdepartment alum.

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InternsLegislativeDr. Mark Byrnes continues to supervisethe legislative and related internshipprogram. Aspen Stewart and JulieBandy worked last year in thegovernor�s office, Andre Carpenterworked in the house clerk�s office, andWhitney Quarles worked for the Ten-nessee Board of Regents.

Additional students worked directlywith state legislators. They wereJonathan Appleby, who worked forSenator Mae Beavers; Holly Barnard,who worked for Senator Jim Kyle; JohnMiller, who worked for Senator DougHenry; Lauren Nickas, who worked forRepresentative Ben West; JasonSearles, who worked for Senator JerryCooper; and Ashley Wilson, whoworked for Representative LeslieWinningham. Additional students whoworked for state legislators includedBridget Baggett, who worked in theoffice of Senator Bill Ketron; CrystalBaker, who worked in the office ofRepresentative Charles Sargent; BrookePonder, who worked in the office ofRepresentative John Hood; Erika Ruch,who worked in the office of Represen-tative Kent Coleman; Richard Smith,who worked for Senator Larry Trail; andSarai Spray, who worked for Repre-sentative Curt Cobb.

Other InternsFall 2003Dr. Lisa Langenbach has been respon-sible for supervising an increasing num-ber of interns in a wide variety of place-ments. Fall interns included

Rachel Thompson, State of TennesseeDivision of Water Pollution Control

Tiffany Krebs, Metro Nashville PublicSchools, purchasing department

Jeff Peach, Smyrna town manager�soffice

Spring 2004Interns who worked in the spring of2004 include the following students andplacements:

Sam Adams, Congressman BartGordon�s Murfreesboro office

Shannon Babian, Tennessee LegislationService

Robert Blackwell, Senator LamarAlexander�s Washington, D.C. Office

Abby Blanks, Tennessee DemocraticParty, Nashville

Joshua Burlison, Williamson CountyTrustee�s Office

Michael Cooper, Rutherford CountyElection Commission

Christy Holden, Tennessee DemocraticParty, Nashville

Tim Lord, Tennessee Department ofCommerce and Insurance

Ryan Lorimer, Governor PhilBredesen�s office and DeputyGovernor�s office

Amanda Newman, Congressman BartGordon�s Murfreesboro Office

Alexander Timberlake, DeputyChildren�s Services for RutherfordCounty

Summer 2004Interns supervised by Dr. Langenbach inthe summer of 2004 included the fol-lowing:

Kyle Bacon, United States Departmentof State, U.S. Embassy, Tokyo

Dylen Brown, Majority Whip RoyBlunt�s office in the U.S. House ofRepresentatives and the Washington,D.C., office of Senator Bill Frist

Justin Brown, State RepresentativeDennis J. Ferguson

Chelsea Nicholson, Congressman BartGordon�s Murfreesboro office

Gary Schneider, Department of Veter-ans Affairs, Alvin York Center

Melanie Sisco, Williamson CountyTrustee�s Office

Daniel Stegal, Rutherford CountyRegional Planning Commission

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SurveyGraduates in International Relations and Political Science

Middle Tennessee State University, MurfreesboroThe Department has decided to repeat its survey of last year. We are particularly interested in getting information fromindividuals who did not respond last year or in hearing of developments since that time. Your response will help theDepartment assess its current strengths and weaknesses and will provide information for our next newsletter.

Name ___________________________________________________________________________________________

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Do you have a graduate degree? If so, which one(s)?

! M.A. from ____________________________________ ! J.D. from _____________________________________

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Charles T. Ahlstrand (1967) earned hisPh.D. from Southern Illinois University andis director of career services at Emery-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott,Arizona. He has three grown daughters; hiswife is deceased.

Liz Alvey has been working in the statesenate and graduated from law school inJune 2004.

Michael Bailey (2004) reports that his firstnovella, Immortal, hit the online book-stores on August 5. It can be purchased onwww.barnesandnoble.com for $11.99plus shipping and taxes. Michael describesthe novella as �a sports-related dramedybased on two young men who grow up inthe fictional setting of Chatwoods, Ala-bama.�

Ken Ballard (2002), who was listed in ourlast newsletter as fighting in Iraq, was killedin action on May 30, 2004, by small armsfire in Najaf, Iraq. Ken was awarded theBronze Star for valor on the night he waskilled.

Jay Barger (1998), a graduate of the lawschool at the University of Tennessee, isoffering a class in legal research and writingfor the Political Science Department thisfall. He wed Kelly Rouse (class of 2003) inMay.

Johnny C. Barnes (1981) retired from theU.S. Postal Service in Nashville in February2003.

Lisa Barwick (2003) is enrolled at CooleyLaw School in Lansing, Michigan.

R. Ashle Baxter (1999) received a master�sdegree from American University andRitsumeikan University in the spring of2004. He is serving as a research associateon economics and East Asia for the Coun-cil on Foreign Relations in Washington,D.C.

Jere B. Beason (2004) is attending theFlorida Coastal School of Law.

Brandon Booten (2002) is attending lawschool at the University of Memphis. Hemarried April Richarson, another MTSUalum, on July 31 in Murfreesboro. Hisbride is a student at the University of Ten-nessee Health Science Center in Memphis.

Brandi Snow Bozarth (1999) finished herlaw degree from the University of Dayton atVanderbilt University. She is helping tocoach MTSU Mock Trial teams, which sheaccompanied on a number of trips lastyear. She has begun work for the Office ofGeneral Counsel, Tennessee Departmentof Health.

Shiva Bozarth (1999), a graduate of thelaw school at Dayton University, is in pri-vate practice in Murfreesboro with Bullock,Fly, and Hornsby.

Dale Bradley (1988) is the technical direc-tor of the space and missile test division atthe USAF Arnold Engineering DevelopmentCenter.

Erin Bumbalough (2003), a former All-American mock trial winner, placed first inthe appellate argument competition in lawschool at Ohio Northern University. Overthe summer she worked as a teacher inLead America for the Defense and Intelli-gence program. She has a job with theNational Rifle Association for next summer.

Allison Vantrease Bussell (2001) com-pleted her law degree at the University ofTennessee in May of 2004. She served as aresearch editor for the Tennessee Law Re-view. In August 2004 she began clerking forJoseph Hood, federal district judge, EasternDistrict of Kentucky at Lexington.

Abbe Cadle is an international trade spe-cialist with the U.S. Department of Com-merce in New York City.

Patrick Chinnery (2004), who served overthe past year as editor of Sidelines, hasbeen given a generous fellowship to furtherhis study of political science at SyracuseUniversity.

Brenda Rhoton Little Clark (1979) gradu-ated from the Nashville School of Law andis in private law practice with an associa-tion of attorneys in Cummins Station calledParker and Crofford. She previously servedas senior counsel with the office of theTennessee Attorney General. She is marriedto songwriter Steve Clark. They have a 17-year-old son and a 6-year-old daughter.

Rosemary Frost Clark (1969) is associatecounsel with the National CommerceFinancial Corporation legal department in

Memphis. She adopted a little girl fromSaratov, Russia, in August 2003.

Vickie Coe (2003) is enrolled at CooleyLaw School in Lansing, Michigan.

Jestin Coler (2004) is working on amaster�s degree in business at MTSU.

Lisa Collins (2004) is attending the lawschool at the University of Houston.

Rashawn Crayton (2003) has finished twosemesters of graduate school at the BushSchool of Government at Texas A&MUniversity and is scheduled to graduate thisfall. Over the summer he interned at theDepartment of State in Washington, D.C.

Andre Crismon has completed his lawdegree at Vanderbilt University and isclerking for a federal judge in Washington,D.C.

Tiffany Dale (2000) is working for theTennessee Department of the Treasury andis contemplating attending graduate schoolin political science and/or public policy.

Allen R. Daubenspeck (1999) served as alaw clerk for Mee, Mee and Hoge as heattended Oklahoma City University Schoolof Law. At last report he was planning to sitfor the Tennessee bar exam in July 2004.

Kyle Dodd continues his study at theCumberland School of Law at SamfordUniversity.

Jake J. Durham (2003) is an auctioneerand affiliate broker with the Durham Realtyand Auction Co. in Murfreesboro.

Bard G. Fisher (1979, 1980) is director ofpersonnel and development for TennesseeSecretary of State Riley C. Darnell. Heserved two terms as a commissioner forCoffee County, Tennessee.

Diane Lynn Owens Fraley (1992) is ateaching assistant at the University of Mem-phis, where she is working on a Ph.D. inhistory. She has been a high school historyteacher for seven years and has been anadjunct instructor at several local colleges.

James (Jim) C. Free (1969) is president andCEO of The Smith-Free Group in Washing-ton, D.C. He and his wife, Ann, live inWashington, D.C. Over the past year, his

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firm has been working on the energy bill,the medicine reform bill, all the intellectualproperty legislation, and much other legis-lation that has been before Congress. Thishas not prevented him from taking sometime for golf and duck hunting.

Derrick Frisbee (1994) received his Ph.D.in history from the University of Alabama in2004. He has been serving as a full-timetemp in the Department of History atMTSU.

Brian Gilbert (2001) dropped by the officeon August 3, 2004, for a visit. He is com-pleting his Master of Divinity degree atWesley Theological Seminary in Washing-ton, D.C., where he is an intern at theDumbarton United Methodist Church. Hehas been working for the Methodist Fed-eration for Social Action (MFSA) in Wash-ington, D.C., but is taking a position as achildren�s coordinator for the CentralUnion Mission in that city. He continues towork on his ordination.

Phil Gombar (1996) graduated from theUniversity of Memphis law school in 1999and is an associate of Feeney and Murrayin Nashville. He and wife Lisa MillsGombar (1996, political science, MTSU)live in Smyrna with no kids and two dogs.

Bart Gordon (1971) is running for reelec-tion as a member of the U.S. House ofRepresentatives. He is now the rankingmember on the House Science Committee.

Daniel Lyn Graves II (1991) is an opera-tions supervisor with FedEx Freight in Nash-ville and is Commander of the 133rdMDAD, Tennessee Army National Guard.He is a student at the Nashville School ofLaw.

Ensley Hagan (2004) is attending lawschool at the University of Memphis.

Chris Hannah (2004) is working for FirstAir, a fixed-wing-based operation, atAddison Airport in Dallas, Texas. In addi-tion to flying multiengine planes, he will bemanaging First Air operations at the airport.

Amanda Leigh Hartley (2002) is attendinglaw school at the University of Louisville.

Alfred L. (Buddy) Hatchcock (1969) is apublic defender in Tennessee�s NinthJudicial District.

Ashley Haun (2004) is attending lawschool at the University of Tennessee,Knoxville.

Chris Holder (1998) finished his law de-gree at the Oklahoma City UniversitySchool of Law and is an associate withKious and Rodgers in Murfreesboro.

Chip Hoover (2002) is working as an ac-count executive with Martin and ZerfossInsurance in Murfreesboro.

Dawn Johnson (2002) is attending lawschool at Vanderbilt, where she is helpingcoach students on the undergraduatemock trial teams. She is on the VanderbiltJournal of Transnational Law and the mootcourt team and is serving as a clerk for theVanderbilt chapter of Phi Alpha Delta.

DeAnna Jones is working as an office man-ager at a fire protection, engineering anddesign firm in Huntersville, North Carolina,just outside of Charlotte. She is hoping tobegin graduate school in the spring.

Liz Jones (2001) married Dr. RobbMcDaniel in May 2004. She is working ona master�s degree in English at MTSU andteaching her first course this semester.

William Sutton Jones (1982) is an execu-tive vice president of Cavalry Banking inMurfreesboro. He is past president (2002)of the MTSU Foundation and treasurer ofthe Rutherford County Chamber of Com-merce.

Daniel Kooman (2003) is attendingWhittier Law School in Costa Mesa, Cali-fornia.

Charles Lamb (1967) earned his Ph.D. inpolitical science at the University of Ala-bama and is an associate professor of po-litical science at the University of Buffalo,SUNY. He has recently published a booktitled Housing Segregation in SuburbanAmerica Since 1960 (Cambridge UniversityPress, 2004). Most readers will know thatthis is quite a prestigious press. Congratula-tions!

Scott Langford (1995) is senior pastor atthe Waycross First Church of the Nazarene.He earned a master�s degree in politicalscience at Emory University and served as ahigh school teacher at Forest Park HighSchool in Forest Park, Georgia, from 1999to 2003. He and his wife have two daugh-ters: Amanda, 3, and Rebekah, 1.

Kevin Latta is continuing his study at theCumberland School of Law at SamfordUniversity.

Paul Lawrence (1997) is finishing amaster�s degree in political science at theUniversity of Virginia and helped Dr. Vileover the summer in compiling and editingoriginal documents for Vile�s encyclopediaof the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Jotrone R. Marable (2002) is working on amaster�s degree at MTSU.

Jay Michael works as a volunteer coordi-nator at a Unity Church in Nashville.

Leslie Murphy (1998) continues to pro-mote Kentucky as part of her work with theKentucky Department of Agriculture.Murphy accompanied a Southern U.S.Trade Association mission to Uruguay inMay in order to learn about the Uru-guayan wine industry and its potential asan export market for U.S. white oak, whichis used in the wine-aging process.

Maya Nitis (2002) is working in Nashvilleat the YWCA Domestic Violence Center asa women�s advocate.

Bobby Jo Panter (1986) is a registerednurse in Nashville. She is hoping to beginlaw school.

Larry Parlow (2002) is a first lieutenant inthe 101st Airborne. He returned from atour of duty in Iraq in February 2003. Hissister, Cindy, was on the U.S. Soccer Teamthat competed in the Olympics in Athens,Greece.

John Partin (1997) completed his lawdegree at the University of Tennessee,Knoxville, and is an associate with Galliganand Newman in McMinnville, Tennessee.

Mat Pauley (2003) is continuing graduatestudy at Marquette University in Milwau-kee, Wisconsin.

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Phillip Perez Reilly is in the private practiceof law in Nashville.

Karen Petersen (1998) is completing herPh.D. in political science at VanderbiltUniversity. She published a research notetitled �Re-examining Transnational EthnicAlliances and Foreign Policy Behavior� inthe Winter 2004 issue of InternationalInteractions and is the senior author, withJohn Vasquez and Yijia Want, of an articletitled �Multiparty Disputes and the Prob-ability of War: 1816�1992,� scheduled forpublication this year in Conflict Manage-ment and Peace Science.

Captain Pierre Piche (2000) died in ahelicopter crash on November 15, 2003,in Iraq.

Neal Pinkston (1997) earned his law de-gree at the University of Tennessee and isserving as an assistant district attorney inChattanooga.

Glenda Hawkins Pipkin (1998) receivedher law degree from the University of Ten-nessee and is a staff attorney with Perma-nent General Companies, Inc., in Nash-ville. She and her husband, Marcus, haverecently moved back to Murfreesboro.

Sara Rainwater received a master�s degreein European Studies from the LondonSchool of Economics and Political Sciencein December 2003. She is living in north-west London and working as a specialist inU.S.-European Union relations at the Euro-pean Foundation, Britain�s leadingEurosceptic think-tank.

Charles Ray (1970) continues his generoussupport of the Charles R. Ray Pre-lawScholarship, given annually to one fresh-man, one sophomore, one junior, and onesenior in the department.

H. Waid Ray (1984) stopped by the officeon July 6, 2004. Since completing his lawdegree at Memphis State University, he hasworked at the Regional Medical Center inMemphis and has been at Baptist Memo-rial Hospital since 1987, where he is thesenior staff attorney with Corporate LegalServices. His wife, JoAnn, operates a medi-cal management company. They have afourteen-year-old daughter.

Amy E. Ridings (1993) is the legislativedirector for the American Humane Associa-tion, a nonprofit organization to helpprevent abuse of children and animals,and she works from her home in Murfrees-boro. She and her husband have a two-and-a-half-year-old child and four pets.

Steven Robertson (1981) has done gradu-ate work in political science at VanderbiltUniversity. He continues to serve as anadjunct for the MTSU Political ScienceDepartment.

J. Mark Rogers (1974) has been appointedby Governor Phil Bredesen to fill the postof retiring Judge J. S. �Steve� Daniel as acircuit court judge for Rutherford andCannon counties. The Daily News Journalof July 17, 2004, reported that a poll of theRutherford-Cannon Bar Association showsthat Rogers was the highest recommendedof nine judges vying for the post. The samearticle quoted Governor Bredesen as say-ing, �Mark is an outstanding lawyer who ishighly regarded by his peers in the bar andhas been a vital member of the communityin Murfreesboro and Rutherford County. Iknow he will serve with distinction andintegrity as he takes on this important role.�After earning his degree in political sciencefrom MTSU, Rogers earned a law degree atthe University of Tennessee College of Law.He has been practicing law for 27 yearsand has been a member of the law firm ofRogers and Eischeid.

William F. Ross (1998) earned his M.C.P.from Georgia Tech in 2000 and is theprincipal planner at Ross and AssociatesUrban Planning and Plan Implementationin Calhoun, Georgia.

Kelly Rouse (2003) is working for StateFarm Insurance in Murfreesboro. Shemarried Jay Barger, another departmentalum, in May.

Nicole Lester Russell (1998) married Joe L.Russell III (1989) in July 2002 and gradu-ated from the Nashville School of Law inMay 2003. She is a law clerk for Karla C.Hewitt of Nashville.

Doug Sadler (2002) continues his study oflaw at Stetson University in Florida, wherehe made the honor roll. Congratulations!

Thomas Sanders (1988), who completedan M.P.A. from the University of Tennessee,Knoxville, is a legislative performanceauditor for the State of Tennessee, Office ofthe Comptroller, Division of State Audit.

Jude Santana (1994), a graduate of theCollege of Law at the University of Tennes-see, is back in Murfreesboro, working inthe district attorney�s office for RutherfordCounty.

Keith Slocum, a graduate of the NashvilleSchool of Law, is an associate with a bank-ruptcy firm in Nashville.

James Smith (2001) received his M.A.in public administration from the GeorgeBush School of Government in May 2003with a concentration in counterterrorismand intelligence. He is now teachingWMD/terrorism response under aHomeland Security grant at Texas A&MUniversity.

Patrick Smith (1982) earned a J.D. fromthe Nashville School of Law and works asdirector of policy and legislation for theTennessee Department of Education inNashville.

Christine Southworth (2002) is in herthird year at the Vanderbilt School of Law.

Eric Stewart is serving as a county commis-sioner in Franklin County, Tennessee,where he chairs the Long-range PlanningCommittee.

Michael William Sumner earned his Ph.D.from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,and is a deputy assistant commissioner withthe Office of Financing of the U.S. Treasury.He has published a number of articles ondebt collection and other financial mattersand is a regular speaker and panelist atsecurities industry conferences each year.

Charla Higgins Swanson (1998) is a para-legal in the antiterrorism section of the U.S.Attorney�s Office in Memphis. Her hus-band, Leif Swanson (2000) is in dentalschool at the University of Memphis.

Stacey A. Terral (2000) passed the barexam in July 2003 after graduating from

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room 21, touted as the most technologi-cally advanced courtroom in the world,after participating in a televised interna-tional mediation and arbitration in thespring. She worked over the summer at theoffices of the New York City Law Depart-ment and attended the annual meeting ofthe Association of Trial Lawyers of Americain Boston. She is engaged to marry KeithWesolowski of Buffalo, New York (a gradu-ate of Yale and William and Mary law), inMarch 2005 and plans to work in NewYork after graduating in May 2005.

Maria Weir, who has finished a master�sdegree in applied anthropology, workedwith a research professor from the Univer-sity of Maryland, Baltimore, on a projecton sexual health among youth in VietNam. As part of this project, she visited NhaTrang in August. She is moving with herhusband to Kansas City, Missouri, where hehas accepted a job with the University ofMissouri as an assistant professor of com-puter engineering. Maria will continue as ahuman rights fellow for the American An-thropological Association. She wants read-ers of the newsletter to know that her sisterhas just opened a coffee shop, the CrèmeCaramel Coffee Shop, on Memorial Streetin Murfreesboro. Potential patrons mayfind further information about this shop,

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the University of Tennessee College of Law.He served an internship with the U.S.Attorney�s Office for the Eastern District ofTennessee in Greeneville and is now anassociate with Brewer, Krause and Brooksin Nashville.

Dan Throgmorton (1989), who has anEd.D., is vice president of the Economicand Community Development Division ofChattanooga State Technical CommunityCollege.

Larry Trail (1974) is a member of the Ten-nessee State Senate representing the 16thDistrict.

Ryan Trammel graduated from the Nash-ville School of Law, passed the bar on July2003, and is now an independent con-tractor.

Skip Maurice Turrino (1972) earned amaster�s degree from the University ofMemphis with an emphasis in vocationalcounseling. He is a grade IV water filtrationtechnician with the city of McMinnville,Tennessee.

Virginia Vile (2002), a former All-AmericanMock Trial winner, placed first among herpeers at the College of William and Maryin the 2L moot court competition at theBushrod T. Washington Moot Court Tour-nament. She continues to serve on the lawreview, is a member of William and Mary�smoot court team, is president of the Will-iam and Mary trial court team, coachesWilliam and Mary�s undergraduate mocktrial teams, and works for a private attorneyin Williamsburg. At William and Mary, shebecame the first student fellow of Court-

which opened in July, atwww.cremecaramelcafe.com/.

Jason Whatley (1993), a graduate of theCumberland School of Law at SamfordUniversity, continues to practice law inColumbia, Tennessee. He and wife Laurenwelcomed a third child, Mary GraceWhatley, into their home on July 14, 2004.

Darcy Rodgers White (1996) graduatedtenth in her class from Boston UniversitySchool of Law and is now doing corporate/transaction work in a large firm in Boston.She is married to George �Tom� White(1998).

Mary Katharine Harvey White (1993)earned her law degree at the University ofTennessee, Knoxville, and is an assistantdistrict attorney assigned to prosecute allsex crimes in Williamson County, Tennes-see. She married Bryan K. White fromSummer Shade, Kentucky, in April 2003.He spent six months in Iraq as part of Op-eration Iraqi Freedom and was sent back inearly 2004.

George �Tom� White (1998) is practicinglaw in Boston. He is married to DarcyRodgers White (1996).

Tyrene White (1978), who earned hermaster�s and Ph.D. at Ohio State University,is an associate professor and chair of theDepartment of Political Science atSwarthmore College. Her book ChinaBriefing, 2000 (East Gate Books, 2000)continues to be available for sale.

Brian Winfrey (2002) is in his third year atVanderbilt Law School.

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Mock Trial NewsMTSU�s invitational tournament held in No-vember was the largest in the nation, with 62teams from more than a dozen states. (Thisyear�s tournament will be held on November12 and 13.)

MTSU teams also attended tournaments thisyear at Bellarmine University, at Rhodes Col-lege, at Samford University (where both teamsqualified for nationals), and at national tourna-ments held at Eastern Kentucky University (seebelow) and at Des Moines, Iowa. At the lattertournament, Johnathan Brooks had the num-ber-one score in the nation as a witness, scor-ing 18 (of 20 points) on one side and 20 on theother.

Two MTSU teams qualified for the NationalMock Trial Tournament held at Eastern Ken-tucky State University in March this year. Oneteam placed first in the tournament. The teamconsisted of Lisa Collins, Patrick Chinnery,Johnathan Brooks, Tiffany Walters, BrittanyHayes, Andrea Walker, and Tina Nimarnik.This team subsequently placed fifteenth in theNational Championship Tournament in DesMoines.

The other team that qualified for nationalsconsisted of Shawn Salem, Joel Bellis, AshleyJones, Kristen Bradley, Jason Walker, HelenCaddes, and Ben Cooley. It received an hon-orable mention at the National Mock Trial Tour-nament at Eastern Kentucky.

Mock Mediation Team Captures Second Place at Nationals

The MTSU Mediation Team took secondplace at the 2003 National IntercollegiateMediation Association annual tournament atthe John Marshall Law School in Chicago.The team, which is coached by Dr. ClydeWillis, consisted of eleven members. Theyare Vickie Coe, Paul Fakes, ScottGriswold, Ashley Horn, Jonathan Lewis,Allan Lutes, Kimberly Mason, MelanieMcDavid, Caressa Pugh, Richard Smith,and Michelle Williams. After four years ofcompetition at national tournaments, MTSUteams have now captured, first, second,and third places! Vickie Coe, ScottGriswold, Ashley Horn, and JonathanLewis all received All-American mediatorawards, and Vickie Coe and Ashley Hornreceived All-American advocate-clientawards.

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Model UnitedNationsThe Model United Nations Team trav-eled to Washington, D.C., in late Octo-ber for the 31st National CollegiateSecurity Conference at Georgetown.Fatima Badreddine, Leah Beth Bean,Robert Blackwell, DwaineCarrauthers, Haley Clark, Paul Fakes,Shannon Gerrara, Ashley Graham,Ashley Haun, Ryan Lorimer, AlanLutes, Jeremy Majors, HeatherMoore, Kevin Stinson, and CandiceHaynes represented MTSU. The headdelegate was Leah Beth Bean.

In March, the team attended the Vir-ginia Invitational Crisis Simulation at theUniversity of Virginia. Team membersincluded Fatima Badreddine, VictoriaBritton, Paul Fakes, Ashley Haun,Candice Haynes, Ryan Lorimer, JohnSchlicher, and Devin Stimson. AshleyHaun served as head delegate. Dr.Anne Sloan accompanied the team onboth trips.

Check Us Out!Thanks to help from MTSU student Timmy Gibson and after aconsiderable lapse, the department has updated its Web site,which was originally designed by Paul Lawrence. Although we stillhave work to do, you can now get up-to-date information aboutfaculty members and publications, course offerings, and more. Wewelcome any suggestions to make our site more accessible.

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