McMurry War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 4, Ed. 1, Wednesday, October 27, 1999 Page: 1 of 8
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Homecoming
Schedule
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What would Freud do?
"Ask the Faculty"
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Are you up on McM
Homecoming History?
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Freshmen Homecoming
activities still available
by Alicia Biagioni
All freshmen have
to earn four "Homecom-
ing Service Hours" to re-
ceive credit in McMurry
101 (otherwise known as
Freshman Seminar). Al-
though little time remains
for students to earn hours
if they have not already
done so there are two
last-minute events (as in
the day of and before
Homecoming) to receive
credit: the Tepee Tours
and the building and tak-
ing down of the tepees.
The Tepee Tours
start in the morning and
run through the afternoon
on Friday October 29th.
Tour guides simply take
their group of local school
children from tepee to te-
pee. Members of the vari-
ous student associations
who build the tepees will
be on hand to inform the
children about the history
of each tepee and the tribe
it represents. Tepee Tours
started some time ago and
have remained popular
throughout the commu-
nity. The other option
for receiving credit hours
is to help take down and
rebuild the tepees in a dif-
ferent location. This will
be done on October 30th
starting at 10:30 a.m. and
will end when all the te-
pees are up. Obviously
the more people there are
the faster the work will be
completed so all volun
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teers are welcome. Just as
the tepees go up they
must come down. As soon
as the game is over the
tepee take-down will be-
gin. This will last as long
as it takes to dismantle
them.
For more informa-
tion about how to get in-
volved in Homecoming ac-
tivities contact Jori Coll the
MSG representative at ex-
tension 4825.
Former UN
by Donna Hitt
Dr. Tina Bertrand
joined the McMurry fac-
ulty this fall as an Assis-
tant Professor of Political
Science. Dr. Bertrand was
born and raised in Louisi-
ana and received her un-
dergraduate degree at the
University of Houston.
She earned her Masters
and doctorate degrees at
Emory University in At-
lanta Georgia.
In addition to her
graduate work Dr.
Bertrand has an impres-
sive work-related back-
ground in her particular
field of study. In between
her undergraduate and
graduate studies she
worked for two years at
the United Nations in New
York City at the UN Insti-
tute for Training and Re-
search (UNITAR). She
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employee joins McM faculty
commented that she ar-
rived in the winter of '89
when everything was "fall-
ing apart" in Eastern Eu-
rope and changes were
happening every day. It
was a very interesting and
exciting time to be at the
United Nations. She also
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worked at the Carter Cen-
ter named for President
Jimmy Carter in the Con-
flict & Resolution Depart-
ment while completing
her studies at Emory. Also
while finishing her Ph.D.
Dr. Bertrand taught at
Roanoke College in Salem
Virginia during a one-
year sabbatical.
After growing up in
the humid conditions of
Louisiana Dr. Bertrand
finds Abilene a bit dry so
much so that she has cre-
ated herself a new hobby:
cactus collecting. She also
enjoys mountain hiking-
but will be content with
any type of hiking now
that she is in Abilenelo-
cal affairs and commu-
nity events..
Dr. Bertrand is ex-
cited and happy to be on
campus at McMurry Uni-
versity. Her wish was to
be associated with a small
liberal arts college such as
McMurry. The two-person
Political Science Depart-
ment which gives her
freedom and a wide vari-
ety of courses to teach
particularly intrigues her.
She enjoys teaching and
feels that Abilene and
McMurry University are
very appreciative of the
teaching field.
Bertrand is also in-
terested in environmental
issues. Her dissertation
was on the Politics of Acid
Rain. In the future she
would like to use her re-
search and apply it to the
community level in some
capacity.
Dr. Bertrand has
invited a representative
from the United Nations to
be on our campus on No-
vember 11 and 12. A
question and answer
lunchtime is planned for
students and faculty.
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