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New program bcuses on performance
Bryan Shettig
Staff Writer
The College of Music is in the
process of attracting students
for a new program: the Graduate
Artist Certificate.
The program only boasts one
student currently Yuri Gye,
Seoul, South Korea, senior.
Gye said she enjoys continuing
her education in the program at
the College of Music.
"I like working with the
ensemble best, because I am a
percussionist," she said.
"I think [the program] is
more practical because it
requires more concentration on
performing."
John Scott, associate dean
for admission and scholarship
services in the College of Music,
said the program is designed
for the highest level of musical
performers.
"It's unique here because [the
program] is the first of its kind
in Texas," Scott said.
Several other music schools
offer the program in the country
including the Juilliard School,
Eastman School of Music and the
University of Michigan.
Scott said he is hoping to see
25 to 50 students in the program
by next year.
The program was proposed last
fall and approved this summer
by the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board.
"The program did not cost
us anything because it is made
entirely of existing courses,"
Scott said.
The program requires students
to participate in solo perfor-
mances, chamber music perfor-
mances and large ensemble
performances.
Singers also take opera
sections, he said.
Scott said students would be
in four recitals a semester as well
as lab sections.
"This program is strictly for
post-graduates who already have
a bachelor's or master's degree,"
he said.
Mark Ford of the music faculty
said foreign exchange students
are interested in the program
because it has no language
requirements.
There is less of a focus on
academics and more on pure
performance quality.
Ford said Gye's case was
interesting because she already
received her master's degree at
NT and then joined the graduate
artist certificate program.
"It's basically two years of
study and performance," Ford
said.
Liliana Castillo/NT Daily
Yuri Gye has played percussion
in the NT Symphony and
Timbre Orchestras for the last
three years.
:ormer A analyst to give lecture
Lauren Fernandez
Daily Reporter
The liberal views of Ray McGovern, former
CIA analyst, will be brought to light today
in an on-campus lecture, "Speaking Truth
to Power."
The lecture is the first event for the
second annual Peace-In hosted by Peace
Action Denton and is cosponsored by the
NT Peace Studies Program as part of its
lecture series.
McGovern will discuss a variety of issues
surrounding the illegality of invading Iraq,
torture and crimes against humanity autho-
rized by the U.S. government and poverty
being perpetuated through legislation.
"McGovern brings 27 years of experi-
ence to his scrutiny of the U.S. government
and policies of the office of the president
and its appointees," said Judith Kulp of the
International Programs and Studies depart-
ment and a member of Peace Action Denton.
"That scrutiny has propelled him to speak
out against discrepancies and deceptions
that have propelled the United States into
actions that violate international law and,
in some cases, are certainly immoral and
unethical."
McGovern's 27-year career as a CIA analyst
spanned administrations from John F.
Kennedy to George II. W. Bush, according
to Peace Action Denton. McGovern is now
co-director of the Servant Leadership School,
which provides training and other support for
those seeking ways to relate to the margin-
alized poor.
The school is one of 10 Jubilee Ministries,
which are nonprofit organizations
inspired by the ecumenical Church of
the Savior and established in an inner-
city neighborhood in Washington, D.C.
The department McGovern heads at the
school specializes in the biblical injunction
to "speak truth to power," and this, together
with his experience in intelligence analysis,
accounts for his various writings and media
appearances over the past year. Flis focus
dovetails with the passage carved into the
marble entrance to CIA Headquarters; "You
will know the truth, and the truth will set
you free."
CIA analysts are to "tell it like it is" without
fear or favor.
Today's lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. in the
Eagle Student Services Center, room 255. It
is free of charge.
The Peace-In is a weekend long event with
numerous speakers discussing different
topics that are relevant to current events
and peace issues. All sessions are open to
anyone. Saturday's event is $5 for students
and $10 for those that are not students.
Sunday's event is primarily for Peace
Action chapters in Texas but is open to the
public.
Grant given to
computer center
Money will buy super computer,
create technological hub
Mason W. Canales
Intern
The sound of cold air blowing
through many vents echoes in
a small room inside the nearly-
finished Chemistry Building. The
room is full of columns of elec-
trical outlets and holes meant for
network cables.
It sits almost completely empty
and waits for a Beowulf Cluster,
a group of computers linked
together for more processing
power, to arrive.
The super computer is one
of many items purchased by
the Chemistry Department
with a $248,000 grant from the
U.S. Department of Education.
The grant money is meant to
help develop NT's Center for
Advanced Scientific Computer
and Modeling.
"The purpose of the grant is
to form a regional center for [the
Center for Advanced Scientific
Computing and Modeling],"
said Tom Cundari, the center's
director.
The center will run computer
simulations and models to help
solve chemistry problems quickly
and efficiently - plus save money
for everyone in the region, said
Angela Wilson, assistant director
of the program. It will also serve
as a help desk and training ground
for people who want to learn how
to use computational modeling
for chemistry.
The center is in the process of
developing a help desk, as well as
acquiring the proper tools to make
training easier, Wilson said.
NT will host people from all
over the region because of this
center, Cundari said.
The regional area includes
Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma,
Louisiana and New Mexico,
Wilson said.
"People would come for
training, participate in workshops
and then they would go home to
their own universities," Cundari
said. "They can then log on there
with their own computers and use
our computers as well as our other
resources, like the help desk."
Scott Yockel, Okalahoma City
graduate student, said the system
is not common.
"There is not any other system
like this at the region's bigger
schools," he said.
Obtaining the grant money for
the center took more than three
years, Wilson said.
"The university, a couple of
years ago, was looking for proj-
ects to send to Congress," she said.
"Ours was one of those projects.
So, we pitched it to the university.
If they liked it, they pitched it to
their guys, then to Congress."
The money will allow the center
to buy more powerful resources
for computing and classroom
training, Yockel said.
"Most of our stuff is 2 to 3 years
old," Yockel said. "Having a new
system means it is faster and can
work more questions."
NT is one of the largest compu-
tational chem istry departments in
the country, Cundari said.
Yockel said there are more than
25 projects being run through
the Center of Advanced Scientific
Computing and Modeling.
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