Southern Windows - December 10, 2003

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Volume 6, Number 6 • December 10, 2003

In this issue:

Outstanding Scholar Donald Caspary to speak today about his neuropharmacology research

SIUC offers law/education master's degree

New University Bookstore manager finds a calling at his own alma mater

Law school students, faculty and staff join in four holiday community outreach programs

Holiday break brings busy basketball schedules

Recycling on campus: A long way from collecting paper in a pick-up truck

Plans unveiled to SIU Board of Trustees for Troutt-Wittmann Academic and Training Center

Student Affairs and Enrollment Management losing two long-timers to retirement

Former SIUC professor to join policy institute

SIUC students make holidays brighter for underprivileged teen-agers, families

SIUC's student-produced alternative TV show nabs two Emmy awards

University's director of public safety to retire Dec. 31

Bryan Carr (left), a senior majoring in radio/TV, and his father, Ken Carr, a publicity promotion specialist at Student Health Programs, teamed up to produce a holiday CD that features SIU-affiliated performers whose lives have been touched by cancer.

SIUC-affiliated performers produce holiday CD to benefit the American Cancer Society

A father-son team at SIUC is the driving force behind a fund-raising effort on behalf of the American Cancer Society that captures the sounds and the spirit of the holiday season. "Sounds of the Holidays at SIUC," a musical CD, is the product of months of work by Kenneth C. Carr, a publicity promotion specialist with Student Health Programs, and his son, Bryan M. Carr, a senior majoring in radio/TV.

Discussions about the CD date back to April, when father and son began talking about a project that would fit within Bryan's undergraduate assistantship with DigiDawg Records, a registered student organization within the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, and double as a fund-raiser for the American Cancer Society Jackson County Relay for Life.

"Normally, we're used to recording rock music with bands and guitars," Bryan said. "With this there was so much of a different variety. We recorded choirs, instruments, solo artists and bell choirs -- it was fun doing so many different recordings."

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