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Sidney J. Lee Memorial Concert Benefit (1962)
No full textSidney J. Lee Memorial Concert Benefit for Bismarck Junior College Music Scholarship. Featuring Louis Kaufman Violinist with Annette Kaufman at the piano. Location: Bismarck Junior College Auditorium/Sidney J. Lee Auditorium. Time: 8:15 pm (Friday). "Sidney J. Lee joined the faculty of the Bismarck Public Schools in the fall of 1942. At the time he was a member of both the Bismarck High School and the Junior College facilities. He was appointed Dean of the Junior College in 1948. The Junior College was located at the time on the third floor of the high school building. Through his leadership as Dean, the College outgrew the facilities in the high school, and the College was moved to a campus on the Capitol grounds.
Louis Kaufman, violinist
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Telegram, undated, New York, NY, to Amelia Earhart
No full textCongratulatory telegram from Louis Kaufman to Amelia Earhart, "Your courage has attracted the plaudits of an admiring world. Welcome back to America.
NLTS Hamiltonians and Strongly-Explicit SoS Lower Bounds from Low-Rate Quantum LDPC Codes
Full text linkRecent constructions of the first asymptotically good quantum LDPC (qLDPC) codes led to two breakthroughs in complexity theory: the NLTS (No Low-Energy Trivial States) theorem (Anshu, Breuckmann, and Nirkhe, STOC'23), and explicit lower bounds against a linear number of levels of the Sum-of-Squares (SoS) hierarchy (Hopkins and Lin, FOCS'22).
In this work, we obtain improvements to both of these results using qLDPC codes of low rate:
- Whereas Anshu et al. only obtained NLTS Hamiltonians from qLDPC codes of linear dimension, we show the stronger result that qLDPC codes of arbitrarily small positive dimension yield NLTS Hamiltonians.
- The SoS lower bounds of Hopkins and Lin are only weakly explicit because they require running Gaussian elimination to find a nontrivial codeword, which takes polynomial time. We resolve this shortcoming by introducing a new method of planting a strongly explicit nontrivial codeword in linear-distance qLDPC codes, which in turn yields strongly explicit SoS lower bounds. Our "planted" qLDPC codes may be of independent interest, as they provide a new way of ensuring a qLDPC code has positive dimension without resorting to parity check counting, and therefore provide more flexibility in the code construction
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from I. H. Kempner to Mrs. Ben Kaufman thanking her for the donation to the St. Louis Scholarship Foundation in honor of the Kempners' anniversary
Villages upward bound: community structure and technological development in selected Indian villages
No full textHarold F. Kaufman, Avtar Singh, Satadal Dasgupta.Source type: Electronic(1
Universitas: the magazine of Saint Louis University
No full textSpring 2010 issue of Universitas: the magazine of Saint Louis University. This is a special issue on SLU's public service and volunteering projects.SPR ING 2 010
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features depa r tment s
{ contents }
2 | On Campus
Outreach to Haiti
• Casa de Salud •
Research funding • Elie
Wiesel visits • New art
exhibits open • Students
march for life, peace
5 | Billiken News
Fall NCAA Tournament
appearances • Soccer
player drafted
28 | In Memoriam
Remembering those
members of the SLU
community who
recently died
30 | alumni events
Find SLU alumni activities
wherever you live.
32 | Perspective
A faculty member
shares his experiences
teaching prisoners.
33 | the last word
Letters to the editor
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY
PRESIDENT’S REPORT
2009
6
President’s Message
University President
Lawrence Biondi, S.J.,
discusses what service means
at Saint Louis University.
8
Health Resource
Center
A St. Louis clinic allows
SLU medical students
to serve and to learn.
By Marie Dilg
Photos by Steve Dolan
10
Project Citizen
Law and prelaw students
teach high schoolers the
power of the legal system.
By Marie Dilg
Photos by Steve Dolan
12
Crossroads
Honors students tutor
at Loyola Academy and
contemplate social justice.
By Nick Sargent
Photos by James Visser
15
English as a Second
Language in Madrid
U.S. students share their
skills with Madrid residents.
By Laura Geiser
Photos by Ángel Garcia
16
Make a Difference Day
For the 12th year, the SLU
community shows what a
difference a day makes.
By Nick Sargent
Photos by Steve Dolan
20
Inclusive Garden
The nutrition and dietetics
department makes
gardening accessible to all.
Photos and story
by Sara Savat
24
Micah Program
This innovative first-year
program combines living,
learning and serving.
By Laura Geiser
Photos by Chad Williams
26
2009 Facts and
finances
A snapshot of SLU’s
enrollment and finances.
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Volume 3 6, Issue 2
Edi tor
Laura Geiser (A&S ’90, Grad ’92)
Contributors
Marie Dilg (Grad SW ’94)
Nick Sargent
Sara Savat (Grad ’04)
“On Campus” news storie s
University Communications
Medical Center Communications
Billiken Media Relations
Cov er Photo
Steve Dolan
De sign
Art Direction: Matt Krob
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FA L L 2 0 0 4 WINT E R 2 0 0 5
The mission of Saint Louis University
is the pursuit of truth for the
greater glory of God and for the service of
humanity. The University seeks excellence
in the fulfillment of its corporate purposes
of teaching, research, health care and
service to the community. It is dedicated
to leadership in the continuing quest for
understanding of God’s creation and
for the discovery, dissemination and
integration of the values, knowledge
and skills required to transform society
in the spirit of the Gospels. As a
Catholic, Jesuit university, this pursuit
is motivated by the inspiration and
values of the Judeo-Christian tradition
and is guided by the spiritual and
intellectual ideals of the Society of Jesus.
— Saint Louis University Mission Statement
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News Briefs
Dr. Jennifer Giancola (A&S ’93, Grad ’97, ’99)
is the interim dean of the School for Profession-al
Studies. She replaced Dr. Marla Berg-Weger,
who is stepping down to return to the faculty
of the School of Social Work after a sabbatical
this semester. Giancola joined SLU in 2001. She
has served as associate dean of the School for
Professional Studies since 2006.
Dr. Raul Artal, chairman of the department of
obstetrics, gynecology and women’s health,
has been selected to serve on a World Health
Organization panel that recommends ways to
make pregnancy safer for women around the
world. He is one of four medical experts from
the United States to serve on the 93-person
WHO panel that will review and update the
standards of pregnancy care worldwide.
Martin Brief, an assistant professor in fine
and performing arts, was one of three award
recipients of the Contemporary Art Museum St.
Louis’ “Great Rivers Biennial 2010,” receiving
a 5,000
in proceeds was donated to Haitian relief.
Collections to raise funds for Haiti also have been held at the Madrid
Campus, during Mass at St. Francis Xavier College Church and at Billiken
basketball games.
SLU is a good neighbor
Saying that Saint Louis University reflects the best of the Jesuit
devotion to the inner city poor, a national survey has ranked SLU
among the top 25 urban colleges and universities considered “good
neighbors.” Saviors of Our Cities: A Survey of Best College and Uni-versity
Civic Partnerships was released during the Coalition of Urban
and Metropolitan Universities conference last fall.
Saviors of Our Cities highlights SLU’s involvement in the Center of
Research Technology and Entrepreneurial Exchange, better known as
CORTEX. The science and technology corridor is establishing St. Louis
as a hub for biotech research and development. The rankings also single
out the University’s nationally recognized Micah Program, a faith-based
living and learning initiative, as well as SLU’s Doerr Center for Social
Justice Education and Research, which provides funds for research and
student engagement projects that largely focus on the urban poor.
SLU funded for prevention research
Anew Saint Louis University-Washington University in St. Louis
initiative that studies innovative ways to prevent chronic disease
and improve health has received a five-year, $8 million grant from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Prevention Research Center in St. Louis, one of 35 programs at
academic institutions in 25 states, examines how people and their com-munities
can avoid or counter the risks of chronic illnesses such as heart
disease, asthma and diabetes. The collaboration between Saint Louis
University School of Public Health and Washington University Schools
of Medicine and Social Work is Missouri’s only CDC-funded Prevention
Research Center. This is the 15th year the SLU School of Public Health
has been involved in the CDC’s Prevention Research Centers Program.
The center has established partnerships with community-based coali-tions,
the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, and a
variety of academic collaborators to reduce obesity and prevent chronic
diseases in low-income, rural parts of the state.
Tait named VP of research
Dr. Raymond Tait, professor of neurology
and psychiatry, was promoted to vice presi-dent
of research in February. In this new role, he
works with administrators, faculty and staff in
promoting Saint Louis University research. He
also seeks to further enhance SLU’s research pro-grams
by working closely with private industry
and governmental agencies, as well as other educa-tional
and research institutions. Tait joined the
SLU faculty in 1982 as an assistant professor of psychiatry and human
behavior. In 1995, he left the full-time faculty to become director of
functional rehabilitation service at the SSM Rehabilitation Institute.
During this time, he continued to teach at SLU as an associate clinical
professor in psychiatry. He returned to the full-time faculty in 1998.
He also holds an adjunct appointment in SLU’s Gnaegi Center for
Health Care Ethics.
MI CASA ES SU CASA: Casa de Salud, a new wellness clinic for the
underserved Hispanic community in St. Louis supported by Saint Louis University, began seeing
patients Jan. 18. Located at the corner of Compton and Chouteau avenues, the clinic engages
volunteers to provide basic health and wellness care for its clients. Casa de Salud, which means
“House of Health,” offers service opportunities to family doctors, internal medicine physicians,
emergency medicine doctors and nurse practitioners, among others.
STANDING FOR LIFE: During its annual trip to the national
March for Life in Washington D.C., SLU’s Students for Life group (profiled in
the fall issue of Universitas) received the 2009 Community Outreach award
from Students for Life of America. About 50 SLU students traveled to the na-tion’s
capital in January for the march.
19
Student organizations
on campus dedicated
solely to service and
issues of justice
411
Agencies where SLU
students volunteer
on a regular basis
317
SLU students who
are mentors with the
Big Brothers, Big
Sisters program
311
Members of the
SLU chapter of the
national service
fraternity Alpha Phi
Omega, making it
the largest in the
nation, per capita
672
Children from low-income
families
who had school
supplies provided
last fall through the
annual SLU school
supply drive
5,264
Hours spent each
year cooking and
delivering meals to
low-income people
through SLU’s
Campus Kitchen
BY THE NUMBERS: With SLU’s Center for Service and Community Engagement
Photo by Chad Williams
Submitted photo
Elie Wiesel speaks to
record crowd
Elie Wiesel, an internationally recognized
human rights advocate and Holocaust sur-vivor,
told an audience of 2,800 people gathered
to hear him speak at Saint Louis University Dec.
1, about the power of empathy. “We cannot
allow ourselves not to feel the pain of others,”
Wiesel said. “We can’t give in to indifference.”
Wiesel, who received the Nobel Peace Prize
in 1986 for his fight against global oppression, told stories and gave fatherly advice as
he encouraged the crowd to find strength together, as part of a larger community. He
described his goal as being a matchmaker who brings people together to spark meaning-ful
relationships.
“Whatever you do in life,” he said, “always think higher. Feel deeper. Be sensitive. Be
sensitive to each other — to each other’s pain, to each other’s joys and each other’s fears.”
The event was sponsored by the Great Issues Committee.
Photo by Taylor Spaulding
Haiti benefit concert
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Men’s soccer captures A-10 title,
goes to NCAA Tournament
Capping off its 50-year anniversary season, the Billiken men’s soccer team made its fourth
straight and unprecedented 46th appearance overall in the NCAA Tournament. The
team earned an automatic berth into the tournament by claiming the Atlantic 10 Confer-ence
Championship Nov. 15 with a victory against Dayton. It was the first A-10 Tournament
championship for the Billikens since joining the league in 2005. Since 1991, the Billikens have
captured nine conference championship titles.
The team opened the 2009 NCAA Men’s Soccer Tournament in November with a 2-1 vic-tory
over Missouri State at Hermann Stadium. It was the second year in a row SLU earned a
victory in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
However, the Billikens lost in overtime to No. 8
seed Tulsa in the second round of the tournament.
Despite the loss, it was a successful season for the
team, with six Billikens earning All-Conference
honors. Senior Tim Ream was voted Defensive Player
of the Year and named to the A-10’s first team, while
freshman Alex Sweetin earned Rookie of the Year
honors. Sophomore Mike Roach was named second-team
All-Conference, while senior Josh Aranda
earned honorable-mention recognition. Aranda also
joined Roach and Ream on the A-10 All-Champion-ship
team. Freshman Benny Estes and Sweetin were
voted to the All-Rookie team, while keeper Ross
Kaufman earned a spot on the All-Academic team.
Volleyball makes third NCAA
Tournament appearance
The SLU volleyball team finished its 2009
campaign with a 24-8 record and made its third
NCAA Tournament appearance in the last four years.
SLU entered the tournament ranked 22nd in the
nation and had the 18th-best hitting percentage in the
NCAA. But the Billikens lost to Wichita State in the
opening round. It was the team’s first NCAA Tourna-ment
at-large bid, after earning automatic bids in 2006
and 2008 by winning the Atlantic 10 Championship.
The 2009 Billiken volleyball season will be remem-bered
in the record books.
{ billiken news }
BILLIKEN BEAT
In January,
Billiken men’s
soccer senior
defender Tim
Ream was
drafted by
the New York
Red Bulls
in the MLS
SuperDraft. He
was the 18th
player selected
overall and the
second player
taken in the
second round.
In December, Ream was named
a National Soccer Coaches As-sociation
of America third-team
All-American. His All-American
honor is the 75th in SLU men’s
soccer history. Ream played in
all but one game during his four-year
Billiken career.
SLU head volleyball coach Anne Kordes re-ceived
the 2009 Carl O. Bauer Award presented
by the Missouri Athletic Club. The award, which
was established in 1978, is presented annually
to the top amateur sports figure in the St. Louis
area. Kordes has guided the SLU volleyball pro-gram
to three NCAA Tournament appearances
and Atlantic 10 regular-season titles in the last
four seasons. She has been named A-10 Coach
of the Year three times.
Dan Donigan has resigned as SLU’s head
men’s soccer coach. He has accepted the
same position at Rutgers University in his native
New Jersey. Donigan came to SLU in 1997 and
served as an assistant for four seasons under
former coach Bob Warming. He was named
head coach at SLU in 2001 after serving four
seasons as an assistant. During his nine-year
head coaching tenure, the Billikens posted
a 118-42-23 record and made seven NCAA
Tournament appearances. A national search for
a new soccer coach is under way.
The 2009 Billiken softball squad was recog-nized
as a National Fastpitch Coaches Associa-tion
Division I “girls got game” All-Academic
team. SLU came in at No. 37 with a 3.292 GPA
to lead all Atlantic 10 Conference schools.
The Billikens swept Atlantic 10 Coach,
Player and Setter honors for the second
straight season. McCloud merited
Co-Player of the Year recognition, and
Roth captured an unprecedented third
A-10 Setter of the Year award. Head
coach Anne Kordes was voted Coach of
the Year. Fonke landed on the A-10 first
team for the second straight season,
while junior Megan Boken picked up
second-team plaudits. Senior Whitney
Behrens achieved honorable mention
status. Behrens and Roth also were
named to the All-Academic squad.
The team had three
players achieve All-America
status. Seniors Bridget
Fonke, Sammi McCloud
and Whitney Roth picked
up AVCA All-America
honorable mention honors.
It is the second straight
season that the trio
received the distinction.
SLU’s five seniors
leave as the third-winningest
class in
program history.
SLU put together
four straight 20-win
campaigns for just the
second time.
Photo by Bill Barrett
Photo by Bill Barrett
Photo by Gary Clarke
{ on campus } t h e A R T S a t S L U
SLUMA
presents
‘Crossing
the Divide’
Through June 20, the
Saint Louis University
Museum of Art is show-ing
“Crossing the Divide:
Jesuits on the American
Frontier.” The exhibition
features documentation
of the new world a group of Jesuit missionaries
entered in 1823 as they crossed cultural, linguistic
and religious divides. It also displays dictionar-ies
of Native-American languages, as well as
extremely accurate maps and detailed journals.
SLUMA’s hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednes-day
through Sunday. For more information, visit
sluma.slu.edu.
‘Poetic
Palette’
opens at
SLUMA
The Saint Louis Univer-sity
Museum of Art is
presenting “Poetic Pal-ette:
Paintings by Ann
Brown” through June
20. The paintings, a series of interior landscapes,
evoke organic forms suggestive of plant life and
natural materials. Brown uses watercolor as the
primary medium of her work but often includes
handmade paper, inks and clay. SLUMA’s hours
are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sun-day.
For more information, visit sluma.slu.edu.
‘Good
Friday’
exhibition
at MOCRA
SLU’s Museum of Con-temporary
Religious
Art is presenting “Good
Friday: The Suffering
Christ in Contempo-rary
Art” through April
25. Drawing on the
MOCRA collection and works on long-term loan,
“Good Friday” considers the ways artists have
explored the events of the day of Jesus’ death.
It was originally presented last spring and was
one of MOCRA’s most popular exhibitions ever.
Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday
through Sunday. For more information, call (314)
977-7170 or visit mocra.slu.edu.
“Storm Cloud
Rising,” 2009, mixed
media on paper.
“Sister Helen
David Brancato,
Crucifixion - Haiti,”
1997. Mixed media.
MOCRA Collection.
Pierre De Smet, S.J.’s
coat, ca. 1840, tanned
leather, wool and silk.
PEACEFUL PROTEST: In November more than 70 Saint Louis University students,
faculty and staff traveled to Columbus, Ga., to participate in a peaceful vigil at the gates of Fort Benning.
The participants were calling for the closing of the School of the Americas, now called the Western
Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Since 1946, the school has trained Latin American mili-tary
personnel, many of whom have subsequently committed serious human rights abuses. Pictured are
(from left): Melody Lee, Joe Ahlers, Owen Griffith, Dan Finucane, Jennifer Petruso, Carley Kirsch, Julia
Chick, Elise Kaminski and Rachel Dratnol.
Submitted photo
MBA program gets another top ranking
Saint Louis University’s part-time MBA program has earned another national honor. Business
Week magazine recently named SLU’s innovative program No. 10 in the Midwest. The rank-ing
comes on the heels of U.S. News & World Report placing the program at No. 14 on its national
rankings earlier in 2009. Both magazines rated SLU’s part-time program the best in Missouri.
Faculty named to endowed positions
This fall seven Saint Louis University faculty members were appointed to already existing
endowed chairs and professorships. The University has 62 endowed chairs and professor-ships.
“These enable us to attract some of the finest experts in their respective fields and help
us retain the best and brightest of our SLU community,” said University President Lawrence
Biondi, S.J. “Their impressive scholarship not only brings the University international prestige,
it is helping shape the fields in which they study for many years to come.” The newest endowed
chairs and professors are:
Dr. Lorri M. Glover
John Francis Bannon, S.J., Chair in History
Dr. John Greco
Leonard and Elizabeth Eslick
Chair in Philosophy
Dr. Jonathan Sawday
Walter J. Ong, S.J., Chair in the Humanities
Dr. Ruth Evans
Dorothy McBride Orthwein
Professorship in English
Dr. Shelley Minteer
College of Arts and Sciences Professorship
Dr. Eustáquio Araújo
Pete Sotiropoulos Endowed
Professorship in Orthodontics
Dr. Enrico Di Cera
Edward A. Doisy Professorship
Dr. Adrian Di Bisceglie
Badeeh A. and Katherine V. Bander
Chair in Medicine
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we ask them to reflect on those efforts and
Sparse Cuts in Hypergraphs from Random Walks on Simplicial Complexes
Full text linkThere are a lot of recent works on generalizing the spectral theory of graphs and graph partitioning to k-uniform hypergraphs. There have been two broad directions toward this goal. One generalizes the notion of graph conductance to hypergraph conductance [Louis, Makarychev - TOC'16; Chan, Louis, Tang, Zhang - JACM'18]. In the second approach, one can view a hypergraph as a simplicial complex and study its various topological properties [Linial, Meshulam - Combinatorica'06; Meshulam, Wallach - RSA'09; Dotterrer, Kaufman, Wagner - SoCG'16; Parzanchevski, Rosenthal - RSA'17] and spectral properties [Kaufman, Mass - ITCS'17; Dinur, Kaufman - FOCS'17; Kaufman, Openheim - STOC'18; Oppenheim - DCG'18; Kaufman, Openheim - Combinatorica'20].
In this work, we attempt to bridge these two directions of study by relating the spectrum of up-down walks and swap walks on the simplicial complex, a downward closed set system, to hypergraph expansion. More precisely, we study the simplicial complex obtained by downward closing the given hypergraph and random walks between its levels X(l), i.e., the sets of cardinality l. In surprising contrast to random walks on graphs, we show that the spectral gap of swap walks and up-down walks between level m and l with 1 < m ⩽ l cannot be used to infer any bounds on hypergraph conductance. Moreover, we show that the spectral gap of swap walks between X(1) and X(k-1) cannot be used to infer any bounds on hypergraph conductance. In contrast, we give a Cheeger-like inequality relating the spectra of walks between level 1 and l for any l ⩽ k to hypergraph expansion. This is a surprising difference between swaps walks and up-down walks!
Finally, we also give a construction to show that the well-studied notion of link expansion in simplicial complexes cannot be used to bound hypergraph expansion in a Cheeger-like manner
Post-totalitarian societies: the case of Albania
Full text linkThis is the archive of a lecture given by Fatos Lubonja, editor and publisher of Pepjekja ("Endeavor"), Albania's leading critical social/political journal, writer and former political prisoner. Respondent: Michael Kaufman, author and former New York Times reporter, foreign correspondent, columnist, and editor
Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation
No full textDespite the long history of nonviolent campaigns by Palestinians challenging both British and Zionist colonialism, culminating in the overwhelmingly nonviolent first intifada (1987-93) and the present struggle against the Israeli occupation, this aspect of the Palestinian resistance is vastly under-reported. With her recent interview-based book, Kaufman-Lacusta will highlight non-violent resistance by both Palestinians and Israelis to the Israeli occupation along with ways US citizens can support this resistance. Valued Co-sponsors of Fairhaven Colleges World Issues Forum: Anthropology, Canadian American Studies, Communications, Political Science, Womens Studies, various Associated Students organizations and local community non-profits.
About the Lecturer: Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta, Canadian author and Quaker-Jewish activis
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