Volume 25, No. 23, March 23, 2001
 Senior Tasha Rodgers (right) and her teammates hold up four fingers during the postgame celebration of Saturday's 67-45 win over Messiah College that gave the Bears their fourth consecutive NCAA title.
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Champions again! Senior Rodgers sparks Bears to 4th consecutive national titleBy Anthony WilsonFor a brief moment in the history of basketball, Tasha Rodgers owned the game. The Bears' starting power forward and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association National Player of the Year declared the national championship game Saturday against Messiah College her own. "You never assume you'll win four championships in a row," Bears head coach Nancy Fahey said. "We've been blessed with some great players, and big-time players perform in big situations. That's what happened with Tasha." Holding a precarious 40-35 lead six minutes into the second half after leading by 15 at halftime, Rodgers ripped three consecutive steals from the dribble of a Falcon player and raced the length of the court for uncontested layups.
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2 Nobel winners help inaugurate law school's new centerBy Ann Nicholson The School of Law will inaugu- rate its new Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on March 30-31 at a conference on "Norms and the Law," featuring two Nobel laureates in economic science and an array of internationally prominent legal scholars, economists and political scientists. Topics range from behavioral science insights into jury damage awards to the effect of race on judicial independence to the tension between intellectual property rights and the Internet's shared resources. Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize winner for his work on poverty and master of Trinity College at Cambridge University, will deliver the keynote address on "Norms, Law and Poverty" at 2 p.m. March 31. The conference, which is free and open to the public, runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 30-31 in Anheuser-Busch Hall. |
 Drobak: New center director |
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No partying on this Las Vegas vacationBy Neil Schoenherr Ah, Las Vegas. Sun, sand, bright lights and late nights. What a great way to relax during spring break. However, when a group of University students arrived in Las Vegas March 11 they found no casinos, few hotels and no Wayne Newton. In fact, all they found was a lot of hard work.
The students hadn't traveled to the Nevada namesake; they were in Las Vegas, New Mexico, a thriving community of 17,000 people about 60 miles northeast of Santa Fe. Nine students went to help Habitat for Humanity build the framework of a house. |
Commencement; NSF's Rita Colwell to deliver addressBy Donna Kettenbach Rita R. Colwell, Ph.D., director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), will deliver the Commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of science degree at the University's 140th Commencement May 18 in Brookings Quadrangle. "We are delighted to have Dr. Rita Colwell as our Commencement speaker this year," Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton said. "She is a great scientist, a key contributor to national science policy, and has been an effective leader for the National Science Foundation. Dr. Colwell is among America's brightest stars in science, education and research. We are privileged to have her here to address the first graduating class of the new millennium." |
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