2009 august: community news
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Marriage research
NHL draft
Speech master
Archive collection
China lecture
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Rocky Mountain Conservatory Theatre (RMCT) participants performAnnie Jr.
on July 16. Participants of the childrens day-camp theater program performed
Peter Pan earlier this summer. The DU camp founded three years ago by
theater professor Anthony Hubert and his wife, Jamie Roehrig-Hubert has
been nominated by Nickelodeons Parent Picks Awards in the categories of
best day camp and best theater camp for kids. The results will be published
online Aug. 17 at http://gocitykidsconnect.com. RMCT will offer youth acting
and dance classes on campus this fall.
>>rockymountainconservatorytheatre.com
A hard-knock lifeWayne
Armstrong
Steve Fisher, DU special
collections curator, will give
a slide show and present
his book University Park and
South Denver Aug. 19, 7:30
p.m., at the Tattered Cover
Lodo. The book is part of
Arcadia Publishings Images
of America series. It shows
page after page of the history
of DU and its environs, most
notably the University Park
neighborhood and former
town of South Denver. The
book is available for purchase
at the DU bookstore.
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Study shows couples who live together before
engagement are more likely to struggle
DU researchers have ound that couples who live
together beore they are engaged have a higher chance o
getting divorced than those who wait until they are married
to live together, or at least wait until they are engaged.
In addition, couples who lived together beore
engagement and then married reported a lower level osatisaction in their marriages.
The research, which appears in the Journal o Family
Psychology, was conducted by Galena Rhoades, senior
researcher, Scott Stanley, research proessor, and Howard
Markman, proessor o psychology.
We think that some couples who move in together
without a clear commitment to marriage may wind up sliding into marriage partly because they
are already cohabiting, Rhoades says.
It seems wise to talk about commitment and what living together might mean or the uture
o the relationship beore moving in together, especially because cohabiting likely makes it harder
to break up compared to dating, Stanley says.
The three researchers also studied the reasons couples decide to live together. That study,
which appeared in theJournal o Family Issues, shows that most couples chose to live together in
order to spend more time together. The second most popular reason is convenience, ollowed
by testing the relationship. This is dierent than previous research that ound most people cohabit
to test the relationship.
Cohabiting to test a relationship turns out to be associated with the most problems in
relationships, Rhoades says. Perhaps i a person is eeling a need to test the relationship, he or
she already knows some important inormation about how a relationship may go over time.
Kristal Grifth
Pioneers selected in NHL draftIncoming recruits William Wrenn and Drew Shore highlighted the University o Denvers
three selections in the 2009 National Hockey League Entry Drat at Bell Centre in Montreal.
Wrenn, o Anchorage, Alaska, and Shore, o Denver, were both selected in the second
round. Wrenn was selected No. 43 overall by San Jose, while Shore was picked No. 44 by Florida.
Wrenn is the third highest DU drat selection since 1994.
Paul Phillips, o Darien, Ill., was selected No. 195 in the seventh round by Chicago.
The Pioneers will have a school-best 13 NHL drat picks on their roster in 200910. The
total surpasses the 11 NHL drat picks DU had in 200607.
Joe Colborne o Calgary, Alberta, went No. 16 to Boston and Patrick Wiercioch o Maple
Ridge, British Columbia, went No. 42 to Ottawa in the 2008 NHL Entry Drat. Former Pioneer
and current Colorado star Paul Stastny was selected No. 44 in 2005.Wrenn and Shore starred or the United States National Developmental Team Program
Under-18 Team last season in Ann Arbor, Mich. Wrenn served as team captain and recorded 17
points while Shore tallied 49 points. Shore and Wrenn helped Team USA to gold medals at the
IIHF World Under-18 Championship, Five Nations Cup and Four Nations Cup in 200809.
The remaining Pioneers that have been drated include: Brian Giord, Pittsburgh Penguins;
Rhett Rakhshani, New York Islanders; Matt Donovan, New York Islanders; John Lee, Florida
Panthers; Tyler Ruegsegger, Toronto Maple Leas; Marc Cheverie, Florida Panthers; Jesse Martin,
Atlanta Thrashers; and Matt Glasser, Edmonton Oilers.
Athletics Media Relations
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Vice Chancellor for UniversityCommunications
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Editorial DirectorChelsey Baker-Hauck (BA 96)
Managing EditorKathryn Mayer (BA 07)
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DU is one of the top60schools Jews choose, according
to Reform Judaism, the worlds
largest circulated Jewish magazine.
In the magazinesthird
annual Insiders Guide to College,
DU is ranked No.28 for the
top private schools Jewish students
select.20percent of DUsundergraduate student population
is Jewish, and there are5 Jewish
organizations on campus, according
to DUs Hillel organization.
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Even as a student at the University of Denver, Rory Vaden talked topeople incessantly about how to be successful. The key, he said, was selfdiscipline. To be successful, you had to do the things other people werent
willing to do. His college roommate and a fellow member of the Pioneer
Leadership Program heard the argument often, and used it to make funof Vaden once on an airport escalator: Mr. Discipline doesnt even take the
stairs, he said.
After I smacked him, Vaden jokes, I thought there was something
about that that really resonated with me, that simple decision every day
between taking the stairs or an escalator.
The 26-year-old has since earned his MBA from DU, won second place
in the World Championship of Public Speaking, co-founded a multi-million
dollar company that puts on motivational sales training conferences for
people by the thousands, and grown his own personal brand: Take the
Stairs.
Hes even in the midst of a Take the Stairs World Tour climbing
the 10 tallest buildings on the globe and anticipating the release of his
book, Take the Stairs. As it turns out, the joke that became Vadens motto is
really a metaphor for his whole life.
Vaden was raised by a single mom in a trailer park outside of Boulder
While other kids played video games, he practiced martial arts and became
a black belt by the age of 10. In high school, he studied instead of going
to parties, and the work paid off in the form of a Martin Luther King Jr
Scholarship to DU.
He spent his free time at the library, meeting with professors
participating in the Pioneer Leadership Program and AUSA Senate. And
when he was a freshman, another student recruited him to the Southwestern Co. internship program in which college students re-locate for
the summer and sell childrens books door to door for commission. He spent that first summer break in Montgomery, Ala., getting thousands
of doors slammed in his face.
It would have been easier for me to go home and be a lifeguard, but that would have been the escalator, Vaden says. Taking the stairs
means Im going to make sacrifices. If I had never gone through that, theres no way I would have a multi-million-dollar company. Theres no
way companies would have me come and speak to them. I would have no right.
He made $17,000 that summer and came back to DU to recruit a team of students for the following year.
The next summer, Vadens team of 22 was the most successful in Southwesterns history, with 800 campuses participating worldwide. He
took home $65,000. Back at school, he continued to recruit and grow his business while taking 18 credit hours each quarter.
He started speaking publicly about self discipline at high schools, colleges and youth groups and joined a Toastmasters club to further hone
his skills. After being accepted into DUs dual-degree program enabling him to earn his bachelors degree and MBA in five years he used
his graduate classes to write a business plan for a motivational conference venture he was planning to pursue under the Southwestern banner
with two other veterans of the internship program.
In June 2006 he graduated, became the youngest person to ever make the top-10 of the Toastmasters World Championship of PublicSpeaking and moved to California to co-found the business Success Starts Now (SSN).
Later that summer, 750 people came to the first SSN conference. In 2007, Vaden returned to the World Championship of Public Speaking
where he came in second. To prepare, he spoke 304 times in 18 months for free.
Today, SSN has two teams that put on conferences all over the country for as many as 1,000 people at a time. Many of those attendees
become clients of the companys core individual sales training and consulting business.
Meanwhile, Vaden travels the country giving his trademark Take the Stairs speech at conventions and corporate functions.
Its while youre on the stairs thats the fun part, he says. If youre on the escalator, youre not doing anything, not growing, not changing
Youre being dragged through life. On the stairs, youre moving, learning, failing but youre getting better.
>>www.takethestairs.wordpress.comJessica Center
Speaking successAlum models life, business after taking the stairs
CourtesyofRoryVaden
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EventsAugust
[ ]Arts
12 Elyse Ader, viola. Senior recital.7:30 p.m. Hamilton Recital Hall. Free.
14 Joseph and the Amazing TechnicolorDreamcoat. Byron Theatre. 7 p.m.$23.50. Additional performances August15 and 22 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. and
August 21 at 7 p.m.
28 Mixed Martial Arts. 7:30 p.m.Magness Arena. $28-$60.
Around campus
8 BrewGrass Festival. 10-bandmusicfest. Noon. South Pearl Street. $5.For information, call 3037340718 or
go to www.oldsouthpearlstreet.com.
14 Summer Commencement. 9 a.m.Carnegie Green. Tickets not required.For more information, visit www.du.edu/commencement
16 University Neighbors SweetSummer Social. 4 p.m. DeBoer Park,South Vine Street and Harvard Avenue.
For more information, call Liz Ullman at3037331442.
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Penrose collection tells extraordinary family story
The amily o ormer DU Proessor Edwin Sears has donated a collection o his archiva
papers to Penrose Library.
The git includes numerous items relating to a number o World War II-era events
and people, including the plot to assassinate Adol Hitler, the Nuremburg trials and Albert
Einstein.
Andrea Sears-Van Nest, Sears daughter, has already turned over most o the collection,
which appraised or about $25,000, to Penroses special collections and archives. The entire
collection will be turned over in time.
Growing up, Sears-Van Nest had a vague
idea about her athers role in world events.But ater her mother, Vera Sears, died in 2008,
she ound boxes o photographs, newspaper
clippings, journals and letters that shed light on
her parents past.
My husband and I were sitting here with
mouths open; it was just so tremendous,
Sears-Van Nest says. My ather died when I
was so young and my mother was mum about
everything.
The collection includes documents rom
the Reich Director describing the assassination
plot o Hitler by Colonel Claus Gra von
Stauenberg and others, as depicted in therecent Hollywood movie Valkyrie.
The collection also includes Sears
correspondence with Albert Einstein. Sears
had been a secretary or Einstein at the
University o Berlin in the late 1920s. The letters show that while Einstein wanted to help
the Sears amily immigrate to the United States, he could not fnancially sponsor another
amily. However, Einstein put the Searses in touch with an attorney in New York who did
sponsor the amilys move to the U.S.
Other documents in the collection include papers rom the Nuremburg trials. Edwin
Sears was also drated into the U.S. Army to help prosecute war criminals.
I encourage people my age to talk and discuss their parents history with them, Sears-
Van Nest says. Be curious and take pride in it.
Edwin Sears studied law at the University o Berlin, where he met Vera. The two
married just beore it became illegal or Vera, who was a gentile, to marry Edwin, who was
Jewish. The two lived in Berlin while Edwin completed his law degree and then became
a proessor o law at the University o Berlin. In 1939, he was orced to leave because he
reused to sign a pledge o loyalty to Adol Hitler and the Nazi party.
Edwin Sears was a proessor o law at the University o Denver rom 1943 until 1951.
Nancy Allen, dean o Penrose Library, says the collection will support research across
campus, including DUs Holocaust Awareness Institute, the Korbel School o International
Studies and the Carson-Brierly Dance Library collection.
Kristal Grifth
Lecture theme announced
James Fallows, national correspondent or
The Atlantic Monthly, will be the frst speaker in
the 200910 Bridges to the Future series. Titled
China Rising, the three-lecture series ocuses on
China and its role in the world.
Fallowswho has worked or the magazine
or more than 25 yearshas written about
national security policy, American politics, thedevelopment and impact o technology, economic
trends and patterns, and U.S. relations with the
Middle East, Asia and other parts o the world.
Fallows lecture is scheduled or 7 p.m. Sept.
21 in the Robert and Judi Newman Center or
the Perorming Arts (2344 E. Ili Ave).
All Bridges to the Future events are ree
and open to the public, but RSVPs are required.
RSVPs will be accepted in mid-August at www.
du.edu/bridges or by calling 3038712357.
Kristal Grifth