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6 • The Clackamas Print • May 28, 2003 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Math dept, serves 'Pi and Ice Cream' Elisabeth Meyer The Clackamas Print The math department showed its sense of humor last Thursday at the annual “Pi and Ice Cream” lecture, which attracted a large crowd. Dr. Keith Leatham, a professor from PSU, spoke about connections between math and music. The lectures have been given at least once a year for the past several springs, Department Chair Kurt Lewandowski said. Instructor Mark Yannotta has made arrangements for lecturers to come, Lewandowski said, partly because working on his PhD brings him into contact with other teachers. Yannotta has taken three classes from Leatham at PSU. “(Leatham) trains teachers to teach math,” Yannotta said. “A lot of his students* are elementary educa tion majors who might not be inter ested in math, but will have to teach it anyway.” “I teach teachers,” Leatham said. “It's a little different from proving theorems. It's much more of a peo ple thing.” His speciality is mathe matics education, which makes him doesn't connect to their lives in some way/ Yannotta said. “Of the first 25 focus on making math accessible. “I've been wanting an excuse to people (who came to the lecture), I put a presentation like this together,” didn't recognize a soul. I think they Leatham said. Were from music classes....Every “I try to find (lecturers) who aré /one of these talks usually draws interesting. I figure everyone has a- other faculty members.” talk in them somewhere,” Yannotta Adam Halls released his calculus said. “Everybody has a passion in class, which overlapped the lecture, their lives. For Keith, it's math and an hour early to let them attend. music.” “It was kind of a collective stu Lining up a speaker is the most dent decision,” said Hall, adding that challenging part of the process, a student had suggested it to him. Yannotta said. Other details include “Maybe-they felt it was the lesser of securing a room, posting flyers and the two evils,” he laughed. getting post-lecture goodies. Preparing for the shindig gave “My responsibility is going to the math department interns John grocery store and buying the ice Osborne and Jasmin Walker a break cream, bowls and spoons,” from the routine of collating, proc- Lewandowski laughed. “That's one toring tests and double-checking test of the glamorous jobs of being corrections. department chair.” “This is more messier,” Osborne Yannotta explained that the “Pi said, grinning. “And more funner. and Ice Cream” lectures are a way to That's right, funner.” bring students from different disci Osborne caught part of the lec plines together to study how math ture before leaving to dish up ice affects them. cream. “We know a lot of our students “What I heard was basically aren't majoring in math, but that about how notes are created," doesn't mean it's not important or Osborne said. 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The pulled beef is the best choice for taste, andTit goes well with the guacamole and sour cream that is on top. This always causes me to get extra stuffed! Bring a wheelchair along to haul your bloated carcass out the restaurant. There is just one more issue left this term for 5 in 5 and I have no clue whether anyone actually reads these or not. So drop by The Print office at Bl04 to let me know what you think. Vem Rutsala, poet and English professor at Lewis and Clark College, will visit Clackamas tomorrow. He won the Juniper Prize for his 1994 work “Little-Known Sports” and the Oregon Book Award for his 1992 collection “Selected Poems.” . Being Second-Rate There are people—and institutions—which quite clearly relish this activity. The pleasure is derived from both the warmth of many companions—as at the start of a marathon—and the avoidance of any pain which is—also as in a marathon—reserved for the leaders. -Vem Rutsala from “Little-Known Sports” Tomorrow • Noon • Gregory Forum • Free The Real Freshness is at Pogy’s Subs Fresh Baked Bread Daily Never made from frozen dough Meat sliced fresh for order Beavercreek Rd. Les Schwab POGYS 1630 Beavercreek Road Suite J Oregon City, OR Located in South Ridge Center ORDERS TO GO: Opportunities Right Whore You Are - Anywhere in the U.S. and Canada For details phone or e-moit sue Dobson. Advisor, Portland phone: soi-ras-esse e-mail: sdobson^eou.edu than I have gone yet and stopping at Super Torta for some lunchtime goodness. It was difficult this week to decide what to eat, but I made a tough decision and ordered up a grande nacho. Take a second person along with you so you do not have to han dle this beast of a nacho plate alone; I always leave half the meal on the plate and it goes to waste. When you order you have three choices: chicken, pulled beef or Rutsala comes to campus Eastern Oregon university Division of Distance Education U Over 20 Years Experience Delivering Distance Education Degrees □ "Student First" Emphasis Q Student-Driven Degree Planning □ Over 400 High-Quality Courses Q Student Advising Centers throughout Oregon Q On-tine Advising available throughout the U.S. □ Flexible Course Options □ Feiriy Priced Q no Out-ot-State Tuition “I know nothing about music, and I could follow him,” said Lewandowski. 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