Young H. Chun
Professor of Decision Science,
Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences
Professor of Decision Science,
Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences
LSU'S Biweekly Newsletter for Faculty & Staff
March 9, 2007 |
VOL. 23, NO. 13 |
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| Young H. Chun Professor of Decision Science, Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences |
What was your previous position and where?
After I received a Ph.D. in management science from Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University, I started my academic career at Northeastern University in Boston as an assistant professor. As a native of South Korea, I have also worked for Korean Air Lines and served in the air force for five years.
What is your research interest?
My primary research interests are in the area of managerial decision analysis, production planning and control and quality management. I am also interested in modeling any probabilistic problems in everyday life.
What brought you to LSU?
The South is well-known for Southern beauty, Southern cooking, and Southern hospitality. And I have not yet been disappointed with any one of the three in my adopted home state. In addition, the mild weather and LSU football were deciding factors as well.
What do you enjoy most about LSU?
I really enjoy all the smiling, attentive, cheerful and bright students in my classes, who make my teaching much more enjoyable. As a die-hard Tiger fan, I also enjoy watching LSU games with my kids in my spare time.
Since the summer of 2005, the LSUID Project Team has been working hard in order to protect both the privacy and security of individuals around campus. The team was appointed by former Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Risa Palm with a charge to replace Social Security Numbers, or SSN, as the primary identifier for students, faculty and staff.
“It is absolutely critical in this day of identity theft that the university move away from using the SSN as the primary identifier as quickly as possible,” said Robert Doolos, LSUID Project Team leader.
The LSUID will replace SSNs as a common, unique identifier and will be used in electronic and paper data systems to identify, track and provide service to individuals associated with the university for academic and business processes. LSUIDs have been assigned to all current and former students and staff for whom the university maintains electronic records. The LSUIDs are already being used in many computer systems and databases, however, until the summer term begins, SSNs will continue to be used to identify students for course-related functions. The change from SSNs to the LSUID not only affects LSU’s main campus but also the LSU AgCenter, the Hebert Law Center, Pennington Biomedical Research Center and LSU’s CAMD.
A Web site, www.lsu.edu/lsuid, is available with information pertaining to the LSUID Project. The site contains general information about the project including frequently asked questions, disclosure statements and helpful links to ease the transition for all involved. The site also includes a link that will give LSU students, faculty and staff access to their LSUIDs.
In addition to the link on the LSUID Web site, students and employees of the university can access their LSUID by logging into their PAWS account and clicking on “LSUID” under the “Directory Information” link. Individuals’ LSUIDs will also appear on new Tiger Cards, which will be issued beginning with the LSU Spring Invitational Program participants. For now, all existing Tiger Cards will continue to be accepted on campus with no interruption of service.
As part of the LSUID Project, the administration has adopted a SSN Policy to clearly inform and direct campus units on the proper and improper collection and disclosure of SSNs. LSU will continue to use the SSN as confidential information associated with students and employees for certain transactions such as financial aid, scholarships, payroll, benefits and IRS reporting purposes. Grades and other pieces of personal information will not be publicly posted or displayed in a manner where either the LSUID or SSN identifies the individual associated with the information.
Beginning June 1, 2007, all documents, paper and electronic, and any storage media containing SSNs shall be stored or disposed of in a timely and secure fashion consistent with state, federal and university record keeping policies. By June 1, any forms used, files created or graded materials must not contain SSNs unless prior approval has been obtained.
“We know that the departments may need assistance with the conversion, and the project team is ready to provide assistance,” said Doolos.
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Toni and Emmet Stephenson
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LSU alumni Emmet and Toni Stephenson, formerly of Bastrop, La., have pledged a $25 million gift to LSU, university officials have announced. Their donation is among the largest gifts ever to LSU A&M and accelerates the momentum of the “Forever LSU” campaign.
Approximately $15 million is committed to the E. J. Ourso College of Business, including $11 million to create the Stephenson Disaster Management Institute and $4 million to the Entrepreneurship Institute. Another $1 million will go to the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine. The remaining $9 million will be added to the above gifts or used to fund other programs at LSU.
The Stephensons said, “We believe LSU can move to the top ranks of universities in the U.S., and we want to help three programs with that achievement. The largest portion of our gift is to start a new disaster response management institute to capitalize on LSU’s unique experience and outstanding performance under the severe pressure of the Katrina disaster. Our vision is to see LSU become the premier university in the world on disaster response management. The second part goes to the Entrepreneur Institute to grow and enhance entrepreneurship education to create new businesses and new jobs in the Gulf South. The initial gift to the veterinary school is to kick off a much larger fundraising effort to advance its work in helping animals and conducting medical and biomedical research, which ultimately benefits people as well as animals.”
“We are extremely grateful to the Stephensons for their incredibly generous gift to the university,” LSU Chancellor Sean O’Keefe said. “It is very gratifying to see two of our alumni show their support for LSU in this way. This is a major step forward for the ‘Forever LSU’ campaign, and these funds will go a long way in improving the academic and research components of the university.”
The Stephenson Disaster Management Institute will strive to save human and animal life by continuously improving disaster response management through applied research and education. The institute will work to develop new and improved processes with an emphasis on preparation, readiness and response during the first 10 days following a disaster. The Entrepreneurship Institute will reorganize LSU’s entrepreneurship education program and outreach activities to promote immediate and future economic growth in Louisiana and the Gulf South region.
“The gift from the Stephensons will have a transformational effect on the E. J. Ourso College by providing new resources to study areas key to the prosperity of Louisiana and the world,” said Robert Sumichrast, dean of the Ourso College.
“This gift will help us study how improved management can save lives in the aftermath of a disaster, as well as expand the scope and effectiveness of our existing entrepreneurship programs and capabilities.”
“The wonderful gift from Emmet and Toni Stephenson reflects their strong passion for the health and well-being of animals and for veterinary medicine,” said Dr. Peter F. Haynes, interim dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine. “It is increasingly more evident that future initiatives in the School of Veterinary Medicine will rely heavily on the generosity of private donors, like Emmet and Toni Stephenson, who believe that our mission and programs are integral to the broad society that we serve.”
Emmet Stephenson is the founder and president of Stephenson and Company, a private investment company, and senior partner of Stephenson Ventures, a private equity firm. He also serves as a director of Danaher Corp. and is the retired chairman of StarTek Inc. Stephenson graduated magna cum laude from LSU with a bachelor of science degree from the College of Business in 1967 and was ranked first in his graduating class. In his senior year, he served as president of the LSU College of Business. He also graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School and received the Ralph Thomas Sayles Fellowship in Investments. At LSU, he was inducted into the LSU Alumni Association Hall of Distinction in 2006, the LSU Kappa Sigma Hall of Distinction in 2005 and the Ourso College of Business Hall of Distinction in 1998. He was a speaker in the Flores MBA Distinguished Speaker Series in 1999. Stephenson previously served as president of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association and received the Albert Einstein Technology Medal in 1999.
Toni Stephenson is the founder and president of General Communications Inc. She was publisher of Law Enforcement Product News and Public Safety Product News and was a founder and director of Charter Bank and Trust. She earned a bachelor of science degree from LSU in 1967, where she served on the Student Council, and completed the Harvard Business School Owner/President Management Program in 1990. She served as president of the Children’s Hospital Association of Volunteers, a director of the Children’s Hospital, a director of Anchor Center for Blind Children and a director of St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Both Emmet and Toni Stephenson currently serve on the Harvard Business School Board of Dean’s Advisors and are recognized in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. They have been married for nearly 40 years and have one daughter.
The “Forever LSU” campaign is designed to raise private funds for LSU to improve the university’s academic and research capabilities and to help it compete with other flagship universities in the nation. The campaign combines the efforts of the university’s three fundraising bodies – the LSU Alumni Association, the LSU Foundation and the Tiger Athletic Foundation. Prior to the Stephenson gift, LSU had raised $283 million toward its $750 million goal.
The LSU School of Music will present the symposium “360¾ of Willie Stark” on Thursday, March 22, at 6 p.m. in the LSU School of Music Recital Hall. The event, which is scheduled to last 90 minutes, is free and open to the public.
The symposium will examine “Willie Stark,” the opera by the renowned American Composer Carlisle Floyd, who is widely regarded as the “dean of 20th-century American opera composers.” Among his renowned works are “Susannah,” “Of Mice and Men” and “Cold Sassy Tree.” Floyd was the founding director of the Houston Opera Studio, the young artist program of the Houston Grand Opera.
The libretto of “Willie Stark” is drawn from Robert Penn Warren’s “All the King’s Men.” Late in life, Warren conceded that the fictional character “Willie Stark” was loosely based on Louisiana’s Governor and later Senator Huey Long. In the symposium, the opera and story will be examined with brief remarks from a panel of experts on musical, dramatic, historical, literary and political perspectives. A panel discussion with follow, which will afford the opportunity for interaction with the audience.
Participating in the symposium will be composer Carlisle Floyd; Dugg McDonough, LSU opera director and professor; John Keene, LSU opera music director; David L. Culbert, LSU history professor; T. Wayne Parent, LSU political science chair; and Andreas Giger, LSU School of Music musicologist. Robert Grayson, LSU voice/opera division chair, is the event chair and will serve as moderator.
The winter 2007 issue of The Southern Review is a special issue featuring new Southern writing and is the 17th in an ongoing series begun in 1968.
In the editor’s note, Bret Lott quotes from the essay “In Time of the Breaking of Nations: The Decline of Southern Fiction” by Walter Sullivan, a piece published in the very first Writing in the South issue 40 years ago. Sullivan asserts that “the new Southern writer must be something other than Southern: his faith and his vision must be fixed somewhere beyond the Southern experience: he must find his own source. Only then can he bring the old images alive once more.”
In this new issue, The Southern Review ambitiously takes this insightful and prophetic statement one step further by pulling together a diverse group of writers of all ages, backgrounds and experiences to illustrate that the new Southern writer in this globalized world is not just something other than Southern – the new Southern writer is something more than Southern.
The fiction in this new edition is neither coyly Southern nor all grits and gravy. Although staged in the South, each is concerned with universal themes – parenthood, death, friendship and politics. Acclaimed Southern writers James Lee Burke, Jill McCorkle, Clyde Edgerton and Lee Smith are at their best here, tackling new characters and subjects, from Burke’s traumatized Hurricane Katrina survivor to McCorkle’s newly divorced single mother and from Edgerton’s two bumbling and menacing criminal minds to Smith’s selfish, two-timing young bride. Also featured are stories from such notable writers as Charlie Smith, Janet Peery, James Fowler and John Biguenet, as well as a piece from newcomer Jason Bernard Claxton.
The poets in this winter issue are Southerners either at home or at heart and sometimes both. From seasoned bards to MFA students, included here are the likes of Roy Blount Jr., Elizabeth Cox, Jane Springer, Remy Ramirez and many more.
The issue also features new essays on an array of subjects that both explore and transcend what it means to be Southern. Patricia Foster reflects on the pressure she and her family felt to succeed in the middle-class South, while Kat Meads revisits the rise and fall of a small-town Southern sheriff. Leslie Bow meditates on what it means to be “partly colored” and Southern and American, and Marianne Gingher interviews her fellow Southern writers to learn what really makes their community tick.
This issue also inaugurates a new book review section, edited by Beth Bachmann, and includes reviews from David Wojahn, Myles Weber and Lorraine López, as well as brief reviews by Karen Salyer McElmurray, Charlotte Pence and Jaqueline Kolosov. This new section will become a regular feature of the journal.
The Southern Review, founded in 1935 by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, is published quarterly at LSU. This special issue is available now in bookstores, libraries or directly from The Southern Review by calling 225-578-5108, or by visiting www.lsu.edu/thesouthernreview.
LSU will welcome poet and internationally celebrated author Rosanna Warren to campus for two events in March as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program. Warren, the daughter of poet, novelist and former LSU professor, the late Robert Penn Warren, will visit campus March 12-13.
On Monday, March 12, “Collaboration: Poets and Painters, Rosanna Warren and James McGarrell,” a presentation on “Orbiana Oliveto,” or 19 pairs of poems and monotypes by Warren and McGarrell, will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Hill Memorial Library Lecture Hall. An exhibition will also be on display at Hill Memorial Library March 1-15.
On Tuesday, March 13, in cooperation with the nation’s oldest and largest honor society, Phi Beta Kappa, LSU’s Readers & Writers will present an evening with Warren at 5:30 p.m. in the LSU’s Hill Memorial Library.
Admission is $10 at the door and is open to the general public. Members of Readers & Writers and students are admitted free of charge. For more information, contact Nolde Alexius at 225-578-3123, nolde@hotmail.com or visit http://English.lsu.edu/dept/orgs/readerswriters.
Warren received her bachelor’s degree from Yale University in 1976 and her master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1980. She has authored the poetry collections “Departure, Stained Glass,” named the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets; “Each Leaf Shines Separate”; and “Snow Day.” She has published a translation of Euripides’ “Suppliant Women” and edited several books, including “The Art of Translation: Voices from the Field.” Her awards include the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the May Sarton Prize, the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Lila Wallace “Readers Digest” Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.
In 2000, Warren was The New York Times Resident in Literature at the American Academy in Rome. She is a contributing editor of Seneca Review and the poetry editor of Daedalus. She is currently the Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities and recipient of one of Boston University’s distinguished teaching awards, the Metcalf Award.
The Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program makes available each year 12 or more distinguished scholars who visit 100 colleges and universities with chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. They spend two days on each campus, meeting informally with students and faculty members, taking part in classroom discussions and giving a public lecture open to the entire academic community. The purpose of the program is to contribute to the intellectual life of the institution by making possible an exchange of ideas between the visiting scholars and the resident faculty and students. Now entering its 51st year, the Visiting Scholar Program has sent 529 scholars on 4,450 two-day visits since it was established in 1956.