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By KATIE WEISE
The Red & Black
This week, the
University community cel
ebrates the birth of a man
who shook the world with
his non-conforming ideas.
Feb. 12 marks the 201st
birthday of Charles Darwin,
the British naturalist who
discovered species have
descended over time from
common ancestors, and
the University is honoring
the occasion with “Darwin
Day,” a week of events
intending to bring scien
tists together with non
scientists to learn what it
means to be human.
Darwin is famous for his
well-known idea of evolu
tion published in his book
“On the Origin of Species”
after he traveled on the
HMS Beagle and noticed
variation in the species he
observed.
“Lots of discoveries
have been based on his
theory of evolution. It is
the cornerstone for further
scientific thought,” said
Tom Mansfield, a junior
studying anthropology.
Darwin laid the founda
tion of understanding how
all species evolved, includ
ing Homo sapiens, but
today scientists still active
ly research and find out
new things about the nat
ural world and how it has
changed.
“In a way, evolutionary
thought is still evolving. As
a community of minds, we
are trying to learn more
about how things work,
how we evolved, how the
world came to be what it is
today,” said Rene Bobe,
assistant professor of
anthropology.
On Friday, Bobe will
talk about how humans
emerged from Africa and
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▲ Alaskan artist Ray Troll presents his artwork at a Darwin Day lecture Tuesday. Discussions,
displays and events will happen on campus throughout the week to honor Charles Darwin.
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with unstable climatic and
environmental conditions
in an unpredictable world.
“I think the story of our
origins is fascinating,”
Bobe said. “Aren’t you
interested in how we came
to be the species we are
today?”
Throughout the week,
the University Bookstore
is exhibiting books about
evolution and the Odum
School of Ecology has
paintings by Jamie Calkin
depicting hominin the
last common ancestor
between humans and
chimps.
However, the main
learning opportunities may
just be the lectures and
presentations.
Ray Troll, an Alaskan
artist, is focusing on the
art and science of fossils,
while Bobe and John
Hawks, an anthropologist
from the University of
Wisconsin, spotlight the
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essence of humanity. There
will also be a panel discus
sion Thursday between a
geneticist, anthropologist
and psychologists on what
it means to be human.
“Even if you accept and
understand that human
beings share a biological
common ancestry with the
other apes and all living
creatures, there remains
the question ‘What makes
us unique? What makes us
human?’” said Mark
Farmer, department head
of cellular biology, who
organized the events.
Raymond Freeman-
Lynde, associate professor
of geology, will have casts
of various dinosaur fossils
on display to show how
evolution has been useful
in determining the age of
rocks and the fossil record.
“Dinosaurs and birds
are cool and how birds
evolved from dinosaurs is a
great example of how evo
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Farmer said the goal of
Darwin Day is to bridge
the gap between science
and humanities.
At the University, the
event has only happened
twice once in 1909 on
the centennial of Darwin’s
birth and last year on the
bicentennial.
Farmer, along with Betty
Jean Craige in the Willson
Center for Arts and
Humanities intend to make
this an annual event.
“His ideas, not Darwin
himself, are important to
all science in that they fun
damentally changed the
way we view our place in
the universe,” Farmer said.
Even though evolution
was proposed 150 years
ago, people still resist the
theoiy.
But according to
Freeman-Lynde, Farmer
and Bobe, Darwin did not
intend to challenge spiri
tual beliefs.
As Darwin himself said,
“In the long history of
humankind —and animal
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learned to collaborate
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DARWIN MY
EVENTS
Today 6:30 p.m. ‘Genetics
and Influenza” lecture by
Jessie Kissinger. 8118 Lite
Sciences
Thursday 3:30 p.m The
Neandertta! Genome Prajecf
lecture by Jota Hawks. Tate
Center Reception Hats.
Thursday 4:30 p.m, “What
Does! Mean to t Human?
panel discussion. Tate Center
Reception Hail
Friday 12 p.m Lucy! I’m Horne!
Humanity’s Sa-friion-Year
Journey” lecture by Raoe Bobe.
Tate Carter Reception Hal
Friday 7 pun *DanMn% Daikest
Hour” film screening starring
Henry lan Cusick and Frances
O'Connor. North P-J auditorium
For a complete list of events
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Mac best
for design
students
By RACHEL BUNN
The Red & Black
Mac versus PC Is an
eternal debate among tech
nology geeks, and the
department of graphic
design at the University
has chosen its side Mac.
“In our industry, the
Macintosh is by for the
most dominant platform
about 90 percent use It,”
said Lanny Webb, graphic
design chair at the Lamar
Dodd School of Art. “It
doesn’t make sense to train
on a PC.”
Webb said because
graphic design Is a technol
ogy-based art, a computer
Is required for the classes.
The program, which
consists of 14 students this
semester; has been requir
ing students to purchase a
Mac book for the past eight
years.
“When the Mac first
came out, It was an icono
graphic Interface,” Webb
said. “It was the first con
sumer-based and art-based
operating system.”
Mac and Adobe, a soft
ware company, partnered
and created a number of
programs important to the
graphic design Industry,
such as Photoshop and
Dreamweaver.
Webb said Mac’s pro
grams and operating sys
tem allow users to have
“WYSIWYG” which
stands for “what you see is
what you get” and allows
designers to see how their
designs will look on a com
puter screen.
“It’s a tool we use to
train on. Why wouldn’t we
want students using it for
class?” Webb said.
Although most students
already have a laptop,
graphic design students
are only required to pur
chase a Mac on<Je they have
been accepted Into the
program. Webb said stu
dents usually do not com
plain about having to make
the extra purchase.
“For the most part, stu
dents are delighted because
they get to tell their par
ents they have to have
one,” Webb said.
A similar program at the
University of Florida will
require all UF journalism
students to purchase a
Mac computer beginning
this fall.
Although the UF jour
nalism department and
the graphic design depart
ment at the University
have implemented com
puter requirements, most
University programs do
not require students to
purchase a specific com
puter.
“We never decided on a
universal software pro
gram, so we don’t have a
specific computer require
ment,” said Sid Thompson,
professor of biological and
agricultural engineering.
At the University, it is
up to specific departments
if they want to require a
certain computer or other
device, said David Noah,
coordinator of emerging
technologies at , the
University.
“There’s no overall
University policy," Noah
said. “Some clk&ses require
clickers, but that’s it.”
For now, the University
recommends Incoming
freshmen purchase a com
puter, but the University
makes it clear that any
computer requirements
will be left up to specific
departments.
According to the
Enterprise Information
Technology Services Web
site, “Given that comput
ing demands can vary
widely from discipline to
discipline, students are
strongly encouraged to ask
whether their school or
department has made any
specific recommenda
tions.”
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