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16-March-1999 
99104 
 
    College News 
 
    by Evan Silverstein 
 
HASTINGS, Neb. - Carnegie Hall is beckoning to 16 Hastings College students 
and their choir director. Chip Smith, the director of choral activities at 
Hastings, who already has performed at the famed concert hall, will now 
share the experience with his 16-member Concert Choir. They will be in New 
York City on Easter weekend to perform under the direction of English 
conductor and composer John Rutter. The Hastings College group will be part 
of an ensemble of seven choirs from the United States and Japan to be 
accompanied by the New England Wind Ensemble. The concert begins at 2 
p.m.(eastern time) on Sunday, April 4. 
          The Hastings College choir was invited by MidAmerica Productions, 
an independent classical concert production company. Hastings is a private, 
four-year liberal-arts college with about 1,140 students. The Presbyterian 
college, founded in 1882, offers majors in 34 fields of study and 12 
pre-professional areas. 
 
 
PORTLAND, Ore. - The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and the 
Transportation Alternative Group of Oregon recently honored Lewis & Clark 
College with their 1999 Employee Commute Option Award. The honor is 
presented to the employer that has done the most to reduce 
single-occupancy-vehicle commuting. The Presbyterian-affiliated college was 
chosen from 1,500 eligible employers in the Portland metropolitan area. 
Lewis & Clark succeeded in significantly reducing its rate of solo 
commuting even though the college is in a suburban neighborhood with no 
bicycle lanes and limited bus service. In addition to implementing a 
parking fee in January, the college is doing such things as providing 
incentives to those who car pool, ride bicycles or take the bus. 
 
 
NEW YORK -  Ten college women were invited to the Presbyterian United 
Nations Office March 2-7 to participate in the United Nations Commission on 
the Status of Women (CSW). The CSW is a forum for governments to address 
issues important to women. More than 600 participants from non-government 
organizations worldwide also attended the CSW this year to exchange 
information and speak with governmental delegates and United Nations 
bodies. Participants were selected from four colleges, including Agnes 
Scott College in Decatur, Ga., Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla., and 
Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., all Presbyterian-affiliated liberal 
arts colleges. 
           The CSW addresses four priority themes from the Platform for 
Action agreed upon by 185 governments at the 1995 UN Fourth World 
Conference on Women. The platform was commended for study and action by the 
1996 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). This year the 
CSW focused on women's health as one of its major themes. 
 
 
MONMOUTH, Ill. - A painting by Carla Markwart, lecturer in art at Monmouth 
College, has been selected to be part of a prestigious traveling exhibit of 
work by some of Illinois' best female artists. Markwart's 1996 painting, 
"White House, Snow," will be included in the exhibit "Illinois Women 
Artists: The New Millennium," sponsored by the Washington, D.C.-based 
National Museum of Women in the Arts. The exhibit opens April 23 at the 
Illinois Art Gallery in Chicago before traveling to the National Museum of 
Women in the Arts in Washington next fall. After that, the exhibit travels 
to museums in other Illinois cities. The exhibit, which runs through 2001, 
features works by 50 women from Illinois. "White House, Snow" is an 
oil-on-canvas painting of a Galesburg farm house in winter. Monmouth is a 
private, four-year liberal arts college in western Illinois with 1,074 
students. 

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