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Transylvania is now using Twitter to keep the campus community, future students, alumni and friends informed of the university’s latest news. What is Twitter? Twitter is a free social networking service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Twitter is used by Transy as a communications tool to stay connected with our “followers” and to pass along emergency notifications (like weather closings), campus reminders, upcoming events and other university information of interest. Creating Your Twitter Account Creating a Twitter account is easy. Simply go to www.twitter.com and click on the “Get Started-Join!” button. You will need to provide a username. Twitter will check for duplicates to ensure each username is unique. You will then provide a password and e-mail address. You can only create one Twitter account per e-mail address. Finally, enter the word(s) displayed in the security box and click the “Create my account” button. Follow Transy In order to receive Twitter messages from Transy you will need to “follow” the account we use. To do this, log into Twitter, enter “Transy” (no quotes) in the “Name or location” box located at the top of your Twitter home page, and click on search. On the results page that opens, locate the entry for Transy (should be the only entry) and click “Follow”. That’s it, you are now following Transy and

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Jackie Distler LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania senior guard Jackie Distler captured Player of the Year honors Thursday from the Heartland Conference while Greg Todd was the selection of his peers as the league’s Coach of the Year. Distler, a Louisville Sacred Heart product, led the Pioneers to a 22-5 record and to HCAC regular season and tournament titles. She averaged 15.4 points and 6.3 rebounds a game, both team highs, while shooting 44.7 percent from the field and 31.3 percent from three-point range. She scored in double figures in 25 of 27 games with a career-high of 25 against Mt. St. Joseph. Distler, who missed her junior season with a knee injury, was named to the All-HCAC team for the first time. She is the third Transy women’s player to be named Player of the Year, joining Julie Leach (2007) and Tari Young (2003). Greg Todd Todd guided Transy into the NCAA Championship for the second time in his three seasons as head coach. The Pioneers were regular season HCAC champs for the first time since 2002-03 and took the HCAC tourney for the first time since Transy joined the league in 2001-02. Transy also won 20 or more games in a season for the first time since 2004-05. Todd’s record in three seasons at Transy is 53-29. Distler was joined on the All-HCAC first team by teammate Brittany Henderlight. The junior guard averaged 12.4 points a game, second on the team,

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Jeffrey Wigand LEXINGTON, Ky.—Tobacco industry critic Jeffrey Wigand, speaking at Transylvania University on Tuesday, March 3, on the topic “Insider’s View of the Tobacco Industry,” made the case for federal regulation of tobacco products while recounting his experiences as a former executive at Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation who went public with inside information on that company’s research and marketing practices. Wigand, vice president for research and development at Brown & Williamson from 1988-93, decided to violate his confidentiality agreement with his former employer in 1995 and reveal information on the company’s research involving nicotine content and its effects on addictiveness in smokers. He was subsequently the subject of a CBS 60 Minutes expose and a 1999 Hollywood movie titled The Insider that depicted his story as a corporate whistler-blower and as a key witness in a multi-state trial that resulted in Kentucky and 39 other states getting tobacco settlement money. “Federal regulation should compel tobacco companies to disclose all the additives in their products,” Wigand said. “Smokers should have the same level of knowledge the industry itself has. I have no problem with adult smokers who assume the risk, provided they do it with informed consent.” Wigand joined Brown & Williamson with the goal of developing a less hazardous cigarette and devising the testing protocol that would allow the company to make this claim in its advertising campaigns. He accused the company of thwarting this purpose and misrepresenting the

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University senior Marcie Smith will be a featured keynote speaker at Power Shift ’09 in Washington, D.C., Feb. 27- March 2. Smith and 47 other Transy students join 10,000 student leaders from around the world to lobby for the President and Congress to pass a bold climate and energy policy that prioritizes renewable energy, green job creation and an aggressive cap on carbon emissions.   “The youth of America turned out in record numbers to elect a new President and Congress,” Smith said. “We’re here now to take our rightful seat at the political table. We are at a critical point in our nation’s history. We have the chance to work with our new leadership to build a new green economy and address our climate crisis with the passage of bold climate and energy policies.” Smith is being featured as a keynote speaker because of her expertise on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) and her work with the Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition. Last December Marcie attended the UN Climate Negotiations in Poznań, Poland. In Poland, Marcie served as a policy expert and worked closely with the Congolese government delegation on deforestation and indigenous rights issues. Smith will also be speaking about these issues in great detail not only during her keynote, but during a workshop titled, “The Relationship between the Global South and the Global North in Climate Negotiations.” As a sophomore, Smith, who is studying

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Transylvania publications staff. From left to right: Barbara Grinnell, William Bowden, Lori-Lyn Hurley, Martha Baker. LEXINGTON, Ky.—Two Transylvania University publications took top honors at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), District III awards competition. The awards were presented during the organization’s Step It Up annual conference in Atlanta earlier this month. Transylvania’s admissions viewbook won the Grand Award in the printed publications, student recruitment category and Transylvania Treasures, a publication that highlights items in the University’s Special Collections and Moosnick Medical and Science Museum, took the top prize for printed institutional publications. The publications are the work of Martha Baker, publications director; William Bowden, writer/editor; Barbara Grinnell, graphic designer; and Lori-Lyn Hurley, editorial assistant. Transylvania Treasures is designed by Carin Lovell of By Design, Lexington. The CASE awards recognize superior accomplishments that have lasting impact, demonstrate the highest level of professionalism, and deliver exceptional results. “Winning two Grand Awards in this competition is a great honor for Transylvania,” said Sarah Emmons, director of public relations. “Transylvania’s four-member publications staff works extremely hard and produces exceptional work. It’s wonderful that their work in the two categories they entered has been recognized as the best in the district.” CASE is the professional organization for advancement professionals who work in alumni relations, communications and development. The district encompasses the southeastern United States and includes colleges, universities, private schools and parochial schools from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North

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