Pi Alpha Alpha to Host Former Police Chief

Douglas Kowalski, former chief of the McKinney Police Department, will be the featured speaker at the next Pi Alpha Alpha event scheduled for Tuesday, November 19 at Marcus Cafe in Richardson. The meeting, sponsored by the UT Dallas chapter of the public affairs honor society, is slated for 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the restaurant located at 2701 Customer Parkway.

Public Affairs faculty and students are invited to attend the event, which will include a discussion of "Emotional Labor" as well as networking opportunities.

PA and Sociology Students Among Archer Fellows

The UT Dallas Archer Fellows for Summer 2013 are heading back to Dallas after spending the summer months interning in Washington D. C. The Archer Center was established by the UT System in conjunction with Former U.S. Representative Bill Archer as a way to bring highly motivated and accomplished students to Washington, D.C. to participate in varied internships and take part in classes focusing on policy, economics, and politics.

Before leaving our nation's capital, Archer Fellow from UT Dallas' PA and Sociology program joined Dr. Don Arbuckle in the Vice President Ceremonial Office, where they posed for a picture while doing the UT Dallas Swoosh.

Esmerelda Sachez, Applied Sociology; Donald Arbuckle, PA; Laura Gorecki, PA; and Evan Carr, PA.  

The VP's Ceremonial Office is a beautifully restored room which Teddy Roosevelt inhabited  he was Secretary of the Navy. The desk pictured is the one used by Richard Nixon in his hideaway office (in a different part of the building) during Watergate.  In the top of it is a hole that housed the cord of the tape recorder that got him in so much trouble. The center drawer of the desk is autographed by every Vice President since Truman.  

We congratulate all three of our Archer Fellows and look forward to having them back on campus.