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When WCU faculty member Brian Railsback traveled to New York City in 1993, he saw firsthand the destruction that occurs when individuals are inspired by their ideologies to commit violence against others. During that business trip, Railsback visited the World Trade Center site two days after the first terrorist bombing at that New York landmark. Now, 11 years later, the central character in Railsbacks new fiction book, The Darkest Clearing, is also a man driven by his beliefs to commit extreme violence against others. Railsback, head of Westerns department of English, has written short stories and is a nationally recognized scholar and author on the works of John Steinbeck. The Darkest Clearing, his first novel, was released in January by High Sierra Books, an Oregon publisher, and the book has since garnered favorable reviews in publications such as the Charlotte Observer, Booklist and Midwest Review. The books 326 pages tell the story of a character named Eldred Spell, a New York stockbroker who, on the same day, experiences the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and learns of the death of his sister, the only person he has ever cared for, in a fictionalized Yosemite Valley. Spell is compelled to head to the valley to undertake a violent campaign, by the point of a rifle, to rid the valley of the clutter of modern tourism and restore its natural beauty. The name Eldred Spell is a familiar one on Westerns campus, as there is a real Eldred Spell who teaches in the universitys music department. Railsback received permission to borrow the name of his friend and colleague. The novels other primary character is Eli Ware, a female park ranger in the valley. Ware is struggling to define herself and is torn between her desire to work as an interpretive ranger, to be a good wife and mother and other forces that compel her to work as a ranger who provides law enforcement. Throughout the book, the two characters lives begin to weave together until finally they meet - and they want to kill each other, Railsback said. In a strange way, they have created the only circumstances through which they will find out who they really are, he said. _and Council of masters degree programs. in Ecological Biotechnology and in Forensic Science. The grant, to be administered through Westerns. Office of Research and Graduate Studies, will fund a yearlong feasibility study examining the pros and cons of adding the new masters degrees to the university's existing mix of es programs offered at the graduate level. The professional science masters (PSM) degree programs would be designed to provide students with a combination of traditional training in the hard sciences, relevant applications in biotechnology or forensic science and business and interpersonal skills required by start-up or existing employers, said Abdul Turay, dean of Westerns Graduate School. _ We anticipate that students will take courses offered by entrepreneurship faculty from the College of Business, and will develop professional, as wellas academic, writing skills, Turay said. The goal of the project is the creation of degree programs that serve the professional and governmental workforce needs in Western North Carolina and across the state. The proposed Ecological Biotechnology program would focus on the development of practical applications of species native to the Southern Appalachian Mountains. It would build upon Westerns existing faculty expertise in Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, and would take advantage of the university's location in the one of the most biologically diverse settings in the world, said David Butcher, Brian Railsback Pens Eco-thriller, THE DARKEST CLEARING S aduate Pro gram Po ee | Railsback said the original concept for the book came to him while he was attending a Steinbeck conference in Nantucket, MA. One of the conference participants told Railsback in conversation that he had been spiking trees to protest timber-cutting operations. T asked him about the danger that poses for people who process the lumber, and this very sophisticated, professorial and well- dressed guy smiled and said, Thats the chance I take, isnt it? Railsback said. Tt just hit me, and I spent that night walking the streets of Nantucket, thinking about the fact that this is our countrys great unsolvable problem, Railsback said. You have one group of people who want to use the land for recreation or to develop it and make money, and the other side wants to preserve it. I wanted to write about that. Its a battle of will over resources. Railsback worked on the book periodically over the ensuing decade, balancing his fiction writing with his duties as a teacher and administrator. J meant to write a literary book that had to do with the environment, but once these characters came into play, they took over the novel and it didnt wind up at all like I expected, Railsback said. Its being described as a literary thriller, or eco-thriller, and thats not what I thought I was doing when I started. Railsbacks book has garnered some good reviews. Midwest Review says The Darkest Clearing is dark, dramatic, entertaining, and highly recommended for community library fiction shelves. A reviewer for the Charlotte Observer said the book should satisfy readers looking for a thriller with meat on its bones, especially those passionate about wilderness and intrigued by the dark recesses of the human heart. With one novel finished, Railsback is in the process of writing two others while continuing work on another longterm project, editing The John Steinbeck Encyclopedia. Railsback will read from The Darkest Clearing and sign copies of the book beginning at 7 P.M. Friday, March 12, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. _ head of Western's cspartiedt of Chemcy and Physics. : _ The other new proposed degree, Forensic Science, has become one of the hottest new programs of study in that nation. The proposed program would complement new bachelors and masters degree programs in Forensic Anthropology already under development within the department of Anthropology and Sociology, with classes anticipated to be offered beginning in fall 2004. The Council of Graduate Schools is an organization of institutions of higher education in the United States, Canada, and across the globe engaged in graduate education, research scholarship and the preparation of candidates for advanced degrees. For more than four decades, the Council of Graduate Schools has been the only national association dedicated solely to representing the interests of graduate education. CGS administers grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that provides funds to develop professional science masters degree programs at masters focused institutions. The council awarded PSM planning grants to 36 institutions in 2002, with 22 of these institutions developing proposals to implement new PSM programs. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution, was established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., then-president and chief executive officer of the General Motors Corp. The New York-based foundation provides grants in several areas of interest, including science and technology; standards of living and economic performance, and education and careers in science and technology. ji ee eM
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