Friday, March 25, 2005

SYMPOSIUM: Performance-Enhancing Drugs and Sport

Colby-Sawyer College presents…
Athletics & Exercise and Sport Sciences Symposium
April 4, 2005
Wheeler Hall – Ware Campus Center
9:00 AM – 2:30 PM

Drug Prevention and Health Promotion for Adolescent Athletes: The ATLAS and ATHENA Programs
Esther Moe, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Dr. Esther Moe is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Health Promotion & Sports Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Oregon Health & Sciences University. She taught physical education, health education, and coached at the high school and college levels prior to her work in health promotion research. She has worked on adolescent drug prevention research for more than 10 years. She was the project coordinator on the Adolescents Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids program, an award winning drug use prevention program for young male athletes. She is also a co-investigator and project coordinator on the Athletes Targeting Healthy Exercise and Nutrition Alternatives project which seeks to implement and evaluate a drug use/disordered eating prevention and health promotion program for young women athletes. She is a co-investigator for the Promoting Healthy Lifestyles: Alternative Model’s Effects study.

Fair Is Fair, Or Is It?: The Drug Wars In Sport
William J. Morgan, Ph.D.

Dr. William Morgan is a professor in social and cultural foundations at The Ohio State University. He specializes in philosophy of sport, social and political philosophy, critical social theory, and philosophy of education. His areas of research deal with ethics in popular cultural settings like sports. He is currently working on a book that is tentatively titled, “The Moral Cachet of Sport: A Narrative of Declension and Hope.” He has done research in critical social theory, and is beginning some work in moral education and the social and political settings of American schools. Dr. Morgan is the co-editor of two textbooks (that are used at Colby-Sawyer): Ethics in Sport and Philosophic Inquiry in Sport.

Catching the Bad Guys: They Can Run But They Can No Longer Hide
Richard Pound, O.C., O.Q., Q.C., F.C.A.

As a driving force to ensure clean competition, Mr. Pound was instrumental in establishing the World Anti-Doping Agency and has served as its chair since its creation in 1999. A lawyer by profession, Mr. Pound's involvement in sport has been extensive. As an accomplished athlete, he competed for Canada in the Olympic and Commonwealth Games. Among his many administrative posts in the sport arena since his competitive days, Mr. Pound served as the president of the Canadian Olympic Committee between 1977 to 1982 and subsequently was elected to the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) between 1983-2000. He was first elected vice president of the IOC in 1987. Mr. Pound's work as the top negotiator for the IOC on television rights and sponsorship helped to usher in a period of prosperity for the organization.

Program

8:30 a.m. Registration at Wheeler Hall, Ware Campus Center
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Address
          Dr. Judith Muyskens, academic vice president and dean of faculty
9:15 a.m. Drug Prevention and Health Promotion for Adolescent Athletes: The
          ATLAS and ATHENA Programs
          Dr. Esther Moe
10:45 a.m. Fair Is Fair, Or Is It?
          Dr. William J. Morgan
12:00 p.m. Buffet Luncheon
1:15 p.m. Catching the Bad Guys: They Can Run But They Can No Longer Hide
          Mr. Richard Pound
2:30 p.m. Symposium Evaluation and Send-Off

TO REGISTER
Please complete registration form (not included here) and enclose the following:

Lectures: Free Lunch: $15.00 professional $10.00 student & senior citizen

and return by March 28, 2005 to:

Ms. Terri Hermann, Administrative Assistant
Colby-Sawyer College
541 Main Street
New London, NH 03257

Fax: (603) 526-3872
E-mail: thermann@colby-sawyer.edu

Please make checks payable to
Colby-Sawyer College

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