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Art After Hours
By Alicia Gorman
STAFF WRITER

As one of three mini exhibits taking place in the Art Show at the Florence Elston Inn conference center beginning May 11th, the Art After Hours group will feature some familiar faces from Sweet Briar College.

Art After Hours is made up of people who are art enthusiasts, but are not professional artists.

Jennifer Crispen, Associate Professor of the Athletic Department and an exhibitor in the group Art After Hours, explains that the artists in the group practice art out of enjoyment and as an end-of-the-day activity.

“They rely on art for sanity,” Crispen said.
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Can tourism save the number two endangered species in Africa?
By Joanna K. Wood ’06
STAFF WRITER

Would you pay $59.00 to see a pack of Cape Hunting Dogs? That’s what one Sweet Briar conservationist hopes will save the second most endangered species in Africa.

Associate Professor of Environmental Science at Sweet Briar College Dr. Robert Alexander, one of the world’s leading experts on the economics of wildlife conservation, is striving to rescue and revive the African wild dog species Lycaon pictus by working with landowners in Kenya to develop tourism sites for the animal.

“African Wild Dogs are in their own genus of Lycaon, of which they are the only member,” clarifies Alexander. “They are just that much more valuable genetically speaking than a species that has many other closely related species.”
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