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StateLineswww.frostburg.edu/news/statelines.htm For and about FSU people A publication of the FSU Office of Advancement Volume 38, Number 18, Feb. 11, 2008 Copy deadline: noon Wednesday, 228 Hitchins or [email protected] V-Day Events Highlighted World-Renowned Morgan State by ‘Vagina Monologues’ FSU will present Eve Ensler’s “The University Choir to Perform Feb. 19 Vagina Monologues” at 7:30 p.m. on Educational Talk 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, and Saturday, Feb. 16, Widely recognized as one of the at the Pealer Recital Hall in the Perform- Precedes Performance nation’s most prestigious university ing Arts Center. The event is part of V- The public will have an opportunity to choral ensembles, the Morgan State Day, a global campaign to end violence enjoy a world-class performing ensemble University Choir’s repertoire spans against women and girls. and honor the memory of Dr. Martin several centuries and includes classical, In celebration of V-Day’s 10-year Luther King Jr. when FSU presents the gospel and contemporary popular music. anniversary, the Women’s Studies Depart- Morgan State University ment and the Ophelia Project are spon- Choir Tuesday, Feb. 19, soring FSU’s seventh benefit production in the Pealer Recital Hall of the play. “The Vagina Monologues” on the FSU campus. The dives into a range of emotions buried in free concert, part of FSU’s real women’s experiences. All proceeds ongoing spring celebra- will benefit the Family Crisis Resource tion of Dr. King’s life, Center in Cumberland and the Dove begins at 6:30 p.m. with Center of Garrett County. an educational exchange V-Day performances of the award- and talk with several winning “The Vagina Monologues” choir members and Dr. generated over $6 million globally in Eric Conway, the choir’s 2007. The annual benefit performances director. A spirited and projects raise awareness and funds performance by the group for anti-violence groups within the follows at 7:30 p.m. community. Regional choral Dr. Eric Conway will speak before the concert As part of musicians, congrega- its 2008 V- tional and school choirs, FSU choir The 50-member traveling ensemble is Day Cam- students and other music lovers are also noted for its emphasis on preserv- paign, FSU invited to learn more about live perfor- ing the heritage of the spiritual, will have its mances and the challenges and rigors of particularly in the historic practices of annual Scarf touring during Dr. Conway’s pre-perfor- performance. The Choir tours interna- Sale today mance open dialogue. As director of the tionally on a regular basis and appears through Feb. Morgan State University Choir, Dr. with the finest American and European 15 in the Conway has been a part of the group’s orchestras. Lane Univer- concerts at venues all over the world. He The Choir’s performance was jointly sity Center will offer insights on how professional organized by FSU’s Martin Luther King and during artists have successful tours, with the Jr. Celebration Committee, Cultural the perfor- The sale of home- help of select Choir members who will Events Series, the Office of the Presi- mances of made scarves will also be present during the dialogue. Dr. dent, the Office of the Provost, the “The Vagina benefit local Conway will also discuss diversity issues Office of Student and Educational Monologues.” women’s shelters. as part of a reflection on Dr. King. The Services, FSU’s Black Student Alliance Proceeds will Choir will then share their talents with and the Diversity Center. For more benefit both local centers. the community during the concert at information, call x3137. The Clothesline Project, designed to “air out society’s dirty laundry,” will be Fill Your Spring Calendar with MLK Celebrations held from Feb. 11 to Feb. 15 in the Lane University Center. Women and men FSU and Allegany College of Maryland and Dr. Leslie McElmore, Director of the are invited to create shirts that will be will present a semester’s worth of Fannie Lou Hamer Institute. displayed during the performances of programs in celebration of the life and Freedom Through Music “The Vagina Monologues” as a visual legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Nationally recognized musicians and representation of real stories of violence Ordinary/Extraordinary against women. singers Greg Artzer and Terri Leonie will The “Take Back the Night” Rally A multimedia program titled “Ordi- make a presentation titled “Magpie: nary People Can Do Extraordinary Music and the Movement” on March 27 will take place on Monday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m. The rally will start in the Upper Things” will be held Feb. 13 from 7 p.m. from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. and 12:30 Quad and march to the Osborne Newman to 9 p.m. and Feb. 14 from 9: a.m. to p.m. to 1:45 p.m. and March 28 from Center. Open-mic performances and 10:45 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the ACM refreshments will follow the march. in the ACM Theatre. The program will Theatre. Their presentation will demon- Tickets to FSU’s performance of “The focus on the music, the historical events strate traditional freedom and songs and the experiences of civil rights from the civil rights movement while Vagina Monologues” are $5 for students and $10 for non-students. Call x7462 for workers whose courage and determina- sharing about the history, role and more ticket information. To learn more tion challenged the State of Mississippi, meaning of music. about V-Day events, contact Whitney resulting in the passage of the Voter Listen to Gandhi’s Grandson Registration Act of 1965. Special guests Young, President of the Ophelia Project Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Arun will include Dr. Frank Smith, Director of Advisory Council, at 410-703-0898 or e- Gandhi will make a presentation titled the African American Civil War Museum mail [email protected]. Continued on page 2 StateLines / 2

Continued from page 1 in ceramics at FSU. The show, which is einstitute. Participants may submit no “Lessons Learned from My Grandfather” free and open to the public, begins with more than three photographs. The on March 31 at 7:30 p.m. in Pealer a reception 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, deadline for submitting entries is April Recital Hall in the FSU Performing Acts including a gallery talk at 7:30 p.m. 11. There are three place winners for the Center. Mahatma Gandhi’s principles and Sheirer makes image collages featur- contest each year as well as an award for techniques of nonviolence were applied ing digital photographs and found “the people’s choice” that gives the to the Civil Rights Movement. objects from nature and her immediate public the opportunity to vote either in environment that are scanned, manipu- person or on the Internet for their Learn How Peace Builds Society lated, colorized and “sculpted” in Adobe favorite photograph from the 20 final- A presentation and discussion titled Photoshop. Her visual interpretation of ists. “The Role of Civil Society in Building the natural world incorporates abstrac- Contest winners were awarded more Peace” will be held on April 3 from 7:30 tion, symmetry and repetition, in which than $1,600 in cash, prizes and gift p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Allegany Arts everyday objects are elevated from their certificates last year. Council building. It will be about the original contexts. “Music is a great For additional information call Gale responsibility of citizens in a democracy inspiration, especially the old-timey Yutzy at x4369 or MaryLynn Pegg at to promote social justice and economic music of Appalachia, where I live,” she x4721 or visit the Institute’s Web site: quality and how organizations and writes in her artist statement. “I www.frostburg.edu/dept/geog/ education can play a part in strengthen- compare my layering of imagery to the einstitute. Entries can be delivered to ing peace and transforming society. The layering of rhythms in music and the either Gunter Hall 201 or Dunkle Hall presentation will be given by David J. piecing of images to the making of 307 on the FSU campus. Smith, Director of the United States quilts.” “Ink and Glaze” presents four Institute for Peace. new black-and-white series Sheirer has Theatre Film Documents Civil Rights Struggle been developing since 2006: “Hickory A documentary titled “At the River I Labyrinth,” “Potomac,” “Corollaries” and Stand” will be held April 15 from 7:30 “Ice Stories.” p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Allegany Arts Brown focused on traditional clay Council Building, April 16 from 7:30 training in England before relocating to p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Palace Theater the United States 24 years ago. She is in Frostburg and April 17 from 9:30 interested in both ceramics and a.m. to 11 a.m. at ACM’s theatre. The printmaking, and enjoys combining the documentary will focus on the eventful two using a technique of printing line months in Memphis 1968 leading up to and color onto the clay surface. Her the death of Martin Luther King Jr. and linear decoration and choice of color the connection between the struggle for reflect her observations of landscape and the different environments in which civil and economic rights. The guest Keenan Scott II and Shea-Mikal humanity exists. She draws inspiration speaker will be Rev. Samuel Billy Kyles, Green appear in ‘Almost, Maine’ a close friend of King’s who was with from both her Northern European him the final week of his life. influences and her experience and exposure to modern and ancient Playwright to Attend Get Some Perspective on King’s Life America. “The vessel in all forms is a ‘Almost, Maine’ A panel discussion on significant reference point to my craft University Theatre’s student-directed “Intergenerational Perspectives on Dr. background, and I strive to make my series, Second Stage, will continue on King” will be held on April 16 from 3 pieces ‘stand proud’ and speak of their Feb. 22 and 23 with “Almost, Maine.” p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Pealer Recital Hall inherent aesthetic beauty,” she explains Performances will take place at 7:30 in the FSU Performing Arts Center. The in her artist statement. p.m. in the F. Perry Smith Studio panel discussion will allow faculty and The Stephanie Ann Roper Gallery has Theatre of the Performing Arts Center students to talk with Rev. Kyles. free admission and is open to the public with a talk-back by playwright and Kyles will also present “Martin Luther Sunday through Wednesday from 1 to 4 Tony-nominated actor John Cariani after King Jr.’s Message from a New Genera- p.m. For more information about the the Feb. 23 performance. tion” on April 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the exhibition, please contact FSU Depart- Magical realism thrives in Cariani’s Pealer Recital Hall. The presentation will ment of Visual Arts at x4797. moving comedy, hailed by the “New York be a celebration of King’s life, legacy Sun” as “Love in the Time of Frostbite.” and vision for the future. On a cold, clear, moonless Friday night There will be a final gathering in this Calling All Shutterbugs! in deep winter, the Northern Lights series of events, Join in CommUnity, on The Environmental Planning and Land hover over the remote, mythical town of May 4 at 1 p.m. at Cumberland’s Town Management Institute at FSU invites Almost, Maine. All is not quite what it Center. photographers to submit photographs to its fifth annual Environmental Photogra- seems as the residents of Almost find phy Contest. The Institute, a joint themselves falling in and out of love in venture between FSU’s Department of unexpected, unusual and often amusing Geography and the Maryland Bureau of ways. Knees are bruised, hearts are Visual Art Mines, Maryland Department of the broken and love is—literally—lost, Environment, will accept entries until found and realized. Whimsical and the deadline at 4 p.m. April 11. charming, “Almost, Maine” inventively ‘Ink and Glaze’ The competition is open to any explores the mysteries of the human Highlights Two Artists amateur photographer over 11 years old heart, touching its audience with who lives, works or attends school in laughter, heartbreak, and hope. Two artists share their interpretations Also an actor, Cariani has appeared on of the natural landscape and their either Allegany or Garrett counties. Images should depict environmental or and off Broadway and holds numerous interest in pushing the boundaries of television credits to his name, including ceramics and digital printmaking in “Ink natural habitat scenes of Allegany or Garrett county that reflect the environ- the recurring role of Julian Beck on and Glaze,” an exhibition on view at “Law & Order.” He is the winner of the FSU’s Stephanie Ann Roper Gallery mental beauty that defines Western Maryland. Photographs should be 8 by 2004 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best through Feb. 24. “Ink and Glaze” Featured Actor in a Musical as Motel in features the talents of Lisa Sheirer, a 10 inches and matted; they can be in black and white or color. the revival of Fiddler on the Roof and former FSU visual arts faculty member also received a Tony nomination in 2004 and associate professor and program Entry forms may be obtained from the FSU Department of Geography/Bureau of for the same role. Cariani’s first play, manager of computer graphics and “Almost, Maine,” was inspired by his photography at Frederick Community Mines Lab or from the Institute’s Web site at www.frostburg.edu/dept/geog/ memories of growing up in Presque Isle, College, and Jacqueline Brown, professor Maine. StateLines / 3

For more information and reserva- Fighting Hellfish, which includes a be accompanied by e2Campus notifica- tions, call the University Theatre box geography alum. For more info, call tions and e-mails directing you on what office at x7462 (M-F 9-4 p.m.), or stop Tracy Edwards at x4369. action you should take. The siren will be by the box office in the Performing Arts reserved for severe weather, fire or Center lobby, (M-F 12-2 p.m.). All police emergencies. tickets are $5. Film Students: Register Feminist Classic Film Festival Presents for BITS Test on Main Stage FSU students following the 2005–07 University Theatre will continue the ‘Fauteuil D’ Orchestre’ or later FSU Undergraduate Catalog can Main Stage series with Sophie FSU’s University Programming Council opt to take the BITS Test to meet their Treadwell’s classic of 20th century will present “Fauteuil D’ Orchestre” on technology fluency graduation require- feminist literature, “Machinal,” on Feb. Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. in Atkinson ment. With this option, students must 29, March 1, 6, 7 and 8 at 7:30 p.m. Room 201 in the Lane University Center. score 70 percent or higher on this 100- and March 1 at 2 p.m. in the Drama The first film to be featured in the item, timed, online, group-proctored Theatre of the Performing Arts Center. French Film Festival, “Fauteuil D’ test. To review other options, students “Machinal” is, in part, based on the Orchestre” follows the story of Jessica, a should refer to the “Undergraduate celebrated 1927 trial of Ruth Snyder, the beautiful and naïve girl from south-east Degree Requirements” [Item #9] in the first woman to be put to death in New France. Taking a job as a waitress in the “Academic Life” section of their FSU York’s electric chair for the murder of wealthy part of Paris, Jessica’s innocence Undergraduate Catalog. her husband. Like many American creates a rewarding connection between To register for the BITS Test, go to women playwrights of her generation, her and her wealthy clients. the FSU Bookstore for Registration Week Treadwell was trained as a reporter. Other films to be featured in the today through Friday, Feb. 15, from Keenly aware that the legal system of festival include “Indigènes” on Feb. 28 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Students must the time and most social and cultural and “Paris Je T’aime on March 3. All present their FSU student ID and pay a norms were dictated by male interests, showings are free and open to the non-refundable $15 registration fee to Treadwell responded with a powerful public. For more information, contact register for one of the three BITS Test play about “an ordinary young woman,” the Lane University Center Information sessions. In addition to payment by whose inescapable entrapment in an Desk at X411. cash, check, or Bobcat Express, the oppressively mechanized, materialistic following credit cards are accepted: Visa, and impersonal world, drives her to MasterCard and Discover. commit murder. Expressionistic in style, Presentations BITS Test sessions will be offered at “Machinal” presents events as seen 7:30 p.m. on the evenings of Monday, through the eyes and the haunting March 10; Tuesday, March 11; and perspective of the main character. As the Appalachian Lab Wednesday, March 12. The sessions will New York Times wrote in 1928, The University of Maryland Center for be held in Pullen Hall 107–110 depend- “Machinal” is a work that “in a hundred Environmental Science Appalachian ing on how many students register for years … should still be vivid!” Laboratory will offer a series of seminars each session. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 during the spring semester. The next PLEASE NOTE: Students must present for non students. For reservations and seminar focuses on climate change and their FSU Student ID at the FSU Book- information, please call the Theatre and is titled, “Metal Sorption on Marine store to register for their BITS Test Dance box office at x7462 (M-F, 9 a.m. – Macroalgae: Seaweed, Synchrotron, and session as well as in Pullen Hall the 4 p.m.), or stop by the box office in the Surface Chemistry” by Johan Schijf, evening of their BITS Test session. A Performing Arts Center Lobby (M-F, 12 – UMCES Chesapeake Biological Laboratory. student can register/pay and take the 2 p.m.). It is scheduled for 3:30 p.m., Feb. 21, in BITS Test only once per semester. NO Room 109. credits are associated and/or available Refreshments follow in the lobby. For with the BITS Test option. Any student Music more information, visit with a disability needing accommoda- www.al.umces.edu/seminar/schedule. tion should contact the Office of Live at the Loft Presents Disability Support Services (x4483) as Black History in soon as possible after registering. Singer-songwriter Lea Allegany County For more information, please contact Singer-songwriter Lea will perform as the Office of the Provost, Hitchins 213 part of FSU’s “Live at the Loft” Com- Al Feldstein, local historian and regular or at x4211. muter Music Series sponsored by the contributor to WFWM 91.9 FM, will give a University Programming Council on presentation titled, “An Overview of Get Down to Business Thursday, Feb. 14, from 1:30 p.m. to Allegany County African-American FSU students who are interested in 3:30 p.m. in the Derezinski Lounge/Loft History: People, Places, and Events,” from accounting, business administration or in the Lane University Center. 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 13 in the Compton Science Center, room 327. The event is economics are invited to learn more Lea, a Baltimore native, was raised about these exciting areas of study by singing in her mother’s gospel quintet. part of Spring 2008’s African American stopping by and visiting Tammy Shockey Her original music mixes the sounds of Studies Lecture Series. For more info, call at the College of Business Advising Center blues, jazz and folk music with the force Dr. James Saku at x4724. in Frampton Hall to discuss the of soul and depth. She has played for the programs, declare a major and be as- Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage and Take Note signed faculty advisors. Shockey’s office has been a repeat nominee of the hours are Monday through Friday, 9 WAMMIES. a.m. to noon and 1 to 5:30 p.m. in the Her performance is free and open to That Sound You Hear College of Business Advising Center, the public. For information, call x4411. Starting Tuesday, Feb. 19, FSU will located in Framptom Hall, Room 319. For begin weekly tests of the new emer- more information, call the College of Jam with Geography gency siren system that was installed Business Advising Center at x4008. Help support FSU’s Geography Honor last fall. This outdoor warning system Society when the group holds a benefit will be tested each Tuesday at 6:10 Help for Transfer at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, at the Draft p.m., following the weekly test of the Zone. Fresh County Scrapple, featuring Frostburg Fire Department’s siren, which Students Available the Department of Geography’s own Dr. is on Tuesdays at 6:05 p.m. The Advising Center will offer “Trans- Fritz Kessler, will perform, as well as In an actual emergency, the siren will fer Drop-In Advising” days in February. StateLines / 4

This is a chance for all transfer students Deadline for May 2008 F. Perry Smith Jr. Graduate Scholarship to “drop-in” to the Advising Center for The recipient must have completed some assistance and guidance with their Graduation Exceptions high school education or the equiva- major or assessing their academic goals. If you plan to graduate in May and lency in either Allegany or Garrett Each Monday in February (today, Feb. your official degree progress report Counties in Maryland and be enrolled at 18 and 25) students can come by the indicates you have not completed all FSU with an overall grade point average Advising Center, 124 Sand Spring Hall, requirements and you have a basis to of 3.0 or better. The recipient must from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. without request an exception, submit your demonstrate financial need (complete having to make an appointment. written appeal letter and supporting and submit the FAFSA form). Applica- Students will meet with Amy Shimko letters and documentation to the tions are currently available at the and can also call to make an appoint- Academic Standards Subcommittee, Office of Graduate Services, 141 Pullen ment for other dates and times by Office of the Provost, Hitchins 213 by 4 Hall or by calling x7053. Deadline is calling x4403. p.m. on Feb. 14 for the February March 1; five awards between $500 and meeting, March 13 for the March $1,500 are given annually. meeting or April 17 for the April Attention All Graduate Assistantships/Intl Fellowships meeting (last chance for graduation Education Students! exceptions and inclusion in the Com- Applications for Graduate Assistant/ International Fellowship positions for The application deadline for students mencement Booklet). If you have the academic year 2008-2009 are entering Phase I, Phase II or Phase III of questions or concerns, please call the currently being accepted. The positions the Teacher Education Program for the Provost’s Office at x4212. offer paid tuition (up to 30 hours year) fall 2008 semester is Friday, March 14. and a $5,000 cash stipend per year, in ALL APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE News for Graduate exchange for 20 hours of service each RETURNED TO THE OFFICE OF UNIT week. These positions represent an ASSESSMENT, FRAMPTOM HALL, ROOM Students academic honor, and thus require the 203-3, on or before deadline date. Planning to Graduate in May? applicant to have been accepted to a If you need an application form or graduate program in good academic have questions, contact Barbara Graduate students planning to standing, and remain in good academic Bluebaugh at x7953 or graduate in May must complete an standing for the duration of the award. [email protected]. application for graduation by Feb. 25. Applications are available in the Office The applications are available at the of Graduate Services, 141 Pullen Hall. Office of Graduate Services, 141 Pullen Planning to Graduate? Hall (x7053) or on the Web at www.frostburg.edu/grad/ga.htm. If you are planning to graduate at the Attention Seniors! end of this semester, please note the Applications for the spring 2008 are Interested in Grad School? following: currently being considered. The deadline • The 132nd Commence- Maryland needs teachers! With your for completed applications for the 2008- ment Ceremony is sched- bachelor’s degree– in any major– FSU 2009 academic year is March 15. uled for Saturday, May has a plan to put you in the classroom. 17, in the Harold J. Learn about our Master of Arts in Cordts Physical Education Teaching and you could be inspiring Learning Green Center. The College of others in the classroom in just 12 Business and College of months. Stop by our Master of Arts in Education will hold its Teaching Information Session at the Wind, Solar Certified service at 10 a.m., University System of Maryland Hagers- while the College of town (USMH) on Tuesday, Feb. 12, from Program Available Liberal Arts and 6 to 8 p.m., at the center at 32 W. FSU is offering an education program Sciences will present its Washington St., Hagerstown. Sessions on design, installation and maintenance graduates at the 2 p.m. ceremony. will be informal and students can stop of residential wind and solar (PV) • Please complete your graduation by at their convenience. The deadline electric generation systems. The program application at the Registrar’s Office now. for Summer 2008 cohort applications is includes an online component (March 31 This will enable you to receive information May 1, for MAT Elementary and April 1 through May 23) as well as hands-on about your upcoming Commencement. for MAT Secondary. For more informa- training (May 29 through June 1) to • The first Commencement mailing is tion, please call the Graduate Services prepare the attendees for the certifica- scheduled for the first week in March and Office at x7053. tion test administered by the North will be sent to both your local and your American Board of Certified Energy permanent addresses. Please update your Questions about Graduate Programs? Practitioners (NABCEP), Inc. The hands- address information in PAWS to assure The office of Graduate Services is on part of the program will be held in that you will receive all the details. located in Pullen 141 and students are FSU’s Compton Science Center. • Caps and gowns are provided at no encouraged to stop by the office any- Participants will learn the basics of cost to all graduates and may be ordered time to discuss their interests or e-mail PV/wind systems, resource assessment, at the University Bookstore. Your order Vickie Mazer, Director of Graduate setup configuration and regulations must be placed by March 24. Services, at [email protected]. related to PV and wind generation • A Grad Fair will be held March 24 in system installations. Relevant sections the Alice R. Manicur Assembly Hall in of the National Electric Code will also be Graduate Scholarships for 2008-2009 the Lane University Center from 9 a.m. covered. The FSU engineering labs and to 3:30 p.m. Vendors will be present for David Sanford Graduate Student Scholarship WISE system located on campus will be ordering your class ring and diploma The recipient must be enrolled full available for practical experiments and frames, and you will also have the time or part time as a graduate student, demonstrations. opportunity to order your cap and gown have previously been an undergraduate Separate workshops will be offered for and announcements. Additional Univer- at FSU and have received a varsity sport PV and windmill installation. The sity services will be available and there participation letter. An FSU overall grade registration fee is $500 for either one of will be giveaways and refreshments. point average of 3.0 or better is re- the workshops or $750 for both work- • Full details about Commencement quired. Applications are currently shops. FSU will accept applications are on the FSU Web site. Go to “Current available at the Office of Graduate through March 15. Space is limited and Students.” Commencement information Services, 141 Pullen Hall or by calling enrollment is on a first come, first is under “Academics” on the left side. x7053. Deadline is March 1; one award served basis. If you have any other questions about of $500 is given annually. For more information about the Commencement, please contact Brittni program, visit www.frostburg.edu/ Teter at x4423 or [email protected]. renewable or contact Hilkat Soysal at StateLines / 5 x3166 or by e-mailing FFriday: [email protected]. Volunteers 3 & 6 p.m. NASA Connect, “The “A” Train” 3:30 & 6:30 p.m. “NASA Destination Can you solve e=(LG)2 ? Tomorrow” 4 & 7 p.m. Social Studies in Action: Following FSU’s successful Focus the Read to Succeed “State Government and the Role of the Nation day and ongoing Learning Green, Needs You Citizen” Living Green campus initiative, ENGL Read to Succeed is currently accepting 5 & 8 p.m. Exploring the World of Music: 402 (Editing & Production) announces a applications for new tutors. Everyone is “The Transformative Power of Music” new biannual student-written and student-edited magazine highlighting welcome. This is a great opportunity for environmental issues around our education and social work students to earn service hours. Read to Succeed Get Involved campus. The magazine will be called provides two hours a week of tutoring e=(LG)2 . for children in the surrounding commu- The publication invites submissions nities in grades K-12. Tutoring sites and from all disciplines on environmental Tell Your FSU concerns, research, nature appreciations, hours include: classroom learning experiences, recy- • FSU Ort Library, Monday through YouTube Story Thursdays, 5-7 p.m. cling, going green and many other Don’t miss FSU’s first-ever YouTube • St. Michael’s School, Tuesdays & subjects. It hopes to focus on all areas contest, “Frostburg: Take 5,” which Wednesdays, 2:45-4:45 p.m. of energy, education and the environ- invites students and FSU alumni to • South Cumberland Library, Monday ment. Submissions from students will be create a video that expresses what they accepted in a variety of genres, includ- & Wednesday, 6 – 8 p.m. love most about FSU in five minutes or ing photography and artwork in digital Training workshops are provided less. The deadline to submit an entry is throughout the month of February. form, prose (non-fiction and fiction), Friday, March 7. Transportation is also provided for sites. poetry, science writing, news articles Participants can simply post their For more information please contact and essays videos online at FSU’s very own Frost- Lesley Baker, Read to Succeed Program Students are encouraged to send burg: Take 5 YouTube group at submissions to [email protected] by coordinator, at x7599. www.youtube.com/group/ April 1. By submitting work, they are in FrostburgTake5. To enter the contest, agreement work will be edited, if the participant joins the Frostburg: Take necessary. 5 YouTube group and e-mails a contest entry form to [email protected]. Library Features Want to Get Your Following the deadline on March 7, Recycling Display five winners will be chosen by a panel of Message on FSU TV3? judges that includes Emmy award- MaryJo A. Price, Special Collections winning TV writer/producer and FSU Librarian at Lewis J. Ort Library, If you have an announcement about an activity that you would like to alumnus Greg Garcia. The best clips will recently designed a display on recycling advertise on the TV3 message board, log be shown during a special screening at in Allegany County and at FSU. The on to www.frostburg.edu/dept/mcom/ Frostburg’s Palace Theatre in April. The display, “What’s in Your Office/Home?” channel3/messreqform.htm click on the top five contestants will be awarded was inspired by the Focus the Nation various prizes; the first-place winner will festivities Jan. 31; it will remain on TV 3 Request Form and enter your receive a Canon ZR830 Mini DV view at the library until FSU’s spring information. Then click submit. It’s as easy as that. Camcorder and all accessories, gener- break. If you would like to submit your ously donated by FSU grad Ed DeWitt of Included in the display are those request with a hard copy and need the DeWitt Camera Centre in Cumberland. items that can be recycled: aluminum, form, contact Lombardi at x3011, “Frostburg: Take 5” is jointly spon- metal, office paper, cardboard, cardboard sored by FSU’s Division of Communica- food containers, newspaper, magazines [email protected] or stop by tions and Media Relations and the and catalogs, plastic, glass and compost Old Main room 201. Department of Mass Communication. To (yard clippings). Facts on recycling from learn more details about the contest, the Maryland Department of the Envi- Schedule for Feb. 11-15 visit www.frostburg.edu/take5. ronment will show how FSU can make a difference when the community recycles. Monday: For more info, contact Price at x4889. 3 & 6 p.m. NASA SCI Files, “The Case of Get Involved the Prize Winning Plant” 4 & 7 p.m. Democracy in America: at Campus Fair Jobs, Jobs, Jobs “Legislatures: Laying Down the Law” University Programming Council is 4:30 & 7:30 p.m. Earth Revealed: holding a Campus Involvement Fair on “Metamorphic Rocks” Tuesday, Feb. 12, in the Alice R. Be a Tutor 5 & 8 p.m. Poet: Robin Becker Manicur Assembly Hall from 10 a.m. to 2 The Learning Assistance Center has Tuesday: p.m. Come discover what organizations, tutor positions for accounting, biology, community projects or Greek life you 3 & 6 p.m. FSU Women’s Basketball Game chemistry, geography and math. might have an interest in! For more vs. Pitt-Bradford University Positions start at $7 per hour and information, call x4411. offer very flexible working hours. Tutors Wednesday: also get to choose the number of 3 & 6 p.m. NASA “Destination Tomorrow” UCM Serves Food Bank students that they would like to tutor. 3:30 & 6:30 p.m. Fiction Writer: Jack If you are interested in becoming a Driscoll United Campus Ministry will volunteer tutor for the PASS office or are an 4:30 & 7:30 p.m. American Cinema: “Film at the Western Maryland Food Bank on instructor who would like to recommend Language: The Director’s Choice” (Repeats Tuesday, Feb. 12, starting at 5 p.m. Meet a student for a tutoring position, please at 5 & 8 p.m.) behind the Ort Library at 4:30 p.m. to e-mail [email protected], call our 5:30 & 8:30 p.m. American Passages, A carpool to Cumberland. office at x4441, or stop by Pullen Hall Literary Survey: “Spirit of Nationalism” 150. If you have any questions or Thursday: Attention Non- concerns, please contact Rachel Hoover, Coordinator of Academic Skills Develop- 3 & 6 p.m. FSU Men’s Basketball Game vs. Traditional Students Pitt-Bradford University ment. Encore, the group for non-traditional students, is accepting new members. StateLines / 6

Members meet monthly for informal interest in film production – it consists history, with a focus on the distinctive discussion, support and exchange of of instruction in film techniques, history of the North of England in the ideas. For more information, contact leading to the making of a short practi- nineteenth century. Both of these [email protected]. cal project. The Humanities program is programs will last for three weeks – aimed at all students wishing to take from June 21 to July 13 – and will be humanities electives: it combines the taught by specialists from the School. study of literature, history and art Cost? Tuition with accommodation and Community meals is $3,900.

Who are FSU’s FSU Events Calendar Neighbors? MONDAY, FEB. 11 University Neighbors, an association of * Ophelia Project V Day Scarf Sale ...... 10 a.m.-4 p.m...... Lane Lobby residents and property owners in the * SCV Clothesline Project ...... 10 a.m.-4 p.m...... Lane Lobby neighborhood adjacent to the FSU campus, will hold its regular meeting on TUESDAY, FEB. 12 Sunday, Feb. 17, at 7 p.m. at City Place * Involvement Fair ...... 10 a.m.-2 p.m...... Lane ARMAH (corner of Water and Mechanic Streets in * Ophelia Project V Day Scarf Sale ...... 10 a.m.-4 p.m...... Lane Lobby Frostburg). Students who live off campus * SCV Clothesline Project ...... 10 a.m.-4 p.m...... Lane Lobby in the neighborhood as well as faculty * Faculty Assembly ...... 4 p.m...... Lane 201 and staff who either live or own property * UPC General Board Meeting ...... 7 p.m...... Lane 202 in the neighborhood are welcome to * Colleges Against Cancer Relay for Life Kickoff Party participate in the association. Come help ...... 7 p.m...... Lane ARMAH us build positive relationships between “town and gown.” For more information, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 13 please contact any member of the * Ophelia Project V Day Scarf Sale ...... 10 a.m.-4 p.m...... Lane Lobby leadership team: Maxine Bond (301-689- * SCV Clothesline Project ...... 10 a.m.-4 p.m...... Lane Lobby * Women’s Basketball: Penn State-Altoona ...... 6 p.m...... Home 5464), Lois Deasy (301-689-8082), * RHA General Body ...... 7 p.m...... Dunkle Hall 218 Eleanor Miller (301-689-3572), Patrick * African American Studies Lecture: An Overview of Allegany County African-American O’Brien (240-580-4336), or Jeffrey Sellers History: People, Places & Events ...... 7 p.m. . Compton Science Center 327 (321-604-5920). * Men’s Basketball: Penn State-Altoona ...... 8 p.m...... Home City of Frostburg THURSDAY, FEB. 14—Valentine’s Day * Colleges Against Cancer V Day Scarf Sale . 10 a.m.-4 p.m...... Lane Lobby Pursuing A&E District * Sierra Student Coalition Clothesline Project 10 a.m.-4 p.m...... Lane Lobby FrostburgFirst, a program established * Pre-Professional Med Society Blood Drive .. 11 a.m.-5 p.m...... Lane ARMAH to foster economic development and * Center for Volunteerism & National Service Black Out Day ...... Noon-1 p.m. * UPC Commuter Music Series: Lea...... 1:30-3:30 p.m...... Derezinski Lounge/Loft cultural growth in the City of Frostburg, * BSA/ASA Valentine’s Day Dinner ...... 7:30 p.m...... Lane ARMAH invites all Frostburg artists (actors, * UPC Feature Film: “Dan in Real Life” ...... 8:30 p.m...... Lane 201 writers, musicians, visual artists, etc.) to get involved in establishing a state- FRIDAY, FEB. 15 designated arts and entertainment * Colleges Against Cancer V Day Scarf Sale . 10 a.m.-4 p.m...... Lane Lobby district. The deadline to apply for the * Sierra Student Coalition Clothesline Project 10 a.m.-4 p.m...... Lane Lobby designation is April 2008, and the Arts * “Vagina Monologues” ...... 7:30 p.m...... PAC Pealer Recital Hall & Entertainment Committee needs the * UPC Feature Film: “Dan in Real Life” ...... 8:30 p.m...... Lane 201 input and participation of Frostburg artists for this process to be successful SATURDAY, FEB. 16 in its representation of the city’s * Men’s/Women’s Varsity Track & Field: Susquehanna Univ. Invitational cultural community...... 9:00 a.m...... Away To learn more about this ongoing * Enrollment Management Open House ...... 9 a.m.-1 p.m...... Lane University Center project, artists and arts advocates may * Women’s Basketball: Hilbert College ...... 1 p.m...... Away submit their contact information to * Center for Volunteerism & National Service: Women Deserve To Be Pampered ...... [email protected] or by calling ...... 3 p.m...... Fuller House Basement * Men’s Basketball: Hilbert College ...... 3 p.m...... Away 301-689-6900. * ”Vagina Monologues” ...... 7:30 p.m...... PAC Pealer Recital Hall * UPC Feature Film: “Dan in Real Life” ...... 8:30 p.m...... Lane 201 International International SUNDAY, FEB. 17 * CCM Mass ...... noon & 8 p.m...... Cook Chapel Study Abroad Programs * Center for Volunteerism & National Service World Thinking Day ...... 1 p.m.-6 p.m...... PEC Leake Room The Center for International Educa- * Planetarium: Calendars Around the World.. 4 p.m. & 7 p.m...... Tawes Hall tion offers a variety of ways for FSU * UPC Feature Film: “Dan in Real Life” ...... 8:30 p.m...... Lane 201 students to see the world. In many cases, students register at FSU during a * Open to the public – Questions? Call 301-687-4411. All information subject to change semester abroad and can take all FSU is committed to making all of its programs, services, and activities accessible to persons financial aid with them and transfer with disabilities. You may request accommodations through the ADA Compliance Office, 302 credit back to FSU. Hitchins, (301) 687-4102, TDD (301) 687-7955. For information, contact the CIE in the Fuller House on Braddock Road, x4714, or visit www.frostburg.edu/ admin/cie. Accidents Hurt - Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK Safety Doesn’t School of Arts and Social Sciences is offering two summer programs; one in the Humanities and the other in Media. The latter is aimed at students with an