Daily Announcements October 2009
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From: WoffordNews [email protected] Subject: Daily Announcements Date: October 1, 2009 at 8:57 AM To: Wofford Staff [email protected], Wofford Students [email protected] Wofford College Daily Announcements for Thursday, October 01, 2009 Today's Events IFC Stickers Academic Writers Group PSA Thursday Worship Hillel Meeting Disc Golf Tournament Today @ 4 p.m. FREE DISCS! Lecture Today: Was Socrates a Democrat? "Fitness @ 5:30" Series: PI/YO Class Tonight Israel and Palestine: Looking Ahead to 2010 Upcoming Events Separating Truth from Fiction: How We Do It at The New York Times Homecoming Service of Worship "Style-your-Sole" Party for TOMS Shoes National Depression Screening Day Announcements National Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness Attention Students Planning to Study Abroad Spring or Summer 2010!! Last 2 Days for Tennis and Racquetball Signups Deadline for Learning Work Interim Attending Graduate/Law School Day on Tuesday, Oct. 6? Job Off-Campus Part-time Information on MUSC's College of Health Professions Today's Events IFC Stickers Date/Time: 10/1/2009 11:00:00 AM Location: Burwell Location: Burwell Cost: $20.00 Details: IFC Stickers will be sold in Burwell today during lunch (11 a.m. – 1 p.m.) The price of a sticker will be $20. Beginning next weekend, you must have one of these to be admitted into fraternity row. This policy applies to all students both Greek and non-Greek. Contact: Trey Fowler Email: [email protected] Telephone/Extension: 864-992-9111 Academic Writers Group Date/Time: 10/1/2009 11:00:00 AM Location: Acorn Cafe Cost: Free Details: Faculty Research and Writing Groups Preliminary meeting for those interested in a Faculty Research and Writing Group. Writers from all disciplines and working in all genres (academic or creative) welcome. To help promote, motivate and facilitate all forms of academic writing at Wofford. Come with ideas about how this group can help you as a writer. Contact: Karen Goodchild Email: [email protected] Telephone/Extension: 4601 PSA Thursday Worship Date/Time: 10/1/2009 11:30:00 AM Location: PSA House Cost: Free Details: Join us once again as we come together for our weekly study of the book of Hebrews. Lunch is provided. We hope to see you there! Contact: John DuBose Email: [email protected] Telephone/Extension: 864-360-7056 Hillel Meeting Date/Time: 10/1/2009 11:45:00 AM Location: Player's Corner (by Post Office) Cost: Free Details: Get lunch from Ms. Cathy and then come to the Hillel meeting to discuss the plans for the upcoming year. The meeting will be over in time for your 1 p.m. class, so don't worry! Contact: Kelsey Leahy Email: [email protected] Telephone/Extension: 843-340-0822 Disc Golf Tournament Today @ 4 p.m. FREE DISCS! Date/Time: 10/1/2009 4:00:00 PM Location: Disc Golf Course Cost: Free Details: Join us this afternoon at 4 p.m., for a Disc Golf Tournament. Free discs will be given away, compliments of Campus Union, and prizes will be awarded to the winners. No need to sign up, just show up! Contact: Steve Traylor Email: [email protected] Telephone/Extension: 4069 Lecture Today: Was Socrates a Democrat? Lecture Today: Was Socrates a Democrat? Date/Time: 10/1/2009 4:00:00 PM Location: Olin Theater Cost: Free Details: Speaker Professor David C.K. Curry (Wofford '81). Join us as we kick of the Philosophy 70 Lecture Series honoring Professor James Keller. Contact: Professor Charles D. Kay Email: [email protected] Telephone/Extension: 4583 "Fitness @ 5:30" Series: PI/YO Class Tonight Date/Time: 10/1/2009 5:30:00 PM Location: Richardson Dance Studio Cost: Free Details: Join us tonight for Pi/Yo! Contact: Steve Traylor Email: [email protected] Telephone/Extension: 4069 Israel and Palestine: Looking Ahead to 2010 Date/Time: 10/1/2009 7:00:00 PM Location: Leonard Auditorium Cost: Free Details: Ethan Bronner, Jerusalem bureau chief for the New York Times, will deliver a public lecture on the current situation between Israelis and Palestinians. A question and answer session will follow. Contact: Byron R. McCane Email: [email protected] Telephone/Extension: 4562 Upcoming Events Separating Truth from Fiction: How We Do It at The New York Times Date/Time: 10/2/2009 10:00:00 AM Location: Anna Todd Wofford Center Cost: Free Details: From 10 a.m. until noon, Ethan Bronner, Jerusalem bureau chief for the New York Times, will host a roundtable discussion on the challenges which confront journalists in the Middle East. Contact: Byron R. McCane Email: [email protected] Telephone/Extension: 4562 Homecoming Service of Worship Date/Time: 10/4/2009 12:15:00 PM Location: Leonard Auditorium Cost: Free Details: Join the Wofford Community for a homecoming service of worship at 11 a.m., Sunday morning in Leonard Auditorium. The Rev. Lyn Pace, ‘99, Chaplain Emory at Oxford, and recent Associate Chaplain at Wofford, will be the guest preacher. Contact: Ron Robinson Contact: Ron Robinson Email: [email protected] Telephone/Extension: 4051 "Style-your-Sole" Party for TOMS Shoes Date/Time: 10/6/2009 11:30:00 AM Location: Zach's and Burwell Cost: $20 Details: Sponsored by Campus Union and Fun Funds "Style-Your-Sole" Party for TOMS shoes. Sign-up and register at the tables in front of Burwell and Zach's during lunch beginning Tuesday, Oct. 8. Order a pair of white-canvas TOMS shoes and send a pair abroad to a barefoot shoeless child in a developing nation. The actual party will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 28, from 3:30-6:30 p.m., in front of Old Main. Food, drink and art supplies to "style your own sole" will all be provided. Hub-Bub artists will be attending as well, to assist in the artistry part. The first sixty people to sign-up and pay the registration fee will get their shoes for $20. After that, they will go for $40. Bring your $20 to the booth. Order quickly! TOMS Shoes retail value: $44+shipping= $52.55 Contact: Ingrid Lesemann Email: [email protected] Telephone/Extension: 843-327-4790 National Depression Screening Day Date/Time: 10/8/2009 11:30:00 AM Location: Anna Todd Wofford Center Cost: Free – Must RSVP Details: You are invited to come out and enjoy a “lunch n’ learn” event on Oct. 8, from 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., in Anna Todd Wofford Center. This is a collaboration with the office of Multicultural Affairs, the office of Health Services, and The Carolina Center for Behavioral Health (formerly Charter of Greer) will be talking to students about depression, resources and offering assistance to those who feel they need it. Lunch is provided but you must RSVP ASAP! Limited seating is available. Hurry and reserve your space today! For more information, please feel free to contact Millicent Lann @ [email protected]. Looking forward to hearing from you all! Contact: Millicent Lann Email: [email protected] Telephone/Extension: 4043 Announcements National Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness Details: Interested in working on National Hunger & Homelessness Week? A Hunger & Homelessness Team is being formed to put together activities for this important week. Please respond to [email protected] if you are interested in participating. Please respond by Friday, Oct. 2. National Hunger & Homelessness Week is Nov. 15-21. Contact: Ron Robinson Email: [email protected] Telephone/Extension: 4051 Attention Students Planning to Study Abroad Spring or Summer 2010! Details: The Gilman International Scholarship Program provides awards of up to $5,000 for U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad for up to one academic year. The program aims to diversify the kinds of student who study abroad and the countries and regions where they go. The program the kinds of student who study abroad and the countries and regions where they go. The program serves students who have been under-represented in study abroad which includes but is not limited to: students with high financial need, community college students, students in under-represented fields such as the sciences and engineering, students from diverse ethnic backgrounds, students attending minority-serving institutions, and students with disabilities. The Gilman Program seeks to assist students from a diverse range and type of two-year and four-year public and private institutions from all 50 states. Eligibility: Students must be receiving a Federal Pell Grant at the time of application or during the time they are studying abroad and cannot be studying abroad in a country currently under a U.S. Department of State Travel Warning or in Cuba. The Gilman International Scholarship Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by the Institute of International Education. The Gilman Program is pleased to be able to offer over 1700 scholarships during the Academic Year 2009-2010. Additionally, the Gilman Program is excited to have launched a special pilot summer award cycle for students participating in Summer 2010 study abroad programs. A limited number of summer awards will be available to students majoring in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Math field who meet the program's standard eligibility criteria. For more information regarding this exciting initiative, a Special Summer Podcast and Informational Fact Sheet can be found on the Gilman website at http://www.iie.org/gilman. Furthermore, a limited number of $3000 Critical Need Language Supplements are available for students studying a critical need language for a total possible award of $8000. A list of eligible languages can be found on the Gilman website at http://www.iie.org/gilman.