This Week on Campus Concerts and Performances Each Year in Front of Almost Half a Million People, Visiting Virtually All of Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas

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StateLineswwwfrostburgedu/news/statelineshtm For and about FSU people A publication of the FSU Office of Advancement Volume 36, Number 14, December 6, 2005 Copy deadline: noon Wednesday, 228 Hitchins or emedcalf@frostburg&edu This Week on Campus concerts and performances each year in front of almost half a million people, visiting virtually all of Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. Their “Christmas in Vienna” concert plays to sold-out audiences across America and is a high demand performance. To purchase tickets or for more information, call the FSU Cultural Events Box Office at x3137 or toll free at 1- 866-TIXX-CES, or visit online at ces.frostburg.edu. The Rory Lowe Band Clarinet Ensemble,

The Vienna Choir Boys Winds to Perform UPC Presents MAE and FSU’s Clarinet Ensemble and Chamber the Rory Lowe Band Additional Vienna Choir Winds will perform on Monday, Dec. 5, at 8 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center The University Programming Council Boys Concert Added Pealer Recital Hall. at FSU will present MAE and the Rory Lowe Band on Thursday, Dec. 8, at 8 FSU Cultural Events Series has added a The artist director will be Mark p.m. in the Lane University Center’s performance of the Vienna Choir Boys’ Gallagher and the conductor will be Alice R. Manicur Assembly Hall. Doors “Christmas in Vienna” on Monday, Dec. Brian Plitnik. Works by Jacob, Bloch, open at 7 p.m. 5, 7:30 p.m. at Fort Hill High School, Whitacre and Mozart will be performed. The charming quintet collectively Cumberland. The performance scheduled For more information, contact the known as MAE has recently released its for Tuesday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the FSU Department of Music at x4109. sophomore album, “The Everglow.” Visit Pealer Recital Hall of the FSU Performing www.whatismae.com to hear a sample of Arts Center has limited seating available. Tri-State Honor Band MAE and listen to both the compelling Both performances are presented in and introspective lyrics along with fine conjunction with Best Western – The Festival Set for Dec. 11 musicianship. Braddock and NBC 25. The annual Tri-State Honor Band The Rory Lowe Band returns to FSU The Vienna Choir Boys performed in Festival concert will be held on Sunday, after its September 2004 appearance. Frostburg in 2003 to a sold-out house Dec. 11, at 3:30 p.m. in the Performing The group has opened for Maroon 5, and return to the area to present their Arts Center’s Pealer Recital Hall at FSU. Howie Day, Ninedays and Pat McGhee holiday concert. People magazine’s Over 150 high school students from 25 Band. You can sample their music at special 2005 holiday edition includes different music programs will participate www.roryloweband.com. the Vienna Choir Boys’ “Christmas in in this two-day festival hosted by FSU Admission is $2 for FSU students with Vienna” concert in Branson, Mo., as a Director of Bands Noel T. Kunkle. proper ID and $10 for the general “Don’t Miss Opportunity.” The festival’s guest director Elizabeth public. For more information, contact Emperor Maximilian I founded the Schulze has been praised by critics as “an the Lane University Center Information Vienna Choir Boys more than 500 years ideal music director whose infectious Desk at x4411. ago to provide music for imperial court energy is as contagious as her exuberant functions. When the Habsburg Empire fell and thoroughly committed musicianship.” apart in 1918, no funding was available to Schulze is the music director and conduc- maintain the choir. Rather than dissolve tor of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra. the group, director Josef Schnitt decided Selections for the concert will include to rename it as the Wiener Sängerknaben, “American Rhapsody” by Anne McGinty, exchange the imperial uniforms for sailor “Country Gardens” by Percy Grainger, suits and take the choir on tour. Within a “Chat Rituals” by Elliot Del Borgo and a year, the Wiener Sängerknaben was concert march entitled “Proud Heritage” performing in Berlin, Prague, and Zurich, by William Latham that will be con- and the choir’s itinerary expanded rapidly. ducted by Kunkle. The band will con- Today, there are around 100 choristers clude with “American Civil War Fantasy” between the ages of 10 and 14, divided by Jerry Bilik. MAE into four touring choirs. “Austria’s Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for singing ambassadors” give around 300 students and senior citizens. Inside: Theatre 2 Art 2 Points of Pride 4 Community 2 Speakers 2-3 Safety Message 5 Academic Opportunities 3 Take Note 3-4 Calendar 5 StateLines / 2

The concert will present some of Lobby for all the twisted but sober Theatre Ireland’s finest traditional music and students! songs. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for students and free for 12 and under. Season Too! Presents Prior to the evening event, from 2 to Art Diana Son’s ‘STOP KISS’ 4 p.m., each musician will offer instru- ment workshops on Irish music. Egan Five Unique Artists Join FSU Theatre’s Season Too! series will will present a workshop on guitar style present Diana Son’s contemporary play and playing in standard tuning. Dunne’s Forces for ‘Five’ Exhibit “STOP KISS” on Friday, Dec. 9 and 10, at fiddle workshop will concentrate on the Five different artists have come 8 p.m. in the F. Perry Smith Studio distinctive melodic style of Irish tradi- together to present their five different Theatre of the Performing Arts Center. tional music. Thomas’ concertina styles in the exhibition, “Five,” on Directed by senior Diana Abrecht, instruction will emphasize the rich display in the Stephanie Ann Roper Fine “STOP KISS” is both a funny and ornamentation that can be achieved on Arts Gallery through Wednesday, Dec. 7. thought-provoking story of the ways the anglo concertina. Each of the two- Gallery hours are Sunday through that lives can change irreversibly, over hour workshops requires a $25 registra- Wednesday from 1 to 4 p.m. many years or in just a few short tion fee. Senior Nikki Bergling has a dual seconds. Set in New York City, Callie, a For more information or to register to concentration in painting and traffic reporter for a news radio station attend a workshop, call Dr. Kara Rogers printmaking. She holds a great interest and, Sara, an elementary school teacher Thomas, FSU Folklorist, at x3124 or e- in art history and is influenced by the from St. Louis, form a fast friendship mail [email protected]. works of old masters along with the which soon leads to an unexpected world around her. Bergling has devel- attraction. When their first kiss pro- oped a style that exploits expressive line vokes a violent attack and neither 3 A.M. Society Presents quality and attempts to capture the friends nor family understand their an Open-Mic Reading originality and quirkiness of her sur- bond, where can their relationship FSU’s 3 A.M. Society, in conjunction roundings. She will graduate in May possibly go? with the FSU Center for Creative Writing, 2006 with her B.F.A. For reservations and further informa- announces an open-mic reading at the Senior Ashley Labrie is focusing in tion please call the theatre box office at Alliway on Main Street in downtown photography. Her work is influenced by x7462, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. Frostburg, across from the Gunter Hotel, the people and places surrounding her to 4 p.m. All tickets are $5. on Thursday, Dec. 8, at 9 p.m. The hometown of Pembroke Pines, Fla., as reading is open to readers of all genres. well as her close friends and family. She Community 3 A.M. Society members will be reading will graduate in Dec. 2005 with her their work and welcome any community B.F.A. as well as a B.S. in liberal studies member interested in reading their with a concentration in art history. fiction, poetry or creative non-fiction. Senior Carrie Pratt has spent her two ‘An Evening of Irish The 3 A.M. Society is a creative and a half years on campus focusing in writing organization open to FSU painting and ceramics. After graduation, Traditional Music’ Set students of all majors. The Society is she plans to complete a Masters in Art FSU and the Allegany Arts Council dedicated to promoting the art of Education at FSU and eventually teach will host “An Evening of Irish Traditional creative writing in an informal setting. elementary education. Music” at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 10, Aside from holding weekly workshops, Senior Emily Rollins has been study- at the Frostburg Community Center, 27 the 3 A.M. Society hosts open-mic night ing jewelry design for three years under Water Street. readings and meets with visiting writers the guidance of Doug Salmon at FSU. Performers include FSU exchange as well FSU’s Creative Writing faculty, She is actively involved in an appren- student Brid Dunne, of County Limerick, which consists of such published authors ticeship at J. Kreiger’s Goldsmith in on fiddle; Frostburg resident Jeff as Gerry LaFemina, Brad Barkley and Cumberland. Her jewelry reflects the Thomas on anglo concertina; and Barbara Hurd. flow of feminine curvature and is meant Tipperary man Pat Egan on guitar and Anyone interested in reading can to enhance and beautify a woman’s vocals. contact the 3 A.M. Society via e-mail at body. She will complete her B.F.A. in Dunne descends from a long line of [email protected], or call the FSU Dec. 2005. talented musicians, including her father Center for Creative Writing at x4024. Senior Brandon Thompson is a Mickey, widely regarded as one of graduate of C. Milton Wright High Ireland’s finest pipers. She is an award- Presentations School and is focusing in painting. His winning musician, who has built a solid colorful works consist of figures and reputation as a traditional Irish musi- portraits and uses media which range cian by hosting numerous Limerick Special Christmas form watercolor, to acrylics, to oils. music sessions and appearing on Irish After college he plans to attend gradu- radio and television. Celebration Set Dec. 11 ate school to obtain his M.F.A. and In January, concertina player Thomas There will be a special FSU Christmas eventually teach college-level art. relocated to Frostburg from Asheville, Celebration on Sunday, Dec. 11, at 6 N.C., where he was known as a leading p.m. in Cook Chapel. Special music with figure in Asheville’s Irish music scene. Olivia Hartman and others as well as Speakers He began playing more than 15 years Advent and Christmas readings will take ago and has grown into a powerful place. More details will be forthcoming. player, creating a strong following If there are questions, call Larry among Irish music aficionados in the Appalachian Lab Offers Neumark at x7490. It will be sponsored Southeast. by United Campus Ministry. Two Special Seminars Baltimore resident Egan grew up Dr. Monika Moskal of the Missouri singing and playing in County Tipperary. State University Department of Geogra- A current member of Chulrua, he BURG Gets Twisted phy, Geology and Planning will present a developed his own powerfully emotive On Monday, Dec. 5, visit the Lane special seminar on a remote sensing case style of guitar accompaniment and vocal University Center Lobby for the Get study in the Yellowstone region at the delivery. Egan served his apprenticeship Twisted Carnival, an event that allows UMCES Appalachian Laboratory on with the Dublin groups Old Bawn and De students to experience an artificial Thursday, Dec. 8, at 3:30 p.m. Min. He also made extensive tours of the simulation of intoxication. Students will Moskal will be discussing Unites States and has also performed in be asked to perform some “twisted” hypertemporal signatures and harmonic Sweden, Norway, Holland, Germany and activities that should be lots of fun and analysis of natural and anthropogenic Scotland. very entertaining! Look in the LUC disturbances of forested landscapes. StateLines / 3

Diversity patterns observed for a given $50 for non-members. welcome you as new alumni to the landscape are dependent on the spatial For more information, call Nancy Alumni Association. and temporal scales of the investigation. Marks, 410-727-2820, x26. If you can attend, please let us know In this research the temporal responses by Friday, Dec. 9, at x4068 or send an e- were investigated within the undis- Take Note mail to [email protected]. turbed mature forests of the Yellowstone region, the 1988 fire burns and the Important Reminder for harvested forest tracks in Targhee President’s Holiday National Forest. The findings show that December 2005 Grads interannual and seasonal patterns differ Reception Dec. 14 If you are planning to graduate at the with disturbance type and both differ Dr. Catherine Gira’s annual Holiday end of this semester, please note: from undisturbed forests. These findings Reception will be held Wednesday, Dec. The 127th Commencement Ceremony can be applied in sustainable forest 14, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Performing is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 17, in management practices. Future work Arts Center Lobby. Students, faculty and the Cordts Physical Education Center. involving high resolution data fusion staff are welcome. The Colleges of Business and Education and temporal endmember analysis will will hold their ceremony at 10 a.m., be discussed. while Liberal Arts and Sciences will A second special seminar will be Learning Community present its graduates at the 2 p.m. presented by Dr. Daniel Kashian of the Promotes Extreme Sports ceremony. No tickets are required for Department of Forest, Rangeland, and the winter commencement Watershed Stewardship at Colorado State Do you like to go to bungee jumping or riding dirt bikes? Do you like to ceremony. University, who will speak on “Heteroge- If you have not yet neity, legacies, and convergence: Forest participate in these kinds of extreme sports? Well then, we have what you are filed a graduation structure and function on Rocky application at the Mountain landscapes” at the UMCES looking for. We are the Extreme Crew, and we have put together a pamphlet of Registrar’s Office, you Appalachian Laboratory on Monday, Dec. must do so immediately. 12, at 9 a.m. places around Frostburg where you can participate in any kind of extreme sport All Commencement- Both seminars will be held in AL related mailings go only Room 109 and refreshments will be from snowboarding to skydiving. Visit us at our table in the Lane Center Loft on to students who have filed. served after the seminars in the AL Information is sent to both your local Lobby. Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 5 and 6, from 3 to 5 p.m. That’s not all! When you get and permanent address. If the registrar your pamphlet, you will also get does not have an updated local address, Hadra Lecture: The custom-made FSU ping-pong balls and a provide this info as soon as possible. Creative Process homemade holiday card that you can Full details about Commencement are send back home to your family. (Spon- on the University’s Web site. Go to The final free weekly James Hadra sored by the Communicating Your “current students.” Commencement forum of the semester will be Monday, Business Self Learning Community and information is on the left side of the Dec. 5, at noon in Ort Library room 237, The FSU Swim Team.) page. For more information, contact featuring Ken Braitman speaking on Beth Andrews at x3130 or “Forging Ahead: The Creative Process.” [email protected]. The 50-minute program is free and open Love Is in the Air to the public. Attendees are encouraged No, it’s not Valentine’s Day yet, but Commencement for to bring lunch; coffee and tea will be winter holidays are right around the provided. corner. Have you thought about sending Graduate Students The forum is sponsored by Catholic a gift package to your family and friends Students who plan to graduate in Campus Ministries, United Campus for the holidays? Have you thought December 2005 need to complete the Ministries and Hillel. For information, about just how much you miss them? If “Application for Graduation” as soon as contact the Rev. Larry Neumark at you have, the Love Express can help possible. Late-filing candidates may x7490. you. This enterprise, developed by participate in commencement but will not members of the Communicate Your be listed in the program. The forms are Kirwan to Speak at Nano/ Business Self Learning Community, helps available at the Office of Graduate Services students, staff and teachers send love 141 Pullen Hall, or by calling x7053. Biotech Conference packages to family and friends for an Dr. William E. “Brit” Kirwan, chancel- affordable price. The packages include FSU Implements E-billing; lor, University System of Maryland, will gifts such as an FSU key chain, a T-shirt, be one of the speakers at the conference picture frame with your photo and No More Paper Bills “Nano and Biotechnology: A Winning candy. With this package, which comes in either a regular or deluxe package, Beginning with Intersession 2006, Combination, A New Growth Industry,” FSU will no longer issue paper bills. you can show someone that you miss on Tuesday, Dec. 13, from 8 to 10 a.m. Ebills will be available to the students them. Orders may be placed with the at The Center Club, 100 Light St. in for on-line viewing. Each student must Love Express enterprise in the Lane Baltimore. sign up through PAWS to receive an e- University Center Lobby on Monday, Sponsored by The Greater Baltimore mail notification that a bill is available Committee and University System of Dec. 5, through Thursday, Dec. 8, between 4 and 5 p.m. Don’t waste any for viewing. To sign up for the e-mail Maryland, this is a layperson’s overview notification, log on to PAWS, finances time before ordering one. of the growing nano/biotechnology and click on ebills. Step-by-step direc- revolution. A recent survey from a tions are available on the Bursar’s Web leading technology magazine said the Join the New Graduate page (www.frostburg.edu/admin/ greatest economic benefit in the next Celebration Dec. 15 billing/view.htm). If you have any two years will come from the marriage of questions, please contact the University nanotechnology and biotechnology. FSU alumni and December Grads are & Student Billing Office at x4321. Other speakers include Dr. Mauro coming together to celebrate! The FSU Ferrari, the Edgar Hendrickson Professor Alumni Association and the FSUF of Biomedical Engineering, Ohio State, Annual Fund cordially invite you to FSU Sets Informational and Special Expert in Nanotechnology, attend the New Grad Celebration on Meeting on MAT-E National Cancer Institute, and Dr. Thursday, Dec. 15, from 6 to 8 pm in the FSU will present an informational William Bentley, the Herbert Rabin ARMAH of the Lane University Center. Distinguished Professor, Biomolecular Please join us for an evening of games, meeting for prospective applicants for and Metabolic Engineering Laboratories, delicious food, beer and wine as we its Master of Arts in Teaching – Elemen- UMCP. Cost is $35 for GBC members and tary program, which is offered at the StateLines / 4

University System of Maryland at changed for the spring 2005/summer Regina Alderton if you are interested in Hagerstown. 2005 semesters is Friday, Dec. 9. Also, volunteering by knitting, crocheting or Dr. Kim Rotruck, MAT-E graduate any undergraduate students who had donating materials. Regina can be program coordinator will speak to prospec- extensions are due on that date. Any reached at [email protected] or tive applicants for the summer 2006 co- outstanding incomplete grades after x4716. hort on Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 6:30 p.m. that date will be automatically changed at the 32 W. Washington St. campus. to an “F.” Christmas Caroling The deadline for summer 2006 co-hort Please contact Marcy Schmolke in the applications is May 1, 2006. Students Registrar’s Office if you have questions United Campus Ministry and Catholic must successfully complete Praxis I for or need Change of Grade forms. Campus Ministry will go Christmas admission to program. Go to caroling at Frostburg Village Nursing www.ets.org for more information on Fund-Raisers Care Center on Tuesday, Dec. 6. Meet at the Praxis I or call FSU ETS Computer the Osborne Newman Center at 6 p.m., Based Testing Center at x7990. then enjoy cookies and hot chocolate For more information, call Rotruck at Around the World afterwards. (240) 527-2736 (x2736 on campus) or the Get Involved FSU Graduate Services Office at x7053. Dinner Raffle Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU), the Spring MBA Applicants Geography Honor Society, is currently selling Around the World raffle tickets. Catholic Campus Ministry For Master of Business Administration The first prize winner will receive SIX applicants for spring 2006, the MBA Join CCM for its end of the year program requires that all students dinner-for-two gift certificates from Christmas Dinner on Wednesday, Dec. 7, entering the MBA Program complete the restaurants with an international flair, a at 6 p.m. at the Osborne Newman retail value of $200! Restaurants include GMAT (Graduate Management Admissions Center’s Bishop Murphy Hall. Au Petit Paris, Oxford House, Fratelli’s, Test). The minimum GMAT score for Thursday, Dec. 8, is the Feast of the El Canelo, Ginger’s Asian Kitchen and consideration for admission to the MBA Immaculate Conception. Masses for this Tokyo Steakhouse. The second prize program is 400. Testing registration holyday will be in Frost Hall’s Cook information is available through the winner will enjoy FOUR dinner-for-two Chapel at noon and 8 p.m. Educational Testing Services Web site at gift certificates to great local bars including Henny’s, Baltimore Street Grill, www.ets.org or by calling the FSU Oscar’s and Manhattan Bar & Grill (Over Second Sunday Worship Computer-Based Testing Center, at x7990. $100 value). Third prize is a $50 gift The monthly Second Sunday Worship The test will only be available at FSU certificate to Rocky Gap Lodge and Service will be Sunday, Dec. 11, at 6 until approximately Dec. 21 as a com- p.m. in Frost Hall’s Cook Chapel. This is puter based examination, which is given Lakeside Restaurant. All gift certificates a Protestant worship service open to all. on the FSU Main Campus (Monday and are valid for one year. Cost is $5 per ticket. The drawing will be held on Dec. Friday – 8 a.m. to noon, and Tuesday and 7. To purchase tickets, contact any GTU Thursday – 1 to 5 p.m.). After the International member or advisor Tracy Edwards December 2005 date, the FSU ETS Testing Center will no longer offer this service. (x7596; [email protected]). For information, review the Web site Tickets are selling fast! Get yours soon! NSEP Funding Available Proceeds will support GTU member at www.gmac.com/gmac. participation in the 2006 Association of for Study Abroad American Geographers Conference in The National Security Education Points of Pride Chicago. Thanks for your support. Program (NSEP) provides scholarships for undergraduates who wish to study Dr. Stephanie Pack and Dr. Karyn Volunteers overseas in areas of strategic interest to Schweiker-Marra presented a paper at the U.S. Students may take part in any the annual conference of the Association approved study abroad program, pro- for the Advancement of Educational Join Campaign to End vided the location is included under Research, Nov. 8-12, Hutchinson Island, NSEP guidelines. Funding is available for Fla. While Dr. Schweiker-Marra has been Violence Against Women summer, semester and full-year pro- a member of the Board of Directors, Dr. If you are not familiar with V-DAY, grams, and students who plan to Pack is now a newly elected member of you can check it out at www.vday.org or participate in language immersion the Board and they both serve as Co- attend planning meetings Monday programs are encouraged to apply. The directors of the Content Heads for the nights at 5 p.m. in Lane University funding deadline for next summer and various educational areas. Center 202 to become involved. V-DAY is fall is in early February. The online a worldwide campaign to stop violence application is available at www.iie.org/ With an eye for design, sophomore against women and girls. It was formed nsep. For information, visit the CIE. Jacob Mathews and senior Anissa in 1998 by Eve Ensler - the playwright, Jamison recently placed second and performer, and author of “The Vagina Study Abroad Programs third respectively in Region 4’s Associa- Monologues.” tion of College Unions International’s “U This year the V-DAY organization at The Center for International Educa- Did What?” graphic design competition FSU is coming together to raise money tion offers a variety of ways for FSU in the poster category at West Virginia to donate to the Family Crisis Resource students to see the world. In many University on Nov. 12. Mathews and Center and the Dove Center. We will raise cases, students register at FSU during a Jamison are graphic design co-chairs for money by selling donated scarves and semester abroad and can take all the University Programming Council and other items throughout the month of financial aid with them and transfer have designed over 50 projects this February at the Lane University Center credit back to FSU. For information on semester advertising UPC events. and during “The Vagina Monologue” programs or scholarships, contact Dr. performances on Feb. 17 and 18 at the Amy Simes at the CIE in the Fuller Performing Arts Center. In addition to House on Braddock Road, x3091, Deadlines raising funds for a local organization, [email protected] or visit the CIE FSU’s V-DAY also organizes events to Web page at www.frostburg.edu/admin/ raise awareness of issues within the cie/cie.htm. Grad Students: Delete university and community. Spend Your Intersession Speaking French Your Incompletes We are looking for volunteers who can Students interested in taking advan- A reminder: The last date for incom- knit or crochet, or individuals who could tage of an affordable French immersion plete grades for graduate students to be donate pink yarn or other various program should consider the “French materials for our knitters. Please contact StateLines / 5 and Snow” language/culture program offered by the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi. The program takes place FSU Events Calendar north of Quebec City from Jan. 8-28 and features an introduction to québécoise culture and traditions. Students live MONDAY, DECEMBER 5 with families and take classes at the UQ * Hadra Lecture, Ken Braitman, Forging Ahead: The Creative Process campus. All credits transfer back to FSU. noon Library 237 Cost is only $1,500. Even students who * Mens JV Basketball: Northern Virginia CC 5:00 p m Home have never taken French are eligible. * School Spirit Meeting 5 p m Presidents Conference Room Come by the CIE for information or visit * CES: Vienna Choir Boys, Christmas in Vienna 7:30 p m Ft Hill High School the UQ Web site at: elf.uqac.ca/pro- * FSU Clarinet Ensemble 8:00 p m PAC Pealer Recital Hall grams/snow.php. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6 New Affiliate: Cultural Experiences Abroad * Advising/Registration 8:30 a m Lane University Center FSU has signed an agreement with * G O L D Talent Show 7:00 p m Lane 142 Cultural Experiences Abroad * Mens Basketball: Mary Washington College 7:00 p m Away (www.gowithcea.com), an independent * CES: Vienna Choir Boys, Christmas in Vienna 7:30 p m PAC Pealer Recital Hall study abroad program provider that sends WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 U.S. students Europe, Australia and Latin * National Broadcasting Society Blood Drive 9 a m -6 p m Cordts PEC Leake Room America. With CEA as a new affiliate, FSU * Faculty Senate 4:00 p m Lane Atkinson Room students will be able to take advantage of * BSA Kwanzaa 7:00 p m Lane ARMAH all their FSU financial aid along with * RHA Meeting 7:00 p m Lane Atkinson Room scholarship opportunities provided by * Mens JV Basketball: Potomac State of WVU 7:00 p m Away CEA. For information, contact the CIE. Use Your Japanese Skills in Toyo Exchange THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8 * SGA Meeting 7:30 p m Lane Atkinson Room Students taking advantage of FSU’s * UPC Concert with MAE & Rory Lowe Band 9:00 p m Lane ARMAH beginning and intermediate Japanese language classes are encouraged to FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9 consider an International Student Last Day of Classes Exchange Program (www.isep.org/ Last Day for GRADUATE Students to Remove Incomplete (I) Grades index.html) with Toyo University in Last Day to Withdraw from Classes with WF Tokyo (www.isep.org/highlight/intl/ * Mens JV Basketball: Northern Virginia CC 5:00 p m Away Toyo/index.html.). Students with * Womens Basketball: Scranton Tournament @ University of Scranton with Hood Japanese language skills stand a good College 6:00 p m Away chance of being accepted. Application * University Theatre Season Too! Stop Kiss 8:00 p m PAC Studio Theatre deadline for fall 2006 is Feb. 1. For more * UPC Last Night Frostburg 8 p m -midnight Lane University Center information, contact the CIE. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10Reading Day/Common Exams Intersession Late Registration (With Late Fees) through January 3, 4:30 pm Safety Message * Womens Basketball: Scranton Tournament @ University of Scranton Consolation Game 2:00 p m Away Championship Game 4:00 p m Away The 12 Drivers Safety * University Theatre Season Too! Stop Kiss 8:00 p m PAC Studio Theatre

Awareness Pledges: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11Reading Day 1. I will keep my vehicle in peak * Womens Indoor Track: Robert Morris University, Moon Township, PA Away operation and safe condition. * CCM Mass Noon & 8:00 p m Cook Chapel 2. I will not drive drunk, high or * Honor Band Festival Concert 3:30 p m PAC Pealer Recital Hall drowsy. * Planetarium: Yuletime Celebrations & the Sky 4 & 7 p m Tawes Hall 3. I will not drive aggressively, or when I’m angry or emotionally upset. * Open to the public Questions? Call 301-687-4411& All information subject to change FSU is committed to making all of its programs, services, and activities accessible to persons 4. I will always wear my seat belt and with disabilities& You may request accommodations through the ADA Compliance Office, 302 ensure my passengers do so also. Hitchins, 301-687-4102, TDD 301-687-7955& 5. I will always clear completely all my vehicle’s windows, mirrors and lights of frost, ice and snow before driving. 6. I will not speed. I will always obey posted speed limits, traffic and road signs. 7. I will always keep a safe 3-second Adjust Your or more following distance. Rearview and Sideview 8. I will always give my full time and attention to driving. Mirrors Before Driving 9. I will not eat, read, groom, be distracted or use my cell phone while driving. 10. I will always drive defensively and stay alert “for the other guy” and for unexpected road hazards. 11. I will always use my turn signals and check my “blind spots” before changing lanes or turning. 12. I will slow down and use extra caution in construction zones, at intersec- tions, in bad weather and at night. Pick up an I PLEDGE TO DRIVE SAFELY Card at the Lane University Center Loft on Thursday, Dec. 8, from 9 a.m. until noon. Drop on by. We will be looking for a few good drivers.