Campus Memo February 2, 1999
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Marjorie Garber, Kenan professor of English and director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard University, will deliver the Scholars' Convocation, Gender and Still Life, at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4 in Harris Cinema. The lecture is sponsored by the Noun Program in Women's Studies.
Garber will discuss how preconceptions about sex and gender influence how we "read" and interpret visual images of everyday life and what happens when we try to visualize concepts for which there are no adequate pictorial representations.
"From Shakespeare's Rosalind to Josephine Baker's banana skirt, Little Red Riding Hood to Little Richard, Marjorie Garber moves nimbly across the sexual anxieties and codes of our culture. Playfully, she enlarges our ways of thinking about human eroticism and about the construction and blurring of gendered identity," says Mary Lynn Broe, Louise R. Noun Professor of Women's Studies and English and director of the Noun Program.
Garber received her B.A. degree from Swarthmore College and her M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. She is currently the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English, associate dean for affirmative action, chair of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, and a member of the Academic Deans Council at Harvard.
Among the books Garber has written are; Symptoms of Culture, Dog Love, Vice Versa Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, and Vested Interests: Cross Dressing and Cultural Anxiety.
•Booksigning: Feb. 3, Forum Coffee House
Garber will also attend a book signing and chat with members of the community in the Forum Coffeehouse at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 3, where she will be available for interviews.
Bob Glasgow, Professor of Printmaking at the University of Iowa, and his wife, Cathy Clader will visit Grinnell Art Department February 17-19. Thursday, February 17, at 7:00 p.m. in Bucksbaum 242, Mr. Glasgow will give a slide lecture about some of his recent art work. All members of the community are welcome to attend. Friday he will conduct a workshop in lithography for printmaking students from 1:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. with a 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. dinner break. Visitors are invited to drop in any time during the workshop. For additional information about the lecture or workshop, please contact Tony Crowley at 269-4263.
On Wednesday, Feb. 3 at 4:30 p.m. in Science 1021, the first Biology Dept. Seminar of the semester is scheduled. Join faculty members, Diane Robertson, Vince Eckhart, Jackie Brown, Liz Queathem, Chuck Sullivan, Chris Rogers and Bruce Voyles, as they give a brief synopsis of their summer research opportunities for 1999. The seminar will be held in Science 2021. Refreshments will be served at 4:15 p.m. in Science 1021.
The faculty of the Grinnell College Chemistry Department will be presenting short descriptions of summer research opportunities in
a departmental seminar on Wednesday, February 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Science 2022. Please come if you are interested in finding out
more about the chemistry department 1999 summer research program. Professors Erickson, Evans, Lyons, Mader and Marzluff will
be
presenting. Refreshments will be served.
Diversity Coalition and the Stonewall Coalition will sponsor a Color of Fear Workshop on Saturday, Feb. 13 from 1-4 p.m. at the Stonewall Resource Center. The documentary, The Color of Fear, will be screened, with facilitated discussion to follow. The Color of Fear explores the issues of racism, multiculturalism, privilege, and power in the present-day United States through the discussions of seven racially and ethnically diverse men during a weekend retreat. This workshop is intended to challenge all participants to evaluate and expand their own understandings of identity, power, and privilege in a confidential, safe space. To register, e-mail [StoneCO].
On Monday, Feb. 8 at 4:15 p.m. in ARH 102, Ms. Priyamvada Gopal, candidate for English tenure track position, will give a presentation entitled After Caliban: Reading the Postcolonial Text. All are welcome; refreshments will be served.
•On Friday, Feb. 5, at 415 in ARH 325, Juliette Cherbuliez will present (in English) Before and Beyond Versailles: The Counter-Court of the Duchesse de Montpensier, 1652-1660. All are encouraged to attend. Refreshments will be served.
•On Monday, Feb. 8, at 415 in ARH 325, David Harrison will present (in English) Saint-Simon, The Stranger. All are encouraged to attend. Refreshments will be served.
One month after arriving in Nicaragua, Hurricane Mitch raged through Central America, damaging land, lives, and morale. As a witness to this tragedy, on Monday, Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in South Lounge, Chava Goldstein will speak and show slides of her experience, giving a voice to their story, and a face to Nicaragua.
On Tuesday Feb. 9 at 11:00 a.m. in Science 1023, Professor David P. Cann, of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University, will present a physics department seminar entitled, Thermochemical Interactions at Electrode Interfaces. The diminishing scale of microelectronic devices has established the importance of understanding the role of the metal-oxide interface and its influence on overall device performance. Dr. Cann's research work is on developing a fundamental perspective of precisely how the interface influences the observed properties of these devices, and learning how to control the interfacial properties. Refreshments served from 10:45 a.m. - Everyone is welcome!
On Monday, Feb. 8 at 4:30 p.m. in ARH 224, Leonid Livak will present, The Making of the `Russian Poet'Boris Poplazsky's Art of Life and Death. All are encouraged to attend. Refreshments will be served.
On Monday, Feb. 8 at 4:15 p.m. in South Lounge, Eric Otoo and Min Zhou will talk to us about naming traditions in Ghana and P.R. China and will share what their names mean and how they got them.
Did your parents choose your name from a book? Name you after a favorite aunt or uncle? Choose a name that would inspire you to be a gymnast, golfer or research scientist? What can we learn about someone's culture from their name? Refreshments served. For more information, call the Office of International Student Services, X3703.
The third concert in the Beethoven Chamber Music Series takes place on Sunday, February 7, at 3 p.m. in the new Recital Hall at the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts. Pianist Eugene Gaub and violinist Nancy McFarland Gaub will continue their year-long exploration of the Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Violin with the three sonatas of Opus 30. Written in 1802 and dedicated to Czar Alexander I of Russia, these sonatas contain some of Beethoven's most dramatic and challenging music. This concert will be the first offered in the new Recital Hall and will also be the first using our new Hamburg Steinway.
Nights of Cabiria, Italy 1957, directed by Federico Fellini, B & W, 117 minutes, ARH 302, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m, Sunday at 2 p.m.
This fully-restored version of Federico Fellini's Oscar-winning chronicle of a saintly prostitute includes new subtitles and a crucial never-before-seen episode (reportedly cut under pressure from the Church).
This is Fellini's most emotionally powerful film, taking the viewer on a roller coaster from hope to despair and back again. The gutsy yet gullible heroine is incarnated by Giulietta Masina in a performance that combines the comic pathos of Chaplin with the earthy vitality of Magnani. Her story is arranged into six episodes that play on the central themes of faith and disillusion, miracle and sham, profanity and transcendence.
February 8-19 the Forum Terrace Art Gallery will host an Open Invitational Art Show, curated by Ed Tews '99 and titled Portraits Depicting the Essence. All artists on campus are invited to submit works, art majors, non-art majors, faculty, and staff. Fine arts, crafts, photography, and anything else you consider a portrait. Please feel free to challenge the definition of portrait.
Installation will coincide with the informal show opening (eats and treats) at 8 p.m. Monday, February 8. If you can not bring your submitted artwork to the installation/opening, e-mail [TEWS] to make arrangements. Questions or concerns? E-mail [TEWS],
Winner of 10 Academy Award nominations and of 4 Golden Globe awards, this distinguished film tells of Henry VIII's love for Anne Boleyn and the tragedy which resulted. When Henry VIII's first wife, Katherine of Aragon, failed to produce an heir to the throne, Henry had the marriage annulled in order that he might marry the beautiful Anne Boleyn, who soon gave birth to a girl.
Henry was irate that the child was female. Anne gave birth to three other children in quick succession, but all died at birth or soon thereafter. It was then that Henry, still seeking a male heir, and determined that the daughter, Elizabeth, should not inherit the throne, began to court Lady Jane Seymour, while at the same time trying to end his marriage to Anne in a way that would eliminate Elizabeth as a legitimate heir. Failing to accomplish this he nevertheless married Lady Seymour. She bore him a son, a weak child who was fated to hold the throne for only a short time before his death at the age of 16. Jane died in 1537. Henry next married Anne of Cleves in January of 1540. That marriage was annulled in July of the same year, and within a month Henry had married Katherine Parr, who survived him. Henry died January 28, 1547. His ruthless, self-centered marital liaisons dominated the royal court during the first half of the 16th century, and, eventually led to a break with the Roman Catholic Church.
Next weeks film, Elizabeth the Queen, also titled, Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex, will show how Anne's passionate and courageous loyalty to her daughter later enabled Elizabeth to claim the throne. Thursday, February 4, Harris 9:15 p.m, Harris Cinema.
The Rosenfield Program will sponsor a Symposium on Affirmative Action, Critical Race Theory and The Law, Feb. 10-11, 1999. Details will be in next week's Campus Memo.
For Women's History Month this year, Grinnell College will be one of dozens of colleges all over the U.S. that is staging a
student performance of The Vagina
Monologues by Eve Ensler. This Obie Award-winning play is comprised of 17 short monologues
based on interviews with hundreds of women from a 75-year-old Jewish woman in Queens to a Bosnian refugee. Ensler has performed
the play all over the world to rave notices. One reviewer said, "It is an inquiry into women's paradoxical relationship with their
repressed, abused, maligned body parts and, by extension, their identities." Another wrote, "Ensler's particular gift is in being able to
combine
these sometimes poignant, painful subjects with such a sharp, incisive humor that even as we're busting a gut laughing, we feel
the bittersweet pang of truth." And the reviewer for the
New York Times declared "sex just doesn't get any funnier, or more poignant."
Ensler staged this show in New York last February with the help of Whoopi Goldberg, Glenn Close, Kathy Najimy, Lily Tomlin, Winona Ryder, and Susan Sarandon in a special benefit for the Ms. Foundation to raise money to fight sexual violence. This year, Ensler is making the script available to colleges so that students can be energized to work locally on this important issue and to think about their own attitudes toward vaginas.
If you are interested in becoming a member of the cast for this dramatic reading of these wonderful, short monologues, please come to a meeting on Tuesday, February 1 at 4:15 p.m. in Carnegie 313. We plan to perform the show in the second week in March and will have one or two rehearsals each week between February 1 and the performance. If you are interested but cannot attend the meeting, contact Prof. Victoria Brown at brownv@ac.grin.edu.
Declare This! Before and Beyond the Art Major, works by Rachel Medis `01 and Mattie Johnson `01 is currently on display at the Terrace Art Gallery. The show will run through Friday, February 5. A reception for the show will be held this evening, Tuesday, February 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the gallery. The public is invited to attend. The Terrace Art Gallery is open during regular Forum hours.
Grinnell Crisis Response will be selling "Llano y Costa" CD's by La Negra Karin y Los Llaneros throughout the next couple of weeks in both dining halls and the post office. An authentic taste of Venezuelan folk music will be yours for an $8-12 donation that will benefit survivors of Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua. For information on how you can help GCR sell CD's e-mail [CRISIS].
•Jewish Programs All of the following events are on Friday, Feb. 5th
-Chalutzim will meet at 12 Noon in the conference room at 1127 Park Street, don't forget to bring your lunch. -Kabbalat Shabbat Service at 5:00 p.m. in Steiner 305 -Shabbat table at 6:15 p.m. in the Chalutzim Lounge, Cowles 1st floor, south side. Reservations are very helpful, please e-mail CHALUTZ@ac.grin.edu].
•Exploring the Jewish Holidays Come and learn with Rabbi Brin about the holiday of Passover - what it's all about and the many ways it is celebrated. Thursday, Feb. 4th from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. at 1127 Park Street.
•Torah Study Reading this week's portion of the Jewish scriptures, Exodus 181-2023, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. this Thursday, Feb. 4th from 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. at 1127 Park Street. All are welcome to join with Rabbi Brin in discussion of the weekly Torah portion.
•Faculty/Staff Bible Study Brown bagging it with the Christian Scriptures, a Bible study for faculty and staff. Today, Tuesday, Feb. 2nd, 12 Noon - 1:00 p.m. (and will meet each 1st and 3rd Tuesday).
•Bible Study With The Chaplains Join us as we study the Psalms, today, Tuesday, Feb. 2nd at 4:15 p.m. in the Conference Room on the 1st floor of 1127 Park Street with Rev. Deanna Shorb and Rabbi Deborah Brin. We meet bi-monthly on the first and third Tuesday.
•Chaplain's Interfaith Assoc. Wednesday, Feb. 3rd at 4:15 p.m. in Steiner 305, join us at any time. We meet each week to discuss multi-religious topics and to plan activities, dialogues, study breaks, and festivals.
•Dealing With Grief and Loss Grief and loss discussion group meets, Thursday, Feb. 4th at 8:00 p.m. in the conference room at 1127 Park Street. All are welcome!
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The reading of Aesop's Fables will continue this Wednesday, February 3, at 8:00 p.m. at the McKibbens' home, 916 Seventh Avenue (a half block west of Herrick Chapel). Please come all you Greek readers. Refreshment are served.
The art department is in need of props for still life set ups in the drawing and painting labs. Objects of all sorts will be graciously accepted - small furniture (tables & chairs), ceramic ware, glassware, fabrics, metalware and other decorative objects. Please contact Bobbie McKibbin, Chair and arrangements will be made to accept your gifts. Call 269-3080 (office), McKibbin@ac.grin.edu (e-mail) or 236-8745 (home).
The Grinnell College Preschool will accept applications for enrollment for the 1999-2000 school year from Feb. 8-19, 1999. Applications can be picked up or mailed to you. For information contact Karen Veerhusen-Langerud, Grinnell College Preschool, 1207 Park, 269-3320.
•Found: set of two car keys in the grass right off the sidewalk behind Fell House. It's a GM key and another car key on a single ring. Call Bonnie Primley at X3221 to claim.
•Found: Ladies' Wrangler watch with leather band found in Science restroom 1/25/99. Claim at Science Secretaries' Office, Science 1232.
•Found: Pearl earring, found near the Book Store and music CD, found in ARH. Please identify and claim either item in the Carnegie Secretaries' Office, Rm. 115.
Afraid to tell your loved one how you feel? Looking for an original way to express you love? Just want to embarrass a friend? Brighten up someone's Valentine's Day by sending them a Singing Valentine, courtesy of the Grinnell Singers. E-mail [oneil] or [singers] or mail box 18-23, and provide:
1) the name of the recipient 2) where and when you want them serenaded (before or after class, in the dining halls, etc.) 3) male or female quartet 4) your message to your valentine, greeting to sign-off (signed or anonymous).
Valentines cost $4, to send Singers to Europe. Requests taken through February 13. Valentines delivered February 1-14.
There will be a series of Open Houses to introduce faculty to the new Interactive Instructional Facility (or, IIF). Instruction will be provided on the unique feature of the room, Robotel, a hardware system that provides new opportunities for student/instructor interaction. Other equipment in the room includes 12 PCs, and AV equipment such as a projector, VCR, DVD/CD player, and scanner. Refreshments will be served.
Come to the IIF (located in the basement of Burling Library) on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday (February 3,4,5) at 4:15 p.m.
The campus dining halls are no longer able to maintain sufficient staff during meals using exclusively college students and are looking for local high school students to fill these openings. If you have a child 14 years of age or older who would be interested in working between two and 18 hours per week, evenings and weekends, please have them contact the Dining Services Office, 269-3661, and arrange to fill out an application. We can build custom schedules around school and other activities. Starting wage is $5.50 per hour. Our job openings are immediate, so we will be filling positions as soon as possible!
The Office of Human Resources is advertising the following positions:
1. Residence Life Coordinators
2. Multicultural & Academic Advising Counselor
Paper copies of the job announcements may be obtained from the Human Resources bulletin boards located at Darby, Forum, Macy, 1st Floor, PEC, Facilities Management, Burling, Mailroom, Dining Services, and 1127 Park Street.
They are also available for viewing on the Human Resources web page. The address ishttp//www.grinnell.edu/humanresources/. If you have a terminal you may access the web page by typing www www.grinnell.edu/humanresources/ at the $prompt.
Starting next fall, any Grinnell College enrollee on ACM/GLCA tuition remission can enroll not only in on-campus courses but can also apply for the Grinnell-in-London Program on a tuition remission basis. Any other off-campus program will continue not to be eligible for tuition remission.
Are you interested in participating in an in-depth community service spring break? The student run Alternative Break program provides a way for students to travel to various locations across the country at a minimal cost as an intentional community of service. This springs trips focus primarily on social justice, construction, and poverty action. Some of the sites include New Orleans, Boston, and Battle Creek.
If you are interested in participating in this spring's Alternative Break Program you must attend a meeting this Thursday, February 4 at 9 p.m. in the North Lounge of the Forum. Applications and trip information will be distributed at this time. If you cannot attend but would like to know more about the program, e-mail [altbreak] early this week!
We've scrapped the never-dissolving chalk drawings for a new semester of Box O'Yoga goodness. We stretch, dish, go on service projects, learn computer stuff, cry, hug, and otherwise act like The View; and this semester, we'll meet only once a week for two hours!
Class will be scheduled for either Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on student requirements. 20 spaces are open; e-mail [yoga] by noon on Tuesday, February 9th to become part of the YogaLottery!
•Market Analyst Wanted LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation in Sioux Falls, SD is seeking a talented individual to assist in their market analysis and research activities. The ideal individual for this position will need both exceptional analytic and excellent communication skills. Problem solving skills will be essential. More information on this position is available in the CDO. Resumes and cover letters are due in the CDO by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, February 8, 1999. Address cover letters to Mikhail Pyatigorsky; LodgeNet Entertainment Co.; 3900 W. Innovation St.; Sioux Falls, SD 57107-7002.
•Fund for Public Interest Research The Fund will be on campus February 8 & 9 recruiting for Canvass Director positions. An information seminar will be held on Monday, February 8 at 6 p.m. in ARH 120. Interviews will be held in the Career Development Office on February 9 from 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Students interested in interviewing should call the CDO at x4940 to schedule a time. A complete job description is available in the CDO.
The Fund is a non-profit, public interest, grassroots advocacy organization. They coordinate campaigns and citizen outreach for many national and local environmental and public interest organizations like the Sierra Club, the State PIRGs, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Delaware River Keeper, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Human Rights Campaign, and others.
•Corporation for National Service The Corporation for National Service (AmeriCorps/Vista) will be on campus
Wednes
day, February 10 to present information and answer questions about employment opportunities with their organization.
Representatives will host a table in the campus post office from 10:00 a.m. until noon, and an information seminar in the Forum Coffeehouse
from 12:15 until 1:00 p.m.
Students may bring a brown bag lunch. Information about the Corporation for National Service is available in the CDO.
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German Table will meet this Tuesday, Feb 2, and every Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. in Cowles PDR's 3 and 4. Come join us for some relaxing conversation.
Abducted by Aliens? Sleep through registration? Well, you're in luck, the following ExCo courses are still accepting students:
Hong Kong Films; Star Wars; Medieval Dance; Advanced Knitting; Fundamental Drawing for Non-Art Majors; Fiction of Margaret Atwood; Art of Neil Gaiman; Stepping Beyond the Myths: Understanding how hallucinogens have affected humanity throughout history; 80s Teen Films; Body Modification and Culture; Calvin and Hobbes: Appreciation of Bill Watterston's Creation, Collaboration, Conversation; and Expression: Why am I afraid to tell you who I am?; Writing your Life: A Journey in Poetry. To register e-mail [exco] before Friday Feb. 5.
After School Foreign Language is looking for teachers for this semester. If you speak a foreign language and like working with kids, this is a program for you. Classes meet from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday (that's only one hour a week). If you are interested in teaching a class or simply want more information, e-mail [ASFL].
Tickets for the 100 Days Party open to seniors (Saturday, Feb. 6 at The Pub Downunder, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.) will be sold in the campus post office this Wed-Fri., Feb. 3-5 from 10 a.m.-noon and 1-2:30 p.m. Tickets are $6 and seniors must show ID when purchasing a ticket. Payment must be in cash.
•Wanted SGA Joint Board Senators
Are you concerned about the quality of student life on campus? Are you interested in making a difference? You have the opportunity to make an impact on campus by representing your dorm or house in Joint Board, so take a chance and run for senator. Statement of Intent forms are now available in the SGA offices in the basement of the Forum and are due Wednesday Feb 3. Elections will be held in dorm lounges and over the VAX for OCCO/OCNCO students on Thursday, Feb. 4 . Any questions? E-mail [SGA]. Be a leader and continue your active role in the Grinnell community.
•Run for SGA Senator
SGA Senator Elections will be held on Thursday, February 4 at 8:30 p.m. in dorm lounges. Off-campus students will vote over e-mail from 800 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on the same day. Use your voice and help choose the person to represent your concerns; vote for SGA senator on Thursday!
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Students enrolled in Music 120, 122, 220, 221, and 420 may come to the Fine Arts Office at Bucksbaum Center to sign-up for practice rooms from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon and again from 1:30 to 430 p.m. on both Monday, February 8th and Tuesday, February 9th. After sign-ups end Tuesday, open practice rooms may be used during available time slots by any student on a first come, first served basis. Please call Xander Jacobs or Beth Lirio at x4262 if you have questions.
This week's Brown Bag covers the topic of polyamorymeaningful relationships with more than one partner. The discussion will be Wednesday at noon in the Forum.
•Dog Policy in Effect
The dog policy states: "When a dog is not on a leash and not attached to a person, the owner will automatically be fined $50.00. All fines collected will accrue to SGA. In addition, if a second incident of a dog not on a leash and not attached to a person occurs, the Student Government Association will be informed; the Vice-President of the SGA must bring the owner of the dog to the College Judicial Council. Appeals to the above infraction can be taken to the College Judicial Council.
•Housing Issues
Do you have any concerns about your current or future housing? If so, please feel free to contact any of the following members of the Housing Committee Steve Larson, Nickolas Myers, Howe Siegel, Emily Mize, Philip Allen, Molly Kennedy, Rachel Bennett, Shekhar Shah and Shannon Price.
•Student Guns
Under no circumstances may students store or possess firearms or weapons in college-owned housing, college buildings, college property, or vehicles stored on college property. Any violation of this policy is considered extremely serious and may lead to immediate suspension or dismissal from the college.
•Bike Registration
Student bicycles may be registered at the local police station, Security Office, or Bikes-To-You. Upon completion of registration, the student will be given a Grinnell College license and a copy of the registration form. Security will maintain a computer record of all registered bicycles and the Grinnell Police Department and the Security Office will maintain a file of bike registration cards. You need to have your bicycle serial number in order to register your bike.
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•Summer Jobs
The Office of Special Services has summer job openings for Life Guard, Summer Assistants and Program Assistants. Please apply in person at 1131 Park St., 8 a.m.-noon, 1-5 p.m. for information and application procedures.
•Health Center Student Clerk Position
The Health Center is now accepting applications for the position of student clerk. Job descriptions and applications are available at the Health Center during the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Completed applications must be received at the Health Center by February 22. Interviews will be held February 24, 25 and 26. The position will begin with the first semester of the 1999-2000 academic year. Applicants must be 18 years of age and have a valid drivers license. For more information, contact Andrew Choquette at 236-5829 or the Health Center at x3230.
On Thursday, Feb. 4 from 12 noon-1 p.m. in South Lounge, there will be a Student Open Forum with Trustees Tom Cech '70 and Larry Pidgeon. All students are invited to attend.
The Grinnell College Symphonic Band is still accepting members for all parts/sections of brass, woodwinds, and percussion until this Thursday, February 4. We welcome anyone with experience playing a concert band instrument to be part of this really fun and high quality group. See for yourself by coming to the rehearsals this week on Tuesday and Thursday at 4:15 p.m. in the Bucksbaum Center, room 103. Any class or athletic conflicts within reason may be worked around. We hope to see you in the Symphonic Band this week!
Part of this week's series of meetings with the trustees will include the first organizational meeting of the Student Life Committee. This group is entrusted with bringing student concerns to the attention of the trustees. In addition to defining the committee's role and structure, this committee also intends to address campus media issues. If you are interesting in becoming involved, please e-mail [SGA] or Petar [KLAETSCH].
Thanks to all who participated in the second semester SGA Used Book and CD Sale! If you did not return to collect your unsold merchandise after the sale, stop by the SGA Offices during the Student Service Coordinator's office hours in the next two weeks to reclaim them. Her office hours are Tuesday, 12-2 p.m., and Thursday 1-2 p.m. If you cannot make it during this time, e-mail [service]. Checks will be forthcoming to those who sold books/CDs in the next several weeks. Look for the Sale again next fall!
The following vehicles are not registered with the college, have received 3 or more tickets and are subject to immediate tow/immobilization.
AL Lic#: 29BP774 Toyota Corolla CA Lic#: 4BYF124 Ford IA Lic#: 416BLR Toyota IA Lic#: 090BLY Honda Accord IA Lic#: 728FRQ Dodge Caravan IA Lic#: 762GEA Jeep Cherokee MI Lic#: 7CBJ69 Dodge Caravan MN Lic#: 263JET Pontiac Firebird NE Lic#: 2P4927 BMW TX Lic#: GNZ801 Mazda Truck
Grinnell College, under a grant from the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM), will select two ACM Minority Scholars from the sophomore and junior classes in the spring semester. The ACM Minority Students and Academic Careers Program is intended to help address the nationwide problem of declining minority student interest in pursuing academic careers. The program centers around 1) a mentoring relationship between a minority student and a faculty member; 2) a full-time summer research project for the student under the guidance of the faculty mentor; 3) a classroom teaching experience for each student; and, 4) a set of consortial meetings to create a network of ACM students considering academic careers.
The program has been designed to encourage and prepare minority students who might already be considering academic careers, as well as to attract those academically talented students who may not yet have considered an academic career. The program is designed to focus on and encourage African American, Asian American, Hispanic, and Native American students. Foreign students, unless they are permanent residents of the United States, are not included on the program. Applicants must have a minimum 2.75 cumulative GPA. More information and applications are available from the Office of the Associate Dean of the College, Nollen 3rd. Application deadline Monday, March 1, 1999.
This fellowship will provide a stipend to a promising young woman to help her attend graduate school. The woman should be unmarried at the time of the award. The award may be given to a young woman who does not attend graduate school immediately after graduation from Grinnell. The young woman should have a goal of diplomatic service in Latin America. She should be proficient in Spanish or French. She should be a native of the United States.
Application Guidelines:
1. Letter of application addressing: a. coursework in Latin American Studies; b. activities involving Latin American Studies; c. long-term academic and career goals.
2. Transcript and course sheet
3. Letter of recommendation from one member of the Grinnell College faculty
Applications are due in the Career Development Office by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 5, 1999. Please contact Steve
Langerud
(langerud@admin.grin.edu) for more information.
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