Scholars' Convocation, 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, in Herrick Chapel

This week's Scholars' Convocation, The Future of Technology: Lean and High in Fiber, will be presented at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, in Herrick Chapel by Richard McGinn '68. McGinn is president and chief operating officer of Lucent Technologies. McGinn's visit is made possible by the Wilson Program in Enterprise and Leadership.

Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, consumer and business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company.

Prior to his appointment as president and chief operating officer in 1996, McGinn was an executive vice president of AT&T, and president and chief executive officer of Lucent's Network Systems Group, a position he was named to in 1993. He began his career as an account executive with Illinois Bell in 1969. He rose through a variety of sales and marketing positions at Illinois Bell and joined AT&T in 1978. In 1982, McGinn became AT&T International's regional director for Europe, Middle East, Africa. In 1985, he became the vice president responsible for the company's Asia/Pacific and Americas region.

In 1987, McGinn became vice president of strategy of AT&T's computer business. Later, he was responsible for product management, operations, and research and development. He was named president of AT&T Computer Systems in 1990. In 1991, McGinn assumed a new position in Network Systems as senior vice president responsible for strategy, sales and customer operations.

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Volume XXVII, No. 7

Contents

Scholars Convocation ................... 1

Announcements

Academic ................................. 2

Cultural .................................... 3

All--Campus ............................. 3

Faculty/Staff .............................. 5

Students ..................................... 5

Academic Awards/Scholarships/

Internships/Grants ......................... 7

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Panel: "Are Globalization and Privatization Good for Developing Countries?"

Richard McGinn '68 will also participate in this panel discussion moderated by Professor Mark Montgomery, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, in the South Lounge of the Forum. Other participants include: Mehrene Larudee of the University of Kansas; David G. Skidmore II, associate professor of political science at Drake University, and John Yochelson, chairman of the Council on Competitiveness.

John Yochelson became president of the Council on Competitiveness in 1995. The Council on Competitiveness is a non-partisan forum of chief executives from the business, university and labor communities working to sustain U.S. economic leadership. Yochelson was a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he was responsible for policy research on international trade, investment and finance. He holds an M.P.A. degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University and a bachelor's degree from Yale University.

Related Lecture

Mehrene Larudee, assistant professor of economics at the University of Kansas, will speak about Visions of a Better World: Can Economists be Trusted? at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the South Lounge.

CBS Minisymposium

A schedule of activities for Black Awareness Week/CBS Minisymposium is an addendum to the Campus Memo.

Take Back the Night Week

A schedule of activities for Take Back the Night Week is an addendum to the Campus Memo.

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Academic Announcements

Author Miriam Cooke :About Women and War

Women and War in the Middle East will be the topic of a lecture delivered by author Miriam Cooke on Monday, October 13, at 8 p.m. in the Main Hall Lounge. Cooke's lecture is sponsored by the Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations and Human Rights, and the Louise R. Noun Program in Women's Studies.

Cooke was born in 1948, "the year of the war between the Palestinian Arabs and the Jews that culminated in the establishment of the state of Israel," she writes in the introduction to her book, Women and the War Story. In her newest book, Cooke writes about the Algerian war for independence, the Six-Day War, the Intifada, the Iraq-Iran War, the Gulf War, and the wars in Vietnam and Bosnia.

"To the canonical list of Crane, Sassoon, Remarque and Malraux, we must now add Khalifa, Talib and Nasrallah. These and other Arab women writers, Miriam Cooke reveals, have used their literary crafts to upset and destabilize the oddly comfortable codified `War Story.' Cooke is a wonderful guide into their radically alternative visions of war and of the nation in whose name war is waged," writes author Cynthia Enloe.

Cooke is the acting director of Asian and African Languages and Literature at Duke University, Durham, N.C., and professor of Arabic. She received her master's degree in Arabic and Islamic studies, magna cum laude, from Edinburgh University, Scotland, and her doctorate in Arabic literature from St. Antony's College, Oxford, England.

Biology Department Seminar

On Wednesday October 8, at 4:15 p.m. in Science 2021, members of the Biology department faculty will hold a discussion for students considering applying for graduate school in the biological sciences. Questions addressed will include: why go to graduate school, how to

choose a graduate program, how to apply to graduate school and how to finance graduate study. Refreshments will be served at 4:00 p.m. in Science 1021.

Bridging The Chasm

Harold Kasimow, George Drake professor of Religious Studies at Grinnell College, will deliver the 1997 Roger Zimmerman Memorial Lecture, Jews, Christians, and Muslims in a Religiously Plural World, on Sunday, October 12, at 2 p.m. at the United Church of Christ-Congregational, Fourth and Broad Streets. Discussion, dialogue and refreshments will follow the lecture. All are welcome to attend.

Chemistry Seminar

On Wednesday, October 8, 7:30 p.m., Science 2022, Megan Northway, will present Dehalogenation of Chlorophenols Mediated by Activated Carbon. Amanda Tessar will present, A New Era in Drug Therapy: Synthesis of Potential Oligoamine RNAases. Senior chemistry majors Megan Northway and Amanda Tessar will speak about their summer research projects conducted at the University of Leiden in Holland through a student exchange program between the chemistry departments at Grinnell and Leiden. Students interested in participating in the Leiden exchange during the summer of 1998 are especially encouraged to attend. Refreshments will be served.

German Department Roberts Lecture

On Monday, October 13, at 7:30 p.m. in South Lounge, Professor Patricia Herminghouse, University of Rochester, will give a talk entitled Colonialism without Colonies: German Interests in the Caribbean. Refreshments will be served.

National Theatre Institute

Jessica Cerullo, representing the National Theater Institute, will be on campus Tuesday, (today) October 7, to meet with interested students. She will be in Arena Theatre at 4:15 p.m. (with lemonade and cookies) and at Bob's Underground at 10 p.m. to talk informally about N.T.I.Us program offerings.

Located at the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Center in Waterford, Connecticut, N.T.I. is one of the premier U.S. institutions currently providing intensive theatre training for undergraduate liberal arts students. Grinnell is fortunate in its arrangement with N.T.I. which permits us to nominate as many as two students per semester for off-campus study there. You need not be a theatre major to apply. Please join Ms. Cerullo if you have a histrionic bent. Questions, contact [mease] or [moffett].

Poetry Reading: Peter Sacks

Peter Sacks will read from his most recent work, Natal Command, on Friday, October 10, at 4:15 p.m. in South Lounge. Sacks, a professor of English at Harvard University, is the author of two other books of poetry (In these Mountains [1986] and Promised Lands [1990]) and his poetry has also been published in The New Yorker, The Nation, Georgia Review, Partisan Review, and other journals. Sacks' book of literary criticism, The English Elegy (1985) won the Christian Gauss Award as the best book of literary scholarship published in the United States.

Of his poetry Sacks says, "I was raised in South Africa. I am now an expatriate, but I am still caught up in that country's history. My work in poetry has usually sought to balance an openness to physical beauty on the one hand against historical suffering on the other." James Merrill described Sacks as a "pictorial poet by temperament, whose frames are made so well as never to distract us from vital scenes."

Jorie Graham writes of Sacks' new collection, Natal Command, "Traveling across borders, spiritual, cultural and emotional, Sacks writes deeply American poems from his vantage point as an expatriate South African. The poems are informed not only by complex relations of power and race, but also by a larger sense of the conflicted desires regarding the notion of a homeland. At once personal and historical (responding to the work of mourning with an intensely embodied desire for redress-the poems take up the challenge of cultural repair against collective rage and grief."

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caped due to the action of several courageous people. One was a drifter played by Ving Rhames; another was a storekeeper played by Jon Voight. This re-enactment of the events which took place in 1923 brings to the screen one of the 20th century's most horrendous, yet overlooked, episodes of lynch-mob rule. While documenting the depths to which acts of racial prejudice can sink, still, it holds out hope by showing that a few were willing to risk all to resist such action and to assist its victims. The New York Times said: "A shocking outrageous event; a thought-provoking film." Thursday October 9, 9:15 p.m. Harris. Next week's film: Dead Poets Society.

Student Recital this Friday

The Department of Music will present a student recital this Friday, October 10, at 4:15 p.m. in Herrick Chapel. Performing on the brief program will be four singers: Sarah Wilcox, soprano; Joseph Lauber, baritone; Matthew Charnetski, baritone; and Aline Aprahamian, soprano. They will be performing works by Gabriel Faure, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Phyllis Tate, and Lucy Simon. The performers are students of Kristie Tigges, John Rommereim, and Lisa Henderson.

Two New Exhibitions

A retrospective exhibition of Romare Bearden's prints, A Graphic Odyssey will be in the Print Room through Nov. 16. Bearden (1912 - 1988) is considered one of the most important American artists of this century.

Steve Gustafson Photographs will open with a reception for Mr. Gustafson on Wed. Oct. 8 at 4:15 p.m. in Burling Gallery.

All Campus Announcements

Burling Library Announcements

•Encyclopedia Britannia Online

The library subscribes to Britannica Online which is the Encyclopedia Britannica on the World Wide Web. Go to the libraries

home page (http://www.lib.grin.edu/) and click on Indexes and Encyclopedias to find the link to this resource.

•Project Muse

The Grinnell College Libraries subscribe to a collection of journals from Johns Hopkins Press through the World Wide Web. This collection is called Project Muse. There are now 42 journals available through this subscription, including two that are only published electronically. The library subscribes to a portion of these titles in paper as well. Project Muse provides access to the full text of each journal; keyword searching of individual journals or of all journals at once; and downloading and printing of articles from anywhere on campus.

For a list of available journals and a link to the project itself, go to the Libraries World Wide Web page (http://www.lib.grin.edu), click on "Links to Resources," and then "Magazines and Journals." If you have any questions, please contact a reference librarian.

•Grinnell College Libraries WWW Home Page

The Grinnell College Libraries WWW home page can be accessed at http://www.lib.grin.edu/. The libraries home page offers organized access to the information resources on the Internet. It contains links to Internet searching tools, as well as links to information resources which have been evaluated and selected by the librarians. The Grinnell College Libraries catalog and catalogs of other libraries throughout the world are also available. The library's web page continues to expand as new sites are discovered.

•Burling Library Displays

Scrapbooks from former Grinnell students and memorabilia from College social functions in the 1930s are on display in cases located near the public restrooms in the basement of Burling Library. Scrapbooks include class photographs from 1876, sporting events from 1922-26, charming photographs of Grinnell women involved in various activities in 1918, and a Dibble Hall scrapbook from 1979-80.

The reading is sponsored by the President's Office and the Department of English.

Cultural Announcements

Cultural Film: To Sleep With Anger, Oct. 10-12

To Sleep With Anger (USA, 1990, Color, 95 minutes). Directed by Charles Burnett. ARH 302, Friday/Saturday, 8 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m.

Into a middle-class family home in Los Angeles comes an old friend from the Deep South, Harry (Danny Glover), a superstitious troublemaker who gradually gains influence over the house and its inhabitants. Harry is a trickster figure, a shadow from the family's troubled past who insinuates himself into their home and proves himself to be bad luck. Directed by the critically acclaimed, African-American director, Charles Burnett, To Sleep with Anger fuses mythological themes with contemporary social issues. The result is an entertaining and enlightening look at the family and the seductive dangers of nostalgia.

Forum Terrace Art Gallery

A Plethora of Predominately Pigment-free Pictures Accompanied by an Astounding Array of Alliteration. Comics and Comic Art by Adam Wirtzfeld, 1998, is currently on display at the Terrace Art Gallery. The show features comic drawings from the Scarlet and Black, the Gum, and elsewhere, as well as a collection of nearly one hundred illustrated envelopes, sketchbooks, and posters. It will run through Friday, October 11. A reception will be held this Tuesday, October 7, at 7:00 p.m., in the gallery. The gallery is open during regular Forum hours.

Performing Arts - Concerned Black Students Film: Rosewood

This 1997 film tells the true story of Rosewood, a black Florida town which was burned to the ground and its people murdered because of a lie, although some es

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and requires only a small investment of your time. The entire procedure, from registration to refreshments, takes approximately one hour. The actual drawing of blood lasts only five to seven minutes. By donating just one pint of blood, you can help save the lives of four sick or injured persons.

Donors should be 17 years of age or older, in good health, weigh at least 110 pounds and have eaten a good meal prior to donating. Give thanks and share your good health by giving the gift of life. To make an appointment contact Jae Hines by E-mail at [SERVICE].

Computer, Telephone and On-call Services Information Outside of Normal Office Hours

Computer Services can be reached outside of normal working hours by calling the watchperson and reporting a problem. The number for the watchperson is 236-6677. During the school year we will respond to problems involving campus-wide outages of service, like the network down in a building, multiple printers out of service, no long-distance service or no local phone service. The on-call number is not intended to answer general computing questions, respond to single printers being out of service or individual workstations not operating.

GEAR Needs Your Help!!!

We are looking for items and services to auction off at the AIDS benefit on Nov. 8th. Please share your:

-services (babysitting, doing laundry, car washing, etc.) -monetary donation -items of value (ask your parents!!)-time to help us get this together

We know all of you have at least one of the above. Please be generous for this good cause. E-mail [GEAR] ASAP.

Honorary Degree Nominations

Members of the campus community are invited to nominate candidates for honorary degrees to be awarded during the 1998 Exercises of Commencement. Details concerning the process are available

Chaplain's Office Announcements

•Christian Worship

-Sunday, October 12: Hispanic Heritage Month Worship Service, interdenominational; Martha Vargas Yerington, Ethnic Ministry Coordinator for the Diocese of Davenport, guest preacher; 11:00 a.m. in Herrick Chapel. All are welcome!

-Sundays, October 19 & 26: Fall Break. Worship Services will resume after break.

-Sunday, November 2: Inter-Denominational Worship Service with Holy Communion, 11:00 a.m. in Herrick Chapel. All are welcome!

If you would like to participate as a reader, greeter or worship leader, contact the Chaplains Office, ext. 4981.

•Jewish Worship

Please join us on Fridays at 5:15 p.m. in Steiner 305 for Kabbalat Shabbat service. Services are liberal/egalitarian in Hebrew and English, with music and song. All are welcome!

•Spirituality Gathering

Lets talk about spirituality, what guides us in our spiritual growth, Wednesday, October 8 at 9:00 p.m. on the lawn, east side of Steiner Hall (bad weather location is Steiner 305). Coordinated by C.I.A. All are welcome!

•Seminary Information

Central Baptist Theological Seminary invites you to campus for Open Seminary Day, November 5, 1997. Attend classes, meet our outstanding faculty, and visit with committed students called to ministry. If you have questions about your own call to ministry or are interested in different ministry options, make plans to be a part of this day. For more information, visit our Website at www.cbts.edu, phone us at 1-800-677-2287, or e-mail: tdavis@cbts.edu.

•Divinity School/Seminary Admissions Visits

-Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary admissions representative, Kelly

Dahlman-Oeth, will be on campus to meet with students on Thursday, October 9.

·10:00 a.m. - 12 Noon for individual appointments (call x4981)

·12 Noon for lunch meets at the Chaplains Office, 1127 Park - 1st

-Yale Divinity School admissions representative, Anita Bradshaw, will be on campus to meet with students on Friday, October 10 at Noon for lunch in the Forum PDR "E". For additional appointment times in the early afternoon, please call x4981.

•Scholarships

The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago is offering scholarships for Israel Experience programs beginning December 1997 through spring 1998. Drop by our multi-religious library at 1127 Park - 1st in the Chaplain's Office area to view the internships book. Hours: 8 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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Burling Library Hours during Fall Break

•Fri. Oct. 17th — 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. •Sat. Oct. 18th — 12:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. •Sun. Oct. 19th — 12:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. •Mon. - Fri., Oct. 20-24th — 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. •Sat. Oct. 25th — 12:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. •Sun. Oct. 26th — Regular hours resume

Students should note that they are responsible for returning periodicals and interlibrary loan books that are due during break.

Campus Blood Drive

Help maintain a bountiful blood supply this fall by participating in the upcoming Grinnell College blood drive. Now is the perfect time to give thanks for the abundance and good fortune in your life. Share your good health by giving blood.

The Blood Center of Central Iowa and SGA are sponsoring a blood drive for all eligible donors on Wednesday and Thursday, October 15 and 16, between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., both days at the Harris Center. Giving blood is a safe, simple procedure that is relatively painless

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from the Office of Special Services, ex. 3178. Committee members are: Jack Mutti (Box A-6), Laura Sinnett (Box Y-27), Paula Smith (Box E-7), and Jim Work, ex officio (Special Services).

Institutional Review Board

Members of the campus community may be planning to conduct research projects with live animal or human participants. If you have such a project scheduled, please remember that the college Institutional Review Board exists to review and approve such projects. For information, contact David Lopatto, x3165 or E-mail LOPATTO.

Lost and Found

•Found: Several suitcoats were placed in my van on Monday, September 29, 1997. The van was parked in Faculty/Staff Parking lot across from Quad Dining Hall. If these belong to someone and you would like to claim them, please e-mail me @ [OPOLKA] or contact Facilities Management @ ext. 3300.

•Lost: Have you seen my brown sandals? Old and worn, but very loved. Please call 269-3476 or e-mail [GOLIN] if you have any information.

Two Dial-up Numbers to the Academic Vax

For the convenience of those who dial into the Academic VAX, there are now two numbers from which you can connect. The old number (515) 269-4970 is still active and a new number (515) 269-4990 will also allow you to connect to EVAX.

Weekly Campus Crime Report

•Illegal drugs were confiscated from a student in the campus Post Office by the Central Iowa Drug Task Force and U.S. Postal Inspector.

•It was reported on September 22 that during 12:30 a.m. - 1:00 a.m. on Saturday (Sept. 22) an unidentified individual broke the glass to the exterior door of Smith Hall.

•It was reported on September 22 that during the late night of Saturday (Sept. 20)

or early morning of Sunday (Sept. 21) a bike was stolen from the bike rack outside Smith Hall.

•It was reported on October 4 that sometime on Wednesday (Oct. 1) a laptop computer (IBM Thinkpad 360) was stolen from a student room in Loose Hall.

Questions/Concerns/Comments, please Vax (Safety) or call Student Affairs at X3700.

Faculty/Staff Announcements

None listed

Student Announcements

Career Development Office Announcements

•University of Iowa Representative

Joe Henry, Assistant Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Iowa will be available to discuss graduate and professional program opportunities with any interested students. He will be available in the Career Development Office, Mears Third, on Thursday, October 9, 11:00 a.m.-12 Noon and 1:00-2:00 p.m.

•Lutheran Volunteer Corps

A representative from the Lutheran Volunteer Corps will be available on Tuesday, October 14, from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. in the Campus Post Office. The LVC places full-time volunteers in jobs at shelters for homeless people and abused women, food banks, peace and justice organizations, children's programs and medical clinics. Lutheran Volunteers commit to the LVC goals of working for justice while living simply within the setting of intentional Christian community.

•University of Illinois-Institute of Labor & Industrial Relations will host an information session on Tuesday, October 14, from 7:00-8:30 p.m. in ARH 120. Refreshments will be served.

•Cerner Corporation Accepting Resumes

Cerner Corporation is a leading developer of clinical information systems. Health organizations worldwide use Cerner's Health Network Architecture. Permanent positions are available as Programmer/Analyst or Application Developer. Internships as Programmer/Analysts are also offered.

Candidates should have an interest/aptitude in computers; experience with COBOL, JAVA, Visual C+, Visual Basic; 3.0 or greater GPA; be willing to relocate to Kansas City, MO. Open to all majors. More information on these positions is available in the Career Development Office. Resumes and cover letters are due in the CDO by Friday, October 17.

•Internship Application Deadline

Applications for spring internships will be due on Wednesday, October 15, by 5:00 p.m. This deadline is also applicable if you will be off campus in the spring and would like to do an internship during the fall 1998 semester. If you have not picked up your application AND met with an internship career counselor, please stop by the CDO.

•Women in Law The University of Iowa College of Law's Organization for Women Law Students and Staff is pleased to announce the 21st annual "Women in Law Recruitment Conference" scheduled to be held on Saturday, October 18. The conference is aimed at college women interested in the study of law. There are panel discussions by women law students and attorneys, as well as a mock class taught by a UI law professor.

More information and registration forms are available at the Career Development Office. If enough interest is shown (including a college certified driver), the Career Development Office will sponsor a car going to Iowa City for this event. Sign up deadline for the car is Friday, October 10.

•Upcoming Workshop

The CDO will sponsor a "Resume Writing" workshop on Wednesday, October 8, at 4:15 p.m. in the YMCA. A hands-on workshop which addresses resume content, style, and format. You will actually progress from a blank page to a draft

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of your resume! Bring a computer disk with you.

•Computer Positions

Epic Systems Corporation has positions available in software development, technical support, installation/training, and system configuration/administration. Epic Systems, based in Madison, Wisconsin, develops premium software systems which are used by large health care organizations such as Aetna, CIGNA, Harvard Community Health Plan, and Mayo Clinic. Resumes, cover letters, and an unofficial transcript are due in the Career Development Office by October 10, 1997.

•International Studies

Steve Baker, Provost of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, will be available to speak to students about MIIS graduate programs on Monday, October 13, 1997 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Career Development Office.

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Dating at Grinnell?

If you would be interested in participating in a study about dating on the Grinnell College campus, please vax Stephanie Jaros [JAROS] or call x3848. Your participation would be greatly appreciated!

Depression Support Group

Are you having trouble focusing on your studies? Are you having problems transitioning to college? Are you feeling isolated or alone? Do you find that nothing brings pleasure to your life? Do you have a problem of sleeping too little or too much? Have you spoken to anyone about how you're feeling? If you would like to, here's how: A group for Grinnell College students is being formed to talk about issues and feelings related to depression. Contact RLCs Staci Peterson ([peterso1], x3761) or Paul Valencic ([valencic], x3865) for more information.

Eating Disorders Group

Are you uncomfortable at study breaks or in the dining hall because of food? Have you noticed your eating habits to be different from others? This group may be for you.

An eating disorders group is being established by Holly Krejca, an RLC, and Harriet Dickey-Chasens, a Poweshiek Mental Health Center counselor. Appointments for screening can be made by calling Poweshiek Mental Health Center at 236-6137. Meetings will be held on Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. at a location on campus beginning October 8.

Gorp Announcements

•Learn to Climb: Climb 1&2. Tuesday and Thursday October 7 & 9. Sign up at the Forum desk. $5 due at sign-up.

•Fall Break Equipment: Equipment rental for fall break will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis beginning Thursday, October 9. Limit two people. $20 deposit required. Open hours: 3:30-5:00, M-F. Groups should call the equipment room during open hours to reserve.

Help to Plan for Women's History Month Now

How should Grinnell celebrate Women's History Month this March? If you are interested in helping to plan for speakers, discussions, movies, etc., come to an informational/organizational meeting in Carnegie 313 on Tuesday, October 7 at 4:15 p.m. Please contact Victoria Brown [BrownV], at 3087, if you have any questions or comments.

Housing Committee

The Housing Committee will meet Wednesday, October 8, at 5:00 p.m. in PDR E of the Forum. The discussion will center on items left in the hallways of the residence halls.

The Housing Committee meeting is open to all members of the campus community. The members of the Housing Committee are Steve Larson, Staci Peterson, Howe Siegel, Amanda Tessar, Brandi Petersen, Christina Spyreas, Ilana Golin, Emily Mize, Anthony Westbrooks, Andrew Derksen and Chris Ribe.

National Depression Screening Day

If you feel sad or empty, if the pleasure has gone out of your life, or if you have trouble

sleeping or eating too little or too much, you may be suffering from clinical depression. Depression is an illness, and effective treatments are available.

Grinnell College will be offering free depression screenings on National Depression Screening Day, Thursday, October 9, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Health Center. The free screening program will include information on depression, an anonymous written depression screening test, and the opportunity to review the results of your test with a mental health professional. No appointment is needed. Contact Paul ([Valencic], x3865) for more information.

Now Forming! 1998 New Student Orientation Committee

Are you energetic, like to work with people and willing to share your Grinnell College experiences with others? If the answers to these three questions are yes, yes and yes; then we are interested in you! The 1998 New Student Orientation Committee will begin working on the 1998 GO Magazine and Fall Orientation Week Program later this month. Be a part of making the experience of next year's "first year students" an informative, fun and smooth transition. Join the New Student Orientation Committee today! Students should stop by the Forum Office (located on the lower level of the Forum) to pick up an application from Michael Sims. Preference will be given to those students who return their completed application by noon, Friday, October 17. I look forward to hearing from you.

Seniors

If you have a non-custodial parent who you would like to receive commencement information mailings, please contact Office of Special Services, x3178. The first mailing will be in mid-November so be sure and contact our office with the address.

Vehicle Warning List

The following vehicles have received 3 or more tickets and will be subject to immediate towing or immobilization if parked on campus.

IA Lic# 295CMH, GMC Sonoma IA Lic# 907CGB, Chevy Corsica IA Lic# 922CML, Toyota Truck

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IA Lic# 986EKN, White Toyota Camry MN Lic# 466PUS, Ford Escort NJ Lic# LG579E, Honda Civic

Academic Awards/Scholarships/Internships/Grants

Camery Prize in History

Each year the Department of History awards the Camery Prize, established through the bequest of Lura Camery '24, for the "outstanding work of historical interpretation submitted during the year to the Department of History by a full-time student at the College." Last year, Owen Stanwood '97 won the Camery Prize for his essay, "Disturbing the Land: Dakota Hegemony in a Dynamic Indian Landscape, 1650-1815." Any student - and not necessarily a history major - is eligible for the prize. The deadline for submissions (to Prof. D. Kaiser, Box C-1) in this year's competition is Friday, May 1, 1998.

Maria Okey Prize

The Okey Prize honors with a cash award "such student as shall submit [to the Department of History] the best essay on some phase of the general subject "The Inter-relations of British life and Institutions and American Life and Institutions." Any student is eligible to take part in the competition, but all submissions must be delivered to Prof. Gary Hewitt (Box V-1) no later than May 1, 1998.