Professor James I. Matray (History) will speak at the International Forum. His talk is titled “Tardy and Tentative: Resolution of the Second North Korean Nuclear Crisis.” Professor Matray has published extensively about the Korean Peninsula. The public is welcome.

The International Forum is a weekly series of public lectures on international issues. For further information, contact Tony Waters at 898-4145.

You are invited to attend the Black Welcome Reception as an opportunity to network, make friends and build alliances.

Refreshments will be provided.

For more information, please contact the Office of Diversity at 530-898-4764.

University Film Series

MadCat Women’s International Film Festival ID Docs (2005-2006, Lithuania, Croatia, Australia, Germany, U.S.A., Belgium, Austria) about 102 min. Curated by Ariella Ben-Dov.

This is the second visit of MadCat to the University Film Series. First, it was based in San Francisco. Now, it hails from Brooklyn (what doesn’t these days?). Tonight’s program will include seven films: the longest is thirty minutes; the shortest is one.

Identity cannot be reduced to stats on a badge. It is both personal and public, elusive and fixed. Using a patient camera and lyrical imagery, these filmmakers gently probe how society, biology, place, and even appliances play a role in who we are and how we think of ourselves and others.—Ben-Dov

The Museum of Anthropology will be hosting a FREE “Crafts for Kids” booth under the magnolia tree in front of Laxson Auditorium during the 15th annual Chico World Music Festival.

Kids will have fun and be entertained at craft stations like “People of the World Art,” “Dinosaurs, Reptiles and Birds - Oh My!” and “Celebrating and Sustaining Our Planet.” Other FREE daytime activities run from 11am to 4pm on both days and include live music, student art displays, art classes and crafts for kids.

For more information, please visit the Web site.

Deriving from the Northern California area, Salvador Santana has been a part of the music scene thanks to the highly acclaimed success of his father, Carlos Santana. The legendary guitarist’s son is making a name for himself with the Salvador Santana band, which blends the elements of Latin, hip-hop, funk, and R&B into one unique sound. This Grammy award winning artist shows high promise, with the talent and originality living up to the family name.

Tickets are available at the University Box Office on 2nd and Normal. Students with CSU, Chico ID are $10, General Admission is $15. General admission patrons without CSU, Chico ID must be 18 and over. Ticket prices will increase $3 at the door.

For more information on all AS Presents events visit the Web site or call 898-6005.

Excited to be back at school and looking to broaden your entertainment horizon? AS Late Night has just the thing for you. The Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey will be coming to CSU, Chico for one night only. Don’t miss out on this night of FREE musical fun.

FREE admission, FREE food, and FREE musical entertainment.

For more information contact:
Greer Shuler, Jessica Vowels, or Jenny Bucher
898-4172

Car Show — The Evolution of Elegance

Early music specialists The Whole Noyse bring the music of the Italian Renaissance to CSU, Chico. Come enjoy the unique sounds of these historic instruments as played by one of the premier early music ensembles on the West Coast!

ADVANCE TICKETS: $15 Adults, $13 Senior, $6 Student/Child

Now through-October 9, 2008
Apropos Appropriation: Marion Bronson, Elizabeth Newman Kuiper, Darice McGuire, David Sutherland, Richard Whitehead
Photos (untitled): Peter Hogue
Small Collections: Jason Tannen
Gallery hours: M-F 8am - 5pm
Humanities Center Gallery
Trinity 100 and Hallway, CSU Chico
Fri., Sept. 12
Reception, 5pm - 7pm

In September, the trio of exhibits at the Humanities Center Gallery showcases the works of seven fantastic local artists known by many of us from a variety of venues. Peter Hogue, for example, is emeritus faculty from the Department of English, film critic, and photographer. Jason Tannen, photographer and award-winning filmmaker, is the director of the University Art Gallery. Marion Bronson, brilliant and truly avant-garde, leads her friends and colleagues Elizabeth Newman Kuiper, Darice McGuire, David (Dragon Boy) Sutherland, and Richard Whitehead in an appropriating fest. The Humanities Center Gallery is located in Trinity Hall. A reception with all the artists will be held Friday, Sept. 12, 5pm - 7pm. For further information, call 898-4642.

How to have an adventure (and also be an international journalist) Reporting the Chiapas Rebellion of 1994

Presenter: Trina Kleist, City Editor, The Union, Nevada County

Brief Biography:
Trina Kleist was an AP Reporter in Mexico for eight years where she covered the Zapatista indigenous rebellion in the southern state of Chiapas and met the mysterious and flirtatious Subcomandante Marcos. She now lives in Grass Valley, where she has a real job as city editor of The Union daily newspaper.

You are invited to attend the Native American Welcome Reception as an opportunity to network, make friends and build alliances.

Refreshments will be provided.

For more information, please contact the Office of Diversity at 530-898-4764.

University Film Series

Mar Adentro (The Sea Inside) (2004, Spain/France/Italy) 125 min. Directed by Alejandro Amenabar. Hosted by Steve Lewis, History, for the Phi Alpha Theta History Club and in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month. In Spanish/Catalan/Galician with English subtitles.

Oscar Winner for Best Foreign Language Film; stars Javier Bardem, Oscar Winner for Best Supporting Actor (as Chigurh in No Country for Old Men); most awarded Spanish movie at the Goya Awards, winning 14 of the 15 awards for which it was nominated. Based on the true story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. Film explores Ramon’s relationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living.

You are invited to attend the GLBT Welcome Reception as an opportunity to network, make friends and build alliances.

Refreshments will be provided.

For more information, please contact the Office of Diversity at 530-898-4764.

Playing an exciting acoustic blend of Sikh traditional music, blues, jazz, folk, country western, and Australian bush music, Dya Singh fully embraces world music. Greatly influenced by the sounds of India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, Singh’s fabulous band uses the tabla, harmonium, didgeridoo, violin, guitar, and bodhran to convey the universal messages of peace, truth, love, harmony, equality, and justice — mixed with a little bit of India’s Bollywood dancing, too.

$18 Adult | $16 Senior | $14 Student/Child

“The music will make you want to get up and dance … the message will make you sit down and listen.” — New Age Magazine

You are invited to attend the Asian Welcome Reception as an opportunity to network, make friends and build alliances.

Refreshments will be provided.

For more information, please contact the Office of Diversity at 530-898-4764.

CSU, Chico’s Department of Biological Sciences Omicron Theta Epsilon Seminar Series for Fall 2008 hosts:

Dr. Andrew Stubblefield
Department of Forestry & Wildland Resources
CSU, Humboldt
“Balancing Fire Risk & Water Quality, Watershed Studies in the Lake Tahoe Basin”
Friday, September 12

Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in Holt 171

Now through-October 9, 2008
Apropos Appropriation: Marion Bronson, Elizabeth Newman Kuiper, Darice McGuire, David Sutherland, Richard Whitehead
Photos (untitled): Peter Hogue
Small Collections: Jason Tannen
Gallery hours: M-F 8am - 5pm

In September, the trio of exhibits at the Humanities Center Gallery showcases the works of seven fantastic local artists known by many of us from a variety of venues. Peter Hogue, for example, is emeritus faculty from the Department of English, film critic, and photographer. Jason Tannen, photographer and award-winning filmmaker, is the director of the University Art Gallery. Marion Bronson, brilliant and truly avant-garde, leads her friends and colleagues Elizabeth Newman Kuiper, Darice McGuire, David (Dragon Boy) Sutherland, and Richard Whitehead in an appropriating fest. The Humanities Center Gallery is located in Trinity Hall.

For further information, call 898-4642.

Who among us doesn’t remember “At Seventeen,” Janis Ian’s hauntingly beautiful tale about how love works? That song earned her five Grammy nominations — the most any single solo female artist has ever garnered. Still going strong 30 years later, Ian’s newest album, Folk is the New Black, boasts the same blunt, finely tuned style she is known for. Now up to nine Grammy nominations, along with two wins, Ian combines her songwriting style and performing talent with a point of view brought on by the wisdom of age. Ian will be performing with special guest folk rocker Dan Navarro. Best known as one half of the duo Lowen & Navarro, he has had guest appearances on albums by Neil Young, Yes, Jose Feliciano, and Julio Iglesias, and has penned songs for Pat Benetar, Dionne Warwick, and the Temptations.

$23 Premium | $18 Adult
$16 Senior | $14 Student/Child

“Ian’s new songs are among the very best she has written — indeed, among the finest in the entire American folk songbook.” — The Toronto Star

The School of Graduate, International, and Interdisciplinary Studies in conjunction with the Career Planning & Placement Office cordially invites you and your students to attend this year’s annual Graduate & Professional School Information Day.

There will be representatives from over 40 graduate and professional schools from the Bay Area to Southern California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. You will have the opportunity to receive specific information on available programs, admission policies and procedures, financial aid, fellowships and other pertinent information.

Attendance is free and there will be a drawing for 3 gift certificates from the AS Bookstore for 3 lucky winners.

For more information contact the Graduate School at 898-6880 or jlrice@csuchico.edu.

The Office of Property Management at California State University, Chico, would like to invite you to our surplus property auction. Items include desks, filing cabinets, bookshelves, electronics, chairs, tables, and much much more.

These items are cash only and payable at the time of purchase. Viewing hours are 11am to 12pm. The auction will begin promptly at 12:10pm on Tues., Sept. 16, located at the Warehouse, 810 Oak Street, Suite 100, Chico. Be early as the auction moves fast.

At the time of purchase, you must provide a vehicle to take all items selected by 3pm. Items will not be held for later removal.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to give the Office of Property Management a call at 898-5176 or 898-6559.

Please share this information with your student assistants, your family, and friends. We look forward to seeing you at the Auction.

You are invited to attend the Bienvenida Reception as an opportunity to network, make friends and build alliances.

Refreshments will be provided.

For more information, please contact the Office of Diversity at 530-898-4764.

University Film Series

Knife in the Water (1962, Poland) 94 min. Directed by Roman Polanski. Hosted by Jason Tannen, University Art Gallery.*

The second protege of the Lodz Film School to become an international art house sensation (after Andrzej Wajda), Polanski pounced on the scene with a mischievous glint in his eye with this film, whose title suggests violence, suspense, and mystery. A minimalist, three-character drama of simmering marital discord, class warfare, and eroticism, Knife constantly thwarts expectations.

* Part of the Humanities Center’s theme this year: Regarding Beauty.

Ever wonder what a circus and a birdhouse have in common? Well, bring the kids and come find out at the performance of Cirque Mechanics - Birdhouse Factory.

The Birdhouse Factory is a magical place where workers are acrobats, the machines power high-flying trapeze stunts, contortionists perform on a unicycle-powered giant turntable, and trampoline-launched workers defy the laws of physics as they seem to walk on air. You will be amazed at the antics of the comedic characters, impressed by the acrobatics, and enchanted by the story of laughter, love, flight, and birdhouses. Birdhouse Factory’s cast includes former members of Cirque du Soleil, the Pickle Family Circus, and the Moscow Circus.

Tickets are $32 Premium, $27 Adult, $25 Seniors, $23 Student/Child and are available at the University Box Office, 2nd and Normal streets, 898-6333

For more information please visit the Web site.

Chico Performances is proud to present the 15th annual Chico World Music. Headlining this year’s festival will be a performance by Tommy Emmanuel Friday, Sept. 19 in Laxson Auditorium. A ticket is required for this performance and can be purchased at the University Box Office.

The daytime festivities for Saturday and Sunday are free and include:
Free daytime performances on Saturday & Sunday
Free art classes by Chico Art Center instructors
Free children’s crafts by the Museum of Anthropology
Crafts from around the world
An art display by Chico Unified students
International food booths

The daytime festivities will run both Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 5pm and are free and open to the public.

For more information on the Chico World Music Festival, performer schedules and art class schedules, please visit the Web site.

Please join us for the formation of campus & community reading groups focused on this year’s Book in Common, Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea. This gathering is designed to bring together students, staff, faculty, and interested community members for mixed reading groups that will meet twice in the fall (in October and in November) at times and places that work for the group members. We are asking that groups meet one more time, in the spring, just before or just after Greg Mortenson’s campus visit. Reading group members are eligible to win tickets for Mortenson’s talk on April 21 in Laxson Hall (this event is already completely booked).

Questions? Call or email Thia Wolf at 898-6579. Come be a part of our Reading Community — and bring a friend.

You are invited to attend the Business, IT, and SAP Career Fair. We anticipate 100 recruiters to attend the event this semester. All majors are welcome.

To obtain a list of recruiters please visit: the Web site. The career fair hosts several new and exciting businesses that will recruit from the University for the first time.

For more information or inquiries regarding this event, please email mail@chicophichitheta.com.

This event is proudly hosted by Phi Chi Theta, Delta Sigma Pi, and the CSU, Chico Career Center.

Poets and Process: Jeanne Clark, Joanne Allred and Beth Spencer, English, read their work and talk about, “Where we go and how we get there.” Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center. Gallery donation: $2.

Hosted by director/writer Ruben Reyes and actor Camy Juarez (winner of best actor at the ELA Film Festival) with an extensive Q and A following.

Wed., Sept. 24, 2008, noon, BMU 304
Reyes and Juarez, guests of the Conversation on Diversity
Part of National Hispanic Heritage Month, September 2008

Sponsored by the Committee on Arts and Lectures (CAL), Office of Diversity, and University Film Series; Call 898-4642 for info.

STORY. Pancho is looking forward to his new life in college, away from the barrio, his culture, and way of life. But then he meets his new zany roommates, and together, they discover girls, parties, study time, and multiculturalism in a large Arizona college campus. Can Pancho adapt? Will he survive away from home?

Shot entirely in Southern Arizona, “Pancho Goes To College” is a comedy feast for the eyes and ears. Scenic desert landscapes, crazy college parties, class lectures, rowdy Chicano bars, and an eclectic rock-norteno-hip-hop music soundtrack drives “Pancho Goes To College” as a fast paced coming-of-age comedy with heart.

“A Chicano ‘Animal House’ with heart.” —Tucson Citizen

The Cross-Cultural Leadership Center invites the campus community to the second annual Diversity Summit, taking place on Friday, Sept. 26 - Sunday, Sept. 28 at Shady Creek Center in Nevada City. The Diversity Summit is a retreat which brings together students, faculty, and staff. Teams will work collectively to discuss issues of diversity and how it affects relationships among the campus community. If interested in attending, please call the front desk at 898-4101 or email by Friday, Sept. 12.