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News Release: Author and Journalist Molly Worthen to Discuss Faith and Politics in America

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 20, 2008
CONTACT: Kathleen McPartland
Tel: 530-898-4143
Alan Gibson,
Department of Political Science
530-898-4952

Author and Journalist Molly Worthen to Discuss Faith and Politics in America

Molly Worthen, a writer and journalist, will present the lecture “Jesus for President: Faith, Politics, and Why Americans Cannot Keep Them Apart” on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 7:00 p.m., in Performing Arts Center 144 on the California State University, Chico campus.

A specialist in religious studies, Worthen has written about religion for the New Republic, Christianity Today and the New York Times Magazine. Her first book, “The Man On Whom Nothing Was Lost,” is a biography of American diplomat and Yale professor Charles Hill.

Worthen graduated from Yale in 2003. She is currently pursuing a PhD in American religious history there.

The complete news release is available online.

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Student Computing Workshops

Student Computing is presenting the following workshops this week:

Photoshop
Tues., Oc. 21
5pm - 6pm in MLIB 457

Photoshop
Wed., Oct. 22
5pm - 6pm in MLIB 457

The Photoshop workshop is an introduction and overview of the Photoshop window, learning what is in the Photoshop toolbox and how to navigate the menus. Workshop attendees will learn how to use the edit, image and layers menus, how to work with pixels, manage RCB, Index & CMYK color as well as learn about resolution and the difference between displayed and printed color.

No sign-up is required for these workshops. Faculty and Staff as well as Students are welcome to attend these workshops.

For more information about the Student Computing workshops visit the Student Computing Workshops Web site or contact Melinda Ferris: x5008.

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New Grant Resource Center Deadlines Posted

The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs has just posted new deadlines from the Grant Resource Center (GRC) on the RESP Web site. There are funding opportunities in the areas of Health and Mental Health, Science and Engineering, Education and Human and Community Development, Arts and Humanities. Although many of these deadlines are in January 2009, there are some October and November deadlines. New deadlines are posted monthly.

Check out the latest deadlines on the Web site. If you don’t find what you need, please contact Marcia Buie, who will be happy to help you run a funding search through the GRC or through our other funding database, SPIN.

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Petty Cash Forms Now Available

Effective immediately, Petty Cash forms will be provided at no cost from the Financial Services Office. If you need a form, please call ext. 5103 or e-mail Kathleen Hillman. Forms may also be picked-up in Kendall Hall, Room 210.

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An Invitation to Participate in Chico Preview Day

On Sat., Oct. 25, Chico Preview Day will be hosted by the Office of Admissions. This event is the University’s primary open house/showcase for prospective students and their families. The event hours are 9am to 3pm with the President’s Welcome at 9:30am in Laxson. The day will continue to include popular activities such as the academic and student support services information fair, residence hall tours, department tours, and the chance to ride the student trolley. Prospective students are encouraged to view the PDF flyer of the event at by clicking on the flyer in the middle of the page.

We offer this opportunity for academic and student affairs departments to represent your areas by staffing tables at the information fair in the BMU auditorium. Tables will be grouped according to colleges/units. To reserve your space or sign your area up to give a tour/presentation, please contact Wendy Needels via email or at x4661 in the Office of Admissions.

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Student Health Service Free Flu Shots

The Student Health Service will be offering free flu shots in the BMU mall area from 11:30am to 1pm on the following days:

October 22 and 23
October 29
November 5 and 6
November 12 & 13
November 19 and 20.

Please bring your student ID card with you to the clinic.

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Defensive Driver Training, Oct. 22

The CSU Vehicle Use Policy requires that State employees (including student employees) complete Defensive Driver Training every four years in order to drive a State, rental, or privately-owned vehicle on State business. In an effort to meet the needs of the Campus, the Vehicle Reservations Office is offering Defensive Driver Training each week.

Employees can confirm the date of their last training by inquiring at vehicles@csuchico.edu. Reponses will typically be by return e-mail on the next business day.

Please have your California Driver License number and expiration date, and CSU, Chico employee/student ID number available at the time of the class.

Location and time varies by session. To view the availability of sessions, location, and to register, log into the Web Based Training (WBT) system and click on the Course Catalog menu - the workshops are posted under the EH&S tab. If you need assistance logging into the WBT system, please contact EH&S.

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2009-2010 CSU, Chico Scholarship Application Available Now

The 2009-2010 CSU, Chico scholarship application is now available. This single online application allows students to apply for any of the over 700 university scholarships for which they may be eligible. Paper applications are not available. Scholarship criteria may include scholastic achievement, financial need, campus or community service, and educational objectives, as well as other measures. Please encourage students to apply before the end-of-semester rush. Our scholarship Web site also includes a guide for writing letters of recommendation. The application deadline is December 15, 2008 for all materials, including references. Additional information regarding scholarships is available at the above Web site.

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Grant Opportunity for Undergraduate Students

Funds have been allocated by Provost Sandra Flake for the fall 2008 Undergraduate Awards for Research & Creativity. These awards were created to support undergraduate students working closely with individual faculty members on student-designed projects and to assist the faculty in providing students with special innovative learning opportunities.
 
•     Fall awards of up to $500 each will be made available to undergraduates (including graduating seniors). Deadline November 3, 2008.
 
•     Spring award opportunities (up to $500) and summer stipend opportunities ($2,000) will be announced in January.

Go to the Web site for more information.

These awards are an exceptional and unique opportunity for students to create their own research or creative projects under the guidance of a faculty mentor.

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Kyle Wiley Pickett, Music , Nov. 7

Humanities Center Friday Symposium
4pm - 5:30pm,Trinity 100*

Kyle Wiley Pickett, music director of the North State Symphony (NSS), will discuss beauty as it relates to the upcoming NSS production Nov. 14-16 that includes Rossini’s Barber of Seville, Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony, and Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night.

*Part of the Humanities Center’s year-long theme, Regarding Beauty.

Call 898-4642 for information.

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CAL/Theatre/Office of Diversity/Humanities Center Host Tim Miller, Oct. 29

Oct. 29
Noon
BMU 304

Guest of the Conversation on Diversity, CSU Chico

The visit of the internationally acclaimed performance artist Tim Miller—whose creative work explores the artistic, spiritual, and political topography of his identity as a gay man—is co-sponsored by the A.S. Committee on Arts and Lectures (CAL), Department of Theatre, Office of Diversity, and the Humanities Center.

Since 1999, Miller has focused his creative and political work on marriage equality and addressing the injustices facing lesbian and gay couples in America. Glory Box is a funny, sexy, and politically charged exploration of same-sex marriage and the struggle for immigration rights for lesbian and gay bi-national couples. It recounts the trials Miller has been forced to undergo in trying to keep his Australian partner in the United States. Says Miller, “I want the pieces to conjure for the audience a site for the placing of memories, hopes, and dreams of gay people’s extraordinary potential for love.” In 1987 after nine years in New York, Miller returned home to Los Angeles.

** 7:30pm at the 1078 Gallery (820 Broadway, Chico), Miller performs Glory Box.
Call 898-4642 for general information. **Call 343-1973 for tix.

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Humanities Center Hosts Regarding Beauty Guest, Oct. 22

Elaine Scarry
Presidential Scholar and Humanities Center’s Regarding Beauty Guest
“Beauty Restored: The Moral Pull of the Beautiful”
Oct. 22, 7:30pm, PAC 134

Call 898-5122 or 898-4642 for more information.

Professor Elaine Scarry is the author of several books including On Beauty and Being Just, Dreaming by the Book, and The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. She is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.

Scarry’s interests include Theory of Representation, the Language of Physical Pain, and Structure of Verbal and Material Making in Art, Science, and the Law. In The Body in Pain, which is known as a definitive study of pain and inflicting pain, she argues that physical pain leads to destruction and the unmaking of the human world, whereas human creation at the opposite end of the spectrum leads to the making of the world. Her 1999 study, Dreaming by the Book, won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. As a writer and lecturer on civic questions ranging from plane crashes to nuclear weapons to the Patriot Act, Scarry has become an important public intellectual.

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Elaine Scarry Talk, Oct. 22

Wed., Oct. 22, 2008
7:30pm
PAC 134

Presidential Scholar and Humanities Center’s Regarding Beauty Guest
“Beauty Restored: The Moral Pull of the Beautiful”

(A reception will follow the October 22 talk in the Humanities Center Gallery, Trinity 100.)

Please call 898-4642 for more information.

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International Forum, Oct. 28

The International Forum on Oct. 28 is called “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to …” and will feature international exchange students and CSU, Chico Study Abroad alumni who will share their funny and sometimes awkward moments from their overseas experience. Many times we make errors due to not fully understanding another country’s language, culture and processes. Let’s laugh together over our most embarrassing (and sometimes most meaningful) moments abroad.

The International Forum is a weekly program of lectures and presentations. The Forum meets on Tuesdays from 5pm - 6pm, in 170 Holt. The public is always welcome.

For more information, please contact Tony Waters by email or call 898-4145.

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Professional MBA Information Session - Chico, Oct. 23

The College of Business and Continuing Education will host an Information Session on campus to advise potential applicants for the Professional Master of Business Administration program.

Thurs., Oct. 23, 2008, 6pm - 7:30pm, CSU, Chico Continuing Education Classroom.

Interested? Please RSVP by calling Continuing Education, 530-898-6105 or e-mail.

For more information please visit Web site.

Please forward this note to those who will benefit from this opportunity.

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Sustainability Summits I, II, III - Oct. 27 and Dec. 2

Announcing: Sustainability Summits, I, II, III
October 27 and December 2, Kendall 207/209 from 3pm - 5 pm

This semester we will hold three facilitated discussions about the following list of topics. Not every topic would be covered on any given date. Each conversation will be facilitated by a different person, depending on the topics. The purpose of the summits is to assess campus progress toward sustainability, compare ourselves to other “green” campuses, and determine the actions we will take to achieve our goals.

What does it mean to be a “green” campus?
How do we compare to other institutions within the CSU?
How do we compare to other campuses in the U.S. that have received recognition for being “green”?
What have we achieved to date and what are our commitments as a campus under the Presidents Climate Agreement?
Are there gaps in terms of our own achievements, compared to others?
How do we continue to create a culture of sustainability on campus?
How can and should we continue to integrate sustainability into the curriculum?

Let us know which topics you feel deserve the greatest attention, and if there are others you would like to see added to the list, please send them to Scott G. McNall at the Institute for Sustainable Development. We hope that students, faculty, staff and community members and partners will join together in deepening the conversation about a sustainable future.

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This Way To Sustainability IV, Nov. 6-9

Mark your calendars and register now for “This Way To Sustainability IV” to be held November 6-9, 2008. For more information and to register, please go to the Web site.

The program is posted online.

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CSU, Chico Gospel Choir Presents "Past and Present" Concert, Oct. 24

Gospel Choir: Past & Present

Fri., Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m.
Laxson Auditorium

Director Malcolm Jackson and the Chico State Gospel Choir explore music from its storied roots to the soul-stirring contemporary sounds of today. Don’t miss this soulful journey through the last few centuries.

Advance Tickets: $15 Adult, $13 Senior, $6 Student/Child; available at the University Box Office, 898-6333.

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Department of Theatre Presents "Ubu Roi" THIS WEEK

Wed., Oct. 22 - Sat., Oct. 25 at 7:30pm
Sun., Oct. 26 at 2pm
Harlen Adams Theatre

Written by Alfred Jarry
Translated by Barbara Wright
Directed by Katie Whitlock

Murder, mayhem, madness … Playwright Alfred Jarry’s landmark piece parodies art, politics, and his high school physics teacher. When it premiered in 1896, the play created riots in the artistic community as it destroyed theatrical convention and introduced the ‘anti-hero’ Ubu, who murders his way to the throne. Ubu Roi presents a biting satire of political power and a cautionary commentary on the human condition wrapped in grotesque humor.

Tickets: University Box Office, 898-6333.

More information is available on the Web site.

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Restorative Justice Speaker, TONIGHT

Tonight, Monday, Oct. 20, from 7:30pm to 9pm in PAC 134, as part of the year long Book In Common program, the Peace Institute at CSU, Chico presents speaker and author Azim Khamisa.

Khamisa’s talk, Restorative Justice: A New Paradigm for Social Transformation, explores nonviolent responses to violent and costly, anti-social behavior. In 1995, months before he was to be married, Khamisa¹s only son was murdered by a 14 year old gang member in Southern California.

Khamisa¹s restorative justice theme connects with the experiences Greg Mortenson recounts in his book 3 Cups of Tea - Mortenson’s project of building schools in rural Afghanistan and Pakistan offers a path to a better future and a way of reconstructing meaning in lives ground down by poverty and hopelessness. Khamisa’s message is similar. By responding to violence with understanding, and by choosing nonviolence, social transformation can result, even from tragedies like the murder of one’s child.

This talk is free and open to the public and is cosponsored by the Associated Students Multicultural Affairs Committee, EGSC (the English Graduate Student Council), SCAR (the Student Coalition Advocating Reform), CIA (Campus, Involvement and Awareness), the Chico Peace and Justice Center and The Peace Institute at CSU, Chico.

For more information email Tom Imhoff in the Philosophy Department.

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Tennis Tournament, Oct. 24-26

The new CSU, Chico Tennis Club is having a tennis tournament on the brand new tennis courts on campus the weekend of Oct. 24-26.

All faculty, staff, students, and the community are invited to participate. Information and entry forms are available at the Web site. Contact carrie.tollion@mindspring.com if you have any questions.

Entry fees are $15 for singles and $20 per doubles team. There will also be a “tennis mixer” in which players will be matched randomly for short games of mixed doubles. Entry for this event is $15, or free if you have entered one of the other events. There will be separate beginner, intermediate, and advanced categories for both the men’s and women’s divisions.

Great prizes are available, including gifts from the AS Bookstore, Papa Murphy’s, a paragliding ride, tennis lessons, and more. The tournament will be played in a modified round robin format so that players will be guaranteed several matches and will meet many other players.

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Grant Writing Cafe

Research and Sponsored Programs’ second Grant Writing Cafe of the fall semester will be held Friday, Oct. 24 from 1:30pm - 3:30pm in the Faculty and Staff Dining Room at Selvester’s. Join Laura King and Diane Johnson, Proposal Development Specialists, to discuss your ideas, explore funding opportunities or fine-tune a proposal. Work with Marcia Buie to create a SMARTS account or learn to use the new Grants Resource Database to find funding sources for your projects.

Bring your laptop and join us for refreshments. Come any time and stay as long as you wish.

For more information, please contact Diane at 6543 or Laura at 6627.

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Study Skills Workshops, Oct. 20-24

We are now in the 9th week of the semester. Before we know it, students will have to begin studying for finals. These two workshops are ideal for planning study time and test preparation.

Oct. 20 (Monday) 5pm - 6pm
Preventing Test Anxiety
Dana Krangel & Melanie Kim
Student Services Center, room 304

Oct. 22 (Wednesday) 3pm - 4pm
Time Management
Brenda Ranzenbach
Student Services Center, room 304

More workshops will be scheduled through the rest of the semester. Look for upcoming announcements and flyers for future dates and topics.

Workshops are free. Students can sign up in advance at the Student Learning Center (Student Services Center-3rd Floor) or by calling 898-6839

Also, the Student Learning Center Web site has now been updated with the current Study Skills Workshop dates and times.

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Academic Affairs and Regional and Continuing Education Webcast, Oct. 28

Academic Affairs and Regional and Continuing Education are pleased to sponsor the Webcast: Framing Change in Higher Education: Why Is It So Hard? How Can We Make It Easier and Better?

Oct. 28, 2008 from 11am - 12:30pm, in RCE 107
Brown Bag Lunch (beverages and dessert provided)

Why is it so difficult to initiate change at colleges and universities? Why do discussions of change proposals so often go off track? Join us as we seek to answer these questions and identify some of the patterns that shape reactions of faculty, administrators, and staff to change initiatives. Through this discussion, we will develop ways of framing and engaging change that open up new possibilities for balanced and rational deliberation.

Register for this workshop at the Web site:

1) Log in using your portal name and password.
2) Click on the Course Catalog in the black menu bar across the top.
3) Click on the Live Course Calendar tab on the left and go to October.
4) Click on the workshop title on October 28.
5) When the workshop data appears, click on the link at the bottom of the page - ignore the button at the top that says the session is not available.
6) Click on the Enroll button.

Contact the Provost’s Office at 898-6101 if you have any trouble registering.

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