Get Help With Your Writing

Visit the University Writing Center to Improve Your Writing

Get help this semester to improve your writing. Come work with a peer Writing Assistant in the University Writing Center.

If you need help with writing in any class at Chico State, at any level, from first-year to graduate, visit the University Writing Center, Taylor Hall 203, or call to make an appointment to meet with a trained student tutor: 898-5042

Spring Semester Hours:	Evening and Weekends Online:
Monday-Thursday 9-5	Monday-Thursday 7-9 p.m.
Friday 9-3	Saturday 11-2 p.m.

You may make an appointment to use the new WebCT Online Writing Center, by e-mailing OWCStudent@CSUChico.edu , by visiting Taylor Hall 203, or by calling 898-5042.

Check out the Writing Center’s Web site, with lots of helpful Resources for Students, including documentation guides and advice about how to avoid plagiarism and the misuse of sources at our Web site.

Archived under Information on February 18, 2005

Paula Rothenberg Public Addrress, Feb. 22

Paula Rothenberg “Color-Blind and Gender Neutral: How the Rhetoric of Equality Maintains Privilege”

On Tuesday, February 22 at 7:00 p.m. in BMU 210 Paula Rothenberg, editor of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States and director of a New Jersey project to enhance multicultural scholarship, curriculum and teaching in higher education, will give an address on how the language of diversity often prevents real understanding of and efforts to eliminate inequities based on race, class, and gender.

This public address is free and open to the public. There will be a reception following.
Contact Carol Burr (898-4449) for additional information

Archived under Events on February 18, 2005

Conversation on Diversity – Paula Rothenberg, Feb.23

Wednesday, February 23, noon – 1pm, BMU 210

As part of Conversations on Diversity’s continuing focus on breaking down barriers between cultural groups in the United States, Paula Rothenberg, Director of the New Jersey Project, which encourages curriculum and faculty development around issues of gender, race/ethnicity, class, culture, and sexuality in higher education, and editor of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, will present ways to get beyond superficial approaches to multicultural understanding – the international food days and sanitized history lessons – to reach a deeper appreciation of and real relationships with Americans other than ourselves.

Join us Wednesday, February 23 at noon in BMU 210 for this stimulating discussion. Bring your lunch. Beverages and cookies will be served.

Contact Carol Burr (898-4449) for additional information.

Archived under Events on February 18, 2005

Filipino American Student Organization

CSU, Chico Filipino American Student Organization (FASO)
www.csuchico.edu/faso

Join FASO!

-Make new friends.
-Learn and experience a new culture.
-Participate in our fun cultural/social events.
-Become active and join the FASO organization.

All nationalities and ages are welcome to join.

1st general meeting will be held on Monday, February 21 from 5pm - 6pm in Glenn
216.

Any questions?
Please e-mail us at csuchicofaso@aol.com
or call John at (530)680-7355.

Archived under Clubs, Groups & Organizations on February 18, 2005

Important Information - Commencement & Registration

Dear Seniors:

This is an important message from Academic Evaluations to students walking through Spring 2005 commencement ceremonies who will not complete all course work by May 31, 2005. (If you intend to complete ALL coursework for your bachelor’s degree by May 31, 2005, please disregard this email)

• If you plan to walk through ceremonies this Spring 2005, and have not yet filed for graduation for the Spring 2005 semester, you must file for graduation ceremonies by Friday, February 25, 2005.
• If you know you will need to register for courses in Summer 2005 or Fall 2005 you must re-file for graduation between February 28-March 11, 2005.
• Students who fail to re-file by this date will miss their opportunity to register for summer and fall classes using the NEW real-time registration system and timeline.

To re-file go to the Student Records and Registration Office MLIB 180 and complete the re-file application packet (form 8). Take the completed form and the $8 re-filing fee to windows 1-4.

Questions regarding graduation should be directed to the Academic Evaluations Office, MLIB 180, at 898-5957.
Questions regarding commencement ceremonies? Call the Alumni/Commencement Office at 898-6472

Archived under Information on February 18, 2005

Forgivable Loan/Doctoral Incentive Program

CSU, Forgivable Loan/Doctoral Incentive Applications are available at the School of Graduate, International and Interdisciplinary Studies, THMA 209.

Those individuals who will be new or continuing full-time students in doctoral programs at accredited universities anywhere in the United States during the 2005/2006 academic year may apply.

The purpose of this program is to increase the pool of individuals with the qualifications, motivation and skills to teach the diverse student body in the California State University. The program provides financial assistance to students who show promise of becoming strong candidates for CSU instructional faculty positions. This program provides the following:

A loan of up to $10,000 per year up to a total of $30,000 within 5 years

Twenty percent of the loan is forgiven for each year of full-time postdoctoral teaching at a CSU campus

After five years of full-time faculty service, the entire loan amount can be forgiven

The campus deadline for submission of documents to the Graduate School is Tuesday, March 1, 2005.

The Forgivable Loan Program website is available at the following Web site

Archived under Opportunities on February 18, 2005

Pride/Safe Zone Meeting, Feb.24

Thursday, February 24, 6:30pm Taylor 202
Join Pride/SafeZone for our first meeting of the semester! Pride is a
social organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and
questioning students that strives to provide diversity education
programs on campus and actively works for progressive social change,
both on campus and in the community.

SafeZone is a program that allows faculty to identify their offices as supportive of equal rights and
protections for LGBTQ people, and students should feel welcome to
contact faculty who display SafeZone logos if they ever encounter
discrimination on campus that they believe is linked to their perceived
sexuality. We are an AS recognized student organization that meets on
2nd and 4th Thursdays. This week we will be discussing the upcoming
Women?s Studies Conference, as well as our semester long schedule of
social gatherings. There are no dues, and all fair-minded individuals
are welcome and encouraged to attend regardless of perceived or actual
sexuality, age, sex, gender, religion, race, or other life situation.
For more information, contact: pridesafezone@aol.com or visit our Web site

Archived under Clubs, Groups & Organizations on February 18, 2005

University Film Series Women's History Month, March 1

Tuesday, March 1, 2005
7:30 pm, Little Theatre (Ayres 106)
$3 donation appreciated
898-4642
Please visit our Web site.
Women’s History Month:
An evening of recent experimental film and video by women curated and introduced by Gretchen Hogue
Re-Imagining Her
: A collection of recent experimental films by female filmmakers, all of whom explore different methods of re-presenting women’s realities. Working with self-portraiture, animation, re-appropriated footage, and home movies, these women—each vibrantly radiating her unique perspective—have all created pieces of stunning beauty. This evening features films and videos by avant garde veteran Peggy Ahwesh, recent Whitney Biennial installation artist Aida Ruilova, Blue Room alum Tanya Smith, and video/performance artist Anne McGuire, among others. Come catch this special opportunity to see a number of extraordinary and innovative shorts that may otherwise not make into our neck of the woods.

Archived under on February 18, 2005

Century of Women, Feb.27

The Redding League of Women Voters is presenting “A Century of Women: Sexuality & Social Justice, ” a CNN Productions film about the history of women’s struggle for the right to vote, control of their bodies, civil rights, professional parity, and social justice. The film will be followed by a panel with Andrea Golden, therapist and minister; Carol Burr, CSU, Chico; and Barbara McIver, former Tehama County supervisor. This event will take place February 27, 2-6 PM at the Cascade Theatre in Redding. The goal of this community education project is to inspire young women to know, understand and appreciate the efforts of their foremothers in creating the rights and opportunities we have today. Two Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available for $20 for MFTs and LSCW therapists through DaLene Forester, PhD, LMFT, provider #PCE 3287. To pre-register call 243-8862. For more information please contact Lynn Fritz at lynnprod@sbcglobal.net.

Archived under Events on February 18, 2005

Student Computing Workshops, Feb. 16, 17

Student Computing is offering these workshops next week:

Excel II – functions and graphs
Wed Feb 23
5-6:00pm in MLIB 457

Excel II – functions and graphs
Thurs Feb 24
5-6:00pm in MLIB 457

The Excel 2 workshop will use and build on many of the skills students have learned in Excel 1, such as, the worksheet, menus, keyboard, cells, formulas and functions. Students will plan, create, design and edit a chart using the Chart tool and Chart gallery. They will learn how to enhance a chart using titles, legends, annotations, arrows and WordArt. They will also learn how to save and print a chart.

For more information about this workshop and other workshops that will be presented this semester, visit the Student Computing Web site or call or email Melinda Ferris, 898-5008, mferris@csuchico.edu.

Archived under Information on February 18, 2005

Internships in Sydney, Australia

The Office of Experiential Education and the Center for Academic Programs Abroad (CAPA) is offering internships to undergraduate and graduate students in Sydney, Australia for the summer from June 1-August 14, 2005. A representative from CAPA will also be holding a general information session for interested students on February 24, 2005 from 3-4:30 p.m., in Sylvester’s Café.

In the past, students participating in the Sydney Internship Program have interned with The Marriott Hotel, ABC, Nickelodeon, Amnesty International, Art Gallery of South Wales, NSW Rugby, Early Autism Project, Australian Labor Party, Royal North Short Hospital, Hilton Hotel and many more.

For more information contact the Internship Center (898-5893) on West Second Street between Cherry and Orange.

Archived under Opportunities on February 18, 2005

Video Showing of "The Split Horn" Feb. 19

Video Showing of “The Split Horn”
Saturday, Feb. 19, 2 pm
Museum of Anthropology, Langdon 301.

This video explores the Hmong culture and Shamanism.
Free and open to the public.

Archived under Events on February 17, 2005

Humanities Center Gallery March Event

The Humanities Center Gallery is exhibiting ebaybies: Genuine & Lasting Friends, “intaglio prints of a conceptual nature” by art professor Nanette Wylde, and Small Colored Squares, digitally created images from Wylde’s students in the Electronic Arts Program, March 1-24 in Trinity Hall.

Wylde writes about her show:
“ebaybies are selected from abandoned, up-for-auction darlings. Their net value at any given moment is based not only on their physical condition and the near extinction of their type, but also on the current state of the market and the economic conditions of both the seller and potential buyers. ebaybies transcend the auction block and the price of their heads to levels of adoration only previously imagined. Contrary to Walter Benjamin’s theory of ‘loss of aura’ in the age of mechanical reproduction, ebaybies provide a genuine and lasting friendship.”

The Humanities Center Gallery is typically open M-F, 8-5. The student show will be exhibited in Trinity 100, the larger space, and Wylde’s show will be exhibited in the Trinity hallway adjacent to 100. A reception for both shows will be held in the galleries on Wednesday, March 2, 5-7pm. For information, call x4642.

Archived under Events on February 15, 2005

AS Officer Student Advocate of the Year

It is AS Government Affairs honor to inform all of you that Nicole DeMartini, AS Director of Legislative Affairs, has been selected as the Student Advocate of the Year by the California State Student Association (CSSA). As the financial aid officer for the CSSA, Nicole has lead the fight for student access to the CSU system. Her dedication and commitment to the students of the CSU is amazing and is making a difference in their lives. Her efforts have planted a bill in the legislature to eliminate ageism in the Cal Grant system among other things. Nicole has a true passion for our students and their access to the people’s university, the CSU! Please join us in congratulating Nicole on her well earned achievement.

Archived under Information on February 15, 2005

CSU, Chico Sustainable Convergence Feb 18-20

What is sustainability? What does it mean to be an environmental campus? How many students really care about environmental issues?

If you are wondering about the answers to any of the above questions, the CSU, Chico Sustainability Convergence is the place for you! Students will be coming up to Chico from all across California and even from across the country to share and learn about how campuses are becoming more environmentally sound.

Students will attend a variety of skill based and information based workshops to learn how to be effective leaders and simply learn about a spectrum of environmental issues that campuses face nationwide.

The conference will take place Feb.18—20 2005. For more information and to register, please contact Annie Sherman at asenvironmental@csuchico.edu, call 898-5701 or stop by BMU 203.

Archived under Events on February 15, 2005

Multicultural Affairs Council Member Wanted

Are you interested in Multicultural issues and awareness?

The Multicultural Affairs Council is looking for new members! The meetings are held Tuesdays from 5-7 p.m. Apply online at ASCHICO.COM. For any questions contact Kendra Woerman at asmulticultural@csuchico.edu or 898-5701.

Archived under Opportunities on February 15, 2005

Student Government

Are you interested in Student Government?
The 2005 AS Elections are right around the corner!
The elected positions are:
President
Executive Vice President
VP of Business and Finance
VP of Facilities and Services
Director of Legislative Affairs
Director of University Affairs
Commissioner of Activity Fee
Commissioner of Environmental Affairs
Commissioner of Multicultural Affairs
Commissioner of Student Affairs
Commissioner of Community Affairs

Filling Opens Friday Feb. 18, 2005

For more informations about elections please contact Amy Henneman at astraditional@csuchico.edu or 898-5701

Archived under Opportunities on February 15, 2005

Involvement Fair, Feb.22

Make the most of your college days and get involved!

The Spring Involvement Faire is Tuesday Feb 22, from 11-2 in the Free Speech Area. The faire is sponsored by the Associated Students but features booths and representatives from many organizations and clubs on campus

If your club hasn’t signed up for a booth do so now in BMU 203 this is the last week! The deadline for signing up for a booth is Feb.18.

For more information contact Nick Miller at 898-5701 or by e-mail at asstudentaffairs@csuchico.edu.

Archived under Events on February 15, 2005

Student Help Groups Offered

JOIN A SUPPORT GROUP TODAY! At the Psychological Counseling Center, we offer a variety of groups to meet your needs. All of our groups are led by experienced counselors and designed to be effective. These groups are provided as a free service to regularly enrolled students at CSU, Chico.

Two new groups are being offered this semester! “Feel Better Fast!” and the “Re-entry Support Group”. Check out our Website to see all the groups being offered by the Psychological Counseling Center to students this semester:

If you think one or more of our groups would be beneficial to you, please call or come by our office for more information and schedule a brief interview appointment with a group leader today! We are located in the Meriam Library, Room 141, or call 898-6345.

Archived under Opportunities on February 15, 2005

Psychology Club Meeting Feb. 23

Psi Chi is an Honor Society for Psychology interested students at Chico
State. We focus on academic excellence and community service. In
addition, we have fun social events for psychology students like
bowling and movie nights. Our next meeting is Wednesday, Feb. 23, 7 pm in Modoc 120.
For more information please visit our Web site www.csuchico.edu/psy/PsiChi

Archived under Clubs, Groups & Organizations on February 15, 2005