Sign Up for a Rafting Trip

Trinity River Rafting Trip
Sept. 3-4 or Sept. 10-11

You haven’t been on an Adventure Outings trip till you’ve been on the Trinity!

This time of year the water is still pumping! Lewiston dam releases water which really juices up this classic AO trip before the low water season begins.

This trip is suitable for all levels of experience.

Students: $49
General: $68

Interested? Come on over to the Adventure Outings Desk in the BMU Lobby to sign up. Phone: (530)898-4011

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Sign Up for Intro to Inflatible Kayaking

Introduction to Inflatable Kayaking
Sept. 3-4 or Sept. 10-11

Want to learn how to kayak?

When people think kayaking, they often imagine being upside down in a hard-shell kayak. Scary stuff for sure! Leave that to the crazy people. These self-bailing, open-air boats are forgiving yet maneuverable for whitewater use, it’s a great way to experience the river. You will have the option of being the master of your own destiny, or pairing up in double kayak as we run rapids such as Hell-Hole and the Slot.

Students: $55
General: $71

Interested? Come on over to the Adventure Outings Desk in the BMU Lobby to sign up. Phone: (530)898-4011

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Sign Up for Patrick's Point Backpack, Sept. 9-11

Located 25 miles north of Eureka, California, Patrick’s Point is a 640 acre park in the heart of California’s coastal redwoods. The park’s dense forests of spruce, hemlock, pine, fir and red alder stretch over an ocean headland with lovely wildflower-festooned meadows. A dramatic shoreline ranging from broad sandy beaches to sheer cliffs that rise high above the Pacific Ocean offers great opportunities to explore tide pools, search for agates and driftwood, watch whales, sea lions and brilliant sunsets.

This trip is suitable for all levels of experience.

Students: $71
General: $93

Interested? Come on over to the Adventure Outings Desk in the BMU Lobby to sign up. Phone: (530)898-4011

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President's Visiting Scholar, philosopher Martha Nussbaum, Sept. 22-24

President’s Visiting Scholar Martha Nussbaum
TWO EVENTS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

“Radical Evil in the Lockean State: The Neglect of the Political Emotions”
Sept. 22, 7:30pm, Ayres 106; reception to follow in Trinity 100
For information, please contact Troy Jollimore, director, Humanities Center, 898-4506.

Women’s Bodies: Violence, Security, Capabilities (keynote address at the annual conference of the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP)
September 24, 9 am, PAC 134
For information, please contact Becky White, coordinator, SWIP, 898-4730.

Described by The New York Times as “the most prominent female philosopher in America,” Martha Nussbaum, who holds the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor chair at the University of Chicago, believes that philosophy should be useful, and that philosophers should be, in the words of Seneca, “lawyers for humanity.” The author of eleven books and hundreds of articles, she has played a major role in the rethinking of the place of emotions in Western thought undertaken by philosophers, anthropologists, and cognitive scientists. In her most recent book, Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law (Princeton, 2004), she demonstrates how the emotions shape our views on such matters as gay marriage, pornography, and stem cell research.

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Watershed Magazine Invites Submissions

Watershed, CSU, Chico’s literary magazine, invites students, faculty, and community members to submit their original and unpublished works for possible publication in its Fall 2005 edition.

The categories solicited are:
* Poetry
* Short fiction (4,000 words or less)
* Creative nonfiction
* Black and white photography
* Line drawings
* Illustrations
Please note: Artwork/illustrations should be submitted in a format no larger than 8.5” × 11”.

Include with submission:
* A cover letter with your name, address, phone number, and a brief biographical statement
* A self-addressed stamped envelope for reply and manuscript return

Please do not put your name on the pages of your submissions. The submission deadline is Wed., Oct. 5, 2005.

Send or deliver hard copy to:

Watershed
California State University, Chico
Department of English - Taylor Hall 209
Chico, CA 95929-0830

For more information, contact Beth Spencer at bspencer@csuchico.edu
See the Watershed Web Site

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Recycling Program Internships, 1-3 units

Get involved with the Associated Students Recycling Program!

Internship applications are now available for the fall semester. Students can receive 1-3 units for planning, organizing, and implementing projects and events related to recycling, composting and waste reduction.

Projects include compost workshops, recycling contests, Recycle Week, organic gardening, grant writing, working with youth and much more. Intern meetings are every Monday from 5-6pm in BMU 209. Helpful skills include a willingness to make a difference, knowledge about recycling/composting, creativity and dedication.

Applications must be turned in to the AS. Recycling Office (BMU 005) by Thursday, Sept. 15, 5:00pm.

For questions contact our office at 898-5033 or asrecycle@csuchico.edu. Come join us!

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Graphic Design Internships Available

Graphic Designers wanted to design posters for School of the Arts music, theatre, art, and dance events. Will also be designing/producing ads and programs. Experience with Macintosh graphic design software helpful. Internship is for 1-3 units. For more information, contact J. DiMaggio, School of the Arts Publicist, at 898-5739 or jdimaggio@csuchico.edu.

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Humanities Center Gallery: CLAUDIA STEEL, Sep. 6-Oct. 27

The Humanities Center Gallery is exhibiting Claudia Steel Sept. 6-Oct. 27 in Trinity 100. The exhibition spans fifty years of the work by Claudia Steel and will include non-representational serigraphs made during the late 1950s and early 1960s; realistic etchings made from the 1960s through the 1980s; and her newest pieces—large oil paintings, which feature more and less abstracted landscapes. She studied teaching and art at UC Berkeley, Mills College, and the California College of Arts and Crafts and taught at CSU, Chico. At 87, Steel is still filled with energy and enthusiasm for making art.

Steel exhibited with members of the “Berkeley School,“ a moniker coined by Alfred Frankenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle in 1937. She continues to exhibit nationally and internationally, but a significant part of Steel’s efforts over the years have been contributions to Chico’s artistic community. This past spring, Steel showed all new work with her older sister and artist Alice Hutchins in the two-person show Sisters at the 1078 Gallery.

The Humanities Center Gallery is typically open M-F, 8-5. A reception will be held Thursday, September 8, 5-7pm. Steel will provide an artist’s talk at 4pm preceding the reception. For information, call x4642.

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Humanities Center Gallery: Reception for Schildhauer and Ramirez, Aug. 25, 5-7pm

The Humanities Center Gallery is exhibiting acrylic and digital painting by Jesus Ramirez in More Stuff and encaustic mixed media on panel by Cynthia Schildhauer in Places now through Aug. 25 in Trinity Hall.

Schildhauer grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and earned her MA in Painting with distinction from CSU, Chico in 2002. She has worked with encaustic artists from the R+F Studios in New York. Her painting has been exhibited on the East Coast and throughout California.

Ramirez, originally from Jalisco, Mexico, and a Chico resident since 1978, was one of the first two artists to show at the gallery when it opened in fall 1999. He has won numerous awards and also painted public and private murals, including ones at the University of Guadalajara, Templo de San Juan Bosco in Jalisco, and Ringel Park for the City of Chico. Ramirez owns and operates his own business in Chico—Notre Dame Graphics & Fine Art, Inc.

The gallery is typically open M- F, 8-5. A closing night reception for both shows will be held Thursday, Aug. 25, 5-7pm. Schildhauer will provide a talk at 4pm preceding the reception. For information, call x4642.

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University Film Series: "1945" Series Opener with DECISION BEFORE DAWN, Aug. 30, 7:30pm

University Film Series
Tuesdays at 7:30 pm in Ayres 106
$3 donation appreciated
Web Site
898-4642

“1945”
Film and the Memory of the Second World War
For sixty years the memory of WWII has held us in its thrall, shaping everything from our politics to our culture. That is why, on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the war, the Humanities Center along with the University Film Series will screen six great films, several of them rarely seen today, during fall 2005. On December 1, there will be a roundtable discussion about the war, its cinematic representation, and historical memory.

Aug. 30 DECISION BEFORE DAWN (Anatole Litvak, U.S.A., 1951)
English/French/German; 119 min; 16mm. With Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegard Knef
Based on a true story and filmed in the ruins of Mannheim and Würzburg, this exciting film tells the story of an OSS operative and a volunteer German POW who are parachuted into Germany to report on conditions in the Third Reich during the last months of the war. A harrowing account of the deadly collapse of a totalitarian regime. Listed by The New York Times as one of the top 1000 films ever made.

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Band Opportunities

Did you play an instrument in High School? Do you remember the good times and the good friends? We have a band for you to join. All bands include non-music majors as well as music majors.

PEP BAND meets for 3 or 4 rehearsals and plays for the Wildcat Basketball games during the Fall and Spring semesters as well as other functions designated by the President Zingg. No Audition Required. MUSIC 111C 1 UNIT

CONCERT BAND meets 2 days per week with one concert at the end of the semester. No Audition Required. Music 111B

JAZZ ENSEMBLE II meets 1 day per week with one concert at the end of the semester. No Audition Required.

SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE meets 3 days per week with several concerts throughout the semester. Audition Required. Music 111D

JAZZ ENSEMBLE I meets 2 days per week with several concerts throughout the semester. Audition Required. Music 112C

For more information please contact the music office 898-5152 or Dr. Tevis 5582, rtevis@csuchico.edu

Dr. Royce S. Tevis
Director of Bands
530\898-5582

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Children's Choir of Chico 5th Season Events

The Children’s Choir of Chico is Sponsored the Department of Music

Join us for our 5th Birthday Gala Season!!

Registrations and Open House Rehearsals for the Children’s Choir of Chico 2005-06 Choir Season:

Monday, Aug. 22 and 29:
3:30-4:45 Concert Choir, Grades 4 & Up
5:00-6:15 Chorale, Grades 6 & Up
CSU Performing Arts Center Courtyard

Tuesday, Aug. 23 and 30:
3:30-4:15 Ready, Set Sing, Grade 1
3:45-4:45 Preparatory Choir, Grades 2 & 3
4:30‹5:30 Preparatory Choir, Grades 2 & 3
Faith Lutheran Church, 667 E. First Avenue

Thursday, Sept. 8:
7:00-8:30 p.m., Women’s Ensemble
First Christian Church, 295 E. Washington Ave

Space is Limited! Call 592-7174 for Further Information

Dr. Royce S. Tevis
Director of Bands
530\898-5582

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Pride Safe Zone Meeting, Aug. 31

Pride Safe Zone is Chico State’s student organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning students, as well as their straight allies. Throughout the semester we’ll host social gatherings, information workshops, dances, and guest speakers. Join us for our first meeting to meet new friends and find out more about queer life in the city of Chico:

Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005, 7pm
Stonewall Alliance Center
341 Broadway, Room 416

This is an exciting semester to get involved as we join forces with the Stonewall Alliance Center of Chico! Our meetings will be held at Stonewall every Wednesday at 7pm. The center is a very short 3 block walk from campus, and offers an impressive LGBTQ resource center.

For more information, visit our Web Site or email us at aspride@csuchico.edu

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New class: Fundamentals of Olympic Weightlifting

Olympic Weightlifting is now being offered for the first time through Continuing Education’s Fall Extension program. Instructor Marcus Dorin will teach students how to safely learn the fundamentals of Olympic style weightlifting. Includes full warm up, daily instruction, and information about how to run competitions. Six morning sections are available to accommodate busy schedules. Classes begin Monday, Aug. 22, and will meet off campus at The Body Shop, 1407 West 5th Street in Chico. For more information, or to enroll, call 898-6105 or visit Continuing Education online at Web Site.

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Fall Extension course: Economic Globalization and Democracy

Globalization is happening everywhere around us from our instant access to the world through the Internet to the adoption of multi-lateral trade agreements. Join instructor Sue Hilderbrand to explore the theories underpinning economic globalization and compare those theories to real world experiences. The course will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4-5:30PM in Aymer J. Hamilton, room 125A. Class runs from Tuesday, Aug. 23 to Dec. 15. For more information, or to enroll, call 898-6105 or visit Continuing Education online at Web Site.

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University Film Series: Chris Marker's SANS SOLEIL; Sept. 6, 7:30 pm

University Film Series
Tuesday, Sept. 6, 7:30pm, Ayres 106
$3 donation appreciated
Sans Soleil
Chris Marker, France, 1983
English/French, 100 minute Documentary
Hosted by Dylan Latimer

An unknown woman reads and comments upon the letters she receives from a friend—a free-lance cameraman who travels around the world and is particularly attached to those “two extreme poles of survival,” Japan and Africa (represented here by two of its poorest and most forgotten countries: Guinea Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands).

Chris Marker was one of the seminal figures of the French New Wave, a Left Bank intellectual who helped create the climate that nurtured Godard, Rohmer, and other enfants terribles. He’s primarily a documentarian, but the basis of his aesthetic is the power of montage, and to serve it he’s made films that are nothing more than compilations of stills, including a science-fiction movie about the destruction of Paris (La Jetée, 1963). He’s also a committed leftist who in the late sixties became part of a filmmakers’ collective that survived to become a workers’ film group. Marker the intellectual, the theorist of montage, and the leftist are all evident in Sans Soleil, whose intellectual breadth seems ostentatious at first but eventually coheres.

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Tutoring Begins Soon - Student Learning Center

The Student Learning Center will start sign-ups for tutoring on Wednesday, August 31st, 9:00-4:30. Actual tutoring sessions will begin on Tuesday, Sept. 6.

The Student Learning Center offers FREE tutoring in most academic subjects, FREE supplemental instruction workshops for 8-10 courses per semester, and FREE study skills workshops in various areas such as: time management, test taking, reading strategies, memorization, effective note taking, and others.

Visit or call the Student Learning Center for more information at Meriam Library 458, fourth floor, east wing, 530-898-6839. Our office hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:00-4:45 pm, and Friday, 9:00-2:45 pm.

Have a great semester!

Koni Needles
Student Learning Center
MLIB 458/898-6839/CSU, Chico

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Costa Rica Opportunity

JANUARY 2006 INTERSESSION IN COSTA RICA

Experience the Central American tropics and get 3 units of credit!

Environmental Literacy (ENVL 105-99), January Intersession, 2006

GE Credit (Area E)—3 units

Costa Rica, in southern Central America, is a small peaceful country with an impressive amount of its wild land protected in parks and reserves. Because of its tropical location, diverse topography, and position on the land bridge between North and South America, it is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. In a day’s travel you can go from coastal beach and mangroves to seasonally dry forest to cloud forest to lowland rainforest, and in each of these it usually is easy to see some of the characteristic wildlife.

Traveling to several sites in Costa Rica, this course will look at the dynamics of Neotropical ecosystems, the environmental effects of their alteration, and the social and economic problems involved.

Expected cost is $2300 including airfare, meals, lodging, and in-country transportation. A deposit of $200 is required by September 30, 2005.

Instructors: Dr. James Pushnik, 898-6362, jpushnik@csuchico.edu

Dr. D. J. O’Donnell, 898-4520, dodonnell@csuchico.edu

For more information, contact the instructors, Dr. Susan Place, 898-5406, or the Studies Abroad Office, 898-5412

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Humanities Center Gallery: Cristina Nehring photography and talk, Sept. 13-Nov. 1

The Humanities Center Gallery is exhibiting photography by Cristina Nehring in the two-part show Found Love & The Sky Is Falling Sept. 13-Nov. 1 in the Trinity hallway.

Nehring’s essays appear regularly in The Atlantic Monthly. She is currently at work on Women in Love: A Feminist Defense of Romance for HarperCollins. For years, Nehring has contributed to many publications including Harper’s, London Review of Books, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, American Scholar, Michigan Quarterly Review, Jacaranda Review, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She visited Chico in Feb. 2003 to give the talk “Dangerous Liaisons: Eros and Pedagogy in Contemporary Academe.” Nehring shares her time between Venice Beach and Paris.

For her photography show, Nehring writes: “My first criterion when I photograph is beauty…If you are going to add visual stimuli to the world, let them be attractive stimuli. Ugly pictures—no matter how packed with pieties and insights—stir me about as much as bad food: I don’t care what the vitamin content is, I want it out of my way.”

The gallery is typically open M-F, 8-5. A closing-night reception will be held Tuesday, Nov. 1, 5-7pm. Nehring will talk at 4pm preceding the reception. For information, call x4642.

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Women's Center Internships Available

The A.S. Women’s Center will be taking interns for the Fall Semester. Our first interest meeting is Tuesday, Aug. 30 at 5:00 PM in BMU 312. We are looking for 1-3 unit interns who are interested in Feminist Activism on campus. If you are interested in meeting new people and learning how to organize events on campus, come and join us. The last day to turn in an application is Sept. 6 at the meeting in BMU 312 @ 5:00 PM. If you are interested in this opportunity, come down to the Women’s Center, located in the BMU basement 002, and pick up an application.

- We are Activity Fee Funded

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BMU Gallery Reception, Aug. 31, 5-7pm

The Bell Memorial Union Art Gallery presents Restraint, an exhibition of original works by Lauren Shell Barrera, from May 16 - Sept. 2 2005. A reception will close Restraint on Wednesday, Aug. 31 from 5-7 p.m. and refreshments will be served.

Lauren Shell Barrera is currently a student at CSU, Chico. In her current exhibit at the Bell Memorial Union Gallery, she explores the cultural phenomena of environmental detachment. She uses mixed media to express the andocentric domination over the natural world. She equates the abstract washes of paint with the organic natural world, and its desire to push against the conformity of man.

Yvette Zuniga
BMU Services Coordinator
California State University, Chico
530.898.5489 fax 530.898.4717

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ROAD Crew announcement

Attention freshmen! Are you interested in leadership and getting involved? Then discover where you fit with R.O.A.D. Crew!

- R.O.A.D. Crew stands for Retention, Outreach, And Development. It is a program that deals with orienting freshmen students to the internal structure and workings of the Associated Students.

- R.O.A.D. Crew involves students in the creation, initiation, and implementation of AS events, AS elections, community outreach and service, and activities focused on the freshmen population.

- R.O.A.D. Crew promotes a mentor/mentee relationship between students and a member of the AS Board of Directors or Government Affairs Committee to acquire enhanced knowledge of the AS and the University and to strengthen the student’s tie to campus.

Several perks of joining R.O.A.D. Crew include: earning one academic unit, meeting great people and forming friendships, participating in community service events and many more!

Contact Casey Nunn at ASRoadCrew@csuchico.edu or (530) 898-5701

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Historic Mexico Next January with HFA

The next travel program with the College of Humanities and Fine Arts will be a trip to Mexico from January 11 through 20, 2006. The tour includes five nights in Mexico City, two in Jalapa and two in Papantla. The faculty-in-residence is history professor Steve Lewis, whose specialties include Chiapas, the Mexican revolution and post revolution, and official Indian policy in Mexico. For those interested in receiving college credit, 1-3 units in history or Latin American studies are available.

The $2,119 package includes round-trip airfare from San Francisco, airport fees, transfers, first-class hotels, buffet breakfast daily and six dinners; and entry fees to the National Palace, Colegio de San Idelfonso, Castillo de Chapultepec, anthropology museums in Mexico City and Jalapa, Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Cholula Pyramids, Museo Hacienda El Lencero, Voladores de Papantia, El Tajin and Teotihuacan. A full-time professional tour director will accompany the tour, and, in each city, a city guide will provide local historical and cultural information.

A tax-deductible portion of the cost goes to college scholarships and programs. Contact Thomasin Saxe, group coordinator, tsaxe@csuchico.edu or 530-898-4642. You may also check the Web: www.csuchico.edu/hfa/travel .

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Meriam Library tours - Fall 2005

Please Share this Information with your Students

The Meriam Library is offering guided tours on the following dates:

Aug. 24-26 , 2005
Aug. 29-Sept. 2, 2005
Sept. 6-9, 2005

Meet in the lobby on the first floor of the library. All tours 12-12:50 p.m.

A self-guided walking tour pamphlet is available at the second floor reference desk. Web Site;

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College of Business BBQ/Raffle, Aug. 30

On Tuesday, August 30, 2005, the College of Business (COB) will provide freshman and transfer business students to a free barbecue lunch at the Alumni Glenn (adjacent to the creek, near the middle of campus). Students will meet business faculty and representatives from COB student organizations. Corporate partners will also be on hand to talk with students. Raffle prizes include a 4 GB iPOD Mini and an Apple IPOD HP+ (students must be present to win).

Dee Hoffman Wills
Assistant Dean, External Relations
College of Business
California State University, Chico
Phone: 530/898-4255

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Ancient Mayan Music and Aztec Dance featured by America Indigena on 9/1/05 in Laxson

Chico Performances will be presenting the ancient Mayan music & Aztec dance of America Indigena on Thursday, Sept. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Laxson Auditorium. The Voice of the Wind writes that America Indigena is “a spellbinding performance…”

Rich in color and history, America Indigena features the natural sounds of handmade instruments from ancient Mexico, including Mayan and Aztec drums, clay flutes, turtle shells, and shakers made of seedpods, goat hooves, deer toes, and cocoons. The performers are clad in colorful cloth, gold sequins, shells, rattles, and feathers up to four feet in length, making the costumes instruments themselves. The highlight of this performance is the “Fire Dance” where flames, dancers, and instruments intertwine.

Advance tickets are $18 Adult, $16 Senior, $14 Student /Child (Reserved Seating), and are available at the University Box Office - 898-6333 corner of Normal and 2nd, open M-F 11-6 and Sat 3-6.

Daran Goodsell
Marketing/Publicity
Chico Performances
phone: 530-898-6785
fax: 530-898-4797
email: dfinney@csuchico.edu

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