May-June INTERSESSION - Registration Open

Thinking about taking a course early this summer?

Check out May-June Intersession schedule today. Web Site

Courses start May 22.

Three, five, and six week sessions.

Please visit the May-June Intersession Web site for the most up-to-date schedule and enrollment information: Web Site or call Continuing Education at 530-898-6105.

Note: you must register for May-June Intersession through Continuing Education. The Portal is not configured for May-June Intersession.

Archived under Information on April 27, 2006

Mass Communication Ethics Forum 2006, May 3

News-editorial and public relations students are welcome to the 2006 Ethics Forum from 3:00pm to 5:00pm on Wednesday, May 3 in Bell Memorial Union 210.

Ethical issues and professional perspectives will be examined through an exchange of questions and responses between listeners and panelists: Evan Tuchinsky, Chico News & Review editor; Ashley Coleman, KHSL-TV reporter; David Little, Chico Enterprise-Record editor; Robert Condos, Impact Media Group, president; and Janice Sherry, public information officer for PG&E.

The forum is sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists, the International Association of Business Communicators and the Department of Journalism.

Archived under Events on April 27, 2006

AS Appointed Officer Positions Open

Interested in holding an AS office but didn’t want to run? There are two appointed positions open: the Public Relations Coordinator and Traditional Activities Coordinator. Check out what those offices are in charge of at the Web Site and fill out an application under Job Opportunities on the same website. This is a great way to get involved! Any questions, call the Government Affairs Office at 898-5701.

Archived under Opportunities on April 27, 2006

The 22nd Annual American Visions National Photography Juried Competition and Exhibition

The Museum of Anthropology Announces: The 22nd Annual American Visions National Photography Juried Competition and Exhibition

Deadline for Entry: Friday, August 4, 2006
$25.00 per 3 entries

American Indians Today
The modern American Indian has many faces and voices. Frequently, Native Americans are still portrayed in a single, romanticized version of the past, instead of acknowledging the living community to which they belong. In this juried photography competition the museum and its panel of judges seek to recognize the many stories, multiple histories, and diverse communities of America’s indigenous peoples today. We want to see this vitality through portraits, activities, daily life, contemporary and traditional ritual practices, giving expression to their current contributions to our nation.

Selected Prints will be on display in Kendall Hall from September 5,- September 29, 2006.

Contact the museum at 898-5397 for contest rules and specifications.

Archived under Information on April 27, 2006

Museum of Anthropology' s World Explorations Lecture, May 7

Museum of Anthropology’ s World Explorations Lecture:

Paths to a Clearing: Primate and Human Destinies in Equatorial Africa
Sunday, May 7, 4:00pm, Ayers 106
Call 898-5397 for more information.

Humanity’s closest kin, the African great apes, face unprecedented threats to their very existence. Anthropologist David Eaton will explore this topic.

Archived under Events on April 27, 2006

ESL Resource Center Tutoring

ESL Resource Center, Siskiyou Hall, Room 121

Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 10:00-2:00
Tuesday, Thursday: 10:00-2:30

Tutoring for Non-Native English Speakers of all backgrounds (graduates of American high schools, College Exchange Students, etc.)

Grammar assistance
Reading tutoring
Assistance with homework, research papers, classroom presentations
Preparation for language exams including TOEFL study guides (including practice tests and tapes)
Pronunciation Practice

For more information, contact: Margaret DuFon, mdufon@csuchico.edu, Siskiyou 127, 898-5452.

Archived under Information on April 27, 2006

Tango/Samba Workshop, April 28

5,6,7,8!

WHAT: Tango/Samba Workshop
WHERE: CSU, CHICO, Yolo, Room 213
WHEN: Friday April 28, 2006 7-9pm
Cost: $5, or free with membership

With our professional dance instructor, Katherine, learn some seductive moves in Tango and the ever-popular “pop-corn” dance (the Samba). No prior knowledge of Tango or Samba needed. Partners are provided.

Archived under Events on April 27, 2006

Change Your Campus!, April 28

April 28: Round Table Discussion: Change Your Campus! 12:00pm - 1:00pm BMU 209

Join an informal discussion on the topic of sustainable change on campus, FREE PIZZA! For additional information contact Jillian at Bidwell Environmental Institute @ 898-4335.

Archived under Events on April 27, 2006

Volunteers Needed for Bio-Plastic Pilot Project, May 1-5

Celebrate Compost Awareness Week! Volunteers are needed to help with public education of a bio-plastic composting pilot project in Marketplace Café! If you can give 1 or 2 hours of your time during the week of May 1-5, anytime from 11:00am - 2:00pm, get in touch with the AS Recycling Office at 898-5033 or asrecycle@csuchico.edu

Archived under Opportunities on April 27, 2006

Conference: Speech Play and Verbal Art, Featuring Jamel Shakir, March 29 - May 1

All are welcomed to the Spring ‘06 Academic Web Conference hosted by CSU, Chico’s Student Artist’s and Performer’s Union. While this year’s central Interdisciplinary theme is Speech Play and Verbal Art, please remember that satellite themes are always welcomed. We currently archive research presentations, news, music, and spoken word material. We are currently interconnecting the most performative and artistic multimedia academic articles with online media libraries/digital media archives, and because no academic database (such as Academic Search Premier, Proquest, and Infotrac) is prepared to archive multimedia articles—we designed our own. So check out what’s new in the online Media Library. All audio and video files are free and instantly playable and/or downloadable with a single click (using high-speed internet). If you like a media file download it now—because it may not be available later. Our featured presenter this year is Jamel Malik Shakir.

Sponsor: Disadvantaged Student Artist’s Union (DSAU)
For more information, see the Web Site

Archived under Events on April 27, 2006

CSU, Chico Wind Ensemble, April 29

Come and join the award winning CSU, CHICO WIND ENSEMBLE on Saturday, April 29 at 7:00pm in Harlan Adams Theater of the Performing Arts Center. They are hot off of an extremely successful, highly acclaimed, inter collegiate tour and are primed for another excellent performance. This is a show that you just can’t miss.

Archived under Events on April 27, 2006

Looking for a Full Time Job After Graduation?

Graduating? Looking for a full time job? We’ll be sending these notices out on a weekly basis to let you know which companies are here to talk to you! Drop by and talk with us about these and other resources at the Career Planning and Placement Office, Meriam Library, Room 150 or call us at 530-898-5253.

5/3/2006
PETSMART
Department Manager

5/4/2006
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Management Trainee - All Locations

5/5/2006
Microsoft
Software Design Engineer

Archived under Opportunities on April 27, 2006

Study Skills Workshops

The Student Learning Center will offer its last Study Skills Workshop of the semester on Thursday, May 4.

5/4 (Thursday) Test Taking Strategies 7:00 - 8:00pm
Natalie Kiunke (presenter)
Location: MLIB 226

Workshops are Free. Students can sign up in advance at the Student Learning Center (Meriam Library 458) or by calling 898-6839.

Archived under Information on April 27, 2006

University Film Series: INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 2006, May 9

University Film Series
Tuesday, May 9, 7:30pm, Ayres 106
Admission free ($3 donation suggested)
898-4642 Web Site

INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 2006

Hosted by Nanette Wylde and produced by the Electronic Arts Program, Department of Art and Art History

The third annual international shorts festival at the UFS will feature short works in film, video, and animation by art students from two very different schools: ExTracts (by students at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago) and Pushing the Non-Square Pixel 2 (by students at CSU, Chico).

Archived under Events on April 27, 2006

Maggie Awards Held May 4, Nominations Due April 28

The A.S. Women’s Center Presents The 13th Annual Maggie Awards on May 4. Nominate an outstanding woman leader on-campus or in the community.

In 1994, the Chico Women’s Center and the Women’s Council hosted the first annual Maggie Awards Ceremony, which recognized and honored outstanding female leaders on our campus and in the community. The award was named after Maggie Pattison, office manager for the Associated Students Government for 23 years.

Nominations are due Friday, April 28.

Awards Ceremony:
Thursday, May 4, 2006
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Warrens Reception Center Garden CSU, Chico campus

If the woman you have nominated to receive a Maggie Award is selected, we will contact you. We will invite her to the ceremony and we would like you to present her with the award at the Maggie Awards ceremony.

Categories Include: Young Woman (under 18 years old), Undergraduate Student, Graduate

Student, Re-Entry Student, Faculty Member, Staff Member, Community Member, Senior Woman

Pick up or Drop off a Nomination Form at the AS Women’s Center, BMU 002
Phone: (530) 898-5724
Fax: (530) 898-4756
E-Mail: womenscenter@csuchico.edu

Archived under Information on April 27, 2006

Student Loan Exit Requirements for Departing Loan Recipients

Notice to Students Not Returning to CSU, Chico for Fall 2006.

If you received Direct and/or Perkins Student Loans while attending CSU, Chico, you need to complete an ‘Exit Interview’ no later than June 20, 2006. This is a federal regulatory requirement. The Exit Interview provides information about your rights and responsibilities provides payment options and offers information about loan consolidation.

Direct Stafford Loan Borrowers are urged to do their exit interview on-line at the Web Site You will need to have your US Department of Education
PIN to view your loans and to complete your exit interview. You may request your PIN at the Web Site Direct Loan borrowers will need this PIN to take advantage of many on-line payment and account oversight options over the term of their loans.

Students who received Perkins Student Loans should contact Collections in the Student Financial Services office @ 530-898-5936 to arrange for an on-line or in-person Exit Interview.

Both Direct and Perkins Loan borrowers may also come by Kendall Hall Room 213 to complete their Exit Interview requirement.

You do not need to do an exit interview if you are enrolling at Chico for Fall 2006 as, at least, a half-time student (6 undergrad or 4 grad units).

Archived under Information on April 25, 2006

University Film Series: LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF, May 2

University Film Series
Tuesday, May 2, 7:30pm, Ayres 106
Admission FREE ($3 donation suggested)
898-4642 Web Site

LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF (U.S.A., 2003, 169min)
Documentary directed and written by Thom Andersen

Hosted by Peter Hogue, emeritus, Department of English

The film mimics an old-fashioned double feature, with an intermission planted about two-thirds of the way through. It offers clips from 191 American movies, whose only point in common is that they’re set in Los Angeles, and a narration that’s an essay on how movies have treated Andersen’s hometown. Plainspoken and witty, it qualifies as social history, film theory, personal reverie, architectural history and criticism, a bittersweet meditation on automotive transport, a critical history of mass transit in southern California, a wisecracking compilation of local folklore, “a city symphony in reverse,” and a song of nostalgia for lost neighborhoods such as Bunker Hill and unchronicled lifestyles such as those of locals who walk or take buses. Most of all, it qualifies as film criticism on the highest level — analytical, transformative, and political. But it’s also sufficiently engrossing and funny that some viewers won’t find it political or seriously critical at all.—Jonathan Rosenbaum, THE CHICAGO READER

Archived under Events on April 25, 2006

CSU, Chico Wind Ensemble, April 29

Come and join the award winning CSU, CHICO WIND ENSEMBLE on Saturday, April 29 at 7:00pm in Harlan Adams Theater of the Performing Arts Center. They are hot off of an extremely successful, highly acclaimed, inner collegiate tour and are primed for another excellent performance. This is a show that you just can’t miss.

Archived under Events on April 25, 2006

AS Coordinator Applications Available Online

Interested in holding an AS office but didn’t feel like running? Two appointed positions are open! Fill out an application online at Web Site for Public Relations Coordinator or Traditional Activities Coordinator. Come to the Government Affairs Office in BMU 203 or call 898-5701 with any questions. This is a great way to get involved in AS, so check it out!

Archived under Opportunities on April 25, 2006

Great Internship Opportunity

If you are looking for a wonderful internship, look no more! The Campus Wellness Center is offering this great opportunity to students of all majors!

There are several positions available, each of which enjoys many benefits, such as:

Units for your major
$tipend
Increased awareness of wellness related issues
Public speaking experience
Increased teamwork and leadership abilities
Flexible schedule
So much more…

Intern responsibilities include:
10 hours a week staffing the Wellness Center
Individual projects, such as public relations
Peer educationon wellness related topics

Pick up your application today at the Campus Wellness Center (Meriam Library 141) 898-4697

Deadline: Friday, April 28

Archived under Opportunities on April 25, 2006

Humanities Center Gallery in May/June: Eileen Macdonald's WORKS ON PAPER

The Humanities Center Gallery is exhibiting works by artist Eileen Macdonald in the show Works on Paper May 2-June 22 in Trinity Hall. Macdonald was born in Scotland. She has been an assistant professor of printmaking and drawing at CSU, Chico, since 2002.

For this show, Macdonald writes: “This body of work has been created entirely by hand with a single sewing needle. Isolating the needle from its intended function and using it exclusively for its mark making potential, provides me with an unconventional drawing tool. By using this laborious and unpredictable process, my accumulation of pinprick punctures simultaneously constructs and demolishes the paper’s surface emphasizing tension and fragility.”

Macdonald has exhibited nationally and internationally, including venues in Japan, South Africa, Canada, England, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and Tennessee. She has curated and juried numerous shows as well and been the recipient of various awards and residencies.

The Humanities Center Gallery is open M-F, 8:00am - 5:00pm, May 2-19. Summer hours begin on May 22: M-F, 8:00am - 4:30pm and F, 8:00 - 11:00am. On May 11, 5:00 - 7:00pm, a reception with Eileen Macdonald will be held jointly with Lynnette Krehe, who is showing Solana concurrently at the gallery.

Archived under Events on April 25, 2006

Humanities Center Gallery in May and June: Lynette Krehe

The Humanities Center Gallery is exhibiting works by artist Lynette Krehe in the show Solana May 21-June 22 in Trinity Hall.

Krehe writes: “Solana is based on ‘sight of sound.’ Images of animals running or flying might evoke the sounds of stringed instruments: horses stampede over a road-sized guitar neck, birds appear with violin fragments, and a swarm of rabbits propel over a sea of bass cellos.” The delicate, complex layers in all her work suggest the very old and ethereal as if these were pieces from another time and place recently unearthed.

After earning her BA in painting at CSU, Chico, Krehe became co-director in 1984 of the brand new 1078 Gallery, and then later, while getting her MA in painting here, she became the 1078’s director in 1989. Krehe has shown in nearly 100 exhibitions, mostly on the West Coast, in the past twenty-five years and has received many awards locally.

The gallery is open M-F, 8:00am - 5:00pm, May 2-19. Summer hours begin on May 22: M-F, 8:00am - 4:30pm and F, 8:00am - 11:00am. On May 11, 5:00pm - 7:00pm, a reception with Krehe will be held jointly with Eileen Macdonald, who is showing Works on Paper concurrently at the gallery.

Archived under Events on April 25, 2006

Holocaust Scholar to Speak, May 2

Dr. Michael Berenbaum will be speaking on The Holocaust in the Contemporary World on Tuesday, May 2, 2006 at 5:00pm in 135 Performing Arts Center. Dr. Berenbaum is director of Sigi Ziering Institute - Exploring the Ethical & Religious Implications of the Holocaust. He has taught at Wesleyan, Georgetown, Yale, George Washington, U. of Maryland and American University, was the former Director of the United States Holocaust Museum Research Institute, the former President of Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and the author and editor of sixteen books and scores of articles and scholarly essays.

His lecture is sponsored by the Department of Modern Jewish Studies, the Department of Sociology, and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education at California State University, Chico. This event is free and open to the public. Call 530-864-8947 for further information.

Archived under Events on April 25, 2006

Chico Premiere of a New Documentary: "The Richie Boys"

Come to the Chico premiere of a new documentary … and meet one of the Ritchie Boys … Rudy Michaels. Now an 88-year-old retired lawyer and administrative law judge in Sacramento, Judge Michaels will share his thoughts on the Ritchie Boys of WW II and the film made about them.

The Ritchie Boys were mostly German or Austrian Jews, who fled Hitler’s Europe, came to the United States and after they trained at Camp Ritchie, Maryland, they were sent overseas to fight the Nazis as American soldiers.

“It was October 1944, and Staff Sergeant Rudy Michaels, as part of the American Fifth Armored Division, was about to cross the River Sauer. Behind him was liberated Luxembourg. Ahead, the first German soil he’d set foot on since leaving his homeland six years before as a Jewish refugee. ‘There I was — in the American Army, with a pistol in my hand, two grenades in my belt and a sergeant with a machine gun at my side,’ Michaels says. ‘I bet they didn’t think I’d come back like this!’ “

Thursday, May 11, 2006, 7:00pm, Ayres 120. This event is free and open to the public. Call 530-864-8947 for further information.

Archived under Events on April 25, 2006