Join the Environmental Affairs Council

Join the defining social movement of our generation to make the memories of a lifetime.

Volunteer with the Environmental Affairs Council for a semester full of victories in Sustainability, the defining social movement of our generation. We are forging a prosperous and sustainable future and it is historic and heroic. All majors and levels of knowledge are welcome.

Participation in EAC is a great resume builder, and you can host bands, speakers, get more solar panels on campus, organize events, reform the business practices of a major corporation, work on organic gardens, and anything else you can think of. The University President signed on to an agreement to eliminate the university’s climate impact and the most innovative solutions will come from students. Together, we will dramatically change the course of this university and our world in a brave new direction. The time is now and EAC is the group. Meetings are every Tuesday at 5pm in BMU 205. Council membership applications are online.

Feel free to send questions to ASenvironmental@csuchico.edu

Student Power

Archived under Opportunities on February 16, 2007

New Course: History of Rap and Hip-Hop Culture (MCGS 198-201)

$165 - 3 units: This course will examine the development of hip-hop culture as a form of self-expression among inner city youth and will explore the four basic elements of hip-hop culture. We will engage in contemporary dialogue regarding style and substance in rap and hip-hop music and culture. Class begins Wed., Feb. 21 (4:15pm - 7:55pm) in O’Connell 254. The class lasts until May 16. To enroll, please call 898-6105.

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Watershed Literary Magazine Seeks Creative Work for Spring Issue

Watershed, CSU, Chico’s literary magazine, invites students, faculty, and community members to submit their original and unpublished works for possible publication in its spring 2007 issue, a special 30th anniversary issue.

The categories solicited are:

Poetry
Short fiction
Creative nonfiction
Black and white photography
Line drawings
Illustrations
Include with submission:

A cover letter with your name, e-mail, address, phone number, and a brief biographical statement of up to 40 words
A self-addressed stamped envelope for reply and manuscript return
Please do not put your name on the pages of your submissions.
The maximum number of submissions is 5, and please limit the length of individual submissions to 2,500 words.
The artwork submitted should be no larger than 8.5” × 11”, in a black and white print.

The submission deadline is Friday, March 9, 2007.

Send or deliver submissions to
Watershed
California State University, Chico
Department of English - Taylor Hall 209
Chico, CA 95929-0830

For more information, contact Casey Huff at 530-898-5983 or chuff@csuchico.edu.

Archived under Opportunities on February 15, 2007

Come for an Evening of Bluegrass and Folk Music with Ralph Stanley, Laurie Lewis and their Bands

Chico Performances presents an evening of bluegrass and folk music with Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys and Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands on Fri., Feb. 23, 2007 at 7:30pm in Laxson Auditorium at California State University, Chico.

In his 50 year career, Ralph Stanley has become an icon in the bluegrass field - amassing a list of awards too numerous to list (including a Living Legend Award and several Grammy, CMA, IBMA, and ACM awards.) His 200 albums have earned him the reputation as the elder statesman of American mountain music, with a sound that encompasses bluegrass, old-time, and gospel. Sharing the stage with Ralph will be bluegrass vocalist of the year Laurie Lewis and her band The Right Hands. This may be the finest bluegrass and Americana pairing ever.

COST/TICKETS: Premium $25, Adult $20, Senior $18, Student/Child $16
Tickets available at the University Box Office, 898-6333, 2nd & Normal Streets
More Information online.

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Student Council for Exceptional Children

Interested in being part of a professional organization that devotes itself to children with exceptionalities? If so, please attend the Student Council for Exceptional Children’s first meeting of Spring 2007. We will introduce SCEC to new members and discuss all upcoming events and meetings.

Who? Student Council for Exceptional Children

What? A special education professional organization whose members work on behalf of individuals with exceptionalities.

Why? Excellent addition to your resume, fun and rewarding community involvement, career connections and much more.

When? Feb. 16 at 4pm

Where? BMU 304

For more information on SCEC please visit our website.

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Business, IT, and SAP Career Fair, Feb. 21

You are invited to attend the Business, IT, and SAP Career Fair held at the BMU Auditorium on Feb. 21, 2007 from 10am to 3pm. We anticipate 100 recruiters to attend the event. Take advantage of this opportunity to form relationships with key recruiters prior to graduation. Come explore your opportunities in the private, public, and non-profit sectors.

A list of recruiters”:http://www.chicocf.com is available online.

Dress for success and bring your stack of resume’s. For more information or inquiries regarding this event, please email phichithetachico@yahoo.com.

Phi Chi Theta, Delta Sigma Pi, and the Career Planning and Placement Office

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Free Movie, The Road to Guantanamo, Feb. 27

6:30pm
Holt 170

The Road to Guantanamo is a 2006 drama-documentary that depicts the lives of hundreds of detainees in the detainee camp in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The film specifically follows the lives of three men showing how they were taken to Guantanamo, treated in the camp, and eventually released without charge. The film also includes interviews with the three men and archive news footage from the period. The event is hosted by the Muslim Students Association.

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Undergraduate Awards for Research & Creativity

Are you an undergraduate student working on a special student-designed project who can use some financial support this semester or over the summer?

The Undergraduate Awards for Research & Creativity are an exceptional and unique opportunity for you to create your own project under the guidance of a faculty mentor. To qualify, you need a cumulative GPA of 3.25 or above.

- Up to five summer stipends of $2,000 each are available to undergraduates (including graduating seniors) in all majors. Application deadline: Thursday, 3/1/07
- Up to three summer stipends of $3,500 each are available to undergraduates in Chemistry/Environmental Science (including graduating seniors). Application deadline: Thursday, 3/1/07.
- Spring 2007 grant opportunities - students may apply for any amount up to $500 for reimbursable expenses. Application deadline: Monday, 2/19/07.

For APPLICATIONS and more detailed INFORMATION visit the website, or contact Barbara Brautigam @ 898-5683. Applications are also available at the Honors Program office, OCNL 236.

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On The Creek Lecture Series Brings Denise Low-Weso, Feb. 21

Chico Performances and the Office of the Provost present Denise Low-Weso, 2007-2009 Kansas Poet Laureate, as part of the On The Creek Lecture Series on Wed., Feb. 21, 2007 at 7:30pm in Ruth Rowland - Taylor Recital Hall at California State University, Chico.

This free lecture is entitled: “From Physics to Poetry: A Language of Sustainability for the 22nd Century.”

Low-Weso’s talk will encompass models of global warming and how its implications indicate the next century will be one of massive change for Earth. Remote sensing equipment affords intimate measurements of geological and other processes, and the subsequent deep mapping creates a new vocabulary of observation. With the realization that living space, water, agricultural land, and energy sources are finite, it is time to embrace long-term sustainability envisionings of the Cheyenne and Indigenous American paradigms and call back the poet into Plato’s Republic, allowing language to become a vehicle of sustainability.

COST/TICKETS: This lecture is free and open to the public.
More Information available online.

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Study Skills Workshop this Week

The Student Learning Center is offering a workshop on Effective Notetaking:

2/20 (Tuesday) Note Taking Strategies 4pm - 5pm
Christine Connerly
MLIB 226

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

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

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Looking for a Full Time Career 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.

2/21/2007
AltaOne Federal Credit Union
Network Supervisor/Project Specialist
PC Coordinator
IS Help Desk Specialist
E-Commerce Transaction Specialist
Assistant Project Specialist

2/22/2007
Aerotek
Recruiter leading into Account Mgmt.

Hyatt Hotels
Management Trainee

Micron Technology
Test Engineer
Software Engineer
Manufacturing Associate

Mervyns
Executive in Training-Store Mgmt

2/23/2007
Cintas Corporation
Sales Associate
Management Trainee

Archived under Opportunities on February 15, 2007

Poetry, Pies, and Music: Feb. 21

THE POETRY of SEAN HILL along with poems and delectable pies made by Heather Altfeld, cook/professor/laundress/dish-washer/writer and the Eastern European folk music of Troika (Julie Quarterman/clarinet, Glen Orcutt/violin, Brad Jolliffe/guitar, and Scott Gunderson/bass)
at the 1078 Gallery (820 Broadway, Chico), 7:30pm, Feb. 21. For information: 898-4642

Originally from Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill earned an M.F.A. from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. His awards include the Academy of American Poets Prize, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference working scholarships in 2000 and 2001, an Individual Artist grant from the Region 2 Art Council of Minnesota in 2004, a 2005 Bush Artist Fellowship, and a 2006 Travel and Study Grant from the Jerome Foundation. His poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies and have been nominated for a 2004 Pushcart Prize. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he is Conference Administrator for the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference and 2006-2007 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.

Funding for this event is provided by the Associated Students’ Committee on Arts and Lectures at CSU, Chico; Writer’s Voice, Department of English, and College of Humanities and Fine Arts at CSU, Chico; and the 1078 Gallery.

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Call for Papers: Deadline Feb. 28

The College of the Humanities and Fine Arts and the English Graduate Student Council hope to begin a dialogue between all of the disciplines which can be exhibited in a periodically published journal.

This issue’s theme is “The Economics of Inequality: The seen and unseen costs of discrimination.” Society is based on structures of subordination and domination of all sorts, not only those we are accustomed to think of negatively.

We are seeking submissions of academic papers, short stories, creative nonfiction, B&W photography, and line drawings that explore these topics in creative and insightful ways.

The full CFP is posted online.

The call is open to CSU, Chico graduate students in all majors, as well as undergraduates who include an instructor’s letter of recommendation. The submission deadline is February 28, 2007.

For more information please contact Byron Wilson and Michelle Barber at CSUCpublication@gmail.com.

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National Student Exchange

Looking to get out of California? Want to try somewhere new?

The National Student Exchange application deadline for the 07/08 academic year has been extended until Wed., Feb. 21, 2007. More information about the National Student Exchange is available online.

Do not miss this wonderful opportunity. It will be one of the most memorable in your life.

Contact: James Luyirika-Sewagudde, Jr. jamesls@csuchico.edu
Academic Advising Programs, MLIB 190

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Student Computing Workshops

Student Computing will present this workshop this week:

Introduction to Excel
Wed., Feb. 21
5:30pm - 6:30pm in MLIB 457

The Introduction to Excel workshop is an introduction and overview of the concepts and components of worksheets. Students will learn how to create, use, format and edit a worksheet, how to design and build simple formulas and more. No sign-up is required - just drop-in.

For more information call or write to Melinda Ferris, X5008 or mferris@csuchico.edu. Visit the Student Computing website for more information.

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University Film Series: Stanley Kubrick's PATHS OF GLORY (1957), Feb.. 27

University Film Series
Tuesday nights
Ayres 106 (The Little Theatre)
7:30pm
$3 donation appreciated
898-4642
February 27, 2007

Paths Of Glory (USA, 1957) 87 min. Black and white. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Hosted by Jason Tannen, Department of Art and Art History and University Art Gallery Director
Paths Of Glory is a great World War I film by Stanley Kubrick (2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY [1968]), who co-wrote it with Calder Willingham (THE GRADUATE [1967]) and Jim Thompson. Three-time Oscar-nominated-for-Best-Actor Kirk Douglas gives his usual gripping, gritty performance as a field leader caught between his men and inexplicable orders from above. It features striking performances by a superb roster of character actors such as Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, and George Macready. This film was added to the National Film Registry in 1992.

Archived under Events on February 14, 2007

CSU, Chico Leaders Honor Society Applications Available

CSU, Chico University Leaders is a leadership honor society founded in 1992. Each year, the organization invites 10-12 outstanding leaders, as well as one or two alums, to be inducted. Membership criteria includes:

• outstanding performance in a leadership role while attending CSU, Chico
• demonstrated commitment to the welfare and development of CSU, Chico and one’s peers
• attendance at CSU, Chico for at least three semesters
• at least a 2.5 CSU, Chico GPA
• at least a junior class standing

Those accepted for membership will be notified by phone or mail and invited to attend the induction ceremony and reception on Tues. • March 6, 2007 • 3pm - 5pm in BMU 210.

Applications are available in the Student Activities Office, BMU 213. Application deadline: February 23, 2007.

For more information: 898-6001 or ecoady@csuchico.edu

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Apply Now for the 2007 Spirit of a Woman Conference

Jackie Faris-Rees LEADership Programs invites CSU, Chico women students to apply to attend a unique and powerful women’s conference on Thurs., March 29, 2007, from 8am to 5pm in the BMU.

Women of all ages face unique life choices and decisions. Empowering women to take the lead in their own lives is an inspiring task. The 2007 Spirit of a Woman Conference will center on the book “This is Not the Life I Ordered.” The four women authors of this book will be the featured speakers at the conference, including State Senator Jackie Speier (who was shot several times and left for dead at the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana in 1978). Learn more about the book, the authors, and their incredible life stories.

Breakout session topics include:

Healing & Liberation • Conquering Fears • Managing Money • Living with Change • Reinventing Yourself • Asking for Help • How to Persist • Rebuilding Dreams

Applications are available in the Student Activities Office, BMU 213. You will also be recognized at a special ceremony honoring the top 75 student women leaders (date and time TBA).

DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING APPLICATIONS IS 5pm • FRIDAY • FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Questions? Call 898-6001

Archived under Opportunities on February 14, 2007

Baxter Black & Sourdough Slim Perform Cowboy Poetry & Music at CSU, Chico

Don’t miss Baxter Black & Sourdough Slim as they perform an evening of cowboy poetry & music at Laxson Auditorium this Sat., Feb. 17, 2007, courtesy of Chico Performances.

Baxter Black is big. He’s a syndicated columnist - he writes the ag column “On the Edge of Common Sense” for hundreds of newspapers weekly. He’s heard on NPR and Northstate Public Radio’s Morning Edition, has his own radio show Baxter Black on Monday, and TV show - Baxter Black From Out There. Not to mention he’s the author of several books. In short, this cowboy humorist, poet, ex-veterinarian can sing, play guitar, tell jokes, recite poetry, and thoroughly entertain an audience. Opening for Baxter is cowboy comic and songster Sourdough Slim-a singer-yodeler-accordionist who has headlined Carnegie Hall and lived to tell about it.

Cost/Tickets: $23 Premium, $18 Adult, $16 Senior, $14 Student/Child
Tickets available at the University Box Office, 898-6333, 2nd & Normal Streets, or at Laxson Auditorium evening of the performance ($2 more per ticket at the door).
More information.

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Riparian Pest Plant Pull, Feb. 23

What: Riparian Pest Plant Pull!
When: Fri., Feb. 23, 2007 9am to 2pm
Where: North Side of Big Chico Creek on the South Side of Holt Hall
Who: You
Why: Grab your shovel and pruning tools and bring your work gloves, clothes and sturdy boots to the north side of Big Chico Creek on the south side of Holt Hall to participate in the second annual Riparian Pest Plant Pull. University students, staff, faculty and community volunteers are welcome to help remove exotic invasive species that have established themselves along the Creek to make room for native flora to thrive. Arrive at the registration table anytime between 9am and 2pm on Fri., Feb. 23 to get your hands dirty and give some love to Mother Earth right here on campus.

Sponsored by the Facilities Management and Services Department, please direct questions to Gary Vercruse x6222. Project date will be changed if rain occurs. All volunteers must sign a Waiver of Liability form and volunteers under the age of 18 must have written consent from a parent or guardian.

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Body Composition Analysis, March 5-7

In the United States, 30% of adults 20 and older are obese - over 60 million people. In the United States, 16% of children and teens 6 to 19 years are considered overweight - over 9 million young people. These conditions greatly increase the risk for chronic diseases such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Find out where you stand at NFSA’s Body Composition Analysis.

Monday, March 5: 11am-3pm
Tuesday, March 6: 11am-3pm
Wednesday, March 7: 11am-3pm

In BMU 211 on a Walk-In Basis

Caliper Test: $5
Blood Pressure: $3
Both: $7

Questions? Contact Jessica Lowe at jlowe2@mail.csuchico.edu
Presented by the Nutrition and Food Science.

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Wild Oak Records Networking, Feb. 22

Wild Oak Records is Hosting a Networking Party at Woodstock’s Pizza at 7pm on Thurs., Feb. 22, 2007. The pleasure of your company is being requested. This is an excellent opportunity to find out about Wild Oak’s show series this Spring and a great time to get connected with those you may have lost touch with. Contacts from radio, television, and local newspapers will be attending and we are excited to see you. If there are any further questions please contact Shondra Hadley, 209-679-5891.

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Attention Liberal Studies Major's

The Liberal Studies Student Association will be having their first information meetings on Wed., Feb. 21 at 2pm in MODOC 123 and also Thurs., Feb., 22 at 6pm in MODOC 123. Come and find out about all the exciting things we have planned for the semester ahead. Anyone is welcome and we hope to see you there.

For any questions please call 530-898-5802 or email LSSA@csuchico.edu

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Humanities Center Gallery: Achim von Boxberg's Magical Digital Prints from Germany, Feb. 27-Apr. 27

The Strange and Wonder-Full World of Meister Rabenschnabel
Digital Prints of a New Series of Abstract Work by Achim von Boxberg
Humanities Center Gallery in Trinity Hall
February 27 - April 27
M-F 8-5 (closed March 30)
For information, call 898-4642.

Achim von Boxberg sends us his art from Berlin. His “kalenders,” from 1994 to the present, are small, wry treasures of design, cartoon, and illustration. Go to his website, all in German, for a sampling.

Von Boxberg sends a short biography:
He was born in 1966 and began creating pictures in 1969. In 1983, he discovered the works & drawings of Max Ernst, Paul Klee, and Jonathan Borofsky and so decided to become an artist himself. In 1984, he began working with schizophrenics and collecting artbrut. In 1989, he moved to Berlin. In 1991, he spent six months traveling in the U.S. In 1993, he used his collection of artistic findings to create the first rabenschnabelkalender. In 1999 he became a father; in 2000 he became a husband; and in 2003, he became a father again. He has been the owner of rabenweg “castel” in Falkensee (near Berlin) where he has lived with his family since 2005.

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Humanities Center Gallery in March and April: Photographs of the Blue Room Theatre by Wayne Pease

Wayne Pease: Photography and More
Mar. 6 - Apr. 27 Meet Me at the Fair, Eros & Death!
Photographs of the Blue Room Theatre at the Humanities Center Gallery
Mar. 8 Reception 5pm - 7pm (artist’s talk at 6)
Apr. 25 Poetry 7:30pm
Trinity Hall CSU, Chico M-F 8-5 (closed Mar. 30)

Mar. 14. and Apr. 11 One Act Plays, 7:30pm, Blue Room Theatre, 139. W. 1st St., Chico
Mar. 28 film showing of Mother Thunder, 5:30pm, Ayres 106, CSU, Chico

Wayne Pease, whose plays have been performed in San Francisco and New York and who was last year’s winner of the Fresh Ink Prize at the Blue Room Theatre in Chico, turned his attention to photography five years ago. He has spent five years in Europe and three in New York and has traveled in forty countries. Pease has lived in Chico for twenty-six years and spent forty-four seasons as a fire lookout for the U.S. Forest Service.

Meet Me at the Fair is comprised of photographs from the Blue Room, including pictures over the years from the lobby, backstage, rehearsals, and performances. Other aspects of the artist’s work will be available at the events listed above. Call 342-0346 for full information.

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