Come Out and Sail

Hello from the CSU, Chico Sailing Club - I hope you will all join us in sailing this semester. My name is David “boots” Baker. I am the coach for CSU, Chico Sailing Club, and I just wanted to send you a quick message about how the club works.

The club meets Fridays 2pm - 5pm. and Saturdays 12pm - 4pm at the Forebay Aquatic Center just this side of Oroville. To get there take 99 South to 149 and exit left to connect to 70. Take the 70 exit right and go south one exit to Garden Ave. Turn right and enter the park. Once you are in the park, follow the road around to the left towards the two big metal buildings. We meet in the building surrounded by sailboats.

I invite you to join us for one practice to see how much fun it is before paying very reasonably priced dues. If you would like, join us this weekend. All equipment is provided by the aquatic center. We have all the boats, lifejackets, wetsuits, and certified instructors you will need.

I hope to see you this weekend. If you have any questions, call me at 619-405-0449.

Archived under Clubs, Groups & Organizations on April 13, 2007

Literary Editing Club Rummage Sale

Do you like to buy things for a bargain? Need clothes, handbags, books, or household items. Visit the Rummage Sale in the Free Speech Area on Wed., April 18, from 10am - 4pm.

This sale is sponsored by the Literary Editing Club in order to raise money for a scholarship for editing students.

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Humanities Center Gallery in May: BFA student Rodolfo Salgado, Jr.'s Liquified Excrescence

May 1- June 13, 2007
Rodolfo Salgado, Jr.
Liquified Excrescence
Humanities Center Gallery, Trinity Hall
M-F 8-5 (through May 18; May 21-June 13, M-Th 8-4, F 8-11am; closed May 28)
May 3 Reception 5-7pm

BFA student and Humanities Center Gallery Assistant Rodolfo Salgado’s interest in the aesthetics of the movements of liquid has culminated in this solo exhibition featuring both glass and ceramic sculpture and prints utilizing multiple processes. Salgado creates an imaginary world of tubes, pipes, and other organic and industrial forms that shoot, leak, spray, drip, and splatter an array of fluids. The results are objects of beauty and gravity.

Salgado has an AA from Crafton Hills College and is currently a BFA candidate in printmaking. He has received numerous grants, fellowships, and scholarships including the Sarah Hamilton and Janet Turner Memorial Scholarships and the Paul Feldhaus Purchase Prize. His works are included in Koaler Art Library, Southern Graphics Archives, Amity Art Foundation, Southern Graphics Council Archives, Georgetown University Art Collection, and the Janet Turner Print Museum.

For further information about the gallery and this exhibition, call 898-4642. For further information about Rodolfo Salgado, Jr., email him at rodolfosalgado@earthlink.net or visit his website.

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Panetta Institute Congressional Internship Due April 26

One student from each CSU campus is selected each spring to serve as a Panetta Congressional Intern for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. during the following fall semester. The costs of the program are fully covered by the Panetta Institute at CSU Monterey Bay (including housing, travel, food and a stipend). Applications are available in the Political Science Department office, Butte 741. The application deadline is Thurs., April 26, 2006 @ 4pm. Questions? Contact Professor Turner (ccturner@csuchico.edu) or Professor Dwyre (ddwyre@csuchico.edu).

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The Associated Students is Celebrating its 65th Anniversary

A birthday party will be held in the BMU on Tues., April 24, 2007 from 10am to 2pm. There will be cake in the BMU basement, lobby and on the second floor for staff and all CSU, Chico students. Student AS programs will have tables and information in the lobby as well. Come and celebrate what the Associated Students is all about, its students.

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Earth Month (Local Food Event), April 17

As part of the many Earth Month Events this April there will be a “CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Information Night and Panel Discussion” at CSU, Chico in the Bell Memorial Building 210 on Tues., April 17 from 7pm - 9pm.

Long time organic farmer, Carl Rossato (CCOF/Woodleaf Farm) will be doing a presentation about his summer peach CSA box that is delivered to Nevada City.

This will follow with discussion from Terry Givens (Chico Farmer’s Market), Richard Roth (1st CSA/Chaos Health Collaborative), Danielle Baker (Organic Vegetable Crop Project) and mediator Lee Altier (Chico Food Network). Please come join us to learn about what a CSA is and talk about how to promote local food systems in our community. Email Danielle Baker at organicfoods@csuchico.edu for more information. Hope to see you there.

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Conversations on Diversity, The History of African Americans Through Slave Songs, April 18

Facilitated by Wendell Brooks, Instructor and Performer

This performance and discussion features insights into the history and the songs of West Africans who were forced into slavery and brought to the Americas and the Caribbean. The songs they created express their sorrow and faith, and remain a powerful testament to that experience.

Wendell Brooks teaches vocal music and history at Berkeley High School and Ethnic Studies at CSU, Hayward. In addition to his teaching, Brooks performs as a soloist in the Bay Area and has appeared with the Lamplighters, Oakland Opera, Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra, Contra Costa Chorale, San Francisco Swedish Choir, Oakland Symphony Chorus and the California Revels. He has also performed extensively throughout Europe.

Join us Wed., April 18, at noon in BMU 210; contact Tray Robinson at 4764 for additional information.

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University Foundation Scholarship Video Contest

If you are a current or past recipient of a scholarship or award, we want to hear your story. The University Foundation has allocated $2,500 to create an awards program intended to foster creativity and tell the CSU, Chico story among enrolled students who are current and past university scholarship/award recipients.

This new contest will focus on review and selection of four winning videos providing $500 for three and $1,000 for the top video. The videos should be 30 to 60 seconds in length, with a YouTube feel, and express the positive impact that winning a scholarship/award has had on your experience here at CSU, Chico. The four winning videos will be featured on the University Foundation and University Advancement Web sites.

Make your submission in .mov on a DVD media by 5pm on May 15, 2007 to: Greg Van Dyke, University Advancement, CSU, Chico, Chico, CA 95929-0155. If you have any questions please call University Advancement at 898-5297. Contest winners will be notified via email by August 15, 2007.

Archived under Opportunities on April 12, 2007

Career Fair for All Majors, April 13

Come to the Career Fair for All Majors today - Friday, April 13, 2007, 10am to 2pm.
BMU Auditorium, Atrium, Lobby

More than 120 government and non-profit agencies, businesses, social service and healthcare organizations, from throughout California will attend. Employers will be recruiting graduating seniors for career positions and undergrads for internships.

A list of employers attending is available online.

Questions? Give the Career Planning and Placement Office a call at (530) 898-5253 or come by Meriam Library 150.

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CSU, Chico Dance Team Showcase, April 20-21

Expressions, the CSU, Chico Dance Team, is having its self-choreographed, self-directed 9th Annual Showcase on April 20 and 21 at 7:30pm in the Performing Arts Center on campus in room 134, Ruth Taylor Hall. Tickets are at the door and we ask for a $5 donation to pay for lighting, music, costume and venue fees. Expressions will perform dances of many styles, including jazz, tap, hip-hop, ballet and lyrical. There will also be guest groups in our show from Hype Dance Studio and from the Chico Creek Dance Centre. Contact information: Ashley Broome, (925) 457-6061 or AshleyBroome@gmail.com.

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Campus Jobs with AS Recycling - Hiring Now

AS Recycling is hiring for student staff positions. Preferred candidates are those who are available now, for summer, and through next semester or longer. You must have a valid California Drivers License.

If you are interested in working at AS Recycling, please do the following:

1. Fill out an online AS application or update your existing application.

2. Call or visit the Recycling office to schedule an interview time, 898-5033.

Recycling Assistant Job Description:

Under the supervision of the Recycling Program Coordinator, Recycling Assistants collect recyclables and compost materials from various buildings on campus, deposit materials at appropriate locations and sort, weigh, and place materials in proper bins. Assistants also clean recycling and compost containers. Other duties include but are not limited to conducting minor vehicle maintenance when appropriate, working with diverse groups of people on campus and in the community, attendaing scheduled staff meetings, communicating with other recycling assistants and recycling coordinator, making information referrals, driving on campus, and lifting. Assistants must also focus on safety, possess excellent customer service skills, excellent self-management skills and be able to work independently.

Staff may work anywhere between 5 - 20 hours/week during the semester, up to 40 hours during summer.

For more information about the AS Recycling Program, visit our website.

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Ballroom Dance Club Hosts Hawaiian Theme Dance, April 13

The theme will be Hawaiian, so wear anything Hawaiian and get a dollar off at the door. Break out those hula skirts, puca shell necklaces, and coconut bras.

Lesson: $3.00
Dance: $2.00
Both: $4.00

The lesson will be Beg and Int West Coast. Both will start at 7:30pm and go until 9pm. The dance will start at 9pm and go until 12am.

Come Join us at the Luau and enjoy the suckling pig.

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Syd Bassow Memorial Golf Tournament Tees Off April 29

Students, alumni and the community are invited to celebrate leadership at the Syd Bassow Memorial Golf Tournament on Sunday, April 29.

This four-person scramble begins at 9am at Bidwell Golf Course. The entry fee is $90 per person ($70 with student ID) and includes a cart, range balls, prizes and a tri-tip dinner. Golfers may sign up individually or as a foursome.

Players can win several great tee prizes, including a set of irons and drivers and a chance to win three million dollars.

The Associated Students and JFR-LEADership Program re-named the event this year after the recent passing of Syd Bassow, owner of Bassow Sales and a friend and supporter of the campus community. The event is a fund- and friend-raiser for scholarships and leadership activities.

For an entry form or more information, contact CC Carter x5396 or Maggie Taylor x5701.

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Student Computing Workshops

Student Computing will be presenting a workshop on Advanced Dreamweaver
Wednesday, April 18
5:30pm - 6:30pm in MLIB 457

The Advanced Dreamweaver MX workshop will introduce advanced web page design techniques, using frames and integrating tables into a web page. There will also be an introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and their implementation in Dreamweaver MX.

No Sign-up is required. For more information about the Student Computing Workshops, contact Melinda Ferris, 898-5008, mferris@csuchico.edu or visit the Student Computing Workshops web site.

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AS Sustainability Showcase on display through April 30

LOCATION: Common Grounds coffee shop (in the basement of the BMU)

WHAT IS IT?

The Sustainability Showcase is an educational and artistic display highlighting some of the practical, behind-the-scenes sustainability efforts that have been implemented by the Associated Students. CSU, Chico students are responsible for most of the design, research, and writing for the showcase. Additionally, the showcase provides an opportunity for the Chico community to celebrate sustainability efforts already being made, even while recognizing that there is more work yet to be done in the pursuit of creating a healthier and more just world.

For more information, contact Amy Miller, AS Sustainability Coordinator, at ajmiller@csuchico.edu; 898.3645.

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National Live Webcast: "Chill Out: Campus Solutions to Global Warming" - April 18

Join more than 40,000 students, faculty, and staff all across the US who are tuning in to a live, national Earth Day broadcast on how colleges and universities are innovating positive, practical solutions to the global climate change challenge.

CSU, Chico was recently named as the grand prize winner - from a national pool of more than 100 campuses - of the National Wildlife Federation “Chill Out” contest and will be featured on this live webcast.

Come join us as we:

Hear how students, faculty and staff across the country are confronting global warming
Listen to a special message from former Vice President Al Gore
Interact with leading climate experts and campus sustainability heroes live in the broadcast studio
Celebrate Earth Day

Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Time: noon - 1:30
Location: Continuing Education, room 107

Sponsored by The National Wildlife Federation, with the Campus Climate Challenge, Earth Day Network, the Society for College and University Planning, and other partners.

For more information, contact Amy Miller, AS Sustainability Coordinator, at ajmiller@csuchico.edu; 898.3645.

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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.

4/16/2007
Northwestern Mutual Financial Network
Financial Representative

Mervyns
Executive in Training-Store Mgmt

4/17/2007
Reznick Group
Tax Associate
Audit Associate

Target Stores
Executive Team Leader (Mgmt)
Executive Team Leader Assets Protection

4/19/2007
Kraft Foods
Full-Time Sales Representative

Longs Drug Stores
Accelerated Assistant Manager Program

4/20/2007
Kohl’s Department Stores
Store Management Trainee

Kraft Foods
Full-Time Sales Representative

PETSMART
Department Manager

PIERCE JOINT UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
Multiple Subject, English (HS & Jr. High), Alternative Ed. Teachers

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International Festival, April 28

Come with the Associated Students as we travel around the world in a day. The annual International Festival is on Saturday, April 28 from 11am - 7pm on the Kendall Hall Lawn. There will be food, performances, and crafts from different cultures.

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Study Skills Workshops

The Student Learning Center is offering two study skills workshops the week of April 16 - 20. The first will help students with money management, and the second will help them be more effective in taking exams.

4/16 (Monday) Budgeting Your Money 3-4 pm
Jonathan Graham
MLIB 226

4/19 (Thursday) Test Taking Strategies 3-4 pm
Maria Elena Anguiano
MLIB 226

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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Second Annual "Running with Pride"

Pride/Safezone Presents the Second Annual “Running With Pride”

When: May 6, 2007 at 8:30am
Where: One Mile in Bidwell Park

Registration forms are out and volunteer meetings are being held every Tuesday at 6:30pm in BUTTE 703. The next meeting is April 10.

For more information contact Irma Rivera at runningwithpride2008@yahoo.com or aspride@csuchico.edu.

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Post-Vietnam War Documentary, April 26

Free Earth Month Event:
Title: Regret to Inform
When: April 26 @ 5pm
Where: HOLT170

This documentary will take viewers on an unforgettable journey filled with extraordinary archival footage, breathtaking visions of modern day Vietnam , and heart-wrenching stories from American and Vietnamese women who lost their husbands to war. It shows the impacts of war on people and the environment. It is not just a story of the Vietnamese-American conflict; it explores the idea that the enemy is war itself.

For more information please contact the Southeast Asian Student Association at chicoseasa@yahoo.com

The Earth Month calendar is available online.

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Kate Transchel, History Professor, Presents Her Book on Russia, April 17

Dr. Kate Transchel will give a presentation of her book, Under the Influence: Working-Class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1895-1932, on Tuesday, April 17, at 6pm in the Humanities Center (Trinity 126). Free event, open to the public. Refreshments provided. Sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta (History Honors Society). For further information, e-mail President Machiel Van Dordrecht at mvandordrecht@mail.csuchico.edu. Dr. Steve Lewis, Faculty Adviser.

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*** FRAUD ALERT ***

The Financial Aid and Scholarship Office has been notified that a company calling itself Federal Solutions Center recently contacted a student to offer a $20,000 grant. The caller wanted the student’s bank account number. Fortunately, the student did not comply.

Do not give this company personal financial information.

If you are contacted by Federal Solutions Center, please report this contact to the following: Federal Trade Commission (FTC) at 1-877-382-4358 and the National Fraud Information Center (NFIC) at 1-800-876-7060. Remember, never divulge personal or private financial information to strangers by phone or online. If you are offered something for free, it is probably a scam.

Archived under Information on April 10, 2007

University Film Series: Deep Cover, April 24

University Film Series
Tuesday nights
7:30pm, Ayres 106
$3 donation appreciated
898-4642

April 24
Deep Cover (U.K., 1989) 81min. VHS. Directed by Richard Loncraine. Written by Dennis Potter. Hosted by Laird Easton, Department of History and director of the Humanities Center.

Jason Cavendish (Donald Pleasence) is an ornery, eccentric former Cambridge professor who has sequestered himself in his remote country estate with his daughter, second wife, and private secretary. Daniel (Tom Conti), a strange interloper, arrives just as Jason collapses, and, by reviving the old man, elicits a rare invitation to stay. Presumably Daniel has come to do research for a thesis and is fascinated by a children’s allegory written by Jason years ago. It would appear that fictions are still in progress as the estate transforms into an eerie stage strewn with mysteries. No one is exactly whom he pretends to be, and, as the facades fall away, many a blackened past reappears to exact a long overdue revenge. Originally shown on British television and titled Blade on the Feather. With Denholm Elliott, Kika Markham, and Phoebe Nicholls.

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Humanities Center Guests: Bay Area Architects Jacobs and Macdonald, Apr. 26-27

April 26
Allan Jacobs and Elizabeth Macdonald
“Great Boulevards”
7:30pm, PAC 134
Reception to follow in Trinity 100
Part of Founders Week and the Humanities Center’s “The Built Environment” theme

April 27, 10am
Jacobs and Macdonald will lead a brief walking tour of The Esplanade (please meet in front of Bidwell Mansion).

Allan Jacobs and Elizabeth Macdonald are a team of noted Bay Area architects and city planners, who have written The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, and Design of Multiway Boulevards, in which they discuss boulevards in various cities around the world, including Chico’s Esplanade. Jacobs teaches in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. From 1967 to 1975 he served as Director of Planning for the City of San Francisco. Macdonald is a practicing architect and urban designer who teaches at the University of California at Berkeley.

Call Laird Easton, director of the Humanities Center, for more information: 898-4284.

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May-June Intersession Registration is Now Open

May-June Intersession starts May 21 and runs through June 29. Check out the current schedule of classes online. Three, five, and six week sessions available.

For more information please call Continuing Education at 898-6105.

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Love Art and Film? Check out the Ch*Eco Film Fest April 11-15

Please come April 11-15 for the first annual Ch*Eco Film Fest, Chico’s own “festival of environmental film and art” that brings into sharper focus the broad concept of sustainability. The purpose of the Ch*Eco Film Fest is to inform, educate, and inspire people about the environment through the exceptional media of film and art. The festival’s emphasis is on balancing the needs of our economy, our society, and the natural environment so people can prosper, generation after generation, while respecting and sustaining the earth.

In addition to more than 20 excellent films, festival highlights include Denis Hayes, founder of Earth Day; a personal appearance by Sergio Del La Torre, producer and director of Maquilapolis; the Banff Mountain Film Festival; and Sunday Art Day in Chico’s downtown plaza plus other family-friendly events. Admission to most events and films is free or by donation; admission to the Banff Mountain Film Festival is $6-8.

The Ch*Eco Film Fest is co-hosted by California State University, Chico, the Chico Sustainability Group, Friends of the Arts, and the Sierra Club Yahi Group. For complete information about the festival, including a description of films and a festival schedule, visit the website.

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Kappa Delta Pi Bookdrive

Kappa Delta Pi, National Honor Society for Future Teachers, is holding a Children’s Book Drive to raise books for an annual literacy program to be held at a local elementary school. Books collected through the drive will be donated to the children at Rosedale Elementary School. Any and all children’s books, new and slightly used, are welcomed.

Look for bright blue KDP Book Drive boxes:
Child Development Office
Liberal Studies Office
Hands on Science Lab
BMU Information Office

For more information please visit our website.

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University Film Series Special Night on May 1: Visions of the 20th Century Through the Lens of Ira Latour

University Film Series
7:30pm, Ayres 106
898-4642
$3 donation appreciated
May 1

Visions of the 20th Century Through the Lens of Ira Latour (2006, U.S.A.) 60 min. Directed by Mike Wellins, CSU, Chico Art and English alum. Premiere showing of documentary about art faculty emeritus Latour. Reception follows in Humanities Center Gallery (Trinity 100). Co-hosted by Michelle Davis and the Department of Art and Art History and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. Latour and Wellins will be present.

Latour was a professor of art history at CSU, Chico (1968-1991). In the 1930s, Latour studied with Ansel Adams. During World War II, he was in charge of gun cameras and aerial photography in a squadron of P-38 Lockheed Lightning fighter planes. He studied with Minor White and Edward Weston. He worked in Europe as a photojournalist and radio broadcaster (1950-1955) and taught photography at San Francisco State (1955-1959).

Wellins is a prolific independent filmmaker and commercial director of animation currently working for Laika/house in Portland, Oregon. His films have been featured at Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festivals of Animation and the Sundance Film Festival and on the Cartoon Network, MTV, and the Sci-fi Channel among others.

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