Workshop: Planning Study Time

Wednesday, March 26
Planning Your Study Time
4pm - 5pm Carol Bear (presenter)
Location: MLIB 459
Workshops are free - students can sign up in advance at the Student Learning Center in Meriam Library 458 or by calling 898-6839.

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AS Bookstore Spring Break Contest

Calling all Spring Breakers! Don’t miss your opportunity to win one of three prizes: 1) 8² digital frame; 2) CSU, Chico sweatshirt and a pair of rainbow sandals, 3) or a 3-pack of CSU, Chico T-shirts. Simply take a picture of you and your friends on Spring Break wearing your favorite CSU, Chico clothing and submit your photo to asbookstorepromo@csuchico.edu by Friday, March 28.

Have a fun and safe spring break!

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No Hillel Tonight

This evening’s meeting has been cancelled. With everyone’s midterms and spring break coming up there’s just a lot of stuff to do and not a lot of time. We figured you all could use the time to pack or study if you haven’t left Chico already.

Hopefully everyone has a nice and safe spring break!

Remember that Hillel is constantly open for office hours so don’t ever hesitate to stop by, study, hang out, shmooze or whatever.

Archived under Clubs, Groups & Organizations on March 14, 2008

University Art Gallery Presents: Uncovered: Department of Art & Art History Faculty Exhibition

The University Art Gallery presents an exhibition featuring works by 17 members of the Chico State Art Department faculty. This exhibition takes place in two venues: the University Art Gallery and 1078 Gallery.

The University Art Gallery is located in Taylor Hall. Regular gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10am to 4pm, Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4pm. Please note: the gallery will be closed in observance of Cesar Chavez Day, Monday, March 31.

1078 Gallery is located at 820 Broadway, Chico, CA, telephone 530-343-1973. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 12:30pm - 5:30pm.

University Art Gallery - March 24 - April 17, 2008
1078 Gallery - March 26 - April 12, 2008 (Reception: Thurs., March 27, 7pm - 9pm)

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Thailand Study Abroad

Hurry - time is running out for applying for Studying Abroad in Thailand. We have a few spaces available and will be accepting applications for a short time longer.

How does spending June in Thailand sound? How does earning 3 units of GE theme credit while exploring villages, great food, and amazing cultures? Food Forever (PSSC 390) is being offered for the third time during the summer in the Study Abroad Program.

For more information, an application, and pictures from previous adventures, check out the web site or contact Dr. Altier at 898-4137.

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Join the Council of Graduate Student (COGS)

Join the Council of Graduate Students (COGS) organization. It does not matter if you are new to the graduate program, mid-way, or in your last semester, your input and experience are highly valued. If you think you would be interested in attending the planning meetings please contact COGS at councilgs@csuchico.edu or attend one of our scheduled monthly meetings:

COGS Meetings: BMU 302 @ 3pm
April 9, 2008
April 30, 2008

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Council of Graduate Students (COGS) Presentation - Thesis & Project Development - March 25

Need help understanding how to start or finish your thesis or project? Want to learn more about the process?

If you answered YES or if you have other questions, you should attend the workshop on “Thesis & Project Development: A Presentation on the Pleasure, the Pain, and Pitfalls of Thesis/Project Writing”

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 3pm in BMU 314

This workshop is appropriate for graduate students in any discipline and will assist students in wading through the information needed to complete a thesis or project.

Council of Graduate Students (COGS)

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News Release: Student Staff Members For Summer Orientation Program Win Awards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 14, 2008
CONTACT: Joe Wills
Tel: 530-898-4143

Student Staff Members For Summer Orientation Program Win Awards

Student staff representing California State University, Chico’s Summer Orientation program won two awards at the 2008 National Orientation Directors Association (NODA) Region II conference in Anaheim Feb. 29 through March 2.

The 2008 NODA conference theme was “Oceans of Opportunity” and drew more than 1,500 professional and student attendees from colleges and universities in California, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii. Twelve students from CSU, Chico attended the conference.

Travis Sluys, a senior history major and student co-director for CSU, Chico’s 2008 Summer Orientation program, led a three-person multicampus group to victory in the Undergraduate Case Study Competition, a contest which tests students’ problem-solving and presentational skills.

The complete news release is available online.

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News Release: Physics Students Receive Research Award

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 14, 2008
CONTACT: Kathleen McPartland
Tel: 530-898-4260
David Kagan, Advisor
Society of Physics Students
530-898-4575

Physics Students Receive Research Award

The Society of Physics Students (SPS) at California State University, Chico is one of eight SPS chapters to receive a Sigma Pi Sigma Undergraduate Research Award. The awards provide calendar-year grants to support local chapter research projects that are imaginative and contribute to the strengthening of the SPS program.

CSU, Chico physics students Tiara Norris, Justin Dhooghe and Nic Sanabria wrote the winning proposal, “Investigation of Viscosity Transitions in Non-Newtonian Fluids.” Professor Eric Ayars is the students’ research advisor.

Professor David Kagan, advisor to the SPS, described the experiment: “Cornstarch mixed with water makes a gooey fluid with a very interesting property. Under ordinary conditions it flows like pancake batter, but under slight pressure it becomes a solid. A fluid that behaves this way is called ‘non-Newtonian,’ and the technical term that describes the ease with which a fluid flows is ‘viscosity.’ These students will investigate the change in the viscosity of non-Newtonian fluids like cornstarch and water as they change from liquid to solid.”

The complete news release is available online.

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Alcohol-free San Diego Beaches

From: Drew Calandrella, Vice President for Student Affairs

The City of San Diego has alerted college campuses that San Diego city beaches are now alcohol-free.

Police had been issuing warnings when the policy was first in place, but are now issuing tickets to violators. If you’re ticketed for consuming alcohol on the beach, you can be fined up to $250. Repeat violations can mean higher fines, and even jail time.

The rules are in effect all year, not just during Spring Break. Consumption of alcohol is not allowed on the boardwalks, along the seawalls, or in parking lots adjacent to the beaches. The rule also covers all of Mission Bay Park, as well as the grassy areas adjacent the sand in Mission Beach, Ocean Beach, and Pacific Beach.

The policy covers all alcoholic beverages, including distilled spirits, beer, wine, flavored malt beverages and energy drinks that contain alcohol.

Archived under Information on March 12, 2008

Campus Wellness Center Forum - Are You Perfect?

Have you ever wondered what it means to be perfect? Do you think you’re a perfectionist? Come find out at the forum “Are You Perfect?” presented by Dr. David Hibbard from the Psychology Department. The forum will take place on Thursday, April 3 at 5pm in Ayres 106. During this presentation, Dr. Hibbard will discuss the effects of “perfectionism” on college students today.

This event is sponsored by the Campus Wellness Center. If you have any questions, please contact us at 898-4697 or check out our web site for other events.

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University Film Series: HAXAN (1922, Sweden), hosted by Jason Nice, History, April 8

UNIVERSITY FILM SERIES
Tuesdays at 7:30pm in the Little Theatre (Ayres 106)
$3 donation appreciated
898-4642

April 8
Haxan (1922, Sweden) 104 min. Directed, written by, and starring Benjamin Christensen. Introduced by Jason Nice, History and Humanities Center Board.
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: this legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious—instead it’s a witches’ brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.

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Celebrate Women's History Month

The Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies is making preparations for Women’s History Month for faculty, staff, and students.

If you would like to honor a particular woman who has been an inspiration and/or hero to you (famous or not famous), please bring a photo/printout of her and a blurb about why you are honoring her for Women’s History Month. From March 10 to March 31, please post it (you can bring your own pins or get some from the MCGS office) on the board next to the MCGS office (Butte 611). Your photo will be held for pick up in Butte 611 after March 31.

For more information, contact: ycarson@mail.csuchico.edu.

Archived under Information on March 11, 2008

Guitar Hero Contest

Late Night Chico Presents the 2nd Annual Guitar Hero Contest

Think you have what it takes? Come show off your Guitar Hero skills and compete to win some great prizes. Registration is only $5 at the door from 6pm - 7pm.

Save the date: Saturday, April 5 in the BMU Common Grounds at 7pm. Free food and a chance to win some awesome prizes.

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SCEC Disabilities Awareness Workshop

The Student Council for Exceptional Children is having a workshop day April 16 from 10am - 2pm in BMU room 210. Stop by during those hours and experience what it might be like to live with a disability. We will have booths with varying activities, from dyslexia to a wheel chair tour of the campus. There will be food and drink so come by and check it out.

If you have any questions please contact mparsons1@mail.csuchico.edu.

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University Film Series: ABEL RAISES CAIN, indie documentary, 2006; April 1

UNIVERSITY FILM SERIES
Tuesdays at 7:30pm in the Little Theatre (Ayres 106)
$3 donation appreciated
898-4642

April 1
Abel Raises Cain (2006, U.S.A.) 82 min. Directed by Jenny Abel and Jeff Hockett.
Perfect for April Fools, the documentary Abel Raises Cain has been winning awards at the Slamdance, Brooklyn Underground, Newport International, and Sarasota Film Festivals. Long before the deluge of reality TV dolts who drum up media attention with acts of idiocy, there was Alan Abel, a culture-jamming comic with a conscience. The director of the 1970s cult films Is There Sex after Death? and The Faking of the President, Abel made a name for himself several times over with media stunts ridiculous enough to be believable. His mock-moral crusade “Citizens against Breastfeeding” stirred controversy in the late ’90s, just as his “Society for Indecency to Naked Animals” had in the ’60s. Both groups made asinine calls for morality in America, and while both were complete jokes, for long stretches, the only one in on the jokes was Abel himself. Jenny Abel has directed this film about her father, the professional prankster, hailed by some journalists as the world’s greatest hoaxer and scorned by others as a menace to the media.

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Turner/Chico Museum to Present Marcel Duchamp Art Exhibit, March 12-April 27

The exhibition “Marcel Duchamp: About the Large Glass and Related Works” will be held at The Turner/Chico Museum, March 12 to April 27, 2008.

The centerpiece of this exhibition will be a replica of Duchamp’s major work The Large Glass that was produced in 1990 by Chico students under the direction of CSU, Chico Art Professor James McManus. Related works include reconstructions of Fountain, Three Standard Stoppages, and Bicycle. Joining these objects are important works by Marcel Duchamp, borrowed for this exhibition, including his Notes in a Green Box and A l’infinitif.

On March 12, Dr. Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin and author of several books, including the definitive work on Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass, will be the guest speaker in the Humanities Center (Trinity Hall 100) at 5:30pm. The title of her talk is “Readymade Talk of What Goes on in the [Large] Glass”: Marcel Duchamp, Science/Technology, and Bergsonist Cubism.”

A reception for Professors Henderson and McManus will follow the lecture at the Chico Museum.

Archived under Events on March 10, 2008

University Film Series: THE NINTH GATE (Polanski, 2000), hosted by Troy Jollimore, March 25

University Film Series
Tuesdays at 7:30pm
Little Theatre (Ayres 106)
$3 donation appreciated
898-4642

March 25
The Ninth Gate (2000, Spain/France/U.S.A.) 133 min. Directed by Roman Polanski. Introduced by director of the Humanities Center, Troy Jollimore, Philosophy.*
Johnny Depp is hired to find the two remaining volumes of a 16th-century demonic text, “The Nine Gates,” in which one supposedly holds the key to summoning Satan himself. Frank Langella is a rare-book dealer who hired the book finder to search for the Satanic volume he needs to complete his collection. This conspiracy thriller involving murder, ritual, and the supernatural also stars Lena Olin and Emmanuelle Seigner.

*Part of the Humanities Center’s year-long theme, “The Book.”

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Persian Culture Club

The Persian Culture Club and the Chico Anthropological Society are sponsoring an early celebration of Norouz (Persian New Year) on Thursday, March 13 at 5pm in the Cross-Cultural Center on campus by Selvester’s Cafe.

Come and enjoy Persian music, cuisine, and learn about how Norouz is celebrated.

All students welcome. Meals cost only $4.

For more information, please contact Allia Homayoun: ahomayoun@mail.csuchico.edu.

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Humanities Center's Book Theme Guest ANTHONY GRAFTON Rescheduled for March 26 and 27

Wednesday, March 26
CSU, Chico’s Presidential Scholar and Humanities Center’s Book Theme Guest Lecture “Explosions in the Scholars’ Garden: The Forgotten Tradition of Libraries in the Western Tradition” 7:30pm, PAC 134 (Ruth Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall)

And again on

Thursday, March 27
Interview with Lawrence Bryant, Department of History: “Scholars, Students, and Books: From the Middle Ages to Today” 3:30pm, Trinity 100 (Humanities Center Gallery)

Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, is one of the most respected historians of early modern Europe in the world. He has published widely on the history of libraries, books, and scholarship. Grafton has been the recipient of many awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the prestigious international Balzan Prize for the History of Humanities, the Mellon Foundation’s Distinguished Achievement Award. Grafton is a public intellectual, whose fluid, witty writing makes his deep erudition accessible beyond the academy. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The American Scholar and The New Yorker, and he enjoys the reputation of being an excellent public speaker.

Call Troy Jollimore, director of the Humanities Center, for more information: 898-5122.

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Free Speech Evaluations

The Communication Sciences and Disorders Program provides assessments for a variety of communication disorders (articulation, language, voice, stuttering and problems associated with brain injury, stroke and neurological impairments).

We are currently offering FREE speech/language evaluations to faculty, staff, students and their dependents. Please call the Center at 898-5871 to schedule an appointment.

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New Student Group: The CSU, Chico Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

The CSU, Chico Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence will work to prevent gun violence through legislation, outreach, working with survivors of gun violence, working with the media, and building local coalitions. The first event will be on April 16, 2008 (the one year anniversary of the 32 murdered at Virginia Tech) in the form of a lie-in in memory of all victims of gun violence.

Students interested in participating with this group are invited to contact Christian Heyne (530)897-5304 or email him at ChicoStateBrady@aol.com. You may also address inquiries to Michael Coyle, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science.

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