Making Peace with Food and Body

Do you wish you could be free from food and weight obsession? Does it feel like you spend more time dieting, exercising, and worrying about the way you look than you spend on classes, friends, or family? Ever wonder what “normal” eating really looks like?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, Making Peace with Food and Body may be for you. This support group offered by the Counseling and Wellness Center is designed for students who are struggling with any food or body issues. Think you might have an eating disorder? Recovering from an eating disorder? Or just sick and tired of hating your body? Making Peace with Food and Body can help you find peace, begin healing, and embrace life. The group meets Wednesdays from 3pm - 4:30pm. To join the group, stop by the Counseling and Wellness Center (Student Services Center 430) to schedule a meeting with the group leader, Dr. Stephanie Chervinko. Space is limited. Sign up today.

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Council of Graduate Students (COGS) Presentation - Thesis & Project Development, TODAY

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”

Tues., Feb. 17 at 3pm in BMU 303

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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CAVE is Accepting Volunteer Applications

Community Action Volunteers in Education (CAVE) is accepting volunteer applications until Feb. 18. Visit the CAVE office to turn in an application and sign up for an interview. Applications are available in the office or through our Web site.

Our student run non-profit agency offers more than 15 volunteer programs to choose from, including those that serve children, the elderly, alternative spring break, special populations, adult non-readers, English as a Second Language learners, low-income residents in the Chico area, as well as state parks and institutions throughout Northern California.

Here are some important benefits to consider as to why you should volunteer:
1) You can make a difference in the Chico community
2) An opportunity to meet new people and make lasting friendships
3) Hands-on experience is a great way to supplement your academic learning
4) Community service experience looks good to potential employers
5) University credit is available

Please don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to engage in co-curricular learning while contributing something worthwhile to our community, BMU Room 309, (530) 898-5817. 

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Student Organizations: Nominate Your Outstanding Advisor for a $500 Award

Student organization members are invited to nominate their faculty/staff advisors for campus recognition and a $500 award. The program is designed to honor advisors who have consistently demonstrated their dedication and skill in service to their respective student organizations. Both awards will be presented at the University Awards Reception on April 22.

Nomination Guidelines and the applications can be found online and at the Student Activities Office in BMU 213. Nominations are due by 5pm on March 20, and should be returned to: Desiree Gonzalez, Student Activities Office, Zip 755. If you have questions please call x3409 or email.

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Chris Hilbert - CSU, Chico Friend Award Nominations

Nominations for the Chris Hilbert Outstanding CSU, Chico Friend Award are now being accepted. The winner will receive a $3,500 check and a commemorative plaque. Nomination Guidelines and the application can be found online and at the Student Activities office, BMU 213. Nominations are due March 20, 2009 and should be returned to: Desiree Gonzalez, Student Activities, Zip 755. If you have questions please call x3409 or email.

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University Film Series: THE EXILES, March 3, hosted by Sarah Pike, Religious Studies

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

March 3
The Exiles
(1961, U.S.A.) 72 min. Directed by Ken Mackenzie.

Introduced by Sarah Pike, Humanities Center Board and Religious Studies

“One of the key attractions of this lost and legendary Los Angeles documentary, unseen in nearly 50 years, it is luminous black-and-white photography. A cinema verite look at the rootless Native American community that once upon a time lived in Bunker Hill and hung out in downtown bars such as Club Ritz, this film is a brooding picture of a darkly beautiful, long-gone Los Angeles, from the houses of Bunker Hill to the raucous downtown of 55-cent shots and Lucky Lager in cans. It should be seen.”—Kenneth Turan.

“The restoration and long-delayed commercial release of THE EXILES, a 1961 film about a largely forgotten corner of that deceptively bright city, is nothing less than a welcome act of defiant remembrance. A beautifully photographed slice of down-and-almost-out life, a near heavenly vision of a near-hell that Mr. Mackenzie situated at the juncture of nonfiction and fiction. He tapped into the despair of this obscured world while also making room for the poetry and derelict beauty of its dilapidated buildings, neon signs, peeling walls and downcast faces.”—Manohla Dargis

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Indiana Jones and the Ultimate Quest: Where Anthropology and Religious Studies Merge

The Religious Studies Society and the Chico Anthropological Society Present, “Indiana Jones and the Ultimate Quest: Where Anthropology and Religious Studies Merge”

Come join us on Thurs., Feb. 19 at 7:30pm in Holt 170, for “Indiana Jones and the Ultimate Quest,” a television documentary that premiered on the History Channel on May 18, 2008. The film looks at the Indiana Jones films and the artifacts discussed in them, such as the Ark of the Covenant, the Sankara stones, and the Holy Grail. Professor Wyrick of the Religious Studies department and Professor Collins of the Anthropology department will be there to answer questions and lead a discussion after the film.

For more information contact Heather Coons, RSS President, at hcoons1@mail.csuchico.edu.

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CSU, Chico Warehouse Live Auction

The Office of Property Management at California State University, Chico, would like to invite you to our surplus property auction. Items include floor lamps, microwave, desks, filing cabinets, bookshelves, chairs, tables, and much much more.

These items are cash only and payable at the time of purchase. Viewing hours are 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. The auction will begin promptly at 12:10 p.m. on Tuesday, February 17, 2009, located at the Warehouse, 810 Oak Street, Suite 100, Chico. Be early as the auction moves fast.

At the time of purchase, you must provide a vehicle to take all items selected by 3:00 p.m. Items will not be held for later removal.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to give the Office of Property Management a call at 898-6535 or 898-6559.

Please share this information with your student assistants, your family, and friends. We look forward to seeing you at the Auction!

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Counseling and Wellness Center Support Groups offered Spring 2009

The Counseling and Wellness Center, is located in the new student services building (SSC 430). The Counseling and Wellness Center offers personal confidential counseling (group, individual, couples) to regularly enrolled students. As group counseling has been found to be more effective than individual work for certain kinds of issues, the following groups will be offered this spring:

• Current Groups
• Better Relationships
• Disabled Students Support Services
• Getting My Act Together
• Making Peace with Food
• Manage Your Moods
• Self Esteem and Assertiveness
• Women’s Relationship Group

For more information about our services and our groups, stop by, visit our Web site, or call 898-6345.

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Mister and Miss CSU, Chico 2009

What would you do if you had the opportunity to win up to $1,000?

On April 13, 2009, one male and one female will be crowned Mister and Miss CSU, Chico 2009. Along with that title comes a $1,000 prize. To be eligible to compete, applicants must be:

Be a CSU, Chico student, not graduating this May
Have a 2.0 cumulative GPA
Have some community service background
Complete an application
Be available on April 13, 2009 for the competition

For more information about how the competition works and to retrieve an application visit the Web site. Cash prizes are also available for 2nd and 3rd place winners. Application deadline: March 27, 2009.

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Join the Campus Community in Pennies for Peace Fundraising

For those who enjoyed Three Cups of Tea: Join the Campus Community in Pennies for Peace Fundraising

Please participate in raising money to help Book in Common author Greg Mortenson build a school in Pakistan. Students on our campus who have read Three Cups of Tea are asking all of us to donate spare change to any of the collection containers they have placed on campus. To date, all of the following offices have agreed to provide a space in their reception areas for donations. Look for a Pennies for Peace container in each of these locations:

HFA Dean, PAC 109; Accounting & Management, THMA 313; Anthropology, Butte 311; Art & Art History, Ayres 107; Communication, THMA 201; Communication Design, THMA 205; Education, THMA 101; English, TALR 209; Finance & Marketing, THMA 307; Foreign Languages, TRNT 122; History, TRNT 223; Honors, SSC 460; Kinesiology, Yolo 243; Nutrition & Food Science, Holt 123; Political Science, Butte 741; Sociology, Butte 615; Social Work, Butte 509.

If your office, business, or program wishes to support this effort, please contact Samantha Solorzano at fye@csuchico.edu or call (530) 898-5133. This effort is sponsored by the First-Year Experience Program and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts.

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On-Campus Resume Printing

Have your resume look its best for prospective employers by printing it on special paper at the copy center on the second floor of Meriam Library. The Rapid Graphics Copy Center can help you make a positive impression at the upcoming career fair on Wed., Feb. 25. Open Monday through Thursday, 7:45am - 7pm, Friday 7:45am - 4:30pm, and Sunday 2pm - 6pm. For information call, 898-4499.

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Graduate Equity Fellowship for Under-Served Groups

The goal of the Graduate Equity Fellowship Program (GEFP) is to prepare, motivate, encourage and support those graduate students who aspire to obtain a doctorate and pursue an academic career in teaching and research. Awards for an academic year total $5,500. The two-part program provides a stipend of $750/semester and a salary of $2,000/semester for research related activities under the direction of a faculty mentor.

To be eligible, applicants must meet the following minimum criteria:

You must be economically disadvantaged; come from an educationally disadvantaged background/experienced restricted access to quality educational opportunities; be admitted to the University and a master’s degree program; classified as a California resident; and there must be a probable need for faculty in your academic discipline - i.e., a projected shortfall in the supply of qualified faculty in your field of study.

Deadline: April 1 for Fall
November 1 for Spring

For information/application, visit our Web site or contact the School of Graduate, International, and Interdisciplinary Programs Office in Student Services Center 440, 898-6880.

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International Summer Internships

Discover the value of living and working abroad.

Dr. Gunter Seefeldt of the International Cooperative Education Program (ICE) will present information on international summer internships on Thurs., Feb. 19 at 5pm in the Career Center, Student Services Center, room 270.

The ICE program has placed more than 15,000 young Americans in internship positions in Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa. Interns work in a wide variety of employment fields and live in a home stay or employer sponsored housing. Depending on the particular employment situation, students earn a modest salary or stipend.

For more information contact the Career Center at 898-5253.

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"Set It Off" Presented by Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., Feb. 21

Presented by Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. 
Sat., Feb. 21, 2009
5pm - 8pm 

“Set It Off” is an event for all ages. It is not just a talent competition, but a Black History Month program as well. It is a chance for local and non-local performers to showcase their talent, hard work, and dedication to performance arts. This show uses an entertainment value to help educate and cultivate the greater Chico community on issues of Black history. However, your performance does not need to have any specific cultural relevance. This is an opportunity for the community to come together as one to live, learn and have fun.

For more information: 530-591-0070 or Kappapsi1981@gmail.com.

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Celtic Dynamos Cherish the Ladies to Perform at Laxson, Feb. 26

Celtic music is back again in Laxson Auditorium as Cherish the Ladies perform there on Feb. 26, at 7:30pm, courtesy of Chico Performances.

Cherish the Ladies is the most successful and sought-after Irish-American group in Celtic music history. Their bubbling good humor and infectious enthusiasm are matched by exquisite musicianship, and stunning step-dancing. Perfect harmony combined with flutes, whistles, fiddle, bodhran, and accordion are guaranteed to bring the house down.

Tickets are: $22 Premium, $17 Adult, $15 Senior, $13 Student/Child and are available at the University Box Office, 898-6333.

For more information please visit the Web site.

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The 18th Annual Keeping Dance Alive! Performance is Coming to Laxson Auditorium, March 6

The 18th annual performance of Keeping Dance Alive! brings jazz, hip-hop, Irish, lyrical, martial arts and many more on stage together for one performance at 7:30pm, Friday, March 6 and Saturday, March 7 and at 2pm Sunday, March 8 all here at Laxson Auditorium on the CSU, Chico campus.

This year’s performance will feature a Chico Community Ballet piece choreographed by professional choreographer Kenneth Walker. In addition, this year’s Keeping Dance Alive! will feature more than 75 dancers performing more than 12 pieces by 12 different choreographers. This annual repertory dance concert features a collaboration of local and guest artists and presents a range of dance styles.

This event is sponsored in part by Chico Performances. Tickets are $18 adult, $16 senior, $14 student/child and are available at the University Box Office, 2nd and Normal streets, 898-6333. Tickets go up $2 at the door. For more information please visit the Web site.

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Grant Opportunity for Undergraduate Students

Application deadline Mon., Feb. 23, 2009.

Funds have been allocated by Provost Sandra Flake for the spring 2009 Undergraduate Awards for Research & Creativity. These awards were created to support undergraduate students working closely with individual faculty members on student-designed projects and to assist the faculty in providing students with special innovative learning opportunities.

• Spring awards of up to $500 each will be made available to undergraduates (including graduating seniors).
• A cumulative GPA of 3.25 or above is required.

Interested qualified undergraduate students are encouraged to go to the Web site for more information.

These awards are an exceptional and unique opportunity for students to create their own research or creative projects under the guidance of a faculty mentor.

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KCSC on the Air

KCSCradio.com, CSU, Chico’s student-owned and operated radio station, is now back on the air full-time. KCSC has DJs broadcasting live every day from 8am - Midnight. You can tune in by going to iTunes > Radio > Eclectic > KCSCradio. To make a request, call our request line at 898-6228. Keep rockin’.

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Film Showing: Darfur Now, Feb. 18

7pm, Butte 101

In this documentary, the struggles and achievements of six different individuals from inside Darfur and around the world bring to light the tragedy in Sudan and show how the actions of one person can make a difference to millions. This is a great way for you to get informed and learn about Darfur from a personal perspective. The event is free and open to everyone.

This event is organized by STAND (Students Taking Action Now: Darfur). For more information contact chicostand@gmail.com.

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Study Skills Workshops, Feb. 23-27

The Student Learning Center is offering two Study Skills Workshops the week of Feb. 23. As a student, are you making the best of your study time? Are you organizing your course information to optimize retention? Come learn how to do these things at the “Test Taking Strategies” workshop. Note taking is essential to retention of in-class lectures. Come to the “Note Taking” workshop to make sure you are getting the most out of your notes.

Feb. 23 (Monday) Test Taking Strategies 4pm - 5pm
Dana Krangel
SSC 304

Feb. 25 (Wednesday) Effective Note Taking 4pm - 5pm
Christine Connerly
SSC 304

More workshops will be scheduled through the rest of the semester. Look for upcoming announcements and feel free to visit our Web site.
Workshops are free. Students can sign up in advance at the Student Learning Center (Student Services Center-3rd Floor) or by calling 898-6839.

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Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program Applications Available

CSU, Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) applications are now available online.

The purpose of this program is to increase the number of promising doctoral students who are interested in applying and competing for future CSU instructional faculty positions. The program seeks to accomplish this goal by providing financial aid in the form of loans to doctoral students. If a participant is hired in a CSU instructional faculty position after completion of the doctoral degree, 20 percent of the loan will be forgiven for each year of full-time postdoctoral teaching employment in the CSU.

Those individuals who will be new or continuing full-time students in doctoral programs at accredited universities anywhere in the United States during the 2009/2010 academic year may apply. CDIP is designed as a recruitment incentive program open to all graduate students at accredited institutions who are not probationary or tenured faculty members in the CSU. Lecturers are eligible and encouraged to apply.

The campus deadline for the application package is March 2, 2009. Submit to the School of Graduate, International and Interdisciplinary Studies, SSC 440. For additional information and questions contact Dr. Sharon Barrios at 898-4984.

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North State Symphony Presents "Imagination's Dream" Concert, Feb. 22 in Chico

North State Symphony presents Imagination’s Dream, Symphony, and Song , Feb. 21 in Redding and Feb. 22 in Chico.

The Redding concert is at 7:30pm at the Cascade Theatre, and tickets are available by calling 243-8877. The Chico concert is at 2pm in CSU, Chico’s Laxson Auditorium. Tickets are available at the University Box Office, x6333.

The concert includes three varied works, each of which has a connection with the world of poetry. Soprano soloist Heidi Melton is featured in two works.

Composer Russ Burnham, professor of music at CSU, Chico composed “The Bird’s Companion” as a setting for soprano and orchestra of three poems by the American poet William Carlos Williams.

The largest work on the program is the Fourth Symphony of Gustav Mahler, also featuring Melton.

The concert will begin with the Overture to the Wasps, by Ralph Vaughan Williams, a short humorous work originally written for a modern performance of an ancient Greek comedy.

There will be a pre-concert discussion of the works, one hour before each performance time.

More information is available online or by calling: x5984

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Academic Excellence in University Housing is Alive and Well

University Housing Students Recognized for Academic Achievement

University Housing and Food Service will host a banquet on Tues., Feb. 24, 2009 in the Bell Memorial Union Auditorium honoring mainly first-year University Housing students for their high academic achievement for the fall 2008 semester.

Approximately 250 students will be awarded for their high academic achievement. Thirteen students will be recognized for receiving a 4.0 GPA, and 219 students will be awarded for receiving a 3.5 GPA or higher. Eight Resident Advisors will be presented with gifts for making the dean’s list (3.5 GPA or higher). 452 University Housing students who received a 3.0-3.499 GPA will receive a personal congratulatory letter by the director and associate director of Residential Life.

This year’s speakers will include Drew Calandrella, Vice President for Student Affairs, Dr. David Stephen, Director of University Housing and Food Service, Micki Lennon, Faculty in Residence and Instructor for Religious Studies, Chad Disharoon, Coordinator for Residential Life Programming, and Rebecca Hucker our 4.0 keynote student speaker.

The annual banquet began in the 1970’s and is designed to recognize academic success for resident students in their first semester at CSU, Chico. The banquet takes place every year in February.

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News Release: Special Education Teacher Preparation Program Wins National Award for Service-Learning

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 17, 2009
CONTACT: Kathleen McPartland
Tel: 530-898-4260
Terri Davis,
Department of Professional Studies
530-898-5398

Special Education Teacher Preparation Program Wins National Award for Service-Learning

The California State University, Chico, Special Education Teacher Preparation Program was selected to receive the 2009 State Farm® Award for Service-Learning Excellence in Teacher Education. Service-learning is a teaching method that engages students in solving problems within their schools and communities as part of their academic studies.

“Service-learning helps students’ master important curricular content by making meaningful connections between what they study in the classroom and its many applications in the real world,” said State Farm Insurance Companies senior director of education leadership, Kathy Havens Payne. “Teaching teachers how to use service-learning as a strategy to reach their students brings learning to life and helps young people become ready for the real world, as engaged learners, active citizens and active members of our 21st century workforce.”

State Farm selected CSU, Chico for demonstrating significant support for service-learning and for providing its students with exemplary opportunities to learn and practice the skills necessary to implement service-learning in their own classrooms, said Payne.

The complete news release is available online.

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News Release: Book Discussion Group on 'Field Notes on Catastrophe' Begins Wednesday

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 17, 2009
CONTACT: Kathleen McPartland
Tel: 530-898-4260
Greg Liggett,
Northern California Natural History Museum
530-898-4121

Book Discussion Group on ‘Field Notes on Catastrophe’ Begins Wednesday

In preparation for journalist and author Elizabeth Kolbert’s talk at California State University, Chico, the Northern California Natural History Museum (NCNHM) joins the Rawlins Environmental Professorship, the On the Creek Lecture Series and Chico Performances in presenting a series of book discussions. This four-part series on Kolbert’s book, “Field Notes on Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change,” begins this Wednesday, Feb. 18, 7 p.m. at Barnes and Noble.

Kolbert will speak in Laxson Auditorium on Wednesday, March 11. Kolbert is a climate journalist who writes for The New Yorker. Her pieces on climate change were collected in her book. “She has taken a topic that many people think of as an impersonal collection of hurricanes, spreading deserts, and rising oceans—or perhaps as two lines crossing on a graph some decades from now—and given it a human face, and, as important, given it urgency,” said Denis Hayes, chair of the International Earth Day Network and president of the Bullitt Foundation, a funding organization whose mission is to “safeguard the natural environment by promoting responsible human activities and sustainable communities in the Pacific Northwest.”

Dean Jim Houpis, College of Natural Sciences, and Jim Pushnik, PhD, Department of Biological Sciences, will lead the first discussion on Wednesday. They will talk about “Adaptation and Mitigation of Climate Change.”

The complete news release is available online.

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News Release: Department of Justice Grant Funds Collaborative Effort To Reduce Sexual Assaults In Campus Communities

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 17, 2009
CONTACT: Joe Wills
Tel: 530-898-4143

Department of Justice Grant Funds Collaborative Effort To Reduce Sexual Assaults In Campus Communities

A consortium of California State University, Chico and Butte College has obtained a nearly half-million-dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to collaborate with community partners to reduce and respond to the crimes of sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking in our campus communities.

The Collaborative Response to Violence Project was funded by the Department of Justice’s Violence Against Women Office. CSU, Chico political science professor Lori Beth Way was the primary author of the grant proposal and is project director. The $471,529 grant is for three years, with the possibility of continuation funding.

“One in five female college students is sexually assaulted, and most suffer in silence,” said Way. “This situation is intolerable. These women and all victims of these violent crimes need support, and we need education and a shared commitment to prevent these terrible crimes from continuing.”

The complete news release is available online.

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