A-Mail for Friday, November 11, 2005

Subject: The United Way Campaign Countdown
Submitter: Michele R Kidwell, Enrollment Assistant, Enrollment Management

Message:
Once again, it's that time of year when we, as a community, participate in our annual United Way campaign. This year, in addition to monetary contributions, there will be several opportunities to participate with other types of gifts. If you aren't able to contribute financially, I encourage you to participate in one (or more!) of these other wonderful opportunities.

Week #1: (November 14th through November 18th)
Book Drive
Clean off those book shelves and bring all those books you won't read again to the information desk in Christensen Center. Books collected will be donated to various charities that support children, battered women's shelters, and state prison programs.

Weeks #2- #3: (November 21st through December 2nd)
Mitten, Hat and Scarf Tree
Bring in new and gently used winter accessories and decorate the tree by the information desk in Christen Center. All collected items will be donated to area clothes closets and homeless shelters.

Week #4: (December 5th through December 9th)
Toy Drive
Bring new, unwrapped toys and age appropriate gifts for teens to the information desk in Christensen Center. All collected items will be donated to Toys for Tots.

Throughout the campaign
Project Angel Tree
If your department would be interested in combining your efforts and "adopting" children as part of the Project Angel Tree program, contact Michele Kidwell. Project Angel Tree is an organization that collects and distributes gifts to children of incarcerated inmates in area prisons.

Financial Contributions
You can complete your enrollment form for the Untied Way at anytime and drop in the campus mail (CB 143) or drop it by Christensen Center 100C.

Thanks!

Subject: Take Your Turkey to Work!
Submitter: Timothy Dougherty, Campus Kitchens Supervisor, Center for Service Work and Learning

Message: The Campus Kitchen at Augsburg College is pleased to announce its yearly fundraiser and food drive, Turkeypalooza. This year, we are preparing and serving 500 Thanksgiving meals to our community, and we need your help.
We need over 20 more turkeys, over sixty 16 oz. cans of pumpkin pie filling and accompanying pie crust mixes, baking potatoes, and lots of cans of green beans and corn.

Both today and Monday, the 14th, are Take Your Turkey To Work days, in which you can bring a turkey with you in the morning. Give us a call at x1624 and we'll come by and pick it up to get it in the fridge immediately. If it's easier, you can also support us with a cash donation that we'll use to purchase the above mentioned items.

We have bins set up by the main doors in the lobby of the Christensen Center to place the canned goods, potatoes, and pie crust mixes. Thank you all for you support! Happy Thanksgiving!

Subject: Jane Fonda lecture cancelled
Submitter: Barbara Lehmann, Assistant Professor, Social Work

Message: Jane Fonda is postponing her convocation at Augsburg College celebrating the Anne Pederson's Women's Resource Center Koryne Horbal lecture due to health issues. It is her plan to reschedule for sometime during spring semester.

Subject: Info. session for IT summer 2006 internships
Submitter: Sandra E Tilton, Employer Relations Coordinator, Center for Service Work and Learning

Message: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans will be holding an informational meeting Wednesday, November 16th at 4:30 p.m. in the Cedar Room. They are looking to hire juniors (or 3rd year students) that are interested in Informational Technology. These are paid summer internships! In addition, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans will be talking about their internships/full-time jobs as Financial Advisors. Financial Advisors can be students Sophomore - Senior Year or alum. Stop by the information session and learn more. For questions, call Sandy at 612-330-1472.

Subject: Engman Contest Entries due by NOV 16
Submitter: Sara M Holman, Student

Message:
This is a reminder for students that the deadline to submit entries into the Engman Prize contest is November 16. Students may enter a short piece of fiction, creative non-fiction, and/or at least three poems.

Three winners will be selected from each category. Make five copies of the submission and drop your entries off in Memorial 221 A, if no one is there, submissions can be slipped under the door or left on the desk. There should be a separate cover letter for each category entered. The cover letter should list the name of the writer, campus box number or phone number, titles of the works and the category the submission falls under. Names of the poets and authors should not be listed on the works themselves.

You can enter once in each category, and short and creative non-fiction can be no longer than 15 pages. Poetry entries with fewer than three poems submitted will not be accepted.

For more information email Sarah Gilbert at gilbert1@augsburg.edu or call 612-991-3885.

Subject: Video Premiere!
Submitter: Regina McGoff, Associate Director, Center for Global Education

Message: In May-June 2005, 11 Augsburg students and 2 staff traveled to Namibia and South Africa for a history course on Racism and Resistance in Southern Africa and the US. The trip was sponsored by the Pan Afrikan Center, coordinated by the Center for Global Education, and supported in part by the Lilly Endowment as one of the international seminars exploring faith and vocation in a global context. Please join us for the premiere of a 50 minute video that documents the experiences of the students and staff on this trip on Tuesday, November 15, Sateren Auditorium, 4-5:30 p.m. Join the Office of International Programs and the Ethnic Student Services programs in Murphy Place beforehand from 2:30-4 p.m. in celebration of International Education Week. For more information, please call x1159.

Subject: Augsburg Symphony Orchestra
Submitter: Sarah E Kapphahn, Student

Message: The Augsburg Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Douglas Diamond, will be performing on Sunday, November 13, 2005 at 7 p.m. in Hoversten Chapel. There will be a reception following the concert. All are invited to attend.

Subject: Fall ALL-STAFF Reception Next Week!
Submitter: Dianne Detloff, Administrative Assistant, Counseling & Health Promotion

Message: Staff senate invites you to its fall all-staff reception on Thursday 11/17 from 3-4:30 p.m. in the Century Room (lower level of Christensen Center). Come anytime and mingle with your colleagues over fall foods including pie and hot apple cider. Consider bringing a co-worker, too. Any questions, call Dianne Detloff x 1707. Staff Senate looks forward to seeing you next Thursday.

Subject: Women Resource Center Book Club and Lunch
Submitter: Barbara Lehmann, Assistant Professor, Social Work

Message: Even though Jane Fonda will not be here this month, we will be reading her new book, My Life at the Women's Resource Center beginning Wednesday November 30th during our pot luck lunch sessions. If you would like a copy of the book, several free copies are available. Email Barbara Lehmann @ lehmann@augsburg.edu to reserve a copy. Come by next Wednesday November 16th to pick it up or to join us for good conversation and a pot-luck lunch.

Subject: What are you doing tonight?
Submitter: Patricia L Dauer, Student

Message: Change your plans if you had them, because there is going to be a night of amazing and fun entertainment in the Christensen Center tonight from 8-11 p.m. We have a poker night in the East Commons, where you can play texas hold'em, blackjack, and possibly win $100 from Best Buy, or other prizes. In West Commons there is a Latin dance, with free lessons from 8-8:30 p.m. Downstairs by the coffee shop we have a spa night for those who just want to relax. Get a haircut, a back massage, give yourself a pedicure or a manicure, and eat some chocolate of course.
See ya there!

Sponsored by ASAC, with co-sponsorship from Hispanic/Latino Student Services and ISO for the Latin dance

Subject: Neighborhood Art Crawl Starts Tonight
Submitter: Mary L True, Associate Director, Center for Service Work and Learning

Message: The Seward Art Crawl
begins tonight-Friday, Novembeer 11th and continues all day tomorrow.

All events are free and only blocks from campus.

For more information, call the Seward Neighborhood group at 338=6205 or stop in at the 2nd Moon Coffee Shop on Franklin and 23rd Avenue for a complete schedule of events. Info can also be found on the web.

Examples of events this evening:

Seward Cabaret at the Blue Nile Restaurant beginnning at 6:00pm

"The Art of Hip-Hop" All ages show 6 p.m.-9 p.m.-The Ivy Building 2637-27th Avenue

Spoken Word at the Seward Cafe

Subject: Artist Series: Rob Hubbard
Submitter: Sarah E Teich, Student

Message: Rob Hubbard, from the St Paul Pioneer Press, is attending Julie Bolton's acting class today to discuss the role of the press in theatre criticism. Located in the Tjornhom-Nelson Theater from 1:20-2:20 p.m.

Subject: Augsburg Associates Estate Sale Today and Saturday
Submitter: Donna M Torgeson, Assistant Director, Alumni-Parent Relations

Message: Are you in need of quality furniture or other household items? Then you will want to shop at the Associates Estate Sale on Friday, November 11, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. and Saturday, November 12, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. at 2731 Vale Crest Road, Golden Valley.

Subject: Sleep in a box
Submitter: Margaret M Dornfeld, Student

Message: 700,000 sleep outside every night. see what it's like. join link next wednesday, November 16 after communion (around 10:30) as we sleep outside in the quad. feel free to dress warmly and bring blankets and sleeping bags. if you have questions call maggie or nyla at x6532.

Subject: Welcome to Chapel
Submitter: Lillian A Maunu, Secretary, Campus Ministry

Message: We invite you to Chapel ---
Monday - Stephanie Barns, Center for Global Education, Mexico
Tuesday - Tony Bibus, Social Work
Wednesday - Bob Fisher.... Bob sleeps in a tent until he raises $1,000,000 for hunger.
Communion at 9:30 pm
Thursday - Mary Lowe, Religion Dept., and the Augsburg Choir
Friday - Vocatio Chapel: Diane Loeffler, State Representative

We hope to see you! Lil

Subject: Poinsettia Sale
Submitter: Benjamin E Miller, Student

Message: The Tri-Beta biology honor society at Augsburg College will be holding a fall plant sale/fundraiser from Thursday Nov. 10 thru Wednesday Nov. 16. There will be two different sizes of poinsettias for sale in a variety of colors as well as red cytclamens. The sale will be held on the first floor of Christensen center. Your support would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -Tri-Beta-

Subject: Aug. Hist. Soc.: Pizza, Pop, and a Movie Next Week
Submitter: Michael Lansing, Assistant Professor, History

Message: Join the Augsburg History Society for it's second movie night of the year!

On Thursday night, Nov 17, at 6:30 p.m. in the 1st Floor Auditorium of Science Hall, we'll be enjoying pizza and pop and watching the "The Motorcycle Diaries" (2004). Don Gustafson, currently teaching his famous Che Guevara history seminar, will be joining us to lead a discussion after the movie.

Hope to see you there!

Subject: Goliards to read "Miller's Tale"
Submitter: Phillip C. Adamo, Assistant Professor, History

Message: The Goliard Society of Medievalists invites to its free reading group, next Wednesday, November 16, from 6-7 PM, in the Dining Commons. We'll be reading "The Miller's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. All are welcome. No previous knowledge or experience is necessary.

To read the tale in modern translation, go to:

Prologue
http://www.litrix.com/canterby/cante003.htm

Tale
http://www.litrix.com/canterby/cante004.htm

To read the tale in Middle English, go to:

Prologue
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Cha2Can.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/mideng-parsed&tag=public&part=3&division=div2

Tale
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Cha2Can.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/mideng-parsed&tag=public&part=4&division=div2

Hope to see you there.

Subject: Augsburg Christmas card orders due Nov. 15 at noon
Submitter: Lynn H Mena, Editorial Assistant, Public Relations and Communication

Message: It's time to order your Augsburg Christmas cards! This year, the featured artwork is an illustration of the cupola on top of Hoversten Chapel, which will be printed in silver foil on forest green, textured cardstock.

The verses inside the card are:

INSIDE TOP:
Faith believes that all things are and ought to be of God, and hope accepts and sustains what faith believes. Faith takes us from ourselves, that we should refer everything to God with praise and gratitude. Hope fills us with the concerns of others, that we may endure all in patience without resentment. Love reduces us to that nothing which we were in the beginning, so that we desire neither goods nor anything outside of God, but simply that we should commit ourselves truly to his good pleasure. This is the way of the cross by which we come most speedily into life.
-Martin Luther's Christmas Sermon

INSIDE BOTTOM:
Wishing you a joyous Christmas and a peace-filled New Year.

You may view a proof of the card in the Public Relations and Communication AugNet public folder.

The estimated cost is 50 cents each including envelopes (the final cost will be determined by the overall quantity of card orders--the more orders we receive, the lower the price).

Please fill out the following information and return to Lynn Mena by noon on Tuesday, November 15, via e-mail (mena@augsburg.edu) or fax (x1780).

Department:
Name:
Campus Box:
Phone:
Budget #:
Quantity:
Envelopes with Augsburg logo:
Envelopes without Augsburg logo (blank):

Please share this information with those who do not regularly read the A-Mail.

Thank you!

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