Subject: Friday use of computer labs for web registration
Submitter: Matthew E Linngren, Student & Public Computing Co-Manager, Information Technology

Message: Sophomores will begin registering for spring classes via the web today (Friday) at 5 p.m. Sophomores are asked to refrain from using the computers in the Lindell Library Link Lab and the Reference Desk area between 5 and 6 p.m. so that WEC and Graduate students may have use of the computers as they prepare for classes this evening. Sophomores are encouraged to make use of the computers in the Urness 24-hour Lab as well as the web kiosks in the Christensen Center and Enrollment Center.

Subject: A Quick Refresher on Winter Driving
Submitter: Bruce K Bengry, , Public Safety

Message: As we venture into the winter weather season just a reminder about winter weather driving from the Department of Public Safety.

With the first significant snow of the season hitting much of the state, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Office of Traffic Safety, is reminding drivers to:

Always use seat belts.
Allow plenty of travel time.
Clear snow and ice from all vehicle windows, hood, headlights, brake lights and directional signals.
Adjust speed to road and weather conditions.
Slow down to help avoid crashes and minimize those that occur.
Keep a safe stopping distance between vehicles, and leave extra room between your vehicle and snow plows or other removal equipment.
Avoid using cruise control.
Turn on headlights when it's snowing or sleeting (it's the law).

Bruce Bengry
Health Safety Specialist

Augsburg College
Department of Public Safety

Subject: Lecture Recital on the Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Submitter: Sonja K Thompson, Instructor, Music

Message: Please join the Voice Repertoire class next Monday morning, Nov. 21st, from 9:10-10:10 a.m. in the Choir Room of the Music Building for a presentation on musical settings of Emily Dickinson's poetry. Music professor Sonja Thompson will be joined by her mentee from the University of Minnesota, doctoral candidate Karen Murphy, and guest soprano Mary Laymon, for a performance and discussion of Dickinson's life, work, and the composers who set her words to music. Works by the following composers will be included: Arthur Farwell, Ernst Bacon, John Duke, Vincent Persichetti, Ricky Ian Gordon, Aaron Copland and Lee Hoiby.

Subject: Portfolio Workshop
Submitter: Theresa L Martin, Administrative Assistant, Center for Teaching and Learning

Message: Wednesday, November 30, 4-5:30 in Marshall
Facilitated by Diane Pike

This CTL workshop is designed to help faculty in the review process become familiar with options for how to present one's case to the College. Discussion and activities will relate to how to write effective statements, what to include as evidence and why, and how to interpret student data; in addition, there will be an opportunity to form an ongoing portfolio group to work together. Recommended for all not yet tenured faculty and those considering promotion.

Please RSVP to martin@augsburg.edu or x1229

Subject: Friday Seminar, November 18, 3:30 in Lindell 301
Submitter: Theresa L Martin, Administrative Assistant, Center for Teaching and Learning

Message:
"Riffing Cuneiform" presented by Cass Dalglish

Henry Louis Gates describes the jazz aesthetic as a form that "suggests a given structure precisely by failing to coincide with it - that is, suggests it by dissemblance." This view of jazz poetry arises from a notion that an essential quality of jazz is the acknowledgment of an existing line in the midst of its variation and inversion. Cass Dalglish has applied such a jazz aesthetic to the reading of poetry written in Sumerian cuneiform by enheduanna (2350 BCE) and she will talk about her work "Riffing Cuneiform" during the Friday Seminar on November 18.

Refreshments are served at 3:30; the presentation begins at 4 p.m.

Subject: Last chance to Purchase fo Peace!!!
Submitter: Teresa M Barnhill, Student

Message: Today is your last chance to purchase great merchandise at great prices for a great cause!! Stop by Christensen today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. to order great merchandise where all your money will go to a great cause. You can help preserve the rainforest, fund free mammograms, or provide food to the hungry. There are other ways you can help out! Stop by and get your "gear that gives" today!

Sponosred by QSU and The Click To Save Project

Subject: Battle of the Bands - TONIGHT!
Submitter: Andrew N Sayre, Student

Message: Do you enjoy live music and free food? How about opportunities to win gift certificates to Best Buy? Come to tonight's Battle of the Bands in the East Commons where four Augsburg bands will compete for the grand prize of $300 to Guitar Center. Come support your favorite band to help determine which band wins the second place prize!

Battle of the Bands
Commons (Cafeteria)
7-10 p.m.

Sponsored by ASAC. sco.

Subject: Artist Series: Katie Koch
Submitter: Sarah E Teich, Student

Message: Katie Koch, a freelance stage manager, will be discussing her job and what it entails with the Introduction to Theatre class. Anyone who is interested is welcome to attend. Located in the Greenroom in Foss Center from 1:20 to 2:20 p.m., Friday, November 18.

Subject: "Vocation and Social Change" - 11/22
Submitter: Cindy G. Peterson, Director, American Indian Student Services

Message: While on our trip to Namibia and South Africa this summer we met an amazing young woman from the U.S. who moved to Cape Town to address the HIV/AIDS situation in South Africa. For the past year and a half Tamara Aeschliman has been running a program she designed to focus on socio-economic development for teenage mothers in Khayelitsha. She has been involved in peace building, poverty alleviation and environmental issues in Mexico and Central America and has worked with students across the US on how to bring environmental consciousness and action to their campuses and communities.

Tamara will be on campus on Tues. 11/22. She will speak in chapel at 11:20. She will speak on Vocation and Social Change in the Marshall Room from 1:30-3 p.m.

Her message is a call to consciousness and action. She is inspirational and motivating. I am so pleased to bring her to campus. Please join us for an uplifting time!
Cindy

Subject: FREE Thanksgiving Dinner!
Submitter: Matthew E Linngren, Student & Public Computing Co-Manager, Information Technology

Message: Staying in town for Thanksgiving, but don't have a place to eat dinner? St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Columbia Heights (just 6 miles from campus) will be offering a FREE community Thanksgiving Dinner next Thursday, November 24 from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Dinner includes turkey, potatos, stuffing, gravy, corn, green beans, cranberries, rolls, dessert and drinks. To reserve a spot, call the church office at (763) 788-9429.

Volunteers are also needed to help serve and clean up from 1 to 3 p.m. Dinner is included! Please call Matt at (612) 232-1790 to volunteer.

Subject: WELCOME TO CHAPEL!
Submitter: Lillian A Maunu, Secretary, Campus Ministry

Message: Monday - Dan Hanson, Communication Studies
Tuesday - Tamara Aeschliman, South Africa
Wednesday - Thanksgiving Communion at 10:20 am

We hope to see you -- and have a Blessed Thanksgiving!
Lil

Subject: Advent Vespers is filling up fast - DON'T MISS OUT
Submitter: Cathy J Anderson, Coordinator of Fine Arts and Music, Music

Message: Augsburg College's CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION, Advent Vespers, is filling up fast!

Don't miss this year's services titled, "Love Beyond All Telling," which are held in the cathedral-like sanctuary of Central Lutheran Church in downtown Minneapolis.

DATE/TIME:
Friday, December 2 @ 5 p.m.
Friday, December 2 @ 8 p.m.
Saturday, December 3 @ 5 p.m. (FULL)
Saturday, December 3 @ 8 p.m.

HOW TO RESERVE SEATS:
Seating Envelopes are required and are available at the Christensen Information Desk, the Music Office, or download a form at www.augsburg.edu/vespers

WHAT DOES IT COST?
It's Free! The seating envelope is your 'ticket' in...and lists a suggested donation.

I JUST DON'T WANT TO DRIVE THERE:
No Problem! Shuttles take you to/from the service. Reference the vespers website for a complete shuttle schedule

HOW LONG IS IT:
Approximately 90 minutes

Subject: The United Way/ Community Solutions Fund Campaign
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/ Community Solutions Fund 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.

Weeks #1- 4: (November 14th through December 9th)
Book Drive
Clean off those book shelves and bring all those books you wonât read again to the information desk in Christensen Center. Books collected will be donated to various charities that support children, battered womenâs 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 (kidwell@augsburg.edu). 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 and/or the Community Solutions Fund at anytime and drop in the campus mail (CB 143) or drop it by Christensen Center 100C.

Thanks!

Subject: Frame of Mind - Augsburg's "Vocational Education"
Submitter: William V Frame, President, President's Office

Message: To tighten our grasp on the pedagogy of this subject, we will consider the compatibility of the 7th book of Platoâs Republic (pps. 186-212) and of the segment of Rousseauâs Emile known as "The Creed of a Savoryard Priest" (pps. 274-383 of the Everyman's edition) with the Lutheran Idea of Vocation at our next Frame of Mind session on Tuesday, December 6th.

We will begin at 5 p.m., stop for dinner at 7, and be finished by 8 p.m. Please come! If you can, let Barb Korman know and get copies of both the Republic and Emile from her. She can be reached at Ext. 1212 or korman@augsburg.edu.



President Frame

Subject: Augsburg Hist. Soc. Field Trip-TOMORROW
Submitter: Michael Lansing, Assistant Professor, History

Message: Join the Augsburg History Society TOMORROW for it's fall field trip

At 1:30 p.m., on Saturday afternoon, Nov 19, we'll be meeting at the Mill City Museum on the Minneapolis riverfront. After touring the museum, we'll be joined by Augsburg's very own Bill Wittenbreer for a tour of the St. Anthony Falls area. Before our tour ends at 4:30 p.m., Bill will also share his expertise on late nineteenth-century Minnesota landscape painters by showing us a few paintings of the Falls area.

Student government has generously agreed to purchase ten student museum admissions (normally $6 each). To get one of these free admissions (first come, first serve), email Michael Lansing at lansing@augsburg.edu.

Hope to see you there!

Subject: Jess Webb honored at Orientation conference
Submitter: Ann L Garvey, Dean of Students, Academic and Student Affairs

Message: Congrats to Jess Webb, an intern with the Activities and Orientation Office at Augsburg, who received the Norman K. Russell Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship. The scholarship is given out to 2 graduate students and 1 doctoral student each year.

Augsburg's current activities/orientation director, Marc Skjervem, was the 2001 recipient.

In addition, Jess particiated in the Graduate Student Case Study competition. Paired with a first-year graduate student from Texas Tech., Jess and her partner received two out of the three awards: Best Problem Solving and Best Overall.

Subject: Keith McCoy, residence life
Submitter: Ann L Garvey, Dean of Students, Academic and Student Affairs

Message: Keith McCoy, Director for Urness Hall, was among the Augsburg group who attended the National Orientation Directors Association (NODA) Conference in Miami. Keith works on the Augsburg orientation in addition to his work with Urness Hall.

More on Keith and his work with the Association of College and University Housing Officers (ACUHO) in another A-mail.

Subject: After School aid need
Submitter: Sally Daniels, Director of Parent and Family Relations, Alumni-Parent Relations

Message: I have a good friend (Augsburg grad) who is in need of an after school aid for her special needs daughter (age 5). They need someone to be at their home in south Minneapolis three days a week (T,W, TH) from 2:30-5 p.m. If you are interested, contact me at ext. 1525 or at daniels@augsburg.edu and I can give you more details.

Subject: Looking for someone to film Men's Hockey games
Submitter: Daniel T Schwendtner, Student

Message: If you are interested in filming the men's hockey games this season with pay, contact either Dan Schwendtner at schwendt@augsburg.edu (x8167) or Coach Schwartz at schwartm@augsburg.edu. Looking for someone dedicated and willing to travel with the team on raod trips. No filming experience necessary.

Subject: Storytelling Event Nov 26th features Kevin Kling
Submitter: Vicki Keck, Lead, Copy Center Specialist, Central Support Services

Message: "Tellabration" storytelling concert November 26th!

Stuffed with Stories

This is no turkey and it's packed with talent

Join Kevin Kling, Michael Cotter, Nancy Donoval, Joshua Scrimshaw, Nothando Zulu, and host Richard Rousseau for an evening of storytelling on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. This holiday event featuring Minnesotaâs most gifted storytellers is an extraordinary bargain at only $12 per ticket. Tickets are available from Vicki in the Augsburg copy center (330-1054) or online at www.northstarstorytelling.org

Location: Open Book - 1011 Washington Ave South, Mpls
Time: 8 p.m., November 26th