Subject: What is the GRE?
Submitter: Dixie Shafer, Director, Office for Undergraduate Research and Graduate Opportunity

Message: The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is the entrance test to most graduate programs, not unlike how the ACT/SAT are entrance tests for undergraduate education.

The GRE has 3 parts: Verbal, Quantitative and Analytical Writing

If you want more information about the GRE or want to talk about whether if and when you should take it contact shafer@augsburg.edu.

www.gre.org is also a very useful web site.

And you can also join our Monday GRE prep course.

Subject: Time to MOVE THE STAR!
Submitter: Kathryn Croyle, Administrative Assistant to the VP, Institutional Advancement

Message: Please join us in celebrating many wonderful and significant recent gifts to the campaign as we "MOVE THE STAR" in the lobby of Christensen center on June 27th at 10:30 am. Our new campaign total will be revealed and there will be refreshments.

Subject: Free Theatre Night Out - but it's not WICKED
Submitter: Ross Murray, Campus Ministry Associate; Tutoring Services Coordinator, Campus Ministry and Academic Enrichment

Message: I got another call from the Hennepin Theatre Trust today with an offer for tickets. Many of you might know that the popular musical, Wicked, based on The Wizard of Oz, is in town soon. Well, this isn't it.

However, because of the popularity of Wicked, the Hennepin Theatre Trust commissioned playwrights to come up with three short (10-minute) musicals based on other Wizard of Oz characters. They are showing it at the brand new Downtown Minneapolis Public Library at 7:00 on Tuesday, June 27...and they have some extra tickets...and they want us to come.

If you are interested, please contact Ross Murray at murray@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1151. I haven't set a maximum number of tickets, because there are a lot available. However, I'll keep a list in the order that I get interest and see how many tickets I can get. On Friday, June 16, I'll see what sort of response we have and get the appropriate number of tickets. So, get a hold of me before Friday!

Here is some more information on the evening:

A Program of the Hennepin Theatre Trust, The Playwrights? Center and Minneapolis Public Library


Brain, Heart and Courage

The Tales of the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion

As we all know, there is more than one way to tell a story. The popular musical Wicked presents the Wicked Witch of the West?s viewpoint in the Oz story. What about the other characters in The Wizard of Oz? What happened to the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion after Dorothy returned to Kansas?

Broadway Inside Out, a program created by Hennepin Theatre Trust and the Playwrights Center, invites you to imagine this scenario with us. We?re inviting three playwright/lyricists (John Olive, W. David Hancock and Allison Moore) and composer Roberta Carlson to create three mini-musicals entitled ?Brain,? ?Heart,? and ?Courage.? These mini-musicals will be read and sung by professional actors in the new Pohlad Auditorium at the Minneapolis Public Library?s central branch on Tuesday evening, June 27 at 7:00 pm. Theatre Latte Da?s Peter Rothstein will direct. MPR?s Marianne Combs facilitates the discussion.

Wicked is unique because its initial inspiration began as a book by L. Frank Baum that was adapted into the well known 1939 movie which inspired a book (Gregory Maguire?s best-selling novel) which then became a blockbuster Broadway musical! Broadway Inside Out continues this thread, offering other characters a chance to tell their own tales.

This is the third Broadway Inside Out event of the 2005-06 season. All three focused on the creation of a stage presentation from literary books. In the first program, playwright Jeffrey Hatcher shared his experience of adapting Tuesdays with Morrie, a best-seller, into a stage play. In the second, the Trust commissioned three women playwrights to adapt a chapter of Louisa May Alcott?s classic novel Little Women. These 10 minute plays were then read and discussed by the playwrights and the audience. We are ready for the third installment ? one that promises to be as provocative and fascinating to our theatre audiences as the first two.

Subject: Welcome Amanda Temple
Submitter: Laurel Christianson, Administrative Assistant, Academic and Student Affairs

Message: Welcome to Amanda Temple - who joins the Augsburg community as the Urness Hall Director/First-Year Experience. Amanda began work on Monday, June 12.

Subject: Good-bye party for Marc Skjervem - June 15
Submitter: Laurel Christianson, Administrative Assistant, Academic and Student Affairs

Message: Marc Skjervem, Campus Activities and Orientation, departs Augsburg June 20 for an Orientation Director position at Northwestern in Evanston, Illinois.

We'll celebrate Marc and his time here on Thursday, June 15, 11:30-1 p.m. with lunch and a short program at 12:15 p.m. Location: East Commons.

RSVP to Laurel Christianson, christi4@augsburg.edu.

Subject: Any Faculty/Staff going to Rochester?
Submitter: Lori York, Assistant Registrar, Registrar's Office

Message: I'm looking for a Minneapolis faculty or staff member who is going to the Rochester campus in the next couple weeks. I have a student's portfolio that needs to be returned to her advisor.

Please contact me so arrangements can be made. YORKL@augsburg.edu or Ext. 1316

Thank you!
Lori York