Subject: Listening Sessions w/ the Public Safety Task Force
Submitter: John Pack, Director, Public Safety

Message: Augsburg’s Public Safety Task Force invites you to attend one of more “listening sessions.” Each session will include a brief presentation on the recent community survey and current recommendations from the task force. The primary goal for these sessions is to get your input! Please bring your comments, questions and concerns and be prepared to discuss security at Augsburg.

We have scheduled a variety of sessions to accommodate varying schedules. Snacks will be available at each session.

Wed, April 11, 2007
4 to 5 pm
Minneapolis Room

Thu, April 12, 2007
Noon to 1 pm
Minneapolis Room

Fri, April 13, 2007
4 to 5 pm
Century Room

Sat, April 14, 2007
Noon to 1 pm
Marshall Room

Thu, April 19, 2007
8 to 9 am
Marshall Room

Subject: Severe weather Week April 9-13
Submitter: Bruce K Bengry, Safety Specialist, Public Safety

Message: FLASH FLOODS
Nationally, floods claim nearly 200 lives each year, force 300,000 persons from their homes and result in property damage in excess of 2 billion dollars. About 75 percent of flash-flood deaths occur at night. Half of the victims die in automobiles or other vehicles. Many deaths occur when people drive around road barricades that clearly indicate that the road is washed out ahead.
Last year in Minnesota, there were few instances of heavy rain. One of the heaviest rainfalls occurred on June 9 when five to six inches of rain flooded an Owatonna hotel and nearby areas. Another heavy rainfall occurred on August 16 when three to four inches of rain fell quickly and caused cars to stall on Interstate 90 near Austin.
No deaths occurred last year, but there was one flash flood fatality in 2005. A man was swept from his vehicle after three-to-six inches of rain in Goodhue County caused a creek to rise 20 feet over its normal level, sending rushing water over Highway 1 near Wanamingo.

ARE YOU PREPARED?
Assume a thunderstorm produces six inches of rain in less than six hours time near your community. Storms of this magnitude occur several times every year in the U.S. Would you know how to protect yourself and people who depend on you? After any major flood event, survivors inevitably say they didn’t believe it could happen to them.

BEFORE THE FLOOD
No one can prevent the occurrence of rainfall that produces flash floods. However, you can reduce the risks of death and property destruction by;

• working toward sound flood-plain zoning,
• developing an emergency action plan in advance
• purchasing flood insurance at least 30 days prior to flooding
• being aware of the dangers of heavy rainfall and floods

Subject: Attn: Graduating Seniors
Submitter: Elizabeth N Bassani, Financial Aid Counselor, Enrollment Center

Message: If you will be graduating this year and have taken out a Stafford Loan in the past, then you must complete your Stafford Exit Loan Counseling. This Thursday in Old Main room 18 from 6:30 to 7:30pm, the Financial Aid Office will be holding an Exit Counseling session for you to learn what it means to enter into repayment and if consolidation is the right thing to do. If you are not able to make it to this session we will be holding another session in the next couple of weeks that will be announced at a later time. If you are not interested in coming to our session, then you can also complete your Exit Loan Counseling online at www.mapping-your-future.org. Once on this page, you will click on the link "Student Loan Counseling Interview, then select "Stafford Exit". We hope you can make it this Thursday, but if not please go online. Thank you!

Subject: Celebrate Tim Pippert and Bruce Reichenbach today
Submitter: Dallas Liddle, Associate Professor, English

Message: The Center for Teaching and Learning and the Augsburg College Bookstore are proud to invite the campus community to celebrate two recent works of scholarship , Bruce Reichenbach's coauthored book "The Nature of the Atonement," and Tim Pippert's "Road Dogs and Loners: Family Relationships among Homeless Men."

Please join us before the faculty meeting this afternoon, starting at 2:30 in the Marshall Room. Tim and Bruce will talk informally about their books, refreshments will be served, and two copies of each book will be given away as door prizes.

Subject: April is National Autism Awareness Month
Submitter: Barbara Harvey, Disability Specialist, CLASS Program

Message: April is National Autism Awareness Month (NAAM) - an awareness initiative established in 1972 by the Autism Society of America. (ASA) - and ASA's national headquarters and its network of nearly 200 local chapters across the nation are preparing to increase autism awareness throughout the month.

According to the ASA, "Autism is a complex developmental disability that typically appears during the first three years of life and is the result of a neurological disorder that affects the normal functioning of the brain, impacting development in the areas of social interaction and communication skills."

Autism is the most common of the Pervasive Developmental Disorders, affecting an estimated 1 in 150 births, or as many of 1.5 million Americans today.

Links to more information:
http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1110460.html
http://www.autism-society.org/site/News2?news_iv_ctrl=-1&cmd=articles&page=NewsArticle&id=9331&start=4
http://www.autism-society.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9325&news_iv_ctrl=-1

Subject: Mary Kingsley's retirement party
Submitter: Frankie B Shackelford, Professor of Modern Languages, Modern Languages

Message: Please join the Dean's office and Modern Languages' faculty at a gathering to celebrate Mary's 4 decades at Augsburg College: Tuesday, May 1, East Commons, 3:30-5:30 p.m. (Program at 4).

Subject: "The Threepenny Opera" Ticket Info
Submitter: Sarah E Teich, Student

Message: Tickets for “The Threepenny Opera,” presented by the Augsburg College Theatre Arts Department are now sold out for all performances. If you are interested in attending a performance, there are still options available:

• Unclaimed reservations for each performance will go on sale 5 minutes prior to the show. The unclaimed tickets will be sold on a first-come-first-serve basis. Rush line usually begins forming 30-40 minutes prior to the show. Please remember to allow time for parking.

• There will also be a preview performance on Thursday, April 12 at 7:00pm that will be available to the public. If interested in attending this preview performance, call 612-330-1257 for reservations. Tickets are $3.

Subject: Spring Music Jam 2007
Submitter: Ted A Jedlicki, Student

Message: ASAC presents Murphy Park Live: the Spring Music Jam 2007 on Saturday, April 21st at 6:30 P.M. in Murphy Park under the big tent. The concert stars national artists Evan and Jaron and local stars Heiruspecs, and also features Holiday and My Vengeance. Get your FREE tickets at the ASAC table in the Christensen Center weekdays from 10-3.

Subject: WEC Senate Deadlines
Submitter: Amy Bothun, Student

Message: Attention: Deadline Extended

The WEC Senate is extending the deadline for submitting a Petition for Candidacy for the positions of WEC Student Body President, Vice President, and four Senator-at-Large positions.

Please visit http://www.augsburg.edu/wecc/ to find the petitions and to learn about the positions. Any questions can be emailed to wecgov@augsburg.edu.

Petitions must be turned in to the WEC Senate by 5 p.m. on Sunday April 15th. Please email the Senate at wecgov@augsburg.edu to set a time and location to submit your petition.

Subject: Graduate Programs Information Tables
Submitter: Michael D Bilden, Director, Weekend College Admissions

Message: Did you know that Augsburg College offers six graduate programs? The graduate program admissions staff invites students, faculty, and staff to visit the information tables in the Christensen Center on Tuesday, April 17th. Representatives from the six graduate programs will be on hand to introduce their respective programs and to answer graduate program related questions from 10am – 1pm. We look forward to seeing you on the 17th!

Subject: Sverdrup Scientist Program, April 16-17
Submitter: Jeanine A Gregoire, Associate Professor, Education

Message: Sverdrup Public Lecture
Free and Open to the Public
"Exploring the Giant Magnetosphere of Jupiter"
April 16 - 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Hoversten Chapel, Foss Center; Parking in Lot L off of 25th Ave. and Riverside, Minneapolis.

Abstract: Jupiter is a planet of superlatives: it is the most massive planet in the solar system, rotates the fastest, has the strongest magnetic field, and has the most massive satellite system of any planet. These unique properties lead to active volcanoes on Io, a ton per second of sulfur and oxygen being spewed out of the moon, a vast population of energetic plasma trapped in the planet's strong magnetic field, and intense auroral emissions in Jupiter's polar atmosphere. The giant magnetosphere of Jupiter has been explored by telescopes on Earth, Hubble Space Telescope, several spacecraft flying past the planet plus the Galileo spacecraft that spent seven years in orbit. This talk will discuss our current understanding of this huge, dynamic structure and present what we hope to learn from the New Horizons spacecraft as it flies down Jupiter's magnetotail on its way to Pluto (spring 2007) and from the Juno mission (launch due in 2011) that will skim over Jupiter's poles.

Divisional Colloquium
“Women in Physics & Astronomy: Moving Beyond 'the Woman Problem'”
April 17 - Noon-1:00, Minneapolis Room, Christiansen Center; Parking in Lot L off of 25th Ave. and Riverside.

Abstract: Statistical studies of demographics by professional organizations such as the American Institute of Physics show practical reasons for moving from "how do we help these poor women" to "how to educate/hire/retain the talent we needed to supply a technical-trained workforce." Dr. Bagenal will discuss the professional pipeline, where it is leaky and how it can be fixed - including allowing for multiple pathways.

Biography: Fran Bagenal came to the US from England in 1976 to attend graduate school at MIT where she worked on data from the Voyager mission for her PhD. Her primary research interests are the magnetic fields of planets, the charged particles trapped in planetary magnetic fields and the interactions of moons with the particles and fields that surround them. She has been involved in the Voyager mission (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune), Galileo (Jupiter), Deep Space 1 (Comet Borrelly), the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Juno mission to Jupiter's polar regions. She is Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Funding for the Sverdrup Visiting Scientist Lecture Program made possible through the Sverdrup Endowment Fund, Augsburg College and the Minnesota Space Grant Consortium. For more information or to receive a poster of the Sverdrup Lecture call 612-330-1324 and leave your name, telephone number and mailing address and someone will return your call.

Subject: "The Threepenny Opera" preview added
Submitter: Randall Davidson, Fine Arts Manager, Music

Message: If you haven't reserved your tickets for the amazing Kurt Weill/Bertoldt Brecht "Three Penny Opera," you have a rare opportunity to see a preview performance this Thursday at 7pm for the low-low price of $3. The show is almost certainly sold-out. Call 612-330-1257 for reservations.

Darcey Engen directs this 1928 musical originally began the "Epic" theatre tradition, which refused to let audiences passively escape into the world of the play. Instead, through use of presentational staging, the production demanded that audiences examine oppressive ideological issues in the play and in society. Music direction is by Sonja Thompson.

Get your tickets now!

Subject: Summer Orientation Dates 2007
Submitter: Solveig M Mebust, Student

Message: The dates for this year's Summer Orientation and Registration (SOAR) are as follows:

Session I: July 18th-19th (1pm-12pm)
Session II: July 19th-20th (1pm-12pm)
Session III: July 20th- 21st (1pm-12pm)

Please contact the Department of Orientation and Student Activities (orientat@augsburg.edu), or Director Ramon Knox (knoxr@augsburg.edu) if you have any questions about these dates. Thank you.

Subject: Live from Augsburg - it's Late Night Breakfast
Submitter: Rick Gubash, Disability Specialist, CLASS Program

Message: Want to help students chill out and have a healthy meal during finals?
Are you a genius with a spatula and a hot griddle?
Want to have fun working along side your colleagues and friends?

Mark your calendar because this event is for you!

Come help serve Late Night Breakfast on

Monday, April 30th from 9:45 to 11:30 p.m.

Students love this event and you will too.

If you want to have some fun and feed some late night studying types, contact Rick Gubash by email at gubash@augsburg.edu

Subject: Last JUMP/hip-hop worship of the year!
Submitter: Elizabeth Hanson, Student

Message: This Sunday, April 15th at 7:00p.m. Augsburg will host the last JUMP/Hip-hop worship of the year. Located in Sateren Auditorium with open mic beginning at 6:30p.m., JUMP is a time when youth and young adults from the Twin Cities area can come together and share their gifts and love for music and for faith.
The worship is open to all and remember this is your last chance for the year to experience JUMP at Augsburg!
For more information please e-mail Elizabeth Hanson at Hanson3@augsburg.edu or visit hiphopoutreach.com.
See you there!

Subject: Cookie Break & Coming Out Stories
Submitter: Mariah B Sheehy, Student

Message: Today, Wednesday April 11th there will be a Cookie/Snack Break and Coming Out Stories presented by Queer and Straight in Unity at 2-4pm in the Augsburg Room (upstairs in Christensen) Everyone in the Augsburg community is welcome!

For questions or comments, please contact qsu@augsburg.edu

Subject: FREE KAUG Concert This Friday
Submitter: Ted A Jedlicki, Student

Message: This Friday, April 13 KAUG presents its Final Cut concert, the final concert in this year's KAUG Live series, at 8PM in the East Commons. The bands include Kid Dakota, Bill Caperton of Ella, and The Spirit of 76. The doors open at 7:30 PM and the event is FREE for everyone. Mark the date on your calendar and stay tuned for updates at www.augsburg.edu/kaug and 91.7 FM.

Subject: Student Study Abroad Survey
Submitter: Amy Greeley, Program Director, Augsburg Abroad, International Programs

Message: Whether you have gone abroad or not, this survey is open to all students.

The Office of International Programs (OIP) at Augsburg College would appreciate student input about study abroad at Augsburg. We want to hear your perspectives and discover your knowledge level about study abroad on this campus. Your input will help OIP move forward supporting Global Learning at Augsburg College.

The survey takes about 10 minutes, just follow the link pertaining to your status:

WEC Students:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=107863603409

TRIO Students (Day or WEC):
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=454733603425

Day Students:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=753363273500


Thank you for your time,
Amy E. Greeley
Director, Augsburg Abroad
Office of International Programs

Subject: Faculty and Staff Study Abroad Survey
Submitter: Amy Greeley, Program Director, Augsburg Abroad, International Programs

Message: The Office of International Programs (OIP) is implementing a project for AQIP called Study Abroad Curriculum Integration. As part of this project it is important to collect information about the current level of study abroad knowledge and gauge perspectives on study abroad within the Augsburg community. This will also help us move forward supporting the Global Learning Center outlined by President Pribbenow.

OIP would appreciate your input. The survey takes about 10 minutes, just follow this link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=438103306155


Thank you for your time,

Amy Greeley
Director, Augsburg Abroad

and

Orv Gingerich
Associate Dean of the Office of International Programs

Subject: National Day of Silence & Concert
Submitter: Mariah B Sheehy, Student

Message: Wednesday, April 18th is National Day of Silence, observed each year by individuals who are silent throughout the day to represent the silence of sexual/gender minorities. On the evening of the 18th, to "break the silence" Queer and Straight in Unity is sponsoring a concert from 6-8pm in the Foss chapel by "The Girls" a local band. We also will be collecting non-perishable food items for the Brian Colby food shelf. Come, it will be fun, bring your friends!

Comments, questions please contact the QSU Exec board at qsu@augsburg.edu