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Final Vocatio Chapel: Dr. Fardin Oliaei on April 9

The final Vocatio Chapel in the series, "Science as Vocation" will be on April 9 at 10:20 a.m. in the Hoversten Chapel. Our guest will be Dr. Fardin Oliaei, an environmental scientist who formally worked for the MN Pollution Control Agency. This chapel will be a great match for people involved with the new Environmental Studies major.

Dr. Oliaei will share her story of working with the MPCA. In 2005, she discovered chemicals in drinking water in the east metro. She attempted to follow the chemicals to their source, but was blocked from doing further research in order to protect the business interests in the area. Eventually, she was forced to resign from the MPCA for pursuing the chemical research.

Dr. Oliaei's story highlights the dangerous relationship between ideology and science. She has been unable to find a job since she left the MPCA, which she claims is because of her insistence to focus on the chemical contamination.

Dr. Oliaei will speak in chapel on April 9 at 10:20 a.m.. A lunch with Dr. Oliaei will follow lunch for those who would like to have follow-up conversation. To RSVP for the lunch, or for more questions about the Vocatio Chapel series, please contact Ross Murray at murray@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1151.

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April 15 Deadline - SC Applications

Scholastic Connections is a scholarship and mentorship program for high-achieving students of color (American Indian, Hispanic/Latino, Pan-Afrikan, Pan Asian) at Augsburg College. The program is designed to help students be successful at Augsburg and beyond. Students who are successful in their application process and are selected to participate receive a $5,000 scholarship and are paired with a successful alum of color who serves as mentor for the student. Mentors work on personal development and career planning with the Scholars.

Five new students will be selected for the program for 2008-09.

Eligibility Criteria:
Returning Augsburg student or advanced-standing transfer student
Demonstrated financial need
Demonstrated community involvement (on or off campus)
Demonstrated leadership ability or potential
GPA of 2.5 or higher

Applicants must have a completed financial aid file in the Enrollment Center by April 15, 2008.

Applicants must also submit a letter of recommendation from someone other than a family member.

Application deadline is April 15, 2008.

Applicants can apply on-line or download a pdf version of the application at the Scholastic Connections web page by going to the A-Z directory at Inside Augsburg and clicking on Scholastic Connections. Please read the Application Requirements carefully.

Attention Faculty and Staff: If you know of a student who could benefit from this program, feel free to nominate the student for Scholastic Connections. On-line or pdf nomination forms are available at the Scholastic Connections web page.

Questions? Contact me at 612-330-1754 or petersoc@augsburg.edu

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Same Sex Marriage Talk Monday

Kathleen Hull, author of Same-Sex Marriage: The Cultural Politics of Love and Law will be giving the talk "Pondering the Future of Marriage" for the Sociology Department's Annual Torstenson Lecture. Kathleen Hull is a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota and has presented expert testimony on same-sex marriage at the Minnesota Legislature. Please join us Monday April 7 at 5 p.m. in Oren 113.
For more information, please contact Nancy Fischer at fischern@augsburg.edu.

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Staff Recognition Event - TODAY

Please join us for the Staff Length of Service and Outstanding Employee Event today at 3 p.m. in the Oren Gateway Lobby. Be there to celebrate the contributions made by this year's Outstanding Employees, and all staff members, and to congratulate those with anniversaries. Refreshments will be served.

Staff Senate wishes to thank all those who have participated in the nomination process for Outstanding Employee. Our congratulations and best wishes to all of the award recipients and to all of you celebrating a milestone anniversary year. Thank you for being at Augsburg!

Becky

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Congratulations to the Salsa Dance Winners

Jessica Engebretsen and LeRoy Roby are the proud winners of Sodexo's Salsa in South Beach Dance Competition, each taking home a Nintendo Wii Console.

Sodexo would like to offer a very special Thank You to Heidi Breen, Brenda Hemmingsen and Brian Corner for judging the competition and everyone who came out to enjoy the evening and cheer the dancers on.

We look forward to hosting more events like this in the near future.

Sodexo Dining

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New Extended Sodexo Dining Hours

New Extended Hours of Operation for Commons Cafeteria

Commons Cafeteria
Monday-Friday
Breakfast....7 - 10:30 a.m.
Lunch….11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Dinner….4:30 - 7 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday
Brunch….11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Dinner….5 - 6 p.m.

Coopers Coffee Shop
Monday-Friday
7:30 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Saturday Weekend College
7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Nabo Café
Monday-Friday
7:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Saturday 7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sunday 9 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Murphy’s Grill
Monday - Friday
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday
Closed

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Sexual Assault Advocate/Educator Opportunity

Are you interested in issues of sexual assault and relationship violence? Wanting to offer peer support to survivors, or wanting to increase awareness on the Augsburg campus about these issues? Wanting a great training opportunity that will provide real experience in the field of psychology/social services? The Aurora Center at the University of Minnesota is opening their trained peer Crisis Line, Legal Advocate and/or Violence Prevention Educator volunteer opportunities to Augsburg students. Augsburg students could bring their learning back to the Augsburg community through educational programs, or provide crisis and advocacy support to U of M and Augsburg students who have experienced sexual assault and other relationship violence.

The next Volunteer Training will be May 27th through June 6th (for Crisis Line or Legal Advocates) or May 27 through June 3 (for Violence Prevention Educators). For more info, go to the Aurora Center website Volunteer Training page: www1.umn.edu/aurora/events/training.html. Or, you can contact Beth Carlson on campus at x1136 to learn more about this opportunity. Applications are due May 9.

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WRC Potluck Lunch

Join us on Wednesday April 9, in the Women's Resource Center (Sverdrup 207), for a potluck lunch and informal conversation about Sexual Assault and the L/G/B/T Community. It goes from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.. It is fine to come late or leave early -- this is a relaxed, social lunch. All members of the Augsburg community are welcome.

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Registration Hold Information

We are less than 1 week away from the start of Fall Day 2008 registration. This is a reminder that you must visit with your faculty advisor prior to registration. (Your faculty advisor is listed on the Transcript page in AugNet Records and Registration.) Your faculty advisor will electronically clear your advising hold after your visit.

There are numerous other holds in place that will prevent registration. Please log onto AugNet Records and Registration and review the Welcome Page. All registration holds will be displayed in red and must be cleared before you register online or at the Enrollment Center. Some of the common holds include:

Accounts Receivable Hold – there is an unpaid balance on your student account

Payment Policy Disclosure Form Hold – a form required of all students regardless of method of payment. This form can be downloaded from the following link:
http://www.augsburg.edu/enroll/account/index.html. Note: if you are still listed as a dependent on your parent's tax forms, they will need to sign the Disclosure Form as cosigner.

Immunization Form Hold – either we have not received an immunization form or the shots are incomplete or out of date. This form is required by state law and can be downloaded from the Registrar web page at: http://www.augsburg.edu/enroll/registrar/index.html

Please check the status of your account in sufficient time to clear your holds prior to the opening of your registration period.

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Sodexho Dining Menu

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Lunch
Grilled Ginger Chicken
Grilled Pineapple
Coconut Rice
Pasta Bar with Alfredo Sauce with Chicken
Marinara Sauce with Pork
Hot Roast Beef Sandwich with Au Jus
French Fries
Steamed Vegetables
Baked Potato
Sushi
Catfish Wrap
Roast Beef Wrap
Deli Bar
Pizza Bar
Soup of the Day-Spicy Black Bean and Smoked Chicken Gumbo

Dinner
Lemon & Garlic Chicken
Wild Rice
Roasted Vegetables
Steamed Rice
Tofu Stir Fry
Baked Fish
Steamed Potatoes
Steamed Vegetables
Nacho Bar
Toppings
Deli Bar
Pizza Bar
Soup of the Day-Spicy Black Bean and Smoked Chicken Gumbo

Menu Subject to Change Depending Upon Availability of Item(s)

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The Drag Show is tonight!

The QSU annual Drag Show is tonight!!!

The show starts at 8 p.m. with doors opening at 7:30 p.m. in the East Commons. Come enjoy performances by queens from The 90s as well as our amateur contest. Prizes will be given away to the top three performers of the amateur contest.

Door prizes will also be given away! So why not come to have a great time and win some prizes!

The QSU Exec Board also has a surprise in store, so make sure you are there!

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Sodexo Dining/Student ID

Effective Monday, March 31, 2008 our dining service cashiers will no longer be able to manually enter your student ID number at dining service locations.

Students who need to have their I.D. number manually entered must present their their ID at the time of purchase.

This is being done to protect your meal plan and flex dollars from unauthorized use.

Thank you for your understanding
Sodexo Dining

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WEC/ROCH UnderGrad Summer Registration

WEC/Rochester undergraduate students: registration for summer school terms begins on Monday, 21 April for all students.

Courses are displayed through AugNet Records and Registration. Additional information and registration form is available through the Registrar web page: http://www.augsburg.edu/enroll/registrar/index.html

Maximum credit load in Summer Sessions I & II is 2.0 credits. Students registered in Spring WEC and Summer Session I will be allowed a maximum of 2.0 credits between the programs. However, students with a Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better, may increase the crossover load to 3.0 credits. Students exceeding these limits will be removed from the overload courses.
These same conditions apply to SSII and Summer Online courses.

Summer online courses are located in Summer Session II in AugNet Records and Registration and have a section letter of "L".

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Brown Bag Lunch to Discuss DNP Program Launch

WHEN: Friday, April 4, 2008, 12:00 Noon - 1:30 p.m.

WHERE: Riverside Room

This is to invite the College Community to a “brown bag” lunch to discuss a proposed new program initiative to launch a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program in 2008-09. Topics for discussion include:

• The move to professional doctoral education in all health care disciplines---pharmacy, physical therapy, medicine, occupational therapy, etc.

• The proposed new program initiative at Augsburg College

• The difference between a DNP and a PhD in Nursing

• College resources needed to offer a DNP

• Accreditation issues

• Our “competition” and what they are doing

• Opportunities for collaboration on this degree

• Where will graduates of a DNP program practice?

• What happens to the Master of Arts in Nursing program at Augsburg?

Please bring your lunch and join the Department of Nursing faculty, invited graduate students and graduates of the MAN program, to learn more about the DNP and how the Department of Nursing is proposing to address this imminent paradigm shift in the education of advanced practice nurses.

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Grad Summer Registration

Graduate students: registration for graduate programs participating in summer school will begin on Monday, April 21. (Exception: PA students will start on April 7, 2008).

PA and some MBA students: your summer courses are located in Summer Session III on AugNet Records and Registration.

Courses are displayed through AugNet Records and Registration. Additional information and registration form is available through the Registrar web page: http://www.augsburg.edu/enroll/registrar/index.html

Maximum credit load in Summer Sessions I & II is 2.0 credits. Students registered in Spring WEC and Summer Session I will be allowed a maximum of 2.0 credits between the programs. However, students with a Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better, may increase the crossover load to 3.0 credits. Students exceeding these limits will be removed from the overload courses.
These same conditions apply to SSII and Summer Online courses.

Summer online courses are located in Summer Session II in AugNet Records and Registration and have a section letter of "L".

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Time To Apply for Financial Aid

Don't forget to reapply for financial aid for the 2008-2009 school year. The deadline is April 15.

Please complete the 08-09 FAFSA at www.fafsa.ed.gov
Augsburg's school code is 002334.

Turn in your completed Augsburg Verification Worksheet and a signed copy of your federal tax form and a signed copy of your parent's federal tax form to the Enrollment Center by April 15.

The Augsburg Verification Worksheet can be found at www.augsburg.edu/enroll/finaid/index.html

Forms can be faxed to 612-330-1308 or turned in at the Enrollment Center window.

Failure to reapply by April 15 can result in lost financial aid!

If you have any questions stop by the Enrollment Center, call x1046, or email enroll@augsburg.edu

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PEDALERS for PEACE Photo Documentary

Come and expand your awareness of southern social justice issues that 13 Augsburg students [The Pedalers for Peace] endeavored into over Spring Break in Louisiana. The Photo Documentary will display some of their most influential, trying and simple, fun moments.
The Pedalers invite you to share on the learning and reflection of this grassroots movement with them on Wednesday, April 9 from 12 to 2 p.m. and Thursday, April 10 from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Christensen coffee shop.
The Pedalers will be there to openly discuss much of their enlightenment from the trip.

A CAPTION OF THE PEDALERS' SPRING BREAK:
The initial plan was simple -- 13 students, one advisor, and their bikes would travel to New Orleans and tackle the 120-mile road to Biloxi, Mississippi. The idea was to camp and volunteer along the way. But the Greyhound lady took that plan out of the realm of possibility, so we turned to Plan B.

Crunched for time and unwilling to give up, we decided to get on the bus, without our bikes, and see what New Orleans had to offer. What followed were five days that brought us to eye-level with the people of the city and their realities.

We had planned to set up tents by the St. Bernard Projects, a huge public housing development that had been flagged for demolition. As we began, New Orleans policeman promptly told us that camping there was against the law. Our host, the camping space coordinator, generously offered us the two intact rooms of his Katrina-ravaged home and backyard. The setting was shocking at first, but as we settled in and got to know our neighbors, the situation became enlightening.

On our second day, we obtained bikes from a program called RUBARB that refurbishes and sells old bikes, while also teaching children how to revitalize bikes as an alternative to more destructive hobbies.

We biked from one corner of New Orleans to another looking for people or places to help. We volunteered a few days at The Green Project, a housing supply recycling center that encouraged residents to deconstruct their homes in order to make doors, windows, railings, or bricks available for re-use. We also helped out in people's homes -- painting, pulling weeds, whatever we could do.

Picture of the St. Bernard Projects.Some of our group witnessed protests against the St. Bernard Projects demolition. We heard moving stories about the displacement and homelessness of impoverished people and the utter cold-shoulder that has been shown them by the government. During one protest, an older woman climbed over the barbed-wire topped fence to walk silently and slowly, her cane at her side, to the site where she ascended to the top of a bulldozer and succeeded in stopping the flattening for a few hours.

In the end, the trip was really about learning. Instead of Pedaling for Peace in a straight line, we found ourselves biking in circles, seeing many of the same things, places, people, and situations every day. In doing so, we learned more about the situation facing New Orleans today than we could have imagined.

[Article by Malena Thoson, pictures by Beth Franklin]

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Ice Out and Cold Water Danger

On warm spring days open water can look inviting to brave swimmers - but don't be fooled. Cold water can be deadly to swimmers. That's why our nonprofit is sponsoring Minnesota Cold Water Awareness Day on Saturday, April 5, 2008. Please see our web site www.coldwaterwarning.com and click on April 2008 and teach everyone, particularly youngsters, about the danger of cold water. Thanks. Ron Jacobson, Board Member.

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El Salvador and Innocent Voices (movie)

El Salvador…and Innocent Voices

Come see a film about El Salvador: Innocent Voices! Showing Friday, April 4, 6-9 p.m. in Science 123. Innocent Voices (“Voces Inocentes”) is about a young boy caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war.

Background: During the 1980’s in El Salvador, Central America, the government’s armies were recruiting twelve-year-old children by kidnapping them from schools. Eleven year old Chava, if fortunate, has one year of innocence prior to being enrolled in the army and fight the government’s war against the rebels of the Farabundo Marti for the National Liberation’s army. Chava’s life turns into a game of survival, either dodging bullets or suffering from the isolation effects caused by the daily struggles. As Chava tries to find work to assist his mom financially, he experiences a love attraction toward a beautiful female classmate. All this happens as his village is transformed into a playground of games and armed confrontations.
With his mom’s love, a little transistor radio that plays anti-government hymns of love and peace (as only weapon), and with the impossible decision to join either the government’s army or the rebels…Chava finds another option.

Spanish: Voces Inocentes
Historia: Durante la década de los 80’s en El Salvador, las fuerzas armadas del gobierno reclutaban niños de doce años sacándolos o secuestrándolos de sus escuelas. Si Chava (un estudiante) tiene suerte, le queda un año de inocencia o un año antes de que él tambien sea enlistado y luche la batalla del gobierno contra los rebeldes del ejército Farabundo Marti de la Liberación Nacional (FMLN). La vida de Chava se convierte en un juego de surpervivencia, no sólo por las balas de la guerra sino tambien por los efectos desoladores de la violencia diaria. Mientras él lucha por encontrar trabajo para ayudar a su madre, experimenta el primer amor por una hermosa compañera de clase. Todo esto sucede mientras el pequeño pueblo de Chava se transforma en un campo de juego y de guerra. - Con el amor de su madre, un pequeño radio que transmite un prohibido himno de amor y paz (como única arma), y con la imposible decisión de tener que unirse al ejército o a los rebeldes… Chava encuentra otra opción.

Join us for a student-led discussion afterwards. This Friday, April 5 at 6 p.m. in Science 123!

Event Sponsored by the Spanish Department, Hispanic-Latino Student Services and the Center for Global Education. (For more information about to El Salvador call Ann Butwell at x1662 or butwell@augsburg.edu)

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Scholarship and Donor Brunch Sunday, April 6

The Scholarship and Donor brunch will be held Sunday, April 6, in the East Commons of the Christensen Center. We have an outstanding number of RSVP's from students and donors, so please come at 12:00 noon for registration if possible. The brunch is scheduled from 12:30 - 2:30 p.m..

If you did not RSVP yes, please don't plan to attend, as the room is full! If you did RSVP yes, we are looking forward to seeing you and have over 150 donors who can't wait to meet you!

If you have questions please e-mail hutson@augsburg.edu

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House for sale

Beautiful 3-bedroom, 2 bath home for sale in Blaine. Many updates. Open floor plan with plenty of room for entertaining. Large 3-season porch, fenced back yard and brand new deck. Easy access to Hwy 10 and 35W. Check the Edina Realty listing MLS #3518328.

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House for rent

Three-bedroom house for rent. Available July 1, 2008 to about August 1, 2009. Rent is $1,600 per month. This includes all utilities and many extras. House is located in Prospect Park, 1.5 miles from both Augsburg and U. of M. campuses - steps away from some bus lines - two minutes away from I94 East and West. Contact Ken at 1066 or 612 331 1681, or send email to <kaminsky@augsburg.edu>.

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