Public Safety and Facilities Announcements
Teaching and Learning
General Announcements
- Rochester Drop Date
- Shopping Weekend @ Run-N-Fun
- Drug Free Schools Annual Notice
- New Augsburg Dining Website
- Tabling Requests/Event Request Forms
- Fall Day Drop Date
- Cedar Riverside Fair - Saturday the 18th
- Need to Buy Flex Points?
- Convocation Schedule and Class Schedule
- Win $25 Pizza Luce Card Today, 12-4 in Christensen
- Spanish Conversation is Back
- Mpls WEC Drop Date
- $10 Target Gift Cards Up for Grabs - Final Week
- Free Lockers for Students
- Student Mindfulness Meditation Club
- Recovery Month Tidbits
Event Announcements
Keeping Track of Auggies
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Public Safety and Facilities Announcements
Free Urban Bicycle Road Seminar
The Department of Public Safety is hosting a free, 2 hour outdoor bicycle safety seminar on-campus, instructed by the Twin Cities Bike Walk Ambassadors. If you don't own a bicycle, we can provide a loaner. Come practice "need to knows" for safe bike handling in an urban environment. You'll learn proper lane positioning, signaling turns, safe quick stops, maneuvering around obstacles etc. Participants will each receive free bike maps and other cool prizes! Pizza will be served afterwards. All experience levels are encouraged to attend. Thursday, September 23rd from 4:00pm - 6:00pm. You must pre-register by e-mailing DPS Officer Jennifer Kellogg at kellogg@augsburg.edu
Teaching and Learning
Men Ending Rape: Transforming A Rape Culture
On Wednesday, September 29 at 6:30pm, please come to the Chapel for Keith Edwards' talk, "Men Ending Rape: Transforming A Rape Culture." Keith is nationally recognized for his sexual assault prevention work with the organization, Men Ending Rape, and he speaks on diversity, social justice, and college men's issues. His talk will also kick off the formation of a student organization that will focus on sexual assault prevention and education. We hope to see you there – all are welcome!
Keith's appearance at Augsburg is sponsored by the Anne Pederson Women's Resource Center, Dean of Students, Augsburg for Adults, Campus Activities and Orientation, American Indian Student Services, LGBTQIA Services, Department of Residence Life, and Counseling and Health Promotion.
Questions? Contact Jessica Nathanson at nathanso@augsburg.edu or at x1528.
New CGE Scholarships to Study Abroad
You want to study abroad, get credits to graduate on time, take classes that apply to your major, and see the world...yet you wonder how to afford it.
CGE has a number of NEW scholarships for you to study abroad as early as Spring 2011!
•Pell Grant Matching Scholarship - For students who receive a Pell Grant and participate in our "Migration & Globalization" Spring 2011 semester program, CGE will match the amount of your Pell Grant.
•$1,000 CGE Auggie Grant - Study abroad through any of our semester programs and get a $1,000 grant automatically!
•Diversity Scholarship - Awards cover up to 50% off the cost of any CGE semester program for for ethnic minority and LGBT students.
•Need-Based Financial Aid - Awards cover up to 50% off the cost of any CGE semester program for students with financial need.
Stop by our table at the Study Abroad Fair TODAY to learn more about our programs, application, and scholarship opportunities!
Augsburg Study Abroad Fair
Christensen Center Lobby
12 to 4pm
Mindful Dialogues: The Problem of General Education
Faculty and Staff Conversation with Wine and Cheese Reception
Thursday, September 23, 4:30-6:00, 111 Oren Gateway Center (Note Room Change)
This year launches a new series, Mindful Dialogues, to collectively examine issues relevant to higher education. In the fall, we will examine Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University, and in the spring, we will explore Peter Block's Community: The first session will address the first chapter, "The Problem of General Education." An informal wine and cheese reception will follow.
Facilitator: Doug Green, English.
Please rsvp to lashbroo@augsburg.edu so we can make proper arrangements and/or to obtain a copy of the book.
Dr. Smadar Lavie on the Mizrahi-Palestinian Border
The first of the Women's Resource Center brown-bag lunches this year will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 22 at 12:30 in 207 Sverdrup. Anthropologist and Women's Studies and Religion scholar, Dr. Smadar Lavie, will give a paper on the Mizrahi-Palestinian border zone and feminist transnationalism (an abstract is below).
Please feel free to bring your lunch. Water, tea, hot chocolate, and instant coffee will be available. Faculty and staff are particularly encouraged to attend.
"Where is the Mizrahi-Palestinian Border Zone? Interrogating Feminist Transnationalism Through the Bounds of the Lived"
Gloria Anzaldua describes the border as an "open wound…where the Third World grates against the First and bleeds. And before a scab forms, it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country; a border culture." She proposes that this "third country" is where South/South feminist coalitions are possible without the mediation of U.S.-European feminism. For Anzaldua, the border zone between transnational "hyphens" connotes fluidity and movement across boundaries. In the case of Euro-Israel, the volatile gender/race/nation South/South coalition among subaltern Arabs is forced upon both Mizrahi ("Eastern," Hebrew) women and Palestinian women who have Israeli citizenship. These women do not want to be in this "third country," which emerges from the dispossession of their lands, languages, and cultures. But they are stuck.
I argue that the Mizrahi and Palestinian-Israeli "hyphens" are what allow subaltern, non-European women in the State of Israel to transform their trapped status into the radical act of "staying put." "Staying put" here means using the state's limits on mobility as a source of empowerment. "Staying put" means dancing delicately on those "hyphens" while concurrently rejecting them, for the act of "staying put" is not representational, but somatic—and therefore difficult to theorize about outside of the bounds of lived experience. I question the feminist ethnographic renditions of "discourse" and "transnationalism" by examining the limits that feminist post-colonial theory encounters when it attempts to describe the lived horrors of the border zone.
Thus, this text challenges the modes of the textualization of gendered ethnographic experience. It calls into question not only the older "reflexive" style of feminist ethnographies, but also the new genres of feminist ethnography that call for—as well as problematize—the ethnographer's commitment to bear public witness to suffering.
General Announcements
Rochester Drop Date
Rochester students: the last day to withdraw without notation (without a "W") is Monday, 20 Sep 2010. Currently registered students may also add a course with instructor permission through Monday, 20 Sep 2010. Please sign in to AugNet Records and Registration, click on Active Courses, and verify your schedule is correct. Courses may be dropped online. Adding courses must be process through the Enrollment Center. Please ensure you make your course adjustments by the close of business on the 20th. Note the official calendar is found on the Registrar web page at: http://www.augsburg.edu/registrar/.
Shopping Weekend @ Run-N-Fun
Run-N-Fun in St. Paul and Burnsville is offering ALL Augsburg fac/staff 25% off retail on shoes, 30% off retail on clothes this weekend, Sat., Sept. 18 and Sun., Sept. 19. If you miss the deals this weekend they are always offering fac/staff 20% off retail on shoes and 25% off retail on clothes. No ID needed, just tell the folks working you're an Auggie fac/staff person.
Drug Free Schools Annual Notice
Annual Notification regarding Drug Free Schools
The on-line Student Guide has information about standards of conduct, appropriate sanctions for violations of federal, state, and local law and campus policy, a description of health risks associated with alcohol and other drug use, and a description of available treatment programs. You can find the Student Guide at www.augsburg.edu/studentguide/
This information is provided as part of Augsburg's compliance with the Drug Free Schools and Communities Act of 1989 (Public Law 101-226). An institution of higher education (IHE) must certify that it has adopted and implemented a program to prevent the unlawful possession, use, or distribution of illicit drugs and alcohol by students and employees. The plan must include annual notification to each student, in writing, of standards of conduct, a description of appropriate sanctions for violation of federal, state, and local law and campus policy, a description of health risks associated with alcohol and other drug use and a description of available treatment programs.
A copy of Augsburg's Drug Free 2010-2012 Plan and the Drug Free 2008-2010 Report can be found at http://web.augsburg.edu/~garvey/
New Augsburg Dining Website
Check out the newly designed Augsburg Dining website. Here you find information on all things Augsburg Dining (menus, hours, news, etc.). We're even connected to some of your favorite social networks, such as Facebook & Twitter. If you find the Augsburg Dining Services page on Facebook and "like" it, you will be automatically entered throughout the year for prizes and giveaway, such as gas gift cards, microwaves, and more!
Check it out today and keep it in handy throughout the school year!
http://www.aviands.com/augsburg
Tabling Requests/Event Request Forms
Event & Conference Planning recently underwent a website upgrade to be able to offer more complete information and resources for events planners on campus. Unfortunately, we've been made aware that some are experiencing problems with the Room Request Form, Event Request Form and Tabling Request Forms.
If you have submitted a request form in the last week and HAVE NOT received an email confirmation back from Events, please contact us right away by calling x1104 or emailing events@augsburg.edu to confirm your reservation.
Thanks, and sorry for any confusion.
Event & Conference Planning
Fall Day Drop Date
Day students: the last day to withdraw without notation (without a "W") from a full-semester course is Tuesday, 21 Sep 2010. Currently registered students may also add a full-semester course with instructor permission through Tuesday, 21 Sep 2010. Please sign in to AugNet Records and Registration, click on Active Courses, and verify your schedule is correct. Courses may be dropped online. Adding courses must be processed through the Enrollment Center. Please ensure you make your course adjustments by the close of business on the 21st. Note the official calendar for the Day program is found on the Registrar web page at: http://www.augsburg.edu/registrar/.
Cedar Riverside Fair - Saturday the 18th
All Cedar Riverside community members are invited to the West Bank CDC Annual Meeting this Saturday, September 18th at 11 a.m. We are having an outside Fair in the small park at 718 19th Ave S. (located at the intersection of 8th Street and 19th Avenue).
There will be and arts & crafts activities and community-participation drumming, exhibits about the CDC's housing, Nice Ride Minnesota, Freewheel Bike and others, a performance by Batucada do Norte Drum Ensemble, as well as Ethiopian, Korean and Somali food.
We will also be giving out shopping bags, caps and T-shirts while supplies last. EVERYTHING IS FREE AND EVERYONE IS WELCOME - BRING THE WHOLE FAMILY!
We will be under a tent in case of rain, but dress for the weather. A flyer is attached.
Minneapolis Cedar Riverside Neighbors Forum now contains the following file
http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/file/1032-2010-09-14T180413Z
Need to Buy Flex Points?
If you need Flex Points to use at any of the Augsburg Dining locations, don't forget to visit Chris Nowak in the A-Club Grille office, Monday through Friday from 11am until 1:30pm. It's fast, easy, and convenient! You'll never have to worry about carrying cash or your debit card again...all the funds are placed on your student ID within minutes.
If you need further assistance with Flex Points or your meal plan, visit Chris or contact him at augsburg@aviands.com
Convocation Schedule and Class Schedule
The Convocation schedule for the entire year schedule with class time adjustments are viewable anytime through the Registrar web page at http://www.augsburg.edu/registrar/. Click on "Faculty Information', then click on 'Convocation Schedule 2010-2011'.
Win $25 Pizza Luce Card Today, 12-4 in Christensen
Come to Christensen Center Today to enter to win a $25 Pizza Luce gift card and to Learn about more than 300 worldwide programs in over 80 countries, including Augsburg's own short-term/ faculty-led, Center for Global Education (CGE), International Partners (IP) and HECUA programs.
You can:
+ take your classes in English
+ fulfill requirements abroad
+ use financial aid for study abroad
+ receive study abroad scholarships
+ go abroad for any term, from 2 weeks up to a full year
+ have one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of your life
TODAY--Wednesday, September 15
12 noon to 4:00 pm, Christensen Center Lobby
Deadline for study abroad in Winter Break and Spring Semester abroad is October 1st!
http://www.augsburg.edu/augsburgabroad/apply.html
Spanish Conversation is Back
Start the year off right by honing your Spanish conversation skills!
We are excited to start another year of the Spanish conversation group and invite you to join us. Are you interested in practicing your Spanish in a relaxed and friendly setting? All language levels are welcome - we promise there will be no grammar lessons! We will meet every Thursday from 11:00 - 12:30 on the 2nd floor of the Christensen Center, in the Riverside Room. Come for 10 mins. or for the whole session, whatever works for you. You are welcome to bring your lunch. Questions? Contact Emiliano Chagil, ext. 1309; Anita Fisher, ext. 1082 or Kate Reinhardt, ext. 1081. We hope to see you there!
Mpls WEC Drop Date
Minneapolis/Bloomington/United WEC students: the last day to withdraw without notation (without a "W") is this Friday, 17 Sep 2010. Currently registered students may also add a course with instructor permission through Friday, 17 Sep 2010. Please sign in to AugNet Records and Registration, click on Active Courses, and verify your schedule is correct. Courses may be dropped online. Adding courses must be processed through the Enrollment Center. Please ensure you make your course adjustments by the close of business on Friday. Note the official calendar is found on the Registrar web page at: http://www.augsburg.edu/registrar/.
$10 Target Gift Cards Up for Grabs - Final Week
Want to earn an easy $10 Target gift card in less than an hour? Tell us about your experiences as an Auggie at an upcoming focus group.
Join us from 4-5 p.m. on September 21 or 23 in Oren Gateway 300.
It's quick, easy, and a great way to have your opinions count! (And there are no wrong answers, how cool is that?)
Contact Amanda Storm, storma@augsburg.edu to sign up today!
Free Lockers For Students
Campus Activities and Orientation has a limited number of lockers that students can reserve for their use for the academic year. These lockers are completely free and are located on the ground floor of Science Building. Lockers are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis, and priority is given to students who commute from off-campus. To find out more information on how to reserve a locker, contact Michael Grewe, CAO Assistant Director, via email at grewe@augsburg.edu as soon as possible!
Student Mindfulness Meditation club
Come checkout the 1st meeting for Augsburg's Mindfulness for Students Club--Thursday 5-6:30 Marshall Room. We'll be exploring meditation techniques that are great for stress management--before the semester gets too busy or work piles up! ALL students of ALL experience levels are welcome. Please come and meet other students interested practicing mindfulness on-campus, or contact Jon at vaughanf@augsburg.edu for more info.
Recovery Month Tidbits
Narcotics Anonymous sprang from the Alcoholics Anonymous Program of the late 1940s, with meetings first emerging in the Los Angeles area of California, USA, in the early Fifties. The NA program started as a small US movement that has grown into one of the world's oldest and largest organizations of its type.
For many years, NA grew very slowly, spreading from Los Angeles to other major North American cities and Australia in the early 1970s. In 1983, Narcotics Anonymous published its self-titled Basic Text book, which contributed to tremendous growth. Within a few years, groups had formed in Brazil, Colombia, Germany, India, the Irish Republic, Japan, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
Today, Narcotics Anonymous is well established throughout much of the Americas, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Newly formed groups and NA communities are now scattered throughout the Indian subcontinent, Africa, East Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Narcotics Anonymous books and information pamphlets are currently available in 34 languages, with translations in process for 16 languages.
Event Announcements
Queer and Straight in Unity
The next QSU meeting will be this Thursday, September 16th at 6:30pm. Currently, we are waiting to hear back from Events Services about possible locations- room OGC 100 has been requested and I will send a confirmation email when this has been confirmed.
Our elections for the offices of treasure and secretary is going to happen differently than we had agreed on at our last meeting. On Thursday each candidate will spend under three minutes describing themselves and their desire to fulfill office. I will hand out a ballot to each person and collect them after they have been filled out. After the meeting Aaron, my co-commissioner and I will count the votes and send out an email with the results.
Everyone is welcome!
Medieval Studies and Goliard Meeting this Friday
Huzzah! Please join us for a joint meeting of Medieval Studies majors and the Goliard Society of Medievalists. Whether you're interested in studying the Middle Ages in a serious way, or just want to playfully explore this time period, we'll discuss all sorts of opportunities that might be of interest.
The meeting is this Friday, September 17, at 5 PM in Lindell Library, Room 301. Pizza will be served. Please bring your own beverage. For more info, or to RSVP, please contact Phil Adamo, adamo@augsburg.edu.
Receptions and Artist Talks - Friday
Join us this Friday for the first exhibition receptions of the 2010-11 gallery season. Take in the exhibitions, meet the artists and hear them discuss their artwork, all while enjoy food and refreshments.
"Living Organics/09.01.29"
Kiera Faber
Friday, September 17
Artist Talk: 1:30 p.m.
Reception: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Gage Family Art Gallery, Oren Gateway Center
Approximately 19,000 individual photographs make up Kiera Faber's eleven minute stop-motion animation film, "Living Organics / 09.01.29," exploring a world where appearances are deceiving. Food and refreshments provided.
"Selected Works from the Reliquarium Collection"
Sarah Stone
Friday, September 17
Reception: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Artist Talk at 6:30 p.m.
Christensen Center Art Gallery, Christensen Center
Using images ranging from the Venus of Willendorf to a Gucci shoe, Sarah Stone explores iconography through her series of acrylic paintings. Food and refreshments will be provided.
Seminary and Divinity School Day at Augsburg
Announcing Seminary and Divinity School Day on Thursday, September 30
Interested in exploring theological graduate study opportunities?
Join other students from regional colleges and universities and representatives from at least 14 different Seminaries and Divinity Schools to explore possible callings. Other guests from organizations such as Global Ministries will also be present. Students of ALL Denominations welcome!
Schedule
9:30 a.m. - Registration and time to talk with School Representatives
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - Welcome, Introductions, Small Group Discussions
11:20 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. - Chapel with Joanna Flaten '08
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Lunch and Keynote Address by Dr. Matt Skinner
1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. - Break-Out Session #1
2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. - Break-Out Session #2
3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. - Closing Session
3:45 p.m. - Sending Reception
For more information or to register, stop by the Campus Ministry Office or contact Lonna Field, fieldl@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1467. Lunch is free for all who pre-register.
Pre-registration is due by September 23.
Study and Intern Abroad Fair - Today
Learn about more than 300 worldwide programs in over 80 countries, including Augsburg's own short-term/ faculty-led, Center for Global Education (CGE), International Partners (IP) and HECUA programs.
Enter to win a $25 gift card for Pizza Lucé.
You can:
+ fulfill requirements abroad
+ use financial aid for study abroad
+ receive study abroad scholarships
+ go abroad for any term, from 2 weeks up to a full year
+ have one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of your life
TODAY--Wednesday, September 15
12 noon to 4:00 pm, Christensen Center Lobby
Deadline for study abroad in Winter Break and Spring Semester abroad is October 1st!
http://www.augsburg.edu/augsburgabroad/apply.html
Tai Chi Practice Session Today
If you would like to join others in practicing Tai Chi, consider attending the practice session on Wednesday, Sept. 15 from 4:30-5:30 PM in Melby 128 (the old wrestling room). There is no instructor and those who attend help each other. All are welcome!
Keeping Track of Auggies
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Auggie Athletics
Auggie Athletics Update
Auggie Athletics Update (click on link for story/stats):
Tuesday, Sept. 14:
Women's Soccer -- St. Benedict 2, Augsburg 0
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/9/14/wsoc091410.aspx?path=wsoc
Upcoming Events:
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/
Wednesday, Sept. 15:
Men's Soccer -- Augsburg at St. John's, 4 p.m.
Volleyball -- Augsburg vs. St. Mary's, Si Melby Hall, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 18:
M/W Cross Country -- Augsburg at St. Olaf Invitational, 10 a.m.
Football -- Augsburg vs. Hamline, Edor Nelson Field, 1 p.m.
Men's Soccer -- Augsburg at St. Thomas, 1 p.m.
Women's Soccer -- Augsburg vs. St. Thomas, Edor Nelson Field, 7 p.m.
Men's Golf -- Augsburg at St. John's Fall Invitational
Women's Golf -- Augsburg at Carleton Division III Midwest Classic
Sunday, Sept. 19:
Men's Golf -- Augsburg at St. John's Fall Invitational
Women's Golf -- Augsburg at Carleton Division III Midwest Classic
Monday, Sept. 20:
Volleyball -- Augsburg vs. Crown, Si Melby Hall, 7 p.m.
Men's Soccer -- Augsburg vs. Northwestern-Roseville, Edor Nelson Field, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 21:
Women's Soccer -- Augsburg vs. Wisconsin-La Crosse, Edor Nelson Field, 6 p.m.
Classifieds
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