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WSU Today
Feb. 1, 2005
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Feb. 1 |
- New University Brown Bag Dialogues, Noon, Maxwell Teleconference Center, GL 135 at UCR and streaming video
- Schubertiade, 7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center, Recital Hall
- Visiting Scholar Series, Lecturer Michael Hurley, 11 a.m., UCR, Hill Theatre
- Delta Phi Epsilon Recruitment Night, 7:30 p.m., Purple Rooms, Kryzsko Commons
- Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity Recruitment Meeting, 7 p.m., Dining Room B, Kryzsko Commons
- Career Services Resume Workshop, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., lower hyphen
- Campus Auditions for Trudi and the Minstrel, 6-8:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center Mainstage
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| Wednesday |
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Feb. 2 |
- Education Department Admissions Meeting, 3-6 p.m., East Cafeteria, Kryzsko Commons
- Wells Fargo Financial presents, “Tips on How to Make the Most of Job Fair 2005,” 5-6 p.m., Library 102
- Joanna Kadi Presentation: "Arab Feminism: Resistance, Art and Reflection," 7 p.m., Lourdes Hall, North Lounge
- Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity Recruitment Meeting, 2 p.m., Dining Room C, Kryzsko Commons
- Athenaeum Event Series presents: President Darrell Krueger, Q&A Session, 1-3 p.m., Library Athenaeum
- Campus Auditions for Trudi and the Minstrel, 6-8:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center Mainstage
- Applications for WSU Ambassadors deadline
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| Thursday |
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Feb. 3 |
- Sandip and Friends: Tabla Drumming of North India, 7-9 p.m., Residential College, Lourdes Hall, North Lounge
- Delta Phi Epsilon Recruitment Night, 7:30 p.m., Purple Rooms, Kryzsko Commons
- Alliance of Student Organizations (ASO) Meeting, 4 p.m., Student Union, Art Tye Lounge
- New University Visioning Conference: Implementing the Vision, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Maxwell Leadership Center
- Joanna Kadi Writer's Workshop, 10 a.m.-Noon, Purple Room 104, Kryzsko Commons
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| Friday |
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Feb. 4 |
- Rowing Club Spaghetti Dinner, 7 p.m., Holzinger Lodge
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| Saturday |
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Feb. 5 |
- Music Department Scholarship Auditions
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News and Events
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Member of Little Rock Nine Speaks at WSU and SMU |
On Sept. 23, 1957, nine students, including Minnijean Brown-Trickey and eight other young African-American students, walked through the doors of Little Rock Central High and into history. In one of the defining moments of the civil rights movement, and in defiance of the state, the governor and armed troops, they took their rightful place in what had been until that moment a whites-only institution in Arkansas. History labeled them the Little Rock Nine.
Brown-Trickey will present "Return to Little Rock" at 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 7, at Winona State University's Stark Auditorium and 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 8, at Saint Mary's University's Page Theatre, located in the Performance Center.
The presentations are free and open to the public, and no advance tickets are required.
Drawing on her experiences as one of the most articulate and forceful members of the Little Rock Nine, Brown-Trickey provides audiences with a fascinating exploration of social change, diversity and the battle against discrimination and racism. Realistic, but at the same time hopeful, she helps her listeners to understand both how far our society has come from that fateful autumn in Little Rock, and how much the battle for freedom and equality still exists in America.
Sept. 23, 1957, was a short day of school for these nine students at Little Rock Central High. They were spat on, tripped, threatened and insulted. That same morning, angry mobs broke through the police barricades, and the students were escorted out of the school for their own safety.
President Eisenhower announced on television that evening that anyone interfering with the desegregation should "cease and desist," and he dispatched 1,000 men from the 101st Airborne Division to the school. Though the 101st was able to control the mob, the black students couldn't be protected from the extreme cruelty, physically and psychologically, they would endure at the school. Male students were beat up. White students walked on the heels of the blacks until they bled. White students destroyed their lockers and property and threw flaming paper at them in the bathrooms.
One of the students was nearly blinded when acid was sprayed in her eyes.
That December, Brown-Trickey was suspended for dumping chili over the head of a taunting student. In February, she was expelled for allegedly starting a fight and was transferred to New Lincoln High School in New York City. The other eight finished the school year, and Ernie Green became the first black graduate of Central High.
The event showed America that black students were strong enough to endure whatever cruelty 2,000 white students could throw at them. This event, coupled by a movement that was also underway in Montgomery, Ala., led by a young minister by the name of Martin Luther King Jr., would change America.
On the Saint Mary's campus, the event is sponsored by the InterCultural Awareness Association; for more information, call 457-1493.
On the Winona State campus, the event is sponsored by the Cultural Diversity Office; for more information, call 457-5595.
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| WSU Hosts Colloquium |
Winona State University's Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Department of Biology hosts a colloquium on Monday, Feb. 7, from 4-5 p.m., in WSU's Gildemeister Hall, Room 156. A reception will be held before the colloquium in WSU's Gildemeister Hall, Room 320, from 3-3:45 p.m.
The colloquium, Bioscapes: Aesthetics of Biological Patterns from the Perspective of Biologists, Mathematicians and Artists, presented by John R. Jungck of Beloit College's Department of Biology, focuses on the importance of mathematics being incorporated more into the biology curriculum.
Jungck's colloquium stresses the need for mathematicians and biologists to collaborate and explore challenges to both communities in light of a forthcoming explosion of interdisciplinary interactions.
For more information on the colloquium, contact Carol Joyce Blumberg, WSU Department of Mathematics and Statistics, at 457-5589. |
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| WSU Hosts Bioinformatics Workshop |
Winona State University's Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Department of Biology hosts a workshop on Monday, Feb. 7, from Noon-2 p.m., in WSU's Maxwell Hall, Room 212A.
John R. Jungck, from Beloit College's Department of Biology, presents Bedrock: Bioinformatics Education Dissemination: Reaching Out, Connecting and Knitting-together, a workshop for biologists who are interested in implementing bioinformatics across their biology curriculum.
The workshop will focus on several different ways the analysis of molecular data is being applied to solve current biological problems in areas such as medicine, agriculture, conservation and evolution. Jungck will address the relationships between evolutionary theory and the mathematical and computational analysis of molecular sequence and structure data.
The workshop serves as a learning resource for faculty across the biological sciences, as a forum for undergraduate teachers of bioinformatics and as an opportunity for developing undergraduate research programs in bioinformatics.
For more information on this workshop, contact Steve Leonhardi by Monday, Jan. 31, at 457-2359, or sleonhardi@winona.edu.
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| Wells Fargo Financial Presents at WSU |
Wells Fargo Financial presents, “Tips on How to Make the Most of Job Fair 2005” and discusses employment opportunities with Wells Fargo Financial, Wednesday, Feb. 2, from 5-6 p.m., in Library, Room 102.
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| WSU Music Department Presents Schubertiade |
Winona State University's Music Department presents the annual Schubertiade, Tuesday, Feb. 1, at 7:30 p.m., in the Performing Arts Center Recital Hall.
The WSU Concert Choir and Women's Chorus, conducted by Harry Mechell, will sing music of Franz Schubert, a nineteenth century musician.
The program features several WSU student solo vocalists, special appearances by WSU faculty members, Eric Brisson, Barbara DuFresne and Jonelle Moore, and featured clarinetist for the evening, Tasha Kalis, WSU Senior.
The WSU student chapter of the American Choral Directors Association produces the Schubertiade event. Tickets are available at the door and cost $5 for adults and $3 for children, students and senior citizens. |
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| WSU Holds New University Visioning Conference |
Winona State University invites students, staff, faculty, administrators and partners to participate in a one-day New University Visioning Conference: Implementing the Vision, on Thursday, Feb. 3, from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., in the WSU Maxwell Leadership Center.
Over 200 WSU students, employees and community partners have registered to attend the New University Visioning Conference: Implementing the Vision on Thursday, Feb. 3.
Others may watch on streaming video. For more information, contact http://www.winona.edu/newuniversity/ .
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| GarageBand Fest '04 Announces Contest Winners |
Padraic McGee won 1st place in the GarageBand Fest ’04 contest with the song "Getaway Six". Padraic won a brand new M-Audio Piano keyboard.
Heath Sershen won 2nd place with "LaCrosse es Slow."
To listen to all the music submitted visit: http://www.mugwarrior.org/garageband/listen.php.
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| GarageBand Fest Music Available for Make-A-Movie Contestants |
Music from the GarageBand Fest ’04 contest is available for the Make-A-Movie contest.
For more information, contact http://www.mugwarrior.org/makeamovie/.
If the music doesn’t fit needs, students can learn how to use GarageBand, Apple’s easy to use music making software. Laptop Learning Lab offers hands-on workshops in both iMovie and Garageband. Workshop schedules can be found here: http://www.winona.edu/its/lll/Workshops/iMovie/iMovieWorkshopSchedule.htm
The Make-A-Movie event is sponsored by the WSU Mac Users Group, WSU Technical Support, and Apple Computer Inc.
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| WSU Education Organizations Host Tsunami School Supply Fundraiser |
Winona State education organizations invite the community to participate in a school supply fundraiser for countries affected by the recent tsunami.
The school supply collection for tsunami affected areas is located in the Education Office, in Gildemeister 152, through Wednesday, Feb. 2.
Donations may include any new school supplies: notebooks, pencils, pens, folders or art supplies.
The school supplies will be delivered to the Basilica of St. Mary's in Minneapolis. This church is collecting donations that are being delivered to Sri Lanka by a local representative.
This event is sponsored by the Education Minnesota Student Program, the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education, the Student International Reading Association, along with the WSU Tsunami Relief committee.
Any questions, contact Echo Kruckenberg at EMKrucke3066@webmail.winona.edu or 651-324-2507.
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| 3M Offers Cash for Tablet Computer Survey |
3M is exploring ways to improve the screens of Tablet computers. Students, faculty and staff are invited to share their thoughts about their Gateway convertible Tablet, and approximately forty people will be chosen to be interviewed. Those who are interviewed will receive $50 cash.
Those interested in talking with representatives of 3M can click here, fill out the short questionnaire and drop it of in the appropriately marked box in the Student Union, Kryzsko Commons. Or, follow the directions on the questionnaire to send back via e-mail, at
3MTablet@mmm.com.
Questionnaires must be submitted by
Friday, Feb. 4 to be eligible.
Those chosen will be contacted by 3M for one-hour interviews in mid February and must be a regular user of a Gateway Tablet computer. The cash payment is only granted to those who are interviewed.
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| Winona State Hosts Joanna Kadi Writer's Workshop |
Winona State University presents Joanna Kadi's writer's workshop, "Understanding Race and Class Together: A Critical Thinking Workshop," Thursday, Feb. 3, from 10 a.m.-Noon, in WSU's Purple Room 104.
The workshop focuses on laying out basic conceptual frameworks for race/racism and class/classism and how they are intertwined and interconnected. The workshop combines a mix of individual and group work, personal reflection and writing exercises. Bring a pen and paper. There will be a concentration on pedagogies, which will help effectively teach these complex concepts.
Coffee and treats are provided at the workshop, which is limited to 30 participants. The workshop is open to all levels of experience.
The workshop is sponsored by WSU's Women's Studies, Women Involved in Living and Learning, the Residential College and the WSU Foundation.
For more information, questions or to reserve a place in the workshop, e-mail Tamara Berg, tberg@winona.edu.
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| WSU Education Department Hosts Admissions Meeting |
The Education Department Admissions Meeting will be held Wednesday, Feb. 2, from 3–6 p.m., in the East Cafeteria, Kryzsko Commons.
This meeting is for all education students who plan on beginning the Education Program in Fall 2005.
For additional questions, contact the Education Department Office, in Gildemeister 152 or visit their website at www.winona.edu/education/advising. |
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| WSU Offers Volunteer Income Tax Assistance |
Winona State University Accounting Professor Richard Schneider and a group of accounting students are volunteering their time to provide free income tax assistance to low income individuals and families.
The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program assists taxpayers in preparing their tax returns through appointments in WSU's Maxwell Hall, Room 147.
The office is open Wednesdays through Saturdays by appointment beginning Saturday, Jan. 29. VITA students are available to assist taxpayers with appointments on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 3-7 p.m., and Saturdays, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
The office will be closed for spring break, March 11-19, and will reopen Wednesday, March 23.
To qualify for the services, a single person must earn a total income of $18,000 or less. A family with two individuals may earn a total income of $25,000 or less, and a family with more than two individuals may earn a total income of $28,000 or less to receive VITA services. Dependents must earn $8,000 or less.
For an appointment or for more information, contact the WSU VITA office at 457-2433. |
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| WSU Campus Tour Guides Accepting Applications |
Winona State campus tour guides are accepting applicants for WSU Ambassadors. Applications are now available in the Admissions Office. The deadline is Wednesday, Feb. 2.
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