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WSU Today
Feb. 15, 2005
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Feb. 15 |
- New University Brown Bag Dialogues: Student Q and A, Noon, Maxwell Teleconference Center, GL 135 at UCR and streaming video
- Guest Artist Series presents Deanne Mohr, 7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center Recital Hall
- Golden Key National Honor Society meeting, 8 p.m., Dining Room C, Kryzsko Commons
- Travel Study meeting, 6:30 p.m., Memorial Hall, Room 209
- Student Senate applications due in the Student Senate Office
- Host a PAL sign-up, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Jack Kane, Kryzsko Commons
- Host a PAL sign-up, 1-3 p.m., Lower Hyphen, Kryzsko Commons
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| Wednesday |
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Feb. 16 |
- Lisa Schoenfielder and Julia Leonard present artists' slide talks, 1:30-2:30 p.m., Stark Hall Auditorium; reception, 2:30-5 p.m., Paul Watkins Gallery
- Rita Rahoi-Gilchrest’s “Meet and Greet” Informational Session, 11 a.m., Purple Rooms 104 and 105, Kryzsko Commons
- Assessment Day
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| Thursday |
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Feb. 17 |
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Junior Seminar Series of Mathematics and Its Applications Talk Six
Topic: Pulse Width Modulated Circuits: Dynamic Modeling and Chaos, 4-5 p.m., Gildemeister Hall, Room 155
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National Society of Collegiate Scholars Taco Dinner, 9-11 p.m., Jefferson’s Restaurant
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Black Cultural Awareness Association presents "Thirsty for Diversity" Black History Month movie series, 6 p.m., Student Activities Center, Kryzsko Commons
- Dancescape, 7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center Main Stage
- Residential College International Series presents Nirmala Rajasekar: Music of South India, 7-9 p.m., Lourdes Hall, North Lounge
- Host a PAL sign-up, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Jack Kane, Kryzsko Commons
- Host a PAL sign-up, 1-3 p.m., Lower Hyphen, Kryzsko Commons
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Presidential Candidate One: Tour of Winona Main Campus, 7:30-9:30 a.m.
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Presidential Candidate One: Meeting with Council of Administrators, 9:30-10:15 a.m., Somsen 213
- Presidential Candidate One: Meeting with Human Resources, 10:15-10:30 a.m., Somsen 204
- Presidential Candidate One: Meeting with Faculty/MSUAASF, 10:30-11:15 a.m., Purple Rooms, Kryzsko Commons
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Presidential Candidate One: Meeting with AFSCME/MAPE/MMA/MNA/Confidentials, 11:30–12:15 p.m., Purple Rooms, Kryzsko Commons
- Presidential Candidate One: Meeting with New University Steering Committee and Workgroup Chairs, 12:30-1:15 p.m., Dining Room B, Kryzsko Commons
- Presidential Candidate One: Meeting with Press, 1:30-1:45 p.m., Wenonah Room, Kryzsko Commons
- Presidential Candidate One: Meeting with Development, 1:45-2:20 p.m., Wenonah Room, Kryzsko Commons
- Presidential Candidate One: Campus Open Session, 2:30-3:15 p.m., Purple Rooms, Kryzsko Commons
- Presidential Candidate One: Meeting with Students, 3:30-4:15 p.m., Purple Rooms, Kryzsko Commons
- Presidential Candidate One: Tour of West Campus, 4:15-5 p.m.
- Presidential Candidate One: Community Reception, 5-6 p.m., Tau Center Rotunda
- Presidential Candidate One: Meeting with Cabinet and guests, 7-8:30 p.m.
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| Friday |
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Feb. 18 |
- Dancescape, 7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center Main Stage
- Athenaeum Event Series presents: Civility Conference, 1-3 p.m., Somsen Auditorium
- Job Fair 2005, Minneapolis Convention Center
- Host a PAL sign-up, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Jack Kane, Kryzsko Commons
- Host a PAL sign-up, 1-3 p.m., Lower Hyphen, Kryzsko Commons
- Presidential Candidate One: Tour of University Center Rochesters, 8-9:15 a.m.
- Presidential Candidate One: Meeting with Faculty/Staff, 9:30-10:15 a.m., CF206
- Presidential Candidate One: Meeting with Students, 10:30-11:15 a.m., CF206
- Presidential Candidate One: Meeting with Rochester Community Partners , 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., AT 302
- Presidential Candidate One: Final Interview with Search Committee, 2-3 p.m.
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| Saturday |
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Feb. 19 |
- Women's Gymnastics vs. UW-Eau Claire, 1 p.m., McCown Gym
- Dancescape, 2 p.m., Performing Arts Center Main Stage
- Soul Food Dinner, 5:30 p.m., East Cafeteria, Kryzsko Commons
- Dancescape, 7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center Main Stage
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| Sunday |
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Feb. 20 |
- Student Recital: Adam Davis, 3 p.m., Performing Arts Center Recital Hall
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News and Events
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| WSU Holds Civility Symposium |
Winona State University holds a symposium on civility on Friday, Feb. 18, from 1-3 p.m., in WSU's Somsen Auditorium.
The civility topic was recommended by WSU's faculty senate to help the university community be better prepared to appropriately deal with controversial issues as they may arise.
"The idea is to allow you [symposium participants and speakers] as much freedom as possible to talk about matters of civility, civil liberties, civic engagement and political discourse on college campuses from your perspective," said Troy Paino, dean of the college of liberal arts and symposium organizer.
Some of the speakers at this forum include: D'Ann Urbaniak Lesch, Center for Democracy and Citizenship at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs; Timothy Shiell, philosophy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout; and Paul Durand, Winona Area Public Schools superintendent.
The symposium will focus on several issues including free speech limits, the university's role in protecting and promoting civil liberties, the question of whether the university should require civility and if civility conflicts with civil liberties, civility's definition and importance and how civility on a college campus improves our world.
"I am sure the students, staff, faculty and administration of WSU, and the Winona community, will learn a lot from what the speakers have to say at this symposium," said Paino.
After the talks, 45 minutes will be dedicated to a question and answer session. |
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| Commucation Studies Club Presents Rita Rahoi-Gilchrest |
Winona State University’s Communication Studies Club will be featuring Rita Rahoi-Gilchrest’s “Meet and Greet” informational session on Wednesday, Feb. 16, at 11 a.m., in Purple Rooms 104 and 105.
The Meet and Greet session will provide students with the opportunity to sharpen their skills. In addition to the meet and greet session, individual resume attention will be provided in 15 minute sessions from 10-11 a.m. To sign up for individual resume time, stop by the communication studies club board on the second floor of the Performing Arts Centert, or stop by the Purple Rooms on Wednesday, Feb. 16, during the times mentioned above.
For more information, email commclub@webmail.winona.ed . |
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| Winona Presents Jason Clay Lecture |
As a follow-up to Frances Moore Lappe's presentation, the local environmental organization, Sustain Winona and the Bluff Country Co-op Natural Foods Grocery invite the public to view Jason Clay's lecture, "Harmonizing Global Commodities, Biodiversity, and Business," on Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m., in the County Board Room at the Winona County Government Center, Second Floor, at 177 Main Street, Winona.
A panel of local experts involved in sustainable agriculture will also discuss how Clay's ideas can be made relevant to the economic and environmental sustainability of the Winona area. The panelists include WSU professors Toby Dogwiler and Linda D'Amico, and other experts in issues of sustainability. An audience discussion will follow the presentations.
The event is free and open to the public.
The event will be broadcast live on HBC, channel 19, and on Charter, channel 8. Re-broadcasts are on HBC, channel 20, on Saturday, Feb. 19, at 7:30-9 p.m., and on Charter, channel 6, on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 7-8:30 p.m.
For more information, contact Emilie Falc, at 457-5233 or efalc@winona.edu.
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| UPAC Presents Horatio Sanz |
UPAC presents Horatio Sanz, on Thursday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m., in Somsen Auditorium.
Sanz is a current cast member on Saturday Night Live, and is performing an improv comedy show. Tickets cost $10 and go on sale Thursday, Feb. 17 in the UPAC Office, in the Student Union.
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| The All-University Wellness Committe Offers America on the Move |
| The All-University Wellness Committe invites students, faculty, and staff towards a healthier lifestyle by joining America on the Move. The America on the Move website offers exercise tracking and daily health advice on how to keep working towards your fitness goal.
To register with Winona State, go to http://www.AmericaOnTheMove.org, click "Join Now," select "Individual" registration and enter the code rwi18319.
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| National Society of Collegiate Scholars Host Taco Dinner |
The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS) is hosting a Taco Dinner on Thursday, Feb. 17, from 9-11 p.m., at Jefferson’s Restaurant.
Tickets cost $6 at the door and all of the proceeds benefit Planning for College Success, the NSCS mentoring and tutoring program in the Winona community.
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| The New University Brown Bag Dialogue Presents "Student Q and A" |
The New University Brown Bag Dialogue for this week is on Tuesday, Feb. 15, at noon, in the Maxwell Teleconference Center, GL 332 at UCR or live on streaming video. This week the dialogue will focus on a student question and answer session. Students have the opportunity to ask questions to find out how they will be impacted by the New University. |
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| WSU Presents "Art of the Book and Artistic Serial" |
"Art of the Book and Artistic Serial" is open at Paul Watkins Gallery and is on view through March 3.
La Crosse printmaker Lisa Schoenfielder and Iowan bookbinder Julia Leonard present artists’ slide talks on Wednesday, Feb. 16, from 1:30–2:30 p.m., in Stark Hall Auditorium, followed by an artists’ reception in the Gallery until 5 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.
The exhibit includes a range of examples of limited-edition books, including fine press books and artists’ books. Individual prints of artwork published in some of the books are also on display, as well as other prints by those artists. Eight artists are included in the exhibition, among them printmaker and St. Mary’s professor Preston Lawing and local poet and bookbinder Chad Oness.
Preston Lawing's handmade book, "Chucklehead's White Mules," is included in the current exhibition, "Art of the Book and Artistic Serial," at Watkins Gallery. The book's text is letterpress printed and the illustrations include intaglio, silkscreen, vitreograph, photo-intaglio, blind emboss and woodcut prints. "I use it as a teaching tool," said Lawing, "because it has examples of so many different printmaking processes." It is one of two of his books that can be handled by viewers anytime during the exhibition.
Paul Watkins Gallery is located in Watkins Hall. Gallery Hours are Monday–Friday, 8a.m.–4 p.m., and Wednesdays, 8 a.m.–8 p.m. For more information, call 457-5395. |
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| Black Cultural Awareness Association Presents "Thirsty for Diversity" |
Winona State University's Black Cultural Awareness Association presents "Thirsty for Diversity," a Black History Month movie series each Thursday night, in the Student Activities Center, Kryzsko Commons.
The next movie showing is Ray, Thursday, Feb. 17, at 6 p.m.
The Black History Month event is free and open to all university students and employees, as well as the general public. Free snacks and pop are provided. |
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| WSU Presents Dancescape 2005 |
The Winona State University Department of Theatre and Dance presents Dancescape 2005, Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 17-19, at 7:30 p.m., on the WSU Performing Arts Center Main Stage. A matinee performance is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m.
This annual dance event features original choreography and performance by WSU students, faculty and guest choreographers in a range of new dance works.
Featured guest artists this year include Canadian pianist Erik Brisson, Minneapolis costume designer Linnae Enockson and choreographer Kim Nofsinger, from Murfreesboro Tennessee State University. Selected choreography by WSU dance alumni Tony Bartholomaus, Avin Honecker Sherman and Alanna Duffy and local choreographer Genevieve Draskoci-Johnson is also be showcased.
The 50-member cast and crew of Dancescape are the students of WSU. Student choreographers whose works were selected by audition are Ken Abbott, Allison Engelsma, Susie Soukaseume and Andy Waldron.
WSU Professor Peggy Sannerud and student designers Becky Bishop, Skee Reumping, Nate Wagner and Jamin O'Malley designed the production's lighting, joined by WSU costumer Susan Bratt and sound designer Dani Lobello.
Wynn Fricke, Twin Cities choreographer and WSU faculty member, has created a piece entitled "Figure Ground," set to Taiko drumming, a version of which premiered at the Zenon Concert in Minneapolis in November.
In collaboration with local pianist, Brisson, and six WSU dancers, Gretchen Cohenour, WSU professor, premieres "In a Landscape" with music by John Cage and set design by WSU art student, Chun Lok Mah.
"Pull" is a jazz dance piece choreographed by Draskoci-Johnson that embodies the pulsing energy of Massive Attack.
In "Valley of the Jig," Duffy and Honecker-Sherman explore the idea of integrating modern moves in with traditional Irish dance.
Duffy describes the piece as "a fun and lively piece. It will have the viewer picturing dancing pixies among a thousand shades of green in a far-off meadow of mist and grass."
Engelsma said, "With the use of recorded and live Brazilian music I choreographed a piece to portray feminine grace. Vocalist Lisa Michaels, senior WSU student, gives the piece a unique beauty and cohesive feeling of group dynamic."
Ken Abbott's modern piece, "Horizon," along with Fricke's, "Figure Ground,"
was selected to represent WSU in the adjudicated concert at this year's American College Dance Festival.
"Afrimerica" is Soukaseume's interpretation of how movement and dance of Africa has influenced her movement and dance style here in the U.S.
Soukaseume's solo, "Impermanence," is about trying to reach someone who is unattainable.
"It is dedicated to loved ones who have had their lives cut short, passing away at an early age," she said. "It is very emotional and has a powerful meaning to me."
The Dancescape box office is open from noon to 5 p.m., on Wednesday, Feb. 9, through Feb. 19 and one and a half hours before each show.
Tickets are $5 for senior citizens and WSU students and $7 for the general public.
For ticket information, call the WSU box office at 457-5235.
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| WSU Black Cultural Awareness Association Presents Soul Food Dinner |
The Winona State University Black Cultural Awareness Association invites families, friends and the community to attend the annual Soul Food Dinner, Saturday, Feb. 19, at 5:30 p.m., in the East Cafeteria, of Kryzsko Commons.
This year’s dinner features a “Harlem Renaissance Revisited” theme including a performance by Beasley’s Big Band: a group of musicians dedicated to playing great big band jazz. The nineteen piece big band has a diverse membership that ranges in age from 31 to 80 years old. Chuck Beasley is the band’s leader, lead alto sax player and chief musical arranger. He is an experienced music educator with more than twenty years of teaching experience. Chuck has been playing in big bands professionally after leaving the Air Force at the end of World War II.
The Soul Food Dinner menu includes southern fried catfish and chicken, macaroni and cheese, green beans, collard greens, sweet potato pie and peach cobbler.
Tickets may be purchased Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in the Cultural Diversity Office, and in the Lower Hyphen, of Kryzsko Commons from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Tickets cost $18 for adults, $10 for students and children under the age of four eat for free. |
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| WSU Presents Deanne Mohr |
Winona State University's Faculty and Guest Artist Series presents a recital by Deanne Mohr, WSU assistant professor of music, Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m., in the WSU Performing Arts Center Recital Hall.
An accomplished performer, Mohr has appeared as a soloist with the Regina Symphony Orchestra, was featured in the 1996-1997 Début concert series in Montréal, and has been recorded for the Radio-Canada program, Les jeunes artistes, and CBC Saskatchewan's Ambience. She has received numerous scholarships and awards, including first prize in the Saskatchewan Music Festival Association Concerto Competition (1994) and the 1992 Florence Bowes Scholarship Competition, and third place in the piano division of the 1992 CIBC National Music Festival.
As a faculty member of WSU, Mohr is active as a pedagogue, chamber musician, accompanist and soloist.
The program includes pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms and Francis Poulenc. Mohr's husband, Eric Brisson, is the narrator.
For additional information, contact Deanne Mohr, dmohr@winona.edu. |
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| WSU Offers Travel Study |
Winona State is offering Travel Study opportunities for hands-on learning in locations across the country.
Probable locations are: Pipestone National Monument in Minnesota; Fort Robinson and Santee Indian Reservation in Nebraska; Bear's Lodge in Wyoming; and Wounded Knee, Sage Creek, Bear Butte and Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
The next informational meeting is on Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 6:30 p.m., in Memorial Hall, Room 209.
For more information, contact James Reidy, at jreidy@winona.edu, or Rob Brault, at rbrault@winona.edu.
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