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Feb. 24, 2005
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Feb. 24 |
- Presidential Candidate: Dr. Stephen J. Kopp, Feb. 22-24, Interview Schedule and Bio
- Presidential Candidate: Dr. Virginia M. Coombs, Feb. 23-26, Interview Schedule and Bio
- Residential College International Series presents: Voices of Sepharad: Jewish Cultural Music, 7-9 p.m., Lourdes Hall, North Lounge
- Black Cultural Awareness Association presents "Thirsty for Diversity" Black History Month movie series: "Remember the Titans," 6 p.m., Student Activities Center, Kryzsko Commons
- Mass Communication Department's London Study Abroad Informational Meeting, 2 p.m., Minné, Room 242
- WSU Blood Drive, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., East Hall, Dining Rooms E,F,G and Wenonah, Kryzsko Commons
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| Friday |
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Feb. 25 |
- Presidential Candidate: Dr. Virginia M. Coombs, Feb. 23-26, Interview Schedule and Bio
- Mass Communication Department's London Study Abroad Informational Meeting, 1 p.m., Minné, Room 242
- CLAP Faculty Colloquium:
Armando Gonzalez:
"Interactive Technology in the Teaching of Foreign Languages,"4 p.m., Minné Hall, Second Floor, Minné Lounge
- Last day of Student Senate supplemental elections and New University referendum
- Women's Basketball vs. Bemidji State, 6 p.m., McCown Gym
- Men's Basketball vs. Bemidji State, 8 p.m., McCown Gym
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| Saturday |
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Feb. 26 |
- Presidential Candidate: Dr. Virginia M. Coombs, Feb. 23-26, Interview Schedule and Bio
- Japan Fair, Noon-3 p.m., East Cafeteria, Kryzsko Commons
- Winona Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center Main Stage
- Women's Basketball vs. Minnesota-Crookston, 6 p.m., McCown Gym
- Men's Basketball vs. Minnesota-Crookston, 8 p.m., McCown Gym
- Video Game Club All Night Meeting, 7 p.m.-4 a.m., Kryzsko Commons Student Activity Center.
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| Sunday |
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Feb. 27 |
- Student Recital, Jodi Anderson and Kyle Reschke, French Horn, 2 p.m., Performing Arts Center Recital Hall
- Community Choral Concert, 3 p.m., Cathedral of the Sacred Heart
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News and Events
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| WSU Holds Tonic Sol-Fa Concert |
Tonic Sol-fa, an a cappella quartet, performs at Winona State University on Friday, March 4, at 8 p.m., in Somsen Auditorium.
 Tonic Sol-fa, formed in 1997, is group of four men using only their voices and a tambourine in their often improvisational performances. They were named one of the top five must see groups in America by Campus Activities Today Magazine and were nominated multiple times for the "Entertainer of the Year" award by the National Association of Campus Activities.
Appearing with such acts as "Weird" Al Yankovic, Shawn Colvin, Herman's Hermits and Lonestar has boosted their album sales and enabled them to independently release their newest compact disc in 2001 to hundreds of Midwestern outlets and radio stations.
The New York Times described Tonic Sol-fa's sound as "a vocal kaleidoscope Šunique to the human voice." Their all-vocal performances usually include impromptu performances from audience members.
"If you're looking for a stoic, non-energetic, non-humorous concert then don't look here," said Tonic Sol-fa members.
The opening act for Tonic Sol-fa is a local a cappella group, Hear and Now.
General admission is $10, and $3 for WSU students with a student identification card. Tickets are on sale from 9 a.m.-Noon in: the WSU Music Office, located in WSU's Performing Arts Center, Room 146; at the Student Union desk in Kryzsko Commons;by phone, 457-2907; or at Hardt's Music in downtown Winona, 115 E. third Street.
For more information, contact the Department of Music office, between 9 a.m.-Noon, at 457-5250.
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| UCR Hosts Nobel Prize Recipient Leon Lederman |
The University Center Rochester presents Dr. Leon Lederman, 1988 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Friday, March 4, from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., at the UCR Sports Complex. His lecture is titled "How Does the Universe Work," a search for simplicity in our understanding.
He is well-known for his work in high-energy physics, leading a team in intensive and wide-ranging experiments that resulted in major advances in particle physics. Lederman has served as president and chairman of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a member of the National Academy of Science. He is a founding member for the High Energy Physics Advisory Board, the International Committee for Future Accelerators and Commissioner for White House Fellows.
Lederman has worked to improve science education and was instrumental in founding the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Teachers Academy for Math and Science, and created hands-on pedagogue used throughout the world.
He is a recipient of the National Medal of Science, the Wolf Prize in Physics and the Enrico Fermi Prize.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Lederman's visit is in collaboration with District 535 Rochester Regional Science Fair and the UCR Visiting Scholar Series. |
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| UCR Presents Play Therapy Workshop |
The Winona State University Rochester Center Counselor Education Department is offering a seminar on children's play Friday, March 4, 4-10 p.m., and Saturday, March 5, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., in the Coffman Building, Rooms 206/208 at the University Rochester Center. Dr. Gaylia Borror is the instructor for this workshop.
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce workshop participants to child-centered group therapy strategies and techniques as they apply to the work of helping professionals in schools and community agency settings.
Through lectures, films and applied learning activities, workshop participants learn the fundamentals of group play therapy. All group exercises and activities can be applied in professional work settings.
Borror is a professor in the Counselor Education Department at WSU. Over the past several years, she has devoted most of her professional development activities to expanding her knowledge and skills in the area of play therapy. In the fall of 2001, she was awarded the Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor (RPT-S) credential by the Association for Play Therapy, Inc. She has taught workshops and courses in the area of play therapy for a variety of teaching institutions, including the University of Minnesota, the University of Iowa and WSU. She has also provided professional training to practitioners in mental health and school settings. |
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| Student Senate Holds Elections |
The Winona State Student Senate is holding supplemental elections and a New University referendum until Friday, Feb. 25.
The question posed in the Referendum is: Should WSU implement the New University Plan as proposed?
The link to vote is http://www.winona.edu/studentsenate/elections. |
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| CLAP Faculty Colloquium Presents Armando Gonzalez |
| Dr. Armando Gonzalez of the Winona State University Department of Foreign Languages speaks on Friday, Feb. 25, at 4 p.m. Gonzalez's lecture, "Interactive Technology in the Teaching of Foreign Languages," is held in the Minné Lounge on the second floor of
Minné Hall.
The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments are served.
This talk is part of the Consortium for Liberal Arts Promotion Colloquium Series, which is intended to showcase the research and creative work of faculty. |
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| Community Choral Concert For Tsunami Relief Fund |
| The Winona State University Concert Choir and Women's Chorus is part of the Community Choral Concert to raise funds for the Tsunami Relief Fund of Winona County. The concert is Sunday, Feb. 27, at 3 p.m., at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart.
Also, singing in the concert are ensembles from the following schools and churches: Cathedral of the Sacred Heart Senior Choir, Cotter High School Concert Choir, St. Mary's University of Minnesota Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, Winona Oratorio Chorus and Winona Senior High School Concert Choir.
The concert is free and open to the public, however, donations are accepted for the Tsunami Relief Fund.
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| WSU Presents Michael Hurley |
 Winona State University presents Michael Hurley, senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission and 9/11 Foundation, on Wednesday, March 2, at Noon, in WSU's Somsen Auditorium.
Hurley, a Minnesota native, is traveling from Washington, D.C., accompanied by Erin Smith, a new 9/11 Commission staff member, on a Midwestern speaking tour.
Hurley addresses how the 9/11 Commission Report and terrorism affects WSU students, and how these topics might relate to students' personal and professional futures by emphasizing themes such as world poverty, the alienation of Muslim youth and ways to change it.
Hurley says young people need to focus their energy and talents on preventing future terrorist attacks and he also urges students to think about careers in government.
He is currently the senior director of policy at the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, but has served as counter-terrorism policy team leader with the 9/11 Commission, served as President Clinton's National Security Advisor on American operations in Bosnia and the Dayton Peace Accords, and in late 2001, he went to Afghanistan and led CIA personnel and U.S. Special Forces
against al Qaeda and the Taliban. He was lead coordinator on the scene for "Operation Anaconda," the largest military campaign against al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
The 9/11 National Commission report is important for all Americans to read and understand because of the dangers our country faces, Hurley said.
Hurley recently presented a talk, "What do College Kids Know about Fighting Terrorism," at the University Center in Rochester.
Hurley's visit to WSU is free to attend and open to the public. For more information, contact Michael Bowler, mbowler@winona.edu.
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| WSU Celebrates Poetry and Women's History Month |
Winona State University's Women's Studies Program and the Winona Arts Center are co-sponsoring the annual Round Robin Reading and open mike poetry event Thursday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m., at the Winona Arts Center, 228 E. 5th Street.
The poetry event celebrates March's Women's History Month and April's National Poetry Month. "We wanted to do something a bit different this year, " said Nancy Kay Peterson, event organizer and WSU director of grants and sponsored projects. "This year's event is going to be less formal."
"Instead of the poets standing on a stage reading 'at' the audience, we will be sitting in a circle with the audience. If a member of the audience has a poem to share they will be welcome to do so."
Among the five poet readers is Carol Borzyskowski, co-founder and co-editor with Peterson for Main Channel Voices: A Dam Fine Literary Magazine, published in Winona.
Borzyskowski has published poetry in Midwest Poetry Review, Melange, Crone's Nest, San Francisco Call and Poetic Strokes, as well as in e-magazines such as Conspire, Recursive Angel and Poetry Café. Her latest publication was December 2004 in Red Booth Review.
Peterson, another poetry reader for the event, has work published in print and in online publications including Loonfeather, Mined, North Coast Review, realgoodwords, Red Booth Review, River Images and Terminus. Additional work from Peterson is appearing soon in the online journal Jerseyworks.
A professor of English at Winona State University, Sandra Bennett, also participates in the poetry celebration event as a poetry reader. Her poetry has appeared in Loonfeather, Sing Heavenly Muse, Living with Nature IV, In Other Words, Poetry Motel and Bayou Review.
Poet and fiber artist Joan McNeil is reading poetry at the event as well. McNeil exhibits her handmande baskets at art centers throughout the region and in publications such as Fiberarts Design Book II and Handmade.
Connie Sanderson, a retired English and French teacher, has work published in Great River Review, Lyrical Iowa, Spoon River Poetry Review, Wisconsin Review, Yankee and Main Channel Voices. Sanderson is one of the five women reading poetry at this event.
Tickets for this event are $5 for adults and $2 for students. For more information, contact Nancy Kay Peterson, 457-5519.
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| WSU Hosting Two "Neighbors Helping Neighbors" Banquets |
| With relief efforts pouring in to southern Asia from around the world, the Winona State University National Broadcasting Society (NBS), the Winona area Rotary Club and the WSU community are working together to start the rebuilding process in southern Asia.
WSU is hosting two "Neighbors Helping Neighbors" banquets organized by the NBS on Tuesday, March 1, and Wednesday, March 2, at 6 p.m., in the East Hall of Kryzsko Commons. Tickets cost $20 a plate.
The banquets feature International and American food, along with entertainment by students from the WSU International Office.
The goal of the banquets is to raise $10,000. All of the proceeds go to the Winona area Rotary Club. If the money raised exceeds $10,000, the difference will go toward the education of the students in the National Broadcasting Society.
Tickets to the banquets are on sale and can be purchased at Country Market, Audio Designs, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, WSU's International Student Office, KQAL in WSU's Performing Arts Center, HBCI and the Winona Post.
Interested individuals who want to make a private donation, can contribute to the "Neighbors Helping Neighbors" banquet relief account at Merchants Bank of Winona.
For more information about the banquets, contact Ajit Daniel, at 457-5228.
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| WSU Summer Course Offered With Study in London |
The WSU Mass Communication Department is offering a three-credit-hour course entitled Media and Society—United Kingdom, during Summer I term, beginning June 6. The coursel includes two weeks in London, where students become familiar with the mass media in Great Britain and its relationship to that society.
The first two weeks of the course are spent on the Winona campus talking about the media and society in the United Kingdom. The second two weeks involve study at the London College of Communication (LCC) in England. Participants are flying to London from Minneapolis St. Paul Airport on Friday, June 17, and arriving in London on Saturday.
While in London, LCC faculty will talk about the media and society there each morning, and in the afternoons students can visit media outlets in London. Students are staying at the London College of Communication and two meals are provided each day. Students have the hours after site visits to tour the city and make arrangements for dinner. A wide range of tours are also available to students during the middle weekend. Students have Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday off in the middle to travel or visit sites as part of this international learning experience.
A tourism consultant is also offered to advise participants who wish to stay in Europe at the conclusion of the course.
Three meetings for interested individuals are on Wednesday, Feb 23, at 10 a.m., in Minne, Room 242, on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 2 p.m., in Minne, Room 242 and on Friday, Feb. 25, at 1 p.m., in Minne, Room 242.
Professor John Weis will share the latest information and will also accept deposit checks until the few remaining available spots are filled. Sixteen students have already reserved seats in this course.
Financial aid will cover tuition, LCC program costs and spending money for the trip for those students who are eligible for student aid.
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