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March 31, 2005
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March 31 |
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Mr. WSU Competition, 6 p.m., Somsen Auditorium
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Residential College International Music Series presents: Calle Sur
Music of South America , 7-9 p.m., Lourdes Hall, North Lounge
- WSU Student Christine Tollison sings "Let's Hear it for the Boy," 10:30 p.m., The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
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April 1 |
- Department of Theatre and Dance presents: “Trudi and the Minstrel,” 7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center, Main Stage
- Counselor Education Department Workshop: "Reactive Attachment Disorder: Assessment and Treatment Interventions," 4-10 p.m., Coffman Building, Room 206/208
- Dan Patrone Presentation: "Tradition, Normativity, and The Tyranny of Liberal Individualism: A Partial Defense of Burke's Conservatism," 4 p.m., Minne Lounge, second floor
- Tablet software demonstration and information session: GoBinder, 11 a.m., Library e-Learning Center, Room 220
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| Saturday |
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April 2 |
- Department of Theatre and Dance presents: “Trudi and the Minstrel,” 7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center, Main Stage
- International Dinner, 5 p.m., East Hall, Kryzsko Commons
- Counselor Education Department Workshop: "Reactive Attachment Disorder: Assessment and Treatment Interventions," 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Coffman Building, Room 206/208
- Video Game Club All-Night Gaming Party, 7 p.m., Student Activity Center, Kryzsko Commons
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News and Events
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WSU Presents Winona Oratorio Chorus Performance |
| The Winona Oratorio Chorus presents its spring concert Saturday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m., at Central United Methodist Church.
The chorus will be directed by Dr. Harry Mechell, professor of music at WSU.
The chorus, along with the WSU's Women's Chorus and the youth choir from Central Lutheran Church, will perform a new work by John Rutter titled Mass of the Children. Featured soloists are Margaret Cassidy, mezzo-soprano, and Cory Franson, tenor. The choirs will be accompanied by a 10-piece chamber orchestra.
The Winona Oratorio Chorus will also perform Maurice Durufle's Requiem. Featured soloists are Kelley Bates-Franson, soprano, and Bryan Mechell, tenor. Marilyn Biery, St. Paul Cathedral organist, will be featured as an organ soloist, and Dr. Paul Vance, conductor of the Winona Symphony Orchestra and WSU music professor, will be feature as a cello soloist.
Tickets for the concert are $12 for general admission, $8 for students and senior citizens, and $5 for children 12 and under.
Tickets can be purchased from any Winona Oratorio Chorus member, at Hardt's Music in downtown Winona, Midtown at the Winona Mall, Winona Hy Vee and at the door starting one half-hour before the performance.
The church is located on the corner of Main and Broadway streets in Winona.
This event is in cooperation with the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Inc., through funding from the Minnesota State Legislature.
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Student Senate Holds Elections |
The Winona State University Student Senate hosts a debate for the candidates of next year¹s student senate president, vice president and treasurer on Monday, April 4, at 5 p.m., in the Student Activity Center of Kryzsko Commons. Voting takes place Tuesday, April 4, through Friday, April 7, online at www.winona.edu/studentsenate. This website also offers information about each candidate. The Student Senate represents students and has an influence on how the money students pay at WSU is spent.
For additional information, contact Dusty Finke, president of WSU Student Association and Student Senate, ddfinke6356@webmail.winona.edu.
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WSU Offers Tablet Software Demonstration |
Winona State University is offering a tablet software demonstration and information session on Friday, April 1, from 11 a.m.-Noon, in the Library e-Learning Center, Room 220. The demonstration teaches individuals about a student-focused tablet software application called GoBinder.
Kevin Wooden from Agilix, the makers of GoBinder, gives a webcast demonstration of the academic uses of GoBinder. Students, educators and professionals use GoBinder to store and organize a personal collection of learning content, annotate lecture materials, search for answers, take notes and manage schedules and due dates.
For more information, visit www.gobinder.com.
To register for this event, call the e-Learning Center, at extension 2900 or use the online Calendar of Events, at www.winona.edu/elearning. |
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Auditions Held for Directing Class Scenes |
Auditions will be held Monday and Tuesday, April 4 and 5, from 6-7:30 p.m., in the Magnus Theatre of the PAC for a set of 20-minute scenes directed by students enrolled in the THAD Department's Play Directing course. No prior acting experience is necessary.
The student directors will be looking to cast about 23 roles (13 male, 10 female) in excerpts from modern and contemporary plays by Mary Chase, Christopher Durang, Sarah Kane, David Mamet, Steve Martin, Scott McPherson, Neil Simon and Tom Stoppard.
The scenes will rehearse approximately 2-3 weeks and be performed once between April 23 and April 28 before an audience of friends and students enrolled in the course. Actors cast in a scene may apply their work toward earning 1 credit in THAD 100-Theatre Activities next semester. Contact David Bratt, THAD department, PAC 206 (X5241) for more information. |
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Video Game Club Hosts All-Night Gaming Party |
The Winona State University Video Game Club is hosting an All-Night Gaming Party on April 2, from 7 p.m.-4 a.m., in the Student Activity Center, in Kryzsko Commons.
All are welcome to participate.
Club t-shirts will be decided on and ordered that night.
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WSU Student Performs on The Late Show with David Letterman |
Winona State University junior Christine Tollison sings "Let's Hear it for the Boy" on Thursday, March 31, on The Late Show with David Letterman, at 10:30 p.m., on CBS.  Tollison, a graphic design major with music and mass communication minors, is one of three people selected to perform on Letterman's show and tell segment Thursday.
Deployed to Iraq in January 2004, Tollison worked at an air base post office and musically performed at several base events for pleasure. She is now home for what she estimates will be at least a year and a half or more before she gets deployed back to Iraq. Christine Tollison and David Letterman
"I'm enlisted until 2010, so I have an obligation to go back, " said Tollison. "I've experienced every emotion while serving in Iraq. At times I was happy and other times it was stressful to be there," said Tollison.
On Christmas Eve of 2004, however, she said she had a great experience when The Late Show with David Letterman was broadcasted from her base in Iraq.
Tollison said the acting producers of The Late Show and Paul Shaffer, Letterman's musical director, were looking for someone to sing either "God Bless America" or the National Anthem. Tollison was known for performing at base events, which is why she said she was recommended to Schaffer.
"I suggested a few songs he didn't like, but I thought of "Lets hear it for the Boy" from the movie "Footloose," and Schaffer said it would work, " said Tollison.
She sang that song for the 40 minute Late Show in Iraq, and at the end of the show she sang "God Bless America" in a group with others serving in Iraq.
"Overall my performance went really well," said Tollison. "I never would have thought I would have to be deployed to Iraq to get discovered."
Tollison's father called The Late Show and asked if the show would like Tollison to perform again now that she was home from Iraq, and the show accepted the offer.
Tollison said she never seriously considered pursuing a professional music career, despite her music minor, but she said she would wait and see what Thursday would generate.
"You never know what important people will be watching, " said Tollison.
She was able to invite four friends to watch her sing at the show, and The Late Show paid for her airfare and the airfare for one other person.
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WSU Hosts Poet Li-Young Lee |
Winona State University's "Celebration of the Book 2005" series presents poet Li-Young Lee on Tuesday, April 5, at 7 p.m., in the North Lounge of Lourdes Hall. Lee published three books of poetry: Rose (1986), The City in Which I Love You, which won the Lamont Poetry Award, and Book of My Nights (2001). He also published a memoir of his family's flight from China to Indonesia to America, The Winged Seed, which is described as a book-length prose poem.
Lee's poetry often begins with a focus on his family and soon grows outward to meditate on the sweetness of life in proximity to death and the spiritual nature of our common lives. His poems are anthologized and translated into several languages.
Lee gives readings of his work at hundreds of literary festivals and colleges around the country. He has won many literary awards, including the Lannan Foundation Literary Award and the American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation.
Lee's appearance at WSU is sponsored by the John S. Lucas Great River Reading Series, the WSU Residential College and the WSU English department.
Lee's reading is also part of WSU's Celebration of the Book. The "Celebration of the Book" is a semester-long event intended to highlight the importance of the book as both an object and a cultural wellspring. It has been organized by the Consortium for Liberal Arts Promotion and is sponsored by WSU's Department of English, History, Geoscience, Education and Art; the Residual College; the WSU Library; the WSU Foundation and Sutton Hoo Press.
For more information, contact James Armstrong, 457-5418, or jarmstrong@winona.edu.
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WSU Offers Healthy YOUniversity Health and Wellness Fair |
Winona State University is offering A Healthy YOUniversity Health and Wellness Fair on Monday, April 4, from 1–4 p.m., in the Student Lounge of Kryzsko Commons.
The fair offers booths on B/P and Hypertension, BMI/Height/Weight/Body fat analysis, diabetes screening, emergency room and walk-in process information, tobacco and alcohol information, free chair massages, depression awareness, stress management information, nutrition displays and games, date-rape drug information, breast and testicular cancer information, STI information, the TestWell Inventory and information on the Women's Resource Center.
The event is open to all students and employees.
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Re-apply for Financial Aid |
The Financial Aid Office is encouraging students to re-apply for financial aid for the 2005-2006 academic year. Students need to complete a 2005-06 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or Renewal application.
Students can apply on-line at www.fafsa.ed.gov, or pick up a paper FAFSA at the Financial Aid Office, in Somsen 108, or at the University Rochester Center, in SS128.
This application determines eligibility for grants, need-based scholarships, loans and work-study. Financial aid at Winona State is awarded on a rolling basis as files become complete. Since certain sources of aid, such as work-study, are limited, students are encouraged to apply as early as possible.
For more information, contact the Financial Aid Office, in Somsen 108l, at 457-5090 or email, at FinancialAid@winona.edu.
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International Club Hosts Dinner at WSU |
Winona State University's International Club invites families, friends and the Winona community to the annual International Dinner on Saturday, April 2, at 5 p.m., in the East Hall of Kryzsko Commons.
The International Dinner features cuisine and entertainment from around the world. The theme for this year's dinner is "The Love of One's Country is a Splendid Thing, but Why Should Love Stop at the Border?" Entertainment includes cultural dances performed by WSU students, a comedy skit and a first time performance of Tae Kwon Do.
Tickets may be purchased between 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., in WSU's International Services Office, as well as in the lower hyphen of Kryzsko Commons, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Tickets are $16 for adults, $10 for students and free for children under five years.
For additional information, contact Hasitha Amarasekera, at HTAmaras8939@webmail.winona.edu or WSU International Services, at 457-5303. |
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Counselor Education Department Hosts Seminar Workshop |
| The Winona State University Rochester Center Department of Counselor Education is offering a seminar Friday, April 1, from 4-10 p.m., and Saturday, April 2, from 9 a.m.-6 p.m., in the Coffman Building, Rooms 206/208, at the University Rochester Center. Rhonda Lettington is the instructor for this workshop.
This workshop is designed for those who have little understanding of attachment issues, as well as those who work and live with this disorder on a daily basis. The workshop helps participants in gaining insight into their own feelings and biases regarding attachment issues. Information is discussed regarding the process of attachment and the intervening factors that cause the attachment process to fail.
During the workshop, participants learn to identify signs and symptoms of attachment issues. Participants leave the workshop with new understanding, skills and interventions to assist them in assessing and treating attachment issues. Helpful strategies and techniques that have proven beneficial to families who struggle with attachment issues are also presented.
Lettington has spent the past 18 years working with children, individuals and families. She is a licensed bachelor social worker in Iowa and is currently applying for the licensed mental health professional credential in Iowa. She is also an advanced certified alcohol and drug counselor, a member of the American Counseling Association, and has completed the National Certified Counselor examination. Lettington currently practices in Cresco, Iowa, where she specializes in trauma issues, children with attachment disorders and chemical abuse/dependency issues.
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WSU Presents "Trudi and the Minstrel" |
The Winona State University Department of Theatre and Dance presents “Trudi and the Minstrel” Friday, April 1, and Saturday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m., on the WSU Performing Arts Center Main Stage.
The play, written by Alan Cullen, is directed by Professor Vivian Fusillo. The scenic design is by Assistant Professor Peggy Sannerud; costumes are created by staff costumer Susan Bratt; sound design is done by WSU student Jamin O'Malley; and WSU student Colleen McMahon created the make-up design.
The PAC box office is open beginning March 23, from noon to 5 p.m., and one hour before each performance.
Tickets cost $5 for WSU students and seniors citizens, $7 for the general public and $3 for children 14 years and younger.
Call the WSU box office at 457-5235 for ticket information.
WSU theatre and dance productions are not recommended for children under the age of five. |
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