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April 1, 2005
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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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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
- Winona Oratorio Chorus Spring Concert, 7:30 p.m., Central United Methodist Church
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News and Events
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| Department of Music Presents Annual Minnesota Day of Percussion |
The Winona State University Department of Music and the Minnesota Chapter of Percussive Arts Society presents the Annual Minnesota Day of Percussion Saturday, April 9.
From 9 a.m.-noon, there are free concerts by high school and college percussion ensembles; from
1-4 p.m., free clinics with Percussion Group Cincinnati are held; and at 4:30 p.m., there are free door prizes.
The day of percussion ends with an evening concert featuring Percussion Group Cincinnati with the WSU Percussion Ensemble. The concert is held on the Performing Arts Center Main Stage.
Tickets to the evening concert cost $5 for adults, and $3 for students and senior citizens.
For more information, contact Cathy Schmidt, Department of Music, at 457-5256
Percussion Group Cincinnati are in residence at WSU from Thursday, April 7, through Saturday, April 9.
Percussion Group Cincinnati’s appearance is made possible in cooperation with the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council, Inc., through funding from the Minnesota State Legislature, and support from the International Music Series in the WSU Residential College at Lourdes Hall.
For more information on Percussion Group Cincinnati, visit their website at: www.pgcinfo.com. |
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| Art Club Sponsors Museum Bus Tour |
The Winona State University Art Club is sponsoring a museum bus tour on Sunday, April 24. All members of the campus community and general public are invited to participate.
Featured on the itinerary is the newly expanded Walker Art Museum, which opened a week earlier with all new exhibitions. The adjacent Walker Sculpture Garden and Cowles Conservatory is also available. The tour includes the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Northern Clay Center and the Weisman Art Museum on the University of Minnesota campus. The late afternoon ends in Dinkytown, next to the University of Minnesota campus, where participants can dine at local restaurants.
Departure time on the coach bus is 8 a.m., on Sunday morning, from Watkins Hall, at Winona and King Streets. The tour returns to Winona by 9:30 p.m.
The cost of the trip is $10 for students and $20 for all others. Pre-registration is required. Transportation and admission to all museums is included. Participants provide their own lunch and dinner. To register for the trip, sign up and make payments in the Art Office, in Watkins Hall, Room 204, by April 8. Registration is on a first-come first-serve basis. For more information, call 457-5393. |
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| WSU Hosts Relay For Life Cancer Walk |
| The second annual Winona State University Relay For Life cancer walk is on Saturday, April 9 to Sunday, April 10, from 5 p.m.-7 a.m., in the WSU courtyard. The event takes place in the Winona State University courtyard.
For more information, contact Cassie Lynch, at cjlynch1453@webmail.winona.edu or 474-1464.
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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 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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