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Emily Iorg
Issue date: 2/27/06 Section: News
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Tuesday, Feb. 28
Rescheduled: Student Art League Photo Tour: Join the Student Art League at 3:15 at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art to get an inside look at the new Hallmark American photo collection. E-mail umkcsal@gmail.com for more info.
Arts and Sciences Student Council meeting: 147 University Center, 6:30 p.m.
African American Media Portrayal Forum: Take a journey throughout our country's history and examine the various stereotypes associated with African Americans. The guest speaker is Pamela Shane Dillard of UMKC's Office of Diversity & Equity. Free lunch. Oak Street Residence Hall Lounge, 7-9 p.m. Sponsored by UMKC Office of Minority Student Affairs. For more information, contact Rashad Givhan at 235-5642 or rlgrp4@umkc.edu.
Wednesday, March 1
Ivanhoe House applications due: deadline for applying for Ivanhoe mentoring program. Applications may be picked up and turned in at the following: School of Education (Student Services) Room 129, Arts & Sciences (Advising) Room 9, Administrative Center (Academic Affairs) Suite 300.
WEPT (Written English Proficiency Test): Stack Auditorium, Royall Hall, 2:30 p.m.
Center for Creative Studies Lecture: Henry David Thoreau and the Challenge of Creating an Environmental Future, by James W. Sheppard, assistant professor of philosophy. Drawing on Thoreau's "Walden," this lecture will assert that an appropriate vision for the environmental future is possible only when the creative and ethical art of future visioning is fused with a scientific, informed appreciation of ecological limits. Stowers Institute Classroom, 1000 E. 50 St. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Refreshments from 5-5:30 p.m.
Student Activity Fee Advisory Committee meeting: Alumni Room, U-Center, 6 p.m.
Writer-In-Residence Stuart Dybek: 2006 Carolyn Benton Cockefair Chair in Continuing Education Series. Dybek, called by some a "Chicago writer," focuses many of his pieces on what he knows best: ethnic diversity. A second-generation Polish American, born and raised in the ethnic neighborhoods of Chicago's Southside, Dybek's work focuses on many of his childhood experiences. Pierson Auditorium, 5000 Rockhill Road, 7:30 p.m.
Rescheduled: Student Art League Photo Tour: Join the Student Art League at 3:15 at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art to get an inside look at the new Hallmark American photo collection. E-mail umkcsal@gmail.com for more info.
Arts and Sciences Student Council meeting: 147 University Center, 6:30 p.m.
African American Media Portrayal Forum: Take a journey throughout our country's history and examine the various stereotypes associated with African Americans. The guest speaker is Pamela Shane Dillard of UMKC's Office of Diversity & Equity. Free lunch. Oak Street Residence Hall Lounge, 7-9 p.m. Sponsored by UMKC Office of Minority Student Affairs. For more information, contact Rashad Givhan at 235-5642 or rlgrp4@umkc.edu.
Wednesday, March 1
Ivanhoe House applications due: deadline for applying for Ivanhoe mentoring program. Applications may be picked up and turned in at the following: School of Education (Student Services) Room 129, Arts & Sciences (Advising) Room 9, Administrative Center (Academic Affairs) Suite 300.
WEPT (Written English Proficiency Test): Stack Auditorium, Royall Hall, 2:30 p.m.
Center for Creative Studies Lecture: Henry David Thoreau and the Challenge of Creating an Environmental Future, by James W. Sheppard, assistant professor of philosophy. Drawing on Thoreau's "Walden," this lecture will assert that an appropriate vision for the environmental future is possible only when the creative and ethical art of future visioning is fused with a scientific, informed appreciation of ecological limits. Stowers Institute Classroom, 1000 E. 50 St. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Refreshments from 5-5:30 p.m.
Student Activity Fee Advisory Committee meeting: Alumni Room, U-Center, 6 p.m.
Writer-In-Residence Stuart Dybek: 2006 Carolyn Benton Cockefair Chair in Continuing Education Series. Dybek, called by some a "Chicago writer," focuses many of his pieces on what he knows best: ethnic diversity. A second-generation Polish American, born and raised in the ethnic neighborhoods of Chicago's Southside, Dybek's work focuses on many of his childhood experiences. Pierson Auditorium, 5000 Rockhill Road, 7:30 p.m.
