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Register Now for Fall LSAT Prep
Registration is now open for the fall LSAT prep course!
Interested in Law School? If so, how you do on the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) could make all the difference between getting into the Law School you want, and not getting into Law School at all.
An LSAT Prep Course is being offered this fall through the Office of Undergraduate Research and Graduate Opportunity. Our course instructor scored in the top 1% of test-takers and has taught LSAT seminars for 14 years. Most corporate tutors charge $175/Hour! URGO offers this 4-week course for only $150. It's never too early to take this course, even if you are just thinking about Law School.
Dates: Wednesdays October 6, 13, 20, and 27
Time: 6-9 PM
Location: Oren Gateway Center, Augsburg College
Alums and non-Augsburg students are also welcome to register.
To register go to: http://www.augsburg.edu/urgo/lsat_prep_reg.html
Questions? Contact Dixie Shafer at shafer@augsburg.edu
Model UN Applications Now Being Accepted
Interested in international relations or the foreign service? Want a chance to visit the UN and meet with diplomats working there? All students interested in foreign affairs, diplomacy, and international politics are invited to apply to join the 2011 Augsburg Model United Nations Delegation.
Augsburg will be participating in its 14th National Model UN Conference in New York City from April 17- 24, 2011. The conference involves over 2,500 student delegates from all over the globe in a simulation of UN negotiations. All students interested in participating in MUN Delegation need to submit applications by Friday, Oct. 29. The delegation will bring between 12 and 16 students, depending on which country we are assigned.
Selected students must register for POL 368 (the Model UN course) for the Spring term and then travel with the group to New York. The cost of participation for delegates is approximately $250 (plus food and incidentals) for the week.
For questions or a copy of the application, contact Prof. Underhill at underhill@augsburg.edu or x1312.
Register Now for Fall GRE Prep
Registration is now open for the fall 2010 GRE prep course!
The class will be held on Tuesdays 6-9 p.m. from 9/21 to 10/26. Preference will be given to current Augsburg students and staff as well as alums. Individuals not affiliated with the college may register, but will be put on a waiting list and admitted only if the class does not fill up.
To register go to: http://www.augsburg.edu/urgo/gre_prep_reg.html.
Questions? Contact Dixie Shafer at shafer@augsburg.edu.
Men Ending Rape: Transforming A Rape Culture
On Wednesday, September 29 at 6:30pm, please come to the Chapel for Keith Edwards’ talk, "Men Ending Rape: Transforming A Rape Culture" Keith is nationally recognized for his sexual assault prevention work with the organization, Men Ending Rape, and he speaks on diversity, social justice, and college men's issues. His talk will also kick off the formation of a student organization that will focus on sexual assault prevention and education. We hope to see you there – all are welcome!
Keith's appearance at Augsburg is sponsored by the Anne Pederson Women's Resource Center, Dean of Students, Augsburg for Adults, Campus Activities and Orientation, American Indian Student Services, LGBTQIA Services, Department of Residence Life, and Counseling and Health Promotion.
Questions? Contact Jessica Nathanson at nathanso@augsburg.edu or at x1528.
Dr. Smadar Lavie on the Mizrahi-Palestinian Border
The first of the Women's Resource Center brown-bag lunches this year will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 22 at 12:30 in 207 Sverdrup. Anthropologist and Women's Studies and Religion scholar, Dr. Smadar Lavie, will give a paper on the Mizrahi-Palestinian border zone and feminist transnationalism (an abstract is below).
Please feel free to bring your lunch. Water, tea, hot chocolate, and instant coffee will be available.
"Where is the Mizrahi-Palestinian Border Zone? Interrogating Feminist Transnationalism Through the Bounds of the Lived"
Gloria Anzaldua describes the border as an "open wound…where the Third World grates against the First and bleeds. And before a scab forms, it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country; a border culture." She proposes that this "third country" is where South/South feminist coalitions are possible without the mediation of U.S.-European feminism. For Anzaldua, the border zone between transnational "hyphens" connotes fluidity and movement across boundaries. In the case of Euro-Israel, the volatile gender/race/nation South/South coalition among subaltern Arabs is forced upon both Mizrahi ("Eastern," Hebrew) women and Palestinian women who have Israeli citizenship. These women do not want to be in this "third country," which emerges from the dispossession of their lands, languages, and cultures. But they are stuck.
I argue that the Mizrahi and Palestinian-Israeli "hyphens" are what allow subaltern, non-European women in the State of Israel to transform their trapped status into the radical act of "staying put." "Staying put" here means using the state’s limits on mobility as a source of empowerment. "Staying put" means dancing delicately on those "hyphens" while concurrently rejecting them, for the act of "staying put" is not representational, but somatic—and therefore difficult to theorize about outside of the bounds of lived experience. I question the feminist ethnographic renditions of "discourse" and "transnationalism" by examining the limits that feminist post-colonial theory encounters when it attempts to describe the lived horrors of the border zone.
Thus, this text challenges the modes of the textualization of gendered ethnographic experience. It calls into question not only the older "reflexive" style of feminist ethnographies, but also the new genres of feminist ethnography that call for—as well as problematize—the ethnographer's commitment to bear public witness to suffering.
Study Art-Zoology Abroad Today 11-1, CC Lobby
Come to Christensen Center Lobby 11-1 today to learn about Study and Intern abroad opportunities in the following locations:
Bangor, Wales
Granada, Spain
Hangzhou, China
Leiden, the Netherlands
London, England
Paris, France
Vienna, Austria
http://www.central.edu/abroad/
Spring Semester Abroad Deadline is October 1. Learn more about how to apply here: http://www.augsburg.edu/augsburgabroad/apply.html
Writing Lab Resumes Regular Hours on Sept. 20
The Augsburg College Writing Lab, which received almost 2,000 visits from students last academic year, will open on Monday, September 20. The Lab is located on the street level of Lindell Library. All Augsburg students are welcome at any stage of the writing process. No appointments are taken. Hours are as follows:
Monday - 6:30-9 PM
Tuesday - 3-5:30 and 7:30-10 PM
Wednesday - 3-5:30 and 6:30-9 PM
Thursday - 3-5:30 and 7:30-10 PM
Friday - 6-8 PM
Sunday - 5:30-8 PM
If you have questions, please contact Professor Swanson (x1010).
General Announcements
Last Day to Return Textbooks
Last day to return textbooks for a refund is Friday Sept 17th. Books must be in the original condition and with a receipt.
Free Professional Counseling On Campus
Hey students -- did you know you can get FREE confidential, professional counseling right here on campus?? That's right, as a student at Augsburg you can get up to TEN FREE counseling sessions each academic year. The Center for Counseling & Health Promotion has five professional counselors available to meet with you -- Nancy, Beth, Jon, Sandra and Ava.
Counseling is a great place to go when you need to talk to someone who is objective and who can help you come up with new ways to look at your problem and it's all confidential. What you talk about at CCHP stays at CCHP.
To make an appointment, please call Dianne at 612-330-1707 or stop by the CCHP house on the corner of 21st & 7th between 8 - 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more info check out our website at www.augsburg.edu/cchp or become a fan on our facebook page: CCHP's Wellness Window.
Champion Sale at the Bookstore
Stock up on Auggie gear!
Purchase one regular price Champion item get the second item half off! Sale ends Friday Sept 17th.
Fall Play Auditions 11/13, 11/14
Fall Main Stage Theater Auditions, September 13 - 14
Casting: 5 – 6 female roles; 6-7 male roles
The Augsburg Theater Arts Department will hold auditions for its fall main stage production, The Learned Ladies, by Molière, directed by Martha Johnson. Auditions will be held in the Tjornhom-Nelson Theater, Foss Center, Monday, September 13 from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. and Tuesday, September 14 from 3:30 – 6:00. An audition sign-up sheet will be posted on the Tjornhom-Nelson Theater door in the Atrium of the Foss Center.
All Augsburg students are welcome to audition! Copies of the play The Learned Ladies have been placed on reserve in the library under Martha Johnson’s name. Audition monologues are located and at the Theater department desk in Foss Center, and they are also available in the Theater Arts Department public folder on Augnet. Please choose and carefully prepare 2 monologues from those provided. It is recommended that you read the entire play in order to have a sense of the tone of the piece and the nature of the characters.
Call-back auditions will be held Wednesday, September 15, from 6:30 – 10:00 p.m. Rehearsals will begin September 20, and performance dates are November 5 – 14.
Description of The Learned Ladies:
The great comic genius Molière wrote The Learned Ladies in 1672, a year before his death, and it is considered one of his mature masterpieces. In this play a family is thrown into disarray when the mother becomes fixated on an intellectual charlatan. The play evolves into a hilarious portrayal of the intellectual perversions sometimes seen in the world of academia (and elsewhere), when genuine quest for knowledge is replaced by pseudo-intellectuality, pretention, inflated self-importance, and power-mongering. “This sophisticated satire sparkles with wit, ridicules hypocrisy and…reveals that human folly has not diminished during the past three hundred years.”
New Business Card Style Now Available
To celebrate our new mission statement, I am pleased to announce the availability of an additional business card style. The new design has the same front layout as the traditional Augsburg College business card, but the back is white, with the gray college seal and the first sentence of the mission statement printed in maroon. As you run out of the cards you currently have, you may want to consider ordering this new version.
You can order cards online by clicking the “Business Card…” link on the Central Services online ordering web page: http://www.augsburg.edu/centralservices/forms.html Once logged into the order site, you will see the letterhead and business card styles available:
(1) Traditional, maroon Seal back (formerly “style 1”);
(2) Traditional, white Mission back;
(3) Contemporary, maroon Auggie back (formerly “style 2”); and
(4) the Athletics business card .
Do not hesitate to contact me with any questions you have about online ordering: davenpoj@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1297.
Free Lockers Available for Students
Campus Activities and Orientation has a limited number of lockers that students can reserve for their use for the academic year. These lockers are completely free and are located on the ground floor of Science Building. Lockers are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis, and priority is given to students who commute from off-campus. To find out more information on how to reserve a locker, contact Michael Grewe, CAO Assistant Director, via email at grewe@augsburg.edu as soon as possible!
Opportunities in the Community - Come on Tuesday
Come by the Community Opportunity Fair on Tuesday, September 14th 11:30-1:30pm in the lobby of the Christensen Center.
Visit with over 25 community organizations to learn about volunteer, service-learning and internship opportunities.
For more info, please contact Mary Laurel True, truem@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1775.
Event Announcements
Receptions and Artist Talks - Friday
Join us this Friday for the first exhibition receptions of the 2010-11 gallery season. Take in the exhibitions, meet the artists and hear them discuss their artwork, all while enjoying food and refreshments.
"Living Organics/09.01.29"
Kiera Faber
Friday, September 17
Artist Talk: 1:30 p.m.
Reception: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Gage Family Art Gallery, Oren Gateway Center
Approximately 19,000 individual photographs make up Kiera Faber's eleven minute stop-motion animation film, "Living Organics / 09.01.29," exploring a world where appearances are deceiving.
Food and refreshments provided.
"Selected Works from the Reliquarium Collection"
Sarah Stone
Friday, September 17
Reception: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Artist Talk: 6:30 p.m.
Christensen Center Art Gallery, Christensen Center
Using images ranging from the Venus of Willendorf to a Gucci shoe, Sarah Stone explores iconography through her series of acrylic paintings.
Food and refreshments will be provided.
Free Yoga Starting Tuesday 9/14!!
It's back -- The Center for Counseling & Health Promotion is happy to announce that FREE yoga sessions will be starting again on Tuesday 9/14/10 from 12 noon - 1 p.m. in the Marshall Room of Christensen Center. Any interested students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend.
Please wear comfortable clothing and feel free to bring your own yoga mat. Our instructor will begin the semester with some basic yoga movements so if you are a beginner please come and see what it is all about.
Funding for the yoga sessions is primarily through CCHP but Human Resources has also provided a generous contribution to this wellness activity.
If you have any questions or want to be added to an e-mail reminder list please contact Dianne Detloff at 612-330-1707 or detloff@augsburg.edu
"Views from Abroad" Reception - Tomorrow
"Views from Abroad"
September 6 - 17
Reception: Tuesday, September 14, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Student Art Gallery, Christensen Center
Augsburg Abroad will be having a reception for their art exhibition "Views from Abroad." Food and refreshments will be provided. Come enjoy the art and learn about study abroad opportunities for students, staff and faculty.
Vocatio Chapel with Melissa Toavs '04
You are invited to the 2010-2011 Vocatio Chapel Series at Augsburg College
Healthy Vocations: Mind, Body, and Spirit
Campus Ministry and the Center for Faith and Learning (ACFL), present a line-up of local leaders who will share how they promote healthy minds, bodies, and/or spirits and their personal faith journeys. Over the course of the year, we will hear leaders in the community discuss their call to work as doctors, coaches, advocates, researchers, teachers, and other forms of health-promoters. The entire community is invited to share how faith influences health and how health influences faith! Come with others from your classes, floor, department, or campus organization to explore healthy vocations together.
The kick-off to this chapel series will be Wed., September 15, 10:20-10:40 a.m. Our guest speaker will be Augsburg and StepUP alum, Melissa Toavs, Career Probation Officer for Hennepin County. Melissa graduated in 2004 with a BA in Sociology and a concentration in crime and community. Come hear her story of working for restorative justice, alternative sentencing, and hope for a healthy future.
*There are a few spots left for students, faculty, and staff to join in on a lunch conversation with Melissa from 11:00am-12:00pm. To attend the lunch, RSVP by Sept. 13 to Lonna Field (fieldl@augsburg.edu or x1467)
Keeping Track of Auggies
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Auggie Athletics Update (click on link for story/stats):
Friday, Sept. 10:
Volleyball -- Augsburg 3, Edgewood (Wis.) 0 (25-19, 25-19, 25-22); St. Benedict 3, Augsburg 2 (25-22, 25-19, 22-25, 23-25, 13-15)
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/9/10/vb0910102.aspx
Women's Soccer -- Wisconsin-River Falls 1, Augsburg 0
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/9/10/wsoc091010.aspx
Women's Golf -- Augsburg at Concordia-Moorhead Cobber Open -- cancelled due to rain.
Saturday, Sept. 11:
Volleyball -- Wisconsin-Eau Claire 3, Augsburg 0 (28-26, 25-21, 25-21); Northwestern-Roseville 3, Augsburg 1 (25-16, 25-21, 24-26, 25-20)
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/9/10/vb0910102.aspx
Women's Cross Country -- Augsburg at St. Catherine Mini-Meet
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/9/11/wcc091110.aspx
Football -- Augsburg 35, Martin Luther 7
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/9/10/fb091110.aspx?path=football
Men's Soccer -- Augsburg 1, Wartburg (Iowa) 0
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/9/11/msoc091110.aspx?path=msoc
Women's Soccer -- Augsburg 1, Dubuque (Iowa) 1 (2OT)
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/9/11/wsoc091110.aspx?path=wsoc
Sunday, Sept. 12:
Men's Soccer -- Augsburg 1, Clarke (Iowa) 0
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/9/12/msoc091210.aspx?path=msoc
Women's Golf -- Augsburg 4th (734) Concordia-Moorhead Cobber Invitational
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/9/12/wgolf091210.aspx?path=wgolf
Men's Golf -- Augsburg 12th (640) at Augsburg Fall Invitational
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/news/2010/9/12/mgolf091110.aspx?path=mgolf
Upcoming Events:
http://athletics.augsburg.edu/
Tuesday, Sept. 14:
Women's Soccer -- Augsburg vs. St. Benedict, Edor Nelson Field, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 15:
Men's Soccer -- Augsburg at St. John's, 4 p.m.
Volleyball -- Augsburg vs. St. Mary's, Si Melby Hall, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 18:
M/W Cross Country -- Augsburg at St. Olaf Invitational, 10 a.m.
Football -- Augsburg vs. Hamline, Edor Nelson Field, 1 p.m.
Men's Soccer -- Augsburg at St. Thomas, 1 p.m.
Women's Soccer -- Augsburg vs. St. Thomas, Edor Nelson Field, 7 p.m.
Men's Golf -- Augsburg at St. John's Fall Invitational
Women's Golf -- Augsburg at Carleton Division III Midwest Classic
Sunday, Sept. 19:
Men's Golf -- Augsburg at St. John's Fall Invitational
Women's Golf -- Augsburg at Carleton Division III Midwest Classic
Classifieds
Seeking Tutor for Elementary Age, Local Child
I am a parent who is seeking an academic tutor for my 10-year-old daughter. I am looking for a student who knows how to work with kids. Ideally that person would be available once a week for two hours between 4 pm and 8 pm. I am a teacher and would provide the curriculum and other direction for the tutor. I would bring my child to Augsburg and wait on campus during each session. Pay ranges to $20 per hour. A person of East Indian heritage would be especially outstanding, but is not required. Contact Patricia at sheesh6@yahoo.com to inquire.
Looking for Young Males for Musical
Calling all Theatre Arts majors! Lakeshore Players Theatre in White Bear Lake is looking for some young male singers and dancers for our fall musical, The Boy Friend. If you are interested, please contact me, the co-producer, at vimont@augsburg.edu.