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- Attention Mortar Board Alumni
- Presidential Elections November 6 - ADSG
- Nook Devices Marked Down at the Bookstore
- 2013 Annual Benefit Enrollment
- Dining Services
- Voting Leave Policy
- Polling Place on Mpls Campus Reminder - Nov. 6
- Etiquette Dinner Event - 10 Slots Open
- Double Your Turkeys on November 15
- Attention Class of 2013
- 25% Off All Champion Clothing
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New Youth Work Class
YFM205: Youth-led Community Organizing
Do you value the voice of youth? Do you believe they have a lot to offer? Would you like to learn how to empower young people to make positive change in their communities? If so, then this class is for you. In this 0.5 credit course we will study and experience the history, theory, and practice of youth-led community organizing.
This course is listed under the Spring semester Religion courses but is not a course about religious youth work. It is open to all students with an interest in working with youth of any background. It will meet MWF 9:10 a.m. - 10:10 a.m. from January 14- March 1.
Contact Professor Jeremy Myers (myers@augsburg.edu) with any questions.
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Attention Mortar Board Alumni
The Twin Cities Alumni Chapter of the Mortar Board Honor Society is in the process of re-energizing its activities. If you were a member of Mortar Board during your undergraduate years, we would love to have you join us to plan social and philanthropic activities, as well as support collegiate chapters in the Twin Cities area.
Contact Melissa Hensley at ext. 1289 or hensleym@augsburg.edu for more information.
Presidential Elections November 6 - ADSG
The 2012 Presidential Elections are coming up on Tuesday, November 6. In addition to voting for the candidates who are up for election, voters will decide whether to accept or reject the two proposed amendments to the State Constitution of Minnesota. This year Augsburg College has the honor of hosting the voting, which will take place between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. in the Marshall Room.
Be sure to inform yourself on the candidates and issues, and most importantly get out and vote!
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Nook Devices Marked Down at the Bookstore
Our current selection of our Nook devices are on sale!
Nook 16 GB Tablet is $179.
Nook 8 GB Tablet is $159.
Nook Color is $139
Faculty/staff discount still applies. This is good while supplies last.
2013 Annual Benefit Enrollment
This message is intended for all benefit eligible faculty and staff. All regular faculty and staff working .50 (3/6) full-time equivalency (FTE) or greater are considered benefit eligible.
Annual benefit enrollment is from Wednesday, November 7 through Wednesday, November 21. All forms must be turned in no later than 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 21. You may drop your forms off in the HR office (Memorial Hall, Room 19) or fax to 612-330-1443.
In the past, we have mailed an updated benefit booklet to your home. However, in keeping with the College's cost saving and green initiatives, we will not be mailing you a copy of the booklet. A link to the electronic copy of the booklet is contained below.
*Please remember that you must make your flexible spending account and health savings account elections every year. Your election from last year WILL NOT carry over into 2013. You must complete the universal enrollment form to make your election for 2013.*
We strongly encourage all benefit eligible faculty and staff to attend one of the five benefit information sessions. Sessions are scheduled as follows:
November 7 at 2:00 p.m., Oren Gateway Center, Room 100
November 9 at 12:10 p.m., Christensen Center, Marshall Room
November 12 at 8:30 am, Christensen Center, Marshall Room
November 13 at 4:45 p.m., Oren Gateway Center, Room 100
November 14 at 8:30 am, Christensen Center, Marshall Room
The following links contain information on benefit changes and other helpful information for the 2013 plan year:
Employee letter:
http://web.augsburg.edu/hr/2013_Benefits/2013BenefitRenewalLetter.pdf
Employee benefit information booklet:
http://web.augsburg.edu/hr/2013_Benefits/EmployeeBenefitsBooklet2013.pdf
Helpful HealthPartners information:
http://web.augsburg.edu/hr/2013_Benefits/HPBrochurePOD.pdf
Enrollment form:
http://web.augsburg.edu/hr/2013_Benefits/UniversalEnrollmentForm2013.pdf
The following links contain required benefit related notices and information:
HealthPartners Summary of Coverage ($1000 Deductible Plan):
http://web.augsburg.edu/hr/2013_Benefits/1000PlanSBC2013.pdf
HealthPartners Summary of Coverage ($2500 Deductible Plan):
http://web.augsburg.edu/hr/2013_Benefits/2500PlanSBC2013.pdf
Summary Annual Report for Augsburg College Benefit Plan:
http://web.augsburg.edu/hr/2013_Benefits/BenefitPlanSAR.pdf
Defined Contribution Summary Annual Report:
http://web.augsburg.edu/hr/2013_Benefits/DefinedContributionSAR.pdf
Flexible Spending Account Summary Plan Description:
http://web.augsburg.edu/hr/2013_Benefits/FSASPD.pdf
Please contact Tammy McBroom with any questions at 612-330-1216 or mcbroom@augsburg.edu.
Dining Services
Nabo:
Nabo is offering a new meal replacement special, one meal plan meal per week can be used to purchase the special of the day at Nabo from 1:30 p.m. to close. Hot apple cider is now available at Nabo!
The special today is a Crispy Chicken Sandwich with chips and a fountain drink.
The Commons:
Hours:
Breakfast: 7:30-9:45 a.m.
Continental Breakfast: 9:45-11 a.m.
Lunch: 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Pizza, Sandwich, Salad Bar: 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Dinner: 4:30-7 p.m.
Please return all coffee mugs, spoons, knives, and forks back to the Commons in the Christensen Center. Thank you for your help in this matter to locate these misplaced items.
Flex Points can be purchased online at http://augsburg.aviands.com/flex-points/. You can pay with your student account or credit card
Voting Leave Policy
Employees who are eligible to vote in an election are permitted paid leave on Election Day for the time it takes them to appear at their polling place, cast a ballot, and return to work. Voting leave is limited to two hours.
Polling Place on Mpls Campus Reminder - Nov. 6
Augsburg College will serve as an official polling place for the November 6 General Election.
Residents of Minneapolis Ward 2, Precinct 7—who include some Augsburg students, staff, and faculty—may vote in the Marshall Room of Christensen Center from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Volunteers will help direct traffic and guide visitors.
A reminder that state law prohibits campaigning within 100 feet of a polling place when voting is underway. That means students, staff, and faculty cannot wear clothing, buttons, or stickers, nor carry signs that display political messages in Christensen Center.
It also means that Augsburg staff will remove election- and campaign-related materials from areas within 100 feet of the polling location and the building. The Augsburg departments of Public Safety and Events and Conference Planning will mark the boundaries.
Students who live in the residence halls and are on the student list must show their Augsburg College identification to vote, according to Judy Schwartau, City of Minneapolis election specialist.
Visit the Minnesota Secretary of State website to confirm or find your polling location.
Etiquette Dinner Event - 10 Slots Open
How To Eat Dinner & You Thought You Knew..... Attend the Etiquette Dinner!
Are you interested in learning basic etiquette skills that will help you manage first impressions and land a job or internship? Then join fellow alumni and students for a three-course dinner and hear a lively presentation from our guest speaker on November 13 at 6 p.m.
Cost $10
Register by November 5 and receive 10 free business cards and be entered into a drawing to win a $25 Target gift card.
To register, please email tilton@augsburg.edu
Double Your Turkeys on November 15
Every year, each Campus Kitchen program in the country celebrates Thanksgiving with an event called Turkeypalooza. For the week before Thanksgiving, we like to serve a traditional Thanksgiving meal to our neighbors at the sites where we serve food at each week (Ebenezer, Peace House, Brian Coyle, and Common Bond).
Rather than using the fine surplus food that A'viands generously provides us all year, we count on the Augsburg Community to donate the turkey, potatoes, green beans, and money we need to cook all of this extra food.
This year, we have another reason to celebrate, as Finnegans Beer and Community Fund chose us as one of their Three Small Pints: innovative programs that are focused on food and community. On Give to the Max Day, November 15, Finnegans will match all the money raised online up to $1,500. This is a great day to make a monetary donation for Turkeypalooza as it will be doubled. See the campaign at http://givemn.razoo.com/users/pcs2fg
We are looking for people and teams of people (like specific offices or departments) to donate ingredients and/or cash. Please let our intern us know if you would like to represent your office and commit to gather a certain food item. Or, if a cash donation works better, as a representative you can collect money and donate it online on November 15 so that it is doubled by Finnegans. Email if we can count on you and your office.
We will be collecting the frozen turkeys, bags a potatoes, cash, and anything else at a table in the Christensen Center on Thursday 11/15 and Friday 11/16 from 11 to 1 p.m. If you can't deliver your gifts then, let us know and we'll make special arrangements.
Schedule of volunteer shifts and meals:
Thanksgiving Cooking Class - Tuesday 11/13 7-9 p.m.
Thanksgiving Cooking Class - Wednesday 11/14 7-9 p.m.
Packaging senior meals - Thursday 11/15 2:30-3 p.m.
Deliver senior meals - Thursday 11/15 3-5:30 p.m.
Prepare food Multicultural Dinner - Friday 11/16 1:30-4 p.m.
Setup for Multicultural Dinner (at Brian Coyle) - Friday 11/16 4-5 p.m.
Serve Multicultural Dinner - Friday 11/16 5-7 p.m.
Cleanup after Multicultural Dinner - Friday 11/16 7-8 p.m.
Peace House Thanksgiving meal - Tuesday 11/20 11-1 p.m.
You can sign up for any of these shifts at www.augsburg.edu/campuskitchen/signup
Attention Class of 2013
Are you interested in a leadership opportunity? Would you like to be a decision maker for your class party? Want to make a difference for Augsburg College as you prepare to accept your diploma this spring? Join the Senior Class Committee. We are looking for Senior Class Auggies that are interested in helping the Alumni Relations & Annual Giving office plan for the 100 Days to Graduation party and the Senior Class Challenge.
We know you are all busy, so the time commitment will be minimal. Our first and only meeting will be Thursday, November 29 in the Marshall Room at 11:15 a.m. Lunch will be provided!
Contact Jennifer Jung, Assistant Director of Annual Giving via email at jung@augsburg.edu or phone 612-330-1179 before Thanksgiving Break if you are interested in joining.
25% Off All Champion Clothing
Champion clothing sale at the bookstore. All regular-priced Champion is 25% off. Stop by the bookstore and stock up on your Auggie gear!
Event Announcements
Exploring Culture: French Film this Wed.
The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul would like to invite you to a special screening of Ask Your Shadow, featuring a Q&A session with director Lamine Ammar-Khodja. Screening November 7 at 4:30 p.m. at The Film Society's St. Anthony Main Theater in Minneapolis.
This French language film frames an exile's journey back to his home in Algeria, this first-person narrative pays tribute to Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal and uses humor and irony to tell the man's story.
Official Synopsis for Ask Your Shadow:
Eight years after leaving native Algeria for France, Lamine Ammar-Khodja decides to end his exile on January 6, 2011, the day major riots break out in Algiers. Organised chronologically, the film is a first-person narrative and, just like Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, to which the director pays tribute, it deals with the difficulties of getting back home. Because this journey isn't only a private matter, but also an opportunity to go back over Algeria's recent history, at a time when it could have taken another major turn. The subject is addressed in the tone of comedy, using humour and irony, instead of expected despair. Cheerfully mixing styles, playing freely and gracefully with the cinema medium, and claiming rebellious youth in the name of all the young outcasts, this first film surely reveals an original artistic stance and writing: a new director is born. (by Jean-Pierre Rehm)
Visit http://www.mspfilmsociety.org/content/ask-your-shadow for more information on Ask Your Shadow.
Orientation Leader Social
WHEN: November 8 at 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Marshall Room
Interested in gaining valuable leadership experience and first-rate training? Do you want to be seen as a leader at Augsburg? Would you like to make lifelong friends? If you answered yes to any of the questions, then come to the Orientation Leader Social on November 8 from 8:30-10 p.m. and learn more about the job!
All students interested in applying to be a 2013 Orientation Leader are welcome to come to the Marshall Room and talk with past Orientation Leaders about their experiences. There will be a panel of Orientation Leaders open to any questions you might have about the job and there will be Mesa Pizza for everyone to enjoy!
Be The Match On Campus Tuesday
Did you know Augsburg Assistant Baseball coach Troy Deden is a leukemia cancer survivor and that his life was saved by a bone marrow donor via Be The Match (a national marrow donor registry)?
Join Troy and members of the baseball team at their second annual marrow donor registry drive on Tuesday and Wednesday 11/6 and 11/7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Christensen Center lobby.
For more info see www.tinyurl.com/AugsburgNov
If you have other questions, feel free to call the CCHP office at 612-330-1707 or the Be The Match rep, Kristine Reed at kreed2@nmdp.org
Join Us. Saves Lives. See you tomorrow in Christensen Center.
J. S. Bach in the House this Thursday
Please join us for a campus-wide gathering and celebration around the mind and music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
DATE: Thursday, November 8.
TIME: 5-6 p.m.
Refreshments will be served beginning at 4:40 p.m.
We welcome music scholar, Dr. Paul Westermeyer, who will speak on "Johann Sebastian Bach and Augsburg College." Dr. Westermeyer's presentation will be accompanied by Bach selections performed by Augsburg faculty and students. We humbly recommend this event as a perfect way to end your school/work day!
For more info, check out http://www.augsburg.edu/religion/heritage-day
Ethics, Consent, Sustainability in the Sex-toy Industry
Jennifer Pritchett, co-owner and founder of The Smitten Kitten feminist sex toy shop in Minneapolis, will speak today at 4 p.m. in the East Commons. Pritchett, who holds a master's degree in women's studies from Minnesota State University-Mankato, will talk about business ownership, ethics, and consent in sex lives, and sustainability issues in the industry. The presentation is open to persons of all genders and identities.
Learn more about Pritchett in this Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal article from 2009. http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2009/07/27/focus9.html?page=all
Keeping Track of Auggies
Auggie Featured in Mexican Art Exhibit
The artwork of Augsburg student Alexandra Buffalohead was recently featured at an exhibit in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The exhibit, titled "Everyone is Happy and I am Too," was sponsored by the Malcolm Lowry Cuernavaca Symposium and included works of prominent artists from Mexico, Central America, and the U.S.
Alexandra is a participant in the Center for Global Education's fall semester program in Cuernavaca, "Crossing Borders: Gender and Social Change in Mesoamerica."
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Apply to be an Orientation Leader
Would you like to:
Gain valuable leadership experience?
Receive first-rate training?
Get involved at Augsburg?
Meet new people?
If you answered yes to any of the following questions, you should apply to be a 2013 Orientation Leader today! You can find the application here:
http://web.augsburg.edu/cao/
Applications are due on Tuesday, November 13, and must be turned in to Joanne K. Reeck-Irby in room 1B in the basement of Christensen Center.
If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Brad St.Aubin or Mitchell Davis in CAO at orientat@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1100
Carpooling to PA (WI, IL, IN, OH) for Christmas
If you live in any of the states on the way to Philadelphia, PA, and don't feel like paying for a plane ticket (they are SOOOO expensive!), I am already driving through your home state and would like at least one other person to make the long drive (or at least part of it) with.
I will make the trip in 2 days stopping over night in Chicago, IL. Dates of departure from Minneapolis as well as from Philadelphia on the way back are flexible right now - I'll work with whoever would like to carpool with me to figure out more concrete dates.
I have a family that willingly opens their home to travelers for free in Chicago, so there is no hotel cost or anything like that. I'll drive and all I ask is for a little gas money compensation (any little bit helps-and it's WAY cheaper than airfare).
Please contact me if you are interested (sometime between now and the beginning of December would be great)! My email address is reddy@augsburg.edu!