CHRISTINE QUAIL TO PRESENT SIEGFRIED LECTURE - NOVEMBER 29
Christine Quail, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Arts, is this year’s winner of the Richard Siegfried Junior Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence and will present the Siegfried Lecture on Thursday, November 29. Dr. Quail’s lecture titled “The Hypersexualization of Girls in Media and Culture” will address, in part, how the hypersexualization of girls “contributes to a culture in which girls are crafted as overly sexual at a young age.” Admission is complimentary, and members of the community are invited to attend the presentation in the Craven Lounge of the Morris Conference Center at 7:30 p.m. The Siegfried Prize, which is awarded annually, recognizes a non-tenured faculty member for outstanding academic achievement outside the classroom. Alice Siegfried made a gift to the College at Oneonta Foundation to fund the prize in memory of her husband, theatre professor Richard K. Siegfried, who taught at the College from 1958 to 1995.
GREEK SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS
The members of the campus’s ten social fraternities and sororities are active in community service and campus leadership and are required to meet academic standards that are set by the campus. Faculty and staff advise these groups. As many of you know, there are groups in the campus community who wear Greek letters but are unrecognized by the campus, do not have advisors, and have no relationship with the national organizations whose letters they may wear. In order to help distinguish between these groups, a “Know Your Greeks” flyer is attached to this issue of the Bulletin. If you have questions, please contact Angie Eichler, Greek Advisor, at x3591.
STUDENT-ATHLETES TO RAKE LEAVES FOR SENIORS
Student-athletes in conjunction with the Center for Social Responsibility and Community will rake leaves for senior citizens in the city of Oneonta on Sunday, November 4, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Please see information attached to this issue of the Bulletin. Raking will be done on a first-come, first-served basis, and sign-ups will continue through today, Wednesday, October 31. Sponsored by the SUNY-Oneonta student-athletes in conjunction with the State University of New York Athletic Conference.
MOVIE AND DISCUSSION
The Women’s and Gender Studies Department presents, Take My Eyes on Wednesday, November 7 at 7:00 p.m. in the Red Dragon Theater, Hunt College Union. Please see information attached to this issue of the Bulletin.
PUBLIC LECTURE
Dr. Anne Clendinning, Associate Professor of History, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada, will give a public lecture entitled 'All the World at Wembley': Britain in the 1920s in Morris Hall, Room 104 on Monday, November 5 from 7:00 a.m. - 9:30 p.m. Please see information attached to this issue of the Bulletin.
GOSPEL CHOIR
SUNY-Oneonta’s Voices of Serenity Gospel Choir will present its fall concert, at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 11, in the Hunt College Union Ballroom. Information is attached to this issue of the Bulletin.
GALLERY RECEPTION INFORMATION
Information on the double gallery reception that will take place on Friday, November 2, is attached to this issue of the Bulletin.
LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP FOR A TUTOR THIS SEMESTER
Faculty members please remind your students that the last day to sign up for a tutor this semester is Friday, November 16. Before this date, students can access our website at: http://cade.oneonta.edu/signup to apply to get a tutor for most 100 and many 200 level courses. (This site must be accessed through Internet Explorer). Students then only need to click on the “I Need a Tutor” link and follow the instructions. Students can also visit our office located in 225 Alumni or phone the Center for Academic Development and Enrichment (CADE) office at x3010, if they have any other questions or problems.
STATE VEHICLE TRAVELING/GAS CARD
If you will be borrowing a state vehicle and traveling more than 200 miles from the Oneonta area on a trip, you may need to use the EXXON/MOBILE gas card provided in the vehicle. Those who have been assigned a Personal Identification Number by the M.O.C. Office (Vehicles are filled with gasoline before leaving Campus at M.O.C. gas pumps) are reminded that receipts for those purchases need to be turned in to Connie Jones at Facilities Operations/Maintenance Office, either by mail or in person, with the trip ticket that was provided, after your trip. Questions: phone Connie at x3283.
MILNE LIBRARY DATABASE TRIALS
The Milne Library Free Trials page, LOCATED HERE, provides links to database trials including Birds of America online, Black Newspapers, International Medieval Bibliography, and Iter's Medieval and Renaissance Bibliography. Please email Nancy Cannon, Electronic Resources Coordinator, Milne Library, at cannonns@oneonta.edu if you wish to provide feedback on any of these databases.
GUIDELINES FOR SELECTION OF PRESIDENT
According to the Guidelines for the Selection of a President as set forth by SUNY Systems Administration, six members of the full-time teaching faculty shall have membership on the Presidential Search Committee. Additionally, these six members will be elected by secret ballot at a meeting of the faculty governance group in which a quorum of the full-time teaching faculty are present. All full-time teaching faculty and all College Senators are encouraged to attend a “special” meeting of the College Senate on Monday, November 12, at 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. in the Hunt College Union Ballroom and cast votes via secret ballot for representatives to the search committee. An absentee process will likely be announced soon for those unable to attend. Please go to the College Senate website for more information.
FOOD ORDERS THROUGH WEBFOOD
Webfood is available for your convenience at www.oneonta.webfood.com. Place your order up to a day in advance and your meal may be picked up at the Mills Marketplace with no waiting in line.
MASSAGE THERAPY AVAILABLE
Massage Therapy is available at the Hunt College Union from 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays when classes are on in session. Phone x4205 to make an appointment.
ANIMAL SUPPLY DRIVE
As part of our Service Learning Project for our Consumer Resource Management class, we are launching a collection for the Susquehanna SPCA. We are collecting the following supplies: Dog and cat food, animal toys, treats, leashes, collars, animal shampoo and old blankets. Money donations can be placed in a jar at the Hunt College Union. We will be collecting these supplies from Monday, October 29 - Thursday, November 15 in Room 100, Human Ecology Building, and the Hunt College Union. There will be boxes in both locations for your convenience. All supplies will be donated to the Susquehanna SPCA. Anything you donate will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your help.
FOLLOW UP ON DONATING TO OPPORTUNITES FOR OTSEGO
Thank you to all who have already donated to our cause, but there is still much more time to donate! On November 7, members of our group will be in the Hunt Union in the Glimmerglass room, from 11a.m-1p.m collecting. Upon walking into the Hunt Union, go up the stairs as if going to the Ballroom. At the top of the stairs take a right, and the glass room will be straight ahead. Again, all donations are greatly appreciated. Shampoo, towels, feminine care, toothpaste, and other toiletries will be accepted. Anything you can bring is truly appreciated! Thank you!
CONVERSATIONS FOR CREATING A WELCOMING CAMPUS COMMUNITY SEMINARS
Employees are invited to attend a seminar, Conversations for Creating a Welcoming Campus Community. Seminars will be held in Lee Hall, Center for Multicultural Experience, as follows:
You may register online at the website HERE or for more information phone x2830 or email zapatabc@oneonta.edu.
JJOT - TODAY
Java, Java, and other Technologies will present Conceptual Mapping with CMAP today, Wednesday, October 31 from 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. in the TLTC. CMAP is a freely downloadable program for Windows or Macintosh that empowers users to construct, navigate, share, and criticize knowledge models represented as Concepts Maps. For more information see the web site cmap.ihmc.us.
FACULTY SEMINAR - TODAY
Hua Zhong will make the second presentation of the Fall 2007 Economics and Business Division Faculty Seminar Series on Wednesday, October 31, at 4:00 p.m., in IRC, LH#9. The title of Dr. Zhong’s presentation is On the Inventory-Distribution problem with Heterogeneous Vessels and Product-Release Times. The presentation is open to faculty, students, and the public.
CATSKILL SYMPHONY - NOVEMBER 3
Variety will be the specialty of the day at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 3 when the Catskill Symphony Orchestra performs its second concert of the season in the Hunt College Union. Music Director and Conductor Charles Schneider has chosen a program with two works for strings alone, one with a soprano soloist, and one of the less frequently played Beethoven Symphonies. The concert will open with Peter Tchaikovsky’s melodic Serenade for Strings, a work which can be described as a 19th century romantic sequel to Mozart‘s classically structured and well received Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. By contrast, Tchaikovsky allowed the purely sensual nature of his themes to come to the fore, resulting in a work which has gained great popularity with audiences everywhere. The second selection turns the spotlight on Colby Thomas in Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 for Soprano and Orchestra, a work which was premiered in 1947 by the Boston Symphony with Eleanor Steber as soloist. This is an extremely nostalgic musical reference to a text by James Agee in which an evening long ago in an old Southern city is lovingly recalled. Colby Thomas, a graduate of the SUNY Oneonta Music Department, and currently a member of the Music Faculty, will perform the soprano solo part. Thomas has previously performed with the CSO as a soloist in the Poulenc Gloria, and more recently she spent nine years in Hamburg, Germany as the star in a long-running production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera. After intermission the focus will turn to Benjamin Britten’s Simple Symphony, a string orchestra piece based entirely on material, which the composer wrote between the ages of, nine and twelve. This unusual four movement work features titles like Boistrous Bouree and Playful Pizzcato. The CSO will conclude the concert with Beethoven’s Symphony Number Eight which, coming between the heavier and more earnest Symphonies Seven and Nine, has been described as “a slender maiden between two giants.” An extra feature of note is the continuation of an anonymous grant, which allows any one or two adults to bring any number of children to this concert without charge. More information, as well as ticket reservations, can be obtained by phoning the Symphony Office at x2670. The concerts is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. The CSO is a member of the Otsego County Arts Alliance. Otsego County Occupancy Tax revenues and Wilber National Bank support OCAA. Generous support for this concert is provided by SUNY-Oneonta.
DANCE PARTY - NOVEMBER 3
The Foothills Performing Arts Center (Market Street), will be having their Saturday Night Dance Party - The Waltz on Saturday, November 3 at 7:00 p.m. For participants of all ages, solo or accompanied. Dance instruction for the first hour followed by two hours of dancing and refreshments. Great music, great people, great times! For more information phone Foothills Performing Arts Center at (607) 431 2080 or e-mail tina@foothillspac.org.
VISITING PROFESSOR TO GIVE FACULTY SEMINAR PAPER - NOVEMBER 6
The Susquehanna Seminar is pleased to host Dr. Anne Clendinning, Associate Professor of History, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada, will give a special faculty seminar paper on Tuesday, November 6 from 7:00 -9:00 p.m. in the Glimmerglass Room, Hunt College Union. The paper is entitled From Cumquats to Kedgeree: 'Eating the Other' at the British Empire Exhibition. This paper examines the meanings attributed to 'exotic' foods and cuisine made available to exhibition visitors in the Indian and Hong Kong pavilions at the British Empire Exhibition. While the sampling of food served is a form culinary imperialism, this cultural exchange potentially enabled colonial exhibitors to invent 'traditional' cuisines as a means of constructing and performing identities, thereby claiming cultural authority for themselves. This paper is open to SUNY-Oneonta and Hartwick College faculty only. RSVP Matthew Hendley at hendlem@oneonta.edu, if you are able to attend this faculty seminar. Copies of the paper will be circulated to interested faculty in advance. Dr. Clendinning is the author of Demons of domesticity : women and the English gas industry, 1889-1939 (Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2004) which is a study of “lady demonstrators” of gas kitchen appliances in early twentieth century Britain. Her new work is on the British Empire Exhibition of 1924- 1925.
CONVIVIUM SCHEDULED - NOVEMBER 7
A Convivium is scheduled for Wednesday, November 7 from noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Butternut Room, Hunt College Union. Arthur F. Dauria, Communication Arts, and Walter vom Saal, Psychology emeritus, are your presenters. The topic of the presentation will be Life After Work: The Personal Side of Retirement. Insights drawn from the retirement experience of six well-known Americans, the new book written by Dr. Dauria and Dr. vom Saal. Lunch will be provided. To reserve a place, phone x2517 prior to Tuesday, November 6 and leave a message. You will be placed on the list to attend unless you receive a return phone call.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS - NOVEMBER 7
Matthew Hendley, History, will give the next Famous Last Words lecture on Wednesday, November 7 at 12:00 p.m. in the Center for Multicultural Experiences, Lee Hall. Dr. Hendley’s lecture is titled: A Tale of Two Citizenships: Why the United States of America is Not the World. Famous Last Words is a program in which a faculty or staff member has been nominated by Omicron Delta Kappa to present the “last lecture” of his or her life. All are invited to attend. For additional information, contact Robb at x3013.
MOONLIGHT MADNESS SALE - NOVEMBER 7
Moonlight Madness at the Red Dragon Bookstore is Wednesday, November 7 from 2:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Everything, excluding electronics, supplies and textbooks, will be on sale!
YOGA SOCIETY’S THIRD LECTURE - NOVEMBER 7
Dr. Mathew Chandrankunnel, a visiting scientist at the Harvard Physics Department, will speak on “Yoga and Christianity” from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 7, at the Multicultural Center, Lee Hall. Dr. Chandrankunnel is also a philosopher as well as a theologian, who holds a doctorate in “Quantum Mechanics,” from the University of Leuven, Belgium. He teaches Philosophy of science, science and religion and other allied subjects and is the Director of the Centre for the Study of World Religions at the Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore, India. He has published Philosophy of Physics and numerous articles on science and religion and received the CTNS - Templeton Award in 2000. A trained journalist, who has served as the Science Editor of Deepika the first Malayalam, Daily Newspaper in Kerala, India. He belongs to the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate Congregation. Dr. Chandrankunnel’s talk will center on the connection between “Yoga and Christianity” as practiced in India. He believes that Indian culture is timeless with an underpinning of spiritual dimension. Yoga as an integral part of this culture is at the same time an art, science and spiritual discipline undertaken by any ardent seeker. Christians especially the St. Thomas Christians in India integrated their belief with the Hindu culture. They received their faith from Thomas the Apostle in AD 52. Their way of life is patterned by the Hindu culture of which they were a part, thus adopting the marriage and death rituals. Since Yoga transcends any particular religion, it is adopted by the Christian practice. The concept of Istadevata - one’s favorite God - is borrowed by the Indian Christians from the Yoga practices. Christians think of Christ as the Sanatanasatguru-the eternal truthful master and believe that through the practice of Yoga technique one could be united with Him thus reaching the kingdom of God in this life and the life beyond. This lecture, which is free to the public, is supported by an LSI grant from the Metanexus Institute of Philadelphia and SUNY Oneonta. For information, contact Ashok K. Malhotra, at x3220. Dr. Michael Faux will give the next lecture of the series on “Science-Religion Dialogue” on Wednesday, November 28.
REMINDER:
FACULTY COMPUTER PURCHASE PROGRAM DEADLINE - NOVEMBER 7
The Educational Technology Committee for the Faculty Computer Purchase Program is accepting applications. Through this program, faculty can request a new computer. Faculty wishing to submit requests should visit THIS WEB SITE for details. For more information about the Faculty Computer Purchase Program contact Hanfu Mi, Chair of ETC, at x3000 or mih@oneonta.edu, or Rita Szczesh, Academic Computing Services at x3080 or szczesrc@oneonta.edu. The deadline for this program is Wednesday, November 7.
INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED NOVELIST TO READ - NOVEMBER 8
The newly established Red Dragon Reading Series, funded by the Office of the President and the English Department, will present a reading by Janette Turner Hospital, author of 7 award-winning novels such as Oyster, The Last Magician, and Due Preparations for the Plague. She will give a reading from her new novel, Orpheus Lost, on Thursday, November 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Craven Lounge. Born in Queensland, Australia, Janette Turner Hospital is regarded “as one of the best female novelists writing in English” (The Observer). Her eagerly awaited new novel, Orpheus Lost, is both a love story on a grand scale that spans America, Australia, and Baghdad and an exploration of the shattering effects of war and terrorism on our contemporary moment. This reading is free and open to the public. This event is also funded in part by Poets and Writers, Inc. with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. For more information, please contact Susan Bernardin at x3035 or bernarsk@oneonta.edu.
BALLET THEATER STUDIO COMPANY TO PERFORM - NOVEMBER 9 & 10
Lincoln Center’s American Ballet Theatre Studio Company will present two performances, Friday, November 9, at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, November 10 at 2:00 p.m. at Goodrich Theatre, Fine Arts. The events are part of Oneonta Concert Association’s 80th season of concerts. Student tickets are $6, with general admission at $20. Reservations advised by phoning 432-0147 or go to www.oneonta.edu/oca and for more information.
YOGA WORKSHOP- NOVEMBER 10
The College Camp is offering a half-day workshop in yoga and nutrition at the Lodge, College Camp, on Saturday, November 10 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Led by Michell Pearsall and Nancy Mitchell, the session is geared to beginners, but is open to everyone. Cost for the session is only $15.00 for SUNY Oneonta employees and $20.00 for community members. To register for the workshop please call Snapper Petta at 436-3455.
AN EVENING OF ACOUSTIC MUSIC - NOVEMBER 10
The College Camp will once again host An Evening Of Acoustic Music on Saturday, November 10 from 8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Come on up to the lodge and relax by the fire, enjoy some free refreshments and listen to the sounds of Gilboa Breakdown as they play a mix of blues, jazz, and old tyme music. The evening is free and everyone is welcome to attend. For more information phone Snapper Petta at x3455.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT/UUP CHAPTER MEETING - NOVEMBER 13
The next Food for Thought/UUP Chapter meeting will be held in Le Café, Morris Conference Center, on Tuesday, November 13th at Noon, and will feature a program by Doreen Bango, statewide UUP Director of Member Benefits and Services. She will discuss benefits and services available to UUP members. Doreen will examine medical, dental, vision, drug, and other benefits and services, including new initiatives. Questions and discussion will follow the formal program. Although Food for Thought has important content, it is also an occasion for respite from the workweek, relaxed collegiality, and fine food. Renew old ties and forge new ones by joining your colleagues in convivial gathering and expression of solidarity. Your union looks forward to greeting you. For additional information or if you have questions, please contact Bill Simons (x3498, simonswm@oneonta.edu), Rob Compton (x3048, comptorw@oneonta.edu), Norm Payne (x2021, paynene@oneonta.edu), or Janie Forrest-Glotzer (x2005, forresjl@oneonta.edu).
FIGURATIVE PAINTERS EXHIBIT - DECEMBER 14
figure 9 contemporary figurative painters, a group exhibit of the work of nine figurative painters, will run through Friday, December 14 in the Fine Arts Gallery. The exhibition features paintings and drawings by artists Daniel Dallman, Martha Mayer Erlebacher, Susan Moore, Truitt Seitz, Joel Sheesley, Peter Sheesley, Gary Trento, Costa Vavagiakis, and Jerome Witkin. These artists are dedicated to the use of the human form in their artwork for content and artistic concerns, and as such, some of the works depict models that are unclothed. The exhibit displays a range of traditional handling of the figure in portraiture, narrative, and in formal aesthetic composition in a rich collection of figurative work. The galleries are open Monday - Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. when classes are in session. Information is available from Tim Sheesley at x2445 or at www.oneonta.edu/academics/art/gallery.html
BULLETIN INFORMATION
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