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Flash
Electronic Newsletter for
WSU Honors College Students
Spring
Semester 2006, Wednesday, January 18, Week II
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Headlines
Gift certificate
FREE BOOKS! FREE BOOKS! FREE BOOKS!
Decadent coffee & tea this Friday
THESIS TIME
Cougar Quest
Volunteers Drive Success of Cougar Pride Days at WSU, in Pullman
Postcard from Copenhagen
S C H O L A R S H I P S & P R O G R A M S
(See the Honors web site at www.wsu.edu/honors for past issues of Flash containing more information on scholarships & programs.)
Archaeological research excavation opportunity this summer
C A L E N D A R
Comparative Ethnic Studies Speaker Series
Mechanical and Materials Engineering Symposium
School of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
Up All Night Friday
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Gift certificate
Remember – if you see your name in double brackets [[name]] in Flash
you have won a $5 gift certificate to Ferdinand’s. Pick it up in
Honors!
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FREE BOOKS! FREE BOOKS! FREE BOOKS!
The Honors College is giving away books! There is absolutely no cost,
and you can take as many as would you like. The books are on tables in
the rear of Honors Hall 142 – the large classroom. Feel free to
browse and take any that are of interest on MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY
from 12-3 and TUESDAY, THURSDAY from 8-10 AM. Classes are being held in
the room during other times.
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Decadent coffee & tea this Friday
Cake, coffee & tea this Friday in the Honors Hall Reading Room, 2-4
p.m.
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THESIS TIME
Theses will be presented the week of February 20 from 11 am to 6 pm on
the hour. If you have an approved proposal on file and wish to present
this semester, contact your thesis advisor to find a time they are available
and call the Honors College at 335-4505 or stop by the Honors College
Office to reserve a time. Obviously, the earlier you call the more choices
you will have. Two SPIRAL BOUND copies of your paper are due in Honors
by 5 pm February 13. See Honors Web page to be sure you include all required
sections. If you have questions, feel free to call us at any time.
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Cougar Quest
Are you interested in working with middle and high school-age students
for three weeks over the summer? Cougar Quest counselor positions pay
well ($2,000 plus room and board for just three weeks of work)! Find the
application at: http://www.summer.wsu.edu/News/view_news.asp?story=113
What is Cougar Quest?
The Summer Cougar Quest program is a WSU sponsored educational summer
camp offered to students entering the 7th-12th grade in fall 2006. The
program will run from Sunday, July 16th through Friday, July21st for 7th
- 9th grade students; and Sunday, July 23 through Friday, July 28th for
9-th - 12th grade students. Campers will be involved in planned educational,
recreational, and social programs throughout the week. Included in planned
activities are workshops taught by WSU faculty and instructors. Some of
the recreational and social programs will be planned, organized, facilitated
and supervised by the Camp Staff – YOU; other programs will be planned
by someone else but supervised by Camp Staff.
What should I expect
if I should get the Counselor position?
Individuals selected to staff Summer Cougar Quest will work with camp
participants each week from Sunday morning setup through Friday debriefing
and cleanup. Training for the program will take place July 9 –14.
Between camp sessions staff will have time off from Friday debriefing
and cleanup until Sunday morning setup. Total remuneration for the three-week
time commitment will be $2,000.00 and will also include room and board
for the three-week period. [[morleyjennifer]]
In order to become a Cougar Quest Counselor you MUST:
Be able and willing to work long and irregular hours during camp in hot
July.
Pass a security background check completed through the Washington State
Patrol.
Be a Washington State University student with at least sophomore (30+
credits) standing by May 2006.
Abide by professional and ethical standards of conduct, which includes
abiding by all camp, university, local, state, and federal laws and regulations.
Know how to have fun and be goofy.
Love young people!
Have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.5 and be in good standing in your
academic major at the end of the spring semester in May 2006.
Be fully available to work from July 9 – July 28, 2006, with no
other interfering commitments.
Be responsible!
All applications
must be completed and turned into the Summer Cougar Quest/Summer Session
Office by 5:00 pm on February 15 th, 2006 (346 French Admin, zip 1035).
If you have any questions you may contact Kim Mueller at 335-1235 or Linda
Schoepflin at 335-0134 or check out our website at www.cougarquest.wsu.edu
Interviews will take place on Sunday, March 5th and selections will be
made by April 7th.
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Volunteers Drive Success of Cougar Pride Days at WSU, in Pullman
Many get credit for the success of Cougar Pride Days, the annual spring
spruce-up event for Washington State University and the city of Pullman.
Area residents and university staff, faculty and student volunteers deserve
much of the praise, according to members of the event’s planning
committee.
'I appreciate the way volunteers on campus and in the community have
embraced it,' said committee chair Ev Davis, WSU Facilities Operations
executive director. 'Pride in the university and in the city are reflected
in what you see at the end of each event, a more beautiful university
and
city. They truly take ownership in WSU and Pullman.' Committee member
Kappy
Brown, WSU grounds supervisor, said, 'Volunteers do a wonderful job. The
appearance of campus is enhanced and the community enthusiasm is great.'
As
an example of past success on campus, Brun points to Johnson Tower’s
southeast corner. 'Volunteers working there renovated a previously unused
area into a wonderful outdoor picnic space.'
The 5th annual Cougar Pride Days will be held March 22-April 4. To
volunteer or for more information, visit www.wsu.edu/cougar-pride-days
or
contact Ev Davis, 335-9024.
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Postcard from Copenhagen
Hi Everyone!!!
Well I am in Copenhagen, Denmark – really spelled København.
There has been so much that I don’t even know what to start or what
to tell! The city is great and the people are very friendly. It is so
nice to be somewhere that has cultural differences, yet almost everyone
can speak English.
In my “crash course” group there is quite a variety of people! There are people from Brazil, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, South Korea, Thailand, China, etc. It is really interesting getting to interact with people from all over.
This week we have all been struggling to pick up the language. You really have to use the back of your throat, a lot of gagging sounds! Ha ha. As our professor quoted a past comedian “Danish is not a language, it is a sickness of the throat!”
Buying groceries is certainly one of the more entertaining tasks here. I have realized that pictures are vital!! I have bought a few things on “hope.” Did you know that here you must pay to use a shopping cart?! Also you have to pay to get grocery bags – so instead most bring their own.
The public transportation
here is amazing. They have the bus system, metro and trains. It is really
great! I can get to my school either by bus, which takes about 20 min.
or by metro and train, which takes about 10-15 minutes.
Even in the “shady” parts of town it is really quite safe.
In the “shady” parts you see seven year old kids walking by
themselves to school! Definitely not our idea of “shady!”
I am still trying to get rid of my jet lag, but with so many things going on I haven’t gotten much sleep! It is really nice here though, and there are a lot of fun people!
My friends and I had an interesting thing happen to us yesterday on one of our journeys into downtown København…. After running errands in the freezing wind, we all decided to go to a Pub to warm up! Well we saw a man videotaping a woman about 50 feet away from the door, we assumed it was a news team. So we walk in this Pub, O’Leary’s, and stopped inside to look at the things in the front entrance. Suddenly everyone inside starts clearing out! We asked what was going on and someone said they were recording a movie in there! We assumed that everyone was asked to leave, so we headed back out. There was a man standing outside handing everyone something and mumbling something in Danish. He hands myself, and each of my friends one too, I told him I couldn’t understand him though, but he didn’t seem to care. Turns out we got a 300DKK (about 35 bucks) gift certificate for being “extras!” –even though we weren’t! We decided it was a pretty good day after that ;)
I just got my classes
today and it turns out I only have them on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday!
AND none of them start until February 6, two end in April, one in the
first week of May and one in the third week of May!!!!! I am excited!
I hope that everyone is doing well, I miss you all!
Anjie Bertramson
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S C H O L A R S H I P S & P R O G R A M S
(See the Honors web site at www.wsu.edu/honors for past issues of Flash
containing more information on scholarships & programs.)
Archaeological research
excavation opportunity this summer
The Discovery Programme, which is Ireland's archaeological research institution
funded by central government is looking for students who might like to
experience an archaeological research excavation this summer 2006.
The Discovery Programme's Medieval Rural Settlement Project is examining the development of the landscape through a series of three primary modules. One of these modules contains an excavation portfolio and is focused on the subject of lordship in Gaelic Ireland, as opposed to the regions under direct control of the Crown. Gaelic Ireland has been neglected by scholars, and our research is beginning to reveal the interesting complexities of life in a landscape that has been written-off for the most part as a zone of cultural backwardness. Far from it and the results of the present research will contribute directly to the larger debates of frontier societies, indigenous cultures and awareness of self, and socio-economic approaches to the medieval world in general. Two historians on the team serve to ensure that we engage fully with the sense of interdisciplinary approaches that make Medieval Studies the powerhouse and enlightened way forward that it is.
In 2006 we will be returning to our primary excavation site for a period of 12 weeks, and we are currently accepting applications for volunteers to participate. The site is situated in the central northwest of the country, in Co. Roscommon, which is an area that is steeped in history and is quite beautiful. The excavation is being conducted on a primary residence of the O'Conor Roe lords, and we have already discovered the remains of a substantial and heretofore unknown stone castle that lies sandwiched between significant cultural horizons of the tenth/eleventh century and the sixteenth century, when the region was being policed by the Elizabethans. The excavation will become a type-site for the future understanding of Gaelic lordship and as such is considered as being of very great importance nationally. Volunteers participate for a minimum of three weeks and we all share self-catering accommodations in the locality. It has been a very informative and jovial experience for all concerned over the past two years. The team is small (6 volunteers and 6 staff), and students receive approximately 8 hours of evening lectures that introduce them to medieval scholarship in Ireland, as well as the particular forté of the Discovery Programme, which is high-tech, high-level research approaches. The cost is very reasonable: approx $1,086 in all for the three weeks, and a reduction if students wish to stay for a second three-week block. The season begins on 4th June and ends on 26th August. Full details are posted online, if you follow the links above. This is a non-credit experience but if credit is required, we are open to discussing the options with the host institution.
The Discovery Programme's Medieval Rural Settlement Project's excavation presents an important opportunity to anyone who wants to learn about archaeology first-hand and under close guidance. I am conscious of the difficulty that departments and programs in the US have in funneling their students to top-end research projects in Europe, and I would like to extend this invitation to you, as alumnae of an institution that presented me with a fabulous opportunity to broaden my horizons.
Places on the excavation fill quickly (last year we were booked out by March). If interested we would encourage you to download and e-mail an application form now.
Dr. Niall Brady
Project Director
Medieval Rural Settlement Project
The Discovery Programme
34 Fitzwilliam Place
Dublin 2
Ireland
+353 1 639 3039 (switch)
+353 1 639 3710 (fax)
+353 1 639 3722 (direct)
+353 87 234 5978 (mobile)
www.discoveryprogramme.ie
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C A L E N D A R
Comparative Ethnic
Studies Speaker Series
Jeff Chang, winner of the American Book Award and author of Can't Stop,
Won't Stop
Comparative Ethnic Studies hosts Jeff Chang, Winner of the American Book
Award
and author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
January 18, 2006, 5:30 pm in CUE 203.
According to Jeff
Chang, hip-hop, forged in the fires of the Bronx and
Kingston, Jamaica, has been a generation-defining global movement. In
a
post-civil rights era rapidly transformed by deindustrialization and
globalization, hip-hop gave voiceless youths a chance to address these
seismic changes, becoming a major job-making engine and the Esperanto
of
youth rebellion. Hip-hop crystallized a multiracial generation's worldview,
and forever transformed politics and culture.
David Leonard, Associate
Professor in the Department of Comparative Ethnic
Studies adds, 'Jeff Chang will bring an attention and depth to the hip-hop
movement and community-based activism that is rarely addressed within
classrooms or this community. Having had an array of experiences, Jeff
will
invariably bring insight into a movement that is so often rendered
invisible or demonized with simplistic clichés.'
Mechanical and Materials Engineering Symposium
Event: Mechanical & Materials Engineering Symposium Series and ME598
Graduate Seminar
Date: January 19, 2006
Time: 11:10 am to 12:00 Noon
Location: ETRL 101
Speaker: Dr. Chuck
Pezeshki
Dr. Pezeshki is currently the Associate Director of WSU School of
Mechanical & Materials Engineering, and the Director of the Industrial
Design Clinic here in the School.
Topic: An International
Future for Engineering Education? How We can
Compete in a Global Education Marketplace
Host: Dr. Dutta
Refreshments will be served half an hour before the seminar in Sloan 243.
School of Molecular Biosciences Seminar Series
Presented by Dr. Feng Gong from the School of Molecular Biosciences at
Washington State University titled 'Targeting Swi/Snf to Nucleotide
Excision Repair in Chromatin' on Thursday, January 19, 2006 at 12:10pm
in
Todd 216.
Up All Night Friday
Up All Night will feature Vegas Night on Friday, Jan. 20 at the CUB from
9
p.m.- 2 a.m. The casino atmosphere will include craps, blackjack, roulette
and Texas hold 'em.
The Up All Night program is looking for volunteers to help with the casino
tables. Great opportunity to interact with WSU students in a fun and positive
environment. To volunteer, please contact Brian Shuffield at shuffield@wsu.edu
or 335-9667.
Guest performers include musical entertainment by Ellis, an instrumental
folk group with a female lead singer. Hypnotist Tammy Harris-Barton will
also entertain the crowd. Other activities will include puzzle designing,
bowling and billiards, roving artists Vanilla Town), Taiwanese Night Market
and the SEB Film: Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Plus, don't miss the
free food!
Up All Night is a weekend program providing free entertainment to WSU
students, staff and faculty. Guests are also welcome. Programs include
entertainment, music and free food. Up All Nights are usually held twice
a month on Friday or Saturday.
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