Counseling and Mental Health Services is
creating two therapy groups for members of the University community.
The group, Survivors of Sexual Assault or Sexual Abuse,
is open to those who have had those experiences. Call x5-2361
for registration information. Breaking Free is a group
for those struggling with issues relating to eating, dieting,
exercise, and body image. Call x5-3113 for registration information.
Term Paper Research Assistance (TPRA), individualized
research planning sessions launched last spring at Rush Rhees
Library Reference, is being offered again this fall, with "walk-in"
service beginning this week.
TPRA is a service for undergraduates working
on humanities or social sciences papers. The student meets for
half an hour or more with a librarian, who can help map out a
research strategy, identify key terms, and select relevant print
or electronic resources. Walk-in hours are every weekday from
3 to 4 p.m., and Tuesday and Wednesday evenings from 6 to 7 p.m.,
through December 12. Students may simply come to the Rush Rhees
Reference Desk during those hours and request TPRA service. Advance
appointments (including times other than the "walk-in"
hours) may be made throughout the semester by calling x5-4437.
The Lifelong Education And Resource Network
(LEARN) has a Center and Resource Library in Room 202, Towne House.
Services and resources include consulting, assessment tools,
individualized instruction, leadership education, classes, books,
video tapes, and self-study guides. All resources are designed
to help staff expand their personal and professional performance
related to business needs. Resource topics include, but are not
limited to: customer service, career development, communication
skills, leadership, and supervision.
For more information, call x5-2103.
There is still room for participants in the
following LEARN classes. For more information, call x5-2103:
October 14, Succeeding with Customers
on the Phone; October 15 and 22, Creating and Maintaining
Effective Working Relationships; October 28, Personality
Styles in the Workplace; October 29, Avoiding Harassment
and Discrimination; November 7, Productive Meetings;
and November 10 and 11, Creating and Maintaining Effective
Working Relationships.
Michael Sells, author of The Bridge Betrayed,
an award-winning book on the religious reasons for the war in
Bosnia, will give a talk based on the book at the University on
Friday, October 17.
Sells, who is professor of comparative religions
at Haverford College, will speak on religion's role in
the 1992 tragedy of genocide in Bosnia. In The Bridge Betrayed,
Sells offers startling and new insights into the religious mythology
that served to motivate and justify the genocide carried out against
the Bosnian Muslims, as well as the Croats and Serbs who wished
to live with them in peace.
The talk will be held at 4 p.m. in the Welles-Brown
Room of Rush Rhees Library. It is free and open to all.
A free Weight Watchers 1-2-3 program information
meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 22, at noon, in Room
278, Administration Building. Call x5-5931.
Eric Pankey, who has received the Academy
of American Poets' Walt Whitman Award, will read on October
16 in the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library. The reading,
part of the Plutzik Memorial Poetry Series, will take place at
7:30 p.m.
Pankey is the author of four books of poetry,
The Late Romances, Apocrypha, Heartwood,
and For the New Year. His poems have appeared in many magazines,
including The New Yorker, Poetry, Kenyon Review, and TriQuarterly.
Admission to the reading is free and open
to all. For more information, call x5-4092.
Undergraduate students and other women interested
in pursuing careers in law can meet women lawyers and judges at
a panel discussion and reception at the University on Tuesday,
October 14. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Rotunda of
Schlegel Hall.
Among the panelists will be Judges Teresa
Johnson and Betty Pine and attorneys June Castellano, Debra Martin,
Nancy Peck, Sharon Stiller, Beth Wilkins, and Ellen Coyne.
Admission is free and open to all. For more
information, call x5-8799.
Praised by critics as a national treasure,
singer Judy Collins will perform Friday, October 31 at the University.
The concert will be held at 8 p.m. in the Alexander Palestra.
Over a three-decade career, Collins has released
24 albums (many of them gold and platinum) and has been called
a "magical singer" and "the voice of the century"
by critics.
Admission to the concert is $16 for students;
$18 for parents, faculty, and staff; and $20 for the public. Tickets
are available at the Common Market in Wilson Commons, Record Archive
on Mt. Hope Avenue, Media Play in South Town Plaza, and Borders
Books and Music on Hylan Drive.
The third biannual conference of the Society
for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry will be held on October
16-18 at the Strathallan Hotel. The international conference will
focus on Hispanic colonial poetry of the 16th and 17th centuries.
The conference will feature papers presented
by scholars from some 40 colleges and universities across North
America.
Admission to the entire conference is $50
for faculty and $25 for graduate students. Daily admission is
$20 for October 16, $25 for October 17, and $10 for October 18.
For more information, call x5-5524.
More than Meets the Eye: Photographic
Landscapes from 1850 to 1910,
an art exhibition curated by Bill Johnson, will be displayed at
the from October 16 to November 9. The exhibit opens at 5 p.m.
on October 16 with a reception, followed by the curator's
talk at 6 p.m.
The exhibition is being held in conjunction
with SUNY College at Brockport's Visual Studies Workshop
and is part of citywide events centering around issues of land
use, environmental abuse, cultural constructions and representations
of nature and artistic practices. Numerous exhibitions, talks,
screenings, and workshops on the topics will be held this month.
Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday
through Friday and noon to 6 p.m. on weekends. Admission is free
and open to all. For more information, call x5-2331.
Popular University a cappella groups the
Yellowjackets and Vocal Point will perform during the University's
Homecoming Weekend at 8 p.m., Saturday, October 18 in Strong Auditorium.
Both the Yellowjackets, an all-male ensemble,
and the all-female Vocal Point draw large crowds of students each
time they perform on campus.
The Yellowjackets recently released a new
album, Yellacappella, which will be on sale after the concert.
Vocal Point's new album, Will Sing For ..., will
be released later this month.
Admission is $5.
The University's Toddler Center is
studying learning in children and parent/child relationships.
Researchers are looking for parents who have been depressed, with
children from three to eight years old who meet a list of other
criteria. All families will be required to complete one visit
to the University and will be paid $20 for the visit.
For more information, call x5-2014.
The Pulmonary Clinical Group is looking for
people with mild asthma ages 19 through 60 for asthma research.
Volunteers need to be non-smokers and will receive an honorarium
of $35.
For more information, call x5-4163.
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