·Co-Founder Of ‘Code
Pink’ To Speak At SIUE March 6
·SIUE School Of Engineering Open
House Attracted Record Numbers
·Shakespeare—He’s Not Just For
Adults Anymore
·Twenty-Fifth Annual SIUE Summer
Writing Camp Set For June, July
·SIU Board Of Trustees Considers Increase
In Tuition
·SIUE Nursing
Program Fee, Athletics Fee Changes Considered By BOT
·SIUE Fee, Rental Rate Changes
Considered By SIU Board Of Trustees
·S. Haar Named Employee Of The Month For
February
·Senior Citizens Fair
At SIUE To Offer Free Health Screenings
·SIUE Student From Effingham Recognized
with Leadership Award
·SIUE
Begins March 3 To Offer ‘e-Lert’ To Students,
Employees
·Changes
·Response To Violence; Campus Readiness
To Be Discussed
·SIUE
Focuses On Protecting Intellectual Property Rights Through
Seminars
·Pie In The Face For A
Good Cause
·SIUE Student
Group Hosts Roundtable Discussion On Minority Issues
·Memorial Service To Be Conducted For NIU
Victims
·Folksinger Arlo
Guthrie Returns To SIUE As Part Of A&I
Series
·Women's
History Month 2008
·SIUE
School of Business Program Offers Study In Jaurez,
Mexico
·SIUE Art Auction Of
Original Art Set For Feb. 29 At S.H.C.C.
·SIUE Education Faculty Members Use
$134K Grant, Promote Lincoln
·SIUE Education Faculty Member Named
International Journal Editor
·SIUE Hosts Spring 2008 Open Houses,
Highlights Programs
·SIUE
School of Pharmacy Presents Diabetes Education
Program
·SIUE Mass Comm.
Students, Instructor Produce Award-Winning TV
Commercial
·The Trip
To Bountiful Runs On SIUE's Mainstage Feb. 27-March
2
·SIUE-Mackey
Mitchell Design Wins Peoples Choice A Second Time At
ACUHO-I
·Photo Of Staff
Senate Scholarship Winner
·Charter School Seniors Help the
Homeless
·SIUE Celebrating
Black Heritage Month During February
·For The Love Of Music To Showcase Student
Musicians Feb. 11
·SIUE
School of Pharmacy Service Learning Project Could Save
Lives
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink—a women’s initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement and dedicated to ending war in Iraq—will speak at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 6, in the Maple-Dogwood Room on the second floor of the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Morris Center. Benjamin will speak about “Peace Activism as a Way of Life,” co-sponsored by SIUE’s Women’s Studies Program as part of Women’s History Month.
Her appearance is the sixth event in a year-long series
under the general rubric, “Peace in a Time of War,”
which has examined ways of addressing conflict nonviolently as
well as the human costs of war and violent responses to
conflict.
In addition to her work with Code Pink, Benjamin is a
co-founder of the international human rights organization,
Global Exchange. Described as “one of America’s
most committed—and most effective—fighters for
human rights” by Newsday, Benjamin has
distinguished herself as an eloquent and energetic figure in a
progressive movement. In June 2005, Benjamin was one of 1,000
women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace
Prize collectively, on behalf of the millions of women who do
the essential work of peace worldwide.
Benjamin also has led several fact-finding delegations to
Iraq and helped establish the Baghdad-based Occupation Watch
Center. During the 1990s, she focused on tackling the problem
of unfair trade as promoted by the World Trade Organization.
Widely credited as the woman who helped place the issue of
sweatshops on the national agenda, Benjamin was a key player in
the campaign that won a $20 million settlement from 27 U.S.
clothing retailers for the use of sweatshop labor in Saipan.
She also pushed Starbucks and other companies to start carrying
fair trade coffee.
A former economist and nutritionist with the United Nations
and World Health Organization, Benjamin is author-editor of
eight books, and resides in San Francisco with her husband and
two daughters.
The last event in the Peace series will
feature Jim McGinnis, of the Institute for Peace and Justice,
speaking about “Gandhi, King, and the Challenge of
Non-Violence” at 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, in the
Maple/Dogwood Room of SIUE’s Morris University Center.
The entire series has been made possible by the Excellence in
Undergraduate Education Program, the Office of the Vice
Chancellor for Student Affairs and Lovejoy Library.
For more information about Peace Studies at SIUE, contact
Denise DeGarmo, (618) 650-3375. For more information about the
speaker series, contact Steve Tamari, (618) 650-3967. For more
information about Women’s Studies and Women’s
History Month events, contact Professor Mariana Solares,
director of the SIUE Women’s Studies Program, or Liz
Stygar, a Women’s Studies graduate assistant, (618)
650-5060, or by e-mail: wmstdept@siue.edu.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is proud to celebrate its 50th Anniversary and first half century of excellence. The University has grown from 1,776 students in 1957 to nearly 13,500 students today. SIUE is a catalyst for the cultural and intellectual vitality and economic development of Southwestern Illinois and the greater St. Louis region.
Cold and icy weather apparently couldn’t stop 500 prospective students and parents from attending the recent School of Engineering Open House. “The atmosphere inside was very warm and festive,” said Hasan Sevim, dean of the School.
The dean said the open house was designed for interested students to learn about curriculum and programs. “The faculty, staff and students of the School of Engineering made a commendable presentation of what we offer,” Sevim said.. “After a general presentation, visitors were directed to the departments in which they were interested. There, faculty and students introduced their disciplines through presentations and laboratory demonstrations.
“Members of the Joint Engineering Student Council provided hotdogs and nachos for the guests,” he said. “Formula race car, mini-baja, autonomous robot, steel bridge, concrete canoe and other student projects dazzled the prospective students. Staff members from companies such as Boeing, Anheuser-Busch, Bitrode, Oats Associates, and Ehrhardt Tool & Machine set up booths in the atrium, and volunteered their time to explain to prospective students what engineers do in the real world.
“There were more visitors here than I've ever seen for an open house."
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) Marilyn Spirt, managing director of the
Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, believes Will
Shakespeare’s works are the birthright of every
English-speaking citizen. It's that attitude that has made the
Shakespeare Festival so successful at interpreting the work of
Avon-on-Stratford’s favorite son. And, as we’ll see
at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville on March
29—when the Festival brings its children’s version
of Shakespeare’s love story-fantasy to the SIUE
mainstage—the bard's not just for adults
anymore.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream ... in the Wink of an
Eye, a magical tale of mistaken identity, faeries and
young people in love, is based on A Midsummer Night’s
Dream. And, its the final production of the 2007-08 season
of A Season for the Child, the family-oriented live theater
series sponsored by the SIUE Friends of Theater and Dance
(FOTAD) and TheBANK of Edwardsville, now in its 18th
year of offering quality children’s theater to
Southwestern Illinois. The showing of the classic play is set
for 7 p.m. Saturday, March 29, in the mainstage theater at
SIUE's Katherine Dunham Hall.
In the past, the Festival has offered Julius Caeser as a rap production and a scaled back version of Macbech for schools. “This will be the first time the Shakespeare Festival has been featured on the SfC bill and FOTAD is thrilled to have them aboard,” says Gregory J. Conroy, president of FOTAD. “We’ve always used the most professional theater troupes in the St. Louis area to entertain our patrons and this group of enthusiastic performers will be no exception,” Conroy said.
One of Shakespeare’s beloved romantic comedies,
Midsummer reveals what can happen on a warm summer
night, but is it a dream? Spirt points out that youngsters take
to Shakespeare very well. “ If you present Shakepseare in
the way it was intended, on stage, you see that the kids really
love it,” Spirt said. “They not only appreciate it,
they understand it,” she said. “The Shakespeare
Festival of St. Louis brings Shakespeare to a diverse audience
of students throughout the St. Louis Area and we find that it
affects them very much.”
Robin Weatherall wrote the music for the adaptation, while
Chris Limber, a former member of the SIUE theater faculty, and
Andrew Michael Nieman co-adapted Midsummer for children's
theater-shaving a five-act play down to 50 minutes. However,
they contend they did not sacrifice story quality or the beauty
of the language. “We tried to retain as much of the
original poetry of the play as possible,” Limber
explained. “Andy and I picked the high points, using five
actors to play several of the parts,” Limber
said.
He explained that the characters are of three
types—lovers, faeries and rude mechanicals (the comic
relief characters). “We are blessed to have skillful and
creative actors who can play these characters clearly, using
masks and other theatrical devices to not only make it work
well but also make it fun."
FOTAD, a support group for the SIUE Department of Theater
and Dance, uses the proceeds from A Season for the
Child to help fund merit awards for talented SIUE theater
and dance students. Each year, the organization awards some
$5,000 in merit scholarships to qualified students. In
addition, FOTAD awards another $5,000 each year for freshman
scholarships, travel stipends and other support for the
department. FOTAD also sponsors a Mystery Dinner Theater in
early November (this year on Nov. 2) and a Trivia Night in
January (set for Jan. 17, 2009).
“And, we’re very excited about the new FOTAD endowment we just started through the SIUE Foundation,” Conroy said. “With the help of generous donors, we can use this endowment to build a theater and dance scholarship legacy through FOTAD.”
Tickets for A Midsummer Night's Dream ... in the Wink of an Eye are $5 per person and are available through the SIUE Fine Arts box office, (618) 650-2774.
(EDWARDSVILLE, ILL.) The 25th Annual Summer Writing Day Camp
at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has been set for
two sessions Monday through Friday, June 16-June 27 and July
7-18. Enrollment per session is limited to 50 students, ages
eight through 18, according to Camp Director Susan Garrison, an
instructor in the Department of English Language and
Literature.
The camps are open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with
several hours of classroom development activity, plus
recreation periods for softball, swimming, volleyball, bowling,
billiards, board games and nature exploration, among others. In
addition, older students will have opportunities to explore
other aspects of SIUE campus life, such as attending classes in
session, and visit facilities, such as WSIE-FM.
Garrison said writing periods have an excellent pupil-teacher ratio—about eight to one—with development of skills articulating thought in the sentence, the paragraph, and the short essay, as well as by means of collaborative effort, in such creative forms as drama and fiction. Students at all grade levels will use computers extensively in the composition process, but participants do not need prior experience with computers to do well in the program. She also pointed out that individual instruction in grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and other basics of language usage are provided as needed but she also said these are not the total objective of the program.
Garrison will be assisted at the day camp by recreational counselors, as well as area elementary and secondary teachers and university lecturers. The fee for either of the day camp sessions is $190, which includes a non-refundable $15 enrollment fee upon registration. The $175 balance is due no later than June 12 for the first session or July 3 for the second session. For more information, call the SIUE Department of English Language and Literature, (618) 650-2060, or, from St. Louis toll-free, (888) 328-5168, Ext. 2060.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) Under a proposal considered today by
the Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees, new
undergraduate students entering SIU Edwardsville this fall
would pay $622.50 more in annual tuition than new students who
entered the University in fall 2007. The proposal is part of
the University's guaranteed tuition plan, under which students
pay their entering tuition rate for four years.
The proposal, given first reading today at the board's
regular meeting at SIU Carbondale, would create an annual
tuition rate of $5,850.00 for new undergraduate students
entering this coming fall. Students who entered SIUE in fall
2007 currently pay a $5,227.50 rate. The proposal will see a
final vote at the board's April 10 meeting on the Edwardsville
campus.
The SIUE plan also calls for $15,970 annual tuition rate for
the SIUE School of Pharmacy and a $21,760 annual tuition rate
at the SIU School of Dental Medicine in Alton. Pharmacy
students currently are paying $14,520 annually and dental
students currently are paying $19,960 annually.
The SIUE School of Pharmacy, the only such school in
downstate Illinois, opened its doors in fall 2005 and currently
enrolls more than 240 students. This year, the number of
applicants for fall 2008 has increased nearly 6 percent over
2007, with more than 80 percent of them residents of
Illinois.
The SIU School of Dental Medicine has been serving the
healthcare needs of Southern Illinois
for more than 30
years by graduating quality dental care professionals, many of
whom practice in downstate Illinois.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) The Southern Illinois University Board
of Trustees have given first reading to a proposal to continue
the Nursing Program fee and an Intercollegiate Athletics fee
change, both st SIU Edwardsville. The fee proposals were
considered by the Board at its regular meeting conducted today
at SIU Carbondale.
For a full-time undergraduate student enrolled as a
sophomore, junior, senior or graduate student in the SIUE
School of Nursing and taking clinical courses, the Nursing
program fee will continue at the existing rate of $220 per
clinical course per semester. Freshman Nursing students do not
take clinical courses.
Under the Intercollegiate Athletics fee proposal considered
today, the change would mean a full-time undergraduate student
(enrolled in 15 hours or more) would pay $117.50 per semester
as opposed to the current $71.20 beginning in fall. In
considering the proposal, the board learned that the proposed
fee change would support the initial year's operating expenses
associated with the reclassification from NCAA Division II to
Division I status and would move the program toward established
fund balance targets.
The fees will be on the April 10 board meeting agenda for approval.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) The Southern Illinois University Board
of Trustees today considered fee-related changes that will
affect the SIU Edwardsville campus, including changes in the
student fees for Information Technology, for Textbook Rental
and for the Student Success Center currently under
construction.
Other student fee changes considered
include those for the University Center, the Student Fitness
Center, the Student Welfare and Activity (SWAF), and Facilities
Maintenance. The fee changes were considered by the Board at
its regular meeting conducted today at SIU Carbondale. The fees
will be on the April 10 board meeting agenda for
approval.
For a full-time undergraduate student, the Student Success
Center fee would change from its current rate of $55.20 per
semester to $63 per semester in fall 2008, $70.80 per semester
beginning in fall 2009 and $79.20 per semester beginning in
fall 2010. The center will provide 68,000 square feet of space
for all student services in one central location.
Under the new Textbook Rental fee considered today for
undergraduate students, the change would mean a full-time
undergraduate student (enrolled in 15 hours or more) would pay
$307.50 annually as opposed to the current $288. With textbook
costs continually increasing, often resulting in hundreds of
dollars in expense at other schools, the SIUE textbook rental
program is popular among students.
If approved by the board, the Information Technology fee
would change from $6.20 per credit hour to $6.25, resulting in
a full-time undergraduate student paying $187.50 annually (two
academic semesters of 15 hours each) compared with $186 that is
paid currently for two semesters. This fee helps defray the
costs of supporting computing resources and networking
infrastructure on campus.
Below is a chart of the proposed changes in other student
fees:
Annually (for a full-time student enrolled in 15 hours or
more during fall and spring)
FY08 FY09 Change
o
SWAF $173.10 $182.00 +$ 8.90
o University Center $296.00
$297.80 +$ 1.80
o Student Fitness Ctr. $124.60 $138.60
+$14.00
o Facilities Maint. $472.50 $495.00 +$22.50
The Board also considered changes in SIUE's housing rental
fees and a change in the Housing Activity Fee, both for the
fall term.
Under the proposals, rental rates for a shared room at
Woodland, Prairie and Bluff residence halls would be $4,380 per
semester compared with the current charge of $4,170. A deluxe
single room would cost $8,760 annually compared with $8,340
now. Housing rates at Evergreen Hall would be $4,880 annually
for a shared apartment compared with $6,510 for a private
apartment. A studio apartment would be assessed at $9,130
annually while a private suite rate would be $5,520.
Meal plan fee changes for students in the residence halls
would range from $80 more per year
for Plan A (most
popular) to $110 more annually for Plan B.
Upperclassmen residing in Cougar Village Apartments would
pay $3,560 annually for a shared room compared with $3,460 paid
currently per year, while a single room would cost $5,290
annually compared with $5,140 now. A deluxe single room would
be assessed at $7,120 per year compared with $6,920 per year
now.
Families in Cougar Village, now paying $855 per month for a
two-bedroom, unfurnished apartment, would pay $880 per month in
fall 2008 and $905 in fall 2009. The same family paying $1,000
per month now for a furnished apartment would pay $1,030 per
month in fall 2008 and $1,060 in fall 2009. Families in a
three-bedroom unfurnished apartment now paying $960 per month
would pay $990 per month in fall 2008 and $1,020 in fall 2009;
a three-bedroom furnished is now $1,120 per month and would be
$1,155 in fall 2008 and $1,190 in fall 2009.
Under a separate proposal, the Board also considered today a change in the Campus Housing Activity fee for family residents at SIUE during fall term from $40 to $41 per term and, for singles students, from $15 per semester to $15.50. This fee supports programming, activities and services at the Family Resource Center at Cougar Village.
Congratulations: The February recipient of the Employee Recognition Award is Sharon Haar, a secretary in the Department of Social Work. She is shown in the photo flanked by Vice Chancellor Kenneth Neher, who presented the award, and Associate Professor Gerald O’Brien, acting chair of the department and the one who nominated her. In addition to the plaque she received, Haar was awarded a $25 gift certificate to the SIUE Bookstore, a parking spot close to her office for one month, and two complimentary lunch coupons to the University Restaurant. (SIUE Photo by Bill Brinson)
Click here for a photo of Sharon. (SIUE Photo by Bill Brinson)
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) The 34th Annual Senior Citizen
Fair—set for March 10 at Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville—will provide information and services to
older adults, with free preventive health screenings, medical
information tables, social service booths, entertainment,
ballroom dancing, art by seniors, and food and beverages. The
fair also features special exhibits, gift packs and
more.
Sponsored by the SIUE Gerontology Program, the fair is
scheduled from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. that Monday in SIUE’s Morris
University Center. The Gerontology Program is part of the SIUE
School of Education. Bette Bergeron, dean of the School, will
welcome guests and SIUE Provost Paul Ferguson will extend a
welcome on behalf of the University.
Fair-goers will find free parking available in Lots B and E,
closest to the Morris Center. All activities are free except
for various lunch options. In Center Court, located on the
lower level of the center, a variety of lunch options will be
available, including a salad bar, grill options, sandwiches and
Chick-Fil-A.
For more information about attending the event, call the SIUE Gerontology Program, (618) 650-3454. Bryce Sullivan, director of the SIUE Gerontology Program and chair of the SIUE Department of Psychology, is director of the fair this year.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) Kari Kabbes of Effingham, a business major at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, recently was honored with the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation Student Leader of the Month Award. Kabbes is a sophomore studying Business Administration-with an emphasis in Marketing-in the SIUE School of Business. The award recognizes SIUE business students who are nominated by student organizations for outstanding participation and responsibility.
Kabbes' award recognizes her work as a member of the SIUE American Marketing Association (AMA), which strives to foster relationships with fellow marketing majors as well as faculty and future employers, and exposes students to the marketing and sales professions. Kabbes was chosen for this award because of her hard work and dedication to the AMA while participating in an AMA competition. During her involvement with the competition, the SIUE AMA team has placed in the Top Eight Finalists in this year’s competition.
“This is truly a testament to the hard work and
dedication Kari put toward this effort, as there were about 50
entrants this year,” said Edmund Hershberger, assistant
professor of Management and Marketing, and advisor to the SIUE
AMA.
The award carries with it a $50 stipend and certificate. In
addition, Kabbes will be recognized at a reception later this
spring semester that will honor all Enterprise Rent-A-Car award
recipients while providing SIUE business students an
opportunity to network with Enterprise executives.
The SIUE School of Business is among an elite 10 percent of business schools worldwide that have earned the prestigious seal of approval from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International). The School has been AACSB International accredited since 1975. This assures that students receive the highest quality in strategic resource management, interaction with faculty and achievement of learning goals. In addition, the SIUE Accounting Program is accredited through AACSB. Less than 33 percent of AACSB-accredited business schools hold an accounting accreditation.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) Beginning March 3 Southern Illinois
University Edwardsville will offer students and employees the
opportunity to register their cell phones as part of a new
campuswide “e-Lert” program through a wireless
emergency notification system.
It’s an additional method of continuing to make SIUE a
safe campus, says Dave McDonald, director of the SIUE Office of
Emergency Management and Safety. “During February,
we’ve been testing the software and we’ll be ready
for a March 3 launch," McDonald said. “This alert system
will be used only in the case of an ongoing emergency on
campus, such as a hostile intruder or tornado warnings,”
McDonald explained. “Such emergency notifications will
include events that present a serious significant disruption to
the campus community and pose an immediate danger to life,
health and University property.
“In addition, snow closures will be included. However,
no non-emergency text messages other than testing will be
allowed. We will not send SPAM (unwanted messages) through this
system.” McDonald said the service would be tested
periodically each year. Those registering on any given day will
be updated into the system overnight. He also said the
University will continue to send emergency messages through its
current protocol-web site, e-mails to personal computers and
voice mails to all University phones.
Before March 3, e-mail messages will be sent to all 13,500 SIUE students and to more than 2,300 employees, directing them to a Web site (www.siue.edu/e-lert) where they will be able to register a cell phone number if they have an active e-ID and a password. Although there is no cost to register a cell phone in the system, receiving a text message may or may not incur a nominal charge for the recipient, depending on a user’s cell phone contract with a provider.
“SIUE Police will be in charge of sending e-Lerts
because of the 24/7 nature of the operation,” McDonald
explained. “This software has Tier 1 provisioning with
all North American carriers,” he said, “which means
they have a higher priority in sending. Text messaging worked
much better than other types of communications during
(Hurricane) Katrina and during other disasters. If cell phone
towers are up, the phone may not work but text messaging has a
better chance of getting through because it takes less bandwith
to send a text message.”
Employees and students with active e-IDs at all five SIU
campuses will be able to opt in to the system. The Edwardsville
campus will have jurisdiction over the SIU School of Dental
Medicine at Alton and the SIUE East St. Louis Center. The
Carbondale campus will have jurisdiction over the SIU School of
Medicine and the SIUE School of Nursing facilities, both in
Springfield.
SIUE Police Capt. Tony Bennett said the new system will help
get the word out faster about any ongoing emergencies on
campus, which could mean the difference between life and death.
“Research on these systems shows that text messaging
doesn’t get bogged down like e-mail does from time to
time,” Bennett said. “Text messaging can often get
through faster. “That’s why we looked at the text
messaging route. It’s important to get a quick and
efficient emergency message to those on campus so that they can
get out of harm’s way and find safe haven during a
life-threatening event.”
McDonald also pointed out that a recipient is not required
to reside on campus or even be located on campus to receive an
e-Lert from the system. “If the recipient is within cell
phone access, they will receive an e-Lert from our campus if
one is sent.”
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is proud to celebrate its 50th Anniversary and first half century of excellence. The University has grown from 1,776 students in 1957 to nearly 13,500 students today. SIUE is a catalyst for the cultural and intellectual vitality and economic development of Southwestern Illinois and the greater St. Louis region.
With the seeming escalation of violence and violence-related incidents on college and university campuses in the past year, the SIUE Office of Student Affairs will conduct a panel discussion about the subject of violence on campus and also will address emergency response plans on the SIUE campus.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) The Southwestern Illinois
Entrepreneurship Center at Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville will host Protecting Intellectual Property Rights
Seminars from 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, March 19 and April 9, in
the Mississippi Room on the second floor of SIUE’s Morris
University Center.
The two-part series is open to the public and the fee for
each session is $10 per person. Individuals may attend one or
both events, said Kristine Jarden, director of the SIUE
Entrepreneurship Center. The first seminar, Introduction to
Intellectual Property, is a basic introductory seminar,
while the second seminar, Basics of Licensing,
addresses the legal side of the issue.
Matthew J. Smith, an attorney at Polsinelli, Shalton,
Flanigan, Suelthaus P.C., will be the speaker for both
seminars. Smith’s practice primarily involves general
corporate representation for businesses and individuals, with
an emphasis on the areas of licensing, e-commerce, trademarks,
copyrights and other matters concerning intellectual property
rights.
For more information or to register, visit the Web site: www.siueschoolofbusiness.com/ec, or contact Jarden (618)-650-2166. Registration is required. For maps and directions, please visit the University’s main Web site: www.siue.edu/maps.
PIE-D: The SIUE Student Nurses Association (SNA) raised $100 recently during a fundraising campaign that resulted in pies being thrown. One of the recipients with pie on her face was SIUE Nursing Dean Marcia Maurer, who good-naturedly took one for the team. She was joined in the fun by SNA Treasurer Shelli Willemarck. Both Dean Maurer and Willemarck wore appropriate attire for the pie-throwing—plastic coverings and goggles. Willemarck said buckets with names of SNA students and Nursing faculty were circulated and the one with the most cash collected won the opportunity to take a pie in the face. (SIUE Photo by Bill Brinson)
Who: PRIME (which stands for
Promoting, Recruiting,
Increasing, Minority Educators) is
hosting a roundtable
discussion titled Bringing the
Rainbow to the Colorless Sea
What: The discussion will tackle
several topics, including
minority recruitment,
enrollment and retention at Southern
Illinois University
Edwardsville
When: 5-8 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 20
Where: SIUE
Morris University Center Illinois-Mississippi Room
Who: SIUE Chancellor Vaughn
Vandegrift, Provost Paul Ferguson, Vice Chancellor Narbeth
Emmanuel, Student Body President Laurie Estilette, musical
selections by Department of Music students.
What: Memorial Service for the
victims and all those affected by the tragic Feb. 14 shootings
at DeKalb.
When: Noon Monday,
Feb. 25.
Where: Goshen Lounge,
on the first floor of SIUE's Morris Center.
In the wake of the shootings in DeKalb that injured and killed more than 20 Northern Illinois University students last week, the SIUE University Community will gather in Goshen Lounge for a memorial service. Remarks will be made, a candle will be lit, a commemorative book will be available for participants to sign and musical selections will be performed by SIUE Music students. The commemorative book will eventually be sent to NIU.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) Award-winning composer-folksinger Arlo
Guthrie—who appeared four times at Southern Illinois
University Edwardsville’s Mississippi River Festival
(MRF)—will make his triumphant return to the University
in a 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, concert on campus. His
“Solo Reunion Tour-Together At Last” is part of
SIUE’s 2007-08 Arts & Issues series in
Meridian Ballroom and also part of the University’s
year-long 50th Anniversary Celebration. Guthrie’s
appearance is being sponsored by the SIUE Alumni
Association.
Throughout his career, Guthrie has furthered the legacy of
his father, the legendary folksinger Woody Guthrie, but with a
more modern sound within American string traditions. Whereas
his father, the itinerant folksinger who traveled around the
country championing the cause of the poor and the downtrodden
worker, Arlo preferred to forge his own style that has endured.
The younger Guthrie recently created a program of symphonic
arrangements of his own songs and other American classics,
An American Scrapbook. By the end of 2007, Guthrie had
performed in more than 40 concerts with 27 symphony orchestras
throughout the United States, including a broadcast on
PBS’s Evening at Pops.
“Arlo Guthrie became an institution of American
counterculture in the late 1960s with his epic musical
adventure, Alice's Restaurant, and with a legendary
performance at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair of 1969 in
upstate New York,” said Grant Andree, coordinator of the
Arts & Issues series. “He is an American
music icon, bringing his special brand of music to stages
throughout the world. If you remember Guthrie at the MRF, you
will enjoy this concert with all the attendant memories, but if
you’ve never seen Arlo in concert you are in for a
treat,” Andree said.
“It's a great opportunity for fans of all ages to
relive the Guthrie musical legacy.”
As a special event for the 50th Celebration, a
pre-performance wine-tasting reception with a variety of
gourmet tapas items, will be offered from 6:30-7:30 p.m. See
the ticket order form on the Arts & Issues Web
site (www.siue.edu/artsandissues)
to order tickets for the reception and for the performance.
Tickets for the concert are $35; students, $15, and may be
purchased through the SIUE Fine Arts box office, (618)
650-2774, or through the Web site. Tickets for the reception
are $25; there is no student pricing for the
pre-performance.
For additional information about the series, call Grant Andree, (618) 650-2626. The remaining Arts & Issues events of the 07-08 season are Anna Deavere Smith, playwright, professor and performance artist, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 27, in Meridian, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author Anna Quindlen, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24, also in Meridian and sponsored by National City Bank.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) The Women's Studies Program at SIUE is sponsoring several events to commemorate Women's History Month. Here's the schedule:
March, ongoing
Women's History Month
Exhibit
Lovejoy Library
March, ongoing
40 percent off books
from Women’s Studies Section (excludes textbooks and sale
items)
University Bookstore, MUC
Wednesday, March 5
Peck Hall
3404
Noon- 1:15pm
“Women and
Elections”
Carly Hayden-Foster
Wednesday, March 5
Founders Hall 0100
7:30 - 9pm
Sociology Graduate Students: Feminism
Panel
Liz Stygar, Lauren Rowe, Natalie Mette-Bory, &
Jamie Paul
Thursday, March 6
Maple /
Dogwood Room in the SIUE Morris University Ctr.
5 -
7pm
“Peace Activism as a Way of
Life”
CODE PINK: Medea Benjamin Organized by Peace
Studies and Co-sponsored by Women's Studies
Thursday, March 6
Founders Hall 0100
7:30 - 9pm
English Graduate Students: Feminism
Panel
Derek Velazco, Amber Scruton, & Michelle
Ashley
Monday, March 17
Peck Hall 3404
Noon-
1:15pm
“Conflicting Marian Images in
Sacred Texts and Western Paintings: Mary as Scholar, Sexual
Being, Reluctant Mother, and Early Church Leader.”
Isaiah Smithson
Tuesday, March 18,
11am - 12:15pm Peck Hall
2405
3:30 - 4:45pm Peck Hall 3417
“Diversity and Interpersonal Communication”
(Workshop #1 and #2)
Rudy Wilson
Wednesday, March 19
Founders Hall
2407
11 - 12:15pm
“Cultural and
Linguistic Diversity (as Resource) in the
Classroom”
Ralph Cordova, Seran Aktuna, Joel
Hardman, Zsuzsanna Szabo, Howard Rambsy
Monday, March 24
Peck Hall 3404
Noon-
1:15pm
“Diversity and Interpersonal
Communication” (workshop #3)
Rudy Wilson
Wednesday, March 26
Peck Hall 3404
Noon-
1:15pm
“Sexual Assault and Date
Rape”
Megan Denton and Jen Ladd (SIUE Counseling
Services)
Wednesday, March 26
Peck Hall 0304
7 -
9pm
“The Vagina Dialogues”
Wendy Cook-Mucci & Florence Maätita
*** Thursday, March 27,
John C. Abbott
Auditorium
Lovejoy Library
7pm
“A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, A Prayer” -
Theatrical Production
Making Waves - SIUE’s
Feminist Student Organization
Thursday, March 27,
Peck Hall 3417
11 -
12:15pm
“Policing Women”
Trish
Oberweis
Friday, March 28
Peck Hall 0307
Noon-
1:15pm
“Poetry by Women Writers of Latin
America: Bilingual Readings”
Students of Spanish
352 (Latin American Literature / Elizabeth Fonseca)
*** Friday, March 28, Abbot Auditorium in Lovejoy
Library
7pm
“A Memory, A
Monologue, A Rant, A Prayer” - Theatrical
Production
Making Waves - SIUE’s Feminist Student
Organization
Thursday April 3
Cougar Field
3pm
SIUE Women’s Softball Game - Violence
Prevention Center Benefit
All donated personal products
will get entry into the game and benefits the Violence
Prevention Center in Belleville. Call (618) 650-5060 to learn
about needed items.
*** All events, except the production of “A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, A Prayer”, are free and open to the public
For Further Info, contact Professor Mariana Solares, Director Women’s Studies Program, or Liz Stygar, Women’'s Studies GA - (618) 650-5060 or wmstdept@siue.edu
Event sponsors include: Women’s Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Making Waves, University Bookstore, Lovejoy Library, Peace Studies Program, School of Education, AAUW, Department of English Language and Literature, and the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) Twenty college students and three professors from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville recently returned from a travel study and outreach project in Juarez, Mexico.
A service learning initiative allowed students to enhance their foreign language and business skills, while helping others in need. The students and professors worked together to build two cinder-block homes in less than a week.
"Juarez really makes you appreciate the things we have back at home," said Chris Toenjes, a graduate student from the School of Business who participated in the program. "I thought I would want to leave by the end of the week, not having the necessities of home, but I got used to it and didn't want to leave."
George Watson, SIUE associate professor of management and marketing in the School of Business and the trip's leader, said students and professors developed an appreciation for others during the effort.
"In no other environment do the teacher and student come together and work with each other's character as they do in helping the impoverished of Juarez, Mexico," he said. "You simply can't get this experience in a classroom."
Watson said the people in Juarez played a major role in
determining what students and faculty took away from the
experience.
The group was welcomed to the area by
Diana Natalicio, a St. Louis native and the president of the
University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Students and faculty
attended a series of lectures about the economic and business
climate on the border, which were led by UTEP faculty Tom
Fullerton of economics and Kathy Staudt from political science,
as well as El Paso technology entrepreneurs Ron Munden and Bill
Holmes.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) The 30th Annual Art Auction, sponsored
by the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Friends of
Art, is set for Feb. 29, at Sunset Hills Country Club in
Edwardsville. All donated artwork is original and may be
previewed from 6 until 7 p.m. when professional auctioneer Gary
Niemeier will begin the event. Admission is free to students
and those who have donated pieces for the event, as well as
members of the Friends of Art. Others are asked to pay $5 at
the door.
Since 1977, the Friends of Art organization has assisted the
SIUE Department of Art and Design in staging this fundraiser
that has helped collect more than $250,000 in proceeds. These
funds have assisted in bringing local, national and
international artists, and lecturers to the SIUE campus. In
addition, the Friends group annually donates money to help
purchase new books, videos and films about art for SIUE’s
Lovejoy Library; sponsors awards for the annual high school art
exhibit and other SIUE student exhibits; sets aside funds for a
graduate scholarship; and helps support the local ARTEAST
Studio tour.
Last year, more than 170 art pieces by faculty, alumni, friends and students were available for auction. Participants have almost as much fun bidding as winning the bid at this lively event. Food and drink will be available for purchase. To view some of the artwork to be auctioned, visit the Friends of Art Web site: www.siuefriendsofart.com. For more information or directions, contact Dianne Lynch, (618) 650-3073, or by e-mail: dlynch@siue.edu; or Pam Decoteau, (618) 650-3107, or by e-mail: pdecote@siue.edu.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) A grant worth $134,075 to the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Education's Department of Curriculum and Instruction will be used to educate teachers from across the nation about Abraham Lincoln and his influence in shaping modern America.
The project, Abraham Lincoln and the Forging of Modern America, is being organized by the principal grant writer, Caroline Pryor, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction, and the project's co-director, Susan Breck, associate professor of curriculum and instruction. Both are SIUE faculty members in the School of Education.
Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshops for Schoolteachers will take part in two, one-week sessions: June 22-27 and July 20-25. Organizers hope to attract 50 teachers at each event.
"The grant will provide a stipend for teachers across the nation to come to SIUE for one of two weeks in June or July and study with historians from the greater St. Louis area, including SIUE's Stephen Hansen," Pryor said. "This grant provides for travel to Springfield to learn from scholars at the Abraham Lincoln Museum and Library and other historic sites."
Hansen is associate provost for research and dean of the
SIUE Graduate School, and a member of the SIUE Historical
Studies faculty.
For more information, visit the project
Web site, www.siue.edu/education/neh/.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) Caroline Pryor, assistant professor of
curriculum and instruction in the Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville School of Education, is now the editor of the
peer-review journal Learning for Democracy: An International
Journal of Thought and Practice. The project was formerly
housed at the University of Brighton in England.
A Web site through SIUE has been created for the publication, www.siue.edu/lfd.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) Spring 2008 Open Houses at Southern
Illinois University Edwardsville are a great way to learn about
exciting, rewarding degree programs.
Open house events slated for February, March and April will
offer prospective students the chance to explore academic
programs, tour the SIUE campus, visit residence halls and talk
to representatives from the offices of Admissions and Student
Financial Aid.
The Schools of Nursing, Business, Education and Engineering
will host open houses for students interested in undergraduate
and graduate programs. The School of Pharmacy will host an open
house for students interested in a Pharm.D. degree.
Open houses are taking place the following days, times and
locations:
o School of Nursing, 8:30 a.m.-noon, Saturday,
Feb. 16, Alumni Hall;
o School of Business, 8 a.m.-noon,
Saturday, Feb. 23, Founders and Alumni halls;
o School of
Engineering, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 23, Engineering
Building;
o School of Education, 9 a.m.-noon, Saturday,
March 1, Morris University Center;
o School of Pharmacy,
9 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, April 19, University Park.
For more information, call (618) 650-3705, or visit http://www.siue.edu/prospectivestudents/ or register on the Web site.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) Free screenings, foot exams, blood
pressure checks and testing will be offered during a diabetes
education program from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, in
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's Morris University
Center.
The SIUE School of Pharmacy, in collaboration with the
American Diabetes Association, is hosting the event, which will
feature free lunch, vendors and professional speakers hosted by
the American Diabetes Association.
Lisa Lubsch, clinical assistant professor of pharmacy
practice for the School, will present Are Children at Risk for
Cardiovascular Disease? and Chris Lynch, assistant professor of
pharmacy practice, will present Exercise and
Diabetes.
"A diabetes diagnosis necessitates lifestyle changes and a
positive attitude," Lubsch said. "The diabetes education
program is for anyone with diabetes who wants to learn from,
and interact with, experts in the field.
"We'll cover everything from testing your A1c levels and
blood sugar, to risk factors for various disease complications.
It's truly an all-encompassing program in a relaxed
environment." The A1c test, which is offered at no charge to
attendees with diabetes, measures blood sugar averages over the
last three months.
Space is limited, so advanced
registration is recommended. For more information, or to
register, call (888) 342-2383, ext. 6835.
Although a recent Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
entry to the AquaFresh Extreme Clean national video competition
did not place in the top three, the SIUE entry did win an Award
of Excellence from the Broadcast Education Association
(BEA).
The video, created by Mass Communications Instructor Cory
Byers and his students in his electronic media advertising
class, will be honored among other winners of the Awards of
Excellence at the BEA Festival of Media Arts in Las Vegas in
April. The Festival has become one of the largest faculty and
student competitions among communications educators.
SIUE’s 30-second video commercial depicts a mortician
brushing the teeth of a deceased man presumably because of foul
breath; of course, using AquaFresh toothpaste. Cut to the
funeral parlor for the viewing and the grieving widow is saying
her good-byes to the departed husband. She notices he has
“fresh breath” and, therefore, kisses him …
and kisses him … and continues to kiss him as the
product credit roles announcing AquaFresh toothpaste “for
an extreme clean.” The final shot is the deceased holding
a box of toothpaste … with a wide grin.
“I can’t say I agreed with the top choices of
the AquaFresh judges,” Byers said good-naturedly,
“but, I was thrilled to hear the BEA was recognizing our
efforts.” According to the BEA’s Web site, the
award honors “professionalism, the use of aesthetic
and/or creative elements, a sense of structure and timing,
production values, technical merit and the overall
contributions to the discipline in both form and
substance.” Established in 1955, the BEA is the
professional association for professors, industry professionals
and graduate students who are interested in teaching and
research related to electronic media and multimedia
enterprises.
“I think this is a testament to the good work everyone
did on the spot.” Students in the class wrote, produced
and served as members of the video crew, as well as doing
post-production and editing of the final product. Two local
professional actors volunteered to play the parts of the
deceased husband and the grieving widow. Byers was director and
editor, and also played the part of the mortician.
“For this kind of production class, one of the best ways
to teach it is to actually go out and do it with all hands on
deck, treating it like a real project.”
Click here to view the commercial for as long as it’s posted on YouTube.com
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) We may yearn to return to our childhood
in an effort to shed some years and remember the simpler,
healthful days of our youth, but can we go back? Thomas Hardy
said “no” to that question and Carrie Watts may
come to the same conclusion in Horton Foote’s endearing
play, The Trip To Bountiful. The play runs at 7:30
p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, Feb. 27- March 1, and at 2 p.m.
Sunday, March 2, all in the theater at Southern Illinois
University Edwardsville’s Katherine Dunham
Hall.
Bountiful, which takes place in the mid-1940s,
tells the tale of the elderly Mrs. Watts and her strong desire
to return to her childhood home in Bountiful, a now abandoned,
rural Texas town. However, she is thwarted at every turn by a
vindictive daughter-in-law and an overprotective son.
“This play seems to exemplify something most of us
know—there is no place like home,” said
Bountful Director Lana Hagan, a faculty member in the
SIUE Department of Theater and Dance. “The bulk of Horton
Foote’s plays are set in his home state of Texas, in
small towns like Wharton, where he was born,” Hagan
explained.
“He understands the way people long for home and human
connections, and his characters are so real they seem to walk
right off the pages of his scripts. These kinds of challenging
characters invite actors, especially student actors, to hone
their skills,” Hagan said. “As a director, I was
drawn to this work because I remembered how my Mom in her final
years often asked me to drive her past her ‘home
place.’ This short journey seemed to bring her peace and
pleasure, and brought to me bits and pieces of her childhood
which I had not grasped as a child.
“But, as an adult, her recollections resonated in my
head and brought deeper understanding of my own childhood, as
well as hers.” Hagan said the play seems to say that
understanding our histories may help us deal better with the
future. “This play was chosen to help our student actors
grow as artists,” she said. “I also hope that it
will help audiences grow in the compassion they have for home
and the ones they love.”
Tickets for The Trip To Bountiful are $10; senior
citizens, $8; SIUE faculty-staff, $6; and SIUE students with a
current ID, no admission charge. For more information or to
order tickets, call the SIUE Fine Arts box office, (618)
650-2774.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is proud to celebrate its 50th Anniversary and first half century of excellence. The University has grown from 1,776 students in 1957 to nearly 13,500 students today. SIUE is a catalyst for the cultural and intellectual vitality and economic development of Southwestern Illinois and the greater St. Louis region.
Photos suitable for print are available by clicking on the following numerals: Photo 1 | 2.
In the first photo, Carrie Watts, portrayed by Acacia Moll of Altamont, is caught sleeping on a park bench near the station where she is waiting to take a bus back to her childhood home. The deputy is played by Andrew Riedemann, of St. Peters, Mo., while the ticket clerk is portrayed by Gabriel Cranston, of Collinsville. (SIUE Photo by Bill Brinson)
In the second photo, Mrs. Watts, portrayed by Acacia Moll of Altamont, is hiding from her overprotective son, Ludie Watts, played by Philip Leveling of Glen Carbon, and her overbearing daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae Watts, portrayed by Maggie Conroy, of St. Louis. Ludie and Jesse Mae or against Carrie traveling back to her childhood home. The ticket clerk is played by Gabriel Cranston, of Collinsville. (SIUE Photo by Bill Brinson)
A group of SIUE Housing staff and SIUE students, teamed with architects from Mackey Mitchell Architects of St. Louis, have created their vision of the residence hall of the future, a design that was voted the Peoples Choice Award in the second phase of a three-phase competition conducted by the Association of College & University Housing Officers-International (ACUHO-I).
It was the second time that the SIUE-Mackey Mitchell design concept captured the imagination of ACUHO-I competition attendees for the Peoples Choice Award. The overall winning design of the 21st Century Project, as the competition has been called, will eventually lead to prototypes being constructed on identified campuses. The overall winner—created by the team of “net+work+camp+us,” which consists of four architects—incorporates modular rooms around atriums, with several areas and spaces conducive to study.
The SIUE plan includes a design structured around European-style piazzas, as well as sliding doors that can be rearranged easily to expand and contract communal areas within suites.
According to Mike Schultz, director of SIUE University
Housing, the SIUE team was the only one that included students.
“One of the reasons I think we were fortunate to be
awarded the Peoples Choice Award two years in a row, is because
our team was the only team that included practitioners, users
and design professionals in the design of the 21st
Century,” Schultz said. “This not only made the
design realistic but it provided useful innovations that will
build community.
“I think it is a great honor for SIUE to be the only
higher education institution to compete and be so successful in
this competition. Our collaboration with Mackey Mitchell and
the expertise of its architects has been a great learning
experience for all those involved.” Mackey Mitchell is
known nationwide for its expertise in providing student housing
to campuses including Kansas State University, The University
of Notre Dame, Washington University in St. Louis and the
University of Cincinnati.
The SIUE concept focuses on the “block and
neighborhood” of a residence hall community, defined by
the interaction of the students and the relationship between
public and private spaces, and how those concepts foster social
and academic activity, Schultz explained. Each contestant was
challenged to incorporate sustainable features, finding
creative uses of technology as it relates to both the social
and academic component of the residence hall and a flexible,
multi-use of space.
Narbeth Emmanuel, vice chancellor for Student Affairs, said
the efforts of the Housing members as part of the design team
are indicative of the excellent work they do on a daily basis
for the students. “Much of SIUE’s Housing success
can be attributed to the excellence of both our residential and
facilities staff who bring a level of commitment and excellence
that is high valued and appreciated by our residential
students, which is reflected in our Educational Benchmarking
Inventory (EBI) surveys,” Emmanuel said.
Results from the competition will be shared at the ACUHO-I Annual Conference & Exposition to be held this June in Orlando, Fla.
Scholars: Morgan Clymer of Godfrey, (second from left) and Kaitlyn Rausch of New Douglas (third from right) each recently received the Faculty for Collective Bargaining Scholarship from the SIUE Staff Senate. The scholarship is awarded, when funds are available, to children or grandchildren of current or retired SIUE staff who are members of a represented union under contract on campus. From left are Melanie Schoenborn, an operations assistant at Lovejoy Library and chair of the Staff Senate Scholarship Committee; Clymer, a senior majoring in Spanish, who received a $1,000 scholarship; SIUE Chancellor Vaughn Vandegrift; Rausch, a sophomore majoring in psychology, who received a $500 scholarship; Jesse Harris, a counselor in the Office of Counseling and Advising and also Staff Senate treasurer; and Todd Bartholomew, a building service worker and president of the Staff Senate. (SIUE Photo by Bill Brinson)
(EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill.) It was a cold, frigid Saturday
morning and high school senior Terrion Johnson was helping
prepare 1,000 sack lunches, rolling blankets and later
distributing these and other much needed items to strangers on
the streets.
“I feel like I did something good with my time, and it
was time that wasn't wasted,” said the 18-year-old.
Terrion was one of nine East St. Louis Charter School students
who volunteered with Project Compassion of Belleville, a
nonprofit organization with an outreach ministry to the
homeless. Others seniors joining Terrion were Nicola Dismukes,
19; Brittney Lawson, 17; Embryal Henderson, 18; Retunda
Jackson, 18; George Goodwin Jr., 18; Chardarous McCain, 17;
Danyale McKinzie, 18; and Devonte Jones, 17. Charter School
instructors Carolyn Breihan and Johnnie Fernandez accompanied
the students on their senior project.
The East St. Louis Charter School is operated by Southern
Illinois University Edwardsville’s East St. Louis
Center.
Rachel Jackson-Bramwell founded Project Compassion in
October 2005 after rebounding from what she called a
“pity party” about her current circumstances.
“The Lord showed me that I had a roof over my head, an
income and was more fortunate than a lot of other
people,” said Mrs. Jackson-Bramwell. So, the
O’Fallon woman set out to prepare 1,000 sandwiches in her
kitchen and took a few foot soldiers to the streets of St.
Louis and East St. Louis in search of homeless people.
“It was not organized well at all,” she
said.
But after three years, which included a television
appearance on the Tyra Banks show, dozens of volunteers
(including area high schools and businesses) have enlisted to
help Mrs. Jackson-Bramwell in her mission to the area homeless.
Each month, Project Compassion prepares 1,000 sack lunches and
dozens of care packages from donated items. “I felt good
that I was able to help someone, and I would do it
again,” said Brittney, who has 718 community service
hours. Ten volunteer hours are required for Charter School
seniors to graduate.
After passing out food, blankets, gloves and more at area shelters and locations where many homeless frequent, Terrion and Brittney said they were even more grateful for what they have. “The homeless situation is so vast,” said Mrs. Jackson-Bramwell, “but I have yet to feel defeated by it. For me, it was a matter of where do I start.”
Photo 1 | 2
In Photo 1: SIUE East St. Louis Charter School Seniors George
Goodwin and Embryal Henderson prepare sandwiches during a
recent volunteer day at Project Compassion.
In Photo 2: Chardarous McCain and Danyale McKinzie (background) fill paper bags with sandwiches and pastries.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is presenting its 11th Annual Black Heritage Month Program during February, with its theme of United or Divided: Where Do We Stand?. Below is a calendar of events:
All events are free unless otherwise noted. Contact the SIUE
Kimmel Leadership Center, (618) 650-2686, for a detailed
schedule of events or visit www.siue.edu/cab. All events
are subject to change.
Black Heritage Month is sponsored
by the SIUE Campus Activities Board.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville will showcase its talented students during
“For the Love of Music,” an evening of performances
by SIUE's Concert Choir, Chamber Orchestra, Wind Symphony, Jazz
Combo, Brass Ensemble, the Suzuki String Ensemble and solo
pianists.
The evening of music begins at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, in
Meridian Ballroom, on the first floor of SIUE's Morris
Center.
Tickets are $15 and may be purchased through the SIUE
Department of Music, (618) 650-3900. Proceeds benefit the
Friends of Music, a support organization for the department.
Door prizes also will be awarded.
Beautifully situated on 2,660 acres, SIUE is a public institution offering a broad choice of degrees and programs ranging from liberal arts to professional studies. Nearly 13,500 students choose SIUE for undergraduate and graduate education just 25 minutes from St. Louis. SIUE celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2007-2008.
(EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.) A service learning project for
first-year students through the Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville School of Pharmacy could help save lives in the
region.
The File of Life program is the focus of the students'
service learning project this spring. In partnership with the
Area Agency on Aging of Southwestern Illinois and the Illinois
Visiting Nurse's Association, student-pharmacists will work at
locations throughout Southern Illinois. They will help
community members fill out a medical information form that will
be included in the File of Life, which is a magnetic pocket
that is kept on a participant's refrigerator and a card that is
carried with the individual at all times.
The objective of the project is to make a person's medical
information accessible in case of an emergency. If a medical
condition or an accident renders an individual unconscious or
unable to communicate effectively with emergency responders,
pertinent information can be found in the magnetic pocket or on
the card.
"We can teach about the importance of patient counseling and
developing a one-on-one relationship with patients, but this is
a chance for our students to identify, first-hand, the
discrepancies between theory and practice, while providing
assistance to community members. It's truly a win-win
situation," said Teri McCullough, assistant
director of
Experiential Education and Clinical Assistant and professor of
Pharmacy Practice.
Service Learning is a teaching and learning strategy that
integrates meaningful community service with instruction and
reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic
responsibility and strengthen communities.
The File for Life form provides space to list contact
information for the doctor, medications including dose and
frequency, immunization history, medical conditions and
describes any other special circumstances that rescue personnel
should know in the care of a patient.
For more information on times, dates and locations where community members may work with SIUE School of Pharmacy students to complete the File of Life cards, contact Teri McCullough, (618) 650-5128, or visit www.siue.edu/pharmacy.
