Lake State This Week for Nov. 3, 2003Posted: November 4th, 2003Here’s some of what’s going on this week. Get more information at www.lssu.edu/calendar.
Members of the Lake State Theatre Company will present Agnes of God, a drama by John Pielmeier, in four shows Nov. 6-9 in the Studio Theater of Brady Hall. The production marks the return of dinner theater to LSSU with Friday night’s showing being preceded by a meal at the Cisler Center before patrons move over to the theater for the show.
Prof. Gary Balfantz, director of the production, said he is looking forward to this fall performance.
“To rehearse such a show is a difficult and trying experience, but we know we are doing something important and worthwhile. I am fortunate to be working with three excellent performers: Annette Hamel, Rachel Mender and Heather Mydosh,” he said.
Balfantz said in the play three women are forced to face life’s harsh realities as they struggle with questions of personal faith and love. The drama begins when a court-appointed psychiatrist, Martha Livingstone, (played by Hamel) is asked to determine the sanity of a young nun accused of murdering her own baby. Protected by Mother Superior Miriam Ruth (Mydosh), Agnes (Mender) seems not to know what happened, or if anything happened at all. Many questions need to be answered: Who fathered the child? Who killed the baby? Why was the pregnancy covered-up? Was this a miracle?
LSSU had regular dinner theatre productions in the 1980s and early 1990s with Prof. Richard Jennings directing Readers Theatre in the Cisler Center’s Crow’s Nest. While Balfantz brought dinner theater back sporadically since then, he said with the completion of the fine and performing arts center he hopes to have dinner theater more often. He is tentatively planning to offer dinner theater in February and April 2004 with the productions of A Tuna Christmas and The Fantasticks.
Agnes of God will be performed at 7 p.m., Nov. 6-8 and at 2 p.m. on Nov. 9. Dinner for the Nov. 7 performance will be served at 5 p.m. in the Cisler Center. Dinner reservations are required by this Wednesday. Call ext. 2275 or 2278.
General admission to the performances is $5. Admission is free to LSSU students and staff. All tickets for the dinner theater are $20, including dinner and the play. The Lake State Theatre Company and Drama Club, the LSSU School of English and Communication and the College of Arts and Sciences, are sponsoring the production.
Don’t forget about the payroll training session being conducted by Human Resources from 9-11 a.m. on Tuesday. For more information, or to register, call ext. 2213.
Come and find your fortune at the Psychic Fair, a gathering of mystics, magic, and the mysterious! Have your palm read, your numerology revealed, or have your aura photographed. Stop by between 8-10 p.m. in Peacock Cove. Sponsored by the Student Activities Board.
On Wednesday, several honors students are heading to Chicago to participate in the National Collegiate Honors Council, the national conference for the organization of university honors programs. Professors Lew Brown and Barb Keller will accompany the students. Honors program director Keller said three of the students, Kim Montague, Dave Caroffino, and Brent Kemmer, will present their senior research in a poster session format on Friday during the conference. Four LSSU students submitted applications to the national committee last year to present their work and three were accepted. LSSU was one of only three or four universities nationwide to have more than one student selected to make presentations. Keller said this is a big accomplishment for these students and our university. The titles for the honors posters are as follows:
Caroffino - \"Assessment of Walleye in the St. Mary’s River through DNA Analysis\"
Kemmer - \"Experimental Center of Gravity Testing\"
Montague - \"Problems of Evolution and Conodont Taxonomy in the Idiognathodus/Streptagnathodus Plexus (Pennsylvanian)\"
Here’s another chance for you to get your flu shot: 9-11 a.m. Wednesday at the Health Care Center. Cost is $10, and it’s open to all employees and students. Call Karen Storey, ext. 2418, with any questions.
Also on Wednesday, Northern Initiatives and LSSU Extended Learning will be hosts for a satellite presentation called Living Leadership: The Power of Executing Greatness. Presented in cooperation with Fortune magazine, the seminar sets a new standard for business excellence in the 21st century. Join others around the world in an event that will help you execute greatness in your work and life. Stephen Covey, Rudy Giuliani, Ken Blanchard, and John Maxwell are among the leaders presenting the conference. Participants will learn more about business relationships, team building, management tactics, marketplace ethics, and dealing with change. Price for LSSU employees has been reduced from $199 to $99. Call ext. 2802 for more information.
The Sociology Club and the Three Lakes Sierra Group are sponsoring Bats in Michigan, a slide presentation by Walt Summers that will study seven individual Michigan bats and their habitats; ponder the connection between bats and flower pollination; and explain that flying bats never have rabies. The free presentation begins at 7 p.m. on Thursday in the Cisler Center.
Bay de Noc Community College President Michael Allkins and Patty Valensky,
vice president for Instruction and Student Learning, will be on campus this Friday to meet with President Youngblood and Provost Harger and sign an articulation agreement to deliver the Criminal Justice-Law Enforcement and Corrections programs at the Escanaba Regional Center. LSSU classes will be offered in Escanaba beginning fall 2004.
Join your friends for Lake State After Hours at Moloney\'s Alley at 5 p.m. on Thursday and then head to the Cooper Gym as the Laker volleyball team hosts Ferris at 7 p.m.
Interested in participating in Laker Fridays? Contact Sue Fitzpatrick for a sign and information.
Admissions will play host to another Fall Fling this weekend. Prospective students will be on campus throughout the day on Saturday, when they’ll meet with faculty, take a tour, have dinner and attend Agnes of God. Get more information at www.lssu.edu/fallfling.
Spring semester class scheduling will begin with on-line registration for seniors on Nov. 10 and continue throughout the week. Students need to meet with an academic advisor prior to registering. Registration holds have been placed on all students’ records. Advisors must release the student’s hold before the student will be allowed to register for classes on-line. Students who choose to register in person may still do so at the Student Service Center Counter in the Fletcher Center. In-line registration for seniors begins Nov. 11.
Available courses and scheduling information for spring 2004 may be viewed on the web at www.lssu.edu/scheduling. Printed scheduling booklets are no longer available.
Web for Students for on-line scheduling will be available from 7 a.m.-8 p.m., Monday through Thursday, from 7 a.m.-6 p.m. on Friday and from 6 a.m.-midnight on Saturday. Address is https://web4students.lssu.edu. The Rathskeller computer lab in the Cisler Student and Conference Center is reserved on the above dates for students to register their classes. The lab hours will be from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be a staff member available to answer questions.
Fletcher Center for Student Services/Student Service Center will be open from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Remember that Scheduling will no longer maintain waitlists for courses that are full. Students wishing to be enrolled in a full course will have to obtain the instructor’s permission or check for openings on-line.
The School of Business, Economics, and Legal Studies has tutoring opportunities for qualified students. They are for BA254 Business Law I, EC201 Macroeconomics and FN341 Managerial Finance. Qualifications are a B grade in the respective course and an overall 3.0 GPA. Interested students should contact Sue Camp, lower level of the Library, room 107, ext. 2554.
Two more departments have made 100% in the campus United Way campaign. They are the Cisler Center and Native American Center. There is still time to send in your United Way pledge cards. You can send them to Tracey MacQuarrie or Stacey Swanson at the Norris Center.
The Learning Center wants to remind everyone that Success Seminars are available for all students interested in improving their academic performance. Seminars include: Time Management; Goal setting; Preparing for Tests; Effective Note Taking Techniques; Improving Memory and Concentration; Stress Management; MLA and APA Style Documentation; and Dealing with Test Anxiety. These seminars are available on demand. Interested students should contact the Learning Center for more information. In addition to the seminars, materials on these subjects are available (free!) in the Learning Center as well as on the web. Visit www.lssul.edu/lc for more details.
The Learning Center is part of the Academic Success Center, which provides academic support services and strategies for success of all students attending LSSU. Services include academic advising for undecided freshman, advisor development, retention initiatives, supplemental instruction, tutoring, PLATO and WebCT, testing services and more. It is the goal of the Academic Success Center to provide students with the tools necessary to be successful in their university experience.
A retired professor’s photography is being featured in the Library art gallery this month. Prof. Bryce Smith’s collection of nature photographs has come together over the past 10 years, although he has been taking pictures off and on for more than 50 years. In this display he has centered his photography on natural objects and includes no human artifacts. He likes to photograph silhouettes and shadows. All pictures were taken with a 35mm camera using natural light and no filters. His wife, Janet, helped in choosing mats and frames to enhance the pictures.
Smith’s previous showings have been at Alberta House in Sault, Mich., and at the Audubon Center in Holden, Maine. Smith is a retired professor of biology who taught his last 25 years at LSSU.
LSSU SPORTS THIS WEEK
Laker hockey is away this weekend, playing Nebraska-Omaha on Friday and Saturday.
Laker volleyball home this week, playing Ferris at 7 p.m. on Thursday (join fans at Moloney’s Alley before the game) and playing GVSU at 1 p.m. on Sunday.
Catch the new Laker Basketball Show with coaches Mike Fitzner and Kris Dunbar
starting at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 11 at B.C. Pizza. The show will air on WSOO 1230 AM. Fans are invited to sit in.
Get more sports info at http://lssulakers.ocsn.com/.
LSSU This Week is published on Mondays during the academic year. If you have information to include, please send it via e-mail, by noon Thursday the week preceding publication, to Tom Pink at Public Relations, tpink@lssu.edu.
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