Friday, March 23, 2018

Jeff Thomas, internationally renowned Urban Iroquois photographer, will open a show of his work, "Birdman Rising: Conversations beyond Colonialism."

6-8 p.m.
Today  Exhibit opening with Thomas in attendance
Today-April 20 Show on exhibit
Edwardsville Art Center
The show is free and open to the public.

The show will feature photographs Thomas took during his last visit to the area, including photographs of Native American artifacts from the University Museum collections and landscapes at local Native sites such as Cahokia Mounds.

Find out more in this SIUE News story.

SIUE Opera Theatre presents:

The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky
Libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
Directed by Dr. Marc Schapman

7:30 p.m.
Today and
Saturday, March 24
Dunham Hall Theater

For ticket information, call (618) 650-2774.

Join us for the Morris University Center's second annual Decades Dash!

9 a.m.
Saturday, March 24
The Quad (race starts and ends)

Entry fees are $15 for SIUE students, $25 for SIUE faculty, staff and alumni, and $35 for the general public.

Register now at decadesdash.com.

Each participant will receive a shirt, goodie bag and finishers medal. Awards will be given for the top three overall finishers, top three in each age group and the best dressed of the ‘70’s.

For more information, visit decadesdash.com or contact Karen Swanner at 650-2178.

The University Staff Senate is accepting applications for its summer scholarship. The deadline for receipt of the entire typed application packet is 4:30 p.m. Saturday, March 24.

The University Staff Senate has established a fund to provide scholarship awards to qualifying SIUE students. To be eligible for consideration for a scholarship award, you must meet the following criteria:

• You must be the son, daughter, grandchild, spouse or civil union partner of a presently employed or retired civil service (excluding non-status) or professional staff employee (excluding appointments of less than 50 percent and term appointments of less than six months) of SIUE.
• You must meet admissions requirements for undergraduate study at SIUE.

The SIUE Police Department is presenting a one-day, free of charge, self-defense course: Rape, Aggression, Defense (R.A.D.) Systems. The course is offered for WOMEN ONLY (faculty, staff, students and their guests).

9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Saturday, March 24
Evergreen Hall Multipurpose Room

R.A.D. is a nationally certified self defense program designed specifically for women. We will spend the day teaching you different techniques on how to defend yourself. At the end of the day, we put an officer in a padded suit and allow the students to use the skills taught to defend themselves.  

Appropriate clothing would be tennis shoes, T-shirt with sweat pants or shorts. Bring money for lunch options in the Morris University Center or bring a sack lunch.

Please respond to Officer Kircher at kbohle@siue.edu.

The SIUE's Mass Communications Week will be Monday-Friday, March 26-30 in the Morris University Center. This year’s theme is “Swiping Right on Media Convergence.”

The four-day conference is free and open to the public. It will feature five top communications professionals from around the United States: 

• Brittany Richter, vice president and head of social media for iProspect in New York City
• Brooke Huntley, director of Cox Analytics for Cox Media Group in Atlanta
• Schron Jackson, SIUE mass communications alumnus and public information manager for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department
• Chris Kilcullen, vice president and digital director of H&L Partners, and president of the Advertising Club of Greater St. Louis
• Daphne Valerius, filmmaker, producer and journalist from Columbia, Mo.

A full itinerary is available at siue.edu/MassComm/MCW2018.

As part of SIUE's annual Mass Communications Week, SIUE students will have the chance to trade their First Amendment rights for free food at the “First Amendment Free Food Festival:"

11 a.m.-2p.m.
Wednesday, March 28
Dunham Hall patio

In the event’s ninth year, the SIUE campus community will learn there is no such thing as a free lunch, courtesy of SIUE’s award-winning campus news organization, The Alestle; the SIUE Mass Communications Department; the St. Louis Area Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the College Media Association.

In exchange for free lunch, students will trade in their rights to freedom of religion, speech, the press, assembly and the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances when they enter a roped-off zone outside Dunham Hall, where the First Amendment no longer exists. In addition to losing their own First Amendment rights while they eat, students will be treated to interactions with fellow students showing them what the loss of their freedoms might look like.

Dr. Paul Rasmussen, the first recipient of the Dreikurs Visiting Scholar Fellowship from the Department of Psychology, will present "Why is Adlerian/Dreikursian Thinking Relevant Today?"

1:30-2:30 p.m.
Monday, March 26
Morris University Center, Meridian Ballroom
Q&A to follow

Rasmussen is an accomplished scholar and teacher and an expert in the study and practice of Adlerian Psychology.

Rasmussen will present key concepts of Adler-Dreikurs theory and practice, which focus on the holistic and socially-embedded nature of humans, and the belief that their emotions and motivations are goal-directed. He will consider these questions: If humans could reset and fix all the problems of life, what realities in terms of good ideas would persist? What resources would we consider the most optimal to face life realities? What constitutes a good idea in discussion of the human experience?

The Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center will conclude its blood drive on campus:

10:30 a.m.–3 p.m.
Tuesday, March 27
Wednesday, March 28
Blood Mobile, Quad

To schedule an appointment, please create an account at bloodcenterIMPACT.org and use sponsor code 9828.
Please reference information regarding eligibility requirements and the donation process here.

Amy Hunter, known for her TEDx Talk “Lucky Zip Codes," will speak at the Diversity Workshop - #metoo: Understanding the Intersectional Identities in Higher Education:

10-11:50 a.m.
Wednesday, March 28
Founders Hall, room 1408

Hunter is the manager of Diversity and Inclusion for St. Louis Children’s Hospital, where she is charged with leading diversity and inclusion strategies and their implementation and measurement. She also owns and operates Lotus Roots Consulting, a diversity and inclusion firm. Previously, she served as the director of Racial Justice for the St. Louis YWCA.

Hunter has more than 20 years of experience in the corporate, education and nonprofit community. She has numerous publications and has been on ABC, CNN, NBC and NPR.