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UIS to
host foreign and independent film series
The Division of Student Affairs
at UIS is sponsoring an Independent and Foreign Film Series on
Friday nights this fall. All films are at 7 p.m. in Brookens
Auditorium. Admission is free and the public is welcome to
attend.
Films include: Oct. 1 – Rivers
and Tides, Oct. 8 – The Magdalene Sisters, Oct.15 –
Spirited Away, Oct. 22 – The Fog of War, Oct. 29 –
Monster, Nov. 5 -The House of Yes, Nov. 12 –
Pieces of April.
For more information about any of
these films, contact the UIS Office of Student Life at 206-6665.
UIS
Visual Arts Gallery to present “Aids of Language”
“Aids of Language: Paintings by
Thom Whalen” will be on display at the Visual Arts Gallery at
the UIS from Oct. 6 - 28. The gallery will host an evening with
the artist on Oct. 7 with a talk at 5:30 p.m. and a reception
from 6 to 8 p.m. The talk, reception and exhibit are free and
open to the public.
The Visual Arts Gallery is
located in room 201 of the Health and Sciences Building on the
UIS campus. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday -
Thursday.
For further information contact
Emily Laverty 206-6506 or at
visarts-ga@uis.edu.
Register
to VOTE! FREE T-shirt! FREE tickets!
Register to vote NOW before the Oct. 5th deadline.
You can register to vote or change your registration address in
the Women's Center, Student Affairs Building, Room 35. The
Women's Issues Caucus (WIC) student organization is giving away
free T-shirts to students who register in the Women's
Center and free tickets to one of three upcoming
events courtesy of the Sangamon Auditorium: Capitol Steps,
Ten Tenors or Invisible Man. Please
call Kathy or Lynn at 206-7173 to make an appointment to
register and to find out what identification materials
you need to bring.
Lincoln
Legacy Lecture Series at UIS features Pulitzer Prize-winning
author
Mark E. Neely, Jr., Pulitzer
Prize-winning author, will deliver the first lecture in the
Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series on Oct. 7 at UIS. The theme of
this year’s Series is “Ethics and Power.”
Neely’s talk, “Civil Liberties in
Lincoln’s Presidency,” is at 7:30 p.m. in Brookens Auditorium.
His lecture is free and open to the public. No reservations are
required and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information, contact the
Center at 217/206-6576.
UIS,
AFSCME Local 805 reach agreement on salary increase
UIS and the American Federation
of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31, Local 805,
have reached agreement on a salary increase of 3.1% for all
bargaining unit members. The agreement is part of a wage
reopener in the second year of a three-year contract. The
increase was effective on Aug. 29, 2004 and covers seven grounds
workers, two maintenance repair workers, an assistant grounds
gardener and a grounds equipment mechanic, all of whom work in
the Department of Physical Planning and Operations.
Taste of
UIS to present overview of floodplain restoration
The University of Illinois Alumni Association at UIS will present
“Floodplain of Dreams,” the second program in this fall’s Taste
of UIS: Distinguished Faculty/Alumni Lunchtime Lecture Series,
Oct. 21 from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. at Maldaner’s Upstairs, 222 S.
Sixth St., Springfield. Reservations are required and should be
made by Oct. 14.
Cost – $18 per person, $13 for Alumni Association members and
their guests. Cost includes a hot buffet lunch. For
reservations call Alumni Relations at (217) 206-7395, register
on-line at
www.uiaa.org/spfld/ or e-mail
alumni@uis.edu.
Discussion will examine American journalism and the Middle East
“Reporting the Arab and Muslim
Worlds: American Journalism, Objectivity, and a Different Place”
will be presented Oct. 6 at 7 p.m in Brookens auditorium. The
program is free and open to the public.
Featured speaker will be Marda Dunsky, assistant professor in the
Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.
Dunsky’s experience as a reporter
includes two years as Arab affairs reporter for the Jerusalem
Post, covering the Palestinian minority in Israel, and a
stint as features and national/foreign desk editor at the
Chicago Tribune.
For more information contact
Mary Gilmore or Hank Nicholson at
206-7246.
Program
at UIS will examine “trendy drugs”
UIS will present “Trendy Drugs of Abuse” Oct. 12 from 6:30 - 8:30
p.m. in Brookens. The program is free and open to the public.
This program is presented in conjunction with Project X; an
initiative of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich designed to
promote community awareness, early intervention and education
about Ecstasy, Methamphetamine, and other club drugs.
Featured speaker will be Trinka Porrata, drug consultant and
retired narcotics detective with the Los Angeles Police
Department. Campus sponsors are the UIS Counseling Center,
Substance Abuse Task Force, Health Service, Housing Office, and
Police Department.
UIS Diversity Task
Force setting up fall semester meeting schedule
The Diversity Task Force is
scheduling meetings for the fall semester. If you are interested
in participating as a member of the Task Force visit their
website at
http://www.uis.edu/aeo/dtf/dtf_join.htm to indicate your
interests and availability.
Meetings will be either Wednesday
or Thursday at 2 p.m., 3 p.m. or 4 p.m., whichever time is most
convenient for the majority of interested members. Please
indicate both a preferred day and time.
Beware!
Flu shots are coming
UIS will be offering flu
vaccinations Oct. 13 from 9:30 a.m. - 7 p.m. and Oct. 27 from 2
– 7 p.m. in the PAC, conference rooms C and D. Shots will be
free to employees who present an employee ID card and proof of
insurance with the State of Illinois. Shots will be $15.00 for
employee’s significant others and employees who do not bring the
required information.
Shots will also be available to
students for $12.00.
For more information call Campus
Health Service at 206-6676.
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