September 29, 2009
Next Issue will be Oct. 6

Convos
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Spanish in the Medical Field
Sept. 30, 7:30 p.m., Vahlkamp Theatre
Dr. Thomas F. Whayne will talk about his experiences as a cardiologist working with the Spanish-speaking community in Kentucky and his professional trips to Latin America. The talk will also focus on how learning Spanish has shaped Dr. Whayne’s research and career as a doctor and professor at the University of Kentucky.

Drama Centre: Master Harold . . . and the Boys
Sept. 30 through Oct. 3, 8 p.m., Weisiger Theatre
Set in early 1950s South Africa during the era of apartheid rule, this production concerns an afternoon in the life of Harold, the 15-year-old son of the lower middle class tea room owner; and Willie and Sam, the middle-aged African men who works for his father.

Diversity: Finding Common Ground and Embracing Differences
Oct. 6, 7:30 p.m., Vahlkamp Theatre
Elaine Penn, who has been a college coach, athlete and musician, weaves discussion, stories, audience participation and music into her programs. In this presentation, students are challenged to examine their own biases and understand how these affect their relationships with others. The program shows how diversity issues still exist and can be motivated by differences such as race, religion, sexual orientation and gender. Participants learn meaningful ways to eliminate stereotypes, eradicate prejudice and find the common ground that links us all. Click here to learn more about Elaine Penn.

Meetings/Gatherings
Every Sunday night (until Nov. 29) at 10 p.m. Get CENTREed: A weekly Christian worship service held in the candlelit sanctuary of the Presbyterian Church. This half-hour contemplative service includes scripture reading, prayer, music, and periods of silence. It's a great way to begin the week on the right note. Refreshments served immediately following the service.
—Rick Axtell (pictured)

Every Wednesday night. Compline Prayer Service. Join Centre's Episcopal students for the weekly Compline prayer service this Wednesday night from 9 until 9:30 p.m. in the Davidson Room (on the ground floor of Carnegie building).
—Rick Axtell

Monday nights are Centre Nights at the Danville Bowlarama! From 5 p.m. to close. $2 games, $1 shoes, $5 burger plate (includes regular-sized fries and a soft drink). Must show Student ID. Groups are no problem-just call ahead (859) 236-6452.
—Danville Bowlarama

Wednesday, Sept. 30. Steve Moakler will be singing and playing during lunch, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Check out some of Steve’s music at http://www.myspace.com/stevemoakler.
—Roy Lee Wigginton

Wednesday, Sept. 30. The Physics Colloquium and Film Series presents An Introduction to Radar, a one-hour talk by Jim Kelly, 4-5 p.m. in Olin 124. What is radar? How does the radar used to enforce traffic laws differ from those used to track and image the space shuttle? Kelly will provide an overview of how radar works, a survey of applications and a discussion of image formation techniques. No scientific knowledge is required. We begin shortly after 4 p.m. in Olin 124. For the current schedule of films and colloquia, see http://web.centre.edu/phy.
—James Kelly (pictured)

Wednesday, Sept. 30. The sisters of Alpha Delta Pi are working with Zaxby's to sponsor a philanthropy event supporting the Ronald McDonald House. Eat at Zaxby's for dinner and 10% of the proceeds will be donated to the Ronald McDonald House.
—Katie Moore

Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 11:30 a.m. in the library basement (Crounse 0040). How to Write a Winning Resume. Call 238-5283 or e-mail sherri.gowins@centre.edu to sign up.
—Sherri Gowins

Friday, Oct. 2. Soccer Tailgate and Chili Cook-Off. 7 p.m. at the Centre Soccer field. Enter a pot of chili for an organization, a hall, or on your own to win a great prize! Prizes are $75 for first, $50 for second, and $25 for third in assorted gift cards. To enter, e-mail shannon.swikert@centre.edu by Wednesday, Sept. 30. Even if you don’t want to enter you are still welcome to come and enjoy chili and show support for Centre soccer. The men’s game is at 6 p.m. and the women’s game is at 8 p.m. Sponsored by SAC.
—Roy Lee Wigginton

Friday, Oct. 2. Pre-engineering meeting from 3 - 4:30 p.m. in Olin 124. Anyone wishing to learn more about engineering school is invited to visit with Melanie Osborn, an Assistant Dean from the School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. She will be available to discuss the 3-2 program arrangement between Centre and Wash. U. and to answer any questions. The format is open-ended; come at 3 if you can, but anytime is fine. Please e-mail jason.neiser@centre.edu or call 6036 for more details.
—Jason Neiser

Friday, Oct. 2. Family Weekend Show at 9:30 p.m. in the Warehouse (first floor). Come enjoy the magic and comedy of David Henderson. Sponsored by SAC.
—Roy Lee Wigginton (pictured)

Friday, Oct. 2 and Saturday, Oct. 3. Family Weekend. Students are needed to help serve as “hosts/greeters” for the Academic Samplers on Friday night and Saturday morning of Family Weekend. Students who help will receive a Walmart gift card. Those interested should contact Mona at 5345. Click here for event schedule.
—Mona Wyatt (pictured)

Saturday, Oct. 3. Moon Festival at 6:30 p.m. in Pearl basement. Celebrate the Chinese Moon Festival this Saturday night. FREE Admission. Enjoy authentic Chinese food, traditional moon cakes, and moon stories while admiring the full moon!
--Qian Xie

Saturday, Oct. 3. The Mercer County boys' soccer team will be holding a fundraiser breakfast at Cloud’s Country Cooking Restaurant in Harrodsburg. Breakfast will be from 7 to 10 a.m. This will be an All-You-Can-Eat buffet-style breakfast. Tickets are $7 per person for adults and $4 for children 8 and younger. Donations will also be accepted if you are unable to attend the breakfast.
—Glenda Beaven (pictured)

Tuesday, Oct. 6. 3:30-5:30 p.m. in the Warehouse. Law School Fair. Meet representatives from law schools across the country. Click here for more info.
—Sherri Gowens

Tuesday, Oct. 6. Tri Beta (National Biological Sciences Honor Society) will be hosting Dr. Tom Barnes, an extension professor of forestry at UK, at 4:15 p.m. in Young 202. Dr. Barnes is a well-known nature photographer with several books to his credit. He will be giving a slide show of his work for TriBeta members and anyone else who is interested. Snacks and beverages will be provided. For further information e-mail sme.fisher@centre.edu.
—Jacob Edwards

Thursday, Oct. 8. Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships: Study Anywhere in the World! To learn more, come to an informal meeting at 11:30 in the Davidson Room of Carnegie. In the past several years, Centre juniors and seniors have been very successful in winning Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships, which cover the full costs of a year’s study after graduation virtually anywhere in the world. The best time to apply is in the spring of the junior year, since these scholarships are not usable in the year immediately following. Juniors, sophomores, freshmen, and seniors interested in learning more about this opportunity should plan to attend this meeting.
—Milton Reigelman (pictured)

Saturday, Oct. 10 and Nov. 21. The UK College of Pharmacy Open Houses will take place at 10 a.m. This is a great opportunity for students to receive information from the Dean, faculty members, the Admissions Director, and current pharmacy students. Registration is required and is available here.
—Jennifer Muzyka

Every other Wednesday night at the Presbyterian Church. The church's Second Wind group is excited to announce its upcoming series, "At The Movies," which also includes FREE supper. Supper begins at 5:30 p.m., and the program is from 6 to 7 p.m. Clips from movies will be shown with discussion along the way. If you have seen the movie, that's fine; if you want to check it out ahead of time that's fine, too; but don't worry if you have never seen it-you will be able to understand what's going on.
Oct 14: Hotel Rwanda, led by the Mounts
Oct 28: Slumdog Millionaire, led by the Reigelmans
Nov 11: Amazing Grace, led by Jim Moore
—Mary Trollinger

Saturday, Oct. 17. DANTASTIC Race, an “Amazing Race-like” event through Danville/Boyle County to benefit for the Community Arts Center. Recruit your friends for this challenging and entertaining road competition…with $500 on the (finish) line! Team cars will set out on a county-wide adventure that will put each team's endurance and knowledge of Danville/Boyle County to the test! Register quickly! Registration is $25 per team member (teams of 4). Click here for registration form. 
—Megan Noltemeyer (pictured) 

Sunday, Oct. 25. Danville’s citizens concerned about human relations will sponsor a discussion of James McBride’s The Color of Water: Meditations on Identity at 4 p.m. at the Great American Doll House on Sixth Street. McBride will give the Humana library lecture Nov. 3 in Newlin Hall, and several copies of his book are available to check out at both the Doherty Library here on campus and the Boyle County Public Library. Centre Professor Andrea Abrams and Berea Professor Demetrius Semien will facilitate, and desserts and drinks will be provided. For more information, or to sign up to participate, contact J.H. Atkins (6223) or Sallie Bright (5343).
—Sallie Bright (pictured)

Friday, Oct. 30. Design-related symposium. 10 a.m.-noon. Burgin Independent School. College students are invited to participate in a symposium that will include interactive discussion with Mr. Alexander Julian and other prominent professionals in the design field. Project Runway will also be featured. For students the cost to attend is $5. Project Runway: Students must design the garment to wear to the 2010 World Equestrian Games, construct or oversee the construction, accessorize and model or select the model for the garment. Fabric will be provided to students in each division. For Division III – College or Technical Students, Design a Dress. The entry fee is $25. For more information, contact Bonnie Tanner (859) 734-9337, e-mail bonnie.tanner@uky.edu, or contact Mercer County Habitat for Humanity www.hfhmercerco.org.
—Sherri Gowins

Notices
If you are applying for entrance to the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy PharmD program for entrance in Fall 2010. Apply soon! They use rolling admissions, so you should ideally apply early in their process (September). Please keep in mind that you don't have to participate in Early Decision to submit your application early. Make sure your PCAT scores were sent to PharmCAS, code 104…scores do NOT go directly to UK. Your application will not be viewed as complete until they receive your PharmCAS application, UK supplemental application, and application fee. If you have questions about pharmacy school, contact Dr. Muzyka at muzyka@centre.edu.
—Jennifer Muzyka (pictured)

Goldwater Scholarships are awarded to outstanding students who are currently juniors or sophomores and who are interested in a career in mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering. The awards apply to tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 annually. If you are interested in applying for a Goldwater Scholarship, please contact Dr. Lockett (lockett@centre.edu) by Nov. 6. Detailed information about the Goldwater Scholarship Program may be found at www.act.org/goldwater.
—Phil Lockett (pictured)

Looking for an all-expenses-paid educational opportunity in Florida this January? If you have a strong quantitative interests and a basic understanding of ecology, the Marine Resources Population Dynamics workshop may be just the opportunity you are looking for. Several years ago, Ellen Wisner was accepted into this program and found it to be an exceptional experience. If accepted into the program, we can incorporate the workshop participation into a more extensive directed study that will be tailored to your specific interests/background for course credit during the CentreTerm. Interested students can find more information and an application form here. Applications are due by Oct. 14.
—Chris Barton (pictured)

Faculty/Staff News
Be sure to welcome new faculty and staff members to the Centre community. Click here for more information.

Miscellaneous
Web Site Redesign. For some time, the Communications Office has been working in cooperation with several other offices around campus on a redesign of the College Web site. We've also consulted with numerous other groups (including GSP students, two professional Web site design companies, and first-year students—30 of 30 of whom preferred the new design to the current one), and the feedback has been very consistent:    

• make the homepage less busy, with fewer links
  
  
• make use of space further down the screen ("below the fold")
  
  
• make the navigation more consistent on every official page of the new site (the College's senior staff has endorsed this concept, which will make the site more user-friendly and more graphically consistent.)

Implementing the new design is a big undertaking, which will be done in stages, beginning with the homepage and moving to "first level pages" and then to pages deeper within the site.

For a preview of the new design, click here or paste the URL into your browser and press "return." (This is a graphic representation of the page only—i.e., the links are not yet live.)

Please send your comments and suggestions to Tom Sturgeon at sturgeon@centre.edu.
—Mike Norris

Freshmen, are you ready to make that first CentreFutures appointment? This year, we’re doing these appointments in group format. All you need to do is sign up for a CF101 session and you’ll be done with this requirement. Click here for information or call 5283 to sign up.
—Sherri Gowins

Are you a writer? Up-and-coming artist? Interested in editing and graphic design? Get published! Send your work to Vantage Point, Centre's only literary magazine. To submit or edit, contact vantage.point@centre.edu. Submision deadline is Oct. 25.
—Chelsea Apple

Looking to hire a chemistry tutor. Would prefer the weekend. If interested, please contact Patsy Jackson at (859) 238-0244 or 516-2443 or e-mail patsyannjackson@hotmail.com.
—Sherri Gowins

Memphis, anyone? If any faculty, students or staff are driving to or through Memphis in the near future and are willing to transport a few things back to Danville, please e-mail jwertz@centre.edu.
—Jan Wertz

Internship of the Week. The Provations Group (a sports publishing company) in Lexington is looking for interns for all terms. For more information, go to eRecruiting or talk to your career counselor.
—Sherri Gowins

Calling all Knitters and Crocheters! With midterms in the not-so-distant future, are you finding that you need a social, relaxing and fun way to relive some of the built up stress? Love crafting? Why not combine them? I am trying to start a knitting group that would meet once a week here on campus, where students could relax, talk, eat, and, of course, knit/crochet! Whether you’re experienced or just beginning, everyone is welcome! This group will probably meet on a Monday or Tuesday for about an hour. The specifics are very flexible. E-mail natalie.pope@centre.edu if you are at all interested!
—Natalie Pope

Babysitting? If you are interested in being on a babysitting list that we would share with community members when requested, please e-mail your name and the telephone number you would them to contact you at to anita.bertram@centre.edu
—Anita Bertram

Recycle toner to benefit a good cause. Please send ANY & ALL toner and print cartridges to Jan Wertz (Young Hall). They will be recycled for the Danville-Boyle County Humane Society.
—Jan Wertz (pictured)

The Centre Bookstore hours are Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
—Linda, Shauna, Merry, Gretta

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