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Sundays (during regular academic term). Get Centred is a contemplative Christian worship service held on Sunday nights at 10 p.m. in the candlelit sanctuary of the Presbyterian Church. This half-hour service of music, prayer, scripture readings, and silence is a great way to start the week. There will be no "Get Centred" service this Sunday, Feb. 5. The services will resume for Spring semester on Sunday, Feb. 12.

Now through Jan. 25. The Carnegie Center is offering GRE Prep classes. GRE Preparation with Elise Mandel. Time/Place: 5:30-7:30 p.m., Wednesdays, April 4-18. $45 per season. This affordable review will help you begin studying for the GRE and hold you accountable. We’ll work sample math problems, review test-taking strategies and make your vocabulary more precise. Required text: The New GRE:2011-2012: Strategies, Practice, Review (ISBN: 978 16 07148487). Purchase on your own, or tell us at time of registration if you’d like to purchase a copy from the instructor on the first day ($22). To register: call (859) 254-4175 or email: ccll1@carnegiecenterlex.org.
—Career Services

Thursday, Feb. 2. CentreTerm 2013 Meeting. There will be a meeting of all students interested in the CentreTerm 2013 trip to Israel and Jordan. Time/Place: 11:30 a.m., Crounse 405.
—Tom McCollough

Thursday, Feb. 2. Centre-in-Glasgow meeting. Come find out more about the new program—and meet with the University of Glasgow's Leann Schmitz—during common hour in the Davidson Room of Old Carnegie.
—Leigh Cocanougher

Friday, Feb. 3. Deadline for applications and faculty recommendations for the Centre-in-Washington internship program. All materials must be turned in to the Center for Global Citizenship (in Old Carnegie) by noon.
—Leigh Cocanougher

CONVO: Tuesday, Feb. 7. Fetal Origins of Adult Disease. Click here for more.

Wednesday, Feb. 8. Deadline for applications and faculty recommendations for study abroad programs in 2012-13. All materials must be turned in to the Center for Global Citizenship (in Old Carnegie) by noon.
—Leigh Cocanougher

CONVO: Thursday, Feb. 9. Centre Student Debate: State vs. Federal Rights. Click here for more.

CONVO: Tuesday, Feb. 14. Climate Change, Hunger and the Global Food Supply. Click here for more.

CONVO: Thursday, Feb. 16. Strategies for Human Mating. Click here for more.

Feb. 16 and 17. The Vagina Monologues. Proceeds support the Bluegrass Rape and Crisis Center. Time/Place: 7:30 p.m. in Weisiger Theatre. Tickets are $2 at door. Questions? e-mail: lydia.kincaid@centre.edu.
—Lydia Kincaid

CONVO: Tuesday, Feb. 21. The Distillation of Sorrow in Ancient Greek and Modern Culture. Click here for more.

CONVO: Wednesday, Feb. 22. Miss Representation. Click here for more.

Saturday, Feb. 25. Bowl For Kids Sake! Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Bluegrass supports children in our area who are in desperate need of a positive adult mentor. Centre students have served in this capacity in the last several years. Bowl For Kids Sake is the biggest fundraiser for this important organization. Centre has played a major supporting role, helping to raise almost $50,000 since 2004. I am hopeful that organizations and individuals on campus will consider forming teams to participate and again make a big difference in the lives of children through your support. Individuals will need to collect at least $100 in pledges prior to the day of the bowl – think of that as asking 10 people for $10, or 20 people for $5, or 4 people for $25! Some organizations in the past have asked each member to raise a certain amount – be that $10, $20, or $25 – and then sent their top fundraisers to represent them as a bowling team. Pledges are acceptable – you do not need to have the money in hand to bowl. If each member of our community contributed just $10, we would be able to make an amazing difference! Teams register to bowl for one hour. Pledge sheets are available from Patrick Noltemeyer in the Student Life Office. PLEASE CONSIDER THIS PHILANTHROPY and the HUGE DIFFERENCE your efforts could make for kids in our community. Time/Place: 12-6 p.m. at the Danville Bowl-A-Rama.
—Patrick Noltemeyer

CONVO: Monday, Feb. 27. Flamenco, Art of Emotion. Click here for more.

Saturday, April 28. Spring Concerto Concert. The Music Program would like to congratulate the students selected as featured soloists in the Centre Orchestra's Spring Concerto Concert: Andrew Boylan '12, Sarah Palmer '14, Erika Voss '12, and Ben Yeiser '13. Eleven students competed in the auditions which were held Dec. 2nd in Weisiger Theatre before a panel of esteemed musicians from across the Bluegrass. Time/Place: 7:30 p.m., Newlin Hall.
—Amelia Groetsch

Faculty/Staff News

Beau Weston gave an invited address on "Happiness and Faith" at the Christian Life and Witness conference at Georgetown College on January 24. This draws on his sabbatical project, developing a new course on "The Happy Society."

Notices/Announcements

Most Notices/Announcements will run for one week only, so please mark your calendar for anything of interest, or visit the archives.

Meal plan changes can be made between Feb. 1-15. Please stop by the Student Life Office to complete the paperwork.
—Anita Bertram

DramaCentre Production Auditions. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Principal roles for 6 men and 5 women, chorus roles for 5 men and 5 women, 5 or so dancers needed. The dancers may audition either evening. Sides and songs will be given at the audition.
Wednesday, Feb. 1: Pre-audition informational meeting at 5 p.m. in Grant Hall 502.
Thursday, Feb. 2: All first year students planning on going through recruitment MUST audition Thursday, Feb 2nd. Auditions from 5:30 to 8 p.m. (acting and singing), and from 8 to 9:30 p.m. (movement and dance).
Friday, Feb. 3: Auditions from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. (acting and singing), and from 7:30 to 9 p.m. (movement and dance).
—Tony Haigh

Music Announcements. You do not have to be a music major or minor to enroll in either of these classes. No previous experience in percussion is necessary. Percussion Ensemble (MUS 194) rehearses once a week (Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. in Grant Hall 113) and culminates in a concert at the end of the semester. Each concert consists of a diverse assortment of styles including contemporary, traditional, and world percussion ensemble literature. This semester is sure to be an exciting season for the group as we plan to perform several world premieres. If you would like to see what the percussion ensemble experiences sounds and looks like click here.

Private Percussion Lessons (MUS 150) typically focus on two of the four basic percussion areas of study: drum set, snare drum, mallets, timpani. However, special exceptions can be made for people who wish to study other areas of percussion such as marching percussion (snare, tenors, bass drum, mallets), multi-percussion, ethnic percussion (djembe, mbira, etc.) and 4-mallet marimba. Lessons meet nine times a semester for 45 minutes each. Students will have the option to perform what they have worked on in lessons during the end of semester “Studio Class.” If you would like to see several examples of what people were working on last semester click here.

Centre Women’s Voices (MUS 181) and Centre Men’s Voices (MUS 180) are looking for people who love to sing. We welcome experienced choir singers as well as beginners. These ensembles are one-credit courses, graded pass/fail. They normally rehearse each week for 2.5 hours.
Women: “Girl Groups” in pop music, singing nuns in “The Sound of Music” and “Nunsense” vocal orchestras of women in concentration camps, women’s choirs in prisons - women have always sung for fun, for the community support and for emotional and spiritual nourishment. Women’s Voices first meeting: Wednesday, Feb. 1 at 4:15 in Grant 114. The two rehearsals will be from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays (tentatively). We will try to accommodate as many women as we can. You can enroll in the course at the first meeting.
Men: The Yale "Wiffenpoofs" and IU's "Straight, No Chasers" had to start somewhere! Guys, this is your chance to make history! Centre Men's Voices needs your involvement. Our first meeting will be Thursday, Feb 2 at 11:20 a.m. in Grant 113 - Gillespie Recital Hall. Weekly rehearsals are TBA and will be scheduled based on the availability of the participants. You are encouraged to enroll even if the initial meeting time does not fit your schedule. We will select rehearsal times that will fit the schedules of those who enroll. You can enroll in the course at the first meeting.
For more information email amelia.groetsch@centre.edu.
—Amelia Groetsch

Miscellaneous

The Salvation Army of Danville hosts a Physical Education class for homeschool students in our area on Friday mornings from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. They are seeking interested Centre students to help facilitate this course and to serve as provide positive adult mentors. If you would be interested in helping facilitate the PE class, email patrick.noltemeyer@centre.edu.
—Patrick Noltemeyer

Bate Middle School is in need of volunteer judges for the Bate Middle School Odyssey of the Mind program! If you’ve participated in OM in middle school or high school or simply love drama, science or engineering and middle school students, this opportunity is for you. Training for all judges will be held Saturday, Feb. 4 with competitions in March. Please contact Tony Carney at Bate Middle School, tony.carney@danville.kyschools.us, for more information before Jan. 16.
—Patrick Noltemeyer

The Bluegrass Rape Crisis Center needs volunteers. Volunteer in Danville as an outreach advocate or at the numerous offices around central Kentucky. The head office for central Kentucky is located in Lexington, so anyone who lives in Lexington and can train immediately would be incredible. And more volunteers on campus would be welcomed! Here is the link to the BRCC website where anyone not—just students, can fill out the application form and send it to the Lexington office.
—Sarah Ferguson

The Danville MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) program is in need of volunteer teachers and assistants. This is a once a month commitment to lead or assist in our children's classes (nursery - 5 year olds). Activities, crafts and lesson plans are provided for the older children's classrooms. Meetings are held on the second Thursday of the month during the morning at Indian Hills Christian Church in Danville. Contact Vicky Osinga at (859) 583-6754 or vickyo664@gmail.com for more information.
—Lynn Preston

Summer Sitting Job: Responsible girl needed to watch two girls (ages 8 and 10) this summer. It would be all day from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. except for the first week of July (vacation). We live in Argyll and have a membership to Streamland pool and would provide money for other activities. Email shelley.bigelow@fnbky.com.
—Shelley Bigelow

Like working with kids? Need some extra income? The Presbyterian Church of Danville is looking for a friendly and dependable part-time caregiver to work in our nursery on Sunday mornings from 9:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., from 4:15 to 6:30 p.m. on Sunday evenings, and from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. the second Saturday of every month. Pay is $10/hour. If interested email jillian@presbydan.org.
—Jillian Embrey

Girl Scout Cookies! Get your favorite Caramel DeLites or try a Lemonade for the first time. Cookies are $3.50 per box and all cookie proceeds stay local! There are 8 kinds of cookies, so if you can’t make up your mind then just try them all! Call or email Hannah Sizemore’s mom, Meredith, at ext. 5466 or meredith.sizemore@centre.edu to place your order today! Click here for more about the cookies.

Logo Contest. Chef Bill Hawkins is putting out a call to the Centre community to come up with a logo for a new restaurant he is opening. The winner of the contest will be awarded with the recognition of being the designer and will be consulted in the future as they branch out. The restaurant will be supportive of sustainable agriculture and local farming, organics, etc. A union of restaurant and stewardship of the land and personal health (by not putting all the toxcicity of modern mass produced food). The concept is that this elegant beauty and simplicity is represented in the Bluebird (hence the name Bluebird for the restaurant). The logo should be simple enough to lend itself well to branding application such as letterhead, embroidery, etc. Is the restaurant modern or rustic? Yes, the kitchen is part of the dining room and is all stainless steel, the dining room floor will be an acid etched concrete (walnut), walls are an old exposed brick, deep yellow-to-gold in color, and the building itself is 190 years old. Tables and chairs will be mismatched wood grains. So I would say clean, modern, antiqueish. Palette of the colors we are using: blue, deep greens and golds. The investors have that sort of modern style with an old country charm. Go to www.wildernessroadguest.com to get a look at their style. I would also like to explore students' consignment of their artwork for the walls. I don't want payment but do reserve the right to review the subject matter at my discretion. My hope is that I receive a fresh flow of creativity and artwork for my walls, and the artist will make some money in the process! Email logo design by the end of January to stanford.bluebird@gmail.com or mail to: Bill Hawkins, 202 West Main Street, Stanford, KY 40484. For more information call 513-377-1184.
—Bill Hawkins




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