Around Campus

Through Nov. 12 — Tom Richard's "Chapters and Toys" in the main gallery of the Fred J. Taylor Library and Technology Center. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Through Nov. 14 — Sign up for Lambda Zeta's "Sigma Apollo" at 12:30 p.m. weekdays in the Gibson University Center's Green Room. Do you have the moves? the funny? the freestyle? the voice? You must have a four-minute act (at least) and pay a $5 registration fee. Compete for the grand prize of $100. Advance tickets to watch are $3 for the show or $5 for the show and party.

Through Nov. 19 — CIS Thanksgiving Food Drive to help those in need. Bring your canned goods to the Computer Information Systems office in 101 Babin Business Center. Some professors are offering extra credit to CIS majors/minors for their donations.

Through Dec. 8 — The Ambassadors' Christmas Drive to help those in need. Donate non-perishable food items for the less fortunate in our community.  Donations may be brought to the Office of Admissions on the first floor of Harris Hall. All UAM contributions will be transported to the area DHS office for distribution.  Please be aware that the DHS office has received more requests than ever this year and is in great need of non-perishable items and toys for children of all ages.

Nov. 13 — Caap exam in the Gibson University Center's Capitol Room from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Nov. 13 — Phi Lambda Chi presents the Halo Tournament in the Gibson University Center's Green Room from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Entry fee is $10 for a single player and $20 for a four-person team. Bring your own controller. Prizes include the new Halo 2.

Nov. 15  — Graduating seniors should make plans to attend the Gateway workshop "How to Perfect Your Interview Skills" at 3 p.m. in 200 Harris Hall.

Nov. 15-16  — UAM's Jazz Band One performs concerts in East Texas.

Nov. 16  — Jennifer Chapman’s Senior Art Opening starts at 6 p.m. in the Fred J. Taylor Library and Technology Center's art gallery. Date is subject to change.

Nov. 16  — Lambda Zeta's "Sigma Apollo" in the Fine Arts Center auditorium at 7:14 p.m. The audience will clap for the acts they like and boo the acts they dislike. Tickets day of show are $5 for the show and $8 for the show and party.

Nov. 16-17  — Class evaluations in Arts and Humanities courses.

Nov. 16-18  — The THEA Foundation will sponsor a fund raiser at the River Market Pavilion in Little Rock, Ark. The foundation asked Arkansas universities to participate by submitting student art works to sell and exhibit. Students interested in submitting art works should contact Thomas Richard at 460-1238.

Nov. 17  — Survival kits available for the Great American Smokeout in the UC Green Room between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Each kit contains goodies and information to help get you through your first tobacco-free day.

Did You Know?

* About one in five Americans die each year from cardiovascular disease caused by smoking. * Tobacco use accounts for about one-third of all cancer deaths in the United States. * Smoking is responsible for almost 90 percent of lung cancers in men and 70 percent among women. * Tobacco smoke contains at least 43 carcinogenic substances. * Cigarette smoking is the biggest risk factor for sudden cardiac death. * Smokers who have a heart attack are more likely to die within an hour than nonsmokers. * Smoking decreases a person’s life expectancy by an average of seven years. * TOBACCO USE KILLS MORE THAN 400,000 AMERICANS EACH YEAR. * Research shows that the risk of SIDS triples for babies of mothers who smoke during pregnancy. * Pregnant women who smoke are more likely to have low birth weight babies or stillborn babies. * Smokeless tobacco users who dip or chew eight to 10 times a day receive the same amount of nicotine as smokers who smoke 30 to 40 cigarettes daily. * Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) occurs when nonsmokers inhale the tobacco smoke of others. ETS is responsible for 3,000 lung cancer deaths annually in healthy nonsmokers. * Health care costs caused directly by smoking total more than $50 billion each year. Statistics from the American Cancer Society

Nov. 18  — The Great American Smokeout, co-sponsored by UAM Counseling & Testing, Intramurals & Recreation and Student Health Services. Held across the United States every year to help smokers quit cigarettes for at least one day, more people quit smoking on this day than any other day of the year!

   Research indicates smokers are more successful in kicking the habit permanently when they have some means of support such as counseling, guide books, and the encouragement of friends and family.

Cigars not safer
   The belief that cigars provide a glamorous, safer alternative to cigarettes is wrong. In reality, cigars greatly increase the risk of lung and oral cancers; and they deliver a large, addictive dose of nicotine. For more information on cigar smoking, click here.

Chewing tobacco not safer
   Chewing tobacco and snuff are no safer than smoking. In fact, these forms of smokeless tobacco contain more nicotine than cigarettes and cause several cancers. For more information on smokeless tobacco, click here.

Nov. 18  — Mocha Madness at 7 p.m. in the Patio Cafe. Sign up at the MCB Writing Center to read original poetry or stories, sing, play songs, dance or perform martial arts. Display your sculptures, paintings and drawings all night. Hand-made ceramics available for everyone who performs or exhibits art.

Nov. 18  — The Arkansas Convention and Visitors Bureau opens the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark.

Nov. 19  — Spring Pre-registration ends.

Nov. 19  — The Mapping Law and Professionalism class visits the Arkansas Department of Corrections' Cummins Unit in Grady.

Nov. 22  — Graduating seniors should make plans to attend the Gateway workshop "Resume Writing" at 3 p.m. in 200 Harris Hall.

Nov. 22  — UAM's Jazz Band One performs at Sheridan High School.

Nov. 23  — The program "Life Beyond the Sun" starts at 7 p.m. in the Pomeroy Planetarium, located in the Turner Neal Museum of Natural Science.

Nov. 29  — "Koyannisqatsi," the second film in the Arts and Humanities film series, shows at 6:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center auditorium. FREE admission — open to the public.

Index: On the Docket || Honored || Intramurals || Meetings || Opportunities

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Honors

   Alpha Chi, the national college honor scholarship society, inducted 30 students and installed new officers at its Nov. 9 meeting. Officers include President Rebecca Bevill, Vice President Will Whiting, Secretary Christine Bryant, Treasurer William "Rob" Perry and Historian Whitney Brown.

   New inductees include Tiffany Barnard, Kaci Launius and Sally Owen of accounting; Elizabeth Pike of agriculture; Erin Hackett of biology; John Bowers and Marla Wallace of business administration; Matthew McConnell of chemistry; Amanda Temeple of chemistry/mathematics; Russell LaVon Corker, James Ellis, Pamela Hopper and Justin Hurst of computer information systems; Lisa Burley, Nahora Lucia Morgan and Jamey Rushing of English; Walter Everett of history and social sciences; Victoria Cruz of mathematics; Jennifer Strickland of music; Tamara Grider, Amanda Rogers, Meredith Brooke Sipes, Jennifer Strickland, Amy Tilton and Tracy White of nursing; Abby Trites of pre-pharmacy; Morris Crill and Tasha Finkus of psychology; William George Gagner of spatial information systems/surveying and Lydia Meier of speech communication.

    Christean Feazell and Rayburn Ezell competed in the National Association of Teachers of Singing Regional Student Auditions in Monroe, La.

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Index: On the Docket || Honored || Intramurals || Meetings || Opportunities

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Intramurals

IM Cross-Country Women's Champions Individual: Sara Boaz Team: Will's Thrills (Sara Boaz, Sallie Martin, Jenna Thomas, Melissa Shorter, Teoka Wilkerson, Ashley May, Teaundra Harding, Wendy Young  & Abra Motley)
Men's Champions Individual: Will Collins Team: Alpha Omega (Will Collins, Rob Leonard, Eric Howard, Brandon Jackson & Jacob Lum)

Wallyball Tournament Dates

Women:     Nov. 22, 6 p.m.
Men:          Nov. 23, 6 p.m.
COREC:    Dec. 6, 6 p.m.

Entries due at 1:30 p.m. on day of tournament. Entry forms available either outside the intramural/recreation office or on the Web at http://www.uamont.edu/StudentAffairs/Intramurals/EntryForm.htm. Students, faculty and staff may participate though there is a limit of two former collegiate volleyball players per team.

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Index: On the Docket || Honored || Intramurals || Meetings || Opportunities

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Delta Sigma Theta and Omega Psi Phi — Standing (from left) Rhonda Ridgell, Odell Brown, Shawn Williams and Erica Broussard; sitting (from left) Shaun Wilson, Corbin Elliot and Tyrone Bennett. Production problems kept this picture out of last issue's Greek photo essay, but we do not want to forget them. Photo by Lori Andrews

Meetings

Nov. 16 — The Student Activities Board will meet at 2 p.m. in the Student Activities and Program office in the University Center.

Nov. 16 — Alpha Phi Alpha will meet at 7:06 p.m. in the University Center's Caucus Room for an informal interest meeting.

Nov. 17  — The Baptist Collegiate Ministry offers the last “88 Lunch” of the semester at noon. Florence Baptist Church, Wilmar Baptist Church and Hermitage Baptist Church will team to provide a meal full of casserole and desert options.  There is no charge for first-time diners and a $2 fee otherwise.

Nov. 30 — Finals of the 2004 UAM Chess Championship. The Chess Club will  include a Novice Section this year to encourage chess players to enter the tournament even if they have only recently learned the game.
   The Chess Club meets every Tuesday from 4:30-6 p.m. in Science Center room A-23. Everyone is invited to play or to watch. For additional information, call 460-1516 or e-mail nelson@uamont.edu.    

Dec. 7 — The Graduate Student Council will meet in Library Conference A at 3 p.m.

   Need a one-hour credit in the spring? Want to help make memories that will last a lifetime? Join the newspaper/yearbook staff to help document the college years at the University of Arkansas-Monticello. We're looking for copy editors, reporters, sports reporters, photographers, outdoor writers, commentators, editorial cartoonists, artists, layout personnel and Web technicians — not only in Monticello, but at the Crossett and McGehee campuses as well.  Interested? Contact adviser Ronald Sitton at sitton@uamont.edu or call (870) 460-1138

   The Student Art Show will be at the end of the semester. Students wishing to submit works should contact Thomas Richard at 460-1238. Date is still pending.

   Pick up FREE scantrons and blue books at 201 Harris Hall.

   Tau Kappa Epsilon and buzz boxx, a Chicago-based pop culture gift company, created an entertaining and unique book to help achieve the fundraising goal for the Alzheimer’s Association in 2004-05. Created in large part to honor fellow Teke Frater, President Ronald Reagan, "The Little Black Book of College Dating Ideas" contains over 325 new, positively fun dating ideas perfect for college life and all young people. The book sells for $10 and with each book sold, The Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute of the Alzheimer’s Association receives $5 and $2 goes to the local TKE chapter responsible for the sale, which can also be donated to the Alzheimer’s Account. The remaining $3 pays for production and shipping costs. Contact a TKE to pick up your own copy.

   The Biology Club is taking $2 donations in return for a chance to win a Remington SPS Super Magnum, which provides long range and high power with the convenience of gas compensated recoil reduction. It is actually three shotguns in one – equipped to handle a full range of 12-gauge payloads. The Super Magnum cycles shells with unsurpassed accuracy. The prize will be given away Dec. 2. The Biology Club has been giving away a shotgun ever year for a while now. Ticket proceeds will serve as donations to the club.

Nov. 19 — Internship application deadline for Education majors. Applications available at 127 Willard Hall. In order to intern, education majors must have the following:

• Admission to Teacher Education
• B or better in EDUC 3213
• B or better in EDUC 3563
• Praxis II Specialty test passed for each area
• Cumulative GPA of 2.75
• Completion of the application

March 1 — Deadline for Arkansas Press Women's $500 scholarship to students majoring in journalism or mass communication. Applicants must provide a transcript, three letters of recommendation, three writing samples and a statement of professional goals (400 words or less). Applications available in Admissions Office on first floor of Harris Hall.