LEE HONORS COLLEGEWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

NEWSLETTERNovember 1-7, 2013

Stay informed!The Lee Honors College Newsletter is a weeklypublication that aims to provide relevant andtimely information to students. It is publishedevery Friday morning and contains informationabout events in the coming week and into thefuture, enabling you to plan your activities forthe semester and the remainder of the year. Wewill particularly highlight those activities thatfulfil cultural credits (for freshmen, sopho-mores, and transfer students) and volunteeropportunities. The newsletter will also containimportant announcements and information designed to make your life easier, so make sureto read through it each week. If you haven’tdone so already, join our Facebook group to get daily information about new events andother relevant announcements.

The newsletter will also feature weekly profiles of both staff and students as well asnewsworthy stories and reports—perhaps written by you!—about the exciting things happening in the honors college. If you havequestions or would like to submit a story, contact LHC communications coordinator and newsletter editor Becky De Oliveira(becky.a.deoliveira@wmich.edu)

THIS WEEKFriday, November 1 (3.30pm)Agricultural Phosphorus and Lake ErieA lecture by Dr. LAURA JOHNSON, National Center forWater Quality Research, Heidelberg University. 1710 Wood Hall.

Friday, Nov. 1- Sunday, Nov. 3 (times vary)Pride and PrejudiceThe University Theatre, Gilmore Theatre ComplexFor tickets: 269.387.6222 www.wmutheatre.com

Tuesday, November 5 (7pm)Ethnohistory Visiting Scholar 2013Award-winning author, NED SUBLETTE, will conduct his first public reading of The American Slave Coast. Brown Hall 2028.

READY TO WORK SERIESMonday, November 4 (7-9pm)Resume Writing Workshop Trimpe Multicultural Center

Wednesday, Nov. 6 (7-9pm)Job Interview Workshop Trimpe Multicultural Center

Thursday, Nov. 7 (10am-3pm)2013 Diversity Career and Community Involvement FairBernhard Center 208-209.

Wednesday November 6 (4-5.30pm)Center for African Development Policy Research“Sacred Value, Rule-based Choice and the Brain”Professor DAVID SPURRET. Sangren Hall 1920.

Thursday, November 7 (8pm)Frostic Reading SeriesEDWARD ALLEN BAKER. Bernhard Center 105-17.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013 (12-1pm)Lyceum Lecture SeriesMexican Americans in Higher Education: A History of Exclusion.DIANA HERNANDEZ, director of multicultural affairs. Lee Honors College lounge.

Thursday, November 7, 2013 (5-6pm)Internship Information SessionStudent Conservation AssociationMS. BREYON BROWN, Great Lakes Recruiting Coordinator. Wood Hall, 3715.

Mix It Up!Thursday, November 7, 7pmSTEM Internships Workshop,LHC lounge.

Mix It Up programs take place every Thursday evening (usually at 7pm) and include parties, movienights, special guests, thesis workshops, research assistance, and more!

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For more information, contact Professor Sisay Asefa, CADPR director

e-mail: sisay.asefa@wmich.edu phone (269) 387-5556

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www.international.wmich.edu/africancenter

Monday, Nov. 11 (1-6.45pm)Blood DriveVolunteer or give blood.Lee Honors College lounge.http://tinyurl.com/LHCgiveblood

Thursday, November 14 (3pm)Suicide Prevention Lee Honors College lounge.

DEPARTMENT OF DANCENovember 13-17 (2pm* + 8pm)Orchesis Concert, Dalton DanceStudio B. *Matinees Sat & Sun*

Friday, November 22American College Dance Festival& Winter Concert Adjudications,Multimedia Room.

November 21, 2013 (8pm)Frostic Reading SeriesCole SwensenBernhard Center 208-209.

Saturday, November 23 Chicago Bus TripTickets: $25-$30 (Cash or checkpayable to Lee Honors College)Leave WMU at 8am. Return to campus at 10pm.

Tickets cover:� Transportation� Breakfast and dinner� Ticket to Shedd Aquarium

Come to LHC front desk for a signup sheet and to submit payment to be officially registered.

Wednesday, November 13 (6pm)Kalamazoo Loaves and Fishes“Food Justice in the 21st Century:Addressing Inequality and ClimateChange.” Dr. ALLEN WEBB andJENNIFER JOHNSON.

Free pizza for those who bring atleast one food donation. The moreyou donate, the more you can eat. All are welcome – invite friends! Lee Honors College lounge

Monday, Nov. 4-Friday, Nov 22LHC Food DriveContact:jason.a.taurins@wmich.edu.

LOOKING AHEAD

SUICIDE PREVENTIONLee Honors College loungeNovember 14: 3pm

Stress Interfering with Life? Lean how to be more focused, calm and productive.

HOL5301 Meditation to Enhance Living (1 credit).Six years of quantitative andmore than 20 years of qualitativeresearch have shown that applying what is covered in this course significantly reducesstress and anxiety and enhancesperformance and a sense ofwell-being and appreciation.

HNRS2900 Risk Taking andChange (3 credits). A blend ofexperiential education, mindful-ness practice and classroom lecture and discussion. Offerstwo unique opportunities: 1). Aday trip to the Adventure Centreat Pretty Lake, 2). Priority regis-tration for the May backpack tripand vision quest in the wilder-ness of Tennessee. With the sup-port of the LHC, students receive$200 dollars toward the cost ofthe vision quest.

HOL5300 Eastern Thoughtand Practice (3 credits).Now offered online with medita-tion/mindfulness as a regularcomponent of the course.

InstructorCourses taught by RICHARD OXHANDLER, a professor in theIntegrative Holistic Health andWellness program who hastaught LHC classes for 35 yearsand also spent 30 years as acounseling psychologist, workingwith students suffering high levels of anxiety and stress.

AVS 2800: Transportation Technology: Robert Aardema

HIST 1010: Modern WesternWorld: Eli Rubin

HNRS 2500: Racial and EthnicIdentities: Elise DeCamp

HNRS 2900: Art of the Book:Jeffrey Abshear

HNRS 4200: Human Flourishingand the Pursuit of Happiness:Dennis Metro-Roland

HNRS 4200: To Be Or Not To Be:Living with Uncertainty: Kathleen Langan

MDVL 1450: Heroes and Villains: Staff

REL 2020: Religion in China:John Adams

PSCI 2000: National Government: Karl Hokenmaier

ENG 3110 Our Place in Nature:Alison Swan

HNRS 2900 Risk Taking andChange: Richard Oxhandler

INTL 2000 Intro to Global & In-ternational Studies: ThomasKostrezewa

PHIL 2200 Critical Reasoning:Cowling

PHIL 3340 Biomedical Ethics:David Paul

COURSES SPRING 2014

This course will focus on the history and development of Western book production—the design, illustration, printing, and binding of manuscripts and printed texts from the early medieval period to the present. In addition, students will work at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center (KBAC) in downtown Kalamazoo, where they will learn the basic traditional processes involved in making books by hand—papermaking, bookbinding, hand typesetting using movable type, and printing. Classes will also be scheduled at Waldo Library’s Special Collections to study from the rare books in their collection.

Art of the Book

Instructor: Jeff Abshear Wednesday 6:30–9:00 p.m.3 Credit Hours

Spring 2014Lee Honors CollegeHNRS 2900, CRN 13617

Lindisfarne Gospels

Claire van Vliet, Circulus Sapientae

William Morris, Chaucer’s Works

This class will be excellent preparation for students applying to the Book Art in Venice study abroad program. For more information visit: www.wmich.edu/international

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• We will delve into the personal, social, and political power and meaning these identities have held/now hold for people in the United States and around the globe.

• The division of human physical variation into races has been driven to

varying degrees by geography, culture, and economic interests. This course examines ideas from the past and present and looks at case studies from around the globe.

SPRING 2014CLASS OFFERING

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SPRING 2014 CLASSES!We have a wide variety of special honors courses on offer for the upcoming spring semester. Be sure to sign up before the end of October to guarantee a place!

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Kalamazoo Area Runners’ 2013 Turkey TrotThe Kalamazoo Area Runners’2013 Turkey Trot Time Prediction 5kRun is scheduled for ThanksgivingDay, November 28, 2013 and weare looking for more than 80 volun-teers for this event. This is a highenergy, fun event. Get involved ifyou can! Volunteer opportunitiesare listed here: http://kar-turkeytrot.wordpress.com/volunteers/

Contact ANDY HIRZEL (ahirzel@charter.net) to sign up.

Mt Zion Baptist Church Homework CenterProvides homework assistance inall academic areas to elementarychildren (Kindergarten-grade 5).Program hours are from 4pm until5.30pm Monday-Thursday. Weneed committed individuals wholove children and are willing to volunteer as tutors.

Contact CASSANDRA BRIDGES:(269) 267-6281, DANIELLEMOORE: (269) 910-5440.

MOVE! MOVE! (Multicultural Organizationfor Volunteering Events) is a LHC-student-led organization encouraging multiculturalismthrough working together andsharing experiences with peoplefrom many different backgrounds.Contact: KIRSTIN SIMONS (kirstin.r.simons@wmich.edu)

United Campus MinistyVolunteer opportunties include:Habitat for HumanitySaturdays (8am-4pm) Carpool and lunch provided.

Habitat meetings—Tuesdays (5pm)Kanley Chapel Dialogue CenterBoys & Girls Club of KalamazooFridays (3:30-8pm) until Nov. 2.Carpool available. Meetings—Tuesdays (8:30pm) Kanley Chapel Dialogue Center

Contact MARLA WILCOX:marla.c.wilcox@wmich.edu

PSST mentor-sponsored volunteer eventsSunday, October 27 (10am-1.30pm)Kalamazoo Gospel Missionhttp://tinyurl.com/ndc3dss

Friday, November 15 (10pm-3am)LHC Takes Over DSK, Training (November 6): 7-9pm

Saturday November 9(8:15am-3:30pm)

Habitat for Humanityhttp://tinyurl.com/lhchabitatMonday, November 11 (1-7pm)LHC Blood Drivehttp://tinyurl.com/volunteerlhc

Tuesday, November 12 (4-7.30pm) Gospel Mission

Friday, November 15 (12.30-4pm) Kalamazoo Loaves and Fishes

Saturday, November 16 (12.30-5pm)Tiller’s Day of Service!http://tinyurl.com/lhctillers

Saturday, November 23 (7-11am)WMU Turkey Trothttp://tinyurl.com/wmuturkeytrot

Department of JusticeEnvironment and Natural Resources Division InternshipThe Environmental Enforce-ment Section is one of thelargest litigating Sections in the Department and includesnearly one-half of the Divi-sion’s lawyers. The Section isresponsible for bringing civil judicial actions under most federal laws enacted to protectpublic health and the environ-ment from the adverse effectsof pollution, such as the CleanAir Act, Clean Water Act, SafeDrinking Water Act, Oil Pollu-tion Act, RCRA and the Super-fund law (CERCLA). Interns are usually assigned

to supervisory paralegals, insome sections the intern is assigned directly to an attorney.It is the responsibility of thatparalegal/attorney to assignthe work. Sometimes, other at-torneys approach the intern di-rectly with assignments too. Itcould include working on trialexhibits, putting trial notebookstogether, redacting information,preparing privilege logs, insert-ing information into databases,minor research, participating inmock trials, attending brownbags, proofreading documents,reconciling records, filing,copying, faxing, and the like.No one can predict what onewill be doing on a daily basisbecause it depends on theposture of the case what the

assignments will involve.We check in with the under-grads frequently to see whatthey are working on and tomake sure that they under-stand their assignments.Minimum 6-8 week

commitment, with a minimumof 3 days per week.

2014 West Michigan AWMA ScholarshipsThe West Michigan Chapter of the Air & Waste Manage-ment Association (WMAWMA)is pleased to announce theavailability of at least three in-dividual scholarships, each inthe amount of up to $2,500.00,to be awarded to selected col-lege or university students pur-suing a career in qualifyingenvironmental studies. Eachsuccessful applicant will alsoreceive a student membershipin WMAWMA.

The application deadline is Friday, November 15, 2013. Applications may be submittedeither electronically or in hardcopy.

Please contact SCOTT HUBBARD atshubbard@wnj.com with any questions about thescholarship or the applicationprocess.

INTERNSHIPS AND OPPORTUNITIES

Submissions Needed for The LaureateThe Laureate accepts short fiction, poetry, playwriting, non-fiction, drawing (illustration), and photography and is currently seeking submissions. Contact NICOLEBURCHETTE: TheLaureateCollection@gmail.com

LHC Student ResearchCourtney Shepard is currently writing a research paper for a class and would appreciate it if you could take a quick 10-question survey/ Just go to the link posted below.https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GFYYDF3

ELYSE HOGAN is from Bay City,Michigan, and is an English majorwith minors in both Spanish andSpeech and Hearing Processes. Herproudest achievement so far is receiving a Medallion Scholarship toattend WMU. She is also proud of herinvolvement at the Lee Honors Col-lege, where she serves as a PSSTmentor, a Bronco Buddy, an assistanteditor of The Laureate, and a frontdesk staff member. She hopes tocombine her love of language withher passion for helping others by continuing her education with gradu-ate school in Speech and LanguagePathology, eventually becoming aSpeech and Language Pathologist.While Elyse has already travelled

overseas—to the Bahamas with herfamily on a cruise, where she also gotthe chance to snorkel—she looks for-

ward to one day visiting Spain. “I havealways wanted to travel to Spain be-cause I love the Spanish language,”Elyse says. She plans to study San-tander this summer, and hopes to improve her Spanish language skills.She’s also looking forward to spend-ing time on the beach and experienc-ing the local cuisine. Elyse would like to learn to how to

cook well one day. Her personalmotto or philosophy is taken fromwhat she calls “the great show, Parksand Recreation”: “Treat yo self.”The best book she’s read recently

is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley—andit’s the third time she’s read it, so itclearly has made a significant impact!Her favorite recent film is The BigLebowski. “I finally watched it for thefirst time recently and it is now one of my favorites,” Elyse says.

LHC Advising HoursThe LHC advising office is open 8am-5pm. Please make an appointment tobe sure someone is available to helpyou. Advisors are unavailable duringthe lunch hour (12-1pm).

Voices Against Sexual AssaultFill out an anonymous survey to help researchers understand sexual assault rates in Kalamazoo and on theWMU campus: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LWfbK0YIWJ-tyJokCdfIYIN0q3GH5aONA-O4Hv-gOQM4/viewform

Please complete the survey beforeNovember 22nd. For more informa-tion, please go to www.voicesasa.org

PSST Office Hours Monday-Thursday (11am-1pm)Seminar Room, Lee Honors CollegeMonday-Thursday (5-7pm)

Honors Lounge, AckleyStop in if you have any questions!

“In Honor of Jackson” WristbandsAvailable at the LHC front desk toraise awareness for mental health.Cost is one dollar per band.

Library Research AssistanceGet research help at any WMU library reference desk. Or contact LOU ANN MORGAN with questions:(lou.morgan@wmich.edu)

Kitchen Rules1. Use the dishwasher, 2. Rinse beforeplacing dishes in dishwasher, 3. Don’tstack dishes on top of each other inthe dishwasher, 4. If the dishwasheris running, make sure to handwashyour dishes, 5. Wipe up spills andclean up after yourself.

LEE HONORS COLLEGE PEOPLE

IntroducingELYSE HOGAN

The Lee Honors College Newsletter is a weekly publication of the Carl and Winifred Lee Honors College of Western Michigan University. The College’s mission is to provide a lively, rigorous undergraduate experience for academically talented and highly motivated students. The Newsletter’s mission is to help facilitate this through timely and accurate communication.

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