Dear Colleagues, As faculty, we have traditionally held substantial responsibility for admissions-related matters. I hope that you will be able to join us at 4:30 p.m. at the Dahl President's Home to discuss the possibility that Augustana might--like many liberal arts colleges--make the ACT optional for applicants to Augustana College. Please read Kent's white paper on the subject in advance of the conversation. Yours, Jeff
This Week
Monday, October 30
4:00 p.m. LS111
Founders Basement Lounge
Walk-in hours in the dean's office: 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 31
11:30 a.m. Reflections - April Johnson, Dean of Diversity
Ascension Chapel
11:30 a.m. Explore: “Enhancing Cultural Competence” with April Johnson
College Center Board Room
What does it mean to be prepared for a “diverse and changing world”? What opportunities are available at Augustana to gain cultural competence? Why are these questions important and how might students move forward to create their own cultural competence plan?
8:00 p.m. Honors Recital
Wallenberg Hall
Wednesday, November 1
7:30 p.m. Sarah Melici Performance, "Fool for God"
Potter Theatre
Sponsored by Augustana Campus Ministries. Please contact Sr. Marilyn Ring for details.
4:30 p.m. Dahl President's Home 1100 - 35TH STREET. Kent Barnds will lead a discussion regarding the possibility of making ACT optional for applicants to Augustana College. Reading material for the conversation is here.
8:00 p.m.
Faculty Recital
Wallenberg Hall
Randall Hall, saxophone
Thursday, November 2
10:30 a.m. Convocation: Sarah Melici, "Fool for Christ: The Story of Dorothy Day."
Wallenberg Hall
Sarah Melici performs a one-woman play about the life of Dorothy Day who devoted her entire life to helping the poor and the homeless. Day was also well known for her work to promote social justice, economic, and political justice. She was co-founder of the Catholic Worker Newspaper which eventually evolved into the Catholic Worker Movement.
Since 1998, New Jersey-based actress Sarah Melici has chosen to perform exclusively in Fool for Christ. Before that time, she has performed in theatrical productions including Vaclav Havel's Temptation at the New York Shakespeare Festival, toured with Driving Miss Daisy as well as numerous credits at regional theatres. Her TV credits include Law and Order, the CBS mini-series, The Golden Years and Woody Allen's Stardust Memories.
1:30 p.m. Sexual Assault Survivor Stories
Loft of the College Center
The fall Performance Studies class taught by Paul Lewellan will present a program of sexual assaulty survivor stories. Three student groups will perform memoirs, present data, and give voice to survivors and their attackers. Everyone is invited.
Friday, November 3
3:30 p.m. Conversations on Scholarship- Integrating They Say I Say into the classroom- Part II
Olin 305
7:30 p.m. Fall Play: Nickel and Dimed By Joan Holden
Potter Theatre
The 2006-07 Augustana College Theatre season, "Issues of Our Times,” opens with Joan Holden's Nickel and Dimed, a play based on the book Nickel and Dimed, On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich.
Tickets are $10 for the general public, $8 for senior citizens and full-time students, and are available from the Augustana Ticket Office, 7306.
Can a middle-aged, middle-class woman survive when she suddenly has to make beds all day in a hotel and live on $7 an hour? Maybe. But one $7-an-hour job won't pay the rent: she'll have to do back-to-back shifts, as a chambermaid and a waitress.
This isn't the last surprise for author Barbara Ehrenreich who set out to research low-wage life firsthand, confident she was prepared for the worst. Barbara is prepared for hard work, but not for double shifts and nonstop aches and pains; for having to share tiny rooms, live on fast food because she has no place to cook; to beg from food pantries; for gulping handfuls of Ibuprofen because she can't afford a doctor; for failing, after all that, to make ends meet.
The worst, Barbara learns, is not what happens to the back or the knees: it's the damage to the heart. Her odyssey is vivid and witty, yet always deeply sobering and Joan Holden's stage adaptation is a focused comic epic shadowed with tragedy.
8:00 p.m. Augustana Jazz Ensemble Concert
Centennial Hall
Saturday, November 4
7:30 p.m. Fall Play: Nickel and Dimed By Joan Holden
Potter Theatre
4:00 p.m. Augustana Three Choirs Concert
Centennial Hall
8:00 p.m. Quad City Symphony Performance
Centennial Hall
Please contact the QC Symphony Office, 563-322-0931, for tickets and additional information.
Concert conversations are offered in Larson Hall one hour prior to each performance. Join QCSO conductor Donald Schleicher and Augustana's Kai Swanson for insight into the music and composers featured in each concert.
Sunday, November 5
1:30 p.m. Fall Play: Nickel and Dimed By Joan Holden
Potter Theatre
2:00 p.m. Quad City Symphony Performance
Centennial Hall
