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Now through April 23
Greek Senate Clothing Drive: Please
drop off clothing in good condition (not dirty or torn) at Catholic
Campus Ministries or the big blue box in the Machuga Student Center.
You may also call the Greek Senate for a pick-up at your office.
Acceptable donations include jackets, shoes, blankets, and sheets.
Items that cannot be donated include toys, boots, winter coats,
winter accessories, and hangers. The goal is to collect 50,000 pounds
of clothing and donate $2,000 to St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital to help children with cancer. Call x5050 or email greeksenate@wpunj.edu.
April 15
Faculty Senate Meeting: Begins
promptly at 12:30 p.m., and adjourns no later than 1:50 p.m., Valley
Road 1016, x2136.
Psychology Department’s
Research Colloquium Series: Ilyse O’Desky, Kean University,
and a practicing neuropsychologist, "The Overdiagnosis of Attention
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Private Practice," 12:30
to 1:45 p.m., Science 220, x2148.
April 16
Spring Faculty Seminars: Phoebe
Jackson, English, "Consumerism, Education, and Social Class
in Anzia Yezierska's 'Bread Givers,'" 3:30 p.m., Atrium 126,
x2413.
April 20
AFT Local 1796: Meeting, Valley
Road Auditorium, light lunch will be served, x2057.
April 21
Race & Gender Project Workshop:
Mark Ellis, sociology, will lead a teaching workshop on "Social
Inequality and the Human Experience," 2:00 to 3:15 p.m., Paterson
Room, Cheng Library, x3062.
April 22
Yom Hashoah - Holocaust Remembrance
Day Program, "Against All Odds: Children Who Survived
the Holocaust," three speakers who survived as children during
the Holocaust, 7:00 to 9:30 p.m., David and Lorraine Cheng Library,
x3456.
April 23
Department of Biology: Celebrate the retirement of Dr. Sharon
Hanks, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., Hobart Manor, please R.S.V.P. by April
16, for information contact Georgeann Russo, x2245 or Dr. Jai Menon,
x2795.
April 24
High Mountain Symphony : "A Youthful
Celebration," conducted by Paul Hostetter. The program includes
John Link's A Flourish, Puccini's Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo
from Act III, and Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite No.2.
The three finalists in the Mae and Fletcher Fish Young Artist Competition
2004 will also be performing works by Wieniawski, Lalo and Sibelius,
8:00 p.m., Shea Center. Tickets are $25 standard, $20 for seniors,
$8 for WPU students and youth age 17 and under. To order tickets,
call x2371.
April 27
Faculty Senate Meeting: Begins
promptly at 12:30 p.m., and adjourns no later than 1:50 p.m., Machuga
Student Center 203-5, x2136.
April 28
Institute for Creative Aging: Hospice
Foundation of America's 11th Annual "Living with Grief: Alzheimer's
Disease" Video Teleconference, 1:30 p.m. Viewing Location:
1600 Valley Road (First Floor Auditorium), program is free of charge.
Charge for CE: $25. To register or for additional information, call
x3690.
Philosophy Department Colloquium
Series: Alan Baker, Swarthmore College, "Is There a
Problem of Induction for Mathematics?" 3:30 to 5:00 p.m., Atrium
Faculty Lounge Room 126, contact steinharte@wpunj.edu.
April 29
Psychology Department’s Research
Colloquium Series: Barry Silverstein, psychology, "Sexual
Megalomania in Freud’s Dream of Irma’s Injection: What
Freud Didn’t Tell in the Interpretation of Dreams," 12:30
to 1:45 p.m., Science 220, x2148.
May 5
20th Annual Thomas Jefferson Lecture:
Herbert Sloan, Barnard College, "Real Men Don't Buy
Brocade: Thomas Jefferson as Consumer," 9:45 to 11:00 a.m.,
x3058.
Philosophy Department Colloquium
Series: Michael Collins, philosophy, "A Causal-Isomorphic
Theory of Content," 3:30 to 5:00 p.m., Atrium Faculty Lounge
Room 126, contact mandikp@wpunj.edu.
May 7
Spring Faculty Seminars: Enrique Pumar,
sociology, "The Possibilities for a Public Social Science,"
3:30 p.m., Atrium Faculty Lounge Room 126, x2413.
May 11
AFT Local 1796: Meeting, Machuga
Student Center 203-205, a light lunch will be served, x2057.
May 20
Lois Wolf's Retirement Luncheon, 12:00
to 3:00 p.m., Valley Road Cafeteria/Patio, $16 per person includes
a donation towards gift, x2122.
efocus April 15, 2004
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