Campus News Briefs
Civics Week offers events for voting
Associated Students of Utah State University is holding events for Civics Awareness Week this week to encourage students to vote in the upcoming elections.
Tonight, Finding Forester will be shown in the Kent Concert Hall at 8 p.m. The cost is $1 per person to get in. The money will be donated to the Inaugural Scholarship Fund.
Thursday at 1:30 p.m., Herman Boone, the real head coach from the movie Remember the Titans will be speaking in the Taggart Student Center Ballroom as part of ASUSU’s convocation series. Voter registration will be available outside.
Mayoral forum to be held tonight
A mayoral forum will be held tonight at 7 p.m. at the Whittier Community Center, 290 N. 400 East.
Candidates for mayor will answer questions from the audience and give statements about local issues. Those who are registered to vote for the primaries are encouraged to come.
Refreshments will be served afterward.
Training Session offered by libraries
Trainers from ISI Current Contents will be on the Utah State University campus Oct. 1 to provide a workshop for members of the campus community.
The session, intended for advanced users, focuses on maximizing the use of the Current Contents database, said Jan Anderson, campus services librarian for University Libraries.
The training session runs from 9:30 to 11 a.m. in the Science and Technology Library, Room 104. The workshop is free and no RSVP is required to attend. Seating will be limited to 24. For information call Anderson at 797-2672.
Current Contents publishes the tables of contents for more than 7,000 journals and 2,000 books and proceedings with complete bibliographic data for each item indexed, Anderson said.
It is updated weekly and two years’ worth of coverage is provided by University Libraries, Anderson said.
Historian to speak on World War II
Internationally renowned historian, Penny Summerfield, will visit USU from the University of Manchester in England and will speak Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in Old Main, Room 115
Summerfield has done extensive research on life in Britain during World War II.
She used diaries, memoirs, letters and public records to piece together what it must have been like for people to live through the violence of World War II in England, said Kristine Miller, with the British and Commonwealth Studies Committee.
Her talk is entitled, “Uncertain Identities: Masculinity and the British home Front During the Second World War.”
She will speak on the British Home Guard – a group of men who were deemed unfit for service in the British military during the war and started up a basically weaponless brigade whose goal was to protect the home front in case of German invasion.
It is sponsored by the British and Commonwealth Studies program in the English and history departments.
Corduroy Blues to play at Institute
Corduroy Blues will be playing at the Logan LDS Institute of Religion Friday at 8:30 p.m.
Tickets will be $1 with a student ID and $3 without.
The members of this group were previously in the New Horizons Choir and are known for their harmonies.
Compiled by Statesman staff