Campus and Community Briefs

English hosts scary Poe reading

The annual International English Honor Society event known as Poe in the Dark will be held Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. in the Widtsoe building, Room 007. Faculty and students from the department of English will read their favorite scary poems or stories in honor of Edgar Allen Poe.

Kristie Miller, Keith Grant-Davie, along with Star Coulbrooke, Julie Robertson, and Jim Handley will read a mix of Poe’s original works. There is no cost and the public is invited to join.

Discovery on Wheels helps kids

Discovery on Wheels, a 4-H and Utah State University Extension program, has become the biggest travelling science center and outreach program for elementary and middle school children in the state.

Located at Utah State University’s Innovation Campus, the Wheels program is part of the Discovery Alliance which promotes science education and awareness for children and the

community.

The Alliance is comprised of the Traveling Wheels program, a space simulator, the Discovery Museum on campus, and Discovery Summer Space Camps. The program began in 1995 and has become the largest in the state, having reached more than 400,000 children.

Search continues for new vice pres.

Utah State University has teamed with a national search firm in its effort to find a new vice president for Student Services. After Vice President Patricia Terrell left her position in July, Craig Petersen was named interim vice president until a replacement is found.

A 12-member search committee of university students, professors and administrators has been formed to aid in the process and is expected to submit a finalist list to President Kermit L. Hall by February in hopes of having a new vice president in place for summer of 2003.

Students sell chili in ceramics bowls

The Utah State University Ceramics Guild has teamed up with the USU Culinary Arts Club to host their annual Chili Bowl Sale on Tuesday, Oct. 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the patio of the Taggart Student Center.

For $6, customers will get their choice of vegetarian or traditional chili ladled into a handmade stoneware bowl. Both organizations will use the funds raised by sale to bring visiting artists and lecturers to their programs.

Guild members mixed several hundred pounds of clay and handcrafted more than 600 bowls to prepare for the event.