Calendar & Events

Friday, December 9-Last Statesman Fall semester, next publication January 9, 2006-Last day of classes, Fall semester-Artist Print sale, 5 – 9 p.m., Chase FAC 104

December 12 – 16, Fall Semester finals

December 17-December 2005 Graduation, 10:30 a.m., Smith Spectrum. Doors open 9:30 a.m. Graduates meet in Nelson Fieldhouse at 9:30 a.m. -University Graduation celebration, immediately following the ceremony, TSC. Friends and families meet professors and deans. Tickets required. Free tickets at TSC ticket office.

•Peace Vigil every friday 4:30 – 6 p.m., downtown Logan between Center Street and 100 North. Celebrate the season for Peace on Earth. All welcome.•Christmas Choir Concert: Dec. 9 & 10, Combined Institute, USU Chamber, and Cache Children’s Choirs, 7:30 pm, USU Kent Concert Hall. Pick up tickets from the Institute Bookstore. Suggested donation $5Time: 8:00 am-2:00 p.m.• Institute Cram Jam: Dec. 12 – 16. In the institute Joseph Smith study area.Come study and take a break from finals and enjoy some yummy food.The institute study areas, library, and classrooms will be available for students to study in.@@Learn to recreate safely in the backcountry!  The USU Outdoor Recreation Center is offering a 9-hour course covering  basic avalanche awareness skills and techniques used by avalanche professionals.  Lecture Dec 15, 6-8 pm; Field exercise Dec 17, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. (telemark skis or snowshoes required).  Cost is $30/USU, $35/non-USU.  Call the ORC to register, or with questions, 797-3264. @@East Asian Culture Class (LANG 3990) for spring, Information session. The course instructor will be answering your questions, Dec. 14, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. Animal Science room 104. Refreshments. Info. anniekim@cc.usu.edu•Come help to form a USU chapter of Students against Sweatshops. Meetings start Spring semester. Contact rachelc@ext.usu.edu for more information. Organize for social and economic justice.• Register for spring semester at the LDS Institute in the study area or at www.lds.org/institutes.• USU ORC Yurt reservations, for information call 797-3264 or www.usu/orc/yurt. Payment is due at the time the reservation is made. Bring your USU ID.• SOSNR, Lazer Precision and USU Community Credit Union sponsoring a fundraiser. Recycle used print and ink-jet cartridges in black bins.•Applications available for membership in the USU chapter of PINNACLE, the national reentry honor society. Contact the Reentry Student Center, TSC Room 315, 797-1728. • Volunteer snow shovelers needed to shovel snow for Logan’s elderly and disabled. E-mail SHOVELLOGAN@gmail.com to sign up.•USU’s Creative writing contest. Cash awards. Deadline: Feb. 3, Info. http://english.usu.edu then click on contest link.