Campus and community briefs
Gov. Leavitt to speak Tuesday on campus
Gov. Michael Leavitt will address students at Utah State University on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Taggart Student Center Auditorium. He will discuss the subject of environmental politics in Utah, according to a news release.
The talk is part of a series sponsored by the Natural Resource and Environmental Policy program.
Deadline for creative writing contest nears
The 2003 Creative Writing Contest deadline is Feb. 3, and submissions will be accepted until that date, according to a news release.
Students may submit one entry in one or more of three categories: fiction, non-fiction, essay and poetry. Graduate and undergraduate students will compete in separate divisions. Winning authors will receive cash awards and their work will be published in “Scribendi,” USU’s creative writing contest magazine.
Winners will be notified by March 7, and a reception and reading of first-place winning entries will be held April 3 in the Haight Alumni Center.
For submission instructions, contact contest director Marina Hall at mhall@english.usu.edu or call
797-3858. Winning entries from last year are available at the English department’s Web site www.websites.usu.edu/English.
African-American read-in set for Feb. 3
For the first time, Utah State University will participate in the annual African-American read-in on Monday, Feb. 3, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Taggart Student Center Sunburst Lounge, according to a news release.
Sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English, the event is organized locally by department of English associate professor Patricia Gantt along with the Office for Multicultural Student Services , headed by Everardo Martinez-Inzunza. Gantt and Inzunza were recently honored by President Kermit L. Hall with Diversity Awards for 2002-03.
The all-day read-in, part of USU’s observance of Black History Month, features administration, faculty and student –graduate and undergraduate– reading selections by African-American authors.
Undergraduates who would like to participate in the read-in are asked to contact Christine Christensen in Multicultural Student Services at chrismss@cc.usu.edu. All others interested in participating should contact professor Gantt at pgantt@english.usu.edu.
The cats are back at USU Morgan Theatre
Utah State Theatre’s fall semester family show will make a return visit to the Morgan Theatre stage in preparation for competition, according to a news release.
Round two for “The Boy Who Drew Cats” is set for Feb. 6-7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Chase Fine Arts Center.
The cast of students developed the story into the play they will perform.
After a successful initial run in October, where more than 5,000 elementary school children saw the creative piece, the play became a finalist in the 2003 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. The festival’s regional convention will be held in Logan this year.
The two performances will serve as a tune-up and a fund-raiser for the festival, which takes place Feb. 11-16, said theater arts department head Colin Johnson.
Tickets for the production will be sold at the door as general admission. Prices are $8 for a family of up to four members with $2 for additional members. USU students will be admitted free with valid ID. For information, call 797-1500 or e-mail gordonj@hass.usu.edu. Information is also available on the Utah State Theatre Web site,
www.usu.edu/theatre.