BRIEFS: Campus and Community
Students join the Logan opera scene
Student members of Utah State University’s Opera Workshop will perform Friday at the Caine Lyric Theater, located at 28 W. Center St., at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are available at the door. Adult admission is $5, senior citizens are $3 and USU students with identification are free.
The evening is under the direction of faculty member Lynn Jemison-Keisker, who recently joined the music department.
Members of the Opera Workshop will present works by Mozart, Donizetti and Menotti. Selections will be sung in English. Costumes, props and scenery will depict the 17th and 18th centuries.
Staples steps up, ECOS backers say
The Ecological Coalition of Students announced a resolution Tuesday for its nationwide campaign against Staples, the office supply chain.
Jim Steitz, president of Utah State University’s ECOS, said, “Concerned citizens, students and others have been demanding that Staples stop fueling the destruction of our forests, and today Staples has finally stepped up to the plate.”
Steitz said Staples committed to the following:
• Sell no fiber from trees cut off national forests or other public lands
• Sell no fiber from trees cut from old-growth forests
• Establish a baseline of 30 percent post-consumer recycled content for all paper sales
• Establish an environmental affairs office to track progress toward sustainability targets
• Disclose its progress in meeting goals through regular public reports
The Staples campaign has been led by a coalition of grassroots environmental groups.
Next week stars int’l education
The third annual International Education Week starts Monday, Nov. 18 and will run through Friday, Nov. 22.
The week strives to bring together language, nationality, religion, diversity and culture in an effort to produce unity.
Monday – The Cultural and Diversity Display will be from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Sunburst Lounge of the Taggart Student Center. The opening social will be from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Sunburst Lounge.
Tuesday – The Language Fair will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the TSC. The Study Abroad information session for the Cambridge University, England summer program will be from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the TSC, Room 221. “Monsoon Wedding” will show for movie night from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room.
Wednesday – Steven Hanks, professor of management and human resources, will present “Living and Working in Palestine” from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the TSC, Room 221. A Study Abroad panel discussion will be from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the TSC, Room 221. The International Photo Contest will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Juniper Lounge of the TSC. An information table for the International Culture Exchange Club will be featured from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Juniper Lounge.
Thursday – The International Photo Contest and International Culture Exchange Club will be featured as designated for Wednesday. An information table for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Juniper Lounge.
Friday – The photo contest and culture club table will be held the same times as mentioned for Wednesday and Thursday. Winners of the International Photo Contest will be announced at 12:30 p.m. Navratri, a dance festival of India, will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in the bottom floor of Greaves Hall. Noraboja, a Korean rock band, will perform from 9 to 11:45 p.m. in The Hub.