Campus and community briefs

Utah Public Radio features concert series

The next in Utah Public Radio’s series of local folk concert broadcasts features Laurie Lewis with Tom Rozum Saturday at 8 p.m.

The hour-long program is a broadcast of a Sept. 26 concert at Utah State University’s Ellen Eccles Conference Center. It was part of the Bridger Folk Music Society concert series. This broadcast will air in place of the regularly scheduled Fresh Folk. It includes a selection of traditional bluegrass songs as well as original compositions by Lewis and some of her contemporaries.

Lewis is an acclaimed bluegrass musician, fiddler and singer. Rozum is her longtime band mate and a talented mandolinist.

Lewis was twice voted “Female Vocalist of the Year” by the International Bluegrass Music Association. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay area she learned to play the violin as a child. As a teen in the ’60s, she was exposed to the era’s best folk music. She fell under the spell of bluegrass performed by the top musicians of the time, such as Bill Monroe, Flat and Scruggs, and the Stanley Brothers.

Rozum joined with Lewis in 1986, playing mostly mandolin, but also calling on his background as an accomplished fiddle, mandola and guitar player. Rozum is also a lead vocalist. This concert is part of a continuing collaboration between Utah Public Radio and the Bridger Folk Music Society, presenting broadcasts of concerts for those unable to attend the events.

Lil’ Aggie Activities presents Dr. Seuss

Kids of all ages are invited for an hour of fun and learning at the Utah State University Bookstore, Saturday from 10:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m.

This month’s Lil’ Aggie Activity theme is “Dr. Seuss’s Seussville.”

The activity will be held on the south side of the bookstore. For more information contact Lacey Erickson at 797-3984 or at specialord@bookstore.usu.edu.

Disability sociology class offered at USU

A new class in rehabilitation counseling is being offered at USU.

Program director Julie Smart said the course is Special Education 1010 or Rehabilitation 1010, worth three social science credits and is being offered spring semester on Tuesday/Thursday from 1:30 to 2:45 p.m.

The class is team-taught by Debra Bowen and Lois Naegle.

Bowen said the class teaches about disability from a sociological perspective based on the idea that throughout history persons with disabilities have been denied their civil rights. The class is divided into three main areas of study: What disability is, how society perceives disability and how the person with disability perceives it.

It is taught from the standpoint that disability is a natural and common part of life.

The class text is written by Smart, the director of the Rehabilitation Counseling Program at USU. The book is being used in many schools in the United States in several types of classes that deal with disability and disability issues. Many universities that do not already have a disability awareness course are implementing them in the near future.

The class is open to all class levels.

Election committee seeks volunteers

Interested in being politically engaged? Positions on the Associated Students of Utah State University Elections Committee are available now.

Volunteers are needed for forums and receptions, public relations, auditors, facilitators and entertainment. There is something for everyone who is interested.

A meeting will be held Wednesday in the Taggart Student Center, Room 322A at 6:30 p.m.

For more information, contact asusupr@cc.usu.edu.