Campus and community briefs
New reality program to air
A new step in television drama, “Endgame,” premieres live on PBS Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET.
“Endgame: Ethics and Values in America” is a multi-media special on controversial moral issues. It enables viewers to enter the lives of fictional characters forced to make critical decisions with profound moral, ethical or social implications.
It provides a forum for individuals to explore the boundaries of personal responsibility according to Collegiate Presswire.
The program begins with a 15-minute original film, which poses an ethical dilemma. At key points in the drama, viewers are invited to vote at pbs.org/endgame on the decisions made by the film’s characters and are asked, “What would you do?”
Results are televised live throughout the program, triggering discussion among the panelists, live audience and home viewers via the Internet.
Alan Keyes to rally Republicans
National Republican leader Alan Keyes will visit Utah Tuesday to address a Republican rally at Thanksgiving Point’s Waterfall Amphitheater in Lehi.
The rally -sponsored by the Utah Young Republicans- will begin at 7 p.m.
Rob Bishop and John Swallow, Republican candidates for Congress in Utah’s first and second districts will also be speaking.
Glenn Miller back for an evening
Utah State University Extension 4-H is sponsoring a Centennial Celebration on Oct. 11 from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Grand Building of the State Fair Park.
Four-H will be hosting Crestmark Productions Glenn Miller group for an evening of dinner, music and dancing. Tickets are $60.
For more inofrmation, call 1-888-4HYOUTH.
Speakers Series program created
A second season of the Speakers Series program is taking shape in light of President Kermit L. Hall’s request in faculty to listen and talk with one another.
The program will showcase faculty research accomplishments, in addition to featuring noted visiting authors.
In addition to sharing work with other faculty, staff members need to talk to the students and the community about the value of the arts and humanities in American public life, said Jeffrey Smitten, department head.
The monthly event in the Haight Alumni Center is offered to community and university members.
The opening speaker for this year’s series is Department of English assistant professor Christopher Cokinos, the author of “Hope is the Thing with Feathers.”
Grad students mentor their peers
Students Mentoring Students: A Generational Perspective of Writing Program Administration was the theme of a panel presented at a national conference by current and former graduate students from the department of English at Utah State University.
At the Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference this past July, Jana Kay Lunstad, Lynne McNeill, Alison Larsen and Mary Ellen Greenwood discussed the mentoring program they have all participated in and developed serially over a period of five years.
The feature of the program is selected second-year graduate instructors teaching their first-year collegues.
In the teaching practicum attended by first-year G.I.’s, she addressed the theoretical aspects of teaching writing. The assistant directors, however, help their junior colleagues with the day-to-day aspects of teaching.