Campus News Briefs
Graduate students invited to meeting
All graduate students are invited to attend the Graduate Student Senate meeting in the Walnut Room in the Taggart Student Center at 5 p.m. today.
The meetings are always held on the first Wednesday of each month.
Those interested can come with suggestions, comments, concerns or just to get information.
Refreshments will be served.
More than $2,000 raised at dance
The Black Student Union would like to thank students and faculty for their donations to the BSU dance Friday. More than $2,000 was raised and will go to Mike De la O’s mother, Jonathon Abebe, the Black Student Union president said.
Approximately 300 people contributed to the effort. Donations ranged from change to a $50 bill.
The Black Student would like to thank all who were involved and contributed to the cause.
Hall to visit and eat at the Junction
As part of President Kermit L. Hall’s continuing commitment to Utah State University students, he and his wife Phyllis will have dinner in the Junction and answer students’ questions in a casual forum on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Hall will discuss his vision for the future of USU and ask for students’ ideas and input.
He said he wants to continue a dialogue with students so common goals can be met.
The event is sponsored by the Housing and Food Services and is open to all students. Hall will eat dinner at 6:30 p.m.
The forum will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Lecture on the Mormon Identity
Jan Shipps will be speaking on Thursday in the Logan LDS Tabernacle as part of the Arrington Lecture series. Her topic is “Signaling Sainthood: The Changing Expressions of Mormon Identity, 1830-2001.”
This event is sponsored by the Special Collections and Archives for Utah State University.
Shipps is a professor emeritus of history and religious studies in the school of liberal arts at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. She wrote Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons.
Olympic medalist to speak at dinner
Olympic speedskating medalist Andy Gabel will be delivering a keynote address as part of the Bridgerland Ice Arena’s third annual Silver on Ice dinner and auction.
This year it will be held at the Copper Mill Restaurant on Friday at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $28 per person in advance and $35 at the door.
“I’m looking forward to this night; the whole atmosphere will be energetic. With the ice arena opening shortly and the Olympic athletes practicing here, BCIA will definitely be the place to be in Cache Valley this winter,” Brent Dickerson, Master of Ceremonies said.
Contact BCIA at 787-2288 for more information or to make reservations.
Natural Resources seminar to be held
Kelly Alley, from Auburn University, will be speaking Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Eccles Conference Center, Rooms 303 and 305.
Alley will be speaking on “Sacred Ecology and Pollution Control in the Ganga River Basin” as part of the Natural Resource and Environmental Policy Program Fall 2001 Seminar Series.
Compiled by the Statesman Staff