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Dear Transfer or Visiting Student:
We hope your summer is going well. Florida International University's College of Law is preparing for your arrival on Thursday, August 9th, 2012. The Day and Evening Orientation programs have been combined. I understand that this might pose a slight inconvenience for some of the evening students. However, this is a one-time altering of your normal school schedule. Transfer and Visiting students are expected to attend the one (1) day orientation program. Check-in Transfer Student Orientation begins Thursday, August 9th, 2012 at 2pm. Please report to Rafael Diaz-Balart Hall which is located directly across the street from the U.S. Century Bank Arena.
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- Financial Aid: If you have any questions about financial aid, please contact Ms. Michelle Pestaina, Assistant Director of Admissions and Financial Aid, at (305) 348-8006.
- Official Transcripts: All students must submit official copies of their transcripts from all degree-granting institutions (undergraduate and graduate) showing the date(s) of degree conferral. These transcripts should be mailed directly to the Florida International University College of Law, Office of Admissions and Financial Aid. The transcript sent with the LSDAS report is not an official transcript. If you want to check whether your transcripts have arrived, please contact the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid at (305) 348-8006.
- Immunization: As a pre-requisite to registration, the Florida International University requires all students born after December 31, 1956, to present documented proof of immunity to measles and rubella. This document must be signed by a physician (M.D. or D.O.), a nurse practitioner, or a registered nurse, and must be mailed, sent via fax (305-348-3336), or physically brought to the University Health Services Office on the Modesto Maidique Campus, by July 13, 2012. Phone calls from your physician are not acceptable. If you have any questions, call the FIU Health Care and Wellness Center Immunization Department, at (305) 348-2401, or refer to the website: http://studenthealth.fiu.edu/immunization/Pages/default.aspx. (Note: If you require additional immunization, this can be arranged through the University Health Services Office).
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- Registration, Tuition, and Billing: The University does not mail out tuition and billing information. Once you are registered your charges will be automatically reflected in the Student Financials area of Panthersoft. You will be registered by August 1, 2012, and we will send you an email confirmation when this occurs. If you do not get this, please call Ms. Ada Rueda-Wright, Coordinator of Registration and Records at (305) 348-6296, so that you will not miss the August 10, 2012, tuition payment deadline. If you have been awarded and have accepted enough financial aid to cover all your tuition and fee charges, there is no need to pay any out of pocket funds to cover these costs.(Note: If your email or mailing address has changed since you initially provided this information to our Admission Office, please contact them to update).
- Faculty/Peer Mentoring Program: You will be matched with a faculty advisor and a current student mentor during the first two weeks of school. Their aim is to assist you with getting your law school career off to a solid and strong start as you acclimate to our community. The names of your faculty advisor and current student mentor will be included in your orientation packet, which will be distributed on August 9, 2012.
- Society of Parents and Partners: FIU College of Law will host an informational session for parents and partners of the incoming 2012 class on Thursday, August 9th, 2012, at 5:30pm in the Law Library's Grand Reading Room. This program will provide them with an opportunity to learn about the law school experience first-hand and to interact with College of Law Personnel. Please have your loved one complete the form and return to Ms. Virginie Illescas, Florida International University, College of Law, RDB Hall 1043, Modesto Maidique Campus, Miami, Florida 33199, by August 3, 2012. Please email completed form to email@example.com, fax to 305-348-2301 and/or RSVP here.
- Health Insurance: The student health fee does not cover diagnostic therapeutic medical visits to outside physicians, clinics, or hospitals. Students are strongly encouraged to purchase supplemental health insurance. A health insurance policy is available for students at a low group rate. Go to: www. collegiaterisk.com, or contact the Health Care and Wellness Center for more information at (305) 348-2401.
- Disability Accommodations: The University Disability Services Office, in conjunction with the College of Law's Student Services Office, provides accommodations to those who provide valid documentation of a physical, mental, or learning disability. Students seeking accommodations are required to register with and submit complete documentation to the University Disability Resource Center, no later than the end of the second week of classes. The failure to submit documentation by the end of the second week of classes, will postpone review until the next semester. If you have any further questions or concerns, please contact Ms. Tesha Allison at (305) 348-7568 or via email at email@example.com, or the University Disability Resource Center at (305) 348-3532 (voice) or (800) 955-8771 (TDD http://law.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/2012-2013-Disability-Resource-Guide.pdf
- Parking Decals: All students are required to purchase a parking decal. In order to obtain it, you will need to provide a photo ID, current class schedule, and a valid vehicle registration for the automobile on which the decal will be displayed. For further information, contact the FIU Department of Parking and Transportation at (305) 348-3616, or visit their website at: http://parking.fiu.edu/
- Housing: For on-campus housing, contact FIU Housing and Residential Life at (305) 348-4190, or visit their website at: http://www.housing.fiu.edu/. If you already obtained your Housing Agreement enclosed within are details about check in dates. For off-campus housing, contact FIU Orientation and Commuter Student Services at (305) 348-3828. You may also visit http://classifieds.fiu.edu/ for current off campus listings. For additional questions about housing, please contact Ms. Nicole Torres, Senior Secretary at (305) 348-4190.
- Student Identification: All students are required to obtain a FIU One card. Students will have the opportunity to obtain their FIU One card during Orientation on Thursday August 9th, 2012 between 2pm- 6pm. Please bring a driver's license or a similar form of identification. For further information, please contact the FIU One Card Station at (305) 348-3910.
- Information Technology:
You are not required to purchase a notebook computer. If you would like to buy a new laptop for school, we recommend any of the ones from the sites below:http://www.govconnection.com/fiulaw for IBM Lenovo laptops*, or http://www.dell.com/fiulaw for DELL laptops, or http://store.apple.com/us_edu_381237 for Apple laptops.*The IBM Lenovo laptops are preloaded with our software image. It includes MS Office 2010, McAfee Antivirus, the library printer drivers and other security applications and configurations.If you need any additional technical assistance to purchase computer hardware and software, please contact our Office of Information Technology, by emailing email@example.com, or calling (305) 348-8092.
Thank you for your attention to all of the above matters. If we can answer any questions or be of assistance prior to the start of school, please do not hesitate to contact Ms. Allsion at (305) 348-7568 or me at (305) 348-2444. We look forward to seeing you in August. Enjoy your summer! Sincerely,
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on Jul 10, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Ohhhhh nnooooooooo... here we go again. Blankets and chairs take presidence over live people who arrive to listen to music. You must take a position across the street while a blanket awaits its just-in-time owner to arrive.
on Jul 10, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Have to agree with you on this one Frank. Just a sign of a total sense of entitlement. Don't let blankets have power over people. Move the blanket, sit down, and get ready for the show.
on Jul 10, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Let's start leaving blankets out on Wednesday evening! Or how about Tuesday evening?! We must not allow a blanket gap!
on Jul 10, 2008 at 10:16 pm
We used to live near Lions Wayside Park in the mid 1990s. The crazy ritual of setting up blankets early on Fridays ran counter to the spirit of these events. At that time. I felt it would be appropriate for the city to run the sprinklers for about an hour at noon on Fridays. Now the entitled set their quilts and blankets on Thursday. The Salvation Army or another worthy charity ought to make a sweep around 1pm on Fridays - that might take care of this blight.
on Jul 10, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Each year this gets worse and worse.
The seating at the Friday concerts, as well as the Shakespeare in the Park, should be first come, first serve. If you want to have a secured spot, do it the old-fashion way and send a kid up a couple of hours ahead of time to save your family's spots.
The DT Association should make a sweep of the park at 5:00 and put all unattended items over to the side to be claimed later by their owners.
on Jul 10, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Ptown Mom. Nicely put. We are in the "I'm Entitled" era. People want whatever they want, whenever they want it without a care for the impact on anyone else. I love America but we sure can be ugly!
on Jul 11, 2008 at 7:07 am
personally i don't give a sheet but the trash left behind is annoying
on Jul 11, 2008 at 10:00 am
Free lawn chairs and blankets for the needy and homeless.
Please proceed to Lions Wayside Park , Pleasanton CA for immediate collection.
on Jul 11, 2008 at 11:02 am
The second time Tommy & the 4 Speeds has threatened retirement. The first time was temporary with demand from the early Friday night crowd that drew them back. Let's hope they don't stay away too long this time.
on Jul 11, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Just drove by the Park - ridiculous. There is not any space without an empty blanket or chair. The City needs to stop looking away from this and put a stop to such a poor display of sense of community.
on Jul 11, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I had been thinking it would be a nice evening to go to the concert now that it isn't so hot. But it sounds like we shouldn't even bother going if the entire place was staked out many hours ago! I agree that the city should put a stop to this and the Bay Area Shelters should come make a sweep on Friday afternoons and they will have a good supply of blankets for the winter months. A token place holder should not be recognized.
on Jul 11, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Good God, people. Get a life. Blankets down on Thursday for a Friday concert? The person in the picture should be ashamed of herself. Are you also one of those overzealous parents who stick their kids in year-long sports clinics in hopes they'll make the big show one day too? Sheesh. This is so pathetic.
on Jul 12, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Shut-up Brigitt! The fun of it all is to complain!
Spreading jam on a few blankets to invite the ants seems like a cool idea to me...way cool!
on Jul 14, 2008 at 7:28 am
These people really do need to get a life!
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For the Record: March 31, 2011
Ann Tierney appointed Associate Vice-Principal and Dean of Student Affairs
Principal Daniel Woolf, on the recommendation of the advisory committee, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ann Tierney as Associate Vice-Principal and Dean of Student Affairs at Queen's University. This will be a continuing appointment commencing July 1, 2011.
Ms Tierney is currently the Vice-Provost (Students) at the University of Calgary where, as a member of the executive leadership team, she is responsible for providing leadership for a comprehensive range of learning support and student services to promote student development and enhance the student experience. Ms Tierney is currently responsible for student services, enrolment management, and residence and ancillary operations at the University of Calgary as well as working closely with student government leaders and other university administrators to advance the design and execution of strategic planning devoted to student success, student life and student engagement. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Faculty of Law and represents the University of Calgary on provincial and national associations as well as committees of the Ministry of Advanced Education and Technology in Alberta.
Ms Tierney's accomplishments at the University of Calgary include the establishment of the Student Success Centre, the Centre for Community Engaged Learning and chairing the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) Action Team.
Ms Tierney has previously held senior administrative appointments at Carleton University and at Queen's University in the Faculty of Law.
Ms Tierney completed an undergraduate honours degree at Carleton University. She graduated from Queen's with a Bachelor of Laws and was called to the Bar for the Province of Ontario. She also holds a Master of Public Administration from Queen's.
In making this announcement, Principal Woolf wishes to extend his thanks to the members of the advisory committee, which was chaired by Provost Robert Silverman. He also wishes to express his deep appreciation to John Pierce for his dedicated service to the Student Affairs portfolio and the university.
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CATEGORIES MoviesWill Smith has revealed that his "After Earth" co-star and son Jaden has asked to be legally emancipated for his 15th birthday.
Although this seems like it would be a difficult gift to put a bow on, Smith seems OK with the idea -- or at least cool enough to laugh it off. Smith told The Sun, "[Jaden] says, 'Dad, I want to be emancipated.' I know if we do this, he can be an emancipated minor, because he really wants to have his own place, like ooh..."
Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, are known for their laid-back approach to parenting. As Smith notes, "That's the backlash. On the other side, if kids just want to have command of their lives, I understand." Plenty of folks have tisk-tisk'd over the Smith kids and their choices, like Willow's punky style, but the method seems to be working well for the family. And they're definitely a successful bunch so far, from Jaden's acting career to Willow's music moves.
Jaden's acting career has mostly been under the tutelage of his father, Will. The two appeared as father and son in "The Pursuit of Happyness," and the elder Smith later produced a reboot of "The Karate Kid," which was Jaden's first starring role. They're reprising their onscreen relationship again in the upcoming M. Night Shyamalan film "After Earth," which opens May 31. Smith is also a producer on the film.
"After Earth" takes place in a dystopian future where humans live on planet Nova Prime; they left for mysterious reasons referred to only as a catastrophe. Cypher (Will Smith) is a commanding officer trying to bond with his less successful son Kitai (Jaden) by taking him on a mission to Earth. When they are the only survivors of a crash landing, they have to get to know each other better really quickly out of necessity.
Naturally, there are parallels between their onscreen and off-screen relationship, as Smith notes. "[Y]our father's the biggest movie star in the world, and you're struggling for your little piece of dignity in this extreme shadow."
Will Jaden soon be living on his own? Will their onscreen collaboration mean big box-office earnings? We'll have to wait until the end of May to find out about the latter, at least.
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Making Queen's more green
Making campus more environmentally friendly and holding the Alma Mater Society (AMS) accountable to its sustainability goals is the priority for AMS sustainability coordinator Jodi Rempel.
She is working with the Sierra Club of Canada – one of the country's oldest environmental groups – to share her passion with fellow students at Canadian universities. The Sierra Youth Coalition (SYC) is Canada's only national environmental youth network and is the youth branch of the Sierra Club of Canada. Since 1999, the coalition has hosted a conference that helps improve sustainability initiatives at campuses across Canada. This year's event takes place at Queen's.
"I've attended this conference in the past and was inspired by the leadership, dedication, and passion of youth working to create change on their campuses in regards to environmental sustainability and social justice," says Ms Rempel.
Ms Rempel feels the green movement is strong at Queen's. Students have dozens of environmental organizations to join on campus if they want to make the world a little greener.
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First look: Exchange 2010 beta shines
Flexibility, reliability, client-side improvements, and ease of administration mark this major upgradeFollow @infoworld
|Bottom line: Although pricing has yet to be announced, based on operational and usability improvements, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 will be a major step up from Exchange Server 2007. A potential hurdle: Support for Windows Server 2003 is dropped in favor of Windows Server 2008 only.
The last big release of Microsoft Exchange, Exchange Server 2007, marked a major change from the previous edition. Exchange 2007 introduced unified messaging, a completely new management client, and improvements to almost every aspect of the mail server, but at the cost of a whopping learning curve for administrators. Admins will have an easier go of it this time around.
Due the latter half of 2009, Exchange Server 2010 is light on wholesale changes and heavy on refinements. On top of noteworthy enhancements for Outlook users, new features also make the operator's life easier -- without introducing entirely new ways of doing things. So if the standby continuous replication feature in Exchange 2007 SP1 improved your operations, or you've been migrating your contractors' e-mail accounts from in-house Exchange 2007 servers to Exchange Online to reduce costs, you'll find much to like in Exchange 2010 as well.
[ See our guided visual tour through Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 highlights. ]
The improvements in Exchange 2010 fall into three "pillars," as they are described in Microsoft marketing-speak: flexibility and reliability, anywhere access, and protection and compliance. While I've listed all the new features of Exchange 2010 in the table below, there are a few that stand out, at least in my mind.
Top new Exchange 2010 features
My No. 1 pick is a small thing with a high impact on users: OWA (Outlook Web Access) support for Internet Explorer (IE) 7 and 8, Firefox 3, and Safari 3. When I was involved in administering an Exchange server for a client, the most frequent issue to come up had to do with the requirement to use Internet Explorer for OWA. Users typically ran OWA rather than an Outlook client when they were at home or on the road. Users with Macs wanted to go with Safari or Firefox, and only reluctantly accepted the need to run IE in a Windows VM. Users with Linux wanted to Firefox, as did Windows users, because IE didn't have multiple page tabs at the time, only multiple windows.
Outlook Web Access now supports Firefox and Safari as well as Internet Explorer. OWA and Outlook also have a new conversation view that greatly reduces mailbox clutter.


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The Carolina Panthers are playing their best football and meet the Atlanta Falcons in the first of the two team's head-to-head games this season.
A lot has changed since the beginning of the season. The Panthers have learned what it takes to win, while the Falcons are desperately trying to keep their listing ship afloat after a series of injuries decimated both sides of the football. These teams play each other tough, there's no doubting that -- but the relatively healthy Panthers should have no problem dispatching a weakened Atlanta team, heavy emphasis on "should."
Atlanta has won five of the last six game between the teams, including three since Cam Newton was drafted, but they've yet to face Newton 2.0. This latest model has a whole host of new features, including accurate short passing, excellent decision making and a grinding offense that has the ability to control the clock and force teams to play catch up.
Running game
The Panthers are having more success the less DeAngelo Williams is used. It's a strange paradox resulting from a run-first team leaning more on its quarterback. Williams carried the ball 62 times in the first three games of the season as the team began 1-2 with poor play at quarterback. Since finding their stride Williams' touches have been limited, carrying the ball 40 times in the team's last three wins.
It's not a slight on the veteran running back, but rather an understanding that putting the ball in Newton's hands is how the team will win.
Atlanta was supposed to become a balanced offensive team with the addition of Steven Jackson, but the free agent acquisition has been a nightmare. He's missed multiple games due to injury, and when he's been on the field the 30-year-old running back had struggled, averaging just 3.3 yards per carry.
When you factor in Newton's ability to run the ball with the defense's knack for stuffing runners it's hard to believe the Falcons can gain ground in this facet of the game.
Edge: Panthers
Passing game
This is where things get really interesting. On the one hand you have Matt Ryan, on pace for the best season of his career despite the team's struggles and on the other you have Newton, who has been sensational in recent games -- despite facing poor competition.
If the Atlanta Falcons were healthy this would be an easy call. Roddy White, Julio Jones and Tony Gonzalez are too good for the Panthers secondary to match up with, and Luke Kuechly is hot-and-cold at covering elite tight ends. As it stands the hobbled offense is difficult to predict, and when you pair that with the team's struggles on the offensive line there's a potential for Greg Hardy and Charles Johnson (if healthy) to have big days.
With the exception of Peyton Manning, Cam Newton has been the best quarterback in the NFL over the last three weeks. He's completing 77-percent of his passes and taking care of the football. Look at this matchup top to bottom and Carolina is ahead.
Edge: Panthers
Overall outlook
This wont be a trap game, it shouldn't be a trap game. The Carolina Panthers are well aware of what the Atlanta Falcons can do on offense and wont allow themselves to be lulled into a false sense of security. It's true that bigger games are waiting around the corner, but this is another game this team should win by virtue of its strengths on the defensive line and quarterback position.
Atlanta will be back and healthy in 2014, but for now they are a shell of their former selves. The Panthers match up very well, and should secure their fifth win of the season.
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City Councilor John R. Connolly again went after the legislative record of his mayoral opponent, state Representative Martin J. Walsh, arguing that Walsh's efforts in the State House would have undermined funding for community police programs.
"You need to be a real independent leader who can work for all the interests in Boston if we're going to get our priorities straight in this city," Connolly said at a news conference today in front of Schrafft's Chocolate factory in Charlestown, minutes before he was scheduled to speak at a violence-prevention forum. "My opponent's legislative record indicates the exact opposite."


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Newly-Adopted Climate Action Plan and Committee
At its February 5, 2014 meeting, the Town Council adopted a Climate Action Plan, to compile existing and potential strategies to address climate change. In order to implement the Plan, the Town Council also established a Climate Action Committee. For more information, please click here.
Smart Meter Update
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August 31:
Streets for People, 11am – 4pm
Where: Bolinas Road, Fairfax
Description: Creative fun activities, gathering and socializing, play, shop and eat at the third annual "Streets for People" in downtown Fairfax.
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Town Council Meeting, 7pm – 10pm
Where: Women's Club, 46 Park Road (map)
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September 4:
Ross Valley Seniors, 11am – 2pm
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September 8:
Park & Rec Meeting, 7pm – 9pm
Where: Youth Community Center, 16 Park Road (map)
September 9:
Climate Action Committee, 7pm – 9pm
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General Plan Implementation Committee Meeting, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
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Two New Ordinances Adopted
At its August 6th meeting, the Town Council adopted Ordinance No. 780 to repeal Ordinance No. 778. It also adopted Ordinance No. 781, an interim urgency zoning ordinance. Please click to read the full text of each ordinance.
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The Town of Fairfax is a proud participant in the Marin Climate and Energy Partnership (MCEP), working together with other communities in Marin County to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Wondering how you can help? The MCEP website has information, tips and status of each community's efforts. See how you can help make a difference.
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Want to learn more about fire safety in Marin? Go to FIRESafeMarin.org for safety tips and to watch "Marin on Fire" a video presentation on the potential for wildfires in Marin.
Fairfax Farmers Market
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Upcoming Bridge Repair/Maintenance Projects
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Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) is a national advocacy, campus action, and research initiative that champions the importance of a twenty-first century liberal education—for individuals and for a nation dependent on economic creativity and democratic vitality.
LEAP responds to the changing demands of the twenty-first century—demands for more college-educated workers and more engaged and informed citizens. Today, and in the years to come, college graduates need higher levels of learning and knowledge as well as strong intellectual and practical skills to navigate this more demanding environment successfully and responsibly.
Launched in 2005, LEAP challenges the traditional practice of providing liberal education to some students and narrow training to others. Through LEAP, hundreds of campuses and several state systems are making far-reaching educational changes to help all their students—whatever their chosen major field of study—achieve a set of Essential Learning Outcomes fostered through a liberal education.
LEAP embraces a 21st-Century Definition of Liberal Education and promotes:
LEAP leaders also work to engage the public with core questions about what really matters in college and to connect employers and educators as they build new partnerships and make the case for the importance of liberal education in a global economy and in our diverse democracy.
For more information about the LEAP initiative, please see our "Introduction to LEAP" brochure.
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AAC&U and the Washington Consortium for the Liberal Arts
(WaCLA) are co-hosting "Higher Education as Collaboration: Partnering
for Work, Leadership, and Life" in Seattle on May 20. This forum is part of a series of similar programs being
held across the country in 2014 as a way for higher education
institutions to engage in purposeful dialogue with local and regional
employer representatives and policy leaders about creating more
intentional partnerships that give college students hands-on learning
experiences that will be useful for their careers. The event builds on the 2013 release of AAC&U's Employer-Educator Compact and a national survey of employers. See also AAC&U's recent report on How Liberal Arts and Sciences Majors Fare in Employment. Also of note, The Washington Consortium for the Liberal Arts (WaCLA) recently announced the winners in its statewide essay contest on the value of a liberal arts education.
The UW System has announced the winners of its ninth annual Liberal Arts Essay Scholarship Competition. The annual competition is part of the UW System's LEAP initiative and has been sponsored for nine years. This year's essay prompt invited students to reflect on their own education in the context of the William Cronon essay, "Only Connect," about the qualities that distinguish a liberally educated person. The three contest winners will each receive a $2,000 scholarship to help fund the remainder of their undergraduate education. UW System President Ray Cross noted that, ""Every day I am in this position, I become more impressed with the quality of the students who attend our institutions, and there is no greater testimony to that quality than this year's winning essays." to read the winning essays, visit http://liberaleducation.uwsa.edu/scholarship/. For more information, see the Wisconsin SAGLA Web page and AAC&U's LEAP initiative web pages.
With support from the National Endowment for the
Humanities, the Spencer Foundation, and the Teagle Foundation, AAC&U
and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems
(NCHEMS) have published a new report on earnings and long-term career
paths for college graduates with different undergraduate majors. The
report, How Liberal Arts and Sciences Majors Fare in Employment: A Report on Earnings and Long-Term Career Paths by Debra Humphreys and Patrick Kelly, provides answers to common
questions posed by students, parents, and policy makers who are
increasingly concerned about the value of college degrees.
See brochure with selected findings, "Liberal Arts Graduates and Employment: Setting the Record Straight"
"It Takes More Than a Major: Employer Priorities for College Learning and Student Success" (April, 2013)
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country and in selected partner states to articulate high
expectations for liberal education and to transparently
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outcomes of a liberal education and periodic public reports
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|House of Parties to be reopened before year-end: IRNA
TEHRAN – According to the plans the House of Parties will be reopened before the end of the current Iranian calendar year, a former member of the central council of the House of Parties says.
The current Iranian year will end on March 20, 2014.
Ali Akbar Mortazavi Kiasari made the announcement in an interview with the IRNA news agency on Wednesday.
Recently Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli held a meeting with party leaders in which it was agreed to reopen the House of Parties.
"In that meeting the interior minister announced that the House of Parties should be formed without the interference of the Interior Ministry," Kiasari said.
However, the ministry will provide what he described as "hardware and software facilities" for party sessions.
The House of Parties was founded in 2001. The idea to establish the House of Parties as a guild for parties was developed in meetings organized by the Ministry of Interior, in which leaders of the political parties were invited to discuss political issues of the country.
The goals of the House of Parties include: guaranteeing and institutionalizing political activities; creating the spirit of cooperation; strengthening the financial abilities of parties; defending the legal rights of parties; and expanding party activities to international communities and exchanging experiences with other countries.
To achieve these goals, the tasks of the house included establishing research centers to conduct research relevant to political parties; holding conferences, meeting, etc. related to political parties; holding meetings between different parties for mutual understanding; giving suggestions about bills related to political parties; and arbitration between political parties upon their request.
It has five organizational subdivisions: the general assembly, the central committee, presiding council, inspectors, and committees. All political parties have one representative in the general assembly. The assembly chooses the central committee, passes ratifications of the central assembly, determines general policies of the house, and makes decisions about nullification.
The central committee has 15 members. The committee drafts general policies of the house, manages the annual budget, holds the meetings of the general assembly, and determines the representatives of the house in other organizations and meetings.
The presiding council supervises the committees, drafts agendas, and manages the meetings of the central committee. The five committees are public relations, legal-judical committee, arbitration committee, financial and logistical committee, international relations committee, and the committee of election supervision. Inspectors also comment on the reports of the central committee, report periodical inspections to the central committee, and report violations of the central committee to the general assembly.
The House of the Parties played several important roles in its beginning years. First of all, it brought together parties from different poles of the political spectrum in under one roof. It also had a representative on the Table of Parties in the main election headquarters of the Ministry of Interior at each election to supervise the election. The House of Party also made a big push to initiate the government subsidy for political parties.
However, in 2005 when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected president the government policy toward the House of the Parties completely changed. Ahmadinejad and his team explicitly rejected the importance of parties.
They cut the subsidies for political parties. Finally, Ministry of Interior on several occasions proclaimed the House of Parties illegal. They mentioned some very particular problems with the internal process of the house and its executive bylaw as reasons for the illegality.
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Seven years after Barry Alvarez left the Wisconsin sideline, he's getting one more shot at the Rose Bowl.
The longtime Badgers coach says he can't provide any master game plan to beat No. 8 Stanford (11-2) in Wisconsin's third straight trip to Pasadena.
Instead, Alvarez's players say he offers perspective, inspiration and even a little swagger while he bridges Wisconsin's 1-game gap between Bret Bielema and Gary Andersen.
The Badgers (8-5) hope it's enough to knock off the favored Cardinal.
Alvarez built Wisconsin's long-mediocre program into a consistent winner, exactly what Stanford coach David Shaw is accomplishing in the Bay Area.
The Cardinal won the Pac-12 title to advance to their third straight BCS bowl, a once-unthinkable feat at the academic-minded school. Stanford hasn't won the Rose Bowl since 1972.
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Tulane enrolls about 7,800 undergraduate students, all of whom take service learning courses as part of their general education. (Photo courtesy of Tulane Publications)
Teaching Public Health through Service Learning at Tulane University
Although many graduate-level public health programs are designed to produce field-specific practitioners, the undergraduate program in public health at Tulane University is a broad-based academic degree, says Jeffery Johnson, associate dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and director of undergraduate studies. "We want our students prepared to go on to many fields … because it's a foundations degree with a liberal arts perspective that can really contribute something to society." In keeping with that mission, the Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH) curriculum features a broad range of liberal arts and sciences course requirements, as well a sequence of upper-level public health courses distributed across seven departments. But the Tulane BSPH also differs from other many public and allied health programs in its service learning component. This aspect of the program is part of a university-wide push for more experiential learning and community engagement that includes a two-tiered academic public service requirement for all undergraduate students. Although both the BSPH program and the public service requirements are relatively new, class offerings and community partnerships have grown quickly and continue to expand. Now it its sixth year, the BSPH program already has 320 declared majors and over seventy minors, and a network of community partners both in New Orleans and abroad.
The Renewal Plan: Integrating Community Engagement with the Undergraduate Curriculum
While Tulane has offered graduate degrees in public health since 1912, plans for an undergraduate program were not finalized until 2003. The first students were to begin courses in the fall of 2005, but enrollment was postponed when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in August of that year. In the aftermath of the storm, Tulane instituted large-scale changes in its undergraduate curriculum and in the ways the school interacts with the greater New Orleans community. President Scott Cowen's renewal plan created an Undergraduate College through which all students enter the university, regardless of major. The plan called for a greater emphasis on public service and community engagement throughout the university, including the establishment of university-wide public service requirements and the creation of the Center for Public Service, which oversees the new requirements and other service activities.
Under the two-tier requirement, undergraduate students complete an introductory service learning course within their first four semesters at Tulane. Katie Houck is the assistant director of the Center for Public Service and coordinates student programming, placing students with organizations whose needs align with students' interests and abilities. The first tier is "meant to give students a foundation for what service learning is—how community engagement can enhance their learning," she says. The courses put students to work in the community, but they also feature an intensive academic component, with writing and reflection guided by a professor. These courses also prepare students for the more individualized second tier, for which they might take an upper-level service learning course with a more disciplinary focus, complete an internship with a community partner, conduct community-based research as part of an honors thesis or independent study, or participate in a service learning course through a study abroad program. The second-tier requirement is intended to be "more tailored to their academic interests, their service interests … so they have this basis for what it means to use service and reflection to grow in their academics through the first tier, and they use that to grow in their disciplinary studies.
"Our program, from my own perspective, is in many ways in perfect harmony with the goals and objectives of the renewal plan in regards to service and making a difference in the community," Jeffery Johnson says. "[The graduate public health program] has always had a rich tradition of international public health work, as well as a focus on local communities. But the addition of a dedicated cadre of undergraduate public health students has allowed us to do even more at the local level to impact and lead the charge to rebuild New Orleans." BSPH students become engaged in the public health framework and service learning as soon as they're campus—or earlier, if they choose to participate in service programs during the summer before their first semester, Johnson says. The undergraduate public health program has also continued the school's international tradition with courses such as "Social Aspects of Infectious Disease," which placed students in community clinics in Malaysia. These kinds of courses introduce students to global public health issues, but also challenge them to apply what they are learning in complex socio-political contexts. For instance, two students in the "Infectious Disease" course assisting at an HIV/AIDS hospice run by Catholic nuns had to contend with not only the difficulties of caring for terminally ill patients, but the political and social complications of assisting a Catholic charity in a predominately Muslim country. Closer to home, the BSPH program plans to begin a collaborative project with Nunez Community College, a two-year institution based in Saint Bernard Parish, a region southeast of New Orleans that was badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina. The program will have students from both schools working together on community service projects while completing parallel coursework at their respective institutions.
Civic Engagement and Social Innovation across the Disciplines
Service learning is fundamentally an academic requirement, says Vincent Ilustre, executive director of the Center for Public Service. "As much as we want to help the community, we also wanted to stay true to Tulane's mission: to educate our students," Ilustre says. But community-engaged learning has to be a reciprocal relationship, Houck stresses. Community partners are not obligated to accept Tulane students who wish to work with them on internships or research projects. Students, meanwhile, are encouraged to see community work as an integrated part of the curriculum. "What I do is help them see how the research that they're doing can be a benefit to the community and have them reflect on why they are doing this research," Houck says.
Tulane is currently developing new programs to create more incentives and more outlets for students to get involved in public service. Stephanie Barksdale is the head of Tulane's Social Entrepreneurship Initiatives, a series of programs began in 2009 to encourage social innovation at Tulane. The initiatives are aimed at students "who want more, who want to see themselves on the path to social change," Barksdale says. Competitions for funding, some of which are reserved exclusively for Tulane undergraduates, give students the chance to win startup money for new community-based ventures. Johnson, who says BSPH students are some of the most active on campus, hopes these funds will give upper-level public health students the opportunity to expand projects and build on what they've learned in their coursework. Another program, the Urban Innovation Fellows, brings in social entrepreneurs who serve as mentors to students working on upper-level service projects. One of the 2011-2012 fellows, Johanna Gillian, is developing food-education models on the Grow Dat Youth Farm, an urban-farming program for young adults in New Orleans, and working with BSPH students interested in health outcomes related to farming.
Civics Outcomes and the Future of Community-Engaged Learning
Ilustre says many of the results Tulane hoped to see by instituting the service requirement have come true. Applications to the university have risen sharply post-Katrina, and a desire to be part of the rebuilding of New Orleans seems to be a large part of that, Ilustre says. Data collected by the Center for Public Service also suggests the renewed focus on community engagement has helped retain students. "They're staying because of that involvement," Ilustre says. "Students feel like they're part of the larger community." Students seem to be getting more civically engaged, too, he says, and a longitudinal study that has been following a cohort of students since their freshmen year and tracking changes in civic attitudes is expected to produce new data next year.
Ilustre is also excited about the changes he sees in faculty, in particular BSPH faculty, who are becoming more involved in research projects with local community partners, in turn opening up more opportunities for undergraduate students. Meanwhile, the Social Entrepreneurship program is working on plans for a "coordinate major" that would bring together students from various disciplines to address social issues. "We imagine that when we have a coordinate major, every class you take would have a community or service learning component, or at least the majority of them," Barksdale says. Those courses would focus on social problems from a "collective impact" perspective—"this idea that you can really create more change and solve problems if you bring a bunch of voices together," Barksdale adds.
Johnson echoes Barksdale's sentiments about bringing together students from different majors, pointing out that the first two courses of the BSPH sequence count as electives for other arts and science programs. Having students from other majors represented in the classroom changes the dialogue, and it also helps with recruitment. Johnson hopes that, as with service learning throughout the university, BSPH offerings on and off campus will expand and evolve. While certain foundational courses will remain constant, Johnson hopes to "keep our curriculum relevant to the needs of what's going on locally and globally." Barksdale agrees, noting that while the university has in many ways bounced back from Hurricane Katrina, that's no reason to stop looking for more ways to keep students engaged. "We want to continue to be more innovative," she says." We want our students to be prepared for change and economic downturns and the need to create their own jobs—they may not find a job, but they could go on to make their own." As AAC&U suggested in its 2007 report, College Learning for the New Global Century, all students should learn to connect their knowledge with real-world problems, and to approach those problems with a sense of personal and civic responsibility. Tulane's BSPH program is designed to help students meet those goals.
To learn more about the Tulane BSPH program, visit the program website. To learn about Tulane service learning requirements, consult the Center for Public Service website; information about social innovation programming at Tulane can be found at the Social Entrepreneurship Initiatives. For more AAC&U resources on civic learning, see the Civic Learning web page. For a summary of AAC&U's research on the impact of service learning and other high-impact practices, see Five High-Impact Practices. For additional research on the campus climate for civic engagement and personal and social responsibility, see reports from the Core Commitments initiative.


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Maurilio Martinez was found guilty Tuesday of the 2002 rape and murder of Joy Morris in Valdosta. The Lowndes County jury took less than an hour to convict Martinez.
Lowndes County Superior Court Judge James G. Tunison, II sentenced Martinez to a life sentence, plus 25 years Wednesday.
Lowndes County Sheriff Chris Prine provided this background on the murder of Ms. Morris and the arrest and conviction of Martinez-
The case was presented at trial this week by the Office of the District Attorney J. David Miller. Following only 55 minutes of jury deliberations, Martinez was found guilty of both murder and rape.
On Friday, November 1, 2002 the deceased body of Joy Morris was found in her vehicle at 6972 Lake Park Bellville Road in Lake Park. An investigation revealed that Joy Morris died as the result of strangulation.
Investigators with the Sheriff's Office conducted a number of interviews but developed few leads until 2007 when a potential match to a DNA sample was obtained. Detectives with the Valdosta Police Department had obtained a sample from Maurilio Martinez, which when tested, was found to be a match to DNA collected during the Sheriff's Office investigation.
During additional investigative efforts, investigators learned that Maurilio Martinez was a migrant worker and had previously worked in the Lake Park area. In late 2009 Maurilio Martinez was found to be living in Casselberry, Florida and had been arrested there for offenses unrelated to this investigation.
In early 2010 investigators from the Sheriff's Office worked closely with detectives from the Casselberry Police Department conducting interviews and collecting evidence. Based on information learned during those efforts and the match in DNA samples an arrest warrant was obtained for Maurilio Martinez for the offenses of murder and rape.
Maurilio Martinez was arrested on February 8, 2010 and returned to Lowndes County.
Sheriff Prine praised the cooperative efforts of the multiple departments including the Valdosta Police Department, Casselberry, Florida Police Department, the Seminole County, Florida Sheriff's Office and the Office of the District Attorney, J. David Miller.
Sheriff Prine also stated that he was hopeful that this verdict may provide some closure to the family.
Maurilio Martinez is currently 42 years old, and at the time of his arrest lived at an address in Casselberry, Florida.
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The Gallery of the Common Experience, located in LAMP 407 (the Honors Coffee Forum), has showcased exhibits ranging from a photo documentary on the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the onset of HIV to political cartoons of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. The gallery also hosts special events throughout the year, including free art workshops, artist talks and public art events on the Quad.
The gallery is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday. Admission is free.
Sponsored by the Honors College and the Common Experience at Texas State University, the gallery is maintained by curator Billi London-Gray and a campus-wide committee of dedicated art lovers. For more information or to become involved with the committee, e-mail email@example.com or call 512.245.2266.
The Gallery of the Common Experience seeks entries for its fall 2014 exhibition. We are looking for works of art, accompanied by explanatory statements, that respond to the question, "What does integration look like to you?"
Our overall goal is to create a dialog both between the artworks and extending through the audience about integration and the many ways people view it. What is integration? What aspects of difference are parts of integration and are they as important or meaningful as racial difference? Does integration benefit everyone? Is integration progressing? What's the effect of integration on your life?
Artists may enter up to three works, and entry is FREE. Works may be submitted online through August 21 or in person on August 22, 2014. Accepted artists will be notified on a rolling basis.
To view the call for art and instructions for submitting artwork, click here.
The Gallery of the Common Experience presents its spring 2014 exhibition, Face Forward: Portraits of Emotional Exposure, starting January 13, 2014. The exhibition, designed to explore the Common Experience theme of mental health and illness, features emotionally descriptive and evocative portraiture by artists from around the state, including several Texas State students and alumni.
Additionally, the exhibition includes a survey of the work of David Francis Drymala, a San Marcos artist and musician. Drymala is the subject of the upcoming documentary A Deeper Side, which will share his journey through life as a gifted artist affected by mental illness.
Please join us in the gallery on Thursday, January 30, from 5-7 p.m. for a public reception with the artists.
To view the prospectus for the exhibition, click here.
(At right: Confusing Saturation by Kara Rhodes)
For two millennia, humankind has created paper by hand. Whatever the intention behind the paper, be it to represent wealth, to carry spirituality, or to convey messages, every fiber that goes into the making of paper has a story to tell. Peace Paper Project, a collaboration between artists Drew Matott and Margaret Mahan, works to empower healing arts communities around the world by introducing collaborative art processes that foster positive forward thinking, enhanced communication, and peaceful reconciliation. Through hand papermaking, writing, book and printmaking activities, they work with local communities to transform significant materials into works of art that broadcast personal stories, mutual understanding and healing.
On October 1, 2013, hundreds of Texas State students, faculty and staff created two large community paintings! The Campus Canvas paintings currently are on display in the fourth-floor foyer of the Lampasas Building. Stop by and check them out for inspiration!
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As illustrated by recent events, global warming is causing major climate impacts at the earth's poles.
In March 2008, a section of the Wilkins Ice Shelf four times the size of Washington, DC, collapsed in the southwestern Antarctic Peninsula. Ice shelves are large platforms of thick, ancient sea ice that float on the ocean. They are formed by snow and freezing meltwater.
The collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf follows the loss of the much larger Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002. Scientists attribute both of these events to global warming.
In April, scientists reported that the Arctic's largest ice shelf had split in three after discovering cracks 11 miles long by 131 feet wide in the 3,000-year-old Ward Hunt Ice Shelf. Cracks in the ice shelf, which was found to have split in two six years ago, are permanent and make it more vulnerable to disintegration as Arctic temperatures rise.
The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf is located in the Arctic Circle off the northwestern coast of Canada's Ellesmere Island. Arctic researchers report that Ellesmere's coastline was completely surrounded by a single ice shelf that broke into multiple shelves about 100 years ago. The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf is one of five remaining Canadian ice shelves.
Scientists are concerned that despite a cold winter in certain areas, Arctic sea ice cover is much thinner than in the past and therefore more vulnerable to summer melting. The Arctic ice cap declined to a record minimum size in summer 2007, and the consensus among climate scientists is that the fast pace of decline in the Arctic sea ice cover is attributable to human-induced global warming.
This page includes links to information that helps explain the climate impacts being observed in the Antarctic and Arctic.
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If you're going out celebrating basketball, or St.Patty's Day, you should know cops are looking for drunk drivers. If you think you can walk a straight line, you might be surprised some sober people could fail it.
When a driver gets behind the wheel, they may assume they have control. But but an officer can find a number of reasons to pull you over.
Channel 8's Kim Jackson demonstrated with the help of Agent Eric Smoot of the ABLE Commission.
He witnessed Kim cross two lanes of traffic, a mistake any driver could make, but it is enough to get someone pulled over with flashing lights.
Walking the straight line may be hard even for a sober person. It would be simple to fail, by starting too soon, not paying close attention.
The eyes don't lie. They bounce when you're intoxicated, according to the experts.
So don't focus on how to beat the tests. Officers say you can't.
"They are thinking we care about how they walk and how they stepping off line, but that's only one clue. The clues are different like did they begin early, were they swaying, did they keep their hands down by their sides," explained Smoot.
The ABLE Commission will be patrolling this weekend, looking for people who are intoxicated in public.The only place you can be openly drunk, legally, is in your home.
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Systems Biology Fellow, University of California, San Francisco
Price Auditorium
Abstract: Molecular machines are protein complexes that convert between different
forms of energy, and they feature prominently in essentially any major cell
biological process. A plausible hypothesis holds that evolution has sculpted
these machines to efficiently transmit energy and information in their natural
contexts, where energetic fluctuations are large and non-equilibrium driving
forces are strong. Toward a systematic picture of efficient, stochastic,
non-equilibrium energy and information transmission, I present theoretical
developments in three distinct yet related areas of non-equilibrium statistical
mechanics: How can we measure how far from equilibrium a driven system is? How
do we find efficient methods to push a system rapidly from one state to
another? And finally, what are generic properties of systems that efficiently
harness the energy and information present in environmental
fluctuations? For further details: http://davidsivak.com/
Postdoctoral Associate, HHMI Janelia Farm
Abstract: The
diversity of gene expression across cell types is particularly striking in the
myriad cell types of the nervous system. While most genomic methods are
typically applied to whole tissues, new technologies have started to make these
methods applicable to individual cell types, including neurons in the brain. I
will begin by describing the first cell type-specific gene expression and
histone modification profiles measured from distinct neuronal subpopulations in
the Drosophila brain. In addition to recovering known gene expression
differences, these profiles indicate significant cell type–specific chromatin
modifications. In particular, a small subset of differentially expressed genes
exhibits a striking anti-correlation between repressive (H3K27me3) and activating
(H3K27ac) histone modifications. These genes are enriched for transcription
factors, recovering known and predicting new regulators of neuronal identity. I
illustrate the utility of this chromatin pattern by demonstrating that it can
be used as a genome-wide screen in mammalian systems to significantly enrich
for transcription factors that can convert adult cell identity. I will close by
describing the utility of cell type-specific genomic profiling in the context
of neural circuits, presenting expression profiles measured from the first
neuropil of the Drosophila visual circuit. Our results suggest that cell
type-specific profiling of neuronal populations can illuminate how these
neurons develop and function in the adult brain.
Postdoctoral Associate, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory, MIT
Abstract: Association
and linkage studies provide genome-wide information about the genetic basis of
complex disease, but medical research has focused primarily on protein-coding
variants, owing to the difficulty of interpreting noncoding mutations. This
picture has changed with advances in the systematic annotation of functional
noncoding elements. Evolutionary conservation, functional genomics, chromatin
state, sequence motifs and molecular quantitative trait loci all provide
complementary information about the regulatory function of noncoding sequences.
I will first discuss problems in deciphering the transcriptional regulatory
code, and work I have done in model organisms to studying the interplay between
chromatin, regulatory motifs, and evolutionary turnover. I will then discuss
regulatory genomics modeling in in human using large compendia of epigenomic
maps, which has allowed us to generate hypotheses about which variants on
disease haplotypes are causal, to perform systems-level analyses which reveal
regulatory pathways underlying complex phenotypes, and to detect
lineage-specific purifying selection through aggregated patterns of human
diversity. Finally, I will discuss how these models pave the way to interpret
mutations found through clinical whole-genome sequencing and to perform
rare-variant association studies, and how they will let us better understand
our evolutionary history.