COMING UP

Camp Darfur Rises to HighLight
20th Century Genocides

An interactive refugee tent camp focusing on different genocides of the twentieth century from Armenia in 1915 to the Holocaust and finally to the modern day Darfur crisis in the Sudan rises on campus on Tuesday, December 4 from noon to 6 p.m. in the Cooperage.

For one day, students, faculty, staff and community members will be exposed to the effects of genocide at Camp Darfur, a traveling interactive awareness and education exhibit funded by the grassroots community Stop Genocide Now. Camp Darfur attempts to replicate the habitat of the 2.5 million displaced villagers from Darfur who call refugee camps in Chad home.

The event takes place for several hours allowing spectators to come and go as they please and spend as much or as little time as they like in each tent. This event is free to all and is sponsored by Associated Students Productions, Residential Life and the Peace Club. For more information on this and other events, phone 4-2382 or visit www.sonoma.edu/AS/ASP.

Creating a Sustainable Future: Student Sustainability
Coalition Offers Lectures and Fair

To cater to the growing trend in sustainability awareness, the Sonoma State University Student Sustainability Coalition hosts "Voices of Change: Re-envisioning a Sustainable Future" on Nov. 30 at 6 p.m. in the Cooperage. The event is free, but donations are welcome. "It's all about inspiring and empowering students to actively create a vision for their future and begin taking the steps to implement that vision," says organizer Timothy Dondero.

The evening begins with the following presentations:

- Craig Chalquist, a lecturer in psychology at SSU, the Imaginal Institute and New College of California, present "The Environmental Crisis is a Crisis of Consciousness."

- Richard Heinberg explains "Big Melt Meets Big Empty: Policy Responses to Climate Change and Fossil Fuel Depletion."

- Marissa Handler, a social activist, and host of a lecture series at the California Institute of Integral Studies, explores "From the Inside Out: Making Change Real."

Dispersed between the keynote speakers, students from No-Sweat and the Compost Club will share what they are trying to do to move SSU toward being a more sustainable campus.

Following the presentations, a sustainability fair set up in one corner of the Cooperage features various organizations from the community. An "integration corner" will allow students to voice their own hopes for the future and goals to create a more sustainable lifestyle as well as a video booth, a poster to write on and share ideas, commitment books and more. For more information, contact Timothy Dondero at (209) 712-1787 or at dondero@sonoma.edu.

Undergraduate Conference on Hispanic Linguistics

The Stevenson first floor lobby (next to the school of Education office) between 10 a.m. and noon on Wednesday, December 5 is the site of poster sessions of the 2007 SSU Undergraduate Conference of Hispanic Linguistics. Posters are in English and Spanish. Topics among the 20 presentations include First and Second Language Acquisition, Languages in Contact, Discourse Analysis, Language Evolution, Stylistics, Language in Politics, Language in the Media, Phonetics, Indigenous Languages of Mexico, and Dialectology. For more information contact Jeffrey Reeder, Chair of Modern Languages and Linguistics, at jeffrey.reeder@sonoma.edu.

National "Symposium on the Evolution of
Communication" Presented From Second Life

The New Media Consortium Symposium on the Evolution of Communication on Dec. 4-5 will explore the premise that technology has not only mediated communication in countless ways, but that the very ways we communicate - and even the ways we talk and think about communication - are changing as a result. The Center for Teaching and Professional Development will sponsor up to five faculty and staff to participate in the Symposium for free.

The event will be conducted entirely online in the virtual world of Second Life. Sessions, which will be conducted live, can incorporate a variety of visuals and rich media, and are generally about 45 minutes in length, with about one-third to one-half that time devoted to dialog with participants using the audio tools of the environment.

Contact brett.christie@sonoma.edu to request a slot or more information on how to participate. For information on the Symposium, see http://www.nmc.org/2007-fall-virtual-symposium.

Student Works on Paper Featured
as Part of the Art Department New Curriculum

"Paper Progress: An Exhibition of Student Works on Paper from the Art Department" is on view at the University Library Art Gallery from Nov. 20 - Jan. 11, 2008. "Paper Progress" highlights student works on paper as the Art Department recently added a new emphasis to its curriculum called Works on Paper. This emphasis includes photography, digital imaging, printmaking, and drawing. The works amassed in this exhibition demonstrate the enormous possibilities for new ideas and visual communication incorporating paper as a substrate. The show features the work of 20 students who exhibit the Art Department's talent and motivation among studio art majors.

More events...

PADUA AND FIRENZE: TRECENTO AND QUATTROCENTO MUSIC IN NORTHERN ITALY - Robert Worth directs the SSU Chamber Singers as they perform fabulous, rarely-heard music by Italian composers of the 14th and 15th centuries. Featuring works by Paola Tenorista and Johannes Ciconia. General admission is $12, $10 for faculty, alumni and staff, $8 for seniors and students. SSU students admitted free. 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2. Holy Family Episcopal Church. 4-2235.

THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT HAVING BABIES: A DOULA'S PERSPECTIVE - Danielle Ronshausen, doula, childbirth educator in training, and SSU alumna speaks on the subject of childbirth and how doulas offer a helping hand to mothers through pregnancy and delivery. In an open-question forum, Ronshausen discusses what really happens as a woman approaches labor, the birthing process and finally, what women can expect after delivery. The audience will also have the opportunity to see an actual birth on video. The Women's Health Lecture Series. Noon - 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4. Carson 68. 4-2840.

"PEACE THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY" - Lecture by Jason Mark of the Board of Directors of Global Exchange in San Francisco. War and Peace Lecture Series. 4 - 5:15 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 4. Warren Auditorium, Ives 101. 4-4115.