Thursday's Notes

1. Announcements:

• Please announce to your classes: The Northridge Review Fall 2007 issue is coming out soon and there will be a reading party to celebrate at 7 p.m. on Oct. 26 in Jerome Richfield 319. All are invited. Refreshments will be served. 
• The English Department extends its deepest sympathies to Linda Overman, whose mother passed away on Oct. 11.

2. Reminders: 

• The Department is holding a memorial service for Gloria Gross at 3 p.m. on Oct. 19, in the USU Thousand Oaks Room.
• If you had a department Faculty Development reassignment for Spring 2007, please be sure to turn in your Faculty Development Report to the English Department. If you had such a reassignment for Spring 2007 and are interested in sharing your work through a Department “Brown Bag,” please contact George Uba.
• Stephanie Satie will be performing an expanded version of her Coming to America - transformations at the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena on Sundays at 7:30 p.m. through Nov. 11. A questions-and-answers session will follow most performances. 
• Thursday’s Notes is also published weekly and appears on the Department webpage.  Please submit items for upcoming Thursday’s Notes to Scott Andrews, the Associate Chair, or to the Thursday’s Notes folder in Martha Alzamora’s office.

4. New Items in the Thursday’s Notes file (ST708) or on Bulletin Board (Outside 710)

Competitions and Fellowships 

• The Atlantic Monthly is sponsoring is annual Student Writing Contest for poetry, fiction, and personal essay. The prize for first place in each category is $1,000; second prize is $500; and third place is $250. The deadline for submissions is Dec. 1. For more information, please visit http://www.theatlantic.com/a/contest.mhtml.
• The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity is sponsoring the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics essay contest. The prize for first place is $5,000; second place is $2,500; third prize is $1,500; and honorable mention is $500. For more information, please visit http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org.
• Undergraduate students interested in attending law school are encouraged to apply for the Law Fellows Program, which is designed to increase a student’s “academic competitiveness for admission to law school, according to an announcement from the Academic Outreach Resource Center at the UCLA School of Law. Preference will be give to students “whose experiences reflect limited familial exposure to post-collegiate education, career opportunities, mentoring, and social support systems.” For more information, call 310-794-4157 or send an e-mail to Outreach@law.ucla.edu. The deadline for applications is Nov. 2.

Lectures and Other Events 

• “Climate Crisis: Can California Cope” is the topic for Stanford University professor Stephen H. Schneider’s remarks in the Speak Your Mind Series. He will speak at12:30 p.m. on Oct. 25 in the Plaza Del Sol Performance Hall of the University Student Union. Admission is free; tickets are available at the Associate Students Ticket Office, extension 2488. Schneider received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992 for his work on global climate research.

Compiled by Scott Andrews, Associate Chair

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