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Plan trips,
activities at meeting Tuesday Interested horse lovers are encouraged to come to the
Equestrian Club meeting at The club meets every other Tuesday night. Different topics, such as the basics for breaking horses
and training them to get used to having an owner, will be discussed each night
to increase the members’ general knowledge of horsemanship. Future trips and upcoming activities for the month are
planned at each meeting. This is strictly a basic horsemanship knowledge club.
There are no horse-riding exercises performed. For more information, contact Aleta
Overby, the adviser of the Equestrian Club and an
assistant professor of animal science, at 257-2303. Honors students to
mingle with faculty The Honors Program is holding the annual “Meet the
Faculty” party from Honors students do not have to be enrolled in an honors
class this quarter to attend. Attendees are welcome to bring a friend who is interested
in joining the Honors Program. There will be free food and drinks. Students are encouraged to carpool to avoid conflict with
neighbors. The party is intended to give students and faculty the
opportunity to meet informally prior to honors advising week, which begins Oct.
19. For more information, contact Kacsvinsky,
at 257-3282. Poetry reading in The Masur Museum of Art,
located at 1400 South Grand St. in Monroe, will hold a special event for one
night each month to allow the people who have regular work hours access to the
museum beginning at 6 p.m. next Oct. 27. Extended hours last until A poetry reading will start off the series of events. Poems to be read will include several selections by John
Keats, “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe and pieces from area poets. The exhibition and readings will be free of charge and
open to the public. Additional information about the museum can be found at
http://www.masurmuseum.org. For more information, contact Scott Higginbotham, Curator
of Collections, at 329-2237 or through e-mail to masur@ci.monroe.la.us. Gain exchange
opportunities Nov. 2 Students interested in the
National Student Exchange program will meet at National Student Exchange is a group of over 175 colleges
and universities in the These universities work together to provide institutional
exchange opportunities for their enrolled students. The program allows students to attend their host school
while paying the tuition of their home school. For more information, contact Dr. Donald P. Kaczvinsky, the director of the honors program, at 257-3282
or go by his office in GTM, Room 125B. Students can also visit the NSE Web
site, http://www.nse.org. Executive to visit
business classes The Michael Maslowski, the
professor for the day, is the senior vice president and chief information
officer for CenturyTel, a leading provider of
communications services. Maslowski has 35 years of experience
working in the telecommunications business with Illinois Bell, AT&T, Lucent
Technologies and CenturyTel. Maslowski will speak to
Professor Debra Blackman’s Computer Information Systems 315 class from All interested students can attend. For more information, contact Tammy Butler, external
relations director of the CAB, at 257-3741. Drive-in movie to
spook students The Union Board is holding a drive-in movie at The movie showing is “Shaun of the Dead,” a spoof of
“Dawn of the Dead.” The movie is a British comedy and horror movie all rolled
in one. The movie is about a man who decides to turn his death
approaching life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his
relationship with his mother and dealing with an entire community that has
returned from the dead to eat the living. For more information, contact John Lary,
Union Board president and a graduate student of history, at 257-4237. |
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