This Week's Events - 12-8-08

12/08/2008 Mon
• Lambda Pi Eta 3 PM Susquehanna Room
• Sanford Society Meetings 4:15 PM Fitzelle 201
• Mask and Hammer Meetings 4:30 PM Fine Arts 103
• EOP Summer Academy 2009 Staff Recruitment Day!!! 6 PM Human Ecology 132
Learn about this amazing job opportunity for Summer 2009. RA and/or tutorial experience a plus!!!
• Gamer's Guild 6 PM Susquehanna Room
• Defensive Driving 6 PM Alumni Little Theatre
• Acoustic Music Show 7 PM The Waterfront
• Pi Delta Chi 7 PM Glimmerglass Room
• Sigma Delta Tau 7 PM Leatherstocking Room
• Phi Sigma Sigma 8 PM Butternut Valley Room
• Hillel Chanukah Party 8 PM Lee Hall
• CUAC Laugh In: Josh Sneed 9 PM Ballroom

• 400th birth anniversary of John Milton (1608-1674)
"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
(Areopagitica,1644)

"Peace hath her victories/ No less renown'd than war."
(To the Lord General Cromwell, 1652)

"They also serve who only stand and wait."
("On His Blindness," 1652)


12/09/2008 Tue
•Order of Omega 3:15 PM Leatherstocking Room
• ACEI 4 PM Susquehanna Room
• President's Holiday Reception 5 PM Craven Lounge
• Save The Manatees Benefit Concert 6:30 PM Fine Arts 212
With Athletics, Don't Ask, The City Never Sleeps, Hal Galardi and Little Do I Know! $2 w/ ID, $3 w/o
• Teacher's Speaker Movie Night 7 PM Red Dragon Theater
• SA Meeting 7 PM The Waterfront
• Concert Band Performance 7:30 PM Ballroom
• MSU Ladies Night 8 PM Susquehanna Room
• Team Trivia 9 PM Union Square
• APO Pledge Meeting 9:30 PM Leatherstocking Room

• Human Rights Day
• Human Rights Week begins (Dec 10-17)
• Thailand: Constitution Day
• The Nobel Prize 2008 ceremonies will take place in Oslo, Norway, and Stockholm, Sweden. The ceremonies are held on the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), the Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite whose will created the annual prizes.
• Mississippi became the 20th state of the United States in 1817.


12/10/2008 Wed
• Art & Scope Magazine 3 PM Catskill Room
• Poetry Slam 3:30 PM Susquehanna Room
• Marketing Club 4 PM IRC 6
• Yoga 4 PM CME
• RSO Meeting 4 PM Red Dragon Theater
• Sanford Society 4:15 PM Fitzelle 201
• Pre-Law Society 5 PM Catskill Room
• Directors Rehearsal Voices of Serenity 6 PM Lee Hall
• Defensive Driving 6 PM Alumni Little Theatre
• Students Protecting Animal Rights 6 PM Schumacher 106
• Terpsichorean Date Auction 6:30 PM Ballroom
• Phi Beta Sigma 7 PM Catskill Room
• Democracy Matters 7 PM Susquehanna Room
• HOLA 7:30 PM CME
• Chi Alpha Epsilon 7:30 PM Glimmerglass Room
• Voices of Serenity 8 PM Lee Hall

• United Nations: International Mountain Day
• Burkina Faso: National Day
• In 1816, Indiana became the 19th state of the United States.
• In 1946, UNICEF was established.
• Birth anniversary of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
• Happy Birthday! Max Baucus, Mos Def, John Kerry, Brenda Lee, Rita Moreno


12/11/2008 Thu
• Persuasive Campaign Competition 8 AM Catskill Room
• Jewelry Sale 11 AM International Lounge
• Bloodmobile 12 PM Ballroom
The Center for Social Responsibility and Community (CSRC) is sponsoring an American Red Cross Blood Drive at the Hunt Union Ballroom on Thursday, December 11, from 12 noon to 5 p.m. If we are successful in reaching our goal of 372 pints for this academic year, the American Red Cross will award a $350 scholarship for a lucky SUNY Oneonta student! CSRC invites faculty and staff members to sign up to donate blood as well.
Donors may register during lunch and dinner hours at Mills or Wilsbach on either December 8 or 9, or by calling a CSRC Student Coordinator at 436-2098 to schedule an appointment. Please donate blood on December 11 and give the Gift of Life!
• IGC 3:15 PM Leatherstocking Room
• LEAD Reception 4 PM Union Square
• Student Fashion Society 5:30 PM IRC 2
• Communication Arts Society 5:30 PM IRC 4
• Cram Jam Study Night 6:30 PM Catskill Room
• Chi Upsilon Sigma 6:30 PM Bacon Activity Room
• Dialogue Sessions: Straight and Questioning- Is it Normal? 7 PM Gender and Sexuality Resource Center
The LGBT community is on the rise and straight people are questioning their sexuality. Is it a glitch in the air or a normal feeling? [Chris Keegan]
• Philosophy Club 7:30 PM Leatherstocking Room
• RSO Programming Committee 8 PM Susquehanna Room

• Cold Moon. The December full moon.
• Poinsettia Day
• Happy Birthday! Bob Barker, Jennifer Connelly, Sheila E, Connie Francis, Ed Koch, Dionne Warwick, Tom Wilkinson


12/12/2008 Fri
• Muslim Student Association 1 PM Lee Hall
• Amethyst Initiative Debate 1 PM Catskill Room
• Alpha Phi Omega 2 PM Red Dragon Theater
• CUAC 4 PM Butternut Valley Room
• International Coffee Hour 4 PM Lee Hall
• RA Recognition 4 PM Ballroom
• Greek Informational Meeting 4:30 PM Catskill Room
• Gamer's Guild 6 PM Leatherstocking Room
• CUAC Movie: My Best Friend’s Girl 6:30 PM Red Dragon Theater
• "Crazy For You" 8 PM Goodrich Theater
• CUAC Movie: My Best Friend’s Girl 9 PM Red Dragon Theater
• Late Night: Stress Free Zone 9 PM Hunt Union

• International Shareware Day. A day to reward the efforts of thousands of computer programmers: inventory your PCs and Macs to see if you are using any shareware and then take the time in the holiday spirit to write payment checks to the authors. See onlinetonight.net
• Malta: Republic Day
• Sweden: Santa Lucia Day
• National Day of the Horse
• AKC/Eukanuba National Championship begins at Long Beach, CA (Dec 13-14).


12/13/2008 Sat
• Voices of Serenity
12 PM CME
• Yuletide Festival College Camp
Take a moment and relax from studying for your final exams and join us at the annual Yuletide Festival at the College Camp. The afternoon’s festivities will run from 1-5 PM beginning with the hunt for the Yule log. Once the Yule fire has been lit there will be a variety of activities offered in the lodge and storytelling will go on in the longhouse. Throughout the afternoon there will be free refreshments in the lodge and a crackling fire to relax alongside of. The entire afternoon is free and everyone is welcome to attend. Free transportation to the Camp will be available from the Schumacher bus stop; just look for the ACE Transport van.
• BandAid for Ghana 6 PM The Waterfront
$3 advance/$5 door, Live music, dance, more!
• CUAC Movie: My Best Friend’s Girl 6:30 PMPM Red Dragon Theater
• "Crazy For You" 8 PM Goodrich Theater
• CUAC Movie: My Best Friend’s Girl 9 PM Red Dragon Theater
• Halcyon Days (Dec 14-28). Traditionally the seven days before and after the winter solstice.
• National Children's Memorial Day and Worldwide Candle Lighting
• Gluten-Free Baking Week begins (Dec 14-20)


12/14/2008 Sun
• Phi Kappa Psi 12:15 PM Leatherstocking Room
• "Crazy For You" 2 PM Goodrich Theater
• Students of Color Coalition 4 PM CME
• Greek Study Hours 6 PM The Waterfront
• Sigma Gamma Phi 6:30 PM Bacon Activity Room
• CUAC Movie: My Best Friend’s Girl 6:30 PM Red Dragon Theater
• CUAC Movie: My Best Friend’s Girl 9 PM Red Dragon Theater

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