Competing with Facebook: Regulating Laptop Use in the Classroom

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Making the Grade

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Become a Project Leader for SC Homelessness Initiative

SC Homelessness Initiative (SCHI) is an on-campus, student organization dedicated to addressing poverty and homelessness in the local community. We are currently partnered with the Downtown Women’s Center to empower homeless women with healthy living workshops on cardiovascular health, oral/dental health, healthy nutrition, stress management, and much more. Also, we work with the Children’s Bureau to empower low income and homeless children with literacy skills and fun, educational projects.

Currently, we are looking for students interested in serving as a Project Leader for SCHI to help plan and develop healthy living workshop curriculum/activities in a particular area of specialization. Project Leaders can specialize in stress management, exercise, dental health, cardiovascular health, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and much more depending on individual interest.

If you would like more information about SCHI membership and project leader opportunities, please email (schinitiative@gmail.com) and attend our upcoming meeting on: Monday, March 28th, at 6 PM in VKC 160

We look forward to working with you!

SCHI

Fight on Against Poverty

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Academic Research Fund from USG

All USC undergraduates conducting research in any field are welcome and encouraged to apply for funding from the Academic Research Fund. Funding will be provided to help undergraduates conduct research projects, attend academic conferences, and pursue other academic extracurricular activities. Now is the optimal time for students to apply for a research grant to be utilized during the summer.

With the end of the year fast approaching, the USG Funding Boards are running out of funds for the remainder of this academic semester. Students are advised to apply as soon as possible.

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The Academic Race

Date: March 4, 5-9pm

Location: McCarthy Quad

Description: Inspired by the popular television series The Amazing Race, the Academic Race pushes students to collectively pool their individual talents through fun, fast paced, and engaging challenges. So come on out and race against your fellow classmates for the grand prize of Disneyland tickets! Yes we said it, Disneyland tickets for the winning group.
Free Chick fil-A for all participants!
See you all there!
RSVP in Teams of 4 to uscACA@usc.edu

Link: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133746893359263&ref=ts

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APASA Executive Board Applications for 2011-2012

"Dedicate. Train. Lead."

You are invited to apply for the Asian Pacific American Student Assembly's Executive Board!

Don't miss out on the chance to have a voice in the umbrella organization of over 20 organizations!

Attached to this e-mail are the applications for the Elected Board and Appointed Board positions.

Elected Board Apps DUE: FRIDAY, MARCH 4 at 11:59pm

Appointed Board Apps DUE: FRIDAY, MARCH 11 at 11:59pm

E-mail completed applications and resumes to bae.christopher@gmail.com and CC: apasa1011@gmail.com

Please direct all questions to apasa1011@gmail.com

Sincerely,
2010-2011 APASA Executive Board

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USG Student Survey

USG, in an effort to provide greater networking opportunities for the students of USC, has created a survey. This survey is designed to gather input from students within the College of Letters Arts and Sciences as to their involvement with alumni, and if they would utilize different opportunities for interaction. We would greatly appreciate your cooperation by forwarding the survey link below to your student list serves.

www.surveymonkey.com/s/CollegeAlumni

Thank you very much for your time and assistance. If you have any questions please feel free to email me at kornblut@usc.edu.

Sincerely,
Dylan Kornbluth
Assistant Director of Alumni Affairs, USC Undergraduate Student Government

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APASA Newsletter, 2/22-28/2011

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SUSA Spanish Conversation Tables

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2011 Undergraduate Students Government Elections

Want to make a difference and enact change at USC? Interested in running your own campaign? Looking to give your resume a boost?

Run for office in the 2011 Undergraduate Student Government Elections!

Applications to get your name on the ballot are Due by January 28 @5pm in TCC 224. Download the application and check out the candidate descriptions at 2011 Candidate Application.

Questions? election@usc.edu

More info? usg.usc.edu/elections/general-information

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USC's Multicultural Retreat

March 5-6

Interested in learning about diversity and social justice issues? Looking to make friends with students from different backgrounds? Want to become a leader in making changes at USC?

If so, apply to participate in the Fourth Annual Multicultural Retreat!

This retreat is a great opportunity for you to openly engage with other students about multiculturalism on campus. Through this retreat, you will build leadership skills and learn about diversity issues through fun, interactive activities and discussions, and a collaboration to create an action plan for change on campus. You will have the chance to meet and network with other students who are passionate about diversity and change. If you’re interested in learning about yourself and others from different backgrounds, the Multicultural Retreat is for you!

For any further questions, please contact Angie Keam at keam@usc.edu or 213-821-2437.

Applications are now available at http://sait.usc.edu/ca/app_clearinghouse/

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Facebook Group

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What Every Academic Should Know: The Great Awakening

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Children of Calliope Meeting

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Children of Calliope

I'm an undergraduate student at the University of Southern California, and I'm looking to found a small non-profit program to promote creative literature in schools beginning this January (2011). The non-profit, which has the working title 'Children of Calliope' or 'Calliope's Kids', would provide a platform, through print magazine and web, for students to publish a portion of their literary endeavors.

The aim of the program is to promote literacy and appreciation of creative writing in a society that increasingly minimalizes the arts, particularly literary arts, drawing upon the rich heritage of its students to create a cultural patchwork that centralizes on promoting and rewarding student creative work. Think of it as a K-12 literary journal in-training. The endeavor would also help to create communities of literary-minded students in schools where most student writers are not much more than isolated incidents and therefore turn to less safe resources, such as online internet communities, to find solidarity.

Children of Calliope aims to 'start small', providing one magazine every two months featuring selected pieces from students from schools of the Los Angeles School District. As awareness and funds increase, it will train students at individual schools to edit and produce their own magazines, thus not only creating a 'patch' to cover the problem of decreased literary involvement in schools but also fostering true opportunities to change the situation.
Please email me if you're interested in being a formative part of this new program! Sophomores and juniors preferred, though freshmen and seniors are definitely welcome.

Natalie A. Millman
nmillman@usc.edu

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A Voice for the Voiceless: Benefit Concert for North Korea

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Ilios – Journal of the PSUA: Call for Papers

The Editors of Ilios invites USC undergraduate students to submit papers for review and possible publication in its first issue.

Ilios is the undergraduate-run journal connected to the Political Science Undergraduate Association (PSUA); it is primarily a journal of political science and political philosophy.  Our intention is to create a forum for students to critically assess and analyze political issues—whether contemporary, historical, or theoretical in nature. The journal also is committed to welcoming all other disciplines, including (but not limited to) anthropology, sociology, history, economics, aesthetics, law, linguistics, and psychology, in helping to create a vibrant and diverse forum. The idea is to create a space for argumentation and analysis that mirrors the world around us—since all aspects of public life make their way in and out of political life, we believe our journal should be similarly open to such a flow of issues and dilemmas.

For our first issue, the editors will be looking for papers addressing the theme of power, and will be particularly interested in papers with well-developed theoretical approaches. We will welcome papers dealing with the re-examination of power by engaging both ancient and modern political philosophers, as well as through critical analyses of contemporary society, steeped in comparative politics, American politics, international relations, political theory, and all other sub-divisions of political science. We hope that the articles will explain the nature of power, while also revealing how our understanding of power has changed over time. What new lessons can be learned from apprehending the dynamics and existing structures of power in our contemporary world? What considerations must be given to modern technology in relation to power? How does power color and shape the relationships between truth, knowledge, reason, desire, emotion, and human needs? How does power define and
delimit liberty, equality, fraternity, and justice—practically and theoretically? How the economy, religion(s), ideology, race/ethnicity, gender, and the law relate to these matters is of great interest to the editors as well.

While papers are not limited to the above questions, papers should address issues surrounding the theme of power.  We will be looking for papers receiving marks of A- or A, but we also invite and encourage students to submit new work.

Additionally, papers submitted to the journal should meet the following standards:

• English Language
• Microsoft Word file format
• 5000-8000 words, including footnotes
• Text and notes should conform to The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition
• Include an abstract of no more than 150 words

All submissions must be received electronically by December 17, 2010.
Questions, comments, and submissions may be sent to doyoungl@usc.edu.

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Philosophy Club: Peggy Kamuf on Continental Versus Analytic Philosophy

Tuesday, October 26, 8:00pm – MHP 102

In a lecture/discussion led by Peggy Kamuf, USC professor of Comparative Literature, we will be discussing the distinctions and similarities between analytic and continental philosophy. Recently, these two traditions in philosophy have seemed to diverge drastically from one another. We hope in our conversation to understand more of what gives rise to this distinction and, perhaps, to find a middle ground between the two disciplines.  There will be snacks.

Facebook event

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Flooded Lands, Dried Up Coverage: Pakistan’s Catastrophe

Wednesday, October 20 – 6:00-8:00pm – PIRC 1016

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Alternative Summer Break—Uganda

Hello my name is Lindsey Patin and I am an executive member for the student organization The Rise of African Youth through Self-Empowerment (RAYSE).  RAYSE is a USC student organization that is dedicated to educating, empowering, and enriching the lives of the women and youth in Uganda and eventually all of Africa.

In order to realize our vision, RAYSE in association with the USC Volunteer Center travels to Kampala, Uganda and volunteers with a local educational community center, Amagezi Gemaanyi Youth Association.  This is a one month service-learning trip with about 10 USC volunteers, tentatively from May 30th-June 30th.

The application is due November 5 in the Volunteer Center (TCC330).

We will also be hosting information sessions this week:

Location: VKC 300a

Dates:

• Tuesday, October 19 at 5:00PM
• Wednesday, October 20 at 5:30PM
• Thursday, October 21 at 5:30PM 

Please email rayse@usc.edu with any questions or for more information. Feel free to forward this email to anyone you know who may be interested.  We are so excited to hear from you!

ASB Summer Uganda Application

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Philosophy Club Meeting with Professor Mark Irwin

Wednesday, October 13, 7:30pm – MHP 102

The Philosophy Club has an event with Professor Mark Irwin on Philosophy, Poetry, and Literature.  Professor Irwin has requested that people bring in their favorite philosophical quote. Also, it will be a potluck event so, people are encouraged to bring food/drinks.

Facebook event

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