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TECH EXPRESS MOVING: Tech Express Services Moving: All card services are moving from the Bookstore to the Library and IT Service Center as of April 2, 2012. This will include Michigan Tech ID Cards and all related services such as Meal Plans, Express Cash, Big Dog Bucks, Top Dog Meals, Dining Dollars and Guest Meal sales along with Quad Core Fitness Club memberships. www.techexpress.mtu.edu can still be used to view your balances and transactions as well as add money or meals to your card. There will no longer be an option to withdraw cash from your Express Cash account.
Services that will be staying in the Bookstore include:
· Mailbox and Locker Rental
· Postage Stamps
· Kodak Photo Printing
· Laminating
· UPS Shipping
· Textbook Buyback
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FILM BOARD: This week Film Board is showing Contraband in Fisher 135. It will be shown on Friday, March 30th and Saturday, March 31st at 6:0, 8:30, and 11:00pm. Tickets are $3 each and concessions range from 25 cents to 75 cents. Next week we are showing: Mission Impossible 4. If you have any questions, please contact Film Board’s Publicity Chair, Carissa Lindeman, at clindema@mtu.edu.
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THEMES FOR WINTER CARNIVAL 2013: Theme submissions are now being accepted for the 2013 Winter Carnival!!! Please send your ideas to bluekey@mtu.edu by April 4. The official theme will be announced on Friday, April 13 at Spring Fling.
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RELAY FOR LIFE STARTS TONIGHT: Help fight back against cancer and join Michigan Tech at their annual Relay for Life event! The Relay For Life Registered Student Organization at Michigan Tech will we holding their relay event from Friday March 30th 6:00 PM to Saturday, March 31st 6:00 AM. The event will be held in the SDC wood gym. The event list includes rock climbing, basketball, dodgeball, and many other exciting activities! Their will be luminaria and ceremonies for survivors and caregivers. There will be food, fun, and lots of activities, so please join us and help fight back against Cancer! Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back. For more information, please contact Amanda Carlson at 920-321-8773 or alcarlso@mtu.edu; or Carl at 906-250-4129 carl.fulsher@cancer.org.
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THE BIG QUESTION: The Big Question Series continues this Friday, March 30, 2012 at noon in the Memorial Union Building Commons. Prompting discussion is the article called “What If There’s No Hell?” from the April 25, 2011 issue of Time Magazine. Some of the Big Questions to be covered: Is Hell Dead? Heaven or Hell: Should I Care? What If There Is No Hell?
The issue may or may not hold much weight for Lutherans, but it sure has in downstate Michigan at Mars Hill, the huge Reformed Church were Rob Bell was the pastor. It also helped make headlines with the Southern Baptist Convention who recently passed a resolution, in reference to the kafuffle caused in part by Bell, affirming the reality of hell as a place of eternal physical torment. It wasn’t enough to affirm hell as separation from God or eternal death; their resolution says we need to be reminded that it’s a place where unrepentant sinners will experience torment forever for choosing wrongly, or for not choosing at all.
The BIG QUESTION Series is sponsored by the student organization, Lutheran Campus Ministry (ELCA) at Michigan Tech, and in partnership with Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. To find the discussion group in the MUB Commons, look for the shepherd’s staff. The discussion group is a noon-time series of informal, on-campus discussions for students, staff and faculty that focus on many questions in which religion and contemporary issues intersect. Questions and topics include “Cosmic Silence: God does not seem to answer prayer”; “Church: Should I Stay or Should I Go? – Higher Education is being blamed for young people leaving Christianity”; “Where did evil come from (or is it just Friday the 13th)?”; “Heaven / Hell: Should I care? Is Hell dead? What if there is no Hell?”; “Predestination or is the Holy Spirit really accomplishing anything?”; “Just what is a purpose-driven life?”
For more information on the Big Questions Series, contact Bucky Beach via email: bsbeach@mtu.edu.
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CAMPUS HOPE SPEAKER SERIES: The Campus HOPE Student Organization will be sponsoring a Christian speaker, Pastor Daniel McGrath, to come and speakabout the truths in the Bible. This series is entitled “Can The Bible Really Be Trusted?” Please join us every night from Monday, March 26th to Friday, March 30th at 7:00pm in Fisher 138. The public is invited and Bibles will be provided free of charge! For any questions, please contact us at chopeleaders-l@mtu.edu.
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NANCOON 23 1/2: Nanocon 23½ is taking over the first floor of Fisher Hall, this Saturday, March 31. Events include anime screenings such as the animated feature, Redline; Smash Bros. tournament; Science; Dance Dance Revolution; a one-shot Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 campaign and other table-top games; toast, and more! Nanocon 23½ is sponsored by HARO, PFRC, The DDR Club, and GA! For more information, contact Dylan Steinmetz at dtsteinm@mtu.edu.
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INTERNATIONAL NIGHT: Join us on Sunday, April 1, from 6pm-7:30pm in the MUB Ballroom for International Night sponored by the International Club at Michigan Tech. Savor an endless buffet of international dishes including dumplings, chicken, rice, curry, hash, salad, desserts, and more while enjoying 8 international performances including singing, dancing, comedy sketches, and community drumming. Tickets are $10 for students and are available at the SDC ticket office and on the Rozsa Center website under “University Events.” Limited tickets may be available at the door.
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PRIDE WEEK: Keweenaw Pride, a registered student organization at Michigan Tech, is sponsoring the following events during Pride Week, which is April 1-6. The events are held in order to raise awareness of the issues of homophobia, acceptance, and tolerance on our campus and in the community.
Sunday (4/1): Film Screening – The Curiosity of Chance
Where: M&M U115
When: 7PM
Pop and popcorn will be provided.
Monday (4/2): Guess The Straight Person
Where: MUB Ballroom A1
When: 7PM
Finger foods will be provided.
Tuesday (4/3): Taboo Talk
Where: DHH Ballroom
When: 7PM
Wednesday (4/4): Film Screening – She’s a Boy I Knew
Where: Fisher 135
When: 8PM
Pop and popcorn will be provided. (This event will be hosted by oSTEM)
Thursday (4/5): Lecture by Reverend Dr. Jamie Washington
Where: DHH Ballroom
When: 6PM
Friday (4.6.2012): Dr. Keith Berry’s presentation “Uncovering the Gay Interculturalist”
Where: Walker HDMZ 120
When: 10AM
Friday (4.6.2012): Lunch with the Queens
Where: Center for Diversity and Inclusion
When: 2PM
Friday (4.6.2012): Drag Show!
Where: Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts
When 8PM (Doors open at 7:30PM)
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STOCKER RUN 2012: Learn some tips to off-roading after Spring Fling at Stocker Run 2012! The Four Wheelers of Michigan Tech will be holding a stock vehicle friendly day of off-roading on Saturday, April 14. All you need is front and rear tow points for your vehicle. Don’t have a vehicle? There are plenty of seats to just ride along. We will be meeting in lot 14 at 10:00 am to go over proper recovery techniques and some tips to off-roading. After the short info session, we will caravan out to the trails just outside of Houghton for the day. If you have any questions, email jhahlbor@mtu.edu, or stop by the MUB circle during Spring Fling (it will be hard to miss all of the Jeeps and Trucks).
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STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS NEEDED: Michigan Tech Youth Programs is looking for Student Organizations, Enterprise Teams, and Club Sports Teams to participate in two Campus Life fairs on Friday June 29 and Friday July 13 (Summer Track B). Organizations need 1-3 representatives and some sort of table display to participate. Each fair is for 150 high school students who have received a full scholarships to attend summer programs at Michigan Tech. This is a great opportunity to represent the University to excellent prospective students while recruiting for your organization. If you think your organization may be interested, please send a “yes” to Jess Banda at jebanda@mtu.edu. More information will follow for those who respond with a yes!
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SUPERIOR WINDS SYMPHONY AND CAMPUS CONCERT BAND: This Saturday, March 31, at 7:30 PM, the Rozsa Center and the Michigan Tech Department of Visual and Performing Arts present “Superior Winds: Spring Revels,” an evening featuring the music of John Williams, from the original Star Wars Trilogy, and a new arrangement of a work by renowned contemporary composer Eric Whitacre. Both the Superior Wind Symphony and Campus Concert Band will perform, conducted by Nicolas Enz, Michigan Technological University’s Director of Bands. General Admission $10, Students $5, Michigan Tech Students Free. To purchase tickets, call (906) 487-2073, go online to rozsa.tickets.mtu.edu, or visit Ticketing Operations at Michigan Tech’s Student Development Complex (SDC).
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