Student News Briefs – September 21, 2018

 Effective Immediately!

Attention Student Organizations that use the SDC Soccer Fields

Effective immediately, the SDC parking lot next to the loading dock has been changed from a 7 am – 4 pm      red tag only parking lot to a 24/7 red tag only parking lot. This is Parking Lot 24A.

Any vehicle without a red tag will be ticketed even if after 4 pm.


Barn Dance Sponsored by the Christian Organizations of Michigan Tech

There will be a Barn Dance held in the Chassell Pavilion on Friday, September 21, hosted by St. Al’s, and more Christan orgs. Dance lessons will be provided. The dance will be from 8-12 pm.

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Come and have some fun dancing the night away! Friday, September 21st 8-12 pm!


Tyler Boeh

The comedian will be Tyler Boeh, tomorrow, Saturday, at 9pm, in the MUB Ballroom. On his official website, it states, “Who goes from being a mild-mannered nationally recognized college a Capella group vocal percussionist to becoming a high-energy, intelligent, physical, and downright silly beatboxing comedTylerBoeh poster aian? None other than Comedian Tyler Boeh, who shifted his focus from singing a Capella (a word he describes as Latin for “Without Girlfriend”) when he won a comedy contest in Portland Oregon.”

 

 

 


Arnold Air Society of Michigan Tech

We are a professional, honorary, service organization dedicated to the promotion of service within local communities and to supporting Prisoners of War and Missing in Action service members. Every year we put on a 5K run that commemorates POW/MIAs and the sacrifice they gave for us. The Annual POW/MIA 5K Run or Walk is to help raise awareness for all past, present, and future POW/MIAs, and all proceeds go to the Lake Linden VFW to help local veterans. This year’s race will be held on Saturday, September 22nd at 10 am at the ROTC building.


Costume Change – Shirt Swap

For Homecoming this year, the Huskies are giving back!  Come help out the local community by donating a gently used piece of clothing or winter gear.  In return for your kindness, you can get a 2018 Homecoming shirt (while supplies and sizes last).  Only one shirtper person, please.Costume Change(Shirt Swap)a

Monday, September 24, 2 pm Outside the MUB (rain location: First floor MUB).

Donations will be given to the Barbara Kettle Gundlach Center and New Beginnings Angel Mission. If you have any questions, please stop by Student Activities, Room 112 Memorial Union Building or email Rochelle at raspence@mtu.edu. Thank you!


Cardboard Boats!

What better way to celebrate Homecoming than by watching students race boats made out of cardboard? The races will take place at 4 p.m. Friday, September 28 at the Houghton WaterfrontCardboard Boatsaa Park.

There will be free bus shuttles starting at 3 p.m. to and from the Cardboard Boat races. The shuttles will end when everyone waiting for a shuttle has been returned at the end of the races. The continuous loop route will make stops at the Student Development Complex (SDC), Memorial Union Building (MUB) bus stop and Houghton Waterfront Park.

For more information, contact Student Activities at 7-1963.


Superior Wind Symphony Concert

Bring your lawn chairs, bring your blankets: The Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts and Department of Visual and Performing Arts presents a concert by the Superior Wind Symphony (WW1 PhotoSWS), titled “Europe, America and the World,” a celebration of the music of WW1 era band leader from Harlem, James Reese Europe. They will perform a free outdoor concert on the Walker lawn on Friday, September 28, at 6:00 pm. If it rains, the concert will be held inside the McArdle Theatre, 2nd floor Walker.

 

 


Homecoming Tailgate!

Come support the Huskies with free FOOD and FUN at the Homecoming Tailgate from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, September 29.

You can mingle with homecoming court, eat free food, play yard games and so much more. There will also be free beer with a valid ID. Students need their HuskyCard ID to get into the game and the tailgate party. Anyone with a game ticket can get into the tailgate.   Homecoming_Tailgate_(1)aa

Sponsored by Athletics, Dining Services, Alumni Engagement, Wellness, and Student Activities. Follow-up the tailgate by cheering on the Huskies as they take on Saginaw Valley State University in the Homecoming Football Game at 1 p.m. on Sherman Field. Go Huskies!

 


2nd Annual Starkey Hearing Foundation Golf Scramble

The sisters of Delta Zeta are hosting their 2nd Annual Starkey Hearing Foundation Charity Golf Scramble on September 29, 2018 at 11 am. The Starkey Hearing Foundation is a non-profit organization that promotes awareness for speech and hearing and raises money to provide high quality Golf Scramble Poster Pictureshearing aids to people around the world through various missions. Each year, more than 100,00 hearing aids are delivered through more than 100 missions. Help us support the cause by coming out to our golf scramble! The event will be a 9-hole scramble including a longest drive contest, closest to pin contest, hole-in-one prizes, and team prizes!

Can’t make it to the event? You can still donate on our Crowd Change page a

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25th Anniversary of the Visual and Performing Arts Department

This academic year (2018-19) we will be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Michigan Tech.  We will hold a celebratory 25th Anniversary Gala on Saturday, October 6th, beginning at 5:30pm at the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts. Celebrate 25 years of the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Michigan Tech with an evening of cocktails, dinner, and live arts entertainment. The VPA 25th Anniversary Gala will feature intimate performances in the lobby and on stage, and live auction supporting the Marian and John Irish Award for Environmental Art, the Visual and Performing Arts Department Theatre Scholarship Fund, and the Rozsa Center’s Class Acts Program. Come dressed for celebration! There will be a cash bar, cocktail hour, full dinner, live music throughout the evening both in the lobby and on stage, an auction of unique arts experiences, artists working during the gala, and more.


Josh McVicar

MUB Board will be hosting a comedian magician. The event will be on Saturday, October 6th, at 9 pm, in the MUB Ballroom.  “Josh McVicar has been astounding with providing comedy, magic and hypnosis professionally for more than 15 years.  He’sJoshMcVicar poster a performed at hundreds of colleges, corporations, parties and special events with his unique brand of entertainment that combines side splitting humor, hypnotic trances, explosive surprises, and mind bending magic to create an experience like no other.  With shows packed full of laughs and audience participation, McTrickster will give a performance you are sure not to forget!”

 


Cycling Club Looking for Volunteers 

The cycling club is looking for some volunteers to help with the conference championship race that we are hosting on October 6th and 7th. Here is a form where people can sign up and brief descriptions for each position at the top.


Husky Alpine Run

Are you up for a Halloween challenge?  Come join the Michigan Tech Army ROTC program in our inaugural Husky Alpine Run, on October 27th, which is a 5 km trail race ON Mont Ripley!  Don’t ski?  Don’t snowboard?  No worries.  Many people enjoy skiing and snowboarding the slopes of Ripley and now you get to rSEPTEMBER POSTER FINALabscvbun them!  We encourage everyone to show up and run in their Halloween costume as prizes are awarded to the costume contest winner!  All racers will get complementary food and beverages after the event and there will also be raffle prizes.  The winners of each age group (male and female) will receive medals, and the overall male and female winners will get their names engraved on a plaque that will be posted in the ROTC building.  Sign up now and get a free event t-shirt.  Students get an incredible deal of ONLY $15 for registration!

We also want to give back to our community in Houghton and help fund road repairs caused by the devastating Father’s Day flooding.  To do so, we will donate part of our proceeds to help fund flood relief efforts.  So, come out and have a fun time and help us support our community!


 Meet Your Major Series

Undergraduate students who are unsure of their major, or are interested in pursuing a dual major, are invited to attend the Meet Your Major series hosted by the School of Business and Economics. This is an opportunity to hear from faculty and current students about internships, courses, career paths, and student organizations. Snacks and refreshments will be served. Please contact Shannon Rinkinen at smrinkin@mtu.edu with questions.

4-5 p.m. Wednesday, September 26 in AOB 101

Meet Your Major: Marketing

4-5 p.m. Wednesday, October 10 in AOB 101

Meet Your Major: Engineering Management

4-5 p.m. Wednesday, October 17 in the APMP Trading Lab

Meet Your Major: Finance

4-5 p.m. Wednesday, October 17 in AOB 101

Meet Your Major: Management Information Systems (MIS)

4-5 p.m. Wednesday, October 24 in AOB 101

Meet Your Major: Management with concentrations in Supply Chain Operations and Management and Entrepreneurship

4-5 p.m. Wednesday, November 7 in the APMP Trading Lab

Meet Your Major: Accounting

4-5 p.m. Wednesday, November 7 in AOB 101

Meet Your Major: Economics


Registration for the 12th Annual D80 Conference is now open

The D80 Conference is a dialog and celebration of our efforts to solve issues that confront the world’s poorest 80%. The Michigan Tech campus hosts this annual conference in the fall every year to give a platform to the voices of university students serving communities in need, both domestically and abroad. Our conferences highlight service and research work done by students from Michigan Tech and elsewhere, and are open to anybody interested in development, design, and discovery for the poorest 80% of humanity. The public is always welcome.2018_D80_poster ab

The theme for the annual D80 Conference is Connect, Collaborate, Create! We are very excited to welcome Erna Grasz, co-Founder of the Asante Africa Foundaiton, as our featured keynote speaker.

The 2018 conference will be held Saturday, October 13th in the MUB. Registration is now open. More information regarding the conference and registration can be found at mtu.edu/honors/D80/conferenceThe deadline to register for D80 is Friday, September 30th.

Students involved in community service domestically and abroad are encouraged to register to present. This conference is open to the public. If you’d like to attend, but not present, please register here. If you have any questions, please email honors@mtu.edu.

This year’s conference is sponsored by Michigan Tech’s D80 Center, the Sustainable Futures Institute, and the Pavlis Honors College.


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The Center for Diversity & Inclusion is offering another awesome semester worth of excellent opportunities to engage with different ideas around diversity and inclusion (opportunities to hear from our students about their experiences and to bear witness to what faculty and staff are doing on our very own campus to support and promote equity!
Join us this fall for our Diverse Dialogues series and be part of the conversation of highlighting underrepresented voices, elevating the social justice work being done by our Michigan Tech community, and engaging and learning from difficult diversity and inclusion discussions that affect us all.

 Takeover Snapchat

University Marketing and Communications at Michigan Tech is looking for student groups to run temporary takeovers of its Snapchat account. UMC is seeking your help in identifying responsible and outgoing students in your organization who would be willing to run a Snapchat takeover. The benefit to you? Raising student awareness about Michigan Tech in general and about your organization in particular.

The university Snapchat coordinator, Ben Jaszczak, works with campus groups like yours to organize awareness-raising Snapchat takeovers targeted to current and future Huskies. With over 2,000 followers, our Snapchat account is a great way to reach undergraduate and prospective students.

To run a Snapchat takeover, all you need to do is identify a student(s) who is willing to run the takeover and choose a time slot of 1-3 days where they can highlight your program or event. With that information, contact us at video@mtu.edu to schedule your takeover.  You can direct any questions about this event to Ben Jaszczak, Multimedia Specialist and Snapchat Coordinator, at bjjaszcz@mtu.edu.  We appreciate your help!


At-Risk for Students Course

College can be stressful at times, and Michigan Tech wants to empower our students with tKognito At risk for students log in graphic abhe resources they need to help one another.  We’re excited to present the Kognito simulation At-Risk for Students course, which will help in recognizing signs of distress, determining if a friend needs help, how to talk to someone in need of help, or where you or your friend can turn to for resources.  It can be difficult to deal with these kinds of issues, but an effective conversation can help more than you think-it can help change someones life.  We hope you enjoy this simulation, as we all work together to help one another and build a stronger community.Kognito graphic for at risk students (promo)

Kognito is an online training simulation to help students learn how to talk to others in need and help in a crisis situation using role playing.

If you encounter technical issues, please contact Kognito‘s support team at: support@kognito.com

 

 


Intramural Registration For Fall 2018 Events Is Now Open!

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Entry Deadlines

**NEW EVENTS**

Disc Golf Singles Tournament:

  • Entry Deadline on Friday, September 21 @ 12:00 Noon
  • Tournaments will take place on Saturday, September 22

Racquetball Singles:

  • Entry Deadlines on Friday, September 21 @ 12:00 Noon

Trails Relay:

  • Entry Deadline on Tuesday, September 25 @ 12:00 Noon
  • The Race will take place on Thursday, September 27 @ 4:30 pm

Flag Football:

  • Entry Deadline on Thursday, September 27 @ 8:00 am
  • Season Begin September 30th

Register your team at www.imleagues.com/MTU

– For more information:  E-mail imsports@mtu.edu


Heathly Husky Workshop Series

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HuskiesFit Programs

HuskiesFit Programs offers several group fitness classes throughout the week. There’s something to choose from every day! Check out our week at a glance flyer and see what fits your schedule.

 

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Get the most for your money with the HuskiesFit Ultimate Session Punch Card! This premium 8-punch card allows you to experience a variety of HuskiesFit group fitness classes without having to commit to one particular type.

For more information on individual programs, visit HuskiesFit Programs. Commit to be HuskiesFit this Fall!


Season Tickets on Sale at The Rozsa Center

The Rozsa Center is pleased to announce their 2018/19 Season Ticket Sale! Season Ticket Packages are on sale early this year, May 1st, with the best Ballet adiscounts available on all the season has to offer! There are four Season Ticket Package options this year, offering savings of 18% – 37% off single ticket prices. Featured this year are 12 Rozsa Presenting Series events, including five distinguished lecturers, and more than 33 Visual and Performing Arts events including music, theater and visual arts events, and the ever-popular 41 North Film festival. For full season details, please visit our website: mtu.edu/rozsa

 


Michigan Tech Recreation Offers AppAudio 

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Customers have two WiFi networks to choose from – MichiganTech and MichiganTechGuest.

For more information on how to set up AppAudio on your devices, see HowToAppAudio.