SPOTLIGHT: Faculty/Staff Photo Shoot this Friday
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS
Quick Center Opens Season with Prize-Winning Singers
Richter Center Semester Challenge
Student Bonathon Callers Needed
REPEAT ANNOUNCEMENTS
HEOP/XAE Honors Reception on Sept. 12
Upcoming Meeting for the American Advertising Federation
On-Campus Recruiting Orientations
Author, Educator LouAnne Johnson to Visit SBU
Bona Buddies and Warming House Coordinators
Want to Practice Speaking Spanish?
4 p.m. Saturday Vigil Mass Starts this Weekend
American Red Cross Lifeguarding Class
SBU's Italian Semester Program Information Meeting
FACULTY/STAFF PHOTO SHOOT THIS FRIDAY
Faculty/Staff Photo Shoot is Friday, Sept. 7
A faculty/staff photo shoot will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, in the Athletics Hall of Fame in the Reilly Center. Craig Melvin, chief photographer for the Bonnies and for the Buffalo Bills, will conduct the session.
This is a great opportunity for new faculty and staff members to get a professional head-and-shoulders photo taken and for veteran employees to update their photos.
The session is free and no appointment is necessary.
Photos are kept on file for use as needed by University Relations.
Notice
Board Guidelines
SBU web calendar
Quick Center for the Arts
QUICK CENTER OPENS SEASON WITH PRIZE-WINNING SINGERS
The winners of the St. Bonaventure Performance Prize of the 2012 Liederkranz Competition – Stephanie Lauricella, mezzo-soprano, and Samuel Levine, tenor – will open the concert season at The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts with a program entitled "From new York to Buffalo" on Friday, Sept. 7, 2012, accompanied by Elizabeth Hastings, music director of the Liederkranz Foundation.
Stephanie Lauricella, mezzo-soprano, has performed with the Pittsburgh Opera and also with the Pittsburgh Symphony.
Samuel Levine, tenor, is a recent graduate of the Yale Opera Studio. He made his international debut at the 2009 Wexford Festival in Ireland and has performed with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Chicago Opera Theater, and the Aspen Music Festival.
In the first half of the program Ms. Lauricella and Mr. Levine will sing opera arias including their prize winning arias from the Liederkranz Competition, and after intermission will perform a selection of musical theater and cabaret-style songs from the New York stages in opening the Quick Center’s theme for 2012/13: Celebrate New York!
This performance is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts. For tickets and information, call The Quick Center at 716-375-2494.
RICHTER CENTER SEMESTER CHALLENGE
The Richter Center is running the 150-Mile Challenge again this semester. Click here for a copy of the registration form. They are also available at the front desk of the Richter Center. It’s not too late to sign up, grab your friends and get started on Monday, Sept. 10.
STUDENT BONATHON CALLERS NEEDED
The Annual Giving Office is seeking freshmen, sophomores, and juniors who are enthusiastic, energetic professionals to work for the Bonathon. Student callers serve as ambassadors of St. Bonaventure calling alumni, parents, and friends of the University to secure pledges and gifts for the Bonaventure Fund.Callers must be articulate and are required to work two shifts per week.
Calling shifts are:
1 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday
6:30 to 9 p.m. Monday through
Wednesday
The hourly pay rate is $8. Applications are being accepted in person from 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. Sept. 6 through Sept. 12, in Room G5, located in the basement of Francis Hall.
Friday, Sept. 7
6 to 9 p.m. – Bona’s Night at Spring Speedway: Go carts, mini-golf and batting
cages! Show your SBU ID for a discount. Located at 3335 Route 16, Olean, N.Y.
5 to 9 p.m. - Senior Social: mingle with your classmates and enjoy food and drink specials in the Rathskeller
9 p.m. – Class of 2016 Party in the Rathskeller.
Saturday, Sept. 8
8 p.m. –-
Comedy show at the Quick Arts Center featuring the star of MTV's hit
show "Disaster
Date" K-von'
Spend the evening in Ellicottville, N.Y. Sign-up in RC 208 by 4 p.m. Friday.
Purchase discount movie tickets in the Reilly Center, room 208.
Sponsored by CAB. For more information, call 716-375-2506 or stop by the Reilly Center, room 208.
There will be a short BonaResponds meeting at 4:30 p.m. today in Murphy 105 to discuss our efforts to help the animals at the Cattaraugus County SPCA.
This Saturday and Sunday, we will be going to Salamanca and Arcade. In Salamanca, we will be painting the home of an elderly woman. In Arcade, we will continue to clear a pasture for rescued horses.
Please sign up at BonaResponds.org to allow us to plan drivers.
Upcoming events and ongoing collections available at http://www.BonaResponds.org.
HEOP/XAE HONORS RECEPTION ON SEPT. 12
The HEOP/XAE Honors Reception will take place at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept.12, in the Reilly Center, Hall of Fame.
Please help us celebrate and join us as we acknowledge those students who have done well academically and those students who are actively involved in the many activities on campus.
You can check out the honorees at: http://web.sbu.edu/friedsam/heop_honors_sept2012.pdf
Thank you,
Margaret T. Bryner
HEOP Director
The Higher Education Opportunity Program is in need of additional tutors for the Fall 2012 semester.
We are seeking tutors for all courses and levels. Each tutor meets with each of his or her students at least twice a week for an hour. The pay is $7.25 per hour for undergraduates and $8 per hour for graduate students.
If interested, please apply in the HEOP Office, RC 209.
Thank you,
Bridget Kehrer
HEOP Assistant Director/Counselor
UPCOMING MEETING FOR THE AMERICAN ADVERTISING FEDERATION
The Stalwart Group (American Advertising Federation) will be holding an interest meeting at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 11, in the Murphy Mac lab.
If you're interested in finding out what advertising has to offer, we will be explaining the agency, this year's client, and the application process.
Bring a friend to find out what AAF is all about!
The following systems will not be available from 2 to 8 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 7, for system maintenance: Datatel, my.sbu.edu and Informer.
Technology Services
The Canticle Farm farmstand is open from 2 to 6 p.m., Tuesdays and Fridays. The Canticle Farm is located at 8835 S. Nine Mile Road in Allegany. Vegetables available this week include regular and Sungold tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, garlic, baby beets with greens, onions, beans, summer squash, mesclun mix, lettuce heads and Swiss chard.
Also available are grains, honey, and maple syrup. Eggs will be delivered on Fridays only for the next few weeks.
Fall shares are still available. Applications are available in the barn, at the stand, farm market and on the website, www.canticlefarm.org.
Heavenly Harvest is from noon to 4 p.m., this Sunday, Sept. 9. Admission tickets may be purchased at the stand and the distribution center at the Farm, the Olean Farmers’ Market, or by calling the office at 716-373-0200, ext. 3358.
ON-CAMPUS RECRUITING ORIENTATIONS
On-campus recruiting orientations are mandatory for all interview and resume referral participants. You must register 48 hours in advance of date with the CPRC to attend.
Register at 716-375-2384 or recruiting@sbu.edu. Same day registrations will not be accepted. You only need to attend one orientation to participate.
All orientations are held in RC 211/213:
12:30-1:30 p.m., Sept. 7
3:30-4:30 p.m., Sept. 11
12:30-1:30 p.m. and 3:30-4:30
p.m., Sept. 12
12:30-1:30 p.m., Sept. 14
12:30-1:15 p.m., Sept. 17
3:30-4:30 p.m.,
Sept. 18
12:30-1:30 p.m., Sept. 21
12:30-1:15 p.m., Sept. 24
3:30-4:30 p.m.,
Sept. 25
For more information on OCR opportunities or campus visits, please go to www.sbu.edu/ocr or contact the CPRC at the information above.
Career and Professional Readiness Center
AUTHOR, EDUCATOR LOUANNE JOHNSON TO VISIT SBU
Author and educator LouAnne Johnson will visit St. Bonaventure for a Monday, Sept. 10, program titled “The Power of Choice.” Her address, which will focus on the power of student choice, begins at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the William F. Walsh Science Center on campus.
The program, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the university’s Clare College, School of Education, the Visiting Scholars Committee, and the Council for Exceptional Children.
Johnson is a former U.S. Navy journalist, Marine Corps officer and high school teacher. She is the author of 10 books, including the international bestseller “Dangerous Minds,” the award-winning young adult novel “Muchacho,” and “Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students by Their Brains.”
Michelle Pfeiffer starred in the August 1995 box office hit “Dangerous Minds,” which was based on Johnson’s book (original title “My Posse Don’t Do Homework”).
Learn more about Johnson here: http://www.sbu.edu/About_News.aspx?id=39676
Hip Hop Team tryouts will take place from 1 to 3 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 8 and Sept. 9. Students must attend both days in the Richter Dance room.
The Hip Hop Team holds performances each year at the Quick Arts Center, and is the entertainment at SBU basketball games.
BONA BUDDIES AND WARMING HOUSE COORDINATORS
Both Bona Buddies and the Warming House programs are looking for student coordinators.
If you are interested, please contact Nick Goodell or Fr. Francis Di Spigno in the Thomas Merton Center.
Nick Goodell
Bus trip to cheer on the Buffalo Bills!
Sunday, Oct. 21
Cost: $50
1 p.m. game
Bus departs SBU at 9 a.m. outside the Reilly Center Bus and departs from Orchard Park after the game. Tickets are on sale at the Reilly Center, room 208:
SBU students, at 8:45 a.m., Monday, Sept. 10. Limit
of two tickets per SBU ID.
SBU Faculty and staff, at 8:45 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 13,
if available. Tickets are limited. You will receive the tickets on the
bus and must take the bus.
If you are looking for individual tickets to the game, you may purchase them at the Buffalo Bills website.
This event is sponsored by CAB. For more information, please call 716-375-2506.
There will be an informational meeting about the Law and Society Minor at 5 p.m., today. The meeting will be held in The Center for Law & Society, Plassmann 205A.
If you are interested in attending law school after graduation, come find out about the Law and Society minor and how The Center for Law and Society can help you. Pizza will be served.
Danette Brickman, Ph.D.
Associate
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Political Science
Co-Director,
Center for Law & Society
WANT TO PRACTICE SPEAKING SPANISH?
Join native speakers at Café La Verna at 4:30 p.m. today for an informal Spanish conversation group called “tertulia."
All levels of speakers can gather informally and practice!
!Nos vemos hoy!
Math Lab will not be available from 4 to 7 p.m. today.
Sally L. Kwiatkowski
Coordinator of Mathematics Support Services
SKELLER
EVENTS
9 p.m., today
Open Mic Night
5 to 9 p.m., Friday, Sept. 7
Senior Social
7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 8
Watch college football
on the big screens!
4 P.M. SATURDAY VIGIL MASS STARTS THIS WEEKEND
Because of student demand, University Ministries is adding a 4 p.m. Saturday Vigil Mass to our Mass schedule. This Saturday, Sept. 8, we will meet in the Chapel of St. Clare for our First Vigil Mass. All students, faculty and staff are welcome.
The Chapel of St. Clare (formerly the Music Room) is located in the University Chapel, behind the Main Altar and across the hall from the sacristy.
If you have any questions, contact Julianne Wallace, Associate Director of Faith Formation, Worship and Ministry (jwallace@sbu.edu).
AMERICAN RED CROSS LIFEGUARDING CLASS
Individuals interested in taking the American Red Cross Lifeguarding class can sign up outside of the Men’s Swimming Office in the Reilly Center.
The class will run from 6 to 9 p.m. on Tuesdays through November.
Sean C. McNamee
Swimming Coach
SBU'S ITALIAN SEMESTER PROGRAM INFORMATION MEETING
St. Bonaventure's only faculty-led semester study abroad program in Perugia, Italy, provides SBU students with personalized advisement in course selection and placement, housing, orientation, financial support, and internship placement with Italian firms, schools, museums and other opportunities.
Learn how you can spend a semester in Italy's beautiful "university city" while pursuing your major field and professional and personal goals.
The next program is scheduled for Spring 2013. Come to our information meeting at 4 p.m., today, in Clare College Conference Room, Rob 120. Begin planning now.
Contact Dr. Michael Chiariello at mchiarie@sbu.edu or visit www.sbu.edu/italystudy.
THE CPRC’S TOP INTERNSHIP PICKS FOR THIS MONTH
The CPRC’s Top internship picks for this month are:
• Coop Marketing Intern - Dresser Rand, Olean,
N.Y.
• IT Intern - Iroquois Group, Allegany, N.Y.
• College Sports Writer, On Campus Sports - St. Bonaventure University
• Spring White House Internship (all majors) - Washington, D.C.
• Art/Art Therapy Intern - Cantalician Center, Buffalo, N.Y.
• Reporting/Producing - Colonial Radio Group, Olean, N.Y.
• Public Relations Intern - Iroquois Group, Allegany, N.Y.
• Human Services Internship - Cantalician Center, Buffalo, N.Y.
• IT Technician - Gerster Sales & Services, Inc., Williamsville,
N.Y.
• Event Marketing Intern - Mach 2 Management, Victor, N.Y .
• Journalism Intern - National Journalism Center, Washington, D.C.
• Analytics Intern - The CollegeBound Network, Staten Island, N.Y.
• Communications/Video Intern - CARL, St. Bonaventure University
• Multiple Opportunities - WRNN TV, Rye Brook, N.Y.
• Product Marketing Intern - Paychex, Rochester, N..Y
For more information on these and thousands of other great opportunities, please log into College Central by going to www.sbu.edu/cprc and clicking on the College Central Icon on the right sidebar.
If you have not already done so, create a free account and search under “Jobs/Opportunities Posted to My School.”
Career and
Professional Readiness Center
The Philosophy Club will hold its first meeting of the semester in the Merton Center kitchen at 8 p.m. today.
"Work hard, play hard": What does that mean? We'll be discussing work and play and how both relate to philosophy. What is the value of work? What does it mean to play? Do you think Aristotle would do his homework?
Refreshments will be provided. All are welcome.
The Campus Directory for 2012-13 has been updated. Please email any changes of contact information to jzimmer@sbu.edu.
As always, regularly updated versions of the directory may be accessed at my.sbu.edu, HR, Campus Directory.
Thank you,
Jackie Zimmer
Human Resources Assistant
Do you have questions regarding how to invest your retirement contribution? Are you considering opening a Supplemental Retirement Account to put additional money away for retirement? TIAA-CREF consultant Richard Brewer will be on our campus Tuesday, Sept. 18, and Wednesday, Sept. 19, for individual counseling sessions.
Please email jzimmer@sbu.edu or call ext. 2115 if you would like to schedule a 60-minute session with Mr. Brewer.
Jackie Zimmer
Human Resources Assistant
