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NSAC E-Bulletin
Please forward your submissions to the NSAC E-Bulletin to Stephanie
Rogers (news@nsac.ca)
by Friday at 3:00 p.m. for inclusion in the next week's edition.
October 6, 2003 --- Week 149
News from the Road
Things are geared up and the tires on the recruitment car
are spinning non stop. Recruiter Craig Curley was in Rural
Cape Breton last week. Jenna Tingley was busy making her way
around Ontario, visiting high schools in and around Ottawa,
and Toronto. Brian Carruthers has been in the office organizing
upcoming events, sending information to guidance counselors
and students. Next week, Jenna and Craig will both be in the
office and Brian will be on the road in Northern New Brunswick.
We are looking to recruit some ambassadors to help us with
our efforts in such things as high school walkabout sessions,
presentations, campus visits, independent visits to your high
school at Christmas vacation, or we are certainly open to any
suggestions that you may have. It looks great on a resume and
we need enthusiastic current students. Prospective students
are really impressed to speak with current students who are
experiencing the university life first hand. If you are interested
in helping, please email us letting us know how you would like
to help: reg@nsac.ns.ca. Please include your name, high school,
program, and email address.
Development and Alumni Relations Monthly Report Available
The Development and Alumni Relations Office report
for September is on-line at http://www.nsac.ns.ca/development/section_reports/2003/sep.htm.
Due to the excellent fund raising skills of several people
on campus, receipts are well ahead of previous two years
Nominations for Honourary Awards needed
The Honours and Awards Committee has met today
and is extending the deadline for honourary doctorate nominations
for one week (to October 10th). Any nominations
must first be approved by Faculty Council and then by a special committee of Dalhousie Senate. If we do not
meet these markers, we will be unable to confer an honourary
doctorate at our Spring Convocation 2004.
The nomination guidelines can be found in your copy of the
Faculty Handbook, or by contacting Theresa Blois.
Rural Fortnight Happenings This Week
For those that have not had an opportunity to partake in the
Rural Fortnight event yet you've missed some excellent times.
The concert Friday night at Alumni Theatre by Anastasia DesRoches
and her band from Mont-Carmel, PEI. was excellent.
Here
is what is happening this week. Plan
on taking part.
Tuesday, 7 October
11:30-12:30 Rural Research Centre (classroom)
Lunchtime Forum: The Rural-Urban Question from two Perspectives
Join the discussion as panelists Av Singh
and Yvonne Trainer discuss the issues
of how the language we use changes, rural
to urban, and how “urban privilege” shapes
the relationship between the two. A light lunch will
be served.
Yvonne Trainer is a poet who grew up in rural Alberta.
She presently teaches in Edmonton. Av Singh is the Organic
and
Rural Infrastructure Specialist with AgraPoint.
2 pm: Poetry Reading Alumni Hall (upstairs, in Cumming Hall)
A Canada Council-sponsored reading by Albertan poet Yvonne
Trainer will highlight Trainer’s most recent work,
a long poem-verse biography of Blood First Nations rodeo
rider Tom Three Persons.
7 pm: Poetry Reading Colchester-East Hants Regional
Library
(Truro branch) 754 Prince Street Canada Council-sponsored
reading by poet Yvonne Trainer
Thursday, 9 October
2:30 pm Cox Institute, Room 261
Issues Address: “ David and Goliath: A
Case Study of Inter-Church Housing Society. Sociologist
Janet McClain
NSAC Department of Business and Social Sciences professor
Janet McClain will discuss research, recently completed
for the Institute of Urban Studies at the University of
Winnipeg
and for CMHC, on the needs of the rural homeless.
Help us find the Lost Sheep
After every mailing to alumni we get back a certain number
that for some reason Canada Post has not
delivered. The reasons range from a death to
an address change associated with civic
addressing to a person moving.
We
generate
a
list of
those individuals and call it the Lost Sheep list.
The list is posted on the website at
http://www.nsac.ns.ca/alumni/lostsheep.htm as
well as in the Alumni Newsletter in the hopes that others
will help us find these individuals and return them to
the fold.
We're always surprised who will be on the list. Sometimes
they are people who live and work right here. Sorry we
can't know everyone. Help us by reviewing the list and
letting us know if you recognize people listed and can
help us find a proper address. E-mail leads to JoAnne Jordan(JJordan@nsac.ns.ca) or
call 893-6721.
Free Groceries for NSAC Students affected
by Hurricane Juan
The Antigonish 4-H Council is currently holding a grocery
drive in their local community to collect groceries for
NSAC students that:
- May live off campus and have lost perishable food
due to power failures and have an unexpected cost to
restock
their food supply . On campus students that have lost
food are welcome as well.
- May have lost income from part
time jobs due to the
resulting shut down of business affected by the hurricane
- Are
in need for some other reason.
A supply of non perishable grocery items will arrive by
truck from Antigonish to campus on Monday October
6th.
Groceries will be distributed from the Student Services
Office from 4 pm until 6 pm . All NSAC students that have
been affected by the hurricane are welcome to come and
pick up free groceries. Please bring grocery bags or containers
of some kind.
Any 4-H Alumni that are available on Monday to volunteer
to help off load the truck or to help with the distribution
from 4-6, please contact Liz Crouse
If you have questions, please contact the Student Services Office at NSAC 893-6672
or the 4-H contact is Liz Crouse at 893-6587, crouseea@gov.ns.ca
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