The Liberal Arts Honors Theatre Troupe, Foot in the Door announces auditions for Noises Off by Michael Frayn and The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. Auditions will be held Tuesday, September 7 from 7:00-9:00 pm in BUR 112 and Wednesday, September 8 from 7:00-9:00 pm in UTC 3.110. Actors will read select scenes from the plays, and are encouraged to attend both auditions days.
Analecta Literary Journal, UT’s official literary and arts journal, is now accepting staff applications for the 2010-2011 academic year. Analecta seeks highly-motivated, literary-minded undergraduates to serve as readers and editors for its 37th edition. Open positions — including Managing Editor, Section Editors, Design Team,and Readers — offer varying levels of time-commitment and responsibility. First, second, and third year students are particularly encouraged to apply. To request an application or more information, please email analecta.ut@gmail.com <mailto:analecta.ut@gmail.com> with the subject line “Staff Application 2010-2011.”
Applications will be due on Friday, Sept. 24.
LAUNCH, the liberal arts chapter of undergraduate research, promotes undergraduate liberal arts research by hosting bi-monthly general assemblies led by professors or graduate students conducting research in various departments. For the 2010-2011 school year, we are looking for chair people to help our executive team. If you are interested in participating, submit the LAUNCH application for a chair position by Friday, September 10.
Normandy Scholar Program on World War Two (NSP) as a part of your educational experience at The University of Texas at Austin. The Normandy Program, which is open to all majors on campus, offers one-semester (Spring 2011) of intensive study of World War Two combined with a three week-long faculty-led study visit to the most important European sites of World War Two in London, Paris, Normandy, and Berlin. Students who meet the program requirements and are looking for an extraordinary educational opportunity are invited to inquire and apply.
Stop by the NSP info table at the Study Abroad Fair to talk to former Normandy Scholars about their experiences in the program. There will also be NSP Faculty available to answer questions.
If you would like to acquaint yourself with the program and get an application, please view the NSP web site: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/history/normandy-scholars/overview.php (listed on the left-hand side of the History Department home page)
Study Abroad Fair: Wednesday, September 8
Gregory Gym Plaza, 10 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
NSP Application Deadline: Monday, October 4
Beginning September 20, Joynes will be giving away free copies of the book Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace, by David Lipsky, an award-winning journalist for Rolling Stone magazine. Honors students will have the opportunity to sign up for a book group that will meet with Lipsky at the Harry Ransom Center on Oct. 15th.
On October 6, at 7PM Israeli journalist Stuart Schoffman will speak in the Joynes Reading Room. He was a Fellow at the Anti-Defamation League in Jerusalem.
On October 22, at 7PM, poet Bill Berkson will visit from San Francisco. Publisher’s Weekly calls him “a serene master of the syntactical sleight, transforming the mundane in the marvelous.” The Joynes Room will give away free copies of Berkson’s latest book in advance of his visit.
On 7PM, October 28, author Peter Maass will visit the Joynes Reading Room to discuss his recent book Crude World, The Violent Twilight of Oil. Students may have seen Maass when he was a guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Free books in advance for honors students.
On December 2, poet and music critic Stephen Scobie will visit from Canada. He’s written extensively on Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.
On February 3 and 4, Pulitzer Prize winner Buzz Bissinger will visit from Philadelphia. Bissinger is author of Friday Night Lights. Free books in advance for honors students.
On March 23 at 7PM, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan will visit from Seattle. Schenkkan is author of the play The Kentucky Cycle and was recently nominated for two Emmys for his writing on the HBO miniseries The Pacific.
On March 24 at 5PM, as part of the 75th anniversary celebration of the Plan II Honors Program, a panel of alumni writers will discuss their work. Panelists will include Robert Schenkkan, Joanna Fuhrman and Robert Draper.
On April 21 at 7PM, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will visit from Nigeria to read from her new collection of short stories. She is author of two previous bestselling novels: Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus. Free books in advance for honors students.
The time has arrived to pick up the LAH t-shirt you pre-ordered this summer! Stop on by the LAH office this week to pick up your shirt ($12 each). A list with the quantity and sizes you reserved will be at the front desk.
Didn’t reserve a shirt but still want one? Don’t worry, there is an entire box of extras! Sizes are not guaranteed though, so you need to move fast if you want a small or medium. 
Rounding Up Service
Are you looking for a way to get involved in the community? LAHSO can help. LAHSO, which stands for Liberal Arts Honors Service Organization, was created to offer the LAHers regular volunteer opportunities that they can do with other LAHers. Through LAHSO, you can volunteer your time, make new friends in LAH, and add to your resume all at the same time. Our first meeting will be Monday, August 30th, from 7:30-8:30 in UTC 1.130. We will be talking about what we’re all about, and asking all of you what we can do to make LAHSO the service organization that you want to be a part of. At the meeting there will be FREE CUPCAKES!
The University of Texas at Austin now has an exciting new option for students who wish to further their academic pursuits: DemTex.
DemTex, short for “Democratic Education at Texas,” is a Senate of College Councils pilot program coordinated through the School of Undergraduate Studies. Through this program, undergraduate students have the opportunity to facilitate their own regularly scheduled, for-credit courses with the approval and supervision of a faculty sponsor. Students are able to create their own syllabus to explore a topic which interests them, and share that with other students at the University.
For the fall 2010 semester, DemTex will offer two courses exploring topics of current interest, Power, Ethics and Destiny in LOST (Mondays at 5pm), andThe Postmodern City (Tuesdays at 5pm). Students will meet one hour per week and receive credit for UGS 122 on a pass/fail basis. (DemTex courses will not count toward degrees.)
Below are the course descriptions:
Power, Ethics and Destiny in LOST: This course provides an introduction to opposing values in the television drama series Lost. It will examine the complex philosophical concepts that take play in the pursuit of a greater understanding of the world in which we live. The course will focus on three different macro-level concepts: (1) power, (2) ethics, and (3) destiny. The examination of power will consist of understanding different power structures, the liquid nature of power and how power is used on the show. The examination of ethics will include a discussion of deontology vs. consequentialism and will focus on how different characters make decisions in dilemmas. The examination of destiny will focus on the constant free will vs. fate theme of the show and will bring together the aforementioned concepts as well.
The Postmodern City: Cities have held many roles throughout the course of history. They began as little huts where furs and spices were traded and have since become centers of imperial bureaucracy and flourishing centers of human activity. Many cities and the people who live in them are metonyms for self-standing ideas and even the entire civilization of which they are a part. Since the end of World War II, life in the world has changed drastically and the inhabitants of these cities which house an increasingly larger percent of the world’s population have changed sympathetically. We will explore through specific examples the ways in which cities (and the people connected to them) view themselves, deal with themselves, and develop themselves as palimpsests and as blank slates of ubiquitous urban experiences in the postmodern world.
Seats are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. To find out more about the courses, availability, and registration, please contact DemTex at utdemtex@gmail.com.
The BB&T Chair for the Study of Objectivism, held by Dr. Tara Smith in the Philosophy Department, is sponsoring the Third Annual Undergraduate Essay Contest on Ayn Rand’s novel, Atlas Shrugged this year.
First prize is $2500, second prize is $1750, and third prize is $1200. All full-time undergraduates registered at UT for the 2010-2011 academic year – including those students who participated in last year’s contest – are eligible to submit an entry.
The submission deadline is November 15th.
For the essay questions and full details, students can visit http://laits.utexas.edu/sites/bbtchair/essay-contest/ or email me at vmwilli@austin.utexas.edu.
The Daily Texan Comics Page is holding tryouts for staff positions until September 8. We pay 6 dollars a comic to our scheduled staffers. Working at the Texan Comics Page is a great opportunity for students to build a creative portfolio, showcase their talents, and improve their skills. We are located in the basement of the Hearst Student Media Building in the Communication cluster. Fill out an application and leave a sample of your work! We can be contacted at dailytexancomics@gmail.com.
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