On behalf of the White Rose Society, a student organization on campus dedicated to Holocaust education and genocide awareness on the UT campus, we would like to invite your entire organization to join with dozens of other organizations in our Ten Thousand Roses Project.

We are asking all students and organizations to join together to hand out 10,000 white roses on the UT campus this March 31 to remind everyone on campus about the 11 million victims of the Holocaust. Each rose represents one of the 10,000 murdered in Auschwitz in a single day. The roses promote Yom Hashoa, Holocaust Memorial Day, and the UT sponsored symposium, Action or Apathy: The Struggle for Human Rights.

Our organization works to promote Holocaust remembrance throughout campus in order to demonstrate the dangers of genocide. We hope to encourage others to use what we have learned form the Holocaust to prevent such atrocities from ever recurring.

This is no small task, and we need your help. We need 150 people on Wedsday, March 30 to prepare the roses, and we need 150 people on Thursday March 31 to hand them out. Volunteering is as easy as showing up. Bring your friends. Invite other organizations.

Roses Eve Preparation- Wednesday, March 31 6:30 pm-10 pm

Preparing the roses at the University Catholic Center. Volunteer to dethorn and attach flyers to each rose. Everyone who attends will receive a free Apathy or Action Symposium t-shirt and food!

Roses Day Distribution- Thursday, March 31 10am-4pm

Hand out roses at the West Mall, Speedway at 21^st, and Speedway at Dean Keaton. We will set up tables and distribute the roses in trucks at each location. Volunteers should come directly to any of these three spots. Everyone who attends will receive a free Apathy or Action Symposium t-shirt and, of course, their very own rose.

We will have sign-in sheets at both events if your organization wishes to keep track of volunteering hours. Visit out website at www.thewhiterosesociety.com for more information. Contact me, Rebecca Goldstein, at beccasgoldstein@gmail.com with any questions. Please let me know if your organization your would like to help us out with this great cause!

Thanks so much,

Rebecca Goldstein, LAH

Honors Quiz Bowl Seeking Competitors

Registration for the 3rd annual Honors Quiz Bowl has opened and the most trivia-savvy honors program students are invited to participate! This is an excellent opportunity to compete against some of UT’s best and brightest students and to prove once and for all which honors program is the smartest! The Honors Quiz Bowl consists of three-person teams from each honors program competing against each other to answer professionally-written questions spanning almost every academic subject and cultural topic. Plan II (team “Plan 2 Destroy”) won last year’s tournament and will be attempting to defend its title.

The tournament will take place on Saturday, April 2nd from 2-3:30pm in the Student Activity Center. All honors program students who wish to participate must register by filling out the information form accessible at the URL below (registration deadline is this Friday, March 25th at 5pm)

http://tinyurl.com/UTQuizBowl

2010 Tournament Results: 1st – Plan II, 2nd – LAH, 3rd (tie) – Dean’s Scholars, Business Honors
2009 Tournament Results: 1st – Business Honors, 2nd – Dean’s Scholars, 3rd (tie) LAH, Plan II

The following organizations have been invited to participate this year:
Liberal Arts Honors, Plan II, Business Honors, Engineering Honors, Dean Scholars, Health Science Honors, Senior Fellows, Humanities Honors, Turing Scholars, Junior Fellows and several departmental honors programs.

This year’s questions will include (but are not limited to) the following subjects: History, Current Events, Sports, Law, Geography, Business, Biology, Philosophy, Engineering, Astronomy, Math, Economics, Pop Culture, English Literature, World Literature, Medicine, Chemistry, Physics, Mythology, Music, and Art. [It is not expected for any one team to be proficient in every topic].

Please email any questions to ut.lahsc@gmail.com

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Liberal Arts Honors Student Council
The University of Texas at Austin