Hello All —

I hope that some of you can make it:

I’m very excited to announce that the Peers for Pride, the GSC’s peer
facilitation program, is full this year.  We have 16 amazing students with
16 powerful stories/monologues to share.
We are kicking off the semester with two open performances:

Thursday, 2/17 from noon to 1:30pm in the SSB in the Glenn Maloney Room
(ground floor)

Friday, 2/18 from noon to 1:30pm in UTC 1.102 (UTC is the building next to
the PCL)

At each performance 8 students will perform their monologues.

Please come out and support the good work of these students.

Hope to see you there!!!

Shane Whalley

CALL FOR MONOLOGUE PERFORMERS:

Inspire: Empowering Texas Women Leaders, a leadership program sponsored by the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies for undergraduate women at UT, is looking for undergraduate and graduate students, of any major and gender, to perform in a theater production that will be composed of an array of monologues regarding:

Sex
Sexual Identity
Gender Identity
Body and body image
Culture as it relates to dating, relationships, or sex
Dating experiences
Relationship Experiences (i.e. family, romantic, or friendships)

We particularly need individuals, fluent in a native (or home, or first) language that is not English. We’re looking for them to write a 5-10 minute monologue in their first language that covers one of the listed topics above. We need people who are comfortable performing, and who can commit to at least one weekend of shows in April (date and time TBD). However, potential performers do not have to be experienced. If this is your first time every performing, that is fine, we are simply looking for motivated people to help us out!

We are in the early stages of planning and organizing this theater event as means to raise funds for the Inspire program. We would definitely appreciate any volunteers to make this production possible! If you are looking for a unique and fun experience as a volunteer, this will be a great opportunity.

If you are interested please come by PAR 214  this Thursday, Feb. 17th at 5:30, for more information regarding the production. We are very excited about this project and we hope to have a diverse set of performers to break the silence regarding the complexities and difficulties dealing with gendered identity development, sexuality, relationship experiences, navigating different cultures and languages, etc.

If you have any questions please contact Ganiva Reyes, mestiza88@gmail.com. Thank you!

We rescheduled Kate Brooks’ talk “Marketing Your Liberal Arts Degree and Finding Internships” for Tuesday, Feb 15 from 4 – 4:45 pm in the Third Floor Gebauer Conference room.

This event is open all LAH and Humanities students.  First Year LAHers, please remember you are required to attend two Career Week Events.  If you did not make it to two events last week, now is your chance to be inspired for the great internship search!

MARKETING YOUR LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE & INTERNSHIPS

Time: 4:00 – 4:45pm

Location: GEB 3^rd Floor Conference Room

The workshop will feature Kate Brooks, author of You Majored in What? and Director of Liberal Arts Career Services. Her talk will focus on resources and services available through Liberal Arts Career Services and a discussion of how your Honors Degree in Liberal Arts relates to the professional world and suggested ways to market your knowledge and skills to potential employers.

If you are thinking about getting an education beyond your undergraduate

degree such as graduate school or professional school, but the idea of

writing your personal statement scares you to death, then you’re in luck!

The Texas Interdisciplinary Plan (TIP) is offering five interactive

workshops this spring to help you begin your personal statement for

application and explore what you want out of a program. This is part of

the Getting Ready for Advanced Degrees (GRAD) initiative and you have

been selected to get first crack at this opportunity. THESE WORKSHOPS

BEGIN NEXT TUESDAY!

At the end of each workshop, you will come out with a product tailored

to your individual path that will be a valuable piece of your personal

statement and your understanding of what you’re after.

These workshops are based on the most effective activities

presented in the famous GRAD Seminar offered in the past several years.

In order to open up this opportunity to a larger community, we are now

offering this information and practice as workshops.

You do not have to attend all five. They are designed to be

self-contained, but they do build on each other. Seating is limited, so

RSVP to Dr.D-R@mail.utexas to save your seat now.

You can also find more information, including a calendar of events

around campus that deal with graduate and professional school, at our

GRAD website: http://www.utexas.edu/tip/GRAD/

Hope to see you there!

Dr. Delgado-Reyes

Pulitzer Prize winner Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights, will give a public talk at 7:30PM next Thursday, Feb. 3, in the Amphitheater at the AT&T Center. IN ADDITION, honors students are invited to attend a luncheon with the author at noon on Friday, Feb. 4 in the Joynes Reading Room. Space for the luncheon is limited–students who wish to attend should come to the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007) to add their name and contact info to the RSVP list. ALSO, students who can commit to attend both the Thursday night lecture and the Friday luncheon can pick up a free copy of Friday Night Lights at the Joynes Room front desk, while supplies last.

Questions: 471-5787 or mvalentine@mail.utexas.edu