Oxfam UT presents Environmental Activist Flavia de la Fuente (Free Pizza!)
Tuesday, March 29 · 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Garrison 2.128

Join Oxfam UT as we host Flavia de la Fuente, the Conservation Coordinator for the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club!

Flavia will be speaking about the Fayette Coal-Fired Power Plant, a coal-fired power plant near La Grange. The Fayette plant is co-owned by the City of Austin and provides about one-third of Austin’s energy. Specifically, Flavia will talk about the human and environmental impacts of the plant. On an annual basis, the plant emits 30,000 tons of sulfur dioxide. For pecan farmers in the area, this has meant $300 million in trees lost. Additionally, the plant is linked to 1,000 heart attacks, asthma attacks, cases of chronic bronchitis, hospital admissions, emergency room visits, and 37 early deaths each year.

The Sierra Club is currently working to phase out Fayette. Phasing out the coal-fired power plant is critical to protecting the health and livelihoods of nearby residents and farmers. Switching to renewable energy will mean a safer, more sustainable future.

How can your learn more about this issue? What can you do to fix the problem? Join us on Tuesday as we host Flavia, learn more about this local issue, and take action! This campaign is just getting started – now is a great time to get involved!

FREE PIZZA WILL BE PROVIDED!

Foot in the Door is proud to present The Country-Wife, one of the most controversial plays of the Restoration.

A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, The Country-Wife reflects an aristocratic and anti-Puritan ideology, and was criticized for its sexual explicitness even in its own time. The scandalous trick and the frank language have, for much of the play’s history, kept it off the stage and out of print. The original play is again a stage favorite today, and is also acclaimed by academic critics, who praise its linguistic energy, sharp social satire, and openness to different interpretations. Wycherley’s bawdy play is sure to raise laughs and eyebrows even 300 years after its first performance.

March 31, April 1, 2, 7, 8, 9

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays @ 7:30 PM

Matinees on Saturdays (April 2nd and 9th) @ 2:30 PM

Flawn Academic Center (FAC 21)

A pre-show performance will begin 15 minutes beforehand.

General Admission – $5 – Tickets purchased at the door.
*Faculty will be granted free admission on March 31st with identification.

The Performers
Mr. Horner— Andrew Pish
Mr. Harcourt— Kirk Van Sickle
Mr. Dorilant— Caleb Britton
Mr. Pinchwife— Virgil Shelby
Mr. Sparkish— Christopher Lew
Sir Jaspar Fidget— Cotter Edwards
Mrs. Margery Pinchwife— Grace Worm
Mrs. Alithea— Mi Kang
My Lady Fidget— Elissa Russell
Mrs. Dainty Fidget— Stephanie Donowho
Mrs. Squeamish— Meg Thompson
Old Lady Squeamish— Jessica Helton
A Quack— William Ott
Lucy— Caitlin Gulihur

The Mechanicals
Director— Isto Barton
Assistant Director— Kelsi Tyler
Executive Producer— Chris Fox
Producer— Julia Shatilo
Costume Mistress— Jennifer Harrison
Costume Mistress— Zoe White
Jig Writer— Megan Rabuse
Master of Revels—Monica Gully

Think 7 Emmys for Olympics programming.  Think stunning actress and Oscar-nominated performance in Fatal Attraction (well, that is the one I most remember.)  Think informing and inspiring students.

Susie Jastrow has arranged for Anne Archer and Terry Jastrow to come to campus for a wonderful program.  The focus will be on the power of dreams and what it takes to make those dreams realities.  Terry and Anne are artists (and Susie’s brother-in-law and sister-in-law) who have worked in many facets of the entertainment industry. Terry is a 7-time Emmy award winning sports journalist.  Anne is an accomplished, award winning film and stage actress.  The list of their accomplishments is long.  See:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000271/bio

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419358/

The program will take place on Thursday, March 31 2:00-3:30 in the new Auditorium (1.402) in the Student Activity Center.

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