The Valpo Core

The Cercle français (French Club) cordially invites you to the second annual “Foire au fromages” or cheese tasting event. The event takes place on April 16 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm in the Lumina room of Huegli Hall. Come sample a variety of French cheeses, learn about their history, and play a cheese trivia game.

Tickets are $5 in advance (available at the Union front desk or from any French Club officer or French faculty member) or $6 at the door. A portion of the ticket sales will be donated to SALT’s EdJakarta campaign.

In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., The Conversations Project is sponsoring a panel discussion and community conversation:

Forty Years Gone: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Many Guises of Prejudice.

The event will take place on Thursday, April 3rd, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Christopher Center Community Room.  Panelists will start a conversation exploring the history, social dynamics, and impacts of both diversity and prejudice on American society.  Audience members are encouraged to share their own knowledge and experience concerning prejudice and how it affects us all.

The panel will consist of four members of the Valparaiso University faculty: Larry Baas (Political Science), Angela Jackson (Psychology), Gregory Jones (Theology), and Lissa Yogan (Sociology and Criminology).

The event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be provided.

LINK to event poster: Conversations Project: Forty Years Gone

LINK to official press release: Forty Years Gone Press Release

Ronne Hartfield–renowned scholar, essayist and poet–will read from her family memoir, Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family and will discuss the importance of combating and counteracting skewed histories of race relations with “first-voice” narratives and supportive, intimate families and communities.  She’ll also bookend her talk with some of her own poetry that touches on these or similar themes.  The lecture will be followed by a Q and A.

Thursday, March 27th
7-8 p.m.
Neils Science Center, room 234

Hartfield has encouraged people to read a brief excerpt from her book.  Please email  Allison.Schuette-Hoffman@valpo.edu for a copy or for further information.

This event is generously co-sponsored by:
~ the Committee to Enhance Learning and Technology
~ the Project on Civic Reflection
~ the Christopher Center
~ Gus Sponberg, recipient of the Kapfer grant
~ Multicultural Programs
~ Christ College
~ the Department of Athletics

This event is free and open to the public.

Thursday, Feb 14th at 7:30 p.m. there will be free entertainment in the Chapel of the Resurrection featuring a professional performing group from China, along with the VU Symphony and Windiana Concert Band. Having been invited by Valparaiso University, the Zhejiang Butterfly Performing Troupe is making a special trip to America to perform traditional Chinese instrumental and vocal music, folk dances, acrobatics, and excerpts from a famous classical Chinese opera for the opening ceremony of the Confucius Institute at VU. You won’t want to miss this rare opportunity to see these three musical groups combine their unique styles, rhythms, and talents and perform together!

LINK to more information:

http://www.valpo.edu/news/index.php?action=display&newsid=3381&sy=2007

LINK to Confucius Institute website:

http://www.valpo.edu/gce/graduate/programs/confucius.php

Friday, Feb. 8 and Saturday, Feb. 9, 6:00 pm both nights, in the Great Hall of the Union

Student ticket: $16.50 (may use meal card)
Non-students: $20

Tickets available at the Union Information Desk and the International Studies Office in Meier Hall

Banquet includes: Hummus with pita bread, Baba ghanous, Middle Eastern eggplant salad, Tabouli, Lebanese salad, Bulgogee (Korean beef), Chili chicken, African stew, Baklava, Chocolate pineapple, Russian tea cake, Bolivian brownies

Recipes will be available! The event also includes a World Talent Show and a World Fashion Show–come check it out!

During the campus-wide MLK Day celebration on January 21, Core students are required to attend the 10 a.m. Convocation and one other focus session or MLK Day-related activity of your choice and respond to the activities as directed by your instructor.

The complete schedule of events for MLK Day 2008 is available at: http://www.valpo.edu/events/mlk2008/schedule.php.

Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Time: 7:00pm
Place: The MLK Center.

Sponsored by BSO and SMART Scholars

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

and

The Office of International Studies

Valparaiso University

present

A Lecture by

Professor Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga

“Pyrenean Women and Immigration into the United States in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”

Thursday, December 6

7:00 pm

Kade-Duesenberg German House and Cultural Center

822 Mound Street, Valparaiso

Refreshments to follow

Professor Arrizalabaga is Maître de conférences and Chair of the Department of Applied Languages at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, VU’s partner university in France. She is a specialist in Basque history and immigration issues.

You are cordially invited to help us celebrate the VU-Cergy partnership.

Flyer for Arrizabalaga talk

November 14, 7 pm, CCLIR Community Room

Shane Claiborne is the author of The Irresistible Revolution and the founding partner of the community “The Simple Way.” He will be speaking on the topic “Another Way to Be.” His talk will focus on his own experiences of living in simple community along with other Christians in solidarity with the poor in Philadelphia. A sample chapter of his book is available at:

http://www.thesimpleway.org/shane/sampler.pdf

Sponsors: Chapel of the Resurrection (SALT) with OMP and VUCAB

VU School of Law

The Hispanic Law Student Association Presents

“Immigration Law & Policy in 21st Century America”

Co-sponsored by the Multicultural Law Student Association & the Black Law Student Association

Tuesday, November 13th, 5-7 pm, at Tabor Hall, VU School of Law (656 S. Greenwich St.)

The panel will discuss immigration policy and its political impact on the 2008 election, the influx of Mexican immigrants and their impact on American labor and economy, and the Mexican/American border wall and its sociopolitical significance.

Flyer for Panel on Immigration Law