Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Today’s Response
Middle Tennessee State University

Keeping the kiddies

College students who have children need to feel secure in the knowledge that their youngsters will be treated well while Mommy and Daddy are pursuing their studies. To make this possible, the MTSU Childcare Consortium provides options for students with infants, toddlers, pre-schoolers, and school-age children through the eighth grade. Through the Child Care Lab, the Child Development Center Lab, the Evening Extended School Program, and the university’s private sector partner, Kids R Kids, a variety of safe, convenient care is made available. The Adult Services Center, the Association of Faculty and Administrative Women and the Administrative Services Office have been the driving forces behind this effort.

For more information, contact Dr. Carol Ann Baily, director, Adult Services Center, at 615-898-5989.
cabaily@mtsu.edu

Don’t forget the vets.

Members of the MTSU community have been proud to serve their country’s armed forces virtually since the school’s inception. Did you know, for example, that “approximately 230 students from Middle Tennessee State Normal School, or ‘Normalites,’ served in uniform during the Great War,” Dr. Derek Frisby, history, says. “During World War I, a Student Army Training Corps and a Machine Gun Regiment were formed from the university’s student body.” While there have been memorials to those who perished in various armed conflicts over the years, including service flags, trees and Alumni Memorial Gym (the latter being dedicated to WWII vets), there is no unified memorial to MTSU veterans. That’s why a committee of faculty, staff and students has launched a campaign to create a permanent on-campus memorial to all MTSU veterans.

To find out more about the Veterans Memorial Project, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/veterans or contact Frisby at 615-494-8856.
dfrisby@mtsu.edu

“Talent works, genius creates.”—Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

H. Stephen Smith, associate professor of voice, and collaborative pianist Caleb Harris will present “An Evening of Schumann” at 8 p.m. MONDAY in the T. Earl Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building. “This year … marks the 150th anniversary of (Robert) Schumann’s death,” observes Smith, who, along with Harris, will perform two song cycles from the year 1840, which is known as Schumann’s “Year of Song.” These cycles are Liederkreis (Song Cycle) Op. 39 and Dichterliebe (Poet’s Love) Op. 48. “The Liederkreis is a cycle of 12 songs about life and love,” Smith explains. “Dichterliebe is a cycle of 16 songs reflecting the intense feeling of the joy that only true love can give and the intense feeling of sadness one can feel having been rejected by the object of that true love.” The concert is free and open to the public.

Contact Tim Musselman at 615-898-2493.
tmusselm@mtsu.edu

TR EXTRA

STRINGING ALONG--MTSU Guitar Ensembles will present a concert of Brazilian and Baroque music at 8 p.m. TONIGHT in the T. Earl Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building on campus. The group will perform works by composers such as Piazzolla, Bach, Domeniconi, Vivaldi and Albeniz. They will be led by instructors Salome Sandoval and Josh Tannehill. “These students have been working hard on this repertoire all summer,” Sandoval says. “Talent will range from more experienced students to those who will be performing for the first time.” This concert is free and open to the public.Contact Tim Musselman at 615-898-2493 or tmusselm@mtsu.edu

TEN-HUT!--Local and regional military veterans will be recognized SATURDAY during the 25th annual Salute to Veterans at MTSU’s 2:30 p.m. football game against Troy University. Maj. Chuck Giles, military science, says about 250 to 300 veterans and their families are expected to attend. All service groups will have activities and recruiters in Walnut Grove with other campus and student organizations during pregame tailgate events. There will be a picnic at 11 a.m. outside Forrest Hall (or inside the hall in the event of inclement weather). Four Army ROTC cadets who served in Iraq will be honorary captains for the pregame coin toss. They are Spcs. Matt Wallace of McMinnville and James Lax of Murfreesboro and Sgts. Ken McDevitt of Christiana and Paul Wiles of Smyrna. Contact Giles at 615-898-2470, or Harriet Howard at 615-355-0746.

A WHOLE NEW WORLD--Your children can be transported to Japan, China and Indonesia without flight reservations. A new exhibit at the Discovery Center enables youngsters to play dress-up with sarongs and kimonos, view animated superhero Astro Boy or learn about Japanese folklore on a 20-inch DVD player, construct their own colorful kites, make origami figures, work challenging tangram puzzles, stage their own hand puppet theatre and hold Japanese tea parties. The interactive exhibit is made possible by generous donations from Toshiba, Nissan, the Foreign Ministry of Japan and the Japan-U.S. Program of MTSU. The Discovery Center is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5 for anyone age 2 and up. Contact Steve Hoskins at the Discovery Center, 502 SE Broad Street, Murfreesboro, at 615-890-2300.