Monday, February 5, 2007

Today’s Response
Middle Tennessee State University

The SUNO also rises

Hurricane Katrina virtually obliterated Southern University of New Orleans. The temporary campus that was constructed by FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sits on 36 acres of land owned by the university. That is why MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee and SUNO Chancellor Victor Ukpolo will sign a memorandum of understanding at 10 a.m. TUESDAY in the President’s Conference Room that will create a partnership to help restore SUNO. The agreement will include an exploration of student-exchange progams in certain disciplines, the sharing of academic expertise, and discussion forums on diversity, technology, e-learning, university security and more. Media welcomed.

Contact the Office of News and Public Affairs at 615-898-2919.

Where you lead, I will follow

Dr. David Foote, management and marketing, will discuss “The Myth of Understanding Leadership” from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. WEDNESDAY in Room 206 of the James Union Building. Foote says, “Leadership has been described as the most researched, yet least understood subject in behavioral disciplines. Behavioral scholars have devised a variety of approaches to defining leadership and identifying leadership potential in subjects, all the while failing to separate clearly the concept of leadership from that of effective management. A basic myth about leadership pervades our understanding of it in both research and teaching. Not until we break free from this conceptual myth can we begin to realize that each of us has the same potential for leadership.” This event is free and open to the public.

Contact the June Anderson Women’s Center at 615-898-2193.
jawc@mtsu.edu

Carr talk

Jeff Obafemi Carr, co-host of the Nashville-based media talk show “Freestyle” and regular commentator for National Public Radio’s “News and Notes,” will lecture at 7 o’clock TONIGHT in Tucker Theatre. Carr is also an actor and writer and veteran of 20 professional stage productions. He currently co-stars with Eddie George in “God’s Trombone.” Carr’s writings include Black Stuff: Poetry and Essays on the Afrikan-American Experience, How Blak Kin Eye Bee?, and Before the People Came, a children’s choreo-poem. This event is presented by MTSU’s Black History Month Committee. For updates on Black History Month activities, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/aahm.

For more information, contact Dr. Sekou Franklin, political science, at 615-904-8232.
franklin@mtsu.edu

TR EXTRA

VAUDEVILLE ISN’T DEAD!--Five current or former MTSU faculty members will help create an evening of frivolity in An Evening of Chekhov’s Vaudevilles, a presentation of the Murfreesboro Ensemble Theatre (MET) Feb. 8-18 at the Murfreesboro/Rutherford County Center for the Arts. The entertainment will consist of three one-act farces—The Bear, The Proposal, and Swan Song—with short performances by jugglers, magicians, acrobats and singers as interludes. The production will open at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 8 with additional performances at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 9, 10, 16, and 17 and at 2:00 p.m. on Feb. 11 and 18. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for children and seniors. The Center for the Arts, a non-profit organization, is located at 110 West College Street. For ticket information, call 615-904-ARTS. To interview director Ayne Cantrell, call 615-893-1786 or write to acantrell@comcast.net
To interview MET founder and artistic director Tom Harris, call 615-895-0755 or write to millermn@comcast.net

“HOW SAFE ARE YOU?”--How and why are victims chosen? Kimberly Freeman, former regional director and trainer with Citizens Against Crime, will answer the question “How Safe Are You?” at 5 p.m. TUESDAY at the June Anderson Women’s Center (Room 206 in the James Union Building). For more than nine years, Freeman has owned her own company, Impact Training, to teach others about personal safety. She has been trained by police officers, rape prevention experts, a certified weapons instructor, and a former FBI agent, among others. In Freeman’s 17 years of experience, she has trained thousands of people at companies such as IBM, BellSouth, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and American Airlines. This discussion is free and open to the public. Contact the June Anderson Women’s Center at 615-898-2193 or jawc@mtsu.edu. For a color jpeg photo of Freeman, contact Gina Logue at 615-898-5081 or gklogue@mtsu.edu

SOUTH OF THE BORDER--“Landscapes of Mexico,” a photography exhibit featuring the works of Hector Montes de Oca, is on display through February 28 at Baldwin Photographic Gallery in the Learning Resources Center. The exhibit is made up of 40 silver gelatine black-and-white prints. He is considered to be one of the most prominent Mexican photographers of his generation. He is especially distinguished for his black-and-white landscapes, which reveal his native country in a most striking and intimate manner. The exhibit will be open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. Mr. de Oca will present a slide show/lecture on his work at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 28, in the State Farm Lecture Hall of the Business Aerospace Building. Exhibitions and lectures are free and open to the public. Contact Tom Jimison at 615-898-2085 or tjimison@mtsu.edu

ROCK, ROLL, AND RUN THE MIXING BOARD--If you missed the first Youth Culture and Arts Center recording workshop series of the year, you still have plenty of chances to learn cassette four-track, digital eight-track, computer recording and electronic music. It’s the hippest, smartest extracurricular activity your kids will ever enjoy. Children ages 12-17 are invited to participate under the tutelage of Ryan York, teacher of guitar, bass and drums at Chambers Guitars and Musical Instruments in Murfreesboro for a fee of $125. Classes are taught in Room 149 of the John Bragg Mass Communication Building each Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and each Sunday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Registration is open now for the next session, which will last from Feb. 15 through Mar. 11. For more information, contact York at bororecording@gmail.com.