Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Today’s Response
Middle Tennessee State University

You can play home again

Guest clarinetist Tonya Lawson, an MTSU alumna, will perform in a free and open concert at 8 o’clock TONIGHT in Hinton Hall in the Wright Music Building. Lawson will perform Charles Camilleri’s Three Visions for an Imaginary Dancer, Ernest Chausson’s Andante et Allegro, Louis Cahuzac’s Cantilene, and Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina. Lawson teaches in the Middle Tennessee area and performs in several groups. She has conducted classes at the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, as well as Murfreesboro City Schools.

For more information, contact Tim Musselman at 615-898-2493.
tmusselm@mtsu.edu

Get a job

The 16th annual Summer Jobs and Internships Fair is slated for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. TODAY in the Tennessee and Hazlewood Rooms in the James Union Building. More than 70 employers will be present to recruit for summer jobs and internships. There also will be a room dedicated to employers from the communications industries. The list of participating employers includes camps, parks, non-profit organizations, government agencies and local businesses with interests in a variety of majors. Karen Austin, assistant director of the Career and Employment Center, says now is a prime time for students to seek summer employment and internships that may lead to full-time careers. To view the entire roster, visit the center’s Web site at http://www.mtsu.edu~career/.

For more information, contact the Career Center at 615-898-2500.

A capitol idea

Six MTSU students will be among 36 from across the state participating in the second “Posters at the State Capitol” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. TODAY in Nashville. Their posters are helping to spread the word about the importance of research. Topics include “The Role of the Domesticated Dog in Prehistoric Middle Tennessee,” “College Adjustment & Retention in First Semester Traditional Students,” and “Stretching of an Equine Red Blood Cell Using Optical Tweezers.” The MTSU students are Collin Davey and Teri Proctor, Murfreesboro; Lacey Fleming and Brandy Dacus, Nashville; Adam Shulman, Shelbyville; and Richard Sharpe, Antioch. Media welcomed.

For more information, contact the College of Basic and Applied Sciences at 615-898-2613.

TR EXTRA

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. TODAY 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 or jawc@mtsu.edu

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

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.