Monday, November 5, 2007

Today’s Response
Middle Tennessee State University

Here comes the Guv.

The Paul W. Martin Sr. Lectureship will welcome Governor Phil Bredesen to MTSU on Wednesday, Nov. 7. The governor’s address, “Exploring Issues in Education,” will commence at 2 p.m. on the State Farm Lecture Hall of the Business and Aerospace Building, and it will be open to the campus community and the general public. Bredesen’s education record includes the creation of the Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation, which provides free books every month to children up to 5 years of age and now encompasses all 95 counties in the state. In his fourth year in office, education funding rose to $366.5 million. Bredesen’s speech is sponsored by the University Honors College in collaboration with the colleges of Liberal Arts, Education and Behavioral Science, Business, Basic and Applied Sciences and Mass Communication.

For more information, contact Tom Tozer in the Office of News and Public Affairs at 615-898-2919.
ttozer@mtsu.edu

My beautiful bassoon

Maya Stone, MTSU instructor of bassoon, together with pianist and MTSU accompanist Joseph Walker, will perform in a faculty recital at 8 p.m. tonight, Nov. 5, in the T. Earl Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus. “We will be playing a program that I like to refer to as the ‘casual bassoon,’” Stone says. “The music is very listener-friendly. People will be able to sit back, close their eyes if they wish, relax and enjoy the harmonious qualities of the bassoon and piano.” Stone and Walker will perform works by Hurlstone, Schubert, Elgar and Hindesmith. This event is free and open to the public.

For more information, call 615-898-2493, or visit http://www.mtsumusic.com.

The song does not remain the same.

The Center for Popular Music is celebrating Tennessee Archives Week (Nov. 4-7) and American Music Month with a display in the periodicals section on the first floor of the James E. Walker Library. The Center for Popular Music is an archive and research library with holdings that document 250 years of music in American culture and commerce. Located in the John Bragg Mass Communication Building, research hours are from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Special collection and archival materials may be searched at http://popmusic.mtsu.edu.

Contact Lucinda P. Cockrell, Coordinator of Research Collections, Center for Popular Music, at 615-898-5884.
lcockrel@mtsu.edu

TR EXTRA

BONJOUR!--Any student whose summer was no more exciting than spending endless hours lying by the pool frying to a crisp can prepare now for an unforgettable summer 2008. There’s no time like the present to register for the annual general education study abroad program in Cherbourg, France, which will run from June 2 to June 27. At this beautiful port town in the Normandy region of northwest France, students will experience the history, art and culture of the area. “With the general education program, a student can spend four weeks in Cherbourg and in Normandy, and they can begin studying French while they’re there if they choose to, but they don’t have to already know any French,” Dr. Anne Sloan, Assistant to the Provost for International Education, says. Contact Sloan at 615-898-5091 or asloan@mtsu.edu or Jennifer Campbell, Director of International Education and Exchange, at 615-898-5179 or jjcampbe@mtsu.edu.

WHEREFORE ART THOU?--MTSU Theatre and Dance will present one of the most famous and beloved of Shakespeare plays, Romeo and Juliet, at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 7-10 (Thursday through Saturday)on the stage of Tucker Theatre in the Boutwell Dramatic Arts Building. “This is a true classic that students read in high school and people come to the play knowing,” says Dale McGilliard, the show’s director. “They all come with a different expectation, which adds to the wonderful challenge to producing it.” MTSU alumnus Lane Davies—who has appeared in a wide variety of television series including Married with Children, Scrubs and Seinfeld—will guest star in the role of Capulet. Tickets must be purchased at the door on the evening of the performance. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for MTSU staff and K-12 students. For more information, please visit the speech and theatre department Web site at http://www.mtsu.edu/~theatre.

HOME WILL HAVE TO WAIT--MTSU students are sponsoring a Habitat for Humanity home. “The Habitat Blitz Build is moving along very nicely and the home is nearly halfway complete,” says Jacqueline Victory, Director of MTSU’s Office of Leadership and Service. “However, some much needed rain stalled some of our efforts and has pushed our dedication back to (Thursday) Nov. 8.” The dedication originally was slated for Nov. 1, at 6 p.m. Volunteers are still needed. The construction site is located at 446 State St. in Murfreesboro, where teams working in two shifts will labor to build a Habitat home for the Bautista family. The five-member Bautista clan has lived with family, in a basement and in public housing over the years, but never truly had a place to call home. Victory says the MTSU Student Government Association has spent two years working to raise the $50,000 needed to build the Habitat home for the Bautistas. Contact Lisa L. Rollins in the Office of News and Public Affairs at 615-898-2919 or lrollins@mtsu.edu.

A VIEW FROM ABROAD--Have you dreamed of spending a semester abroad, studying language and culture in exotic surroundings? You can do it! With determination, good planning and good advice, you can create your own opportunity to study abroad. Attend a Study Abroad Workshop with MT Abroad Director Jennifer Campbell and students who have studied in Spain, England and France at 5 p.m. today, Nov. 5, in Room 106 of the Paul W. Martin Sr. Honors Building. This event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be provided. For more information, call 615-898-5759 or 615-898-5645.