THE BULLETIN                                                         
April 15, 2016
April 15, 2016
8:00 p.m.
Valders Hall of Science, Room 206
ON-CAMPUS UPCOMING EVENTS
10:30 AM
Chapel: Matthew Gausman '16
Center for Faith and Life, Main Hall 
1:00 PM
Baseball vs Simpson College (1x7, 1x9)
Home 
4:00 PM


Sihler Lecture: Anna Schultz
The Afterlives of Publishing: Women's Notebooks and the Re-gendering of Indian Jewish Song
Center for Faith and Life, Recital Hall 
8:00 PM
SAC Cinema: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Valders Hall of Science, Room 206 
8:30 PM
Senior Recital: Wesley Frye, voice
Jenson-Noble Hall of Music, Noble Recital Hall 


1:00 PM
Baseball vs Simpson College (1x7, 1x9)
Home 
2:00 PM
Senior Recital: Patrick Pauloski, voice
Jenson-Noble Hall of Music, Noble Recital Hall
2:30 PM
Women's Tennis vs Carleton College
Home
4:00 PM

Student Recital: Christy Emanuelson, voice
and Hannah Leleper, voice
Jenson-Noble Hall of Music, Noble Recital Hall


10:00 AM
Sunday Worship Service
Center for Faith and Life, Main Hall 
4:00 PM
Jazz Band Concert
Center for Faith and Life, Main Hall 
9:00 PM
Focus
Center for Faith and Life, Main Hall


10:30 AM
Chapel: Jon Jensen & Holden Village Class
Center for Faith and Life, Main Hall 
12:15 PM
Lunch & Learn: An Act of Resistance
Valders Hall of Science, Room 279
4:00 PM
Guest Lecture: Steinar Bryn
Center for Faith and Life, Recital Hall


Student Senate Election Information
The election process is underway for the 2016-17 year. On Thursday and Friday, April 21 and 22, polls will open for the President/Vice President election. Please look for a link to the ballot in your email and plan to vote in the election.
 
Applications for Senate positions - Secretary, Treasurer, Class Representatives, and Diversity Representatives - will be due on Thursday, April 21 at 5 p.m. Applications are available on the Senate website: http://www.luther.edu/student-senate/. Elections will take place on April 26-27 with the first meeting of the new Student Senate on Thursday, April 28 during the Colloquy block (9:40-10:50 a.m.) 
 
Board of Regents Student Representative positions are elected from the newly elected Student Senate body.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Steve Downs, attorney at law, will reflect on the question of who speaks for the common good and what the role of religion is when religions themselves act like tribes in his lecture titled, "Tribal Justice and the Erosion of Civil Rights: How Scapegoating Muslims Threatens Us All," at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 21, in the Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall. A reception will follow in Qualley Lounge.

Reading from a tale of one man's resolve to right his wrongs and make peace with his place in the world, author and editor Robert James Russell, will present a reading from his recent western novel "Mesilla" on Thursday, April 21, at 7 p.m. in the F.W. Olin Building Room 102.  The event is sponsored by the Lecture and Fine Arts and the English Department. Mesilla is available for purchase in the Book Shop.

Collegiate Chorale will perform a tour homecoming concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, in the Main Hall of the Center for Faith and Life.
The performance concludes the Collegiate Chorale 2016 Midwest tour. Those unable to attend may view the concert live online.
 
Philharmonia will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thrusday, April 21, in the Noble Recital Hall in the Jenson-Noble Music. They will perform Concerto Grosso in G Major, Op. 6, No. 1 by Handel, "Capriol Suite" by Peter Warlock and "Andante Festivo" by Sibelius. They will also perform a group of hymn-tune based pieces including the prelude on a Welsh hymn tune "Rhosymedre", Rhythmic Variations on Two Ancient Hymns and prelude on an early American folk hymn "My Shepherd Will Supply My Need".

The Varsity Band and Wind and Percussion Ensemble will present a spring concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, in the Main Hall of the Center for Faith and Life. Varsity Band will perform "Portrait of Freedom", "Romance" (featuring faculty soloist Benjamin Yates on trombone), "The Empire Strikes Back" and "El Relicario". The Wind and Percussion Ensemble will perform "The Spirit of the Pioneers", "The Spheres", "Resting in the Peace of His Hands" and "The First Suite in F".

Open Dance Studio Time. Luther alumna Taja Will '08 will be facilitating open studio movement practices in the Center for the Arts, Studio I on Tuesday (4/19), Wednesday (4/20), Thursday (4/21) from 8:00-10:15 a.m. All students of all abilities are invited to attend any number of the sessions for any portion of the two hours. Please come dressed to move. This event is sponsored by the Career Center.

An inspiring story of struggle, change and success, ''Paper Tigers'' follows the lives of six ''troubled'' teenagers and the adults who helped them change the course of their lives.
The documentary screening of ''Paper Tigers" will be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, in Valders Hall of Science, Room 262.The screening is recommended for people age 16 and older

Travel to New York City and Orlando, Florida this January to explore the life and writing of the African-American novelist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston and learn about the Harlem Renaissance. Updated price $2250-2500. For more information about AFST/ENG/WGST 240: Africana Women's Writing--Zora Neale Hurston and the Harlem Renaissance, contact Professor Klammer (phone #2112, 602 Main).

On Friday, April 22 stop in the Book Shop to Celebrate Earth Day. How are you shaping Earth Day? Tell us and receive a special discount. 
 
RERUNS

Exploring the unique jazz music of each decade from the 1940s to the 1990s, the Luther College Jazz Band will perform a concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 17, in the Center for Faith and Life Main Hall. The performance will include selections by Benny Carter, Duke Ellington, Thad Jones, Marcus Miller, Sammy Nestico and Fred Sturm. Nearly every member of the ensemble is featured with an improvised solo.

 
The Bulletin is published for the Luther Community by the Campus Programming Office every Tuesday & Friday when classes are in session. Copy deadline: 12 noon Monday for Tuesday's edition, 12 noon Thursday for Friday's edition. Each announcement will be be run a maximum of two times. Word limit: 75. Email: bulletin@luther.edu  

 
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