Students join Dr. Julia Karcher from the College of Business during the Honors Scholars' dinner that was held at Masterson’s Restaurant on Sept. 25. HONORS CALENDAR
Oct. 2 Oct. 3 Dance Marathon Interest Meeting, SAC 303A, 12:15-1 p.m. and 7:30-8:15 p.m. Oct. 4 Oct. 7 Oct. 14 Oct. 18 Oct. 22 Oct. 25 Honors walk-in advising begins at the Etscorn Honors Center Oct. 30 Priority registration begins for Honors students Honors Volunteer Program (HVP) Down Syndrome of Louisville-Buddy Walk Halloween at the Zoo Those who wish to be notified about events by listserv or would like more information about the posted events; please send your name and e-mail address to tmalto01@louisville.edu. Before every event you will receive e-mail with the exact time, locations, car pool instructions and directions. Honors Student Council The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 25 at 6 p.m. in the Honors House Reading Room (rm. 103). The meeting will last no longer than one hour. If you have any concerns or issues you would like added to the agenda, please e-mail Clare Gervasi Kalb at cfgerv01@louisville.edu. Snacks will be served. If you cannot make it to the meeting, but would like to receive information about upcoming HSC events, please e-mail Clare Kalb at cfgerv01@louisville.edu to be added to the mailing list. Additionally, if you would like to add a topic of discussion for the meeting, a board member of HSC would be happy to bring it up on your behalf. Simply submit your topic to Clare (see above e-mail address) and your ideas will be addressed at the next meeting. St. James Court Art Fair Renowned art fair in U of L’s own backyard! The St. James Court Art Fair is coming up! This is truly an authentic Louisville cultural experience. Fun will be had by Louisville natives and newcomers alike! Come for the great food, the beautiful arts and crafts, a chance to check out the beauty of Old Louisville or just come to enjoy the fall weater! This year marks the 50th anniversary of the art fair. The fair runs Oct. 6 through 7, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sun. Oct. 8, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. More information is available online. Anyone interested in organizing an outing as a group should e-mail Clare Gervasi Kalb at cfgerv01@louisville.edu by Oct. 3. Harvest Homecoming Festival On Saturday, Oct. 14 HSC will be traveling to the Harvest Homecoming Festival in New Albany, Ind. We will meet in front of the Etscorn Honors Center and leave promptly at 10 a.m. in a carpool. Harvest Homecoming is a big street festival with lots of food, great crafts and activities. Please RSVP (especially if you want a ride!) to Clare Kalb cfgerv01@louisville.edu or on Facebook, group “HSC Social Projects." For more info visit Harvest Homecoming's website.
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If there are corrections or omissions, e-mail honors@louisville.edu to update information. Now Taking Submissions for: This is a new initiative from HSC intended to accommodate new students at our school, especially those who may be new to the city of Louisville. This guidebook will be filled with useful indices of items of interest to the (Honors) college student at U of L, including restaurants, music stores, live shows, study spots, parks, outdoor activities, newspapers, festivals, shopping, freebies, TARC schedules and directions to various points of interest, radio stations etc. -- pretty much anything related to what is great about Louisville. The final form of the guidebook is undecided, but we hope to have a community webpage on which anyone can post. If you are a native Louisvillian or an upperclassman with useful advice, tips, cool places to know about, etc., please submit your picks with a paragraph highlighting a store/event/organization/place. Please e-mail submissions to Clare Gervasi Kalb at cfgerv01@louisville.edu. If you don’t want to write a paragraph, just submit a suggestion and contact information. Got Books? Want Books? Dr. Sonya Jones has graciously gifted the University Honors Program with a collection of her poetry and has charged us with starting an Honors library. HSC is currently taking book donations and plans to have a book sale in the spring. Dr. Johmann has also kindly offered his support to our efforts. For more information, or to make a donation please contact Clare Gervasi Kalb at cfgerv01@louisville.edu .
Here Honors students pose after competing in the Challenge for Excellence picnic pizza race where three 11-member teams of faculty, staff and students raced to fit pizza into an 11-yard-wide frame built in the shape of U of L’s monogram. Faculty Spotlight: Clare Gervasi Kalb, Spanish By now it is well known that this semester’s international travel seminar students are going to New Zealand to immerse themselves in all things Tolkien. And they have a capital reason to be excited about the class: Prof. Michael Williams, who has engaged and enlightened students through his teaching at U of L for twenty years. Williams is a professor of the Humanities and has his expertise in fantasy fiction, making him well qualified to lead a class on Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Besides his academic expertise, Prof. Williams has broad experience as a fiction writer, including quite a few contributions to the fantasy series Dragonlance in addition to several novels of his own in the historical fiction/magical realism genre. He has published ten novels in total, “four of which I’ll own up to,” he quips. The other six books are written under a nom de plume. All his passion and talent for writing began for Prof. Williams at an early age, when he was given the Rings trilogy to read in bed during a protracted illness one summer. He devoured the books in four days, then reread them again immediately. Of reading Tolkien, he says, “It was transformative. It’s what made me want to go into literature, what made me want to write and to teach.” So Prof. Williams is pretty pleased about his involvement with this Honors seminar on Tolkien’s beloved books. “This is the class I was born to teach. And the students [in the class] have met me with comparable enthusiasm and skills and smarts.” Michael Williams is a Louisville native who spent part of his childhood in Ireland. He has lived in Vermont, New York, Wisconsin and a few other places along the way. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in English from Middlebury, his master’s degree in English from the University of Rochester, and is working on his doctorate in the Humanities from the University of Louisville. He now resides in Old Louisville. REMINDER TO FRESHMEN If you are new to U of L, please remember to check your netmail e-mail account. HSC has been having difficulties contacting some of you because we either don't have your school e-mail address or because you are not responding to our e-mails. All Honors correspondence goes through this account and it is very important -- and in fact required -- that you check it. All university-related materials and correspondence will be sent to your netmail account so, unless you have properly routed your e-mail, you will be missing out. Be diligent in checking your e-mail, as U of L in general uses this method for all its official correspondence now. Daily checking of your account is necessary to stay in touch with the goings-on at Honors and on the campus at large. There are six computers upstairs in the Honors House computer lab if you don't want to fight the crowds at the library and don't have a personal computer. Lecture Series from the Honors Student Council (HSC) HSC Academic Lecture series has put together several academic lectures for the fall semester. The third lecture in the series features Dr. Frank Neussel, "Encounters with Languages" on Oct. 4 at 4 p.m. The fourth lecturer in the series will be Dr. Mark Blum from U of L’s history department. Blum will be speaking on Oct. 25 at 4 p.m. about "Discerning the Lived Experience of History: Personal Time and Personal Understanding of the Historical Event." Both Lectures will be held in Ekstrom Library, rm. 254 (LIC).
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HONORS ADVISING CONTINUES If you haven't signed up for an advising appointment at the front desk in the Etscorn Honors Center, please come in on Oct. 26 and 27 for walk-in advising. Honors priority registration begins Oct. 30. Honors spring course schedules are available online. Please come prepared and on time to appointments. Registration in each Honors course requires prior approval from the Honors director or an academic counselor. All students with fewer than 24 hours must see a University Honors academic counselor to register for any classes. Peace Corps General Information Session If community health, information or environmental technology, business development or international education have any interest for you, sign up to attend. The Peace Corps' representative from Chicago, Ken Surdin, will meet with Honors students on Wednesday, Oct. 18 from 6 to 7 p.m. in Threlkeld 132 to talk about the Peace Corps and all the different ways it can enhance your life. Upcoming Deadlines Rhodes Scholarship, Oct. 2, 2006 Marshall Scholarship, Oct. 4, 2006 Mitchell Scholarship, Oct. 6, 2006 Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Oct. 15, 2006 Fulbright Scholarships, Oct. 20, 2006
(U.S. Government's premier program to every corner of the world) For more information about any of these scholarships please contact the director of the National Scholarship Office, Dr. Patricia Condon. Her e-mail is patricia.condon@louisville.edu or call 852-6293. NEW FEATURE: VOLUNTEER Campus Preview Day The Admissions Office is looking for student volunteers to help with a program on Saturday, Nov. 11 called Campus Preview Day. There will be two shifts, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Volunteers will receive service hours for this event. This event is open to all high school students from across the state and southern Indiana who have shown interest in attending U of L. Please respond to Nicole Rabalais by Monday, Oct. 16. Helpful links for Pre-Med/Pre-Dent Students U of L Medical School Admissions U of L Dental School Pre-Dental Society Minority Association of Premedical Students (MAPS)
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Volume
6, Number 4 University of Louisville ARTS & SCIENCES
October 2, 2006
Walk-in advising begins Oct. 26
Angy Mounir is a biology major and a rising senior in the Honors Program. She is a graduate from Notre Dame Academy in northern Kentucky. Like many Honors students Angy is constantly on the go, but maintains social interaction through various student organizations to which she belongs. She is president of both the THE CURRENT, the University Honors Program online newsletter published every two weeks during the fall and spring terms, welcomes submissions. Material should be submitted by the Wednesday preceding the next Monday publication date. Electronic submissions are preferable. Please send to Nichole Burruss by e-mail at nichole.burruss@louisville.edu. Hard copy may be sent to the Honors House c/o THE CURRENT. The next issue of THE CURRENT appears October 16, 2006.
University Honors Program
University of Louisville
Office: (502) 852-6293, Fax: (502) 852-3919
E-mail: honors@louisville.edu
University of Louisville
Office: (502) 852-6293, Fax: (502) 852-3919
E-mail: honors@louisville.edu
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