Until they come home… We want you! This group is open to anyone that has a significant other serving in the Armed Forces.  We are planning to send care packages, letters and fun things to the soldiers.  This is also an opportunity to support and relate to others that are going through a similar experience missing a service member. Join us in the new Women's Center Oasis in Old Main 3, Tuesdays from 4-5 p.m. For more information, please check out: http://www.kutztown.edu/admin/womens/activities.htm

        Elizabeth Wiegand, graduate assistant, Women's Center

The KU Alumni Association is accepting nominations for the Wiesenberger Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. Nominations will be accepted until May 1. The award guidelines and nomination form may be found at www.kutztown.edu/alumni/wiesenberger/awards/

        Glenn Godshall, director, Alumni Relations

Kutztown Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 560 has endowed the university with a scholarship to help a student who is in their freshman or sophomore year and who meets the following criteria:

• son or daughter of an honorably discharged veteran

• resident of either the Brandywine, Fleetwood or Kutztown Area School Districts

• demonstrated financial need

• maintains a 2.5 GPA and will participate in KU’s ROTC program

If you know of a student who meets this criteria, please have them contact me at campus ext. 3-4111 or stop by the Alumni Office for an application.

        Glenn Godshall, director, Alumni Relations

The Fourth annual Relay for Life of Kutztown University. It will be held Friday, April 23-24, 2010 on the DMZ from 2 p.m. until 2 a.m. We will celebrate survivors, remember those we’ve lost to cancer, and fight back against a disease that hopefully, one day, people will no longer fear. Since its inception, the Relay for Life of Kutztown University has raised more than $40,000 in the fight against cancer. These funds are valuable to providing the research, education, advocacy, and patient services needed to help cancer patients and their families. There are many ways you can get involved:

• Get your friends, or a club, together, and create a team! We have meetings twice a month to keep you in the loop about the great things going on with Relay!

• Make a donation. We currently have “Real Men Wear Pink!” calendars available for $10 featuring some of KU’s great men’s clubs and sports.

• If you’re a cancer survivor, register, and join us for the Survivor’s Celebration Ceremony. You will enjoy a great free dinner, and receive a purple T-shirt! We will honor you with a survivor’s victory lap at 7 p.m. on April 23!

• If you know a cancer survivor that cannot make it to the Relay, register as a “Virtual Cancer Survivor!” You can walk in honor of your loved one, and receive a purple T-shirt to give to them in their honor!

• Make a donation for a luminaria! A luminaria is a bag lit with a candle in honor or in memory of a loved one who has conquered or lost their battle with cancer. All the bags are lit during a special ceremony sure to remind you why we Relay each year.

We hope that you will consider joining us for this special event that is sure to bring the entire KU community together for a great cause. If you would like more information about Relay, please contact Aubrey Showers (ashow190@live.kutztown.edu) or Jodi Torock (jodi.torock@cancer.org, 610-921-2329).

        Nancy Brynildsen, secretary, Dean for Student Services

Please announce to your seniors:   Being a senior means committing time to the job search and graduate school process.  Find out how to avoid the “Top Mistakes of a Senior” and learn to maximize your chance of success in today’s job market by attending Senior Orientation for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.  This presentation by the Career Development Center along with remarks by the Dean will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 2, from 11-11:50 a.m. in the McFarland Student Union Alumni Auditorium. Your attendance is requested.

        Kerri Gardi, director, Career Development

Stitch and B*tch. Got that winter weather freeze? Make that scarf that you’ve always wanted! Come Stitch … Bitch … and Relax! If you don’t know how to knit, we can teach you! We have supplies, books, and ideas! But, any arts and crafts projects are welcome. At the new Women’s Center Oasis in Old Main 3, every Wednesday, from 4-5:30 p.m.! For more information check out: http://www.kutztown.edu/admin/womens/activities.htm

         Elizabeth Wiegand, graduate assistant, Women's Center  

FrenchConnection@KU is an informal group of campus French-speakers and their friends that gathers weekly for a conversation hour. We also have regular French movie nights during the academic semester.  Our first meeting this Spring will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 3 p.m. in the Bear's Den of the McFarland Student Union. If you would like to subscribe to our group e-mail list, please contact me at lebosse@kutztown.edu, or check our Facebook group page on the KU network: "FrenchConnection@KU." Merci, et une bonne année à tous!

        Dr. Mathias Le Bossé, Department of Geography

It’s time to dust off your Halloween costume and get ready for Purim! The Hillel group will be having their monthly bagel brunch meeting to discuss upcoming events on Thursday, Feb. 4 from 11 a.m. to noon in room 113 Beekey. There will be Kutztown Hillel T-shirts available for $10. For more information, please check out our Facebook page.

        Avidan Milevsky and Lisa Schonberger, advisors

Free KU Presents! interactive talk on early cinema music for all KU students, faculty and staff on Friday, Feb. 5 from 4- 5:30 p.m. in Schaeffer Auditorium. Rick Benjamin, Music Director for the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, will be giving an interactive talk on early cinema music.  The Orchestra will join him to play specific scenes from the evening's feature film (The Mark of Zorro!) to demonstrate methods of historic underscoring. He will also take questions from the audience.

Rick Benjamin, has built a career on the discovery and performance of lost American music from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. He is the founder and director of the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, which uses his extraordinary 10,000-title collection of antique theater and dance orchestra music (c.1875-1925) as the basis of its repertoire.  Mr. Benjamin is also an energetic researcher of music for silent films; he has unearthed the original orchestral accompaniments to many of the great motion pictures of the 1910s and '20s, which he conducts at film festivals around the world.   

For information on the entire evening of our performance of the PRO with The Mark of Zorro! including dinner and a free pre-concert activity including your fellow faculty, go to: http://www.kutztown.edu/activities/kupas/rick_benjamin_orchestra.aspx

        J. Andrew Cassano, director, KU Presents!

College of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty First Thursday! Dean Ballas,  Assistant Professor of Communication Design, will present “Visual Art Distance Learning”  on Thursday, Feb. 4 at 11 a.m. in 120 Sharadin.  Professor Ballas is in the process of developing an online version of the Historical Survey of Graphic Design course.  We have a chance to explore how students enrolled in an online course engage with interactive content as opposed to the traditional delivery found in an on ground classroom.  Will there be a better understanding of the course content through virtual delivery?  Lets discuss!

        William J. Mowder, dean, College of Visual & Performing Arts

The University Curriculum Committee (UCC) will have a continuation meeting on Thursday, Feb. 4, at 11 a.m., in 312 McFarland Student Union to consider the remaining curricular proposals on its January agenda, which can be found online a http://www.kutztown.edu/committees/ucc/agenda.html.  As always, individuals and/or departments with proposals on the agenda are invited and encouraged to attend to answer any questions that may arise.

        R.S. Schaeffer, chair, University Curriculum Committee

Viewpoints Menu

Monday: 

Beef Vegetable Soup

Creamy Asparagus

Herbed Turkey London Broil

Tortilla Tomato Casserole

Vegetable Medley

White Ranch Macaroni

Tuesday:

German Potato Soup

Chicken Rice

General Tso's Chicken

Couscous Filled Tomatoes

Broccoli

Steamed Rice

Wednesday: 

Wedding Soup

Cream of Tomato

Beef Stroganoff

South Western Chili Cakes

Sauteed Zucchini

Buttered Noodles

Thursday: 

Chicken Noodle

Broccoli Cheddar

Buttermilk Fried Chicken Breast

Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers

Steamed Cauliflower

Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Friday: 

Vegetarian Vegetable

Chicken Corn Chowder

Broiled Haddock

Black Bean Cakes with Lemon Pepper Mayo

Aztec Corn

Macaroni and Cheese

        Danielle Fessler, marketing manager, AVI Foodsystems