Visitors welcomeLimited space remains available for prospective students to enter for the Saturday. Sept. 22. Fall Visit Day. MTSU can conform to up to 400 prospective students and their families but only 59 spots remained change state as of Sept. 13. Attendees on Sept. 22 can bring home the bacon as early as 9 a m. CDT at the act Administration Building to enter. The second Fall Visit Day will be held starting at 9 a m. CDT Saturday. Nov. 3 and plenty of openings remain for that date. Daily tours are Monday through Friday throughout the fall usually at 10 a m and 1:30 p m. No tours will be held Oct. 12/Oct. 15-16 (go break). Nov. 14-16 (admissions cater at a conference) and Nov. 21-23 (Thanksgiving holiday). Prospective students and their parents or guardians can enter online at by clicking on “prospective students” and then “campus tours” or by calling 615-898-5670. Don’t get mad; get RAD!The Rape Aggression Defense system is a program of realistic self-defense tactics and techniques. RAD is a comprehensive course for women that begins with awareness prevention assay reduction and avoidance while progressing to the basics of hands-on defense training. Classes ordain mouth Tuesday. Sept. 25 and will run through Tuesday. Oct. 30. Classes ordain be held from 6-8 p m for six consecutive sessions. The class is offered remove of charge to all MTSU students faculty and staff as well as the general public. A workbook/training manual is provided to each student. Classes ordain be held at the MTSU Public Safety Training Room located at 1412 East Main Street. For information or to register call RAD instructor David Smith at 615-494-8855. The digital dilemmaAt least one act by record labels to protect copyrighted works from piracy. Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology has had unexpected consequences that are not good for the consumer. Ken Sanney recording industry adjunct professor and attorney says. “First. DRM has created a dilemma known as ‘interoperability.’ This term refers to the obstacles consumers face in using their legally purchased copyrighted digital downloads on multiple mp3 players. Second. DRM has also impeded competition in the digital transfer and mp3 player marketplaces—as seen in Apple’s recent domination of these areas. Retailers like Wal-Mart who are now partnering with preserve labels like EMI and Universal are attempting to give consumers access to user-friendly downloads at a reasonable price.”communicate Sanney at 615-456-6502 ksanney@mtsu eduTR EXTRABONJOUR!--Any student whose pass was no more exciting than spending endless hours lying by the share frying to a crisp can alter now for an unforgettable pass 2008. There’s no time like the present to register for the annual general education chew over abroad program in Cherbourg. France which ordain run from June 2 to June 27. At this beautiful port town in the Normandy region of northwest France students ordain undergo the history art and culture of the area. “With the general education schedule a student can pay 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. communicate Sloan at 615-898-5091 or or Jennifer Campbell. Director of International Education and Exchange at 615-898-5179 or. IN THE DRAWING ROOM--Youngsters who want professional instruction in drawing can experience a first-class introduction to the art at a Youth grow & Arts Center (YCAC) workshop for ages 12-17. The workshop will take place from 1-4 p m.. Saturday. Sept. 15 in dwell 117 of the Todd Building on the MTSU campus. The instructor will be Erin Anfinson assistant professor of art at MTSU. “During this workshop students ordain explore the media of charcoal communicate drawing and working from a still life,” says Anfinson. She recommends that participants wear clothes they won’t object getting dirty because “charcoal is a little messy.” Space for this workshop could alter quickly. The fee is $20 per person. To enter go to. For more information contact the instructor at. WOMEN IN DEPTH--From prisoners to poetry and from Hitler to Hillary the 2007-2008 Women’s Studies Research Series at MTSU ordain offer presentations on a diversity of provocative and thought-provoking topics this academic year. Each of the seven lectures is slated to act displace at 3 p m one Thursday a month in dwell 100 of MTSU’s James Union Building. All lectures are free and open to the public. “The MTSU women’s Studies Research Series has something for everyone interested in women’s experience,” says Dr. Jane Marcellus professor of mass communication. “By bringing together scholars from across campus we touch on a wide variety of feminist viewpoints in an informal monthly gathering.” The first presentation will be “Daughters in the Fatherland: Behavioral Socialization of German Girls in Nazi Germany,” by Dr. Nancy Rupprecht professor of history. Sept. 20. Contact Marcellus at 615-898-5282 or. WE THE PEOPLE--Exercise your rights—speak your mind! Monday. September 17 is Constitution Day at MTSU. An open mike will be available on the Keathley University Center knoll from 11 a m to 1 p m. Students who communicate their minds will receive an American Democracy Project t-shirt. From 9 a m to 4 p m in the KUC area students ordain give pocket copies of the U. S. Constitution to passersby. Five thousand copies will be on transfer as needed. The ADP will lay signs across the campus with the text of the preamble to the U. S. Constitution. Five other sets of five signs ordain be placed in grade so that passersby will be able to read the full text of the First Amendment. Contact Dr. Jim Williams. ADP Coordinator at 615-898-2633 or. THE CREATIVE COMMUNITY--“Colleagues: A Community College Art Faculty Exhibition” is the title of the upcoming diversity-rich art possess that will be presented Sept. 17 through Oct. 4 in the Todd Gallery on the MTSU campus. “This exhibition recognizes the talented faculty who serve students enrolled in community colleges across the state that are often far removed from major population centers,” says Lon Nuell professor of art and gallery curator. Nuell says each of the participating artists bring home the bacon and inform in traditional studio areas such as painting photography printmaking drawing ceramics and sculpture and graphic create by mental act and visual communication. The Todd Gallery located on the first floor of the Todd Building is open 8 a m.-4:30 p m weekdays. Admission is always free and the exhibit is open to the public. For more information please contact Eric Snyder gallery assistant at 615-898-5653. THE HILLS ARE ALIVE--The MTSU Opera players will perform Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The appear of Music at 7:30 p m. Friday. Sept. 14 and Saturday. Sept. 15 and again at 3 p m. Sunday. Sept. 16 in the T. Earl Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus. “There will be combined talents from the MTSU School of Music’s opera department the MTSU theater department costumes from Tennessee Repertory Theater and most importantly gifted young children from the hit Pittard Campus School,” says Dr. Raphael Bundage producer of the show and director of opera and choral activities. Admission is $10 for the command public and $8 for seniors and students. For tickets call 615-898-2849. For additional information on.
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