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Scott Cawelti, English Division Conference Coordinator, (319) 273-3810
Jennifer Cooley, Modern Languages Conference Coordinator, (319) 273-2529
Vicki Grimes, University Marketing and Public Relations, (319) 273-2763
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — Area students, teachers and writers can submit essays through Tuesday, Feb. 6, in a critical writing contest at the University of Northern Iowa, offering nearly $20,000 in cash prizes and tuition waivers. The contest is in conjunction with the 21st annual “Celebrating Critical Writing Conference,” to be held Friday, March 30 in UNI's Schindler Education Center.
Essays should be nonfiction prose. According to Scott Cawelti, UNI professor of English and English division conference coordinator, two new awards have been added to this year's contest, the "Television and Editorial Writing Award" and "Best Essay by an Iowa High School Teacher." Last year's contest awarded prizes to nearly 30 essays, totaling $19,450.
This year's conference will feature former Des Moines Register columnist Rekha Basu. In addition, there will be numerous small group discussions and presentations.
For more information about the Celebrating Critical Writing Conference and contest guidelines, visit the event's Web site at www.uni.edu/english/webfiles/ccwc, or call Scott Cawelti, English division conference coordinator at (319) 273-3810 or Jennifer Cooley, modern languages division conference coordinator at (319) 273-2529.
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Leah White, assistant professor of communication studies and director of forensics, (319) 273-7200
Vicki Grimes, Office of University Marketing and Public Relations, (319) 273-2761
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — "Overcoming Nazi Oppression: Charlotte Salomom, Autobiography and the Reconstruction of Self," will be discussed at noon, Monday, Feb. 5, on the University of Northern Iowa's continuing CROW (Current Research on Women) Forum Series.
Leah E. White, UNI assistant professor of communication studies, will speak in the Maucker Union Embassy Room. White will focus her discussion on reactions to Salomom's autobiography and the resisting of Nazi oppression. She said this autobiography is unique as it was “written in a form of a play that corresponds to the different points in Salomom's life. This autobiography crosses general lines, as Salomom painted over 700 works of art that illustrate scenes of the play.”
White is in her third year at UNI, where she is also director of the forensics program. She teaches oral communication, methods of directing forensics, and applied forensics in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. She holds a doctorate in performance studies from Arizona State University.
. The lecture is free and open to the public, and sponsored by UNI's Graduate Program in Women's Studies. The next CROW Forum will be at noon Monday, March 5. Allison Stringer, UNI assistant professor of leisure, youth and human services, will present "Social Physique Anxiety and Gendered Constraints to Recreation Among UNI Personal Wellness Students," in the Maucker Union Embassy Room.
For more information, call White at (319) 273-7200.
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Lee Weber, project director and chair, PLS social studies faculty, (319) 273-2056
Vicki Grimes, University Marketing & Public Relations, (319) 273-2761
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — Students at the University of Northern Iowa's Price Laboratory School have been selected as the only school in the nation to represent the United States in a four-year international project, supported in part by UNESCO—the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
In May, three students and their teacher will travel to Brussels, Belgium to participate in the “Universal Forum of Cultures.” The forum students and teachers from 15 schools across Europe, Africa, Canada, Latin America and the United States; the common theme for their activities is global citizenship.
Lee Weber, chair of the PLS social studies faculty, will travel to Vienna early next month to attend a planning meeting to finalize the May forum and work further on project plans. He said while plans have not yet been finalized for 2002 and 2003, the concluding event will be a conference in Barcelona, Spain, in May 2004. This will be held at the Olympic Village where the city hosted the 1992 summer games.
Freshmen Ashley Dorris, Nate Hanson and Devon Leslie will travel with their ninth-grade world history teacher, Paul Horton, to Brussels. A fourth student, Joe Ellerbroek, was named as an alternate.
Weber said each participating school has created a long-term global citizenship action project that its students will work on during the entire four years. The Price Lab students have chosen “Children and War” as their theme. Additionally, students at all the project schools will conduct specific activities each year. During the current year, three different global citizenship competitions are taking place: story-telling, photography and comic strip creation. Students going to Brussels also will participate in an original play written by a prominent European playwright, specifically for the International Forum Project.
Weber said Price Lab's four fulltime social studies faculty members are each supervising and overseeing a different year of the project, beginning with Horton. Barbara (BJ) Herrick, who teaches tenth grade American history, will develop next year's project, with third year development by Jason Follett, who teaches eleventh and twelfth grade electives in social studies, and the final year by Weber, who teaches 12th-grade American government.
The students traveling to Brussels were selected from among 19 students who applied for the trip. Application packages included a global citizenship essay, his or her individual competition project, two or three letters of reference, and a portfolio on the class-determined global citizen action project, “Children and War.” A panel comprised of the PLS social studies faculty and three outside reviewers named six finalists to be interviewed before making the final selection.
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Leah White, director of forensics, (319) 273-7200
Vicki Grimes, University Marketing and Public Relations, (319) 273-2761
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — Six members of the UNI individual events speech team recently received awards during the second portion of the Iowa Swing Tournament held on the UNI campus.
Participating in the Cornell College Portion of the tournament, UNI Lucas Messer, senior Communication/Theatre Education major from Danville, placed second in Duo Interpretation along with Nikki Vap, junior English Teaching major from Manchester. Vap also placed third in After Dinner Speaking.
Students placing fifth were Carolynn Sween, senior Political Communication major from Waterloo, in Impromptu Speaking and Communication Analysis; Amy Larsen, sophomore from Ankeny, in Impromptu Speaking; Megan Gates, freshman General Communication major from Waverly in Poetry Interpretation; and Sara Gronstal, freshman Elementary Education major from Council Bluffs, in After Dinner Speaking. Sween also placed sixth in Persuasive Speaking.
As host of the Henderson Spring Season Opener, the first portion of the Iowa Swing Tournament, the UNI team did not compete. Members helped run the tournament, along with their coaches, Margaret Kaszonyi, UNI instructor in communication studies, and Leah White, assistant professor of communication studies and director of the UNI Forensics Program. Both portions of the tournament were held on the UNI campus.
For more information, contact Leah White at (319) 273-7200.
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CEDAR FALLS--(Name/Names) from the (Hometown) area is/are among the students named to the 2000 fall semester Dean's List at the University of Northern Iowa.
To be included on the list, a student must have earned a grade point of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale, while taking at least 12 hours of graded work during the semester. On the 4.0 system, an A is worth four points; a B, three points; a C, two points, and a D, one point.
NOTE TO EDITOR: Students are listed below alphabetically by hometown. Students are listed under the towns which they list with the Registrar as their home mailing address. Please check the list for other towns in your reading/listening area. Thank you.
In order to obtain the listing of the honored students, please contact the Office of University Marketing & Public Relations at (319)273-761.