Campus Read Essays Due Today - December 1, 2008

Is your essay ready? The deadline is today -- Monday, December 1, 2008.

This is your chance to win a $500 scholarship from the BSC Foundation for the Spring 2008 semester.

Essays can be submitted electronically to Kitty Netzer or hand-delivered to the BSC Library front desk.

Guidelines

• Submit your best work of 600 words or more. The topic may be anything related to your consideration of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian.
• Essays must be typed and must be a polished, finished product.
• Essays will be judged anonymously, so include your name on a separate cover page with the title of your essay.
• The winning essay will be published in The Mystician.

Essay Contest - Deadline Coming up!

A reminder ... the deadline for the CampusRead essay contest is soon here. Submissions are due on Monday, December 1, 2008.

This is your chance to win a $500 scholarship!

For all the details, check the blog posting dated September 19, 2008.

Distinguished Scholar of the Humanities Lecture

On Wednesday, November 12, Clay Jenkinson, BSC Distinguished Scholar of the Humanities, and Dr. Larry Skogen, BSC President, will present the first installment of a Distinguished Scholar of the Humanities Lecture series.

The event will be held in the Sidney J. Lee Auditorium, Schafer Hall from 7 to 9 p.m.

Clay Jenkinson and Dr. Skogen will use the BSC Campus Read novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie, as a starting point for a wide-ranging discussion of white-Indian relations at the beginning of the 21st century, the role of the federal government in Indian country, Native American cultural resurgence, the future of the dual sovereignty concept in Indian America, and appropriation of Indian cultural motifs by non-Indians.

You are invited to attend! This lecture series is free and open to all.