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Monday Nov. 16th -   

Carroll students will have a chance to learn more about summer internships with the Federal Highway Administration, which will have reps on campus on November 16 and 17. Contact Career Services at to schedule an interview.

Mandatory Loan exit counseling for students who have student loans and are graduating in December or not returning in spring (transferring).  You must attend one of the sessions or make arrangements with Keith in the loan office  .

Nov. 16, 2009  12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. O'Connell Hall Room 101                
Nov. 17, 2009   4:00 p.m. -  5:00 p.m.   O'Connell Hall Room 101

  Up Till Dawn Meeting at 7:00 p.m. in the Student Activities Room.   

Tuesday Nov. 17th-  

Alcohol Assessment -  Last year Carroll College received a small grant to assess alcohol use on campus. We completed our assessment and now we would like to share the results of that work with the campus community. Please join us to discuss our finding, recommendations, and where Carroll can go from here.  Hope to see you there!-Kelly Parsley Wellness Educator
Where:  Rogers Room - CUBE   When: Nov 17 12:30- 1:30

Career Services: Carroll students will have a chance to learn more about summer internships with the Federal Highway Administration, which will have reps on campus on November 16 and 17. Contact Career Services at to schedule an interview.

Two Tire Tuesday Mountain Biking Trips "CAMP"  On Tuesdays at 3:45 p.m. There will be a Mountain Bike rides leaving from Carroll to explore the many bike trails in our nearby mountains. Anyone with a bike and 2 mountain bike tires is welcome to attend no matter what your ability! Meet outside the Cube at 3:45 if you would like embark on the ride. We should be back to catch the tail end of dinner.  For more information or for questions contact Bradly Maddock at

Tightwad Tuesdays have returned to the Myrna Loy Center, with $2 film tickets for Carroll students, faculty, and staff every Tuesday. If indie, award-winning and foreign celluloid is on your movie menu, the Myrna is for you! For current films and times, check their website http://www.myrnaloycenter.com/. Other nights of the week, the Myrna offers $4.50 film tickets for students, faculty, and staff. Live shows of the best in performing arts are also available to Carrollites at a low price: students get in for $7 and Carroll faculty and staff tickets are just $15 for world-class entertainment. Check out the Myrna Loy at 15 N. Ewing or call 406-443-0287 for more info.

 Y earbook Meeting at 8:30 p.m. in the Student Activities Room.

  SAVE Club Meeting - Tuesday Nov.  17th at 7pm in the Lower Cube

Mandatory Loan exit counseling for students who have student loans and are graduating in December or not returning in spring (transferring).  You must attend one of the sessions or make arrangements with Keith in the loan office  .

Nov. 16, 2009       12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.   O'Connell Hall Room 101
Nov. 17, 2009         4:00 p.m. -  5:00 p.m.   O'Connell Hall Room 101

Wednesday Nov. 18th -   

Dr. Kelly Cline presents "Infinity and Beyond: From Mathematics to the Big Bang and Black Holes," 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall's Wiegand Amphitheatre, room 101-202. Free and open to the public. -  Next Wednesday, November 18, start thinking big-REALLY BIG-as our resident astronomer-mathematics professor Kelly Cline presents "Infinity and Beyond: From Mathematics to the Big Bang and Black Holes," at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall's Wiegand Amphitheatre, room 101-202. As always, his talk is free and open to the public.

Part of the Helena Education Foundation's Great Conversations program, Carroll will co-sponsor a panel discussion, "Future of News Media" at 7 p.m. in Trinity Hall lounge. Panelists will include University of Montana School of Journalism Dean Peggy Kuhr, Associated Press Western States Division Director Jim Clarke and Helena Independent Record Editor John Doran. Carroll President Tom Trebon will moderate. Sponsored by Carroll College and the Helena Independent Record Carroll is co-sponsoring an event with the Helena Education Foundation next week called "The Future of News Media".  Could you send a message out to students and staff about it?  I've attached the ad and here is the link to the information on our website: http://www.hefmt.org/component/content/article/25-upcoming-events/130-an-even-greater-conversation-about-the-future-of-news-media

Next Thursday, November 19, as part of the Helena Education Foundation's Great Conversations program, Carroll will co-sponsor a panel discussion, "Future of News Media" at 7 p.m. in Trinity Hall lounge. Panelists will include University of Montana School of Journalism Dean Peggy Kuhr, Associated Press Western States Division Director Jim Clarke and Helena Independent Record Editor John Doran. Carroll President Tom Trebon will moderate. On the docket is how media will respond to public calls for more news in the evolving digital age stressing free access to information. Is the Internet the future of news, and if so, how will the media evolve to offer in-depth, investigative reporting and meet its financial needs to stay in business? Will media become more democratized in the hands of many, or will a few corporate emperors decide what's news? Sponsored by Carroll College and the Helena Independent Record, it is free and open to the public.

Repower Montana - Organizing Meeting   Thursday - November 19th - 6:30pm at the  Staggering Ox, the "old side" or front area  Guest Speaker: Patrick Judge with the NW Energy Coalition, on "Charting a Clean Energy Future for Montana" Come help change history!  Join the movement and continue building grassroots support to pass comprehensive clean energy legislation in the U.S. Senate. Questions? Please call Amanda Eby at (406)461-9686 or email at

Friday Nov. 20th  -    

Highlighter Dance  from 9:00 to midnight in the Lower Cube  Music by D.J. Twixx   - Be sure to wear a white T-shirt we will provide the highlighters.

Women's Carroll Basketball Game at 6

Saturday Nov. 21st  

Playoff Game - Carroll vs Dickerson State at 12:00 noon - tickets for students have been purchased by Student Activities - there is a limited number... first come first serve - pick them up at the Carroll P.E. Center.

Women's Carroll Basketball Game at 5

Knocking Out Poverty Night at the Quarry Bar and Grille -  Join the Carroll College West Africa Study Abroad Trip and the Quarry in knocking out poverty.  The Quarry will televise UFC 106 with a $5 cover charge.  100% of the cover charge will be donated to the fundraising efforts for the West Africa Study Abroad trip.  NOVEMBER 21st

Sunday Nov. 22nd -  Sunday Night Mass, 8pm, Campus Center - 

The Carroll College Choirs will provide music for the St. Cecilia Day Mass at St. Mary Catholic Community in Helena.

Future and Upcoming Events

November
25        Thanksgiving break, No Classes;
26        Thanksgiving Day, No Classes;
27        Thanksgiving break, No Classes;
29        Sunday Night Mass, 8pm, Campus Center; 

Thanksgiving Dinner

If you are planning on staying for Thanksgiving break, come have a home cooked Thanksgiving dinner in St. Charles. It will be a great opportunity for all of us not going home to bond over some great food. My family is even coming from Couer d' Alene to help me make the food! :) Just let me know if you are planning on staying and would be interested in coming to eat.  I'll let you know next week the exact time on Thanksgiving Day that we'll be having dinner. Good luck with school work, and have an awesome weekend! - Just E-mail me ASAP at

Invisible Children

Greetings! I would just like to thank you for all of your support with the Invisible Children Campaign at Carroll. I would just like to remind you that we are doing a book drive to help buy books for the schools in Uganda. Any books are welcome, and the better the condition of the book the more it will be worth. This drive ends mid-January, and I have to have all the books prescreened and postmarked by the 29th of January. So for logistical reasons, the sooner you donate the books the better! You can bring any and all books to my office in the basement of the Cube. It is in the Student Activities office the very last door next to Chad Gray's office. Or if you email me I will personally come to you and pick up the books! Thanks again!

Megan Rennie - Civic Engagement Intern - Work:(406)447-5196 - Cell:(406)461-7498 -

Christmas Toys and Gifts

Now through December 9, Carroll's annual Toys for Tots drive welcomes donations of new, unwrapped gifts for all ages of children. Donation boxes have been set up in the Carroll PE Center, O'Connell Hall, the Corette Library, Simperman Hall, St. Albert's, and in residences Guadalupe, St. Charles and Trinity. Our dorms have been assigned age groups to provide for as follows: Guad Hall: ages 0-2 years; St. Charles: 3-5 years old; and Trinity/Borromeo: ages 6-9. All other buildings may donate for a kid of any age. The building that donates the most toys will receive an ice cream social at the beginning of the spring semester. For more info, contact Megan Rennie at

STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! - Hollywood Fundraiser Event!

Carroll College Dance Team and Big Sky Dance Works are hosting an evening of fun. It includes a full course dinner, silent auction and dances, performed by the Carroll Dance Team and the BSDW Dance Crews.   Dress to impress in Hollywood attire. Routines performed from movies such as Grease, Dirty Dancing, Footloose, and Flashdance!
When: December 3rd, 2009, in the Upper Cube. Dinner begins at 6pm.
Tickets can be purchased by any Carroll College Dance Team girl for $20. Tables selling tickets will also be set up soon.
Please come support these hard working teams!

The World of Arts connected to our Centennial Celebration:

As part of our Carroll Centennial Celebration the Carroll Art Gallery is featuring a series of exhibits. Entitled ³Carroll Connected², the series continues with the second show featuring artwork from the collections of faculty and administrators.   -    The second exhibit, ³Carroll Connected: Collectors² will feature artwork from the collections of President Tom Trebon, Professor Sam Alvey, Professor Kyle Strode, Professor Joe Munzenrider, and Professor Robert Swartout. This exhibits opens October 12th and runs through December 10th.   -   The gallery is open from 9am to 9pm weekdays and is closed weekends and college holidays.  -  Additionally we are featuring the work of three alumni in the glass display cases in the hall. Caleb Cantwell-Frank (Sociology '03) and Page Kelly (History '07) are showing their ceramic work and Sheilah Burke Wilcynski

 

Colors Magazine - become a staff member!

ColorsDo you find yourself reading food labels, car manuals, and everything else you can get your hands on? Have you ever corrected a newspaper article just because? If you have, or even if you haven't, you are made for the Carroll Colors Staff. Carroll Colors is the student run literary magazine that is published annually. We are looking for excited and energetic people who like to read poetry, short stories, and all sorts of other student created pieces. If you would like to join the Carroll Colors staff please send an email describing why you would like to be on the staff and what you could bring to the magazine to Nik Griffith, Editor-in-Chief, at .

Yearbook Staff

We are putting together this year's Yearbook Staff.  If you are interested in being a part of the Centennial Year - Year Book - contact Patrick Harris at
 

Arts and Entertainment

 The World of Arts connected to our Centennial Celebration:

 

As part of our Carroll Centennial Celebration the Carroll Art Gallery is featuring a series of exhibits. Entitled ³Carroll Connected², the series continues with the second show featuring artwork from the collections of faculty and administrators.   -    The second exhibit, ³Carroll Connected: Collectors² will feature artwork from the collections of President Tom Trebon, Professor Sam Alvey, Professor Kyle Strode, Professor Joe Munzenrider, and Professor Robert Swartout. This exhibits opens October 12th and runs through December 10th.   -   The gallery is open from 9am to 9pm weekdays and is closed weekends and college holidays.  -  Additionally we are featuring the work of three alumni in the glass display cases in the hall. Caleb Cantwell-Frank (Sociology '03) and Page Kelly (History '07) are showing their ceramic work and Sheilah Burke Wilcynski

(Art'69!!!) is showing paintings.

Tight Wad Tuesdays

Go to the Myrna Loy for Great Entertainment

Tight Wad Tuesday at the Myrna Loy. Carroll Student tickets only $2.00 The Student Activities program has set up a declining balance at the Myrna Loy so Carroll Students can have a discount for any ticket you buy.

Tuesday is the best deal of all. With $2.00 dollar tickets for regular shows. Be sure to show your Carroll I.D.

In addition to offering Tightwad Tuesday ($2 movie tickets on Tuesdays with Carroll ID--the regular Carroll ID film price weeklong is still only $4) the Myrna Loy's upcoming live performances with Carroll discount tickets are:

Repower America

Repower America MT will have a table in the cube every Wed. and Fri. from 11-1, until around Thanksgiving time. 

Repower Montana - Organizing Meeting

  • Thursday, October 29th
  • 6:30 - 7:30pm
  • Repower America Office, (basement of AFL-CIO building)
  • 810 Hialeah Ct., Helena, MT (off Custer, next to VFW back parking lot)
  • Professional from the clean energy industry guest speaking
  • Refreshments provided
RSVP to Amanda Roccabruna Eby - 406-461-9686 or
Landmark clean energy and climate legislation is moving through Congress and our Montana Senators may cast the deciding vote.  We need your help to encourage Senators Tester and Baucus to support this legislation, work towards a more sustainable clean energy economy, and address the climate crisis!

 

Organize to be Heard Challenge | Consequence & Repower America

Goal: To raise the voice of young people and to influence the debate by calling for a clean energy future through grassroots activity, such as new media, earned media and traditional field tactics.

Strategy: Throughout the month of November and early December, Repower America, in coordination with the Consequence (the youth targeted campaign for clean energy), will roll out a national challenge calling young people to action. This challenge is for youth leaders and student activists only. The top 10 - 15 student organizers will win a trip to DC. Please go to the challenge website for more information on prizes: http://consequence09.org/challenge/

Dates: November 16, 2009 ‐ December 2, 2009 (Subject to Change)
 
Tactics: Tactics for the Organize to Be Heard include earned media events, LTEs(Letters to the Editor, and this can be in the Independent Record, Queen City News, or the Carroll newspaper) printed, handwritten letters to senators Baucus and Tester, video testimonials filmed, phone calls, and petition signatures. Each tactic will be awarded a certain amount of points.

As a Repower America organizer, I would like to encourage you as students and youth leaders to start or continue: 1) writing letters to Senators and 2) filming videos.   If you think you could get a number of video testimonials on your dorm floor, for example, you can call me and I will let you borrow my camera for an evening.  For all these tactics, you will be rewarded for your work specifically, rather than just helping me as an organizer.  You can get a significant amount of points.

Points System:
• Earned Media Event - 50
• Printed LTE - 25
• Video - 15
• Handwritten Letter - 10
• Call to Congress‐ 5
• Petition Signature‐ 2
 
Reporting:

All reporting for the contest will be housed at, tracked and verified by the Consequence campaign on its website.  I will show you how to use this mechanism so your work is recorded and credited.  Here is the reporting page on the Consequence website: http://consequence09.org/challenge/reporting/

For videos recorded, students (with my help if necessary) must copy and paste their video link into the reporting tool to get points.

Please call me with any questions at (406)461-9686 or email at or .  I am looking forward to generating more student activism for clean energy in the Carroll community.  Let's work together and get Carroll College and Montana's name's known in the Organize to Be Heard Challenge!

 

Red Cross Blood Drive

Red Cross

Red Cross is having a blood drive in the lower Cube on October 12, 2009 from 11am - 5pm, and we need you to sign up to be a donor! Sign up online at givelife.org and schedule a time.  Here's what you need to do:

  1. Go to http://www.givelife.org
  2. Enter gosaints into the Sponsor Code area.
  3. Sign up for a time!

Thanks again, and remember: "The Need is Constant, The Gratification is Instant, Give Blood".

In September, Carroll had an incredible blood drive in September 98 students presented to donate and 79 were productive.

All new Carroll Radio K.R.O.L

You can now listen to a whole new play list of music, new D.J's, new shows, and become a d.j. yourself.

Listen over your computer by downloading the K.R.O.L Radio Feed above.

Carroll Radio 88.5 KROL is becoming Helena's favorite radio station!

If you have not heard - Carroll Radio is kicking butt.  It is becoming one of the most popular Radio stations in the Helena area.  Phone calls are coming in letting us know that they love our play mix of the most popular music and all the classics.  Brahms Zepeda has given Carroll Radio a whole new sound.  Dial in 88.5 FM and  find yourself celebrating life with one great song after the next. 

Order your 2008 yearbook

Order your 2009 yearbook now, yearbooks are now available for pre-ordering on the Carroll website at http://www.carroll.edu/students/activities/yearbook.cc Base price is $50 and with a ten dollar deposit you can begin your personalization.  Check it out.

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