(OUR CUSTOMARY PRE-HALLOWEEN "HORRIBLE HEADLINE" EDITION)
WHERE DO GHOSTS CAST THEIR BALLOTS? IN THE VOTING BOO!
To prepare for the post-Halloween national Election Day, next Monday, Oct. 29, Carroll will present a free, public panel discussion on Legislative Referendum number 121, on the Montana ballot this November. “LR-121 and the Montana Citizen” starts at 7 p.m. in the lower level of the Carroll Campus Center and will delve into the details of the ballot measure seeking to deny certain state services to illegal aliens while laying out procedures for establishing citizenship status. The panel speakers include Moe Wosepka, the director of the Montana Catholic Conference, Shahid Haque-Hausrath, an immigration attorney and the executive director of the Montana Immigration Justice Alliance, and Carroll Assistant Professor of Political Science Jeremy Johnson, a frequently interviewed expert on American politics and policy.
BEWARE THE WYVERN!
And don’t forget Frost Dragons and Asian Lungs—they’re all suspects during the final weekend of our Theatre Department musical extravaganza, < strong>George and the Dragon. The last appearances of this all-new work are tonight and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Carroll Theatre (Old North, St. Charles Hall), plus a Sunday 3 p.m. matinee. If you didn’t see it over the past two weeks, check out the feature Saints and Scholars interview previewing the production on the Carroll YouTube site: http://www.youtube.com/carrollcollegemt
Admission is ALWAYS FREE for Carroll students, and also free to Carroll faculty and staff plus one guest each—bring your ID! Otherwise, general admission is $10 and students/seniors $8.
In other campus arts news, next Tuesday, Oct. 30, the Carroll Jazz Combo will give a free concert in the Campus Center from 4 to 5 p.m. Thirteen students directed by Dr. Lynn Petersen will present a program including Dixieland tune Alabama Jubilee, Henry Mancini's theme from The Pink Panther, Moten Swing, Comin' Home Baby, Eddie Harris' funky Listen Here, and blues tunes by Jimmy Heath and Nat Adderley. The Combo’s two vocalists join the band on Watch What Happens, a cha cha version of Pick Yourself Up, Cole Porter's Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, and others. The concert is open to the public; dancing is A-OK.
PIPPA’S POSSESSION
Tomorrow (Sat., Oct. 27), the Carroll College Nursing Department presents national touring, award-winning performer Pippa White (photo right) presenting a one-woman show, < strong>Into Possession of Myself, at 2 p.m. in the lower level of the Carroll Campus Center. Into Possession of Myself is a fascinating and surprising drama from the diaries, journals, and letters of legendary nurse heroes Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton and Dorthea Dix. This production, which has toured nationwide, has drawn praise for its inspiring, entertaining mix of emotional energy and educational quality in bringing the courageous stories of the three history-making women to life. The performance is approximately 65 minutes long. White has received several awards in recognition of her work, including two Individual Artist Fellowship awards from the Nebraska Arts Council.
The general public, and all nurses, are cordially invited to attend this free event. For nurses seeking continuing education credit for attending, RSVP to Carroll Nursing Department assistant Terri John at 406-447-5491 or tjohn@carroll.edu. The event is sponsored by the Zeta Upsilon Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International nursing society as part of the chapter’s 30th anniversary. For a preview of White’s unique show, see http://www.pippawhite1co.com/perf_possession.htm
SKELETON CREW SCORES BIG
With only five participants this trip, Carroll’s Engineers Without Borders student chapter’s latest project in Mexico turned out to be a huge hit, according to EWB-Carroll’s faculty advisor John Scharf. He and EWB project student leaders Tanner Grimstad and Ryan Wall, lead professional engineer mentor Willis Wetstein and Carroll Mathematics Professor Jack Oberweiser just returned from the Santa Maria del Mexicano orphanage near the town of Colon, where EWB-Carroll has been working since 2006 on sanitation, fish farming, irrigation, and spice farming projects, among other things. On this trip, the EWB irrigation pipeline, which brings water from a dam to the farm fields nearly one mile away from the orphanage, became fully operational. This will allow Santa Maria to begin growing spice crops to generate more income, which will allow more of its residents to attend college in the nearby city of Queretaro. (Photo left: Observing their irrigation line success, left to right are Grimstad, Wetstein and Wall.)
Second, the aquatic farm EWB-Carroll previously established on the site is producing 2,000 fish for food annually at the orphanage, plus 12,000 fingerlings to sell to local fish farm operations. Third, Professor Oberweiser delivered $1,000 that he raised in Helena to buy new guitars for the Santa Maria residents. They only had a few guitars, but many of the kids can play well—they just needed the instruments, Scharf says. (Photo right: Oberweiser presenting guitar to resident student) Finally, our EWB group came bearing Saintly gifts and delivered about 85 oversized “7-Time National Champions” football tees that Carroll Athletic Director Bruce Parker and the Athletics Department donated for the kids.
Thanks to everyone who supports the EWB-USA Carroll College Student Chapter and the work it continues doing at Santa Maria and at the Diocese of Helena mission school in Guatemala. EWB-USA will launch its annual corporate matching campaign shortly after Thanksgiving—stay tuned for details in coming editions of QNs!
SAINTS HAUNT SEATTLE
The Carroll College choirs will be on tour in Seattle, Wash., where they will offer five concerts on Nov. 8-11. The tour’s primary goal is to uniquely showcase the college to prospective students in the Seattle area, particularly those attending the area’s many Catholic high schools. On their tour, the Carroll choirs will present concerts at Holy Names Academy, O’Dea High School, Bishop Blanchet High School (all in Seattle) and at John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Burien, Wash. The concert repertoire includes selections by Mozart, Pierre Villette, Giuseppe Pitoni, Paul Manz, Kinley Lange, Abbie Betinis, and others. The Carroll choirs this year consist of the 30-member college choir, the 17-member chamber choir, and the 24-voice women’s choir.
As a special performance on the tour, the Carroll choirs will also have a guest appearance at St. James Cathedral in Seattle. The choirs will sing prelude and service music for the 5:30 p.m. Saturday (Nov. 10) Mass, and our singers would love to meet up with any Carroll alumni attending. Former Carroll choir alumni Joel and Shannon (O’Brien) Flugstad (classes of 2009 and 2008 respectively), both members of the St. James Cathedral Choir, will also be on hand to sing and celebrate.
IT’S A MONSTER CELEBRATION!
The inaugural fun to feast Carroll’s traditions and fete our new president Tom Evans starts in a mere week and keeps on for darn near 10 whole days. For starters, on Saturday, Nov. 3, Carroll students invite everyone to watch the action during their 11 a.m. Founder’s Day Flurry on St. Charles hill—prizes, adventure contests and bloopers unfathomable are in store.
The big day is Monday, Nov. 5, starting with an academic symposium called “Learning for Life” free and open to the public in the Campus Center’s lower level. A continental breakfast will be served from 8:30 to 9 a.m., followed by a 9 a.m. panel discussion by distinguished Carroll alumni and a 10:30 a.m. keynote speech by educator and author Janel Keating (more info is at: http://www.carroll.edu/about/pressreleases.cc?pid=3357).
Still on Nov. 5, the Inauguration Ceremony for Dr. Thomas M. Evans (photo right), Carroll’s 16th president, starts at 2 p.m. in the Carroll PE Center. The ceremony is free and open to the public, as is the reception afterwards in the Campus Center.
GO TO BAT FOR A VET
Carroll Veterans Services invites the community to send holiday cheer to US service members deployed worldwide and recovering from injury. Participating in the Holiday Mail for Heroes effort by the American Red Cross is easy and heartwarming: just send a special message on a holiday greeting card of your choice or your own making with your name and home state (but do not include email or home addresses). No envelope is needed, and a generic greeting of “Dear Service Member” is best. Cards with no glitter are essential, due to sensitivity of some service members undergoing medical care. Please: no letters, photos or other inserts. A group of friends or a whole family can sign a card for a service member—the more the merrier. A stash of donated cards is also available for signing in the office of Carroll’s Veteran Services Coordinator Brandy Keely or with Tina Wagner in Financial Aid (both are in O’Connell Hall’s upper level). Cards can be dropped off to either of their offices by next Thursday, December 1.
THINGS THAT GO BUMP INTHE NIGHT
Tonight (Friday, Oct. 26), join Carroll’s Up ’Til Dawn students for a night of high-stakes fun, “Calling Cancer’s Bluff,” which raises funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. From 8 p.m. this evening to around 3 a.m. Saturday, nonstop games and activities will include Texas Hold ’Em, Minute to Win It, perseverance contests and karaoke. Participants also will bring addresses to send letters to friends and family asking them to join the fight against childhood cancer by supporting the groundbreaking research and lifesaving care of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. It’s all in the Carroll Campus Center, with no admission. One very special treat: the letter-writing session starting at 8 p.m. will bring a special guest performance by John McLellan, lead singer of The Clintons. The games begin at 11 p.m., and Texas Hold ‘Em is at midnight. You must participate in the St. Jude letter writing to enter the fun activities. T-shirts and food will be free to everyone joining the fun, and prizes will be awarded all night long, including a 32-inch flat screen TV. The more addresses you bring for the letters, the more “chips” you earn toward cool giveaways.
Now in its seventh year, the Carroll’s Up ’Til Dawn program has raised more than $172,000 for St. Jude. Additional fundraising events, such as Dial-A-Dog hotdog sales, rummage sales and a Zumba day, are also held throughout the year. Nationwide, Up ’Til Dawn is a student-led, student-run service program that has been hosted by more than 375 colleges and universities since the program’s inception in 1999—nationally, since 1999, the Up ’Til Dawn program has raised more than $32 million for St. Jude, which provides lifesaving cancer treatment to children at no charge. Thanks to its treatment and research, St. Jude has pushed overall survival rates for childhood cancers from less than 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to over 80 percent today.
WHY DID THE ZOMBIE LIKE THE TALKING SAINTS? THEY HAVE BIG BRAINS!
The Carroll Talking Saints forensics duo of Megan Towles (a senior from Huntington Beach, Calif.) and Chris Axtman (a senior from Portland, Ore.) warmed up for their upcoming appearances in London, England, by winning first place in World Debate at the Lewis & Clark College Tournament in Portland, Ore., on Oct. 12-14. The previous week, both Towles and Axtman won speaker awards in the World Debate style division of the Claremont Open at The Claremont Colleges in Los Angeles, one of the nation's largest World Debate tournaments. The team has competed in four tournaments, winning awards at all four.(Winning duo in photo left) Meanwhile, the Carroll freshman debaters traveled to Calgary, Alberta, to compete in the University of Calgary's Fall Open, a novice World Debate tournament. Forty eight teams from throughout Western Canada and the Western United States competed in the three-day event. Carroll earned two of the eight spots in the championship rounds, with Ryden Meyer of Portland and Mark Schmutzler of Helena advancing to finals, winning fourth place. Jessica Courville of Idaho Falls and Nick Fuller of Seattle reached semi-finals. (In photo right, standing left to right: Courville, Fuller, Schmutzler and Meyer)
The Talking Saints enter regional competition on Nov. 9-11 at Linfield College in McMinnville, Ore. On that same weekend, Towles and Axtman will be competing at Oxford University in London, where they will embark on a Carroll-first international competition in World Debate style.
QUOTH THE RAVEN “NEVERMORE!”
Helena Food Share is working toward a day when hunger will never again cast its sepulchral shadow on our community, and to carry that mission forward Carroll Student Ambassadors’ Gold Team is continuing its campus-wide food drive. Donations for Food Share can be dropped off at any of the crates placed around campus—they’re located in the Campus Center, O'Connell Hall, St. Albert's Hall, and each floor of Carroll residence halls. Helena Food Share is grateful for any non-perishable donation. They specifically need canned fruit, canned milk, Jell-O/pudding and peanut butter. Canned veggies, stuffing, healthy snack bars, macs and cheese, canned chili and stews, and instant oatmeal are terrific donations, too.
STUDENT NEWS
Events
This Saturday night is the annual Associated Students of Carroll College/College Christian Fellowship Barn Dance, starting at 8 p.m. at the Kleffner Ranch.
Next Wednesday, Oct. 31, the St. Thomas Aquinas Dining Hall Halloween Party will give us pumpkin carving and costume contests, a game of extreme musical chairs, and prizes. Bone appetite!
ROTC News
Last weekend, Carroll’s ROTC Saints Company teamed up with its sister company from University of Montana for a day of field training at Fort Harrison outside Helena. Together, the two companies in the "Griz Battalion" saw its juniors go through a series of field training exercises on a cold, wet, and windy day, all to prep cadets for the all-important Leadership Development Assessment Course. For more on the story, including the video TV news feature, check out: http://www.kxlh.com/news/um-and-carroll-rotc-spend-weekend-in-field-training-exercises/
For all student news on events, club activities, retreats and much more, go to www.carroll.edu/students.
ALUMNI NEWS
Events
The annual Alumni Christmas Party will be held Thursday, Dec. 6, starting at 5:30 in the Fortin Science Center Scola, with Santa arriving at 6:30 p.m. Festivities start with Mass in St. Joseph’s Chapel (Borromeo Hall) at 4:30 p.m. Please RSVP to Kathy Ramirez kramirez@carroll.edu.
FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS
Carroll Counseling Services counselors Mike Franklin (photo left) and Megan Patrick-Thompson (photo right), class of 2004, recently presented at the Sixth National Conference of the American College Counseling Association, held in Orlando, Fla., on Oct. 3-6. Their talk, “IQ vs. EQ: Teaching Emotional Intelligence in an Academic Setting,” discussed the concept of emotional intelligence (our ability to manage ourselves and our relationships with others) and its connection to personal and career success. In addition to offering their audience the tools to assess and develop their own emotional intelligence, Franklin and Patrick-Thompson showed participants how to develop an emotional intelligence course as an extended workshop/program for their counseling services departments or as an academic course for the department of psychology at their colleges and universities.
FAITH AND SERVICE
Carroll’s Hunthausen Center for Peace and Justice presents its next Soup and Substance gathering next Tuesday, Oct. 30, with a simple meal and deep conversation on a topic of interest to Catholics and all Christians. This month’s topic: Why are so many young people leaving the Church and not returning? Space is limited to 10 participants: RSVP to Kelly Meros at hunthausenws@carroll.edu or 447-4496. The event is at 12:30 p.m. in the Hunthausen Center (122 Borromeo Hall).
For all Campus Ministry news, Mass and sacraments schedules, homilies and much more, go to: http://www.carroll.edu/ministry/
ATHLETICS
In the News
In recent rankings, Carroll came in second as an NAIA < strong>Champions of Character Five-Star Institution. The Champions of Character Scorecard measures each institution's commitment to the NAIA Champions of Character program, which focuses on five areas: character training, conduct in competition, academic focus, character recognition and character promotion. This year, 221 NAIA institutions were named Champions of Character Five-Star Institutions.
Home Games
This Saturday, Saints Soccer hosts Trinity Lutheran College (and Senior Day) at Nelson Stadium starting at 10:30 a.m.
Our other Saints are away or bye this weekend.
COMING EVENTS
Ongoing: The Carroll Neuman Observatory is open for planetary and deep-sky viewing through the college’s 14-inch computerized scope every Thursday that is cloudless, clear and without high winds. Observing in October takes place an hour after sunset, or by 8 p.m.—whichever comes last. It is led by Carroll Neuman Astronomical Society advisor David Rotness, an avid and accomplished amateur astronomer who also is a leader of the Helena Astronomical Society. Viewing is always free and open to the public.
November 8: Carroll Literary Festival, part of the Carroll presidential inauguration celebration, will feature keynote speaker Paula Marks, PhD, historian of the American West, of St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. Her keynote talk, " ‘Attached Ever So Lightly’? History, Fiction, and Lives Pulled from the Past” in the Campus Center begins at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. In her presentation, Marks will explore how historical figures are used as central characters in popular fiction and literature, how we can find examples of such imaginative recreation in the field of Western literature, and what we can learn from these stories about this way of interweaving history and fiction. The keynote talk caps off a day of literary festival readings by local authors, including Carroll students and professors. All literary festival readings are free and open to the public. The daytime schedule is: Noon to 1 p.m.: Short Works: Readings in fiction and poetry, upstairs in the Campus Center; 1-5 p.m.: Concurrent Sessions: Fiction, poetry, and criticism, downstairs in the Campus Center. Three sessions are scheduled throughout the afternoon, lasting approximately one hour each, with two panel discussions per session; 5-6 p.m.: Faculty panel discussion, “Different Angles on the Apocalypse,” with Carroll professors Brian Matz (theology), Loren Graham (literature) and Kelly Cline (math and astronomy), downstairs in the Campus Center.
November 10: Inauguration Week concludes with a 9 a.m. Community Mass at the Grotto that is open to the public, followed by a special Tailgate outside Nelson Stadium at 10 a.m. preceding the Fighting Saints vs. Dickinson State University game, kickoff 1 p.m.
November 15: Carroll Theology Dept. and the Sister Annette Moran Center present the next in its Be(com)ing Church Between Past and Future series celebrating the 50th anniversary of Vatican II, with Carroll Theology Department Chair and Professor John Ries presenting “Coming to Be Church in and through the World: Lumen Gentium and Gaudium et Spes” at 7 p.m. in the Carroll Campus Center. Free.
November 29: The Helena Pierrot Project will open at 7:30 p.m. at the Myrna Loy Center with lectures by three Carroll College professors, aimed at placing Arnold Schoenberg’s, Pierrot Lunaire music in context: Dr. Gillian Glaes, history professor, will discuss the state of Europe in 1912; Dr. Elvira Roncalli, philosophy professor, will explain the impact of the events of the time on the arts and on Pierrot Lunaire, in particular; and Dr. Lynn Petersen, professor of music, will speak about Schoenberg, the music that preceded Pierrot Lunaire, and its influence on the music that followed. Petersen then will be joined onstage by the musicians — Heather Barnes (soprano), Stephan Cepeda (violin/viola), Jennifer Bewerse (cello), June Lee (piano), Christopher Kirkpatrick (clarinet), and Rachel Beetz (flute/piccolo) and Breanne Cepeda (conductor). Using live musical excerpts of the piece, Petersen will guide the audience in its listening. A full performance of the piece will follow. The evening will conclude with a discussion among the audience, the lecturers and musicians. As this important piece is rarely performed in its entirety, this is a very special opportunity for Helena audiences. For more information, visit http://helenapierrotproject.blogspot.com/ or http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/882985088/the-helena-pierrot-project.
November 30: Dr. Kelly Cline presents, “The Kepler Mission: Discovering 2,000 Planets" at 7 p.m. in Simperman Hall’s Wiegand Amphitheatre.
November 30: Carroll’s November Faculty Colloquium features Dr. Jeremy Johnson of the Political Science Department presenting “Supplanting the New Deal? The Republican Party Confronts the Welfare State” at 4 p.m. in the Campus Center’s Maronick Board Room.
November 30: Carroll Theatre premieres < strong>A Christmas Pudding, created, edited and adapted by David Birney and directed by Carroll Theatre Director Chuck Driscoll. A holiday confection of songs, stories, poems and tales of the season by Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Frank McCourt, Emily Dickinson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, A. J. Carothers, and many others spiced with a host of traditional carols and holiday songs. This piece provides a perfect evening to warm hearts, stir memories and give laughter during the holiday season. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays Nov. 30-Dec. 1 and Dec. 8.; Sunday 3 p.m. matinees are Dec. 2 and 9. All in the Carroll Theatre.
December 6: Carroll College Jazz Combo Fall Concert in the Carroll Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Free.