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Activities
IMPORTANT NOTES:
* All listed events are Honors Events. Events in RED are major events and we do ask that ALL honors students make every attempt to participate.
EVENT: Honors Cording Ceremony
DATE: Friday, April 25th
TIME: 4:30 Reception and 5:30 PM-Ceremony
LOCATION: Arts Complex /FGCU Campus
CONTACT: Carey Fells (cfells@fgcu.edu)
COST: Free
OPEN/CLOSED: Honors Students and Invitees
DESCRIPTION: Formal ceremony recognizing our Spring 2008 graduates.
Past Events
EVENT: David Loy, Ph.D. "Healing Ecology: Buddhism and the Ecological Crisis"
DATE: Thursday, March 13th
TIME: 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Reed Hall 249
CONTACT: Kevin Aho (kaho@fgcu.edu)
COST: Free
OPEN/CLOSED: Open to the Public
DESCRIPTION: Existential Psychotherapist and Professional Philosopher will share his research on alternative approaches to contemporary health care and ecology.
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EVENT: Training for Southwest Florida Holocaust Museum Service Team
DATE: Friday, March 14th
TIME: Session A (Introduction to Genocide Issues): 9 AM-12AM
Session B (Training for Service Team): 1PM-3PM
LOCATION: Southwest Florida Holocaust Museum (Naples)
CONTACT: Carey Fells (cfells@fgcu.edu)
COST: Free
OPEN/CLOSED: Session A: Open to Public
Session B: Honors Students Only
DESCRIPTION: A workshop to help us understand genocide and training for our efforts to stop it.
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EVENT: FGCU Trail Clearing
DATE: Saturday, March 15th
TIME: TBA
LOCATION: FGCU Trails - Entrance is Accross from the Soccer Field
CONTACT: Carey Fells (cfells@fgcu.edu)
COST: Free
OPEN/CLOSED: Honors Students (Please, bring your friends)
DESCRIPTION: Clearing a running/biking trail around campus of FGCU.
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EVENT: Honors Meeting " Are you smarter than a Fifth Grader?"
DATE: Monday
TIME: TBA
LOCATION: TBA
CONTACT: Jimmy Richter (jsrichte@fgcu.edu)
COST: TBA
OPEN/CLOSED: Must Sign Up in Advance
DESCRIPTION: Help us build a home for someone!
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EVENT: Habitat for Humanity
DATE: Saturday, March 29
TIME: TBA
LOCATION: TBA
CONTACT: Jimmy Richter (jsrichte@fgcu.edu)
COST: TBA
OPEN/CLOSED: Must Sign Up in Advance
DESCRIPTION: Help us build a home for someone!
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EVENT: 5K Run or Triathalon (Decision on which to come)
DATE: Saturday, April 5th
TIME: TBA
LOCATION: Honors Trail
CONTACT: Carey Fells (cfells@fgcu.edu)
COST: TBA
OPEN/CLOSED: Open to the Public
DESCRIPTION: A race for charity on the trail that we cleared on March 15th.
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EVENT: "Invisible Children"
DATE: Monday, April 7th
TIME: 8 PM (tentative, please check back)
LOCATION: Reed Hall 249
CONTACT: Cristen McCarthy (cdmccart@eagle.fgcu.edu)
COST: Free
OPEN/CLOSED: Open to the Public
DESCRIPTION: Screening of the moving documentary on the "night children" in Uganda.
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EVENT: Introduction to Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking
DATE: Thursday, February 28th
TIME: 3:00-7PM
LOCATION: TBA
CONTACT: Carey Fells (cfells@fgcu.edu)
COST: Free
OPEN/CLOSED: Honors Students (feel free to bring a friend)
DESCRIPTION: Students will receive an introduction to the work of FCAT.
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EVENT: Dying to Leave: The Dark Business of Human Trafficking
DATE: Thursday, February 28th
TIME: 7 PM
LOCATION: Sugden Welcome Center
CONTACT: Julieth Monroy (amnestyinternational@eagle.fgcu.edu)
DESCRIPTION: Documentary on Human Trafficking.
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EVENT: American Humane Association Service Team Training
DATE: Friday, February 22nd and Saturday, February 23rd
TIME: TBA
LOCATION: Library Room 441
CONTACT: Carey Fells (cfells@fgcu.edu)
COST: Free
OPEN/CLOSED: Open to the Public
DESCRIPTION: Representatives from the American Humane Association will inform us on the issues relating to animal welfare and behavior. They will also begin training our service team to work in the field of Humane Education.
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EVENT: Breaking Ranks
DATE: Thursday, February 21th
TIME: 7 PM
LOCATION: Sugden Welcome Center
CONTACT: Julieth Monroy (amnestyinternational@eagle.fgcu.edu)
DESCRIPTION: Documentary on Americans soldiers who have moved to Canada because of their conscientious objections to the war in Iraq.
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EVENT: Night at the FGCU Hockey Game *CANCELLED
DATE: Saturday, February 16th
TIME: 8:30 PM
LOCATION: Germain Arena Blue Rink
CONTACT: Carey Fells (cfells@fgcu.edu)
COST: ? (We think it is free with a student ID)
OPEN/CLOSED: Honors Student (bring a friend!)
DESCRIPTION: Come join us to support our hockey team as they face the South Jersey Raptors. (For those of you collecting ink cartridges, the Everblades canceled on us, so please bring them to Carey's office.)
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EVENT: Suicide Bombers: Inside the Minds of Failed Martyrs
DATE: Thursday, February 14th
TIME: 7 PM
LOCATION: Sugden Welcome Center
CONTACT: Julieth Monroy (amnestyinternational@eagle.fgcu.edu)
DESCRIPTION: Documentary about failed suicide bombing attemps.
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EVENT: College Bowl
DATE: Tuesday, February 12th
TIME: 6-8PM
LOCATION: TBA
CONTACT: Carey Fells (cfells@fgcu.edu)
COST: Free
OPEN/CLOSED: Registered Honors Students Only
DESCRIPTION: Honors student team competes against other teams in a game of knowledge.
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EVENT: Intramurals
DATE:
TIME: Various
LOCATION: Various
CONTACT: Jimmy Richter (jsrichte@eagle.fgcu.edu)
COST: Free
OPEN/CLOSED: Registered Honors Students Only
DESCRIPTION: The Honors Program fields teams in various intramural sports.
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EVENT: Information on Study Abroad in Brazil
DATE: Thursday, January 17th
LOCATION: Reed Hall Room 125
CONTACT: Noami Creagan
COST: Free
OPEN/CLOSED: Open to all FGCU community members
DESCRIPTION: Information on studying in Brazil in Summer 2008.
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EVENT: Graduate School Night
DATE: Monday, January 21st
TIME: 5:30 PM
LOCATION: Alico Arena Hospitality Suite
CONTACT: Carey Fells (cfells@fgcu.edu)
COST: Free
OPEN/CLOSED: Honors Students Only (feel free to bring a friend) !
DESCRIPTION: Representatives from the fields of medicine, business, sciences, law, criminal forensics, humanities, and business will answer questions and provide insights about graduate school and career choices. Pizza provided.
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EVENT: Washington Center Informational Meeting
DATE: Tuesday, January 22nd
TIME: 12:30 PM
LOCATION: Free Side of the Perch in the Student Union
CONTACT: Richard Coughlin (rcougli@fgcu.edu)
COST: Free
OPEN/CLOSED: Honors Students
DESCRIPTION: Informational meeting for students interested in an internship in the Washington, D.C. area for Summer 2008.
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EVENT: Training for Homelessness Census
DATE: Friday, January 25th
TIME: 10-10:45
LOCATION: TBA
CONTACT: Tina Gelpi (tgelpi@fgcu.edu)
COST: Free
OPEN/CLOSED: Honors Students (feel free to bring a friend)
DESCRIPTION: Students will receive training for how to interview homeless individuals for the county-wide census of the homeless. Honors-Event credit given only to students who participate in both the training and the census.
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EVENT: "The Devil Came on Horseback"
DATE: Monday, January 28th
TIME: 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Sugden Welcome Center
CONTACT: Carey Fells (cfells@fgcu.edu)
COST: Free
OPEN/CLOSED: Open to general public
DESCRIPTION: Film and informational night on the genocide in Darfur.
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EVENT: Qallunaat! Why White People are Funny
DATE: Thursday, February 7th
TIME: 7 PM
LOCATION: Sugden Welcome Center
CONTACT: Julieth Monroy (amnestyinternational@eagle.fgcu.edu)
DESCRIPTION: Docucomedy in which Inuits look at white people from their point of view.
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EVENT: What Do Professors Want?
DATE: Friday, February 8th
TIME: 10:00 AM
LOCATION: Library Rm 441
CONTACT: Carey Fells (cfells@fgcu.edu)
COST: Free
OPEN/CLOSED: Honors Students Only
DESCRIPTION: Informal discussion with professors about what professors look for in a good student.
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