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"Most students and their families like taking a campus tour from a current student because they feel they are getting the real look and opinion of the campus." states Adam Roma, sophomore business major and student tour guide for the SUNY Fredonia Admissions Office. "I get a lot of questions about my personal experiences and what I think about the facilities, students, professors and of course the food."
Mr. Roma hails from West Seneca, N.Y. and attended St. Francis High School in Athol Springs, NY. At Fredonia he is also a Resident Assistant in Igoe Hall and a College Ambassador. He says his experiences here at Fredonia have been nothing but positive and he loves his various jobs. "I like being involved in the recruitment of new students at Fredonia," he said. "I've come across such great opportunities here. I like sharing that with others."
The Admissions Office hosts campus tours twice a day Monday through Friday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. They are usually 1 hour long. Tours take prospective students and their families through the Admissions House, Fenton Hall, Rockefeller Arts Center, Dods and Steele Halls, a suite style dorm, a corridor style dorm, Williams Center, and Reed Library.
A student tour guide is a paid position at SUNY Fredonia. Applicants should contact the Admissions Office at 673-3251.
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Students in the communication department's Public Relations Management course are in a partnership with the Chautauqua Adult Day Care Centers to help the agency connect its services to the people who need them. The county-wide non-profit agency was selected from over a dozen applicants who asked for the students' help in designing a public awareness campaign. Professor Ann Carden teaches the capstone course, which requires students to put into practice what they've learned from the entire PR curriculum. Read the news release...
EDP Awards night
celebrating top students
CNN's Rachael Howard Richardson, a SUNY Fredonia grad, is coming to campus Tuesday, March 7, to receive the Distinguished Alumna Award from the Educational Development Program at its annual Awards Celebration. Click here for more information and to see the names of all awardees...
Paul Mockovak is directing
15 dancers in "Rite of Spring" Opening Friday, March 3, "The Rite of Spring and Other Dances" will be performed by students under the direction of Paul Mockovak (theatre and dance) for the Walter Gloor Mainstage Series. The 8 p.m. performances continue March 4, 9, 10, and 11 in Marvel Theatre, and there is a matinee at 2 p.m. on March 5. The program includes several dances, two by Professor Mockovak, and culminates in a portion of the powerful and controversial 1913 work by composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky. At its Paris premiere, the unconventional music, the cutting-edge dance style, and pagan theme of death and rebirth of "The Rite of Spring" worked the audience at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées into such a passion that the producer was forced to flash the house lights to regain order. The Mainstage version of "The Rite of Spring" will use scaled-down choreography by Randolph Parrott of Miami-based Ballet Randolph. Professor Mockovak has been putting 15 Fredonia dancers through the paces to prepare for opening night. "Rehearsals are going well," he said. "I have a talented cast that is very committed and responsive to the material. I see their growth daily." The program will include another Parrott piece, Appassionato, which Mr. Mockovak called "pure escapism fantasy," and two originals by Mr. Mockovak: "RED" and "American Garage," which date back to his own days as a dancer with Ballet Randolph. See who's performing...
300 seniors have taken to the field
for student teaching assignments
 This semester, more than 300 Fredonia seniors are student-teaching in classrooms throughout the state. There are 104 in high schools, 140 in elementary schools and 32 in pre-school settings.
Most of the students are placed in Chautauqua, Erie or Cattaraugus counties, but six are in New York City and three in Elmira, N.Y. (Elmira school officials were so impressed by the graduating talent at Fredonia, they requested an ongoing relationship to Fredonia's student teaching program).
The New York City opportunities come from the SUNY Urban Teacher Education Center (SUTEC), which connects SUNY talent with the needs of New York City schools. Unique in the state to Fredonia, however, is the Fredonia-Hamburg Teacher Education program, which allows 25 childhood education seniors to spend their final year in an internship with Hamburg Central Schools. The unique arrangement between SUNY Fredonia and Hamburg is nationally known, and no other SUNY school has anything like it. Jessica Hageman of Orchard Park chose the program because it is giving her more experience before she graduates. "I student teach the entire year, and the more experience I get, the better off I am," she said. "I'm teaching in three different grade levels, so I'll get a good feel for what grade I want to teach in my career."
AnnMarie Loughlin directs the College of Education's field experience office, which shoulders the job of placing Fredonia's student teachers throughout the network of openings in the partnering school districts. This year, her office received more requests for student teachers than it could fill, which is not the case every year. The benefit to the school districts is evident in test scores, Ms. Loughlin noted, "Student standardized test scores have gone up due to the extra help and student assistance."
Next week's Faculty Research Expo highlights
sciences; features mini-symposium
The Faculty Research Exposition is a chance for Fredonia's faculty in the natural and social sciences to share the results and methods of their research activities with the rest of the campus community. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, March 7 from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Williams Center multi-purpose room. A total of 18 poster presentations will be on display all afternoon and a mini-symposium will be held, entitled "Advanced Applications of Computer Science." The mini-symposium features three faculty members from the computer science department: Reneta Barneva, Junaid Zubairi and Khalid Siddiqui. The presentation will be from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in G142-143, and will be followed by an hour-long question and answer session. The event is free and open to all students, faculty, staff and community members. Refreshments and food will be provided.
American Studies Program scans
decades of culture with current film series
The line-up for the American Studies Film Series has been announced for the spring 2006 semester. Bruce Simon (American Studies and English) said, "We chose the films in part to cover a range of time periods from WWII to the1990s, in part to put together some 'classic' American movies that students may have heard of but not seen, and above all to choose films that look at identity in a complex way, which frame questions of American identities in terms of borders, intersections, and movements." There is always a post discussion for students to converse about the film, he added. The films forthcoming are: "War Comes to America" from Frank Capra's: Why We Fight Series (March 1); "Easy Rider" (March 8); "Hair" (March 15); "Do the Right Thing" (April 5), and "Lone Star" (April 12).
24-hour dance marathon starts Friday night
This year marks Superdance's 35th Anniversary and all proceeds from the 24-hour dance marathon will be donated to Carly's Club for Roswell Park Cancer Institute. SuperDance starts Friday, March 3 at 8 p.m. and ends Saturday night at 8 p.m., in the Multipurpose Room of the Williams Center. Last year, the dancers proudly raised more than $3,500 last year and hopes to exceed that amount this March.
The theme for this year's dance marathon is "Dancing Our Way to a Cure for 35 Years." The entire event will be broadcast on WNYF-TV for the campus and local communities to watch. Everyone is welcome to call in their pledge to 679-3488, during the marathon, and make a donation to Carly's Club.
Dr. Arnold will illuminate Mont-St.-Michel's connection to Archangel
The second lecture of the "New Work from the Faculty" series will be presented by John Arnold (history). The talk will be given on Friday, March 3 at noon in the Diers Recital Hall in Mason. The lecture is titled "Tracking Michael the Archangel: Mont-St.-Michel in the Early Middle Ages." Mont-St.-Michel is the most visited tourist site in France and historically one of the most important European pilgrimage centers.
Visitors crowd this islet in Normandy to beg spiritual aid from its patron Saint Michael the Archangel, the Victor over Satan, Guardian of the Dead, and protector of policemen and ambulance drivers. Arnold will analyze a unique written account of Michael's apparitions in Normandy and the Archangel's orders to build on the island an imitation of his renowned Italian cave-shrine on Monte Gargano.
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