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Kris Slentz, a professor in the Department of Special Education at WWU, will present "School and Family Life in Rural Kenya," a photo essay depicting school and family life in rural Kenya. The presentation will integrate the survey results Slentz has obtained during her research into children?s behavior, school and family life in rural areas of Kenya.

Samantha Hamlin, a graduate student in the WWU Biology Department, presents "Are there synergistic effects between predation and thermal stress in Aiptasia?"

Earn a B.A. or B.S. in Environmental Studies from Western Washington University's award-winning Huxley College of the Environment. Visit with the program manager for more information, November 10, 11 am-4 pm at University Center of Puget Sound, Everett Community College, Grey Wolf building, Room 238. Program details are on the Web at www.huxleyonthepeninsulas.wwu.edu or call (360) 417-6521.

President Bruce Shepard and the Veterans' Outreach Center invite you to the campus Veterans' Day Celebration in the Viking Union Multipurpose Room from 10:30-11:30 am. Reception immediately follows. Speakers include President Shepard and graduate student Jana Brost.

The Veteran's Day Ceremony, which will honor those students, staff and faculty who have served in the military, will include guest speakers and a reception following the ceremony in the VU MPR.

The Western Gallery will present artist Geraldine Ondrizek's "The Sound of Cells Dividing" as its first major exhibition of the 2009-2010 academic year. The exhibit will be on display from Sept. 28 through Nov. 25."The Sound of Cells Dividing" will exhibit Ondrizek's recent film "Cellular" and its corresponding set of drawings of a blastocyst, a multiple-cell embryo, as well as her "Sound Wall" installation, which was created for the Center for Art and Technology (CAMAC) and housed in a 17th century monastery in France. "Sound Wall" will be recreated for the Western Gallery. In conjunction with the exhibition, Ondrizek will offer a lecture about her work on Wednesday, Oct. 21. For information on the time and location of her lecture, visit http://westerngallery.wwu.edu or call (360) 650-3900.Both the lecture and the exhibition are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, except Wednesdays, when the gallery is open until 8 p.m., and noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. Live music and poetry readings frequently are presented in the Gallery on Wednesday evenings. For more event details, visit http://westerngallery.wwu.edu/.

I seem to be in an archaeological mood lately, so here is a video of the best archeologically-themed song in the history of the world being performed by its composer, Michael Peter Smith, with Anne Hills. If you aren't familiar with Smith, he is best known for writing "The Dutchman," which has been recorded by practically everybody.

And by the way, Smith wrote the second best archeologically-themed song, too.

This fall I went to the Princeton Tradtional Music Festival in British Columbia and had a lovely time. One of the highlights was seeing the Canadian folksinger Bob Bossin for the first time in many years.

I've had my complaints about Bossin over the years. He butchered, IMHO, a song by two of my favorite songwriters the last time I saw him. But I got his latest album The Roses on Annie's Table, and it is pretty wonderful.

As a sometime songwriter what knocked me out most was his similes. Here are a few of my favorites:

"She's got love, like a Jehovah's Witness, bangin' on her door again." - "Shirley Ann"

"The years rolled by like empties." - "Gary Davis"

"Love bears down like an eighteen-wheeler. Try to argue with an eighteen-wheeler." - "Lily"

You can hear some samples here.

Make.Shift provides struggling bands with peddled power, biodiesel transportation

For the love of all that is holy — try not to wear industrial-strength perfume on crowded buses!

 

I was taking the 190 to campus this morning when I caught a whiff of something truly atrocious. The scent was like a mixture of baby powder, paint thinner, Sharpies, and bug spray. Come on people now, smile on your brother/sister/other relative of importance and cease the public assault on the nostrils of your fellow bus-riding citizens!

Am I just overly sensitive to intense smells, or are you also somewhat bothered by this?

November 9 is the 71st anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the "Night of Broken Glass," a night during which the SA, SS and the Nazi party coordinated the damage to and destruction of thousands of synagogues, Jewish businesses and homes. This night of anti-Jewish terror and violence was the beginning of the Holocaust.Ban will speak about how she lost most of her family, and how she shares her story to inspire current and future generations to prevent similar genocides from happening again. Ban will follow her talk with a question-and-answer period and then a book signing. Ban's speech is sponsored by the NWCHGEE and the Center for Educational Pluralism, both at Woodring College of Education at Western.Ban authored "Sharing is Healing: A Holocaust Survivor's Story," which tells how she survived the Holocaust. Both the book and Jim Lortz's film "My Name is Noémi" will be available for purchase at the event. The film elegantly portrays Ban's return to Auschwitz. Copies of Ban's book will be on sale for $12.95 and the DVD for $19.99 outside Arntzen Hall after the event. The book and DVD are also on sale at the Western Bookstore. To purchase these materials online visit: http://www.bookstore.wwu.edu/Reservations for her hour-long talk are mandatory and free to the public. To make your reservation please visit the Northwest Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Ethnocide Education (NWCHGEE) Web site at: http://www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/NWCHE/.

Apply your Associate's or approved Bachelor's degree toward Washington State Teacher Certification, and Elementary Education and Special Education Endorsements. Classes are held in the evenings. Learn more about Western Washington University's program during an information meeting at 5:30 p.m. on November 9 at North Seattle Community College, TB 1648. Details are on the Web www.wce.wwu.edu/depts/TEOP or contact eesp.NSCC@wwu.edu or (206) 527-3719.