Also at Osterlin: De-stress with Love on a Leash Therapy Dec. 11-13. More info:
Writing & Reading Center
Don’t let your instructors be the first ones to see your papers! Come by the Writing and Reading Center and we’ll help you turn your papers in with peace of mind.
The Math Center is a drop-in tutoring resource located in the basement of the Tanis building,,room T 53. Tutors and Instructors are available to help students with homework and general math skills. No appointments necessary,
A free screening of Earth Days, a documentary about the grassroots beginnings of Earth Day and the environmental movement, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 18 in Milliken Auditorium as the centerpiece of Action! an event sponsored by NMC’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa.
While the film focuses on the environmental movement, the goal of Action! is to empower and inspire young people that their personal action, of any kind, can make a difference in their community and the world, said event organizer Jessica Abfalter of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges.
“The key to social change is youth movement,” Abfalter said. “As a diverse group of students, Phi Theta Kappa also recognized the many ways an individual could have an impact on their community or even the world. We created ‘Action!’ from our own experiences with volunteerism and popular culture, sharing the inspiration we gained through film and connecting area youth with local opportunities for action in an interactive, artistic setting.”
Doors open at 6 p.m. The pre-show Action! Fair includes free admission to the Dennos Museum Center, now featuring the video art of Chinese artist Miao Xiaochu,n and opportunities to network with local advocacy and activist groups including H.O.P.E. (Helping Owners with Pet Expenses) NMC PRIDE, the Native American Student Association, 4-H Michigan State University Extension and Bay Bucks local currency.
Participants are also invited to enjoy complimentary food, local music, and browse entries in the recycled art contest. A $50 downtown Traverse City gift card will be awarded to the middle school, high school, and college student with the highest ranking creation.
The film will begin at 7:30 p.m. followed by the announcement of the recycled art contest winners. To enter artwork, please see submission details online or email nmcptk@gmail.com for submission details.
Among other leaders of the modern environmental movement, Earth Days features NMC communications instructor Stephanie Mills. In 1969 Mills catapulted to prominence when she decried overpopulation and natural resource exploitation in a commencement address and vowed never to have children.
The FLU is here. The first cases of Influenza A diagnosed one week ago at Munson Medical Center. Influenza vaccine is still available at Health Services for $15. Be smart and avoid the flu during final exams. Get vaccinated!
NMC business students held a massive distribution day for area food pantries Friday, Nov. 16, delivering the 18,000 food and household items they collected over the past month just in time for Thanksgiving.
Distribution Day
The Food for Thought Fill the Pantries food drive was organized by Kristy McDonald’s Business 231 students as a semester-long project enabling them to learn how to communicate professionally while also helping the community.
As reported in the Traverse City Record-Eagle, food insecurity has become the region’s largest social issue. From 2007 through 2011, food pantry visits in the Grand Traverse area climbed by 83 percent.
Students invited 30 area businesses to conduct internal food drives, emphasizing the
Dental assisting collected the most on campus.
importance of healthy food. Food was also collected on campus, with the Dental Assisting Program winning the prize for most donations, at more than 900. Students also held collection days at Walmart, two Tom’s Food Market locations and at Family Video locations. Cash donations –totaling $3,000 — were also collected online. The class thanks everyone who donated and sponsored the event. Happy Thanksgiving!
NMC Hip Hop presents Turn up the Music, a free demonstration at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 3 in Milliken Auditorium.
Hip-hop dance is movement to hip-hop music, allowing an individual to create their personal swagger, instructor Joedy Annis said. NMC hip-hop teaches rhythm and style to create just that. The NMC swagger crew has been on the scene for ten yearsm creating amazing choreography and freestyle movements. Audiences should be prepared for crazy hip hop moves, Annis said.
NMC Hip Hop dance is offered as a for-credit class through the physical education department as well as a non-credit option through Extended Education.
Don’t let the flu get you down this holiday season. Get the flu vaccine before you leave for the Thanksgiving Break.
Statistically, many students contract the flu sitting around the holiday table with loved ones and then bring the illness back to campus to share with friends, co-eds, and faculty. Stop the Flu. Get Vaccinated. Influenza vaccine available at Health Services, LB 106, for $15. Just walk in.
Hey there. You, with the cell phone. We know you’ve got a camera on it. So let’s have a little fun.
We’re launching NMC in photos, a way for anyone on campus to become an unofficial NMC photographer. Just snap and submit your candid images of life on campus. A caption’s nice, too. Accepted photos will be posted at nmc.edu/photos, where you can also read the fine print about what size photo and more.
And in November, we’re going to have a little contest. Submit your photo(s) and not only will we post the best ones, but the ones judged to be the top three will win prizes.
First prize is a $50 gas gift card.
Second prize is a $25 gift card to the NMC Bookstore.
Third prize is $15 to use in the cafeteria or any of the Sodexo food stands. Grab something to eat, have some coffee, go nuts.
All photos submitted before midnight December 1, 2012 are eligible to win.
Thanks in advance for sharing all that you can find here at NMC.
In preparation for the Veterans Day event on campus, Ed Blough, Gary Schettek, Kim Goll, Brian Lewis and student employees, Andrew Durecki, Levi Berlin and Aaron Aldridge did a great job cleaning up our flag pole area on Friday; unfortunately, high winds over the weekend blew a lot of leaves back into that area of campus.
We greatly appreciate the efforts they made on Friday, but were very grateful and impressed with how quickly they responded to our request to clean up the area again (just prior to the event). When our veterans and campus community arrived to the area, the grass looked like carpet… they did an incredible job and literally dropped everything they were doing in order to get the area cleaned up for the event – thank you!
Phi Theta Kappa is raising money for their trip to Annual Convention in San Jose, Calif. by selling pasta! The company even has holiday pasta that will be delivered in time for your holiday parties. If you order online, the product will be shipped directly to you, and Alpha Rho Pi will receive 40% of your purchase. Thank you for your support!
International Education Week is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. Next week at NMC we’ll celebrate with:
Win prizes! The NMC International Club is sponsoring an International Treasure Box fundraiser Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 14 and 14 from 10am-3pm in the Health & Science Welcome Center. Choose a “grab bag” from the treasure box and have a chance to win gift certificates to local shops and restaurants, NMC bookstore, and more! Prizes start at just $2
Passports Brown Bag Lunch Series: Hear from Azra, a student from Pakistan, about her home country and culture. Bring your lunch to Founders Hall Rm. 110 starting at 12:15pm on Thursday, Nov. 15
International Affairs Forum presents Traverse City’s own Dr. Terrie E. Taylor — a world renowned leader in the fight against malaria in the African nation of Malawi. She’ll speak Thursday, Nov. 15 starting at 6pm at Milliken Auditorium. This event is FREE for students and instructors, $10 for community members. This will be a sold out event, so arrive early!
Dennos Museum presents Chinese multi-media artist, Miao Xioachun. The artist will be visiting NMC next week and his work is on display at the MacFarlane Gallery of the Dennos. Miao Xiauchun is one of China’s most influential new media artists. Don’t miss this opportunity to see amazing world-renown art and meet the artist, Mon.- Fri. 10am-5pm. FREE for current students with a student ID.
Submit your Instagram or cell phone photos of international events to the “NMC in Photos” gallery. Email with caption to: NMC@email.smugmug.com
If you liked the soft feel of the quarter zip on display at opening conference, we now have a ladies version in stock in periwinkle and navy.
A full zip hoodie is also available in pink and surf blue. NMC is embroidered in silver on all items. Once you feel the softness, you won’t be able to resist!
The asymmetrical hoodie in blue, green and violet is a unique style. It has three buttons on the side of the neck area toprovide extra comfort.
Start your Christmas shopping early and check out our selection of children’s books that have just arrived. We have about 70 different titles in stock.
Dr. Terrie E. Taylor describes the battle against malaria and the hope that her work brings to an embattled region. Dr. Taylor is a distinguished professor of internal medicine at Michigan State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine and a Traverse City native.
For the past 25 years, she has spent half of each year leading a team of physicians battling the scourge of malaria in the African country of Malawi and is currently leading a $9.1 million effort there. Among her numerous awards, Dr. Taylor was the 2011 recipient of the AMA’s International Award for Medicine.
The eight-part IAF series brings diplomats, policy makers, journalists and others from all over the globe to Milliken Auditorium. All programs begin with a reception in the Sculpture Court of the Dennos Museum Center at 5:15 p.m. and are followed at 6 p.m. by the lecture and a discussion period in Milliken Auditorium. See the complete 2012-13 speaker schedule »
All current educators and students are admitted free. The public is invited to attend for $10 at the door. For more information, call NMC Extended Education at 231-995-1700.
Veterans Day originated as “Armistice Day” on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and Nov. 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation in 1954 to change the name to Veterans Day as a way to honor those who served in all American wars. The day honors military veterans with parades and speeches across the nation.
A national ceremony takes place at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
It’s the last week of the Food for Thought Fill the Pantries food drive, organized by NMC’s Professional Communications class. We know there’s several teams out there collecting food — including Founders Hall, the Dental Assisting program, the Business Discipline and the Osterlin Building. For the rest of you, it’s not too late!
Follow these two easy steps to win the catered meal provided bySpaghetti Jim’s!
1) Between now and Thursday, collect — as a department, academic area, office, etc. — as many healthy non-perishable food items, toiletries and household items as you can.
2) Call or email Ed or Kristy (see below) to have your items counted and picked up by 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8. The team with the most items wins the meal.
PS – Can’t do the challenge? You can still donate items by dropping them off in our donation barrels located in most buildings on all campuses. If a monetary donation is more convenient, please donate here.
Here’s a list of new books in the NMC Osterlin Library.
Title: Modernist cuisine : the art and science of cooking
Author: Myhrvold, Nathan.
Publisher: Cooking Lab,
Pub date: 2011.
6 v. :
The authors–scientists, inventors, and accomplished cooks in their own right–have created a six-volume, 2,400-page set that reveals science-inspired techniques for preparing food that ranges from the otherworldly to the sublime.
Title: The best American poetry, 2012
Author: Doty, Mark.
Publisher: Scribner Poetry,
Pub date: 2012.
Mark Doty brings the vitality and imagination that illuminate his own work to his selections for the twenty-fifth volume in the Best American Poetry series. He has chosen poems of high moral earnestness and poems in a comic register; poems that tell stories and poems that test the boundaries of innovative composition.
Title: Don’t stop thinking about the music : the politics of songs and musicians in Presidential campaigns
Author: Schoening, Benjamin S., 1978-
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Pub date: c2012.
In this insightful, erudite history of presidential campaign music, musicologist Benjamin Schoening and political scientist Eric Kasper explain how politicians use music in American presidential campaigns to convey a range of political messages.
Title: Chemical engineering : a new introduction
Author: Denn, Morton M., 1939-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Pub date: 2011.
Chemical engineering is the field of applied science that employs physical, chemical, and biological rate processes for the betterment of humanity’. This opening sentence of Chapter 1 has been the underlying paradigm of chemical engineering.
On Thursday, November 8, the Michigan Global Awareness Consortium offers the second presentation of its fall series.
We are pleased to welcome Professor Kerri Finlayson, who teaches anthropology and sociology at North Central Michigan College (NCMC), and Professor Ken Winter, who teaches political science and journalism at NCMC and Ferris State University.
Winter is also a former editor and publisher of the Petoskey New Review and a member of the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. Both Finlayson and Winter recently returned from Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey. Their trip, sponsored by Ohio State University and the Niagara Foundation, allowed them to participate in conversations about revolutionary changes in the Turkish society. Please join us on November 8to hear these distinguished researchers discuss the developing social, economic, religious, and political dynamics in Turkey.
The event (7:00 — 8:30 pm in the Oleson Center, Room A/B) is free and open to the public. Please see the attached poster for more details, and spread word to community members. Thank you.
