In this edition:
- Need a helping hand this holiday season?
- Nursing information system
- Express advising days
- Veterans Day is November 11
- Don’t be sick for the holidays
- Upcoming student events
- “The Anatomy of Hate”
Need a helping hand this holiday season?
NMC wants to support your educational endeavor and brighten your family’s holiday. If you are enrolled in either NMC or a University Center program and struggling to support your family and stay in school, consider applying to NMC’s Giving Tree Program.
Students are invited to apply for support from the Giving Tree Program by completing the attached brief application (also available at S:\Resource Development\Public\Giving Tree Program Application). Completed applications must be returned to NMC Resource Development in Founders Hall on main campus by November 14, 2011.
Applications will be reviewed by a committee, with 50 families selected to participate. Lighted trees will be placed on each campus, decorated with “ornaments” containing the gift recipient’s information: man/woman, boy/girl, age, clothing size and interests/special requests.
NMC and University Center faculty and staff volunteers will be invited to select an ornament(s) and provide a gift. A gift collection site will be at each location. Gifts will be distributed the week of December 12.
Students graduating at the end of fall 2011 should already have their Application for a Degree/Certificate submitted to the Records & Registration Office. If not, get it in right away!!
Nursing information session
November 29, 2011, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Oleson Center, NMC’s Main Campus
Please join us for a Nursing Information Session for current NMC pre-nursing students on November 29th from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in the Oleson Center. This session will better acquaint you with our Nursing program, review admissions criteria and discuss program policies and procedures. If you are interested in attending the Nursing Information Session please complete the registration form available on the Advising Center webpage (www.nmc.edu/advising). Space is limited to the first 100 students that RSVP electronically on the Advising Center website. A confirmation of your registration will be sent to your NMC email.
Express advising days
Express Advising is available on the following dates in Osterlin 118:
Tuesday, November 8: 12:30 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Friday, November 11: 8 a.m.–3 p.m.
Veterans Day is Friday, November 11
Since 1919, our nation has collectively paused on November 11 to honor all those who have served in the U.S. armed forces. On behalf of all faculty and staff this Veterans’ Day, I’d especially like to thank and recognize the 163 veterans currently enrolled here at NMC, as well as those among our faculty and staff who have served.
Our CIT and Maritime programs have the greatest concentration of veterans. In fact, more than a quarter of current Maritime cadets are veterans.
Beyond the individuals themselves, our campus is enriched by veterans. Under the leadership of Jim Press in the history department, NMC students have been part of the national Veterans History Project, recording the oral histories of veterans, for several years. The NMC Foundation also is honored to steward and award two scholarships for veterans or the descendants of veterans.
We owe much to these men and women willing to serve and sacrifice for their fellow citizens. On Veterans’ Day, please join me in taking a moment to say thank you.
Don’t be sick for the holidays
Every year there is an increase in flu cases after Thanksgiving due to exposure to sick relatives at holiday celebrations. Be smart this year and get vaccinated.
Walk in Flu Shots for $15 in Health Services LB106
Upcoming student events
- Student Government is hosting a free bowling night at Lucky Jacks November 17 from 9 pm – 12 am.
- Wings of Wonder is an educational program on raptors (hawks, falcons, turkey vultures, etc.) that explains their physical attributes, natural environments, threats to their survival, and ways to get involved in their rehabilitation. Wings of Wonder features several raptors in person along with their personal stories. This event is in the Fine Arts Building in room 115 at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 15.
The Anatomy of Hate
Student Life is showing the documentary, “The Anatomy of Hate: A Dialogue for Hope” in the Milliken Auditorium at 7 pm this Friday, November 11.
This film reveals the shared narratives found in individual and collective ideologies of hate, and how we as a species can overcome them.
For six years the filmmaker worked with unprecedented access to some of the most venomous ideologies and violent conflicts of our time including the White Supremacist movement, Christian Fundamentalism as an anti-gay platform, Muslim extremism, the Palestinian Intifada, Israeli Settlers and Soldiers, and US Forces in Iraq.
By juxtaposing this verité footage with interviews from sociological, psychological, and neurological experts, and interspersing stories of redemption told by former “combatants”, the film weaves a tapestry that reveals both the emotional and biological mechanisms which make all of us susceptible to acts and ideologies of hate, and demonstrates how these very same traits make us equally capable of overcoming them…
The film will be followed by a discussion with the director, Mike Ramsdell.
This event is open and free to the public.
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