SAPS Executive Board Applications Available
Applications are now being accepted for the SAPS Executive Board. SAPS is the Millsaps campus programming board. We select entertainment to bring to campus for the benefit of the student body. The Executive Board plans and oversees the execution of all SAPS events. The link to the application is below. Applications are due by Thursday, December 12, 2013.
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Volunteer for the MS Blues Marathon & Half-Marathon
The 7th Annual Mississippi Blues Marathon and Half-Marathon needs you! On Saturday, January 11 runners from all 50 states and several countries will run the streets of Jackson, and they need your help to keep them safe and going in the right direction! Please consider volunteering as a course marshal for this great event - it's a great way to watch and welcome these runners to Mississippi, plus get a really cool t-shirt. To sign up, simply go to www.msbluesmarathon.com and click on the "Volunteer Here" link.
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Holidays are around the corner and the College Post Office will be closed for
Thanksgiving
November 28th and 29th
Winter Break
December 21st thru January 1st
If you are mailing packages to International Addresses, here is the USPS website for delivery by Christmas. It has the Military Address dates and also other international countries.
https://www.usps.com/shippingdates/
When mailing letters or packages, always include a return address, write addresses clearly and if you have a question we are here in the post office to help you.
Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas
Your Post Mistress
Ruth
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Library Schedule: Exams and Christmas Holidays
Thanks again to the SBA for providing coffee during exams.
Good luck and happy holidays.
Dec. 10
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Tuesday
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7:50am-All night
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Reading day
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Dec. 11
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Wednesday
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All day-All night
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Exams
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Dec. 12
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Thursday
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All day-1:00am
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Exams
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Dec. 13
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Friday
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7:50am-All night
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Reading day
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Dec. 14
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Saturday
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All day-5:00pm
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Exams
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Dec. 15
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Sunday
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12noon-All night
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Reading day
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Dec. 16
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Monday
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All day-1:00am
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Exams
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Dec. 17
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Tuesday
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7:50am-5:00pm
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Exams
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Dec. 18-20
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Wednesday-Friday
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8:00am-5:00pm
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Dec. 21-Jan. 1
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All days
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Closed
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College holidays
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Jan. 2-12
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Monday-Friday
Weekends
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8:00am-5:00pm
Closed
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Jan. 13
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Monday
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Regular Schedule
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Classes begin
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HAC
Exam & Holiday Hours
During Exams (Dec. 12-17th): Normal Hours
December 18th (Wednesday)- December 20th(Friday):
1pm-7pm
Closed after December 20th for Christmas
Holidays
Re-open on Saturday, January 11th at 2pm
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Once again, with feeling: New Beatles Course
THE
BEATLES: Constructing Musical Meaning in the Counterculture (4 cr.)
Students: This course is about the Beatles as musicians. It
cross-lists with music, allowing anyone not in the Core to take it. By taking
it, you will earn that much-coveted Millsaps Fine Arts Credit. You'll even
learn some music theory along the way.
Goals for the course include [but are
not limited to]:
- developing
a critical approach to the interaction of music and text
- understanding the connection
between history, politics, and the Beatles soundtrack it framed
- developing a sophisticated ear,
built on active listening strategies
- understanding the Beatles’
place in popular music history
- finally getting why George was
so into Hindustani music...
TEXT: Walter Everett's excellent The Beatles as Musicians, in
2 vols.
THE BEATLES: Constructing Musical Meaning
in the Counterculture (4 cr.)
IDST 2500-05
Focus: Fine Arts
Cross-lists with MUSC 2750-01
Dr. Lynn Raley
TTh 10 W 12
AC 152
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Tour Date: May 13-22, 2014
Tim Coker and Charlotte Bass can provide additional information for anyone interested. This is open to faculty and staff, as well as students. The cost is around $3,000.
The class is the week prior to the trip- 4 hours credit for about 3 weeks class and travel.
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Writing Center Tutoring Positions, 2014-15
The application deadline for a position in the Writing Center is Friday, December 13th.
If you are interested in becoming a Writing Center Tutor, you must submit a letter of interest and a confidential and sealed letter of recommendation from your Core 1 instructor (or, if you are a second year student or above, an instructor from your current semester who can speak to your writing ability) to the Writing Program office in John Stone Hall by 4:30 pm on December 13th. In addition to your application materials, the essays in your Writing Portfolio will also be evaluated as part of the application process. A successful candidate will usually score "Well Above Proficient" at the Core 1 evaluation point.
The selected applicants will be contacted over the Winter Break, and they will be required to enroll in WRIT 2001 (a one-credit hour Tutor Training Practicum) in the Spring 2014 term. Upon successful completion of WRIT 2001, those students will be invited to work as Writing Center Tutors, and enroll in WRIT 3001 (a one-credit hour course for ongoing tutor training).
Please let Anita DeRouen know if you have any questions.
anita.derouen@millsaps.edu
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