SUNY Fredonia students are supporting the local Rotary Club’s “Let Kids Be Kids” program through a broomball tournament to be held Friday, Dec. 1 from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. in the Steele Hall Ice Rink. The event is open to all, and refreshments will be provided.
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The Fredonia School of Music will present its 20th annual production of  “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” on Saturday, Dec. 9 at 8 p.m. in the First United Methodist Church in Fredonia. The concert is free and open to the public.
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Adam Hino has been hired as coordinator of Disability Support Services for Students at SUNY Fredonia. He is responsible for providing academic accommodations to students who have disabilities.
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The music business degree program at SUNY Fredonia is sponsoring a guest lecture by Phil Galdston, a songwriter, record producer and music publisher on Tuesday, Nov. 28, at 3:30 p.m. in Williams Center Room S104. The event is free and open to all. Mr. Galdston, who frequently writes and speaks on issues of intellectual property affecting the creators of music, has written music that has appeared on over 65 million records worldwide.
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Jonathan H. Woolson of Fredonia, N.Y., has been named assistant director for website communications at SUNY Fredonia. He has been a professional in the marketing, graphics and publishing industry for 12 years, and since 2004 has served local and national clients through his Fredonia, N.Y., company, “thinkplaydesign."
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More than 125 SUNY Fredonia students got out of bed early a few weeks ago to do something nice for their neighbors on Temple Street and Central Avenue: rake their lawns.  The Annual Fall Sweep, now in its second year, experienced a big spike in student participation this year.  A community relations event, it was founded by two student groups as a way for Fredonia students to give back to the community, and to offset typical "town/gown" problems between students and permanent residents.
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Musings during a recent trip through China are the inspirations for Mohawk poet James Thomas Stevens’ sixth book of poetry, A Bridge Dead in the Water, which plumbs the depths of experiences of Native peoples on two continents.

Said to have once been an exposed strip of land that brought Asian settlers to the continent of North America, the Bering Strait Land Bridge has also become a metaphor for the conflict between Europeans and Native Americans. Just as science and religion clash in all cultures, the Bering Strait theory has appeared to trivialize the hundreds of creation accounts that were fundamental to the traditions of Native peoples in North America. Read why the theory antagonizes many Native Americans.

The Bering Strait

Professor Stevens, who teaches English at SUNY Fredonia, researched the effects of colonization on either side of the strait – China and North America, in preparing to write his newest collection.

His explorations took him to unexpected sources that gave a glimpse into the lives of native peoples. For example, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York’s 1901 published list of accidents, emergencies, and illnesses became the inspiration for a key poem in the book, “The Mutual Life.”

Two other poems focus on mapping, authority and propaganda, while the short poems recall some of his more personal experiences.

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Alumni tour WCVF studios in McEwen Hall during Homecoming 2006.
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SUNY Fredonia students have elected Dahn Bull, a junior Political Science major, and Ashley Spaulding, a junior Early Childhood Education major, as the next President and Vice President of the Student Association, respectively. Both have been involved with the Student Association over the last two years.
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The Chautauqua County League of Women Voters is sponsoring a thought-provoking program on wind power as an alternative energy option. The event will take place at SUNY Fredonia on Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 1:30 p.m. in Room S 104 of the Williams Center. Panelists will be Fredonia faculty Jack Berkley and Ken Mantai, and community leaders Elizabeth Booth and Claire Quadri.
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The student organization linked to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is running a contest to select the “Most Vegetarian-Friendly College” in America, and SUNY Fredonia has made this year's list.

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The Council on Social Work Education has reaffirmed its accreditation of the SUNY Fredonia bachelor’s degree program in social work. Less than 10-years old, the social work program at Fredonia has been accredited nationally since 2003. 
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Author and naturalist Scott Weidensaul will speak at SUNY Fredonia on Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 2 p.m. in Jewett Hall Room 101, and that evening at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History in Jamestown. The biology department has invited him to give an informal seminar including taking questions from students.

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Mary Cobb of the Fredonia School of Music will present a faculty recital on Saturday, Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall, entitled, “Mary Cobb and Friends.”  The concert will feature Ms. Cobb performing works by Mozart and Chopin. “Friends” joining her after the intermission are colleagues on the Fredonia School of Music faculty: Brian Walnicki, Wildy Zumwalt, Angela Dilkey, and Mario Falcao.
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Special guest artist Kenneth Meyer of the Syracuse University Setnor School of Music will perform in concert Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall on the SUNY Fredonia campus. The concert will feature a unique program of new guitar solos Mr. Meyer commissioned from five American composers
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Alumni raced to raise funds for the track and field program in honor of late alumnus, Fred Ruterbusch, '77.

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International Education Week features events all week that focus on the arts, culture, cuisine, study abroad, and career opportunities that exist around the globe for SUNY Fredonia students.
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To the advantage of her audiences, filmmaker Nefin Dinc’s eyes become theirs. A documentary filmmaker allowed to follow a group of whirling dervishes behind the scenes as they prepare for a ceremony in Turkey, she turned her camera on a 12-year old girl who was undergoing the spiritual and physical training to perform the ancient devotional dance. “I wanted to show a glimpse of Islamic life in Turkey,” the SUNY Fredonia communication professor said.

Professor Nefin Dinc

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A full orchestra, chorus, and the Chautauqua Children’s Chorale will join the featured vocalists and actors for the 2006 Hillman Opera at SUNY Fredonia, “Carmen,” Nov. 10 and 11, at 7:30 p.m. in King Concert Hall.
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Dr. Paul Schwartz, Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities for more than eight years, has been selected to be the next Dean of Academic Affairs at the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, France. 
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