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Become a Tutor!
Into the Woods Auditions
Study Abroad Symposium
Upcoming Scholars Council activities
Leadership in Action Program

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Become a Tutor!
Working with other students in a helping role will provide you with some of the most valuable experience you could ever get during your college years. The Undergraduate Tutorial Center is currently recruiting Math, Chemistry, and Physics tutors for the Spring 2010 semester. If you are interested, please attend one of the information sessions below. Tutors will be selected and added to a section of ECI 210, Introduction to College Tutoring. For more information visit http://www.ncsu.edu/tutorial_center/employment.htm.

Potential Tutor Information Sessions:

  • Tuesday, 11/17, 3:00-3:30pm, SAS 1108
  • Thursday, 11/19, 6:30-7:00pm, SAS 2225

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Into the Woods Auditions
Audition Orientation: Monday, November 23, Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre, 7pm - 10pm
Please prepare a musical theatre song (Sondheim recommended, not required) or learn a selection from Into the Woods at the orientation. Audition sides are posted at www.ncsu.edu/theatre

Auditions: Monday, November 30 and Tuesday, December 1, Stewart Theatre, 7pm - 10pm
Please prepare a musical theatre song (Sondheim recommended, not required) and bring the sheet music. Perusals of the script are available in Thompson Hall and Talley Student Center from 9am - 4pm.  Please be prepared to read them in the lobby, they cannot be checked out. http://www.ncsu.edu/theatre/0910/intothewoods/index.html

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Study Abroad Symposium
Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m, Walnut Room, Talley Student Center

Come hear NCSU students and faculty share the academic and personal impact of study abroad. The Symposium aims to recognize the academic growth of students resulting from study abroad and to raise awareness on campus of how important study abroad is to strengthening the university as a whole. For more information, visit: http://www.ncsu.edu/sa/symposium/sa_symposium.html

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Upcoming Scholars Council activities
Historic Tryon Palace Trip:
Come join Scholars Council on Saturday, November 21st from 7:45am - 4:30pm to enjoy a trip to New Bern and a guided tour of Tryon Palace. Tryon Palace, built between 1767 and 1770, was the first permanent capitol of the Colony of North Carolina and a home for the Royal Governor and his family. The Palace was opened to the public in 1959--North Carolina's first great public history project. Follow in the footsteps of George Washington--visit Tryon Palace! This trip is free to students and Scholars Council will treat for lunch! Email Camry Curtis at clcurtis@ncsu.edu to sign up or with any questions.

Coalition to Unchain Dogs:
Join Scholars Council Saturday, November 21st at 8:45am - 1pm to volunteer for Coalition to Unchain Dogs. This non-profit organization aims to build recreational areas for dogs to improve their living conditions. Sign up in 102 Sullivan or email Jodi Joseph at jljoseph@ncsu.edu.

Dodge Ball for America:
Love the movie Dodge Ball? Think you have some skills? Then sign up a team (5-6 people) to play in this tournament that will take place at 5 PM November 20th on Lee Field. Sign up is in 102 Sullivan. Contact Jodi Joseph at jljoseph@ncsu.edu to answer any questions.

Fill Up the Apple:
The Scholars Council is making a collage for this year's semi-formal, Empire State of Mind, and we want your pictures in it. Come by the Scholars Lounge [102 Sullivan] and drop off your pictures--with your name and suite on the back so it can be returned to you after the semi-formal--in the giant apple in the lounge. And then come out to Empire State of Mind on Saturday, December 5th, to not only eat, dance and make merry, but see your pics in this great Scholars Collage. Questions? Contact Jodie Joseph at jljoseph@ncsu.edu.

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Leadership In Action Program
The "Leadership In Action" program serves as CSLEPS premier leadership program. LIA includes 3 phases of leadership development for NC State students. Fifty students are invited to participate in the program each year.
Participants will be selected during the fall of 2009 and begin the program in January 2010.

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