This is a free, 12-hour course spread over three nights. RAD is a self-defense course designed specifically to teach women realistic defense tactics and techniques. RAD focuses primarily on enhancing awareness, risk reduction and avoidance skills, before progressing to the basics of hands-on defense training. 

The next RAD class will be held Sept. 9, 13, and 14 from 5:30-9:30 p.m. in Building S-29/30.

The class is free, but enrollment is limited to ensure the highest quality of instruction. Pre-registration is required. To register for this course, please contact Officer John R. Santos at 352-395-5452 or e-mail to rad@sfcollege.edu.

For more information about the RAD program, please visit our website at http://www.sfcollege.edu/pd/  and click on the "RAD Program" link on the homepage.

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• Course #:MEC0030.1F3
• 1 Wed.,  Sept. 8, 5:45-8:45 p.m.
• Instructor - Ken Fonorow
• SF-NW Campus, Room A-029
• FEE $24

Contact Melissa Atyeo for more information or to register, 395-5193.

Join the Office of Civic Engagement and Service for Into the Streets, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Oct. 23 in front of  S Building.

Students and staff are invited to march forward into the community as a unified body, taking on diverse projects that will positively impact the lives of those they assist!

Lunch, beverages, and souvenirs will be provided, as well as the fulfillment of service.

• Contact: Samantha Rist 

Zack Ryan

The Frommer's company hosts this display contest annually. The mannequins, which will be wearing the costumes, function as travelers with one holding a camera and another consulting a Frommer’s travel guide.

This exhibit, which also features the work of SF students, Devin Cole and Lynn Paluga, is comprised of 2-D and 3-D art that has been created using recycled, re-purposed, and/or reconstructed materials. What we find is a creative art form that is both socially and environmentally responsible.

For more information please contact Krista Froiseth at krista.froiseth@sfcollege.edu. The gallery, which is in the Student Life conference room, is open Monday-Thursday from 8 a.m.-9 p.m. and Fridays, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., except when meetings are being held.

Web gallery from Opening Reception Sept. 2

Who is killing off the literary villains? Was it Lizzie Borden with her ax? Bonnie and Clyde? Ivan the Terrible? Or did the butler do it? Come to the Library Mystery Night to find out!

This year's Library Mystery Night takes place at 2 p.m. and then again at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 9 in the Library (Y-building) lobby. 

Win great prizes! Learn about the library! Have fun!

Library Mystery Night

Donations Needed for the Library's Book & Bake Sale, Sept. 15-16

The Library's Fall Book and Bake Sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 15 and 16. Visit the library's front porch and peruse the great selection of used books, CDs and DVDs. The used books sell between 50 cents and $2; the magazines are free; and homemade baked goods are only 50 cents!

If you have any items you would like to donate, please contact Trenita White at 395-5771. The library also asks that you do not bring barcode scanners to the sale and that all book store representatives wait until Sept. 16 to visit the sale.

I hope you will join me and lots of other child advocates and interested folks in making the wellbeing and education of our children the state's highest priority.

This new initiative is called the Children's Movement of Florida -- and is being spearheaded statewide by a large, influential and non-partisan group of state leaders.

This state tour will host 15 "milk and cookies" parties across the state starting in Pensacola and working down to Key West.

We would like to show our community and our state that Gainesville truly cares about its children by getting at least 1,000 people to participate. Hope you will join me in the one-hour rally on Wednesday, Sept. 8 in Gainesville to raise awareness of and support for the movement.

• Time: 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8
• Place: SF Northwest Campus, Gymnasim
• Goal: 1,000 people per location in order to attract the media and to make a statement to the Florida legislature that kids are our priority

Each site will attract families and advocates with refreshments, local bands and choirs, balloons, entertainment, local celebrities, milk and cookies, and buses to get folks to the event, etc. It is backed by grants from the Kellogg Foundation among several others. This is not a request for money and/or involvement in campaigns -- just an hour of your time and sending a few emails.

For more information email to david.abrams@childrensmovementflorida.org.

The first two seminars are described below. Select "read more," below for the entire series.

Leadership Institute website

Session I: Understanding the true meaning of leadership.

If everyone agrees on what good leadership is, there would be no need for a two-party system, football coaches would never be fired, and my dog would obey me. My dog needs treats, coaches need wins, and the talking heads on TV need jobs. Why are there so many differences of opinion? How does this affect leadership effectiveness?

Date: Sept. 15, Time: 2 p.m., Location: S-326/327

Session II: Assessing your leadership potential. 

My only qualification for chairing this committee is that I was absent for the meeting when officers were elected. I have two years to serve. Is my self esteem about to take a dive? What kind of legacy will I leave behind me? Are there any hints that can indicate whether I will be successful?

Date: Sept. 29, Time: 2 p.m., Location: S-326/327

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"I have started a new club, Scrabble Lovers of Gainesville, and I want to invite interested members of the SFC family to join. If you love Scrabble like I do, then you know exactly why I started this group! And you also know why you want to join this group...to play Scrabble, and to play Scrabble, and to play Scrabble. So join the group! Then plan to come to the monthly meeting.

First meeting is Sept. 7

"The meetings will be held on the first Tuesday of every month from 5:30 until 8:30 p.m. The first meeting is September 7. Bring your Scrabble board, bring your Scrabble dictionary, and bring your A-game. (Don't worry if you don't have your own board and dictionary, I will bring a few). The meeting room at the Tower Road Library has been reserved for 3 hours. This means that each person can get in at least three (two-player) games during each meeting.

• Game #1 will be from 5:40-6:30 p.m.
• Game #2 will be from 6:35-7:25 p.m.
• Game #3 will be from 7:30-8:20 p.m.

You can pick and choose which games you want to play. Just show up in time for the time slot that interests you. Players will have 25 minutes each for every game. That way, each game between two people lasts no more than 50 minutes. Feel free to bring your own snacks! Note: This group is open to the public. So, inform and/or bring along Scrabble lovers that you know.

For more information, call Naima at 352-395-4477.

Scrabble Lovers of Gainesville online

Want to spend your Friday making a difference on campus? Then Project Santa Fe Clean-Up may be just for you! Meet peers and the Office of Civic Engagement and Service staff at 1 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 24 in the Oak Grove to tidy up and enhance campus buildings and landscapes! At 4 p.m., you will be provided with a hot dinner and drinks, and a free t-shirt!

• Please contact Samantha Rist for more details!

• To reserve the interactive display case, go to: Publicity Requests

• UF Homecoming