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Library Mystery Night: Who Did It?
Library Mystery Night, Sept. 9
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!
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.
Children's Movement of Florida to Stop in Gainesville Sept. 8
A message from Dug Jones, Assistant Vice President, Economic Development:
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.
Fall 2010 Leadership Seminar Series
The Santa Fe College Leadership Institute is offering a certificate of completion for those who attend all five basic leadership seminars in the Fall 2010 Leadership Seminar Series. The presenter will be Bruce Tucker, the Coordinator of the SF College Leadership Institute. All seminars are free and open to the public. If you'd like more information, please contact bruce.tucker@sfcollege.edu.
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
Calling All Scrabble Lovers!
This message is from Professor Naima Cherie Brown:
"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
Project Santa Fe Clean-Up!
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!
Utilize Student Life's Interactive Display Case
The Center for Student Leadership & Activities has a large interactive display case, at the entry to S Building, available for use by student organizations, campus groups and departments. It is ideal for advertising campus events and activities. The area is equipped with a motion detector that senses visitors and turns on a prerecorded voice loop and lights.
- To reserve the interactive display case, go to: Publicity Requests
Gator Growl, Oct. 15
The largest student-run pep rally in the world, Gator Growl, will be held Friday, Oct. 15 in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at the University of Florida. This year’s show includes headlining comedian Aziz Ansari. Santa Fe students, faculty and staff may purchase general admission student tickets for $20 by visiting the Center for Student Leadership & Activities, S-147.
Theatre Santa Fe Presents "The Day They Shot John Lennon," Nov. 10-13
Theatre Santa Fe's Fall 2010 play, entitled "The Day They Shot John Lennon", will be showing at 8 p.m., Nov.10-12, and at 2 p.m. on Nov. 13 in the E Auditorium for your viewing pleasure. The play was written by James Mclure and is being directed by Terry A. Klenk.
Comprised of a deftly blended series of encounters between a group of strangers who assemble at the site of John Lennon's assassination, the play captures the sense of shock and uncomprehending loss that followed that awful event. The play was first produced by the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, N.J.
The Story:
The action of the play takes place on the street in front of the Manhattan apartment where John Lennon was killed. Deeply moved and shocked by this awful event, many New Yorkers spontaneously assembled there to pay tribute to their slain idol, and it is from the interwoven stories of a cross section of people that the author builds his play.
Included are a young advertising executive and a "women's libber" who had both been at Woodstock, a group of high school students preoccupied with romantic disputes and entanglements, a pair of Vietnam vets with larceny in mind, an elderly Jewish man from a neighboring building who mistakenly thinks that the murder victim was Jack Lemmon, and a hip, young, would-be comic who is the son of the old Jewish gentleman's doorman.
Through the interaction of these people—sometimes humorous, sometimes moving, sometimes menacing—the author points out the larger significance of the event which has brought them together; the shock wave which was felt across the nation by this further evidence of the violence and ugliness lurking in our communal soul.
"…we're transported right back to that December 1980 day of mourning when the songs of an era took on sad, new ironies, and when no one could think of the right words to express an inexplicable loss." —NY Times.
Saints Cheerleader Tryouts, Sept. 19
Saints Cheerleader tryouts will be at 4 p.m. in the Gym. Applications and the $30 tryout fee are due by Sept. 13, no exceptions!
- Please mail to: Stacey Ledvina, Santa Fe College, 3000 NW 83rd Street, R-102, Gainesville, FL 32606.
- For all necessary forms, visit www.sfcollege.edu/cheer.
Today at Santa Fe
- Library Mystery Night: Who Did It?
- Children's Movement of Florida to Stop in Gainesville Sept. 8
- Fall 2010 Leadership Seminar Series
- Calling All Scrabble Lovers!
- Project Santa Fe Clean-Up!
Press Releases
- Opportunities in Emerging Technologies, Sept. 14
- Children's Movement of Florida to Stop in Gainesville Sept. 8
- Fall 2010 Leadership Seminar Series
- Calling All Scrabble Lovers!
- Please Join Us as UF and Santa Fe Enter a New Partnership!
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