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1 THISWEEK IN ACADEMIC AFFAIRS EXCLUSIVE INSIDE THIS ISSUE Cultural Arts Week. P. 2 NEWS, EVENTS, AND MORE OCTOBER 5, 2018 VOLUME # 16 / ISSUE # 22 Clay and Flow Workshop with Julie Parker. P. 3 "Remnants & Renewal" Exhibition P. 9

2 CULTURALARTS WEEKATCHOWAN Cultural Arts Week. Join t h e f acu lt y of t h e Sch ool of t h e Fin e an d Applied Ar t s begin n in g Fr iday, Oct ober 5 t h r ou gh Fr iday, Oct ober 12, f or t h eir Cultural Arts Celebration? The Healing Arts. Sch edu led even t s in clu de: Oct ober 5 - Fr ien ds of M u sic Ar t ist Ser ies: Con cer t f eat u r in g Ten or, Tshombe Selby, 7:00 p.m., Tu r n er Au dit or iu m Oct ober 6 - Th eat er In st allat ion : Th eat er? A Healin g Ar t by Steve Harders, 1:00 t o 2:30 p.m., Gr een Hall Oct ober 6 - Clay an d Flow Wor k sh op w it h Dr. Julie Parker, 1:00 t o 2:30 p.m., Gr een Hall Oct ober 8 - Socio-Polit ical Welln ess Th r ou gh Religion w it h Dr. William Eger, 6:30 p.m., Gr een Hall Oct ober 9 - Wh at Is Ar t Th er apy? Pan el Discu ssion w it h Miss Zulay Romero, Dr. Jennifer Place, Dr. Julie Parker, and Professor Abigail Williams, 6:30 p.m., Tu r n er Au dit or iu m Oct ober 10 - M u sic Visu alizat ion w it h Dr. Christopher Cook, 5:30 p.m., Gr een Hall-sm all galler y. Oct ober 11 - Oil an d Cold Wax Wor k sh op w it h Eloise Shelton-Mayo, 9:30 a.m. t o 12:30 p.m., Gr een Hall Oct ober 11 - Rem n an t s & Ren ew al Exh ibit ion Open in g Recept ion an d Galler y Talk w it h Eloise Shelton-Mayo, 5:00 t o 7:00 p.m., Gr een Hall Oct ober 12 - Zazen M edit at ion w it h Steve Harders, 11:00 a.m. t o 1:00 p.m., Gr een Hall Th ese even t s ar e f r ee an d open t o t h e pu blic.

3 CLAYANDFLOWWORKSHOP WITHJULIEPARKER On Saturday, October 6, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. in Green Hall, Julie Parker will hold a Clay and Flow Workshop. This workshop will include a brief lesson about the new subfield?positive Psychology?founded by Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania. This area of psychology provides research-based applications to strengthen subj ective well-being and happiness.?engagement,?a component of Seligman?s PERMA model of subj ective well-being will be discussed, as well as the mental state?flow,? which is a high level of engagement. Participants will be given a short lesson on handbuilding with clay and an opportunity to learn how to reach states of "Flow" using the medium. Dr. Julie Parker is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Chowan University. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology with a specialization in Consciousness and Spirituality from Saybrook University, San Francisco, and her M.S. in Transpersonal Psychology from John F. Kennedy University, Pleasant Hill, California.

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5 Facu l t y Accom p l i sh m en t s Bo Dam e, Associat e Pr of essor of Ph ysical Scien ces, gave a pr esen t at ion on " In vest in g in Fu t u r e Leader s" at t h e Nor t h Car olin a Sea Gr an t Sit e Review on Oct ober 3 in Raleigh. Geor gia William s, Associat e Pr of essor of In f or m at ion Scien ce, is cu r r en t ly ser vin g on a SACSCOC Of f -sit e Review Team. Ter esa San t is, Assist an t Pr of essor of Edu cat ion, at t en ded t h e Nor t h Car olin a Associat ion f or College an d Teach er Edu cat or s Fall For u m on Oct ober 2-5 in Raleigh. Ella Ben son, Associat e Pr of essor of Edu cat ion, at t en ded t h e Nor t h Car olin a Associat ion f or College an d Teach er Edu cat or s Fall For u m on Oct ober 2-5 in Raleigh. Jen n if er New t on, Assist an t Pr of essor of Gr aph ic Com m u n icat ion s, at t en ded Pr in t 18 in Ch icago on Sept em ber 30 - Oct ober 2. Tom Br en n an, Associat e Pr of essor of Gr aph ic Com m u n icat ion s, at t en ded Pr in t 18 in Ch icago on Sept em ber 30 - Oct ober 2. David Ballew, Associat e Pr of essor of Hist or y, gave a pr esen t at ion en t it led " Got M y M ojo Wor k in': Blu es an d Con ju r e as M odes of Af r ican Am er ican Resist an ce" at t h e Fif t h An n u al In t er n at ion al Con f er en ce on t h e Blu es at Delt a St at e Un iver sit y in Clevelan d, M ississippi, on Sept em ber 30 - Oct ober 2. Cyn t h i a Ni ch ol son serves as t h e Ti d ewat er Cl u st er Coord i n at or f or t h e M i d - At l an t i c Regi on of Al p h a Kap p a Al p h a Sorori t y, I n corp orat ed.

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7 PONDERINGS OF THE PROVOST "I had to see how much further my jaw would drop." Dur ing my last visit to an independent book store, I decided to browse the classics section. I love contempor ar y liter ature, so I find little time to read the classics. I decided I wanted to read something big, something that will challenge me. There were three Jane Austen's books: Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice. There was Faulkner : As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Sanctuary, but I have read all three. Of cour se, there was Nor man M ailer and Saul Bellow. I haven't read either of them. I held a copy of Madame Bovary in my hand, then sat it back on the shelf and tr aded it for a copy of Middlemarch, a thick book. I put it back on the shelf and kept looking. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Three Men in a Boat, Vanity Fair, Wuthering Heights, The County of Monte Cristo, The Quite American. I lingered on the The Quiet American for a minute, but finally I stuck it back. " Not quite it," I thought. A used book with a tattered red spine caught my eye and I freed it from the shelf. I t was Tobacco Road by Er skine Caldwell, and on its cover is a poor tenant family. I bought it. Tobacco Road is set in a fictionalized ver sion of Caldwell's hometown. I t tells the stor y of the L ester s, the poorest, whitest, tr ashiest, hor niest family in r ur al Geor gia. Jeeter, the patr iarch, is a beaten-down sharecropper. His family sur vives in their shack on fat-back r inds and cor n meal. Ada, his wife, has pellagr a. Their son, Dude, is a sixteen-year-old half-wit. The reader lear ns that Jeeter sold his thir teen-year-old daughter into mar r iage for $7 and some oil and quilts. From here, the grotesquer ies pile up and up. Dude mar r ies a widow. Ellie M ay, another daughter, is depicted in a str ange r ape-seduction scene: " Ellie M ay's action like your old hound used to do when he got the itch," Dude says to L ester. " L ook at her scr ape her bottom on the sand. That old hound used to the make the same kind of sound Ellie M ay's making, too. I t sounds j ust like a little pig squealing, don't it." There are scenes involving r ats, cor pses, and a female preacher, who is passed around like a sex doll. So, why did I choose Tobacco Road? I t looked interesting. I t wasn't. Why did I finish reading it? I had to see how much fur ther my j aw could drop.

8 "REM NANTS & RENEWAL" COOKTOMAKE PRESENTATIONONMUSIC VISUALIZATION VISITGREENHALLGALLERYFROMOCTOBER11THROUGHNOVEMBER20ANDENJOY THE"REMNANTSANDRENEWAL"EXHIBITION. The " Rem nant s & Renew al" Ex hibit ion by Eloise Shelt on-m ayo opens on Oct ober 11 w it h a gallery t alk and recept ion from 5:00 t o 7:00 p.m. A belief in t he t ransform at ive, healing pow er of art infuses Shelt on-m ayo?s w ork. Best know n for encaust ic and now, oil & cold w ax, t he covering and uncovering w it h layers of paint and ot her m at erials, invit es t he view er t o delve and discover t he t ex t ures and nuances in a piece. The ex pressive line and shape t hat oft en defines her w ork, speaks t o t he random joy and energy of a m om ent. The ex hibit ion runs t hrough Novem ber 20. Christ opher Cook, Assist ant Professor of M usic, w ill give a present at ion on M usic Visualizat ion on Wednesday, Oct ober 10, at 5:30 p.m. in Green Hall. Cook, a com poser, received t he D.M. degree from Indiana Universit y w here he served as assist ant direct or of t he Cent er for Elect ronic and Com put er M usic. He is a recent recipient of a From m M usic Foundat ion com m ission from Harvard Universit y and has received aw ards from t he Nat ional Endow m ent for t he Art s, t he Am erican Societ y of Com posers, Aut hors and Publishers, t he M usic Teachers Nat ional Associat ion, and t he Nat ional Assem bly of Local Art s Agencies. His com posit ions are w idely perform ed in universit y and fest ival set t ings in t he Unit ed St at es and abroad.

9 THISWEEKINREADING: THEBESTNEWNOVELS IFYOULEAVEMEBYCRYSTALHANAKIM "When the communist-backed army from the north invades her home, 16-year-old Haemi Lee, along with her widowed mother and ailing brother, is forced to flee to a refugee camp along the coast. For a few hours each night, she escapes her family?s makeshift home and tragic circumstances with her childhood friend, Kyunghwan. Focused on finishing school, Kyunghwan doesn?t realize his older and wealthier cousin, Jisoo, has his sights set on the beautiful and spirited Haemi? and is determined to marry her before joining the fight. But as Haemi becomes a wife, then a mother, her decision to forsake the boy she always loved for the security of her family sets off a dramatic saga that will have profound effects for generations to come." Pearl S. Buck, Author of The Good Earth THEGOODEARTHOF QUOTE " The fir st peaches of spr ing - the fir st peaches! Buy, eat, pur ge your bowels of the poison of winter!" THETHIRDHOTELBYLAURAVANDENBERG " Shor tly after Clare ar r ives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival of New L atin Amer ican Cinema, she finds her husband, Richar d, standing outside a museum. He?s wear ing a white linen suit she?s never seen before, and he?s supposed to be dead. Gr ief-str icken and baffled, Clare tails Richar d, a hor ror film scholar, through the newly tour ist-filled streets of Havana, clocking his ever y move. As the distinction between reality and fantasy blur s, Clare finds grounding in memor ies of her childhood in Flor ida and of her mar r iage to Richar d, revealing her role in his death and reappear ance along the way. The Third Hotel is a propulsive, br illiantly shape-shifting novel from an inventive author at the height of her nar r ative power s." OVERHEARD " I am Tommy's hur r icane." -- L ibby Whitaker

10 3 "In this twisty, gritty, profoundly moving New York Times bestselling debut - also called 'mandatory reading' - Adam Silvera brings to life a charged, dangerous near-future summer in the Bronx." Book Tr ailer f or M or e Th an Happy Th an Not 2 Click on im age above t o view Hon or s Sem in ar book t r ailer. 1 Students in CU 101 will vote for one of five books to select the Common Reading for CU 102 in Spring Students in the Honors Seminar developed marketing campaigns for each book. Someth i ng M ore

11 ACADEMICEVENTS Tuesday October 9 AdvisingDay Thursday October 11 "Remnantsand Renewal"Art Exhibition Opening Reception Friday October 12 Mid-termGrades Due Saturday October 13 Homecoming Wednesday October 17 Monday October 22 Fall BreakBegins at Conclusionof Classes Pre-registration for Spring Semester Begins

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