Subject: booksale, etc 2
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 17:38:09 -0600
From: Bob Mucci <RMucci@uic.edu
Organization: IUN Anthro
To: RMucci@uic.edu
IUN Anthropology News
1. dollar used book sale
2. a zoo review
3. events at IUN:
DRUMMING MARCH 26
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE Sat April 5
4. events elsewhere
5. internet stuff
6. jobs
1. We will meet at 12:30 pm Sunday March 23, 2003 at Moraine Center
to do the set up for the booksale. By pulling out all the boxes and
setting up the tables with the books already on them, we will be able
to begin selling early Monday morning -- and this time we will not let
Dave Holland do the setup all by himself. If ten people show up, we
can be done in 90 minutes; so if you cannot come until after 1 we
still can use your help.
During the week we also need help, especially all day and evening Monday
and Tuesday, Thursday, and from noon to 3 pm on Friday. We need to
continually sort out the books, make the displays look nice, with some
nice books displayed so browsers can see the front covers, and to sell
them and help people find what they are looking for. We also will be
selling club and Darwin T-shirts and bumper stickers.
We have thousands of new donations, and if you want to donate more, just
bring them to the booksale; if you have a lot, come in and tell us and
we will follow back to your car with a hand truck. There will be about
6000 books on display, of every imaginable topic, fact and fiction.
(The posters made by Kim in marketing say "gathered from four states".)
And they all are one dollar each, 6 for $5, and half price on Friday.
Lots of business textbooks this time, economics, management, etc.
The website is at:
http://www.iun.edu/~anthronw/cal/2003/3-24-03.htm
Note that there will be drumming at the booksale on wednesday
This is the IUN press release, we are famous now:
One Dollar Used Booksale returns to IU Northwest
The IU Northwest student Anthropology Club is sponsoring its “One Dollar
Used Book Sale” beginning Monday March 24 and running through Friday
the 28th. The book sale will be held on the IU Northwest campus in the
Moraine lobby and runs daily from 9 a.m.- 8 p.m. (Friday hours are 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.).
Thousands of books will be available covering a wide assortment of
topics, everything from fiction to education. All books are one dollar and
quantity discounts will be available. Books will be continuously added
throughout the week. Purchasers are encouraged to come early and
frequently.
Having started as a small fundraising activity sponsored by the IU
Northwest student Anthropology Club, the book sale has evolved into a
major annual event drawing hundreds of people to the IU Northwest
campus.
The proceeds raised will be used to support the Clarke Johnson
Memorial Scholarship and help plant cedar trees in his honor on the IU
Northwest campus. Dr. Clarke Johnson, IU Northwest visiting lecturer in
anthropology, passed away from heart failure last year, and had been the
recipient of numerous teaching excellence awards.
Part of the funds raised will also be used towards the creation of
educational ‘discovery boxes’ for local school systems, field trips, and to
help fund guest speakers to visit the campus.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information on
the sale, or to donate books please call Bob Mucci at (219) 980-6607.
----(I think the discovery boxes are a dead idea, but we planted the
trees and will have a dedication soon, have bought maps for all the
classrooms and tape recorders for students to use during interview
projects and zoo observations).
FROM A FORMER STUDENT:
From: rchalos <rchalos@iun.edu (ronnie)
To: rmucci@iun.edu
I took one two of your primate classes this last summer and thought they
were great. I am currently in Omaha, NE right now, and visited the zoo they
have out here, it is one of the countries largest zoos and growing very
fast. I compiled a list of all the primates that they currently have on exhibit out
here. They are currently constructing huge exhibits for Gorillas and
orangs. They are estimated to be completed around the spring of 2004, trust me
from a first hand view, they are going to be huge. Well here is the list of
all the current primates. IF you have any questions regarding the zoo here's
the website. http://www.henrydoorlyzoo.org
White handed Gibbons
Pygmy slow loris
Francious Langurs
Ring-Tailed lemurs
Ruffed Lemurs
Blue Monkeys
Red-ruffed Lemurs
Dusky Titi
Squirrel Monkeys
Pygmy Marmosets
Common Marmosets
Cotton-Top Tamarin
Black Howler Monkeys
Moustached Tamarin
White Faced Saki's
Douroucouli
Gorillas( Closed due to Construction)
Bornean Orangs
Slow Loris
Pygmy Slow Loris
Hope this can help you in the future.........
----(thanks for sending this, Ronnie)
EVENTS AT IUN:
March 26, WEd. Ubaka Hill will bring 20 djembe drums and percussion to
lead a DrumSong Orchestra workshop, free to all IUN students,
from Noon - 2pm in the Moraine Lobby. That night at 7 pm, she will
give a free concert to the campus and community, "CALL PEACE".
She is a phenomenal drummer who works to empower minorities and
oppressed people. Please join us in this powerful drum circle.
This is part of the Peace Week activities. For more info, call
Tanice Foltz at 980-6786.
Through Different Eyes: A Jewish View of the World
a talk by Rabbi Stanley Halpern of Temple Israel in Gary
4 pm Tuesday April 8, IUN Savannah 207.
If one believes the common myth, Judaism and Christianity are basically
the same religion, plus or minus Jesus. One celebrates Chanukkah, one
Christmas . . . one Easter, one Passover. . . but they are basically the
same. However, this myth hides the fact that Judaism and Christianity
start from two very different places. And while they share a common
moral and ethical concern, they get there on very different paths. We
will examine this difference in order to gain a better understanding of
what these two great religions share, and don't share.
Upcoming speaker at IUN: Primatologist Kathy Rizzo: Fri April 25, 5 pm.
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE APRIL 5
Major issues to be discussed are:
WHAT ARE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS?
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR JOBS. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. HEALTH POLICY.
BROWNFIELDS. TRANSPORTATION?
THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF THE EAST CHICAGO CONFINED DISPOSAL FACILITY
Date: Saturday April 5, 2003
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Panel 1 - 9:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
Panel II - 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location: Savannah Center Auditorium, Indiana University Northwest
Gary, Indiana. 3400 Broadway.
Conference Panelist
Panel I
Betty Balanoff, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of History Roosevelt Univ.
, Community Activist
Bryan Bullock, Esq. Environmental Justice Chairman, NAACP, Gary.
EJ Partnership, Chair of Policy Subcommittee for 2030 Plan
Hazel Johnson, People for Community Recovery, Chicago.
Nationally recognized as the "Mother of the Environmental Justice
Movement."
Panel II
Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Ph.D. O'Neill Professor of Philosophy and
Concurrent Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame.
Kim Scipes, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology. University of Illinois at
Chicago. Director, The Calumet Project Mary Mulligan, Environmental
Activist,
City of Gary
Jose Bustos, SEIU, Chicago., Cesar Chavez Community House East Chicago,
Community Activist
Marco Tavanti, Ph.D. Associate Director of the Vincent DePaul Leadership
Project of the Public Services Graduate Program, DePaul University Chicago.
This event is sponsored by the Northwest Indiana Environmental Justice
Partnership and the Calumet Project in conjunction with the Department of
Minority Studies and the Black Student Union of Indiana University
Northwest.
For more information contact eboria@netnitco.net or Dr. Jones at 980-6704.
EVENTS ELSEWHERE:
April 11- is the date of the IU Intercampus Women's Studies/Gender
Studies student research conference, to be held in Bloomington.
WOST faculty will accompany outstanding students to Bloomington on
April 10 to stay over for the conference which begins at 8am on April
11th. This also marks the 50th year anniversary of the Kinsey Reports.
Let Dr. Foltz know if you are interested in attending (219-980-6786).
Students are encouraged to apply for a small grant to cover hotel/food
expenses through IUN Undergraduate Research Grant. Contact Kris Hysken
in the Geosciences department, or look on the Geoscience website for
application information. Deadline to apply for funding is March 31st.
March 28, 29 & 30, 2003
2nd Annual Indiana University Pow Wow
Bloomington, Indiana
website: http://www.iub.edu/~fniu/powwow0203.html
INTERNET NEWS AND INTERESTING WEBSITES
visit the body farm at: http://web.utk.edu/~anthrop/index.htm
From Kathy Forgey, an interesting article about the antiquity of click
languages:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/science/social/18CLIC.html?tntemail0
and look for jobs at: http://www.anthrojob.com
Feminist epistemologies at: http://nehsummerseminar.psu.edu/
search summer archaeology jobs at: http://www.shovelbums.org/
(several in Illinois)
JOBS:
I received this:
Hi Bob,
I am a friend of David Wright, and he suggest that I contact you
because you are well connected with young up-and-coming archaeology students.
I have an unexpected opening for an excavation supervisor on my upcoming
(May-July) project at the Chan site in Belize. If you know anyone who might
be interested in the position could you please pass on the following information
to them. My two other excavation supervisors are Chelsea Blackmore (UCR) and Andrew Wyatt (UIC), both of these students are terrific, have MA's, and will be starting
dissertation projects at the Chan site, so it will be a great team for the new person to work with. The position would be a good position for a more junior student who may
have never supervised excavations on their own before, but is ready to take that
next step. It would also be great for a more experienced person, but given Chelsea
and Andrew's experience I'm more interested in finding a nice person who enjoys
fieldwork and would like to be part of a small archaeological team than I'm interested in
anything else There is the brief scoop on the Chan Project:
One Archaeology Positions open on the Chan project in Belize, Summer 2003
The Chan project is looking for an excavation supervisor to work with a crew of
4 Belizean archaeologists. The Chan project will provide airfare and room
and board. The project will take place between May 5 and July 18 (11 weeks).
Cynthia Robin, project director, can be contacted at c-robin@northwestern.edu.
Here's a brief description of the Chan project and what we are doing in
the 2003season and a link to our web site:
The Chan project is investigating the 1800 history of a farming village
in Belize (900 BC to AD 900). The project will evaluate the complexities of
everyday life in an ordinary Maya farming village and assess how everyday life in the
village changes through time in relation to larger socio-political changes
within Maya society. Our initial field season in spring 2002 completed a 3 sq km
survey and identified 258 farming households and 359 agricultural terrace sets.
During spring of 2003 we will be completing the remaining 1 sq km of the
survey area and initiating excavations at the village center in the central
residential and ritual complex. Excavations will focus on a central plaza area and two
residences, which probably were the residences of Chan community leaders.
More information about the Chan project can be found at our very under construction web site: http://chan.northwestern.edu
Cynthia Robin
Department of Anthropology
Northwestern University
1810 Hinman Ave
Evanston, IL 60208
ph: 847-491-4835
fax: 847-467-1778
WANTED: ARCHEOLOGICAL INTERN FOR THE SUMMER - Apply through Student
Conservation Association (http://www.thesca.org)
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is in northwestern Nebraska, in a
rural ranching setting on the High Plains 25 mi. south of Harrison, the
county seat. The park is an hour north of Scottsbluff, a regional shopping center.
Agate is along the Niobrara River, 4 mi. E-W and 1 mi. N-S, in a mixed grass
prairie with wide skies, strong winds, and summer temperatures in the 70s to
90s but cool evenings. The park has Miocene mammalian fossil deposits and
quarries, ~95 mostly prehistoric archeological sites, several historic
properties, and is traditional Indian country. The Cook Collection includes ~500
19th-20th century Lakota and Cheyenne artifacts of beadwork, quillwork,
catlinite pipes, etc., and there is a century of local ranch records including
correspondence with Chief Red Cloud and his Lakota band members. The park
has about 95 recorded archeological sites, and these sites
need to be relocated and their GPS coordinates confirmed using a Trimble
GeoTracker 3 unit and Pathfinder software. This is assumed to take almost
all of the intern's time. The sites are all readily accessible with only grass
cover. The sites' condition needs to be documented and their Register
eligibility evaluated following USDI standards. The intern must have
demonstrated experience in prehistoric and historic site recordation
and evaluation of site integrity and significance for eligibility for the National Register
of Historic Places. The archeological site assessments may include
consultation with Native Americans affiliated with the Agate traditional
landscape, including the Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Shoshoni, Pawnee,
Ponca, Arikara, and Apache. I will directly supervise the intern. This could be a
two-season internship, and might be used for Directed Studies credit or useful in
developing a graduate thesis. The internship will be administed through The
Student Conservation Association (www.thesca.org), and applications can be submitted at any time.
Ruthann Knudson, Ph.D., Superintendent Agate Fossil
Beds National Monument 301 River Road, Harrison NE 69346-2734
Ph. 308.668.2211 FAX 308.668.2318
March 10, 2003
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY To assist in re-housing and cataloging bulk
archaeological collections curated by the Museum of Indian Arts &
Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Duties will
include organizing, inventorying, and cataloging prehistoric and
historic archaeological collections, re-housing artifacts in
archival-quality packaging materials, entering catalog records into an electronic
database, and making digital photographs of selected artifacts. The Collections
Assistant will work under the supervision and guidance of the Curator
of Archaeological Research Collections and the Archaeological
Research Collections Manager. The successful candidate will be familiar with
archaeological methods and artifact types, especially of the American
Southwest, as well as museum collections management methods and practices.
A Bachelor's degree in Anthropology, Museum Studies, or a related field is
desirable, but not required. In addition he/she should be familiar
with the principles of electronic databases and data standards for museum
cataloging. Other desirable traits include the ability to communicate
clearly and concisely, to provide attention to detail and self-check
his/her work, and to be self-motivated and able to work independently.
This is a full-time, temporary position, with a salary of $9.39/hour plus
benefits, with employment for a minimum of 11 months.
To apply, please send curriculum vita or resume, with a cover letter
explaining your interest in and qualifications for the position, and
contact information for at least 3 personal references to:
Ms. Julia Clifton Curator, Archaeological Research Collections
MIAC/LOA Museum of New Mexico P.O. Box 2087 Santa Fe, NM 87504-2087
or, <mailto:jclifton@miaclab.orgjclifton@miaclab.org
Telephone inquiries may be directed to Ms. Clifton
at (505) 476-1268.
POSITION TO REMAIN OPEN UNTIL FILLED.
--
Bob Mucci
Associate Professor and Coordinator of Anthropology
Indiana University Northwest
3400 Broadway, Gary IN 46408
219-980-6607
"Education not slogans is our motto"