On Saturday, March 7th, Shawnee State University (SSU) is being invaded by comedians for the 3rd Annual March Comedy Shoot Out. Doors open at 6:30 pm and the event starts at 7:00 pm in the Flohr Lecture Hall located in the Clark Memorial Library. This is the first round of competition and the winner will move on to the finals in the coming weeks and compete for the title and a cash prize.
Fourteen Geology students will visit the Smoky Mountains over Spring Break and earn college credit. The trip will take place Fri. March 20 through Mon. March 23, with stops near Knoxville, Tenn., another near Eastern Tennessee University (ETSU), and in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park itself.
EDITOR"S NOTE: This article includes some language that may be considered offensive to some readers. On Feb. 12 and 13 SSU's Women's Center presented Eve Ensler's award winning play, "The Vagina Monologues." Shawnee students, faculty as well as members of the community packed into the Kahl Theatre for Shawnee's third annual presentation of the play.
This is the fifth consecutive year for the "Go Red" campaign at SSU. The Women's Center is partnering with the American Heart Association to raise awareness of heart disease throughout the month of February. "Our main goals with this campaign are to educate people on steps they can take to enjoy good heart health and also to raise money to donate to the American Heart Association for research," Women's Center representative Sarah Smith Richards said.
The Department of English and Humanities is sponsoring the new Shawnee State University Student Writing Awards, a competition where students can express themselves through the written word. There are three categories: Best Poem, Best Short Fiction (story), and Best Creative Nonfiction (essay).
When you really think about it, how many students on campus have stopped by the Office of Career Services at least once in his or her career? The answers may vary. Some students visit once every week or two. However, many students do not know the services the office provides.
On Saturday, March, Shawnee State University is being invaded by comedians for the Third Annual March Comedy Shoot Out. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. in the Flohr Lecture Hall located in the Clark Memorial Library. This is the first round of competition and the winner will move on to the finals in the coming weeks and compete for the title and a cash prize.
Do you have musical talent that you would love to showcase in order to become the next Portsmouth Idol? If so, registration for the Second Annual Portsmouth Idol begins at noon, Sunday, March 1 in the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts (VRCFA) lobby. According to the official registration form, a non-refundable application and entry fee of $15 is required.
CNN Money.com reported that if President Obama's Stimulus Plan, known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, is approved by Congress students will see more help with their college cost. Under this plan students will see the HOPE Scholarship tax credit increase; this is a scholarship that first and second year students are eligible for, which makes tax credits available to all students and their families during their first two years of college.
I will be honest when I say that I was a little worried when entering the theatre to see "He's Just Not That Into You." I was expecting the usual chick flickery and nothing else. Surprisingly, the film took what could have been a typical rom-com (romantic comedy) and made it unique and different.
Starting in late January, the expansion of the University Center (UC) began to take shape in the form of structural steel. Finally, all the work is paying off and beginning to look like a building. What took so long to get to this point in the construction? Well, what some people may not know is what work had to be done so far.
According to the Associated Press, Facebook's recent update to its governing document, the user policy, has caused a stir among tens of thousands of its boasted 175 million worldwide users. The tens of thousands of Facebook users joined protest groups with worries that the new terms grant the site the ability to control their information forever, even after a user has canceled their account.
Slashing through the competition... On Friday, Feb. 13, countless people packed into theaters everywhere for opening night of "Friday the 13th." On opening weekend, "Friday the 13th" slashed through the competition in sales with a genre-record $45.2 million.
An acclaimed Broadway musical comedy, "The Drowsy Chaperone," is coming to Shawnee State University's Vern Riffe Center for the Arts at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 1. The play won the most 2006 Tony Awards of any musical on Broadway including Best Book, Original Score, Costume Design and Scenic Design.
Lines of students and faculty formed Feb. 18 in the Bear's Den from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to taste the unique foods being offered for lunch for annual International Meal Day. "I ate at the Bear's Den last semester, but I do not recall eating any international foods that were served," Freshman Josh Kelley said.
