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Volume 3, Issue 6
November 13, 2012
CHASS F1RST Newsletter
Enrollment
The quarter’s end is creeping up behind you, and next
thing you know it will be Winter. That means that soon
you will be enrolling for classes. Enrollment is a very big
event because it brings you a step closer to finishing the
classes needed to obtain your degree. This means that it
is time to go meet with your advisors, check your degree
check on growl.ucr.edu and find classes on
classes.ucr.edu. It is important to start planning your
schedule early and it is also important to have back up
schedules. Make sure to include the call numbers of the
classes that interest you because these are what you will
plug in to Growl on your enrollment date. The way to find
out when you enroll is to log onto growl.ucr.edu and click
on advising and enrolling. Under this section, click ok for
Winter 2013 and there you will find the date and time
when growl will be open for you to enroll.
Good luck finding classes,
Bria Smith
CHASS F1RST Student Ambassador
CHASS F1RST:
How to Avoid the Freshman 15
1. Cut down on snacks. Snacks are not always bad but
when you eat them too much they can be. Most people
like to sit and snack while studying, watching television or
doing nothing, so just don’t keep them in your room. And
even if you do, minimize the amount of them you have or
the type of snacks. Shoot for buying healthier snacks, like
granola bars.
2. Be patient. Right after you have just had a meal, you
might feel that you’re still hungry afterwards, but don’t
freak out. Sit and wait for your food to settle, and if 20
minutes later you are still hungry, then you can get more
food.
3. Try the 2/3 plan. When you make your plate, 2/3 of the
plate should be filled with fruits, vegetables, and whole
grains. These are the things that give your body a lot of
the nutrition it seeks and certain fruits and vegetables
have even been known to help burn fat. Also, cut down
your portion size so not only are you nutritious and balanced, but you are also more likely to feel better when
your body isn’t full to capacity.
4. Work out. Eating healthy is an excellent way to stay fit,
but working out is also a very good way to keep off the
pounds. With the right kinds of foods, your body will get
more energy and working out can also be a good source
of energy. It burns lots of fat and will leave your body feeling refreshed and healthy.
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Slam the Hate
Saturday, November 17, 2012
6–10 p.m.
The Barn
Slam the Hate brings us together for an evening of spoken work and music by queer and trans performers of color, LGBTQ
community resources, food and community-building. Performers include Crystal Cheatham, J Mase III, Regie Cabico, and
the poet Emotions. Everyone welcome, both on- and off-campus. KUCR 88.3fm will be DJ-ing music all night.
Free fountain drinks, food giveaways, and The Barn's happy hour menu will also be open for you to purchase more food.
**ASL interpreters will be available all evening.
Parking $5 cash, attendants in Lot 1.
Sponsored by UCR's Associated Students Program Board*, Residence Hall Association, Diversity Initiatives, & LGBT Resource Center; KUCR 33.3fm; and by PRISM of La Sierra University. *ASPB Co-sponsorship grant of this event does not
constitute an endorsement of the views and opinions expressed.
Crystal Cheatham is a well-traveled singer-songwriter in the Philadelphia area. Her range and style encompass folk, jazz,
and blues. Having been raised on gospel and spoken word, her original tunes are packed with an emotional story you can’t
wait to discover from song to song.
J Mase III is a Black/Trans/Queer/Rowdy-as-Hell Poet with a capital [P] based in Philly. As a performer and teaching poet J
Mase III has rocked venues all across the country from San Diego to Boston at colleges and radio stations to group homes
and youth centers. An organ donor, J Mase is the author of If I Should Die Under the Knife, Tell My Kidney I Was the Fiercest Poet Around and creator of the annual performance event Cupid Ain’t @#$%!: An Anti-Valentine's Day Poetry Movement.
Crystal and J Mase III, in assocation with The Identity Kit and Soulforce, will also be presenting a workshop Thursday, November 15, noon at UCR's HUB 355 on being "Queer & Christian."
Regie Cabico is a poet and spoken word artist. He has been featured on two seasons of Def Poetry Jam on HBO (produced
by Russell Simmons). Cabico is a critically acclaimed spoken word artist who has won top prizes in the 1993, 1994 and 1997
at National Poetry Slams. His poetry appears in over 30 anthologies including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café,
Spoken Word Revolution and Slam. He was also featured in MTV's "Free Your Mind" Spoken Word Tour. Regie is the recipient of three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships for Poetry and Multi-Discplinary Performance. He is a regular performer at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. Cabico is of Filipino American descent
and is an out and proud gay man who has been called the Lady Gaga of spoken word poets.
Emotions is a therapist, activist, poet and entrepreneur. Emotions identifies as an African American, masculine of centered,
lesbian, boi. Emotions has been writing poetry and performing spoken words for ten years. Recently, Emotions had the opportunity to facilitate a 12-week LBGTQ poetry workshop at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. Emotions has a passion to create dialogue and conversation that deepens the overall connection of those who are gender non-conforming,
trans, queer LGBTQ, POC, MOC, and straight allies. Emotions is also the co-producer, host and writer of a web series called
Me&MyBois, which examines the experiences of masculine of center people, highlighting images of sophisticated, resiliency
and complexity. "Masculinity is the way I express my gender in the most authentic and comfortable way. I try to wear my
masculinity with as much sophistication as possible. My masculinity is dapper." -Emotions the P.O.E.T., 2012
Athletic Events
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The Invisible War: Rape in
the Military
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
6–8 p.m.
HUB 255
A groundbreaking investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape within the United States armed forces. The
most shocking cover-up in the United States military is not
what you expect. "They gave him Military Professional of
the Year" during the rape investigation!" Discussion and
Q&A will follow the film. Cosponsored by the Riverside
Area Rape Crisis Center, UCR Veterans Affairs, and Diversity Initiatives.
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Dance Lecture - Won-sun Choi:
Korea’s Cultural Treasure Preservation System
Cultu
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Monday, November 19, 2012
12:40–2 p.m.
Arts 166
DEPARTMENT OF DANCE
Fall 2012 Lecture Series
Jacqueline Shea Murphy, coordinator
Won-sun Choi, Ph.D., CLMA
Lecturer of Korean National University of Arts and Hanyang University
Artistic Director of Born Dance Company
Korea’s Cultural Treasure Preservation System:
Thoughts After 50 Years of the Enactment
This talk will bring up a particular Korean national law for traditional cultural heritages and it’s influences on
positive and negative changes of certain traditional dances. Korea has a national cultural treasure system,
Munhwajae Bohobeob (Cultural Asset Preservation Law). In 1962, the Korean government legislated this law
to protect and preserve valuable cultural heritages including dance. The law helped shed new light on some
traditional dances and protect them as important dances reflecting uniqueness of Korean culture. However, 50
years since the enactment of the law have also witnessed adverse side effects in many ways. This talk will discuss the positive and negative results of the law and its relationship to traditional dances, as well as its sociopolitical meanings in Korean society and culture.
Won-sun Choi, Ph.D., is Artistic Director of Born Dance Company. She earned her Ph.D. in Dance History
and Theory from University of California, Riverside, and M.A. and B.A. degrees in Dance from Ewha
Womans University in Korea. She is also a Certified Laban /Bartenieff Movement Analyst and a Certified
Successor of traditional Korean dances, Seung-mu (Buddhist monk dance) and Jindo-Buk-chum (Jindo drum
dance). She was a BYPED research fellow at UCR from 2010-2011. Dr. Choi has been invited to many academic venues at Scripps College, Goucher College, Mt. San Jacinto College, and UCR, as well as international
conferences of KSDD (Korean Society of Dance Documentation), KSDS (Korean Society of Dance Science),
and CORD (Congress on Research on Dance). Besides the academic works, her dance and choreography have
also been presented at numerous performing events including Seoul Dance Platform, Seoul International Improvisation Festival, Ford Theater Summer Season, Unknown Theater Dance Series, Anatomy Riot, Cultural
Events in UCLA, UCR, and Cal State Northridge. She was also awarded the Pearl Academy of Fashion (PAF)
Best Choreographer of 2011 in Korea.
Photo: Won-sun Choi & Born Dance Company
Photo credit: SSKim
Cultu
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THE METAL CHILDREN, a play by Adam Rapp
Thursday, November 8, 2012
8–9:30 p.m.
Friday, November 9, 2012
8–9:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 10, 2012
8–9:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
8–9:30 p.m.
Friday, November 16, 2012
8–9:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
2:30–4 p.m.
8–9:30 p.m.
THE METAL CHILDREN, a play by Adam Rapp
A writer defends his young adult novel to a small town hell bent on banning it, causing an encounter from which no one
will recover.
The Metal Children contains mature themes, sexual situations and strong language.
The UCR Department of Theatre is pleased to present The Metal Children, a play by Adam Rapp, winner of the 2012
PEN award for American Playwright in Mid-Career. The comments below are excerpts from the forward of The Metal
Children.
I decided I wanted to write a play about a book, which is a strange thing to do, because books aren’t people and they
don’t do anything. As far as objects go, they are about as passive as it gets. As I started the play, I realized I was actually writing about people. I was writing about a lost writer and impassioned teenagers and a loving aunt and precocious
sixteen-year-old girl who grew up in a motel. The book within the play (titled The Metal Children) is about a rash of
teenage pregnancies and what that does to a small town in the heartland. It is part nightmare, part old-fashioned wish,
and my attempt to meditate on both sides of an issue that means a lot to me; kids reading books. I’ve always believed
that kids are much wiser than we think they are and that to deprive them of complex expressions of art because of violence or sexual content is to condescend to them. In writing this play, I’ve also found that the works we move on from,
whether novels, plays, or poems, come back to haunt us in ways that are hard to articulate. They are like wandering . . .
well, children, who never grow up, who periodically come in out of the cold and make us look into their enormous,
wondering eyes.
~Adam Rapp, The Metal Children Introduction
ADAM RAPP (Playwright) has been the recipient of a Herbert H. and Patricia M. Brodkin Scholarship; two Lecomte
du Nouy awards; a fellowship to the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France; a Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays; a Suite Residency with Mabou Mines; the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights; Boston’s Elliot Norton Award; a 2006 Princess Grace Statue Award; a Lucille Lortel Playwright’s
Fellowship; and the 2007 Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His plays include Ghosts in the Cottonwoods; Animals and Plants; Blackbird; Nocturne; Stone Cold Dead Serious; Finer Noble
Gases; Faster; Trueblinka; Dreams of the Salthorse; Red Light Winter; Gompers; American Sligo; Bingo with the Indians; and Kindness. A graduate of Clark College in Dubuque, Iowa, Mr. Rapp also complete a two-year playwriting
fellowship at Julliard. He lives in New York City.
~The Metal Children Forward
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TOP Mentees: Don't forget to keep working on your Learning
Contract. They are due the Thursday of Week 9, November 29th.
Remember to complete your one-on-one with your mentor. Use this
time to ask questions about finals, registration, etc. If you have any
questions or concerns please contact your mentor. Upon successful
completion of the Learning Contract you will be entered in a raffle
to receive a gift card to the UCR bookstore.
Upcoming Event: November 29th from 12-1, in the TRC. We are
having a potluck for the holidays. Come in to eat, and socialize!
Transfer Outreach Program
CHASS Transfer Outreach Program aims to provide useful
information to help transfer students navigate their life,
here, at UCR. We provide valuable resources that are to be
used to mold the kind of college experience you want. What
we can do for you, is help attain short-term goals, and give
you a vision and direction on how to achieve your long term
goals. Through the network we create, your college experience will be invaluable to your student life, and carry over
into your professional career. Contact Alyssa Heckmann at:
aheck001@ucr.edu for more information.
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English Composition Tutoring
in the
CHASS F1RST OFFICE
HMNSS 1609
Do you need help with English Composition or
other papers?
If so, stop by the CHASS F1RST Office for
one-on-one tutoring. Half hour appointments
available, once a week for all CHASS First
Year Students
Hours:
Tuesdays, 12:00—3:00 pm
Wednesdays, 12:00—4:00 pm
Thursdays, 12:00—3:00 pm
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