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NOTICES Low Noon lectures Concordia University fine arts lecturer Kathryn Walter gives a talk, Private Investigations: Interventions in Public Space, Oct. 9 as the first of this year's Low Noon Lectures. The series is presented by the Trent Institute for the Study of Popular Culture. The lectures are at noon in Peter Robinson College lecture hall. Coffee, juice and bagel sandwiches cost $2. On Oct. 30, Trent methodologies grad student Paul Matusek gives a talk, Offal Delights: Mad Cow Disease and Culinary Euro-Politics; Nov. 13, Waterloo English grad student Jacqui Smith, Like a Rolling Stone: Gender, Politics and the Blues; Nov. 27, Trent cultural studies professor Ian McLachlan, Tales of the Severed Penis: Angry Women in the Land of Smiles. Belize field school The Anthropology Department may be offering its Belize field school in Maya archeology in 1998. Students interested in attending can find out more at an information session and slide show in the Otonabee College physical anthropology lab 126 Oct. 16 at 4:30 p.m. Preparing for LSATs Would-be law students can prepare for the law school admission test (LSAT) by signing up for a seminar and practice test at Trent. A two-day preparation seminar is scheduled Nov. 29-30 from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days followed by a practice test Dec. 3. They take place in the Science Complex lecture hall. The $195 fee for the preparation seminar and practice test, which can be repeated at no cost, includes a prep book, a student manual and a practice LSAT test. For information about the prep seminar and practice test, call Julian Blackburn College Office at 748-1229. Official LSATs are scheduled Dec. 6 and Feb. 7 at Trent. Students must register separately for the official test, which costs about $110. For information booklets, contact the Research and Graduate Studies Office, W203, Otonabee College, or check the Web site at http://www.lsac.org. Nature photo contest The Trent nature areas committee is sponsoring a competition for the best photograph or slide taken by a member of the university community in a Trent nature area. The categories are animals, plants and vegetation. Participants can submit up to three entries per category. The deadline is March 2. For information and maps, contact Dave Clark at the Trail Studies Unit (Environmental Sciences Centre C201) at 748-1419 or by e-mail at dclark@trentu.ca. Ideas for next year The Margaret Laurence committee invites nominations for the 1998 lecture. Established in 1987, the annual lecture brings a distinguished speaker to Trent to address a topic related to women's involvement in peace, ecology, literature and/or feminism -- issues that were of great concern to the late Canadian author. Submit letters of nomination, including relevant information about the nominee, to committee chair Margaret Hobbs, Women's Studies Program, Lady Eaton College or by e-mail to mhobbs@trentu.ca by Nov. 11. Searches updates The presidential search committee has begun university community consultations. For the latest, check Trent's Web site at www.trentu.ca/news. Senate's work plan If you want to know what's on Senate's agenda this year, it's all charted on a yellow legal-sized piece of paper available from the Secretariat. For every monthly meeting to May 12, there's a list of items for approval, for comment and discussion and for information. A list of senators is on the back. |