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the arts and&humanities

student council presents

your guide to all things arts for 2010-11

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inside

3Arts Alumnus: Alan Thicke

4Great Grad Student:

Ashley Skinner5

First-Year Prof: Dr. Christopher Keep

6-7Meet Your Council Executives

8-9Get Published with Arts and

Humanities10

Meet Your Soph TeamHow do I become a Soph?

11Helpful Services

12Upcoming Events

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Meet arts alumnus

Alan Thicke The prolific actor, writer, musician and game show host graduated Western in 1967.

He has written several books and starred in “Growing Pains” and has made numerous television guest appear-ances, including “How I Met Your Mother.”

An active humanitarian, he is the namesake for the Alan Thicke Centre for Juvenile Diabetes based in London, Ontario. Established by Robarts at UWO, it is chaired by Western professor Dr. Paul Beamish.

Q: How did you decide on your major and minor at UWO?

A: I began in pre-med and didn’t have the stomach for it. It was my Dad’s idea - he graduated Western Meds. I was interested in becoming a sports journalist so English major made sense...and Psych minor should have prepared me for messing with people.

Q: What is your fondest memory of UWO?

A: Fondest memory would be a toss-up between performing in student variety shows, playing inter-fac football (not good enough for Mustangs), writing the football column for the Gazette, coaching girls’ ‘powder-puff ’ football, and living in residence at Westminster among a crazy but wonderful group of curious, wide-eyed new-comers like myself. (sorry if I didn’t list classes or lab work or other academic pursuits with the ‘favourites’ - I’m that shallow!) Q: How did your experience at UWO and in the Arts faculty shape your career?

A: My ‘arts’ experiences taught me a great deal about writing and performing - what works and what doesn’t - that lectures and classes could not teach. Nothing trumps the actual experience of real audiences and their ex-pectations, and I have always been grateful to have attended a school with such a rich landscape of opportunity for those ‘trial by fire’ stage adventures. Q: Do you have any advice for UWO Arts undergrads who may be interested in showbusiness?

A: My advice for arts students would be to take every opportunity to participate in every aspect of production: performing, costumes, staging, audio/video, writing, make-up, scheduling, etc. so as to understand everyone’s job by the time you find your own calling. As an actor, it has helped to know what the producers, hairstylists, ‘gofers’, and ushers go through and the challenges they face in doing their jobs.

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GreatGrad student

Ashley Skinner

Q: What undergraduate degree did you take? What graduate degree?

A: I took an Honours Specialization Bachelor of Arts in Classical Studies, with a minor in Greek & Latin Languages. My grad degree is a Master’s of Arts in Classical Studies

Q: Why did you choose to stay at Western for your graduate program?

A: Knowing the faculty--and the faculty knowing me--was a major factor; being able to pursue ideas that I had visited in my undergraduate with the professors that inspired them was also a big draw. Plus, UWO has an amazing Classics program, perhaps second only to Toronto (in Ontario at least, but it’s certainly one of the top schools in the country for Classics), and I hate the thought of living in Toronto. On a personal side, I really like London, and didn’t want to move!

Q: What do you most look forward to about your program?

A: I’m most looking forward to the thesis I will be working on in my second year (starting September). It’s great that UWO offers the opportunity to do a course-based M.A. or a thesis-based.

Q: What advice do you have for students who may be interested in graduate school?

A: I would say that there’s two things crucial: first, be sure that the faculty has someone that is interested in your area, and that is interested in working with you. It’s great to have an expert in the field on staff, but some professors aren’t very good or very helpful when working with students. Second--know what the course of-ferings will be during your time there. Hopefully you will be able to strengthen your weakness in addition to taking courses in your area of interest.Also, learn about the city where your campus is located. Make sure it not only has what you need, but that it has some things that interest you as well!

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Dr. Christopher Keep Meet first-year prof

Dr. Keep is a professor in the department of English and the outgoing undergraduate chair.

Q: What courses are you teaching this year? What are you looking forward to about them?

A: English 1027F (The Story-Teller’s Art I) and English 3444E (Nineteenth-century British Literature)

Nineteenth-century British Literature is my area of research special-ization, and I always look forward to finding new ways to teach the poetry and prose of the Romantic and Victorian eras.

But I am especially excited about English 1027F, which is a brand new course designed to introduce first-year students to the rich variety of stories we tell, and the ways we tell them. We’ll study-ing everything from the first great epic of literature, Gilgamesh, to Bram Stoker’s tale of vampiric longing, Dracula, and Alan Moore’s graphic novel, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I hope the course will help students who might not be so keen on poetry and drama, but who enjoy reading, to better understand why literature is so important to our sense of the world.

Q: What makes you happy as a professor? What irks you?

A: Students who volunteer to read passages or respond to questions in class. What irks me? Students who twitter or facebook or email through lectures and discussions.

Q: How can students succeed in their first year?

A: It’s easy: Do the readings. Come to class. Everything else will follow.

Q: What did you enjoy most about your first year of university?

A: I adored my first-year of university. I enjoyed the independence, being away from home for the first time, and was thrilled to find teachers who really knew what they were talking about and fellow students who really wanted to learn. High school seemed like going to day care by comparison.

Q: What is your advice about university overall?

A: University is about more than acquiring a degree. It’s more than a mere stepping stone to a career. It’s an opportunity to expand one’s intellectual and cultural horizons, to free yourself from all that is narrow and limiting, and to become something more than you imagined. Make sure you do everything in your ability to take advantage of this opportunity: get involved, both in your studies, and in the university community as a whole.

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and their goalsYourCouncil ExecutivesPresidentJennifer Tamse

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-Building Open Forums:More Student Surveys & Opportunities for Feedback-Acknowledging & Facilitating Student Success:Increasing Awareness of Funding Opportunities & Scholarships-Creating a Community & Developing Partnerships:Embracing Cross Department Inclusion & Campus Wide Support-Ensuring the AHSC Functions at its Intended Capacity:Consistent Communication between all members & myself-Increasing the Visibility of the AHSC to better serve Students:Creating a Newly Defined Presence & Purpose-Initiating an “Open Doors” Policy:Recognizing Student Needs & Supporting their Concerns at all Levels of Governance-Fostering A&H Pride:Compiling a Diverse collection of High Quality Programming & Sup-porting their Inception

VP AcademicsLindsay [email protected]

- Promote the academics, education, and self-improvement of A&H students- Educate the AHSC Academics Committee on how to bring greater aware-ness of academic resources available to A&H students- Ensure that students are better informed of what academic resources relevant to A&H are available outside of the faculty (Student Development Centre, Writing Support Centre)- Putting ‘source’ back into resource: expanding our academic output and simplifying information- Implement a “Professor’s Bookshelf ” program, so that students are regularly informed of what their professors are currently reading and/or producing- Host Essay Clinics for first year students each term so that they may benefit from the tutoring and guidance of upper year student volunteers- Host speaker events and series events throughout the year that highlight unique and relevant career experiences of successful individuals that relate to the study of Arts and Humanitiesfinancial statements

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VP CommunicationsJoel Szaefer

[email protected] Increased visibility for council- A clearly identifiable brand and colour scheme for the AHSC- To better acquaint students with AHSC merchandise and publications- Better, earlier, and more dynamic advertising for AHSC events- A fully functioning, useful, and entertaining website- To help students understand what AHSC can do for them as A&H students

VP EventsAdam Carlin

[email protected] on planning fewer, but bigger events that will involve more students and create more awareness for the AHSC-Launch “Arts Night” to celebrate arts in the Western community and pro-vide a means for all students at Western to showcase and/or experience art-Work closely with promotions team to ensure events are well publicized-Monitor budgets closely to maintain good fiscal position-Listen to feedback to ensure events are having a positive, meaningful impact

VP FinanceAlyssa Kan

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- Profitability for Arts & Humanities Students Council but with A&H students’ best interest as a priority- Invest in promotions to create a brand for AHSC - Follow up with AHSC members to ensure they do not have any finan-cial obstacles- Keep budget and all financial statements organized and updated monthly- Encourage students with great ideas to apply to the Student Donations Levy Fund, Grants Committee or Green Fund to obtain some initial funding- Help members better understand the basic structures of budgets and financial statements

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Publications TeamMeet your

Creative Managing EditorZale Skolnik

Fourth year English and American Studies Double MajorFavourite Band: PhishFavourite Quote: “It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a packet of cigarettes, it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it.”- Jake & Elwood Blues

Copy EditorKayleigh Wilson

Second year English MajorFavourite movie: Cabaret, Inception, and every movie that Pixar has madeFavourite quote: “If we could read our enemies’ history, we would find enough sorrow and suffering to disarm all hostlity.” -Longfellow

Academic Managing EditorAndrew Shaw

Third year Honors Specialization in Philosophy and Minor in Creative WritingFavourite Movie: Men With BroomsFavourite Quote:“But it’s been a long time since /and we must enquire the way/of strangers.” -Al Purdy’s “The Country North of Belleville

Layout EditorInna Yasinska

Second year bachelor of fine artsFavourite Writer: Louise RennisonFavourite Musical Artist: John MayerFavourite Song: Ten Cent Pistol by The Black Keys

Editor-in-ChiefCaroline Diezyn

Fourth year Honors Specialization EnglishFavourite Band: Brand NewFavourite Quote: “I’d like to quit thinking of the present, like right now, as some minor, insignificant preamble to somethin’ else.” -Dazed and Confused (movie)

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Get Published

with AHSC

Symposium and Propaganda accept submissions of poetry, short fiction, pho-tography, artwork, drama and other creative work from University of Western Ontario students created for school or personal use. There is a 1500 word maximum.

Symposium is an annual arts and literary magazine that is distributed around campus for free. It is published in black and white. Submissions are due October 8th.

Established in 1993, Propaganda is an an-nual arts and literary journal that is sold for a recommended $5.00 in March. It is pub-lished in colour and bound as a book.

Submissions are due January 1st.

The Semi-Colon is an annual journal for undergraduate essays written for courses within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

We accept submissions of essays that have received an A-grade (80% and above). Feel free to make the changes your professor suggested before submitting the paper. Essays are then selected for publication according to anony-mous ranking first by our editors and then by an interdisciplinary professor review board. There is no page limit.

Submissions are due February 1st.

Send submissions and questions to

[email protected].

Get a great keepsake and professional-looking addition to your portfolio with Arts and Humanities Student Council publications.

Please send all written documents as Word files and images as .jpg files.

Academic

Creative

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Head Soph: Sanborn Hilland My favourite moment at Western so far was watching ‘That Guy’ kick a copy of Twilight to the roof in Alumni Hall during soph rally last year-- it was a pretty memorable moment. Besides having a great program for me, I chose Western because it is the perfect mix between large university campus and small school feel. When I walk around Western, I feel like I am on a university campus, not a small school plopped into the middle of a city, but I still can’t walk to class without running into friends on the way. My advice for O-Week is: Participate. Just do it all, you can sleep when it’s done. My advice for the rest of the year: Participate. Seriously. There is always time to join a club or an intramural team, no matter how busy you think you are. Get involved in some extra-curricular stuff. I didn’t play intramurals for my first two years and I wish I had.

Be a Soph!If you think you might be interested in sophing sometime while you are at Western, let your soph know. We find it pretty exciting when people show an interest in sophing and are more

than happy to guide you through the process. They’ll be able to keep you posted on important dates and give you advice along the way. Other than that, just enjoy yourself while you are

here, keep your marks up and when the time comes, don’t get bent out of shape, just have fun with the process.

Meet your

Featured Soph: “Warning!”

I’m a 3rd year Honours Specialization in Philosophy stu-dent, and the residence captain for Delaware Hall for O-Week 2010. I chose Western because I fell in love with the campus when I came for a visit in my last year of high school. My weird-est moment on campus so far was witnessing a mid-day walk of shame the day after St. Patty’s; she was still in all her green bling and garb! My favourite class was first year astronomy. It’s my second passion (after philosophy) and the course was absolutely mind-blowing. During my O-Week, my favourite experience was Open-ing Ceremonies as one of 6000 Frosh sitting in Talbot Bowl and realizing, “This is it: this is where I belong; I’ve been waiting so long to find a place like this. I’m finally here!”

Soph Team

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Rm. 112G, University CollegePhone: 519-661-3043E-mail: [email protected]

-academic advice, course selection-course changes, withdrawals, special permissions-progression requirements and manda-tory withdrawal-requests for academic accommodation-requests for special examinations or extensions for term-work-requests for Letter of Permission to at-tend other universities-appeal procedures-interpretation of Senate regulations-graduation problems

Academic Counselling

Helpful Servicesto make your life easier

Rm. 11 Lower Level UCC Medical - 519-661-3030

Counselling - 519-661-3771Website: shs.uwo.ca

-appointments necessary, but same-day ap-pointments are possible-medical care, treatment, counselling, psychia-try, physiotherapy, sexual health, and more-covered by OHIP

Student Health

Rm. 112F, University College E-mail: [email protected]

-peer editing-department or course specific office hours-guest speakers and seminars-social events-portfolio building -advice from upper-year students

Arts and Humanities Student Council

Rm. 4100, Student Services Building Phone: 519-661-3031Website: sdc.uwo.ca

-writing support-indigenous services-international services-learning skills services, e.g. seminar on tak-ing multiple choice tests-psychological services-services for students with disabilities

Student Development Services

Undergraduate ChairsConsult your department

for contact info-advice on your program-advice on continuing education and grad school-grade appeals and concerns-department-specific awards and scholarships

Weldon Library Phone: 519-661-3162 x83162

-help with your assignment to find and use the best scholarly information-help searching the library catalogue for books-help choosing and searching appropriate on-line databases for journal articles, and more-help with citation styles-remeber to ask for help early-check the Weldon website for more info

Research Consultation

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Mark your calendars!Upcoming Events

Remember to stay tuned to twitter, facebook, and eventually our website for updates on events.

September 13th - Classes beginSept. 13th-16th - Purple Fest,UCC atrium. Come meet your

AHSC and check out our swag table. September 30th-October 1st - Homecoming. Join us at the parade!

October 8th - Symposium submissions due.Late November - Arts Night. Details to follow.

November 30th - Last day to drop a full course and full-year half course [on campus day and evening and Distance Studies] without

academic penalty.December 8th - Classes end.December 9th - Study day.

December 10th-21st - Mid-year exam period.January 1st - Propaganda submissions due.

January 3rd - Classes resume.February 1st - The Semi-Colon submissions due.

February 15th - Last day to drop a second-term half course, or a second-term full course without academic penalty

February 21st-25th - Reading week (no classes).March - Arts and Humanities Formal. Details to follow.

April 7th - Final day of class.April 8th-9th - Study days.

April 10th - 30th - Final exam period.

Best of luck for a fun and successful year from the Arts and Humanities Student Council!

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