Campus events for the week of Feb. 16-19: Nisi Shawl, GAC presents, A Little Night Music, and more!

Here are the events happening around campus for the week of Feb. 16-19.

Tues., Feb. 16

Job Search Counseling with Hopelink Employment Specialist
Workforce Education (FOSS Building, room 5101) 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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Are you looking for employment and have questions about the job search process, resumes, cover letters or interviewing? Do you have long-term career goals or need to explore your employment future?

Stop by Workforce Education (FOSS building, room 5101) and visit with a HopelinkEmployment Specialist to discuss your questions. You can also learn about Hopelink’s Employment Program and other services provided at Shoreline Hopelink.

Margin to Center: a reading by Nisi Shawl
PUB 9208, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
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Prominent writer, Nisi Shawl will be at Shoreline’s campus to read some of her work as well as discuss the work of close friend, Octavia Butler.

Intramural Zumba
Athletics building, room 3025, 12:35-1:25 p.m. and 5:05-5:50 p.m.
Take time out from your busy day to dance your way fit. Free to students, faculty, and staff.

Wed., Feb. 17

The Big Event
PUB 9208, 8:30-11:40 a.m.
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Business faculty advisors will discuss business degree requirements for the AAAS and the AA DTA MRP. There will be a keynote session by David Starr and concurrent small group advising sessions.

Let’s Talk About It: Understanding Anxiety
PUB 9102, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
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Anxiety isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, a little anxiety can motivate you and help you stay focused under pressure, such as when taking an exam or driving your car on a dark and stormy night.  However, when anxiety takes over and interferes with daily activities, there may be cause for concern. The good news – recovery is possible and there are many things you can do to get your anxiety in check and regain control of your life.

Join Counseling Services at our interactive workshop and learn more about how to recognize and manage the signs and symptoms of anxiety for yourself or someone you care about.

Workshop is open to all and no RSVP needed.

Questions about the workshop? Contact Sheryl Copeland at scopeland@shoreline.edu or 206.533.6712.

 

Study Abroad & Scholarships Info Session
PUB 9201, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
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Want to see the world? Want people to give you a bunch of money to see the world? Come and learn about Shoreline’s study abroad opportunities and the scholarships that can help fund your international adventures!

Community Read of Octavia’s Brood
PUB 9208, 12:30-1:40 p.m.
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Join us Wed., Feb. 17 at 12:30 p.m. for our weekly meeting of the Community Read of Octavia’s Brood. We’ll meet on Wednesdays in the PUB 9208 from 12:30-1:40 p.m.

This week we’ll be discussing the stories: Runaway Blackout, Fafka’s Last Laugh, 22XX: One Shot.

Intramural Yoga
Athletics building room 3025, 12:35-1:25 p.m.
Take time out from your day to rejuvenate and build core strength. Free to students, faculty, and staff.

NoodleTools
Room 4214 (Library classroom), 3-3:50 p.m.
Citations are an essential component in research papers and other writing that uses outside sources.  This workshop will show you how to create and organize your citations using NoodleTools.  If you are new to citations or NoodleTools–or just looking for a refresher–this workshop is for you.

Phins Basketball vs. Whatcom (Away)
Bellingham, 5-9 p.m.

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The Men’s and Women’s baskteball teams take to the road to take on Whatcom Community College. #GoPhins!

Thurs., Feb. 18

Intramural Zumba
Athletics building, room 3025, 12:35-1:25 p.m.
Take time out from your busy day to dance your way fit. Free to students, faculty, and staff.

Tools, Tips, Tricks, and Technology
PUB 9208, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
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Part 2 of the Time Management Series:

Technology has made thousands of apps available to us in order to help with scheduling and organization. Come learn about some of the most popular apps used by students. In addition, we will be exploring Google Calendar (which you have for FREE with your Shoreline e-mail address) and its features to set you up for success. Bring a laptop if you want!

*This session will be recorded and posted online. To view go to our website:www.youtube.com/user/ShorelineCCvideos

UW Dentistry Info Session
Room 2812, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
This is a presentation by Memory Brock, Assistant Director of Admissions at the U of Washington School of Dentistry. Learn how to  prepare and apply to dental school! Everyone is welcome.

UW Foster School of Business Transfer Information Session
PUB 9208, 3-4 p.m.
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Adam Shinn, Associate Director at the UW Foster School of Business, will be here on campus to give an information session on transferring to Foster. He will answer students’ questions regarding prerequisites, how to apply, how to take the Writing Skills Assessment (WSA), and what makes an application competitive. Open to all students.

Intramural Personal Training
Athletics bldg. room 3007, 6-6:50 p.m.
Come get free, hands-on training to help you reach your fitness goals.

The GAC Presents: China’s Urbanization and the “Left-behind” Children
PUB 9208, 7-8:30 p.m.
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In China, a new generation of children is growing up in the countryside with only one or no parent around during most of the time of the year. They are called “left-behind children.” Their population has grown to more than 60 million; half of them are between age 6 and 14. They are left behind because their parents have gone to work in the city, often hundreds of miles away from home.  They are part of China’s gargantuan army of migrant workers, estimated at about 170 million in 2014.  These laborers power China’s economic machine and turn it into the “world’s factory’.  While they work in the city, their children often cannot be with them. Lacking day-to-day parental care and close guidance, the “left-behind” children face many problems and many of them get into trouble.  Some develop psychological problems; others fall victims to bullying, physical or sexual abuse, or even serious accidents.

This presentation explains how China’s special, “incomplete” urbanization policy and thehukou (household registration) system function in concert to produce a generation of “left-behind” children and “migrant children,” and their implications.

Join us, together with Kam Wing Chan, Geography Department, University of Washington, discuss about the difficulties the “left-behind children” of China faces. To learn more about our speaker. visit our biographies page.

Fri., Feb. 19

Intramural Yoga
Athletics building room 3025, 11:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Take time out from your day to rejuvenate and build core strength. Free to students, faculty, and staff.

How to Proofread for Clear & Correct Writing
Room 4214 (Library classroom), 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Follow a process for proofreading your writing so that you can find and correct more of your own sentence errors.

Theater Department’s 2016 Opera Workshop “A Little Night Music”
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Fri., Feb. 19, 7:30 p.m.

Sat., Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m.
Sun., Feb. 21, 3 p.m.

Tickets are $12-18 at brownpapertickets.com.

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Shoreline Community College’s Musical theater department presents their 2016 Opera Workshop with Stephen Sondheim’s 19th century romantic waltz-based operetta/musical,  “A Little Night Music!”

Clive Barnes in the New York Times called the musical “heady, civilized, sophisticated and enchanting.”

The Telegraph wrote that “Sondheim’s lyrics are often superbly witty, his music here, mostly in haunting waltz-time, far more accessible than is sometimes the case. The score positively throbs with love, regret and desire.”

Winner of a Tony for Best Musical and Best Musical Score!

Sondheim creates a stunning tour de force when he takes Ingmar Bergman’s comedy of manners, Smiles of a Summer Night, and turns it into a musical of masterful execution and elegance. Winner of four Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Musical Score, this is a musical work that has forever entranced the world of theatre.

Set in 1900 Sweden, A Little Night Music explores the tangled web of affairs centered around actress Desirée Armfeldt and the men who love her: a lawyer by the name of Fredrik Egerman and the Count Carl-Magnus Malcom. When the traveling actress performs in Fredrik’s town, the estranged lovers’ passion rekindles. This strikes a flurry of jealousy and suspicion between Desirée, Fredrik, Fredrick’s wife, Anne, Desirée’s current lover, the Count, and the Count’s wife, Charlotte. Both men — as well as their jealous wives — agree to join Desirée and her family for a weekend in the country at Desirée’s mother’s estate. With everyone in one place, infinite possibilities of new romances and second chances bring endless surprises.

A Little Night Music is full of hilarity, witty and heartbreakingly moving moments of adoration, regret and desire. This dramatic musical celebration of love is perfect to showcase our talented cast of singers and actors, with it’s harmonically-advanced score and masterful orchestrations. And, it contains Sondheim’s popular song, the haunting “Send in the Clowns.”

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Producer and Music Director – Charles Enlow
Stage Director – Teresa Thuman
Conductor – Bruce Monroe
Choreographer – Lee Ann Hittenberger

Sat., Feb. 20
Phins Basketball at Home
Main gym (3000 bldg.) 2-6 p.m.
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Men’s and Women’s basketball take on Edmonds Community College at home! Come on out and root for your Phins! Women play at 2 p.m., Men play at 4 p.m. #GoPhins!

Shoreline Early Alert – Reminder & Important Dates

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Dear Campus:

The Shoreline Early Alert (SEA) team would like to thank faculty and staff for continuing to refer students to academic intervention, support, and services! So far we have received over 80 (domestic and international) referrals. Thank you for continuing to support our students and connecting them to resources.

Since an early alert works best when it’s early, this is a reminder that February 17 is the last day a “W” grade is issuedso there is still time to refer students for intervention. Examples of SEA referrals include: 

  • Low test scores
  • Unexplained excessive absenteeism or tardiness
  • Pacing in an online class
  • Not doing assignments
  • Financial matters
  • External concerns

What happens next:
After our team receives a referral a member will work to respond within 24 hours to both you and the student. We continue to reach out to the student in order to set up an initial meeting where we assess the student’s needs and most appropriate resources. *REMINDER: Intervention is a process and may not produce immediate results. Our goal is to reach out to the student early in the quarter and connect them to the appropriate resources.*

Please view the above flyer and visit our site to learn more about SEA or to view our Referral Form.

We look forward to continuing to work with you and to support our students!

Thanks,
SEA Team
Nicki Sunwall, Erin Wilson, Lianne Almughirah, Jennifer Coogan

Campus events for Friday & Saturday, Feb 12 & 13: Job seekers’ roundtable, a talk by Rachel David, and more!

Here are the events happening around campus for Fri., Feb. 12 and Sat., Feb. 13.

Friday, Feb. 12
Intramural Yoga, Athletics bldg., room 3025, 11:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
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Take time out from your day to rejuvenate and build core strength. Free to students, faculty, and staff.

Job Seekers’ Roundtable: Soft Skills with Ed Cruver, Workforce Education Office (bottom floor of FOSS, 5000 bldg.) 1-2:30 p.m.
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Soft skills is a term often associated with a person’s “EQ” (Emotional Intelligence Quotient), the cluster of personality traits, social graces, communication, language, personal habits, interpersonal skills, managing people, leadership, etc. that characterize relationships with other people.

Other examples of soft skills: Communicating well verbally, as well as non-verbally. Making good decisions. Adaptability. Problem solving. Commitment, Flexibility, Time Management. There are even more, and we’ll touch on a few this Friday, with Shoreline Senior Center volunteer and longtime Roundtable contributor, Ed Cruver.

Do you react when criticized, or calmly consider the criticism? How well do you handle pressure? Do you see things from other’s perspectives? Ed will cover this and more, and of course we’d love to hear your own examples of soft skills and how best to put them to work. Great coffee and treats, compliments of Central Market, and always free!

See you this Friday – and as always, Good Luck Out There!

Sat., Feb. 13
Intramural Stevens Pass ski trip, 9:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
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Snowboard, Ski, or Snowshoe Stevens pass with the Shoreline Community College Intramural program Sat., Feb. 13, 2016. A charter bus will chauffeur you to the pass from campus. The cost per person is subsidized by the Intramural program. Space is limited so sign up now! Current Shoreline students must pay their portion by 2/11/16 selecting from the following options:

$79.00 equipment rental& lift ticket
$54.00 lift ticket only
$29.60 snowshoe trail pass & snowshoe rental
$9.60 snowshoe trail pass only

The charter bus will leave Shoreline’s campus at 9:30 a.m. and return around 7 p.m.

For more info contact Stacie Attridge at intramurals@shoreline.edu

“How Does Gender Affect the Conditions of Our Lives,” a talk by faculty member Rachel David, room 2925 at 10 a.m.
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The Edmonds SnoKing Branch of the American Association of University Women now partners with Shoreline and Edmonds Community Colleges. Members next meet at 10 a.m., Feb. 13 in Room 2925 at the Shoreline Community College campus for a talk by Shoreline faculty Rachel David, “How Does Gender Affect the Conditions of Our Lives.” Guests are welcome. AAUW aims to advance equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research. The SnoKing branch welcomes members from south Snohomish and north King county. Learn more at esk-wa.aauw.net.

Phins Basketball on the road against Olympic College
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The Phins Men’s and Women’s basketball teams take on Olympic College on the road in Bremerton. Women play at 2 p.m., men play at 4 p.m. #GoPhins!

Campus closed for Presidents’ Day holiday, Mon., Feb. 15

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Presidents Day

The campus and all campus services will be closed on Mon., Feb. 15 in honor of the Presidents’ Day holiday and will reopen on Tues., Feb. 16. Please make sure to plan your schedule accordingly, and have a happy holiday!

Donate to the Books to Prisoners book drive now through March 18!

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The Associated Student Government is sponsoring a book drive in partnership with local nonprofit Books to Prisoners. Now through March 18, bring your paperback, non spiral-bound book donations to one of two collection bins around campus: one on the main floor of the library and one right inside the front entrance to the PUB.

For more information about the book drive, how awesome ASG Social Justice Officer Emily Stensland has been in organizing it, Librarian Chloe Horning’s thoughts on why she thought it was a fit for campus, and how important access to books is for equity and social justice, check out this news article about Shoreline’s partnership with Books to Prisoners.