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Welcome to Puget Sound's faculty-staff e-newsletter
T.S. Monk Jr. joins Puget Sound Jazz Orchestra for a performance April 5 Journalist and filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas delivers guest lecture on campus, April 6 Our annual Spring Lu`au is this Saturday, April 8
KNOW THIS campus news and announcements
Celebrate Student Employment Month! Did you know? Student staff members provide more than 25 percent of Puget Sound’s nonfaculty staffing and hold important positions that contribute to our mission and strategic goals. During the month of April, be sure to thank your student staffers. Learn more about the benefits and impacts of student employment at pugetsound.edu/ces.
Do you know a staff member who goes above and beyond? The Excellence in Action award recognizes staff members who consistently exhibit excellence in their work at Puget Sound at the annual Staff Recognition Luncheon (this year on Friday, May 26). Nominate a deserving staffer by completing the nomination form by April 7. #totheheights
Aloha! Puget Sound's 47th annual Sping Lu`au, organized by Ka Ohana Me Ke Aloha, the campus Hawai`i club, will be this Saturday, April 8. Dinner begins at 5 p.m., in Wheelock Student Center, with the show following at 6:30 p.m., in Memorial Fieldhouse. The theme for this year’s lu`au is "Aia Ka Home Me Ka Pu`uwai," which means "Home Is Where the Heart Is." Get your tickets now at tickets.pugetsound.edu.
Coming soon: A Day in the Life of Puget Sound! The summer issue of Arches, the college’s multiple award-winning alumni magazine, will be a special 24-hours-of-Puget-Sound edition. Nearly all pictures, few words. The editors are encouraging anyone with a camera to take photos on Wednesday, April 19, and submit them for consideration. Photos that make us wonder. Photos striking for their beauty. Photos that tell a story. Photos that make us smile. Faculty members, if there’s something going on in your class that day that you think might be interesting visually, please let us know and we’ll make sure someone with a camera is there. Contact Arches editor Chuck Luce at cbluce@pugetsound.edu with tips or questions.
Staff Senate calls for donations for annual raffle. The annual Staff Senate gift basket raffle will be held April 27–28. Proceeds from the raffle benefit the Rosa Beth Gibson Book Scholarship. Donated gift baskets may include game or concert tickets, items based on a special theme (such as a green-thumb basket with gardening items), or a host of other items. Baskets should be turned in to Sally Pierson in the bookstore by Tuesday, April 25, or contact any member of the Special Events Committee (Sue Dahlin, x3433; Amber Brock, x2651; or Tanna Masters, x3140) to arrange a pickup. Contact Amber with questions at ajbrock@pugetsound.edu
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DO THIS featured events
Guest Lecture: Rational Devotion and Human Perfection, Christina Chuang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, April 3, 3:30 p.m., Wyatt 313.
Performance: Jazz in the Rotunda, April 3, 7:30 p.m., Rasmussen Rotunda.
Daedalus Dinner: Where Dead Things Come Alive!, Peter Wimberger, biology, April 4, 6 p.m., Rasmussen Rotunda. Reservations required.
What We Do: Listen to the latest podcast every Wednesday, April 5. soundcloud.com/pswhatwedo
Campus Climate Conversations: Connections Between National and Local Social Climate, April 5, noon, Murray Boardroom.
Guest Lecture: Inspector Kasakawulsh and the Case of the Disappearing River, Dan Shugar, UW Tacoma, April 5, 4 p.m., Thompson 115.
A Conversation With Bobby Seale, moderated by Dexter Gordon, African American studies and communication studies, April 5, 6 p.m., Rausch Auditorium.
Bioethics Club: Patient Autonomy: Practicing in the Gray Areas of Health Care, Colleen Carrete, physician assistant, April 5, 7 p.m., Thompson 191.
Performance: T.S. Monk Jr. and Puget Sound Jazz Orchestra, April 5, 7:30 p.m., Blue Mouse Theater. Tickets: $12; tickets.pugetsound.edu 
Guest Lecture: Art as Bearer of the Ecological Spirit, Wassili Lepanto, artist, April 6, 4:30 p.m., Wyatt 101.
CICE Spring Workshop: Living in a Religious World, April 6, 7 p.m., Social Justice Center.
French Film Series: L'Amour Fou, April 5, 8 p.m., Thomas 272.
CHOP FEST!: Cabin in the Woods, April 5, 9:30 p.m., Rausch Auditorium.
THSMS: The Ecological Impact of Invasive Plant Pathogens and How to Manage Them, Frank Martin P'20, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, April 6, 4 p.m., Thompson 175.
Guest Lecture: My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant, Jose Antonio Vargas, journalist and filmmaker, April 6, 7:30 p.m., Kilworth Memorial Chapel.
Guest Lecture: New Challenges for the Latin American Writer, Horacio Castellanos Moya, writer, April 7, 4:30 p.m., McIntyre 103. 
Senior Theatre Festival: The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh, April 7 (7:30 p.m.) and April 8 (2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.), Norton Clapp Theatre. Tickets: $8/$6; tickets.pugetsound.edu
Performance: An Evening of Opera Scenes, April 7–8, 7:30 p.m., Schneebeck Concert Hall. Tickets: $15/$10/$7; tickets.pugetsound.edu
Spring Lu`au, April 8, dinner (5 p.m., Wheelock Student Center) and show (6:30 p.m., Memorial Fieldhouse). Tickets: $8–$20; tickets.pugetsound.edu
LoggerUP. The Logger baseball, softball, and men's tennis teams play at home this weekend. Go Loggers!
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BE PROUD noteworthy and in the news
Geoffrey Block, music, had his book, Experiencing Beethoven, reviewed in the April edition of American Music Teacher and the May edition of Fanfare, a magazine for classical music lovers.
Amy Fisher, science, technology, and society, reviewed the book Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider by Michael Riordan, Lillian Hoddeson, and Adrienne Kolb in the March issue of ISIS: Journal of the History of Science in Society.
KUPS 90.1FM The Sound, operating since 1968, was profiled in Weekly Volcano
Brendan Lanctot, Hispanic studies, published the article "Frecuencias del Martin Fierro en orden neoliberal" in the journal Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.
Sam Liao, philosophy, co-wrote the article "Aesthetic Adjectives: Experimental Semantics and Context-Sensitivity," recently published in the journal Philosophy & Phenomenological Research.
Hilary Robbeloth, Collins Memorial Library, will present “Evidenced-Based Acquisition: A Real-Life Account of Managing the Program” at the Electronic Resources and Libraries conference in Austin, Texas. Her presentation will discuss the Orbis Cascade Alliance's pilot program of Wiley's Usage-Based Collection Management Model, including the group's experiences evaluating usage, managing titles and records, controlling duplication, predicting costs, and more.
Slater Museum of Natural History is co-sponsoring an April 12 talk at Puget Sound by birder Noah Strycker, who set a new world record by sighting more than 6,000 bird species in a year, reported by The News Tribune, The Olympian, and Sacramento Bee.
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