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VOYAGER North Star* Liberal Arts / Creative Writing & Literature vol. 7.4 * Jinny Beyer Quilt Pattern 04.13.2108

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE STUDENT SCHOLARS WHO PRESENTED AT THE UNDERGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM! The 2017-18 Symposium saw more student participants with very compelling topics. You should notice the variety of subject matter and student majors. This is not limited to those in Liberal Arts. All students are encouraged to keep reading, studying, researching, and writing to be a part of next year’s symposium. Panel 1: Business Focus Lindsey Doctor: “Child Labor” Maddie Jensen: “Should Executives Be Entitled to Large Severance

Packages” Melyssa Olmstead: “Succession Planning” Michael E. Stewart: “Dress Code Policy” Panel 2: Taking Control Focus Jenna Erwin: “Benefits of Cursive Handwriting” Kelsey Jackson-Ross: “The Benefits of & Strategies for Self-Publishing” Anastasia Braun: “Living in the Past: Neuroimaging in the Diagnosis of

Mental illness & Treatment” Panel 3: Media Studies Focus Tien Nguyen: “The Untapped Potential of American Animated Films” Deja Walker: “Latino /Hispanic Representations in Film” * *Rescheduled for Thursday 4.19 in the Library South Room

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Panel 4: Storytelling in Music, Fashion & Media Focus Tanner DeMarco: “Scoring Films” Davor Majdandzic: “The Solace of Dreams” (an orchestral musical

composition that tells a story) Taylor Tedesco: “Medieval Influences on Fashion as Seen Through

Artistic Movement” Lucas Albertson: “Storytelling in Interactive Media” Panel 5: Social Awareness Focus LaCherie Reid: “Race & Racism in the Fashion Business” Nina Cray: “Rise” Shakeirra McDuffie: “The Need for More Half-Way Houses in Buffalo” Kelly Nguyen: “Employment Discrimination”

2017-18 Core Value: COMPASSION

“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”

• Frederick Buechner “Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.”

• Dalai Lama

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April may well be the cruelest month, according to Chaucer and T.S. Eliot, and as the semester is drawing to its swift end, it is one of the busiest of the year. Don’t give up! Get help! Use the SSC, talk to your instructors, don’t miss class trying to catch-up. Work with your classmates.

APRIL 14 Eye to Eye

On Saturday, April 14, Villa Maria College will open its doors to Eye to Eye for its Learn Different Day. Eye to Eye is a national mentoring and advocacy organization run by and for people with learning differences, and its Learn Different Day is a is a free, open forum of community, mentorship, learning, art and fun for students with learning and attention issues, like dyslexia and ADHD, and their families.

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During Learn Different Day, parents and caregivers will gain a new and hopeful perspective on their child’s learning difference. Students will explore how to become empowered. They’ll learn about opportunities for support, be encouraged to understand how they learn, and become able to self-advocate so they can thrive in school and in life.

The day is part of a series to be featured around the U.S. in 2018, to help bring together the community of parents, guardians and students with learning and attention issues like dyslexia and ADHD.

Attendees will be split into parent and student groups to participate in these activities:

• Art Projects: Students will attend an “art room” to experience Eye to Eye’s social-emotional curriculum and foster a partnership with a college/high school student who has a similar learning and attention issue.

• Meet the Eye to Eye Diplomats: Parents will join a session featuring college-age students who will share inspiring personal stories and practical strategies for success.

• Expert Panel featuring: • Marcus Soutra, Eye to Eye President • Luke Hayes, Director of Mobilization at Understood.org • Matt Brown, Eye to Eye Diplomat

Eye to Eye’s mission is to unlock greatness in the 1 in 5 who learn differently so students can achieve their fullest potential. To learn more, about Eye to Eye, visit eyetoeyenational.org. Learn Different Day takes place on Saturday, April 14 from 11:00 AM until 1:30 PM in the College’s dining hall and in room 103.

At the start of the 2017-2018 academic year, Villa Maria College launched its own chapter of Eye to Eye through the efforts of students Victoria Smith and Katie Jones.

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APRIL 14-15 Feed My Starving Children Mobile Pack Event @ Villa Maria College, Athletic Center

Feed My Starving Children event is a Mobile Pack event where volunteers from Villa Maria and the community come together to pack 100,000 meals over a two day time span. These meals are then shipped globally to countries where the need is greatest.

My Brother’s Keeper: Human Trafficking in Western New York

April 17, 2018 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm College Auditorium As part of the Mission & Core Values of Villa Maria College, we are hosting People Against Trafficking Humans (PATH) a Buffalo-based group that works to end human trafficking in the area. PATH’s mission is to end human exploitation through awareness, action and aftercare. Join us as we learn the statistics of trafficking in the Buffalo area and become more aware of this national issue. Julie Palmer, PATH’s Executive Director will speak. Sponsored by Title III and the Wellness Team. COLLEGE HONORS CONVOCATION THURSDAY APRIL 26 @ 7 pm College Auditorium

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MAKING CONTACT

By Virginia Satir

I believe The greatest gift I can conceive of having From anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and to touch another person. When this is done I feel contact has been made. Poem from Teaching With Fire, Jossey-Bass Books, 2003.

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2018 riverrun Summer Research Program in the Poetry Collection

THE POETRY COLLECTION | 716-645-2917 | LPO-POETRY@BUFFALO.EDU | LIBRARY.BUFFALO.EDU/PL

In partnership with riverrun, the Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, is pleased to announce the 2018 riverrun Summer Research Program in the Poetry Collection. The library of record for 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone poetry, the Poetry Collection is home to one of the world’s largest collections of poetry books, chapbooks, periodicals, and broadsides, as well as more than 150 archive and manuscript collections from a wide range of poets, presses, magazines, and organizations.

The program is open to all undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled in colleges and universities in the eight counties of Western New York.

The recipient of the riverrun Summer Research Program will spend approximately two weeks (flexible) on site at the Poetry Collection working with collection materials between June 4 and August 24, 2018. At some point during or after her/his visit, the recipient will engage in some form of public scholarship on her/his research, such as a public presentation or blog post.

The riverrun Summer Research Program will provide a stipend of $1900 to an undergraduate or graduate student from a Western New York college or university to pursue research at the Poetry Collection.

For more information on the riverrun Summer Research Program and to apply, visit library.buffalo.edu/pl/riverrun.

Eligibility

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Apply

Jess (1923–2004), detail from Open-Mouthed but Relaxed, 1952, collage. Copyright © the Jess Collins Trust and used with permission.

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