We are often told to take ownership of our Duke experience. At this meeting, we will discuss what this actually means and how we are currently carrying this out. We will participate in small group discussions about engaging in the University and its resources. Your ideas will help guide BSA’s work in order to make Duke a better place for you.

Please join the Prospective Health Care Club on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:30-6:00 p.m. in Schiciano Auditorium, CIEMAS for our 4th Annual Prospective Health Care Conference:

“Prospective Health Care and the Individual”

Hosted by the Duke University Prospective Health Care Club

Health care in the U.S. is largely disease-oriented, reactive and sporadic. Consequently, preventable chronic conditions are responsible each year for the majority of mortality, morbidity and costs.

Prospective Health Care (PHC) attempts to address these flaws of our current health care system by focusing on health promotion and disease prevention through increased patient responsibility and strategic health planning, which is based on personal health plans. Evolving advancements in genomics as well as other fields are helping to enhance the shift towards prospective medicine.

The Duke University Prospective Health Care Club invites you to its 4th Annual Prospective Health Care Conference on Wednesday, November 19, 4:30-6 pm, in Schiciano Auditorium (CIEMAS). The theme of the conference is “Prospective Health Care and the Individual.” This year’s conference will focus on the individualistic mechanisms that PHC incorporates.

We are excited to announce that Dr. Ralph Snyderman, Chancellor Emeritus, Duke University will be our keynote speaker. Joining him will be Dr. Howard McLeod, Director of the UNC Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy, and Mr. Mark Mead of the Carolina Center for Integrative Medicine.

Health care is an issue that impacts all of us. Come discover how you can make a difference in modern medicine’s revolution.

Questions: info@prospectivehealthcare.com

This fall, DUU Freewater Presentations showed, among other films, “The Dark Knight,” “Pineapple Express,” “The Fall,” and “American Teen.” Did you love these picks? or did you think they were a waste of time? Now’s your chance to have your opinion heard, by helping Freewater Presentations decide what movies to show in Griffith Theater next semester.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=plR9OUzNIJgXIk5xr1OL0AQ

Get your picture taken for the Chanticleer.  Go to the Chanticleer Office (Bryan Ctr, 2nd Floor, Rm 02) this week (Nov. 10-14) or next week (Nov. 17-21) from noon to 8pm to get your picture taken.  Don’t be left out of the yearbook.  Its free! Email chanticleer.seniors@gmail.com for more info.

Where: the Chanticleer Office (Bryan Center, near McDonalds)

Attire: Jacket and Tie for men, Appropriate attire for women

Duke Blue Devils football and basketball cheerleader Virginia Rieck was recently chosen to represent Duke and the ACC in the Athlon Sideline Spirit contest. She’s already made it to Round 4, but she needs your help to make it to the Final Four.

You can cast up to 30 votes per day at:
http://www.athlonsports.com/college-football/8054/sideline-spirit Round 4 voting ends Friday, November 21st!

 

In this issue:

 

1. Cultural Fund Deadline Approaching

2. Vote For PANDA FORCE

3. The One Day Startup

4.  DUU presents: Movin’ Out

5. Got Mail?

6. Find your Weight Out

Posting and UNSUBSCRIBE info

 

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1. Cultural Fund Deadline Approaching

Posted by: Vivian Wang (vcw@duke.edu)

 

Last University/Cultural Fund Workshop

Soliciting Proposals for Spring 2009 Semester Programs

 

Last Info Session: THIS Thursday, Nov. 6, 1-2pm

Application Deadline: Monday, November 17, 2008, 5pm

 

All undergraduate student organizations with an OSAF fund code are eligible to apply.

 

TO QUALIFY FOR FUNDING, A MEMBER INVOLVED IN WRITING THE PROPOSAL MUST ATTEND ONE MANDATORY INFORMATION MEETING.  

 

WHEN:

 

Due to demand, an extra information session has been scheduled for THIS Thursday, Nov. 6, 1-2pm.  Note, this is the LAST info-session, so please send an organization representative to attend.  

 

WHERE:

 

Multicultural Center (Lower level of the Bryan Center)

 

WHY:

 

-Attendance is required to receive funding!

-Find out what is eligible and ineligible to be funded.

-Get advice on grant writing that will be useful to you even beyond Duke.

-With a better proposal, you’ll likely get more money!   

 

APPLICATIONS AND GUIDELINES available at: http://mcc.studentaffairs.duke.edu/resources/ucfund/overview.html

 

PROGRAM EVALUATION FORMS from events funded by the University/Cultural Fund during the 07-08 School Year and Fall 2008 semester must be submitted by November 17th as well.  Eligibility for funding is contingent on submission of these event evaluations.  Program Evaluation Forms can be found at: http://mcc.studentaffairs.duke.edu/resources/ucfund/forms.html

 

QUESTIONS: to Vivian at vcw@duke.edu.

 

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2. Vote For PANDA FORCE

Posted by: Ryan O’Connell (ryan.o@duke.edu)

 

mtvU has recently announced the top 25 nominees for its annual “mtvU Woodie

Awards” and Duke University’s homegrown talent, Panda Force, has been

nominated for the Best Music on Campus Award!

 

The mtvU Woodie Awards is all about YOU… you control the fate of who wins

the Best Music on Campus Award, so represent Duke and vote for Panda Force:

http://www.bestmusiconcampus.com/

 

mtvU’s Woodie Awards has helped catapult the careers of many bands you know

and love; artists such as Fall Out Boy (Streaming Woodie ’04), the Killers

(Breaking Woodie ’04), Death Cab for Cutie (Best Video Woodie ’05), Plain

White Ts (Breaking Woodie ’06), Boys Like Girls (Breaking Woodie ’07) and

Gym Class Heroes (Woodie of the Year ’07) have reached international success

after winning at the annual Woodies. Not to mention, Duke’s own Stella By

Starlight captured the Best Music on Campus Award last year!

 

The BMOC Woodie Award includes the following prizes:

-Roundtrip airfare to NYC for the 2008 Woodie Awards

-$5,000 dollars to help jumpstart your career

-The coveted 2008 Best Music On Campus Woodie Award

 

Check out Panda Force and their music at

http://www.myspace.com/pandaforceband.

 

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3. The One Day Startup

Posted by: Howie Liu (htl@duke.edu)

 

The One Day Startup is an event designed for Duke University students that would like to start a company. The goal is to demystify the “startup process” and help students realize some of the key steps it takes to start a company. Students will leave the session with a clearer path to creating a startup.

 

This session is being led by Jonathan Gindes ‘03, Co-founder and CFO of Affinergy, and Taylor Mingos ‘07, Founder and CEO of Shoeboxed.com.

 

Saturday, November 22

10:30am-6:30pm

Leaman Classroom, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

 

Undergraduates welcome

 

Apply for The One Day Startup: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&key=ppsyYrbTfJQpl3RRnvLvZWg

 

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4. DUU Presents: Movin’ Out

Posted by: Janicanne Shane (janicanne.shane@duke.edu)

 

DUU LiveEnt Presents:

 

Wednesday, November 19th,

Musical: “Movin’ Out”

 8 p.m. Page Auditorium

$55, $45, $35 reserved seating

$25, $20, $15 Duke students and employees

 

MOVIN’ OUT, the Tony Award-winning new musical conceived, choreographed and directed by Twyla Tharp and based on 24 classic songs by Billy Joel, opens in Durham at Page Auditorium on November 19th, 2008. This engagement of MOVIN’ OUT will mark the Durham premiere of the show that critics say revolutionized musical theatre as we know it.  “So exhilarating and soul-stirring, it practically bursts out of the theatre,” said Time Magazine. “Movin’ Out is electrifying! The union of Tharp and Joel is one made in heaven,” raved the Chicago Tribune.

 

Told through the choreography of Twyla Tharp and more than two dozen of Billy Joel’s songs, MOVIN’ OUT is the story of lifelong friends through two turbulent decades that change them and the world around them forever. Songs like “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me,” “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” and “Pressure” all come together to weave a musical backdrop which beautifully complements Tharp’s innovative choreography. The songs and dance take audiences through a poignant narrative comprised of three main elements: post-World War II idealism, the Vietnam War and its subsequent unrest, and finally, survival.

 

Many will recognize MOVIN’ OUT’s main characters, as they come straight from Joel’s lyrics. There’s Brenda and Eddie from “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant,” Tony and Sergeant O’Leary from “Movin’ Out,” Judy from “Why, Judy, Why,” and James from “James”—and their story is told completely through dance, with no dialogue whatsoever. MOVIN’ OUT is “a story told without language,” Tharp says. “The movement and the action tell the story—the experience, the emotional resonance, comes from action rather than language.”

 

Tickets are available at Duke University Box Office or online at http://tickets.duke.edu/default.asp !

 

 

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5. Got Mail?

Posted by: Ryan O’Connell (ryan.o@duke.edu)

 

OSAF has a new mailbox system for student organizations.  Come by the office to request a box.  Also if your organization is on the list below… You Got Mail (in the old AOL voice) stop by and pick it up.

 

NAACP

 

 

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6. Find your Weight Out

Posted by: Anna Lutz (lutz0012@mc.duke.edu)

 

Are you an emotional eater, a chronic dieter, or are you just plain

confused about what to eat?

Want to learn about nutrition in a supportive group environment?

 

Find Your Weigh Out - A Non-Diet Approach to Weight Management

 

This 4 week class, run by Student Health Dietitians, will teach you how to:

- Balance your meals and minimize food cravings.

- Respond to hunger without over-doing it.

- Manage emotions that can lead to overeating.

 

Wednesdays, 12-1pm, Starting October 29th

All sessions are held in the Student Health Conference Room.

 

To register contact: toni.apadula@duke.edu (613-1218) or anna.lutz@duke.edu

(683-2757)

(must be a student to register)