$200,000 available for 2009-10 school year programs. Apply Now! Don’t Miss Out!

Deadline: Monday, April 13, 2009
All undergraduate student organizations with an OSAF fund code are eligible
(Please see guidelines online for what is and is not funded)

TO QUALIFY FOR FUNDING, A MEMBER OF YOUR ORGANIZATION MUST ATTEND A MANDATORY INFORMATION MEETING.
Multiple members of your organization are encouraged to attend so knowledge of this and other funding processes are not limited to a single person.

WHEN: (Pick one of the following)
Wed. March 4, 1:30-2:30pm
Tues. March 17, 1-2pm
Wed. April 1, 3-4pm
Thurs. April 2, 3-4pm

WHERE: Multicultural Center (Lower level of the Bryan Center)

The funding application and detailed information is found online at: http://mcc.studentaffairs.duke.edu/resources/ucfund/overview.html

Program Evaluation Forms from events funded by the University/Cultural Fund during the 08-09 School Year must be submitted by April 13 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 can be directed to Vivian at vcw@duke.edu.

Are you finding it difficult to organize an event? Talk to UCG, DUU’s newest event consulting group. We will help you with the logistics and planning of the entire event. This service is completely free of charge and we have consultants with experience from all aspects of campus programming. Check out the website
www.duke.edu/web/duuconsult for more details.

Participate in the Leadership Showcase!
As a part of OSAF’s LEAD Week, the Leadership Showcase will provide an opportunity for students and student organizations to display how they demonstrate leadership both in and outside of the Duke community. This event will also serve as the kick-off reception for the week (March 23) and will bring together students, faculty, and administrators to discuss leadership at Duke and beyond.
What’s in is for you? Students and student organizations that participate will be recognized and presented with a Certificate of Leadership Engagement, signed by the Associate Vice President for Student Affairs. In addition, participants will be able to interact with other students and groups, as well as with faculty, staff, and administrators, to discuss their work and share ideas. This event can also facilitate opportunities for future collaboration.
Interested? Email Hillary Waugh: hillary.waugh@duke.edu by March 18, 2009.

Nominate your organization for a spotlight in the yearbook!

Each year The Chanticleer, Duke’s award-winning undergraduate yearbook, highlights several student organizations on a full page featuring a picture and information about the organization.  The organizations with the most nominations will appear in the spotlight, so tell your members to nominate your group!  Use the Senior Spotlight nomination form on our website, www.dukechanticleer.com.

Questions?  Contact chanticleer.editor@gmail.com.

The Duke Office of Undergraduate Admissions will be holding BLUE DEVIL DAYS throughout April for the admitted Class of 2013!

This year, in addition to the Student Life Fair, we will be holding ‘open house’ night activities so that the Class of 2013 can learn about Duke student groups firsthand.  If you are holding any meetings / activities / concerts after 8pm on April 5, 9, and/or 13, please email alice.yen@duke.edu by March 6, including the date / time / location / brief blurb about your organization to be included on the activities sheet.

Also, if your organization would like to represent Duke at the Student Life Fair (April 6, 10, 14, 20), please email alice.yen@duke.edu by March 6.  Let’s welcome the Class of 2013 and show them what Duke has to offer!

Freshman Focus Group: Strategies to maximize your time at Duke for the next three years
Date: February 26, 2009
Time: 6pm
Place: TBD (check back at
http://career.studentaffairs.duke.edu/undergrad/events/index.html)

The Diversity Liaison Team from the Career Center wants to share with you useful strategies to navigate your next three years at Duke. We will be discussing topics such as: finding meaningful jobs on campus, how to network with professors, how to make the most out of your school breaks, resumes, majors, and more! Come to this informal conversation to learn and ask questions. Pizza will be served.

RSVP at: http://studentaffairs.duke.edu/d/?p=preg

Pratt v. Trinity E-Social
Events in Twinnie’s Cafe, FCIEMAS, @ 4 p.m.

Free t-shirts for all who participate in an engineering competition.
Sign up for each activity on site.
Help us celebrate National Engineer’s Week 2009!

Competitions (open to Pratt and Trinity students AND faculty!)
Arm Wrestling  Contest
Engineering Design Contest
Trivia Contest

Engineer’s Week is sponsored by:  Rosetta Stone, Duke Energy, Edwards Lifesciences, Skanska, Facility Engineering Associates, Mint, & Lutron

The International Association and the Duke Libraries take great pleasure in inviting you to experience the very best this world has to offer – all in one evening!

PANGAEA: THE LIBRARY PARTY!
One World. One Party
FRIDAY, Feb. 27: 9PM-Midnight
Duke Libraries + The LINK!

A semi formal event for Duke Students, alumni, faculty and staff in the Library.

From the Serengeti plains to Bollywood’s hot spots…from Arabian oases to a quintessential European nightclub…the tastes, sights and sounds of Perkins, Bostock, VDH and the Link will envelope you in a cultural experience like none other!

Featuring…

• For the first time ever - THE LINK as “Club Pangaea” - techno, world music & glow sticks - experience global nightlife with DJ Mirakulus and special performances by Defining Movement and the Stop Motion crew.

• Café Funquê: All the way from Brazil - the band brings their unique flavor of Funk, Rock, Bossa Nova, Samba, Jazz..get ready for an explosive mix!

• dub Addis, an Ethiopian & Reggae Band performing in Perkins: Groove to their soulful melodies embedded in the polyrhythm of Africa!

• DUU Campus Concerts brings you Panda Force & the Soulless Dogs Blues Band performing live in Bostock. Additional live performances by Chinese Traditional Dance!

• Senior Champagne Toast in Bostock–In memory of Aalok Modi- all proceeds go to the Aalok S. Modi Global Health Fund. www.asmgrant.org

Join our facebook event at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=138142180592&ref=ts

One World. One Party. 2/27
International Association

The Do Something Awards (formerly the BR!CK Awards) identifies and
exceptional young social entrepreneurs, activists, and community leaders who
have significantly changed the world for the better. We identify young
world-changers who are the pivotal “do-ers” in their cause, issue, or field
and empower their work through community grants, knowledge, and support. For
2009, five winners will be selected. Each will receive a minimum of $10,000.
One of those five will be selected to win the Grand Prize total of $100,000.
Applicants must be age 25 and under and citizens or residents of the U.S. or
Canada.

Congratulations to Jennifer Zwilling (Trinity ‘12) who was honored with this
award in 2007!

For more information
http://www.dosomething.org/programs/awards

For information on past year’s winners go to:
http://www.dosomething.org/programs/awards/2008_finalists
http://www.dosomething.org/programs/awards/2007_winners

Contact info:
Jordyn Wells
212. 254.2390 x238
jwells(at)dosomething.org

A Teach-In on the Current Crisis in Gaza

Wednesday,  February 18th. at 7 pm in Social Psychology room 130

The purpose of the teach in is to discuss the recent events in Gaza through
a historical, legal, and human lens. Speakers will explore the pressing
humanitarian issues and the media’s response to the crisis.

Speakers include:

- Laila El-Haddad is a freelance journalist from Gaza. Her blog, “Raising
Yousuf and Noor: Diary of a Palestinian Mother,” explores the complex
relationships between the personal and the political as she raises her
children while negotiating displacement and occupation.
http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/

- Rann Bar-On is an Israeli activist and graduate student at Duke
University. He has worked with the International Solidarity Movement in the
Occupied Palestinian Territories. Rann advocates for an end to the
Occupation and resistance to militaristic Israeli government policies. He is
especially interested in the Shministim - a group of Israeli high-school
students who are imprisoned for daring to refuse to serve in Israel’s
occupying army.

-Dr. miriam cooke is a Professor of Arabic in the Asian and Middle Eastern
Studies Department. She also co-teaches a class on the Arab-Israeli conflict
through literature and film in the fall. Dr. cooke is also the Education
Director of Duke’s Islamic Studies Center.

- Abdullah Antepli is Duke’s first Muslim Chaplain. Apart from being a
Chaplain, he teaches courses on introductory Islam in Duke’s Divinity
School. Antepli has also worked on a variety of faith based humanitarian and
relief projects in Myanmar (Burma) and Malaysia with the Association of
Social and Economic Solidarity with Pacific Countries.