Schedule of Events
Freshman Connections
Fall 2007

August 2007:
19--Freshman Convocation
Official Opening of the Academic Year for New Students,
2:00 p.m., Emens Auditorium
Book Discussion Groups, 3:00 p.m. Various Campus Locations
4:15 p.m., Discussion Leader reception, Bracken 225

September 2007:
4--FC Film: "Crash"
AJ 175, 7:30 p.m. (Co-sponsored by the University Film Board)

15-16--"No Student Left Inside"
FC Camping Trip to Ouabache State Park
(Co-Sponsored by the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management)

17--Peer Mentor Letters of Introduction

18--FC Film, "Mississippi Burning"
AJ 175, 7:30 p.m. (Co-sponsored by the University Film Board)

25-- Campus Visit by James McBride, author of The Color of Water
Public Lecture, 7:30 p.m., Emens Auditorium
(Featuring A Tribute to Mothers)

28--John DeGraaf, Filmmaker: Screening of "Motherhood Manifesto"
Room TBA, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
(Connected to the "Tribute to Mothers" portion of the McBride lecture)

October 2007:
16--FC Film, "An Inconvenient Truth"
Pruis Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Followed by a discussion facilitated by John Vann, BSU Council on the Environment

November 2007:

8-11, 14-17--FC Play, The Human Faustus Project
University Theatre, 7:30 p.m. (except Nov. 11, 2:30 p.m.)

13--FC Film, "Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran"
AJ 175, 7:30 p.m. (Co-sponsored by the University Film Board)

13--Workshop, James W. Loewen, "Living in a Sundown Town and Racial Autobiographies"
Student Center 306, 3:30-5:00 p.m. (organized by Dr. Beth Messner)

13--Lecture, James W. Loewen, "Sundown Towns in Indiana"
Pruis Hall, 7:30-9:00 p.m. (Organized by Dr. Beth Messner)

15--Lecture, Karla Goldman, Jewish Woman's Archive, Historian in Residence, "Ambivalent Legacy: Judaism in The Color of Water"
TC 102, 7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. (Co-sponsored by FC and the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies)

27--Lecture, Mandalit del Barco, Reporter for National Public Radio, "Radio Active: Tales from the Air" 
Student Center, Forum Room, 7:30-9:00 p.m. (Co-sponsored by Indiana Public Radio; for more information, visit http://www.bsu.edu/ipr)

29--Student Lecture, "Art & Religion: The Power of the Symbolic, Mythic & Gendered Divine in Human Culture," Student interpretations of art by Lauren Bashenow, Laura Kuhlman, Melissa Coffer, and Matthew Wells
Museum of Art, Brown Lounge, 2:00 p.m.

29--Film ("Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price") & Discussion ("Walmart and Communities"), Michael Hicks, Director, Bureau of Business Research
TC 102, 7:00 p.m.