MyNews: February 12, 2018
10th annual Francophone Film Festival to take place on Armstrong Campus Feb. 22-23
The community is encouraged to attend the 10th annual Francophone Film Festival Feb. 22-23 on the Georgia Southern University Armstrong Campus in Savannah. The festival will feature five films in French with English subtitles. This year, the films will be shown over the course of two days and include two matinees so students from local schools can attend.
University, local community reading of ‘The Vagina Monologues’ to raise funds for local sexual assault center
The Georgia Southern University chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) will host a reading of “The Vagina Monologues,” on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. in the Russell Union Ballroom on the Statesboro Campus, to raise awareness and funds for the nonprofit organization, V-Day and the local nonprofit, the Statesboro Regional Sexual Assault Center (SRSAC).
In an effort to end taboos about female and female-identified sexuality, “The Vagina Monologues,” written by Eve Ensler, explores the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement of this experience. The dialogue is made of up personal monologues and is typically performed by a diverse group people exploring everything from sex and love to body image and childbearing.
Georgia Southern University to highlight work of Master of Fine Arts candidates this semester
Georgia Southern University’s Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art (BFSDoArt) will host exhibits featuring the work of Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates this semester at the Center for Art and Theatre on the Statesboro Campus. From examining the environmental impact of consumerism, to erasing the stigma of mental illness, the exhibits use art to shed light on issues of great importance to the candidates.
Georgia Southern alumnus promoted to three-star lieutenant general in U.S. Army
Last Friday, Georgia Southern alumnus Maj. Gen. Leslie Smith (‘85) was promoted to a three-star lieutenant general in the U.S. Army. This promotion makes Smith the highest-ranking University alumnus in the military. Smith, who currently serves as deputy to the inspector general for the Office of the Secretary of the Army, is actively involved with Georgia Southern.
College of Education professors’ book named as a selected read by Chronicle of Higher Education
The book, Promoting Social Justice through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, edited by Georgia Southern University’s College of Education Professors Delores Liston, Ph.D., and Regina Rahimi, Ed.D., was included in a January compilation of 10 ‘Selected New Books on Higher Education’ in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
A collection of contributions by a diverse selection of educators and scholars published by Indiana University Press in November 2017, the book gives an in-depth look at how educators and students can promote equity and social justice across multiple disciplines.
Local organizers create ‘Beloved Community’ in Bulloch County
“What can we do to keep Ferguson from happening here?” That was the question asked by a diverse group of people in Statesboro and Bulloch County who came together in 2015 around the issue of relations between law enforcement and some African-American communities. Their gathering was in response to the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and the uprising that followed.
Statesboro Campus to celebrate
Georgia’s Arbor Day Friday
Georgia Southern’s Center for Sustainability (CfS) and Division of Facilities Services will host a celebration in honor of Georgia’s Arbor Day on the University’s Statesboro Campus on Friday, Feb. 16 at 10 a.m. Students, CfS staff and campus volunteers will spend the morning planting 500 pine seedlings in the Herty Pines Nature Preserve. Volunteers will meet at the Herty Preserve kiosk on Southern Drive across from the iconic shrubs welcoming visitors to the storied Sweetheart Circle. The campus community is invited to attend.
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On-Campus News
- Lelyn Stewart named 70th Miss Georgia Southern
- Georgia Southern University’s Armstrong and Liberty campuses offer out-of-state tuition waivers to residents of Alabama, Florida, Southern Carolina and Tennessee
- Special education majors present with College of Education faculty at state conference
- Georgia Southern’s online Master of Accounting Program ranked in top 25
- Georgia Southern Football signs 21 on National Signing Day
- Georgia Southern athletic training major one of nine students awarded a national baseball medicine conference scholarship
- Community organizers connect ideas to action plans for social change
In the Media
- GermaPhones: How your phone spreads the flu — WTOC
- Georgia Southern adds crisis hotline contacts to ID cards — WSAV
- EAGLE Academy hosts open house — Statesboro Herald
- Georgia Southern’s Armstrong and Liberty Campuses offer out-of-state tuition waivers to residents of Alabama, Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee — Savannah CEO
- Ga. Southern Center for Wildlife Education turns 20 — WJCL
- RecycleMania kicks off at Georgia Southern — WSAV
- Georgia Southern head coach Chad Lunsford remembers Edwin Jackson — WSAV
- Tammy Jacobs of SEHS is assistant principal of the year in Georgia (alumna featured) — Savannah Morning News
- Political expert reacts to President Trump’s SOTU Address — WSAV
Last updated: 2/20/2018