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Wednesday, October 28
OCTOBER 23, 1998
IMPORTANT EVENTS
Mid-Term Withdrawal date and Last
Day to Drop Course without
Academic Penalty
ANNOUNCEMENTS
REMINDER-SLIDE LECTURE/GALLERY TALK BY SAMANTHA SIMPSON. Digital Arts/Art Instructor Samantha
Simpson, who has nine pieces on display currently in the Duncan Gallery of Art (through October 30), will give a
slide lecture in the gallery from 12:00 - 12:45 p.m. today Friday, October 23. Lecture is free and open to the
public. Students who sign in at the event will receive Arts and Sciences cultural credit. Next gallery lecture: Tara
Thacker (ceramics), October 30.
INDIAN FOLK DANCE PERFORMANCE WITH CHHAYA DANCE ACADEMY OF MUMBAI. INDIA, will perform today,
Friday, October 23, at noon in the Edmunds Center. A dance troupe from the Chhaya Academy of Arts in Mumbai
(formerly Bombay), India, will present a program showcasing two of the many styles of Folk Dances known in
India. India is blessed with a great variety of classical and folk-dance forms. Of these, only a few are widely
performed outside of India. The Chhaya troupe, under the direction of the Academy's co-founders, will present
the richly costumed Rajashani Folk dance, and the seldom-performed masked dance known as Seraikella Chhau.
The Chhaya Academy was founded by its current Artistic Director, Pandit Gopal Prasad Dubey, and Bharati Tolani
in 1983. The Academy exists to promote traditional dance, music, and culture, and places particular emphasis on
preservation of rare dance forms. Under the direction of Dubey, the troupe has performed at Dance Festivals in
the former USSR, the United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, Greece and the United States. Pandit Dubey has taught at
Harvard University, the University of London, the University of Seoul, the University of Kansas, and the American
College of Greece.
This event is sponsored by the Asian Cultural Association of Central Florida, Office of Multicultural Affairs and
Indian Student Organization at Stetson, and Dr. B. Patel, and Drs. A. and P. Mathur. Admission is free to the
Stetson community, parents, public and Volusia County School children. This is an Arts and Sciences cultural
credit event. From: Kim Norman, Community School of the Arts Dance Academy
The Women and Gender Studies Fall Roundtable Series continues on Thursday, October 29, at 4:00 p.m. in 308E.
Sara Cotner, a 1998 SURE grant recipient, will present her summer research:
"Teaching About the Birds and the Bees: How the Reality of Sexuality Education Implementation Deviates from
the Standardized Curriculum." While educators, parents, administrators, and advocacy groups debate the issue
of sexuality education, the reality of existing curricula goes virtually unnoticed. This project focuses on the
yearly implementation of a county-mandates sexuality education curriculum in an elementary school in Tampa,
Florida, and reveals how the "curriculum-in-use" does and does not reflect the standardized curriculum provided
by the school board. Although trained professionals develop the curriculum, untrained teachers present it to
the students. The program theoretically seeks to "present factual, unbiased information" to students, but
realistically reinforces gender roles and specific ideas about normalcy.
This is an Arts and Sciences cultural event. Light refreshments will be served.
From: Nancy Vosburg, Chair, Women and Gender Studies ■
