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NOVEMBER 5, 1999
IMPORTANT EVENTS
Monday-Wednesday, November 8-10
Thursday, November 11
Friday, November 12
Noon
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Academic Advising for First-year
Students for Spring Semester
Registration for First-year students
for Spring Semester
University Faculty Meeting-SR
REMINDER-ACCLAIMED RUSSIAN GUITARIST/COMPOSERTO PERFORM AND SPEAK AT STETSON UNIVERSITY.
Stetson University's Russian Studies Program and The Stetson International Guitar Workshop will present Russian
guitarist/composer Nikita Koshkin tonight-Friday-evening,-November_5, 1999. The 7j30.p.m. concert will be in
Elizabeth Hall, (with a reception immediately following in the Faculty Lounge of the Carlton Union Building) and will
feature the composer's own works. Koshkin will also speak on Wednesday, November 3, at noon on "Russia
Today." The public is invited to attend this free appearance, which will be held in the Russian Studies building.
From: Patrece Robinson
UNIVERSITY FACULTY MEETING-Friday, November 12, Noon, Stetson Room. The agenda includes the
opportunity to affirm the University Mission Statement which is posted on the intranet
(https://beret.stetson.edu/SUMission.html). The Faculty Senate may have other items to bring before the faculty
and, if so, will be posted on faculty-announce well in advance of the meeting. A light lunch will be served
beginning at 11:45 a.m. From: Jim Woodward, Chair, Council of Deans
"THE MIAMI CIRCLE: PREHISTORIC SITE OR SEPTIC TANK?" The first speaker in the 1999/2000 Phi Alpha Theta
Lecture Series will be Dr. Jerald Milanich, Curator in Archaeology and anthropologist at the Florida Museum of
Natural History, University of Florida. A member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Archaeology. Dr. Milanich has
published extensively on the relationships between the Spanish explorers and the Florida Indians, and most recently
on the impact played by mission Indians in the colonization of La Florida. He was recently called in to venture an
opinion on the "Miami Circle," supposed by some to be the earliest recorded permanent native structure in the
American Southeast. His findings will be presented on Tuesday, November 9, at 7:30 p.m., in the Large Group
Presentation Room in the Instructional Media Center. Admission is free and open to the general public. For more
information, contact Dr. Kimberly Reiter, ext. 7541. From: Kimberly Reiter
REMINDER-Professor Michael Mascagni of Florida State University will give a colloquium in the Mathematics and
Computer Science Seminar Series on Thursday, November 11, at 2:30 p.m., in 209 Elizabeth. His title of "Quasi-
Monte Carlo Methods: Where Randoments and Determinism Collide," and concerns applications of mathematics
in sequencing proteins and in the Human Genome Project. He will be meeting with interested students throughout
the day to discuss careers and graduate school in mathematics. From: Margie Hale
Poet Mary Jo Salter, author of four books of poetry (including Unfinished Painting, winner of the 1989 Lamont
Award), editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry, and Emily Dickinson Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount
Holyoke College, will read from her poems on November 11 at 8:00 p.m. in the Duncan Gallery of Sampson Hall.
A reception and book-signing will follow in the Sampson Hall foyer. This event is sponsored by the Artists and
Lecturers Committee, and will provide cultural events credit. From: Terri Witek
