First-Year Success Series 2009/2010
What is the Success Series?
Successful first-year students at Ohio State are those who learn how to utilize resources, resolve problems, and prepare themselves to take full advantage of their time here on campus. The Success Series helps to promote this success by offering short courses and presentations on the common concerns and questions first-year students have during their transition to university life. Moreover, successful students realize that learning extends beyond the walls of the traditional classroom and includes experiences with the performing arts.
First year students are often requested to attend events as a requirement for their Survey classes. However, they are highly encouraged to continue attending Success Series sessions that interest them throughout the year.
The current list of Success Series presentations follow, and new sessions will be added each week:
Register online for any of the presentations: limabuckeyes.osu.edu using the respective access codes.
Sacred Shimmy, October 5, Martha W. Farmer Theatre for the Performing Arts, 12:30.
Founded in 2002, Sacred Shimmy is a collective of Columbus dancers seeking to
inspire dancing, adventure, and creativity in others. The troupe presents
American Tribal Style Bellydance, a West Coast improvisational dance that draws
heavily from the dance cultures of North Africa, India, and the Middle East.
Sex Signals, October 7, Martha W. Theatre for the Performing Arts, 12:30
Let’s be honest. It’s hard to have a conversation about rape. It’s
controversial, emotional, and confusing. The play, Sex Signals
differs from conventional prevention programs by incorporating improvisational
comedy, education, and audience interaction while taking a provocative look at
dating, sex, and the core issue of consent. The play explores tensions in
dating that can lead to assault, but also offers encouragement to the audience
to provide safer and healthier interpersonal sexual relationships.
10 Ways to Blow your First Year. OSU-Lima Academic Advisors, October 19 & 20
Adjusting
to college can be difficult, especially the first year. What is your role
as a student and how can your advisor help you succeed? Come
to this session to find out how to navigate through the “maze” of college life
and get tips on how to make the most of your college years.
Diversity: Disabilities Awareness, October 14, Science 165, 12:30.
Shelly Snyder and
Shirley Evans from the Allen County MRDD will share their expertise on the
victimization of people with disabilities. A short video, a quick
exercise and much information will be provided. A few stats:
- Studies consistently show that the level of major crimes against adults with disabilities is 4-10 times higher than against people without disabilities.
- Children with any type of disability are 2 times more likely to be a victim of any type of child maltreatment than children without disabilities.
- Crimes against people with developmental and other disabilities are reported and prosecuted at a much lower rate than crimes against people without disabilities.
Take Back the Night, October 15 (evening), Campus Quad & various buildings, 7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
To address issues
of sexual violence, community members & students at OSU Lima and RSC have
organized their second annual Take Back the Night Event. It will include a
speaker, self defense demonstaration, mime presentation, live music, community
resources and refreshments.
10 Ways to Blow your First Year. OSU-Lima Academic Advisors, October 19, 12:30,
GA 326.
Adjusting
to college can be difficult, especially the first year. What is your role
as a student and how can your advisor help you succeed? Come
to this session to find out how to navigate through the “maze” of college life
and get tips on how to make the most of your college years.
10
Ways to Blow your First Year. OSU-Lima Academic Advisors, October 20, 12:30,
Adjusting
to college can be difficult, especially the first year. What is your role
as a student and how can your advisor help you succeed? Come
to this session to find out how to navigate through the “maze” of college life
and get tips on how to make the most of your college years.
Quelque Chose, November 2, Reed 160 12:30 (Greg Kostraba, pianist; Robert
Garcia, horn; Rico McNeela, violin)
Quelque Chose is "something" distinctive - an ensemble dedicated to
performing familiar works for violin, horn, and piano, exploring the unfamiliar
by-ways of the repertoire, and presenting arrangements of music by American
composers. As the Toledo Blade noted about our debut performance, Quelque Chose
weaved "their distinctive sounds to create a shimmering musical
fabric."
The members of Quelque Chose, veterans of music festivals and performance
venues across the country, blend their individual musical idioms to create
concerts hailed as "lively and enlightening."
Margaret Peterson Haddix (author), November 5, Science 100, 12:30; Lima
Public Library, 4 p.m.
Margaret Peterson Haddix has since written more than 20 books for kids and
teens, including Running Out of Time; Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey;
Leaving Fishers; Just Ella; Turnabout; Takeoffs and Landings; The Girl with 500
Middle Names; Because of Anya; Escape from Memory; Say What?; The House on the
Gulf; Double Identity; Dexter the Tough; Uprising; Palace of Mirrors; the
Shadow Children series; and Found, which is the first book in a new series, The
Missing. Her books have been honored with the International Reading
Association’s Children’s Book Award; American Library Association Best Book and
Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers notations; and more than a dozen
state reader’s choice awards.
Film: Alive Day
Memories: Home from Iraq, November 10, Times and location TBA in The
Communicator.
Both tragic and
profoundly uplifting, Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq is a series of
interviews with ten Iraq war veterans who have lost limbs, been blinded, been
brain-damaged, or suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. This documentary
is only an hour long, but in that hour it unveils a range of emotion that a
four-hour fictional movie could only begin to explore. The interviews,
conducted by James Gandolfini (The Sopranos), capture these soldiers'
resolve, their humor, their regrets, their passion for life, and much, much
more. In addition, video footage taken by soldiers (and some released by
insurgent forces) reveals the terrifying unpredictability of combat. Alive
Day Memories: Home From Iraq is scrupulously nonpartisan; at no moment are
there comments either for or against the war in Iraq.
--Bret Fetzer
See
the youtube preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mstpgpe070U
Deter-Detect-Defend.
Identity Theft. Mr. Gary Minnick of First Federal Bank, November 17, GA 326,
12:30.
A
discussion about how to deter identity thieves by safeguarding your
information, how to detect suspicious activity by routinely monitoring your
financial accounts and how to defend against identity theft as soon as you
suspect it.
To attend any of the above, go to limabuckeyes.osu.edu event registration site and enter the Access Code for the desired presentation.
