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This list evolves as events are announced, movies premier in the theaters, and
contest rules are published!!!! Bring your own ideas to class. Check back
often. See below for examples from past years.
An extra credit raises your lowest semester grade by one unit (using
Creighton's grading scheme). For example, if you are a really awful
"journaller" and you have a D for the first journal grade, an extra credit would
raise that to a C. If your lowest grade is a C, it would be raised to a
C+.
Fall 2003
"When the Bough Broke – Continuing
the Journey with Parents of High-risk Newborns".
Speaker:
Winifred J. Ellenchild Pinch, EdD
Professor, School of Nursing, and Center for Health Policy and Ethics |
14th Annual Women and Health Lecture
Wednesday,
September 3, 2003
6:30 pm Reception, 7:00 – 9:00 pm Lecture
Creighton University Skutt Student Center Ballroom |
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Dean's
Honor Roll for Social Responsibility |
Students who focus their service hours for the Dean's Honor
Roll for Social Responsibility on work based on a problem area studied in
this course can submit a written reflection on the experience. This
written reflection should be separate and distinct from any other
requirements in the Dean's Honor Roll (or any other courses that might
provide a similar extra credit opportunity!) and should address how the
experience has affected the student's understanding of course topics.
Deadline for submittal is December 1, 2003. |
| Samples from past winners, full maps available at the site
linked in the cell to the right.
 
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MAPPING/CARTOGRAPHY
CONTESTS: Submit a work based on a topic in this
course
AMERICAN CONGRESS ON SURVEYING AND MAPPING (ACSM)
Application
deadline is January
15, 2004.
Deadline for this class is
December 1.
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS
Entries must be postmarked by
February 12, 2004. Deadline for
this class is December 1
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[image is live linked]
Awards...
First Prize $5000 Second Prize $2500 Third Prize
$1500
Honorable Mention (2) $500 |
The Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay
Contest is an annual competition that is designed to challenge college
students to analyze the urgent ethical issues confronting them in today's
complex world. Students are encouraged to write thought-provoking, personal
essays. Deadline for submittal to the Foundation is December 2, 2002. Deadline for
using it in this class is
November 10, 2003. I can only sponsor four
students, so the four best essays will be submitted to the competition, but
anyone who tries will get extra credit or presentation credit if you also use
it for your presentation to the class.
Guidelines |
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5th Annual
Essay Contest on Ayn Rand’s Novel
ATLAS
SHRUGGED
For College Students
Entry Deadline:
September 16, 2003
First Prize: $5,000 Cash
Award
3 Second Prizes: $1,000 Cash Awards
5 Third Prizes: $400 Cash Awards
20 Finalist Prizes: $100 cash awards
20 Semifinalist Prizes: $50 cash awards |
Fall 2002
| "Whose Life is It Anyway?"
Lied Education Center for the Arts, Main Stage |
See review in Creightonian, October
4, 2002
Oct. 4 and 5: 7:30 p.m.; Oct 6: 2:00
p.m. |
Welfare reform goes under the microscope
Free public events. 3:30 p.m., Nebraska Union, 1400 R Street,
Lincoln. For more information, call (402) 472-9330.
Series is sponsored by the NU Family Research and Policy Initiative in
cooperation with the Center on Children, Families, and the Law, and the
university departments of sociology, psychology, and communications
studies.
What have been the effects of welfare reform, and how
are low-income children and their families faring since the government's
massive overhaul of welfare policies six years ago? Four researchers
will attempt to answer those questions during a series of lectures
starting Monday at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. |
Monday, Sep 30:
"Helping Families and Children Maintain a Meaningful Daily
Routine: Evidence from the New Hope Experimental Intervention for
Working Poor Families". Thomas Weisner, professor of
anthropology and psychiatry, UCLA.
Monday, Nov. 11: "The Impact of
Maternal Welfare and Employment Transitions on Children's
Well-Being: A Look at Family Process". Rebekah Levine
Coley, assistant professor of applied developmental and educational
psychology, Boston College. This lecture may be scheduled for
2:30 p.m. Call ahead to make sure of the time.
Monday, Nov. 25: "Parent, Student, and
Worker: The Multiple Roles of Low-Income Teen-age Mothers after
Welfare Reform". Ariel Kalil, assistant professor, Harris
School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago.
Monday, Dec. 2: "Do Effects of Welfare
Policies on Children Differ by Race/Ethnicity?" Hirokazu
Yoshikawa, assistant professor of psychology at New York
University. |
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The Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay
Contest is an annual competition that is designed to challenge college
students to analyze the urgent ethical issues confronting them in today's
complex world. Students are encouraged to write thought-provoking, personal
essays. Deadline for submittal is December 2, 2002. Deadline for
using it in this class is November 15. I can only sponsor four
students, so the four best essays will be submitted to the competition, but
anyone who tries will get extra credit and/or presentation credit if you use
if for your presentation to the class. |
| Tuesday, August 27, Creighton
University Medical Center, Becic Dining Room
8:30-11:30 a.m.--2 panels
8:30-10:00 rural health care, health care professional
shortage,
10:10-11:30 Medicare and prescription drugs, and factors
contributing to the rising cost of health care
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U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., will hold a Health Care Forum to discuss
challenges in the health care industry and receive input from health care
professionals across the state. The forum will be held in the Becic
Dining Room of the hospital at Creighton University Medical Center
Tuesday, August 27 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Representatives from across the health care spectrum, and across Nebraska,
will serve as panelists, including experts in rural health, hospital
administration, nursing, medicine, pharmacy, long-term care,
pharmaceuticals, insurance, and HMOs. |
Wednesday, September 4, 2002, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Reception 6:30 - 7:00
Creighton University Skutt Student Center Ballroom
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13th Annual Women and Health Lecture
"In Praise of Enduring Relationships with People with
Alzheimer's Disease", Steven R. Sabat, PhD
Center for Health Policy and Ethics,
Creighton University; free and open to the public
For additional information call 402.280.2646 |
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4th
Annual Essay
Contest on Ayn Rand’s Novel
ATLAS SHRUGGED
For College Students
Entry Deadline: September 16, 2002
First Prize: $5,000 Cash Award
Second Prize: $1,000 Cash Awards--3
Third Prize: $400 Cash Award--5 |
| http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/caward/
Association of American Geographers
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Here's a chance to win $1,200! You could create a map to illustrate some
particular statistic or issue. Do it individually, or do it for your team
presentation,
if you like. Your application package, presented at least in rough draft form before
the end the semester, counts for extra credit. |
2001
Fall, 2001
Thursday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Skutt Student
Center Ballroom.
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Former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador and Paraguay Robert
E. White will present the 8th annual Markoe-DePorres Social Justice Lecture. Now
president of the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C., White will speak on
"From Central American to Colombia: U.S. Intervention from the Cold War to the Drug
War." The lecture is sponsored by the Justice & Peace Studies Program and the
College of Arts & Sciences and co-sponsored by University Ministry and St. John's
Church in honor of the 12th anniversary, on Nov. 16, of the deaths of the Jesuit martyrs
of the University of Central America in El Salvador. For more information, contact Roger
Bergman at x1492 or rbjps@creighton.edu. |
| October 22-October 26 |
Stop Domestic Violence Week
Activities on campus: Silent Witnesses, life-sized
red cut-outs of victims of domestic violence and their stories, displayed
in various locations across campus. *Purple ribbons tied around trees
lining the Mall to acknowledge intimate violence. *Information table at
the Student Center fireplace throughout the week will provide purple
ribbons to be worn for domestic violence awareness, schedules of the
week's events, and resources and information regarding various forms of
intimate violence.
MONDAY Clothesline Project, T-shirt display for victims of
intimate violence, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Skutt Student Center, Fishbowl, and
Campus Mall. Create a shirt, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Student Center, Room 104.
Soup Luncheon Series, TUESDAY, "Encouraging Respectful
Dating," 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Skutt Student Center, Room
104. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 24 "How to Help if You Suspect Intimate
Violence," 11:30-12:30 p.m., Student Center 104; THURSDAY "It
Did Happen to Me," 11:30-12:30 p.m., Student Center 104; presented by
Jeanne Restituto, CU student;
WEDNESDAY Special Event--"The Yellow Dress, " 7:00 p.m.- 8:30
p.m., Student Center Ballroom: A 30-minute one-act live enactment of a
true story about dating violence in an intimate relationship, followed by
a panel discussion. Co-sponsored by Creighton Students Union.
THURSDAY Roundtable Discussion--"Conversations About Practices at
Creighton University," 7:00 p.m., Student Center 104; hosted by the
Creighton Women's Resource Center
FRIDAY, OCT. 26 Prayer Service: "Stopping Intimate Violence,"
1:30-2:30 p.m., Martyr's Chapel of St. John's Church |
Sep 21, 7:45 a.m. to noon
The
Impact of Domestic Violence on the WorkplaceBREAKFAST
INCLUDED; FREE, but call to make a reservation 398-9928 or email dvcc@mitec.net
Park Inn Regency Lodge
909 S. 107th
I-680 and Pacific
For an extra credit grade, attend and write up a short (1 or 2 pages) reaction paper.
This can also go into your journal.
Sponsored by the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council. |
Seminar (INCLUDES BREAKFAST!) focuses on Financial Effects of Domestic Violence on
businesses. Consider the following:
* In Douglas County, NE, there are over 900 offenders on probation for domestic
violence crimes.
* Homicide is the leading cause of death of women in the workplace.
* Partners and boyfriends commit 13,000 acts of violence against women IN THE
WORKPLACE every year.
* Medical expenses from domestic violence total at least $10 billion/year.
Another $100 million is lost by businesses due to sick leave, absenteeism, and
non-productivity.
* 25% of domestic violence survivors have lost jobs as a direct result of their d.v.
problems.
* 96% of employed battered women state that they experience problems at work due to
their abusive situation.
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ISI's National Student Essay Contest
Essays will consider the relationship between entrepreneurial principles and the
alleviation of poverty.
The focus of the essay is the question, "does free enterprise help the poor?"
Submissions will be
judged on the basis of originality, grasp of subject, and scholarship.
Total of $25,000 in prizes
December 15, 2000 deadline
Details at http://www.isi.org/programs/essay/index.html |
| Cast a faith-filled vote! "Catholic
Perspectives on Election 2000," a conference on October 20October 20th-21st(6:30-9pm and 8:30am-12:30pm) at Creighton
University’s Rigge Science Lecture Hall. Dan Misleh from the United States
Catholic Conference Office of Social Development and World Peace will examine issues and
platforms in light of Catholic Social Teaching. Local panelists will respond and
offer workshops on the following: The Economy, Agriculture/Environment, Health Care, Death
Penalty/Life Issues, Labor and Immigration. Voter education materials will be available.
Register by email to swrayorf@creighton.edu. A $5 donation at the door is suggested. Flyers are
available at the Creighton Center for Service and Justice, KFC #201. For more information,
call The Office of Religious Formation at 554-8493. Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Social
Ministry Commission, The Creighton Center for Service and Justice, Catholic Charities and
the Office of Religious Formation. |
| Hispanic Awareness Month Event: "Lessons from
the Class Struggle", 1998, 46 minutes. The film, "Lessons from the Class Struggle," will be shown Wednesday,
Sept. 6, at 3:30 p.m. in the Reinert Alumni Library, Union Pacific Room. Directed
by Kathleen Foster, this 1998 film (Third World NewsReel) documents the struggle to save
public schools in New York from budget cuts and how that struggle brought African American
and Caribbean blacks together with Latinos and others. Parents, teachers and students
carry out militant protests against the attack on schools, increased police brutality and
other racist actions. This movie looks into the education crisis and its causes with
unusual depth and a radical perspective. For more information, call x2469. Cosponsored by
the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the University of Nebraska Latina/o-Chicana/o
Studies Program. |
Here's a chance to win $1,200! You could create a map to illustrate some
particular statistic or issue. Do it individually, or do it for your team project,
if you like. Your application package, presented at least in rough draft form before
the end the semester, counts for extra credit. Application deadline is January 19,
2001. |
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2nd Annual Essay
Contest on Ayn Rand’s Novel
ATLAS SHRUGGED
For Graduate and Undergraduate Business Students
Entry Deadline: February 15, 2000
First Prize: $5,000 Cash Award
Second Prize: $3,000 Cash Award
Third Prize: $1,000 Cash AwardIf you are interested in participating, a rough draft of
your essay by the last day of class will qualify for an extra credit. |
| Regular participation in the class
Discussion Group on this web site. |
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Milo Mumgaard, executive director of the Appleseed Center for Law in the Public
Interest. Mumgaard will be discussing the effects of welfare reform
in Nebraska. Wednesday, Sept. 22, from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Skutt
Student Center, Room 104. The Student Organization of Social Workers (SOS) is
sponsoring the Lifeline Series on Social Issues, six luncheon presentations about social
welfare programs and policies. Bring your lunch Faculty, students and staff are encouraged
to attend. You may write a reaction to this Lecture (which, by the way,
should go into your journal in addition to being turned in for extra credit) or respond on
the discussion web. |
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Women
and Health Lecture:
Thursday, Sep 9, 1999, 7-9 p.m. Skutt Student Center. The Center for Health Policy
and Ethics will present the 10th Annual Lecture. Reception at 6:30 p.m. State
Senator Deborah S. Suttle will speak on the Unicameral effort to create a department for
women's health. Lecture is free and open to the public. You may write
a reaction to this Lecture (which, by the way, should go into your journal in addition to
being turned in for extra credit) or respond on the discussion web. |
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The
Farmer's Wife: 6 1/2 hour PBS special highlighting the problems of
rural poverty. You may write a reaction to this series. Be sure to put it in
your journal. |
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"One True
Thing": movie depicting the issues involved when a parent is sick and
adult children are asked to return home to care for the sick parent. You may write a
reaction. Be sure to put it in your journal. |
Citizen's Forum: 5 states nonpartisan forum sponsored by Americans
Discuss Social Security. The teleconference will include 600 citizens. To
register, call (888)470-2377 or (402)475-0727
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First Annual
Essay Competition for Business Students Go to the Ayn Rand Institute
Contest site to see the rules of the game. If you are interested in participating, a
rough draft of your essay by the last day of class will qualify for an extra credit.
THERE ARE SOME GREAT $$$$ PRIZES! |
White House Conference on Social Security Reform: Teleconference
and local forum, Skutt Student Center, Tuesday, December 8, 1998, 8:30-11:30 a.m. |
