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Enrollment Information Sessions Begin for EVSC’s Early College High School

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An information session is planned for the EVSC’s Early College High School on Saturday, Oct. 15 at Ivy Tech Community College at 10a.m. in Rooms 101 and 102. These sessions target this year’s eighth grade class – next year’s freshmen – at any school in the area. Partners include Ivy Tech, Vincennes University and the University of Evansville.

Students in Early College can earn up to 60 hours of college credit while simultaneously earning their high school diploma. Students will spend part of their school day at Ivy Tech’s campus and part at their home high school. During the junior year, students will choose degree pathways offered by Vincennes University and Ivy Tech. Students also may enroll in select courses at the University of Evansville.

Study options offered include:
Exercise Science
Pre-Engineering
Health Science
Computer Science
General Studies
Criminal Justice
Accounting
Information Technology
Advanced Manufacturing

Berger Lecture topic is the Obama era and competing visions of America

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Dr. Carolyn Calloway-Thomas, professor and director of the Preparing Future Faculty Program at Indiana University, will present the 2011 College of Liberal Arts Berger Lecture, “A Clash of Cultures? The Era of President Obama and Competing Visions of America,” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, October 26, in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center.

Calloway-Thomas, who is a member of the IU Department of Communication and Culture, will talk about “combative political comments that strike at the heart of discourses on contested issues such as immigration, culture, race, and ideology and whether such disturbing events are civic aberrations or if they are emblematic of a deeper fissure between two competing visions of America – cosmopolitanism and provincialism,”according to Dr. Gael L. Cooper, professor of public relations.

Calloway-Thomas is president of the Bloomington Faculty Council and was recently elected president of the World Communication Association. She is the author of Empathy in the Global World: An Intercultural Perspective (Sage Publications, 2010) and coauthor of Intercultural Communication: a Text with Readings (Allyn & Bacon, 2007) and Intercultural Communication: Roots and Routes (Allyn & Bacon, 1999), as well as co-editor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Sermonic Power of Public Discourse (University Alabama Press, 1993).

Her teaching and research areas are intercultural communication, public dialogue, civic engagement, pedagogy, and communication in Black America. In 2007, she was invited to participate in the Oxford Round Table conference on diversity and public policy at Oxford University in England. Her national awards include a Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship a Fulbright scholarship to Nigeria, West Africa a Carnegie scholarship the National Communication Association’s Robert J. Kibler Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Grambling State University. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Grambling College, master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, and Ph.D. from Indiana University.

The Berger Lecture Series remembers and honors Sydney Berger, who was one of Evansville most respected attorneys. He worked with local labor and civil rights organizations and taught at USI for nearly two decades. The College of Liberal Arts celebrates the values he cherished by having a speaker each year speak on the theme of civil rights or civil liberties. The lecture is generously underwritten by Charles L. and Leslie A. Berger.

Source: USI.edu

UE Earns Top Honors in GreenOVATION Awards for Sustainability and Beautification

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Has your institution planted new trees in the last year? Do you run an in-house recycling program that includes paper, plastic, aluminum, cardboard, and other materials? Are outdoor areas kept clear of weeds and litter? Do you hold a LEED certification?

By answering “yes” to these questions and others, the University of Evansville landed in the top-scoring category of the GreenOVATION Awards for Beautiful and Sustainable Businesses, sponsored by Keep Evansville Beautiful and the Evansville Business Journal.

The awards honor area companies and institutions for their achievements in beautification and conservation. To apply, organizations completed a survey about their attributes and practices. Based on their scores, they were placed in one of three categories: Excellence Award (earning 90 percent of possible points), Merit Award (75 percent), and Endeavor Award (60 percent).

“These are truly progressive and assertive leaders in conservation and sustainability,” said Cheryl Martin, Evansville Business Journal editor, as she presented the Excellence Awards today at Keep Evansville Beautiful’s annual award luncheon. “They are the pacesetters we can model our efforts after.”

UE also scored in the top category in 2010, the first year for the GreenOVATION Awards. The University earned points for assets such as an extensive recycling program, two LEED-certified buildings (the Schroeder Family School of Business Administration and the Ridgway University Center), and an attractively landscaped campus.

Source: USI.edu

IS IT TRUE? October 14, 2011

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The Mole #??

IS IT TRUE? October 14, 2011

IS IT TRUE that we have at this point been advised by every single member of the Evansville City Council that they were not aware at their meeting Monday night 6 hours later the public notice of a prehearing at the Indiana Utilities Regulatory Commission for a fee increase for Vectren’s installation of dense pack technology would be published?…that it merits repeating that NO MEMBER of the EVANSVILLE CITY COUNCIL whether they met privately with Vectren or not was aware of the forthcoming publication?…that for any members of the City Council who did meet with Vectren to be without such information really raises a red flag?…that the date of an upcoming official hearing regarding a fee increase would most certainly be material information to any elected official?…that we wonder if Vectren’s October 24th date with the City Council would have been delayed if it was known that a fee increase hearing was already scheduled for the 25th?

IS IT TRUE that a barrage of emails and a phone call just answered the last question?…that if the members of the Evansville City Council had known last Monday night that there would be an announcement of a fee increase hearing for October 25th that the October 24th date at the City Council for Vectren WOULD ABSOLUTELY NOT HAVE BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION?…that we were encouraged to hear that public policy would have trumped perceived political opportunism?…that the Evansville City Council got rolled, bambozzled, tricked, or whatever else one wishes to call it?…that this issue may just come up again next Monday?

IS IT TRUE that we also would like to correct a piece of incorrect information that we published from a historically reliable source?…that Councilman Curt John did not meet behind closed doors with Vectren but he will be signing Councilman John Friend’s petition?…that is three whacks for our incorrect Mole?

IS IT TRUE that the week has been filled with free political entertainment that is just priceless?…that when the City County Observer christened the last days of the campaign as 40 Days of Hell that we had no idea just how much hell would be raised or from where it would be coming?…that there are only 25 Days of Hell left and we can hardly wait to see what can top “Floatgate”?…that we are completely in tune to the two candidates for Mayor of Evansville accusing each other of being cogs in “The Machine”?…that yesterday a most appropriate and timely manuscript from a local author J. C. Kerlin called “It Seems to Me” that was written in 1973 when Watergate was just rocking the country was made available to the City County Observer?…that the text of this manuscript make it very clear just when “The Machine” in Evansville came to power and how?…that the tactics described in this manuscript are still being used and the powers enjoyed by the latest inheritors of “The Machine”?

IS IT TRUE that Evansville has had a Machine in charge of local politics since before most everyone here now was born?…that the Machine is so much a part of life that most people either do not recognize it for what it is or are so comfortable with it that they accept the burdens that “The Machine” places on the back of the community?…that we hope that all of our readers will consume the contents of this manuscript, elevate their awareness of how things are done in Evansville, and will resolve to destroy “The Machine” over the course of the next decade?…that this is a treasure to read so take your time?

https://city-countyobserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/J.C._Kerlin_Transcript.pdf

“FloatGate” Approved for Publication in Urban Dictionary

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Democratic Parade Float

This morning the City County Observer submitted the term “FloatGate” for consideration to be included in the online dictionary called Urban Dictionary. This afternoon we received notification that this word will be joining Snegal (sneaky but legal) as the second word that has been formed as a result of the CCO reporting on the antics of politics in Evansville.

The approved definition and example are as follows

FloatGate: An orchestrated political event created when a prominent political leader is removed from a float in a parade conspicuously so as to cause embarrassment for a candidate for office.

Example: When the policeman called for a warrant to be served on a local democratic official during a parade at the time that the official was on a float, his public handcuffing attracted enough media attention that it became known as FloatGate.

EPD Makes Arrest for South Kerth Meth Lab

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NEWS RELEASE

Type of Release: SOUTH KERTH METH LAB ARREST
Date of Release: October 13, 2011
Approving Supervisor: Rob Hahn, Assistant Chief of Police

Summary

On October 11th, Ryan Galloway was arrested for Class B Felony Manufacturing Methamphetamine. Galloway gave a home address of 1716 S. Kerth which is owned by his grandmother. On October 12th, the grandmother called the police for a “standby” so officers could check her rental home at 1716 S. Kerth, since her grandson had been living there. Uniform officers observed several items associated with the manufacturing of meth inside the home. Members from the Meth Suppression Unit and JTF responded to the scene. Over 100 “one pot” meth labs were recovered inside the house. EPD Crime Scene, Evansville Fire and ISP Meth Suppression were also called to the scene which lasted several hours to pull items safely out of the house. The Health Department also tagged the residence as uninhabitable. Ryan Galloway will be charged with a second count of Manufacturing Methamphetamine.

IS IT TRUE? October 13, 2011 What the CCO Polls Indicate

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IS IT TRUE? October 13, 2011 What the CCO Polls Indicate

IS IT TRUE that the poll being run today indicates and has indicated since we put it up that about 5% more people believe that Lloyd Winnecke won last night’s mayoral debate?…that if that is an indication of the outcome of a general election that the margin would be 52.5% to 47.5% in favor of Mr. Winnecke?…that we are certain that the margin of error for our non-scientific poll is greater than 5% and that the election is still too close to call?

IS IT TRUE that yesterday’s poll titled “The real story behind the FloatGate handcuffing of Alex Jarvis is…” drew a lot of opinions?…that of the opinions offered the leading vote getter was that the Democratic Central Committee did some dirty tricks followed closely by the Davis campaign did some dirty tricks?…that about half that amount thought the police were just doing their job, and a few attributed it to the planets aligning against Mr. Jarvis?…that the only things we are sure of about FloatGate is that a puppetmaster was involved and that the Vanderburgh County Democrats turn into the Hatfields and McCoys when they eat Fall Festival food?…that we can’t wait till next year?

IS IT TRUE that the voters in our polls are so fed up with the delays and incompetence exhibited in trying to Vet the two bidders to do the downtown Convention Hotel that they voted by a 50% margin to just let the next Mayor of Evansville do this because the decisions of the current Mayor have yielded negative and embarrassing results?

IS IT TRUE that our voters reject the concept of putting an indoor tennis center in Wesselman Park by a 3 to 1 majority?

IS IT TRUE that our voters by a 20 to 1 margin support a petition to attempt to force the Indiana Utilities Regulatory Commission to hold any hearings that involve a Vectren rate increase in Evansville?

IS IT TRUE that our voters by a 90 to 1 margin support Councilmen John Friend and Dan McGinn’s efforts to get full public disclosure of the legal bills of the City of Evansville?…that this is the largest majority that we have ever seen in any poll that the CCO has conducted?…that this indicates that our readers are four times more upset about the lack of transparency in the legal expenses of the City of Evansville than they are with a Vectren rate increase?

IS IT TRUE that in our last recent poll and the one that has drawn the most votes that an overwhelming percentage of the voters (66%) think that both Lloyd Winnecke and Mayor Weinzapfel are being less than honest regarding what really happened with the secret meeting where the Homestead Tax Credit was indeed taken away?…that in Mr. Winnecke’s defense his was deemed to be honest by a 4 to 1 majority over the number of voters who expressed the opinion that Mayor Weinzapfel was being honest?…that every time this comes up that a little more information comes out and it is finally becoming clear?…that we have had several messages stating that they think that Mr. Winnecke and the other Republicans in the meeting really did get bamboozled by the all Democratic contingency from the Evansville City Council led by Mayor Weinzapfel?…that like FloatGate and BoothGate we may never really know for sure?

Debate Smeagle Style: Dissintigration from Within

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Local Student Veteran Organizations Collaborate for First Annual Vets Day 5K

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Student veteran organizations at the University of Evansville, University of Southern Indiana, and Ivy Tech Community College are proud to announce the first annual Vets Day 5K Walk, Run, Roll on Sunday, November 13 at 8:00 a.m.

The Vets Day 5K, a chip-timed race held during UE’s annual Homecoming weekend, will start and finish at the USS LST Ship Memorial grounds at 1801 Waterworks Road. The race route follows the Downtown riverfront, passes war memorials, and continues down the riverfront corridor of the greenway. Back at the LST 325, participants will gather for race results, awards, and a family festival with live music and food.

Race proceeds will benefit Lucas Place II, which provides housing and support services for homeless veterans with disabilities in Vanderburgh County.

All pre-registered participants receive a Vets Day 5K long-sleeve shirt, water and snacks, and discounted LST tickets (available for $8 each). Advance registration before November 1 is $20. Registration after November 1, including race day, is $25.

Source: evansville.edu

Arts Council Exhibition – Call for Entries

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Click here to download the digitized brochure from the Arts Council Call for Entries

Awards
Best of Show: $500
1st Place: $300
2nd Place: $150
3rd Place: $100

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