The Office of Housing and Residence Life is hosting a showing of the documentary film “KONY 2012” at 9 p.m. Monday, April 9, in Forum I in the Wright Administration Building.

Invisible Children is a youth-based organization trying to put an end to a decades-long conflict in Central Africa where a rebel army has been attacking innocent civilians and abducting children.

There also will be a question and answer period with the Invisible Children Roadies and a Ugandan who has first-hand experience with the organization.

The event is free and open to the public. Donations will be accepted and there will be merchandise available for purchase. Refreshments will be served.

For the University of Evansville’s third annual Ethics Lecture, Melissa Snarr, associate dean and associate professor of ethics and society at Vanderbilt Divinity School, will present “Jesus was a Low Wage Worker: Religious Activism for Living Wages.”

Snarr will speak at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 3 in Vectren Lecture Hall (Room 100, Koch Center for Engineering and Science). Her lecture is free and open to the public.

In 1994, a coalition of Baltimore churches initiated a campaign that would change the face of worker justice organizing in the United States. Since then, over 150 cities have passed living wage ordinances in an effort to counter the growing phenomenon of “working poverty.”

“Religious activists have offered important resources to this successful movement through their ethical framing, racial bridge-building, and ritualized protests,” Snarr said. “This lecture will explore lessons — both positive and negative — from the activism of people of faith in the movement.”

Snarr focuses her work on the intersection of religion, social change, and political ethics. Her most recent book, All You That Labor: Religion and Ethics in the Living Wage Movement (NYU Press, 2011), draws on extensive participant observation to analyze and evaluate the contributions of religious activists in the living wage movement. Snarr is also the author of Social Selves and Political Reforms (Continuum, 2007) and several articles in the area of feminist ethics. Her current research projects center on Protestant resources for unionization, as well as an analysis of interfaith organizing as a peace-building practice.

The Ethics Lecture Series, sponsored by UE’s Department of Philosophy and Religion, brings ethicists from both religious and philosophical backgrounds to explore questions of value, justice, responsibility, and meaning in the realm of human conduct and the moral life.

“Lecturers examine significant ethical issues in the contemporary world and ways in which moral reflection might be brought to bear on them,” said Dianne Oliver, chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion and associate professor of religion. “The series is intended to bring focus to the study and practice of ethics among our students and the larger community.”

Previous Ethics Lecture topics have included ethical eating and ethical considerations of faith and politics.

EPD Activity Report March 26, 2012

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Mayor Lloyd Winnecke will deliver his first State of the City address on Tuesday, March 27, at noon at the Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Coliseum, 300 Court Street, during the monthly meeting of the Downtown Evansville Rotary Club.

Following his speech to the Rotary Club, Mayor Winnecke will visit the Koch Family Children’s Museum of Evansville (cMOE), 22 S.E. Fifth Street, at 1 p.m. for a Bicentennial Birthday Party and Cake Cutting Ceremony. He will be joined by former Evansville Mayor’s Jonathan Weinzapfel, Russell Lloyd, Jr., Frank McDonald, II, and Michael Vandeveer.

The Bicentennial events will continue at 4:30 p.m. with the official Evansville Bicentennial Birthday Celebration at the Old Post Office Building, 101 N.W. First Street. At approximately 5:30 p.m., Mayor Winnecke will read a proclamation commemorating Evansville’s 200th birthday on March 27, 2012.

After graduating from Innovation Pointe, a small business incubator managed by the Growth Alliance for Greater Evansville, AnalyCIS now has their own location at 5200 Washington Avenue where they employ nine people.

With its name being a combination of “analysis” and “Computer Information Systems (CIS),” their mission is “to provide agile, customer centric, platform/vendor neutral, and effective professional technology answers for the modern user.”

The Limited Liability Company is owned and managed by Martin E. Richey. His credentials include a MS in Computer Information Systems from Missouri State University; a Post Baccalaureate Certificate of Computer Information Systems from the University of Southern Indiana; and a Baccalaureate of Liberal Arts from Ambassador University. He has extensive technical experience as a network engineer, programmer, technical project manager, and professor. After holding several senior management positions, Marty is passionate about making advanced technology accessible to users.

AnalyCIS has many local customers in several states, including for profit customers, as well as non‐profit state, county, and city governments. Recently, AnalyCIS was awarded a defense contract with the United States Navy.

The Evansville City Council took an unprecedented step in voting to provide a $4.8 Million loan to a start up company from Houston, TX to manufacture a gas pressure step down device that they have a license for in the old Whirlpool Building. The City will also be covering two years rent for Earthcare.

The hotly contested vote was taken after a vote to forcefully extract the bill from the Finance Committee whose chairman Councilman John Friend was opposed to going forward due to the fact that many of the questions asked regarding the financial plan had not been answered and because no real world technical testing was presented.

Ken Haney of Earthcare testified before the council that he had orders from all over the world coming in and that they are on the cusp of getting a multi-billion deal in New York. No details of any orders were submitted. Mr. Haney also testified that Earthcare had been turned down for loans at 6 or 7 banks but provided no documentation with respect to why.

Councilman Conor O’Daniel voted to support the loan after giving every indication that he was against doing so and asking many articulate questions for which no answers were offered.

Other Council members voting for the loan package were President Connie Robinson, Councilwoman Missy Mosby, Councilman Johnathan Weaver, and Councilman H. Dan Adams who has an MBA from Washington University.

Council members Dan McGinn, Stephanie Brinkerhoff-Riley, John Friend, and Al Lindsey all voted against the loan. And so begins the saga of the City of Evansville’s foray into the world of investment banking. The $4.8 Million loan has no collateral associated with it.