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Lt. Governor Murray and President Ashley Recognize Worcester High School Students At Civic Camp **In response to suggestions from the campus community, the WSC e-news will now be published on Mondays. The submissions deadline will continue to be every Wednesday morning by 9 a.m.** Local Charities Thank Student Government Association for Donations WSC & QCC Attend Latino Student Leadership Conference Bringing H.E.L.P. to WSC Student Leaders Thai Professor Observes WSC Classes During Month-Long U.S. Visit Sarah Sharbach Memorial Lecture Discusses the Zapatista Movement
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Students Support 'Day of Silence'
Stephen A. Morreale (Criminal Justice) presented to doctoral students of pharmacy (PharmD) at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Nearly 150 students from both the Worcester and Manchester, NH campuses were in attendance. The focus of the lecture was on the regulatory, enforcement and healthcare oversight climate in healthcare and pharmacy operations. The discussion centered on fraud, waste and abuse and was intended to help students detect and prevent such occurrences. Erika Sidor (Public Relations & Marketing) exhibited two photographs in the Turn on a Dime exhibition at the Nave Gallery in Somerville, MA. The opening reception will take place on Friday, May 2 from 6 - 8 p.m. For more information visit www.ARTSomerville.org. An essay titled, Neo-Baroque Spectacle and the Female Body in the Work of Jenny Saville, Lisa Yuskavage, and John Currin by Catherine Wilcox-Titus (Visual and Performing Arts), has been published in a collection of essays Baroque Tendencies in Contemporary Art, edited by Dr. Kelly Wacker, and published by Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008. Janice
Yee (Economics) and professors from Wartburg College (Waverly, IA) recently
published an article, "Social Capital and Economic Development: The
Case for One Small Community," in the National Social Science Journal
Local Charities Thank Worcester State College Student Government Association for Donations Representatives from three local charitable organizations thanked the Worcester State College Student Government Association (SGA) for donations from its 17th annual Auction at a ceremony in the Student Center Blue Lounge Thursday, April 24. The SGA presented checks to the organizations totaling $20,622.67. Representatives from the Mustard Seed Foundation,
which provides food and emergency services for the citys homeless; Abbys
House, a local shelter for homeless women and Sherrys House, a place for
Central New England families of children with cancer thanked the SGA and
explained ways the money will Vice President of Student Services Dr. Sibyl Brownlee reported that the SGA has contributed over $140,000 in proceeds to those in need since the auction began 17 years ago. The SGA auction is the most highly organized event I have ever seen on our campus, she said. The cataloging of items alone takes hundreds of hours."
SGA is a student run government organization at Worcester State College that serves as a delegate for the entire population of undergraduate students. SGA serves as the primary advocate of students rights and is involved with forming the College policy.
Students and Administrators from WSC & QCC Unite for Latino Student Leadership Conference
The Department of Multicultural Affairs
recently provided the opportunity for WSC students, the Latino Education
Institute and members of Quinsigamond Community College to attend the New
England Latino Student Leadership
The purpose of the New England Latino Student Leadership conference is to initiate and encourage connections between Latino student college leaders within the New England region.
This year's conference showcased practical as well as progressive approaches within the field of leadership development via workshop sessions and panel discussions. This conference successfully lead the best opportunities to network and initiate lifelong connections among some of the most talented and inspired student leaders in the Northeast. With attendees totaling over 300 from all over New England, the conference overflowed with energy.
Bringing H.E.L.P. to WSC Student Leaders Helping Emerging Leaders Progress (H.E.L.P) is a six-week interactive workshop sponsored by the Student Activities Office. It is designed to expose students, who have been identified as having leadership potential to a variety of different topics that will assist them both in and out of the classroom. This spring has been the most successful year of H.E.L.P to date. With over 130 nominations submitted by various faculty and staff members, there were 37 students who successfully completed the program. Sarah Forti, assistant director of Student Activities and the coordinator of this program, attributes the success to the new track system that was implemented this year. The track system works by offering the program on both Wednesdays and Thursdays so that the students have a little more flexibility with their schedules. The workshop also received a lot of positive feedback with comments such as, this was very useful and important to have in the work world. The Student Activities Office looks forward to another successful workshop next spring. If you'd like more information on the program, contact Sarah Forti at ext. 8672.
Pornprom Chaichatpornsuk looked up from her plate in the upstairs cafeteria on Thursday and pronounced her lunch, Very delicious. She's become a fan of Chartwells during her month-long visit to Worcester State. The associate director for administration of the demonstration secondary school at Chulalongkorn University, she has spent the month of April visiting middle and high schools in Central Massachusetts, observing education and science classes at Worcester State, talking with faculty about education philosophies and practices, and visiting the Pipeline Program at University of Massachusetts Medical School. Chulalongkorn, in the heart of Bangkok, is the highest-ranking university in Thailand as well as the country's first university. Margaret Kerr (Chemistry) was a Fulbright Senior Scholar there last fall. She is the faculty host for Pornprom, who also teaches education courses at the university.
The students in her demonstration school are similar to those in public schools in higher income areas of the United States. Half the students in the demonstration secondary school are children of university faculty. The other half are from Bangkok. Its very competitive, she said. There are 20 applicants for every seat in these classes. Pornprom noted one difference in the education of teachers. In Thailand, university students pursuing careers as teachers spend four years studying teaching and spending time in elementary or secondary classrooms each semester. They then must pass a licensing examination before spending another year doing supervised teaching. "They spend one semester as a classroom teacher at the university demonstration school, she said. Then they spend a second semester at another school in Bangkok or elsewhere in the country. This is Pornproms first visit to the United States. Its unusual for Thai women to travel alone, particularly abroad. She has missed her family, but thanks to the Internet and the telephone, she's kept in touch. She's made the most of her time here. In addition to classroom observations, she's visited New York City twice and Boston. Shell make a weeklong stopover in Chicago on her return to Bangkok to visit a university colleague conducting research. Maureen Shamgochian, associate vice president for academic affairs, and Steve Chao, director of international programs, helped with arrangements for her campus visit. Photo by Erika Sidor.
The
Zapatista Movement: Sarah Sharbach Memorial Lecture Discusses The Struggle of
Native Mexicans Who I am here at home informs my work in other places. Thats how Dianne Rocheleau opened the Sarah Sharbach Memorial Lecture on April 23 in Ghosh Science Center Auditorium. Rocheleau, associate professor of geography at Clark University, is a first-generation college graduate, a founding member of Worcester Peace Works and a resident of Main South in Worcester. She has been at Clark since 1989. Rocheleaus academic interests include environment and development, political ecology, forestry, agriculture and landscape change. Gender, class and popular vs. formal science in resource allocation and land use are further intellectual interests. The work she discussed Thursday night was entitled Women in Social Movements in Oaxaca and Chiapas: Making Another World in which Many Worlds are Possible. About 80 students, faculty and community people heard her lecture. Land useand ownershipare the basis of the indigenous movements in the two Mexican states. The Zapatista struggle in Chiapas is tied to land rights and indigenous autonomy and has been going on for decades. The struggle became visible January 1, 1994, the date NAFTA went into effect and the Zapatistas staged protests. In the early days of the Zapatista movement, which is closely tied to liberation theology in the Catholic Church, women were allowed to join convents to work with bishops. Their literacy levels increased, Rocheleau said. They learned Spanish and were translating documents into their indigenous languages. Thus, women began to have leadership roles not only
in the church but also in civil society. They were trained as community
organizers and established schools, hospitals and clinics. In their indigenous
communities, there is a long tradition of women healers and spiritual leaders,
Rocheleau said. The churchand liberation theologybuilt on this.
Women--and womens leadership and activismhave been incorporated into these social movements. The Zapatistas accepted women in the insurgency, she said. And these women entered the insurgency on their own terms. The Zapatistas want a world where lots of different worlds can live together, Rocheleau said. They want the freedom to live the way they want, which includes letting women live the way they want. In Oaxaca, women and womens groups have also joined the movement for social and economic change. Women have retained their indigenous culture while moving into the public sphere, taking over radio stations, performing civil disobedience and conducting cultural demonstrations even as paramilitary forces have taken over their cities and towns. Women there also have equal representation in the local governing bodies. What have we in the United States heard of the involvement of women in these movements? Rocheleau asked. Nothing. She and her husband, an ecologist, spent their sabbatical year in 2006-07 working on sustainable forestry projects in these two Mexican states. Through this experience, Rocheleau met women involved in these movements and learned of their resistance, courage and resilience. Letting people outside of Mexico know of the political repression in these states, the indigenous movements against that repression, and womens involvement in these movements is Rocheleaus mission. It is one that Sarah Sharbach, a faculty member in the Worcester State College history department until her untimely death in 2004, would have shared. Sharbachs research interest was Latin America and her passion was social justice. Each year around the time of her April 1 birthday, the Womens Studies program sponsors a lecture in her honor. Sharbach was a founding member of the WSC Womens Studies program.
WSC Students Support National 'Day of Silence' The National Day of Silence brings attention to anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. This years event was held in memory of Lawrence King, a California 8th-grader who was shot and killed February 12 by a classmate because of his sexual orientation and gender expression. Hundreds of thousands of students came together on April 25 to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior. Photo by Erika Sidor.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
THIS WEEK Monday, Apr. 28
A More
Perfect Union? Tuesday, Apr. 29
A More
Perfect Union?
Talk:
Jack Levin and Wednesday, Apr. 30
Celebration of Student Thursday, May 1
VPA presents
Jephte
COMING UP Sunday, May 4
WSC Dance Company Monday, May 5
Retirement & Employee
Criminal Justice
Tuesday, May 6
Wednesday, May 7
Thursday, May 8
Film/Talk:
College Police
WSC Dance Company May 9-16
Final Exams Tuesday, May 13
Talk:
How to
Write Student
Friday, May 16
Senior Send-Off BBQ
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help with the people they serve. Youve been with us since the beginning, said
Donna Domiziano of Mustard Seed, youve been a big part of our lives. Edla
Bloom from Abbys house reported that 89 cents of every dollar donated will go
directly to the women and families they serve. Thank you for your time, your
talent, and your willingness to serve, she said. Jeanne Gallagher of Sherrys
House said, In todays world, you hear some really negative things about young
people and you show what is best about young people. We at Sherrys House
really appreciate it. 
The
auction was made possible by a group of volunteer students, staff, and alumni of
Worcester State College. All of the items for the auction are donated by area
businesses and families. Auctions Chairs are Tracy Pilch - Student
Government President; Dana Lyford - Class of 2008 Senator and Rob
Bilotta - Commuter Senators. Auction Committee Members are Liz Rooney
- Class of 2010 Senator/Senate Treasurer; Brandon Huggon - Student
Trustee; Lauren Kender - Resident Senator; Lindsay Durell - Class of 2010
Senator. The Auction Advisor is Andrea Wamboldt. 
The similarities between Thai and U.S. education systems
outweigh the differences, Pornprom says. Thai schools offer science,
mathematics, art, health, physical education, and professional and technical
skills. The Thai system groups grades 7-12 in secondary schools. There are no
middle schools.
