CWC’s Commencement night is May 14th at 7:30pm. Only two weeks to go! For those graduating:
Cap and Gown pick up will be May 10-12 from 8-5 at the Records/Registration office.
Commencement practice (REQUIRED) will be May 14 from 10-Noon.
Students must arrive by 6:45pm to line up for the ceremony.
Here is the coming week’s Civitas at Central, Civil Thoughts of the Day – work to incorporate them into your life!
#21 – Think Twice Before Asking for Favors – A request for a favor is often an imposition and it can also be a request for a privilege unfair to others. When we receive a favor we are, to a lesser or greater extent, beholden to those who granted it. All of this is reason to think twice before asking for favors. We may forget that doing the work ourselves in the long run is more gratifying and satisfying.
· “…Be clearly grateful for a favor done. Even if the task appeared easy for the person, give full credit – the person may be keeping the difficulties or unpleasantness of the effort from you.” Janet Gallant
#22 – Refrain from Idle Complaints – It is the kind of complaining that bespeaks helplessness rather than assertiveness, is more interested in assigning blame than in finding solutions, and is rooted in the feeling that life is unfair. It is up to you to choose between giving in to dissatisfaction and resentment and embracing contentment and joy. Concentrating on problems rather than solutions reinforces a pessimistic outlook on life and it is bad for those around you because it spreads your pessimism to them!
· “Don’t curse the darkness – light a candle.” Chinese Proverb
· “Then I do not think of all the misery, but of the glory that remains.” Anne Frank
These two “Rules of Considerate Conduct” are taken from P.M. Forni’s book, Choosing Civility – The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct. If you are interested in reading more, stop by Lance’s office to check out a copy!
Stop by the Classroom Wing between CW129 and CW132 to see the Civitas at Central Board to read these Thoughts of the Day!
Brought to you by members of the Student Services Department on campus!
Lance, Danielle, and Kristin
CWC United Tribes Club hosts Spring Social Powwow May 1
This Saturday!!!
In recognition of Wyoming Native American Day, the United Tribes Club at Central Wyoming College is holding a Spring Social Powwow Saturday, May 1.
Dancers will perform on the front lawns of the college with gourd dancing scheduled for 1 p.m. and the Grand Entry at 4 p.m. The public is invited to come out and observe the dancers, drummers and colorful costumes. The powwow ends at 10 p.m.
The club is also selling chances on a vehicle to support a club trip to the American Indian Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.
For more information, contact club advisor Sergio Maldonado at (307) 855-2285.
Take Back The Night!
A non-profit movement that aims to bring an end to sexual violence.
The name is a remembrance of the first group of survivors who walked together at night to give each other strength and support
The CWC Student Senate has organized a vigil to join hundreds of groups around the world to bring awareness to a problem that affects everybody directly or indirectly.
Join the students’ effort by participating in the “Take Back The Night” vigil
Thursday April 29
8:30 p.m.
At CWC Mote Hall ending at the Rising Promise Fountain
Wear white if you can; candles will be provided; refreshments will follow, sponsored by PEO Chapter AP
The Riverton Branch Library and Central Wyoming College presents a public screening of the groundbreaking Native American Film, “The Exiles,” which is followed by a discussion with the film’s original cinematographer and Oscar winner, Erik Daarstad.
The screening and the Daarstad speech is set for Tuesday, May 4 at 7 p.m. in the Riverton Branch Library Community Room.
Daarstad will talk about the historical significance and the making of this film. His visit involves a discussion on these real life characters and answer any questions the audience may have. “The Exiles” chronicles one night in the lives of young Native Americans living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles in 1958.
For more information, please call the library at 856-3556. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Wyoming Arts Council, with funding from the Wyoming State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Hello All! Welcome to Central Wyoming College Blog Spot!
I am Chloé Skaggs and I am just finishing my freshman year of college! I am a representative of Student Senate, a Quality Leader, and just today was inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa academic society. This year has been absolutely fantastic! I am an acting major as well as technical theater major, so most of my time is spent in the theater!
Our spring musical this year was, “Fiddler on the Roof”. It was a huge undertaking, with such a large cast and famous songs and LOTS of dancing. I love the large musicals that CWC produces. It’s a wonderful way to get in touch with the community! There are so many community members who join us for this one show of the year. We have teachers, doctors, and even pastors join in on the fun! I am the current choreographer for the theater department and I feel so privileged that I get to work with so many of the cast members so personally. I like to think that even those who don’t think they can dance, end up having a good time! “Fiddler on the Roof” was a huge success for not just CWC, but the community as well. I believe I can speak for everyone involved when I say that it was a great experience!
We just closed our final theater production of the year, The Student Showcase! This is a weekend full of shows that are student directed one-act plays. The students directing these plays are in a directing class that only meets once a week, anyone interested is welcome to join! After two straight plays and a musical, these are a nice release from the grueling rehearsal schedule the others require. They are usually no more than twenty minutes long and typically have small casts. This creates a much more relaxed working environment with lots of room to goof around!
This spring a few of the theater majors did a community service project. The Riverton Kiwanis Club hosts a literacy breakfast each year with food, free books for youngsters and some entertainment geared toward the importance of literacy. Lily Schamp, another Quality Leader blogger, wrote a short five-minute skit titled, “Deputy Eddy Saves the Day”. It’s a western tale of a sheriff’s deputy who, “reads too much for a cowboy” but because of his tremendous knowledge he’s able to deliberate with the, “roughest, toughest, rootenest, tootenest outlaw in The West” and resumes peace in a small, sleepy town in the Wild West. I think that this may have been the highlight of my whole semester!
Though this semester has been a REALLY busy one, it hasn’t detracted from how incredibly amazing it was! I can’t wait to blog again to discuss the rest of the semester!
Learn something new!
Chloé Anna Skaggs
Quality LeaderDr. Gary Thompson, Dean of Education at Valley City State University in Valley City, North Dakota, will be on campus on Tuesday, April 27 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in CW106. Valley City offers a variety of online bachelor’s and master’s programs as well as on campus programs. Students interested in Elementary Education distance programs are especially encouraged to meet with him as they have a unique distance program for Elementary Education majors. They also offer a variety of other majors as well.
Thursday, April 22:
Earth Day Campus Clean Up and FREE BBQ
11am Campus Cleanup Followed by BBQ @ 12:15
Sign Up in the Activities & Intramural Office
Movie Night Featuring: AVATAR
7:30pm CWC Little Theatre
FREE SNACKS!
You can check out pool sticks, Frisbee Golf discs, basketballs, volleyballs, and more in the Activities and Intramural Office from 8am-5pm and from the Student Senate Office from 5pm-10pm.
Sponsored by the CWC Activities & Intramural Office
For more information:
855-2260
Tuesday, April 20
Rustler Archaeology:
7:00p.m. -- CW129
CWC students Rita Bolton, Gale Brow, Clara Copp-LaRocque, and Andrew McKay will present the results of the their archaeological field school research on stage stations, military forts, and ranches along the Oregon Trail and Sweetwater River. These are the same papers they presented with great success at the Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologists conference in Casper in early April. Come see what CWC students have been doing!
Hello CWC,
I will be honest here, I have never done a blog before, nor have I ever had an interest in doing one, but here I am. Contrary to my initial belief it is not as bad as I thought it would be. It seems that all I really have to do is talk about myself, my opinions, what I’m doing, etc. which is easy seeing as how I am an expert when it comes to me.
My entire life as of late has been consumed by theater, more specifically one acts. I will now shamelessly use this blog to plug the Student Showcase. The Student Showcase is a series of one acts that are student directed and allow us to have total control over a piece spanning anywhere from 10-30 minutes. They will be, for the most part, funny and at the very least entertaining and the tickets are free! So please come. The A Night shows will be Thursday and Saturday at 7:30 and the B Night shows will be Friday at 7:30 and Sunday at 2:30. I personally am directing a show and have put a lot of work into it as have the other directors with their shows.
Other than theater I would say that I’m as totally shocked as the rest of you that there are just a few short weeks left to this semester. I think it’s about three weeks left until graduation and I will be graduating, Lord willing. I still have papers to write, finals to take, and projects to finish before I successfully finish my time here as a student at CWC. On top of that Student Senate, of which I am secretary, has plenty of activities going to keep me busy. Add in needing to finish up my Quality Leader hours and all I can think is that the end of the year can’t come soon enough.
Anyways, I’m sure the rest of you are just as busy if not busier than I am so if you got around to reading my inner ramblings then I am truly honored. Thanks and good luck with everything!
Lily Schamp
Quality Leader
Theater major
Central Wyoming College students enrolled in a theater directing course are totally in charge of the season’s last production and are preparing an assortment of comedy, drama and musical pieces for Showcase 2010.
As a final project for Director Mike Myers’ course, the Showcase has 16 students rehearsing 79 actors for a variety of one-act plays, comedy sketches and vignettes.
Showcase 2010 is April 22, 23, and 24 at 7:30 p.m., and a matinee performance is set for 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 25. The shows are presented “in the round” in the Dance Studio of the Robert A. Peck Arts Center. Tickets are free and available from the CWC Box Office; open Monday through Friday, 3-6 p.m.
Rustler Archaeology
7:00p.m.
Tuesday April 20, 2010
CW129
CWC students Rita Bolton, Gale Brow, Clara Copp-LaRocque, and Andrew McKay will present the results of the their archaeological field school research on stage stations, military forts, and ranches along the Oregon Trail and Sweetwater River. These are the same papers they presented with great success at the Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologists conference in Casper in early April. Come see what CWC students have been doing!
This is just a reminder that a representative from the University of Wyoming will be at the table located outside of the Student Success Center in Main Hall today from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
H.E. Chokling Jigmed Palden Rinpoche, a highly regarded Tibetan Buddhist visits the CWC campus in April and will be giving several public presentations during his stay in Wyoming.
H.E. Chokling Jigmed Palden Rinpoche, who was forced to flee from Tibet in 1959 during the invasion of communist China, found refuge in India. Currently a resident of Switzerland, the monk’s visit to Central is a result of an invitation from English Professor Ben Evans.
The address by the monk is followed by a “thank you” concert from Evans’ band “Crazy Honey.” The event is free and open to the public.
Rinpoche is the founder of the Tharlam-Dronme Foundation, (tharlam-dronme.org) the purpose of which is to save the Tibetan culture, restore the Tibetan monasteries and to preserve the “ancient transmission of Tibetan Buddhism.”
Another goal of the foundation is the establishment of Tibetan-speaking schools to allow younger generations of Tibetans to learn their mother tongue as well as maintain their culture.
Evans said Rinpoche has made many contributions to the Tibetan culture. “In particular, he has deepened the Tibetan understanding of the essential nature of mind,” he explained.
A singer-songwriter, Evans crossed paths with the Buddhist when Rinpoche found a song Evans had written about Buddhism. Rinpoche is also a musician.
The Central Wyoming College library is celebrating National Library Week by hosting a Pajama Party for children 8 years old and younger on Thursday, April 15 at 6:30 p.m.
Youngsters are invited to wear their pajamas and bring their favorite adult for fun stories and activities. Participants may also bring a favorite stuffed animal and blanket. The event is free.
"Libraries are the heart of every community, and our library helps our community thrive," said Cory Daly, director of Central Wyoming College Library. "At our library people of all backgrounds come together for community meetings, programs, to do research with the assistance of a trained professional, to get help finding a job or to find homework help. We take great pride in providing services to not only the students, faculty, and staff of CWC but to the entire community.”
First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April.
For more information, visit the Central Wyoming College Library, located in the Main Hall on the Riverton Campus. Call 855-2141 or see the library’s Web site at www.cwc.edu/resources/library. Library hours until May 12 are: Monday through Thursday 7:30 a.m. - 11 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m., Saturday, noon – 5 p.m., and Sunday 2– 10 p.m.
Summer and Fall schedule of courses is available on-line beginning today.
New students who have already completed the admissions process can register by mailing or faxing a completed enrollment form to the Registration and Records Office.
Returning students may register on-line through WebAdvisor or with their academic advisor.
The CWC Registration and Records Office is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is located on the first floor of Main Hall. Click here to meet the staff.
Hey there! My name is Janelle and I am a general studies major at CWC. I chose CWC because the opportunities are endless. I came to play volleyball and go to school but have done so much more. This spring I was able to act in Fiddler on the Roof and I loved supporting our basketball team. Because CWC isn’t too big I get to know people from my classes and other activities. Two weeks ago was Ladies Night and it was a BLAST! We got massages and food and had tons of fun. We also went glow bowling and to comedy shows and had so much fun.
College is about the education too (Or so I hear) which is another great reason CWC is such a good choice. I have online classes and classroom classes which makes my schedule easier, and because the college isn’t too big my teachers actually remember who I am and I never have problems getting help when I need it. I can have a job on campus, go to classes, be involved, and still have time to have girls’ nights with my awesome roommates. Since I took so many classes in high school through CWC I will also get to graduate in one year! CWC saved me lots of money and gave me a great start to my future. It’s a great place to start!
Janelle Rottweiler
General Studies major
Quality Leader
Our CWC library has a blog?
Turn a Page @ CWC Library is a great place to read about events, book reviews or just to catch up on what’s happening in our library. Check them out!
The CWC Rustler Rodeo Team competed at Colorado State University this past weekend.
The men’s team came in THIRD and the women’s team came in SECOND.
Congratulations Rustlers!!
Jazz Night 3 in Little Theatre April 9
Central Wyoming College jazz ensembles perform a Friday, April 9 concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Little Theatre, located in the CWC Student Center.
Jazz Night 3 is the final jazz concert of the season and features the vocal ensemble JAZZMAGIC, the instrumental group, the Jazz Messengers, and the Time’s-A-Wastin’ Big Band. The concert is free and the public is invited.
JAZZMAGIC, under the direction of Robert Hussa, performs “In A Mellow Tone,” a swinging jazz standard written by Duke Ellington. The group concludes with two a cappella arrangements: “All the Things You Are” and VoiceDance 4. VoiceDance is performed with the singers only using jazz syllables. The final piece is an arrangement of a jazz standard as sung by the Singers Unlimited.
The Jazz Messengers, directed by Steve Traylor, begins the performance with “Baby Elephant Walk,” an arrangement by Traylor of a Mancini tune. “Nica’s Dream,” written by Horace Silver for an Austrian baroness who supported and inspired many jazz artists during the bebop era, is also planned, and is followed by “Up Jumped Spring,” a happy waltz written by the famous hard bop-era trumpeter Freddie Hubbard.
The Messengers conclude the concert with “Summertime,” a George Gershwin tune that is a jazz favorite.
Time’s-A-Wastin’ s first tune “Willow Weep for Me” is a bluesy tune that features Netta Bell Girard on saxophone. “I Remember Clifford” features trumpeter Garold Whisler, and is a ballad written in memory of Clifford Brown, an extremely gifted jazz musician who died young in a car accident.
The concert concludes with “I Be Serious ‘Bout Dem Blues,” written by John Clayton for his orchestra; and “Tonight,” the tune from the musical “West Side Story.”
Hi! I am a first year student at CWC. I graduated from Riverton High School last year. So far this year has flown by and it is now almost over. My workload for each class had begun to increase in preparation for the end of the year.
I am a member of the Quality Leaders program at CWC and recently we began to work on multiple community service projects. Last week, we sewed cloth dolls for the local hospital to give to any young patients. We are also preparing to make May Day baskets for the people who are currently living in the Hospice House. All of these fun projects make spring even more exciting!
I have decided that next year I will transfer to the University of Wyoming to pursue a degree in Speech and Hearing Disorders. I have really enjoyed my time at CWC; however, UW offers many of the specialized classes I need for my degree. I think this is the next best step in my education. I registered for my courses at UW this Monday and I’m really excited for the courses I plan to take in the fall.
I am anxious for summer vacation to begin but I know that I will miss this year that I spent at CWC!
Hailey Reiter
Quality Leader
Blood Drive
Thursday, April 8
FREMONT ROOM
10:00am-4:00pm
Every CWC Student who donates will be entered into the drawing to win great prizes including gift cards, movies, and more!!
Sign up in the Activities & Intramural Office
for your donation time!
The CWC music department’s Jazz Nite III, scheduled for tomorrow in the Robert A Peck Arts Center Theater has been moved to, Friday April 9, in the CWC Little Theater. Free admission, 7:30pm start time.
CWC Family Easter Egg Hunt
Today 5pm
INSIDE the Student Center
Open to All CWC Students, Staff, Families & Friends…
ages 12 and under!
This internationally acclaimed jazz ensemble travels thousands of miles each year to perform and presents a free concert in the Robert A. Peck Arts Center Theatre. Complimentary tickets are available at the Arts Center Box Office from 3-6 p.m. weekdays.
Many of the musicians in the ensemble have extensive civilian performance experience including recordings, movie and television soundtracks and performances with major jazz and popular music artists. Alumni have gone on to careers in university teaching, studio recording and performance.
Members of the ensemble are also composters and arrangers whose talent helps create the band’s unique sound. Concert repertoire includes big band swing, bebop, contemporary jazz, popular tunes and Dixieland.
Each program includes exciting selections performed by the band’s talented and versatile vocalist, Master Sergeant Marva Lewis.
This group has performed at several of the world’s largest jazz festivals, including the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland, the Nice and Vienne Festivals in France, the Toronto Jazz Festival and the Jacksonville and Newport Jazz Festivals in the U.S.
The Jazz Ambassadors became the first military band ever to perform on the main stage at the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 1989.
Formal public concerts, school assemblies, clinics, music festivals, and radio and television appearances are all part of the Jazz Ambassadors’ yearly schedule. The band has appeared in all 50 states, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Japan, and the Republic of India. Notable performances include participation in the inaugurations of presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton.
