La Casa Newsletter

Teach For America for the Fall Information Session : Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 6:00 pm Gregory Hall 213. Jack Carey, former New York City corps member, will be on campus to tell you about why he joined Teach For America. During this session, Jack will speak about his experiences in the classroom and provide more information about Teach For America, including our graduate school, employer partnerships, and the application process. Application Deadlines: September 21 and November 2, 2007.
Free Pizza will be provided. For more info Contact Sara Kaufman at sara.kaufman@teachforamerica.org.

Illini Union Board's Fall Musical Pippin is looking for musicians, dancers, actors, painters, builders, jugglers, sewers and people looking to have a great time! Be a part of the largest student-run theater program on campus. We are especially looking this year for people with unusual talents whether it be juggling, break dancing, or being double jointed. If you are interested e-mail iubmusicals@gmail.com or visit our webpage at www.iubmusicals.com.

Campus Rec Exercise/Eating Disorder Campaign's mission is to supply helpful information on topics that range from nutrition topics to "What is your motivation?". They do this by placing posters throughout CRCE in high traffic areas that will grab the students attention. They need your help by joining their focus groups (not a large time commitment) to critique their previous posters and give them fresh, creative, and new ideas for the two new posters they will create this year. They welcome both males & females. This is your opportunity to have your voices heard! Please call Abby Blankenberger at 333-7667 or email ablanke@uiuc.edu.
Example of poster, click here.

Rape Crisis Services, a program of A Woman’s Fund, seeks to hire a part-time Counselor (25 hours per week). The primary responsibility of the Counselor is to provide individual, group, and family counseling to survivors of sexual violence and their significant others. This includes the facilitation of support groups for sexual violence survivors. Candidates should have a minimum of a Master’s degree in counseling or a related field, awareness of sexual violence issues, experience working with sexual violence survivors, at least one year of counseling experience, and fluency in Spanish. Minimum salary of $13.00 per hour with excellent benefits. Applicants should send their resume, cover letter, and three professional references to: Rape Crisis Services Attn: Program Director 310 W. Church St., Champaign, IL 61820 or email: rcsprogram@awomansfund.org Please specify the position.
Applications are due by September 5. Persons of color and diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

The US-Mexico Borderlands Seminar ANTH 499/LLS 496 CRN # 48143, 48144, 39307 Tuesday class from 4:00-6:20pm in 245 Everitt Lab with Professor Gilberto Rosas Department of Anthropology and Latina/o Studies Program University of Illinois. This class explores the contradictory interpretations of the US-Mexico border region: its conceptualization as a site of violence, of immigrant and Mexican American subjection and subjugation, and of environmental degradation, often privileged in the social sciences, versus the often avowedly decolonialist orientations found in the Humanities and Ethnic Studies, and the latter orientations’on transformation. For more information please email grosas2@uiuc.edu or call (217) 244-4117.

Join the Peer Recruitment Program Interested in helping with the recruitment of more students from underrepresented backgrounds to the U of I? through the Chicago Satellite Office of Admissions. For more information and to be put on the mailing list, please contact Admissions Counselor Luis Narváez at narvazgt@uiuc.edu or (312) 575-7810. And thank you for helping make the U of I a more diverse community.

The LIS Access Midwest Program (LAMP; www.lisaccess.org) seeks a graduate assistant for fall 07 (flexible hours). LAMP is a regional network of academic libraries and information science schools dedicated to promoting careers within the field by targeting promising undergraduate students at its member institutions to participate in activities and events designed to increase their awareness of the profession and to provide support for subsequent graduate studies in LIS. For more info please email aayad2@uiuc.edu.