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(l-r) Brooke Smith, contest master; Dennis Gauda, division director; Erik Schneider, 1st place contestant; Susanna Toledo, 2nd place contestant
(l-r) Brooke Smith, contest master; Dennis Gauda, division director; Erik Schneider, 1st place contestant; Susanna Toledo, 2nd place contestant

Congratulations to Erik Schneider, housekeeper in Facilities Management, who won a Toastmasters area speech contest!  Schneider, a member of the Rhetorical Roar Toastmasters Club at Daemen College, earned top honors at an area Toastmasters International Speech Contest on March 7 in North Tonawanda. 

Schneider advances to compete against winners from five other Buffalo Niagara area Toastmasters contests at a competition being hosted by the Buffalo Psychiatric Center’s Toastmasters chapter at 9:30 a.m. April 13 in the Butler Rehabilitation Center Auditorium.

Speech contests are a Toastmasters tradition. Each year, thousands of toastmasters compete in the Humorous, Evaluation, Tall Tales, Table Topics and International speech contests.  Winners advance and compete in division, district and region quarterfinals. Region quarterfinal winners advance to the International competition, where they compete in the semifinals for a chance to take part in the World Championship of Public Speaking scheduled in August 2019 in Denver, CO.

“The Toastmasters Speech Contest is a wonderful opportunity for our members to showcase and improve their public speaking skills,” said Pam Gorman, program quality director and charter member of Rhetorical Roar. “We are proud of Erik and honored to have him represent our organization at this higher level of competition.”

Good luck in the next round Erik!

Submitted by College Communications

Vice President for Student Affairs Open Forum

Faculty and staff are encouraged to participate in the open forum with Daniel Dentino, PhD, candidate for the vice president for student affairs, today, March 13 from 3:00 – 4:00 in Grupp Fireside Lounge.  Information about Dr. Dentino is posted on the myCanisius portal under the “VP for Student Affairs Search” tab located on the blue navigation bar across the top of the page.  The vice president for student affairs and dean of students will play a critical role in the life of the college.  Please consider attending this event.

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Submitted by: Peg McCarthy, vice president, Academic Affairs; chair, Search Committee

Kittens Arrive on Campus March 25

Kittens will once again take up residence in the Margaret L. Wendt Animal Behavior lab in Science Hall from Monday, March 25 – Monday, April 15 and from Monday, April 22 – Thursday, May 2.  The campus community is invited to view training and enrichment sessions.

Miranda K. Workman’s ABEC 220: Animal Learning class, in cooperation with the SPCA Serving Erie County, will welcome five kittens for enrichment and training.

The sessions include teaching the kittens to walk into a carrier on their own and completing a small agility course, which makes them attractive adoption candidates and encourages positive relationships with humans that will help kittens transition to their new families. Stress and anxiety attached to catching and putting cats in a carrier are major reasons why cats are seen less often by veterinarians.

For these kittens, there will be no stress or anxiety, as they will choose to enter the carrier by themselves.

The kittens will be on campus until Thursday, May 2, and will then be available for adoption.  The days and times for enrichment are:

VIEWING SESSIONS (one hour each unless otherwise noted)

Mondays:

8:20 – 9:15 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m.

*April 15 is a morning session only  

Tuesdays:

8:30 – 9:45 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m.

Wednesdays:

8:20 – 9:15 a.m.

12:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m.

Thursdays:

8:20 – 9:15 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m.

Fridays:

8:20 – 9:15 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m.  

Saturdays:

10:00 a.m.

3:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m.  

Sundays:

10:00 a.m.

3:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m.  

If you are interested in adopting a kitten, please contact Miranda Workman at workmanm@canisius.edu.

Submitted by: College Communications

Brown Bag Seminar Series Continues

The Institute for Classical and Medieval Studies (ICMS) continues its spring 2019 Brown Bag Seminar Series on Wednesday, March 27 from 11:50 a.m. – 12:50 p.m. in Student Center room 207 with a presentation by Thomas Banchich, PhD, of the Classics and History Departments.

During his talk, Homeric Dolos and the Heroic Virtue of Dishonesty, Banchich will discuss how “[i]n the Odyssey, the word dolos signifies objects that do not look like what they actually are and the intellectual quality that helps create such deceitful objects. This presentation will consider dolos in the Odyssey and comparable notions in some modern ‘shame culture’ societies. It will suggest that Homer’s dolos is both a heroic virtue and a portent of the distinction between ‘appearance’ and ‘reality’ that becomes one of the distinctive features of later Greek thought.”

Be sure to bring a lunch and engage in this interesting and informal conversation. These talks are free and open to the public. For more information, visit the ICMS website.

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Submitted by: Kristina Laun, administrative associate, Institute for Classical and Medieval Studies  

Exhibition Celebration for Fotini Galanes

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The campus community is invited to celebrate a new site-responsive project by Fotini Galanes on Friday, March 29, from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.  in the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library. With Morphogenesis, Galanes adapted her signature graphite linework to a three-dimensional, suspended globe form in an exploration of the body and mind’s capacities to renew themselves and grow.

Submitted by: Emily Mangione, studio art galleries and college art collection director, Fine Arts