John Berkman’s son Jack is going in for surgery tomorrow (Friday, October 10). Please pray for a successful surgery and a safe recovery!
UPCOMING EVENTS/DEADLINES
- Friday, October 10
Open Mic Night
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: FST
Bring your own poems, short stories, etc. to read or bring those of someone whose work you really love – or just come and enjoy what others read. A soup supper will follow but if you’d like to contribute something in the way of food or drink, that would be terrific as well. For more information, contact Jenna Nielsen at jnielsen@fst.edu. - Saturday, October 11
Rule Britannia! A Concert of the Women’s Antique Vocal Ensemble (WAVE)
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Location: St. Albert Priory Chapel (6172 Chabot Road, Oakland)
WAVE will present a concert of English music composed during the reigns of Henry V, Henri VI, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, James I, and William and Mary. From the Old Hall Manuscript of the late medieval era to the 1694 birthday ode for Queen Mary, sacred and secular compositions will be performed. Cost: $15 General, $10 Students/Seniors. For more information, contact wavewomen@netzero.net or 510-233-1479. - Tuesday, October 14
Mass and Lunch at DSPT
Time: 11:10 a.m.
Mass and Soup Dinner at JSTB
Time: 5:15 p.m. - Wednesday, October 15
Presidential Debate III
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: Hillside Club (2286 Cedar @ Arch)
$5 suggested donation. Dinner is also available for $10. - Thursday, October 16
Community Night (Eucharist and Dinner) at CDSP
Time: 5:45 p.m.
Please call CDSP in advance (204-0700) if you are planning to come with a group. - Sunday, October 19
DSPT’s Annual Auction: Sunday in Spain
Location: DSPT
Volunteers are needed to help with the annual auction! Volunteering gives you a chance to be involved with DSPT’s fundraising projects and attend for FREE! Please contact Ciel at mmahoney@dspt.edu if you are interested.
The Election and the Jewish Vote (a.k.a. Obama and the Jewish Question)
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: PSR Chapel
A moderated panel discussion about issues related to the upcoming Presidential Election with Gabriel Schoenfeld (senior editor of Commentary magazine; Guest Scholar at Witherspoon Institute, Princeton, NJ; author of The Return of Anti-Semitism), Rabbi Michael Lerner (editor of Tikkun magazine; author of The Left Hand of God: Taking Our Country Back from the Religious Right), and Michael Berenbaum (American scholar, professor, writer, and filmmaker; Project Director of the US Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC). The panel will be moderated by Maria Echaveste (former senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and White House Deputy Chief-of-Staff in the second Clinton term; senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and lecturer at UC-Berkeley School of Law). This event is co-sponsored by the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the GTU and The Religion, Politics, and Globalization Program at UC-Berkeley. - Wednesday, October 22
Deadline for Theology Department Thesis Proposals
There will be an extra Theology Department meeting this month, which means there will also be an extra opportunity for students to submit their thesis proposals! The deadline will be 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 22 which is in the middle of Reading Week so prepare accordingly if you want your proposal to be under consideration at this meeting.
See the DSPT Academic/Events Calendar here: http://www.dspt.edu/docs/news/calendar_list.asp
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Student Job Opening
DSPT is looking for a student to coordinate the lunches on Tuesdays. The student would be responsible for planning and preparing the lunches, including set-up and clean-up. This position would be approximately 5 hours/week, with the possibility for additional hours for assisting with other DSPT events. This is a great opportunity, a fun way to earn some extra money, plus – you get free food! A detailed job description and application is available from Elissa at the front desk. Applications are due as soon as possible! If you have any questions, please email them to Elissa at emccormack@dspt.edu. - DSPT E-mail
Check your DSPT e-mail at http://mail.op.dspt.edu If you have set up forwarding from your op.dspt.edu account and are receiving 2 copies of the forwarded e-mail please contact Elissa at emccormack@dspt.edu. She will remedy the situation. Please note: we will be using your DSPT e-mail address to communicate all school information so if you have not yet activated your DSPT email, do so as soon as possible! Once activated, you can set it to forward to another email address if you wish. If you need to know how to activate your DSPT e-mail account, contact Elissa at emccormack@dspt.edu. - Wireless in the GTU Library!
WiFi is now available in the GTU Library! Use your op.dspt.edu e-mail address to create a GTU WiFi account. Just bring your laptop to the Library and select the GTUWireless network. When you open your web browser, you’ll be taken to a sign-up page. Just follow the directions on the page to sign up! - Student Directory Pictures
If you have not had your picture taken or would like a different picture in the directory, please contact Elissa at emccormack@dspt.edu before Wednesday, October 15.
MISCELLANEOUS
- Support Fr. Dominic DeLay, OP’s Election Thriller: Inside Darkness
(Fr. Dominic DeLay, O.P. is a member of the Western Province, and a graduate of DSPT. He has an MFA degree in film.) Watch the trailer on YouTube to increase its popularity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFpGdAHTzE. Order the DVD which includes an alternate ending, engaging interviews, and more! You can get it for a 30% discount at www.insidedarkness.com. Sign up for the Inside Darkness website’s free “members area” to watch the complete 35-minute movie in FREE, WEEKLY ONLINE EPISODES (www.insidedarkness.com/member1.html). The first episode is already available. The other four 7-minute episodes will be released on the four Mondays before the election, beginning October 13.
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