ARGUMENT AND ADVOCACY EVENT - Playground Clean-up

My advocacy event is Saturday April 25, 2009 from 9-Noon at Lacey Spring Elementary school located on Rt. 11 (going north). We will be working with parents and local school children to fix up the playground for the kids. People can come for all or part of the time. If anyone needs directions they can email me (wilsonem17@gmail.com).

ARGUMENT AND ADVOCACY EVENT - recycling

Want to learn more about recycling? Stop by the commons on Friday, April 24th from 1pm-4pm to hear about ways you can make a difference. You'll find out what you can and can't recycle in Harrisonburg, learn where your recyclables go, how to get a hold of a recycling bin and much more! Let's continue to make JMU an environmentally friendly campus. It's going to be a beautiful day so please come check it out!

ARGUMENT AND ADVOCACY EVENT - Terry Mcauliffe

A representative from the Terry Mcauliffe campaign will be speaking at our house this Saturday from 4-6. The house party is at 459 N. Liberty St. There will be light snacks and drinks. Plus you get to see where I live.

No Readings This Week

We will talk about conspiracy theories all week so no readings.

Mike

ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY - Healthy Eating

Do you ever wonder what the healthy food options on and off campus are?  Do you want to join us in debunking the
common misconceptions regarding this topic?

Then come to the Healthy Lifestyle Panel Discussion on April 23rd in Harrison room 1241 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.! There will be representatives from UREC, Dining Services,
and Dietetics engaging in discussion and answering panel questions.  Free healthy snacks will be provided!  See you Thursday!

ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY EVENT - Holocaust Rememberance Week

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ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY EVENT - Festival Fest

Festival Fest 2009

An all day, free music festival featuring local and national bands playing on JMU's Festival Lawn.

Saturday 4/18 - 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Free day long music festival.
Games, Crafts, Vendors and Music from local and national acts!
Featuring The Hackensaw Boys
Dubconscious
Murphy's Kids
and many, many, more

ARGUMENT AND ADVOCACY EVENT - SPCA

As part of SCOM 350, we are planning a Community Service Learning Event for the Rockingham/Harrisonburg SPCA, Tour for Life! This is a pet adoption event that will take place on Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 from 3pm-7pm. Cats and dogs will come from various SPCAs in search of a new, loving family! The event will also consist of food, Smoothie King, performances by JMU A capella groups at 3:30 & 6:00pm, kids activities and much more! We would love for you to come out and support us in our project! If you have time to spread the word to your classes, friends and families we would greatly appreciate it!

Who: RH-SPCA, SCOM 350 Students and North Shore Animal League
What: Tour for Life Pet Adoption Event
When: Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 (3-7pm)
Where: East Market Square Shopping Center - PetSmart Parking Lot!
Why: Adopt a pet, support SCOM students & have a great time!

If you have any questions feel free to contact us at brown4jl@jmu.edu or visit the website Tour for Life Website!

ARGUMENT AND ADVOCACY EVENT - Multiple Events

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Readings for Tuesday

Legalization of Prostitution

Pro

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/samara-oshea/is-it-time-to-legalize-pr_b_90986.html

http://www.liberator.net/articles/prostitution.html

http://www.progressiveu.org/231243-legalizing-prostitution

Con

http://www.zenit.org/article-20747?l=english

http://sisyphe.org/article.php3?id_article=691

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/mhvlegal.htm

Some FYIs

http://www.prostitutionprocon.org/

ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY - Karly Moletteri Advocacy Event

Tuesday, April 21st at 6:00pm in Memorial Hall room 3235. It will be a Student Voices panel with the Diversity Council and the IDLS Department that will allow open discussion on multiculturalism in the classroom and how to bring non-Eurocentric perspectives/books into the classroom.

ARGUMENT AND ADVOCACY EVENT - 31st Annual Communication Studies Conference

You may attend the keynote as an event and then any panel as another event.

Dr. Steven Schwarze, awarding winning scholar of environmental communication, will present the keynote address at the upcoming 31st Annual Communication Studies Conference "Constructing Healthy Communication Environments."

Monday, April 13, 2009 at 7:00 pm

“Unhealthy Communication, Unhealthy Environments: Diagnosing the Asbestos Crisis”

Dr. Steven Schwarze

Associate Professor of Communication Studies University of Montana Festival Conference and Student Center, Ballroom A

During that address, Dr. Schwarze will discuss his research on how rhetorical discourses, such as those surrounding the asbestos crisis in Libby, Montana, shape public perceptions of such environmental problems. Dr. Schwarze will also participate as a faculty discussant at the panels of undergraduate communication scholarship presented throughout the conference.

On Tuesday, April 14 and Thursday, April 15 poster and panel sessions will be held throughout the day in Warren Hall, Transitions highlighting original undergraduate scholarship, exceptional service learning projects, and outreach by students in the School of Communication Studies. As part of this conference, a special performance by nationally ranked members of the JMU Individual Events Team will be included on a panel discussing performance studies as scholarship on Tuesday, April 14 from 3:30 - 4:30 pm.

The complete conference program can be found online at: http://sites.google.com/site/jmuscomconference/

These events are sponsored by The College of Arts & Letters and the School of Communication Studies and are part of a month long “Communication Exhibition” hosted by the Schools of Communication, Information, and Media in the College of Arts & Letters.

All events are free and open to the public.

ARGUMENT AND ADVOCACY EVENT - Interfaith Passover Seder

COME JOIN CATHOLIC CAMPUS MINISTRY

AND JMU HILLEL FOR...

INTERFAITH PASSOVER SEDAR!

WHERE?! CCM (Catholic Campus Ministry) 1052 South Main Street (right near the FedEx and Mike's Mart)

WHEN?! April 8th @ 5:30 pm (service begins at 6 pm sharp)

$5 at the door for non-Jews attending

WHAT?! Interfaith Passover Seder. A Jewish festival (traditionally 8 days) celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt

Dress: dressy casual, no jeans

Contact Hillel Religious Chair, Kat Sinclair at sinclakm@jmu.edu, or check out www.jmuhillel.org for more info!

Readings for Thursday

Some readings about gun control:

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/04/23/Worldandnation/Having_guns_on_campus.shtml

http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/17833874.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,304806,00.html

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070813/METRO/108130057/1001

http://www.freecolorado.com/2003/02/cuccw.html

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/14/guns.on.campus/index.html

ARGUMENT AND ADVOCACY EVENT - Madison Debate Society Public Debate

Wednesday, April 8th, 5pm, Taylor 402

This open forum debate will be focused on the question "What should JMU students do to make the Harrisonburg community safer?". This is in reaction to the recent break-ins, stabbings, and shootings that have occured in areas, highly populated with JMU students. Lou Nagy, an Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney downtown will be speaking at the beginning of the meeting on the Harrisonburg communities response as a whole, such as what police, prosecutors, and community members see as the root issue, how they're reacting, and what they think will make the overall harrisonburg community safer.

ARGUMENT AND ADVOCACY EVENT - SURVIVOR PANEL

Thursday 4/9: SURVIVOR PANEL at 6pm in HHS 1301. Come and hear cancer survivors share their stories, and even share your own experience with cancer.

Paper Guidelines

Argumentation and Advocacy Paper Guidelines

Paper Topics

1. Choose any issue related to your public controversy. This controversy should be one with a significant discussion either in the media, academic press or on the internet.

2. Choose a particular argument or set of arguments within that controversy. Outline the arguments for a particular proposition. Some of these arguments will require a explanation of the opposing point of view.

3. Use one of the theories from the first half of the course (argument structures, public sphere, debate, argumentative fallacies, etc.) to critique the argument you have outlined. You should make sure you answer the following during this critique:

a. Is the argument a good one?

b. Why or why not?

Paper Guidelines

1. The paper should by 5-10 pages long.
2. Use a normal font with 12 point font. People love to use weird fonts. I don’t love it when you do.
3. Don’t mess with the margins. I will not be impressed by a ten page paper with 3 inch margins.
4. I don’t care what type of citations you use. Just make sure it is a recognized method and that you use the same method throughout the paper.
5. Please use page numbers
6. You do not have to include a title page. You may if you prefer, but you do not have to.
7. Papers are due May 2^nd by 2:00pm. Papers turned in after that time are considered late.

ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY EVENT - Conflict Transformation Conference

Conflict Transformation Conference
The First Annual International Undergraduate
Conflict Transformation Conference

April 15 and 16, 2009
Taylor Hall
April 15 at 12.00 pm: Please pre-register for Keynote lunch

Keynote Lunch followed by
Keynote Address:
1.00 – 2.15pm Wednesday April 15
World Expert in Mediation and Dispute Resolution
Professor Joseph P. Folger, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
The Disciplinary Roots of Conflict Intervention: How Should Theory Shape Our Practice?

Please join us as we bring together students, professors and mentors from around the world, who are interested in examining and advancing the concept of conflict transformation, to engage in dialogue about the concept and to present their work.

Please pre-register for Keynote buffet lunch on Wednesday at Noon
Conference Webpage:www.jmu.edu/commstudies/conflictanalysis/Conference.shtml

Sponsored by James Madison University College of Arts & Letters, School of Communication Studies, Office of International Programs, Institute for Conflict Analysis & Intervention and The Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation at Hofstra University School.

Control Room Articles

Readings for Tuesday:

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/wire/2004/06/07/al_jazeera/index.html

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/6/7/141220.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0402-10.htm

http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/06/is_aljazeera_less_biased_than.html

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040611/REVIEWS/406110303/1023

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/3926071.stm

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_17_121/ai_n8702403

http://www.trentarthur.info/archives/000031.html

http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/feature/2004/06/04/control_room/

http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2006/11/education_of_lt_rushing.html

ARGUMENT AND ADVOCACY EVENT - Madison Cup

If you went to the Madison Cup here is your place to post.

ARGUMENT AND ADVOCACY EVENT - Spotlight on Scholarship

Spotlight on Scholarship

Spotlight on Scholarship event is presented by the JMU’s Faculty Women’s Caucus. The Spotlight on Scholarship is an event is designed to recognize exceptional scholarly work by women and stimulate cross disciplinary research in the JMU community. Oral presentations will take place at the beginning of the event and will last 15 minutes each including time for questions and answers. Poster presentations will be displayed around the room and will be presented during the reception following the oral presentations.

Date: April 2, 2009

Time: 4:00PM-6:00 PM

Location: Festival Highlands Room

Speakers: Mieka Polanaco, Beth Chandler, Olga Pierrakos, Debra Warner Poster Displays: Lou Ann Lovin, Vicki Curry, Maria Papadakis, Amanda Biesecker, Amy Goodall, Jessica Irons