Monday, December 3, 2012
8:00-9:30 p.m.
Frank G. Pogue Student Center MPR

Students will have the opportunity to bid on a chance to go on a date with some of Edinboro's student leaders. Come with friends and combine your money. All proceeds go to Hurricane Sandy relief efforts.

Check out our event on Facebook.

Sponsored by Student Government Association

December 5 - January 31
Bruce Gallery, Doucette Hall

For more information, call the Bruce Gallery at 732-2513 or the Edinboro University Art Department at 732-2406.

The Students of Edinboro University for Environmental Defense (SEED), The Geography Club, and Sigma Gamma Epsilon invite you to attend their important event. The event is free for all Edinboro University students, faculty, staff, and the general public:

Plastic Pollution in our Oceans and Lakes by Stiv Wilson, member of the 5Gyres Institute
Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. in Compton Hall, Room 107

Mr. Wilson will be presenting on his own experience undertaking plastic pollution research, his finds while sailing to all of the ocean gyres and what we can do to end plastic pollution in our worlds oceans, as well as a study of plastic pollution the 5Gyres institute began this summer on the Great Lakes (including Lake Erie) aboard the Flagship Niagara.

For more information in 5Gyres Institute, go to http://5gyres.org/

Background on the problem:

There is currently garbage, made up mostly of plastic, floating throughout our world's oceans. In five places (one in each ocean) this plastic garbage has consolidated within gigantic eddys, or an areas of swirling currents and wind (gyre). The largest one, the Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Gyre, is roughly 2 times the size of the US. Within these plastic concentrations, the heat of the sun and the wave motion helps breaks down the plastic into smaller pieces...but plastic never actually 'breaks down' so it only becomes smaller and smaller pieces of plastic, and never goes away. These smaller pieces are consumed by marine animals mistaking them for food, leading to internal blockages, dehydration, starvation, and potentially death. Also of deep concern for societies are the potential human health impacts of toxic chemicals entering the marine food chain through plastics. Scientists are now questioning whether plastic toxins that enters the bloodstream and tissues of marine life can potentially harm humans when we eat seafood. Unfortunately, recent research of the Great Lakes by 5Gyres has found plastic pollution is a problem there as well.

Stiv J. Wilson is a freelance environmental journalist/photojournalist and the Communications Director for The 5 Gyres Institute. He is also an ambassador for The Surfrider Foundation and an advisor to The United Nations Safe Planet campaign on hazardous chemicals in the environment. He spends about half his time at sea with The 5 Gyres team, and when not at sea he lectures on plastic pollution around the country.

Thursday, December 6-16
7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2:30 p.m.
Diebold Center for the Performing Arts

The Laugh/Riot Theatre presents "It's a Wonderful Lie" by David Kopp.

A darkly comic twist on the holiday classic. Christmas Eve, Buffalo. James, an English professor, has the perfect evening planned: he's going to propose to his girlfriend at Niagara Falls before Christmas Eve dinner with his family. Plans quickly unravel and James searches for his "It's a Wonderful Life" moment. He gets it, but the angel—and the results of his wish—aren't quite what he expects.

Tickets are free for Edinboro University students, $5 for faculty, staff, and President’s Pass holders, and $10 for general admission. Tickets are available at the door. Please contact Rob Connick with any questions or to make reservations at 814-402-1144.

Free admission for Edinboro University alumni on Saturday, December 8.

Thursday, December 6, 2012
Louis C. Cole Auditorium-Memorial Hall
7:30 p.m.

Performing Arts Series: Presidio Brass: Christmas Day - A Festival of Carols

Decorate your Christmas season with great music from Presidio Brass. Combining traditional brass instruments with piano and percussion adds a welcome freshness to the holidays with arrangements specifically written for this ensemble!

Tickets are free for Edinboro University students, $5 for faculty, staff, and President’s Pass holders, and $10 for general admission. Tickets are available at the SGA Convenience Store, at the door, or online at www.edinborotickets.com.

For more information, call the Office for the Performing Arts at (814) 732-2518.

Friday, December 7, 2012
Dr. William P. Alexander Music Building – Recital Hall
12:15-12:45pm

Guitarist and faculty member Erik Mann will perform a free concert on Friday, December 7 at 12:15 p.m. in the Dr. William P. Alexander Music Center Recital Hall, which will include music of Dall’Aquila and Matiegka.

First Friday Concerts are sponsored by the Edinboro University Music Department, and take place on the first Friday of most months that school is in session, 12:15-12:45 p.m., in the William P. Alexander Music Center Recital Hall. They feature faculty members of Edinboro University's music department.

Admission is free and open to the public.

NOTE: Food and drink are not allowed in the recital hall but are allowed in the lobby.

3:00 p.m. Friday, November. 9, 2012
1:00 p.m. Friday, November 30, 2012
1:00 p.m. Friday, December 7, 2012

Frank G Pogue Student Center – Room 143

Spring Break 2013—Where will you be? C.O.R.E. is having an informational spring break meeting, so you can learn what adventures you could take part in!

Sponsored by Edinboro University Outdoor Recreation (C.O.R.E.)