Show staff how much you care
Have you ever wanted to tell a dining employee how much you appreciate him or her?
You'll get your chance at the Staff Appreciation Week reception at Alumni Hall this Wednesday.
All University staff and students are invited to attend the 4 p.m. reception. The free reception is the culminating event of Staff Appreciation Week, which began on Valentine's Day.
The Fourth Year Class Trustees organized SAW in order to make University staff feel more appreciated by students. The President's Office, Vice President's Office and the Alumni Association are all sponsoring the program.
"We're seeing the people that are often times invisible," said Stephanie Hsu, fourth-year College student and service chair for the Trustees. She mentioned dining, maintenance and janitorial staff as examples of unrecognized University workers.
Hsu and other Trustees will be on the Lawn today and tomorrow to hand out invitations, which students can use to invite University workers to Wednesday's reception.
Fourth-year students will serve those who attend the reception.
The Trustees would like future fourth-year classes to continue SAW.
"We're hoping to make this a new tradition," Hsu said.
Conference on compassion
The Religious Studies and Jewish Studies departments together are sponsoring a conference titled "Being and Non-Being: Phenomenology, Religion, and the Other."
The event will be a forum for the discussion of issues in post-modern Jewish thought. The main point of discussion will be literature traditions as a basis for compassion.
The conference takes place today and features two speakers, Martin Kavka from Florida State University and Oliver Davies from the University of Wales.
Kavka earned his master's degree in religious studies from the University in 1995, and will be speaking at 4 p.m. on "Thinking Otherness: Metaphysics and Alterity."
Davies will give a lecture titled "Compassionate Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Compassion" at 8 p.m. Both lectures will take place in the Lower West Oval Room of the Rotunda.
The conference is among the first that the new Jewish Studies program has initiated with the Religious Studies Department, Religious Studies Prof. Jamie Ferreira said.
Compiled by Sam Bresnahan
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