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Show THE FORUM 2 Wednesday Scholarship Lunch, Payne Gym 1 1 1 a.m. pm. -- Becoming a True Griffin is Old Tradition Kimberlie M. Blesch Staff Writer Aviation Advisory Board Meeting, Watson Board Room noon - 2 p.m. Do you dare to become a true M FoUctts 2nd Annual Halloween Party and p.m. Food Drive 7-- 10 ASWC Wild Wednesday, Become a True Griffin Night, Tanner Plaza 11:30 p.m. Thursday Psi Chi Chili Cookoff, Shaw Center 1 1 a.m. -- 1 p.m. Weeks Poetry Series, Ales Debeljak & Kim Johnson, Jewett, Dumke Student Theatre 7 - 9 p.m. Taylor Lecture, Ambassador Theodore Kattouf, Jewett ,Vieve Gore Concert Hall 8 - 9:30 p.m, W. J. Friday Griffin Womens Volleyball vs Lewis & Clark Stare College, Payne Gym 7 p.m. ASWC Halloween Dance, Hilton Hotel, 255 West South Temple 9 p.m. -- 1 a.m. Saturday Griffin Womens Volleyball vs MT Tech., Payne Gym 1 p.m. Griffin Womens Basketball vs BYU (Exhibition), Payne Gym 7 p.m. Oct. 27, 2004 Griffin? Not quite sure what that means? Join fellow students and see what all the hype is about on Wednesday, Oct. 27, at 11:30 p.m. on Tanner Plaza. Becoming a True Griffin night is sponsored by the Associated Students of Westminster College (ASWQ and will close out the Wild Wednesday activities. This late-niginitiation is held every year, always in fall semester. Becoming a true Griffin is an opportunity to honor your school and get to know the student body a little better. This event attracts a mixture of all kinds of students: ht curiously wary freshman, second- or third-yestudents who have yet to be initiated, and then the experienced professionals who are responsible for passing the honorary title of a True Griffin on to newbies. Some tips for coming pre ar pared to become a True Griffin night include: dont eat onions that day, make like Napoleon and wear ChapStick, wear a coat and gloves, chew gum, and stay near the marshmallow-lookin- g statue of a Griffin by Shaw (as Alisha Panunzio, ASWC vice president, calls it). You shall be rewarded. . . Last year, the ASWC gave out free hot chocolate and Halloween candy; hopefully they will be able to supply goodies again this year. If not, bring your own hot chocolate, it makes the night more enjoyable. Does the word initiation make you a little worried? Have no fear, bring friends for emotional support. Students say this night is always really fun and creates fond memories. Allison Lewis, a sophomore, said last year was way fun, we grabbed some hot chocolate and mingled with everyone. Ill be there this year. According to Panunzio, ASWC will be selling T-shi- rts for $2 to support and promote Westminsters basketball season for both women and men. Panunzio encourages to students to buy wear to the games to unite basketball fans and be an initiation souvenir. According to frat, initiations are actually College the across common quite United States and around the world. At Nollingen College in Sweden, noils, or freshmen, are forced to strip down to their birthday suits (women can wear a plastic garbage bag or just their underwear) and then play games with other students and faculty. The games include the noils getting dunked in mud, food baths and getting sprayed with beer. Dont worry, becoming a True Griffin is not that extreme. Becoming a True Griffin night is part of the Westminster tradition, and always results in good times and interesting memories. So bundle-ucome prepared, and get your Griffin on.CS T-shi- rts www.sensa-tions4women.co- m p, Faculty Art Exhibit Showcases Talent Sunday aJJmvcen. " Shelly R. Price Staff Writer Monday , Registration for Spring 2005 begins for graduate students Faculty Art Exhibit Opening Reception, Tanner Atrium noon - 4 p.m. Tuesday (Election Day) Griffin Womens JV Basketball vs Snow College, Payne Gym, Time TBA Faculty Art Exhibit, Tanner Atrium 10 a.m. -- 4 p.m. Westminster College will host the annual Faculty Art Exhibit beginning Monday, Nov. 1. There will be an opening reception for the art exhibit at noon on the same day, with refreshments served. The faculty art exhibit features a group of selected art e works by current and adjunct studio art faculty members. They will showcase full-tim- photographs, digital prints, mixed-medi- a, pottery, painting and illustration. The art exhibit runs from Nov. 1 to Nov. 20. It is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It will also be open during the intermission of the theater productions on Nov. 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 and 13. The art department strives to staff our studio courses with excellent teachers who are also excellent artists in their particular disciplines, said art professor Craig Glidden. All of the faculty are consistently engaged in exhibitions locally, regionally and even internationally. We think it is vital to not just instruct, but to be inspirational examples of committed, active artists as well. The art program at Westminster College supports the study of art for majors, minors, prospective teachers and students for whom art is a lifelong avocation. Throughout the year, art is showcased in a number of exhibits. There will be a student art exhibit and a senior art exhibit, both coming in the spring semester. This year the exhibits will be displayed in the newly constructed Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory, in the Jewett Center for the Performing Arts. All exhibits are free to the public. For questions or more information on the faculty art exhibit you can contact Craig Glidden at 832-2330.- C3 Halloween Dance is Excuse for Disguises Zach R. Gaianis Staff Writer This year John Kerry and President Bush look-alikwill be partying with ghosts, pirates and skantily clad nurses. No its not the Democratic inauguration, but the Westminster Halloween Dance, sponsored by the Associated Students of Westminster College (ASWQ. This Friday is the modest girls excuse to dress provocatively for the sake of Halloween, and the es girl-to-g- uy ratio will probably be 10- - to-- l with the number of men who will be dressed up like women. According to many students, the annual Halloween Dance is one of the best nights of the year, bringing in a majority of Westminster students, along with a host of other students from surrounding colleges. Students are encouraged to dress up and there will be prizes for the best costiimes. Last years winning costume was truly original with three seniors dressing up exactly like Umpa Lumpas from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The dance will go from p.m. to 1 9 a.m. Tickets can be bought at the campus concierge for $5 and $4 with a can of food. Early ticket buyers will be entered into a raffle . and quicker access into the dance. Tickets will be $10 for all non-Westmins- students ter unaccompanied by a Westminster student For more information about the dance, contact Alisha Panunzio, ASWC vice president 832-27- 1 6.0J |