Polish Pianist to Perform at Canisius
Canisius College welcomes pianist Slawomir P. Dobrzanksi on Friday, October 14 at 7:00 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center.  The concert is sponsored by the Permanent Chair of Polish Culture at Canisius College. Tickets are $7; students are free with ID.  For tickets or for more information, call the Office of Modern Languages at Ext. 2835.

CSW to Host Dessert and Conversation
The Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) will host Dessert and Conversation on Tuesday, October 18 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the Regis Room South. Bring (or buy) your lunch and join your co-workers to catch up on the latest campus news. Dessert and beverages are provided. For more information, contact Barb Wozniak at Ext. 3737 or wozniakb@canisius.edu.

Canisius Welcomes Nationally Known Law Commentator
Douglas W. Kmiec, professor of constitutional law and Caruso Family Chair in Constitutional Law, will speak on Thursday, October 27 at 8:15 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center.  Kmiec’s lecture, “Catholic Faith in Public Life – Of Thomas More, JFK and John Roberts,” is sponsored by the Frank G. Raichle Lecture Series on Law in American Society.  The lecture is free and open to the public.

The Frank G. Raichle Lecture Series is sponsored by the Frank G. Raichle Pre-Law Center, established at the college in 1981.  The center was made possible by a gift from the late Frank Raichle, Esq., a leader of the American Bar Association and former member of the Canisius College Board of Trustees.  For more information regarding Kmiec’s lecture, contact Peter J. Galie, PhD, director of the Raichle Pre-Law Center, at Ext. 2699. 

Canisius Welcomes Rabbi Goldstein
On Thursday, November 3, Canisius welcomes Rabbi Elyse Goldstein, director and rosh yeshivah of Kolel: The Adult Centre for Liberal Jewish Learning in Toronto. Goldstein will conduct a workshop, “Amazing Heroines: Feminist Analysis of Biblical Text,” at 2:30 p.m. in the Regis Room. The workshop will explore profeminists in the Bible: Sarah, Rachel, Leah and the Daughters of Zelophehad.

Later that day, at 7:30 p.m. in the Regis Room, Goldstein will present a lecture, entitled “Can We Still Meet the G-d of the Bible.” The events are sponsored by Canisius College, the college’s Conversations in Christ & Culture Lecture Series, Temple Beth Zion, Buffalo Hadassah and the Women’s Education Committee of Jewish Federation.  For more information, contact the Department of History at Ext. 2690 or click here.

Web Tool Training in November
Find out how simple it is to build and maintain your department’s Web page. The Canisius Web Office will hold Web tool training sessions on Friday, November 4 at 1:30 p.m. or Friday, November 18 at 1:30 p.m. in Wehle 305.  The course covers the basics on how the campus-wide Web tool works, but it is also appropriate for current users who may need a refresher. Learn how to convert your department’s pages into the new Canisius layouts and templates that will debut in the coming weeks.

On Thursday, November 17 at 2:30 p.m. in Lyons 118, a session will be held on how to write content for a Web site.  Topics will include appropriate writing styles for the Web, knowing your audience, and best practices in writing for the Web. 

To register for any of the sessions, send an E-mail to Chuck Pustelnik, Web editor, at pustelnc@canisius.edu.  Space is limited to 24 people for each Web tool training session and 40 people for the writing session.

First Annual Canisius College Writers Series
Come hear Canisius College’s own authors read from their works during the first annual Canisius College Writers Series event on Monday, November 7 at 6 p.m. in the Marie Maday Theatre.  The evening will feature readings by Mick Cochrane, PhD, professor of English, Sandra Cookson, PhD, chair of English, and Amy Wolf, PhD, assistant professor of English. For more information, contact Eric Gansworth, professor of English at Ext. 2113 or send an E-mail to ganswore@canisius.edu.

Canisius to Host Sweat Lodge Seminar
Can you stand the heat? Learn how to construct, conduct, and participate in Native American sweat lodges when Canisius welcomes Donald Moccasin, a Sicangu Lakota from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, on November 12 at 9:00 a.m. in the college’s Marie Maday Theater.  The event is free and open to the public. 

Moccasin will lead the seminar and instruct participants in the construction and preparation of sweat lodges, as well as songs and rituals used in the ceremonies. For more information contact Keith Burich, PhD at Ext. 3284 or burich@canisius.edu. 

ArtsCanisius Events
October ArtsCanisius events include a studio art exhibit by Russian artist Valentin Melik, a Meet-the-Faculty Recital featuring Richard Falkenstein and a piano recital by the winner of the New York Piano Competition, Auspices of Stecher and Horowitz Foundation. In November, the Clara String Quartet performs, Sculptor Daniel Sinclair exhibits his works, and Canisius Night at Kleinhans presents “Let’s Face the Music and Dance.” Click here for more information.

Sarbanes Speaks at Canisius College

Senator Paul S. Sarbanes (D-MD) and Peter Canisius Distinguished University Professor Hon. John J. LaFalce ’61. Sarbanes spoke in the Grupp Fireside Lounge on Monday, October 3 about the Sarbanes-Oxley Law. Sarbanes’ lecture was part of the Canisius College Distinguished Business Leaders Lecture Series created by LaFalce.

Canisius College Community Day

Michael Marrone, director of development, and his daughter, Anna-Claire, a junior at Holy Angels Academy, take a break from landscaping duty at the Little Portion Friary.  Nearly 150 Canisius students, faculty and staff lent a hand at various local agencies for Canisius College Community Day.