Campus Ministry Lenten Offerings
During the Wednesdays of Lent there will be an opportunity to reflect and share on the coming week's Gospel from 12:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m. in the Campus Ministry Conference Room (OM219). These sessions will be informal, come and go as your schedule allows. Please bring your lunch.  Tea, coffee and water will be provided. Everyone is welcome. Take a special time out this Lenten season. For more information, contact Sue Fischer, associate campus minister, at Ext. 2420. 

Campus Ministry is offering additional ways to experience the Lenten season through prayer, service, fasting and reconciliation. The theme for the season is “Be still and know that I am God.”  Highlights include Prayer Crossings (prayer groups that will meet weekly throughout Lent), Habitat for Humanity, Canisius for Buffalo service days, and evening song services in Christ the King Chapel. Prayer intentions are offered in the back of the chapel and in the Office of Campus Ministry.  For information, click here or stop in Campus Ministry for a Lent pamphlet.

ArtsCanisius Presents Canisius College Music Ensembles
ArtsCanisius presents the Canisius College Music Ensembles in Concert on Sunday, March 7 at 7 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center. Tickets are $5 general admission; $3 for students.

The concert will include performances by the Canisius College Concert Band, Matthew S. Cool, director; the Canisius College Chorale, Frank Scinta, director and the Canisius College Chamber Orchestra, Ansgarius Aylward, director.

For more information, contact the Fine Arts Department at (716) 888-2542 or visit the Web site here.

Contemporary Writer’s Series Welcomes Award-Winning Author
The Canisius College Contemporary Writers Series welcomes celebrated author Edwidge Danticat to campus on Thursday, March 11 at 8 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center. Danticat will read from her works and answer questions from the audience.

She has written several novels as well a collection of stories, Krik? Krak!, which was a finalist for a National Book Award.  Danticat was named one of the 20 “Best Young American Novelists” by Granta magazine in 1996, and The New Yorker selected her as one of the “Best Twenty Writers for the Twenty-First Century” three years later.

For more information, please call Dr. Mick Cochrane, professor of English, at Ext. 2662 or click here. 

CSW to Host Dessert and Conversation
The Committee on the Status of Women will host Dessert and Conversation on Thursday, March 11 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the Regis Room South.  Bring your lunch or pick some up in the dining hall and catch up on what’s going on around campus.

This month’s prize drawing celebrates Women’s History Month. See how many famous women you can match up with their famous quotes.  For more information, please call Barb Wozniak in the Office of Student Retention at Ext. 3737 or contact her via E-mail at wozniakb@canisius.edu.

Canisius College Shoes for Shelter 5K Run/Walk
It’s time to hit the pavement!  The Canisius College Shoes for Shelter 5K Run/Walk presented by BlueCross BlueShield will take place on Sunday, March 28 in Forest Lawn Cemetery.  New this year is a one-mile fun walk, which will take place at 11:30 a.m. The 5K run/walk will start at 12 p.m.  Bring along an extra pair of shoes to donate to the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Last year, more than 700 pairs of shoes were collected!

The first 400 registered participants will receive a free, long-sleeved t-shirt designed by Jenn Paterson BA '95 MS '01, director of creative services.  Prizes will be awarded to first, second and third place in each age category, and to the top finishers from Canisius students, faculty and staff and alumni. The cost to register is $17 for adults, $10 for students and children 14 and under.

For more information, contact John Maddock, associate director of athletics for external affairs at Ext. 2977 or via Email at maddock@canisius.edu.

Canisius College Program in the African American Experience Welcomes Speakers
The Canisius College Program in the African American Experience will welcomes Melba Patillo Beals of the Little Rock Nine to campus on Wednesday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m. in the Grupp Fireside Lounge.  The event is free and open to the public.

As a 15-year-old student in Little Rock, Arkansas, Beals found herself enmeshed in a civil rights battle that rocked the country and changed her life forever. In September 1957, she and eight other black teenagers faced angry mobs as they tried to enter Central High School, which the U.S. Supreme Court required. A former television reporter and author of best-selling memoirs, Beals is a dynamic, inspirational and humorous speaker.

For more information on these events, contact Dr. Bruce Dierenfield, professor of history at Ext. 2683 or click here.