Below are a variety of items about upcoming events and other news notes on the campus of Youngstown State University.

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Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 17, 18 and 19, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The third annual Tunnel of Oppression will be in the Presidential Suites of Kilcawley Center. The Tunnel of Oppression is a walk–through visual exhibit in which many forms of oppression are depicted to act as a catalyst for participants to become more aware of prejudice and discrimination. The interactive experience, which includes video clips, audio segments, and written materials, is coordinated by the Office of Housing and Residence Life.

Tuesday, Nov. 18, 9:30 a.m. “Is Entrepreneurship for You?”, a panel discussion on entrepreneurship, will be held in the Gallery in Kilcawley Center. Sponsored by the YSU Williamson College of Business Administration and the Monus Entrepreneurship Center, the event is free and open to the public and is part of YSU’s Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Tuesday, Nov. 18, 5:30 p.m. Dinner and panel discussion titled “Women Entrepreneurs: Increase Your Possibilities in Today’s World” will be held at the DeBartolo Stadium Club in Stambaugh Stadium. Sponsored by the YSU Williamson College of Business Administration, the Emerging Markets Initiative, Partners for Workplace Diversity, and Youngstown Business and Professional Women, the event is part of YSU’s Global Entrepreneurship Week. To register, call 330–941–3064.

Wednesday, Nov. 19, 12:15 p.m. Tuba/Euphonium Recital is featured in a Music at Noon concert in the Butler Institute of American Art. Free.

Wednesday, Nov. 19, 4 p.m. Reception at the Youngstown Business Incubator for Youngstown Business Incubator portfolio companies, board members and YSU faculty. YSU WCBA and the College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics are the sponsors. The event is part of YSU’s Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Wednesday, Nov. 19, 7:05 p.m. YSU women’s basketball team, under first–year coach Cindy Martin, opens its home schedule against Buffalo in Beeghly Center. The women also take on Niagara 5:15 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, in Beeghly Center.

Thursday, Nov. 20, 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. “GO Global”, an export preparedness seminar for small and medium–sized businesses, will be held in Tod Hall on the YSU campus. Ohio Small Business Development Center at YSU and the YSU Williamson Center for International Business are sponsors. The event is part of YSU’s Global Entrepreneurship Week. Reservations are required. Call the SBDC at 330–941–2140 to register. 

Thursday, Nov. 20, 12:30 p.m. An Entrepreneurship Symposium, featuring Michael Broderick, founder and chief executive officer of Turning Technologies in Youngstown, will be held at McKay Auditorium in Beeghly Hall at YSU. Sponsored by the Monus Entrepreneurship Center, the event is free and open to the public and is part of YSU’s Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Thursday, Nov. 20. YSU Board of Trustees meets on the following schedule in the President’s Conference Room on the second floor of Tod Hall: 1 p.m., Academic and Student Affairs Committee; 1:15 p.m., Executive Committee; 2 p.m., Finance and Facilities Committee. Trustees will then conduct a special meeting at 3 p.m. in the Trustees Meeting Room on the first floor of Tod Hall.

Friday, Nov. 21, 8 p.m. Caroline Oltmanns, professor of music in the Dana School of Music, presents a fall piano recital at the Ford Family Recital Hall, Eleanor Beecher Flad Pavilion, DeYor Performing Arts Center in downtown Youngstown. See News Brief below.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 21, 22 and 23. The YSU Invitational swim meet takes place in Beeghly Natatorium.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 21, 22 and 23. University Theater at YSU presents Little Women, The Musical, in the Ford Theater on the YSU campus. Curtain time for Friday and Saturday performances is 7:30 p.m. Sunday matinee performances start at 3 p.m. For tickets, call 330–941–3105.

Saturday, Nov. 22, 7:35 p.m. YSU men’s basketball plays Allegheny in Beeghly Center.

YSU’s yo* magazine wins national press prize
The yo*, a special magazine published by the student newspaper of Youngstown State University, was awarded the Best in Show prize by the Associated Collegiate Press at its Fall 2008 Convention in Kansas City.

The magazine placed first in the feature/special audience college magazine category.

“The special audience award is a great fit for the yo* magazine, whose readers and producers know what it’s like to live in a place whose rough edges and insides call out to be heard,” said Cristina Cala, a 2008 YSU graduate who served as editor of the yo* for 2007 and 2008. “Youngstown just has good stories to tell, and we wanted to tell them.”

Indiana University’s Inside received second place and Distraction, published by the University of Miami, won third place. Newspapers from large and small colleges and universities across the country entered the competition.

“Receiving this national honor is absolutely thrilling and echoes not only the motivation behind the magazine’s conception – to show that compelling things come out of our Valley – but the potential that Youngstown has to keep proving itself,” Cala said.

The award–winning Spring 2008 issue featured work by Chelsea Pflugh, Britta Snowberger, Richard Boccia, Brian Cetina, Sarah Sole, Ashley Tate, Cheryl Thompson, Emmalee Torisk, Tony Lucente and Cala.

Mary Beth Earnheardt, adviser of The Jambar, YSU’s student newspaper, said the competition was strong and that it is an incredible honor for the *yo to have won first place.

Earnheardt was at the Kansas City convention with 12 YSU students when the award was announced. The trip was sponsored by the YSU Provost’s Office, the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, the English Department, The Jambar and the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.

The yo*, published each semester, focuses on life in the Mahoning Valley and targets the under 30–year–old audience. The most recent issue of the yo* featured stories about the Foster Theater and abandoned areas in the Mahoning Valley.

Sarah Sole, editor of The Jambar, and Richard Boccia, managing editor of The Jambar, are this year’s editors.

The *yo started in 2007 after students asked journalism faculty to help them obtain more experience writing and publishing magazine–style stories. Tim Francisco, a journalism faculty member, worked closely with the *yo and taught the university’s first journalism magazine writing course in fall 2007. The Jambar plans to publish another edition of the *yo on Nov. 18.

Alyssa Lenhoff, director of journalism, said she and other journalism faculty are now trying to find permanent funding for printing of the *yo and are working with university officials to guarantee its long–term existence. Previous issues have been published with funds provided by the YSU Student Government Association.

“We know that the *yo serves a valuable purpose for our students and for its readers,” Lenhoff said. “We are gratified that outside, independent experts see that some of our students are capable of producing top–notch work.”

YSU Centennial Celebration concert set for Nov. 24
In celebration of Youngstown State University’s Centennial, the YSU Wind Ensemble and Concert Band will hold a special concert 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24 in Powers Auditorium in the DeYor Performing Arts Complex in downtown Youngstown.

The program is entitled “2009 Band–O–Rama: YSU Centennial Celebration!”

The evening features performances by the Concert Band, under the direction of Dr. Christopher Heidenreich, and the YSU Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Stephen L. Gage. Robert E. Fleming, YSU professor of music and director of bands, emeritus, will guest conduct the Wind Ensemble.

Tickets for the concert are $6.50, $4.00, and free for anyone showing a valid YSU ID and are available at the DeYor Box Office, 330–744–0264.

Special agent explores careers in the FBI

A special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be on the Youngstown State University campus this week to talk to students about careers in the FBI.

The meeting will be 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, in Room 132 of DeBartolo Hall. Information will be provided concerning special agent careers as well as professional support positions in the FBI.

FBI special agents are responsible for conducting sensitive national security investigations and for enforcing more than 300 federal statutes. Special agents work on matters including terrorism, foreign counterintelligence, cyber crime, organized crime, white–collar crime, public corruption, civil rights violations, financial crime, bribery, bank robbery, extortion, kidnapping, air piracy, interstate criminal activity, fugitive and drug–trafficking matters, and other violations of federal statutes.

For more information, contact Christina Hardy, YSU Career Planning coordinator, at 330–941–3514.

Oltmanns performs fall piano recital this Friday

Caroline Oltmanns, professor of music at Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music, will present a fall piano recital 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21 at the Ford Family Recital Hall, Eleanor Beecher Flad Pavilion, DeYor Performing Arts Center, in downtown Youngstown. This concert was originally scheduled for September 22.

Oltmanns, an international Steinway artist, will perform a series of musical selections from Ludwig Van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Fr￩d￩ric Chopin and South African composer James Wilding, who will be in attendance.

Oltmanns has performed as a soloist in Europe, South Africa and North America, with many of her performances broadcast via radio and television. In addition, she has presented master classes and workshops throughout the world, and her students have been accepted into prestigious music programs here and abroad, many pursuing outstanding music careers. She recently released her third solo album on Filia Mundi with Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata. Her world premieres and recordings of commissioned concertos for piano and symphonic wind ensemble include works by James Wilding, Till McIvor Meyn, Edward Largent, Rainer Schmitz, Dave Morgan and Tom Janson.

Oltmanns is a native of Frth, Germany. She received a performance diploma from the Staatliche Musikhochschule Freiburg, and she consequently accepted a Fulbright Scholarship and the prestigious Stipendium der deutschen Wirtschaft for graduate and doctoral studies at the University of Southern California.

Tickets for the concert are $6.50, $4 and free for anyone showing a valid YSU ID and are available at the DeYor Box Office, 330–744–0264.

Nominations accepted for YSU Heritage Award
The deadline is Dec. 31 for nominations for the Youngstown State University Heritage Award.

The Heritage Award is the most prestigious honor bestowed upon former YSU faculty and administrative. The award honors staff that has made outstanding contributions to the university. Nominees are screened by a 16–person committee comprised of alumni, faculty, staff and YSU Retiree Association representatives.

Recipients are honored with plaques mounted on the wall of the concourse of Maag Library on the YSU campus. Fifty–five awards have been made since the program was initiated in 1981. The names of all past Heritage Award recipients are available by visiting the YSU Human Resources website at www.cc.ysu.edu/hr and clicking on Heritage Award.

Nomination forms are available at the HR website and at the Office of Alumni Relations. For more information or to obtain a nomination form, call or e–mail Linda Moore in the Office of Human Resources at 330–941–2137 or lmoore@ysu.edu.

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