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Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Center for Internet and Society. He wrote the book on creative rights in the digital age and helped mount the case against Microsoft. More recently, Lessig represented Web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Lessig was named one of Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing “against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online.�

Lessig is the author of The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. He also chairs the Creative Commons project. Professor Lessig is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a Board Member of the Center for the Public Domain, and a Commission Member of the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community at the University of Pennsylvania.

Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He was also a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7^th Circuit Court of Appeals, and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.

Lessig earned a B.A. in economics and a B.S. in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in philosophy from Cambridge, and a J.D. from Yale. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace. His newest course is “Law and Virtual Worlds.�

Lessig’s lecture titled “Rebuilding the Creative Commons,� will take place in Skinner Memorial Chapel at 10:50 a.m.

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Thursday, February 26

"Spatial Thinking": Barbara Tversky, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

Alumni Guest House meeting room, noon to 1:30 p.m.
Presentation from noon to 1 p.m. with discussion (optional) until 1:30 pm

Looking ahead: last LTC presentation for winter term

Tuesday, March 2: "Multiple Intelligences at Carleton: A look at students with language exemption"

Elizabeth Ciner, Associate Dean of the College

Alumni Guest House meeting room
Presentation: Noon to 1 p.m., with follow-up discussion (optional) until 1:30 pm.
Lunch provided for 50

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Wells Fargo is pleased to announce the availability of Membership Banking Services offered exclusively to employees of Wells Fargo commercial customers like Carleton. Wells Fargo Membership banking is free and offers discounted banking services. If you already have a Wells Fargo account, you can convert your existing account to a Wells Fargo Membership account; just contact your personal banker. Here are some of the Membership banking services.

• Free membership checking account and free checks
• Free standard travelers cheques and money orders
• Free Wells Fargo ATM and check card
• Wells Fargo membership savings account
• Wells Fargo VISA credit card
• And many other valuable discounts

Representatives from Wells Fargo will be on campus on Thursday, March 4 in Sayles-Hill. They invite you to stop in and learn more about the many Wells Fargo Membership benefits that Wells Fargo offers.

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Shelby Boardman, Dean of the College, and Samuel Demas, College Librarian are hosting a Faculty Scholarship Celebration Party for Carleton faculty and staff who have published books or major peer-reviewed journal articles, or produced significant creative works. Mark your calendar and come to the celebration:

Tuesday, May 11
Gould Library Athenaeum
4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

All faculty and staff who have produced a major scholarly or creative work this year will be honored at this time. So, if you have recently published, please e-mail Charlene Hamblin at chamblin@acs.carleton.edu as soon as possible. Also, if you know of an extremely modest person who may not call on his or her own, please notify Charlene so they can be acknowledged.

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Hello! My name is Sarah Jacobs. I am a senior special major in Dance interested in creating a dance/theater performance with Carleton staff for my senior comprehensive project.

That means every one of you—if you can walk, you can dance. This is not your average dance—there is no complicated choreography, confusing steps, or even memorization.

This project is intended to honor and acknowledge the Carleton staff and will begin with reflections on the subject of regret. Of course, my single perspective on regret is limited to my own experience and understanding. However, our perspectives, taken together, can generate a rich, deep understanding of this human emotion.

These workshops offer you a chance to work artistically with friends and co-workers, and—if you choose—to perform. No prior movement or performance experience is necessary—you have all the skills necessary to participate in making art!

Movement workshops will take place February 18 through the optional April 17 performance (3rd week spring term). Plan to attend any one (or more) of these weekly workshop times in the green room, located in the basement of the concert hall/arena theater:

Tuesdays, noon to 1 p.m.
Thursdays, 3:45 to 4:45 p.m.
Thursdays, 5:15 to 6:15 p.m.

Come, just come: if you’re a bit late, come. Need to bring your kids along? Good. Interested but just can’t make one of these times? Contact me; we’ll see what we can do.

I firmly believe that if you can walk, you can dance—and everyone has something important to say. Movement is a universal language with the power for self-expression, communication, and community building.

More about the process:

In the process of community dance-making, developing the subject material and performing the resulting piece is undertaken by community members and the dancer. Through a series of movement workshops the performance piece is built effortlessly. Material is generated on the spot. In other words, using what people say (text), the way they move to say it (movement), and everyday activities that tell about them and their experiences, a performance piece comes into being.

I have studied and worked with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in DC, which is a dance company focused on community dance-making and generally broadening arts participation. I also student-taught spring semester 2003 with Central Touring Theater, a social justice theater troupe of multicultural students at St. Paul Central High who create their own performance pieces on issues important to teens and their community. I look forward to applying my experience in the Carleton community.

Call me at x5868 or e-mail me at jacobss@carleton.edu if you have any questions. I look forward to the opportunity to work with all of you!

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Do you know a junior or senior who may not be an art superstar, but who nonetheless is deeply and joyfully involved in art? If so, nominate this student for a Toni Award.

The Carleton Toni Award Selection Committee is seeking nominations from faculty and staff for a student whose character reflects the values and outlook of a beloved dance and choreography teacher, Antoinette "Toni" Sostek. Those characteristics which best describe the ideal candidate are generosity of self and spirit; joy in practicing and sharing in the arts; appreciation of the arts and of his/her place in it; and eagerness to explore the possibilities of creative expression.

In order to nominate a student, the faculty/staff member need only campus mail or e-mail the nominee's name to Linda at lluedke@acs.carleton.edu. Although nominations close March 29, if you have someone in mind, don't wait! We will confirm all nominations.

For more information click below: http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/doc/information_students/honors/toni_award

or go to:

Dean of the College homepage
Information for Students
Honors, Awards & Prizes
Toni Award in the Arts

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The following awards will be presented to at the Honors Convo on May 28, 2004. Any member of the Carleton community (faculty, staff, students) may make nominations. Nominations will be accepted through Monday, April 5.

Please Include the student name, indicate the award/prize category, and a paragraph or two of support. Send nominations to: 1) the Office of the Dean of Students, Attn: Awards Selection Committee, F-DOS or 2) via e-mail to kspurgeo@acs.Carleton.edu.

Nominee Criteria

(Please see the Academic Catalog—Special Funds, or the Dean of the College Web site.

· CLASS OF 1966 DIVERSITY OF ACHIEVEMENT AWARD is given to the Carleton students who have made a unique or distinctive contribution to the College or the community. The recipients have demonstrated excellence in their own way in diverse areas such as the arts, community service, student government, academic research, or other areas of contribution. The recipients must qualify for financial aid under the College's standards.

· DANA AWARD FOR PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT (est. 1949) “. . .given annually as a recognition to that man in the senior class who during four years at Carleton College has shown superior personal achievement in developing a balanced combination of high scholarship, exceptional leadership abilities, an outstanding Christian character, and a symbol of confidence in his promise of future attainment in his chosen field of public service."

· DAVID JOHN FIELD PRIZE (est. 1984) was created to award that member of the senior class "whose non-athletic activities best exhibit the qualities of imagination, ingenuity, energy, verve, and zest for life which David Field exemplified while living with his fellow students at Carleton." This prize seeks to recognize that there are many definitions of success, and many fields in which to achieve it. Ingenious extracurricular doings may take as much thought as a well-crafted essay, and it may take as much creativity to have financial solvency as to make a grade. The winner of this prize should be an individual who has shown affection, respect, and regard for Carleton and a true understanding of an institution dedicated to the ideal of humane and liberal education.

· MAITLAND - WILL PRIZE Pastor Kirbyjon H. Caldwell '75 and his wife, Suzette, established this prize in honor of David Maitland and Robert Will, both of whom had a major impact on Pastor Caldwell when he was a student. The purpose of the prize is to recognize qualities that are important in defining a Carleton education: in this instance, activity in one's community.

· MARIA WIESE ENDOWED PRIZE (est. 1992). Mary's respect for education, her profound love for students, and her understanding of the place of education in their futures moved her to devote herself unconditionally to them. She advised them, comforted them, fed them, brought them to her home, served as their conscience. Through these efforts and her efforts as campus-wide Tutoring Coordinator, she made it possible for many to graduate from Carleton who would not have made it through without her. Qualities that she valued in others and that formed the core of her own character were cultural pride, kindness, perseverance, self-reliance, discipline, and respect and care for people. Nominees should be members of the senior class who embody the above qualities and who have demonstrated great determination and perseverance in overcoming challenging circumstances. In an effort to preserve the memory of the pride she had in her Latino culture, preference will be given to Latino students.

· SCOTT TYLER BERGNER PRIZE (est. 1978) “. . .awarded each year to a member of the senior class who has an outstanding academic record and who has demonstrated excellence of thought and character."

· SECOND CENTURY STUDENT AWARD “. . .to honor each year that member of the Carleton student body who has made an outstanding contribution to the College through significant service to others. The award is not intended to recognize academic or political success, but rather to honor service on- or off-campus which in other ways enriches and strengthens the institution and the lives of its members."

· TECHNOS INTERNATIONAL PRIZE will be awarded each year to a graduating senior with a record of academic excellence and an interest in promoting international understanding. It is balanced by a similar award given by Carleton to a student at Technos International College in Tokyo.

Questions: Contact Kate Spurgeon, Assistant to the Dean of Students (Severance 110—x4248) or kspurgeo@acs.carleton.edu