University Police will sponsor a women-only Rape Aggression Self-Defense Training on April 2, 3, and 4 from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. The class is free to all Buffalo State students, faculty, and staff. Class size is limited. Please register on the UPD website. Contact University Police lieutenant Richard Myers, ext. 5650, with any questions. Participants will be contacted with the location of the training upon acceptance of their completed registration form.

Judi Lopez del Moral, a senior librarian of the Niagara Frontier and an active member of the Buffalo-Lille Association Inc., will speak on Louis Etienne Le Couteulx de Caumont on Tuesday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Cleveland Hall 418. Le Couteulx was an adventurous representative of a famed French family who stood out among the early settlers of Buffalo during the early part of the nineteenth century. He was well known for his political connections in both France and the United States and for his generous heart as a philanthropist, thereby contributing to the development of Buffalo.

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

For more information, please contact Jean F. Gounard, director of international student affairs, ext. 5331.

The Burchfield Penney Art Center will host a lecture and bus tour of Burchfield’s city sites on Sunday, April 14, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Visit the places Charles E. Burchfield lived and see firsthand the sites he painted in Buffalo. Nancy Weekly, head of collections, Charles Cary Rumsey curator, and Burchfield scholar, will present a lecture during a coffee hour at the museum. Then we will tour the city on a coach bus as Weekly identifies buildings and locations, such as the site of the former M. H. Birge & Sons Company and the Niagara Mohawk Building. Brunch will be served at Butterwood Sweet and Savory at the Lafayette Hotel in downtown Buffalo. This tour is a wonderful way to see Buffalo from a new perspective in celebration of Buffalo State's Year of the City.

To reserve your space, please send a check made payable to the Burchfield Penney Art Center to Mary Kozub, Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14222. Space is limited. With questions, please contact Kozub, ext. 3156.

Consider becoming a Burchfield Penney member to receive a discount on this trip. Burchfield Penney members pay just $65, while the fee for nonmembers is $75.

This event is part of a four-day festival from April 11–14 called Cycles.

Please submit your summer and fall 2013 textbook requests by e-mail to Amy Young, textbook manager at Barnes & Noble at Buffalo State, as soon as possible. Please be sure to include your course name and number and the title, author, edition, and ISBN of the book(s) you will be using. The more information you can provide, the better.

You may also place your book request online through the bookstore website.

Thank you to all faculty members who have submitted their book requests on time this semester. It is a great help to us here at the bookstore to have all book orders submitted on time. If you have any questions regarding your book request, please feel free to e-mail Young.

All summer and fall 2013 time tickets or assigned registration dates are now viewable to students in Banner. In Self-Service Banner (SSB), check under Registration Status. Students can also view holds (if applicable), academic standing, student status, class, earned credit hours including transfer credits, and major. Time assignment is based on earned credit hours (Buffalo State earned hours plus transfer credits). Students are reminded that they should not count their current spring 2013 semester or "in progress" credit hours in their earned credit hour total. All registration activity can begin as early as 6:00 a.m. on the assigned date and then is continuous until established deadlines.

Summer/Fall 2013 Web Registration Schedule

Summer 2013 Deadline Calendar

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Summer/Fall 2013 Registration Flier

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Pop-Up Park Buffalo comes to the Burchfield Penney Art Center on Saturday, April 13, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. In one afternoon, a team of kids will design, build, play on, and tear down their own park in front of the museum. This event is part of a four-day festival from April 11 to 14 called Cycles.

“Pop-up” refers to an intervention, usually within the urban environment, that “pops up” temporarily for a specific need or event. Last May, Joy Kuebler Landscape Architect joined forces with architect Catherine Faust and head of the Tinkering School of Buffalo, Melissa Leopard, to begin the process of bringing a pop-up park to Buffalo.

Participation in Pop-Up Park Buffalo is free; however, reservations are required: please call Alana Ryder, curator for public and academic programs, at ext. 4534. Space is limited, and children must be between the ages of 8 and 18. Lunch will be provided. The event will take place rain or shine.

Roy Cook, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, will present "She-Hulk and the City" on Wednesday, March 20, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center South as the Buffalo State Philosophy and Humanities Department's Year of the City public lecture.

John Byrne's early 1990s run on The Sensational She-Hulk includes many subtle interactions between the fictional world that the She-Hulk inhabits and the actual city within which these comics were produced. Cook will explore the very real and very intentional overlap between the two, and discuss how it complicates and enriches our understanding of fiction within serialized narrative art.

Sponsored by the Philosophy and Humanities Department, the School of Natural and Social Sciences, and the Ethics Bowl Club. For more information, please contact Julian Cole, assistant professor of philosophy and humanities.

Thomas J. Reigstad's new book, Scribblin' for a Livin': Mark Twain's Pivotal Period in Buffalo, is available to purchase at the Barnes & Noble at Buffalo State Bookstore ($19). A book signing is scheduled for Monday, April 15, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Please call Kathy Hanaka, assistant manager, ext. 5509, for details.

The Buffalo State Community Academic Center (CAC) will host a West Side Roundtable Series for the Year of the City on Wednesday, March 20, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the CAC, 214 Grant Street, just south of Lafayette Avenue. The third event in the series, “Voices of the Arts in Education,” will include a panel featuring speakers from the Buffalo Public Schools and Buffalo State and community art leaders focusing on the importance of arts in local education. Grant Street Global Voices Public Art Project will be another focus.

R.S.V.P. to ext. 3289 or cac@buffalostate.edu.

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Visit the Starbucks Café at the Barnes & Noble at Buffalo State Bookstore between 2:00 and 4:00 p.m. Monday, March 18, through Friday, March 29, and get a tall latte and a slice of cheesecake for only $5.95. Don't forget, our cheesecakes are from the Cheesecake Factory!