Featured Events:
Inextricably Bound: Creighton University and North Omaha
Willie Barney, Executive Director of the North Omaha Empowerment Network and the 2012 Creighton University Martin Luther King President’s Legacy Award winner, will be speaking on the connection between Creighton University and the North Omaha community.
The talk will take place on Thursday, March 1, 2012 from 4:00 – 5:00 pm in the Harper Center Ahmanson Ballroom and will be followed by a networking reception.
The talk will focus on how the bond between Creighton University and North Omaha can be strengthened and better developed.
Key topics include: the historical context; the “great divide” of Cuming Street; the State of African-Americans and North Omaha; the current relationships between Creighton University, African-Americans and North Omaha; and the future promises and possibilities of a united Creighton University and North Omaha.
This talk is free and open to the public!
Creighton Sponsors: Affirmative Action Office, Community Relations Network, Creighton Center for Service and Justice, Creighton Legal Clinic, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work.
Spring Break Service Trips Send-Off Service
Beginning Friday, March 2nd, 175 Creighton Students will embark on a journey to 22 host sites across the country. They will spend a week with their hosts completing service while living in community with the host and each other.
Show your support for these 175 students by attending the Send-Off Service Thursday, March 1st at 9:00pm in St. John’s. The service will be followed by a fair trade hot chocolate social in Lower St. John’s.
Events this week:
Project CURA Savor the Flavor Dinner and Fundraiser
CUASA Annual Soul Food Dinner
Justice Walking 2012-2013 Applications Due
Blacks in Cinema and Black Theater
Film: AbUSed
Film: “Healing Through Remembring: We Are Not Afraid”
Spring Break Service Trips Send-Off Service
Volunteer Registration Deadline Hand-in-Hand
Inextricably Bound: Creighton University and North Omaha
Women’s Words of Wisdom
Volunteers Needed for Ollie Webb Center
CRS Fair Trade Pre-Sale
Events More than One Week Away:
Campus Ministry Retreat Leader Applications Due
The Secret Histories of Modern Torture
Project Homeless Connect Omaha
Friday, February 24
Project CURA Savor the Flavor Dinner and Fundraiser
Project CURA is a Creighton School of Medicine organization that sends medical supplies and students around the world to provide free medical care to the native population. The Savor the Flavor Dinner and Silent Auction is the primary fundraiser. Join CURA for this silent auction and enjoy ethnic food from each CURA country. The featured speaker for this event is Dr. Theresa Townley. The dinner will take place from 6-9 pm in the Harper Center Ballroom. Tickets are $30 for adults and $10 for students. Cocktail attire required. For more information, please visit http://medicine.creighton.edu/projectcure/index.html.
Sunday, February 26
CUASA Annual Soul Food Dinner
Come and join Creighton University’s African American Student Association for food, fun, and entertainment. This event will be in the Harper Center Ballroom on 20th and Cass St. on Creighton’s campus.Tickets are on sale now.
Student tickets are $12 and Non-students are $16, tables are $100 and seat 10 people. Invite your family and friends for a night they will not forget. This event will take place on Sunday, February 26, 2012 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm.
For more information, please contact Luz Colon-Rodriguez at lrodriguez@creighton.edu or (402) 280-2819.
Monday, February 27
Justice Walking 2012-2013 Applications Due
Justice Walking will be open to a group of twelve to fifteen students who will be trained as volunteers for AseraCare Hospice. For an entire year, students will continue this service of compassion and focus on the social issue of poverty. The students will have the opportunity to build community as they serve together, share their challenges and consolations, and experience a service/immersion trip building for Habitat for Humanity during their fall break.
The focus for the year will be “poverty” and students will be invited to cross borders in respect to the poor. Who are the poor among us? How do we stand in solidarity with the poor and exercise preferential option for the poor? What are the socio-economic, political and religious factors that are operative in our awareness and concern for the poor? What implications does our journey with the poor have on our personal and communal spirituality as well as our vocational discernment?
To learn more, or to apply, please visit: http://www.creighton.edu/ministry/campusministry/ff/justicewalking/jw201213/index.php.
Tuesday, February 28
Blacks in Cinema and Black Theater
John Beasley will present “Blacks in Cinema and Black Theater” on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. in the Harper Center, room 3023. Beasley is an Omaha actor and the founder of the John Beasley Theater and Workshop. He is best known for his role as Irv Harper on the TV series Everwood and his recurring roles on CSI, Millennium and The Pretender. He also starred in The Sum of All Fears, The Apostle, The Mighty Ducks, The Rock and the remake of Walking Tall. He is currently starring on the sitcom Have Faith and will be producing a biopic of Marlin Briscoe called The Magician with Barry Josephson, Doug Falconer and others.
Wednesday, February 29
Film: AbUSed
“AbUSed: The Postville Raid” documents the effects of the largest and most expensive immigration raid in the history of the United States, which occurred in the small town of Postville, IA. Over the course of four days, immigration enforcement shackled and processed nearly 300 workers in group proceedings that violated due process. Through a series of personal narratives, this film examines this brutal process and the effects the raid left behind on a devastated community.
This free showing will take place at the Mary Riepma Ross Theater at 313 North 13th St, Lincoln, NE at 6:00 pm. This event is hosted by Nebraska Appleseed, the Lincoln Chapter of NAACP, the Progressive Student Coalition, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Institute for Ethnic Studies.
Thursday, March 1
Film: “Healing Through Remembring: We Are Not Afraid”
The Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, Creighton University School of Law, and Film Streams at the Ruth Sokolof Theater will present “Healing Through Remembering: We Are Not Afraid” and “We Carried Your Secrets.” The screening will be followed by a conversation with Declan Keeney.
Keeney joined the BBC at the age of 21 and worked in England and Europe, based mostly in Belfast, for 13 years. He trained with the SAS.Metropolitan Police in London to work in hazardous environments (i.e. war zones) and public order situations (i.e. riots). He did a significant amount of work covering the Drumcree Street Protests, Holycross Primary disputes in the Ardoyne and the Shankhill Loyalists feuds in Balfast. Later, he trained as a broadcast cameraman journalist at the famous BBC Bristol Journalism Centre where he transitioned to a producer and director. Keeney was present for the signing of the Good Friday agreement. After working for the BBC, Keeney took a faculty position at Film Studies, Queen’s University Belfast, one of the top 20 universities in the United Kingdom (Russell Group). His current research involves post conflict and post war documentary, dealing with issues of truth recovery, storytelling, representation in post conflict societies and the role of film art in social justice, social change and transitioning of divided communities.For more information, contact Don Doll at dollsj@creighton.edu.
Spring Break Service Trips Send-Off Service
Beginning Friday, March 2nd, 175 Creighton Students will embark on a journey to 22 host sites across the country. They will spend a week with their hosts completing service while living in community with the host and each other.
Show your support for these 175 students by attending the Send-Off Service Thursday, March 1st at 9:00pm in St. John’s. The service will be followed by a fair trade hot chocolate social in Lower St. John’s.
Volunteer Registration Deadline Hand-in-Hand
Creighton Campus Ministry welcomes you to join us for Hand-in-Hand 2012! Be part of the fun as we welcome Omaha-area adults with developmental disabilities for an afternoon of food, fun and being together! Hand in Hand is March 25, from 1:00 - 4:00pm. The volunteer registration deadline is March 1st. For more information: http://www.creighton.edu/ministry/campusministry/ab/handinhand2012/index.php.
Inextricably Bound: Creighton University and North Omaha
Willie Barney, Executive Director of the North Omaha Empowerment Network and the 2012 Creighton University Martin Luther King President’s Legacy Award winner, will be speaking on the connection between Creighton University and the North Omaha community.
The talk will take place on Thursday, March 1, 2012 from 4:00 – 5:00 pm in the Harper Center Ahmanson Ballroom and will be followed by a networking reception.
The talk will focus on how the bond between Creighton University and North Omaha can be strengthened and better developed.
Key topics include: the historical context; the “great divide” of Cuming Street; the State of African-Americans and North Omaha; the current relationships between Creighton University, African-Americans and North Omaha; and the future promises and possibilities of a united Creighton University and North Omaha.
This talk is free and open to the public! Creighton Sponsors: Affirmative Action Office, Community Relations Network, Creighton Center for Service and Justice, Creighton Legal Clinic, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work.
Women’s Words of Wisdom
Women’s Words of Wisdom, coordinated by the Eileen B. Lieben Center for Women, is the kick-off to Women’s History Month. This year’s theme for Women’s History Month is Women’s Education, Women’s Empowerment. We hope to educate and empower the Creighton community through the stories of inspiring and influential women throughout history. This celebration includes voices from Creighton students, faculty, and staff sharing about a diverse range of women that inspire them. The showcase will begin at 7:30 pm in the Harper Center Auditorium and will be followed by a reception in Harper Center room 2066. For more information, please contact Elizabeth Boos at elizabethboos@creighton.edu.
Friday, March 2
Volunteers Needed for Ollie Webb Center
The Ollie Webb Center is offering a Disability Awareness Training entitled, “Awareness: The Key to Friendship.” This program is directed towards elevating elementary student’s awareness of and sensitivity to the day-to-day obstacles faced by people with disabilities. Through the program, each student will experience a learning disability, hearing impairment, physical disability, and visual impairment by engaging in four different activity centers. Eight volunteers are needed to assist with running the centers. This event would run from 9-11 am at Patriot Elementary School. If you are interested in assisting, please RSVP to Lisa Dougherty at ldougherty@olliewebbinc.org.
CRS Fair Trade Pre-Sale
For the past three years, the Peace and Justice Cooperative, in collaboration with the Creighton Center for Service and Justice (CCSJ), has sponsored a Fair Trade Sale. Catholic Relief Services has partnered with SERRV, which strives to eradicate poverty through marketing the handcrafts and foods of small-scale artisans and farmers in developing countries.
This semester, we are excited to offer pre-ordering of these products which allows you to choose the exact items you would like to purchase (you will be notified if we are unable to fill any portion of your order). In addition, you will pay NO shipping fees!
Please visit the SERRV website to browse the products and then fill out the survey* providing the item number of the product(s) you wish to purchase. (example: Item # 06380).
*In filling out the survey, you are committing to purchase the item(s) you list.
Pre-ordering will be open through Friday, March 2nd
Payment will be accepted at the time of pickup. We will only take Cash or Check (made out to the Creighton Center for Service and Justice).
For more information, please visit the CCSJ’s website, or contact Kim Berberich.
Upcoming Events:
Campus Ministry Retreat Leader Applications Due
(Wednesday, March 14)
Student leadership is a very important part of Campus Ministry at Creighton, and our retreat leaders are students who choose to take an active role in sharing their faith and their experience with fellow students. It is this peer-to-peer relationship that allows a healthy and vibrant faith community to flourish on our campus. The leadership roles vary, depending on the retreat, but Campus Ministry is generally looking for students with previous retreat experience, previous leadership experience, and a desire to accompany fellow students on the journey of faith.
Campus Ministry is looking for retreat leaders for the 2012-2013 school year right now! All you have to do is fill out an online application form. Applications are due Wednesday, March 14 and applicants will be notified by the end of March.
For more information, please contact Jen Kennedy-Croft (jenniferkennedy-croft@creighton.edu) or Craig Zimmer (craigzimmer@creighton.edu), the Campus Ministry Retreats Team!
The Secret Histories of Modern Torture
(Thursday, March 15)
“The Secret Histories of Modern Torture” will be presented by Darius Rejali of Reed College at 7:00 p.m. in the Harper Center Auditorium.
Rejali will trace the development and application of torture techniques over the last century to reach startling conclusions. As the twentieth century progressed, he argues, democracies not only tortured more, and more indiscriminately, but in the United States, Britain, and France pioneered and exported techniques that have become the lingua franca of modern torture: methods that leave no marks. Under the watchful eyes of reporters and human rights activists, low-level authorities in the world’s oldest democracies were the first to learn that to scar a victim was to advertise iniquity and invite scandal. Long before the CIA even existed, police and soldiers turned instead to “clean” techniques, such as torture by electricity, ice, water, noise, drugs, and stress positions. As democracy and human rights spread after World War II, so too did these methods. Rejali takes up the challenging question of whether torture works and will also address what to expect of the Obama administration and the prospects for the future and prevention of torture international a decade after 9/11.
Book signing and reception to follow the lecture. This lecture is sponsored by the Fr. Henry W. Casper SJ Professorship in History.
Project Homeless Connect Omaha
(Friday, March 23)
Volunteers still needed for Project Homeless Connect Omaha.
Project Homeless Connect Omaha is in need of about 150 more volunteers during the first shift (8:15 – 11:30 am) and 40 more volunteers during the second shift (11:15 am – 2:30 pm). Volunteers will assist a homeless guest in filling out a basic in-take form and navigating the guest throughout the process of accessing professional services offered at the event. There are two time slots for volunteers to sign up for. For more information, or to register as a volunteer for the March 23rd event, please visit http://blogs.creighton.edu/ccsj/project-homeless-connect-omaha/volunteer-registration/
As members of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature, we believe that we have a moral responsibility to promote the just and ethical treatment of workers, and to intervene when powerful individuals or institutions seek to undermine their fundamental rights as workers and as human beings. We are concerned that the AAR and SBL are using the Hyatt McCormick and the Hyatt Regency hotels for their 2012 meetings despite the fact that the workers have called for a boycott of these hotels.
