HP NEWS November 7, 2008 In This Issue: --Honors Program Dates and Deadlines --New Announcements -- Dates and Deadlines: First Semester 2008-09: Friday, November 14: Last day to submit Thesis Completion Form for December Graduation Monday, December 8: Completed thesis due for December Graduation Friday, December 5: Statement of Academic Interest due for students completing the fourth semester of study in the Honors Program Friday, December 5: Memorandum of Study due for students completing the sixth semester of study in the Honors Program -- New Announcements: Peer Mentor Applications: Applications for the 2009-2010 academic year are available outside the main Honors office or from Ann Koopmann. They are due Monday, Nov. 10. December graduating seniors: If you have not already done so, please email your intent to graduate, your thesis title and these advisor to Dr. Berger immediately: pberger1@unl.edu Reminder: E. N. Thompson Forum tickets are no longer available in the main HP Office. To obtain them, contact the Lied Ticket Office. Nebraska Honors Forum Upcoming Events Fall Semester: Nov. 18: (E.N. Thompson Forum) Theodore D. Sorensen: America and the World, 1962-2008: Contrasts and Contradictions Dec. 9: Professor Thomas McGowan: Educating for Democracy: The Real and the Ideal of American Public Schools Registration reminders: First year students: must complete at least 6 H hours with a grade of B or better in this academic year. Sophomores: must complete at least 6 H hours with a grade of B or better in this academic year, regardless of the number of H hours completed in the first year. Must complete at least 15 H hours by the end of second semester. Must submit the Statement of Academic Interest by Fri. Apr. 10. Juniors: must complete at least 3 H hours with a grade of B or better in this academic year, regardless of the number of H hours completed previously. Must submit Memorandum of Study by Fri. Apr. 10. Seniors: to graduate from the HP, must complete at least 24 H hours over the course of your academic career, including 189H, 295H, and Honors thesis. Must take at least 3 H hours in this academic year. Must submit thesis completion form by Fri. Apr. 3. Must submit completed thesis no later than Mon. Apr. 27. Computer lab privileges: Only those students in good standing in the Honors Program are eligible to use the computer lab. We will be removing from access to the lab those students who are not eligible very shortly. Computer lab: Paper usage has been extremely high, and a great deal of waste is occurring. Free printing is a privilege, not a right, and if the high level of waste continues, we will have to limit the amount of paper we place in the computer lab. Some tips: Print ONLY information relevant to academic issues. Print ONLY what you need from a website: copy and paste that portion into a Word document and save pertinent information only. Hit the "print" button ONLY ONCE: you may have to wait a few minutes if other people are in the print queue ahead of you. DO NOT admit non-Honors Program students into the lab, and DO NOT print information for them. Recycle and use recycled paper for drafts of papers. DO NOT take paper from the lab for use in your own printers. Please be certain to pick up only your jump drives-several people have lost them recently. Check any you have to be sure they're yours, and return any which aren't to the main HP office. It's also wise to save any documents to your student account or email them to yourself, just in case a jump drive should disappear. Dig a Castle in Belgium! (July 2009) Eastern Illinois University School of Continuing Education, in partnership with the University of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium, invites applications for the seventh season of its Summer Archaeology Program. The dates are June 29-July 31, 2009, and the program centers on the excavation of medieval Walhain Castle. Honors students may receive Honors credit, awarded in either History or Earth Sciences. The course is open to all students in good standing; there are no prerequisites, and no previous background in archaeology is required. The cost of the program, which includes tuition and fees, board and lodging --but not overseas airfare-- is $4799. The deadline for applications is December 5. For more information please contact Professor Bailey Young at bkyoung@eiu.edu. or write c/o History Department, 2744 Coleman Hall, Eastern Illinois University, 600 Lincoln Ave, Charleston, IL 61920.