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Film spotlights plight of Sudanese boys
"Lost Boys of Sudan" (2004), an Emmy-nominated, feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary
journey to America, will be shown at 6 p.m. Wednesday (Oct. 25) in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union Theater.
Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa's cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia
gunfire to reach a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there, remarkably, they were chosen
to come to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted
with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia.
"Lost Boys of Sudan" is used as an educational tool by Amnesty International and the United Nations and has been screened
at legislative meetings on Capitol Hill. The BGSU screening is made possible by the Human Rights Video Project grant to BGSU
Libraries and Human Values for Transformative Action.
Open Enrollment for health care is under way
The annual health care insurance Open Enrollment period for full-time faculty, administrative and classified staff begins
today (Oct. 23) and will continue until 5 p.m. Nov. 17.
Open Enrollment is the time for employees to make changes to their health insurance coverage, such as adding or dropping a
spouse or dependent or, this year, to take advantage of some additional options offered by the University’s new life insurance
provider, Sun Life.
Any full-time employee who has changed marital status, name or address must fill out a BGSU Health Care Enrollment and Change
Form. If a spouse has changed his or her employment or health care coverage, you must also submit a form.
All information and forms are online this year at www.bgsu.edu/offices/ohr/benefits/index.html. Brochures will not be mailed. Forms can be downloaded, filled out and sent to the Office of Human Resources or given to
a benefits representative at one of seven information sessions.
In addition, anyone whose spouse works full time and has BGSU’s plan as his or her primary health coverage is required to
submit the Working Spouse Form to Human Resources by Dec. 15. The spouse’s employer must fill out the form, specifying the
type and level of coverage provided and the percentage of the cost the employer pays.
If the Working Spouse Form is not submitted by Dec. 15, the spouse will be dropped from BGSU’s plan on Jan. 1, 2007.
If you are not making changes to your coverage and your spouse does not use BGSU’s plan as primary coverage, you do not need
to submit a form.
English department to host regional conference
On Friday (Oct. 27), the English department will host the College English Association of Ohio Fall Conference. The theme for
this annual meeting of Ohio English department administrators and faculty is “(Re)Inventing English Studies.”
The program includes six panels addressing issues of technology, diversity, writing centers and the teaching of both literature
and composition. It features BGSU presenters and other Ohio and regional participants, including representatives from the
University of Cincinnati, Kent State, Ohio University, Minnesota State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The conference will include a keynote address by Dr. Richard "Dickie" Selfe from Ohio State University: "English Studies and
the University Experience as Intellectual Property: Commodification and the Spellings Report." Selfe is on the English faculty
and a senior instructional technology consultant at Ohio State.
Prior to his move to Ohio, he was director of the Center for Computer-Assisted Language Instruction at Michigan Technological
University, where he also co-developed the nationally known summer workshop Computers in Writing-Intensive Classrooms, which
was held annually for 20 years. A widely published author in the fields of computers and writing, Selfe is the 2005 Outstanding
Technology Innovator, awarded by the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
For details about registering for the conference, scheduled in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union, contact Dr. Kris Blair, conference
co-chair, at 2-7540.
BGSU theatre presents annual Newcomers’ Showcase
The Department of Theatre and Film presents its annual Newcomers’ Showcase, “All the World’s a Stage,” at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday
(Oct. 26-28) and 3 p.m. Sunday (Oct. 29) in Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center.
A staple of the BGSU theatre season, the Newcomers’ Showcase brings freshmen and transfer students to the stage to exhibit
their talents as actors, dancers and singers through an evening of song and dance numbers and one-act plays. In keeping with
the theme, “All the World’s a Stage,” the selected plays speak to the way theatre and life intersect, sometimes in the strangest
ways.
The plays include: “I Hate Hamlet” by Paul Rudnick, “Words, Words, Words” by David Ives, “Actor’s Nightmare” by Christopher
Durang and “The Role of Della” by John Wooten, as well as an excerpt from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
BGSU alumna Ashley Nowak is choreographing dance numbers, while Dr. Geoff Stephenson, theatre and film, is directing vocal
numbers and serving as production coordinator. The stage manager is Rebekah Skoog, a sophomore theatre major from Bowling
Green.
Single tickets are $10 for adults, including students and senior citizens, and $5 for children under 12. For tickets, call
the theatre box office at 2-2719.
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