Second semester at CSC opens Monday
An array of activities are scheduled at Chadron State College during the spring semester, which officially gets underway Monday, Jan 10, when classes begin. Applications for admission for the semester are still being accepted by the Admissions Office, which reported that through Monday it had received 178 undergraduate, on-campus applications for the semester.
Before classes begin, two Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference basketball double-headers will be played this week in the Armstrong Building. The Western State Mountaineers will visit Thursday night and the Mesa State Mavericks will invade Saturday night. Both twin-bills will begin at 6 o’clock.
Four more basketball double-headers, a wrestling dual and a track and field meet also are scheduled on campus in January.
Also helping launch the semester will be an exhibit of paintings by Californian Lucinda Luvaas titled “Running Through History.” The Los Angeles Times said Luvaas’s artwork “tells you that the artist had fun making it.” The exhibit will open in Memorial Hall of Wednesday, Jan. 12.
The Omaha Symphony’s chamber orchestra will return to Chadron State for a concert in Memorial Hall at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27 The following day, a photo exhibit called “Moving the Fire” that depicts the “Trail of Tears” when the Cherokee nation was forced to move from Georgia to Oklahoma in 1838-39 will open in the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center.
During much of the spring, the Sandoz Center will also host the explicit botanical illustrations of CSC alum Bellamy Parks Jansen of Longmont, Colo. While attending Chadron State, the Ogallala native had difficulty deciding whether to major in biology or art, and used her training in both to become one of the nation’s leading botanical artists. Her show will open March 4.
The first program in the college’s Distinguished Speaker Series will on Tuesday, Feb. 8, when Lyndon Vogt, general manager of the Upper Niobrara White Natural Resources District will speak on “Water Quantity Issues in the Nebraska Panhandle.”
A highlight during the semester will be the Moscow Circus on March 15. The performance, featuring musicians, clowns, costumed performers and dancers, will be steeped in Russian history and folklore.
Two time-tested drama productions are scheduled for the semester. The Greek tragedy, “Antigone,” will be staged Feb. 10-13 and the ever-popular “Arcenic and Old Lace” will follow April 21-24.
Other major events at CSC this spring include:
•Feb. 7-8—High Plains Band and Choir Festival.
•Feb. 24—Nebraska Statehood Birthday Party.
•Feb. 24-26—16th Early Childhood Conference
•March 18—Western Nebraska History Day.
•March 19—International Food Tasting Party.
•March 31—High Plains Jazz Festival.
•April 1—High School Scholastic Contest
•April 14-15—Mari Sandoz Heritage Society Conference
•May 6—Ivy Day
•May 7—Commencement
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