Cast your vote on the new Culver website design

Cast your vote on the new Culver Academies website design. All interested students, faculty, and staff who are interested in participating in a focus group regarding the new website are invited to attend one of two sessions from 4 to 5 p.m. or 5 to 6 p.m. tomorrow, Oct. 12, in Roberts Auditorium. Please contact Mr. Hargraves with any questions.

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Admissions open house scheduled for Saturday

The Admissions Office hosts a fall open house this Saturday, Oct. 13. Roughly 35 people will join us on campus to tour, meet students and faculty, and to learn more about the Academies. Please be respectful and welcome the families when you see them on campus. Currently, we have 13 SAO members signed up to give tours. If anyone else would like to help the Admissions Office with campus tours, we would appreciate the help. Please email Mrs. Perry at perrym@culver.org if you are interested.

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PSAT meeting set for tonight in Legion Memorial

A PSAT meeting with Ms. Corky Miller-Strong begins at 6:30 p.m. tonight, Oct.11, in the Legion Memorial Building. If you did not attend one of the other three meetings please attend this one. PSAT tests are scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 17.   

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Student Life

The CGA Dining Hall Prefects are proud to host a Mystery Café from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 21 in the dining hall. A person goes through the line like normal and gets food. Afterward, instead of sitting anywhere, he or she goes to the mezzanine and sees the hostess for a seating assignment. Here’s the catch: You don’t know with whom you will be sitting. It could be new or old students, girls, boys, or faculty. We hope you have fun meeting new people and getting reacquainted with old friends. If you want to participate, you must sign up. Email Dining Hall Prefects Jessica Kutch, Emily Loehmer, Jiajie Lu, Katy Marr, Do Hyun Park, Lea Stefani, Hye Sun, or Jenn Putman with questions.

The Cinema Club will show Stanley Kubrick’s black-and-white film from 1964, “Dr. Strangelove or:  How I Learned How to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”(95 minutes), at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, Oct. 12, in Roberts Auditorium. All members of the Culver community are invited to attend. However, we ask that you arrive on time and stay throughout the showing. Read on for more information on the film.
“Dr. Strangelove or:  How I Learned How to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,”
Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War masterpiece is set at the height of the tensions between Russia and the United States, when all it would take to destroy the world was one push of a button…and General Jack D. Ripper is just the man to do it.  The crazed Ripper gives the go code to the 843rd bomb wing to attack Russia, setting in motion a series of darkly hilarious vignettes involving gung-ho soldiers, wacky generals, spying Russians, drunken premiers, battles with soda machines, fights in the War Room, and the Russians' top-secret Doomsday Machine. Shot in black and white, the film has three main centers of action: one of the B-52 bombers, on which a group of loyal men know they are about to start World War III; Burpelson Air Force Base, where Group Captain Lionel Mandrake is trying to convince everyone that Ripper has gone mad and the bombing must be stopped; and the War Room, where President Merkin Muffley is trying to make peace with the Russians. The finale features Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove, his third role in the film.  This black comedy is a vicious satire on the farcical aspects the cold war. (Blurb from www.amazon.com or www.deepdiscountdvd.com )

Sick call will be 3:45 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13. The change will be for this Saturday only.

The Vivaldi “Gloria” will be performed at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 21, at Ancilla College Domini Chapel. A community chorus, including CMA students Ryan Cook and Josh Woolfolk, and instructors Stacey Warren and David Sampson, will be singing with the South Bend Chamber Symphony, directed by Dr. David Lamb. The concert is free and open to the public.

A recreational skate will be held from 8 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Henderson Ice Arena. Ice skates are available to borrow. Have some fun skating to music with your friends. Music provided by CAB.

Anyone interested joining a Weight Watchers group at Culver Academies should please contact Shaina Lampton in the fitness center at ext. 8080 or via email at lamptos@culver.org.

A recreation ride is at 10 a.m. every Saturday. Please sign up by emailing Ms. Relos.

The Community Service Council is looking for a faculty or staff member to help with its annual Trick-or-Treat Crossing Guard event on Halloween.  If you would be willing to drive a mini-bus shuttle from Logansport Gate to drop off points in town from 5 to 7 p.m., please contact Mrs. Anne Kelley.

A fan bus to the CMA tennis state final four match at North Central High School in Indianapolis leaves at 7:30 a.m. and returns at approximately 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13.Your student billing account that is mailed home will be charged accordingly. To sign up, email clemenr@culver.org with your dorm/unit and student ID number by 3:00 p.m. today, Oct. 11.

For “Wellness Wisdom” on fruits and vegetables, click here.

A movie trip to Showland Cinema in Plymouth runs from 6 to 11 p.m. this Friday, Oct. 12. Movies available will be: “The Seeker: The Dark is Rising” and “The Game Plan.” Cost will be $5 billed home for transportation and $7 cash for a ticket into the show. To sign up, email Mrs. A. Norton before noon today, Oct. 11, with the trip name, your dorm/unit and your student ID number.

CGA would like to start a rugby team. In order to do this we first must get a sponsor/advisor. If any staff members are interested, please email Victoria Weitgenant or Brittney Braun. We also need a list of prospective players. If anyone is interested in joining the team, please email one of us as well.

Technology Tidbit: Using the shortcut Alt + tab, you can navigate through any of your open program applications without using the mouse. Just hold the keys the down and press tab to move from one program to the next.

We hope you will join us for Cordon this week. We are a group that gets together for some great food and Christian fellowship. Meet us at 5:30 p.m. at Logansport Gate Sunday, Oct. 14, for a ride, and please bring a Bible. For more information, contact Mr. Haynes (haynest@culver.org).

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Faculty/ Staff

Please do not send a mass email off-campus without first contacting Josh Johanan (or Brian Manns) in Technology Services. You must follow a special procedure to send a mass email off-campus. If you send a mass email without following the procedure, it will delay processing of all other Culver Academies emails for up to eight hours. 

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Athletics

St. Joseph’s defeated CGA varsity volleyball 25-19, 25-16, 25-20.
At Culver
Kills: Alex Hunt 17, Elise Jordan 6 (SJ); Melissa Kowalinski 11 , Mindy Privett 8 (CGA).
Assists: Lauren Paczkowski 31 (SJ); Kristen Stafford 13, Lauren Jones 9 (CGA).
Aces: Alex Hunt 2 (SJ); Jenna Albers 2 (CGA).
Digs: Claire McClain 24, Alex Hunt 18 (SJ); Melissa Kowalinski 11, Mindy Privett 8 (CGA).
Record: Saint Joe 23-9, CGA 13-9.
JV score: St. Joe beat CGA, 25-17, 25-14.

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