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HHC students who have ideas for programs or who are interested in volunteering to help plan or host programs should contact the HHC director of extracurricular programming, Charlene Brown, by e-mail at chajbrow or by phone at (812) 855-9493.

Click here for the membership of the 2009-10 HHC Extracurricular Programs Committee, a body of students, faculty, and staff who will help plan and put together this year's programs. We greatly appreciate their help!

If you would like to be added to our volunteer database, please fill out this form and return it to the HHC.

We wish to express our thanks to all the students and faculty who contributed to Hutton Honors College extracurricular programming events in 2008-09. We are grateful for the time, effort, and good spirit so many student volunteers dedicated to help plan and host events, including lunches and suppers with IU faculty and distinguished campus visitors. From the fall Art Museum coffeehouses to "What's for Dinner? The Personal & Political Implications of Your Food Choices" to the spring fireside chat with University Chancellor Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis to the evening at the Big Band Extravaganza with Living Jazz Legend David Baker, students created many memorable events. Among the most ambitious undertaken this past year was a series of programs dedicated to the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. Aasiya Mirza and other members of the new student group ABE at IU proposed, planned, and hosted an intervarsity Lincoln-Douglas debate competition that included participants from schools in Indiana and Illinois; a discussion panel on the expansion of presidential power featuring Charlie Savage, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from The New York Times, and history and IU law professor Michael Grossberg; and a Happy Birthday, Abe! party that featured a musical skit depicting key scenes in Abraham Lincoln's life, "pin the beard on Abraham Lincoln," Lincoln trivia, a recitation of the Gettysburg Address, and a birthday cake with a lot of candles (although not 200!).

We were also grateful to be able to partner with the following student groups for a discussion lunch with community activist Ava Hernandez: Latinos Unidos, La Casa, STAND (Becky Burns and Emily Roberts), the Trockman Microfinance Initiative (Billy Bennet), and Y'ALL (Lisa Davoust and Haley Turow); with Nathan Bower-Bir of Volunteers in Sustainability, who organized a discussion supper with IU's new director of sustainability, Bill Brown; with the coordinators of the Succinct Saga Society, Kendal Herget and Jennifer Lakes; with Labyrinth co-facilitators Adam Ramey and Haley Waltman; with the Honors Film Club organizers Erin Fenton and Elizabeth Schlemmer; with Honors Student Association leaders Alyssa Faughn and Caitlin Masters; with Honors Council Association leaders Elizabeth Bercovitz and Jennifer Noeth; and with Natsuki Atagi, Andrew Harbor, and other students from the Asian American Association, who delighted so many by teaching them origami. We also want to say a special thanks to other campus units that contributed exceptional opportunities for IU undergraduates, including Cardinal Stage Company; the Center on American and Global Security; the Center for the Study of Global Change; Central Eurasian Studies; the College Arts and Humanities Institute; the Department of English; the Medieval Studies Institute; the Renaissance Studies Program; the Department of Theatre and Drama; the Institute for Advanced Study; the IU Art Museum; the IU Auditorium; the School of Journalism; the Konopinski Lecture Committee in the Department of Physics; La Casa; the Lotus World Music Festival; the Musical Arts Center and the Jacobs School of Music; the Patten Foundation; and the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and the Vandivier Sims Memorial Lectureship.

An extra-special thanks goes to the student, faculty, and staff members of the 2008-09 HHC Extracurricular Programs Planning Committee for their leadership throughout the year and their stimulating contributions to this past year's programming. Students serving on the 2008-09 committee were Amy Andreas, international studies and political science; Natsuki Atagi, psychology and gender studies; Andrew Harbor, cognitive science and linguistics; Kendal Herget, psychology and biology; Christian Hines, English and political science; Alex Kopytko, telecommunications; and Sarah Taylor, music performance (voice) and art history.

Congratulations and thanks, too, to all the HHC students who contributed to extracurricular programming in their residences and through campus and international organizations.

We appreciate all your hard work!

Sincerely,

(chajbrow)

(hdubina)

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