spring 2014 ate ceE E WWI!“ ECE EGE'E llT students March 31- April 4 “1' students can drop oft and pick up eietronic waste in the MTCC near the post attics. Additionally, a community drop off day on Saturday April 5th from lflamfipm is open For students to add their own items. Electronic waste includes: Laptops, computers, tablets, TVs, cell phones, printers, monitors, DVD players, video game consoles, scanners, computer mice, keyboards, cameras, and more! compussu GOOD LUCK ON MIDTERMS! HAVE A GOOD SPRING BREAK! Full-time IIT Undergraduate Students: Enter the 49th Annual llT Writing Contest All full-time undergraduate students are encouraged to enter the 49‘h Annual IIT Writing Contest, sponsored by the Humanities Department. You must be enrolled for at least 12 credit hours in Spring 2014 to enter. Edwin H. Lewis Prize for Fiction . $300 $200 5100 Edwin H. Lewis Prize for Nonfiction $300 $200 $100 V Freshman Essay Prize 5500 $200 ' $100 Mollie Cohen Prize for Poetry $300 $200 $100 *Prizes will be awarded as Amazon.com gift cards. Deadline for all submissions: 5:00 pm. on Monday, March 31, 2014. Winners announced on the Humanities Website: Wednesday, April 16'”. Reception for all entrants, with awarding of prizes: Wednesday, April 23'”. For more information, contact us: iitwritingcontest@gmail.com CONTEST RULES I Entries may include fiction, poetry, plays, nonfiction (such as essays, reviews, and technical or scientific papers), and essays by freshman. Nonfiction (including essays by freshman) should be readable by an educated person with no special training in the subject of the essay. 7- All entries must include an entry form as a cover sheet attached to each entry. Forms are available in 218 Siegel Halll, or you can download the from: bit.|y/1gDIXvw o All entries must be submitted In duplicate. One should be keyboarded, double—spaced, on 8.5 x 11 paper. Do not put your name on the paper copy Itself or any of Its pages. Deliver paper submissions to Susan Mallgrave at the Lewis Department of Humanities, 218 Siegel Hall. The second copy should be submitted as an MS Word .00C or .DOCX file to iitwritingcontest@gmall.com. The file name should be Lastname.Nonflction.doc, LastnamePoetrydoc, Lastname.Fictlon.doc, or Lastname.Freshman.doc, depending on the category it is to be entered into. a You may enter several categories, and you may submit more than one entry in a category. Limit of one prize per category to any one student. I Entries will not be returned, so keep a copy. You are encouraged to submit work that has been the subject of a class assignment, but be sure to send a clean copy, free of any comments, marks, or grades. All submitted short stories and plays will be considered for the Edwin H. Lewis Prize for Fiction. Submissions must be limited to no more than 25 double-spaced pages. All submitted poems or groups of poems will be considered for the Mollie Cohen Poetry Prize, which seeks .to honor the effort to master the art of poetry rather than the exhibition of emotions. You may submit all the poems you wish; however, multiple poems by the same student will be judged as a single entry. All submitted nonfiction will be considered for the Edwin H. Lewis Prize for Nonfiction. All submitted freshman essays will be considered for the Freshman Essay Prize. Freshman is defined as any student who is in their first year of full—time college enrollment in Spring 2014. ' Authors retain all rights to their works, however the authors grant IIT, the Humanities Department, and TechNews the rights to publish their works for one calendar year, from April 4, 2014 - April 4, 2015. Women's History Month Event: Alumnae Panel Date: March 11 MTCC Auditorium Time: 12:45 pm Sponsor: Office of Alumni Relations Event: STI Prevention Date: Wednesday, March 12 Time: 12pm Location: MTCC Bridge Sponsor: Student Health and Wellness Center Event: Women in Computing Lecture Date: March 12 Time: 12:45 pm Location: MTCC Welcome Center Sponsor: Humanities Department lLLiNOlS lNSTlTUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OfficoofCompus Life IIT First-Year Students and . g; Graduating Students (Seniors) Want to win a $50 _ Best Buy® ' gift card? Q' DISAGREE * {3 AGREE “ . STRONGLY AGREE TAKE THE SURVEY! HT is participating in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). . ,You’ will receive your survey by email from NSSE soon. ’ . l“. a» Raspond by May 3 for a chance to win one. of 12 aesteuy' ‘g‘In cards! We want tohear'your foedback'about HT! 1 .Your opinions count and will help "T to improve academic and social ' ’ programming at the university ' a a .. HAVE huesnousr A 5 Contact the Office of Assessment and HEA Compliance at emmonséilfi. ‘3’ lLL'lNO‘lS‘ lNSTiTUTE;_QE Tscjunotoer _ ,