Month: March 2017

Beginning this evening, sections of the parking lot D2 (temporary lot located on the west side of campus) will be blocked off so the painting department can restripe the parking spaces. The restriping will be done in phases and Campus Police asks for the community’s patience while the restriping takes place. Those who are frequent users of parking lot D2 are asked to use parking lots D, C (behind the tennis courts) or B (behind Casa Caritas) until the entire parking lot is complete.

Contact Campus Police at 210-431-4022 for questions or concerns.

The University community is invited to participate in a blood drive, sponsored by the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center and the Know Your Numbers Health Fair. The blood drive and all testing will take place Tuesday and Wednesday in Library Circle.

Details:

• There will be two mobile Blood Banks on campus Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 a.m.–4 p.m. No appointments necessary. A photo ID is required.
• The Harry Jersig Speech-Language-Hearing Center will be conducting hearing screenings on Tuesday from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., and Wednesday from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
• The Lions Club will be conducting Glaucoma Eye Testing on Tuesday and Wednesday from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
• HIV Rapid Testing will be available courtesy of the DALE Grant on Tuesday and Wednesday from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Hepatitis-C Screening will be available courtesy of the DALE Grant on Tuesday and Wednesday from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
• Texan’s Standing Tall Alcohol Survey will take place Tuesday and Wednesday from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

For more information, contact Health Services at call 210-431-3919.

The Center for Women in Church and Society invites the OLLU community to the final event of the Women’s Herstory Month celebration, “This Bridge Called Our Hearts: Honoring the Power of Our Inheritance,” by Edyka Chilomé, on Thursday at 6 p.m. in Providence Hall, West Social Room. During this event, Chilomé will invite attendees to honor the creative inheritance of women as intergenerational builders and survivors.

Edyka Chilomé, born Erica Granados – De La Rosa, is a queer woman of color and cultural worker based in North Texas. She is a child of Salvadorian and Mexican immigrant activists with roots in the United Methodist Church and third world liberation movements. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in social and political philosophy from Loyola University Chicago and a Master of Arts in multicultural women’s studies from Texas Woman’s University, where her research focused on the decolonial power of spiritual [Art]ivism.

The event is free and open to the public.

OLLU’s MA/MFA program in Literature, Creative Writing and Social Justice welcomes author Matthew Salesses as part of the “Social Justice Reading Series,” Thursday at 7 p.m. in Providence Hall, Blue Room. Salesses will read from his new novel.

Salesses has written about race, adoption and family for the “New York Times Motherlode” blog, “The Good Men Project,” “The Rumpus,” “Hyphen Magazine,” and elsewhere. He is the author of “I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying” and “The Hundred-Year Flood.”

The reading is free and open to the public.

This reading is made possible in part with grants from the Edouard Foundation and Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.