KML News Blast

Voter Registration & Candidate Forum on Campus

Register to vote (for any SD county) and learn about local candidates for the SD Senate and house through two activities.

1. "Exercise your right to vote! A voter registration drive will be held in the DSU Marketplace in the coming weeks. Those interested in voting in the November election need to fill out a voter registration card. Each person determines the county in which he or she wishes to register, so filling out the paperwork in the Marketplace does not mean that you need to vote in Lake County. Applications for absentee ballots and sample ballots will also be available.

Madison’s branch of AAUW (American Association of University Women) is sponsoring the event. The drive will be held October 7, 9, 15, and 16 from 11:30 to 1:00 and October 8 from 12:00 – 1:00. AAUW encourages everyone to participate in the process. For voting guides and voting records, visit http://www.aauw.org/. "

Source: DSUnews, October 2, 2008, by Deana Hueners-Nelson.

2. Attend the Candidate Forum to learn about District 8 candidates for the South Dakota Senate and House. Sponsored by AAUW, it will be held in the Marketplace in the Trojan Center on October 7 at 7pm. "The following candidates will offer prepared remarks as well as take questions from the audience."

For District 8 in the Senate: Scott Parsley (D) and Russell Olson (R).

For District 8 in the House: Mitch Fargen (D), Gerald Lange (D), Jerry Johnson (R), and Patricia Stricherz (R).

Source: DSUnews, October 2, 2008, by Deana Hueners-Nelson.

Banned Books Week: Sept 27 - Oct 4

Celebrate the freedom to read! Please don't take this democratic freedom for granted. Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to choose and express one's opinion. It focuses attention on the importance of making available a wide range of viewpoints to all who wish to read them. Observed during the last week of September each year since 1982, this is the 27th anniversary of BBW.

Each year, people ask libraries to remove books that offend them. Intellectual freedom, however, requires that multiple viewpoints be represented in libraries. For more information about challenged books, see the Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2007, Most Challenged Books of the 21st Century (2000-2005), and Most Challenged Books of 2007-2008 (pdf brochure).

“Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored. Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas.” Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q&A

Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., in Texas v. Johnson, said: “If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”

Constitution Day!

Constitution Day will be celebrated on Wednesday, September 17, 2008. Learn more about the U.S. Constitution by visiting the Library's list of resources for Constitution Day. These resources include links to the Constitution, to information about the Constitution, and to lesson plans.

One Campus One Book

“My principal said it was cool of me to take my sister to prom.” – Sheer Dominance

Maybe you relate to the author of this quote, maybe you don’t. Either way, you will find something to connect with in the book Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers. Whether you read one or all twenty-nine essays, you will be sure to find something to interest, entertain, shock, or impact you.

This book is the library’s selection for One Campus One Book - Fall 2008. In order to promote discussion and join a campus wide community of readers, Dakota State University's Karl E. Mundt Library will be holding this reading event. Through the mass reading of a single text, we are able to cross the boundaries of the classroom and evolve into a campus focused on thinking, talking, learning, and sharing.

Copies of the book are available at the library. Visit 1CampusOneBook for info, reviews, pictures, etc.

creepy-peepy

You, too, can find out what "creepy-peepy" -- also known as a "walkie-lookie" -- means by searching the online Oxford English Dictionary. The "wow" factor of the Oxford English Dictionary is that it provides quotations that demonstrate a word's first known use in the English language and its use through time. To find the definition and history of a word,

• use the Database Quicklinks menu in the upper right corner of the Library home page
• select Oxford English Dictionary
• on the right side of the screen, click on "Enter OED online"
• use the search box to search for the word

According to the O-E-D (O-E-D is the shortened version of the dictionary's title used by those in-the-know), "creepy-peepy" is first found in Life magazine in July 1952. Quotations from the article in Life, from a 1976 issue of the Edwardsville (Illinois) Intelligencer, and from a 1998 article in the Evening Standard demonstrate the meaning and use of creepy-peepy.

Here's what you'll find in the O-E-D:

creepy-peepy

A portable television camera used for close-up shots on location. Cf. PEEPIE-CREEPIE n.

1952 Life 21 July 18 The walkie-lookie (a new NBC hand camera which was promptly dubbed a creepie-peepie) did for the visual audience what the roving candid microphone had done for radio listeners. 1976 Edwardsville (Illinois) Intelligencer 19 July 4/5 How is CBS..going to get its creepy peepy right into that smoke-filled room where the deal is being made? 1998 Evening Standard (Nexis) 2 July 28 Posing as a martyr to the Truth as he carries his creepy-peepy camera on his shoulder.

The O-E-D also has a Word of the Day link (with an RSS feed so that you can get your daily word) as well as a link to "Lost for Words? Get an entry" where the O-E-D will send you to random words just such as "creepy-peepy".

Enjoy!

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