Events Calendar

Events

Winter 2019

January
  • 16: “What Lies Upstream,” the seventh Environmental Documentary Series, hosted by the SHU Sustainable College Committee. 7pm, Sience Building room 131.
  • 17: “Little Stones” award-winning documentary: free screening at the Croswell Opera House at 6:30pm. Transporation available- contact Kristen Havens in OVW Office at khavens@sienaheights.edu
  • 21:  Lenawee  County Martin Luther King, Jr. Dinner at Adrian College’s Tobias Room. Doors open at 5:30pm.

Fall 2018

September
  • 17: “Are you talkin’ to me? – Just Who are Those ‘People’ in the Tenth Amendment?” by Robert J. McWhirter, 7:30pm Rueckert Auditorium
  • 26: Sister Carmie Clean Up Crew Day, 10 a.m.-3 p.m on campus, meet at UC, sponsored by Greenlight Club. (Rain date: Thursday, September 27)
  • 26: Red Cross Blood Drive, 11 a.m.-4:45 p.m., Benincasa Hall. Email  tpuszcze@sienaheights.edu or visit redcross.org and enter code “SAINTS” to register to donate.
  • 26: McNair Scholars Program’s “The Ohio State Reformatory Experience,” a field trip to the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio. $10 includes transportation. For info/registration, email mcnair@sienaheights.edu. 
October
  • 22: SHU graduate and Professor of Green Chemistry Dr. Nick Kingsley will present on the “environmental, social, and industrial impacts of chemical processes” and the importance of educating chemists on these topics, 3pm, Science Building room 131
  • 23: Sister Helen Prejean’s Community Event/presentation on her book “Dead Man Walking” field trip sponsored by McNair Scholars Program, 2pm-midnight, free to SHU students. RSVP by Friday, Oct. 19 by emailing mcnair@sienaheights.edu. 
November
  • 12-16: T.E.A.C.H. Turkey drive in the University Center, 11am-1pm. Bring $1 to try cookies, and vote for your favorite using your $1!
  • 14:  Students from Justice and Peace are hosting a HUB Chat at 7pm in the HUB. The chat will discuss gender based violence, creating awareness, and looking at its prevalence on college campuses. 
  • 20: Campus Ministry is collecting gallons of drinking water in the Chapel, HUB, or Lounge to take to Flint. 

Winter 2018

January
  • 25: “The Limits and Requirements of Love and Compassion,” Barrett Emerick, Ph.D., sponsored by the Institute for Ethnic and Gender Studies and the Philosophy Department, SCI 131, 6:00pm
  • 31: Movie Screening: Hidden Figures, collaboration with Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1:30pm, Rose Room; 9:00pm, Rueckert Auditorium
February
  • 1:  Hidden Figures talk-back, collaboration with Lenawee NAACP and Adrian Dominican Sisters, Rueckert Auditorium, 7:00pm
  • 2: Soul Food Dinner, organized with Sisterhood of Saints and Chartwells
  • 9: Carnivale, UC Living Room
  • 9: Third Annual Love Fest, featuring the movie Poetic Justice, Rueckert Auditorium, 8:00pm
  • 10: Gospel Concert featuring Nate Glaspel, Jr., St. Dominic Chapel, 3:00pm
  • 11: Movie Screening: All or Nothin’, Collaboration with Lenawee NAACP, Rueckert Auditorium, 4:00pm
  • 15: Family Feud, organized by Sisterhood of Saints, Rueckert Auditorium, 7:00pm
  • 15:  Movie Premiere: Black Panther, organized by Men of Distinction 9:00pm
  • 23: Apollo, Rueckert Auditorium, 8:00p,

Fall 2017

August
  • ​30: Teach-In on Charlottesville, featuring Dr. Matt Barbee (English), Dr. Jen Kling (Philosophy), and Patricia Gray (SSS), Rueckert Auditorium, 8:00pm
September
  • 6: Environmental Documentary Series, Water and Power, Science Building 131, 6:30pm
  • 13: Environmental Documentary Series, PBS NOVA Flint–Poisoned Water, Science Building 131, 7:00pm
  • 18: “Drug Abuse in the Community and Finding the Best Treatment,” featuring Lieutenant Aaron Hunt of the Michigan State Police Emergency Support Team and Counselor Andrew Hoeft of McCullough Vargas and Associates, Weber Center, 7:00pm
  • 19: River Raisin Institute Film Series, Climate Hustle, Weber Center, 3:00pm
  • 19: Prayer for Peace with Adrian Dominican Sisters, 4:45pm, Holy Rosary Chapel
  • 19: Speaker Kim Daly, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Rueckert Auditorium, 7:00pm
  • 20: Environmental Documentary Series, Sea the Truth, Science Building 131, 6:30pm
  • 20: Loteria, University Center Community Room, 8:00pm
  • 21: Day of Peace Walk, meet in front of St. Dominic’s Chapel, 4:30pm
  • 26: Common Dialogue Day- Keynote Speaker: Amer Zahr; Breakout sessions throughout the day
  • 26: SHU Fiesta with musical group Los Hermanos Villegas, University Center, 4:00pm
  • 27: Environmental Documentary Series, Stink!, Science Building 131, 6:30pm
  • 28: “Celebrating 50 Years of Struggle: The Story of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee,” Baldemar Velasquez, President and Founder of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Weber Center, 7:00pm
October
  • 4: DACA Support Rally, Dominican Hall Lawn, 11:30am-3:00pm
  • 4: Environmental Documentary Series, Death by Design, Science Building 131, 6:30pm
  • 10: River Raisin Institute Film Series, From the Ashes, Weber Center, 3:00pm
  • 11: Environmental Documentary Series, Before the Flood, Science Building 131, 6:30pm
  • 12: “Resentment, Utility, and Justice: David Hume vs. Adam Smith,” James Spence, Adrian College Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Director of the Ethics Institute, Rueckert Auditorium, 4:00pm
  • 18: Deadline to submit SHU SOUP proposals to socialresponsibility@sienaheights.edu
  • 18: Environmental Documentary Series, From the Ashes, Science Building 131, 6:30pm
  • 25: Environmental Documentary Series, At the Fork and Cowspiracy, Science Building 131, 6:30pm
November
  • 1: Environmental Documentary Series, Hometown Habitat, Science Building 131, 6:30pm
  • 6: SPARC Presents: Spoken Word Artist Ashlee Haze, UC Living Room, 9:00pm
  • 8: Environmental Documentary Series, Death by a Thousand Cuts, Science Building 131, 6:30pm
  • 13-17: 13th Annual Siena Heights Food Drive, sponsored by the Psychology Club and the Social Psychology Class, drop-off locations around campus
  • 15:  SHU SOUP, Benincasa Dining Room, 6:00-8:00pm, $5 suggested donation at the door
  • 15: Environmental Documentary Series, The Age of Consequences, Science Building 131, 6:30pm
  • 21: River Raisin Institute Film Series, Time to Choose, Weber Center, 3:00pm
  • 27:  “The Controversial Uncontroversial Topic: Using Preferred Names and Correct Pronouns in the Classroom,” Hilary Weiss, M.A., sponsored by the Institute for Ethnic and Gender Studies, Cotton Brewing Company, 6:30pm
  • 29: Environmental Documentary Series, We’re Not Broke, Science Building 131, 6:30pm
December

Winter 2017

January
  • 10-20: T.E.A.C.H. Hoodie Drive, Drop off spots throughout campus
  • 20:  SHU Talks: “A Student Led Discussion of the Election and Inauguration of Donald Trump,” Moderated by Girard Brown and Sponsored by Student Engagement, DH First Floor Conference Room, 7:00pm
  • 23: “Human Trafficking in Lenawee County” HUB Chat, led by beFree, The HUB, 12:00-1:00pm
  • 23-29: Siena Serves Share the Warmth, sign-up with Campus Ministry
  • 31: Culture Shock, Sponsored by Pi Lamda Phi and Adrian Dominican Sisters, Rueckert Auditorium, 7:00pm
February
  • 1: Saints Space Culture Shock Debrief, free lunch with the Adrian Dominican Sisters at Motherhouse, sign up outside HUB,       12:00pm; in Rueckert Auditorium, 9:00pm
  • 4: Gospel Concert, St. Dominic Chapel, 3:00pm
  • 8: Cultural Conversation: “Immigration and Marginalization,” Rose Room, Motherhouse Campus, 1:30-2:30pm
  • 10: Sisterhood of Saints 2nd Annual Love Fest, screening of the movie Loving, 7:00pm
  • 12: Trip to Charles Wright Museum, Free Admission Sunday, 1:00-5:00pm 
  • 15: Cultural Conversation: “Racism,” Sister Jamie Phelps, Rose Room, Motherhouse Campus, 1:30-2:30pm
  • 15: “Finding Your Roots: Tracing Family History,” Debra Middleton, sponsored by the Ethnic and Gender Studies Institute, Cotton Brewing, 6:30pm
  • 16: SHU Talks: “What it Feels Like to Be a Minority,” Student-led discussion moderated by Girard Brown, DH First Floor Conference Room, 8:00pm
  • 17: Family Feud, hosted by Sisterhood of Saints, 7:00pm
  • 21: Cultural Conversation, “Hope, Unity, & Diversity,” Rose Room, Motherhouse Campus, 1:30-2:3opm
March
  • 1: Deadline to submit SHU SOUP proposals to socialresponsibility@sienaheights.edu
  • 14: Speed Dating with the Sisters, Dining Hall, 11:00am
  • 15: Real Talk with Sister Jamie Phelps, Rueckert, 11:30am
  • 16: Save the Bumps, UC Community Room, 12:00pm
  • 16: Environmental Documentary Series, Conservation and Species Extinction, SJH 109, 7:00-9:00pm
  • 18: Tea Party hosted by Mission Education, Phi Sigma Sigma, and Sisterhood of Saints, Benincasa Hall, 10:00am
  • 20: Compel Campus Ministry, Rueckert, 8:00pm
  • 21: Softball Game versus Adrian, Support women in sports with #heresproof campaign, Softball Field, 4:00 and 6:00pm
  • 23: Environmental Documentary Series, Tourism and Climate Change, SJH 109, 7:00-9:00pm
  • 28: Women’s History Month Poetry Marathon, UC Living Room, 9:00am-4:00pm
  • 29: Real Talk with Sister Peg Albert, Rueckert, 11:30am
  • ​29: SHU SOUP, Benincasa Dining Room, 6:00-8:00pm, $5 suggested donation at the door
  • 30: Environmental Documentary Series, Energy, SJH 109, 7:00-9:00pm
April
  • 6: Environmental Documentary Series: Food, Pesticides, and Organics, SJH 109, 7:00-9:00pm
  • 19: SHU Scholarship Symposium– Keynote Speaker: Philip Deloria, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Professor of History, American Culture, and Environment at the University of Michigan, Francouer Theater, 9:00am
  • 20: Sister Carmie Clean Up Crew Day, locations around Adrian campus, 10:00am-3:00pm, Click to sign up
  • 20: Environmental Documentary Series, Trash and Pollution, SJH 109, 7:00-9:00pm
  • 25:  Kacey Long, “Healthy Relationships and Consent for College Students,” Sponsored by the Ethnic and Gender Studies. Insitute, Rueckert Auditorium, 9:00pm
  • 27: Environmental Documentary Series, Water, SJH 109, 7:00-9:00pm
May

Fall 2016

August
  • 25: Welcome Week: Diversity and Inclusion Introduction, Francoeur Theater, 10:45-11:15am
  • 25: Welcome Week: Bystander Invervention, Francoeur Theater, 11:15-12:00pm
  • 27: Welcome Week: Siena Serves Project, various locations in Adrian, 9:00am-12:00pm
September
  • 15:  Solidarity with Standing Rock, Comstock Park, Adrian, 5:00pm, sponsored by Sunnyside Center for Peace & Justice
  • 16: Hispanic Heritage Celebration Luncheon, Archangelus Ballroom, 11:30am-1:00pm
  • 19:  “What is Hispanic? Culture, Politics, and Life” discussion panel, Rueckert Auditorium, 7:00pm
  • 20:  Shuttle to Secretary of State Office to Register to Vote: 2:00-3:00pm
  • 20: Peace Prayer, 4:30pm, Holy Rosary Chapel at Adrian Dominican Motherhouse
  • 21: What is Social Responsibility? HUB Chat, led by Prof. Jen Kling, The HUB, 12:00-1:00pm
  • 21: Loteria, University Center community room, 9:00pm
  • 23: SHU Fiesta featuring Los Hermanos Villegas, Trinity Garden, 8:00-10:30pm
  • 26: Presidential Debate Watch Party, University Center living room, 8:30-11:00pm
  • 27: Common Dialogue Day-  Keynote Speaker: Mary Alice Stephenson, 9:30am; Breakout sessions at 11:00am, 1:00pm, and 2:00pm
  • 28: Shuttle to Secretary of State Office to Register to Vote: 6:00-7:00pm
  • 29: Michigan Secretary of State Office Visit, University Center, 11:00am-2:00pm
October
  • 3:  Shuttle to Secretary of State Office to Register to Vote: 2:00-3:00pm
  • 4: Father Joe Mulligan, “The Jesuit Martyrs of El Salvador and Liberation Theology: Still Alive and Kicking,” Weber Center, 2:30-4:00pm
  • 4: Father Joe Mulligan, “Liberation Theology: Freedom to Oppressed,” Rueckert Auditorium, 7:00pm
  • 4: Vice-Presidential Debate Watch Party, Rueckert Auditorium, 8:30-11:00pm
  • 5: Get Woke: Election 201 Teach-In, Rueckert Auditorium, 5:30-7:30pm 
  • 9: Presidential Debate #2 Watch Party, Rueckert Auditorium, 8:30-11:00pm
  • 10: DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS FOR SHU SOUP
  • 10: Shuttle to Secretary of State Office to Register to Vote, 10:00-11:00am
  • 10: City of Adrian Mayor Jim Berryman and Commissioner Jeff Rising, Rueckert Auditorium, 12:45-2:00pm
  • 10: “Nonviolence: Personal and Social Transformation for a World in Crisis,” Fr. Peter Dougherty, Dominican Hall Auditorium and Conference Rooms 112 and 113, 6:00-9:00pm
  • 10-13: Voting 101 Tables: “I’m registered to vote. Now what?”, University Center Living Room, 11:00am-2:00pm
  • 11: DEADLINE TO REGISTER TO VOTE
  • 11: “Culture Shock,” Sponsored by Adrian Dominican Sisters and SHU Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Rueckert Auditorium, 7:00pm
  • 19: Final Presidential Debate Watch Party, 8:30-11:00pm, Rueckert Auditorium
  • 20: Sustainable College Committee Documentary Series, Money and Globalization, 7:00-9:00pm, SCI 131
  • 27: Sustainable College Committee Documentary Series, Chemicals–Pollution, 7:00-9:00pm, SCI 131
  • 29: “Flint Water Crisis: Activism, Politics, and the Academy,” hosted by University of Michigan Teach-In for Flint Organizing Committee, University of Michigan, Angell Hall, 9:00am-3:00pm
November
  • 2: beFree Red Sand Project, University Center, 11:00am-2:00pm
  • 2: SHU SOUP, Benincasa Dining Room, 6:00-8:30pm, $5 suggested donation at the door
  • 3:  Sustainable College Committee Documentary Series, E-trash/Connected Disconnect, 7:00-9:00pm, SCI 131
  • 4:  SHU VOTES, University Center Living Room, 1:00pm-4:00pm
  • 8: ELECTION DAY! Go vote! 
  • 10: Sustainable College Committee Documentary Series; Conservation, Species Extinction, Global Warming; 7:00-9:00pm, SCI 131
  • 11: Permaculture Presentation: “Joy of Composting,” 1:30-3:00pm, Rose Room, ADS campus
  • 12: Habitat for Humanity Service Saturday, 9:00am-4:00pm
  • 14-19: 13th Annual Siena Heights Food Drive
  • 15: beFree presents Q&A with Kelly, “Anti-Human Trafficking Allies,” Led Ballroom, 8:00pm
  • ​16: Anthony M. Annett, “Laudato Si and the Moral Responsibility to Protect our Common Home,” William Issa Endowment Speaker Series, Rueckert Auditorium, 7:00pm
  • 17: Brown Bag lunch with Anthony M. Annett, McLaughlin University Center Board Room, 12-1:30pm 
  • 17: Sustainable College Committee Documentary Series, Algae Blooms, 7:00pm-9:00, SCI 131
December
  • 7: Dakota Access Pipeline and Water Rights Event, organized by Greenlight, 12:00-2:00pm, Benincasa
  • 8: Sustainable College Committee Documentary Series, Environmental Advocacy, 7:00-9:00pm, SCI 131
  • 14: “Making Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA” movie screening, hosted by the Adrian Dominican Sisters, Weber Center Auditorium, 7:00pm
  • 15: Sustainable College Committee Documentary Series; Climate Change, Ocean Acidification, and Environmental Advocacy; 7:00-9:00pm, SCI 131

Winter 2016

January
  • 26: Speciesism, Sustainable College Committee Documentary Series, SCI 131, 7:00-9:00pm
  • 26-28: Allies for Inclusion Exhibit, Dominican Hall, all day
  • 29: Human Trafficking HUB Chat, led by members of beFree Student Organization, The HUB, 12:00-1:00pm
February
  • 5: Carnivale Celebration hosted by the International Club, The HUB, 12:00-2:00pm
  • 5: “Valuable Mistrust,” Meena Krishnamurthy, Aquinas Forum Lecture, Rueckert Auditorium, 3:00-5:00pm
  • 6: SHU Second Annual Gospel Concert, St. Dominic Chapel, 5:00pm
  • 8: Runaway Slave Ads Poster Presentation by English/History 385, The HUB
  • 9: Let’s Make Money, Sustainable College Committee Documentary Series, SCI 131, 7:00-9:00pm
  • 11: Black History Month in Action Presentation, Lenawee Christian Middle School 
  • 11: HUB Chat on Refugees, led by Prof. Jennifer Kling, The HUB, 12:00-1:00pm
  • ​11: Movie: Straight Outta Compton, Sponsored by English Department & Hosted by Men of Distinction, Rueckert Auditorium, 8:00pm
  • 14: Charles Wright Museum Field Trip, Sign up UC 208 F, Free admission and lunch provided, Meet in the University Center at 9:45am
  • 16-18: Voter Registration Table, Hosted by Sisterhood of Saints and Lenawee County NAACP, University Center Lobby, 11:00-1:00pm
  • 18: “Rise and Fall of Lesbian Nation: A Brief History of Lesbian Feminism and What it Accomplished,” Lillian Faderman, University of Michigan, Lane 2239, 4:10-6:00pm
  • 18-21: Clybourne Park, Mendelssohn Theatre, University of Michigan
  • 19: Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated Open House, University Center Community Room, 7:11pm
  • 22: Black History Month Poster Presentation by English/History 385, University Center
  • 23: Call of Life, Sustainable College Committee Documentary Series, SCI 131, 7:00-9:00pm
  • 26: Apollo Talent and Comedy Show, Co-sponsorship with SPARC and Unity of Us, Rueckert Auditorium, 8:00pm
March
  • 15: Women in Law Enforcement Informational Event, Criminal Justice Club, Dominican Hall, 7:00pm
  • 15: “Ethical Organizational Behavior: A Case Study of Theory Meeting Practice, Resulting in a Small Business’s Success,” Tom Walter, Chiodini/Fontana Endowed Lecture Series on Ethics, Francoeur Theater, 7:30pm
  • 16: Film Screening: Radical Grace, Rueckert Auditorium, 8:00pm, Q&A with Sister Peg Albert, OP, and Sister Pat Walter, OP, to follow
  • 21-23: SOAP (Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution) Project, sponsored by beFree and Social Work Student Association, UC living room, 11:00am-2:00pm
  • 21: Women’s Poetry Marathon, UC living room, 9:00am-5:00pm
  • 22: “Combat Human Trafficking,” Kelly Castleberry, Lenawee County Human Trafficking Task Force Director, Rueckert Auditorium, 7:00pm
  • 22: Documentary Screening: Dreamcatcher, Rueckert Auditorium, 8:00pm
  • 22: Inside the Garbage of the World, Sustainable College Committee Documentary Series, SCI 131, 7:00-9:00pm
  • 28: “American Quran,” Sandow Birk (illustrator and artist), University of Michigan Museum of Art, Stern Auditorium, 5:30-7:00pm
April