Graduate Student Organization - Stony Brook

The GSO will be having its Senate meeting on April 8 in Wang Center 301. If you'd like to get on the agenda email Andrei Antonenko, the Speaker of the Senate, at andant@gmail.com. Refreshments will be served.

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Need to discuss a legal issue? Any GSO member can discuss any legal issues (traffic violations, landlord/tenant relations, etc) with Phil Solages, the lawyer of the GSO Legal Clinic. Every graduate student can get up to 30 minutes of appointment time for FREE. The Legal Clinic takes place in the GSO Office, SAC 227.

Kristina Wong combines a zany sense of humor with biting insight in Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a swear-to-god-not-autobiographical portrayal of the high incidence of anxiety, depression, and mental illness among Asian American women. Using monologues, movement, and a host of pop culture references, Wong appropriates visual materials, such as a set of unfinished knitting, as well as print brochures and TV advertisements dealing with mental illness, as comedic foils while probing the seriousness of the subject.

Guest speaker: Susan Duncan, The University of Chicago Susan Duncan's  workshop will provide advanced training in theoretical and methodological  approaches for studying speech-accompanying gestures. The first part of the workshop will give a theoretical introduction to the study of gesture, with an emphasis on the implications that the synchrony between gesture and prosody has for language processing. The second part of the workshop will review different analytic approaches for the study of gesture, given the high

Guest speaker: Susan Duncan, The University of Chicago Susan Duncan's  workshop will provide advanced training in theoretical and methodological  approaches for studying speech-accompanying gestures. The first part of the workshop will give a theoretical introduction to the study of gesture, with an emphasis on the implications that the synchrony between gesture and prosody has for language processing. The second part of the workshop will review different analytic approaches for the study of gesture, given the high

Direct from India, the world-renowned Nrityagram Dance Ensemble performs their new piece "Pratima: Reflection." This stunning ensemble of dancers transport viewers to enchanted worlds of spirituality with the sensuous flow of Odissi, the oldest of India's classical dance forms. Co-sponsored with the Center for India Studies and India Focus Group.

The Graduate Student Emergency Loan Fund Committee will be meeting in the GSO Office, SAC 227. If you are need of a short term zero interest emergency loan please go to http://sbgso.org/services/gself for more information.

The Freewheel Community Bicycle Shop meets in the Student Union room 024 (basement). Volunteers and members of the community repair donated and found bicycles, offer free and/or low-cost repairs, and leads bicylce education programs (based on student interest and instructor availability).   Freewheel encourages and celebrates bike riding as an ecologically and economically sound form of transportation by organizing community rides and "Free Bike Repair" days.