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·         Announcement of 2016 Ohio Mathematics Contest on April 9, 2016 at WSU

·         (Feb. 12, 19, 26) FW: Black History Month films

·         (Feb. 14, 21, 28) FW: Savor Your Sundays: A Delicious "Dine & Donate" Event Benefiting Stivers School for the Arts!

·         (Feb. 21) FW: 2016 DACA Chinese New Year Party Invitation

·         (Mar. 1-6) FW: Civil Rights Pilgrimage (a trip for a WSU course)

·         FW: Funding Needed!!!

·         FW: Faces of Black kids as young as 5 evoke negative biases: Study

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2016 Ohio Mathematics Contest

Saturday April 9, 2:00 – 6:00 pm
Registration Begins at 12:30 pm


The Contest (OMC) is organized by the Dayton Branch of the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA)
hosted by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and awarded by President David R. Hopkins
at the Wright State University (WSU)

The pre-registration will end on Saturday, April 2.
You may register online here (choose Dayton-OH among listed locations)
or mailing the attached registration form after filling it out.
(Please don't choose Ohio and Southwest Ohio,
since those are in Columbus and Cincinnati!)


2016 Awards & Scholarships

Cash Prizes

Grades 4–8: 1st place, $100; 2nd Place, $75;3rd place, $50
Grades 9–11: 1st place, $150; 2nd place, $100; 3rd place, $50
All students will receive participation certificates.

Scholarships

The top three winners in grades 9, 10, and 11 will receive
the following scholarships:
1st place, $2,500; 2nd place, $1000; 3^rd place, $500.

Scholarships are applied to undergraduate tuition at Wright State University
and are renewable for up to four years if recipients maintain good academic standing.
Students may win in multiple years and accumulate the scholarship amounts.

For more information, please visit www.wright.edu/OMC

 

 

From: Theo Majka
Subject: FW: Black History Month films

It announces the films for Black History Month being shown at Central State University, Dayton campus on Germantown. The series is sponsored by the City of Dayton's Human Relations Council. Starts this Friday with Selma. The film on Feb 26 is the PBS documentary "American Denial."  Below is a summary from the film's website. Unfortunately, the time to view it on-line has expired.

Follow the story of foreign researcher and Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal whose study, An American Dilemma (1944), provided a provocative inquiry into the dissonance between stated beliefs as a society and what is perpetuated and allowed in the name of those beliefs. His inquiry into the United States' racial psyche becomes a lens for modern inquiry into how denial, cognitive dissonance, and unrecognized, unconscious attitudes continue to dominate racial dynamics in American life. The film's unusual narrative sheds a unique light on the unconscious political and moral world of modern Americans. Archival footage, newsreels, nightly news reports, and rare southern home movies from the '30s and '40s thread through the story, as well as psychological testing into racial attitudes from research footage, websites, and YouTube films.

Hear from experts — historians, psychologists, sociologists and Myrdal's daughters — all filmed directly to camera. Witnesses work to exhume unconscious feelings Americans have about themselves and others. Fascinated by the Myrdal question, the film's experts reflect on it with emotion and intellectual rigor. At the core of their inquiry: How to reconcile individual feelings and thoughts with the bedrock values of our democracy.

 

 

 

From: Billi Ewing; Stivers Seedling Foundation ~ Stivers Alum ~ Stivers Parent
Subject: Savor Your Sundays: A Delicious "Dine & Donate" Event Benefiting Stivers School for the Arts!

Coco's February Sunday Brunches
to Benefit Stivers

by Alexis Larsen, contributing writer for Dayton.com

For eight of the last 10 years, the Coco's Bistro in Dayton has put on "Savor your Sunday" brunches benefiting Stivers School for the Arts in February. The special brunch dates are a way to celebrate art, food, education, community and the opportunity to give back.

The popular brunches sell-out quickly bringing in 150-200 people per brunch, for a total of about 800 meals served. Getting a reservation in early is key. The cost is $30 per person with $15 donated back to Stivers.  Meals include a fruit and cinnamon pita chip starter, a choice of one dish on the menu and live entertainment from a different Stivers group of musicians. Visual art students also get involved with a large painting on display based on the Fernand Leger painting, "Les Trois Musiciens."

It's a special opportunity to dine for a good cause - Coco's does offer brunch on special occasions like Mother's Day and Easter, but it's the only time during the year to be able to enjoy brunch at Coco's on any kind of a schedule.

WANT TO GO?
WHAT: Coco's Bistro Savor your Sunday brunches to benefit Stivers School for the Arts
WHERE: 250 Warren St., Dayton
WHEN: Reservations are available from 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. for the four Sundays in February
COST: $30 per person with $15 donated back to Stivers
SCHEDULE OF ENTERTAINMENT: The Stivers Strings (Feb. 7), The Stivers Singers (Feb. 14, Coco's will also be open for a special Valentine's Day dinner on the 14th), The Stivers Jazz Group (Feb. 21) and The Stivers Concert Pianists (Feb. 28)
MORE INFO: www.228coco.com | 937-228-2626

 

 

From: Daca Dayton
Subject: 2016 DACA Chinese New Year Party Invitation

 

 

From: Jim Vancejr@gmail.com
Subject: Civil Rights Pilgrimage (a trip for a WSU course for March 1-6)

https://www.wright.edu/multicultural-affairs-and-community-engagement/cultural-centers/bolinga-black-cultural-resources-center/civil-rights-pilgrimage

 

 

From: Colette M. Harrison, PhD., Unity In The Valley Seminars, One Human Family Workshops, Successful Self-Direction Programs
Subject: Funding Needed!!!

Attached are two documents outlining a series of "workshop" opportunities that I'm hoping we can bring to Dayton over the next two years. I would love to have a broad Multifaith Alliance help fund this and also help encourage members of your congregations to participate in these as they are scheduled.  Addition support could be through providing venues for these to take place, as well as some printing of handout materials.

As it has been proven that things that are free are often not valued or regarded as worthwhile, I plan to ask participants to pay between $10 and $15 (or possibly free-will offerings) to basically cover the costs of the food that is to be served during each event.

If you believe in the value of these workshops, please send the attachments out to your fellow clergy with your recommendation that they contribute to this endeavor as I hope you will yourselves.

I also look forward to your feedback!

 

 

Vernellia Randall
Subject: [SchooltoPrisonPipeline] Faces of Black kids as young as 5 evoke negative biases: Study

Prof Randall: Wonder how this contributes to the school-to-prison pipeline. What is DPS doing to assure that black children are not being suspended or disciplined more harshly because of teacher biases.

Faces of Black kids as young as 5 evoke negative biases: Study

IANS  |  New York February 8, 2016 Last Updated at 17:04 IST

People are more likely to misidentify a toy as a weapon after seeing a Black face than a White face even when the face in question is that of a five-year-old child, a new study has revealed.

"Our findings suggest that, although young children are typically viewed as harmless and innocent, seeing faces of five-year-old Black boys appears to trigger thoughts of guns and violence," claimed lead study author Andrew Todd, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Iowa.

The inspiration for the series of studies, conducted by Todd and colleagues Kelsey Thiem and Rebecca Neel began with a real life observation.

"In this case, it was the alarming rate at which young African Americans -- particularly young Black males -- are shot and killed by police in the US," Todd said.

The researchers presented 64 White college students with two images that flashed on a monitor in quick succession.

The students saw the first image -- a photograph of a child's face -- which they were told to ignore because it purportedly just signalled that the second image was about to appear.

When the second image popped up, participants were supposed to indicate whether it showed a gun or a toy, such as a rattle.

The data revealed that the participants tended to be quicker at categorising guns after seeing a Black child's face than after seeing a White child's face.

Participants also mistakenly categorised toys as weapons more often after seeing images of Black boys than after seeing images of White boys.

However, they mistakenly categorised guns as toys more often after seeing a White child's face than after seeing a Black child's face.

A final experiment revealed that even threat-related words -- including "violent," "dangerous," "hostile," and "aggressive," -- were more strongly associated with images of young Black boys than with images of young White boys.

"One of the most pernicious stereotypes of Black Americans, particularly Black men, is that they are hostile and violent," Todd and colleagues wrote in a paper published in the journal Psychological Science.

So pervasive are these threat-related associations that they can shape even low-level aspects of social cognition, the authors added.

Todd and colleagues hope to conduct further research into the extent of this implicit bias, investigating, for example, whether it also applies to Black women and girls.

 

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