Academic/Intellectual Events?

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<p>Hi all,</p>

<p>I'm in a bit of a bind. I am chairing the Academic Affairs Committee at my school, and my main duty is to schedule "academic" events that allow all students to participate. I just got the position and I was given 1.5 weeks to organize 3 events for this semester. So I hurriedly contacted everyone necessary for these events, and I got them organized. These were the activities that I had planned:</p>

<p>Academic Bowl
Archery Symposium
Nova Night</p>

<p>However, the archery club told me today that they would not be able to do the symposium. This leaves me with 2 events at the last minute, and no good ideas are coming to me right now. So could anyone make a few suggestions regarding events that I can do? The only qualification is that it somehow has to be academic or intellectually stimulating. This leaves a large number of possibilities. I need these events submitted by 5:00 PM today.</p>

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<p>Could you perhaps get a professor to speak on some issue they are passionate about?</p>

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<p>Have a symposium of faculty or students or mixed group disuss the bailout package and its effects.</p>

<p>Have group choices like about discuss how texting is actually inhibiting fact-to-face interaction. For example, pose the stituation where a person breaks up a relationship with another using a text message.</p>

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<p>We did a Geography Bee last year for a hunger group that I work with sometimes. It was more fun than it sounds...</p>

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<p>Thanks for the replies everyone. Since the archery symposium fell through at the last minute, I was able to get an extension. Right now, I'm looking at putting together some kind of tour downtown and a museum trip.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, a discussion about the economy was already set up by the college of business.</p>

<p>Dc89, could you please tell me more about the Geography Bee that you did?</p>