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The Members of the co-ed community service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega, will be doing some crafty service projects while watching funny YouTube videos. If you are interested in community service, and want to find out ways to get involved, stop on by!

Did all of your friends go home this weekend? Are you bored and staying on campus? Do you like board games and free food?? Great! Come down to the Wesley Foundation for our Friday Fun Nights. We have games that everyone loves: Quelf, Scategories, Life, Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Catan, and many many more! Enjoy FREE snacks and drinks while you're playing. We hope to see you there!!

Featured Dishes:
Chicken Gyro
Honey Orange Roasted Potatoes
Potato Leek Soup
Chicken Guacamole Wrap
Honey Mustard Grilled Chicken
Spicy Garlic Shrimp Flatbread
Southwest Quinoa & Corn Salad
Blueberry Crumb Cupcake

Richard H. Underwood, American legal scholar and legal nonfiction and true crime writer, will present his book, "Crimesong: True Crime Stories from Southern Murder Ballads." A ballad singer from Berea College will perform as part of the presentation.

Come join us Thursday, September 28th at 12p.m. in the Fitness and Wellness Center for our first ever Find Success Scavenger Hunt! Form groups of four people or less and go on a hunt across campus to find helpful resources available on campus, while enjoying FREE food, giveaways, and incentives! Sign-up before September 19th by emailing Renee.leonard@eku.edu

Learn about CCSA (Cooperative Center for Study Abroad) winter term and summer programs in English speaking countries - England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, Belize and South Africa. There are a wide variety of 2 and 4 week courses offered that can meet general education and major requirements. Please click more on this announcement for additional information.

Grab a friend and register for Campus Recreation’s Tennis Doubles Tournament to see if you can become the new tennis champion! The tournament will take place on September 29th at 3pm at the outdoor tennis courts on Kit Carson Drive. Winners take home a Championship T-Shirt! Register today by clicking more on this announcement.

The Trail is a 34.3-mile rail-to-recreation trail, traversing through two counties from Abingdon, Virginia, through Damascus, and ending just past Whitetop Station! All Campus Recreation Adventure Program Trips include food, transportation and all gear necessary for the adventure. Time of departure is dependent upon your schedule. We also can assist with any dietary restriction to ensure you have the best trip possible. All trips are student run by certified medically trained guides and on all of our trips no experience is necessary. If you want to try something new and different checkout Adventure Programs! The cost for this adventure is only $100!
 
For more information or to sign up for any Adventure Programs trip, stop by the Fitness and Wellness Center or register online at: https://online.spectrumng.net/ekucampusrec

Celebrate National Yoga Month in September with Campus Recreation! National Yoga Month was developed to raise awareness of yoga's health benefits and provide people with guidance and tools to improve their well-being. So get your Yoga on by learning a new pose every day and posting it to social media for a chance to win prizes! Start by picking up a yoga tracking sheet at the front desk of the Campus Recreation Center. Then follow along each day on Instagram to see the selected yoga pose. Be sure to use the hash tag #GetYourYogaOn and tag @EKUCampusRec when you post on social media to be entered for the chance to win a free yoga mat!

Family weekend will be here next week. If you and your family don’t already have late night plans come by the Intermural Fields and come watch Moana next Friday September 22nd at 8:00pm.

Family Weekend will be here next week. Are you trying to figure out some activities to do with your family? Well, come by Middle Powell next Friday September 22nd from 12 p.m.- 3 p.m. and enjoy some crafts. We will be making zen gardens and painting rocks and wooden picture frames. It is free to all students and their families.

SENIORS! TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO SIGN UP FOR STUDENT TEACHING! To be eligible for student teaching in your professional semester, you must complete the online application in EKU Direct. The application will only be available until Midnight on Friday, September 15th and it will automatically close. The file is located under the Student Services tab and is the 10th folder listed. Once you have completed it and included the county for your first preference, you must go to that county's Board of Education and complete a local and federal background check. Bring our form with signatures back to Combs 427 before October 15th along with your Physical Form, TB Risk Assessment, Professional Liability Insurance (from either KEA or KAPE) and the certificate from KET's Promoting Positive Behavior Modules. The forms and live links are available on the TES webpage, www.tes.eku.edu/student resources.

Mark your calendars! The EKU Office of Military & Veteran Affairs and the EKU VETS Club invites you to join us for the 2017 Welcome Back Picnic! This free event is open to all student veterans, dependents, and EKU faculty/staff. Families are welcome. Free food and drinks, music, cornhole, activities for kids – Inflatables, balloon animals, & prize giveaways!