The Admissions Office will be hosting prospective students and their families on campus the week of March 8. Our visitors this week are from: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Ohio. Please welcome these visitors to our campus.

A week-long celebration “Rounding Up to Pi Day!” Monday through Friday. Flyers will be posted around campus.

Dr. Tom Ward, author of “Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South”

Topic: “Presenting at a Professional Conference: How Do You Do It? Why Would You Do It?”

SHC students, faculty, and staff are invited.

The Political Science and International Studies Club will be hosting the lecture, “Real World Politics: Iran with Dr. Entessar.” Dr. Entessar is an expert on Iranian politics. He will be discussing the current political situation in Iran.

P.R.I.D.E. will be having a meeting to discuss upcoming events. All are encouraged to attend.

Come show us your sudoku skills! Everyone is welcomed, and you can come for the entire time or just stay for a few minutes and solve some puzzles. There will be snacks and a prize for the winner!

Professor Natalya Prokhorova will be giving a talk on gaming theory. The talk is geared towards a general audience. Students and faculty are invited to come listen to Professor Prokhorova explain some typical gaming scenarios and their mathematical solutions. Refreshments will be provided.

An opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 11, 6 – 8 p.m. for the Faculty Exhibition in the Eichold Gallery. Luis Blanco-Doring, S.J., Pieter Favier, Mary Elizabeth Kimbrough, Tom Loehr, Janden Richards, Wanda Sullivan and Dave Truesdale will be exhibiting. Everyone is invited to attend and refreshments will be served.

Cajun for a Cure is a Cajun food cookout sponsored by SHC‘s Tri Deltas! Only $8 for delicious alligator sauce piquante with alligator, smoked sausage and chicken served over rice with a red sauce. Also, jambalaya, potato salad, bread and more. The chef is Emile Stieffel who has made appearances on food network. We are selling tickets in the caf. the week of March 8th-12th.

Dr. Chris Baglow will present “Belief Under Assault: Scientific Atheism & the Assault on Reason and Faith.”

St. Joseph Chapel at Spring Hill College turns 100 this year. The initial celebration will be a special Centennial Mass celebrated by Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi at 11 a.m. Sunday, March 21. The liturgy will be followed by an outdoor reception near the chapel fountain.

Students, faculty and staff are invited to the Mass and reception. To RSVP, please call 380–2283.

The Administrative Staff Committee is hard at work on the Staff Service Day for Thursday, July 29, 2010. Don’t forget to let the committee know if you are planning on participating and/or if you have great ideas for service projects.

What are you doing on Mondays @ 12:15? The Freshman Seminar Program will be accepting applications until Wednesday, March 17 at 4 pm.

Information Sessions will be held in New Hall room 137 on Wednesday, March 10 at 12:15 and 9 PM and Thursday, March 11 at 3:00 PM. If you are unable to attend the information sessions, stop by Student Academic Services or contact Caitlin King.

The El Salvador Immersion group is collecting digital cameras to send to Centro Arte para la Paz, the Art Center for Peace in Suchitoto. During their trip to El Salvador, the group met with the center’s founder, Sr. Peggy O’Neill, S.C., who expressed a need for digital cameras for their workshops. If you have a working digital camera you no longer use, please consider donating it to this cause. Cameras can be dropped off at the Office of Campus Ministry.

The Art Center for Peace’s mission is to develop and promote a culture of peace through the arts, creativity, imagination and cultural exchange. To learn more about the organization, visit http://capsuchitoto.org/en/.

The baseball team will play Lyon College from Batesville, Ark., on Monday night at 6 p.m. on Stan Galle Field. This weekend archrivals the University of Mobile comes to campus for a 3-game conference set, beginning with a single game on Friday at 6 p.m. and concluding with a doubleheader on Saturday at 1 p.m.

The men’s and women’s golf teams will host the annual SHC Badger Invitational on Monday and Tuesday at Spring Hill College Golf Course.

The softball team will host 8th ranked Martin Methodist College from Pulaski, Tenn., on Monday at 2 p.m. on Murray Field. Also, this week the Badgers will host Belhaven University in a conference doubleheader on Wednesday at noon and Park University on Thursday at 11 a.m.

It’s going to be a busy week for SHC Tennis as the men’s and women’s teams will host St. Joseph’s College on Wednesday at 2 p.m., William Carey on Thursday at 6 p.m., LeTourneau University on Friday at 1 p.m., Tougaloo College on Saturday at 9 a.m., and Belhaven University on Saturday at 1 p.m. All matches will be held at the Copeland-Cox Tennis Center.