Hope everyone had a great spring break! Welcome back to classes for spring quarter, and a batch of new and exciting salons!

• Watch out on campus for our portable and convenient new salon schedules. Everything you need to keep track of the many upcoming salons.
• That's it for 2005! Thanks to everyone who was involved! See you next year for The Body!
• The Body, is our 2005-2006 salon theme. Mara Adelman has posted her Salon Proposal online for your perusal.
• There's a new way to get in touch with us! If you are anxious to make any comments, suggestions, criticisms, or just say "hi" feel free to email us at academicsalons@seattleu.edu!

• We would like to thank everyone who made the salons such a huge success last quarter! We hope that the enthusiasm continues on into the winter and spring quarters.

Mara Adelman is a Professor of Communications, and is our Salon Coordinator for 2004-2005. Click Here for a message from Mara.

Salon Proposal 2005-2006

• Since the 1950s, Americans have used more resources than anyone before.  It is crucial to reflect upon the ways we live and the impact our consumption has on others.
   
  Academic Day and Salons provide opportunities to showcase the power of education by analyzing and discussing relevant issues in today’s society.  This year’s goal is to create a campus-wide inquiry into issues related to consumerism, market economies, globalization, and the "preferential option for the poor.”
   
  Academic Day will introduce the theme “Consumption and Poverty,” and the Academic Salons will further our understanding of the issues by using a variety of formats: small groups, debates, film viewings and discussions, book readings, panels, and guest speakers.
   
  Emphasis will be placed on an engaged intellectual life that is informal, voluntary, outside-the-classroom, and active.  These casual settings will provide opportunities to expand the mind through education, understanding, and action.   All are welcome – we hope you will attend.