Apples + Archaeology!
We are excited to introduce our new, award-winning, outreach program entitled Apples + Archaeology! We now have an additional "group" for the program on the website which you can see in the upper left menu (and please join/"add group" if you are interested!). Additionally we have posted some photographs of the program in action as well as its beautiful logo and t-shirt in the standard photos area.

PARKING FOR LECTURE
This link will take you to the Tempe campus parking map:
http://www.asu.edu/parking/pdf/map_tempe.pdf
Lectures this spring will be held in the BAC (Business Administration, wing C), room 116, which should come as a welcome change for those of you coming in from off campus, since the building is located directly across the street from the visitor parking spaces in the Apache Parking Structure. We will begin lectures at 6:00 pm this spring which is also different from previous years. This allows for people to get to campus on time from a typical workday, and to still be out of here at a reasonable hour in the evening. We hope these changes prove to be good ones!
In addition to the large garage, there are plenty of metered spaces around, but they max at one hour, and it's $1.50 for that hour in quarters. In case it helps (or hurts?), there is a Starbucks on the first floor, just northeast of the elevators, that will be open on Thursday nights until 8 pm!

Donations to the local chapter
At the lectures this semester we will have a small silver box for monetary donations to the society. We do not require entrance or membership fees for any of our talks, but we greatly welcome any help you can give us to aid in procuring the high quality speakers we bring to you, or to assist in our outreach programs. Any amount is helpful!

The occasional "spammer"
It looks as though we got a few new spammers over the last week. This happens occasionally on a website like this, and I can tell you from experience that 'ning' sites seem to be susceptible to them, although I do not know if it is worse for 'ning' sites than for other platforms. Rest assured that these folks are banned from the website as soon as I notice them. My apologies for the times when it may a few days for me to notice them and they happen to send out messages to other members that solicit you in various ways. Please feel free to let me know if something escapes me in this way and I will take care of it asap, and also please be assured that your privacy is in no way jeopardized by the interlopers.
Posted by Jayni Reinhard, manager of the CAS website, on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009

New features on the website include an area to post related events. Local societies such as ARCE and the Humanist Society, as well as ASU events on the departmental or student level, can be posted here if they are relevant to the ancient world and/or archaeology and anthropology. If you have something you would like us to post, please send the information to one of our site administrators, Jayne Reinhard or Almira Poudrier.

Also, there are several *new fora for open discussion* between members, including a new "book club" of sorts. Please explore the site and its options at your leisure!

Also, we have a few remaining society t-shirts on sale for $10 ($5 with a valid ASU student ID). You can pick one up at the next lecture, but if you simply can't wait, drop Jayni Reinhard, Almira Poudrier, or Thomas Morton a line on the site here and we can work something out about shipping one (or more!) to you. Currently in the batch of photos posted on the site, the design for the shirt is number 44/87. It comes in cobalt blue, forest green, or burgundy.

If you have events that you would like us to post here, please send the details to either of the site's administrators, Jayne Reinhard or Almira Poudrier.

The U of A's ARCE AZ chapter will host a lecture on February 23 by Michael Jones on "Protecting Cultural Sites in a Living Environment - Balancing Conservation, Scholarship, Cultural Tourism, and the Interests of People Living There Today." It is sponsored by the Arizona branch of the American Research Center in Egypt.
The details that we have so far concerning the content of the presentation are as follows:
Michael Jones will explore a critical issue in cultural heritage management in Egypt today – its sustainability in the face of the inevitable challenges that constantly affect the historic environment and the priorities of its modern inhabitants. This includes concerns about stewardship, display, presentation and use. ARCE has been privileged to work at some of the highest profile cultural and tourist sites in Egypt, from the ancient in Luxor to the modern in Cairo. Understanding the needs and agendas of the various interest groups is a crucial aspect of conservation and raises important and connected questions such as whose heritage is it and why are we conserving it?
As we understand it, Mr. Jones will delve into some of the specific projects that ARCE in Egypt are involved with and what they are doing. Also, Dina Aboul Saad will provide some information on ARCE and membership. If we get more specific information on the presentation we will let you know.
The lecture is, as always, free and open to the public. It will be held at 5:30 p.m., at the U. of A. BookStore in the Student Union Memorial Center, 1209 E. University Blvd., Tucson, Az., 85721. (Speedway Blvd. to Mountain Ave., south on Mountain Ave. The Student Union is straight ahead, and there is a parking garage to the left.)
Many thanks for Stephen R. Miller for this info! I'm sure that many of us are very much looking forward to what they have to offer this year. Stay tuned for more!

The home page for our parent organization is: http://www.archaeological.org/

Here is the newsletter for January 2009:

AIA0109Newsletter.pdf