LIFE IN BRIEF: Central Park worship service

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Worship Service

From 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, students will worship at Central Park. This is a free service outside Charles V. Park Library, by the pond. Students can attend and bring instruments. For more information and details, visit the Facebook group EVOKE (Worship) or e-mail Nyesha Smith, smith1nn@cmich.edu.

Film Showing

The film “Jump Back Honey: The Poetry and Performance of Herbert Woodward Martin” will begin at 7 p.m. today in the Park Library Auditorium. The film was made by David Schock and the event will include comments by Herbert Woodward Martin. Admission to the event is free. Martin will be on campus the following day to visit select classes. For more information, contact Ulana Klymyshyn, Director of the Multicultural Education Center, at klymy1au@cmich.edu.

Learn good habits

The workshop Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday in Rowe Hall Room 229. The event is open to the public. Registration is $105, which includes two lunches and a workbook. Presenters are Amy McGinnis and Kim Voisin, who are certified in the Seven Habits for Highly Effective People Signature Program and the Seven Habits of Highly Effective College Students. To register, call 774-6447 or e-mail Nate Holmes, Human Resources, at stratod@cmich.edu.

Diversity Luncheon

Soup and Substance: The Role of the African American Artist, from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday at the Bovee University Center in Terrace rooms A, B and C will include a presentation on diversity-related topics. The luncheon will be presented by Herbert Woodward Martin. The event is free and one in a series of Soup and Substance events. For more information, contact Ulana Klymyshyn at klymy1au@cmich.edu.

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Learn more about the world of competitive rock, paper, scissors from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Thursday at the Bovee University Center Auditorium. A comedic film will be shown along with a competition. For more information on the event, contact Prisilla Vargas at cmu_pb@cmich.edu or call 774-3174.

CFX Corn Maze

Mount Pleasant Parks and Recreation and 95.3 FM WCFX are hosting a corn maze from 6 to 10 p.m. at Papa’s Pumpkin Patch, 3309 N. Summerton Road. The nine-acre corn maze is $6 per person. Anyone able to locate all checkpoints in the maze will receive a free corn maze T-shirt.

Pie Your Professors

This week, jars will be placed in Dow Science Complex between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Students are encouraged to add money to the jar of the chemistry professor they wish to see pied. The professor with the most money will get a pie in the face Friday after an awards luncheon, which starts at noon on the second floor of Dow. All donations benefit the American Chemical Society.

Postal worker sentenced

Bobbie J. Sinko, the Mount Pleasant postal worker convicted on 31 counts of mail fraud in March, was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for her role in a fraud that provided mail from Central Michigan University to be shipped for free, according to court authorities. In addition to prison time, Sinko will be required to pay $354,498 in restitution.