Volume 22, Number 22, January 29, 2003
Calendar
News Items
North
Country Fiddle and Dance February 1
North Country Fiddle and Dance will perform in UMC’s Bede Ballroom on
Saturday, February 1, from 7 to 10 p.m. The interactive performance
is open to the public. Admission is free for UMC students and $2 for
others. North Country Fiddle and Dance maintains a traditional string
band, which plays Appalachian, Irish, and French Canadian folk-dance
music. Demonstrations of Appalachian clogging and French Canadian
step-dancing are also part of a typical performance by the group. The
performance takes the form of a concert followed by a dance, with
audience members joining in to learn the dances. This event is
sponsored by the UMC Concerts and Lectures Committee.
Snow Daze Set for
February 3-8
Snow Daze, the annual winter fun
festival for students, is set for the week of February 3-8. Events
include bingo on Monday, February 3, the annual Student Success Fair on
February 5, and an “open mic” night on February 5. Coronation of Snow
Daze royalty will take place on Thursday, February 6, at 8 p.m. in
Kiehle Auditorium.
The week will culminate with the annual Snow Daze Dinner and Dance on Saturday, February 8. The Snow Daze Dinner will take place in Brown Dining Room at 7:30 pm. Cost is $6. Students must sign up in advance at the Bede Info Desk. The dance, featuring music by Club Dance Entertainment, will take place in Bede Ballroom from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Admission is free to UMC students and $4 for others.
Blood Drive February 10
UMC’s first blood drive for spring semester will be Monday, February 10. SIFE members and UMC Student Ambassadors will be signing people up over the noon hour the week of February 3 through 7 in the Sahlstrom Conference Center entrance. There continues to be a nationwide shortage of blood. Please consider taking one hour out of your day to save a life. Contact Stacey Grunewald, extension 8512.
Lon Boike
P&A Review Committee Appointed
In accordance with University
policy employees in the Professional & Administrative (P&A) employment
classification are required to be comprehensively evaluated on a regular
three- to five-year basis. Lon Boike is scheduled for review and
evaluation at this time. A review committee has been appointed to
collect and evaluate information concerning the achievements and
progress of Mr. Boike in his role as Athletic Director. The University
is committed to fostering the success of its administrative staff and
enhancing each administrator's effectiveness in a constructive way.
This review process is an important means of evaluating and
strengthening the role of administrators within the University.
Members of the review committee are: Doug Knowlton, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (Chairperson); Brian Steenerson, Assistant Director of Admissions; Rosalie Hayenga, Head Women's Golf/Assistant Women's Basketball; Kent Freberg, Director of Facilities Management; Lisa Samuelson, Assistant Director of Residential Life; Sonia Spaeth, Assistant Professor HPER/Art; and Katherine Johnson, student.
If you are not formally
asked to provide assessment information and would like to participate
please contact the chair of the Review Committee.
--Bob Nelson, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
15-Passenger
Van Training February 24
Effective November 1, 2002 the
University of Minnesota will not allow faculty, staff or students to
drive a 15-passenger van unless they have completed a safety
certification course. This new policy applies to vans owned by the
University and rented from an outside source! There will be no
exceptions to this policy! UMC Facilities Management will not allow
vans to be checked out unless reserved by certified drivers.
If you have driven or may be asked to drive a 15-passenger van for a class, field trip, club activity, community service or athletic event, you must complete this training.
Training is provided by Mr. Bill Roberts, Director of UM Fleet Services. He has an excellent training program full of important information for all drivers.
For those who were not able to attend the earlier sessions last fall, you will have one more opportunity on February 24. Please arrange your schedules and register for the following session:
February 24, 3 to 4:30 p.m. (Location TBA)
This will be the only time this training is provided during the 2003 Spring Semester!
Pre-registration is suggested, but not mandatory. You can register by contacting Tom Feiro, Environmental Health & Safety at 8300 or via email at tfeiro.
New Online Interlibrary
Loan Form
A new online interlibrary loan
form has been developed and is now available for use at <www.umcrookston.edu/library/illform2003.htm>.
It is also linked from the library Information page at <www.umcrookston.edu/library/libinfo.htm>.
This form is to
initiate a request to borrow an item from another library. Simply fill
out the required information and click the submit button. Please
contact us if you have questions.
--Owen Williams, Director, Library Services
Office
Hours Insert Form
Attached is a revised
Word document (table) that you may use to produce an Office Hours
schedule insert. You may type your schedule/office hours into the cells
or, if you wish, you can write them in.
Financial
Brown Bag Lunch Series begins January 29
Attached to the electronic
version of the bulletin is
poster for the Brown Bag Lunch Series. “Need a road map to smart
investing?” promises lots of great ideas on investment strategies for
volatile markets. Because of the difficulty in organizing classrooms
for ITV presentation, each session will be videotaped. The tapes should
be available within a few days following each session. Contact Les
Johnson at 281-8345 or email
ljohnson@mail.crk.umn.edu.
The Brown Bag Lunch Series is one of several events brought to you by Employee Benefits designed to help you plan for your retirement or become better informed about your benefits.
Ask
Environmental Health and Safety
“ASK EHS” – The Department of
Environmental Health and Safety (DEHS) fields many questions from
employees with regard to a wide variety of “safety” issues/concerns. In
many instances, the same question is asked on multiple occasions.
Requests range from concerns to policy and procedures. As a service to
the campus community, I will begin to provide answers to questions as a
part of the weekly bulletin. With the help of my cohorts in DEHS, we
will review the question and try to answer your questions. If you have
a question about general safety, chemical safety, laboratory safety,
indoor air quality, ergonomic health, fire prevention/protection,
hazardous waste or workplace safety, please email your questions to me
at tfeiro or call 281-8300.
--Thomas A. Feiro, Senior EHS Technician, Environmental Health &
Safety
ASK EHS: Are pets allowed in University buildings?
The University of Minnesota “Policy on Unauthorized Animals or Pets in University Buildings or on the Grounds” recognizes that certain animals are important to the University community. Approved animals are managed under the guidance of the Animal Care Committee, Veterinary School, or College of Agriculture. Seeing Eye and hearing aide dogs are allowed, by law, access to University buildings. Under “special circumstances” an animal may be permitted access to buildings and grounds with prior approval.
All other animals and personal pets, including dogs and cats, fall under this policy statement. “In order to minimize unnecessary maintenance, sanitation problems, and classroom distraction, no unauthorized animals and pets will be allowed in University buildings. When pets are walked across University grounds, the standards established in the animal control ordinances or legislative codes of the local community will prevail.”
The City of Crookston Code Book, p222, states that no owner shall allow their pet to “run at large” and must be secured to a collar and durable leash. If a dog defecates outside of the owner’s personal property, the owner is responsible to immediately remove the waste and dispose of it in a sanitary manner.
Aquariums are allowed in dormitory rooms according to the UMC Residential Life Policy Manual.
The full policy may be viewed at: http://www.dehs.umn.edu/policies/unauthorized.html
Outstanding Community Service Awards
Reminder for Nominations
Please consider submitting a
nomination for the 2002-2003 Outstanding Community Service Awards.
These awards honor members of the University community who have devoted
their time and talent to make substantial, enduring contributions to the
community and to improve public life and the well-being of society. All
faculty and staff at the University are eligible to receive this award,
as are community members affiliated with the University of Minnesota.
To be considered for the Outstanding Community Service Awards, nomination materials must include:
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Letter summarizing the scope and impact of the candidate’s community service
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Three support letters from persons who are familiar with the candidate’s work
The Award criteria include:
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evidence of solid accomplishments in the area of public policy and public service that contribute to the quality of life at the local, regional, state, national, or international level;
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contributions that result in long-term and lasting changes for the public good; and
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demonstrated commitment to the University and the greater Minnesota community.
Please submit the original and 12 copies of nomination materials by Friday, February 14, 2003 to:
Outstanding Community Service
Award Committee
c/o Sue Engelmann
Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost
234 Morrill Hall
The deadline for nominations is February 14, 2003.
If you have any questions, please call
(612-626-9186) or email Sue Engelmann at
engel026@umn.edu. Further information is available on our website <http://www.umn.edu/civic>.
Thank you very much for your continued support of these worthy
individuals.
--Christine M. Maziar, Executive Vice President and Provost
VolunTEAM Update
This week’s featured Crookston VolunTEAM project is tutoring at Highland
Elementary School’s After-School Program. Ben Loll, UMC’s student
America Reads coordinator, needs a volunteer for one hour per week, from
3 to 4 p.m.
If you’re interested in helping out, or simply want to know more about the project, email Ben at ubjl201@mail.crk.umn.edu or visit www.volunteam.org to learn more about the project.
If you’d like to know more about the Crookston VolunTEAM, please contact Mike Christopherson in the Crookston VolunTEAM office (Bede 106) at 281-8526, email him at chris282@umcrookston.edu, or visit www.volunteam.org.
Congratulations
to Ag-Arama Winners
Congratulations
to Bill Rinkenberger of Fosston, MN, who received the True Grit Award at
the 28th Annual Ag-Arama on Saturday, January 25.
Congrats also to the students selected as Ag-Arama Royalty: King Dallas Koplin of Campbell, MN; Queen Cheryl Isder of Little Falls, MN; Prince Luke Wittkop of Freeport, MN; and Princess Sara Krippner of Kimball, MN.
(from left)
Prince Luke Wittkop, Princess Sara Krippner, Queen Cheryl Isder,
King Dallas Koplin
For a full listing of all individual contest winners, go to <webhome.crk.umn.edu/clubs/agarama>.
Accolades
UMC’s notebook computer initiative and lessons learned from nearly ten
years’ history of the initiative at UMC are the subject matter of a
chapter in the newly published book Ubiquitous Computing: The
Universal Use of Computers on College Campuses. The chapter was
written by UMC Chancellor Don Sargeant and Andrew Svec,
UMC’s director of communications. The book, which details notebook
initiatives on several campuses including Wake Forest University and the
University of Hong Kong, was edited by David G. Brown of Wake Forest
University and published by Anker Publishing of Bolton, MA.
Dan
Svedarsky,
professor of natural resources at UMC and research biologist at the
Northwest Research and Outreach Center, recently participated in a
seminar panel session on upland bird management at the national
convention of Pheasants Forever in Minneapolis. This was the 20th
anniversary celebration of one of the fastest growing and most
successful conservation organizations in the country and attracted over
3,000 participants to the three-day event.
Svedarsky appeared on a seminar panel with Bill Berg, recently retired MN DNR biologist, and John Schulz, North Game and Fish Department. The panel discussed “Sharpies, Huns, and Prairie Chickens – Habitat Needs and Where to Find Them.” The panelists covered the national perspective of the three species with Svedarsky focusing on the greater prairie chicken. Svedarsky and Ross Hier of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in Crookston, and Nova Silvy of Texas A & M University recently edited a book on the national status of the greater prairie chicken. Highlights of that publication were presented as well as habitat management applied on private and public lands throughout the species’ U.S. range.
Special
Dates
Birthdays
January 29 – Bonnie Anderson
February 1 – Alex Ellram
Reminder: Faculty and staff are encouraged to share well wishes for birthdays, anniversaries, births, etc. with the rest of the campus. Please send items for this week’s special dates via e-mail to Andrew Svec at asvec@mail.crk.umn.edu and/or Sue Dwyer at sdwyer@mail.crk.umn.edu. Thanks.
UMC Insight
UMC Insight, the weekly radio
show about UMC, airs on KROX Radio 1260 AM Saturdays at 8:45 a.m.
Tune in Saturday, February 1, to hear an interview hosted by Andrew
Svec, UMC Director of Communications.
UMC
Bulletin
The UMC Bulletin is posted at:
<http://www.umcrookston.edu/campusinfo/wkbulletin/bulletin.htm>