Volume 23, Number 4, September 10, 2003
Calendar
News Items
Community Welcome Back
Picnic September 11
The Crookston Chamber of Commerce and the Crookston Retail Merchants
Association will host its annual Welcome Back Picnic Thursday,
September 11, from 5 to 7 p.m., in the greenspace near American
Federal Bank downtown Crookston. (In case of rain, it will be held at
UMC in Brown Dining Room.) The picnic is free for all current
students, faculty, and staff and only $2.50 for family members.
Students are invited to take part in a scavenger hunt among the local
businesses after the picnic.
Homecoming Week September 15-20
Homecoming 2003 is fast approaching. Events will take place during the
week of September 15-20. This year’s theme is “Slay the Dragons.”
Highlights of the week include:
Monday,
September 15
Sculpture Dedication
1 p.m., UMC Mall (south of Peterson Gazebo)
Official unveiling of the Golden Eagle sculpture created by Ben Brien
for the new student center
Thursday, September 18
Homecoming Royalty Coronation
8 p.m., Kiehle Auditorium
Sponsored by Student Programming and Activities for Campus Entertainment
(SPACE)
Friday, September 19
Athletic Hall of Fame Induction
6 p.m. Social, 7 p.m. Dinner and Program, Crookston Eagles Club
Tickets: $10 per person - contact Rose Ulseth in the Office of
Development, 218-281-8439. Inductees include Sonia (Walski) Kraft,
basketball and volleyball 1989-91; Deryl Ramey, head football coach
1972-76; Mike Hanlon, wrestling 1972-74; Craig Knudsen, football
1973-75.
Saturday, September 20
Homecoming Parade
11:30 a.m., parade will wind around the UMC Campus Mall and out to
Ed Widseth Field
Tailgating
Noon, UMC Parking Lot E
Sponsored by UMC Teambackers
Homecoming Football Game
1:30 p.m., UMC Golden Eagles vs. Minnesota State University, Moorhead
Dragons, Ed Widseth Field
Outstanding Alumni Recognition
Game halftime, Outstanding Alumni Awards 2003
This year’s honorees are Carl Melbye ’78 and Steven Peterson ‘76
Introduction of 2003 Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees
Post-game Social
4 p.m., Minakwa Golf Club, Crookston
Homecoming Dance
9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., on the Mall (rain site: Lysaker Gym)
Music provided by Class Music
Sponsored by SPACE
For more information, visit <www.UMCrookston.edu/homecoming>.
Academic
Dress for Inauguration
UMC’s inauguration of Chancellor
Burton is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. on Friday, October 17, in Kiehle
Auditorium. All faculty and staff will be invited to attend and, if
they chose, to march in the procession. If you would like to march and
wear formal academic dress but don’t have your own, the following
information must be sent to Leela Hier in the UMC Bookstore no later
than Monday, September 15: name, weight, height, degree
(master/doctorate), emphasis of degree, university granting degree, city
and state in which university is located.
We are on a tight time
schedule, so she must have this much lead time to place an order. You
will be receiving more information about the event later.
--Doug Knowlton, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Meningitis Vaccination Clinic September 16
UMC Health Services will offer a Meningitis
Vaccination Clinic on Tuesday, September 16, and Wednesday,
September 17, in Sahlstrom Conference Center 131 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
each day. Cost is $65.00. This is open to all students. Meningitis is
a rare but potentially fatal bacterial infection. Early symptoms
usually associated with meningococcal meningitis include high fever,
severe, headache, stiff neck, rash, nausea, vomiting and lethargy, and
may resemble the flu. Because the disease progresses rapidly, often in
as little as 12 hours, prompt diagnosis and treatment are important to
assuring recovery. The meningococcal vaccine is safe and has been shown
to provide protection against the most common strains of the disease.
Contact Stacey Grunewald, 8512 for more information. Also, refer to
the following website <www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/meningococcal/collegefact.html>.
Torch
and Shield Nominations Sought
Each year the UMC Torch and Shield Award is presented
to individuals who have provided leadership and who have aided in the
development of the University of Minnesota, Crookston. Nominations for
the 2003 Torch and Shield Award are currently being accepted by the
Chancellor’s Office. If you would like to nominate someone, please send
the name and reason for nomination to the Chancellor’s Office by noon on
Monday, September 22, 2003. Past award recipients are listed at <www.UMCrookston.edu/people/alumni/TnSrecipients.htm>.
This year Torch and Shield is set for Wednesday, October 29.
Faculty and Staff Directory
In an attempt to provide you with a current,
up-to-date faculty/staff phone directory in a timely manner, we have
posted a draft version for you to print and use. It can be found at <www.UMCrookston.edu/faculty/direct.htm>.
We have plans to distribute a printed version of this directory as in previous years. However, since there have been significant staff changes and office relocations (some continuing over the next couple months), we are holding off on that for the moment. We ask you to print the posted PDF version to use in the short term.
We have tried to obtain the most accurate
information, but we would appreciate it if each of you could
please double check your individual listings on that directory and also
on our online directory. Send any changes or updates to me. Thanks
for your help and your patience.
--Andrew M. Svec, Director
of Communications
15-Passenger Van
Training September 24
A reminder that 15-passenger van
training will be offered Wednesday, September 24, from 3:30 to 5:30
p.m., and again from 6 to 8 p.m. in 4 Hill Hall. University policy
requires that any students, faculty, or staff who plan to drive a
15-passenger van MUST complete the proper training. This will be the
only time this training is provided during fall semester.
Pre-registration is suggested, but not mandatory. You can register by
contacting Tom Feiro, Environmental Health & Safety, at 281-8300 or via
e-mail at
tfeiro@umn.edu.
Use of
Crookston Community Pool
Each year UMC has signed a contract to use the
Crookston Community Pool. The contract has been for general student use
as well as for certain UMC classes. The student activity fee has
covered a portion of the contract cost and this provides all UMC
students with free access to the pool.
This year the contract will again provide for free access to all faculty and staff as well as students. We must show our University ID card in order to use the pool under this agreement. Faculty, staff and students can use the pool at no cost for the following sessions:
- morning lap swim
- morning aqua exercises (does not cover evening class)
- all open swim times
Here is the web link to the pool <http://crookston.net/pool/>, or e-mail Ken Stromberg at swimpool.crookston@midconetwork.com.
Crookston has an
excellent pool facility and I encourage you to use it. Let me know if
you have questions.
--Rose Koch, Vice Chancellor for Finance
Online Rideshare
Website
UMC’s Online Rideshare website,
developed by Martin Lundell’s students as part of a service-learning
project last spring, is online and ready to go. If you’re heading to
Grand Forks, Fargo, the Twin Cities or as far as Florida, you can post
your need for a ride (or your willingness to offer someone else a ride)
at <www.UMCrookston.edu/student/RideShare/index.htm>.
If you’d like to hear more about how the Online Rideshare website works,
contact Mike Christopherson in Dowell 112 (x8526, email
chris282@umn.edu). Check it out!
--Mike Christopherson, Assistant Director of Service Learning
Brazil Collaboration
Meetings
(from left): Jane Sims, UMC; Paula
Alonso, President, CREA Sao Paulo; Vicente Nogueira Filho, President,
UPIS and AIEC; and Richard Nelson, UMC
UMC hosted two visitors from Brazil, Vicente Nogueira Filho,
president of Uniao Pioneira de Integracao Social (UPIS)
and of Associacao Internaional de Deucacao Continuada (AIEC),
Brasilia, and
Paula Alonso, president of Conselho Regional de
Engenharia, Arquitetura, e Agronomia (CREA), Sao Paulo, for a series of
meetings held September 6 through 9.
The visit builds on a partnership initiated 1998 and formalized in 2000. The original focus of the partnership was cooperative training in precision agriculture training, and it remains a principal objective. Recently, interests have expanded to include opportunities in online adult learning, most notably in the area of business administration, in the partnership.
The visit and related meetings expand on discussions held in Brazil this past July in which two primary areas of opportunity were identified: (1) customized, multi-modal training programs for working CREA professionals in specialized fields related to agronomy and precision agriculture, and (2) jointly offering AEIC’s online baccalaureate degree in business administration to approximately 600,000 Brazilians living in the United States.
UMC faculty and staff involved with the visit include Don Sargeant, chancellor emeritus; Aziz Rahman, assistant professor, agriculture and natural resources; Steven Shirley, assistant professor, marketing; Richard Nelson, director, UMC Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources. Local farmer and UMC alum Gary Wagner, an expert in precision agriculture practices, is also involved with the meetings.
Based in Brasilia, UPIS is a private, for-profit university with four campuses and an enrollment of about six-thousand undergraduate full-time and part-time students. The university offers programs in humanities, agriculture and veterinary science, law, and other specialization fields. UMC and UPIS collaborate on instructional technology applications for enhanced teaching and outreach, particularly in precision agriculture/agronomy.
Also based in Brasilia, AIEC is a distance education provider. Though administratively separate from UPIS, some physical and personnel resources are shared. AIEC primarily serves older-than-average working students seeking to earn baccalaureate credentials. An online program in business administration, with course work in over 40 subject areas, was launched last spring and will conclude its first full academic year in December.
CREA is a federally authorized, self-regulating professional Brazilian organization of engineers, agronomists, architects, geologists, and others. Its mission is to promote and advance its constituent professions and to set and maintain standards of quality for its membership. CREA operates in each state of Brazil. The Sao Paulo CREA is the largest, with 174, 951 professional members, of which 14,501 are agronomists. Eng. Paula Alonso, President of the Sao Paulo CREA, is an agronomist and is currently serving his second term in office.
VolunTEAM
Update
UMC has once again agreed to deliver Meals on Wheels three times during
the 2003-04 academic year, and our first week is rapidly approaching.
We have an urgent need for delivery drivers next week, September 15-19.
It’s a fun, quick and easy way to provide a nutritious meal to those in
need in the Crookston community. All you need to do is pick up the meal
coolers and a route map promptly at 11:30 a.m. at the rear physicians’
entrance to Riverview Hospital (the same door used during Riverview’s
construction project last year), and off you go. It takes a half-hour
to 45 minutes to deliver a route. If you’d like to help, sign up at the
Dowell 119 Information Desk, or contact Mike Christopherson in Dowell
112, (281-8526 or email
chris282@umn.edu) and he’ll put your name down for you.
If you’re interested in learning more about this project or the Crookston VolunTEAM, please contact Mike in the VolunTEAM office (Dowell 112) at 281-8526 or chris282@umn.edu. Or, simply visit <www.volunteam.org>.
Accolades
Thanks to all the UMC students
who volunteered their time on Thursday, September 4, in helping the
residents of West 6th Street evacuate their homes due to the
landslide near the river. Following is an excerpt of a message to these
students from Mike Christopherson, assistant director of service
learning and coordinator for the VolunTEAM:
“Even more amazing than the tremendous number of UMC students who came to help were the positive, helpful attitudes you all put on display. While I wasn’t surprised by your generosity and willingness to help, I couldn’t help but be impressed. The fact that so many students returned late in the afternoon to help at the motel – after we’d been told that no one else needed to be moved – was even more impressive. With your help, families were able to move all of their belongings in a few short hours. Who knows how long it would have taken had you not all come out to help? If you take nothing else out of your experience … KNOW THAT THE FAMILIES ARE TREMENDOUSLY GRATEFUL FOR YOUR HELP.
“A thank-you also to the faculty and coaches who realized that yesterday’s emergency required special considerations when it came to classes. Know that your students definitely learned something yesterday. Thanks especially to the coaches who had tremendous numbers of their student-athletes on the scene for hours.”
Mark
Huglen, assistant professor of communication, has co-authored a book
with Norman E. Clark. Argument Strategies from Aristotle’s Rhetoric
will be published by Wadsworth/Thomson Learning in early 2004. The book
is a supplement for college courses in public speaking, composition,
persuasion, and communication in human relationships. It offers a
starter-kit of argument tools
based on the twenty-eight strategies found in Aristotle’s book On
Rhetoric.
UMC Founding Provost Stanley Sahlstrom has donated “TNT,” a
registered Morgan gelding, to the Equine Industries Management Program.
UMC Professor Ron Del Vecchio, director of the Equine Program,
accepted the horse on behalf of the campus on Saturday, August 30.
Sahlstrom is a recognized authority on Morgan horses and is widely
credited with bringing the breed to Minnesota in 1948. As founding
provost of the campus, Sahlstrom started UMC’s Equine Program in 1965.
The regional and national reputation UMC now enjoys as a leader in
equine science in higher education began with his expertise, energy, and
vision. He and his wife, Mil, still keep Morgan horses on their farm
north of St. Cloud and remain true friends of the University of
Minnesota, Crookston.
Community Events
Crookston will be one of the
communities along Highway 75 to participate in the First annual King
of Trails Marketplace, scheduled for Saturday, September 13. The
King of Trails is the designation given by the state of Minnesota
in 2001 to Highway 75. Billed as “400 miles of great bargains from the
Canadian border to the Iowa border,” the King of Trails marketplace is
expected to generate much attention and publicity all along the route.
Organizers are seeking vendors with arts and crafts, antiques,
collectibles, fresh produce, flowers, books, furniture, as well as flea
market and garage sale items. The Crookston Marketplace will be located
in the Bremer Bank parking lot at Broadway and Third Street and the
Thrifty White Drug parking lot on Main and Third. The Marketplace will
be held outdoors from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., rain or shine. In case of
dangerous weather conditions, the marketplace will be at the Civic
Arena.
The Polk County Museum will host Pioneer Days Saturday, September 13, also, with threshing and other pioneer activities from noon to 5 p.m.
Crookston Area Habitat for Humanity will host its annual Hike for Habitat Sunday, September 14. The three-mile hike will begin at 2 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church downtown Crookston and will include a round trip hike to the site for the next Habitat House and back to Trinity for refreshments. Participants may walk, run, bike, or use inline skates. Pledges and donations will be accepted, with Thrivant Financial matching every dollar up to $800.
Special Dates
Birthdays
September 12 – John Loegering
September 14 – Don Medal
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@umn.edu and/or Sue Dwyer at sdwyer@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, September 13, to hear an interview hosted by Andrew Svec,
UMC Director of Communications.
UMC
Bulletin
The UMC Bulletin is posted at:
<www.UMCrookston.edu/campusinfo/wkbulletin/bulletin.htm>