Volume 22, Number 23, February 5, 2003
Calendar
News Items
Student Success Fair
February 5
The annual
"Student Success Fair" is scheduled for Wednesday, February 5, in Bede
Lounge from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The purpose of the Success Fair is to
promote a variety of resources—academic, personal, social,
financial—that are available to UMC students and that enhance student
success. Participating campus offices include Counseling and Career
Services, Student Health, Intramural Activities, Student Support
Services / Academic Assistance Center, Dietetics, CSA, Diversity
Programs, Disability Services, First Year Experience, Alpha Lambda
Delta, Service Learning and VolunTEAM, Campus Ministry, Alumni
Relations and Development, Study Abroad Programs, Student Activities,
and a few other student organizations.
Congratulations
to Snow Daze Royalty Candidates
The following students have been
named by the UMC student body to the Snow Daze Royal Court. Final
voting will take place on Wednesday, February 5, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
in Sahlstrom Conference Center. Coronation will take place on Thursday,
February 6, at 8 p.m. in Kiehle Auditorium.
Royalty candidates
include:
King: Baizhou Chen, Mike Hendrickx, Dallas Koplin, Justin
Schreiber, John Thompson
Queen: Susan Boeddeker, MaryAnn Hermanson, Cheryl Isder,
Katherine Johnson, Jean Korkowski
Prince: Nate Emery, Nick Pankow,
Kyle Rollness, Travis Scheving, Luke Wittkop
Princess: Anna Anderson, Amber Curry, DeAnn Ebert, Amy Foster,
DeAnn Roers
MATHCOUNTS at UMC
February 7
Seventh and eighth grade students
from approximately fifteen schools across northwestern Minnesota will
participate in this year’s MATHCOUNTS on Friday, February 7, in Bede
Ballroom. Check-in begins at 8 a.m., with the full competition set to
begin at 9 a.m. Awards will be announced at 1:30 p.m. MATHCOUNTS, a
nationwide math program, is both a coaching program and a series of
competitions at regional, state, and national levels. The winners from
the day’s competition will advance to state competition in March. In
northwestern Minnesota the program is sponsored by UMC, the Lake Agassiz
Chapter of the Minnesota Society of Professional Engineers, several
local industries, consulting engineering firms, and private individuals.
Pat Sweeney
to Speak at UMC Teambacker Luncheon February 7
WDAZ
(Channel 8) Sports Director and Anchor Pat Sweeney will be the guest
speaker at the UMC Teambacker Luncheon to be held this Friday, February
7, beginning at Noon at the Crookston Eagles, located at 105 South
Broadway, Crookston. This event is open to the public. Cost is $5 per
person and includes lunch.
There will also be a UMC Teambacker Post-game Social that night, open to the public, again at the Crookston Eagles starting at 9 p.m.
Pat Sweeney is a St.
Paul native who graduated with a journalism degree from the College of
St. Thomas. He worked as a Minneapolis Tribune copy editor, then worked
at Williston’s KUMV-TV and Dickinson’s KQCD-TV before coming to WDAZ in
1982. Sweeney became Channel 8 sports director in 1983. He is a
two-time North Dakota Sportscaster of the Year recipient, and his work
for WDAZ News during the 1997 flood disaster helped Channel 8 win a 1998
Edward R. Murrow Award for spot news coverage.
--Nick Kornder, Sports Information Director
New Mascot Unveiled
February 7
The new Regal the
Eagle mascot will make his debut on Friday evening, February 7, during
halftime of the women’s basketball game in Lysaker Gym. Attend the game
to see our new Golden Eagle for the first time! A Regal the Eagle
coloring contest for kids will also kick off that evening.
--UMC Image Marketing
Committee
Fireside Chats for Women
Series Continues
February 13
The second Fireside Chat for
Women will take place on Thursday, February 13, at 7 p.m. in Bede
Ballroom. The topic area will be “The Power and Presence of Images in
Society,” led by Lynne Mullins, Assistant Professor of Communications.
All UMC women students, staff, and faculty are invited to participate.
Refreshments will be served.
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 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., Hill 4
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@mail.crk.umn.edu.
Guitar
Lessons
I receive calls almost every week
from parents looking for guitar teachers and there do not appear to be
many in our community. There is at least one very fine guitar player
pursing the music minor interested in teaching guitar lessons; he
already has a few students. He is a freshman and plans on finishing his
degree at UMC. If you or anyone you know is looking for a good guitar
teacher, contact me at 218-281-8266.
--George French, Music Department
Website Report for
January 2003
The website traffic report for
January 2003 is posted at <webhome.crk.umn.edu/~asvec/Webreports/>.
During January 2003, UMC’s main website averaged over 6,000 user
sessions a day, with a total of 175,291 user
sessions for the month. The web log analysis software determined that
there were 60,097 unique visitors for the month.
Eagle’s Eye Gets Upgrade
The Eagle's Eye student
newsletter will now be sent to students, faculty and staff via e-mail.
Paper copies are available in Bede Student Center, Brown Dining,
Morsels, SCC Lobby, McCall Hall, and Skyberg Hall. A new format is
being introduced which includes: Question of the Week, an area on
clubs, and a classified ad section with ads being run for two weeks at
no charge. See page 4 of the Eagle's Eye on how to include an ad.
Follow this link to the
February 3, 2003 edition of The Eagle's Eye:
<www.umcrookston.edu/eagleseye/2002-2003/020303EaglesEye/020303EaglesEye.pdf>.
Publication
Information:
The Eagle's Eye is published by Bede Student Center weekly September
through May. Copy deadline is noon on Thursday of each week. Please send
items for the Eagle's eye electronically to Meloni Rasmussen, Senior
Administrative Specialist, at
meloni@mail.crk.umn.edu or drop the copy off in Bede Hall 106.
If you have comments or
suggestions, please contact Meloni Rasmussen. Thank you.
--Meloni Rasmussen, Senior Administrative Specialist, Office of
Student Activities and Service Learning
New
Functionality Added
PeopleSoft 8.0 update
Improved wait list and swap capabilities to free departments from
manually creating their own wait lists. The School of Journalism and
Mass Communication will pilot the wait list functions.
New Web site for
University catalogs
University catalogs are available on a new Web site: <www.catalogs.umn.edu/>.
The redesigned site includes academic program, course, and faculty
information for colleges and schools on all campuses.
Based on usability testing, improvements were made to site navigation, links, and pdf downloads. Each catalog is available as a pdf document and has been divided into sections for faster downloads. The pdf’s include clickable Web site links and bookmarks for easy navigation.
A new search function will be available as soon as Google indexes the site. Then visitors will be able to search the entire catalog site or use an advanced search to get results from a specific catalog or college.
Frequently used categories are easier to find on the left side navigation, which includes links to courses, major and minors, general academic and campus information, faculty and administration, and catalog archives. A frequently-asked-questions section will also make the site more useful.
The site incorporates
the new University Web templates. For more information on the templates,
visit <www.webdepot.umn.edu>.
--reprinted from "The Record", January 2003, Vol. 27, No. 1.
A publication of the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost.
VolunTEAM Update
This week’s featured Crookston VolunTEAM project is delivering Meals on
Wheels in Crookston. UMC has committed to delivering the meals during
the week of February 10-14, 2003, which also happens to be Random Acts
of Kindness Week across the nation. It’s a rewarding experience that’s
more fun if you deliver them with a friend. It involves picking up the
hot and cold coolers at the rear entrance to Riverview Hospital at 11:30
a.m. and then delivering them to the addresses marked on the map.
Depending on how much you chat with the meal recipients, it can take
anywhere from 25 minutes to an hour to deliver the meals and return the
coolers to Riverview.
If you’re interested in helping out, or simply want to know more about the project, please contact Mike Christopherson in the Crookston VolunTEAM office (Bede 106) at 281-8526, email Mike at chris282@umn.edu, or simply sign up at the Bede Info Desk. If you’re interested in learning more about the Crookston VolunTEAM, please visit <www.volunteam.org>.
Thanks for Help in Job
Fair Success
I want to take this opportunity
to thank everyone from Facilities Management, faculty, staff and
especially the UMC student body for helping to make our First Annual
Winter Job Fair a great success. I heard many positive comments
throughout the day about our students, faculty, and staff. One comment,
made by some of the visiting employers, “that this was the only place
that they had a chance to meet and visit with the chancellor and vice
chancellors during a job fair,” so thank you to our administrators for
their support.
I also want to give a
big thanks to the SIFE Club and their advisors, Steven Shirley, Craig
Silvernagel, and Eric Burgess, who made sure we had enough students
attending the job fair to keep the employers busy during the day! And a
special thanks for the opportunity to work with co-Chairperson, Steven
Kongsjord, a business management major from Talmoon, MN, and all the
SIFE students. They did and excellent job helping to coordinate this
event. It takes a community to make something a success! We did it!
Thank you UMC!
--Don Cavalier, Director of Career Services
Accolades
Tom
Feiro, Laboratory Services
Coordinator for UMC’s Natural Resources Department, recently received a
certificate of achievement from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland, a program under
the US Geological Survey. The certificate was in recognition for over
20 years’ service to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. For the
last 22 years, Tom has provided coverage for their designated Breeding
Bird Survey route in Polk County. Routes are pre-determined, 25 miles
in length, and cover a variety of habitats representative of the local
area. Tom’s reporting route begins southwest of Beltrami, MN, and ends
southeast of Fertile, MN. It consists of 50 stops (points) along the
route where the observer records all bird activity over a three-minute
time period. The survey, run in June, must begin at 4:58 a.m. and be
completed by 9:30 a.m.
Survey information provides the nation’s natural resource managers, scientists, and policy makers with reliable information on the status of North American bird populations. These surveys, run across the U.S., have been responsible for identifying long-term declines of neotropical migrant song bird populations in eastern woodlands in the 1980s. More recently, the decline of grassland bird populations has gained national attention.
Special Dates
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 8, 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>