Volume 22, Number 31, April 2, 2003
Calendar
News Items
April
2-6: A Week of Theater and Visual Arts
A
Week of Theater . . .
During the week of April 2-6,
UMC will host MACT*Fest 2003 "Stars of the North." Eighteen community
theater groups from across the state will perform various plays and
musicals in Kiehle Auditorium. Each group will present a one-act play
or a cutting of a full length play or musical, the total length of
which cannot exceed 60 minutes. The cast and crew have 10 minutes to
set up and 10 minutes to strike their sets. Immediately after the
performance adjudicators give feedback to the cast, crew, and
audience. It is truly a unique theater experience.
Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to attend these events. Through a special arrangement with UMC Concerts and Lectures, UMC Residential Life, the UMC Music and Theater Department, and the MACT*Fest, UMC students can attend any single session (which includes two or three plays) by paying only $3.00! Students can attend as many play sessions as they can fit into their schedules for only $3 per session. Faculty and staff will pay only $10 per session. Tickets will be available at the door. Because this is a competition, please note that once a play has started, no one will be admitted to the theater. So please make every effort to be on time.
In addition, MACT*Fest will offer a series of workshops on the mornings of April 3, 4, and 5. Sessions will deal with everything from lighting techniques to playwriting. These workshops are FREE to any interested students. Contact George French if you are interested in knowing what workshops are offered and to register. For more details, visit <www.MACT.net>.
A Week of Visual Arts . . .
During that same week, UMC will also host the Northwest Minnesota
Art Exhibition. The exhibition, comprised of 141 pieces by 114 regional
artists, will be on display in the UMC Library and in some of the
display cases in Kiehle Building. Included in the exhibition are
paintings, drawings, photography, digital images, pottery, sculpture,
and mixed media pieces.
Artists participating in the exhibit are professional and amateur adults as well as area high school students. Viewers of the exhibit will be able to vote in the poll for the people’s choice cash awards of $100 in the adult category and $50 in the student category. The Arts Council of the Northwest Regional Development Commission (NWRDC) is the sponsor, with funding from an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature.
UMC is very fortunate to host these two events. We hope students, faculty, and staff will take advantage of these great opportunities to appreciate the arts. Special thanks to George and Rae French, whose original idea and efforts brought these events to campus.
Community
Dialogue April 4 to Feature “Best Doughnuts Ever”
You are cordially invited to a
Community Dialogue session hosted by UMC’s Service Learning Office on
Friday, April 4 from 8 to10 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church’s Fellowship
Hall. If the stimulating conversation and brainstorming on potential
Service Learning connections with our community partners isn’t enough to
entice you to attend, then maybe the Krispy Kreme doughnuts we’ve
ordered will. If you can’t make it but are teaching classes in 2003-04
that you think might have service learning potential, let us know and we
will see to it that your ideas are expressed at the Community Dialogue.
If you have any
questions, feel free to contact me. Also, if you plan on attending,
could you please let me know?
--Mike Christopherson,
Assistant Director of Service Learning, Crookston VolunTEAM Coordinator
Spring Blood
Drive April 8
The spring blood drive for UMC is
scheduled for Tuesday, April 8, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Lysaker
Gymnasium (please note the location). SIFE members and UMC Ambassadors
will be in the Sahlstrom Conference Center Entrance the week of March 31
to April 4 soliciting the names of those individuals wishing to sign
up. Your support of this event is vital to the lives of others. Thank
you. Please call Stacey, 8512, with any questions.
--Stacey Grunewald, RN, Student Health Services Coordinator
Parent-Child
Carnival Set for April 8
The UMC Early Childhood Club will
host its Sixth Annual Parent-Child Carnival on Tuesday, April 8, from 6
to 8 p.m. at Lincoln School in Crookston. The event coincides with the
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Week of
the Young Child. The carnival is free and open to children of UMC
students, faculty, and staff and to families in the Crookston
community. UMC students have planned hands-on activity stations
appropriate for children ages six months to 8 years of age.
The event is cosponsored by the UMC Early Childhood Club, the UMC Early Childhood Development Center, the UMC Student Service Fee, and Crookston ECFE.
DWI Info
Sessions Set for April 8, 10
The UMC Alcohol and Other Drug
Awareness and Prevention (AODAP) Program will sponsor two information
sessions about DWI (driving while
intoxicated) laws and consequences. The first will be held at 8 p.m. on
Tuesday, April 8, in the Brink Hall Lounge Area and the second at 8 p.m.
on Thursday, April 10, in the McCall Hall Lounge. Greg Widseth, Polk
County Attorney, will present information on fines, blood levels,
insurance, and the total cost of a DWI citation.
Grad Fest
April 9
Graduating seniors are encouraged
to attend Grad Fest 2003 on Wednesday, April 9, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30
p.m. in Kiehle Building 116. At Grad Fest, students will be able to:
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pick up cap and gown
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check graduation status
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order graduation announcements
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order and receive a discount on a class ring
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submit student financial aid exit information
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complete Career Services registration
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receive information of the UMC Alumni Association
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visit with faculty and staff
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and enjoy refreshments
FFA
Competition at UMC April 9
Region 1
FFA Career Development Event (CDE) contests will be held
on Wednesday, April 9, at UMC. Contests in Crops, Dairy, Ag Mechanics,
and Ag Sales will be held in various offices within the Center for
Agriculture and Natural Resources. Registration will begin at 9 a.m.
This event will bring about 200-250 regional high school students to the
campus.
Retirement Party for Don Wieland April 11
Please join the celebration to
recognize Don Wieland’s 43 years of service to this campus in the
Facilities Management Department (Heating Plant). Everyone is
welcome! A retirement party for Don is scheduled for Friday, April 11,
at 3:00 p.m. in Brown Dining Room. If anyone would like to contribute
to a gift for Don, please send or bring to Facilities Management Office
in Kiser Building before April 4.
Community
Service Award Nominations Due April 17
The Community Service Award
Committee is pleased to announce the fourth annual Community Service
Award to honor community outreach and community service activities of
faculty, staff and members of the greater University community. This
award recognizes outstanding contributions and accomplishments of
faculty, staff or community members who have devoted their time and
talent to make substantial enduring contributions to the external
community and to improve public life and the well being of society.
Such contributions and accomplishments must result in long-term and
lasting changes for the public good and demonstrate an unusual
commitment to the University and greater community. Awards are not
intended to recognize service provided to a professional association or
to recognize other service normally seen as part of their responsibility
as an employee of the University of Minnesota.
One Community Service Award is given each year for the University of Minnesota, Crookston campus. Recognition of this award and a $500 scholarship is given in the name of the award winner. All faculty and staff are eligible to receive this award.
Any person or group may make a nomination. Please submit the name or names of individuals along with a brief statement as to why these persons are worthy of receiving the award by April 17, 2003. Nominations can be submitted to the Community Service Award Committee, c/o Pam Holsinger-Fuchs, 117 Dowell Hall or e-mail Pam at pholsing@mail.crk.umn.edu.
Past award winners are:
2002 - George French
2001 - Pam Sullivan
2000 - Carol Larson
1999 - Nancy Capistran
The committee encourages your nominations for the Community Service Award to help recognize and honor our many important contributions to community outreach and community service. Thank you.
Employee
Benefits Counselor at UMC April 24
Vic Fickling, University of
Minnesota Benefits Counselor, will be on the UMC campus Thursday, April
24, to help employees with retirement planning and to answer questions
regarding your U-Plan benefit package.
If you are considering
retirement within the next twelve months, you are encouraged to make an
appointment to visit with the benefits counselor. You may call Jacquie
at ext. 8346 or Les at ext. 8345 to schedule a confidential individual
meeting with Vic on April 24 to discuss any specific retirement or
benefit questions you may have. Individual meetings will be held in the
second floor Hill Conference Room located in HILL 115.
--Les Johnson, Director of Human Resources
No Smoking
Area Designated
A No Smoking Area has been
designated outside the exits from Dowell and Dowell Annex that overlook
the children’s play yard for the Early Childhood Development Center.
This designation follows approval by the UMC Executive at a recent
meeting.
A request was brought to CSA for discussion and forwarded to the Environmental Health, Safety and Energy Management Committee of Campus Assembly. That committee reviewed the request, contacted other U of M campuses and forwarded a recommendation to the Executive Committee. Chancellor Sargeant and the Executive Committee approved the designation and asked that signage be developed and posted outside those two exits. Facilities Management is in the process of constructing signs.
The concern and focus throughout the process initiated by our students was that young children are very impressionable and smoking next to the play area was not a very good example.
Thank you to our
students for their concern for the future health of our young children
who attend our ECD Center. We ask for everyone’s cooperation with this
change.
--Tom Feiro, Senior EHS Technician, Environmental Health and Safety
Diversity Survey
Special Request
With our commitment to the core
component of “Working with Others” UMC has identified “diversity” as an
area of study crucial to student development. In addition, the
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MTC) requires that courses addressing
diversity issues be available in order to fulfill one of the themes in
the MTC. In order to assess the level at which the diversity issue is
integrated into our curriculum, the UMC Diversity Committee has
developed this brief survey. The committee and I would appreciate a few
minutes of your time to answer these brief questions. The survey is
located at
http://webhome.crk.umn.edu/~nelson/PSurvey/Diversity0303.htm
A report of the
findings will be sent to all faculty when the results are known. If
possible, we would like to have the survey completed before April 3,
2003. Thanks for your help and your time. If you have any questions,
please contact me.
--Doug Knowlton, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Crookston Student Association
Election Results
The
results of Monday’s (March 31) elections for the 2003-04 CSA Executive
Board are as follows:
President: Kyle
Rollness
Vice President: Cheryl Isder
Secretary: Kim Pinske
Senators: Ryan Fleck, Nate Hines, Carrie Koplin, and Stephanie Powell
The CSA Board for 2003-04 consists of:
President: Kyle
Rollness
Vice President: Cheryl Isder
Secretary: Kim Pinske
Treasurer: Deann Roers
SPACE Chairperson: Jonathan Roffers
SLC Rep.: Jean Korkowski
Regents Rep.: Cameron Brauer
SSCC Rep.: vacant
Senators: Ryan Fleck, Nate Hines, Carrie Koplin, and Stephanie Powell
Please note: Additional senators will be
elected next fall (2003) to fill the remaining four senator positions.
--Cheryl Isder,
Crookston Student Association Vice President
Nature
Northwest Project Assists Red Lake River Communities
For the last year Nature
Northwest project leaders, Dave Arscott, Research Assistant Professor of
Natural Resources, and John Loegering, Assistant Professor of Wildlife
Ecology, along with Linda Kingery of the U of M Northwest Regional
Partnership, have been working with the Red Lake River Corridor
Enhancement Board to acquire funding for research, planning, and design
work to be conducted along the Red Lake River. A recent award of
$40,000 from the Northwest Minnesota Foundation capped a successful
drive to raise $100,000 for the initial steps of this project. Other
financial sources include a $40,000 award from the University of
Minnesota’s Northwest Regional Sustainable Development Partnership,
$10,000 from the Red Lake Watershed District, and $10,000 raised locally
from each of the cities and counties and the Red Lake Nation along the
river.
The Red Lake River corridor is an important east-west corridor that intersects with many nature trails and natural resource lands, such as the new Prairie Passage auto-touring trail, the Pine to Prairie Birding Trail, and the Red River Canoe and Small Boat Route. The river is one of the few canoeing rivers in northwest Minnesota.
The Red Lake River Corridor Enhancement (RLRCE) project aims to protect and restore the river’s natural corridor to enhance water quality, to restore fish and wildlife habitat, and to provide educational, recreational, and economic opportunities for northwest Minnesotans. The initial phase of the group’s activities focus on 1) planning and design for new and upgraded boat access points, 2) city and county parklands and trails, 3) idea’s and suggestions for additional trails along the corridor, and 4) a geographic information system developed for a 4-mile-wide corridor from Lower Red Lake to East Grand Forks.
For further information contact Dave Arscott at 218-281-8141, or visit <www.nature-northwest.org/redlakewebsite>.
VolunTEAM Update
This week’s featured Crookston VolunTEAM project is found at the UMC
Bookstore, now located in Robertson. Starting during fall 2003 new
student orientation and continuing through the first week of classes,
Leela Hier is looking for volunteers to assist with backpack security
(six hours per day), security at the door (eight hours per day), and
help students find books (six hours per day). Volunteers are needed from
Aug. 29 through Sept. 5. Leela will provide bookstore gift certificates
to volunteers, with the amount of the gift certificates depending on the
number of hours volunteered. For more information, call Leela at #8335,
email her at lhier@umn.edu, or
contact Mike Christopherson.
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@umcrookston.edu. Or, simply visit www.volunteam.org.
In conclusion, a
thank you for Women’s History Month
I wanted to attempt to thank all
of the offices, departments or individuals who assisted in one way or
another with the 2003 Women’s History Month activities. Assistance came
in many forms including planning, budget sharing, publicity, activity
implementation, or hosting events. Thank you to Student Health, Dr.
Sara Badano, UMC Office of Development, Academic Affairs, Concerts and
Lectures, U Relations, CSA, Student Activities, SPACE, Diversity
Services, Disability Services, Student Support Services, Residential
Life, James Lamb, Ambassadors, Ken Myers and the Catering Class,
Facilities Management, Dining Services Staff, UMC Publications and
Printing, NWROC, Tina Jackson and guests from the U of M TC Campus
Women’s Resource Center and African American Cultural Center, Dan Oberg,
Lynne Mullins, Liz Tollefson, Sonia Spaeth, Claudia Barton, Rebekah
Stortroen, Rachel Sundbom, Peggy Sherven, Gail Hasbrouck, Krista Proulx,
KROX, Crookston Daily Times, Rebekah Locke, Matt Bauer, Dennis Magsam,
John Thompson, UND Women’s Center, and our featured speakers Heidi
Heitkamp and Barbara Handy-Marchello. Special thanks to the students,
staff, faculty and community members who supported the events with their
attendance. Your contributions and support and efforts on the project
were all greatly appreciated.
--Laurie Wilson, UMC Counseling and Disability Services
Accolades
Cheryl
Isder, a junior majoring in water
resource management and natural resource management, has been named the
2003 runner-up for the Minnesota Soil and Water Conservation Award. The
award is presented by the Minnesota Chapter of the Soil and Water
Conservation Society. "This state level recognition speaks well of
Cheryl's outstanding academic achievements and promise in her chosen
profession of soil and water conservation as well as her tremendous
campus leadership," noted Dan Svedarsky, Professor of Natural
Resources. UMC’s Dan Weber won the award last year, and both he and
Cheryl are enrolled in the Student Career Employment Program of the
Natural Resources Conservation Service of USDA.
Special Dates
Birthdays
April 8 – Deanna Patenaude
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, April 5, to hear a conversation about the recent formation
of UMC’s first sorority, Clovia, with UMC students Sherry Zurn and Staci
Slykerman hosted by Andrew Svec, UMC Director of Communications.
UMC
Bulletin
The UMC Bulletin is posted at:
<http://www.umcrookston.edu/campusinfo/wkbulletin/bulletin.htm>