Volume 22, Number 15, November 27, 2002
Calendar
News Items
Dining
Services Holiday Closing
Please be advised that Dining
Services will be closed during the Thanksgiving Holiday. Wednesday,
November 27, we will be open all day, but supper hours will be from
4:30 to 5:30 p.m. only. We will be closed November 28 through
December 1. We will reopen on Monday, December 2, for breakfast at
7:30 a.m.
--Angelika Huglen, Dining
Services
UMC Bookstore
Holiday Open House
December 4
One day only -- Wednesday,
December 4, 2002
Special Hours -- 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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20% off *All UMC Apparel … sweatshirts, hoods, sweaters, jackets, children’s clothing, hats, ties, caps, mittens
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15% off *UMC Giftware … mugs, glasses, key chains
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50% off Novelty Items … frames, figurines
*excludes clearance items
Free gift wrapping for
sweatshirts, t-shirts and mugs. Refreshments served!
--Leela Hier, Program Director, UMC Bookstore
UMC Holiday
Tour Starts December 6
The University of Minnesota,
Crookston will hold its first annual Holiday Tour this year on campus.
The UMC Holiday Tour is a display of lights on the campus mall. The
display will be lit up and open to the public starting on Friday, December 6,
from 7 to 10 p.m. in conjunction with the Crookston Chamber of Commerce
Winter Wonderland being held throughout the community.
The display of lights will continue to be open to the public on December 7, 8, 13, 14, and 15 from 5 to 10 p.m. nightly.
Many student clubs and organizations are involved with the UMC Holiday Tour and are helping promote holiday spirit in other ways as well. Students Trevor Alt and Adam Wink with the help the Crookston Student Association and the UMC Sportsmen’s Club will lead the Holiday Tour this year. The UMC Horticulture Club decorated the Peterson Gazebo again this year with the UMC Natural Resources Club donating the tree. The Sportsmen’s Club will collect food donations at the Holiday Tour, and the proceeds will go to the Care and Share in Crookston. UMC Ambassadors will provide hot chocolate, and the proceeds will also be given back to the community.
Many clubs plan to meet on Monday, December 2, at 2 p.m. to begin decorating the mall area. Donations to help create this new annual holiday tradition at UMC have been received from Bede Student Center, SPACE, Public Relations, Image and Marketing, Residential Life, and the Northwest School of Agriculture Alumni Association. Thanks to everyone who has helped with the creation of this tradition. All faculty, staff, and students are invited to help decorate the mall on Monday, December 2, at 2 p.m. For more information, please contact Cheryl Isder
UMC to Show Strong Presence
at Winter Wonderland December 6
In addition to their UMC Holiday
Tour on the campus mall, UMC student clubs and organizations will play a
large role in the Second Annual Crookston Chamber of Commerce/Retail
Merchants Association Winter Wonderland, set for Friday, December 6.
Downtown businesses will be open from 5 to 8 p.m. that evening and will
offer treats, music, and entertainment for shoppers.
Working closely with the Office of Student Activities and Service Learning, students have reserved the first floor of a historic building (current location of the DFL headquarters on Broadway) on the busiest corner in downtown Crookston, and during this year’s Winter Wonderland at least ten UMC student clubs and organizations will take over the entire space. Hoping to add cheer to the holiday shopping experience of Crookston residents young and old, richer or poorer, the clubs will, among other things, provide free gift-wrapping, play games with kids, help children who might not be able to afford a gift for their parents make a homemade craft, serve snacks and refreshments, place luminaries along the sidewalks outside, and serve as “rovers” throughout downtown, helping shoppers carry packages, walk their children across the street, or perform other necessary duties as they arise.
For more information, contact Mike Christopherson.
Holiday Tour of Homes for
Habitat December 8
On Sunday, December 8, from 3 to
7 p.m., the second annual Holiday Tour of Homes for Habitat will be held
at various homes in Crookston all decked out for the holidays. There
are six homes on the tour this holiday season, and you can purchase
tickets at any of the homes or in advance at Ben Franklin, Willow and
Ivy or Montague’s Flower Shop. The cost is $10 and proceeds support the
Crookston Area Habitat for Humanity (CAHFH), which is currently
constructing its seventh Habitat house in Crookston.
The first tour stop is
Ardell and Sandy Knudsvig’s home at 422 Holly Avenue, where people can
see the cute “chicken” kitchen and enjoy the many collectibles on
display. The next stop can be found right across the street, at the
lovely home of Don Christie at 501 Holly. There, tour-takers will enter
this century-old home thought a turret entrance. Next on the list of
holiday tour stops is Jo and Jon Bittner’s home at 234 Houston Avenue.
This home, built in the early 1900s, will feature live music on the
grand piano, courtesy of Mary Ann Knotek. Dale and Marlene Johnson’s
home at 601 S. Ash, the next tour stop, features a wrap-around porch in
addition to a wonderful array of antiques from their family on display
in the attic. The tour ends its Woods Addition swing with a visit to
Tim and Kim Persson’s home at 749 Groveland Avenue. This is a French
Provincial house built in 1998 that overlooks the Red Lake River. Last
but not least on the tour is Laurie and Lee Straw’s house at 518 N. Ash
Street. While taking in the holiday decorations in this four-story
home, visitors will also enjoy listening to a violinist playing holiday
music.
--Pam Holsinger-Fuchs, Director of Student Activities/Service
Learning
Service Learning Receives
Minigrant
UMC’s Office of Service Learning
has been selected to receive two Student Groups Civic Engagement
Minigrants of $500 each. The two grants will assist with costs
associated with the recent Community Dialogues and VolunTEAM Club
programs, such as the upcoming Winter Wonderland, and with the upcoming
program “Reach – With James Hersch,” held during Raise Your Voice: A
Week of Action, February 16-22, 2003.
The Minnesota Campus Compact Student Fellows reviewed UMC’s proposals and found that they connected well with “Raise Your Voice: Student Action for Change,” a national student civic engagement campaign coordinated by Campus Compact (see <http://actionforchange.org> for more information). The Raise Your Voice Campaign has three overarching objectives: 1) to increase college student involvement in public life and connect these actions with a larger national student movement around civic engagement, 2) to document student civic engagement activities and issues that are important to college students, and 3) to mobilize higher education in a way that gives more voice to students and makes civic engagement central to student learning.
Calling All
Brainstormers December 12
The UMC Image Marketing Committee
(IMC) wants you to brainstorm with other campus representatives for
ideas to increase enrollment at UMC. Bring your lunch to Sahlstrom
Conference Center A & B at noon on Thursday, December 12, for an
exercise in brainstorming. This brainstorming session is open to all
interested faculty, staff, and students.
UMC Admissions works very hard at recruiting students. Together, IMC and Admissions are requesting your help in coming up with some ideas and solutions to assist campus recruitment efforts. We all have a stake in the success of our recruitment efforts, and program areas are dependent upon how well we pursue and excite the prospective student. Your input can be a key factor in increasing enrollment.
Research
Scholar Nomination Deadline
January 15, 2003 is the deadline
for Supercomputing Institute research scholar nominations. The program
announcement and nomination form, as well as information regarding all
of the Institute’s programs, are available through the Supercomputing
Institute’s World Wide Web page: <www.msi.umn.edu/general/Programs/>.
If you prefer, you may obtain the program announcement and forms by contacting the Supercomputing Institute’s Research Programs Administrator Kay Anderson, at (612) 624-1356 or by email at ksander@msi.umn.edu.
A faculty member should sponsor all nominations. All University of Minnesota faculty are invited to participate in the nomination process. Please note that nominations are evaluated competitively.
VolunTEAM Update
This week’s featured Crookston VolunTEAM project can be found at the
Presbyterian Church, where Pastor Dan Wolpert is looking for a volunteer
to help set up the church’s new website for “blogging,” which is more
trendy term for a weblog. Dan wants site visitors to be able to
instantly publish their comments on the website.
If you’re interested in helping out, or just want to know more about the project, please visit www.volunteam.org. Dan can be reached at revdoc@gvtel.com or 281-4853. The church’s website is www.crookstonpresbyterian.org.
Interested in learning more about the Crookston VolunTEAM or UMC VolunTEAM Club? Call Mike Christopherson at 281-8526, email him at chris282@umcrookston.edu, or simply visit the website. Feel free to stop by Bede 106 if you feel like discussing the VolunTEAM in person.
Accolades
Mark
Huglen, Assistant Professor of
Speech Communication, was the respondent to the “Top Competitive Papers
on Kenneth Burke” panel at the National Communication Association’s
annual convention at New Orleans, November 21-24, 2002. In addition,
elected in 2001, Huglen begins his service as the program planner for
the Kenneth Burke Society, a rhetorical theory and criticism division of
NCA, for the 2003 convention at Miami and the 2004 convention at
Chicago.
Josh Clark, a senior majoring in Information Technology Management, participated in the “Fastest Geek Competition” sponsored by PC Week Magazine and Systemax at Comdex, in Las Vegas. The contest was a race to see who could install the various components of a computer the fastest and boot the machine successfully. Josh won the day and qualified for finals on Monday, November 18, with a time of 5 min., 48 sec. On Tuesday, November 19, the top four finalists competed for a personal computer worth approximately $3,000. Josh achieved a time of 5 min., 27 sec.—the fastest time—but incurred a penalty because of a loose power cable and forfeited the contest. The final contest was shown on CNN and TechTV’s “Tech Live.”
The UMC Crops Team did extremely well at the Collegiate Crops Contest,
held November 17-21 in Kansas City, MO. The team placed second overall,
third in Identification, second in Seed Analysis, and third in Grain
Grading. Members of the team also did well as individuals. Ben Loll
of Campbell, MN, placed eleventh overall and ninth in Grain Grading.
Jeremy Sather of Gary, MN, placed tenth overall, seventh in Seed
Analysis, and tenth in Grain Grading. Kevin Jacobson of
Fullerton, ND, earned fifth place overall, first in Grain Grading,
eighth in Seed Analysis, and tenth in Identification. UMC’s competed
against other teams from Colorado State University, Iowa State, Kansas
State, Oklahoma State, Purdue, South Dakota State, University of
Minnesota, Twin Cities, and Virginia Tech.
The
week of November 11-15 Peggy Miller, Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
Prevention (AODAP) Coordinator, attended the PRIME for Life: Driving
Unimpaired Workshop in Ankeny, Iowa. The four-day workshop offers
certification in DUI education. Miller is now qualified to run DUI
classes for the campus and community. For more info, visit <www.askpri.org/DUI.htm>.
Special Dates
Birthdays
November 27
– Pam Holsinger-Fuchs
November 27 – Doug Knowlton
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, November 30, to hear an interview with Steve Shirley, instructor of Marketing and the UMC Grant Coordinator for the Bush Foundation Grant for Strengthening Study Abroad programs, and Rae French, admissions counselor and assistant for the Study Abroad Program. This edition of Insight is hosted by Andrew Svec, UMC Director of Communications.
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Bulletin
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