Calendar

February 4
The Epicurean Room
Leadership Luncheon Series - Dress for Success
Home Basketball vs. Jamestown College
February 5 and 6
Home Hockey vs. Bethel College
February 6 and 7
Horse Show
February 7
February Fitness Open Skating
February 8-13
Shipwrecked in Crookston - '99 Snow Daze
February 8-19
"Virtual" Job Fair
February 8
Snow Sculpture Contest
Home Basketball vs. Mayville State University
Snow Daze Coronation
February 9
"Diversity and Education"
February 9 and 10
UMC Music-Theater Department presents "No Witness"
February 10
Snow Daze Dance with Kid Hollywood and the Wild Coconuts
February 11
The Epicurean Room
Leadership Luncheon Series - Interviewing & Resume Critique
Home Men's Basketball vs. Presentation College
February 12
Campus Preview Day
February 12 and 13
Home Hockey vs. Minot State University
February 12-15
UMC Music-Theater Department presents "Murder at Sunset Lodge"
February 14
Valentine's Day
February Fitness Open Swimming
February 16
Satellite Town Meeting
February 18
Home Basketball vs. University of Mary
February 19
Home Hockey vs. North Dakota State University
February 20 and 21
Horse Show
February 21
February Fitness Cross-country Skiing

News Items

Snow Daze
"Shipwrecked in Crookston '99" is the theme for the 1999 Snow Daze February 8 through 13. All faculty and staff are invited to the events which include:

Monday, February 8

• Snow Sculpture Competition
• Coronation of Snow Daze King and Queen and Prince and Princess at half-time of the UMC men's basketball game. The Royal Court will reign over Snow Daze week.

Tuesday and Wednesday, February 9 and 10

• The play "No Witness" will be held at 7 p.m. in Kiehle auditorium. The play is about date rape and members of the audience become jury participants. The play is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, February 10

• Dance with Kid Hollywood and the Wild Coconuts from 9:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. in Bede Ballroom. The cost is $5 for non-UMC students.

Friday through Monday, February 12-15

• "Murder at Sunset Lodge," a play written and directed by UMC student Eric Perkins of Crookston will be performed in Kiehle auditorium. All shows are at 7:30 p.m. except the Sunday performance which is a 3 p.m. matinee.

--Pam Holsinger-Fuchs

Teambackers Social
There will be a Teambackers Social following the Mayville State-UMC basketball game Monday, February 8, at the VFW. We urge faculty and staff to attend the game and support our student athletes who work very hard at representing UMC to the outside community. Mayville fans usually follow their team in droves. Let's show them our enthusiasm for our students by attending the game. Following the game, join us for chili.
--Curt Almlie

Juan Moreno to Speak
Juan Moreno, a former staff at UMC and a past director of the Diversity Institute on the Twin Cities campus, will be a guest speaker on Tuesday, February 9. He will be giving 3-one hour presentations, two of which are designed for faculty/staff and one for students. The topic to be addressed is "Diversity and Education."

Please consider attending one of the sessions. For more information, contact me at 8508.
--Mario Prada

"Virtual" Job Fair
Here's an update for the "Virtual" Job Fair which starts February 8 and ends February 19. There are 25 employers registered to date with 240 student resumes on line.

Please keep encouraging all students to register with the Career Center and place their resumes on-line. The "Virtual" Job Fair will continue after February 19 for those companies that register for a full year, so it's never too late to register and post resumes with the Career Center. We still would like to reach our goal of between 400-500 resumes on-line by this Friday, February 5^th. Only 160+ to go! If students would like help with their resume, we will have a booth in the Sahlstrom Conference Center and students can stop by and pick up samples and learn how to register with the Career Center. Please inform students in your classes of this opportunity! Thanks for your cooperation.
--Don Cavalier

Parent Information Session
The UMC Children's Center presents "A Look at Children's Friendships" with Gayle Nelson, Early Childhood Family Educator and former Director of UND Children's Center, on Friday, February 12. This lunch session is scheduled from 12 noon to 1 p.m. in Sahlstrom Conference Center A&B, and is open to all UMC students and parents. A box lunch will be provided for enrolled participants, FREE OF CHARGE. If you would like to reserve a lunch, please call Connie at 281-8285. This talk will be very informal, informative, and a fun way to pass the lunch hour. Sponsored by the UMC Student Service Fee.
--Connie Camrud

CS/BU Employee of the Quarter
Attached to this issue of the UMC Bulletin is the Winter Quarter 1999 Employee of the Quarter nomination form. Please take a few moments to consider your nominee and return the form to me by Monday, February 22^nd. Call me at 8330 if you have any questions.
--Karen Murphy

Safety Training - February 26, 1999
UMC and the NWES will hold annual required safety training sessions for all U of M employees (including student workers) on Friday, February 26, at the NWES Agriculture Research Center, Youngquist Auditorium. Two identical sessions will be held. Please select what works best for you:

Morning Session: 10 a.m. to 12 noon
Afternoon Session: 1 to 3 p.m.

Kevin Paap, farmer and EMT, will be the presenter. He is a humorist speaker using visual aids to talk on a variety of safety issues: MERTK, chemicals (field, lab, custodial, shop) confined space, livestock handling, electrical safety, agriculture equipment, first aid and other emergency issues.
--Tom Feiro and Anne Burke, UMC/NWES Safety Coordinators

Blood Drive
During the January Blood Drive, 53 people volunteered to donate and 47 were able to give. There were 13 first time donors. United Blood Services was extremely pleased with the turnout from the UMC community, and consider this one of the most successful drives! A very sincere thank you to those who donated, and especially to those who had to wait longer than expected to donate due to unforeseen circumstances. Your continued support makes it all possible. The next blood drive will be April 13^th.
--Management Club and Student Health

Parking Lot Utilization
Attached to this edition of the bulletin is the parking lot utilization report for fall and winter quarter along with the annual average on the second page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
--Gary Willhite

Campus Maps
The updated 1999 campus maps have been distributed. I have made an initial delivery to most offices. If you need campus maps you can pick them up from the following offices: Admissions, Continuing Education, Selvig Info Desk (Debi Brule's office) and Institutional Relations.

Please discard all old versions of the campus map. The new maps have the code 10M0199 on the state side.
--John Zak

Faculty and Staff Accolades
Congratulations to the following UMC faculty members who have received Technology Enhanced Learning grants. One hundred twenty-three applications were submitted from the entire University system of which 34 were funded. Six applications were submitted from UMC directly.

• Sue Brorson received a Technology Enhanced Learning grant for The Importance of Understanding and Integrating E-Commerce as a New Business Strategy.

• Soo-Yin Lim-Thompson received a Technology Enhanced Learning grant for Teaching and Learning through Multi-media Technology for Early Childhood Education.

• Patricia Martin, Connie Batten, Robbie McGurran received a Technology Enhanced Learning grant for A Real Interactive Online Course: Microcomputer Systems Analysis and Design.

UMC Insight
UMC Insight will be aired Saturday, February 6, at 8:45 a.m. on KROX (AM 1260). Tune in this week to hear "Applied Health" with Arlyss Grosz.

Attachments
(Attached to the paper copy of this edition of the bulletin)

• Student Support Services Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 5
• Parking Lot Utilization Report, 1998-99
• Office for University Women, 1999 Special Grants Program
• GPA Distribution Summary, Fall Quarter 1998
• Enrollment Overview and Comparison, Winter Quarter 1999
• Nomination Form - CS/BU Employee of the Quarter, Winter Quarter 1999

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