Calendar

November 19-21
Final Exams continue
November 21
Home Women's Basketball vs. University of Wisconsin-Superior
November 21-22
Home Hockey vs. Minot State University-Bottineau
November 22-29
Quarter Break
November 23
USA Quarterly Meeting
All Campus Thanksgiving Potluck
November 24
Fall Quarter grades due to Registrar
Career Days
November 26 and 27
Thanksgiving Holiday, offices closed
November 29
Residence halls open at 1 p.m.
November 30
Winter Quarter classes begin
December 1
World AIDS Day
Agricultural Tourism Conference
December 2
Home Men's Basketball vs. Bemidji State University
December 3
T-Night Fever Juggler Chad Taylor
December 4
Ag Activities Day
Campus Preview Day
December 5 and 6
Horse Show

News Items

No Bulletin Next Week
Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday, there will be no UMC Bulletin published next week. The next issue will be December 3, with a copy deadline of 12 noon on Tuesday, December 1.
--Barbara Weiler

Community Fundraising Campaign Wrap-up
The fundraising campaign concluded this past week. Employees from UMC/AURI/NWES contributed over $7,400 to United Way and over $250 to the Minnesota Environmental Fund. These contributions represented 114% of our United Way goal for 1999. Thank you all for your kindness and generosity. Thanks also to the captains who contributed their time to this effort.
--Dean McCleary

USA Quarterly Meeting
All faculty and staff are invited to the United Staff Association's fall quarter meeting Monday, November 23, 1998. The business meeting will be at 9:30 a.m. in Brown Dining Room. The education session, Conflict Resolution, will be presented by Doug Knowlton. At noon the annual all campus potluck will be held in Brown Dining as well. Throughout the meal two videos will be shown, the Crookston promotional video and President Yudof's speech.
--Debbie Stumblingbear

Agricultural Tourism Conference December 1
UMC will host a conference on agricultural tourism December 1. Co-sponsors include the University of Minnesota Extension Service, the Minnesota Office of Tourism, and the Crookston Chamber. Speakers include Kent Gustafson from the University's Tourism Center and Jim Thomasson from UMC. Students, faculty and staff are welcome. Registration is $15. If you need financial assistance, call me at 8680 or e-mail bmuesing.
--Barbara Muesing

Ag Activities Day
Ag Activities Day, sponsored by the Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources at UMC, is scheduled for December 4. About 1,000 students from high school agriculture departments, and members of 4-H clubs and FFA chapters from Minnesota and North Dakota are expected to participate. Judging contests and workshops will be held during the morning in the following areas: consumer products, crops, dairy judging, general livestock, horses, agricultural mechanics, dairy products, farm management, wildlife, forestry, horticulture, meats, soils, and ag sales. UMC Activity Day Scholarship Awards of $750 will be given for high individual performance, $600 for second high individual and $450 for third high individual in each contest.
--Jane Sims

World AIDS Day
Be a force for changed. Thirty million people are living in the world with AIDS today and 9 out of 10 of them do not know that they are infected. More and more young people across the United States and the world are affected by HIV and AIDS. At least half of all new infections happen among young people.

That is why World AIDS Day activities focus on young people this year. It aims to get young people involved in HIV/AIDS prevention and to support the rights of people living with HIV or AIDS! Our actions will reverse the course of the epidemic.

UMC Events for AIDS Awareness:

November 30

• Distribution of educational packets to faculty who requested them

December 1

• Info table, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., SCC entrance - Register for prizes
• Campus Ministry Bells, 12:30 p.m. in front of Bede Hall - "A Remembrance"
• Film Festival, 4 p.m., Bede Student Center - "Boys on the Side" and "Philadelphia"

December 9

• Speakers from the Minnkota Health Program Grant

12 noon, SCC A&B
10 a.m., Dowell Hall 212
"Living with AIDS"

--Laurie Wilson and Stacey Grunewald

Semester Course Information on the Web
The Twin Cities UM Semester conversion website has now been updated to include information on UMC semester course descriptions and substitutions or equivalents. They may be accessed directly at:

http://www.semesters.umn.edu/crkcat/

• Updated information on all Crookston semester courses

http://wwwsemesters.umn.edu.crksup/

• Quarter courses and their semester substitutions
• Semester courses and their quarter substitutions
• Quarter course sequences and their semester course sequence substitutions or equivalents
• Semester course sequences and their quarter course sequence substitutions or equivalents

As always this information can also be accessed form links at the main semester conversion website at:

http://www.semesters.umn.edu/ or by following links from UMC's homepage.
--Bob Nelson

Security Issues
Please follow the posted signs at the main entrance when entering the campus. The road to the left is ONE-WAY!!! Several near accidents have occurred this fall. With the winter weather ahead, conditions will worsen. Thank you.
--Gary Willhite

Access to Scholarly Journals On-line
UMC faculty and students have gained unprecedented access to leading scholarly journals via the World Wide Web starting this month when it became a participating institution in JSTOR, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the academic community take advantage of advances in information technology. This is a fully searchable electronic database that contains the scanned images of over 100 major research journals in a variety of academic disciplines.
--Owen Williams

Stolen Permits
Lock your vehicle doors. Several parking permits have been stolen from vehicles parked on the campus the past quarter. Towing and theft charges have been issued against two individuals in possession of the stolen permits.
--Gary Willhite

Faculty and Staff Accolades

• At UMC's annual Torch and Shield Banquet Chancellor Donald Sargeant was recognized with an award for his support and visionary leadership of the campus.

UMC Insight
UMC Insight will be aired Saturday, November 21, at 8:45 a.m. on KROX (AM 1260). Tune in this week to hear "Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management" with Ken Myers.

Tune in Saturday, November 28, at 8:45 a.m. to hear Laurie Wilson and Stacey Grunewald talking with Barb Weiler about "World AIDS Day."

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

• Student Support Services November 1998 Newsletter
• All Campus Thanksgiving Potluck Celebration

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