Calendar

December 3
T-Night Fever Juggler Chad Taylor
December 4
Ag Activities Day
Campus Preview Day
December 5 and 6
Hunt Seat Horse Show
December 7-17
Ambassador's Holiday Penny Drive
December 7-18
UMC Bookstore "Holiday Savings Sale"
December 8
UMC Athletic Fall Awards Social
December 9
"College Students and AIDS"
Home Women's Basketball vs. Bemidji State University
December 11
Holiday Open House
Home Women's Basketball vs. Northwestern University
Home Men's Basketball vs. University of Minnesota, Morris
December 11-13
UMC Music-Theater Department presents "Miracle on 34^th Street"
December 12
Home Women's Basketball vs. St. Cloud State University
December 15
Home Women's Basketball vs. University of Minnesota, Morris
December 16
Winter Convocation
Home Hockey vs. North Dakota State University
December 17
Marcoux Corner - Acappella Group
UMC Choir Christmas Concert
December 18 and 19
Home Hockey vs. Milwaukee School of Engineering
December 19
Home Women's Basketball vs. St. Scholastica

News Items

Ag Activities Day
Just a reminder that about 1,000 high school students will be on campus this Friday, December 4, for Ag Activities Day. If you’d like a complete schedule of the day’s events, please contact me.
--Jane Sims

Fall Sports Social
The 1998 Athletic Awards will be presented at the Fall Sports Social on Tuesday, December 8, at 6:30 p.m. in Brown Dining Room. Because of increasing numbers of athletes, there will be two socials held: one for fall sports and one for winter and spring sports. Also, with the move toward semesters, it seemed appropriate that the Athletic Reception be split into two socials. Participants in football, soccer and volleyball will be honored at the Fall social. Everyone is welcome. Charge for non-letter winners is $3.
--Marv Bachmeier

PeopleSoft
On Thursday, December 10, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon in Kiehle 133 an ITV update on the Student 2000 (PeopleSoft) project will be held.

The agenda includes:

• Student 2000 Update
• Information on Course, Admissions, and Financial Aid implementations
• Lots of time for questions

While the session is intended for people who are directly affected by the implementations (staff in admissions, registrar, bursar, financial aid) ANYONE interested in learning more about the new systems are invited and encouraged to attend!
--Bob Nelson

Leadership Luncheon
Grand Forks Mayor Pat Owens will address Leadership under Crisis at the Leadership Luncheon at 12 noon, Thursday, December 10, in Brown AB. All faculty and staff are invited, and may purchase a lunch through the line or bring one.
--Tim Harrison

Holiday Open House
You are invited to a Holiday Open House at the UMC Horticultural Greenhouse December 11, from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Help us celebrate our new facility while shopping for your poinsettia, Christmas wreath, and centerpiece.

Members from the UMC choir will be singing Christmas carols throughout the Open House and will be presenting a sneak preview of their play Miracle on 34^th Street, which will be presented later that evening in its entirety. Complimentary cider and goodies will be served. See you there!
--Barbara Heinze

Winter Convocation
The Winter Convocation will be held Wednesday, December 16^th at 10 a.m. in Bede Ballroom. Convocation speaker is Chuck Derry. He is being co-sponsored by the Violence Intervention Project.
--Pam Holsinger-Fuchs

Lyle Westrom Heads Extension Project
Lyle Westrom is providing the leadership for a statewide Extension project called Dairy and the University. Events are planned for January 9 in Crookston, January 23 in Zumbrota, and February 6 in Melrose. Each event will include seminars, poster sessions, and other educational activities to promote the dairy industry and the University's role. George Marx is part of the planning committee, and UMC student Tamilee Nennich is providing staff support. The project is funded by an Extension collegiate program leader grant.
--Barbara Muesing

New Databases at UMC Library
The UMC Library has added a number of new databases to its collection in the last few months. They can be accessed at http://www.umcrookston.edu/library/databases.htm. Below is a description of some of the databases. If you have any questions on content or how to use the databases, please contact me.

• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopedia Americana and Groiler's Multimedia Encyclopedia
• Agricola ¾ Holdings of the National Agriculture Library.
• Medline ¾ An index to professional medical journals.
• LEXISâ -NEXISâ Academic Universe ¾ A global online information provider specializing in news, business and legal information. The databases add some 9 million documents weekly from over 18,000 sources.
• ABI/Inform ¾ A database that provides access to the abstracts and indexing of approximately 800 business journals published since 1985. In addition, beginning with 1991 publications, full text is available for approximately 400 of these journals.
• JSTOR ¾ Full text to over 100 scholarly journals.
• Project Muse Journals in Full Text ¾ Provides networked, subscription access to the full text of the Johns Hopkins University Press's 40+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
• Scholarly Journals on the Web ¾ A link to scholarly journals published on the Web.
• Electric Library ¾ Includes over 360,000 full text magazine articles, one million newspaper articles, and 30,000 television and radio transcripts are available.
• Chadwyck-Healey Collection ¾ Full text databases.

American Poetry Database
Database of African-American Poetry
English Poetry Database
English Verse Drama

--Owen Williams

Faculty and Staff Accolades

• Dan Lim presented a paper, "Just-in-time self-learning development for teachers" at TIES '98 which was held in Minneapolis. He shared with the conference attendees how UMC uses Toolbook interactive templates to develop interactive web modules.
• Sharon Neet presented with Valley City State at a Collaboration and Learning Conference in Minneapolis. She talked about using student portfolios for assessment and included a section on faculty portfolios.
• Don Cavalier was presented a Certificate of Appreciation for exemplary service as chairperson of the U of M Civil Service Committee.
• Ardis Thompson was named Outstanding Employee of the Quarter by the United Staff Association.
• Pam Holsinger-Fuchs received the 1998 Innovations in Student Development Award for UMC’s "Sexual Task Force Project" from the Minnesota College Personnel Association’s Awards Committee.

UMC Insight
UMC Insight will be aired Saturday, December 5, at 8:45 a.m. on KROX (AM 1260). Tune in this week to hear "Fall Sports" with Stephanie Reck.

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

• The Wonderful, Amazing Challenge of Stress Management
• "College Students and AIDS"
• Emergency Closing Policies and Procedures

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