The Icemen Cometh
Ed Walenczyk, center, of Leary Ice Productions, smooths out some of
the
7,500 pounds of crushed ice that made up a skating rink Feb. 15 on the
stage
in the Lied Center for Performing Arts. The stage was converted into a
rink
for the St. Petersburg Ice Ballet performance of Cinderella on Ice last
week.
No Scarlet Spring Break Week
The Scarlet will not publish the week of spring break, March 11-16.
The
Scarlet will publish March 8 and 22. The deadline for the March 22
edition
is noon March 15.
Women's Week 2001 Celebrates Local Resources
The Women's Center and other campus co-sponsors will hold events for
Women's Week 2001: Local Treasures. The week is a celebration of women's
contributions everywhere, and this year's theme highlights the many
extraordinary
resources available right here in the Lincoln community. All events are
free and open to everyone, and will be held in the Nebraska Union unless
otherwise noted.
The No Limits Conference from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on March 2 will
feature
presentations of academic works, creative readings and photography by
women
scholars. Call 472-9392 for more information.
The Women's Center will hold an open house from 1 to 3 p.m. March 5 in
340 Nebraska Union. Come meet the Women's Center staff, tour the center,
join their mailing list, sign up to volunteer and learn about all the
gender
resources available to students, staff and faculty.
A Women of Color Panel Discussion will be held at 7 p.m. March 5. A
panel
of women faculty and staff from UNL, including Adelaida Martinez,
professor
of Spanish; Amelia Maria de la Sol Montes, English; and Shari Clarke,
special
assistant to the president for diversity and equity, offer a unique
opportunity
to listen and learn about the experience of women of color on campus.
The Chancellor's Commission on the Status of Women Chilly Climate
Forums
will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. March 6. What is it like to be
a woman at UNL? The CCSW is gathering the stories of women students,
staff
and faculty about their experiences (positive and negative) as members of
this community. Speak out at the forum or email Jan Deeds at
<jdeeds1@unl.edu>
to make a confidential report.
A Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Speakers Bureau Panel Discussion
will
be held at 2 p.m. March 6. The GLBT community offers a chance for
questions
and discussion. Panel members include community leaders and students.
Call
472-5644 for more information.
At 7:30 p.m. on March 6, a PREVENT Roundtable Discussion will be held
featuring Marcee Metzger, director of Lincoln's Rape/Spouse Abuse Crisis
Center, by the campus group on relationship violence and its prevention.
The Chancellor's Commission on the Status of Women award presentation
and reception will be held at 3 p.m. March 7. Join the Commission and
Interim
Chancellor Harvey Perlman as they present the "Outstanding
Contribution
to the Status of Women" award.
A Career Services presentation, "The Internet: An Important Tool
for Women's Career Development," will be held at 7 p.m. March 7.
Co-presenters
Andy Strowig and Jamie Anderson-Hoyt of Career Services show how to take
advantage of the newest technology accessible on campus.
International Women's Day on March 8 will feature Janet Lu speaking on
"The Chinese American Women's Experience," at 2 p.m. Lu,
professor
of Library Information Technology at Nebraska Wesleyan University, will
offers insight into the adjustment international women go through every
day, and what others can do to help. This event is sponsored by the
Nebraska
Humanities Council.
The Honoring Women's Voices Conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. March 9. A symposium for women faculty, staff and administrators,
with
keynote speaker Nancy Hopkins, MIT professor of Molecular Biology.
Registration
is $50. Call 472-3109 for more information.
Women's Week 2001 sponsors include the Women's Studies Association,
the
University Program Council, Career Services, GLBT Speakers Bureau, the
Culture
Center, the Chancellor's Commission on the Status of Women, the Nebraska
Humanities Council and the Women's Center.
No Limits Conference Convenes March 2, 3
Poet and essayist Toi Derricotte is featured speaker for the 2001 No
Limits Conference convening March 2 and 3 in the Nebraska Union's Regency
rooms. In addition, Canyon Sam, a San Francisco writer/activist will
perform
her one-woman play Capacity to Enter.
The conference is an interdisciplinary womens' studies conference with
the theme, "Can We Dismiss Identity?" The conference part of a
celebration of 25 years of women's studies at UNL.
Registration for the free conference begins at 9 a.m. both days.
Conference
presentations by students and faculty, including scholary readings,
creative
readings and photography exhibitions, run from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. March
2 and 9:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. March 3.
Derricotte, professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, is
luncheon speaker March 3. Her talk is titled "Consciousness and
Race:
Interior Journeys toward Identity." The luncheon begins at 11:30
a.m.
and her talk begins at noon. To reserve luncheon tickets or for more
information
call 472-9392. The luncheon requires payment only if one wishes to
reserve
a meal.
Derricotte's memoir, The Black Notebooks, was named a notable book of
1997 by The New York Times. She has won numerous writing awards and two
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Canyon Sam's performance, free and open to the public, begins at 7:30
p.m. March 2 in the Nebraska Union Auditorium. Sam, who teaches
performance
art in the M.F.A. creating writing program at the California College of
Arts and Crafts, has been called the "best of the next wave of Asian
American performing artists" by The Village Voice. She has published
and performed numerous one-woman plays and also publishes works of
fiction
and nonfiction in magazines and anthologies.
The conference is sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and the
Women's
Studies Association at UNL. Co-sponsors include the Academic Senate
Convocations
Committee, Anthropology, the Center for Great Plains Studies, the Center
for Humanities, the Creative Writing Program; Educational Psychology, the
English Department, the Institute for Ethnic Studies, the Honors Program,
the Office of the Special Assistant to the NU President for Diversity and
Equity, Teachers College, University Program Council and the Women's
Center.
Honoring Women's Voices Conference March 9
Honoring Women's Voices, a conference for all faculty and staff on the
four NU campuses will occur March 9 at the Clifford Hardin Center for
Continuing
Education, 33rd & Holdrege streets.
The objectives of this conference are:
o To empower women in their professional lives.
o To provide strategies for dealing with topical issues facing women
on the University of Nebraska campuses and women in higher education.
o To ensure that women are affirmed as valuable and contributing
members
of the University community.
o To provide opportunities for professional development, networking
and
support.
The keynote address, "A Report on the Status of Women Faculty in
Science at MIT - Moving Forward," will be presented by Nancy
Hopkins,
professor of molecular biology at MIT. The lunch address, "I AM THAT
I AM: Woman, Black," will be provided by Adilah Barnes, executive
producer
of the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival.
For more information and to register, visit the website, http://www.uneb.edu/Conference.<
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Cornerstone Mardi Gras Party Feb. 27
Are you tired of the cold and snow? Do you want to leave winter
behind?
Come to Cornerstone's Annual Mardi Gras Party from 5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 27
at Cornerstone, 640 N. 16th St.
Come enjoy some spicy jambalaya, King Cake (from New Orleans), good
conversation
and music.
Program Assessment Workshop Feb. 2627
Jessica Jonson, UNL assessment coordinator, and Michael Anderson,
Teaching
and Learning Center, will facilitate a two-day workshop, "Program
Assessment
Made Meaningful: Selected Models of Success at UNL," from 2:30 to
4:30
p.m. Feb. 26 and 27 in the Nebraska Union.
Several faculty members will share departmental outcomes assessment
models
and answer questions about their progress.
Participants are free to attend one, both or any part of each
workshop.
The workshop is sponsored by the senior vice chancellor for academic
affairs
and the Teaching and Learning Center.
Workshop topics include: How can the outcomes assessment process
become
a useful tool rather than a departmental burden? How can we minimize the
demands of the assessment process? How can we effectively use specific
assessment
methods to assess student readiness and learning? How do departments use
assessment to improve educational programs?
The workshop schedule includes:
Feb. 26 - "Using Capstone Courses," and "Using
Standardized
Testing." Feb. 27 - "Using Program Portfolios," and
"Using
Surveys."
To register for these sessions, contact the Teaching and Learning
Center
at 472-3079 or email teaching@unl.edu.
Public Policy Center Seminars Have Rural-Urban Focus
Designing sound public policy requires unique skills and an in-depth
understanding of the policymaking process. But what makes some
policymakers
and lobbyists so successful? Why do some issues make it to the public
agenda,
while others do not? Who should be included in policy decisions? What is
good policy data, and where can it be found?
Building on the success of last year's Fall Seminar Series, the
University
of Nebraska Public Policy Center has teamed with 20 of the state's top
scholars
and public servants for the Spring 2001 Policy Seminar Series and the
Thomas
C. Sorensen Forum for Political Leadership. The series of seven seminars
will examine some of Nebraska's most important policy issues, with an
urban-rural
focus.
Participants will leave the seminars with a greater ability to
evaluate
and design public policies from both urban and rural perspectives. Areas
of interest will be economic development, health policy, education,
public
policy process and formulation and analysis, tax policy and political
leadership.
Judd Choate, lecturer in political science at UNL and the coordinator
of the series, said those who would benefit from the series are elected
officials and aides, agency employees, Unicameral professionals, interest
group members, lobbyists, citizen advocates, non-profit professionals,
program
evaluators, public policy educators and students and members of the
public.
The seven seminars will rotate between Mahoney State Park, UNL, UNK and
UNO. Participants may choose any number or all seminars, including an
option
to complete a Public Policy Center Certificate.
The first seminar, Rural and Urban Economic Development, occurred Feb.
20. Speakers included Robert Blair, assistant professor of public
administration
at UNO; state Sen. Kermit Brashear of Omaha; Jim Otto, Nebraska director
of USDA Rural Development; and Al Wenstrand, director of Nebraska
Department
of Economic Development.
Upcoming seminars are:
o Rural and Urban Health Policy, March 2, Wick Alumni Center, led by
David Palm, administrator of the Office of Public Health in the Nebraska
Department of Health and Human Services; Magda Peck, associate professor
and chair of community health and chief of the section on child health
policy
at the University of Nebraska Medical Center; Alice Schumaker, assistant
professor of public administration at UNO; and state Sen. DiAnna Schimek
of Lincoln.
o Rural and Urban Education Policy, March 22, UNK Alumni House, led by
Jody Isernhagen, associate professor of educational administration at
UNL;
former state Sen. Ardyce Bohlke of Hastings; and Doug Christensen,
Nebraska
Commissioner of Education.
o Participating in the Public Process, (certificate-leading), April 6,
Wick Alumni Center, led by Kevin Smith, associate professor of political
science at UNL.
o Rural and Urban Tax Policy, May 3, UNO W.H. Thompson Alumni Center,
led by John Bartle, associate professor of public administration at UNO
and director of the MPA and Local Government programs; Carol Ebdon,
assistant
professor of public administration at UNO College of Public Affairs and
Community Service; Mary Jane Egr, Nebraska State Tax Commissioner; and
state
Sen. Bob Wickersham of Harrison.
o Public Policy Formulation and Analysis, (certificate-leading), May
11, Nebraska Union, led by Lyn Kathlene, associate professor of political
science and director of the Public Policy Analysis Program at UNL.
o Thomas C. Sorensen Forum for Political Leadership, June 25, UNK
Ockinga
Conference Center, led by Scott Moore, former secretary of state and
Nebraska
state senator, now director of government affairs for Union Pacific
Corp.;
Irv Omtvedt, vice president emeritus for the Institute of Agriculture and
Natural Resources at UNL; and Kim Robak, vice president of external
affairs
and corporation secretary to the Nebraska Board of Regents, and former
lieutenant
governor.
Each seminar lasts from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the various locations. The
cost of the seminars is $175 each. The Public Policy Center offers a
community
initiative in which individuals or groups may qualify for free tuition.
Advance registration is encouraged and may be accomplished by telephoning
the center, (402) 472-5678, or on-line http://ppc.unl.edu
/seminarseries/spring2001.htm.
Credit Union Offers Car Buying Services
When you think of a new vehicle, are you thinking of your Credit
Union?
The University of Nebraska Federal Credit Union offers a wide variety of
car buying services that are designed to help you save money without the
hassle of negotiating with the dealer. With the help of Members Only Auto
Center, they offer EZ Lease, EZ Buy, and the Buyers Assistance Program
exclusively
to our members. Log onto http://www.nufcu.org
for more information on these exclusive products.
In addition to these services, the Credit Union also hosts Car
Buying/Leasing
Seminars throughout the year to help you find the answer to your vehicle
buying questions. For more information on NUFCU's Car Buying Services or
for upcoming seminar information, call the Credit Union at 472-2087.
Airline Ticket Change Fees Increase
The fee to change a nonrefundable airline ticket has gone from $75 to
$100 effective immediately. Airline carriers impose this fee when you
change
the return date and/or time of your travel. For more information, contact
University Travel Services at 486-4111.
Clansy Next Scholarship IN Society Speaker March 1.
Cheryl Clansy will present "What do you do when the shoe doesn't
fit?" on at 3:30 p.m. March 1 in the Nebraska Union as part of the
ongoing Scholarship IN Society lecture series.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Clansy's career includes expertise in several fields of student
affairs.
The associate vice president for academic affairs at Jarvis Christian
College
in Texas, Clansy has also served as the dean of enrollment management, a
liberal arts adviser, and several positions in judicial affairs, student
government, career development and others.
She has received numerous awards for her service to higher education,
including the J.K. Haynes Award for Outstanding Leadership, Dedication
&
Service to Education, and Teacher of the Year for the College of Liberal
Arts at Grambling State University.
Clansy was appointed to the State of Louisiana Governor's Pan American
Commission in 1994, and has participated in a research exchange in Cuba.
Clansy earned her master's degree in vocal performance from Midwestern
State
University, and her doctorate in developmental education from Grambling
State University.
Scholarship IN Society is aimed at modeling the myriad career
possibilities
available to students upon receipt of a graduate education. The series
strives
to include individuals with both scholastic and non-academic careers to
better realize the breadth of career opportunities.
EHS Assists in the Recovery of Radioactive Materials
On Feb. 8, a small airplane carrying nuclear medicine supplies from
Lincoln
to Valentine crashed while attempting to land near Ainsworth. The crash
killed one of the pilots and dispersed some of the radioactive materials.
At the request of Syncor Pharmaceuticals, UNL's Environmental Health and
Safety group provided Syncor personnel with a special low-level radiation
detector, protective garments and other supplies to assist in the
detection
and cleanup of the materials. The materials were successfully recovered
and as a result, did not pose a hazard to recovery personnel or the
environment.
Visa Documentation Required to Hire Foreign Faculty
If a unit is planning to hire new faculty other than U.S. citizens or
permanent residents of the United States, visa documentation must be in
order before an individual can begin employment at UNL. Contact Peter
Levitov,
associate dean of International Affairs and special assistant general
counsel
(immigration), at 472-5358. It can take up to four months to obtain the
appropriate nonimmigrant visa classification for eligible employees.
Rolling Stone Critic Speaking Feb. 27
Rock 'n' roll critic and author Tim Riley will be featured in a
multimedia
presentation on the history of rock music at a lecture/presentation Feb.
27 at 7 p.m. at the Nebraska Union Auditorium, sponsored by University
Program
Council.
Riley is a critic for Rolling Stone magazine and the author of such
titles
as Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary, and Madonna: Illustrated. In his
entertaining
and informative multimedia presentation, he traces the history of rock
from
its earliest concerns of race, class and youth, to its current status as
the most profitable entertainment product in the world. He also includes
in his presentation a segment on censorship, ranging from MTV's banning
of Madonna to the continuing controversy of television sex and
violence.
The performance is free for everyone. The University Program Council
is a volunteer student organization addressing the co-curricular, social,
recreational, cultural and educational needs of the UNL campus.
University Bookstore Discounts Available
The University Bookstore (located in both Nebraska Unions) provides a
20 percent discount to University Departments on the purchase of supplies
(excluding books). A requisition form or UNL procurement card is required
to receive the discount.
University faculty and staff will also receive a 10 percent discount
on regularly price merchandise including tradebooks and textbooks.
Faculty
and staff need to present their UNL ID cards to receive the discount.
For more information, contact John Beane at 472-8531. | 
