BANCROFT HALL COMES DOWN
Crews demolish
Bancroft Hall on Aug. 22. Its neighbor, Lyman
Hall, also was being
demolished. After the rubble is removed,
which should take about a
month, the area will be filled, graded
and replanted with grass,
according to Woody Haecker, project
manager for Facilities
Management and Planning.
It's Mark Mesarch
Because of incorrect information from a source, Mark Mesarch
was
misidentified in a photo of him and U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel
in the
Aug. 23 Scarlet.
Phi Delta Kappa Dinner Sept. 9
Phi Delta Kappa Chapter
15 will have a dinner and social from
4 to 7 p.m. Sept. 9 at the
Pine Crest Farms Bed and Breakfast,
2550 Country Rd A, Valparaiso,
Neb.
Reservations must be made by Sept. 4. Contact Loretta
Sheets,
6710 Marcia Lane, Lincoln, NE 68505, or e-mail: wheets@radiks.net.
TIAA-CREF
Consultant on Campus in September
Free individual
counseling sessions with a TIAA-CREF consultant
are available Sept.
11, 12 and 28 in the Nebraska Union and on
Sept. 13 in the East
Union.
Schedule a counseling session and get answers to
your questions
on investment planning issues such as long-term
investment strategies,
tax-deferred investing opportunities, mutual
funds, IRAs and
much more.
Sign up online at https://ifs2.tia
a-cref.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ARS
or call Carolyn Bates in
the Denver Office at (800) 842-2009.
Nebraska Food Product's Shoppers Guide
Available
The Nebraska Food Products Shopper's Guide,
published by the
Nebraska Food Industry Association, is now
available. The Shopper's
Guides are being distributed through the
University of Nebraska
Food Processing Center, Nebraska Department
of Economic Development-Nebraska
Travel and Tourism Division, the
offices of Nebraska Public Power
District, NMPP Energy, Chamber of
Commerce offices and many area
food stores. This guide has been
developed for consumers, food
retailers and food-service operators
to aid in identifying and
selecting Nebraska-made food
products.
To receive a Shopper's Guide, contact any of the
locations
listed above or call the NFIA office at 472-5791.
Gardeners' Gala Sept. 23 at Maxwell
Arboretum
The fifth annual Gardeners' Gala is from 1-5
p.m. Sept. 23
in the Maxwell Arboretum. Sponsored by the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln
Botanical Garden and Arboretum and the Friends
of Maxwell Arboretum,
this event features garden demonstrations and
tours of the arboretum
at 38th and Holdrege streets.
Tour guides are the landscape professionals associated with
the
gardens at UNL. Representatives from Lincoln's specialty
gardening
organizations and master gardeners will be available
to answer
gardening questions.
The gala also will feature
presentations relating to the prairie,
north of the Maxwell
Arboretum, and a tour of the Varner Hall
trial gardens south of
Holdrege Street. Speakers will present
topics on prairie plants,
birds, cooking with wild plants, pressing
plants and floral design.
Information on bulbs, fall lawn care
and winter preparation in the
garden also will be offered. The
winners of the garden photo
contest and rules for next year's
contest will be announced.
Gardener's Gala is free and happens regardless of weather.
Refreshments will be available. For more information, visit http://busfin.unl.edu/unlbga,
call 472-2679 or call Kay Kottas, UNLBGA education manager, at
472-9139, or Jeff Culbertson, East Campus landscape manager,
UNLBGA, at 472-9188.
Earn
Credit While Exploring London and Paris
The Winterim Study
Abroad Program (Dec. 26 - Jan. 12) includes
eight days in London
and eight days in Paris. Participants explore
galleries, cathedrals
and art museums from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. most
days and then structure
afternoons and evenings according to
personal interests. Students
working for UNL credit maintain
a daily journal and attend two
pre-trip and one post-trip meetings.
Non-traditional students of
all ages and backgrounds are welcome.
This study program is less
than $3,000 including airfare, hotels,
breakfast, Eurostar to
Paris, museum cards and subway passes.
For a prospectus and
application, call International Affairs
(472-5358) and ask for the
pink brochure on London and Paris.
Questions about the study
program (itinerary, overall structure,
course requirements, etc.)
address to Gail Kendalls. Email: gkendall@unl.edu, or call
486-3775. This program may be funded through financial aid. Questions
regarding admission, loans, tickets, etc., should be directed
to
Christa Joy at International Affairs: cjoy1@unl.edu
or 472-5358.
There are spaces left, but the program closes with
15
participants.
Prairie Festival Features UNL Experts
A number of
individuals with ties to UNL are participating
in the 21st annual
prairie festival sponsored by the Wachiska
Audubon group.
"Writing on the Prairie: Writers, Literature
and the
Prairie," occurs from 1-5 p.m. Sept. 16 at the Audubon
Spring
Creek Prairie three miles south of Denton on Southwest
98th Street.
The event moves to Sept. 23 in case of rain.
Planners hope
the festival promotes knowledge and appreciation
of Nebraska's
native tallgrass prairies. The Spring Creek Prairie
is a 626-acre
native tallgrass prairie sanctuary containing wagon
wheel ruts of
the Nebraska City-Fort Kearny Cutoff Trail of the
1860s.
This year's festival theme focuses on writing and the prairie
through readings/discussions of writing and literature by nationally
known scholars, and short writing workshops for children and
adults
conducted by experienced writers and teachers, all from
this area.
Jonis Agee, professor of English at UNL, William Kloefkorn,
Nebraska State Poet, and Paul Olson, professor of English at
UNL.
will each give a 45-minute reading and discussion of their
own and
others' writings related to the prairie.
Others from UNL
who are involved include Kay Kottas, UNL Botanical
Gardens and
Arboretum, wildflowers lecture; Fred Baxendale and
Steve Spomer,
entomology, insect lecture; and George Schade,
mechanical
engineering, photography and butterflies.
Admission is $4
for adults; children 12 and under are free.
Call 797-2301 or
486-4846 for more information or see http://www.wachiskaaudubon.org
.
Funding is provided by the Nebraska Humanities Council, Lower
Platte South Natural Resources District, Audubon Nebraska &
Wachiska Audubon.
Faculty/Staff Bowling League
Forming
The East Union "Lanes 'n Games" again
will be offering
a faculty/staff bowling league (four person/three
games) at 6
p.m. on Wednesday evenings beginning Sept 26. This is a
non-sanctioned
league and is open to all faculty/staff and their
families. Call
472-9627 for more information.
Mueller Offers Fall Show
Schedule
Mueller Planetarium in the University of Nebraska
State Museum
presents the astronomy show Tour of the Night Sky now
through
late October.
The program will introduce
audiences to the constellations
and give a tour of interesting
objects in the night sky.
"This is a chance to learn
the night sky and ask an astronomer
those questions you might have
about the sky," said Jack
Dun, planetarium coordinator.
"The show is especially suggested
for scouts and other groups
that seek to have a background in
sky observing."
The program will be presented at 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays,
except the Saturdays of Nebraska football home games. Admission
to
Mueller Planetarium astronomy shows is $4 for adults, $3 for
all
students, children and senior citizens. Tickets go on sale
30
minutes before show time in the planetarium lobby in Morrill
Hall,
14th and U streets.
For more information, call the
planetarium at 472-2641 or
visit the Web site: http://www.spacelaser.com.
Scholarship In
Society Lecture Sept. 6
Jose J. Soto will present
"Systems Change & Improvement:
A Personal &
Professional Responsibility" at 3:30 p.m.
Sept. 6 in Room 105,
Teachers College Hall. His presentation
will focus on the infusion
and integration of multiculturalism
and cultural competence in
societal institutions, particularly
educational settings.
Soto has worked in mental health and education for the past
20
years. He has served as a consultant, educator, practitioner
and an
administrator at the local and state levels in public
education and
mental health sectors. Since 1988, Soto has served
as a consultant
to and founding member of the National Cultural
Competency
Initiative Resource Committee to the National Policy
Center for
Children's Mental Health Services. He has planned
and served on the
faculty of various state national training
institutes on cultural
competence issues in the delivery of health,
mental health and
other human services.
Since 1992, Soto been vice president
for affirmative action/equity/diversity
at Southeast Community
College. He has implemented a comprehensive
AA/EEO/Diversity
program for the college. He has successfully
coordinated and begun
efforts in policy development, training,
recruitment/retention of
employees, investigating complaints
of discrimination and unfair
treatment, and ongoing management
training and organizational
development activities.
Soto received a bachelor of arts
degree from the Inter-American
University of Puerto Rico-San
German, with majors in psychology
and social sciences, and he
earned a juris doctor from the NU
College of Law in 1984.
The lecture is sponsored by Scholarship In Society, which
aims
at modeling the many career possibilities available to students
upon receipt of a graduate education, including on individuals
with
both scholastic and non-academic careers to better realize
the
breadth of career opportunities.
No Scarlet Week of Labor Day
The Scarlet will not
publish the week of Labor Day because
of the holiday break. The
Scarlet will next publish Sept. 13.
The deadline is noon Sept.
6.
FWC Welcome Tea Sept. 12
The Faculty Women's Club will
offer its annual Welcome Tea
from 2 to 4 p.m. Sept. 12 at the
Schorr Presidential Suite at
Hewit Place, 12th and R streets.
The Faculty Women's Club is open to UNL female faculty, administrators
and wives of faculty members and administrators.
For
information, call Karen Walklin, 488-4737.
Senior Learning Passports Available
Nebraskans over age 65 will be able to take tuition-free classes
at the University of Nebraska beginning this fall. The Board
of
Regents recently approved creation of Senior Learning Passports,
which allow those over 65 to participate in undergraduate classes
on a non-credit basis when room is available and the instructor
approves.
The Senior Learning Passports, which authorize
participation
in up to two classes during a given semester, are
available on
each University of Nebraska campus for $25 per
semester.
Nebraskans interested in participating in the
Senior Learning
Passport program should contact the University of
Nebraska campus
of their choice. Passports are not transferrable
among campuses.
Contact persons for the campuses are:
UNL: Deanna Eversoll, director of part-time student services,
(402) 472-6265
UNO: Rebecca Means, associate director,
Academic Support Services,
(402) 554-2689
UNK:
Barbara Audley, dean of Continuing Studies, (308) 865-8211
UNMC: William Berndt, vice chancellor for Academic Affairs,
(402) 559-5130
Student Involvement Changes Mailbox Processes
Student
Involvement has changed the way that information is
distributed to
recognized student organizations. Previously,
fliers could be
placed in these organizations' mailboxes in the
Student Involvement
office, but often the fliers were discarded
or never picked up.
Student Involvement has a new rack for fliers that might contain
information of interest to student organizations. The rack in
200
Nebraska Union is near the mailboxes, and students are directed
to
check it for items of interest. The approach calls for about
50
fliers rather than the 220 it took to stuff each mailbox.
The rack
in 300 East Union is adjacent to the third floor computer
lab and
calls for 25 fliers.
The Recognized Student Organization
list serve is composed
of RSO presidents. Items on the list serve
are reserved to those
with particular interest to student
organizations, rather than
general publicity to students.
Announcements can be submitted
to Student Involvement by the 15th
of each month for possible
inclusion on the listserve that goes out
the first week of the
subsequent month. A brief announcement and
Web site address is
the best format for this process.
Campus departments and other student organizations are welcome
to use these services to announce events and services. For information,
call 472-2454.
Alumni Association Hosts Pre-Game
Parties at Wick
Get fired up for all the Nebraska home
football games with
hundreds of other Husker fans at the free
Husker Huddles pre-game
parties in the Wick Alumni Center.
Sponsored by the Nebraska Alumni Association, the Husker Huddles
feature live entertainment, free food and soft drinks, door prizes
and a cash bar. A variety of local entertainers will perform
at
this year's festivities, including NU's Scarlet and Cream
Singers.
The NU Spirit Squad, Lil' Red and Herbie Husker also
will appear at
the events.
Husker Huddles are free and open to the
public, and all ages
are welcome. The events begin 2 1/2 hours
before each home-game
kickoff. This year's Husker home schedule
follows: Sept. 1 vs.
Troy State at 11:30 a.m.; Sept. 8 vs. Notre
Dame at 7 p.m.; Sept.
15 vs. Rice at 6 p.m.; Oct. 6 vs. Iowa State
(TBA); Oct. 20 vs.
Texas Tech (TBA); Oct. 27 vs. Oklahoma (TBA);
and Nov. 10 vs.
Kansas State (TBA).
For more
information, call Ed Morrow at the Nebraska Alumni
Association at
472-4223.
Web Site Gives
Info on Biotech Crops
By Heather Corley, IANR News
The University of Nebraska has launched a new Web site designed
to help consumers and students understand agricultural biotechnology.
"There is much confusion about biotechnology," said
Leon Higley, professor of entomology. "Our goal is to help
people learn how to assess these new technologies. How do they
know
what is safe? What should their standards be? We want to
help
people sort through all of this information."
The site
contains lesson plans for teachers, basic biotechnology
information
for consumers, a frequently asked questions section,
and a database
of research information on all genetically engineered
crops in
North America.
"There is plenty of information
available, but this database
is unique in that the research and
safety information for all
of these crops has never been available
in one place before,"
Higley said. "Any research that
companies have done for
the EPA or Canadian government, any
transformation of any crop,
it's all in this database. It is the
most comprehensive of its
kind."
A Canadian
company, AgBios, was instrumental in putting the
database together,
Higley said. AgBios is a consulting firm that
specializes in
biotechnology regulation and is collaborating
with the university
in development of the site.
The education portion of the
site features lesson plans that
will be used in NU's distance
education programs. It also contains
lessons for high school
students, and eventually, plans will
be developed for younger
students, said Doug Golick, web coordinator
and educational
director for the site.
"We are also working to develop
a gene builder program
that will teach students the process of gene
insertion. The program
will let students choose which genes to
insert and help them
evaluate the consequences of their
choices," Golick said.
NU biotechnology experts will
answer questions in the frequently
asked questions area of the
site. This area also contains in-depth
reviews and summaries of
major biotechnology issues such as allergic
reactions, safety,
monarch butterflies and Bt corn and resistance
management, Higley
said.
The site is funded by a grant from the Council for
Biotechnology
Information.
"Though the site was
funded by an industry group, it
is important to note that the only
editorial control over the
site is ours," Higley said.
"We have our own internal
review process. It would be a
disservice not to maintain that."
Although the site
should be of international interest, it
is significant to Nebraska,
too.
"With Nebraska's strong ties to agriculture and
the profound
impact of biotechnology on the future, these resources
are essential
to public understanding of the issues," the
Institute of
Agriculture and Natural Resources professor said.
CLEANING UP THE
CAMPUS
Christine
Jackson, vice chancellor for business and finance,
washes litter
from the fountain in the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
and Sculpture
Garden on Aug. 21 during her department's "Clean-Up
Day."
Business and Finance volunteers helped Landscape Services
prepare
the campuses for the first day of school.
Rural Institute To Focus on Energizing
Towns
By Sandi S. Alswager, IANR News
Participants will team up at the sixth Nebraska Rural Institute
Sept. 17-19 at the Holiday Inn in Hastings.
The University
of Nebraska is helping coordinate this year's
sessions with the
theme "Energizing Your Community"
in which participants
will learn from one another, said Charlotte
Narjes, project
coordinator for the university's Center for Applied
Rural
Innovation.
Narjes said the institute is for anyone. It
allows economic
and community developers, local government and
tribal officials,
extension educators, volunteers and others to
share ideas about
how to develop new skills and knowledge for rural
Nebraska.
This year's three-day institute will include a
combination
of learning tracks and mobile workshops. There will be
skill-building
sessions on topics such as using census data. The
Sept. 17 session
will feature U.S. Rep. Tom Osborne as the opening
speaker. Other
highlights include a session on tax increment
financing beneficial
to city officials and a technology session.
Sept. 18 includes
an all-day session on energy and an all-day
learning track on
planning and zoning. A panel of state senators
will be available
on Sept. 19.
Registration for the
entire conference is $200 before Sept.
1 and $275 after Sept. 1, or
participants can attend only one
day. Registration for Sept. 17 or
19 is $60 before Sept. 1 or
$75 after, while Sept. 18 is $100
before Sept. 1 and $125 after.
Discounted student rates are
available. Meals are included. Extra
meals for spouses or guests
can be purchased. Full or partial
scholarships are available.
The sixth institute is sponsored by the Partnership for Rural
Nebraska, the Nebraska Development Network; Nebraska state government,
including the Department of Economic Development, Health and
Human
Services, Rural Development Commission and the Department
of
Agriculture; U.S. Department of Agriculture and NU Cooperative
Extension, and co-sponsored by Nebraska Public Power District,
Central Community College-Hastings, Nebraska Municipal Power
Pool,
South Central Nebraska Rural Conservation and Development
Council
and South Platte United Chambers of Commerce.
Rules For Garage,
Champions Lots Explained
Parking and Transit Services sent
this e-mail to all in the
university community on Aug. 23.
Parking and Transit Services is pleased to make these
announcements:
17th and R streets parking garage: Now open
for permit holder
parking.
This is how the garage
should be utilized based on your permit:
All Faculty and
Staff Permits (except Perimeter/Night permits):
Anytime except
football game days.
All Student Permits (except
Perimeter/Night permits):
- Area 3 residence hall permits:
Anytime
- Area 20 commuter permits: Anytime except football
game days.
Perimeter/Night Permits:
- Monday
through Friday: 3 p.m. to 7:30 a.m.
- Saturday and Sunday:
Anytime except football game days.
A bus waiting area by
the northwest pedestrian entrance off
17th and R streets will be
completed in the next two weeks. Buses
will be available from 6:30
a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Monday through
Friday. All UNL bus routes stop
here.
The retail spaces along 17th Street will be finished
later
this fall.
The parking lot at the Nebraska
Champions Club is also open.
This is how the lot should be used
based on your permit:
All Faculty and Staff Permits (except
Perimeter/Night permits):
Anytime except football game days and
Nebraska Champions Club
events.
All Student Permits
(including Perimeter/Night permits): Anytime
after 3 p.m. Monday
through Friday, and all day on Saturday and
Sunday except on
football game days and Nebraska Champions Club
events.
Vehicles may be restricted from entering the lot after 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday and anytime on Saturday and Sunday because
of
Nebraska Champions Club events. Vehicles must be removed from
the
lot by 10 p.m. on the day before a football game.
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