Law school honors Supreme Court Justice
O'Connor
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor looks at her
Cather Medal after receiving it from UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman
on Oct. 18 before a speech at the Law College.
Credit Union car-buying seminar Nov. 15
The University of Nebraska Federal Credit Union is offering
a
free Car-Buying Seminar at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 15 at the East Union.
Hear from the car-buying experts at Members Only Auto Center,
and
learn how you can save time and money on your next vehicle
purchase. Attend this free seminar and you will also find out
about
financing, leasing a vehicle, and the credit union's new
car buying
services. Call the credit union at 472-2087 to make
your
reservation today.
E.C. speakers meet Wednesdays
E.C. Speakers, a member of Toastmasters International, meets
every Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Nebraska East Union.
The
meeting format includes both prepared and impromptu speeches.
We
invite faculty, staff, and students to attend and join our
group.
For more information, call Len Nelson at 472-1489.
Pre-Law open house
Nov. 3
The University of Nebraska College of Law and the
University
of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Arts and Sciences
advising center
will co-host a fall pre-law open house from 9:15
a.m. to 12:30
p.m. Nov. 3 at Ross McCollum Hall. The building is at
East Campus
Loop and Fair Street on UNL's East Campus.
The pre-law open house is targeted to students who are early
in
their college careers and interested in learning more about
law
school and career opportunities in law. The program will
provide
information about preparing for law school.
Current law
students and alumni will share their law college
experiences with
the open-house guests during a free pizza lunch.
For more
information, call the College of Law's admissions
office at
472-2161. Reservations are recommended.
UCARE Fall symposium Nov. 15
The first UCARE Fall Symposium for Undergraduate Research
will
be from 3-6 p.m. Nov. 15 in the Nebraska Union. Presentations
and
poster displays will showcase the research efforts of some
of the
students participating in the Undergraduate Creative Activities
and
Research Experiences program. Student projects will be presented
in
biochemistry, biological sciences, chemistry, computer science,
electrical engineering, environmental studies, geography, history,
interior design, marketing, math, political science and psychology.
For more information, see the UCARE Web site: http://www.unl.edu/ucare.
The event is free and open to the public.
Humanities and Technology discussed Nov.
15
Martha Nell Smith will present a public lecture,
"Computing:
What Have the Humanities To Do With Information
Technology?"
at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 15 in 228 Andrews Hall.
Smith will be talking about the new intellectual and creative
possibilities created by the World Wide Web and the multiple
ways
in which information technology applies to the humanities.
Smith is the author of Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson
(1992) and co-editor of Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's
Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Gilbert (1998). She is the
principal editor of The Dickinson Electronic Archives, an online
research archive, and co-director of The Classroom Electric,
an
online collection of Web sites devoted to the writings of
Walt
Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Smith is a professor of English
and
director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the
Humanities
at the University of Maryland, College Park. The lecture
is open to
the public and is sponsored by the UNL Humanities
Center.
Ethics discussed in Nov. 19
lecture
The College of Business Administration's Program
in Ethics,
Business and Society and the Center for Teaching and
Research
of Applied Ethics will present lectures by Robert Solomon
on
Nov. 19. Passions at Work will begin at noon in room 222 of the
College of Business Administration. A second lecture, Emotional
Responsibility, will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union.
Solomon is Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and
Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University
of Texas at Austin. He is the author of A Better Way to Think
About
Business, which describes virtue ethics in a way that provides
pragmatic, concrete advice for busy executives. Solomon was part
of
a team that set up an ethics program at a major New York bank
in
1988, and he helped Motorola develop their Uncompromising
Integrity
program in 1998. He has written or edited nearly 30
books.
Solomon combines training in philosophy with a deep understanding
of the kinds of ethical dilemmas that business managers face
and
for which they lack clear answers.
Both lectures are free
and open to the public. A free box
lunch will be provided for the
noon lecture to those who R.S.V.P.
to Janice Lawrence, associate
director, Program in Business,
Ethics and Society, 391 CBA, 0488,
or 472-2337, jlawrence1@unl.edu.
Crisis leave donations due Dec. 14
Employees are reminded they can donate vacation leave to the
crisis-leave pool. The crisis leave program was established to
allow UNL employees a chance to donate vacation leave to colleagues
who are facing a health-related or personal crisis and have exhausted
their accrued vacation, sick and compensatory leave that is applicable
to their crisis and need additional paid time away from work.
Regular employees who have completed their original probation
who earn vacation leave may donate to the crisis pool up to three
accrued vacation days per calendar year. Under exceptional circumstances,
an employee may donate up to five days per calendar year.
If you would like to donate vacation days to the crisis leave
pool, print out a Crisis Leave Donation Form from http://busfin.unl.edu/hr/d
onationCL.htm
and return the completed form to the
Department of Human Resources
by 5 p.m. Dec. 14. You may return
forms by campus mail to 407
Adm (0438) or by fax at 472-9040.
For more information on crisis leave, call Human Resources
at
472-3101, or refer to online information at http://busfin.unl.
edu/hr/crisisLeavePolicy.html
or http://busfin.
unl.edu/hr/crisisLeaveProcedures.html.
Police offer mail-handling tips
The following e-mail was sent to the UNL community on Oct.
19.
Memo to: Faculty, Staff and
Students
From: UNL Police
Re:
Handling suspected anthrax-contaminated mail
This is a safety alert regarding heightened safety and security
precautions and is coordinated through the Office of the Vice
Chancellor for Business and Finance, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Police Department and University Services. Please help us distribute
this information by e-mailing this notice to friends and colleagues
or by posting it on bulletin boards located throughout the campus.
Staff responsible for incoming mail should maintain an awareness
of the possibility of anthrax threat letters. This checklist
outlines common features of threatening letters.
- Addressed to someone no longer in the organization
- No
return address, or has one that can't be verified as legitimate
- Postmark that does not match the return address
- Excessive
postage
- Hand-written or poorly typed addresses
- Misspelling of common words
- Restrictive markings such as
"Confidential," "Personal,"
etc.
- Excessive weight and/or a feel of a powdery substance, wires,
strange odors or stains
IF YOU RECEIVE A LETTER
OR NOTE THREATENING ANTHRAX CONTAMINATION:
Although any
threatened use of biological agent must be treated
as though it is
real, experience has demonstrated that these
are likely to be a
HOAX. If the suspected biological agent is
reported as anthrax, be
assured that it is NOT contagious, and
that treatment is readily
available if administered before the
onset of symptoms.
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO:
If it is a letter that you
have opened, set it down gently
at the location where you first
read it. Then move to an area
that will minimize your exposure to
others. Avoid contact with
others when possible, and remain in the
area. Public Safety and
Health responders will come to you.
If it is a note that you happen to find, LEAVE IT ALONE. If
it
contains a powder, lay a cloth, paper or cover over the material
to
prevent it from circulating and then LEAVE IT ALONE.
Advise
a co-worker in the immediate area what has happened
and ask (him or
her) to call University Police at 472-3550.
If possible,
have the building's ventilation system shut down
and turn off any
fans in the area. Any automated or electrical
system shut down must
be approved by University Police (472-3555)
and Facilities
Management (472-1550).
Do not allow others into the area.
If anyone enters, (he or
she) should stay until instructed to leave
by Police or medical
responders.
Remain calm.
Exposure does not mean that you will become sick.
Public Health
responders will provide specific information and
instructions about
the symptoms and effective treatment to prevent
illness.
WHAT SHOULD YOU NOT DO:
Do not pass the letter or
note to others to look at.
Do not disturb any contents in
the letter or note. Handling
the letter may only spread the
substance inside and increase
the chances of it getting into the
air.
Do not ignore the threat. It must be treated as real
until
properly evaluated.
IF YOU RECEIVE A THREAT
BY TELEPHONE WHAT SHOULD YOU DO:
Obtain as much
information as possible such as caller's identity,
background
noise, exact location of package, etc. Make notations
as soon as
possible describing the call so you will remember
important
details.
Hang up and immediately call *57 to activate a
trace of the
call.
Call University Police at 472-3550
if on campus, or local
law enforcement agency if off campus.
If possible, have the building's ventilation system shut down
and turn off any fans in the area. Any automated or electrical
system shut down must be approved by University Police (472-3555)
and Facilities Management (472-1550).
Remain calm; most
similar threats prove to be false. However,
this will be treated as
real until properly evaluated.
WHAT SHOULD YOU NOT
DO:
Do not ignore the threat. It must be treated as
real until
properly evaluated.
Do not argue with or
antagonize the caller.
Do not provide details about the
facility or mail-handling
procedures.
The UNL Police
Department suggests that all "junk mail"
not be opened
and be trashed. If you are not aware of who the
sender of your mail
is, do not open it.
All UNL mail is screened at the United
States Postal Service
and UNL Mail Services before it is
disseminated on campus.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Women's Studies
colloquium Nov. 7 explores Latino issues
Creating
Community-University Partnerships: Lessons From the
Latino Research
Initiative will be presented by Gloria Gonzalez-Kruger
and Marcela
Raffaelli at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 7 in the Nebraska Union.
Gonzalez-Kruger is an assistant professor of family and consumer
sciences; Raffaelli is an associate professor of psychology and
ethnic studies.
They will speak on the creative approaches
that are needed
to address the diverse needs of the growing Latino
population
in the United States. One promising model involves the
community-university
partnership established by the Latino Research
Initiative at
UNL. The project, whose goal is to enhance the lives
of Latinos
in Lincoln, is based on a collaborative model consistent
with
feminist research principles in which there is a strong
commitment
to community participation and reciprocal relationship
in planning,
research, teaching and implementation of goals.
Animal Science
grad student association selling turkeys
The UNL Animal
Science Graduate Student Association is again
sponsoring a
Thanksgiving turkey sale. Get a fresh, Nebraska-grown,
self-basting
Thanksgiving turkey for only $1.20/lb. There are
four sizes of
turkeys: Small (8-12 lbs.), Medium (12-16 lbs.),
Large (16-20 lbs.)
and X-Large (20-24 lbs.).
To order, call 472-6409 from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday
through Nov. 5. Turkeys may be
picked up from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Nov. 19 and 20 at the Animal
Science Department.
For more information, e-mail Sandra
Senneke at ssenneke78@hotmail.com.
E-news process for e-mail to all
E-News is a weekly compilation of notices to be distributed
to
all faculty and staff and replaces the sporadic "e-mail
to
all" system. The notices will be entered through a Web-based
form and will include contact information and the ability to
link
to a Web site with more details. The submitted Web forms
will be
automatically compiled, and the week's list of notices
will be
reviewed to ensure that all items are sponsored by a
UNL
department, program or organization. The deadline for submissions
is 5 p.m. on Monday; E-News will be distributed on Tuesday evening.
Items must be sponsored by a UNL department, program or organization.
No commercial or personal announcements are allowed. Announcements
are to have news rather than opinion content. See the sample
E-News
at http://www.unl.edu/o
pcenter/forms/sample.html
The E-News Web site is
http://www.unl.edu/o
pcenter/forms/E-News.html
and links from the Faculty/Staff
tab on the UNL homepage. The
Web site gives instructions on how to
use E-News as well as how
to submit text-only information to create
a companion Web site
if desired. Questions about E-News should be
directed to the
Information Services Help Desk at 472-3970 or helpdesk@unl.edu
Employee/dependent scholarship info
available
Nov. 1 is the beginning date to sign up for the
Employee and
Dependent Scholarship Program for spring semester
2002.
The deadline to sign for the Scholarship Program is
Jan. 14.
The date to make any changes is Jan. 21. Employees must
enroll
in the program before Jan. 14 to receive benefits from the
program.
Employees will use the Scholarship Web site http://trp.unl.edu
to enroll
themselves, their spouses and/or their dependent(s)
in for the
Scholarship Program. If any changes in spouse or dependent
information are necessary, contact Human Resources before Jan.
14.
Information regarding the program can be found at http://busfin.unl.edu/hr/inde
x1.html
or at Human Resources at 472-3101 or the Benefits
Office at 472-2600.
HR requisition date moved up for
Thanksgiving week
Requisitions must be received in Human
Resources, 407 Canfield
Administration Building, by 5 p.m. Nov. 19
for advertising and
posting vacancies to the job list for Nov 26.
The Human Resources
Employment Office moved up the date because of
Thanksgiving break.
Conference addresses immigration challenges
By Sandi
Alswager, IANR News and Publishing
As the Midwest's rural
and urban communities continue to generate
agricultural and other
industry jobs attracting Latino and other
immigrants, most
communities lack the resources and trained leadership
to provide a
smooth transition, a University of Nebraska family
and community
specialist said.
In response to these issues, the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
is hosting "The Changing Face
of the Rural Midwest: Latino/a
Immigration Challenges for
Communities and Institutions"
from Nov. 7-9 at the Best
Western Villager Hotel Convention Center
in Lincoln. The conference
is designed to help participants develop
leadership and community
building to meet immigration-related
challenges, said Georgia
Stevens, NU family and community specialist
for diversity.
The conference also will look at forming state and multi-state
networks to concentrate on Latino immigration issues, she said.
"We hope participants will come away from the conference
with a wider understanding of the issues confronting new Hispanic
residents in the Midwest, the resources available to assist these
new residents and the potential for communities to become more
involved in the process," Stevens said.
Highlights of
the three-day conference include sessions on
community leadership,
education and immigrant rights; national
and internationally
recognized speakers; and Midwest research
and program
experience.
Featured speakers include Gov. Mike Johanns;
Juan Hernandez,
Mexico Cabinet Minister, President's Office for
Mexicans Abroad
(OPME); Jose Cuevas, consul, Mexican Consulate,
Omaha; Nelly
Salgado, Mexican National Institute of Public Health,
director
of Community Health and Social Welfare; Amparo Navarrette,
program
coordinator for special populations, Prairie View
A&M/Community
Development Consultant; Sylvia Lazos, associate
professor of
law, University of Missouri-Columbia; and Estela
Garci'a Leo'n,
executive director, Central Mexicano de Oregon.
A poster session, featuring information from local efforts
that
were developed to work with Hispanic audiences, research
programs
and organizational resources, will be on display throughout
the
forum.
The conference is coordinated by The MidAmerica
International
Agricultural Consortium and its member universities:
UNL, Iowa
State University, Kansas State University, Oklahoma State
University
and University of Missouri-Columbia.
Speaker sponsorship is provided by College of Agriculture
MIAC
member universities ISU, KSU and UNL.
Registration is $100
for the conference. A community study
tour of Omaha Latino
Community Centers will be organized on Nov.
7. Cost is $25. Make
all checks payable to MIAC and send to Georgia
Stevens, 134 Home
Economics Building, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, Neb.
68583-0801.
For more information about MIAC or for the
conference schedule,
visit: http://www.miac.org.
Inaugural Knoll Lecture Nov. 8 features
Shakespearean scholar
David Scott Kastan, Old Dominion
Foundation Professor in the
Humanities at Columbia University, will
deliver the inaugural
Robert Knoll Lecture on Literature in English
at 7:30 p.m. Nov.
8 in the Christlieb Gallery of Hewit Place, 1155
Q St.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Kastan, a scholar of Shakespeare, will lecture on "Understanding
Falstaff," a recurring character in the Henry IV plays.
A
reception sponsored by the Chancellor's Office and the English
department, follows in the gallery.
The lecture is named in
honor of Robert Knoll, D.B. and Paula
Varner Professor of English
emeritus at UNL. During a 40-year-career
at the University of
Nebraska, Knoll taught students to enjoy
the richness and beauty of
the English language. Knoll specialized
in the works of
Shakespeare, but he also taught courses in English
Renaissance
literature, English history, American and English
literature
between the World Wars, and composition. He also served
as an
adviser to a number of student groups, was the 1988 Nebraska
Professor of the Year, and won the Doc Elliott award in 1997
from
the Alumni Association. The award is given to a retired
faculty
member who "made a difference in the lives of alumni."
In 1990, he wrote Prairie University, a history of the University
of Nebraska.
"Robert was an enormously popular
professor who often
taught Shakespeare although he really has a
renaissance mind,"
said Linda Pratt, chair of the department
of English. "We
felt that for the opening lecture in the
series, it was most
appropriate to have a Shakespearean scholar of
note to honor
Robert."
Pratt said the endowment
for the lectureship was started when
Knoll retired in 1990 and has
recently accumulated enough funds
to support an annual lecture.
Stephen Hilliard, interim director of the University of Nebraska
Press and professor of English, said the inaugural lecture also
marks Knoll's 80th birthday.
Kastan earned an A.B. from
Princeton in 1967, and M.A. and
Ph.D. from the University of
Chicago in 1968 and 1974 respectively.
Kastan came to
Columbia in 1987 from Dartmouth, where he had
taught since 1973. He
has published many essays on Shakespeare
and Renaissance
literature, including pieces in Daedalus, ELH,
Renaissance Drama,
Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies,
and Studies in
Philology. He is the author of Shakespeare and
the Shapes of Time
(1982) and Shakespeare After Theory (1999);
Shakespeare and the
Book (2001); co-editor of Staging the Renaissance:
Essays on
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (1991) and of The New
History of
Early English Drama (1997); and editor of Critical
Essays on
Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (1995) and A Companion
to
Shakespeare (1999).
He also is a general editor of the
Globe Quartos and of the
Arden Shakespeare and his edition of 1
Henry IV for that series
will appear next year. He was the winner
of Columbia's Presidential
Teaching Award in 2000.
PLANTING TIME
East Campus Landscape
Manager Jeff Culbertson plants winter
wheat on the East Campus Mall
after the completion of the renovation
project of the mall.
Landscape Services planted the winter wheat
because it was too late
in the season to plant grass and to reduce
mud and erosion over the
winter. Grass will be planted in the
spring.
No Scarlet Nov. 22
Because
of the Thanksgiving holiday, the Scarlet will not
publish Nov. 22.
The deadline for the Nov. 29 edition is noon
Nov. 21.
Call travel services for carry-on
baggage specs
Effective Oct. 8, the Federal Aviation
Administration changed
carry-on baggage restrictions for all
domestic and international
flights. Fliers can carry on one
personal item (laptop, briefcase,
small backpack or purse) and one
piece of carry-on luggage. Most
carriers are permitting bags of 45
linear inches (total of height,
width and depth of bag) or smaller.
Be prepared to check bags
of dubious size. For more information on
carry-on restrictions,
call UNL Travel Services at 486-4111.
Urban planner
next Scholarship IN Society speaker
Constance Jordan
Wilson is the fourth speaker in this year's
Scholarship IN Society
speakers, sponsored by the Office of Graduate
Studies. Her lecture,
"From Practitioner to Academian, to
Entrepreneur: The Lessons
I Learned by Practicing What I Teach,"
begins at 3:30 p.m.
Nov. 8 in Architecture Hall, room 127.
Wilson is an
associate professor in Alabama A&M University's
urban planning
department and president of her consulting firm,
C. Jordan Wilson
& Associates.
During her 21-year tenure at Alabama
A&M University, she
has been engaged in research and other
sponsored programs that
support students in their studies. She has
been able to bring
an average of $200,000 per year to the
university through proposals
that she develops.
Since
1985, she has been the president of her consulting firm,
where she
has worked with organizations ranging from national
aviation
planning firms to neighborhood-based groups.
Wilson earned
a master's degree in urban and regional planning
from Fisk
University in Nashville, Tenn. In May 2000, she was
awarded the
Ph.D. in political science from the University of
Alabama
(Tuscaloosa).
Scholarship IN Society presents myriad career
possibilities
available upon receipt of graduate education. The
series includes
both scholastic and nonacademic careers to better
represent the
breadth of career opportunities. For more information
call Sara
Granberg-Rademacker, graduate student services
coordinator, at
472-5062.
Check out Saturn at Nov. 2 observatory
night
Saturn returns in all its glory to the evening sky
after a
spring and summer absence. The UNL Student Observatory will
be
presenting its first views of Saturn of the season on Nov. 2
when the observatory is open from 7 to 10 p.m.
Saturn will
be visible beginning about 8:15 p.m. If the air
is steady, the
large Student Observatory telescope gives sharp
views of this
perennial celestial favorite.
"One of the most common
responses I get when people see
Saturn in the telescope is that
they think it is not real,"
said Martin Gaskell, UNL
astronomer. "They think it is some
kind of fake image we've
put in the telescope."
Saturn and the bright star
Aldebaran are the two bright objects
in Taurus. The full moon will
be nearby to the upper right of
them. It will be possible to see
the moon in various telescopes
during the evening.
Three other planets will be visible at the start of the evening:
Mars, now getting left far behind by the Earth, and the two outer
giant planets of the solar system, Uranus and Neptune.
The
UNL Student Observatory is on the roof of the Parking
Garage across
from Memorial Stadium at the corner of Stadium
Drive and T
Street.
The observatory will not be open if the sky is
overcast.
The observatory has free admission and children
are welcome.
The observatory is unheated so visitors are advised to
dress
warmly.
The next public night will be Dec. 7.
The observatory will
also be open on the afternoon of Dec. 14 for
the solar eclipse.
For more information, contact Gaskell,
472-4788, mgaskell1@unl.edu
or visit http://www.blackst
arpress.com/arin/unl/stdobsv/.
Law professor Shavers discusses legal profession
Anna
Shavers will present "Changing America: A Role For
You in the
Legal Profession," at 3 p.m. Nov. 7 in the Nebraska
Union.
Shavers is an associate professor of law in the NU College
of Law.
The lecture is sponsored by the African American and
African
Studies Program. For more information, call 472-1663.
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