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An early winter storm left 2 inches of snow on Lincoln on
Oct.
24, covering roses on UNL's East Campus outside Filley Hall.
Students returning from fall break were welcomed back with drizzle,
freezing rain and snow. In 2001, the first snow of the season
didn't fall until December. Photo by Richard
Wright.
Sigma Xi
Lecture Nov. 5
The Sigma Xi Outstanding Young Scientist
Lecture will present
Guillermo Orti at 3 p.m. Nov. 5 in the
Nebraska East Union. Orti's
lecture will be "Molecular
Phylogeny, a Window to Bigeography,
Coevolution and Disease
Transmission."
Orti uses molecular genetic markers to
investigate the evolutionary
history of organisms, populations and
higher taxa. His studies
span diverse biological systems and
topics, conceptually unified
by a phylogenetic perspective.
A reception with refreshments will follow the lecture. For
more
information, call Marion Ellis at 472-8696.
Turkey Sale Runs Through
Nov. 1
The UNL Animal Science Graduate Student Association
is again
sponsoring its Thanksgiving Turkey Sale. Fresh,
Nebraska-grown,
self-basting Thanksgiving turkeys are available for
$1.20 per
pound.
This year, the group is offering
four sizes of turkeys: small
(8-12 pounds); medium (12-16 pounds);
large (16-20 pounds); and
extra-large (20-24 pounds). To order,
call 472-6127 between 8
a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Turkeys may be picked
up at the Animal Science Department Nov. 25
and 26.
For more information, contact Kim Whittet at
472-6127 or kwhittet2@unl.edu.
Virtual
Homecoming 2002
University alumni and friends unable to
return to campus can
tune in to homecoming festivities at the
"Virtual Homecoming"
Web site at
<www.homecoming.huskeralum.com> beginning Nov.
3. The Web
site features a lawn display contest in which the
winner will
receive the "Homecoming Herbie Alumni Choice
Award."
Visitors to the site can vote online for their favorite
lawn
display. The site also includes a calendar of events, homecoming
court and royalty information, photographs of homecoming activities,
a message board and more.
TIAA-CREF Individual Counseling Sessions For November
A TIAA-CREF consultant will be in the Nebraska Union on Nov.
13,
15, 19 and 20, and the Nebraska East Union on Nov. 14 and
21 to
provide free one-on-one counseling sessions regarding investment
planning issues. The room will be posted.
Sign up by
calling (800) 842-2009 or going to the Web page,
http://www.tiaa-cref.org,
and
choosing Meetings/Counseling.
Colloquium, Lecture, Opera Highlight French Week
Three
events that feature French culture will be at UNL during
the fourth
annual National French Week, Nov. 6-11.
The Department of
Modern Languages and Literatures will host
a UNL faculty
colloquium, "Our French Connection" Nov.
6 in the
auditorium of the Nebraska Union. The free colloquium
is open to
the public and will include these lectures: 9:30 a.m.
and 12:30
p.m., "Yours Truly, Napoleon Bonaparte,"
Russell Ganim
(French); 10:30 a.m., "The French Revolution,"
Patrice
Berger (history); and 11:30 a.m., "Dialogues of
the
Carmelites," opera artist-in-residence Ariel Bybee (music)
and
her students.
On Nov. 7, Professor William B. Cohen of
Indiana University
will give the UNL history department's annual
Carrol R. Pauley
Lecture: "Is Saying Sorry Enough? France
Confronts the Algerian
War" at 7 p.m. in the Nebraska Union
auditorium. Several
parties demand vindication and reparation for
the wrongs committed
against them by the French government during
Algeria's War of
Independence, from 1954-62. Cohen's lecture will
examine how
these demands compare with other attempts to address
wrongs of
the past.
The School of Music presents
Francois Poulenc's opera Dialogues
of the Carmelites, on Nov. 8 and
10 at Kimball Recital Hall.
The opera is based on the lives of a
group of Carmelite nuns
during the French Revolution.
French Week is sponsored by the American Association of Teachers
of French to celebrate the contribution of the French-speaking
world in the arts, in international affairs and culture. For
information, call Marshall Olds, professor of modern languages
and
literatures, at 472-3770 or the department office, 472-3745.
Skiing, Knee
Injuries & Physical Therapy
The University Health
Center provides physical therapists
to evaluate injuries, such as
tearing the anterior cruciate ligament
in the knee, which is the
most common serious skiing injury.
That injury usually requires
surgical reconstruction followed
by several months of physical
therapy. A physical therapist can
recommend preseason exercise
activities to help minimize the
risk of injury while skiing. For
those who have torn their ACLs,
physical therapists are also
available on campus to guide them
through pre-surgery and
post-surgery rehabilitation.
If you have questions or wish
to make an appointment, call
the UHC Physical Therapy Department at
472-7490.
Prairie Pines to
benefit UNL programs
By Steven W. Ress, UNL Water
Center
A recently donated parcel of native prairie and
forest land
northeast of Lincoln will provide both educational and
research
benefits to UNL.
Prairie Pines, 145 acres of
diverse, natural woodlands and
grasslands at North 112th and Adams
streets, was donated to the
University of Nebraska Foundation
several years ago by Walt and
Virginia Bagley. Last year the
Bagleys transferred management
of the property to the university's
Institute of Agriculture
and Natural Resources and School of
Natural Resource Sciences.
"One of the prime goals is
to partner with others to
fully develop uses for it that will
benefit UNL students and
faculty, as well as citizens of the
state," said extension
wildlife specialist Ron Johnson, member
of a committee studying
Prairie Pines management, use and funding
issues. "It's
a pleasant set of challenges to
ponder."
Options under consideration include
developing the property
as a natural resources education and
research center for UNL,
other educational institutions,
conservation groups and individuals,
as well as for UNL classes and
research, K-12 school groups,
summer classes for teachers, programs
for acreage owners, recreational
use, historic re-enactments,
retreats and organically grown produce,
Johnson said.
"We want to partner with as many organizations as possible
that share a common vision of developing this unique resource
into
the premier educational and research facility it ultimately
can
be," he said.
A Prairie Pines Endowment Fund to help
achieve those goals
has been established.
The Prairie
Pines committee includes representatives from
the Lower Platte
South NRD, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission,
Nebraska
Environmental Trust, Lincoln Parks and Recreation Department
and
UNL's SNRS, Nebraska Statewide Arboretum, Nebraska Forest
Service
and Department of Agronomy and Horticulture.
Walt Bagley, a
retired UNL research forester, donated Prairie
Pines to UNL to
protect it from development and to help preserve
the natural
habitats of the surrounding Stevens Creek watershed
for the benefit
of UNL and the people of Nebraska.
Prairie Pines was
farmland when the Bagleys bought it in 1959.
Over the next 40 years
they converted much of it into a natural
arboretum and
environmental refuge. The property now has 70 acres
of diverse
woodlands and grasslands containing more than 200
species of woody
plants; 30 acres of seeded prairie grasses,
wildflowers and
riparian areas; 10 acres of virgin prairie; two
houses, a barn, an
arboretum and outbuildings.
Several years ago the Bagleys
developed a plan to donate Prairie
Pines to the NU Foundation to be
used for research and educational
purposes by the Institute of
Agriculture and Natural Resources
and the School of Natural
Resource Sciences. In 1992 the Bagleys
donated about half the
property to the foundation for use by
the university. At that time,
Walt Bagley volunteered to oversee
the site. This fall, the Bagleys
made arrangements to donate
the remainder of Prairie Pines, except
their residence, and the
university has assumed daily management of
the property.
Individuals or groups that want to get
involved or visit Prairie
Pines for educational or research
purposes should call Kyle Hoagland,
director of the School of
Natural Resource Sciences, at 472-9873,
or Johnson at 472-6823.
A bite of prehistory
Shane Tucker, vertebrate
paleontology preparator, shows the
jaw of a stegomastodon to Lucy
Kometscher, 6, and her sister
Zelie, 4, during the Friends' Open
House at the University of
Nebraska State Museum collections area
Oct. 18 in Nebraska Hall.
At the open house, guests were able to
view many collections
not normally seen by the public. Photo by Richard
Wright.
Series studies effects of
welfare reform
Researchers will present their research of
the effects of
the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities
Act of 1996
in a UNL lecture series, "Children, Families and
Welfare
Reform." Lectures begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska
Union.
On Nov. 11, Rebekah Levine Coley, assistant
professor of applied
developmental and educational psychology at
Boston College, will
speak on "The Impact of Maternal Welfare
and Employment
Transitions on Children's Well-Being: A Look at
Family Process."
Two lectures complete the series:
Ariel Kalil of the Harris
School of Public Policy Studies at the
University of Chicago
will speak Nov. 25. Hiro Yoshikawa, assistant
professor of psychology
at New York University, will speak Dec.
2.
For information, call 472-9330.
More Than 1,400 Expected
for 13th Annual Math Day
High school mathematicians from
across Nebraska will be on
campus Nov. 14 for UNL's 13th annual
Math Day. More than 1,400
students from 104 high schools have
registered for the event,
and this year's attendance numbers could
eclipse the Math Day
records set in 1999 of 1,434 students and 103
high schools.
Math Day begins at 8 a.m. with opening
ceremonies at the Lied
Center, followed by one individual and two
team competitions
in the Nebraska Union. It concludes with award
ceremonies in
the Nebraska Union at about 4 p.m.
All
students will start with a multiple-choice preliminary
exam called
PROBE I (Problems Requiring Original and Brilliant
Effort). The top
three men and women on PROBE I will receive
trophies, with the top
50 moving on to take the PROBE II essay
exam. The top 10 on PROBE
II will be awarded a total of $34,000
in four-year scholarships to
UNL.
The first team competition is determined by adding the
top
scores from each school on PROBE I. The second team competition
is a double-elimination tournament pitting three member teams
against each other in a quiz bowl format. Team competitions are
contested in four classes determined by school enrollment.
Writer to Read
from Fiction Works
Writer Pat Alderete will read from her
fiction at 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 6 in the Dudley Bailey Library, 228
Andrews Hall. The event
is free.
Her short stories
have been published in Joteria and PEN Center
Journal and have been
anthologized in "Hers 2" and
"Hers 3," and in
"Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian
Latino Arts Anthology
1988-2000."
Alderete's one-act play, "Ghost and
the Spirit,"
was produced as a staged reading in 1997, and her
one-woman performance,
"Tina Gets Married," was produced
in 1999. Her essay,
"Riots," appears in the 2002
anthology, "Geography
of Rage: Remembering the Los Angeles
Riots of 1992." She
is at work on a book of short fiction
about Chicano life in East
Los Angeles, where she was born and
raised. In 2000, Alderete
was a guest artist at UNL, where she
lectured and read her work.
The reading is sponsored at UNL
by the Institute for Ethnic
Studies; the Committee on Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual, and Transgender
Concerns; Women's Studies; Convocations;
and the English Department
and Creative Writing Program. A
reception will follow, and books
will be for sale.
NIMEC Conference
Nov. 15 and 16
The second annual NIMEC Conference will be
Nov. 15 and 16
at the Nebraska Union. The theme of this cultural
event is "Embracing
Stronger Community through Cultural
Exchange."
Participants will experience many cultures
of the world through
interactive workshops, informative
presentations and a keynote
address by Janet Lu titled
"Diversity: A Way of Life."
The conference also provides
a safe place to discuss the issues
that individuals from these
cultures face.
This conference was the winner of last
year's Chancellor's
Award for Educational and Entertaining Program
of the Year. This
year's conference also will contribute to the
university's goal
of creating a more diverse educational experience
for its students,
faculty and staff. The conference opens with a
welcome event
Friday evening and continues through Saturday.
Students from
outside of Lincoln may stay with host families over
the weekend.
Information and a participant registration
form can be found
on the Web site, http://www.unl.edu/FoFStu/nimec,
or by e-mailing unlnimec@yahoo.com.
Examination Services - Final Exam
Scoring
Final exams for the fall semester will be Dec.
16-20. Faculty
members who plan to have final exams scored by
Examination Services
and are using the service for the first time
should call Cindy
Knight, 472-9763, or Peg Johnson, 472-2611, to
obtain the scheduling
form. Current Exam Services users will
receive an e-mail with
a blank final letter form to schedule their
finals. If participants
have exams scheduled for after 3 p.m. Dec.
20, they should call
Knight for more information on exam
scoring.
Exam Services will observe the scheduled
university holiday
closedown beginning Dec. 21. All exams must be
picked up by 4
p.m. Dec. 20. Regular office hours will resume at 8
a.m. Jan.
2.
For more information or answers to other
questions about the
scheduling of final exam scoring, call Exam
Services at the numbers
listed above.
Fidelity Individual
Counseling Sessions For November
A Fidelity consultant
will be on campus Nov. 12 in the Nebraska
Union and Nov. 13 at the
Nebraska East Union to provide free
one-on-one counseling sessions
regarding investment planning
issues. The room will be posted.
Sign up by calling Reservation Systems in Boston at (800)
642-7131.
Hotel Reservation Information
UNL Travel Services is
notifying travelers that hotels are
cracking down on no-shows by
requiring guests to give more notice
- as much as 72 hours in some
cases - when canceling reservations.
Policies vary by hotel, even
within a chain, and can often vary
by day or month. For more
information, call UNL Travel Services
at 486-4111.
Meal Allowance
Update
Updated meal allowance amounts have been posted on
the university's
accounting web page. Please use these updated
rates effective
with any travel on or after Oct. 1. Reimbursements
for meals
that exceed the federal rates are considered taxable
income to
the employee unless supporting documentation is provided.
For
information, call Jim Treat at 472-2881.
The
updated tables can be found at: http://www.unl.edu/unaccweb/
t-irs.htm.
Women's
Studies Colloquium Nov. 11
The UNL Women's Studies
Colloquium,"Surviving as a Feminist
Activist Beyond Women's
Studies," begins at 3:30 p.m. Nov.
11 in the Nebraska Union.
Join faculty and students in the women's
studies program for a
discussion with Marcee Metzger, director
of the Rape/Spouse Abuse
Crisis Center of Lincoln and the first
Melba Cope Women's Studies
Community Associate.
Metzger will discuss her career path
and address these questions:
How do we make use of women's studies
scholarship in our lives
beyond the university? If we believe in
social change and activism,
how do we build those beliefs into our
lives as students, family
members and citizens in the communities
in which we live? How
do we continue to engage in feminist activism
despite frustrations
and setbacks?
Metzger has been
working to end violence against women and
children since 1976. She
began as an undergraduate at UNL on
the Rape Crisis Line. She
assisted in writing the grant to create
a spouse abuse crisis line
at Open Door Health Center, a program
of Family Services
Association. She was the first program director
for that project,
in 1978. She also worked at a battered women's
shelter in
California and was the coordinator of UNL's Women's
Resource
Center. Metzger did a graduate assistantship at UNL
as an
interpersonal violence counselor and became the executive
director
at the Rape Spouse Abuse Crisis Center when it incorporated
as an
independent agency in 1989. She continues to hold this
position.
She is active in numerous local, national and international
organizations related to her work.
E-news process for e-mail to all
E-News is a weekly compilation of notices distributed to all
faculty and staff and replaces the "e-mail to all"
system. The deadline for submission is 5 p.m. Monday; E-News
is
distributed Tuesday evenings. Submitted items must be sponsored
by
a UNL department, program or organization. No commercial or
personal announcements are allowed. Announcements must have news
rather than opinion content. Submit items to: http://www.unl.edu/e-news.
To view a sample e-news, see: http://www.unl.edu/e-news/sa
mple.html.
Previously announced URL links are still
active but the above
are updated links.
Text Studies Lecture Nov. 7
A
public lecture sponsored by Text Studies, "Cutting
a Gordian
Knot: Scholars, Publishers, Librarians and the Keys
to the
Kingdom," will begin at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 7 in Bailey
Library,
228 Andrews Hall. The speaker is John Unsworth, associate
professor
of English and director of the Institute for Advanced
Technology in
the Humanities at the University of Virginia.
For more
information, e-mail Susan Belasco at sbelasco@unl.edu
or Marshall
Olds at molds@unl.edu.
Holiday closedown information
UNL will be closed for the holidays from Dec. 21 to Jan. 1.
Staff and faculty will return to work Jan. 2.
Employees are
reminded that in order to receive all of these
days off as paid
time, they will need to take two days of vacation
during the
closedown. Four floating holidays acquired during
the 2002 year and
the holidays of Christmas and New Year's Day
will cover most of the
time off during the closedown. Two vacation
days are required to
cover the additional two days.
For more information, call
Human Resources at 472-3101.
Large Passenger-Van Training
An additional class of
Large Passenger-Van Training has been
scheduled for 10 a.m. to noon
Nov. 19 at the Nebraska Union.
To register for training,
call Environmental Health and Safety
at 472-4925 or email ehs@unl.edu.
The large-van
policy can be found at http:
//transportation.unl.edu/travel_programs.html#Large_Van.
Only
UNL faculty, staff and students age 21 and over may drive
a large
passenger-van.
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