March 7, 1997

Missing Link

The link between Oldfather Hall and Bessey Hall will be closed through the summer as renovation construction takes place, according to Howard Parker, manager of Architectural and Engineering Services. The current phase of the project includes the replacement of the curtain wall as well as replacement of the glazing and framing. (Photo by Richard Wright)

Severe Weather Awareness Week March 17-21

Severe Weather Awareness Week will be March 17-21. The statewide tornado watch/warning test will be March 19. The simulated watch will be issued at 10:30 a.m. and the simulated warning about 10:40 a.m.

UNL will participate with the Office of Civil Defense and test its systems when the outdoor sirens are sounded. All faculty, staff, students and visitors are requested to participate in the test to refamiliarize themselves with the locations of their designated shelters and the procedures to follow should UNL be struck by a tornado. When the warning is sounded, all personnel on campus should proceed to the designated shelter area.

The designated shelter area is displayed on orange posters located throughout all UNL buildings.

Here are some reminders:

A tornado Watch means that conditions are right for tornadoes to form. A tornado Warning means that a tornado has been spotted on the ground or is approaching the vicinity.
When a tornado warning has been issued, the University Operator will activate the internal building alarms at the same time Civil Defense sounds the outdoor sirens. The internal alarm is an intermittent signal that sounds at six-second intervals. The initial warning tones continue for five minutes. It will then silence. If after five more minutes, UNL is still under a warning, the internal signal will be reactivated for one minutes. This process, one-minute of intermittent tones followed by five minutes of silence, continues until the threat has passed.
Do Not take the one-minute signal as an "all clear" message. The official "all clear" will only be given over the radio. Do not assume that if the signal stops for more than five minutes that all danger has passed. There may be a system malfunction that could make it inoperable.

For more information, call Bruce Bernt at 472-2131.

Tornado Awareness Training March 12

All faculty, staff and students are invited to attend one of two identical training sessions on "Tornado Awareness," scheduled for 10:30 a.m. in the Nebraska Union and again at 1 p.m. in the East Union on March 12. These sessions will be presented by the Civil Defense Office of Lincoln/Lancaster County.

The purpose is to increase knowledge and awareness of tornadoes and the proper action to take should a tornado strike UNL. The information presented will be relevant to your safety at home as well.

For more information, call Bruce Bernt at 472-2131.

UAAD to Host Panel Discussion on Building Projects

The UAAD March General Membership Meeting will host a panel of experts to discuss building and renovation projects in Lincoln and on the UNL campus. The meeting will be from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 19 in the Wick Alumni Center.

The panel discussion, "UNL Growth, Renovation and Getting Along with Downtown," will offer participants a "peek" behind the plastic and plywood screens at construction sites.

Following the March business meeting, the panel discussion will focus on the many building and renovation projects at UNL as well as a discussion about how the growth of the university and downtown is changing their mutual relationship.

The panel will consist of Ed Zimmer, City of Lincoln historic planner; Daryl Swanson, director of the Nebraska Union; Tad McDowell, manager of Parking and Transit Services; and Larry Blake, assistant project manager at Facilities Management. There will be time for questions from the audience following presentations by the panelists.

Gospel Group Founder Presents Third Annual Lincoln Lecture Series

Distinguished professor of history, author, and professional musician, Bernice Johnson Reagon, will speak at the annual Abraham Lincoln Lectures March 9-13.

Reagon is scheduled to conduct five lectures under the title, If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: African American Sacred Song and Migration Culture.

Throughout the presentations, Reagon will explore the sacred song culture that accompanied traveling Black Americans in their historical search for home.

All five lectures listed below are free and open to the public:

March 9, 7:30 p.m., Kimball Hall - Twentieth Century Gospel: As the People Moved, They Sang a New Song, with the Lincoln Community Gospel Choir.
March 10, 7:30 p.m., Clyde Malone Community Center, 2032 U Street - Deacon William Reardon, Master Song Leader, and the South Carolina Prayer Band Tradition.
March 11, 7:30 p.m., Kimball Hall - The African American Quartet Tradition.
March 12, 7:30 p.m., St. Paul Methodist Church, 1144 M Street - The Fisk Jubilee Singers and the African American Concert Tradition: The Song Culture of African American Education, with the St. Paul Chancel Choir, Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir, and members of the Newman United Methodist Church Choir.
March 13, 4 p.m., Kimball Hall - My Black Mothers and Sisters in Song. A public reception will follow in Kimball Hall.

Reagon's visit is sponsored by the University of Nebraska Press, the Athletic Department, College of Arts & Sciences, College of Fine & Performing Arts, Teachers College, and Office of Affirmative Action & Diversity Programs of the University of Nebraska.

Reagon's Lincoln appearances will culminate in her March 15 performance with Sweet Honey in the Rock at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.

Bernice Johnson Reagon is a professor of history at the American University in Washington, D.C. She has degrees from Spelman College and Howard University and is the recipient of a Macarthur Fellowship. She is curator emeritus at the National Museum of American History, and has worked at the Smithsonian Institution for more than 20 years.

Events Highlight Women's Week March 9-15

The following events have been scheduled to coincide with the upcoming Women's Week, March 9-15:

March 9, 2-5 p.m., Women Creating Quilt Project, The Culture Center. All women and men are welcome to be a part of this event. No prior sewing experience is required. Materials will be provided.
March 10, noon, brown bag lunch with Robin Becker, The Women's Center, room 338. Becker will also give a poetry reading at 7 p.m. in 228 Andrews Hall. Becker is an award-winning poet and author of All-American Girl.
March 11, 12:30 p.m., Creative Power with Glenda Dietrich, The Women's Center, room 338. An opportunity for everyone to be creative with paints.
March 11, 3:30 p.m., Habitat for Humanity, The Women's Center, room 338. Led by Lynne Camp of Habitat for Humanity, learn more about the Lincoln chapter of Habitat for Humanity's Women's House.
March 11, 5 p.m., Women, The Culture Center. A one-woman play performed and directed by Ebru Gokdag.
March 12, 12:30 p.m., brown bag lunch with Karen Dunning, owner of Business Media Inc., The Women's Center, room 338.
March 12, 7 p.m., Storytelling with Karen Libman, The Culture Center.
March 13, 12:30 to 1 p.m., Moira Ferguson, The Women's Center, room 338. Midwifing Women's Studies: The History of The Women's Studies Program at UNL, presented by Ferguson, professor of English at UNL.
March 13, 6:30 p.m., Marcella Gilbert, The Culture Center. A demonstration and discussion of Native American dance.
March 13, 9 p.m., Comedian Renee Hicks, Bald to Blond Tour, the Crib, Nebraska Union.
March 14, 12:30 p.m., Jane Gilmor, East Union. This multimedia artist will give a slide presentation of her work titled, From the Women's Art Movement to Art in the Public Interest: The All American Glamor Kitty Turns 50. This presentation is part of the "No Limits" keynote luncheon. Call the Women's Center, 472-2597, for more information.
March 14-15, 9-5 p.m., No Limits Conference, East Union. Transgenderism: Negotiating Gender Boundaries is the theme. Call the Women's Studies Program, 472-9392, for more information.

Lanham to Discuss Electronic Texts

Richard Lanham, professor emeritus of English at UCLA and author of the landmark book, The Electronic Word, will lecture March 19 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on how the transition of text from the printed to electronic form affects university disciplines and teaching practices.

"Richard Lanham has established himself as the expert on the profound effect electronic expression has on the arts and letters," said Laura White, assistant dean in the UNL College of Arts and Sciences. "Teachers are only beginning to understand the dramatic changes that new technologies will bring about in the classroom. Professor Lanham's ideas encourage us to embrace the challenges we face in applying new teaching tools and methods."

Lanham's multimedia presentation, "Digital Literacy and University Disciplines," begins at 8 p.m. in the auditorium of Love Library. It is free and open to the public.

In his latest book, The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts, Lanham discussed how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of 20th-century visual art and music, how it democratizes the expressive instruments of art and how it will revolutionize the university curriculum. This work builds on Lanham's 35-year career of teaching English at Dartmouth College and UCLA and his solid publishing record, which includes nine books of literary criticism and prose stylistics.

Lanham's visit is sponsored by Textual Studies and Applications in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Forums to Gather Input for NCAA Certification

Two forums open to students, faculty and staff of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have been scheduled to gather information for the NCAA certification self-study.

The forums will take place from 4 to 5:30 p.m. March 12 in the Wick Alumni Center and from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 19 in the Nebraska East Union.

In December, the university began a year-long, campuswide effort to study its department of intercollegiate athletics as part of the NCAA Division I athletic certification program. Certification ensures integrity in the institution's athletic operations. Information for the self-study will be gathered through a variety of methods in addition to the two open forums and will be used in preparation for a site visit of an external review team reporting to the NCAA.

"We want to hear about both the good news and the areas where change might benefit our athletics program," said Joan Laughlin, chair of the NCAA certification study steering committee. "We're here to listen and gather information."

Joining Laughlin in listening at the open forum will be representatives from the self-study subcommittees of academic integrity, fiscal integrity, governance and rules, and commitment to equity.

All members of the campus community are encouraged to participate.

Entrepreneurship Center Forms Partnership with Howard University

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship has formed a partnership with the Howard University School of Business to promote international trade between small- and medium-sized enterprises in the Asia Pacific Economic Community.

In a three-year program funded by the U.S. Information Agency, Nebraska and Howard will work cooperatively with the MARA Institute of Technology in Malaysia and the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines.

Sang Lee, professor and chair of management in UNL's College of Business Administration; Robin Anderson, director of the Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship; and Baron Harvey, dean of the Howard School of Business, will direct the U.S. side of the program to coordinate collaborative research and education programs in the United States, Malaysia and the Philippines. The project will include faculty and student exchanges among all four institutions.

Anderson said the program will combine the resources of a diverse group of institutions - Nebraska, a land-grant university in a state with a rural American tradition; Howard, an urban, traditionally black university in Washington, D.C., with over 90 percent minority student population; the MARA Institute with a predominantly Muslim student population; and the Asian Institute with student population from all Asian countries.

This diversity, he said, will provide a broad spectrum of perspectives for looking and barriers and opportunities for small and medium enterprises in international trade.

"As trade barriers are reduced and communication technologies improve, the majority of trade will shift from large global corporations to the smaller businesses who can more rapidly change to meet customer demands," Anderson said. "Our goal at Nebraska is to better prepare our students and to assist Nebraska businesses to be participants in trade in the APEC region."

Sue Tidball Award

The 16th Annual Sue Tidball Award Celebration for the UNL campus community will be at 7 p.m. March 16 in the main sanctuary of St. Mark's on-the-Campus Episcopal Church.

The Sue Tidball Award for Creative Humanity honors persons from the UNL campus who are nominated by their peers for making significant contributions to the development of a humane, open, caring, educationally creative and just community on the campus.

Eleven nominees will be publicly recognized and honored, and one or more will be named award recipients.

The March 16 program will include the traditional appearance of the Local Folks String Band, and will feature poetry readings by William Kloefkorn.

For more information, call Larry Doerr at 421-8799.

Building Permits Provide Vital Information

Bright yellow UNL building permits are posted at university construction projects to inform the university community of the following:

UNL Construction Inspector's name.
Description of the work.
Phone numbers to inquire about the project or report an emergency.

University construction projects are processed through Facilities Management to ensure that building and life safety codes are adhered to for the protection of faculty, staff and students. In addition, our professional staff ensure that projects comply with university planning and design standards, insurance requirements, contracting policies and university policies and procedures regarding construction projects. Building permits indicate the construction project is authorized by the university and complies with safety and regulatory requirements.

For more information on building permits, call the Facilities Management manager of architectural and engineering services at 472-4810.

Collaborative Quilt Project Begins March 9

To honor the spirit and traditions of women's creativity The Women's Center invites all people to join them as they begin a collaborative quilt project from 2 to 5 p.m. March 9 in the Culture Center, 333 N. 14th St.

After Lincoln teacher and quilter Ruth Kupfer demonstrates different quilting techniques, participants will stitch together the three layers of the Women Creating Quilt. There will be ample opportunity to improvise and be creative with a variety of threads and beads. All participants will be able to plan future work and additions to the quilt.

No previous sewing experience is required. All materials will be provided.

Pre-registration is requested, but not required. For more information or to register, call The Women's Center at 472-2597.

Hiring Foreign Faculty?

If a unit is planning to hire new faculty other than United States citizens or permanent residents of the U.S., 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 for immigration at 472-5358. It can take up to four months to obtain particular nonimmigrant visa classifications for eligible individuals.

Researcher Seeks Political Opinions

Professor Elizabeth Theiss-Morse in the Political Science Department is looking for staff to participate in a study on television and politics. The study entails filling out a survey, watching a video and then filling out a second survey. Participants will be paid $15 upon completion of the two-part study. Interested staff should go to Room 536 Oldfather Hall to fill out a survey or call 472-3221 for more information. Students and faculty are not eligible for the study.

Interior Designer Presents Hyde Lecture

James Benya, an interior designer from West Linn, Ore., will give a Hyde Lecture on lighting at 4:30 p.m. March 11 in the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery auditorium.

SIS Training March 20

Training for the Student Information System will be from 2:30 to 4 p.m. March 20 in the Wick Alumni Center. This class will cover logging onto SIS+ and an overview of the accessible SIS+ screens. This session is offered to faculty and staff free of charge. Since space is limited, registration is required. For more information or to register, send e-mail to sistrain@unl.edu or call Suzan Manthey at 472-9865.

UNOPA Meeting Features AT&T Exec

Jack Majewski, vice president of the AT&T Executive Briefing Center will be the guest speaker when UNOPA meets from 11:45 to 1 p.m. March 11 in the Nebraska Union Centennial Room. He will address "The Exciting Future of Telecommunication Technology."

Majewski has worked in various areas including Advance 800 Services Projects, Network Reliability Planning and Service Concepts Planning. He is currently a "subject matter expert" at AT&T's Executive Briefing Center in Bedminster, N.J. AT&T's Plan 2000 is the result of extensive market research to understand what will drive customer decisions in the future, what technology will be available to satisfy needs in the next three to five years and how the networking of today can successfully usher in the networking of the future.

For more information or reservations, contact Karen Green at 472-4688.

Computing Network Updates March 12-13

The Networking Division of Information Services will host a meeting for interested faculty and staff to discuss issues related to the campus computing network, NUnet. The session will discuss changes to the network that have occurred over the past year, future directions that the network will take, and will address any questions.

The first meeting will be from 10 to 11:30 a.m. March 12 at the East Union, followed by a similar session from 1 to 2:30 p.m. March 13 at the Nebraska Union. For additional information, contact Tracy at 472-5434.

Human Resources March Events

The following upcoming events are sponsored by the UNL Department of Human Resources:

New Employee Orientation

March 11, 9 a.m., Nebraska Union;
March 27, 1:30 p.m., Nebraska Union.

Call the UNL Employment Office at 472-2120 or the main UNL Human Resources Office at 472-3101 for more information. All UNL employees are welcome. Registration is recommended but not required.

EAP Brown Bag
Topic: "Moving from Dreams to Reality: Where do You want to be in Your Job, Career, Your Life?"

March 13, noon - 1 p.m., East Union;
March 27, noon - 1 p.m., Nebraska Union.

A practical and realistic presentation designed to inspire you to try new techniques and ideas toward realizing your dreams. Presented by Eureka Daye, EAP counselor. Registration is not required. Call EAP at 472-3107 for more information.

Human Resources Brown Bag
Topic: "My Career at UNL: What Do I Do Next?"

March 17, noon - 1 p.m., Nebraska Union;
March 21, noon - 1 p.m., East Union.

Want to talk about job reclassification or promotion? Need help with resumes, interviewing, and other career-growth skills? Join Roshan Pajnigar, manager of Classification, Compensation, and Employment at UNL, to discuss these issues. Call Human Resources at 472-3101 for more information. Registration is not required.

Customer Service Workshop
"The Customer is Always the Customer"

March 20, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m., Nebraska Union.

If you want to be known as the person who always comes through, who goes way beyond what your customers expect, and who does what it takes and more to help your customer, join us for this session. Presented by Faye Moulton, assistant director of Human Resources and staff ombudsperson. Registration is required. Please phone Human Resources at 472-3101.

Mentoring Project Breakfast

April 4, 8 a.m., Nebraska Union.

A breakfast gathering for partners in UNL's Mentoring Project. Melvin Jones will be the featured speaker. Call Human Resources at 472-3101 for more information. Registration is not required.

For a complete listing of Spring 1997 events sponsored by Human Resources as well as information about holiday schedules and closedowns, visit the Human Resources web homepage at http://www.unl.edu/unlhr/ hrhomepage.html.

New Employees Hired In February

Tracy Arthaloney
Info. Serv.-Computing
David Banks
TV
David Bentz
TV
Michael Boone
Agronomy
Sandra Broman
Agronomy
Marilyn Buzby
Housing
Steve Byrn
Adm
Joyce Champoux
Geography
Angela Colliers
E. Union
Sandra Crisp
Bursar
Rebecca Faber
A&S Adv. Center
Jerome Hakel
Sponsored Programs-Finance
Peggy Hauschild
Latino & Latin American Studies
Sarah Holmes
UHC
Evguenia Ivanova
Vet. & Bio. Sci.
Eric Johnson
TV
Nancy Kenny
A&S
Andrea Kessler
Landscape Services
Mohan Khisty
Cons. & Survey Div.
Erika Kuebler
Spec. Edu. & Comm. Disorders
Jodi Mackin
SCREC
Tim McFadden
Utility Plant
Marsha Mueller
School of Music
Jill Mulligan
Student Involvement
Samir Muslic
TV
Michelle Nickels
E. Union
Evelyn Phillips
Fam. & Consumer Sci.
Victoria Piersol
Voc. & Adult Edu.
Clare Royce
Nutri. Sci. & Dietetics
David Schaecher
Fac. Mgt.
John Sutton
Fac. Mgt.
Tammi Traeger
Housing
Ina Vander Veen
State Museum
Marsie Vetter
Scholarship & Fin. Aid
Tammy Weatherly
SCREC
Gary Walton
Housing
Cheryl Wolfe
Fac. Mgt.
Teresa Worster
Voc. & Adult Edu.
Aiqiu Xing
Center for Biotechnology
Yolanda Yates
Adm
Jeff Young
E. Union

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