The Yellow Sheet 2003January 9, 2003 | Volume 35, Number 14
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News & AnnouncementsBudget Suggestion Feedback... President Dennis Johnson has received a large volume of messages containing suggestions for budget savings and income generation. "I am grateful to each person who responded," Johnson said. The suggestions have been grouped and categorized and each idea will be forwarded to the appropriate person or people for study. A complete report will be made available to the entire community at a later date.Mileage Rate Change... Effective Jan. 1, the standard business mileage rate is 36 cents per mile (down from 36.5 cents). The rate, established by the IRS, is used to determine how much an employee's travel expenses (when using his or her own car) are deemed substantiated when the employer provides a mileage allowance under a reimbursement or other expense allowance arrangement. Computer Operations Manager Named... David Maas of St. Peter has accepted the position of Manager of Computer Operations in the Administrative Computing Center. Maas joined Gustavus on Jan. 2. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Minnesota State University, Mankato and was formerly employed by Onan. Sign up for Feb. Health Screening... All Gustavus employees and spouses are invited to participate in the 2003 Health Screening. The free screening will be available Feb. 3-7 and Feb. 10-14 at St. Peter Community Hospital. Screening times are from 6:30-8:30 a.m. Thirty minutes of release time will be permitted. This private and confidential screening will include a blood pressure check and the collection of a small amount of blood. Individual results will be sent directly to participants and 1 copy will remain on file at the hospital. Gustavus will not see any individual results. The PSA test is also available for men. Sign up by calling human resources (x7304) between 8:30-11:30 a.m. and 1:30-4:45 p.m. on weekdays. Sponsored by Gustavus Health Promotion. Apply for a Summer Vocation Workshop... Faculty and administration members are invited to apply for a Center for Vocational Reflection (CVR) sponsored professional development workshop during the summer of 2003. In addition to providing time, space, and resources for participants to consider their own sense of self and calling, the workshop will focus on the relationship of vocation to teaching and learning and on how we can better challenge, guide, and support students in their ongoing vocational journeys. The workshop will be as follows:
Chapel Schedule... All are invited to the worship services at 10 a.m. weekdays and 10:30 a.m. Sundays in Christ Chapel. The upcoming schedule is as follows:
KUDOS:Horst Ludwig, modern foreign languages and literatures/German, had 5 English haiku published in the current Fall/Winter issue of ko, a Japanese haiku magazine published in English. Also, Ludwig had a short article comparing the causes for differences in German and American haiku criticism ("Amerika, hast du es besser, was Haiku betrifft?") and 1 haiku published in Vierteljahresschrift der Deutschen Haiku-Gesellschaft, XV, December 2002. The same issue also contains an article by Ingrid Kunschke, a prize-winning German haiku poet and critic, on 1 of Ludwig's haiku, "A child in the door," which recently won a 3rd prize at the 2002 Kumamoto Kusamakura haiku contest.Steve Mellema,
physics, is on sabbatical leave as a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the
Science University of Malaysia and delivered a plenary, invited talk, titled
"Using Physlets to Enhance Physics Teaching," at the annual symposium of
the Malaysian Institute of Physics held Dec. 21 in Kuala Lumpur.
NEW FACES:The following people have recently joined the Gustavus community:
Elizabeth Kumagai, admission David Maas, administrative computing center Paul Tillquist, institutional advancement New Support Staff
POSITION OPENINGS:
FUNDING OPPS:The Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations' weekly program or funding opportunity highlight:
IN THE MEDIA:Here are some noteworthy Gustavus-related stories that recently appeared in print or broadcast media around the nation:
HOURS:Library Hours for January are as follows: 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and noon-10 p.m. Sunday.PHONE UPDATES:The following are changes and additions for the "Personnel Phone Directory 2002-03":
lmccabe@gustavus.edu). BOOK MARK BITS:
For Sale: 1994 Mercury Villager LS Minivan in good condition with 116,000 miles. This 1-owner vehicle was driven by a retired couple. Asking $5,000. Contact Barb (btaylor@gustavus.edu or x7515) for more information. Free:
Franklin Covey compact-size, zip-around, all-leather planner binder with
3 yearly archive binders (no pages). Contact Sharon (sstevenson@thinkenvision.com
or 931-6335).
CALENDAR OF EVENTS:
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