Division Doodles

TAKING INVENTORY
Mary Schmidt (who is conducting the inventory this month) wanted to make sure you all noted that:
If you move your office or relocate equipment to another location in the future, please let her know right away so she can update the inventory list immediately. That way when the list comes around each year for you to check, it will already be as accurate as possible.

Please look over the check list for your area and get it back to Mary on or before April 15.
Thanks!

DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME AND YOUR CALENDAR!
I would like to remind everyone in the Division that Daylight Saving Time change is this weekend. On March 9, 2008 we will move our clocks ahead one hour and so will our calendars in Groupwise (or not). If history repeats itself, we could have problems. And the fix issued by Microsoft and Groupwise the last go around were very ineffective. So to be safe print out your calendars. If you have any questions give me a call. Thanks.

OUTAGE NOTIFICATION!
What is happening?
* All ITSS GroupWise system will be unavailable due to an operating system upgrade.

What does this affect?
* All access to the GroupWise servers housed at ITSS. This will not affect the Aerospace GroupWise. All mail will be queued during the outage and will be processed when the system becomes available.

We regret any inconvenience that may be caused by this and appreciate your patience as we work to improve our service.

University of North Dakota
Information Technology Systems and Services
(701)777-2222
ITSSHelp@mail.und.nodak.edu

Above & Beyond the Call of Duty!!

Is there someone in your program area who has gone beyond the call of duty recently? Please tell us about it by submitting it to Doodles next week!

            “I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky;
            and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.”
            —John Masefield’s Sea Fever

From Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, through Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and up to and including the writers of modern fiction and nonfiction, the sea has been the source of many metaphors and similes.

High prices for oil and agricultural commodities, which translate into higher tax revenue, have the state of North Dakota enjoying a windfall budget surplus. The writer of a recent newspaper opinion piece described this economic boom as a “‘perfect storm’ of prices and thus tax revenue.” The use of “perfect storm” (derived from the title of Sebastian Junger’s book The Perfect Storm) has gained a great deal of currency by writers as of late. However, if you use “perfect storm,” you should limit it to describing confluences of unfavorable, not favorable, events. In the preface to his book, Mr. Junger defines the “perfect storm” this way, “I use perfect in the meteorological sense: a storm that could not possibly have been worse.” His definition and the longstanding association of storm with a disturbance, an agitation, or a violent confrontation militate against its use to portray a beneficial convergence of circumstances.

In another newspaper article, a different writer depicts the transition in the North Dakota University System’s leadership as signaling “a sea of change.” (I immediately painted a mental picture of innumerable coins at the bottom of an enormous wishing well.) But, you can use sea to convey that something is as vast as a sea, in other words, a lot of changes. In the sentence that followed, the writer employed the idiomatic use of the phrase sea change to explain a significant transformation in how that system could operate. However, when Shakespeare coined the phrase, the change he described was a “rich and strange” metamorphosis, not the abrupt, momentous shift of the modern definition.

“Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Burden. Ding-dong.
Hark! Now I hear them—ding-dong bell.”
—Ariel’s song from act 1, scene 2 of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest

BOOKS NEEDED!
Start your Spring cleaning early!
The Friends of the GF Public Library are in desperate need of donated books, especially fiction.

The Grand Forks Public Library is supported by County dollars and donations. Please consider donating your gently used books. I'm sure they would take any type of books. I would collect any books you'd like to donate. Please send them to me by Monday, March 17 and I'll deliver them to the Library.

CLAY JENKINSON TO APPEAR AS THOMAS JEFFERSON MARCH 14
Clay Jenkinson, a cultural commentator, humanities scholar and author, will be on campus celebrating UND's 125th Anniversary as Thomas Jefferson, his alter ego.
* Friday, March 14, 10-11 a.m. - Thomas Jefferson and the Founding of the University of Virginia, River Valley Room in the Memorial Union.
* Friday, March 14, 1:30-2:30 p.m. - Panel discussion on the future of education in North Dakota, featuring Clay Jenkinson. Panel members to be announced later. A reception will follow at 2:30 with refreshments.

Clay S. Jenkinson adopts the persona of Jefferson each week on National Public Radio's The Thomas Jefferson Hour to comment on current events and answer questions people may have about Jefferson's thoughts on any and all topics. Clay has portrayed Thomas Jefferson for more than two decades.
For more information, please contact Jena Pierce, Director of Alumni Relations and Development, College of Education and Human Development at (701) 777-0844 or jena_pierce@und.edu.

GREAT CONVERSATIONS with SALMAN RUSHDIE

March 25 at 7:00 p.m. at the Chester Fritz Auditorium - Great Conversations with author Salman Rushdie. This event is held in conjunction with the 2008 Writers Conference. Mr. Rushdie will read from one of his novels and engage in a discussion and answer questions from the audience throughout the evening. This event is free of charge.

RECEPTION FOR SALMAN RUSHDIE
In collaboration with the UND Writers Conference, the Museum will host this year’s Presidential Lecture reception for author Salman Rushdie. Rushdie’s lecture, will begin at 7 pm at the Chester Fritz Auditorium on March 25. Immediately following the lecture the public is invited to the Museum for light fare and refreshments.

You are invited to attend Karyn Hippen's baby shower for Noah Hippen on March 11 at 4:30 p.m. (just right after work) in Skalicky 211. We will be cooling off with punch and eating dirt cake, as well as playing a couple of games for prizes (and there are "manly" prizes too)! Please join us for treats and fun. Noah will be there!

Melissa Cossel celebrated her birthday on March 3!!!

Happy Birthday to Monte Koshel who celebrates this Thursday, March 13!!