Division Doodles

CONGRATULATIONS & FAREWELL TO DOUG!
Doug Sebenaler has accepted a new position within the University. His last day at the Division will be Friday, April 4. He has requested that there be no farewell gathering. Thank you, Doug, for all your hard work and dedication to the IT team. You have been a great colleague and friend, we wish you the very best. Good luck to you in your new job!

IT Team

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!

FACULTY APPRECIATION RECEPTION APRIL 8
DCE employees are encouraged to attend a faculty appreciation reception, Tuesday, April 8 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at the North Dakota Museum of Art. You can enjoy some musical entertainment by Jazz On Tap and some light hors d'ouevres while mingling with and thanking people who have supported Outreach Programming. There will be a short presentation at 5:15 p.m. The UND Native American Art collection will be on display in both galleries of the museum.

REMEMBER: If you take a U2 course, an academic class, or go to a conference, you need to fill out the Professional Development form found out on the S:Drive/DCE/FORMS/Professional Development. Then give it to your PAG representative. The Division keeps track of the number of hours of release time for professional development.

TEEN DRIVING
Learn why car crashes are still the leading cause of death among teens on this week’s edition of Studio One.

A study by State Farm Mutual Insurance Company found car crashes resulted in nearly 10,000 teen deaths during the past year. Decreased seatbelt use, high speed driving, and driving under the influence lead to many of the accidents. Find out how many communities are encouraging safe driving practices.

AWARD-WINNING PHOTOGRAPHER
Also on the show this week, photography and photo editing has changed greatly during the past twenty years. Award-winning photographer Chuck Kimmerle says the most significant changes to a photograph can now occur after a picture is taken. Watch as Kimmerle explains how photographs can be enhanced.

Studio One is an award-winning news and information program produced at the University of North Dakota Television Center. The program airs live on UND Channel 3 on Thursdays at 5 p.m. Re-broadcasts can be seen at 7 a.m., noon, 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. daily and on Saturdays at 10 a.m. Prairie Public Television airs Studio One on Saturday at 6 a.m. The program can also be seen by viewers in Fargo, Bismarck/Mandan and Minot, N.D.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Denver, Colo.; and Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Meghan Flaagan

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!

Musical Chairs

When is it important to know whether the leader of a committee, a board, or a university department is male or female? In most, if not all, cases, sex is not germane to the ability to lead. How do we dance around the issue of describing that leader? Do we use the term chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson? Chairman or chairwoman works well, but again, they draw attention to the sex of the leader when you should strive to keep your writing neutral.

What term do you use when you generically refer to an office of authority? The most recent solution has been to use chairperson. But that combination conjures images of a phantasmagoric, anthropomorphic entity suggestive of a character from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: a half-chair and half-human product of genetic engineering by the designers at La-Z-Boy.

What to do? How about using the term chair? Using chair would draw criticism from many circles for the same reasons that militate against using chairperson. It is literary nonsense; a person cannot be a chair. However, chair has been in use almost as long as chairman, since the middle of the seventeenth century.*

Well, if a question arises as to parliamentary procedure, the reference everyone turns to is Robert’s Rules of Order, in which you will find the use of chair to be perfectly acceptable.

An Afternoon of the Arts - April 6, 2008
The UND Art Collection has been gathered throughout the past 125 years with contributions from students, faculty, and alumni. UND’s American Indian Art Collection is the first to be catalogued and the North Dakota Museum of Art will hold an exhibition of this collection opening April 6, 2008 through June 15, 2008. An Afternoon of the Arts is planned for April 6, 2008, from 2-5 p.m., and will offer the Greater Grand Forks community an opportunity to view both collections: the American Indian art at the Museum, and the UND Art Collection at the Col. Eugene E. Myers Art Gallery in the Hughes Fine Arts Center. Walking art tours between both facilities will be conducted by art students if weather permits. Music and refreshments will be served in both locations.

The Bigger Big Event - April 12, 2008
Faculty and staff will join UND students in carrying out the Big Event, a service project for the Greater Grand Forks community sponsored by Student Government. The intent of the event is to thank our community for the many ways they have and continue to support the University of North Dakota. In the 1930s when the University was on the verge of closing because of lack of funding, Grand Forks city leaders stepped up to help and this is a way to show appreciation for this legacy of collaboration. The Big Event will be held Saturday, April 12, 2008, beginning at 9 a.m. Service organizations, governmental agencies, non-profit groups, private citizens, and others who have a project that can be completed by volunteers in one day can apply for assistance. The hope and expectation is that every applicant who has a need will be helped.

Departments who have the most volunteers helping at The Bigger Big Event can win a pizza prize for the office so gather up your colleagues and volunteer. The volunteer application form is located at Application, click on registration form.

Galen Cariveau will celebrate his birthday next week on April 3.
Laurie Robinson's birthday is next Friday, April 4.

Get ready for April Fool's Day next Tuesday!!