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1-18-2005 Memos 1/20/05USAC town meeting will stream on Web The University Staff Advisory Committee’s winter town meeting with President Karen Holbrook will take place from noon-1 p.m. on Jan. 24 in the Moritz College of Law’s Saxbe Auditorium. Bill Shkurti, senior vice president for business and finance, Barbara Snyder, executive vice president and provost, and Larry Lewellen, associate vice president for human resources, will join the president for the discussion. For the first time, staff who cannot attend the meeting in person can view a streaming video in real time on the Web at http://streaming.service.ohio-state.edu/live3.htm and can e-mail questions to the president at townmeeting@osu.edu. Ohio State Newark is participating in a USAC pilot program to provide an audio and video link at a regional campus. Newark staff can attend the town meeting via video link in 225 Reese Center. For details about the Newark feed, contact John Crissinger at crissinger.5@osu.edu. For town meeting details, call 688-8722, e-mail usac@osu.edu or visit the Web at usac.osu.edu.
Volunteers are needed to present one to two-hour hands-on workshops to small groups of girls in grades seven-10, or to escort girls to their classes. The workshops will take place at 9:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. For further details, contact Raquel Diaz-Sprague at 268-1488, diaz-sprague.1@osu.edu or visit the Web at www.awisco.ohio-state.edu.
The ViewPoint Bistro, operated by Human Ecology’s Hospitality Management students, has reopened for winter quarter at the Drake Performance and Event Center. The first theme week begins Jan. 24, featuring positively pink specialty items, such as Raspberry Lemonade and Strawberry Parfait. The ViewPoint also will accept donations on behalf of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Hours are 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Mon.-Fri. and 4:30-7 p.m. Tues.-Thurs. Dinner is by reservation only. For details or reservations, call 247-7873 or e-mail coordinator Jill Gladman at gladman.10@osu.edu.
The University Staff Advisory Committee, an advisory body to the president on non-academic, staff-related issues and concerns, is accepting applications for the 2005 term. Members have the opportunity to serve on a number of university wide and special-purpose committees, task forces and groups. The average time commitment is 15-20 hours per month. The application deadline is Feb. 4. For more information or an application, contact hartzell.2@osu.edu, greenhalge.2@osu.edu or visit the Web at http://usac.osu.edu.
The policy allows staff to enroll in a maximum of 10 academic credit hours per quarter, however OHR recently audited this program and found a significant number of staff are exceeding the designated credit hour limit. In response, a “Credit Hour Maximum” section was added to the revised policy to clarify when staff can request an exception and to help identify specific situations when an exception may be appropriate and outline the appeal process for staff requesting an exception to the 10 credit hour limit. Staff who wish to request an exception for spring quarter should file a written appeal by Feb. 11, with the OHR Benefits office. In addition, a “Request for Course Enrollment During Regularly Scheduled Work Hours” form must now be completed by staff taking a course that overlaps or conflicts with their regularly scheduled work hours.
The 2004-05 Total Compensation Statements have been printed and are scheduled to be distributed to employees by the Office of Human Resources (OHR) no later than Jan. 31. The statements were produced for faculty and staff who held an eligible regular appointment of 50 percent FTE or greater as of Oct. 1, 2004. Employees who were hired after that date will not receive a total compensation statement. The statements provide specific information about the employee’s total compensation amount, including current health care benefits, retirement plan benefits, life insurance, salary and much more as of Oct. 1, 2004. The total compensation amount will include the university’s contributions toward all benefit plans, descriptions of the benefits that employees and their dependents were enrolled in as of Oct. 1 and other benefits that the university offers.
Philip M. Dobard, general director of Opera Columbus, will moderate a roundtable discussion at 11:30 a.m. Jan. 30 at the Faculty Club to preview the upcoming production of the American opera, Suzannah. The discussion is free to the public at 11:30 a.m., and the club’s monthly Sunday brunch, served from 11 a.m.-2 p.m., is open to both club members and non-members.
ASIMO, Honda’s humanoid robot, will be visiting the Ohio State campus for a series of technology demonstrations at the Thurber Theater in the Drake Performance and Event Center. Demonstrations will be held at 2:30 p.m. Jan. 28, and 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Jan. 29. ASIMO is visiting some of the top engineering and computer science schools across the nation, highlighting real-world applications of science and engineering disciplines. In a 25-minute live, high-tech stage show, ASIMO will entertain and inspire with its unique ability to walk, talk, dance and climb stairs just like a human. Honda engineers and College of Engineering faculty conducting research in robotics will be on hand to answer questions. For details, visit http://asimo.honda.com/ASIMO_DCTM/Events/Pre-Event_0029.asp.
Financial Training and Documentation, part of the Office of the Controller, is offering a sequence of free workshops on the university’s financial policies and procedures, to be presented in 231 Mount Hall.
The Jefferson Academy of Music Sunday Afternoons Chamber Music Series will kickoff with a 2 p.m. Jan. 23 concert at the Columbus Museum of Art Auditorium, 480 E. Broad St., featuring the Merling Trio, an international assemblage of performers including Renata Artman, violin, Bruce Uchimura, cello, and Susan Weirsma, piano. A pre-concert docent-led tour of the museum exhibits will begin at 1:15 p.m., and audience members will receive discounts in the Museum Shop and the Palette Restaurant. Future Sunday Afternoons Chamber Music events will feature Cleveland Orchestra Concertmaster William Preucil and his Lanier Piano Trio, and former principal flute of the Los Angeles Philharmonic James Walker and his classical-jazz ensemble, Free Flight. For details or to order tickets, call Ruth Triplett Haddock at 292-2693, or e-mail jeffacad@osu.edu.
Carol Silverman, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon, will discuss “Women and the Romani Human Rights Struggle: Perspectives from Eastern Europe” from 4:30-6 p.m. Jan. 27 in 120 Mershon Center. A reception will follow the lecture, which is presented by OSU-WID, the Mershon Center and the Office of International Affairs-CIRIT, and made possible by the “International Conference on Culture Circulation: The Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas” and a grant from the Mershon Center. For details, e-mail rakowski.1@osu.edu.
Herbert Muschamp, New York Times writer and renowned architecture critic, will speak at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 26 in the Knowlton Hall Auditorium as part of the Winter 2005 Knowlton School of Architecture (KSA) Lecture Series. The KSA Lecture Series continues at 6 p.m. Feb. 2 with a visit by New Mexico architect Antoine Predock to speak at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, 400 N. High St. Predock designed the Recreation and Physical Activity Center being built at OSU, and has won many awards for his work, including two National Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). For details, contact Amy Carey at 247-7244, carey.189@osu.edu or visit the Web at http://knowlton.osu.edu.
Martin Lammon, a nationally acclaimed poet and editor, will present a poetry and creative nonfiction reading of his works at noon Jan. 24, in the Alber Student Center Lobby at Ohio State Marion. The free event is open to the public. Lammon earned his B.A. at Wittenberg University and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Ohio University, and is the Flannery O’Connor Chair in Creative Writing at Georgia College and State University, where he directs the Creative Writing Program. He recently completed a memoir about living in the Caribbean Costa Rican town of Cahuita called Nine Degrees North. His collection of poems, News from Where I Live, won the Arkansas Poetry Award. For details, visit the Web at www.marion.ohio-state.edu/.
The Wexner Center is accepting entries for its 10th annual Ohio Short Film and Video Showcase, to be held April 30. The deadline for entries is March 25. Last year’s crowd viewed 20 works by artists from all over Ohio. For further details or an entry form, contact David Filipi at 688-3261 or dfilipi@wexarts.org. \0
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