Down time planned for UTS services

Beginning at 5 p.m. March 17, the Ohio State Web server (www.osu.edu) will not accept ftp connections (updates from Web page owners) while files are moved to a new server. Ftp access will be restored by 10 a.m. March 20.

Browsers can still access Web pages during the changeover, except for intermittent outages that could occur on March 18 and 19 while file pointers are updated.

Beginning at 11:59 p.m. March 17, e-mail service on the UTS Postbox system and ResNet access in the residence halls will be unavailable while UTS moves equipment to new storage racks in the machine room.

Service should be restored within two hours.

Intermittent outages of all Internet services for the entire campus also will occur starting at 11:59 p.m. March 17 and lasting until 8 a.m. March 18 while software and hardware upgrades, specifically backbone routers, are installed to the campus Internet.

During this period, different parts of campus will be disconnected from access to the campus network at different times and only for brief periods, expected to be no more than 10 minutes each. Networking staff will be working on one router at a time, so only the portion of the campus connected to each router will be affected at a time.

For more technical details, contact Jim Tufano at 292-0548 or Tufano.1@osu.edu.

Campus Campaign kicks off March 13

The kickoff for Campus Campaign 2000, the faculty and staff fund-raising drive, will take place from 3:30-4:30 p.m. March 13 in the Fawcett Center banquet rooms.

The speaker will be President Kirwan. A demonstration by the Ohio State fencing team also is scheduled.

For details, contact Linda Johnson at 292-3065 or johnson.78@osu.edu.

Mobile unit offers mammograms

The Mobile Mammography Unit of the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute will be at the following locations during March to offer breast cancer screenings:

March 10: Grove City Family Practice, 4050 Gantz Road.

March 18: Westerville Athletic Club, 939 S. State St.

March 31: MedOhio Physician Care Center, 1927 Bethel Road.

Appointments can be made by calling Mobile Imaging Services at 293-4455.

Screenings will be available from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Grove City Family Practice and Med- Ohio, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Westerville Athletic Club.

The cost of the mammogram is $60. The screening will be provided for women ages 35 and older, who are neither pregnant nor nursing, who have no physical symptoms that would prohibit low-dose radiological examination, and who have not had a mammogram in the past 11 months.

University designates new travel suppliers

Ohio State's Travel Office has named two new designated travel suppliers for University business travel.

Effective March 1, Peoples Travel and Uniglobe Travel Designers became the new designated travel agencies for prepaid business travel for University faculty, staff and students.

The existing agreement with University Travel Management and Uniglobe Priority Travel expired Feb. 29.

Contact telephone numbers, fax numbers and e-mail addresses are:

• Peoples Travel: 224-1234, (fax) 249-9628, peoples@nationwide.com.

• Uniglobe Travel Designers: 237-4488, (fax) 237-4516, me.traveldesigners@uniglobe.com.

For information, contact Julie Townsend at 292-9439 or visit the Travel Office Web site at: www.busops.ohio-state.edu/travel.

Caregiver course for cancer offered

The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute will sponsor the "Prepared Family Caregiver Course For Cancer" on three consecutive Thursday evenings beginning March 16. Classes meet from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The course is designed for family members and friends who are caregivers for a loved one living with cancer.

The free course will help individuals build skills in caregiving, learn about community resources and share ideas with others.

Cancer care professionals lead the group to focus on positive, constructive problem-solving for caregiving challenges. A reference guide is included.

For details on locations or to register, call 293-3259.

Law students offer help with tax returns

International students and visiting scholars can receive some help filing their tax returns this year from students in the College of Law. Students taking international taxation this quarter will be available from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on April 8 in rooms 348 and 352 of Drinko Hall. For information, call David Williams II at 292-9334.

International Week proposals sought

The Office of International Education is accepting program proposals for International Week 2000, to be held May 1-6. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit an idea for a program, presentation, workshop or any learning activity with a focus on global diversity. The deadline for submitting proposals is April 1.

For information or a proposal form, contact Kevin Harty at 292-6101 or harty.1@osu.edu. Details can be found on the OIE Web site at www.oie.ohio-state.edu.

Daughters welcomed to OSU on April 27

The University is participating in the sixth annual Take A Daughter To Work Day, scheduled for April 27.

The program offers more than 50 workshops throughout the day for children (ages 9-17) of Ohio State faculty, staff and students. Program booklets will be mailed to all faculty and staff the week of March 27.

Details of the programs and registration will be available on the Web at www.ohr.ohio-state.edu/daughter/. Registration for the workshops will begin at 8 a.m. April 10 and continue through midnight April 20. Registration via the Web is encouraged.

For information, contact Margie Bogenschutz at 292-8586 or bogenschutz.1@osu.edu.

TRI exhibit features career of Ruby Elzy

Ruby Elzy and Porgy and Bess: American Classics is the new exhibit at the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, located on the 14th floor of Lincoln Tower. With rare materials drawn from the Robert Breen, Robert Wachsman, Ella Gerber Kasakoff and James Hagerman collections and from the Institute's production files, the exhibit celebrates the career of Ohio State alumna Ruby Elzy (1908-1943), who created the role of Serena in Porgy and Bess, the masterpiece by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, and Dorothy and DuBose Heyward.

The exhibit runs through April 14. The Institute is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. For information, contact 292-6614 or theatreinst@osu.edu.

Laboratory Safety training offered

Environmental Health and Safety will repeat its Laboratory Safety Training Course during spring quarter. The course consists of five two-hour sessions, to be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on April 6, 13, 20 and 27 and May 4. Classes are held in room 700, 1314 Kinnear Road.

The course is designed to be comprehensive, and is structured to provide a basic understanding of safety concepts for all laboratory personnel. The training is open to anyone, but class size will be limited to 50 students.

The training is team-taught by eight University safety professionals using a combination of lectures, demonstrations and video presentations. A reference manual is provided.

For details or to pre-register, contact Steve Foster at 292-1284 or foster.239@osu.edu.

Lecture traces Latin American poetry

Franklin Proano, professor in the Division of Comparative Studies at the Marion campus, will present "From Protest to Defiance in the Feminist Poetry of Latin America" at 7:30 p.m. March 14 at the Faculty Club.

His is the College of Humanities' fifth Inaugural Lecture of the academic year. It is free and open to the public.

The lecture will trace the evolution of the feminist poetic protest of Latin America, from its origins in Spain during the Middle Ages to contemporary times. This feminist poetry began as a complaint against men's expectations of how women must conduct their affairs and has evolved, in Latin America, into rebelliousness and open defiance.

To RSVP or for more information, call 292-1882.