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CWRU's Party on the Quad is from 4-6:30 p.m. July 25 on the Case Quad. The theme for this year's event is backyard barbecue. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to bring a blanket and their CWRU IDs to enjoy food, music and fun. In case of rain, the party will be move to the Tomlinson Hall Gallery. Also during the party, eligible staff will be able to use new voting booths to cast ballots for Staff Advisory Council (SAC) representatives for the coming year. The annual Party on the Quad is hosted by Human Resources in partnership with SAC's staff recognition committee. The post office in Thwing Center will be closed on the next three Fridays, July 25, August 1 and August 8. To learn more, call Maura O'Beirne-Stanko at 368-2654.
The Office of Research Compliance will be moving from Adelbert Hall to the sixth floor of the Sears Building the last week in July through the first week of August. To facilitate the move, the office will have abbreviated operations during that time. For assistance during the transition, call Maureen at 368-6925 or e-mail mxd4@cwru.edu.
The University has entered into a four-year agreement with Meritech Inc. as the new vendor for copier equipment on campus. This agreement, effective July 1, has replaced the existing agreement with IKON Office Solutions, which expired June 30. Meritech represents Minolta and
will provide new, digital equipment throughout campus. Equipment,
service and supplies (including staples)
will be provided on a per copy basis. Representatives from Meritech will be contacting departments with a plan for the transition in order to avoid interruptions in services. Existing equipment will continue to be supported by IKON throughout the transition process. Contact Carol Horvath, contract coordinator, at 368-8540 or e-mail carol.horvath@cwru.edu for additional information.
The meal allowance for those traveling on University business will be adjusted to better reflect increased costs for food. Effective August 1, the allowance will be $10 for breakfast, $12 for lunch and $26 for dinner. The new allowance is based on guidelines set forth by the General Services Administration. The meal allowance
assumes that actual expenses have been incurred. It is not a In addition to the change in meal allowance, the University expects to introduce a new travel program. Details are forthcoming. Call Frank Basich at 368-6092 or Jim Gannon at 368-4694 with questions.
Information Technology Services has made the complete Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional package, which offers a variety of new features, available for download for all University faculty, students, and staff under CWRU's software site license agreement with Adobe. For more information and to download a copy, visit the Software Center at http://www.cwru.edu/softwarecenter. While on the site, members of the CWRU community can join the Software Center's mailing list in order to receive valuable information regarding future offerings and other important news related to the Software Center.
All international workers at CWRU, in any visa category, are asked to update their current U.S. address with the Office of Foreign Faculty and Scholars, beginning August 1. For details, call the office at 368-4289.
Vina Note is offering a 10 percent lunch discount Monday through Friday for members of the CWRU community. The restaurant on campus opens at 11:30 a.m. weekdays. For details, call 229-1177.
The Center for Women Book Club will discuss "A Good Enough Daughter" by Alix Kates Shulman from noon to 1 p.m. August 6 in 720 Crawford Hall and "Crime in Question" by Margaret Yorke from noon to 1 p.m. September 10 in 14 Crawford Hall. To learn more, contact Rosemary Alexander at rosemary.alexander@cwru.edu
Beginning August 1, CWRU's Software Center will no longer use the campus LiveUpdate server for Symantec Anti-Virus. It will instead employ servers at Symantec. Prior to the change, compuer users must update their anti-virus client with the version now available on the Software Center at http://www.cwru.edu/softwarecenter. This version will automatically configure LiveUpdate to point to the Symantec server.
The CWRU Weight Watchers At Work program for faculty, staff, students and friends of the University begins its next session with a information and registration meeting from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. August 28 in Thwing Center. The 14-week program will begin September 4. All meetings are from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in Thwing Center, except for the August 28 meeting, which is in the Cleveland Room. The program cost—14 weeks for the price of 12—is $138, which can be paid by cash, check or charge. The payment can be split into three payments of $46 when paying by check. Contact Sara McIntyre at 368-3924 or sara.mcintyre@cwru.edu for details or to register.
RTA has launched the new University Circle/Heights Area Circulator route. The bus route travels a 6.4-mile route through Shaker Square, Cedar-Fairmount, University Circle, Little Italy and Coventry. The Circulator also serves the Shaker Square and University Circle Rapid Stations. RTA offers the service every 30 minutes from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday. Fares for a one-way ride are 75 cents or $3 for an all-day pass that can be paid as passenger board the bus. For more information visit http://www.universitycircle.org or http://www.riderta.com.
As of July 1, full-time and part-time staff employees who work halftime or more are able to accrue discretionary days monthly and use them after the days accrue at any point during the fiscal year. Unused earned discretionary days also can be carried over to the next fiscal year. The maximum number that can be carried over cannot exceed an employee's maximum annual allowance and must be used within the next fiscal year. New hires to the University are eligible to use earned discretionary days after successful completion of their employment orientation period. The full text of the Discretionary Day Policy is available at http://www.cwru.edu/finadmin/humres/policies/DDIV-6.pdf. The glossaries in both the compensation/benefits section and at the end of the manual reflect the revisions. Any questions about the changes should be directed to a supervisor.
After five years of work, the first major art exhibit exploring childhood in ancient Greece—The Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past—will open at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College on August 23 and continue through December 14. Jenifer Neils, CWRU's Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of art history, and John Oakley, the Chancellor Professor/Forrest D. Murden Jr. Professor and chair of classical studies at The College of William and Mary in Virginia, have organized and catalogued more than 130 art objects on loan from American, Canadian and European collections to provide this visual record of Greek childhood. Following the exhibition at the Hood, Coming of Age in Ancient Greece travels to the Cincinnati Art Museum in Cincinnati (May 1-August 1, 2004) and J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Calif. (September 14-December 5, 2004). A smaller version of the exhibit with a special section on the Olympic Spirit can be viewed at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York City January 19-April 1, 2004. Accompanying the exhibit is a fully illustrated catalogue published by Yale University Press. The prologue has been written by Jill Korbin, CWRU's associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of anthropology. During the research phase of exhibit, Neils received help from James Edmonson, CWRU curator of the Dittrick Medical History Center on nursing practices in antiquity.
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