Daily Brief

Important Information for student groups and advisors– Groups receiving SGB Budget funding or having private accounts in the KUSSI Service Center should be aware that the last day checks will be issued prior to the holiday break will be Monday, Dec. 21. Any group that needs a check should have all the completed paperwork to the KUSSI Service Center, McFarland Student Union 171 by 4 p.m., Friday, Dec. 18. Checks will be available for pickup or mailed on Tuesday, Dec. 22. Any group needing a purchase order should submit the completed paperwork no later than noon on Tuesday, Dec. 22. Purchase orders will be available for pick up on Wednesday, Dec. 23.

KUR is your news leader in northeastern Berks. How many of you out there are on Twitter and regularly follow people? If you already are a Twitter user, make sure you're following us at http://twitter.com/kuradio. If you're not already a Twitter user, make sure to join (if for no other reason than to follow us).

Why? Per popular request, and in our ongoing effort to be northeastern Berks County's news leader in addition to entertainment, KUR is now sending out news and traffic bulletins over Twitter, along with our regular station updates. We will not be sending those news and traffic bulletins over Facebook, based on the way Facebook fan pages make groups send out group e-mails. We will be keeping our Facebook fan page, though, for other purposes. As an added incentive to begin following us on Twitter, when you sign up to follow us, we'll enter your name in a drawing for a KUR Christmas Prize Pack full of all sorts of goodies.

So do it now and don't delay. The city papers and radio stations do their best to cover news in our area and we respect that, but some of those smaller stories like icy local roads sometimes get missed. KUR News on Twitter will do our best to fill that niche when we can’t be in the news room to get it on-the-air as fast as we’d like.

Last chance to receive the H1N1 vaccine on campus! The H1N1 vaccine will be available at the Health Center until 3 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 17. At that time, the vaccine will be sent back to the Department of Health due to the need for temperature controls. The vaccine will not be available at the health center in the spring semester.

Holiday Closure. Clinical Services in the Health & Wellness Center will be closing on Dec. 18 at 5 p.m. for the holiday break. We will reopen at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 17.

Help the Water Rescue Mission and The Lancaster Humane League this holiday season! Donations for the rescue Mission include coats, sweaters, hats, gloves, and scarves. Anything that is gently used will be greatly appreciated! Donations for the Lancaster Human League include dog and cat food, treats, toys and blankets. Please drop off all donations to 121 Sharadin (the fibers studio). Professor Chambers has volunteered to collect donations until 1 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 17. For more information, please e-mail rchamber@kutztown.edu.

Jasmine Escobar, graduate assistant, Volunteer Programs Community Outreach Center

It’s time to spin the dreidel and eat potato latkes! The Hillel group will be sponsoring a Hanukah Party on Dec. 16, in 250 McFarland Student Union from 5 -7 p.m. Please mark it on your calendars. Hillel invites the KU community and their children to come and enjoy an evening of games, songs and food!

Lisa Schonberger and Avidan Milevsky, co-advisors:

Power vs. Poverty Poster Exhibition. The Communication Design Department invites you to an exhibit of select entries, representing work submitted by KUCD Graphic Design 1 courses to the Second International Student Poster Competition in Skopje, Macedonia. The exhibit in Sharadin Student Gallery has been extended over the winter break. (The student gallery 207 Sharadin is to the immediate left of the main gallery doors.) For more information, please contact professors Meloney, Bolser or Cunfer.

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Persons with a disability and who require accommodation should notify the KU Disability Services Office two weeks prior to the event at 610-683-4108 (TDD: 610-683-4499) or e-mail accommodation@kutztown.edu in order to discuss accommodations. Every effort will be made to provide reasonable accommodations.