Daily Brief

Sabbatical Leave Applications are due by noon, on Monday, Feb.2.

Mary Theis, chair, Sabbatical Leave Committee

Faculty, please excuse the following students from class today. They will be attending an all day field trip to Philadelphia with the Communication Design Department.

Kelly Weihs, Ashley Kichline, Aaron Pearson, Darbie Boswell, Daniel Fuehrer, Lacey Christman, Jon Shelton, Eric Wechsler, Lynne Wiley, Tara Flanagan, Chelsea Crist, Ashley Wagner, Shane Walsh, Sarah O'Brien, Molly Van Wagenen, Jenna Palermo, Marissa Strohlein, Shani Tucker, Sean Allison, Jessica Stoffer, Steve Messina, Brianna Wells, Shelby Schena, Valerie Berstecher, Jen McHugh, Erin Doherty, Chelsea Woerth, Kate Santee, Bonnie Watts, Corey Reifinger, Kathleen Natale, Rachel Douglass, Tess Wright, Amy Whitehead, Karen Thomas, Kara Sheaffer, and Lauryn Roscioli.

Kathy Sue Traylor, secretary, Communication Design Department

It has become necessary to temporarily decrease hours of operation at the Health Center due to an unanticipated staff leave of absence. This will provide the most effective utilization of the current nursing staff.

Effective Jan. 31, Health Services will be closed on Saturdays for the remainder of the spring semester. Saturday hours may resume sooner, if staffing patterns return to normal.

Dolores Hess, director, Health Services

Please announce to your students: Sociology Comprehensive Exam: Students intending to take the Sociology Comprehensive Exam must register by 4 p.m. today with Mrs. Jonas, secretary, Department of Anthropology and Sociology. She will distribute instructions at that time.

James A. Delle, associate professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology

The deadline is near for scholarship applications: The PA AFL-CIO application must be received by Jan. 31, and the Union Plus Scholarship must be postmarked by Jan. 31. The application is available online at www.unionplus.org.

Tracy Reidenhour, secretary, AFSCME Local 2234

KUBOK training. KUBoK (Kutztown University and Borough of Kutztown) Neighborhood Watch will be conducting another training session starting at 7 p.m., on Monday, Feb. 9. It will be held in the Alumni Auditorium, 183 McFarland Student Union. KUBoK is successful due to dedicated volunteers comprised of students, faculty, administration, and residents who unselfishly give of their time so that Kutztown remains a safe and friendly community.

The training session is open everyone. We encourage all to attend and get involved. For more information, please contact Naomi Deutschle, KUBoK graduate assistant, at KUBoKwatch@gmail.com.

Please join us for “Duo Terlano," the violin and cello duo, at 7:30 p.m., on Saturday, Jan. 31 in the Georgian Room. Duo Terlano is comprised of KU faculty member Marie-Aline Cadieux, cello, and violinist Johannes Dietrich. They will be joined by friends, including KU faculty member David Cullen on guitar, to present music by Mozart, Ravel, and Piazzolla. The event is free and open to the public.

With the beginning of the new spring semester, Kutztown University has launched its newest multi-media messaging board, the Kutztown University Information Channel (KUIC). KUIC was developed by the KU University Relations Office, and reaches approximately 90,000 households in eastern Berks County via Service Electric Cablevision (channel 24) and Kutztown’s Hometown Utilicom (channel 41). It can also be seen via the KU campus on channel 99. On campus student groups, organizations, departments, and non-profit organizations within the KUIC viewing area, may submit messages for the channel at http://kubnet.kutztown.edu/kuic/. For more information, please contact Julie Gartside at gartside@kutztown.edu

Please announce to your students: Sophomore Walk-In Hours. This spring, the Career Development Center will be offering walk-in hours for every sophomore. Walk-in hours are designed for students to have their questions answered on the spot, and can be utilized for career exploration. Help us spread the word about these sessions to your students by announcing them in class. No student will be turned away because of their class standing. Students are able to choose from the following:

College of Business	Week of Feb. 2	Monday and Wednesday 2-4 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday 11-noon.
College of Education	Week of Feb. 9	Monday and Wednesday 2-4 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday 11-noon.
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences	Week of Feb. 16	Monday and Wednesday 2-4 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday 11-noon.
College of Visual & Performing Arts	Week of Feb. 23	Monday and Wednesday 2-4 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday 11-noon.

Jenelle Laird, Career Development Center

The Office of University Relations invites the Kutztown University community to attend the open forums for the Web content manager position. You may meet with Josh Leiboff today from 10-10:45 a.m., Robert Hackash from 2-2:45 p.m., and Jason Weitzel from 3:30-4:15 p.m. in 203 Stratton Administration Center. A copy of their resumes will be available at the meeting.

This week's movie is Zach and Miri Make a Porno. It will be shown at 8 p.m. tonight, and at 2 and 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, in the McFarland Student Union Alumni Auditorium. Admission is free! For more information, check out the movie trailer on the McFarland Student Union Web site: http://www.kutztown.edu/divisions/studentservices/departments/msub/programs/submovies.asp#MSU_Movie_Websites

John Alfero, coordinator, Technical Services

Spotlight Players proudly presents "Glass Hearts" at 7 p.m. tonight, Jan. 31, and Feb. 1 in the Multipurpose room of the McFarland Student Union. Glass Hearts is a collaborative arts performance piece and gallery exhibition featuring over 50 of KU's artists, performers, dancers, poets, and more. Romance is a rollercoaster of an emotional journey: full of extreme highs and lows, powerful moments of awareness, terrifying insecurities, amazing safe warmth, passion, pain, love and loss. Join us on this journey. Please note that this show contains explicit material- strong sexual content, depictions of violence, and profanity.

Barbara Schulman, professor

Please save the date! The Faculty/Professional Staff Retirement and Emeriti Recognition Dinner will be held on Saturday evening, April 25 in the Multipurpose room of the McFarland Student Union.

A reception will be held at 6 p.m. and dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. Formal invitations will be mailed at a later date. The retirees who are currently to be honored for their years of dedicated service to the university are as follows:

Mrs. Margaret H. Shepherd, Dr. Elsa Geskus, and Dr. James Hvidding

If you are planning to retire or are aware of anyone who is about to retire, please contact Joseph Robinson, in the Office of the President, by noon on Feb. 3, at jrobinso@kutztown.edu or 610-683-4103.

The following DVDs were added to the media library and are available in the AV Center:

Pedophiles – (DVDisc 2031) This program reports on child abusers who, despite repeated convictions and extensive therapy, continue their abusive behavior throughout their lives. In frank interviews, pedophiles describe their inability to stop re-offending and the ease with which they manipulate the so-called safeguards to gain access to their prey.

Period Movement: Early and Late Renaissance – (DVDisc 2007) In this film, Judith Chaffee conducts a workshop on movement for period plays. Working with scenes from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, she demonstrates movement styles and dances for performing in Renaissance plays.

Persepolis - (DVDisc 2083) Writer and director Marjane Satrapi draws a poignant story about a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, when people's hopes were dashed and fundamentalists took power.

Photosynthesis: C3 and C4 Plants – (DVDisc 1979) This program explores the ability of plants to utilize atmospheric carbon dioxide. The concept of carbon three versus carbon four plants is extensively developed at the molecular level with computer animation.

Planet Earth – (DVDisc 2061 – 2065) This television experience captures rare action, impossible locations, and intimate moments with our planet’s best-loved, wildest and most elusive creatures.

Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment - (DVDisc 2076) This film documents a study done in 1971 that attempted to find out what happens when you put good people in an evil place. Several college student volunteers played the role of the prisoner or guard in a simulated prison at Stanford University. After only six days, the planned two-week study spun out of control and had to be ended to prevent further abuse of the prisoners.

Saint Ralph – (DVDisc 2051) When Ralph Walker’s Catholic school headmaster makes him join the track team, he discovers a girl for long distance running. When told that his comatose mother won’t recover without a miracle, Ralph decides to create one- by setting out to win the Boston Marathon.

Shakespeare’s Plays – (DVDisc 2003) This five-part program provides an analysis of five of Shakespeare’s plays: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and The Taming of the Shrew.

The Shining – (DVDisc 2025 & 2026) Jack Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, who comes to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel as off-season caretaker with his wife and son. Torrance has never been there before – or has he? The answer lies in a ghostly time warp of madness and murder.

Silk Stockings – (DVDisc 2043) Nina Yoshenka is a lovely yet severe Soviet envoy sent to Paris to rescue wayward comrades from the perils of champagne and WHAT. But there may be a thaw in Nina’s Cold War when she meets Steve Canfield, a smoothly brash Americen who won’t take nyet for an answer.

Six Degrees Could Change the World - (DVDisc 2100) By the year 2100, many scientists believe that the Earth's average temperature could rise by as much as six degrees Celsius. In a compelling investigation, National Geographic leads a degree-by-degree journey to explore what each rising degree could mean for the future of our people and planet.

Skin Deep – (DVDisc 2033) This film chronicles the eye-opening journey of a diverse and divided group of college students as they awkwardly, but honestly, confront each other’s racial prejudices.

Ted Hickman, coordinator, Audiovisual Services

Our thoughts and prayers are with Rob Weaver, systems administrator for Information Technology, whose father passed away on Jan. 26. Cards and other expressions can be sent to Rob via 102 Stratton Administration Center.

Brenda Booz, Information Technology

I would like to thank all my friends here at KU who sent cards, flowers and prayers my way regarding the death of my mother. Without the support of all my friends and family, I don’t know how I would get through this difficult time. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Melanie Kerber, Electronic Media and Television Services

It is with much sadness that I announce the passing of Daniel J. Courtenay. Surviving in addition to his wife, Mary are two daughters, Kathleen A. Courtenay, Manhattan, Mary (Courtenay), wife of George H. Paterno, Kutztown, and a son, Dan J Courtenay, also Manhattan.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church,1483 Kutztown Rd , Kutztown. Friends may call today from 3 - 4 p.m. and 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Ludwick Funeral Home 333 Greenwich St., Kutztown.

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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.