Please announce to students:  KU Southwest Buffet 12:30 until 2 p.m. on the McFarland Student Union lawn today. Free taco bar, lawn games, and music.

Note:  Although, we wish we could allow the entire KU campus to participate in this event, we regret that we can no longer guarantee that food/goods will be available for staff/faculty.  This event is 100 percent funded by the summer student activity fee funds and serving the students must remain a priority.  Should supplies allow, we will welcome KU faculty/staff to participate after 1:15 p.m.  Thank you in advance for your understanding.  If there are any questions please contact the Student Union and Involvement Services Office.

        Amie Updike, front desk coordinator, Student Union Involvement Services

As we begin a new fiscal year, we want to take this opportunity to remind all staff and faculty about certain travel reimbursement requirements. Please remember the following when submitting your travel expense form:

Before any travel occurs or money is spent, the traveler needs to complete a travel expense form and obtain authorization, in the form of a signature, from the following:

• Traveler,
• Supervisor or Chair,
• Dean or Director/Manager (if greater than $500), and
• Vice President (Provost) if greater than $2,500.

Additionally, all international travel must have approval from the Provost before any travel occurs.

As indicated above, failure to provide advance authorization, may result in your request being denied and will definitely result in a delay in processing your travel expense reimbursement.

If you are attending a seminar or workshop, an agenda needs to be attached to your travel expense form.  You need to reduce your allowable per diem for any meals that are offered by the seminar and workshop.

• Reduce your daily per diem by 21% if breakfast is offered,
• Reduce your daily per diem by 21% if lunch is offered,
• Reduce your daily per diem by 58% if dinner is offered

We can only reimburse for the lower of shuttle, cab/car service, or car rental when traveling from the airport to your hotel destination.

Further information can be located on the back of the travel expense form, AP website http://www.kutztown.edu/admin/accounts/ , or by calling the Accounts Payable office at ext. 3-4147.

        John Nadolski, Comptroller Office and Denise Schell, Accounts Payable Office
 

The Housing and Residential Services Department currently has two custodial staff members on extended leave. Anyone wishing to send get well wishes would be much appreciated. Susan Miller recently suffered an injury and can be reached at 3427 Stoudt’s Ferry Bridge Road, Reading Pa., 19605. Kathy Keffer has recently had surgery and can be reached at 364 Main St., Blandon, PA, 19510.

        Glenn Ruhe, Housing and Residence Services

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

Coordination and Control 2- Plants – (DVD 2995) This DVD discusses plant responses to the environment and shows how hormones cause these responses.  It uses animated sequences to show the effects and modes of action of the five major groups of plant hormones (auxins, abscisic acid, gibberellins, ethylene, and cytokinins) and of some lesser-known hormones.  The program also explains how plants adjust their flowering times in response to environmental stimuli.

Educating Peter– (DVDs 2993-2994) Peter Gwazdauskas, a young boy with Down Syndrome and his classmates test the limits of a new federal law that requires mainstreaming handicapped children in public schools.

Exploring Qualitative Methods – (DVD 2990) This program illustrates experiments involving sleep and dreams, showing how to make qualitative data more meaningful.

Kebab Connection – (DVDs 2984-2985) Set in Hamburg, Germany, young “Ibo,” of Turkish background wants to ultimately direct the first German Kung-fu movie.

Berlin is in Germany – (DVD 2991) This is a story of a man, who is imprisoned in the German Democratic Republic, and released eleven years later, only to find the new “Germany” represents a radically changed world that he must now adapt and adjust to.

Das Wunder Von Bern - (DVD 2992) This is a story of the 1954 West German Worldcup upset in Bern, Switzerland and the family that was intimately impacted.

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

Excuses Begone! - (CD 1124-1127) How to change lifelong, self-defeating thinking habits.

        Ted Hickman, coordinator, AV Center

Viewpoints Menu: Tijuana tacos, cheese tortellini, white rice, seasoned corn. Soups of the day are cream of tomato and lentil.