News Digest

New Library food and drink policy
The University Library has created a new policy in conjunction with the opening of its Java City branch in the March. It is:

• To protect the Library and Collections, consumption of food in the Library is strictly prohibited. Food is allowed in the Library Collaborative adjacent to Java City.
• Bottled water in screw-top containers is permitted throughout the Library. All other beverages must be in spill-resistant containers such as travel mugs. No other drink containers are allowed. Disposable containers are not spill-proof and are not permitted.
• Keep any food intended for later consumption stored.
• Non-compliance will result in a request to remove/discard the food or leave the Library. Refusal may result in suspension of library privileges and/or academic discipline.

East Sac interview subjects needed
The Public History Research Seminar is working on an oral history project on East Sacramento and is looking for potential interviewees on campus or among the emeritus faculty. Interviews will last about an hour and can be conducted either on campus or at the interviewee’s home. This is part of a larger project to document the history of East Sacramento in photographs, documents and oral histories.

Details: Lee Simpson at 278-6628 or lsimpson@csus.edu

Ukrainian scholar to visit
Noted Ukrainian scholar on American literature Natalia Vysotska will present a lecture titled “African American Drama as a Site for Cross-Cultural Encounters” from 1:30 to 3 p.m., Tuesday, March 7 in the University Union Foothill Room.

Vysotska’s visit will be sponsored by the Department of English and Phi Beta Delta, the honor society for international scholars.

A past Fulbright recipient for research on African American drama, Vysotska is a professor of European and American literature at Kiev National Linguistics University. She has been a scholar-in-residence at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Vysotska also has done scholarly work on multiculturalism in American public discourse and literature, contemporary American fiction, and theater and drama in the United States.

Wiley art lecture
The Art department will present a free public lecture by internationally renowned artist William T. Wiley at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 23 in Mariposa Hall 1000. Wiley’s work has appeared regularly in individual and group shows on a national and international level, including major exhibitions at the Whitney Biennial and Venice Biennale. He is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Stedelijk van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, The Netherlands and numerous others.

Details: 278-7515

IRA funding available
Financial Services is accepting proposals for Instructionally Related Activities 2006-07 Funding Requests. Submission forms and instructions are available at: www.csus.edu/admbus/ira/index.htm. The application deadline is March 10.

Details: 278-5992

Journalism student workshop
The Asian American Journalists Association will hold a workshop for students interested in careers in the media from 11 to 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 11 at the KCRA Channel 3 studios at 3 Television Circle in Sacramento. Students will hear from professionals from Channel 3 and the Sacramento Bee and have an opportunity to have their tapes/clippings critiqued.

RSVP by March 6 to Lonnie Wong at 454-4548 or wongline@yahoo.com.

Turn in that power mower
The annual Mow Down Air Pollution event will again be held at Sacramento State on Saturday, March 25 in Lot 10, south of Hornet Stadium. Participants can trade in gas mowers for discounted electric mowers. The cordless rechargeable lawn mower exchange program promotes the use of electric lawnmowers, which benefits regional air quality. Since 1997 the Mow Down program has replaced nearly 8,000 gas-powered mowers with electric mowers, recycled 275.2 tons of metal, and saved 78.9 tons of emissions.

Pre-registration is required. For details on the program and how to register contact the Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District at (530) 757-3657 or (800) 287-3650. The event is sponsored in part by University Transportation and Parking Services. For additional information, call Alfredo Orozco, Employee Transportation Coordinator, at 278-7527.

Changes in software agreement
The University Help Desk has changed its policy for checking out software titles, due to licensing requirements and restrictions.

The following software titles are no longer available for check out: Adobe Acrobat Standard 6, Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Mac & PC), Frontpage 2003 PC, Office 2003, Office 2004 (Mac), Photoshop Elements 2 (Mac & PC), Visual Studio.Net 2003 and Windows XP Professional. These titles can only be installed on university-owned equipment. To arrange for the installation of this software on a university-owned machine, contact an Information Technology Consultant. A directory is at http://www.csus.edu/uccs/helpdesk/itc.stm.

The Microsoft Campus Agreement Work At Home program allows certain Microsoft software to be installed on personally owned faculty and staff computers if the computers are used for work. The media does not use the campus volume license key for that product. Instead, each has its own license key and each copy must be activated. The following can be purchased from the Hornet Bookstore:

• Windows XP Professional SP2 ($15) (Windows)
• Office Professional 2003 SP2 ($15) (Windows)
• Office Professional 2004 with Virtual PC ($15) (Mac)

Details: 278-5762

Reception, open house
A reception and open house for the Anthropology Museum exhibit Velha Goa Series II will be held from noon to 3 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 22 in Mendocino 1000.

Details: 278-6067