Q: Carleton student radio station KRLX was originally founded in 1948 as a low-power AM station with what call letters?

The Business Office would like to inform you about the new mileage rate that will be used for calculating the costs of operating a personal vehicle for business purposes. Effective July 1, 2008, the standard mileage rate will be 58.5 cents per mile

The Division of Student Life is pleased to announce that T. Todd Masman has been hired to be the new Director of Campus Activities. Mr. Masman is currently the Director of Leadership and Service at Bemidji State University. He previously served BSU as the Director of Hobson Memorial Student Union. Mr. Masman has also served as director of student activities at The College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University, Albion College, Hamline University, and Wartburg College. He earned his Master’s Degree from Bowling Green State University. He is a past president of the Minnesota College Personnel Association (MCPA) and has served on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Campus Activities. T. Todd has also worked in the areas of diversity education, service learning and leadership development. He is the 2007 recipient of MCPA’s Lud Spolyar Distinguished Service Award. T. Todd was recognized by the American College Personnel Association as the Outstanding State & International Division Leader in 2007. T. Todd states, “I’m thrilled to be coming to Carleton at a time when there is a strong commitment to developing a vibrant campus activities program. I look forward to working alongside the rest of the staff to transform the department and connecting with students to create an engaging and involved experience.” Mr. Masman will start at Carleton in mid-July.

Thank you to those who have already made your commitments to the faculty/staff portion of Breaking Barriers, Creating Connections campaign. There’s still time if you haven’t given: click here to make a one-time or recurring gift via credit card. Want to make a payroll deduction gift but lost your envelope in the end of the year hustle? For more details or questions on how to give, contact Jesse Stremcha in the Alumni Annual Fund office at x4340 or jstremch@carleton.edu.

We hope that your summer is off to a good start, though here at the Perlman LTC we are already thinking about fall term. We want to remind you all that there are two faculty/staff reading groups forming for fall term of 2008. One group will read Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, by Maryanne Wolf, with discussion to be facilitated by Fernan Jaramillo and Mike Flynn. Another group will read the Iliad by Homer, with discussion facilitated by Chico Zimmerman. (If all goes well, we will read the Odyssey in the winter term and the Aeneid in the spring). Both reading groups are suitable for beginners and experts of all disciplines (and the undisciplined as well).

Beginning July 1, the final cut-off time for submitting check request forms to be processed in the Thursday check run will be Tuesdays at noon. Please allow one week for processing check/reimbursement requests. Check requests are prioritized by date of receipt with every effort to process the requests submitted on time for the weekly check run. To assist in the timely processing of requests, please submit your check requests a week in advance.

In support of Carleton’s green initiative, the Business Office is pleased to announce that we will be providing automatic deposit of Employee Check Requests and Employee Travel Expense Requests directly into employee bank accounts, eliminating the need for a paper check! Read on for more information....

Professor of English, Emeritus, recently had a review of Martin Amis’s novel House of Meetings published in Magill’s Literary Annual 2008.

Assistant Professor of Geology, was recently quoted in an article on the challenges and opportunities at liberal-arts colleges. The article appears in Science magazine's career-development section.

Paula Lackie, Academic Technologist and Kristin Partlo, Reference & Instruction Librarian for Social Sciences recently co-presented with Michelle Edwards, University of Guelph, at the IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology) 2008 Conference at Stanford. The workshop title is “Supporting Undergrads with Data.”

Coordinator of Academic Civic Engagement and Visiting Instructor in Sociology, presented a paper at the Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting in St. Louis, MO entitled "What Participating Means to Me . . . " Community Based After-School Programs in the Lives of Diverse Urban Youth."

Performance Activities Coordinator in Music and Adjunct Instructor in Chinese Musical Instruments has been awarded her second Subito award from the American Composers Forum. This grant will support her upcoming CD project.

Assistant Professor of Music, recently had her new CD, Melville's Dozen, released on the Innova label. Professor Melville spent three years working with thirteen composers from across the U.S. to create a new body of solo piano works, and the resulting pieces are influenced by funk, jazz, blues, rock, tango, Peruvian, and Appalachian folk. The composers on the CD range from Pulitzer Prize finalist Augusta Read Thomas to young guns such as Marc Mellits; Carleton's own Philip Rhodes and Alex Freeman have also contributed works. The CD will soon be in the bookstore, but is also available online.