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Wednesday, August 3, has been designated as “CLEAN-UP” day. This day is set aside to cull those paper files; clean up your network spaces; organize, backup, and delete your PC files; discard obsolete files and equipment; and shred sensitive and confidential information.

You are invited to wear casual clothes, and discouraged from conducting usual business except for our external clients and/or emergencies.

Document Destruction Service, Ltd. (DDS) will again be on campus from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. to do on-site shredding of confidential material. The mobile unit will be located in front of Leighton Hall.

Don’t forget to come and enjoy an ice cream treat at 1 p.m. in Great Space, Sayles-Hill (right outside of the snack bar). Please Note: The location has been changed due to the possibility of concrete work being done on the porch and front plaza of Sayles-Hill.

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Please RSVP ASAP, if you haven't already. Carleton College will be hosting this year's employee picnic on Sunday, August 7, on the Bald Spot. Most activities will be ready to go at noon, picnic lunch served from 1 to 2:30 p.m. The festivities will wind down at 5 p.m.

You should have received two mailings by now, as well as a follow-up e-mail. If you did not receive this, or have any questions, please feel free to contact any committee member.

Your family is included in this invitation; please remember to RSVP by August 1 to Robbie Groth, rgroth@carleton.edu, or phone the RSVP hotline at 1-800-449-7787, x5444.

Summer Employee Event Committee:
Pam Jacob
Denise Dube
Shari Mayer
Robbie Groth
Sandy Pieri
Merry Hoekstra
Rob Lamppa
Liz Skree

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Carleton Bookstore Summer Sale!
Mark your calendars for Thursday, August 11! The Carleton Bookstore will be holding a summer sale. You will receive a 25% discount on all books in the General Books Department (special orders, text books, and restricted titles are not included). Clothing and gift merchandise will be 20% off. There are still weeks of summer left so plan to stock up on some great reading and on new Carleton clothing.

Category of the Month
During August we will be featuring two categories. Books in our Science Fiction/Fantasy section and in our Mystery section will be 20% off for the entire month.

Harry Potter #6
If you have been away (perhaps on another planet?) and still need to get your copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, we have plenty of copies still available. We offer a 25% discount on this title.

August Browser’s Dozen
We are highlighting twelve excellent, hand-selected titles in our August Browser’s Dozen. Please stop in and pick up a newsletter for a full description of each title. It is worth visiting the store just to check out one truly impressive selection, Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs by the renowned masters Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart. This stunning pop-up book is an awe-inspiring look at more than 50 species of dinosaurs and is packed with information and beauty.

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I am pleased to announce a couple of staffing changes in the Student Financial Services (SFS) Office.

Stephanie Aman has been appointed Assistant Director in the SFS Office. She’s been in the Admissions and Financial Aid area at Carleton for the previous five years and most recently the Systems Support Specialist for SFS. She brings experience, knowledge, and energy to her new position. Steph is married to David Aman, a member of the IT staff at Carleton, and they have two children.

Michael Kotchevar is our Systems Support Specialist in the SFS Office. Mike brings thirteen years of experience in the financial aid field and IT area. Most recently, he was the Operations Manager at the NTI School of CAD Technology in Eden Prairie. He will be commuting from Savage where he and his wife are raising their son.

Please join me in welcoming these two individuals to their new roles at Carleton.

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Iris Jastram is the new liaison librarian for American Studies, Art History, English, Francophone Studies, German, LCST, Music, Romance Languages, Russian, and Theater & Dance. You can find Iris in library reference office 463 or contact her at x7105 or ijastram.

Matt Bailey has been hired for the Media Resources Coordinator position in the library. He will also be the liaison librarian to Cinema & Media Studies and Art. His office is in room 420 or contact him at x7670 or mbailey.

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The Carleton Bookstore is reducing overall prices on school and office supplies. In order to offer lower everyday prices on supplies for Carleton students and remain competitive with other retailers, the Bookstore will be eliminating the department discount on all supply items beginning August 1.

As always, we’ll be happy to special-order any school/office supplies that your department may need, and you can still charge supplies to your department charge accounts at our regular, new, lower prices. You will still be eligible for your normal departmental discount on products from other categories.

Staff and faculty members will continue to receive their 10% individual discount on school and office supplies. We hope you will find these new price reductions to your liking, and we hope you will continue to purchase your supplies at the Bookstore. Please call x4150 with any questions you may have.

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Lawn Spraying
Most lawn areas on campus and several off-campus properties are scheduled to be sprayed for weed control on Wednesday, August 3, or Thursday, August 4. If the turf has not recovered adequately from the recent hot, dry spell, the treatment may be postponed until the week of August 8.

Concrete Work
Sayles-Hill should be finished by August 5. The crew will then move to First Street/Johnson House to repair the area disturbed by the utility work. Additional small projects will be finished by September 1.

Paving
Following the repairs on First Street, a paving crew will be on campus to patch First Street and make other minor repairs on campus. We expect this work to take place during the week of August 15. All work areas will be posted 24 hours in advance.

Striping
Parking lot striping and painting of curbs and crosswalks is tentatively scheduled for the week of August 8. This work may be deferred until after the completion of the paving work. Most of this work is done during non-business hours and will not reduce daily parking availability.

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If you have planned any on-campus events for Fall Term that you would like to have publicized in the Term Forecast of Events, please submit the information in writing by Monday, August 15, to Fall Term Forecast, c/o Campus Activities, F - CAMPUS. Please be sure to include the following information: name of the sponsoring department or office; contact name and extension; name, date, time, and place of the event. (Campus Activities reserves the right to edit all materials submitted.)

A copy of the Term Forecast will be mailed to each office and department for general posting. A copy will be posted to the Campus Activities Web site as a PDF file for individuals to print as desired. A supply of printed copies will be available in the Campus Activities Office for campus visitors.

If you should have any questions, please contact Becca Campbell at x4462 or bcampbel@acs.carleton.edu.

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CIGNA Behavioral Health EAP presents a one-hour telephonic wellness seminar:

This seminar's objectives are as follows:

• Understand grief in both the historical and present day contexts
• Recognize grieving as a process rather than an event
• Learn about normal grief response, reactions, and symptoms
• Identify healthy grief coping strategies

We have all experienced losses in our lives, and we are almost guaranteed to be faced with additional losses as time goes on. But sometimes we fail to recognize that grieving is a normal and necessary step following a loss.

Please pre-register online for ease of access.
Confirmation code: 861767

Note: You must pre-register at least two hours before the start time of the seminar. The dial-in number will be provided to you in your registration confirmation e-mail. Handouts will be available through Karyn Jeffrey in HR at kajeffre@acs.carleton.edu or you may download them from the registration site.

If unable to pre-register online, use the following call information for the seminar:
Call in phone number is: 1.888.253.4037 Passcode is: 861767
PIN: Enter the 10 digit phone number you are calling from.

Recorded Playback: A recorded playback will be available for five days from the teleconference date. The dial-in number and passcode are 1-888-348-4629 and enter the passcode 861767.

Future Seminars:
September 14—Dana Kiel—Dual Careers: Stresses and Strategies
October—Gary Hankinson—Your Sense of Humor
November 9—Bruce Steele—Violence in the Workplace

(Note: all calls are at 1 p.m.)