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Retiring the Modem Pool and Internet Access for Off-Campus Use
Effective June 15, Carleton’s dial-in modem pool will be retiring. Newer technologies have made this the right time for a transition. In the past, Carleton had hundreds of faculty, staff, and students connecting to campus via the campus modem pool. At this point in history, home Internet access via services such as Charter, Desktop Media, AOL, Jaguar, and Earthlink are widely available. As a result, the number of people using the modem pool has dwindled. In October 2006 only 22 people were using it at all. This January, the number was down to 11. It’s time for a retirement party! See the rest of the article to learn about options to connect to campus.
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The funding spent on this service will be reassigned to other initiatives benefiting the Carleton community. One new service will be a campus fax server that will enable all faculty and staff on campus to send/receive faxes via the network instead of using a stand-alone fax machine.
What do I do to get a connection to campus?
Northfield is part of the Twin Cities calling area. Because of this you can select a variety of providers, from nation-wide services to local providers. You are encouraged to research your selection carefully and base your decision on services and price. Below, you will find some general information about using a commercial ISP. See the local listing of Internet service providers.
Connecting Options
There are three methods of connecting to the Internet including cable, DSL, and dial-in.
Cable and DSL vs. Dial-in Connections
One of the first decisions you need to make is to choose between a cable/DSL connection or a dial-up connection. There are advantages and disadvantages to both and the decision should be based on your needs. Here is some basic information about the types of connections. Refer to the Web sites of the ISPs to determine what services each provides.
Cable and DSL connections
- Always connected to the network. Perfect for someone who wants instantaneous and/or continuous network access.
- Faster speeds (up to 50x faster than some modems)
- Costs more. Cable ISP service can be twice as much as dial-up ISP service.
- Needs specialized equipment to connect (which can be purchased or rented from the cable ISP.)
Dial-up connection
- Less expensive. Some basic services available for under $10 per month.
- Slower speeds than cable service.
- Uses a modem to dial-up to ISP only when you want to connect. You need to dial up each time you want network access.
- Ties up a phone line.
Getting Help:
If you need further assistance with setting up your home Internet access, we recommend that you contact one of the technical support vendors in your area. In Northfield, we can recommend that you contact either of these two vendors:
Bad Brain Computers; telephone: 507-663-7050
Hours are: Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Call any time to schedule an appointment or in an emergency.
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Carl Henry telephone: 507-649-0534
If you have any other questions about this project, you can contact me at jcooper@carleton.edu or at x4077.
Goodsell Observatory Open House
Goodsell Observatory Open House is scheduled Friday, May 2 from 9:30 to 11:30 p.m., if clear (please note time). View stars, nebulas, and planets. The event is cancelled if cloudy and the Observatory domes are not heated so dress warmly. Open Houses are held on the first Friday of each month, except July 4. Dates and times are listed on the Web.
Stephen Stich will Present a Public Talk
Stephen Stich, the 2008 Cowling Distinguished Visiting Professor in Philosophy will present a public talk titled, “Should We Trust Moral Intuition?” on Tuesday, April 29, from noon to 1 p.m. in Leighton 304. A venerable view, still very much alive in contemporary debates, urges that our spontaneous moral judgments reflect a deep wisdom, except when the processes underlying those judgments are interfered with by morally problematic forces. However, much recent work suggests that we should have a very different view of our spontaneous moral judgments. This work indicates that there is no one psychological system underlying moral judgments. Rather, there is a hodgepodge of different systems that pull in different directions. Moreover, some of these systems were designed to perform cognitive functions that have little to do with morality. When they are co-opted to play a role in moral judgment, they often reflect aspects of these other functions in unexpected and alarming ways. Far from being the sort of "elegant machines" imagined by both traditional philosophers and contemporary evolutionary psychologists, these mechanisms are kludges (a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem or difficulty). If the mechanisms underlying moral judgment are indeed a hodgepodge of kludges, it poses a major challenge to those who believe that the pronouncements of those systems should be relied upon.
May 2 Convocation Examines Asian Americans and Asian Wars
When Vijay Prashad was in school, a teacher once told his class they should think so hard it might make blood rush out of their ears, and a few years later in graduate school Prashad read the work of a French philosopher who enjoined his readers to “push thought to the extreme.” Now, as a professor in South Asian History and Director of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Prashad is committed to intellectual extremism: nothing is forbidden to think about, everything is open to investigation. His convocation presentation will examine Asian Americans, the Iraq War, and the upcoming election. With reference to Hawaii-born First Lieutenant Ehren Watada, who refused to serve in Iraq, the title of his presentation is “Watada’s Election: Asian Americans and These Asian Wars.” The convocation will take place in Skinner Memorial Chapel at 10:50 a.m.
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Vijay Prashad is the author of eleven books, including two that were chosen by the Village Voice as the top 25 books of the year, Karma of Brown Folk (2000) and Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (2001). His most recent books are The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World (2007) and Dispatches from Latin America: Experiments Against Neoliberalism (2006), co-edited with Teo Ballve.
His frequent pieces of journalism can be found in South Asian periodicals, including his monthly column “Letter from America” in Frontline, his book reviews in the Kathmandu-based Himal, and his occasional writings in the Mumbai edition of the Hindustan Times. His writings can also be read in North American periodicals such as Z Magazine, ColorLines Magazine, The Indian American, or else on the Web, including monthly at ZNET and at Counterpunch.
He is Vice-Chair of the Executive Board of the Center for Third World Organizing (www.ctwo.org), on the Board of the National Priorities Project, on the Advisory Board of the Connecticut Union Community Fund (AFL-CIO), on the Board of United for a Fair Economy, an editor of Amerasia Journal and of Naked Punch. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he is on the collective of The Diggers’ Post.
Scan to E-mail on MFPs
Did you ever want to copy a document and e-mail it to someone else? Did you want to keep an electronic copy for yourself, but didn’t have easy access to a scanner? With the new MFPs you can do these things (and more) with a feature called Scan to E-mail. See the entire article for more instructions.
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There is no cost when you scan a document on an MFP, and no need for OneCard authentication. The scan to e-mail feature can also be used in place of a fax. Try scan to e-mail today.
Please use the link to find the instructions. When you use Scan to E-mail, send the document to yourself, then go to your e-mail account and forward the document to others. This ensures that you have scanned it correctly, have a copy for yourself, and can track what happens to the file.
We’ve created four documents to step you through using the scan feature.
- Scan to E-mail using a Xerox 4150
- Scan to E-mail using a Xerox 4150 Quick Reference
- Scan to E-mail using a Xerox 7132
- Scan to E-mail using a Xerox 7132 Quick Reference
Questions on using the Scan to E-mail feature can be addressed to the ITS Rapid Response team at x5999.
Business Office Cashier Hours
Recent staff transitions in the Business Office have changed our cashier hours. The new Business Office cashier hours are 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The Carleton Campus Bookstore will offer check cashing services (limit $100 or $100 over purchase) during their hours of operation for Carleton faculty, staff, and students with a valid Carleton ID.
Update on Dining Transition
As Bon Appetit Management Company prepares to become the next operator of Dining Services at Carleton, there will be a need for members of the Carleton community to communicate with its staff. An e-mail address has been established for that purpose as well as a phone number. For those who have questions about future employment or catering needs after June 30, you may call 222-5843 and leave a message or send an e-mail message to bonappetit@carleton.edu. Bon Appetit will also have a temporary office on campus beginning in early May. More information will soon be available regarding that activity and the specific management staff who have been assigned to Carleton College.
Larry Diamond Lecture, “Can The Whole World Be Democratic?”
Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of political science and sociology at Stanford University, presents a public lecture, “Can The Whole World Be Democratic?” on Monday, April 28, 7:30 p.m. in Boliou 104. Professor Diamond is a leader in the field of democracy studies and has written widely on democratization efforts. His new book, The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World, released in February 2008, looks broadly at the internal and external forces driving democracy movements and the forces that sustain them once in place. In addition to his public lecture, Professor Diamond will be available for informal conversation and book signing in the Library Athenaeum between 3 and 5 p.m. Faculty, staff, and students are also invited to an informal lunch roundtable with Professor Diamond in Alumni Guest House at 12:30 p.m. If interested in the lunch, please RSVP to Becky Krogh by April 21. Copies of his new book, The Spirit of Democracy, are available for those interested in a book discussion group. For more information, please contact Bev Nagel.
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In addition to his scholarly work, Professor Diamond has consulted on pro-democratization efforts. During the first three months of 2004, Diamond served as a senior adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. His book, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (2005), analyzed the opportunities and failures of the Provisional Authority's democratization project.
Professor Diamond has continued to participate in policy working groups on Iraq and the Middle East and, with Abbas Milani and Michael McFaul, he coordinates the Hoover Institution's Iran Democracy Project. He is founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy, and co-director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy. Among his other published works are: Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (1999), Promoting Democracy in the 1990s (1995), and Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria (1989). His edited volumes include Islam and Democracy in the Middle East (with Marc F. Plattner and Daniel Brumberg), Assessing the Quality of Democracy (with Leonardo Morlino), The State of India’s Democracy (with Marc Plattner and Sumit Ganguly), and Democracy in Developing Countries, with Juan Linz and Seymour Martin Lipset. He has served as advisor to the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the United Nations, the State Department, and other governmental and nongovernmental organizations.
Professor Diamond is also recognized as an excellent teacher; he was named Teacher of the Year in 2007 by the Associated Students of Stanford University for teaching that “transcends political and ideological barriers.” He also received Stanford’s Dinkelspiel Award for “his inspired teaching and commitment to undergraduate education” and “for the example he sets as a scholar and public intellectual.”
Electrical Upgrade Phase II―Willis Hall Vault Update
We are making progress on the Willis Hall vault replacement which is the final phase of the campus electrical upgrade. Last week the vault waterproofing was completed, the construction trailer was removed, and the fence along College Street was moved back allowing the sidewalk to be used. They started backfilling Wednesday and trucks hauled away the extra dirt and debris. See the rest of the update with the project schedule for this week through August. If you have questions about the electrical project, contact Kirk Campbell at x4460.
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Work occurring the week of April 28: The fence at the Burton end will be brought back towards Willis, allowing for a sidewalk to be installed. There will still be a fence up for safety because part of the vault will still be exposed.
Week of May 12: A large opening on the top of the vault will be used to crane-lift transformers and switch gear into the vault. The opening will be accessed periodically for large steel conduit and heavy electrical cable until August.
Electrical shutdowns: Future individual building shutdowns and an all-campus shutdown are in the planning stages as we work through campus events and schedules. These dates and their effects will be published as they are scheduled.
Mid-August: After the all-campus shutdown and switch-over in mid-August, the vault will be capped and the area filled and graded to sod which should be completed by the end of August.
Thank you on Behalf of Meals on Wheels
Thank you to all who helped ensure that Carleton's participation in Meals on Wheels was so smooth, successful, and fun this year! We look forward to continuing this tradition and will support this important community initiative in the future.
Gould Library Athenaeum Events
- Meet the author, Larry Diamond, on Monday, April 28 at 3 p.m. at an informal gathering for conversation and book signing. Professor Diamond is the author of The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World (2008) and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford University. The Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Social Sciences is sponsoring this scholar’s visit.
- A talk by Dennis Cass ’90, a free-lance writer based in Minneapolis, on Wednesday, April 30 at 3:30 p.m. Cass has been a journalist for ten years, writing for Harper's, Spin, Mother Jones, and Slate.com. His book, Head Case: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain, was published in 2007. This event is sponsored by the English department’s Shuster Fund.
Class of ’01 Alums to Speak About Art
Juliane Shibata and Heather O’Hara, both members of the Class of 2001 and both teaching in Studio Art this term, will present “Crossing Paths” on Tuesday, April 29 at 7 p.m. in Boliou 104 which is handicapped accessible. Juliane obtained her MFA degrees from Bowling Green University and Heather received her MFA from Cornell. They both have continued to work in art since graduating from Carleton and have had work in several exhibitions throughout the United States. Juliane’s work centers on ceramics while Heather works with printmaking primarily. They will be speaking about their work and their experiences during “Crossing Paths.”
Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching (LTC) Events this Week
- "[Re]reading James Baldwin: On Education and Manhood"―Tuesday, April 29, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Headley House
- He Said, She Said: Teaching Citation and Academic Honesty to Today's Students―Thursday, May 1, at noon, Alumni Guest House Meeting Room
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Tuesday, April 29
"[Re]reading James Baldwin: On Education and Manhood"Readings: Baldwin, "The Price of the Ticket"; "A Talk to Teachers"; "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?"; and "Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood"
Facilitator: Harry McKinley Williams, Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of History4:30 to 6 p.m., Headley House, 815 East Second Street
Refreshments provided
Co-sponsors: Perlman LTC, Mellon Faculty Life Cycles Grant, and Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Humanities
Thursday, May 1
He Said, She Said: Teaching Citation and Academic Honesty to Today's StudentsIris Jastram, Reference & Instruction Librarian for Literature and Languages, Gould Library
George Shuffelton, Assistant Professor of English
Heather Tompkins, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Gould LibraryAlumni Guest House Meeting Room
Noon to 1:30 p.m., with lunch provided for 50What do students need to know about properly citing the sources they use? How do we best teach them both the details of citation (down to the commas and colons) and the big picture of responsible academic discourse? Does the new world of internet research demand new ways of teaching attribution? This panel will discuss ways of teaching students to see citation as stylized communication within a community of inquiry. We will also discuss ways of encouraging students to think about the ethical underpinnings of attributing sources honestly and how plagiarism abuses the trust of readers. The panel will draw from experience acquired in the classroom, at the library reference desk, and surveys of students’ understanding of citation techniques.
Looking ahead:
Thursday, May 8
The Program on Intergroup Relations: Lessons from a Social Justice Education ProgramCharles Behling, Co-Director of The Program on Intergroup Relations and Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
The Program on Intergroup Relations is a social justice education program on the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus which works proactively to promote understanding of intergroup relations inside and outside of the classroom. IGR offers multidisciplinary courses distinguished by their experiential focus, teaching philosophy, and incorporation of dialogical models of communication.
Perlman LTC event information is available online.
May Human Resources Educational and Development Opportunities
- TIAA-CREF—Income Options: May 7, 8:30-9:30 Room Alumni Guest House Meeting Room
- TIAA-CREF Individual Counseling Sessions: May 7, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Sayles-Hill 250 and May 8, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Sayles-Hill 250
- EAP—Power of Attorney and Advanced Directives, Jason Hoffman, Attorney: May 22, 2 to 3 p.m. in Sayles-Hill 251
- Minnesota Employee Right-to-Know MERTKA/Bloodborne: May 1, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in Sayles-Hill 251
- CIGNA Employee Assistance Program Presents: Manager’s Guide to the EAP—April 30, 1 to 2 p.m., telephone wellness seminar
- CIGNA Employee Assistance Program Presents: Battling the Blues—May 14, 1 to 2 p.m., telephone wellness seminar
Contact Karyn Jeffrey, Human Resources to enroll
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TIAA-CREF—Income Options
May 7, 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., Alumni Guest House Meeting RoomYOUR TIAA-CREF INCOME OPTIONS—FOR INDIVIDUALS ONE YEAR OR LESS FROM RETIREMENT
Providing a comprehensive discussion of all income options offered by TIAA-CREF, this seminar helps employees identify which option best suits their needs, based upon their vision of retirement.
TIAA-CREF Individual Counseling Sessions
May 7, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sayles-Hill 250
May 8, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sayles-Hill 250You will need to enroll on the Web site.
Back to the Future with Infection Prevention—Colleen LaVine, RN, Northfield Hospital
May 9, 8:30 to 10 a.m. and 3:30 to 5 p.m., Boliou 104This 90-minute program will briefly cover the beginnings of infection prevention moving into today’s challenges related to environmental services. Future challenges will be discussed including pandemic planning. Standards for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Blood Borne Pathogens (BBP) will be covered and a demonstration and application of PPE will occur.
Speaker's Background:
Colleen LaVine, RN, works at Northfield Hospital and Clinics as their Infection Prevention Practitioner. She has a background in teaching as well as nursing and has provided various educational classes on infection prevention and employee health over the past years.Colleen has been an active participant in pandemic planning in a mixture of roles and has been involved in writing and developing pandemic plans and participated in many drills throughout that time. She is active in APIC (Association Professionals in Infection Control) and is the current editor of the Minnesota APIC newsletter, “News and Views.”
EAP—Power of Attorney and Advanced Directives, Jason Hoffman, Attorney
May 22, 2 to 3 p.m. in Sayles-Hill 251Know the definition of advanced directives and their benefits, know the difference between a living will and durable power of attorney, tips for preparing an advanced directive, and strategies for communicating with older relatives about the need for advanced directives.
Minnesota Employee Right-to-Know MERTKA/Bloodborne
May 1, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in Sayles-Hill 251Mandatory for all new staff (Right-to-Know) and all those employed in or transferred to jobs which require training (Asbestos Awareness and Blood Borne Pathogens). New staff are required to participate in this training as part of their orientation process. Any employees not required to attend but interested in attending are welcome. Sessions will be one hour each and will include training on Minnesota Right-to-Know
CIGNA Employee Assistance Program Presents: Manager’s Guide to the EAP
Apil 30, 1 to 2 p.m., telephone wellness seminarManager's Guide to the Employee Assistance Program
Ever had an employee who was stressed by:Trying to find daycare, searching for services for aging parents, finding balance between work and personal life, legal issues, or parenting issues? The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) can help! Manager’s and supervisors play a vital role in the introduction of the EAP and its services to their employees.
Pre-register online. Confirmation code: 9572407
You’ll receive a confirmation e-mail with the number to call. You can download handouts from the registration site. A recording of each seminar will also be available for ten days, starting one hour after the seminar. Check the registration site for the dial-in number and passcode.
CIGNA Employee Assistance Program Presents: Battling the Blues
May 14, 1 to 2 p.m., telephone wellness seminarBattling the blues—depression in the workplace. Understand depression and its effects in the workplace, recognize the signs and symptoms of depression, know the various effective treatments for depression and know how to help someone who is depressed.
Pre-register online. Confirmation code: 3499114
You’ll receive a confirmation e-mail with the number to call. You can download handouts from the registration site. A recording of each seminar will also be available for ten days, starting one hour after the seminar. Check the registration site for the dial-in number and passcode.
Contact Karyn Jeffrey in HR at x4174 or kajeffre@carleton.edu to enroll.
Seducing America: Selling the Middle-Eastern Mystique
Confrontation involving Americans and Middle Easterners is a theme of many paperback novels harking back to an earlier age when the Middle East was a premier destination in spy novels and thrillers, raunchy adventure magazines, graphic pulp fiction, and comics. On Wednesday, April 30 at 8 p.m., in Boliou 104, UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies’ assistant director Jonathan Friedlander will talk about the collection of material culture from the Middle-Eastern Americana he donated to UCLA, underscoring the continuing appeal and impact of this body of popular literature in the annals of Americana.
Carleton College's Prairie and Wood Nature Day Camp 2008
Are you looking for summer opportunities for your child? Consider enrolling them in Carleton College's Prairie and Wood Nature Day Camp. In it's 33rd year, Prairie and Wood is an outdoor summer day camp for kids held at Carleton College each summer. The program involves participation in a wide range of activities which encourage imagination, curiosity, and group interaction. The camp is designed to be a fun, cooperative learning environment that fosters an appreciation of nature and an understanding of the importance of creating a thoughtful relationship with the natural world. Each year Carleton students enthusiastically organize camp. Based at Carleton College's Farm House, Prairie and Wood makes use of the nearby Carleton arboretum which has 800 acres of hardwood and coniferous forests, marshes, fields, little critters, prairies, and streams. Please visit the Web for more information including the weekly summer schedule (campers register weekly) and registration instructions.