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Suzan Harjo has developed federal Indian law since 1975, including key national policies to protect Native American cultures and arts: the 1996 Executive Order on Indian Sacred Sites; 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act; 1989 National Museum of the American Indian Act; and the 1978 American Indian Religious Freedom Act.

President of The Morning Star Institute, a national Indian rights organization founded in 1984, she also is the lead party in Harjo et al v. Pro Football, Inc., and author of the article "Fighting Name-Calling: Challenging 'Redskins' in Court," in Team Spirits: The Native American Mascots Controversy (University of Nebraska Press, 2001).

Harjo is a columnist for Indian Country Today, the leading Native American newspaper. Founding co-chair of The Howard Simons Fund for American Indian Journalists, she has worked as news director of the American Indian Press Association and as a producer/director for WBAI-FM Radio in New York City. Her commentary and poetry are widely published, and her essay, "Redskins, Savages, and Other Indian Enemies: An Historical Overview of American Indian Media Coverage of Native Peoples, " is in Images of Color: Images of Crime (Roxbury Press, 1998 and 2001).

A founding trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian (1990-1996), she was principal author of its Policies on Exhibits (1994), Indian Identity (1993) and Repatriation (1991). Guest curator of the Peabody Essex Museum’s 1996-1997 major exhibition, she also wrote an essay for its award-winning catalogue, Gifts of the Spirit: Works by Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Native American Artists (traveling exhibit, Eitlejorg Museum, 1998). She curated "Healing Art," the 1998-2000 exhibition at the American Psychological Association in Washington, D.C., and "Visions from Native America," the 1992 exhibits in the U.S. Senate and House Rotundas.

A 1996 Stanford University Visiting Mentor and a 1992 Dartmouth College Montgomery Fellow, she also served as executive director of the National Congress of American Indians (1984-1989), Special Assistant for Indian Legislation and Liaison in the Carter Administration, and principal author of the 1979 President’s Report to Congress on American Indian Religious Freedom.

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On Thursday, November 18, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the Alumni Guest House Meeting Room, the Payroll Office (Barbara Harden, Julie Vossen, and Beverlee DeCoux), along with staff from the Human Resources Office, will respond to questions bi-weekly staff have raised, and then offer a question and answer/discussion period. SAC has heard a lot of concerns and issues regarding this subject―this will be an opportunity to have Payroll’s undivided attention. We would like to see large representation at this long-awaited session. We have listed some questions already received. If you have additional questions, send them to Kris Peterson kpeterso@acs.carleton.edu by November 4. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting.

Payroll Questions for Fall 2004 Training Session
(In no particular order)

• How do election judges document their time away from work? Explain the new "civic duty" code.

• How does one accurately document funeral leave (e.g., indicate if deceased is mother, grandfather, co-worker, etc.)?

• How does one record SAC Meetings, SAC Luncheons, SAC committee member meetings?

• How does one document working more than 8 hours in one day? e.g,. Jane Doe works a 35-hour work week. She works 9.25 hours on Friday due to leaving early on Tuesday and Wednesday. Should the 9.25 hours be recorded in the Regular Work column or should only 8.0 hours be recorded there, and 1.25 hours recorded in the Extra at Regular Pay for Friday?

• How do I record Lifestyles Program time?

• Could there be a Supervisor’s Handbook or FAQ on the HR Web site for time sheet instructions and examples?

• In regard to vacation hours taken, if one wanted to take a full week’s vacation in July, but accrual wasn’t that high, how should the time sheet be completed? Are exempt staff held to the same standard? If a week is taken in July, but accrual isn’t at that level yet, does one they take days unpaid?

• Is there a place to go to find out how to handle jury duty? Not only the time sheet completion portion, but the pay received for this duty? Will this information be included in the Staff Handbook?

• If we are unsure of how to document something, who should be our first point of contact?

• When we are lucky enough to receive an extra "holiday" from the President (such as an extra day around Christmas or the 4th of July) how do we document this extra day?

• If one were to go to a conference that ran from Thursday through Saturday in Washington, D.C., how would I record that on my time sheet? Would I receive overtime pay for my Saturday work? Would I only receive 8 hours of pay on Saturday, even if events were going longer than that? How about the time I travel on the airplane back from D.C. on Saturday night?

• How do we find out our balances are on the lesser-used types of time off, such as:

• adult child, parent, spouse, domestic partner sick leave;
• funeral leaves: immediate family, extended family, or co-worker friend;
• any others like this.

• Please explain the College’s policy for handling time sheet questions. Who does the time sheet specialist call? If a change is made, is a copy of the time sheet sent out to the employee?

• Do supervisors, authorizing our time sheets, receive training? Does the Payroll office provide new employees and new supervisors with information on how a time sheet is to be completed?

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The LTC presents Nontraditional Learner, Nontraditional Learning Experience with James Bauer; The Link Between Numerical Computer Modeling and Quantitative Skills with Dr. Catherine Gautier; and a Faculty Scholarship Forum, Reclaiming My Uncle Sam from the Heart of Darkness with Jane McDonnell. See complete information below or check out the LTC Web site.

Tuesday, November 2—Nontraditional Learner, Nontraditional Learning Experience
Experience learning through the eyes of a student with dyslexia in an audience simulation with James Bauer, author of The Runaway Learning Machine. Bauer discusses his personal experience as a nontraditional learner and encourages audience participation in this special presentation. Alumni Guest House Meeting Room, noon to 1 p.m., with (optional) discussion until 1:30 p.m. Lunch provided for 50. Co-sponsored by the Accessibility Awareness Committee, the Office of Disability Services, Gould Library, Dean of Students, and College Relations.

Wednesday, November 3—The Link Between Numerical Computer Modeling and Quantitative Skills based on climate change instruction studies. (Note date and time.)
Dr. Catherine Gautier, Geography Department and Institute of Computational Earth System Science, University of California, Santa Barbara. Alumni Guest House Meeting Room, 12:30 to 2 p.m. Lunch provided for 50. Co-sponsored by the Science Education Resource Center.

Looking Ahead:

Tuesday, November 9—Faculty Scholarship Forum: Reclaiming my Uncle Sam from the Heart of Darkness.
Jane McDonnell, Senior Lecture in Women’s and Gender Studies. Alumni Guest House Meeting Room, noon to 1 p.m., with (optional) discussion until 1:30 p.m. Lunch provided for 50.

Friday, November 12—Post election convocation—watch for details soon!

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Monday, November 1
Film: Standing on My Sister's Shoulders
Boliou 104, 8 p.m.
60 minutes
Reception to follow.

Standing on My Sister’s Shoulders is the award-winning documentary that tells the history of the Mississippi women who played a crucial role in the U.S. Civil Rights movement. These living legends give their first-hand testimony and capture a piece of history that is often overlooked. Women featured in the film include Fannie Lou Hamer, Annie Devine, Unita Blackwell, Mae Bertha Carter, and Victoria Gray Adams.

Sponsored by: Gender and Sexuality Center, WA House, and Multicultural Affairs Office

Thursday, November 4
Women’s Week Luncheon
"How Do I Make a Difference? Women’s Stories of Civic Engagement"
Noon to 1:30 p.m., Great Hall (doors open at 11:45 a.m.)
Lunch provided.
RSVP to x7180.

Moderated by Margit Johnson ‘70, Associate Director of Off-Campus Studies and active Northfield resident.

Panelists include:
Eunice Ajambo ’06, Political Science/International Relations major
Beverlee Bruce, Program Director at the Social Science Research Council
Professor Martha Easton, visiting assistant professor of Sociology
Rachel Greenough ’05, Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies major
Molly Woehrlin, Northfield Activist

Sponsored by: Gender and Sexuality Center, ACT, Collective for Women’s Issues, Women’s and Gender Studies. For more information call x5222.

Friday, November 4
Women’s Awareness House Tea Time
3:30 to 4:30 p.m., Berg House
Stop by to see the house and new Women’s Center space. Tea and home-made treats provided!

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United Way pledge packets are being distributed all over campus by over forty volunteer department, office, or building representatives. (Thanks, reps!) If you have not received a packet, please let me know, I'll be glad to send another one. Please return your pledge card in your sealed envelope to your rep THIS WEEK, even if you choose not to participate in United Way at this time. This allows us to keep track of how many responses are still at-large. Your pledge is confidential—only United Way personnel (and Carleton Payroll, if you choose the payroll deduction option) have access to pledge information.

The Northfield Area United Way is an independent, community-controlled organization. Your gift is put to work right here in our community! Donations will support agencies as diverse as the Community Action Center, Northfield Special Olympics, Family Education Center's School Readiness program for pre-kindergarten children, the Northfield Soccer Association, and the Northfield Senior Center.

The United Way makes a real difference in the lives of our friends, families, coworkers, and neighbors. What a great way to help a great community grow even stronger!

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Maxwell Hearn, curator of the Department of Asian Studies for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be at Carleton November 4 to make a presentation entitled "Art, Artifice and Identity: Imaging the Qianlong Emperior (r. 1736-95). The talk will be in Boliou 104 at 5 p.m.

The Qing dynasty emperor Qianlong was obsessed with presenting himself as an archetypal monarch in all areas of Chinese and Manchu life: martial, religious, and cultural. To achieve this goal he sponsored a new synthesis of Chinese and Western painting which fabricated idealized, imperial portraits which were visually convincing.

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The Recreation Center Staff, Human Resources, and the Administrative Council submit these guidelines for the LifeStyles Programs offered on campus. Members of Administrative Council (President, Vice Presidents, and Deans) recently discussed this topic and reiterated the following campus-wide policy:

The initial two one-hour LifeStyles meetings with your trainer may be done as part of your normal, paid, work day with no need to specify these two hours on your timesheet. All other meeting times, regardless of whether you are starting another program or continuing regular check-ins will require you to utilize either vacation time, flex-time, or time outside work. All departments will try to be as flexible as possible with the follow up sessions, with the understanding that this may not always be possible.

We support participation in the LifeStyles program because we feel this is a lifetime commitment and want to encourage participants within the demands of the workplace.