For information, call 6-2966. University operations will not be staffed the day after Christmas except for those providing essential or emergency services. In accordance with collective bargaining agreements, employees normally scheduled to work that day may use paid leave, including vacation, personal leave, comp time or leave without pay. The issue originally set for Jan. 8 has been moved up to Friday, Jan. 2, so that we can share a summary report from the Issue Definition groups before President Frohnmayer's address to the University Assembly on Jan. 7. With support by Human Resources, groups are encouraged to meet on work-release time, although some groups are choosing to meet during lunch hours to allow participation by those who feel they cannot take time away from their usual duties.
Many groups are still open to new members.
He will receive the award Dec. 28 during the MLA annual convention in Toronto. Kenneth Liberman , Sociology, has received an American Philosophical Society grant for a two-month residency this winter at Sera Monastic University in India. He also will present a plenary lecture to the Fourth International Conference on Yoga Research in Bangalore and will attend one month of daily lectures by the Dalai Lama. Marian Friestad , Marketing, chairs the marketing committee and Jan Oliver , Administration, is a newly elected 1997-98 board member for United Way of Lane County. Garrett Hongo , Creative Writing, reviewed and chose the winner of the 1997 Bakeless Nason Prize in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College in August.