In this issue:
• All Campus Budget Forum 10/30
• President Giles-Gee: A New Century Leader
• Bud Winsor Receives Garden Club of America Award
• KSC Centennial Symposium: From Local to Global
• 13th Madness Packs Spaulding Gym
• A Celebration of the Equinox: Presentation & Reception
• Ernest Hebert at Library Centennial Celebration
• Great Decisions Series: The Arctic
• KSC Concert Band Performs “Rockets and Refrains”
• Tyler Penn at World Paralympic Games
• United Way Campaign: Step Right Up!
• New Voices: Royal Salvation Strategies in Medieval Cyprus
• IT Tech Tips: October Security Awareness Month
• Professional Activities
• Pumpkinfest: Several tons of pumpkin guts …
• … and Nuns-on-the-Run
• KSC Students Help Clean Up the Neighborhood
• Join Our Group Photo for Climate Change
• Comic Art Exhibit Focuses on Historical and Contemporary Strips
• Midnight Madness Returns on Friday Night
• Cirque Mechanic’s Birdhouse Factory Comes to KSC
• Diversity and Multicultural Summit Meetings
• Redball Now Prints Large-Format Posters
• CE Call for Faculty Summer Course Proposals
• Planning Process Workshop
Keene State’s fourth All-Campus Budget Forum will be held on Friday, October 30, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Redfern Alumni Recital Hall. At this gathering, President Giles-Gee will share information about the ongoing budget challenge, and the provost and vice presidents will join her in answering questions from the campus community.
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New Hampshire Magazine included President Giles-Gee on the 2009 “IT” list in the November 2009 issue. Each year the magazine creates a guest list for the “ultimate dinner party in the Granite State - an annual who’s who of the most fascinating and happening people in New Hampshire.” Calling Giles-Gee a “New Century Leader,” they write:
Dr. Helen Giles-Gee has presided over a wide range of activities since becoming president of Keene state College in 2005, including this year’s celebration of the school’s 100th anniversary. Courses have been revised and curricula transformed to ensure students acquire both the academic and technical skills graduates should have. The school has been endowed with two new academic chairs and has increased ties with area businesses and communities. “I think this puts us in position for the next 100 years to be an even better partner, not just with the Monadnock Region but with the state,” says the president.
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Bud Winsor and Sally Brown, President of the Monadnock Garden Club (courtesy photo)
Bud Winsor (Physical Plant) received the Garden Club of America’s prestigious Club Civic Improvement Commendation at the annual meeting of the Monadnock Garden Club on October 21. He was recognized for more than 30 years of experience as a horticultural professional in the Keene area and for his excellent contributions to the City of Keene as assistant director of the Physical Plant at Keene State College for the past 16 years.
The Keene State campus is open to the public and is a horticultural destination, attracting people from the region who regularly visit and stroll through the KSC Arboretum. Winsor helped create the KSC Arboretum brochure (available as guides for visitors to the campus), which documents the biodiversity of campus plants. He conducts field tours for grade-school students and has travelled with his staff to give a presentation titled “Creating a Sense of Place.”
Winsor was also cited for professional development of his staff. Each of the 13 college employees he supervises is assigned a particular zone on the 180-acre campus, and he emphasizes continuing education for his staff. He also supervises many part-time KSC students, helping them to appreciate landscaping and design as both an art and a science.
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Keene State College’s Sixth Biennial World Affairs Symposium, “From Local to Global,” will explore issues related to globalization through a series of speakers, forums, and films offered on campus and in Keene from Wednesday, November 4, through Friday, November 6. All events are free and open to the public. (For a complete schedule and description of speakers and events, please visit the Symposium web page.)
Artists, educators, scholars, planners, and community leaders will gather to explore the impact of “the global” on local cultures, environments, economies, and identities. The symposium events are organized around the following set of questions:
Three keynote speakers:
Judy Wicks, a pioneering voice in the local economy movement for over 30 years, will deliver the opening keynote address, “Local Living Economies: Green, Fair, and Fun,” on Wednesday, November 4, at 8 p.m. (Mabel Brown Room, Student Center).
Tina Mai Chen will present “Film as Friendship: China’s Cultural Diplomacy in the Cold War” on Thursday, November 5, at 7 p.m. (Mabel Brown Room, Student Center).
Peter McLaren will present “Public Pedagogy in Dangerous Times,” on Friday, November 6, at 2 p.m. (Mabel Brown Room, Student Center).
Global/Local Film Festival:
Visit the film festival page for a list of films, keynote speakers, film panel, and detailed information about each film (click the film title). All films will be shown in the Drenan Auditorium on the third floor of Parker Hall.
KSC over Time:
How is Keene State College tied to events on the local, national, and global scale? Check out the wall-sized poster that will be on display in the Student Center Atrium throughout the Symposium to find out.
Judy Wicks, Tina Mai Chen and Peter McLaren
For more information, contact Kim SchmidlGagne at kgagne@keene.edu or 82768.
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From Stuart Kaufman, Sports Information: The lucky 13th edition of Midnight Madness was celebrated at Spaulding Gym on Friday, October 23. Night Owls who came out for the festivities were treated to a great night of fun and entertainment. The cheerleaders’ cheers brought everyone to their feet, the dancers danced the night away, and students contested for valuable prizes. While the season might be a few weeks away, the introduction of Owl players was greeted with a large roar that could be heard all the way up in Plymouth!
KSC students at Midnight Madness (courtesy photo)
From Rose Kundanis, Journalism: As part of the Keene State College Centennial, the Department of Communication, Journalism, and Philosophy has sponsored an historic timeline of the almost 100 years of student newspapers at KSC. Professors Julio Delsesto and Rose Kundanis will present this timeline on Friday, November 6, at 4 p.m. in the Media Arts Center Atrium. You are invited to share with us as we celebrate the Equinox and earlier versions of the KSC student newspaper. For more information, contact Rose Kundanis, 8-2404 or rkundani@keene.edu
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Ernest Hebert ‘69 (photo by Medora Hebert)
From Cheryl Spangler, Mason Library: Please join us on Saturday, November 7, for an afternoon of Centennial celebration in the Library, which will include tours of our wonderful facility and a talk by Ernest Hebert, “Keepers of the Flame.”
Hebert, a 1969 graduate of Keene State, was a Writer in Residence here from 1984-86, and is a 2002 honorary degree recipient. He’s the author of ten books, including eight novels, and was named Fiction Writer of the Year by the New England Independent Booksellers Association in 2006. He’s also Creative Writing Director and a professor of English at Dartmouth College. Tours start at 1:30 p.m., meeting in the Mason Library lobby. The talk starts at 2 p.m. in the Marion Wood Reading Area, Mason Library. For more information, contact Cheryl Spangler, 8-2723 or cspangle@keene.edu.
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From Heather Jasmin, Continuing Education: This fall the Office of Continuing Education is sponsoring “Great Decisions,” a series discussions of global issues. A 45-minute lecture on a topic of global interest is followed by moderated discussion; all lectures are free and open to the public. A nationwide forum of the Foreign Policy Association (FPA), “Great Decisions” is part of the longest-running civic education program in the United States devoted to foreign affairs.
Renate Gebauer (Environmental Studies) will moderate “The Arctic” on Thursday, November 5, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Rhodes N210. Attendees are encouraged to buy the Great Decisions 2009 publication ($18, available at the KSC Bookstore). Please RSVP Continuing Education, 8-2290 or continuing-ed@keene.edu.
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From Connie Lester, Redfern: The KSC Concert Band will perform “Rockets and Refrains” on Thursday, November 5, at 7:30 p.m. at the Redfern Arts Center.
A transcription of Franz Joseph Haydn’s St. Anthony Divertimento will be performed in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Austrian’s passing, and this composer’s enduring influence on the world will be marked by the performance of Fantasies on a Theme by Haydn by Norman Dello Joio. Lucien Caillet’s transcription of the “Aria: The Song of Our Country” from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2 by Heitor Villa-Lobos also will be performed.
This year is the 50th anniversary of the death of Villa-Lobos, often described as the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. KSC music education major and assistant conductor Lori Kjellander will conduct two works: Roland Barrett’s Firefall and Four Dance Episodes for Band, a 2004 composition by Gary Gilroy.
Trumpeter Nathan Shower of Merrimack, N.H., will be the featured soloist on the Prayer of St. Gregory, composed by Alan Hovhaness. Tickets are available through the box office at 8-2168 or online.
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From Stuart Kaufman, Sports Information: Just over 1,250 freshmen enrolled at Keene State College this fall, and many of these students brought to campus a special athletic talent that provides them the unique opportunity to play varsity sports.
Tyler Penn will never play soccer on the Keene State men’s soccer team, but few will argue that the freshman from Manchester, N.H., doesn’t possess a varsity player’s drive and determination to excel in the sport. Born with cerebral palsy, a term used to describe a group of chronic conditions affecting body movements and muscle coordination, Tyler subscribes to the theory that he can do anything he sets his mind on doing.
Penn is currently fulfilling one of his goals as a member of the U.S. Paralympic soccer team. He is spending two weeks playing at the World Paralympic Games in Amsterdam (read more here).
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From Francis Brush, Bookstore: This year’s United Way fund-raising campaign kicked off on October 29 with remarks by President Giles-Gee in the Lantern Room of the Student Center.
This year’s campaign theme is “Step Right Up!” Imagine a barker at the circus imploring people strolling down the midway to “Step Right Up!” and partner with the 49 human service agencies that depend on the United Way for support. In the words of Margaret Meade, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” For more information, contact Francis Brush, 8-2652.
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From Nona Fienberg, Arts and Humanities: The “New Voices, New Visions” series features the voices of faculty members who have joined the Keene State College community in the past several years and the visions of faculty members exploring new and exciting areas of study.
On Tuesday, November 3, Dr. Stephen Lucey, Assistant Professor of Art History, will present “Til Death Do Us Part: Royal Salvation Strategies in Late Medieval Cyprus,” at 4:30 in Morrison Lecture Hall. Dr. Lucey will present his research on a 15th-century chapel in Pyrga, Cyprus, and discuss the elaborate decorative program in light of the chapel’s intended memorial function and the ambitions of its founder, Janus de Lusignan, one of the last crusader kings.
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From IT Group: In the spirit of October Security Awareness Month, the IT Group would like to remind campus how to identify a phishing email.
Here is a message received on campus just last week. Is it phishing or is it real?
—–Original Message—–
From: motoxrox@clear.net.nz [mailto:motoxrox@clear.net.nz] On Behalf Of abuse@keene.edu
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 5:42 PM
To: email@keene.edu
Subject: keene.edu Report
keene.edu ReportYour email account has been reported for numerous spam activities from a foreign ip recently. As a result, keene.edu has received advice to suspend your account. However, you might not be the one promoting this Spam, as your email account might have been compromised. To protect your account from sending spam mails, you are to confirm your true ownership of this account by providing your Username (*******) and Password (*******) as a reply to this message. On receipt of the requested information, the keene.edu email support shall block your account from spam. Failure to do this will violate the keene.edu email terms & conditions. This will render your account inactive. NOTE: You will be send a password reset message in next seven (7) working days after undergoing this process for security reasons.
Keene State College - Webmail Access (Powered By gmail).
This is absolutely phishing. In the past year, our educational campaign regarding phishing focused on how to tell a phishing attempt from a legitimate email. Here is a quick list of things to remember or look for:
This format should be familiar to you. When this email was received after business hours last week, a very mature and responsible HelpDesk Student Technician understood how some faculty/staff might respond to it, given the specific use of keene.edu in the message. She made an urgent decision to send out a brief communication, and, while it did not include everything in our standard communication template, you recognized our message as legitimate, and the majority of you did not respond to the phishing attempt. Kudos to our student technician and kudos to you!
It is important to stay vigilant about phishing attempts both here on campus and at home. Learn to recognize the signs, and, above all, if they are asking for personal information, it is a phishing attempt!
For more information, please visit the IT Group Security website.
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Sander Lee (Philosophy) contributed an essay, “Hare Meets Hare: Donald and Bugs Fight Hitler,” to the current issue of the journal ArtUS.
George Loring, (Music) recently performed chamber music concerts in Boston, Mass., and Burlington, Vt., with colleagues Thomas Gregg (tenor) and Alan Parshley (French horn). The group is known collectively as the Tri-State Trio. The program included music by Berlioz, Britten, Delius, Debussy, Donizetti, Honneger, Koechlin, Lachner, Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Schumann, among others.
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2500 pumpkins from Bradford, Vermont, were delivered to Fiske Quad for the annual Pumpkin Lobotomy on October 16. More than 40 student organizations had tables surrounding the quad, providing caramel apples, cider, popcorn, and face painting for the crowd of KSC carvers. The pumpkin “guts” are always composted, but this year they were collected in the College’s new rubbish truck, which eliminated a lot of lifting and extra dumpster moving. Mary Jensen (Sustainability/Recycling) reports that several tons were collected and will be composted with leaves and chipped brush and used as mulch or soil conditioners for campus lawns and flowerbeds.
(Lynn Roman photo.)
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Elsewhere on campus, 144 members of the KSC community participated in the Fifth Annual Pumpkin 5K Fun Run/Walk, including nuns-on-the-run Patty Farmer, Amanda Warman, and Beth Zinn. “We are a team in the College’s Healthy Challenge initiative,” said Warman. “Our team name is the Sisters of Perpetual Hunger, so Beth came up with the idea of walking as a team in costume since it is a ‘fun run’ - or a ‘fun nun run’ now, I guess.”
Nuns on the run (l–r) Patty Farmer, Amanda Warman, and Beth Zinn (Lynn Roman photo.)
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From Bud Winsor, Physical Plant/ Grounds: More than 100 Greek students, three campus ecology students, and a student from the Campus Outing Club showed up on a cool, misty morning to help clean up the banks of the Ashuelot River from West Street all the way down to Route 101. More than 30 shopping carts, one old rusty bike, and several hundred pounds of trash were retrieved from campus clean-up efforts.
Additional thanks to TEK and Chi Phi for volunteering to help at the off-campus location (Beaver Brook, off of Water Street).
Chi Phi fraternity members collected eight bags of debris at Beaver Brook as part of the Source to the Sea cleanup, October 3. (Zack Hawkins photo.)
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From Jenny Twohig, R.O.C.K.S.: Join us on Saturday, October 24, and help make climate action history! Come to the Quad and be part of the largest climate action event ever (more than 158 countries already registered). We will take a photo of everyone grouped in the form of “350,” with a “NH” subscript. This group photo will be displayed in NYC on jumbo screens as well as presented to the United Nations.
These events lead up to the December climate meetings in Copenhagen. World leaders will be making decisions regarding climate treaties, and they need to hear our voice! This event is rain or shine (If raining, bring rain gear) and is kid friendly: Families are encouraged to attend. More information on 350 International Day of Climate Action events in the Monadnock area is listed on their website.
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From Jackie Hooper, Thorne: The history of comics from early newspaper strips to digital internet works will be explored in an art exhibit to be displayed October 24 to December 6 at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery. “Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics” celebrates creators of comics, both historical and contemporary, from underrepresented demographics, including women and minorities. A public reception, hosted by Friends of the Thorne, will open the exhibit on Friday, October 23, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the gallery.
“Out of Sequence” features works by a diverse group of comic artists and writers, showcasing works by women, small-press, minority, independent, gay and lesbian, self-published, underground, Web, and/or gallery comic creators. During the 20th century, white males were considered the creators of the popular comic culture, but at the same time, there were plenty of other voices, according to John Jennings and Damian Duffy, co-curators of the exhibit. Both are based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where they create comics together. (Read more about the exhibit here.) For more information, call 8-2720 or visit the Thorne website.
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From Stuart Kaufman, Sports Information: Keene State will hold its annual Midnight Madness celebration at Spaulding Gym on Friday night, October 23. Members of the College and Keene community are encouraged to attend. Doors are scheduled to open at 10:30 p.m., with festivities getting under way at 11. The first 1,800 students that come through the door will receive a specially designed Madness t-shirt.
Program highlights include unusual contests, incredible prizes and giveaways, and performances by the KSC cheerleading and dance squads, all leading up to the introduction of this year’s men’s and women’s basketball teams at the stroke of midnight. Prizes include a pair of $10,000 shots, airline vouchers, iPod and computer giveaways, a $300 Synergy gift certificate, and bookstore and meal-plan awards. “It’s like the Keene State version of Let’s make a Deal,” said KSC women’s basketball coach Keith Boucher.
Following the games, the Keene State men’s and women’s basketball teams take the floor and entertain the crowd with slam dunk and shooting contests. Midnight Madness is sponsored by KSC athletics, the Lloyd P. Young Student Center, the Vice-President’s Office for Student Affairs, and Keene State Student Government.
From Bill Menezes, Redfern: The circus is coming! Cirque Mechanic will perform Birdhouse Factory at Keene State College’s Redfern Arts Center on Sunday, November 1, at 3 p.m., with a school performance on November 2 at 10 a.m. The New York Times described Birdhouse Factory as “exceptional, evocative, eye-catching, ear-catching, and, to keep the list short, engrossingly entertaining.” It is suitable for ages three and older (more information).
Birdhouse Factory is a place where acrobatics and early 20th century machines come together. It pays tribute to a time gone by, integrating the assembly line with original machines which power or assist the circus acts as they attempt to build a better birdhouse. The show was inspired in part by Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals, by Rube Goldberg’s outrageous illustrations, and by Charlie Chaplin’s film, Modern Times. The show is brought to life thanks to the vision of its creative team, Director Chris Lashua, Assistant Director/Choreographer Aloysia Gavre, and Character Actor/Performer Steven Ragatz, veterans of the world-renowned Cirque du Soleil.
Tickets and information are available at the Redfern Arts Center box office, 8-2168, or online.
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From Dottie Morris, Diversity and Multiculturalism: The Office of Diversity and Multiculturalism is sponsoring Diversity Summit meetings to address joys, concerns, hopes, and fears associated with diversity and multiculturalism; to discuss our collective understanding of diversity and multiculturalism; to help create a mission statement and develop goals and objectives for the Office; and to devise a plan of action to support diversity and multicultural efforts throughout the college.
There will be five opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to get together and contribute to this endeavor. The summit meetings are scheduled for:
If you are not able to attend any of the meeting times, you can send your thoughts, feelings, and ideas to me by e-mail (dmorris@keene.edu), or call (8-2206) and schedule a time to meet with me. After all of the meetings have been held, a summary will be generated and distributed to the Keene State College community for feedback. The information obtained during the meetings and feedback period will help inform some of the work I will do as Chief Officer for Diversity and Multiculturalism. Looking forward to talking to you!
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From Francis Brush, Bookstore: KSC’s Print and Mail Services proudly introduces our latest program to support this institution’s goal of excellence in education. Large-format poster printing is now available to all members of the campus community. We have acquired an HP T1120PS, to compliment our HP 120 plotter and our Konica 8050 color copier. This equipment allows us to produce high-quality color images ranging from 8.5″ x 11″ up to 42″ x 60″. Media choices include transparencies, bond, coated, vinyl, and tyvek. Special-order media is also available. Prebuilt software templates are available and are suggested for those unfamiliar with large-format printing requirements. PDF and MS Publisher file formats are recommended. We’ve placed a convenient file submission form on the Redball pages
Pricing is based on the area of the poster, media type, and consumables (ink) used to produce the poster. Call 8-2763 for an estimate. We hope you’ll take advantage of this service for your color printing needs.
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From Dori Almann, Continuing Ed: Continuing Education and Extended Studies invites faculty to submit credit and noncredit course proposals for summer session 2010. The deadline for submitting summer course proposals is Friday, December 11, 2009.
Summer session courses, offered through Continuing Education and Extended Studies, focus on matriculated, continuing education, and graduate students. Summer classes include ISP courses, upper-level courses in majors, special topics, personal and professional development, and graduate courses. In addition, Continuing Education welcomes faculty suggestions for innovative programming options that might better serve KSC first- and second-year students who typically go home for the summer. Some options being studied include weekend courses, two-, three-, or four-week course formats, and blended/online learning opportunities.
A printable course proposal form is available through the college’s intranet (Outlook/ Public Folders/ All Public Folders/Continuing Education/CE Forms), online, and from the CE office. Please obtain chair/coordinator approval before returning completed course proposals to Steve Kessler, Continuing Education and Summer Session, no later than Friday, December 11, 2009. Questions? Contact Steve Kessler at 8-2556 or skessler@keene.edu. Continuing Education thanks you for your interest in Summer Session 2010!
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From Jay Kahn and Karen Stanish, Planning Council: The College Planning Council is sponsoring another Planning Process Workshop on Friday, October 23, from 8:30-10 a.m. in the Student Center’s Mountain View Room. If you are planning to submit an initiative through the planning process this year, this is an opportunity for you to receive some last-minute proposal writing or budget assistance prior to submission. Feel free to stop in any time from 8:30 to 10. Bring your laptop or a hard copy of your draft proposal.
Members of the Planning Council, College Information Technology Council, Human Resources Policy Advisory Board, Facilities Planning Advisory Council, and Budget and Resources Council will be present to give you feedback or assistance on items in the proposal form, such as writing a clear narrative, selecting a strategic goal, creating a timeline, and forming an assessment plan. Staff from the Business Office and Human Resources will be present to aid you in filling out the new Planning Proposal Financial Worksheet.
The planning process is a means for communicating your ideas for contributing to the College’s mission, values, and planning goals, and gaining College approval (and, where necessary, funding and staff support) for implementation. To be considered during this year’s planning process, initiatives are due to your director or dean on October 30, 2009, or to your principal administrator on November 6, 2009. Feel free to contact the Planning Council co-chairs, Jay Kahn and Karen Stanish, if you have any questions. You can also view planning process information on the web.
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