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This week is last print issue of semester
This week's issue is the Reporter's final print issue of the fall semester. Online issues will be published on Dec. 14, Jan. 4 and Jan. 11. Print publication of the newspaper for the spring semester will resume on Jan. 18.
Faculty members join A Musical Feast
UB faculty members Tony Arnold and Cheryl Gobbetti-Hoffman will be among the musicians performing in the second program of "A Musical Feast," to be held at 8 p.m. Jan. 16 in the Kavinoky Theater at D'Youville College.
Soprano Arnold and flutist Gobbetti-Hoffman will join percussionist Tom Kolor, violinist Charles Castleman, cellist Feng Hew and violinist Charles Haupt in a concert that will feature the work of Iannis Xenakis, Toru Takemitsu, John Cage, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Thea Musgrave and Zoltán Kodály.
The concert series, initiated by Haupt, who recently retired as concertmaster of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, includes chamber music, solo performances and chamber orchestra.
For more information, call 829-7668 or go to http://www.amusicalfeast.com/.
In 2001, Arnold became the only vocalist ever to be awarded First Prize in the International Guadeamus Interpreters Competition, the oldest and most important competition for performers of contemporary music. She also won First Prize in the Louise D. McMahon International Music Competition.
Gobbetti-Hoffman is a former member of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. She directs Plosion, UB's flute ensemble, and has organized Pantasmagoria, a festival devoted solely to the flute. She also founded Who-o-o-osh, a flute advocacy group.
Travel routes sought
In an effort to ensure proper and consistent snow removal so that students with mobility impairments have access to all campus programs, activities, and services, Disability Services and University Facilities are asking students who have registered with the Office of Disability Services to send their campus travel routes to the office by Dec. 15.
Students must identify each segment of their anticipated travel patterns for classes and other campus activities they attend regularly.
To report travel routes, students should call Disability Services at 645-2608, or go to http://www.ub-disability.buffalo.edu/snowroute.
To report snow-related obstacles on both North and South campuses, all members of the UB community should dial the Snow Removal Hotline at ext. 71 (on campus) or 645-2025 (off campus). This number is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
To register with Disability Services, students should call Disability Services at 645-2608 and provide verification of their disability.
For a copy of UB's Snow Removal Policy, call Disability Services or visit http://www.ub-disability.buffalo.edu/snow.
Wine tasting to be held
A wine tasting to benefit Street Synergy Community Association Inc. will be held from 6-8:30 p.m. tomorrow in 105 Harriman Hall, South Campus.
The cost is $25 per person. Tickets will be available at the door.
The event will feature wine provided by Hertel Parker Liquor and music by the UB Jazz Ensemble.
Emerging entrepreneurs honored
Jetaun Jones has been named "Protégé of the Year" by the Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Program, a joint venture by the University at Buffalo School of Management's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) and the UB Center for Urban Studies.
Jones, owner of BeYouTiful Ladies Clothing Boutique, received a $1,500 prize for the honor. Jacqueline Schenk, owner of A Blooming Place, was awarded the second-place prize of $1,000. Two additional business owners, Diane Brown of DS Brown Property Management Co. and Charles Coleman of A Kut Above the Rest, tied for third place, receiving $500 each.
The program, sponsored by the Allstate Foundation, a charitable organization funded by subsidiaries of Allstate Insurance Corporation, drew to a close with the presentation of the awards at a banquet held yesterday in the Jacobs Executive Development Center, 672 Delaware Ave.
Seventeen participants completed the program after entering as protégés last January.
Each participant was assigned two mentors who are successful entrepreneurs from the local business community and who met regularly with their protégés to help them evaluate and improve their business plans.
Mentors provided protégés with technical advice on varied aspects of running a small business, such as strategic and tactical thinking, marketing, merchandising, pricing, inventory control, accounting, long-range financial planning and basic legal advice to help protégés formulate realistic business goals and to develop timetables and strategies for achieving them.
"Mentor of the Year" awards were given to Jones' mentors, David N. Bunis of Elmwood Associates, and Mary C. Powell of Casilio Companies.
The culminating activity in the program was a new or revised business plan. One year after completing the program, protégés will be invited back to assess the program's impact on the development of their businesses.
"Our mission is to create a pathway that enables minority and women emerging entrepreneurs to move their companies to the next stage of development," said Althea Luehrsen, executive director of CEL. "The program has again exceeded our expectations, significantly increasing the number of graduates from last year, and we look forward to launching our fourth year in 2007," Luehrsen added.
Applications for the 2007 program are due by Jan. 12. For more information, call CEL at 885-5715 or visit http://mgt.buffalo.edu/ced /cel.
PSS seeks officers
The Elections Committee of the Professional Staff Senate is seeking nominations for the offices of chair, vice chair and recording secretary for the term running from July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2009.
All full-time members of the UB professional staff are eligible to submit nominations to run for office and to vote.
To nominate individuals, submit his/her name with email address and department to pssenate@buffalo.edu no later than Dec. 20.
For further information, contact the PSS office at 645-2003.
UB policy regarding change in operations
The coming of winter brings with it the potential for adjusting scheduled operations of the campus. UB policy requires scheduled operations to continue as long as possible, essential university services to be maintained and university employees to remain on duty where necessary to perform essential services even under extraordinary circumstances.
However, when conditions become so severe that the university cannot operate effectively, the president may make a decision to change scheduled operations resulting in class cancellations, an early departure or a closing.
The university is committed to providing timely and accurate information to faculty, staff, students and the Western New York community. Announcements regarding a change in scheduled operations will be made on:
645-NEWS, the UB information line.
WBFO-FM 88.7, the official UB information station.
www.buffalo.edu, the UB home page.
http://www.buffalo.edu/aboutmyub/, MyUB, a Web-based personal portal.
Local broadcast media.
1620-AM, campus traffic radio broadcast.
645-2345, Public Safety campus condition line.
If appropriate, all campus email (faculty, staff and students).
Services related to the health and safety of students, faculty, staff and guests, and facility maintenance and security are essential and must continue, in spite of severe conditions. Supervisors determine, based on the nature of the event, which employees are essential. Employees who provide essential services should be identified and notified to ensure understanding about who must remain at or report to work in the event of a change in scheduled operations. Only employees who provide essential services should report to work in such an event.
According to state policy, employee absences resulting from a change in scheduled operations, including class cancellations, early departures and closings, must be charged to appropriate leave accruals. Anyone who does not have sufficient leave accruals may borrow from future accruals. Only the governor can officially declare that UB is closed and only the governor can authorize employees to remain away from work without the use of leave accruals.
Any person who reports to work will not be deprived of the opportunity to work. If it is determined during the course of a workday that the university cannot operate effectively, employees are not required to leave at that moment; employees may leave then or any time thereafter. Only the time that an employee is absent is charged to leave accruals.
There is no guarantee that those employees who arrive at the campus or those who stay after a change in scheduled operations announcement will be able to work at their usual work places. Adequate supervision may not be available or the building in which the individual usually works may not be open. Provision should be made for alternate campus work locations and alternate work for those who do get to the campus but who cannot go to their regular work places or cannot perform their regular work assignments.