University Notes
University of Southern Indiana
Wendy Bredhold, editor • 812/461-5259 • Brandi Schwartz, editorial associate • 812/465-1192
Vol. 40, No. 29 September 16, 2005
Khayum named acting dean
Mohammed F. Khayum, professor of economics, has been named
acting dean of the College of Business. The appointment was
effective August 16.
Khayum joined USI in 1991 and was named associate dean
and director of the MBA program in January 2004. He succeeds
R. Eugene Klippel, who stepped down as dean of the College of
Business effective August 12.
Linda Bennett, vice president for Academic Affairs, said,
“Dr. Khayum has the experience to keep the college moving forward during the search process for a new dean and his collaborative style will help keep faculty informed and involved in the college's future. Because Dr. Khayum has been active in the
Evansville community, he is someone with whom area business
leaders are familiar. ”
Khayum said, “I believe that this academic year will be filled
with dynamism as the College of Business focuses on implementing its strategic plan which was adopted in spring 2005. Based on
my knowledge of the faculty and staff, an in-depth understanding
of the college’s mission and processes, and my administrative
experience during the past four years, first as a department chair
and more recently as associate dean, I am confident the College
of Business will continue to provide high quality and meaningful
educational experiences for our students.”
Khayum prepares the Business Conditions and Outlook
Survey, a quarterly survey of businesses in the Evansville area, and
the Evansville Factbook, a compendium of demographic, economic, and social information about Southwestern Indiana. He
also has contributed his expertise to a number of area economic
impact studies, needs assessment projects, and other activities in
the field of economics.
Joining USI as assistant professor in the Department of
Economics and Finance, Khayum was promoted to associate professor in 1995. He was named professor in 2001 and served as
chair of the Department of Economics and Finance from that
time until his appointment as associate dean in 2004.
Khayum earned an undergraduate degree in economics from
University of Guyana. He completed master’s and doctoral
degrees, also in economics, at Temple University.
His research interests include input-output analysis, service
sector growth, economic development, exchange rate determination, consumption behavior, and the New Economy.
Articles by Khayum have appeared in a number of professional publications, including the Journal of College Reading and
Learning, Applied Economics, Global Business and Finance
Review, Service Industries Journal, and International Economic
Journal. He has made presentations at conferences in Chicago;
New Orleans; Washington, D.C.; and Philadelphia.
He is the author of two books on economic issues in developing countries.
Transfer coordinator will help Ivy Tech students come to USI
Nancy Dauby, a former training consultant with Extended
Services, assumed a new position as transfer coordinator on
September 6. She will assist Ivy Tech Community College students who have expressed interest in continuing their education
at USI.
“This arrangement between the two schools is a partnership
to help ease the transition for students to USI and to help clarify
transfer of credits and identify needs of the transfer student,” said
Eric Otto, director of Admission.
The transfer coordinator will be housed in the Career Services
office at Ivy Tech, and the position will report through the USI
Office of Admission. It is being funded by USI.
“Each year, we see an increase in the number of our graduates
who want to transfer,” said Deborah Garrett, dean of Student
Affairs at Ivy Tech. “The most recent placement survey indicated that nearly 60 percent of our graduates hope to pursue higher
education, many of whom want to attend USI.”
A 1999 graduate of USI, Dauby is a student in the Master of
Public Administration program. She worked as a credentials analyst assistant in the Office of the Registrar for nine years and was
the director for Computer Technology at St. Benedict Cathedral
School for five years.
Dauby has been a presenter at the regional conference for the
University Continuing Education Association and a member of
the UCEA planning committee. She is Communications
Committee chair for the USI Alumni Council and active as a
volunteer with the Indiana chapter of the National MS Society
and the Boys and Girls Club of Evansville.
“The Ram in the Thicket” will examine the
rich heritage of the Middle East
The University’s 2005 international interdisciplinary colloquium, “The Ram in the Thicket: The Cradle of Civilization,”
will focus on the Middle East from 2600 BCE to the present. The
colloquium will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, September
23, in Carter Hall in the University Center.
The Ram in the Thicket is a stunningly beautiful art object of
gold, lapis lazuli, and shell, circa 2600 BCE, from Ur, the legendary birthplace of Abraham.
The colloquium will investigate the rich heritage of the
Middle East, from its earliest beginnings in the creation of writing, urban life, religion, poetry, metallurgy, science, and medicine,
to the present day cultural inheritance of contemporary Western
civilization.
College of Liberal Arts faculty will give 20-minute lectures,
poetry and prose readings on topics such as The Epic of
Gilgamesh; Sumerian mythology; the goddess in Sumerian,
Akkadian and early Hebrew traditions; the first poet,
Enheduanna, 2300 BCE; French and English influence in the
Middle East; contemporary journalism in the Middle East; veiling
practices and gender issues; father-son relations in patriarchy; sacrifice in the Old Testament; and belief in the afterlife. Art faculty will display paintings inspired by the topic.
A reception featuring Middle Eastern cuisine will follow the
final presentation.
In conjunction with the colloquium, there will be a Ropewalk
Reading with Dr. Dick Davis, chair of Near Eastern Languages at
The Ohio State University, at 7 p.m. Thursday, September 22.
Davis will read his translations of Persian poetry.
All events are free and open to the public.
Visit www.usi.edu/libarts/intl/ram.asp for a full schedule,
abstracts, and more information.
In 2004, almost 2,500 students, faculty, staff, and community
members attended the Parthenon Colloquium, the first of its kind
at USI.
For more information, contact Patricia L. Aakhus, director of
International Studies, at 812/465-7088.
Lecture series on Einstein’s Annus Mirabilis
The University will observe World Year of Physics with a fall
lecture series based on Albert Einstein’s three groundbreaking
publications. World Year of Physics coincides with the 100th
anniversary of the Annus Mirabilis (miracle year) during which
Einstein changed the landscape of science. Einstein’s work in
1905 helped foster scientific revolutions in our understanding of
space and time, as well as matter and energy.
“Einstein published four papers in 1905, three of which were
revolutionary, and he did it at the age of 26,” said Kent Scheller,
associate professor of physics. “He was working as a patent office
clerk, studying physics on his own; he wasn’t working as an academician.”
“Maybe Galileo and Newton are on the same plane with their
revolutionary thought in the scientific world,” he added, “but certainly no one since then has done what he did in a single year,
and that’s why physicists call it the miracle year.”
USI physics professors will discuss the three 1905 publications, on the nature of light, relativity, and Brownian molecular
motion. Each lecture will be held at 2 p.m. in Room 1101 in the
Education Center.
- September 23 — “Photoelectric Effect,” by Kent Scheller
“The nature of light had been debated for a century before
Einstein’s publications, and it was thought that light was a wave,”
Scheller said. “With the photoelectric effect, Einstein showed
that light could act like a particle. That ushered in a revolution
in how scientists look at light.”
Einstein eventually received the Nobel Prize for the photoelectric effect, but not until the 1920s. “It’s said that people didn’t understand relativity, but they could understand the photoelectric effect, so they gave him the Nobel Prize for that,”
Scheller said.
- October 28 — “Special Relativity,” by Shadow Robinson,
assistant professor of physics
“Relativity sweeps across everything that we study, from the
smallest atom to the largest stars, and it has been well proven and
documented in experiment after experiment that what Einstein
formed in his mind was real,” Scheller said.
“Now, my 7-year-old knows E = mc2. He doesn’t understand
it, but he knows it. Everybody does. That’s the level to which
Einstein has reached 50 years after his death. His genius has
spanned the ages.”
- November 18 — “Brownian Motion,” by Tom Pickett,
associate professor of physics
Brownian molecular motion wasn’t understood in 1905. It
describes how molecules move through interactions and collisions.
Each lecture also will feature biographical information about
Einstein.
The lecture series is sponsored by the Pott College of Science
and Engineering. Refreshments will be served after each lecture.
The public is welcome.
For more information, contact Scheller at 812/464-1903.
Indiana Archaeology Month events
USI faculty and students will join Indiana University archaeologist Cheryl Ann Munson and her research team at the
Hovey Lake Fish and Wildlife Area archaeological site this
month. September is Indiana Archaeology Month, and free public events will be held in conjunction with the excavation.
Leslie L. Bush, research fellow at IU’s Glenn Black
Laboratory of Archaeology will present a public lecture, “The
Amazing True Story of How Southern Indiana Became Farm
Country,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, September 21, at Alexandrian
Public Library in Mount Vernon, Indiana. Bush is an expert in
archaeo-botany and has identified prehistoric plant remains from
a number of sites in Indiana.
The Hovey Lake excavation site will be open to the public
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, September 24-25.
Each day will include interactive laboratory work and hands-on
activities. Adults and children can appreciate early Native
American village life by learning how to make tools and using
ancient methods to prepare a crop and grind corn into meal.
Visitors also will learn about the scientific methods archaeologists
use in excavations and data analysis.
Robert Mann, assistant professor of anthropology, and USI
students will demonstrate the work of an archaeology field lab.
Students from the University of Evansville and Indiana
University-Bloomington also will participate.
Exhibits about archaeology are on display throughout the
month at the Hovey Lake Visitor’s Center, the Alexandrian
Public Library, and the Workingmen’s Institute in New Harmony,
Indiana.
Munson has been conducting archaeological research in
southwestern Indiana since 1975. Archaeological surveys and
excavations have revealed that the Hovey Lake site is one of several large protohistoric Native American villages of the
Mississippian Caborn-Welborn culture. Indiana University’s test
excavations have shown that the Hovey Lake site developed
about A.D. 1400, about the time that the Mississippian Indian
chiefdom based at Angel Mounds State Historic Site fell into
decline. Based on radiocarbon dates, archaeologists have determined that the Hovey Lake village site was occupied until at least
A.D. 1650, before the villagers and related neighboring communities abandoned the region.
Indiana Archaeology Month activities are sponsored by
Indiana University, USI, Historic New Harmony, Ohio River
Scenic Route, Alexandrian Public Library, Angel Mounds State
Historic Site, Hovey Lake Fish and Wildlife Area, Posey County
Historical Society, University of Evansville, and the
Workingmen’s Institute.
Funding for research and education programs at the Hovey
Lake site is provided by a four-year grant to Indiana University
from the Federal Highway Administration’s Transportation
Enhancement Program, administered by INDOT, plus contributions from organizations and individuals.
Further program details, as well as information about archaeological research in southwestern Indiana, is at
www.indiana.edu/~archaeo.
The Indiana Archaeology Month program in southwestern
Indiana is part of a state-wide celebration of the science of
archaeology, and what it can teach us about Indiana’s heritage.
See www.IN.gov/dnr/historic/archeomonth.html for information
on events and programs held at other locations around the state.
Encourage students to attend Student
Leadership Conference
The Office of Student Development will host a Student
Leadership Conference from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday,
September 24, in the University Center. Formerly the Fall
Executive Board Retreat, geared toward student organizations,
the event is open to all USI students this year. O. Ray Angle of
Good Work Consulting, LLC, a motivational speaking and training company, is the speaker for the opening session. He will discuss “Developing Your Own Leadership Style.”
“Students don’t have to be involved in an organization to
attend,” said Shannon Poling, program advisor for student
activities, “The leadership conference is for all students, whether
they are already involved, want to get involved, or want to know
more about leadership.”
There will be three breakout sessions on a variety of leadership topics. Lunch will be provided.
“The Student Leadership Conference is an excellent opportunity for any student, regardless of their leadership experience, to
learn about leadership or strengthen their current skills,” Poling
said. “Please encourage students that you interact with to participate in this activity, which will assist them in their current roles
as students and challenge them to begin thinking about their
leadership style.”
Students must register for the conference by 4 p.m. Tuesday,
September 20. They may register online at www.usi.edu/leadership/Conferenceregistration.asp or in the Office of Student
Development in the lower level of the University Center.
Center for Economic Education wins award
For its impact on schools and students in southwestern
Indiana, USI’s Center for Economic Education will receive the
Peter V. Harrington University Center Award from the Indiana
Council for Economic Education (ICEE). The award is given
annually to the Center for Economic Education in Indiana that
has excelled the most in its mission of economic literacy. Eleven
centers around the state are eligible for the award. Greg
Valentine, professor of business education, is director of the USI
center. In the 2004-05 academic year, the USI center:
- Nearly doubled the number of teachers trained - from 162 to
331.
- Had a regional school win an Indiana Department of
Education Economics Education grant.
- Successfully piloted a new, graduate-credit Modified Key
Teacher program.
- Continued to successfully promote and train teachers in the
ICEE’s Stock Market Simulation. This past year, 665
Evansville-area student teams participated in SMS.
- Increased the visibility of the Center and University and
improved economic literacy by visiting local schools to
demonstrate economic and financial education lessons.
- Successfully achieved the maximum five-year center affilia
tion from the National Council on Economic Education.
This award is presented in honor of Peter V. Harrington, the
executive director of the Indiana Council for Economic
Education from 1971-1997. His leadership built the Indiana
Council into one of the strongest councils for economic education in the country.
The USI Center for Economic Education will be honored at
the ICEE’s Annual Awards Program on Wednesday, October 12,
in Carmel, Indiana. The center will receive a plaque and a check
for $3,000 to use for the advancement of economic education in
the region. This award is sponsored by Duke Realty Corporation.
For more than 50 years, the ICEE has provided resources and
training to the teachers and students of Indiana. The ICEE is a
comprehensive partnership of leaders from business, labor, agriculture, education, and government dedicated to improving economic literacy in Indiana. Its mission is to prepare students to
become active citizens and productive members of our economy
by providing them with the ability to make economic decisions.
Smokeless tobacco products worse than cigarettes
An expanded smoking policy that prohibits smoking and
smokeless tobacco products is in effect at the University in an
effort to promote and maintain a clean and healthy environment
for students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
In marketing efforts, often smokeless tobacco products are
promoted as safe alternatives to smoking, offering the suggestion
that tobacco smoke won’t get in a person’s lungs. Tobacco use in
any form is a health concern.
Phyllis Maddox, assistant professor of dental hygiene, said,
“Smokeless tobacco products are worse.” She said a person
becomes addicted much faster with smokeless tobacco because
nicotine is more rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream. And the
dip or pinch sits directly on the oral mucous membrane and produces cellular change in cheeks and gums that lead to definite
oral consequences.
Maddox refers to the substance as “spit” tobacco. “I don’t
advocate the use of this term. But in this case, I want it to sound
as nasty as it is. It is not a glamorous habit.”
Tobacco chewers put shredded, twisted, or brick tobacco
leaves between their cheeks and gums and spit often to get rid of
the saliva and tobacco juice that builds up in the mouth.
Maddox has presented at workshops for Louisville Dental
Hygienists’Association, the Ohio Valley Hygienists’and the
Evansville Dental Assistants Society, and she uses smokeless
tobacco information for the curriculum in the courses she teaches at USI.
She said she is not a tobacco cessation therapist, but she does
recommend that heavy tobacco users quit “cold turkey.” She said
it is best to set a date, and to suspend tobacco use from that date
forward. She said 90 percent of the people who successfully quit
using tobacco products do so by quitting cold turkey.
She does recommend, especially for heavy users who use one
tin or one pouch of smokeless tobacco every two days, to talk
with a physician before quitting. The highly addicted individuals
may need to use tobacco replacement therapies such as the patch
or nicotine gum, and improper use of the therapies can cause
stress on the heart and be fatal.
She said a can of spit tobacco can equal 30 to 60 cigarettes,
depending on the brand. A dip held in place 30 minutes equals
up to four cigarettes smoked in that same time.
The revised smoking policy prohibits smoking and the use of
smokeless tobacco products in University buildings and
University-owned and University-leased licensed vehicles.
Smoking is permitted beyond a minimum of a 30-foot perimeter around University facilities.
USI responds to Katrina
USI is helping students displaced by Hurricane Katrina by
offering tuition-free courses on campus and through distance education.
The University is among over 200 colleges and universities
offering tuition-free distance education courses to students affected by Katrina. The effort is being coordinated by the Southern
Regional Education Board (SREB), which has 16 member states,
and the Sloan Consortium, an organization that promotes standards for online learning. The effort is supported by a $1.1-million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The courses will be offered to students from institutions
impacted by Katrina, and to students serving in the National
Guard whose studies were interrupted by being called to active
duty in the aftermath of the hurricane.
USI will offer 10 courses in the “Sloan Semester.”
Registration begins Monday, September 19, and continues until
classes begin October 10. The abbreviated semester ends January
6.
“The SREB considers this a bridge semester,” said Saxon
Reasons, manager of Instructional Technology programs.
“Ideally, these students would be able to pick back up at their
home institutions in spring of 2006.”
USI faculty were eager to be part of the effort.
“We sent an e-mail to our distance education faculty asking
for volunteers,” Reasons said. “Sloan was fielding student requests
for courses and posting the requests on its Web site. We married
the two by looking at the response from our faculty and comparing it with requested courses. We came up with 10 we thought
would be a good fit. They were already existing USI distance educations courses, the students were requesting them, and they had
a good chance to fill.”
Students will register through the Distance Education office not the Office of the Registrar. Interested students should go to
http://www.sloansemester.org/student/ for more information, or
contact Reasons at 812/465-1061.
Six students displaced by Katrina are already taking advantage of the University’s offer of a tuition-free semester on campus.
Students from Tulane University, Xavier University of New
Orleans, University of New Orleans, and Southeastern Louisiana
University are currently attending USI.
“Most of the students were able to enroll in similar classes to
those at their previous universities,” said Eric Otto, director of
Admission. “Our faculty and staff really pitched in and made the
transition as smooth as possible.”
Some of the students are Tri-state residents who attended
school in the Gulf Coast area, and others are staying with relatives in the Tri-state.
Linda L. M. Bennett, provost and vice president for
Academic Affairs, said, “It is a proud time to be a part of the USI
family. The Katrina catastrophe has brought a strong humanitarian response from students, faculty, and staff who have responded
to organized community-wide efforts and created fund raisers of
their own. Faculty and staff were willing to give up their weekends to counsel refugee students; some offered to open their
homes.
“I know that as new challenges confront our Gulf Coast
neighbors, the USI community will continue to respond in support of relief.”
American Chemical Society president will
discuss plastics recycling
Bill Carroll, president of the American Chemical Society,
will present “From Garbage to Stuff: How We Recycle Plastics,”
at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, September 29, in Mitchell Auditorium in
the Health Professions Center.
He will discuss the four critical steps of recycling: collection,
separation, processing and remanufacture, and how they relate to
plastics. Included will be a primer in the basic kinds of plastics,
how they differ, and how they are used in common items.
Carroll is vice president of chlorovinyl issues for OxyChem, a
producer and marketer of basic chemicals, petrochemicals, polymers, plastics, and specialty products, and adjunct professor of
chemistry at Indiana University. He is the 2005 President of the
American Chemical Society.
He will be in the area to tour GE's Mount Vernon plant. For
more information, contact Jeannie Collins, assistant professor of
chemistry, at 812/465-1267.
Notes in a nutshell
A version of University Notes, called University Quick Notes,
will circulate to all full-time and part-time employees starting this
week. University Quick Notes will be a one-page, one-sided issue
with summaries of the stories that are in the current issue of
University Notes. It will be sent through campus mail and should
arrive in most offices on Friday or the following Monday. The
summaries in University Quick Notes will have a Web address to
the complete news story. The full version of University Notes,
complete with photographs and Marketplace, will continue being
published online.
Kathy Funke, director of News and Information Services,
said, “This effort will get news to employees in two formats, and
employees can choose to visit online or skim the news digest
when busy schedules keep them from visiting University Notes
online. The intent is to make it easy for employees to stay current
on University news.”
Questions about University Quick Notes can be sent to Funke
at kfunke@usi.edu or call 812/465-7050. Reactions to the new
format are welcome and encouraged.
Names in the news
Brianna Dillinger has accepted a position as operations
assistant in Information Technology Services. She was employed
at Turoni’s Forget-Me-Not Inn.
Heather K. Ervin has accepted a position as instructor in
mathematics. She is a graduate of Lehigh University with a
Master of Science degree in statistics, and Bloomsburg University
with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics.
Cyd Fithian has accepted a position as assistant math specialist with Academic Skills. She was an adjunct instructor in
math at USI and at Ivy Tech. She has a Master of Science degree
in secondary education from USI, a Bachelor of Science in education from Western Illinois University, and an associate degree
in math from Spoon River College. She is a member of Who’s
Who in American Education, Indiana Association of
Development Education, and National Association for
Developmental Education, and is the recipient of the
Outstanding American Educator award and the President’s
Award in Education.
Albert David Hitchcock has accepted a position as assistant
professor of Spanish. He was formerly assistant professor of
Spanish at Worcester State College and assistant professor of foreign language at Wesleyan College. He has a Ph.D. in Hispanic
literature from Cornell University, a Master of Arts degree in
Spanish from Middlebury College, and a Bachelor of Arts degree
from Hamilton College. He is the recipient of a Vulcan Teaching
Award from Wesleyan College and a Sage Fellowship from
Cornell University. He is a member of the Modern Language
Association and the Northeast Modern Language Association.
Connell J. Jones has accepted a position as instructor in
finance. He was formerly a manager of training and development
with Dana Corporation. He has a Master of Business
Administration from USI, and two bachelor’s degrees from the
University of Evansville.
Joe W. Loge has accepted a position as an advisor in the
University Division. He was formerly an OPTIONS advisor within the University Division and was principal of Castle Junior
High School for 19 years. He has master’s and bachelor’s degrees
from the University of Evansville.
Robbie B. Mann has accepted a position as assistant professor of anthropology. He was formerly southeast regional archaeologist with Louisiana State University. He has a Ph.D. from
State University of New York-Binghamton, a Master of Arts
degree from Ball State University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree
from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He is a
member of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Society for
American Archaeology, and American Society for Ethnohistory.
Dominic Micer has accepted a position as assistant professor
of English. He was formerly a visiting assistant professor at Miami
University. He has a Ph.D. in English from Miami University, a
Master of Arts degree in English from University of Vermont, a
Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Virginia Commonwealth
University, and an Associate of Science degree in education from
Northern Virginia Community College.
S. Elizabeth Passmore has accepted a position as assistant
professor of medieval literature. She was formerly an instructor of
English at the University of Connecticut-Storrs. She has a Ph.D.
and a Master of Arts degree in medieval studies from the
University of Connecticut, a Master of Arts degree in English
from the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and Bachelor of
Arts degree in English from the University of MassachusettsLowell. She is a member of the Medieval Academy of America,
the Celtic Studies Association of North America, and the New
Chaucer Society.
Robin A. Sermersheim has accepted a position as instructor of mathematics. She was formerly an assistant professor of
computer networking at Oakland City University and a high
school math teacher with the Pike County School Corporation.
She has a Master of Science degree in computer science education, a Bachelor of Arts degree in secondary education, and an
Associate of Science degree in computer science from the
University of Evansville. She is a member of Who’s Who among
American Teachers, Delta Kappa Gamma’s Gibson County chapter, and Tri Kappa’s Oakland City chapter.
FYI
Constitution Day program will examine First
Amendment freedoms
In honor of Constitution Day, USI will sponsor a video presentation entitled “Free Speech in the Digital Age” from noon to
1 p.m. Monday, September 19, in Carter Hall D in the University
Center. National Public Radio’s Margot Adler will host the hourlong special program from the William G. McGowan Theater at
the National Archives. The debate will look at censorship in
libraries, textbooks, and on the Internet. The program will examine the reasons for both safeguarding and limiting speech, including protection of minors and community safety, ensuring a free
marketplace of ideas, and guaranteeing democratic institutions.
“The presentation will be an excellent way to jump start classroom discussion on First Amendment freedoms,” said John
Gottcent, professor of English. For more information, contact
Gottcent at 812/464-1750.
Americans with Disabilities Act audio conference
An Americans with Disabilities Act-Indiana audio conference will be held from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 20, in
Room 1212 in the Science Center. Robin Jones of the Great
Lakes and Accessible IT Center will present “Readily Achievable
Barrier Removal.” She will discuss requirements for readily
achievable barrier removal and how they relate to places of public accommodation. The program would be of special interest to
architects, rehabilitation professionals, people with disabilities,
and other interested community members. To request an accommodation, or for further information, contact Gary May, associate professor of social work, at 812/465-1694.
“Hats off to the Eagles”
The USI Varsity Club will hold its fall Steak Fry’n Auction at
5:30 p.m. Friday, September 23, in the Discovery Lodge at
Burdette Park. The theme is “Hats off to the Eagles.” Attendees
are encouraged to wear their favorite USI or red, white, and blue
hats. Prizes will be awarded for best spirit and enthusiasm.
Auction items include vacation packages, autographed sports
paraphernalia, and a pig roast for 140 people. Tickets are $25
each. Proceeds benefit student athletes. For tickets or more information, contact Sandy Hatfield in the Varsity Club office at
812/464-1973.
Children’s Center has openings
The USI Children’s Center has several full- and part-time
openings for three-, four-, and five-year-olds. Services are available first to students, staff, and faculty. Any remaining openings
are available for the community. For more information, contact
Pam Buschkill, Children’s Center coordinator, or Joyce
Coleman, family specialist, at 812/464-1869.
TIAA-CREF counseling sessions September 29-30
A TIAA-CREF consultant will be on-site to provide free oneon-one counseling sessions on Thursday, September 29, and
Friday, September 30. Schedule an appointment to have your
financial questions answered by an expert consultant. Topics
might include long-term investment strategies, how to find the
right investment allocation for you, new savings opportunities, or
lifetime income vs. cash withdrawal options. Sign up online at
www.tiaa-cref.org/moc. If you have questions, call the TIAACREF Indianapolis office at 877/267-4507. The sessions are 45
minutes long and will be held in Room 091 in the Orr Center.