PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 23, No. 11, Dec. 4, 2003

brief notes

WILL-TV
Remembering the music of World War II
Dan Perrino, left, retired associate dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts, will join forces with fellow musicians and military service veterans from the Medicare 7, 8 or 9 jazz ensemble and vocalists Dena Vermette and Ron Hedlund in a program titled “Remembering the Music of World War II,” which will be broadcast on WILL-TV at 7 p.m. Dec. 7 during the station’s Winterfest pledge drive. Perrino, a founding member of the ensemble, also served in the U.S. Army in the Southwest Pacific during World War II and was part of a traveling band that entertained the troops.The program will celebrate some of the more than 9,000 songs published during the war era, including “Remember Pearl Harbor,” “As Time Goes By” and “I’ll Be Seeing You.”

University Primary School
Open house is Dec. 10
University Primary School, an early childhood gifted education program that serves preschool, kindergarten and first-grade children, will host an open house Dec. 10 at the Children’s Research Center, 51 Gerty Drive, Champaign. Visitors may view the preschool classroom from 8:30 a.m. until noon and the combined kindergarten/first grade class from 8:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. Applications for the 2004-2005 academic year will be available in January. For more information, contact the school’s director, Nancy B. Hertzog, at 333-3996 or nherzog@illinois.edu.

Updated 2002-03 data
Campus Profile available online
The 2003-04 Campus Profile is now available online at www.dmi.uiuc.edu/cp.

Ten years of data for all departments, schools and colleges are available to browse or download into Excel. Detailed information has been compiled on budgets, staffing levels, expenditures, students and courses from many sources to examine trends or to compare data between units.

In conjunction with the university’s move to Banner and a new coding structure for organizations, the Campus Profile has been modified to use the Banner organizational hierarchy instead of the college-department coding structure. Summary pages of data are available for all Banner hierarchy levels from department up: department, school, college, administrative rollup and campus.

Departments with Web pages linking to units’ Campus Profiles will need to update the link to reflect the new Banner organization code. For more information or to submit comments, contact Carolyn Mullally, associate director, the Division of Management Information, 333-3551.

Spurlock Museum
Fiber artist featured Dec. 6
Fiber artist John Marshall will present the lecture “The Japanese Kimono: History and Development Through the Ages” at 7 p.m. Dec. 6 in the Spurlock Museum Knight Auditorium. The lecture, sponsored by the Spurlock Museum Guild, will be followed by a reception and sale of Marshall’s fiber art. The event is free and open to the public.

Illini Union Faculty Staff Social Committee
Children’s Holiday Party to be Dec. 7
Santa, a puppeteer, a magician and a model train display will be featured at the Children’s Holiday Party 2003 from 2 to 4 p.m. Dec. 7 at the Illini Union. Snacks and a craft area also will be provided. Tickets are $2 for children and adults and are on sale at Illini Union Ticket Central and the Assembly Hall ticket office. If tickets are still available, they also may be purchased at the door Dec. 7. Present your university I.D. when purchasing tickets. The party is limited to families of students, faculty and staff members and retirees.

WILL-FM
Amasong featured at Second Sunday
Amasong, the lesbian/feminist chorus, will present a program of lullabies, dances and songs of introspection, thanksgiving and salvation at the Dec. 14 WILL-FM Second Sunday Concert. The free concert begins at 2 p.m. at the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion and will feature an arrangement of the American spiritual “Motherless Child,” R. Murray Schafer’s “Gamelan” and a piece by American composer Amy Beach. The concert will be broadcast live on WILL-FM (90.9/101.1 in Champaign-Urbana) with host Roger Cooper.

Founded in 1991, Amasong is dedicated to the pursuit of choral excellence within an atmosphere that celebrates all forms of women’s devotion to women.

Family Resiliency Program
Lecture examines holiday traditions
The Pampered Chef Family Resiliency Program in the department of human and community development will present a lecture “The Significance of Holiday Traditions for Family Resiliency” by Evan Imber-Black. Imber-Black is director of the Center for Families and Health, Ackerman Institute for the Family, and a professor in the department of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York. Internationally recognized for studies in the field of family therapy, he also is the author of several books, including “The Secret Life of Families,” “Rituals for Our Times” and “Rituals in Families and Family Therapy.” Imber-Black also will appear as a guest on WILL-AM’s “Focus 580” at 11 a.m. Dec. 9. For more information, contact Diane Marlin, coordinator, the Pampered Chef Family Resiliency Program, at 265-0334.

Ally Network
Panel discusses being gay
Undergraduate students from PRIDE and graduate students will present a panel discussion of the personal experiences of lesbian and gay students on campus at noon Dec. 5 in Room 404 Illini Union. Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Jane Reid (jereid@illinois.edu or 333-3704) or Anita Hund (ahund@illinois.edu).

Expanded Child Development Laboratory
Researchers, instructors invited Dec. 9
The Child Development Laboratory will host an informational open house for researchers and instructors at the Expanded Child Development Laboratory from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 9. The recent expansion of the CDL program to include children between the ages of 6 weeks and 5 years has presented new opportunities for teaching and research activities involving enrolled children, their families and staff members working with the program. Researchers and instructors will be able to tour the new facility and explore with staff members new and creative ways in which both labs can facilitate and support teaching and research activities. For more information, contact Brent McBride at 333-0971 or brentmcb@illinois.edu.

WILL-TV
Program celebrates life in C-U
More than two-dozen Champaign-Urbana residents picked up their camcorders and fanned out across the twin cities on Oct. 11 to videotape the places, people and events that make them proud to live in Champaign-Urbana.

The result is a one-hour program, “A Day in Our Hometown: Champaign-Urbana,” to be broadcast at 7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Dec. 8. The stories will include segments on the Illini Marching Band, the Station Theater, Curtis Orchard, Urbana’s dog park, local preservationist Dave Monk, and Ha Ho, co-director of the East Central Illinois Refugee Mutual Assistance Center.

New Revels Players
Non-traditional ‘Hamlet’ presented
The New Revels Players, a student theater group, will perform a lesser-known version of “Hamlet,” with non-traditional casting, a modern setting and novel interpretations. The version is the play’s first Quarto (QI) edition, which was published in 1603 and is now sometimes called the “Bad Quarto” of Hamlet. The production openly confronts issues of gender and sexual violence. Performances will be at 3 and 7 p.m. Dec. 6 and at 3 p.m. Dec. 7 at the McKinley Foundation’s Westminster Hall, 809 S. Fifth St., Champaign. Tickets are $5 at the door. For more information or reservations, contact Tara Lyons at tllyons@illinois.edu or Annamarie MacLeod at 384-5462.

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Dinner and intrigue on Dec. 8
The Krannert Center Student Association will host its first Murder Mystery Dinner at 7 p.m. Dec. 8 in the Studio Theater at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. A buffet dinner will accompany an improvisational performance in which the audience will assist in solving a murder. Tickets are available at the Krannert Center ticket office. Proceeds support the outreach activities of the student association, which provides volunteer assistance at Krannert Center.

Facilities and Services
Holiday tips to protect facilities
With the holiday season nearing, Facilities and Services is asking staff members to assist in protecting university facilities against damage from inclement weather. During past holiday seasons, high winds and freezing conditions have damaged some facilities, rendering a few areas unusable for extended periods of time.

Facilities and Services offers the following tips:
1. Close and lock all windows and doors, close blinds and curtains.
2. Turn off all unnecessary laboratory services, including gas, air, vacuum and water.
3. Turn off fume hood fans that are not needed. Consider consolidating chemical storage in fewer hoods.
4. Leave all radiator valves turned on to ensure adequate heating and prevent freeze damage.

Facilities and Services personnel will check all areas Dec. 23 for obvious problems like open windows but cannot alter operations of fume hoods or lab services since they must presume use is intentional.

Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival
Passes now on sale for film festival
Festival passes now are on sale for the sixth annual Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival to be April 21-25 at the Virginia Theater in Champaign, and on the UI campus.

The passes, which cover all screenings during the five-day event, are $75. They can be purchased through the theater box office (phone: 356-9063; fax: 356-5729) or through TicketWeb by way of the festival Web site (www.ebertfest.com). Tickets for individual films will be $8 each when they become available closer to the event.

Ebert, a 1964 Illinois journalism graduate, adjunct professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will again host the event and select the films that he believes have been overlooked by audiences, critics and distributors. The lineup of films, along with additional information on film-associated guests and other festival events, should be available after Feb. 1.

In addition, sponsors and volunteers for the festival are being sought. Those interested should contact Mary Susan Britt, the festival’s assistant director, 244-0552 or marsue@illinois.edu. Those seeking additional information and updates on films, guests and festival events should contact either Britt or festival director Nate Kohn, at (706) 542-4972, or by e-mail at nkohn@arches.uga.edu.

Silicon, Carbon, Culture
Discussion concludes one-year initiative
The one-year, 16-project Silicon, Carbon, Culture Initiative (SCCI) at the UI will formally conclude with a roundtable discussion on Dec. 9.

The discussion, which is free and open to the public, will be at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Beckman Institute. A reception will follow.

SCCI, a joint initiative of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of Fine and Applied Arts, is a three-semester exploration of the interplay between the arts, humanities, sciences and technology fields.

The roundtable discussion will feature some of the project participants, who will discuss the work that has been done through the initiative and the promise that work holds for the future.

Participants include Bertram Bruce, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; Richard Burkhardt, history; Noshir Contractor, speech communication; Guy Garnett, School of Music; Lillian Hoddeson, history; Sharon Irish, School of Architecture; Stephen Levinson, electrical and computer engineering; David O’Brien, art history; and Mike Ross, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

For more information, contact SCCI project coordinator Christine Catanzarite at 244-7913 or catanzar@illinois.edu.

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