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Jan.14 | Jan. 28 | Feb. 11
Feb. 25 | March 11 | March 25
April 8 | April 22 | May 6
May 27 | June 17 | July 8
July 29 | Aug. 19 | Sept. 2
Sept. 16 | Sept. 30 | Oct. 14
Oct. 28 | Nov. 11 | Dec. 2
Dec. 16

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January 14, 1994

Q&A Conflicts of interest, commitment policy raises questions
New positions will add diversity to curriculum
News briefs
- Sat campaign launched for Stephens Auditorium
- Veishea T94 theme announced
- ISU awarded spot in diversity network
Biblical scholar arousing interest in Latino Studies (Hector Avalos)
Fax fees top $25 million
Week-long King observance to begin Jan. 19
Dinner theater features The Grapes of Wrath
Dobbs named executive assistant to president
WOI-TV sale unresolved
ISU reports progress of faculty effectiveness plan (regents report)
Faculty Senate: ISU at crossroads in way education offered
P&S committee to review conflict of interest policy
Video encourages faculty to study their own teaching
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January 28, 1994

Design dean finalists to visit ISU in February
ISU recruiters meet top D.C. minority students
New programs to tackle sexual harassment (annual survey, training sessions, orientation session, videotape)
News briefs
- Dean Kao named to Murphy Professorship
- Preview of mentoring workshop for DEOs and deans
- ISU affiliation with World Health Organization RE: food safety research
New to ISU
- David Torres (Affirmative Action officer)
- Paul Tanaka (Legal Services director)
- Hessie Harris, (Human resources legal specialist)
Integrating ethics with science (Gary Comstock, ISU Bioethics Institute)
ISU Theatre's production of The Grapes of Wrath
Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee to narrate campus production
Institute on National Affairs preview
Lectures (2) will honor Rosa Parks
Benefits column: EAP offers assessment, referral services
Faculty forum: Faculty discuss the labors of grading fairly
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February 11, 1994

Committee assesses first strategic plan, offers advice on second
Your input sought for next strategic plan
Reach out -- help is on the way (emergency phones)
Chemist selected as 1st Carver professor (James W. Mitchell)
Iowa State wins 5th consecutive CASE Sweepstakes award
Beef over DES changes public image of science (Alan Marcus)
Teleconference examines the teaching process
Variety on tap for Barjche '94
Daytime stars turn out for ISU Center benefit (Love Letters)
'Cultural Extravanganza' set for FEb. 13 at Memorial Union
P&S Council makes recommendation on salary increases
Insert: Report of the Strategic Planning Review Committee
Plenty of conflict over 'conflict' policy (Faculty Senate)
Forums will offer chance to speak up (Speak Up . . . And Listen)
Prior OK no longer needed for eye exams (benefits)
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February 25, 1994

The student: consumer or apprentice? (Faculty Forum)
Tetreault named to lead Catt Center
News briefs
- Sharon Robinson to speak at ISU
- Enrollment down slightly
- WOI Radio challenge grant
- Groundbreaking for Hilton addition
- Regents OK WOI-TV sale
- $500,000 in gifts for athletic facility
- University seal artist (John Huseby) dies
- Odyssey of the Mind regional and world competitions coming to ISU
- Architects selected for engineering complex
Teaching, research and motherhood: Kristen Constant
Search for engineering dean has begun
Catt conference to examine grassroots politics (conference preview)
Catt plaza will honor women who have influenced our lives (Plaza of Heroines)
Mentoring minority faculty critical to retention (workshop for deans, DEOs)
Forum participants argue the merits of a course in diversity (Speak Up . . . And Listen)
Maximizing every person's potential (Alicia Chavez)
Faculty will talk teaching at retreat (March conference preview)
Students help their peers in new academic support program (Supplemental instruction, academic learning lab)
Extension field staff will learn new P&S classifications in April
Correction RE: merit employees transferring vacation time to colleagues with a catastrophic illness
Conflict of commitment to be dropped from policy (Faculty Senate meeting, John Dobson)
Student outcomes plans are under review (outcomes assessment, Mary Huba, Faye Whitaker, accreditation)
Benefits column: overview of Retirement advising office, preview of TIAA/CREF sessions on March 24
Film series: Sante Fe
CASE awards for College of Ag, IPRT and ISU Fnd.
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March 11, 1994

Sexual harassment policy revised, under review
Inside takes on a new look
News briefs
- WOI-TV transferred
- Preservation program (ISU library archivist Tyler Walters)
- Catt Center awards (Research Prizes)
Johnson enthusiastic about TQM consulting teamed with teaching (David Johnson)
Strategic planning position papers completed
Call for proposals (Computation Advisory Committee for computer-based instructional support)
Carver committee formed
P&S Council: Work continues on development of performance appraisal system
Thielen seeks input on minority student needs
Sports changes aimed at achieving gender equity and fiscal responsibility goals
Clips
- Lectures Program
- Tahira K. Hira
- Jane Smiley
EAP: Many reasons for supervisor referrals
Deaths: Robert Hromyak
Women's center exhibit chronicles Iowans' recovery from sexual abuse
Jischke proclaims Women's History Month at ISU
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March 25, 1994

Senators challenge athletic aid (Faculty senate, athletic dept. deficit)
Smiley elected Academy fellow
Faculty share strategies to reduce cheating (academic dishonesty policy, faculty forum)
Regents briefs
- Lake LaVerne will get a clean-up
- Room and Board hike
- Madden on TV board
- Flood warning system, honorary degrees, Flood insurance
- Ag center gets nod
- Health center on track
Bring ideas for new strategic plan to forums next week
Snow, sand, soda pop and bats: This custodial team handles it all (Phyllis Ritter and Jill Krause)
ISU, Iowa team up for engineering exchange program
Basketball players earn All-American status (Hoiberg, Michalik, Carlson)
Road Scholars take to the road April 8-9
1st Carver professor arrives April 5 (James Mitchell)
Flying high at the Gallery (Kite exhibit)
Money a top motivator among college freshmen (Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, freshmen survey)
Benefits column: Why health insurance contributions differ
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April 8, 1994

ISU receives Carnegie's Research I classification
Strategic planning forum: University must balance student as customer and as product
Faculty: Reward good teaching (faculty retreat)
Library reaches its two million milestone
Computer science department turns 25
Study shows how truckers take their lumps (Dick Poist, Ben Allen, lumping)
Education college gets high marks: All 106 undergaduate and graduate programs approved
Administrative interns sought
ISU Theatre doubles your pleasure
Expert discusses healthful eating
French pork experts at ISU
Report: 58 percent of ISU student-athletes graduated within six years
Bigger than before: Veishea '94
- Schedule of events
- Veishea speakers help honor George Washington Carver
- Carver, King and I highlight musical offerings
Barrie bids adieu: With ISU for half a century (Alex Barrie)
University looks inside for new design dean
Elsewhere
Retirement Advising Office: Early retirement incentives offered
25-Year Club inducts new members
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April 22, 1994

Two finalists named in design dean search: Others may be named later
Orr steps out of the coach's box: Ooo-weee, Johnny, that was fun
On the road again (Road Scholars)
Faculty discuss how to help students with disabilities (faculty forum)
Teaching can be basis for promotion (Faculty Senate)
Letters: Purchase surprises mathematician (Bryan Cain)
P&S Council: Inducements for P&S president considered
M-shop wins blues award (KBA awards)
Sweeney addition to be dedicated
Chamber Singers feature premieres
Spring convocation set for May 4
WOI Radio goes for $118,116 . . . and the gold
Insert: Catt plaza bricks
EAP: EAP self-referral simple
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May 6, 1994

Scientist, blacksmith seek ancient formula for Damascus steel (John Verhoeven)
Senators challenge income packages for Iowa State coaches (Faculty Senate)
Engelbrecht is dean finalist (College of Design)
Crabtree named Veishea Professor
In Carver's footsteps (Ronke Lattimore, honorary degree for Carver)
Sidey, Carver to receive honorary degrees at May 14 commencement
Paau named to head intellectual property office
Going out dancing (Vernon Windsor, "I Will Not Be Sad In This World")
Odyssey of the Mind world finals return to campus, 14,000 strong
Brunnier candlelight dinner not the ususal Saturday fare (Fund-raiser dinner, Iowa State Center renovation project)
Architecture duo scores an Olympic victory (William Conway, Marcy Schulte, Olympic Games design contest, Atlanta)
Sloss House garden to honor victims of violence
Managers report 37 incidents of sexual harassment in 1993 (1993 survey)
Regents aprove promotions and tenure for ISU faculty members
Benefits office column: Fringe benefit changes considered
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May 27, 1994

$5 million for strategic plan priorities in budget draft
Benefit program changes proposed (catastrophic illness/injury pool, parental leave, long-term care insurance, long-term disability waiting period, mileage reimbursement)
Mark Engelbrecht named to College of Design dean post
Senators criticize coach contracts (Orr, Floyd)
Letter to the editor: Reid Crawford explains Bball coaching packages
Conference-goers talk more teaching (follow-up session to Grinnell retreat)
Plan calls for faculty, P&S hikes averaging 3 percent
Memorial Day service set for ISU cemetery
D-day on the beachhead, on the campus recalled (Steve Sullivan)
Senate OKs conflict of commitment policy, elects Netusil president
Jischke tells P&S Council: 'You can make a difference'
ISU custodial staff reclaims College of Design contract
Retirement Advising Office: New CREF options available July 1 (Growth account and Equity Index account)
Four receive scholarships through Project Excellence program (Washington, D.C., area high school students)
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June 17, 1994

$1 million in athletic budget cuts proposed
Jischke to lead Big 12 CEOs
Strategic plan group appointed
Iowa State Center, University Museums to join External Affairs
Computer labs receive $500,000 in equipment
Highlights from June 14 regents meeting
- Next year's budget
- New programs
- New livestock facilities
- Engineering complex
- Athletic building
- Stadium scoreboards
Floyd plans bimonthly faculty-staff lunches
Forums top McNabb's list (Faculty Senate)
ISU, Russia to study food safety after Chernobyl
Benefits: EAP Tips for preparing an employee performance evaluation
Humanists' vocabularies are, uh, larger
One last look back at the academic year (year in review)
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July 8, 1994

Health center sparks concern over parking (west side of campus)
Business dean Shrock steps down
Program fans pick up where NSF left off (Molecular Biology Enrichment for Youth Program, Bernard White)
Average pay hikes larger for lower ranking positions
Darwin the latest evolution in ISU biology classes (Warren Dolphin, Wayne Rowley, biological sciences)
George Jackson accepts assistant's position in Provost's Office
Haynes clicks at Iowa State (Michael Haynes)
Designing women exhibit their work (College of Design female faculty)
ISU awarded grant for experimental teaching program in food systems
Athletics game plan includes winning, fiscal integrity, gender equity (Q&A with Gene Smith, Reid Crawford and Elaine Hieber)
Benefits Office: Long-term care policy ready to go
Committee looks for ways to put out the campus welcome mat (with Murray Blackwelder)
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July 29, 1994

Jischke asks committee for challenging strategic plan
Minority frosh will pilot seminar (Early Success Program)
Plans unveiled for Brenton Center
Mary Beth Snyder departs for Oakland University
Allen named interim business dean
Regents briefs: mileage reimbursement decision postponed, final budget approved
Legislative review by Carol Bradley
Clinic assists families, trains therapists (Chuck Cole, The Marriage and Family Clinic)
It's State Fair time again -- and Iowa State will be there (preview of exhibits)
Council members asked to visit Iowa communities (P&S council, Carol Bradley)
Survey: Majority of P&S staff satisfied with their evaluations
Barton to step down at Ames Lab
Retirement advising column (Ann Molison): modest beginnings can build a nice nest egg
Search begins for UR director
Summer commencement: 800 to graduate
Brief: Funding for National Swine Center is near
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August 19, 1994

ISU scientist picked for top award/Derrick Rollins named NSF presidential faculty fellow
Campus ready to recycle paper
Fall convocation Aug. 29 (announcement)
Dean search under way/Nominations sought for new dean of students
10 study areas identified for strategic plan
Several classrooms get high-tech facelift
Fund helps vets show they care (Ron Grier, Companion Animal Fund)
Strategic plan at top of Faculty Senate agenda (Tony Netusil)
Faculty concentrate on curricula development through Project Aware
New president hopes to make P&S Council more accountable (Katy Rice)
Comedienne kicks off fall lectures program (Bertice Berry)
Christy charged in district court
EAP/Help available for substance abuse (benefits)
The Exercise Clinic gets new home (Warren Franke)
Deaths: William Schrampfer
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September 2, 1994

Fall convocation/Jischke: Educating undergrads is top priority
Individual recognition for grads behind new commencement plan
Osweiler named to endowed veterinary toxicology chair (Eugene and Linda Lloyd Professor in Veterinary Toxicology)
Student-athletes charged in connection with forgeries
Lake LaVerne study complete
Watch the calendar
Astronomer has big plans for Fick Observatory (Philip Appleton, Joe Eitter) (Jupiter)
First Faculty Forum focus is computers in the classroom
The hills are alive with the sights and sounds of artists
Austrian pens piece for quartet (Ames Piano Quartet) (Josef Stolz)
Variety on tap for concert series (Alexandra Mascolo-David) (music department)
Insert: A vital and vibrant institution (convocation speech)
Benefits Office/Meetings will provide information on new long term care plan
Banners OKed for Ames entrances
Employee teams find solutions through TQM
Strategic Plan update/Internationalization; Higher ed criticism; New student rep
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September 16, 1994

Enrollment dips 1.5 percent
Ringing in the new (Carillon dedication preview)
Participation is the goal (United Way campaign kicks off)
Strategic Plan update
Building better teachers (John Van Ast, Community College Induction/Mentoring Project, CCIM)
P&S Staff tapped for student recruitment, retention ideas (P&S council)
ISU Theatre season includes new Cox play, The Glass Menagerie
First Forum discussion assesses computers in the classroom (Faculty Forum)
Season celebrates 25th anniversary at C. Y. Stephens (preview of this year)
Retirement Advising column: Understand your TIAA-CREF contributions as you plan ahead (by Ann Molison)
Strategic plan involvement is priority (Faculty Senate meeting summary)
Regents raise mileage rate for some (extension, reimbursement)
Insert: Dean's Tab
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September 30, 1994

Apprentices in residence (Jackie James, Jim Judy, apprenticeship)
Beetle Brittle, anyone? Bug fest features snacks, attacks, facts (Insect Horror Film Festival)
ISU among top 20 best values (U.S. News and World Report)
It's time to get Online
New atheletic building to be named for ISU booster Jacobson
Biotechnology Q Taking it to the state (Walt Fehr, Tom Ingebritsen, Robert Martin)
Six bring back ideas on diversifying curricula (AACU, Neil Nakadate)
Teacher workshop helps evaluate writing (Center for Teaching Excellence)
Women's Week celebrates breaking barriers
Coming out week in October
Hoffman heads business dean search group
Benefits Office: Feds launch data bank of insurees (benefits)
Strategic planning: information technology; tech transfer
Men's basketball ticket prices set
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October 14, 1994

Indirect cost rate to remain at 44 percent through June 1997 (research, grants, sponsored programs)
Cy perseveres to celebrate No. 40 (Cy's birthday)
United Way campaign concludes this month on campus
Strategic Plan update (human resources, internal management)
Second day care studied for south campus (University Child Care Committee, University Community Childcare, Pammel Court, Baldwin White, Sonia Johnson)
P&S Council seeks response to draft of salary philosophy (Project Iowa)
Lipa Festival will promote 20th century music
ISU events listed on local info line (The Source)
Pirates of Penzance opens at Fisher Theater
Former NFLer will share his story (Mike Utley, disability awareness)
Age discrimination claim rejected (Joyce Van Pilsum)
International Week kicks off Oct. 16
EAP column: Relief strategies for the negative stress in your life (benefits)
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October 28, 1994

Tuition shortfall: Plan adjusts budget by $1.7 million
'World class' cross country course will serve top athletes, local exercisers
Faculty Forum: Non-traditional students need non-traditional approach
Earthen dike to be built for flood protection
$2.3 million sought in 4-H fund drive
Hot tip, cool fiber discovery (Steve Martin, laser surgery)
Play highlights perils of teaching (Oleanna)
Institute on World Affairs: Rethinking the A-bomb and its effects
Writers Harvest will help stock food bank
Strategic Planning Committee: Economic development debated as one of goals
What's confidential, what's not (student records, confidentiality)
ISU employee charged (Gelnn Alan Pearston, computer equipment)
Sexual harassment policy: Allegations require prompt response
Assistors ready with help, information
Mayor tapped for Presidential Lecture (Frederico Mayor)
Applications sought (jean adams position)
Retirement Advising Office: A closer look at two CREf accounts (benefits)
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November 11, 1994

Proposed plan affirms premier land-grant goal (strategic plan)
Study shows that overall, faculty salaries are equal (faculty equity study)
Jischke: ISU should admit, assist some at-risk students (Faculty Senate, student athletes, strategic plan, faculty conference, diversity requirement)
Walden to resign at season's end
Finalists named in engineering dean search
P&S Council: Grants will fund retention ideas (student retention and recruitment, Project Iowa)
UNESCO director-general tapped for Presidential Lecture (Federico Mayor, International Institute of Theoretical and Applied Physics)
Benefits Office column: Are you carrying the right ID cards?
Priority seating plan under way (athletics, Cyclone Club)
Christy receives one-year probation
Retention expert will lead lunch seminar (Vince Tinto)
Second Stage presents Home
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December 2, 1994

Wanted: More white paper; Recycling off to slow start
It's official; Mayor, Jischke sign IITAP pact (Federico Mayor, UNESCO)
Retention expert: Learning communities work (Vincent Tinto)
Faculty Forum: Best advisers want to advise
Horowitz puts on her Catt hat
New coach supports ISU admission standards (Dan McCarney)
Strategic plan forum spurs core curriculum discussion (Jischke)
Vision 2020 moves ahead (Kellogg project)
Odyssey's destination is Iowa State, again (OM)
Insert: Library
Ames Lab director search begins
Furniture on display
Music department presents holiday concert
Funds, Rockies challenge solar team
Sociology seeks reconsideration of decision (accreditation)
ISU seventh in royalties
EAP; Suicide warning signs
New commencement plan launched
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December 16, 1994

Six proposals get the nod (P&S employees, student retention grants)
Lia Pierson is Iowa State's fifth Rhodes Scholar
News briefs:
- James Corones is interim director of Ames Lab,
- 32 resignations among faculty last year,
- Owen Newlin will give commencement address,
- First Saturday MBA grad gets his diploma
Goal to be the best is challenged (open forum, Strategic Plan)
Food fit for a soldier (Elsa and Peter Murano, U.S. Army, MREs, food safety)
Senate approves graduation plan (Faculty Senate, TQM team, curriculum changes)
Student athletes: Save our sports (athletic department, budget cuts)
Orientation program welcomes new employees to campus (training and development)
Retirement Advising Office column: Up close with your investment funds (summary of 3 TIAA/CREF funds)
Vision 2020 conference is Jan. 9 (ICN, Kellogg Foundation)
P&S goals mesh with strategic plan (academic misconduct policy, request for no confidence vote on Jischke)
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