New home for Minority Student Affairs
The Minority Student Affairs Office has moved out of Beardshear Hall to its new home in the Student Services Building, Suite 2080. Unlike some of the recent moves from Bearshear, this move is permanent. Telephone numbers have remained the same.

New students learning the ropes
More than 2,500 new students are participating in New Student Days activities on campus through Sunday (Aug. 20). The program introduces new students to campus and community. More than 200 upper-class students are team leaders to the new students. Faculty also are involved, discussing, diversity, time management and how to succeed in the classroom.

EARLIER NEWS

Instructors can view class lists online
Iowa State instructors now can turn to the Web to obtain lists of the students in their classes and information about those students. Instructors can also view section add/drop activity and download data into a word processing, spreadsheet or database application. More.

For payroll, benefits sign-up, go to Wallace Road Office Building
To sign up for payroll and benefits, faculty, staff and student employees need to visit Human Resource Services, located in the Wallace Road Office Building, Room 100 (formerly the Child Development Lab across from Maple Hall). (See map.) Please enter through the ground doors located at the north and south ends of the building; the office is located at the south end. For directions, call the Records Office at 294-6456 or the Benefits Office at 294-7680.

Christian Petersen retrospective begins Aug. 22
Sculptor Christian Petersen came to Iowa State in 1934 and stayed for 21 years, becoming the country's first university artist-in-residence. Iowa State will celebrate Petersen's legacy with a retrospective exhibition at the Brunnier Art Museum, Aug. 22 through Dec. 31. More.

Design College holds benefit for Rome Program
On Sept. 8, they'll be doing as the Romans do at ISU's College of Design. The college is hosting Serata a Roma, a benefit dinner and auction for its Rome Program, which gives design students an opportunity to live and study architecture, art and design in Italy. More.

Dr. Drew coming to campus
Dr. Drew Pinsky, co-host of the MTV advice show, "Loveline," will kick-off the new academic year at Iowa State University with a lecture on "Drugs, Sex and Relationships." More.

Exhibit headed to Ames
An exhibit highlighting the history of African Americans in Iowa will travel to Ames this fall. More.

Blount, Smith named associate deans
Jackie Blount, associate professor of curriculum and instruction, and Roger Smith, professor of industrial education, have been named associate deans for Iowa State's College of Education. More.

Iowa State at State Fair
Exhibits on families and food safety, live WOI Radio reports, Cy tattoos thousands of 4-H displays, butter sculptor Duffy Lyon doing a scultpure of ISU artist Christian Petersen working on his famous "The Gentle Doctor" are a few of the Iowa State activities at the state fair. More.

Diana Pounds, University Relations, online@iastate.edu
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