Quitting Time?
For smokers who are serious about quitting, the
key to success is adequate preparation, according
to University of Iowa smoking cessation experts.
Fortunately, a wide range of smoking cessation resources,
including a toll-free “Quitline” and
informational web sites, are available to Iowa residents.
Iowans can call Quitline Iowa, the statewide, toll-free
smoking cessation hotline, at 866-U-CAN-TRY (866-822-6879).
A service of the Iowa Tobacco Research Center in
the Department of Community and Behavioral Health
in the College of Public Health, Quitline Iowa provides
trained counselors from 8 a.m. to midnight, seven
days a week.
Quitline Iowa also provides online help at www.quitlineiowa.org.
Among other things, visitors can e-mail questions
to a counselor through the Ask-A-Counselor feature.
New
UI brochures available
What percentage of first-year students are Iowa
residents? How many football fans does it take to
fill Kinnick Stadium to its maximum seating capacity?
How many works of art does the UI Museum of Art hold?
The answers to these questions and many others can
be found in the newly updated Facts, a pocket-sized
brochure containing information on the University,
published by the Office of University Relations.
It provides facts about the University’s 11
colleges, facilities and services, and the local
area, and it includes telephone numbers for frequently
called campus offices.
University Relations also publishes the Visitors
Guide, providing a campus map complete with parking
lot designations to help visitors find parking near
the University’s cultural, athletic, and health
programs. Facts and the Visitors Guide are available
free upon request. For copies, contact Kelly Huston
at (38)4-0040 or kelly-huston@uiowa.edu.
By the way, the answers are 63.7 percent, 70,397,
and 12,000, respectively.
Excellence Among Women calls for award nominations
The Committee on the Celebration of Excellence
Among Women is accepting nominations for its 2004-05
Distinguished
Achievement Award.
Candidates should have significant years of service
in the UI community in a professional or service
capacity; should be pioneers in their work/service;
and should be considered role models for women and/or
girls. The award will be presented March 29 at the
Annual Celebration of Excellence and Achievement
Among Women.
To nominate someone, list the nominee’s name,
UI title or position, and department or organization;
describe the nominee’s contributions; and include
your name, department, and phone number, along with
at least two letters of support from other sources.
Submit the nomination to Jan Warren at the Belin-Blank
Center, 600 BHC, or e-mail jan-warren@uiowa.edu. Deadline is Feb. 8. For a faxed copy of a nomination
form or for more information, call (33)5-6148.
Slip-sliding away? Get the
inside scoop on campus snow removal!
When the weather outside gets frightful, Facilities
Management staff get busy pushing, scooping, and
sanding snow and ice from campus streets and sidewalks.
After decades of confronting Iowa winters, they have
it down to a science. Here’s a guide to snow
removal processes and procedures to help you prepare
for the next big snowstorm.
Campus Shops staff members begin the process of
removing snow at 5 a.m. or earlier, with the goal
of having most of the snow cleared from campus streets,
sidewalks, steps, and other areas (including Oakdale)
by 7:30 a.m.
Plows head onto campus from the Madison Street shop
and move outward to their routes, so the area near
the Main Library will be plowed before the area around
Van Allen Hall.
Facilities Management custodians shovel steps around
entrances to their assigned buildings and provide
weatherproof matting at building entrances to help
trap the mess that comes in with the snow.
While the Facilities Management office oversees
most of the snow and ice removal on campus, other
offices are responsible for certain other areas,
as follows: the City of Iowa City maintains east
campus streets; Cambus staff take care of the Cambus
shelters; Parking and Transportation takes care of
the parking lots (except Oakdale); the UI Hospitals
and Clinics grounds crew is responsible for the hospital
area; and the athletics department is responsible
for Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
If you have concerns about a specific area or need
to report an unsafe condition, call the Facilities
Management Work Control Center at (33)5-5071.
Nursing
business launches in TIC
The University of Iowa’s Technology Innovation
Center (TIC) picked up a new tenant on Jan.1. The
new company is HomeSafe, a nursing service for older
persons who choose to live in their own homes rather
than in care facilities.
The company is owned by Meridean Maas and Janet
Specht, both from the College of Nursing.
HomeSafe is the 18th company to join the center.
Companies in Iowa with ties to TIC have about 640
workers employed in Iowa.
Old Cap campaign under way
The goal of the Old Capitol Museum campaign, launched
in December, is to secure at least $2 million in
private gifts, half of which will create a programmatic
endowment with the other half used to transform Old
Capitol’s ground floor into an engaging education
center celebrating Iowa’s past, present, and
future.
Leading the statewide effort, which is part of the
University’s $1 billion Good. Better. Best.
Iowa campaign, are Willard “Sandy” Boyd,
University president emeritus, and Mary Louise Petersen,
a 1951 UI graduate from Harlan, Iowa.
The campaign’s vision builds upon UI-funded
restoration work under way at the time of the 2001
fire.
Among the changes visitors will see when the museum
reopens are two new spaces on the building’s
ground floor. The University Gallery will house changing,
UI-focused historical, scientific, and cultural exhibits.
The Discovery Center, a hands-on gallery space, will
invite students and families to explore Iowa’s
history and future.
Other areas will be appropriately restored and updated
to allow for more frequent use by visitors.
For more information about the Old Capitol Museum
Campaign, visit the web site at www.uifoundation.org/old_capitol.
Staff Council nominations due
All P&S and special services staff members not
covered by a union contract can nominate themselves
and other staff members for election to Staff Council.
To submit a nomination, visit the Staff Council web
site at www.uiowa.edu/~stafcnsl and select the “Nomination
Form” link. You can submit a nomination from
Jan. 17 through Jan. 28.
Staff Council is an elected body representing approximately
5,000 nonbargaining P&S and merit supervisory
exempt/confidential staff members.
Staff Council members do not make policies but do
advance staff concerns and ideas to the University’s
central administration and make specific recommendations
for policy changes.
Staff Council is made up of one representative for
every 100 employees or major fraction thereof in
the following categories: professional administrative
and academic; professional health care and nursing
(nonunion); professional research; and special services
(merit supervisory exempt/confidential).
Members attend a monthly two-hour meeting and serve
on at least one internal committee.
More information is available on the council’s
web site.
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