Weekly Bulletin

Retirement celebration for Marie Hess

The campus community is invited to a retirement celebration to honor Marie Hess, deputy director of the Fine Arts Center, on Monday, June 30, 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Lobby.

To RSVP or for more information, contact Julie Fifield by Friday, June 20 at 5-3517 or e-mail (jfifield@admin.umass.edu).

Fall reserve listings

Reserve listings for the fall semester must be submitted to the Library by Sunday, June 15.

Bunker Hill Day observed

Bunker Hill Day will be observed as an official state holiday on Tuesday, June 17. Since the campus must remain open and function as usual, employees required to work on that day are entitled to another day off with pay in lieu of the holiday.

Such days off may be taken by the employee at a time approved by the department head within 120 days of the date of the holiday unless other provisions exist in collective bargaining agreements.

WFCR hosts nine-day trip to Berlin in October

Public radio station WFCR-FM, in partnership with Cross-Culture of Amherst, is hosting a nine-day trip to Berlin, Germany from Oct. 11-19.

In the company of an expert guide and WFCR music director John Montanari, participants will visit Berlin's great concert halls, and the city's famed museums that house the treasures of centuries.

Highlights of the trip will include guided bus and walking tours of Berlin, including an afternoon on Museum Island, with its famous Pergamon Museum; a day in Potsdam with a guided tour of Sans Souci Palace, the historic center of Old Potsdam, and the Cecilienhof Palace, site of the 1945 Potsdam Conference; internationally renowned, exciting contemporary architecture such as Frank Gehry's DG Bank Building, British architect Sir Norman Foster's glass dome of the Reichstag, Daniel Liebeskind's Jewish Museum and Renzo Piano's work in the Sony Center.

Participants also will enjoy three concerts in Berlin's finest concert halls, including the opera "Elektra," by Richard Strauss and the ballet "La Bayadère," with music by Ludwig Minkus, both at the Berlin Staatsoper unter den Linden, and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under André Previn, performing at the Philharmonie in a program that includes the Beethoven Violin Concerto with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Richard Strauss's "Symphonia Domestica."

Information is available online (www.wfcr.org) or by calling Katie Wright at
5- 4213.

Library announces summer service hours

Reference services and hours of operation in the campus libraries have been changed for the summer.

Because of renovation work and summer projects, the Du Bois Library is open 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Friday.

The Biological Sciences Library is open 1-5 p.m. Monday to Friday.
The Physical Sciences and Engineering Library is open 1-6 p.m. Monday to Thursday and 1-5 p.m. on Friday.

All libraries are closed on weekends.

This schedule is in place for the first summer session (through July 13).

Telephone and walk-up reference assistance is available during hours of operation only. The 24/7 virtual reference service continues to be available at all times. More information about the range of Ask a Librarian services, including desk, phone, e-mail and the 24/7 virtual reference is available online (www.library.umass.edu/ask/).
Hours are subject to change. Call 5-0414 or check on the library website (www.library.umass.edu/hours.htm) for updates.

Hosts needed for students from Hokkaido University

Families and households in the Amherst area are needed to host 11 undergraduates from Hokkaido University from Aug. 9-24. The Japanese college students are participants in the Hokkaido Summer Program run by the International Programs Office.

For more information, call 5-2710.

'W' period end for summer session

The last day for first summer session students to withdraw from classes with a record of 'W' is Monday, June 23.

University Club closes for summer

The University Club's last day of service for the academic year will be June 27. The club will reopen Sept. 2.

New WORLD Theater's summer season kicks off

New WORLD Theater opens its summer season June 13-14 with "An Evening of Women Poets" at 8 p.m. in the Experimental Theater at Amherst College.

The program will feature performance pioneer Rha Goddess; award-winning playwright, director and poet Magdalena Gomez; vocalist, violinist and composer Terry Jenoure; Dawn Lundy Martin, the Poetry Society of America's National Chapbook fellow; composer Nioka Workman; vocalist, drummer and dancer Irene Shakily; avant-garde theater artist Laurie Carlos; and the winner of NWT's Open Mic Slam, Lenelle Moise.

Tickets are $12 general public, $8 for low-income patrons and senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. To reserve tickets, call 542-2277.

Electronics, batteries, toner cartridges can be recycled

The Office of Waste Management's Intermediate Processing Facility can recycle a number of unusual items from campus offices.

Batteries, which contain heavy metals and toxins, should be packaged and sent via Campus Mail to "Recycling -- IPF."

For electronic equipment, such as computers, televisions and lab instruments, offices should complete an Equipment Inventory Change Form available from Karen Roy (7-1597). OWM will arrange a pickup.

Toner cartridges should be placed in the original box or an envelope and sent to the IPF.