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Are you confused by all the conflicting information you are hearing about the health care proposal? Gain an understanding of the nation’s current health care debate, without the rhetorical excess. A panel of UST community members will provide perspectives in terms of faith and citizenship.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
12 - 1 p.m., O’Shaughnessy Educational Center Auditorium

Panel members include:
•Sen. Dave Durenberger, Health Care MBA faculty,
Director of the National Institute for Health Policy
•Dr. Paul Wojda, Associate Professor of Theology,
Director of the Master of Arts in Catholic Studies
•Mr. Dan McLaughlin, Director of the UST Center for Health and
Medical Affairs

Why are we talking about health care in America? Is health care a social good, a right, or a commodity? And as a community of faith, what special perspective do we have on these questions? Join the conversation!

Sponsored by the Office for Mission

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Novelist Ron Hansen will read from his works on Thursday, October 22 at 7:30 pm in Room 126 (auditorium) at the John R. Roach Center for the Liberal Arts, as part of the UST Sacred Arts Festival.

Ron Hansen is the Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University. His novels frequently pair history with morality tales as well as Catholic themes of unconditional love, redemption and resurrection.

His novels include The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (finalist for the National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award), Mariette in Ecstasy (adapted for film and stage), and Exiles. Hanson has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lyndhurst Foundation as well as the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

In 2007 Hansen was ordained a permanent deacon of the Catholic Church, and in May he was inducted to the College of Fellows at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, Calif.

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We are happy to invite you to visit the Special Collections Department in the O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library on Friday, October 23, 2009 any time between 1:00pm and 5:00pm. You will see two special gifts given to the university libraries -- a volume of the Heritage edition of the St. John’s Bible and a facsimile of the Book of Kells -- on special display as a part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library. If you have any questions, please call Ann Kenne, Head of Special Collections and University Archivist at 651-962-5461.

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The UST Community is invited to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center on Friday, October 23. We are honored to be joined by members of the O'Shaughnessy and Frey families, many benefactors and supporters of the UST Libraries as we listen to a welcome message from Fr. Dease and see a video presentation by Dan Gjelten. We invite you to join us for the festivities which will begin at 3:30 pm in the JRC auditorium, Room 126, and will then move over to the library at about 4:15 pm for reception in the Great Hall on second floor, music, exhibits and memorabilia in the O’Shaughnessy Room, tours, appetizers, and a chance to reminisce with friends, old and new. Call Julie Kimlinger at 962-5014 to rsvp or if you have any questions. We welcome your recollections, fond memories, etc of the library and you can submit them electronically at our 50th website. Look for the Share Your Memories button -- and we hope to see you on Friday, October 23. All are welcome!

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You're taking a class, and need to research an industry. Where to start? One great place is IBISWorld. It has over 700 overviews of "mid-level" industries, including clothing stores, hair and nail salons, and fast-food restaurants. Reports are 20-40 pages long and can be downloaded in pdf or Word. The table of contents on the left takes you directly to specific parts of the report. Try it out, and let us know what you think.

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The 2009 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday night, October 1, at the 19th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre. These prizes are awarded "for achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK." For example, the Medicine Prize was awarded to Donald L. Unger, of Thousand Oaks, California, USA, for investigating a possible cause of arthritis of the fingers, by diligently cracking the knuckles of his left hand - but never cracking the knuckles of his right hand - every day for more than sixty (60) years. You can read the entire list here.

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Dani Roach and Linda Hulbert were interviewed for a white paper by Serials Solutions, a vendor of e-resources management tools. The paper stems from a presentation Roach gave at the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) meeting in June. That presentation described the work of a National Information Standards Organization Committee, which is developing the standards for integrating financial information from multiple sources and usage data for electronic resources to determine costs per use, CORE - Cost of Resource Exchange. Please contact Dani or Linda at the O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library if you would like to talk further on this subject.

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