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UFV Today: Tues, April 20, 2010
Contact us: ufvtoday@ufv.ca
News
• Directors’ Theatre Festival begins next week
• ITS maintenance schedule
• Commuter alert: play-off action at the AE&SC
• U-House closure
• UFV Athletics strategic planning
Events
• National Victims of Crime Awareness Week
• Absolute Style tickets available online
Opportunities
• Library survey underway
• Advanced Word 2007 workshop in Chilliwack
• Chair massage
Deadlines
• Senate agenda deadline
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News
Directors’ Theatre Festival begins next week
UFV’s theatre will soon be buzzing with life and creativity, as Directors’ Festival performers from throughout the BC strut their stuff on stage. This is the 15th annual Directors’ Festival and the attendance at this popular event has grown tremendously during its evolution from audiences of several hundred to a present day figure closer to 3,500.
The festival is a fringe-style event, featuring a cornucopia of one-act plays over a five-day period. This year’s schedule offers 23 productions, including some by established playwrights as well as original plays by student writers. Theatre lovers can be sure to find something to their liking in such an eclectic blend of fare. Directors and performers for this event are theatre students from the UFV Theatre program and other post-secondary theatre programs in BC. Visiting groups this year include: UVic, SFU, Capilano, Thompson Rivers, Vancouver Island, and Trinity Western.
This year’s lineup includes: Afterglow by Peter Boychuck; Courting by Dan Hershfeld; The Author’s Voice by Richard Greenberg; The Big Smoke by Ron Fromstein; It’s a Blunderful Life directed by J.D. Duekman; Do Over by Frederick Stroppel; Here Lies Henry by Daniel McIvor; Horn of Sorrow by Nicholas Ellenbogen; Little Sister by Joan McLeod; Moon People by Alviva Ravel; Negotiating The Perfect One Night Stand by Jason Parker Green; Women in Heat by Rich Orloff; Out of The Flying Pan by David Compton; Pillow Talk by Peter Tolan; Recess by Corrina Hodgson; Savage/Love by Sam Shepard; Snow Angels by Kathleen Black; The Terrible False Deception by Rafe MacPherson; This is a Play by Daniel McIvor; Alone with Interest by Julia Church and Christopher Nash; The Woman Who Was A Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance by Diane Glancy; Women and Wallace by Jonathan Mark Sherman; V.W. by Andrew Westoll; The Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda by Jennifer Camp; and The Beaver Effect by Mark Stubbings.
This festival begins with a series of matinees and previews on Wed, April 28, and progresses to the opening ceremony on Thurs, April 29, at 4.30 pm. The festival will then play through to its conclusion on Sun, May 2, at 11 pm.
Tickets for individual productions are only $5 each, with four-packs of tickets selling for $15. A pass which covers all 23 productions sells for only $40. For information and reservations please call local 2814 or email the theatre staff at theatre@ufv.ca .
The performance schedule and descriptions of individual productions can be found at the theatre website www.ufv.ca/theatre in the Directors’ Theatre Festival section.
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ITS maintenance schedule
Please take note of some upcoming scheduled ITS maintenance plans which might affect you.
Java patch for Blackboard
Mon, April 26
6–7 am
ITS maintenance plans are to install secure certificate renewal and Java patch for the Blackboard online learning system. This update will renew and install new SSL certificate, apply Java fix related to the JRE 1.6.0_19 and newer from Oracle.
The Blackboard learning system will not be available during this process and this will impact students and instructors who using the Blackboard online learning system.
The update will ensure data is secured. The Java patch installation ensures all application applet code is appropriately signed to alleviate warnings end users may receive when running JRE 1.6.0_19 and newer versions.
If you have any questions, please contact Robyn Harcott, Web Systems/SQL Administrator at local 4666, Robyn.Harcott@ufv.ca or if you need technical help, contact the ITS helpdesk at helpdesk.its@ufv.ca or local 4610
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Replacing network equipment in Abbotsford
Network equipment upgrade
Abby Building A, Level 2 East
Sun, May 2
7–11 am
Equipment in this area is nearing the end of service life, so is being replaced with new equipment for improved performance and reliability. Connection to the network will be unavailable in this area during the maintenance window on Sun, May 2. Only users in the immediate vicinity of Building A, rooms A219–A251 are impacted. This includes the main boardroom A225/A229.
If you have any questions, please Bryan Daniel at local 4549, bryan.daniel@ufv.ca, or if you need technical help contact the help desk at helpdesk.its@ufv.ca or local 4610.
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Commuter alert: play-off action at the AE&SC
The Abbotsford Heat hockey team is vying for the Calder Cup and will be playing two more games at home this week, Wed and Fri, April 21, and 23.
This will directly impact anyone planning to travel to and/or park on the Abby campus for classes on these evenings. Traffic may be congested and we will be actively managing our parking both to accommodate university needs and to make our unused space available to event patrons.
Read more about our procedures here: http://www.ufv.ca/Facilities/Parking_Services/Commuter_Alerts.htm
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U-House closure
University House on the Abbotsford campus will be closed on Wed, April 21, in order to accommodate the Volunteer Recognition reception.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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UFV Athletics strategic planning
UFV Athletics is embarking upon a strategic planning process with the goal to:
• Create a positive direction for UFV Athletics
• Improve decision-making (focus attention on crucial issues and challenges)
• Enhance effectiveness, efficiencies, and performance
To build a strong and informed foundation for our department, we are seeking your input.
Please follow this link to participate in assessment:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UFV_Athletics_Strategic_Plan_Advice
The information we gather through these assessments will be pivotal to us moving forward. Therefore it will require an investment of your time but it will be time well spent. It is estimated that this assessment will take about 25 minutes to complete. You are welcome to leave the survey and come back to it as long as you do so from the same computer you started from and you don't ‘exit’ it.
Deadline: Fri, April, 23.
Thank you again for helping UFV Athletics set a positive direction for our future.
Rick Nickelchok
Director of Athletics
604-854-4583
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Events
Survivors mark National Victims of Crime Awareness Week at UFV
Follow this link to read learn more about this event:
http://www.ufv.ca/MarCom/newsroom/VictimsOfCrime.htm
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Absolute Style tickets available online
UFV’s annual fashion graduation show, takes place Wed, April 28 at the Envision Athletic Centre, with a matinee show at 2:30 pm (doors open at 2 pm) and an evening show at 7 pm (Alumni Wine and Cheese reception at 6:30 pm.)
Tickets can be ordered online at http://www.ufv.ca/home.htm or you can contact Corinne Richardson at local 4669 or corinne.richardson@ufv.ca to book tickets.
Don’t delay, these shows often sell out quickly!
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Opportunities
Library survey underway
All current UFV employees have been invited to take part in the LibQUAL survey of library services. If you’ve already responded by completing this web survey, thank you.
If you have not yet done so, please invest the eight to nine minutes it takes to give us important feedback about library collections, facilities, and services. There are some great incentive prizes for lucky participants, too.
Current students are also invited to participate in the survey. Please encourage them to do so.
If you’ve misplaced my original message and would like to participate in the LibQUAL survey, just send a request to librarydirector@ufv.ca .
Kim Isaac
University Librarian
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Advanced Word 2007 workshop in Chilliwack
This workshop will present the more advanced features of Word 2007. Topics include linked text boxes, watermarks, style and theme management, working with master documents, bookmarks, table of contents, creating index entries, and citations/references. As time permits, we will incorporate additional topics you might have an interest in.
Fri, April 30
9 am–12:30 pm
Chwk D212
To sign up, please contact Tara Rozenek at tara.rozenek@ufv.ca or local 4536.
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Chair massage
Chair massages will be held this Thurs, April 22 from 9 am–12:30 pm in Abby, B162. The cost is $20 for 20 minutes or $30 for 30 minutes.
To book an appointment, please contact Tara Rozenek at tara.rozenek@ufv.ca or local 4536.
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Deadlines
Senate agenda deadline
The next meeting of Senate will be held on Fri, May 7, on the Abbotsford campus, A225/229. The deadline for agenda and exhibit items is Thurs, April 29, at noon.
Please send agenda items to monique.castonguay@ufv.ca .
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UFV Today on the web:
http://www.ufv.ca/MarCom/UFV_Today.htm
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