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A rockin’ UMM CSci reunion dinner

CSci reunion dinner Oct 2005
Nick Hopper (UMM ’99, now a tenure-line CSci faculty at the Twin Cities campus) invited us out to the Twin Cities’ Computer Science and Engineering biennial technology forum/open house, which was very cool. At various times it looked like as many as 10 or more UMMers might make the trip, but in the end mid-terms and on-campus events trimmed things down to Emily, Elena, and myself.

The scramble to get ready was pretty crazy, but all worth it as it was an excellent event and I got to meet some interesting new people and hook up with folks I hadn’t seen in a while. A major highlight was the informal UMM CSci reunion dinner last night after the open house was all over. We had 20 UMM folks in all, plus two wee’uns, for a fun and tasty evening.

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Big icicles on our house in winter
Yesterday the missive below came from our Chancellor (Sam Schuman). That’s a nice bit of pro-active thinking, getting on top of it before it’s a complete mess. Now one wonders what kinds of similar thinking is happening at the community, state, and federal levels? I can certainly imagine this being an enormous problem for people skating on the edge of homelessness or people (like many elderly) on fixed incomes.

As we all know, costs of fossil fuels of all types are going up dramatically. This is, of course, obvious at the gas pump. It is, at this point, less obvious when we think about heating our homes and offices. We are monitoring this situation carefully, in terms of UMM buildings, but we are also concerned for students (and other members of our community) living off campus.

Students living in rental housing who are responsible for their heating bills should anticipate costs that are about DOUBLE those of last year! We are worried that this may pose a very serious fiscal challenge to many of our students.

Shortly, the Financial Aid Office will be staffing a table at the student center with information about this issue, and materials for seeking supplemental funding to help with unanticipated heating costs. I’d personally encourage all students living off campus to mull this situation, and take appropriate steps deal with this new challenge. If there is any way I or any of us can help, let us know!

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