{"id":244,"date":"2005-10-08T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T20:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=244"},"modified":"2005-10-08T15:47:57","modified_gmt":"2005-10-08T20:47:57","slug":"its-nice-to-know-that-someone-cares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/10\/08\/its-nice-to-know-that-someone-cares\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s nice to know that someone cares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-content\/images\/thumb-IMG_0548.sized.jpg?w=840&#038;ssl=1' alt='Big icicles on our house in winter ' align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nYesterday the missive below came from our Chancellor (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.morris.umn.edu\/academic\/chancellor\/\">Sam Schuman<\/a>).  That&#8217;s a nice bit of pro-active thinking, getting on top of it before it&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAs 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the missive below came from our Chancellor (Sam Schuman). That&#8217;s a nice bit of pro-active thinking, getting on top of it before it&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/10\/08\/its-nice-to-know-that-someone-cares\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s nice to know that someone cares&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[16,11,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-3W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":254,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/10\/30\/why-umm-students-need-to-vote-on-the-levy\/","url_meta":{"origin":244,"position":0},"title":"Why UMM students need to vote on the levy","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"30 Oct 05","format":false,"excerpt":"Below is a letter to the editor for the University Register, UMM's student newspaper... Tuesday, the 8th of November, the residents of the Morris Area School District will turn out to vote on a proposed school levy. While most UMM students realize that they can vote in this election, I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/education\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":370,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/08\/15\/anyone-know-where-i-can-buy-louis-youngblood\/","url_meta":{"origin":244,"position":1},"title":"Anyone know where I can buy Louis Youngblood?","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"15 Aug 06","format":false,"excerpt":"I discovered the song \"Big road blues\" from the album Gearshifter on Pandora (which I've grown way attached to recently - kudos to Brian for the tip). 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Maria Klawe, the author of the piece, feels that \"career opportunities in computer science are at an all-time high\" and: We\u2019ve got to spread that message among students\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":489,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/02\/25\/go-with-the-flow\/","url_meta":{"origin":244,"position":3},"title":"Going with the flOw","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"25 Feb 07","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a snowy-stay-inside day (for us anyway), so you might as well play a game. (Unless, of course, you're in my Software Design class, in which case you ought to be in the lab working like dogs! :->) Consequently, you might want to check out flOw, a free Flash game\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":150,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/05\/10\/some-self-indulgent-reminiscing-about-musical-events-and-people-past\/","url_meta":{"origin":244,"position":4},"title":"Some self-indulgent reminiscing about musical events and people past","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"10 May 05","format":false,"excerpt":"I recorded the wonderful KUMM radio show that my American Roots Music First Year Seminar groups put on last December, but the seam where one CD ended and the next began happened to fall right in the middle of Grace and Kristin's live duet. Grace Doval and Kristin Bennett did\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/education\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":258,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/11\/15\/share-the-bill-of-rights-over-your-thanksgiving-dinner\/","url_meta":{"origin":244,"position":5},"title":"Share the Bill of Rights over your Thanksgiving dinner","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"15 Nov 05","format":false,"excerpt":"This is old news, but it's new to me (which just shows how out of it I am!). 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