{"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":693,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/15\/he-never-was-very-good-at-math-thinking\/","url_meta":{"origin":244,"position":0},"title":"He never was very good at math thinking","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"15 Nov 07","format":false,"excerpt":"OpenCongress has a nice piece on what a sham Our Fearless Leader's blather about \"fiscal responsibility\" is. I'll send you there for the text, but the short version is (not surprisingly) this isn't about responsibility at all, it's about priorities and (lack of vision) in the White House. He's happy\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":245,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/10\/09\/a-rockin-umm-csci-reunion-dinner\/","url_meta":{"origin":244,"position":1},"title":"A rockin&#8217; UMM CSci reunion dinner","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"9 Oct 05","format":false,"excerpt":"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,\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":254,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/10\/30\/why-umm-students-need-to-vote-on-the-levy\/","url_meta":{"origin":244,"position":2},"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":3},"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). This song is way cool, and I suspect I'd really dig the whole album, but I can't seem to find it for sale\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Events&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Events","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/events\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Hot licks","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/73\/212895181_69f34010ea.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"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":4},"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!). Back in January the Knight Foundation published a study of over 100,000 US high school students which found that these kids (who will be in my classes over the next several years)\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":133,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/04\/27\/fortnows-thoughts-on-scigen\/","url_meta":{"origin":244,"position":5},"title":"Fortnow&#8217;s thoughts on SCIgen","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"27 Apr 05","format":false,"excerpt":"Lance Fortnow had a real go at the MIT students that got the bogus paper accepted at the SCI conference. I would consider someone who intentionally submits a bogus paper to STOC guilty of academic fraud. Why are these MIT students any different? 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