The Bear Ledger

University of Central Arkansas Departments of Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy, Conway Regional Rehabilitation, and Increasing Capabilities Access Network (ICAN) recently sponsored a one day sports and leisure day experience in Conway.

The sports and leisure day gives students and persons living with spinal cord injury an opportunity to learn about and participate in adapted sports and recreation activities. The event is planned each year by Twala Maresh, DPT, physical therapy professor; Dr. Lorrie George, occupational therapy professor; and Debbie Cummings, Conway Regional Rehabilitation Hospital recreational therapist.

The day began with a keynote speech about the outdoor adventure program, Turning Point, by Jason Swanson. Swanson shared that Turning Point is celebrating 31 years of developing “self-esteem and confidence in the physically challenged population through participation in adapted outdoor adventures”. Swanson was joined by Carlos Turic of Dallas and a panel of local participants who shared information about their spinal cord injury and their involvement in sporting/ leisure activities.

Local participants included Billy Fryer (golf, basketball), Joe McNeil and Marty Johnson (cycling), and Mark Carson (tennis). Students, participants with spinal cord injuries, and professionals were able to learn about the meaning of sports participation as well as the practical aspects of participation from panel members. After lunch, participants became physically engaged in a variety of activities at Conway Regional Health and Fitness Center including adapted golf, tennis, basketball, and road racing.

Participants also visited the booths of community service agencies where representatives shared information about the services and products they offer. Companies and agencies included ICAN (Eddie Schmeckenbecher), Arkansas Spinal Cord Commission (Patti Rogers) and Disabled Hunting Programs (Toney LeQueiu), Glass Seating and Mobility (Cary Yarbrough and Angela Schwmacher), Sunrise Medical/Quickie wheel-chairs (Bob Robins), Permobil Wheelchairs (James Taylor), and Beyond Boundaries Program (Beth Stamp and Lisa George).

Occupational and physical therapy students collaborated to develop fact sheets about the activities. The fact sheets provide basic information about each sport, rules for participation in competition, equipment, and resources for further information. They will be available on the ICAN website at www.ar-ican.org.

GroupWise 8 now saves your message while you are creating it. In the event something interrupts the client, the unfinished message will be available to you when you restart. With the GroupWise 8 address book you can add more phone numbers to a contact. Just select the “Add Phone Number”link at the bottom of the phone number list while editing acontact to select from a list of additional fields.

A Vacation Rule Wizard has been created to help you quickly create a rule for times when you are away from the office. RSS feeds are available from within the new GroupWise 8 client. You can add panels to your home view that display external web pages, such as the MyUCA portal.

Did you know everyone has their own individual network storage space? All employees and students have a drive O: available to you when you login to the network. There is 1GB of space
available for each employee and 100MB for each student.

iFolder 3

iFolder 3 is available and it is more capable and complex. Trainings sessions are available. Individuals attending training will have additional storage space available. Get more information and the new iFolder client at http://ifolder.uca.edu.

Housing

The College View and Elizabeth Place apartments connection to the network is being enhanced. A newpoint to point link is being added that should increase the available throughput for these locations. The work should be completed in the next few weeks.

Computer Model Support

Support for the following computer models will end on 31 December 2010:

• Dell Optiplex GX 260
• Dell Optiplex GX 270
• Lenovo Thinkpad R51

See our web site at http:// www.uca.edu/it/policies/modelintro.php for the full support schedule.

Upcoming Events

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Aug. 19, 2- 3 p.m.
iFolder 3 class

Aug 20, 10 – 11 a.m.
iFolder 3 class

Aug 20, 4 p.m.
Network maintenance

Sept. 6, 1:30 – 3 p.m.
GroupWise Calendaring

Sept. 17, 4 p.m.
Network maintenance

Each of the events listed below took place at UCA during the Great Depression.

Harrin Hall: This building was initially built with no funds from the state or the federal government. The builder, J.J. Hiegel, great uncle to Jerry Hiegel who owns Hiegel Supply on Bruce Street, agreed to construct the building and wait until 1931 to receive his compensation. Meanwhile, the Great Depression struck and Hiegel had to wait several years before receiving any money and carried the note until it was paid in full in 1946.

Pay Cuts: All UCA employees suffered two 10% pay cuts; the first in the summer of 1931 and the second in spring 1932. The next blow was when the faculty and staff were paid in warrants. Warrants were not immediately redeemable and were never redeemed for their full face value. After the two pay cuts and being paid in warrants, the faculty was asked by President McAlister to loan money to UCA so it could continue to operate. Even though the faculty had suffered financially they agreed to loan money to UCA and the college survived the Great Depression.

Student Life: Arthur Hunnicutt, a UCA student who later became a motion picture star, waited tables in Doyne Dormitory in exchange for his board. He also mowed lawns for ten cents an hour.

Source: ” From The Archives,” Jimmy Bryant, Director of Archives & Special Collections

Funds allocated for raises for employees have been placed in reserve until later in the year at the request of the Governor.

The UCA Board of Trustees, at the request of President Allen Meadors, approved raises in May as part of the 2010-11 fiscal budget. However, Gov. Mike Beebe directed all state universities and colleges in June not to implement any pay raises until state officials know how the state’s economy is doing in the first half of the fiscal year.

The suspension of cost-of-living adjustments, merit raises, and annual career- service-recognition payments for fiscal year 2010-11 included faculty and non-classified employees.

The remaining portion of last year’s raises for classified employees was implemented on July 1.

President Meadors said it remains the university’s intention to provide the raises in January 2011.

“Barring a complete economic collapse in the state, I believe the approved raises will occur – be it retroactive – no later than January 2011,” he said.

Dr. Meadors met with Gov. Beebe earlier this month to present the university’s situation to him.

“He was very appreciative of the fact that our faculty and non-classified staff have not received any raises in the last two years (this would be the third year), but he is also concerned about the economic recovery of the state and feels it would be prudent to wait and see how the economy does over the first two quarters of the fiscal year,” Dr. Meadors said. “…If you are wondering what you can do to help, first and foremost encourage folks to buy their merchandise in Arkansas. We need healthy sales tax revenue over the first two quarters of this fiscal year.”

Dr. Meadors noted that at the end of the next fiscal year, the university will be in a stronger financial position than it has been in the past five to six years.

Colleges and universities are now required by federal law to combat illegal downloading of copyrighted material.

A provision of the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 states that colleges and universities must implement plans “to effectively combat the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material by users of the institution’s network.”

The provision went into effect July 1.

The university must develop and implement written plans and offer “alternatives to illegal downloading or peer-to-peer distribution of intellectual property,” the provision states. Colleges and universities that don’t comply could risk losing eligibility for federal student aid.

Further information about the provision and a UCA’s plans is available at http://www.uca.edu/legal/heoa_copyright.php.

The University of Central Arkansas’ Board of Trustees adopted its Computer Use Policy in 1999. The policy prohibits the use of university owned computers to engage in the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials. Violation of the policy could lead to suspension or expulsion of students or the termination of employment of faculty and staff.

Penalties for copyright infringement include civil and criminal penalties.