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COLLEGE NEWS



- Associate Deans Seminars Scheduled



- Faculty/Staff Retreat



- Curtiss Hall Directory



- DNA to Dessert



COMMUNICATIONS KIOSK



- When a Reporter Calls



INFOGRAZING



- Rural Technology Use



- Farm Restructuring Reports



EXTERNAL VOICES



- $7.5 Billion: Not Enough



MARGINALIA



- Fortune cookies, Midwest-style







C O L L E G E N E W S







ASSOCIATE DEANS SEMINARS SCHEDULED



The candidates (and seminar times/days) for Associate Dean, State

Programs are:



- Bruce Menzel, chairman, Department of Animal Ecology; 4 p.m.,

Friday, July 7



- Robert Martin, professor, Department of Agricultural Education

and



Studies; 3:30 p.m., Monday, July 10



- R. Kirby Barrick, chair of the Department of Agricultural Education,

Ohio



State University; 2:30 p.m., Monday July 17



- Eric Hoiberg, professor, Department of Sociology; 2 p.m., Wednesday,

July 19



The candidates (and seminar times/days) for Associate Dean, National



Programs are:



- Jerry Klonglan, interim associate dean and associate director,

Ag



Experiment Station; 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 18



- Rodney Dietert, director of the Institute for Comparative and



Environmental Toxicology, Cornell University; 1:30 p.m., Thursday,

July 20



Each will discuss the topic "Administrative Philosophies

in Agricultural



Administration." College of Agriculture faculty, staff and

students are



encouraged to attend the seminars in Room 1951 of the Food Sciences



Building (CCUR Theater).



The Associate Dean for State Programs will coordinate distance

learning



programs, off-campus degree programs and instruction within the

College and



will be a liaison with state agricultural agencies and Iowa citizen

and



commodity groups. The Associate Dean for National Programs will

coordinate



research within the College and act as a liaison with national

and



international agricultural agencies and academic societies.



The search for the Associate Dean, Industry Programs is on hold

during



further discussions regarding the responsibilities associated

with this



position.



FACULTY/STAFF RETREAT



Set aside Aug. 17, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., for the College's



faculty/staff retreat. It will be at the Holiday Inn-Gateway.

Watch your



mail and future editions of Ag Online for more information.



CURTISS HALL DIRECTORY



The Curtiss Hall office shift is done. Phone numbers have not

changed. Any



office not listed here remained in its original spot. Office-warming

gifts



may be sent to these locations:



Agricultural Experiment Station



Room 123N



Colin Scanes, executive associate dean and associate director



Gerald Klonglan, interim associate dean



Cathy Good, secretary



Marie Miller, secretary



Room 124



Susan Lamont, assistant director



Shirley Riney, research program coordinator



Carla Persaud, secretary



ASSIST Program - 3397 Food Sciences Building



Charles Ertzinger, director



Lee Tesdell, graduate student



Budget and Finance Office - Room 117



Del Koch, director



Laurie Vold, administrative specialist



Josie Niemand, accountant



Barb Martin, account specialist



International Agriculture Programs



Room 104



David Acker, director



Mary de Baca, associate director



Dolores DoBell, student and visitor services



Sue Finestead, secretary



Sherri Nystrom, secretary



Dorothy Rust, secretary



Room 223 (temporary space)



Harold Crawford, professor, ag education & studies



David Hansen, professor, economics



Mercedes Serracin, program assistant



Eduarda Becerra, secretary



Joe Dale, graduate student



Victor Udin, graduate student



Room 18



Galina Krasikova, program assistant



Elena Polouchkina, graduate student



Student Services Office - Room 23



Tom Polito, classification officer



Jane Lohnes, associate classification officer



Charanne Parks, minority program coordinator



Marilyn Boswell, clerk



Jan Ostermann, secretary



Norma Hensley, program assistant



Mickie Bergeson, secretary



DNA TO DESSERT



Ten junior high students participated in a hands-on, hi-tech agriculture



EXPLORATIONS! seminar June 25-July 1. The program, titled "DNA

to Dessert,"



examined aspects of food production. Daily seminars developed

by College of



Agriculture professors gave the students a chance to purify and

examine DNA



from plants and bacteria, isolate fats from food and make low

fat frozen



desserts. The seminar was sponsored by the Office of Precollegiate

Programs



for Talented and Gifted (OPPTAG).







C O M M U N I C A T I O N S K I O S K









WHEN A REPORTER CALLS



Say: "I'm in the middle of something (which is always true).

Let me call



you back." (Be sure to ask about the reporter's deadline

before hanging



up.) The delay will give you time to collect your thoughts, focus

yourself



and consult any material you might need. Another way to help focus

is get



up from your desk, where you generally feel comfortable and secure.

Stand



up or move to a phone where you can talk without being distracted.

The tip



is from media training by Words & Pictures, a communications

firm that



consults with ISU.







I N F O G R A Z I N G







RURAL TECHNOLOGY USE



Rural residents ride the information superhighway more often than

Americans



as a whole, according to a recent study. The Rural Policy Research



Institute, a consortium of which ISU is a member, found that 46

percent of



rural residents use personal computers, faxes, e-mail and similar



technology. About 33 percent of the nation in general uses such

technology.



Top users were medical services, education and business. RUPRI

surveyed 20



small towns in Iowa, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Kansas

and



Minnesota. (Wall Street Journal, June 29)



FARM RESTRUCTURING REPORTS



"Beyond the Amber Waves of Grain: An Examination of Economic

and



Social Restructuring in the Heartland" explores the impacts

of the economic



upheaval in the Midwest resulting from the 1980s farm crisis.

The book



draws upon surveys from 12 states to examine farm restructuring

and its



social, economic and political consequences. It is available for

$37 from



Westview Press, 5500 Central Ave., Boulder, CO 80301-2877; (303)

444-3541.



Survey results for individual states were published in "Farm

Family



Adaptations to Severe Economic Stress," available for $3

from the North



Central Regional Center for Rural Development. Contact: Julie

Stewart,



294-8321 or jstewart@iastate.edu.







E X T E R N A L V O I C E S







$7.5 BILLION: NOT ENOUGH



"Secretary Wallace thinks the farm income this year will

be about seven and



a half billion dollars, which is about twice what it was in 1932

but which



will hardly pay me for my time even so. Since coming to live on

the land I



am concerned with all such reports. From a limited experience

with farm



operation, I should call seven and a half billion dollars scarcely

enough



to pay off the farmers in a dozen States. I should estimate that

the farm



income, with or without crop control, would have to be about a

hundred



times greater than it is to make it worth any man's while to work

the



land." E.B. White, in the essay "Security," September

1938.







M A R G I N A L I A







FORTUNE COOKIES, MIDWEST-STYLE



>From Howard Mohr's "How To Talk Minnesotan: A Visitor's

Guide": "What kept



Minnesotans away from Chinese restaurants more than anything else

was the



fortune cookies -- the fortunes left customers with a bad taste

in their



mouth. So the restaurants . . . now serve Minnesota-style fortune

cookies."



Examples include:



YOU WILL CHANGE THE OIL IN YOUR CAR EVERY 2000 MILES.



THERE COULD BE THUNDERSTORMS TOMORROW.



YOU WILL RUN OUT OF 2 PERCENT MILK.



PEOPLE AROUND YOU THINK YOU ARE OKAY, MOSTLY.



THE BIG SHADE ELM IN YOUR FRONT YARD HAS HAD IT.