Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Announcement

• BC & BS Self-serve Website Down This Weekend

  Title:

  BC&BS Self-Service Website Down This Weekend (May 19 and 20)

  Information:

  I've been asked by Minnesota Management and Budget Insurance division to pass along the following message:

  Blue Cross will be doing a couple of maintenance/hardware upgrades to their websites this weekend. This will create a couple of outages on the Blue Cross web pages.

  On Saturday - Sunday (May 19-20) : Web Self Serve (mybluecross, looking up claims), will be down from about 12:00 noon on Saturday until approximately 9:00 PM Sunday

  Thank you.

  — Joan Tutt
  joan.tutt@smsu.edu
   

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Athletics

• Former Mustang named to 2012 USA Paralympic Team

  The National Wheelchair Basketball Association recently announced that former Southwest Minnesota State University standout Josh Turek has been named to the 2012 USA Men's Wheelchair Basketball Paralympic Team that will compete at the Paralympics in London this August and September.

  The USA team was selected from four separate try-outs that were held in the summer of 2011. More than 80 athletes attended the tryouts, before the 12-member team was selected this spring.

  Team USA will be competing in several tournaments this summer, including Frankfurt, Germany, May 18-20, and in Manchester, England on May 23-26. The team is also planning on traveling to Sydney, Australia, for another tournament from July 19-29.

  Turek was a member of the 2004 Paralympic team that competed in Athens and won a gold medal at the 2011 Para Pan American Games.

  Turek, a native of Council Bluffs, Iowa, attended SMSU from 1997 to 2002 and left the wheelchair basketball program as the most prolific scorer in history. The 2002 SMSU male student-athlete of the year, Turek finished his career scoring 4,024 points and grabbing 1,213 rebounds. He was a four-time team MVP, four-time All-American and three-year team captain. He holds school single-season records in field goals made and points, along with holding single-game records for points scored, 3-point field goals made and free throws made.

  As a senior in 2001-02, he led SMSU to a 27-10 record and was named MVP of the NWBA Region Tournament.

  Turek has played professionally in Europe the past 10 years, including this season for a team in Madrid, Spain.

  — Kelly Loft
  kelly.loft@smsu.edu
   

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Attention

• Lighting Project

  The lighting project will be moving to the Individualized Learning Center (IL building), beginning Friday, May 11, 2012. It is possible that you will be asked to leave your work station so they can retrofit the lighting. This project may take approximately one week.
  Thank you.

  — Mark Senkyr
  linda.bach@smsu.edu
   

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• Poor Summer Hours

  
  Information:

  SMSU Pool Summer Hours
  May 7th-June 22 & Aug 13-24

  Monday-Thursday 11:00a-1:30p

  Pool will be closed on Monday May 28th for Memorial Day
  Pool will also be closed June 23-Aug 12 for a scheduled facility upgrade and general maintenance/cleaning.

  — Patty Myrvik
  patricia.myrvik@smsu.edu
   

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• Robinson Funeral Saturday

  Services for Stacy Robinson will be held in Minnesota on Saturday, May 19, 2012 at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, 501 West Lawsosn Ave., St. Paul, MN 55117; visitation from 10:00AM until funeral service at 12:00 noon. Interment will follow at Elmhurst Cemetery, St. Paul, MN. Arrangements by Bradshaw, St. Paul, MN.

  Stacy Robinson was the Director of Cultural Diversity at SMSU from the early- to mid-1990s.

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• Windowed Enveloped Needed

  
  Information:

  The SMSU McFarland Library is in need of 41/4 X 91/2" SMSU windowed envelopes. If you have any in your department that you won't be using, please contact Carolyn McDonald in the library. Thank you!

  — Carolyn McDonald
  carolyn.mcdonald@smsu.edu
   

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Announcement

• BC & BS Self-serve Website Down This Weekend

  Title:

  BC&BS Self-Service Website Down This Weekend (May 19 and 20)

  Information:

  I've been asked by Minnesota Management and Budget Insurance division to pass along the following message:

  Blue Cross will be doing a couple of maintenance/hardware upgrades to their websites this weekend. This will create a couple of outages on the Blue Cross web pages.

  On Saturday - Sunday (May 19-20) : Web Self Serve (mybluecross, looking up claims), will be down from about 12:00 noon on Saturday until approximately 9:00 PM Sunday

  Thank you.

  — Joan Tutt
  joan.tutt@smsu.edu
   

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Athletics

• Former Mustang named to 2012 USA Paralympic Team

  The National Wheelchair Basketball Association recently announced that former Southwest Minnesota State University standout Josh Turek has been named to the 2012 USA Men's Wheelchair Basketball Paralympic Team that will compete at the Paralympics in London this August and September.

  The USA team was selected from four separate try-outs that were held in the summer of 2011. More than 80 athletes attended the tryouts, before the 12-member team was selected this spring.

  Team USA will be competing in several tournaments this summer, including Frankfurt, Germany, May 18-20, and in Manchester, England on May 23-26. The team is also planning on traveling to Sydney, Australia, for another tournament from July 19-29.

  Turek was a member of the 2004 Paralympic team that competed in Athens and won a gold medal at the 2011 Para Pan American Games.

  Turek, a native of Council Bluffs, Iowa, attended SMSU from 1997 to 2002 and left the wheelchair basketball program as the most prolific scorer in history. The 2002 SMSU male student-athlete of the year, Turek finished his career scoring 4,024 points and grabbing 1,213 rebounds. He was a four-time team MVP, four-time All-American and three-year team captain. He holds school single-season records in field goals made and points, along with holding single-game records for points scored, 3-point field goals made and free throws made.

  As a senior in 2001-02, he led SMSU to a 27-10 record and was named MVP of the NWBA Region Tournament.

  Turek has played professionally in Europe the past 10 years, including this season for a team in Madrid, Spain.

  — Kelly Loft
  kelly.loft@smsu.edu
   

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Attention

• Lighting Project

  The lighting project will be moving to the Individualized Learning Center (IL building), beginning Friday, May 11, 2012. It is possible that you will be asked to leave your work station so they can retrofit the lighting. This project may take approximately one week.
  Thank you.

  — Mark Senkyr
  linda.bach@smsu.edu
   

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• Gardenhire a Fan of SMSU

  Minnesota Twins manager Ron Gardenhire is a big fan of Southwest Minnesota State University. His daughter, Tara, graduated on May 5, and he was in the R/A Facility to share in her big moment.

  Gardenhire was interviewed by KELO-TV after the ceremony, and had good things to say about SMSU.

  http://www.keloland.com/NewsDetail6162.cfm?Id=131366
   

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• Robinson Funeral Saturday

  Services for Stacy Robinson will be held in Minnesota on Saturday, May 19, 2012 at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, 501 West Lawsosn Ave., St. Paul, MN 55117; visitation from 10:00AM until funeral service at 12:00 noon. Interment will follow at Elmhurst Cemetery, St. Paul, MN. Arrangements by Bradshaw, St. Paul, MN.

  Stacy Robinson was the Director of Cultural Diversity at SMSU from the early- to mid-1990s.

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• ADR Office Closed Tuesday Afternoon

   

  ADR offices closed Tuesday afternoon due to the lighting project

  
  This includes: Access, Opportunity, Success and Disability Resources

  — Michele Knife Sterner
  michele.sterner@smsu.edu

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Announcement

• BC & BS Self-serve Website Down This Weekend

  Title:

  BC&BS Self-Service Website Down This Weekend (May 19 and 20)

  Information:

  I've been asked by Minnesota Management and Budget Insurance division to pass along the following message:

  Blue Cross will be doing a couple of maintenance/hardware upgrades to their websites this weekend. This will create a couple of outages on the Blue Cross web pages.

  On Saturday - Sunday (May 19-20) : Web Self Serve (mybluecross, looking up claims), will be down from about 12:00 noon on Saturday until approximately 9:00 PM Sunday

  Thank you.

  — Joan Tutt
  joan.tutt@smsu.edu
   

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Athletics

• Former Mustang named to 2012 USA Paralympic Team

  The National Wheelchair Basketball Association recently announced that former Southwest Minnesota State University standout Josh Turek has been named to the 2012 USA Men's Wheelchair Basketball Paralympic Team that will compete at the Paralympics in London this August and September.

  The USA team was selected from four separate try-outs that were held in the summer of 2011. More than 80 athletes attended the tryouts, before the 12-member team was selected this spring.

  Team USA will be competing in several tournaments this summer, including Frankfurt, Germany, May 18-20, and in Manchester, England on May 23-26. The team is also planning on traveling to Sydney, Australia, for another tournament from July 19-29.

  Turek was a member of the 2004 Paralympic team that competed in Athens and won a gold medal at the 2011 Para Pan American Games.

  Turek, a native of Council Bluffs, Iowa, attended SMSU from 1997 to 2002 and left the wheelchair basketball program as the most prolific scorer in history. The 2002 SMSU male student-athlete of the year, Turek finished his career scoring 4,024 points and grabbing 1,213 rebounds. He was a four-time team MVP, four-time All-American and three-year team captain. He holds school single-season records in field goals made and points, along with holding single-game records for points scored, 3-point field goals made and free throws made.

  As a senior in 2001-02, he led SMSU to a 27-10 record and was named MVP of the NWBA Region Tournament.

  Turek has played professionally in Europe the past 10 years, including this season for a team in Madrid, Spain.

  — Kelly Loft
  kelly.loft@smsu.edu
   

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Attention

• Robinson Funeral Saturday

  Services for Stacy Robinson will be held in Minnesota on Saturday, May 19, 2012 at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, 501 West Lawsosn Ave., St. Paul, MN 55117; visitation from 10:00AM until funeral service at 12:00 noon. Interment will follow at Elmhurst Cemetery, St. Paul, MN. Arrangements by Bradshaw, St. Paul, MN.

  Stacy Robinson was the Director of Cultural Diversity at SMSU from the early- to mid-1990s.

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• Windowed Enveloped Needed

  
  Information:

  The SMSU McFarland Library is in need of 41/4 X 91/2" SMSU windowed envelopes. If you have any in your department that you won't be using, please contact Carolyn McDonald in the library. Thank you!

  — Carolyn McDonald
  carolyn.mcdonald@smsu.edu
   

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