The 2006 SEFA/United Way Campaign Committee is firming up plans for the September 14 Solicitor Training and the annual Campaign Kick-Off. Solicitors will gather in Butler Library 208 at 11:15 a.m. to receive their packets and words of advice on how to conduct a successful campaign. At 12:15 p.m. President Howard will launch the official State Employees Federated Appeal/United Way Campaign. Mark your calendars and enjoy some refreshments while learning about the needs in our community and ways your SEFA contribution can help.

Great Eyes Photo Journal Contest (www.buffalostate.edu/studentlife/x715.xml) for faculty, staff, and students! Grab your camera and walk around campus. Show Buffalo State College your great eye for architecture. You are encouraged to submit your pictures of buildings around the campus. Submit your pictures to the Student Life Office no later than September 29. Once all entries are received, the pictures will be posted online for a campuswide vote! The top choices will be displayed in the Union for the rest of the year!

The first day to register for fall 2006 semester courses for the UUP Program for Tuition Assistance is Friday, August 25. Information and waiver form are available online.

The New Student Orientation Program will host its First-Year Orientation program, Session II, on Wednesday, July 26, and Thursday, July 27. The first-year program schedules for Session II students and parents/families will be available in PDF format at www.buffalostate.edu/orientation starting Monday, July 23.

Buy a soup and sandwich combo and get 50 percent off a Smoothie or Javalanche of your choice! Smoothies: strawberry, acai, mango tropics, four berry, and strawberry banana. Javalanches: white mocha, mocha, chai, green tea, cookies-n-cream, chocolate malt, caramel, chocolate cherry, regular coffee, and regular vanilla.

The Burchfield-Penney Art Center is pleased to present a performance by American cellist Mary Artmann and Mexican pianist Teresa Tamez on Monday, August 21, at 7:30 p.m. The duo will perform works of Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Ponce, and Tamez. For more information, call Don Metz at ext. 6120.

Grades for Session C and 2 must be entered by 8:00 p.m. this evening. For information, visit www.buffalostate.edu/sabre/facstaff and click on SABRE Final Grading Instructions. If you have forgotten your SABRE password, please call SABRE Support at ext. 3434. If you cannot log in to SABRE for any other reason, please call the Computing Help Desk at ext. 4357 for assistance. If you should encounter problems with grading, please call the Registrar's Office at ext. 4811. The grading window for SABRE will close at 8:00 p.m. this evening.

Before you can have an ANGEL course space created for your classes, you must attend training. There will be two Introduction to ANGEL workshops scheduled for August 25—one from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. and another from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. (sign up for just one session). Go to http://bscintra.buffalostate.edu/registration to register for the workshops or call Paul Reynolds at ext. 3361.

If you are one of the 70 Buffalo State volunteers who will participate in this year's Day of Caring, be sure to come to the steps of Rockwell Hall this morning, Monday, August 14, at 9:30 a.m. to receive your Day of Caring T-shirt and have your photo taken with President Howard and this year's campaign chairman, Vice President Voldemar Innus. This year our colleagues will spend their Community Service Day at Agape Parents' Fellowship, Benedict House, the Food Bank of Western New York, and Journey's End Refuge Services. Thank you, all!

Father Pat, director of campus ministry at the Newman Center, will celebrate Mass on the Feast of the Assumption, Tuesday, August 15, at 12:05 p.m. in Student Union 419. All faculty, staff, and students are welcome!