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Inside NOW: Seeking volunteers for IROAR mock registration; recycling services pick-up schedule change; official use parking placards

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  1. Seeking faculty/staff volunteers for iROAR mock registration
  2. Recycling Services: Change in pick-up schedule
  3. PARKING REMINDER: Official use parking placards for 2013 available
  4. Donate your unwanted shoes for a great cause
  5. Clemson network connects big ideas to resources
  6. Clemson University celebrates MLK holiday with speaker David Hilliard
  7. Chemical inventories for labs and non-labs due Feb. 15

1. Seeking faculty/staff volunteers for iROAR mock registration

Clemson’s new Student Information System, iROAR, will conduct Mock Registration on January 23 and 24 as part of the iROAR implementation cycle. Mock Registration is a test-run that focuses on registration practices.

The primary objectives of this testing plan are:
·         to introduce iROAR to faculty, staff and students
·         to test the new system and registration related tasks of future users
·         to locate and correct possible errors
·         to get feedback from all participants

Please encourage your students to take part in Mock Registration. It takes approximately 30 minutes to complete and incentives will be offered to participating students.

Access Mock Registration times and locations at http://www.clemson.edu/iroar/students/mockRegistration/index.html.

2. Recycling Services: Change in pick-up schedule

Please note the recycling pick up schedule has changed for campus. Access the updated link and schedule at http://media.clemson.edu/facilities/pdf/recycling/Clemson%20University%20Recycling%20Schedule%202013.pdf.

In other news:

  • The Kite Hill Recycling Center has upgraded its signage and has been repainted. The center now accepts #3 through #7 plastic and electronic waste for recycling.
  • Cardboard Recycling Containers will be serviced on Tuesdays.

Contact Dave Vandeventer at 656-4219 with any questions.

3. PARKING REMINDER: Official Use Parking Placards for 2013 Available

As a reminder to all departments who were assigned Official Use Only placards in 2012, the 2013 Clemson University annual “Official Use Only” parking placards are ready for pick up in the Parking and Transportation Services office for any department that has not received their permits yet. Parking enforcement personnel will honor all 2012 placards until Jan. 18, 2013, to ensure adequate time for pick up.

We also want to share some important changes that were approved by Administrative Council this past year. There is now a $24 annual fee for each permit issued and the permit will now allow parking at parking-metered spaces for up to a two-hour limit without paying the meters. Previously, the user of the parking placard was required to pay and ensure that the meter space was activated for the meter limit. Since there is now a fee, please also provide the person picking up the placard(s) with a chart field string for billing purposes as they will be required to complete an application.

Please assign an employee from your department to pick up your placards. Student employees will not be able to pick up the placards.

Parking and Transportation Services will be updating and verifying the following departmental information: area, contact name, contact number, email address and department mailing address. Please instruct the person assigned to pick up the placards to verify and/or correct the information when picking up the placards.

Parking and Transportation Services is located at G-01 Edgar Brown Union. Office hours are 7:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, excluding university holidays.

If you have any questions, concerns, or would like to verify the number of permits that have been prepared for your department/area, please contact Sonia Jammes, associate director for administration and finance at 864-656-0548 or at soniaj@clemson.edu.

4. Donate your unwanted shoes for a great cause

Drop your unwanted shoes in the tall, wooden box near Cooper Library’s center stairs and they’ll go far. In fact, they will be featured on the steps of the South Carolina State Capitol during Disability Advocacy Day on March 6 where each pair will represent to lawmakers 15 people in South Carolina who have disabilities like Autism, Down Syndrome, and traumatic brain injury.

After Disability Advocacy Day, your donations will be delivered to Soles4Souls, which sends shoes to people in need in the U.S. and elsewhere and employs adults with disabilities in its distribution warehouses.

Shoes will be collected through Friday, Feb. 15. The event is co-sponsored by the Clemson Libraries and Clemson Student Disability Services.

For more information, contact Camille Cooper at 656-0841 or cooper2@clemson.edu.

5. Clemson network connects big ideas to resources

Got a Big Idea?

Join Clemson’s Innovative and Entrepreneurial Network at http://Clemson.InnoVenture.com and gain access to alumni, public supporters and corporations that may want to explore how they can help get your Big Idea off the ground!  It’s easy to participate and takes only a few minutes to register yourself and your Big Idea.  Present the general premise of your Big Idea by using fewer than 10 slides, a video of less than five minutes, or a text description of less than 500 words.  It’s that simple.  Don’t wait.  On January 31, more than 75,000 alumni will receive an email inviting them to review the Big Ideas in Clemson’s Network. Who knows, you may be asked to present your Big Idea at the 10th Annual InnoVenture Conference this Spring. It’s time.

6. Clemson University celebrates MLK holiday with speaker David Hilliard

Clemson University will mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day with several events, including a day of community service and the annual MLK Commemorative Service, which will feature keynote speaker David Hilliard.

Students, faculty and staff will use the holiday off Monday, Jan. 21, as a day to help others during the annual MLK Day of Service from 9 a.m. to noon. Volunteers spend the morning working with agencies throughout the community, including Clemson Child Development Center, the Animal Rescue Fund, Collins Children’s Home, Our Daily Bread and Sterling House.

As part of the Day of Service, the Blood Connection will hold a blood drive from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Hendrix Student Center meeting rooms.

The celebration continues with the 31st annual MLK Commemorative Service at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, at Tillman Hall auditorium. The service will feature Hilliard, a founding member and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party. Read more at http://www.clemson.edu/media-relations/article.php?article_id=4656.

7. Chemical inventories for labs and non-labs due Feb. 15

Access the forms you can use for submitting inventories at:
Lab:  http://ehs.clemson.edu/cheminventory.xls
Non-Lab:  http://ehs.clemson.edu/Non-Laboratory%20Chemical%20Inventory.xls

Please email completed inventories to: ChemInventory@clemson.edu.
(Note this is a different email address than in previous years.)

Questions about the inventories should be directed to: Naomi Kelly, Chemical Hygiene Officer, 656-7554, nkelly@clemson.edu.

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