Campus News Briefs

Study tour going to Russia in June The department of languages and philosophy is offering an 18-day travel-study program to Russia and Finland June 14 through July 1. The tour is a Volga cruise between Moscow and St. Petersburg. Participants will visit Moscow, St. Petersburg, Uglich, Yaraslavl, Kostroma, Kizhi Island, Mondeoga as well as other points of interest along the way and a two-night stop in Helsinki, Finland. The total cost for the tour is $2,890 which includes pre-tour orientation sessions, round-trip transportation from Salt Lake City, first-class lodging, three meals daily (breakfast only in Helsinki), porterage, excursions and lectures and musical performances on the ship. Everyone is invited to participate and university credit is available for students. The deadline for registration is April 5 and space is limited. A non-refundable $200 deposit is needed to reserve a spot on the tour. For more information, contact Lynn Eliason at 797-1219, Kent Robson at 797-1214 or the department office at 797-1209.

USU seeks diversity award nominations Nominations for the ninth annual Utah State University Diversity Awards are due April 1, at 5 p.m. The awards recognize individuals on campus and in the Cache Valley community who have made significant contributions to affirmative action, equal opportunity and diversity. Awards will be given in five areas: Community member, USU faculty, administrator, staff and student. The awards will be recognized by President Kermit L. Hall at the Fall 2002 Diversity Forum. Letters of nomination should detail the individual’s contributions to affirmative action, equal opportunity and diversity. For more information contact the USU Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity (AA/EO) Office at 797-1266. Award guidelines are available in the AA/EO Office, Old Main, Room 161. Information can also be obtained by fax 797-9291 or e-mail deidrin@champ.usu.edu.

Forum to address financial security Financial specialist Erica Whittlinger will speak Friday from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the Utah State University Taggart Student Center Colony Room on how to have a financially secure future. Whittlinger is the CEO of Whittlinger Capitol Management Inc., a Minneapolis-based money management firm and host of “Your Money Manager,” a weekly segment of Sound Money which airs on public radio Saturday from 9 to 10 a.m. and answers a wide-range of investment questions. Whittlinger can easily answer questions from orphan IRAs to socially-responsible investments, Jean Lown, human environment professor, said. Whittlinger’s lecture is sponsored by the Utah State Human Environments Department, Financial Planning for Women Organization and the Family Finance Club. For more information contact Lown at 797-3845.

Public Radio starts on-air fund raiser Utah’s Public Radio’s on-air spring fund-raising drive starts Wednesday and will run for one week. “We are trying this approach to see if listeners like it better. It doesn’t tie up two weekends as in the past,” general manger Richard Meng said. UPR has a few fund-raising campaigns each year because of the uninterrupted, commercial-free broadcasting the rest of the year. “Those who listen but haven’t contributed before can pledge at a $4-a-month level, which also qualifies them for a one-year magazine subscription,” development director Bryan Earl said. Listener donations comprise more than one-third of the public radio’s operations, Meng said. Listeners wishing to make a pledge may call UPR’s toll-free number, 1-800-826-1495 or make a pledge over the Internet at www.upr.org.