The university data center & network will be shutdown for scheduled electrical work. All library servers and networked resources will be unavailable during this period. Library services will be brought back up immediately after the data center work is completed.

To: UMass Dartmouth Community
From: Craig R. Oliveira, Enterprise Systems Admin Mgr, CITS
Re: Data Center & Network Shutdown – Thursday December 28, 2006 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm

The following will be unavailable: All UMass Dartmouth CITS Services including, but not limited to, network access (including internet access, network shares, all remote and local campus connections),email, web systems; library systems; some UMass Pass services.

This outage is necessary in order to schedule electrical work to tie in a new UPS for the Data Center.

Time: Thursday 12/28 5:00pm to 7:00pm

If you have any data center and network questions, please contact:

Craig Oliveira (systems@umassd.edu or x8957)
Rich Pacheco (networking@umassd.edu or x6988)

For library services availability questions, please contact:

Chris Garron (libsys@umassd.edu or x8980)

UMASS DARTMOUTH TO HOST MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR

DR. PHILIP H. MELANSON

A memorial service for Professor Philip H. Melanson, a career-long UMass Dartmouth professor and expert on governmental secrecy, will be held on December 15, 2006 in the UMass Dartmouth Library Browsing Area from 4pm to 5pm. The service will be followed by a reception from 5pm to 6pm. Dr. Melanson was chancellor professor of policy studies, director of the Policy Studies Program and coordinator of the Robert F. Kennedy archive. He was most well-known for his work on governmental secrecy and political violence and assassination. During his lifetime, he authored 15 books, 14 articles, and appeared in countless interviews and seminars on the subject of political assassinations and government secrecy.

At the service, remarks will be given by former colleagues, community leaders, and students. There will also be a book display of Dr. Melanson’s work, a video collage of his various TV interviews going back to the 1970s, and a photo album comprised of newspaper clippings covering his career.

The memorial service is open to the public and to the UMass Dartmouth community. Parking is in Lot 13.

For more information on the memorial service, contact Professor Shawna Sweeney at 508-999-8254.

Poor Pluto: Why it Got Stripped of Planet Status
Speaker: Elliott Horch, Ph.D

In August of this year, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted to pass a new resolution on what defines a planet. Pluto, the body we all were taught was the “9th planet”, does not meet the new guidelines, and has been reclassified as a “dwarf planet”. Why would the IAU take such a drastic step? The discussion will center around why the change has been discussed as we have learned more about the solar system and its origins.

Place: Library Browsing Area

Date: 12/6/06 – Wednesday
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Open: To Public

Contact: Catherine Fortier Barnes, X8665
Email: cfortier@umassd.edu