THE NEWSLETTER
THE NEWSLETTER is the Faculty/Staff newsletter of Stetson University, DeLand, Florida 32720, and is published each Friday. All items
for THE NEWSLETTER should be sent to Maggie Dobson, Office of the Provost, Box 8358, not later than 4 p.m. on Wednesday of each week.
Friday, October 18
Friday-Sunday, October 18-20
Saturday, October 19
Monday, October 21
Tuesday, October 22
OCTOBER 18, 1996
IMPORTANT EVENTS
7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
The Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Family Weekend
Stetson Opera Workshop
Lecture-Phi Beta Kappa Visiting
Scholar-Stetson Room
Percussion Ensemble and Steel Drum
Band
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1997-98 Academic Calendar
Please review the two options for our 1997-98 Academic Calendar, which are presented elsewhere in J_he
Newsletter. It is my intention to bring these to the November 1 Faculty Meeting. We will follow a procedure
similar to that of the October Faculty Meeting. After some brief general discussion I will call for a show of hands
to determine which calendar option will be placed on the floor for discussion. We will then turn our attention to
that option, with amendments welcome, bringing that option with amendments to a final vote. If it is rejected we
will turn to the other option and follow the same process.
As you review these two options please keep in mind the following points:
1. Option #1 is the same calendar as the past two years, except that Fall Semester starts and ends one week
later.
2. Option #2 eliminates the two-day Fall Break.
3. Option #2 may pose a serious problem with respect to Labor Day. After many years of requests we have
finally made Labor Day a University Holiday. This was universally applauded by our staff, who now look
forward to spending Labor Day with their families. Option #2, with Labor Day in the middle of Orientation,
would mean that many staff would have to work. This would be a hardship for our staff colleagues and would
have a budget impact because of overtime pay.
From: Gene Lubot, Provost
"What Happened to the Moral Curriculum?" is the topic of the lecture to be given by this year's Phi Beta Kappa
Visiting Scholar, Dr. Dennis O'Brien. He will explore the ideological and pedagogical bases of the older
denominational colleges and their discipline based successors in search of the elusive role—if any-of colleges in
moral tutelage. Dr. O'Brien is president emeritus of the University of Rochester and a past president of Bucknell
University. He has taught at Rochester, Bucknell, Middlebury College, and Princeton University. His writings on
philosophy, religion, and higher education are extensive, including the forthcoming All the Essential Half Truths
About Higher Education. Please join us on Monday, October 21, at 7:00 p.m. in the Stetson Room.
