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Annual Faculty Emeritus Dinner, Oct. 18

The annual dinner honoring new Emeritus Faculty will be held on Oct. 18 from 6:30–9 p.m. in the Commons. Information about the event is online at http://www.sonoma.edu/-Senate/Currentinfo.html Participation by current 
faculty members is greatly appreciated by the honorees.

Open Forum on Globalization and Outsourcing at SSU

An open forum on Globalization and Outsourcing held by the Globalization/Outsourcing Study Group is scheduled on Thursday, Oct. 25 from noon-1 p.m. in the Cooperage. Discussion will cover curricular, co-curricular, and administrative responses to the impacts of globalization, including trends such as outsourcing and downsizing and how these trends affect the University. The campus community is encouraged to participate and provide feedback. The Outsourcing Study Group began as the Bookstore Commission voted on the proposal to transfer operation of the bookstore to Barnes & Noble. Last fall, it became a joint faculty-administration undertaking as a result of endorsement by the Campus Reengineering Committee, which proposed to broaden the charge to consider outsourcing issues in general. It took the spring semester to obtain cooperation by the Associated Students, who continue to maintain the position that they would prefer to have all assigned texts available on campus.

Save the Date

ANNUAL HALLOWEEN PARTY
Noon-2 p.m., Oct. 31, Commons.

GRAND OPENING
Open house for Center for Community Engagement, Friday, Oct. 26, 2-4 p.m., Schulz 1102. first floor of the library, next to the Writing Center. Merith Wiseman, Director, 4-3202.

A Habitat Hedgerow Project is Busy Being Born

rederique Lavoipierre and native plants

Above: Frederique Lavoipierre and native plants donated for the hedegerow planting near the ETC.

Hedgerows were historically planted in much of Europe and other areas of the world to delineate fields, keep livestock in pastures, provide habitat for game, and supply wild foods and firewood.

Now a hedgerow will emerge on the campus to serve the same role — providing a neglected border near the ETC with a mixed planting of shrubs, perennials, grasses, and annuals designed to support birds, beneficial insects and other wildlife.

An official "Habitat Hedgerow" Planting Day is planned from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Oct. 19 where volunteer labor of students, faculty, staff, and community members will install 120 feet of hedgerow. The campus community is invited to support their efforts to beautify the campus so that SSU will soon have a beautiful habitat hedgerow to enjoy where there was once only bare soil.

The SSU hedgerow plans include a number of plant species that have been specially selected to provide shelter and food for the numerous California quail that frequent that corner of our campus. Plants chosen to attract beneficial insects will assist in natural pest control and provide a living example for students in the agroecology classes and garden visitors.

In addition to providing habitat, the hedgerow will screen the parking lot and protect the garden from the western sun and wind. In January, a booklet will be published on habitat hedgerows and selecting plants that attract a variety of animals and beneficial insects for most landscape situations.

"Faculty support has contributed to the enthusiastic response of students to our requests for volunteers," says organizer Frederique Lavoipierre, a Biology Department assistant.

"Generous donations of native California plants and landscape materials from area nurseries and other businesses have also been crucial to the implementation of the hedgerow project," she says. "SSU will soon have a beautiful habitat hedgerow to enjoy where there was once only bare soil." For more information and to participate, contact Frederique Lavoipierre at lavoipie@sonoma.edu.

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