• Trustee and alumnus Gregory Olsen, BS’66, BSEE’68, MS’68 (Metro), has been to space and back. Olsen was launched on October 1 in a Soyuz TMA-7 with Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev and NASA astronaut William McArthur. They docked two days later at the International Space Station and orbited a week. At the station, he spoke with students from three New Jersey high schools. Olsen returned with a two-man Russian-American crew on October 11. Olsen is the third private civilian to travel to the space station. For more information go to http://www.spaceadventures.com/ and http://view.fdu.edu/?id=3280 .

• A joint venture between the Office of Residence Life and the Office of Public Safety at the Metropolitan Campus has begun in the Linden and Northpointe residence halls. Specifically, the building entryways are being staffed by hall security assistants (HSAs), students who monitor the areas and check IDs of guests and residents who enter. The halls are being staffed 24 hours per day when students are in session. Jenifer Campbell, director of residence life (Metro), and David Miles, University director of public safety (Metro), collaborated to make the program a reality. Graduate student Kavita Pathak plays an integral role in the success of the program as the moderator of staff hours and schedules.

• The Office of Telecommunication is negotiating a one-year agreement with XM radio to carry a 30-minute program tagged “Blame the Media” on XM’s public affairs channel. The weekly program will be produced at WFDU (FM) and will explore current media issues. The host will be Bob Mann, who has hosted previous WFDU (FM) shows; Barry Sheffield, assistant director, telecommunications (Metro), will serve as engineer; and Carl Kraus, director, telecommunications (Metro), as producer/director. FDU would join several other major universities such as Boston University and other National Public Radio-type producers on the XM public channel.

• The University Players, the student theater group of the Metropolitan Campus, will hold auditions open to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff for the fall production of “The War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells, as performed by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air. This will be a re-enactment of the legendary radio production that aired on October 30, 1938. The play, to be performed on November 11, 12 and 13, will be directed by James Rana, University College (Metro). Auditions will be held in the Russell Ratsch Experimental Theatre on the lower level of University Hall, Metropolitan Campus on Tuesday, October 11, from 8 to 10 p.m.; Wednesday, October 12, 1 to 4 p.m.; and Thursday, October 13, and Friday, October 14, from 2 to 5 p.m. For further information, contact Ellen Spaldo, communication/English composition (Metro), and University Players faculty adviser at spaldo@fdu.edu.

• Adults and graduate students will be able to attend a free, regional college fair designed exclusively for them to investigate educational programs. More than 50 colleges and universities, including FDU, most of them located in New Jersey and New York, will come together under the sponsorship of the Higher Education Consortium of the New York Metropolitan Area (FDU is a member.) and offer College Expo 2005 on Saturday, October 29, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Rothman Center, Metropolitan Campus. For information call Andy Nelson, director, adult/part-time studies, undergraduate admissions (Metro), at 201-692-2551.

• Kenneth Greene, interim provost (Flor) reports that Samir Kahn, a member of the College at Florham Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), is chair of the Division III national SAAC board and sits on the all-division national board.

• According to Jackie Lima, fine arts (Metro), Metropolitan Campus Independent Study in Sculpture students Jessica Bumpass and Mike Wonyoung Kang continued part of their studies by assisting environmental artist and sculptor Ursula Clark in the production of her work called “Arbor,” which is on display at the Teaneck Creek Conservancy, Teaneck, N.J. through November.

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College at Florham, Madison, N.J.

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Metropolitan Campus, Teaneck, N.J.

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