Mary Pat Dutton will join the Office of Student Affairs as campus registrar on June 12. Mary Pat has served as registrar at University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, Kan. and Carroll College in Helena, Mont. Big thanks to Phyllis Vomacka and Jenny Kincaid who have been holding down the fort!

The Clark County Commute Trip Reduction’s Bike to Work Week is June 17 – 21. Everyone who participates and tracks his/her bicycle commute to work at www.ClarkCommute.org will receive a bicycle seat cover and be entered to win one of many gift cards.

If you have considered riding your bike to work but haven’t done it, the New Bike Commuter kit is meant to encourage you. Up to 25 kits—including a saddle bag, tire pump, tire levers and tire patch kit—will be given to new bike commuters. Each new bike commuter will also be entered to win a $100 gift card to a local bike shop. Just commit to riding your bicycle to work at least once during Bike to Work Week, and let Katrina Long, public safety, know you’re going to ride. Contact Katrina at 6-9002, katrina_long@vancouver.wsu.edu.

If you live too far away to ride your bike to work, consider combining your bike ride with the bus. Let Katrina know by Friday you’re going to do a bike/bus combination so you can get a free C-TRAN Express day pass.

The annual Diversity Film Festival will focus on diversity of faith next fall. Films scheduled to be screened include:

Sept. 12 - “Life of Pi” illustrates how religious belief and storytelling require faith on the part of the follower.

Sept. 19, “Arranged” centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman going through the process of arranged marriages. The process causes them to question their faith, but they ultimately discover they can support arranged marriage with meaning.

Sept. 26, “The Perfect Family” follows the Catholic Woman of the Year as she examines whether dogmatic approaches are a sufficient way to deal with life’s messy truths.

Oct. 3, “Water” examines the effect on the human spirit when reason is denied for the sake of faith.

More details to come!

Learn about VIT’s summer projects and cloud computing in the May IT Happens!.

Special thanks to Laurel Rea-Bullion, information systems manager, for preparing a report on behalf of the Vancouver Advisors zzusis Conversion Committee. The report outlined how zzusis can serve WSU Vancouver students and the campus community more effectively. It has been delivered to the WSU Enterprise Systems Groups with hopes of sparking changes to zzusis that will make it more user-friendly.

I-5 will be closed at the I-205 junction from 11 p.m. June 7 – 5 a.m. June 10, learn more at the project website