Oct. 10, 2002 — The University of the Virgin Islands Bulletin Board issued today includes:

"Fill the Fitness Center" Effort, Post-Volleyball Tramp Planned
UVI's Bucs volleyball men's and women's teams open the 2002-2003 home season Friday and Saturday (Oct. 11-12) with matches against the University of Puerto Rico-Metropolidad.
UVI's athletics department is challenging the University community to "Fill the Fitness Center" in support of the teams. Free UVI T-shirts will be given to all members of the group mustering the largest contingent over the two days of matches.
The women's squad opens Friday's action at 6:30 p.m. The men's match follows at approximately 8 p.m. Matches continue Saturday on the same schedule. Following the Bucs' Friday matches, a tramp through the St. Thomas campus is planned. The tramp is expected to start between 11 p.m. and midnight. "Showdown Band" will provide the music. The tramp will leaves from Sports and Fitness Center, head up to main entrance by way of the stone gates and conclude at the Recreation Center. Music is expected to continue until 3 a.m.
UVI Board of Trustees to Meet Saturday, Oct. 12, on St. Croix
The University of the Virgin Islands Board of Trustees will meet at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, in the Research and Extension Center Building on the St. Croix campus.
The meeting will hear Dr. LaVerne Ragster's first report to the Board in her capacity as president, among other agenda items.
Ground Cover Workshop Offered October 14 on St. Thomas
UVI's Cooperative Extension Service will offer a workshop on groundcovers Monday, Oct. 14, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Sports and Fitness Center on the University's St. Thomas campus. The public is invited to this free workshop. For details call Carlos Robles at 693-1083 or 693-1080.
UVI Offers Short Courses On Parenting, Money Management on St. Croix
UVI's Cooperative Extension Service, 4-H, and Family and Consumer Sciences Program on the St. Croix campus will offer short courses on Parenting and Basic Money Management beginning Oct. 14 and 16, respectively. Classes are free. Call Dorothy Gibbs at 692-4089 to register or for details.
Courses include:
–Parenting Oct. 14-Dec. 9. Meets on Mondays, from 10 a.m. to noon, in Cooperative Extension Service building Room 133.
–Basic Money Management Oct. 16-Dec. 4. Meets on Wednesdays, from 10 a.m. to noon, in Cooperative Extension Service building Room 139.
UVI Magazine 2002, Current Events Photos Featured on Home Page
The UVI community is encouraged to check outt the latest additions to the UVI Internet site. Along with current UVI news releases and the dateline: UVI monthly newsletter, the site now includes a link to UVI Magazine 2002, which celebrates UVI's 40th anniversary, and several sets of photographs from recent campus activities on St. Croix and St. Thomas. All links are accessible directly from the UVI home page www.uvi.edu.
UVI-CES Program Recognized for Poster Presentation
Congratulations to the staffers of UVI's Cooperative Extension Service who recently received a silver award for a poster presentation delivered at the Third National Extension Natural Resources Conference. The poster presentation concerned the "VI*A*Syst – Virgin Islands Home & Farm Water Quality Assessment Program." More details are available on the Cooperative Extension Service's web site: rps.uvi.edu/CES/wqhome.htm .
Red Ribbon Week Activities to Promote Drug Free Community
UVI's St. Thomas Campus will celebrate National Red Ribbon Week from Oct. 23-31. The theme is "Working Together for a Drug Free Community." Red Ribbon week honors Drug Enforcement Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena who was murdered in 1985 by a drug cartel in Mexico. Zaida Castro, coordinator of the UVI Drug and Alcohol Prevention Program, said the goal at UVI is to educate the University community about the dangers of alcohol and other drugs. The committee is inviting the UVI Community to attend a forum titled "Crisis in Paradise: Drugs, Crime, and VI Youth" on Oct. 31 in Chase Auditorium, Room B110, from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. The committee is also urging individuals to refrain from consuming alcoholic beverages during this week.
Other Red Ribbon Week activities include:
— Pledge Day – Wednesday, Oct. 23 – Make a pledge to be drug free and collect a red ribbon token at the UVI Cafeteria Terrace from noon to 2 p.m.
— Wear Red Day – Thursday, Oct. 24 – competition for the best Red Ribbon Hairstyle and Most Creative Red Ribbon Out-Fit. Interested individuals should contact Zaida Castro at the associate chancellor's office (phone 693-1120) no later than Monday, Oct. 21. Judging will take place at the UVI Cafeteria Terrace from noon to 12:30 p.m.
— "Users are Losers" Skit Competition – Thursday, Oct. 24 – UVI Cafeteria Terrace from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. All interested students and/or organizations should sign up with Castro of the associate chancellor's office (2nd floor of the Health Center Services Building) no later than Monday, Oct. 21. Skits should be a maximum of seven minutes and should reflect a drug- and alcohol-free message. Judging will take place Thursday, Oct. 24.
— Competition for the best-decorated residence hall door – Door decorations should reflect the theme: "Working Together for a Drug Free Community." Judging will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 29 at 10 a.m. Prizes will be awarded for the various competitions. For more information contact the office of the associate chancellor at 693-1120.
Co-ed Volleyball for Retirees Class Offered on St. Thomas campus
UVI's education division will offer a one-hour, co-ed Volleyball for Retirees class on Mondays and Wednesdays at 11 a.m. Prof. Eldridge Blake will be the instructor. Blake has been a volleyball coach and trainer for 25 years, working with the national volleyball teams of the British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, St. Maarten, Curaçao, St. Kitts, the gold medal winning men of the U.S. Virgin Islands (1978), and the perennial local and international champion UVI Bucs. Coach Blake will accept registrations on Mondays through Thursdays, between 10:50 and 11:30 a.m., at the UVI Sports and Fitness Center. Class sessions will commence after the first 14 students register. A maximum of 25 students will be accepted. Blake urges retirees to get clearance from their doctors before taking this class. For information call 693-1198.
Revised VI Environmental Protection Handbook Now Available
UVI's Cooperative Extension Service (CES) is offering the Virgin Islands Environmental Protection Handbook on the University website. The handbook, revised and reprinted by UVI-CES through a non-point source pollution management grant from the V.I. Planning and Natural Resources Department, describes proper pollution prevention practice design, installation and maintenance. It presents up-to-date information on design practices for low-impact developments, specifications for erosion, sediment and storm water best-management practices (BMPs), and describes predictive models that can be used to estimate erosion and runoff. It is specifically designed for the construction industry (architects, contractors, draftsmen, developers, and engineers), but is also useful for individual property owners. Access to the handbook is via a .pdf file on the CES webpage (see address above.) Hard copies are available for $15. To order, contact Faye Williams at 692-9632 extension 01 or Julie Wright at 693-1082.
SGA Plans "Happy Hour" Friday on the St. Croix Campus
The Social and Cultural Committee of the St. Croix campus Student Government Association will sponsor a "happy hour" beginning at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, at the Student Center. Food and dr inks will be on sale and entertainment will be provided. The event is open to the entire UVI community.
Student Volunteers Sought for Uvision
Uvision, the student newspaper of the University of the Virgin Islands, is seeking student volunteers to work on the newspaper staff. Needed are editors, writers, graphic artists, photographers, page layout editors, and others. Students do not have to be journalism or communications majors to serve on the staff. More information is available from faculty advisor Gwendolyn Kelly via e-mail at uvision@uvi.edu or by calling 777-3979.
Fall Concert: 'Christ on Li'l Broadway' Set Oct. 12
The UVI Music Department will present its annual fall semester concert entitled "Christ on Li'l Broadway," at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at Christ Church Methodist (Market Square) on St. Thomas. Performing will be the university's premier concert band, under the direction of Professor Austin A. Venzen, and UVI's Men's Glee Club. A number of guest artists from St. Thomas schools will also perform. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children and are available at the UVI Bookstore, the humanities office and from UVI band members. For more information call 693-1192.
Reichhold Offering Theatergoers Free Barge Service for Sanborn Show
UVI's Reichhold Center for the Arts has arranged for free barge service for theatergoers traveling from St. John for the season-opening performance of jazz saxophonist David Sanborn on Saturday, Oct. 19. The free barge service will be offered on the M/V Captain Vic, which is operated by Republic Barge Service. At least 10 cars are required to make this special offer possible. For details call the Reichhold Center Ticket Office at 693-1559.
Tickets for the Sanborn show are available for $70, $45 and $25. Tickets are also available for the center's entire seven-show season which runs through May 25, 2003.
David Sanborn is being presented in conjunction with Theodore Tunick and Company. For a sample of Sanborn's music log on to the Reichhold Center's web site at www.reichholdcenter.com
SGA to Celebrate Diversity with Sharing of Cultural Foods
The St. Thomas Campus Student Government Association kicks off an ongoing "Celebration of Diversity and Common Heritage" with a Taste of Friendship Monday, Oct. 14, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Cafeteria Terrace on the St. Thomas campus. The event, designed to promote understanding of and respect for individual diversity, happens to fall on Virgin Islands-Puerto Rico Friendship Day.
Table displays and food sampling representing various cultures will be available throughout the day.
Other events are scheduled as follows:
— 11 a.m. to noon: video presentations
— noon to 1 p.m.: stage performances by the Spanish Afro Antillean Dance and Poetry Group; choreographed dance of Celia Cruz's "Carnaval;" Capoeira demonstration – an African Brazilian martial-arts and dance form
— 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.: demonstration on the preparation of pick-up saltfish and jawbone candy
— hourly: "Cultural Tic Tac Toe" game with prizes for students
The event is free and open to the UVI community. The next event in the diversity and heritage celebration is planned for January 2002. For more information contact the St. Thomas campus student activities office at 693-1111.
For more on the University of the Virgin Islands, visit the website at www.uvi.edu.
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October 7-11, 2002
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Arts & Crafts – 4th-6th
BPW Etiquette for Teens
Computer Skills – 4th-6th
EPIC Six Week Parenting Sessions
ESL for Spanish Speakers
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Physical Conditioning –4th-6th
Quadrille-STJ Cultural Dancers
Red Cross CPR
STJ Recreation Sports-Youth
STJ School of Arts Jazzercise
STJ School of Arts Quilting
Sewing – Adults
Spanish Dances – 6th-9th
Straw Art – Youth
Technology Class – Adults
TOP Teen Outreach Program
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Oct. 10, 2002 — The University of the Virgin Islands Bulletin Board issued today includes:

"Fill the Fitness Center" Effort, Post-Volleyball Tramp Planned
UVI's Bucs volleyball men's and women's teams open the 2002-2003 home season Friday and Saturday (Oct. 11-12) with matches against the University of Puerto Rico-Metropolidad.
UVI's athletics department is challenging the University community to "Fill the Fitness Center" in support of the teams. Free UVI T-shirts will be given to all members of the group mustering the largest contingent over the two days of matches.
The women's squad opens Friday's action at 6:30 p.m. The men's match follows at approximately 8 p.m. Matches continue Saturday on the same schedule. Following the Bucs' Friday matches, a tramp through the St. Thomas campus is planned. The tramp is expected to start between 11 p.m. and midnight. "Showdown Band" will provide the music. The tramp will leaves from Sports and Fitness Center, head up to main entrance by way of the stone gates and conclude at the Recreation Center. Music is expected to continue until 3 a.m.
UVI Board of Trustees to Meet Saturday, Oct. 12, on St. Croix
The University of the Virgin Islands Board of Trustees will meet at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, in the Research and Extension Center Building on the St. Croix campus.
The meeting will hear Dr. LaVerne Ragster's first report to the Board in her capacity as president, among other agenda items.
Ground Cover Workshop Offered October 14 on St. Thomas
UVI's Cooperative Extension Service will offer a workshop on groundcovers Monday, Oct. 14, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Sports and Fitness Center on the University's St. Thomas campus. The public is invited to this free workshop. For details call Carlos Robles at 693-1083 or 693-1080.
UVI Offers Short Courses On Parenting, Money Management on St. Croix
UVI's Cooperative Extension Service, 4-H, and Family and Consumer Sciences Program on the St. Croix campus will offer short courses on Parenting and Basic Money Management beginning Oct. 14 and 16, respectively. Classes are free. Call Dorothy Gibbs at 692-4089 to register or for details.
Courses include:
–Parenting Oct. 14-Dec. 9. Meets on Mondays, from 10 a.m. to noon, in Cooperative Extension Service building Room 133.
–Basic Money Management Oct. 16-Dec. 4. Meets on Wednesdays, from 10 a.m. to noon, in Cooperative Extension Service building Room 139.
UVI Magazine 2002, Current Events Photos Featured on Home Page
The UVI community is encouraged to check outt the latest additions to the UVI Internet site. Along with current UVI news releases and the dateline: UVI monthly newsletter, the site now includes a link to UVI Magazine 2002, which celebrates UVI's 40th anniversary, and several sets of photographs from recent campus activities on St. Croix and St. Thomas. All links are accessible directly from the UVI home page www.uvi.edu.
UVI-CES Program Recognized for Poster Presentation
Congratulations to the staffers of UVI's Cooperative Extension Service who recently received a silver award for a poster presentation delivered at the Third National Extension Natural Resources Conference. The poster presentation concerned the "VI*A*Syst – Virgin Islands Home & Farm Water Quality Assessment Program." More details are available on the Cooperative Extension Service's web site: rps.uvi.edu/CES/wqhome.htm .
Red Ribbon Week Activities to Promote Drug Free Community
UVI's St. Thomas Campus will celebrate National Red Ribbon Week from Oct. 23-31. The theme is "Working Together for a Drug Free Community." Red Ribbon week honors Drug Enforcement Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena who was murdered in 1985 by a drug cartel in Mexico. Zaida Castro, coordinator of the UVI Drug and Alcohol Prevention Program, said the goal at UVI is to educate the University community about the dangers of alcohol and other drugs. The committee is inviting the UVI Community to attend a forum titled "Crisis in Paradise: Drugs, Crime, and VI Youth" on Oct. 31 in Chase Auditorium, Room B110, from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. The committee is also urging individuals to refrain from consuming alcoholic beverages during this week.
Other Red Ribbon Week activities include:
— Pledge Day – Wednesday, Oct. 23 – Make a pledge to be drug free and collect a red ribbon token at the UVI Cafeteria Terrace from noon to 2 p.m.
— Wear Red Day – Thursday, Oct. 24 – competition for the best Red Ribbon Hairstyle and Most Creative Red Ribbon Out-Fit. Interested individuals should contact Zaida Castro at the associate chancellor's office (phone 693-1120) no later than Monday, Oct. 21. Judging will take place at the UVI Cafeteria Terrace from noon to 12:30 p.m.
— "Users are Losers" Skit Competition – Thursday, Oct. 24 – UVI Cafeteria Terrace from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. All interested students and/or organizations should sign up with Castro of the associate chancellor's office (2nd floor of the Health Center Services Building) no later than Monday, Oct. 21. Skits should be a maximum of seven minutes and should reflect a drug- and alcohol-free message. Judging will take place Thursday, Oct. 24.
— Competition for the best-decorated residence hall door – Door decorations should reflect the theme: "Working Together for a Drug Free Community." Judging will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 29 at 10 a.m. Prizes will be awarded for the various competitions. For more information contact the office of the associate chancellor at 693-1120.
Co-ed Volleyball for Retirees Class Offered on St. Thomas campus
UVI's education division will offer a one-hour, co-ed Volleyball for Retirees class on Mondays and Wednesdays at 11 a.m. Prof. Eldridge Blake will be the instructor. Blake has been a volleyball coach and trainer for 25 years, working with the national volleyball teams of the British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, St. Maarten, Curaçao, St. Kitts, the gold medal winning men of the U.S. Virgin Islands (1978), and the perennial local and international champion UVI Bucs. Coach Blake will accept registrations on Mondays through Thursdays, between 10:50 and 11:30 a.m., at the UVI Sports and Fitness Center. Class sessions will commence after the first 14 students register. A maximum of 25 students will be accepted. Blake urges retirees to get clearance from their doctors before taking this class. For information call 693-1198.
Revised VI Environmental Protection Handbook Now Available
UVI's Cooperative Extension Service (CES) is offering the Virgin Islands Environmental Protection Handbook on the University website. The handbook, revised and reprinted by UVI-CES through a non-point source pollution management grant from the V.I. Planning and Natural Resources Department, describes proper pollution prevention practice design, installation and maintenance. It presents up-to-date information on design practices for low-impact developments, specifications for erosion, sediment and storm water best-management practices (BMPs), and describes predictive models that can be used to estimate erosion and runoff. It is specifically designed for the construction industry (architects, contractors, draftsmen, developers, and engineers), but is also useful for individual property owners. Access to the handbook is via a .pdf file on the CES webpage (see address above.) Hard copies are available for $15. To order, contact Faye Williams at 692-9632 extension 01 or Julie Wright at 693-1082.
SGA Plans "Happy Hour" Friday on the St. Croix Campus
The Social and Cultural Committee of the St. Croix campus Student Government Association will sponsor a "happy hour" beginning at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, at the Student Center. Food and dr inks will be on sale and entertainment will be provided. The event is open to the entire UVI community.
Student Volunteers Sought for Uvision
Uvision, the student newspaper of the University of the Virgin Islands, is seeking student volunteers to work on the newspaper staff. Needed are editors, writers, graphic artists, photographers, page layout editors, and others. Students do not have to be journalism or communications majors to serve on the staff. More information is available from faculty advisor Gwendolyn Kelly via e-mail at uvision@uvi.edu or by calling 777-3979.
Fall Concert: 'Christ on Li'l Broadway' Set Oct. 12
The UVI Music Department will present its annual fall semester concert entitled "Christ on Li'l Broadway," at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at Christ Church Methodist (Market Square) on St. Thomas. Performing will be the university's premier concert band, under the direction of Professor Austin A. Venzen, and UVI's Men's Glee Club. A number of guest artists from St. Thomas schools will also perform. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children and are available at the UVI Bookstore, the humanities office and from UVI band members. For more information call 693-1192.
Reichhold Offering Theatergoers Free Barge Service for Sanborn Show
UVI's Reichhold Center for the Arts has arranged for free barge service for theatergoers traveling from St. John for the season-opening performance of jazz saxophonist David Sanborn on Saturday, Oct. 19. The free barge service will be offered on the M/V Captain Vic, which is operated by Republic Barge Service. At least 10 cars are required to make this special offer possible. For details call the Reichhold Center Ticket Office at 693-1559.
Tickets for the Sanborn show are available for $70, $45 and $25. Tickets are also available for the center's entire seven-show season which runs through May 25, 2003.
David Sanborn is being presented in conjunction with Theodore Tunick and Company. For a sample of Sanborn's music log on to the Reichhold Center's web site at www.reichholdcenter.com
SGA to Celebrate Diversity with Sharing of Cultural Foods
The St. Thomas Campus Student Government Association kicks off an ongoing "Celebration of Diversity and Common Heritage" with a Taste of Friendship Monday, Oct. 14, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Cafeteria Terrace on the St. Thomas campus. The event, designed to promote understanding of and respect for individual diversity, happens to fall on Virgin Islands-Puerto Rico Friendship Day.
Table displays and food sampling representing various cultures will be available throughout the day.
Other events are scheduled as follows:
— 11 a.m. to noon: video presentations
— noon to 1 p.m.: stage performances by the Spanish Afro Antillean Dance and Poetry Group; choreographed dance of Celia Cruz's "Carnaval;" Capoeira demonstration – an African Brazilian martial-arts and dance form
— 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.: demonstration on the preparation of pick-up saltfish and jawbone candy
— hourly: "Cultural Tic Tac Toe" game with prizes for students
The event is free and open to the UVI community. The next event in the diversity and heritage celebration is planned for January 2002. For more information contact the St. Thomas campus student activities office at 693-1111.
For more on the University of the Virgin Islands, visit the website at www.uvi.edu.
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Oct. 10, 2002 — The University of the Virgin Islands Bulletin Board issued today includes:

"Fill the Fitness Center" Effort, Post-Volleyball Tramp Planned
UVI's Bucs volleyball men's and women's teams open the 2002-2003 home season Friday and Saturday (Oct. 11-12) with matches against the University of Puerto Rico-Metropolidad.
UVI's athletics department is challenging the University community to "Fill the Fitness Center" in support of the teams. Free UVI T-shirts will be given to all members of the group mustering the largest contingent over the two days of matches.
The women's squad opens Friday's action at 6:30 p.m. The men's match follows at approximately 8 p.m. Matches continue Saturday on the same schedule. Following the Bucs' Friday matches, a tramp through the St. Thomas campus is planned. The tramp is expected to start between 11 p.m. and midnight. "Showdown Band" will provide the music. The tramp will leaves from Sports and Fitness Center, head up to main entrance by way of the stone gates and conclude at the Recreation Center. Music is expected to continue until 3 a.m.
UVI Board of Trustees to Meet Saturday, Oct. 12, on St. Croix
The University of the Virgin Islands Board of Trustees will meet at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, in the Research and Extension Center Building on the St. Croix campus.
The meeting will hear Dr. LaVerne Ragster's first report to the Board in her capacity as president, among other agenda items.
Ground Cover Workshop Offered October 14 on St. Thomas
UVI's Cooperative Extension Service will offer a workshop on groundcovers Monday, Oct. 14, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Sports and Fitness Center on the University's St. Thomas campus. The public is invited to this free workshop. For details call Carlos Robles at 693-1083 or 693-1080.
UVI Offers Short Courses On Parenting, Money Management on St. Croix
UVI's Cooperative Extension Service, 4-H, and Family and Consumer Sciences Program on the St. Croix campus will offer short courses on Parenting and Basic Money Management beginning Oct. 14 and 16, respectively. Classes are free. Call Dorothy Gibbs at 692-4089 to register or for details.
Courses include:
–Parenting Oct. 14-Dec. 9. Meets on Mondays, from 10 a.m. to noon, in Cooperative Extension Service building Room 133.
–Basic Money Management Oct. 16-Dec. 4. Meets on Wednesdays, from 10 a.m. to noon, in Cooperative Extension Service building Room 139.
UVI Magazine 2002, Current Events Photos Featured on Home Page
The UVI community is encouraged to check outt the latest additions to the UVI Internet site. Along with current UVI news releases and the dateline: UVI monthly newsletter, the site now includes a link to UVI Magazine 2002, which celebrates UVI's 40th anniversary, and several sets of photographs from recent campus activities on St. Croix and St. Thomas. All links are accessible directly from the UVI home page www.uvi.edu.
UVI-CES Program Recognized for Poster Presentation
Congratulations to the staffers of UVI's Cooperative Extension Service who recently received a silver award for a poster presentation delivered at the Third National Extension Natural Resources Conference. The poster presentation concerned the "VI*A*Syst – Virgin Islands Home & Farm Water Quality Assessment Program." More details are available on the Cooperative Extension Service's web site: rps.uvi.edu/CES/wqhome.htm .
Red Ribbon Week Activities to Promote Drug Free Community
UVI's St. Thomas Campus will celebrate National Red Ribbon Week from Oct. 23-31. The theme is "Working Together for a Drug Free Community." Red Ribbon week honors Drug Enforcement Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena who was murdered in 1985 by a drug cartel in Mexico. Zaida Castro, coordinator of the UVI Drug and Alcohol Prevention Program, said the goal at UVI is to educate the University community about the dangers of alcohol and other drugs. The committee is inviting the UVI Community to attend a forum titled "Crisis in Paradise: Drugs, Crime, and VI Youth" on Oct. 31 in Chase Auditorium, Room B110, from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. The committee is also urging individuals to refrain from consuming alcoholic beverages during this week.
Other Red Ribbon Week activities include:
— Pledge Day – Wednesday, Oct. 23 – Make a pledge to be drug free and collect a red ribbon token at the UVI Cafeteria Terrace from noon to 2 p.m.
— Wear Red Day – Thursday, Oct. 24 – competition for the best Red Ribbon Hairstyle and Most Creative Red Ribbon Out-Fit. Interested individuals should contact Zaida Castro at the associate chancellor's office (phone 693-1120) no later than Monday, Oct. 21. Judging will take place at the UVI Cafeteria Terrace from noon to 12:30 p.m.
— "Users are Losers" Skit Competition – Thursday, Oct. 24 – UVI Cafeteria Terrace from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. All interested students and/or organizations should sign up with Castro of the associate chancellor's office (2nd floor of the Health Center Services Building) no later than Monday, Oct. 21. Skits should be a maximum of seven minutes and should reflect a drug- and alcohol-free message. Judging will take place Thursday, Oct. 24.
— Competition for the best-decorated residence hall door – Door decorations should reflect the theme: "Working Together for a Drug Free Community." Judging will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 29 at 10 a.m. Prizes will be awarded for the various competitions. For more information contact the office of the associate chancellor at 693-1120.
Co-ed Volleyball for Retirees Class Offered on St. Thomas campus
UVI's education division will offer a one-hour, co-ed Volleyball for Retirees class on Mondays and Wednesdays at 11 a.m. Prof. Eldridge Blake will be the instructor. Blake has been a volleyball coach and trainer for 25 years, working with the national volleyball teams of the British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, St. Maarten, Curaçao, St. Kitts, the gold medal winning men of the U.S. Virgin Islands (1978), and the perennial local and international champion UVI Bucs. Coach Blake will accept registrations on Mondays through Thursdays, between 10:50 and 11:30 a.m., at the UVI Sports and Fitness Center. Class sessions will commence after the first 14 students register. A maximum of 25 students will be accepted. Blake urges retirees to get clearance from their doctors before taking this class. For information call 693-1198.
Revised VI Environmental Protection Handbook Now Available
UVI's Cooperative Extension Service (CES) is offering the Virgin Islands Environmental Protection Handbook on the University website. The handbook, revised and reprinted by UVI-CES through a non-point source pollution management grant from the V.I. Planning and Natural Resources Department, describes proper pollution prevention practice design, installation and maintenance. It presents up-to-date information on design practices for low-impact developments, specifications for erosion, sediment and storm water best-management practices (BMPs), and describes predictive models that can be used to estimate erosion and runoff. It is specifically designed for the construction industry (architects, contractors, draftsmen, developers, and engineers), but is also useful for individual property owners. Access to the handbook is via a .pdf file on the CES webpage (see address above.) Hard copies are available for $15. To order, contact Faye Williams at 692-9632 extension 01 or Julie Wright at 693-1082.
SGA Plans "Happy Hour" Friday on the St. Croix Campus
The Social and Cultural Committee of the St. Croix campus Student Government Association will sponsor a "happy hour" beginning at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, at the Student Center. Food and dr inks will be on sale and entertainment will be provided. The event is open to the entire UVI community.
Student Volunteers Sought for Uvision
Uvision, the student newspaper of the University of the Virgin Islands, is seeking student volunteers to work on the newspaper staff. Needed are editors, writers, graphic artists, photographers, page layout editors, and others. Students do not have to be journalism or communications majors to serve on the staff. More information is available from faculty advisor Gwendolyn Kelly via e-mail at uvision@uvi.edu or by calling 777-3979.
Fall Concert: 'Christ on Li'l Broadway' Set Oct. 12
The UVI Music Department will present its annual fall semester concert entitled "Christ on Li'l Broadway," at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at Christ Church Methodist (Market Square) on St. Thomas. Performing will be the university's premier concert band, under the direction of Professor Austin A. Venzen, and UVI's Men's Glee Club. A number of guest artists from St. Thomas schools will also perform. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children and are available at the UVI Bookstore, the humanities office and from UVI band members. For more information call 693-1192.
Reichhold Offering Theatergoers Free Barge Service for Sanborn Show
UVI's Reichhold Center for the Arts has arranged for free barge service for theatergoers traveling from St. John for the season-opening performance of jazz saxophonist David Sanborn on Saturday, Oct. 19. The free barge service will be offered on the M/V Captain Vic, which is operated by Republic Barge Service. At least 10 cars are required to make this special offer possible. For details call the Reichhold Center Ticket Office at 693-1559.
Tickets for the Sanborn show are available for $70, $45 and $25. Tickets are also available for the center's entire seven-show season which runs through May 25, 2003.
David Sanborn is being presented in conjunction with Theodore Tunick and Company. For a sample of Sanborn's music log on to the Reichhold Center's web site at www.reichholdcenter.com
SGA to Celebrate Diversity with Sharing of Cultural Foods
The St. Thomas Campus Student Government Association kicks off an ongoing "Celebration of Diversity and Common Heritage" with a Taste of Friendship Monday, Oct. 14, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Cafeteria Terrace on the St. Thomas campus. The event, designed to promote understanding of and respect for individual diversity, happens to fall on Virgin Islands-Puerto Rico Friendship Day.
Table displays and food sampling representing various cultures will be available throughout the day.
Other events are scheduled as follows:
— 11 a.m. to noon: video presentations
— noon to 1 p.m.: stage performances by the Spanish Afro Antillean Dance and Poetry Group; choreographed dance of Celia Cruz's "Carnaval;" Capoeira demonstration – an African Brazilian martial-arts and dance form
— 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.: demonstration on the preparation of pick-up saltfish and jawbone candy
— hourly: "Cultural Tic Tac Toe" game with prizes for students
The event is free and open to the UVI community. The next event in the diversity and heritage celebration is planned for January 2002. For more information contact the St. Thomas campus student activities office at 693-1111.
For more on the University of the Virgin Islands, visit the website at www.uvi.edu.
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Oct. 11, 2002 – The St. Croix Hiking Association has scheduled a moderately difficult hike at Manning's Bay, Negro Bay and Betty's Hope for Monday, Oct. 14.
The hike begins east of the Randall James race track at 6:30 a.m. sharp. The tour guide will be Olasee Davis.
For more details call Sonia at 778-2076, Dorothy at 773-8409 or George at 778-7910.
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The St. Croix Hiking Association has scheduled a moderately difficult hike at Manning's Bay, Negro Bay and Betty's Hope for Monday, Oct. 14.
The hike begins east of the Randall James race track at 6:30 a.m. sharp. The tour guide will be Olasee Davis.
For more details call Sonia at 778-2076, Dorothy at 773-8409 or George at 778-7910.

Oct. 10, 2002 – What costs Virgin Islands taxpayers the most money — police services, the health system, or interest on the territory’s bonded debt?
The Police Department budget for Fiscal Year 2003 is $38 million.
That for the Health Department is $27.2 million.
The current annual interest on the bonded debt is about equal to those two amounts combined, approximately $65.6 million.
This figure is calculated from data published by Mergent, the successor to Moody’s, the long-established financial reporting organization. The information is public record, with funding allocated in the V.I. government's annual budget and documented in its financial statements. It also can be accessed in any good-sized public library.
The $65.6 million is the interest — without any repayment of principal — on the territory’s $1 billion-plus bonded debt. (See "V.I. bonded debt soars to more than $1 billion".)
In terms of bond debt repayment, Mergent indicates that the territory is scheduled to repay about $27.2 million during 2002.
Thus, the territory's total bill this year for its bonds will be around $92.8 million.
The $65.6 million also does not include the interest on the recently floated $21.7 million in bonds against future tobacco revenues, which has not yet been reported by Mergent.
While Mergent does not publish dollar figures on interest owed, it does show the size of bonds, when they are due, and the interest rates for various time periods. Calculations based on those figures for the Virgin Islands make the current annual interest payment about $65.6 million.
On average, the V.I. bond issues cost a little over 6 percent a year. That's a relatively low rate — because the interest on the bonds is exempt from both U.S. and state income taxes, and because interest rates in general have been relatively low in recent years.
The territory's bonded debt is, in the words of Wall Street, "backloaded," with most principal repayments scheduled for the "out years" — the latter end of the repayment period — and with interest rates rising as the years pass. Many of the government officials who created these debts will be long gone when it comes time for the biggest bills to be paid.
In terms of debt repayment, Mergent indicates that the repayment figures will steadily rise from this year's $27.2 million until peaking at $57 million in the year 2021.
Note, however: The repayment of the bonded debt will peak in 2021 only if the territory does not borrow one more cent in the ensuing years. That would be two decades of fiscal restraint markedly different from the last few years, in which the territory's bonded debt has more than doubled, from $510,255,000 reported in Mergent at the end of 1997 to the current total (including the tobacco funds loan) of $1,069,664,000.
Along with principal repayments, the interest charges also are backloaded, to some extent. These charges rise with the passage of time, as the bonds issued by the V.I. Public Finance Authority in its Series 1999-A illustrate. This was the largest of the territory's bond issues, creating $299,880,000 in debt.
At first, for the relatively minor amount of money to be repaid in 2000 ($3.6 million), the interest rate was 4.20 percent. For the bonds in this series maturing in 2029, the rate is 6.125 percent; in that year, repayment of $21.1 million of the principal will be due.
The backloading of the bond issues contrasts with what families face when they take out a mortgage to buy a house. Typically the payment, both interest and principal, is fixed at the same dollar amount for the life of the mortgage, with the hope that inflation will make it easier to pay in the "out years," as compared to the initial ones. This system is not used for state and municipal bonds generally.
Bond repayment schedule
The V.I. government's bond repayment schedule over the next 27 years, excluding interest, looks like this:
Year – Principal
2002 – $27.2 million
2003 – $28.1 million
2004 – $29.6 million
2005 – $31.4 million
2006 – $29.3 million
2007 – $31.0 million
2008 – $97.7 million
2009 – $33.8 million
2010 – $35.7 million
2011 – $37.6 million
2012 – $39.8 million
2013 – $39.0 million
2014 – $41.2 million
2015 – $43.8 million
2016 – $46.2 million
2017 – $49.0 million
2018 – $47.9 million
2019 – $50.6 million
2020 – $52.3 million
2021 – $57.0 million
2022 – $34.4 million
2023 – $19.0 million
2024 – $45.7 million
2025 – $28.8 million
2026 – $19.8 million
2027 – $21.1 million
2028 – $22.4 million
2029 – $22.9 million
The figure for 2008 is significantly higher because the 1984 bond issue of the V.I. Public Works Acceleration Authority, according to Mergent, all matures in that year. Typically, the repayment of bond issues is spread over several years, but the document does not indicate that this is the case.
The repayment figures above do not include the recent tobacco bond issue and do not include any interest payments. They assume no new bond issues in the next 27 years. They also assume that the V.I. government will pay off all the bonds as they become due, rather than rolling them over for later payment. The calculations are exclusively for the territory’s bonded debt and do not cover at least $400 million in other, unbonded debts.

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Oct. 10, 2002 – What costs Virgin Islands taxpayers the most money — police services, the health system, or interest on the territory’s bonded debt?
The Police Department budget for Fiscal Year 2003 is $38 million.
That for the Health Department is $27.2 million.
The current annual interest on the bonded debt is about equal to those two amounts combined, approximately $65.6 million.
This figure is calculated from data published by Mergent, the successor to Moody’s, the long-established financial reporting organization. The information is public record, with funding allocated in the V.I. government's annual budget and documented in its financial statements. It also can be accessed in any good-sized public library.
The $65.6 million is the interest — without any repayment of principal — on the territory’s $1 billion-plus bonded debt. (See "V.I. bonded debt soars to more than $1 billion".)
In terms of bond debt repayment, Mergent indicates that the territory is scheduled to repay about $27.2 million during 2002.
Thus, the territory's total bill this year for its bonds will be around $92.8 million.
The $65.6 million also does not include the interest on the recently floated $21.7 million in bonds against future tobacco revenues, which has not yet been reported by Mergent.
While Mergent does not publish dollar figures on interest owed, it does show the size of bonds, when they are due, and the interest rates for various time periods. Calculations based on those figures for the Virgin Islands make the current annual interest payment about $65.6 million.
On average, the V.I. bond issues cost a little over 6 percent a year. That's a relatively low rate — because the interest on the bonds is exempt from both U.S. and state income taxes, and because interest rates in general have been relatively low in recent years.
The territory's bonded debt is, in the words of Wall Street, "backloaded," with most principal repayments scheduled for the "out years" — the latter end of the repayment period — and with interest rates rising as the years pass. Many of the government officials who created these debts will be long gone when it comes time for the biggest bills to be paid.
In terms of debt repayment, Mergent indicates that the repayment figures will steadily rise from this year's $27.2 million until peaking at $57 million in the year 2021.
Note, however: The repayment of the bonded debt will peak in 2021 only if the territory does not borrow one more cent in the ensuing years. That would be two decades of fiscal restraint markedly different from the last few years, in which the territory's bonded debt has more than doubled, from $510,255,000 reported in Mergent at the end of 1997 to the current total (including the tobacco funds loan) of $1,069,664,000.
Along with principal repayments, the interest charges also are backloaded, to some extent. These charges rise with the passage of time, as the bonds issued by the V.I. Public Finance Authority in its Series 1999-A illustrate. This was the largest of the territory's bond issues, creating $299,880,000 in debt.
At first, for the relatively minor amount of money to be repaid in 2000 ($3.6 million), the interest rate was 4.20 percent. For the bonds in this series maturing in 2029, the rate is 6.125 percent; in that year, repayment of $21.1 million of the principal will be due.
The backloading of the bond issues contrasts with what families face when they take out a mortgage to buy a house. Typically the payment, both interest and principal, is fixed at the same dollar amount for the life of the mortgage, with the hope that inflation will make it easier to pay in the "out years," as compared to the initial ones. This system is not used for state and municipal bonds generally.
Bond repayment schedule
The V.I. government's bond repayment schedule over the next 27 years, excluding interest, looks like this:
Year – Principal
2002 – $27.2 million
2003 – $28.1 million
2004 – $29.6 million
2005 – $31.4 million
2006 – $29.3 million
2007 – $31.0 million
2008 – $97.7 million
2009 – $33.8 million
2010 – $35.7 million
2011 – $37.6 million
2012 – $39.8 million
2013 – $39.0 million
2014 – $41.2 million
2015 – $43.8 million
2016 – $46.2 million
2017 – $49.0 million
2018 – $47.9 million
2019 – $50.6 million
2020 – $52.3 million
2021 – $57.0 million
2022 – $34.4 million
2023 – $19.0 million
2024 – $45.7 million
2025 – $28.8 million
2026 – $19.8 million
2027 – $21.1 million
2028 – $22.4 million
2029 – $22.9 million
The figure for 2008 is significantly higher because the 1984 bond issue of the V.I. Public Works Acceleration Authority, according to Mergent, all matures in that year. Typically, the repayment of bond issues is spread over several years, but the document does not indicate that this is the case.
The repayment figures above do not include the recent tobacco bond issue and do not include any interest payments. They assume no new bond issues in the next 27 years. They also assume that the V.I. government will pay off all the bonds as they become due, rather than rolling them over for later payment. The calculations are exclusively for the territory’s bonded debt and do not cover at least $400 million in other, unbonded debts.

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Oct. 10, 2002 – What costs Virgin Islands taxpayers the most money — police services, the health system, or interest on the territory’s bonded debt?
The Police Department budget for Fiscal Year 2003 is $38 million.
That for the Health Department is $27.2 million.
The current annual interest on the bonded debt is about equal to those two amounts combined, approximately $65.6 million.
This figure is calculated from data published by Mergent, the successor to Moody’s, the long-established financial reporting organization. The information is public record, with funding allocated in the V.I. government's annual budget and documented in its financial statements. It also can be accessed in any good-sized public library.
The $65.6 million is the interest — without any repayment of principal — on the territory’s $1 billion-plus bonded debt. (See "V.I. bonded debt soars to more than $1 billion".)
In terms of bond debt repayment, Mergent indicates that the territory is scheduled to repay about $27.2 million during 2002.
Thus, the territory's total bill this year for its bonds will be around $92.8 million.
The $65.6 million also does not include the interest on the recently floated $21.7 million in bonds against future tobacco revenues, which has not yet been reported by Mergent.
While Mergent does not publish dollar figures on interest owed, it does show the size of bonds, when they are due, and the interest rates for various time periods. Calculations based on those figures for the Virgin Islands make the current annual interest payment about $65.6 million.
On average, the V.I. bond issues cost a little over 6 percent a year. That's a relatively low rate — because the interest on the bonds is exempt from both U.S. and state income taxes, and because interest rates in general have been relatively low in recent years.
The territory's bonded debt is, in the words of Wall Street, "backloaded," with most principal repayments scheduled for the "out years" — the latter end of the repayment period — and with interest rates rising as the years pass. Many of the government officials who created these debts will be long gone when it comes time for the biggest bills to be paid.
In terms of debt repayment, Mergent indicates that the repayment figures will steadily rise from this year's $27.2 million until peaking at $57 million in the year 2021.
Note, however: The repayment of the bonded debt will peak in 2021 only if the territory does not borrow one more cent in the ensuing years. That would be two decades of fiscal restraint markedly different from the last few years, in which the territory's bonded debt has more than doubled, from $510,255,000 reported in Mergent at the end of 1997 to the current total (including the tobacco funds loan) of $1,069,664,000.
Along with principal repayments, the interest charges also are backloaded, to some extent. These charges rise with the passage of time, as the bonds issued by the V.I. Public Finance Authority in its Series 1999-A illustrate. This was the largest of the territory's bond issues, creating $299,880,000 in debt.
At first, for the relatively minor amount of money to be repaid in 2000 ($3.6 million), the interest rate was 4.20 percent. For the bonds in this series maturing in 2029, the rate is 6.125 percent; in that year, repayment of $21.1 million of the principal will be due.
The backloading of the bond issues contrasts with what families face when they take out a mortgage to buy a house. Typically the payment, both interest and principal, is fixed at the same dollar amount for the life of the mortgage, with the hope that inflation will make it easier to pay in the "out years," as compared to the initial ones. This system is not used for state and municipal bonds generally.
Bond repayment schedule
The V.I. government's bond repayment schedule over the next 27 years, excluding interest, looks like this:
Year – Principal
2002 – $27.2 million
2003 – $28.1 million
2004 – $29.6 million
2005 – $31.4 million
2006 – $29.3 million
2007 – $31.0 million
2008 – $97.7 million
2009 – $33.8 million
2010 – $35.7 million
2011 – $37.6 million
2012 – $39.8 million
2013 – $39.0 million
2014 – $41.2 million
2015 – $43.8 million
2016 – $46.2 million
2017 – $49.0 million
2018 – $47.9 million
2019 – $50.6 million
2020 – $52.3 million
2021 – $57.0 million
2022 – $34.4 million
2023 – $19.0 million
2024 – $45.7 million
2025 – $28.8 million
2026 – $19.8 million
2027 – $21.1 million
2028 – $22.4 million
2029 – $22.9 million
The figure for 2008 is significantly higher because the 1984 bond issue of the V.I. Public Works Acceleration Authority, according to Mergent, all matures in that year. Typically, the repayment of bond issues is spread over several years, but the document does not indicate that this is the case.
The repayment figures above do not include the recent tobacco bond issue and do not include any interest payments. They assume no new bond issues in the next 27 years. They also assume that the V.I. government will pay off all the bonds as they become due, rather than rolling them over for later payment. The calculations are exclusively for the territory’s bonded debt and do not cover at least $400 million in other, unbonded debts.

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Oct. 10, 2002 – While national statistics from the 2000 Census reflect the lowest child poverty rate in 20 years, the percentage of Virgin Islands children in families with incomes below the poverty line increased in the 1990s, from 37 percent to 42 percent.
And more than half of the territory's population is under the age of 19, which is much higher than the national average.
These are the fundamental findings of a report based on 2000 Census statistics that was released Thursday by the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands.
The report, "A First Look at Children in the U.S. Virgin Islands," shows that 45 percent of children under the age of 5 were found to be living in poverty.
The rising poverty rate occurred at a time when the actual number of children in the territory dropped by 3 percent, with the largest decrease among children under age 5. The Census figures also reflect rising poverty among V.I. families overall, many of them headed by single mothers, with one quarter of all households having an income of no more than $10,000 a year.
Families in poverty with a female head of household "became a more important issue in the Virgin Islands between 1990 and 2000 for two reasons," the report states:
– The proportion of single-parent families rose significantly in the 1990s, from 37 percent to 46 percent in the territory, while the national rate for 2000 was 22 percent.
– The rate of poverty among such families also rose in the territory.
According to the report, 57 percent of Virgin Islands families headed by women with children under age 5 were poor in 1999. Poverty in the report is defined as $16,895 for a family of two adults and two children.
Researchers said the impact of poverty is the greatest on the island of St. Croix, where the economy is the weakest, even among working families. The 2000 Census found that in Frederiksted, 71 percent of homes were headed by a single parent and 68 percent of children were living in poverty.
Policy needs for an exceptionally young population
The researchers who compiled the report cited concern over statistics showing the relative youth of the territory's population, with 53 percent of the territory's inhabitants age 18 or under. This percentage of young people is significantly higher than the national average.
"The findings are deeply disturbing, and the trends are alarming," CFVI board member Alda Monsanto said.
The authors of the report called on public officials and the community at large to utilize the information presented to foster public policy and to reforms the human services system to meet the needs of the territory's youth. Services are especially needed to keep young people in school and to help breadwinners find affordable day care, the said.
Ira Cuttler of Cornerstone Consulting Group pointed to figures in the "First Look" report on the number of children with one or both parents working outside the home. Seven out of ten parents are out earning the daily bread, and in many cases children are home alone, which Cuttler said raises safety and child-development concerns.
Some of the people attending the Thursday morning press conference called to release the report to the public challenged the idea that children raised in poverty will threaten society by becoming anti-social. "I was a poor child, but I ate well and I grew up to be a disciplined, well-behaved child," Krim Ballentine said.
Carol Lotz, representing the Friends of the St. Thomas Libraries, said focusing on statistics alone is developing public policy is "not really realistic. They're just useful when writing grants."
Monsanto, who helps to compile the foundation's annual Kids Count reports on the status of children in the Virgin Islands, said after Thursday's press meeting that the best she can hope for is that the "First Look" report will form the basis for public debate on the issue of child poverty in the territory.
As a child, Monsanto said, she, too, lived in poverty, in a two-room wooden house with kerosene lamps and a night soil pan. But "those standards were acceptable" at that time, she pointed out. "Now, these standards are no longer acceptable. I am not going back to the kerosene lamp. We're not going back to the outhouse."

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