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Over 30 percent of eligible Purdue employees have opted to retire based on a one-time incentive package, right on target with projections, Purdue University officials announced Tuesday, Nov. 2. The plan was designed to reduce salary and benefit costs to meet current budget challenges, enable departments to realign resources to meet changing needs or strategic objectives, and avoid involuntary layoffs as much as possible. Read more ... [PDF]

Be audacious. EAT UNITED! Once a month, pack your lunch instead of eating out and pledge the savings to the United Way. View introduction video for EAT UNITED. See what a donation of $1 a week [PDF] provides.

Turnstone was the first United Way Agency visit for IPFW employees last Monday. "It is really amazing to see the tremendous effort and energy Turnstone is putting into helping children and adults," said Victoria Zischke. "Finding out how much they rely on private donations as funding really makes me realize how important it is for each of us to support that effort."

Another Turnstone visitor, Donna Holland, writes, "While Turnstone's primary mission is to provide services for persons with physical disabilities, most striking to me is how their services have far-reaching effects on families ...Turnstone provides athletes with physical disabilities the opportunity to experience the thrill of competition and establish an athletic identity. Supporting the United Way means that I will support the greatly needed programs provided by Turnstone."

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The Ronen Chamber Ensemble, led by David Bellman, principal clarinetist of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, performed Chris Rutkowski's Passages for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano on Oct. 12. Rutkowski is a clinical assistant professor of Music Composition and Technology and the director of the IPFW/Sweetwater Music Technology Program. Read a performance review

Rutkowski's composition for saxophone quartet, Dervish, was recorded by Tom Walsh, associate professor at the IUB Jacobs School of Music, and was commercially released on Arizona University Recordings in July 2010. Read about Dervish

How do you teach someone what it feels like to be hungry all the time? Some of the 200 students who will take part in the annual Hunger Banquet on Nov. 8 will get a taste of what constant hunger might feel like.

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