Our plans to start a UCAR bowling team may be adversely affected if what I
hear is true—that the Employee Activities Committee (EAC) is no longer
partially funding UCAR employees' team entry fees.

In the parlance of our times, what's the deal? Is the EAC no longer
partially funding running, biking, or what-have-you teams?

I apologize if I sound like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie
and wants to know what's going on, but I have no frame of reference here.

I would like to ask you about UCAR's Equal Employment Opportunity policy.
The policy manual lists both sexual orientation and marital status as
protected characteristics. Is that interpreted to include polyamorous
individuals? (If you don't know what polyamory is, Wikipedia's explanation
is pretty good.)

I am in a same-sex triad relationship. Basically, I have two domestic
partners. The three of us live together and it's pretty much just like a
conventional two-person union (same-sex or not), except there are three of

Why is the basketball court at Foothills Lab now covered with trailers? A
group of NCAR employees was meeting regularly at lunchtime (weather
permitting, of course) for a friendly game, but had to stop once the
trailers filled the court. Are there plans to remove them in the near future?

It is difficult or impossible to get UCAR/NCAR to sponsor membership in
professional organizations or societies.

According to the "Guidelines for Sponsored Memberships," found here,
approval for individual memberships will be considered on a case-by-case
basis by the appropriate member of the President's Council. This is a
process most people will choose not to undergo. Thus, one has to pay for
these professional memberships out-of-pocket. When I attend a conference
sponsored by the professional society to which I have purchased a