Welcome to our new readers!On behalf of the Office of Parent Services, welcome to Northern Arizona University and the Backpack newsletter. As you know, the Backpack is written specifically for you. Through the Backpack, I'll bring you news, tips, and events to help keep you connected with what's going on at the university and with your student. If you have any feedback or suggestions, I would love to hear them! Please send critiques, praise, and submission ideas to me at parent.services@nau.edu. The next scheduled summer issue will be in mid-July. Once the fall semester begins, I will publish the Backpack every Tuesday throughout the academic year. —Derek Hansen, Enrollment Managment and Student Affairs Family Weekend, October 2-4, 2009
Some of you may have already received your “save-the-date” postcard for this year’s Family Weekend event in October. If you haven’t yet seen the card, let me be the first to invite you to the celebration. The event-packed weekend is designed to bring parents, families, and students together again once the first brush with the semester is over. Experience a vibrant campus and participate in a variety of activities. Family Weekend provides opportunities to catch up with your student, meet university faculty and staff, explore the beautiful Flagstaff campus, and much more. I’ll be posting more information when registration becomes available, so for now, please save October 2-4 on your calendar. —Derek Hansen Fronske Health Center—Onlineby Lindsey Gregor, BA ‘10 Being a student, I understand what it’s like to not feel well. All I want is to recover soon so I won’t miss class or time with friends. But when I call a clinic and try and make an appointment, I often wait on hold for what seems like forever. I normally just hang up because even sitting on hold takes more energy than I have. I recently discovered that the Fronske Health Center on campus has implemented a new online appointment system: Campus Health Services Online. I can book my appointments in about a minute and if I have had lab work done, they will send the results to me through their secure website. 
All students have do is go to nau.edu/fronske and click on “Log on to ‘CHS Online’ now!” and authenticate with their univesity username and password. They follow the instructions and choose what options they have that fit their symptoms. The website has seven different symptom choices to choose from, excluding urgent care (for urgent care, you don’t need an appointment—just walk in!). So, even if I get hurt during an intramural sport, or happen to fall on ice in December, Fronske is my one-stop shop for getting better. One of the coolest parts about this new web service is I get a variety of appointment dates and times to choose from and it even lists the doctors available, so I can even choose the doctor I see! While I don’t enjoy getting sick, I am grateful for this new, easy-to-use system. I think this new appointment system will benefit all students and save them time as well as anyone else wanting to go to Fronske.
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Important Dates For Students
College of Arts and LettersEvent HighlightsFor a full listing of events and information visit nau.edu/calevents, or subscribe to the CAL Events newsletter by sending an e-mail to listserv@lists.nau.edu. All events are free unless noted. THEATREMore: nau.edu/theatreevents
ART EXHIBITIONSMore: nau.edu/artmuseum
Events Around TownFlagstaff Photography Club 
You are invited to join the Flagstaff Photography Club for the 1st Friday Artwalk Show and Sale, July 3, 2009, from 5:30 p.m.–9 p.m., at LaBellavia Restaurant, 18 S. Beaver St., Flagstaff, Arizona. 
Jun 27 “Arizona Mineral Belt Railroad” Join historians Richard and Sherry Mangum as they relate a fascinating chapter in the history of Flagstaff: the failed railroad spur from Flagstaff to Globe, Arizona. Learn about Col. Eddy, who in 1883, dreamed of building a line that would connect a huge region of central Arizona, only to be stopped after building a tunnel half-way through the Mogollon Rim.
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