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Top-drawer
placement! 'Connecting U' on phone book
Talk about helping people get connected! The cover of the new SBC phone directory
for Green Bay/De Pere highlights images that will be familiar to most UW-Green
Bay supporters: a photo montage of Phoenix Athletics. Also featured are the
University’s logo, full name and the theme “Connecting learning to
life.” The directory cover typically spotlights a local attraction or tourism
destination — last year, it was the new Resch Center — and the publishers
handed this year’s honor to Athletics and sports marketing director Robert
Brooks. The new book, with approximately 100,000 copies in print, is being distributed
this month.
Phoenix women hope for
record with Badgers at the Resch on Dec. 13
Remember to wear your green when the UW-Green Bay Phoenix women’s basketball
team hosts the Wisconsin Badgers at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13. The game has been
moved from the cozy Phoenix Sports Center to the more spacious Resch Center
to accommodate additional fans. They’re hoping to eclipse the program’s
single-game attendance record of 2,432.
Commencement speaker,
a poet, has way with words
Ellen Kort, who takes poetry to sidewalks, classrooms and auditoriums in her
role as Wisconsin’s Poet Laureate, always likes to leave some behind. She’ll
do it at UW-Green Bay on Saturday, Dec. 20, as she delivers the commencement
address during mid-year ceremonies at the Weidner Center. “Poetry lights
the world, and now more than ever, we need that light to shine,” she says
of her art. Kort has served as an ad hoc writing instructor for the University.
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High-powered conference on international justice brings prominent figures to
UW-Green Bay Dec. 8
UW-Green Bay and St. Norbert
College are teaming up to host a powerhouse two-day conference on international
justice, with policy insiders sharing insight on headlines and history from
South Africa, the Balkans, Chile and Washington, D.C.
The conference, “International Social Justice, Its Forms
and Philosophy,” will examine diplomatic, foreign policy, human rights,
legal and intelligence issues — from the Cold War to the war on terrorism.
The public portion of the conference takes place Monday,
Dec. 8, at UW-Green Bay’s University Union. All sessions are free. Panelists
include:
• Alexander Boraine, formerly the chief deputy to Archbishop Tutu
on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission;
• Jose Zalaquett, a Chilean attorney exiled after the 1970s coup who became
influential in Amnesty International and on behalf of political prisoners;
• Robert Frowick, a retired U.S. ambassador at large in Eastern
Europe who was a special adviser to the President and Secretary of State for
implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords;
• James C. O’Brien, a special presidential envoy for the Balkans
during the Clinton Administration;
• Eugene O’Sullivan, defense counsel for several defendants
before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia;
• Alan Tieger, senior trial attorney in the Bosnian Serb leadership
case, and the U.S. Justice Department’s senior prosecutor of the successful
case against Los Angeles police officers in the Rodney King case; and
• Milt Bearden, a retired 30-year veteran of the CIA and one of
its most highly decorated operations officers.
The conference is organized as a tribute to the late Gary
Weidner, who died in January 2003 at the age of 54. Weidner, a prominent Green
Bay attorney, helped represent a defendant before the International Criminal
Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2002. For details
on the conference, see www.uwgb.edu/connect/socialjustice.
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