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On
TV or in person,
follow flight of the Phoenix
Key dates to remember for Phoenix basketball fans hoping for a pair of
Horizon League championships and the NCAA tournament appearances that
would follow:
• Thursday, March 3
Phoenix women host a quarterfinal game at the Phoenix Sports Center. (Call
465-5125 for tickets.)
• Saturday, March 5, 4:30 p.m.
Phoenix men play in the first semifinal at Milwaukee’s U.S. Cellular
Arena. (Fox Sports North will provide live cable coverage.)
• Monday, March 7
With two wins, Coach Kevin Borseth’s women can advance to the finals.
(Site of the game and TV coverage, if any, will be announced.)
• Tuesday, March 8
A win Saturday puts the UW-Green Bay men in the nationally televised championship,
with an outside chance the game could be played at the Resch Center. (ESPN
will carry.)
 “To
come back and see your name on a door where you used to have classes,
and work with former faculty
members as peers feels sort of surreal... Actually it’s the ultimate
type of flattery to get asked back to teach at your alma mater. I’m
having a great time coming back.”
Christopher Hibbard, a 2001 graduate of UW-Green Bay’s
Theatre program, on returning as a guest lecturer and director for Prof.
Laura Riddle, who is on sabbatical. He directs ‘The Laramie Project’
this week.
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UW-Green
Bay’s tsunami relief effort
has fisheries focus
Working with numerous UW-Green Bay student organizations, student Dushani
Corea-Dharmaratne is organizing “Tsunami Relief Effort — Students
United” to assist the fishing industry in the Sri Lankan coastal
area of Moratuwa. The effort will raise money to help members of the fishing
community get back in business.
“They lost their homes, boats and fishing gear,” Dushani said.
“They want basically to get back their way of life, and to feed
their families.”
Dushani will make two public presentations on the UW-Green
Bay campus about her home country and the impact of the tsunami. The first
presentation is 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 2 in Phoenix Room B of the
University Union. The second is at noon Thursday, March 3 in the Christie
Theater of the University Union.
To donate or to learn more about “Tsunami Relief Effort —
Students United,” contact the UW-Green Bay Office of Student Life
at 465-2200, extension 40.
For her, National Geographic is new chapter
Jenny Faubert knew it was a long shot when she applied for the National
Geographic summer internship in Washington D.C. After all, only six college
students are selected nationally, and a UW-Green Bay student had never
received the honor.
Then came the surprise of her life. “I was in
shock,” she says. “They called my cell phone and told me who
they were. I was speechless.”
Faubert, a senior urban and regional studies major
from Green Bay, will travel to D.C. this summer to intern in the photography
section of the magazine. Her responsibilities will include finding the
photo of the day, which is the most popular feature on www.nationalgeographic.com,
and creating a photo gallery of her own.
UW-Green Bay Profs. Marcelo Cruz and William Laatsch
were among those who encouraged her to pursue the internship based on
her academic performance and potential.
“I think this is my stepping stone to what I
eventually want to do in my career,” says Faubert, who lists study-abroad
tours in Europe and South America as college highlights. “I would
eventually like to work for a tourist-travel magazine.”
For now, though, she plans to enjoy her last semester
of college while anticipating this chance of a lifetime.
“I’m probably going to be in shock until
I get there,” she says. “It verifies that all the hard work
I’ve done in college really has paid off — that’s the
biggest thing for me.”
Photo/story by Lindsey Oostra,Communication major,
Winneconne
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