Rubbing
elbows with the stars Say,
isn’t that actress Sharon Stone? Somehow, during UW-Green Bay’s
first 39 years of existence, movie stars mostly managed to avoid hanging
out at the campus and its University Union. Funny how official “swing-state”
status changed all that in the last 10 days before Nov. 2. Stone, at left,
and fellow actresses Melissa Fitzgerald (“West Wing”) and
Allison Munn (“That ’70s Show,” “What I Like About
You”) were among the celebrities hosted at various times by UW-Green
Bay student groups for get-out-the-vote events. Activity was not limited
to campus, either. Members of both the College Republicans and College
Democrats student clubs had additional high-profile opportunities for
volunteer civic involvement as the respective local campaigns mobilized
to stage Green Bay-area rallies with President Bush and challenger John
Kerry.
Film Society
movie focuses on women in Afghanistan
A topic straight from the news headlines is the focus of a Green Bay Film
Society evening at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, at the Neville Public Museum
in downtown Green Bay. The documentary film “Lucky Girl,”
about the efforts of aid workers in post-Taliban Afghanistan to start
co-educational schools for Afghani children, will be screened. Filmmaker
Sarah Price, visiting Green Bay, will be on hand to introduce the film
and answer questions. Admission is free. Prof. David Coury is a founder
and UW-Green Bay is a co-sponsor of the film series.
Students do gouda in big cheesy contest
Actually, it was soft cheddar (easier to carve). Six UW-Green Bay students
shared the singular experience of competing in a cheese-sculpting contest
at Lambeau Field prior to the Packers’ Monday Night Football game
in October. Each student was given three 40-pound blocks of cheese for
a Packers-themed creation (creations included Lambeau Field and the Lombardi
Trophy, among others). The whimsical promotion took place just outside
the Atrium in the hours before the game. The winner, Casey Early-Krueger,
above, earned a $1,000 tuition scholarship from Sargento Cheese.
Poet
Laureate offers campus reading
Wisconsin Poet Laureate and UW-Green Bay faculty member Denise Sweet will
present a reading of her work at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4 in the 1965
Room of the University Union on the campus. A reception will follow the
reading sponsored by the Humanistic Studies academic unit.
Governor Jim Doyle named Sweet to a four-year term as Poet Laureate in
September. Sweet has given more than 200 public readings in the U.S. and
in Canada, Mexico, Guatemala and Great Britain, and her poems have been
published in periodicals and books, and reproduced on the wall of the
Midwest Express Center in Milwaukee. Sharing poetry and engaging young
and old across the state is part of Sweet’s new responsibility as
Poet Laureate. It’s a job tailor-made for Sweet, who has long worked
with traditional and contemporary educators to foster creativity, diversity,
storytelling, drama and indigenous language preservation, particularly
in the Great Lakes region and in the Southwest. Look for a profile of
Sweet next week in the fall edition of the “Inside University of
Wisconsin-Green Bay” campus magazine.
"All
the celebrities and politicians visiting campus before Election Day? It's
always fun to hear what people's opinioins are regarding the election.
But, it is more important for students to educate themselves and make
their own opinions. That's what school is all about."
Jonathan
Virant, Student
Government Association president
Office of the Chancellor,
David A Cofrin Library, Suite 810, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet
Drive, Green Bay, WI 54311-7001
Phone: 920-465-2207 E-mail: shepardb@uwgb.edu
Comments to: Chancellor's Web Manager
Revised:
07/31/2006
Say,
isn’t that actress Sharon Stone? Somehow, during UW-Green Bay’s
first 39 years of existence, movie stars mostly managed to avoid hanging
out at the campus and its University Union. Funny how official “swing-state”
status changed all that in the last 10 days before Nov. 2. Stone, at left,
and fellow actresses Melissa Fitzgerald (“West Wing”) and
Allison Munn (“That ’70s Show,” “What I Like About
You”) were among the celebrities hosted at various times by UW-Green
Bay student groups for get-out-the-vote events. Activity was not limited
to campus, either. Members of both the College Republicans and College
Democrats student clubs had additional high-profile opportunities for
volunteer civic involvement as the respective local campaigns mobilized
to stage Green Bay-area rallies with President Bush and challenger John
Kerry. 
Governor Jim Doyle named Sweet to a four-year term as Poet Laureate in
September. Sweet has given more than 200 public readings in the U.S. and
in Canada, Mexico, Guatemala and Great Britain, and her poems have been
published in periodicals and books, and reproduced on the wall of the
Midwest Express Center in Milwaukee. Sharing poetry and engaging young
and old across the state is part of Sweet’s new responsibility as
Poet Laureate. It’s a job tailor-made for Sweet, who has long worked
with traditional and contemporary educators to foster creativity, diversity,
storytelling, drama and indigenous language preservation, particularly
in the Great Lakes region and in the Southwest. Look for a profile of
Sweet next week in the fall edition of the “Inside University of
Wisconsin-Green Bay” campus magazine.
Jonathan
Virant,