October 2000

Bringing technology to world's poor wins top alumni honor for Garriott

GREEN BAY-A University of Wisconsin-Green Bay alumnus who has devoted his career to improving the lives of the poor around the world through innovative communication technologies will receive the 2000 UW-Green Bay Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Award. The awards event begins with a reception at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 4 in University Union on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Dr.

Gary L. Garriott is director of informatics for Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA), Arlington, Va. A Hortonville, Wis. native, Garriott earned his Master of Environmental Arts and Sciences degree at UW-Green Bay in 1977. He is the first Distinguished Alumni Award recipient to have received only a master's degree at UW-Green Bay.

Garriott's career effort has been to provide communications technology that enables the rural poor to improve their lives. Despite the prevailing assumption that communications pervades world, Garriott points out that half of its citizens have never made a telephone call.

"As outsiders, one of the most valuable things those of us working in the international relief and development network can do is to make tools available, train people in their use, and get feedback on how it's working," he says. The alternative is to do things for people, in which case, says Garriott, "It's hard to be sure that the results won't be different from what you intended."

Garriott has lived and worked in more than 50 countries.

The technologies Garriott has helped to develop have enabled a rural Tanzanian agency lacking electricity or telephone to use e-mail, using low earth orbiting satellites to relay messages to other parts of the world. Through e-mail, the organization accessed the Internet to order do-it-yourself airplane kits, which when completed, link remote sites to medical assistance. In mountainous Honduras, isolated health clinics got "telephone" service for the first time, by using existing microwave towers to link two-way radios by way of radio repeaters. Garriott dubs the system "the poor man's cellphone." In the Sudan, rural agricultural projects can stay in wireless computer communication with the capital through "packet radio." VITA has projects worldwide. Two-thirds are in Africa.

VITA is a leader in using low earth orbiting satellites to relay e-mail messages to and from computers in remote areas. As the earth rotates, every point on it has access several times a day to the polar-orbiting satellites. The innovation won for the organization the Society of Satellite Professionals International Industry Innovator Award in 2000 and the Federal Communication System's first Pioneer's Preference Award in 1992. Where there's no electricity, solar energy powers the ground terminals that "talk" with the satellites.

The organization is investigating portable fuel cells-the subject of an independent study Garriott did at UW-Green Bay-for sites where solar isn't practical. VITA projects are funded through the U.S. Agency for International Development, various United Nations programs, the World Bank, foundations and other sources.

From the early 1980s to the early 1990s, Garriott did broadcasts on useful rural development technologies on the Voice of America's "Understanding Technology" series. His work was nominated for a Peabody Award.

One of his newest efforts is working with a project initiated by space visionary Arthur C. Clarke. The Warning and Recovery Network (WARN) would help to plan for and react to natural disasters worldwide. VITA already operates a Disaster Information Resource Center to help match needs and offers of help during earthquakes and other such events. "VITA has been identified by the Clarke organization board of directors as the lead agency to implement the WARN project," says Garriott.

Garriott joined VITA in 1980. Before attending UW-Green Bay, he earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Valparaiso University, Indiana, and served the Peace Corps in Ecuador and Puerto Rico. Garriott's Ph.D. degree is from the Union Institute, Cincinnati.

For information about the November 4 awards event, the number is (920) 465-2586.

GREEN BAY - A nonnative fish that may join other invaders such as the sea lamprey and the zebra mussel as a nuisance in the Great Lakes is the subject of a presentation at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2 in Rose Hall 250 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Lynda D. Corkum, an associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Windsor, Ontario, will speak on "The Reproductive Behavior of the Round Goby." The event is free and open to the public.

A native of the Black and Caspian seas of eastern Europe and western Asia, the goby was first discovered in the Great Lakes in the St. Clair River in 1990. It has since been collected in all five of the Great Lakes.

Corkum is an aquatic ecologist whose research on the goby in Lake Erie has found that it reproduces rapidly and may pose a threat to native species. Other studies have shown that its aggressive behavior also aids the goby in taking over territory from less territorial species.

GREEN BAY - "Ethics and Politics," the final workshop in a series aimed at helping laypeople understand the arguments used to debate environmental issues, is scheduled from 6:30 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 2 in University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive.

The three-part series, "Critical Thinking, Science, and the Environment," was developed and has been presented by UW-Green Bay faculty members David Dolan of Natural and Applied Sciences, and Andrew Fiala of Humanistic Studies and Philosophy.

The "Ethics and Politics" session will differentiate between the two and help people understand which decisions are ethical and which are political. Participants do not have to have attended previous workshops.

The session is free, but advance registration is recommended. To register or for more information, the number is (920) 465-2348, or e-mail Dolan at doland@uwgb.edu

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay will honor five individuals when the Phoenix Hall of Fame inducts its newest class Friday, Nov. 10.

Basketball standouts Richard Sims and Vicki (Anklam) Porter, soccer star Ivan Delbecchi, cross-country runner and Nordic skier Philip Gallagher, and founding soccer coach and distinguished community member Lou LeCalsey will be honored at the eighth annual induction banquet, at 7 p.m. in the Phoenix Room of the University Union on campus.

Sims, a four-time team most valuable player and four-time leading scorer, was involved in the program's turn-around years of the mid-1980s. In his freshman and sophomore seasons (1983-84 and 1984-85), the Phoenix was a combined 13-43. The Phoenix showed little improvement in 1985-86, a year that Sims red-shirted because of injury. He bounced back to lead the team to 15-14 and 18-9 seasons in 1986-87 and 1987-88, respectively, setting the expectation for men's Division I basketball at UW-Green Bay. He is currently a teacher and head boy's basketball coach at Keshena High School.

In Anklam-Porter's four years, the Phoenix women's basketball program combined for a 99-34 overall record, a winning percentage of 74 percent. In her freshman season, the program advanced to its first national tournament, the AIAW Division II national quarterfinals, and for the next three years, the team reached the NAIA district championship game, just a win away from the NAIA national tournament. She is the program's seventh all-time leading scorer (1,336 points) and eighth all-time leading rebounder (696). She is currently employed as mail operations team leader for Wausau Insurance Company, Wausau.

Delbecchi is the soccer program's all-time career assist leader (35), is fourth all-time in points (99), and fifth all-time in career goals (32). He led the Phoenix to a 51-12-5 record from 1979 to 1982. As a senior he was selected All-Midwest/Great Lakes Region, team most valuable player and was one of three Phoenix players ever to be selected to the Senior Bowl, a prestigious selection in the early 1980s. He is currently a senior district sales manager for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Lenexa, Kansas.

Gallagher is one of only a few student-athletes in the history of UW-Green Bay athletics to compete four seasons in two different sports. He was a three-time national qualifier in Nordic skiing (1991, 1992, 1994) and three-time U.S. Olympic Trial invitee. He was also UW-Green Bay's top male cross-country runner from 1989 to 1992. He is currently employed as a doctoral fellow in the human performance laboratory at Ball State University.

LeCalsey is considered by many the "father of soccer" in Northeastern Wisconsin. He initiated the first-ever collegiate soccer league for the University of Wisconsin two-year colleges and was UW-Green Bay's first soccer coach. In his two seasons at UW-Green Bay, 1969 and 1970, his teams were 22-4-4 and his 1970 squad received the University's first-ever national tournament invitation. He is president and CEO of Tufco Technologies, Inc., Green Bay and is chairman of UW-Green Bay Chancellor Mark Perkins' Council of Trustees.

For information about the Phoenix Hall of Fame or the induction banquet, contact Marilyn McCarey, UW-Green Bay Office of Intercollegiate Athletics, (920) 465-2625.

RICHARD SIMS
Hometown: Barberton, Ohio
High School: Barberton High School
Current Home: Green Bay, Wis.
UW-Green Bay Sport: Basketball
Position: Guard
Years at UW-Green Bay: 1983-1988
Major: Human Development, B.A., 1988
Current Position: Sims is a teacher and head boys basketball coach at Keshena High School. Prior to the teaching position he had worked in the social work field since his graduation.
Family: Wife, Sandee; Children Dimitria (11) and Dominique (9)

Collegiate Highlights:Sims was a four-time team most valuable player and four-time leading scorer. He was involved in the program's turn-around years of the mid-1980s. In his freshman and sophomore seasons (1983-84 and 1984-85), the Phoenix was a combined 13-43. The Phoenix showed little improvement in 1985-86, a year that Sims red-shirted because of injury. He bounced back to lead the team to 15-14 and 18-9 seasons, 1986-87 and 1987-88, respectively, setting the expectation for men's division one basketball. He remains the University's fifth all-time leading scorer (1,619 points), sixth in career scoring average (14.7 ppg.), fourth in career field goals made (650), tied for eighth in career free throws made (306) and eighth in career steals (112). He scored career-high 32 points against Northern Iowa in January of 1988. He was second-team all-conference as a freshman, junior and senior.

High School Highlights:Sims was a three-year varsity player at Barberton High School, leading his team to the state championship game his junior season, when he was also selected first-team all-tournament. As a senior he was a first-team all-conference selection, team captain, team most valuable player and the team leader in scoring, assists and rebounds.

Induction Presenter: Mike Heideman, UW-Green Bay head coach and assistant coach during Sims' playing days.

VICKI (ANKLAM) PORTER
Hometown: Wausau, Wis.
High School: Wausau West
Current Home: Wausau, Wis.
UW-Green Bay Sport: Basketball
Position: Forward
Years at UW-Green Bay: 1981-85
Major: Communications, B.A., 1985
Current Position: Team Leader, Mail Operations, Wausau Insurance
Family: Husband Peter; Children Benjamin (12) and Elizabeth (9)

Collegiate Highlights: Anklam stands as the program's seventh all-time leading scorer (1,336 points) and eighth all-time leading rebounder (696). She was named NAIA all-District her senior year, and was selected to numerous all-tournament squads during her tenure. During Anklam's four years, the Phoenix women's basketball program combined for a 99-34 overall record, a winning percentage of 74 percent. In her freshman season, the program advanced to its first national tournament, the AIAW Division II national quarterfinals, and for the next three consecutive years, the team reached the NAIA district championship game, just a win away from the NAIA national tournament. She was the team's scoring leader in 1983-84 with 408 points, a 13.6 ppg. average and she was the team blocks leader in 1984-85 with 36, a 1.3 average.

High School Highlights: She was a three-time letterwinner and two-year all-conference selection both volleyball and basketball at Wausau West and was the conference scoring leader in basketball as a senior.

Induction Presenter: Former play-by-play announcer Glen Slaats.

IVAN DELBECCHI
Hometown: Toronto, Ontario
High School: George Harvey Secondary School
Current Home: Lenexa, Kansas
UWGB Sport: Soccer
Position: Midfielder
Years at UWGB: 1979-82
Major: Finance and Economics, B.S., 1982
Current Position: Senior District Sales Manager, Georgia-Pacific Corporation
Family: Wife Kristal; daughters Meghan (15); Diana (12), Emily (10) and Marina(6); and son Marco (4)

Collegiate Highlights: Delbecchi, a native of Imperia, Italy, is the soccer program's all-time career assist leader (35), is fourth all-time in points (99), and fifth all-time in career goals (32). He led the Phoenix to a 51-12-5 record from 1979 to 1982. As a senior he was selected all-Midwest/Great Lakes Region, team-most valuable player, and was one of three Phoenix players ever to be selected to the Senior Bowl, a prestigious selection in the early 1980s. He was also selected to the Wisconsin Soccer Coaches Association all-state team in 1980. His 12 assists in 1982 stands as the third best all-time season assist mark. Through his four years the team was 51-12-5. His 1980 team still holds the record for the most shots in a season (470), is second in the most assists (54) and fourth in most goals (61). He follows teammates Chuck Stark and Greg Santaga into the prestigious Hall of Fame.

High School Highlights: He did not play high school soccer but played on successful club teams. His teams were Ontario Cup champions and Canada Cup runner-ups during his U-14 and U-12 playing days. He was most valuable player and captain on those championship teams.

Induction Presenter: Former UW-Green Bay Head Coach Aldo Santaga

PHILIP GALLAGHER
Hometown: Wausau, Wis.
High School: Wausau West
Current Home: Munci, Indiana
UWGB Sport: Cross-country running, Nordic Skiing
Position: runner, skier
Years at UWGB: 1989-94
Major: Human Biology, B.S., 1994; Exercise Science, M.S., Northern Michigan University, 1997; Human Bioenergetics, Ph.D, Ball State, May 2000
Current Position: Post-Doctorate Research Fellow, Ball State University Family: Wife, Carie (also a cross-country runner at UW-Green Bay)

Collegiate Highlights: One of only a few student-athletes in the history of UW-Green Bay athletics to compete four seasons in two different sports. He was a three-time national qualifier in Nordic skiing and three-time U.S. Olympic Trials invitee, placing consistently among the top 25 percent of the skiers in the nation at those national venues. He was also UW-Green Bay's top men's cross-country runner from 1989 to 1992, leading the team in 22 out of 28 events over four years and to four meet championships. He placed 27th and 26th , respectively, out of more than 80 runners at the Mid-Continent Conference Championships his junior and senior seasons. He competed alongside his brother Eric in both 1991 and 1992 and trained with his wife, Carie, who competed on the women's cross-country team from 1990-1992.

High School Highlights: He competed in cross country running and skiing and track and field in high school.

Induction Presenter: Former Nordic ski coach, Butch Reimer.

LOU LECALSEY
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
High School: Springfield (Pa.) High School
Current Home: Green Bay, Wis.
Degree: B.A., Chemistry and English, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster Penn., 1962
Current Position: President and CEO, Tufco Technologies, Inc., Green Bay
Family: Wife, Sue; children Scott (34), Chris (32), and Karla (27) and Paul (25)

Coaching Highlights: LeCalsey is considered by many the "father" of soccer in Northeastern Wisconsin. He initiated the first-ever collegiate soccer league for the University of Wisconsin two-year colleges and when UW-Green Bay's was established in 1966, became its first head soccer coach. In his two seasons (1969 and 1970) at UW-Green Bay his teams were 22-4-4 and his 1970 squad received the University's first national tournament invitation. His 1969 team was highest scoring soccer team in U.S. College soccer, and still holds the all-time UW-Green Bay records for goals in a season (95) and assists in a season (63). He coached seven all-Midwest players over two seasons, including All-American Ken Hess (1970). He also recruited Horst Stemke, named All-American in 1972 following LeCalsey's departure. LeCalsey is currently president and CEO of Tufco Technologies, Inc., Green Bay, and is chairman of UW-Green Bay Chancellor Mark Perkins' Council of Trustees.

Induction Presenter: UW-Green Bay Chancellor Mark Perkins.

GREEN BAY - A composer, singer, actress and long-time member of the a capella quintet, Sweet Honey in the Rock, will lead a workshop, The Power of Song, singing in the African-American tradition, from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25 at the Ecumenical Center at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Ysaye M. Barnwell developed the workshop and has conducted it throughout the U.S. and in Canada, England and Australia.

The public is welcome to participate in the free event on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Barnwell has performed with Sweet Honey in the Rock since 1979 and composed some of the group's most popular songs. She compiled and edited Continuum: The First Songbook of Sweet Honey in the Rock,? published in May. She also produced the recording, ...twenty-five..., to celebrate the group's 25th anniversary.

Barnwell has been commissioned to compose music for choral groups, dance, the Women's Philharmonic of San Francisco, and for Sesame Street. She arranged spirituals and civil rights movement songs for the dramatic musical, Ain't Got Long to Stay Here, portraying the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Barnwell has been a vocalist or violinist on nearly 30 recordings and on several film soundtracks. She appeared in the television series, A Man Called Hawk, and the film, Beloved.

Barnwell has pursued her musical career while serving as a professor in the College of Dentistry at Howard University for 13 years, as training and development specialist in the Children's Hospital National Medical Center, and as project director at Gallaudet University, all in Washington, D.C. She has bachelor's and master's degrees in speech pathology, a Master of Science in public health, and a Ph.D. with a concentration in cranio-facial studies. When Barnwell joined Sweet Honey in the Rock, she led the group in pioneering by making their concerts accessible to the deaf and hearing impaired by providing American Sign Language interpretation.

Barnwell's workshop at UW-Green Bay is sponsored by the Office of Student Life.

GREEN BAY - Films from Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and other countries, and independent and classic movies from the United States are on the schedule for the new Green Bay Film Festival premiering on November 1 and continuing through April 11, 2001.

The free showings are scheduled at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, says David Coury, faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and a founder of the Green Bay Film Society, which is sponsoring the series, along with UW-Green Bay and the Neville Public Museum of Brown County.

"Many of the films in the series have never been released in America, and those that have, haven't played in Green Bay," says Coury. "This is an opportunity to watch some of these films and discuss them with people from the community who share an interest and passion for the cinema."

The Green Bay Film Society was founded earlier this year by a group of like-minded people who are interested in international and independent film and in seeing more of such films in Green Bay.

Thirteen films are scheduled. Most will be shown at the Neville Public Museum, but two are scheduled in the Christie Theater in the University Union at UW-Green Bay.

Coury says a scholar or filmmaker in the humanities will introduce each film and lead a discussion following the showings. The series is partially funded by a $2,000 grant from the Wisconsin Humanities Council through the National Endowment for the Humanities which encourages interaction between humanities scholars and the community.

Other support comes from a $1,200 grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Ministry of Culture, and the loan of films from the Goethe Institute-Chicago and the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C.

The Film Festival soon will have a World Wide Web site up and running at www.uwgb.edu/gbfilm. For information by e-mail, the address is gbfilm@uwgb.edu.

The schedule and locations for the showings and the presenters, who are from the UW-Green Bay faculty unless otherwise noted, is:

November 1-Trains and Roses (Germany), directed by Peter Lichtefeld
David Coury, Humanistic Studies and German/Neville

November 15-Solas (Spain, 1999), directed by Benito Zambrano
Cristina Ortiz, Humanistic Studies and Spanish/Neville

December 6-Short, Sharp, Shocked (Germany, 1998), directed by Fatih Akin
Jennifer Ham, Humanistic Studies and German/Neville

December 20-Est-Ouest (France, 1999), directed by RŽgis Wargnier
Kenneth Fleurant, Humanistic Studies and French/Neville

January 10, 2001-Rosetta (Belgium, 1999), directed by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Presenter to be announced/Neville

January 17, 2001-Tesis (Spain, 1996), directed by Alejandro Amen‡bar
Cristina Ortiz, Humanistic Studies and Spanish/UW-Green Bay Christie Theater

February 7, 2001-Gaslight (USA, 1944), directed by George Cukor
Aeron Haynie, Humanistic Studies and English/Neville

February 14, 2001-Rope (USA, 1948), directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Andrew Fiala, Humanistic Studies and Philosophy/Neville

February 28, 2001-Short avant-garde and non-fiction films (USA and Europe),
Jeff Benzow, Communication and the Arts and Art/UW-Green Bay Christie Theater

March 7, 2001-Voyages (France/Poland/Israel, 1999), directed by Emmanuel Finkiel
Presenter to be announced/Neville

March 14, 2001-Gadjo Dilo (France/Romania, 1998), directed by Tony Gatlif
David Coury, Humanistic Studies and German/Neville

April 4, 2001- A Day Out, plus other short films by Native American filmmakers (Wisconsin/USA),
Chris Powless, Oneida filmmaker, presents his short feature, A Day Out, plus films by others/Neville

April 11, 2001-Western (Spain/France, 1997), directed by Manuel Poirer
Kenneth Fleurant, Humanistic Studies and French/Neville

Dan Schulz?

Recognize the name? A 1993 UW-Green Bay graduate in Communication Processes?

You should. He's got the hottest thing going.

He's been featured as part of a cover story in Time Magazine. He's been featured or mentioned by the New York Post, PeopleOnline, ABC News and Entertainment Tonight. Heck, Moses has even blessed him. Well, sort of.

Schulz and his partner, Scott Wirkus, are the creative force that is "The Dan and Scott Show," the first and biggest Internet-only nightly show. It airs from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. (CST) on a talk-radio website called eYada.com. According to the Time cover story, they have 100,000 nightly listeners and are among the new stars of a medium with near-unlimited upside potential.

Celebrities are frequent guests of the Dan and Scott Show. Charlton Heston (A.K.A Moses) and Zsa Zsa Gabor are regulars. Monkees icon Davey Jones was Dan's "favorite interview of all time." Early TV comedy legend Milton Berle called the team "pioneers." Among others: Buddy Ebsen, MTV's Dr. Drew, John Stamos and on and on.

And, get this, Rick Rockwell of "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" turned to The Dan and Scott Show to screen his dates, post-Darva Conger.

The celebrity interviews are fun, but the real hook for listeners is the zany humor, the off-color pranks and, as the duo puts it, "a thumbing of the nose at anyone who smells of authority." The format is adult comedy talk. And because the FCC currently has no jurisdiction over the Internet, almost anything goes.

"That basically means we can swear," Dan says. "OK, it means more than that, but that is the one thing people seem to pick up on. Not playing by the traditional rules of regular radio allows us to do some stuff that can't be done on regular radio."

For example, Dan explained a segment called "Scott Free on Hold." In Dan's own words... "We anonymously call a local business, not telling them they are on the air, and I ask a few questions any other customer would ask. For example, 'How late are you open? How much is a certain item?' Then I tell them I'm putting them on hold but I don't actually put them on hold. Instead, we play a tape of Scott doing a character named Scott Free; a hyper sounding DJ who works at a fictional radio station called Magic105. He plays jingles and he plays music. He sounds exactly like a typical radio DJ except that he tries to be as obscene as possible. Then I come back for a reaction. If they don't react, I talk a little more and put them back on hold and this time it's even worse. It's our little experiment to see if society as a whole is burnt out on the white noise of background music, on hold music, etc. Sadly, about nine out of 10 people called don't comment or they actually say they want to find Magic 105 so they can listen to it because they think it's funny."

Some of Dan and Scott's other pranks are a little too racy to go into detail in a PG-rated context.

Racy, yes, but also very trendy and cutting-edge. EYada.com recently signed the duo to a multi-year, upper six-figure deal. That's not bad for the pair who on April Fool's Day of 1996 started the show in the basement of an empty retirement home in Jackson, Wis.

"As far as popularity, we never sat down and planned 'how can we be popular?'" Dan says. "We just thought we would never talk down to the audience the way most DJs usually do. We never dangle concert tickets to the tenth caller or say the time two ways - 'It's 4:45, 15 before the hour.' We just talk on the air the way we do off the air."

The first time that Dan and Scott knew they had made it big was when Jay Leno made an indirect joke about them in the monologue. "The joke sucked," Dan says. "But still, it's the Tonight Show."

And when Time approached them about an interview... Well, Dan's reaction, was, well, typical, as listeners of his show would recognize. "I (soiled) my pants," he says. "It's how I have always dealt with all the wild stuff in this world."

He does, however, gauge their success by other means.

"Every once-in-awhile we get an e-mail from a listener that says his or her life is in a tailspin...but they haven't killed themselves because of The Dan and Scott Show," he says. "That's pretty wild. It makes me feel lucky I'm doing this."

Dan's preferred topic is his life. His producer and girlfriend Amy Hoerler, and their relationship, are often fodder for the show. And life, and the show, is good. In fact, pardon the clichŽ, a dream come true.

"Every day when I was a student at UW-Green Bay, I would wake up to hear 'Rick and Len' on WAPL radio. These guys had the worst show I had ever heard; yet everyone loved these guys. I vowed to myself that one day I would return to the radio."

In his pre-UW-Green Bay days, Dan had partnered with Kevin Lyons-Tarr on the now defunct Power 104. When he came to Green Bay, he met Scott through Scott's brother, Steve Wirkus (also a UW-Green Bay graduate). And in 1996, three years after Dan's graduation, the Dan and Scott Show debuted on AudioNet (now Yahoo Broadcast.com), where it was an instant sensation.

Dan and Scott's first major guest was Bob Hope. Who will be featured tonight is anybody's guess. It could be Rodney Dangerfield or Leonard Nimoy or Jerry Falwell or Elvis's barber. And even though Dan and Scott chat with Zsa Zsa Gabor almost weekly, she still hasn't figured out who they are.

That's OK, because more than 100,000 listeners have.

The show can be accessed digitally at www.danandscott.com (you'll have to download RealPlayer); or to talk to Scott in person, call the show at 877eyada99 between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m.

But watch out, you may unknowingly end up on the air.

GREEN BAY - An exhibit of objects that normally aren't seen in art galleries opens with a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 25 , at the Lawton Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Old deep sea diver suits, salt and pepper shakers, surveyor's rulers, "hat" ashtrays, bowling balls, guitars, barbed wire, ski poles, plastic heads and thermometers shaped like buildings are among the objects in "Spectacular Vernacular: A Cabinet of Curiosities." Most of the objects originally were manufactured for specific utilitarian purposes.

Stephen Perkins, UW-Green Bay curator of art, says the exhibit attests to our "continuing compulsion" to collect and accumulate objects. "The act of removing the objects from their intended function and displaying them offers the possibility of sensitizing us to the unique and special qualities we can discover in the everyday world," he says.

Perkins has organized the exhibit around the idea of the "cabinet of curiosities," which became popular among wealthy and traveled gentlemen in Europe from the late 16th to the 18th centuries. "These collectors were intensely curious about their place within an ever-expanding world and they accumulated vast numbers of objects," he says. At home, they displayed their treasures in "cabinets of curiosities." Some collections filled entire rooms. Perkins says it was the beginning of the types of collections that eventually formed the basis for museums, as well as the beginning of the souvenir trade.

Visitors to "Spectacular Vernacular" won't be guided by labels on each exhibit which, in a traditional gallery setting, often determine how they are to think about the art, says Perkins. In this installation, blank labels are supplied for viewers. "Visitors can write their own labels and give them to the gallery attendants who will post them," says Perkins.

UW-Green Bay students in the advanced gallery and museum practices class and gallery interns assist in planning and mounting Lawton Gallery exhibits. Dan Hatton is assistant to the curator.

"Spectacular Vernacular" continues through November 14. Lawton Gallery is located in room 230 of Theater Hall, directly east of the Weidner Center. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

GREEN BAY - Martin T. Auer, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Michigan Technological University, will speak on Lake Superior water quality issues at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, in Rose Hall 250 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive. "Desperately Seeking Signals: Organic Carbon, Bacterioplankton, Phytoplankton and Benthos Dynamics in Lake Superior," is his topic. The presentation is free and open to the public.

A member of the Michigan Technological University faculty since 1981, Auer teaches in the area of environmental engineering, specializing in surface water quality engineering. His research involves field and laboratory studies and mathematical modeling of water quality in lakes and rivers. He currently is working on a five-year research project on Lake Superior funded by a major National Science Foundation grant.

Over the past 20 years, Auer has been project director or co-director for more than $2.5-million in externally funded research, has published more than 55 papers, and has been author or co-author of more than 100 presentations at professional meetings.

The lecture is the first in the 2000-2001 Ecology Lecture Series at UW-Green Bay, funded by an annual heirloom vegetable plant sale.

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has been chosen by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to lead the Wisconsin Space Grant program. That announcement came today (Friday, Oct. 13) from U.S. Representative Mark Green, UW-Green Bay officials and George French, CEO of Space Explorers, Inc., at a press conference on the UW-Green Bay campus.

The partnership is a prestigious opportunity for UW-Green Bay and the Green Bay community, according to the director of the program, Dr. R. Aileen Yingst.

"Leadership of the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium will allow UW-Green Bay and the community to take its place among a very select group of prestigious institutions and communities, from Brown University of the Ivy League, to Virginia's Old Dominion University, to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology," she said. "Green Bay now has the potential to become synonymous with space science in Wisconsin."

Yingst currently teaches a geology course at UW-Green Bay and is Space Explorers' Chief Scientist. She has been on the NASA science teams for the Mars Pathfinder and the Mars Polar Lander programs. She said that the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium will provide for many needs within the state of Wisconsin.

Her vision for the Consortium, she says, is that it is looked to when businesses of Wisconsin want to find high quality, well-trained students to fill in-state aerospace jobs; when universities wish to get connected with businesses that can utilize their research expertise; when pre-college educators are searching for innovative way to use space science in the classroom and when government officials need information about upcoming legislation that impacts NASA or the aerospace industry, and how that might affect the citizens of this state.

As leader of the Wisconsin Space Grant program, UW-Green Bay will coordinate education, business and other efforts in support of space exploration in the state. UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison had also bid to lead the program. UW-Green Bay and its industry partner, Space Explorers, Inc. of DePere, co-authored the winning proposal.

Professor Steve Dutch, chairman of the Earth Sciences program, said the partnership offers exciting opportunities in many areas.

"It gives us improved visibility as a serious science institution and has the potential to strengthen our physical sciences programs if we can get students thinking of us first when they study science. It has fabulous potential for linkages with our kindergarten through grade 12 education programs," he said, echoing a sentiment expressed by UW-Green Bay Chancellor Mark Perkins.

Initial funding for the consortium from NASA is $250,000 for administration, scholarships, fellowships and small grants; however, the program could gain additional grants and other financial support as programs are developed.

Green, a member of the House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, said he was pleased UW-Green Bay would be taking the role.

"This is a victory for both our area and for U.S. space exploration efforts," Green said. "When it comes to space technology, we've got some of the best folks in the country right here in Northeastern Wisconsin. With this change, they'll be able to become even more involved in space exploration and our national space program will reap the benefits of that involvement."

GREEN BAY - The Last Night of Ballyhoo opens the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay theater season with performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 20-21 and Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 26-28, in University Theater located in Theatre Hall on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

The Tony award-winning play is set in Atlanta in 1939 just when three momentous events are about to occur: Ballyhoo, the season's biggest social event; the premiere of the movie Gone With the Wind; and the start of World War II. The situation involves an assimilated Jewish family discovering its roots.

"It's a romantic comedy," says director and UW-Green Bay faculty member John Mariano. "Serious as it sounds, it's really entertaining."

Playwright Alfred Uhry, who also drew upon his southern Jewish roots - and won the Pulitzer Prize - for Driving Miss Daisy, received the Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, and American Theatre Critics Association awards, in addition to the Tony, for Ballyhoo. Mariano says the playwright mines the conflicts of being both Jewish and southern in "both comic and poignant ways."

Mariano says the play also is very much about family, in this case, two widowed sisters-in-law, their daughters and an uncle. "A great deal of it is given over to examining the relationships and dynamics among members of this atypical family," he adds.

Faculty credits for the production include Jeffrey Entwistle, set design; Kaoime Malloy, costume design; R. Michael Ingraham, technical director; and Laura Riddle, dialect coach. Student Neil Roehrborn is the lighting designer.

Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door for adults; and $8 in advance/$10 at the door for seniors and students. Numbers for tickets are (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Concert Choir and Vocal Ensemble will present a Wisconsin School Music Association (WSMA) preview concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20 in the Weidner Center on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

The two vocal groups, conducted by Director of Choral Activities William Witwer, are among four UW-Green Bay ensembles invited to perform at the WSMA convention October 26 and 27 in Madison. The Jazz Ensemble and Vocal Jazz Ensemble also will perform at WSMA.

Joining the Concert Choir and Vocal Ensemble in the Weidner Center concert will be the University Chorus, directed by John Plier, who joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in August.

Janice Cusano is the accompanist for the 62-member Concert Choir. Their program is filled with songs of adoration of various kinds, from Mozart's Regina Coeli, to contemporary composer Daniel Pinkham's Wedding Cantata. Plier, a tenor, will be the cantor in Max Janowski's Avinu Malkeinu, written for the Jewish high holy days. On "Stomp Your Foot," from Aaron Copland's The Tender Land, Cusano and Namji Kim, who also joined the faculty this year, will double up on piano four-hand accompaniment. The group will perform a Samoan folk song, "Minoi, Minoi," unaccompanied.

The Vocal Ensemble will open its program with Missa O Magnum Mysterium, by 16th century composer Tom‡s Luis de Victoria, and continue with an "ornithology" series: four songs, in Spanish, English, Italian, and German, on the subject of birds. They continue with two pieces by German composers Heinrich Schźtz and Hugo Distler, that are related in theme, although separated by three centuries. The 17-member group closes its program with "A...," by contemporary American composer Scott Wilkinson, from a longer piece, Four Whatevers. The Ensemble performs without accompaniment.

Compositions from the 1990s are on the program for University Chorus. They open with "I Wander by the Sea" (1990), by John H. Ratledge II, and continue with "Oh, the Savior's Comin', Hallelu!" with words and music written by Uzee Brown Jr., for the Spelman College Glee Club in 1997. They'll also perform a setting, "The 23rd Psalm," written in 1995 by Andrea Jill Higgins. The 50-voice group will close with "The Gift of Love" to an American folk tune.

Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for students. The number for tickets is (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - The co-author of a book that examines the legacy of the 1960s will speak at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 20, in the Christie Theater at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive. "Who Won the Battles of the Sixties?" is the topic for Michael Kazin, professor of history at Georgetown University. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Kazin's book, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, looks at the various protest movements throughout the administrations of John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. Kazin and co-author Maurice Isserman examine several threads evident in American Society today - environmentalism, multiculturalism, feminism, the civil rights movement, and others - that had their beginnings in the 1960s. But, they point out, while many Americans revere this liberal legacy, they also often demean the decade that produced it.

The authors argue that the Democratic shift toward liberals and the poor, which the 1960s seemed to indicate, never really happened. They hold that the progressive ideas were really co-opted by the Nixon administration which then succeeded in making "liberal" a bad word.

Kazin also is the author of an account of American populism, The Populist Persuasion.

The talk is part of the Historical Perspectives lecture series sponsored by the UW-Green Bay Center for History and Social Change.

GREEN BAY - Winona LaDuke, activist and advocate for Native American, environmental, children's and women's issues, will speak on Native American land recovery at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 20 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. "Seventh Generation Amendment: For Our Children, For Our Grandchildren," is LaDuke's topic at the free event in the Phoenix Room of University Union on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

LaDuke, an Ojibwe who lives on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota, is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project and the Indigenous Women's Network. She is director of Honor the Earth, a national nonprofit organization supporting Indian environmental projects. Time magazine called LaDuke, "a riveting speaker" who encourages Native Americans to take control of their lives by taking back control of their land.

LaDuke is currently in her second run as a vice presidential candidate on Ralph Nader's Green Party ticket. She is the author of All Our Relations, a book on Native environmentalism and of a 1997 novel, Last Standing Woman. LaDuke's environmental activities include serving on the board of directors for GreenPeace U.S.A.

LaDuke was among Ms. magazine's Women of the Year in 1996 and in 1994, Time selected LaDuke as one of "50 for the future." She has been the subject of profiles in People, Sierra, E, and Minnesota Monthly magazines.

A reception follows her UW-Green Bay presentation. The event is sponsored by the University's Office of Student Life.

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, in cooperation with St. Norbert College and Lawrence University, will host the first annual Graduate and Professional School Fair, from 2 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, in the Phoenix Room of the University Union on the UW-Green Bay campus.

The free fair will provide students with an opportunity to explore more than 20 graduate and professional programs available in the United States. Each graduate or professional school will bring display items and have representatives available to speak with those interested. Colleges and universities participating in the event are Cardinal Stritch, Carroll College, Concordia, Marian, Marquette, Medical College of Wisconsin, Minnesota Paralegal Institute, Palmer College of Chiropractic, Silver Lake, UW- Oshkosh, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Milwaukee College of Letters and Science, UW-Milwaukee School of Business Administration, University of Minnesota Law School, UW-Stout, UW-Whitewater, Western Illinois, William Mitchell College of Law and the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology.

In addition, UW-Green Bay Career Services will provide information and registration booklets for graduate testing (GRE, GMAT, LSAT, and others).

UW-Green Bay is distinctive within the University of Wisconsin System for its innovative academic plan characterized by problem-focused interdisciplinary learning. Representatives from UW-Green Bay's three graduate programs - Administrative Science, Applied Leadership for Teaching and Learning, and Environmental Science and Policy - will participate in the event.

St. Norbert College has ranked in the U.S. News and World Report as one of the 10 best liberal arts colleges in the Midwest since 1987, the report's inception. The college has a mission to provide a superior education that is personally, intellectually and spiritually challenging. The college offers master's degrees in Education, Adaptive Education and Theological Studies.

Lawrence University is ranked among the nation's best small, private colleges and is nationally recognized for its undergraduate college of liberal arts and sciences and a conservatory of music. Nearly 30 percent of its alumni pursue graduate or professional school studies after graduating.

GREEN BAY - Wisconsin social workers will have three different opportunities to take the required "Basic Ethics and Boundaries for the Social Work Practitioner" course at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay this winter. All licensed Wisconsin social workers are required to take the four-hour training by June 30, 2001.

The course will be offered from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17 and Jan. 19, and Saturday, Feb. 24, at the University Union on campus. A $75 fee includes handouts, refreshment breaks, lunch, a continuing education certificate and parking. The workshop is sponsored by the Northeast Wisconsin Alliance for Social Worker Continuing Education and the Office of Outreach and Extension at UW-Green Bay.

The workshop leader will be Candy Conard, a lecturer for the UW-Green Bay Social Work Program. She has specialized training in child, adolescent and family therapy, and has held administrative positions in public, nonprofit, and private health care agencies. She is also a trainer and teacher for the Northeast Wisconsin Partnership for Children and Families.

Among other topics, the focus of the workshop will be on the historical overview and evolution of the Code of Ethics, its application to practice situations, and an overview of how ethical infractions are reported and the process used for ethical enforcement. Social workers will earn four continuing education hours for attending.

The Northeast Wisconsin Alliance for Social Worker Continuing Education is an alliance between UW-Green Bay and UW-Oshkosh to provide learning experiences that will meet the social worker continuing education requirements as determined by the Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing.

To register contact the Office of Outreach and Extension, UW-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive, Green Bay, WI 54311-7001 or call 920-465-2642 or 1-800-892-2118.

GREEN BAY - A gallery talk by the guest curator and a reception on Tuesday, Oct. 17 will close the Midwest Photography Invitational XI exhibit now on display in the Lawton Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The reception begins at 4:30 p.m. and the gallery talk by Prof. Jerry Dell will begin at 5 p.m.

The exhibit includes 75 images in various photographic media, ranging from traditional black and white prints to digital images, made by 20 different artists from across the country.

UW-Green Bay initiated the every-other-year invitational in 1980. After the initial showing on campus, the exhibit tours in the following year and a half to other institutions. Dell, who began teaching at UW-Green Bay in 1973, has been guest curator for ten of the 11 exhibits. He founded the sequence of photography courses at UW-Green Bay, has exhibited his own photographic work nationally, and has been active in both the Midwest and National Society for Photographic Education organizations.

Lawton Gallery is located in Theatre Hall, directly east of the Weidner Center on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

GREEN BAY - Performance major Andrea Wiltzius will give a recital at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22, at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Admission to the program at Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts is free.

The UW-Green Bay junior soprano will perform music by Scarlatti, Dowland, Dvorak, Chausson and others. Pianist Ellen Hanchek and Andrea Meyer, Dave Viste and Luke Thomas will accompany her.

Wiltzius is studying with Linda Parins. She has performed with the Concert Choir, Vocal Ensemble, Hand Drumming Ensemble, Vocal Jazz Ensemble and at the 2000 Dvorak International Opera Competition in the Czech Republic.

GREEN BAY - Duo Pegasus opens the new University of Wisconsin-Green Bay chamber music series with a performance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive. Admission is free.

Duo Pegasus members are Scott Wright, clarinet, and Linda Halloin, piano.

Wright joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in 1997. He has performed with numerous ensembles and is active as a soloist, clinician, adjudicator, and conductor throughout the United States. He has performed recently in Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, Oregon, Florida and Texas. Wright was a featured soloist at the International Clarinet Association annual conference in Ohio in 1998 and again in 1999 in Ostend, Belgium. Prior to joining UW-Green Bay, Wright taught music in the public schools in Longview, Washington. His Doctor of Musical Arts degree in clarinet performance is from Arizona State University.

Halloin received a Bachelor of Music degree at UW-Green Bay with a major in piano and a minor in French horn. She was a student of Arthur Cohrs. She won both a graduate fellowship and a teaching assistantship while earning a Master of Music degree in piano performance at UW-Milwaukee. Prior to returning to Green Bay, Halloin was on the staff of Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. During the past ten years she has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in many recitals throughout the Midwest and in Germany, Poland, and Ukraine.

The pair will open the program with selections by two 19th century composers, Duo in E-flat Major, by German composer Norbert Burgmźller, and "Au clair de la lune," by French composer Paul JeanJean, followed by a clarinet repertoire classic, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, by 20th century French composer Francis Poulenc.

The second half of the program includes Five Pieces for Solo Clarinet by clarinetist Michael Webster, a faculty member at Rice University, and "Fantasy-Sonata, " a World War II-era piece by English composer John Ireland. The Duo will close with a Romanian song, "Hora Staccato," arranged by violinist Jascha Heifetz and adapted for clarinet.

The Music at Green Bay series continues on November 17 with Trio del Sol, trio-in-residence at Arizona State University.

GREEN BAY -- High school students interested in attending the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay can learn more about academic programs and facilities when UW-Green Bay hosts Campus Preview Day programs in October.

Visitors can choose from two dates: Thursday, Oct. 26, and Friday, Oct. 27. The dates coincide with the annual state teachers convention and scheduled days off for most public schools in Wisconsin.

The free, one-day sessions are designed for high school juniors and seniors, and their parents. Following registration from 8:30 to 9 a.m., the programs run until 2:30 p.m. Included are campus tours and faculty and staff presentations on academics, financial aid and other student services.

The October programs will be followed by an additional date in December, on Friday the 8th, and two opportunities next April. To register for Campus Preview Day, call the Office of Admissions at UW-Green Bay, 920-465-2111.

GREEN BAY - The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band open their performance season with a concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 13 in the Weidner Center on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.

Director of Bands Kevin Collins will conduct the 40-member Wind Ensemble in four works, starting with "Kšnig's March" by Richard Strauss. The group will continue with American composers, beginning with a setting of a Revolutionary War-era tune, "Chester," by early American composer William Billings.

Two different works by contemporary American composer Frank Ticheli complete their set. "Shenandoah" is a chorale-like setting of the familiar song. "Vesuvius," is an original work that the composer calls "a wild and passionate dance" which might represent the final moments of the city of Pompeii, doomed by an eruption of the volcano.

Conductor Scott Wright, assistant director of bands, has selected a "Concert in the Park" theme for the Symphonic Band. "Roller Coaster" is a new work by Johnny Cowell that pits the trumpet section against the rest of the band. Tryptich II, by contemporary composer Elliott Del Borgo, also contrasts the full band with solo and sectional work.

The audience will hear some of the hits that popularized the big-band era in "Big Band Tribute" by John Wasson. Karl King's "Imperial March" will close the concert.

Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for students. The number for tickets is (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587.

GREEN BAY - Brian Merkel, assistant professor of Human Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, has been named to the Water and Fish Consumption Subcommittee of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC). The Council serves to provide input about environmental justice issues from affected stakeholders to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Merkel is an immunologist who, not long after joining the UW-Green Bay faculty in 1997, began a study to learn whether PCBs affect a key component of the human immune system. He was an organizer of a workshop on environmental justice held last April at UW-Green Bay which featured Bunyan Bryant, a nationally recognized expert in the field.

GREEN BAY - "Scientific Reasoning," a workshop to help laypeople understand how science is used in debate over environmental issues, is scheduled for 6:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, in the University Union at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive. The workshop is free and open to the public.

The workshop is the second in a series on "Critical Thinking, Science, and the Environment," organized by UW-Green Bay faculty members David Dolan, of Natural and Applied Sciences, and Andrew Fiala, of Humanistic Studies and Philosophy. The two say the session will provide participants with tools for understanding and evaluating the scientific methods and statistical reasoning used in environmental arguments.

The final workshop, "Ethics and Politics" is scheduled for November 2. The series opened with a session on "Critical Thinking." Participants may attend any or all of the sessions. Although the workshops are free, advance registration is recommended. The contact number is (920) 465-2348, or by e-mail to doland@uwgb.edu.

GREEN BAY - Chamber Music at Green Bay is a new series of programs beginning this fall that will showcase top-flight professional musicians from the region and around the nation. The series, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Music Program, will include four programs in its first season, beginning on Oct. 14 and ending on April 7, 2001.

"This is an exciting enhancement of our performance calendar and one that we're thrilled to share with the community," says Music Chairperson Kevin Collins.

Both Collins and series founder and director Scott Wright say the series will fill a niche in the local music scene. They note that while many outstanding large local and touring ensembles perform in the community, there are fewer opportunities to hear professional-caliber chamber music.

"Chamber music is an important part of a healthy arts climate," says Wright. "It allows the performer and audience member to participate on a more intimate level with the musical experience." Wright, who joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in 1997, credits his early exposure to live chamber music performance with a role in shaping his career.

Providing opportunities for students throughout the community to hear serious chamber music and for UW-Green Bay faculty to collaborate with artists from around the state and nation are among series goals, says Collins.

Duo Pegasus kicks off the series on Saturday, Oct. 14. Its members are Wright, a clarinetist, and pianist Linda Halloin. Admission is free.

The second program on Friday, Nov. 17 presents Trio del Sol, an acclaimed trio in residence at Arizona State University. Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for students.

Performers scheduled for February 10 and April 7, 2001, will be announced. All programs are at 7:30 p.m. in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive. The number for tickets is (920) 465-2217 or 1-800-328-8587. The number for information about the series is (920) 465-2148.

GREEN BAY - The many meanings of pleasure and the way it influences and defines our lives and work is the subject of Pleasure: an Interdisciplinary Conference, scheduled for Friday, Oct. 13 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet Drive. The free event in the 1965 Room of the University Union begins at 9 a.m. and concludes at 4:30 p.m.

Keynote speaker is John F. Sherry Jr., a member since 1984 of the marketing faculty at Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. An anthropologist, Sherry has researched, taught and lectured around the globe. He is a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association and of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Sherry is a past president of the Association for Consumer Research, and a former associate editor of the Journal of Consumer Research. He frequently serves the American Marketing Association as a doctoral consortium faculty member and dissertation competition judge. Sherry consults with long list of Fortune 500 companies. He is the editor of Contemporary Marketing and Consumer Behavior: An Anthropological Sourcebook, and Servicescapes: The Concept of Place in Contemporary Markets. Sherry has won awards for his scholarly work and for his poetry.

"Pleasure is one of the highest goods we pursue in life," says UW-Green Bay Prof. Hye-Kyung Kim, explaining that the conference offers a chance to examine the role of pleasure in our lives from various perspectives. Kim, an assistant professor of Humanistic Studies and Philosophy; E. Nicole Meyer, an associate professor of Humanistic Studies, French, and Women's Studies; and Peter W. Smith, an associate professor of Business Administration and Marketing, are conference organizers.

Program presentations include:

* Meyer, "Seeking Pleasure: Some Interdisciplinary Considerations on Pleasure."

* Marilyn Bohatkiewicz, practicing psychologist at Bay Psychiatric Services, "The Psychology of Pleasure."

* Derek Jeffreys, assistant professor of Humanistic Studies, UW-Green Bay, "Is Love a Form of Craving? Pleasure and Loving Kindness in Theravada Buddhism."

* Kim, "Pleasure and Human Excellence."

* Michael Wreen, professor of philosophy, Marquette University, "Pleasure and Happiness: Some Philosophical Considerations."

* Sally Dresdow, assistant professor of Business Administration, UW-Green Bay, "The Pleasure of Work."

* Smith, "Hedonic vs. Utilitarian Consumption."

The program concludes with a panel discussion. The schedule includes mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks. Participants are responsible for their own lunches during a break from noon to 1:30 p.m.

Conference sponsors are the UW-Green Bay Research Council, Cercle FranŤais, Philosophy Forum, the student chapter of American Marketing Association, and the Humanistic Studies and Business Administration academic units. The number for information is (920) 465-2098.