UW-Green Bay's enrollment management team moved last week to further tighten restrictions on undergraduate enrollment. The University is no longer accepting new applications for any new freshmen, transfer or re-entry students seeking to enroll for the fall semester that begins Sept. 4. Exceptions are no longer being made for non-residents, veterans, students of color, or late-application appeals. Applicants are being encouraged to apply for spring admission. Professors and staff members are advised that the restrictions also apply to independent studies, and apply even if there is an open spot in any given class. Special students will be limited to one class; if a student is not now a "special," they cannot seek special-student status to get around the restrictions. (The classification "special" is not available to degree-seeking students, and if the answer to the standard question "Do you plan to earn a degree here?" is "yes" and the applicant is not talking about Extended Degree or graduate studies, new admissions are closed.) Planners see a cutback as necessary to keep UW-Green Bay within 1 percent of its fall enrollment target of 4,357 FTE students.

Worth repeating: The restrictions cited above apply only to certain categories of undergraduate admissions. Fall 2000 admission remains open for Extended Degree students, specials, and graduate students. Outreach and Extension courses are also unaffected by the limits.

Bayfest Director Tim Quigley recaps the Year 2000 version of the annual festival by ranking it near the top in terms of exceeding revenue projections and winning positive publicity for the University and the Phoenix athletics program. The final recap shows an attendance of more than 100,000, a 19 percent increase in net revenue and a 12 percent increase in product sales and commission revenues. On the publicity side, Bayfest organizers tracked a minimum of 42 live cut-ins Wednesday through Sunday of festival week, about $50,000 worth of complimentary advertising in the Green Bay Press-Gazette, the equivalent of many thousands more in free TV and radio public-service announcements, editorial coverage in at least 27 newspapers and live remotes by seven radio stations from the grounds.

Sighted recently in the entertainment section of the Green Bay Press-Gazette: a short item promising that MTV's "Choose or Lose Tour" is coming to campus for Fall Festival on Sept. 22. Similar to the network's "Rock the Vote" drive of elections past, the tour promotes interest in voting and presidential politics among young people. The Push Stars, a Boston band (not to be confused with the quintessential late-'70s rock band Boston), will headline the bill.

Jane Rank, safety and risk manager, and Prof. Donna Ritch, Human Biology, presented a workshop at the Human Anatomy and Physiology Conference in June at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte on "Incorporating the Use of Human Blood into Biology Laboratories in the Undergraduate Curriculum."

Prof. Angela Bauer-Dantoin, Human Biology, presented a poster at the fifth annual meeting of the Midwest Physiological Societies in June in Chicago. Her presentation was titled, "Galanin stimulates luteinizing hormone (LH) secretion and enhances gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH)-stimulated LH secretion in intact but not castrated male rats."

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