UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 31 No. 20



Weidner Center unveils Season 2000 Comic professor tackles gender differences Campus MLK celebration Partnership promotes web-based learning UW-Green Bay helps Assembly make video 'history' The bills? They passed More on cookie sales You can be parking czar Cofrin Friends have new officers Publication	Vol. 31, No. 20 / Jan. 18, 2000 This e-mail news digest is distributed each week to faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Links are included to more detailed stories at the Marketing and University Communication website. Weidner Center has titanic new twist for unveiling season The Weidner Center has scheduled three "video sneak previews" for today (Jan. 18) to unveil Season 2000, its remodeled subscription series with 12 events from May through December. Season ticketholders have been invited to sessions at 4, 6 or 8 p.m. today in Cofrin Family Hall. The center is shortening its booking horizon and will announce packages more frequently — every six months or so. Among events to be announced today are several new Broadway musicals including at least one titanic hit in "Titanic," along with "Fosse" and several Mainstage concerts. * * * * * Comic professor tackles masculinity, gender differences Christopher Kilmartin is an associate professor of psychology at Mary Washington College, an author and former stand-up comedian who has opened for Richard Lewis, Paula Poundstone and others. He appears at UW-Green Bay next Wednesday and Thursday (Jan. 26 and 27). He will lead the discussion "What Planet Did You Say They Were From? Understanding Gender in the Workplace," for all employees at noon next Thursday in Phoenix A. The night before, he'll offer "Crimes Against Nature," his own story of growing up male in America, at 7 p.m. in the Union, as well as a 9 p.m. discussion titled "Sports, Sex and Relationships: Emphasizing the Positive." Events are sponsored by the Employee Assistance Program. More. * * * * * Reminder: Coates is featured speaker at Friday's King celebration UW-Green Bay will observe the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at noon on Friday, Jan. 21 in Phoenix Room B. The free event will be followed by a reception. Keynote speaker is James R. Coates Jr. of the Education faculty. The Office of Student Life will announce a service project for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Green Bay. More. * * * * * UWS, WTCS, DOD OK ADL Co-Lab The UW System, the Wisconsin Technical College System and the U.S. Department of Defense last week signed an agreement to collaborate on the next generation of technology that enables web-based learning, also called "distributed learning." The memorandum of agreement establishes a Wisconsin Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Laboratory (Co-Lab) headquartered at UW-Extension's Pyle Center in Madison. The lab will serve as a focal point for academia and the workforce in Internet-based distributed learning. The DOD is a partner with its need for "anytime, anywhere" education for its three million military and civilian employees around the world. More. * * * * * UW-Green Bay helps Assembly make videoconferencing 'history' Last Wednesday's public hearing by the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities marked the debut of a new, $400,000 videoconferencing/hearing room in the refurbished state Capitol. State Sen. Rob Kreibich, a former TV anchor from Eau Claire, chaired the hearing from Madison, with drop-ins from sites at UW-Green Bay (IS 1034), La Crosse and River Falls. Legislators say the new Capitol facilities should increase the use of compressed video for statewide public hearings. * * * * * The bills? They passed The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported that three of the bills discussed Wednesday were sent on to the full Assembly with the higher education committee's endorsement. (Because of a previous commitment for the compressed-video lines, UW-Green Bay had to sign off before the voting concluded.) Approved were upgrades in the EdVest plan; class audits for senior citizens; and tax credits for businesses that cover employee tuition. * * * * * More on cookie sales The LOG continues to receive reports of active Girl Scout cells on campus. Latest reports are from Wood Hall and Cofrin Library. Cookie seekers can inquire within at WH 460, with up to four sellers, no waiting, or with Betsy in CL 815. * * * * * Your chance to play judge, jury on parking The Parking Office notifies us they are looking for a volunteer to review written appeals concerning parking citations. After reading each appeal, you would need to make a decision to either cancel or not cancel the citation. The time commitment is about a half hour every two weeks. Strict constructionist or liberal activist? Death penalty advocate? A lock-step adherent to the judicial doctrine of precedent? It probably won't matter. If you are interested, contact John Baumgart at ext. 2301. * * * * * Cofrin Friends have new president, vice president The Friends of the Cofrin Library elected new officers and board of directors members at the organization's annual meeting in December. The new president is Prof. Charles Matter. The vice president is Virginia Dell. Elected to terms on the Board of Directors are Prof. Andrew Kersten, Cecilia Hintz, Diana Margotto and Ginny Heim. The Friends promote the Library through financial support and educational and cultural programming. * * * * * Publication A research paper by Weiping Liu, BUA, is published in the recent edition of Managerial Finance. The paper's title is "An Empirical Study of Asian Financial Crisis by Debt Service Capacity Comparison." * * * * * LOG ONline is prepared for University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty and staff by the Office of Marketing and University Communication. To submit a Brief, a Publication, a news item, an announcement, or just plain feedback, UW-Green Bay employees can call ext. 2626 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.

Weidner Center unveils Season 2000

Comic professor tackles gender differences

Campus MLK celebration

Partnership promotes web-based learning

UW-Green Bay helps Assembly make video 'history'

The bills? They passed

More on cookie sales

You can be parking czar

Cofrin Friends have new officers

Publication

Vol. 31, No. 20 / Jan. 18, 2000

This e-mail news digest is distributed each week to faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Links are included to more detailed stories at the Marketing and University Communication website.

Weidner Center has titanic new twist for unveiling season

The Weidner Center has scheduled three "video sneak previews" for today (Jan. 18) to unveil Season 2000, its remodeled subscription series with 12 events from May through December. Season ticketholders have been invited to sessions at 4, 6 or 8 p.m. today in Cofrin Family Hall. The center is shortening its booking horizon and will announce packages more frequently — every six months or so. Among events to be announced today are several new Broadway musicals including at least one titanic hit in "Titanic," along with "Fosse" and several Mainstage concerts.

* * * * *

Comic professor tackles masculinity, gender differences

Christopher Kilmartin is an associate professor of psychology at Mary Washington College, an author and former stand-up comedian who has opened for Richard Lewis, Paula Poundstone and others. He appears at UW-Green Bay next Wednesday and Thursday (Jan. 26 and 27). He will lead the discussion "What Planet Did You Say They Were From? Understanding Gender in the Workplace," for all employees at noon next Thursday in Phoenix A. The night before, he'll offer "Crimes Against Nature," his own story of growing up male in America, at 7 p.m. in the Union, as well as a 9 p.m. discussion titled "Sports, Sex and Relationships: Emphasizing the Positive." Events are sponsored by the Employee Assistance Program. More.

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Reminder: Coates is featured speaker at Friday's King celebration

UW-Green Bay will observe the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at noon on Friday, Jan. 21 in Phoenix Room B. The free event will be followed by a reception. Keynote speaker is James R. Coates Jr. of the Education faculty. The Office of Student Life will announce a service project for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Green Bay. More.

* * * * *

UWS, WTCS, DOD OK ADL Co-Lab

The UW System, the Wisconsin Technical College System and the U.S. Department of Defense last week signed an agreement to collaborate on the next generation of technology that enables web-based learning, also called "distributed learning." The memorandum of agreement establishes a Wisconsin Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Laboratory (Co-Lab) headquartered at UW-Extension's Pyle Center in Madison. The lab will serve as a focal point for academia and the workforce in Internet-based distributed learning. The DOD is a partner with its need for "anytime, anywhere" education for its three million military and civilian employees around the world. More.

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UW-Green Bay helps Assembly make videoconferencing 'history'

Last Wednesday's public hearing by the Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities marked the debut of a new, $400,000 videoconferencing/hearing room in the refurbished state Capitol. State Sen. Rob Kreibich, a former TV anchor from Eau Claire, chaired the hearing from Madison, with drop-ins from sites at UW-Green Bay (IS 1034), La Crosse and River Falls. Legislators say the new Capitol facilities should increase the use of compressed video for statewide public hearings.

* * * * *

The bills? They passed

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported that three of the bills discussed Wednesday were sent on to the full Assembly with the higher education committee's endorsement. (Because of a previous commitment for the compressed-video lines, UW-Green Bay had to sign off before the voting concluded.) Approved were upgrades in the EdVest plan; class audits for senior citizens; and tax credits for businesses that cover employee tuition.

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More on cookie sales

The LOG continues to receive reports of active Girl Scout cells on campus. Latest reports are from Wood Hall and Cofrin Library. Cookie seekers can inquire within at WH 460, with up to four sellers, no waiting, or with Betsy in CL 815.

* * * * *

Your chance to play judge, jury on parking

The Parking Office notifies us they are looking for a volunteer to review written appeals concerning parking citations. After reading each appeal, you would need to make a decision to either cancel or not cancel the citation. The time commitment is about a half hour every two weeks. Strict constructionist or liberal activist? Death penalty advocate? A lock-step adherent to the judicial doctrine of precedent? It probably won't matter. If you are interested, contact John Baumgart at ext. 2301.

* * * * *

Cofrin Friends have new president, vice president

The Friends of the Cofrin Library elected new officers and board of directors members at the organization's annual meeting in December. The new president is Prof. Charles Matter. The vice president is Virginia Dell. Elected to terms on the Board of Directors are Prof. Andrew Kersten, Cecilia Hintz, Diana Margotto and Ginny Heim. The Friends promote the Library through financial support and educational and cultural programming.

* * * * *

Publication

A research paper by Weiping Liu, BUA, is published in the recent edition of Managerial Finance. The paper's title is "An Empirical Study of Asian Financial Crisis by Debt Service Capacity Comparison."

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LOG ONline is prepared for University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty and staff by the Office of Marketing and University Communication. To submit a Brief, a Publication, a news item, an announcement, or just plain feedback, UW-Green Bay employees can call ext. 2626 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.