UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 31 No. 16



Learning Experience well received by Regents Commencement speaker Outstanding Student Award Social Work crime forum ACTF invitations All-American contributors Instrumental holiday concert Correction on jazz combos Youth poetry contest UW-Green Bay ski report Reminder Class looks at Howard land use Publication Briefs	Vol. 31, No. 16 / Dec. 10, 1999 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. Learning Experience is well received by Regents committee By all accounts, Thursday afternoon's presentation on the UW-Green Bay Learning Experience appeared to be well received by members of the UW System Board of Regents Education Committee. Regent Vice President Jay Smith commended the University, saying, "The energy and detail that you put into this is appreciated." A Green Bay Press-Gazette reporter's account of the session in today's (Friday's) newspaper is online at http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/articles/9912/12103uwbg.html *** * * * * De Vos, class of '73, is commencement speaker UW-Green Bay will present degrees to 350 students in commencement ceremonies at noon on Saturday, Dec. 18, at the Weidner Center. Bachelor's degrees will be awarded in 34 different majors. The degree recipients include international students from Hong Kong, Japan and the Republic of Korea. Robert J. De Vos, vice president of business development for Schneider Logistics, Inc., will be the commencement speaker. A 1973 graduate with a degree in Business Administration, De Vos was instrumental in founding Schneider Logistics, which manages, consults, and provides technological solutions for Fortune 500 companies. More on De Vos. * * * * * Human Biology major is December's top graduate Jessica Behling, Appleton, will be the student speaker and the recipient of the Alumni Association's Outstanding Student Award at commencement this Saturday. Behling is receiving her degree cum laude with a major in Human Biology and a minor in Chemistry. She has been active in student organizations on campus. Read more. * * * * * Social Work's crime forum yields instant success From elected officials to front-line social workers to law enforcement and corrections professionals, the answers were the same: better and earlier intervention. That was the theme of last night's ambitious "Jail for Juveniles" forum organized by the Social Work Professional Program, the student Social Work Club and Linda Cates' Social Policy Analysis class. About 100 students and citizens turned out to hear from panelists including DA John Zakowski, Sheriff Tom Hintz, state Sen. Gary Drzewiecki and Rawhide Ranch psychologist Frank Cummings. The program made a difference for at least one person in attendance, a TV photojournalist covering the event. He responded to a county jailer's call for more juvenile mentors by passing a note and volunteering on the spot. * * * * *** ACTF singles out five UW-Green Bay students Students Nicole Desjarlais, Appleton; Micheal Herman, Wisconsin Rapids; Christopher Hibbard, De Pere; and Jessica Jelinski, Luxemburg, have won invitations to the Irene Ryan Acting Competition during the January 5-8 American College Theatre Festival regional conference in Milwaukee. Aaron Stinebrink, Lake Geneva, will receive an Award of Merit for his sound design for Jehanne of the Witches, performed here in October. Read more. *** * * * * Green Bay an All-American City? These people helped It made national news last week when Tipper Gore and the National Civic League honored 10 communities with the All-American City Award. The formal ceremony took place months after a delegation from Greater Green Bay earned the honor with its presentation at a national conference. People with UW-Green Bay ties who contributed to that effort included student Mike Nabena, Prof. Peter Kellogg and staff member Juliet Cole. An emphasis of Green Bay's candidacy was the community's effort to promote diversity and involvement. Other cities honored were Stockton, Calif.; Union City, Calif.; Tallahassee, Fla.; Wichita, Kan.; Shreveport, La.; Lowell, Mass.; Tupelo, Miss.; Rocky Mount, N.C.; and Kingsport, Tenn. * * * * * Student instrumental groups offer holiday concert Holiday selections are on the program for the UW-Green Bay Wind Ensemble and the Symphonic Band at their joint concert at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 15 in the Weidner Center. The Wind Ensemble will perform an arrangement of Percy Grainger's "Sussex Mummer's Christmas Carol." The 80-member Symphonic Band includes on its program an arrangement by contemporary composer/arranger Robert Smith of "Angels From the Realms of Glory." More on the concert. * * * * * Our bad: Correction on jazz combos The free concert by UW-Green Bay student jazz combos is Tuesday night (Dec. 14). That's Tuesday. Last week's ONline note had the date right but the day wrong. See you Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Phoenix Room. Read more. * * * * * The leaf falls. Brittle, brown, lifeless. Clogging my gutter. Bad poetry may take but seconds, but good poetry can take first, second or third. The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets competition challenges young writers across the state in middle-school and high-school categories to submit two copies of a favorite work by Jan. 24. One should be left unmarked; the second should include the student's name, home address, grade level, the name/mailing address/telephone of his or her school, the statement "this is my original work" and a signature. Prizes are in the $10 to $30 range. Dozens of entries will be published in the Wisconsin Poets' Calendar 2001. Poems may have been previously published and/or won awards. Entries go to Liz Hammond, Chairperson, WFP Student Contest, 2820 Madison St., Waukesha WI 53188. * * * * * The UW-Green Bay ski report Campus officials are attempting to dispel speculation that the 40-foot mountain of topsoil near the Phoenix Sports Center represents a start on a campus ski hill. The dirt pile is temporary storage, they maintain, and besides, current conditions would range only from machine-groomed mud to gritty powder. * * * * * Reminder: Service Awards Already noted here, but worth repeating: Years-of-service awards will be presented at the reception at 3 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 16, in the 1965 Room. See the list of recipients. * * * * * Class takes look at Howard land use The seminar course on Environmental Science and Policy will host a presentation, "Regional Growth and Sustainable Land Use: A Case Study of the Village of Howard," at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 14, in the Union's Niagara Room B. * * * * * Publication Weiping Liu,** BUA, has a research paper, "The Impact of Information Asymmetry on the New Equity Issue Timing," accepted for publication in the Spring 2000 issue of Global Business and Finance Review. *** * * * * Briefs Regan Gurung, HD, has received an Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Council, Conference Development Grant for a Teaching of Psychology conference. Gurung and colleagues Aeron Haynie, Martha Ahrendt and Andrew Fiala, HUS, and Jennifer Snyder-Duch, Communication Processes, received a UW Faculty Reading seminar grant on Race and Ethnicity. * * * * *** 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.

Learning Experience well received by Regents

Commencement speaker

Outstanding Student Award

Social Work crime forum

ACTF invitations

All-American contributors

Instrumental holiday concert

Correction on jazz combos

Youth poetry contest

UW-Green Bay ski report

Reminder

Class looks at Howard land use

Publication

Briefs

Vol. 31, No. 16 / Dec. 10, 1999

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.

Learning Experience is well received by Regents committee

By all accounts, Thursday afternoon's presentation on the UW-Green Bay Learning Experience appeared to be well received by members of the UW System Board of Regents Education Committee. Regent Vice President Jay Smith commended the University, saying, "The energy and detail that you put into this is appreciated." A Green Bay Press-Gazette reporter's account of the session in today's (Friday's) newspaper is online at http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/articles/9912/12103uwbg.html

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De Vos, class of '73, is commencement speaker

UW-Green Bay will present degrees to 350 students in commencement ceremonies at noon on Saturday, Dec. 18, at the Weidner Center. Bachelor's degrees will be awarded in 34 different majors. The degree recipients include international students from Hong Kong, Japan and the Republic of Korea. Robert J. De Vos, vice president of business development for Schneider Logistics, Inc., will be the commencement speaker. A 1973 graduate with a degree in Business Administration, De Vos was instrumental in founding Schneider Logistics, which manages, consults, and provides technological solutions for Fortune 500 companies. More on De Vos.

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Human Biology major is December's top graduate

Jessica Behling, Appleton, will be the student speaker and the recipient of the Alumni Association's Outstanding Student Award at commencement this Saturday. Behling is receiving her degree cum laude with a major in Human Biology and a minor in Chemistry. She has been active in student organizations on campus. Read more.

* * * * *

Social Work's crime forum yields instant success

From elected officials to front-line social workers to law enforcement and corrections professionals, the answers were the same: better and earlier intervention. That was the theme of last night's ambitious "Jail for Juveniles" forum organized by the Social Work Professional Program, the student Social Work Club and Linda Cates' Social Policy Analysis class. About 100 students and citizens turned out to hear from panelists including DA John Zakowski, Sheriff Tom Hintz, state Sen. Gary Drzewiecki and Rawhide Ranch psychologist Frank Cummings. The program made a difference for at least one person in attendance, a TV photojournalist covering the event. He responded to a county jailer's call for more juvenile mentors by passing a note and volunteering on the spot.

* * * * *

ACTF singles out five UW-Green Bay students

Students Nicole Desjarlais, Appleton; Micheal Herman, Wisconsin Rapids; Christopher Hibbard, De Pere; and Jessica Jelinski, Luxemburg, have won invitations to the Irene Ryan Acting Competition during the January 5-8 American College Theatre Festival regional conference in Milwaukee. Aaron Stinebrink, Lake Geneva, will receive an Award of Merit for his sound design for Jehanne of the Witches, performed here in October. Read more.

* * * * *

Green Bay an All-American City? These people helped

It made national news last week when Tipper Gore and the National Civic League honored 10 communities with the All-American City Award. The formal ceremony took place months after a delegation from Greater Green Bay earned the honor with its presentation at a national conference. People with UW-Green Bay ties who contributed to that effort included student Mike Nabena, Prof. Peter Kellogg and staff member Juliet Cole. An emphasis of Green Bay's candidacy was the community's effort to promote diversity and involvement. Other cities honored were Stockton, Calif.; Union City, Calif.; Tallahassee, Fla.; Wichita, Kan.; Shreveport, La.; Lowell, Mass.; Tupelo, Miss.; Rocky Mount, N.C.; and Kingsport, Tenn.

* * * * *

Student instrumental groups offer holiday concert

Holiday selections are on the program for the UW-Green Bay Wind Ensemble and the Symphonic Band at their joint concert at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 15 in the Weidner Center. The Wind Ensemble will perform an arrangement of Percy Grainger's "Sussex Mummer's Christmas Carol." The 80-member Symphonic Band includes on its program an arrangement by contemporary composer/arranger Robert Smith of "Angels From the Realms of Glory." More on the concert.

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Our bad: Correction on jazz combos

The free concert by UW-Green Bay student jazz combos is Tuesday night (Dec. 14). That's Tuesday. Last week's ONline note had the date right but the day wrong. See you Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Phoenix Room. Read more.

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The leaf falls. Brittle, brown, lifeless. Clogging my gutter.

Bad poetry may take but seconds, but good poetry can take first, second or third. The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets competition challenges young writers across the state in middle-school and high-school categories to submit two copies of a favorite work by Jan. 24. One should be left unmarked; the second should include the student's name, home address, grade level, the name/mailing address/telephone of his or her school, the statement "this is my original work" and a signature. Prizes are in the $10 to $30 range. Dozens of entries will be published in the Wisconsin Poets' Calendar 2001. Poems may have been previously published and/or won awards. Entries go to Liz Hammond, Chairperson, WFP Student Contest, 2820 Madison St., Waukesha WI 53188.

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The UW-Green Bay ski report

Campus officials are attempting to dispel speculation that the 40-foot mountain of topsoil near the Phoenix Sports Center represents a start on a campus ski hill. The dirt pile is temporary storage, they maintain, and besides, current conditions would range only from machine-groomed mud to gritty powder.

* * * * *

Reminder: Service Awards

Already noted here, but worth repeating: Years-of-service awards will be presented at the reception at 3 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 16, in the 1965 Room. See the list of recipients.

* * * * *

Class takes look at Howard land use

The seminar course on Environmental Science and Policy will host a presentation, "Regional Growth and Sustainable Land Use: A Case Study of the Village of Howard," at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 14, in the Union's Niagara Room B.

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Publication

Weiping Liu, BUA, has a research paper, "The Impact of Information Asymmetry on the New Equity Issue Timing," accepted for publication in the Spring 2000 issue of Global Business and Finance Review.

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Briefs

Regan Gurung, HD, has received an Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Council, Conference Development Grant for a Teaching of Psychology conference. Gurung and colleagues Aeron Haynie, Martha Ahrendt and Andrew Fiala, HUS, and Jennifer Snyder-Duch, Communication Processes, received a UW Faculty Reading seminar grant on Race and Ethnicity.

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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.