About 150 prospective students and their parents are here today for the first Campus Preview Day of the academic year. Wear a smile if you see a tour group this afternoon. The next Preview Day dates are the last Thursday and Friday of October, the 26th and 27th, which coincide with the annual state teachers convention and scheduled days off for most public schools in Wisconsin.

Students who attended public or private universities in Wisconsin defaulted on 4.7 percent of their school loans in fiscal year 1998, well below the national average of 6.9 percent, according to U.S. Department of Education figures released last week. Numbers for UW System institutions were better yet, with an average default rate of 3.38 percent for those who attended four-year UW campuses or two-year colleges. UW-Green Bay, at 3.25 percent, is middle of the road among the comprehensive campuses. Default rates ranged from 1.39 percent at River Falls to 4.87 percent at Parkside.

New at the Cofrin Library are full-text databases:
Access Science — online encyclopedia of science and technology. Includes articles, research updates and a dictionary. Also has related "In the News" stories.

Grove Dictionary of Art — contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day. More than 30,000 external image links are currently associated with articles, pointing to images of art works held in public museum collections throughout the world.

New Grove Dictionary of Opera — includes opera synopses and biographies of composers and singers. Through reciprocal links with Operabase, it also gives access to current season schedules, house and booking details, artist's engagement calendars and discographies.

Oxford English Dictionary — aims to cover the full spectrum of English language usage, from formal to slang, as it has evolved from approximately 1150 AD up to the present.

These products are listed on the Online Databases page, the relevant Web Resources by Subject pages, and the Quick Reference: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias pages. All of these products are full text and only available on campus. Please contact a reference librarian (x2303 or refdesk@uwgb.edu) for assistance with these or any other online resources.

The Office of Residence Life seeks your involvement in a planning or "think tank" group to guide the design of two new Residential Learning Communities planned for implementation in Fall 2001 and Fall 2002, respectively. The Roy Downham Learning Community is an intentionally designed living environment for new students wishing to integrate social, intellectual, leadership and curricular experiences in a creative manner. This program combines the current efforts already in progress at UW-Green Bay in curricular and pedagogical reform in the classroom with the creation of a supportive and intellectually stimulating out-of-classroom environment and peer group. The second initiative, the New Building Residential College, is an intentionally designed living environment for upper-class students who wish to integrate social, intellectual, leadership and curricular experiences in a creative manner. The residential learning environment enhances and supports collaboration between students, faculty and staff at UW-Green Bay. If you are interested, please contact John Gerow, x2843, GerowJ@uwgb.edu

UW-Green Bay and the Green Bay Film Society, together with the Neville Public Museum, will inaugurate an international and independent film festival on Nov. 1. The series of screenings is made possible by a $2,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Wisconsin Humanities Council, 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., says Film Society founder David Coury. The first program features Trains 'n Roses (Zugvˆgel), at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1 at the Neville Public Museum. Coury notes that each film will be presented by a scholar or filmmaker in the humanities and will be followed by discussion. All films are scheduled on Wednesday evenings, either at the Neville or on the UW-Green Bay campus. The series continues through April. Watch for more information in future LOGs and in flyers and posters soon to be distributed. Contact Coury for information at extension 2097 or e-mail COURYD.

Ever wonder what Jello Biafra, former front man of the Dead Kennedys, has to say about global issues including distribution of wealth? Don't buy an album, buy a ticket… to tonight's "Spitfire Tour" show at the Weidner Center. Activist artists will talk, show audio-visual work and offer acoustic music as they sound off on the causes of their choice. The event was arranged by the contemporary issues group of the Good Times Programming Board. Tickets are $7 for college students, $10 for the general public.

Assistant Professor of English and Humanistic Studies — apply by Dec. 1 to Brian Sutton; Assistant Professor of Natural and Applied Sciences: Physics — apply by Dec. 31 to Jack Norman; Assistant Professor of Information and Computing Sciences — apply by Dec. 15 to William Shay.

Here's your chance to be one of the community volunteers who makes decisions about where your United Way contributions go. United Way of Brown County is recruiting fund-distribution volunteers. Training begins in January. Volunteers will need to be available to review programs in the evening, one to two nights a week, during January and February. Contact Brinda Ruggles at 432-3393, ext. 8648.

Prof. Carol Emmons, COA, was selected for a solo exhibition at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. The exhibition runs October 6 - 30, 2000. The Academy is located at 1922 University Avenue in Madison; gallery hours are from 8 - 4:30 Monday through Friday. Emmons has created a new site-specific installation, The Pathology of the Heart, expressly for the exhibit. The piece derives both from the building's original use as a medical clinic and her ongoing exploration of loneliness and the search for romance.

Prof. Regan Gurung, Human Development, has just published a chapter titled "Close Personal Relationships and Health Outcomes: A key to the role of social support" with colleagues from the University of Washington. The chapter will appear in Personal Relationships: Implications for Clinical and Community Psychology published by Wiley & Sons.

Prof. Jennifer Mokren, COA/Art, had two pieces accepted for inclusion in the "Wearable Expressions 2000" exhibition at the Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The exhibition runs Nov. 9 through Jan. 8.

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