Final totals are in for fall 2000 enrollment at UW-Green Bay. The Office of Institutional Research reports a total headcount of 5,505. If you're keeping score, the breakdown is 3,354 continuing undergraduates, 997 new freshmen, 493 transfers, 111 re-entries, 165 "specials," 245 Extended Degree students, and 174 graduate students. The grad student count, up again this year, has increased 42 percent from two years ago. The University's FTE, or full-time equivalent, total of 4,436 is more than 1 percent over the state-assigned target.

The 500 top high school musicians from throughout Wisconsin will come to campus next summer when the Wisconsin School Music Association (WSMA) High School State Honors Music Camp moves its site to UW-Green Bay for 2001-2004. The 2001 camp is June 20-27. "This group includes a large number of top collegiate prospects in all majors," says music chair Kevin Collins, adding, "That the state's leading music organization has chosen UW-Green Bay to host its 'crown jewel' event, is a tribute to the long-standing reputation of our music program." Prestigious conductors from throughout the U.S. come to direct the band, orchestra, jazz ensemble, mixed choir, vocal jazz ensemble and treble choir, and 20 top music teachers from Wisconsin are the coaches. UW-Green Bay's Chris Salerno has been selected to direct the vocal jazz ensemble for 2001. Camp rehearsals culminate in a concert in Green Bay; then the groups reconvene for more rehearsals and a concert at the state WSMA conference in Madison in October. Collins credits Laura Aaron Sear, Outreach and Extension, and staff members in Residence Life, Dining Services and the Weidner Center for helping bring the camp to UW-Green Bay.

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Mark 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 3 on your calendar to learn about art and culture in an area of the world many of us know little about. That's when Boi Tran Huynh, director of international education and instructor in art history at Dong Nai College of Decorative Arts in Bien Hoa, Viet Nam, speaks on "Historical and Contemporary Vietnamese Art" at the Neville Public Museum. The event is sponsored by the Asian Visiting Scholars Program, Communication and the Arts, and the Office of International Education. Huynh is on a six-week visit to the United States, supported by the Asian Visiting Scholars Program, established by Prof. Emeritus H. Jack Day and his wife, Jan, and by Prof. Emeritus Robert Wenger and his wife Lena. The Days met and became friends with Huynh in 1996 in Bien Hoa when he began working on a three-year United Nations project there. Jan Day and Huynh team-taught English to other faculty members at the college. The Days are her hosts for the three weeks she'll spend here and visiting art institutions in the upper Midwest. While in Green Bay, Huynh will visit classes and meet with students and faculty to discuss art and art training in Viet Nam.

Sorry for being late on this one, but maybe there's still food left: The Office of Student Life, Student Government Association and OrgNet held an Open House this afternoon (Sept. 20) in University Union Rooms 112, 151 and 153. The delayed LOG (remember the 17-hour time differential?) shouldn't keep you from feeling free to pop in almost anytime, organizers say.

The UW-Green Bay German Program has again organized "Stammtisch" (a German Conversation Table), which is open to the campus and wider Green Bay community. Anyone interested in practicing their German and meeting German students, faculty, German exchange students and Germans in the area, is welcome to come. Prof. Jennifer Ham reports the group — a great way to meet some fun people — will meet every Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Kavarna Cafe/Restaurant, 112 S. Broadway.

The mathematics unit will run a sequence of seminars on "Mathematics and Applications" at which faculty members and students of math and other disciplines will present, discuss and collaborate on their research. Seminars will be biweekly on Wednesdays, 3-4 p.m., LS 237. The first is next Wednesday (Sept. 27) and its content will be for both faculty and students. Speakers are Prof. Forrest Baulieu, ICS/math, and Prof. William Conley, Business Administration (Quantitative Methods). The titles of their talks are respectively "The Square Dancers' Dilemma: Is Maximal Mingling Possible?" and "Statistical Optimization and the World of Computer Mathematics." Faculty members and students across the campus are welcome to the seminar and are welcome to give a talk in the sequence. To give a presentation, please contact Prof. Tian-you Hu at hut@uwgb.edu

The mission of the S.A.F.E. program is to identify and train supportive faculty, staff and students who are dedicated to creating an increasingly Supportive And Friendly Environment where two or more people can talk about sexual orientation issues openly and constructively. You can become an ally and officially identify yourself as one on campus by attending one of two training sessions for faculty and staff: Wed, Sept. 27, 10-12 pm, Union Alumni A&B rooms; or Thurs., Sept. 28, 1-3 pm, Heritage room. Please register by calling or e-mailing Brian Stahlkopf (#2380 stahlkob@uwgb.edu) at least one day before the desired training date. If you are interested in participating in the faculty and staff gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender issues group on campus, please contact Brian Stahlkopf (an interest and information meeting will be held at noon on Tuesday, Sept 26 at the Counseling and Health office).

All employees are required by law to report knowledge of sexual assaults on campus. The Wisconsin law states "...any person employed at an institution or center who witnesses a sexual assault on campus or receives a report from a student enrolled in the institution or center that the student has been sexually assaulted shall report to the dean of students of the institution..." This does not mean that you have to violate any confidences or provide names. It does mean that incidents are to be reported to the Dean of Students, ext. 2152.

Victoria Goff, Communication and the Arts, wrote a chapter, "Association for Women in Communications, 1909-Present," for Women's Press Organizations 1881-1999, a recently released book from Greenwood Publishing. The book, edited by Elizabeth Burt, describes and analyzes women's press organizations that have been key to the development of women writers of the press and provides pictures of many women journalists, who were leaders in both journalism and the social movements of their time.

Dee Sweet, Humanistic Studies and American Indian Studies, received a $10,000 grant from the Institute for Research for Maawanji'iding - Bridging Technology and Tradition in the 21st Century, a project aimed at building community consensus for developing school curriculum that integrates oral histories and new media in the classroom. The project involves a series of workshops with teachers using an existing CD-ROM containing an interactive archive of oral traditions of the six Wisconsin bands of Lake Superior Chippewa. The CD-ROM was produced by Brain Box Digital Archives, a project of hup!multimedia, inc., of which Sweet is a member. Sweet says the current effort is a pilot for a possible longer-term project that would produce digital archives of other native groups and promote their use in educational settings.

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