UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 32 No. 4



'Outstanding Alumni' recipient A testimonial for UW-Green Bay Interim advancement chief Regent's support of CL 21 is column topic Named Scholarship Luncheon Music groups will perform at WSMA Banned Books Week 'Maximum Detention' wresting show Corny humor is online CBA team drafts former Phoenix Brief	Vol. 32, No. 4 / September 25, 2000 The LOG Online 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 and to an archive of past issues. MEAS recipient is "Outstanding Alumni" A recipient of UW-Green Bay's Master of Environmental Arts and Sciences degree is the winner of the 2000 "Outstanding Alumni Award" given by the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association. The alumni committee selected Gary L. Garriott, Arlington, Va., who earned his MEAS in 1977. He is the first award recipient to have earned only a master's degree at UW-Green Bay. Garriott has devoted his entire career to applying innovative technologies for rural communications systems with the aim of improving the quality of life for the poor in developing countries. He has traveled and worked in more than 50 countries. Garriott currently serves as director of informatics for Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA), for which he has worked since 1980. Watch future issues of the LOG ONLine for details on the Nov. 4 awards event on campus. * * * * * More on Garriott: A testimonial for UW-Green Bay Gary L. Garriott, this year's outstanding alumnus (see previous item) has words of praise for both the institution and its faculty. He praised the flexibility he found here, which enabled him to design a course of study combining technology, agriculture, sociology and development economics. "My experience at UWGB even included a major 'paradigm shift' in the sense that I was able to see that causes of poverty included verifiable structural components, frequently pre-empting the ability to absorb new information and knowledge," he wrote. "My career emphasis has been impacted by that experience ever since." Garriott's graduate committee included Larry Smith, Social Change and Development; Tom Abeles, who was on the Environmental Control faculty from 1970-76; and Emil Haney, a member of the Modernization Processes faculty from 1969-78. Garriott was simultaneously enrolled in The Union Institute, where he completed a Ph.D. in Social Technology in 1978, and the three, along with the late Julie Brickley, Social Change and Development, were members of his committee there as well. Garriott's bachelor's degree in electrical engineering is from Valparaiso University. * * * * * Carmichael accepts post as interim advancement chief Chancellor Mark Perkins has announced that Beverly Carmichael — an experienced advancement professional who has been involved with major nonprofit organizations in the Green Bay community and held senior educational leadership positions at both the national and campus levels — has accepted the position of interim Assistant Chancellor for University Advancement. Carmichael will assume the part-time interim post Oct. 2. The University is continuing a national search to permanently fill the position. The assistant chancellor will oversee the institution's fundraising, advocacy, alumni, marketing and communications functions. "We are delighted that Dr. Beverly Carmichael has agreed to accept this role at a very exciting time for our University," Perkins said. "We will rely on her to advise and assist us as we consolidate and expand our advancement efforts." For more, check the news archive at www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000sep.htm#interim * * * * * Regent Barry's support of UW-Green Bay CL 21 planning is column topic Jonathan Barry, a member of the UW System Board of Regents who spoke out in favor of planning money for sports center and union expansion at UW-Green Bay, counsels patience and careful study in a letter to Brown County elected officials who have questioned the concept. Barry, the former Dane County executive, says Green Bay would do well to look at the experience of Madison. There, he says, the county's coliseum and the university's new Kohl Center thrive side-by-side and serve different market niches. Barry's letter is the topic of a column by reporter Scott Hildebrand in today's Green Bay Press-Gazette, online at http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/articles/0009/0925hildebrand.html * * * * * Scholarship luncheon is another big success Nearly 100 benefactors and students gathered earlier today in the Union for the annual Named Scholarship Luncheon organized by the UW-Green Bay Advancement Office. The event gives scholarship recipients a chance to personally thank those individuals whose generosity makes the program possible. Interest on the named endowments will fund $77,000 in scholarship assistance for competitively selected recipients at UW-Green Bay this year. * * * * * A 'quartet' of music groups will perform at WSMA Not one, not two, not three, but four UW-Green Bay groups are invited to perform at the Wisconsin School Music Association convention October 26 and 27 in Madison. The Vocal Ensemble and Concert Choir, both directed by William Witwer, and Jazz Ensemble, directed by John Salerno, joined by the Vocal Jazz Ensemble, directed by Chris Salerno, are on the program. Invitations are based on taped auditions, says music chair Kevin Collins, and this marks the first time that a "quartet" of UW-Green Bay ensembles have gotten the nod. The choirs and Jazz Ensemble last performed at WSMA in the late 1980s. This marks the first invitation for Vocal Jazz Ensemble. * * * * * Display calls attention to Banned Books Week Did you know September 23 to 30 is Banned Books Week? Stop at the library entrance to see their display, "Celebrate Intellectual Freedom — Read a Banned Book." A list of the top 100 most challenged books is also available on the library's web site at www.uwgb.edu/library/top100.html.Don't let others challenge what you can read — check out one of these books today! * * * * * Wrestling comes to campus: "Maximum Detention" is this Saturday UW-Green Bay's Phoenix Sports Center is the venue for "Maximum Detention: Duel at the School 2000," a professional wrestling show from 7 to 9:30 p.m. this Saturday (Sept. 30). The card features 13 matches with scheduled appearances by WWF headliner Grand Master Sexy; ECW performers Jerry Lynn, Steve Corino and Rhino; and stars from the ACW including the GQ Centerfolds tag team, Dino Bambino, Hillbilly Hills and champion Rob Norwood. Also contributing to the fun at the student-oriented event will be campus personalities Kevin Borseth, Simon Boddison, Otis Chambers, Phil Clampitt, Tom Haevers, Don McCartney, Quinn Ross, Anne Seidl and the Phoenix Bird (as managers? Or as combatants?), and ring announcers Bill Jartz of WBAY-TV and The Rookie of WDUZ-AM. Karate demonstrations, sumo wrestling and prizes for fans with the best signs and costumes are also part of the promotion. Tickets can be purchased at the Phoenix Sports Center and the Phoenix Bookstore. * * * * * Corny humor is online Last Thursday's Press-Gazette featured an entertaining Q&A with the king of corn, our own Frank Madzarevic. He and interviewer Kendra Meinert had some fun talking about the Colossal Corn Maze fundraiser for Phoenix Athletics. If you didn't see it, or if you are interested in times, costs and miscellaneous facts associated with the maze, the story is online at http://www.greenbayareaguide.com/news/archive/etc/0921acornmaze.html * * * * * CBA team drafts former Phoenix Carstensen Jerry Carstensen, a four-year standout for the Phoenix men's basketball team who completed his eligibility last spring, has been drafted by the La Crosse Bobcats of the Continental Basketball Association. The Athletics news site has more at www.uwgb.edu/athletics/mbb/mbb_sept_20.htm * * * * * Brief Prof. Dechang Chen, NAS, is co-author with Xiuzhen Cheng of the University of Minnesota computer sciences and engineering faculty, of "Majority Vote Based on Weak Classifiers" in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Signal Processing, Vol. III. * * * * * LOG ONline is prepared for University of Wisconsin-Green Bay faculty and staff by the Office of Marketing and University Communication. Employees may submit a Brief, a Publication, a news item, an announcement, or offer feedback; call ext. 2626 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.

'Outstanding Alumni' recipient

A testimonial for UW-Green Bay

Interim advancement chief

Regent's support of CL 21 is column topic

Named Scholarship Luncheon

Music groups will perform at WSMA

Banned Books Week

'Maximum Detention' wresting show

Corny humor is online

CBA team drafts former Phoenix

Brief

Vol. 32, No. 4 / September 25, 2000

The LOG Online 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 and to an archive of past issues.

MEAS recipient is "Outstanding Alumni"

A recipient of UW-Green Bay's Master of Environmental Arts and Sciences degree is the winner of the 2000 "Outstanding Alumni Award" given by the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association. The alumni committee selected Gary L. Garriott, Arlington, Va., who earned his MEAS in 1977. He is the first award recipient to have earned only a master's degree at UW-Green Bay. Garriott has devoted his entire career to applying innovative technologies for rural communications systems with the aim of improving the quality of life for the poor in developing countries. He has traveled and worked in more than 50 countries. Garriott currently serves as director of informatics for Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA), for which he has worked since 1980. Watch future issues of the LOG ONLine for details on the Nov. 4 awards event on campus.

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More on Garriott: A testimonial for UW-Green Bay

Gary L. Garriott, this year's outstanding alumnus (see previous item) has words of praise for both the institution and its faculty. He praised the flexibility he found here, which enabled him to design a course of study combining technology, agriculture, sociology and development economics. "My experience at UWGB even included a major 'paradigm shift' in the sense that I was able to see that causes of poverty included verifiable structural components, frequently pre-empting the ability to absorb new information and knowledge," he wrote. "My career emphasis has been impacted by that experience ever since." Garriott's graduate committee included Larry Smith, Social Change and Development; Tom Abeles, who was on the Environmental Control faculty from 1970-76; and Emil Haney, a member of the Modernization Processes faculty from 1969-78. Garriott was simultaneously enrolled in The Union Institute, where he completed a Ph.D. in Social Technology in 1978, and the three, along with the late Julie Brickley, Social Change and Development, were members of his committee there as well. Garriott's bachelor's degree in electrical engineering is from Valparaiso University.

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Carmichael accepts post as interim advancement chief

Chancellor Mark Perkins has announced that Beverly Carmichael — an experienced advancement professional who has been involved with major nonprofit organizations in the Green Bay community and held senior educational leadership positions at both the national and campus levels — has accepted the position of interim Assistant Chancellor for University Advancement. Carmichael will assume the part-time interim post Oct. 2. The University is continuing a national search to permanently fill the position. The assistant chancellor will oversee the institution's fundraising, advocacy, alumni, marketing and communications functions. "We are delighted that Dr. Beverly Carmichael has agreed to accept this role at a very exciting time for our University," Perkins said. "We will rely on her to advise and assist us as we consolidate and expand our advancement efforts." For more, check the news archive at www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2000sep.htm#interim

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Regent Barry's support of UW-Green Bay CL 21 planning is column topic

Jonathan Barry, a member of the UW System Board of Regents who spoke out in favor of planning money for sports center and union expansion at UW-Green Bay, counsels patience and careful study in a letter to Brown County elected officials who have questioned the concept. Barry, the former Dane County executive, says Green Bay would do well to look at the experience of Madison. There, he says, the county's coliseum and the university's new Kohl Center thrive side-by-side and serve different market niches. Barry's letter is the topic of a column by reporter Scott Hildebrand in today's Green Bay Press-Gazette, online at http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/articles/0009/0925hildebrand.html

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Scholarship luncheon is another big success

Nearly 100 benefactors and students gathered earlier today in the Union for the annual Named Scholarship Luncheon organized by the UW-Green Bay Advancement Office. The event gives scholarship recipients a chance to personally thank those individuals whose generosity makes the program possible. Interest on the named endowments will fund $77,000 in scholarship assistance for competitively selected recipients at UW-Green Bay this year.

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A 'quartet' of music groups will perform at WSMA

Not one, not two, not three, but four UW-Green Bay groups are invited to perform at the Wisconsin School Music Association convention October 26 and 27 in Madison. The Vocal Ensemble and Concert Choir, both directed by William Witwer, and Jazz Ensemble, directed by John Salerno, joined by the Vocal Jazz Ensemble, directed by Chris Salerno, are on the program. Invitations are based on taped auditions, says music chair Kevin Collins, and this marks the first time that a "quartet" of UW-Green Bay ensembles have gotten the nod. The choirs and Jazz Ensemble last performed at WSMA in the late 1980s. This marks the first invitation for Vocal Jazz Ensemble.

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Display calls attention to Banned Books Week

Did you know September 23 to 30 is Banned Books Week? Stop at the library entrance to see their display, "Celebrate Intellectual Freedom — Read a Banned Book." A list of the top 100 most challenged books is also available on the library's web site at www.uwgb.edu/library/top100.html.Don't let others challenge what you can read — check out one of these books today!

* * * * *

Wrestling comes to campus: "Maximum Detention" is this Saturday

UW-Green Bay's Phoenix Sports Center is the venue for "Maximum Detention: Duel at the School 2000," a professional wrestling show from 7 to 9:30 p.m. this Saturday (Sept. 30). The card features 13 matches with scheduled appearances by WWF headliner Grand Master Sexy; ECW performers Jerry Lynn, Steve Corino and Rhino; and stars from the ACW including the GQ Centerfolds tag team, Dino Bambino, Hillbilly Hills and champion Rob Norwood. Also contributing to the fun at the student-oriented event will be campus personalities Kevin Borseth, Simon Boddison, Otis Chambers, Phil Clampitt, Tom Haevers, Don McCartney, Quinn Ross, Anne Seidl and the Phoenix Bird (as managers? Or as combatants?), and ring announcers Bill Jartz of WBAY-TV and The Rookie of WDUZ-AM. Karate demonstrations, sumo wrestling and prizes for fans with the best signs and costumes are also part of the promotion. Tickets can be purchased at the Phoenix Sports Center and the Phoenix Bookstore.

* * * * *

Corny humor is online

Last Thursday's Press-Gazette featured an entertaining Q&A with the king of corn, our own Frank Madzarevic. He and interviewer Kendra Meinert had some fun talking about the Colossal Corn Maze fundraiser for Phoenix Athletics. If you didn't see it, or if you are interested in times, costs and miscellaneous facts associated with the maze, the story is online at http://www.greenbayareaguide.com/news/archive/etc/0921acornmaze.html

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CBA team drafts former Phoenix Carstensen

Jerry Carstensen, a four-year standout for the Phoenix men's basketball team who completed his eligibility last spring, has been drafted by the La Crosse Bobcats of the Continental Basketball Association. The Athletics news site has more at www.uwgb.edu/athletics/mbb/mbb_sept_20.htm

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Brief

Prof. Dechang Chen, NAS, is co-author with Xiuzhen Cheng of the University of Minnesota computer sciences and engineering faculty, of "Majority Vote Based on Weak Classifiers" in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Signal Processing, Vol. III.

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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. Employees may submit a Brief, a Publication, a news item, an announcement, or offer feedback; call ext. 2626 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.