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



Technology Forum 'Teaching at Its Best' SBDC crew relocates SBDC contact information SIFE competition Drummers recording session Vote on Best of Broadway Diversity article First for student government 'Books and Baskets' German-language play 'Kids Night Out' Academic staff 'stars' 'Wisconsin Eye' 'Twelfth Night' Honors band concert Brass, flute concert Student recitals Music calendar 'Drawing the Shades' Academic Staff handbook Learn to Swim Pow-wow 'New Economy' speaker Hanson named director 'Brief' correction Briefs	Vol. 32, No. 32 / April 14, 2001 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 Web site and to an archive of past issues. Annual Technology Forum takes place April 20 Curious about what direction our campus technology is headed? Plan to attend "Campus Technology: What's Next?" on Friday (April 20), at 1 p.m. and repeated at 2:30 p.m. in the Union's 1965 Room. The hour-long session is open to all faculty, academic staff and classified staff. Associate Provost for Information Services Kathy Pletcher will present a progress report and answer questions on the PeopleSoft Student Information System, scheduled to "go live" next year. Other topics include campus web redesign, Windows 2000 migration, PeopleSoft Shared Financials, and classroom technology. Light refreshments will be served. * * * * * 'Teaching at Its Best' program honors Gurung, Von Dras Profs. Regan Gurung and Dean Von Dras have been chosen for the "Teaching at Its Best" award at UW-Green Bay. Both are on the faculties in Human Development and Psychology. Gurung was chosen for his test-free takeoff on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" assessing whether students have done their reading. Von Dras was singled out for his approach to increasing student awareness of attitudes and biases that lead to prejudice. For more, click on http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001apr.htm#best * * * * * UW-Green Bay's Business Development staffers join new team They're still UW-Green Bay employees, and they'll still provide business-development counseling and programming with the same high level of service. But for UW-Green Bay SBDC staff members Judi Blahnik, Lori Entringer, Doug Gjerde and Ernie Johnson, home is now the community's new Business Assistance Center at 835 Potts Ave. near Lambeau Field. The Small Business Development Center team joins BAC in a one-stop shop that includes the Chamber of Commerce Advance program, SCORE, and a who's who of business-counseling expertise. There's more, but watch for a full announcement June 12, when the new center is formally dedicated. * * * * * In the meantime, dial/fax/email here for SBDC New contact information for UW-Green Bay staff members from the Office of Outreach and Extension's Small Business Development Center now based at the newly created Business Assistance Center on Potts Avenue: 496-2111 — Judi Blahnik; jblahnik@titletown.org 496-2114 — Lori Entringer; lentri@titletown.org 496-2115 — Doug Gjerde; dgjerde@titletown.org 496-2117 — Ernie Johnson; ejohnson@titletown.org The office fax number is 496-6009 * * * * * UW-Green Bay SIFE team is best in Midwest The UW-Green Bay chapter of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) won first place in a field of 30 in an annual regional competition in which student teams match their education outreach projects against programs of teams from other institutions. The win at regional level means that the team will be one of 16 competing in SIFE nationals May 13-15 in Kansas City. Profs. Ismail Shariff and John Stoll are advisers. For more, look to the Web at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001apr.htm#sife * * * * * Grateful Dead, Oneida drummers to join for recording at UW-Green Bay Instructor Bob Balsley of the music faculty has something of note scheduled for Tuesday (April 17). With Prof. Terry O'Grady he has arranged for a Fort Howard Hall recording session with Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart and the Oneida tribal drummers. The piece will be included on Hart's upcoming CD. Students in Balsley's Recording and MIDI course will attend the session. * * * * * Green Bay is a Broadway hotbed: Here's a chance to be heard The Weidner Center is one of the nation's top-selling venues for touring Broadway theatre productions. Patrons here know as much, or more, about the industry as anyone. That's why a new, fan-driven awards program, The National Broadway Theatre Awards (the "Star Awards") could be of interest. Like all-star voting in sports, theatre fans get to choose their favorite actors and productions. Many of the eligible productions played the Weidner. To see the list of nominees, and register to vote, go to http://www.nationalbroadwayawards.com * * * * * Newspaper article looks at diversity Total minority enrollment rose slightly this year, and new initiatives show signs of promise, but much work remains to be done. The University's Leadership Council heard a status report last week regarding progress on Plan 2008 for diversity. (The update will be online next month.) Meanwhile, a Green Bay Press-Gazette article on Friday talked to students and others about campus diversity. It's at http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/articles/0104/0413uwgb.html * * * * * Followup story notes first for student government An article in Saturday's Press-Gazette characterizes the election of Joanelle Jackson and Priscilla Moore to lead UW-Green Bay student government as something of a milestone. For more on this first, click on http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/articles/0104/0414blacklead.html * * * * * Popular 'Books and Baskets' fundraiser is back, in a big way An expensive wristwatch! An expensive desk for your home office! An expensive night out! Each can be yours for one slim dollar, if you're lucky and avail yourself of the chance to buy a raffle ticket for the "Books and Baskets" fundraiser of the Friends of the Cofrin Library. Full descriptions of the baskets are online at http://www.uwgb.edu/library/friends/books&baskets.html * * * * * Raffle tickets are on sale here If you've read the previous item, perhaps visited the web site, maybe scoped out the desk (on display on the Cofrin Library's third floor) or the baskets themselves (in CL 705), what next? Buy tickets. Sale sites include the library alcove, from 10 to 2 on Tuesday (April 17); the Admissions alcove, from 10 to 2 on Wednesday (April 18); or next week, the library plaza from 11 to 1 on both April 23 and 24. Other options include ordering off the web, or buying from a Friends member or board member. * * * * * Tickets now available for German-language play on April 28 UW-Green Bay's German program co-sponsors a touring theatre production every other year. Well, this is the year; Saturday evening, April 28, is the date; the Weidner Center's Studio Two is the place; and "Herr Peter Squenz" is the production. The comedy by Baroque playwright Andreas Gryphius is based on the comic subplot of "A Midsummer Night's Dream. It will be performed by UW-Madison's German theatre group. Prof. Jennifer Ham reports that knowledge of German is helpful, but not required: a synopsis in English is provided and the production exploits opportunities for visual humor. Past shows have played to packed houses. Although tickets are free, you'll want to call ext. 2461 or e-mail Prof. Ham at hamj to reserve your seat in advance. * * * * * Student athletes plan 'Kids Night Out' babysitting fundraiser Hey, $15 for four hours of babysitting on a Friday night is not bad. Throw in the fact that your "sitters" will be some very responsible and talented Phoenix student athletes — that the site is the PSC — that activities will include arts and crafts, basketball, swimming and games — and that it's a fundraiser for the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee — and you can't go wrong. The date: Friday, April 27, from 6 to 10 p.m. Kids ages 5-12. $15 for first child, and $5 for each additional child. Organizers would like to have a count a week in advance, so RSVP with Amanda Braun in athletics at ext. 2145 by this Friday. * * * * * UW System recognizes two academic staff 'stars' The Board of Regents presented its Academic Staff Regents Award for Excellence honors at this month's board meeting in Madison. Recipients were Julie Kline of UW-Milwaukee and the wonderfully named Nolan "Whiz" Beck of UW College-Marathon County. Details, along with the full list of nominees from each institution including Registrar Sally Mancoske of UW-Green Bay, are online at http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2001/r010406.htm * * * * * State political junkies: Here's the place for you Wisconsin's own version of C-Span is ready to debut! "Wisconsin Eye," a cable television and Internet network for public-affairs coverage in the state, is going live. Beyond the snappy, loud, animated opening page, there's actually not a lot there, yet — and even its creators admit that much of what they eventually relay will be "incredibly boring" — but, for some people, the content will be solid gold. Check it out and bookmark http://wiseye.org/ * * * * * 'Twelfth Night' promises loves, laughs as UW-Green Bay goes Shakespeare The UW-Green Bay theater program presents Shakespeare's romantic comedy, Twelfth Night, beginning Friday, April 20, and continuing Saturday, April 21 and Thursday through Saturday, April 26-28. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. each evening in the University Theater. "Twelfth Night has some of the most beautiful language Shakespeare ever wrote," says Director Laura Riddle, of the Theater faculty. Above all, Riddle says, Twelfth Night is a love story and a play with "comic potential," which the UW-Green Bay production takes care to explore. For ticket info, call ext. 2217; for cast info follow http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001apr.htm#night * * * * * Statewide high school honors band joins in April 19 concert An honors band of high school students from across the state will join in a concert with the UW-Green Bay Wind Ensemble and the Symphonic Band at 7:30 p.m. Thursday (April 19) at the Weidner Center. The 75 students from 15 different high schools each received "superior" ratings in their district solo and ensemble competitions and will compete later this spring at the state level. "These are some of the best high school students from across Wisconsin," says UW-Green Bay Director of Bands Kevin Collins. For more on the event, and the concert program for the UW-Green Bay groups, click on http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001apr.htm#bands * * * * * Low Brass and Flute Ensembles share a spring concert The Low Brass and Flute Ensembles will share a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, in Studio Two of the Weidner Center. Kevin Collins conducts the six-member Low Brass Ensemble whose program includes the jazz-influenced "Manhattan Suite," by John Stevens, former director of the UW-Madison School of Music and tubist with the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, which performed as part of the Chamber Music at Green Bay series at the Weidner Center on April 7. Nancy Collins directs the Flute Ensemble. They'll perform an overture by J.S. Bach, but concentrate their program on more contemporary compositions with titles — "Memories of East Tennessee," "The Four Moods of Pan" — that hint at the music to come. Admission is free. * * * * * Student music recitals include one with a familiar name On the student recital calendar this week are a classical guitar recital by Bryan J. Setzer and Brian D. Dainsberg at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 22, in Fort Howard Hall; and a senior vocal recital by Kami Nordgaard (from the long line of Phoenix standouts from Dawson, Minnesota) at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 22, also in Fort Howard Hall. News releases are at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001apr.htm#recitals * * * * * Note changes to music calendar A recital scheduled for Sunday, April 29, by Prof. Namji Kim has been cancelled. Also, if you haven't yet noted this addition: A faculty recital featuring Pegasus — Scott Wright and Linda Halloin — is scheduled for Tuesday evening, May 8, in the Weidner Center's Fort Howard Hall. Admission is free. * * * * * 'Drawing the Shades' is repeated on April 25 The much-praised dramatization "Drawing the Shades," a fixture of assault-awareness week activities at UW-Green Bay, will be presented at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, in the Christie Theatre. Other highlights of the week include activist/actor Victor Rivers speaking on "Breaking the Cycle" on Thursday evening, April 26, on campus, and the annual Take Back the Night rally and march in downtown Green Bay on Friday, April 27. Purple ribbons in support will be distributed at booths on campus. * * * * * Academic Staff members meet Wednesday on handbook revisions An open forum for academic staff members is scheduled for 3 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday (April 18) in the Christie Theatre. Hosts are the Academic Staff Committee and the "handbook task force." The topic is proposed revisions to the handbook involving staff policy and procedures. * * * * * 'Learn to Swim' priority deadline is Tuesday Remember that Tuesday (April 17) is the deadline for earlybird UW-Green Bay faculty and staff signups for the summer Learn to Swim program at the Phoenix Sports Center. It was in the LOG a few weeks ago, at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/logarchive/logarchive32/2001apr5.htm#swim. * * * * * Pow-wow For those of you reading this on Saturday, there's still time to rush to campus for the annual UW-Green Bay Pow-wow at the Phoenix Sports Center. For more, click http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001mar.htm#powwow * * * * * Author critical of 'new economy' speaks Thursday Thomas Frank, author of a new book, One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism and the End of Economic Democracy, will speak at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in the Christie Theater. The event is the last in the 2000-2001 series of Historical Perspectives lectures sponsored by the Center for History and Social Change. For more on Frank, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001apr.htm#frank * * * * * Hansen is new director of Cofrin Library Already announced around campus, but of possible interest to LOG ONLine readers far and wide: Leanne Hansen has been named director of the Cofrin Library at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Hansen, whose experience at the Library includes teaching, reference work, cataloging, automation, circulation and special collections, had been assistant director for eight years. Previous director Kathy Pletcher now holds the title of associate provost for information services. * * * * * A 'Brief' correction An eagle-eyed reader of last week's LOG ONline noted that, even for someone who might share a commitment to the concept of planning for seven generations out, a 200-year sabbatical would be a bit of a stretch. In truth, Prof. Denise Sweet's sabbatical for the Red Cliff Ojibwe language project and other efforts will be only for the 2001-02 academic year. Not 2001-2201. * * * * * Briefs Prof. Regan Gurung, Human Development, has had two papers accepted for the Eighth Annual American Psychological Society's Institute on The Teaching of Psychology; the institute takes place in Toronto this June. The titles are "Improving Class Discussion: CCC cards and Structured Roles", and "Tuning Into Psychology: Using music in and around class." On April 6, Prof. Derek Jeffreys gave a presentation at the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a think-tank devoted to theology and economics. He was invited to speak about the book he is currently writing, which is on Pope John Paul II and politics. The talk was titled "A person's freedom is in some way mysteriously inclined to betray the openness to the true and the good: John Paul II and structures of sin." Instructor Karen Lacey, director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics and the Dietetic Internship in Human Biology, has been awarded the "Outstanding Dietetics Educator" Award by the American Dietetics Association. The award recognizes the teaching, mentoring, and leadership activities of faculty in dietetics education programs. Criteria for selection of the award include demonstrated innovative teaching skills and techniques, demonstrated mentoring of students, and demonstrated leadership at the national, state, and district levels. * * * * * 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.

Technology Forum

'Teaching at Its Best'

SBDC crew relocates

SBDC contact information

SIFE competition

Drummers recording session

Vote on Best of Broadway

Diversity article

First for student government

'Books and Baskets'

German-language play

'Kids Night Out'

Academic staff 'stars'

'Wisconsin Eye'

'Twelfth Night'

Honors band concert

Brass, flute concert

Student recitals

Music calendar

'Drawing the Shades'

Academic Staff handbook

Learn to Swim

Pow-wow

'New Economy' speaker

Hanson named director

'Brief' correction

Briefs

Vol. 32, No. 32 / April 14, 2001

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 Web site and to an archive of past issues.

Annual Technology Forum takes place April 20

Curious about what direction our campus technology is headed? Plan to attend "Campus Technology: What's Next?" on Friday (April 20), at 1 p.m. and repeated at 2:30 p.m. in the Union's 1965 Room. The hour-long session is open to all faculty, academic staff and classified staff. Associate Provost for Information Services Kathy Pletcher will present a progress report and answer questions on the PeopleSoft Student Information System, scheduled to "go live" next year. Other topics include campus web redesign, Windows 2000 migration, PeopleSoft Shared Financials, and classroom technology. Light refreshments will be served.

* * * * *

'Teaching at Its Best' program honors Gurung, Von Dras

Profs. Regan Gurung and Dean Von Dras have been chosen for the "Teaching at Its Best" award at UW-Green Bay. Both are on the faculties in Human Development and Psychology. Gurung was chosen for his test-free takeoff on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" assessing whether students have done their reading. Von Dras was singled out for his approach to increasing student awareness of attitudes and biases that lead to prejudice. For more, click on http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001apr.htm#best

* * * * *

UW-Green Bay's Business Development staffers join new team

They're still UW-Green Bay employees, and they'll still provide business-development counseling and programming with the same high level of service. But for UW-Green Bay SBDC staff members Judi Blahnik, Lori Entringer, Doug Gjerde and Ernie Johnson, home is now the community's new Business Assistance Center at 835 Potts Ave. near Lambeau Field. The Small Business Development Center team joins BAC in a one-stop shop that includes the Chamber of Commerce Advance program, SCORE, and a who's who of business-counseling expertise. There's more, but watch for a full announcement June 12, when the new center is formally dedicated.

* * * * *

In the meantime, dial/fax/email here for SBDC

New contact information for UW-Green Bay staff members from the Office of Outreach and Extension's Small Business Development Center now based at the newly created Business Assistance Center on Potts Avenue:

496-2111 — Judi Blahnik; jblahnik@titletown.org
496-2114 — Lori Entringer; lentri@titletown.org
496-2115 — Doug Gjerde; dgjerde@titletown.org
496-2117 — Ernie Johnson; ejohnson@titletown.org

The office fax number is 496-6009

* * * * *

UW-Green Bay SIFE team is best in Midwest

The UW-Green Bay chapter of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) won first place in a field of 30 in an annual regional competition in which student teams match their education outreach projects against programs of teams from other institutions. The win at regional level means that the team will be one of 16 competing in SIFE nationals May 13-15 in Kansas City. Profs. Ismail Shariff and John Stoll are advisers. For more, look to the Web at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001apr.htm#sife

* * * * *

Grateful Dead, Oneida drummers to join for recording at UW-Green Bay

Instructor Bob Balsley of the music faculty has something of note scheduled for Tuesday (April 17). With Prof. Terry O'Grady he has arranged for a Fort Howard Hall recording session with Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart and the Oneida tribal drummers. The piece will be included on Hart's upcoming CD. Students in Balsley's Recording and MIDI course will attend the session.

* * * * *

Green Bay is a Broadway hotbed: Here's a chance to be heard

The Weidner Center is one of the nation's top-selling venues for touring Broadway theatre productions. Patrons here know as much, or more, about the industry as anyone. That's why a new, fan-driven awards program, The National Broadway Theatre Awards (the "Star Awards") could be of interest. Like all-star voting in sports, theatre fans get to choose their favorite actors and productions. Many of the eligible productions played the Weidner. To see the list of nominees, and register to vote, go to http://www.nationalbroadwayawards.com

* * * * *

Newspaper article looks at diversity

Total minority enrollment rose slightly this year, and new initiatives show signs of promise, but much work remains to be done. The University's Leadership Council heard a status report last week regarding progress on Plan 2008 for diversity. (The update will be online next month.) Meanwhile, a Green Bay Press-Gazette article on Friday talked to students and others about campus diversity. It's at http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/articles/0104/0413uwgb.html

* * * * *

Followup story notes first for student government

An article in Saturday's Press-Gazette characterizes the election of Joanelle Jackson and Priscilla Moore to lead UW-Green Bay student government as something of a milestone. For more on this first, click on http://www.pressgazettenews.com/archive/articles/0104/0414blacklead.html

* * * * *

Popular 'Books and Baskets' fundraiser is back, in a big way

An expensive wristwatch! An expensive desk for your home office! An expensive night out! Each can be yours for one slim dollar, if you're lucky and avail yourself of the chance to buy a raffle ticket for the "Books and Baskets" fundraiser of the Friends of the Cofrin Library. Full descriptions of the baskets are online at http://www.uwgb.edu/library/friends/books&baskets.html

* * * * *

Raffle tickets are on sale here

If you've read the previous item, perhaps visited the web site, maybe scoped out the desk (on display on the Cofrin Library's third floor) or the baskets themselves (in CL 705), what next? Buy tickets. Sale sites include the library alcove, from 10 to 2 on Tuesday (April 17); the Admissions alcove, from 10 to 2 on Wednesday (April 18); or next week, the library plaza from 11 to 1 on both April 23 and 24. Other options include ordering off the web, or buying from a Friends member or board member.

* * * * *

Tickets now available for German-language play on April 28

UW-Green Bay's German program co-sponsors a touring theatre production every other year. Well, this is the year; Saturday evening, April 28, is the date; the Weidner Center's Studio Two is the place; and "Herr Peter Squenz" is the production. The comedy by Baroque playwright Andreas Gryphius is based on the comic subplot of "A Midsummer Night's Dream. It will be performed by UW-Madison's German theatre group. Prof. Jennifer Ham reports that knowledge of German is helpful, but not required: a synopsis in English is provided and the production exploits opportunities for visual humor. Past shows have played to packed houses. Although tickets are free, you'll want to call ext. 2461 or e-mail Prof. Ham at hamj to reserve your seat in advance.

* * * * *

Student athletes plan 'Kids Night Out' babysitting fundraiser

Hey, $15 for four hours of babysitting on a Friday night is not bad. Throw in the fact that your "sitters" will be some very responsible and talented Phoenix student athletes — that the site is the PSC — that activities will include arts and crafts, basketball, swimming and games — and that it's a fundraiser for the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee — and you can't go wrong. The date: Friday, April 27, from 6 to 10 p.m. Kids ages 5-12. $15 for first child, and $5 for each additional child. Organizers would like to have a count a week in advance, so RSVP with Amanda Braun in athletics at ext. 2145 by this Friday.

* * * * *

UW System recognizes two academic staff 'stars'

The Board of Regents presented its Academic Staff Regents Award for Excellence honors at this month's board meeting in Madison. Recipients were Julie Kline of UW-Milwaukee and the wonderfully named Nolan "Whiz" Beck of UW College-Marathon County. Details, along with the full list of nominees from each institution including Registrar Sally Mancoske of UW-Green Bay, are online at http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2001/r010406.htm

* * * * *

State political junkies: Here's the place for you

Wisconsin's own version of C-Span is ready to debut! "Wisconsin Eye," a cable television and Internet network for public-affairs coverage in the state, is going live. Beyond the snappy, loud, animated opening page, there's actually not a lot there, yet — and even its creators admit that much of what they eventually relay will be "incredibly boring" — but, for some people, the content will be solid gold. Check it out and bookmark http://wiseye.org/

* * * * *

'Twelfth Night' promises loves, laughs as UW-Green Bay goes Shakespeare

The UW-Green Bay theater program presents Shakespeare's romantic comedy, Twelfth Night, beginning Friday, April 20, and continuing Saturday, April 21 and Thursday through Saturday, April 26-28. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. each evening in the University Theater. "Twelfth Night has some of the most beautiful language Shakespeare ever wrote," says Director Laura Riddle, of the Theater faculty. Above all, Riddle says, Twelfth Night is a love story and a play with "comic potential," which the UW-Green Bay production takes care to explore. For ticket info, call ext. 2217; for cast info follow http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001apr.htm#night

* * * * *

Statewide high school honors band joins in April 19 concert

An honors band of high school students from across the state will join in a concert with the UW-Green Bay Wind Ensemble and the Symphonic Band at 7:30 p.m. Thursday (April 19) at the Weidner Center. The 75 students from 15 different high schools each received "superior" ratings in their district solo and ensemble competitions and will compete later this spring at the state level. "These are some of the best high school students from across Wisconsin," says UW-Green Bay Director of Bands Kevin Collins. For more on the event, and the concert program for the UW-Green Bay groups, click on http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001apr.htm#bands

* * * * *

Low Brass and Flute Ensembles share a spring concert

The Low Brass and Flute Ensembles will share a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, in Studio Two of the Weidner Center. Kevin Collins conducts the six-member Low Brass Ensemble whose program includes the jazz-influenced "Manhattan Suite," by John Stevens, former director of the UW-Madison School of Music and tubist with the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, which performed as part of the Chamber Music at Green Bay series at the Weidner Center on April 7. Nancy Collins directs the Flute Ensemble. They'll perform an overture by J.S. Bach, but concentrate their program on more contemporary compositions with titles — "Memories of East Tennessee," "The Four Moods of Pan" — that hint at the music to come. Admission is free.

* * * * *

Student music recitals include one with a familiar name

On the student recital calendar this week are a classical guitar recital by Bryan J. Setzer and Brian D. Dainsberg at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 22, in Fort Howard Hall; and a senior vocal recital by Kami Nordgaard (from the long line of Phoenix standouts from Dawson, Minnesota) at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 22, also in Fort Howard Hall. News releases are at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001apr.htm#recitals

* * * * *

Note changes to music calendar

A recital scheduled for Sunday, April 29, by Prof. Namji Kim has been cancelled. Also, if you haven't yet noted this addition: A faculty recital featuring Pegasus — Scott Wright and Linda Halloin — is scheduled for Tuesday evening, May 8, in the Weidner Center's Fort Howard Hall. Admission is free.

* * * * *

'Drawing the Shades' is repeated on April 25

The much-praised dramatization "Drawing the Shades," a fixture of assault-awareness week activities at UW-Green Bay, will be presented at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, in the Christie Theatre. Other highlights of the week include activist/actor Victor Rivers speaking on "Breaking the Cycle" on Thursday evening, April 26, on campus, and the annual Take Back the Night rally and march in downtown Green Bay on Friday, April 27. Purple ribbons in support will be distributed at booths on campus.

* * * * *

Academic Staff members meet Wednesday on handbook revisions

An open forum for academic staff members is scheduled for 3 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday (April 18) in the Christie Theatre. Hosts are the Academic Staff Committee and the "handbook task force." The topic is proposed revisions to the handbook involving staff policy and procedures.

* * * * *

'Learn to Swim' priority deadline is Tuesday

Remember that Tuesday (April 17) is the deadline for earlybird UW-Green Bay faculty and staff signups for the summer Learn to Swim program at the Phoenix Sports Center. It was in the LOG a few weeks ago, at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/logarchive/logarchive32/2001apr5.htm#swim.

* * * * *

Pow-wow

For those of you reading this on Saturday, there's still time to rush to campus for the annual UW-Green Bay Pow-wow at the Phoenix Sports Center. For more, click http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001mar.htm#powwow

* * * * *

Author critical of 'new economy' speaks Thursday

Thomas Frank, author of a new book, One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism and the End of Economic Democracy, will speak at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in the Christie Theater. The event is the last in the 2000-2001 series of Historical Perspectives lectures sponsored by the Center for History and Social Change. For more on Frank, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2001apr.htm#frank

* * * * *

Hansen is new director of Cofrin Library

Already announced around campus, but of possible interest to LOG ONLine readers far and wide: Leanne Hansen has been named director of the Cofrin Library at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Hansen, whose experience at the Library includes teaching, reference work, cataloging, automation, circulation and special collections, had been assistant director for eight years. Previous director Kathy Pletcher now holds the title of associate provost for information services.

* * * * *

A 'Brief' correction

An eagle-eyed reader of last week's LOG ONline noted that, even for someone who might share a commitment to the concept of planning for seven generations out, a 200-year sabbatical would be a bit of a stretch. In truth, Prof. Denise Sweet's sabbatical for the Red Cliff Ojibwe language project and other efforts will be only for the 2001-02 academic year. Not 2001-2201.

* * * * *

Briefs

Prof. Regan Gurung, Human Development, has had two papers accepted for the Eighth Annual American Psychological Society's Institute on The Teaching of Psychology; the institute takes place in Toronto this June. The titles are "Improving Class Discussion: CCC cards and Structured Roles", and "Tuning Into Psychology: Using music in and around class."

On April 6, Prof. Derek Jeffreys gave a presentation at the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a think-tank devoted to theology and economics. He was invited to speak about the book he is currently writing, which is on Pope John Paul II and politics. The talk was titled "A person's freedom is in some way mysteriously inclined to betray the openness to the true and the good: John Paul II and structures of sin."

Instructor Karen Lacey, director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics and the Dietetic Internship in Human Biology, has been awarded the "Outstanding Dietetics Educator" Award by the American Dietetics Association. The award recognizes the teaching, mentoring, and leadership activities of faculty in dietetics education programs. Criteria for selection of the award include demonstrated innovative teaching skills and techniques, demonstrated mentoring of students, and demonstrated leadership at the national, state, and district levels.

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