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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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