The UW-Green Bay campus will be the site of a much-publicized public hearing on Friday (May 11) when the Assembly's Natural Resources Committee holds a hearing from 1 to 6 p.m. in the University Union's Christie Theatre. The hearing is to gain input and comment on a proposal sponsored by state Rep. John Gard (R-Peshtigo) to split the Department of Natural Resources into two separate agencies, with a department of environmental management and a department of fish, wildlife, parks and forestry.

UW-Green Bay commencement ceremonies are at noon Saturday, May 19, in the outdoor amphitheater north of the main campus entrance boulevard. If you attend only one commencement, let this be the one. Highlights will include the dedication of a new University symbol (the mace), appearances by all three UW-Green Bay chancellors, Chancellor's Awards to two community members, an Alumni Association award to an outstanding student, a speaker who was among the University's founders, a student speaker selected by faculty, and recognition for ten retiring faculty members. Watch for more in a Commencement Week edition of the LOG Online next week.

Organizers of the annual heirloom plant sale (see previous item) are once again offering a special perk. If you're employed at UW-Green Bay, you can purchase in advance from 1 to 5 p.m. on Friday, May 18. Plants are $1 each. Proceeds support the Ecology Lecture Series and student scholarships.

Planning a campus event for June 7-10? Here's something to consider. The following are hours that a parking fee will be charged for people entering campus to attend Bayfest:
Thursday, June 7th, 4 to 11 p.m.
Friday and Saturday, June 8 and 9, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Sunday, June 10, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Of course, all people entering the campus during the above mentioned hours attending functions other than Bayfest — official, University-approved functions — will not have to pay a parking fee. Here is where your help is needed. A master list of non Bayfest functions is prepared and given to the parking attendants with specific instructions not to charge a parking fee. Please submit this list with times, dates, type of function, number of people attending, etc to Tim Quigley, Bayfest director, via FAX, 336-7817, E-mail at events@netnet.net, or at 336-6123 during normal business hours. Please submit this information no later than May 11.

About a hundred architects, engineers, building operators and owners and others attending a Wisconsin Focus on Energy conference toured Mary Ann Cofrin Hall recently, looking especially at the building's energy generating and energy saving features. The tour focused on electricity-generating capabilities in some of the roofing and glass, passive solar heating at air intakes, daylighting, the six different types of window glass for different sun exposures, and other features. Tour guides were Dean Rodeheaver, assistant chancellor for planning and budget; Jeff DeLaune (MEAS '80), Wisconsin Public Service Marketing Department; Joe Sokol, Wisconsin Division of Facilities Development; and John Oates, lead project architect for Somerville, Inc. Rodeheaver and Sokol also did a stint on the program for the full 200 conference registrants. Wisconsin Focus on Energy is a regional program of WPS and the Wisconsin Department of Administration, promoting energy savings and innovative technologies.

Michael Offerman, the founding leader of the University of Wisconsin System's Learning Innovations Center, has been recruited as the new president of Capella University, the world's largest online university, based in Minneapolis. Learning Innovations develops and supports online degree and certificate programs for UW System institutions.

Results of the drawing last Wednesday on the Cofrin Library plaza:
Automotive Care — Curt Heuer
Home Office — Michael Troyerz
Made in Wisconsin — Cliff Van Beek, Milwaukee
On and Off Broadway — Illene Noppe
Pamper Yourself — Christi Bushman (student)
Sports and Leisure — Arch Johnston, Green Bay (he has been working as a senior aide in the special collections area)

The annual Books and Baskets fundraiser turns thousands of dollars of donated goods and $1 raffle tickets into proceeds to benefit the Cofrin Library at UW-Green Bay. The drawing was conducted by Friends of the Cofrin Library president Chuck Matter, assisted by Deb Anderson of the development committee. Matter thanked the donors of the goods and services, all who helped in the raffle, and everyone who bought tickets. (Special thanks also to Prof. William Witwer, who was rehearsing a choral group on the library plaza and conducted a choral "ta-da!" to signal the beginning of the drawing.)

Nineteen students and three staff members from the American Intercultural Center attended the 18th Annual American Multicultural Student Leadership Conference(AMSLC) at UW-Whitewater. Four students participated in the scholarship competition by presenting research papers, creative writing or visual arts: Panh N. Vang (The Mekong River, a poem), Kao Vang (Time To Go Home, visual arts), Roy Saldana, Jr. (Universal Roy, creative writing), and Mauren S. Zeise (Minorities And Environmental Justice Issues, research paper). Kao Vang won Honorable Mention in the Visual Arts category and received a plaque and monetary prize. Competition was described as "very intense" and winners were chosen from over 250 submissions. If you would like to see Kao Vang's art work, stop by the AIC on the Library plaza.

Notes from the staff at the Cofrin Library:

BIOSIS (Biological Abstracts database) now indexes life science journals going back to 1990 (not full-text).
Women's Resources International is now available online (instead of on CD-ROM). This includes records from a variety of women's studies databases (not full-text). The subscription remains available to only one user at a time.

The Library staff also invites you to browse, use and share your thoughts with them on the following:

ProQuest PsycINFO Plus Text from ProQuest Direct covers the worlds of psychology, psychiatry, and related social work.
Sociological Abstracts from CSA. It draws information from an international selection of over 2600 journals and other serials publications plus conference papers, books and dissertations.

Kimberly M. Hunter, Green Bay, is the recipient of the 2001 Science and Mathematics Faculty Fellowship at UW-Green Bay. A senior who has been on the Dean's List every semester, she is completing a major in Human Biology, emphasizing the health sciences. She presently is participating in a faculty research project studying the effects of PCBs on the human immune system. The fellowship is funded by UW-Green Bay faculty members in Human Biology, Mathematics, and Natural and Applied Sciences.

Graduating senior Sean Gaffney of Sheboygan has been elected to the Alpha Delta Sigma Honorary Society of the American Advertising Federation. Gaffney is completing a Business Administration major with an emphasis in marketing and a Communication Processes minor with an emphasis in public relations. Gaffney is the first student from the two-year-old UW-Green Bay AAF chapter to be elected to the honorary.

Student rush tickets are only $10 for remaining performances of "Barry Manilow's Copacabana" playing at the Weidner Center through Sunday (May 13). The Latin-themed musical features lavish costumes, spectacular sets and creator Manilow's first Broadway-style production. For ticket info, call the Box Office at ext. 2217.

No, wait, that didn't come out right. Try again: Results are final for the spring 2000 U.W.G.B. (Up With Good Bodies) competition and these losers are the big winners. Wait, that didn't sound right either. (Good Bodies is not only a weight-loss competition — points can be awarded for exercise and various healthy lifestyle choices, and for weight maintenance or weight gain). Let's just announce the spring 2000 winners: Teams, first place to the Micro Chips, second place to the Super Sonic Six Pack, and third place to the Kit Kat Bites; Individuals, first place to Jan Hess (for the second straight year), second to Lori Erlandson, and third to Nicki Hunnicutt. Congratulations to all!

Prof. Regan Gurung, Human Development, has had three conference presentations accepted. "The Ask for Help Task: Measuring Support Seeking" (with Prof. Dennis Lorenz, HD), will be presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Society. The other presentations are "Looking So Good it Hurts: How Rating Attractive People Can Influence the Self," and "Exercise Predicts Depression, Satisfaction and Efficiency in College" with Karen Swan, Gloria Meyer and Mary Ann Rose of the Counseling and Health Center.

Prof. William Laatsch, Urban and Regional Studies, has been reappointed to the state of Wisconsin's Historic Preservation Review Board. Laatsch, who previously served as chair of the committee, is a cultural geographer; he will continue to serve through June 2003. The Historic Preservation Review Board reviews nominations for the state register of historic places, reviews surveys and inventories of historic properties, awards preservation grants, and advises the state historical society, among other duties.