The Office of International Education is proud to announce that a record number of students will participate in overseas programs this summer. More than 100 undergraduate students, five faculty and one academic staff will be our ambassadors in places like Australia, Guatemala, Germany, Spain, Italy and Switzerland. For next year, new destinations such as Cuba and Costa Rica have been added to the successful faculty-led January trips to Ecuador, France and Mexico. Proposals for next year's May travel courses are still being accepted. If you are looking at ways of developing international educational opportunities for your students, please contact Cristina Ortiz (ortizc@uwgb.edu) at ext. 2007

S'no joke. The Phoenix men's golf team is hoping for high temperatures and low scores when it hosts the 2002 Horizon League Championships Sunday, April 28 (practice) through Tuesday, April 30 at the Green Bay Country Club. UW-Green Bay's Shawn Rezachek earned medalist honors a year ago at the conference championship, helping the Phoenix to a second place finish behind Detroit. Rezachek and longtime Coach Bill Lindmark team-coach the Phoenix. Brian Berggren, a senior from Appleton East, is expected to compete for medallist honors and is also in the running for player of the year laurels. The Phoenix, Wright State and Detroit will likely lead a tight race for the team title.

P.S. — It's at Green Bay Country Club, free and open to you

The 54-hole Horizon League golf tournament is free and open to spectators. Play begins at 8:30 a.m. each day. No rain date is scheduled. The tournament would likely be played even in the event of poor weather, if the course permits.

Give 'em points for optimism: The University Union will staff a free ice cream table from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Wednesday (April 24) on the patio outside the Nicolet Room. (Give 'em credit for checking the weather forecast, too; warmer weather and melted snow is likely by midweek.) The deal is part of the Union's Customer Appreciation Days, starting today. Check with the Union for info on other neat offers.

It's a busy week for open interview sessions with candidates for the position of Phoenix men's basketball coaches. Tod Kowalczyk went first, last week. This week, it's:

Steve Merfeld — Monday, April 22 — 1:15-2:30 p.m. — Niagara Room B
Al Grushkin — Tuesday, April 23 — 2:15-3:30 p.m. — Alumni Rooms A&B
Mike Garland — Wednesday, April 24 — 1:30-2:45 p.m. — Alumni Rooms A&B

Open office hours this week for members of the campus community who would like to have a walk-in meeting with Chancellor Bruce Shepard are 5 to 6 p.m. today (Monday, April 22) in Cofrin Library Room 810. (Early notice to those planning a visit next week: hours have been changed from Friday afternoon on May 3 to Wednesday, May 1 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

If you wandered over to the Phoenix Room last Wednesday you were no doubt impressed by the poster sessions that were part of UW-Green Bay's first undergraduate Academic Excellence Symposium. Attendance was excellent. Seventy-nine students representing a wide range of academic programs exhibited 30 projects. Plans for a bigger and better followup event are already under way.

Wonder what the Chancellor's Advisory Council on Equality for Women is up to these days? You're invited to attend, as always. The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday (April 24) in Room 233, Mary Ann Cofrin Hall.

Many UW-Green Bay students will be going to Baird Elementary School on April 24 and 29 to participate in Baird's annual "Mini Course Days." A good third or more of the presenters on the April 24 day for kindergarten through second graders are UW-Green Bay students. They include some of the cheerleaders and a representative of the Phoenix Pride Dance Team, members of Habitat for Humanity, and other individuals who will teach about growing plants and learning new words. (That's the "Thesaurus is not a dinosaur" session.) For 3rd, 4th and 5th graders on April 29, half the presenters are UW-Green Bay students, with additional sessions on French words, making your own Hmong flower cloth, and learning a Native American game.

Fulfilling a lifelong dream, Donald Larmouth (COA emeritus) has co-authored Tarpon On Fly with his long-time fishing guide, Captain Rob Fordyce. Published by Frank Amato Publications in Portland, Oregon, it includes chapters on tarpon biology and natural history, fly-fishing tackle and fly patterns, sight-casting to schooling fish, techniques for fighting and releasing big tarpon, and getting the most from a guided trip. Tarpon On Fly includes many illustrations, vivid color photographs, and a biblioography of the current scientific literature. Each chapter begins with a narrative from Prof. Larmouth's fishing journals to convey not just the "how to", but something of what it's like to fish for the Silver King on the clear, shallow ocean flats of the Florida Keys, the backcountry of Florida Bay, and the dark, mangrove-lined waters of the Everglades. The fish live from 50 to 80 years, breathe air, can weigh well over 250 pounds, possess spectacular leaping ability, and are considered by many to be the supreme inshore sport fish.

The UW-Green Bay Alumni Association is sponsoring a bus to Sturgeon Bay as part of the Door County Reception, and a few spots remain. For more information, give Shane a call at ext. 2586.

A high-school honors band, 150 strong, will join the UW-Green Bay Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday (April 24) at the Weidner Center. Students from nearly two dozen Northeast Wisconsin music programs were nominated by their high school directors. The UW-Green Bay ensembles will perform both classic and contemporary works. Faculty percussionist Brian Short will be a featured marimba soloist.

About 100 students will sleep outdoors Friday (April 26) in a Shantytown organized by the UW-Green Bay student chapter of Habitat for Humanity. Their goal? To draw attention to the plight of the homeless. The event from 5 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Saturday is in the parking lot at First United Methodist Church at Madison and Doty streets. Chapter president Matt Bonson says 16 UW-Green Bay student organizations will participate, plus one from St. Norbert College. Speakers for a program beginning at 7 p.m. include the Rev. Karen Ebert, pastor of the church; Hung Nguyen, executive director of Greater Green Bay Habitat for Humanity; Bonson; and others. When it's time to tuck in for the night, the students will spread their sleeping bags inside an assortment of cardboard cartons donated by area businesses.

UW-Green Bay student groups participating in the Friday night Shantytown include: Campus Crusade, Circle K, East Timor Action Network, Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, Gamers Club, Good Times Limited, Habitat for Humanity, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Kappa Tau Epsilon, Psychology and Human Development Club, Residence Hall and Apartment Association, Round River Alliance, Social Work Club, Southeast Asian Student Union, Student Senate, and Student Chapter of Wisconsin Education Association.

Habitat for Humanity is soliciting donations of food and blankets for the homeless in association with the Shantytown event, says chapter President Matt Bonson. If you'd like to donate, items can be dropped off at the site at First United Methodist Church after 5 p.m. on Friday. The blankets will be distributed to local shelters. Food donations will go to Paul's Pantry.

Here's the schedule of special programs for Earth Week:

Monday, April 22, 3-4 p.m., Niagara rooms A & B, University Union
Speaker: A naturalist from the Green Bay Wildlife Sanctuary will bring several native Wisconsin animals to illustrate a talk.

Tuesday, April 23, 6-9 p.m., Christie Theater, University Union
Film showing: "Erin Brockovich."

Wednesday, April 24, 5-7 p.m., World Unity rooms, University Union
Game show: Environmental Double Dare: Earth Challenge.

Thursday, April 25, 5-6 p.m., Mary Ann Cofrin Hall Room 208
Speaker: Chip Bircher, renewable energy specialist for Wisconsin Public Service Corp. Following his talk, graduate student John Potokar will lead a tour of Mary Ann Cofrin Hall.

If you woke well before sunup this morning and caught TV-2's early news, you saw interviews with Anne Schauer and four other students inviting the community to check out the Earth Week displays in the Gathering Room on the second floor of Mary Ann Cofrin Hall. The displays are up and open through Friday (April 26).

Round River Alliance, the student environmental organization, extends an invitation to the Monday-through-Friday series of Earth Week "brown bag" get-togethers at noon in Alumni Rooms A & B in the Union. Here's the schedule:

Monday, April 22, Vicki Medland, Natural and Applied Sciences, will talk about the Green Bay Green Map project. Graduate student John Potokar will discuss photovoltaics in Mary Ann Cofrin Hall

Tuesday, April 23, Sara Gossfeld Benzing, Stephani Herman and Adrianne Wacker will explain their Arboretum grant study, "Use of Ultrasound to Identify Bats in UW-Green Bay Natural Areas." Mike Stiefvater will discuss community involvement in environmental issues.

Wednesday, April 24, Anne Schauer will talk about anerobic digestion in the context of the manure-to-electricity project at Tinedale Farm. Erin Gatzke will discuss watershed issues.

Thursday, April 25, Brennan Haworth will talk on stream ecology. Bruce Snyder will report on his Arboretum grant study, "Survey of Terrestrial Non-Insert Arthropods of Toft Point Natural Area."

Readers of the LOG ONline are invited to scan the lengthy list of events and activities below for items of interested related to campus observation of Sexual Assault and Violence Awareness Week.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (April 22-24), in the Cofrin Library alcove and outside the Nicolet dining room, you're invited to pick up a wearable purple ribbon pins. Ribbons will also be distributed to be tied on a tree somewhere between University Union and the shoe tree near housing as a reminder of sexual assault prevention. Straight and Gay Alliance (SAGA) will have available rainbow ribbons in honor and remembrance of Matthew Shepard and others who have died as a result of hate crimes.

Monday, April 22, noon to 1:30 p.m., in Phoenix Room A, a Brown Bag lunch sponsored by SAGA will feature discussion of hate crimes and how they affect the community at large. Speakers are: Mitch Metropolus, assistant district attorney for Outagamie County Mike Fitzpatrick, Northeast Wisconsin representative for Action Wisconsin, and Jamakaya, a reporter for "Instep" newspaper reporting on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues; and Donald Zuidmulder, Brown County Circuit Court Judge.

Tuesday, April 23, 5-7 p.m. in the Union's Niagara Room A, members of the campus community will have an opportunity to learn about "Chimera," a nationwide self-defense program that emphasizes avoidance, and teaches psychological and physical protection skills. An RSVP is required; direct messages to extension 2287.

Wednesday, April 24, at 7 p.m., meeting at student housing's Community Center, representatives of SAGA and the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance will speak briefly and then lead a silent walk from housing to the University Union where Judy Shepard will speak.

Wednesday, April 24, at 8 p.m. in the Phoenix Room, the mother of Matthew Shepard, the man beaten and killed in 1998 in Wyoming because of his sexual orientation, will speak on hate crime prevention in a free public program.

Friday, April 26, at 6:30 p.m. at the Brown County Courthouse, a community-wide rally and march promotes awareness and prevention of sexual assault and violence. Jen Pfundtner of Admissions says march guides are still needed. To volunteer, e-mail her at pfundtnj@uwgb.edu.

Books and Baskets raffle tickets are $1 each or six tickets for $5. You can have a look at the prizes and buy tickets at various campus locations on several different days, listed here:

April 30, Mary Ann Cofrin Hall, second floor
May 1 and 2, Library alcove
May 7 and 8, outside the Nicolet Room, University Union
May 9, Library Plaza
Sale hours at all locations are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Director Aileen Yingst offers an update from the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium headquartered at UW-Green Bay. Among the developments over the first three months of 2002 is an effort to pursue partnerships with the state Department of Education, including Space Grant involvement with an NSF proposal currently being prepared by John Crubaugh of the Institute for Learning Partnership. In addition, Space Grant is working with the College of the Menominee Nation on a number of cooperative ventures that would expand opportunities for CMN and UW-Green Bay students. Finally, the office is gearing up in anticipation of NASA's announcement of opportunity for program upgrades for state Space Grants. Briefly, NASA is planning to competitively fund up to four states to move up to a higher level of funding known as Designated status. At UW-Green Bay, the increase in base federal funding level would be from $256K to $450K. Professors Patricia Terry and Steve Dutch are assisting with the planning. Any questions may be directed to Yingst at ext. 2941.

On Tuesday (April 23) at 7 p.m., Teens with Bipolar Disorder is the topic of Teen Connection. The 60-minute, live, call-in program broadcast statewide on Wisconsin Public Television originates from the Green Bay studios. Teens who have bipolar disorder, from the Josselyn Center in Illinois will join host Quinncy McNeal to discuss symptoms of mania and depression.

Fans and friends of public TV's Green Bay Production Unit have organized a town hall meeting for 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday (April 24) at the Brown County Library, 515 Pine Street, to look at alternative solutions to closing the Green Bay center. Last month the administration of Wisconsin Public Television announced its intention to permanently close the unit effective June 30. The center has operated at UW-Green Bay for 30 years and is the only one in the state that produces instructional K-12 programming. A representative of the League of Women Voters will facilitate the session and the floor will be open to the public.

Tom Gabbard and Nancy Hershfield of the Weidner Center will be leading this year's tour of Toronto's theatre district, scheduled for June 20-23, 2002. Guests will fly roundtrip on Northwest airlines, enjoy first class accommodations at the Sheraton Centre Toronto, see "The Lion King" and "Mamma Mia!," and see a show at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake. The package starts at $1,100 per person. Interested? Contact Stephanie Maufort at ext. 2807.

Prof. Laurel Phoenix, Public and Environmental Affairs, was editor of "Water Resources Impact," Vol. 4/2, the journal of the American Water Resources Association, and also the author of an article, "Rural Municipal Water Supply Problems: How Do Rural Governments Cope?" Six UW-Green Bay graduate students have author credits in the issue as well. Kendra Axness, John Potokar and Thomas Van Drasek contributed "When the Well Runs Dry: Examining the Water Supply Issues in Brown County, Wisconsin." Jeanette M. Jaskula and Warren Hohn were authors of "Potential Impacts of COMM 83 on Rural Ground Water." Jay Hodgson's article was, "Source Water Assessment Implementation Obstacles: Are Transient Noncommunity Wells Not As Important?" The issue focused on small communities and water supply.

Prof. Ismail Shariff, Hendrickson professor of Business, professor of Urban and Regional Studies and chair of Economics, has published a paper titled "Globalization: Losers and Gainers" in the International Journal of Development Planning, Vol 17. No. 1 and 2. January - March 2002.

Aileen Yingst and Sharon Brandt of Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium attended the National Space Grant Directors' meeting in Washington, D.C., earlier this spring. As it does every year, this meeting included a day devoted to visiting congressional representatives and senators to update them on the status of programs and activities in their districts.

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