The suspense is over. Six names were drawn this afternoon (Monday, May 13) for prizes in the Friends of the Cofrin Library's fourth annual "Books and Baskets" fundraiser. Campus winners were Karen Opolka, NEW Partnership for Children and Families, who won the Sports and Leisure array of prizes, and student Brenda Skenandore, who won the Student Survival basket. Other winners are Barbara Stengel, Green Bay, Feast of Food; Barbara Wentzel, Kimberly, Green Thumb; Wayne Heidemann, Marion, Made in Wisconsin; and Glorianne Meyer, Menasha, Pamper Yourself.

The Books and Baskets raffle is the primary fundraiser for the Friends of the Cofrin Library, and proceeds are used to benefit the Library. This year's event was the most successful ever, Friends members report. Just over 9,000 raffle tickets were sold — about double the number of last year — for the more than $10,000 in goods and services donated for prizes.

The heirloom plant sale in the Laboratory Sciences greenhouse ended Sunday when the greenhouse was empty. Sale organizer Prof. Jeff Nekola, Natural and Applied Sciences, says more than 11,000 tomatoes, peppers, lettuces, herbs, flowers and other plants were purchased by area gardeners. Most of the plants sold on Saturday, when the earliest arrivals started lining up to get their greenhouse admission numbers about 6:30 a.m. for a 9 a.m. sale opening. Tailgaters had breakfast in the Lab Sciences parking lot while waiting for their turn in the greenhouse. By 1 p.m. on Sunday, all the plants were gone. This was the seventh year for the sale, which benefits student scholarships.

Jodi Klabunde, a UW-Green Bay senior from Sussex who is graduating this month with a degree in Human Biology and emphasis in nutritional science/dietetics, was recognized by the Wisconsin Dietetic Association as the 2002 Wisconsin's Outstanding Dietetic Student at the annual meeting in April. She received the honor in recognition of academic performance, leadership potential and service to community. She will serve her post-baccalaureate dietetic internship with the Tri-County Health Department in Denver, Colorado. An additional honor: she has been appointed to serve a one-year term as the only student delegate to the American Dietetic Association's House of Delegates.

Karen Lacey, lecturer in Human Biology and director of UW-Green Bay's Dietetic Programs, is the recipient of the 2002 Wisconsin Dietetic Association's Medallion Award. This award, given at the Association's annual meeting last month in Oshkosh, is the highest award given to a dietitian in the state each year. Lacey is very active in the Wisconsin and American Dietetic Associations, having served two terms as a delegate to the American Dietetic Association House of Delegates as well as being a member of numerous state and national committees. Beginning June 1, she will serve as chair of the Association's National Quality Management Committee that oversees the development of evidence-based practice guides for the profession. She has also just accepted a three-year appointment as a dietetic program reviewer for the Commission of Accreditation of Dietetic Education.

Although negotiators met for nearly four hours last Thursday and found common ground on a few provisions, the stalemate continues on the Legislature's Budget Reform Bill and ideas for fixing the state's projected $1.1 billion deficit for the second year of the biennium starting July 1. One newspaper described the session as "the head-banging exercise of trying to find compromise." No further meetings were immediately scheduled. The Senate and Assembly will meet in special session this Wednesday to talk about Chronic Wasting Disease — the deer herd issue.

Here's a reminder that this week's open office hours for UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard remain as scheduled: Tuesday, May 14, 7:30 to 9:30 a.m.

UW-Green Bay's series of workplace receptions resumes this week with an Alumni Association event scheduled for Tuesday (May 14) at Wisconsin Public Service Corp. More than 100 alumni are based at WPS, making it a "Top 10" local industry in terms of employing UW-Green Bay graduates. Chancellor Bruce Shepard and most of the institution's leadership team will be on hand to meet informally with alumni and WPS officials, to listen and learn, and offer news of today's UW-Green Bay. Shane Kohl, director of alumni and donor relations, is the coordinator at ext. 2586, if you'd like more details.

Results are final for the spring 2002 U.W.G.B. (Up With Good Bodies) competition. The first-place award went to the Six Shootin', Calorie Bootin' Cowgirls and members Jeanne Stangel, Sue Bodilly, Karen Callahan, Sharon Gutowski, Nancy Matzke and Betsy Bassett-Piehl. In second were the Wonder Women — Karla Miller, Pam Suster, Nicole Knutson and Kate Johnson. Third went to Tres Chicas and Natasha Perkl, Sarah Baugher and Theresa Staeven. First place in the individual category was Yuliya Dolgaya. (Good Bodies is not strictly a weight-loss competition — points can be awarded for exercise and various healthy lifestyle choices, and for weight maintenance or weight gain). Congratulations to all!

Spotted on a fall-enrollment update distributed by the Office of Institutional Research was this bit of news: With priority registration all but complete for returning sophomores, junior and seniors, the FTE total is running about 3 percent ahead of last year. That bulge was largely anticipated, as planners aim for the overall 4,357 FTE target. It's a reminder as to why applications closed early and UW-Green Bay will enroll a smaller freshman class for fall.

You know who you are. But we don't. And no one else will, either, unless you return your bright-yellow "Campus Request for Information: 2002-2003 Campus Phone Directory" card. Send it to the increasingly edgy and impatient Betsy Bassett-Piehl in CL 815. Consider yourself warned.

A group of UW-Green Bay students is pumped up about forming a campus Math Club for fall semester. Officers are Kim Kargus and Ryan Raygo, co-presidents; Wayne Neubecker, vice president; Huldah Gronvall, secretary, and Kristen Pesko, treasurer. Advisor is Prof. Tian-you Hu, chair of mathematics. Possible activities include informal tutoring, speakers on math-related topics, and networking on career and graduate-school opportunities and current issues in the field. The goal of the Math Club will be to have fun and "to promote math excellence throughout the university and community through tutoring, programming, and active discussion." More info? Contact Prof. Hu at hut@uwgb.edu or Kim Kargus at kargkm26@uwgb.edu.

Actually, first event was May 1

The first event for the student Math Club was a panel discussion with faculty members, held on May 1 in the University Union. Club president Kim Kargus says it was an opportunity for students to get to know their professors and learn more about different careers in the field of mathematics, and to compare educational approaches in the U.S. with other foreign countries.

A note already went out to campus employees on this, but for benefit of LOG ONLine readers elsewhere, here goes: the annual campus Convocation is set for Tuesday morning, August 27, 2002, at the Univesity Union. The program includes introduction of new faculty and staff, presentation of the Founders Association Awards of Excellence, and remarks by Chancellor Shepard.

Congratulations to students Melinda Propson of Hilbert and Melissa Schwienert of Menomonee Falls. The Financial Executives Institute, Northeast Chapter, has selected them as recipients of $500 scholarships. Scholarships were awarded based on academic excellence and promise of future success. The selection committee included UW-Green Bay accounting professors Steven Muzatko, Marilyn Sagrillo and Karl Zehms, who considered a number of qualified applicants.

Vandalism isn't funny. A crime is a crime. Still, there's something about this one, from the recent campus police blotter, that might make you wonder about the udder depravity of some in the Dairy State:

VANDALISM
Between May 1, 2002 at 5:00 p.m. and May 2, 2002 at 8:00 a.m. an unknown person put melted cheese on the front window and headlights of a 1988 Cadillac Seville parked in the East Housing Parking Lot.

Prof. Regan Gurung, Human Development and psychology, has had an article accepted for publication in the journal Teaching of Psychology. Its title: "Do students who use pedagogical aids perform better on exams?"

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