UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 35 No. 58



Founders reception will recognize faculty authors Check authors list Memorial service for UW-River Falls chancellor Visiting scholar from Vietnam Japanese visitors presentation French business expert to speak Cruz speaks on diversity, democracy More dialogue programs Chili donations First 'Connecting for Lunch' Powwow is April 10 Pass Point discount Houston is out Regent open-meetings dispute over	Vol. 35, No. 58 / March 26, 2004 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. Written a good book lately? Check the list for your name Turning the spotlight on this University's impressive roster of faculty authors is the intent of the 2004 spring reception of the UW-Green Bay Founders Association. Event organizer Shane Kohl of University Advancement is compiling a list of those who have published or edited a book in the past five years. Books will be displayed as part of the cocktails and hors d'oeuvres reception, and authors will be invited to mingle with the crowd and answer any questions community members might have. The reception takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Weidner Center's Grand Foyer on Wednesday, May 5. See the following item. *** * * * * Click here for preliminary 'authors' list Wanted: Faculty Authors who have published or edited a book in the past five years or so. Shane Kohl is compiling a list. Is it complete? NO. Feel free to contact Shane with additions or changes. Do authors have to be present for the May 5 campus/community reception? NO. However, organizers would like a copy of each book to display. What next? Contact Shane Kohl (kohls@uwgb.edu or x2586) with questions or a book to add to the list. The list is at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/authors.htm. * * * * * Memorial service is Monday for UW-River Falls chancellor A memorial service is scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday (March 29) on the UW-River Falls campus for Chancellor Ann M. Lydecker, who died yesterday morning in a car accident in rural Pierce County. She was 59. The memorial service will take place at the Karges Center; another service will be held at a later date in her hometown of Adrian, Mich., where she grew up on a dairy farm. Lydecker, the UW System's only woman chancellor, was on her way to UW-Platteville, where she was scheduled to give a speech on women succeeding in the work force. The UW-River Falls website has news and tributes under the heading "We Mourn" at http://www.uwrf.edu/. * * * * * Join in welcoming newest international scholar on Tuesday The campus community is invited to join in welcoming international visiting scholar To Thi Thuy Hang at a reception from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 30 in the International Student Center in the Student Services Building. Hang, who is assistant resident representative/manager for the United Nations Development Program in Hanoi, Vietnam, will be in Green Bay through mid-April, and will have a schedule of activities at UW-Green Bay, St. Norbert College, and in the community. She is the second scholar to come to Green Bay through the joint St. Norbert College-UW-Green Bay International Visiting Scholars Program launched last fall. The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation is the third partner in the new venture. * * * * * Presentation on renewable energy by Japanese visitors is at 1 p.m. There's still time to catch a presentation by members of a delegation from Japan, here to compare notes on renewable energy technology. The visitors from Wisconsin's sister state in Japan will speak at 1 p.m. today (Friday, March 26) in Phoenix Room B of the University Union. They'll later tour Mary Ann Cofrin Hall and a Wisconsin Public Service Corp. wind farm in southern Door County. Assistant Chancellor Dean Rodeheaver and Prof. John Katers are helping to host. * * * * * More 'International Dialogue': series starts today at noon Reminder: The first "International Dialogues" program is scheduled for noon Friday (March 26) in the Christie Theatre with Cristophe Estay of the Bordeaux Business School offering a cross-cultural analysis of business practices. See http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004mar.htm#dialogues. * * * * * Also at noon today: Cruz on diversity, democracy Prof. Marcelo Cruz speaks at noon today (Friday, March 26) on "Diversity and its Challenges for Democracy." The brown-bag session (chips and beverages provided) takes place in the Union's Alumni Rooms. Discussion will center on diversity in an increasingly global society and its challenges to traditional concepts of democracy. * * * * * Still more dialogue the week of March 29 More details are coming in Monday's LOG ONline, but the week of dialogue continues with the following programs: • Monday, March 29,"A Global Perspective: Real Life Stories from Living and Traveling Abroad," noon, Alumni B • Wednesday, March 31, Campus Dialogues Luncheon, noon to 1:30 p.m., Phoenix Rooms • Thursday, April 1, Dean Fritz Erickson on "The Pakistan Project," 12:30 p.m. in Niagara AB The series is sponsored by the American Intercultural Center and the Office of Student Life. Call Student Life at 465-2200 ext. 40. * * * * *** Chili sale scores double hot in Scovilles, money-raising The numbers are in on Wednesday's annual Empty Bowls chili sale in the SA cafeteria: $2,100 was raised; organizers hope to double that amount with a matching grant from the Feinstein Foundation. Proceeds will go to the Brown County Food and Hunger Network, a nonprofit group of volunteers and community agencies that brings awareness to hunger in the community. Press-Gazette coverage of the spicy art student and faculty project is at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_15367552.shtml. *** * * * *** 'Connecting for Lunch'? Absolutely The first "UWGB Downtown: Connecting for Lunch" program drew a nice crowd Thursday to the Regency Suites. Nearly 75 people gathered for a great meal, a welcome by Outreach and Extension Director Jan Thornton and Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt (very supportive of the University's "connecting" initiative) and a presentation on Great Lakes ecological science by Prof. Robert Howe. It was top of page A-1 in today's Press-Gazette at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_15402247.shtml. *** * * * * Mark your calendar: Powwow on April 10 The 12th Annual UWGB Powwow, sponsored in part by the Intertribal Student Council, is Saturday, April 10, at the Phoenix Sports Center. "Grand Entry" takes place at 1 p.m. and again at 6 p.m. Five Native drum groups will be present, military color guard from Oneida Nation, Menominee Nation, Lac du Flambeau Ojibway and Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican will be recognized and various dancers from all over the state will exhibit their particular style of dancing. The powwow is a community event that is free and open for anyone to join in. Food vendors and various arts and crafts will be available for sale. FMI, contact: American Intercultural Center at 465-2720. * * * * * Pass Point 'department of the month': Attention, all golfers! The Passport ID Services Office is highlighting one department or retail operation every month that accepts Pass Points as a method of payment. The featured department offers a promotion during their month. This time, it's Shorewood Golf Course. Use your Pass Points at the Shorewood Golf Course during the month of April and receive 20% off all your purchases, including already discounted spring greens fees!! Pass Point users will also receive a free Vivid Grip pen with any purchase. For more about Shorewood hours and operations, visit http://www.uwgb.edu/shorewood. * * * * * The Phoenix softened 'em up Houston, the team which dealt UW-Green Bay a defeat in last Saturday's NCAA women's basketball tournament, is now out itself. The Cougars lost 56-52 to the host school UC-Santa Barbara, on Monday night. Think UC-SB's homecourt advantage was unfair? They'll see the other side in a Sweet 16 trip to Hartford to play No. 2 seed Connecticut. * * * * *** Lautenschlager won't pursue Regents on second open-meetings dispute The dustup finally appears to be over in the case of UW System Board of Regents teleconferences that were questioned by some as possible violations of the state's open meetings law. This week's Journal-Sentinel has plenty of detail at http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/mar04/217076.asp. *** * * * *** 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. 2527 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.

Founders reception will recognize faculty authors

Check authors list

Memorial service for UW-River Falls chancellor

Visiting scholar from Vietnam

Japanese visitors presentation

French business expert to speak

Cruz speaks on diversity, democracy

More dialogue programs

Chili donations

First 'Connecting for Lunch'

Powwow is April 10

Pass Point discount

Houston is out

Regent open-meetings dispute over

Vol. 35, No. 58 / March 26, 2004

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.

Written a good book lately? Check the list for your name

Turning the spotlight on this University's impressive roster of faculty authors is the intent of the 2004 spring reception of the UW-Green Bay Founders Association. Event organizer Shane Kohl of University Advancement is compiling a list of those who have published or edited a book in the past five years. Books will be displayed as part of the cocktails and hors d'oeuvres reception, and authors will be invited to mingle with the crowd and answer any questions community members might have. The reception takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Weidner Center's Grand Foyer on Wednesday, May 5. See the following item.

* * * * *

Click here for preliminary 'authors' list

Wanted: Faculty Authors who have published or edited a book in the past five years or so.

Shane Kohl is compiling a list. Is it complete? NO. Feel free to contact Shane with additions or changes. Do authors have to be present for the May 5 campus/community reception? NO. However, organizers would like a copy of each book to display. What next? Contact Shane Kohl (kohls@uwgb.edu or x2586) with questions or a book to add to the list. The list is at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/authors.htm.

* * * * *

Memorial service is Monday for UW-River Falls chancellor

A memorial service is scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday (March 29) on the UW-River Falls campus for Chancellor Ann M. Lydecker, who died yesterday morning in a car accident in rural Pierce County. She was 59. The memorial service will take place at the Karges Center; another service will be held at a later date in her hometown of Adrian, Mich., where she grew up on a dairy farm. Lydecker, the UW System's only woman chancellor, was on her way to UW-Platteville, where she was scheduled to give a speech on women succeeding in the work force. The UW-River Falls website has news and tributes under the heading "We Mourn" at http://www.uwrf.edu/.

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Join in welcoming newest international scholar on Tuesday

The campus community is invited to join in welcoming international visiting scholar To Thi Thuy Hang at a reception from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 30 in the International Student Center in the Student Services Building. Hang, who is assistant resident representative/manager for the United Nations Development Program in Hanoi, Vietnam, will be in Green Bay through mid-April, and will have a schedule of activities at UW-Green Bay, St. Norbert College, and in the community. She is the second scholar to come to Green Bay through the joint St. Norbert College-UW-Green Bay International Visiting Scholars Program launched last fall. The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation is the third partner in the new venture.

* * * * *

Presentation on renewable energy by Japanese visitors is at 1 p.m.

There's still time to catch a presentation by members of a delegation from Japan, here to compare notes on renewable energy technology. The visitors from Wisconsin's sister state in Japan will speak at 1 p.m. today (Friday, March 26) in Phoenix Room B of the University Union. They'll later tour Mary Ann Cofrin Hall and a Wisconsin Public Service Corp. wind farm in southern Door County. Assistant Chancellor Dean Rodeheaver and Prof. John Katers are helping to host.

* * * * *

More 'International Dialogue': series starts today at noon

Reminder: The first "International Dialogues" program is scheduled for noon Friday (March 26) in the Christie Theatre with Cristophe Estay of the Bordeaux Business School offering a cross-cultural analysis of business practices. See http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004mar.htm#dialogues.

* * * * *

Also at noon today: Cruz on diversity, democracy

Prof. Marcelo Cruz speaks at noon today (Friday, March 26) on "Diversity and its Challenges for Democracy." The brown-bag session (chips and beverages provided) takes place in the Union's Alumni Rooms. Discussion will center on diversity in an increasingly global society and its challenges to traditional concepts of democracy.

* * * * *

Still more dialogue the week of March 29

More details are coming in Monday's LOG ONline, but the week of dialogue continues with the following programs:

• Monday, March 29,"A Global Perspective: Real Life Stories from Living and Traveling Abroad," noon, Alumni B
• Wednesday, March 31, Campus Dialogues Luncheon, noon to 1:30 p.m., Phoenix Rooms
• Thursday, April 1, Dean Fritz Erickson on "The Pakistan Project," 12:30 p.m. in Niagara AB

The series is sponsored by the American Intercultural Center and the Office of Student Life. Call Student Life at 465-2200 ext. 40.

* * * * *

Chili sale scores double hot in Scovilles, money-raising

The numbers are in on Wednesday's annual Empty Bowls chili sale in the SA cafeteria: $2,100 was raised; organizers hope to double that amount with a matching grant from the Feinstein Foundation. Proceeds will go to the Brown County Food and Hunger Network, a nonprofit group of volunteers and community agencies that brings awareness to hunger in the community. Press-Gazette coverage of the spicy art student and faculty project is at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_15367552.shtml.

* * * * *

'Connecting for Lunch'? Absolutely

The first "UWGB Downtown: Connecting for Lunch" program drew a nice crowd Thursday to the Regency Suites. Nearly 75 people gathered for a great meal, a welcome by Outreach and Extension Director Jan Thornton and Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt (very supportive of the University's "connecting" initiative) and a presentation on Great Lakes ecological science by Prof. Robert Howe. It was top of page A-1 in today's Press-Gazette at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_15402247.shtml.

* * * * *

Mark your calendar: Powwow on April 10

The 12th Annual UWGB Powwow, sponsored in part by the Intertribal Student Council, is Saturday, April 10, at the Phoenix Sports Center. "Grand Entry" takes place at 1 p.m. and again at 6 p.m. Five Native drum groups will be present, military color guard from Oneida Nation, Menominee Nation, Lac du Flambeau Ojibway and Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican will be recognized and various dancers from all over the state will exhibit their particular style of dancing. The powwow is a community event that is free and open for anyone to join in. Food vendors and various arts and crafts will be available for sale. FMI, contact: American Intercultural Center at 465-2720.

* * * * *

Pass Point 'department of the month': Attention, all golfers!

The Passport ID Services Office is highlighting one department or retail operation every month that accepts Pass Points as a method of payment. The featured department offers a promotion during their month. This time, it's Shorewood Golf Course. Use your Pass Points at the Shorewood Golf Course during the month of April and receive 20% off all your purchases, including already discounted spring greens fees!! Pass Point users will also receive a free Vivid Grip pen with any purchase. For more about Shorewood hours and operations, visit http://www.uwgb.edu/shorewood.

* * * * *

The Phoenix softened 'em up

Houston, the team which dealt UW-Green Bay a defeat in last Saturday's NCAA women's basketball tournament, is now out itself. The Cougars lost 56-52 to the host school UC-Santa Barbara, on Monday night. Think UC-SB's homecourt advantage was unfair? They'll see the other side in a Sweet 16 trip to Hartford to play No. 2 seed Connecticut.

* * * * *

Lautenschlager won't pursue Regents on second open-meetings dispute

The dustup finally appears to be over in the case of UW System Board of Regents teleconferences that were questioned by some as possible violations of the state's open meetings law. This week's Journal-Sentinel has plenty of detail at http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/mar04/217076.asp.

* * * * *

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. 2527 or e-mail us at Log@uwgb.edu.