UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 36 No. 26



Sweet offers campus reading Senior Reception Film Series sub-series Air Force group to perform Regents assess UW pay Conway/Korman cancelled Ticketholders can trade up Reminder on wellness Last call for Shorewood Brief	Vol. 36, No. 26 / November 2, 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. Poet Laureate Sweet offers campus reading this Thursday The campus community has a chance to welcome Wisconsin Poet Laureate Denise Sweet when she gives a reading of her work at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, in the 1965 Room of the University Union. The public is invited to the free event. Sweet, a member of the faculty at UW-Green Bay since 1990, was named to the four-year term as Poet Laureate in September by Governor Jim Doyle. The reading will be followed by a reception sponsored by the Humanistic Studies academic unit. More background is at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004oct.htm#poetry. * * * * * Senior Reception is Nov. 3 The Office of Student Life is sponsoring the Senior Reception on Wednesday (Nov. 3), as a part of Senior Celebration. The reception will take place from noon to 1:30 pm in the 1965 Room of the University Union. This event is a chance for graduating seniors to socialize with classmates, faculty and staff, and also to discuss their experiences at UW-Green Bay. * * * * * Series within Film Series highlights education in other lands Green Bay Film Society starts a November mini-series on the topic of international education with a showing Wednesday (Nov. 3) of the French documentary, "To be and to Have." Director Nicolas Philibert considered 300 schools before selecting a one-room school in an isolated farming region for the school-year-long filming. Scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 10 is "Blackboards," in which Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf examines education in Iranian Kurdistan. Completing the series on Wednesday, Nov 17 will be U.S. director Sarah Price, who'll be on hand to introduce her newest film, "Lucky Girl," about the efforts of aid workers in Afghanistan to start co-educational schools. All of the films are at 7 p.m. at the Neville Public Museum of Brown County. * * * * * Air Force group performs Friday at Fort Howard Hall The Chamber Winds, a performing ensemble of the U.S. Air Force Band of Mid-America, will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center. The public is invited to the free event. The 12-member group performs repertoire from the Renaissance to contemporary art music. All of the musicians have studied at university and conservatory level. For program information, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004nov.htm#airforce. * * * * * Regents consider regional, national markets in assessing UW pay The agenda for this week's Board of Regents meeting in Madison includes a discussion of possible requests for pay plan increases. Central to the discussion is the contention that current salaries for faculty and some administrators and staff have fallen too far behind the national or regional markets in which hiring takes place. Some argue that requests for 3 percent increases wouldn't go far enough. There is no shortage of opinion. A Journal-Sentinel story is online at http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/nov04/271592.asp. An AP story, "UW regent committee wants to raise salaries, tuition," is at http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/local/10076298.htm. * * * * * Cancelled: Tim Conway and Harvey Korman Both performances of Tim Conway & Harvey Korman "Together Again" scheduled for Thursday, November 4, 2004 (6 and 9 p.m.) have been cancelled due to illness. A rescheduled performance for 2005 is under discussion, but nothing is confirmed at this time. The Weidner Ticket Office is in the process of contacting all current ticket holders regarding refund and exchange options. * * * * * Are you a ticketholder? You can trade up Ticketholders for the canceled Nov. 4 shows have several options, including exchanging into one of the two upcoming Broadway shows coming to the Weidner Center — Big River or The King and I. If they choose that option, they will also receive an equal number of complimentary tickets to one of six other upcoming shows: — Vienna Choir Boys - Nov. 22 — Michael Martin Murphey - Cowboy Christmas - Nov. 27 — Barrage - Vagabond Tales - Nov. 28 — Leahy - Jan. 27, 2005 — Steel Magnolias - April 22 — Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo - April 23 * * * * * 'I'm Hungry... Now What?' Reminder: Wellness and fitness counselor Jane Birr will be speaking Thursday (Nov. 4) as part of the Up With Good Bodies Program. Members of the campus community are invited to attend her presentation from 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. in the Counseling & Health Center conference room SS 1400. * * * * * Absolute last call for Shorewood golf Ran into course manager Rick Warpinski today and he remains totally persistent in inviting any and all golfers out there to come visit Shorewood. Closing time is dark on Sunday, Nov. 7. There's no Packers game this weekend... the raking can wait... he still has some free treats left over in the clubhouse... so, close the season in style with a November round. * * * * * Brief Nancy Collins, Music, and Mona Christensen, Office of Outreach, performed with "Sounds of Silver", a community flute choir made up of 15 flautists from around the Green Bay area. They performed on Saturday, Oct. 23 at St. Norbert College as a dress rehearsal for their performance on Friday, Oct. 29, at the Wisconsin Music Educators Association Conference, (WMEA) held in Madison. * * * * * 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.

Sweet offers campus reading

Senior Reception

Film Series sub-series

Air Force group to perform

Regents assess UW pay

Conway/Korman cancelled

Ticketholders can trade up

Reminder on wellness

Last call for Shorewood

Brief

Vol. 36, No. 26 / November 2, 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.

Poet Laureate Sweet offers campus reading this Thursday

The campus community has a chance to welcome Wisconsin Poet Laureate Denise Sweet when she gives a reading of her work at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, in the 1965 Room of the University Union. The public is invited to the free event. Sweet, a member of the faculty at UW-Green Bay since 1990, was named to the four-year term as Poet Laureate in September by Governor Jim Doyle. The reading will be followed by a reception sponsored by the Humanistic Studies academic unit. More background is at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004oct.htm#poetry.

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Senior Reception is Nov. 3

The Office of Student Life is sponsoring the Senior Reception on Wednesday (Nov. 3), as a part of Senior Celebration. The reception will take place from noon to 1:30 pm in the 1965 Room of the University Union. This event is a chance for graduating seniors to socialize with classmates, faculty and staff, and also to discuss their experiences at UW-Green Bay.

* * * * *

Series within Film Series highlights education in other lands

Green Bay Film Society starts a November mini-series on the topic of international education with a showing Wednesday (Nov. 3) of the French documentary, "To be and to Have." Director Nicolas Philibert considered 300 schools before selecting a one-room school in an isolated farming region for the school-year-long filming. Scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 10 is "Blackboards," in which Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf examines education in Iranian Kurdistan. Completing the series on Wednesday, Nov 17 will be U.S. director Sarah Price, who'll be on hand to introduce her newest film, "Lucky Girl," about the efforts of aid workers in Afghanistan to start co-educational schools. All of the films are at 7 p.m. at the Neville Public Museum of Brown County.

* * * * *

Air Force group performs Friday at Fort Howard Hall

The Chamber Winds, a performing ensemble of the U.S. Air Force Band of Mid-America, will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5 in Fort Howard Hall of the Weidner Center. The public is invited to the free event. The 12-member group performs repertoire from the Renaissance to contemporary art music. All of the musicians have studied at university and conservatory level. For program information, see http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2004nov.htm#airforce.

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Regents consider regional, national markets in assessing UW pay

The agenda for this week's Board of Regents meeting in Madison includes a discussion of possible requests for pay plan increases. Central to the discussion is the contention that current salaries for faculty and some administrators and staff have fallen too far behind the national or regional markets in which hiring takes place. Some argue that requests for 3 percent increases wouldn't go far enough. There is no shortage of opinion. A Journal-Sentinel story is online at http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/nov04/271592.asp. An AP story, "UW regent committee wants to raise salaries, tuition," is at http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/local/10076298.htm.

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Cancelled: Tim Conway and Harvey Korman

Both performances of Tim Conway & Harvey Korman "Together Again" scheduled for Thursday, November 4, 2004 (6 and 9 p.m.) have been cancelled due to illness. A rescheduled performance for 2005 is under discussion, but nothing is confirmed at this time. The Weidner Ticket Office is in the process of contacting all current ticket holders regarding refund and exchange options.

* * * * *

Are you a ticketholder? You can trade up

Ticketholders for the canceled Nov. 4 shows have several options, including exchanging into one of the two upcoming Broadway shows coming to the Weidner Center — Big River or The King and I. If they choose that option, they will also receive an equal number of complimentary tickets to one of six other upcoming shows:

— Vienna Choir Boys - Nov. 22
— Michael Martin Murphey - Cowboy Christmas - Nov. 27
— Barrage - Vagabond Tales - Nov. 28
— Leahy - Jan. 27, 2005
— Steel Magnolias - April 22
— Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo - April 23

* * * * *

'I'm Hungry... Now What?'

Reminder: Wellness and fitness counselor Jane Birr will be speaking Thursday (Nov. 4) as part of the Up With Good Bodies Program. Members of the campus community are invited to attend her presentation from 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. in the Counseling & Health Center conference room SS 1400.

* * * * *

Absolute last call for Shorewood golf

Ran into course manager Rick Warpinski today and he remains totally persistent in inviting any and all golfers out there to come visit Shorewood. Closing time is dark on Sunday, Nov. 7. There's no Packers game this weekend... the raking can wait... he still has some free treats left over in the clubhouse... so, close the season in style with a November round.

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Brief

Nancy Collins, Music, and Mona Christensen, Office of Outreach, performed with "Sounds of Silver", a community flute choir made up of 15 flautists from around the Green Bay area. They performed on Saturday, Oct. 23 at St. Norbert College as a dress rehearsal for their performance on Friday, Oct. 29, at the Wisconsin Music Educators Association Conference, (WMEA) held in Madison.

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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.