UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 36 No. 105



Tuition/fees increase Regents split on higher tuition Paper center dedication Photoblog Budget 'vampire hours' Columnist: Barrows investigation Flags lowered for Nelson Nelson no stranger to Green Bay Brief	Vol. 36, No. 105 / July 11, 2005 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. Annual tuition/fees at UW-Green Bay increase to $5,425 With last week's vote by the UW System Board of Regents, annual tuition and fees are now set for 2005-06 at all UW campuses. At UW-Green Bay, the total for a full-time Wisconsin undergraduate will be $5,425 for the coming academic year. *** * * * * Tuition hike generates internal opposition The summary at the UW System's own Website acknowledges that Regents were sharply divided over the plan to raise tuition by 7 percent. The measure eventually passed on a 10-6 vote. Proponents said the increase was the only way to maintain quality and access and avoid major layoffs in the face of severe budget cuts. Opponents complained that low-income students are already being priced out of the UW. See http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2005/r050707b.htm. * * * * * Paper Technology Transfer Center dedication in pictures UW-Green Bay and community leaders dedicated the University's new Paper Technology Transfer Center at the Regency Center office building Wednesday, July 6. Photos of the center's dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony are online at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/page/photo.htm. * * * * * Photoblog features young artists The "Photoblog" feature that pops up periodically on the main Web page at http://www.uwgb.edu gets plenty of hits. In case you missed it, the newest blog spotlights the work of middle-school photographers on campus for June's Summer Art Studio. * * * * *** 'Vampire hours' a necessity for state budget? Recently, both the Assembly and Senate passed their versions of the state budget at 5 in the morning. Whether that represents good government is the topic of a lengthy Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel analysis at http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/jul05/340145.asp. *** * * * * Columnist: Investigation of Barrows case is smart move Columnist Tom Still says UW-Madison has finally taken a positive step in its handling of the Paul Barrows situation. Still's column is archived at WisPolitics.com at http://www.wisopinion.com/index.iml?mdl=article.mdl&article=2220. * * * * * Flags lowered through Wednesday in respect for Gaylord Nelson Flags are being flown at half-staff until sunset on Wednesday, July 13, the day a memorial service will be held at the state capitol for Gaylord Nelson, who died last week at age 89. Nelson served in the Wisconsin state Senate from 1949-1959, as governor from 1959-63, and in the United States Senate from 1963-1981. He was perhaps best known as a leader of the environmental movement, as founder of "Earth Day," and for pushing protection of the Apostle Islands and the St. Croix River. * * * * * Nelson no stranger to UW-Green Bay Then-Sen. Gaylord Nelson was commencement speaker at UW-Green Bay in December 1978. In 1971 he had made two visits including an Earth Week lecture on "Wisdom in Making Environmental Decisions." His most recent official visit came at age 86, in fall 2002, when he took part in ceremonies marking the 30th anniversary of federal anti-pollution rules. A photo and reference to his 1971 visit is archived in the campus history book at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/GBhistory/FTBframes/chapt4.html. Coverage of his 2002 visit is at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/photoarch/people/WATER.HTM. * * * * * Brief Prof. Michael Draney, Natural and Applied Sciences, gave a talk titled "The Spider Species of the Great Lakes States" at the annual meeting of the American Arachnological Society, University of Akron, on June 29. His co-authors were Petra Sierwald, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, and Tom Prentice, Entomology Department, University of California-Riverside. * * * * *** 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.

Tuition/fees increase

Regents split on higher tuition

Paper center dedication

Photoblog

Budget 'vampire hours'

Columnist: Barrows investigation

Flags lowered for Nelson

Nelson no stranger to Green Bay

Brief

Vol. 36, No. 105 / July 11, 2005

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.

Annual tuition/fees at UW-Green Bay increase to $5,425

With last week's vote by the UW System Board of Regents, annual tuition and fees are now set for 2005-06 at all UW campuses. At UW-Green Bay, the total for a full-time Wisconsin undergraduate will be $5,425 for the coming academic year.

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Tuition hike generates internal opposition

The summary at the UW System's own Website acknowledges that Regents were sharply divided over the plan to raise tuition by 7 percent. The measure eventually passed on a 10-6 vote. Proponents said the increase was the only way to maintain quality and access and avoid major layoffs in the face of severe budget cuts. Opponents complained that low-income students are already being priced out of the UW. See http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2005/r050707b.htm.

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Paper Technology Transfer Center dedication in pictures

UW-Green Bay and community leaders dedicated the University's new Paper Technology Transfer Center at the Regency Center office building Wednesday, July 6. Photos of the center's dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony are online at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/page/photo.htm.

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Photoblog features young artists

The "Photoblog" feature that pops up periodically on the main Web page at http://www.uwgb.edu gets plenty of hits. In case you missed it, the newest blog spotlights the work of middle-school photographers on campus for June's Summer Art Studio.

* * * * *

'Vampire hours' a necessity for state budget?

Recently, both the Assembly and Senate passed their versions of the state budget at 5 in the morning. Whether that represents good government is the topic of a lengthy Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel analysis at http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/jul05/340145.asp.

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Columnist: Investigation of Barrows case is smart move

Columnist Tom Still says UW-Madison has finally taken a positive step in its handling of the Paul Barrows situation. Still's column is archived at WisPolitics.com at http://www.wisopinion.com/index.iml?mdl=article.mdl&article=2220.

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Flags lowered through Wednesday in respect for Gaylord Nelson

Flags are being flown at half-staff until sunset on Wednesday, July 13, the day a memorial service will be held at the state capitol for Gaylord Nelson, who died last week at age 89. Nelson served in the Wisconsin state Senate from 1949-1959, as governor from 1959-63, and in the United States Senate from 1963-1981. He was perhaps best known as a leader of the environmental movement, as founder of "Earth Day," and for pushing protection of the Apostle Islands and the St. Croix River.

* * * * *

Nelson no stranger to UW-Green Bay

Then-Sen. Gaylord Nelson was commencement speaker at UW-Green Bay in December 1978. In 1971 he had made two visits including an Earth Week lecture on "Wisdom in Making Environmental Decisions." His most recent official visit came at age 86, in fall 2002, when he took part in ceremonies marking the 30th anniversary of federal anti-pollution rules. A photo and reference to his 1971 visit is archived in the campus history book at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/GBhistory/FTBframes/chapt4.html. Coverage of his 2002 visit is at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/photoarch/people/WATER.HTM.

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Brief

Prof. Michael Draney, Natural and Applied Sciences, gave a talk titled "The Spider Species of the Great Lakes States" at the annual meeting of the American Arachnological Society, University of Akron, on June 29. His co-authors were Petra Sierwald, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, and Tom Prentice, Entomology Department, University of California-Riverside.

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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.