UW-Green Bay, LOG Archive, Vol. 36 No. 93



Shepard on budget Reilly reacts In-depth coverage New restroom Stokes part of team Phoenix Open House SAFE Ally training Heirloom plant sale recap Next year's sale New-employee training 'Free' at Shorewood	Vol. 36, No. 93 / June 2, 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. Joint Finance adds $25 million to Governor's $65 million cut As UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard described this morning in an all-campus e-mail to faculty and staff, the UW System will now have to absorb additional cuts courtesy of the latest version of the state's 2005-07 budget. For those who may have missed it, the Chancellor's short report is archived at http://www.uwgb.edu/chancellor/remarks/email14.htm. *** * * * * Reilly reacts UW System President Kevin Reilly issued a statement on the Joint Finance action, at http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2005/r050601.htm. * * * * *** In-depth coverage Mix biennial math, a $1 billion annual budget and a complex tangle of accounting factors, and it's difficult to sort out what precisely the latest version of the budget does for the UW System. Giving it the old college try were three downstate newspapers that devoted lengthy stories to the UW System budget. Take your pick: Capital Times http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/index.php?ntid=42167&ntpid=1 State Journal http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=42138&ntpid=3 Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/jun05/330638.asp *** * * * * New restroom debuts Friday on Fox River Trail At 3 p.m. tomorrow (Friday, June 3), a "toilet paper cutting" at St. Francis Park in Allouez will celebrate the new restroom facility on the Fox River Trail. The construction of the new facility is the result of a fundraising effort organized by a 2004 Leadership Green Bay Group with cooperation from Brown County Government, the DNR, and local businesses. Prof. Sandy Stokes of the Education faculty was a leader of the effort. Stokes and local elected officials including Jim Schmitt, Carol Kelso, Karl Van Roy, Phil Montgomery, Dave Hansen and Rob Cowles will be present for the dedication. * * * * * Stokes was part of community team The Leadership Green Bay team responsible for the St. Francis Park project includes: Sandy Stokes, professor, UW-Green Bay Gerard Deprez, partner at Crispigna, Payette, Johnson & Deprez Ken Hager, vice president, Amerhart Bill Mann, president, Touchpoint Health Betsy Mitchell, Mitchell Management & Consulting John Muraski, consultant and former Associated Bank official Dan Pierquet, vice president, Fox Communities Credit Union Jennifer Schnabel, United Way of Brown County * * * * * Phoenix open house Know anyone in the market for an attractive three-bedroom ranch in the town of Scott? Send 'em to 3307 Osprey Lane for a look at "The Phoenix House" during an open showing from 3 to 7 p.m. this Sunday (June 5). Much of the work and materials for the new house were donated, allowing for a portion of the proceeds to be directed to Phoenix Athletics scholarships. See http://www.uwgb.edu/athletics/offthefield/053105.asp. * * * * * Upcoming SAFE Ally training, on June 6 The purpose of SAFE Ally training is to create a network of allies for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students, and by doing so, to make the University community a safer and more supportive place. The SAFE Ally program is a symbol of this University's efforts to increase awareness and acceptance of the LGBT community. SAFE Ally training workshops are open to faculty and staff; the next training is: Monday, June 6, 1-4 p.m., MAC Hall Vista Conference Room If interested in participating in the training, please contact Brian Stahlkopf (#2380, stahlkob@uwgb.edu) at least one day before the desired training date. Refreshments will be provided. * * * * * Recap on the heirloom sale: First in line at 5:30 a.m.? The sale of heirloom tomato and pepper plants sponsored by Natural and Applied Sciences on May 21 made more than $5,100 in profit to fund speakers and student travel, says coordinator Vicky Medland. Some highlights: • The first person in line for the 8 a.m. greenhouse admission ticket distribution showed up at 5:30 a.m. • More than 6,200 plants were sold. • All of the 2,000 pepper plants were gone by 11 a.m. • Brandywine, 4th of July, and a few other tomato varieties sold out, although some tomato plants were left at the end of the sale. • Sale workers got "lots" of compliments on the organization of the sale. * * * * * Next year, look for more peppers, Brandywines Medland says heirloom sale results will be instructive for next year: Look for more peppers — maybe 3,500 to 4,000 plants — and for more tomato plants of the varieties that sold out. She also notes that suggestions for tomato and pepper varieties for future sales are always welcome. Finally, says Medland, "We would like to especially thank all of our volunteers including students, faculty, staff and some of our community neighbors. Without them planting, transplanting and labeling all those little sticks it would have been impossible for us to have the sale." * * * * * June 8 is next new-employee training session The following is the summer schedule for the required new employee training: Wednesday, June 8 from 10-11:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 12 from 1-2:30 p.m. Thursday, August 25 from 8-9:30 a.m. All training will be held in IS 1034. All new employees must attend one training session. Please register for one of the upcoming training sessions by e-mailing Jane Rank at rankj@uwgb.edu * * * * * 'Free' at Shorewood Shorewood Golf Course has initiated a frequent customer card for the summer. In today's mail, all staff members on campus should have received an updated restaurant menu and a Frequent Customer Card — Order 8 Combo Meals (sandwich/hot item, chips or veggies, and a beverage) and the 9th order is Free! The card can be used with any other specials offered throughout the summer. Turn in your card when it is complete and be entered into a special drawing on Tuesday September 6, 2005 for valuable and useful prizes. As always, you can call your order in for take-out or dining in the clubhouse. For additional Shorewood Golf Course information, visit http://www.uwgb.edu/shorewood. * * * * *** 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.

Shepard on budget

Reilly reacts

In-depth coverage

New restroom

Stokes part of team

Phoenix Open House

SAFE Ally training

Heirloom plant sale recap

Next year's sale

New-employee training

'Free' at Shorewood

Vol. 36, No. 93 / June 2, 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.

Joint Finance adds $25 million to Governor's $65 million cut

As UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard described this morning in an all-campus e-mail to faculty and staff, the UW System will now have to absorb additional cuts courtesy of the latest version of the state's 2005-07 budget. For those who may have missed it, the Chancellor's short report is archived at http://www.uwgb.edu/chancellor/remarks/email14.htm.

* * * * *

Reilly reacts

UW System President Kevin Reilly issued a statement on the Joint Finance action, at http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2005/r050601.htm.

* * * * *

In-depth coverage

Mix biennial math, a $1 billion annual budget and a complex tangle of accounting factors, and it's difficult to sort out what precisely the latest version of the budget does for the UW System. Giving it the old college try were three downstate newspapers that devoted lengthy stories to the UW System budget. Take your pick:

Capital Times
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/index.php?ntid=42167&ntpid=1

State Journal
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=42138&ntpid=3

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/jun05/330638.asp

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New restroom debuts Friday on Fox River Trail

At 3 p.m. tomorrow (Friday, June 3), a "toilet paper cutting" at St. Francis Park in Allouez will celebrate the new restroom facility on the Fox River Trail. The construction of the new facility is the result of a fundraising effort organized by a 2004 Leadership Green Bay Group with cooperation from Brown County Government, the DNR, and local businesses. Prof. Sandy Stokes of the Education faculty was a leader of the effort. Stokes and local elected officials including Jim Schmitt, Carol Kelso, Karl Van Roy, Phil Montgomery, Dave Hansen and Rob Cowles will be present for the dedication.

* * * * *

Stokes was part of community team

The Leadership Green Bay team responsible for the St. Francis Park project includes:

Sandy Stokes, professor, UW-Green Bay
Gerard Deprez, partner at Crispigna, Payette, Johnson & Deprez
Ken Hager, vice president, Amerhart
Bill Mann, president, Touchpoint Health
Betsy Mitchell, Mitchell Management & Consulting
John Muraski, consultant and former Associated Bank official
Dan Pierquet, vice president, Fox Communities Credit Union
Jennifer Schnabel, United Way of Brown County

* * * * *

Phoenix open house

Know anyone in the market for an attractive three-bedroom ranch in the town of Scott? Send 'em to 3307 Osprey Lane for a look at "The Phoenix House" during an open showing from 3 to 7 p.m. this Sunday (June 5). Much of the work and materials for the new house were donated, allowing for a portion of the proceeds to be directed to Phoenix Athletics scholarships. See http://www.uwgb.edu/athletics/offthefield/053105.asp.

* * * * *

Upcoming SAFE Ally training, on June 6

The purpose of SAFE Ally training is to create a network of allies for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students, and by doing so, to make the University community a safer and more supportive place. The SAFE Ally program is a symbol of this University's efforts to increase awareness and acceptance of the LGBT community. SAFE Ally training workshops are open to faculty and staff; the next training is:

Monday, June 6, 1-4 p.m., MAC Hall Vista Conference Room

If interested in participating in the training, please contact Brian Stahlkopf (#2380, stahlkob@uwgb.edu) at least one day before the desired training date. Refreshments will be provided.

* * * * *

Recap on the heirloom sale: First in line at 5:30 a.m.?

The sale of heirloom tomato and pepper plants sponsored by Natural and Applied Sciences on May 21 made more than $5,100 in profit to fund speakers and student travel, says coordinator Vicky Medland. Some highlights:

• The first person in line for the 8 a.m. greenhouse admission ticket distribution showed up at 5:30 a.m.

• More than 6,200 plants were sold.

• All of the 2,000 pepper plants were gone by 11 a.m.

• Brandywine, 4th of July, and a few other tomato varieties sold out, although some tomato plants were left at the end of the sale.

• Sale workers got "lots" of compliments on the organization of the sale.

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Next year, look for more peppers, Brandywines

Medland says heirloom sale results will be instructive for next year: Look for more peppers — maybe 3,500 to 4,000 plants — and for more tomato plants of the varieties that sold out. She also notes that suggestions for tomato and pepper varieties for future sales are always welcome. Finally, says Medland, "We would like to especially thank all of our volunteers including students, faculty, staff and some of our community neighbors. Without them planting, transplanting and labeling all those little sticks it would have been impossible for us to have the sale."

* * * * *

June 8 is next new-employee training session

The following is the summer schedule for the required new employee training:

Wednesday, June 8 from 10-11:30 a.m.
Tuesday, July 12 from 1-2:30 p.m.
Thursday, August 25 from 8-9:30 a.m.

All training will be held in IS 1034.

All new employees must attend one training session. Please register for one of the upcoming training sessions by e-mailing Jane Rank at rankj@uwgb.edu

* * * * *

'Free' at Shorewood

Shorewood Golf Course has initiated a frequent customer card for the summer. In today's mail, all staff members on campus should have received an updated restaurant menu and a Frequent Customer Card — Order 8 Combo Meals (sandwich/hot item, chips or veggies, and a beverage) and the 9th order is Free! The card can be used with any other specials offered throughout the summer. Turn in your card when it is complete and be entered into a special drawing on Tuesday September 6, 2005 for valuable and useful prizes. As always, you can call your order in for take-out or dining in the clubhouse. For additional Shorewood Golf Course information, visit http://www.uwgb.edu/shorewood.

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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.