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Vol.
37, No. 136, August 14, 2006 / Log
Archive
This is the LOG newsletter for faculty and staff of the university in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where patience, much like the Willard Harrell option pass, has long been absent from the playbook. Here's an actual living-room conversation barely one disappointing quarter into Saturday's pre-season opener. Teenager: "What's the name, again, of the Packers' new interim coach?" Parent: "McCarthy. And he's permanent, not interim." Teenager: "You sure? Remember Ray Rhodes." Wow. We'd ask where kids nowadays pick up such smart-aleck attitudes, but in this case we already have a pretty good idea. In real news today:
• List-serve promotes return of car pooling, ride sharing
• Chancellor's perspective on Madison controversy, critical thinking
• Reminder: Power out Saturday
• Big week for Regents
• UW-Madison official says admissions practices don't slight Wisconsinites
• Issuing an apology
• Brief: Meredith
Hop on the Ride-share/Car-pool bandwagon! Check the list-serve
As a follow-up to an honors project by recent graduate Michelle Eis, UW-Green Bay has created a list-serve for those interested in car pooling or ride sharing. Both strategies, for regular routes or spontaneous, occasional trips, can facilitate reduced energy use, reductions in emissions, and help the university reduce future parking expansion. Users can subscribe by sending a message to listserv@uwgb.edu with the words "subscribe CarPool-L" in the subject line (minus the quotes). Users can also leave the list at any time by sending a message to listserv@uwgb.edu with the words "unsubscribe CarPool-L" in the subject line (minus the quotes). To send a message to the list the user would put CarPool-L@uwgb.edu in the To line and then write their message.
Chancellor's perspective on 'preposterous' pronouncements
In a Green Bay Press-Gazette guest column over the weekend, Chancellor Bruce Shepard made public his personal perspective on the "preposterous" 9/11 theories advanced by a UW lecturer and conspiracy buff. Classroom discussion of seemingly outlandish claims, Shepard argued, can be an entirely appropriate approach to teaching critical thinking, but there are limits to its effectiveness. Also, he points to several UW-Green Bay initiatives that, while not getting anywhere near the attention as the controversy in Madison, are doing the real work of promoting better understanding of Islam and the Mideast. Click http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060813/GPG06/608130639/1269.
Reminder: Total power outage is scheduled for Saturday
Electricity will be off and all doors will be locked at all UW-Green Bay academic buildings, the Weidner Center and University Union between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. this Saturday (Aug. 19). (Please remember that the planned outage could be shifted to Sunday if work crews don't get cooperation from Saturday's weather.) For a look at last week's original announcement, click http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/logarchive/logarchive37/2006aug7.htm#outage.
Big week for UW System Board of Regents
The UW System Board of Regents meets this Thursday and Friday (Aug. 17-18) in Van Hise Hall on the UW-Madison campus to, among other things, vote on a biennial budget proposal for 2007-09. The full Board meeting starts at 9 a.m. Thursday with a presentation from Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton about the state's engagement in a national campaign regarding the liberal arts and sciences. At 10 a.m., the Board will hear about the impacts of higher education from John Burkhardt, director of the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good at the University of Michigan. Budget consideration comes later in the day. Background materials are available at http://www.uwsa.edu/bor/meetings/. Live audio and video will be streamed at http://www.uwex.edu/ics/stream/regents/meetings/.
UW-Madison provost says admissions practices don't slight Wisconsinites
Responding to recent questions, UW-Madison Provost Patrick Farrell wrote a newspaper column that makes clear his view that Wisconsin's residents are not competing with non-resident students for admission to that campus. Click http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=482163.
'Official apologizes for mishandling Knights of Columbus announcement'
UW-Madison officials admit they might have jumped the gun with last week's declaration that an agreement had been reached with a student Knights of Columbus chapter seeking to maintain its standing on the UW-Madison campus. Click http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/local/states/wisconsin/15247343.htm.
Brief
Prof. Sarah Meredith, COA, was invited to teach at the BelCanto Institute of New York in Florence, Italy, from July 1 through the 23rd. She was one of five voice teachers and five coach/pianists who worked with 56 American singers on Bel Canto vocal repertoire by composers such as Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Resphigi, and others. There were two divisions of singers....15-18 year olds, and 19+. Each singer studied Italian three hours a day, had nine voice lessons during the three weeks and coachings with pianist/coaches from the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, headed by Met coach, Jane Klaviter. Three final concerts were given in the Santa Maria Maggione Cathedral located in central Florence. Three of the seven singers chosen from the 56 singers for two gala concerts in New York State to be held Aug. 18 and 19 were students of Prof. Meredith.
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