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Vol.
38, No. 139, August 2, 2007 / Log
Archive
You know how, periodically, the media hypes things like Paris Hilton's DUI, the 'American Idol' finalists, Brett Favre's retirement plans, or a three-inch snowfall bearing down on Green Bay? Well, after a steady diet of legitimate hard news around here the past month — a rash of tragic car and plane crashes, assaults and fires and storms and even a lemonade-stand robbery, and now the Minneapolis bridge disaster — we sort of miss those slow news days. On campus today:
• Photo gallery: Kress, Union projects
• Neighbors love trails
• Totally excellent guitar concert
• Fill 'er up with biodiesel... soon
• Donations welcome for Xiong expenses
• WPR quotes Shepard on budget 'train wreck'
• Reilly says compromise is no option
• Update: 571 down, only 10 billion to go
• Nass defends UW allotment
• Churchill vows to fight on
• Reminder: Oct. 5 is Classified Staff fall conference
• 'Ghosts of Broadway' at Weidner
• Visiting researcher seeks shelter
• Book Salepalooza at Cofrin Library
• Reminder on lot striping
• Flags at half staff Friday
• LOG off
Photo gallery: Kress nearly done, Union on its way
Assembled for the online alumni newsletter, they're also handy for campus folks who don't get away from their desks much. Check out snapshots from the Kress and University Union projects at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/page/photo.htm.
A candid, unpaid, unsolicited testimonial from our neighbors
The Green Bay Press-Gazette carries a weekly "meet the family" feature. This week's family extols the virtues of the UW-Green Bay Cofrin Memorial Arboretum. See http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070802/GPG04/708020506/1250/GPGlife.
Totally excellent guitar concert is tonight
This summer's UW-Green Bay Guitar Camp puts the spotlight on some exceptionally talented performers — the camp faculty — in a free concert tonight (Thursday, Aug. 2) at 6:30 in the University Theatre. Displaying their virtuosity for the benefit of their students and the general public will be instructors versed in the finer points of jazz, classical, folk and rock. Performers include Ryan Mackstaller, New York; Chris Olson, St. Paul Minn.; Dan Weaver, Green Bay; Dale Anderson, Green Bay; Victoria Vox, Baltimore Md.; and Mike Irish, Houghton, Mich.
Fill 'er up with biodiesel... soon
Watch for news coverage in the next week or so, but UW-Green Bay is preparing to fire up its own biodiesel converter. Sodexho dining service, science faculty and campus facilities management people are among the partners looking to draw power from what used to be waste products.
Donations welcome for Mahalia Xiong funeral expenses
A fund has been set up at Pioneer Credit Union to help pay for funeral expenses for Mahalia Xiong, the UW-Green Bay student missing for two weeks before her body was recovered from the Fox River last Thursday. Services are scheduled for this Saturday (Aug. 4) at First Bible Baptist Church, 2605 Libal St., Allouez. For details, see http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070801/GPG0101/708010679/1207.
Public Radio quotes Shepard on budget 'train wreck'
More coverage of this week's education roundtable hosted by the governor: Wisconsin Public Radio's story quoted UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard on the Assembly version of the state budget:
"UW-Green Bay Chancellor Bruce Shepard calls it a 'shrink agenda' and says it would keep his campus from expanding enrollment. He says it's 'creating a train wreck up in Northeastern Wisconsin,' because these are kids, primarily by the nature of their background, who are going to need to stay local and go to UW-Green Bay. He says they need to respond to the needs of the region."
For the full story, check partway down the list at http://www.wpr.org/news/newsheadlines.cfm.
Reilly tells radio: Compromise not an option on UW budget cuts
UW System President Kevin Reilly said even if a budget conference committee meets halfway between Senate/Joint Finance Committee and Assembly proposals for the university's budget, the UW System would still suffer a $60 million budget cut. See http://www.wrn.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=190AEDCA-D50D-85BD-3C8883DEFA6CEDC7.
Conference Committee update: 571 down, 10 billion to go
The Legislature's budget conference committee met Wednesday and agreed on about half of the budget items that will be forwarded to Gov. Doyle; most of these items, however, were not contentious and the committee still must reconcile a $10 billion difference in philosophy. See http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070802/GPG0101/708020561/1207/GPGnews.
Rep. Nass defends UW budget
State Rep. Steve Nass, chair of the higher education committee, shares his position on the Assembly's proposed budget for the UW System. Listen to the audio at http://www.wrn.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=23072EF8-DC9A-8608-9939C11337D19691.
Ward Churchill gets the boot
His paid appearance at UW-Whitewater two years ago angered UW System critics and prompted a heated debate about academic freedom and paid speakers on campus. Ward Churchill update: The controversial Colorado professor has been fired for misconduct. Click http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=637666.
Reminder: Oct. 5 is Classified Staff fall conference
Brochures and registration forms will be coming later via campus mail. In the meantime, add this to your calendar:
What: 2007 Classified Staff Advisory Council Fall Conference
Where: Ecumenical Center
When: Friday, October 5, 2007, approximately 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The powerhouse keynote speaker is well-known author Rita Emmett of The Procrastinator's Handbook, The Procrastinating Child, and The Clutter-Busting Handbook renown. Questions? The conference coordinating team is lead by Cindy Haasl, Amy Ibuaka and Jan Snyder, Chair.
'The Ghosts of Broadway' at the Weidner (We see nothing ironic here)
A new booking for the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts has husband and wife Jonathan and Charlotte Pendragon presenting "The Ghosts of Broadway" on Sunday evening, Sept. 16. The show takes its inspiration from theatre works famous for things that go bump in the night and the idea that some theaters are "haunted" by real ghosts. See http://www.uwgb.edu/weidner/Calendar.htm.
Visiting researcher is looking for a fall Green Bay home
A researcher from the Biodiversity Project in Madison who is completing her Ph.D. at the Cardiff University in the U.K. is coming to Green Bay this October and staying through December. Renee Lertzman tells us she's conducting Great Lakes research related to the "psychosocial dimensions of algal blooms." She doesn't have any formal UW-Green Bay ties, but wonders if there are faculty or staff who might offer a short-term sublet. Her e-mails, according to the note passed along to us, are rlertzman@igc.org and LertzmanR@cf.ac.uk.
Book Salepalooza at Cofrin Library
Paperbacks, non-fiction, children's books, even old record albums, will be on sale only $1 apiece all week, Aug. 6 through 10, 8 to 8 except Friday. The library is cleaning out the back room; sale carts will be on the plaza level of the Cofrin Library.
Reminder on striping
The campus Parking Office reminds those who use the Studio Arts and Wood Hall lots that today and tomorrow (Friday, Aug. 3) are painting days. Do park where the updating is already updated; don't park where the striping has yet to take place.
Remembering Cpl. Matthew Zinders
Another Wisconsin soldier has been killed in Iraq. Corporal Matthew Zinders died July 24 a a result of injuries sustained during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Flags will be flown at half staff Friday (Aug. 3) on campus and at government buildings around the state in his memory.
LOG vacation... off until Wednesday, Aug. 8
Save your news until then. We're taking a break next week from the usual Monday-and-Thursday-and-sometimes-more routine. Just going with a single mid-week distribution. See you Wednesday.
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