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Vol.
39, No. 77, February 29, 2008 / Log
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Nielsen Media Research says 54 million TV viewers saw the Jan. 20 Giants-Packers title game played in Green Bay at a packed Lambeau Field in sub-zero weather. Except for the Super Bowl, it's easily this season's most-watched program. ("American Idol," by comparison, has a season high little more than half that.) Just something to consider, particularly for those who say they're hopeful of re-branding our community in the national consciousness. Here now, your Leap Day news:
• Furlong writes of LEAP, liberal education
• Social Work plans March 13 celebration of Anne Kok
• Science forum for local teachers
• Extension, Colleges want to lure stop-outs
• How would you look, 30 years older? Of another gender? Another race?
• 'Iron Printmaker' Style, and free how-to
• Mop jobs: Ron Opicka '70
• Space Experience for teens
• Profiling Race
• Free admission for vets, active military
• 'Pinstripes amid the ivy: Could a business leader run UW-Madison?'
• Off-campus enforcement of campus rules
• Some like the idea
• 'LA Law' couple comes to Weidner Center
Furlong writes of LEAP, liberal education for P-G and Chancellor's FYI
Here's a Leap Day column from Scott Furlong, dean of liberal arts sciences, concerning the new LEAP initiative to promote liberal education... something UW-Green Bay already does fairly well, he argues. Furlong is both guest columnist for the Chancellor's FYI newsletter being distributed today on campus, and for the Press-Gazette's editorial page: http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080229/GPG07/802290704/1273.
Social Work program invites campus to March 13 celebration of Anne Kok
A message from Jolanda Sallmann, assistant professor and master's degree field coordinator for the Professional Program in Social Work:
"The Social Work Program at UW-Green Bay would like to thank you all for your kind thoughts and words over the past several weeks. Many of you have posted your remembrances on the memorial site at: http://www.uwgb.edu/socwork/Anne.html. Anne Kok clearly touched the lives of many, and the stories you have been sharing are so appreciated. I am writing to invite you all to join us for a celebration of Anne's life. The Celebration will be held on Thursday, March 13, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the lobby of the Weidner Center. A formal program will be held from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thank you again for your support and we hope to see you at the celebration."
UW-Green Bay forum shares latest research with local science teachers
Middle- and high school teachers are invited to hear the latest research on wildlife of the region at the Northeastern Wisconsin (NEW) Science Forum from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday (March 6) in the Union's 1965 Room. Prof. Robert Howe, director of the UW-Green Bay Cofrin Center for Biodiversity, will present the program "The Ecological Interaction Between Humans and Birds in the Great Lakes Basin." See http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-46.htm.
UW-Extension, Colleges want to lure stop-outs to come back
In the news this week is a plan by UW Colleges and UW-Extension to draw in adults who have some college credits but never finished a four-year degree. The new Adult Student Initiative will be discussed at the March Board of Regents meeting: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=722392.
How would you look, 30 years older? Of another gender? Another race?
Something called the Human Race Machine will be available on campus next week, Monday through Thursday (March 3-6), in an awareness activity sponsored by the Campus Life Diversity Task Force. The machine is designed to challenge perception of race, age and other outward features by capturing your digital image and using four different software programs to morph your likeness. The four options:
• The Age Machine, a program used by law enforcement to help identify missing persons, years later.
• The Couples Machine, combining photos of men and women to allow couples to imagine their offspring, or simply envision layered "maleness" and "femaleness" in one face.
• The Anomaly Machine affords viewers the unsettling opportunity of seeing themselves with simulated facial anomalies.
• The Human Race program allows participants to see themselves with the facial characteristics of six different races mapped onto their own visage.
Sound interesting? The Human Race Machine will be available to try in Phoenix Room C Monday through Wednesday (March 3-5) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day, and from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday (March 6). Questions? Call 465-2720.
'Iron Printmakers' (including Prof. Style) host free how-to on March 11
"Ink will fly, tarlatan will swish, rollers will thump, ink knives will spin! ... right before your very eyes!" That's the come-on from two printmakers, Prof. Christine Style and Bonnie de Arteaga, inviting the public to a free demonstration Tuesday, March 11, from 7:15 to 8:30 p.m. in the UW-Green Bay Printmaking Studio, Room C114 of the Studio Arts Building. They'll demonstrate relief, intaglio (Solarplate, ImagOn, collagraph, etching), lithography (photo position plates) and monotype. The program is co-hosted by the Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors, Northeast Chapter. The two artists bill themselves as the "Iron Printmakers"; look for their eye-catching "Iron Chef" style posters around campus.
Mop jobs: Ron Opicka, Class of '70, continues to help others
East Shore Industries, the Kewaunee County non-profit that provides jobs for people with disabilities, is in the news this week with its rollout of a new mop design that promises some environmental benefits. Interesting from a campus perspective: the organization's eco-aware CEO is Ronald Opicka, a member of UW-Green Bay's first graduating class in 1970 and a past winner of the Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumni Award. There's a Press-Gazette business story at
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080227/GPG03/802270655/1247.
Registration open for teen 'Space Experience'
Know someone who might be interested? Registration is open for a UW-Green Bay summer camp that offers students entering grades seven through 12 opportunities to experience aspects of astronaut training, learn from researchers and aerospace professionals, and meet a guest astronaut. "A Space Experience" is scheduled Sunday through Friday, July 27 - Aug. 1 on campus. Students will get to design, build and test their own space mission, use a solar telescope, visit a planetarium, participate in flight simulations, and navigate using GPS. NASA veteran Mark Lee (Colonel, USAF, Retired) will assist. Send 'em to http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-49.htm.
P-G does Race profile
He has mostly kept a low profile on campus, but Phoenix assistant basketball coach Dale Race actually is a widely known, Hall of Fame performer, many times over. He retires this year. There's a fine personality profile by columnist Rob Demovsky in Thursday's Press-Gazette at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080228/GPG020101/802280525/1225/GPGsports.
Saturday is free admission for vets, active military
Nice touch by the Phoenix men's basketball program: Saturday night's Resch Center game vs. Loyola is Military Appreciation Night. All veterans, active military, and their family members will receive two complimentary tickets to the game when they present their military ID. "Come out to the Resch Center this Saturday to support your Green Bay Men's Basketball team and your United States Military!"
'Pinstripes amid the ivy: Could a business leader run UW-Madison?'
That's the headline over a Tom Still column in the online publication Wisconsin Technology Network. Other universities and university systems have done it, he argues. See http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=4564.
Key conduct-rule change: Off-campus enforcement
How far should UW System institutions be able to go in regulating and punishing the off-campus behavior of their students? That's apparently the crux of the new conduct policy being floated right now, statewide. Check out Milwaukee Journal Sentinel coverage at http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=722135.
Editorials: Sounds like a good idea
At least a few state newspapers think the proposed changes to the student conduct code are steps in the right direction. See the Racine newspaper at
http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2008/02/27/opinion/doc47c5da2967d3b173570442.txt or this one, at http://www.marshfieldnewsherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080228/MNH06/802280316/1785.
'LA Law' couple comes to campus
Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker, best known for their turns on the 1980s legal drama "L.A. Law," will present their inspiring story "Destined to Live: Surviving Cancer as a Couple" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, at the Weidner Center. Tickets are available for the Bellin Health LifeLines presentation. Click http://www.uwgb.edu/weidner/.
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