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Vol.
39, No. 128, June 6, 2008 / Log
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Warning to the vintage purple-shag carpeting on the wall across from the Cofrin Library's seventh-floor elevator doors: Don't turn your back. In the name of modernization they ripped down your counterpart, the golden shag on the eighth floor, sometime when no one was looking. C'est la vie. For 35 years that groovy wall covering collected shaggy handprints by the hundreds and bacteria/dust particles by the billions, stood sentinel as the rich and powerful came and went, and then, suddenly, perhaps ironically, just when it seems safe to celebrate the early 1970s (Dr. Laatsch! Dr. Ward! Good to see ya again!), it's off to the dumpster. Farewell. In real news today:
• UW chancellor to out-earn System president
• Shepard: Tuition hike is a concern
• Lo, Willems available as anti-hate crime resources
• State grant, appointment for Prof. Ashmann
• Newspaper on search committee
• Professor's take on Obama win
• Fresno references Dutch gas/transit equation
UW chancellor to out-earn System president
The Board of Regents voted this week to increase pay for three new UW chancellors and the UW System president, making their salaries closer to the mid-point for leaders at peer public universities. President Kevin Reilly said that, given the modest raises for faculty and staff statewide, he'll donate nearly all of his substantial raise to creation of a new student scholarship fund. See http://www.jsonline.com/watch/?watch=1&date=6/5/2008&id=40784.
Shepard: Tuition hike is something we worry about
The Board of Regents has signed off on a 5.5 percent tuition hike that will raise the annual cost of coming to UW-Green Bay by $265 for an undergraduate degree. Earlier this week, Chancellor Bruce Shepard told the Green Bay Press-Gazette, "It's something we worry about at UW-Green Bay because so many of our students come from families where moms and dads don't go to college — about 60, 64 percent come from families where neither mom nor dad graduated from college — so finances affect access. But they have, I think, put their emphasis on the right thing, which is financial aid." See http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080604/GPG0101/806040698/-1/archive.
Lo, Willems complete training as anti-hate crime resources
Mai Lo, Multicultural Advisor in the American Intercultural Center and Jeff Willems, Area Coordinator in the Office of Resident Life have completed the national bias- and hate-crime prevention program STOP THE HATE! Professional Development Program for Trainers on Bias and Hate Crime Prevention on College Campuses. They are able to serve as active and visible resource persons for bias and hate crime prevention efforts on campus. Please contact Mai Lo at lom@uwgb.edu or Jeff Willems at willemsj@uwgb.edu for more information.
Prof. Ashmann earns state environmental ed grant, appointment
Scott Ashmann, assistant professor in the Professional Program in Education, recently won a research grant from the Wisconsin Environmental Education Board (WEEB) to study the ways in which teacher preparation programs at each of the UW System schools and all of Wisconsin's private colleges and universities prepare teacher candidates to teach K-12 students about the environment. Grant activities begin July 1 and extend through 2009. In another development, UW System President Kevin Reilly has appointed Professor Ashmann to the WEEB as the representative of all higher education institutions in the state. Ashmann's appointment begins July 1 and expires in 2011.
Newspaper report on search committee
If you missed this week's big news, the Press-Gazette listed the chancellor search and screen committee members at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080606/GPG0101/806060669/1207/GPG01.
Professor's take on Obama win
The Green Bay Press-Gazette asked political science Prof. Michael Kraft his two-cents worth Tuesday after Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama claimed his party's nomination over Sen. Hillary Clinton. "It's over and the story has played out. But the question now is what posture Hillary Clinton will take. It's a question of degree. What level of enthusiasm will she display? Will she say, 'He won, I lost and I'm going home'? There will be a cascading effect, a rush of prominent Democrats coming out for Obama." The rest of the story is here: http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080604/GPG0101/806040701/1978/GPGnews.
Even math isn't safe when it comes to gas costs
A mathematical equation developed by Prof. Steve Dutch to explain why most people don't use mass transit has been shattered? That's what the Fresno Bee almost concludes. An article about the increasing use of mass transit systems in the Fresno area says the value of choosing a car over a bus because it adds time and convenience into a person's decision process is being trumped by the high cost of gasoline, thus leading to an increase in bus ridership. That may be true other places, but in Wisconsin we generally don't see ridership going up because of smog. One woman in the article says she "likes the idea of riding her bicycle to work and then putting it on a bus rack for the trip home during the afternoon heat... 'Because the air is too nasty then.'" And "Happy Cows" have to live in that? Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/650958.html.
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