Vol. 39, No. 120, May 16, 2008     /     Log Archive

This is a news-filled, everybody's-busy, meet-your-deadline, answer-the-bell, day-before-commencement edition of the LOG newsletter for UW-Green Bay faculty and staff. In the fashion of the traditional pre-fight exhortation of legendary boxing referee Mills Lane (and not in the Marvin Gaye sense), Let's get it on:

Photo gallery: Shepards bid students farewell with coffee, cookie treats
There will be additional opportunities in the next few weeks for campus and community to extend best wishes — and for the Shepards to offer thank-you's — but Thursday's lattes and cookies event at Common Grounds coffeehouse gave Bruce and Cyndie some quality time with students. Nice photos at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/page/photo.htm.

No fare: Bus rides get Transit Commission OK
A partnership between UW-Green Bay and Green Bay Metro will allow students (and faculty and staff) to ride city buses to and from campus and anywhere in between for free. The Green Bay Transit Commission voted today (May 16) to approve a pilot program-called U-Pass-for those showing a campus ID. The student-led initiative is funded in part by segregated fees. The U-Pass program will run July 1 through June 30. Says Prof. Marcelo Cruz, who is also a Green Bay Transit commissioner, "It's great for the students to see it go through, and a learning experience as far as the politics of making it happen, and also, to allow students to have a viable alternative to transportation to campus." For more, http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-138.htm.

UW Credit Union is packing up and moving out
Muriea Jaeckels informs us next week is a big one for the UW Credit Union. They'll be open as usual on the library plaza Monday through Wednesday, but closed Thursday (May 22) and Friday (May 23). On those days they'll be relocating to their new location, Room 201 of the University Union, and opening Tuesday, May 27. (Members are encouraged to use the ATMS for their banking needs on the "closed for moving" days.) Questions? Call Muriea at 465-2345.

Doyle's vetoes would mean greater cuts for state agencies
You'll be hearing more next week, to be certain, but early wire stories on Gov. Jim Doyle's budget vetoes are reporting a significant increase from the Legislature's $69 million in lapses for state agencies. Some of the cuts could be offset by fund transfers and increased revenue elsewhere, but a first reading leaves no doubt the Governor believes more spending reductions for FY 09 are in order. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel coverage is at http://www.jsonline.com/watch/?watch=1&date=5/16/2008&id=39792.

Friends invite Books in Honor participation for Harvey Naumann memorial
The Friends of the Cofrin Library invite the campus community to join them in contributing to a Books in Honor fund honoring Harvey Naumann, who passed away earlier this month. Harvey was the husband of longtime library employee Mary Naumann. The Friends will donate one or more books to the library in order to honor Harvey's memory. If you would like to make a contribution to this special fund, visit the Friends website (http://www.uwgb.edu/library/friends/giftbook.html) or simply send a contribution to Deb Anderson (Cofrin Library). Please make out checks to the Friends of the Cofrin Library. Address questions to Friends President David Voelker (voelkerd@uwgb.edu).

Photos: Sun shines on Solar Olympics Day
The new Kress Events Center served as headquarters as two dozen area high schools sent delegations to UW-Green Bay earlier this week for Solar Olympics Day, co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Public Service Community Foundation. Check out the images at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/photoarch/events/080514solarolympics.htm.

Apologies to our Space Grant friends: We spaced
Sun spots on Tuesday must have created some sort of cosmic brain interference because our LOG item the other day included last year's winners of the annual WSGC scholarship and research awards, not this year's. Correcting that mistake is the following item.

Space Grant Consortium awards scholarships, honors
The Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium announces scholarships and research awards to three UW-Green Bay undergraduate students for the 2008-09 academic year. Recipients of Undergraduate Scholarships are:

• Jonathan Carlson, of Suring, is a senior majoring in business administration and psychology. He is studying NASA as an organization. He attended Oconto Falls High School.

• Antonio Castillo, of Green Bay, is a senior majoring in mechanical engineering with a concentration in aerospace. He will be transferring to UW-Madison for the fall 2008 to continue his aerospace pursuit. Castillo attended Preble High School.

• Joseph Jankiewicz, of Cambridge, is a junior majoring in environmental science and is focusing on projects that promote sustainability. He attended Sun Prairie High School.

The Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium, headquartered at UW-Green Bay, supports students in science, mathematics and technology by funding research, student scholarships and outreach projects in a wide variety of fields related to aerospace.

UW-Green Bay student history project remembers forgotten WWI archives
Real words from a real war, written by real soldiers in 1918. That's the material UW-Green Bay history students are working with in the Cofrin Library's Area Research Center. Collected from more than 1,700 Brown County World War I veterans shortly after the Treaty of Versailles, the letters home were donated for a commemorative history book at the time. The book was never completed. Trevor Jones, curator of history at the Neville Public Museum, UW-Green Bay History Prof. Andrew Kersten and their students are working to e-publish the material. (Undergrads in the History Seminar course started the legwork this year.) It's an interesting story at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/archive/2008/08-136.htm.

Of, course, the number of schoolchildren served by Weidner is 400,000
That otherwise-excellent special section that appeared Thursday in the Press-Gazette and Post-Crescent newspapers — with extra copies to be made available to visitors at Saturday's 25,000th graduate edition of UW-Green Bay commencement — contained one unfortunate typo. Total students served by the Weidner Center's education program is nearly 400,000. A missing zero was the problem Thursday.

'Inside' out, with more
We're getting a great response to the May 2008 "Lawyers" edition of the Inside UW-Green Bay alumni magazine. If you didn't yet get your copy, or would like to share an article with a friend, the issue is now online at http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/page/inside.htm.

The online version also offers extended versions of some stories:
• Judges Hanrahan, Madden, Krueger share UWGB memories http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/insidearchive/08may/bench.htm

• A prosecutor, a public defender, share stories http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/insidearchive/08may/sidebar.htm

• London barrister recalls Prof. Yarbrough, others http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/insidearchive/08may/wacek.htm

Remembering UWGB, Rodney Dangerfield and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
One more from the magazine: If you're a fan of the 1980s comedy Back to School filmed at UW-Madison, you know the scene in which Dangerfield (as free-spending blue-collar millionaire Thornton Melon) hires a ghost-writer to help his college-student son complete an assignment on the writings of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The hired gun turned out to be, of course, the real Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Well, as it turns out, a decade earlier, a group of free-spirit UW-Green Bay students had the same idea, in real life. Click http://www.uwgb.edu/univcomm/news/insideARCHIVE/08may/quest.htm.

Doyle appoints Army vet as student regent
Gov. Doyle has appointed UW-Platteville student Kevin Opgenorth to the UW System Board of Regents. Opgenorth will be replacing Thomas Shields as the non-traditional student representative, effective June 9. Opgenorth recently returned to Platteville after three years in the U.S. Army including a one-year deployment in Iraq where he served as an Ammo Team Chief and Radio Transmission Officer. For more on Opgenorth (as a "Slap Shot" fan, it's hard not to type "Oglethorpe"), click http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/journal_media_detail.asp?locid=19&prid=3374.

Bennett returns to coaching at Wisconsin
UW-Green Bay grad and former basketball star Kathi Bennett, Class of 1986, has signed on as assistant women's basketball coach for the Badgers. Bennett, of course, was a nationally prominent head coach at UW-Oshkosh and Evansville who enjoyed some success with the Indiana Hoosiers before taking a break from the game a few years ago. There's a good article about her at http://www.madison.com/tct/sports/uw/basketball/women/284296.

Newspaper column says athletics/academics balance is key at UW
UW-Madison chancellor candidates have been asked to address the relationship between the campus and the athletic department. Interesting reading at http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/285898.

New ads encourage high-school students to take tough courses
The national pre-college campaign known as KnowHow2Go will soon have a series of public-service announcements aimed at encouraging low-income high school students to take challenging courses. The Chronicle of Higher Education had a story at http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=4483&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en.

Reminder: Click here for May edition of Chancellor's FYI
On campus distribution of Bruce Shepard's monthly newsletter (he'll have one final issue in June before turning things over to David Ward) is now strictly electronic. For the May issue, http://www.uwgb.edu/chancellor/fyi/08mayfyi.htm.

Reminder: Reception for Hammersmith
The reception for outgoing provost Sue K. Hammersmith takes place from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday (May 19) in the Phoenix Room of the University Union. Hammersmith is leaving UW-Green Bay next month to accept the presidency of Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis.

P-G item on organization's honor for Prof. Anne Kok
Friday's Press-Gazette carried a nice little piece on the state chapter of the National Association of Social Workers plans to honor the late Prof. Anne Kok. Her colleague Jolanda Sallmann is quoted, at http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080516/GPG0101/805160653/1207/GPG01.

UW-Green Bay ties to Sunday's great race
The Cellcom Green Bay Marathon takes place this Sunday (May 18). A number of UW-Green Bay people will take part... or have already... in a variety of capacities. In addition to runners, volunteers include Mark Brunette and members of the Alumni Association team who will run a water station. Also, Cross County Coach Mike Kline was a motivational guest speaker at a get-ready-to-run workshop earlier this spring.

Briefs
Prof. Illene Noppe, Human Development, had a May trip planned for Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She received funding from the International Education Office to do a site visit to determine the possibilities for a travel course for UW-Green Bay students. In addition, the Psychology faculty and faculty from the Medical School and Nelson Mandela University have asked her to give two presentations on her work, specifically on how to set up a course on death and dying, and issues related to her study of college-student grief.

Christina Trombley, director of the Small Business Development Center, has graduated from Leadership Green Bay. Her team project - which she will continue to pursue via the Leadership Green Bay alumni organization — involves small capital improvement projects for non-profit agencies in the area. The concept is that charitable, non-profit and governmental agencies spend their resources and staff time where it is best invested, in helping the people of Brown County. Often, that means that projects and improvements in their own organizations get placed on the back burner. Through a series of small, capital improvement projects or volunteer opportunities, Trombley's group will help these organizations improve their capabilities, meet organizational goals, or beautify their workplaces.

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