Day: October 28, 2008
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Five new features at www.uwgb.edu
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In rotation at the main UW-Green Bay homepage this week, if you haven’t yet noticed, are five new features: • Alumnus Steve Taylor, Prof. Kersten collaborate on rail-history project • Early campus memories from a 1970s SGA president • Fall color photo gallery • Go Green! Women’s basketball is picked No. 1 • Lieb Family…
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Kaye writes ‘op-ad’ piece for today’s New York Times
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UW-Green Bay Prof. Harvey Kaye, Social Change and Development, urges Americans to “build democracy and prosperity from the bottom up” in a fiery new ad appearing in today’s edition of the New York Times. The ad on Page A-23, or the op-ed page, of the Times says Americans must act on the democratic impulse handed…
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Cofrin Library opens ‘Media Room’
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The Cofrin Library is pleased to announce the opening of its new Media Room. Located on the library’s fifth floor (CL 505B), the media room is equipped with a television, VHS/DVD player and plenty of comfortable seating. If you’d like to use the room, please stop by the Library’s Reserve desk on third floor. Library…
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Raffle is a home run for Mike Schmitt
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Mike Schmitt, a UW-Green Bay staff member employed in the Media Services office, was the big winner in last week’s Friends of the Cofrin Library mega-raffle. We don’t have space here to list all the prizes he won, but needless to say, if you’re looking for someone to treat you to lunch, dinner, a golf…
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Student’s tribute to departed friend will premiere
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The UW-Green Bay Chorale will premiere an original composition by student Timothy P. Kiefer at its concert next week. Kiefer, a senior from Germantown majoring in applied music, composed both the text and music for “Do Not Fear, My Child” after the death of a close friend. The text expresses comfort to both the departed…
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Country show at Weidner Center: Jason Aldean
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CMT on Tour 2008 headliner Jason Aldean performs this Sunday night (Nov. 2) at the Weidner Center with opening acts Lady Antebellum and Eric Durrance. For ticket info ($32.75) and more, www.uwgb.edu/weidner/calendar.htm.
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‘Teen Connection’ tonight looks at teens, elections
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The “Teen Connection” program airing tonight (Tuesday, Oct. 28) looks at teens and the election process. A teen panel will be joined by political scientist Keith Knutson of Viterbo College, who has studied the youth vote. The program is broadcast from the ETPNEW studios located on the UW-Green Bay campus and produced by NEWIST/CESA 7.…
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Kagen-Gard congressional race
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Negative ads? Prof says Kagen-Gard is worse than McCain-Obama Incumbent Steve Kagen (D-Appleton) and challenger John Gard (R-Suamico) are turning up the heat. Television viewers in the Green Bay market are seeing more negative ads in the 8th Congressional District race than in the presidential campaigns, UW-Green Bay Prof. Tim Meyer told the Press-Gazette. “I…
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Legislator pay could be hot topic
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Prof. Emeritus David Littig gave his two cents recently about pay plans for state lawmakers. A study by the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance showed that the $47,413 state legislators made last year ranked ninth nationally, the Appleton Post Crescent reported. Their salaries in 2009-10 will represent a 5.3 percent increase. “There will be a political uproar…
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Greener path is expected
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When the new president takes office in January, expect a different course in energy policy from that followed by the Bush administration, experts told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Prof. Mike Kraft was among those experts. He told the paper that Republican candidate Sen. John McCain was indeed a “maverick” in his party in terms of…