Day: July 29, 2011
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Mark your calendars: The year in Cultural Cuisine
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Our friends at the University Union have announced their 2011-12 menu of Cultural Cuisine luncheons. If you enjoy sampling flavors from around the world, supplemented by fun, informational and sometimes musical presentations, these noontime events are for you: • India — Friday, Sept. 23 • Holiday Luncheon — Thursday, Dec 8 • France — Friday,…
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Recent grad Beyer, retiree Stepien among ‘women to know’
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Samantha Beyer, a 2011 UW-Green Bay graduate, and Dottie Stepien, former director of our extended (now adult) degree program, are profiled among the 20 ‘women to know’ by You Magazine. Beyer is an avid volunteer for the American Red Cross and other organizations, an activism that is motivated in part by the experience of losing…
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Another calendar reminder: Make time for 2011-12 Common Theme items
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The Common Theme website is live with a calendar of events and activities, recommended readings and more. Check it out at www.uwgb.edu/commontheme/. This year’s theme is Celebrating Differences, Creating Community. If you have events or activities connected to the Common Theme, please send to Dean of Students Brenda Amenson-Hill or Prof. Donna Ritch.
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Kersten makes NYT ‘Editor’s Choice’ list with Darrow
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UW-Green Bay Prof. Andrew Kersten of Democracy and Justice Studies enjoyed some follow-up exposure to this summer’s New York Times review of his book Clarence Darrow: American Iconoclast (Hill & Wang, $30). The book has now made the newspaper’s Editor’s Choice list, as well; read more.
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Kraft: As for collective bargaining, parties don't seem to recall
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An interesting story in Friday’s (July 29) Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel addresses the collective bargaining wrangling that caused so much conflict in Wisconsin earlier this year — but that, somewhat paradoxically, has failed to become a campaign issue (as our own Prof. Michael Kraft points out) in the resultant legislative recall elections. “Both parties have decided that…
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Help us help you have a comprehensive ‘phone book’
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Reminder: Help us help you have a comprehensive ‘phone book’ A great number of offices have already returned their department listings, as requested last week by Betsy Bassett-Piehl in the Marketing/Communication Office. (Many thanks!) However, a few departments are still outstanding, and you are reminded that Friday (July 29) was the target date for offices…
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UW-Green Bay Theatre standout makes Peninsula Players debut
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UW-Green Bay student Derek James Knabenbauer is expanding his local theatre credentials with a turn in Peninsula Players Theatre’s, A Few Good Men, now through Aug. 14 in Fish Creek. Knabenbauer is well known to University Theatre audiences — he’s performed in numerous theatre program plays, including the program’s most successful show to date, last…
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Reminder: Furniture adoption weekend
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The forecast is mostly sunny and warm this weekend, a fairly good forecast for those who expect to be loading up their trailers, trucks and vans with used residence-hall furniture at UW-Green Bay. If you’re in the vicinity of the four Lenfestey and Walter residence halls between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday…
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Irish dance tickets go on sale today
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If you’re reading this on Friday, July 29, after 11 a.m. (highly likely, in that it’s already a few minutes after noon as we type this), it’s the first day of ticket availability for next November’s Weidner Center performance “In Love With the Dance,” direct from Ireland. Read more.
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Scam alert
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The state DOA shares warning of a company called “US Postage Meter Center” that sends mailing & shipping supplies and the calls for payment, claiming that someone from the receiving agency had requested the items. Don’t fall for it. And know you are entitled to keep, return, or destroy unsolicited items… and that “Merchants who…