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Aug. 3 - 9, 2004

NEWS

Teacher certification will face its own test
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Aug. 9, 2004
Bill Kritek, associate dean of UWM’s School of Education, says having prospective teachers take a new exam -- now required for all prospective new teachers before they get their initial license in Wisconsin -- could have a positive impact on the image of the teaching profession. Several UWM education students are also quoted in the story.

Event drives business
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Aug. 9, 2004
Estimates of the economic benefits of the PGA tournament to the Sheboygan area should “be taken with a very healthy dose of skepticism, in part because the methodologies are so imprecise," says Marc V. Levine, director of UWM’s Center for Economic Development.

Study shows marketing research on neighborhoods can miss the point
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Aug. 8, 2004
Carnegie Mellon University public policy students and Pittsburgh's Urban Redevelopment Authority are using the UWM Employment and Training Institute's consumer expenditure
research to promote business development in African American neighborhoods, areas where stereotypes often keep businesses out when they might thrive.

Fear of school violence high in area
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Aug. 8, 2004
Carl Pope, a UWM professor of criminal justice who has studied violence in Milwaukee Public Schools, says the perception of violence is higher than the reality. He comments that he is skeptical about the findings of a Center for Disease Control study showing Milwaukee high school students skip school more often than peers in other large cities because they are afraid of violence.

Tomas Garrett “takes five”
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Aug. 3, 2004
Tomas Garrett, 30, a recent UWM graduate who won a prestigious Jack Kent Cooke foundation graduate fellowship, talks about his journey from gang member to scholar.

Institute to aid nonprofits
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Aug. 3, 2004
UW-Parkside’s Nonprofit Institute will aim to provide Racine and Kenosha’s nonprofits with services similar to those offered by UWM’s Bader Institute for Nonprofit Management.

It’s election time when candidates search for a few choice words
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Aug. 8, 2004
Few votes are won or lost based on ill-advised words, says Steven Redd, UWM assistant professor of political science, in this column on politicians and their supporters' verbal misbehavior.

Correction: Credibility in presidential politics
New York Times, NY – Aug. 1, 2004
An article in the July 21 New York Times about credibility in presidential politics referred to "War and Press Freedom: the Problem of Prerogative Power,” a book by UWM’s Jeffery A. Smith, professor of journalism and mass communications, although the book and author were misidentified in the original article.

Son of immigrants proud of heritage
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Aug. 6. 2004
Donald Pienkos, a UWM political science professor, shares his remembrances of the late Edward Tomasik, who was active in Polish organizations and devoted to freeing his family homeland from Soviet domination.

Contract for coke machines has sale requirement
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Aug. 3, 2004
Menomonee Falls is looking at proposals to use vending machine revenues to fund a skateboard park, whose location hasn’t yet been decided. In May, three UWM urban planning students suggested placing a wheel plaza in Oakwood Park, but word of the location leaked out and would-be neighbors began complaining about that location.

Wisconsin recovery looks good compared to other swing states
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Aug. 3, 2004
Even though presidents have relatively little bearing on the wax and wane of economic tides, the economy is one of the most important gauges through which voters measure leaders, said Kathleen Dolan, an authority on electoral behavior and associate professor of political science at UWM.

Racial fears seen as part of Best Buy opposition
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Aug. 8, 2004
Kirk Harris, an adjunct assistant professor in UWM’s Department of Urban Planning who teaches a course on the role of race and class in urban development, comments on residents' opposition to a Best Buy store in Fox Point.

Ward 15 will speak for many
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Aug. 8, 2004
Jon Myhre, a UWM student who has spent the summer as a volunteer organizer for the Bush presidential campaign, is quoted in this story on the battle for one ward in West Allis.

ARTS

Bookmarks: Some book notes from the folder
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Aug. 8, 2004
This column has two notes about UWM: The Center for Children's Literature, formerly based in UWM's School of Education, has moved to Carthage College; and Yair Mazor, professor of Hebrew and biblical literature at UWM, has a new book out on one of Israel's most celebrated contemporary poets.

A little landscaping can change a lot
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Aug. 9, 2004
In an architectural review of local parking lots, Caren Connolly, a landscape architect who used to teach at UWM, calls the UWM–operated lot at Capitol and Humboldt an “eyesore.”

SPORTS

UWM's Page turns to Greece
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Aug. 3, 2004
Dylan Page, former UWM star and Horizon League's player of the year, has signed a one-year contract to play basketball with Ment of Thessalaniki in Greece.