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Nov. 30-Dec. 6, 2004

NEWS

Out of steam
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/dec04/281548.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Dec. 6, 2004
UWM's Director of Service Learning, Sharon Adams, talks about her father Julius Foster’s migration to Milwaukee and the rebirth of entrepreneurial spirit in Milwaukee’s black neighborhoods and community. This story is one of a series on economic development and challenges in Milwaukee’s black neighborhoods.

Nation’s job growth stalls
http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/dec04/281008.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Dec. 4, 2004
The discrepancy between the gloomy national and hopeful local numbers in manufacturing job reports might be accounted for because of the type of manufacturing in Milwaukee, said John Heywood, UWM professor of economics. Heywood notes that the Milwaukee area tends to enter recessions later than the rest of the nation but also lags in recovering from them because Milwaukee makes a lot of capital goods.

State will start network to help new businesses
http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/nov04/279641.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Nov. 30, 2004
Wisconsin’s newly announced network to help start-up businesses patent technologies, raise money from investors and obtain government grants is "a formal way to bring actors together who have been going down parallel paths," said Sammis White, a professor of urban planning at UWM and associate dean of the university's School of Continuing Education.

Wisconsin ranks first for arrests per 100,000 citizens
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/dec04/281500.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Dec. 6, 2004
One reason Wisconsin ranks so high in the number of arrests is because the state doesn’t do a good job of separating out civil forfeitures from arrests, says Stan Stojkovic, UWM criminal justice professor and dean of the Helen Bader School of Social Work. In other states, he notes, disorderly conduct, vandalism or a liquor law violation are not recorded as an arrest.

Wright home's wrongs to be fixed
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/dec04/281262.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Dec. 5, 2004
Bob Greenstreet, the city's director of planning and design and dean of UWM’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning, says the long sought-after acquisition of a Frank Lloyd Wright home will offer a chance for students in UWM's Historic Preservation Institute to get hands-on experience rejuvenating an overlooked aspect of the master builder's work.

Latino action seen as a key point
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/nov04/279699.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Nov. 30, 2004
Enrique Figueroa, director of UWM’s Robert Hernandez Center, has emerged as a new leader in the community as a result of efforts to remove radio talk show host Mark Belling from the air for his use of an insulting ethnic slur.

Ribbons of hope
http://www.uwm.edu/News/clips/ribbons.pdf
Kenosha News, WI – Nov. 16, 2004
Sandra Underwood, a UWM professor of nursing and cancer researcher, gave a Perkins Restaurant hostess a pink crystal pin - symbolizing those fighting breast cancer - one day when she stopped in the restaurant. Now, the hostess, Kathe Langford, herself a cancer survivor, is passing out the pins as part of a grass-roots effort to inform men and women about breast cancer.

Odyssey: Zoo Experience
WBEZ-FM - Nov. 19, 2004
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Nigel Rothfelse. UWM historian and author of ”Savages and Beasts, Birth of the Modern Zoo," discusses the evolution of the modern zoo.

Hunt for benefits
http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/dec04/280292.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Dec. 2. 2004
Firms that close for the hunting season and temporarily lay off employees concern economists, says John Heywood, director of UWM’s human resources and labor relations program, because the costs for hunting layoffs are shifted to the entire unemployment insurance system.

Panel urges stricter bid rules
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/nov04/279675.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Nov. 30, 2004
Richard Marcus, associate professor of business at UWM, was part of a committee that recommended changes to Milwaukee County’s bidding and evaluation process.
See also:
Editorial: Transparency in bidding
http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/nov04/279858.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Dec. 1, 2004

Hmong hunter charged with six murders is said to be Shaman
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/01/national/01hunter.html?oref=login
New York Times, NY – Dec.1, 2004
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Vincent Her, a UWM graduate student studying traditional Hmong culture, says it is unclear whether accused killer Chai Soua Vang’s role as a Shaman is in any way connected to the shootings of six hunters in northern Wisconsin. Her said he did not believe that Shamans could go into a trance so deep that they would lose touch with the physical world, even in a situation of extreme stress.

Bulk Petroleum adds 188 stores in two states
http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2004/12/06/story2.html?page=1
Milwaukee Business Journal – Dec. 3, 2004
Mequon-based Bulk Petroleum Corp. has added to its gas station empire by purchasing 188 gas stations and convenience stores from an Indiana company for $31.9 million. The story mentions that Bulk Petroleum President Darshan Dhaliwal funds the Dhaliwal Distinguished Speaker program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Vigil for student
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CBS 58 News WDJT – Nov. 19, 2004
UWM students held a vigil for student Robert Warns, killed in Iraq. WB18 News at Nine also covered the vigil.

New Addition
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CBS 58 News WDJT-TV – Nov. 18, 2004
The UWM campus will be getting a welcome addition of house condos, student housing and classrooms.

Regional News: Free panel discussion on Sudan http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/nov04/279700.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI –Nov. 30, 2004
Ahmed Mbalia of UWM’s Africology Department participated in a panel discussion on the Sudan entitled "Genocide in Africa: Why Won't the World Respond."

Edward James Olmos Takes Five
http://www.jsonline.com/enter/gen/dec04/281304.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Dec. 5, 2004
Hispanic-American actor, producer, director and community activist Edward James Olmos, who spoke at UWM as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series, talks about his life and career.

Regional briefing: UWM commencement Dec. 19 at arena
http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/dec04/281036.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Dec. 4, 2004 The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will hold its winter commencement ceremony at 1 p.m. Dec. 19 at the U.S. Cellular Arena, 400 W. Kilbourn Ave.

Milwaukee ponders 'gifts' from nonprofits to fix city's budget
http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2004/12/06/story3.html
Milwaukee Business Journal/MSNBC – Dec. 3, 2004
Some tax-exempt organizations in Milwaukee already contribute to the city. UWM pays about $2.5 million annually, which is about $100 per student, for police and fire protection.

Plan to pick site for sex offenders lagging
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/dec04/281412.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Dec. 6, 2004
Stan Stojkovic, UWM professor and dean of the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, heads a committee to find possible sites for Milwaukee County's planned transitional home for sexually violent criminals. The committee is working diligently to overcome problems that have cropped up, he says.

Business calendar
http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/dec04/281433.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Dec. 6, 2004
In Our Hands - Preparing Professionals for an Aging Society." Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. UWM Union Wisconsin Room, 220 E. Kenwood Blvd. Free.

Letters: UWM property owners asking too much
http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/dec04/280579.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Dec. 3, 2004
A letter writer says property owners in the UWM area shouldn’t support efforts to impose conduct codes on students for off-campus activities.

ARTS

Style punctuates chamber program
http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/arts/dec04/280308.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Dec. 2, 2004
The concert of Baroque music by Chamber Music Milwaukee at UWM’s Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts was solo-oriented, although only one piece of the four was labeled a concerto.

Poet House Pals
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New York Sun, NY – Dec. 1, 2004
Elizabeth Friedmann, UWM English professor, was part of an event discussing the life and work of Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-91), who published "Collected Poems" at the age of 37, and renounced poetry a year later. Jackson went on to pursue philosophical issues relating to language and truth.

SPORTS

Achieving a goal
http://www.gmtoday.com/content/NSL/2004/November/13.asp
Waukesha Freeman, WI – Dec. 2, 2004
Louis Bennett, the head soccer coach at UW-Milwaukee, recently became the winningest coach in school history with 110 career victories.

Local man helps ESPN tune into holiday spirit
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/gen/dec04/280316.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Dec. 2, 2004
An ESPN crew was in Milwaukee last week to tape a musical number featuring the UWM Men’s Choir that was part of the introduction to the upcoming “Sunday Night Football” telecast of a game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Jacksonville Jaguars. The segment aired over the weekend.

Hare-razing experience
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/coll/dec04/280457.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Dec. 2, 2004
UWM’s men’s basketball team pounded Division I newbie South Dakota State.

Panthers keep pushing for victory
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/coll/dec04/281531.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Dec. 6, 2004
Kimberly Becker had 15 points and eight rebounds and UWM had four players in double-figures and held Oakland University scoreless for the last 1:36 en route to a 69-64 victory.

Basketball season
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WTMJ-TV – Nov. 19, 2004
UWM men’s basketball Coach Bruce Pearl was interviewed about the coming season and the Sports Illustrated article mentioning UWM.

Panthers pound it out
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/coll/dec04/281392.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI - Dec 5, 2004
Bruce Pearl’s UWM team got a leg up on the Horizon League on Saturday night, grinding out a bruising 75-67 victory over the University of Illinois-Chicago Flames at the UIC Pavilion, a place where the Panthers haven’t won in six years.

Go team! Cheerleaders
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/dec04/281288.asp
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI – Dec. 5, 2004
More than 1,000 cheerleaders were involved in competitions in Milwaukee over the weekend, which were held at UWM as well as the Midwest Airlines Center.