CHIEFS, PAGE 3 BRAD BROOKINS, PAGE 5 SWIMMING, PAGE 6 Kansas City Chiefs to Columnist chastises students Falcon swim teams decide whether to who return home halfway through return to UWRF every weekend competitive season TUDENTUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OICERIVER FALLS NovemberS 21, 2008 www.uwrfvoice.com V Volume 95, Issue 10 FinalistsTeresa Aviles named in chancellor search [email protected] The five finalists for the UW-River Falls chancellor position were named Nov. 18 at the Town Hall meeting. The search and screen committee comprised of 19 members, including students, community members, staff and faculty, chose the five finalists from 11 candidates who they have been review- ing since June. The committee made their recommendations to the Board of Regents of the UW System and will continue to follow-up on the candidates prior to the final chancellor being selected in December. “Now we give the campus a chance to have their say,” James Madsen, chair of the search and screen committee, said. “We need to make an impression on these candidates so they want to be here.” Finalist William G. Colclough currently holds the position of dean of the college of business administration at UW- LaCrosse. Candidate Geri H. Malandra holds the position of vice chan- cellor for strategic management in the University of Texas System. She has also held the position of associate vice provost at the University of Minnesota. Finalist Raymond W. Cross currently holds the position of president at Morrisville State College in New York. Before going to New York he held the position of department head of engineering technologies at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Mich. Dean Van Galen currently holds the position of vice presi- dent for university advancement at the University of West Florida. Galen also teaches environmental studies at the col- lege and was awarded the outstanding teacher award at Truman State University in Missouri. Finalist Ellen J. Neufeldt holds the position of vice president for student affairs at Salisbury University in Maryland. Previously she held the positions of assistant vice chancellor Colclough Cross Malandra Neufeldt Van Galen for student development at the University of Tennessee at Photo by Jens Gunelson. Chattanooga. Professor and Chancellor Search Chair Jim Madsen, surrounded by others from the 19-member search and The five candidates will participate in public forums from screen committee, announces the five Chancellor position finalist names at the town hall meeting Tuesday in Nov. 19 through Dec. 6. The Board of Regents is expected to the UC. The five candidates will participate in a variety of public forums from Nov. 19 through Dec. 6. For a announce their decision for chancellor by Dec. 23. complete list of schedules for the campus and community visits and information on each candidate, visit www.uwrf.edu/chancellorsearch. Students, staff get acclimated to DLC Faculty Senate looks Collin Pote ago. There were initial diffi- “So far everything I’ve milking, but it is like that [email protected] culties involved with getting heard about the facility now every time you go to work on used to the new facility. has been good,” College of a different farm,” student into administrative UW-River Falls students are However, things have Agriculture, Food and Sarah Alberts said. adapting to the new equip- improved over the last year Environmental Sciences Initially uncomfortable with evaluation process ment at their disposal at the and any initial problems have Administrative Program the new parlor, the cows have Eric Pringle Dairy Learning Center, which been addressed. Manager Laura Walsh said. also gotten used to the new [email protected] opened a little over one year While some of the difficul- facilities. ties involved technical prob- According to Kelm, howev- Members of the Faculty Senate have begun looking into the lems, the biggest hurdles er, this was an entirely expect- idea of implementing administrative evaluations at UW-River largely involved just getting ed occurrence, stating that Falls. used to the new equipment any kind of animal will need “The Faculty Welfare Committee has been charged with cre- which students have done at least a little time to adjust ating a method that administrative evaluations could be poten- over the last year. to a change of location. tially implemented at UWRF,” Faculty Senate Chair David “I would certainly say There were also a few issues Rainville said. everyone has a better idea of at first with things such as Administrative evaluations are currently in place at various the new routine,” Animal and pipe problems and panels that schools across the UW System, with the chancellor, provost, Food Science Chair Steve were too small for calves. vice-chancellors and deans being evaluated, according to Kelm said. However, in the time since the Rainville. Even new students at the Center’s opening there has Three weeks ago, Rainville went to Madison to meet with Learning Center are picking been ample to address the UW System administrators and faculty representatives to see up on technology they poten- problems by repairing or how administrative evaluations are conducted at other schools. tially have not worked with replacing things as necessary. He said that in many cases, there is a faculty senate committee before. “On the technical side, most or equivalent group that has been created for the sole purpose “I lived and worked on of the issues we could have of administering the evaluations and overseeing the evaluation farms before my college run into have been taken care process. experience, but they were tie of,” Kelm said. At some schools, administration members are evaluated in stall barns. The tie stalls are a According to animal science the areas of leadership, management and external funding, Sally King/Student Voice lot more work because we professor Larry Baumann, among others, and then a report of the evaluation is filed. In Cows at the UW-River Falls Dairy Learning Center (DLC) only milked six at a time there are 25 students some schools, the reports are available for any faculty or dine on silage, feed that contains nutrients and pro- instead of the twelve at the lab employed at the Dairy administration member to see, whereas in others, the reports teins needed for the production of milk. The DLC farm. It does take a while to are only available on a “needs basis.” get used to the new way of opened over a year ago, and it has been well received See DLC page 3 See Administrative evaluations page 3 by both UWRF students and faculty. Social Justice Series brings ‘Lost Boy of Sudan’ to campus Joy Stanton student events manager, said in an e- Aid workers coined the term “Lost An estimated 600,000 people were the crisis in Darfur, a northwestern [email protected] mail interview. Boys of Sudan” in reference to Peter forced to seek refuge in neighboring region of Sudan, according to a Ajak co-authored the book “They Pan’s fictional band of orphans. The countries. report to the U.N. Security Council UW-River Falls’ Social Justice Poured Fire on us From the Sky,” media continued to use it to describe Effective collaboration between by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Series (SJS) will be drawing atten- which describes his experiences the survivors, most of who ended up the numerous cultures in Sudan is a in July 2008. tion to the humanitarian crisis in when the civil war, which started in in a refugee camp in Kenya. major political challenge. More than 1.5 million people in Africa through a lecture by a “Lost 1980s, drove an estimated 20,000 Sudan has the world’s largest pop- Three years after the Darfur remain homeless, hungry and Boy,” Benjamin Ajak. young boys from their families and ulation of internally displaced peo- Comprehensive Peace Agreement vulnerable to violent attack, accord- The purpose of Ajak’s lecture is to villages in southern Sudan. ple—approximately 4 million—cre- (CPA) between the government of ing to the nonprofit Network for give students background of the More than half died walking more ated during more than 20 years of Sudan and SPLA in January 2005, Good Web site. ongoing issues in Africa’s largest than 1,000 miles to Ethiopia to conflict between the government of the situation in Sudan remains frag- Awareness is a key step to under- country, Sudan. escape death or induction into slav- Sudan in the north and the Sudan ile. standing issues that affect others “We are hoping to raise awareness ery and the northern army, according People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) in The sustainable peace between the and appreciation for the life of those to the International Rescue the south, according to the U.S. north and south that the CPA seeks suffering in Africa,” Anna Hunter, Committee Web site. State Department’s Web site. to build has been compromised by See Lost Boy page 3 Student Voice 2 NEWS November 21, 2008 VOICE SHORTS Jimmy John's to build new restaurant in RF Film series presents "Lust, Caution" Nathan Sparks these places, people just build them and "Part of the reason I came here was "Lust, Caution," a film depicting the student resistant [email protected] hire out other people to operate them. because [River Falls] was a nice small movement against the Chinese puppet government during We want to bring superior service." town, with not very much commercial World War II, will be shown at 4 p.m. on Dec. 1 in the The sandwich delivery chain Jimmy This service will include fresh ingre- development." Murphy said. Kinnickinnic River Theater, room 320 in the University John's is expected to build a restaurant dients sliced daily, a drive-thru and fast The land Olsen and Martinsen Co.