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TRACK, PAGE 6 OPPRESSION WORKSHOP, PAGE 2 FALCON LOGO, PAGE 8 Falcons transition Events on campus highlight Freddy the Falcon’s between indoor and white privilege name, symbolism outdoor seasons explained TUDENTUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OICERIVER FALLS MarchS 27, 2009 www.uwrfvoice.com V Volume 96, Issue 19 ItF mightalcons have come secondsfinish remaining in overtime. fourth in Frozen Four If there was no scoring in the home empty handed, overtime session, the game would have gone to a shootout. but the 2008-09 sea- “I was hoping for a shootout,” Cassi Campbell, who sat out the son was far from a third place game after stopping 22 disappointment for shots the previous day, said. “Deardorff is so good at shootouts the UWRF women’s and I believe we would have won the game. It was too bad they had to hockey team score on a goal like that.” The Falcons had several chances Justin Magill to make overtime irrelevant, includ- [email protected] ing a breakaway by Emma Nordness in the second. After a victory against the No. 1 “We could have had six or seven ranked team the week prior, the goals with the way we played,” UW-River Falls women’s hockey Cranston said. “We had the team was unable to perform an chances.” encore in the Div. III women’s Stefanie Schmitz, who had two Frozen Four with a 3-2 overtime assists in the game, said the Falcons loss to Middlebury College (Vt.), were a different team in the third which followed a 3-0 loss to Elmira place game. College (N.Y.) in the national semi- “We didn’t play Falcon hockey on final. Friday [the semifinal game],” she In the third place game against said. “The next day we came out and Middlebury, UWRF Head Coach took it to the No. 1 seed.” Joe Cranston said the Falcons gave Abby Sunderman opened the Photo courtesy of Addison County (Vt.) Independent the Panthers everything they could scoring, putting away a goal in what handle. The UW-River Falls women’s hockey team plays Middlebury College (Vt.) in the third-place game of was a scrum in front of the net. It the Div. III Frozen Four tournament en route to a 3-2 overtime loss and overall fourth place finish. “We really took it to them,” was her 16th goal of the season. Cranston said. “To go into their The 1-0 lead did not last long in from the point as well to give the third when Molly Vitt beat handed when they came home. building and play them they way we the first period as the Panthers’ Julie UWRF a 2-1 lead. Deardorff glove side from the left The previous day, UWRF did not did was outstanding. It might have Ireland tallied one from the blue line With several scoring chances faceoff dot. have a chance against Elmira. been the best performance of any and the game was tied after the first throughout the period, UWRF was Once again, the Falcons had a lot After an Ashly Berner hooking team I have ever coached.” period. able to control the game, but unable of pressure, but could not get anoth- penalty in the first minute of the Unfortunately for UWRF, Midway through the second, the to get any more goals, and the score er shot past Panther goalie Lani game, Elmira’s Kayla Coady scored Middlebury’s Grace Watters’ shot Falcons got their second lead of the remained 2-1 going into the third. Wright. when she buried a loose puck in was able to squeak past Falcon game on a power play goal by Middlebury answered again with In overtime, Watters’ goal ended goalie Melissa Deardorff with 12 Heather Horgan, who blasted a shot a power play goal six minutes into the game and left the Falcons empty See Hockey page 3 University unveils new Web site design Ben Brewster Web site, per se.” Sam Vorphal, Sarah Rykal, Chawntou Fetus found in Ag [email protected] The new look includes a new color Yang, Kyle Jero and Rachael Anderson. scheme and photographs, and having the The new look of the Web site is A new look for the UW-River Falls navigation on the left margin. designed to Sci storage room Web site was unveiled Monday, March “What we’re doing now is “What we’re doing now match the Ken Weigend 23, to fit in with the University’s market- just changing where the navi- is just changing where University’s [email protected] ing plan and to get the look more consis- gation might be positioned, but marketing the navigation might be A human fetus, sitting idly for roughly 40 years, was discov- tent throughout the entire site. the navigation is still the plan. ered in a storage room in the basement of the Ag Science “What is happening is more of a cos- same,” Reed said. positioned, but the “We’re building on the UW-River Falls campus. The fetus, a stillborn metic change,” Director of IT Services A white and gray background trying to navigation is still the approximately 18 weeks into development, was found along Steve Reed said. “It’s not redesigning the is replacing the previous red align it as same.” with a small bone, a neonatal skull and a weathered adult back- best we can femur. ground Steve Reed, with our According to biology professor Karen Klyczek, Rebecca and the director of IT Services marketing Bronk, a biology lab manager, found the remains while clean- collection materials, so ing a storage room full of preserved specimens in mid- of photographs that that when students or parents or anybody February. used to appear on that receives this marketing material “Current biology faculty do not have any information about the homepage has goes and visits our Web site, they’re not [the fetus’s] origins,” Klyczek said. “It has not been used for been replaced by going to look at it and go ‘am I sure I’m teaching purposes for at least 30 years and we would not have six success stories on the right site?,’” Reed said. any reason today, so we decided to look into proper options.” from UWRF stu- Another reason for the new look is to The River Falls Police Department was immediately con- dents. be consistent throughout the University’s tacted. Since there was no formal documentation as to the The success sto- Web site. identity or origin of the fetus, a formal investigation into the ries come from dif- The whole goal is when somebody necessity of possible criminal charges began. A review by the ferent departments goes to a page away from the main Web RFPD, city officials and the coroner’s office concluded that at UWRF and high- site, for example, to a department’s page, the fetus was not the result of foul play, and no charges have light individual stu- they’re still going to know it is UW- been filed. dents’ accomplish- River Falls, Reed said. “We were trying to find information about it. Once we dis- ments. The featured “We want our visitors—faculty, staff, covered there was no potential for any charges, or anything students include Source: uwrf.edu Jenika Boersma, The University’s newly redesigned Web site. See Web site page 3 See Fetus page 3 New UW-River Falls provost, CBE dean set to take office July 1 Nathan Sparks third year as the dean of University of Iowa, as well as the provost search-and-screen said. and Economics Dean Glenn [email protected] Hamline University’s College a Bachelor of Arts in political committee Marshall Toman The provost is the main Potts has been with UWRF of Liberal Arts. He handles science from San José State said. academic official on campus, since 1976. He started as an After searching for a formal intercollegiate sports, under- University. He has written 18 “I thought he was open and overseeing the internal affairs assistant economics profes- provost and dean of the graduate admissions and articles in refereed journals extremely intelligent, and of all curricular and teaching sor, winning a Distinguished College of Business and Hamline’s career develop- and two manuscripts which very personable.” Toman issues. The deans of UWRF’s Teacher Award in 1982. Less Economics since last fall, ment and academic services he is preparing to publish: said. four separate colleges also than 20 years later he became UW-River Falls filled both of centers. He has also worked at “Fidel Castro and the He added that the adminis- report directly to this person, director of the CBE grad pro- these key positions last week. Minnesota State University- Construction of a tration’s choice of Delgado who then reports to the chan- gram, and then associate dean The new provost will be Mankato as dean of their Revolutionary Ideology” and was consistent with the com- cellor. Delgado was chosen as of the college last year. Potts Fernando Delgado of College of Graduate Studies, “Kicking Around: Soccer mittee’s deliberations, which one of two finalists for the said he is planning to take the Hamline University, and the and at Arizona State America and the Persistence were forwarded to Interim position. The other was UW- CBE to new heights as dean. CBE’s current Associate University as associate vice of a Soccer Culture.” Delgado Chancellor Connie Foster, La Crosse’s Karen Palmer “I’m looking forward to Dean Glenn Potts was provost of academic pro- visited UWRF on March 4.

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