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Interim chancellor

namedUW System President Kevin Reilly named UW-Eau

Claire’s interim chancellor Wednesday afternoon.Gilles Bousquet, UW-Madison dean of the Division

of International Studies, will begin his one-year appoint-ment on July 15. His other credentials include serving as vice-provost for globalization, director of the Inter-national Institute, special assistant to the chancellor for international engagement and Pickard-Bascom profes-sor of French.

In an email sent Wednesday after-noon, Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankev-ich wrote that he believes Bousquet will be able to continue the university’s commitment to improving high-impact learning experiences for all students.

“Bousquet’s experience in the global arena is held in high regard on the Mad-ison campus and beyond,” he wrote in the email, “and it reinforces our repu-tation and performance as a university committed to global and cross-cultural learning.”

Levin-Stankevich announced on March 27 that he will be leaving Eau Claire to become the president of Westminster College in Salt Lake City.

Levin-Stankevich’s last day as Chancellor is May 1 and Eau Claire Provost Patricia Klein will serve as officer-in-charge until Bousquet’s appointment begins.

In a UW System news release, Reilly said Bousquet’s academic credentials and leadership experiences are a good fit with Eau Claire’s core liberal arts mission.

“At a time when people want Wisconsin’s public uni-versities to help boost economic growth, (Bousquet)’s work on system-wide international economic develop-ment strategies shows that he understands the UW’s role as an economic engine for the state,” Reilly said in the news release.

In the release, Bousquet said he welcomed the invitation from Reilly to lead Eau Claire through its transition period.

“UW-Eau Claire has a reputation as a high-quality in-stitution with a strong commitment to liberal arts and professional education,” Bousquet said. “I look forward to working with, supporting, and learning from the en-tire campus community, including faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the university.”

Reilly, the Board of Regents and the Eau Claire cam-pus community will continue work on a national search for the university’s next chancellor, and plan to have a permanent appointment made before summer 2013.

— The Spectator staff

The first time someone read a poem in American Sign Language at the International Poetry reading, Audrey Fessler, assistant professor of English and women’s studies, said the change in the room was astounding.

“I remember how the room went silent with a kind of visual intensity I have seldom experienced when we shifted from ears to eyes to understand poetry,” she said.

American Sign Language is just one of the 36 languages from around the world being showcased in this year’s International Poetry Reading, which will be held at 7 p.m. on April 23 in the Council Fire Room in the Davies Center.

Bryton Fredrick, a junior sociology major, is reading in American Sign Language this year, his first year involved with the reading.

Fredrick said he got involved in the reading “kind of by accident, but kind of on purpose” when Fessler, one of the event’s co-directors, mentioned it in class and volunteered him for ASL.

New initiatives for female vets

Meal plans expand to ease transition to new DaviesAdditions include block plans, “to-go” options; upper, lower campus plans differ

Jill Doubek, a six-year veteran of the Navy and a non-traditional senior at UW-Eau Claire, said she had a wonderful experience in the military and ad-justed back to civilian life rather painlessly.

However, she knows other veterans were not so lucky and may need some help to work through issues.

“My transition was easy, but I can’t say that for everybody,” Doubek said. “There’s a lot of troubled people.”

In a recent press release, the University said it has made a number of changes to its Vet-eran Services program over the past year to help those vet-erans that need it, specifically female veterans.

The overhaul of the pro-gram began when Miranda Cross-Schindler was hired as military education benefits co-ordinator last year. Prior to

Cross-Schindler being made the full-time head of Veterans Services, the position was done on a part-time basis, which Doubek said limited the scope of the office’s ideas. Cross-Schindler was unavailable for comment.

Several initiatives have been implemented aimed at making female veterans more comfort-able on campus. A luncheon was recently held for female veterans, dependents and spouses, which Doubek, who aditionally serves as Veterans Ser-vices assistant directly under Cross-Schindler, said went extremely well.

Women were given a chance to voice any con-cerns or vent any frustrations with Veterans Ser-vices, of which Doubek said the majority were about improving the health care system.

Doubek said female veterans face many unique situations when it comes to people’s ex-pectations of them, which makes things like the luncheon important.

She said she has noticed a lot of female vet-erans are uncomfortable divulging their status as a veteran.

“The questions that come after that are some-times not ones that they want to answer,” Doubek said. “It’s questions like, ‘What did you do?’ or things like, ‘You couldn’t have been on a ship.’”

Opportunities to speak, on-campus therapy available for all veterans

By Chris ReinoosCOPY EDITOR

Doubek

By Haley ZblewskiNEWS EDITOR

See VETERANS, page 2A

See POETRY, page 2A

Going around the world in two hoursPoetry reading features nearly 40 languages

Bousquet

Changes to the meal plans will go into effect next year at UW-Eau Claire as the university prepares for the changes in dining options in the new Davies Center.

Charles Farrell, director of Univer-sity Centers, said changes are necessary to accommodate the new Davies Center not having a cafeteria and the food court being taken out of Hilltop Center.

“Assuming that not everyone is going to be real thrilled about walking back up the hill for lunch, we’ve tried to provide other options that would fit within what we’re able to offer in the new Davies Center,” Farrell said.

Student Body President Phil Rynish said the University Centers Advisory Board has been working to make sure stu-dents will be satisfied with their meal plans.

“There’s been a lot of research and analysis that’s gone into making up these plans to make sure that they cater to stu-dents’ needs,” Rynish said.

The all-access meal plan, at $1,495 per semester, will still be available and

still provides unlimited access to the Riverview Cafe in the Hilltop Center, ac-cording to the Blugold Dining website.

Along with this is a dif-ferentiation between students who live on upper cam-pus and stu-dents who live in Katherine Thomas and Putnam Halls, Farrell said.

S t u d e n t s who live in the residence halls on upper campus are allowed one “to-go” meal per day from the food court in the new Davies Center, while the students living on low-er campus can take up to three “to-go” meals each day, one at each meal time, Farrell said.

The “to-go” meal option offers all the foods available in the main entree at the Riverview Cafe, in the Davies Center,

Farrell said.The food court currently in the

Hilltop Cen-ter will be removed as the food op-tions in the new Davies Center are expanding , Farrell said.

“ T h a t will be elimi-nated in or-der to make

room for spreading the

venues out so the cafeteria can

grow to support the upper campus,”

he said.

By Haley ZblewskiNEWS EDITOR

See MEALS, page 2A

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ELECTION RESULTS

Libby Richter — 189Samuel Tabbert — 189Zachary Ahola — 188Sam Milewsky — 177Anne Wagner — 173Brianna Burke — 164

Jarrel Montgomery — 151

Jason Rector — 194Tyler Will — 174

Katherine Stuckart — 167Ben Streeter — 166

Tim Duffy — 160Stephen Fisher — 158Bryan Larson — 155

Jacob Fishbeck — 147Patrick O’Leary — 144Frank Heaton — 140

Liu Ping — 139

Stephen Kahlow — 139Caitlyn Duley — 136

Anthony Navara — 135Courtney McClone — 132

A.J. Lawton — 129Brynn Schaal — 127

Christian Paese — 105

Pat Hendricks — 138Miri Francis — 135

Ellen Sorenson — 133Kayla Ogren —131

Gregory Nelson — 127Sarah Tyrrell — 127

Kayla Johnson — 125Sarah Holm — 123

Zachery Stehlin — 117Tyrel Zich — 115

Jeremy Vincent — 96

Off-campus senators

On-campus senators

President/Vice presidentCorydon Fish/Patrick Martin — 470 (votes)

The Student Office of Sustain-ability sponsors events, prizes

throughout week for Earth Week

*Bolded names are the winners

ELIZABETH JACKSON/The SpectatorKana Shimanuki and Katia Moraes sing “Samba Celebration” at Wednesday night’s performance of the Artist Series’ “Viver Brasil: Feet on the Ground” in Zorn Arena.

Journey to the Amazon

Campus News2A •

CONTINUED FROM FRONTThursday, April 19, 2012 News Editors: Emily Gresbrink & Haley Zblewski

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Along with the luncheon and advisory panels where veterans can inform Eau Claire professors about what to expect from vet-erans in their classrooms, therapists are available for all veterans to speak with if they desire. A female therapist alternates with a male therapist, which provides female veterans who may be uncom-fortable discussing things with a male with a chance to speak to someone who may understand more easily their concerns.

Sophomore Nick Bures, a certification assistant with Veterans Services, said the on-campus therapy can be a tremendous help to veterans.

“It’s a good tool to have for the univer-sity,” Bures said. “Students are very busy and they can’t always get down to the fa-cilities in Tomah or all the way up in Iron Mountain or the Twin Cities. It’s pretty convenient to have it right here.”

Freshman Kyra Witcher is currently in the Reserves and plans on joining the Air Force

upon graduating from Eau Claire. As the daughter of an Army veteran, she said she understands that some veterans enrolled in college do not have access to the resources available at Eau Claire.

“I’ve had a lot of friends in the military who haven’t re-ally had the best experience with Veterans Services,” Witcher said. “From the get-go, they’ve been really helpful, as far as, ‘This is who you talk to’ or, ‘You can go through me.’”

Doubek said that improvements can always be made and that Veterans Services will be working to make life on cam-pus as easy as possible for those that have served.

“Getting people in there, getting numbers up, getting people to talk, it’s a long ways to go,” Doubek said. “But in the past year, the development has been astronomical and it’s been great.”

Bures

This is another reason why plans are changing, he said.

The Blugold ultimate meal plan, at $1,595 per se-mester, offers students more options on both upper and lower campus. Students will have unlimited access to the Riverview Cafe, $100 in de-clining dollars and a block of 50 meals to be used in the Davies Center, according to the Blugold Dining website.

Farrell said he thinks the Blugold ultimate plan is the one most students will grav-itate toward.

Also among the changes is an entirely new 150 meal block plan, which costs

$1,520 per semester. With this plan, students have a block of 150 meals from the food court area of the Davies Center and $50 in declining dollars.

The meals are set spe-cials, Farrell said. For exam-ple, a meal might consist of a slice of pizza, a breadstick and a drink, he said.

“You won’t have as much choice (with the block meals) at the food court than you would at the cafeteria, and you won’t get as much food, but you never do,” he said. “The best deal is always to go to the cafeteria.”

Farrell said the block plan

is a good plan for students who want to limit the meals they’re eating on campus.

Students can also pur-chase blocks of 20 meals or a 50/50 meal plan to supplement their block plans. The 50/50 plan has been available in the past to students living off campus and in Chancellors Hall and the pricetag is ris-ing from $300 to $400.

Rynish said the increase is the only thing he’s con-cerned about.

“It’s going up $100, which is a third of the price of what it was so I think that’s pretty curious,” he said. “I feel like a

33 percent increase is a little outrageous.”

Farrell said the 50/50 meal plan cost is going up to keep the costs of individual meals in line with what they are in the block plan.

With all the changes, Rynish said he is happy with the way the new meal plans look.

“I think the meal plans are going to work out for the better,” Rynish said. “I think that people will be happy with what their op-tions are and will be happy with this new student center regardless of the fact that there’s no cafeteria in it.”

Fredrick, who will be performing “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou, said he is looking forward to the reading.

“I’m really excited to hear other languages and to hear the similarities but also the differences the languages have,” Fredrick said. “But I’m also ex-cited to be able to share this certain culture with people of other cultures.”

Fessler and associate professor of German Jeff Vahlbusch are co-direc-tors of the event and brought the idea for the International Poetry with them from Washington College (Md.) where they both taught in the early ’90s.

“The idea was to get as many peo-ple from the college and the commu-nity who knew languages other than English to come and read poetry,” Vahlbusch said.

Now entering its sixth year at Eau Claire, Vahlbusch said that the read-ing is meant to be an evening devoted to listening to the sounds of other languages.

“If you think about it, it’s really hard to spend time listening to lan-guages you don’t understand,” he said. “We don’t have opportunities to do it. When we do it’s often in pass-ing, and we don’t have a chance to sit and focus and concentrate.”

The poems will be read by stu-dents, Eau Claire professors — in-cluding Fessler and Vahlbusch — and community members in languages from around the world, Fessler said. Italian, Russian, Serbian and Viet-namese are four of those languages.

Several languages will be present at the reading for the first time, Fessler said, including Yiddish, Swahili and Efik, a language spoken in Nigeria.

Vahlbusch said the large number of languages present at the event al-lows the audience to experience the diversity and beauty of languages that

are found in the Chippewa Valley.“We sometimes don’t think of

Eau Claire or UW-Eau Claire as very culturally rich and we’re wrong,” he said.

He added the reading is an event that shows that proves the diversity issue wrong.

“We have incredible amounts of richness and diversity and amazing people on this campus who have so much to teach us and to show us,” Vahlbusch said. “This is one of those places where that can happen if we let it.”

Fessler said she wasn’t expecting the International Poetry Reading to gain a large audience, but even in its first time being held at Eau Claire, the event gained attention.

“We were hoping that maybe readers and maybe 25 of their friends might show up,” Fessler said. “We held it in the Tamarack Room and before the reading even started, we had to open up the doors into the cafeteria and people were sitting all

the way to the back of the seating area there.”

A program booklet is provided at the event which features the poems written in both the language they were spoken in and also translated into English.

However, Fessler said many people don’t read the translations right away.

“Many people chose simply to bask in the sheer beauty of the language at the time of the reading and wait until later to read the poems,” she said. “I find it remarkable how much one can intuit about the messages of a poem just by the intonations of the readers and the way the poets use sound to convey meaning.”

Vahlbusch said that the evening is the chance of a lifetime that many will never get the chance to experience.

“It’s a kind of ear-opening expe-rience,” he said. “If we pride our-selves on having open eyes then we ought to open our ears to the world as well.”

VETERANS from page 1A

MEALS from page 1A50/50 plan increases by $100

Female vets face special circumstancesPOETRY from page 1A Poetry reading enters sixth year

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Ukrainian IvannaBoychuk

Dutch Je�Vahlbusch

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Bryton Fredrick

Hawaiian Meredith Molnar

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Int’l Poetry ReadingMore than 36 languages will be represented at the reading on Monday, April 23rd. Here are a select few and their respective readers.Source: Audrey Fessler, asst. professor of English & women’s studies

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In the April 12, 2012, issue of The Spectator, in the article “Campus officials exploring changes with SHS,” Student Health Service was incorrectly referred to as Student Health Services.

In the same article, the Program to Evaluate and Enhance Quality defines the term “peers” in that case as “peers selected for us by the National Center for Educational Statistics,” which means not solely UW System schools.