The students experienced what it was like to cast a play, including scheduling and meetings. The One Act Plays are the students’ final project in the directing class, in which they picked each play they will be directing.

Quincy Bufkin, theater and civil engineering major, said that each student had to pick a play that was a maximum of 10 minutes.  Each student then had to cast the actors.

“The way I went about choosing my actors is looking at if they fit into the character that I created in my vision,” Bufkin said. “The actors I chose did a great job at portraying what I wanted.”

Many of the students in the directing class have participated in the One Act Plays before, but as actors. There are students in the directing class who have only acted in the plays and say it is a different experience participating behind the scenes.

“This is my first time actually directing one,” Matthew Feldman, senior theater major, said. “I wouldn’t mind directing one again, it’s a great experience.”

Caitlin Krist, senior theater major, participated in the directing class in the past and is currently working on the advertising aspect for the One Act Plays as an independent study. Krist, said that it is important for people to come to these plays to support all the hard work that each student has put into each play.

“By participating in the One Acts, or even just going and seeing the production, it gives the student directors the support they need,” Krist said. “Lots of work has been put into each play.”

The 10 plays will be performed over three days. Plays that will be performed are: “The Tarantino Variation,” “Naomi in the Living Room,” “Arabian Nights,” “Love and Peace,” “Mary Jo,” “slasreveR neveS,” “Flop Cop,” “Finger Food,” “Feeding the Moonfish” and “The Unwanted.” Tickets are available through the Center For the Arts box office for adults at $7, UW-Platteville Faculty for $6, people under 18 for $5, UW-P student with ID for $5 and for seniors citizens for $5. Call the University Box Office at 608-342-1298 for tickets.

Beth Frieders, professor of biology and adviser for the Home Brewing Club, said that not only is the group formed to provide a forum for people to learn about the process of brewing, but to allow them to learn the process of home brewing, to schedule visits and field trips to companies in the brewing industry and to allow social activities and events for the membership.

“All of our members have come from word of mouth, with few people on campus knowing that we exist,” Frieders said  in an e-mail. “Some already brew and others are interested in starting but not sure how. In this club they can learn how to brew, and share information with others who brew.”

Frieders said that she hopes the activities this weekend will educate the public about alcohol.

“First and foremost, we promote that home brewing is about the art and craft of brewing, not about consumption (or over-consumption),” Frieders said in an e-mail. “These events are intended to highlight this, as well as educate the public on the brewing process itself.”

The promotion of the microbrewery inside the Pioneer Haus as well as the two brews that are made by Tom Nickels, the brew master, will be highlighted during the two-day event.  Nickels brews two different types of beers in the microbrewery and both are served in the Pioneer Haus.

On May 1, there will be a tour of the Pioneer Haus’s brewery as well as a christening of a new tap recipe at 4 p.m.  The third tap was added to the Pioneer Haus and will change seasonally from month to month.  The recipe that was selected for the first specialty is called Heifer-Bison, a traditional German Hefeweizen style of wheat beer.

There will be a demonstration of how to make beer at 11 a.m. on May 2  at the south side of the Pioneer Student Center. The club will be brewing a batch of beer and a batch of root beer throughout the day.

“It’s been through the help and support of a lot of people that we have been fortunate enough to hold events such as these,” Russell Goessl, senior mechanical engineering, said.  “There are many people outside the club that we owe a lot of thanks to.”

For more information on the club or the event, visit their Web site at groups.google.com/group/UWP_HOMEBREW or do a search for their Facebook group by typing “UWP Homebrewing Club”.

Marquardt’s favorite part of the job is the people he works for and works with.

“From students to staff, everyone has been so supportive of me and very helpful as I learn this position,” Marquardt said. “It is an honor to come to work every day and work with such great people.”

Wherever there is good in his job, there are also bad. He finds it unfortunate when he has to deal with people who did something wrong and blame the police instead of taking responsibility for their own actions.

“I don’t mind respectful disagreements at all, as there can always be another side to a situation,” Marquardt said. “But verbally berating the officers and me is not the best way to get your point across. I am especially irritated when the venom we’re subjected to is because of a $10 parking citation.”

Marquardt grew up in a police family where his father and uncle were both police officers. His hometown had a Law Enforcement Post, a group that’s associated with the Boy Scouts of America, where he was able to learn more about being a police officer. After graduating from UW-P with a criminal justice major, he attended the Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton for his police academy training.

On May 29, 1992, Marquardt became an officer with the City of Platteville and continued to be a police officer for the city until January 2, 2009. While there have been a lot of memories that Marquardt has encountered as a police officer, his most memorable moment came in 2004 when he was assigned to travel with a U.S. Secret Service Agent during President George W. Bush’s trip through Grant County.

“It was an experience I will never forget and it was a tremendous honor to serve a small role on a national event that day,” Marquardt said.

Marquardt hopes to continue the policing tradition here at UW-P.

“I will continue to assess the needs of the campus and will do everything I can to make this the safest learning and working environment possible,” Marquardt said.

Like Marquardt, Regina Ihm, a UW-P police officer, hopes that the UW-P police continue to move ahead. She said that she does enjoy working with Marquardt.

Other officers share the same warm feelings toward Marquardt, that he is a great boss to work with.

“His education and experience make him a perfect fit as chief of police at UW-P,” Jason Williams, police officer for UW-P, said. “He is fair, always willing to listen and supports his staff one-hundred percent. I hope to see our department grow as our student body continues to grow.”

Deirdre Dalsing, counselor for UW-P’s Student Health Services and co-adviser for SPR, and Vicki Dreessens, administrative director of student health services and co-adviser for SPR, said that they would previously offer presentations during April to students.

The two women would only see women attend this event. They wanted men to be more aware of the issues surrounding sexual assault and abuse of women.

Photograph by Lacey Vandermeer
Members of the group made posters last year that promoted the group without stating the name of the group.

Dalsing said that she and Dreessens started the group based on the ideas of the White Ribbon Campaign, the largest effort in the world of men working to end violence against women. Dalsing had read information about the WRC, which started in 1991 in Canada with only a handful of men to get information out about sexual assault.

“The purpose of this group is to have men stand up against sexual assault,” Dalsing said. “We read up on this event and thought it was interesting.”

Men in this group were nominated by faculty, staff, coaches and administrators who believed these individual would be interested in this types of group. There were 20 individuals who were nominated for the group but only 10 that wanted to join after hearing the group’s main goal.

While the group’s main goal is to promote the awareness of sexual assault against women, they want to promote respect for all people.

“It is important for the community to know about this group so that it shows we are trying hard to keep this the safest and learning-friendly campus as possible,” Corey Digman, health promotion major and member of SPR, said. “Having leaders like us that stand out on campus gives others a chance to see that we care about issues.”

Digman, who was selected to take part in SPR last March, believes that the group helps people to continually make healthy choices and mature in the world.

“Many of the situations that arise here on campus are not only linked to college life,” Derek Dietmeier, senior business administration and member of SPR, said. “I will be dealing with many of the situations and experiences for the rest of my life. I can take what I have learned in being a part of SPR and apply it in the future to hopefully better myself and those around me.”

SPR does not receive funding through the Segregated University Fee Allocation Commission. They recently received $4,000 from the Chancellor’s Opportunity Grant and they are using the money to help make public service announcements, posters and a video, which they hope to show during summer registration, new freshman orientation and introduction to college life classes.

Dalsing said that targeting incoming freshmen was the group’s idea because they found it important to get rid of any myth they might have about college life, especially the drinking aspect.

For more information on this group, contact Dalsing at 342-1865 or Dreessens at 342-1891.

In 1985, UW-P added a new major and department to its roster, known as the electrical engineering department. Shultz was originally hired to help build the faculty, laboratories and curriculum in the department. All his hard work paid off by 1988.

Richard Shultz

In 1997, Shultz was hired as the dean of EMS and enjoys his job greatly, especially working with students.

“Getting to work with young people and directly influence their lives, getting to try new and innovative things on a daily basis, working in an environment that keeps you thinking and active and working in a place that is family friendly, it doesn’t get much better than that,” Shultz said.

The atmosphere and the attitude of the people is what Shultz likes the most about UW-P.

“Almost without exception, when we come up with a new idea or new way of doing something, everyone involved gets excited and says how can we make this work,” Shultz said. “That is a very fun environment to work in.”

Shultz said that the best opportunities he has been involved in while at UW-P are the creation of new majors and minors, the expansion of the international exchange opportunities for students and new technologies in the classrooms.
Faculty members in the College of EMS enjoy working with Shultz.

Osama Jadaan, professor and chair of the general engineering department, has been working with Shultz since 1990. Jadaan enjoys working with Shultz and believes that Shultz does well in the dean position.

“Dean Shultz, first of all, is professional and knowledgeable,” Jadaan said. In addition, he is constantly advocating for the student which is why we are all here. He is open to new ideas as long as one can justify them and they favor the students.”
Mohan Gill, professor and chair of computer science and software engineering department, agrees with Jadaan. He said that Shultz is a great leader who understands staff and faculty’s problems.

Shultz received his Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois – Urbana-Campaign. After working at the Illinois Power Company for a few years, Shultz decided to return to the U of I to pursue his master’s in electrical engineering. He finished his Ph.D. from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.

Prior to coming to UW-P, Shultz was a faculty member at Clarkson University in upstate New York, and before that, he was a faculty member at the U of I -Urbana-Campaign. Shultz came to Platteville expecting to spend only five years here.
“I am finishing my twenty-fourth year,” Shultz said. “Platteville is a great place to live and raise a family and I could not have asked for a better place to work than UW-P.”

Shultz and his wife, Mary Ann, have three daughters named Catherine, Rose, and Theresa, and a son named Mark.