TALKIN' - University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

CAMPUS NEWS
Sweet! A Top 10,
Round of 16 season
Memories of UW-Green Bay’s thrilling
run to the Sweet 16 will be lasting. Shining
brightest are a 34-2 record, wins over
Arkansas-Little Rock and Michigan State
to reach the NCAA Tournament’s second
weekend, a 25-game winning streak, tons
of national publicity, and a Top 10 national
ranking.
The Phoenix women finished No. 9 in the
season-ending ESPN/USA Today Coaches
Poll. Coach Matt Bollant’s team was 13th
in the final AP sportswriters poll, conducted
before the tournament.)
Scenes from a Sweet 16 post-season include:
Hannah Quilling and Julie Wojta cutting the nets
after a 13th straight Horizon League title; Phoenix
pep band members get NCAA fever; senior standout
Kayla Tetschlag takes it strong against 6-8 all-
America Brittney Griner; and, despite a 86-76 loss
to Griner’s Baylor team in Dallas, women’s basketball
alumni celebrated their reunion and connection
to a program that hasn’t had a losing season since
1977. Shown here are (from left) Marie May ’77,
Ruby Ackerman ’83, Jeanne Barta Stangel ’87,
Mariann Van Den Elzen ’92, Patti Van Swol Bostad
’91 and Kelly Williams Conner, ’93.
MACARONI HALL BECOMES
MEMORY LANE
Photo Collection, University Archives, Cofrin Library
14 May 2011
In the mid-1970s, to break up
the monotony of a long hallway,
crews painted a mosaic of semicircle
shapes on the corridor walls
between the new Library-Learning
Center and the Student Services
Building. The name “Macaroni
Hall” became part of the campus
lexicon. Eventually, the design
faded and was painted over in less
colorful fashion. Last fall, however,
the corridor reclaimed its visual
distinctiveness with permanent
installation of an exhibit of vintage
photographs from the UW-Green
Bay archives. The images were
arranged for display by graphics
student Justin Seidl. To see for
yourself, search “Memory Lane” at
www.uwgb.edu.
Packers fever swept the area
during the mid-winter Super
Bowl run, and Green Bay’s
hometown University was not
immune.
Cheerleaders from UW-Green
Bay — who double as members
of the Packers spirit
squad — fired up a down-
Packers Phever in
town pep rally (right) before the
team’s trip to Dallas.
Back on campus, Chancellor Tom
Harden fueled the fun with a
cameo opening the video “Teach
Me How to Raji,” in which students,
staff and faculty across campus
spontaneously mimicked lineman
B.J. Raji’s memorable touchdown
dance. Within days, the spoof
had more than 100,000 YouTube
hits, viewers around the world,
and ESPN SportsCenter airplay
for the dancin’ chancellor.
Even the Nursing program’s skeleton
model, normally a dignified
teaching tool, succumbed to the
green-and-gold mania. In Rose
Hall, passers-by reported that the
skeleton appeared to be grinning
after the 31-25 Packers victory
over the Steelers.