{"id":52235,"date":"2017-10-18T13:46:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T18:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=52235"},"modified":"2017-10-18T14:56:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T19:56:09","slug":"chancellor-provost-take-hacky-sack-break-engineering-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/chancellor-provost-take-hacky-sack-break-engineering-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Chancellor, provost take a hacky sack break with engineering students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An idea struck Dave McClanahan, a faculty associate in electrical engineering, like a thunderbolt one recent night. He emailed UWM\u2019s chancellor and provost: Would they want to play a game of hacky sack with students of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Organization? To his surprise, both Chancellor Mark Mone and Provost Johannes Britz responded that night. Game on!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52236\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52236\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2017\/10\/hacky2-300x200-DSC_0939-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Mone kicks a hacky sack while students watch.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UWM Chancellor Mark Mone gives the hacky sack a kick. (UWM Photo\/Carolyn Bucior)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Under sunny skies on Oct. 17, about a dozen College of Engineering &amp; Applied Science undergraduates joined UWM\u2019s top brass for a half hour of play and camaraderie.<\/p>\n<p>McClanahan is the faculty representative for the IEEE student organization. \u201cI wanted students to have exposure to some high-level university officials they normally would not come in contact with,\u201d he said. \u201cThe fact that these gentlemen were willing to hang out with a small group of undergraduate engineering students says a great deal about them and humanizes them for students.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52238\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52238\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2017\/10\/Hacky1-300x200-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The group of hacky sack players poses for a photo.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UWM Chancellor Mark Mone (right), Provost Johannes Britz (left of Mone) and Dean Brett Peters (left) joined a group of engineering students and David McClanahan (front, with hat) for a game of hacky sack Oct. 17. 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