Bryn Wecker (Mathias Reed) Hundreds of students gathered in the Esch-Hurvis room Friday, Feb. 22 as the Drag Show opened with drama. Sophomore Ryan Kottman, under the persona Fredrick Von Tiddlywink, held sophomore Tyler Grasee, as Anita Mann, in a dramatic dip as the show began. Both, along with junior Ariel Garcia, were the emcees…
Rosen discusses the distraction of technology
Laura Udelson (Katie Crawford) Monday, Feb. 18, Dr. Larry Rosen spoke to a full audience in the Esch-Hurvis room about the effects that overuse of media and technology can have on our moods, attention spans and lifestyles. He also offered suggestions on how to limit use and create better habits. Among other topics, Rosen discussed…
Lunar New Year celebrates the Year of the Snake in the Warch
Xue Yan Girls smile in a show of many traditional cultural dances at the Lunar New Year celebration open to campus and the community. See Full Story below. (Mathias Reed) While Feb. 16 may be just an ordinary Saturday for many people, students from Korea, Vietnam, China and other countries celebrated the most important…
Giscombe plays with genre in his poems about the Midwest
Alyssa Villaire For a man who has lived in almost every region of the country, nationally renowned visiting poet C. S. Giscombe still appreciated seeing wintery Wisconsin for the first time as he visited Lawrence to give a reading of his award-winning work. Giscombe, who is currently a member of the English faculty at the…
Panelists on Ethnic Hair Care Panel open up about personal hair stories
Eryn Wecker The Black Student Union hosted about twenty people at the Natural Hair Care Panel on Sunday in the Esch-Hurvis room. The panel consisted of about ten students and Associate Professor of Anthropology Carla Daughtry. All but one of the panelists were female. The panel became a sounding-board for students to talk about hair…
Specht Pages: Concert Etiquette
Kevin Specht Have you ever been at a concert daydreaming about your capacity to ruin the show for everyone just by yelling or hang gliding? Well, all of us at Specht Pages have as well. Hello, and welcome to the celebratory thirteenth issue of Specht Pages: The true and supreme voice of Lawrence University.…
Listening to the Trees: Huddle up-Bears are out here!
Chelsea Johnson The Outdoor Recreation Club (ORC) has one of the biggest email lists of any student group on campus. Their trips draw students from all the different subcultures of campus life, typically with a healthy helping of the usual, sort of dirty, suspects. No ORC trip is ideal-there’s always one tent, knife, or person…
CADY exposes children to liberal arts education
Devin Ross Neal Falletta-Cowden, a sophomore here at Lawrence, is the current President of CADY-Confidence and Determination in Youth, a student organization. A unique group on campus, CADY doesn’t only try to enrich the lives of Lawrentians by expanding their college experience; they also reach out to the surrounding community to demonstrate what a liberal…
Professors expand appreciation for ethnic music
Tyler Kundinger What in the world is “world music”? For record companies, perhaps it’s no more than a marketing catch-all, including any traditional music outside the Western world. There are even sub-genres ,like global fusion, world fusion, ethnic fusion and “world beat,” at least according to Wikipedia’s two cents on the topic. Marketable? Yes. But…
LUMOS quizzes campus
Rose Nelson As part of London Week, the Lawrence University Magical Organization of Students hosted a Harry Potter Trivia Competition on Tuesday, Feb. 19 in the Hurvis Room in the Warch Campus Center. The trivia focused on the movies, the books and “real life Harry Potter”. The trivia contest was divided into three sections. In…
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