Dan Egan is a long-time reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Photo by Allegra Taylor. On Monday, Feb. 12, journalist and author Dan Egan visited Lawrence to speak to participants in this term’s community read, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes. The class this term consisted of multiple small group discussions lead by…
Winter Carnival holds many events on campus
The annual Winter Carnival was held this past week and weekend, with events occurring across campus. On Tuesday, Jan. 29, the carnival was kicked off with a ping-pong tournament in the Warch Campus Center. Wednesday saw both the Men’s and Women’s Basketball Teams playing games. On Thursday students could participate in Grocery Bag Bingo for…
Great Midwest Trivia Contest LIV speeds things up
Senior Head Master Miranda Salazar announces the winning teams at the awards ceremony Sunday night. Photo by Caroline Garrow. In keeping with tradition, the Great Midwest Trivia Contest LIV occurred this past weekend from 10:00:37 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 25 to midnight on Sunday, Jan. 27. These 50 hours were filled with competition, action challenges,…
MLK Day Celebration held in Memorial Chapel
Top: Norys Pina, the recipient of the Jane LaChapelle McCarty MLK Leadership Award gives a speech. Bottom: Catlin Yang reads her winning MLK essay from the 2019 essay contest. Photos by Anton Zemba. On Monday, Jan. 21, Lawrence celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day by holding a variety of volunteering opportunities and faculty…
Activities Fair invites Lawrentians to learn about student orgs
Senior Maggie Anderson speaks to an interested student about Lawrence’s Nordic Ski Team. Photo by David Baldwin. On Friday, Jan. 11 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. the Winter Activities Fair was held in the Somerset Room of Warch. While the event was more sparsely attended than the Fall Activities Fair, dozens of student organization…
New Title IX Coordinator begins work at LU
Shaniqua Crawford took on the role of Lawrence’s new Title IX coordinator this past Monday. Photo by David Baldwin. As of Jan. 7, 2019, Shaniqua Crawford has begun her position as Lawrence University’s new Title IX Coordinator. This position was created at Lawrence in 2016 and has only recently become a full-time, 12-month position. The…
Amnesty International and GlobeMed host symposium on refugee crisis
David Hausman (right), a lawyer with the ACLU, spoke about the organization’s fight against the Trump administration’s 2017 travel ban. Midwife Liz Ramlow (left) spoke of her experiences providing health care services to high numbers of refugees. Photos by David Baldwin. On Tuesday, Nov. 6, Amnesty International and GlobeMed hosted a symposium on the international…
Annual Rocky Horror Picture Show shadowcast put on by PEP
The production of the Rocky Horror Picture Show was acted out in front of the movie screen in the Cinema. Photo by Allegra Taylor. Lawrence University’s Prescribed Escape Productions (PEP) put on the annual “Rocky Horror Picture Show” at the Warch Campus Center Cinema this past weekend. Only having bought the rights for one day,…
UW-Madison Professor delivers Convocation on political listening
Professor of Political Science and the Natalie C. Holton Chair of Letters & Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Katherine Cramer delivered Tuesday’s Convocation on politics and tolerance. Photo by Isaac Wippich. Professor Katherine Cramer of University of Wisconsin-Madison was the second speaker for the 2018-19 Convocation Series. Cramer’s speech, “Listening Well in a World…
Fox Cities Book Festival brings writers to LU for diversity panel
The authors that presented at the panel: Lori M. Lee, Kurtis Scaletta and Crystal Chan. Photo by David Baldwin. During the Fox Cities 11th Annual 2018 Book Festival, three writers, Crystal Chan, Lori M. Lee and Kurtis Scaletta, commented on the importance of diversity and inclusion in youth literature at Warch Campus Center last Thursday,…