Above: Juniors Tashi Haig and Katie Mueller enjoying Greenfire’s homemade popsicles at the Earth Day Gala on Sunday. Below: One of the items for sale at the Gala was apple bird feeders. Photos by Sara Navy. Over the week of Apr. 15 to Apr. 23, Lawrentians celebrated Earth Week in a series of events, speakers…
Photographer delivers convocation on reshaping the Native American narrative
Members of Lawrence University Native Americans, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay students and Matika Wilbur’s artistic team in front of the mural that the group created over the course of the week of Apr. 5 to Apr. 11. Matika Wilbur, a photographer and visual storyteller from the Swinomish and Tulalip peoples of coastal Washington, was the…
Lawrence International Cabaret celebrates art and culture
The Lawrence International (LI) annual Cabaret performance “An Odyssey of Cultures” was held in the Stansbury Theater last weekend. The two showings were held on Saturday, Apr. 6 at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday, Apr. 7 at 3 p.m. Cabaret 2019 featured a celebration of dances, songs, arts and cultures from all over the world in…
Steam line repair work continues on campus
Lawrence University is currently undergoing construction on the west side of campus, completely blocking access to a strip of land spamning from Youngchild Hall to the sidewalk of College Ave. This construction is being done on a steam line that provided heating for four buildings on campus: The Seeley G. Mudd Library, Memorial Chapel, Shattuck…
POC Empowerment Week concludes with Cultural Expressions
People of Color (POC) Empowerment Week started Sunday, Feb. 17, and ended last Saturday, Feb. 23. To celebrate Black History Month and POC themselves, many events and activities were held during this week. POC Empowerment Week has been an annual event at Lawrence for the past several years. It allows POC on campus to unify…
History Professor delivers talk in Last Lecture Series
The idea of the Last Lecture Series is that each speaker delivers what they would want their very last lecture to be. Photo by David Baldwin. As part of Mortar Board’s “Last Lecture Series,” the lecture “The Receptive Brings About Sublime Success” was presented by Assistant Professor of History Brigid Vance in Thomas Steitz Hall…
Visiting author speaks about Community Read
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…