By Nicole Mitchell On the evening of Saturday, Nov. 7, Gay, Lesbian Or Whatever (GLOW) ended their “Week of Awareness” event with a talk in the Warch Campus Center cinema. The speaker was Ify Okoye, a writer, nurse and activist who identifies as both queer and Muslim. Explaining why Okoye was chosen to speak, junior…
SJP holds vigil for lives lost recently in Israel and Palestine
By Nicole Mitchell In the evening on Monday, Oct. 26, many Lawrentians walked noisily through the doors of the Warch Campus Center, chatting as they headed to and from dinner. Yet, clustered around a tabletop covered in tea lights, one group was silent and still. The small crowd stood at a candlelight vigil to protest…
Diverse groups engage LU at Wellness Fair
By Nicole Mitchell “I think it’s really important to balance school with wellness and happiness and health, and that’s hard to do when you’re constantly so busy,” said junior Elana Lambert, referencing the common perception of Lawrence University students being busy to the point of neglecting personal wellness. Though Lambert may be right about our…
Poll for increased gender neutral housing met with hope & skepticism
By Nicole Mitchell “I feel like […] Here we go again with the surveys, here we go again with the push for gender neutral housing […] People have been working towards this since I was a freshman,” said senior Jaime Gonzalez. He was referring to the latest in a series of surveys generated by Lawrence University…
Miranda Howe speaks on process and navigating the art world
By Nicole Mitchell On the evening of Monday, Oct. 5, visiting artist Miranda Howe delivered a lecture to a group of students and professors in the Wriston Art Center auditorium. Howe is an artist-in-residence at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and works mainly in sculptural ceramics, on which she uses many innovative techniques to impress…
SJP hosts panel, fundraiser for Syrian refugee crisis
By Nicole Mitchell “In the U.S., academic freedom tends to be about what you can write and what you can’t write, but for many people in the world, academic freedom is just about access to education,” said senior Razan Anabtawi, who serves as co-president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Lawrence. She spoke…
Education department expands program, adds professor
By Nicole Mitchell Lawrence’s education department has undergone several large changes this year. First, Associate Professor of Education Robert Williams is currently serving as Associate Dean of the Faculty and will be less involved in the department as a result of his new responsibilities. In his place is Assistant Professor of Education Stephanie Burdick-Shepherd, whose…
Ethnic studies department hosts talk on future of the discipline
By Nicole Mitchell Nobody chanted “Black lives matter!” or raised a picket sign in protest, but the atmosphere in Main Hall 201 still had the electric quality of a rally on the evening of Wednesday, May 20. A crowd of around 40 students and faculty had gathered to hear Department Head and Professor of…
LU Drag Show explores and subverts gender stereotypes
By Nicole Mitchell Thirteen performers strutted across a stage in the Warch Campus Center’s Esch Hurvis Room on Sunday, May 17, for the annual Lawrence University Drag Show. The show was sponsored by Gay, Lesbian or Whatever (GLOW), and was emceed by staff accompanist Marshall Cuffe ‘11. He performed under the stage name Saint Syndrome.…
Greek Week engages fraternities and sororities with campus
By Nicole Mitchell Spring Greek Week, an annual event in which Greek organizations on campus host events to benefit their national and local philanthropies, began on the evening of Monday, May 11. The week’s festivities kicked off in the Wriston Art Center amphitheatre with the Lip Sync competition, a tradition during which members of Greek…