2008 Woodie Awards
Actress, comedian, and media personality Nancy Giles had the audience laughing and holding hands during her keynote address at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day service on Monday evening. A diverse cross-section of the Appleton community was represented at the event, held in the Memorial Chapel.
Some students may have noticed a recent change in staff at Lawrence. After 22 years of working at the university, former Dean of Student Academic Services Marti Hemwall recently left the school to pursue other opportunities. During her career at Lawrence, Hemwall was involved with several different areas of the school and implemented many important programs.
Bj***umlaut o***rklunden seminars are no longer confined to the comfy lodge in Door County, Wis. From April 12-23, Professor Emeritus of Classics Dan Taylor, along with his wife Donna, are once again leading a 12-day seminar in Italy. First offered last September, the seminar focuses on Florence and Rome.
"Green democracy." "A round-table dialogue." "One day of focused discussion." No matter how you describe it, January 31 is Focus the Nation day. It is one day of grassroots political efforts to talk about solutions to what is arguably one of the biggest problems in today's world: global climate change.
Perspective: Mark Johnson, creator of five-minute speeches (inspiration for Greenfire Focus the Nation at Lawrence speeches) I think that it's hard to completely articulate what a given group of people stand for. Greenfire, for example, is a group working to address environmental issues but we each vary in what environmental issues we think are important and how we should go about addressing them.