2008 Woodie Awards
Vote Absentee
As you have hopefully noticed by now, they are building something next to Sage. Perhaps some of you living in Sage this year are all too aware of this fact, hearing daily the construction workers' thoughts and feelings at 6 a.m. This behemoth of a structure is soon to be our new campus center.
This past Friday, Aneesh Chauhan was married. However, this was not your normal marriage, not only because the wedding was planned by J.B. Sivanich and held in the quad next to the Sig Ep house. Aneesh's bride was picked from a pool of participants in a contest, with no gender bias, hosted by the Sage RLA staff.
The dimmed energy-efficient bulbs of Science Hall 102 greeted a diverse audience for Ryan Schryver's talk entitled "Wisconsin's Inconvenient Truth". Schryver, Grassroots Organizer of the advocacy group Clean Wisconsin, spoke on global warming and particularly how it will affect Wisconsin.
As just a middle schooler, when asked what he wanted to do later in life, Professor Benson said "teach at a small college." This goal was eventually realized but, like many, took some meandering, second-guessing and experimentation to reach. On Tuesday afternoon, I entered the office of Instructor of Music John Benson, thereby unwittingly entering his world.
Everyone's least favorite part of a carnival is feeling like you are going to throw up after stepping off of the Tilt-A-Whirl. This is exactly how I felt after consuming a Perchwich and a 99-cent rootbeer float at Tom's Drive-In located near Woodman's off of College Avenue.
Ben Glover has had his eye set on the future for some time now. Since his freshman year in high school, Glover has been involved in the sciences, and he plans on pursuing his interests after college. The senior from Ghana will graduate with an interdisciplinary degree in biology and chemistry this year.
Tav Driscoll never planned on being where she is. That is, the theater. "I just thought I'd do theater on the side," she said. Then she discovered stage management. The English and theater arts double major was thrown into stage management by her adviser, Tim Troy -- and the rest is history.
This week's Scientist of the Week is junior environmental studies and geology double major Jamie McFarlin hailing from Caramel Valley, Calif. This upcoming fall term Jamie will be studying abroad in Ecuador, where she will also be studying the ecology between the Galapagos, the Amazon and the Andes Mountains.
Asparagus and Swiss Quiche For the crust: ¼ pound cream cheese, cut into pieces ¼ pound butter 1 C. flour 1 T. powdered sugar 1 t. salt For the filling: 2 eggs 2 egg yolks 1 C. half and half 1 t. salt ½ t. pepper 1T. freshly chopped chives or parsley 1 c.