Posted 8:49 p.m. Friday, April 22, 2011
UW-L Women’s Chorus sets spring concert
The UW-L Women's Chorus will present a spring choral concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 30, in Annett Recital Hall, Center for the Arts.La Crosse Holocaust educator to be honored at Ellis Island
La Crosse resident and UW-L graduate Darryle Clott will join Legendary Entertainer Jerry Lewis and others in receiving Ellis Island Medals of Honor on May 7.Students hold No Coal Rally as part of Earth Week
Snowy weather didn’t stop the UW-L No Coal Coalition and Environmental Council from hosting a Clean Energy Rally Wednesday, April 20, on campus. The rally moved from Hoeschler Tower to Cartwright Center.Cabin Fever Art Show & Sale set at UW-La Crosse
UW-L will host the second Cabin Fever Art Show & Sale. The indoor fine art and craft exhibit showcases the work and vision of 21 artists from the 7 Rivers Region.Invisible Children film to be shown at UW-L
The Lord’s Resistance Army is accused of abducting an estimated 66,000 children and displacing more than 2 million people since its armed rebellion against the Ugandan government began in 1986. A film that shows the life of the leader of the group will be shown at UW-L April 28.Symposium will explore microorganisms
The 15th Annual Industrial & Fermentation Microbiology Symposium will highlight the application of microorganisms in a variety of industrial processes. It will be from 8 a.m.-3:15 p.m. Friday, April 29, at the Radisson Center.
Shilling sets listening session on campus
Rep. Jennifer Shilling, D-La Crosse, will hold a listening session on campus regarding the proposed state budget. Shilling has asked area legislators to attend the event that invites testimony from campus constituents and others from 1-7 p.m. Monday, April 25, in 339 Cartwright Center. The event is sponsored by Rep. Shilling.
Literature capstone presentations set for April 25 and May 2
Nineteen UW-L English majors will present their literature capstone projects from noon-2 p.m. in 332 Cartwright Center on two consecutive Mondays. April 25- Amy Fricke: "Searching for Identity Through Magical Realism."
- Renae Knox: “The Universal Nature of Fairy Tales' An Application of Bakhtinian Theory to Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories”
- Gregory Lampe: “Enlisting the Lorax: the Greening of Literature Through Narratology”
- Kyle Larkin: "Camus and Sartre: A Buddhist Reading of Existentialist Literature”
- Becky McHugh: “Outsized Reality: The Truth of Magical Realism”
- Xinrui Shi: “Milton’s Heroism in Samson Agonistes”
- Dan Stankivitz: “We Live Without Meaning To: The Destruction of the Soul in Andrei Platonov’s The Foundation Pit”
- Eric Van Ramshorst: “Freud’s Dream Work and Modern Day Cinema”
- Tricia Wehrenberg: “Beauties, Beasts and Enchantments: the Timeless Telling of Fairy Tales”
- Patrick Carthey: “Bolano’s Recursive Narration: Reading After the Story is Over”
- Jennifer Dausey: “Trouble in Translation-land: the Effects of Magical Realism and Multiple Narrations in Salman Rushdie’s Shame”
- Kimberly Drazkowski: “Distressed Damsels, Fairy Godmothers, Wicked Stepmothers—Feminist Take on Fairy Tales”
- Elizabeth Fleig: "Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: The Role of Interpersonal Relationships in Personal Identity in Wuthering Heights and The Awakening"
- Eric King: “The Rhetoric of Comics”
- Jordan Manley: “End of an Epoch? The Holocaust and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
- Lee Sobralske: “Rise Against the Rigour: A Cultural Criticism of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre”
- Madeline Ziegler: “Blurred Lines: A Bakhtinian Look at Everything Is Illuminated”
Info session for winter break 2012 service learning trip to Nepal and India set for April 25
An info session for the winter break 2012 service learning trip to Nepal and India will be held at 5 p.m. Monday, April 25, in 331 Cartwright Center. The trip will focus on providing a free health care clinic for Buddhist monks and people from the surrounding communities in Kathmandu, Nepal. The group will also visit other Buddhist monasteries in Nepal and India and sightsee in both countries. A three-week trip is planned to depart from Wisconsin no sooner than Dec. 28 and to return no later than Jan. 20, 2012. Estimated cost is less than $4,000. All students are welcome to apply. Juniors and seniors in the College of Science and Health in good academic standing are encouraged to apply. Applications are due Monday, May 5. For more information, contact Scott Stine at stine.scot@uwlax.edu or Andrea Wagner at wagner.and2@uwlax.edu.Pride Center and Rainbow Unity graduation celebration is April 25
A Pride Center and Rainbow Unity graduation event to celebrate graduating seniors will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 25, in Port O’ Call, Cartwright Center-Gunning Addition. The event was changed to not conflict with the UW-L Foundation Scholarship Reception. Distinguished Visiting Writer Max Garland to read poetry April 25 at UW-L [caption id="attachment_2386" align="alignright" width="134" caption="Max Garland"]
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The Department of English continues its celebration of National Poetry Month with a poetry reading from Distinguished Visiting Writer Max Garland at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 25, in 118 Wimberly Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
A former rural letter carrier from western Kentucky, Garland is the author of two books of poetry, "The Postal Confessions," winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry; and "Hunger Wide as Heaven," which won the Cleveland State Poetry Center Open Competition in 2006.
His poems and stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry, a Michener Fiction Fellowship, the Tara Short Fiction Award, a Bush Literary Fellowship, and fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board in both poetry and fiction. This month his poem "Blink" was awarded first prize in a national poetry competition sponsored by the literary journal Folio.
Garland lives and teaches in Eau Claire.
Pottery and ceramics sale to be held April 27 and 28
The UWL-Ceramics Club is holding a pottery and ceramics sale from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, and from 9 a.m. -3.30 p.m. Thursday, April 28. The sale will be in Port O' Call, Cartwright Center-Gunning Addition. Sale items include function wares, non-functional sculptures and more.Micro-aggressions and their impact on campus culture is topic of Inclusive Friday, April 29
Micro-aggressions — like 10,000 little cuts. It's a more contemporary form of bias that is often subtle and well-intentioned, but it still cuts deep. Join us from noon-1 p.m. Friday, April 29, in 102 Wing Technology Center to explore these everyday, commonplace exchanges — as they relate to race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ability and other identities — and the negative impact they can have, not only on the target person or group, but on campus culture as well. Participants will discuss how micro-aggressions are manifested in daily lives, on campus, and within the larger society , and how to move beyond them.April Jeans Day is Friday, April 29
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UW-L is one of many local organizations that participate in the monthly Jeans Day fundraiser sponsored by the La Crosse Tribune. Jeans Day this month is Friday, April 29. Wear jeans on Friday and donate money. The April fundraiser will be given to:
- La Crosse Association for Home & Community Education. It promotes and strengthens the family unit; provides opportunities for self-education and development; and serves to improve home and community life.
- Coulee Region Child Abuse Prevention Task Force. The committee educates the community about child abuse and becoming part of the solution.
- Vickie Bain, 120 Wimberly Hall
- Laurie Collison, 346 Center for the Arts
- Cindy Curran, 212 Cartwright Center
- Ingrid Iverson, 107 Murphy Library
- Karen Kindschy, Student Health Center
- Josh Kraft, 162 Wing Technology Center
- Bob Kramer, Lower Level Cartwright Center
- Karen Ott, 2004 Cowley Hall
- Ann Reman, Physical Plant
Habitat for Humanity campus chapter to host annual Cardboard Village event
The UW-L campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity-La Crosse Area is hosting its annual Cardboard Village event to raise awareness about substandard housing in the Coulee Region. On Friday, April 29, students will assemble cardboard houses and sleep in them overnight to demonstrate and experience what substandard housing is like. The student organization sells paper bricks throughout the school year to decorate the structures. Registered individuals and groups can begin building their houses at 1 p.m. at Drake Field. There will be live music, relay games and and competitions to entertain attendees throughout the evening. To register for this event or to make a donation, contact Sara Sturdevant at sturdeva.sara@uwlax.edu or Beth Nieuwenhuis a nieuwenh.beth@uwlax.edu. Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian ministry which partners with homeowners and the community to build simple, decent and affordable housing. Campus chapters throughout the country support local affiliates, raise awareness about poverty housing, and live out the mission of the organization by building locally and traveling to Collegiate Challenge sites to assist in the construction process. For more information about Habitat for Humanity-La Crosse Area, call 785.2373 or visit www.habitatlacrosse.org.Analyzing medical charity websites is topic of colloquium series
Marie Moeller, English, will present "Pushing Boundaries of Normalcy: Employing Critical Disability Studies in Analyzing Medical Charity Websites" from 2:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, April 29, in 113 Wimberly Hall. The presentation examines how the intersections of technical and professional writing, disability studies and gender studies display how medical charity websites forward problematic narratives about women and women's bodies. Through the concept of normalcy, Moeller focuses on the Susan G. Komen Foundation's stance on the lesbian body and the disabled body to illustrate how technical and professional writing can, and does, do political work that targets and marginalizes particular populations of women. The English Department's William J. and Yvonne Hyde Colloquium Series presentation is free and open to the public. To arrange for disability accommodations, email english@uwlax.edu or call 785.8295. For more information, visit http://rhetor.blogs.com/english.First act of 'Madama Butterfly' to be performed April 29 on campus
UW-L's Music Department will perform the first act of Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 29, in Annett Recital Hall, Center for the Arts. Puccini's exotic opera is set in Nagasaki, Japan, and contains some of his most beautiful music. The story revolves around American naval lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton who takes advantage of Japanese law and purchases a marriage contract to a young Japanese girl, Cio-Cio San. The contract allows him to opt out at his convenience. The performance is funded in part with a grant from the College of Liberal Studies for a collaborative faculty/student project. Faculty members Terence Kelly and Soojin Ritterling will perform the roles of Pinkerton and Suzuki. They will be joined by recent graduate Shaylae Szotkowski singing Cio-Cio San. Students Jason Bernhagen and Anthony Rasmussen round out the cast of principals. The UW-L Chamber Choir, along with other music majors, will be the chorus and faculty pianist Mary Tollefson will provide the orchestral reduction. Dana McConnell, a member of the Viterbo University theatre faculty has provided stage direction. There is no admission charge.Hmong Mutual Assistance Association to host cooking classes Tuesdays in May
Learn to cook Hmong food at the Hmong Mutual Assistance Association May cooking classes. Classes are held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Hmong Cultural and Community Center, 1815 Ware Ave. Cost is $10 per class for students and $20 for others. To sign up for classes and for more information call 781.5744 or xong79@gmail.com.UW-L surplus sale to be held May 3
UW–L will conduct a sale of surplus property from 8 a.m.-noon Tuesday, May 3, at the Maintenance and Stores building at 855 East Ave. N. Items for sale include: tables, chairs, desks, refrigerators, file cabinets and many other items. Terms of the sale are cash or certified checks only. No personal checks will be accepted.May 6 Brown Bag Lunch topic is difficult dialogues
Bring a lunch and join an informal conversation regarding difficult dialogues in the workplace from noon-1 p.m. Friday, May 6, in 339 Cartwright Center. Explore what each of us and UW-L can do. Share ideas on handling situations. This is a follow up to the UW System "Civility in Everyday Life" workshop held at UW-Oshkosh. For more information contact Barbara Stewart at stewart.barb@uwlax.edu), Becky LeDocq at ledocq.rebe@uwlax.edu or Becky Yoshizumi at csac@uwlax.edu.Retirement receptions planned for Jac Bulk, Richard Gappa and Carla Graham
A retirement reception for Jac Bulk, Sociology/Archaeology, is set for 3–4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 5, in the fourth floor lounge of Wimberly Hall. A retirement reception Richard Gappa and Carla Graham, both English, is planned from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, May 6, in the Strelczyk Great Hall in the Cleary Alumni & Friends Center. Gappa has worked at UW-L for 41 years. Graham has worked at UW-L for 24 years. Light refreshments will be served.Auditions open for 'Dog Sees God' theatre production
Students interested in performing in Burt V. Royal's "Dog Sees God" production should sign up to audition. The theatre production will be performed in August in the Frederick Theatre, Morris Hall. Auditions, open to all UW-L students, will be held beginning at 6 p.m. Monday, May 2. Callbacks will be held in the evening Tuesday, May 3. To prepare for the audition and for more information visit http://www.uwlax.edu/theatrecallboard/dog%20sees%20god.htm . Theatre Major Kevin Fanshaw and Austin Hernandez received an undergraduate research grant to produce the show.UW-L successful in national recycling competition
RecycleMania wrapped up this year’s competition with UW-L recovering 104,490 pounds of recyclable paper products, plastics (#1-7), glass and metal containers during the 10-week competition ending April 2. These results are comparable to 2010 results at 108,810 pounds and better than UW-L’s 2009 benchmark year during which UW-L collected 85,960 pounds of recyclables. UW-L was among 630 schools measuring the success of their recycling and waste prevention efforts. UW-L finished 133rd among participating schools in the competition division. Contributions moved UW-L’s cumulative recycling rate from 23.53 percent in 2009 to 29.74 percent in 2010 and 29.03 in 2011. UW-L finished in first place among UW System schools competing in the category to determine which UW campus generated the least amount of waste per person per week. The benefits to RecycleMania come over time as UW-L continues to build on successes. Continue these five environmental stewardship habits: 1. Reduce: Cut your use of energy, water, materials and toxic products 2. Reuse: Use it again and again, until it can’t be used anymore 3. Recycle: Make new products or packaging from used materials 4. Re-buy: Purchase products made from recycled materials 5. Rethink: Think again! Consider the environmental consequences of purchasing decisions before you buy For information on UW-L’s recycling program, methods and materials view the UW-L Recycling website. For specific questions about UW-L’s recycling program, contact Landscape and Solid Waste Supervisor Kim Tiber at 785.8581.
Jo Arney, Political Science/Public Administration; and Meredith Thomsen, Biology; presented posters at the UW System President's Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Madison April 15. They reported on teaching research projects they conducted as part of the Wisconsin Teaching Fellows and Scholar's Program, supported by the UW System's Office of Professional and Instructional Development and the UW-L Provost's Office. For information about the WI Teaching Fellows and Scholars Program, contact Bill Cerbin at cerbin.will@uwlax.edu or at 785.6881.
Ray Block, Jr., Political Science/Public Administration, published “What About Disillusionment: Exploring the Pathways to Black Nationalism” in the March 2011 volume of Political Behavior.
Michael Current and Cristine Prucha, both Murphy Library; and James Putz, Communication Studies, with support from Thomas Reinert, Communication Studies; presented "Communication Studies and Information Literacy: An Ongoing Interdisciplinary Lesson Study" at the President's Summit on Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Madison April 14.
Cherryl Frye, Education Studies, was a judge for the Youth Art Competition for the 18th International Academy of Astronautics Humans in Space Symposium April 11-15 in Houston. Over 550 entries from 22 countries were received and evaluated.
Audrey Mouser Elegbede, Institute for Ethnic and Racial Studies, presented "Consuming the ‘Right’ Goods: Maintaining Middle-Classness Among Divorced Single-Mothers in Malaysia" at the Central States Anthropological Society meetings at University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, April 7-9.
David Hart, English, presented “Globalization in Literature by CLR James, Paule Marshall, and Lawrence Scott” at an international conference on “New Geographies: Globalization and Postcoloniality” at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, March 21-27. He also volunteered at the US Embassy meeting faculty and students. He gave guest lectures on globalization and postcoloniality at The University of Trinidad and Tobago; The University of the Southern Caribbean; and The College of Science, Technology, and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago. Hart met with the US Ambassador to Trinidad Beatrice Welters and participated with the special youth leadership group meeting “Changing the Lens: Youth Development in Trinidad and Tobago.”
Hogan Lalita, English, presented "Anarchism and Early Twentieth Century Critiques of Nationalism in India: Rabindranath Tagore and Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay" at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Honolulu, March 31 to April 3.
Resignations
- Victoria Sanchez, Admissions, April 17.
- Jessica Hemenway, Continuing Education & Extension, April 8.
Retirements
- Larry Menden, Power Plant, June 30.
- Ellen Parker, Murphy Library, June 30.
- Charlene Sauer, Modern Languages. June 30.
Transfer
Carol Beckerjeck,University Services Associate 2 to Residence Life, April 25.