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The cinematic visions of 25 budding student filmmakers will be showcased Tuesday, May 28 at 6:30 p.m. in the Warch Campus Center cinema in the first Lawrence University Student Film Festival. The film festival is free and open to the public.

A gambler experiences a positive new direction in his life after experiencing a run of bad luck in the film “Luck.”

The festival will screen nearly 20 short films, most 3-9 minutes in length. Among the films to be shown are “Luck,” a card-playing gambler with a lucky charm who runs into some bad luck that leads to a positive change; “The Roommate,” when a new student at Lawrence meets his roommate, not everything goes smoothly, but love...

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Saturday, May 25th, 2013

  1. 9:00 AM - 11:59 PM
    Ms. Thompson will perform works by Samuel Barber, Johannes Brahms, Claude Debussy, Ernest Chausson, Gabriel Fauré and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  2. 11:00 AM - 11:59 PM
    Mr. MacMillan will perform works by Johannes Brahms, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Cumming, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Samuel Barber, and Martin Hennessy.
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  3. 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
    Lawrence University Model United Nations is hosting its first Model United Nations conference. This conference will simulate a crisis, and the theme will be from Game Of Thrones. Come and find out... Read More
    Location: Warch Campus Center 308 - Kraemer Conference Room
  4. 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    Lambda Sigma's fund raiser: Great Big Water Balloon Battle
    Location: Outside 019 - Quadrangle
  5. 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    Cultural Food Club will be hosting their last meeting of the year in the Diversity Center and will be making udon noodles, a Japanese wheat-flour noodle.
    Location: Diversity Center 206 - Lounge
  6. 1:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Musical Differences Across the Soviet Union Through the Trumpet. Three pieces will be performed: Fanfare for a New Theater by Igor Stravinsky; Concerto for Trumpet by Alexander Arutiunian; and Three... Read More
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  7. 3:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Ms. Dinkler will perform Flute Concerto No. 3 in D Major, RV 428 ("Il Gardellino") by Antonio Vivaldi; Sonata for Flute and Piano, op. 94, by Sergei Prokofiev; and Fantaisie Brillante on Themes from... Read More
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  8. 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    Day two of BBC's Folk Festival.

    Performances by:
    Sanders Bohlke, Doug Mains and the City Folk, and The Pernicious Bean.

    Music starts at 4 p.m.
    Location: Outside 032 - Main Hall Green Area
  9. 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    RAIN SITE for Day 2 of the Band Booking Committee's Folk Festival. Three acoustic groups performing: Sanders Bohlke, Doug Mains and the City Folk, and The Pernicious Bean.

    Music starts at 4pm. Open... Read More
    Location: Warch Campus Center 226 - Mead Witter Room
  10. 5:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Ms. Clement will perform works by Gabriel Fauré, Sergei Rachmaninov, Gaetano Donizetti, Alma Mahler, and
    André Previn. Ms. Popik will perform works by Claude Debussy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and... Read More
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  11. 6:30 PM - 11:59 PM
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  12. 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    The Lawrence Symphony Orchestra will perform the world premiere of Fanfare, a work composed by LU student Matt Gunby '14; Sieben frühe Lieder (Seven Early Songs) by Alban Berg, performed by co-winner... Read More
    Price: Free
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel

Sunday, May 26th, 2013

  1. 11:00 AM - 11:59 PM
    Mr. Delfino will perform Prelude in B minor, op. 32, no. 10, by Sergei Rachmaninoff; Piano Sonata No. 7, op. 64 ("White Mass"), by Alexander Scriabin; Movements III and VI from Bagatelles, op. 126,... Read More
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  2. 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
    Language table for German language students.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 128 - Perille Private Dining Room
  3. 1:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Mr. Vinitsky will perform works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Ireland, Richard Strauss, Maurice Ravel, and Gaetano Donizetti.

    Mr. Smedsrud will perform works by Aaron Copland, Vincenzo Bellini,... Read More
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  4. 3:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    The Lawrence Symphonic Band will perform Las Campanas (2001) by Stephen Michael Gryc; Lads of Wamphray March (1905) by Percy Grainger (conducted by Thomas Malm, LU '13); Divertimento (1980/1984) by... Read More
    Price: Free
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
  5. 4:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Mr. Ransom will perform works by George Frideric Handel, Gaetano Donizetti, Franz Schubert, Gabriel Fauré, and Richard Hundley.
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  6. 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    End of season banquet for the track and field team.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 225 - Esch Hurvis Room (Hurvis)
  7. 6:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Mr. O'Connor will perform Grand Dialogue in C by Louis Marchand; four pieces from Orgelbüchlein by Johann Sebastian Bach; Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542, by Bach; L'Orgue Mystique, op. 57;... Read More
    Price: Free
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
  8. 6:30 PM - 11:59 PM
    String chamber student groups will perform works by Dmitri Shostakovich, Toru Takemitsu, Maurice Ravel, Joseph Haydn, Samuel Barber, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  9. 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    Calvin Armstrong, Nick Allen and Kelson Zbichorski will once again perform Sleep's stoner metal epic "Dopesmoker" in its full 63-minute majesty.
    Location: Outside 027 - Wriston Amphitheater
  10. 8:00 PM - 9:59 PM
    Curious about sex, relationships and race on campus? Come Join "All Is One: Empowering Young Women of Color" for a panel discussion. With eye-opening opinions, raffle prizes and food, this is sure to... Read More
    Location: Warch Campus Center 204 - Cinema
  11. 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Price: Free
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
  12. 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
    A spark is something that gives our lives meaning and purpose--it is an interest, a passion or a gift. The spark of dance lives in all of us. The dancers of Melee, Massive Movement, LU Swing and... Read More
    Location: Music-Drama Center 105 - Stansbury Theatre

Monday, May 27th, 2013

  1. All Day
  2. 9:00 AM - 11:59 PM
    Mr. Sweedler will perform the first four Romanian Folk Dances by Béla Bartók; five of the Eight Memories in Watercolor by Tan Dun; Nardis by Miles Davis; and Beatrice by Sam Rivers.
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  3. 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    Get your tickets for the annual Spring Formal hosted by LI. Open to all students.
    $5 per person.
    Price: $5/person
    Location: Warch Campus Center 100A - West Lobby Table Area Near Commons
  4. 11:00 AM - 11:59 PM
    Ms. Smith will perform Fantasie No. 7 in E-flat and Fantasie No. 1 in B-flat by Georg Philipp Telemann; Sonatine, op. 100, by Antonín Dvořák and Sonata for Violin and Piano by Philip Glass.
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  5. 1:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Ms. Schmidt will perform Partita for horn and piano by Verne Reynolds; and Auf Dem Strom, op. posth. 119, D. 943, by Franz Schubert.

    Ms. O'Connor will perform Concert Etude No. 3 ("Un Sospiro") by... Read More
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  6. 2:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Location: Shattuck 163
  7. 3:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Ms. Perez will perform Concert Royal No. 4 in E minor by François Couperin; and Movement I from 3 Romances, op. 94, by Robert Schumann.

    Ms. Thornton will perform Sonata for Flute and Piano by Otar... Read More
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  8. 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    Get your tickets for the annual Spring Formal hosted by LI. Open to all students.
    $5 per person.
    Price: $5/person
    Location: Warch Campus Center 100A - West Lobby Table Area Near Commons
  9. 5:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Mr. Siegrist will perform Labyrinth of Leaves by Joseph Waters; Capriccio by Francis Poulenc; Movement IV from Suite in Olden Style, From Holberg's Time, op. 40, by Edvard Grieg, featuring the... Read More
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  10. 5:30 PM - 6:29 PM
    Spanish language students are encouraged to attend this weekly dinner to practice their Spanish speaking skills!
    Location: Warch Campus Center 127 - Parrish Private Dining Room
  11. 6:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Price: Free
    Location: Esch Studio, Warch Campus Center
  12. 6:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Mr. Wilson will perform works by Johann Sebastian Bach, John Musto, Charles Ives, Douglas Moore, Franz Peter Schubert, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  13. 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM
    Student bassoon septet featuring arrangements of classical music, including Sibelius' "Finlandia" conducted by senior Thomas Malm. Music by Berlioz, Saint-Saens, Tchaikovsky and Johann Strauss Jr.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 325 - Nathan Marsh Pusey Room
  14. 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Ms. Lindsey will perform works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Enrique Granados, and Stephen Sondheim.

    Mr. Jindra will perform works by Franz Schubert, Gabriel Fauré, Clark Gesner,... Read More
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  15. 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM
    Group bonding, surprise lesson, walking meditation, sitting meditation and discussion.
    Location: Diversity Center 103 - Main Room
  16. 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM
    Lawrence's chapter of Amnesty International meets once a week to discuss current events and plan events to raise awareness of human rights issues within the Lawrence and Appleton communities.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 414 - Runkel Conference Room
  17. 9:30 PM - 11:30 PM
    Jam Session for jazz students.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 302B - Ellerman Stage (in Cafe)

Tuesday, May 28th, 2013

  1. 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    Get your tickets for the annual Spring Formal hosted by LI. Open to all students.
    $5 per person.
    Price: $5/person
    Location: Warch Campus Center 100A - West Lobby Table Area Near Commons
  2. 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    Internship orientation sessions for students who have secured summer internships.
    Location: Seeley G. Mudd Library 214 - ITC
  3. 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
    Explore your mind body connection with regular yoga practice.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 224 - Esch Hurvis Studio (Esch)
  4. 11:30 AM - 12:29 PM
    Language Table for German language students.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 128 - Perille Private Dining Room
  5. 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
    Language table for Chinese language students.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 128 - Perille Private Dining Room
  6. 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
    ECON 425 class presentations.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 204 - Cinema
  7. 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
    Come discuss and reflect on the Diversify Your Mind events of Spring Term and the entire year. Enjoy free ice cream and hear about the Fall Term events.
    Price: Free
    Location: Diversity Center 103 - Main Room
  8. 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
    Reception honoring the graduating or departing physics majors and minors.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 225 - Esch Hurvis Room (Hurvis)
  9. 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
    Drop-in hours are regularly scheduled set blocks of time when you can come to Career Services without an appointment to ask quick questions about resumes, cover letters, CVs or any other career-... Read More
    Location: Career Services
  10. 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    Get your tickets for the annual Spring Formal hosted by LI. Open to all students.
    $5 per person.
    Price: $5/person
    Location: Warch Campus Center 100A - West Lobby Table Area Near Commons
  11. 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
    French language students practice speaking French during dinner.

    Location: Warch Campus Center 126 - Schumann Room
  12. 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
    Catherine Tatge and the film students will be showing their short films, to let the rest of campus see what they have been working on.
    Price: None
    Location: Warch Campus Center 204 - Cinema
  13. 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    Russian Language Table
    Location: Warch Campus Center 128 - Perille Private Dining Room
  14. 7:15 PM - 7:45 PM
    Meeting to discuss upcoming builds,fund raisers and events.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 308 - Kraemer Conference Room
  15. 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
    The Student Ambassadors will be playing games and eating food to celebrate the end of the year.
    Location: Hiett Hall 300 - Quiet Study
  16. 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
    LCF is hosting a panel of Christian students who will address questions recently submitted by the Lawrence Community at the Areopagus table as well as questions from the audience.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 225 - Esch Hurvis Room (Hurvis)
  17. 8:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    Weekly meeting.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 308 - Kraemer Conference Room
  18. 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    The weekly meeting for LU-NAMI.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 414 - Runkel Conference Room
  19. 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  20. 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM
    LUUU is a place where everyone is welcome, where spiritual and intellectual growth is encouraged, where the interdependent web of life is respected and where students are taught to celebrate all the... Read More
    Location: Diversity Center 103 - Main Room

Wednesday, May 29th, 2013

  1. 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    Get your tickets for the annual Spring Formal hosted by LI. Open to all students.
    $5 per person.
    Price: $5/person
    Location: Warch Campus Center 100A - West Lobby Table Area Near Commons
  2. 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
    Explore your mind body connection with regular yoga practice.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 225 - Esch Hurvis Room (Hurvis)
  3. 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
    Improve your strength, flexibilty and self esteem.
    Location: Buchanan Kiewit Wellness Ctr 211 - Multipurpose Room
  4. 12:31 PM - 1:30 PM
    Language Table for Spanish language students.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 127 - Parrish Private Dining Room
  5. 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
    Drop-in hours are regularly scheduled set blocks of time when you can come to Career Services without an appointment to ask quick questions about resumes, cover letters, CVs or any other career-... Read More
    Location: Career Services
  6. 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
    Chela Gans hosts a presentation on the Budapest Semester in Mathematics for students who are interested in studying abroad and have a math or computer science background. Others who are interested in... Read More
    Location: Briggs Hall 420 - Classroom
  7. 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    2013 annual Senior Dinner
    Location: Warch Campus Center 320 - Gallery
  8. 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    2013 annual Senior Dinner
    Location: Warch Campus Center 324 - Somerset Room
  9. 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
    Improve your strength and flexibility with instructor Wendy Naarup.
    Location: Buchanan Kiewit Wellness Ctr GYM - Gymnasium
  10. 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    Get your tickets for the annual Spring Formal hosted by LI. Open to all students.
    $5 per person.
    Price: $5/person
    Location: Warch Campus Center 100A - West Lobby Table Area Near Commons
  11. 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    2013 annual Senior Dinner
    Location: Warch Campus Center 300B - Stiehl Terrace
  12. 6:30 PM - 7:59 PM
    Lawrence University Model United Nation is having its daily meeting. We will discuss conferences, MUN strategies, current events and acknowledge the problems in today's society.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 401 - Arthur Vining Davis Conference Room
  13. 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    German language table
    Location: Warch Campus Center 127 - Parrish Private Dining Room
  14. 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  15. 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Like music? Need a break from homework? Come share and listen to great music at Sinfonia House every Wednesday! (Don't forget to bring an iPod or computer!)
    Location: Sinfonia House, 221 N. Union Street

Thursday, May 30th, 2013

  1. 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
    Learn more about skin cancer prevention. Help your self to free trail mix and sunscreen.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 302A - Boldt Plaza
  2. 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    The LUCC Residence Life Committee will meet and discuss business.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 401 - Arthur Vining Davis Conference Room
  3. 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    Get your tickets for the annual Spring Formal hosted by LI. Open to all students.
    $5 per person.
    Price: $5/person
    Location: Warch Campus Center 100A - West Lobby Table Area Near Commons
  4. 11:10 AM - 12:20 PM
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    Location: Warch Campus Center 225 - Esch Hurvis Room (Hurvis)
  5. 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
    Explore your mind body connection with regular yoga practice.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 224 - Esch Hurvis Studio (Esch)
  6. 11:30 AM - 12:29 PM
    Language table for French language students.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 128 - Perille Private Dining Room
  7. 11:30 AM - 12:29 PM
    Language table for Japanese language students.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 127 - Parrish Private Dining Room
  8. 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
    Language table for Russian language students.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 128 - Perille Private Dining Room
  9. 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
    ECON 425 class presentations.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 204 - Cinema
  10. 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
    Students from all voice studios in the Conservatory will perform.
    Location: Memorial Chapel 103A - Stage
  11. 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
    A gathering of students and faculty interested in linguistics.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 414 - Runkel Conference Room
  12. 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    Get your tickets for the annual Spring Formal hosted by LI. Open to all students.
    $5 per person.
    Price: $5/person
    Location: Warch Campus Center 100A - West Lobby Table Area Near Commons
  13. 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
    The Well Reds have notched their place in the often underestimated yet very talented Atlanta rock scene. Their alternative take on pop-rock mixes clean live guitar tones with indelible vocal melodies... Read More
    Location: Warch Campus Center 302A - Boldt Plaza
  14. 6:10 PM - 8:00 PM
    The LSO will perform, in an open rehearsal format, compositions from current Conservatory students.
    Price: Free
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
  15. 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    Weekly meeting of Critical Thinkers, Humanists and Unbelievers at Lawrence University.
    Location: Warch Campus Center 401 - Arthur Vining Davis Conference Room
  16. 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Ms. Folk will perform Passacaglia for solo violin by Heinrich Ignaz Biber; Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor, op. 30, by Ludwig van Beethoven; Suite for violin and piano, op. 6, by Benjamin Britten; and... Read More
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  17. 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  18. 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
    A teenager is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his... Read More
    Location: Warch Campus Center 204 - Cinema

Friday, May 31st, 2013

  1. All Day
  2. 10:30 AM - 2:00 PM
    Get your tickets for the annual Spring Formal hosted by LI. Open to all students.
    $5 per person.
    Price: $5/person
    Location: Warch Campus Center 100A - West Lobby Table Area Near Commons
  3. 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    Get your tickets for the annual Spring Formal hosted by LI. Open to all students.
    $5 per person.
    Price: $5/person
    Location: Warch Campus Center 100A - West Lobby Table Area Near Commons
  4. 6:30 PM - 11:59 PM
    Price: Free
    Location: Harper Hall
  5. 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Price: Free
    Location: Stansbury Theatre
  6. 9:00 PM - 11:59 PM
    Back by popular demand, Lawrence's first ever comeback drag show! Come and support the fine drag queens and kings of the Lawrence and Appleton community!
    Location: Warch Campus Center 224 - Esch Hurvis Studio (Esch)

"Reimagining Liberal Education"

Videos from the TEDx conference are available for viewing at the TEDxLawrenceU website. Visit each speaker's individual page to watch a video of their talk. Each is less than 18 minutes in length. Creative presentations and compelling ideas for those interested in the future of liberal education.

Photo of the Week

A group of Geology majors on a field trip with Marcia Bjornerud at the Lake of the Clouds in the Porcupine Mountains in the U.P.

The photo of the week is open to students, faculty and staff. Send us your submissions!

 

Lawrence Today Online

Lawrence Today spring 2013 coverHow are ideas big and small being brought to life by Lawrence students and alumni? In the current issue of Lawrence Today, we explore some of the ways Lawrence students—current and former—are using the tools of their Lawrence educations to bridge the gap from thought to action.

Also in this issue, retiring President Jill Beck reflects on her nine years at LU.

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