A sampling of media clippings about Lawrence University, its faculty, students, and alumni from Fall 2008 and Winter 2009. For more clippings, see the Lawrence in the News index page.

New York Times
March 30, 2009
Headline: Paying in Full as the Ticket Into Colleges
Byline: Kate Zernike
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/education/31college.html?_r=1&hpw
Excerpt: In the bid for a fat envelope this year, it may help, more than usual, to have a fat wallet. Facing fallen endowments and needier students, many colleges are looking more favorably on wealthier applicants as they make their admissions decisions this year.

Institutions that have pledged to admit students regardless of need are finding ways to increase the number of those who pay the full cost in ways that allow the colleges to maintain the claim of being need-blind — taking more students from the transfer or waiting lists, for instance, or admitting more foreign students who pay full tuition.

This year, many of these colleges say they are more inclined to accept students who do not apply for aid, or whom they judge to be less needy based on other factors, like ZIP code or parents’ background.

“We’re only human,” said Steven Syverson, the dean of admissions and financial aid at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. “They shine a little brighter.”

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
March 17, 2009
Headline: Seniors leave big legacy on Lawrence University men's basketball team
Byline: Dick Knapinski
Excerpt: Chris Page isn't ready to leave the gym yet.

It has been more than a week since the Lawrence University men's basketball team had its season ended by defending NCAA Division III national champion Washington University of Missouri. While that team will be heading to the Division III Final Four in Salem, Va., this weekend, Page — one of four senior starters for a Vikings team that made its fifth tourney appearance in six years — is still practicing, too.

"I was in the gym three or four times last week, just working out," Page said of the first seven days after LU lost 67-65 in first-round play on March 6. "It was so weird not to go to practice. I was just wandering around campus, not knowing what to do with myself."

Four months of the basketball daily grind came to a sudden end in the last 21 seconds of the game against Washington. For the LU seniors — Page, two-time Midwest Conference player of the year Ryan Kroeger, Doug Kadison and Jayce Apelgren, as well as reserve center B.J. Harry — it was a special four-year run.

The group arrived as freshmen in 2005 in time to be part of a No. 1 national ranking and one-loss season. It leaves with a 79-21 total record, three Midwest Conference titles in four years and secure in its role of continuing the best-ever days of Vikings basketball.

WLUK-TV FOX 11 (Green Bay, Wis.)
March 11, 2009
Headline: Lawrence band jazzes up Rolling Stones
Byline: Lindsay Veremis
Excerpt: They're born performers and natural artists. But the musicians commanding the stage at Lawrence University are entering uncharted territory, standing in the shadow of the Stones.

"The Rolling Stones are something that you've never really heard in this type of setting before, so it's just been quite the journey," student Mark Hirsch said.

Lawrence jazz band director Patty Darling says her band will perform 12 Stones classics - with a jazz twist. This will be the first time the arrangement is played anywhere in the United States.

But, the group's sound is more than a "cover" copy. Darling says the original music is a canvas the band has treated with broad stokes.

"There's a lot of open sections, a lot of sections where the rhythm section can take their time and develop a palette of colors and rhythms around the soloists," she said.

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
March 10, 2009
Headline: Inmates' writings basis of new book
Byline: Kathy Walsh Nufer
Excerpt: On Aug. 25, 2004, Bob Krupinski robbed a bank on College Avenue and calmly walked across the street to the City Center Plaza to wait for police.

"It was an act of desperation," Krupinski explains now. "I was homeless, living in a park down by the river and eating one meal a day at a soup kitchen. I said, 'Screw this,' and robbed a bank for three hots and a cot."

A couple of years later, Krupinski found himself reliving the experience in a creative-writing class at the Outagamie County Justice Center taught by retired Lawrence (University) theater professor Fred Gaines.

The newly published book is a collection of years of writing by inmates who took Gaines' class, which has become so popular it has a waiting list.

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
March 10, 2009
Headline: Appleton's Lawrence University jazz bands get satisfaction from Rolling Stones music
Byline: Kara Patterson
Excerpt: Evan Montgomery and other Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble students were skeptical when director Fred Sturm told them to come without instruments to rehearsal for a program of Rolling Stones musi

During that first rehearsal for the Jazz Ensemble's set of six songs they'll play during the U.S. premiere on campus of "Stone Age: Music of the Rolling Stones" — a jazz adaptation of classic Mick Jagger and Keith Richards hits for a large ensemble — the students didn't know what to expect.

For 70 minutes, Sturm played recording after recording of the Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," including the original song and covers by Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding and Britney Spears.

After Sturm pulled out a jazz interpretation of "Satisfaction" by Tim Ries, a saxophonist who toured with the Stones, and introduced the large jazz ensemble adaptation of Ries' project by composer/arranger Matt Harris, Sturm's longtime friend, Montgomery and his fellow musicians started to think the upcoming performance opportunity for them and the Lawrence Jazz Band just might rock.

New York Times
March 8, 2009
Headline: In Shifting Era of Admissions, Colleges Sweat
Byline: Kate Zernike
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/education/08yield.html?_r=1&hp
Excerpt: As colleges weigh this year’s round of applications, high school seniors are not the only anxious ones. Just as nervously, colleges — facing a financial landscape they have never seen before — are trying to figure out how many students to accept, and how many students will accept them.

Typically, they rely on statistical models to predict which students will take them up on their offers to attend. But this year, with the economy turning parents and students into bargain hunters, demographics changing and unexpected jolts in the price of gas and the number of applications, they have little faith on those models.

Meanwhile, applications are down at many private institutions. Colleges and high school guidance counselors say more students are applying to so-called financial safety schools, where they are confident of getting scholarships, even if it means attending a less selective institutions.

“It’s a consumer confidence issue,” said Steven Syverson, vice president for enrollment at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. “Families are feeling like they can’t afford it even if they’re in the same financial position they were three months ago.”

Ann Arbor News (Mich.)
March 6, 2009
Headline: Local Student Performs in University Opera
Excerpt: Alice Dryden, daughter of John Dryden and Diane Raimi, of Ann Arbor, portrayed Koukouli, one of King Ouf's harem girls, in two recent (Feb. 19-22) performances of Lawrence University's production of the French comic opera "L'Etoile." A senior at Lawrence, located in Appleton, Wis., Dryden is a 2005 graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy.

In the complicated love story filled with bizarre characters, the young and foolish hero Lazuli falls in love with the beautiful Princess Laoula, only to have his dreams dashed away by the older but equally foolish King Ouf, who wants to marry Laoula himself.

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
March 1, 2009
Headline: LU Concert Choir relishing national honor
Byline: Kara Patterson
Excerpt: As a Lawrence University student who plans to become a choral music director, Daniel Parks counts it a privilege to perform at the American Choral Directors Association's national convention.

He's one of 55 students in the Lawrence Concert Choir, which merited a coveted performance slot during the last day of the convention March 7 in Oklahoma City. The event marks the 50th anniversary of the association.

"Teachers go there to learn from other teachers and to be introduced to new music and also just to be inspired in their job and what they're doing by meeting other teachers and hearing great choirs," said junior Parks, 21, the section leader of the choir's tenors. "It's kind of a big deal in the choral music world to be invited."

In addition to two concerts in the 2,600-seat Oklahoma City Civic Center Music Performance Hall, the choir also will perform on one tour stop leading up to the convention. The public concert will take place in choral director Rick Bjella's hometown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

The Scene (Appleton, Wis.)
March 1, 2009
Headline: Stoned Jazz
Byline: Jim Lundstrom
Excerpt: Evan Montgomery was skeptical when Fred Sturm, maestro of the exquisite jazz department at Lawrence University, unveiled the big winter project for the Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Band – reworkings of songs by the Rolling Stones for big band.

“You get so caught up as a jazz student trying to find the hippest stuff you can and the hardest stuff to work on and sometimes you forget to sit back and just listen to what else is out there,” said Montgomery, a 5th year Lawrence student from New Jersey who plays guitar in LUJE.

But after getting involved in the project, Montgomery said he and the other skeptics realized Old Man Sturm is still on top of his game. This project, which culminates in a two-night performance on the Lawrence campus, has become just one more in a series of great musical experiences for the students and audiences.

The San Diego Union-Tribune
February 22, 2009
Headline: Bipartisan path is rough for governor, president
Byline: John Marelius
Link: http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/feb/22/1n22bipart00123-bipartisan-path-rough-governor-pre/?zIndex=56722
Excerpt: Democratic President Barack Obama has been preaching the virtues of bipartisanship since before he took office, as has Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

But in each case, the claim to bipartisan governing has meant exactly the same thing: solidifying Democratic votes in Congress or the Legislature and picking off a handful of Republican stragglers.

Given the profound differences between most Democrats and Republicans on the major public policy issues of the day – taxes, health care, foreign policy, abortion, gay rights, environment, energy and a host of other issues – this raises the question of whether true bipartisanship is even possible to a significant degree.

Arnold Shober, a professor of government at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., chalks up Obama's bipartisanship rhetoric to “naiveté.”

“He has appeared genuinely frustrated that Republicans will smile as they vote against him,” Shober said. “He never had to deal with the GOP in his home Illinois district and doesn't seem to understand that their political differences are deep and philosophical.”

In Schwarzenegger's case, Shober said, the governor talks up bipartisanship because he's “bargaining from a position of weakness,” having lost the support of nearly all legislators in his own party.

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
February 20, 2009
Headline: Appleton's Lawrence University professor Bruce Hetzler works magic on diners
Byline: Sharon Cekada
Excerpt: You wouldn't expect to see a Lawrence University professor of psychology and neuroscience making magic happen on Saturday nights in Neenah. Yet, a couple times a month, Bruce Hetzler strolls the dining room at the Ground Round, performing tableside magic for patrons.

He approaches a table after the dinner order is placed, then has about 10 minutes to dazzle them with a "bit of magical theater, personalized just for them," he said.

Hetzler, 60, became attracted to tableside magic after developing a standup show, which he continues to do for corporate parties, fairs, festivals and libraries. But he mostly enjoys doing things close-up and personal. He spent several years working the crowd at B.J. Clancy's in Appleton before moving to the Ground Round two years ago.

WFRV-TV CBS 5 (Green Bay, Wis.)
February 20, 2009
Headline: Retired Lawrence University Professor Teaches at Local Jail
Byline: Angenette Levy
Excerpt: On any given Thursday, you’ll find retired Lawrence University professor Fred Gaines teaching a writing class. But this class isn’t on a college campus—his pupils are inmates at the Outagamie County Jail.

“I always come away from class feeling I’ve gotten more than I’ve given. Because you see what I’ve given most of them are turning loose.”

Gaines has been teaching men and women here for nine years. Some are serious: “It’s a story about my super-ego, so it’s part true and part fiction,” says one student of her work in progress. Others just thought they’d give it a try. When asked if he was a good writer, one inmate laughed and responded, “No!”

Now some of Fred’s former students can say their work has been published, in a book titled “Writers Inside.”

“I think the reason I put the book together was to give the guys some credibility of their own,” Gaines said. Unfortunately, Fred says he sees a lot of his writers back in his class time and time again. But he hopes that it at least gives them some type of outlet to work through some of things that may have brought them into the jail.

“They always say a good writer gets closest to the bone. It’s like a bruise that’s close to the bone,” Gaines says.

Some of Fred’s writers are getting a second chance, and some are in prison. Either way, their words will live on forever in print. “I stay away from the reasons they’re in here. I just try to deal with them in the class. They’re just here as writers.”

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
February 18, 2009
Headline: Q&A: Lawrence alum decries Washington’s lack of ethics
Byline: Susan Squires
Excerpt: Scot Faulkner, the country’s first chief administrative officer of the U.S. House of Representatives and an advocate of government reform, visited the Lawrence University campus Tuesday. Faulkner, who graduated from Lawrence in 1975, is the author of “Naked Emperors: The Failure of the Republican Revolution,” described as “a first-hand account of how ego-driven, bureaucratic self-interests are served at the expense of national interests.”

You were elected the first Chief Administrative Officer of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1995. What was that job and what was the impetus for creating it?

Basically, the 40 years of the Democrats ruling Congress turned into a kleptocracy where everyone was robbing the place blind. Starting in about 1990, all the scandals started to break on “20/20,” “60 Minutes,” the New York Times and the Washington Post. These were the banking scandal, where everyone was bouncing checks and getting away with it; the postal scandal, where people were literally stuffing their pockets with $100 bills; the gift-shop scandal; the restaurant scandal; and just the overall way they were abusing perks.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
February 16, 2009
Headline: Voices From the Past
Byline: David Shieh
Excerpt: Watch a silent movie hundreds of times, says Garth Neustadter, and something strange happens: The characters start talking to you.

Turner Classic Movies commissioned Mr. Neustadter, a senior at Lawrence University, to write a score for the re-release this May of the 1923 film "The White Sister," starring Lillian Gish as an Italian heiress-turned-nun whose life takes a dramatic turn when Mount Vesuvius erupts. Mr. Neustadter ended up screening the movie 300 times in the course of writing his 135-minute score, and after a while the actors started telling him what to do.
"Characters were explaining what kind of music they needed on screen or revealing what type of emotion they needed," he says.

A voice and violin-performance double major who dabbles in composition, Mr. Neustadter caught the movie network's attention when he placed second in its young-composers competition in 2007.

Mr. Neustadter had only three months to write the score, so he dropped a few classes, set aside at least 10 hours a day for composing, and got familiar with the pause and rewind buttons on his computer. Despite the grueling process, Mr. Neustadter says working under a strict deadline was actually liberating.

"You can't really second-guess yourself," he says. "You just have to go with your gut reaction, and I find that might be the most inspired work."

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
February 16, 2009
Headline: Fox Valley youngsters showcase talents at Lawrence Academy of Music Honors Recital in Appleton
Byline: J.E. Espino
Excerpt: Shoulders rolled forward, Nate Mose's nimble fingers playfully stroke the neck of his cello. His mother, Jane Mose, accompanies him on piano as he practices Henry Eccles' Sonata in G minor ahead of Sunday's Lawrence Academy of Music Honors Recital.

You're all warmed up, she tells him as she moves to practice with his older sister, Alicia, on violin. The three have carved out a spot in a practice room at Lawrence Memorial Chapel a few minutes before the recital.

Someday Nate, a 10-year-old boy from Kaukauna, hopes to become an artist in the same class as world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

USA Today
Feb. 10, 2009
Headline: Darwin celebrated, despite controversy, on 200th birthday
Byline: Dan Vergano
Link: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2009-02-09-darwin-evolution_N.htm
Excerpt: Charles Darwin would no doubt be surprised to learn that, 127 years after his death, people around the world will be celebrating his 200th birthday on Thursday.

Biology's "reluctant revolutionary," as English historian James Moore calls him, was a quiet man and frequently ill. But there will be nothing low-key about "Darwin Day," the anniversary of the English naturalist's Feb. 12, 1809, birth.

The official celebration website (darwinday.org) lists 281 events in 31 nations, including more than 170 in the USA. Events range from "Evolutionpalooza!" at the San Francisco Main Branch Public Library to an all-day reading of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (its 150th anniversary year) at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis.

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
February 10, 2009
Headline: Lawrence University recognized by national Community Service Honor Roll for enabling student service projects
Excerpt: Lawrence University's more than 9,000 service hours involving at least 400 students last year has earned accolades from a federal service organization. For the third year in a row, Lawrence is one of four Wisconsin institutions named to the Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service.

The federal agency administers Senior Corps, AmeriCorps and Learn and Serve America, a program that supports service learning in schools and community-based organizations.

WLUK-TV Fox 11 (Green Bay, Wis.)
February 9, 2008
Headline: Colleges honored for community service
Excerpt: Three Northeast Wisconsin colleges have been named to the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll announced Monday by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Lawrence University, Ripon College and Northeast Wisconsin Technical College were among the honorees.

Even in the midst of a demanding academic program, our students routinely extend themselves on behalf of others in the community, which speaks volumes about their character," Alan Parks, director of Lawrence's Office for Engaged Learning, said in a statement. "It's wonderful that their efforts are recognized on a national stage like this."

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
February 8, 2009
Headline: Opera show teaches lessons in music, life
Byline: Kara Patterson
Excerpt: A Chicago-area junior high school class once asked Appleton singer/composer Patrice Michaels’ permission to perform one of the songs from her original show, “A Song For Harmonica,” at graduation.

This was one of the biggest honors Michaels, now a Lawrence University associate professor of opera theater and studio voice, says she has received since the inception in 1988 of her show, a walk through opera history that also explores the nature of inspiration.

“A Song for Harmonica” will debut in the Fox Cities with two upcoming free performances. The 50-minute interactive show, aimed at children in kindergarten through sixth grades and their families, will start at 4:30 p.m. Friday and 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Harper Hall at Lawrence’s campus in downtown Appleton.

The Scene (Appleton, Wis.)
February, 2009
Headline: A Starry Night at the Chapel
Byline: Jim Lundstrom
Excerpt: A world without stars would be a dreary place. Without stars, what would poets and songwriters have us dream about and wish upon?

Forgotten what a starry night can do for your soul? Jackie Allen wants to help you remember with “A Starry Night,” a star-themed night of music from her quintet and the Lawrence University Chamber Orchestra.

The Scene (Appleton, Wis.)
February, 2009
Headline: Neglected French Masterpiece Unfolds
Excerpt: An opportunity to experience a rare gem of an opera is coming up at Lawrence University. Bonnie Koestner is the associate professor of music and the vocal coach for the opera "L’etoile" by Emmanuel Charbrier.

One thinks of a comedy as being funny when the dialogue or lyrics induce laughter, but don’t overlook the music itself. Well-crafted music is the one of the highlights of "L’etoile," according to Ms. Koestner.

"There are all sorts of bizarre plot twists that are played seriously but to very light-hearted music. The thing about Chabrier, the thing that makes him stand out among composers is that he is the one of the few who knew how to write genuinely funny music. The music itself on its own is witty and funny."

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
February 3, 2009
Headline: Grammy-winning Dale Duesing returns to Appleton to close one chapter in his brilliant career
Byline: Cheryl Anderson
Excerpt: When Dale Duesing was a student at Lawrence University in the mid-'60s, the Milwaukee native often would study in the shade of Appleton's City Park and people watch.

"I would always look at this one house where two gray-haired ladies would always be coming out on that front porch, go down the stairs and then walk away," the 1967 graduate said.

This is where his career started. It's also a safe haven.

"It's a place for me to get a little peace and quiet," said Duesing, who also has a home in Amsterdam and an apartment south of Munich. "I can look out on City Park, and it's really very beautiful and very peaceful."

The Grammy-winning baritone who performed the first recital of his career at Lawrence will perform his last recital ever at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Lawrence University Memorial Chapel.

Harvard Business Review
February, 2009
Headline: Just Because I’m Nice, Don’t Assume I’m Dumb
Byline: Amy J.C. Cuddy
Link: http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/web/2009/hbr-list/because-i-am-nice-dont-assume-i-am-dumb
Excerpt: When we encounter someone new, we quickly seek answers to two questions rooted in the evolutionary need to make correct survival decisions: What are this person’s intentions toward me? and Is this person capable of acting on those intentions? Because we lack the brainpower to weigh someone’s true merits quickly, we seize on our sometimes mistaken answers to these questions and rate the person high or low on imaginary scales of intention and capability – or, to use simpler terminology, warmth and competence.

The warmth/competence model, which Susan Fiske, Peter Glick [Lawrence University], and I have pre sented in more than a dozen academic ar ticles over the past few years, illuminates a great deal of behavior – for example, why people disrespect the elderly while feeling positive toward them (elders are seen as incompetent but warm). Such attitudes weren’t well explained by the prevailing psychological view of preju dice – namely, that people simply favor “us” and dislike “them.”

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
January 26, 2009
Headline: Appleton's Lawrence University annual trivia contest feels like homecoming party
Byline: Cheryl Anderson
Excerpt: The only thing meatier than Bill Martin's homemade turkey soup were the questions his team, Doug's Playing Bridge Upstairs, tried to answer during Lawrence University's 44th annual Midwest Trivia Contest.

We broke tradition last year and went with beef soup and it didn't work at all," Martin said. "So we went back to the classic."

The contest itself has become a tradition, drawing people in a wide variety of ages from near and far. It was founded in 1966 by James B. deRosset and runs for 50 consecutive hours, traditionally on the last weekend in January. It is broadcast over Lawrence's radio station, WLFM, and involves teams from on and off campus.

Marketplace Magazine
January 23, 2009
Headline: Lawrence University Trivia Contest begins at 10:00:37 p.m.
Byline: Steve Prestegard
Link: http://www.marketplacemagazine.com/blogs/blog1.php/2009/01/23/lawrence-university-trivia-contest-begin
Excerpt: The 44th annual Lawrence University Great Midwest Trivia Contest begins at 10:00:37 p.m. today and runs until Sunday at midnight.

The Great Midwest Trivia Contest was founded in 1966 by Lawrence student James B. deRosset. The contest is run each January for 50 consecutive hours, asking such questions such as “What band did Kurt Cobain call the best band in the world?” (answer: Teenage Fanclub) and “On what date does Bruce Wayne’s birthday fall?” (answer: Feb. 19).

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
January 21, 2009
Headline: Lawrence University trivia masters want to make your brain hurt
Byline: Kara Patterson
Excerpt: Lawrence University senior Erin Watson keeps a notebook of questions and answers in her possession, and adds to it when she comes across a detail she really wants to remember.

Not an unusual thing for a college student to do. But Watson isn’t just any student. She’s the grand master of Lawrence’s 44th annual Midwest Trivia Contest, and her notebook is full of random and unusual facts that on- and off-campus teams of students and community members scramble to find in their collective memories, online or in hand-held reference materials.

Watson’s notebook, by the way, is just one resource in the trivia organizers’ collection. Each of the trivia masters under Watson’s leadership — a dozen Lawrence students this year — have their own unique ways of accumulating contest minutiae for this weekend. The 50-hour, 350-question event — the nation’s longest-running trivia contest — starts at exactly 10:00:37 p.m. Friday and runs through midnight Sunday.

WFRV-TV CBS 5 (Green Bay, Wis.)
January 20, 2009
Headline: Lawrence Professor Attends Inauguration
Byline: Angenette Levy
Excerpt: A Lawrence University professor traveled to D.C. for today’s historic inauguration. 

History professor Jake Frederick says, “It was crazy.  I’ve never seen that many people in one place in all my life.  It was absolutely filled from the capitol building all the way back to the Washington Monument.  Everybody was really, really excited.  It was a big crowd where everyone was happy, and everybody was friendly and polite to one another.  Whenever Michelle or the kids or Barack or Joe Biden came out for an introduction, the crowd screamed.” 

Professor Frederick waited for weeks, hoping to get tickets to the inauguration, but he didn’t get them.  But in the end, he says, it didn’t matter. 

“I got a little choked up during his inaugural address, and there were a lot of people wiping tears from their eyes.”

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
January 20, 2009
Headline: Lawrence professor Marcia Bjornerud named Fulbright scholar
Byline: Jim Collar
Excerpt: A Lawrence University geologist who recently received her second Fulbright scholarship will use the $28,000 award for earthquake study in what she deemed "a geological wonderland."

Marcia Bjornerud, a 14-year member of the Lawrence faculty, will leave for New Zealand's University of Otago in March where she will spend four months studying rocks along the South Island's Alpine Fault. She hopes to gain a better understanding of seismic events from rocks forced up from as much as eight miles beneath the Earth's surface.

"I'm very grateful for the opportunity," she said.

WFRV-TV CBS 5 (Green Bay, Wis.)
January 19, 2009
Headline: Lawrence University Professor Authors Novel on Civil Rights Activist
Byline: Angenette Levy
Excerpt: A Lawrence University professor tells Bayard Rustin’s story in a new book.

“He’s definitely the guy behind the curtain in the civil rights movement.” 

That’s how Lawrence University professor Jerald Podair describes Bayard Rustin. The Quaker refused to be drafted in World War II; he was a socialist, and gay. 

In his new book, Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer, Podair writes that those are some reasons why many people aren’t aware of his role. 

“I’ve always believed that if Bayard Rustin were not gay, he would have been Martin Luther King, Jr.”

Rustin was known for his ability to organize large crowds and gatherings peacefully. So when someone was needed to pull together the march on Washington in 1963, Rustin got the call. 

WLUK-TV FOX 11 (Green Bay, Wis.)
January 19, 2009
Headline: Lawrence University Students Lend a Helping Hand
Byline: Evan Perrault
Excerpt: Empty hands were hard to find around the Fox Valley Monday as volunteers turned out in droves to lend some helping hands to some area non-profits.
 
More than 80 students from Lawrence University helped out at eight sites around Appleton. At Pioneer Village Senior Living students helped the residents make Valentine decorations. 

"They probably get more out of it than they give," said Sue Van Handel, the general manager of Pioneer Village. 

"It's just really nice to get to know everyone and know you're making someone else happy," said Lawrence University freshman Brenda Zuleger. 

And over at the emergency shelter of the Fox Valley the students traded their writing utensils for kitchen utensils as they set out to make a lasagna dinner. 
"It feels really nice to get off campus and get in an environment where it's not all about you and your future, but take a couple minutes to benefit someone else's future," said Lawrence University junior Adrienne Gallagher. 

WFRV-TV CBS 5 (Green Bay, Wis.)
January 19, 2009
Headline: Lawrence University Celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr.
Byline: Angenette Levy
Excerpt" Whether through song or the words of a child, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream lived on in Lawrence University’s Memorial Chapel at this celebration. 

Keynote speaker Dr. Bola Delano-Oriaran, a professor at St. Norbert’s College who was born in Nigeria and now lives in Appleton, spoke to the crowd and thanked them for their public service.

Dr. Delano-Oriaran spoke of the prejudice that lives to this day, including the rise in hate crimes against gays, and economic inequality. 

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
January 19, 2009
Headline: Lawrence students hopeful inauguration provides turning point
Byline: Pete Bach
Excerpt: For Sirgourney Tanner, a 21-year-old Lawrence University senior, the election of Barack Obama was a personal first as well as a first for the nation.

"This was my first election. Words couldn't express how I felt," said Tanner, a vocal performance and philosophy major from Chicago. "It was overwhelming."

She is the past president of LU's Black Organization of Students whose members believe that Tuesday's inauguration of America's first black president is a monumental — and hopeful — turning point in the nation's history.

The San Diego Union Tribune
January 18, 2009
Headline: Change arrives
Byline: George E. Condon Jr.
Link: http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jan/18/lz1e18condon2256-change-arrives/?uniontrib
Excerpt: When Barack Obama takes the oath of office and delivers his first speech as the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday he will be sounding a call for change that is one of the most enduring staples of inaugural addresses going back to the founding of the country.

And the economic and political circumstances recall those that greeted Jackson in 1829 and Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. “The parallels to Andrew Jackson here are really vivid,” said Jerald Podair, professor of history and American studies at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. “Jackson also comes out of nowhere. He also is a man of the people; he also represents change.”

Of course, everyone hopes Obama's supporters are not quite as uninhibited in their Inauguration Day celebrations. Jackson's backers trashed the White House, ruining rugs and furniture and forcing the new president to be taken out through a window and returned to his boarding house.

While not expecting that under today's extraordinary security precautions, Podair did predict that, “Almost two centuries later, the age of Obama will inaugurate another great cultural shift.”

The San Francisco Chronicle
January 18, 2009
headline: Obama faces huge expectations, opportunities
Byline: Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/01/18/MNCO157SUD.DTL
Excerpt: Few presidents have taken office facing higher expectations than Barack Hussein Obama. For the record millions who will fill Washington to hear his inaugural address Tuesday and the rest of the watching world, he is nothing less than America's new prince, all the more charmed for his improbable rise and the mess he inherits.

A telling moment was when Obama refused to strip a Senate committee chairmanship from Joe Lieberman, a former Connecticut Democrat who campaigned for Obama's GOP rival, Sen. John McCain, said Jerald Podair, a historian at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.

"The best presidential temperament is balanced, calm, no panic, no vendettas, a short memory for slights and wrongs from the past, a sense of trying to be right but not always being sure that you're right," Podair said.

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
January 18, 2009
Headline: Obama inauguration adds new energy to Monday's Martin Luther King celebration
Byline: Kara Patterson
Excerpt: On Monday, a day before the inauguration of president-elect Barack Obama, the Fox Valley will celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Both men are inextricably linked, not only by their beliefs and their achievements, but also in how they inspire others to act for social change, says Bola Delano-Oriaran, the keynote speaker for the community's 18th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration in Appleton.

The free celebration, which Lawrence University and the nonprofit Toward Community: Unity in Diversity co-sponsor, begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel on the Lawrence campus in downtown Appleton. A free reception for all attendees will follow the program.

People need to reach a point where they can embrace each other's differences and ask questions to learn more, but not to question their validity, said Mohammed Bey, acting assistant dean for multicultural affairs at Lawrence.

WFRV-TV CBS 5 (Green Bay, Wis.)
January 17, 2009
Headline: Lawrence University Professor Invited to Presidential Inauguration
Byline: Angenette Levy
Excerpt: Imagine you’ve received an invitation from the President of the United States to a big party, but you can’t go. That’s what’s happened to a history professor here at Lawrence University.

Professor Paul Cohen opened his mail and found literally an engraved invitation to Barack Obama’s inauguration.

“Opening it up and finding this presidential inaugural committee inviting me officially to the inauguration was a nice surprise.”

Cohen says the invitation has been a great conversation piece around the history department.

The San Antonio Express-News (Texas)
January 11, 2009
Headline: Review: 'The End of the Straight and Narrow'
Byline: Steve Bennett
Link: http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/books/Review_The_End_of_the_Straight_and_Narrow.html
Excerpt: Religious faith — not the sit-in-the-pew kind, but the door-to-door-salesman kind — is at the heart of David McGlynn's short story collection "The End of the Straight and Narrow," which could be, in a less skillful writer's hands, a Sunday school lesson falling on finger-plugged ears.

McGlynn, a 1994 graduate of Cypress-Fairbanks High School in northwest Harris County, won all-state honors in swimming. Now a faculty member at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisc., he remains a competitive long-distance swimmer.

"The End of the Straight and Narrow" announces the arrival of a visionary voice in contemporary fiction. It will be a pleasure to track the arc of David McGlynn's journey.

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
January 3, 2009
Headline: Lawrence University Professor's Book on Pilgrimage Explores our Sense of Self
Byline: Cheryl Anderson
Excerpt: Pilgrimage is not just a religious phenomenon, says Martyn Smith, an assistant professor of religious studies at Lawrence University.

"People read a book and want to see where events happened, like Elvis and wanting to go to Graceland or we go to Ground Zero in New York where 911 stuff happened," said the author of his first published book, "Religion, Culture and Sacred Space."

"To me, pilgrimage is another kind of subcategory, that sort of broader, human emotional response to space," he said. "What I try to argue in the book is it's related to our identity commitment."

Midwest Construction Magazine
January, 2009
Headline: Biology and Bioswales: Sustainable Buildings Change Campuses, Students’ Minds
Byline: Kathy Bergstrom
Link: http://midwest.construction.com/features/archive/2009/0901_feature3.asp
Excerpt: A new dining hall at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., will buy produce from a student-tended garden.

Colleges and universities are gaining more than energy savings from the green buildings they construct on their campuses. They find the buildings also can create learning opportunities for students.

“We have paid careful attention to sustainability in part because of the teaching tool that it can be for our students,” says Nancy Truesdell, vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Lawrence.

The school is constructing the $35-million, 107,000-sq-ft Lawrence University Campus Center. The five-story building, which is set to open next fall, has two above-ground levels and three built into the hillside. The building will qualify for LEED silver certification.

The university wants students to understand the environmental impacts of any decisions it makes, Truesdell says.

KeyBank.com
January, 2009
Headline: Scholarship Basics
Byline: Maya Payne Smart
Excerpt: When faced with skyrocketing colleges expenses, many students turn to student loans and credit cards to cover tuition, fees, living expenses and discretionary items. But financial aid officers say the costs of a casual approach to debt are much too high.

“I don’t think it is bad to have some student loan debt,” says Sara Beth Holman, the director of financial aid at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. “It can help establish a credit record and make students responsible for their own education, but when students borrow the full cost or borrow the portion that is expected from the parent that can get to be a lot on a student. The likelihood of them being able to pay it off and be able to do anything else is extremely minimized.”

The Scene (Appleton, Wis.)
January, 2009
Headline: A Dance in the Snow
Byline: Donna Fischer
Excerpt: Excitement is building on the Lawrence University campus for a dance performance by Wild Space Dance Company slated for Jan. 16 with the deliciously simple title "Snow." The reference is tongue-in-cheek. Wild Space Dance Company, based in Milwaukee, has had to deal with countless treacherous snow storms on winter performance nights in past years.

I sat down with Lawrence University Associate Professor of Theater Arts Timothy Troy to learn more about the show, the Artist in Residence Program, and why dance matters.

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Wis.)
December 27, 2008
Headline: Beloit College may turn away students requiring significant financial aid
Byline: Deborah Ziff
Excerpt: n a quiet change to its admissions policy, Beloit College may turn away some potential students if they require significant financial aid packages. The strategy — called "need-sensitive admissions" — may sound cruel, but college officials say it actually works to keep the college affordable for most students.

Lawrence University in Appleton and Edgewood College in Madison both use "need-blind" admissions, meaning a student is admitted before looking at financial aid needs. University of Wisconsin System schools employ the same approach. This has its pitfalls, too. In higher education circles, it's called "admit-deny." Students are admitted to the college but denied financial aid.

"What we're kind of encountering is the school may be need-blind, but it may not be able to meet full need," said Sara Beth Holman, director of financial aid at Lawrence. "We're still admitting students, but that doesn't mean the school is able to provide enough financial aid for them."

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
December 24, 2008
Headline: Lawrence University student's smile stands out on Gov. Jim Doyle's holiday tree in Maple Bluff
Byline: Kara Patterson
Excerpt: Lawrence University junior Jen Gabriele and her smile are making an impression on the holiday celebration of Wisconsin's first family. Gabriele, an art and Spanish double major from Wooster, Ohio, designed and hand-crafted a 2-pound, galvanized steel ornament with a plastic casting of her distinctive grin on one side.

It hangs on one of six themed trees at the Executive Residence, the Maple Bluff home of Gov. Jim Doyle and his wife, Jessica. The ornament is both a tongue-in-cheek tribute to and a heartfelt testament of Lawrence and its community, one of many ornaments on the "Deck the Halls" tree representing Wisconsin's colleges and universities.

The New York Times
December 17, 2008
Headline: Q. and A.: College Admissions
Link: http://questions.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/qa-college-admissions/
Excerpt: For high school seniors scrambling to complete essays, collect recommendation letters and construct well-rounded packages, college application deadlines are looming, in a seemingly inscrutable admissions process. To get an inside perspective, we solicited advice from some gatekeepers. This week, a panel of admissions deans from Yale University, Pomona College, Lawrence University and the University of Texas at Austin will answer selected reader questions.

The Panelists: Steven Syverson, Vice President for Enrollment and the Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., which has 1,429 full-time undergraduates.

Insight Magazine (Appleton, Wis.)
December, 2008
Headline: LEEDS in Green: New Lawrence University campus center designed for sustainability
Byline: Pam Pirman
Excerpt: Although Lawrence University's official school colors are navy blue and white, its new $35 million campus center is unquestionably green. The When the Richard and Margot Warch Campus Center opens in fall o f2009, the 107,000 square-foot-facility will qualify for LEED certification and is a visible example of the university's larger sustainability initiative called "Green Roots."

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
November 30, 2008
Headline: Lawrence students work to address global issues with fair
Byline: Toni Hoh
Excerpt: It's been called shopping with a conscience, the chance to purchase something outside the retail norm while providing direct support to people in developing countries. Area shoppers will have the chance to do just that at the second annual Alternative Giving Fair taking place Saturday at Lawrence University. Sponsored by the college's SWAHP group — Students' War Against Hunger and Poverty — the fair will feature handcrafted items from places such as India, Africa, Latin America and others, as well as truly alternative gifts that allow one to make a donation to a specific cause in someone else's name.

Icelandic Review (Reykjavik, Iceland)
November 25, 2008
Headline: Icelandic Student Awarded for Anthropology Research
Link: http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?ew_0_a_id=315935
Excerpt: An Icelandic student at the Lawrence University in Wisconsin, Sveinn Sigurdsson, and his research partner Ashlan Falletta-Cowden, received on Friday an award for their project on Icelandic food habits from the world’s largest anthropology association, the American Anthropological Association.

“Most people we talked with agreed that the young generation [in Iceland] is not quite sure what the traditional [Icelandic] diet is and what is not,” Sigurdsson told Morgunbladid.

Door County Advocate (Wis.)
November 22, 2008
Headline: Center named for Warches: Building to open next fall at Lawrence University
Byline: Kara Beeck
Excerpt: It seems that no matter where Ellison Bay resident Richard "Rik" Warch goes, he leaves impressive footprints. The $35 million Richard and Margot Warch Campus Center — opening in fall 2009 — on the Lawrence University campus in Appleton is a good example.

"We are thrilled about it," Warch said. "I was responsible for a lot of building projects and now the Campus Center. It is being done, and it's going to be a spectacular building overlooking the Fox River. We are very excited to be associated with it."

WLUK-TV FOX 11 (Green Bay, Wis.)
November 18, 2008
Headline: College grads face uncertain job market
Link: http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/news_wluk_green_bay_college_grad_job_outlook_200811190202_rev1 Excerpt: Zoua Vue is a few weeks away from completing the dental assistant program at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay. "Right now I work very part time because of school affairs, but then they're looking to put me full time," Vue said. Though Vue's employment at a dentist's office seems secure, many of her classmates are working on resumes and looking for jobs.

Kathy Heinzen, director of the career center at Lawrence University in Appleton, says the economic downturn is so recent, it's hard to know exactly how it will affect students finishing school next month.

"I think that we seem to be in a wait-and-see mode," Heinzen said. "Not all industries are experiencing the same effects, so there's a good bit of variety in terms of how people are experiencing the downturn in the economy."

The Lawrence University career center says it is noticing a slow and steady increase in the number of graduates who are enrolling in a service program such as the Peace Corps, after graduation.

WLUK-TV FOX 11 (Green Bay, Wis.)
November 13, 2008
Headline: Lawrence University receives custom instruments
Link: http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/local_wluk_appleton_gifts_that_will_keep_on_giving_200811131640_rev1Excerpt: Centuries old songs, a bit of Haydn and Beethoven, performed for the first time on brand new instruments, and the quartet's father, intently listening to every note.

"It's absolutely great," said violin maker Douglas Cox. "I spent so many hours at the bench hearing crunch crunch, snip snip. That's the voice of the instrument while I'm working on it. But the whole idea is to make this kind of sound."

A sound Douglas Cox is still trying to tweak and mold the day before the instruments make their debut at their permanent home of Lawrence University.

"To have four paired instruments that were made all at the same time and meant to play together is something incredibly special," said Brian Pertl, the dean of Lawrence University's Conservatory of Music.

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
November 9, 2008
Headline: Gift to LU Conservatory has a sweet sound
Excerpt: This week the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music is receiving a donation that's expected to last 400 years, and itself function as a giver of unlimited gifts. A quartet of instruments — two violins, a viola and a cello that Vermont-based master luthier Doug Cox handcrafted for the conservatory, valued at more than $60,000 — will rest at its new collegiate home when not in use by Lawrence students and faculty members at competitions, concerts and other music events.

Donor Allen Greenberg of Maryland commissioned the quartet for the conservatory after he visited the downtown Appleton campus in 2006 with his son, a string musician on a college search. His son chose another school, but Greenberg wanted to make a lasting connection with Lawrence.

"It's an extraordinary gift," said Cal Husmann, vice president of development and alumni relations at Lawrence. "The conservatory is such a shining light for the college, and these instruments are absolutely exquisite and individualized and almost pieces of art in themselves. This is a treasure for the college to have these come to us."

Women Magazine
November 4, 2008
Headline: Good vibrations: Violinist Wen-Lei Gu connects with students, audience
Byline: Terri Dougherty
Link: http://www.mywomenmagazine.com/content/348_1.php
Excerpt: She had a Lawrence [University] symphony concert and a Midwest tour to prepare for, but violinist Wen-Lei Gu couldn’t turn down the Appleton North High School orchestra. So in addition to preparing concertos for the concert and tour, the internationally acclaimed musician worked on Beethoven’s Violin Concerto to play with the teenage musicians.

“The students were in awe,” says North orchestra director Gary Wolfman. “Professionals sometimes do a movement (with a high school orchestra), but she did the whole concerto.”

Music is the essence of Wen-Lei Gu’s life, and the Lawrence music professor is not one to keep things to herself. The superb violinist is a passionate performer who plays to enrich her audience and teaches to give others the techniques and musical knowledge that have meant so much in her own life.

WBAY-TV 2 (Green Bay, Wis.)
November 3, 2008
Headline: Getting Out the Youth Vote
Byline: Matt Smith
Excerpt: A lot of attention of this campaign focused on the youth vote. It's a part of the electorate that, historically speaking, doesn't fare well with turnout.

In a effort to make voting as easy as possible, especially for college students, UW-Oshkosh and Lawrence University are offering shuttles to the polls. Lawrence has gone so far to say it expects 100 percent of its students to vote.

"Our president, she wants students to take part in the democratic process and by any means necessary. We will provide those tools to make that happen," Mohammed Bey, the head of Lawrence's Civic Engagement Committee, said.

WFRV-TV 5 (Green Bay, Wis.)
October 29, 2008
Headline: Feingold Gets Out The Vote For Obama
Excerpt: If this room packed full of Lawrence University students who are supporting Barack Obama doesn't prove that young people are excited about this election, nothing will.

"I'm really excited because, I mean, it is one of the most important elections that we've had in our country's history, and because of the caliber of candidate," says Lawrence sophomore Caitlin Fish.

It should be no surprise that Russ Feingold and congressman Kagen could come to a college campus just a week before the election, especially here at Lawrence where they've been making a push all year long to get students involved in politics.

WOSH Radio (Oshkosh, Wis.)
October, 28, 2008
Headline: MyElectionDecision provides answers for undecided voters
Link: http://www.lawrence.edu/news/featured_content/med-wosh/kate-election-decision.mp3
Excerpt: For voters who still can't decide on which candidate they want in the Oval Office, it's technology to the rescue. MyElectionDecision.org is the answer if you're still questioning your election decision. Dr. Robert Beck, visiting professor of education at Lawrence University, tells us all about it.

"Over 16-thousand people have matched their values with Obama and McCain, over four thousand last week visited MyElectionDecision.org," says Beck. "The site has had thousands of hits daily, and allows users to rank without knowing who they agree with."

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
October 28, 2008
Headline: LU professor examines evangelical Christians in book
Byline: Cheryl Anderson
Excerpt: David McGlynn's most primal answer when asked why he wrote his first book, "The End of the Straight and Narrow," is that he wanted to be a writer. The better answer, says the Lawrence University English professor, has more to do with what the book is about: religion and evangelical Christians.

"The End of the Straight and Narrow" is a collection of nine fictional short stories that examine inner lives and passions of the zealous and the ways religious faith is not only the compass for navigating life but also the force that makes it possible.

WBAY-TV 2 (Green Bay, Wis.)
October 27, 2008
Headline: Lawrence University Web Site Helps Pick Your Candidate
Excerpt: A locally-created web site gains popularity each day the election draws closer. Experts at Lawrence University in Appleton created MyElectionDecision.org last year. It helps user find the candidate who best aligns with their beliefs by having them rank issues then picking which candidate's position they agree with more.

"We've never had an election like this, so we thought this is a good year to try and use technology and help educate citizens, educate our students and perhaps voters around the country," visiting professor of education Robert Beck said.

Door County Advocate (Wis.)
October 25, 2008
Headline: Lawrence University center to be named for Warches
Excerpt: The most ambitious building project in Lawrence University history will bear the name of an Ellison Bay couple. Lawrence's $35 million, 107,000-square-foot campus center in Appleton will be named the Richard and Margot Warch Campus Center in honor of the college's second-longest-serving president and his wife.

The name recognizes Lawrence's 14th president, who led the college from 1979 until his retirement in 2004. The naming of the campus center was announced Oct. 17 as part of the public launch of a $150 million capital campaign Lawrence is undertaking.

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
October 23, 23008
Headline: Lawrence University's new Conservatory dean follows a different beat
Byline: Kara Patterson
Excerpt: In one corner of the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music dean's office, where musician, ethnomusicologist and new dean Brian Pertl has been arranging his world music instruments, leans a didjeridoo. The long, wooden tube with a flared end — it resonates when Pertl buzzes it like a horn, adding vocalizations and trills to further complicate the sound — displays traditional designs that seem abstract to Western eyes. However, the swirls and squiggles illustrate significant events in life for the aboriginal Australians who invented the instrument.

Pertl, who has been playing the didjeridoo for 22 of his 46 years and is eager to educate the community about it both on and off Lawrence's downtown Appleton campus, pointed out a snake-like marking that runs a little less than halfway down one side of the instrument. It signifies not native wildlife, but a journey from one place to another.

Ceramics Monthly (November 2008)
Headline: Valerie Zimany: Recasting the Japanese Tradition
Byline: Elizabeth Carlson, Assistant Professor of Art History at Lawrence University
Excerpt: Valerie Zimany, a studio ceramist and Fellow at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, first traveled to Japan in 1996 on a Fulbright Fellowship after graduating with a B.F.A. from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was nearly ten years before she decided it was time to leave. Zimany was undoubtedly influenced by the rich traditions of Japanese culture...Zimany has developed her own vocabulary, fusing tradition and experimentation to develop biomorphic shapes that resist the classifications...The ambiguity of her forms strengthens their impact.

Now back in the United States, no longer an outsider and exhibiting for a different audience, Zimany’s work carries new meaning. The bamboo, for example, may not be as easily recognized within her works, nor are we familiar with Japanese dining traditions. Many of her Japanese titles, humorous and creative in their double meaning and onomatopoeia, are lost on the American viewer.

Health Magazine
October 23, 2008
Headline: Want to Ace the Interview? Offer a Warm Handshake
Byline: Theresa Tamkins
Link: http://news.health.com/2008/10/23/want-ace-interview-offer-warm-hand/
Excerpt: It’s an old saying that cold hands equal a warm heart. But a new study suggests you’re better off giving a warm handshake to someone you’re trying to impress. People who have their hands warmed—for example, by holding a cup of hot coffee—are kinder and more generous toward others and view other people in a more flattering light than they do after holding an icy-cold beverage, according to a study in Science.

he researchers were studying a “priming effect,” which is exposure to an object that then influences behavior. Priming people to something—such as an American flag—can change the way they vote, as can voting in a school versus voting in a church. However, that’s not to say we are prisoners to these subtle cues—or that a cup of joe from Starbucks will catapult you to instant popularity.

“This doesn’t mean that we are totally driven by these; it’s an influence, but it’s not like you’re being driven around willy-nilly,” says Peter Glick, PhD, a professor of psychology at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. “If someone likes you a little bit better, that could translate into something good, but it’s not like this is the only thing that’s going on.”

WFRV-TV 5 (Green Bay, Wis.)
October 20, 2008
Headline: Lawrence University Names New $35M Center
Excerpt: Lawrence University in Appleton has looked to its past for a name for its new $35 million campus center. The building will be called the Richard and Margot Warch Campus Center. The university announced it as part of the launch of a $150 million fundraising campaign.

It honors Rik Warch, who was president from 1979 to 2004. Rik Warch calls it a great honor and a thrill to be associated with project.

The Chicago Tribune
October 19, 2008
Headline: Lawrence U. names new $35M campus center
Excerpt: Lawrence University in Appleton has looked to its past for a name for its new $35 million campus center. The building will be called the Richard and Margot Warch Campus Center. The university announced it as part of the launch of a $150 million fundraising campaign.

It honors Rik Warch, who was president from 1979 to 2004. Rik Warch calls it a great honor and a thrill to be associated with project. Margot Warch taught at Fox Valley Technical College for 27 years. She retired in 2004 as the chairwoman of its Goal Oriented Adult Learning reading lab.

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
October 19, 2008
Headline: Laughter can be the best medicine for stress
Byline: Cheryl Anderson
Excerpt: Although Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is not from Wisconsin, professional stand-up comedian Rob Brackenridge says she very well could be.
"Her slogan's going to be 'Are you gonna vote for me or no?'" said Brackenridge, a standup comic who lives in Los Angeles but is a native of Appleton. Though Brackenridge doesn't do political humor, he says it's kind of hard not to these days.

While it might be hard to find things to laugh about in difficult times, finding humor precisely at those times can be beneficial to your mental health.

But what kind of humor best alleviates stress? It depends on the stress, said Matthew Ansfield, associate professor of psychology at Lawrence University in Appleton. "Humor helps people take their distress less seriously, but only when the humor focuses directly on the source of an individual's distress."

In one of two studies Ansfield conducted, "Is All Humor Created Equal? Effects of Distress-Focused Versus Distracting Humor," participants about to endure a painful dental procedure or a difficult exam were randomly assigned to two groups that were either topically related to their situation or unrelated.

Wisconsin State Journal
October 18, 2008
Headline: ON CAMPUS
Byline: Deborah Ziff
Excerpt: Lawrence University announced a $150 million fundraising effort on Friday, the most ambitious in the Appleton college's 161-year history. The campaign, which began a "quiet phase" in 2005, has already raised $104 million toward its goal.

Half of the campaign's goal will be directed to Lawrence's endowment. The campaign also aims to raise $50 million for capital projects, some of which have already been started or completed. The rest will go toward operating expenses and new initiatives, including a final project for graduating students called the Senior Experience.

WLUK-TV 11 (Green Bay, Wis.)
October 18, 2008
Headline: Lawrence University Fundraises For Millions
Excerpt: In the middle of a tough economic time, one area university is in the middle of its largest fundraising effort ever. Needs remain, but is the timing right?

While student gifted in sound, and blessed with movement share their talents, they look for others to share their funds. Lawrence University began a $150 capital campaign Friday, drawfing its last major fundraiser effort in the 90s, which raised about $66 million.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
October 18, 2008
Headline: Drinking deeply ingrained in Wisconsin's culture
Byline: Rick Romell
Excerpt: Beer for beer and shot for shot, when all 50 states belly up to the bar, few can hold their own with Wisconsin. Binge drinking — we’re No. 1. Percentage of drinkers in the population — No. 1. Driving under the influence — No. 1.

We lag a few states in beer consumption, but we’re near the top. With brandy, it’s no contest. We put away more brandy per person than any other state. We have a strong claim on the vodka title, too.

Outsiders, with their potentially different attitudes and habits, don’t exactly flock to Wisconsin. Nearly three in four state residents were born here — the ninth-highest percentage in the U.S. Nationwide, 60% of Americans live in their native state. When it comes to drinking, the habits of friends and neighbors are critical. Drinking, for the most part, is social behavior. We do it with other people. And if our friends drink, we’re more likely to drink.

“People are strongly influenced by local norms, that is, by what they see others doing — especially their peers, members of the groups they belong to and identify with,” said Lawrence University psychology professor Peter S. Glick.

We’re hard-wired for this. Deep in our evolutionary history, humans learned to depend on each other to survive. Exile from the group, Glick said, was a death sentence.

“Consequently,” he said, “we evolved to be exquisitely attuned to getting along with the group, giving us the tendency to conform — whether for good or for ill. So when there is an established heavy-drinking norm, it will tend to perpetuate because there is lots of social tolerance and reward for drinking.”

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
October 18, 2008
Headline: Appleton's Lawrence University honors past president with name of new center
Byline: Kate McGinty
Excerpt: Lawrence University has unveiled the name of its $35 million campus center, paying tribute to one of the longest serving presidents in the school's history. The building will be called the Richard and Margot Warch Campus Center, the university announced Friday as part of the launch of a $150 million fundraising campaign.

"Rik" Richard Warch served as Lawrence's president from 1979 to 2004, when he retired. He and his wife now live in Door County.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
October 17, 2008
Headline: Lawrence U names campus center for former college president
Byline: Erica Perez
Excerpt: Lawrence University's $35 million, 107,000 square-foot campus center currently under construction will be named the Richard and Margot Warch Campus Center, after the university's 14th president and his wife. Warch came to Lawrence in 1977 as the college's vice president for academic affairs. He was named president in 1979. In retirement, the Warches have made their home in Ellison Bay, Wis.

The Richard and Margot Warch Campus Center, slated for completion next summer, is a key part of Lawrence's current capital campaign and was made possible by a $16 million gift from an anonymous donor in August, 2006.

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis)
October 17, 2008
Headline: Lawrence University launches $150 million capital campaign
Byline: Kate McGinty
Link: http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20081017/APC0101/810170570/-1/archive
Excerpt: Lawrence University is kicking off the public phase of a $150 million capital campaign, the largest fundraising effort in the school's history. The university quietly began the "More Light!" campaign three years ago and already has raised $104 million toward its goal.

Today, the university announces the final phase of the campaign, which will support the school's endowment, capital projects and new initiatives.

"The excitement is palpable here, because we're more than two-thirds of the way to our goal," Lawrence President Jill Beck said. "It's very inspiring, and I must say that I am personally very touched by the generosity of so many of our alumni and also some of the foundations that have chosen to support Lawrence. People remember their years here as having enabled their success in life."

WBAY-TV 2 (Green Bay, Wis.)
October 17, 23008
Headline: Lawrence Campus Center to be Named for Former President
Excerpt: A construction project at Lawrence University will honor the university's second-longest serving president. The $35 million building will be named the Richard and Margot Warch Campus Center.

Warch served as president for 25 years before retiring in 2004.

The Business Journal of Milwaukee
October 17, 2008
Headline: Lawrence U. launches $150M capital campaign
Link: http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2008/10/13/daily43.html
Excerpt: Lawrence University in Appleton is launching a $150 million capital campaign, the largest in its history, to raise funds for endowment, programming and recent, current and future construction projects. The campaign, slated to be announced by Lawrence University president Jill Beck late Friday afternoon, has already raised $105 million in its so-called "quiet phase," a private fundraising effort that has been in place since 2005.

"This historic campaign is a commitment to building on our successes and to firmly establishing Lawrence as a national liberal arts education leader -- the very best at providing the individualized learning experiences that our students and alumni know are powerfully transformative," Beck said in a press release. "It's critical that we invest aggressively to keep the defining characteristics of the university strong, ensure its vitality and pave the way for continued innovation that expands our students' opportunities."

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
October 17, 2008
Headline: Lawrence University launches $150 million capital campaign
Byline: Kate McGinty
Link: http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20081017/APC0101/810170570/1003/APC01
Excerpt: Lawrence University is kicking off the public phase of a $150 million capital campaign, the largest fundraising effort in the school's history. The university quietly began the "More Light!" campaign three years ago and already has raised $104 million toward its goal.

Today, the university announces the final phase of the campaign, which will support the school's endowment, capital projects and new initiatives.

"The excitement is palpable here, because we're more than two-thirds of the way to our goal," Lawrence President Jill Beck said. "It's very inspiring, and I must say that I am personally very touched by the generosity of so many of our alumni and also some of the foundations that have chosen to support Lawrence. People remember their years here as having enabled their success in life."

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
October 17, 2008
Headline: Lawrence fund raising off to strong start
Excerpt: Lawrence University in Appleton has raised more than two-thirds of the goal in its $150 million capital campaign, its most ambitious fund-raising effort ever, university President Jill Beck will announce today as part of the fall board of trustees meeting.

The campaign was launched quietly in 2005, raising money from key donors and foundations to reach $104 million. The goal for today was $105 million, said Cal Husmann, vice president of development and alumni relations.

Now the campaign goes public, seeking to raise an additional $46 million by October 2011 from alumni, parents and others, Husmann said. The effort is focused on funding the school's endowment, capital projects, new initiatives and the Lawrence Fund, which covers the college's operating expenses.

Marketplace Magazine
October 17, 2008
Headline: Lawrence University to announce $150 million capital campaign today
Link: http://www.marketplacemagazine.com/blogs/blog1.php/2008/10/17/lawrence-university-to-announce-150-mill
Excerpt: Lawrence University President Jill Beck will announce a $150 million capital campaign, the most ambitious fundraising effort in the college’s history, this afternoon.

The campaign, which began with a “quiet phase” in 2005, already has raised $104 million toward its goal, according to Beck. Campaign co-chairs William Hochkammer and Harry Jansen Kraemer led the fundraising efforts during the quiet phase.

“This historic campaign is a commitment to building on our successes and to firmly establishing Lawrence as a national liberal arts education leader — the very best at providing the individualized learning experiences that our students and alumni know are powerfully transformative,” said Beck. “It’s critical that we invest aggressively to keep the defining characteristics of the university strong, ensure its vitality, and pave the way for continued innovation that expands our students’ opportunities.”

The New Jersey Star-Ledger
October 15, 2008
Headline: How much is too much exposure at work?
Byline: Joseph R. Perone
Link: http://www.nj.com/business/ledger/index.ssf?/base/business-10/122404421159540.xml&coll=1
Excerpt: There is a popular notion that professional women aren't taken seriously in the office if their necklines plummet like the Dow Jones industrial average. However, does a plunging neckline give women a competitive advantage when selling products?

Peter Glick, a Lawrence University psychology professor, and four of his students studied whether a low-cut blouse had any effect on a professional woman's persuasiveness.

They concluded it could positively affect the sale of a weak product. Dressing provocatively also could affect her employment prospects, according to the study by the Appleton, Wis., school.

The New York Post
October 13, 2008
Headline: Palin Falls Prey to Fey
Byline: Jeremy Olshan
Link: http://www.nypost.com/seven/10132008/news/politics/palin_falls_prey_to_fey_133371.htm
Excerpt: Thanks to Tina Fey, Sarah Palin isn't just a target of jokes - she's been swift-butted.
Some political scientists contend that Fey's "Saturday Night Live" skewering of the Alaska governor is playing a large role in spoiling the McCain/Palin ticket.

"Presidential impersonators do influence elections, and in this one, Tina Fey is well on her way to ruining Sarah Palin's political career," said Jerald Podair, a professor of American Studies at Lawrence University.

"In a political culture that takes its cues from popular culture, a good impersonator may be worth a million votes," Podair said.

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
October 13, 2008
Headline: Videos explore voters' thoughts
LU professors probe concerns of freshmen
Byline: Kate McGinty
Link: http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081013/APC0101/810130458/1979/APC05
Excerpt: Two Lawrence University professors have captured a glimpse into the minds of some young voters. Rob Beck, a visiting professor of education, and Jerry Podair, an associate professor of history, teamed up on a video project that will be launched today. They interviewed six first-time voters about their feelings toward each presidential candidate.

The voters wrestle with questions like what they would ask candidates if they were alone in a room or how they thought the candidates would respond to a terrorist attack.

"You're hearing the voices of young voters, and it's in their own words. I haven't seen that. When you go on television, you see these little sound bites. I never know how these people are chosen," Beck said.

The video project is an extension of MyElection Decision.org, an online survey designed to blindly match voters to the positions of presidential candidates.

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
October 10, 2008
Headline: Lawrence sets sights on perfect voting turnout
Link: http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081010/APC0101/810100497/1979
Excerpt: When Nov. 4 rolls around, Lawrence University leaders are hoping to have 100 percent voter turnout at the polls. Election season swept in mightily this week with volunteers carving out hours each day to register students and faculty at the campus of about 1,400. As of Thursday, volunteers had processed some 345 forms.

"This generation is so much about helping each other," said Julie Fricke, a librarian who volunteered Thursday at the registration table in Downer Commons.

The Catholic Herald (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Date: October 2, 2008
Headline: Summer in Uganda is life-changing experience for teen
Byline: Amy Guckeen
Link: http://www.chnonline.org/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=1101&SectionID=14&SubSectionID=13&S=1
Excerpt: Mariah Mateo heard all the stories about Africa, stories that left her in a state of disbelief. After a summer in Uganda, she is telling the tales she once found hard to comprehend.

"You hear things about Africa and how people live, and think it can't be possible," Mateo, 18, said. "When we got there it was, 'Wow. This is real.'"

Always wanting to go to Africa, the Lawrence University freshman got her opportunity June 14 - July 28, after becoming involved through a school project with CARITAS for Children, Inc., which provides assistance to children in underdeveloped countries through a partnership with religious communities around the world.

The Chicago Tribune
October 2, 2008
Headline: Wisconsin high school honored for best musical
Excerpt: A Wisconsin high school will receive an award Thursday for producing the best high school musical in the nation. Arrowhead High School about 30 miles west of Milwaukee is being honored for last year's production of "Cats."

The school has spent the past decade developing a musical theater program so strong students joke the Broadway Company is a varsity sport. Its graduates have gone on to major in music at Harvard University, Lawrence University and the Chicago College of the Performing Arts.

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
October 1, 2008
Headline: Lawrence University has best year on record for gifts
Excerpt: Lawrence University shattered its all-time fundraising record this year, school officials announced this week. The school accepted $31.4 million in gifts and donations last fiscal year, which ended June 30. That is a 47 percent increase over the previous year.

"We are extremely pleased with and grateful for the level of support we receive from the thousands of people who believe in the mission of the college. … It's clear that the upward trend in giving is linked to the quality and unique aspects of the institution," said Cal Husmann, vice president of development and alumni relations.

WBAY-TV 2 (Green Bay, Wis.)
September 30, 2008
Headline: Lawrence University Buys Milk Locally
Byline: Matt Smith
Excerpt: In an effort to boost the local economy, Lawrence University in Appleton is changing where it buys milk. The change comes at a pivotal time for local farmers.

Don Zuleger's been running his family farm since 1984. He has "about 75, 80 head total," he says. He knows the ups and downs of dairy farming. "Prices have to maintain. It can't keep bottoming out, otherwise it will be hard for us. Prices of fuel, fertilizer, seed, that all keeps going up no matter what."

Zuleger was excited, to say the least, when he met Terry Homan. Homan, a veterinarian by day, started a new business which sells local milk to local businesses.

"I think maybe this brand is a way to use the economy system to accomplish my veterinarian oath," said Homan, founder of Red Barn Family Farms. Now Homan lands his biggest client, supplying to more than a thousand thirsty students.

"Once we learned what his program was about, we decided it was a win-win situation," Lawrence University director of dining Patrick Niles said.

Lawrence University receives its first shipment of Red Barn Family Farms milk on Tuesday. And from this point on, all the milk at Lawrence comes from local farms. How much milk are we talking? Each week Lawrence plans to buy about 255 gallons of skim, 190 gallons of two-percent, and 85 gallons of chocolate milk.

WLUK-TV 11 (Green Bay, Wis.)
September 30, 2008
Headline: Lawrence U. Sets New Fundraising Record
Excerpt: Lawrence University reported its most successful fundraising year ever for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008.

The university says it raised $31.4 million in gifts this past year, up from $21.3 million in 2007. In the process, Lawrence earned a Circle of Excellence Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

St. Petersburg Times (Fla.)
September 28, 2008
Headline: Stressful tests don't tell whole story
Link: http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/article828918.ece
Excerpt: Each year, thousands of high school students stress out as they prepare to take the SAT or ACT tests to get into college. Many researchers suggest that the singular importance placed on these tests has produced a culture of questionable meritocracy and unfairly blocked thousands of otherwise deserving students from entering the schools of their choice.

Primarily for these reasons, the National Association for College Admission Counseling formed a 21-member blue ribbon panel last year to examine issues surrounding standardized testing and evaluate how schools can make the best use of entrance exams.

Even before NACAC launched its study last year, however, many schools, including Smith College, Lawrence University, Wake Forest and Mount Holyoke, had stopped requiring the SAT and ACT, making the tests optional. NACAC has recommended that more schools consider making the tests optional.

The observations of Steve Syverson, vice president for enrollment at Lawrence University, reflect the hard reality of the iconic reach of the SAT and ACT in higher education.

"We're all just making assumptions about these tests," Syverson said. "We've all grown up with it. It's embedded in the culture. If you really ask around the country, how many admissions officers can tell you at their institution what the predictive validity of the test is? What does it add to our understanding? What do tests help you predict? You'd find a lot of them equate these tests with intelligence. It's not an intelligence test."

The New York Times
September 28, 2008
Headline: Study of Standardized Admissions Tests Is Big Draw at College Conference
Byline: Sara Rimer
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/education/29admissions.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=education
Excerpt: For the 5,500 college admissions officials and high school guidance counselors who gathered here over the weekend, there were discussions, debates and analyses of things like the ethics of tracking student applicants on Facebook and “Why Good Students Write Bad College Essays — and How to Stop It.”

But for this crowd, at the Seattle convention center for the annual conference of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, the main event was William R. Fitzsimmons’s first public presentation of the findings of the Study of the Use of Standardized Tests in Undergraduate Admission.

An audience member asked Mr. Fitzsimmons and the other college admissions officials on stage if any of them had changed their minds about the SAT and decided to go test-optional as a result of their participation in the study.

Steve Syverson, the dean of admissions at Lawrence University in Wisconsin, said dryly, “We’re test optional, and we weren’t persuaded to change.”

Christian Science Monitor
September 26, 2008
Headline: Shea Stadium leaves mark as a ‘ballpark for the rest of us’
Byline: Harry Bruinius
Link: http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2008/09/26/shea-stadium-leaves-mark-as-a-ballpark-for-the-rest-of-us/
Excerpt: Last week, with the last game ever at Yankee Stadium, that grand cathedral of baseball, the “house that Ruth built,” and home to 26 World Series championships, there was yet again the endless breathless adulation for the Bronx Bombers and their unsurpassed tradition of greatness since 1923. The hall-of-famers, the unforgettable moments, the rings.

But a subway ride away, looming high in Flushing, Queens, stands New York’s other, more eccentric ball park, Shea Stadium, which will host its final regular season game this weekend. And while its cavernous C-shape and vertigo-inducing upper reaches have never inspired like the elegant white frieze flanking the Yankee field, its flaws have become a source of pride over the past 45 years.

“Shea was the funky alternative to regimented, uptight Yankee Stadium,” says Jerald Podair, a Bronx native who is now a professor of history and American Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisc. “[It was] a place where ‘characters’ reigned and imperfection was tolerated as it never would have been at Yankee Stadium. It was a ballpark for the rest of us.”

For a team that has set the standard for losing – the ’62 Mets still own the worst record for any team in the modern era, and last year’s epic late-season collapse may never be surpassed – hordes of us Mets fans resist the temptation to make the effortless switch and join the popular kids.

“I grew up, ironically, in the Bronx, but the Yankees were never for me,” says Mr. Podair, the history professor. “How could a 10-year-old coming of age in the 1960s root for them? It would be like rooting for an investment bank. The Mets were the new team, the team for the kids, the team with the neat Mr. Met mascot, the team that hired Casey Stengel when the heartless Yankees fired him, the team that brought in Yogi Berra when the Yanks axed him, and the team with the state-of-the-art stadium in Queens across the street from the World’s Fair. How couldn’t you love them?”

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
September 26, 2008
Headline: Lawrence University launches new green initiative
Byline: Kate McGinty
Excerpt: The Vikings want to go green. Lawrence University launched a campuswide initiative Thursday to build on the school's drive for environmental sustainability. It already has entered into an exclusive partnership with the students who maintain the Sustainable Lawrence University Garden. All produce grown in the garden now is served in Lawrence dining halls.

The school also recently signed with Red Barn Family Farms, a new Appleton family-owned dairy company, to serve its premium brand of milk in both of the college's dining halls beginning the end of this month. The local shipment will reduce gasoline emissions and
support the Fox Valley economy.

Lawrence will intensify its efforts with Green Roots, a 10-person committee of faculty, staff and students. They will study the environmental footprint of the college and propose institutional changes to increase environmental awareness and sustainability.

The New York Times
September 22, 2008
Headline: College Panel Calls for Less Focus on SATs
Byline: Sara Rimer
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/education/22admissions.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Except: A commission convened by some of the country’s most influential college admissions officials is recommending that colleges and universities move away from their reliance on SAT and ACT scores and shift toward admissions exams more closely tied to the high school curriculum and achievement.

A growing number of colleges and universities, like Bates College in Maine, Lawrence University in Wisconsin, Wake Forest University in North Carolina and Smith College in Massachusetts, have made the SAT and ACT optional. And the report concludes that more institutions could make admissions decisions without requiring the SAT and ACT.

One commission member, Steve Syverson, is vice president for enrollment at Lawrence University, which made the SAT and ACT optional several years ago. Mr. Syverson said he hoped the report would encourage more college admissions officials to question their use of standardized admissions tests.

“We’re all just making assumptions about these tests,” Mr. Syverson said, referring to the SAT and the ACT. “We’ve all grown up with it. It’s embedded in the culture. If you really ask around the country, how many admissions officers can tell you at their institution what the predictive validity of the test is? What does it add to our understanding? What do tests help you predict? You’d find a lot of them equate these tests with intelligence. It’s not an intelligence test.”

The Malaysia Star
September 21, 2008
Headline: Cultural ambassador
Link: http://thestar.com.my/education/story.asp?file=/2008/9/21/education/1900543&sec=education
Excerpt: For Angela Ting Shin Wei, 19, teaching fellow students how to sing Malaysia’s national anthem was a good way to introduce her beloved country to them. Angela was part of Wisconsin-based Lawrence University’s Viking Chorale choir group that performed at an “Around the World Concert” earlier this year.

Led by Prof Richard Bjella, the concert was aimed at honouring the university’s diverse student body and promoting cultural understanding.

The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wis.)
September 18, 2008
Headline: Appleton College Life Just Another Chapter for Sudanese Student
Byline: Kate McGinty
Excerpt: Each time her mother slipped the blue sandals on her feet before bed, the little girl knew the attacks might come. When they did, Nidal Kram could hear gunshots and piercing screams, pots clamoring and babies crying. In the glow of fires, she could see people dash to pick up their belongings.

"There was a little creek behind our hut, and my mom always said if anything were to happen, we would run over there. That was the drill. We even practiced that at school, anywhere. You would teach kids where to go in case of an attack," Kram said.

Lie low and don't breathe, the adults commanded. Close your eyes. Always close your eyes. You don't want to see what happens.

Kram grew up in Dabri, a small village in central Sudan dotted with thatched huts. It has been caught in the crossfire of an ongoing civil war between Arab and Christian communities. She eventually escaped the horror — and moved to Lawrence University on Wednesday to begin a journey that will lead her right back to Sudan. Kram is one of 386 students who moved onto campus to begin their freshmen orientation. She represents one of 15 foreign countries and is the first Sudanese student to enroll.

WGBA-TV 26 (Green Bay, Wis.)
September 11, 2008
Headline: Lawrence Receives Millions from Anonymous Donor
Link: http://www.nbc26.com/Global/story.asp?s=8993103
Excerpt: A $2.5 million bequest from an anonymous donor has given Lawrence University's scholarship funds its third million-dollar-plus gift in the past six weeks.

The donor, a long-time Wisconsin resident who graduated from Lawrence in 1936, designated the gift for the college's general scholarship endowment.

Cal Husmann, vice president for development and alumni relations, said the donor was a product of "the greatest generation" who enjoyed quietly helping others.

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