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Faculty & Staff: Sign up for Zoo Days!

Zoo Days
Saturday, May 17 | 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Main Hall Green

With spring term quickly approaching, the Student Organization for University Planning (SOUP) is gearing up for Zoo Days, our annual end-of-the-year campus fair! This long-standing Lawrence tradition is a fantastic opportunity for academic departments, staff offices, and student organizations to showcase their work, engage with students, and even host fundraisers or interactive activities.

We invite academic departments and campus offices to join this event alongside student organizations, fraternities, and sororities. Your participation helps create a vibrant and engaging experience for students as we wrap up the academic year.

To participate, please sign up by March 30 using the link below.

Sign up for zoo days

To ensure a smooth and successful event, all participants must review and agree to the event guidelines in advance. If you have any questions, please reach out to Charlotte Newville at charlotte.o.newville@lawrence.edu.

Event guidelines

Spring Break Shuttle Hours

As always, the main campus safety line 920-419-6999 is available at all times for emergency transportation to Urgent Care, doctor appointments, or emergency prescription fills.

  • Monday, March 24 & Tuesday, March 25: 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
  • Wednesday, March 26: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
  • Thursday, March 27 & Friday, March 28: 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

During spring break hours, students may request rides to restaurants, the mall, or other shopping locations within a 15-minute radius from campus by calling 920-419-6793.

Priority rides are given to campus-to-campus locations.

Thank you for your support of the campus shuttle.

Community Conversation: The First Oppressed Other

How Historical Attitudes Towards Childhood Shape Social Hierarchies

By Stacey Patton

Thursday, March 13 | 7:30 p.m.
Wriston Auditorium

About the Talk: Before categories of difference became the primary framework for organizing society in the western world, another system of hierarchy played a foundational role in shaping attitudes towards power and social order: perceptions of childhood. 

Historically, children were often viewed as inherently flawed, in need of correction through strict discipline, labor, and, in some cases, severe punishment. In medieval and early modern Europe, this mindset justified practices such as corporal punishment, forced labor, and even public executions of children, reinforcing a cultural acceptance of control over the most vulnerable. 

As European societies expanded into the Americas, these frameworks influenced emerging systems of social stratification and control. The treatment of children, especially in contexts where discipline and forced labor were routine, helped establish broader ideas about who could be controlled, punished, and deemed less than fully autonomous. Over time, these attitudes informed colonial policies, labor practices, and legal structures that reinforced distinctions between different groups. 

About Dr. Stacey Patton

Dr. Stacey Patton is an award-winning journalist whose writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, The Chronicle of Higher Education, BBC News, Black Enterprise, NewsOne, and other outlets. She has appeared on CNN, ABC News, MSNBC, Democracy Now, and Fox News. She is also the creator of Spare the Kids, an online portal designed to teach about the harms of physical punishment, and the forthcoming 3D medical animation app, When You Hit Me, which promises to be a game changer for child abuse prevention. For her child advocacy work, Dr. Patton was awarded the 2024 Child Advocacy Award from the American Psychological Association. Dr. Patton is also a research associate at Morgan State University and teaches digital journalism at Howard University.