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Urban planning guest drop-in Sept. 22

Have you ever considered a career in community planning? Do you even know what “urban planning” really is?

The Wisconsin Chapter of the American Planning Association is hosting its annual conference on campus Sept. 22–23. Lawrence alumni Jen Gilchrist Walker ’00 and Jason Valerius ’97 will greet students in the Warch Campus Center, 320 Gallery (outside of the Somerset Room) on Sept. 22 between 11 and 11:45 a.m. They can tell you about their paths from Lawrence to careers in planning and answer questions about this diverse profession. If you’re interested in designing healthy communities, bike and pedestrian planning, transportation planning, urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, geographic information systems, public engagement or just about anything related to the physical design and function of the places in which we live, stop by to learn more.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation to visit campus Sept. 26

A representative from Kimberly-Clark Corporation will be in the Warch Campus Center on Monday, Sept. 26, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to answer questions and provide insight into securing internship and career opportunities with Kimberly Clark (K-C).

K-C has locations in 63 different countries and career paths in a wide variety of functional areas including communications, logistics, research, IT, health services, finance, human resources and more. Stop by to meet K-C college recruiter Lauren Sell and learn more about internships and full-time employment.

Caravel Autism Health to visit campus Sept. 27

Caravel Autism Health will be in the Warch Campus Center on Tuesday, Sept. 27, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Stop by to learn about flexible, paid part-time opportunities for students who want to work in autism behavioral therapy roles in the Fox Cities. Caravel uses Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) in its work and provides paid training for students who are filling its roles.

Lawrence Scholars in Business Award Application due Oct. 3

Thanks to the generosity of our alumni who have funded the Lawrence Scholars in Business (LSB) Program, we invite students to apply for a Lawrence Scholars in Business Award Application to help cover expenses for your internship next summer. This is open to any student who, through an excellent academic record and extracurricular activities, has shown the right aptitude and aspirations to succeed in the highly competitive world of business. Applications and materials are due to sherri.immel@lawrence.edu in the Office of Alumni and Constituency Engagement no later than Monday, Oct. 3 at 5 p.m. Click on the link above for a direct link to the application.

Applications being accepted for KIPP Academy internships

Students interested in a career in education should consider applying for the KIPP Academy internship over D-Term.

Spending time at KIPP Academy in Boston provides Lawrence students interested in education careers with several important takeaways, including exposure to an innovative system of education, experience with education of inner-city children from diverse minority backgrounds and observation of various teaching styles and techniques.

Hours would be the same as faculty hours: 7 a.m.–5 p.m., Monday–Friday and evening work as needed. Students are expected to do any and all work supportive of the teachers, including work with individual and small groups of students, but also copying class materials and grading classwork.

Deadline to apply is Oct. 24. Visit LUworks for more information and application instructions.

What about those spiders?

You may have heard that brown recluse spiders were discovered in the Facilities Services building in early August. These spiders are not native to Wisconsin, and they can deliver a nasty bite that should not be treated lightly. This was so unusual that local media (the Appleton Post Crescent and Green Bay TV stations) all reported the story.

To put everyone’s mind at ease, here’s the current situation:

  • When the spiders were first seen, LU worked with a pest control company to trap and then confirm that these were, in fact, brown recluse spiders.
  • The building was treated and additional traps were set.
  • As a precaution, staff, faculty and summer residents were notified and traps were set in all campus buildings.
  • The Facilities Services building was treated a second time to ensure that the problem was addressed.
  • No other campus buildings were affected, and no other brown recluse spiders have been confirmed on campus.

Since most of us have never seen a brown recluse spider, descriptions can be found on bulletin boards around campus. If you think you’ve seen a brown recluse spider, leave it alone and contact Facility Services at x6602.

Hiring students for Fall Term?

As the new academic year begins, incoming first-year students, returning students and especially students eligible for financial aid are searching for on-campus employment. If you plan to hire student workers for Fall Term and have not already posted your opening(s), please do so on LUworks as soon as possible.

FOR FIRST-TIME USERS:

FOR RETURNING USERS:

If you have any questions about the log-in process, please call Career Services at x6561.

 

LU art students to be featured at Appleton’s Trout Museum

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Photo by
Glenn McMahon ’17

The photographic talents of 10 Lawrence students will be featured in the exhibition Out of the Darkroom from Sept. 16 to Dec. 31 at the Trout Museum of Art in downtown Appleton.

Nearly two dozen images will be shown in the museum’s Regional Artist Gallery. The featured students are: Natalie Cash ’18, Michael Hubbard ’17, Cherise John ’17, Regan Martin ’17, Glenn McMahon ’17, Nick Nootenboom ’17, Penn Ryan ’18, Torrey Smith ’17, Chloe Stella ’16 and Sadie Tenpas ’17. All are students of Associate Professor of Art John Shimon.

How to “read the robes” at Matriculation Convocation

Students: Are you curious about the academic garb faculty and administrators wear for special occasions such as Matriculation Convocation, Honors Convocation and Commencement?

Here is an explanation ahead of today’s Matriculation Convocation:

Academic attire worn during Commencement ceremonies and on other formal occasions is based on common styles of the 14th and 15th centuries in Europe. In a time when both men and women wore gowns or robes, it became common practice to adopt distinctive gowns for various professions, trades and religious orders. The ceremonial garb of a modern academic procession, therefore, is descended from the working clothes of a medieval scholar, who was often at least a lower-order cleric. Long gowns were desirable in unheated medieval universities, and the hood may have been developed to cover the tonsured (shaved typically for religious reasons) head.

This tradition of academic dress, particularly as known at Oxford and Cambridge, passed to the American colonies and was standardized by an Intercollegiate Code in 1895. The code sets forth rules governing the color, shape and materials of the three primary items of academic apparel: the gown, the hood and the cap.

Gowns differ according to the level of degree earned by the wearer. The baccalaureate (bachelor’s degree) gown has pointed sleeves and is worn closed. The gown for the master’s degree has an oblong sleeve, open at the wrist, that hangs down. The rear part of the oblong shape is square-cut, and the front part has an arc cut away. The doctoral gown is the most ornate, with a velvet facing and three velvet chevrons on each bell-shaped sleeve. Both master’s and doctor’s gowns are designed to be worn either open or closed. While most doctoral gowns are black, some universities—e.g., Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford—provide gowns in their institutional colors.

For one who knows how to “read” them, academic hoods signal both the wearer’s field of study (the velvet border) and the institution by which it was conferred (the silk lining). Among the hood linings that might be seen in a Lawrence academic procession are those of Brown University (seal brown, cardinal chevron), City University of New York (lavender), Columbia University (light blue, white chevron), Cornell University (carnelian red, two white chevrons), Harvard University (black hood, crimson-lined), Johns Hopkins University (black, gold chevron), Princeton University (orange, black chevron), Stanford University (cardinal red, no chevron), the University of California (gold, Yale blue chevron), the University of Chicago (maroon, no chevron), the University of Virginia (navy blue, orange chevron), University of Wisconsin–Madison (cardinal, no chevron) and Yale University (Yale blue, no chevron). The Lawrence hood is lined in Yale blue, with two white chevrons.

In addition to the institutional colors, colors associated with specific academic disciplines are used for the trim on doctors’ gowns, the edging of hoods and the tassels of caps. The most frequently worn colors in the Lawrence academic procession are: dark blue (philosophy, including Ph.D.s), pink (music) and lemon (library science). Other discipline-related colors include white (arts, letters, humanities), golden yellow (science), purple (law), copper (economics), drab (business), light blue (education) and brown (fine arts).

The cap was the last item to be added to the academic ensemble and is most often hard and square, although variations in softer materials and in shape have been adopted by some institutions and for women. At Commencement, degree candidates wear the tassel on the right front of the cap and shift it to the left front immediately after degrees are conferred.

The ceremonial mace carried at the head of the academic processions by the college marshal (a senior member of the faculty) and the usher batons carried by faculty deputies were crafted by silversmith E. Dane Purdo, late professor emeritus of art, in 1972.  On the occasion of his retirement in 1991, Professor Purdo presented to the university the presidential badge of office, a sterling and gold pendant worn on ceremonial occasions by President Mark Burstein, which depicts the Lawrence seal suspended by a chair of silver hawthorn leaves representing Milwaukee-Downer College.