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Queer Thanksgiving and TDOR

7th Annual Queer Thanksgiving
Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Diversity and Intercultural Center

LU is celebrating its 7th Annual Queer Thanksgiving, an event which gives LGBTQ+ students who may not be able to be their true selves at home a chance to celebrate the holiday with the LU community. All LGBTQ+ and allied students, faculty and staff are welcome. Faculty and staff who would like to contribute a dish should fill out the spreadsheet here.

Trans Day of Remembrance
Tuesday, Nov. 20, 6-9 p.m.
Harper Hall then Main Hall south steps

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance that honors the memory of those whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence. This year, local musician Nicholas Raymond will perform and speak prior to our candlelight vigil and reading of the list of people lost to anti-transgender violence this year.

In addition to these events, the Faculty/Staff Pride Group will also host its monthly happy hour on Thursday, Nov. 8, 5-7 pm at Dr. Jekyll’s. These happy hours reoccur monthly on the second Thursday of the month. 

Questions about any of these events can be directed to Dakota Williams or Helen Boyd Kramer.

Winter Coat Drive

Give your gently used coats and other winter wear (scarves, gloves, etc.) new life by donating them to those in need! Coats will first be made available to Lawrence students who can use the help, and any leftovers will be donated to a local charity.

Donations can be dropped off in the Admissions Office in Chapman Hall from 8am-5pm Monday-Friday.

If you know of a student in need of a coat, please connect them with Gaelyn Rose in Admissions at gaelyn.rose@lawrence.edu or x6889.

10/23 Convocation – “Listening Well in a World that Turns Away”

Tuesday, October 23, 2018
11:10 a.m.
“Listening Well in a World that Turns Away”
Katherine Cramer

Katherine Cramer is an American political scientist and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of “The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker,” the product of almost a decade of studying political attitudes in rural Wisconsin through ethnography.

Her work focuses on the way people in the United States make sense of politics. She is known for her innovative approach to the study of public opinion, in which she invites herself into the conversations of groups of people to listen to the way they understand public affairs.

Cramer was the recipient of the 2017 American Political Science Association’s Qualitative and Multi-Method Research section Giovanni Sartori Award for the best book developing or using qualitative methods published in 2016, as well as a finalist for the 2017 APSA Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government, politics or international affairs.

Wellness Fair Prize Winners

Thanks to all who made it out to the Wellness Fair last week, and a special shout-out and congratulations to our prize winners of baskets, certificates, and more! Congrats Biju Rajbhandari, Alicia Pope, Beth Krause, Yazmin Lara-Perez, Rebecca Minkus, Amy Van Schyndel, El Goblirsch, Calvin Phomsena, Julian Garcia, Sam LaRoi, and Chloe Armstrong!

TONIGHT – An Evening of Poetry with Ross Gay

An Evening of Poetry with Ross Gay

  • October 11, 2018 @ 6:00 pm
  • Warch Campus Center, Lawrence University
  • Hurvis Room
  • Free and open to the public

This event is sponsored by the Cargill Sustainability Grant, the Mia Paul Poetry Fund, and the Fox Cities Book Festival.

Description of event

This talk will imagine ways that delight, joy, and love are integral to the ways we care for the land, but also to the ways we care for ourselves and each other as the land.

Ross’s reading will be followed by a book signing.

Ross Gay Biography

Ross Gay is the author of three books: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Ross is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Ross teaches at Indiana University. His new book, The Book of Delights — will be released in Spring 2019.

 

TONIGHT – Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author to Explore Causes of Mass Incarceration at Lawrence Talk

James Forman Jr., author of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction for Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, will deliver a talk that explores the rise of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. The talk will be followed by a signing of his book.

Lecture and Signing with Pulitzer-Winner James Forman, Jr.

Thursday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m.

Wriston Auditorium

The event is free and open to the public and no registration is required.

Forman, a professor at Yale Law School, seeks to understand why many African-American leaders for decades supported a get-tough “war on crime” that so profoundly impacts communities of color. Forman’s work is “an examination of the historical roots of contemporary criminal justice in the U.S., based on vast experience and deep knowledge of the legal system, and its often-devastating consequences for citizens and communities of color.”

Spiritual and Religious Life – Time with the Dean + Student Employees

Meet the Dean over food:

Open hours with Linda Morgan-Clement have taken on a non-traditional format this year.  You can connect with Linda by making an appointment, or by sitting down with her at lunch in Andrew Commons. Find her there on Tuesdays of even weeks at 12:30.
October 16
October 30th
November 13

Meet the Dean at Tai Chi:

Mondays at 4:15 in the Esch Hurvis room.
Come as you are. Breathe and move toward a peaceful inner energy.
All are welcome.

Our Student Employees:

Interfaith Activators Emily Midyette and Michaela McElroy just might be reaching out on behalf of the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life.

Imagine a religious or spiritual event has happened or is coming up.
If your organization’s mission might tie in with the mission of our office, don’t be surprised to find that the Interfaith Activator is your primary contact.  They help organize, help promote knowledge, answer questions, act as advocates, and assist with outreach that can be either campus wide or specifically and spiritually inclusive.  They are the student arms of our office, and part of their job is to help foster connections beyond Sabin House.  Dean Linda Morgan-Clement and Associate Dean Terra Winston are always a resource, but sometimes the student to student connection makes for just as meaningful of an experience.

Community Conversation on Emotional Wellbeing

You may be aware that the Task Force on Emotional Wellbeing began its work last term to examine those factors which give rise to stress and anxiety in our community.  The Task Force also aims to identify strategies to combat these factors and improve emotional wellness.  Provost Katie Kodat and I are co-chairs of the task force.

You are invited to join Provost Kodat and me in a community conversation this coming Friday from 4pm – 5pm in the Warch cinema.  We will give updates on the Task Force’s work to date and engage the community in a broad conversation on the state of emotional wellbeing on campus. This is the first in a series of conversations.  Please join us to discuss this very important campus issue.

Regards,
Chris Card
Vice President for Student Life